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Foe takes place in an old, isolated farmhouse in the not-so-distant future. The house is inhabited by Junior and his wife Hen, whose peaceful lives are interrupted by the arrival of a man in a business suit. Junior has been randomly selected for a scientific program. The shock of this announcement sends Junior in a tailspin, as he races to figure out what's really going on.
Thumps DreadfulWater is finally retired and living a quiet life in a small town. But when a body turns up, the sheriff's department turns to DreafulWater for help, and even though he'd rather stay out of it, he finds himself immersed in something bigger than he could have ever imagined.
Inspector Esa Khattak and Sergeant Rachel Getty make their way to Syrian refugee camps in Greece where they face the devastating fall-out of civil war. Khattak and Getty are there to investigate the disappearance of an NGO worker named Audrey, an old childhood friend who was working with refugees until becoming implicated in a double homicide.
Paul Davis is awoken in the night by the sound of a manual typewriter. Only eight months prior, Paul had discovered that a colleague was forcing women to typewrite apology notes before violently killing them. The next morning Paul finds a note that reads: "We typed our apologies like he asked but he killed us anyway."
A powerful multinational corporation is working to develop the ultimate device: a machine that can speak to God. Such a project is a magnet for trouble — the coldblooded CEO known only as Sir is briefly kidnapped, an ex-soldier of a shadowy war is implicated and the company's chief of security is left to unravel the mystery.
Mitchell's Inn, nestled in the Catskills woods, is the perfect spot for a winter getaway. When a blizzard knocks out the electricity, guests and staff rally by lighting candles, starting a roaring fire and getting cozy under layers of blankets. Things take a turn for the murderous when a dead body turns up — the first in a series of suspicious deaths.
Facing her grief head-on, Nora Watts decides to investigate the circumstances of her father's mysterious death by suicide. Sam Watts was one of thousands of Indigenous children to be forcibly separated from his family by the government, a policy that started in the 1950s. As Nora digs into her father's early life in Detroit, she discovers troubling truths surrounding his upbringing and death.
Hysteria follows a young German woman named Heike Lerner who, after escaping the Second World War, finds herself living in upstate New York with a husband and four-year-old son. But the eeriness of her idyllic life becomes hard to ignore when a mysterious little girl appears one afternoon at the pond and vanishes just as quickly — and things take a turn for the worse when her son disappears.
Clare O'Dey is sent to a mysterious town called High River where women run to escape their pasts. Clare poses as a long-lost friend to resident Sally Proulx, who has gone missing along with her son. While investigating their disappearance, Clare learns that virtually everyone in High River has their secrets, including Malcolm, the man who hired her.
What's the biggest writing lesson crime writer Amy Stuart ever learned?
Naben Ruthnum, under his pen name Nathan Ripley, delivers this tale of a family man obsessed with digging up the undiscovered remains of a serial killer's victims. His actions end up catching the attention of a murderer on the streets of Seattle.
In Laurie Petrou's debut thriller, two sisters have a lot of secrets. Terrible ones. And these secrets keep them together even as they drive them apart. But what happens when their bond begins to crack, and one sister takes things too far? The manuscript for Sister of Mine won the inaugural Half the World Global Literati Award, a $50,000 U.S. ($64,575 CDN) literary prize that honours unpublished work featuring women as lead characters.


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The Book of the World, A Review
Dr. Scott Shiffer | August 17, 2018 | Arts & Culture | No Comments
The Book of the World by Christine Hand: an Album Review
This week I have the privilege of reviewing the latest album from TTC's very own Dr. Christine Hand Jones. I have known Christine for nearly 20 years now and have had a number of opportunities (though not as many as I would have liked) to see her perform live. Her work is innovative, technically excellent, and always uplifting.
I am not simply writing about Christine's album because she is a friend or a contributor to TTC. I am writing about her music because it is artistically excellent. Her work deserves more than a cursory listen. With each new venture through the album, we are consistently drawn deeper into the artist's overarching musical and lyrical themes.
The Book of the World is the 2018 follow-up full-length album to the 2011 EP Girl on a String. It introduces listeners to a mature artist whose thoughtful lyrics develop a worldview that carries the album track by track from start to completion. Hand's masterful composition and musicianship transport us into each song's story, inviting us to share experiences, struggles, and joys.
The music is decidedly folk-rock-gospel. The keyboards, played primarily by Christine's father, Ed Hand, move the guitars and mandolin beyond traditional folk, as do Christine's lyrics and vocals, which are laced with spiritual themes and tones. It's easy to hear the influences of singer-songwriter legends Carole King and Bob Dylan, but Hand is an artist in her own right who bridges multiple genres in an intelligent yet organic way, creating a sound that delivers ecstasy for the ears, healing for the heart, and satisfaction for the soul.
The album presents an impressive conceptual arc, smoothly moving from one track to the next both musically and thematically. Each song's themes and motifs build upon one another, linking love, life, loss, doubt and faith all together in a cohesive, holistic experience.
The first track, "Nothing Else Matters," opens with a strong message that ushers listeners into the coming of the King. Hand re-contextualizes 1 Corinthians 13 by drawing it down from the isolated mountaintop of wedding vows and Valentine's sermons and reconnecting the familiar passage to both the eternal and the everyday: "When the last silence falls and the bright trumpet calls… Nothing else matters to learn… Nothing else matters to do. There'll still be me and you. Even if our precious truths are torn and tattered. Love will still be love. Love will still be love. Love will still be love… nothing else matters."
This transitions brightly into "Glorious Texas Spring," a song that brings with it a flood of lyrical poetry often unseen in music today. Hand's soulful gospel vocals really show out here. "Texas Spring" is a rapturous reminder that God is in control of the world he created and that we have a place in that world; that the world around us shapes who we are, but also points us to our Creator. It's a reminder that the beauty and new life of earthly spring is but a shadow of the Eternal Spring to come.
This rapture is followed by the haunting power of "Ezekiel," a Dylan-inspired collision of words and imagery propelled on, on, on by driving, rhythmic instrumentation. In this track, like the others in the album that come more directly from scripture, Hand reintroduces us to, and helps clarify, biblical texts both familiar and strange with innovative lyrics and evocative musical composition.
The album then slows to catch its breath (and let us catch ours) with "You're Not Alone." "Not Alone" reminds us of just that. We are not alone. Even in, especially in, our loneliest and darkest hours. Hand's voice breaks in beautiful, heart-wrenching desperation — "Don't drive off tonight in the pouring rain. Don't give yourself up to the storm. You're not the last one you will wreck tonight." — begging us to hear: "you're not alone; you're not alone; you're not alone."
It's probably good we have the refrain from "You're Not Alone" to lean on going into the album's Dylan cover, "It's all Over Now, Baby Blue." Full of apocalyptic images, "Baby Blue" is a song about new beginnings, albeit beginnings that come from the end of other things — a theme we'll see picked up again in "The Ruins." It's a song about entering into a new maturity or a coming of age; it's an apt choice for this album. While staying true to the song's essential folk vibe and melody, Hand modernizes the classic with a more cogent and dynamic arrangement led by the artist's powerhouse vocals.
The wastelands evoked by Dylan show up again in "Psalm 120." The Book of the World includes King David's first and second Psalms of Ascent and arranges a nearly seamless but dynamic transition between them that helps us to see the two psalms more like a two-part poem, a call and response. "Psalm 120" employs an upbeat tempo, electric guitar solos from Christine's husband, Adam, and modulated keyboards to evoke the psalmist's rocky circumstances as he calls out to God in distress. It joins us in those bleak seasons of spiritual uncertainty and loneliness when we wonder whether God will even respond at all. "Psalm 121" reminds us he will. It slows us back down and carries us into the calm at the center of God's presence.
Based on the twin redemption stories of Nehemiah and the Beatitudes, "The Ruins" continues to explore and expound upon the themes introduced throughout this album. The song's lively tempo and melody dance us through the ruins, reminding us that in God's hands, "the rubble of our broken dreams" — our struggles, our failings, our ruins — can be reshaped and repurposed; rebuilt. Just like Nehemiah, our "ruins are calling [us] back Home," but they also remind us to mourn, to comfort, and to seek meekness in the meantime. Our broken dreams, our bad decisions, our wrecked lives help shape us into who we are and have the potential to show us how we have grown.
The last two songs, "Incarnation" and "Simple Life" express two sides of the same coin: the fullness of life in communion. "Incarnation" showcases the ways we encounter God through the people he has placed in our lives who love us at our worst, those who are physically there for us, even when we are weak or tired or sick, when there's "too much bite in [our] kiss," we "try to speak but… only hiss." It's about the people in our lives who love us when we're least lovable. Those who love us like God loves us. Tangibly and unconditionally.
Book of the World concludes with "Simple Life," a song that shows us the importance of finding both value and contentment in who we are and what we do. It's "a song about what it looks like when two introverts get married," the artist playfully confesses in live performances. But its message resonates with introverts and extraverts and everyone in between. For it is profoundly unembarrassed by the simple things that embody the good life, the life we as Christians are called to live here on Earth.
1 Thessalonians 4:11-12 calls Christians to lead simple lives: enjoying our work and building report with those around us. This album embodies precisely that.
The Book of the World teaches us to find contentment in the simple things of life and highlights how God is in control of the world he has created, even when it doesn't feel like it. Everything around us — people, nature, scripture, music, books — points us to the Lord, our hope and our salvation. We have a new beginning in Christ when we come to him in faith, and life in Christ is full of new beginnings as we mature and grow.
I can't recommend this album enough. There are about ten different ways to buy or stream the digital album. Or head over to CD Baby to grab a physical copy.
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Dr. Scott Shiffer
Dr. Scott Shiffer has a Ph.D. in Christian Theology from the B.H. Carroll Theological Institute and has been teaching religion classes since 2006. He leads Transformation Media Ministries, an organization to help believers think biblically about culture in America. Scott has given numerous presentations including one at Oxford. He has spoken at church retreats, youth retreats, conferences, and has taught discipleship classes for over 10 years. Scott is married and has three children. He has a heart for helping believers draw closer to God and for aiding them as they are faced with new challenges in America every day.

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Metal Max Xeno Reborn Review (Playstation 4) – This Tank's Only Half Full
Tom Woods June 20, 2022 6 min read
Solid battle mechanics and a cute little dog with a gun aren't enough to push this game beyond mediocrity. The Finger Guns Review:
Solid battle mechanics and a cute little dog with a gun aren't enough to push Metal Max Xeno beyond mediocrity. The Finger Guns Review:
One trope I love in video games is "give an animal a weapon". DD in MGS: V, Amaterasu in Okami and Sif in Dark Souls; all excellent inclusions to their respective games. So with the promise Metal Max Xeno Reborn made of being a JRPG with a canine party member wielding a massive cannon, I couldn't have been more on board. But even this good boy and his powerful toy couldn't save me from ultimately walking away from the game feeling underwhelmed.
Metal Max Xeno Reborn, a remake of the latest entry in the niche Metal Max franchise, takes place in a post-apocalyptic region of Tokyo, now named Dystokio. Decades ago, an AI created to help save the planet ultimately decided that humanity was the Earth's greatest threat. This AI creates an army of robots named SoNs to wipe us out, and by the time the game takes place, humanity is on the brink of extinction.
A.I. Think I've Seen This Before
As soon as you beat a small tutorial and get to Iron Base, Metal Max's central hub, you'll meet a handful of characters who explain how dire their situation is and task the player character with aiding them in finding survivors. Along with helping survivors, they ask you to defeat the giant robot named Catastropus that looms not far from Iron Base, an ever-present reminder of the danger they're in.
It's a relatively familiar setup, but it was enough to get me invested. The only issue is that there's very little else to Metal Max Xeno Reborn's story beyond this initial setup. As someone who appreciates a JRPG with a strong story, it began to hit me that the further into the game I got, the more I could tell I wasn't going to get what I was looking for in terms of a strong narrative. Any survivors you find in the world can join you out in the world as party members, but I found them all to be pretty uninteresting, which was a real disappointment. At least you can pet the dog, though. Metal Max's world was also bland to explore, made up of open desert areas with some destroyed buildings scattered around. There are occasionally some tunnels you'll have to pass through, but they're not any more interesting. Dungeons exist, but I didn't find any need to explore them all that much as I wasn't having enough trouble with enemies to warrant me scrounging for better equipment.
Metal Max Xeno Reborn's structure also differs from traditional JRPGs, being much more ,pre free form in its design. At any point, you're free to go and attempt to defeat Catastropus. Yes, there are main quests to push you through the world in a more traditional way, but if you want, you're free to grind for levels and beat the game that way. There are some side quests and a handful of optional dungeons to explore for loot, but most of your time playing Metal Max will be spent in combat.
Tanks, A Lot
Battles in Metal Max are turn-based and take place either on the ground or, more often than not, inside a customisable tank. You have a party of up to 3 characters, each with their own tanks, plus your canine companion, who is controlled via AI. You'll gain experience to level up, with each level awarding you points to spend in the various skill trees to grant new abilities or strengthen your stats. Ground combat definitely takes a backseat to the tank battles, with the game only really expecting you to fight on foot in dungeons or, on the rare occasion, send you into an area during a quest that's too small for your vehicles to navigate through. It's in the tank combat where Metal Max's battles get more interesting.
There are 10 tanks to find in Metal Max Xeno Reborn, each of which can be fitted with up to 5 weapons, ranging from various cannons, machine guns, missile launchers and other equipment. You can also equip up to 5 "chips" to your tanks, which give them different abilities to be used in battle. Weapons themselves serve a variety of functions, too. Some weapons hit single targets, some fire in a cone or circle, and others will pierce multiple enemies in a line. There are also damage types, with elemental effects like lightning or fire, anti-air, lasers and sonic weaponry. Each weapon can be upgraded with items looted from the environment or monsters. There's a massive variety of weapons and equipment to find, craft or buy. You can even swap them freely out of battle, so long as they're compatible with your tank, just in case you're in a situation where you need a different damage type. These systems are more complex than I expected, allowing you to tailor your party to fit your playstyle. It even balances itself pretty well. All the equipment has a weight value, with the more powerful weapons weighing more. Your tank can only handle so much, and the more your tank weighs, the less health you'll have, letting you become somewhat of a glass cannon. If things get a little hairy, you can, at least in the game's normal difficulty, return to Iron Base any time outside of battle to repair and heal, stock up on items and upgrade your tanks.
Monster Hunting
Metal Max Xeno Reborn shares some elements with games like Capcom's Monster Hunter. Throughout Dystokio, there are a variety of "Wanted" monsters with bounties on their heads. They're essentially world bosses that you're free to challenge at any time, and defeating them rewards you with a large chunk of cash, rare crafting materials or sometimes a weapon. It's a loop that works in Metal Max's favour, but because the game is turn-based, they all end up somewhat similar. Regular battles actually end feeling more dynamic, as there are usually multiple enemies. You can start a fight by firing on your enemies first, and in between turns, you can move around and reposition. If you have a weapon that fires in a cone or a line, you can use this to wipe out multiple enemies at once. It's a little thing that helps combat feel more engaging than the standard turn-based fare.
I don't think there's much else to say about Metal Max Xeno Reborn because there's honestly not much to it in the first place. If there was more to these characters or a little more variety in the world design, I'd likely feel a lot better about the game as a whole, but as it is, it's just not a very memorable experience. The monster hunting loop and its combat system are a solid basis for a JRPG, but I needed more from it to feel confident in a stronger recommendation. Metal Max Xeno Reborn is by no means a bad game: it's just not one I'll remember.
It'll scratch an itch for a niche subset of JRPG fans, but its almost complete lack of an engaging narrative or characters, alongside repetitive areas, means Metal Max Xeno Reborn left me very underwhelmed. If not for its systems-heavy combat mechanics and solid Monster Hunter-esque gameplay loop, there would be very little here for me to recommend.
Metal Max Xeno Reborn is available now on PlayStation 4 (reviewed), Nintendo Switch and PC.
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Groups warn US-EU deal threatens important safeguards
Joy Spencer, associate director of the Center for Digital Democracy.
Citizens Trade | 21 May 2014
Rally exposes the transatlantic free trade agreement (TAFTA) as advancing deregulation, not "trade"
ARLINGTON, VA — A wide range of consumer, family farm, environmental, Internet freedom, labor and other organizations gathered outside a Trans-Atlantic Free Trade Agreement (TAFTA) negotiating summit today in order to expose the pact as more about deregulation than "trade" per se.
"Corporations on both sides of the Atlantic view TAFTA as a means to prevent and dismantle safeguards that protect the quality air we breath, the water we drink and the food we feed our children — not to mention online privacy measures, financial reforms and more," said Gynnie Robnett, coordinator of the Coalition for Sensible Safeguards. "We can't let this pact become a back-door means of deregulation."
The groups highlighted a number of consumer and environmental safeguards that corporations are targeting under TAFTA:
– "Everywhere we look the digital privacy rights of global citizens are under siege. TAFTA threatens to expand this threat by further entrenching the anti-consumer principles of a digital media environment of constant personal data collection and ubiquitous tracking," said Joy Spencer, associate director of the Center for Digital Democracy.
– "TAFTA could very well undermine the regulation of Wall Street banks, insurance companies and hedge funds," said Ben Beachy, research director for Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch. "While U.S. negotiators may oppose some European proposals, they still seem eager to include in TAFTA deregulatory pre-crisis rules that would conflict with our post-crisis efforts to keep banks from trading toxic derivatives or becoming 'too big to fail,' while empowering foreign banks to demand U.S. taxpayer compensation for the reregulation of finance."
– "Expect more fracking and other dirty energy if TAFTA proceeds as corporations intend it to," said Jorge Aguilar, southern regional director of Food & Water Watch. "Countries should be coordinating on how to combat global warming and transition to sustainable energy economies, but TAFTA seems poised to do the exact opposite."
– "European negotiators have targeted 'Buy Local' public procurement in 23 cities across the United States, threatening programs that shore up local economies and family farms," said Kathy Ozer from the National Family Farm Coalition. "Corporations on both sides of the Atlantic are also targeting food safety and consumer measures affecting everything from GMO labeling, to milk standards, to policies under the recent Food Safety Modernization Act. Knocking down progress on food safety and GMOs through TTIP further threatens food sovereignty here in the US and across the globe."
More broadly, all groups argued that TAFTA should not include "investor-state dispute settlement" provisions that would grant over 24,000 European-owned subsidiaries operating in the U.S. the power to attack virtually any U.S. law, regulation or court decision that they view as a "barrier to trade." They likewise warned that proposals for a "regulatory convergence" chapter could be used to delay and prevent new safeguards in the future.
"The more we learn about this agreement the more we understand why the US and the EU are holding its contents so close to the vest. It has the potential, for example, to give corporations unbridled power to sue our governments over public interest policies in private trade tribunals, and to push more trade in fossil fuels while limiting the ability of governments to create localized renewable energy systems," said Ilana Solomon, director of the Sierra Club's Responsible Trade Program. "We need a new model of trade that puts communities, workers and the environment before the profits of multinational corporations."
"Corporations want TAFTA to provide them with special powers to attack safeguards that are already in place and new ones before they're even written," said Arthur Stamoulis, executive director of Citizens Trade Campaign. "Couple that with the fact the U.S. negotiators have granted hundreds of corporate lobbyists access to TAFTA texts, while barring the public from reviewing them, and there's no question that this could end up a very bad deal for America's working families."
In addition to speakers discussing a cross-section of the safeguards threatened by TAFTA, today's event also featured street theater an activists dressed as a "Mad Cow" and "Chlorinated Chicken" to highlight TAFTA's threats to food safety.
Groups that participated in today's event included the Center for Digital Democracy, Center for Food Safety, Citizens Trade Campaign, Coalition for Sensible Safeguards, Food & Water Watch, Friends of the Earth US, Institute for Agriculture and Trade Policy, International Brotherhood of Boilermakers, National Family Farm Coalition, PopularResistance.org, Public Citizen's Global Trade Watch, Sierra Club, Trans Atlantic Consumer Dialogue and others.
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1. What age groups is your new CD program for?
We designed the program for any club, academy, college, or professional soccer players. Soccer players 12 years of age and up can complete the program on their own. We suggest that a coach or parents helps kids 11 and younger complete the program. High level and professional soccer players will also benefit from our mental strategies.
2. Is your new CD program sent via mail or downloaded on the website?
Right now, Soccer Confidence CD and Workbook program is only available by postal mail. Your order will only take 2-3 days to ship (in US). In the future, we may offer this as a digital download. The program does come with five free bonuses that are available to download, immediately after purchase.
3. Who can benefit from Soccer Confidence CD program?
Soccer players can benefit from the CD program. However, we believe that soccer coaches and parents can use the program to help their athletes as well.
4. How much time is required to complete each of the 8 sessions in the workbook?
Each of the 8 CD lessons takes about 30 minutes to complete. You'll also want to complete the workbook exercises too, which will take about 20 minutes to complete each session.
5. Can I buy the Workbook and CD program for my whole team or club?
Yes, we do offer team and club pricing. Please call us at 888-742-7225.
6. How long does your introductory offer last for?
The introductory price of the program lasts about one week. We often provide discounts on new products to reward people who take fast action. We'll sell the program to the public at full price starting June 26, 2013.
7. What if my athletes don't want to complete the program after we purchase it?
We offer a full money-back guarantee when you ship the workbook and program back to us within 30 days after the date of purchase.


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I am known for being late for dinner. I almost never leave work on time – just ask my wife.
So, to save my marriage, next year I'll buy a new BMW!
Amazon and BMW just announced a partnership. Amazon's Alexa will be embedded in all 2018 BMWs. Now when I'm running late, I could have Alexa send a message to my wife. One step further – I could have Alexa drone-deliver flowers as an apology for yet another missed family meal. We live in amazing (and scary) times! I could do all of this by using my voice – no keyboard, no tap, no swipe. All powered with the advent of Artificial Intelligence.
How we interact with technology as consumers is rapidly evolving, moving in a direction where technology is designed for natural use. What is natural use? It is the idea that we can interact with technology in more human ways.
This shift towards natural use is widely noticeable in the world of consumer apps. Software companies have begun to focus on the entire customer experience with an eye towards intelligent user experience. It's essential in today's B2C world that companies get this concept right.
Consider this, if you download an app and it's complicated, poorly designed, or visually unappealing, you just delete the app and look for another one. It doesn't matter how functional the app is. You'll just move on to something else.
Consumers are demanding software developers provide intelligent and visually-stunning apps that meet all their needs. Why should this be any different in the B2B application world? Why do we settle for less than stellar business software?
As we anticipate this change, it reflects how we envision B2B software.
Think about how you work now. Are you sitting at a desk, hunched over a keyboard, mouse by your side? Most of us are – Prophix is going to change that. We need to be standing, speaking and having the software do the hard work!
Prophix: Prophix Machine Learning crunches millions of data points to perform time scale predictive analytics and projects data forward by 12 months.
You: Not perfectly happy with the results, you modify the projections by touching the visuals and manually adjusting the bars.
Leveraging the power of the cloud, transformation of the office of Finance is possible because of advancements in Artificial Intelligence (AI) and the related technologies such as Natural Language Interaction (NLI), Natural Language Generation (NLG) and Machine Learning.
Advances in Artificial Intelligence rapidly enables unknown anomalies and patterns to be automatically detected and surfaced to users, upon which further interactive analysis can be performed via voice commands. While Machine Learning allows us to take all this data, and apply time scale predictive analytics to improve forecasting capabilities.
This is the future of CPM software. I believe that CPM software should be Intelligent, Easy to Use and Visually Stunning.
Over the coming months, we look forward to breaking this conversation and explore components of each topic more in-depth.
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 * {@link OO.ui.StackLayout StackLayout}, {@link OO.ui.PageLayout PageLayout},
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Q: Django Rest Framework view doesn't work when called from DRF API tool I have the following DRF ViewSet:
class ServiceStatusForListViewSet(viewsets.ModelViewSet):
    pagination_class = None
    permission_classes = (permissions.IsAuthenticated,)
    queryset = models.ServiceStatus.objects.all()
    serializer_class = serializers.ServiceStatusForListSerializer
    filter_backends = (DjangoFilterBackend, SearchFilter, OrderingFilter,)
    search_fields = ('service__item__product__name', 'service__client_name')
    filter_fields = ('id', 'service', 'service__item', 'service__item__product')

This view works perfectly when a GET request is sent by a React frontend application, and it returns the expected response:

The problem is when I send a GET request from the browser (Chrome):

It just never returns, and the "loading" indicator keeps spinning forever. All other endpoints work well from DRF API tool, but this one.
EDIT
The endpoint works fine when GET request is sent from Postman. It only fails when the request is sent from the browser.

A: It's probably working on postman because you're including a login token in the authorization field among the request headers. try removing the line:  permission_classes = (permissions.IsAuthenticated,) and retry making that request with the browser.

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Liverpool vs. Wolverhampton Wanderers
Sunday, May 12th 2019
Stadium: Anfield
Liverpool:
Last five matches form: W W W W W
Top Scorer: Mohamed Salah (22)
Wolverhampton Wanderers:
Last five matches form: L D W W W
Top Scorer: Raul Jiménez (13)
What a season it has been for Liverpool. Only one defeat in 37 Premier League games, and now a Champion's League Final to look forward to, following the comeback of all comebacks against Barcelona in midweek. And of course they do still have a chance of claiming the Premier League title. They do need Manchester City to slip up at Brighton, but all they can do is win their own game here against Wolverhampton Wanderers.
Wolves of course have also enjoyed a fabulous season on their return to the Premier League. A season which will be rewarded by a seventh placed finish and a place in the Europa League. Can they throw a spanner into the works here?
Liverpool were 2-0 winners in the reverse of this fixture at Molineux. Wolves did knock - an albeit weakened - Liverpool out of the FA Cup though. The most recent league meeting between the sides here came back in 2011, with Liverpool running out 2-1 winners on that occasion.
Roberto Firmino, Naby Keita and Adam Lallana are all out for Liverpool. Wolves look set to be at full strength.
Liverpool are unbeaten in their last 39 fixtures here in the league and have won each of their last six keeping four clean sheets and scoring three or more on four occasions.
Wolves have won a respectable six of 18 on the road, including at Watford last time out. They do have only two away clean sheets to their name though which would be a worry coming here.
Wolves are dangerous opponents for anyone, but there is so much potentially riding on this for the home side here that they will surely get the job done once again in front of their own fans.
Prediction: Liverpool 3 - 0 Wolverhampton Wanderers
Shots: 13 - 7
Shots on target: 5 - 2
Two bookings at Anfield, both for the away side, with referee Martin Atkinson taking the names of Ryan Bennett and Diogo Jota.
So near and yet so far for Jurgen Klopp's gallant and impressive Liverpool side. They did their bit on the final day in beating Wolves in comfortable enough style, but in the end - with Manchester City winning at Brighton - it wouldn't have mattered what they had done here.
The home side struck first in the 17th minute. Trent Alexander-Arnold receiving the ball down the right and firing a low ball into the area. A deflection taking the ball into the path of Sadio Mané to slot home from around six yards. 1-0 at the break. Ten minutes later news came through that Brghton had taken the lead against City to really spark hope at Anfield, but in the end it was to no avail.
Liverpool did at least make sure they completed this job when adding a second in the 81st minute. Superb cross from Alexander-Arnold from deep on the right to find Mané arriving to finish with a diving header into the left hand side from around six yards. That goal being enough to hand Mané a share of the Golden Boot with teammate Mohamed Salah and Arsenal's Pierre-Emerick Aubameyang.
38 games and just the one defeat and a whopping total of 97 points, this Liverpool side are undoubtedly the greatest ever side to finish second in the Premier League. That will likely be scant consolation to Reds fans, but they do still have a second Champion's League final in as many seasons to look forward to.
Wolves achievements shouldn't be forgotten this season either. To finish seventh on their first season back in the Premier League is a mighty achievement. With Nuno Espirito Santo at the helm and likely more money to spend in the summer, they will be looking to make that next step into the top six next season.


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Q: Detect if word typed by user matches a string in Array List in Java I am trying to create a game like Typer Shark in Java. I am having a problem detecting whether a string typed by a user matches an element in an Array List. I tried doing it this way:
    char key = e.getKeyChar();
    ArrayList<String> word = new ArrayList<String>();
    word.add("hello");
    word.add("red");
    word.add("blue");
    int counter = 0;

    for(String temp:word){
        for(int i=0; i<temp.length();i++){
            if(key==temp.charAt(i))
                counter++;
            else
                break;
        }
        if(counter==temp.length())
          System.out.println("Correct");
    }

I am not sure whether I am in the right track. Thanks in advance!
EDIT: I tried doing it using a text field, it worked but the player has to press enter before the program will find a match in the array list. I am trying to find if it is possible to match the typed word without pressing enter (just by using the keyTyped in Java). Thanks!

A: You are not resetting counter for each word. Move it inside of the outside for loop. You also need to remember previous characters.
Also consider using String.startsWith.
Alternative to remembering previous characters, you could remember which words previously matched. java.util.BitSet would be ideal for this.
Re EDIT: Assuming you are using Swing (or AWT), if you add a DocumentListener to the JTextField's Document then run you code on insertUpdate and removeUpdate (changedUpdate means something else), then you can ignore ActionListener.


Description: Noah is a young boy who creates his own inner world to escape the daily realities of his life. When the real world clashes with his innocence, he runs to his safety where he is accepted by an adult who cares.
"Father" is a drama about childhood innocence seen through the eyes of a young boy who escapes from a mistreating parent to a safe getaway. The film explores the intertwined inner world of human feelings and communication.
In close relationships people often don't carry the mask that they present to the rest of the world. The film examines the communication within a family and the impact of behaviors.
"Father" is an exploration of human character, both suppressed and overflowing charged emotions. Collisions in relationships are triggered by feelings that erupt in a given moment. The film ultimately poses a question: how do we treat each other, especially when we feel our own pain and troubled emotions.


Sunday, Jan. 18, 2009 at 5:19 a.m.
On Tuesday in Trenton, Gov. Jon S. Corzine started his fourth year in office with a restrained State of the State address, mentioning a number of modest accomplishments and a handful of new proposals to help New Jersey weather the current economic storm.
This Tuesday in Washington, Barack Obama will take the oath of office and, as president, lay out his vision for the country's future in these troubled times.
Aside from the settings, there are other significant differences in the two speeches.
The hopeful anticipation that will greet Obama is in stark contrast to the weary skepticism New Jersey feels toward its state government. The Monmouth University/Gannett New Jersey Poll reported in Friday's Press found that Obama's handling of his transition period meets with the approval of an incredible 75 percent of Garden State voters. A similar 71 percent say they are optimistic about the policies the new president will pursue. These numbers are basically identical to national poll results.
Corzine, on the other hand, clings to an unenthusiastic 43 percent approve to 40 percent disapprove job rating. However, he has finally climbed out of the net negative territory he found himself in after unveiling his highly unpopular, and ultimately abandoned, toll-hike plan in last year's State of the State address.
The governor's speech this year was much more subdued than past efforts. There were no sacred cows, 800-pound gorillas or flying pigs. Not even a dyspeptic squirrel. Recognizing the public mood, the governor walked a fine line between sober and upbeat. The speech was interrupted 31 times by applause, but the reception could be described as polite at best, and not altogether spontaneous. Indeed, by the third time Corzine referred to the economy as "priorities number 1, 2 and 3," the clapping felt forced.
More importantly, the few new proposals the governor unveiled in his speech, such as pension contribution deferrals for local governments and a stop-gap open space bond measure, were met with silence.
Regrettably for the governor, the current situation did not allow much opportunity for unveiling the type of grand plans that one would expect of an incumbent about to launch a re-election bid. The sluggish economy and loss of jobs — named by half of state voters as the top issue in this year's gubernatorial race — have hamstrung his ability to propose voter-friendly spending initiatives. The question is whether he will be seen as having helped New Jerseyans weather this storm.
From an election year point-of-view, the interesting parts of the speech are the accomplishments Corzine decided to include. These offer clues to the campaign strategy ahead. He pointed to educational improvements, investments in new school construction and a revised school funding formula among his successes. This is not surprising when you look at the polling numbers. Education is one policy area where the Democratic governor has a clear advantage over any potential Republican challenger, and nearly one in five voters currently name this issue as one of their top concerns.
On the other hand, Corzine also emphasized an area where he does not necessarily hold an advantage over the Republicans, or at least one Republican in particular. That is crime and corruption. Corzine devoted nearly three pages of his 22-page speech highlighting his administration's crime and safety efforts, along with a call for more ethics reform.
Considering that very few voters — 6 percent to be exact — name corruption as a burning issue in this year's gubernatorial race, it may seem like an odd issue to highlight. However, it is the only issue where GOP contender Chris Christie, the former U.S. Attorney, would start the race with a decided edge over the incumbent. Assuming Christie is able to win his party's nomination — by no means a foregone conclusion given the history of Republican primaries in this state — neutralizing this issue will be a significant part of the Corzine campaign's strategy.
Equally interesting, given the election-year context, is what was absent from Corzine's State of the State speech. Aside from extending the "Senior Freeze" program and an unspecified promise to enforce a 4 percent cap on local property tax increases, the governor did not address broad-based property tax reform. The issue was a key element of his 2005 election campaign, but it now appears to be off his radar screen.
It is not out of the public's mind, though. Nearly four in 10 Garden State voters say property taxes is the most important policy area they want the gubernatorial candidates to talk about. The property tax issue basically matches the economy as the top concern voters have this year.
So, Corzine has unofficially kicked off his re-election campaign with decidedly less than a bang. He must steer the state through an economic crisis at a time when many voters are skeptical of his ability to do so.
In two days, newly sworn President Barack Obama will face a distressed, but hopeful, nation. While the tone of his inaugural speech almost certainly will be sober, I expect the applause on the National Mall will be a bit more enthusiastic than what was heard last week in the New Jersey Statehouse.


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In this particular case these bogus chips must have had the FTDI logo on them because everyone's saying that even legitimate distributors haven't been able to tell the good chips from the bad.
the government suddenly had a widespread policy of seizing and not replacing a large number of average peoples cash that would be similarly wrongheaded and self-destructive.
So, France and Italy are suddenly no longer the utopia you had wanted for you and your family?
Then sue the company, but do not fry innocent users' device or screw up with their data.
What isn't too hard to understand is that we've become an entitlement society where nothing is our fault or our problem and that someone else should foot the bill for these screw ups. The marketplace is rife with this. The only reason counterfeit Rolex watches, Gucci handbags, Prada shoes, and cable TV pirate boxes exist is because there's a ready market for them (and don't try to tell me that anyone who's offered a "Rolex" for $50 has the slightest inkling that it's genuine).
Not different, consumers don't know they are buying a fake, and hurts the reputation of the authors when it's not the real thing. The only difference is that they can't do much about it other than to spread the word like they did by sending Dave the counterfeit book.
The driver just refuses to talk to the device and informs you that the device is a counterfeit. What more do you want? That's far from breaking some equipment.
The only thing I hear is speculation that it might. But since it hasn't happen for the last 7 months to this date, I guess it's just that, speculation.
Ok, sat by the sidelines and watched long enough, had to register to make a comment.
I don't think many of the engineers attacking here have every worked in marketing to understand the real issue here. Instead of discussing what FTDI could have done, let's discuss what the cloners could have done.
As many have pointed out, the clone chips are a whole different architecture, they are not copying FTDI silicon IP. They could have been really lazy, squatted a random VID/PID and just copied FTDI's drivers, modified the VID/PID to match and released a true competitor to FTDI without relying on FTDI drivers. But they didn't do that.
Why? Because they don't want to be competitors to FTDI, they want you to think they ARE FTDI.
Because they don't see profit in being a competitor to FTDI, as no one ordering large quantities is going to randomly buy a no-name competitor that has no brick-and-mortar support chain in place like FTDI. They want you to think you are paying the big bucks for a trusted name, trusted reliability and trusted support chain for a product that has none of the above.
To anyone working marketing for FTDI, this has been war for years, they have been under major assault.
To give an example of how important brand integrity is, let me tell you about my relative. He took a job for a while as a big brand repair tech. Let's say Samsung. During his training they had to take apart brand new $2000 LCD TV sets to the motherboard and put them back together. They were judged on how well the TVs functioned after this process. Then, all the TVs were thrown out. Even if they worked. All 20 techs in the class, in a class repeated every month, TVs were thrown out. And a guard was stationed 24/7 at the garbage can so no employees would take a TV home. And companies do this for all their electronics used for training! Think of all that e-waste.
Because Samsung would rather eat the cost of these TVs, then risk a single one ending up on craigslist, sold and then failing after a month since QC is useless once the TV was taken apart. That could be one customer that would swear never to buy Samsung again, and the brand is tarnished.
That is how marketing people consider the importance of brand recognition.
I know of, through direct interaction, 2 large tech companies that use FTDI in their products today. In a 5 figures of quantity scale. They use them because of their history and brand trust. Their chips have worked well for years, and they have engineers on call that have worked with us during development issues. I polled the tech labs of both companies after the last FTDIgate and none of the veteran engineers batted an eye, and they still use FTDI, because it's FTDI. It works, well, and has for years. We pay to get them from US distributors and have never had a product stop working due to a fake chip.
Have you ever installed an updated driver to find the hardware stop working? What's the first thing you do? Do you rip open your computer or device and check all chips for authenticity? What many people do, is roll-back to the last known working driver, curse the company for making a bad new driver, and never update the driver again. That does nothing to alert anyone to a bad supply chain. And it does everything to make you think FTDI is horrible at releasing working drivers.
What if tomorrow the government announced that they had determined that there was in circulation a large number of counterfeit $20 bills - say encompassing 10% of bills in circulation - that were not easy for the average person to detect. If they then stationed secret service agents in front of every grocery store in the country who then proceeded to, without permission, go through each person's wallet and remove the counterfeit bills, would you support that? How do you think the public would respond?
The government would never be so stupid to do this. Instead of focusing on the average end user of currency - they appropriately put a lot of effort into making it difficult to counterfeit and then directly target the counterfeiters in their enforcement.
The currency analogy is better than others but still imperfect. Why? Because, unlike currency, FTDI could choose another way to to target the end user as others have pointed out. Simply - make the driver non functional with fake chips. Bricking chips and generating erroneous output is not ok and will only contribute to their ongoing fall.
I am not sure "refuse to load" and 'refuse to work" is an acceptable solution. It is too late to do this kind of fixes. Prolific did that when they were relatively new and acted very fast. Frankly it is too late for FDTI having a much larger installed base and acted so late. For future-FDTI that still has a brand to protect. They have to do a manual scheme (forget about potecting their driver, protect the "brand"). There need to have somekind of codes from the big boxes, to the individual trays and eventually down to the final dongle that their customers can check online to verify. And they can keep track and display the number of time, location of all the previous verifications.
Your argument is based on the scale of the problem, which as far as I know we don't have and accurate idea of the number of counterfeit vs real FTDI chips is production products, so your whole argument is based on assumptions.
My wife was a bartender in college. She's been paid and tipped with fake $50 and $100 bills all the time, and every time it came out of her take of the tips/salary. That's the rules to make employees do a better job at screening for fakes. And it happens to bar tenders across the country, as bad guys think darken bars is the best chance of getting away with it.
I like this fake currency analogy as it is spot on.
The analogy is not spot on. Fake cash can be spotted/tested the moment you receive it. A device with a fake FTDI chip is impossible to spot. Every time I have to deal with a relatively large amount of cash I have it tested. Now show me a device which can test whether a device has a fake FTDI chip in it or not.
LOL! That's actually what this firmware does! Put FTDIs in a jig and attach them to a windows PC, it will now scream out at you that it's fake! Any suspect device with a FTDI chip in it will now self test with this driver.
Buzzzz wrong! You never know if your device has a better fake the driver cannot detect yet but the next driver will. Money has clearly defined markers which tell whether it is genuine or not so a test for real/fake money is well defined. Detecting fake FTDI chips on the other hand is a moving target. Today a device can pass the test, tomorrow it may not.
Wait a minute, you are arguing that fake money and fake FTDI are not equally because fake FTDIs are always getting better at being fakes and fake money is not? Really?
Advances and printers and scanners didn't make the federal exchange design new and tougher protections? SO i guess all currency started out with ink markers, holograms, interleaved strips, Micro-printing, etc all at once 100s of years ago and the counterfeit groups had a challenge to face that never changed. Huh.
No it is not. Change the number to 1% - it's the same - would you then support agents stopping everyone entering a grocery store and confiscating counterfeit currency?
My wife was a bartender in college. She's been paid and tipped with fake $50 and $100 bills all the time, and every time it came out of her take of the tips/salary.
50-$100 tips! What kind of bartender was she? In any case - did it happen to her? was she ok with that?
That's the rules to make employees do a better job at screening for fakes. And it happens to bar tenders across the country, as bad guys think darken bars is the best chance of getting away with it.
This is were your example completely breaks down. It's based on the fact that the bartender, waiter, cashier, etc can detect the fake bills before accepting them. I was a waiter years ago and we were trained to examine large bills (generally not tips) and how to detect fakes - so were the cashiers . If the bills did not show any of the tell tale signs - we were not responsible.
Again - what if the counterfeit bills were impossible for the general public to detect (as is the case with the fake FTDI chips)?
No one buying a product has the ability to know it contains a FTDI clone before purchasing and even after it may be difficult or even impossible to determine if it is fake without running FTDIs destructive firmware.
What the FTDI apologists continue to ignore is the fact that consumers have no way of knowing the product has a fake FTDI chip in it beforehand and are being harmed by FTDIs tactics if it does. This is causing the people who make the choice of what chip to use in their product - choose other chips. FTDI claims to be targeting the cloners but continues to shoot themselves in the foot.
Again do you have accurate #s of fake FTDIs to compare? I don't. And IF you willingly posse or use fake currency, you are breaking the law. Your example is actually more tame than reality. What's the difference between agents checking your purse, or you trying to spend the fake money, the cashier holding onto it when they see it's fake and calling the cops? That's what actually happens, as cashiers if you detect a fake you are told to hold onto it, report it to management so they can call the cops. You don't get it back. I was a cashier for Publix as a kid. That was the procedure.
Once identified you lose use of that counterfeit money. Just like here where you lose use of the fake FTDI, once identified. Socially it's always been accepted that the world works as receiver beware. Just because you got dupped into taking something fake, doesn't mean you have a legal or moral right to use it or pass it along. Wherever the fake is detected, it gets taken away.
PAID and tipped. Not just tipped. And no, of course not. But she didn't blame the system by which the bill was determined counterfeit, she blamed the person that gave it to her!
We have that now ! It's this firmware. You can build a jig and test all incomming stock. It will self test when you connect it to a Windows PC.
no way of knowing the product has a fake FTDI chip in it beforehand and are being harmed by FTDIs tactics if it does.
Again do you have accurate #s of fake FTDIs to compare?
And again, that is irrelevant to the point.
And obviously if the number of fake chips was very, very small, FTDI would not attempt these shenanigans.
You've completely ignored my point: The one who is being punished, end user buying the product has no way of determining the authenticity before they buy it and also after they buy it (without a destructive firmware test).
There seems to be a real inability by some to acknowledge that the people most adversely affected by FTDI's actions are those who have no way to avoid the problem other than try to buy products that use chips from other manufacturers- that is assuming they are even sophisticated enough to know how to determine that.
Strawman. No one would blame FTDI if fake chips were catching on fire.
That labeling of people that don't share your opinion cancels everything you are saying because you are not being objective.
Myself I find Cypress offerings better for my needs, that doesn't tarnish my objectivity of expressing my opinion against IP theft.
Buy go ahead and promote piracy all you want.
Let's be clear about what the driver does and doesn't, your PC sends characters and the driver echoes the "NON GENUINE DEVICE FOUND!" character by character as you try to communicate with the device.
Even if the device receives those strings it would be a pretty poorly designed protocol that blindly accepts anything without initialization and exchanging some initialization handshakes to make sure the device is communicating with the appropriate piece of software running on the PC, otherwise any other program can hijack the COM port and create havoc.
I think it's a valid implementation from FTDI part to protect their hard work.
Claiming that a lot of devices are affected by this? well then they should return them to whoever was careless enough to use fakes, and I don't buy it that they are victims, they are purchasing the cheapest offerings on purpose, so it's their fault for promoting unfair competition and theft.
What if you buy an expensive piece of kit, you check it and it has Rubycon caps on the power supply so you feel really good about it, but they happen to be fake and shortly after a year and your warranty expiring, they start leaking. Who are you going to blame?
The message that comes across from you, even if you have mentioned many times that you are against counterfeit products is that you are indeed blaming companies that are trying to do something about it.
I don't buy it that they are victims, they are purchasing the cheapest offerings on purpose, so it's their fault for promoting unfair competition and theft.
People who buy inexpensive things are "promoting unfair competition and theft"? What's your cutoff price where one transitions from promoting theft to being an honest buyer?
There's only 0.01% counterfeit currency in circulation. Yet there what like 6 tiers of anti-counterfeit technology built into our bills now? At how much of an investment into the R&D to enable that technology? And every time a new detection method was developed to detect fake currency, all the people holding the now detectable fake currency suddenly loss the use of that money. Sounds awfully familiar.
Because it's hard to detect fakes we shouldn't bother to do something about it? Should we apply that to all illegal activity? FTDI has literally given us tools to make it easier to test for fakes.
I have a way. Buy from real vendors. You pay more money for the insurance you are getting real products. Personally, 5 figures worth of units and no fakes. I have yet to see an example of Digikey selling counterfeit FTDIs. And if they did, I be dam sure they replace the fake stock at no cost.
Morals aside, who here would design a product with a component (any component) known to be on the counterfeit market when alternatives (from alternate manufacturers or by way of a design change) exist?
I avoid components that have a known counterfeit on the market, it's beneficial to my customers.
Try talking this over with a customer, tell them you want the design that contains a part that is currently being counterfeit. They will say give me another option.
This is the reality of the market, I do feel sympathy and even understand where they are coming from but I will not risk a customers design because of the issue.
That is a valid risk mitigation strategy, but comes with an associated design/redesign cost. Every time one of your components starts to be counterfeit, you have to do the R&D to identify and test a replacement.
I choose to rely on the safety of my historically proven supply channels. (Digikey, for example) to make sure I never receive fakes. It's higher risk, by some small measure, but it's lower development costs, as I don't need to redesign my products just because a component starts to enter the black market.
Easy, you contact FTDI sales and they should take care of you as far as the distribution and support goes.
Since people speculate I'm going to do the same.
What if some shady manufacturer started to sell uCurrents that look like the real thing but not really up to spec. What would Dave do when he is inundated with support calls and asking for refunds, as far as the consumer is concerned it's his product after all and he should offer support because they did buy it in good faith even if they though it was a bit odd that the price was just 10% of the original.
Or what if someone shadowed his content with his material on YouTube? Oh wait, that did happen.
I can think of a thousand ways to monetize other peoples videos under the fair use clause.
Same thing with Open Source Hardware, sure there will be pressure not to do it, but legally there is no recourse.
I wonder how much did FTDI saved just by not having to deal with customer support cases and engineering hours investigating those cases, when now they just can tell the manufacturer that they where very unfortunate to purchase fake chips and to contact their sales department so they can find a trusted distributor.
The thing is that the customer doesn't even know what FTDI is, so they will go to the manufacturer to straighten things out since they are after all the ones that sold the product and they should support it. I don't see why FTDI has to support non FTDI products that are eating in their profits.
Also are these clones 100% up to spec, as in do they have the same capabilities that that FT232 has according the datasheet?
cancels everything you are saying because you are not being objective.
a convenient way to dodge the issues I raise.
Strawman. I've seen no one justifying piracy. The issue being discussed is what is the appropriate response to piracy? Who's not being objective here?
No, what I am saying is that FTDI's tactics have been misguided and self destructive. I think what these responses by them show (including their response to Dave on Twitter) is that this area of their business is failing. The reason likely has little to do with the clones but instead is largely due to the availability of better alternatives as you yourself and others here have pointed out. If I was an investor in FTDI, I would take these episodes to be a sign to get out.
- Minimizing fakes is just a matter of knowing and trusting your sources, not an issue for any normal design unless you spec out an out of production device. So no arguments on that one.
- Once designed there is no real issue. You don't pull a product unless you have actually installed a part that will or is causing issues.
- My original statements refer to original design or as part of an upgrade that is already taking place.
I guess I am misreading your original post, as I thought you were inferring to never design with FTDI again.
The companies I know of have existing products in the field with FTDI, and will continue to sell those products without changing them away from FTDI, and will also continue to use FTDI in new designs, as the IP of the company is already invested in FTDI, and designing, regression testing, and supporting mixed products with mixed drivers would cost more money.


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by LANDON WESLEY September 21, 2012 September 4, 2020
Players know there is work to be done and are prepared to improve
The 2012-2013 season has not been a good start for the Mount Royal University Cougars men's soccer team.
Four games into the season, and the men's Cougar squad does not have much to show for their efforts.
With zero wins and four losses in regular season Canadian Interuniversity Sport conference (CIS) play, it would seem things could not be any worse for the team.
"We really need to get our intensity level up. We just are not matching the intensity of the opposition," said head coach Jamie Pollock. "We need to get all of our players playing at the same level."
The Cougars have allowed 16 goals against – tied with the University of Northern British Columbia for most in the Interuniversity conference.
To add insult to injury, the team has scored no goals – putting them dead last among CIS competitors in the goals for category.
The Cougars men's soccer team completes drills at practice. The Mount Royal team is looking to improve on their 0-4 record.
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Those are troublesome statistics for a team that had been the Alberta Colleges Athletic Conference (ACAC) most winning program over the last 20 years – this is the Cougars first season playing in Interuniversity play.
Alan Miller, a fifth-year midfielder for the team, strongly believes the Cougars have what it takes to succeed at the university level, "Mount Royal has a good tradition of winning and the leap up to CIS is going to be a challenge. But I fully believe 100 per cent we will continue to win at this level."
Kyle Henry, a sports information coordinator at Mount Royal, had some input on why it has been a rough start for the club.
"The CIS is a unique challenge and something we have been preparing for. However you can only prepare so much. It is always different when you are emerged in it," said Henry.
"Playing in this new conference is a learning process, we are just rolling with the challenges. It's going to take time until we see all the hard work pay off."
Turning it around
Considering the rough start to the season, one would expect the players to be miserable.
That was not the case at a team practice on Wednesday. Everyone on the team was involved and active with the drills.
The players know that if their season is to turn around it is going to take some tightening up in certain areas.
Miller noted, "We need to fix up our defense. Lots of the goals against have been simple mistakes. We know better and it is a fixable problem."
His teammate, third-year goalkeeper David Thalheimer, echoed the statement about the team's defense. " A lot of the chances are coming from in close. We need our defenders to be organized and communicating so we can stop breaks from coming in."
The Cougars men's soccer team huddles together during a practice. The team started off with a 0-4 record in CIS league play.
Photo by Landon WesleyStarting a season is hard enough when you are thrown into a very competitive university league. But it makes it even harder when you add in the fact the team had only 12 returning players, and 12 more new players were added.
Yet Thalheimer and Miller were quick to avoid using "new teammates" as an excuse for the team's struggles.
"My defenders are all first years so it is a learning curve for me. But we can build with these new players, we can grow our team starting at square one," said Thalheimer.
Miller added: "We have a good core group, and all the new guys bring lots of energy. They are willing to learn and lots have found their way into the starting lineup. We just need to work out some kinks."
Miller noted that the returning players are having a tough time adjusting to play in the CIS.
"The teams in CIS are bigger, faster, stronger. They move the ball well. It's a step up from every level," said Miller.
The team needs one thing to get going, and Miller feels once they get it, there will be a snowball effect for the team and everything will start to come together.
"We are lacking confidence when attacking," Miller added. "We need that first CIS goal. We have the talent to do it, we have to find it within ourselves —bring out the beast."
With four games behind them, the Cougars are looking ahead to two very important away games in Saskatchewan against the University of Saskatchewan Huskies this weekend.
The Huskies are sitting second overall in the Prairie division – the Cougars are in the same division – and two wins against the Huskies could really turn the Cougars game around.
Thalheimer stated: "It's going to take our two best games of the season so far. We have been improving since game one. I think we have a really good chance to pull out two wins."
lwesley@cjournal.ca
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