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Pragmatics — Recommend this title to your library
oa Topical and sequential backlinking in a French radio phone-in program
Turn shapes and sequential placements
Author(s): Elwys De Stefani and Anne-Sylvie Horlacher
Source: Pragmatics, Volume 18, Issue 3, Jan 2008, p. 381 - 406
DOI: https://doi.org/10.1075/prag.18.3.02ste
Drawing on a corpus of French radio phone-in confidential chats, this paper deals with the resources that participants recurrently employ to get back to a prior course of action following age-inquiry sequences. It might be expected that the age sequence occurs predominantly during the initial, opening part of the phone-call, as part of the caller's identification sequence. Although such occurrences can be found, the age sequence is produced overwhelmingly after the introduction of the reason for call or after a pre- announcement of it. The way in which participants link back to the activity preceding the age sequence is related to the sequential placement of the age sequence as well as to the 'authorship' of its initiation and termination. Backlinking turns may therefore be analyzed with respect to their pragmatic effects (as doing restart, continuation, disjunction etc.) and with regard to the syntax and the linguistic units that speakers employ to achieve these effects.
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Pieter Waterdrinker (Haarlem, 17 oktober 1961) is een Nederlandse schrijver en journalist. Waterdrinker is geboren als Pieter Arie Johannes van der Sloot, Waterdrinker is de achternaam van zijn moeder die hij later officieel aannam.

Biografie
Waterdrinker groeide op in een familiehotel in Zandvoort. Hij studeerde Russisch, Frans en Nederlands Recht aan de Universiteit van Amsterdam, woonde daarna lange tijd op de Canarische Eilanden en werkte als journalist voor onder meer De Telegraaf, de VPRO en Vrij Nederland. In 1996 vestigde de auteur zich in Rusland, waar hij in hoog tempo onder de achternaam van zijn moeder zijn boeken begon te publiceren die opvielen door de on-Nederlandse thematiek en toon.

Waterdrinker woont al twintig jaar samen met de Russische filologe en kookboekenschrijfster Julia Klotchkova, afwisselend in Moskou en Sint-Petersburg.

In 2018 was Waterdrinker te gast in het programma Zomergasten.

Affaire-Waterdrinker
Rondom zijn debuutroman Danslessen ontstond in 1999 een rel toen de toenmalige Zandvoortse burgemeester Rob van der Heijden besloot een klacht in te dienen wegens smaad en antisemitisme. Het Openbaar Ministerie ging vervolgens over tot vervolging. Waterdrinker werd na veroordeling door de politierechter bij het gerechtshof in Amsterdam vrijgesproken. De Hoge Raad liet het arrest van het hof in stand.

De zaak is inmiddels - samen met het fameuze "Ezelproces" rondom Gerard Reve en de "Katholiekenaffaire" van W.F. Hermans - een cause célèbre in de Nederlandse juridische literatuur. De uitkomst van de Katholiekenaffaire, dat de uitingen van romanpersonages niet voor rekening van de auteur kunnen komen, werd "bevestigd" door de uitkomst van de "affaire-Waterdrinker".

Thematiek
Een thema in zijn romans is de onmogelijkheid van de liefde, het falen van de mens in het bereiken van het geluk, of, zoals het Vlaamse tijdschrift Ons Erfdeel het omschreef, "de 'hardcore' van de menselijke ziel". Inmiddels is zijn werk in het Engels, Duits en Russisch vertaald en zijn de internationale filmrechten van zijn roman Duitse bruiloft verkocht.

In februari 2010 verscheen Waterdrinkers zevende boek De dood van Mila Burger, een roman over een Russische vrouw die na tien jaar verblijf in Holland voor het eerst terugkeert naar haar vaderland. Op basis van deze roman wordt nu een opera gemaakt. Lenins Balsem  werd genomineerd voor zowel de Halewijnprijs als de Libris Literatuur Prijs. In april 2014 verscheen Waterdrinkers negende boek De correspondent, een literaire autobiografie, die wederom alom lovend werd ontvangen.

Waterdrinker gold lange tijd als een writer's writer, een schrijver die slechts gewaardeerd wordt door andere schrijvers maar zonder succes blijft onder het grote publiek. Nu wordt Waterdrinker echter zowel nationaal als internationaal geprezen. Hij werd genomineerd voor de Literatuurpijs Gerard Walschap, de Bob den Uyl-prijs, de Libris Literatuur Prijs, alsook voor de prestigieuze Engelstalige International IMPAC Dublin Literary Award 2011. Zijn in 2017 verschenen autobiografische roman Tsjaikovskistraat 40 werd een bestseller. In 2018 werd de Tzumprijs voor de beste literaire zin aan hem toegekend.

Bibliografie
Boeken
Danslessen (1998)
Kaviaar en ander leed, Notities uit Rusland (verhalen en reportages)  (2000)
Liebmans ring (2001)
Een Hollandse romance (2003)
Duitse bruiloft (2005)
Montagne Russe (belevenissen en verhalen) (2007)
De dood van Mila Burger (2010)
Lenins balsem (2013)
De Correspondent (reisverhalen) (2014)
Poubelle (2016)
Tsjaikovskistraat 40 (2017)
Een dame in Kislovodsk (verhalen en reportages) (2018)
De rat van Amsterdam (2020)
Biecht aan mijn vrouw (2022)

Bibliofiel

Zingen met Biesheuvel (140 exemplaren, gedrukt door de Avalon Pers te Woubrugge) (2015)
Een thuiskomst in de fantoomstad (99 gesigneerde exemplaren, gedrukt door de Avalon Pers te Woubrugge) (2022)

Verhalen
'Anna Karenina en het Rusland van Chanel en La Perla.' In Op naar de sterren, en daar voorbij!, Uitgeverij Prometheus, p.220-249, 2004
'Slaapkont.' In Propria Cures, 116e jaargang, nummer 9, p.5, 2005
'Masja en Dasja, Roman in drie delen.' In Nasmaak. Het eerste ochtendmaal met Propria Cures & ExPornstar, Speciaal geschenkboekje ter gelegenheid van Het Bal der Geweigerden, 14 maart 2006 in Paradiso, Amsterdam. 'Nasmaak' verscheen in een oplage van 2000 exemplaren en was niet in de boekhandel verkrijgbaar. Het verhaal telt twee pagina's, 2006
'WA-verzekerd in de Oeral.' In: Met de tank door de voordeur, En andere creatieve vormen van huisvredebreuk uit Propria Cures 1998-2006, Uitgeverij Nieuw Amsterdam, p.130-141, 2007
'De krochten van Atlantis.' In: De zwijgende kastelen op jouw heuvels, Nederland door Russische ogen, Redactie Otto Boele & Sjeng Scheijen, Uitgeverij Wereldbibliotheek, p.123-139, 2007
'Zingen met Biesheuvel.' In: Hollands Maandblad. Jaargang 2007 (710-721), 2007
'Verslaafd aan de Russische achtbaan.' In: 'Ons Rusland', Elsevier, speciale editie, p.96-97, 2013
'De goudmaker van Soezdal' (Literair Juweeltje) (2013)
'Brief uit Lemberg.' In: LHW70, Een liber voor een libertijn, Gedrukt en gebonden in opdracht van Annalisa Hermes, Amsterdam | Haarlem & Theo Rabou, Vught, p.111-123, 2015. In 2018 opgenomen in de bundel Een dame in Kislovodsk, p.401-415
'Brief.' In: Een jongensreis, herinneringen aan Louis Ferron, Uitgeverij Vreugdenburg, p.7-21, 2015
'De del van Tomsk' (Literair Juweeltje) (2018)
'Wodka en Bacalhau. Een briefwisseling tussen Pieter Waterdrinker en Arthur van Amerongen,' In Op reis door de Algarve met Arthur van Amerongen, Uitgeverij Ezo Wolf, p.161-174, 2019
'Waarschuwing vooraf.' Voorwoord in Tweestrijd in je broekje van Arthur van Amerongen, p.7-9, 2021
'Biesheuvel revisited.' In: Leve de boekhandel! Lockdownverhalen over het theater van de literatuur, Uitgeverij Sunny Home, p.119-135, 2021
'Hotelkinderen.' In: In een boek logeer je uiteindelijk het beste, zesentwintig verhalen uit Het Schrijvershotel, Uitgeverij Samsara, Amsterdam, p.76-79, 2021
'Over het rijmen van de geschiedenis.' In: De Aftocht. 35 kunstenaars antwoorden op het slotgedicht van Paul van Ostaijens 'Bezette Stad, Pelckmans Uitgevers, Kalmthout, België, p.107-113, 2022
'Adriaen van de Velde, Strandgezicht, 1663 of 1665.' In: Pennen over Penselen, 200 schilderijen, schrijvers, Mauritshuis. Deze uitgave verscheen ter gelegenheid van het 200-jarig jubileum van het Mauritshuis, Den Haag. Uitgeverij Waanders Uitgevers, Zwolle, p.26-27, 2022
Over Pieter Waterdrinker

'Belediging en literatuur: Pieter Waterdrinker, Danslessen. Of: zijn Zandvoorters makkelijk te beledigen?' In: De wet van de letter, Literatuur en rechtspraak, Redactie Klaus Beekman & Ralf Grüttemeier, Uitgeverij Athenaeum - Polak & Van Gennep, p.160-179, 2005

'Het verlangen te willen. Pieter Waterdrinker in Sint-Petersburg' In: Een vreemde bestemming. Literaire ontmoetingen, Nico Keuning, Uitgeverij Reservaat, Heiloo, p.40-47, 2016

'Brieven aan Pieter Waterdrinker' In: Fallen Leaves. Brieven 1966-2016, L.H. Wiener, Uitgeverij Atlas Contact, p.352-355, p.386-387, p.432-432, p.515-517, 2018

'Een ontmoeting met Pieter Waterdrinker' In: Van Kluun tot Clinton'', Peter Mabelus, Uitgeverij Ambilicious, p.115-126, 2022

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AT&T announces pricing for the PlayStation Vita gaming smartphone at CES 2012.
Jan. 9, 2012 10:42 a.m. PT
LAS VEGAS--AT&T customers will soon be able to get their game on with the PlayStation Vita, as the carrier announced pricing and availability date today.
Shipping on February 22, the 3G/Wi-Fi model of the Vita will cost $299, with the choice of two data plans. There is a $14.99 plan that offers 250MB data, and a $25 plan that gives you 2GB of data. Both plans will be month-to-month and will not require a long-term contract. A free game download is included with the purchase of the Vita and a data plan.
The gaming handheld will launch with a number of social networking apps. This includes a location-based app called Near that will show what other Vita owners are playing nearby and what titles are most popular in that area. With Near, you'll also be able to gift game-related features to other users. Meanwhile, LiveArea is an interactive interface that gives you access to the PlayStation Network, so you can get the latest information on games.
Already available in Japan, the Vita features a 5-inch OLED capacitive touch screen, a rear touch panel, an ARM Cortex-A9 core (quad-core) CPU, and a SGX543MP4+ GPU. The Vita will launch with an impressive list of games here in the U.S, but its use of proprietary media might hold it back.
Anyone planning on picking one up when it's released on February 22?
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Q: Process: Handle, Peak Handle, GDI Handles and USER Handles So I reading about Handles and Objects of Windows and don't really understand what's the difference between

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I've already tested with a C# Windows Forms App creating lot of Labels to my form increasing USER Handles, but not Handles.
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The 'Will & Grace' Teaser Trailer Is Here
Will & Grace: The Musical?!
By Amy Mackelden
YouTube+NBC
The announcement that Will & Graceis coming back to NBC has fans understandably excited. One of the reasons this revival is so great is that the entire cast seems to be enjoying every moment of their time together. And the new Will & Grace teaser trailer hints that the cast might be doing... a musical?!
The clip, which really is a teaser, shows candid footage of the famous four laughing and holding hands. Megan Mullally is back in character as Karen, with her trademark, bouffant hair, and Debra Messing's Grace is wearing the cutest baby pink dress. Then, a member of the crew holds up a clapper board in front of the camera which reads, "Will & Grace Musical".
Does this mean that there will be a musical episode of Will & Grace? Are the cast recording a special promo video in song? I have so many questions that need answering right now!
But regardless of whether Will, Grace, Karen, and Jack break into song, it's fun to see them reunited once again.
Follow Marie Claire on Facebook for the latest news, fascinating reads, livestream video, and more.
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Q: How to add hardware to Openstack running with MAAS and Juju We have an Openstack cloud running on 7 servers, which was deployed with the Autopilot.  So 1 machine is the MAAS controller, one machine is for Landscape and Juju, and the other 5 are running the Openstack cloud.
We now want to add additional servers to serve as compute resources for the cloud, we assume Juju calls those nova-compute.
After registering the servers with MAAS, what do we need to do for our Openstack cloud to see these additional compute resources?

A: please see the following answer, I believe it's exactly what you are looking for:
Add node to existing landscape openstack


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Q: How to create a context free grammar based on both "lexicon" and "rules" in NLTK I have two text files for a CFG grammar: one is the "rules" (e.g. S->NP VP) and another one contains just the "lexical symbols" (e.g. "these": Det). Does any one know how I can give this two files as my grammar to NLTK? The second file is also known as "lexicon", because it just contains the category of real words. In summary, I just need to provide a lexicon for a specific grammar. Otherwise, I have to write the lexicon as several new rules in my rules' file. Due to the large volume of lexicon, It is not possible to convert the second file to rules and merge it with the first file. So I am completely stuck here... Any help/idea would be appreciated.

A: Take a look at the tutorial, it's a little outdated but the idea is there: http://www.nltk.org/book/ch08.html
Then take a look at this question and answer: CFG using POS tags in NLTK
Lastly, here's an example:
from nltk import parse_cfg, ChartParser

grammar_string = """
S -> NP VP
NP -> DT NN | NNP
VP -> VB NP | VBS
VBS -> 'sleeps'
VB -> 'loves' | 'sleeps_with'
NNP -> 'John' | 'Mary'
"""

grammar = parse_cfg(grammar_string)
sentence = 'John loves Mary'.split()
parser = ChartParser(grammar)
print parser.parse(sentence)

[out]:
(S (NP (NNP John)) (VP (VB loves) (NP (NNP Mary))))


Growing up, the earliest English classes I can remember, were when I was 4 or 5 years old.
Ever since, I took English classes every year until I ironically moved to an English speaking country.
Also worth mentioning that I grew up heavily influenced by American Culture. From movies to music, I subconsciously listened to English almost (if not) every single day. So when I when I moved to the U.S at the age of 16, I was perfectly capable of understanding and expressing myself in English.
What caught me off-guard was when in High School I met, for the first time, other people who also spoke Spanish, but used the language in a very different way from my own. What was even more shocking, was that 90% of the time, we even were from the same country. And I'm going to be 100% honest here - sometimes I liked it, but other times I felt extremely uncomfortable.
As a consequence of the shock, I got VERY confused about my own origins and my own way of speaking.
From then on, I started my journey to find my own voice and style to express myself.
I went from exploring my own accent in Spanish, to my English accent (spoiler alert: some things turned out great and many others were an epic fail).
Beautifully, I later realized and learned how language - or accents - are a reflection of our history, whether it's on a personal level, or as a community or country.
My conclusion is that when you hear someone speak, whether you it's in your language or not, you're listening to more than their words. You're listening to their history.
Their language, the word choice, the accent, etc; they're all a reflection of what they've seen, experienced and learned.
So pay attention and listen carefully when someone speaks.
If you leave outside your own judgment and prejudice, you can find very interesting things along the way.
And you, how do you speak?


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Chemical Communications
Measurements of the effect of membrane asymmetry on the mechanical properties of lipid bilayers†
Yuval Elani,‡a Sowmya Purushothaman,‡§*a Paula J. Booth,b John M. Seddon,a Nicholas J. Brooks,a Robert V. Lawa and Oscar Ces*a
a Department of Chemistry, Imperial College London, Exhibition Road, London, SW7 2AZ, UK
E-mail: sp736@cam.ac.uk, o.ces@imperial.ac.uk
b Department of Chemistry, Kings College London, Britannia House, 7 Trinity Street, London, SE1 1DB, UK
We detail an approach for constructing asymmetric membranes and characterising their mechanical properties, leading to the first measurement of the effect of asymmetry on lipid bilayer mechanics. Our results demonstrate that asymmetry induces a significant increase in rigidity compared to symmetric membranes. Given that all biological membranes are asymmetric our findings have profound implications for the role of this phenomenon in biology.
Supplementary information PDF (690K)
https://doi.org/10.1039/C5CC00712G
Chem. Commun., 2015,51, 6976-6979
Measurements of the effect of membrane asymmetry on the mechanical properties of lipid bilayers
Y. Elani, S. Purushothaman, P. J. Booth, J. M. Seddon, N. J. Brooks, R. V. Law and O. Ces, Chem. Commun., 2015, 51, 6976
DOI: 10.1039/C5CC00712G
Yuval Elani
Sowmya Purushothaman
Paula J. Booth
John M. Seddon
Nicholas J. Brooks
Robert V. Law
Oscar Ces


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Wilding on the inside
Artist Fiona Macdonald explains how living in nature expands her artistic imagination.
Fiona Macdonald26 Jul 2019
When I moved out of the city in 2012, I had no idea what a profound impact it would have on me. On my health and wellbeing, for sure, but also on my understanding of what Life was, and what my place or purpose in it was.
Yes. Exactly.
I didn't go seeking this foment. It crept up on me. Quite literally, in some cases (ants). Despite having only moved just beyond the M25, a series of quietly penetrating ideas and beings revolutionised my work as an artist.
For twenty years, I had been excited by and worked with landscape and organic forms, but via a fairly conventional studio practice based in painting. I painted exotic plants uncannily emerging from the tangled undergrowth of English woodlands; abstracted or personified mushrooms, ivy covered fenceposts, rootballs. Small views, closeups and textures fascinated me, and were rendered into lush textured canvases or delicate watercolours. But as I grew into this newly wildish place, I moved towards a very different approach, in which the landscape was not so much a 'view' to be appreciated or represented, but a living breathing tangle of lives being led alongside my own. My artistic imagination, having been trained to think about objects and images in white-walled spaces, stepped out into a complex living world, and couldn't quite bring itself to get back indoors.
In some ways it is a subtle shift from appreciating nature as visually exciting to appreciating nature as a multiplicity of lively beings whose worlds intersect our own. But it alters one's ethical relation to landscape completely. For most people a healthy field of wheat looks like 'nature'. It can look beautiful, after all, as it washes golden in the breeze (or even as a nascent PM runs a wake through it). But once your focus changes, it is not so much the wheat you notice as what is not there. Which, all too often, is anything else.
Darent river, Kent Friends of the Earth
The Darent Valley is bordered by chalk hills with thin soils that don't support arable farming on the higher slopes, and thus in places the land is allowed some unusual freedoms, or benign neglect. Orchids flourish, as do hawthorns, elder, dog roses, vetches, yews, crosswort, clovers, scarlet and yellow pimpernel, plantains, gentians… the list is long. These plants in turn support a (relative) proliferation of insect life, which in turn supports birds and reptiles and fish and voles and moles and… well… you get the picture. In places, at times, it is almost brimming. It drops hints of the glorious, diverse abundance of life that we've largely squandered, in pursuit of profit, or cheap food.
Even when we live in rural places, we often act as if nature is just the more or less attractive backdrop for the real business of our lives. Somewhere to walk the dog, take the kids, fall in love, de-stress. Nature remains over there, the 'scenery' to the 'action' of human needs and drama. Which, once you stop and take stock, is anthropocentric nonsense. We rely on thousands of species for our food, clothes, medicines, digestion and immune system. A vole is the centre of her own world quite as much as I am the centre of mine. Gradually, as I slowed down, and looked 'inside' the view, ideas of human uniqueness began to unravel. In response, the core of my artistic work turned towards an enquiry into how we might relate more creatively and imaginatively to nonhuman beings, and how art might enable and reflect encounters between species.
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How species interact, communicate, eat, exploit, and adapt to each other, and thus co-create local ecologies, is not fixed or random, but culturally and temporally determined. Humans change things, but so do ants, beavers, fungi, trees... If you are intrigued by the potential of 'rewilding' you will have heard about the reintroduction of wolves into Yellowstone National Park.1 The wolves now keep the deer population on the move, which means that previously overgrazed valley-sides have recovered their plant life, which in turn benefits numerous other species. You could say that the colours of the pattern are returning. The wolves, because their actions have a profound effect on the whole ecology, are described as 'keystone' species.
Rewilding, though, can happen anywhere; perhaps needs to happen (at different scales) everywhere. Waste ground and brownfield sites harbour a species' diversity that conventionally farmed land, with its hectares of chemically treated monocultures, can only dream of. In recent analyses of organic farmland, ecologist Dr Darren Evans' team were surprised to discover that the fundamental species to the health of the farm as a whole were common 'weeds' like buttercups, thistles, clover and cow parsley.2 These humble plants fed diverse insects and birds, who in turn protected the crops.
In the 19th Century, landscape painters and poets revolutionised the way people thought about rugged, mountainous terrain, reframing people's fear and horror by highlighting the majesty and drama of these untamed places, where the soul might be lifted. Writers and artists now play a role in steering aesthetic appreciation away from glamour and order towards the intertwined glories of the tangled bank, weedy edges, lively scrub.
Since my relocation, the art always emerges in co-production with other human and nonhuman beings, so we go by the name of Feral Practice. What Feral Practice aims to do is bring suggestive spaces of not knowing into human imagination – creating space in which people can engage imaginatively with nonhuman beings, and perceive them and ourselves in new ways.
It's timely that this 'escape from captivity' for art was not inspired by pristine wilderness, but by an (admittedly lovely) edgeland, one of thousands of ordinary-extraordinary places on the perimeter of cities. Places where human and nonhuman, wild and domestic beings bump up against each other continually, landscapes that contain multiple pressures and enormous potential, given the will, for enabling a wide diversity of nonhuman and human lives to blossom.
Fiona MacDonald is an artist and researcher who works with human and nonhuman beings as Feral Practice to create art projects across species boundaries.


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Your home is one of your largest investments. The best way to keep it running smoothly and efficiently is through regular maintenance. Below are some basic home maintenance tips. If you were able to attend your home inspection, you will have heard many of these already. This is not an inclusive list of all home maintenance items.
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Change all locks on exterior entrances for improved security.
Replace batteries in all smoke detectors. Put a note on your calendar to replace them in one year.
Create a fire escape plan for your new home. Consult your local fire department for advice on what to do in case of a fire.
Review your home inspection report for any items requiring immediate attention.
Learn the location of main shut-offs for your plumbing, electrical and heating systems.
Check your fire extinguishers to be sure they are fully charged.
Check grout and caulk in bathrooms. Ensure water is not escaping during showering. Check below all plumbing fixtures for leakage.
Re-secure loose toilets and repair or replace faulty flush mechanisms.
Replace or clean heating and cooling air filters.
Clean all gutters and downspouts. Check that downspouts are secure and the discharge is appropriate.
Test all GFCI (ground fault circuit interrupter) devices.
Examine your roof for damage to the roof coverings, chimney and flashings.
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Clean and test windows to be sure they are operating correctly. Add caulking and weather-stripping if needed. Inspect for evidence of rotin any wood. Paint and repair the window sills and frames as needed.
Test the garage door opener. Be sure the auto-reverse mechanism is responding properly. Clean and lubricate rollers, tracks, and hinges on the overhead doors.
Clean and inspect all appliances as suggested by the manufacturer.
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Revenue per Registered Financial Representative measures the average dollar amount of revenue generated by the company per registered financial representative. This metric is a general measure of company profitability, as a relatively low (or decreasing over time) amount of revenue production for each representative may indicate that the company is not producing enough value to grow or improve its business. A low value for this metric may also indicate that the company is not effectively investing commissions earned (in financial markets, other alternative investment products, etc.) to produce returns that grow the bottom line.
The total revenue earned by the company over a certain period of time divided by the total number of registered financial representatives working for the company.
KPI Calculation Instructions Revenue per Registered Financial Representative?
Two values are used to calculate this KPI: (1) the total revenue generated by the company during the measurement period, and (2) the number of registered financial representatives working for the company. Include both fee revenue and investment revenue in the numerator of this calculation. Registered financial representatives are licensed to sell securities (stocks, bonds, options, mutual funds, etc.) on behalf of the firm.


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Dell aims new PowerEdge servers at the cloud
The company has launched a new line of power-optimized servers for public and private clouds
James Niccolai (IDG News Service) on 25 March, 2010 09:43
Dell hopes to grab a bigger slice of the cloud infrastructure market with a new line of PowerEdge servers that the company announced on Wednesday.
The new PowerEdge C servers are aimed at service providers running busy Web sites and public cloud computing services, as well as enterprises building "private clouds" to deliver on-demand application services internally.
Dell said it would "take the guesswork" out of building public and private clouds by selling the servers in "turnkey cloud solutions" that include packages of hardware, software and implementation services.
The servers are an outgrowth of Dell's Data Center Solutions division, which works closely with Web giants like Microsoft and Facebook to build custom servers for their online operations. The division designed some of the servers running Microsoft's Azure platform, for example.
The DCS group works only with very large customers that buy tens of thousands of servers. To reach a wider audience, Dell created a few servers similar to the designs it built for those customers and is offering them for the first time as standard, listed products in the form of the C servers launched Wednesday.
It announced three PowerEdge C servers initially: the C1100, for high-memory configurations, the C2100, for data analytics and storage, and the C6100, a "four-node cloud and cluster optimized shared infrastructure server." They are 1u and 2u rackmount servers based on four- and six-core Intel Xeon 5500/5600 processors.
The systems are not like typical servers and won't appeal to all customers. They strip out some features, like redundant power supplies, to make the servers more energy efficient, but that also makes them less reliable. They are designed to run in specialized cloud environments with software that can route around hardware failures and keep applications running.
That means selling them will require education for both Dell's sales teams and its customers. But they could help Dell to compete better with rival cloud offerings like HP's Extreme Scale-Out systems, IBM's iDataPlex servers and power-optimized cloud products from SGI and others.
"We're going to be very clear to our sales force and our customers that these are for those rarefied environments where you have this type of software infrastructure," Barton George, Dell's cloud evangelist, said in an interview last month. "If you were to run SAP or a database or a file server on one of these systems it would be a disaster. It wouldn't work."
Dell's first turnkey cloud package is a platform-as-a-service offering that addresses "the key issues around Web application development and deployment," which Dell says are unpredictable traffic, the fear of under-provisioning, and migration from development to production. The package bundles Dell's C servers with cloud software from Joyent and some implementation and support services.
Within a couple of months it will offer C servers configured with Canonical's Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud software, and with data warehousing and analytics tools from Aster Data and Greenplum. Systems with Microsoft and VMware software will follow late this summer, said Forrest Norrod, vice president and general manager of Dell's server platforms group.
Dell is offering workshops and services to help companies design and deploy a cloud infrastructure, as well as technical support. It expects the servers to be used for running newer, Web-based applications written in PHP and Ruby on Rails, rather than for legacy applications, Norrad said.
They are intended for companies that will buy "a few racks, or a few hundred servers" at a time, he said -- in other words, smaller customers than the DCS unit has dealt with in the past, but still of a reasonable size. They are also targeted at high-performance computing customers.
Images and specifications for the C servers are posted here on Dell's Web site.
Tags CloudserversDellPowerEdge series
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Invitation to Happiness is a 1939 American drama film directed by Wesley Ruggles and written by Claude Binyon. The film stars Irene Dunne, Fred MacMurray, Charlie Ruggles, Billy Cook, William Collier, Sr. and Marion Martin. The film was released on June 16, 1939, by Paramount Pictures.

Plot

Albert 'King' Cole is a talented heavyweight boxer who has potential to achieve the  championship. At least his trainer, Henry 'Pop' Hardy thinks so.  Hardy brings in his friend Mr. Wayne to sponsor Cole.  Cole meets Mr. Wayne's daughter, Eleanor who is arrogant, but Cole manages to catch Eleanor's attention.  Will they overcome their differences and obstacles and be together?

Cast
Irene Dunne as Eleanor Wayne
Fred MacMurray as Albert 'King' Cole
Charlie Ruggles as Henry 'Pop' Hardy
Billy Cook as Albert Cole Jr.
William Collier, Sr. as Mr. Wayne
Marion Martin as Lola Snow
Oscar O'Shea as Divorce Judge
Burr Caruth as Butler
Eddie Hogan as The Champ

Production credits
 Wesley Ruggles - producer, director
 Claude Binyon - screenplay
 Mark Jerome - story
 Leo Tover - photography
 Farciot Edouart - process photography
 Hans Dreier - art direction
 Ernst Fegté - art direction
 Alma Macrorie - editor
 Edith Head - costumes
 Early Hayman - sound recording
 Richard Olson - sound recording
 A. E. Freudeman - interior decorations
 Frederick Hollander - musical score

References

External links

1939 films
American drama films
1939 drama films
Paramount Pictures films
Films directed by Wesley Ruggles
Films scored by Friedrich Hollaender
American black-and-white films
1930s English-language films
1930s American films


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The survey covers a sample of 1,146 people from ages eighteen to ninety-six, with broad representation by race and gender. Eighty-five percent of respondents had heard of cryptocurrencies—perhaps a testament to Bitcoin's name recognition. Around 5 percent of respondents reported that they currently or previously owned cryptocurrency and an additional 15 percent reported that they were considering buying cryptocurrency.
Actual and potential ownership of cryptocurrencies is concentrated in younger, wealthier demographics. Anecdotal evidence suggests that enthusiasm for cryptocurrency is highest among younger generations. Consistent with that pattern, we find that individuals aged eighteen to thirty-five (the "young" group) were 13 percent more likely than those over thirty-five (the "old" group) to own or express an interest in buying a cryptocurrency. (All results reported in this post are statistically significant at the 5 percent level.) Individuals belonging to the young group were more likely, on average, to report greater knowledge about cryptocurrencies, as shown in the chart below.
In contrast, individuals belonging to the old group appear less familiar with cryptocurrencies. For example, they were much more likely to cite "not knowing how to buy" cryptocurrencies as a reason for not owning any. This suggests that a lack of knowledge or familiarity with the cryptocurrency market could be an important barrier to entry for older demographics.
Individuals with an annual income of at least $100,000 are 5 percent more likely to own or express an interest in buying cryptocurrency relative to those with income of less than $100,000. Importantly, individuals in the young group are significantly more likely to report "lack of funds" as a reason to not buy. This suggests that financial constraints may have hindered otherwise enthusiastic members of the younger demographic from participating in cryptocurrency markets.
The dominant view was that cryptocurrency is most similar to "a new technology," with 47 percent of respondent choosing that option. About 24 percent likened cryptocurrency to stocks or bonds, and 17 percent likened it to traditional money. Only 8 percent viewed cryptocurrency as similar to gold.
Individuals who owned cryptocurrency or were interested in buying it were particularly likely to perceive cryptocurrency as being similar to gold (41 percent) and stocks or bonds (39 percent). This suggests that such individuals may think of cryptocurrencies as an investment vehicle. In addition, 37 percent of respondents within this group likened cryptocurrency to traditional money. If we think of traditional money as a means of payment, then this distribution of views is consistent with the idea that cryptocurrencies are currently perceived less as a payments mechanism than as an investment, even if they can play both roles.
By contrast, individuals who viewed cryptocurrency as being akin to a lottery ticket were 12 percent less likely to have owned or considered buying a cryptocurrency than those who viewed cryptocurrency as being similar to one of the other choices. The gap between the latter group and those who responded "none of the above" was 11 percent, as shown in the chart below.
We asked survey participants to identify the most important reasons for buying cryptocurrencies, or choosing not to. The most-cited reason for buying was that cryptocurrencies are a "good investment." Many buyers also pointed to the anonymity properties of cryptocurrency and their lack of trust in the existing financial system—factors that were mentioned almost the same number of times. Convenience was not viewed as a reason to buy, perhaps because the majority of cryptocurrencies struggle to be a stable means of payment owing to price volatility, and the fact that cryptocurrencies are not accepted broadly as a means of payment.
Among respondents who chose not to participate in the cryptocurrency market, the most-cited reason was that cryptocurrencies are a "bad investment"—the opposite of the prevailing view among buyers. This dichotomy could reflect the speculative nature of cryptocurrency markets and suggests that there are large disagreements between respondent groups about the investment value of cryptocurrencies.
"Lack of trust" ranked second as a reason not to buy cryptocurrencies, perhaps reflecting their lack of institutional backing. Again, the "buyer" and "nonbuyer" camps are clearly divided on this matter; the former lack trust in the financial system, while the latter lack trust in cryptocurrencies. Respondents cited a lack of need as the third most significant reason for not buying cryptocurrency, consistent with the fact that cryptocurrencies are little used as a means of payment.
The issue of trust, or mistrust, appears to be perceived quite differently by the young and old groups. Individuals over thirty-five were much more likely to express distrust of cryptocurrencies relative to the existing financial system.
The young group's more sanguine view of cryptocurrencies could be related to the fact that financial crises appear to have long-lasting "experience effects" that take a greater toll on younger individuals than older ones, both psychologically and financially. In the wake of the Great Recession, younger cohorts may have less faith in the financial system and more openness to unconventional alternatives.
The survey reveals that a very high fraction of respondents are aware of cryptocurrencies and that they hold a wide variety of views on the topic. This is perhaps related to the fact that cryptocurrencies are still a relatively new phenomenon. As with many new things, younger respondents seem to have a more positive view of cryptocurrencies than their older counterparts. As the technology matures and new applications for cryptocurrencies emerge, it will be interesting to find out how these views change.
Sean Hundtofte, formerly an economist in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Research and Statistics Group, is chief economist and head of credit risk at Better Mortgage.
Michael Lee is an economist in the Federal Reserve Bank of New York's Research and Statistics Group.
Antoine Martin is a senior vice president in the Bank's Research and Statistics Group.
Reed Orchinik, a former intern in the Bank's Research and Statistics Group, is a student at Swarthmore College.
Sean Hundtofte, Michael Lee, Antoine Martin, and Reed Orchinik, "Deciphering Americans' Views on Cryptocurrencies," Federal Reserve Bank of New York Liberty Street Economics (blog), March 25, 2019, https://libertystreeteconomics.newyorkfed.org/2019/03/deciphering-americans-views-on-cryptocurrencies.html.


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Q: Trying to find files beggining with a number For my school, I need to search all the files who start with a numeric. Ive tried searching on the web before but didnt find any answer. I need to use the find command.
The question is: Are there any files on the server that begin with a number? If yes can you list them?
The answer is yes there is (Because he want us to redirect the error 2>/dev/null)
I've been trying different things but nothing work. The closest I've been to the answer is this command line
find /home | grep '[0-9]'

To have the number first I thought I just needed to put ^ before [0-9] but it didn't work.
Can someone help me?

A: find . -type f -regex ".*/[0-9]*"

The regex is done on the whole path so you need to include the .*/.
sudo find / -type f -regex ".*/[0-9]*"

if you want it for the whole filesystem.

A: When looking for a pattern in Linux, often you can use a regular expression (regex). Most unix commands dealing with search, will allow you to use them. With that in mind, you can look for the term in the manual: man find. The find command allows you to use a regex using the -regex flag.
To answer your specific question:
find . -type f -regex '.*/[0-9][^/]*$'

Will do the trick. But if you take a look through the manual, you will probably find other ways to achieve the same result.


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MASS AT OUR LADY'S SHRINE - HADDINGTON
YEAR OF THE PRIEST: Teilhard de Chardin's MASS ON ...
St MICHAEL & ALL ANGELS, INVERNESS
THE YEAR OF THE PRIEST: The Glory and Power of the...
St NINIAN'S DAY
THE YEAR OF THE PRIEST: Garment of Love (Benedict ...
THE NATIVITY OF THE BLESSED VIRGIN MARY
THE YEAR OF THE PRIEST: The Ambassadors of Christ
Ronald Arbuthnott Knox (1888-1957), son of the Bishop of Manchester, attended Eton and then Balliol College, Oxford, and in 1910 was ordained in the Church of England. In 1919, he became a Roman Catholic. He was a prolific writer producing detective novels, biographies, apologetic works, histories, spiritual direction and a new English translation of the Bible. The following is just one chapter of his RETREAT FOR PRIESTS, written in 1946. The whole Retreat can be downloaded as a pdf document HERE.
The epistle for the first Sunday in Lent (2 Cor. vi, 1-10), try as we may to make it sound as if it referred to the congregation, refers really to ourselves. It is so plainly St. Paul's conception of what his ideal priest ought to be like.
The Liturgy makes the whole passage somewhat mystifying by leaving out the verses immediately before, which set the key for the whole. "We are Christ's ambassadors, and God speaks to you through us; we entreat you in Christ's name, make your peace with God." St. Paul's metaphor, then, is that of an ambassador, and an ambassador delivering, on behalf of his Sovereign, an ultimatum, a direct threat of war. The priest, at the beginning of Lent, has to entreat his congregation not to offer the grace of God an ineffectual welcome. So many graces missed already, and now the acceptable time has come, the day of salvation; treat this Lent, brethren, as if it was your last chance! Lent, you see, is a kind of sacramental expression of the span of life that still lies before us, the time granted us for repentance, for making our peace with God. If we do not make our peace with God, then, at the expiration of the time fixed, of the days of grace he has offered us, we find ourselves in a state of war with God, his enemies, and eternally. It is an ultimatum we deliver; now or never, make your peace!
So far, the moral has been for the congregation; the rest of the epistle is a moral, entirely, for the priest himself. We are careful not to give offense to anybody, lest we should bring discredit on our ministry; Christ wants for his ambassadors, not just any sort of ambassadors, but ambassadors trained in a school of Divine diplomacy. Not mere town-criers, shouting out "Oyez, oyez!" so as to say, afterwards, that everybody in the street has had fair warning; men entrusted with plenipotentiary powers, to secure the renewed loyalty of the rebellious subjects, if there is any form of persuasion that can do it. It is for the ambassador to ingratiate himself with the people of the country he is sent to; make people love and respect him, so that they may love and respect the master he represents.
To be the ambassador of Christ after a fashion, makes no great demands on the priest. All he has to do is to get up every Sunday morning, read out the Credo, and say "If you don't believe that, my dear brethren, you will go to hell"; get up every Sunday evening, read out the Ten Commandments, and say, "If you don't keep those, my dear brethren, you will go to hell". The ultimatum has been delivered- yes. But have we really been ambassadors? John Wesley, when one of his sermons hadn't made much impression, used to note the fact in his journal, and add, "I am clear of these men's blood". He was a great man, John Wesley, but I don't like him when he uses that phrase. Don't let us ever get into the habit of thinking that after having given our congregation twenty minutes on the danger of mixed marriages, and twenty minutes more on the importance of being in time with the bench rents, we are "clear of their blood". Something more is demanded of an ambassador; what? St. Paul goes on to tell us; not very tidily, because he hadn't a very tidy mind; but perhaps more tidily than usual.
Patience, a great deal of patience-that, he tells us, is the first thing we need. And he goes on to give nine samples of the kind of things we have to put up with, divided into three threes. "In times of affliction, of need, of difficulty-those are the mental discomforts brought on us by the vicissitudes of our work; "under the lash, in prison, in the midst of tumult"-those are the bodily discomforts inflicted on us by our fellow-men; "when we are tired out, sleepless, and fasting"-those are the bodily discomforts inflicted on us by circumstance. The picture seems to us highly-colored; do not let us forget that priests in many parts of the world are having, now, to work under those conditions; times may change, and we may have to ourselves. Meanwhile, patience is not less demanded of us because the provocations to which we are accustomed are, by comparison, pin-pricks. How difficult it can be when the faithful will try to buttonhole us after Mass on Sunday; when we are tired out after the confessional yesterday, sleepless after mutton-chops at half-past nine and a long evening with the notices, fasting until after the last Mass is sung; in affliction, need, and difficulty because we are already trying to buttonhole so many people ourselves, trying to remember what it is we have so importantly got to say to them; the last moment when we want to be under the lash of the parish grouser, imprisoned by the parish bore, in the midst of tumult, with the altar-boys kicking up a shindy all around us-and this is the moment when, most of all, the parish sees us, and ought to see us at our best!
You don't need to tell me that it is the fault of the laity. Only last Sunday I preached to fifty school girls imploring them not to grow up into the kind of people who buttonhole priests after Mass. But it is a splendid opportunity, you know, for realizing our ambassadorship. It's very odd to reflect what a lot of the good marks some of us will get at our last account will be for keeping our tempers, just, with great difficulty, keeping our tempers, at moments when nobody imagined we were in any danger of losing them.
And then you have a list, I think, of four qualities which the perfect ambassador ought to have. St. Paul always pitches his standard high. I don't know how you are to translate that word "hagnotes." "Chastity", yes; but the word has a merely negative sound. "Hagnotes" is a quality so pure as to be terrible; it dazzles you, no embattled array so awes men's hearts. A convoy passing through a country town, that endless stream of fortified motion, how it takes your breath away with the realization of the terrific thing modern war is! Something like that ought to be the purity of the priest. Not just the insensitiveness of the bachelor, who finds women a nuisance, not the furtive horror which tries to forget that sex exists, but something unapproachable, blinding, on a different plane from thoughts of evil. What a waste of God's gifts, when the life that is pledged to celibacy is not a life irradiated by purity! When brooding regrets, or cheap familiarities, tarnish the surface of that mirror which ought to reflect Christ!
"Knowledge"-how curiously St. Paul compiles his lists! Only this is not the kind of knowledge in which you can take doctorates. Always, I think, the idea in St. Paul's mind when he uses this word is that of familiarity with the things of the supernatural world, a familiarity which only comes from prayer. "He was in the world . . . and the world knew him not"-it is the opposite of that attitude which St. Paul means by knowledge; a recognition which has grown into familiarity. The soil on which an embassy is built belongs, by diplomatic usage, to the country which that embassy represents. And the ground on which the priest's feet tread should be, as it were, part of the soil of heaven transplanted to earth. The language of heaven should be talked in the presbytery, as the English language is talked in the British Embassy at Moscow. The layman who is in a difficulty ought to say to himself, "I'll go and talk to the priest about it, he'll be able to tell me; he knows God". The laity at large have the impression, and rightly, I think, that we priests know our job. I sometimes wonder whether they have the same confidence that we know our Employer.
"Long-suffering"-the difference between that and the patience we were speaking of just now leaps to the eye. You can be patient about things; an illness or a sleepless night; you are long-suffering only about persons. More, you are patient with people when they bore you or badger you without meaning any harm; you are long-suffering only where there is a sense of injury. And this quality, in one of Christ's ambassadors, is evidently of the first importance. We carry his ultimatum in our pockets; that puts us in a very delicate position. On the one hand, we have to portray him to the faithful as infinitely forgiving; we shall not do that if we are unforgiving people ourselves. On the other hand, it will sometimes be our duty to tell a fellow-mortal, "No, if you go on like that, if you persist in doing that, there is no forgiveness for you, in this world or in the world to come". Essential that the man who speaks like that should not be thought to be putting any personal animus into the declaration; the sinful soul must never be allowed to think "He is saying that because he has a down on me". And that is what people are very apt to say; cast your mind back to school days, and remember how when you were punished it was always because that professor had a down on you. The priest, then, must be known as one who personally harbors no grudges, who forgets an injury. When the sinner is told by such a man as that that there is no forgiveness, he will begin to take notice. Do let us beware of using phrases, even in fun, which will send round the parish the impression that we are unforgiving people.
"Sweetness" will not quite do in English, though "suavitas" might do in Latin, for "chrestotes." "Chrestos" is a word St. Paul is fond of applying to Almighty God himself; "kindness" would do, but I think "graciousness" does better. Here you have the positive side of the picture; our Lord's ambassadors must represent him as being, not only forgiving to the sinner, but gracious to all his suppliants. And if we are to represent our Lord to the people in that light, we shall do it best by having a graciousness of our own which represents his. There is a kind of universal benevolence which sometimes makes itself felt, even in a very shy man, even in a very reserved man, which does win souls. Everybody calls the priest "dear old" Father So-and-so, if not actually "poor old" Father So-and-so; there are no organizations in the parish and the accounts are in a frightful mess, but somehow people go to church. It is "chrestotes" that has done it.
The pure-minded priest, the priest who is familiar with God, who is forgiving, who is gracious-having asked all that of us, St. Paul goes on to give us four resources we have to rely on, if we are going to face this tremendous task. The Holy Spirit; I wonder if we think enough about all that? I mean, we are apt, some of us, to be rather like the minister who said "If I'm called upon to speak suddenly like this, I just say what the Holy Spirit puts into my mind, but if you'll give me an hour or two for preparation, I can do much better". We get into the pulpit without any sermon prepared, because we have been prevented, by sick calls or some other unexpected interruption, from giving it the time we meant to. And no doubt the Holy Spirit does give us special assistance then, but isn't it giving him a rather secondary role if we only expect him to help us out on occasions like that? Surely we ought to pray to him more, try and make ourselves more supple to his influence, than we do. After all, most of us have known, in the confessional perhaps, what it is to say something which we aren't in the least expecting to say, can't quite make out afterwards why we did say it; isn't that perhaps meant to make us see that we have more help at hand than we mostly realize? Isn't it meant to make us trust, rather more, the occasional impulse we get to say something-only we're too shy; to write a letter to somebody-only we're too slack? Don't let us be neglectful in our devotion to the Holy Spirit; the ambassador has got to keep in touch with Headquarters.
Then there is unaffected love, love unfeigned. It may be the business of the ordinary ambassador to feign love; to pretend great friendliness towards the country in which he is stationed, when in fact he feels no such friendliness, and knows that his countrymen don't either. We are in a better position than that; we are bound to our congregations by a real tie of Christian fellowship, of pastoral good-will, which will triumph, if we will let it, over many difficulties.
And then "the word of truth": or as we should say, "the truth of our message". The ordinary ambassador is fairly often under an obligation-what shall we say? Sir William Temple observed that an ambassador is one who goes and lies abroad for his country. Let us say anyhow that he is often in a position where he has to let the foreign statesmen he is conversing with deceive themselves-about his own country's resources, his own country's intentions. The ambassador of Christ suffers from no such embarrassment as that; he is simply speaking the truth that is in his heart.
And finally, the power of God-we must not expect God to do miracles for us; but he has waiting for us, if we will trust him, unexpected providences; an important conversion, a big check, you never know what. So, when its ambassador is not being listened to, a country will sometimes reinforce his authority by making a demonstration, mobilizing its troops, or something of that sort. Heaven does back up its ambassadors.
At this point St. Paul, whose thought plays about like lightning, disconcerts us a little by apparently beginning to say the exact opposite of what he has been saying before. He has been telling us how important it is that the ambassadors of Christ should make a good impression, and then quite suddenly he adds: "After all, what does it matter what people think of us? Makes no difference at all". The reason is, I think, that (as you will find at the beginning of the letter) people at Corinth have been saying nasty things about St. Paul. They said he was a man you couldn't trust, and he didn't like that. But he reminds himself now that what people think of us doesn't in the least matter. Well, it isn't really the opposite of what has gone before. I think if he had expressed himself rather more coherently, he would have said, "It is the business of Christ's ambassador to make the most favorable impression he can. Having done that, he must not be in the least surprised if in spite of it people think ill of him; they always will". And we, while (as I've been trying to point out) we have an urgent duty to make people think well of us, must be quite unmoved, in ourselves, by their approval or disapproval. It all means nothing.
We are to be armed on the right as well as on the left; your ancient soldier carried his shield on his left arm, and fought that side first. But it isn't really satisfactory only to have a pad on the leg that is facing the bowling. No, we must be armed right and left with justice, by which I think St. Paul here means innocence. It doesn't very much matter, because he has got his metaphor mixed up; what he is trying to say is that we should be equally steeled against undue blame and undue praise. "By honor and dishonor, by evil report and good report". The best-looking girl in the parish goes and marries a Protestant, when you've moved heaven and earth to prevent it; and then you hear the Protestants are saying that you deliberately threw her in the poor boy's way, so as to try and pervert him. Don't mind; it won't do any harm. On the other hand, don't be too ready to believe all the good you hear about yourself. The intense woman who says, "Father, that marvelous sermon of yours"; the enthusiastic parishioner who says, "Ah, sure, Almighty God sent us a good priest when he sent you, Father"-write it off; that kind of thing won't save you any Purgatory.
Then the rest of the epistle merely carries a list of the unkind things people say about God's ambassadors; the instances chosen are very much of St. Paul's own day, and I fancy very much concerned with St. Paul's own experience. He had critics at Corinth, and they had been saying that he was a liar; that he was unacknowledged (that is, the other apostles didn't recognize him as an apostle); that it didn't matter what his teaching was, because he was probably dead in any case; or if not dead, so badly mauled by the mob at Ephesus that he would be no use again; that he was always writing tearful letters, and making people feel uncomfortable; that he was always begging for money; that he had no rich friends, and couldn't expect to make a success of preaching the gospel.
All that we probably shan't hear about ourselves. But we shall hear very much that sort of thing said about the Church we love more than life. That our claims are built on falsehood; that we are an insignificant force in the world to-day; that we are dying out, or at least have lost so much prestige that we shall never recover from it; that we are kill-joys, preaching a medieval morality to a world which has grown out of it; that we are always on the make, always in alliance with the rich against the poor, with the Have's against the Have-not's; or, contrary-wise, that we are a very provincial, middle-class set of people, we Catholics, what we do isn't worth reporting, what we say isn't worth repeating. All that we shall hear said, or read it in books and newspaper articles by people who don't like us. But none of it matters; none of it matters a bit, as long as we haven't been responsible, for giving a bad impression of the ministry we exercise; as long as we, Christ's ambassadors, have done our best to do what nobody can ever really do-represent him.


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New videophone highlights dropping prices
by Guest Contributor in Mobility on November 1, 2004, 6:31 AM PST
Product lets people make videophone calls by dialing someone's number from an IM-like window on a PC.
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Avaya and Polycom unveiled on Monday an Internet videophone for businesses, adding to a growing lineup of more affordable, easier-to-use gear of the sort once seen only in newspaper comic strips.
Networking gear maker Avaya will sell camera maker Polycom's ViaVideo II video camera for PCs, packaged with an Avaya Softphone. The combo is designed to let people make video or phone calls by dialing someone's number from an IM-like window on a PC. If the recipient's setup is also video-enabled, the call goes through as video. If not, the call automatically switches to voice only.
At $429 for the phone and software, the Polycom-Avaya endeavor highlights the plummeting price of videophones, and how they're becoming much easier to set up and use. Just a half decade ago, videoconferencing systems were $40,000, came with a 30-plus-inch screen that required an IT staffer to set up and operate, and used traditional phone networks. Nowadays, sub-$400 videophones and unlimited video calling for $30 a month are the norm, and the gear plugs into most laptops or routers.
Along with Avaya, Net-phone provider Packet8 sells a videophone that plugs into most routers for $360 if purchased with a Packet8 video and broadband telephone calling plan. Do-it-yourselfers can find cheaper videophones by searching eBay, where $200 was the highest bid on a pair of Vialta Beamer BM-80 videophones a day before auction's end.
Who now uses videophones and the accompanying tools to allow any number of people to collaborate on, say, the design of a PowerPoint presentation? Not a lot of people yet, according to industry experts. By year's end, revenue from sales of video-calling gear will be little more than $40 million, though that adds up to a 23 percent annual increase from last year, according to analysis company Point Topic. Most videophones are used by hobbyists, or by businesses trying to reduce the need for travel by using videoconferences. A number of real estate, insurance and financial companies also use them, according to Avaya senior product manager Greg Brophy.
But plummeting prices for videophone equipment, and the spread of high-speed Net connections to more offices and homes, will lead to a billion-dollar market by 2008, according to analysis company Wainhouse Research. Avaya intends to push the price tag down even further, to about $200 for the combined software-hardware package, by next year. That will "really get this market going," Brophy said.
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SKF Opens Alabama Location; Will Expand, Relocate St. Louis Area Facility
The Birmingham, AL location is the third SKF factory in the U.S. while construction of the 311,000-square-foot-building in North Park, MO could be completed by December 2015.
GOTHENBURG, Sweden — Swedish ball bearing manufacturing SKF has announced the opening of its latest SKF Solution Factory. Located in Birmingham, Alabama, the facility is designed to provide customers with a single point of access to SKF's range of industrial and application knowledge. It is the third SKF Solution Factory to open in the United States and the sixth in North America.
"With every SKF Solution Factory that we open, we bring SKF knowledge closer to our customers," said Vartan Vartanian, President, SKF Industrial Market, Regional Sales and Service. "We have many customers in this part of the United States, from a wide range of industries, so it makes a lot of sense for the next step in our global expansion to take place here in Birmingham."
The new facility offers an extensive range of SKF services and solutions, including application and reliability engineering, customized machined sealing solutions, mechanical services, asset diagnostic services and a full spectrum of training courses.
This is the second SKF Solution Factory to open during 2014, taking the Group's total to 29 across the world.
SKF also announced plans to relocate its St. Louis facility to nearby nearby NorthPark, while retaining 388 jobs and creating an additional 73 jobs over the next six years.
The Missouri Department of Economic Development says that SKF could qualify for up to $1.8 million in state tax incentives. The company also could receive tax breaks from St. Louis County.
Construction of the 311,000-square-foot-building is to begin this fall and could be completed by December 2015.
Gov. Jay Nixon says SKF could have moved elsewhere. He says its continued presence in the St. Louis area is a "vote of confidence" for the region's workforce.