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Battle of the Somme, 1916
by Michael Kennedy
BATTLE OF THE SOMME – WWI
1 July – 18 November 1916
The largest battle of WWI, and also the bloodiest with 1 million casualties, the Battle of the Somme was fought in 3 phases over 4 months. The battle was part of the British offensive to push through the German lines along a 15-mile (27 km) front of the River Somme in northeastern France. A British force of 1,530,000 making up 50 Divisions, along with 1,440,000 French troops in 48 Divisions, fought against 1,500,000 German soldiers in 50 Divisions. Anglo-French artillery fired 1.6 million shells into the German lines, but their damage was insignificant. The battle saw the first use of tanks in warfare.
British troops and tank at Somme, https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/the-battle-of-the-somme-in-pictures-1916/-Public Domain
After the Germans established their positions on the Western front after the Battle of Verdun, the British and French Armies devised a plan to launch an offensive to penetrate the German lines and push German forces East away from Somme River.
A German field telephonist relays artillery requests from the front lines, https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/the-battle-of-the-somme-in-pictures-1916/-Public Domain
Somme River, north-central Somme and
south-eastern Pas-de-Calais Départements, France
ALLIED POWERS
Field Marshal Douglas Haig, 1st Earl Haig
Haig, 1916, UK National Portrait Gallery – Public Domain
General Henry Seymour Rawlinson, 1st Baron Rawlinson
Rawlinson, UK National Portrait Gallery – Public Domain
General Sir Hubert de la Poer Gough
Gough, Official British military photograph. First published in "The Great War" Ed. H.W. Wilson, 1917 – Public Domain
FRENCH ARMÉE
Marshal Joseph Jacques Césaire Joffre
Joffre, date unknown, http://www.historyplace.com/worldhistory/firstworldwar/fr-joffre-port.htm – Public Domain
Marshal Ferdinand Jean Marie Foch
Foch, 1921, by Melcy, https://commons.wikimedia.org – Public Domain
Marshal Marie Émile Fayolle
Fayolle, date unknown, http://histomil.com/viewtopic.php?t=492&start=1010 – Public Domain
General Joseph Alfred Micheler
Michenor and Marchand, Oct, 1915, https://commons.wikimedia.org – Public Domain
IMPERIAL GERMAN ARMY
Crown Prinz Rupprecht of Bavaria
Rupprecht, date unknown, Bain Collection, U.S. Library of Congress – Public Domain
General Max Karl Wilhelm von Gallwitz
Gallwitz, 1915, Bain Collection, U.S. Library of Congress – Public Domain
General Fritz von Below
Below, date unknown, https://commons.wikimedia.org – Public Domain
First day of the Battle of the Somme, https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/the-battle-of-the-somme-in-pictures-1916/- Public Domain
A military draw.
Allied forces suffered 623,907 casualties with 146,431 killed or missing. German forces suffered 465,000–600,000 casualties with 164,055 killed or missing. Nearly 200 Australian soldiers were taken prisoner of war while 38,000 Germans were captured. When British troops attacked on July 1, they suffered the greatest single-day loss in all of Britain's history: 60,000 casualties with 10,000 killed in action. At the end of the battle, the Allies had won just five miles (eight km) of ground, but attrition was high among the German defenders, including a large number of junior officers and NCOs, which would affect their army's effectiveness during the remaining years of the war. Lt. Henry Augustus "Harry" Butters, a U.S. citizen serving with the British Army, became the first American casualty of WWI. Author J. R. R. Tolkien served at the Battle of the Somme and German soldier Adolf Hitler was wounded in the battle.
A British soldier dresses the wounds of a German prisoner near Bernafay Wood. July 19, 1916, https://rarehistoricalphotos.com/the-battle-of-the-somme-in-pictures-1916/-Public Domain
Dramatic documentary of the Battle of the Somme
Documentary with actual footage of the battle
Dramatic cinematographic reenactment of the build up and first day of the battle as told from first-hand accounts
Battle of Belleau Wood, 1918
Battle of the Ardennes, 1914
Michael Kennedy
Michael Kennedy is a freelance writer, researcher and Veteran with an expertise in U. S. political and military history. He is the author of articles on the American Revolution, World War I, World War II and the Vietnam War published on UnderstandingWars.com
BATTLE OF BELLEAU WOOD – WWI 1–26 June 1918 SUMMARY The first large-scale American battle of WWI was the Battle of Belleau Wood. Two U.S. Army Divisions, a Marine Brigade, along with French and British troops, went on the offensive and repelled elements from 5 German Divisions from their defensive positions in the French woods […]
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BATTLE OF BERLIN – WWII 16 April – 2 May 1945 SUMMARY The final major offensive in Europe of WWII, the Battle of Berlin had 2,300,000 Red Army and 200,000 Polish troops attacking defensive positions of 766,750 soldiers in 36 Nazi Divisions, plus an additional 45,000 troops, police force, Hitler Youth, and 40,000 Volkssturm in […]
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Q: Handling Twitter API Errors with jQuery $.getJSON $.getJSON(twitter_url, function(data){
                          loadtwit(data);
                });

I am querying the twitter url via $.getJSON, for instance:
http://twitter.com/statuses/friends/stevejobs.json?callback=?
Sometimes the browser response is UnAuthorized if the tweets are protected.  How can I handle that response to avoid triggering a login form.
success: loadtwit(data);
else: die silently

A: You can use $.ajax and provide an error handler.
$.ajax({
  url: twitter_url,
  dataType: 'json',
  success: function(data) {
    loadtwit(data);
  },
  error: function(xhr, testStatus, error) {
    // handle error
  }
});

A: I think I found something close to a workaround, if not an answer finally.
In my case I wanted to show a user's location, name, photo and some tweets based on their username which I knew, so I was trying to use this:
http://api.twitter.com/1/statuses/user_timeline.json?&screen_name=stevejobs&count=20&callback=?
Which trigger the popup that looks like a phishing scam when querying users with protected tweets.
So you can query a search for tweets based on a user like this:
http://search.twitter.com/search.json?q=from:stevejobs&callback=?
And you can also query a user like this:
http://api.twitter.com/1/users/show/stevejobs.json?&callback=?
The first query will get back tweets and won't ask for passwords because the protected users do not appear in search.  Works, but doesn't return location and meta data for the user.
The 2nd query doesn't return tweets, but does return a boolean value for protected.
So if you put it together, you can get a complete search.
I hope someone finds this useful.  I've been googling and reading the API all day.  After I write the function, I'll come back here and post it.

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In this guide, we will go over a number of different RAID configurations that can be set up using an Ubuntu 16.04 server.
A non-root user with sudo privileges on an Ubuntu 16.04 server: The steps in this guide will be completed with a sudo user. To learn how to set up an account with these privileges, follow our Ubuntu 16.04 initial server setup guide.
Multiple raw storage devices available on your server: We will be demonstrating how to configure various types of arrays on the server. As such, you will need some drives to configure. If you are using DigitalOcean, you can use Block Storage volumes to fill this role. Depending on the array type, you will need at minimum between two to four storage devices.
This process will completely destroy the array and any data written to it. Make sure that you are operating on the correct array and that you have copied off any data you need to retain prior to destroying the array.
Keep in mind that the /dev/sd* names can change any time you reboot! Check them every time to make sure you are operating on the correct devices.
As you can see in the first highlighted line, the /dev/md0 device has been created in the RAID 5 configuration using the /dev/sda, /dev/sdb and /dev/sdc devices. The second highlighted line shows the progress on the build. You can continue the guide while this process completes.
Once you have settled on the type of array needed for your environment and created the device, you will need to learn how to perform day-to-day management with mdadm. Our guide on how to manage RAID arrays with mdadm on Ubuntu 16.04 can help get you started.


Whilst talking to him yesterday I asked him what his up to so that we can finish up his shopping for this winter, but he said his busy this weekend, but asked me what I was doing next week, so lied to him that I would be travelling!!! Know that he can be avoidant. Aquarian men being emotional Now he is leaving in a week until the end of Nov. There are also good qualities about them though.
Let him know that you are cool and casual.
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Take a bit of the beach with you! To make this surfboard style necklace we layer glass with sand and fuse it to a temperature of 1500 degrees. The sand in this necklace is from Sullivan's Island, South Carolina.
The copper chain measures 30 inches and can be shortened if you like. Just note the desired length in your order notes.


We advise private equity clients on a range of matters from fund formation to business transactions. Fund formation, in particular, is a complex and important issue on which private equity funds must focus. Private equity funds and hedge funds are generally structured in the form of limited partnerships, which consist of a general partner, or sponsor, operated by the fund's management team, and limited partners, who are the investors and do not participate in the management of the fund. General partners often then contract with an affiliated but distinct management company, which assumes management responsibilities.
There are a variety of considerations when forming a fund, and many of the issues are set forth in the terms of the limited partnership agreement (LPA), which specifies various economic terms, including the carried interest (typically close to 20% of profits) the hurdle rate, high-water mark, preferred return for limited partners, term for the fund, and the structure of the fund's waterfall.
In addition to needing an LPA that both the general partner, or sponsor, executes, along with all of the limited partners, the general partner will also generally enter into a management agreement with an affiliate that is assigned day-to-day management responsibilities. The management firm will typically be paid 1-2% of the fund's committed assets under management, and this amount sometimes scales down later in a fund's life when capital has been more fully deployed. At the fund's outset, limited partners in a private equity fund generally commit to funding a certain amount, and the fund's general partner can "call" that capital as needed as investment opportunities are sourced and pursued.
Carried interest is a controversial subject that has received a fair amount of attention by commentators and politicians. It refers to the portion of a general partner's interest in a fund that is a "profits interest" and subject to capital gains taxes, which, in the case of long-term capital gains, means a lower tax rate. There are some complicated tax rules that dictate whether an interest qualifies as a profits interest. Fundamentally, however, the analysis looks at whether in a hypothetical liquidation of the fund's assets, would the recipient of the interest receive anything at the time of grant. If the answer is yes, then the recipient of the interest is receiving something of value today, creating a taxable event. As opposed to a profits interest, an interest that would entitle the holder to value in a hypothetical liquidation is known as a capital interest. On the other hand, if the recipient is not entitled to anything in a hypothetical liquidation upon receipt, then the interest could be a profits interest, meaning there is no tax upon receipt and the interest qualifies for capital gains. In an effort to increase returns, some funds have deployed what is known as a management fee waiver, which allows the fund to waive receipt of management fees in exchange for a commensurate amount of additional carry that has a potentially lower tax rate. This practice has come under considerable IRS scrutiny, and whether a management fee waiver passed regulatory scrutiny depends on various factors, including whether the receipt of additional carry is subject to true "entrepreneurial risk" and hence provides an uncertain benefit or whether the waiver and exchange provides a clear benefit at the time of the waiver.
When setting up a fund, it is important to ensure that the fund falls within certain regulatory exemptions that make the fund model viable. For instance, private funds typically want to be exempt from the Investment Company Act of 1940, which provides registration exemptions for funds with less than 100 beneficial owners (the 3(c)(1) exemption). If an investment company owns more than 10% of the voting securities of a fund, then all the owners of that entity will be considered beneficial owners for the purposes of 3(c)(1). The other exemption, 3(c)(7), exempts funds whose investors are exclusively qualified purchasers, which are ultra-high-net-worth individuals or entities.
Funds also generally want to steer clear of falling under the Employment Retirement Income and Security Act (ERISA) plan fiduciary requirements, which apply to funds whose assets under management are at least 25% ERISA assets. If a fund's assets exceed the 25% threshold, they are subject to various additional rules and legal burdens, including becoming fiduciaries with limitations on certain investment activities and increased liability. The threshold also applies to each separate class of capital in the fund.
Private equity funds and hedge funds also must carefully account for various tax issues, including certain tax issues that are unique to tax-exempt limited partners, such as foundations and endowments. In the case of tax-exempt investors, funds often must be careful not to generate unrelated business taxable income (UBTI), which arises from the operation of a business unrelated to the tax-exempt entities' underlying purpose, the income of which flows through the partnership to the investor and is subject to income tax.
In summary, there are a whole host of issues that private equity and hedge funds must consider and we are equipped to provide that guidance and to assist with legal issues with arise with funds portfolio companies.


Last Saturday, during stand up paddle boarding, I fell into the murky waters of Thames, together with my trusted iPhone 5. I've had this phone for over 4 years and it has survived a few drownings so far so I was confident it will come bak to life. With my friend's Sony Experia to use in the interim, I was confident. Unfortunately, after a week submerged in rice, I've finally accepted my iPhone's demise and called my insurance provider to be replaced, because I do not particularly like the change to Android system!
Last week my work computer also decided to display abstract art instead of its usual Windows stuff. It took a week but I was given a new computer with a new Windows system and a completely clean slate. I'm not particularly chuffed about setting-up new shortcuts and saving settings all over again and literally getting lost whenever I want to open a document. I wasn't happy when after a day of postponing working on budgets, when I finally did it, Excel crashed and I had to do it all over again. I was also disproportionally upset with the new studio schedule management system being implemented at work.
What is going on, I asked myself, when it dawned on me that, in the middle of the biggest change of my life (moving to the countryside in France), I am suddenly extremely resentful to change.
We have been waiting to be given a move out date from our flat. We've been waiting for one for over one month and now it could be as soon as two weeks. Or even next week. And then we must pack our life in cardboard boxes and move to France. Just like that. Ready or not. I thought I was ready but I am in fact terrified. I wish it was a quick move like removing a plaster in one go. But it's a slow and painful process. Papers and documents being exchanged. The Pound dropping with each passing day. The perspective of being totally skint when we finally make our 'dream' move. The setting-up of a completely new life when you're still working full-time, because you have to or else fail within minutes. The shock of it all. Or the glory.
Change comes whether we like it or not. And it usually brings something better. Like a new computer and a new phone. And a gorgeous farmhouse by the river.
TLP Episode 1_Celibacy yay or nay?


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Inaugural Acadis Readiness Summit Highlights National Collaboration
APB Team Published June 4, 2019 @ 12:00 am PDT
Initially conceived as an opportunity for state public safety training academies to share information on training management practices, the Acadis Readiness Summit in Edneyville, N.C., bloomed into an event of national significance in its field.
Dana Phillips, Deputy Director of the North Carolina Justice Academy, suggested the event as a means to engage other users of the Acadis Readiness Suite, developed by Envisage Technologies, in conversations about how different agencies use the software to streamline their training and compliance operations.
Phillips discussed his idea with Envisage, and the result was the inaugural Acadis Readiness Summit held April 15-18. Leaders from federal, state, and local government agencies attended, representing the gamut of public safety fields, including corrections, criminal justice, emergency management, fire service, homeland security, and law enforcement.
During keynote remarks, Envisage Founder and CEO Ari Vidali highlighted the similarity of mission needs and of challenges the agencies face that brought them together.
"There are 20 different modules in Acadis that were built by a disciplined and deep collaboration between agencies that may not normally work together," he said. "Having federal, state, and local government agencies here designing the future together in this way is unprecedented."
Envisage developed Acadis to fill a void in the marketplace for a training and compliance solution built to address the unique and critical needs of public safety. As a result of this approach, Acadis has grown to serve the largest public safety user base in the U.S. among training management software, utilized by 9,800 individual departments and 1.7 million public safety personnel.
NCJA Director Trevor Allen and Deputy Director Phillips said the Readiness Summit exceeded their expectations from beginning to end, with an impressive group of participants from all levels of government sharing their knowledge and experiences, and planning to work together more deeply in future.
One of the ways in which agency attendees shared information was through presentations followed by Q&A sessions. The following Acadis training sessions were presented by representatives of the Colorado POST, U.S. Customs and Border Protection, Federal Protective Service, Indiana State Police, North Carolina Justice Academy, Ohio State Fire Marshal, and Utah POST:
Experiences with Online Training
Monitoring Compliance
Building Consistency in Course Registrations
Instructor Scheduling: Assignment Acceptance and Exchange® Integration
Streamlining Compliance and Blended Learning Strategy
Career Roles
Panel Discussion on the Impact of Acadis
In a retrospective session at the end of the Summit, participants reported they had learned about each other's challenges, and solutions to the challenges they faced. They also said they discovered that their agencies are more similar in their use of Acadis than they had thought, and despite differing terminology, their agencies perform many similar functions and can share information and learn from each other's experiences.
The Readiness Summit was nationally significant not only because it attracted agencies from all parts of the country to discuss problems and solutions they share, but also because it set them on a path toward working together to ensure the readiness of personnel serving all public safety functions in cities, states, and the nation. Acadis customers from the Department of Homeland Security and other federal agencies joined those from state and local governments as geographically dispersed as the Arkansas Law Enforcement Training Academy, Colorado Peace Officer Standards and Training, Indiana Department of Homeland Security, Kentucky Department of Criminal Justice Training, Massachusetts Municipal Police Training Committee, South Carolina Criminal Justice Academy, Utah Peace Officer Standards and Training, Washington State Criminal Justice Academy and Washington, D.C., Metropolitan Police Department, among others. Many of the attendees met for the first time, yet got right to work discussing plans for ongoing collaboration that will benefit all of their agencies and the people they serve.
"They were excited about coming together in a way they never had before," Vidali said. "What's even more exciting to me is that this group of leaders is charting a path ahead to tackle joint challenges in ways they haven't before."
Acadis Development Process Explained
Envisage Chief Operating Officer Michelle Cole presented "Making the Most of Agile Methodology," in which she described the Envisage Agile software development process. In this process, Envisage focuses on listening to customers, figuring out what they need, and continually developing software features that deliver rapid value based on their needs.
Cole said Envisage is focused on giving customers rapid value through features that meet their needs in the smallest increment that will be helpful. This increment is called minimum viable product and is provided through an iterative process in which developers continually make customer-focused updates.
"We get to the smallest viable increment to add value for customers and build from there to add value as quickly as possible," Cole said.
Envisage staff also provided a series of workshops in which they and other attendees shared information on the use of the following Acadis modules and capabilities ‑‑ Compliance, Reports & Data Tools, Surveys, Workflows, Imports/Exports, Registration, Mobile and Observed Testing, Curriculum Design, and Scheduling, as well as a workshop on using the FirstForward online platform for public safety.
Envisage thanks all of the attendees and speakers and especially appreciates the efforts of NCJA Deputy Director Chris Anderson and his staff at the beautiful NCJA West Campus, where the Summit was held. Envisage also commends the excellent work of Summit planning committee members Danise Alano-Martin, Rob Aney, Chad Bollhorst, Heather DeMoss, Brian Dimbath, Hannah Sitz, and Kim Storvik.

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Dem senators back Trump on UN Israel veto
By Mark Hensch - 12/23/16 12:40 PM EST
Several Democratic senators have joined President-elect Donald Trump Donald TrumpJudge rules Alaska governor unlawfully fired lawyer who criticized Trump Giuliani led fake electors plot: CNN Giuliani associate sentenced to a year in prison in campaign finance case MORE in calling for the Obama administration to veto a U.N. Security Council resolution demanding an end to Israeli settlements.
The Security Council is expected to vote on the controversial measure around 3 p.m. Friday afternoon, one day after it was postponed after pressure from Trump and Israel. In statements Friday, Democratic Senators Joe Manchin Joe ManchinLawmaker arrested amid voting rights protest says he'd 'do it again' No Hillary — the 'Third Way' is the wrong way WATCH: The Hill recaps the top stories of the week MORE (W.Va), Richard Blumenthal (D-Conn.), and Chris Coons Chris Andrew CoonsDemocrats hope to salvage Biden's agenda on Manchin's terms Overnight Energy & Environment — Starting from 'scratch' on climate, spending bill Bipartisan lawmakers announce climate adaptation bill MORE (D-Del.) all echoed Trump's call for a veto.
"I urge the Obama administration to veto the United Nations resolution demanding an end to Israeli settlement building," Manchin, who could face a tough re-election in 2018 after Trump won his state by more than 40 percentage points, said in his statement. "I support two-party negotiations to reach agreement on any settlement issues, and this U.N. resolution is not the way to pursue peace between the Palestinian Authority and the state of Israel."
In his own statement, Blumenthal said the U.N. resolution would "undermine" opportunities for "productive discussions" between Palestinians and Isreal.
"Consistent with past policy, this administration must now veto this most recent misguided and one-sided attempt backed by the Palestinian Authority to isolate Israel and weaken the peace process," Blumenthal said.
Coons also called on Obama to veto the resolution.
"Should this come before a vote at the U.N., I urge the president to veto the resolution because it does nothing to advance peace or hope for a two-state solution," Coons (D-Del.), a member of the Senate Foreign Relations Committee, added in his own statement.
Sen. Charles Schumer Chuck SchumerDemocrats call on Biden administration to ease entry to US for at-risk Afghans Predictions of disaster for Democrats aren't guarantees of midterm failure Voting rights and Senate wrongs MORE (D-N.Y.) publicly called on the resolution to be blocked, noting he has spoken privately with Obama administration "numerous times" and urged it "in the strongest possible terms" to veto the measure.
"I am strongly opposed to the U.N. putting pressure on Israel through one-sided resolutions. An abstention is not good enough. The Administration must veto this resolution," he said in statement.
Schumer, who is both the highest-ranking Jewish lawmaker and the next Senate Democratic leader, added that "the U.N. has long shown its anti-Israel bias, and the U.S. government... [has] admirably kept the U.N. out when it comes to negotiations" to reach a two-state solution.
It's not the first time Schumer has bucked Obama on foreign policy, previously voting against the Iran nuclear deal.
The U.S. was reportedly poised to allow the draft resolution to pass by abstention Thursday, which would have marked a break from American policy on U.N. actions against the settlements. The Security Council postponed its original vote, with Egyptian President Abdel Fattah al-Sisi instructing his country's U.N. mission to delay the vote, reportedly over Israeli pressure.
Trump waded into the debate Thursday, calling for the contentious resolution to be vetoed.
"As the United States has long maintained, peace between the Israelis and the Palestinians will only come through direct negotiations between the parties, and not through imposition of terms by the United Nations," he said in a statement. "This puts Israel in a very poor negotiating position and is extremely unfair to all Israelis."
The decision to forge ahead on the resolution occurred Friday when four Security Council members—New Zealand, Malaysia, Venezuela and Senegal—requested a vote.
Critics of Israel's settlement policies, including the Obama administration, maintain that building settlement in territory also claimed by Palestinians disrupts peace talks between both sides.
Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu contends the settlements are legal, however.
Tags Israel United Nations U.N. Richard Blumenthal Charles Schumer Donald Trump Joe Manchin Chris Coons settlements Foreign policy Diplomacy Democrats


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U.S. SENIOR AMATEUR
Two-time USGA Champion Jackson is Medalist at Old Warson September 18, 2016 | St. Louis, Mo. By Joey Flyntz, USGA
Two-time U.S. Mid-Amateur champion Tim Jackson birdied three of his first five holes Sunday en route to a 4-under 67. (USGA/Chris Keane)
U.S. Senior Amateur Home
Tim Jackson shot a 4-under-par 67 on Sunday to finish at 4-under 138 and earn medalist honors in the 62nd U.S. Senior Amateur Championship, being contested at the 6,799-yard, par-71 Old Warson Country Club.
Jackson, 57, of Germantown, Tenn., earned medalist honors for the second time in a USGA championship. He was the medalist in the 2009 U.S. Amateur, at 50 years old the oldest medalist in that championship's history.
A veteran of dozens of USGA championships – he won the 1994 and 2001 U.S. Mid-Amateurs and competed for the 1995 and 1999 USA Walker Cup Teams – Jackson understands that winning a medal guarantees nothing come Monday.
"Well, you beat everybody; you get a medal, so it means something. Other than that, I don't think it means that much," said Jackson, who lost, 1 up, to eventual champion Chip Lutz last year as the No. 4 seed in this championship. "How many times have you seen the 64 seed beat the 1 seed? It happens a lot. You put that out of your mind tomorrow and warm up on the range the way you always warm up."
Jackson's 4-under 67 tied for the lowest score of the championship. He made five birdies against one bogey in the round, highlighted by a 40-foot putt on No. 5 (his 14th hole). He then birdied No. 6 to move to 5 under for the day.
"That felt like stealing," said Jackson of his long putt. "I knew then that I was two ahead of [Randal Lewis] and had a par 5 next. A three-stroke lead with three to play is a good place to be."
Lewis, 59, of Alma, Mich., and Joe Russo, 59, of Sewell, N.J., the co-leaders after first-round 68s, both followed with 1-over 72s on Sunday to finish two strokes behind Jackson. While Lewis, who in 2011 became the oldest champion in U.S. Mid-Amateur history and medaled in this championship last year, is accustomed to being at the top of the leader board, Russo was in uncharted waters.
"I haven't been in this position before where I'm near the top, trying to be the medalist," said Russo, who admitted to being very nervous on Saturday. "I thought my nerves were worse today than yesterday."
Tim Sheppard, 55, of East Peoria, Ill., and Randy Haag, 57, of Orinda, Calif., were the only other players to finish under par instroke play at 1-under 141. Sheppard shot 3-under 68 on Sunday with three birdies and no bogeys. Haag played steadily all weekend, following up Saturday's 70 with a 71.
"My play was fairly consistent," said Haag, a sidesaddle putter. "I hit a lot of good shots off the tee. I hit a lot of good iron shots. And when I got into trouble, I did a good job getting it up and in."
Steven Liebler, 57, of Irmo, S.C., equaled Jackson's 4-under 67 on Sunday. Liebler, a semifinalist in this championship last year, needed a strong day following Saturday's 7-over 78 showing.
Liebler's performance easily earned him a spot in the match-play draw. He made five birdies, but the highlight of his round was an eagle on the 435-yard, par-4 15th, which played as the most difficult hole with a 4.67 stroke average. Liebler hit a 3-hybrid from 200 yards that landed 25 feet short of the hole and rolled in.
Defending champion Chip Lutz rallied on his inward nine Sunday to make the cut with two strokes to spare. (USGA/Chris Keane)
The 67s shot by Jackson and Liebler were one stroke shy of the best individual stroke-play round in the three USGA championships contested at Old Warson, which also hosted the 1999 Mid-Amateur and 2009 Women's Amateur championships. Sean Knapp shot 66 in the second round of the 1999 Mid-Amateur.
"I feel good about the score," said Liebler. "The tradeoff between the eagle on 15 and the double bogey on 6 is about even. The score was probably representative of the way I played."
Defending champion Lutz, 61, of Reading, Pa., advanced to match play despite at one time sitting in a tie for 109th place after shooting 6-over 77 on Saturday and 3-over 39 on his first nine (Old Warson's incoming nine) to fall to 9 over for the championship. However, Lutz rallied to shoot 2 under coming home, making birdies on Nos. 2 and 7 to finish at 7-over 149 in stroke play.
The inward nine at Old Warson has long been a trouble spot for Lutz, who shot 5-over 41 in that stretch on Saturday.
"The back nine has been my nemesis here. It was difficult for me in the 1999 Mid-Amateur," said Lutz, who dropped into a playoff in the 1999 Mid-Amateur after shooting 42 coming in during the second round and failed to reach match play. "I played it poorly then, I played it poorly yesterday, and I didn't play it great today. But I'm moving in the right direction. At least I was only 3 over and kept it under 40 today. I hope that speaks well for my game going forward."
Danny Green, 59, of Jackson, Tenn., shot 4-over 146 to advance to match play. Green won the 1999 U.S. Mid-Amateur at Old Warson.
Other notable players to advance to match play include 1979 USA Walker Cup Team member Mike Peck, 60, of Irving, Texas; 2013 U.S. Senior Amateur champion Doug Hanzel, 59, of Savannah, Ga.; 2010 and 2012 U.S. Senior Amateur champion Paul Simson, 65, of Raleigh, N.C.; 2014 U.S. Senior Amateur champion Patrick Tallent, 63, of Vienna, Va.; 2015 U.S. Senior Amateur runner-up Tom Brandes, 60, of Bellevue, Wash.; and 2008 U.S. Senior Amateur champion and two-time USA Walker Cup Team competitor and captain George "Buddy" Marucci, 64, of Villanova, Pa.
Joey Flyntz is an associate writer for the USGA. Email him at jflyntz@usga.org.
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I am late posting this, but my talk is up, and it is pleasant to remember winter in July! My husband and I spoke at a youth conference for Orthodox Christian teenagers and young adults, 43 of them, with seven adults. It was a very great honor. The conference was dedicated to St. Herman of Alaska, a missionary saint who came to Alaska from Russia in 1793 both to serve the Russians who lived there and to minister to the natives, many of whom became Orthodox.
While the St. Herman's Conference has been well established on the East Coast — I met my husband at one in 1980 — the midwest St. Herman's Conference is relatively new. I spoke at the first one in 2008, when there were closer to 20 of us, and it was a joy to see how it has grown. The diocese now has a program to encourage the youth to sing in their parishes, and several of them conducted pieces for the services we sang together.
Each conference has a theme. The purpose of this gathering was to bring people together to discuss friendship, the internet, and God. The kids came from everywhere — Chicago, Alaska, Oklahoma, Texas. They listened attentively, asked sharp questions, shared their lives and problems, and learned to sing the services together. They played in the snow on snow tubes and in a human Foosball game, volunteered for four hours at a homeless shelter, and got to know each other over all- you-can-eat fish tacos and bowling after. We ended the services at the St. Herman parish in Hastings, where our friend Fr. Michael Carney is rector.
My talk was on how to "curate" your thoughts before sharing them on the internet. I could not have given this talk before the studying I did for my MFA in Writing. I had to learn to curate my collection of thoughts and experiences, to share them in the best light and with the right juxtapositions, before I could speak to the youth about what to share and how so we can lift each other up and support each other rather than tear people down though our online participation.
The camp where the conference was held is a place of great natural beauty. The dining hall overlooked a frozen lake, and the sky above was a study in blues and greys by day, infused with orange and pink at sunrise. I had thought of Michigan winters as bleak, because I looked at the snow on the side of the road. When you stand in nature and look up, everything changes.
A bishop friend says, "Private prayer is important, but it is only in the services of the Church that we find spiritual regeneration." And online contact is important, but it is only by meeting face to face that we truly become close. The internet helped us to organize, but of incalculable value was the face to face contact we made, forging new friendships and deepening old ones.
The world can be so cold, both physically and otherwise. It is essential that we make every effort to overcome it, banding together to share and to spread the warmth.
It was very strange to start today with eggs, because in my youth, this was a solemn fast day.
Every day is the feast of some saint, in the Russian Orthodox Church. Some days are fast days, on which we eat less and have no meat or dairy, in preparation for joyous events like Christmas and Easter, others are feast days, others are fast days because the day commemorates something sorrowful, like the beheading of St. John the Baptist.
Today is the anniversary of the killing of Tsar Nicholas II of Russia and his family — the Empress Alexandra and their children, Olga, Maria, Tatiana, Anastasia, and Alexis. In the West, the deposition and murder of the Tsar is seen as a good and inevitable thing, but the exile and murder of his wife and children cannot be defended, and the results for Russia were catastrophic. The new era of equality and friendship that was supposed to be ushered in became, instead, seven decades of fratricide, genocide, misery, imprisonment — and martyrdom.
Only later did I learn Russian, and learn some of the stories. These men had lost family members throughout the years since the revolution — grandparents and beloved aunts, then fathers, and brothers and sisters. My godfather's father, the famous violinist Julius Conus, whose exercises for students were the norm across Russia, died of starvation on the streets of Moscow in 1942; he had been declared an enemy of the State, and one could be arrested for feeding him. When I was thirteen, that was only thirty-four years previous, as if it had happened in 1983 now. Our priest's father had been locked in a barn with other engineers at the beginning of the WWII and the Communists set the barn on fire so the approaching German army could not capture that much brain power. Others had seen their relatives die rather than be repatriated during Operation Keelhaul. Many of the people who killed their loved ones were still alive, still in power, gloating.
There will always be someone who mocks you for having hope and faith that things will be better. They are often wrong, and always are short-sighted.
Things got better. 1981, our church glorified the New Martyrs of Russia, recognizing them as saints. In 1991, Communism was overthrown in an almost bloodless coup in Russia, and in 2007, our church reconciled with the Moscow Patriarchate, from whom we had separated ourselves until we were sure it was no longer the captive of a State hostile to its very existence, who used the Church for its own purposes. Lenigrad is back to being St. Petersburg. Churches that were turned into museums, theaters, toilets, and beer houses have been returned and restored. New churches are under construction to replace those destroyed and to hold all those who now freely pray. Miracles have happened in our lifetime.
All over the world, in places that we know of and in places shaded by the darkness of oblivion, there are men, women, and children suffering because they choose to believe in God and to live the life that faith requires — praying, visiting the sick, feeding the hungry, clothing the naked, even when the sick and suffering have been declared less than human by the States in which they live. There are people in unspeakable conditions in prison, under political pressure at their jobs, forced into silence at home by hostile in-laws, silenced and punished by ideologically motivated teachers. But where there is love, there is hope, because God is love.
Today this former fast day is a day for Divine Liturgy followed by festive foods, cake and ice cream and presents in the homes of those celebrating the feast of the saints for whom they are named, and we all remember that when things look their darkest, God has a plan in place for overcoming evil. If we don't conform ourselves to evil, we may suffer in this life. But through suffering with love, we can be changed into saints.


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How to drive a new e30 in your own car
e30 custom interior
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Fox Sports reports that the first e30 coupe is now available for pre-order from Volkswagen and Porsche.
The car will be available from October 1st, the automaker says.
It's got a new 5.2-liter V6 engine with all-wheel drive, a revised rear wing, a larger front splitter, and more carbon fiber.
The e30 is priced at $55,900 for the base model and $71,800 for the top-of-the-line V6, but that figure is likely to increase as more e30s are built and sold.
The top-end of the e30 will come with a 2.0-liter twin-turbo V6 and will come standard with a seven-speed automatic transmission, but Volkswagen says that all of the other options will be added on.
The new coupe will be the first production e30, the first in the US and the first from a European automaker.
The e30 comes with the same 6.2 kWh battery pack as the e60 sedan, and that's where the price drop comes in.
The standard 5.0 kWh battery packs are now going for $5,200 (plus a $5 per kWh $1,000 federal tax credit), and that price will increase to $6,800.
That's a $3,200 drop.
The Porsche Cayenne and the Mercedes-AMG GTE will get a $1.4k upgrade package to $9,500, and the Cayenne GTI will get an all-new 1.6-liter engine with a twin-scroll turbocharger.
The new Porsche will also get a 1.8-liter turbocharged V6 with an 8-speed manual transmission and a 1,600 rpm redline.
The base e30 also gets a 10-speed dual-clutch automatic transmission with paddle shifters and a 6.3-inch touchscreen display.
Volkswagen says there will be no electric assist.
The coupe also gets an 8.4 kWh battery and the base E-Golf will get two electric motors, and an all wheel drive electric motor for the Golf GTI.
The all-electric Golf will also be offered with a 5.8 kWh battery, a new 7.0 liter V8 engine, and a new all-aluminum body, and it's got an electric power steering system.
The base Golf is expected to go for $30,500.
The E-Porsche will get new 3.0 L V8 engines, new aluminum body, electric power suspension, electric steering system, all-weather driving package, and upgraded brakes.
The E-Amigo will get the same engine and all-wheeled suspension, but the new all wheels and suspension package will cost $35,000.
The all-up, all of these cars will cost a little over $120,000, according to the automakers.
Volkswagen says that the coupe should be available to pre-purchase on October 31st.
Porsche says it will also make available to dealers "pre-ordered" versions of the E-Model and E-Class starting in early November.
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A regular Pilates exercise routine is a great way to meet your fitness goals while also creating overall better health.
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These classic Pilates exercises that will help to tighten your core, improve your flexibility and overall physical strength.
The Full Body Roll Up strengthens your core, while also stretching your back, hip flexors and hamstrimgs. It is much more productive than crunches or sit-ups because its full range of motion works to engage more of your muscle fibers.
Start by laying flat on your back and rolling into a C curve, then uncurling back into a C curve as you exhale back into the mat. Make sure to keep your feet on the ground. It is easiest to do this exercise when you can articulate your spine bone by bone without gaps.
The Pilates series of 5 is a group of classic Pilates mat moves focused on your core. Many say it's the perfect ab exercise routine.
It consists of 5-10 reps each of these five exercises: single leg stretch, double leg stretch, single straight leg stretch, double straight leg stretch and criss cross.
While perfoming these exercises, use your abdominal muscles to keep your upper body curl and to keep your pelvis stable.
Don't worry if the positions seem too challenging, there are modifications for beginners.
Begin by standing with good Pilates posture and your arms straight up over your head. Next you pull your abs in, curve your spine down and begin to roll toward the mat.
Walk out to a front support plank position. Hold plank position with straight arms and lower to the mat. Walk back, roll up to standing and inhale as you lift your arms.
Joseph Pilates (1880-1967) created Pilates almost 100 years ago. It was originally called Contrology, because of how it used slow controlled movements to tighten, tone and strengthen the body.
The New York Pilates method is the world's first and oldest Pilates professional training program. This is the purest form of Pilates, since the methods are derived directly from the archive and training of Joseph Pilates.
Vie is excited to be Ann Arbor's exclusive New York Authentic Pilates studio. Vie's instructors have all completed rigorous training and certification and are among the most knowledgeable in the field.
Starting a regular Pilates routine is a great way to meet your fitness goals, whether you'd like to increase flexibility and muscle tone, or lose weight and have overall better health. Vie's Pilates instructors will help you start the program that is perfect for you.


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Q: How to make serializer accept a data type, but converts it before save operation in DRF? I have the following model and serializer

class MyModel(db_models.Model):

    name = db_models.CharField(max_length=120)
    description = db_models.CharField(max_length=1024, blank=True)
    complex_data = db_models.BinaryField(null=True, default=None)

class MyModelSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):

    class Meta:
        model = models.MyModel
        fields = (
            "id",
            "name",
            "description",
        )

I use this serializer for CRUD operations, but for creating or updating, I would like the client to be able to input a "complex_data", which consists of arrays and numerical data, it should be valid for the serializer, but before saving the data, I would like the serializer to convert the the complex_data to bytes format (for that I use msgpack), and save the model object with the converted complex_data.
since I only manipulate the complex_data field on create and on update actions, the complex_data should be a write-only field.
Thanks in advance

A: You can hook into different places to achieve what you want to do.

*

*You could create a custom field by sub-classing rest_framework.serializers.Field and write a custom to_representation method. Just flag you field with write_only=True if you don't want it in the response.

Have a look at https://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/fields/#custom-fields.

*You could hook into the create or update methods of your serializer.

class MyModelSerializer(serializers.ModelSerializer):

    class Meta:
        model = models.MyModel
        fields = (
            "id",
            "name",
            "description",
        )

    def create(self, validated_data):
        ....

    def update(self, instance, validated_data):
        ....

Have a look at:
https://www.django-rest-framework.org/api-guide/serializers/#saving-instances


If Other Institutions Can Learn, Why Can't Law Firms?
If hospitals can learn, maybe there's hope for lawyers.
There is nothing so important as ensuring through every available means that you and your client are on the same page, that what you do is what is expected. Doesn't this say it all?
Cartoons courtesy of Brand Autopsy (which is worth looking at just to see the brand).
Corporate Counsel magazine (January 2006 issue) did a survey of General Counsel at Fortune 250 Companies. The survey found (15% response rate) that 34% of the surveyed GCs fired a firm in 2005 for poor performance, 3% for poor technological capabilities, 3% for lack of diversity, 9% for a combination of those factors and 31% did so for other reasons. The survey doesn't suggest whether these terminations are of primary counsel or peripheral counsel.
The same issue reports that 46% of the top 200 firms anticipate raising their hourly rates by more than 5%, while 53% expect to raise rates by 5% or less.
I wonder whether the January 2007 issue will contain survey results showing a significant percentage of firms being fired for being too expensive.
Eschewing the time-honored maxim of "location, location, location," The Wired GC continues his analysis of the importance (or lack thereof) of office location in a world where most client interaction occurs in the client's office, or at least somewhere other than the lawyer's office. The post, bearing the sublime title "What Face Means For Place," addresses the question "why do most firms in large cities persist in putting all their people in pricey high-rise space under long-term leases?" None of the common answers survive The Wired GC's pithy commentary. The post goes on to suggest some alternatives that no doubt will be the subject of much conversation.
I'm sure I don't understand all the intricacies of space selection and design of the modern law firm. But when I see firms jockeying for a new "signature" building, and later submitting their interior design to magazines for their annual awards, I know one thing: I've never retained a firm on the basis of its offices. And I have to think that the overhead costs inherent in the current space model are a big driver of higher rates and higher billable hour quotas. And I have decided against retaining more than one firm because of these factors.
Perhaps the driving factors on space should be minimizing cost, maximizing operating efficiency and teamwork and creating a desire to leave the office and go visit clients.
I want to relate one true observation. The most effective office design I every saw was an open room, where the CEO and Chief Acquisition Officer had the desks in the center of the room, facing each other. Other desks encircled this power center, with the most junior people being the ones closest to the windows but farthest away from the CEO. There wasn't much time spent on personal calls or mindlessly surfing the internet. There was, by contrast, a lot of time spent bouncing ideas off colleagues. And when meetings needed to be in private, the many conference rooms were utilized.
But to get back to the topic at hand, The Wired GC's point that the price of the law firm's office (location, location, location) becomes a substantial factor in high hourly rates is a truth that cannot be escaped. I ask this of discerning inside counsel: Do you ever hold a firm's toney location and expensive offices against them?
And to underscore the point I made yesterday, the right place for meeting your client is your client's office. Her convenience, not yours. Your nickel, not his. Your investment in the relationship. Your chance to learn more about her business and the demands on her time. Your chance to figure out more ways to help. Its all about the client, not your trendy offices with the expensive artwork.
Driving Change: Chicken or Egg, Client or Law Firm?
I'm not sure I can agree. The implication of GAL's post is that there really isn't competition now for business. That certainly isn't true. In my view, the problem remains one of economic incentive. Law firms have no reason to embrace technology or the efficiencies it creates more than is minimally necessary because technology costs them money and doesn't generate revenue. Clients make the hiring decision and law firms offer what they think the client needs from them, and no more. If clients demanded the types of efficiencies GAL discusses ("do this or you are fired") and followed through by hiring only those who provided the innovation, the level of innovation would increase dramatically because it would be the price to play. Now it isn't. I leave with this thought: if clients don't insist on change now, why will they hire based on that differentiator if the pitch is made by a professional seller?
I saw this post on PDF for Lawyers, a site edited by Ernie Svenson (Ernie the Attorney) and Dave Fishel, just on top of participating in an ALM program on the same topic. The referenced article from the Federal Courts Law Review is an excellent overview on electronic evidence issues. There are, to be sure, lawyers like Dennis Kennedy who are light years ahead of most on analyzing issues relating to electronic discovery. The issues relating to e-discovery are becoming so pervasive, however, that every firm that truly wants to be known for "client service" is going to have to have an expert on this topic. Every case has the potential to involve electronic media, and failure to factor in the cost of securing the data that must be produced will cause resources to be wasted, and failure to produced requested and available data can result in sanctions, the discovery trick box. Clients need help, and the outside counsel who can provide sound, reasoned advice will have a leg up on everyone else.
to do (or not do)?"
TP: (A) Read 2 books. (1) Bossidy (& Charan) on execution ... Execution: The Discipline of Getting Things Done. Main takeaway: Bedrock #1 for corporate success is a "culture of execution." (FYI, Bob Nardelli did this brilliantly at Home Depot, despite pressure to do sexier stuff first.) (2) Read Lou Gerstner's book ... Who Says Elephants Can't Dance: Inside IBM's Historic Turnaround. Main takeaways: Listen first, then do vision no matter how high the pressure for a "scintillating vision." Also, you must tackle head-on the extant culture head; Gerstner reluctantly did this and did it well, but Carly Fiorina didn't at HP (she led with "vision").
(E) And: Remove or marginalize ASAP the career "career corporate politicians."
Chip: "One thing" is cute ... but the above SIX are musts! Use all six of 'em, but do NOT feel free to choose "the best one"—SIX or naught!
Those who have read my prior posts know that I am a big fan of Tom Peters. While not every point is directly applicable to a professional service firm (like keeping the board informed), the points apply more broadly (i.e., keep your partners informed).
In the law firm environment, it is common for some partners and very common for some associates to have never personally met a long-term client. I feel that if a lawyer ever wants to move up the trust food chain with a client, you have to supplement good service and high value with a personal relationship. With a personal relationship, you are less likely to be thrown into this year's beauty contest with other commodity-type service providers.
And it may go without saying–visit your client on their home turf. I have heard some lawyers complain that they are "too busy to travel" or "can't bill for client relations time". My answers: (a) you will have plenty of time to travel when your clients drift away and (b) you can't bill for any time when you don't have a client in the first place.
To this I can only add two things. First, this observation is consistent with my own personal experience: the more time I spend with my clients, the better and the more work I seem to get. Second, the observation is consistent with feedback we get from clients when we do client satisfaction surveys--clients want face time with their lawyers.
"Bombard" Clients With Communications? Not Necessarily.
Dan Hull has an interesting addition to his rules of good client service. The post is entitled "Over-Communicate": Bombard, Copy and Confirm." The gist of Dan's message is not at as far-reaching as the statement of the rule. Noting that the rule has "obvious exceptions," Dan articulates what I think is the core of the rule: know what your client wants and provide it to him or her.
There is a danger of "bombarding" clients with communications. Frequently, clients are paying you to be exercise judgment about what they need to hear or read and what they don't need to hear or read. The more important the issue, the more your client needs to know. My formulation of this "rule": No surprises. And they best way to avoid surprises is to have an on-going dialogue with your clients where you ask if he or she wants to be involved with an issue, kept apprised to simply advised at its conclusion.
Bear in mind that sometimes the rules change. For example, if your client, the General Counsel, is involved in a major acquisition, she may not want to be advised at the same level of detail simply because she doesn't have the time to read everything she otherwise would. Talk about it from time to time. Its the best way.
My 4 kids are counting the minutes until Santa's arrival. Their bedtime announces the beginning of my "assembly period." It is a fun time, producing many special memories. I hope all of you experience similar special moments this holiday season. Merry Christmas from all the Lambs.


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Wylie Church of Christ
901 S Ballard Ave
Wylie, TX 75098
And He said to them, "Go into all the world and preach the gospel to all creation. He who has believed and has been baptized shall be saved; but he who has disbelieved shall be condemned.
Mark 16:15-16 (NASB)
The range of mission activities to which the Wylie Church of Christ lends support is varied and spans the globe from a children's home in the Hill Country of Texas to a preaching school in the Ukraine. Our mission field currently include actively working in the following areas:
Ukraine, India, Mexico, Ghana
Our congregation is one of the supporters for the mission work of Ron Coleman. Recent reports may be view by clicking the corresponding link below:
2017 - Febuary Report (South India)
2016 - November Report (Ukraine & Ghana)
2016 - September Report (Ukraine & Ghana)
2016 - July Report (Ukraine & Russia)
For additional reports, click here
Dneprodzerzhinsk, Ukraine
Our congregation also supports the mission work of Gary Workman in the Ukraine; check out the Left Bank Church of Christ's website to see some of his work.
Left Bank Church of Christ
The Wylie church helps support a mission team in Niterói, Brazil. In November of 2008 five families moved to Niterói, Brazil to plant and establish a centrally located church within the city. It is the team's goal that one day the church here will own its own facility and be a growing, self-sustaining Brazilian congregation that will plant other churches in Niterói and the surrounding areas.
Niteroi Church Facebook
Brent & Jill Nichols Reports
The Wylie church helps support the family of Carey & Bonnie Samford that ministers to the community in Anchor Point, Alaska.
Samford Family's Twitter Feed
The Wylie Church of Christ is involved throughout the local community, including the visitation of local shut-ins and several other ministries including:
Christian Care Center
Boles Home / Medina Children's Home
Close to home, the Medina Children's Home located in Medina, Texas provides a safe haven with a Christian environment for adolescents and single mothers with children and guides these individuals toward a life of good, Christian citizenship in the United States of America.
Arms of Hope
World Bible School
Members of the congregation are also involved in the World Bible School which introduces the Bible to people in foreign lands through printed lessons and personal letters. This is an excellent opportunity for those who cannot travel to other countries to help spread the Word.
9:30am - Bible Classes
10:30am - Morning Worship Service
6:00pm - Evening Worship Service
7:00pm - Devotional Service
7:20pm - Bible Classes


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Q: How can I modify input before model binding in asp.net mvc? How can I intercept submitted form input and modify it before it is bound to my model? For example, if I wanted to trim the whitespace from all text.
I have tried creating a custom model binder like so:
public class CustomBinder : DefaultModelBinder {

  protected override void SetProperty(ControllerContext controllerContext, ModelBindingContext bindingContext, PropertyDescriptor propertyDescriptor, object value) {
    string newValue = ((string)value).Trim(); //example code to create new value but could be anything
    base.SetProperty(controllerContext, bindingContext, propertyDescriptor, newValue);
  }

}

but this doesn't seem to be invoked.  Is there a better place to modify the input value?
Note: I need to modify the value before it is bound and validated.

A: Did you make sure that your model binder was used? E.g. the default model binder can be replaced by doing this in Application_Start:
ModelBinders.Binders.DefaultBinder = new MyVeryOwnModelBinder();

I have successfully done this multiple times, applying a re-indexing operation to a POST'ed array.
I did the re-indexing by overriding the BindModel method, looking up posted values in the  bindingContext.ValueProvider dictionary.
It should be possible to just edit this dictionary in order to modify the POST'ed values before model binding.

A: Did you register the model binder in global.asax?


You may not remember how teething felt when you were a baby but the pain you feel when your wisdom teeth emerge from your gums is somewhat a similar experience. Symptoms that accompany include aching teeth, pain and tender gums. Apart from affecting your daily life, wisdom tooth pain may also lead to some dental health problems. First, you must understand the cause of your sore gums and ensure it is arising from the arrival of wisdom teeth. Doing so will rule out other likely causes of toothache that could be potentially harmful in the long term.
Often called the "third molars" in your mouth, wisdom teeth usually emerge in teenagers and adults between ages 17 to 21, but it is possible to have them earlier or later as well. Each quadrant in your mouth will grow one wisdom tooth. These four teeth push through the gums like any other tooth, causing pain and discomfort.
Your wisdom teeth will emerge in an incorrect angle, even sideways sometimes, leading to impacted teeth. This may cause pain to travel to the teeth in front. Sometimes wisdom teeth may even result in a myriad of problems, including infections and cysts. Therefore, consulting a dentist is critical to improve your dental condition and reduce pain.
There are a number of options available to improve wisdom tooth pain pain at home. However, it is important to remember that most pain-reliving measures are a temporary fix and will not give you long-term relief. Therefore, it is important that you make an appointment with a dentist to check your wisdom teeth. If the pain seems to be severe or recurrent, or if the surrounding tissue such as gum and cheek areas become swollen and painful you should see an emergency dentist as the pain and swelling may increase to a dangerous level. The dentist will determine the best possible approach to treat pain and accompanying symptoms, which may involve wisdom teeth extraction.
Over-the-counter painkillers can help relieve the throbbing sensation and sharp pain associated with toothaches so that you can get through your day without any interruptions. Make sure you read the package instructions and talk to the pharmacist about the recommended dosages.
People who cannot take ibuprofen due to asthma, stomach problems or other reasons should take paracetemol. Pregnant and breastfeeding mothers should also take paracetamol for pain. Avoid giving aspirin to people under 16 years of age.
Rinsing your mouth with saltwater may help relieve wisdom teeth pain. Mix one cup of warm water with one teaspoon of salt. Stir to dissolve the salt and swish the solution in your mouth for 30 to 60 seconds before spitting it all out. Repeat as needed throughout the day.
This is a classic remedy for toothaches. You can heal your toothache naturally by placing an entire clove directly on the painful spot and holding it there until the area feels numbed. Alternatively, you can soak a cotton ball in a small amount of clove oil and place it gently over sore gums for pain relief.


Last night we arrived in Madrid ahead of the Coca Cola Music Festival the band are headlining tonight. I had been so busy the past week with the DVD and other edits that I had to make the new screens for this show, last night...So that translated to bed at around 4am for me, and then up at 8 to go to soundcheck and start loading in screens and timecode.
Now, i'm in no way a 'Video Tech', this is a member of many crew party's that solely works interfaces like this and makes the videos that someone else makes (me) work in time to the timecode and therefore work in time to the songs. So, once I make it pretty clear (by waving my hands around mostly) that I can't operate this system, we go to plan B (well they do, at this point I have no idea what's going on). By 130pm we realise the system isn't picking up the video files so Caco tells me to go away and come back at about 330pm, I think he could sense my nervousness about the whole situation. I check he has the right timecodes and the videos in the correct place and leave him to work on it while I head back to the hotel for a few hours.
The show goes great, the screens work, I input a lot on lighting, the boys play a great gig to 15,000 Spanish fans and around 3am I hit they hay, setting my alarm for 730am to get up and catch tomorrow's flight from Madrid to LA via Heathrow.


Just in time for STURGIS! Excellent Condition 2008 105th Anniversary Edition Harley Davidson CVO FXSTSSE2 SCREAMIN' EAGLE, LOW! LOW! Miles, just 1,100. Prepaid Maintenance Agreement included!, Factory Installed Security System, Rinehart Racing Exhaust System, 1803 cc (110 cu) fuel injected, stock seat and custom seat included, GOLD KEY PACKAGE, 1 additional key, 1 remote. Immaculate condition, no dents or scratches or dings, rain cover and quilted cover included.
IF YOU'VE a young daughter and you want to keep her away from motorcycles when she's older (or more likely the men that ride them) then look away now.Yes folks, Barbie and Ken are getting serious makeover to keep them up-to-date for 2010 - the new Harley-Davidson endorsed couple now come complete with biker gear, tattoos and even piercings (a Prince Albert, perhaps?). It makes you wonder what Mattel, the company behind the plastic duo, has next in the pipeline. Maybe they'll have a model of Birmingham airport, where Ken can kick the sh*t out of rival bike gang members?
The Street 750 and Street 500 from Harley-Davidson represent the first all-new platform from Harley-Davidson in 13 years. Built for urban environments, the Street series machines fall under the Dark Custom design and are intended for young, urban riders. The two motorcycles feature the new liquid-cooled Revolution X engine, a narrow, agile chassis with a low seat height (26.3 inches), new suspension, a wide handlebar and minimalist styling. Not all markets will get both engine sizes, but the U.S.
Perhaps the biggest name is aftermarket clutches, Rekluse Motorsports featured two new Harley-Davidson clutch systems at the American International Motorcycle Expo. The Rekluse Torq Drive auto clutch system is designed to increase torque capacity by 17% to the general clutch system. This is a very simple system and no modifications are needed to install the auto clutch.


Today I'm following on from a previous video in completing our domain controller upgrades to 2012R2. As it stands there are two DCs in the enterprise, one is running 2012R2 (shown in the previous server changes video) and one running 2003 32bit.
This video shows how I re-installed the second DC to Server 2012R2 and configured it to be a domain controller successfully.
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