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Fort Worth Regional Previews: Meet the McNeese Cowboys
A run through the Southland Tournament secured a NCAA berth for the Cowboys. Can they go further?
By John Severs Jun 1, 2021, 3:08pm PDT
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Fort Worth Regional Previews Part 1 - McNeese Cowboys
The Beavers are headed to the Forth Worth Regional for the start of the NCAA baseball, and we at Building the Dam will be taking a look at the teams the Beavers could be facing up with this weekend. First up is the 4-seed, the McNeese Cowboys.
Record: 32-28 (21-18 in Southland Conference)
RPI: 133rd
Team Hitting: .286 Team Batting Average (55th Overall)
Team Pitching: 4.65 Team ERA (91st Overall)
Best Hitter: Clayton Rasbeary (1.016 OPS, 83 Hits, 11 Home Runs)
Best Pitcher: Will Dion (2.81 ERA, 0.96 WHIP, 9-4 record)
Head Coach: Justin Hill (8th season, 232-192 all time record)
Last Tournament Appearance: 2019 (Eliminated 0-2 in Nashville Regional)
After a mixed regular season, it looked like McNeese was well out of the running for the NCAA Tournament, but a Cinderella run through the Southland Conference tournament landed them an automatic berth and a trip to Fort Worth. So can the Cowboys keep their momentum going all the way to Omaha?
The Cowboys have a good pair of starters in Will Dion and Jonathan Ellison, with each currently rocking a 2.81 ERA. Dion was a key part of getting the Cowboys through the Southland Tournament; he threw a one hit shutout in McNeese's opening round win over New Orleans, and then on short rest came in to start in the championship game against Sam Houston.
He allowed three hits and one run over three innings, while striking out seven batters, before the Cowboys turned to relief. Fortunately for McNeese, they also have a pretty solid reliever in Cameron Foster. Foster has picked up a 4.83 ERA and a 1.43 WHIP over the season, and against Sam Houston he allowed two hits and no runs over his 4.2 innings to ensure that the Cowboys postseason run continued.
McNeese doesn't have a lights out, shutdown pitcher in their rotation, but they have enough talent that they could cause a team some trouble. I think a top level team would probably tear through McNeese, but its easy to see a team that's been as idiosyncratic as the Beavers having trouble producing runs.
Offensively, McNeese has been on fire lately. They scored 35 runs in the 4 games of the Southland Conference Tournament, and hit double digit runs three more times in the month of May. Their best hitter is outfielder Clayton Rasbeary, who got both of McNeese's runs in the win over Sam Houston with a first inning home run.
Rasbeary, with his 11 home runs and 23 more extra base hits, is the only Cowboy with that level of power, but the team has a few more solid hitters in the lineup. Infielder Nate Fisbeck has the next best OPS on the team, with an .895, and has a patient plate approach that has been rewarding, and also has the ability to generate some power, with 8 home runs this year.
McNeese's scoring has been fairly reliable; the team hasn't been shut out since March. The team has been averaging around 6 runs a game, and if they find a groove can be very explosive. That said, they haven't faced a ton of elite pitching in their conference, and did struggle when they faced SEC squads for their nonconference games.
This is still one of the weaker teams in the tournament, but they shouldn't be underestimated; the rest of the Southland Conference did that, and now they'll be sitting at home for the rest of the year.

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Lauren Cho
Primary Source and Summary
Primary Source Name
Details of this reporting gathered from: Facebook. If applicable, secondary + sources are entered at the bottom of this record.
Lauren Cho was last seen on June 28, 2021, and her remains were found on October 9, 2021.
Remains Found - Confirmed ID
This case file is incomplete, and important elements of information are currently being acquired from external sources. Please bookmark and re-visit, as new information will be released as it is received and vetted.
Missing NPF is listing the case of Lauren Cho due to Park Rangers being involved in the search, and her "Last Known Location" being in close proximity to Joshua Tree National Park.
Investigative Entities
National Park Service Law Enforcement Rangers
San Bernardino County Sherriff's Department
According to Morongo Basin Sheriff's Station, MISSING: Lauren Cho, adult female age 30, wearing a yellow tee shirt and jean shorts, Last seen yesterday, June 28, 2021, at 3pm, in the area of Hoopa x Benmar in Morongo Valley on foot. If seen contact dispatch immediately at (760)956-5001 or Detective Ables at (760) 366-4175 reference DR 092101115.
Remains found on October 9, 2021, have been identified as Lauren Cho
The search for Lauren Cho is ongoing, and deputies have been granted a search warrant to further pursue developing leads
Reported missing on June 28, 2021 - 583 days, 7 hours, 47 minutes ago
Found on October 9, 2021 - 480 days, 7 hours, 47 minutes ago
At Hoopa Trail And Benmar Trail
Yucca Valley Desert
This case file was posted on Jun 29, 2021 at 13:28
This case file was last modified on Oct 28, 2021 at 18:36
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At current, no new information has been released; Missing NPF will not connect this case file to any particular location until verified by officials. According to numerous reports, Cho was last seen walking into the hills between Yucca Valley and Morongo Valley without a phone. Interesting information has been posted to the following site (Missing NPF has not confirmed any of the information presented on this page): https://www.websleuths.com/forums/threads/ca-lauren-cho-30-morongo-valley-28-jun-2021.575393/
According to Sergeant Stafford of the Morongo Basin Sheriff's Station, the search has been suspended as of July 2, 2021 as there are no new leads for search and rescue teams to follow. According to the office, this case is now being treated as a "missing persons investigation." We will update our case file as new information becomes available. Credit: https://z1077fm.com/sheriffs-department-suspends-search-for-missing-morongo-valley-woman/
Vance John Rodriguez
Name Withheld - Yosemite Summit Meadow
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In Electronic Commerce, Schneider explains the different types of revenue models for electronic commerce (eCommerce) that work for both business-to-business (B2B) and business-to-consumer (B2C) eCommerce. These models include Web catalog, advertising-supported, advertising-subscription mixed, and fee-based models (Schneider, 2002). As Schneider (2002) defines it, a revenue model is ôa general term for the combination of strategies and techniques that a company uses to generate cash flow into the business from customersö (84). Titans of pure eCommerce such as Amazon.com rely on such strategies and techniques to earn revenue, while titans of brick and mortar operations like Barnes & Noble are increasingly relying upon a mixture of traditional and eCommerce revenues models as they try to compete for market share via the Internet. Such an enterprise like Barnes & Noble is referred to as a ôbrick and clickö model of commerce as opposed to Amazon.comÆs pure ôclickö model. This analysis will compare and contrast these two leading booksellers, including successes and failures, strategies and techniques, major challenges, and operations. A conclusion will offer recommendations for each company based on the analysis in this comparison and contrast.
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Charles Marvin (1804 – December 1, 1883) was a member of the Connecticut Senate representing the 12th district from 1846 to 1848 and from 1851 to 1852 and a member of the Connecticut House of Representatives in the sessions of 1836 and 1838.

He graduated from Yale College in 1823.  After leaving College he began to read law, but from trouble with his eyes was led to engage in farming in his native town, which occupation he afterwards adopted. He became a deacon in the Congregational church of his native town in 1841, and was through life earnestly interested in that church's welfare. In 1846, and again in 1847, and in 1851, he was chosen to the State Senate, and thus became ex officio in the two latter terms a member of the Corporation of Yale College. In 1848 he represented Wilton, Connecticut in the House, and in 1852 was appointed bank commissioner. He had already been for many years one of the directors of the Fairfield County Bank.  He died at his ancestral home in Wilton, Conn., December 1, 1883, in his 81st year, after a protracted illness.

In November, 1836, he married Clarina, third daughter of the Rev. Samuel Merwin, then of Wilton, who survived him, with three daughters and two sons.

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Our History ▼
Who Is Marcellin Champagnat
About MIC ▼
Interview with the Administrator
Our Formation Team
Community Life and Celebrations
A Place of Worship
MIC Superiors Over the years
The Superior ▼
From Br. Mark The Superior
Interview with the Superior
Album Photos ▼
Our Precious Moments
Br. Spiridion Golden Jubilee
Our Community's Story
Br Spiridion Golden Jubilee
The Fraternities ▼
Lwanga Fraternity
Chanel Fraternity
La Valla Fraternity
Champagnat Fraternity
La Maisonette Fraternity
François Fraternity
Basilio Fraternity - PSI
MIC COMMUNITY LIFE AND CELEBRATIONS
A Religious Community is a place where conse-crated men or women live together to share life in love and more importantly to be witnesses of the gospel (Vita Consecrata no. 42). The life of a consecrated person is expressed in a Religious Community through the profession of the evangeli-cal counsels of Chastity, Poverty and Obedience.
PSYCHO-SPIRITUAL INSTITUTE
The Psycho-Spiritual Institute (PSI) was established in 2012 by the Lux Terra Leadership Foundation, in collaboration with Missio Aachen, with the aim of training and graduating experts in Psycho-Spiritual Therapy and Christian Counseling for English-Speaking African Countries. The emergence of the Institute is a response to what many have identified as an urgent need to offer professional
WHO IS SAINT MARCELLIN CHAMPAGNAT
Marcellin Champagnat was born at Le Rosey, a hamlet near St. Etienne in France, on 20th May, 1789. This was a fateful year because it was the year in which the French Revolution began. Marcellin grew up on a small farm where he lived with his parents, Mary and Jean Baptist, his 4 brothers, 4 sisters and aunt. As soon as he became of age he was sent to school.
MIC-A CENTRE OF WORSHIP
Praising God is contagious, especially for those of us who like to be affect-ed by him echoed Shelena Griffiths. Entering the Marist chapel on a Sunday morning for the first time, one would think it is one of the biggest parishes within Nairobi, it is really mesmerizing seeing how religious men and women as well as the lay faithful come to discover the presence of God.
GOLDEN JUBILEE CELEBRATION
On Sunday 27th October 2019, the entire community of Marist International Centre (MIC) celebrated the Golden Jubilee of Religious life of Br. Spiridion NDANGA. The celebration began with Holy Mass at 10:00 am in the MIC Chapel. The mass was attended by many religious men and women in and around Karen, staff, lay people and students of MIUC and the Rwandan community in Nairobi.
LIVING A PLEASANT LIFE
Today, life seems to be good than before but with chal-lenges. These challenges made many people, old and young, to search for a better way of approaching it. This quest for new style of living puts us into a degree of personal freedom where each person seeks to define a style of life hoping to be a better person.
MIC AS A PROJECT
One of the documents from the 16th General Chapter (1967-1968) of the Marist Institute talks about 'the inter-regional cooperation.' The demands on the quality of formation in the seventies, as consequence of the aggiornamento launched by Vatican II, made Brothers and Superiors involved in formation much aware of the need for that inter-regional cooperation in order to better staff
GOLDEN JUBILEE OF BR. SPIRIDION
Br. spiridion understands his vocation simply as God's work ...
The main celebrant Rev Fr. Dr. George Ehusani, alongside fifteen other priests concelebrated the Eucharistic celebration. Father George in his homily reminded the faithful that they have gathered to celebrate Br. Spiridion's commitment, faithfulness, perseverance, and love for God and His people. In the course of the homily Br. Spiridion shared his experience as a Religious Brother for the last 50 years, saying that he stands as a witness of God's grace and power. In his words, he understood his vocation simply as God's work (Ephesians 2:10).
preparing the future
faithfulness, perseverance, and love for God...
The main celebrant Rev Fr. Dr. George Ehusani, alongside fifteen other priests concelebrated the Eucharistic celebration. Father George in his homily reminded the faithful that they have gathered to celebrate Br. Spiridion's commitment, faithfulness, perseverance, and love for God and His people.
In the course of the homily Br. Spiridion shared his experience as a Religious Brother for the last 50 years, saying that he stands as a witness of God's grace and power. In his words, he understood his vocation simply as God's work (Ephesians 2:10). Narrating his vocational journey, he admitted that it has not been easy but God in His faithfulness has been with him all the way. His vocation journey was fraught with difficulties.
Prayer is the essential point in religious life
Br. Spiridion confided that his secret of perseverance and joy in religious life has been prayer by alluding to the words of the founder of the Marist Brothers: "Prayer is the essential point in religious life". His joy has been in serving the people of God ''for to serve God is our lasting joy'' He ended by encouraging everyone to persevere for the God who has called us is faithful and will see us through. Rev Br. Dr. Albert NZABONALIBA speaking in the capacity of one who has known Br. Spiridion for a considerable length of time in several capacities; as his novice master, as his superior and member of the formation team, described Br. Spiridion as a man of prayer and spirituality, a man of patience and discernment, a man of obedience and leadership.
he worked as a secondary school teacher
Br. Spiridion Ndanga was born in 1946. On completion of primary education, he trained as primary school teacher. After a year of teaching in 1967 he gained admission to the postulancy. He made his first profession in 1969. After three years of scholasticate and teaching for one year, he made his final profession in 1974 and the vow of stability in 1998. He completed his Bachelor's degree in Mathematics in Bukavu (DRC). After his course in catechetics in 1977 he worked as a secondary school teacher as well as superior of a residence for university students. He became novice master from 1980 to 1989. On completion of his formation course in Rome he became postulant master from August 1991 to July 1992 and for the second time novice master from September 1992 to August 1994.
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package hipchat

import (
	"fmt"
	"github.com/daneharrigan/hipchat"
	"github.com/danryan/env"
	"github.com/danryan/hal"
	"strings"
)

func init() {
	hal.RegisterAdapter("hipchat", New)
}

// adapter struct
type adapter struct {
	hal.BasicAdapter
	user     string
	nick     string
	name     string
	password string
	resource string
	rooms    []string
	client   *hipchat.Client
	// config   *config
}

type config struct {
	User     string `env:"required key=HAL_HIPCHAT_USER"`
	Password string `env:"required key=HAL_HIPCHAT_PASSWORD"`
	Rooms    string `env:"required key=HAL_HIPCHAT_ROOMS"`
	Resource string `env:"key=HAL_HIPCHAT_RESOURCE default=bot"`
}

// New returns an initialized adapter
func New(robot *hal.Robot) (hal.Adapter, error) {
	c := &config{}
	env.MustProcess(c)

	a := &adapter{
		user:     c.User,
		password: c.Password,
		resource: c.Resource,
		rooms:    func() []string { return strings.Split(c.Rooms, ",") }(),
	}
	a.SetRobot(robot)
	return a, nil
}

// Run starts the adapter
func (a *adapter) Run() error {
	go a.startConnection()
	return nil
}

// Stop shuts down the adapter
func (a *adapter) Stop() error {
	// hipchat package doesn't provide an explicit stop command
	return nil
}

// Send sends a regular response
func (a *adapter) Send(res *hal.Response, strings ...string) error {
	for _, str := range strings {
		a.client.Say(res.Message.Room, a.name, str)
	}
	return nil
}

// Reply sends a direct response
func (a *adapter) Reply(res *hal.Response, strings ...string) error {
	newStrings := make([]string, len(strings))
	for _, str := range strings {
		s := fmt.Sprintf("@%s: %s", mentionName(res.Envelope.User), str)
		newStrings = append(newStrings, s)
	}

	return a.Send(res, newStrings...)
}

// Emote is not implemented.
func (a *adapter) Emote(res *hal.Response, strings ...string) error {
	return nil
}

// Topic is not implemented.
func (a *adapter) Topic(res *hal.Response, strings ...string) error {
	return nil
}

// Play is not implemented.
func (a *adapter) Play(res *hal.Response, strings ...string) error {
	return nil
}

// Receive forwards a message to the robot
func (a *adapter) Receive(msg *hal.Message) error {
	hal.Logger.Debug("hipchat - adapter received message")
	a.Robot.Receive(msg)
	hal.Logger.Debug("hipchat - adapter sent message to robot")

	return nil
}

func (a *adapter) newMessage(msg *hipchat.Message) *hal.Message {
	from := strings.Split(msg.From, "/")
	user, _ := a.Robot.Users.GetByName(from[1])

	return &hal.Message{
		User: user,
		Room: from[0],
		Text: msg.Body,
	}
}

func mentionName(u *hal.User) string {
	mn, ok := u.Options["mentionName"]
	if !ok {
		return ""
	}
	return mn.(string)
}

func (a *adapter) startConnection() error {
	client, err := hipchat.NewClient(a.user, a.password, a.resource)
	if err != nil {
		hal.Logger.Error(err.Error())
		return err
	}

	client.Status("chat")

	for _, user := range client.Users() {
		// retrieve the name and mention name of our bot from the server
		if user.Id == client.Id {
			a.name = user.Name
			a.nick = user.MentionName
			// skip adding the bot to the users map
			continue
		}
		// Initialize a newUser object in case we need it.
		newUser := hal.User{
			ID:   user.Id,
			Name: user.Name,
			Options: map[string]interface{}{
				"mentionName": user.MentionName,
			},
		}
		// Prepopulate our users map because we can easily do so.
		// If a user doesn't exist, set it.
		u, err := a.Robot.Users.Get(user.Id)
		if err != nil {
			a.Robot.Users.Set(user.Id, newUser)
		}
		// If the user doesn't match completely (say, if someone changes their name),
		// then adjust what we have stored.
		if u.Name != user.Name || mentionName(&u) != user.MentionName {
			a.Robot.Users.Set(user.Id, newUser)
		}
	}

	// Make a map of room JIDs to human names
	roomJids := make(map[string]string, len(client.Rooms()))
	for _, room := range client.Rooms() {
		roomJids[room.Name] = room.Id
	}
	client.Status("chat")
	// Only join the rooms we want
	for _, room := range a.rooms {
		hal.Logger.Debugf("%s - joined %s", a, room)
		client.Join(roomJids[room], a.name)
	}

	a.client = client
	a.Robot.Alias = a.nick

	// send an empty string every 60 seconds so hipchat doesn't disconnect us
	go client.KeepAlive()

	for message := range client.Messages() {
		from := strings.Split(message.From, "/")
		// ignore messages directly from the channel
		// TODO: don't do this :)
		if len(from) < 2 {
			continue
		}
		// ingore messages from our bot
		if from[1] == a.name {
			continue
		}

		msg := a.newMessage(message)
		a.Receive(msg)
	}
	return nil
}


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Cory, A.-L., Becker, J. & Schneider, J. M. (2017): Effects of female density on mating decisions in a sexually cannibalistic spider. Talk. The 11th topical meeting of the Ethologische Gesellschaft. Bonn, Germany.
Cory, A.-L. & Schneider, J. M. (2016): Impacts of mate quality and subadult experience on male mate choice in a sexually cannibalistic spider. Talk. The 109th annual meeting of the German Zoological Society. Kiel, Germany.
Cory, A.-L., Husmann, I. & Schneider, J. M. (2015): Geographical differences in the use of male mating tactics in a sexually cannibalistic spider. Talk. The 10th topical meeting of Ethologische Gesellschaft. Hamburg, Germany.
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A song that Clare wrote a few years ago with Rhonda Funk and Corey Lee Barker is now charting on the holiday section in the independent charts at #4! 💯💯💯
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News, Research, and Campaigns
Advocacy and Fundraising
Whitney Dafoe's 38th Birthday Fundraiser for Ronald W. Davis's research
Thread starter Whit
maddietod
I've just donated, and my CFS brain didn't notice that the default is a charge of 15% of the donation. I saw it, but assumed I had to check something to agree.
They are very quick and friendly about changing the charge.
Alvin2
The good news is patients don't die the bad news..
OMF e-mail said:
It's official — thanks to your generosity, we've raised more than $1.5 million for OMF funded research!
OMF can now afford the microscope!
Likes: GlassCannonLife, Pyrrhus, dylemmaz and 1 other person
Neunistiva
Alvin2 said:
It's official — thanks to your generosity, we've raised more than $1.5 million for OMF funded research! OMF can now afford the microscope!
That's great news but OMF is funding 6 research centers. I'm not sure how it works but we don't know what they've earmarked those funds for. I don't think any lab can just take money as they wish.
I mean, they knew OMF'd be getting around that amount this time of year, and still they specifically asked for the microscope. It's got to be for a good reason.
They said if you want money to go to Dr. Davis's lab specifically you've got to write a remark when donating to OMF. Or just donate where Whitney Dafoe linked at the beginning
https://www.spotfund.com/story/c0668b8a-91c3-4934-a40f-9f3dbcb8967a?SFID=FindaCureForMEcfs
Neunistiva said:
The raised the fundraising target and they got pledges of matching donations.
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GlassCannonLife
I don't understand this - why does Ron need to buy his own microscope? At all of the universities I worked (3 different ones in Australia but pretty sure it's the same across all), there are just university owned microscopes (and other assets) that you can pay to use per hour..
If you really need equipment that is specialised then you have to get some grant funding. I realise Ron has applied for multiple grants (yes it's very normal to get rejected constantly and apply constantly for more), but being such a well known professor from such a well known university I'm surprised by how little access he has to equipment and funding support.
If a fluorescence microscope is the biggest hurdle currently then we're further away from a cure than we realised..
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If I remember correctly funding was cut to the lab when they switched to studying ME/CFS. Anyone who knows anything about history of mistreatment of ME/CFS won't be surprised by that.
As for why they don't use Stanford's microscopes
I am also guessing that the intense work they are doing doesn't lend well to waiting in line for a microscope or renting it per hour only when it's available.
Let's just believe Dr. Ron Davis that his lab needs the microscope, shall we?
If you can, donate here
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You'd normally book as many hours as you'd need in a row.. But yeah I'm not sure how it works in America.
It makes sense that they just chose a piece of equipment for people to contribute to as it is an easier goal to visualise than something like "money for general lab use".


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The Wilkinsons-LA
Its about a girl whose boy has gone to Los Angeles,
with Prada stores and electric cars, and about the
worries that correspond to that move–namely "I don't want to
lose you to LA.
But the thing is is not really about LA. Its about
not wanting to lost country values–of love, fiedilty,
patrotism,and vehicles that run on gasoline. She does not
want to lose the All American foot ball hero to a sissified
eunuch who cares more about hair products then anything else.
Maybe its something else to, maybe its something more meta. Think
of it as losing country music to LA, from the roughhewn Nashville
to the slick and over produced sheen of studio productions.
There has been a move of these songs about Nashville selling out, and they have
moved from the outside in. It started with the outlaw alt insurgents, Robbie Fulks
singing Fuck This Town, Hank III singing Dick in Dixie and Cunt in Country,
then slowly inward, the worn out George Strait remaking his career with Murder on
Music Row, and then in Canada at least Chris Cummings They're Making Singers
out of Cowboy Hats—Fulks and Hank had banjos, mandolins, it was honly tonk
at its most pure, George Strait still had steel guitars. Chris Cummings
dropped most of the musical signifers, but wasn't nearly as plastic
as Shania Twains Def Lepperd Light.
What's interesting is this song is the most pop, the most jangly, the least country
musically i have heard. Its a family band, and that doesn't really happen
anywhere else anymore and it cares about the issues of persevation, so
the code is country and the theme is country…which means the desire to return to
a non fallen state has become so ubqituoius that the words don't need to
be said.
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De Vries leads the way at Barcelona
ART Grand Prix driver quickest on Day 1 of second pre-season testing
5 March 2019 - 18:32
Nyck de Vries set the quickest laptime on the opening day of the second FIA Formula 2 pre-season testing at Barcelona. The Dutchman from ART Grand Prix set a time of 1:28.655 in the afternoon session to lead the way ahead of DAMS' Sérgio Sette Câmara and rookie Nikita Mazepin.
The pit lane opened at 9.30 local time under grey skies. Both Trident cars hit the track first with Giuliano Alesi leading Ralph Boschung. There was an early red flag a few minutes into the session after MP Motorsport's Mahaveer Raghunathan stopped on track at Turn 7. The proceedings were halted once more shortly after the re-start so that the marshals could clean the pit lane.
One hour into the session, Raghunathan was the only driver who had set a laptime until his teammate Jordan King found some pace to dip under 1m30s. Carlin's Louis Delétraz went top in a 1:28.919, heading teammate Nobuharu Matsushita by +0.804s, but de Vries went quickest just before the two-hour mark in a 1:28.821 as Luca Ghiotto slotted in P2 (+0.048s).
At the chequered flag de Vries sat pretty at the top of the standings ahead of Ghiotto and Delétraz. Jack Aitken was fourth ahead of Mazepin, Nicholas Latifi, Matsushita , Alesi, Sette Câmara and Guanyu Zhou.
After a two-hour lunch break, the action resumed under blue skies. The ART pair of de Vries and Mazepin were the first to take to the track, but it was Ghiotto who set the early pace in a 1:29.176. The afternoon session was dedicated to race simulations and pit stop practice. Campos' Roberto Merhi brought out a first red flag on the one-hour mark after he stopped at Turn 2.
At the re-start, Juan Manuel Correa placed his Sauber Junior Team by Charouz car on P2 but de Vries bettered the American's time by three tenths. On his next effort, the Dutchman was able to go top whilst teammate Mazepin also set a personal best to move up to second.
In the opening of the final hour, Mick Schumacher claimed the top spot in a 1:28.866 and remained unchallenged until fifteen minutes before the end of the session: de Vries reclaimed P1 as Sette Câmara moved up to P2 to edge Schumacher. Mazepin also improved to take third in the closing stages.
Five minutes before the chequered flag Raghunathan stopped at Turn 8 bringing out one final Red Flag. The session was not restarted. Behind the top three, Schumacher, Ghiotto, Zhou, Sean Gelael, Boschung, Correa and Aitken completed the top ten.
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Affect and Emotion
Author: Margaret WetherellPublish On: 2012-03-05
How do roller coasters of contempt, patriotism, hate and euphoria power public life? This book systematically reviews research on affect and emotion in neuroscience, social psychology, sociology, and political science.
Author: Margaret Wetherell
In recent years there has been a surge of interest in affect and emotion. Scholars want to discover how people are moved, and understand embodied social action, feelings and passions. How do social formations 'grab' people? How do roller coasters of contempt, patriotism, hate and euphoria power public life? This book systematically reviews research on affect and emotion in neuroscience, social psychology, sociology, and political science. It develops a critique of the 'turn to affect' and argues for an approach based on affective practice. It provides new analyses to explain how affect travels, settles, circulates and coalesces.
A New Social Science Understanding Margaret Wetherell. In recent years there has been a huge surge of interest across the social sciences in the study of affect. What is 'affect', though? For a psychologist or neuroscientist, ...
Publisher: SAGE
"Absolutely essential reading for those wanting to understand the recent ′turn′ to affect. Offering an extensive analysis of all the perspectives available, including the psycho, neuro, bio and social, Margie Wetherell treads a magisterial path through the radically different offerings, one that illuminates key ideas and will save the uninitiated wandering down many pointless avenues. A path-setting book." - Professor Beverley Skeggs, Goldsmiths In recent years there has been a huge surge of interest in affect and emotion. Scholars want to discover how people are moved, and understand embodied social action, feelings and passions. How do social formations ′grab′ people? How do roller coasters of contempt, patriotism, hate and euphoria power public life? A new social science understanding of affect and emotion is long overdue and Margaret Wetherell′s voice is timely, providing a coherent and pragmatic text. It will be invaluable reading for those interested in this fascinating field across the social and behavioural sciences.
Secular Bodies Affects and Emotions
Author: Monique ScheerPublish On: 2019-01-10
Scheer, M. (2012), 'Are Emotions a Kind of Practice (And Is That What Makes Them Have a History)? A Bourdieuian Approach to Understanding ... Wetherell, M. (2012), Affect and Emotion: A New Social Science Understanding, London: Sage.
Author: Monique Scheer
This book is available as open access through the Bloomsbury Open Access programme and is available on www.bloomsburycollections.com Taking its cue from the study of 'lived religion', Secular Bodies, Affects and Emotions shows how the idea of a secular public is equally marked by a display and cultivation of affect and emotions. Whereas it is widely agreed that religion is often saturated by emotion, the secular is usually treated as a neutral background serving as the domain of public, rational deliberation. This book demonstrates that secularity and secularism are also upheld by bodily practices and emotional attachments. Drawing on empirical case studies, this is the first book to ask and explore whether a secular body exists. Building on the work of Talal Asad, the book argues that the secular is not an absence of religion, but a positive entity that comes about through its co-constitutive relationship with religion. And, once we attune ourselves to recognizing its operations as grammar which structures social practice, writing an anthropology of the secular could become a new possibility.
Music Dance Affect and Emotions in Latin America
Author: Pablo VilaPublish On: 2017-02-14
"Beyond Personal Feelings and Collective Emotions: Toward a Theory of Social Affect." Theory, Culture & Society 29(6): 27–46. ... Affect and Emotion: A New Social Science Understanding. Los Angeles: Sage. Williams, Raymond. 1977.
Author: Pablo Vila
Publisher: Lexington Books
Music, Dance, Affect, and Emotions in Latin America is a collection of essays that analyze different manifestations of Argentine music and dance taking advantage of the exciting new theoretical developments advanced by the current affective turn. Contributors deal with the relationship between music, dance, affects, feelings, and emotions in different scenarios and show how the embodiment of music shape the experiential in ways that may impact upon but nevertheless many times evade conscious knowing. This book is one of the first academic attempts (regardless of region or country of scope) to try to solve some of the most important problems the affective turn has identified regarding how music and dance have been researched so far, such as the tendency, in representational accounts of music, to ignore the sensory and sonic registers to the detriment of the embodied and lived registers of experience and feeling that unfold in the process of making or listening to music.
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Emotion Affective Practices and the Past in the Present
Author: Laurajane SmithPublish On: 2018-06-14
Gender, Work and Community after De-industrialisation: A Psychosocial Approach to Affect. Basingstoke: Palgrave Macmillan. Wetherell, M. 2012. Affect and Emotion: A New Social Science Understanding. Los Angeles: Sage.
Author: Laurajane Smith
Emotion, Affective Practices, and the Past in the Present is a response to debates in the humanities and social sciences about the use of emotion. This timely and unique book explores the ways emotion is embroiled and used in contemporary engagements with the past, particularly in contexts such as heritage sites, museums, commemorations, political rhetoric and ideology, debates over issues of social memory, and touristic uses of heritage sites. Including contributions from academics and practitioners in a range of countries, the book reviews significant and conflicting academic debates on the nature and expression of affect and emotion. As a whole, the book makes an argument for a pragmatic understanding of affect and, in doing so, outlines Wetherell's concept of affective practice, a concept utilised in most of the chapters in this book. Since debates about affect and emotion can often be confusing and abstract, the book aims to clarify these debates and, through the use of case studies, draw out their implications for theory and practice within heritage and museum studies. Emotion, Affective Practices, and the Past in the Present should be essential reading for students, academics, and professionals in the fields of heritage and museum studies. The book will also be of interest to those in other disciplines, such as social psychology, education, archaeology, tourism studies, cultural studies, media studies, anthropology, sociology, and history.
Heritage Affect and Emotion
Author: Divya P. Tolia-KellyPublish On: 2016-07-01
International Journal of Heritage Studies, 20(1): 22¥35. ... Affect and registers of engagement: navigating emotional responses to dissonant heritages, in L. Smith, G. Cubitt, ... Affect and emotion: a new social science understanding.
Author: Divya P. Tolia-Kelly
Heritage and its economies are driven by affective politics and consolidated through emotions such as pride, awe, joy and pain. In the humanities and social sciences, there is a widespread acknowledgement of the limits not only of language and subjectivity, but also of visuality and representation. Social scientists, particularly within cultural geography and cultural studies, have recently attempted to define and understand that which is more-than-representational, through the development of theories of affect, assemblage, post-humanism and actor network theory, to name a few. While there have been some recent attempts to draw these lines of thinking more forcefully into the field of heritage studies, this book focuses for the first time on relating heritage with the politics of affect. The volume argues that our engagements with heritage are almost entirely figured through the politics of affective registers such as pain, loss, joy, nostalgia, pleasure, belonging or anger. It brings together a number of contributions that collectively - and with critical acuity - question how researchers working in the field of heritage might begin to discover and describe affective experiences, especially those that are shaped and expressed in moments and spaces that can be, at times, intensely personal, intimately shared and ultimately social. It explores current theoretical advances that enable heritage to be affected, released from conventional understandings of both 'heritage-as-objects' and 'objects-as-representations' by opening it up to a range of new meanings, emergent and formed in moments of encounter. Whilst representational understandings of heritage are by no means made redundant through this agenda, they are destabilized and can thus be judged anew in light of these developments. Each chapter offers a novel and provocative contribution, provided by an interdisciplinary team of researchers who are thinking theoretically about affect through landscapes, practices of commemoration, visitor experience, site interpretation and other heritage work.
Cultural Politics of Emotion
Author: Sara AhmedPublish On: 2014-06-11
(1998), Long Slow Burn: Sexuality and Social Science, London: Routledge. Wetherell, M. (2012), Affect and Emotion: A New Social Science Understanding, London: Sage. White, G. M. (1993), 'Emotions Inside Out: The Anthropology of Affect' ...
Author: Sara Ahmed
Publisher: Edinburgh University Press
Emotions work to define who we are as well as shape what we do and this is no more powerfully at play than in the world of politics. Ahmed considers how emotions keep us invested in relationships of power, and also shows how this use of emotion could be crucial to areas such as feminist and queer politics. Debates on international terrorism, asylum and migration, as well as reconciliation and reparation, are explored through topical case studies. In this book the difficult issues are confronted head on. The Cultural Politics of Emotion is in dialogue with recent literature on emotions within gender studies, cultural studies, sociology, psychology and philosophy. Throughout the book, Ahmed develops a theory of how emotions work, and the effects they have on our day-to-day lives. New for this editionA substantial 15,000-word Afterword on 'Emotions and Their Objects' which provides an original contribution to the burgeoning field of affect studiesA revised BibliographyUpdated throughout.
An A Z of Social Work Theory
Author: Malcolm PaynePublish On: 2021-09-15
In psychology, affect conceptualises a person's emotional state or the pattern of their emotional reactions. Rational behaviour and emotion are sometimes ... Affect and emotion: A new social science understanding. London: Sage.
Author: Malcolm Payne
Puzzled by terminology, skills, law, or theory? Revising for your placement or exam? Then look no further! This series of concise and easy-to-use A-Zs will be your guide. Designed for both students and newly-qualified social workers, this book will introduce you to over 350 key theories, theorists and concepts in a concise and no-nonsense way. Careful cross-referencing will help you make important connections, while selected further reading will provide you with a springboard to further learning.
Understanding Collective Pride and Group Identity
Author: Gavin Brent SullivanPublish On: 2014-06-20
New directions in emotion theory, research and practice Gavin Brent Sullivan. Smith, T. W. and Seokoho, K. (2006). ... New Ideas in Psychology, 25, 233–52. ... Affect and Emotion: A New Social Science Understanding. London: Sage.
Author: Gavin Brent Sullivan
Collective and group-based pride is currently covered across a number of disciplines including nationalism studies, sociology and social psychology, with little communication between fields. This multidisciplinary collection encourages interdisciplinary research and provides a unique insight into the subject, stemming from a psychological perspective. The collection builds upon insights from collective emotion research to consider the relations between collective pride, shame and guilt as well as emotions of anger, empowerment and defiance. Collective pride is examined in contexts that vary from small groups in relatively peaceful competition to protest movements and large groups in divisive conflicts. In the book collective pride is a complex and positive emotional experience evident in the behaviour of groups, that can lead to negative forms of collective hubris in which other groups are devalued or dominated. Emotions of Collective Pride and Group Identity brings together international contributors to discuss the theory, research and practice surrounding collective pride in relation to other emotions and collective, cultural and national identity. Divided into two parts, part one explores the philosophy and theory behind collective pride and its extremes. Part two draws upon the latest quantitative and qualitative empirical research to focus on specific issues, for example, happiness, national pride and the 2010 World Cup. Topics covered include: - cultural and national pride and identity - positive feelings of unity and solidarity - dynamic relationships between collective pride, guilt and shame - theories of emotions in ritual, symbolic and affective practices - collective pride and collective hubris in organizations - perspectives on national events from young people. This book will appeal to an interdisciplinary audience in the area of affect studies and emotion research including social psychologists, sociologists, historians and anthropologists.
Preaching the Fear of God in a Fear Filled World
Author: Dawn Ottoni-WilhelmPublish On: 2021-01-25
4) They exert considerable power in relation to behavior and experience.27 In this understanding, emotion includes ... Margaret Wetherell, Affect and Emotion: A New Social Science Understanding (London, England: SAGE Publications Ltd., ...
Author: Dawn Ottoni-Wilhelm
Publisher: LIT Verlag Münster
Fear runs rampant in the world today, including fears related to the rise of nationalism, refugees, political corruption, violence, religious extremism, and climate crises. Amid these existential realities, the biblical idea of "the fear of God" poses theological opportunities and challenges for those who address these themes in their preaching and public ministry. This collection of conference presentations from the 2018 meeting of Societas Homiletica focuses on how preaching and homiletical studies around the world address the rhetorical, biblical, political, and spiritual dimensions of fear as it has emerged in recent decades in church and society.
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Pineapples are having a moment right now, and not just on the breakfast table. This delicious, vitamin-C filled fruit is also a super fun shape for everything from party supplies to home decor. Even though pineapples are popular, they're not exactly trendy. Pineapples are as classic as seersucker and monograms thanks to the fact that the pineapple is a symbol of hospitality.
Love of the pineapple began with Christopher Columbus and his visit to the Caribbean Islands where he was presented with a fruit that looked like a pine cone. In Europe and in colonial America, pineapples were served to guests at meals to make guests feel welcome and special. Pineapples have long been a favorite decor motif, being carved into wooden banisters, cast as door knockers and gate posts, and woven into fabric used for drapes, napkins, tablecloths, and much more.
Today the pineapple still symbolizes hospitality, but in many cases it also represents fun! We love classic pineapples on beautiful letter-pressed stationery just as much as we love fun pineapple drink holders that are perfect for an afternoon at the pool or lake.
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Patiphol Thosaeng (, * 13. August 2003 in Nong Ya Sai), auch als Pang () bekannt, ist ein thailändischer Fußballspieler.

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Patiphol Thosaeng stand bis Saisonende 2021/22 beim Drittligisten Kamphaengphet FC in Kamphaengphet unter Vertrag. Mit dem Verein spielte er in der Northern Region der Liga. Im Juni 2022 wechselte er zum Erstligaabsteiger Suphanburi FC. Sein Zweitligadebüt für den Verein aus Suphanburi gab Patiphol Thosaeng am 17. September 2022 (6. Spieltag) im Heimspiel gegen den Trat FC. Hier wurde er in der 76. Minute beim 3:0-Erfolg für Nethithorn Kaewcharoen eingewechselt. In der Hinrunde kam er dreimal für Suphanburi in der zweiten Liga zum Einsatz. Im Dezember 2022 wurde sein Vertrag nicht verlängert.

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In mathematical physics, n-dimensional de Sitter space (often abbreviated to dSn) is a maximally symmetric Lorentzian manifold with constant positive scalar curvature. It is the Lorentzian analogue of an n-sphere (with its canonical Riemannian metric).

The main application of de Sitter space is its use in general relativity,  where it serves as one of the simplest mathematical models of the universe consistent with the observed accelerating expansion of the universe. More specifically, de Sitter space is the maximally symmetric vacuum solution of Einstein's field equations with a positive cosmological constant  (corresponding to a positive vacuum energy density and negative pressure). There is cosmological evidence that the universe itself is asymptotically de Sitter, i.e. it will evolve like the de Sitter universe in the far future when dark energy dominates.

de Sitter space and anti-de Sitter space are named after Willem de Sitter (1872–1934), professor of astronomy at Leiden University and director of the Leiden Observatory. Willem de Sitter and Albert Einstein worked closely together in Leiden in the 1920s on the spacetime structure of our universe. de Sitter space was also discovered, independently, and about the same time, by Tullio Levi-Civita.

Definition
de Sitter space can be defined as a submanifold of a generalized Minkowski space of one higher dimension. Take Minkowski space R1,n with the standard metric:

de Sitter space is the submanifold described by the hyperboloid of one sheet

where  is some nonzero constant with its dimension being that of length. The metric on de Sitter space is the metric induced from the ambient Minkowski metric. The induced metric is nondegenerate and has Lorentzian signature. (Note that if one replaces  with  in the above definition, one obtains a hyperboloid of two sheets. The induced metric in this case is positive-definite, and each sheet is a copy of hyperbolic n-space. For a detailed proof, see .)

de Sitter space can also be defined as the quotient  of two indefinite orthogonal groups, which shows that it is a non-Riemannian symmetric space.

Topologically, de Sitter space is  (so that if  then de Sitter space is simply connected).

Properties
The isometry group of de Sitter space is the Lorentz group . The metric therefore then has  independent Killing vector fields and is maximally symmetric. Every maximally symmetric space has constant curvature. The Riemann curvature tensor of de Sitter is given by

(using the sign convention  for the Riemann curvature tensor). de Sitter space is an Einstein manifold since the Ricci tensor is proportional to the metric:

This means de Sitter space is a vacuum solution of Einstein's equation with cosmological constant given by

The scalar curvature of de Sitter space is given by

For the case , we have  and .

Coordinates

Static coordinates
We can introduce static coordinates  for de Sitter as follows:

where  gives the standard embedding the -sphere in Rn−1. In these coordinates the de Sitter metric takes the form:

Note that there is a cosmological horizon at .

Flat slicing
Let

where .  Then in the  coordinates metric reads:

where  is the flat metric on 's.

Setting , we obtain the conformally flat metric:

Open slicing
Let

where  forming a  with the standard metric .  Then the metric of the de Sitter space reads

where

is the standard hyperbolic metric.

Closed slicing
Let

where s describe a .  Then the metric reads:

Changing the time variable to the conformal time via  we obtain a metric conformally equivalent to Einstein static universe:

These coordinates, also known as "global coordinates" cover the maximal extension of de Sitter space, and can therefore be used to find its Penrose diagram.

dS slicing
Let

where s describe a .  Then the metric reads:

where

is the metric of an  dimensional de Sitter space with radius of curvature  in open slicing coordinates.  The hyperbolic metric is given by:

This is the analytic continuation of the open slicing coordinates under  and also switching  and  because they change their timelike/spacelike nature.

See also
 Anti-de Sitter space
 de Sitter universe
 AdS/CFT correspondence
 de Sitter–Schwarzschild metric

References

Further reading

External links
  Simplified Guide to de Sitter and anti-de Sitter Spaces A pedagogic introduction to de Sitter and anti-de Sitter spaces. The main article is simplified, with almost no math. The appendix is technical and intended for readers with physics or math backgrounds.

Exact solutions in general relativity
Differential geometry
Minkowski spacetime


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5 Ways Digital Payments Will Change FIs and Fraud in 2023
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Vice President, Product Management
Fraud Protection & Compliance
As I look back on 2022, I'm reluctant to lean too far into predictions for 2023. Besides, my prognostic abilities aren't great. Two quick examples — first, I thought my two favorite baseball teams would have outstanding postseason runs and I felt like I was in great shape. But the Padres (my modern team) lost to the Phillies, and the Yankees (my boyhood and lifelong team) flamed out against the Astros and I was left on the outside looking in for the World Series.
Second is my fantasy football draft. As defending champion of my league, I felt good after starting out 2-0 in runaway victories. News flash — there has been only one other win since week 2 for the ChickenGhosts. Needless to say, I'm a little rattled on my ability to spot key trends, at least when it comes to sports.
But I'll still weigh in with prognostications for 2023.
Whether you are sports fan or not, this year we all felt impacts from the war in Ukraine, unfortunate natural disasters, pandemic recovery, and political changes. And the digital payments landscape made a global-scale impact, both positive and negative which FIs now must deal with.
For every story about real-time payments making it easier for people to send money to others in desperate need, there seems to be a parallel story about scams. Financial institutions (FIs) are not letting fraud trends like scams fade into background noise, but fraud awareness is rising among customers and both the banks and customers are eager to mitigate as much as possible. FIs are in a great position to lead that push by applying resources where they can have the most immediate and long-term impacts.
Since we are in the early stages for many new payment technologies, the steps FIs take in 2023 will shape how these new payment markets unfold. Here are my predictions on the payment trends for the next year, how they'll create risks or opportunities in 2023, and what FIs need to watch out for with each of them.
1. Alternative Payments Methods Will Grow Faster than Debit — and Scammers Will Rejoice
Mid-year data from Bank of America showed that all forms of digital and electronic payments are growing. While debit transactions still prevail, all the other payment types are growing even faster. Credit cards have seen record growth and near-record balances through 2022, and alternative payment methods are booming, including everything from ACH and real-time money transfers to phone-based systems like Apple Pay and Google Pay.
Another proof point about the growth of new payments channels — Amazon recently announced that folks can now use Venmo to make payments. And PYMNTS.com says the U.S. real-time payments market alone hit about 2 billion transactions this year, but should grow to 9 billion transactions in 2026, worth more than $10.5 trillion.
What scammers see here is a big patchwork of payment options that offer a way to take money directly from consumers, and that change popularity with the social media tides. Scammers can hide in plain sight and use social engineering and direct outreach to consumers to coerce individuals to make instant, irrevocable payments. As FIs have more customers using more forms of digital payments, defending against the dizzying array of scams will be crucial to their customer experiences, and potentially required for regulatory compliance.
2. Buy-Now-Pay-Later Will Win on Customer Experience but Needs Enhanced Security
BNPL usage is beginning to hit critical mass, with roughly 60 million users today. It keeps growing not only because of the pandemic's e-commerce explosion, but also because more merchants have offered it as it has become easier to plug into an e-commerce site.
Customers say BNPL can be even easier and more flexible than a credit card. So even though BNPL's economics aren't quite resolved yet — issues like shielding for losses and establishing tolerable merchant fee charges lurk — it has clearly tapped customers' desire for transparent terms and more flexible payment options.
BNPL is so easy that 50% of customers who used it say they bought a major household item they didn't really need. So, just like financing is part of the shopping flows for mobile phones and cars, consumers have emphatically shown that they want BNPL for anything, especially if it's easy to use at checkout. If FIs want to continue to tap into the BNPL market while stopping fraud, how they combine ease of use with visible security will be a big factor.
3. The P2P App Scam Crisis Will Not Go Away
One of the big questions in Washington in 2022, and for compliance officers worldwide, was whether regulators and legislators would agree that banks should be liable for P2P payments scams, even if customers were conned and the technology wasn't hacked. Unfortunately for FIs, neither side of this problem coin will vanish.
First, fraudsters are finding lots of ways to scam grandmothers, dreamers, and others from all walks of life into handing money over instantly via an app or a website. But when vulnerable people, like someone's elderly mother, is scammed this way, it gives journalists with 24-hour deadlines slam-dunk news stories that get clicks, shares, and even a look from the U.S. Senate.
FIs can do themselves a favor while it is still early in the liability debate by adding some sensible friction back into the payment process. Simple and effective behavioral, authentication-based, and live checks in payment processes can even help customers stop themselves from being conned. Given the regulatory winds in 2022, FIs can expect more intervention in 2023, although they are taking steps already to stay one step ahead of the regulators.
4. ACH Will Improve Business Cash Flows — and Scams Will Follow
ACH transactions, especially for business-to-business payments, have also grown tremendously. Most of that growth, according to NACHA, has come from payroll by direct deposit and consumers' electronic bill pay. Now, B2B ACH payments are adding to the overall growth, which means businesses, customers, suppliers and partners are able to pay each other much faster and more reliably than ever. As a result, default and delinquency rates are at historic lows.
The easier it is be paid, though, the more scammers find ways to beat remittance and payment processes. This moves supplier impersonation and business check theft into the digital age. FIs should consider educating customers on how to defend their own payment processes from business email compromise and impostor scams, and ensure trust, security and authenticity in ACH transactions.
5. We Won't Have to Apologize for Going Cashless
The rumors of cash's demise are overexaggerated, but maybe not greatly. UK Finance says that though people in Britain are withdrawing more cash than ever, cash use will decline 15% per year or more because of digital payments.
As someone who took a wallet diet and hardly carries cash, I worry about people who rely on it to run their businesses, or those who depend on tips for a substantial part of their income. If I can make a wishful prediction for 2023, it's that someone, ideally someone smart and fair-minded, will create a simple user experience for smaller (previously cash-based) transactions, particularly in service businesses.
Though I have seen hotels put QR codes in the room to collect tips, that approach doesn't account for the personal touch you may feel you want to reward, whether that's the service employee going the extra mile, or simply a solid valet parking experience. If payments can help solve one problem in 2023, I hope it's to eliminate that awkward moment where you want to look after someone and have to apologize for having no cash.
Be Mindful with Payments in 2023
In closing, let me reprise my advice from my 2022 predictions. Before blindly proceeding with a payment, no matter the channel, take a minute to slow down and think carefully. If there's an unnatural sense of urgency from someone to get money, step back and ask if you're being scammed. A thoughtful pause can help prevent fraud, keep your accounts intact and see you well positioned throughout 2023. And don't forget to remind your friends and family outside the payments industry about this advice!
Enjoy the rest of this year and be sure to follow me on Twitter @FraudBird for more insights next year!
TJ Horan
TJ Horan is vice president of Product Management at FICO, leading the Solution Product Management team for Lifecycle Products. TJ began his career with DuPont, where he helped design and maintain Expert Systems for process control. Since then, TJ has held a variety of technical and management roles in the fields of analytics, fraud and risk management, and decision management at industry leading companies such as HNC Software and SAS. TJ holds a B.S. in computer science and a M.S. in statistics, both from the University of South Carolina.
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British fudge goes on sale in Saudi Arabia for the first time
Related topics: British sweets, confectionery, fudge, innovation, Saudi Arabia
Related organisations: Le Concheur, The sweet consultant
Related people: Andy BaxendaleDr Abdullah Al-Ariefy
Related regions: EMEA, Saudi Arabia, UK, worldwide
British fudge is being sold in Saudi Arabia for the first time after Confectionery Production editorial board member Andy Baxendale was recruited to teach the country's confectionery producers how to make the sweet treat.
Fudge was identified as a popular form of confectionery in the Middle Eastern country because of its unique, luxurious texture and flavour and because, unlike chocolate, it doesn't melt in the region's sweltering temperatures. It is being sold to families going to the first cinema to be opened in Jeddah for 35 years after the Saudi government's landmark decision to lift the ban on movie screenings in the country.
Known throughout the industry as The Sweet Consultant, Andy Baxendale, has 23 years' experience in the confectionery business with a Master's of Science in Advanced Food Manufacture.
He was contacted by chocolate makers Le Concheur based in Jeddah, Saudi Arabia, when they were looking for an expert to oversee their production of British-style fudge and was flown out especially to help with manufacture and staff training.
It is now being sold in the country for the first time after being launched in the Le Concheur shop in Prince Sultan Road, Jeddah, where it is also made using local ingredients and flavourings such as cardamom, dates and cinnamon.
Demand has already been so great that a second store is due to be opened this month at nearby Red Sea Mall, home of the city's first cinema in 35 years.
Dr Abdullah Al-Ariefy, the owner of Le Concheur, said: "We identified Andy as the man to help us develop and produce our own range of fudge because of his extensive track record for sweet development and production in the UK.
"His experience was essential in helping to create an authentic product and train staff we are already planning to invite him back to build on the success of the launch."
Andy, who is a former product development manager for Chewits in the UK, is now looking to tie up deals to introduce British fudge to Dubai, the UAE and other countries in the region.
He said: "The demand for traditional British fudge in Saudi Arabia has soared since its launch earlier this month as people really enjoy both the taste and its presentation as the kind of high-quality product which people in Saudi Arabia love.
"When the temperature soars to 40 degrees C and humidity is sky high chocolate melts easily and so fudge is a great alternative and something which people look upon as a luxurious treat."
Andy, from Wigan, is a respected national consultant in every aspect of confectionery production, with extensive knowledge of regulation and legislation in the industry, advising companies on everything from recipes to staff training and enhanced production techniques.
Recently he has been one of the stars of the hit BBC 2 confectionery show The Sweet Makers.
He is currently working to set up a National Academy of sweets to teach a new generation the art of confectionery production and development.
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is a 1974 Japanese police procedural film directed by Yoshitarō Nomura, based on the novel Suna no Utsuwa by Seicho Matsumoto.

Plot
Yoshitaro Nomura's 1974 film of Seicho Matsumoto's immensely popular detective story tells the tale of two detectives, Imanishi (Tetsuro Tamba) and Yoshimura (Kensaku Morita), tasked with tracking down the murderer of an old man, found bludgeoned to death in a rail yard. When the identity of the old man can't be determined, the investigation focuses on the only other clue: a scrap of conversation overheard at a bar between the old man and a younger one. A witness recalls the cryptic phrases "Kameda did this" and "Kameda doesn't change."

This sets off a wide-ranging investigation that covers vast swaths of geography, changing social mores, and time. The investigation ends with an emotional and heartbreaking conclusion, all the more shattering because the reason for the crime need no longer exists in the world.

Cast
Tetsuro Tamba – Detective Eitaro Imanishi
Go Kato – Eiryo Waga/Hideo Motoura
Kensaku Morita – Detective Hiroshi Yoshimura
Yoko Shimada – Rieko Takagi
Karin Yamaguchi – Sachiko Tadokoro
Ken Ogata – Kenichi Miki
Seiji Matsuyama – Shokichi Miki
Yoshi Katō – Chiyokichi Motoura
Chishū Ryū – Kojuro Kirihara
Taketoshi Naito
Yoshio Inaba
Shin Saburi – Shigeyoshi Tadokoro

Awards
1975 Kinema Junpo Award
Best Screenplay (Shinobu Hashimoto and Yōji Yamada)
Readers' Choice Award
Best Japanese Film Director (Yoshitaro Nomura)
1975 Mainichi Film Concours
Best Director (Yoshitaro Nomura)
Best Film (Yoshitaro Nomura)
Best Film Score (Kosuke Sugano )
Best Screenplay (Shinobu Hashimoto and Yōji Yamada)
9th Moscow International Film Festival
Diploma (Yoshitaro Nomura)
Nominated for Golden Prize (Yoshitaro Nomura).

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1970s crime thriller films
1970s mystery films
1974 films
Films based on Japanese novels
Films directed by Yoshitaro Nomura
1970s Japanese-language films
Procedural films
Shochiku films
Works originally published in Japanese newspapers
Films with screenplays by Shinobu Hashimoto
Films with screenplays by Yôji Yamada
Films set in Ishikawa Prefecture
Films set in Tokyo
Films set in Akita Prefecture
Films set in Yamanashi Prefecture
Films set in Osaka
Films set in Shimane Prefecture
Films set in 1971
1970s Japanese films
Works about leprosy


Gov. Eric Greietens signs HB 662 into law at the Fisher Delta Center in Portageville on March 31, 2017.
The new law gives the Missouri Department of Agriculture the authority to levy fines of $10,000 per violation for anyone who doesn't follow safety guidelines for using herbicides and as a result contaminates someone else's crops. Repeat offenders can be fined up to $25,000 per violation.
The new law takes effect immediately, courtesy of an emergency clause approved by the House and Senate before sending it to the governor's desk.
Updated March 13, 2017 – Legislators have strengthened a bill designed to curb misuse of herbicides in Missouri.
House Bill 662 easily passed the Missouri House last month. Originally, the bill would have allowed the state Department of Agriculture to issue fines of up to $1,000 an acre for first-time offenses and up to $2,000 an acre for repeat offenders. But on Monday, a Senate committee boosted the fines to $10,000 per violation before passing it unanimously.
The sponsor, Rep. Don Rone, R-Portageville, says the tougher penalties don't bother him.
"We have got to do what we can to get this across the finish line so the growers know these penalties," he said.
The bill would use money collected from the fines for local school districts.
House Bill 662 next goes before the full Senate. If it passes there it'll have to go back to the House so it can also vote on the stricter penalties for misusing herbicides.
Original story from Feb. 24, 2017 – Overwhelmingly, the Missouri House believes that farmers who misuse herbicides on crops and orchards should have to pay up.
On Thursday, they passed House Bill 662, 147-8. The measure would allow the Department of Agriculture to fine first-time violators up to $1,000 for each affected acre. Repeat offenders would have to pay up to $2,000 an acre.
The current fine is $1,000 per incident, regardless of the number of acres impacted. That's too small to be an effective deterrent, said House bill sponsor Don Rone, R-Portageville.
The Department of Agriculture saw more than 120 complaints last summer over illegal pesticide spraying in the Missouri Bootheel. More than 400 fields, encompassing nearly 40,000 acres of peaches, cotton, corn and soybeans, were contaminated by misuse and illegal spraying of the pesticide dicamba.
With spring planting not far away, Rone wants to get the measure to Gov. Eric Greitens for his signature as soon as possible.
"(Farmers are) preparing for a planting date of the middle of April for corn, the last of April for soybeans and cotton," he said. "We need to have this in place so the new penalties will be there and the growers will know that the new penalties are there."
The Senate is considering a similar bill, though fines would be $10,000 per incident.
Missouri lawmakers continue to follow reports of illegal spraying of crops in the Bootheel region.
So far, 124 complaints have been made of people using an outdated version of the herbicide dicamba. Investigators from the Missouri Department of Agriculture have been looking into the complaints over the past few months.
Missouri agriculture officials are looking into widespread misuse of pesticides in in the Bootheel region.
Judy Grundler is division director for plant industries within the state's Department of Agriculture. She told a state House committee on Thursday that there have been 115 complaints in four counties of pollution caused by pesticides in the past month alone.


Understand Al-Qur'an Academy > Articles > 12 Tips to Boost Your Salah!
It just doesn't feel the same . . . I lost it . . . How can I get it back?
Get ready for the ultimate salah-booster; a set of amazing productivity tips to enhance your prayer, give you a fresh perspective on the world of salah, and make you love your prayer like never before, inshaa'Allah!
The Prophet salallahu 'alayhi wa sallam told us, "Alhamdulillah fills the scale!" [Muslim] Really feel gratefulness when you say alhamdulillah. Did you see those documentaries where they zoom out from the cells of a plant's leaf all the way to the planets and galaxies? Now instead of that leaf, start the zoom out process with the image of yourself standing before Allah. Then zoom back down, back through the universe, to the place you are standing in prayer. The next time you pray view yourself from above and far away and truly taste the meaning of Rabbil aalemeen (Lord of the worlds)!
You alone we worship, and unto You alone we turn for help. Let this remind you to make Allah alone your focus, not the people. So when you are asked, why did you do this or that (deed), you can firmly answer: for Allah! Feel this ayah by knowing that the salaf used to weep for hours reciting it. One of them was once praying in Mecca. His friend went ahead and did the tawaf and when he returned to him, he was still at this verse, repeating it and crying, until the sun came up.
9. Say ameen as if your life depended on it.
When you say subhana Rabbiyya- al-'atheem (How perfect My Lord is, The Supreme) in ruku', focus on the pronoun that means my (in Rabbi). It adds that element of bonding: He is My Lord, who raised me in His care and who is nurturing me. Know the Prophet salallahu 'alayhi wa sallam and the Companions used to be in the bowing position as long as he would be in the standing segment of salah. One companion said that he recited Al Fatiha, then Al Baqara, Ali Imran, An-Nisaa' and Al Ma'ida, and the companion Abdullah Ibn Al Zubair was beside him, still in his ruku'!
Your sujood is the ultimate symbol of complete submission to your Creator. The Prophet said: The closest that a servant is to his Lord is when he is in prostration. [Muslim] And: Prostrate much because there is no Muslim that prostrates to Allah except that Allah raises him one degree in Paradise by it and forgives for him a sin. [Ahmad] Imagine you are being raised one degree in Paradise with each sujood and a sin falls off you with each prostration. Prostrate with body, heart, and soul and taste the sweetest feeling in the world!
After the words of the tashahhud (sitting position at the end of prayer) and before the tasleem (saying salaam to indicate the end of prayer), there is a precious moment many waste! When the Prophet salallahu 'alayhi wa sallam taught Abdallah ibn Mas'ood radiyallahu 'anhu the tashahhud he said: … Then let him choose whatever supplications he wishes. [Al-Bukhaari, Muslim]. Just before you say tasleem, make at least three heartfelt dua's to benefit from this treasure chest instead of rushing to say the salaam!
AND THE ANSWER IS . . . AZ-ZHAAHIR!
AND THE ANSWER IS . . . AL-WAARITH!
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State Supreme Court says counties can decide when to return to in-person court operations
Bruce Vielmetti
Courts in Wisconsin's 72 counties can shift back to more in-person hearings, and even jury trials, as they adopt their own approved plans to do so safely, the state Supreme Court has ordered.
But in the meantime, the local courts must continue following the high court's earlier, and now extended, restrictions meant to reduce the number of people in courtrooms and slow the spread of the coronavirus.
The newest order, issued late Friday, again drew dissent from Justices Rebecca Bradley and Daniel Kelly, who opposed the court's earlier orders to suspend various court deadlines as unconstitutional or infringing on the Legislature's authority to set them.
"The court's latest order continues to indefinitely suspend criminal and civil jury trials, with no consideration of the constitutional or statutory rights of litigants," Bradley wrote.
"For the reasons expressed in my dissents to prior orders of this court, I again dissent"
Chief Justice Patience Roggensack convened a statewide task force earlier this month to explore ways circuit courts could safely return to operations more like those prior to the public health emergency than the very stripped-down, remote or suspended iterations in place the past two months.
The report recognized that needs and resources will vary widely among counties and recommended each form their own committees to plan a safe return to in-person court operations. Friday's order references the report and requires counties to make those plans — which must be approved the chief judge for each county's circuit — before the Supreme Court restrictions will be lifted.
The order includes these bare minimum elements all plans should include: proof that all key stakeholders were involved in its formation; that all people coming to court wear masks and increased provisions for sanitizing high-touch surfaces in courtrooms and related spaces.
Judges could allow witnesses to remove their masks during testimony to aid in weighing the witness's credibility.
Jury trials are still likely a long way off in Milwaukee County, but in rural Bayfield County, Circuit Judge John P. Anderson has a jury trial set to begin Tuesday.
Justices Brian Hagedorn and Annette Ziegler concurred in the order, which they described as moving "in the direction of returning to local control." They would prefer giving counties even more flexibility.
"But we understand the importance of statewide standards as we phase back in to operating within the new normal. For these reasons, we concur."
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Contact Bruce Vielmetti at (414) 224-2187 or bvielmetti@jrn.com. Follow him on Twitter at @ProofHearsay.


Here's a video we did over a year ago, but possibly it would still be of some use to folks.
I personally don't have that nifty set of attachments, but you sure make me want to get them.
I have a couple of mystery attachments for my Necce that maybe I can post for advice.
That is an awesome video you shared with us. I have never used attachments when sewing ( really little clue as to what I am doing) but you take the mystery out of it. Do you use a hem roller foot or do you do your hems freehand?
Not a foot, but separate double fold hemmer attachment.
I normally use my 3/8 hemmer everyday.
that looks cool. I might need to invest in a better sewing machine than my current brother machine.