text:
Nataša Šešum (née en Serbie) est une mathématicienne serbe et maître de conférences à l'université Rutgers. Elle traite de la géométrie différentielle et de l'analyse géométrique, en particulier des flux géométriques tels que le flux de Ricci et leurs singularités.

Formation et carrière
Šešum étudie à l'Université de Belgrade et obtient son doctorat au Massachusetts Institute of Technology en 2004 sous la supervision de Gang Tian avec une thèse intitulée Limiting Behavior of Ricci Flows. Elle est ensuite chercheuse invitée au MSRI, à l'université de New York, à l'université Columbia et à l'université de Pennsylvanie. Elle est professeur à l'Université Rutgers depuis 2010.

Travaux
En collaboration avec Richard S. Hamilton et Panagiota Daskalopoulos (avec qui elle travaille souvent), elle développe la théorie des "solutions antiques" () à partir de 2010, qui sont importantes dans l'étude des singularités des flux géométriques (et aussi dans la théorie du groupe de renormalisation en physique théorique). Un modèle de singularité de ces flux (qui se déroulent dans un espace-temps et obéit à des équations d'évolution) est appelé solution ancienne s'ils existent d'un temps  jusqu'à un temps fini . En 2019 et 2020, avec Daskalopoulos et Sigurd Angenent, elle réussit la classification complète des solutions antiques compactes pour les flux de courbure moyenne (flux de courbure moyenne : le flux des surfaces perpendiculaires à la surface est déterminé par la courbure moyenne) des hypersurfaces dans les variétés riemanniennes qui sont uniformément 2- sont convexes. La condition est importante pour construire des solutions générales de l'écoulement en utilisant la chirurgie topologique. Dans le même temps, ils développent des techniques pour estimer les taux de croissance asymptotiques du flux à rebours dans le temps, permettant de prouver que les solutions sont symétriques en rotation. En utilisant ces techniques, ils ont également pu donner en 2021 (publié en 2022) avec Angenent et Simon Brendle une description asymptotique complète des solutions antiques compactes non effondrées des flux de Ricci tridimensionnels non solitons. Vingt ans plus tôt, Grigori Perelman avait prouvé leur existence (il l'a prouvé dans le cadre de sa preuve de la conjecture de Poincaré). Plus généralement, ils ont classé toutes les solutions antiques compactes non plates à symétrie de rotation, non effondrées, des écoulements de Ricci tridimensionnels. De plus, avec Brendle en 2021, elle a prouvé une conjecture ouverte depuis longtemps selon laquelle les seules solutions antiques non plates, non effondrées et compactes du flux de Ricci tridimensionnel sont la solution de Perelman et les sphères rétrécissantes.

Prix et distinctions
En 2014, elle est conférencière invitée au Congrès international des mathématiciens à Séoul avec une conférence sur les Solitons dans les équations d'évolution géométrique. Elle est membre de l'American Mathematical Society (AMS) depuis 2016 et elle est conférencière invitée à l'assemblée générale annuelle de l'AMS en 2011. Elle est Simons Fellow.

Pour 2023, elle reçoit le prix Ruth-Lyttle-Satter avec Daskalopoulos.

Publications

 Curvature tensor under the Ricci flow, Amer. J. Math., volume 127, 2005, pages 1315-1324
 Convergence of the Ricci flow toward a soliton, Comm. Anal. Geom., volume 14, 2006, pages 283-343.
 avec Panagita Daskalopoulos : Eternal solutions to the Ricci flow on , Int. Math. Res. Not. 2006
 avec Panagita Daskalopoulos : On the extinction profile of solutions to fast-diiffusion, J. Reine Angew. Math., volume 622, 2008, pages 95-119.
 avec lizhen Ji, Rafe Mazzeo : The Ricci flow on surfaces with cusps, Math. Annalen, volume 345, 2009, pages 819 à 834
 avec James Isenberg, Rafe Mazzeo : Ricci flow in two dimensions, in : Surveys in geometry analysis and relativity, Adv. conférence math (ALM), 20 ans, Int. Presse, Somerville, MA, 2011, p. 259-280
 avec Richard S. Hamilton, Panagita Daskalopoulos: Classification of ancient compact solutions to the Ricci flow on surfaces, J. Diff. Geom., volume 91, 2012, pages 171-214
 avec Panagita Daskalopoulos : The classification of locally conformally flat Yamabe solitons, Adv. Math., volume 240, 2013, pages 346-369.
 avec Sigurd Angenent, Simon Brendle, Panagita Daskalopoulos : Unique Asymptotics of Compact Ancient Solutions to three-dimensional Ricci flow, J. Differential Geom., Vol. 111, 2019, pp. 381–455, Arxiv 2019
 avec Sigurd Angenent, Panagita Daskalopoulos : Uniqueness of two-convex closed ancient solutions to the mean curvature flow, Annals of Mathematics, Vol. 192, 2020, pp. 353–436, Arxiv
 avec Simon Brendle, Panagita Daskalopoulos : Uniqueness of compact ancient solutions to three-dimensional Ricci flow, Inventiones Mathematicae, Vol. 226, 2021, pp. 579–651, Arxiv
 avec Sigurd Angenent, Simon Brendle, Panagita Daskalopoulos : Unique Asymptotics of Compact Ancient Solutions to Three-Dimensional Ricci Flow, Communications in Pure and Applied Mathematics, Vol. 75, 2022, pp. 893–1180, Arxiv.

Références

Liens externes

 Page personnelle de l'Université Rutgers

Mathématicienne
Date de naissance non renseignée (XXe siècle)
Personnalité serbe
Professeur à l'université Rutgers
Mathématicien du XXIe siècle
Lauréate du prix Ruth-Lyttle-Satter


These two tips reflect both the power of vivid imagery and the problems images can present. A perfectly formed image can be inspiring, devastating, funny, melancholy, dramatic, or subtle. For me, one of the great joys of reading poetry is experiencing the vivid writing poets produce. This image from a?Tony Hoagland?poem,?Here in Berkley, has stayed with me since I first read it.
you'll hit someone with a Ph.D.
to fetch the tarnished apple of your mother's love.
Now, the short image is what sticks with me, but the overall sentence tells a somewhat different story. It is a much fuller and more melancholy image than the short version, and it describes more than just Berkeley.
No matter how well you write, most people will take away only bits and pieces of your poems. There are very few readers who memorize or even understand a poem in its entirety. If you are lucky enough to have your poem remembered at all, chances are that only one element of your poem will sink in with your reader. That element may not mean to them what it means to you.
When you write a poem, it is easy to fall in love with your own words. It feels fantastic to create a well-written line or to find a single perfect word. There are so many times when writing is a struggle, that the moments of success must be cherished.
The danger, however, is that your perfect line may not belong. Great words and even great lines do not automatically create great poems. When you edit your poetry, look hard at the lines you are most proud of.
Ask yourself if the best lines fit smoothly into the rest of the poem. Do they match the tone and intention of the rest of the poem? Do they add to the rest of the poem, or stand apart from it? What will the reader remember? Does it match what your intentions are? Read the poem without the lines you love the most. Compare the two versions to see which one comes closest to achieving your goals.
Chances are, those perfect lines belong right where they are. If not, the problem may be the line, or it may be the poem. If the rest of the poem does not live up to the best of your poem, then perhaps you need to rewrite the other lines.


Scotland will be the first place in the UK to routinely offer the drug to eligible patients.
Stansport Emergency Family Prep Kit II :: This first aid kit is a good backup to have on hand. So many items to have in an emergency! This web exclusive item ships separately within the continental U.S. only. You can count on this item to ship in 3-5 business days!
The NHS in England has the power to fund the HIV-preventative drug, Prep, the Court of Appeal has decided.
We are proud to bring you the Prep Machine Electric Peel from Euro-Cuisine. Look to Vitamin World for high quality products and great nutrition.
Get your prom look from the stars! See looks from Betsey Johnson, Steve Madden, and more!
You can shop all the brands you saw here today, as well as all the latest trends in fashion at Zappos (http://zapwow.me/pf3C). Zappos carries everything you need from shoes and clothing to hats, accessories, beauty, and more!


The drama department is a vibrant and innovative department. We pride ourselves on inspiring a strong work ethic amongst the students, both as individuals and as members of a group. With this at the heart of the department it allows us to produce work of the highest standard at GCSE and A level. This is not only down to outstanding teaching but having the means to create an inspirational environment. We have a multi-purpose theatre with excellent technical facilities. At exam level the students are given the opportunity to explore the potential effects of sound and lighting.
Across the curriculum students are introduced to a range of different theatre styles and genres and this inspires their own devising work. There are regular theatre trips for all exam groups. We build on strong relationships with professional theatre companies, such as 'Splendid Productions'. We introduce new and exciting opportunities in the form of workshops. Current workshops have been with Frantic Assembly and Max Stafford-Clark's company 'Out of Joint'.
At Skinners' we have an exceptional extra-curricular programme for our drama students. The senior productions involve working with a professional theatre team, where the discipline required to be an actor is premised. Drama is perceived by our students as, 'a welcome challenge, it requires you to think on a different level and learn through inspiration and action'.


This 'Service Agreement' gives you information about the terms upon which we agree to offer and provide you with our Products and Services. If it is necessary to change the Services Agreement or add or remove any part at any time, we will post such changes on the Website. It is your responsibility to check the Website for any changes. You agree to be bound by such changes if you should continue to use the Products and Services.These are the conditions to which you are agreeing to, by purchasing any of our services.
When you Instruct 99bucksrealty you confirm that you do so with the knowledge, consent and agreement of each and all of the legal owners and occupiers and those who have an interest in the marketing and/or sale of the Property. Further, you confirm that you have all relevant authorities and authorizations as are necessary or required to enable you to take advantage of the Products and Services.
We will only charge you the Advertised Rates for the Products and Services.The Advertised Rates are fixed. Advertised rates are including VAT, but extra services may be prices excluding VAT. As it stands, you will only have the option to Pay Now If you choose to Pay Now you will be required to provide us with your credit or debit card details and we will obtain approval for an amount up to the amount of the transaction and debit that amount from your card, or send an invoice which is payable online. This information we take, will never be stored on our systems.
rakhireddybhargav@gmail.com In certain circumstances you may be able to re-list the property within a designated period after withdrawal, usually within 4 weeks and for 50% discounted rate. Details will be made available at the time of seeking to withdraw/relist your Advert.
Should you take advantage of Products and Services where the Local expert and account management team creates your Advert for approval, 99bucksrealty will notify you as soon as the Advert is available for approval. We always aim to do this as soon as reasonably practicable. We reserve the right to refuse to allow any image to be uploaded, made live or presented on any marketing or property portal that we consider in our absolute discretion to be inappropriate, inaccurate, misleading or likely to cause distress or embarrassment to anyone viewing the image You are responsible with ensuring that all descriptions, photographs, floor plans and information uploaded and/or used in any advertising and marketing are accurate, current and are in no way misleading. If any of the information you provide or approve is or is found to be in breach of these terms, it will be removed immediately – However, there will be no full or part credit in respect of Advertised Rates under these circumstances. We will advertise and market your property for the Advertisement Period on such property portals, websites or publications as we consider to be the most effective at securing interest on your property from potential purchasers and tenants in our absolute discretion. We may withdraw or no longer take advantage of the services of such property portals, websites or publications at our absolute discretion. The advertised prices on the website do state adverts will be kept live until sold.
Subject to Interruption we will arrange and record viewings through our back-end. You will be notified immediately a viewing is booked. We will provide you with the name of the person(s) who wish to view together with the date and time. If 99bucksrealty are conducting the viewings on your behalf, you will still be notified of the above information.
Subject to Interruption, if you have chosen to conduct your own viewings you may refer your account manager when you are available. This will enable people who want to view, to choose a date and time to suit them. You will be notified when a viewing is booked. Where a viewing is requested outside of this availability, the account manager will ask that you confirm the viewing. It is your responsibility to do this immediately.
requests via your personal account manager The feedback will be immediately available through your account manager as soon as it has been provided and will be exactly as provided by the person concerned.
We will report offers to you immediately they are. The nature, extent, position of the potential purchaser or tenant and desire to proceed, will be requested and provided to you automatically as the offer is made. We will make such reasonable checks as are possible to ensure the offer made meets our criteria for a sale to proceed. The information will always be made available exactly how it is provided by the potential purchaser. You will get a choice whether to accept the offer, reject the offer, reject and negotiate.
We will always act on your behalf and negotiate the best possible offer for your property, without any conflict of interest.
We will always inform you as soon as we become aware of anyone making an offer for your property that is in any way connected with 99bucksrealty.
In the event that you are aware of any personal interest from anyone connected with 99bucksrealty you should notify us immediately. We will then make such enquiries as we consider necessary and provide you with a notification in writing of the nature of the personal interest. You will have the sole discretion to decide whether you wish to deal with the person or persons concerned. We will never knowingly permit any offer to be made or sale agreed with someone connected to 99bucksrealty unless we have provided you with written notice. This written notice will ordinarily be displayed when you review the offer.
We will provide you as far as reasonably practicable with advice and assistance once a sale is agreed.
We may receive commission for introducing you but only when you agree to take advantage of such products or services. You may decide of your own free will and we will never pressurise or require you to use such products or services. You hereby expressly agree and accept that in the event that we introduce a product or service from a third party company that we may accept a payment or commission as a result of that introduction. Where requested, we will instruct on your behalf third parties to conduct some of the services advertised by 99bucksrealty. Whilst we will make all reasonable efforts to ensure that they continue to provide an exceptional service we cannot accept liability for the conduct and service of those third parties acting on your behalf.


Is Crucifixion Necessary For Us To Enter the Kingdom?
In preparation for an upcoming debate about the doctrine of Penal Substitutionary Atonement, my adversary asked me if it was necessary for Jesus to die before we could enter the Kingdom of God.
First of all, let's establish what the Gospel is, and then we can answer that question.
In fact, the only Gospel that Jesus ever talks about during his entire ministry on Earth was the Gospel of the Kingdom. There is no other Gospel.
Anyone who reads Matthew, Mark, Luke or John (the Gospels) will come away hearing all about The Gospel of the Kingdom from the mouth of Jesus.
Jesus announced that the Kingdom of God was for here and now. This was the "Good News" in a nutshell: Anyone who wants to enter God's Kingdom can do so immediately.
Jesus demonstrated what life in the Kingdom looked like.
The Beattitudes are a picture of what life in the Kingdom looks like.
Nearly every single parable of Jesus is designed to explain a particular facet of the Kingdom.
His Sermon on the Mount declares the values of this Kingdom.
His teachings are intended to show us how to live within the Kingdom.
His life was a blueprint for us to follow as we ourselves enter the Kingdom and learn from Him.
To be clear: The only Gospel ever preached by Jesus is the message of The Kingdom of God. It was the new order where God's perfect will is always done in the lives of His followers. The Good News is: We do not need to wait until we die to enter God's Kingdom.
Now, many of us have been taught that the Gospel is about praying a prayer so that you can go to heaven when you die. This is false. Jesus never explained the Gospel in these terms. He never had anyone bow their heads and close their eyes, or raise their hands if they didn't want to burn in hell forever, or repeat the sinner's prayer. None of that is found anywhere in the scriptures.
Part of the reason we've gotten so far off the track when it comes to an understanding of the Gospel of Jesus is because we've attempted to reduce the message into a quick bumper sticker slogan or a set of easy steps to salvation. Our efforts to market the Gospel have back-fired. Now there are hundreds, perhaps thousands, of individuals in pews across the Nation who believe that they are Christians because they said a prayer once when they were nine years old and now they can go to heaven when they die, regardless of whether or not they intend to follow Jesus or surrender their lives to Christ.
Discipleship to Jesus, then, becomes optional, not essential. But, this is not what Jesus had in mind at all.
Instead, Jesus talked about what it meant to follow him. He spoke about being a disciple. He described a way of life that was meant for today.
One huge problem is that some Christians today want you to believe that it's impossible to follow the commands of Jesus and that, somehow, the entire point of the Sermon on the Mount was to give you a giant list of impossible things that you couldn't accomplish in order to teach you to depend upon the Grace of Christ to save you.
This is a false, unbiblical doctrine.
What's holding you back from living like Jesus today? Is it your sin nature? Is it your addictions, or your temptations, or your brokenness?
Is this why you don't believe that it's possible to actually put the words of Jesus into practice? Is this why you hardly ever attempt to love your enemy, or to forgive those who have hurt you, or to turn the other cheek whenever you're insulted?
If so, you're denying the power of Christ in your life and refusing to live out of your new, Divine nature.
A Christianity like this loudly proclaims that the death of Christ on the cross was only capable of providing me with a ticket to heaven, but it was not nearly powerful enough to transform my life into one that resembles His own.
And the real trouble with this sort of Christianity is that it can't be found anywhere in the New Testament.
Nope. I've checked. It's not in there.
What we do read about is how God's Amazing Grace has not only saved us, it's gone on to do something most of us doubt could ever be true: Saved us – AND – empowered us to live a holy life like Jesus did!
Are you in Christ? If we claim to be in Christ we must do one thing: "live as Jesus did"!
How can we do that? Isn't that impossible?
Alone, yes, it is impossible. We can't even come close to obeying the words of Jesus apart from His indwelling presence in our daily lives.
This is why Jesus can promise us that his yoke is easy and his burden is light even as he calls us to do things that seem impossible, like love our enemies and forgive those who hurt us, and turn the other cheek.
How can Jesus say that? Because we're not expected to do it alone.
When Jesus says, "Take my yoke upon you…" [Matt 11:29] he's saying that He will be right beside us, all the way, and that we won't have to do everything in our own strength, but in His!
Jesus expects you to put His words into practice. He empowers you to do exactly that. He filled you with His Holy Spirit to enable you to do the things that He did.
All we have to do is to trust in Him and daily seek to allow Christ to live and breathe in us by His Spirit.
So let me encourage you today: If you are in Christ, you have everything you need to live a godly, Christ-like life right now!
Now, back to our original question above [remember that?] – Did Jesus need to die on the cross in order for us to enter the Kingdom of God? Not at all. But, Jesus DID need to rise from the dead in order for us to know Christ, and to live a transformed life like His.
So, our transformation and abiding in Christ is dependent upon the resurrection life of Christ within us.
When Paul said that he considered all things to be lost in order to know Christ, and that he only wanted to "know Christ…and the power of His resurrection", [Phil. 3:10] he wasn't talking about gaining more Bible knowledge.
On the contrary, he had just spent the previous six verses expounding upon all of the great Bible knowledge he once put so much stock in and then declared that he considered all of that to be "dung" or "crap" [literally].
There's almost an "if/then" wording here where Paul is suggesting that anyone who wants to gain Christ and to be found in Him – anyone who wants to "know Christ and the power of His resurrection" – must first consider everything else to be garbage in comparison.
Take the juxtaposition of "knowing Christ" and the phrase "the power of His resurrection". You can't have a resurrection until you first have a funeral. If no one dies, then who will be brought back to life again?
This dovetails beautifully with the Gospel that Jesus proclaimed saying, "If anyone would come after me, let him first deny himself, take up his cross daily, and follow me".
In other words, if we want to experience the "power of His resurrection" we must first die to ourselves daily. Once we die, then we can begin to receive the marvelous power of His resurrection life within.
We don't have to wait until we die to begin experiencing this resurrection life, we can know it right here and now.
What's even more amazing, is that Paul is talking here about an actual reality. This isn't a metaphor. This isn't some spiritual platitude. He is talking about being truly able to know Christ and to experience that resurrection life today. He is talking about a transcendent reality whereby he is capable of knowing Christ the way you and I know our own voices.
Think of it! You and I can experience the living, breathing, presence of Jesus right here and now.
That, my friends, is really, really Good News!
Keith also co-hosts the Heretic Happy Hour Podcast on iTunes and Podbean. He and his wife live in Meridian, Idaho.
"Ontology is not data classification but knowledge representation. Data classification is a repository to make ..."
"I had thought for a short moment you were making sense, but plainly not. You ..."
"Lol! Dude. I just restated several things I said throughout our conversation. At least we're ..."
"For it is not those who hear the law who are righteous in God's sight, but it is those who obey the law who will be declared righteous." Rom. 2:13 NIV I think it is in your better interest to find out what that law is Paul is referencing and obey it because the penalty that law carries is eternal death if you refuse.
Matthew 7:12, 19:18-19, 22:37-40 and Luke 10:25-37. Obey and live!
I do and have since I was 50 years of age, 24 years ago.
I began with being taught that all I had to do to live was quoted from an expert in the law over 1,950 years before, in Luke 10:27. In seminary, 25 years before my being born again in the Spirit, I was not drawn to study the truth found in John 14:15-21 or 16:12-15 as apropos to me then, well at least I wasn't tested on those scriptures. Only lately have I been taught, by the Spirit of truth living with and in me forever without pause, the significance of John 4:21-24 signifying that God's presence was no longer only found in the Most Holy/Holy of Holies by the reigning high priest. The presence of God with and in me is the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of truth leading me into all truth as I can bear to accept it. Jesus began his ministry on earth at his baptism by water and the Spirit, the one appearing as a dove, who led Jesus, the Christ, into the wilderness and remained with and in him until he gave up his spirit on the cross. That is to me when the kingdom was at hand for all of mankind and the worship of God was only in the Spirit and truth. The temple was spirit in Jesus, the high priest forever, and was destroyed when he gave up his spirit on the cross to be restored in three days. At Pentecost, and told of in Acts 4:31, the kingdom was as close then as each heart and mind of spirit was receptive, and is no less so today.
The covenant of "Moses' seat" was clearly voided due to abuse when the high priest pronounced a sentence of death on the Son of God for the sin of blaspheme, in that name of, and by the authority vested in him by God. All authority in heaven and on earth became that of Jesus, the Christ, forever.
So Jesus didn't need to die… he just needed to be resurrected?
You might want to think that logic through again.
a) hard to be resurrected without a death.
that's not just a throw-away line – if Jesus is healing us with the resurrection… that poses serious problems to your desired end run around penal substitution… why did we need healing? and why did it take a (death &) resurrection?
b) Jesus repeatedly said the Messiah "must suffer and die…" and then be raised.
the death was equally necessary. and if you go read those passages – the manner of death (an innocent victim, silent before his accusers, etc.) purposefully echo Isa.53 & the Passover & the entire sacrificial system. even the veil in the Holy of Holies is rent open… why would that be? and even more problematic for you position: BEFORE the resurrection occurs.
It's a short book. It repeatedly exposes how unbiblical your claims here are. You should read it.
Or at least people who are reading this and not actually checking your logic.
I am not unfamiliar with what is stated in the scriptures. If you had been of late taught by the Holy Spirit you would not be contesting what is written in the scripture.
Theodore, what am I contesting?
To whom is your statement addressing?
The Messiah says nothing here relative to his crucifixion was, also, necessary to inherit eternal life.
… and I carry my cross, why?
… now, you might be able to shed more light on whether or not the Spirit could give birth to spirit without Jesus' crucifixion.
"You heard me say, 'I am going away and I am coming back to you.' If you loved me, you would be glad that I am going to the Father, for the Father is greater than I. I have told you now before it happens, so that when it does happen you will believe. I will not say much more to you, for the prince of this world is coming. He has no hold over me, "but he comes so that the world may learn that I love the Father and do exactly what my Father has commanded me. "Come now; let us leave.
Has the world learned that Jesus loves his Father to do exactly what his Father commanded? So, "the prince of this world" is the cause for Jesus' crucifixion, not Caiaphas, his council, the Pharisees, the teachers of the law, or the crowds voting by yelling, "Crucify him"?
But very truly I tell you, it is for your good that I am going away. Unless I go away, the Advocate will not come to you; but if I go, I will send him to you. When he comes, he will prove the world to be in the wrong about sin and righteousness and judgment: about sin, because people do not believe in me; about righteousness, because I am going to the Father, where you can see me no longer; and about judgment, because the prince of this world now stands condemned.
So, Jesus had to be crucified so that the Advocate, Holy Spirit, the one appearing as a dove to baptize (fill) Jesus, the Spirit of truth could come to Jesus' disciples?
What I am getting at is why do we argue semantics, rituals, studies of God (theology), dogma, creeds and the magic of Jesus transformation beginning on the cross, like the one all his disciples carry, when the Advocate came over 1,900 years ago? What is missing that we can't read to comprehend and accept that the following scripture are real then and today?
If we came to Jesus as a little newborn sibling born of the Spirit what are we expected to understand of how the mechanics of our Father's kingdom work. How much of the mechanics of our parents of flesh's kingdom were we expected to understand.
How much more can we expect to be able to bear than those of mankind, including disciples of the Messiah, 1,900 years ago?
Was all of Jesus ministry on earth, in the flesh, chronicled?
This is the disciple who testifies to these things and who wrote them down. We know that his testimony is true. Jesus did many other things as well. If every one of them were written down, I suppose that even the whole world would not have room for the books that would be written.
the Spirit of truth. The world cannot accept him, because it neither sees him nor knows him. But you know him, for he lives with you and will be in you.
I am sorry that you misunderstand the picture of spirit I wish to convey here by the words of the flesh. I am a child born of the Spirit, Jesus was born in the flesh of Mary by the seed of the Holy Spirit, and in spirit we both are children of God living with and in the Spirit of truth. Jesus, in spirit, is in me and I, in spirit, am in him.
Jesus is our high priest forever and administrates our worship only "IN" the Spirit and in truth.
There is no magic in the words of flesh. There is no specific incantation, especially through the many language translations of Man, that gain our Father's attention. Words are not holy to my Father, relationships are.
The supporters of penal substitutionary atonement play a little rhetorical trick to support their idea, which is to insist that saying "Jesus died for our sins" can only mean "Jesus died so that God wouldn't punish us for our sins". The two are not synonymous. The church has historically always believed the former, but the latter was a new invention introduced a thousand years after the church was founded, and is not and has never been a universally accepted doctrine of the church.
Penal substitutionary atonement takes the church's traditional understanding of what the Bible says and turns it on its head. PSA claims that Jesus had to die in order that God would forgive us and accept us into the Kingdom. As the above article points out this is pretty much directly contrary to Jesus's central message. The church's traditional understanding is that Jesus has to die in order that we would repent, cease our rebellion and rejection of God and accept God's already open invitation into the Kingdom. Jesus became incarnate on earth so he could be directly present in our daily lives, and had to die so that he could be present with us in death, and, having entered into death, by rising from the dead, he destroyed it.
PSA is a horrible doctrine, but there is no need in recoiling from it to completely the other way and recoil entirely from asserting the saving power of the cross.
"church's traditional understanding of what the Bible says" what is the traditional understanding you've referenced?
The patristic theory of atonement was accepted pretty much by the entire church until Anselm and still that of the entire Orthodox church, and one of the interpretations held by Catholics. Its two basic elements were that Jesus took on human nature in order to transform it into a divine one (theosis) and that he gave (ransomed) himself to death so that he could enter into death and destroy it.
I don't think anyone is suggesting Jesus was not always divine. I am sorry if it was unclear, but what I certainly intended to say was that it was the patristic notion that our human nature that was transformed by Jesus's divine nature being incarnate as human, not the other way round.
I am unclear what your take on this is – are you saying that nothing good could have or did come from Jesus's crucifixion. because those killing him committed a crime in doing so? This would seem to contradict an awful lot of the Bible.
For me, I often struggle with this because it presents the idea faith is dependent on the acknowledgement of one imaginary preposition. For the most part, I adhere to protestant analytical interpretation of the scripture, especially Calvin's; however, in this particular issue I tend to see the juxtaposition between Catholicism, Orthodoxy, and Protestantism as being highly relevant. The marriage between literary analytics and salvation is very problematic in Protestantism. Therefore, I find the time-space long process of receiving justification form the Lord as greatly appealing.
Still, the aversions from scripture in theological record keeping are too extensive, especially in realm of monetary finance and jurisdiction governance, that I cannot side with Catholicsm. Love the idea of daily mass as well.
The limiting of Protestant service times to Sunday seems strange and belittling of the idea of salvation and spice-time. Reeks of social control. Which is a very real and problematic component of religion.
Just because I know Jesus died to provide me salvation doesn't align with the ringing bells of the mind.
Do you see scripture analytics as a problem to the this, though? Salvation and sanctification is a process that continues throughout the entirety of one's life. The Bible, if history is accurate, was not constructed until 400 AD, therefore, the earliest followers, who probably were saved, if God is real, never acknowledged this preposition.
There is no possibility that the sin of murdering Jesus Christ is a DIRECT BENEFIT!! For only in regard to the sin of murdering Jesus Christ has law been changed so that his murder by crucifixion became an accountable sin by law which is the grace of God. Therefore whomsoever does NOT! have the faith to confess directly to God that he is truly sorry God's only begotten son Jesus was murdered when he was crucified will NOT! be declared righteous by God. There are no exceptions.
Substitutionary atonement, penal substitutionary atonement and patristic notion are all soteriological heresies in that they unitedly are propositions falsely alleging that the sin of Jesus Christ's murder is a direct benefit and refute that the sin of murdering him is accountable by law.
Scripture does not argue against scripture! The sin of murdering a man is not a direct benefit.
I see all analytics as a problem whenever taken and acted upon as gospel truth directed by God. Little newly born children of God are not capable analyzing all the data and statistics their Father and their Lord brother have accumulated over the life of God.
I disagree with you that "Salvation and sanctification is a process that continues throughout the entirety of one's life". My life of spirit in the image of God, is not the same as my life of flesh in Man, though I am responsible to both. As a child of God I can testify that my life in spirit is in its infancy preparing to live. As a senior child of Man I can testify that my life in flesh is preparing to die.
As a child of God, fully born of the Spirit living with and in me forever, my Father adores me as sacred to him, as I do him to me, right now, and will for my entire lifetime in him, and like that, his in mine. We are bound as one in all reciprocated love right now. Life in heaven began when I was filled with the Spirit of God even as I continue to live on earth.
None are saved to inherit eternal life without being fully filled (baptized) with the Holy Spirit, the Spirit of truth. The earliest who followed Christ, to accept both the one appearing as a dove to baptize Jesus and their own cross, knew their salvation personally who saved them from the subjugation, intimidation and manipulation of crucifying corporate canal religions that they each were called out of. They each knew personally the Father in Jesus and Jesus in the Father. They each knew personally Jesus in them and they in Jesus. They knew because the Spirit of truth was with and in them each, as he is with and in their Father, and he is with and in their brother Jesus, then, today and forever.
The Bible is inspired, but not sacred by God's decree, testimony, authored solely by the hand of Man, relating to an amateur witness of history, from which we can each have the opportunity to glean from to find the Way from children born of the flesh, each gifted by grace the spirit image of God, to become children of God born of the Spirit. What can be gleaned from the Bible, when your one Teacher is the Spirit of truth, is like the difference between light and dark when compared to learning only from an outside study of God (theology) taught by carnal church authorities.
None of Man need the Bible, which " the earliest followers" truly did not have to study God from. To become a child of God, to be truly saved, any of Man, from any nation, must see to accept the Spirit of truth as their only one Teacher. That can come to fruition, as it did for the earliest followers, by students (disciples) of the one Instructor teaching others to become students of the one Instructor.
Future imaginary absorption in your response was aided significantly by the fact that you utilized the mind of a child to support your stance. For the purpose of the church, P,R, or O Catholic is to ensure they have a fair chance to develop inquisitive magnify glass of the mind towards the obtainment the realm of truth, which includes components such as intellect, politics, words, history, etc. The spirit continuously aids with this.
The Spirit, as the invited Counselor of God in my midst, aided me before I was 50 years of age, as I developed the tools (components) of physical communications of mankind such as you indicated. He came and left as my heart and mind of spirit (the image of God) was opened and closed to him. He gave me a more than fair chance to be prepared when all of those tools, exercised and honed to magnify well beyond my fellows of Man who didn't actively seek truth in flesh and spirit, failed me. All that I was so sure that my intellectual work in physical, spiritual and social sciences (studies), and their application in my attempt to benefit all, failed to leave me with nothing earned at age 50. I had nothing. I, also, had nothing left to lose by throwing my entire self, spirit and carnal, on the mercy of God (by any name) who I addressed as a little child with nothing left to give but all my love. I in, complete humility, opened my heart and mind to receive the Spirit, the same I had used successfully off and on for many previous years, fully with no more shutting him off when I thought I might be sinning. That was the beginning, the day, when I recognized the full significance, as spelled out in the Bible, of the Spirit of truth living with and in me without pause or end. That was the day when I was introduced to Jesus, actually in me and I in him, and I met our Father clearly for the first time. That was the day when I knew for sure that I would never be left orphaned.
Oh, I want so much to share this with all who seek "the realm of truth" but most especially with those who today remain lost in their blinding addiction to adult intellect, politics, words, history, etc..
I love the freedom, peace and joy realized when responsible only to the love of my heart, soul, mind, for all of God and Man, as no more capable than that of an infant child, dependent solely upon my faithful Father for everything else. My childish "imaginary absorption" is faithfully, today and always, guided by the Spirit of truth into all truth as I can bear. Oh, the adventures we have already shared, some intermittently before I was 50, and many more since, with the divine promise to continue until the end of eternity.
Thank you, David, for allowing me the opportunity to share with you! You are loved!!!
1) Sanctification is a process biblically – but it's much harder to say that about salvation (see Jn.1:12-13; 5:24; etc.), unless one wants to be exceedingly technical (i.e., ordo salutis).
2) you are mistaken here about biblical scholarship. the dates & our access to the texts are much earlier than that (e.g., the Muratorian Canon) & the earliest believers had a very high view of the Scriptures (as did Jesus himself).


Greetings from The Royal Cottage in Personality-Ville. We love living here where it is quiet and relaxing. In fact, that's our Motto: Relax. We want everyone to get along and be at peace. Conflict is really unheard of here.
Some of us have been the Royal Diplomat as we are peace-keepers. What we really hate is...change! Especially, fast change. Many of our mates and spouses are from the Family of Extrovert and they change plans all the time. It drives us nutty! Please, just simply asking us before hand if something is okay, and really willing to stop your wishes if we say, "No I really don't want to," is super appreciated!
Be kind to us. We are not you, we are not from your kingdom. Remember our speed limit is 40ish. We can be somewhat flexible, especially if you prefer it for a while. But don't ask us to go at your break-neck speed all the time. We simply do not have the natural reserves of energy that you might have. Also, keep in mind that when we are around a lot of people (and a lot, that could mean anywhere from 3 to 333+) this causes us to spend our precious Energy Coins. Ask us how much Energy Coins we have, and how much Energy would be spent by doing a certain activity.
You know, I always thought I was an extrovert like my parents. But I looked into this and I really think deep down, I am a peace-loving introvert… Gosh I wish we had something fun like this when I was younger I think it would have really helped all of us understand each other. I'll try the game.


text:
Q: Problems to modify XElement after using Converter I am creating a XElement via htmlconverter Class from OpenXML Powertools.
XElement html = HtmlConverter.ConvertToHtml(doc, settings)

Now I'm trying to add some new nodes like
html.Element("head").Add(new XElement("link",
                    new XAttribute("href", "stylesheet.css"),
                    new XAttribute("rel", "stylesheet"),
                    new XAttribute("type", "text/css")));

But html.Element("head") is always returning null and i get a NullReferenceException Error from Visual Studio while running in Debug Mode and i still have no idea why.
This is the code based on this article, which i am currently using in my project. I think it has to do something with the htmlconverter because it works if i create a handmade XElement.
// This example shows the simplest conversion. No images are converted.
// A cascading style sheet is not used.
byte[] byteArray = File.ReadAllBytes("Test.docx");
using (MemoryStream memoryStream = new MemoryStream())
{
    memoryStream.Write(byteArray, 0, byteArray.Length);
    using (WordprocessingDocument doc =
        WordprocessingDocument.Open(memoryStream, true))
    {
        HtmlConverterSettings settings = new HtmlConverterSettings()
        {
            PageTitle = "My Page Title"
        };
        XElement html = HtmlConverter.ConvertToHtml(doc, settings);

        // Note: the XHTML returned by ConvertToHtmlTransform contains objects of type
        // XEntity. PtOpenXmlUtil.cs defines the XEntity class. See
        // http://blogs.msdn.com/ericwhite/archive/2010/01/21/writing-entity-references-using-linq-to-xml.aspx
        // for detailed explanation.
        //
        // If you further transform the XML tree returned by ConvertToHtmlTransform, you
        // must do it correctly, or entities do not serialize properly.

        File.WriteAllText("Test.html", html.ToStringNewLineOnAttributes());
    }
}

A: You missed the namespace, try this instead:
XNamespace w = "http://www.w3.org/1999/xhtml";
var head = html.Element(w + "head");

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaStackExchange


Last week's episode of The Good Wife (""Trust Issues") was interesting for two reasons: it used a "ripped from the headlines" legal case that I discuss in my book on bargaining and the legal argument they use is essentially a trivial application of pre-play cheap talk in a repeated prisoner's dilemma.
First, the background of the real life version of the case. In the early 2000s, Google and Apple (along with Adobe and Intel) allegedly had a "no poaching" gentleman's agreement. That is, each company in the group pledged to not attempt to hire employees at any of the other companies. The employees eventually figured out what was going on, filed a $9 billion lawsuit, and settled in April 2014 for an undisclosed amount.
Why is the practice illegal? It goes without saying that quashing competition among firms hurts the employees' bargaining power, and the law is there to protect those employees. But what is not so clear is just how attractive a no poaching agreement is to the firms. In fact, when companies play by the rules, just about all of the potential for profit goes into the employees' hands.
To see why, imagine that Google and Apple both wanted to hire Karen. Karen has impressive computer programming skills. And because Google and Apple value computing skills at a roughly equal rate, suppose that the most Google would be willing to pay her is $200,000 while Apple's maximum is $195,000. Put differently, $200,000 and $195,000 represent the break even points for the respective companies. Put differently again, Karen will bring in $200,000 in profits to Google and $195,000 to Apple, so hiring her for any more than that will result in a net loss.
How will that profit ultimately be divided between Karen and her employer? You might think that Google should be the one hiring her. And you are right—she is worth $5000 more to Google than Apple. You might also think that Google will profit handsomely from her employment. However, as I discuss at length in the book, the logic of bargaining shows this to be untrue. If Google offers Karen any less than $195,000, she can always secure a job from Apple; this is because Apple values her at that amount, and so Apple would be willing to slightly outbid Google to hire her. Thus, the outbidding process ultimately ensures that Karen receives at least $195,000. She is the real winner. Although Google might still profit from her employment, its net gain will not exceed $5000 ($200,000 – $195,000).
So the firms have great incentive to collude, drive down wages, and secure more of the profits for themselves. What does that sort of collusion look like?
Well, we might think of it as a repeated prisoner's dilemma. In this type of interaction, in any given year, each of us would maximize profits by trying to poach the rival firm's employees regardless of what the other firm chooses to do. (If you don't poach, then I make out like a bandit. If you do poach, I'm still better off poaching and not losing all the employees.) However, because each of us is poaching and driving up employee wages, both us are ultimately worse off than if we could enforce an agreement that required us to cooperate with each other and not poach.
Of course, anti-trust laws prevent us from explicitly contracting such an agreement in a legally enforceable manner. However, an informal and internally enforceable agreement is possible. Suppose we both start off by cooperating with each other by not poaching. Then, in each subsequent year, if both of us have consistently cooperated before, we continue cooperating. Otherwise, we revert to poaching.
Would anyone like to break the agreement? No. Although I could gain a temporary advantage against you by poaching your employees today, the higher wages over the long-term with mutual poaching are going to vastly outstrip that short-term benefit.
The episode of The Good Wife featured fictionalized versions of Google and Apple involved in the same affair. Like reality, employees caught on and sued.
The plaintiff's lawyers thought they had the case in the bag. Indeed, they had turned one of the owners of a trust company against the defense. He went on record that the defense had negotiated the terms of the no poaching policy explicitly and was very happy to agree to the deal.
Alicia Florrick (the defense attorney and titular Good Wife) had a great defense: any discussion of such an agreement is not an unambiguous signal of plans to break the law. These repeated prisoner's dilemmas have an interesting property in that regardless of whether you plan to cooperate with the other company or screw them over at the first possible moment, you always want to convince the other side that you will cooperate. If you plan to cooperate, then you want to tell the other side to cooperate as well so you can sustain that cooperation in the long term. If you want to follow the law and poach freely instead, you still want to convince the other side that you are going to cooperate so that they cooperate as well, allowing you to screw them over in the process.
So Florrick points out that this type of pre-play communication is meaningless. Regardless of the ultimate intend, the defendant would say the exact same thing. The testimony therefore proves nothing. The plaintiff promptly settled.
All told, I really appreciate two things about the episode: its sophisticated understanding of a potentially very complicated strategic situation and the how punny the "Trust Issues" title is.


text:
Ponte della Maddalena (italijansko za 'Magdalenin most'), znan tudi kot Ponte del Diavolo (italijansko za 'Hudičev most'), je kamniti ločni most iz 14. stoletja čez reko Serchio v bližini vasi Borgo a Mozzano v italijanski pokrajina Lucca.

Zgodovina

Po legendi je gradnjo začela Matilda Toskanska, grofica Toskane.

Prvi most na tej točki je bil zgrajen med letoma 1052 in 1115. V 13. stoletju so ga pod kondotjerom Castruccio Castracanijem (1281–1328) močno razširili, kar je imelo za posledico značilno obliko z velikim lokom. Ime mostu izhaja iz edikule s kipom Marije Magdalene, zgrajene okoli leta 1500, ki je danes ni več. Most je bil skozi stoletja prenavljan. Že leta 1670 je Republika Lucca sprejela zakon, ki je prepovedoval prevoz mlinskih kamnov čez most, da ga ne bi poškodovali.

Most je bil del ceste Via Francigena, ki so jo romarji iz Frankovskega cesarstva uporabljali na poti v Rim do groba apostolov Petra in Pavla.

Zaradi gradnje železniške proge Aulla Lunigiana - Lucca v začetku 20. stoletja je bilo treba na zahodni strani dodati še en lok, ki je omogočil prehod železnice.

Legenda
Ime Ponte del Diavolo izhaja iz legende, ki jo pripovedujejo v različnih različicah. Najpogosteje citirana različica je tista, ki se nanaša na gradnjo mostu, ki je bila zaupana Julianu Hospitatorju. Vendar se je izkazalo, da je bilo delo že na začetku težko. Izvajalec je hitro ugotovil, da mostu ne bo mogel dokončati na dogovorjeni datum in bil je na robu obupa. Nekega večera, ko je sam sedel na bregu reke Serchio, se mu je prikazal hudič. Slednji mu je ponudil možnost dokončanja mostu v eni noči pod pogojem, da bo za nagrado prejel dušo prve osebe, ki je prečkala most. Pakt je bil sklenjen in neke noči je hudič s svojimi vilicami zgradil veliki obok. Gradbenik je obžaloval in priznal duhovniku svoj dogovor. Slednji mu je svetoval, naj se tega drži in iz previdnosti najprej pelje prašiča čez most. Naslednji dan je gradbenik zato ljudem zavrnil vstop in najprej odpeljal prašiča čez most. Legenda pravi, da je bil hudič tako jezen zaradi te prevare, da se je vrgel z mostu v Serchio in se ni več pojavil na tem območju.

Gradnja
95 m dolg most se razteza čez reko z glavnim lokom 37,8 metra in tremi manjšimi oboki. Ti se raztezajo od vzhodnega brega Serchio do 8,35 m, 10 m in 14,5 m. Glavni lok je visok 18,5 m, manjši oboki imajo višine 4 m, 5 m in 7 m. Glavnemu loku sledi prehod za železniško progo. Most, ki je širok le 3,7 m, sledi višini lokov in daje mostu značilen videz zaradi zelo visokega glavnega loka.

Sklici

Zunanje povezave

 Ponte della Maddalena in brueckenweb

Ločni mostovi
Srednjeveška arhitektura
Mostovi v Italiji
Zgradbe in objekti, zgrajeni leta 1115
Kamniti mostovi
Toskana

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaWikipedia


A catastrophe: Patrice Chéreau died today in Paris, of lung cancer, at the age of sixty-eight. The storied director of opera, theater, and film had been undergoing treatment for cancer while preparing his production of Strauss's Elektra in Aix-en-Provence this past summer; I am told that he continued working despite the enormous physical strain. His contribution to opera, from the epoch-making 1976 Bayreuth Ring onward, was tremendous; if there was a greater living director, the name does not spring to mind. He perfected a mode of abstracted realism in which everything was charged and nothing was forced. Even the slightest gestures and the most marginal characters contributed to the unfolding of the drama, which built toward shuddering visual epiphanies: the swinging of the pendulum in Die Walküre, and its eventual halt; Jack the Ripper's slow ascent of the stairs in Lulu, into moonlit nothingness; the sudden, terrifying deluge of trash in From the House of the Dead; most momentously, at the end of Götterdämmerung, the turning of the onstage crowd toward the audience, as if to ask, in Alain Badiou's words, "What about you? Here is where we stand now, you and we both." I attended the last night of the Elektra in Aix, which proved to be the final work of Chéreau's career. I won't soon forget either the performance itself or the intensity of the ovation that followed. When greatly gifted people die prematurely, we feel not only saddened but deprived. The future seems to contain empty lots on which nothing will be built.
More: Pierre Boulez, Esa-Pekka Salonen, Mark Berry, Manuel Brug, Armelle Héliot, Barry Millington, Allan Kozinn's Times obituary.


text:
La Bandita Townhouse is managed by John, the owner.
Your free gift
Tuscany >
La Bandita Townhouse
La Bandita Townhouse in Tuscany, Italy
— John: "This valley here is beautiful. The most quintessential Tuscan landscapes are here, and the wine areas of Montepulciano and Montalcino are close by."
— How would you describe La Bandita Townhouse in a few words?
John: "La Bandita Townhouse is a small and stylish boutique hotel set inside the historic center of Pienza, one of Tuscany's most charming little villages. It gives you the opportunity to experience authentic Tuscan life."
— La Bandita Superior room
— Please tell us about the history of the building.
John: "The building dates back to the founding of Pienza in the 15th century. Before it was a small boutique hotel, it was a place for nuns to live in, work and serve. For many generations they offered confirmation classes as well as regular schooling for the children so that the villagers all still have memories of the building.
In the end there were only two nuns left who were soon going to enter retirement. Their order was closing down the building, so they were looking to sell. Part of it had fallen into disrepair by that time. We were looking to give it a second life and turn it back into an active part of the community."
— La Bandita restaurant
— How would you describe the atmosphere of the hotel?
John: "We tried to create a balance by preserving the beautiful old DNA of the building while bringing a really fresh, modern design to the furnishings of the hotel. We wanted to make the old very well maintained and the new comfortable and not jarring. It's difficult to get the right balance, but I think we've succeeded.
The modern design is rather muted with only few bright colors, as well as a lack of ornamentation, keeping it simplistic and minimal. It is modern and stylish without seeming strange or whimsical in such an old building."
— La Bandita garden
— Please tell us about the hotel rooms and facilities.
John: "Our small hotel has just 12 rooms in total. There are standard rooms, superior rooms, and suites. The only difference between the standard and superior rooms is the size. The suites are quite large. Two are family suites with a bedroom and a seating room that can be closed off. The other two are our largest rooms and on the top floor with great views of the dome of the Cathedral of Pienza and even out to the valley beyond.
We have a library, a bar and a restaurant open to the public. There's a garden divided into two parts, one for outside dining for the restaurant and the other is only to be used by our guests. Even though we're in the middle of town, the garden provides a nice private space for guests.
We also have a spa area with a sauna at La Bandita. It's not officially a spa but more of a private suite with a Jacuzzi, steam room and a relaxation area for treatments that are offered on request. You have exclusive use of the room for however many hours you need it."
— Suite bathroom
— What sort of food is served in the restaurant?
John: "We aim to do something different than the other restaurants in the area, which are very simple and traditional with limited menus. Our restaurant is an elegant and sophisticated place where we draw upon a wider range that focuses on Tuscan food but draws inspiration from all over Italy. Our focus is on fresh vegetables and seasonal food with a modern presentation. Everything is homemade and fresh, including the pasta."
— To you personally, what's so special about staying at La Bandita?
John: "For three or four days or however long you stay, you will really feel part of a village. This is something our guests highlight again and again. They really value that they had a chance to experience authentic daily life in Tuscany."
John's favourites:
','',0); gMapCreatePoint('feature|4', '43.257221,11.254167', '', 'SIENA
Siena is a lovely medieval city in central Tuscany.', '', 1); gMapCreatePoint('feature|1', '43.013491,11.946228', '', 'TRAIN STATION
The closest train station is Chiusi-Chianciano, which is 45 minutes away.', '', 2); gMapCreatePoint('feature|2', '43.098694,11.787247', '', 'MONTEPULCIANO
Montepulciano is only 20-30 minutes away and a must-visit for wine-lovers.', '', 3); gMapCreatePoint('feature|2', '43.055102,11.489003', '', 'MONTALCINO
Montalcino is famous for its wines. Come here to visit its vineyards and wine cellars.', '', 4); gMapCreatePoint('feature|1', '43.808653,11.201225', '', 'AIRPORT
The closest airport is Florence, which is 150km from Pienza.', '', 5); gMapStreetView = new google.maps.StreetViewService(); gMapStreetView.getPanoramaByLocation(gMapPropertyLatLng, 50, showPanoData); resizeBounds(); } } } function resizeBounds(){ /* gMap.setCenter(gMapBounds.getCenter()); gMap.setZoom(4); */ gMap.fitBounds(gMapBounds); } // -->
— What made you fall in love with Tuscany in general and Pienza in particular?
John: "It was Pienza specifically as this valley here is particularly beautiful. The most quintessential Tuscan landscapes are here, and the wine areas of Montepulciano and Montalcino are close by. It has a string of small villages that are well preserved, charming and easy to get in and out of. The area has a steady amount of small-scale tourism without big hotels and tour buses. As it is not particularly overrun by tourist infrastructure, I felt there was an opportunity here."
— The location of the hotel is right in the center of Pienza?
John: "Yes. Pienza is pedestrian only so that you will park your car outside and then walk about three minutes to the center and La Bandita. It is very easy to navigate and manageable to get from one side to the other. You can go to dinner and walk back to the hotel without having to drive."
— How long do your guests usually stay at La Bandita?
John: "The average vacation is about three or four nights. People usually come from Rome or Florence. They're spending a little time in the cities where there's a lot to see, and then want to spend some time in the countryside to explore, visit the small villages, and partake in wine tastings. There's a lot to do in the area without having to rush to see everything."
— What would you recommend to experience in this part of Tuscany?
John: "We try to send all of our guests to the wineries for tastings, especially since some of Italy's best wine is made only 20 minutes from here. There are many small, interesting and highly regarded producers whose wine is otherwise difficult to find. We can organize private wine tastings at their vineyards.
Another thing I recommend is visiting a local farm. There are several organic farms nearby that offer cheese tastings and lunches made with their own products. You can see how the food is grown and made.
It is also definitely worth visiting Siena, which is only 15 minutes away."
— When is the best time for a vacation in Tuscany, and La Bandita?
John: "Spring is very beautiful here with green valleys and wildflowers everywhere. But it's a little chilly in the evenings.
People love the summer, of course, when the weather is warmer. But there are always more tourists at that time.
The weather is really nice in the fall, with fewer tourists and more interesting foods in season, like white truffles and porcini mushrooms.
So it depends on what you're looking for in your vacation. If you were looking for a really good food experience, I would recommend spring and late fall as the best times to come. If you're looking to experience the beauty of the countryside, in June the valley is a golden color and at its prettiest. That is a good time to take walks and experience the countryside."
— What's been the biggest reward to you running a small hotel?
John: "It has been a very rewarding experience to spend most of my year at La Bandita and to be able to run my own business. Although I'm busy working, the idea that we're living here in a small village and managing a business is a great blessing.
I have also met amazing people in the process. Sometimes I feel like we're in the middle of nowhere here, but the whole world passes through. There's always somebody new coming in from all over the world, so we get the opportunity to meet a lot of interesting people."
— Thank you, John!
On street parking (free of charge)
Honesty bar
+ Standard Room for 2 - 2 people
— Standard Room for 2 - 2 people
Low season per night
High season per night
The Standard Rooms at La Bandita Townhouse feature a double bed and a separate bathroom.
The rates include taxes, breakfast in the Townhouse Caffe, complimentary minibar with soft drinks, bottled water and coffee, complimentary laundry service for stays of more than 3 nights and access to full time English speaking concierges to help with all activities.
Children under 5 years old eat for free at the Townhouse Caffe.
The Superior Rooms at La Bandita Townhouse feature a double bedroom, a living area with space for an extra bed and a bathroom.
+ Suite for 2 - 4 people
— Suite for 2 - 4 people
The Suites at La Bandita Townhouse feature a double bedroom, a living area with space for an extra bed, a bathroom and a standalone bathtub.
Soft drinks & Water
+ Booking benefits & free extras
— Booking benefits & free extras
Welcome aperitivo and room upgrade (subject to availability) when booking through Welcome Beyond.
Read genuine La Bandita Townhouse reviews from the press and guests who have booked their stay with Welcome Beyond.
Incredible stay!
Incredible stay! Top-notch experience. Beautiful design, quaint little village, and over-the-top amazing staff. So great that we booked an extra night while we were there. Highly recommend!
— Kristen V.Kristen V., June 2017
Boutique hotels in Tuscany

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


text:
Integra Telecom rebrands itself as "Integra," expands focus to enterprise market
Feb 27, 2013 9:36am
Integra Telecom on Wednesday announced during the Channel Partners show in Las Vegas that it has renamed itself "Integra" to illustrate its flexibility to serve the large business customer market segment.
Harding (Image source: Integra)
The CLEC said that removing "Telecom" from its brand name has two benefits: It defines its stance as a broader solutions-based service provider, and maintains the reputation of the Integra name it has built with its existing SMB (small to medium business) customer base.
Integra has coupled the new brand name with the tagline "Technology you trust. People you know," which it says is a way to tell customers that they have coupled a large set of products with personalized customer service. This is something that many medium-sized enterprise customers can't get from larger telcos that have their eyes on multinational corporations (MNC), the provider says.
Despite making a bigger push into the larger business market, Integra will continue to serve the SMB market that was its primary target for the past 14 years.
"The small business segment continues to be a focus area and we want to serve and support those customers," said Joseph Harding, Integra's senior vice president of marketing, in an interview with FierceTelecom. "When we looked at our network assets, our differentiated service model and the progress we made, particularly in the last 12 months around our product portfolio, we feel like we're really well positioned to serve larger business customers as well."
Right now, 61 percent of Integra's customers bill $1,000 a month, while its fastest growing segment is with multi-location customers that spend $5,000 a month.
To serve these larger customers, Integra has over 2,200 on-net buildings on its fiber network. In areas where it has not been able to serve customers with fiber yet, it has been expanding its Ethernet footprint via Ethernet over Copper (EoC).
One of the key areas that Integra will focus on throughout 2013 will be focusing on expanding its on-net and near-net opportunities.
"When we think about our go-to-market tactics and how we allocate our capital, there's 16,000 enterprise buildings located within 2,500 feet of our network that cumulatively represent about $3 billion a year in addressable telecom spend," Harding said. "Of course, you can add onto that cloud and managed services spend, which would make that number larger."
Harding added that they are "focusing our sales people on what I call those near-net or on-net buildings and increasing our capital to extending our network to reach those locations directly, which is a different network expansion strategy than a traditionally Unbundled Network Element (UNE)-based CLEC that would be largely focused on extending the Local Serving Office (LSO) footprint."
Much of the CLEC's transformation to target larger businesses began Dec. 2011 when former Level 3 Communications (NYSE: LVLT) executive Kevin O'Hara became CEO of Integra.
While Integra created a sizeable network footprint through its acquisitions of Electric Lightwave and Eschelon, those assets were primarily used for backhauling its SMB traffic.
With that fiber network foundation, Integra over the past year has leveraged its base of copper and fiber-based networks to deliver a suite of business and wholesale products to larger business customers, including E-LAN, wavelength services,wholesale dark fiber, and 60 Mbps EoC.
"With a rich underlying fiber network that's an asset, but if you don't have the products enabled to leverage that fiber asset base it's only going to get you so far," Harding said. "As we looked to expand up market, we wanted to make sure that we had the right set of products and services to support the requirements of those larger customers."
All of its network and service introduction efforts have been paying off. Since 2011, Integra increased strategic sales to 80 percent, while growing strategic revenues from 24 percent at the end of 2011 to 34 percent.
In Q4 2012, the service provider reported revenues of $149 million in total revenue.
- see the release
On the Hot Seat: Integra's Kevin O'Hara on transitioning to larger-scale wholesale, retail business services
Integra refinances $825 million of debt, raises S&P, Moody's credit ratings
Integra adds E-LAN to Ethernet service line
Integra Telecom expands wholesale portfolio with dark fiber service
Integra Telecom Q3 earnings rise on strategic business sales
Integra Telecom serves up 60 Mbps symmetric EoC service


text:
Zelenskyy preparing to visit DC, after tour of war's front
Dec 19, 2022, 1:07 PM | Updated: Dec 21, 2022, 9:46 am
In this photo provided by the Ukrainian Presidential Press Office, Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelenskyy, right, awards a serviceman at the site of the heaviest battles with the Russian invaders in Bakhmut, Ukraine, Tuesday, Dec. 20, 2022. (Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)
(Ukrainian Presidential Press Office via AP)
The visit to Washington is set to include an address to Congress on Capitol Hill and a meeting with President Joe Biden. It comes as lawmakers are set to vote on a year-end spending package that includes about $45 billion in emergency assistance to Ukraine and as the U.S. prepares to send Patriot surface-to-air missiles to the country to help stave off Russia's invasion.
The visit comes a day after Zelenskyy made a daring and dangerous trip to what he called the hottest spot on the 1,300-kilometer (800-mile) front line, the city of Bakhmut in Ukraine's contested Donetsk province, where he praised Ukrainian troops for their "courage, resilience and strength" as artillery boomed in the background.
The Ukrainian leader told the troops he passed through Sloviansk, Kramatorsk and Druzhkivka to reach Bakhmut in an unannounced trip that appeared designed to show Moscow's failure to capture the city and dishearten the Russians trying to surround it.
"Bakhmut Fortress. Our people. Unconquered by the enemy. Who with their bravery prove that we will endure and will not give up what's ours," he wrote on his Telegram channel, thanking the troops for "the courage, resilience and strength shown in repelling the enemy attacks.
"Since May, the occupiers have been trying to break our Bakhmut, but time goes by and Bakhmut is already breaking not only the Russian army, but also the Russian mercenaries who came to replace the wasted army of the occupiers," he said.
Russia's invasion, which began Feb. 24, has lost momentum. The illegally annexed provinces of Donetsk, Kherson, Luhansk and Zaporizhzhia remain fiercely contested. Capturing Bakhmut would sever Ukraine's supply lines and open a route for Russian forces to press on toward cities that are key Ukrainian strongholds in the Donetsk province.
In a video released by his office from the Bakhmut visit, Zelenskyy was handed a Ukrainian flag and alluded to delivering it to U.S. leaders.
The latest tranche of U.S. funding would be the biggest American infusion of assistance yet to Ukraine, above even Biden's $37 billion emergency request, and ensure that funding flows to the war effort for months to come.
On Wednesday, the U.S. was also set to announce that it will send $1.8 billion in military aid to Ukraine in a major package that will for the first time include a Patriot missile battery and precision guided bombs for its fighter jets, U.S. officials said.
The aid signals an expansion by the U.S. in the kinds of advanced weaponry it will send to Ukraine to bolster its air defenses against what has been an increasing barrage of Russian missiles in recent weeks. The package will include about $1 billion in weapons from Pentagon stocks and $800 million in funding through the Ukraine Security Assistance Initiative, officials said.
The decision to send the Patriot battery comes despite threats from Russia's Foreign Ministry that the delivery of the advanced surface-to-air missile system would be considered a provocative step and that the Patriot and any crews accompanying it would be a legitimate target for Moscow's military.
It's not clear exactly when the Patriot would arrive on the front lines in Ukraine, since U.S. troops will have to train Ukrainian forces on how to use the high-tech system. The training could take several weeks, and is expected to be done in Germany. To date, all training of Ukraine's forces by the U.S. and its Western allies has taken place in European countries.
Also included in the package will be an undisclosed number of Joint Direct Attack Munitions kits, or JDAMs. The kits will be used to modify massive bombs by adding tail fins and precision navigation systems so that rather than being simply dropped from a fighter jet onto a target, they can be released and guided to a target.
House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, who visited Zelenskyy earlier this year in Kyiv, encouraged lawmakers to be on hand for Wednesday evening's session.
Later at the Capitol, Pelosi said of Ukrainians, "They are fighting for democracy for all of us."
For his part, Russian President Vladimir Putin on Tuesday hailed the "courage and self-denial" of his forces in Ukraine — but he did so at a ceremony in an opulent and glittering hall at the Kremlin in Moscow, not on the battlefield.
Mercenaries from the Wagner Group, a shadowy Russian military contractor, are reported to be leading the charge in Bakhmut. Unverified videos on a popular Russian social media platform showed the Wagner Group's leader, Yevgeny Prigozhin, standing near an artillery piece and saying he was ready to meet Zelenskyy in Bakhmut.
At the Kremlin ceremony, Putin presented awards to the Moscow-appointed heads of the four illegally annexed regions of Ukraine.
"Our country has often faced challenges and defended its sovereignty," Putin said. "Now Russia is again facing such a challenge. Soldiers, officers and volunteers are showing outstanding examples of courage and self-denial on the front line."
In a video address honoring Russia's military and security agencies, he praised the security personnel deployed to the four regions, saying that "people living there, Russian citizens, count on being protected by you."
Putin acknowledged the challenges faced by the security personnel.
"Yes, it's difficult for you," he said, adding that the situation in the regions is "extremely difficult."
British authorities, meanwhile, gave a bleak assessment of how the war is going for Russia.
Some 100,000 Russian troops were "dead, injured or have deserted" in the invasion, U.K. Defense Secretary Ben Wallace said. Wallace didn't give a figure for Ukrainian casualties, but the U.S. military recently put the estimated number of Ukrainian troops killed and wounded at about 100,000.
Losses in Russia's military command have also taken a toll, as has the destruction of equipment. "Not one single operational commander then in place on Feb. 24 is in charge now," Wallace told lawmakers in the House of Commons. "Russia has lost significant numbers of generals and commanding officers."
"Russian capability has been severely hampered by the destruction of more than 4,500 armored and protected vehicles, as well as more than 140 helicopters and fixed wing aircraft," Wallace said.
Ukraine's counteroffensive has succeeded in recapturing large swaths of land. After 300 days of war, the U.K. Ministry of Defense tweeted, Ukraine has liberated about 54% of the maximum amount of extra territory Russia seized in the invasion. It didn't say what portion of Ukrainian territory Russia controlled at the peak of its gains.
Russia now controls about 18% of internationally recognized areas of Ukraine, including those parts of the eastern Donbas and the Crimean Peninsula seized in 2014.
With the fighting in the east at a stalemate, Moscow has used missiles and drones to attack Ukraine's power equipment, hoping to leave people without electricity as freezing weather sets in.
Life in the Ukrainian capital took a minor but welcomed step toward normality with the reopening of two of Kyiv's main subway stations for the first time since the war began. The key hubs of Maidan Nezalezhnosti and Khreschatyk, like the capital's other underground stations, have served as air raid shelters.
"It's the feeling that despite everything, we are returning to a routine that we were used to," said 24-year-old passenger Denys Kapustin. "This is very important."
Castillo reported from Kyiv, Ukraine. Lolita C. Baldor and Tara Copp in Washington and Andrew Katell in New York contributed.
LONDON (AP) — Qatar Airways and Airbus have reached a settlement in a longstanding legal dispute over the safety of the A350 jetliner and billions of orders for other planes. The companies said in a joint statement Wednesday that the settlement was "amicable and mutually agreeable." "A repair project is now underway and both parties […]


Anyone who has been involved with development knows that there are a lot of moving pieces! We boil it down with our five phase approach – which represents what the development process could look like. Every project is different, so we welcome the chance to chat with you about what your process would be.


Lotus Esprit 350 Tuning Dedication - Lotus - racing through emotions!
We have spoken enough about the technical and design sides of the Lotus Esprit car. Our audience now should be familiar with what this car is in fact capable of and why it has undergone a certain unique tuning process. Many companies make the tuning of their models just for the marketing reasons, to show that their cars can be made to suit specifically one person.
A bit to the history, Lotus Esprit was produced starting from 1996 and up to 2004, there were only 1237 cars produced. At the International Motor Show in Paris in 2010 the Lotus concern introduced this concept of a new Lotus Esprit, the release of which is scheduled at the end of the year 2012. However, the company is now going through several financial problems, which make the realization of the plan quite doubtful.
All in all, the tuning of Lotus Esprit had a higher purpose, than just showing off. This special car was produced by the company produced and was going to be introduced on the first of May in tribute to the 'Brazilian Magician', Ayrton Senna da Silva, who on this very day, but just eighteen years ago, entered his last race – a fatal Grand Prix of San Marino in the year 1994. A move for the memory, by Lotus and all other dear people.


Pigeons are not the only pest bird that cause a lot of headaches on residential and commercial sites, there are also other pest birds such as Magpies, Corellas, Seagulls, Cockatoos and Ducks.
The Birdman often receives calls from local Councils to come and sort out one or two aggressive magpies that may be, for example, in a local park area. The magpies are generally causing havoc in the public space.
Ducks are also another pest bird that The Birdman often gets called out to deal with. Being a hot climate here in Adelaide, there are a number of residential properties with swimming pools where ducks become a nuisance and a hazard and thus need to be removed.
The traps used by the Adelaide Bird Removal Team are always custom designed to suit the bird species being trapped. Traps can be designed for catches of 20 birds through to 500 birds. In other words traps are used when there are large flocks of birds that need to be removed from an area, such as Corellas, Gulls and Pigeons .
Another way to trap flocks of birds is by using nets – which is the method most used when trapping ducks. Where there is a flock of birds who have been trapped, instead of being exterminated with a firearm, they are instead humanely enthanised using Co2 gas.
There is Code of Practice for the Human Destruction of Flocking Birds that must be followed when trapping and euthanising large numbers of birds. This includes obtaining a Destruction Permit for Protected Species from the Department of Environment, Water and Natural Resources (South Australia).
Often property owners do not consider birds are a threat until the bird population has got quite big and is beginning to cause significant and noticeable damage to the property. The solution is to call in Adelaide Bird Removal, the Pest Bird Removal Specialists.


Ashey is completely at ease with her sexuality and is certain to turn your meeting into a date to treasure. Definitely a 'people person', Ashey is an easy-going and fun-loving companion, so fantasies no more, now you can turn your dreams into reality. She has a body to die for and loves to display her attributes whenever the opportunity arises.


text:
Die Norvegia Bay (, in Chile ) ist eine Bucht an der Lazarew-Küste der antarktischen Peter-I.-Insel. Sie liegt nördlich des Kap Ingrid.

Entdeckt und benannt wurde die Bucht im Februar 1929. Namensgeber ist das Schiff Norvegia, bei dessen vom norwegischen Walfangunternehmer Lars Christensen finanzierten zweiter Antarktisfahrt (1928–1929) die Besatzung die Peter-I.-Insel kartiert sowie Tiefenlotungen und Dredgearbeiten vor der Küste durchgeführt hatte.

Weblinks
  (englisch)
 Norvegia Bay auf geographic.org (englisch)

Bucht in Antarktika
Bucht (Bellingshausen-See)
Peter-I.-Insel


text:
Q: Build twitter feed dynamically on the server then pass to view I've been following this question to retrieve the twitter feed for a particular user Authenticate and request users timeline twitter api 1.1 which is working as expected, the issue I now have is trying to style it to make it look like the twitter feed, the reason we are doing this on the server is because we have a database with all our tweets in so instead of making calls to twitter we have decided to call our database and pull them through.  This was implemented and followed through just encase twitter decided to update there API which may result in our feed working (management didn't want to take that chance.)
I have spent some time today trying to find a possible solution to see if this has been done already, I'm aware people have provided server side code to retrieve the tweets but I can't find an example of passing the tweets to the view and displaying them.


Takeaway: New entrepreneurs are flocking to the previously obscure search fund model in droves.
No generation has had the impact on small business creation that the baby boomers have had over the past 50 years. As they look to retire, a new model of entrepreneurship is emerging and these new entrepreneurs are flocking to the previously obscure search fund model in droves.
To paint you a picture of the current small business landscape, during 2017, 36% of small business owners—those with $100,000 to $10 million in sales—said they plan to transition the ownership of their company in the next five years. With 8.6 million small businesses in the U.S., that could equate to more than three million businesses going up for sale in some manner (liquidate, sell to third party, sell to family, sell to employees or sell stock to public). This, combined with current taxes, financial performance and attractive multiples, shows the conditions for acquisitions are opportune.
A new generation of young entrepreneurial talent is emerging, and they are ready to manage and continue to grow these businesses. The phenomenon is occurring in elite business schools across the country. In an interesting shift, many of these young MBA graduates are opting to be CEOs on Main Street instead of Wall Street by acquiring their own businesses.
Many are turning to the search fund model, and this process known as entrepreneurship through acquisition (ETA) is gaining traction globally. The amount of search funds has increased a whopping 428% over the last five years, increasing at a rate of about 40% per year, according to searchfunder.com.
There are three types of search funds—traditional, self-funded and single sponsor (also known as fund-less sponsors).
With traditional funds, searchers raise capital from a group of investors to look for a company within a certain geographical area. These investors have the right of first refusal on any deals, according to searchfunder.com.
"Traditional search funds are backed by about 200 investors in the country who have been doing this for 30 years—serial search fund investors. Those are backed by that cadre of investors and have certain stipulations," explains David Slenzak, of Broadtree Partners, a search fund accelerator.
Self-funded searchers finance their own search efforts. Once they find a deal, they look for outside capital. The terms are negotiated on a deal-by-deal basis, according to searchfunder.com. Many acquirers are able to access SBA loans. Since this type of loan has flexible terms, SBA loans are often the preferred financing vehicle for acquiring a business. At Live Oak Bank, the nation's leading SBA lender currently, there is a dedicated SBA M&A lending unit to cater to the growing demand for these loans.
"Self-funded searchers are younger people—aged 28 to 38—doing this for the first time, that are not using a cadre of seasoned investors to back them. They're trying to do this with their own money—or maybe they've got one or two investors—and they rely heavily on SBA funding," says Slenzak.
Single-sponsor or fund-less sponsors raise search capital from a single source rather than from a group of investors, sometimes even co-locating with their investor, according to searchfunder.com.
"Fund-less sponsors are self-funded; they're just more seasoned. They know how to structure deals, and people will back them based on their prior track record," says Slenzak.
As the segment booms, more ETA programs are being created at business schools around the world. The programs teach students exactly how to go about searching for a good business to buy, how to raise debt and equity capital, how to transition into ownership, and ultimately grow the company into something bigger and stronger than before.
One of these programs was founded by Royce Yudkoff, professor of management practice at Harvard Business School (HBS) along with Richard Ruback, professor of corporate finance at HBS, a decade ago. The two have since co-authored the book, HBR Guide to Buying a Small Business.
Yudkoff attributes the growing interest in the program to increased awareness, the number of small companies coming up for sale, and the fact that careers in large companies seem less secure or predictable than they were 20 years ago.
That is a result of the boom in the private equity asset class. "What you see in fund-less sponsors are a lot of younger private equity fund managers that are leaving funds and doing it on their own, or investment banker types that are leaving and doing it on their own. I think a couple of factors drive that. One, as the private equity asset class increased, these expats have also increased. And as capital availability has increased, the likelihood of executing that strategy has gone up, and a lot of people are able to leave private equity funds and investment banks and do it on their own," says Slenzak.
He believes that not only will this upward trend continue but will surpass the growth of the other two types of search funds. "I think that it's going to increase and probably outstrip the increase in search funds." There are just more people in that category. "If you have each bucket increasing at say, 30 percent in a year, that big bucket is going to increase faster," he says.
"One other reason for that is the capital availability is so prevalent, and raising a fund has so many regulatory constraints, that people just find it in some ways more attractive to just become a fund-less sponsor than to raise a private equity fund," Slenzak says.
Many in the industry agree that this is a trend that will continue to boom.
"I believe the timing is right. We have more schools building awareness about it, and I think that the model gets easier as more baby boomers retire out of their businesses. I think the trend will continue," says Spencer.
Heather Endresen is a senior loan officer on Live Oak's M&A lending team. Reach her atheather.endresen@liveoakbank.com or 714.404.3648.


text:
Ortom takes major step in quest for agricultural transformation
Bemgba Iortyom
Benue State Governor, Samuel Ortom, has taken a major step in his quest to ensure massive transformation in agricultural production in the state.
This the governor is set to achieve with the acquisition of 50 units of state-of-the-art tractors for onward distribution to farmers.
By a directive of the governor, technical staff of the Ministry of Agriculture in the state today commenced fittings and preparatory installations on the tractors to make them ready for use.
According to one of the staff, the tractors are among the most modern of brands in the global market and specifically chosen to suit the demands of agricultural practice in the state.
He averred that by a comparative impact assessment analysis made, this particular brand has been adjudged to be highly successful in the countries where it has so far been put to use, including in Asia and parts of Europe.
Gov. Ortom who, prior to becoming governor, was a successful farmer, and remains so to date, has made the transformation of agriculture in the state a focal point of his administration.
His recent choice of Timothy A Ijir Phd as the Commissioner of Agriculture and Natural Resources in the newly inaugurated Executive Cabinet of his administration is widely seen as a deliberate step aimed at the uplifting of standards of agricultural practice in the state to modern levels.
Dr. Ijir is an internationally renown mechanized agriculture expert with a track-record of successful practice in the United States of America and Europe.
It is believed that the tractors, when distributed to farmers, will bring massive transformational impact on the agricultural production levels in the state.
Bemgba Iortyom witnessed the preparatory event first-hand at People's House, Makurdi.
10/9/2019.


text:
Home » News » DWI charge follows hit-and-run investigation in Wayne County
DWI charge follows hit-and-run investigation in Wayne County
Deputies say a Williamson woman was taken into custody for DWI after a hit-and-run accident on December 7th around 6:30 p.m.
According to a news release, deputies arrested Christine Goodwin, age 59, of Williamson for DWI, leaving the scene of a crash, and other violations following an accident.
It's alleged that Goodwin went into the opposite lane, striking another vehicle – then left the area.
Deputies apprehended her further down the road, where a roadside investigation was conducted.
Her BAC was determined to be 0.17%.
Goodwin was processed and will answer the charges at a later date.
Categories: WilliamsonWayne CountySodusNewsPolice Beat


Table Galleries Blog humbly provides yall a writing about Round Wood Table Tops. The blog post about Good Looking Round Wood Table Tops For Sale is published by Hudson Beier on February, 12 2017.
If you love the article of Good Looking Round Wood Table Tops For Sale, don't forget to help Bedside Table Reviews it to your relatives on Twitter, Google Plus, and Facebook.
If you all want to understand several articles relating to Round Wood Table Tops, yall could easily click Coffee Table Galleries and don't forget to subscribe our writing because Work Table Ideas publish blog posts regarding to Round Wood Table Tops on a daily basis.
You may also see Classy Table Clips Design and Pretty Espresso End Table Dimensions.
Disclaimer: The picture of Good Looking Round Wood Table Tops For Sale is not owned by http://gashaponwars.com, nor the author, Hudson Beier.


text:
Beauty Battle: Lipstick Sales Soar With Tencent Mobile Game Tie-In
Ruonan Zheng
The mash-up was an overwhelming success. Consumers placed over 14,000 pre-orders across the three platforms, and all five lipstick styles sold out across all sales channels within 24 hours of the launch. Photo: M.A.C.
It's a rare case of the mobile game meets cosmetics brand. And it proves that a partnership may not have to make sense to everyone if it generates sales.
Recently, the extremely popular Tencent mobile game "Honor of Kings" (Western version titled "Arena of Valor") and high-end cosmetics brand M.A.C. released five co-branded limited-edition lipsticks that were available on Tmall, the M.A.C. website, and a WeChat mini-program.
The impetus for the collaboration was inspired by the players' demand. In an interview with Chinese media LadyMax, M.A.C. China marketing director Weng Yanling shared that they noticed players frequently mentioned the brand name M.A.C. when creating lip colors for their virtual characters in the game. In addition, both M.A.C. and "Honor of Kings" share a similar age demographic — between 18 and 24 years old — and female players overtook males in May 2017 as the dominant gender for "Honor of Kings," which has more than 200 million monthly players since it first launched in 2015 and became the world's highest grossing game in 2018, according to app market research firm App Annie.
Recommended ReadingLuxury Brands Build Mobile Games to Attract Chinese MillennialsBy Ruonan Zheng
The partnership moved forward under the lead of M.A.C.'s China team which approached Tencent with the initiative. While most collaborations like this require the go-ahead from the brand headquarters, the local China team, in this case, was given the freedom and support to create a plan.
Photo: Honor of Kings/Weibo
To further boost social buzz surrounding the campaign, stars from the hit reality TV show "Produce 101" were recruited to appear in the campaign. Even though the product is lipstick, the goal of the campaign was to court both female and male consumers. And the brand was able to amplify the message by creating marketing campaigns with a list of social media products within the Tencent ecosystem, including WeChat Moments ads, QQ groups, WeChat H5 pages, and mini-programs.
Recommended ReadingContemporary Femininity: What Luxury Brands Can Learn from China's Megahit Reality Show 101By Dao Nguyen
The mash-up was an overwhelming success. Consumers placed over 14,000 pre-orders across the three platforms, and all five lipstick styles sold out across all sales channels within 24 hours of the launch.
This is not the first time lipstick with local cultural appeal went viral. Last year, a lipstick set from Beijing's Palace Museum that showcased a Chinese aesthetic became a hot product. It appears companies are increasingly leveraging lipstick to resonate with Chinese consumers, who not only desire to carry a piece of makeup but also an identity in their pocket.
Case Study, Marketing & Branding
Honor of Kings, lipstick effect, M.A.C, mini programs, Palace Museum lipstick, Produce 101, Tencent, WeChat moments ads
2020 Trends in Content and Commerce Integration in China
Youzan: the Booming Leader of WeChat Commerce
Can Moda Operandi Break Into the Fashionista Circles in China?
Luxury Brands Celebrate the Year of the Rat


Look for our giant vertical banner to find us!
This past weekend was Friends of SVACA's bi-monthly Pet Food Express adoption event in Campbell. We set up regularly to share with everyone the latest additions to SVACA. Thank goodness it was a sunny sunny day. Summer sure has started early this year. We brought Tommy with us and had a blast!
Tommy soaking up the sun.


text:
Chaosium Announces new licensing deal for French and Spanish with Edge Entertainment
Posted by Michael O'Brien on 29th Jan 2019
Chaosium Inc is pleased to announce a new partnership with EDGE Entertainment. In a comprehensive new licensing deal, EDGE will publish Chaosium's roleplaying games Call of Cthulhu and RuneQuest in both French and Spanish.
Founded in 1999, EDGE Entertainment is based in Seville, Spain and Toulouse, France. A long-standing partner of the Asmodee Group studio Fantasy Flight Games, in early 2017 EDGE formally became part of the Asmodee Group. EDGE is the current licensee for Call of Cthulhu in Spanish.
Call of Cthulhu is widely regarded as the definitive investigative horror roleplaying game, and is popular world-wide. It is currently available in French, German, Italian, Japanese, Korean, and Spanish translations, and with editions in Polish, Portuguese, Russian, and Swedish also in the works.
RuneQuest: Roleplaying in Glorantha (RQG) is an all-new edition of one of the world's most influential and acclaimed fantasy roleplaying games. Chaosium released the core rules of the game to critical and popular acclaim in 2018. A German edition of RQG has been announced, with other languages soon to follow.
"All of us here at Edge Entertainment are so excited to be working with Chaosium to make the premier editions of Call of Cthulhu and RuneQuest for our French and Spanish fans." said Stephane Bogard, studio coordinator at EDGE.
"We were blown away by the distinctive and spectacular edition of Call of Cthulhu EDGE has produced in Spanish, and we can't wait to see what they can do for the game in French, and for RuneQuest in both languages." said Chaosium Vice President and Head of Licensing, Michael O'Brien.
Montpellier-based design house Studio Deadcrows will be designing and publishing the French edition of RuneQuest for EDGE.
EDGE takes over the Call of Cthulhu license from Éditions Sans-Détour in France. Under the terms of its now-concluded license, ESD is permitted to sell its existing Call of Cthulhu stock until March 31st 2019. Chaosium has also extended special permission to ESD so it can fulfil its obligations to Ulule crowdfunding backers of Les Masques de Nyarlahotep et Le Jour de la Béte, and for those who pre-ordered it up to January 2nd 2019.
#RuneQuest
#Chaosium
#EDGE