You don't need loads of commercial staff now.. the plastic fan demands are way down this season.
Not sure how HJ can continue to collect 600K and watch people get laid off.
Huw and Dineen pick up an annual fortune whilst the lads n lasses on the sharp end end up down the road.
How can those fckers sleep at nite?
Given the way he shafted the Trust to line his own pockets I would say fairly easily.
Although if this is true it is rather embarrassing if he and Pearlman are taking anything more than a fraction of the wage they used to earn out of the club. Even if you consider them viable employees at all.
Can anyone confirm that his wage has dropped since relegation?
Players will have a relegation wage clause that will see their wage drop a certain %.
People within the liberty will have or will lose their jobs.
It would be a massive kick in the teeth if certain wages stayed the same.
I'm sure there will be a valid reason.
If this is true then what mire do people need to see before the actual confirmation of the club being fleeced by greed without a thought to those who need money to feed their families.
Why isn't Pearlman finished up, why isn't Huw finished up or taken a greatly refused salary ?
The reason is pure greed and nothing else, it can't be dressed up any other way.
Hope this news is false and those people stay employed for a while longer, the truth is that their days are numbered there anyway and all should be looking to leave before they get shafted.
Middle management normally pays the price first as your frontliners are often needed to bring the income in. Likes of Alun Cowie etc would come under that umbrella I suppose but not too many more.
Problem at a football club is administrative salaries like commercial staff are comparatively pennies in consideration with the football staff. A month salary from a Routledge or Dyer would probably cover all for a year.
I'd assume the club would now also pick up the staff and therefore salaries employed at the stadium too so it's probably inevitable that some will be deemed surplus to requirements as you go through merging of the previously seperate operations.
Its the people that have failed, they are the ones that should fall on their sword first, sadly it's never the case.
Feel for the folks losing their jobs.
Because they have skins as thick as a rhino and no inkling of remorse,taking responsibility, accountability whatsoever otherwise Jenkins would have stepped down as soon as we were relegated as he intimated in his interview but I guess at that time he thought we were staying up after a decent run under Carlos.
Hedge funds normally get rid of those useless at their jobs costing them money.
I'd suspect he must have too. Other than being a bit of a scapegoat for them there is no other reason to keep him.
I presume HJ knows too much, I've seen it in other industries, people paid a lot to do nothing because of what they know.
I've worked for an American company which had big stock losses etc, the CEO and Directors were the first to bite the dust.
I been saying for a while...Huw has pics of the yanks in compromising position with farmyard animals..
Maybe but what kind of pay off fif they get? The little people get the bare minimum the CEO and directors compensation package is usually far more generous.


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Q: TestNG annotations are not respected when run group based tests through command line I want to run my tests based on their groups through command line with Maven.(means if I say mvn test -Dgroups=sanity, only tests marked with sanity group will be run)
For achieving above, I've following code in pom.xml. Because of following if nothing is provided on command line for group i.e mvn test, it will run tests with regression group
<project xmlns="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0" xmlns:xsi="http://www.w3.org/2001/XMLSchema-instance"
    xsi:schemaLocation="http://maven.apache.org/POM/4.0.0 http://maven.apache.org/xsd/maven-4.0.0.xsd">
    <modelVersion>4.0.0</modelVersion>
    <groupId>org.maven.test</groupId>
    <artifactId>MavenTest</artifactId>
    <version>0.0.1-SNAPSHOT</version>
    <properties>
        <groups>regression</groups>
    </properties>
    <dependencies>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.seleniumhq.selenium</groupId>
            <artifactId>selenium-java</artifactId>
            <version>2.47.0</version>
        </dependency>
        <dependency>
            <groupId>org.testng</groupId>
            <artifactId>testng</artifactId>
            <version>6.8.8</version>
        </dependency>
    </dependencies>
    <build>
        <pluginManagement>
            <plugins>
                <plugin>
                    <groupId>org.apache.maven.plugins</groupId>
                    <artifactId>maven-surefire-plugin</artifactId>
                    <version>2.18.1</version>
                    <configuration>
                        <groups>${groups}</groups>
                    </configuration>
                </plugin>
            </plugins>
        </pluginManagement>
    </build>
</project>

and my test class has BeforeClass and AfterClass annotations:
public class SanityTest {
  @Test(groups={"sanity"})
  public void f() {
    System.out.println("This is sanity test");
  }

  @BeforeClass
  public void beforeClass() {
    System.out.println("This is before class.");
  }

  @AfterClass
  public void afterClass() {
    System.out.println("This is after class.");
  }
}

In order to run sanity tests, I hit mvn test -Dgroups=sanity. Sanity tests does run but AfterClass, BeforeClass methods are not executed.
Its output is:
This is sanity test

actually, here I'm expecting:
This is before class.
This is sanity test
This is after class.

Could someone please help me what needs to be done so that TestNG annotations are also respected?

A: You need to add the alwaysRun attribute to your @BeforeClass and @AfterClass annotiations:
From the testNG docs:
alwaysRun   For before methods (beforeSuite, beforeTest, beforeTestClass and beforeTestMethod, but not beforeGroups): If set to true, this configuration method will be run regardless of what groups it belongs to.
For after methods (afterSuite, afterClass, ...): If set to true, this configuration method will be run even if one or more methods invoked previously failed or was skipped.

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Queen Elizabeth II: Thousands will see Her Majesty's funeral service on Holyrood Park giant screen
The Queen's funeral service will be broadcast live on a big screen in Holyrood Park in front of the official Scottish residence of the monarchy.
By Stephen Wilkie
15th Sep 2022, 11:57am
The ceremony, which is taking place at Westminster Abbey in London, is scheduled to begin at 11am on Monday.
Edinburgh City Council is inviting residents and visitors to attend and pay their final respects. Entry is free and un-ticketed.
The screening will be of the BBC's full coverage from 8am until 5pm.
Thousands are expected to flock to Holyrood Park to watch Queen Elizabeth II's funeral live on a giant screen
Lord Lieutenant Robert Aldridge, Edinburgh's Lord Provost, will be representing the capital at the state funeral.
Council Leader Cammy Day said: "This screening represents an opportunity for us all to come together and pay our final respects to the Queen. We all share in the nation's, and indeed the world's, grief at the loss of our longest serving monarch. As Her Majesty's funeral takes place in London, we're proud to be joining in with screenings and services in towns and cities across the United Kingdom."
"I can think of no more fitting venue for Monday's screening – in the Queen's own park on the doorstep of her beloved Palace of Holyroodhouse – and I hope people of all ages will take this opportunity to say their final farewell to Her Majesty."
"Here in Edinburgh, we can take immense pride in the role our city played in the ceremonial events to mark the Queen's passing and I want to thank the many council colleagues, partners and volunteers, who each played such a big part in delivering them so gracefully and flawlessly. And to the people of Edinburgh for turning out in their thousands to pay their respects."
"I have no doubt these past few days will be remembered for how brightly Scotland's capital shone as an example of respect, pride, and professionalism to the world."
Councillor Day said that the screening will take place outdoors and people planning to attend should dress for the weather, and bring plenty of water. Toilet facilities will be available but there will be no seating provided.
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Gscheidle – who had 11 points at the time – nearly proved her coach right Friday. She scored 17 points in the second half and finished her last career home game with 28 points on senior night. McHenry beat Crystal Lake Central, 66-48.
She was two points shy of the bar Niemic set for her, but the coach was happy to see her sharing the ball with her teammates in the final minutes.
All five McHenry seniors started the game: Gscheidle, Autry Hartfield, Jamie Howie, Megan Cooper and Hope Wenk. The same five shared some time on the floor again near the end of the game before they were subbed out in the final minutes.
Friday's game was even through the first quarter. Central's Maddie Haslow made three 3s in the first quarter to propel the Tigers (15-11, 7-9) to an early lead.
The Warriors (21-10, 11-5) stepped up the defensive pressure in the second quarter and capitalized off Tigers turnovers.
"Defensively we played well, but they just out-rebounded us and got too many second-chance shots and too many points off turnovers," Central coach Derek Crabill said.
Crabill felt his team played well outside of the second quarter, where it was outscored 21-8. Gscheidle was tough to stop, too.
McHenry was coming off a one-point loss to Crystal Lake South on Wednesday. The Warriors scored only 40 points in what was just the seventh win of the year for the Gators.
Niemic said the Warriors left that game with a bad taste in their mouths.
Besides her 28 points, Gscheidle pulled in eight rebounds. McHenry's Katie Beyer scored 19 and had 10 rebounds. Ava Interrante added 10 points.
For Central, Haslow led the way with 18 points. Cori Hamill scored nine. Emma Fleming and Megan Wozniak each scored eight.
On senior night, the Warriors senior guard poured in 28 points to lead McHenry to a victory, 66-48, over Crystal Lake Central. Gscheidle made 12 total field goals, including three 3-pointers, and went 1 for 1 from the free-throw line.
5: All five McHenry seniors started the game. "You've got to honor that," coach Rob Niemic said. "They deserved it. That's something that isn't just given, it's earned."
The Warriors finish the regular season in third in the Fox Valley Conference, after winning the conference title a year ago. McHenry was four games behind conference champion Hampshire.
CL CENTRAL (48): Hamill 3 2-3 9, Lichte 0 0-0 0, Fleming 3 2-6 8, Wozniak 3 2-5 8, Haslow 6 2-2 18, Penza 1 1-2 3, Geske 0 0-0 0, Douros 0 0-0 0, Keller 0 2-2 2. Totals: 16 11-20 48.
3-point goals: 4 (Haslow 4).
McHENRY (66): Gscheidle 12 1-1 28, Hartfield 0 2-2 2, Howie 0 0-3 0, Cooper 0 1-4 1, Wenk 0 0-0 0, Interrante 4 2-3 10, Beyer 7 5-6 19, Wachter 1 0-0 3, Maye 0 0-0 0, Hanley 1 0-1 2, Cermak 0 1-2 1, Hoy 0 0-0 0. Totals: 25 12-22 66.
3-point goals: 4 (Gscheidle 3, Wachter 1).


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The company plans to bring the business into its Saks Fifth Avenue sister store Saks Off 5th with in-store concept shops and merchandise return in-store following the acquisition. Both stores have a similar model of offering deeply discounted luxury fashions and goods.
It's a big move for HBC, which has invested heavily in its online and e-commerce projects for its department stores Saks Fifth Avenue and Lord & Taylor in the past few years. HBC expects Gilt to contribute about $500 million to 2016's sales and $40 million to adjusted EBITDA by 2017.
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You'll Never Believe It, but the Shutdown Is Making Trump Unpopular
Even a somewhat conservative poll shows his approval rating at the lowest level in nearly a year.
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In mid-December, Donald Trump sat in the Oval Office and told Nancy Pelosi and Chuck Schumer, live on television, that he would take full responsibility for a government shutdown and would not blame them for it. Of course, literally no one was surprised when he proceeded to do just the opposite, in typical all-caps, shrieking-banshee fashion, because 1) he's a pathological liar, and 2) shutdowns are unpopular, particularly the sort that drag on longer than any other time in U.S. history. Even Trump, dumb as he is, is aware that it's preferable not to be known as the cause of human shit piling up in national parks; some 800,000 federal workers being furloughed or forced to work without pay; airport delays and terminal closures; potential salmonella and E. coli outbreaks; and hits to economic growth. Unfortunately for Trump, most Americans do blame him, probably because he alone engineered the shutdown over a pointless, expensive wall, even after being offered a variety of scenarios to keep the government open.
According to a Washington Post-ABC poll released Sunday, 53 percent of respondents said Trump and Republicans are mainly at fault for the shutdown, while 29 percent blamed congressional Democrats. Trump didn't fare much better in a CNN poll published Monday, which found that 55 percent of people blamed him for the shutdown and only 32 percent pinned things on Democrats. Meanwhile, as the Post reports, things are only getting worse:
The CNN poll shows his approval/disapproval (37/57 percent) has worsened since last month, going from a net -13 to a net -20. Even more worrisome, "The increase in disapproval for the president comes primarily among whites without college degrees, 45 percent of whom approve and 47 percent disapprove, marking the first time his approval rating with this group has been underwater in CNN polling since February 2018."
Even the traditionally conservative-friendly Rasmussen Reports found that 55 percent of likely voters disapprove of the president's performance, with just 32 percent saying they "strongly approve" of the job he's doing. Still, Trump has never been one to let reality get him down, or even penetrate the outer layer of his brain. Last month, he claimed on Twitter that were it not for "the phony Russia Witch Hunt . . . my approval rating would be at 75%."
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The Five Crises in Evolutionary Theory
Home The Five Crises in Evolutionary Theory
, May 27, 1993 November 24, 2014
The Case of the Missing Mechanism
The growing crisis in Darwinian theory is becoming more apparent all the time. The work of creationists and other non-Darwinians is growing and finding a more receptive ear than ever before. In this discussion I want to elaborate on what I believe are the five critical areas where Darwinism and evolutionary theory in general are failing. They are:
1. The unsubstantiation of a Darwinian mechanism of evolution
2. The total failure of origin of life studies to produce a workable model
3. The inability of evolutionary mechanism to explain the origin of complex adaptations
4. The bankruptcy of the blind watchmaker hypothesis
5. The biological evidence that the rule in nature is morphological stability over time and not constant change.
Much of the reason for evolution's privileged status has been due to confusion over just what people mean when they use the word evolution. Evolution is a slippery term. If evolution simply means "change over time," this is non-controversial. Peppered moths, Hawaiian drosophila fruit flies, and even Galapagos finches are clear examples of change over time. If you say that this form of evolution is a fact, well, so be it. But many scientists extrapolate beyond this meaning. Because "change over time" is a fact, the argument goes, it is also a fact that moths, fruit flies, and finches all evolved from a remote common ancestor. But this begs the question.
The real question, however, is where do moths, flies, and finches come from in the first place? Common examples of natural selection acting on present genetic variation do not tell us how we have come to have horses, wasps, and woodpeckers, and the enormous varieties of living animals. Evolutionists will tell you that this is where mutations enter the picture. But mutations do not improve the scenario either. In speaking of all the mutation work done with bacteria over several decades, the great French zoologist and evolutionist Pierre-Paul Grasse' said:
What is the use of their unceasing mutations if they do not change? In sum, the mutations of bacteria and viruses are merely hereditary fluctuations around a median position; a swing to the right, a swing to the left, but no final evolutionary effect.
When I speak of evolution or Darwinism, it is the origin of new biological forms, new adaptive structures, morphological and biochemical novelties that I am referring to. This is precisely what has not yet been explained. When people question the popular explanations of the origin of complex adaptations such as the vertebrate limb, or sexual reproduction, or the tongue of the woodpecker, or the reptilian hard-shelled egg, they are usually given a litany of reasons why these structures are beneficial to the organisms. More precisely, the selective advantage of these structures is offered as the reason they evolved. But this begs the question again. It is not sufficient for an evolutionist to explain the function of a particular structure. What is necessary is to explain the mechanistic origin of these structures!
Natural selection does explain how organisms adapt to minor changes in their environment. Natural selection allows organisms to do what God commanded them to do. That is to be fruitful and multiply. Natural selection does not, however, explain the crucial question of how complex adaptations arose in the first place.
We have been led to believe that it is not to difficult to conceive of a mechanism whereby organic molecules can be manufactured in a primitive earth and organize themselves into a living, replicating cell. In fact, the ease by which this can (allegedly) happen is the foundation for the popular belief that there are numerous planets in the universe which contain life. Nothing could be further from the truth.
Early experiments suggested that it was relatively simple to produce some of the building blocks of life such as amino acids, the components of proteins. However, the euphoria of the Miller- Urey experiment of 1953 has given way to a paradigm crisis of 1993 in origin of life research. The wishful, yet workable atmosphere of ammonia, hydrogen, methane, and water vapor has been replaced by the more realistic, but stingy atmosphere of nitrogen, carbon dioxide, carbon monoxide, hydrogen sulfide, and hydrogen cyanide. This is the stuff that volcanoes belch out. This atmosphere poses a much more difficult challenge. Molecules relevant for life would be much rarer. Even more damaging is the possibility of the presence of molecular oxygen in the atmosphere from the break-up of water vapor. Molecular oxygen would poison any reaction leading to biologically significant molecules.
Coacervates, microspheres, the "RNA world," and other scenarios all have serious flaws obvious to everyone in the field except those who continue work with that particular scenario. Some have privately called this predicament a paradigm crisis. There is no central competing model, just numerous ego-driven scenarios. Even the experiments in which researchers try to simulate the early earth have been severely criticized. These experiments generally hedge their bets by using purified reactants, isolated energy sources, exaggerated energy levels, procedures which unrealistically drive the reaction toward the desired product and protect the products from the destructive effects of the energy sources which produced them in the first place.
The real situation was summed up rather well by Klaus Dose:
More than 30 years of experimentation on the origin of life in the fields of chemical and molecular evolution have led to a better perception of the immensity of the problem of the origin of life on earth rather than to its solution. At present all discussions on principal theories and experiments in the field either end in stalemate or in a confession of ignorance." [From Interdisciplinary Science Review 13(1988):348-56.]
But all of these difficulties together, as staggering as they are, are not the real problem. The major difficulty in chemical evolution scenarios is how to account for the informational code of DNA without intelligence being a part of the equation. DNA carries the genetic code: the genetic blueprint for constructing and maintaining a biological organism. We often use the terms of language to describe DNA's activity: DNA is "transcribed" into RNA; RNA is "translated" into protein; geneticists speak of the "genetic code." All these words imply intelligence, and the DNA informational code requires intelligent preprogramming, yet a purely naturalistic beginning does not provide such input. Chemical experiments may be able to construct small sequences of nucleotides to form small molecules of DNA, but this doesn't make them mean anything. There is no source for the informational code in a strictly naturalistic origin of life.
The Inability to Account for Complex Adaptations
Perhaps the single greatest problem for evolutionary biologists is the unsolved problem of morphological and biochemical novelty. In other words, some aspects of evolutionary theory describe accurately how existing organisms are well adapted to their environments, but do a very poor job of explaining just how the necessary adaptive structures came about in the first place.
Darwinian explanations of complex structures such as the eye and the incredible tongue of the woodpecker fall far short of realistically attempting to explain how these structures arose by mutation and natural selection. The origin of the eye in particular, caused Darwin no small problem. His only suggestion was to look at the variety of eyes in nature, some more complex and versatile than others, and imagine a gradual sequence leading from simple eyes to more complex eyes. However, even the great Harvard evolutionist, Ernst Mayr, admits that the different eyes in nature are not really related to each other in some simple-to-complex sequence. Rather, he suggests that eyes probably had to evolve over forty different times in nature. Darwin's nightmare has never been solved. It has only been made 40 times more frightening for the evolutionist.
In his 1987 book, Theories of Life, Wallace Arthur said:
One can argue that there is no direct evidence for a Darwinian origin of a body plan–black Biston Betularia certainly do not constitute one! Thus in the end we have to admit that we do not really know how body plans originate.
In 1992, Keith Stewart Thomson wrote in the American Zoologist that:
While the origins of major morphological novelties remain unsolved, one can also view the stubborn persistence of macroevolutionary questioning…as a challenge to orthodoxy: resistance to the view that the synthetic theory tells us everything we need to know about evolutionary processes.
The ability to explain major morphological novelties is not the only failing of evolutionary theory. Some argue that molecular structures are even more difficult to explain. The molecular architecture of the cell has recently described by molecular biologist Michael Behe as being irreducibly complex systems which must have all the components present in order to be functional. The molecular workings of cilia, electron transport, protein synthesis, and cellular targeting readily come to mind. If the systems are irreducibly complex, how do they build slowly over long periods of time out of systems that are originally doing something else?
While publishing hundreds of articles pertaining to molecular homology and phylogeny of various proteins and nucleic acids over the last ten years, the Journal of Molecular Evolution did not publish one article attempting to explain the origin of a single biomolecular system. Those who make molecular evolution their life's work are too busy studying the relationship of the cytochrome c molecule in man to the cytochrome c molecule in bacteria, rather than the more fundamental question of where cytochrome c came from in the first place!
Clearly then, whether we are talking about major morphological novelties such as the wings of bats and birds, the swimming adaptations of fish and whales, the human eye or the molecular sub- microscopic workings of mitochondria, ribosomes, or cilia, evolutionary theory has failed to explain how these structures could arise by natural processes alone.
The Bankruptcy of the Blind Watchmaker Hypothesis
In his 1986 book, The Blind Watchmaker, Richard Dawkins states, "Biology is the study of complicated things that give the appearance of having been designed for a purpose." He explains that
Natural selection is the blind watchmaker, blind because it does not see ahead, does not plan consequences, has no purposes in view. Yet the living results of natural selection overwhelmingly impress us with the appearance of design as if by a master watchmaker, impress us with the illusion of design and planning.
Darwinism critic, Philip Johnson, has quipped that the watchmaker is not only blind but unconscious!
Dawkins later suggests just how this process may have brought about the development of wings in mammals. He says:
How did wings get their start? Many animals leap from bough to bough, and sometimes fall to the ground. Especially in a small animal, the whole body surface catches the air and assists the leap, or breaks the fall, by acting as a crude aerofoil. Any tendency to increase the ratio of surface area to weight would help, for example flaps of skin growing out in the angles of joints…(It) doesn't matter how small and unwinglike the first wingflaps were. There must be some height, call it h, such that an animal would just break its neck if it fell from that height. In this critical zone, any improvement in the body surface's ability to catch the air and break the fall, however slight the improvement, can make the difference between life and death. Natural selection will then favor slight, prototype wingflaps. When these flaps have become the norm, the critical height h will become slightly greater. Now a slight further increase in the wingflaps will make the difference between life and death. And so on, until we have proper wings.
This can sound rather seductively convincing at first. However there are three faulty assumptions being used.
The first doubtful assumption is that nature can provide a whole chain of favorable mutations of the precise kind needed to change forelimbs into wings in a continuous line of development. What is the larger miracle, an instantaneous change or a whole series of thousands of tiny changes in the proper sequence?
The other assumption is "all things being equal." These mutations must not have secondary harmful effects. How is the creature's grasping ability compromised while these wingflaps grow? These little shrew-like animals may slowly be caught between losing their adaptiveness in the trees before they can fully utilize their "developing" wings. Or there might be some seemingly unrelated and unforeseen effect that compromises survivability.
A third faulty assumption is the often used analogy to artificial selection. "If artificial selection can do so much in only a few years," so the refrain goes, "just think what natural selection can do in millions of years." But artificial selection works because it incorporates foresight and conscious purpose, the absence of which are the defining qualities of the blind watchmaker. In addition, artificial selection actually demonstrates the limits to change since an endpoint in the selection process is usually reached very quickly.
The blind watchmaker hypothesis, when analyzed carefully, falls into the category of fanciful stories that are entertaining–but which hold no resemblance to reality.
The Prevalence of Stasis over Mutability
Rather than observing organisms gradually evolving into other forms, the fossil record speaks of "sudden appearance" and "stasis." New types appear suddenly and change very little after their appearance. The rarity of gradual change examples in the fossil record were revealed as the trade secret of paleontology by Steven J. Gould of Harvard. Gould also refers to stasis as "data" in the paleontological sense. These are significant observations.
Darwin predicted that there should be innumerable transitional forms between species. But the reality of paleontology (the study of fossils) is that new forms appear suddenly with no hint of the "gradual" change predicted by evolution. Not only that, but once these new forms have appeared, they remain relatively unchanged until the present day or until they become extinct.
Some animals and plants have remained unchanged for literally hundreds of millions of years. These "living fossils" can be more embarrassing for the evolutionist than they often care to admit. One creature in particular, the coelacanth, is very instructive. The first live coelacanth was found off the coast of Madagascar in 1938. Coelacanths were thought to be extinct for 100 million years. But most evolutionists saw this discovery as a great opportunity to glimpse the workings of a tetrapod ancestor. Coelacanths resemble the proposed ancestors of amphibians. It was hoped that some clues could be derived from the modern coelacanth of just how a fish became preadapted for life on land, because not only was there a complete skeleton, but a full set of internal organs to boot. The results of the study were very disappointing. The modern coelacanth showed no evidence of internal organs preadapted for use in a terrestrial environment. The coelacanth is a fish–nothing more, nothing less. Its bony fins are used as exceptionally well-designed paddles for changing direction in deep-sea environment, not the proto-limbs of future amphibians.
Nowhere is the problem of sudden appearance better demonstrated than in the Burgess Shale found in the Canadian Rockies. The Burgess Shale illustrates that in the Cambrian period (which evolutionists estimate as being over 500 million years ago) nearly all of the basic body plans (phyla) of animals existing on earth came into existence in a geological instant (defined as only 20-30 million years), and nothing that new has appeared since that time. The Cambrian explosion as it is called is nothing less than astounding. Sponges, jellyfish, worms, arthropods, mollusks, echinoderms, and many other stranger-than-fiction creatures are all found to suddenly appear in the Cambrian without a hint of what they descended from nor even how they could all be related to each other. This is the opposite expectation of Darwinism which would have predicted each new body plan emerging from pre-existing phyla over long periods of time. The Cambrian explosion is a direct contradiction of Darwinian evolution.
If Darwin were alive today, I believe he would be terribly disappointed. There is less evidence for his theory now than in his own day. The possibility of the human eye evolving may have caused him to shudder, but the organization of the simplest cell is infinitely more complex. Perhaps a nervous breakdown would be more appropriate!
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Alternative culling method increases profits
By Jon Biermacher, Ph.D., Professor,
Kellie Raper, Ph.D., OSU Associate Professor
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Posted Jun. 30, 2014
By summer, cow-calf producers start thinking about weaning their spring calf crop and how best to manage and market older, unproductive and open cull cows. To help provide producers options for managing and marketing cull cows, researchers at the Noble Research Institute and Oklahoma State University teamed up and conducted a study that evaluated the economics of two alternative management and marketing systems for retaining open beef cows.
A total of 161 cows (48 in 2008, 42 in 2009 and 71 in 2009) from a black-hided Angus herd maintained at the Noble Research Institute's Red River Farm were retained in either a dry-lot feed system or in a stockpiled native grass pasture grazing system. In the drylot system, cows were provided a low cost diet of rye hay, mineral and a 20 percent cubed supplement while the native pasture system allowed cull cows access to stockpiled native grass pasture.This system allowed cows grazing access to stockpiled native grass. In addition, at the time of weaning in October, body weight, body condition score (BCS), and USDA grade and dressing percentage were obtained for each cull cow. Approximately every 30 days for a five-month period, weight, BCS, and USDA grade and dressing percentage were collected again on each cow through March (about 150 days in total).
Using feed, pasture and labor costs, and body weight, BCS, and USDA grade and dressing data collected in the study, net returns were calculated for each management system at each of five sequential marketing periods (November, December, January, February and March). In addition, the body condition scores were used to categorize cull cows into three independent size categories, including thin (BCS<5), medium (5 < BCS 6) and heavy (BCS>6). In each period, net return was calculated as the difference between the revenue that would be generated at marketing minus retention, feed, labor and pasture costs minus the revenue that would be generated if cows had been sold at the time of weaning. This allowed us to compare the potential profitability that a producer could expect to earn for each marketing period beyond when cows are typically culled and sold at weaning in the fall. This is also the time of year when the market for cull cows is typically at a seasonal low.
At first, we excluded the body condition scores collected in the study and accounted for the net benefits of all culled animals, regardless of their condition, and found that it was more economical to retain them on stockpiled native grass pasture and market them in February. On average, in this scenario, open cattle earned an additional $32 per head compared to marketing them at weaning in October. However, when body condition scores were used to separate cull cows by size, the results suggested that it would be more economical for producers to go ahead and market their heavier cows (BCS>6) at weaning in October and retain the medium and thin cows on stockpiled native grass pasture until at least February. This strategy resulted in an additional net return of $60 per head above what would have been earned selling them at weaning in October. So producers who have the ability to place BCS on their cull cows at the time of weaning can expect to increase the salvage value of thin and medium-sized animals beyond selling them at the time of weaning in October. Thin (BCS<5) cows realized a positive net return of $20 per head in the dry-lot system during the February marketing period, which was $40 lower than the pasture system.
Our results suggest that there are economic alternatives for producers to add value to the beef cows culled out of their spring-calving herds prior to taking them to market. However, we note that producer resources (land, labor and management) are important when making these decisions. For more information and specific details about this study, including the management and marketing systems discussed in this article, please see the following publications:
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Summarised below are the Mineral Resources that have been estimated by Metal Mining Consultants, and the Ore Reserves estimated by Ausenco for the Company's Miraflores Gold Project located in Colombia.
Miraflores Project Resources and Reserves
The Miraflores Project Mineral Resource estimate has been estimated by Metal Mining Consultants in accordance with the JORC Code (2012 Edition) and first publicly reported on 14 March 2017. No material changes have occurred after the reporting of these resource estimates since their first reporting.
The Miraflores Project Ore Reserve estimate has been estimated by Ausenco in accordance with the JORC Code (2012 Edition) and first publicly reported on 18 October 2017 and updated on 27 November 2017. No material changes have occurred after the reporting of these reserve estimates since their reporting in November 2017.
Miraflores Project - Colombia
Table 1: Mineral Resource Statement, 14 March 2017.
Reserve Classification
Tonnes (000's)
Au (g/t)
Ag (g/t)
Oz Au (000's)
Oz Ag (000's)
Measured 2,958 2.98 2.49 283 237
Indicated 6,311 2.74 2.90 557 588
Measured & Indicated 9,269 2.82 2.77 840 826
Inferred 487 2.36 3.64 37 57
i) Reported at a 1.2g/t gold % Cu cut-off.
ii) Mineral Resource estimated by Metal Mining Consultants Inc.
iii) First publicly released on 14 March 2017. No material change has occurred after that date that may affect the JORC Code (2012 Edition) Mineral Resource estimation.
iv) These Mineral Resources are inclusive of the Ore Reserves listed in Table 2 below.
v) Rounding may result in minor discrepancies.
Table 2: Miraflores Mineral Reserve Estimate as at 27 November 2017 (100% basis)
Proved 1.70 2.75 2.20 150 120
Probable 2.62 3.64 3.13 307 264
Total 4.32 3.29 2.77 457 385
i) Rounding-off of numbers may result in minor computational errors, which are not deemed to be significant.
ii) These Ore Reserves are included in the Mineral Resources listed in Table 1 above.
iii) First publicly released on 27 November 2017. No material change has occurred after that date that may affect the JORC Code (2012 Edition) Ore Reserve estimation.
iv) Source: Ausenco 2017.
Dosquebradas Deposit
Dosquebradas is a near surface gold-copper deposit situated ~3km from the Company's Miraflores deposit. Gold-copper mineralisation at Dosquebradas is associated with an early diorite porphyry and structurally controlled intrusive breccias. Previous drilling intersected mineralisation over an area of 400m x 300m, extending from surface to ~550m. Mineralisation remains open at depth, and to the north and east. The deposit has an Inferred Resource of 0.46Moz gold.
Dosquebradas Inferred Mineral Resource Estimate, 25 February 2020 (100% basis)
gpt Au '000t gpt koz gpt koz % pounds
0.3 57,794 0.50 920.8 0.6 1,036 0.04 56,767
0.4 34,593 0.60 664.1 0.6 683.8 0.05 38,428
i) No more than 6m internal waste is included in the weighted intervals
ii) Inferred Mineral Resources shown using various cut offs.
iii) Based on gold selling price of US$1,470/oz.
iv) Mineral Resource estimated by Resource Development Associates Inc. First published 25 February 2020. No material change has occurred after that date that may affect the JORC Code (2012 Edition) Mineral Reserve estimation
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The technical information related to Los Cerros assets contained in this report that relates to Exploration Results (excluding those pertaining to Mineral Resources and Reserves) is based on information compiled by Mr Cesar Garcia, who is a Member of the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy and who is a Geologist employed by Los Cerros on a full-time basis. Mr Garcia has sufficient experience which is relevant to the style of mineralisation and type of deposit under consideration, and to the activity which he is undertaking, to qualify as a Competent Person as defined in the 2012 Edition of the 'Australasian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves'. Mr Garcia consents to the inclusion in the release of the matters based on the information he has compiled in the form and context in which it appears.
The information presented here that relates to Mineral Resources of the Dosquebradas Project, Quinchia District, Republic of Colombia is based on and fairly represents information and supporting documentation compiled by Mr. Scott E. Wilson of Resource Development Associates Inc, of Highlands Ranch Colorado, USA. Mr Wilson takes overall responsibility for the Resource Estimate. Mr. Wilson is Member of the American Institute of Professionals Geologists, a "Recognised Professional Organisation" as defined by the Australasian Institute of Mining and Metallurgy (AusIMM). Mr Wilson is not an employee or related party of the Company. Mr. Wilson has sufficient experience which is relevant to the style of mineralisation and type of deposit under consideration and to the activity he is undertaking to qualify as Competent Persons as defined in the 2012 Edition of the 'Australasian Code for Reporting of Exploration Results, Mineral Resources and Ore Reserves (JORC Code 2012)'. Mr. Wilson consents to the inclusion in the news release of the information in the form and context in which it appears
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(April 7, 2022) True, the fastest-growing global platform of innovative talent management products and services, rose to become North America's sixth largest firm in the industry according to the recently published Hunt Scanlon annual ranking. True registered 132% YOY growth and outpaced the industry's largest firms, solidifying its "fastest-growing" designation for another year.
"We continually built and refined our services and technologies to meet the unrelenting demand we experienced throughout 2021. We doubled our employee base, hired international leadership, invested in our technological infrastructure, and opened offices closer to our clients in tech hubs like Shanghai and Amsterdam," said Brad Stadler, True co-founder and co-CEO. "Further, our dedication to earn repeat business from existing clients has helped us expand in all commercial and geographic markets we serve."
"Our unprecedented growth is also a reflection of our company culture. We put our people first: prioritizing talent acquisition and reinvestment in our people and our platform. When our team members are supported, they have the tools they need to serve as trusted business partners to our clients, and that is the key to our success," said Joe Riggione, True co-founder and co-CEO.
Founded in March of 2012, True has grown to a global firm of 800 people and 20 offices in North America, EMEA and APAC. In 2021, True had an annual YOY global revenue growth of 148%.
True enters its tenth year with an increasingly resonant brand among tech-first companies and investors who seek to attract, retain, and develop leadership talent. Working across all commercial sectors and functional disciplines, True's ability to address a range of talent challenges continues to fuel its growth and capture new market share.
Additionally, True and co-CEOs Brad Stadler and Joe Riggione have launched a series of investment funds that combine stage and sector expertise along with True's unparalleled access to talent to deepen client and candidate relationships. It's an area of further disruption and opportunity where they are just beginning to innovate.
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Members of the extreme anti-Zionist group Jewish Voice for Peace. Photo: NGO Monitor.
There Mahmoud Abbas sat in a hospital bed holding a newspaper with a vicious anti-Israel and antisemitic cartoon. The Algemeiner reported that Abbas may have produced this picture intentionally. That's certainly not surprising, given his rant at the Palestinian National Council on April 30 that seemed to exhaust the world's tolerance for Abbas' antisemitism. But there are always exceptions.
Following Abbas' rant, the "Jewish" anti-Israel group Jewish Voice for Peace (JVP) seized the moment to show that they are still tone deaf to decency. Sprinkling in some Israel hatred, JVP wrote, "Anti-Semitism is not okay. Neither is leveraging anti-Semitism in service of racism against Palestinians."
At the very least JVP doesn't take Abbas' antisemitism seriously, including his long history of Holocaust denial.
Yet, one cannot expect antisemitism to bother a group that cares very little about the deaths of innocent Jews. This is evidenced by many things, including their erasure and denial of Palestinian terrorism.
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For example, JVP's 2016 "Save Rasmea" campaign sought to protect Palestinian terrorist Rasmea Odeh, who was responsible for the 1969 Supersol bombing that killed and maimed numerous Israelis and Jews, including Edward Jaffe, 21, and Leon Kanner, 20. JVP maintained, against all evidence, that Odeh had played no part in orchestrating the terror plot, and in 2017 it invited Odeh to speak to Jewish students at their conference.
JVP also hosted a vigil honoring the lives of Palestinians recently killed in Gaza and did not exclude Hamas members or violent protesters when they said Kaddish, a Jewish mourning prayer. As a result of such activism, diagnostic accusations such as "self-hating Jew" have erupted. As a "Jewish voice" they essentially legitimize antisemitism within the most radical anti-Israel circles. However, trading in antisemitism also serves a great utility for their own legitimacy among the most radical anti-Zionist groups.
JVP Executive Director Rebecca Vilkomerson pointed out that an effective social justice group must be careful not to lose the trust of the community that it seeks to serve. Showing callousness to the Jewish community's interests and indifference to Jewish lives in Israel — such as when JVP co-sponsors events with groups that openly call for an intifada — is a proclamation of their commitment to work for Palestinian lives, not Jewish ones.
J Street, on the other hand, markets itself as a Jewish, progressive, and pro-Israel group. But how is using Congress to undermine the Knesset "pro-Israel"? 78 percent of Israelis are against the Iran deal. Yet, in 2016 J Street spent $500,000 on ads praising the deal and shelled out millions more endorsing candidates in favor of it.
Likewise, how can they label themselves "pro-Israel" if their rhetoric is largely a cacophony of criticism against Israel? A barrage of negativity, disproportionately directed against Israel, awaits anyone who scrolls through their social media pages.
At the J Street conference in April, former Haaretz journalist Ori Nir criticized Israel at length for its supposedly aggressive actions at the Gaza border and then said that he was "impressed" by the "classic non-violence" displayed by Palestinian protesters. When challenged, however, he admitted that "these are not non-violent demonstrations only."
At that conference, Rabbi Jill Jacobs, the executive director of T'ruah, said this about the effect that Donald Trump's presidency could have on antisemitism: "I don't know how many of you had this reaction when hearing the names of Mnuchin and Cohn and all of the people advising Trump on economics. When the economy crashes, who are people going to blame?" Rather than explaining the irrationality of such hatreds to the young Jewish audience, she simply excused and legitimized it.
Jewish groups involved in educating college students must cease legitimizing antisemitism and empathizing with antisemitic hatred immediately. And though J Street and JVP are rarely lumped into the same category, both of them have taken on missions that are against the interests of the majority of the Jewish establishment and the Israeli people. One group misleadingly labels itself as "pro-Israel," while seeking to undermine Israeli democracy using pressure in Congress and elsewhere. The other supports terrorists and claims to be "pro-peace." Both are certainly no friends of the Jews or the Jewish state.
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Unfortunately we had to do some backwards-incompatible changes to the jpa-criteria module as we wrongly made JPA CriteriaQuery dependent on an EntityManager which prevented caching. The only difference is that the EntityManager will now have to be passed to a createCriteriaBuilder method that was added to the JPA extension interface BlazeCriteriaQuery instead of passing it during query creation via the BlazeCriteria utility class.
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The coop must have at least 2 feet of floor space per adult chicken.
The coop and run may only be located in the rear yard.
The run must be kept at least 10 feet from the property line.
The chickens, coop and run must be maintained to not violate the City's nuisance code relating to noise, odor, damage, or threats to public safety.
Some homeowners associations don't allow chickens. Consult yours.
A chicken permit is $50, valid for two years, and allows up to three adult hens.
Bring your application to City Hall or mail it with the permit fee to: 1333 NW Eastman Parkway c/o Community Development Services.
Your permit will be mailed to you.
For more information call permits at 503-618-2845.
A fresh supply of water.
A dry source of food.
Predators include hawks, owls, raccoons, opossums, and dogs and cats.
Any type of netting across the top of your coop and run area can solve this problem.
A strong fence or galvanized roofing material buried about a foot deep is recommended to deter digging predators.
Hardware cloth attached around and below the coop works well for some.
A rat or other rodent problem is likely because the chicken feed is easy to get at.
Try not to feed the chickens in the yard by throwing food on the ground for them to scratch at; this attracts rodents too.
The most effective container is a galvanized metal trash bin.
Using a bungee cord or a heavy rock or brick will keep raccoons and opossums out.
Be careful not to spill food when filling the chicken feeders - it attracts rodents.


In the mid-nineteenth century, the Harvard College Observatory began employing women as calculators, or "human computers," to interpret the observations their male counterparts made via telescope each night. As photography transformed the practice of astronomy, the women turned to studying images of the stars captured on glass photographic plates, making extraordinary discoveries that attracted worldwide acclaim. They helped discern what the stars were made of, divided them into meaningful categories for further research, and even found a way to measure distances across space by starlight .
and memoirs, The Glass Universe is the hidden history of a group of remarkable women whose vital contributions to the burgeoning field of astronomy forever changed our understanding of the stars and our place in the universe.


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Russulàcia (Russulaceae) és una família de fongs dins l'ordre Russulales. Segons una estimació de l'any 2008 aquesta família conté 1.243 espècies. Les espècies típicament tenen cossos fructífers amb estípit fràgil similar al guix, que es trenca amb un crac distintiu amb la carn porosa.

Gèneres
Aquesta família està dominada per dos gèneres:
 El gènere Russula, amb 750 espècies. No exsuden una substància lletosa quan es tallen al contrari que en el gènere Lactarius. i ha diverses espècies comestibles (Russula vesca, Russula virescens o Russula aurata).
 El gènere Lactarius, o esclata-sangs, caracteritzat per capells i tiges que exsuden una substància similar a la llet  ("làtex") quan s'expremen o tallen i hifes lactíferes, és un gran gènere de fongs micorrizals. El rovelló L. deliciosus és un fong comestible molt apreciat a la Conca del Mediterrani.

Altres gèneres de Russulàcies inclouen Boidinia, Cystangium, Multifurca, i Pseudoxenasma.

Paràsits
Membres tant de Lactarius com de Russula són subjectes de ser parasitats pel fong Hypomyces lactifluorum. Aquests fongs també poden ser parasitats per la planta Monotropa uniflora (Indian Pipe), una planta micoheteròtrofa sense clorofil·la.

Referències

Enllaços externs

 Taxonomy in Transition: The Russulaceae


We are a friendly, inclusive, local running group formed in 2013. We cater for all abilities so come along if you are a beginner taking your first steps, a well seasoned runner or somewhere in -between. We are mainly interested in running as a community activity focused on improving members health and wellbeing rather than a competitive group and although some of our runners participate in races there is never any pressure to do so. We have several groups so all abilities are catered for and run on Monday, Tuesday and Thursday evenings.
In winter** we stick to well lit roads but when daylight and the weather permits we include some off road/trail running on the many beautiful footpaths and moors in and around Darwen – the views are amazing!
At Darwen Running Group we welcome and encourage new members. Simply come to along to one of our training sessions and try it. If you like us, then join us.
Associate Membership allows members to be fully involved in group runs and social events. There is a £5 charge for Associate Membership.
Membership fees are payable annually in April.
Cheques should be made payable to 'Darwen Running Group' please put your name on the back.
Please can you let Susan Rushton have any race results – either as a group or individually, Susan will put them on Facebook.


What is it about nouns that make some journalists want to turn them into verbs?
Heard on the TV the other day a story about the first mother and daughter team hoping "to summit" Everest!
The summit's the bit at the top. To get their they need "to climb" to reach the summit.
It's just another example of the appallingly sloppy habit of what I call "to verb".
Other examples heard include "our athletes are hoping to medal at the games". I hope the organisers are aware of the planned sabotage.
The number one offender though has to be "to farewell". Surely it's "to say farewell".
I think this may be an ongoing theme in this blog.


Everyone at Best Beginnings would like to say a huge thank you to all those that made the 10K run on July the 10th a success.
Without the support of the Royal Horseguards Hotel who provided a fantastic room for all the runners to get changed, Jonnie Allen of Batfish Media who did all the filming on the day, Frances Baker of the Big Society Network who took fantastic photographs and Katherine Tutton and Rashid Williams at Article 10 who edited the runners films. We couldn't have made the day the success it was.
Thank you also to all those that took part in the run. Check out their fundraising pages to see the films and photographs that Jonnie, Frances, Katherine and Rashid have put together.
Its not too late to sponosor any of our runners!


JEEEEEEZ these young uns from Portsmouth can rhyme! This is the first we've clocked of PRØSPECTS. The resulting quick check of THE GRIM EP on bandcamp and them destroying a Fubar radio appearance has us officially impressed. With surprisingly assured, complex flow patterns for newcomers, consider duo Apps and Lebbs ones to watch!
'Deceit' features a killer hook and some tripped out production from Delude the Hashman. If it had been released at the time, the video by Just Matter would definitely have made the cut for our '10 Times Whoever Made the Video Took All the Acid' piece.


While light and shade quarrel and dance.
Open faced and ready to breathe.
While geese fly near unseen but heard.
A pen breaks out with thanksgiving.
For although they knew God, they did not honor him as God or give thanks to him, but they became futile in their thinking, and their foolish hearts were darkened (Romans 1:18-21 ESV).
May all who are in His Light open these windows with thanksgiving and praise.


Jumping on the "everyone else is doing this" bandwagon and yapping about the year here at Casa Whitaker. I celebrated lucky SEVEN years of blogging on December 26. How is that even possible? I wish I could convey just how much I love this space, and all of you, for sharing it with me.
It's always fun to look back, to see what folks enjoyed reading, what I enjoyed writing and what to look forward to in 2015. Let's dive in, shall we?
Here's a glimpse into life at our house. A bit of preemie, a little teenager, a dash of organizing, a hefty serving of faith and a whole lotta party. My kind of people.
As a bonus, here's two posts that may not have been as popular on analytics, but I sure did love writing them: The Power of NO, Finding Balance in the Chaos and A Letter to my Unborn Baby.
If not for Facebook, Pinterest, Twitter and BlogLovin', there would've been significantly less partying going on at Team Whitaker. For those that arrived via the social, thank you. I would be remiss if I didn't send some love to Jen Fulwiler from Conversion Diary who graciously allowed me to host 7 Quick Takes before handing it over to Kelly, and to Bonnie Engstrom at A Knotted Life for her fall decorating blog hop. That was fun.
There were some lovely features of Team Whitaker in 2014. Jen from iHeartOrganizing shared some laundry love. I do so love a color-coordinated room, so to get the shout out from her about our recent reno was beyond flattering. Over at the Rhodes Log I participated in the "Before I Had a 7-Year-Old" series. Y'all, that is one fantastic series. Your Merry Mailbox shared my love of all things Christmas cards and it was so nice to meet a kindred spirit in them. And, to have Deme showcase our living room on her blog, House for Five, was icing on the cake. Meeting her in real life during the Edel conference was such a treat. I'm totally stalking her Instagram feed for baby news!
For kicks and grins, I pulled up the search terms for how people landed at Team Whitaker. HEElarious. Aside from the usual team whitaker and harry potter party, there was sweet tea martini (clearly, they came to the right place) and cute toes (why, thank you!). I can't forget the question, how to make a pinanta stache. The answer? Don't. Is Johnny Manziel Catholic – heck if I know, but the boy can stir up a controversy. What is mothers day out – oh honey, grab a margarita. Blessed to be an aggie – um, YES. Team Whitaker atheist – I'm pretty sure you're at the wrong blog. And, finally, dr pepper ice cream. It's good to end on a high note.
Pinterest is such a guilty pleasure. My boards are finally in order and I have a few secret ones that will go live in another month or so. These pins were tops in 2014.
Hooray for the HDYDI's (how do you do it's). Those are, by far, my most popular posts. I certainly don't have all the answers, but sharing how we do things sure is a blast to document and share. I'm just so grateful y'all love that series! Consider it a keeper for 2015.
Hosting Week in My Life this year was a total blast. Total. Exhausting, but fabulous. Consider it a done deal for 2015.
You'll still get a heaping, honest dose of motherhood. This fall, I didn't blog nearly as much as I wanted but a non-sleeping baby and lots of kids' needs necessitated a lighter schedule. I'm hopeful with some new things in place, I'll be back at my usual gig of sass on a more regular basis. I'm sure you won't want to miss baby food making, room shuffling and keeping up with an infant AND a high schooler.
There will still be a few giveaways throughout the year. Those are always lots of fun to host and I consider it an honor to introduce you to shops, and people, I love.
It's a sacramental year – hooray! – so I have some fun things planned for that goodness, too.
And, with SIX birthdays to celebrate this year, count on some serious partying.
I've said it a million times, but let's go for just one more. Y'all really make blogging such a joy. The comments, the shares, the love. Thank you. 1,000,001 thank you's. Raise a glass to 2015!
Oh, if I missed YOUR favorite post, I'd love to know what it was. Post it below in the comments!
I loved your 2014 roundup. How fun to see not only your popular posts, but your popular searches…too funny!
I just love this blog! Looking forward to 2015! God bless!
I love the round-up. And I love reading your blog. Consider me on the ride for 2015!


I found the room where the murder had happened. It was square with two big windows, plain white walls and a bare floor. There was nothing in it. At each window there was a window-seat with a cupboard under it. The first was empty. But when I put my hand into the opposite cupboard, I found a roll of Kodak film! I smelled it suspiciously - mothballs again! The film had been carried in the pocket of the man who was killed in the Tube. The 'doctor' had taken the film - and he had dropped it here. I had a clue!
On the way back to town, I studied the paper again. Suddenly the numbers took on a new meaning. Could they be a date? 17.1 22. The 17th of January, 1922. But in that case I must find Kilmorden Castle, because today was the 14th.
I took my precious roll to the big Kodak shop on Regent Street, and asked for prints.
I interrupted him. This was exactly the amount of money left to me by Papa!


SFRED invites students ages 15-19 to write about what public lands mean to them. Winners will receive an all expenses paid trip to Washington D.C. Deadline is Jan. 31.
Sportsmen for Responsible Energy Development, a coalition dedicated to balancing energy development with conservation on public lands invites students to tell us what public lands have meant in their lives in the first ever SFRED Youth Essay Contest. Five winners selected by a panel of representatives from the three SFRED partner organizations will receive a trip to Washington, D.C., to meet with members of each winner's congressional delegation as well as leaders from the administration and national conservation groups.
Photo by Lew CarpenterOur nation's public lands – national forests, parks, monuments, wildlife refuges, sagebrush steppe, backcountry – are a fundamentally important American legacy. Leaders and advocates of the past had the foresight to recognize the great value of the conserving these lands for generations of Americans.
These lands are sources of clean water, fish, wildlife and other natural resources. They are where many of us develop our appreciation of nature and where we learn to hunt and fish. Public lands are critical to our economy, our way of life and our identity.
"For the health of our economy and our public lands, it's critical that we work now to establish meaningful and deep connections between young people – from every background and every community – and the great outdoors." Oct. 31, 2013, in a speech at the National Press Club, Washington, D.C.
Sportsmen for Responsible Energy Development is a coalition led by the National Wildlife Federation, the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership and Trout Unlimited. The SFRED coalition wants to encourage the next generation of conservation leaders and is soliciting essays/blogs on the theme "The importance of public lands to me." The five winners selected by a panel of representatives from the three SFRED partner organizations will receive a trip to Washington, D.C., to meet with members of each winner's congressional delegation as well as leaders from the administration and national conservation groups.
• Submitted to Brad Powell, Senior Policy Director of the Sportsmen's Conservation Project at Trout Unlimited, bpowell@tu.org, no later than 11:59 PM EDT on Jan. 31, 2014.
By entering the contest, entrants grant Trout Unlimited, National Wildlife Federation and the Theodore Roosevelt Conservation Partnership a royalty-free, non-exclusive, irrevocable permission to use, reproduce, prepare derivative works, distribute copies to the public, and display publicly the essays/blogs.
The contest winners will travel to Washington, D.C., to meet with leaders of national conservation organizations, their congressional delegations and key leaders of federal agencies. The winners' airfare, lodging and food expenses will be covered.
• Our national parks, forests, wildlife refuges, monuments, wilderness areas, and lands managed by the Bureau of Land Management comprise about 28 percent of the land base of the United States, or roughly 640 million acres.
• Four agencies administer 609 million acres of this land: the Forest Service in the Department of Agriculture; and the National Park Service, Bureau of Land Management, the Fish and Wildlife Service, all in the Department of the Interior.
• Our public lands are managed for many purposes, primarily related to conservation, recreation and the development of natural resources.
• ``The Outdoor Recreation Economy'' by the Outdoor Industry Association: http://bit.ly/14MF7M0.


Like a slot car racer power up or a gigantic particular accelerator, the energy supercharge of converging on Austin for SXSW Interactive offers an opportunity to test your latest theories.
A dancing chicken costume in front of the convention center might not be the best rational growth strategy at SXSW even though Qualcomm's insane keynote did make them a standout in the drab lavishness of CES. No matter how large marketing budgets have gotten, SXSW is still an opportunity to make an impression.
Introducing yourself at SXSW starts as a statement about this is what the future looks like with an understanding that most people here open to try out your experiment as well as reciprocate with their own. If your mobile future requires new users to authorize their actions in cumbersome and intrusive ways without offering real value in return, then you'll quickly understand why your model instead creates friction. In mobile, consumer apps start as simple toys because any friction created in the viral signup process is a real blocker to any sort of AppStore chart liftoff.
The best way to create velocity is to show the future you've created. Sidewalk chalk foursquare courts to rock star headliner tech parties still require promoting a product that people are willing to try. When you're testing early version of products that took many sleepless nights leading up to SXSW to complete, at least be considerate to why this idea was created. Rapidly making new friends opens an opportunity to gather real initial feedback as you party hop with one another.
As you write your SXSW press release, also write one for yourself and who you want to be. Take the week as an opportunity to have some fun and find the escape velocity you've been searching for.
Lost In The Supermarket: Mobile And Shopper Marketing.


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Q: Use integrated graphics instead of video card Is there some way to tell linux to use my integrated graphics card instead of the gpu? The monitor is plugged in to the gpu since I use the same computer to play games on windows however getting this graphics card to work on linux seems impossible. When I boot into recovery mode for example the computer uses integrated graphics and I have a pretty decent experience (although it only allows 4:3 aspect ration and 1600:1200 max pixels). Is there some command that will make the system use the integrated graphics?
EDIT: Adding brand and model number of hardware:

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*XFX R9 390 (spent several days trying to get it to work with ubuntu but it has been an epic fail).

*Gigabyte H97 Extreme Gaming Motherboard

*Intel i5-4590

*ubuntu 17.10

A: Try out the inxi utility. Simply run inxi -xsGI and you'll get some very detailed stats. An alternative is to use glxinfo | grep OpenGL to determine the active graphics driver.
I've had issues on Ubuntu with the R9 390 model specifically. Make sure you're using the latest open source drivers from the Padoka PPA, and a recent version of linux-firmware. PPA usage is a hard requirement for proper graphics support on Ubuntu.


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Сеймур Гахраман оглы Мамедов (; 18 сентября 1971, Физули — 1 апреля 1992) — азербайджанский офицер. Национальный Герой Азербайджана.

Биография
Родился 18 сентября 1971 года в Физули. С 1978 по 1988 год учился в школе № 2 Физули. В 1988 году поступил в Азербайджанский политехнический институт. Одновременно с учёбой работал в отделе связи города Физули. В 1991 году был призван в ряды Советской армии. После окончания курса артиллеристов в городе Ковров Владимирской области, был направлен служить в Группу советских войск в Германии. Через некоторое время продолжил службу на Украине, в городе Чернигов.

Карабахская война

Отслужив армию и в связи с началом войны Сеймур добровольно записался на фронт. Принимал участие в боевых действиях. 1 апреля 1992 года в боях за село Меликджан Мамедов погиб.

Сеймур был холост.

Память

Указом президента Азербайджанской Республики № 131 от 11 августа 1992 года Мамедову Сеймуру Гахраман оглы было присвоено звание Национального Героя Азербайджана (посмертно).

Похоронен на Аллее шахидов в Баку.

Родная школа № 2 носит имя героя.

Примечания

Ссылки
 Məmmədov Seymur Qəhrəman oğlu

Погибшие в боях Карабахской войны
Национальные герои Азербайджана
Участники Карабахской войны с азербайджанской стороны
Похороненные на «Аллее Шехидов» (Баку)
Умершие в Ходжавендском районе


Raising Hands in Worship and Praise?
We have many kinds of worship styles all claiming to be biblical.
How the prescribed elements of worship are implemented should always support the revealed focus of worship. Its primary purpose is to express our appreciation for the revealed nature and work of God as preserved for us in his inspired word. We honor him as our Creator, Redeemer, Comforter, and King.
There are some differences in how God deals with his people in different periods of redemptive history. What was expected in the time before the finished work of the Messiah is obviously going to be different after his work was completed. There is however a unity in the general tenor and purpose of what God prescribes for worship in ever era of human history.
Differences also arise because an expression of humble praise in one culture might have a different meaning in another cultural setting. God used the languages common to the cultures historically when he gave his inspired word. We would expect that God's revelation through the elements of worship would likewise adjust to communicate to the people engaged in the worship.
The conduct of worshipers varies as cultural norms differ. Music is strongly influenced by our cultural upbringing and by our historical heritage. Some display their emotions differently and to different degrees. How we show honor toward someone differs too. There are different outward expressions of submission and respect in Monarchies with royal families, Republics, Democracies, and so forth.
Culture is a big influence upon what people see as acceptable in worship. That does not make what is acceptable to us to be right in the eyes of God. In this article we take up one of the practices which differs from church to church in our present era. The raising of hands in worship is a growingly accepted practice outside the traditional charismatic groups where in recent centuries it was commonly practiced with a particular meaning attached.
to support the practice of raising hands in worship.
There are very few references to this practice in the biblical record prior to the times of the Kings of Israel. The hand [the Hebrew word caph (כף)] is often used figuratively of coming under the authority of some authority, as being given over into the hands of a certain nation or people (Judges 6:1). Abram in his comments to the king of Sodom said that he raised his hand to Jehovah.
It is not clear what was meant here. We do not know if the raising of the hands by Abram was an expression of praise, supplication, submission, or simply a raising of the hand to express his faithfulness to God as we would today in making a solemn pledge. It was a gesture understood at that time by both Abram and the king of Sodom.
In the time of Moses the lifting up of hands seems to have been an expression of coming to God to ask for divine care and help. In the context it is associated with prayer, or an approach to God.
By the time of the Kings and Prophets hand raising is a more commonly mentioned practice. It is noted by several historians that hands were raised by pagan nations then as they approached their deities in prayer and supplication. It seems to have signified a reaching out to receive something requested. It appears to have that significance among God's people as well. It is not a suggested practice in any instructive portion of the Bible, but it is reported as something acceptably practiced and understood in the particular cultures of that time.
In the New Testament under the new form of the Covenant, and in the First Century culture of the Jews and early church, it is not mentioned often. There is one reference in Paul's first letter to Timothy that is often quoted in relation to this practice. The mandate there is not to lift up hands, but that hands lifted up in prayer should be holy.
Several commentators and Jewish scholars interpret this practice as away of showing our purity to God by figuratively offering up hands which are washed so that no dirt or stains remain. The focus was upon presenting one's self as innocent and undefiled to receive from the Lord. For those truly redeemed it was their profession of a righteousness that is not their own, but given them by grace through their hope in the coming promised Messiah.
of the moving of the Holy Spirit in the worshiper.
There is no passage of Scripture to support that interpretation. There is no question that the Holy Spirit works in our hearts to stir us to appreciate the awesome work of our Creator who is also our Redeemer and Good Shepherd. No where in the Bible is the raising of hands presented as an evidence of such a special work in an individual.
Outward displays of this sort, even when motivated by a sincere love for the Lord, should never stir us to see someone as spiritually more mature or blessed than others. On the other hand, we should not look upon those who raise their hands as spiritually immature or seekers of personal attention. Arrogance is a sin which can work on both sides of this issue.
to people in various contexts?
What we do communicates things to those within a particular cultural setting. Not all common gestures or greetings mean the same to everybody. Raising hands in ancient times was to show attention to, submission to, and dependence upon some deity or authority figure. This was understood by pagans as well as by God's people in those ancient settings. In our present array of cultures it is not a common expression of those same intentions. Within certain religious sub-cultures it continues to have that meaning. We need to be aware of how those around us understand our words and actions.
I remember going on a missions trip to the outer islands of the Bahamas back in the late 1960s. Before we had contact with the people who lived there we had orientation lessons to help us understand the way they interpreted gestures and idioms. Little things we do by our cultural up-bringing had offensive connotations to them. We had to be very careful that we didn't miscommunicate unintentionally and insult the people we were there to help.
What is appropriate in some places my not convey what we are thinking to those around us. When our mission is to represent the truth God has communicated to us in his word, we need to know these distinctives.
While hand raising in prayer is obviously presented in a positive way in the Bible, it is no where commanded or recommended. It is an optional practice which should be used with great caution. It is not required and should not be practiced if this gesture does not express for us what it did in those ancient times.
Where it is practiced and understood in a humble God honoring way, it is an acceptable option.
Where it is not seen as a humble honoring of God, offense and confusion should be avoided.
Where it is perceived as a pagan practice, or understood as a sign of special spiritual sensitivity or status, it should be avoided.
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Q: How can I get all the posts of a category in Wordpress I am trying to get in PHP using wordpress, to be able to list my posts that contain the name of my category
Example:
I have the category fruit and vegetables
And within those categories I have an article about Best Vegetables and Best Fruits, and I would like to print the name of the category, but that the link will take me to the post about the best fruit or vegetables.
I only managed to get the categories.
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A: You can use 'category_name' in parameters. get_posts() docs
// Get posts by category name
    $posts = get_posts( [
        'post_type'      => 'post',
        'post_status'    => 'publish',
        'category_name'  => 'csharp',
    ] );
    // Get posts by category id
    $posts = get_posts( [
        'post_type'      => 'post',
        'post_status'    => 'publish',
        'category'       => '1,2,3',
    ] );