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Haute 100 Update MIA: Robert Zarco Gives FIU Commencement Address
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Robert Zarco, founding partner of powerhouse law firm Zarco Einhorn Salkowski & Brito, P.A. recently had the honor of delivering the commencement speech at Florida International University's South Campus December graduation.
The ceremony took place on December 15th, with more than 6,000 people in attendance. The self-made and highly charismatic attorney delivered a motivational speech to the new grads, giving them some valuable advice for the future.
"You are sitting on your launching pad into an exciting, unrestricted, yet unpredictable and challenging future where today's plans are not likely to be tomorrow's reality," said Zarco in an attempt to give the kids some perspective. He emphasized the uncertainty of what laid before the new grads and explained that in order to navigate this reality, "Individuals must possess and exercise their own power in order to achieve a level of success in life as defined by each graduate's own priorities."
Zarco is in good company in addressing an FIU audience, joining other prominent FIU commencement speakers such as President George H.W. Bush and Florida Senator Bill Nelson. He is internationally renowned as a trial lawyer and for his deftness at representing franchisees, distributors and business owners in restaurant and hotel litigation. Haute Living featured Zarco in an editorial framing him as the go-to guy for David v. Goliath type cases in which Zarco always helps the little guy get his fair share.
He has represented franchisees from more than 509 brands including Ferrari, Lamborghini, Harley Davidson Motorcycles, Volvo, GM, McDonald's, Burger King, Taco Bell, Marriott, Hilton, and many others. Zarco has an undergraduate degree from Harvard University and his J.D. from the University of Miami Law School.
His firm Zarco Einhorn Salkowski & Brito is internationally recognized for providing high-end legal services in complex commercial legal matters in specialty areas of franchise, auto dealerships, hospitality and licensing and distributorship. Their focus is on litigation in the federal and state trial and appellate courts as well as arbitration and mediation throughout the United States. For more info visit www.zarcolaw.com.
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Q: howto draw a curve with alternating colors in wpf I need to draw a curve in WPF on a canvas, which alternates colour, say black and yellow. Kinda like a dashed stroke, but I think dash uses the stroke brush and the fill colour and I need the fill colour to be transparent (only want the line).
The curve is drawn like this:
<Canvas Width="150" Height="200">
  <Path Data="M 25,45 C 50,12 100,12 125,45" Stroke="Black" />
</Canvas>

Thanks,
Terje

A: You could use two Paths that have the same data, one with a solid black stroke and one with a dashed yellow stroke.  Make sure the dashed yellow Path is in front of the solid black Path, i.e., the dashed yellow Path should be declared below the black one in your XAML.

A: Here's the WPF the Ben Schoepke was describing.
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        <Path Data="M 25,45 C 50,12 100,12 125,45" Stroke="Black" />
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    </Canvas>

Or alternatively
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How Private is Your Online Search History?
The ACLU has filed a Freedom of Information Act request with the Department of Justice to find out whether federal law enforcement agencies and prosecutors think they need a warrant to obtain people's search queries from online search engine operators, or whether they think they can obtain it on a lower standard like a subpoena.
The queries we enter into online search engines can reveal a great deal of deeply private information about us. A search for "psychologists in Pittsburgh" is pretty revealing; a search for "birth control morning after pill" or "gonorrhea treatment" even more so. Knowing that a person searched for "atheist organizations in Alabama" or "how do I come out of the closet" could expose them to stigma. And entering "divorce lawyer," "domestic violence shelter," or "marriage counseling" can expose sensitive facts, as can searching for "whistleblower protections" or "civil disobedience tactics." Because this information is so revealing, most of us would want it to be protected against snooping and disclosure.
Unfortunately, the public knows little about the policies and practices of the government when it seeks people's search queries from search engine operators as part of a criminal investigation. This information is important, because the major online search engines—Google, Microsoft's Bing, Yahoo!, and Ask.com—log and retain information about users' search queries. The retained information includes not only the search terms entered into the search engines, but also unique identifying information about the users entering those terms, such as the Internet Protocol (IP) address assigned to the user by the user's internet service provider, and the unique cookie ID assigned to the user's computer by the search engine operator itself. Although some search engines automatically encrypt the connection between users' computers and their servers to protect the privacy of search terms as they travel over the internet, search query information is still saved by the companies on their end, and therefore available to law enforcement. (At least one search engine, Duck Duck Go, states that it doesn't log or retain search queries at all).
There are two kinds of information law enforcement might seek from a search engine: records of search queries entered by a particular person or persons; and a list of the names, IP addresses, or other identifying information for some or all people who have entered a particular query into the search engine's webpage. Representatives of the two largest search engines, Google and Bing, have suggested that they think the government needs a warrant to get this information. But we don't know what the government's policies are, nor how the search engines have reacted when presented with a government request for users' search query data. Other than a 2006 instance in which Google resisted an extremely broad Justice Department subpoena for search records, we don't know of any cases where search engines have challenged government requests, in court or out.
It is increasingly difficult to participate fully in today's social, professional, and civic life without accessing the vast trove of information and resources the internet contains. And precisely because the internet is so immense, we must rely on search engines to guide us to its useful and relevant parts. While even a single search query can reveal private information about the person who enters it, a person's whole search history can furnish a detailed profile of her medical diagnoses, religious beliefs, financial stability, sexual desires, relationship status, family secrets, political leanings, and more. We should not have to choose between protecting our privacy from unjustified government surveillance and participating in modern life. Law enforcement should be no less required to obtain a warrant to view our search histories than to read the contents of our private letters or emails. The ACLU's Freedom of Information Act request provides an opportunity for the government to explain whether it thinks it needs a warrant to obtain our private search histories, or whether its practices are at odds with the requirements of the Fourth Amendment.
I'm surprised anyone in the government even underSTANDS what I put in History. Other than videos of that old TV sit-com, 'Alf' and Facebook activity, I save things related to my work, and I can't see a government official fully understanding rapid-sequence intubation, I.V Therapy, EKG interpretation and all the other work-related stuff I save in my History.
I throw the rest out after two weeks so I don't know how they'd find my thrown away history. But I won't put ANYthing past them and wouldn't be surprised if they COULD find a way to retrieve deleted history.
But if they ARE saving all this crap, perhaps one of them would like to explain the four ways of RSI and which is best, b/c I had trouble understanding all of it.
There are solutions for internet and email security. When the servers are located in the US or Canada they are subject to the US Patriot Act. That means that when the government (NSA, IRS, etc.) requests information on us those companies MUST comply - and all without a search warrant. This is against the US Constitution's 4th Amendment. Check out ForHisGlory.PrivacyAbroad.com for established Swiss-based companies that ARE NOT under US jurisdiction! Let's take back our rights!!


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In an address to the nation, Britain's King Charles III paid tribute to his late mother the Queen and spoke of his feelings of "profound sorrow."
He said she was "an inspiration" and an example to him and to his family.
The King said hers was "a life well lived", adding she is "mourned most deeply in her passing".
In the address, the King, 73, said: "Her dedication and devotion as Sovereign never waivered, through times of change and progress, through times of joy and celebration, and through times of sadness and loss."
He announced he had created his son William the Prince of Wales, with his wife Catherine the Princess of Wales.
And he expressed his "love for Harry and Meghan as they continue to build their lives overseas".
Speaking about his wife of 17 years, Camilla, 75, who becomes the Queen Consort, he said: "I know she will bring to the demands of her new role the steadfast devotion to duty on which I have come to rely so much."
He acknowledged his life had now changed, saying: "It will no longer be possible for me to give so much of my time and energies to the charities and issues for which I care so deeply.
"But I know this important work will go on in the trusted hands of others."
Heir to the throne Prince William will now take on the King's former Scottish titles and responsibility for the Duchy of Cornwall.

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Goat breaks into house, pees on the floor, naps in the bathroom
In this Friday, Oct. 4, 2019 photo, a goat stands in the bathroom of a home in Sullivan Township, Ohio. The goat named "Big Boy," who had escaped from a farm several miles away, was found napping in the bathroom after it broke into the home. (Jenn Keathley via AP)AP
CLEVELAND (AP) — An Ohio homeowner never envisioned becoming semi-famous because of a goat butting its way into her home and taking a nap in her bathroom.
"This is the most random story in the world," Jennifer Keathley said Tuesday, breaking out into laughter.
The break-in happened Friday when an escaped male goat from a farm several miles away repeatedly butted against a sliding glass door, breaking into the Keathley family home in Ashland County's Sullivan Township.
Keathley's 18-year-old son, Logan, discovered the billy goat in the bathroom when he returned home Friday afternoon from school to find the family's agitated German Shepherd in the driveway, broken glass on the back porch and the house reeking.
In this Friday, Oct. 4, 2019 photo, Ashland County sheriff's deputies wrangle up a goat found in a home in Sullivan Township, Ohio. (Jenn Keathley via AP)AP
Some of the break-in was recorded on the Keathley's home surveillance camera.
Two Ashland County Sheriff's deputies unsuccessfully tried to coax the goat, named Big Boy, out of the home with carrots, a dog bone and grass. They eventually grabbed him by the horns and dragged him outside where they secured him in a dog cage.
Keathley put a message out for a missing goat on a community Facebook page and received a reply with the owner's name and number. The apologetic owner arrived that evening and, with Keathley's husband's help, loaded him onto a livestock trailer for his ride home.
In this Friday, Oct. 4, 2019 photo, a goat stands in a cage after Ashland County sheriff's deputies removed it from a home in Sullivan Township, Ohio. (Jenn Keathley via AP)AP
The Keathleys learned their home insurance policy covers damage from bears and deer but not goats. She said she's been in touch with the company. Despite applications of carpet deodorant and urine neutralizer, she said the odor from Big Boy's urine still lingers.
Asked about her newfound fame, Keithley said: "There's all these awful stories in the world, people need this."
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Outfield Party, McCutchen's Contract, Spier Hits the Cycle
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Benjamin: Welcome back to the San Francisco Giants edition of the For The Fans By The Fans podcast, where we bring you your weekly dose of all things, San Francisco Giants baseball from the fan's perspective. I'm a lifelong Giants Fan and your host, Benjamin Shapiro. And today we welcome back the godfather of the FTFBTF podcast. Dolph Shapiro, for the second part of our two part interview. Dolph is a retired orthopedic surgeon, a volunteer at risk youth counselor, a Brooklyn Dodgers, and San Francisco Giants fan, and he also happens to be the man who taught me four of the five tools of baseball. Yes, that's right. He's my dad, but before my dad tells everybody about how I couldn't catch up to the high heat in middle school, I want to remind you that this podcast is brought to you by our friends at Fanatics. Fanatics is the global leader in licensed sports merchandise. They have the world's largest collection of official sports apparel from the leads teams and players you love. We're lucky enough to be fanatics affiliate, so if you want to help us out, you can go to FTFBTF.com/fanatics, where you can just click on the link in our show notes and go buy your Giants gear, and when you do they'll give us a couple of bucks to help pay for the production of this show. That said, here is the second part of our interview with Dolph Shapiro.
Dolph: My feeling is that the pitching, if it does return, the hitting is good enough to win some games. They're a much better hitting team than they were last year, and good enough to score more than three to four runs a game.
Benjamin: Yeah, and I think that they're doing just that. I think the question for this team is at what point do you decide that you're continuing to try to compete and at what point do you say we've dug too much of a whole and we need to start focusing the franchise on the future and that's the big part of the last podcast that I had was what do you do with hunter pence coming off of a thumb injury? He's been out for 50 games or so was batting one 77 one 71 before he was injured and now you're coming back and they have Matt Williamson. You have pretty much A. I don't know if I would call it a loaded outfield, but who are you going to drop if your outfielders are mccutcheon? Jackson Blanco, Gorkys Hernandez and Mac Williamson. Where does hunter pence fit in?
Dolph: Well, let me tell you about the giants. I remember when they were looking at bringing in here and mccutcheon. Everybody talked about how they wanted to come here. They love the fans and they love the family atmosphere of the giants and how they respected the people who played here for years since they arrived in San Francisco and my feeling about pence is, you know, he's so loved here. He helped us win three world series titles or two. How do you handle it? If he comes back and he doesn't perform and you want to make the playoffs and my feeling is I will ask around if other clubs would be helped by having someone of his maturity who's been there during the playoffs, during the world series, knows how to handle that. Maybe he's not a great player, but they could use him in the clubhouse. For example. There are many young teams who are now competing for a title. He might be very helpful like that and I would like for him to be willing to do that. It would make it easy to split with someone of his caliber. If not, then the giants have a problem. Do you just release him?
Benjamin: I think what you're talking about is one of the two positive scenarios where they bring the hunter pence back and he shows that he is a competent outfielder and that he was injured at the beginning of the season and he still has something left in the tank. He's expensive. He's 18 or $19,000,000 this year, but he's in the last year of his contract so they could trade for him. Another team could take them on as a rental at the end of the season and get a another bat with some pop, lots of veteran leadership, so I would look at teams like the Atlanta braves teams, like the Milwaukee Brewers,
Dolph: Philly,
Benjamin: yeah, Philadelphia is another one. I'm not sure if Philadelphia is going to be competitive by the end of the season, but possibly maybe even someone like the Cleveland Indians could take on another outfield or like that and get some depth. That's assuming that he comes back and he is a valuable asset and that Mac Williamson has also proven he's at least equally valuable because Mac Williamson is going to be cheaper younger and probably more athletic, so best case scenario, everybody plays well and they have a glut in the outfield and hunter pence is a trade candidate. On the flip side, worst case scenario is he comes back and you owe him the money and he's not very good. You still have to pay him. The $19 million. What do you do to pay the guy not to play? Do you cut them and leave the space open? How do you handle that?
Dolph: I don't think at this time with his contract and it's a big deal for the giants sunk cost and I'm not as concerned about hunter pence as I am about Andrew mccutchen. I mean the season's quarter rover. He's hitting in the what, two forties and we're waiting to see more of him and I'm wondering if pence doesn't work out. Do you bring up dugger?
Benjamin: Let me break that into two pieces. One, I'm less worried about mccutchin than you are because he was so bad in the first 20 percent of the season. The first 30 games he was batting under 200 and so now that he's back up to 2:40, that means that he's hit close to 300. Lately. I think he's going to end up to 70 or to 80 and the season's going to look like he hit under 200 for the first 20 percent of the game and close to 300 for the rest of the season. It'll equal to 75. What's a good on base percentage? Let's see. Giant's leader in on base percentages. Brandon belt at 400. And the lowest starter that they have looks like long, gory, a little bit under 300. So yeah, 3:50 is an average on base percentage. He's getting on base. I just think that he was so cold coming into a new park, new environment.
Benjamin: I think that he was just down at the beginning of the season. He's actually in the top five in terms of on base percentage for the team. But what really matters is his ops that's a slugging and the on base percentage combined. And he is at 7:29. The best person on the team is brandon belt at almost a thousand. So I think he's going to come around. I think the power is going to be there. I'm not worried about mccutcheon. I think that he's a proven quality player. Maybe at the end of the contract, at the end of the year, I can be a little worried about him. The guy that I'm worried about is Austin Jackson. He's supposed to be the starting center fielder and his on base percentage is three slash 28. So not great. He's batting to 50, right? He's not stealing basis, he's not getting on who's a good defensive center fielder.
Benjamin: I can appreciate that, but at some point you look at him baton to 50 and you got dugger. What's the difference? To me, if there's somebody that ends up getting cut, it could be him. Now whether pence comes in and takes the place, I don't think that happens because then they have no backup. Center field is you have to realize this is blowing up. Let's see how long that lasts. I mean, no, really great outfielder. Three, 10, three stolen bases. He's had what? Six home runs. So my question is Jackson who? Well, I wouldn't be upset to see gorkys get a little bit more playing time, but that's one of those things that he might be getting streaky and being hot now. I just love to see it last. But then again, think about the giants who was playing center field when they won the World Series Blanca.
Benjamin: Well you had Blanca there. You had angel gun, you had Andres Torres and Andres Torres had a career season the first year they won the world series and Angel Paragon wasn't terrible, but they never really let the world on fire in terms of center fielders before. No, they missed him and ruin. Yeah. You know Erin Rowan came up when I was doing a podcast with one of my consulting clients, Doug Bell. He's a Philadelphia Fan and the only observation that I had about Aaron Rowan as it looked like he was taking a dump when he got in the batter's box, which is inevitably what the output was too. So you think that bring pens back. They give him a shot. They sit there with six outfielders, know someone's gone. So who is it when they bring pens back, where did they put up? They have to get rid of somebody. Are you dumping one of the relievers?
Benjamin: Are you going with 11 man staff? Are you getting rid of Kelby Tomlinson? Does Pablo go? How many outfielders will. They'll have six outfielders. What do you do? You get rid of the the Blanco or Jackson? I bet you Blanco pulls a hamstring and they sit them down for 15 days or something like that. They take Jackson, they put them on the self. They say Gorky is, you're going to play Center Field Blanca. You're going to back them up and they let pence get some at bats and they play them every day for a couple of weeks and they see what they have. Could mccutcheon place at the field? Uh, yeah. I guess they could put them in center field and not worried about burning out his hamstring, but I don't think that that's likely going to be a longterm solution in that regard. Then they can use dugger in right center and someone in left.
Benjamin: Who Do you think's going to be the best three outfielders on the team at the end of the season. Gorkys Hernandez. He's the first one you think of. Um, dugger either. Coach Williams. You're crazy. You didn't. Gorkys Hernandez is going to be one of the three best and Doug is going to come up and be the best center fielder. You said three. Best out. I know, but if we're going to play, I don't know, there's no way that dugger comes up. If Gorky is the starting center fielder, it's going to be Williamson Hernandez and if Hernandez can't do it then maybe duck or gets a shot, but I think he got to pick one of the two of them, so I think it's Williamson Hernandez mccutcheon at the end of the year. If mccutcheon doesn't pick it up, he'll be sitting. There'll be the outfield that's off the bench. I could not disagree with you more.
Benjamin: I think if anybody has a long leash, it's going to be him because he's a high profile player. He was their big off season acquisition and I think they would hope to keep him at the end of the year. Invite me back at the end of the good. Okay, so outfield, there's a glut of outfielders. The infield things are relatively stable. Who's second base? There is no second baseman who's leading the league in the giants. Wow. I mean wonder why you lose little gory and makes errors. Every game. Kelby is inning. I mean it's fallen apart. MLB defensive team stats, San Francisco giants leading the League in errors. 40th five errors. What a disaster you're making me look bad. It was podcast is this torture, everything you know, which apparently wasn't much. That's why I said you taught me for the five key tools of baseball I could hit. I could throw, I could field. What are the other ones? Couldn't jump over a piece of paper and I couldn't run. But you get great. Mastered the postgame snack. So have you gone to any games yet? This season I've been to maybe 15. You went to 15 games already. You would need a hobby? I have friends who take me. What was the best game you went to this season? Opening Day. You sure? No. Okay. I think I remember all the games. Clearly not. I just
Benjamin: hope that you make your way home from the stadium. Let me ask you a separate question, but related. What was the best game you went to ever?
Dolph: Nineteen. 80 eight. You were and we went to a game. The an unbelievable amount of everything. They had hits a home run.
Benjamin: We went to the baseball equivalent of the fourth of July. It was July 10th, so right after the fourth of July, 1988. Shapiro Orthopedic Surgeon, probably on a Saturday, no surgery scheduled. He grabs his little boy. He's eight years old. He brings them to candlestick park. It's a sunny day game and we walk in and Chris Spire has the game of his life. He's subbing in for Robby Thompson. He hits the cycle, but that's not it. Chris fire hits the cycle. He hits a home run. Kevin Mitchell hits a home run. Bob Melvin hits a home run. Will Clark hits a home run and Ernest riles hits a home run, which was the 10 thousands Homerun Inn San Francisco giants history. So not only did they hit one, two, three, four, five, six home runs in the game, the 10 thousands, and they beat the cardinals. Twenty one to two. They scored five runs in the fifth for runs in the sixth and seven runs in the eighth.
Dolph: We've got home Monday. If I remember
Benjamin: well, you went home and told mom that the giants only scored three touchdowns game poor Robby Thompson. I'm surprised he got his spot back.
Dolph: You were his old. Everything has been downhill since then.
Benjamin: You know the truth. I still have the ticket in my room. Is that right? I do. I have that ticket and it's tucked into the candy Maldonado signed card and ball statue that you got me for my, I don't know, eight, 30, ninth birthday, something like that.
Dolph: We went to another game, I don't know if you remember. I think it was against the cardinals again and the giants were in a race with them to win the division and we sat out in center field almost the top row. You could hardly see anything. I don't know if you remember that. There were 55,000 people there. It was packed and we lost, but getting a parking lot with a story in itself,
Benjamin: like San Francisco traffic everyday.
Dolph: That was absolutely fight started. I remember one fellow have it go to the bathroom and it was a huge line. He said, I don't have time for. He walked or stream followed him and then we get into the parking lot and two cards were converging right in front of my hood and one guy started honking and the other guy started to give him the finger and they met right in front of my hood and one minute hops out and gets on the other fellas wooden stuff jumping up and down and I thought, Oh man, what are we going to do when the fight starts? It was insane. And your uncle Charlie said, that's it. I'm never coming back here.
Benjamin: Yeah, it was a simpler time and I don't think that quite happens at the friendly confines of a t and t park, but if the giants managed to get close to the playoffs and lose at the end, maybe we could see a little debauchery at the end of the season. And on that note, I think we should wrap up today's show of the for the fans by the fans podcast. Our plan is do this every week. Actually, we're doing this a couple times a week now, so if you want more giants, baseball and your podcast feed, click the subscribe button. Since we're just getting started, we're in month two of this podcast. It's our first season. We'd love for you to give us a rating in the apple itunes store. Share the podcast with your friends. Tell them to search FTF btf. You can find us in the podcast store, twitter, instagram, facebook.
Benjamin: We're trying to be everywhere. You can also go to our website for the fans by the fans.com or FTFBTF.com. Thanks again to our friends at fanatics and if you're going to go buy your giants gear, head over to FTFBTF.com/fanatics, or just click the link in our show notes and when you buy your giant stuff, they'll kick us a couple of bucks to help us pay for the production of the show. So in honor of Chris fire hitting the cycle and my dad coming back onto the podcast, that's it for today. Until next time, swing and a miss, and that's it.
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This is all about zombie ants and their resemblance to mediatized-hypnotized human beings of today.
viral ecologies : technologic hypnotism and the zombie ants is the first chapter of an interdisciplinary project of mine focused on the experimentation with different media to visually explore the true omniscient phenomena of viral ecologies, both in the algorithm as in the organism.
The idea of the project started in summer 2014 as part of a workshop I designed and imparted at Universidad Nacional in Bogotá about similarities between the behaviour of certain tropical ants and the manifestation of self-organization and decentralization in human-made technology.
Similar and strange, transcendental phenomena takes place during the generation of affection-infection-imitation-contagion cycles both in wetware as in software, in other words in the life of the living (natural) and the undead (artificial). More on this intriguing matter will be revealed during this residency.
Technically, the intention of this digital residency is to bend/mosh/glitch both data and fungal specimens by means of a, let's say at this instance, universal manifestation of decomposition that can affect everything. I will try to incubate a parasitical fungus which can also infect a computer program which is constantly trying to allocate memory in order to render images. A glitch presence infecting an image, affecting the system.
Yet, more bewildering is the fact that the bullet ant is the host of a parasitic fungus which penetrates her exoskeleton, infects her brain and takes control of her movements...turning the giant ant of the Amazon into a zombie ant.
Researchers claim to have found the first evidence of 'zombie' ants in the fossil record. They have matched peculiar cuts on a 48-million-year-old fossil leaf with the 'death bites' made by modern ants infected by a fungal parasite.
The leaf was part of a group of fossilized leaves and plants unearthed recently from the Messel Pit in Germany's Rhine Rift Valley — an area famous for the discovery, in 2009, of Ida, a well-preserved primate fossil touted as a human ancestor. Initially, the fossil plants and leaves did not raise much interest and they were stored for years at the Smithsonian Institution's National Museum of Natural History in Washington DC.
In Thailand, Hughes had seen leaf bites produced by carpenter ants, Camponotus leonardi, that were infected and manipulated by a fungus, Ophiocordyceps unilateralis. In this parasite–host relationship, the fungus manipulates the insect's behaviour so that the ant bites into the underside of a leaf. The conditions under the carefully chosen leaves are optimal for fungal growth. After the ant bites into a leaf vein, the fungus grows rapidly, covering the ant in a dense mat of filamentous fungal hyphae. The fungus then releases spores to infect more ants.
(a) A nearly complete fossil leaf (SM.B.Me 10167) from Messel with 29 ant death-grip scars centred on 11 secondary veins (rectangular templates). (b) Overlay drawing and enlargement of three of four scars of (a) showing shape, callused periphery and relationship of secondary to tertiary venation. (c) Enlargement of upper–right scar in (b), showing dumbbell-shaped hole and central concavity of callused tissue. (d) Additional but narrower scar with less pronounced dumbbell. (e) Detail of a scar from the fossil leaf at (a), showing unaffected leaf tissue (L); callused region showing hyperplasic cell files radiating from central cut (H); texturally distinct fungal infection of callused tissue seen on the surface (S); and central cut area (C). (f) Modern plant specimen , showing a mature O. unilateralis stroma issuing from the head of a dead C. leonardi whose mandibles are attached to the lower surface of a major vein. (g) Modern ant death-grip scar from a primary–secondary vein axil, showing the medial vein, dumbbell-shaped hole, callus rim and hyphae from later fungal colonization. (h) Overlay drawing of a second, modern leaf specimen with a death-grip scar at secondary and tertiary axil; other holes may be aborted mandibular punctures. (i) Photo showing same features in (h). Scale bars: solid bar, 1 cm; stippled bar,1 mm; slashed bar, 0.1 mm.
Zombie carpenter ant, genus Camponotus, photographed by the artist clinching onto an aluminum strip used to label tree species in the Yasuni rain forest of Ecuador, 2013.
Zombie ants are a natural phenomenon. They do exist. But the term has few to nothing in common with zombies in film or literature. The behaviour of infected zombie ants does not resemble the movements or intentions of those post-apocalyptic post-human creatures we love and fear. A zombie ant does not bite another ant.
Yet what the cultural phenomenon of zombies really has in common with the natural zombie ants is the virality in the relationship between host-parasite, i.e., the contagious nature. Indeed, the portray of zombies in general demonstrates their existence and propagation is to an extent symbiotically dependent on normal/rational humans to become infected, to get bitten; in other words, the zombified brain needs a healthy brain, a host. They do also share -perhaps, if your imagination allows it for a moment- a folkloric resemblance to the zombii of Haitian Vodoo. A zombie ant is actually enslaved, like the zombii in Haitian voodo. The parasite Ophiocordyceps unilateralis physiochemically controls the ant's brain and manipulates her movements to climb and bite leaf stems (the leaves do not get infected, but in this way the parasite bursts from the head of the ant and sends a rain of spores from above which infects other ants passing by).
This is my point of departure to link the Haitian zombii phenomenon with the zombie ant, aka Ophiocordyceps unilateralis' enslaved ants. We travel between the two brains and find a chemically common denominator: the CBP gene in ants is susceptible to acetyl compounds, and exposing it to more or less of it will define what kind of work the ant will do in her life: working on the fields or in the security of nest; now, in the ceremony of zombification the bokor (the voodo priest), administers Datura, an hallucinogenic tropical plant which affects a chemical known as acetylcholine in the human brain, thus allowing him to control/influence the volition of the recently turned zombii, with the sole purpose of enslaving the subject to work on the fields for his new masters.
How far can we go without technology?
How do you find the nearest route to the d᷿͓᷿᷿᷿᷇̏r᷿᷿̩᷿᷿̄ͧǔ᷿᷿͍᷿᷿͟g᷿̣᷿᷿͎᷿͒ ̸̧᷈ͬ̔᷈ s̷̷᷇t̷̷̘o̷̷̷͚ͥr̷̷ͦe̷̷͒?
How do we find the nearest path to our food without Google, GPS, without internet?
Do you still know how to use a compass?
how can you not call it Zombie?
The following 2 videos were a product of a 10 day progressive time lapsed encoding of the fungus garden of my colony of Acromyrmex octospinosus, using Antonio Roberts' python scripts which exploit avconv encoding capabilities, on a Raspberry Pi 2.
This ant of the genus Dolichoderus has been infected by an unknown parasite. It was long dead, its exoskeleton dry and decaying when I took the photo. Original photo taken by the artist in the Yasuni rain forest of Ecuador, 2013.
Not a zombie, but this ant of the species Gigantiops destructor is a solitary hunter and they move very fast, jump over obstacles and are incredibly agile over the rigorous terrain of the tropical rain forest. This picture was digitally possessed with this online tool (http://airtightinteractive.com/demos/js/ruttetra). Original photo taken by the artist in the Yasuni rain forest of Ecuador, 2013.
"The now-ubiquitous animated GIF (Graphic Interchange Format) image has been revived on the internet 25 years after it was first designed by Compuserve [...] moving GIFs express newness through the medium of the explicitly old. Seen as the quaint markers of a pre-Flash world wide web, GIFs' ongoing renaissance over the past half-decade places them in an online context that marks their vintage aesthetic difference as a notable appeal rather than an intrusive deficiency GIFs have become so pervasive to have merited categorization, as well as explanation and analysis. [...] there is even a relatively significant contingent of people creating and theorizing GIFs as art, which indicates that the form has finally arrived — perhaps to a point where many begin to wish it had never started to come into the zeitgeist at all.
The species of this ant is unknown to me. The white fungal sheath coating her body is of mysterious origin. It was long dead when I found her. Original photo taken by the artist in the Yasuni rain forest of Ecuador, 2013.
 Charlotte Sleigh, "Empire of the ants: H.G. Wells and tropical entomology," Science as Culture, Vol. 10, No. 1 (2001): 33-71.
 H. G. Wells, Empire Of The Ants (London: The Strand Magazine, 1905).
 Timothy Verstynen & Bradley Voytek, "Do zombies dream of undead sheep? : a neuroscientific view of the zombie brain", Princeton Univeristy Press, 2014.


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US Auto Sales
Prepare For September Data With This August 2011 Auto Sales Data Recap
Monday marks the day on which manufacturers will release auto sales data for September 2011. TrueCar expects to see the market grow by 10% compared with September 2010, though the market will retract slightly from August. Educated guesses for specific automakers are indeed just that: hypotheses.
That said, Japanese production is on the rise, a factor which should surely help North American volume rise, if not in September than in the near future. And Ford believes U.S. sales were stronger in September than they've been since early this year.
September data isn't yet here, of course. We owe it to ourselves to look back at August 2011 in order to be properly prepared for Monday and all the charts The Good Car Guy will publish in the days thereafter.
In the United States, GM's truck twins came out ahead of the Ford F-Series in August. Ford was still America's best-selling individual brand; sales were up 15.9% at Blue Oval dealers. Jaguar, a former member of Ford's PAG, suffered the worst year-over-year drop of any brand. Honda and Toyota were down 24.6% and 13.8%, respectively. As expected, Ford was also Canada's best-selling individual brand and the United Kingdom's best-selling individual brand.
Only one of America's Top 10 Best-Selling Trucks reported a year-over-year decline. That truck was the Toyota Tundra. The Toyota Camry was America's best-selling car. Through the first two-thirds of 2011, the Camry's year-to-date lead over the Nissan Altima, its closest rival, was more than 28,000-units strong. By the end of August, the Ford Escape's lead over the Honda CR-V as the best-selling SUV in America was 26,284 sales. The total market share of America's 20 best-selling vehicles was 38.3%.
With the F-Series and Escape bringing in their fair share of sales, the Ford Motor Company's U.S. market share in August was 16.3%, 4.1 percentage points behind General Motors. Dominant though their parent brands are, American luxury brands combined to own just 17.5% of the luxury market in August. America's favourite luxury vehicle in August was the BMW 3-Series, 2271 sales ahead of the Lexus RX. Luxury sales appear numerically strong, at least until you get a look at the complete August truck sales chart.
On September 4, The Good Car Guy made note of the fact that the Nissan LEAF out-sold a lot of cars in August, including the Nissan Armada and Mazda 5. The LEAF came within 25 sales of the Mazda 2. This means the LEAF easily missed landing on America's Worst-Selling Cars list, an escape the Chevrolet Volt couldn't make. It's not as though the Volt led the pack, a feat accomplished by the Honda Ridgeline, Hyundai Azera, and Lexus LFA, depending on how you like your worst-selling vehicle list compiled.
Sales of the new 2012 Chevrolet Sonic began in August. They'll get moving soon, but it'll be tough for Chevrolet to sell one of the more expensive subcompacts when the company's compact car is the best-selling vehicle in its class. Up another notch in size, the Chevrolet competitor ranked sixth among midsizers, just behind the Ford Fusion. Chevrolet also sold 203 copies of the Australian-bred Caprice cop car.
The Chevrolet Equinox may lose out to the Ford Escape when challenging for America's best-selling SUV crown, but boys does General Motors ever sell a bunch of utility vehicles every month. Not so much with the minivans for General Motors, a category still dominated by the Chrysler Town & Country and Dodge Grand Caravan, a duo which grabbed 47% of August's minivan market.
America's muscle cars make the Volkswagen GTI seem weak. Then again, the Volkswagen GTI causes every other sporty car on sale to appear hyper-exclusive to a fault, save maybe for the Audi A5.
The large luxury car segment has become Nascar-like in its ability to find sales parity. August's leader, the Mercedes-Benz S-Class, out-sold the segment's weak link (Jaguar's XJ) by only 674 units last month. The Mercedes-Benz E-Class out-sold the Acura RL by 5587 units, a 136-to-1 ratio. Speaking of Acura, the MDX finds more than 38 buyers for every single ZDX buyer.
Let the conversation steer northward across the border. With just two brands, the Ford Motor Company's Canadian market share was 18.5% in August. GM, with four brands, trailed with 17.8% of the market. Cadillac and Lincoln combined for just 11.8% of the luxury market. Canada's 20 best-selling vehicles owned more than half the market.
Canada's worst-selling car was the Hyundai Veloster, but that's a hugely misleading statistic. The Veloster only went on sale at the very end of the month. The Acura RL deserves to wear that embarrassing crown.
3-Series sales tumbled 29.5% but the BMW was easily Canada's most popular premium brand car. Ford F-Series sales slid 7.8% but it too remained on top as Canada's most popular truck and best-selling vehicle overall. 10,265 sales ahead of the Dodge Journey, the Ford Escape was and is Canada's best-selling SUV. For the fourth consecutive month the Hyundai Elantra was Canada's best-selling car.
Armed with that knowledge it's pretty easy to figure out that the Elantra was the best-selling car in its category, something which can also be said of the Chevrolet Malibu and Chevrolet Impala. The same statement can be made of the Ford Escape, Ford Edge, and Ford Expedition, though the Edge and Expedition were rightfully challenged by a host of GM products.
67% of all minivans sold in Canada in August were Chryslers or Dodges. Mostly Dodges. Precisely one-third of all trucks sold in Canada in August were Ford F-Series pickups. At the opposite end of the car market from minivans and pickups are sports cars. Porsche fans will be happy to hear that Cayman sales shot up 400%. Boxster sales doubled. The 1-Series M has done nothing for overall 1-Series sales, not that we thought it would in a market like Canada. But BMW 1-Series sales have actually tanked. 5-Series sales have not, even if the 5-Series GT's reverse halo effect could have resulted in something nasty.
The small luxury SUV category features a great deal of parity, though BMW's two entrants combined to beat the next-best Mercedes-Benz GLK by more than 200 units. Not quite as hip as the BMW X1, Cadillac DTS sales slid to just one in August. Lincoln sold two Town Cars. Other large luxury cars fared somewhat better.
Back in the UK, Ford's Fiesta was the best-selling car as per the norm. The Volkswagen Group, with Porsche, owned more than one-fifth of the overall market.
Beyond the regular monthly installments mentioned above, GoodCarBadCar.net also looked at year-to-date sales between domestics and imports in the United States. After that came the sales race between the Nissan Juke, Mitsubishi Outlander Sport, and Mini Countryman. The stacked bar graph is really cool. We also found out that Saab is America's most improved automaker in 2011 so far. Except really it's Ford.
Related From GoodCarBadCar.net
August 2011 Auto Sales In Canada
August 2011 Auto Sales In America
July 2011 Auto Sales Recap


By 1970, the design of the Chuck had evolved to the height of function and utility for sport and was considered the best basketball sneaker, ever. The Converse Chuck 70 High Top sneaker is built from that original design, now updated with fresh workwear-inspired trims. Mixed materials, contrast stitching, and a debossed leather patch deliver the perfect mash-up. That's the Chuck 70. It's not a shoe. It's the shoe.


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Covenant Presbyterian Church, Lakeland, Florida
Firm Foundation Partnership
The "New" PCA Strategic Plan
PCA Missional-ism
PCA Trajectory
PCA Report on Human Sexuality
Tim Keller's Big Tent
Critical Theory & Social Justice
Questions for Your Pastor
PCA Protest
MORE in the PCA
Pew on the PCA
By What Standard?
Recourse in the PCA
Book of Church Order
But all things should be done decently and in order.
– I CORINTHIANS 14:40
It may be that the Lord will work for us, for nothing can hinder the Lord for saving by many or by few.
– I SAMUEL 14:6b
Purity & Peace
The PCA in Crisis
O. Palmer Robertson: The ruling elder gave birth to the Presbyterian Church in America. Not the preachers but the ruling elders. When the ministers were too cautious to take decisive action, the ruling elders took the lead. They formed the organizations and called the meetings that eventually led to the formation of the PCA.
Now the ruling elder must devote himself to diligence in maintaining this great church. If the PCA is to realize fully its unique opportunities in the needy world today, ruling elders must show their commitment and concern by consistent involvement at every level of the church's life. Particularly at the General Assembly, the ruling elder must be present, and he must be heard. He who rules must do so with diligence. The only thing necessary for evil to prevail is for good men to do nothing.
The Courage to Discipline Theological Error
By Nick Willborn:
What are we to do with those who practice wrong teaching(s) or falsehood(s)? Paul says, "If anyone does not obey what we say in this letter, take note of that person, and have nothing to do with him, that he may be ashamed. Do not regard him as an enemy, but warn him as a brother" (2 Thess. 3:14, 15). Again, Paul warns the elders of the church at Ephesus: "from among your own selves will arise men speaking twisted things, to draw away the disciples after them" (Acts 20:30). It is obvious from these select passages that anyone who teaches, or practices wrong doctrine is to be dealt with or disciplined. The church is to do so with a "spirit of gentleness," with the goal of restoring the brother to moral and/or doctrinal purity (Gal. 6:1–5)…Discipline of both moral matters and doctrine is essential for a church to maintain her purity and unity. Once allowances are made, the church is poised for downgrade. Oftentimes the reason for moral and doctrinal decay is due to the inactivity of good men under a banner of "peace." We should take ownership of our vows and call others to keep theirs for the glory of Christ, the sake of gospel witness, and the reclaiming of sinners. There is no genuine peace where doctrinal purity and unity is neglected.
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An Ohio Startup is Helping Restaurants Go Digital
How Onosys is helping local eateries be efficient with online ordering
In 2022, it's easy to feel like we've always ordered our food digitally. But not too long ago, it was a rarity to place an order online, for curbside pickup or through an app. Not every company has caught up in the meantime, and that's where Independence-based Onosys comes in.
"If a restaurant brand doesn't have their own internal, online solution for customers to order, we create it and brand it for their organization," said President Chris Anderle. "There's a big switch going on where, in the past, it was a lot of dine-in or call-in orders and now consumers — especially younger consumers — are adopting this new ordering technology over the last few years. When a restaurant partners with us, we integrate with a point-of-sale, payment provider and other systems and act as an extension of their brand and their tech staff.. We're really the engine behind the success of their digital ordering and their customers' digital ordering experience."
Founded by Case Western graduates way back in 2006, Onosys was a pioneer in online ordering. After a few years of different ownership and varying investment, the company is now in a more stable place than ever, and has worked with brands like Panera Bread and Bloomin' Brands. While there are a variety of online ordering concepts out there for delivery and online orders, Anderle says Onosys is among the most customizable, stable and integrated. And his best case study is the original delivery food: pizza.
"Pizza is actually pretty complex to handle with online ordering," he said. "You get into half toppings, double toppings and combinations that make for difficult pricing. We recognized that long ago and built a really complex system to handle pizza topping pricing, so we have an initiative to attract more pizza brands. Our platform can easily handle the most complex toppings and orders. And that can be applied in other areas. For instance, we have Swenson's on our platform and they have complex milkshake combinations. It can also be used for bowl concepts like Bibibop."
Like many companies, Onosys found itself racking up case studies amid the COVID-19 pandemic. While organizations scrambled to equip their restaurants with curbside or delivery models, Onosys knew that they could do the job.
"All of the sudden, overnight, a lot of restaurants started using what they called 'curbside pickup' with labeled parking spaces and that system," Anderle said. "So we came up with a way to identify curbside deliveries. We have functionality that can change delivery type between in-store, delivery or curbside and drive-through orders. We worked with brands to understand what they wanted and needed in order to succeed, and worked hard to implement solutions for them."
Now, the company is in an exciting growth phase, adding clients and gearing up for a "big launch" of new products later this year. And as they continue to expand, Anderle said their Ohio home deserves credit for helping the company grow, offering programs that can assist and providing all the talent they need.
"Ohio has a lot of technology resources, more than people even realize," he said. "Because of the universities and other tech-oriented programs, there are a number of different options. And there are a number of VC organizations that can help with investments. Finding developers is a major part of what we do, and here in Independence, we're in a hub for northeast Ohio. We can attract talent from Akron down to Medina and from Cleveland. We're located perfectly to draw that talent."
Startup raises $60K, racing Apple to build digital guide to streaming TV
Story excerpt provided by Columbus Business First. Written by Carrie Ghose. Columbus startup StreamSavvy is halfway through the summer session of Cincinnati business [...]


If you are considering making an investment in a landscape specimen, pondering the rejuvenation of a shrub border, or designing your own home landscape, I recommend that you first invest in this elegant and splendid book. Dirr's Hardy Trees and Shrubs an Illustrated Encyclopedia is a fabulous compilation of over 300 species of trees and shrubs, along with nearly 700 additional cultivars and varieties hardy to Zones 3 through 6 and possibly into Zones 6 and 7. Each entry is beautifully illustrated with examples of seasonal foliage, structural habit, and flowers. Every photograph was taken by the author attesting not only to his photographic ability, but also to the breadth of his travels and his intimate knowledge of each species and cultivar. He provides the reader with specific cultural information for each entry as well as its habit, flower color, fruit, bark, Fall color, and his personal candid comments on the attributes of each entry.
In addition to the encyclopedic entries, Dirr includes in Part II of the book a guide for selecting plants for specific purposes or design characteristics. He has compiled lists of plants that you might choose for a specific color or fragrance or fruit set. There is a list for selecting specimens for Fall color or interesting bark color or texture. Trees are categorized by habit, i.e. weeping, or fastigiate. If you are considering a specific cultural environment, he identifies trees and shrubs that most likely will do well in moist or wet soils, thrive in compacted soil, heat, drought, shade, or have a high salt tolerance. Flowering sequence is also described. If you have a small or large landscape, he has you covered with trees listed by size. He even has a list of underutilized species and cultivars. And the list goes on with more information on pruning times, ground covers, and shrubs amenable to hedging or massing.
Professor Dirr makes the disclaimer that "personal bias" plays a role in his selections, but I found that inclusion resulted in a less formal and very readable book. This could qualify as a coffee table book, but I think that you will find yourself referring to its vast amount of useful content so often that it will be close at hand.
Dr. Michael A. Dirr is a very highly respected award winning professor of horticulture at the University of Georgia. His many other horticultural endeavors include plant breeder, author, and lecturer. He recently graced our area as guest speaker at the Berkshire Botanical Garden's winter lecture series. He is also known for his research on remontant, or reblooming, Hydrangeas and the introduction of The Endless Summer series in conjunction with Bailey Nurseries.


Three or two (abbreviated outline) full days.
Information is the modern competitive battleground. Don't miss this unprecedented opportunity to learn Master Data Management (MDM), Data Quality (DQ), Data Governance (DG) and the new technologies for managing the important corporate asset of information.
The world of information management has changed significantly and now there are several new technologies poised to change it even more. Heterogeneity is alive and well. Increasing volumes and the desire for spontaneous response to business events are necessitating a variety of specialised platforms for handling specific workloads while maintaining a sense of consistency across the enterprise architecture. At the core of such a strategy is master data management.
This course provides a practical guide to implementing successful MDM from experience. It covers all the aspects of MDM, from justification to architecture to data management and project management using agile principles. This class gives the common process, organisational and architectural focus for building strategies and implementing master data management programs such as those that have consistently, for many years, improved the productivity and performance for clients including global giants.
Having data quality as a focus is a business philosophy that aligns strategy, business culture, company information, and technology in order to manage data to the benefit of the enterprise. In this course, you will receive strategic, expert guidance for building data quality.
Business participation comes in the form of data governance. Pragmatic, explicit advice will be given to forge effective governance that transcends the pitfalls and helps organisations position information as a competitive asset.
Due to increasing data volume and data's high utility, there has been an explosion of capabilities in the past few years. While stalwarts of our information, like the relational row-based enterprise data warehouse (EDW), are highly popular, it is widely acknowledged that no single solution will satisfy all enterprise data management needs.
This course will explore the major categories of information data stores available in the market and help you make the best choices based on the workloads. This includes columnar databases, data stream processing, data virtualisation and the game changer that is the BigData/NoSQL/Hadoop-family solutions. This new and fast-growing category of data management technologies uses non-relational database architectures that is often better suited to handle the requirements of high-performance, web-scalable systems and big data analysis.
At this unique course, you will gain strategic, expert guidance for initiating and growing implementations and agile programs for information management.
This is the vendor-neutral course with the most ready-to-use content for the information management professional that every organisation needs, regardless of the toolset selected.
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The course is designed for Business Analysts, Chief Information Officers, Data Administrators, Data Architects, Data Modelers, Data Stewards, Database Administrators, Database Designers, Enterprise Architects, Information Technology Leadership, Project and Program Managers, Systems Analysts.


This month, I've been very quiet because I've needed to take some time to rest. I've needed to recharge and remember those things that bring me joy. One of the things that brings me great joy is reading. And remembering the joy of losing yourself in a book. Being sucked into the story so completely that you don't want to set it down. And you stay up late in order to try and finish it because you can't wait to know what happens in the future.
And it's incredibly rare that I step out towards a new author. But the description for Dark Deception by Nancy Mehl grabbed my attention. Though Mehl is not a new author, I was unaware of her books. But she's definitely going to be an author I start collecting (sorry Eric!).
I was completely drawn into the story line. I couldn't wait to finish the story, and kept myself up late last night trying to finish but couldn't keep my eyes open any longer. Mehl wrote a complicated murder mystery that fully kept me in suspense. I had no clue what was coming!
Mehl introduces us to the world of the U.S. Marshals and what it looks like to protect a witness. We're also drawn into the world of a complicated serial killer. I loved the believability of the cops who don't have all the answers. And seeing just how many different agencies it takes to actually solve a problem.
The concept from the story I connected with the most was having to deal with the things that happen in our lives. Over and over again, lately, God has been showing me that there are things that have happened in my life that I must pursue healing through. In Dark Deception, we travel along with Kate O'Brien and see what it's like to have to confront head on the tough stuff of life. I don't want to give much of the story away. So, I'm not going to tell you more than that.
But I will tell you that I often find myself walking along on a journey with the characters in my books as God leads them on a journey. This has happened often when I read Dee Henderson's novels. It was refreshing to find another author who seeks to take you on a journey through her novel. This story doesn't directly reflect my journey, but it was refreshing to see someone else walking the path I myself am also embarking on.
Dark Deception was a great read and I'll be looking for more books by Nancy Mehl!


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Home | News and Stories | Message to Alumni and Donors Regarding COVID-19 Response
Letter from Nevin Kessler
Dear Alumni and Friends of Rutgers University:
In the best of times, we at Rutgers wish you and your loved ones the utmost health and happiness. At extraordinary moments such as this, the sentiment takes on new meaning. Whether this finds you in Piscataway, New York, California, or Japan, we know that your life has changed.
Life at Rutgers has changed, too, but it has not stopped. As you most likely know, Rutgers remains open and has taken a number of actions in the interest of the health and safety of its students, faculty, and staff. When students return from spring break, on Monday, March 23, course instruction will be delivered remotely. Our staff at Rutgers University Foundation is working remotely as well.
These were not easy decisions to make, and as you know conditions continue to change hourly. For our students, these changes often bring complications—lost wages, transportation issues, food insecurity, and more. Many of you have reached out with offers of assistance and expressions of concern. We thank you for those offers. For more information about how to help students encountering difficulties, please visit the Rutgers University Foundation homepage. Your gifts help provide emergency funds for students at every part of Rutgers, and the university continues to receive and process your gifts.
Please be aware that ongoing updates about the university's response to the COVID-19 outbreak are here. We will continue to update you as well through Rutgers University Foundation and Rutgers University Alumni Association channels.
A few updates we can share now: We have delayed or canceled a number of initiatives and events, most recently postponing Rutgers Giving Day, scheduled for March 25 (new date TBD), and postponing Alumni Weekend in New Brunswick, which was to have occurred April 24-25 (new plans TBD). A number of other alumni and donor events also have been canceled or postponed; we continue to monitor the situation and adjust plans as needed. We are looking forward to having you with us, whether in person or virtually, and to celebrating Rutgers' tremendous impact on the world and our lives. We will post updates about alumni association events on the Ralumni.com events page and will contact donor-event invitees separately about the status of those gatherings.
It has been inspiring to witness the Rutgers community come together on behalf of one another and in service to the greater good. We will continue to work together to help address this crisis. We speak often of Rutgers' drive to improve the human condition. This drive has rarely been more relevant. Please stay safe and be well.
Nevin
Nevin Kessler
President, Rutgers University Foundation
Executive Vice President, Development and Alumni Relations
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Top 5 cruise liners of 2011
Your pick in Condé Nast Traveller's Readers' Travel Awards 2011
Indians have always loved cruises. Mediterranean, Caribbean, east-Asian, the list goes on. You name it and chances are you know someone that's come back from a luxury cruise absolutely raving about it. In Condé Nast Traveller's Readers' Travel Awards 2011, you voted for your favourite cruise liners. Let's take a quick look at them once again to see why they made the cut and hopefully, that will help you decide who to vote for in the Readers' Travel Awards 2012. And there are goodies to be won too!
The cruise liner sails to 233 destinations worldwide across 72 countries. From Bermuda to South America and Asia to Panama, Royal Caribbean International traverses the seas in 22 ultra-luxury vessels. Their largest vessels are the seven-tier Oasis Class ships – Allure of the Seas and Oasis of the Seas – which feature onboard Broadway hits like Chicago and Hairspray, have 3D movie theatres, designer boutiques like Coach and Guess, and the ubiquitous Starbucks coffee chain. Really, it's like you never really left home in the first place. Until you look out your window of course, and see the beauty of Florence's beautiful Duomo glinting in the sun.
(www.royalcaribbean.com)
With a fleet of 17 ships, including two smaller vessels called Pacific Princess and Ocean Princess, the cruise line visits more than 330 ports a year in a variety of destinations, including Hawaii, Tahiti, Mexico and ports in Asia. The cruise line is famous for its World Tours, which takes passengers on an epic 40-port excursion, touching some of the world's best like Dubai and Hong Kong as well as UNESCO World Heritage Sites. It organises VIP lectures and folk performances in every destination it drops anchor at, giving passengers a truly wholesome cruising experience. As a part of the World Tour, Princess Cruises also organises Overland Tours for places where ships cannot reach. Cambodia's Angkor Wat, India's Taj Mahal, Australia's Ayers Rock and Peru's Machu Picchu, all make appearances.
(www.princess.com)
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Ali Izmailov Plows Through Tough Veteran Israel Duffus
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Power-punching WBC #13 and WBO #14 light heavyweight contender Ali Izmailov returned to action last Friday night (January 7, 2022) with an impressive four-round stoppage of capable Panamanian veteran Israel Duffus on the untelevised undercard of the ShoBox: The New Generation event at the Caribe Royale Resort in Orlando, Fla.
One of the heaviest punchers in the world at 175 lbs., Izmailov (7-0, 5 KOs), from Malgobek, Russia, had things all his way against the determined but outgunned former WBC FECARBOX Light Heavyweight Champion Duffus (20-8, 17 KOs). Despite facing a long list of top prospects, the normally durable Duffus hasn't lost to a fighter with a loss on his record since 2014 and hadn't been stopped since 2016. Izmailov dropped Duffus in the third with a clubbing right hand and stunned him badly with another before Referee Chris Young halted the action mercifully at :34 of the fourth.
As promised, Izmailov concentrated much of his brutal attack on the body with both of his concrete hands, which softened Duffus up for the thudding finish. Surprisingly, Izmailov looks to have shored up his defense considerably as Duffus missed more than other opponents have previously in the Russian's career.
The fight was Izmailov's second with all-star trainer John David Jackson, with whom he now works and resides in Florida.
"I felt unbeatable," said Izmailov, post-fight. "He couldn't touch me and I was hitting harder than ever. Thank you to my trainer John David and Salita Promotions for this opportunity to stay active and show my improved skills."
"Ali's fight last Friday was a very good performance for him," added John David Jackson. "He systematically broke his opponent down with a good jab, a great body attack and very good defense. Some people were concerned with the opponent we had chosen for him, but I knew that he would come through with flying colors. He is definitely ready for bigger and better boxing matches."
Quickly gaining a reputation with his punching power as the next Russian Bloc strongman soon to make his considerable presence felt in the light heavyweight division, the 28-year-old Izmailov appears to be rounding into form for a championship challenge, despite just seven professional fights. The former amateur star has been fast-tracked by promoter Salita, who says he likes what he saw last Friday from his fighter.
"I was very impressed with the improvements Ali and John have already made together," said Dmitriy Salita. "Ali is going from the hardest puncher in the division to a nightmare for anyone to try and face with John in his corner and it showed Friday night. That was a good opponent that Ali took apart easily and didn't have to pay a heavy price for doing it with his improved defense. I am very happy with his performance, overall. He will be in an even bigger fight sometime this year."
ELITE HEAVYWEIGHT PROSPECT FERNELY FELIZ JR. SCORES FIRST-ROUND KNOCKOUT OVER CLEVELAND BILLINGSLY III, SATURDAY NIGHT IN DELRAY BEACH, FL.
Last Saturday (Jan 8, 2022), elite heavyweight prospect Fernely Feliz Jr. of Danbury, Connecticut, moved his young pro career forward another notch by easily stopping Chattanooga, Tennessee's Cleveland Billingsly III in under a round.
Looking markedly more relaxed than in his pro debut last November and fighting on promoter Joseph Samara's BlackSheep Promotions event at the Tennis Center in Delray Beach, Florida, Feliz landed his fast punches at will against the badly outgunned Billingsly.
A powerful right hook/left hook combination put Billingsly in a daze and a follow-up barrage convinced Referee Samuel Burgos he had seen enough. The official time was 1:13.
"I felt amazing in there. I felt like it was a perfect performance," said a happy Feliz, post-fight. "This time I wanted to let my hands go and show my speed. I felt like last time I was thinking too much. It was my first fight, so I was being extra careful. Today I wanted to show my hand speed and it worked out perfectly."
A former USA National Amateur Champion and #1 amateur super heavyweight, the colorful 25-year-old says he and father/trainer Fernely Sr. will next be looking for him to gain some size to compete in the big man's division.
"I'm weighing in at 215, so I want to put on some more weight," Feliz explained. "Skill wise, I'm always learning, but I want some more muscle. I wasn't feeling the strength of my last opponent, but when I start fighting the really bigger guys, it could be a different story if I don't gain some size."
"I thought he looked phenomenal," said Feliz's promoter, Gino Limeri from Bulldog Promotions of the fight. "I can already see improvement from the first fight. We want to keep him active, so stayed tuned as you will see him again very soon."
"Jr. is coming into himself," added manager, Steven Heid The hard work and great sparring he got with Luis "King Kong" Ortiz is already paying dividends. I see can see his confidence building. I'm telling you right now, this kid is like a freight train steaming down the tracks and anyone that steps in front of this train is going to get run over!"
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New software company in High Falls plans to create 500 jobs over five years
Victoria E. Freile Sarah Taddeo
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New York Gov. Andrew Cuomo on Thursday morning announced that business services company LiveTiles will establish its North American Intelligent User Experience hub in Rochester's High Falls area and will create at least 500 jobs over five years.
The company, which was founded in Australia in 2014 and is now headquartered in New York City, provides an array of business communications and assistance services. The company officially launched its Rochester office Thursday in its Commercial Street building, which some may remember as the former location of Jillian's, an eatery and entertainment spot that closed in the High Falls area in 2004.
The full buildout will cost about $17 million, with Empire State Development pitching in up to $7 million to bolster investments in renovations and the purchase of servers and computer equipment.
About 60 people currently work for LiveTiles in Rochester, and as the local hub expands, the company will be looking to fill "high-paying" positions in everything from development and engineering to marketing and sales, said LiveTiles co-founder and chief executive officer Karl Redenbach.
The company develops software that powers artificial intelligence, which could eventually help companies delegate smaller workplace tasks to computer processes, he said.
"Where we think AI is really going is changing the way the workforce works," he said.
It was the region's talented people, standard of research in connection with local universities, vibe of the High Falls area and redevelopment of downtown that secured the company's decision to create the innovation hub in Rochester, said Redenbach.
"The talent here has just been blowing our minds," he said.
In a worldwide search, he said, the company narrowed options down to five American cities, and because of its draws, Rochester came out on top.
Redenbach, who jumped off the stage mid-speech to hug Greater Rochester Chamber of Commerce CEO Bob Duffy, said every time he comes to the Rochester region, he questions why he instead lives in Manhattan.
"Rochester was the innovation hub before there ever was such a thing," Cuomo said, citing locally founded businesses like Eastman Kodak. "Before there was a Silicon Valley, Rochester was the Silicon Valley."
That's why Rochester has such impressive universities with students and faculty who look to the future.
"For too many years we sat back and reminisced" about Rochester's glory days, he said. "Now we're making things happen. We're planning for and talking about tomorrow."
Cuomo said in the past decade, the state started investing in upstate New York to turn around the state's economy outside the New York City region.
"Innovation is smack-dab in the middle of Rochester," said Empire State Development Corp. President and CEO Howard Zemsky. "It's been a long time coming ... It's been a tough 40 years, but it's improving."
Cuomo was in Rochester in February when he committed $50 million in state aid to revitalize the Genesee River corridor — jump-starting an expansive vision that includes everything from the Broad Street aqueduct to High Falls.
That announcement was made in a news conference at the Joseph A. Floreano Rochester Riverside Convention Center downtown.
It should be noted that while Cuomo often arrives in Rochester to announce promising new business ventures and the jobs associated with them, not every promise materializes.
One recent example: Cuomo announced in 2014 that 500 local jobs were expected to be created within a year as part of the New York Power Electronics Manufacturing Consortium. The research-and-development side of the consortium was to be based at Canal Ponds Business Park in Greece. Those jobs have yet to arrive in that capacity.
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Civilian Death Toll From U.S. Airstrikes Hits Highest Level In Syria
Yeshihareg Abebe
U.S. airstrikes between May 23 and June 23 in Syria led to the highest civilian death toll for a single month since the country began its operation in September 2014. According to the London-based Syrian Observatory for Human Rights, U.S. airstrikes on two Syrian provinces killed 472 civilians last month, of which 222 civilians and 84 children were killed in Dayr al-Zawr and 250 civilians, including 53 children, were killed in Raqqah province. Compared to the previous 30 days, this number is more than double, stated Rami Abdel Rahman, who is the head of the Syrian Observatory for Human Rights. The new deaths brought the overall civilian toll from the coalition's campaign to 1,953.
The highest level of civilian death has brought President Donald Trump's focus on military operations into question, as human rights groups claim the new U.S. administration's changes are responsible for the increased toll. Many argue that the United States-led coalition fighting the Islamic State has been killing Iraqi and Syrian civilians at astounding rates since President Trump took over office.
Similarly, the United Nations' independent Commission of Inquiry into the Syrian civil war blamed the U.S. airstrikes for "staggering loss of civilian life." Two weeks ago, the American military acknowledged these claims of nongovernmental monitoring groups and stated that "at least 484 civilians have been unintentionally killed by coalition strikes" during this time. However, estimates by independent monitors, such as Airwars, a watchdog group, are much higher, as they estimate approximately 4,000 civilian deaths.
Many argue that President Trump's decision to give the military the total authority to decide on how much force is to be used has exacerbated the problem, as previously such authorities were closely held by the former U.S. President Barack Obama.
With that said, increased civilian causalities are feared to "cause significant strategic setbacks" as it can reduce local cooperation. At the same time, the toll may help ISIS to gain significant support in the area.
Senior Correspondent at the Organization for World Peace and a Researcher.Yeshihareg Abebe is a graduate from Addis Ababa University, holding a Masters Degree in International Relations. She got her BA Degree from Dire Dawa University in Political Science and International Relations. Her work mainly focuses on international peace and security.
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Q: How to define a New workflow in WSO2 API 1.7? WSO2 API 1.7 allows using workflows with the following standard event which are API Store centric and can be extended:
-> Application Creation
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-> User SignUp
I was interested in introducing a workflow when an API is promoted from CREATED to PUBLISHED state by an API Publisher.
This would require defining a completely new workflow type, can someone please help me know if this can be achieved with WSO2 API 1.7 version?
Thanks,
Wajid

A: you cannot add a workflow to the API publisher. You can modify or extend the workflows and plug them to the current existing workflows ( at 4 scenarios mentioned in your questions)


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Race Forward Commemorates 40 Years of Catalyzing the Racial Justice Movement
Contact: Maya Boddie
media@raceforward.org
New York, NY -- Race Forward, a leading racial justice nonprofit organization, is celebrating 40 years of catalyzing racial justice. On Thursday, November 18th, at 5 pm ET, Race Forward will host an online gala, which will stream on Facebook and Youtube Live.
Celebrate with Race Forward on November 18th during the FREE event, hosted by Kat Lazo, radio personality for Spotify's Morning talk show and creator of the Kat Call; and featuring appearances by Gary Delgado, founder of Race Forward; current president of Race Forward Glenn Harris; former president of Race Forward Rinku Sen; and many other leaders, organizers, culture bearers and artists working to advance racial justice.
RSVP here.
Originally founded as The Applied Research Center in 1981 by Gary Delgado, Race Forward is known for its systemic analysis and innovative approach to complex race issues to help people take effective action toward racial equity. For four decades, in partnership with community organizers, government, and other organizations, Race Forward has worked to dismantle racial inequities in policies, institutions, structures and systems for the purpose of building a just, multiracial democracy.
"We are excited to commemorate 40 years of centering racial justice and the power of communities of color," said Glenn Harris, president of Race Forward and publisher of Colorlines. "As we continue to face police violence, a rise in White Nationalism, and a pandemic that has taken the lives of more than 650,000 people -- disproportionately Black, Indigenous and Latinx -- we find ourselves in the midst of a Third Reconstruction. Each of our successes has resulted in blow back from the same power structure we've been pushing back against for over 400 years. Now, more than ever, we must continue to imagine and build a just, multiracial, democratic society, free from oppression and exploitation, in which people of color thrive with power and purpose. Race Forward is excited to do just that for the next 40 years and beyond."
When Race Forward was founded, centuries of ingrained systemic racism and segregation were still evident, particularly in the areas of employment, education, housing, and criminal justice. There was a need for an organization that would work with community organizers and provide them with tools and resources to drive change within the institutions and structures that both established these inequities and have allowed them to continue.
In 2017, Race Forward merged with the Center for Social Inclusion (CSI), which was founded in 2002 by Maya Wiley and Jocelyn Sargent to catalyze community, government, and other institutions to dismantle structural racial inequity and create equitable outcomes for all.
The new Race Forward was born out of a sense of urgency, opportunity, increased capacity, and a mutual desire for greater alignment and multiplied efforts to deliver on both organizations' core principles of advancing racial equity and supporting communities most impacted by structural racism.
Some of the groundbreaking work Race Forward has done over the last 40 years includes:
In 1998, launched its media publication, Colorlines, which highlighted the role of race and voices of people of color in the daily news cycles--generally ignored by mainstream and even a lot of alternative media at the time.
Became home to the Government Alliance on Race and Equity (GARE), a membership network of local government working to achieve racial equity and advance opportunities for all. Today, more than 400 jurisdictions are members of GARE.
In November of 2004, Race Forward held its first national conference on race and public policy, later to be named Facing Race. This bi-annual conference has grown to have over 4,000 attendees. Past speakers include Rev. Dr. William J. Barber II, pastor and Co-Chair of the Poor People's Campaign, Tarana Burke, founder of the #MeToo Movement, Michelle Alexander, professor and author of The New Jim Crow, and many other racial justice advocates.
Launched in 2011, the Drop the I-Word Campaign challenged news outlets and organizations to eliminate the widespread usage of the inhumane and derogatory word "illegal" in reference to immigrants. The campaign included a Journalist Guide for Covering Immigration, and resulted in the Associated Press, USA Today, Washington Post and New York Times committing to decrease and monitoring the use of the word.
Released Shattered Families, also in 2011, the first national investigation exploring the extent to which children in foster care are prevented from uniting with their detained or deported parents and the failures of the child welfare system to adequately work to reunify these families. The report examines the way local, state, and national government can create policies that prevent deportations to stop more family separations.
Decade later, under the Trump administration's "zero tolerance" immigration policy, more than 5,500 children would be separated from their parents. (As of early this month, 270 families still remain ununited.).
Amid the ongoing climate crisis, in 2020, Race Forward released Energy Democracy, a report grounded in the solutions of communities of color to invest in a regenerative economy that sustains our people and our planet. The report provides specific recommendations for how philanthropic partners can invest in local solutions that not only support communities in these regions, but also have ripple effects across the nation.
In 2021, Race Forward has continued to counter-narrate attacks on critical race theory (CRT), by launching the H.E.A.L Together (Honest Education Action and Leadership) Initiative, formed to aid in deepening a commitment for honest and high-quality education among school districts; which builds on Race Forward's #BannedWords Campaign launched in 2020; created to counter the Trump Administration's attempt to eliminate anti-racist work by banning dialogue, education, and trainings that address systemic racism.
Recently released From Seed to Harvest: A Toolkit for Collaborative Racial Equity Strategies, a guide to racial equity practices within community-government collaboration for sustainability and renewable energy policies and programs.
In August 2021, contributed $1 million to 14 Black-led community racial justice organizations. The contributions were the result of the generous donations Race Forward received during 2020 due to an increased number of individuals and organizations realizing the importance of working toward change.
Over the past 40 years, Race Forward has been able to build collective power and resources alongside grassroots organizers, cultural leaders, activists, and artists, as well as government partners. In the years to come, Race Forward will continue its work to build a just, multiracial democracy that benefits all people.
RSVP to the 40th anniversary celebration here!
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Man in the Mirror: The Michael Jackson Story
Man in the Mirror: The Michael Jackson Story is a 2004 biographical telefilm produced for VH1. The biopic stars Flex Alexander as Michael Jackson, and follows his rise to fame and subsequent controversial events. The film takes its title from one of Jackson's songs, "Man in the Mirror".
The film is a sort of spiritual sequel to The Jacksons: An American Dream, which discussed the Jackson family as children. The telefilm went on to receive generally negative reviews from both fans and critics alike as the film presented Jackson in a very unflattering manner.
Man in the Mirror begins with a flashback, albeit with a voice-over narration by Michael Jackson (Flex Alexander), who reminisces on his younger self (played by Brennan Gademans in a non-speaking role), wanting a normal childhood in addition to becoming a superstar at a young age. It later flashes forward to 1983, whereas Jackson (Alexander) is now a global superstar and pop icon, due in part to his success of his critically acclaimed and universally successful sixth studio album Thriller.
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8.67 Michael Jackson: The Making Of Thriller
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Broadcast just days after the trial of Dr Conrad Murray returned a guilty verdict for the involuntary manslaughter of Michael Jackson, this powerfu...
philip - September 19, 2013 at 2:47 pm
read the publicly available information regarding his offenses.
this man, whether you like it or not, did what he was accused of. he did! read up and educate yourself, he was a child molester who got off because he had the $$$ to buy his freedom.
you "we love you michael!!" people need to have at least a semblance of rationality here, because you're showing how embarrassingly belligerent you really are. he did it…both times.
his music was/is amazing, and he was a genius, but it is true.
Ego Killer - September 19, 2013 at 8:49 pm
Then get off his dick then kiddo…..
fuck yo - July 6, 2013 at 12:41 pm
Thriller sold 25 mil copies worldwide? ARE YOU STUPID?
get your facts right.
im a MJJ fan, and i'm not even gonna watch a second of this, the description says enough!
in other words, it's not the fairy-tale story that you people wish to paint about this deeply decisive man, and so you'd rather just enact a direct censorship upon yourself than consider the fact that he was a pedophile/molester AND a brilliant, other-worldly musician…?
they are not mutually exclusive you simpleton.
Kevin Smestad - May 25, 2015 at 11:27 pm
You know that the biggest fault of Michael Jackson was that he was what he spoke about in Man in the Mirror but he thought too highly of the people in this world who want something badly. He didn't want a boyfriend he wanted to give the world to the children and how fast his fans and the world turned on him. He was under the belief that if he fought the good fight and faced his greedy little accuser's (parents who sent in there son to sleep at Michaels house not knowing if they would get paid on that bet) he believed that everyone would see that he was innocent. Yet the more people who are useless saw the worse it was for him. Ahead of his time by quite a bit, and like true genius discounted at the first chance to get to the world he saw. If the kids wanted a roller coaster he bought one. When he wanted to give them a giraffe he did. They wanted rides and games and he got that for all of them. Neverland unlike Graceland was fior the children and not his own party. His fatal flaw like most people lit up that bright was that you don't ever get to turn it off if it's on. He just wanted some sleep people. Give the mans legacy respect and his children a break from the misunderstandings of the masses in the face of difference… Make a change people
A dick rider calling someone else a simpleton? A first for everything I suppose
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