Content is important. But it's not the only thing.
Some evangelistic methods are presented as if they are the perfect witnessing method. Some think memorizing a method and mechanically delivering the content means you have effectively witnessed.
Witness throughout the New Testament demonstrates this is not accurate. There is not a cookie-cutter approach that is applied the same way every time.
Content is extremely important. Without the right content our witness cannot be effective. Messing with the content of the gospel voids its power.
Focusing only on content fails to recognize that we are not preaching to the air. We are preaching to persons.
I know of no biblical example where more people responded to the gospel at one time than Acts 2.
What made Peter's proclamation so effective? Here are five reflections of my own. Feel free to leave your reflections in the comments.
Walking in God's timing. Peter waited for God to open the door. Jesus commanded the disciples to wait for the power they would receive when the Holy Spirit came. They waited patiently until God delivered on His promise. They did not rush ahead and miss the opportunity God was preparing.
Going along with God's activity in the world. God's preparation of the audience is clear. "Now there were Jews living in Jerusalem, devout men from every nation under heaven" (Acts 2:5). God had gathered this audience from every nation. The reason they were gathered was to celebrate the Jewish feast of Pentecost. Their presence in Jerusalem demonstrates the truth of what the text tells us: these were devout people. They were already primed for hearing God's Word. When God poured out the Holy Spirit on this day so that Peter could speak to this audience we should be overwhelmed with God's activity in this effective witness. God is still active in the world today. We should strive to go along with His activity. It is not enough to simply be active on our own apart from God's leading and work.
Boldness. God opened the door. Peter took full advantage. He was not shy. He was bold and direct.
Picking relevant passages. Peter's content was perfectly suited to his immediate context. Peter did not simply use his favorite text. He picked passages that explained the situation they were currently experiencing. He picked passages that directly explained the significance of the moment. We must be aware of our surroundings and our hearers. This is part of what it means to be in the world but not of it.
Dedication to the Word of God and to prayer. Peter's message came on the heels of three years of personal discipleship with Jesus. It followed immediately after an intense ten day prayer meeting. Peter remained committed to this focus beyond Pentecost. When a situation arose in the early church that threatened this focus Peter resisted it. "'But we will devote ourselves to prayer and to the ministry of the word.' The statement found approval with the whole congregation" (Acts 6:4-5a). The whole congregation approved of this statement. They understood the importance of prayer and God's Word to effective witness.
It is easy to wander off the path of effective witness. We can fall into the trap of thinking that memorizing a few verses and speaking them mechanically to everyone regardless of the situation is the ministry that God has called us to.
I understand the appeal of these approaches. They lack a need for continued dedication beyond the initial investment of time in memorizing the method.
Memorizing methods is easy. Dedication to serving in the ministry of reconciliation requires sacrifice. Constant growth and practice.
Dedication to prayer and the Word will keep us tethered to God's will. If we ask for wisdom and opportunity God will direct our steps. He is pleased to use humble and well prepared people to accomplish His purposes.
Dedication to being person focused will ensure that we lovingly speak the truth in understandable ways. We want people to hear us because we want them to be reconciled to God. We want this because there is rejoicing in heaven over every sinner who comes to repentance. We want this because when people are saved they magnify the glorious grace of our God and Savior.
Dedication to boldness will keep us alert. We cannot wait for dead sinners to ask us how to be saved. The crowd asked Peter what they must do only after he boldly proclaimed Christ to them. They responded to Peter's boldness. Peter did not wait for them to open the door because God had already shown him that the door was open.
Dedication to faithfulness to biblical content ensures that we are bringing the word of life; not an eloquent speech which lacks the power of God for salvation. We can't tickle their ears or simply tell them the parts of the gospel that they are comfortable with.
Are you willing to do what is necessary to prepare yourself to be an effective witness for Christ?


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The first ever Maxis' Midnight Express™ saw Maxis employees including CEO Morten Lundal and Maxis Management Team personally delivering iPhones to its customers around the country from midnight. Maxis is the first telco in the country where its employees are personally delivering brand new iPhones at the stroke of midnight. About 200 randomly selected customers who pre-ordered the iPhone 6 or iPhone 6 Plus via the Maxis Online Store from 31 October onwards were offered the Maxis Midnight Express™ delivery service, to wherever they were.
Maxis customer Alvin Lim Tao Keong was in Kota Damansara hanging out with his friends around midnight when he got his iPhone 6 delivered by Adzhar Ibrahim, Maxis' Head of People & Organisation. "I was really excited when I got the call about the midnight express earlier but didn't expect them to show up to deliver my phone!"
Meanwhile Sulin Lau, Maxis' Head of Marketing Services, personally delivered the iPhone 6 to Joe Liong, a first time iPhone user. "I can't believe Maxis came all the way up to Genting Highlands with my iPhone 6 in the middle of the night. They made it here even though their car broke down and they had to hitchhike."
Other customers who also pre-ordered their devices via the Maxis Online Store were able to self-collect at six Maxis Centres nationwide, namely KLCC, Johor Bahru, Penang, Kuantan, Kota Kinabalu and Kuching, between midnight and 4.00 am today.
"Our Midnight Express™ underlines our constant ambition of giving customers an unmatched experience. For us, there's nothing like seeing the joy on the faces of our customers, and we realized that being the first to own an iconic iPhone such as the 6 makes them feel special. So we are thrilled that we were able to personally deliver the iPhones to them tonight. Meanwhile, customers who collected their phones from our Maxis Centres around the country were able to get them quickly and seamlessly, instead of waiting in long lines. This reflects our serious aspirations of putting a smile on our customers' faces," said Dushyan Vaithiyanathan, Maxis' Head of Consumer Business.
The devices will be then available for walk-in customers at all Maxis Centres and Maxis Exclusive Partners (MEPs) across the country at normal operating hours.
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Q: Server side omniture page tracking we use omniture to track page visits in our site. It works well. However, we have a scenario where we have some redirect links that redirect to a different website over which we have no control.
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Why Does Twitter Want You to Eat Tide Pods?
Posted on 2019/07/10 | By Bernie	| 1 comment
Yes, this is absolutely a piece about getting banned from Twitter, which is very 2014 of me. But here we are.
It started, as you might expect, with notable abject failure-cum-racist Mark Latham. A person who's list of achievements started and ended at once wearing a dirty polo shirt and oversized shorts to the Prime Minister's XI cricket game at Manuka Oval, Canberra, a few years ago.
Mark Latham, unfortunately these days sitting as a member of the clown car that is the New South Wales Upper House of parliament and is not at all just grifting Yet Another Public Salary Because He's Otherwise Unemployable, spent some time recently vanity searching his name on the website Twitter dot com and stumbled across this tweet from Erin.
I'm so bloody sick of Mark Latham acting like he speaks for everyone who lives west of the M4.
— Erin Riley (@erinrileyau) July 2, 2019
Naturally, because he now wears (I hope) laundered shirts and correctly fitting trousers, he got a bit upset.
The M4 runs east-west.
Maybe you mean the M7.
Maybe you know jack-shit about Sydney.
— Real Mark Latham (@RealMarkLatham) July 6, 2019
Four days after the fact, Mark Latham was out vanity searching and hurling what he thinks is incredible material at a typo that was corrected within three-minutes of the original post. But you don't see that when you're vanity searching.
*M7, not M4.
Naturally, I saw the interaction and decided to jump in with the following:
Now, he asks reaching to one side of a first-year communication textbook that for reasons passing understanding he still has despite graduating 4 years ago, what do you think would be the dominant reading of this particular text?
Would you interpret it as a warning as to the dangers of sustained consumption of concentrated dishwashing powder as a form of sustenance?
Or do you believe that the dominant reading of this text could be that I were encouraging the consumption of concentrated dishwashing powder, with the goal of obtaining ascension to the Mark Latham plane of existence. A goal that, in attempting to achieve it, one would incur all manner of issues with their digestive tract as a result of consuming said concentrated dishwashing powder?
I'll give you a minute.
So, yeah, you've come to the correct conclusion here in that, in context, in no way was the tweet an encouragement towards the consumption of Tide Pods. It was, in fact, the exact opposite of that.
So imagine my surprise when this email arrived.
Yeah baby. Telling people that Mark Latham is what happens when you eat Tide Pods is encouraging people to commit an act of self-harm.
At first, I wasn't entirely surprised.
It's not exactly unheard of for people that hold pretty disgusting opinions about their fellow humans tend to get very upset, very quickly when the slightest hint of their invective is thrown back at them.
They get, to borrow a phrase, triggered. Because they do what angry people do when met with a situation in which they find themselves not treated with the level of respect they seem to reckon they deserve.
They lash out. They fill their adult diapers. And they smash that report button because "it's not fair!" that they have to read this sort of stuff.
I will admit, at this point, this is not the first time I have received an email from Twitter explaining that someone, who in any other timeline would have been laughed into irrelevance by people applying the slightest amount of critical thought, is upset that they have been called a name or two.
Usually these little tantrums result in 12 hours in the sin bin – which in Twitter parlance means your tweets are unsearchable, but your account is still active and can still be interacted with – and probably a solid blocking from the snowflake in question.
This time, however, the response from everyone's favourite unprofitable social network was different.
As they had judged the tweet was an encouraged to self-harm and had locked me out of my account until I clicked a button that would delete the tweet.
No tweeting for me until I removed the assertion that becoming Mark Latham was a result of your school letting you eat Tide Pods for lunch every day.
Because that idea was one that would encourage people to self-harm.
I paused.
That is…that is the exact opposite of what was being suggested here. Turning into Mark Latham is, in at least mine and probably every other person with more than two brain cells to rub together's opinion, a bad thing. You don't want to do that, so you don't want to eat Tide Pods.
I didn't quite understand what was going on here. Thirty seconds later I realised I was on the receiving end of some algorithm abuse.
So instead of deleting the tweet, I clicked the button that allowed me to appeal the suspension to, I hoped, would be a human that had completed primary (elementary) school to an adequate level that had allowed them to further their education.
"You cannot use your account while the appeal is being reviewed". LOL. OK.
It wasn't that big of a drama. This whole thing unfolded as I was getting into bed, so I logged out of my account and went to sleep.
Between eight and 10 hours later – I forget which and the point is not how long I slept but in fact I woke up feeling refreshed – I awoke, checked my phone and found an email from Twitter.
"Our team found a violation did occur."
Now I was surprised. The text of the email was suggesting that after being reviewed, it had been determined that the suggestion eating Tide Pods would turn you into Mark Latham was, in the opinion of what I hoped was an adult human, an encouragement to eat pods of concentrated laundry powder.
Now, I'm not mad in thinking that this makes no sense whatsoever.
I suspect the notes I added to the appeal did not help, but that's beside the point.
In any case, I was not getting my account back until I deleted the tweet that, in Twitter's opinion, suggested that people should eat Tide Pods (which is bad for your health) is something you should be doing because it will turn you into Mark Latham.
Now, this is where we get to the outrage bit.
WHAT I SAID WAS NOT, IN ANY WAY SHAPE OR FORM TO ANYONE THAT PASSED PRIMARY SCHOOL ENGLISH AN ENCOURAGEMENT TO COMMIT SELF HARM.
It just was not.
What I did was draw a comparison between a despicable and embarrassing excuse for a politician…even a human, and an act that will either dissolve your insides or send you mad. You're ending up in a hospital either way, it's just a matter of which sort.
But Twitter isn't interested in context. Context and understanding requires an element of caring. And they don't.
They don't because they don't have to. They already have what they want, which is being at the centre of The Discourse(tm) because all the politicians, business people of note and, of course, journalists are on the platform so that's the prism through which we view the world now. Just think for a second about how many news stories you consume, regardless of platform, that contain the phrase "posted on Twitter" or derivatives thereof.
They also don't care because giving a platform to genuinely bad people with genuinely bad ideas is fine by their ownership and senior management because they are those people. Either through having disappeared well and truly into their own arses by being involved in Twitter or because they're genuinely bad people and this whole thing got too far down the road before we stopped and thought about it a bit.
So here I am. Banned from Twitter because an algorithm that doesn't understand context or basic comprehension has been gamed by a man so sure of his convictions that he'll quite happily say the most obnoxiously racist things you can possibly imagine but chuck a tantrum the moment someone speaks back at him in a similar tone.
Twitter, it seems, is quite adamant that you should be consuming Tide Pods and transforming into Mark Latham.
Make of that what you will.
(PS: There are probably typos but I don't care this is my blog. I'd normally put here "don't @ me" but at the moment you can go for your life. I can't see them.)
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Hogwarts Legacy Cinematic Trailer Extends an Invitation for Players to Join the World of Wizardry
By Goku Son On Jan 18, 2023
A new trailer for Hogwarts Legacy was released earlier today by WB Games and Avalanche Software. This new trailer contains a cinematic experience that shows players some fantastic bird's eye views of the castle grounds and even beyond while giving players an invitation to become part of the Hogwarts School of Witchcraft and Wizardry.
You can watch the new cinematic trailer for Hogwarts Legacy below:
The cinematic follows an owl carrying the coveted invitation as it soars across the castle rooftops and over the heads of students in The Great Hall, providing an overhead view of some of the iconic Hogwarts locations that players will be able to explore. Some players might recognize some of the people the owl comes across, like Professor Weasley and Nearly Headless Nick.
While the owl can be seen taking on some familiar sights across the emblematic Wizardry school, it can also be seen facing some of the hidden dangers that players will face. The owl narrowly avoids a horde of giant spiders in the Forbidden Forest, a deadly blast of Avada Kedavra from a masked wizard, and a dragon's fiery breath.
There's plenty awaiting the players who engage in the wizarding world of Hogwarts. Hogwarts Legacy is still one of the most anticipated video games. For very good reason, too, as the game has showcased exceptional graphics and landscapes that can be explored through flight. Additionally, there will be plenty to do in the open world, with multiple hamlets, challenges, and secrets dotting the map.
Quite recently, we've seen the PC system requirements alongside the graphical performance modes that will be available on the console releases of the game. Hogwarts Legacy will be released on PC, PlayStation 5, Xbox Series X, and Xbox Series S on February 10th, 2023. The game will launch on PlayStation 4 and Xbox One on April 4th and finally on Nintendo Switch on July 25th.
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Statins, Lifestyle Changes Cut Artery Plaque
Therapy would benefit those prone to heart disease
By Kathleen Doheny
(HealthDay is the new name for HealthScoutNews.)
MONDAY, June 9, 2003 (HealthDayNews) -- Taking cholesterol-lowering drugs and making healthy lifestyle changes can reduce dangerous plaque in heart arteries by a third.
That's the conclusion of research presented June 8 at the American Heart Association's Second Asia Pacific Scientific Forum in Honolulu.
The study researchers verified the plaque reduction during a 12-year span with the use of electron beam CT scans. These special types of CT scans take rapid pictures of the heart to determine levels of calcium deposits on cholesterol plaque in the arteries. This can lead to artery blockages and heart attacks.
"This test provides us with the ability to track plaque over time and to demonstrate that lifestyle modification does impart a benefit by reducing atherosclerosis or plaque," Dr. Matthew Budoff says.
Budoff is director of the Electron Beam CT Laboratory at the Research and Education Institute at Harbor-UCLA Medical Center in Torrance, Calif., and a co-author of the study.
He and Dr. Victor Goh, a consultant cardiologist at the Electron Beam Center at Matilda International Hospital in Hong Kong, followed 102 people at high risk for heart disease, performing EBT scans at the beginning of the study in 1990 and then again in 2001 and 2002.
All patients were prescribed statins -- such as Lipitor or Zocor -- to lower cholesterol, and instructed to eat better, exercise more and control their weight.
At the second scan, 33 patients had reductions in their calcification scores, and these were patients who hadn't slacked off on lifestyle changes and medication use, Budoff says. "The majority of the 69 other patients had a small increase and a minority had a significant increase," says Budoff. "The results are quite dramatic."
Overall, the average increase in scores was 24 percent a year, but those who stuck with both medicine and lifestyle changes had an average increase of 16.4 percent.
The researchers also tracked the patients for heart disease problems and found only one patient had had a heart attack, and it was not fatal. There were two strokes and no deaths.
The message, says Budoff, is that "it's very important to maintain the therapy [statin use and lifestyle changes] because there is a long-term benefit as we showed in our study."
EBT scans are available in university hospitals and major medical centers and cost about $400. The 10-minute scan is a modified, open-air CT scan. A patient lies, clothed, on a couch-like device that slides into a tube-shaped scanner. Electron beams bounce around and create heart images.
"It's a very fast CT scan," Budoff says. "Because the heart is moving you need a very fast scan."
While other studies have found similar effects, Goh says the new study is unique because of the follow-up time and the number of patients scanned.
Another heart expert says the EBT scan might motivate those who need to lower their cholesterol to continue taking their medicine, or to begin the drug regimen.
"I have a lot of patients who are resistant to [beginning] medication," says Dr. Raluca Arimie, an interventional cardiologist at the Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center, in Santa Monica, Calif.
Some people worry about side effects, which can include elevations in liver enzymes and muscle soreness, she says. In the new study, eight patients had liver enzyme elevations, but most were able to resume therapy following an adjusted dose of the statins.
"When someone has a family history or other risk factors for coronary artery disease, he or she should have an EBT scan whenever this can be arranged," Goh says.
For more on electron beam CT, check with the American Heart Association or the University of Iowa.
SOURCES: Victor Goh, M.D., consultant cardiologist, Electron Beam Center, Matilda International Hospital, Hong Kong; Matthew Budoff, M.D., F.A.C.C., director, Electron Beam CT Laboratory, Research and Education Institute, Harbor-UCLA Medical Center, Torrance, Calif., Raluca Arimie, M.D., interventional cardiologist, Santa Monica-UCLA Medical Center, Santa Monica, Calif.; June 8, 2003, presentation, Second Asia Pacific Scientific Forum, American Heart Association, Honolulu


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App Annie launches analytics for Google Play Android apps
Dean Takahashi@deantak	 June 20, 2012 8:30 AM
App Annie, a provider of app-store analytics, announced today that it has launched its free and premium products for Google Play, the Android App Store.
That should result in improved analytics information and all-important intelligence for mobile-application publishers. With the addition of App Annie for Google Play, publishers will be able to simultaneously track their iOS, Mac, and Google Play Android apps on a single, cross-platform dashboard.
App Annie says it is the world's most popular app-store analytics site, used by more than 100,000 apps and 13,000 publishers. That includes 80 percent of the top iOS publishers. App Annie provides insights into their application downloads and revenues, in-app purchase data, ranking across categories and geographies, and trend analysis.
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Work is under way by the Port Authority of Jamaica and the Factories Corporation to construct more than 250,000 square feet of new purpose-built space and to retrofit an additional 50,000 square feet of existing buildings for outsourcing service.
This was disclosed by Prime Minister, the Most. Hon. Andrew Holness, during his contribution to the 2017/18 Budget Debate in the House of Representatives on March 21.
Mr. Holness said approximately 800,000 square feet of space are under construction by the private sector across the country, including Stanley Motta, constructing more than 250,000 square feet of new and retrofitted space in Half-Way Tree; GraceKennedy retrofitting over 60,000 square feet in downtown Kingston; and Ferry BPO constructing 50,000 square feet in St Catherine.
He informed that in February 2016, the building space available to the business process outsourcing (BPO) sector was 800,000 square feet, located in Montego Bay and Kingston primarily, with some emerging developments in Mandeville.
He said this space was occupied by 44 companies that employed 18,500 persons.
"In the last year, the available space has grown by 65 per cent to 1.3 million square feet. The number of firms has grown to 50 and the employment has expanded to over 22,000 employees, a creation of just under 5,000 jobs," the Prime Minister noted.
"In addition to the six new entrants employing 600 employees, the existing companies have expanded employment by over 4,000. These companies include Hinduja Global Services, ITEP BPO Smart Services, IBEX Jamaica, Advanced Call Center Technologies, Xerox/Conduent, Nearshore Inbound Call Experts and Sutherland Global," he added.
Also, in St. James, Barnett Tech Park is adding 100,000 square feet in new facilities, and Bioprist is adding 150,000 square feet. Mr. Holness said Bioprist is scheduled to add another 150,000 square feet in Hanover, with Global Centralised Access adding 20,000 square feet in Clarendon.
Meanwhile, the Prime Minister said the private sector is now playing a role in improving purpose-built facilities for outsourcing services and the geographic spread of the facilities across the country.
"Within a year from today, the space available in BPO will have almost increased from 800,000 square feet in February 2016 to 2.4 million square feet, an increase of 200 per cent or 1.6 million square feet. We expect this space to create, conservatively, 20,000 additional jobs or a total of just under 25,000 jobs since February 2016," he added.


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I first learnt about lichens and their sensitivity to air pollution at primary school. I am fascinated by the ability of lichens to exist on every continent and survive in extreme environments.
My interest with Cladonia portentosa grew as I studied it in detail for my PhD research project.
What do you find so special / interesting about Cladonia portentosa?
Cladonia portentosa can form extensive carpets or mats and this is frequently in competition with vascular plants. A pretty impressive feat for a symbiosis between a fungus and alga.
What did your research involve? What did you find out?
My research focussed on the biology of Cladonia portentosa. In particular, I was interested in how this lichen changes in response to different amounts of nitrogen pollution in the atmosphere.
We discovered it can adapt quickly to a change in nitrogen availability and can alter physiological mechanisms to maximise efficient nutrient capture and uptake.
Why do you think it's important for other people to learn more about Cladonia portentosa?
Cladonia portentosa is a very interesting lichen, and it has formed the basis of a lot of research projects. It is a key species for heathland habitats, which are now much less common than they once were. If we can better understand this lichen, it might help to protect areas in which it is found.
Why are heathlands so important?
Being a lichen, Cladonia portentosa lacks roots. It is typically found in low nutrient environments, and can form large 'cushions' in between the vascular plants typically found on heathland habitats, such as Calluna vulgaris (Common Heather).
What's your most memorable research moment?
I spent a lot of time collecting small samples of lichens. On my very first visit to a field site in Scotland, I ended up face-first in a small brook which surrounded the site. The biggest problem? I was the one carrying the sandwiches, which came out of the brook as wet as I was.
What are the main threats facing Cladonia portentosa at the moment and what can people do to help increase numbers in the future?
One of the main threats facing Cladonia portentosa is the loss and fragmentation of heathland habitats in which it is found - particularly in central parts of England. Better education and awareness of this lichen and the general sensitivity of heathland habitats will help protect this species and heathland for the future.
If other people were interested in finding out more about Cladonia portentosa what would you advise them to do?
The British Lichen Society is a great place for people interested in lichens in general. The society is very active and always welcomes new members.


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It's throwback Thursday and we're throwing it back to the late 90's when rap was still relatively new to Ghana. Hammer of The Last Two is our focus for today. We're not sure if Thor lost his favorite toy, or Hammer was an emcee but no one can touch him when he grooms an artist or goes in on production. (I know you see what I did there. Find it before you continue)
Born Edward Nana Poku Osei, Hammer is a record producer who doubles as founder and CEO of The Last Two Music Group. He began his career with a friend; Yaw Opare Anoff who was a gifted keyboardist and the other 'One' of The Last Two. They started producing in 1999, and together, they produced Obrafour's 'Pae Mu Ka', which won many awards and is widely acclaimed to be the best hip-life album ever made. Yaw Anoff later left to the United States, while Hammer continued to produce here in Ghana.
Hammer has played a vital role, not only in production, but also brought rap music enthusiast in Ghana together under the umbrella of hip-life. The celebrated producer was in to make Hip-life cut across all the local languages in Ghana. After Obrafour who raps in Akan (dominant in Ashanti Region and spoken widely across Ghana), he got Blitz the Ambassador (formerly known as Bazaar) who raps in English. He also produced Tinny, who raps in Ga (which is dominant in some areas in the Greater Accra Region) and Ayigbe Edem who raps in Ewe (which is dominant in the Volta Region). Kwaw Kese, one of the rappers to come out of Hammer's camp does his rap in Fante (dominant in the Central and parts of the Western and Eastern Regions).
Hammer has released three compilation albums to give the artists in his camp a chance to be heard, without having to drop their personal albums. The first is 'The Execution Diary' released 2003. The second is 'Sounds of Our Time' (2004) and the last being 'The Crusade of The Lost Files' (2006).
Hammer has groomed quite a number of the best hip-life artists Ghana has seen. This is never hype. Obrafour is still celebrated by some as the best rapper to ever do it. Aside production, Pae Mu Ka had enough catchy proverbs with sing-along hooks. Some music lovers in Ghana believe that Tinny, who was musically nurtured by the Last Two, is the doppest Ga rapper till date. He had everybody wanting to be a mouse in Makola, with his hit song "makola kwakwe". Kwaw Kese made the charts and news with his music and had all the high school kids in Ghana dancing to 'Abodam' , especially its remix. If you never danced to this song in high school, then you are a smooth "jon". It's not rocket science. Edem is doing it big with his funky Ewe rap style, and has had his non Ewe fans rocking to his music without understanding a word of what he says. And Sarkodie, who is Ghana's darling boy right now in the rap game. After winning so many awards here, he raised the bar for all Ghanaian artists by winning BET's Best International Act: Africa award in 2012 and is currently a nominee for the same award this year this year. Sarkodie has also been nominated for World Music Awards under the categories; World's Best Male Artist, World's Best Entertainer, World's Best Live Act and World's Best Album, which speak volumes of his success.
Hammer has indeed, put in the 'nails' in to strengthen the hip-life industry with his awesome producing skills and his talent grooming. We need more Hammers in our industry to take the genre to a higher pedestal. To Hammer of the Last Two, we say big ups man. You're an inspiration.
LISTEN TO PAE MU KA, PRODUCED BY HAMMER HERE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=aU-GfoHdqXg&list=PLBHe9WQ_lIeDqcKIKuVzNTCCCoSvjBlSq
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IUPAC '09: Carbon capture conundrums
Katharine Sanderson
Back in my youth, when deciding what subjects to study at school and university I wanted to make sure that I would come out versed in something that would be of use to the wider world, perhaps even do some good. I chose chemistry. It's clear from conferences like this that many chemists are interested in the subject for similar reasons.
Climate change is a big topic that chemists are tackling. This morning's session on carbon capture and storage being a good example.
This is a technology intended to clean up coal-powered power stations by scrubbing out carbon dioxide from flue gas, and compressing it to be stored elsewhere – anywhere but into the atmosphere.
There are a number of problems that chemists are looking at. Today kicked off with a talk by Gary Rochelle from the University of Texas at Austin. He took us through the major considerations that are needed for the solvent that is used to collect the carbon dioxide from the gas. The standard at the moment is something called MEA, monoethanolamine. Rochelle's fundamental physical chemistry calculations on this and other candidate solvents showed that there isn't a simple one-size-fits-all solvent. The considerations are: capacity of the solvent to hold carbon dioxide; how much the solvent degrades when heated; how fast the reaction is; how much heat it requires.
Some of these properties are better in different solvent, he says, which are again different in different plants. Another good candidate solvent looks to be piperazine.
Then we heard from Trevor Drage from Nottingham University, UK, about using solids not liquid solvents to strip out the carbon dioxide. His systems are a long way from being scaleable but show promise. On paper, he said, solid sorbets could reduce energy loading in the systems by 30 – 50%. These systems are amine polymers loaded onto porous silica-based materials, or basic nitrogen in an activated carbon matrix.
One area that is often overlooked, says Drage is the regeneration of these sorbents and how the carbon dioxide is removed so they can be reused.
Matthew Hunt is from Doosan Babcock, a Scottish-based company
spending a lot of effort in scaling up CCS technology, with demonstration plants in Canada. This is just a 4 tonne plant so far, which is no real use for a power plant which will need to porcess 850 tonnes of carbon dioxide a day, he said. But according to Hunt, the company is on track to full-scale post-combustion carbon dioxide removal by 2014.
Of course, the impetus for these small demonstration scale plants needs to come from government, and the feeling in certain quarters of this meeting at least, was that not enough push, and not enough decisiveness is being shown to make the technology viable.
My hope is that in 2014 we are not still at the stage where academics working in small groups are showing results of small scale CCS projects and saying that scale up is needed urgently.


Your self-care game might be on cuteness overload in 2019, but in the best way possible. Lifestyle brand ban.do is launching its Feel Better Collection on Jan. 7 (with the wellness planner launching on Jan. 14), and it's full of self-care merchandise in the brand's adorable signature style. From planners to pens to water bottles, the collection is full of items that will help you plan or maintain your overall health and wellbeing. And ban.do kept the prices really reasonable, with the core collection at $35 or less.
Even though ban.do sells all kinds of clothing, accessories, and tech, the brand may well be best known for its collection of super cute annual planners. That's why it comes as no surprise that the signature piece of the Feel Better Collection is a 72-page wellness planner ($30) that's filled with advice from wellness influencers, tools to plan your 2019 health goals, and inspiring artwork, according to a press release. Ban.do chose the three-ring binder design for its wellness planner with organizing tabs and an elastic band to keep the planner closed.
Ban.do also sells a ton of adorable bags, so another key piece in its new collection is a soft pink gym bag ($35). It's rectangular with two handles, so there's plenty of room for shoes, gym clothes, any other accessories you need for your next workout sesh. And the subtle detailing of the words "take care" behind the mesh on the side of the bag is like a breathy reminder that, darling, you are worth it.
The water bottle ($20) in the Feel Better Collection is my personal favorite. According to the news release, there are four messages of encouragement at different water levels. At the very top, when you would've just started drinking water out of the bottle, it says, "You've gotta start somewhere." The second message says, "You can do it!" The message at the halfway point says, "The bottle is definitely half full." At a quarter full, it says, "You're almost there." At the bottom, it tells you, "You should be so proud." If you're trying to drink more water, this water bottle could be the little nudges you need throughout the day.
But the water bottle isn't the only part of the Feel Better Collection where you'll find encouragement and affirmations. There are pens and pencils with short affirmations, like "be kind to yourself," "it doesn't have to be perfect," and "let your mind wander." And the message "Take Care" can be found across the collection as a reminder to love and care for yourself.
According to the news release, ban.do's latest collection is all about the brand's commitment to helping its customers be their best selves. As usual, the people at ban.do are truly inspired. Not only is the collection cute AF, but its self-care game is truly on point. There are items here for pretty much everyone: people who want to relax, exercise, get organized. You name it; ban.do made sure it was in the self-care collection.
With merch as cute as this, it'll be much easier to start your self-care game off strong in 2019. These items are full of positive affirmations and are ready to help you take on a whole new year.


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6. Competition is unbelievably messy.
7. Technology is not clearly defined. Industry has been pushing for IP-cameras based technology, but has succeeded only in high level market such as government. There's HD-SDI coming in market.
10. You WILL succeed if you have a great network of contacts, skilled technician (who will work for dirt), and caring vendor (good vendors will carry good products).
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Expressing one's social, political and religious views in Bangladesh has become riskier than ever. A sweeping drift towards monitoring and striking down freedom of speech, particularly in digital space, is now unmistakably evident in Bangladesh. Journalists, bloggers and online activists are being categorically targeted by both extremist groups as well as the law enforcement agencies.
Since inception, the Bangladesh Information and Communication Technology (ICT) Act was riddled with sweeping controversies and criticism. Enacted in 2006 and amended in 2013, the lCT act was full of gaping loopholes making it a perfect instrument to subvert online expression in Bangladesh. The ICT act was routinely used to suppress freedom of speech and harass writers, activists, and journalists, often for their comments on social media. According to the Cyber Tribunal in Dhaka, around 700 cases were filed under section 57 of the ICT act between 2013 – early 2017.
This ICT act later transformed into the Digital Security Act (DSA) of 2018 which is even broader than the law it replaced and violates the country's international obligation to protect freedom of speech. Writers, bloggers, journalists, newspapers, TV channels, social-media-users of Bangladesh are directly affected by the adverse effects of the digital security act. The situation has created a condition wherein media and journalists live in constant fear of sanction of the Government for it can label anything they publish as unlawful under the DSA and thereby, subject to detention. This fear or mindset of deference compels news media to comply with the process of the practice of constitutionalism and pledging to ensure rule of law.
In 2107 year, violations of the right to freedom of expression in Bangladesh reached their highest point in five years, with 335 incidents, according figures released by international watchdog ARTICLE 19 in 2018. (May 2018, ARTICLE 19 report to mark World Press Freedom Day 2018).
335 violations of the right to freedom of expression in Bangladesh in 2017: this is the highest figure in five years
The nature of violations is changing significantly: cases of legal harassment of communicators rose from 33 in 2013 to 169 in 2017
Of the 76 cases of legal harassment, 35 were initiated on grounds of defamation, 19 on false information, 14 on grounds of tarnishing the image of state or of individual, three on grounds of provocation, two on obscenity, and a further two for hurting religious sentiments.
In 2017, there were 28 cases of serious bodily injury, 75 cases of minor assault, and 10 cases of abduction. In the 10 cases recorded, journalists were released after promising to refrain from publishing certain reports.
Reporters without Borders ranked Bangladesh at 146th out of 180 countries in its index of press freedom. Online activists and human rights defenders have reduced writing in both print and online media, as well as reducing their expression or posts on social media on topics related to freedom of expression, women's rights, labor rights, indigenous peoples' rights, freedom of religion and secularism.
Furthermore, censorship of digital content and communication medium, including blocks on YouTube, Face book, Skype and blogging platforms, has become rampant. 'Freedom of expression and speech' and 'freedom of press', as enshrined under article 39 of the Bangladesh Constitution, are qualified rights. Hence, the Digital Security Act is in a path of conflict with the Constitution of Bangladesh. Similarly, Bangladesh is a signatory of the Universal Declaration of Human Rights (UDHR). The DSA is also in collision with article 19 of the UDHR which guarantees freedom of speech from all forms of censorship.
The United Nation's Sustainable Development Goals, particularly, SDG-16 asserts: "Promote peaceful and inclusive societies for sustainable development, provide access to justice for all and build effective, accountable and inclusive institutions at all level." Bangladesh government is committed to achieve SDGs by 2030. However, freedom of expression is widely restricted that sharply indicates that Bangladesh is violating fundamental freedoms and is not complying its commitment on SDG 16.


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Unlicensed Female Driver Jailed 4 Months
What do you guys think of the sentenced to four months jail and banned from driving for 10 years?
A 23-year-old woman who drove without a licence was sentenced to four months' jail for causing the death of an elderly pedestrian.
Candy Siow Pei Shan, a waitress, was also banned from driving for 10 years, The Straits Times (ST) reported.
Siow, who was driving her boyfriend's car on Feb 12, 2011, lost control of the vehicle at the junction of Bukit Batok East Avenue 3 and Avenue 4, the court heard today.
She was driving along Avenue 3 and attempted to make a right turn without stopping at the intersection.
She panicked when she saw an oncoming vehicle and her car veered to the left, mounted the kerb and hit 70-year-old Tan Son Seng, who was on the pedestrian walkway, ST reported.
Mr Tan was crushed between the car and a traffic light pole, and pronounced dead on the scene.
Before the accident which took place in the morning, Siow had also drunk a substantial amount of alcohol between 12am and 5am.
She had consumed brandy with her boyfriend at Club Axchange in Tanjong Pagar, and later brandy and beer at a club in the Esplanade.
According to ST, Assistant Public Prosecutor Raja Mohan said as Siow had failed her driving test 13 times, she would have known that she was not competent to drive, yet she still chose to do so.
Siow, who started sobbing when she was sentenced to jail, was also driving without insurance coverage at that time.
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Moscow confirmed on Monday that its jets would not provide air cover to Syrian regime forces in their upcoming battle in southwestern Syria along the Israeli border if Iran-linked militias are allowed to participate in it.
Political sources in Tel Aviv said Russian-Israeli talks led to an understanding to allow Assad's forces to deploy at Israel's border in exchange for the withdrawal of Iranian fighters from Syria.
In the face of intense Palestinian pressure, Argentina has decided to pull out of a soccer match against Israel, a senior source at Argentina's Football Federation told AP on Tuesday.
The game was highly anticipated in Israel, with tickets selling out in 20 minutes.
Following the news, Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu called Argentine President Mauricio Macri to urge him to intercede to forestall the cancellation. Macri told Netanyahu that he had no control over the team's decision.
Large numbers of middle-class Jordanian demonstrators who saw their livelihoods threatened by price and tax hikes recently took to the streets.
The proposed tax hikes were in line with the terms of a three-year, $723 million dollar loan from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) that Jordan secured in 2016.
In Jordan, the replacement this week of Prime Minister Al-Mulki failed to put an end to the protests. Protesters are no longer pacified by cosmetic changes.
Without doubt, King Abdullah's willingness and ability to implement change are being put to the test.
June 6, 2018, marks the 50th anniversary of the death of Sen. Robert F. Kennedy, brother of slain U.S. President John F. Kennedy and former U.S. Attorney General, who was the leading Democratic candidate for president in 1968.
His Palestinian assassin, Sirhan Sirhan, said he killed Kennedy due to his vocal support for Israel.
In April 1948, Robert Kennedy, then 22, traveled to Palestine to report on the conflict there for the Boston Post. Read his four dispatches from the scene.
The 54th annual "Celebrate Israel" parade in New York City on Sunday drew tens of thousands of people to Manhattan's Fifth Avenue to view the five-hour procession.
The European Investment Bank, the EU's lending arm, has balked at an EU proposal to do business in Iran to help offset U.S. sanctions and save the nuclear deal. European Commissioners are expected on Wednesday to endorse encouraging the EIB to support investments in Iran in response to Iran's demands that they show proof of their commitment to the nuclear deal. "The bank is unhappy with the Commission proposal because the bank raises funds on U.S. markets," said one EU diplomat.
For Israeli Prime Minister Netanyahu, Washington's withdrawal from the Iran nuclear deal was the culmination of years of lobbying. His efforts are also being rewarded in Russia, which is now supporting Israel's demands that Iranian forces be kept away from Israel's border on the Golan Heights and has remained silent as Israel launched air-strikes on Iranian bases deep within Syria.
"With Trump's pulling out of the Iran deal and Putin supporting us now in Syria, 80% of the work has been done," said a senior cabinet minister in Jerusalem this week. "But every bit of pressure counts. We have to bring the Iranians to the point where they give up on their plans both in Syria and their nuclear program."
Radio personality Gareth Cliff has courted controversy by declaring that Israel is entitled to protect itself from Palestinians "clearly hellbent on violence." "I looked at what was going on over there and I have done quite a lot of reading with quite a lot of the news articles from around the world and this claim that Israel shot demonstrators is just a blatant lie. It's an absolute falsehood," Cliff said. "This was an attempt to invade a sovereign nation and border communities to indiscriminately slaughter civilians."
Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu traveled to Europe this week to meet the leaders of Germany, France, and Britain, who support the Iranian nuclear deal.
Netanyahu went to Europe to address all of Iran's activities: its ballistic missile development, its meddling in the region and entrenchment in Syria, and its activities in Gaza through Hamas and Islamic Jihad.
He wants to convince the Europeans not to walk out of the deal but rather to use the issue as leverage to pressure the Iranians on the ballistic missile issue and on their activities in the region.
In his news conference with German Chancellor Angela Merkel, Netanyahu said, "The real question we have to confront is what do we do about Iran's aggression."
During his news conference with French President Emmanuel Macron, he said, "I did not ask President Macron to leave the deal. I think that economic realities are going to decide this matter."
"What I focused on is to stop Iranian aggression in the region and, specifically, Israel's goal, which I think should be shared by all those who seek peace and prosperity in the Middle East: a reconstructed Syria. And a precursor to that is that Iran leaves Syria, all of Syria."


Are you witnessing a higher bounce rate on your website? Are your PPC Campaigns going haywire? If your answer to both these questions is a "Yes" then there might be some issue with your landing page.
If you want to increase traffic and improve the conversion rates on your website, it's important to find and fix the problem sooner rather than later. So, let's dig in to the questions that most website owners tend to ask when attempting to optimize a website landing page that boosts traffic.
In this post, Sophia, an experienced WordPress web designer and developer working with WordPrax Ltd shares some of the best tips on optimising your website's landing page. If web design is not something you feel you can do, give us a shout and we can guide you.
As an entry port for your website, it is the landing page which either makes or breaks your online marketing campaign. Hence, it isn't surprising to find website owners paying special attention to designing the landing page in the most efficient way.
Scenarios such as lack of proper indicators of trust and, or, security, forms with tons and tons of fields etc, make a landing page lose its tint of elegance.
As an effective tool for persuading your visitors to take an action, a landing page must be designed in a way that it interests people.
Your landing page must compel users to sign up with your website, with an added zeal to return back on a regular basis.
Now, let's get to know about some easy-to-follow tips on designing a landing page that's capable of increasing user sign-ups for your website.
As a primer on boosting traffic, check out my article: How the Experts Build Traffic: https://www.malleeblue.com/best-ways-to-increase-traffic-to-a-website/.
Providing 100% unique and high-quality content is indeed one of the best methods of building you users' trust in your business organisation.
Here, you need to keep in mind that the landing page must not be bombarded with information because doing so can annoy the visitors and they may opt for going to your competitor's website.
With a simple and minimal design, you can easily come up with a landing page that's absolutely engaging and competent in prompting your users to sign up with your web portal.
Since landing pages are not areas to showcase the extensiveness of your talents, it is recommended to keep its layout as simple as possible.
Both main headline and sub-headline are the two very important things that a visitor reads first after landing on your website.
So, make it a point that the headlines for different sections on your landing page are clear, concise and easy to understand.
Plus, the most important thing is that they should convey your message to the visitors in a fantastic way.
Each time a visitor reads a headline on your landing page, he must be able to understand what he needs to do next.
Ensure that your headlines efficiently highlight the particular point that's related to your website's content and is able to catch the visitor's attention.
In order to make your landing page look more appealing, it is recommended to use high-quality images.
Doing this will also hone the overall user experience, offering you a brilliant opportunity of boosting the landing page content.
Although video has become one of the most prevalent media types in the broadband world, it is not a bad idea to invest your time and talent in incorporating some other media files in your website's landing page.
Quality has always been the king in the world of internet. The way to say something important is to say it in the right style.
For instance, if you can't afford to build a web page element that involves a high production cost, then it is better to aim for a suitable screen-cast which would be walking your visitors through the product or service concept in the most remarkable way.
Telling visitors you are legitimate is something you need to look into well.
A viable option for the same is to showcase your contact details like address, contact number(s) etc, on your site's landing page.
People who aren't comfortable with online transactions but are interested in your offer can gather a great level of confidence on finding all your contact details 100% accurate.
If your site's banner, landing page and destination site aren't in synchronization with each other, you're likely to lose important business prospects.
Hence, make sure your landing page extends the existing capabilities of the AdWords and, or, banners which have already been incorporated within your website.
Maintain consistency in terms of colour palette and typography.
If you already have multiple affiliations with renowned people or businesses, then it is a great option to use their endorsements for building ultimate credibility for your website.
Go ahead with mentioning about these endorsements on your landing page and see visitors pouring in with each passing day.
Including dense walls of text in your landing page can easily ruin the vitality of information that you want to convey to your site visitors.
It is here that the white spaces serve as an incredible way of keeping the landing pages clean and crisp.
Offering you the opportunity of highlighting key elements within your landing page, these whitespaces work best for websites that need to include a lot of content.
As compared to the traditional way of designing CTAs, it is recommended to try out creative ways of ensuring that the call-to-actions can easily nudge even the most hesitant prospects for your business.
You can opt for equipping your call-to-action buttons/links with words that logically complete a sentence, for example: "I want to…..".
The more ease you offer your visitors, the more are the chances for them to become your loyal customers.
Making it convenient for the visitors to register with your website is one of the best methods of increasing your site's conversion rate.
Therefore, using a single-click sign-up system on the landing page will prove to be the best idea for keeping the user's engaged on your site for a longer duration of time.
It is vital to ensure that your landing page is fully compatible with a range of mobile devices, irrespective of the screen dimensions and mobile platforms.
Well, the only route to achieve a mobile-friendly landing page is to choose a responsive web design. You must create your landing page keeping the mobile visitors in mind.
Ensure that they are able to view and use different call-to-action buttons and links irrespective of the device that they're using. Take a look at some great responsive design ideas at Unbounce.
Unlike in everyday life where repeating yourself is being perceived as a bad thing, doing the same on your landing page will undoubtedly turn as an excellent method of reinforcing a sales point.
For instance, if you're offering a free trial to new users for your website then it is beneficial to repeat some specific information like "No Credit Card Details Required" on your landing page.
It's not new to know that facts and figures are perhaps the best means of grabbing the attention of a prospect.
A viable method to achieve this is by combining statistical information with the geo-location data.
That means, each time the user visits your website's landing page, his location will be detected automatically and he will be served with the most appropriate search results instantly.
People tend to get excited about a website which offering something valuable for free.
If you too want to grab maximum user attention for your business website, then it is advised to give away something for free.
Considered as a powerful monitor, freebies offered via the landing page can incredibly increase the user's attention towards your business products and services.
Making and keeping promises can impress your targeted users. By adding a promise on your landing page, you can easily help prospects feel much more secure in choosing you for business.
Plus, this would also eliminate all the hindrances you visitors might be facing in trying out your product or service.
As a highly persuasive act, adding a promise to the landing page can work in your favour.
By following all these tips, you can conveniently create a good-looking landing page which serves as a result-driven tool for enticing visitors to take an action in sync with your expectations.


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 der Originaltitel von Draculas Ende, US-amerikanischer Spielfilm von Domonic Paris (1980)
 Last Rites (1988), US-amerikanischer Spielfilm von Donald P. Bellisario (1988)
 der Originaltitel von Last Rites – Sakrament für einen Mörder, US-amerikanischer Spielfilm von Kevin Dowling (1999)
 der Originaltitel von City of the Dead, US-amerikanischer Spielfilm von Duane Stinnett (2006)
 Last Rites (Band), britische Gothic-Rock-Band
 Last Rites (Computerspiel), Computerspiel der Firma Ocean Software (1997)

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Quindlen P'07: Embrace Transformation
by Olivia Drake • May 24, 2009
Anna Quindlen P'07 addresses Class of 2009 graduates during Wesleyan's 177th Commencement May 24.
(The Commencement Address by Anna Quindlen P'07 also is on video.)
When I was first asked to give the commencement address to the Wesleyan class of 2009, I knew I was going to have to begin with an apology: I am not, as you can see, Barack Obama.
But as the months passed between the invitation and this event, prevailing wisdom was that I was not only going to have say I was sorry for not being last year's speaker, but for so much else.
On behalf of your elders and the entire nation, I was expected to say I was sorry that the economy had failed, the job market dried up, the housing market become uncertain—in other words, that we who came before you were handing off an unmitigated disaster.
I'm not going to do that. I can't do that here. I'm not going to say that I'm sorry for all of you because I'm not. I think, perhaps more than any generation in memory, this Wesleyan class before me today, all of you, have an unparalleled opportunity to remake this nation so that it is stronger, smarter and makes more sense.
When generations past felt dissatisfaction with the prevailing culture, with corporations estranged from both line workers and consumers, with politics held prisoner by polls and personal ambition, they had to fight a comfortable and deeply entrenched, as you heard from your president, status quo. During the peace movement, the civil rights movement, and the beginning of a second wave of feminism in the 1960s, there was a pushback from millions of average Americans who believed that world dominance, military might, segregation and old familiar gender roles worked just fine. They didn't want anyone blowing up the old ways.
You don't have to worry about that because during the years you've been here, the old ways have blown up all by themselves, they've fallen under the weight of a system that was a Potemkin village of alleged prosperity and progress based on easy credit and crazed consumerism. A financial system in which it somehow became possible to become rich and powerful while investing in and trading nothing at all. An information system paralyzed by the technology that outstripped it. A political system for which many Americans had open contempt. A consumer culture making things that didn't really work, and didn't really need.
What happens to a nation that has developed the peculiar habit of shopping for recreation when it suddenly has no money? Well, it can either screech to a halt, or it can discover that its priorities need to be recalibrated, and that stuff is not salvation.
It is as though America was a house, and at a certain point the roof became so leaky, the walls so bowed, the termites so widespread, that it began to crumble.
Now, don't misunderstand me: the bedrock is still fine, the bedrock which too often America honors in the breach but which we honor just the same, the bedrock of a free and fair society based on the constant, open exchange of ideas. A bedrock which, as I describe it, sounds very much like Wesleyan.
But it would be a tragedy, and a lost opportunity, if you rebuilt and constructed something that looked just like what we had before, tried to build the same old house, which we now know was in part a house of cards.
Your parents, and their parents before them, understood a simple equation for success: your children would do better than you had. Ditch digger to cop to lawyer to judge: that's how I learned it growing up as an Irish Catholic kid.
We are supposed to apologize to you because it seems that that is no longer how things work, that you will not inherit the SUV, the McMansion, the corner office really ought to mean that you will not do better than we did. But I suggest that maybe this is a moment to consider what "doing better" means.
If you become the first generation of Americans who genuinely see race and ethnicity as attributes, not stereotypes, will you not have done better than we did?
If you become the first generation of Americans with the clear understanding that gay men and lesbians are entitled to be full citizens of this nation, will you not have done better than we did?
If you become the first generation of Americans who accord women full equality instead of grudging acceptance, will you not have done better than we did?
And on a more personal level, if you become the generation that ditches the 80 hour work week and returns to a sane investment in your professional lives, if you become the first generation in which young women no longer agonize over how to balance work and family and young men stop thinking they will balance work and family by getting married, won't you have done better than we did?
Believe me when I say that we have made a grave error in thinking doing better is merely mathematical, a matter of the number at the bottom of your tax returns. At the end of their lives people assess them, not in terms of their income but in terms of their spirit, and I beg you to do the same from the beginning even if we who came before often failed to do so.
Frankly, I already think of your generation as better than my own as a group. You're more tolerant, more creative, less hidebound and uptight. You've done more community service than any other generation in the history of this country. It is no accident that as all of you finally became old enough to vote we finally became brave enough to have an election process in which Americans were really engaged.
And all this despite the fact that you've been bombarded by a culture that sends you so many confusing messages. Let's see, you're supposed to live clean, to drink Bud, to be Zen, to work tirelessly, to have sex without guilt but seek enduring love. And maybe because of that you have had to figure out for yourself what matters in a way past generations, with their bright lines of behavior, did not. In the first full sentences she ever uttered, Maggie Simpson took the pacifier out of her mouth and spoke of herself in the voice of all of you, "She did not live to earn approval stickers. She lived for herself."
You're the children of the new technology and the new tolerance, of gigabytes and gay marriage, the first generation of Americans who assume the secretary of state will be female, and the huggiest group of people who have ever lived. You are totally qualified to be and create the next great new thing.
So if you have bright ideas about how to save newspapers, restore confidence in Wall Street, get books into the hands of readers or make movies that aren't merely comic book spin-offs, then we need to hear from you. We need you to make this a fairer place, a more unified nation, a country that wipes out the bright lines of class and race that have created an apartheid, an apartheid too long denied. I know you hate to hear your parents say it even when we're driving to Great Adventure, but we're lost. We're counting on you to direct us. The tide has turned. We're looking for you to direct us.
The president of this college recently was asked by The Wall Street Journal to write an admissions essay for Wesleyan. He wrote a moving account of his brother, who died before he was born, and how during all his life he felt like he was a surrogate for this boy who never got to be a man, how he was born to fill a void and what a sense of weight and responsibility that gave him.
The truth is he captured something important about all of our lives, and that's that at some level we all live in place of others, fill a void, an empty chair. I stand here today, for example, in place of, in tribute to, generations of women denied the right to the pen and the podium. Each of you is here at Wesleyan because of countless others who didn't get admitted. Some of you are here in lieu of parents or grandparents who couldn't afford to go to college.
As a proud Wesleyan mother, I suspect there are some like me out there who are keenly aware that they sit here today in the place another woman, a woman whose daughter was violently and senselessly snuffed out, a woman who will never see her child come down Foss Hill in a bright red gown. In a world in which tragedy seems to strike too often and too randomly, we who have our children close to us today are, without question, extraordinarily lucky.
But as President Roth suggested in his essay, being the lucky one confers great responsibility and even a moral obligation. But it is not simply the obligation to live an examined life, to embrace each moment as though it might be the last. It is also to live each moment as though it were the first, to throw your arms wide to the new, the unexplored, even to those which may be afraid, as Ravid said.
So I beg you all today not to yield to the status quo. Don't trade happiness for deferred gratification. Don't give up adventure for safety and security, tempting as those things might have sometimes seemed these last few weeks. The safe is the enemy of the satisfying. Deferred gratification has a way of being deferred forever. And the status quo, business as usual, the way things have always been done has failed us.
How will this new audacious and authentic world work? I don't know. Helpful, right? Except that "I don't know" is one of the most exciting sentences in the English language because in the right hands it suggests, not ignorance, but discovery. It's the beginning of news reporting, of medical research, of stage preparation, of business creation, of legislations. I don't know.
I don't know the answer to so many questions: can Twitter ever be more than dopey haiku for the mini-mind? Can government ever really see beyond the bombastic fog that hangs over Washington? Can family life ever really be egalitarian and prejudice ever become a distant cultural artifact? Can we ever learn to value the wealth of our spirit more than the size of our salaries?
I don't know, but you do. Or you will. With the old house in ruins and the new one still to be built, you are the people who must have the creativity, the audacity, the ideals to answer these questions and so many more. Samuel Beckett once said, "To find a form that accommodates the mess, that is the task of the artist now." The mess, the mess. That's, finally, what we're leaving you today. We leave you a mess. And I won't apologize for that. Instead I want you to see it for what it is: an engraved invitation to transformation. Certainty is dead. Long live the flying leap. Take it. Use it. Bring it. Congratulations!
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Q: Get page name when user switches to some other page in a report I have a report that contains more than 1 pages.
Now I want to add a functionality in my report such that whenever I switch to some other page then I get to know the page name so that I can assign my page name value to some global variable

A: You can add an event handler which will get called when the Report page is changed.
Please follow the below code snippets:

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*Create the embed configuration object for the report:

const embedConfig = {
        type: "report",
        tokenType: models.TokenType.AAD,
        accessToken: "ACCESS_TOKEN",
        embedUrl: "EMBED_URL",
 };

*Get a reference to the HTML DIV element that contains the embedded report:

const embedContainer = $('#embedContainer')[0];

*Embed the Report:

const report = powerbi.embed(embedContainer, embedConfig);

*Add an event handler on the report object. Inside the event, you can assign the name property of the event object to the global variable:

report.on('pageChanged', event => {
    const page = event.details.newPage;
    globalVar = page.name;
});

Please refer:
https://learn.microsoft.com/javascript/api/overview/powerbi/page-navigation


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using namespace std;

enum Pebble {RED, WHITE, BLUE};
struct BucketStuff;

class Buckets {
public:

    // Nikki, Hanna
    // places 3 empty buckets for the robot
    // usage: Buckets J3;
    Buckets();

    // Aaron
    // creates a row of a specified number of empty buckets for the robot
    // pre: numberOfBuckets is assigned the desired number of buckets
    // post: numberOfBuckets empty buckets are placed in front of the robot
    // usage:  Buckets buckets(5);
    Buckets(int numberOfBuckets);

    // Alana
    // Dr. Y thinks the robot is tired and trashes all of the buckets
    // pre: there are buckets placed before the robot
    // post: all used heap memory is freed
    ~Buckets();

    // Maxwell and Cole
    // fills buckets with assorted pebbles
    // pre: a row of buckets is in front of robot J3
    // post: all buckets contain one pebble
    // usage: J3.placePebbles
    void placePebbles();

    // Alexa and Jessica
    // J3 uses its eye to read the color of the pebble in a specified bucket
    // pre: numberOfBucket is the specified bucket (labeled 1, 2, 3, ..., numberOfBucket)
    //      all buckets contain at least one pebble
    // post: returns the color of the pebble in the specified bucket
    // usage: myPebble = J3.seePebbleColor(2);
    Pebble seePebbleColor(int numberOfBucket) const;

    // Benjamin and Christian
    // robot swaps pebbles in two different buckets with its arms
    // pre: bucketNumber1 and bucketNumber2 are the positions of the two buckets
    //      buckets are given positions 1, 2, 3,..., numberOfBucket
    //      all buckets contain at least one pebble
    // post: the pebbles in buckets bucketNumber1 and bucketNumber2 are swapped
    // usage: J3.swap(2, 3);
    void swap (int bucketNumber1, int bucketNumber2);

    // Dr. Y added as it may be helpful
    // counts the number of buckets placed before the robot
    // pre: there are buckets placed in front of J3
    // post: returns the number of buckets
    // usage: numberOfBuckets = J3.getNumber();
    int getNumber() const;

private:

    BucketStuff* buckets;
};

#endif