This week I listened to people who left their churches and never went back. I didn't like their stories, for a couple of reasons.
First, it was painful to hear of their wounds. Their reasons for leaving varied widely, from mistreatment to malfeasance to neglect.
Then, it was agonizing to hear how none of them had been contacted by the churches they left. They felt ultimately disposable and forgotten.
Unfortunately, their stories are all too common. Even for churches that report shining statistics of new members, they're often losing equal numbers out the back door. What's happening? Why are they leaving?
Churches like to call in paid consultants to analyze their situations. Usually these hired guns interview the staff and survey the congregation. They typically uncover predictable things. But they may miss the glaring problems, which are best articulated by those who have left.
So, before you call in the next consultant, take a hint from other organizations: talk to your past customers. See what good employers do; they conduct exit interviews. It seems so obvious. But, in the church world, this contact is rare.
Why? Are we afraid of what we'll hear? Is it too awkward? Do we feel that contacting lost members will only pander to their complaining?
Let's forget the excuses and consider how to reach out to the lost sheep. You'll learn how to improve your ministry, and you'll show care for those who feel hurt. I was involved in a small team that did just that. We invited past members to sit down with us and talk about why they left our church. Without hesitation, they all agreed to meet. They talked openly, calmly and candidly. And they were so thankful that somebody finally noticed they had left and cared enough to inquire. What they told us was eye-opening and very helpful.
1. Form a small team of level-headed volunteers to contact the lost sheep. Don't enlist pastors or other church staff for this work. First, the departed members won't be as blunt with paid leaders. Second, your staff may already feel pummeled themselves. The last thing they want to do is sit through another feared pummeling. So, select volunteers who are not currently serving in any leadership capacity at the church. These should be good listeners who will not get defensive when hearing negative comments about their church.
2. Assemble a list of those who have gone missing. Contact these past members personally. Let them know they're missed. Ask if they'd share why they left. Assure them your purpose is simply to listen, not to coerce them to return. You simply want to know how to improve.
3. Set up a time, about an hour, to meet personally on neutral ground, such as a restaurant or coffee shop. Do not attempt to collect information through written surveys or over the phone. Meet face to face.
5. Take notes. And inform your interviewees that you'd like pass along helpful information to appropriate people who can make improvements for the future.
6. At the end of the interview, sincerely thank the interviewees. And extend a heartfelt apology that the church did not measure up to their expectations. This isn't admitting guilt. It's simply offering remorse and compassion for how they feel.
7. Then compile the results of the interviews. Look for any common threads. Prepare a report for church leaders who have the responsibility to make your ministry as strong and effective as it can be. Be sensitive about handling accounts of individuals who were named by interviewees. That information should be shared directly with the named individuals and/or their immediate supervisors.
8. Consider the results and take appropriate action to improve your ministry.
Part of the being the Body of Christ means noticing and caring when a part goes missing.


Conservatives have a real opportunity to claim one of New Jersey's US Senate seats -- less than a week from today. Although Newark liberal Cory Booker was expected to have an easy path to the seat, suddenly there is someone standing in his way. That man is Steve Lonegan, a real conservative who is ready to fight for the principles that made this country great.
Just a few weeks ago, Booker had a very comfortable lead of 35% in the polls. Now, Steve Lonegan has surged dramatically and has cut Booker's lead to a mere six percent, and the race continues to tighten. With that momentum and your help, we can win this Senate seat and be one step closer to a conservative majority in 2014.
The special election for New Jersey's vacant U.S. Senate seat will take place on Wednesday, October 16. For more information, please click here.
No matter where you live, you can make a difference in the New Jersey Senate race. Click here for info about how to make phone calls for Steve right from your own home!


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How Well Do You Know Jennifer Aniston's Movies?
by Emily Exton 9/6/2013
After walking into our lives dripping wet as Rachel Green, the runaway bride looking to form a life of her own on Friends, Jennifer Aniston has become one of America's biggest movie stars. It can be difficult to break out from the small screen, but Jen has played a myriad of roles in different films (almost as many as she's had hairstyles), arguably becoming the most successful female star to transition from television to the big screen.
With five titles banked for 2014 and beyond, her name is still a go-to for casting directors. But how many of her films have you actually seen? Do you even know what they're about? (Yes, one was about a dog and probably made you cry.) Test your knowledge below by matching the generic, spoiler-free Jennifer Aniston movie description with the real-life Jennifer Aniston movie title. Good luck!
QUESTION ONE: "Mickey, a free-spirited New York cabbie, and Francis, a materialistic Wall Street stockbroker, are extremely competitive and confused about women as a result of their father's influence."
What movie is this?
A. Friends With Money
B. She's the One
C. Just Go With It
Michael McGlone and Jennifer Aniston, She's the One
ANSWER: B. She's the One (1996)
QUESTION TWO: "When these two comically mismatched souls collide, Reuben's world is turned upside down as he makes an uproarious attempt to change his life from middle-of-the-road to totally-out-there!"
A. Along Came Polly
B. The Break-Up
C. The Good Girl
Jennifer Aniston attends a photo call for Along Came Polly in 2004
ANSWER: A. Along Came Polly (2004)
QUESTION THREE: "In this sly romantic comedy Nina falls in love with her new roommate, George, even though he's gay and loves her purely as a friend."
A. He's Just Not That Into You
B. Derailed
C. The Object Of My Affection
Jennifer Aniston and Paul Rudd, The Object of My Affection
ANSWER: C. The Object of My Affection (1998)
QUESTION FOUR: "When a self-help author arrives in Seattle to teach a sold-out seminar, he unexpectedly meets the one person who might be able to help him help himself."
A. Love Happens
B. 'Til There Was You
C. Bruce Almighty
Writer/director Brandon Camp, Jennifer Aniston, and Aaron Eckhart at the Love Happens premiere
ANSWER: A. Love Happens (2009)
QUESTION FIVE: "Kate is determined to turn her mid-level advertising job into an executive position–and equally determined to try and snare Sam, the agency's ultra-suave Romeo who prefers illicit affairs with attached women."
A. Management
B. Horrible Bosses
C. Picture Perfect
Jennifer Aniston and Jay Mohr at the Picture Perfect premiere
ANSWER: C. Picture Perfect (1997)
QUESTION SIX: "A young woman's return home with her fiance convinces her that the sedate, proper, country club lifestyle of her family isn't for her, and that maybe her family isn't even hers."
A. Office Space
B. Rumor Has It…
C. Wanderlust
Jennifer Aniston at the Rumor Has It… premiere
ANSWER: Rumor Has It… (2005)
QUESTION SEVEN: "A veteran pot dealer creates a fake family as part of his plan to move a huge shipment of weed into the U.S. from Mexico."
A. We're The Millers
B. The Bounty Hunter
Will Poulter, Emma Roberts, Jennifer Aniston, and Jason Sudeikis at the We're The Millers premiere
ANSWER: A. We're The Millers (2013)
QUESTION EIGHT: "Kassie is a smart, fun-loving single woman, who, despite her neurotic best friend Wally's objections, decides it's time to have a baby–even if it means doing it herself."
A. The Back-Up Plan
B. The Change-Up
C. The Switch
Jennifer Aniston at the the premiere of The Switch
ANSWER: C. The Switch (2010)
QUESTION NINE: "Danny Maccabee meets the girl of his dreams but has to enlist his loyal assistant to pretend to be his soon-to-be ex-wife in order to cover up a careless lie."
A. I Think I Love My Wife
B. Just Go With it
C. Click
Jennifer Aniston and Adam Sandler at the New York premiere of Just Go With It
ANSWER: B. Just Go With It (2011)
QUESTION 10: "The story of four best friends whose comfortable lives are thrown off balance as the realities of early middle age set in."
B. Marley & Me
C. The Thin Pink Line
Catherine Keener, Jennifer Aniston, director Nicole Holofcener, and Frances McDormand at the Friends With Money premiere at the Sundance Film Festival
ANSWER: Friends With Money (2006)
[Photo Credit: Fox Searchlight, Universal]
Emily Exton
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Taiwanese Singer Sammy Chang Collaborates With Sheppard
28 September, 2020 5:43pm GMT+8 / MYT
Empire of SongGeronimoMandopopSammy ChangSheppardTaiwanese singerUptown Entertainment
Sheppard sets new direction heading towards Asia for new collaboration. Having already conquered their hometown of Brisbane, and dominated the Australian market with hits like 'Geronimo' and 'Coming Home', Sheppard recently collaborated with Taiwanese artist Sammy Chang (張語噥) to produce a special duet, a Chinese version of 'Somebody Like You'.
On September 11th see's Sheppard and Sammy release an English-Chinese duet version of "Somebody Like You" with Sammy's gentle phrasing and smooth falsetto gracefully complimenting lead singer George Sheppard's powerful and passionate voice, resonating a sense of longing and loneliness with their harmonies.
"We were lucky enough to have the opportunity to do a collaboration with Taiwanese artist Sammy for our March tune, 'Somebody Like You'. The song works perfectly as a duet and it was so cool to hear it sung in a different language! The song's themes of loneliness and heartache were amplified by the fact that we were completely segregated from one another in real life. She was in Taiwan, I was in Australia, a vast ocean between us." said George Sheppard.
Alongside the single's release, the new music video sees Sammy and Sheppard looking out on two different beaches from which is shot on two totally separate continents; of two souls reaching out for one another from opposite ends of the earth.
"We decided to lean on that idea in the video clip, where the two of us are walking on separate beaches toward one another. It's as though we can feel each other out there somewhere, but are both separated by a barrier that's impossible to cross."
Originally released in Australia in March as part of Sheppard's 12 songs in 12 months project, the re-release of 'Somebody Like You' marks a brand new chapter in Sheppard's growing story.
Sheppard latest release 'Brand New' was premiered on YouTube recently on September 25, 2020.
And Sammy Chang's latest single 'Don't Care' or '不在乎' is produced by Victor Lau and released by Uptown Entertainment.


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If you already have a 4-person Keezboard, you can use this add on to play with three players on your Keezboard.
With a 6-person Keezboard, you can play with three or five players with this add on. And if you have a 8 person Keezboard, you can play with seven players.
Please choose your version: Wood or Plastic.
Use this add on on your Keezboard with puzzle pieces.


Take a kit and make these adorable party scrapbook pages.
Be sure to pop on over and see all the layouts that were made.
There are over 20 different layouts for you to look at all using the same kit from The Sweet Shoppe.
Click here to see all the layouts.
These should give you some inspiration for your own pages. And all those kits that are hiding out in your stash. Pull them out and start brain storming some ideas.


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Chamberlain's socio-economically and ethnically diverse student population is a wonderful microcosm of the world. We believe that neither socio-economics or ethnicity will determine the educational excellence of a child. To that end, the staff is well trained in "best practices" and the most effective ways to reach academic and character excellence. At Chamberlain, we identify, build upon, and publicly recognize strengths of every student. Each child is treated as an individual with his or her own signature and as an important teammate in the larger school community.
Chamberlain Mission Statement
Chamberlain is a community of parents, students and staff working together to instill in each other a positive self-image, individual responsibility, a desire to be lifelong learners/problem solvers, and to be the best we can be.
For the last two years Chamberlain has met all academic Average Yearly Progress (AYP) standards set by the federal government. At the end of 200-/2004, Chamberlain was designated an I-Read Demonstration School, inviting other schools with Chamberlain's demographics to observe our academic initiatives and progress.
Beliefs of Chamberlain Elementary School
Everyone can learn
Everyone has equal value and worth
Parents, children, school and community work together as a team.
Each person is responsible for her/his own learning, behavior and contribution to the welfare of the group.
Knowledge, thinking processes and attitudes for successful living are used to develop a community of problem solvers.
A Tradition of Progress
Chamberlain Elementary School has resided at its present location since 1862. The current building, constructed in 1939, was remodeled in 1955 and 1986. We will add four new classrooms in 2006. The classic architecture of the building will remain intact as we add to our facility.


Entertainment Weekly is an authority when it comes to what's hot and what's not in Hollywood, as evidenced by their just released "New Hollywood: Entertainers on the Rise" list. Many of our favorite 2013 breakout stars made the coveted list, including Emmy-nominated actress Kerry Washington.
"I know that I am like the luckiest woman in show biz, and I think staying in a place of gratitude has really been what keeps me most sane…I just think when I'm in a place of gratitude then everything's good. Or if not, it will be soon," she told the magazine of her recent success.
Fruitvale Station director Ryan Coogler and lead actor Michael B. Jordan (above) are also featured for their indie hit. While the former spoke of taking a "blue collar" approach to filmmaking, Jordan revealed his most awkward audition experiences.
"Action auditions are the worst. You've got maybe two lines: 'What's up, dude? Die! Die! Die!' and you act like you're shooting somebody, and you've got a rolled-up script as a gun. It's the most awkward thing ever."
Kevin Hart, whose comedy film Let Me Explain broke box office records came in at number 13 and called hosting Saturday Night Live "monumental" and confirmation that he had "made it."
Other stars spotted on the list include pint sized cutie Quvenzhane Wallis, A Trip to Bountiful's Condola Rashad, Ester Dean and producer Hit Boy.


Here in the South San Francisco Bay, we are mobilizing a powerful grassroots network of mothers and others to push for policies advancing renewable energy, climate justice, climate mitigation, and climate adaptation.
For our first campaign, we focused on bringing people power and urgency to an ongoing effort to get the San Jose City Council to create a Community Choice Energy (CCE) program. Although establishing a CCE program is the single most effective thing any city can do to dramatically lower its greenhouse gas emissions, the City had been studying CCE for six long years without taking action.
In just three months, our enthusiastic new team of mothers and kids mobilized widespread support for CCE by meeting with Councilmembers, giving passionate public comments during Council meetings, publishing three letters to the editor in the Mercury News, and delivering over 300 hand-signed postcards in favor of CCE to each Councilmember and Mayor Liccardo. On May 16, 2017, one week after our final postcard delivery, the City Council voted—unanimously—to form San Jose Clean Energy, becoming the largest city in the nation with a CCE program.
After winning our first city campaign, the team pivoted to a statewide campaign, urging our local Assembly Members and Governor Brown to support Senate Bill 100, for 100% zero-carbon electricity by 2045. After months of advocacy--in district and in Sacramento--including delivering over 800 hand-signed postcards, we were thrilled when all of the members of the Bay Area delegation voted for, and Governor Brown signed into law, this landmark legislation in September, 2018.
During the summer of 2018, our membership grew substantially as we mobilized people to attend the Rise for Climate, Jobs & Justice march in San Francisco. On September 8, we filled two large charter buses, bringing over 100 people to march in the largest climate march in West Coast history! We also participated in the Brown's Last Chance campaign, urging Governor Brown to address the horrific health impacts of fossil-fuel production in neighborhoods by, at the very least, creating a 2500-foot buffer zone between toxic drilling and sensitive sites like homes and schools. While Brown did not take action, we were able to raise awareness of the need for supply-side, not just demand-side, solutions to the climate and public health emergency.
In the fall of 2018, we embarked on a new project: engaging San Jose District 9 residents in the city's ambitious Climate Smart San Jose plan. We tabled, did one-on-ones, hosted house parties (including one entirely in Spanish), screened climate-solutions documentaries, utitlized social media, and hosted a "Are YOU Climate Smart?" workshop to inform and engage residents in collective efforts to reduce the city's carbon footprint while promoting climate justice.
Now the team is focusing on a new campaign: to protect Coyote Valley from industrial development. This 7400-acre piece of natural and agricultural land at the southern edge of the city has long been threatened by development, yet awareness is growing of the crucial role it plays in reducing flooding and drawing down carbon. We are urging the San Jose City Council, the Santa Clara County Board of Supervisors, and the state Assembly to do all they can to preserve this vital green infrastructure in perpetuity.
We enthusiastically welcome new volunteers to help us in our efforts to provide a healthy environment today and a livable climate tomorrow for al children!


A publicly traded $4B distribution company wanted to explore options to update its Executive Compensation Plan, which effects approximately twenty-three executives. The company looked to PPT to perform research and analysis to layout and compare fifty companies in their Executive Compensation Peer Group as defined by the companys Board of Directors. The Peer Group is comprised of a mix of companies in their industry including those of similar size, structure, products, and sophistication.
Perform research to determine executive compensation financial analysis for 50 active publicly traded companies in the Peer Group.
Compile executive compensation data and aggregate into executive format for review (charts, graphs, data tables).
Paint a picture and build case for changing the basis of executive bonus compensation.
Developed an executive compensation analysis of 50 companies exploring business focus, executive compensation for Chief Executive Officer, Chief Financial Officer and Chief Operating Officer, market value and Total Stockholder Return (TSR).
Identified additional Total Stockholder Return analysis and provided detail, 3 year and 1 year graphs in spreadsheet form for 50 companies.


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namespace cronet {
namespace {

// Name of the pref used for HTTP server properties persistence.
const char kHttpServerPropertiesPref[] = "net.http_server_properties";
// Name of preference directory.
const base::FilePath::CharType kPrefsDirectoryName[] =
    FILE_PATH_LITERAL("prefs");
// Name of preference file.
const base::FilePath::CharType kPrefsFileName[] =
    FILE_PATH_LITERAL("local_prefs.json");
// Current version of disk storage.
const int32_t kStorageVersion = 1;
// Version number used when the version of disk storage is unknown.
const uint32_t kStorageVersionUnknown = 0;
// Name of the pref used for host cache persistence.
const char kHostCachePref[] = "net.host_cache";
// Name of the pref used for NQE persistence.
const char kNetworkQualitiesPref[] = "net.network_qualities";

bool IsCurrentVersion(const base::FilePath& version_filepath) {
  if (!base::PathExists(version_filepath))
    return false;
  base::File version_file(version_filepath,
                          base::File::FLAG_OPEN | base::File::FLAG_READ);
  uint32_t version = kStorageVersionUnknown;
  int bytes_read =
      version_file.Read(0, reinterpret_cast<char*>(&version), sizeof(version));
  if (bytes_read != sizeof(version)) {
    DLOG(WARNING) << "Cannot read from version file.";
    return false;
  }
  return version == kStorageVersion;
}

// TODO(xunjieli): Handle failures.
void InitializeStorageDirectory(const base::FilePath& dir) {
  // Checks version file and clear old storage.
  base::FilePath version_filepath(dir.AppendASCII("version"));
  if (IsCurrentVersion(version_filepath)) {
    // The version is up to date, so there is nothing to do.
    return;
  }
  // Delete old directory recursively and create a new directory.
  // base::DeletePathRecursively() returns true if the directory does not exist,
  // so it is fine if there is nothing on disk.
  if (!(base::DeletePathRecursively(dir) && base::CreateDirectory(dir))) {
    DLOG(WARNING) << "Cannot purge directory.";
    return;
  }
  base::File new_version_file(version_filepath, base::File::FLAG_CREATE_ALWAYS |
                                                    base::File::FLAG_WRITE);

  if (!new_version_file.IsValid()) {
    DLOG(WARNING) << "Cannot create a version file.";
    return;
  }

  DCHECK(new_version_file.created());
  uint32_t new_version = kStorageVersion;
  int bytes_written = new_version_file.Write(
      0, reinterpret_cast<char*>(&new_version), sizeof(new_version));
  if (bytes_written != sizeof(new_version)) {
    DLOG(WARNING) << "Cannot write to version file.";
    return;
  }
  base::FilePath prefs_dir = dir.Append(kPrefsDirectoryName);
  if (!base::CreateDirectory(prefs_dir)) {
    DLOG(WARNING) << "Cannot create prefs directory";
    return;
  }
}

// Connects the HttpServerProperties's storage to the prefs.
class PrefServiceAdapter : public net::HttpServerProperties::PrefDelegate {
 public:
  explicit PrefServiceAdapter(PrefService* pref_service)
      : pref_service_(pref_service), path_(kHttpServerPropertiesPref) {
    pref_change_registrar_.Init(pref_service_);
  }

  PrefServiceAdapter(const PrefServiceAdapter&) = delete;
  PrefServiceAdapter& operator=(const PrefServiceAdapter&) = delete;

  ~PrefServiceAdapter() override {}

  // PrefDelegate implementation.
  const base::Value* GetServerProperties() const override {
    return pref_service_->Get(path_);
  }

  void SetServerProperties(const base::Value& value,
                           base::OnceClosure callback) override {
    pref_service_->Set(path_, value);
    if (callback)
      pref_service_->CommitPendingWrite(std::move(callback));
  }

  void WaitForPrefLoad(base::OnceClosure callback) override {
    // Notify the pref manager that settings are already loaded, as a result
    // of initializing the pref store synchronously.
    base::SequencedTaskRunnerHandle::Get()->PostTask(FROM_HERE,
                                                     std::move(callback));
  }

 private:
  raw_ptr<PrefService> pref_service_;
  const std::string path_;
  PrefChangeRegistrar pref_change_registrar_;
};  // class PrefServiceAdapter

class NetworkQualitiesPrefDelegateImpl
    : public net::NetworkQualitiesPrefsManager::PrefDelegate {
 public:
  // Caller must guarantee that |pref_service| outlives |this|.
  explicit NetworkQualitiesPrefDelegateImpl(PrefService* pref_service)
      : pref_service_(pref_service), lossy_prefs_writing_task_posted_(false) {
    DCHECK(pref_service_);
  }

  NetworkQualitiesPrefDelegateImpl(const NetworkQualitiesPrefDelegateImpl&) =
      delete;
  NetworkQualitiesPrefDelegateImpl& operator=(
      const NetworkQualitiesPrefDelegateImpl&) = delete;

  ~NetworkQualitiesPrefDelegateImpl() override {}

  // net::NetworkQualitiesPrefsManager::PrefDelegate implementation.
  void SetDictionaryValue(const base::DictionaryValue& value) override {
    DCHECK_CALLED_ON_VALID_THREAD(thread_checker_);

    pref_service_->Set(kNetworkQualitiesPref, value);
    if (lossy_prefs_writing_task_posted_)
      return;

    // Post the task that schedules the writing of the lossy prefs.
    lossy_prefs_writing_task_posted_ = true;

    // Delay after which the task that schedules the writing of the lossy prefs.
    // This is needed in case the writing of the lossy prefs is not scheduled
    // automatically. The delay was chosen so that it is large enough that it
    // does not affect the startup performance.
    static const int32_t kUpdatePrefsDelaySeconds = 10;

    base::ThreadTaskRunnerHandle::Get()->PostDelayedTask(
        FROM_HERE,
        base::BindOnce(
            &NetworkQualitiesPrefDelegateImpl::SchedulePendingLossyWrites,
            weak_ptr_factory_.GetWeakPtr()),
        base::Seconds(kUpdatePrefsDelaySeconds));
  }
  std::unique_ptr<base::DictionaryValue> GetDictionaryValue() override {
    DCHECK_CALLED_ON_VALID_THREAD(thread_checker_);
    UMA_HISTOGRAM_EXACT_LINEAR("NQE.Prefs.ReadCount", 1, 2);
    return pref_service_->GetDictionary(kNetworkQualitiesPref)
        ->CreateDeepCopy();
  }

 private:
  // Schedules the writing of the lossy prefs.
  void SchedulePendingLossyWrites() {
    DCHECK_CALLED_ON_VALID_THREAD(thread_checker_);
    UMA_HISTOGRAM_EXACT_LINEAR("NQE.Prefs.WriteCount", 1, 2);
    pref_service_->SchedulePendingLossyWrites();
    lossy_prefs_writing_task_posted_ = false;
  }

  raw_ptr<PrefService> pref_service_;

  // True if the task that schedules the writing of the lossy prefs has been
  // posted.
  bool lossy_prefs_writing_task_posted_;

  THREAD_CHECKER(thread_checker_);

  base::WeakPtrFactory<NetworkQualitiesPrefDelegateImpl> weak_ptr_factory_{
      this};
};

}  // namespace

CronetPrefsManager::CronetPrefsManager(
    const std::string& storage_path,
    scoped_refptr<base::SingleThreadTaskRunner> network_task_runner,
    scoped_refptr<base::SequencedTaskRunner> file_task_runner,
    bool enable_network_quality_estimator,
    bool enable_host_cache_persistence,
    net::NetLog* net_log,
    net::URLRequestContextBuilder* context_builder) {
  DCHECK(network_task_runner->BelongsToCurrentThread());
  DCHECK_CALLED_ON_VALID_THREAD(thread_checker_);

#if defined(OS_WIN)
  base::FilePath storage_file_path(
      base::FilePath::FromUTF8Unsafe(storage_path));
#else
  base::FilePath storage_file_path(storage_path);
#endif

  // Make sure storage directory has correct version.
  {
    base::ScopedAllowBlocking allow_blocking;
    InitializeStorageDirectory(storage_file_path);
  }

  base::FilePath filepath =
      storage_file_path.Append(kPrefsDirectoryName).Append(kPrefsFileName);

  json_pref_store_ = new JsonPrefStore(filepath, std::unique_ptr<PrefFilter>(),
                                       file_task_runner);

  // Register prefs and set up the PrefService.
  PrefServiceFactory factory;
  factory.set_user_prefs(json_pref_store_);
  scoped_refptr<PrefRegistrySimple> registry(new PrefRegistrySimple());
  registry->RegisterDictionaryPref(kHttpServerPropertiesPref);

  if (enable_network_quality_estimator) {
    // Use lossy prefs to limit the overhead of reading/writing the prefs.
    registry->RegisterDictionaryPref(kNetworkQualitiesPref,
                                     PrefRegistry::LOSSY_PREF);
  }

  if (enable_host_cache_persistence) {
    registry->RegisterListPref(kHostCachePref);
  }

  {
    base::ScopedAllowBlocking allow_blocking;
    pref_service_ = factory.Create(registry.get());
  }

  context_builder->SetHttpServerProperties(
      std::make_unique<net::HttpServerProperties>(
          std::make_unique<PrefServiceAdapter>(pref_service_.get()), net_log));
}

CronetPrefsManager::~CronetPrefsManager() {
  DCHECK_CALLED_ON_VALID_THREAD(thread_checker_);
}

void CronetPrefsManager::SetupNqePersistence(
    net::NetworkQualityEstimator* nqe) {
  DCHECK_CALLED_ON_VALID_THREAD(thread_checker_);
  network_qualities_prefs_manager_ =
      std::make_unique<net::NetworkQualitiesPrefsManager>(
          std::make_unique<NetworkQualitiesPrefDelegateImpl>(
              pref_service_.get()));

  network_qualities_prefs_manager_->InitializeOnNetworkThread(nqe);
}

void CronetPrefsManager::SetupHostCachePersistence(
    net::HostCache* host_cache,
    int host_cache_persistence_delay_ms,
    net::NetLog* net_log) {
  DCHECK_CALLED_ON_VALID_THREAD(thread_checker_);
  host_cache_persistence_manager_ =
      std::make_unique<HostCachePersistenceManager>(
          host_cache, pref_service_.get(), kHostCachePref,
          base::Milliseconds(host_cache_persistence_delay_ms), net_log);
}

void CronetPrefsManager::PrepareForShutdown() {
  DCHECK_CALLED_ON_VALID_THREAD(thread_checker_);
  if (pref_service_)
    pref_service_->CommitPendingWrite();

  // Shutdown managers on the Pref sequence.
  if (network_qualities_prefs_manager_)
    network_qualities_prefs_manager_->ShutdownOnPrefSequence();

  host_cache_persistence_manager_.reset();
}

}  // namespace cronet

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Not all cars are created equal, and we have the data to prove it. Of course, numbers can tell a variety of tales and we understand every consumer has different priorities. To that end, we have compiled a series of best and worst car lists to highlight performance in a wide variety of categories. The lists linked below can be an excellent tool for filtering down your purchase considerations or for stocking up on vehicular trivia.
Overall test scores are based on more than 50 individual Consumer Reports tests and evaluations, and are presented on a 100-point scale.
The best new cars of 2019 are outstanding all-around performers—shown to be reliable, safe, and satisfying. That means they have scored high in our stringent track tests and extensive owner surveys. They have won our admiration, and we recommend them with confidence.
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Q: Proposed solution for checking for nulls in an object hierarchy Revisiting the subject of a previous post I would like some feedback on a proposed solution.
In my code (C# 3.0) I need to handle application forms provided to me by a service in an object structure from a large deserialized XML document. The form can contain many different types of data so I need to do a lot of null checks to see if data is present.
For example there might be a value for:
ApplicationForm.EmployeeInfo.PersonalInfo.Name

And to check for a non-null value here I must check every step on the way down.
I want avoid long if statements and try-catch blocks so my solution is the extension method
public static T NN<T>(this T obj) where T : class, new()
{
    return obj ?? new T();
}

which can be used as
if (ApplicationForm.NN().EmployeeInfo.NN().PersonalInfo.NN().Name != null)

This way if the next step on the way down the hierarchy is not initialized it is temporarily new'ed and returned. The NN (Not Null) method returns the default object instead of null which in my case is perfectly suitable. And when working with xsd-tool generated object structures where I need to check the "~Specified" property of all optional elements it comes in handy.
Now my question is whether I am missing something that makes this otherwise good solution a poor choice. Is the new'ing of so many empty default objects too heavy on memory or performance or are there other issues?
A quick but of course non-conclusive test I did showed no significant performance hit.

A: Ask a programmer what she does, your usual answer is "hmm, programming?".
Wrong.
I had a CS professor for a boss for a while. He claimed that programmers write code less than 10% of their time. Most time it spent reading and debugging code. Therefore, he insisted we must avoid writhing "chains" of properties or function calls. This is very relevant to your case - the NN hack may seem nice and saves you a few minutes today, but will cost more than a few in the future.

A: I agree that this is longer:
if (ApplicationForm != null &&
    ApplicationForm.EemployeeInfo != null &&
    ApplicationForm.EemployeeInfo.PersonalInfo != null &&
    ApplicationForm.EemployeeInfo.PersonalInfo.Name != null) {
    // ...
}

but it also more readable; if I was to maintain your application, I would be grateful to you for doing the checks in a standard way.
I would go for readability, even at the expense of longer code and even if there is no performance hit in your solution.

A: I wrote a blog post a few days ago about a way to automate null checks using Linq expressions :
http://www.thomaslevesque.com/2010/02/21/automating-null-checks-with-linq-expressions/
I came up with a solution that allows you to write something like that :
string name = ApplicationForm.NullSafeEval(a => a.EmployeeInfo.PersonalInfo.Name);

The expression tree is analysed and rewritten to add null checks for each level of the property path
However, although this solution works, I wouldn't recommend using it if performance is critical...

A: Use the Null monad.  It can be in the same file or a different file so long as you using it.
public static class NullMonad {
    public static TResult SelectMany<TIn, TOut, TResult>(this TIn @in, Func<TIn, TOut> remainder, Func<TIn, TOut, TResult> resultSelector)
        where TIn : class
        where TOut : class
        where TResult : class {
        var @out = @in != null ? remainder(@in) : null;
        return @out != null ? resultSelector(@in, @out) : null;
    }
}

Then you can use LINQ:
var salary = from form in applicationForm
             from info in form.employeeInfo
             from cond in info.workingConditions
             select cond.salary

This will return the salary if it exists, or null if any of the prior statements result to null, without throwing an exception.  It reduces the repetition of hand-checking each variable.  It also avoids the overhead of creating all the unused "NN" objects.

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Perhaps this is nothing more than an example of why it is a bad idea to formulate presidential policy in 140 characters or less. However, it is more likely that Trump is unfamiliar with how the law suggests how "respect for flag" should be shown. Otherwise, he would not have announced his candidacy in front of a wall of American flags. The code is very clear that the flag is not to be used as decoration and that instead "bunting of blue, white, and red, always arranged with the blue above, the white in the middle, and the red below should be used". Donald J. Trump for President, Inc. and the Republican National Committee would also not be selling shirts emblazoned with the flag in violation of prohibitions on using it as "wearing apparel, bedding, or drapery", "for advertising purposes in any manner whatsoever" and as "a costume or athletic uniform".
Trump is not the first person to wrap himself up in patriotism and fall flat on his face. Blue lives matter hides behind a logo that paints a blue line across an American flag despite wording in the code that states a "flag should never have placed upon it, nor on any part of it, nor attached to it any mark, insignia, letter, word, figure, design, picture, or drawing of any nature." The code also states that "the flag should never be fastened, displayed, used, or stored in such a manner as to permit it to be easily torn, soiled, or damaged in any way," but this did not stop a pickup truck driver to declare his patriotism by attaching a flag to the rear of his vehicle. Not surprisingly, it was clear that this flag had passed the point where it needed to be surrendered to the flames of a fire.
Of course, all of this ignores the fact that any flag is nothing more than a piece of cloth. Despite the claim of a group of legislators, it is not "a living thing", but a symbol of our nation's ideals. When politicians like Trump sacrifice these ideals by using their offices to threaten those exercising their First Amendment rights, they do much more damage than an ill-advised protester with a lighter and a flag. This endangers the foundation our country was built on and all patriots should stand against this, or at least take a knee.


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Blanche Baker (1844–1929) was a Bristol-born English watercolour artist who specialised in landscape paintings. She trained at the Bristol School of Art, and went on to exhibit regularly at the Royal Academy and with the Society of Lady Artists and the Camsix Art Club. She taught drawing in London schools, and her work documents extensive British and European travel. In 1902 she was elected a full member of the Bristol Academy.

Early life

Blanche Baker's father, William Baker, was born in Bristol in about 1820 and in 1840 married Mary Anne Crispin, whose mother was from Devon. They lived in Trenchard Street, in central Bristol. Initially he was a plasterer, then a builder. Ellen Blanche Baker was their third child and was christened at the Society of Protestant Dissenters in Lewin's Mead, Bristol, on 15 September 1844.

'[William] came into some money from his father and succeeded in amassing a tolerably fair fortune' – by 1861 he was a successful builder and contractor, employing 160 men, and at some point he also acquired a saw mill at Canon's Marsh, Bristol. The Baker family moved to Sneyd Park Villa in a wealthier part of Bristol. This was a substantial property with 'lawns, gardens, a conservatory, stables and one and a half acres of land' plus an adjacent farm. On the date of the 1861 census Blanche Baker was not actually in residence at Sneyd Park Villa, although the census indicates that she is one of nine siblings. Her grandmother Betsy Crispin had lived with them for several years, and there were live-in servants.

Following her general education, Blanche attended Bristol School of Art (established in 1853 as 'Bristol School of Practical Art' and later accommodated within the Bristol Academy for the Promotion of Fine Arts's grand building that had been opened in 1858. The School of Art would become the Royal West of England Academy Schools). She 'graduated' in 1864, winning a prize for Outline of Flowers – a work which qualified for the only National Medallion to be awarded to Bristol School of Art in that year. Meanwhile, in 1863, in the competitions that Bristol Rifle Club held annually in Sneyd Park, Blanche had taken second prize in the Ladies Rifle Match – 100 yards, seven shots with Prussian needle rifles. 'These novelty, but interesting matches attracted, of course, a great gathering of both sexes.'

In 1865 Mary Baker, Blanche's mother, died at the age of 46. There were three girls under the age of 10 to be looked after, and presumably much of the running of the household now fell to Mary's older daughters Rosa, 23, Blanche, 20, and Kate, 16. The oldest boy, Herbert, 21, had followed his father into the building business.

Artistic success and a family crisis
The acceptance of a watercolour drawing, Greenfell Lane, Gloucester, by the Royal Academy  in 1869 seems to have been a turning point for Blanche's artistic career. In early 1870 she had a one-person show in Bristol – 70 watercolours (some framed and others unframed) – and in the summer of that year The Turnstile was selected for the Royal Academy. Blanche would sign her pictures with her initials, BB – suited to the small dimensions of most of her work and perhaps also conveniently gender-neutral.

The Bristol Academy for the Promotion of Fine Arts opened a public exhibiting space in the spring of 1870, and Blanche exhibited regularly at its Winter Exhibition for the next twenty years. The choice of watercolour as Blanche's preferred medium and of landscape as her preferred genre was common among 'lady artists', but the Bristol Academy did have traditional links to 'Bristol School' landscape painters such as William Muller, Francis Danby, J. B. Pyne and John Syer – active in the early nineteenth century – whose Bristol Society of Artists it had incorporated. In 1876 Blanche was elected an Associate of the Bristol Academy.

Around this time her father 'made the acquaintance of the wife of the Rev. Mr Wilkinson, on the death of whom he conceived the idea of marrying the widow, and communicated this fact to his family, who however were greatly opposed to the match.' Nevertheless, the marriage to Mrs Gertrude Blanche Wilkinson, age 44, went ahead in April 1877. The extent to which the changed circumstances at Sneyd Park Villa may have prompted Blanche to move from Bristol is not known, but a brief item in the Western Daily Press of 17 January 1878 noted that 'Miss Blanche Baker has retired from the committee of the Boys' Home in consequence of having left Bristol.'

The second marriage of William Baker proved even more calamitous than the family had feared. Mrs Gertrude Blanche Baker, in her mid-forties, was an 'exceedingly improper person, for she was addicted to drink'. She behaved in an 'unbecoming and indecent way', committing adultery with the Sneyd Park Villa coachman (Wheeler) and the carpenter (Owen). Newspaper accounts from 1880 explain that her behaviour brought about 'insanity' and the necessity for William to be 'removed to a lunatic asylum'. The Baker siblings took the unusual, but understandable, step of forming a committee and filing for divorce on behalf of their father, who was deemed incapable of representing himself. With adultery having been proved, a decree nisi was issued in July 1880 and a final decree in March 1881. The family now had the possibility of holding on to some of  William's assets.

Although Blanche was said to have left Bristol in 1878, at the time of the 1881 census she was living with her sister Laura on the farm adjacent to Sneyd Park Villa. However, a few years later she had moved to the outskirts of London – to Spring Cottage, Hanwell, Ealing, near where her father was living in a small private asylum, Wyke House, in Isleworth.

Teaching
Blanche had apparently left Bristol to teach art in a London school, partly inspired by a collection of essays on education by the philosopher and social theorist Herbert Spencer. By coincidence, her sisters Rosa and Mabel Baker would be managing house for Spencer in the late 1880s and 'we told him how the reading of this book [Education] by [Blanche] had induced her to take the post of art mistress in a London school, and had led to our leaving the country to join her in town.' It may have been Spencer's ideas on what was later termed a 'child-centred' approach to education that resonated with Blanche. The earlier reference to her serving on the committee of a boys' home seems to suggest social concern on her part and an awareness of the lack of opportunities for underprivileged children at this time before education had become nationally compulsory.

Becoming established

Blanche's strength of personality and independence are further evidenced in an 1884 classified advertisement in The Times: 'Sketching Tours – Miss Blanche Baker, an exhibitor at the Royal Academy, will give LESSONS to ladies travelling with her on the Thames during the months of July and August.' Assuming that this enterprise went ahead, it was interrupted by her father's death on 16 August 1884. Blanche and her elder brother, Herbert Baker – who was now running their father's business at Canon's Marsh Steam Saw Mills – were the two executors of the will. When probate was finally settled later in the year, William Baker's personal estate was worth about £5,311 (equivalent to about £627,000 in 2017) with a resworn amount of £14,938 in November 1884 (about £1,690,000 in 2017). Sneyd Park Villa was advertised for sale in the following year.

In early 1885 Blanche exhibited at a 'Loan Exhibition of Women's Industries' at Clifton, Bristol. Later in 1885 she had 11 watercolours in the Winter Exhibition of the Bristol Academy, ' transcripts of quaint buildings The Dutch House, Bristol; Clovelly and Mary-le-Port Street, Bristol'.

In 1887 she exhibited three watercolours – Clovelly Pier, Clovelly and Bristol Streets – with the Society of Lady Artists (SLA) in London. The Society's purpose was 'to gain acceptance for women artists by giving them the opportunity to exhibit their work. Membership was granted to women who had exhibited with the Society and who earned their livelihood through art.' The Society's name changed to the more assertive Society of Women Artists in 1899.

Cabbages and The Thames from Streatley were exhibited at the Royal Academy in 1888, and by the end of the year Blanche had moved back to Bristol, living at Leworthy Lodge, Stoke Bishop. In the Winter Exhibition of the Bristol Academy 'A Weedy Pond affords a glimpse of a retired spot, where the quiet beauty of nature has been well observed, and, modest in its dimensions, it is a most successful study.' In the following year The Thames and The Float, Bristol were exhibited in London with the SLA, and in 1890 Summer and November and Back of the Old Home (perhaps a view of Sneyd Park Villa) were shown at the Royal Academy. That was also the year of a joint exhibition with the landscape painter Edward Wilkins Waite at Messrs Frost and Reed in Queens Road, Bristol. In the census of 1891 Blanche, 47, gave her profession as 'artist – landscape painting and teacher'

Home Life with Herbert Spencer

One might assume that the settlement of William Baker's estate would have left the members of his family 'comfortably well off', so it is somewhat surprising that Blanche's sisters Rosa and Mabel Baker (writing in 1906) reflected on 1889 as beginning as a year 'of gloom and sadness to us … Misfortunes had come to us, as they come to so many, unforeseen and unsuspected, none the less hard to bear because they were not the first we had experienced.' They make it clear that a significant aspect of their distress was through 'money losses'.

In 1889 Herbert Spencer, now 69 and a controversial and much celebrated public figure, had grown tired of staying in lodging houses. 'I have taken a house in St. John's Wood and am going to have three maiden ladies to take care of me!' he wrote to a friend. These 'maiden ladies' were initially Rosa and Mabel Baker – Blanche's older sister and a younger sister, although the reference to 'three maiden ladies' indicates that from the outset Blanche was to be part of the 'arrangement', brought about by a mutual friend, and by the time of the following year's Royal Academy Summer Exhibition she too was living at 64 Avenue Road, NW.

Some years after Spencer had died, Rosa and Mabel Baker – using the pseudonym 'Two' – published a memoir of their time with him: Home Life with Herbert Spencer. This is a warm portrait of Spencer, and also gives an insight into the relationship between the sisters:

[Blanche] had not seen us since our instalment in Avenue Road, and she was evidently surprised at the unexpected subjects that had already begun to interest us. We were talking of something we had just read in one of Mr. Spencer's books, and quite innocently used one or two long words not formerly in our vocabulary. A look of awe appeared on our sister's face, and then, as the discussion continued in the same strain, she slowly and gradually disappeared under the dining-room table.

Blanche's move to London saw her broadening her exhibition base: in 1893 The Only Customers and A Deserted Farmhouse were exhibited at the Royal Hibernian Academy of Arts in Dublin. In 1895 she exhibited A Cornish Roadside at a loan exhibition in Hampstead, and, maintaining her links with her home town, at Bristol  Academy she showed 'a little picture … a sketch of a thatched homestead and meadows. It is called The Home Fields and it is carefully worked, almost too careful; but very sunny and full of light.' Blanche was  elected an Associate of the Society of Lady Artists in 1894, and there was a further Bristol exhibition in 1896: 'An attractive collection of watercolour drawings by Miss Blanche Baker, a Bristol lady, is on view at Messrs Frost and Reed Gallery, 47 Queens Road.'

Around 1894 Spencer, who was spending an increasing amount of time away from London, gave warning that he was planning to terminate the arrangement at 64 Avenue Road, but wrote warmly, 'The remembrance of times spent with you and your sisters during 1889, '90, '91 and '92 will always will always be pleasant to me.' Despite this warning, however, Spencer did not act to evict the sisters until 1897, and by then he took a more negative view of their relationship. There were disagreements about expenses, and he complained that 'the house is occupied by the [Baker] family, yourselves and relatives; and when I am home the social intercourse and the administration give the impression that 64, Avenue Road is the residence of the Misses [Baker] where Mr. Spencer resides when he is in town.'

European travel and a family home

At some point after the sisters left Avenue Road in 1897 they moved to the northern outskirts of London, to Sneed Cottage, an eight-room house in Totteridge Lane, Whetstone, near Barnet. The name may have been an example of the Bakers' self-deprecating humour – 'Sneed' was the local Bristol pronunciation of 'Sneyd'. Having been brought up in the grander 'Sneyd Park Villa' of their youth, they now lived in Sneed Cottage.

Towards the end of the century Blanche broadened the subjects of her work as she travelled to Europe – France, Germany, Switzerland, northern Italy and Spain. Lake at Lucerne, for example, was exhibited with the Hampstead Art Society at the Conservatoire, Eton Avenue, in 1896.

In 1899 Blanche had a significant exhibition of 42 watercolours at the Modern Gallery, 175 Bond Street. Like the 1890 exhibition at Bristol, it was a joint exhibition with Edward Wilkins Waite. Some of the titles suggest higher ambitions than her usual parochial subjects: 'Where skies make azure of our earth-born greys' commands her highest asking price, of 15 guineas, and 'Where cattle tread the soaking soil' is 10 guineas – both prices a step up from the 8 or 9 guineas that are usually listed for her Royal Academy works. There were a number of views of Switzerland, including the dramatic alpine summit The Jungfrau. England was represented by works depicting Norfolk, Cambridgeshire, Guildford, Somerset and Yorkshire. Some titles – such as Blackberry Gatherers and The Bean Gatherer – suggest more of a human presence than was usual in her work. There were also four flower studies: Roses, Murillos, Tulips and Freesia.

Into the twentieth century

The 1901 census provides a snapshot of life in the Baker sisters' new home. Blanche's sister Mabel, 39, was the 'head of the household'. She was an 'examiner of domestic economy' in a school. Blanche, 56, was described as 'an artist (painter) and Teacher of Drawing. School'. They lived with their sister Rosa, 60, and their brother William, 41, who was a clerk at the Stock Exchange. They were supported by one domestic servant living in.

In the summer of that year The Forester's Garden was selected for the Royal Academy, and in the following year Blanche was elected to be a full member of the Bristol Academy. Further European travel is evidenced in another West End exhibition, in February 1904, this time at McQueen's Gallery, where she showed 30 watercolours in a joint exhibition with Margaret Kemp-Welch. This exhibition included nine views of Venice and three views of the French Alps near Mont Blanc.

Also in February 1904, at Walker's Gallery, New Bond Street, there was an 'inaugural' exhibition of the Camsix Art Club. Initially this was a group of seven women artists who took their name from the Essex farmstead where the artist Bertram Priestman ran a summer school which they attended. It is likely that Blanche Baker contributed to that exhibition, and she certainly exhibited with the Camsix the following year at Alpine Club Hall, in 1907 at the Modern Gallery, in 1908 at the Goupil Gallery and in 1911 at the Baillie Gallery.

From My Window was selected for the Royal Academy in 1910 and A Cherry Orchard the following year. In the 1911 census, Blanche, now 66, described herself as 'artist and teacher. Secondary school' – suggesting that education was a significant part of her identity. By now the sisters' younger brother, William, was no longer living with them at Sneed Cottage.

Later years
By 1918 the Baker sisters were living in a different property in Whetstone – in the High Road – which they also called Sneed Cottage. One of the last of Blanche's works for which there are records was a commission in about 1923 to  create a miniature version (4.5 cm x 3.1 cm) of her c.1899 alpine watercolour The Jungfrau for Queen Mary's Dolls' House (currently in the Royal Collection). Queen Mary – as the Princess of Wales  – had visited a Camsix exhibition at the Goupil Gallery in 1908.

Sometime after Rosa died, in December 1925, Blanche and Mabel Baker moved to Fareham, near Portsmouth. Blanche died at Belmont Nursing Home, Alverstoke, Hampshire, on 12 December 1929, aged 85 years. Mabel was executor of her estate, valued at £1,907 13s. 6d.

References

1844 births
1929 deaths
19th-century English painters
19th-century English women artists
20th-century English painters
20th-century English women artists
Artists from Bristol
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Nuance Communications bringing Dragon Drive Messaging to BMW cars
By Hanleigh Daniels 10 July 2012 | Categories: news
Nuance Communications has revealed that BMW will be making Dragon Drive! Messaging (DDM) available as part of the new BMW Navigation system Professional, enabling drivers to use their voice to compose, respond to or edit emails and text messages.
DDM will become available as a BMW ConnectedDrive feature within the latest generation 2012 BMW 7 Series, BMW 3 Series Touring as well as the BMW 3 Series ActiveHybrid cars, with additional models to follow at a later stage.
Besides this message dictation functionality, the new BMW Navigation system Professional also features natural command and voice-control for almost all its functions. Drivers will be able to use voice commands to do things like make a phone call or selecting a destination for the satellite navigation system, by simply saying "call Mr X on mobile" and "navigate to work" for instance.
Nuance stated that the 2012 BMW 7 Series will be the first car to feature DDM, when it is released Stateside later this month, with the BMW 3 Series Touring and BMW 3 Series ActiveHybrid following later.
DDM will be available in six different languages including US as well as UK English, French and German. BMW buyers will be able to test Dragon Drive! Messaging for free for a period of 60 days, after which DDM will be available as a Nuance subscription service via a yearly renewal option.
"People want to connect with family, friends, and colleagues while they're on the road, but without the dangerous distractions posed by manually engaging handheld devices," explained Arnd Weil, VP and general manager of the automotive division of Nuance. "By integrating Dragon Drive! Messaging into the car itself, BMW and Nuance are delivering a smarter, safer way to communicate."
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Bar Nunn Man Gets Life Without Parole for Sexually Abusing Child
Natrona County Sheriff's Office
A Bar Nunn man convicted of sexually abusing a child last year will spend the rest of his life behind bars.
George Everrette Tamblyn was handed the sentence in Natrona County District Court Thursday afternoon. He was convicted of similar crimes in 2012, warranting the life sentence.
Tamblyn will also serve concurrent 10 to 15-year sentences on charges of incest and third-degree sexual abuse of a minor.
According to a heavily redacted affidavit of probable cause, the Wyoming Department of Family Services initially reported the allegations to the Natrona County Sheriff's Office on Jan. 11, 2018.
A sheriff's office investigator assigned to the case discovered Tamblyn's 2012 conviction and learned that the victim in that case had been prepubescent. The investigator also found that Tamblyn had been accused of sexual acts with other children in another state in 2009, but there was no disposition regarding those allegations.
The victim told a Children's Advocacy Project interviewer that Tamblyn showed her his genitals and asked her to perform oral sex, according to the affidavit. The victim described the events as "disgusting."
"[Tambyln] has earned this sentence. He has created two victims," Assistant Natrona County District Attorney Kevin Taheri said during the hearing. "These are horrible crimes."
Tamblyn, who is incarcerated, hung his head as District Court Judge Kerri M. Johnson read the sentence. After court adjourned, Tamblyn threatened some sort of lawsuit regarding the sentence.
In 2011, a 17-year-old girl told a Casper police detective that Tamblyn had sexually molested her when she was 6- or 7-years-old, according to an affidavit filed in the 2012 conviction.
Filed Under: crime, George Tamblyn, Natrona County Sheriff's Office, Sexual Abuse of a Minor


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Tuca & Bertie Season 1
Lisa Hanawalt's new Netflix series will be one of 2019's best.
Note: this review originally ran on Set the Tape (link).
Cross Broad City with early Adventure Time or Regular Show and you've got a rough approximation of Tuca & Bertie, artist Lisa Hanawalt's new animated series for Netflix. Whilst the advertising, anthropomorphic animal-people characters, and some shared personnel might lead viewers to come in with set expectations, the series has nothing to do with BoJack Horseman and in much of its tone and content couldn't be further from that other show. Even in terms of pure aesthetics, Tuca & Bertie is a much more vibrant and stylish series than BoJack which aims to create a consistent reality and only sparingly breaks out visual tangents – Tuca & Bertie frequently resembles a motion version of one of Hanawalt's comics with gags and illustrative asides akin to one-panel comic strips.
It is a world where surreality is the order of the day, where anything and everything can happen at basically any time. Broadway-style group musical numbers, profanity manifesting itself as platforms that can be driven over, tits up-and-outing from their host's body leaving a giant hole where they used to reside until they come back wasted on alcohol, texts and emails walking themselves over to their recipients, ghost cakes, literal sex bugs, one episode's plot is resolved by Tuca thinking a banana into existence. Whilst it can be a lot to come to grips with at first – this is also true of Tuca & Bertie as a show which can be a lot at times, proudly so – the more surrealist flourishes do have an internal consistency and are endemic of the show's philosophy as a sweet-natured and gag-centric feminist comedy. The wandering tit occurs after Bertie suffers one too many gross sexual come-ons from a boorish fellow employee at work; the musical number, an expression of Bertie's public crippling anxiety attack; the sex bugs, self-explanatory; back-talking mirrors which snipe at a person's every flaw and insecurity, a hilarious manifestation at the self-esteem damage even the most apparently-confident woman can feel when looking back at themselves.
Such a light and outwardly comedic touch enables Tuca & Bertie the ability to explore its eventual heavier subjects in ways which are arguably just as deep as something like BoJack but are also definitely more female-focussed and female-resonant than that show ever could be. As the prior Broad City comparison may have clued you in, the show centres around the friendship of early 30s besties and former flatmates Tuca (Tiffany Haddish), an impulsive and confident toucan freewheeling through life off the back of cheques written by her rich auntie, and Bertie (Ali Wong), a responsible yet unfulfilled and extremely anxious songbird with dreams of becoming a baker, navigating the trials of life as modern women. And whilst the execution of said premise may not be exactly like that of Ilana Glazer and Abbie Jacobson's modern classic – even with the fact that Tuca & Bertie takes advantage of the medium of animation for off-the-wall visualisations, it's safe to say Broad City never had Ilana adopt a wild jaguar and then open a joint-checking account with it (after said jaguar has mauled most of the staff inside the bank) in a misguided effort to somehow prove she's not needy – it has that same playfulness and quietly revolutionary matter-of-fact approach to everything.
Tuca & Bertie does become a touch darker and sadder as the season progresses, as the layers and pasts of our two leads are gradually peeled back, but it never becomes enthralled by the darkness, instead attempting to find either the funniest or most hopeful manners in which to deal with the subject. Workplace sexism, addiction and sobering up, verbally-abusive family members, existential crises, when co-dependency goes too far, even the extremely thorny subjects of consent and sexual assault which are legitimately uncomfortable yet deftly handled. Whilst not blindly so, Hanawalt and her team of writers don't shy away from pointing out their leads' respective flaws and forcing them to own up to their shit, this is a very celebratory show, one with a reverence for feminine media and apparel – a trip to a forgotten shopping mall and its Girl Thingz store in episode nine is a prime example of this – a predilection for shitting into the open mouths of intolerable fuccbois, and communicating the joyous all-conquering power of a strong female support system.
Needless to say with praise like that, Haddish and Wong absolutely kill it as Tuca and Bertie, since if they didn't the show would likely have fallen to pieces, but they are still perfect from pretty much the word go. Their chemistry undeniable, their camaraderie lived-in, their various similarities and differences in delivery and feeling bouncing off each other seamlessly. Whether they're firing off zingers or airing out long-standing grievances, there is already nobody else I could possibly picture as these two, the impression they leave is that instantaneous. Their dynamic is also rounded out in surprising ways by Steven Yeun's Speckle, Bertie's hysterically milquetoast robin boyfriend – a man so plain that his favourite porn involves two committed lovers having agreeable pedestrian missionary sex, which he still feels guilty about watching because the woman in the porn has a different feather colour to Bertie – who very quickly evolves from the expected joy-killing voice of reason counteracting Tuca's influence to something altogether funnier and more compelling which is vital for the back half of the season.
A season that I thoroughly adored. I haven't even paid proper due to Big Star Enterprises' luminous and bouncy animation (they're clearly relishing the opportunity to cut loose), Jesse Novak's vibey score and insidiously catchy theme song – I need an official release of both yesterday please, Netflix – the excellent supporting cast, the many many puns, the masterful deployment of swearing, the fact that there is a Magical Girl Anime transformation sequence for pastry making… Tuca & Bertie finds its feet absurdly quickly and puts forward one of the best debut seasons in Netflix's history. I finished up and immediately wanted at least five more seasons, and I know that there will be many others out there feeling exactly the same way. Especially women since Hanawalt has clearly made her show with the enjoyment of women like her in mind and any men who also happen to like it just being an added bonus. Fearless, fast and fucking funny as all hell, Tuca & Bertie is a must-watch.
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Nasdaq CEO Adena T. Friedman to Assume Additional Role as Chair of the Nasdaq Board of Directors
Michael R. Splinter appointed Lead Independent Director
NEW YORK, Dec. 19, 2022 (GLOBE NEWSWIRE) -- Nasdaq, Inc. (Nasdaq: NDAQ) announced today its Board of Directors has unanimously elected Adena T. Friedman to the role of Chair of the Board of Directors, effective January 1, 2023, in addition to her current position as Chief Executive Officer of the company. Friedman succeeds Michael R. Splinter, who has been elected Lead Independent Director.
Friedman has served as President and CEO of Nasdaq and a member of the Board of Directors since January 2017. In this expanded role, Friedman will continue to drive forward the execution of Nasdaq's long-term strategy and vision toward becoming the trusted fabric of the world's financial system. She will also lead the work to set the board agenda, leveraging her deep understanding of Nasdaq's business and operations to identify key opportunities as well as risk mitigation strategies for the Board's review. As Lead Independent Director, Splinter will retain significant responsibilities, including approving meeting agendas and schedules, overseeing CEO and Board performance evaluations, and calling meetings of the independent directors or the Board as appropriate.
"Adena is incredibly deserving of this appointment to Chair. As Nasdaq's CEO, she has successfully led the company in a new strategic direction, accelerating Nasdaq's evolution to a global technology company that serves the world's financial markets. Under her leadership, the company has consistently delivered outstanding operational and financial performance and shareholder returns," said Michael R. Splinter. "The Board strongly supports the new strategic vision Adena has set out for Nasdaq. We believe that joining the CEO and Chair roles enables us to be even better placed to execute on Nasdaq's vision to become the trusted fabric of the world's financial system."
"I am honored to take on the additional responsibility as Chair of Nasdaq's Board of Directors," said Adena T. Friedman, CEO and incoming Chair, Nasdaq. "I want to thank Mike for his significant contributions to Nasdaq and for the invaluable guidance he has provided to me. I look forward to the ongoing partnership with Mike and the rest of the Board as we continue to execute on our vision for the company."
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My First Open Mic
I was living in Carbondale Illinois, going to SIU to study film. I had been obsessed with the idea of doing stand up for about a year before that, and decided that this was the place I was going to start. As I'd be a new guy in a new town at a new college, and wanted to recreate myself.
Walking around campus one day I saw a poster for Double Shot Comedy open mic on Wednesday nights at The Long Branch Cafe. I rattled this idea around in my brain for a month or so, thinking of stuff to write, and fighting the thoughts of fear and what not, and decided to go on the night of October 23rd 2013.
I biked over there from my dorm building, and I sat in a booth for a few moments looking at my notecard of "jokes" and a big friendly looking bearded man walked over to me slowly. He asked me if I was there for the open mic and I said yes. I told him I wanted to perform for the first time. He understood and told me his name was Pat, and I told him mine, and he left me to my preparation.
The show soon began and he went up there to introduce the show and told some jokes. There was no microphone, which startled me.
"So let's get the show started. It's this guys first time performing! Please give it up for Luke Warner!"
I did not expect to go first. People clapped, and I went up there as my stomach dropped and my heart pounded through my chest.
I don't remember much of my jokes, I do remember one joke I told that I heard from my grandfather which was "One good thing about Alzheimers is that you can hide your own Easter Eggs". The audience made a noise that I'd never experienced. I thought it was only laughter or silence. There were groans, and sighs, and some laughs here and there through out.
A pic I drew of myself on 4/7/2014
I also said something about how my friend told me that he heard of a frat that used to lace the faucets in their house with roofies for when girls who came over for parties needed a drink of water. I must have had some kind of joke in there. The rest of the jokes I don't remember.
I was up there for maybe 3 or 4 minutes, I remember shaking a bit, and the laughs I got were okay enough to make me believe it went decent. I got off the stage and sat down to watch the rest of the show.
At one point a guy named Austin Acree went up and made fun of my shirt, as it said "KOK" on it, which was a shirt my sister gave me, referencing a bar "Killroys on Kirk". That, of course I would make some kind of joke about roofie ing girls. So I didn't like him then. I grew to like him a lot as he was a nice guy and very funny.
The closer for that evening was a blind guy. He had a big beard, a white dress shirt, big black sunglasses, a sweet hat, and his cane. He went up there and said "Give it up for Luke, it was his first time on stage and that takes a lot of balls." So everyone clapped for me and it felt really nice. He did about ten minutes on weddings, and about how he's perfect for ugly women.
The show ended and I went up to him and thanked him for giving me props. He put his hand out for me to shake it and I did. I never saw him again, and he never saw me. I said goodbye to Pat and the rest of the folks. Feeling good that I had a new community to come back to. I biked home that night feeling accomplished, as I'd finally done stand up.
I went back there 13 more Wednesdays, and did a different open mic 5 times at a bar where people didn't pay attention much and or heckled. I missed two Wednesdays at Long Branch because I found out that my grandfather died on one of them in December, and that my dog died on one of them in April.
I remember the one where my dog died because instead of going, I walked around near campus and found a basketball court and a few deer hanging out near by. I took a video of the deer as they were staring at me, and I was contemplating going closer to them but was too scared to do so. I felt oddly connected to them and nature as I was sad about my dog.
I did a total of 18 open mics during my year in Carbondale. It helped my time there as I struggled at that school. I expected to be a hit with all the ladies, and make a bunch of new friends, and I didn't really do either.
I had two roommates, one black dude with a child from the West side, and a short Napoleon complexed black dude from the South Side. We would smoke blunts in the bathroom, and they would tell stories of gang banging and what not. So I started off in fear of them and tried my best to fit in with them.
I soon moved out of their room into a room with a milk toast white kid from Oregon. If I had stuck it out in my old room for another month or so I could have had it to myself, as my old roommates got kicked out of the school for shooting people with paintball guns.
Playing basketball, making short films and doing open mics were the best things for me in Carbondale.
I didn't do that much film stuff there either, I wanted to be making more movies in class. I did make one comedic short film that turned into a trilogy. I also made a documentary about my little circle of comedians in Carbondale.
I am proud of myself for doing that at that time, it provoked me to find improv, and create a new comedy journey for myself. Doing stand up was my first time ever performing on stage in any capacity. I'll always remember that time and those people I started with.
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As part of this blog, it's my hope to also share longer, more edited posts. In celebration of my five year anniversary, I'm sharing this, which I wrote on marriage earlier this year.
It's usually 9:30 pm when I drag my spent body into bed. We finally bought ourselves a king-sized bed a few years ago. Along with the king bed came king pillows, and one of them always runs the length of my body, creating a wall next to me. At the end of the long repetitive days with two tiny, needy, touchy humans, when I climb into bed, I just want to put the wall up. Don't touch me. Don't come between me and my seven hours. Maybe eight. Maybe four if insomnia or teething hits. That's one of the things about having kids, you never know what any night will bring: you could miss your doctor's appointment because your kids sleep until eight for the first time in a year, or you could see every hour on the clock and change the sheets on their beds three times.
The sheets on the bed were a gift from my husband on our second anniversary. We alternate planning a getaway for each other every year for our wedding anniversary. Each year, one of us gets to run with it and do all the planning – no check-ins necessary, and the other just gets to show up with a suitcase. This tradition, which started during our first year of dating, was borne out of a love of grand gestures and romantic surprise, but it continues to thrive due to the boldly unsexy necessity of parenting two small children with very little help. In our house, it has become almost impossible to have a conversation about anything, to break through the ceaseless din of two pleading, whining, growing, curious toddlers. So the grand gesture continues because it's efficient, not because it's romantic.
But, back to the sheets. Zac planned the trip that year. We escaped to Oregon. I was 7 weeks pregnant with our son and we left a 9 month old at home. I was constantly nauseated. I was pumping to try to maintain my supply. I was trying to feel like a relatively newlywed wife and embrace the freedom of being away from our daughter to totally focus on us, but the two little ones pulled my focus toward them, even then. One made it impossible to swirl and swish the crisp whites of Oregon wine country and the homemade hazelnut cream liqueur of our small family-owned hotel on the coast. The other necessitated that I pump day and night, lest our trip be the end of nursing, which would carry with it a bucket of mom guilt I didn't feel like lugging around for the next several years.
On that trip, I fell in love with the sheets on the bed. I'd love to say they were a tangled mess due to endless love-making, but the truth is that I was sick with first trimester exhaustion and nausea. I spent much of the time curled up in bed while Zac walked the beach alone. On our last day, I lamented having to leave behind the luxurious sheets, and when we returned from our trip, they were sitting on the doorstep. They remind me of what two years of marriage felt like. They are their own grand gesture. They bring me much more joy than that vacation did, despite the best of intentions. They remind me of how my husband listens and hears my tiniest desires and wishes and delivers them to me, even when he can't change the day-to-day of our lives or effortlessly pull my focus back to him.
We celebrated four years of marriage by driving down the PCH in a borrowed convertible, wine tasting in Santa Barbara, and working our way up through Big Sur. On that trip, we left two full-blown toddlers at home. We fretted less. We drank more. We sent them live photos of us trying on masks on State Street. We FaceTimed a little, but mostly we re-introduced ourselves to each other and took meandering walks holding hands, had long uninterrupted conversations and debates, and climbed back into each other's arms at night a little less tired, a bit less frayed. Four years felt like coming home and knowing you would stay there for a very, very long time.
On the way back from that trip, as the unrelenting sun beat down on us in the convertible and our hours together without toddlers were numbered, we fought. We fought the way that only two people who have barely had room to talk for several years can fight. We had long periods of silence followed by heated discussions and more silence. As we pulled back into our neighborhood, it was as if we had picked a fight just to make it easier to come back home. Within moments of coming inside, being greeted by kids and grandparents, all of the grandness of the trip had evaporated.
Still, I woke up the next morning to coffee and a clean kitchen. My husband is a man who every single night, while I am sleeping, empties the dishwasher, takes out the trash, makes the coffee, hand-dries the pots and pans and puts them away so that I have a clean slate for the next day of the rat race. His small ways of loving me amplify his servant heart. He understands that the small gestures become the grand ones over time.
As we approach five years, I marvel at the ways our love has changed. It's a Tuesday night. We've decided to feed the kids first, and steal a supper for two later after bedtime. James Morrison is belting "You Make It Real" out of the speaker: "There's so much craziness surrounding me/ there's so much going on it gets hard to breathe" and in between playing ponies on all fours to our half-naked kids, rather than stepping by and over each other while one grabs one kid and the other grabs the other kid, we allow a brush against each other to turn into an embrace. Before I know it, we have stopped for a slow dance and a make-out session in the middle of the living room: "that's why I've been missing you lately /'cause you make it real for me." It's one of those sitcom moments that I never actually thought would happen in (our) real life. Only a few seconds pass before I can feel my son climb between my feet and in between our calves, wedging himself there and yelling "up, mama," but in those few moments I've made one of the grandest gestures I have in a while, allowing myself to be caught up in the moment.
In many ways, it's easy to parent small children – it's tactical and problem-based, and, as my friend Anna says, children bring you into the eternal present. It's much harder to be a wife; to allow your husband to pull you close to him during the witching hour and stay there for more than a beat. To allow him to push you off your course for a moment – derail you in the kitchen. To let him in, beyond the quick pecks of hellos and goodbyes, to make your spine tingle. To take your pillow wall down.
It's my year to plan our anniversary trip, but as the small has become the grand in our lives, I resolve to master the art of the small gesture in time to make the grandness of the trip, the bliss of uninterrupted time together, small in comparison.
Always love your insight into relationships.
Will you do a future post on how to keep kids entertained screen-free at restaurants?
Absolutely! Keep the requests coming. I'm an expert on this!


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Q: Mysql Date Issue In my MySQL server, I have rows that have the date of my created content.
Example: 2013-03-17 02:53:47
For now, I am using:
$date = $fetch[thedaterownamegoeshere];

<?php echo $date; ?>

But instead of getting the full content of the date (2013-03-17 02:53:47), I'd like to get only the date – in this example, I wish to have the number "2013-03-17" as the result. How can I do that?

A: when fetching put the value into the date function provided by PHP
e.g.
$format = 'Y-m-d';
$timestr = strtotime($fetch[thedaterownamegoeshere]);
$date = date($format, $timestr);

Make sure your $fetch returns a string like "2013-03-17 02:53:47"
The format can be formatted in your way. Check http://php.net/manual/en/datetime.formats.date.php for a detailed description. the separators can be changed as well to your preferences, for now, I just set it to ':'.
And of course you can do it shorter like this;
$date = date('Y-m-d', $fetch[thedaterownamegoeshere]);

I hope this helped you out

A: you can use DATE function in mysql  and in your example you can use it like
select DATE(thedaterownamegoeshere) from your_table_name

and also check mysql date  document
https://dev.mysql.com/doc/refman/5.5/en/date-and-time-functions.html#function_date

A:

  I hope this helped you..
$date = date('Y-m-d', strtotime($fetch[thedaterownamegoeshere]));


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