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ReGov & APU Sign An Agreement For Web3 Talent Development
The MoU will empower ReGov and APU to pilot Malaysia's first Web3-based identity management platform, which will be integrated into the FinTech Academy at APU's Financial Trading Center (FTC) to nurture Web3 global talents in Malaysia.
From left: APU Senior Lecturer Ms Ng Hui Chen, APU Senior Lecturer Ms Meera Eeswaran, APU Chief Innovation & Enterprise Officer Prof. Ir. Eur. Ing. Ts. Dr. Vinesh Thiruchelvam, APU Vice Chancellor Prof. Dr. Ho Chin Kuan, ReGov Technologies Deputy CEO Jasmine Ng K.C., ReGov Technologies Product Manager Julian Seow and ReGov Technologies Deputy CTO Paul Agada.
ReGov Technologies Sdn. Bhd. (ReGov) has signed a memorandum of understanding (MoU) with the Asia Pacific University of Technology & Innovation (APU) to develop Web3 talent in Malaysia through APU's FinTech Academy at the newly established Financial Trading Center (FTC).
This agreement is based on the common goal of producing competent Web3 talent, and as part of this MoU, the first-of-its-kind APU-myBID Web3 Innovation Lab (WIL) will be established exclusively for specialised Web3 training to boost students' skills through experiential learning.
ReGov is a Malaysian Fintech company specialising in enterprise, blockchain, identity management/electronic know your customer (e-KYC) and conversational artificial intelligence (AI). Through its subsidiary RGX Capital Sdn. Bhd., it owns My Blockchain ID (myBID), a Web3-based identity management platform.
"As we witness this once-in-a-generation leap from Web2 to Web3 and the exceptional potential of blockchain technology; Web3 developers are in high demand, but only 1% of programmers have the necessary skills," said Datuk Paul Khoo, Co-Founder and Managing Director of ReGov.
He explains further that this agreement and collaboration with the Premier Digital Tech Institution is the right decision because it will help APU students gain the necessary skills, real-world experience, and specialised training to close the technology gap.
This agreement was signed at the APU campus in MRANTI Park, Kuala Lumpur, by ReGov Technologies Deputy CEO Jasmine Ng K.C and APU Vice Chancellor Prof. Dr. Ho Chin Kuan, and witnessed by ReGov Technologies Deputy CTO Paul Agada and APU Chief Innovation & Enterprise Officer Prof. Ir. Eur. Ing. Ts. Dr. Vinesh Thiruchelvam.
"By 2023, the blockchain technology sector is expected to be worth more than USD$6 trillion. The impressive valuation of this nascent sector demonstrates Web3's enormous potential to completely transform society, underpinned by a mission to give consumers the final say in how large corporations interact with their data.
"This is why ReGov is proud and excited to be working with APU, an esteemed institution that shares our vision of reaching the Web3 world; however, we will never realise those dreams unless we get more developers to build that future for us," he said.
APU has always been at the forefront of producing tech talent for the workforce through tech education, which is backed up by its resilience in bracing emerging technologies with a strategic think-ahead mindset.
"ReGov has recognised the vital role that Fintech companies can play in advancing the learning system for the next generation of blockchain developers.
"We are currently preparing to be one of Malaysia's first movers in responding to the global need for Web3 talent, as well as the country's first private university to offer courses on decentralisation, blockchain technologies, and other relevant subjects, with the ultimate goal of becoming a regional hub for Web3 training centres in Malaysia and Southeast Asia," said Prof. Ir. Eur. Ing. Ts. Dr. Vinesh Thiruchelvam, APU Chief Innovation & Enterprise Officer.
From left, Prof. Ir. Eur. Ing. Ts. Dr. Vinesh Thiruchelvam, Prof. Dr. Ho Chin Kuan, Jasmine Ng K.C, Julian Seow and Paul Agada during the signing ceremony.
"We believe that this strategic partnership with ReGov will help us build a strong techeducation and blockchain programme that will serve as the foundation for the future development of a sustainable Web3 ecosystem."
APU-myBID Web3 Innovation Lab (WIL) is open to APU students from all schools and will be managed by APU with support from ReGov Technologies, which has previously run blockchain training programmes and provided blockchain consulting services to a Fortune 50 client.
The focus will be on blockchain programming languages, specifically Transaction Execution Approval Language (TEAL) for Algorand and Solana's execution environment, which is based on eBPF and allows the Rust, C, and C++ programming languages to be trained on and used by any student.
After completing their training and practical assessments, students will be given the opportunity to work on myBID use cases under the supervision of ReGov Technologies experts. They can select from a wide range of use cases based on their interests, giving them the opportunity to gain real-world Web3 knowledge.
Students who complete the programme will receive a joint certification from APU and ReGov Technologies and also be able to enter the workforce with a healthy blend of hard skills and professional experience, increasing their employability in the Web3 industry.


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If there is a French connection in contemporary jazz, it might arguably be the violin. Though the instruments role was explored by American pioneering ensembles, the French players added an innovative approach to improvisation, incorporating more of the European influence. Heralded as a violin trendsetter for the current generation, French wunderkind Scott Tixier returns four years after his debut "Brooklyn Bazaar" (Sunnyside 2012), with Cosmic Adventure, a celebration into the mystical nature of life.
Acknowledged as a prodigious musician with impeccable credentials, Tixier is intrinsically tuned into the high energy which permeates his adopted home of New York City. It is this melting pot inspiration introduced on the exploratory "Maze Walker," that makes for a compelling experience. Harmonica virtuoso Yvonnick Prene is a featured member of this band, and his interplay with Tixier throughout the session is exemplary, as are the Caribbean rhythms of Pedrito Martinez on congas. Martinez returns on "Dig It," a tribute to Stevie Wonder, with whom Tixier has recently toured.
Pursuit of perfection takes "100,000 Hours," a futuristic fusion odyssey with traces of the celebrated Jean-Luc Ponty, (who wrote the liner notes) all the while remaining centered on the deft bass work of Luques Curtis, and pianistic zeal of Glen Zaleski. Another countryman and major influence, Stephane Grappelli, comes to light on the jazz manouche, "Troublant Bolero," penned by Django Reinhardt during the legendary days of Quintette du Hot Club de France. The gypsy guidance continues on Erroll Garner's "Misty," reworked as a melancholy ballad.
Tixier displays his relentless sense of swing on "Nil's Landing," performed at a blistering bebop pace, courtesy of drummer Justin Brown. As the songs are intended to follow a personal trajectory, "King Of Sorrow," is dedicated to his grandmother, and lessons learned from pain and grief. Tenor saxophonist Chris Potter is highlighted on "Beam Me To Mars," a straight ahead number which pretty much describes Tixier's cosmic adventure.
According to Scott Tixier's schedule and resume, over the past few years he has been on a grueling pace as a sought after accompanist and solo artist, both in performances and in studios. Proclaimed as "Rising Star Violin," and "Best New Artist," by the premier jazz magazines, it is a wonder he found time to make this record. Then again, it is the accumulation of all the above that makes for adventuresome listening to the French violinist that is taking the jazz world by storm.
Track Listing: Maze Walker; Dig It; 100,000 Hours; Troublant Bolero; Mr. Tix; Misty; Nil's Landing; King Of Sorrow; Beam Me To Mars.
Personnel: Scott Tixier: violin; Yvonnick Prene: harmonica; Glenn Zeleski: piano; Luques Curtis: bass; Justin brown: drums; Pedrito Martinez: congas (1, 2); Chris Potter: saxophone (9).
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A web component that provides simple weather data. Built with Polymer 1.0.

## Usage

See [doc/demo]

## TODO

* debounce weather requests
* tests
* README docs
* switch to rafSetTimeout
* move api and icon dependencies to wrapper element?
* animated icons ([skycons])?
* loading spinner?
* display errors or last success time tooltip?
* click for extended forecast?

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The Honourable Andrew Parsons, Minister of Justice and Public Safety and Attorney General, will join Chief Judge Pamela J. Goulding, to participate in a special eagle feather bestowment ceremony in Stephenville.
The event will take place tomorrow (Friday, January 25) at 11:00 a.m. at Stephenville Provincial Court, 35 Alabama Drive.
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"We cater mostly to high net worth individuals, traders and institutions, which is where we are seeing the most interest," says Bilal Hammoud, CEO of NDAX/National Digital Asset Exchange. "The low volume of Google searches for Bitcoin suggests that the public still has not caught on."
In recent months inflows into Bitcoin investment vehicles are hitting record levels. Leading hedge fund investors from Paul Tudor Jones to Stan Druckenmiller have made positive comments about the "crypto currency" launched by pseudonymous programmer Satoshi Nakamoto a decade ago. Analyst calls, such as a recent report by Citi to institutional clients, which speculated that Bitcoin could rise more than 15-fold to $314,000 during coming years, are getting increasingly bullish.
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"Central bank money printing has been likened to "stealing money from seniors slowly."
"The key problem that Bitcoin solves, is inflation," says Hammoud. "The pandemic strengthens the case for Bitcoin because global central banks are printing increasing amounts of money and pushing it into the economy to keep businesses running and people employed." Such actions, which devalue hard earned savings and pension assets have been likened by analyst Russell Napier of Electronic Research Interchange to "stealing money from seniors slowly."
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These tailwinds, and the relative dearth of places to buy Bitcoin economically give Canadian digital asset exchanges significant upside potential. For example investment vehicles like Grayscale Bitcoin Trust, which recently surpassed a stunning $10 billion of assets under management, charge a premium of as much as 40% on the Bitcoin investors buy, coupled with annual storage fees of more than 2% per year.
Private exchanges which enable users to buy Bitcoin and to store it onsite or privately, enable them to bypass those costs. However, there are risks. For one, while the price of Bitcoin has risen more than hundred-fold during the past five years, it has also lost between 80% and 90% of its value several times. As if that weren't enough, the Canadian market has been hit hard by scandals surrounding digital asset exchanges such as Coinsquare, Quadriga and Einstein.
NDAX's main challenge over the near term is to build independently verifiable credibility. "Safety is our number one priority," says Hammoud. "We hold 95%-98% of user funds in offline multi-signature wallets. That's a fancy way of saying that your digital assets are locked up tight and will be there when you want them."
The Alberta-based exchange, which does considerable business in Quebec, where one of their compliance officers is based, has also prioritized adherence to rules enunciated by SOC II and FINTRAC, where it is registered as a money services business, and plans to register as a dealer with the Alberta Securities Commission. "Our goal is to implement Canada's highest security standards, to ensure regulatory compliance and insurance protection," says Hammoud. "However, we encourage all consumers to do their own research before investing in any digital asset."
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Hammound's and NDAX's efforts couldn't be coming at a better time. During a budget update in late November the Trudeau government announced another vast expansion of borrowing and spending. This despite the fact that Canadian public, private and household sector actors owe a stunning $9.3 trillion dollars in debts. That works out to more than $1 million for each child under the age of 19.
* Source: Statistics Canada, June 30, 2020
Bank of Canada Governor Tiff Macklem recently brushed off accusations that the central bank's $154 billion "quantitative easing" (which ordinary folk describe as "money printing") is creating inflation risks. But few who are not paid to do so, agree. As John Williams of Shadow Government Statistics noted in a famous 2013 paper, governments systematically understate consumer prices, in order to cut the cost of living adjustments they have to pay to pensioners.
Here in Canada official numbers indicate that inflation is rising by around 2% per year. However, an objective look at the broader data tells a different story. Housing and stock prices for example, both of which are excluded from the CPI calculations, have skyrocketed during the past three decades, making homes and saving for retirement essentially unaffordable for Canadian youth.
Bitcoin proponents argue that one way to judge the Canadian dollar's performance over long periods of time is to compare it with a neutral asset such as gold, against which the loony has lost 98% of its value during the past 50 years. "With its limited supply and decentralized nature, Bitcoin makes for one of the best store-of-value assets," says Hammoud. "Inflation and geopolitical instability are big drivers in the recent trend of US companies such as MicroStrategy and Square which invested $425 Million and $50 Million respectively in Bitcoin."
During recent months financial services providers in the U.S. such as PayPal and Square have made Bitcoin easier to buy. While these services are not available in Canada, time will tell how much they will spark an increase in demand.
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The Five Stages of Acceptance
Posted By Greg Prince On April 4, 2009 @ 8:43 am In Main Page | Comments Disabled
"You like it?"
"Good, 'cause we live here now."
—Danny Tripp and Matt Albie, Studio 60 pilot
1) Shock
The first song to come on my iPod on the 5:11 to Woodside was Carly Simon's "Anticipation". It was a coincidence, I swear.
Anticipation. Not dread. Anticipation. I was excited when I left the house just before 5:00. I was excited in June of 2005 when the go-ahead was given for what would become Citi Field. I hid it well since its design was unveiled in April 2006 [1] because I had dreamer's remorse, but I stayed, in my own way, authentically anticipant [2].
Second story of the week [3] from that trip to Milwaukee two years ago. We took a bus to get around the city, which was fine, except for one leg of the journey for which I miscalculated the distance between the bus stop and our hotel. We got off in what would objectively be viewed as a not great part of town. We're walking around in our touristy state and feeling quite out of place. Maybe we were in absolutely no danger, maybe we weren't technically lost (Milwaukee's too efficient a city for that), but we definitely weren't where we needed to be. We weren't feeling too good about our predicament as the sun set and a way out seemed miles away.
Two thoughts crossed my mind as we walked and got no closer to our destination.
• If something happens to us, the cats are boarding at the vet — what will happen to them? My sister's the emergency contact and she freaks out when one of them does as much as arch his back.
• If something happens to us, I'll never get to see Citi Field.
Note that in my moment of panic, I didn't think "I'll never sit in my beloved Shea Stadium again," but rather I worried that the pile of bricks rising next door would go up without me, that I would be cut down going from second to third before I could see what was going to be my team's new home. I'd seen Shea, by then, more than 300 times. Nobody had seen Citi Field.
(Oh, we hopped another bus and eventually made it back to our hotel, in case you were wondering.)
I waved the Shea banner high and proud and, ultimately, sadly because it deserved to be waved for all that its 45 seasons had given us and given me [4]. But for all my precautionary kvetching and moaning, I never didn't want to see the Mets play baseball in Citi Field as long as that was where they were headed.
Yet when the moment arrived for me to see the Mets in Citi Field on April 3, 2009, I was almost too shocked to get that it was going on.
It was around 103rd Street, en route on the 7 from Woodside, that I got up to find a window at which to stare at the scene I knew was waiting: a clear shot at Citi Field. Absolutely nothing in the western foreground. Shea a pile of rubble, Citi up and at 'em. Me and another guy, a fellow traveler. We both stood and stared. We looked at each other. We agreed we didn't know what to say.
Next stop Mets/Willets Point, whatever that was.
Down those installed-in-2008 stairs and…boom. Shock. A plaza. And behind it, a stadium. I mean a park. I mean a field. Whatever. It was the new home of the Mets. That's what the ticket Jason gave me said. I never looked at the tickets I had before to see if they said Shea Stadium. I just assumed they did.
What the hell is this place? I know what it is, I watched it from its environmental impact study infancy all the way to nearly complete. I studied every picture that every baseball-fever [5] obsessive took all winter. I even sat down and focused on Mike Francesa's YES simulcast Friday afternoon because it was live from here and it was the first extensive televised look I'd seen.
But what the hell was this place?
The bricks…my brick. Our brick, make that. Suzan and Mark gave me a brick certificate for the birthday that followed my making fun [6] of the whole commemorative brick initiative. But there I was filling it out on behalf of Stephanie and myself, and in the mail, a few weeks ago, came word that I could find the finished product in Section 11, last batch on the upper tier of bricks. So I sought to meet my brick before introducing myself to my park.
I still haven't met my brick. It's out there somewhere, I'm sure. But forget about it. There's like 7,000 bricks per batch. They all seem to say LET'S GO METS, which is swell, except it's one large blur of team-first mentality, a whole lot of being true to the orange and blue in varying auburns and umbers. My sweet message about our first Shea date (METS 8, GIANTS 3 MAY 15, 1987) did not leap out. Maybe next time.
I'd read too many perspectives on Citi Field after the St. John's game. I'd examined too many photos. I knew too much going in. I sort of wish a tarp had been thrown over the whole thing and that it had been constructed in private. I knew too much, yet I knew I didn't know anything. A lethal cocktail.
Where do I go? Ticket says JRR, which has nothing to do with Jeff Reardon, Jerrod Riggan or Jason Roach, the only three Mets with the initials JR. No Met had a Rotunda built in his honor. Jackie Robinson's entryway was the first thing anybody told us about this place, back in '06. It indeed existed just as they said it would. It was right there for the inspiring but it was also backed up clear to (Jackie) Roosevelt (Robinson) Avenue with ticket holders. From all the reviews and pictures, I knew enough to bolt right.
The BULLPEN GATE beckoned. Gate BG, I suppose. I suppose not, actually*. The days of Gates with letters are over. Leave it behind, already yet. The Gates were the first elements of Citi Field to start winning me over this winter. On the LEFT FIELD gate, there was a silhouette of Endy Chavez leaping and catching. For the RIGHT FIELD gate, Rocky Swoboda, stretched out and catching. Two Silhouettes from the Shea. It gave me confidence that this wouldn't necessarily be Ebbets II, that the Jackie Robinson Rotunda and the Ebbets Club and that placeholder from the CGI featuring DUKE'S GRILL (though Snider was a Met, too) just combined for an opening salvo, something to talk about, like the inane chatter about seat cushion thickness they dealt us at the Citi Field Preview Center [7] in Loge in 2007. The Mets would have Mets around, right?
Yes. Banners with faces in NY caps lined the walkway from the Rotunda to the Bullpen entrance. Not Giants, but not Dodgers either. Mets. Mets is all I wanted in this strange place. Mets is what I was beginning to get. It didn't seem possible that this was a Mets operation because they were doing something right after convincing me for the last few years they could do only wrong. They were honoring the Mets. It also didn't seem possible that there was no line at the Bullpen Gate and that they'd let me in without a hassle. (While I was calculating the odds that this would go smoothly, that I wouldn't be sent to the back of the Rotunda queue, some guy walked by and gave me a big "Faith and Fear! Keep up the good work!" So now I, too, was part of the Citi Field Experience.)
It was an operative gate, topped by a silhouette of probably Seaver, maybe Gooden, hard to discern inarguably. The security was quick, efficient and not offensive. In a moment, I was groped respectfully and directed up a brief flight of stairs and inside Citi Field.
Inside Citi Field.
I was in shock. Not awe, just shock. This is our ballpark? This, not Shea? This, not the Polo Grounds? This, not…I never pictured us anywhere else. I never saw the Mets in the Polo Grounds except on a plaque [8]. I never saw the Mets play any home games anywhere but Shea. Which at the moment is rubble.
I entered some concourse. I didn't know what it was leading me to. I glimpsed the field and the seats. I hoped to be blown away. I was blown away in Pittsburgh. I was blown away in Baltimore. I wanted to mutter to myself how great this was, how wrong I'd been for three years of nitpicking, that for all my odes to Shea and all my warnings against soulless corporate greed or whatever was bothering me for three years, I was wrong.
I wasn't blown away. I wasn't necessarily right that this was going to be missing something, but I couldn't tell yet. I was reminded, in a one-two punch of snap judgment, of Citizens Bank Park and Nationals Park. My very first glimpse of the new home of my Mets reminded me of two venues devoted to two rivals of my Mets. Fine parks both. Neither ever blew me away. And now we were the third in that line, already a game back in the parks department.
I forgot about impressions and comparisons and just sought bearings. Where the hell am I? Oh right, the Mets game. The Mets game isn't quite starting yet, and it doesn't count in the standings, so I don't have to rush to my seat. I can walk around. So I did.
Where, I didn't know. I mean, yeah, I could see the field from out there in the outfield. I could put together the bridge in front of me with the bridge I'd seen on my computer. I could read the signs for the places with the food. WORLD'S FARE. (Cute, but why no 1964 motif?) Peckish and curious, I went in.
Quesadillas! And my Daruma! I love quesadillas, so I bought one. My fondness for Daruma is well-documented [9]. I didn't really need their sushi anymore in the new order because I had quesadillas, whereas at Shea, it was me and Daruma against the world: only food I truly enjoyed there, so naturally I was barred from it more often than not by "policy". For old time's sake, I bought the tuna rolls from Daruma. To satisfy my curiosity, I bought the quesadilla.
"Do you take credit cards?" I had to ask before taking possession. Of course they did. This is Citi Field.
The quesadillas were overpriced (everything was overpriced) but the first thing I ever ate at Citi Field was heavenly. It didn't last long. I wouldn't last long without a cash machine. Citi Field has those, too.
I placed the pre-packaged sushi in my schlep bag for later partaking (if anything, Daruma's grown dandier) and took off on a 360-degree tour. Just walked and watched, watched and walked. Stopped to witness the first pitch by a Met in Citi Field history (though it didn't count) and the first at-bat by a Met in Citi Field history (ditto). Otherwise I wandered and I lingered and I remained in shock.
2) Grasping
I had come into the park around Section 109 and my seats were in Section 109. These were exhibition-priced Field seats. They were, like the food, overpriced given that this didn't count, but Jason snapped them up, figuring they were a one-time-only opportunity to sit down here (even if the new Mets thing is to let us walk unfettered almost everywhere). I was surprised and delighted I could figure out how to find my seat immediately. I thought after a lifetime of nailing Mezzanine Section 7 and Upper Deck Section 23, that a new stadium/park/field would baffle me. It didn't. It was clearly marked.
I showed my ticket to a man at the top of the stairs of the section. He pointed me in the correct general direction. You mean no schmata preserved from George Weiss's private stash is going to follow me down the stairs to grunge up my seat in exchange for a dollar? You mean it? No ushers ushering! Hallefuckinglujah! This is a seat upgrade.
The playing was the thing for a bit. We watched some baseball while comparing notes and grasping what we were in the midst of. Where's the count? Is the out-of-town scoreboard functioning properly? Do you like the retired numbers looking as they did before? Where will the pennants hang? What's with the angles in the outfield? Why is the wall black? Who are those advertisers? What's that weird thing with the pizza boxes on the big screen? That would have been out of Shea.
Shea was never far from our thoughts. It's our only home park reference point to date, so it had to serve as straw man in every reflexive comparison. I don't mind telling you Citi Field was winning every informal battle by TKO. But this wasn't a competition and the scoring wasn't done viciously by either judge. Shea is now that mangy mutt who ate your shoes and left you a package you didn't order, but he's gone and now, for all his misdirected hijinks, you remember him honestly but fondly. A sub-theme of the evening emerged: Look how well this aspect of Citi Field works…remember how at Shea it didn't? It was inconvenient then. It's sort of sweet now that it's not bothering us.
I can't measure Shea the baseball pressure-cooker against whatever Citi will be when the heat is on in a big game because we have yet to see a big game here. Nothing counted Friday night except first impressions.
Among those impressions was they didn't lie about a couple of winning features. Big seats. Long leg room. You don't know how great that is until you've got it and recall how the mangy mutt you loved/tolerated bottled you up. I mentioned no ushers. I should also mention the nice young man who sold me my Diet Pepsi didn't take my cap away. And that a pretzel and a hot dog (because a quesadilla and a tuna roll weren't enough) were hot and fresh, not regrettable and maddening [10].
3) Exploring
The rain delay was the highlight of this Mets-Red Sox exhibition game. It gave Jason and me an excuse to stroll everywhere. Except for not being permitted to drag our wet selves into the Excelsior Club (in our Shea-conditioned minds, Field Level seats trump everything and thus double as backstage passes; at Citi, they don't), we loved everything we encountered. Citi Field is arranged to function as a very sociable place. Access may be restricted by ticket price and shortened supply but the place itself, inside, is very accessible. You can pick a spot and stand and do, as Larry David calls it, a stop 'n' chat. You can gaze out at the Queens that surrounds you from all kinds of intriguing vantage points when you're away from your seat. Stare south at the Unisphere and remember why they call that thing in the outfield WORLD'S FARE. Project east toward downtown Flushing and believe you can reach out over Little Albania [11] and touch the U-Haul sign. The skyline of Manhattan twinkles to the West. LaGuardia's fun to watch beneath the northern sky. I don't care for being cut off from a view of the outside world at my seat, but I love the way the world is there for the taking in once you get up and walk around.
I also loved the sense that we — the fans, the staff, the media, the players a little bit even — are all in this together. Nobody knows anything yet. I'm clueless, but so is everyone else. We're learning this thing as a group. It's kind of fun to feel in the same boat.
It's also fun to see the old Apple. I never quite melted at the thought of it in Shea as some others did, but welcome to Citi Field, you big lug.
4) Absorbing
I thought the rain delay would become a cancellation, but the game came back, so we returned to our seats in 109. We were joined by my friend Gary and his wife Aneta (ah, the magic of the text) and, with many having cleared out from the storm, we had even more leg room. Gary was overwhelmed with joy at what he deemed a "palace," taking to the organ accompaniment in particular (we call Gary "Jane" in deference to his Jarvisian keyboard skills). As play resumed, it wasn't so much a shockingly strange new place where we couldn't figure out where they posted the radar readout. It was "this is really nice, hey another baserunner." Not a lot of people, a little tack-on rally, some cheering from the faithful…holy crap, it felt like a Mets game [12]. It felt like one of those nights at Shea where you could lean back and enjoy the companionship of those you were glad to come with and delighted to bump into. Except here you could actually lean back.
Somewhere between the bases-loaded walk in the bottom of the sixth and Frankie Rodriguez's triumphant final strikeout in the ninth, I found myself thinking, without even thinking about it, "I want to come back."
5) Reflection
I don't know that Citi Field is a particularly special pin on the ballpark map. It wasn't PNC or Camden. It doesn't have to be, I suppose. What it has to be is ours. It has to become ours, which will take a little time. Friday night shows me it has the potential to be a friendly place, a relaxed place, a place where we and the Mets fit in glove-like cohesion. How it acts with a fuller house and greater concentration and lots more drinking will help us understand what it means to be the home of the Mets from this moment on.
The prices are ridiculous. The prices were getting ridiculous at Shea for a long time. In 1977, M. Donald Grant justified the shunning of free agents to Sport magazine this way:
"The board discussed it and we thought it wasn't good for the fans. We don't think fans can afford it. if you continue to pay these prices, the fan is going to have to pay between $7 and $8 to get into the game."
Somewhere Down There, the chairman of the board of Met Hell is having a good laugh. We sign free agents, we pay our players well, we tear down a stadium to replace it with a field and all $7 gets you is a little change for your frank. But at Citi Field, to a certain extent, you get what you pay for. The food is way better. The service is way better. The physical comfort is way better. The bathrooms, pending a mass run on beer, are way better.
Yet even as I couldn't see the world outside because of the way the park "envelops" you (Jeff Wilpon's phrase), I remembered on the train home there is a world out there and it's not doing so hot. Jason was a lower-case prince and treated me to my first game at Citi Field. That was $38 for a game that didn't count. I didn't keep track of my noshery bill, but the total spent was close to that figure (I don't plan to eat that well every trip in, but boy am I tempted). These are not throwaway figures in the course of an evening or a week or a season. What I am left to mourn of Shea Stadium is the way of life it represented before, during and, for a not inconsiderable period, after Don Grant. You could walk up and buy a pretty cheap ticket on no planning. You could buy four to bring your kiddies, bring your wife. It got more difficult as the years went by, but it was manageable. And you were guaranteed, in ways that counted, to have the time of your life.
In Citi Field, upstairs is filling in fast and first. When those cheapish seats are snapped up, your options ascend financially like one of those old World's Fair rockets [13]. What was $38 in short right Friday night for an exhibition will be $75 for the proverbial weeknight against the Marlins by the end of this month. And that's the Value date. A Friday night against the Brewers in between? That's Gold, baby — Gold. That's sixty bucks in left field reserved. Per person. Never mind all your fancy sections [14] that are beyond the means of most of us. That's absurd, and not in that Marvelous Marv Met sense of the word.
I didn't want to think about how much things cost at my first-ever game at Citi Field or how much they'll cost for the one after that and the one after that. But it costs a lot. Shea has Citi beat on that, even if all you paid for was baseball, crappy food and snarling personnel (or was it snarling food and crappy personnel?). The market will dictate whether these prices will hold, whether every Mets fan who wants to will or can go, whether they have to skip the quesadilla or whatever so they can handle the $18 parking. I hope something can be arranged and that those wide seats with loads of leg room don't go unoccupied. They deserve to have asses in them and legs unfurl from them, respectively.
It's a good park. It's a fine park. It's not a great park on first contact, but first contact is just that. It has running room. We will see how we interact with it, whether we spend so much time meeting and greeting and eating that we don't focus on the field and yell as we always did at Shea. But we're Mets fans. We'll figure it out.
Citi Field is a nice place to visit, which is good. 'Cause we live there now.
*Actually, no. I realized Sunday I entered through the RIGHT FIELD gate on Friday. Boy was I disoriented.
Thanks go out to Matt Silverman [15], the latest in an encouragingly long line of blolleagues to file an enthusiastic review of Faith and Fear in Flushing: An Intense Personal History of the New York Mets. And he knows from Mets books. You can order FAFIF: AIPHOTNYM from Amazon [16], Barnes & Noble [17] or find it at a bookstore near you. Keep in touch and join the discussion on Facebook [18].
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[1] April 2006: http://www.faithandfearinflushing.com/blog/_archives/2006/4/6/1865869.html
[2] anticipant: http://www.faithandfearinflushing.com/blog/_archives/2007/5/30/2985481.html
[3] of the week: http://www.faithandfearinflushing.com/blog/_archives/2009/4/1/4140161.html
[4] given me: http://www.faithandfearinflushing.com/blog/_archives/2008/10/3/3913669.html
[5] baseball-fever: http://www.baseball-fever.com/showthread.php?t=60954&page=915
[6] making fun: http://www.faithandfearinflushing.com/blog/_archives/2007/10/14/3291160.html
[7] Citi Field Preview Center: http://www.faithandfearinflushing.com/blog/_archives/2007/9/27/3255888.html
[8] on a plaque: http://www.faithandfearinflushing.com/blog/_archives/2007/4/20/2894358.html
[9] well-documented: http://www.faithandfearinflushing.com/blog/_archives/2008/8/26/3856763.html
[10] maddening: http://www.faithandfearinflushing.com/blog/_archives/2008/9/14/3883585.html
[11] Little Albania: http://www.faithandfearinflushing.com/blog/_archives/2009/3/29/4137760.html
[12] Mets game: http://scores.espn.go.com/mlb/recap?gameId=290403121
[13] World's Fair rockets: http://www.roadsideamerica.com/story/12505
[14] all your fancy sections: http://newyork.mets.mlb.com/nym/ticketing/seating_pricing.jsp
[15] Matt Silverman: http://www.metsilverman.com/
[16] Amazon: http://www.amazon.com/Faith-Fear-Flushing-Death-Baseball/dp/1602396817/ref=sr_1_34?ie=UTF8&s=books&qid=1225588371&sr=1-34
[17] Barnes & Noble: http://search.barnesandnoble.com/booksearch/results.asp?WRD=Faith+and+Fear+in+Flushing
[18] Facebook: http://www.facebook.com/pages/Faith-and-Fear-in-Flushing-The-Book/88028715280?ref=s
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A Timeline of Professional Milestones
Born in Tianjin, China on October 11.
Earns a Bachelor of Science in biotechnology from China Pharmaceutical University in Nanjing, China.
Achieves a Master of Science in biology from New York University.
Is an electronic health record consultant for Technical Consulting & Research, Inc. in Weston, CT until 2013.
Becomes a member of the Institute of Electrical and Electronics Engineers; Authors three conference papers for the IEEE Journals.
Receives Awards of Merit for the short film "Lost in New York" from the Indie Fest Film Awards and Accolade Global Film Competition.
Is a legal intern for Thomson Reuters in Eagan, MN until 2017; Volunteers for One Thousand Writers until 2017.
Obtains a Doctor of Jurisprudence, cum laude, from the University of Minnesota Law School.
Becomes a member of the American Bar Association.
Becomes a licensed attorney in New York.
Receives Beijing Overseas Talents Center Awards.
Is research director for Beijing Qiansong Tech Development Co., Ltd. in Beijing, China through today.
Receives a patent for "Data isolation sharing method and device based on blockchain, terminal, and system."
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Titon Holdings Plc Justice and favour
Posted by: giles.arbor 15th May 2018
Kim Jong-un, North Korea's Supreme leader, has been in rehab and is finally living up to the English translation of his christian names: justice-and-favour. The World is a different place with a Trump/Kim summit pending. South Korea is a different place, too, which is very good news per se and for Titon Holdings Plc (LON:TON) which generated three-quarters of its net profit here in its latest half year.
Result: profit before tax in the half year to 31 March 2018 rose some 15% on a constant currency basis to £1.34m on revenue justice-ed 16% ahead at £14.5m.The dividend was also favoured by 17% to 1.75 pence with cover at 4.1x. South Korea raised its contribution 13% to almost £0.9m and contributed 74% of Titon's net profit.
Metrics: Return on Net Assets in H1 was 18.9% on an adjusted basis with Capital Turn above 2.0 (we like this 'un'). Liquidity is summit-less, too, with a Quick Ratio of 1.93; while net cash is equivalent to 16% of net assets. Titon is looking forward to further progress in H2 and a performance in line with expectations.
Forecasts: we have nudged up our profit and earnings forecasts and the UK can be expected to provide favour-able seasonal demand in H2 and, while domestic GDP is below trend, it should justly grow at 1% to 2% p.a. through 2020. In South Korea, ahead of any peace dividend, GDP is set to grow at 2.9% p.a.
Risks: the Korean Peninsula is a dramatically safer place than it was and can build from there. Yes, there is continued Brexit uncertainty at home but Experian is forecasting annual growth in construction of 1.1% in 2018 through 2020 with private housebuilding increasing at 3.0% p.a. Meantime, Titon's other regions are seed corn for the future. The Group produces both prosaic and truly innovative products which is both a useful combination and affords good reach.
Justice and favour: The unique Hardman UK Building Materials Sector comprises 22 companies with a market value of £8.5bn and our average valuation of 8.7x EV/EBITDA on a trailing 12-month basis. Titon Holdings Plc is in the lower half of the table at 7.7x – despite the third best Total Return to Shareholders of 42% over 12 months; note, too, the Sector TSR average is just 5.3%.
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The IoT and the Creation of Smart Roads
If cars are getting smarter, roads should as well…Smart technology and the Internet of Things ( IoT ) are changing the world in a huge way. One of the biggest trending news items is the rapid development of autonomous vehicles. Yet, they are only part of the future of our roads. As Studio Roosegaarde founder Daan Roosegaarde told BBC in 2014, "Whenever we talk about innovation and mobility, it's weird how we focus on cars, while roads are somehow pushed away in a corner. But the infrastructure you and I use actually dominates the landscape much, much more. If cars are getting smarter, roads should as well."
Roosegaarde set out on his vision of creating smarter roads. His innovative Van Gogh bike pathin Eindhoven in the Netherlands, for instance, "uses sunlight-charged paints to create a twinkling, glow-in-the-dark pattern for night illumination." He also installed glowing lines on highway N329 in Oss. Two years later, France unveiled its own version of a smart road, formally opening the first solar road in Tourouvre-au-Perche in Normandy. Incidentally, France is one of the leading countries for installing solar panels in roads to augment electricity needs for street lighting and light emitting advertisements at night.
Yet, the potential of smart roads is much more than converting solar power. In China, for instance, a span of highway in Jinan is being transformed by Qilu Transportation Development into a futuristic smart road. It will be equipped with, among other things, solar panels, electric-battery rechargers, and mapping sensors.
"In the future, when cars are running on these roads, it will be like human beings," explains Qilu general manager Zhou Yong. "The road will feel and think to figure out how heavy the vehicles are and what kind of data is needed." Zhou also talks about "transplanting brains and a nervous system" to the 1,080 metre-long stretch of road, through the IoT.
Across the Atlantic, the U.S. government is set to incorporate smart road technology along a portion of Highway 285 in Colorado. NBC report that the road surface of this span will be "covered with factory-made concrete slabs featuring Wi-Fi connectivity and embedded fibre optic cables that act as pressure sensors," which will be connected to the Internet. These sensors, in turn, can monitor road wear and tear and "'feel' vehicles like fingers on a touchpad." They can also alert motorists on traffic conditions on that portion of the road, or even call for help in case of accidents.
While smart roads may still be in their infancy, big leaps forward are currently being made in the use of data analytics in North America. In the commercial trucking industry, the use of Electronic Logging Devices (ELD) has been fully integrated into the logistics industry. Verizon Connect lists the features present on ELDs, including route optimisation, service personalisation, and driver and equipment monitoring. These allow fleet companies to use data to improve every aspect of a vehicle's journey. While the data is coming from the vehicles and not the roads, it shows how far advanced IoT integration into public roads has come, and provides a roadmap to the future. The hopes are that other European countries will also look adopt similar devices to the ELD in the coming years.
There will, of course, be security concerns when it comes to the IoT, but they can be addressed as we previously discussed in 'How Do We Enhance Trust in Connected Things?' Other than that, the issue now is whether there will be an even bigger push towards making roads smarter. We believe in the power of the IoT, and we are certainly looking forward to a future when even roads are fully connected to the IoT.
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Objective: This study investigated the efficacy of bupivacaine wound infusion for pain control and opioid sparing effect after cesarean delivery.Materials and methods: We conducted a randomized double blind, placebo controlled clinical trial on 60 parturients undergoing cesarean section at a university hospital in Tehran. Patients were randomized to receive a pump infusion system that was filled with either 0.25% bupivacaine or equal volume of distilled water. A catheter was placed above the fascia and connected to electronic pump for 24 hours. Postoperative analog pain scores and morphine consumption were assessed at 6, 12 and 24 hours. Also time interval to first ambulation, length of hospitalization, complications and patient satisfaction were recorded. Data were analyzed using the SPSS software and P < 0.05 was considered statistically significant. Mann-Whitney u-test, student t-test and chi-square were used. Results: There were no differences in patient demographics and length of hospitalization and patient-generated resting pain scores between the two groups. Pain scores after coughing and leg raise during the first 6 postoperative hours were significantly less in the Bupivacaine group (P<0.001). The total dose of morphine consumption during the 24 hours study period was 2.5 ± 2.5 mg vs. 7.3 ± 2.7 mg for the bupivacaine and control groups, respectively (P<0.001). Compared with the control group, time to first ambulation was shorter in the bupivacaine group (11± 5h vs. 16 ± 4h) (P< 0.01). Conclusion: Bupivacaine wound infusion was a simple and safe technique that provides effective analgesia and reduces morphine requirements after cesarean delivery.
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The BB collection features black glaze products with a fabulous patina, when the light catches the glaze you can see both blue and cream tones. This plate with a high rim will really accentuate your favorite dish of food.
Green coloured high rim plate from the Fade Collection, 20cm. This is a really earthy green with brown and white tones showing through.


It's easy to characterize religion as a blood - thirsty enterprise. History seems to be strewn with the wreckage of witch hunts, crusades, and religious jihad. If God does exist, a caller to my radio show offered, He ought to be tried for crimes against humanity.
The recent terrorist attacks have added a new twist: Our battle is not against terrorism per se, but against any religion that claims to be true. Thomas Friedman writing in the New York Times called it "religious totalitarianism."
Friedman's solution: pluralism, the idea that "God speaks multiple languages." No one faith is exclusively true. Instead, all faiths are legitimate paths to God and anyone who claims otherwise is the enemy. Friedman's call to arms, however, is misguided for three reasons.
First, it's self-defeating. The issue is not God's linguistic ability, but whether anything particular is true about God and whether God has made any specific demands on us regarding conduct, worship, or salvation. Do the details matter to God?
Friedman says no; God is a pluralist. He fails to recognize that this is a narrow, exclusivist (excluding non-pluralists), religious claim that he thinks is true. Not only is he dogmatic about this doctrine of God, he's also militant. Those who disagree should be silenced. Friedman counters what he mistakenly perceives to be "religious totalitarianism"(in fact, most exclusivist religions are not militant) with the genuine article. His view commits suicide.
Second, Friedman misdiagnoses the problem, which he thinks is religious dogma. Of necessity, though, everyone (including Friedman) is dogmatic about issues of truth. It can't be otherwise. Any claim is either true or false. If true, then those that contradict are wrong by simple force of logic.
The problem is not religious dogmatics, but religious error. The problem with Muslim terrorists is not fundamentalism, but that their fundamental beliefs are simply false. Ironically, Friedman's pluralism prevents him from asking the only question that really matters: What religion is true?
Finally, it's just erroneous that religion has been responsible for more carnage than anything else in history. The challenge has two parts. An allegedly factual observation about history is then taken as an inherent criticism of religion in general and Christianity in particular.
This is misguided. First, the crimes themselves have been exaggerated. Second, the greatest evil in the world actually comes from those who deny God's existence. Third, Christianity cannot be held responsible when people do un-Christian things. Finally, Christianity's real record of goodness is without peer in world history.
The first problem with this objection is that many "religious" crimes have been misconstrued or greatly exaggerated.
Many conflicts that appear at first glance to be religious in nature are actually political or cultural wars that divide along religious lines. The strife in Northern Ireland is not a theological dispute about Catholicism vs. Protestantism per se, but rather a cultural power struggle between two groups of people. In like manner, much of the conflict in Eastern Europe and the Middle East is the result of ethnic hostilities, not genuine religious differences.
The Crusades, the Inquisition, some of the religious wars of the Reformation, and the Salem witch trials, on the other hand, were more theological. Even so, the record is not as grim as many make it.
Thousands of witches were not burned at the stake. The Salem witch trials resulted in only nineteen executions before it was stopped by Christians. The Spanish Inquisition involved thousands and the Crusades tens of thousands, not millions.
Of course, it's tragic when even a handful of innocent lives are taken. Injustice isn't justified because the numbers diminish. But an accurate accounting does serve to put things in perspective, especially when one considers the alternative: Has atheism fared better?
The simple fact of history is that the greatest evil has always resulted from denial of God, not pursuit of Him. Dennis Prager has noted, "In this [20th] century alone, more innocent people have been murdered, tortured, and enslaved by secular ideologiesnazism and communismthan by all religions in history."
Grab an older copy of the Guinness Book of World Records and turn to the category "Judicial," sub-heading "Crimes: Mass Killings." You'll find that carnage of unimaginable proportions resulted not from religion, but from institutionalized atheism.
Guinness reports, "The greatest massacre ever imputed by the government of one sovereign against another is the 26.3 million Chinese killed during the regime of Mao Zedong between 1949 and May 1965. The Walker Report published by the U.S. Senate Committee of the Judiciary in July 1971 placed...the total death toll in China since 1949 between 32.25 and 61.7 million."
In the USSR, Nobel Prize winner Alexander Solzhenitsyn estimated that state repression and terrorism took over 66 million lives from 1917 to 1959 under Lenin, Stalin and Khrushchev.
The worst per capita genocide happened in Cambodia under the Khmer Rouge. According to Guinness, "More than one third of the eight million Khmers were killed between April 17, 1975 and January 1979."
The greatest evil does not result from people zealous for God. It results when people are convinced there is no God to whom they must answer.
The third problemone often overlookedis captured in a question: Is oppression and bloodshed either a religious duty of Christianity or a logical application of the teachings of Christ? If not, then violence done in the name of Christ cannot be laid at His door.
Imagine yourself a builder who sent out crews with detailed, written instructions for their work. Instead of building, though, they destroyed. Would you be responsible? That would depend on one thing: the written instructions.
One can't hold Christianity responsible when so-called Christians violate the written instructions. The fault is not with Christ, but with people who disobey Him.
Jesus was quite clear on this: "If you love Me, you will keep My commandments" (John 14:15). His command to love extended even to one's enemy (Luke 10:29-37).
The Apostle John reflects the same view: "By this the children of God and the children of the devil are obvious: Anyone who does not practice righteousness is not of God, nor the one who does not love his brother" (1 John 3:10).
Nothing in Christian teaching itself mandates forcible conversion to the faith or coerced adherence to Biblical doctrines. The teachings of Christ do not lead logically to wanton bloodshed.
Jesus Himself warned of interlopers, wolves in sheep's clothing. His assessment of them is unmistakable: "I never knew you. Depart from Me, you who practice lawlessness" (Matthew 7:23).
The actual track record for genuine disciples of Jesus Christthose who follow the written instructionsis much different. Two Biblical teachings have made Christianity the greatest force for good in the history of the world.
First is the teaching that God reigns over a moral universe He created. He requires virtuous behavior from His subjects and will one day judge each person's conduct with perfect justice.
Second, Christian morality is informed by the notion that human beings are made in the image of God and therefore have transcendent value. This has been the foundation for Christian ethics for 2,000 years.
Love for Christ and a desire to obey Him has transformed the world in four areas: education, human rights, acts of mercy, and general moral transformation of culture.
Modern education owes its origins to Christianity. The reason is simple. One of the goals of the Reformation was to get the Bible into the hands of the common man, in the language of the common man. This did no good if he didn't know how to read. Primary public education, then, was part of the foundation for the Reformation.
Education was one of the earliest concerns of the colonists, according to the pamphlet New England's First Fruits. This was in the tradition of the Reformation because Calvin and Luther had emphasized the need of education so that the individual could read his Bible and so that leaders for the church and state could be trained. The Bible had first place in their curricula and that of the educational institutions of early America, and classical training took second place as an aid to the full knowledge of the Bible.
In fact, all of the Ivy League schools were started with theological intentYale, Harvard, Brown, Cornell, et al. Our own educational system was founded on the need to teach citizens to read the Bible and to provide leadership for the church and state.
This was the pattern wherever Christianity went. In A Concise History of the Christian World Mission, Herbert Kane reports, "In China...missionaries...operated thousands of elementary schools, as well as hundreds of high schools, as well as thirteen full-fledged Christian universities."
Missionaries made Africa literate. Kane notes, "There are 860 known languages and dialects in Africa. A hundred years ago fewer than twenty had a written form. Since then five hundred have been reduced to writingall the work of missionaries."
These dedicated Christians created written languages for many African tribes where no writing existed. "The missionaries had to start from scratchinventing scripts, writing textbooks, and opening schools. For many decades they were the sole purveyors of education....In 1923 only one hundred of the six thousand schools in British Africa were government schools. As late as 1961, 68 per cent of all the school children in Africa were still in mission schools."
The first president of Ghana and one of the earliest presidents of Kenyaa former Mau Mau insurrectionist leaderacknowledged the debt they owed missionaries in laying a foundation for their country's independence. Liberia, Ghana, Nigeria, Chad, Zaire, Uganda, Tanzania, and Zambia all had Christian presidents at one time or another.
In the nineteenth century, William Wilberforce spent a lifetime working to abolish slavery in England and the British commonwealth. Cairns records, "Slavery was ended in British possessions by an act passed just before Wilberforce's death in 1833," an achievement, he adds, that "would have been impossible without the work of Wilberforce and his evangelical friends in Parliament."
Opposition to slavery by Christians here in America led us into Civil War. Their objection was based on the Christian belief that human beings are free people before God and ought not be owned by anyone else. This conviction was the moral foundation for abolition.
David Livingston, an adventurer who charted the dark regions of Africa, was actually a missionary. "By his travels in Central Africa, [Livingston] exposed the Arab slave trade as 'the open sore of the world.'" In fact, it was Christian missionaries who entreated European powers to intervene in Africa to stop the slave trade carried on by the Arabs.
By precept and example [missionaries] inculcated the ideas and ideals of Christianitythe sanctity of life, the worth of the individual, the dignity of labor, social justice, personal integrity, freedom of thought and speechwhich have since been incorporated in the Universal Declaration of Human Rights drawn up by the United Nations.
Mother Theresa was well known as a humble Christian who spent her life in service to the poor people of Calcutta. She was one of many.
George Mueller relied on prayer and selfless dedication to start orphanages all over nineteenth century England. Mueller's contemporary and fellow countryman John Howard devoted his life and his sizable fortune to prison reform. Historian Earle Cairns notes that "before his death in 1790 from jail fever, which he caught while inspecting a vile prison, he traveled fifty thousand miles and spent thirty thousand pounds of his own money on prison reform."
In America, people like William Booth with The Salvation Army and Chuck Colson with the Prison Fellowship have worked tirelessly to alleviate staggering human suffering.
Evangelist John Wesley was possibly without peer in his impact. "Historians readily acknowledge that Methodism ranks with the French Revolution and the Industrial Revolution as one of the great historical phenomena of the [eighteenth] century, and some subscribe to the idea that Wesley's preaching saved England from a revolution similar to that of France" [emphasis added]. As a result of Wesley's work, reforms were instituted so there was no need for revolution.
Cairns reports, "Most of the social reforms [in England] between 1787 and 1850 were the outcome of evangelical effort for the poor." Kane notes, "In China [the missionaries] operated 270 hospitals....These accounted for more than half of all the hospitals in the country. Today India has 450 hospitals in the Christian Medical Association."
For every well known servant of Christ to the poor and downtrodden there have been thousands upon thousands more who served quietly, unnamed and unnoticed.
Even secular observers have conceded the contribution of the faithful followers of Christ. "Thinking largely of Africa, Professor E. A. Hootan of Harvard said: 'As an anthropologist, I have completely reversed my opinion of missionaries. These men and women have contributed more to our knowledge of the peoples of the world than have the entire ruck of professional travelers and explorers. They may have done more than the anthropologists themselves.'"
The missionaries of the nineteenth century were a special breed of men and women. Single-handedly and with great courage they attacked the social evils of their time: child marriage, the immolation of widows, temple prostitution, and untouchability in India; footbinding, opium addiction, and the abandoning of babies in China; polygamy, the slave trade, and the destruction of twins in Africa. In all parts of the world they opened schools, hospitals, clinics, medical colleges, orphanages, and leprosaria. They gave succor and sustenance to the dregs of society cast off by their own communities. At great risk to themselves and their families they fought famines, floods, pestilences, and plagues. They were the first to rescue unwanted babies, educate girls, and liberate women.
"Above all," Kane sums up, "they gave to the non-Christian world the most liberating of all messagesthe gospel of Christ. They converted savages into saints; and out of this raw material they built the Christian church, which is today the most universal of all institutions."
This is Christianity's real record, not a history of evil, violence, and debauchery, but a legacy of radical transformation for good.


My kids always love to make their own unique Valentine's Day cards to give to friends and classmates every February. Here are 4 fun and easy card projects to make at home with common craft supplies that you probably have on hand already. We think these really beat the store-bought Valentines, since they're handmade, beautiful, and "from the heart."
Children of all ages can do most of the steps in these crafts, but grown-ups may want to help with cutting and gluing, depending on children's ages and skill levels.
Crayons, markers, paint, glitter glue, etc.
To make this craft a little easier, we've created a template that you can download here. Print the template onto the card stock and have your child cut it out with kid-friendly scissors. Cut the slots (indicated by dashed lines) for the candy-stick or pencil. Open the wings and weave the candy stick or pencil down into one slit and up through the other.
To make the antennae, wind the pipe cleaner tightly around one end of the candy stick so that two equal lengths extend upward and then curl the ends. Finally, decorate your butterfly with stickers, crayons, markers, or glitter glue and write your message on the back.
To make these, we cut a sheet of card stock in half and folded it to make two small cards. We then cut out another square of card stock in a contrasting color, folded it in half, and cut out a heart-shaped window.
We then glued a piece of red foil tissue to fill the heart shape, trimmed it to fit with scissors, and glued it to the card. We made a few different versions of this, one with a rectangular cut-out, and some where we followed the contours of the heart shape.
Let the kids go wild covering the Mod Podge with pieces of tissue. Make sure you overlap the pieces so that all the white paper is covered. Once you're happy with your creation, carefully brush another layer of Mod Podge over the top and let dry.
When dry, trim the extra tissue from the edges of the heart, then glue it to the larger heart with more Mod Podge. You'll then want to give it another final Mod Podge coating. Let dry thoroughly and then write your Valentine's Day message on the back.
This potato print card project is really easy and fun, and the kids think it's neat that they're using something they usually eat for dinner to create a craft.
To create your potato stamp, cut a potato in half cross-wise, so you have two halves, each with a round end. Push a heart-shaped cookie cutter into the flat round surface of the potato half. Make sure it goes in at least half way so you can get a good heart shape that stands out.
Leave the cookie cutter in place, and, with the paring knife, cut away the potato around the outside of the heart. Leaving the cookie cutter there will assure that you don't cut through your heart shape. When you're done, you'll have a heart standing out from the potato. Needless to say, these steps should be done by grownups. Now, you can either cut the heart stamp off the potato (which makes it easier for little fingers to grip) or hold on to the potato half and use the whole thing as the stamp.
Dip a brush into the paint of your choice and lightly brush paint onto the heart shape, then press it onto the paper to make colorful hearts. Make sure you give it a little pressure to thoroughly apply the paint. Alternatively, you can brush the stamp with some white glue, stamp the paper, and then sprinkle with glitter for a beautiful glittery heart.
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For centuries now, we crossed waters and borders around the globe for different (un)compelling reasons: curiosity, economic gain, calamities, religion, war, leisure, knowledge and personal gain. Traditionally water has functioned as a border to prevent others from entering a space. Utopia, the ideal society set on an island, it serving as a shelter for his revolutionary ideas, protected from the outside world. But water has also served as a gateway and passage to explore other spaces, connect with others and find resources. As such water carriers the world history yet has the fluidity to keep adapting to the present and future and is in a continuous transition. How do we as a people relate to our history, our present and future?
Exhibition runs until Sunday June 25, 2017. EXTENDED till September 3rd, 2017. EXTENDED till September 17, 2017.
Ferry to Staten Island (20 min. FREE) take a lyft or cab (approx $6) or the S40 bus from Staten Island Ferry Terminal (5 min.) you can use your MTA card on the bus or a 15 minute walk. S40 GOETHALS RD via RICH TR bus and the stop is called Richmond Ter/Sailors S H Gate. Sit on the left side of the bus so you can look out of the window and you will recognise the old buildings (there's 5 in total next to eachother) in the park in this discussion feed.
This project is in part made possible by: Sharp Artist in Residency, Taike Taiteen Edistämiskeskus – Arts Promotion Centre Finland, VISEK, Vooren Productions and CUNY College of Staten Island (for Sasha Huber & Petri Saarikko), Mondriaan Fonds, LAB 111, Suitsupply and crowdfunding (for the work by Simone Bennett).
Newhouse Center for Contemporary Art acknowledge generous support from the New York City Department of Cultural Affairs, the Samuel I. Newhouse Foundation, The Greenwall Foundation, New York Community Trust, Material for the Arts and the Council on the Arts & Humanities for Staten Island. Snug Harbor Cultural Center is a proud Smithsonian Affiliate.


Are mini gardens really popular enough to justify the mass production of these holiday-themed decorations? The presence of these in the Michaels's clearance section last year suggests the answer is no.
But they're weird. And fascinating. And useful to toy collectors. And, most importantly, Christmas.
So I picked them up. This is two sets, incidentally: I stacked one on top of the other in the above photograph. The backs contain detailed information about the product, the company that produces it, and other items they make.
Aside from one having "5 pc" stamped on the top sticker and the UPC, there's no difference in the label - not even a unique name for the different sets.
The first set contains six items: Santa, a snowman, a cabin, a table, and two stools. I like the pieces well enough, though the collection seems somewhat arbitrary. Why are we getting chairs and a table with figures who can't sit in them? If the set's meant to represent the outside of a house, why include furniture intended for the interior?
Likewise, it's worth noting the house doesn't remotely scale to anything else. It feels like a jumble of parts more than a unified display. Not that I have an issue with that - I just wanted the pieces, anyway.
Santa and the snowman are nice, though the furniture is the most impressive part of this. These look extremely realistic and detailed.
The house is pretty cool, too, though I wish they'd skipped the glitter. The fake snow is coated in the stuff, which means I am, too. Glitter is never worth it.
The other set contains a pair of Christmas gnomes, a fairy, a door, and a welcome sign. Between the two sets, this is the one I really wanted, on account of the gnomes. Nothing against a miniature Santa, but... come on. GNOMES. DRESSED LIKE CHRISTMAS ELVES.
The one leaning on the candy cane is my favorite. I love the concept here.
The fairy is held back by an even more egregious use of glitter than the house. Her wings are practically coated in the stuff.
The door is nice, though it's worth noting it's one-sided. Flip it over, and you're staring at a slate. Same goes for the house from the other set, actually.
These are ceramic, in case that's not clear in the pictures. All are painted well, given the scale. The figures are about 2.5 to 3 inches tall (the seated fairy's a little shorter, and the pointed hat of the gnome with the candy cane is about 3.25). The house comes in at about 4.5 inches tall.
These are relatively versatile, as long as you're careful not to break them or scrape off the paint. The gnomes scale well with most action figures (depending on just how tall you want them to seem). Beside 6 or 7 inch figures, they're about the size you'd expect a garden gnome to be.
The table, chairs, and even door could serve as tongue-in-cheek additions to gaming miniatures, if you're so inclined.
As far as low-end miniatures go, these are pretty decent. They started out $25 each. If memory serves, I picked them up at 70% off, which is still a little more than I'd have ideally wanted to pay. Still, they're a fun addition to the Christmas vault, and I expect I'll get some use out of them over the years.


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«Вагоновожатые» (ВГНВЖ) — український музичний гурт, який створили 2013 року колишній фронтмен дніпровського колективу «И Друг Мой Грузовик» Антон Слєпаков і гітарист Валентин Панюта, раніше відомий за харківським гуртом «Lюk».

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Ідея гурту з'явилася в Антона Слєпакова і Валентина Панюти в 2012 році, при зустрічі в одній із кав'ярень Харкова. Музика Панюти виявилася тим, чого не вистачало Слєпакову в проекті НеГрузовики, який на той час вичерпав себе. Після того, як було записано дебютний трипісенний синґл «Сгруппироваться» (випущений 1 квітня 2013) і мініальбом «Без трамваев» (випущений 16 жовтня того ж року і записаний на кошти, зібрані шляхом краудфандингу), до гурту приєднався ударник Стас Іващенко, який до цього грав в донецькому гурті DOK. Такий досить «зірковий» склад дозволяє характеризувати «Вагоновожатые» як супергурт. Першим записаним із живими ударними релізом став синґл «Упасть с тандема». Після того, як у складі колективу з'явився барабанщик, «Вагоновожатые» почали давати живі концерти. Доти Слєпаков і Панюта обмежувалися студійними записами, часто не зустрічаючись особисто, але обмінюючись своїми частинами роботи через інтернет.

Третій альбом гурту "Вогнепальне", презентований у травні 2021, записано повністю українською мовою. .

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 Упасть с тандема, 2014
 Стартап Молодость, 2016

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Nitto 'Auto Enthusiast Day' set for Aug. 1
CYPRESS, Calif. (June 10, 2015) — Nitto Tire U.S.A. Inc.'s is hosting its third annual Auto Enthusiast Day car show Aug. 1 at Angel Stadium of Anaheim, Calif.
The show — which Nitto said is free for all car show participants, vendors and spectators — will include a variety of activities, such as drifting and truck jumping demonstrations, a vendor midway featuring automotive products and raffle giveaways. Attendees also will have a chance to meet Team Nitto drivers Vaughn Gittin Jr., Odi Bakchis, "Mad" Mike Whiddett and Tanner Foust.
The event will run 11 a.m. to 7 p.m. at Angel Stadium, which is home to Major League Baseball team the Los Angeles Angels of Anaheim.
New for 2015, the event also will feature various drivers from Nitto's Ultra4 Off-Road motorsports team.
"We couldn't be more thrilled with how quickly Auto Enthusiast Day has evolved, as well as all of the positive responses from our fans," said Harry Kong, brand publishing events and motorsports for Nitto Tire. "Nitto is proud to be a company fueled by enthusiasts, and we love being able to give back to the community that has been instrumental in our success. We have some great things planned for our third annual event and cannot wait to see the reactions of the attendees."
Admission to the event is free for everyone, but spectator parking is $10. In addition, the first 500 car show participants will receive a free gift for being part of the show. Vendor space is limited and will be assigned on a first-come, first-served basis, Nitto said.
Tickets for Auto Enthusiast Day are available online; interested vendors can reserve their spot by emailing [email protected].