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The Invitation / The Married Kind by Bette Held
Here is a daring tale about suburbanites who turn business into sex, and sex into business…who turn off their consciences when they turn off their lights…and who live by one rule only: Anything goes! As you read what happens to Barry Johns and his wife, remember this novel is based on the actual facts of suburbia's spreading immorality…and consider what you yourself might do if you ever receive…THE INVITATION
Then… Eve Hadley was more than pretty. She was warm and wanting. So why should she try to content herself with one man? Ed Hadley was her husband. But he was having affairs with other women. That gave Eve a perfect excuse to seek solace with a neighbor. And that launched the mate-trading. Eve and her neighbor, her husband and the neighbor's wife. Still it wasn't enough. For greater kicks, Eve snared a teenager…
To Anton by Andreea Albu
No one ever said that love is easy. Sometimes is the most difficult battle a woman has to take. When do you decide it's enough? That you suffered to your limit? How can you decide to leave the man you love more than anything in the world?
"I loved you madly, passionately, with blood. I hated you worse. I cursed you, and I adored you. I have never been able to be indifferent to you. I always vibrated at you, in shades of colors, from the red of jealousy to yellow sunny summer days where we first met and to the purple starry nights of love. You were my hope, light, heat. And also the worst hole, my emptiness."
Thorns by Andreea Albu
How many steps are between passion and murder? A torrid summer, a fervent woman and a potent man. Starry nights and days with thorns. Come with me on a journey in the murderer's mind, in which love is mixed with hatred, and women are not as fragile as you would expect.
The Arrangement by Jennifer Lewis
She's got everything under control. He always gets what he wants. What happens when he makes an offer she can't refuse?
When Ashlyn Gray's father passes, he leaves one shocking stipulation in his last will and testament. If she wants him to continue funding her education, she will marry. For an entire year. At 23, Ashlyn doesn't want to date anyone, let alone marry.
At 25, Deacon Cross is a self-made billionaire. He has no time for love. But he needs a wife, and he needs one fast.
Enter Ashlyn. The perfect answer to his dilemma; and he thinks, the answer to hers. Their attraction is off the charts, but Ashlyn doesn't trust Deacon and he isn't about to let his guard down.
Can these two really stay married for an entire year?
The Duchess Deal: Girl Meets Duke by Tessa Dare
When girl meets Duke, their marriage breaks all the rules…
Since his return from war, the Duke of Ashbury's to-do list has been short and anything but sweet: brooding, glowering, menacing London ne'er-do-wells by night. Now there's a new item on the list. He needs an heir—which means he needs a wife. When Emma Gladstone, a vicar's daughter turned seamstress, appears in his library wearing a wedding gown, he decides on the spot that she'll do.
His terms are simple:
– They will be husband and wife by night only.
– No lights, no kissing.
– No questions about his battle scars.
– Last, and most importantly… Once she's pregnant with his heir, they need never share a bed again.
But Emma is no pushover. She has a few rules of her own:
– They will have dinner together every evening.
– With conversation.
– And unlimited teasing.
– Last, and most importantly… Once she's seen the man beneath the scars, he can't stop her from falling in love…
What to Kill For by Tomi Farrell
A single woman whose biological clock is ticking hunts for a husband in the "Land of Mr. Wrongs" also known as Los Angeles. "Fortunately," she gets kidnapped by a Mexican mobster.
Shannon is just another single woman in Los Angeles who is desperate to find "The One." She is a pretty, decently-educated Episcopalian princess, and—it appears—there is absolutely nothing wrong with her. What appears to be wrong is that her Prince Charming is ten years overdue, and more than fashionably late in making his appearance.
Meanwhile, Shannon gets kidnapped by a Mexican mobster from one of the most notorious crime syndicates in Mexico. It is payback for her boss's corruption and wrongdoing in secret, criminal transactions. Shannon's hope for her release is slim since she knows her boss couldn't care less about her life. She must escape on her own and return to her everyday agenda of searching for her future husband. She has to hurry, too, because she's running out of time!
The Baby Favor by Chance Carter
Sometimes a favor can change your life.
Him: A rich, powerful, stunningly sexy CEO. Let's call him Derek.
Me: An innocent, curvy, shy as hell girl who just applied to be his intern.
The Problem: His father has three months to live, and unless Derek shows he can settle down and start a family, he's going to be completely cut off from his family and his business. He'll lose everyone and everything. He won't even be allowed to attend the funeral.
The Solution: Uhm, yup. That's where I step in. I've barely started working there, hardly found my desk, and he just asks me to do the most intimate, crazy, sexual thing I've ever heard of. It's true when they say some favors will literally change your life.
The Favor: Pretend to be in love with him. Pretend to be engaged to him. Pretend to be pregnant with his baby. Oh, and while I'm at it, I have to be convincing enough to fool his suspicious father, the family lawyers, and everyone else in the family. Piece of cake, right? Well, let's just say, Derek can make things very convincing, very fast.
The Baby favor is a full length, standalone romance from USA Today Bestselling author, Chance Carter. It will make you laugh. It will make you cry. And it will make you breathless for more. HEA is guaranteed.
Hard Choices by Joan Farraneau
Project Echo 31: There's A Time To Love by E.D. Johnson
Her Right to Flight by Mikela D. Harris
No one thought a teen mother from the ghetto, like Genevieve could marry an accomplished airline pilot like Jayson. The capstone of Gen's success is her tenth wedding anniversary celebration, a perfectly planned gala. But all her plans take a turn when Jayson falls ill and his hidden life is exposed.
Desperately in need of a kidney transplant, Jayson's only immediate match is Gen's teenaged son, Eric. As Jayson's fate falls into Gen's hands, her own past secrets surface to further threaten her comfortable life. While tragedy and betrayal snowball, Gen gets sweet words of biblical wisdom from her incarcerated older sister, La'Yolanda.
Gen is faced with the hardest decisions of her life; to exact revenge on her husband, to forgive him, to stay and trust God in chaos or to simply take flight?
Bigamy In Nigeria by Okey Eni
Polygamy is allowed in most African countries as part of religious and customary laws. Bigamy is also prohibited by the statutory laws of these states. This book examined the issues involved with the crime of bigamy in Nigeria.
Summary of The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman by Brandon Nankivell
Do you want your spouse to be more intimate? Do you want your spouse to show that they love you? Do you want love that lasts?
If you answered "Yes" to any of the above, then this is the book for you! Whether you've been married for 30 years or you're new to the whole thing, you'll learn how to build love and intimacy that lasts a lifetime. When you download Summary of The 5 Love Languages by Gary Chapman – Gary Chapman's Secret to Love that Lasts (The 5 Love Languages: Improve your Marriage, Intimacy, Communication, and Trust), you'll learn how to re-discover the powerful love and connection you and your partner once shared.
This full summary is based on Gary Chapman's famous best-seller, The 5 Love Languages. He has 35 years of marriage counselling experience and has helped millions of people improve their relationships. At half the cost of the original book, it will save you hours of your time by eliminating the fluff you don't need. You'll also get a FREE audiobook at no extra cost.
Honey by David Atilola
The book Honey is a collection of poetry set to awaken the spirit of love. This is one of the best poetry book written in 2015 by a new published poet. It will be available for free on amazon from the 4th to 7th December 2015.
A Godless Love by Brenda Thornlow
Cherise and Aaron are a beautiful couple that are completely in love and devoted to one another. Some would say both their sexual appetites lean toward the extreme. As devoted as they are to one another, they are also devoted to the church where they've spent most their lives. A church where every aspect of it's members lives are watched under a microscope; where any misstep could cause a person to be ostracized by the community, including family, and friends whom they love.
When Cherise and Aaron's sexual proclivities are discovered by the leaders of their church, their private lives will come under the most invasive dissection. Others in their church will be forced to face their own sexual bias and question their own beliefs. Could the way a person shares their love with another really be sinful even if true love is involved? Does anyone have the right to determine how to share your love with another?
The Other Side of Ruth: A Lesbian Novel by Giselle Renarde
Ruth loves her husband, but she keeps secrets from him. When a notoriously lesbian neighbour returns home to Toronto from Art School in Montreal, Ruth finds herself unmistakeably attracted. Agnes is quirky, creative, and significantly younger. After twenty-five years married to a man, can Ruth find a place in her life for ambiguous, artsy Agnes? Or will the younger woman's demons devour them both?
Loving Annalise by Gabriel Constans
After years of poverty, heartbreak, loss and betrayal, Tomas enters Annalise's world and shatters the iron casing she's erected around her heart. Tomas is kind, intelligent, romantic and handsome, but he's also her husband's brother!
Once Tomas and Annalise meet, they are forever intertwined and repeatedly ripped apart by fate, self-doubt and blackmail. Her husband, Jens, is a brilliant, jealous and manipulative scoundrel who keeps her psychologically under lock and key, until her passion for Tomas sets her free.
Hidden Embers by Jane Burrelli
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Massive Swedish Data Breach: IBM and Government to Blame
Rechelle Ann Fuertes Jul 24, 2017 at 1:42 pm GMT
Jul 24, 2017 at 1:42 pm GMT
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Sweden is now battling a catastrophic data breach that has seen millions of bytes of sensitive data exposed to the public and left the country's security at risk.
According to reports, the data leakage was due to the mishandled outsourcing deal that the Swedish Transport Agency (Transportstyrelsen) got into with IBM. Apparently, the mishap led to the leakage of personal information and confidential government data.
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The data breach purportedly exposed the names, photos, and home addresses of millions of Swedish citizens.
Not only that, but it also includes data of Swedish air force fighter pilots, all members of the government's secret military units, crime suspects, people under the witness relocation program. If you thought that was bad, even the weight capacity of all roads and bridges in Sweden was leaked.
How the Swedish Data Breach Happened
In May 2015, the Swedish Transport Agency, under its then Director General Maria Ågren, awarded IBM a contract to manage its database and network.
It was said that IBM was given the signal to upload all available information from the agency's database to the 'cloud.' However, IBM outsourced subcontractors from Eastern Europe, including the Czech Republic and Serbia, to do the task.
IBM authorized and has given the subcontractors access to the full dataset without seeking security clearance from the Swedish government or the agency. Further reports suggest that the subcontractors were able to view sensitive information such as names, photos, and addresses of Swedish citizens and some military personnel coming from emails sent by the Swedish Transport Agency itself.
It appears that instead of providing a redacted version of the database to IBM, the Swedish Transport Agency provided the database in clear text emails to the companies involved, asking them to delete all sensitive information they held manually.
"There's an enormous amount of data in Swedish about the overall leak scandal, but among all that data, one piece bears mentioning just to highlight the generally sloppy, negligent, and indeed criminal, attitude toward sensitive information," Rick Falkvinge, Head of Privacy at Private Internet Access and the founder of the first Pirate Party who brought the issue to the attention of international press, was quoted as saying.
According to reports, the breach took place in September 2015 when the unrestricted information was made available to people with no security clearance. However, only in March last year that the Swedish Secret Service realized what happened and started its investigation.
STA Director Resigned: Fine Worth Only $8,500 USD
Following the mishap, authorities charged STA director general Maria Ågren in 2016 and early this year she was forced to resign.
The Swedish courts found her guilty of negligence, but her sentence was seen as ludicrous by the public, with the court only fining her half of her monthly salary. Falkvinge said:
"Given how much the establishment has got each other's backs, this sentence was roughly equivalent to life in prison for a common person on the street, meaning they must have done something really awful to get not just a guilty verdict, but actually be fined half a month's salary."
Right now, the Swedish government is still in the process of investigating the extent of the breach if IBM or NCR employees were granted access to the European Union's secure STESTA intranet or the Swedish Government Secure Intranet (SGSI)
Do you think the Swedish court has shown too much leniency towards Maria Ågren? What should be her punishment for her part in this Swedish data breach?
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geoh777 September 30 at 7:54 pm GMT
"What should be her punishment for her part in this Swedish data breach?"
No one, except for muslims, wants to invade Sweden, so she should be fined half of a months's salary.

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Sayyid Qutb and the Origins of Radical Islam.
CALVERT, JOHN.
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The Musim Brotherhood and the West: A History of Enmity and Engagement.
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The Caliphate at War: Operational Realities and Innovations of the Islamic State.
HASHIM, AHMED S.
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MCCARTHY, JUSTIN.
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"The Little Drummer Boy": Four Versions (Nigeria, India, Cuba, Norway)
Posted on January 3, 2020 November 18, 2020 by Victoria Emily Jones
Written in 1941 by Katherine Kennicott Davis, "Carol of the Drum," later retitled "The Little Drummer Boy," tells the story of a poor boy who cannot afford to bring any material gifts to the newborn Christ child, so instead he brings a heartfelt drum song.
Come, they told me
Pa rum pum pum pum
A newborn king to see
Our finest gifts we bring
To lay before the king
Rum pum pum pum
So to honor him
When we come
Little baby
I am a poor boy too
I have no gift to bring
That's fit to give a king
Shall I play for you
On my drum
Mary nodded
The ox and lamb kept time
I played my drum for him
I played my best for him
Then he smiled at me
Me and my drum
The song has been recorded hundreds of times, even serving as the basis of an animated children's movie, and yet it often makes the top of "most hated Christmas carols" lists. It's far too sentimental, people say, or just plain annoying. Some Christians get in a huff about the invented drummer boy character; "there was no such boy at the birth!" they insist.
But I must admit, I rather like the song. Like the story of the widow's mite, "The Little Drummer Boy" affirms that no gift offered in love is insignificant. The child has no gold, frankincense, or myrrh to offer to God, but he offers his very self, which is no meager thing. He brings his love and devotion. This idea of bringing a sacrifice of praise for the Savior's birthday is found in other carols too, such as "In the Bleak Midwinter" and "What Can I Give" (Mahalia Jackson).
From top to bottom: Alex Boyé, Cassius Khan [source], unidentified bongo player [source], Henriette Kolset
Here I'd like to call out four global renditions of "The Little Drummer Boy." I know the song has been performed in many languages and countries, but these four have distinct cultural flavors that make them unique among the many covers of the carol over the years.
Nigeria: Alex Boyé, feat. Genesis Choir, 2015
Alex Boyé is a British-born singer, dancer, and actor of Nigerian descent. He became a Mormon in 1986 at age sixteen, moved to Salt Lake City in 2000, and became a US citizen in 2012. He is known for his uplifting African-infused pop music, much of it of a religious nature.
(Related post: "Yoruba Christmas Carol and Art [Nigeria]")
In 2015 Boyé created a music video for an "African tribal version" of "The Little Drummer Boy," which starts with a mother and her two daughters being evicted from their home. A neighbor lets them stay in his RV, but they are obviously dejected. Over this introductory narrative, Boyé sings "Nearer, My God, to Thee":
Nearer, my God, to thee,
Nearer to thee!
E'en though it be a cross
That raiseth me.
Then a knock comes at the door of the camper. It's a bright-eyed little African drummer boy, come to cheer up the family. The mom dismisses him, but another knock brings her to the door once more. This time it's the whole neighborhood, bearing a song, a dance, and gifts.
Oluwa! Olodumare! Olorun! Boyé exclaims before he and his troupe break out into their syncopated number. These are Yoruba names for God, so this is a way, I'd imagine, of marking the song as one of worship, suggesting that the love of neighbor expressed through the characters' gift giving is an extension of their love of God.
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India: Terry McDade and the McDades, feat. Cassius Khan, 2004
The McDades are siblings Shannon Johnson (fiddle, vocals), Solon McDade (upright bass, vocals), and Jeremiah McDade (woodwinds, vocals, etc.), hailing from Canada. Their music is multicultural to begin with, blending Celtic, jazz, Canadian folk, and worldbeat influences. It's hard to categorize, and that's one of the things I like about it.
They sometimes perform with their dad, harpist Terry McDade, as on the album Noël. For their mostly instrumental rendition of "The Little Drummer Boy," they also collaborated with classical Indian musician Cassius Khan, who plays the tabla (drum) and tanpura (drone) on the track, as well as sings the opening vocals.
Shannon plays the violin and Jeremiah plays the bansuri (Indian bamboo flute).
Because of the group's improvisatory approach to music making (and a change in guest percussionist), the studio recording sounds quite different from the live stage performance from 2016, which features Eric Breton on frame drum (in place of Khan on tabla), Andrew Hillhouse on acoustic guitar, Solon McDade on upright bass, Terry McDade on harp, and a chamber orchestra:
There are no Indian musicians in this performance, so it doesn't have as strong of an Indian feel, and in fact the drum has a smaller role overall, giving way in parts to a full orchestral sound. Also, Khan's classical Indian singing at the beginning of the song on the album is replaced here by Jeremiah McDade's Tuvan throat singing!
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Cuba: Luis Ríos (arr.) and Tania, 2009(?)
"El Pequeño Cantor (Little Drummer Boy)" appears on the 2009 compilation album Natale a Cuba [Spotify], whose metadata credits "Tania Tania" as the singer and Luis Ríos (born 1963) as the arranger. I wasn't able to find any information about the singer, whom I suspect goes by just the first name Tania, or when the song was originally recorded. And I don't know enough about Cuban music to identify the genre. But I really like this fun, danceable arrangement.
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Norway: Eva Holm Foosnæs (arr.) and the NTNU Department of Music, 2016
OK, so Norway is not known for its drumming as are Africa, South Asia, and Latin America, so this arrangement, by Eva Holm Foosnæs, is not as rhythmic as the others, nor is there anything particularly "Norwegian" about the music that I can tell, other than that it's performed by singers and instrumentalists from Norwegian University of Science and Technology (NTNU) in Trondheim. But the gorgeous regional landscapes in which the music video was shot—over snowy mountain paths, through evergreen forests—give the song a magical, wintry, dark, folklorish feel that I associate with Scandinavia.
This feel comes across too in the dramatic swells and minor chords of the music.
The cinematography is by Terje Trobe.
The singers are Magnus Fremstad, Sivert Jullumstrø, Thale Jørstad, Torunn Kroknes, Eline Kolstad, Trygve Misvær, Fredrick Skjeldal, and Frida Skotte. The strings players are Björn Guo, Astri C. Hoffman, Anders Holmås, Anders H. Rove, and Carl N. Wika. And the percussionist is Henriette Kolset (a drummer girl—nice!).
Are there any culturally specific renditions of "The Little Drummer Boy" that you know of and enjoy? I was hoping to find one from Japan, as I love listening to taiko drumming, but had no luck.
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Pat Fros	 January 3, 20203:41 am	 Reply
What a wonderful post! Thank you!
Kelly Curtis	 January 9, 202012:24 pm	 Reply
My favorite Christmas song!
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Ottawa (AFP) – Canada's high court struck a blow against gun control on Friday, with a decision that clears the way for the federal government to destroy data on owners of rifles and shotguns.
Ottawa ordered the database destroyed in 2012, but Quebec went to court to try to stop it, hoping to use the names of Quebecers on the list to build its own firearms registry.
The Supreme Court's decision means that while Canadians must still obtain a license to own a gun, most will not have to disclose that they own a long gun.
Prime Minister Stephen Harper, a longtime advocate for the gun rights of hunters and farmers, said he was "happy" with this outcome.
But in Quebec, which also fought to maintain the national firearms registry created by parliament in 1995, there was disappointment.
The province pressed Ottawa to hand over parts of the database relevant to Quebec after the federal government shut down the national firearms registry three years ago.
But Harper's Tory government refused, citing critics of the registry who complained the original had been an expensive intrusion on gun owners and should not be repeated.
Furthermore, the Tories argued, the registry did not help to stem crime.
With both sides refusing to yield and Quebec vowing to create its own registry from scratch, firearms regulations are sure to become a hot campaign issue in upcoming elections.
In a five-four split decision, the Supreme Court ruled that Quebec had simply failed to establish a legal basis for its claim to the data.
The court added that the disagreement over the fate of the information in the registry should have been negotiated in a political process, rather than adjudicated.
So here's the scene. The firearms registry is being done away. Quebec wants the information, and this court case decided the issue. Quebec doesn't get it. In the process, the Canadian supreme court looks a lot like the U.S. supreme court and other morons, and stipulated that in the future, the political process must be used to restrict God-given rights. But it gets better.
Quebec Public Safety Minister Lise Theriault said the province would move ahead with its plans for a database of its own, allocating Can$30 million (US$24 million) for the project.
If the centralized government won't help, they'll do it themselves. Sounds like New York or Connecticut, no? But wait. It gets even better than this.
Earlier this month, Harper earned widespread scorn over comments he made which seemed to wrongfully imply that Canadians have the right to shoot intruders.
"My wife's from a rural area, gun ownership wasn't just for the farm, it was also for a certain level of security when you're ways away from police, immediate police assistance," he'd told the Saskatchewan Association of Rural Municipalities on March 12.
Legal experts and the opposition pounced on the comments to suggest Harper had urged Canadians to take the law into their own hands.
"It's vigilantism," former Ontario attorney general Michael Bryant was widely quoted as saying.
Rather than being a God-ordained duty, self defense is "vigilantism" according to Bryant. The former attorney general of Ontario is a damn communist. And the damn communists (and Harper's Tories) notwithstanding, the reasons for ownership and bearing of arms goes beyond hunting and self defense (American "Fudds" also notwithstanding). It also enables us to kill people just like them. The extent to which Americans get that will be directly proportional to the liberties we retain in the face of men just … like … the … rulers … of … Quebec in the U.S., federal, state and local.
Rosie DiManno is one of my favorite reporters and columnists. In her latest she heaps great scorn and opprobrium on the Canadian withdrawal from Kandahar (quoting at length).
There are two occupying armies in Kabul: NGOs and ISAF.
The non-governmental agencies are in their element, many underscrutinized in their aid and development budgets, as literally billions of donation dollars flow through the capital.
Little of that largesse has substantially improved civilian life. But the humanitarian hyenas drive around in chauffeured SUVs, usually reside in highly secured compounds with extensive domestic staff, and enjoy a lively social whirl in restricted clubs where Afghans are rarely found — beyond serving alcoholic drinks they're not permitted to imbibe.
Planet ISAF is equally insulated behind high UN and NATO walls, though officials in tandem with Afghan ministry representatives conduct weekly media briefings where not much of significance is ever discussed. The Kabul bureau for journalists is a surprisingly soft gig as most reporters rely ever more on stringers to bring back the goods, take all the risks.
Though International Security Assistance Force convoys venture out daily, the city's security responsibility has for the past year been Afghan-led. Unlike their ISAF counterparts, barely visible from within their heavily armoured vehicles, Afghan security forces — national army and police — are dangerously exposed in mini pickup trucks.
If the Afghan National Police, in particular, is loathed by the citizenry as hooligans and extortionists, a considerable number in cahoots with insurgency elements, one can almost understand their treason and criminality: Pay is negligible, dangers omnipresent, command-and-control corrupt. For many Afghans who enter the police training program, the true objective is a year or two of shakedown opportunity, after which they can return to their villages with a useful nest egg.
I am not a cynic about Afghanistan's potential to rise from the ashes of civil war, chronic misrule and international neglect. Its rich mining resources alone should provide economic buoyancy if ever properly administered rather than exploited by covetous multinationals. Even the corruption that exasperated donor nations endlessly drone on about — while their own NGOs and development contractors take their cut — is, in fact, a time-honoured alternative system of governance, arguably the only quasi-capitalism that works here.
The country has always been a suzerain for warlords; the original Taliban, for all their piety, were nothing less than another criminal gang, built on vast Pashtun tribal loyalties, armed and schooled in proxy sacking by Pakistan.
For Canadian combat troops and their support divisions in Kandahar, these past six years, Kabul was that mile-high mirage in the distant rear, redoubt of bureaucrats, la-la DMZ for pretend soldiers. Not one I ever met pined to be posted there. Even those sickened of life outside-the-wire, the perilous patrols and wearying village shuras, had no stomach for a politically massaged Kabul assignment.
In the pecking order of combat virility, even deployment as force protection for Canada's Provincial Reconstruction Team in Kandahar city was viewed dimly: that place with the pool, surf and turf dinners and circle-the-wagon ramparts.
Ottawa has spent these past half-dozen years decrying the no-fight no-front caveats imposed by NATO troop contributors, and rightly so. The heavy lifting through the worst of the insurgency fell to Canada, Britain and Holland — latterly, Americans — while the likes of Germany, Sweden and Italy carved out relatively safe havens.
Now, we're no different from the shirkers.
Make no mistake. Dress it up as both Prime Minister Stephen Harper and Liberal Leader Michael Ignatieff might like: If this new stay-in plan is put to effect as advertised, Canadian troops, highly valued for their combat skills, will be little more than decorative tassels on the Afghanistan uniform, their primary value to pick up the mentoring slack left behind by other bolting allies so that Americans can carry on their terrorist-tracking pursuits.
President Barack Obama is interested in Afghanistan only so far as preventing it from becoming once again a refuge for Al Qaeda and its assorted adjuncts, the ganglia of insurrectionists entrenched along the lawless border with Pakistan. While there is growing concern over Iran's influence in Afghanistan, the U.S. objective is quite narrow and geopolitical; an exit segue it can live with.
It was NATO that always had the much grander vision for Afghanistan, if not the resolve or political commitment, not the troop contribution or — for far too long — the vigorous rules of engagement, to even begin imposing order on so large and complicated a battlefield.
With its shrinking ambitions for Afghanistan, NATO has confirmed its irrelevancy and inefficacy in the 21st century — the true reason for taking up this cause in the first place, and never mind building schools, emancipating women or laying down a democratic footprint. If Afghanistan has any future, it will be on the blood of Americans or via an ignominious rapprochement with the Taliban.
So Canada is on board to shunt some 950 troops to Kabul next summer to run training programs until 2014. Having visited such instruction camps in Afghanistan, I've got news for you: The ANA, an institution respected by the citizenry, doesn't need us for inside-the-wire training purposes; only for outside-the-wire command-and-control tutoring, which Harper insists we won't provide. And the ANP, as constituted, is incapable of even A-B-C coaching. Better off opening up the cantonments and returning to Afghan men (and women) all those weapons collected in disarmament drives. At least then they'd have a chance of defending themselves against the next wave of marauders and power-hungry zealots.
As for Canadian soldiers turned into military metrosexuals: They make a nice latte in Kabul, guys.
Rosie is tough on the Canadian boys, or more precisely, the Canadian political establishment which is spearheading the "strategic redeployment" to Kabul. A few observations are in order concerning Rosie's commentary.
First, if Canadians believe that they will somehow be spared the onslaught of militant Islam because of proximity to the U.S., they can think again. The U.S. cannot single-handedly defeat the transnational insurgency of radical Islam, and the regional AfPak insurgency is a significant and important element in the global campaign.
Second, Rosie hits an important nail on the head when she discusses the fact that it was always NATO which had the grand visions of nation-building in Afghanistan. The U.S. had heretofore been primarily hunting and killing the enemy (although to be clear, that changed lately due to the influence of population-centric counterinsurgency dogma with McChrystal and Petraeus). That NATO has now abandoned their lofty dreams of creating Shangi-La on the Asian continent is a pitiful testimony to what never could have happened anyway. Not that woman's rights or education for children isn't a laudable goal, but there is only so much the U.S. can do, and there is poverty and malfeasance of leadership on every continent. All of those problems are not correctable. Defeating the insurgency is possible, but a focus that has been lost in all the talk of creating legitimate governance.
Third, note how Rosie described the disconnectedness of the NGOs and ISAF to the population or countryside of Afghanistan. Nothing could ensure loss any more than this. For all the talk of knowing the population, we seem to know more about the huge bases we're on than the people we are supposed to be winning.
Finally, of course it's true that basic training in Kabul is a small part of the whole. But this contribution by Canadian forces is pro forma. The ANA needs to see good NCOs in action. Instead, they will see good NCOs garrisoned at huge bases. And as a certain Marine I know has remarked before, there is a difference between a garrison Marine and a grunt. The ANA needs to be embedded with grunts. Instead they get the garrison boys. So much for Canada's contribution to the campaign.


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Sarah Laurie says:
Dear Editor
sorry, but your facts about the demise of the Waubra Foundation, and what we do, are grossly incorrect. The Foundation simply changed its structure in July 2011. The Waubra Foundation's predictions/hypotheses that pulsating infrasound, low frequency noise and vibrations from coal mines, gas, coal and wind power stations and other sources of industrial "noise" were harming people via direct and involuntary impacts on the brain from stimulating a fight flight response in people nearby (out to at least 10km from 3 MW turbines, for example) are being supported increasingly by industry independent acoustic and scientific research around the world.
I recommend you do your due diligence on the issues, and the science, if you don't want to continue to make fools of yourselves, and mislead the public.
marchudson says:
Dear Sarah,
First, thank you for taking the time to correct my error. That google alert on Waubra Foundation must come in handy!
In mitigation (ha ha) I can only say that the two years I spent in Denmark, home to so many wind turbines, has clearly addled my brain. Little did I know, when I lived close to all those wind turbines, that the infrasound was giving me brain tumours, souring the milk and so on.
I have added an update to the top of the post. I hope that I am now thoroughly schooled on doing my own due diligence (I didn't search for the Waubra Foundation, or else I'd have found you alive and kicking. Re-registered? Or did Sourcewatch get it totally wrong?)
I must say you missed a trick though, when writing. You could have included links to the many thousands of peer-reviewed scientific articles that back up your claims. Maybe in your next comment? And perhaps you'd like to address the 17 reviews that found no evidence?
http://tobacco.health.usyd.edu.au/assets/pdfs/publications/WindHealthReviews.pdf
Also, I just want to ask, since I am so ignorant, which *specific* bits of the SourceWatch article are wrong.
The Waubra Foundation is a front or astroturf group created by Peter Mitchell on March 1, 2010 to oppose wind farming in Australia. It was registered with Business Affairs as an incorporated body on that date but later deregistered on July 13, 2011. Ref1 Ref2
The Waubra Foundation claims to be an independent organisation but it has direct links to the Australian Landscape Guardians, the Liberal Party of Australia and mining interests who in turn have inks with the right wing thinktank, Institute of Public Affairs, (IPA).
The Waubra Foundation does not exist in any physical sense, there is no building, just a post office box. The address, Box No.1136, South Melbourne, Victoria 3205, is shared by Sarah Laurie, the Australian Landscape Guardians and Lowell Resources, a mining investment company owned by Peter Mitchell.
Sarah Laurie, the Waubra Foundation's "medical director" and now CEO, promotes unfounded health concerns and an unrecognised condition called "Wind Turbine Syndrome", allegedly caused by wind farms despite her lack of any recognised, peer-reviewed evidence that could possibly support such claims. She has a medical degree but is not a practising doctor, has no medical research qualifications, nor does she have any recognised qualifications relating to acoustics or physics. She claims wind turbines can cause ill-health up to 10 km away but relies only on untested anecdotes and a poor understanding of the physics of sound. [1]
Sarah Laurie frequently references the work of Dr Nina Pierpoint who has published a book called "Wind Turbine Syndrome" even though she is unqualified in the field of acoustics and/or any health effects resulting from infra-sound. An accurate critique of Pierpoint's very unscientific claims can be found here. [2] Briefly, Pierpoint is relies on skewed data, an extremely small sample size, fails to use a control group for comparison, resorts to anecdotal evidence and has not had her work peer-reviewed.
The Australian Landscape Guardians profess concern for the landscape and amenity, yet they are consistently silent on issues such as coal seam gas developments, expansion of opencut coal mining, mineral and property development in sensitive areas. The Australian Landscape Guardians are well-known climate sceptics with links to the Liberal Party of Australia and the Institute of Public Affairs.
The Waubra Foundation's links with these other groups directly conflicts with the listed objectives of the foundation…
No 12: At all times to establish and maintain complete independence from government, industry and advocacy groups, for or against wind turbines.
Despite claims of holding a balanced view on wind energy, not one member of the Waubra Foundation is pro-wind energy but all are known to vehemently oppose it. They all have direct or indirect links to any combination of the following, Conservative politicians, mining interests and assorted anti-wind Guardian groups. Several members are climate change denialists.
Personally, on WTS, I'll take the view of Simon Chapman;
Money is a highly effective antidote. Those most exposed to wind turbines include those who have them on their land. Yet miraculously, there are no known cases of such people making claims about being adversely affected by turbines. Strangely, it is always those who see the turbines on the land of their neighbours. Money, it seems, is an astonishingly effective preventive agent in warding off Wind Turbine Syndrome.
http://www.abc.net.au/news/2011-03-29/windturbinesicknesspreventedbythedruge2809cmoneye28/45730
I had a look around the Waubra Foundation website, seeing what its position on climate change was. Nowt (but then, I perhaps I didn't do enough due diligence?) This seems odd, since there are tens (hundreds?) of thousands of peer-reviewed scientific articles on its causes and consequences.
Finally, thank you for taking the time to write! It's a lonely old business, this 'All Our Yesterdays' lark, and I was at the point of giving up on it, but your intervention has given me encouragement to continue. #Streisandeffect
Oh dear. Wrong on so many facts, yet again – Sourcewatch is no substitute for doing your own due diligence, as they are not reliable, factually correct, or up to date.
Firstly, please see the testimony of wind turbine hosts Clive and Petrina Gare to the Australian Senate inquiry which is just about to deliver its final report to Federal Parliament on 3rd August, 2015. After receiving $ 1 million in income over the last five years, the Gares regret their decision to host 19 wind turbines, would not buy a property within 20 km of a wind turbine, and find it very difficult to sleep in their home despite extensive noise mitigation measures because of excessive wind turbine noise… and they are not alone. David and Alida Mortimer are other wind turbine hosts similarly affected by excessive noise and vibration. Please also see Lithgow resident Norman Allan's submission and testimony to the same Federal Senate inquiry and read Mrs Theresa Grima's testimony to the Sydney Senate inquiry hearing on 29th June, 2015 to hear what happens when sensitised residents adversely impacted by coal fired power station infrasound, low frequency noise (ILFN) and vibration and underground coal mine extractor fan sound and vibration are then exposed to wind turbine noise – they experience the same extremely debilitating symptoms, quite unexpectedly in their case, but well known to those adversely impacted by ILFN – the cross sensitisation to different noise sources is permanent and worsens with chronic exposure. That is why the health protective evidence based ILFN pollution guidelines are so important. BTW Dr Neil Kelley and his NASA colleagues established such threshold limits and guidelines thirty years ago – so why weren't they ever implemented, I wonder ??? Remember Asbestos? Thalidomide? Tobacco? Detect a theme here, perhaps ??
Secondly, the Australian Taxation Office have never had a problem with the Waubra Foundation, despite a number of investigations apparently instigated by those who have commercial and ideological conflicts of interest with respect to wind energy particularly. A Royal Commission will soon help clear the air …..
Thirdly, I very much look forward to re registering to work as a rural General Practitioner, especially when there are evidence based health and sleep protective regulations for excessive infrasound and low frequency noise which apply to ALL industrial noise sources, including particularly coal mines, (open cut and underground with large extractor fans), gas turbines, coal fired power station turbines, wind turbines and CSG field compressors.
Fourthly, the mailbox we shared years ago with a couple of hundred others belonged to an accounting firm, who did our accounts along with numerous other clients. However, that was some years ago now.
Finally, the "real" scientific investigation is moving ahead nicely now – as distinct from "social" scientific investigations which are so clearly inspired and encouraged by the wind industry and its propaganda machine. Have a look for the work of Inagaki, the Japanese researchers, who identified that the brains of (non English speaking) Japanese wind turbine workers were unable to relax when played reproduced wind turbine sound, including infrasound. Please also have a look for the emerging reports of Tako Tsubo (adrenaline surge) "heart attack" events and serious health problems experienced in Finland by rural residents living out to 10km from 3.3 MW VESTAS wind turbines, which the Finnish health authorities are now investigating. And the work by Dr Christian Koch in Germany, relevant for many noise sources including but not limited to wind turbine noise.
There really is no excuse for reproducing out of date drivel from Sourcewatch.
The real issues are systemic regulatory failure with respect to the acoustic emissions energy industry generally – the same companies operate power generating facilities, and know that ILFN is a problem – Origin Energy knows from its experience at Uranquinty that infrasound at 16 Hz is a problem, yet continues to operate the Cullerin Range wind power plant ignoring the serious harm to human health that facility is causing local residents. AGL are the same with their wind power development at Macarthur. Energy Australia (owned by China Light and Power) own and operate Waterloo wind development, and Mt Piper power station at Lithgow which cause such problems for the Grima and Allan families in the Lithgow district, along with many others…..
Why the gag agreements – for those impacted, for wind turbine hosts, and for the acoustics professionals? What do you think they might be hiding???
Oh, and sorry to hear of your troubles with the Tax Office!!
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Recently, I was called to work out at a client's office. One of their IT people had left the company and there were questions as to whether or not everything was being backed-up.
Sure enough while reviewing their environment, I noticed that the Windows backup was not working. I tried to get it going, but it wasn't going to happen. Plus, the other challenge we faced was that their QNAP wasn't big enough to store all of their data.
Normally I would advise backing up data to the cloud, but their data couldn't be stored on a public cloud.
What to do? What software could I recommend for this small company?
I spoke to my colleague, Garth Jones, and he reminded me that Veeam has backup software. I actually hadn't thought about them because I think of them more for enterprise backups and as I said before this client is a small business.
Back in March, Garth presented at a MVP roadshow with Clint Wyckoff (@ClintWyckoff). Clint's a Veeam Global Technical Evangelist and a Microsoft CDM MVP. Garth arranged a call with him, so that I could get the right backup for my client. Clint was great! Within five minutes he (via Garth) pointed me to Veeam's free backup software called, Veeam Endpoint Backup. That's all I needed for my client.
First I backed-up one VM and some data files. Next, I installed the agent within two VMs. One did a full VM backup and the other did only files. This setup only took a few minutes to configure, however, the backup itself took a lot longer to complete.
Once the client purchased a new QNAP with a ton of storage, I pointed the Veeam Endpoint Backup to the new QNAP. Both VMs were fully backed-up, so life's good. This software isn't an enterprise backup solution, but in the case of my client it was a great cost-effective find!
Thanks Clint for the suggestion!
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The town is the home of Film and TV shows the year round and most people stay in the Berbère Palace. It's full of old props from movies made in the area. As always, they don't really stand up to close scrutiny. Lumps of polystyrene, shaped and painted to work as a backdrop. Once they are lit and photographed they totally look the part but one touch and you forever know they are fake.
It's one of the reasons that I try not to visit the set. If it looks the part on the dailies then, just like the audience, I'm convinced it really is a cannon, statue or a castle. Lift it up like superman does and you can never quite get that suspension of disbelief back. Once I've done the first assembly of the material shot on the set, is not so bad going to see it. Reality, such that it is, belongs with the images I have seen on the screen. The sets then take on the appearance of replicas of the real world I've seen through the window of my screen.
It's like visiting Universal Studios and seeing the plastic shark that mechanically jumps out at you, good but not real. Unlike the monster from the deep that went eye to eye with Chief Brody in Jaws, that was real.


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Bumpy: Young Lions Dell And Scrimshaw To Benefit From Working With Flower
Steve Rhodes says Worcestershire duo Josh Dell and George Scrimshaw can only reap the benefits of working with Andy Flower when on England Young Lions duty during the next few days in Dubai.
Former England senior coach Flower has been working for the past few weeks with the England Lions – including Worcestershire batsman Joe Clarke – in the UAE.
But, whereas the Lions squad will return home on Sunday evening, Flower will remain to pass on his vast knowledge to the Young Lions – including batsman Dell and paceman Scrimshaw – at their training camp at the ICC Academy.
Rhodes has first hand knowledge himself of Flower's qualities from working with him when part of the England Lions coaching set-up himself last winter in the UAE for the T20 and 50 over series with Pakistan 'A'.
Worcestershire's Director Of Cricket said: "Any young player, as well as coaches, who spend time with Andy Flower quickly realise what a fantastic cricket brain he has got and certainly a person to listen to because he is a very wise bloke when it comes to cricket.
"He knows it inside out and is an excellent coach who was very successful for England.
"So for the young lads to have exposure to his thoughts and his cricket brain is going to be terrific for them, particularly Josh Dell as a batter.
"Why wouldn't you be hanging on every word that Andy would say?
"Did I learn a lot from him last winter? Definitely. He enjoyed the fact that I'd been involved in developing predominantly young English teams in county cricket.
"He was interested in some of the things we do here but also for me, to observe in such close quarters a bloke who has handled teams at the highest level, was a great experience for me.
"To watch him, to monitor him, to learn from him, to filter through the stuff I felt could be beneficial to Worcestershire and myself, that was a great experience in the same way as I did with Trevor Bayliss with England in Bangladesh last month – as well as the other coaches."


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Saudi-led coalition breaches UN-brokered Yemen ceasefire more than 200 times in last 24 hours: Official
A Yemeni military official says the Saudi-led coalition forces and their allied militants have violated the ongoing UN-brokered ceasefire, which went into effect at the beginning of the Muslim fasting month of Ramadan, at least 211 times during the past 24 hours.
The official, who asked not to be named, told Yemen's official Saba news agency that the violations included 80 flights of Saudi-led military aircraft and reconnaissance drones in the skies over the provinces of Ma'rib, Ta'izz, Hajjah, Jawf, Sa'ada, Dhale, Bayda, 'Amran and across the borders.
He added that residential neighborhoods and positions of the army and Popular Committees in Ma'rib, Ta'izz, Hajjah, Jawf, Sa'ada, Dhale and Bayda provinces also came under heavy gunfire at least 107 times.
The official pointed out that 24 artillery shells were fired at residential areas and positions of the Yemeni army and Popular Committees in Ma'rib, Hajjah, Jawf and Sa'ada provinces, as well as border fronts.
Saudi mercenaries also struck the facilities of Yemeni armed forces and their allied fighters from Popular Committees in al-Zour area of Ma'rib province, Bab al-Hadid, al-Muta'an, Tabab Hailan and Qamama al-Ghawiya areas in Sa'ada province, Harad, Bani Hassan and Hayran areas in Hajjah province, as well as al-Tala'a and al-Aqsha areas in Jawf province.
Ansarullah's political bureau member Ali al-Gahum denounced repeated violations of the ceasefire, saying Sana'a will not sit idly by in the face of these transgressions.
"The Yemeni armed forces have a lot to say in response to the Saudi aggression. The strategic weapon produced by the Yemeni forces can be used in response to aggression and ceasefire violations," he told al-Ahed News.
Al-Gahum said the Saudi coalition did not adhere to the ceasefire from the beginning. "The ceasefire was based on the humanitarian situation and the issue of prisoners, but Saudi Arabia is trying to stonewall and thwart all efforts to maintain it," he said.
Ships carrying medicine, food and petroleum products should also be allowed to enter the besieged port of Hudaydah, but they remain stranded, the official said.
"All this shows that the Saudis do not want this ceasefire to continue… There are movements from the Saudis, the UAE, as well as the Americans in the Red Sea, which Sana'a is monitoring and knows that they intend to escalate the tension."
Yemen warns Saudi-led coalition
The spokesman for Yemeni armed forces bluntly warned the Saudi-led military alliance against its continued violations of the UN-backed truce.
Brigadier General Yahya Saree made the remarks on Saturday as he visited Yemeni army troops and Popular Committees fighters in al-Juba and al-Balaq areas of Ma'rib province.
Saree said the Saudi-led coalition tends to escape its responsibilities under the ceasefire and has exposed its true nature of deception and felony.
Yemeni people are going through the most critical period, he said, adding that the Saudi-led alliance will either show its seriousness in implementing the ceasefire or continues to breach the truce as usual.
Coalition seizes another Yemen-bound fuel ship
The Saudi-led coalition detained another oil tanker carrying thousands of tons of fuel toward Yemen in violation of the truce.
Essam al-Mutawakel, a spokesman for the Yemen Petroleum Company (YPC), said on Saturday that the coalition stopped Yuhud oil tanker from docking at the strategic Yemeni port city of Hudaydah amid a crippling fuel shortage in the war-ravaged country.
The Yemeni official added that the ship was loaded with 31,959 tons of diesel fuel at the time, and was seized despite having been inspected and cleared for a port call by the United Nations.
This is not the first time that the Saudi-led coalition has seized Yemeni-bound fuel ships in spite of the truce, which went into effect early last month.
The YPC said in a statement on Friday that the coalition did not allow the Princess Khadija tanker, which was carrying 29,226 tons of diesel fuel, to dock at Hudaydah port and offload its cargo.
Two UAE-backed militant cmdrs. killed in S Yemen
Separately, local sources in Yemen reported on Saturday that two senior militant commanders backed by the United Arab Emirates were killed and several others injured during clashes in the southern Yemeni province of Dhale.
The sources said Waleed Saleh Al Dhami and Mohammad al-Shobaji, the commander of the so-called Security Belt Forces, the elite military wing of the separatist Southern Transitional Council, were killed during fierce skirmishes with a group of gunmen inside a military camp in Hakula area.
The clashes took place as prisoners were being transferred from a nearby town to the headquarters of Security Belt Forces in Dhale province.
Saudi Arabia launched the devastating war on Yemen in March 2015 in collaboration with its Arab allies and with arms and logistics support from the US and other Western states.
The objective was to reinstall the Riyadh-friendly regime of Abd Rabbuh Mansur Hadi and crush the Ansarullah resistance movement, which has been running state affairs in the absence of a functional government in Yemen.
While the Saudi-led coalition has failed to meet any of its objectives, the war has killed hundreds of thousands of Yemenis and spawned the world's worst humanitarian crisis.
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A couple extra hours of work allowed me to do a little touch up and finish out the valance frame. I had to recut both valance l-girder ledger boards. They were both too long. I bought some 1/4″ plywood to skin the top of the valance. I cut this funny to correct for the mistakes of my previous cuts and the slightly out of square nature of the corner. I was able to get the valance hoisted up (it's pretty light) and tacked in some temporary supports. I installed one bracket for permanent support. I'll eventually add three additional support brackets. A little overkill, but I'll probably end up storing stuff on top of the valance and I'd like it to hold.
A nice day and generous parents led me to a construction marathon this afternoon. I spent a total of 8 straight hours cutting, trimming, fixing, gluing, tacking, and screwing.
I built the frames for the East and South valance. And I screwed up in two ways.
I tacked the skin to the underside of the valance. It was supposed to go on top.
I can live with the narrow valance, because I have a 2 1/2″ ledgerboard that will hide the mistake. I think I'll need to cut another skin to go on top of the valance frame, so if I put stuff on it it doesn't punch out the bottom.
I cut the deck for the closet. I used the deck that I had screwed up cutting the West deck. I made the main cuts on the new West deck. I cut the final 12″ section of the East deck.
I installed additional ledger boards along the West and East sides of the layout. I also, added a few braces to stiffen the frame.
I cut the L-girder ledger boards for the valance. The East board is installed. The South board had to be removed because I didn't cut it correctly. I recut the South board, but haven't had a chance to reinstall it.
I cut and glued L-girders for the closet frame.
Very productive day. I went through 2 sheets of 3/4″ plywood; 2/3 sheet of 1/16″ plywood; one box of 1 1/4″ brads; one box of 5/8″ brads; one box 1 1/4″ FastTap screws. I also depleted my supply of 3″ Spax screws and 1 1/4″ pan-head Spax screws. I used just about every tool I have: table saw; miter saw; skil saw; jjg saw; router; brad nailer; drill; vacuum; trammel; tape measure; square.


Could Your Seasonal Hires Use Some Training?
Black Friday — the orgiastic start of the holiday-shopping season — fast approaches, and companies are prepping in the usual way: high-volume seasonal hiring efforts. According to Forbes, Target is looking for 18,900 seasonal employees this year; Sears needs 9,200 temporary helpers, and Toys "R" Us wants to fill 8,600 positions — and these are only initial listings, not necessarily the final numbers. These employers will likely hire many, many more seasonal employees as the final quarter progresses.
American Express's "2014 Global Customer Service Barometer" supports Bixler's suggestion: 74 percent of customers say they spend more money with companies that have given them great customer service in the past, and 68 percent of customers say they are willing to spend more — up to 14 percent more — at companies that provide "excellent customer service." Conversely, 37 percent of customers say a single instance of poor customer service would motivate them to bring their business elsewhere.
"At the end of the day, whether we have large companies with large customer service centers, or small companies that have customer service people inside the building, they want to know, 'Hey, where are the most common areas of development … we should be looking at?" Bixler says.
Knowing seasonal hires' strengths and weaknesses ahead of time can help employers make more strategic decisions about how they deploy or train these workers. Given that most of these hires will only be with the company for a few months, time is of the essence.
"If you hire a customer service person, and they are very strong at selling, you might want to actually give them an opportunity to sell more where appropriate," Bixler explains. Similarly, he notes that companies will want to see where candidates have "areas of development or issues that must be resolved if you're going to bring the person on," which would allow employers to identify the sorts of immediate training their seasonal hires might need.
Bixler suggests that companies looking to learn as much as possible about seasonal candidates before hiring them should take the reference-checking process seriously.
Bixler says that employers should invite references from numerous colleagues and managers, which would allow them to glean quite a bit of relevant information on candidate strengths and areas for improvement.
But a lot of employers are hiring thousands and thousands of workers at once. They may look at this high volume and feel they don't have time to be checking references — especially not multiple references per candidate.


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import { kebabCase } from 'lodash';
import canUseDom from 'rc-util/lib/Dom/canUseDom';
import React from 'react';
import ConfigProvider from '..';
import { InputNumber } from '../..';
import { render } from '../../../tests/utils';
import { useToken } from '../../theme/internal';
import theme from '../../theme';
import { resetWarned } from '../../_util/warning';

const { defaultAlgorithm, darkAlgorithm, compactAlgorithm } = theme;

let mockCanUseDom = true;

jest.mock('rc-util/lib/Dom/canUseDom', () => () => mockCanUseDom);

describe('ConfigProvider.Theme', () => {
  beforeEach(() => {
    mockCanUseDom = true;
  });

  const colorList = ['primaryColor', 'successColor', 'warningColor', 'errorColor', 'infoColor'];

  colorList.forEach((colorName) => {
    it(colorName, () => {
      ConfigProvider.config({
        prefixCls: 'bamboo',
        theme: {
          [colorName]: '#0000FF',
        },
      });

      const styles: any[] = Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('style'));
      const themeStyle = styles.find((style) =>
        style.getAttribute('rc-util-key').includes('-dynamic-theme'),
      );
      expect(themeStyle).toBeTruthy();

      expect(themeStyle.innerHTML).toContain(`--bamboo-${kebabCase(colorName)}: rgb(0, 0, 255)`);
    });
  });

  it('warning for SSR', () => {
    resetWarned();

    const errorSpy = jest.spyOn(console, 'error').mockImplementation(() => {});
    mockCanUseDom = false;
    expect(canUseDom()).toBeFalsy();

    ConfigProvider.config({
      theme: {},
    });

    expect(errorSpy).toHaveBeenCalledWith(
      'Warning: [antd: ConfigProvider] SSR do not support dynamic theme with css variables.',
    );
    errorSpy.mockRestore();
  });

  it('algorithm should work', () => {
    let tokenRef: any;
    const Demo = () => {
      const [, token] = useToken();
      tokenRef = token;
      return null;
    };
    render(
      <ConfigProvider theme={{ token: { colorPrimary: '#1890ff' }, algorithm: darkAlgorithm }}>
        <Demo />
      </ConfigProvider>,
    );
    expect(tokenRef?.colorPrimaryText).toBe('#177ddc');
  });

  it('compactAlgorithm should work', () => {
    let tokenRef: any;
    const Demo = () => {
      const [, token] = useToken();
      tokenRef = token;
      return null;
    };
    render(
      <ConfigProvider theme={{ algorithm: compactAlgorithm }}>
        <Demo />
      </ConfigProvider>,
    );
    expect(tokenRef).toEqual(
      expect.objectContaining({
        sizeXXL: 48,
        sizeXL: 32,
        sizeLG: 16,
        sizeMD: 16,
        sizeMS: 12,
        size: 8,
        sizeSM: 8,
        sizeXS: 4,
        sizeXXS: 4,
      }),
    );
  });

  it('should support algorithm array', () => {
    let tokenRef: any;
    const Demo = () => {
      const [, token] = useToken();
      tokenRef = token;
      return null;
    };
    render(
      <ConfigProvider
        theme={{ token: { colorPrimary: '#1890ff' }, algorithm: [defaultAlgorithm, darkAlgorithm] }}
      >
        <Demo />
      </ConfigProvider>,
    );
    expect(tokenRef?.colorPrimaryText).toBe('#177ddc');
  });

  it('overriding component token should work', () => {
    render(
      <ConfigProvider theme={{ components: { InputNumber: { handleWidth: 50.1234 } } }}>
        <InputNumber />
      </ConfigProvider>,
    );
    const dynamicStyles = Array.from(document.querySelectorAll('style[data-css-hash]')).map(
      (item) => item?.innerHTML ?? '',
    );
    expect(
      dynamicStyles.some(
        (style) => style.includes('.ant-input-number') && style.includes('width:50.1234px'),
      ),
    ).toBeTruthy();
  });

  it('hashed should be true if not changed', () => {
    let hashId = 'hashId';

    theme.defaultConfig.hashed = true;

    const Demo = () => {
      const [, , hash] = useToken();
      hashId = hash;
      return null;
    };

    render(
      <ConfigProvider theme={{ components: { InputNumber: { handleWidth: 50.1234 } } }}>
        <Demo />
      </ConfigProvider>,
    );

    expect(hashId).not.toBe('');

    theme.defaultConfig.hashed = false;
  });

  it('The order does not affect the result', () => {
    const tokens = {
      a: {},
      b: {},
    };
    const Token: React.FC<{ type: 'a' | 'b' }> = ({ type }) => {
      const [, token] = useToken();
      tokens[type] = token;
      return null;
    };
    render(
      <>
        <ConfigProvider theme={{ algorithm: [darkAlgorithm, compactAlgorithm] }}>
          <Token type="a" />
        </ConfigProvider>
        <ConfigProvider theme={{ algorithm: [compactAlgorithm, darkAlgorithm] }}>
          <Token type="b" />
        </ConfigProvider>
      </>,
    );
    expect(tokens.a).toMatchObject(tokens.b);
  });

  it('theme seperated should work', () => {
    let tokenRef: any;
    const Demo = () => {
      const [, token] = useToken();
      tokenRef = token;
      return null;
    };
    render(
      <ConfigProvider theme={{ token: { colorPrimary: '#1890ff' } }}>
        <ConfigProvider theme={{ inherit: false }}>
          <Demo />
        </ConfigProvider>
      </ConfigProvider>,
    );
    expect(tokenRef?.colorPrimaryText).toBe('#1677ff');
  });
});


According to reports, veteran character actor Bill Paxton has passed away at the age of 61 due to complications from a surgery.
The Texas-born Paxton always brought a sort of Americana ruggedness to the roles he played. From memborable turns as Hudson in Aliens, to Dane in Navy Seals, to Morgan Earp in Tombstone, to Fred Haise in Apollo 13, to Bill Harding in Twister, and Master Sergeant Farell in Edge of Tomorrow,Paxton paired his all-American looks with a real knack for discovering a character in a way that always made his performances feel so real. And yes, we even count his incredibly awesome take on the bro-tastic older brother in Weird Science.
Paxton was also just as successful on TV as he was in movies, churning out memorable roles in shows like HBO's Big Love, Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D, and Hatfields and McCoys, for which he was nominated for an Emmy.
At the time of his death, Paxton was currently starring on the TV series in the lead role of Detective Frank Rourke, and he'll have a role in Aprile's The Circle, playing Mae's (Emma Watson) father. Paxton is survived by his two children and wife of 30 years, Louise Newbury.
Here are some more of our favorite Paxton movies.


The Everest Base Camp tour, needless to say, is an indispensable part of a Tibet tour for tens of thousands of tourists travelling to Tibet each year. It takes two days to drive one-way (about 700 km) from Lhasa to the world's highest mountain -Mount Everest with an elevation of 8,848 meters. It seems to be a long journey, but it is exciting as you will be accompanied by beautiful landscapes and famous temples all the way such as the beautiful Yamdrok Lake that is one of the three holy lakes in Tibet and just like an emerald on a plateau, the Karuola Glaciers lying on the roadside, the Pelkor Chode Monastery with unique style taking in several factions of Tibetan Buddhism, the famed Tashilhunpo known as the Panchen Lama's seat, the Sakya Monastery reputed as the "Second Dunhuang" for its magic murals and the world's highest monastery (Rongbuk Monastery at 5,000m). Of course, the Himalayas stretching thousands of miles will be a big part of the Everest Base Camp tour.


It's 2019 and for the first time in my 23-year career as an educational IT leader, I can finally say that technology — for the classroom — has come of age. What technology delivers has gone beyond automating human actions, it is now changing modes of education — the pedagogy — and has reached a "sweet spot" of value in terms of return on investment. Let me explain.
In 1995, I had two consulting clients, Bialik Hebrew Day School and Havergal College, and there was only one good option for their educational technology — Apple. Back then, Macintosh desktop computers were over $3,000 each. With software costs, cabling, servers, etc., one computer lab could easily run over $100,000.
As the internet exploded and computers became more widely accessible, the technology needs at schools only seemed to get more complicated and expensive. For instance, schools were buying expensive servers and SANs (basically large, fast hard drives), often spending over $100,000 for storage alone. Cabling needed to be updated, network switches upgraded, internet connections were exorbitantly priced and frustratingly slow, and laptops were heavy and sluggish with poor battery life. It didn't seem to make sense. So much money spent, and for what?
Looking back, we now understand that those years were spent using technology to simply automate the more basic "administrative" tasks of education. For instance, using a word processor instead of hand-written assignments, PowerPoint to support what had been only a verbal presentation, or reading on computer instead of reading a hard copy book.
Students are collaborating online using tools like Jamboard and Google Docs, allowing them to reach out to each other to solve problems and share knowledge. This leads to a deeper learning and understanding.
Augmented reality (AR) and virtual reality (VR) have become accessible to the classroom using Google Tour Creator and Google Expeditions, allowing students to explore new dimensions of the material they're studying. Plus they're a fun way to learn.
And, it's now a regular experience for Bialik students to use Google Hangouts to video-conference with their peers in Israel. Geography and borders are no longer in the way to building relationships and collaborative learning. This technology is helping students break down barriers and share experiences.
This is the key to my view that technology has finally come of age in education. It's not necessarily that budgets have decreased. It's that they now are delivering real change to the classroom teaching. No one is tempted to ask "what's the money for?" any longer. So many new dimensions of learning are available now to teachers and students, the potential of technology is now truly being realized.
We've come a long way since those early days trying to use technology effectively in schools. Technology is moving so fast now that it's difficult to predict where things might take us, but the possibilities are endless. And, the beneficiaries are the students who have the tools to become true 21st century learners!
Do you think technology has come of age? What online tools are you seeing your kids using at Bialik (and at home) that are getting you excited? Tell us on our Facebook and Instagram pages.
Google provides the G Suite for Education service for free, with unlimited cloud storage and unrivalled collaborative tools, such as Gmail, Google Calendar, Google Classroom, Google Docs, Slides, Sheets, Draw, Jamboard, Hangouts, Forms and more.
Google's amazing platform has also allowed for a transformative evolution in the laptop, with the Google Chromebook, which is inexpensive, fast, ruggedized for student use, and has great battery life. The latest Chromebooks can also flip into tablet mode, have touch-enabled screens, an integrated stylus, and access to Android apps.
This last point is worth noting. Often unseen to the users — and which makes my team's job easier — is that Chromebooks are also easily managed from a central admin console, which allows us to ensure their safe and secure use at school and at home.
This means we can deliver great support at a lower cost, which allows the IT department to focus on higher-value services, such as infusing technology into the teaching and learning in the classroom.