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Missouri Public Affairs Hall of Fame inductees announced
Maxine Clark, Ann Covington, Hal Donaldson, Langston Hughes and Judith Rowland to be inducted.
Missouri Public Affairs Hall of Fame inductees announced Maxine Clark, Ann Covington, Hal Donaldson, Langston Hughes and Judith Rowland to be inducted. Check out this story on news-leader.com: http://sgfnow.co/2kqRZ5U
News-Leader Published 8:25 p.m. CT Jan. 24, 2017
Maxine Clark(Photo: Submitted)
Maxine Clark, Ann Covington, Hal Donaldson, Langston Hughes and Judith Rowland will be inducted into the Missouri Public Affairs Hall of Fame this spring.
According to a news release, the five inductees were chosen as citizens with a connection to Missouri who serve as examples of global citizens by defining the essence of public affairs, and who have acted consistently for the benefit of others.
"These honorees are exemplary examples of individuals who use their skills and abilities to effect positive change on people from around the world," said Missouri State University President Clif Smart. "They exemplify the characteristics of ethical leadership, community engagement and cultural competence. The state of Missouri, our nation and the world are better because of these individuals."
The induction ceremony will be held at Springfield's White River Conference Center. The black-tie optional dinner event will start at 6 p.m. April 7. Tickets are $40, tables are $750 and they can be purchased online.
Maxine Clark
Maxine Clark is one of the true innovators in the retail industry. In 1997, she founded Build-A-Bear Workshop®, a teddy-bear themed retail-entertainment experience. Today there are more than 400 Build-A-Bear Workshop stores internationally.
In June 2013, Clark stepped down from her chief executive bear role to apply her entrepreneurial skills to her passion for improving K-12 public education and to invest in and mentor women and minority entrepreneurs. Clark is also a managing partner of Prosper Women's Capital, a St. Louis-based fund created to invest in women-owned businesses in the St. Louis area.
Clark is a graduate of the University of Georgia, and holds an Honorary Doctor of Laws degree from Saint Louis University and a Doctor of Humane Letters in Education from the University of Missouri St. Louis.
Ann K. Covington
Ann K. Covington has had several firsts in her 40 years in the field of law. She was named as the first female judge on the Missouri Court of Appeals in 1987, the first female judge on the Missouri Supreme Court in 1989, and the first female chief justice in 1993.
Ann K. Covington (Photo: Submitted)
Covington began her law practice in 1977 as an assistant attorney general for the state of Missouri. She served in that role for two years, before moving into private practice. In 1987 Covington was appointed to the Missouri Court of Appeals and in 1989 she was appointed to the Missouri Supreme Court. She served on the Supreme Court for 12 years, including two years as chief justice from 1993-95.
She has also been active in higher education. She served on the University of Missouri Board of Curators from 2013-15 and has served for many years as a member of the Truman Scholarship and Mark Twain Fellowship committees at MU.
Covington has a bachelor's degree from Duke University and a Juris Doctorate from the University of Missouri School of Law.
Hal Donaldson
Hal Donaldson is president of Convoy of Hope, a faith-based, nonprofit organization that leads humanitarian initiatives around the world.
Hal Donaldson (Photo: Submitted)
Through Convoy of Hope, people in need have been provided with supplies and resources like warm meals, groceries, medical and dental screenings, job opportunities, and business training. Nearly $700 million worth of food and supplies have been distributed to more than 80 million people.
Donaldson is a recipient of the National Distinguished Service in Social Welfare Award and is an award-winning journalist and speaker. He has authored more than 30 books, including "Midnight in the City," which chronicles his journey to eight American cities. Donaldson traveled with the police on the midnight shift and walked the streets interviewing drug addicts, gang members, prostitutes, runaways and the homeless. His latest book, "Your Next 24 Hours," will be released in February.
Donaldson has a bachelor's in journalism from San Jose State University and a bachelor's in biblical studies from Bethany University.
Langston Hughes was born in Joplin on Feb. 1, 1902, when rigid racial restrictions dominated Missouri. Although he did not live there for long, he was always proud of his connection to the state, and his link to Missouri ran deep into history.
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Elected a trustee of the Missouri Society of New York in 1963, he was part of a great literary tradition that includes Mark Twain, T.S. Eliot and Hughes's good friend the poet Marianne Moore.
Beginning in 1915, Hughes embarked upon a remarkably prolific career as a writer of poetry, fiction, drama, libretto, journalism, screenplays and more. His success made him the first African American to make his living solely as a writer. Until his death in 1967, Langston Hughes was arguably the premier poet of the black American experience, the most versatile of black writers, and one of the finest authors in American literature.
Widespread academic attention to him began, fittingly, at a conference in 1983 organized in Joplin at Missouri Southern University, when Joplin reclaimed and celebrated him as a favorite son.
Judith Rowland
Judith Rowland is the U.S. policy and advocacy manager for Global Citizen, where she speaks on behalf of Global Citizens around the world who are taking action to solve some of the world's biggest challenges.
Over the last five years, more than 8 million registered Global Citizens have contacted world leaders and elected officials to secure major policy commitments on issues including gender equality, health, education, food and hunger, water and sanitation, and climate change, set to affect the lives of more than 1 billion people.
Judith Rowland (Photo: Submitted)
In her role, Rowland helped secure more than 100 co-sponsors on the 2014 Water for the World Act and played a key part in seeing the bill pass through both chambers and be signed into law by former President Barack Obama.
Rowland also worked in close partnership with the White House on the launch of former First Lady Michelle Obama's #62MillionGirls campaign.
Additionally, Rowland was instrumental in securing the passage of the Global Food Security Act, which was signed into law by Obama in July 2016.
She holds an undergraduate degree in political science from Missouri State University and a graduate degree in development studies from the London School of Economics.
Previous inductees into the Missouri Public Affairs Hall of Fame include Mark Arnoldy, Simone Bernstein, Henry Bloch, George Washington Carver, John C. "Jack" Danforth, Patsy Danner Jimmie Edwards, Eric Greitens, Dr. Donald M. Suggs, Harry S. Truman and Laura Ingalls Wilder.
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The ECO School Award is an international programme that aims to empower children and young people to to be the change our world needs by engaging them in fun, action orientated and socially responsible learning.
The ECO Schools programme is engaging millions of children across 67 countries. This makes it the largest education programme in the world.
Our school is an ECO School Green Flag School. In order to gain this award and fly the Green Flag we have to:
Have a pupil led Eco committee.
Carry out an environmental review of our school, school grounds and local area.
develop and share an action plan.
Work on 5 Eco topics from a list of 9 which include: Biodiversity, Energy, Litter, Waste, Water, School Grounds, Healthy living, Transport, Global Citizenship.
have an Eco code that is an environmental statement drawn up by the Eco - Committee. This statement must be displayed around school and understood by staff and pupils.
Our school has received the award on 4 occasions. We will be reapplying for the award in the academic year 2020/21.
Mrs Richardson and Miss Staward are our lead members of staff for Eco Schools.

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The Guide to Enterprise Content Management (ECM)
What is Enterprise Content Management?
How an ECM software system works
Why ECM is so darn important
Critical roles of content management tools
Getting down to business: implementation
The future of Enterprise Content Management
Traditionally, Enterprise Content Management (ECM) was confined to the back office, kept as an unstructured - albeit centralized - way to manage a myriad of content. However, over the past few years, ECM has seen a shift towards a more interactive role in the business.
Paper is nearing extinction as digitization becomes the new normal. Machine learning, cloud technology, and mobile capability present new opportunities for the business, and there are new types of content - video, audio, social - that blur the lines of traditional ECM. The resulting shift has left many industry thought leaders wondering, is it time to rethink how we are defining ECM?
In today's business landscape, there are multiple definitions of what ECM is and what role it plays, but here at Atlassian, Enterprise content management (ECM) is defined as the collaborative process of digitally managing and applying a company's information to support its processes and business goals - ensuring that information is easily accessible, and as useful as possible at any point throughout the content lifecycle. The right ECM system will help you automate processes, increase productivity, and encourage teams across your business to work better together.
Content is everywhere. We're creating documents, emails, spreadsheets, presentations and other materials faster and in greater volume than ever before. And it's easy to see why. As more and more people around the globe work together, sharing information–accurate information–is critical. Such collaboration demands immediate, shared access to documents, files and other resources.
Much of this content is in email, on your hard drive or in that file or–just somewhere. As this unstructured content grows, companies large and small are committing an increasing amount of resources to manage it.
The idea behind an ECM platform is pretty simple: give everyone in the organization easy access to all of the information necessary to make decisions, complete projects, and work with maximum efficiency. Once it's implemented, you'll wonder why nobody ever thought of this before.
ECM eliminates paper documents and the related filing systems. It takes your Everest-sized mountain of printed content––everything from invoices, resumes and contracts to correspondence and research reports––digitizes it, and stores it in a secure repository. And it helps keep your electronic files organized, enhancing collaboration and sharing. No more manila folders. No more paper cuts. More trees sighing with relief.
But ECM isn't just a cool, eco-friendly filing system. It's a process that spans the lifecycle of content, from capturing information to publishing and archiving it. And then, after a given retention period, deleting those files. Because, hey, who wants a bunch of useless files hogging up space?
Robust ECM systems tend to eliminate all that pesky downtime spent searching for stuff. They organize existing digital files in a central location, storing document metadata in folders. This makes content easily available to the right people at the right time. Users with access privileges can even perform full-text searches for specific documents. Regardless of device, they can then read, edit or print a copy whenever they need one, wherever they are. They can use the ECM system to look for words or phrases within the stored documents, too.
Every business function now requires content management
In the beginning, organizations used ECM exclusively to reduce paper and streamline filing. But its role has become bigger––much bigger.
A strong ECM solution reduces the time and costs associated with managing documents throughout their life cycles, ensuring compliance with record retention policies. If you handle questions from customers, ECM puts the answers right at your fingertips. It also automates manual tasks––things like photocopying, dragging and dropping, and hand delivery. It can increase security by restricting access to files and folders. And it can allow individual departments to control access; for example, keeping human resources information restricted to HR personnel.
ECM. Now available in several varieties
Today, even the acronym "ECM" has come to mean a diverse range of services. To understand more specific ways it could help your company, consider these three types of ECM.
WCM puts control over the look and feel of a website in the hands of specific, key people. It's used by organizations with relatively complex websites and strict brand guidelines, giving those key personnel the means to easily update, modify and publish content for the sites while adhering to the guidelines.
Collaborative Content Management
CCM enables multiple people to access and modify a single document, such as a legal document. It's ideal for organizations that must manage projects involving multiple stakeholders. CCM makes it easy to work together while keeping track of, and updating, the most-current version of the document.
Transactional Content Management
TCM is designed for organizations that repeatedly use varied types of content, including records, paper documents, and digital files. TCM solutions capture content from various channels, classify it, store it, create an automated workflow to ensure the right user receives the content at the right time, and even deletes documents when they're no longer needed, all while working seamlessly with other apps and databases, ensuring all of that content is available throughout the company.
Bring order to chaos. In today's data-driven world, that's critical.
Across industries and service sectors, effective, enterprise-wide content management solutions are improving day-to-day processes while minimizing overhead. They're playing a vital role in getting rid of content no one needs, including duplicate files and outdated information. On an even more practical level, they're helping reduce the amount of storage and paper companies require, and how much mail they send.
Reduce the risks of poor communication
Whatever your organization's mission, ECM is the key to eliminating the ad hoc processes that can expose you to regulatory compliance risks, lead to missed revenue opportunities, and drag down productivity. It's an important tool for breaking through information bottlenecks, so you can communicate more clearly.
Get some valuable peace of mind
Most important, ECM systems can be the first line of defense against the threats we face in our increasingly interconnected world. ECM forces organizations to manage and monitor content––all content––so that key personnel can more effectively respond to, and protect against, data breaches and financial fraud.
Reducing storage costs by allowing you to store exactly what you need and getting rid of what you don't
Reducing operating costs through reduced storage costs and by improved workflows that come result from moving materials to electronic formats
Boosting productivity by putting the right information in the right hands at the right time and by allowing for the automation of routine tasks
Increasing customer satisfaction by giving personnel easy access to the information customers need
Improved decision-making processes, allowing organizations to cut costs, improve efficiencies, and seize opportunities in a timely manner
Ensures continuity in business operations, no matter what happens, thanks to account backups, archives, secure storage, and disaster recovery process
Before you decide to implement ECM, understand the current state of your organization by asking yourself a few questions.
Consider your short and long-term business goals. How will your ECM system help you meet those goals?
How does your organization currently handle different types of content?
If you already have an ECM solution, how does it function? Map out the business processes already in place.
How does information move across the enterprise, among people, departments and systems?
Are there departments or business units that have created their own content management solutions?
Are there departments who may have established a shadow IT operation and are, therefore, resistant to change? (This is a good time to get them onboard!)
In fact, this is the time to look at all of the people who move, touch, read, create and otherwise require access to content. All of the players matter, whether they're internal users, customers, suppliers or partners.
By documenting everything, you can get the clarity you need to create and manage a content management system that is secure, compliant with regulations and company guidelines, and that meets the needs of every part of the organization.
Analyze your content and management needs
Once you perform the due diligence, draw some conclusions on how content is created and where it is stored. Who has access? How do individuals and departments retrieve it? Who needs what when?
From that analysis, you should have a pretty clear picture of the existing environment and should be able to categorize your data. Doing so can go a long way toward determining who needs access to certain information as well as what content needs to be saved and what can be deleted or thrown away.
At that point, you should have a good idea of what type of ECM solution you need. And you can begin to choose the vendor and software to help you achieve your goals.
By categorizing the data, and by understanding who needs it where and when, you'll ensure your ECM platform addresses the needs of all concerned. This, of course, increases user adoption and helps smooth the implementation of the changes.
When you implement an ECM solution, even with the help of a vendor, you'll face some disruption in your usual work processes. Here's a handy checklist to help you through a smooth implementation.
Focus on the key areas first. Prioritize. At least initially, avoid getting sidetracked with issues that don't need to be addressed or that don't provide immediate value.
Show everybody what you'll get in return. Quantify the expected results, in financial and practice terms, for the organization.
Invite buy-in. Get everybody onboard. That means everybody in every department that will be impacted––which usually means everybody.
Talk about it. A lot. Share the vision, desired outcomes, and expectations you have for the new platform. And don't forget to listen––provide plenty of opportunities for feedback.
Decide what you need. Talk to your service provider. Your solution may mean you no longer need certain hardware or other infrastructure, including everything from laptops to smartphones, networks and cloud software.
Own this. Create a single team dedicated to the implementation process. Get the members of that team up to speed on all of the details. Make sure they're involved at every step.
Make the rules. Choose who will have access to information and establish policies for its use. Include recommended lifecycles of data and procedures for how it should be discarded once it's no longer needed.
Test before you launch. When the new platform is ready, select a group of users to test it in a real-world environment. Then tweak, troubleshoot, or high-five accordingly.
Stay loose. Any new technology or process needs a break-in period. So give it time. Allow the members of your organization to get familiar with it. And be willing to make adjustments. Schedule regular meetings to review input from all involved.
What a good ECM solution should allow you to do today
Whether you're implementing an ECM solution or improving an existing one, keep in mind that it should do far more than simply improve the way you "handle stuff." Design and implement the system so that it helps people throughout your organization to:
Securely save and store content
Find and use that content whenever they need it, wherever they are
Be more efficient and productive, every day, thanks to easy access
Capture any file type, from any location, and have it stored and classified automatically
Move easily between the ECM platform and all other enterprise systems
Report on how the information is being used within the ECM solution
More and more teams are blending social collaboration tools into the way they approach ECM, because it's not just about handling company information, it's about creating an integrated culture and corresponding platform where everyone is involved in how information is captured, stored and utilized.
Content is being cultivated in a digital ecosystem
In their 2017 Magic Quadrant report, Gartner coined a new term to evaluate this area: Content Services Platform (CSP), describing it as an "an evolution of the Enterprise Content Management (ECM) Magic Quadrant."
There are two things that immediately jump out of this "evolution," one being that ECM can not be limited to mere content management. It encompasses a greater range of responsibility including management, organization, searchability, application, and components. Second, it's becoming mandatory for teams to have a digital platform that provides infrastructure for what was once unstructured, a tool that has both functionality and flexibility and enables the content lifecycle to be more interactive.
Streamlining ECM tools and processes within a unified platform for digitization will help teams meet deadlines, and more importantly, provide them opportunities to grow.
Content collaboration without boundaries
What was once self-contained systems and repositories are now open services that are able to adapt continuously to meet the evolving needs of the customer. Social collaboration software has had a huge impact on the way teams integrate content and information into their day-to-day work, and the ability to get on the same page with your team, collaborate in real-time, and utilize a uniform navigation process makes even more of a difference on the effectiveness of your ECM software.
An ECM solution should be able to provide the means to break down barriers with an open content platform that spans a range of applications, allowing teams to take advantage of the benefits of an interactive product suite.
Cloud ECM deployments
Advances in cloud, mobile, and analytics technology - as well as the continued integration of social collaboration tools - have expanded our expectations for what an ECM tool can do. The sheer volume of content that is being created and stored can be staggering, and over time, these technology improvements will drive the need for better usability and mobility among end-users. All of these signs point in the direction of cloud deployment as a primary means of maximizing ECM's effectiveness.
Moving ECM to a cloud-based platform allows organizations to avoid up-front implementation and infrastructure costs, mitigate staffing expenses, and ultimately reduce their total cost of ownership on the storage and management of content.
In addition to significant cost-reduction, organizations looking to improve their ECM's ease-of-use and accessibility will find that cloud deployment provides just that. Moving your ECM tool to the cloud makes it even easier for team members to store, retrieve, and apply content while on-the-go or working from home.
Automation (if not already in place) is imminent
While it feels like the topics of automation and machine learning have been forced into every conversation about improving work processes, they serve as natural counterparts for ECM.
Considering the time and resources it takes to facilitate document capture, organization, storage, and continuous management, it's easy to understand why intelligent automation is having such a big impact on the way teams interact with information. It helps to eliminate rudimentary tasks, reduce processing time, and most importantly, provide the right information to the right people at the right time. Plus, the ability to ingest and classify metadata is becoming increasingly important to organizations. What would typically be a painstaking and time-consuming process can evolve an edge against competition.
Discover how ECM can help your organization manage its content, boost efficiency and increase collaboration and productivity, by trying it free with Confluence ECM software.
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Yesterday, January 17, the price of Ethereum was in a bearish trend zone. The crypto had been in the bearish trend zone since January 15, 2019. Also, price of Ethereum had been fluctuating above the $120 price level since January 15, 2019.
On the downside, if the crypto's price remains below the 12-day EMA and the 26-day EMA, the crypto's price will fall or price will continue its range bound movement. On the upside, if the bulls break above the EMA, the crypto will reach the $130 price level. Meanwhile, the stochastic is out the oversold region but below the 80% range which indicates that Ethereum is in a bullish momentum and a buy signal.
On the 1-hour chart, the crypto's price is in the bullish trend zone. The bulls broke the 12-day EMA , the 26-day and reached the high of $127.32. The crypto's price is retracing from the recent high to the EMAs. The Stochastic is in the oversold region but below the 20% range indicating that Ethereum is in a bearish momentum and a sell signal. The MACD line and the signal are above the zero line which indicates a buy signal.


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You're not alone. In fact, recent research from Avanade and Sitecore revealed that 95% of executives agree that aspects of their customer experience are in critical need of improvement.¹ We've worked with clients from around the world to create rich, personalized, customer experiences that resonate with audiences and drive business results. We've taken that knowledge and boiled it down to the core areas where we see clients struggle or excel. Take a journey through the Customer Experience trek below.
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An established data and insights cycle now feeds everything you do. Augment external data with connected data to get a holistic view of your customer. Insights from data at this stage can dramatically change the entire lifecycle, process, and organizational alignment to support the customer experience to drive the results you want.
Are you optimizing your customer's visual experience across everything?
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Disconnected customer experiences become glaringly apparent with increased data and improved personalization. It takes courage to look in the mirror and assess where your processes hinder progression of the customer journey and business impact. With an iterative culture, you should be able to drive shifts in the customer experience that improve CX and your business results.
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Now is a great time to think about an optimization cycle to continue your progress.
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When I ask clients why they let a problem go on for so long before addressing it, a common reply is, "I was afraid I'd create more conflict by raising it." It's an understandable fear. Here are some tried-and-true ways to raise an issue for discussion without making matters worse, along with additional tips for mediators and managers.


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Pitch is behaving like Asian wickets on fifth day - Azhar Ali on New Zealand challenge
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Azhar Ali believes the Mount Maunganui pitch is similar to the slow surfaces usually found in Asian conditions as Pakistan battle for a draw in the ongoing Test against New Zealand.
Azhar reached the close of play on day four unbeaten on 34 from 117 deliveries in the company of the resolute Fawad Alam, who is on 21 off 55 balls.
Pakistan were earlier rattled by the loss of both openers without any score on the board following New Zeland's decision to set the tourists an improbable target of 373.
While the Black Caps' sole specialist spinner Mitchell Santner was deployed for only six overs in the evening session, Azhar is of the view that he will acquire a more significant role as the contest prolongs on the final day.
"There was turn and bounce on a couple of deliveries so you can imagine what the situation is on the fifth day on a pitch like this," Azhar assessed. "Normally, spinners don't play an instrumental role in New Zealand but you can see on this particular pitch, Yasir got some turn and bounce and Santner will exploit the slowness of the surface."
"The pitch resembles those we usually see in Asian conditions on the fifth day," he stressed.
Although existing evidence suggests Pakistan seem ill-equipped to bat for longer periods under pressure in foreign conditions, Azhar sounded optimistic in his plans for Wednesday.
He claimed his budding partnership with Fawad was a sign of the pitch becoming easier to bat on once the batsmen dig in.
"Obviously, on a fifth-day pitch, it will be challenging. We know what a quality bowling side New Zealand is. All we can do is focus on playing the ball on merit as much as we can, and take small targets like batting in sessions," Azhar stated.
"That is what we can do right now and hopefully, we can build a big partnership. In the last hour that Fawad and I played, it gave the impression that if you can get in, you can play for a long time on this pitch. We'll be expecting a lot of challenges thrown at us tomorrow and hopefully, we can counter them."
Pakistan's first-innings capitulation before Mohammad Rizwan and Faheem Ashraf's desperate rescue act was criticised for depicting a negative mindset.
However, with a draw presumably the best possible result for Pakistan, Azhar highlighted the strain involved in timing the ball.
"We've seen some balls keep low and it is getting slower, so it hard to time the ball," the former Pakistan skipper said.
"With the new ball, it was coming onto the bat better but when the ball got older, it was tough to play shots. If you can get in, keep your balance, and play with the full face of the bat, then you have a chance to survive for a long time on this wicket."
Tim Southee's milestone of 300 Test wickets dominated the headlines on day four but Neil Wagner's remarkable dedication to bowling for his team despite two broken toes also received accolades.
Azhar showered praise on Wagner's gritty character and called him an "inspiration" for all cricketers given his spirited effort in the face of a painful injury.
"Huge respect for him [Neil Wagner]. That is what it means to play for your nation. He is an inspiration for everyone as he is playing with not one but two broken toes. He is fighting for his team," Azhar said.
"When we started the innings, we believed Wagner won't be bowling as he was experiencing pain during his warm-up routine but he came back again and bowled. It shows a lot of character and people will learn from him."
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The light on Machias Seal Island, about 13 miles southwest of Grand Manan Island, New Brunswick, was lit for the first time in 1832. At one time there were twin lighthouses on Machias Seal, one tower near the western shore and a second, eastern tower about 30 feet from the present one. The first was pulled down in 1905 and the lumber used to build a small barn. After the present concrete tower was built in 1915, Don Daggett reduced the height of the eastern tower to keep the Island from being mistaken for a station with two towers. The keepers and their children referred to it as "the castle". It was used for a paint shed and, sometimes, for picking ducks.
A building on the northern point, used as living quarters by fishermen when they came ashore, was torn down in the early 1930s. During the 1940s, when Harvey Benson was principal keeper, with Lawrence Benson as his second keeper, there were eleven buildings on the Island.
John Conley was the first lightkeeper at Machias Seal Island, where he lived with his wife Elizabeth and their family. He died there ca. 1844 and his body was later removed to St. Andrews for burial. He and his son Obadiah were credited with saving the lives of the crews of at least seven shipwrecks.
The United States has long disputed Canadian ownership of Grand Manan Island even though the Passamaquoddy Islands Commissioners confirmed Canadian ownership in 1817 and Canada has exercised sovereignty over the island for 170 years. Because of this dispute, the light station is still manned, even though it has been automated for some time. The Department of Foreign Affairs pays the cost of maintaining keepers so that Canada can maintain its claim of sovereignty over the island. This makes it the only manned lighthouse remaining in the Maritime Provinces. Today there are four keepers, two taking rotating twenty-eight day shifts. There is also a Canadian Wildlife Service field station and bird sanctuary on the island, attracting tourists every summer.
This collection consists of newspaper articles, magazine articles, letters, stories, and histories relating to Machias Seal Island lightstation and bird sanctuary. There are articles concerning the boundary dispute between the Canadian and United States governments over ownership of the Island and a computer printout of the International Court of Justice Case Summaries Judgement of 12 October 1984 concerning ownership.
Gleneta Hettrick, Archivist, collected this material to preserve the history of the Island for researchers.
Records of other lighthouses in the Grand Manan area are also available in the Archives.
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I first heard the term "body image issues" in the 1980's in association with eating disorder education. With anorexia and bulimia on the rise, body dysmorphic disorder (BDD) was entering the mainstream narrative. Thousands of young women whose body weight fell into healthy, normal ranges were looking in mirrors and seeing themselves as fat, unacceptable and in need of a body overhaul. I was one of those young women. I spent many painful years struggling with bulimia and with a long recovery-relapse process that involved compulsive over-eating, purging through extreme exercise, numerous healthy eating programs, countless fitness regimes as well as psychotherapy, 12-step recovery groups, New-Age cults, various traditional religions and all kinds of yoga. You name it. I have done it. Or I have done something like it.
Nowadays, I hear the word body image to refer to a more general self-hating malaise that people have about their bodies and the ways they fall short of unrealistic cultural ideals. Somewhere along the way it became normal and expected to be dissatisfied with how we look. Somewhere along the line we lost our ability to maintain a perspective on the insanity that marketing agencies everywhere are selling in an effort make us feel so terrible about who we are that our only obvious option for salvation will be to buy their products. It seems like the noise of this particular narrative has become so loud that it is almost impossible to bear up against it. And, as I outlined in Yoga From the Inside Out all those years ago, the Sleeping World cultural ideals have entered the yoga culture, bringing with them a host of problems ranging from eating disorders to depression, racial tensions, fat-shaming, thin-shaming and more.
I have been thinking a lot about my own recovery process from bulimia and from BDD and how yoga has been a part of the process. From my current vantage point, I have to say that I do not think yoga helps body image. I think yoga can help. I think yoga may help. However, I think whether or not yoga hurts or helps depends on whose hands the yoga is in, how the tool of yoga is implemented over the life of one's practice and the tenor within the community of practitioners with whom one is associated.
In 1999, I hit a very profound bottom in my relationship to my body. Coming off a relapse cycle of bulimia and compulsive exercise that had taken me into competitive body-building and the extreme dieting that goes along with it, I had returned to asana practice looking for a way to exercise that might not reinforce my negative thinking and behavioral patterns. I was not new to yoga but asana had been more of a background practice for a while— stretching out after a run or using asana as a recovery day after a hard week of training. Returning to yoga was necessary and horrible. My muscles were tight, my emotions were frozen from having been subverted to my compulsive and addictive processes and I was far from my Spirit. The yoga room seemed to be full of happy people with skinny bodies who seemed to be able to enjoy themselves and be "open-hearted" with no problem at all.
To be fair, I had no idea what was going on for anyone in the room since at the time I was so self-obsessed. I was making the classic error in thinking and perception: I was comparing my insides to other people's outsides. My point is that walking into a yoga room did not magically help my body image issues even though everyone was probably really nice to me and doing their best to be welcoming and inclusive. I still felt awful.
I felt awful because the problem I was dealing with was inside, not outside.
My situation got worse because my teacher was saying things like "make your pose an offering" and "express the posture from the beauty of your heart" and all I felt was stiff, tight, distant from myself and angry. And sad. So very sad. And, as the relentlessly-affirming instructions continued, I felt worse, not better. Not only did I not "feel the love" I actually felt my self-hatred, self-abuse, and self-neglect more acutely than ever. I was smack up against myself with no buffers, nowhere to run and nowhere to hide. No matter how inclusive that teacher might have been, all I felt was the way my life had been the exact opposite of this heart-centered philosophical premise. I felt awful.
Yoga did not help my body image. Not one bit.
There is always an And yet… in these blog entries, right?
Yoga did help me see myself clearly in the moment. And the great paradox of transformation is that when we see ourselves with stark clarity, things often change. My spiritual teacher rarely gave techniques for change. He knew them all. However, he saw spiritual life as a process of surrender rather than a process of structured or self-determined outcomes. We never made visions boards, did affirmations, wrote goals or launched self-improvement programs. Instead, the primary practices he gave us involved self-observation, accepting Life As it Is, asserting Just This in the face of all of life's circumstance, serving what was both Wanted and Needed in the moment and Being With What Arises with no story-line added.I can not tell you the number of times one of us would be suffering and looking for a formula to fix said suffering only to be given instructions for "being with it." I wish I had a dollar for every time Lee explained that if we let go of fixing what we thought was our problem and could truly see it as it was, the shift we wanted would paradoxically be there. It seems wanting to change something can work against changing the thing itself.
And that is how I work with body image. I do not try to love my body. I really don't. I practice seeing my as it is, being with it as it is and taking care of it, whether I do or do not love it in the moment. Starting from where I actually am— even when the moment is bleak— moves me into acceptance of what is as it is before I add a narrative, even a loving one. For me, I have never had a lot of success jumping from "I hate my body" straight to "I love my body." Affirming "I love my curves, etc." has always felt false and inauthentic to me. And while there can be value in "fake it till you make it," that approach hasn't been the primary road I have taken.
For me, navigating the terrain in between self-hate and self-love has been the bulk of my work. The paradox is that the most loving thing I can do for myself is to accept myself as I am. The same idea goes with my friends and family. The practice for me is to love my friends as they actually are- with their neurotic tendencies, shortcomings, scars, quirks and idiosyncratic behavior as well as for their generous spirits, resilient hearts and keen insights. True intimacy does not turn away from the aspects I do not prefer in myself or others but somehow involves a struggle to make room for it all, which is a loving process that does not always feel like what I wish love felt like.
So— For those of you looking for practical examples of the difference I am talking about, here are some ideas. While this is by no means an exhaustive list and is certainly not a comprehensive recovery plan, perhaps one or two of these practices can give you some help or insight.
1. Sit comfortably. Place hands on your abdomen. Relax your belly completely. Feel where your hands and stomach meet. Do not add a narrative such as "Oh, stomach, I love your roundness and I appreciate your softness" That is great work. I love it. Totally into it. However, that kind of dialogue work is different than what I am talking about which is to focus on developing a direct, kinesthetic relationship to your belly as it is.
2. Sit on a chair with your feel flat on the floor. Let your legs spread completely and totally relax your legs. Feel where the skin on the back of your legs meets the chair. Feel the width and depth and height of your legs. Don't thank them for being strong, don't add a commentary—just practice being with how your legs actually feel.
3. Practice an asana or series of asana with your eyes closed. Focus on the sensations of stretch, of rooting, of lifting and how your body actually feels in the posture.
4. Rub oil or lotion all over your body and focus on the way your skin and hands and muscles feel. If self-criticism arises, do not automatically talk yourself out of it or turn it around into a comliment- just let it be.
5. When you feel any emotion, focus on where you feel the feeling in your body. Fear might have a compelling story associated with it but it also has a sensation or series of sensations such as sweaty palms, shortness of breath, tightness in the chest, butterflies in the stomach and so on.
6. Stand naked in front of a mirror for 5 full minutes. Do not do your best tadasana or jockey for the best angle. Meet yourself straight on. See your body as it is. Stand there— once again, this is not an exercise in telling yourself "You look great and I love you" unless that arises naturally, in which case go with it. If self-criticism arises, let that be what it is also.
7. Take a day without makeup. Meet yourself as you are. You may like it or hate it but the point is to be with what is, not how to "improve" you feel about what is.
8. Go to a yoga class where there is a mirror. Where shorts and a fitted top. See yourself as you are in the shapes. Getting the picture? This is not, a "I love my stretch marks" kind-of-process, this is more a "I have stretch marks. Yep. There they are" kind-of-exercise.
I could go on because the ways the present, fully-embodied moment just as it is can be a doorway into the inner life are endless. Again, the paradoxical thing is that by moving deeper into the embodied experience, something other than physicality-only opens up.
Eventually what I have came to learn about the voice of my own negative body-image is that something else is always going on whenever it rears its ugly head. Many times, after I have made an amazing offering in my work, I am greeted, not with an inner "Great job, Christina," but with "Yeah, well you have gained weight" commentary instead. Or perhaps I find myself plotting a new diet and I realize I am scared about a change I need to make and so I am focusing on losing weight rather than the ways I am scared that a necessary change may result in a loss of love or approval.
All right, more could be said but that is enough for now.
Oh-- one more thing. None of this is easy.


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This very good article is written by Marcus Redivo.
I added a warning to stress one point (see red font) which took me 5 hours to find the error, the rest is the orginal tutorial, have fun.
It's important to set the FS Type to RAID for the wd1d Partition, otherwise the System won't boot !
220 blog.roothell.org FTP server ready.
The argument to -I is a unique identifier that permits RAIDframe to determine which disks belong to which RAID sets; I used the year and month, plus '00' to indicate the first RAID set.
Strange, in the INSTALL file it also says, that you have the boot program under /usr/mdec/boot. Caution! It's a file not a folder, perhaps this is your problem.
Normally it should also be possible to copy the file from /boot to /mnt/boot. If you find a solution, please post it here too, so that other users can benefit also.
First I'm using OpenBSD 4.6 (SPARC64) on Sun Netra 210 Server.
drwxr-xr-x 2 root wheel 512 Jul 9 22:16 .
drwxr-xr-x 17 root wheel 512 Jul 9 22:01 ..
Question: I'm having a LSI SAS1064 which support RAID 1 (Hardware). But I can't Access it using SUN Netra 210 because it doesn't have a BIOS but it has OBP 4.30. Is there a way to use OpenBSD to access that chip and configure it to use RAID 1 (using the hardware on the chip)and save all that headache (I don't want to use software raid because my hardware SUPPOSE to support Raid 1 on it) But I spend a lot of time reading the manuals and forums and I'm getting now to no where.
That's mean boot from the cdrom using single user mode.
Thant's mean: Create Raid1 (r 1) on the controller #1 (This is the last number 1 in the command) using Disk0 (0.0.0) and my Disk1 (0.1.0).
BTW, I'm using Sun Netra 210. I hope that will help some people who is straggling in the same problem.


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The General Assembly of the Presbyterian Church in America has concluded and there is good news to report.
In my last post I lamented the decision of the Overtures Committee of the General Assembly to answer in the negative the overtures presented to make constitutionally binding the solemnization of marriage (Book of Church Order, 59).
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Bad news from PCA General Assembly.
The overtures seeking to make Book of Church Order 59 (the solemnization of marriage) constitutional were all defeated by the Overtures Committee.
It is a sad, sad day for the PCA.
Blog 244: 4.20.27 - 4.20.32
Calvin's sensitivity to the different circumstances in which people live lead him to flip-flop, or at least to be somewhat ambivalent in his attitude to the magistrate. Citing the case of Nebuchadnezzar (Jer. 27), Scripture requires obedience to bad kings, and even to pray for the well being of the country of exile (Jer.29). No doubt Calvin has his own city of exile, Geneva, in mind. But should not rulers, who also have responsibilities, be kept on track? Yes, but not by ourselves, but by Almighty God. This leads to discussion of the vexed question of civil disobedience.
No doubt having the Anabaptists in mind, and having already defended the right to litigate, Calvin proceeds to defend the entire judicial process. He discourages using the law for the taking of revenge, but upholds the use of due process, 'through which God may work for our good'. (It is interesting that in his teaching Calvin primarily seems to have mind not Geneva, which by this time in his career he believed was governed along right lines, but countries where the law may remain hostile to evangelical Christianity).
Pray Like a Prophet
Following Elijah's stunning victory over the prophets of Baal in 1 Kings 18, he turns his attention to drought that continued to linger over the land. Back in 1 Kings 17, Elijah had announced a drought on the land because of the apostasy of the people. They had backed into Baalism and paganism. And their failure to remain faithful to the Lord carried the judgment of God removing his word from the people, signified by the lack of rain or dew. This was also a polemic against Baal, the storm god. The Baal cycle would be broken and the LORD would show himself to be God.
A Dirty Doeg
"With which person in the Bible do you most identify?" This is a question I have often asked others in the church over the years. Most of us lack even enough self-awareness to able to answer the question. Others among us have a propensity to appeal to the best characters in Scripture.
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Greenville Presbyterian Theological Seminary debuts on "The Spin" with the presence of Michael Morales, the seminary's professor of Biblical Studies. Who Shall Ascend the Mount of the Lord? is Michael's latest work on the book of Leviticus, and part of the New Studies in Biblical Theology series by IVP. Don't dismiss this outstanding book merely on the subject matter! Leviticus is not "the most boring book in the bible," and you're about to learn why!
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The Spin Team—yes, the fashion guru, the pastor to the "furries," and the lead singer of the punk band "Feminist Outrage Machine"—have not one, but two special guests today! Kelly Kapic and Brian Fikkert, both at Covenant College, have authored Becoming Whole: Why the Opposite of Poverty isn't the American Dream.
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Classical Theism in the Pastoral Key
Just over a decade ago, the big surprise in American evangelicalism was the sudden popularity of Calvinistic theology captured by Collin Hansen's memorable phrase, 'young, restless, and Reformed.' More recently, another unexpected trend has emerged – an interest in classical theism, Nicene Trinitarianism, and Chalcedonian Christology. Both movements connect to significant correctives within the field of historical theology, epitomized in the early modern period by the work of Richard Muller, in Patristics by Lewis Ayres and Khaled Anatolios, a
November 19: James 1
"Religion that is pure and undefiled before God, the Father, is this: to visit orphans and widows in their affliction, and to keep oneself unstained from the world" (Jam. 1:27).
November 18: Hebrews 13
"Do not neglect to do good and to share what you have, for such sacrifices are pleasing to God" (Heb. 13:16)
"... that which is pleasing in his sight" (Heb. 13:21)
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The Beatitudes, according to Matthew, mark the beginning of Jesus' public teaching ministry. They are the first things that Jesus emphasized as he proclaimed the Gospel of the Kingdom. Unlike Moses at Mount Sinai, Jesus began his Sermon on the Mount, not with commandments, but with promises of God's blessing on heart attitudes. He began focusing on the heart, doing heart surgery, wanting to reconstruct our hearts and bring our hearts in tune with his.
Broken Pieces and the God Who Mends Them
Lois Lowry tells a story about how a utopian state required that all of the community's memories going back through the generations be committed to a single person, a receiver. The elders engineered a society where no one but the receiver had to feel or remember. Life was safe and comfortable. The citizens were spared the pain of knowing, of emoting. And they could always call on the receiver when faced with a decision that exceeded their self-imposed limited experience.
Augustine's Theology of Preaching
From its inception, preaching has held a prominent place within the life and advance of the church. A current revival of expository ministry is being cultivated throughout the evangelical world. However, such renewed awareness and commitment to an expositional pulpit ministry has been nurtured with a notable lack of historical awareness.
The Housewife Theologian
Vices Masquerading as Virtue
I stumbled upon something Gregory the Great wrote warning how vices often masquerade as virtues.* It made me pause and reflect. Here are some of his words:
Often, for instance, a niggard passes himself off as frugal, while one who is prodigal conceals his character when he calls himself openhanded. Often, inordinate laxity is believed to be kindness, and unbridled anger passes as the virtue of spiritual zeal. Precipitancy is frequently taken as efficient promptitude, and dilatoriness as grave deliberation.
My Worst-Selling Book
I kind of stumbled into becoming an author. I began as a reader and a thinker in the church, connecting a lot of dots in my reading that led to more convictions and questions. And I couldn't find the next book I wanted to read. So, I wrote it.
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iii. As Christ would have us to be certainly persuaded that there shall be a day of judgment, both to deter all men from sin; and for the greater consolation of the godly in their adversity: (2 Pet. 3:11, 14, 2 Cor. 5:10-11, 2 Thess. 1:5-7, Luke 21:27-28, Rom. 8:23-25) so will He have that day unknown to men, that they may shake off all carnal security, and be always watchful, because they know not at what hour the Lord will come; and may be ever prepared to say, Come Lord Jesus, come quickly. Amen. (Matt. 24:36, 42-44, Mark 13:35-37, Luke 12:35-36, Rev. 22:20).
ii. The end of God's appointing this day is for the manifestation of the glory of His mercy, in the eternal salvation of the elect; and of His justice, in the damnation of the reprobate, who are wicked and disobedient. For then shall the righteous go into everlasting life, and receive that fullness of joy and refreshing, which shall come from the presence of the Lord: but the wicked, who know not God, and obey not the Gospel of Jesus Christ, shall be cast into eternal torments, and be punished with everlasting destruction from the presence of the Lord, and from the glory of His power.
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As I begin the New Year, I find myself meditating on the fruits of justification by faith, especially the great principle that it brings us access to God. Paul says that through Christ, "we have also obtained access by faith into this grace in which we stand" (Rom. 5:2a). Peace with God creates access to God, so that we can stand before him fearlessly. By grace, we can stand calmly before God. Illustrations may help us take this benefit to heart.
The Judgment and Wrath of God – An Unpopular but Necessary Theme
One summer, a family man (and personal friend) traveled to Paris, where he spent a morning enjoying Luxembourg Gardens. In time, he noticed a group of mothers who, he realized, were so engrossed in their conversation that they tilted toward neglect of their children. He watched as one child wandered ever farther from her mother in the crowded park. Not yet two, she began to follow a family, apparently thinking its mother was her mother. When the group crossed a street and hurried onward, the child was finally quite alone.
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Christians are frequently reminded to "remember the reason for Christmas," meaning, of course, that we should turn our attention away from the cultural trappings and to the fact that Jesus was born to Mary in Bethlehem. But this Christmas, perhaps we should fix our attention a little more closely, not just on the details of Jesus' birth, but on the miracle of the incarnation. In so doing, we join a great cloud of Christian witnesses, who have reflected deeply on this glorious mystery.
Theology on the Go: Missions
This week on Theology on the Go, Dr. Jonathan Master is joined by Dr. Liam Goligher, pastor of the historic Tenth Presbyterian Church in downtown Philadelphia, PA. As pastor of Tenth Presbyterian, Dr. Goligher has done much thinking and teaching on the topic of missions, and how Christians are to reach the lost. This installment of Theology on the Go gives a glimpse of some of that teaching as Dr. Goligher chats with Jonathan about the doctrine of missions.
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The spiritual ontology of the Church
There is a certain view of church that regards it (especially as expressed in the local congregation) as a 'voluntary association'. The idea has been notably prevalent among Christians in the United States, but has been embraced more widely in other parts of the world. Interestingly this perception of church only began to increase in popularity in post-colonial America with the growth of Non-Conformist churches.
The Lost Sheep of the House of Israel
There are many occasions when what seem like throwaway remarks from Jesus say far more than we may realise. One in particular is heard in our Lord's exchange with the Canaanite woman in the region of Tyre and Sidon (Mt 15.21-28), where he tells her, 'I was sent only to the lost sheep of the house of Israel.'
Calvin for 2020
"What is it about Calvin that so inspires me? This: his disciplined style, his determination never to speculate, his utter submission to Bible words as God's words, his submission to Christ's Lordship, his sense of the holy, his concern to be as practical as possible; the fact that godly living was his aim and not theology for the sake of it. In a forest of theologians, Calvin stands like a Californian Redwood, towering over everyone else." — Derek Thomas
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The Spirit's Presence from the Old to the New Testament
There is an interesting view that circulates around the church about the Holy Spirit. It goes something like this. In the Old Testament the Holy Spirit did not indwell anyone but only remained with people. However, in the New Testament the Spirit literally dove into His work. In other words, He indwelt the people of God. He made His home in them.
My Top Five Books of 2019: the Unthank Edition
Roald Dahl provided for my wife and I, when we first got married, a proper philosophy of home with his memorable instruction, "Please, oh PLEASE, we beg, we pray, Go throw your TV set away. And in its place you can install, a lovely bookshelf on the wall." 2019 saw many more books added to that bookshelf and here I want to tell you about some of my favorites I've read this year.
1. Petrus Van Mastricht, Theoretical-Practical Theology, Volume 2: Faith in the Triune God. Translated by Todd M. Rester, Reformation Heritage Books, 2019.
Doctrine of God and Church Discipline - Q&A Podcast
Doctrine of God and Church Discipline - Q&A
Jonathan and James answer a few listener's questions as a follow-up to a prior episode. Our hosts address the question of how one can know if Scripture is speaking of God metaphorically or literally. How should one understand Scripture when it talks about God having body parts and emotions, such as passions and feelings? James uses the term "God's absolute sourcehood" to establish the standard of judgment on such matters.
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The Newton Guy
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Your True Retirement Plan
We probably all have bank accounts with savings, and maybe investments and 401(k)s. Wisdom would suggest that while we trust God we also should be good stewards and save. You want to have in inheritance—at the end of the road of your work life, you want to have a nest egg. This doesn't make you greedy, in most cases it means you were prudent. But all of this should make us ask, where is my real inheritance? What is the real price? Where, or better, in whom is my true retirement.
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package velox

import (
	"fmt"
	"log"
	"net/http"
	"strconv"
	"sync/atomic"
)

//NOTE(@jpillora): always assume v1, include v2 in checks when we get there...
const proto = "v1"

type syncer interface {
	sync(gostruct interface{}) (*State, error)
}

//SyncHandler is a small wrapper around Sync which simply synchronises
//all incoming connections. Use Sync if you wish to implement user authentication
//or any other request-time checks.
func SyncHandler(gostruct interface{}) http.Handler {
	return http.HandlerFunc(func(w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) {
		if conn, err := Sync(gostruct, w, r); err != nil {
			log.Printf("[velox] sync handler error: %s", err)
		} else {
			conn.Wait()
		}
	})
}

var connectionID int64

//Sync upgrades a given HTTP connection into a velox connection and synchronises
//the provided struct with the client. velox takes responsibility for writing the response
//in the event of failure. Default handlers close the TCP connection on return so when
//manually using this method, you'll most likely want to block using Conn.Wait().
func Sync(gostruct interface{}, w http.ResponseWriter, r *http.Request) (Conn, error) {
	//access gostruct.State via interfaces:
	gosyncable, ok := gostruct.(syncer)
	if !ok {
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("velox sync failed: struct does not embed velox.State")
	}
	//extract internal state from gostruct
	state, err := gosyncable.sync(gostruct)
	if err != nil {
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("velox sync failed: %s", err)
	}
	version := int64(0)
	//matching id, allow user to pick version
	if id := r.URL.Query().Get("id"); id != "" && id == state.data.id {
		if v, err := strconv.ParseInt(r.URL.Query().Get("v"), 10, 64); err == nil && v > 0 {
			version = v
		}
	}
	//set initial connection state
	conn := newConn(atomic.AddInt64(&connectionID, 1), r.RemoteAddr, state, version)
	//attempt connection over transport
	//(negotiate websockets / start eventsource emitter)
	//return when connected
	if err := conn.connect(w, r); err != nil {
		return nil, fmt.Errorf("velox connection failed: %s", err)
	}
	//hand over to state to keep in sync
	state.subscribe(conn)
	//do an initial push only to this client
	conn.Push()
	//pass connection to user
	return conn, nil
}


We highlighted a past Brother from my lodge a few episodes ago, William McClintock, well today we are going to talk about another, LeRoy Hill. This Brother was actually the first of the area to die in WWI and passed away in action on a battlefield in France. We recently got the opportunity to do a joint event with the local Legion Post in honor of Brother Hill. Check out this episode to find out more.