One of the biggest problems with traveling abroad is finding a guaranteed income stream to earn you money while you live abroad.
For those of you who filled out my READER SURVEY, I noticed income streams was a common question.
In this article, you will learn one of the easiest and quickest ways to make money online with a business called Drop Shipping.
I just started taking a course on drop shipping called Ifinii and I'm just blown away at the power of this online business.
Ready to find out what exactly drop shipping is? Let me introduce you to a brotha named Otto Thompson.
Otto Thompson is a successful drop shipping expert who earns full time income with his online business. His website, Guide to Drop Shipping, provides articles & tips on starting a successful drop shipping business.
Be sure to check out Otto's Youtube Channel and Otto's Facebook Group as well.
He runs his entire business from the comfort of his home, too.
The best thing about drop shipping is you can run your business from anywhere in the world.
All you need is a computer and internet connection! Run your business from Brazil, Thailand, The Philippines or anywhere you choose.
Many people dream of starting a retail business, what if I told you that you can start an online business today just by following the information in this article.
Better yet what if I told the cost of starting this business is super low, and you don't have to purchase any inventory to get started. This sounds exciting, well this business model is called drop shipping.
Drop Shipping is one of the easiest ways to make money online selling on eBay, Amazon or your own website via Shopify.
Drop shipping is an online business method where you do not store any inventory, instead you partner with a wholesale dropship supplier. You list their inventory on various websites such as Amazon, eBay, Bonanza, or your own site via Shopify.
All the inventory you list is at a marked up price, once you receive payment you then forward the shipping information to the supplier, who then ships the item to your customer and you keep the difference in your PayPal or bank account as profit.
Drop shipping carries the lowest start up cost of any business model: Drop shipping is one of the easiest business to start because you don't have fork out thousands of dollars for inventory. Instead, you partner with a supplier and offer thousands of their products to your customers.
Drop shipping is easy to learn and it works: When launching a new business it takes a lot of work, and most of that work is deciding what inventory to spend your hard earn money on. Not to mention you would need to develop a system of organization to keep track of your items.
When starting a drop shipping store, you need not worry about how much to spend on inventory because you're able to list thousands of items on your website. Many suppliers have data feeds that make this process super easy.
You can even have a store created for you for super cheap. Companies like Wholesale2b not only offer a list of drop ship suppliers, but they can also create you a store for about the amount you would pay for a night out at the movies.
With all the packaging and shipping handled by your drop ship supplier, you're free to operate your business wherever you have an internet connection. Most drop ship business owners love this because a good majority of your business can be ran while on vacation, traveling or while working at your current job.
Companies like Walmart and Best Buy Use Drop Shipping too!
How To Search For Drop Ship Suppliers?
Before you get started you want to make sure you got all the right documents and legal stuff in order. Most quality wholesale supplier will want at least a EIN number, your sales tax id, or both.
There are many ways to find drop shipping suppliers, my video below will show you one of those ways.
If you're pretty confident on the items you want to sell you can always contact the manufacture of that item if they are not willing to drop ship.
They will almost always be willing to send you a list of wholesaler or retailers who carry their items.
You can also find supplier via Google. If you're going to use google to find suppliers keep the below 3 tips in mind.
Retail drop ship suppliers are horrible at SEO. They only exist to supply business with their items. So you will need to search deep into Google.
Most wholesalers will not pop up on the first page of a search. It's not uncommon to find a verified drop ship supplier on the 30th or 40th page of a search result.
Wholesale suppliers tend to have horrific looking and outdated old school styled websites. While a supplier site that has all the fancy flash animations and responsive theme may look nice and enjoyable to navigate.
Keep in mind not to discount the suppliers site you come across that looks a hot mess, often those sites offer the best pricing and service.
When you're searching for your supplier make sure you don't limit yourself to a search like "drop ship supplier" you want to change it up with words like wholesale supplier, manufacturer, drop ship wholesale suppliers, merchant supplier and any other words that describe your niche.
Shipping Issues & Drop Ship Problems, 4 Tips On How To Solve Them.
Drop shipping is an amazing business model, however, it does not come without its cons. Shipping problems will arise in everyone's online retail business at some point. Learning how to navigate through these rocky situations is often what makes or breaks a beginner drop shipper.
1. Low Profits and the competition is fierce.
Solution: Drop shipping is very competitive and it can lead to some deep price cutting by your competitors, which in turn result in lower profits for those selling in the niche who wish to compete.
To be successful on running a drop ship business, you can't always compete on price. Some of the most successful Shopify owners who drop ship found a way to add value to their store through top notch product education, amazing service or unique product selection.
2. Out of stock items and updating inventory can be a problem.
Solution: The best way to navigate this issue is to not put all your eggs in one basket. Make sure you have at least two suppliers for your drop ship store. This way if one supplier is out of stock you can easily order from your backup supplier.
Keep in mind that all supplier will not have every single item the other has however you should be able to find 2 or 3 suppliers who have pretty much the same stock.
One of the issues that will happen is selling an out of stock item. Some suppliers are better than others and keeping inventory files updated. So it's best to always have a group of trusted suppliers for you store.
3. Selling item you have never seen or have limited knowledge of.
Solution: You can become an expert in just about anything. Becoming proficient in a new drop shipping product line is no different. When you start making sales of your product you will become very familiar with frequently asked questions regarding your items. Also, if you ever need help answering a question a quick call to the supplier or manufacturer should get you on the right path.
4. Involving a third party will result in more fulfillment errors, mistakes, and logistical problems.
Solution: You can have the best system and strategy for running your drop shipping business and even then some of the best suppliers will at some point have a mistake or fulfillment issue.
Whenever this happens you need to just chop this up as the cost of doing business. Regardless of what happens you still have to take full responsibility for the issues because your the reseller.
Most suppliers are understanding of a fulfillment issue on their end and will make right some issues. However, it is not wise to point fingers at your supplier or debate with your supplier on paying return shipping charges or paying to ship out additional items.
Its best to just swallow the cost and keep business moving so the buyer can get a solution to their problem as soon as possible.
Run your drop ship business while hanging with her in Brazil!
Is drop shipping a lottery ticket to overnight success? Of course, it is not, but it does provide a great solution to starting a real business without investing thousands in start-up cost.
Infinii is the training program I used to learn how drop shipping works. There are 3 basic member leves: Prime, D, and I. I recommend Prime because it's the perfect level for beginners and shows you the quickest and fastest way to make sales: Buy on Amazon, Sell on eBay.
The other modules show more advanced techniques, but it's the best and most affordable course I've seen online. Other courses charge a lot more money ($250+). If you want to proven step by step system to start making sales fast, then Infinnii is for you.
Shopify is the best ecommerce solution for your drop ship business. Starting your own online store using drop shipping is the best long term strategy because you contol 100% of the sales and your customer database.
Shopify is only $9 per month to get started and you'll be able to start making sales within hours! Dropshipping is low risk with a very high reward.
This is a wholesale directory with over 8,000 suppliers for your drop ship business. Otto Thompson highly recommends it and it's a great way to get started for very little money.
It costs only $67 per year and saves you time by gathering 100% real wholesalers in one location.
This is my favorite wholesale directory that I signed up for years ago. They are the older on the internet and have been operating since 1999.
It costs $299 upfront as a 1 time payment. No monthly or annual fees. I bought my membership in 2008 and it still works today!
I will try my best to either answer them or point you in the right direction. If you are starting a drop shopping business, then let's network!


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Customs Seize N242.6m Smuggled Drugs
The Nigeria Customs Service on Tuesday disclosed that it had intercepted truckloads of smuggled drugs worth over N242.6m, whose importation was highly prohibited.
The drugs identified as Tramadol Hydrochloride and Tramadol and Really Extra tablets in the range of 225mg/200mg were seized along the Lagos-Ibadan Expressway and Apapa Road, Lagos.
According to the Comptroller General of Customs, Col. Hameed Ali (Retd), the drugs were concealed in 5,056 cartons, parked in two trucks on two units of 40-foot containers.
He stated that the drugs were prohibited and not good for consumption without prescription, noting that they bore no evidence of registration from the National Agency for Food and Drug Administration and Control and were marked "produced for export."
The Customs boss said that investigations were ongoing to unravel the involvement of NCS personnel in the clearing of the consignment.
He said the importers and the Customs operative who colluded with them to allow the dangerous drugs enter into the country had not been arrested.
''This drug is prohibited and not good for consumption without prescription. A lot of women and youths now take it to relieve stress, but it is harmful to health if taken outside medical guidance," Ali said.
He added that the Customs would intensify its battle against smuggling and would continue to prevent prohibited items from entering the Nigerian market in order to safeguard the economy and health of the citizens.
In 2016, the Federal Operations Unit Zone A of the NCS, evacuated 773 cartons of Tramadol capsules in 225mg and 700mg from an unnamed warehouse in Lagos, with a suspect still facing trial at the Federal High Court in Lagos.
Some of the side effects of the drug, according to medical sources, are agitation, nervousness, anxiety, seizures (convulsions), skin rash, dizziness and spinning sensation.
Ali added that the seized drugs were capable of increasing criminal activities and economic waste, and that their importation had a negative impact on local production and employment.
Sterling Bank Obtains $15m ICL Facility
UBA Records 32% Rise in Pre-tax Profit
Tony Elumelu owned Heir Holdings Limited and its related company Transnational Corporation of Nigeria Plc on Friday announced it has completed the purchase of 45 percent stake in Oil Mining Lease (OML 17) through TNOG Oil and Gas Limited.
The acquisition includes all assets of Shell Petroleum Development Company of Nigeria Limited (30 Percent), Total E&P Nigeria Ltd (10 percent) and ENI (five percent) — in the lease.
It was further stated that TNOG Oil and Gas Limited will also have the sole right to operate OML 17.
The field presently has a production capacity of 27,000 barrels per day. Also, there are estimated 2P reserves (proven and probable) of 1.2 billion barrels and an additional one billion barrels in possible reserves — all of oil equivalent.
A consortium of global and regional banks and investors provided a financing component of $1.1 billion for the largest oil and gas financing in Africa in over a decade.
In a statement released on Friday, Shell said the completion was after all the necessary approvals have were received from authorities.
"A total of $453m was paid at completion with the balance to be paid over an agreed period. SPDC will retain its interest in the Port Harcourt Industrial and Residential Areas, which fall within the lease area," the SPDC said.
Speaking after the completion of the deal, Elumelu said "We have a very clear vision: creating Africa's first integrated energy multinational, a global quality business, uniquely focused on Africa and Africa's energy needs. The acquisition of such a high-quality asset, with significant potential for further growth, is a strong statement of our confidence in Nigeria, the Nigerian oil and gas sector and a tribute to the extremely high-quality management team that we have assembled.
"As a Nigerian, and more particularly an indigene of the Niger Delta region, I understand well our responsibilities that come with stewardship of the asset, our engagement with communities and the strategic importance of the oil and gas sector in Nigeria. We see significant benefits from integrating our production, with our ability to power Nigeria, through Transcorp, and deliver value across the energy value chain.
"I would like to thank Shell, Total and ENI, for the professionalism of the process, the Federal Government of Nigeria, the Ministry of Petroleum Resources, and the NNPC for the confidence they have placed in us."
Tony Elumelu is the Chairman of Heirs Holdings Limited, Transcorp and United Bank for Africa Plc.
Also, read Transcorp Plc Acquires FGN's 100% Equity in Afam Power for N105 Billion
Exporters Say CBN Pre-export Requirements is Frustrating Export of Goods
Exporters have said the recently introduced pre-export requirements by the Central Bank of Nigeria is creating unnecessary bottlenecks for exporters and the movement of goods out of the country.
Exporters, who spoke under the aegis of the Network of Practicing Non-oil Exporters of Nigeria (NPNEN), said the electronic Nigeria Export Proceed Form now required by financial institutions from exporters had come with so many challenges.
Ahmed Rabiu, the President, NPNEN, explained that the new policy had several requirements that often led to delays and loss of income on the part of exporters.
He said, "We acknowledge the CBN's desire to ensure that all exports out of Nigeria are documented in order to ensure that the proceeds of such exports are repatriated.
"However, the reality on the field shows that the process is causing undue delays and consequently, encouraging corruption."
According to them, in the new pre-export requirements, the Central Bank of Nigeria wants an export transaction to be initiated through eNXP processing on the trade monitoring system.
After which exporters are expected to have a pre-shipment inspection agent, the Nigeria Customs Service and other designated government agencies carry out their pre-export inspections.
The exporters said the pre-shipment inspection agent was expected to issue a clean Certificate of Inspection while Customs would issue the Single Good Declaration. All these they said takes time and delay goods from leaving the country on time.
Pointing to a recent report, they said about N868 billion worth of goods bound for export were stuck at the ports due to the new policy.
Speaking further Rabiu said, "For example, for the PIA to issue the CCI, the exporter is required to upload a certificate of origin as one of the supporting documents for the eNXP.
"The PIA is also required to upload the CCI to the TRMS(M) and until this is done, the Customs service will not issue the Single Good Declaration."
He added, "After issuing the SGD, the customs is further required to upload it into the TRMS before the goods are allowed to be gated into the port and loaded on the vessel by the shipping line."
Ardova Plc in Talks to Acquire Enyo Retail and Supply Limited
Ardova Plc, Nigeria's leading integrated energy company, has commenced discussions to acquire Enyo Retail and Supply Limited.
According to the statement issued and signed by Oladehinde Nelson-Cole, Ag. Company Secretary/General Counsel, Ardova Plc, Enyo is one of the newest and fastest-growing retail and supply companies in the downstream sector.
It stated, "This announcement is pursuant to the acceptance in principle of AP's offer and acquisition framework by the shareholders of Enyo, it is subject to the successful completion of a due diligence exercise and the receipt of all required regulatory approvals."
"This announcement is pursuant to the acceptance in principle of AP's offer and acquisition framework by the shareholders of Enyo, it is subject to the successful completion of a due diligence exercise and the receipt of all required regulatory approvals."
Speaking on the yet to be completed deal, Mr. Olumide Adeosun, CEO, Ardova Plc, said upon completion, Ardova will retain the Enyo branded stations which will operate side by side with the Ardova brand while simultaneously leveraging on the strengths of Ardova and its group companies.
He added that the two companies are determined to conclude the deal by the end of Q1 2021.
Enyo presently operates over 90 stations across the nation and attends to over 100,000 retail customers on a daily basis.
Ardova Plc and Enyo Retail & Supply Limited promised to furnish stakeholders with more information on the progress of the deal.

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Michael Cohen Was Spying on Trump's 2016 Campaign, Book Claims
An upcoming book from former Trump Campaign Manager Paul Manafort has claimed that lawyer Michael Cohen spied on former President Trump's 2016 campaign.
Because Cohen was the administrator of the campaign server, he had access to all emails, according to "Political Prisoner: Persecuted, Prosecuted, but Not Silenced," Manafort's book.
"He had access to everybody's communications. He had knowledge and he would be sitting in his office, gaining knowledge by virtue of spying on the campaign," Manafort wrote.
Cohen has already denied Manafort's claims.
"Not surprisingly, Manafort is distorting the truth. I requested administrative access to only Corey Lewandowski's campaign email address after he was terminated," Cohen said. "The purpose was to prove to Trump that it was Corey who was leaking negative information on Jared and Ivanka to the press. The information was located and turned over to Donald."
Manafort also claimed that Sen. Ted Cruz, R-Texas, received an in-person apology from Trump over his comments about the senator and his wife during his 2016 campaign in which he attacked Heidi Cruz's appearance after she mocked Trump's wife Melania.
Even Manafort found it "unusual" for Trump, who is typically unapologetic and brash.
"On his own initiative, Trump did apologize for saying some of the things he said about Cruz, which was unusual for Trump," Manafort said in the book.
On the campaign trail, the exchanges became heated with Cruz calling Trump a "sniveling coward." However, Manafort says that Trump apologized during an exchange at the Republican National Convention in Cleveland in July 2016 in which Cruz said he would work with Trump if he won but could not endorse him, according to the book.
"[Trump] told Cruz he considered him an ally, not an enemy, and that he believed they could work together when Trump was president," Manafort said.
Cruz supported Trump as the Republican nominee for president in September 2016, saying Trump would make a better president than Democratic nominee Hillary Clinton, though he claimed the former president never walked back his statements.
"If Hillary Clinton is elected, the court will be lost for a generation, and my daughters' rights will be lost for a generation," Cruz said.
Manafort was under investigation by Special Counsel Robert Mueller. He was charged and found guilty of eight counts of fraud and false tax returns. Manafort claimed in his book that Mueller "was suffering through an advancing stage of dementia."
Manafort served seven months in home confinement due to the COVID-19 pandemic before Trump pardoned him.
The book is set to be released on August 16.
LOL! Adam Schiff Reportedly Wants To Take Over For Pelosi As Speaker Of The House
TV Host Says She Quit Because She Was Blocked From Questioning Fauci


Focaccia remains up there in my top breads, in terms of making and eating, and while a standard focaccia is a delight, I love experimenting with flavours.
This focaccia, made with utter ease and minimal effort in a mixer, is laden with gorgeous salty anchovies and the lovely sweetness you get from slowly cooked garlic and onions. Quite simply, it is a focaccia with attitude! If you are not a fan of anchovies, simply leave them out – or replace then with small cubes of Parmesan.
I have a mini video demonstration of making focaccia similar to this on my YouTube channel: the video can be found here.
The challenge for a great focaccia is the hole structure: you want it to be laden with holes of small to large sizes rather than dense and doughy. A high water content in the dough is key – this does make it harder to handle, but to be honest the use of a food mixer makes this almost effortless.
Once you have roasted the onions and garlic* you literally put all of the dough ingredients into the bowl of a food mixer and then, with the machine on medium-high, let it do its thing for about 20 minutes. The dough is then left to ferment slowly, before being shaped, allowed to rise, and baked.
I let the dough rise slowly at room temperature once it has been made up and kneaded, which gives a better flavour, but for an even better flavour, pop the dough in the fridge for an overnight rise (in which case you can even reduce the yeast content to 3g).
*if you don't want to roast the onions and garlic, you can chop them finely (or even blitz them in the food processor) and add them, raw, to the flour at the start: you won't get the lovely sweetness and the roasted flavour, but you will get a nice flavour running through the focaccia.
(1) Roast the onion and garlic: put them, along with the oil into an oven-proof dish. Cover and roast in an oven pre-heated to about 150C (fan) for up to an hour until the onions and garlic have softened and have started to turn golden brown. Cool.
(2) Add the flour, salt and yeast to a large mixer bowl. Add the anchovies and the cooled garlic and onions, along with the oil. Pour in the water and mix with the paddle or whisk attachment for about 20 minutes on a medium speed: the dough will become silky-smooth and almost gelatinous in texture.
(3) Cover with clingfilm and chill for several hours until well risen and very bubbly: ideally, though, go for an overnight rest in the fridge for an even better flavour.
(4) Pour the dough gently onto a large shallow baking tray lined with non-stick greaseproof. Gently ease it into the corners. Drizzle over a little olive oil and leave for an hour or so at room temperature until well risen: it will have many tiny bubbles over the surface. Towards the end of the rise, pre-heat the oven to 200C(fan).
NB: you do not need to cover this dough as it rises as the oil will ensure the dough does not develop a skin.
(5) With oiled fingers, make dimples all over the surface, through some of the onions and garlic and going right down to the greaseproof. Drizzle with a little more oil and sprinkle over a some sea salt (not too much because of the anchovies).
(6) Bake for 20-25 minutes until a deep golden brown colour. Remove the focaccia from the oven and drizzle over a little more olive oil. Leave to cool before slicing and devouring.
Wow that texture is amazing!!
I saw your recipe on Tasty Tuesdays. I'm a huge fan of focaccia and yours looks beautiful! The flavour combination sounds so yummy too.


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The Tremarctinae or short-faced bears is a subfamily of Ursidae that contains one living representative, the spectacled bear (Tremarctos ornatus) of South America, and several extinct species from four genera: the Florida spectacled bear (Tremarctos floridanus), the North American giant short-faced bears Arctodus (A. pristinus and A. simus), the South American giant short-faced bear Arctotherium (including A. angustidens, A. vetustum, A. bonariense, A. wingei, and A. tarijense) as well as Plionarctos (P. edensis and P. harroldorum), which is thought to be ancestral to the other three genera.  Of these, the giant short-faced bears (Arctodus simus and Arctotherium angustidens) may have been the largest ever carnivorans in the Americas. The group is thought to have originated in eastern North America, and then invaded South America as part of the Great American Interchange. Most short-faced bears became extinct at the end of the Pleistocene.

Evolution

Tremarctinae originate with their common ancestor, Plionarctos, in the Middle Hemphillian (earliest Late Miocene, ~10Ma) of North America; Plionarctos is last recorded in the early Blancan (Early Pliocene, ~3.3Ma). Around the Miocene-Pliocene boundary (~5 Ma), tremarctines, along with other ursids, experienced an explosive radiation in diversity, as C4 vegetation (grasses) and open habitats dominated, the world experienced a major temperature drop and increased seasonality, and a faunal turnover which extinguished 60–70% of all Eurasian faunal genera, and 70–80% of North American genera. Correspondingly, a 2008 study suggested that the mean divergence dates for Arctotherium, Arctodus and Tremarctos were 4.8 Ma, and between Arctotherium and Tremarctos at 4.1 Ma. A further study calculated the divergence date between Arctodus and Tremarctos at 5.5 Ma. All three genera are first recorded from the Blancan (Pliocene/Pleistocene boundary) of North America.

An indeterminate Arctotherium is first recorded from the late Pliocene of El Salvador. In the Early Pleistocene, short-faced bears began to establish themselves more thoroughly in both North and South America. The medium sized Arctodus pristinus inhabited a broad range in the North American continent, with Tremarctos floridanus endemic to the Gulf Coast. The first records of Arctotherium in South America come in the form of the gigantic Arctotherium angustidens, possibly the largest carnivorous land mammal ever, in Argentina circa 1 Ma. What the evolutionary history of Arctotherium in the previous 1.5 million years, and their history in South America, is unclear. In the Middle Pleistocene, both Arctodus and Arctotherium gave way to new forms; Arctodus pristinus gave way to the huge Arctodus simus, which inhabited a pan-continental range, from Alaska to Mexico. Arctotherium angustidens, on the other hand, was replaced by a series of smaller, medium-sized species- Arctotherium vetustum, then shortly thereafter by Arctotherium bonariense, and Arctotherium tarijense. Although the smaller Arctotherium wingei is only known from Late Pleistocene records, the species' more archaic position in the Arctotherium family tree also suggests an origin in the Middle Pleistocene. Arctotherium wingei was the only known species of Arctotherium to principally inhabit a range north of the Southern Cone, and to reinvade Central America.

By the terminal Pleistocene, Arctodus simus, Tremarctos floridanus, Arctotherium tarijense and Arctotherium wingei collectively occupied a range from Alaska to southernmost Patagonia. All of these forms were extinct by the end of the early Holocene. Around this time, Tremarctos ornatus, otherwise known as the spectacled bear, starts appearing in the South American fossil record. Scholars suggest that the spectacled bear migrated into Central and South America upon the extinction of Arctotherium wingei, if Pleistocene records of Andean Arctotherium sp. aren't confirmed as the spectacled bear.

Anatomy
Tremarctinae appear to have a disproportionately shorter snouts compared with most modern bears, giving them the name "short-faced." This apparent shortness is an illusion caused by the deep snouts and short nasal bones of tremarctine bears compared with ursine bears; Tremarctinae had a deeper but not a shorter face than most living bears. Osteological differences between tremarctine and ursine bears include an extra lateral cusp between the trigonid and talonid on the m1 molar, a premasseteric fossa on the mandible, and often an entepicondylar foramen on the humerus of tremarctine bears. Additionally, tremarctine bears' skulls are deeper and more brachycephalic, their zygomatic arches and glenoid fossas are well developed, and they have larger molars in comparison with ursines. Moreover, tremarctine bears' orbits are also bigger, more rounded and lateralized.

Paleobiology

Tremarctines inhabited a wide range of niches- from small and mostly herbivorous bears inhabiting more forested habitat, such as Arctotherium wingei and Tremarctos ornatus, to the colossal Arctotherium angustidens and Arctodus simus; plains adapted omnivores with a penchant for large quantities of meat. Although the two giant species appear superficially similar, both species had key, significant differences. While Arctodus simus had a wide range across North America for 800,000 years, Arctotherium angustidens appears to be limited to the Southern Cone, in open plains habitat. Furthermore, whereas Arctodus simus varied its diet between quasi-carnivory in Alaska to classic omnivory, Arctotherium angustidens had similar rates of carnivory across specimens, according to isotope studies. Additionally, the much more gracile form of Arctodus, in contrast with the robust Arctotherium angustidens, has puzzled researchers. However, it has been posited that the Pliocene extinctions of scavenger-niche mega-carnivores, such as the procyonid Chapalmalania in South America, and both Borophagus and Agriotherium in North America, was a shared impetus for gigantism in Arctodus and Arctotherium.

Arctodus and Tremarctos share characteristics common to herbivorous bears. This includes cheek teeth with large surface areas, a deep mandible, and large mandibular muscle attachments. Because herbivorous carnivorans lack an efficient digestive tract for breaking down plant matter via microbial action, they must break down plant matter via extensive chewing or grinding, and thus possess features to create a high mechanical advantage of the jaw. This presents the possibility that these traits may be an ancestral condition of the group, if not an indication of their preferred dietary habits.

Systematics

Traditionally, analyses of the phylogenetic inner relationships of tremarctines had Plionarctos and Tremarctos as basal groups with respect to a short-faced bear clade of Arctodus and Arctotherium. A study of the affinities of bears belonging to Arctotherium indicates that they were more closely related to the spectacled bear than to Arctodus, implying convergent evolution of large size in the two lineages.

Tremarctines are occasionally referred to as arctodonts or arctotheres in older scientific literature, although this has fallen out of fashion.

Taxonomy
The following taxonomy of the tremarctine bears follow by Mitchell et al. (2016):
 Subfamily Tremarctinae Merriam & Stock, 1925
 †Plionarctos Frick, 1926
 †Plionarctos harroldorum Tedfored & Martin, 2001
 †Plionarctos edensis Frick, 1926
 †Arctodus Leidy, 1854
 †Arctodus simus Cope, 1879
 †Arctodus pristinus Leidy, 1854
 †Arctotherium Burmeister, 1879
 †Arctotherium angustidens Gervais & Ameghino, 1880
 †Arctotherium vetustum Ameghino, 188)
 †Arctotherium wingei Ameghino, 1902
 †Arctotherium bonariense (Gervais, 1852)
 †Arctotherium tarijense Ameghino, 1902
 Tremarctos Gervais, 1855
 †Tremarctos floridanus (Gildey, 1928)
 Tremarctos ornatus (Cuvier, 1825) – spectacled bear

See also
Pleistocene megafauna
Pleistocene extinctions

References

External links
Yukon Beringia Interpretive Centre - North American Short-Faced Bear

Bears
Mammal subfamilies
Fossil taxa described in 1925

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B&S About Movies
We'll see you…at the movies.
Posted on January 13, 2020 January 13, 2020 by rdfranciswriter
You're 20th Century Fox Studios and you're in the throes of a business merger with the Disney Corporation.
In 2017 you completed a film (began filming in March and completed principal photography in May) that stars an actress perpetually bashed on social media for being a "bad actress" and whose star has waned since her smash teen vampire movie from a decade ago—and her starring-reboot of Charlie's Angels became one of 2019's biggest box office bombs. Her co-star is an actor who assaulted a pro-Trump Uber driver in 2016, got sucked into the eye of the Weinstein effect in 2017, was arrested on federal bomb threat charges on an Amtrak train in 2018, and then capped off his litany of legal issues with a Silicon Valley (HBO series) work place misconduct allegation.
So what do you do with that $80 million film (other sources say $50) starring Kristen Stewart and TJ Miller? What do you do with a film that received lukewarm responses in its test screenings and runs the risk of pro-Trump and #MeToo protests outside the theatres upon release?
You shelve that film for three years and wait for the Disney merger to finalize and for your lead actor's legal issues to blow over. Then you release the film in January, one of the dreaded winter doldrums "dump months" (the others are February, August, and September) where films with lowered commercial and critical expectations go to die. The fact that your film grossed $7 million in the U.S on its opening weekend, with a worldwide opening-gross of $14 million, gives credence to Hollywood's lack-of-faith marketing concept. It also doesn't help that, upon release, Rotten Tomatoes rated your film at 53%, Metacritic scored it 49/100, CinemaScore graded it a "C" on an A+ to F scale, and PostTrack rated it 2/5 stars.
Hey, what the hell? James Cameron, what are you doing here, 10,000 meters down in the Pacific Rim? Yeah, I've been down this road, uh, Mariana Trench before. And that's this film's elevator pitch: James Cameron's Aliens (1986) (and not Ridley Scott's Alien) meets James Cameron's The Abyss (1989).
Yep, for me—maybe not you—it's just cinematic, aquatic déjà vu.
Now, we, the old codger video fringers of the '80s will load-in our cerebral-analog VHS copies of 20th Century Fox's The Neptune Factor (1973), MGM Studios' "snakes on a submarine" variant, Fer-de-Lance (1974), and the TV movie "prehistoric eggs on the ocean floor" variant, The Intruder Within, aka, The Lucifer Rig (1981). Then there's the aquatic crop of The Abyss knockoffs released around 1990: Leviathan (bad Russian vodka monsters), Carolco Pictures' DeepStar Six (giant anthropoid "sea scorpions" jarred loose-by-drilling), Roger Corman's Lords of the Deep (psychic aliens and damaged ozone layer horseplay), Wayne Crawford's (Jake Speed) rip The Evil Below (haunted ocean floor shipwreck baloney), and the R. Lee Emery (always awesome!) starring, The Rift, aka Endless Descent (evil underwater lab conducting DNA experiments).
Of course, the younger folks will load their DVD digital copies of Paul W.S Anderson's 1997's Event Horizon (yeah, we know that's about Satan in a black hole . . . or something?), Barry Levinson's Sphere (about an underwater black hole time-travel mission from the past or future . . . or something?), and 2000's Walter Hill-disowned Supernova (again, yeah, we know, Satan in space . . . or something?). Then the younger yungins will recall the more recent Life (2017) starring Jake Gyllenhall (yeah, we know that was in space and not water, but work with us here).
And that brings us, well, underwater once again with this latest, grimy and dimly lit, science-fiction slasher fired from the James Cameron cannons—with some small arms suppressive fire from Ridley Scott.
But wait. This isn't the post-Alien late '80s. This is the 21st century.
Underwater was produced in the polluted backwash of Al Gore's An Inconvenient Truth (2006). But Al's an old codger, like me, and Sam, the illustrious proprietor of B&S About Movies. So Underwater wasn't made for us, or for the Al Gore youth brigade. Underwater is for those who rally around Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and support her Green New Deal initiative.
Thus, Underwater isn't an irresponsible, mean big fish movie for the sake of being an irresponsible, mean big fish movie, say like, The Neptune Factor. Underwater is a responsible story; a story that drives home a "man-bad ocean-good" message. For the greedy and evil, right-wing industrious creatures known as man, with his witchery called "science," has gone too far. The evil land dwellers above must endure the wrath of Amphitrite. All hail King Neptune!
As one of character reasons amid the mayhem, "We've drilled too deep. We've taken too much. "Now it's [the ocean] taking back."
What the hell? I thought I was supposed to go to movies and have fun; to escape the crap that is our world for an hour and a half. Nope. Welcome to the Greta Thunberg Show (which needs to be cancelled, posthaste), i.e., corporations are sacrificing people for profit . . . the oceans are in danger . . . it's an earth-crisis event . . . climate change is killing us . . . we have to stop using fossil fuels. HOW DARE YOU!
The real, existential wrath created from global warming: Gretazilla.
Ugh. We get it, Bernie and Elizabeth. We need to stop fracking. And drilling. And eating cows. And driving our cars. We must ride our bikes and sit on piss-stained bus seats to get to our jobs. For man must acquiesce; we must give the world back to the alligators, the apes, the crocodiles, the leeches, the sharks, the slugs, the tarantulas, and the wolves. (It's why we dedicated the first week of January to "Nature Run Amok" movies* at B&S About Movies.)
But alas, global warming doesn't have a "physical body" to fear. You need a Jason, or Michael, or a Xenomorph. Weather isn't an effective antagonist. Even the 2017 man-bad nature-good lesson that was Geostorm had to resort to weather satellite laser bombs . . . or something. So, in the tradition of Ishirō Honda (brilliantly) embodying mans' err with nuclear power by way of the monster Godzilla, we get the global warming, man-bad nature-good created arthropods of Underwater.
Yes. The creatures of Underwater are meant to represent a pissed off Mother Nature seeking vengeance on greedy humans . . . or something.
Damn you, movie. Now I feel awful. After this movie I vow to eat one of Burger King's cardboard veggie burgers and make a Joaquin Phoenix Joker-vow to wear the same outfit day-in-and-day-out, you know, so as to support Stella McCartney's vision of our planet. I will Google search on how to turn my urine into drinkable water, use baking soda as a deodorant, and wash my clothes with rainwater-in-a-barrel.
Anyway, back to the movie.
Yes. She holds her mouth open throughout the film.
Kristen Stewart is Norah Price, a cynical (is there any other character type in these "alien" films; must they all be malcontents rife with Prometheus-styled grimace-anxieties?) mechanical engineer on the Kepler 822, a deep-sea mining station. Her crewmates are excavating fossil fuels with the "controversial" Kepler Ocean Drill, seven miles under the sea for the "evil" military-industrial complex, Weyland, uh, Tian Industries.
Then the ubiquitous earthquake hits and damages the ubiquitous, dingy and claustrophobic drilling station. But wait, it's not an earthquake. It's that damn creature known as man and their confounded Kepler Drill. They've disturbed the warm and cavernous, Mariana Trench-hydrothermal pocket home of a nightmarish, Lovecraftian Cthulhu-like monster and its ravenous, parasitic and symbiotic, anthropomorphic spawns. Yep, H.R Giger-inspired "sea arthropods" with human characteristics—replete with fishy faces and webbed fingers—attacked the station.
And the station springs a leak—with Kristen Stewart tumbling in slow motion for, you know, maximum, suspenseful effect. So between the flood and the oxygen depletion, the crew, headed by Captain Lucien (Vincent Cassel of 2002's Irreversible, 2007's Eastern Promises, 2010's The Black Swan, 2016's Jason Bourne) suit up in the bulky-heavy Alien '79-era diving suits and schleps one mile across the ocean floor to an abandoned naval station, Roebuck Station 641, to access its escape pods. That's if they make it: a pissed-off sea creature is in Jason Vorhees-mode picking them off one-by-one. Once at the station—cue John Carpenter's The Thing (1982)—they discover a hatchling and a corpse of a sea creature. And that Lucien was previously stationed at Roebuck. Damn you, evil corporation! Damn right they covered it all up, again. Screw the Earth. Profit is king.
Director William Eubank's first two, under-the-radar films, the low-budget science fiction dramas Love (2011) and The Signal (2014) rightfully received worldwide critical acclaim for their ingenuity on a tight budget. So to hear 20th Century Fox gave the director reins of Underwater to Eubank was a source of excitement for science fiction fans. (Both films are excellent; do seek them out.)
Sadly, with Underwater, Eubank got dealt a bad hand. Not even a director of his ingenuity and vision can overcome corporate media mergers and two publically derided lead actors.
Granted, while Underwater feels derivatively cribbed from other underwater-alien films, and the environmental message is a bit heavy handed, there's no denying the script co-written by Brian Duffield (Insurgent) and Adam Cozard (Jack Ryan: Shadow Recruit, The Legend of Tarzan) is smartly written. Eubank, Duffield, and Cozard know their sci-fi celluloid predecessors and they know that we, the ticket buyer, have seen at least one of those Alien-ripped antecedents (or, if you're a film snobby dweeb like me and Sam, you've seen all of the aforementioned films in this review). So knowing that we are up to speed, they dispensed with the usual disaster film and monster film, half-hour set-ups of expositional character development before the catastrophe hits. Underwater gets right into the action. And that's appreciated.
So again, while familiar, Underwater—in spite of Hollywood pariah TJ Miller's acting-hysterics of playing the same old, smarmy cookie cutter "comic relief" sidekick he did in the Deadpool films—and thanks to gifted TV actor John Gallagher, Jr. (Law and Order: SVU, 2010's Jonah Hex, 2016's 10 Cloverfield Lane) killing it alongside France-bred actor Vincent Cassel—is instantly engaging. Critical bashing aside, Underwater clicks along with a nice pace at a very-tight, well-edited 95-minute run time.
William Eubank is the savior of science fiction films and I look forward to what he has to offer with his next film. He'll be on that Golden Globe and Oscar stage, soon enough.
* Here's the full list from our January 2020 "Nature Run Amok" week:
Arachnia (2003)
Birdemic: Shock and Terror (2010)
Congo (1995)
Cruel Jaws (1995)
Flu Birds (2008)
The Giant Leeches (1959)
Invasion of the Animal People (1959)
Invasion of the Bee Girls (1973)
Kiss of the Tarantula (1975)
Monster Shark (1984)
Monster Wolf (2010)
War of the Insects (1968)
Night of the Cobra Woman (1972)
Play Dead (1981)
Rattlers (1976)
Sharks' Treasure (1975)
Slugs (1988)
The Uncanny (1978)
The Wasp Woman (1959)
WolvesBayne (2009)
Zombie 5: Killing Birds (1985)
And there's even more "nature run amok" films with our December 2018 shark tribute week, "Bastard Pups of Jaws," which features everything imaginable—from 1976's Grizzly to 1977's Orca, from 1979's The Great Alligator all the way out to Renny Harlin's 1999 shark romp, Deep Blue Sea.
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THE HORRORS announce Higher limited edition box set
The Horrors release a very special, limited edition, deluxe boxed set of the singles and videos from Skying, available digitally now followed by a physical release in March 2013. The set includes covers, re-workings and remixes from Andrew Weatherall, Seahawks, Connan Mockasin and more.
"We were driving through the deserts of California when we hatched the plan to release a boxed set of the singles from Skying, unaware that it would balloon into the monster that it did. We started off small, just one version per single. However, through chance encounters and wanting to involve more people whose music excited us, the box soon grew into an impressive collection of sonic tapestries and hypnotic grooves and it became apparent that this was no longer about the singles. It was now about this new music which had used the different elements of Skying as a springboard to other ideas. We encouraged everyone involved to be as obtuse as possible, to get as far away from the original source material as they could. The results are stunning, and I think it's just a shame we couldn't have done more." - Tom Furse, The Horrors
The box set features an eclectic collection of musicians, DJs and producers from widely contrasting genres but all fans and friends of The Horrors:- Connan Mockasin, Seahawks, Andrew Weatherall, Blanck Mass, Peaking Lights, Cherrystones, Chris Watson, Daniel Avery, JTC and Andy Blake.
"One of the pleasures of remixing is seeing how other people construct their music. Re-arranging the bricks in The Horrors wall of sound was a particular joy." - Andrew Weatherall
"It was an honour to create these remixes and they're probably the most enjoyable we've ever done. Having parts from the entire album to work with was an amazing luxury. To choose from the myriad sounds that spilled out from the folders was like walking into a psychedelic sweet shop with all the flavours of the universe on display." - Pete Fowler, Seahawks
Amongst the collection's many diverse interpretations is Chris Watson's reworking of 'Dive In'. Watson, one of the world's leading sound recorders of wildlife and natural phenomena and founder of post punk outfit Cabaret Voltaire, describes the field recordings he included in his intriguing mix:
"I used Weddell seals singing at the intro recorded under the Antartic sea ice. The rhythms of the Humbolt current around the Galapagos Islands recorded with DPA hydrophones. Singing grey seals recorded out on the Farne Islands, Northumberland and the processed voices of Orca, killer whales, recorded in the sea of Norway."
The images that make up the cover and boxed set package were created by celebrated young artist Leif Podhajsky who has previously artworked releases by Lykke Li, Tame Impala and Grimes.
Full Higher track listing available here.
Higher available digitally via iTunes now and physically March 2013.


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What Does 1 Thessalonians 2:3 Mean?
Paul always kept the believers at Thessalonica in his prayers, because he was well-aware of their work of faith, their labour of love and their patience in hope.
They had formerly been idol worshippers, but had responded to the good news of the gospel of grace, and were wonderfully born again into the body of Christ and the kingdom of God.
However, there were those that questioned Paul's legitimacy.. and falsely accused him of improper behaviour and ungodly motives. But godly character is the hallmark of a Christian.. which caused Paul to defend himself against these accusations. And in these early verses, he laid out the manner and means of his ministry, and his motivation in sharing the gospel of God, with Jew and gentile alike - for His apostleship was appointed of God and not of man.
He reminded them how he was the one that brought them the good news of the gospel, and of the spiritual fruit that had formed in their lives, due to their salvation. He reminded them of the resistance he received from so many, and of the shameful way that he had been treated at Philippi and other cities in the region.
He reminded them how he boldly taught the good news of Jesus Christ, and crucified, risen and ascended into glory.. despite the intense hostility his message received.. and the negativity that he received from so many.
He reminded them how he had received the gospel, which he preached to them, and from Whom he had received the message.. for Paul neither received it from man, nor was he taught it, but he received it through a revelation of the glorified Jesus Christ, Himself. Paul's exhortation does not come from error or impurity or by way of deceit. His message had been given to him by direct revelation from the Lord Jesus Christ.
Paul had been intercepted on the road to Damascus, by the risen, ascended and glorified Lord Jesus, and he spent time, in the desert, being taught by the Spirit of Christ Himself. He was not teaching a false or deceitful message that contained error or impurity, but the truth of the glorious gospel of God - that he had received by direct revelation.
Paul had been entrusted with the gospel message of salvation and was entrusted with many mysteries, that had been hidden from ages and generations.. But now, as then, there are those that question his word, denounce the legitimacy of Paul's epistles.. reject his teachings as an apostle of Christ - and even question his calling.
The enemy's attack on the gospel of God, take many forms.. and the shocking attack on the teachings of Paul, then as now, must be resisted and rejected. Paul himself wrote: our exhortation does not come from error or impurity or by way of deceit; but just as we have been approved by God, to be entrusted with the gospel - and so we speak, not as pleasing men, but God, Who examines our hearts.


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Prague, 5 June 2015 – "The Church proclaims that marriage is a sacrament, but we must explain what this means: first of all, that it embodies grace. And grace signifies not just God's help so that the husband and wife remain in love and faithfulness, with courage and patience, without selfishness, bearing each other's burdens; not just God's help so that each person can carry out their own tasks and fulfill their own responsibilities. Grace means much more: it is divine life, participation, the start and foundation of life: it is the presence of God who gives himself and saves us. Christian marriage is deeply rooted in the Divine mystery of salvation". With this invitation to explain in depth how divine grace acts in the sacrament of matrimony Don Volodymyr Los, a priest from the Greek-Catholic diocese of Buchach in Ukraine, opened the second part of the morning at the meeting of the Eastern Catholic bishops.
In Prague, more than 40 representatives of the Eastern Catholic Churches from the European continent gathered to prepare for discussions at the next Synod of Bishops on the family (October 2015), reflected on The sacramental potential of the family. According to Fr Los, the modern world is experiencing a profound anthropological crisis, characterised by the "the loss of the human in the human person", by the "de-sacramentalisation of the person", where human relations become "egotistical-consumerist and pragamatic-commercial" and "since the family is an integral institution of society, today it too feels the effects of the problem". Hence the "primary mission" of the Church "[is] to identify the spiritual dangers of the modern world, to support families spiritually, seeking to proclaim God's plan concerning marriage and the family". Having recalled the operational significance of the sacraments in the life of the family, the Ukrainian priest called for an "optimisation of pastoral support, the spiritual accompaniment of the family – from the moment of its birth and throughout the whole of its life". According to Fr Los, "the realisation of the sacramental potential of the family in the sacraments through evangelisation and catechesis is the key for a formation of spiritually mature Christian families, each of which, as a unique sacramental living cell of the Church, is guarantor of the prosperity of the Christian family and the realisation of the divine plan of salvation of humanity".


Finding a position in accounting is one of the main reasons that many people seek accredited accounting degree programs in Montana. However, accounting is a profession where professionals must understand constantly changing regulations and laws.
Transparency in financial documents has grown increasingly important with passage of legislation such as the Dodd-Frank Act among others. In Montana, a recent law highlights the need for public accountants to understand changes in the law. According to Montana law MCA 37-50-335, public accounting firms are now required to register with the Department of Labor and Industry if they perform attest services and compilations, use the title CAP or CPA firm or do not have an office in Montana, even though they perform such services for clients in the state. These types of statutes are explained to those who enter accredited accounting degree programs in Montana.
The Jake Jabs College of Business is named for the CEO of American Furniture Warehouse after the businessman gifted more than $3 million to the university. It was education that was stressed in his home growing up, as his father felt he had missed something by not going further with his education. Mr. Jabs graduated with a degree in vocational agriculture in 1952, working his way through college doing odd jobs and playing music. After serving in the US Air Force, Mr. Jabs returned to Bozeman and opened a music store. In 1968, he opened his first furniture store in four locations in Colorado and one in Montana. He closed those businesses five years later then purchased a struggling furniture company in 1975. His gift to Montana State was meant to provide opportunities for students to receive a strong education so that they could compete in the global marketplace.
The program frequently ranks in the top ten universities for their pass rate on the CPA examination and students rank in the 90th percentile on the Major Field Test for Business.
The College of Business at MSU Billings provides a foundation in arts and sciences combined with business training designed to help students achieve their career goals. Students develop the knowledge and skills necessary to become leaders in their industry. The curriculum includes traditional and functional instruction in business, while also focusing on behavioral and social sciences. Students are taught a systems approach to problem-solving with an emphasis on decision making at the operational and administrative level.
The School of Business Administration is focused on providing students with the fundamentals of business using rigorous classroom studies and guest lectures. Classes reflect the real-world of business as it exists today with an award-winning faculty all with strong business backgrounds. The college was founded in 1918 and is the largest professional school at the university. Students are provided a cutting-edge curriculum in areas such as big data and marketing analytics, as well as the opportunity to study abroad in Germany, Italy, China, and New Zealand.
These programs provide the skills and knowledge necessary to obtain positions in the accounting field. In an industry that must constantly stay abreast of changing laws and the need for transparency, it is easy to see why accredited accounting degree programs in Montana will become even more necessary in the future.


"Pioneers in the development of the custom leather ankle gauntlet, Arizona AFO will continue to stay true to our legacy of delivering industry-leading craftsmanship with top-tier customer service," said Elliott Yamada, vice president of marketing and business development for Orthotic Holdings, Inc. (OHI), which owns Mesa, AZ-based Arizona AFO.
In September, the American Board of Certification in Orthotics, Prosthetics & Pedorthics (ABC) awarded its first-ever Five-Year Central Fabrication Accreditation to Arizona AFO. "As a member of the Arizona AFO team, I am proud to be a part of a company that will not accept mediocrity. The team at Arizona is committed to excellence in all business functions—they truly want to be the best," said Yamada.
Along with the space, the company has four full-time CAD-CAM carver machines, four full-time CAD modifiers, and more than 40 full-time employees who create the quality products the orthotics industry has come to expect from the Arizona AFO brand, Yamada said.
Arizona AFO also has a focus on education, and in 2013 launched "The Foot & Ankle Handbook," an interactive eBook guide for lower extremity orthotic intervention made for the iPad. Download the eBook free using the iBooks app for iPad or any Apple computer running OS X Mavericks software.
In December, OHI acquired SafeStep, based in Milford, CT, a diabetic footwear and DME (durable medical equipment) company. "SafeStep has been the sole distributor of Arizona AFO's Moore Balance Brace, so the two companies have a longstanding relationship," said Yamada.
"SafeStep's value proposition leverages a proprietary automation technology to streamline the entire diabetic shoe procurement process for podiatrists. When utilized properly, the technology also ensures that the podiatrist is in compliance with Medicare by ensuring that proper ulcerative risk assessments are being followed and documented, and, if clinically necessary, that the appropriate shoes are being sized, selected, and eventually dispensed," he said.
The system also automates the reimbursement process, taking the administrative burden off healthcare practitioners.
In the case of a RAC (recovery audit contractor) audit, the SafeStep platform protects practitioners who have been consistently following the suggested program guidelines by providing documentation necessary to ensure compliance with the Medicare Therapeutic Shoe Bill.
"Broadening our technologies and education offerings will help both Arizona AFO and their customers transition into the post-Affordable Care Act [ACA] healthcare landscape," said Yamada, who previously worked at Austin, TX-based Ascension Orthopedics as director of sales for lower extremity products, including surgical implants.
Yamada said many healthcare companies have had to reassess their business models over the last few years and that many of his old colleagues are unsure about the future of the medical device implant industry.


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James Madison is looking to continue a strong start to its conference season this weekend. The Dukes' record is just 1-0 in the CAA, but they are one of just three remaining undefeated teams (out of those who have actually played a game after some coronavirus-related postponements).
UNC-Wilmington is looking to snap a four-game losing streak, while James Madison is hoping to get back in a groove coming off a comeback win over Towson earlier in the week.
The Dukes are averaging 71.8 points per game on the season, fourth-most in the conference. Meanwhile, the Seahawks are at just 57.5, second-worst. On the flip side, UNC-Wilmington has the conference's fourth-best scoring defense, with the Dukes second-to-last in that category. Will this be a back-and-forth, high-scoring affair? Or a slower, low-scoring battle? The answer could determine the winner.
Airing on NBC Sports Washington, here's everything you need to know about the contest.
UNC-WILMINGTON VS. JAMES MADISON HOW TO WATCH
What: UNC-Wilmington Seahawks (3-5) vs. James Madison Dukes (5-3)
Where: Atlantic Union Bank Center, Harrisonburg, VA
When: Saturday, January 9, 12:00 p.m. ET
TV Channel: UNC-Wilmington vs. James Madison will be broadcast on NBC Sports Washington (NBC Sports channel finder)
Live Stream: You can live stream UNC-Wilmington vs. James Madison on NBC Sports Washington's live stream page.
UNC-WILMINGTON VS. JAMES MADISON TV SCHEDULE
12:00 PM: UNC-Wilmington vs. James Madison (LIVE)
UNC-WILMINGTON VS. JAMES MADISON WHAT TO WATCH
- How will the Dukes shake off the rust? James Madison played Maryland on Dec. 19, getting dismantled by an elite program. They've played just one game since, a Jan. 3 contest in which they beat Towson 89-85. How fresh are they after playing just one game in exactly three weeks by the time Saturday's game tips off?
- James Madison has dominated this matchup historically, winning 20 of the last 21 contests and going 34-3 all-time at home. Overall, JM is 66-10 against the Seahawks, and cruised in their last matchup to a 76-52 win.
- The 76-game history between the two programs is the longest-running matchup for any opponent in UNC-Wilmington's history.
UNC-WILMINGTON VS. JAMES MADISON PLAYERS TO WATCH
UNC-Wilmington: Carol-Anne Obusek (Sr.), F (14.0 ppg, 9.7 rpg, 1.0 bpg). Obusek is a straight post player, having attempted zero three-point shots on the season. But she dominates down low, tied for the team lead in points per game and second in total minutes. She also leads the team in both rebounds per game and blocks, though she's coming off a nine-point effort in her last game, her first this season not in double figures.
James Madison: Kiki Jefferson (So.), G (15.0 ppg, 6.5 rpg, 2.3 apg). Jefferson leads the Dukes in points and rebounds per game and is tied for the most assists on the season as well. The do-it-all sophomore guard had 24 points and 11 rebounds on January 3, the last time they played.
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Q: Recommended way to get multiple connection strings from configuration in dot net core Currently i am using ABP 3.3.0 and i have 2 DbContexts. One is a MSSQL context and the other is MySQL.
In order to get the connection strings, i have inherited from the DefaultConnectionStringResolver class and overridden the GetNameOrConnectionString method.
This works fine in Development, however whenever i try and run Unit Tests i get the following exception

Castle.MicroKernel.Handlers.HandlerException : Can't create component
  'Portal.EntityFrameworkCore.CustomerDbConnectionStringResolver' as it
  has dependencies to be satisfied.
'Portal.EntityFrameworkCore.CustomerDbConnectionStringResolver' is
  waiting for the following dependencies:
  - Service 'Microsoft.AspNetCore.Hosting.IHostingEnvironment' which was not registered.

Which i understand is because i am injecting IHostingEnvironment into the connection string resolver.
So my question is, if i cannot inject IHostingEnvironment into the connection string resolver class, how else can i access the connection strings?
For clarity,
in development the connection strings are stored as User Secrets.
in Staging/Production they are stored in their respective appSettings.{EnvironmentName}.json file.
Here is the implementation of the connection string resolver class.
public class CustomerDbConnectionStringResolver : DefaultConnectionStringResolver
{
    private readonly IHostingEnvironment _env;
    public CustomerDbConnectionStringResolver(
        IAbpStartupConfiguration configuration,
        IHostingEnvironment env)
        : base(configuration)
    {
        _env = env;
    }

    public override string GetNameOrConnectionString(ConnectionStringResolveArgs args)
    {
         var configuration = AppConfigurations.Get(_env.ContentRootPath, _env.EnvironmentName,_env.IsDevelopment());

        switch (args["DbContextType"].ToString())
        {
            case "Portal.EntityFrameworkCore.FreeRadiusDbContext":
                return configuration.GetConnectionString(PortalConsts.FreeRadiusConnectionStringName);
            default:
                return configuration.GetConnectionString(PortalConsts.ConnectionStringName);
        }
    }
}

Many Thanks!
EDIT
Example of the current DBContextFactory.
    public  class FreeRadiusDbContextFactory : IDesignTimeDbContextFactory<FreeRadiusDbContext>
   {
       public FreeRadiusDbContext CreateDbContext(string[] args)
       {
            var builder = new DbContextOptionsBuilder<FreeRadiusDbContext>();
            var configuration = AppConfigurations.Get(WebContentDirectoryFinder.CalculateContentRootFolder());

            FreeRadiusDbContextConfigurator.Configure(
                builder,
                configuration.GetConnectionString(PortalConsts.FreeRadiusConnectionStringName)
                );

            return new FreeRadiusDbContext(builder.Options);
        }
   }

A: @aaron ok so I think I have finally arrived at a solution that works in all environments.
Note: As for the double backslash issue, it looks like I had the connection string in an environment variable with the double backslash when it should have been a single backslash.
So here is the final CustomDbConnectionStringResolver class.
public class CustomDbConnectionStringResolver : DefaultConnectionStringResolver
{
    public CustomDbConnectionStringResolver(
        IAbpStartupConfiguration configuration
    )
        : base(configuration)
    {
    }

    public override string GetNameOrConnectionString(ConnectionStringResolveArgs args)
    {
        var environment = Environment.GetEnvironmentVariable("ASPNETCORE_ENVIRONMENT") ?? "Production";
        var configuration = AppConfigurations.Get(Directory.GetCurrentDirectory(), environment, environment == "Development");

        switch (args["DbContextType"].ToString())
        {
            case "Portal.EntityFrameworkCore.FreeRadiusDbContext":
                return configuration.GetConnectionString(PortalConsts.FreeRadiusConnectionStringName);
            default:
                return configuration.GetConnectionString(PortalConsts.ConnectionStringName);
        }
    }
}

Which works quite well as its reusing code that already exists in the template, and still allows for different configurations to be loaded for the various environments.
Many thanks for your assistance @aaron!

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