Reader, remember these three looks at Jesus, backward, upward, forward; and make use of them every day.
The first is the secret of peace of conscience: no peace unless we look backward at the cross of Christ!
The second is the secret of real daily strength and comfort in our walk with God: little solid comfort unless we look upward to Christ's intercession!
The third is the secret of bright and cheerful hope in a dark world: no bright prospect unless we look forward to Christ coming again!
Backward, upward, forward: these are the three ways in which we should look at Jesus. The person that looks at the cross is a wise person; the person that looks at the cross and the intercession also, is wiser still; but they that look at all three, the cross, the intercession, and the coming of Jesus, they are wisest of all.


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Dragon Ball Z Kakarot: Release Date, PS4, Trailer, Season Pass, Demo & Switch news
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The popular anime series has yet another video game coming soon, but when can we expect to play it?
Season Pass And DLC Release Date
The release date for Dragon Ball Z: Kakarot is just two days away!
With the launch drawing closer, many gamers want to know all the extensive details.
Here at RealSport, we have you covered as we go through the release date for Dragon Ball Z Kakarot and a ton of other news surrounding the new game.
Keep reading for all the information you need.
The game will launch on the 17th of January 2020.
Many news outlets have already had a chance to try an early demo with positive reviews so far.
The game will launch on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One and PC.
The game is a global launch scheduled for the same day.
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It was confirmed in November that the game will not be coming to Nintendo Switch.
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A number of Dragon Ball titles have made their way to the Nintendo Switch and although there are no immediate plans for it to launch on this console, it wouldn't surprise us to see it arrive down the line.
So far there has been no announcement about a playable demo or beta.
As we said many news outlets have already had a chance to try an early demo with positive reviews so far.
The game will come with a season pass, which will include two-story missions.
It's unclear what these are if, they're covering the majority of the DBZ story in the full game at release, you're likely to be left with the movies; traditionally seen as non-cannon.
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With that in mind, there are plenty of choices. The one that makes the most sense is the Broly movie, as it can fit in as a post-game mission; considering how popular the recent movie was, even if it wasn't from DBZ.
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I have been a fan of Layton Green for since I read The Egyptian so when he contacted me about reviewing his newest book, The Brothers Three I wanted to say yes. But The Brothers Three is described as a blend of urban and epic fantasy, neither of which are high on my favorite genres list. My love of Green's writing style led me to say yes and I'm glad I did.
Fantasy novels that I have enjoyed usually have one or more characters that are new to the fantasy universe of the story, like with Harry Potter discovering the wizarding world of Hogwarts. In The Brothers Three, we have not one but four characters who are thrown into an alternate universe where wizards rule the world. But this is no Hogwarts.
The Blackwood brothers were left basically as orphans when their father died on an archeological dig and their mother had a mental breakdown. The oldest brother Val raised his two younger brothers while putting himself through college and law school. Now he is a high-powered attorney in New York. Val is all no-nonsense, a literal, black & white thinker. While he no longer lives in New Orleans he still sees himself as the family caretaker and will do anything for his brothers.
Youngest brother Will is a construction worker by day and a sword welding actor by night. He is a fantasy geek that seeks his adventure in game boards and books because of his debilitating panic attacks. The alternate universe they find themselves in is like he stepped into the pages of one of his novels. His knowledge of fantasy mythos helps the brothers navigate the new world.
Middle brother Caleb has a laissez-faire mentality to life. He bartends because it supports his any goes type of lifestyle. There's food, there's drink, there are girls so why not live life even if he could die at any time while in this alternate place. But is there more to Caleb than perhaps even he knows?
Then there is ex-military, police officer Lance who gets accidentally taken along in the adventure. He's the warrior the in the group and faces every challenge head on, ready or not.
Each character comes to the alternative reality with their own perspective and I think a reader can find their own reaction in one of them. This provides for better buy-in to the story which is so important in a tale that requires the reader to suspend belief pretty rapidly.
The Brothers Three is a great fantasy novel with plenty of deadly adventure. There are winks to Dungeons & Dragons and Harry Potter (possibly others that I didn't catch due to my lack of fantasy knowledge). I had to wonder though if these "winks" were tributes to inspirations or just easy ways out.
I love Green's writing and his ability to sweep me completely into a story. Yet, with The Brothers Three, I felt his writing wasn't up to his normal standard. I still felt completely consumed with this story, stay up late into the night to read "just one more chapter". However, there were times that I felt pulled out of it by certain elements that usually came with a thought of "really you went there", like when they had to play wizard chess, or "gee that was convenient" when we were told something worked in this universe just because it needed to happen that way.
Even though I don't feel that The Brothers Three is Green's strongest novel, he did create an accessible fantasy adventure with great characters that fantasy geeks will love. I know I'm anxious for the next book in the series so I can find out what happens next (yes, there is a bit of a cliffhanger).


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Q: SKPhysicsWorld bodyWithTexture not working well with complex shapes Am I the only one whose having issues with the new bodyWithTexture function of SKPhysicsBody?
I'm new to iOS development and maybe it's me, but I'm trying to create a game where I need to detect if a ball is inside a path.
I'm loading both from images dynamically (as the level proceeds the paths are more and more complex), and I'm setting a physics body to both the ball (bodyWithCircle) and from the dynamic path which is a PNG file of a path and all the rest is transparent background. I'm using the new bodyWithTexture function (yes I know it's supported only under iOS 8), and after assigning bit masks I've defined a contact between the ball and path and am informed with begin/end contact.
SKSpriteNode *lvlPath = [SKSpriteNode spriteNodeWithImageNamed:currentLevel.imagePath];
lvlPath.position = CGPointMake(self.frame.size.width/2, self.frame.size.height/2);

lvlPath.physicsBody = [SKPhysicsBody bodyWithTexture:lvlPath.texture size:lvlPath.frame.size];

now for simple paths like straight line, it works great. once it comes to complicated paths - the mechanism is going crazy, at least in my simluator (running iOS 8).
i've created another simple app just to check this issue, and saw that it's going crazy when the path is a complex shape. when the ball enters the path in one direction it seems to be working (begin/end contact), but going the reverse direction suddenly acts weird when still inside the path it reports to have ended contact, and then like randomly flips begin/end contact.
help... since the levels are loaded dynamically, this is a really cool feature for me, saving me the definitions of all levels as CGPathRef and creating a polygon for each level (and perhaps device).
thanks all,
Eyal
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example screenshot:
https://www.dropbox.com/s/e8v9g1kajtvakfq/screenshot%20bodywithtexture.jpg?dl=0
in this example the ball with the arrow is inited using bodyWithCircle, and the C shaped object is inited using bodyWithTexture. I'm debug printing "didBeginContact" and "didEndContact" and it freaks out in the top line there, you can see it's with "didEndContact" while the two object are definitely at contact. If I jiggle it (I'm moving it with the cursor) it suddenly flips to "didBeginContact".
With Simpler objects (like horizontal/vertical lines with round corners) it works perfectly.

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This series is one of my favorites because Jessica Spotswood has written some wonderful characters and a fantastic story that includes magic, a swoony, swoony boy, and an interesting relationship between sisters. If you haven't read this series yet, definitely check it out. It's complete so you could really read all three!


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Q: pyqgis : Load WMS layer and make him invisible (qgis 3.4.3 ) I am loading WMS layer in Python console with simple code. Then I try to make the layer invisible in TOC, but not success. I run the code in QGIS 3.4.3 in Python console in Windows 10.
from qgis.core import QgsLayerTreeLayer,QgsProject

from PyQt5.QtCore import Qt

url_cur= "url='https://ags.iplan.gov.il/arcgis/rest/services/PlanningPublic/Xplan_2039/MapServer' layer='0'"

layer = iface.addRasterLayer( url_cur, 'a1', "arcgismapserver")

QgsProject.instance().addMapLayer(layer,False)

treeLay0 = QgsLayerTreeLayer (layer)

treeLay0.setItemVisibilityChecked (Qt.Unchecked )


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The champagne flowed, along with the tributes, on Saturday as irrepressible fashion designer Jean Paul Gaultier slathered his last ready-to-wear show in bucketloads of his famously wacky sense of humour.
Celebrities including French actress Catherine Deneuve and British pop singer Boy George fought their way through hordes of onlookers outside the Grand Rex cinema in central Paris to reach the much-anticipated fashion extravaganza.
And in a show that was classic Gaultier, the flamboyant showman of Paris fashion delighted his audience with a beauty-pageant theme that provoked cheers, whoops and roars of laughter.
Cards on guests' seats welcomed them to the "election of Miss Jean Paul Gaultier 2015" and thanked everyone who had supported him over the years with special mentions for "Miss Footballer's Wife", "Miss Fashion Editor" and "Miss Tour de France", all of whom he gently sent up during the show.
The event had been the must-have invitation of the current Paris fashion week since Gaultier announced his decision to quit ready-to-wear and concentrate on couture nearly two weeks ago.
The former enfant terrible of French fashion — regarded by many as the designer who "wrote the rules" on ready-to-wear — is known worldwide for his outlandish imagination, designing Madonna's cone-shaped bras and putting real people on the catwalk.
The 62-year-old Frenchman is also famed for the cult "Eurotrash" programme he presented with Antoine de Caunes on British television in the 1990s.
Gaultier earlier this month cited the hectic pace of the modern fashion industry for his decision to bow out after nearly 40 years.
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He launched himself in ready-to-wear in 1976 at a time of high creativity for the industry and later moved into couture in 1997.
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"Commercial constraints, as well as the frenetic pace of collections, don't leave any freedom, nor the necessary time to find fresh ideas and to innovate," he said.
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I spent a couple of decades asking Santa Claus for toys, clothes, and gadgets galore, but I don't have a single thing to show for it — I mean, besides a basement full of outdated stuff. Instead, I should've begged Ol' Saint Nick for these eight things that would have paid for themselves over and over again — so I could afford an even bigger basement full of outdated stuff. Take a look:
1. An Impenetrable Credit Score
When I turned 18 and the friendly lady at Discover Card called to ask if I'd like my very own credit card, I enthusiastically said yes. I generally consider that my very first adult mistake. Not that credit cards are bad, but they're the devil in the hands of a financially irresponsible college freshman. Because not only did I max the card out in less than six months, I was unaware that not paying the bill for five years thereafter would result in a disaster of a credit score when I entered the "real world." If only Santa could have done me a solid by fortifying my credit score — against myself.
2. Everything Gold
In 2006, I asked Santa Claus for things like seat covers for my vehicle and a new digital camera because that's what materialistic 25-year-olds in major credit card debt ask for. Instead, I should've asked for straight-up gold bars. Heck, I would've been happy with a few flakes — like this guy who got away with 86 pounds of jeweler's "bench sweeps" worth $1.6 million. Because 10 years ago, on Dec. 11, gold was valued at $625.81 per troy ounce. Flash forward a decade and the price has nearly doubled to between $1,100 and $1,200, depending on the day, and that's really just midrange. On Sept. 12, 2011, gold hit its 10-year high of $1,861.49 per troy ounce, which — if you were feeling lucky that day — raked in three times its original amount if you unloaded a few bricks.
3. EE Savings Bonds
Hardly anybody gives savings bonds as gifts anymore (well, except maybe your grandma) because what fun is a certificate that you have to hold on to for, like, ever to reap its benefits? But just because they're not as popular as they once were doesn't mean they're not still valuable — if you got in on them in the 1980s and '90s, that is. EE bonds issued in the 1980s had rates of return of 6% to 9% a year, compared to today's 0.1% annual fixed rate. Mathematically, if you have a $500 bond from June 1983, for instance, it reached full maturity in June 2013, with a value of $1,014.40. Santa, can you hear me?
4. Real Estate in Depressed Markets
Throughout my years living in major cities like Baltimore and NYC, I've heard legendary tales of beautiful row houses and brownstones in economically and socially depressed areas, like Federal Hill in Baltimore and Harlem in New York City, that sold for crazy-low prices like $1. The $1 price is probably a myth, but dilapidated properties have in fact gone for very affordable prices with agreements that buyers reside in their neighborhoods for a specified period of time. I personally know a few people who purchased homes in blighted areas for around $30,000 20 years ago and are now sitting pretty on $2+ million lots.
5. College Tuition
All I needed was a cool $100K, Santa. I would've paid my college tuition and room and board outright so I didn't have to make up for half that amount myself over the next 20 years after graduating. Alas, I'm halfway there, and I've paid two of three notes off, but if you could cut a check for the rest this year, I'd appreciate it.
6. A Trust Fund
My financial woes would be nonexistent if I had asked Santa for a generous trust fund at an early age. Then I'd be just like the rest of my friends who were lucky enough to be related to someone filthy rich — free of debt with plenty of time to take selfies on a beach and dedicate my life's work to my own liver replacement.
7. Guaranteed Employment
There's nothing more stressful than job hunting, and I'm thankful that I haven't had to do that in a while since I'm self-employed. But self-employment isn't easy, either. I'm responsible for my own income instead of enjoying that twice monthly direct deposit for just showing up at my desk five days a week. Still, even that's on shaky ground if you don't mind your Ps and Qs — a friend of mine was recently laid off two weeks before Christmas — so this year I'd like to ask the big guy to make sure everybody can get (or keep) the job they really love for a happy and prosperous 2017.
8. Winning Lottery Numbers
I rarely play the lottery, but I do spend a few bucks when Mega Millions is, like $300 million, because, hey, somebody has to win. If that ever happens, my friends, you'll never hear from me again. Ev-er. Send me those winning numbers, Santa!
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Very cute! Thanks for posting.
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Football: LionsXII coaching puzzle set to fall into place this week
The front runners for the next LionsXII coach are Fandi Ahmad (left) and Richard Bok, as the Football Association of Singapore promises an announcement before the month is out. -- TNP FILE PHOTOS: BENJAMIN SEETOR, GARY GOH
Nov 25, 2013, 5:28 pm SGT
http://str.sg/C37
Fabius Chen
THE question of who will succeed V. Sundramoorthy as LionsXII coach will be answered in the next few days.
And with the Football Association of Singapore promising an announcement before the month is out, the front runners are Fandi Ahmad and Richard Bok.
Fandi is available after leaving Malaysian Super League side Johor Darul Takzim in August and boasts a coaching resume that included two S-League titles with Singapore Armed Forces FC (now known as Warriors FC).
The 51-year-old was former national coach Raddy Avramovic's right-hand man as the Lions lifted the 2004 Asean Football Federation Cup and led the Young Lions - the Republic's Under-23 side - to two third-place finishes in the domestic league.
Bok is a three-time S-League Coach of the Year and the most successful coach in S-league history with four titles.
There were over 70 applicants for the post.


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Ty Pozzobon
To protect and support the health and well-being of Western Lifestyle Participants inside and outside the arena.
#LIVELIKETY
Please send donation check to:
Ty Pozzobon Foundation
Ty Pozzobon, A.K.A. Pozzy was born to be a cowboy. He was born on November 9, 1991, and grew up in Merritt, British Columbia. Ty had a dream of mastering extreme sport animals. Eight seconds of domination, rewarded with gold buckles, glory, and fame. The young bull rider saw his childhood dreams come true. By the age of 25, Pozzobon was a three-time Canadian Finals Rodeo (CFR) qualifier. He was crowned the 2016 Professional Bull Riders (PBR) Canadian Champion. In 2016 Ty posted five event wins. He also made Canada proud by finishing fourth in the PBR Built Ford Tough World Finals in Las Vegas, Nevada.
Ty married Jayd on October 11th, 2015 in Yoakum Texas. She was training barrel racing horses when they first met in 2012. They hit it off quickly. Shortly after their marriage, they established their home near Merritt B.C. The couple had no children. Ty was a caring individal that made him instantly likable. He was known for having an infectious smile.
Professional Bull Riding is a dangerous sport. The young phenom sustained his fair share of injuries. Bumps, bruises, and broken bones were not uncommon. More notably, Ty suffered several concussions in the rodeo arena. The damage these caused was sadly irreparable. Ty took his own life, January 9th, 2017. An autopsy confirmed that he suffered from Chronic traumatic encephalopathy (CTE). The first confirmed case identified in a bull rider. Ty's life ended far too early. In his honour, the Ty Pozzobon Foundation was formed. Its ultimate goal is to prevent CTE from taking the lives of any western lifestyle participants, ever again.
Ty Pozzobon Foundation was established in February of 2017. Tanner Byrne and Chad Besplug were two of Ty's closest friends and western lifestyle participants. They were instrumental in starting the Ty Pozzobon Foundation. Chad Besplug stated, "we want to break the stigma and start the conversation about mental health". No one should have to battle this demon on their own. Bull riders would share advice on how to stay on top of a bull. Now they are sharing advice on how to stay on top of life.
Studies have revealed that bull riders can experience forces in excess of 26 Gs, during a ride. More pressure than an astronaut during lift-off. Compacted into an 8-second window. Trauma can be generated by a fall but also during a successful ride. In Saskatoon, on November 14th, 2014 Ty experienced another type of Trauma. The bull he drew, Boot Strap Bill, stepped on Ty's helmet. The helmet broke, then the bull stepped on Ty's head. He was unconscious for 24-minutes. His family and friends pleaded with him to retire but it was in his blood. He was back to limited riding in February of 2015. Ty competed on the entire circuit in 2016. He earned the title of PBR Canadian Champion.
After Ty's passing, his family consented to donating his brain for invaluable research. This would be one of his last gifts to the rodeo world. Post-mortem analysis is currently the only way to identify CET. Hopefully, diagnostic tools will someday be available for live patients.
Through the foundation, Ty's legacy should never die. With the blessing and support of Ty's family, the Ty Pozzobon Foundation roots were planted. A lot of work has gone on in a very short time. The foundation has been incorporated both in the United States and Canada. The foundation is functioning with a board and a mission statement to forever honour Ty's legacy.
Ty left us with a few wise words in one of his last known interviews. "For me, I've just got to live in the moment. In the past I kind of took all of this for granted. I never really lived in the moment and I had it all taken from me. I wish I would have just really enjoyed what I had and lived in that moment. That's kind of what I'm doing right now, I'm just talking one ride at a time."
1. To advance the education of rodeo and bull riding athletes, administrators, and medical professionals. Educate the public on the nature of concussions and the importance of prevention. Understand what concussions are, how they occur. Inform how to recognize signs and symptoms of concussion. Identify best practices for care and management once a concussion occurs.
2. To promote health and safety by:
A. Establishing and implementing clinical care pathways to diagnosing and managing concussions, including tracking those diagnosed with concussion and sharing information among health care professionals to increase the likelihood of a successful return to normal activities.
B. Establishing and implementing concussion protocols, policies, guidelines, and action plans. This will promote proper safety, care, and procedures for individuals participating in the sport of rodeo with an emphasis on bull riding.
C. Facilitating and promoting access for rodeo and bull riding athletes to health and sports medicine professionals and services. This includes baseline evaluations and assessments, post-concussion clinical services and monitored return to play programs.
D. Funding scientific research carried on by qualified personnel in the area of concussions and other brain related injuries associated with sports in Canada, particularly bull riding.
3. To promote health and well-being. This includes overall mental health awareness. Providing western lifestyle participants with access to counselling, health, and medical-related information and resources. Also, provide support programs and medical services.
4. To donate funds, from time to time, to qualified donees as defined in subsection 149.1(1) of the Income Tax Act (Canada), as determined by the Board of Directors.
Frequent, intense, concussion-type injuries can begin in childhood. As early as a fall off a first pony or getting bucked off the first steer. They can continue throughout the end of a professional rode career. For some sports, the warning signs of these injuries can be obvious. The nature of rodeo can sometimes cover them up. "They shake it off" and away they go. You jump in the truck and away you go. Do you sleep? No. So do you know you have insomnia? No, because you haven't slept well for quite some time.
Cowboys like Pozzobon brushed off their injuries. The resulting mental health issues are not as easy to shake. Through this selfless donation by the Pozzobon family, his memory will live on. Someday Ty may help a fellow competitor through their brain injuries. Likely that day may have already come for some.
Injuries and accidents will never be completely preventable. Advancements through education, injury protection equipment will help. The creation of standardized injury protocols is also required. Creating a culture that talks about mental health issues is vital. It could someday mean that western lifestyle participants do not have to suffer a loss like that of Ty Pozzobon again. That is the ultimate goal of the Ty Pozzobon Foundation.
Support through the purchase of our merchandise
We have a retail outlet dedicated to Ty Pozzobon branded merchandise. Clothing for men, women, and children.
2581 Lauder Avenue
Merritt, British Columbia V1K 1M8, CA
info@typozzobon.com
Monday 9:00 a.m. – 5:00 p.m.
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We also have an online store: https://typozzobon.square.site/
Proceeds from the sale of merchandise supports the work of the Ty Pozzobon Foundation. Thank you for supporting this worthy cause. #LIVELIKETY
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Royal Commission spotlights the mortgage fraud that could implode the banking system
From our friends at the CEC:
In its first fortnight of hearings, the Banking Royal Commission drew the nation's attention to the huge problem of mortgage fraud. The hearings showed that each of the big four banks, which together control 80 per cent of banking in Australia, have engaged in fraud on a massive scale. The fraud is not confined to the margins of the home loan business, but infects the majority of mortgages, which means most borrowers can't afford their loans. The bottom line is there is nothing real propping up the Australian housing market—it is a bubble of lies, and it would only take a slight shock to burst the bubble and bring down the entire banking system.
Until now, a small number of individuals and organisations, including the Citizens Electoral Council, have been warning of this danger. The Royal Commission has forced everyone to look at it. A shocked Robert Gottliebsen fretted in the 21 March Australian Business Review that the extent of the fraud means the Reserve Bank shouldn't raise interest rates. "Reserve Bank Governor Philip Lowe must [be] becoming increasingly concerned at the revelations at the banking royal commission", Gottliebsen wrote. "Lowe now knows that some if not all the banks have let their credit standards slip…. The false income statements on bank loan applications are contributing to widespread mortgage stress because incomes have not been rising. If Lowe increased interest rates it would cause a lot of people to throw in the towel and sell up and if that resulted in a setback to the housing market the loan dominoes falling would cause considerable bank losses."
Analysts at giant investment bank UBS went further, warning that a possible consequence of the Royal Commission exposing the fraud could be a credit crunch—like the total breakdown in bank lending that happened in the 2008 global financial crisis. UBS analyst George Tharenou told ABC News reporter Stephen Letts on 24 March: "In this scenario there is a risk of a pick-up in arrears as existing borrowers become financially stressed, and could precipitate a broad-based credit event."
Mortgage fraud worse than reported
Mortgage fraud is a crisis, even worse than revealed in the Royal Commission. The most authoritative analysis comes from Denise Brailey of the Banking and Finance Consumers Support Association (BFCSA), who estimates that 80 per cent of all mortgages are "sub-prime" interest-only loans, of which 70 per cent of borrowers don't know they are interest-only.
Mrs Brailey is one of Australia's leading experts on bank fraud. A trained criminologist, for decades she has advocated on behalf of thousands of bank victims to save their homes. She has also testified before numerous Parliamentary inquiries.
The BFCSA has made a submission to the Royal Commission, which reveals how the fraud is perpetrated. The information comes from the thousands of cases Denise Brailey has worked through personally, and her interviews with countless victims and mortgage brokers. She explained the key elements of the fraud in a two-part interview with The CEC Report on 22 March. (Click here to view Part 1.)
The BFCSA submission exposes:
The mortgage fraud is driven by the banks, not brokers. The banks employ Business Development Managers to give brokers 30 hours of minimal training, which includes encouraging the brokers to practice on their families—this has led to many brokers' family members also losing their homes due to unaffordable loans.
The components of the "black box" of the fraud machine include the (usually) 11-page Loan Application Form, of which the borrowers only see three pages, while the balance is filled out according to banks' specifications; and the "serviceability calculator", which the banks control and brokers can only access with a password, and which ignores actual living expenses in favour of the Henderson Poverty Index that assumes all borrowers live on bread and water.
The unaffordability of loans is hidden for the first 3-5 years by various buffer loans, including credit cards with large limits and personal overdrafts, which the borrowers use to make their initial repayments. On average, the borrower's debt increases by $150,000 in the first five years. The need for buffers proves the loans are unaffordable. When the buffers run out, banks avert defaults by refinancing the loans.
The banks securitise these dodgy loans, and on-sell them to investors as Residential Mortgage Backed Securities (RMBS). It is the payment stream that is securitised, but the investors wouldn't know that the payments are not coming from the incomes of the borrowers, but from extra credit from the banks—a huge Ponzi scheme at the heart of Australia's financial system.
Prepare for a crash
The shocking level of fraud in mortgage lending is a huge, immediate threat to Australia's banks and economy. The dramatic rise in house prices since 2000 has completely distorted the Australian economy, such that financial services (dominated by mortgage lending), real estate and construction are Australia's three largest economic sectors, and collectively account for more than a quarter of all economic activity. The government must face the reality, informed by the Royal Commission and the BFCSA, that mortgage fraud, and not real demand, has fuelled the extraordinary expansion of these sectors, which means it's a house of cards that could come crashing down from just a small interest rate rise, or any other event that drives up the cost of living for mortgage-stressed borrowers. A rise in defaults will crash the housing market, destroy the jobs of hundreds of thousands of construction workers, bankrupt the big banks which have made mortgages more than 60 per cent of their business, and plunge Australia into economic chaos.
The CEC calls on the government to take two actions in response to the mortgage fraud and the economic threat it has created:
Expand the powers and duration of the Royal Commission, so it can investigate every aspect of the criminal fraud in the system, especially the complicity of the regulators APRA and ASIC, without hindrance, and hear testimony from real experts such as Denise Brailey;
Implement a structural, "Glass-Steagall" separation of the banking system, which will be a firewall to protect the real economy from a banking crash, and will stop banks from the gambling in mortgage backed securities and other derivatives that has been integral to their mortgage control fraud.
The Old Egg Seller
She asked him, "How much are you selling the eggs for?"
The old seller replied, "$.25 an egg, Madam."
he said to him, "I will take 6 eggs for $1.25 or I will leave."
The old seller replied, "Come take them at the price you want. Maybe, this is a good beginning because I have not been able to sell even a single egg today."
She took the eggs and walked away feeling she had won. She got into her fancy car and went to a posh restaurant with her friend. There, she and her friend, ordered whatever they liked. They ate a little and left a lot of what they ordered. Then she went to pay the bill. The bill cost her $45.00 She gave $50.00 and told the owner of the restaurant to keep the change.
This incident might have seemed quite normal to the restaurant owner but, had he seen it, very painful to the poor egg seller.
The point is, why do many show they have the power when they buy from the needy? And why get generous to those who do not even need our generosity?
I once read somewhere: My father used to buy simple goods from poor people at high prices, even though he did not need them.
Sometimes he even used to pay extra for them. I got concerned by this act and asked him why does he do so? My father replied, "It is a charity wrapped with dignity, my child."
If you feel that people need to see this, then do spread this message.
Love this concept! Charity wrapped with dignity!
If more of us did it, we'd have less government handouts which breed only dependence on an unethical, irresponsible, self-serving few who spend other people's money all too freely.
The story may or may not be true but the principle is a valid as the sun and the grass.
Do What Works
This logic won't sway those who feel rather than think but if you can do both, it tells a strong story. You need a balance of intelligence and force to survive in this universe.
How To Parent
Great synopsis!
Said No Mother Ever!
NOT ALL THIEVES ARE STUPID
1. LONG – TERM PARKING
Someone left their car in the long-term parking at the airport while away, and a thief broke into the car. Using the information on the car's registration in the glove compartment, they drove the car to the people's home and robbed it. So I guess if we are going to leave the car in long-term parking, we should leave neither the registration/insurance cards in it nor your remote garage door opener. This gives us something to think about with all our new electronic technology.
2. GPS:
Someone had their car broken into while they were at a football game. Their car was parked on the green which was adjacent to the football stadium and specially allotted to football fans. Things stolen from the car included a garage door remote control, some money and a GPS which had been prominently mounted on the dashboard. When the victims got home, they found that their house had been ransacked and just about everything worth anything had been stolen. The thieves had used the GPS to guide them to the house. They then used the garage remote control to open the garage door and gain entry to the house. The thieves knew the owners were at the football game, they knew what time the game was scheduled to finish and so they knew how much time they had to clean out the house. It would appear that they had brought a truck to empty the house of its contents. Something to consider if you have a GPS – don't put your home address in it. Put a nearby address (like a store or gas station) so you can still find your way home if you need to, but no one else would know where you live if your GPS were stolen.
3. CELL PHONES:
This lady has now changed her habit of how she lists her names on her cell phone after her handbag was stolen. Her handbag, which contained her cell phone, credit card, wallet, etc., was stolen. Twenty minutes later when she called her hubby, from a pay phone telling him what had happened, hubby says, "I received your text asking about our Pin number and I've replied a little while ago." When they rushed down to the bank, the bank staff told them all the money was already withdrawn. The thief had actually used the stolen cell phone to text "hubby" in the contact list and got hold of the pin number. Within 20 minutes he had withdrawn all the money from their bank account.
4. PURSE IN THE GROCERY CART SCAM:
A lady went grocery-shopping at a local mall and left her purse sitting in the children's seat of the cart while she reached something off a shelf/ Wait till you read the WHOLE story! Her wallet was stolen, and she reported it to the store personnel. After returning home, she received a phone call from the Mall Security to say that they had her wallet and that although there was no money in it, it did still hold her personal papers. She immediately went to pick up her wallet, only to be told by Mall Security that they had not called her. By the time she returned home again, her house had been broken into and burglarized. The thieves knew that by calling and saying they were Mall Security, they could lure her out of her house long enough for them to burglarize it.
Moral lesson:
A. Do not disclose the relationship between you and the people in your contact list. Avoid using names like Home, Honey, Hubby, Sweetheart, Dad, Mom, etc.
B. And very importantly, when sensitive info is being asked through texts, CONFIRM by calling back.
C. Also, when you're being texted by friends or family to meet them somewhere, be sure to call back to confirm that the message came from them. If you don't reach them, be very careful about going places to meet "family and friends" who text you.
PLEASE PASS THIS ON
Even if this does not pertain to you, please let your family and friends know so they don't get caught in a scam.
How 5G Will Harm The Birds, Bees And Your Loved Ones
Here's a major potential problem…
https://patriots4truth.org/2018/02/04/how-5g-will-kill-the-birds-bees-and-your-loved-ones/
This Cirque Du Soleil Jump Rope Artist Had Our Mouths Hanging Open
https://rumble.com/v309lo-2016-world-best-jump-roper-bnhegyi-adrienn-monti-csrds.html
Installing Autumn
It certainly felt like that earlier this wek but I am sure that will pass…


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55 year old Otis lives in southwestern Oregon. His favourite Peak Show song is "Stupid Little Fellow" but he is also partial to "Junk Drawer"
He would like to send a shout-outs to all the brothers and sisters on the Message Board and is anxiously awaiting the release of the new album.
Nice job Otis, you're a true fan.


In this blog post I will show you how to use real 3D perspective in a typical 2D card game. We will not look into the actual game logic, but only focus on the graphics side. Ranging from obtaining and preparing the assets up until using a perspective camera and positioning and rotating playing cards in 3D space. This is a relatively low entry tutorial, but some experience with libGDX is recommended.
A very common mistake when creating a (2D) game is to use (imaginary) pixels. Although it's certainly understandable that some might find it easier to "think in pixels" when creating a 2D game, especially when learning, it is doomed to cause issues on the long run. In this little blog post I will show you why there are no pixels and why you probably shouldn't use them.
Bullet is a Collision Detection and Rigid Body Dynamics Library. In this second part of this tutorial we will learn how to use the libGDX Bullet wrapper for Rigid Body Dynamics. This is the part where we simulate real world physics like applying forces, responding to collisions and so forth.
When rendering a 3D scene, the actual amount of visible objects is often a lot less than the total amount of objects within the scene. Rendering all object, even those that are not visible, can be a waste of precious GPU time and decrease the speed of the game. Ideally you'd want to render only those objects which are actually visible to the camera and ignore all other objects which for example are behind the camera. This is known as frustum culling and there are several ways to accomplish this. This tutorial will show you the very basics in how to accomplish frustum culling using the 3D api of LibGDX.
In this tutorial we will see how to use materials with libGDX. Materials are used by shaders, therefor this tutorial continues where we left of in the previous tutorial, in which we created a custom shader. If you haven't done so, I'd suggest to read that tutorial prior to this one.
In the first part of this tutorial we've seen the overall structure of the Model class of the LibGDX 3D API. In this second part we will look at the rendering pipeline, starting from loading the model, all the way up to actually rendering the model. We will not go in depth on each specific part of the rendering pipeline. We'll just look at the very basics, which I think you should know when working with the 3D api.
In the previous tutorial, we've seen how to setup libgdx for rendering a 3D scene. We've setup a camera, added some lights and rendered a green box. Now let's make things a bit more iteresting by adding loading a model instead of creating a box.


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Q: Flink deployment production standards We have a Flink cluster managed by different team. Cluster is shared between multiple jobs. So in any particular time any task manager is having slots running different jobs' operations.I have few question-

*

*Is this advisable to share cluster in prod with other jobs?

*If one job fails, it will kill task manager running threads of another job
as well?

*If we have no other way and have to go with shared cluster,
what is the best way to handle exception scenarios so that another
job is not got killed when Task manager commit suicide with FATAL error?

A: *

*I would recommend using Flink's job mode where you have a dedicated Flink cluster per job. This gives you job isolation and a malign Flink job won't be able to thwart your other jobs.

*If a job fails due to a task failure, then this won't affect other jobs being executed on the same TaskManager.

*If a TaskManager fails, then all currently executed tasks will fail. Consequently, all jobs which have at least one task which is executed on this TaskManager will fail and then need to be recovered. Currently, there is no way to enforce a per job isolation on a shared cluster. However, there is a JIRA issue which tries to solve this problem by introducing job-level tags. These tags could be used to control the scheduling of tasks belonging to different jobs.


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package org.olat.lms.search.indexer.repository.course;

import java.io.File;
import java.io.IOException;

import org.apache.log4j.Logger;
import org.olat.data.basesecurity.Identity;
import org.olat.data.basesecurity.Roles;
import org.olat.data.commons.vfs.LocalFolderImpl;
import org.olat.data.commons.vfs.VFSContainer;
import org.olat.data.repository.RepositoryEntry;
import org.olat.lms.commons.context.BusinessControl;
import org.olat.lms.commons.context.ContextEntry;
import org.olat.lms.commons.fileresource.FileResourceManager;
import org.olat.lms.course.ICourse;
import org.olat.lms.course.nodes.CourseNode;
import org.olat.lms.search.SearchResourceContext;
import org.olat.lms.search.indexer.FolderIndexer;
import org.olat.lms.search.indexer.FolderIndexerAccess;
import org.olat.lms.search.indexer.OlatFullIndexer;
import org.olat.lms.search.indexer.repository.CourseIndexer;
import org.olat.system.exception.AssertException;
import org.olat.system.logging.log4j.LoggerHelper;

/**
 * Indexer for BC (content-package) course-node.
 *
 * @author Christian Guretzki
 */
public class CPCourseNodeIndexer extends FolderIndexer implements CourseNodeIndexer {

    private static final Logger log = LoggerHelper.getLogger();
    // Must correspond with LocalString_xx.properties
    // Do not use '_' because we want to seach for certain documenttype and lucene haev problems with '_'
    public final static String TYPE = "type.course.node.cp";

    private final static String SUPPORTED_TYPE_NAME = "org.olat.lms.course.nodes.CPCourseNode";

    private final CourseIndexer courseNodeIndexer;

    private int courseNodeCounter = 0;

    public CPCourseNodeIndexer() {
        courseNodeIndexer = new CourseIndexer();

    }

    @Override
    public void doIndex(final SearchResourceContext repositoryResourceContext, final ICourse course, final CourseNode courseNode, final OlatFullIndexer indexWriter)
            throws IOException, InterruptedException {
        if (log.isDebugEnabled()) {
            log.debug("Index Content Package... courseNodeCounter=" + courseNodeCounter++);
        }

        final SearchResourceContext courseNodeResourceContext = new SearchResourceContext(repositoryResourceContext);
        courseNodeResourceContext.setBusinessControlFor(courseNode);
        courseNodeResourceContext.setDocumentType(TYPE);

        final RepositoryEntry re = courseNode.getReferencedRepositoryEntry();
        if (re == null) {
            throw new AssertException("configurationkey 'CONFIG_KEY_REPOSITORY_SOFTKEY' of BB CP was missing");
        }
        final File cpRoot = FileResourceManager.getInstance().unzipFileResource(re.getOlatResource());
        if (cpRoot == null) {
            throw new AssertException("file of repository entry " + re.getKey() + "was missing");
        }

        final VFSContainer rootContainer = new LocalFolderImpl(cpRoot);
        doIndexVFSContainer(courseNodeResourceContext, rootContainer, indexWriter, "", FolderIndexerAccess.FULL_ACCESS);

        // go further, index my child nodes
        courseNodeIndexer.doIndexCourse(repositoryResourceContext, course, courseNode, indexWriter);
    }

    @Override
    public String getSupportedTypeName() {
        return SUPPORTED_TYPE_NAME;
    }

    @Override
    public boolean checkAccess(final ContextEntry contextEntry, final BusinessControl businessControl, final Identity identity, final Roles roles) {
        return true;
    }

}

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Strange Wetlands™
A Series by Leah Stetson
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The Birds Attack! Remembering Daphne du Maurier's The Birds
My favorite writer, Daphne du Maurier, wrote the creepy novelette, "The Birds," (1952) which Hitchcock made into one of his more famous films in 1963. Set against the backdrop of the Cold War, the story was an analogy of the terror that overtook the U.S. and European countries. The story presupposes the question, "what happens when birds—normally the symbol of peace—suddenly start attacking people?" While the story focuses on one farmer's family, it's a powerful metaphor for the tension and claustrophobia that people felt during bomb raids.
Now suppose we are living in one of du Maurier's stories—and replace the Cold War with the underlying tension seeping out of diverse impacts from climate change, such as sea level rise and its effects on marshland in the Chesapeake Bay area http://www.delmarvanow.com/article/20091101/
NEWS01/91101008/1002/Climate-change-poses-rising-threat-to-Chesapeake-Bay-marshland. The birds are at it again, attacking people…in wetlands. At a picnic in coastal Maine this past spring, some ballsy seagulls swooped down on our group and stole our veggie burgers right off the hot grill and out of one person's hands. My friend, Josie, and I were once attacked by a mating pair of loons one summer while we were swimming. I took a loon in the armpit. Josie got beaked from the side. Loons aren't the symbol of tranquility in my family; we call, "Loon torpedo!" when we see the famed black & white bird cruise into our swimming cove. People love loons. But loons don't love people.
Meanwhile media reports have flitted in over the wires in several countries, U.S.A. included, suggesting an increase in bird-human encounters. However, bird attacks on people are so rare in numbers that often, it doesn't make the news, and no one's counting.
Mad mockingbirds! Crazy crows! Wrathful woodpeckers! Hawks in a huff! Black terns have been known to attack people who get too close, no matter the season. Red-winged blackbirds defend their nests aggressively when people walk into their habitat. Male red-winged blackbirds spend their mornings in February and March defending their marsh and they can get increasingly aggressive through the breeding season (June). Chicago was under redwing blackbird attack in 2008: http://www.time.com/time/nation/article/0,8599,1817833,00.html As a means of defense, birds use scare tactics. Their aim is not to peck out someone's eyes (as happened in du Maurier's tale of terror!) but to scare, bluff and chase intruders away.http://birds.suite101.com/article.cfm/the_attacking_redwinged_blackbird Gangs of grackles attacked pedestrians in Houston, leading law enforcement to close an entire street in 2005, a scene that was compared to the Hitchcock film. http://www.democraticunderground.com/discuss/duboard.php?az=view_all&address=104×3680438
What is causing birds to dive-bomb like B-52s? Experts have proposed a likely theory: Suburban sprawl has spread to woodsy and wetland areas with trees interspersed with human dwellings and community centers. Then again, it's not just birds attacking people in wetlands—it's also happening among the pecking order. And in some wetlands, the gulls are winning. http://www.sanluisobispo.com/528/story/916635.html Check out this bald eagle attacking a swan mid-flight last week in British Columbia:http://www.environmentalgraffiti.com/featured/bald-eagle-aerial-attack-unsuspecting-swan/16767 Don't worry, the swan makes it. My favorite bird, the Great Blue Heron, has always fascinated me—but then I know its true power. With a forceful speed and grace, blue herons have attacked men who got too close. This description from a New York Times article about a historic heron attack in 1883 is something of a horror scene:http://query.nytimes.com/mem/archive-free/pdf?_r=1&res=9E0DE2DB1431E433A25754C2A9639C94629FD7CF
For those venturing into wetlands during the bird breeding seasons, take care. Here are some tips for living near swooping birds' habitat during breeding season:
How to Live with Swooping Birds during Nesting Season (Florida)
http://www.wildclassroom.net/wildideas/swoopingbirds.html
What to do in case of a potential swooping bird attack:
Avoid the "swoop" area—this is an open area between stands of trees, like a marsh, a wet meadow, but could also be a recreational park area.
If riding a bike, wear a helmet, and if birds begin to swoop, get off the bike and walk it to safety. Swooping birds can cause a cyclist to have an accidental injury.
Warn others. If there are others who might be unaware of swooping birds, such as children, let them know to be observant or to avoid the area, especially during certain birds' breeding seasons.
Travel in a group. Most birds only swoop down onto individuals.
Be confident and face a swooping bird. Like tigers, birds tend to attack prey that are facing away from them.
Do not panic and run. It will only encourage a bird to continue its attack.
Wear a hat in the area where there are swooping birds.
Paint "eyes" on the back of your hat. Wearing sunglasses on the back of a hat has the same effect.
Holding a stick or umbrella over one's head will deter a bird attack.
Do not harass, interfere or throw stones at birds. This only makes them more aggressive and defensive, especially if they have nests nearby.
Do not destroy nests.
Do not feed or try to befriend swooping birds.
-List adapted from the Department of Sustainability, Victoria, Australia
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Lufthansa To Enter Talks With IAG Group Regarding BMI Sale
by Lufthansa Flyer | Nov 2, 2011 | Uncategorized |
I found this article on airwise.com, and to date its the most definitive information that I've seen regarding the potential sale of BMI by Lufthansa:
Dated 1 November, 2011:
Lufthansa is set to enter exclusive talks to sell loss-making carrier bmi by the end of the month, with arch rival IAG, the owner of British Airways and Iberia, seen as the front-runner, sources said on Tuesday.
"The price won't be substantial, it's mainly about cleaning Lufthansa's balance sheet and getting rid of the debt," one source close to the sales process said.
Bmi has been a millstone around Lufthansa's neck and by putting it up for sale, the company has admitted efforts have stalled to turn around the unit, which reported losses of EUR€154 million (USD$214.8 million) for the first nine months of 2011.
Lufthansa finance chief Stephan Gemkow said at the group's third-quarter results last week talks were going on with several interested parties and that a binding deal could be reached this year.
The source added there were a handful of bidders, including IAG and Virgin Atlantic.
While Lufthansa is seeking to sell bmi as a whole, another source close to the deal said the most likely outcome would be Lufthansa selling bmi's coveted slots at Heathrow, Europe's largest airport, to IAG.
IAG would then pass on some of those slots to Virgin to relieve competition concerns.
"Lufthansa will likely sell bmi's slots for about GBP£300 million max and its stake in (air traffic manager) NATS and fetch about GBP£400 million in total, so just enough to recover from the losses accumulated since the bmi acquisition," the person said.
With the Heathrow slots sold, smaller players such as Flybe or Eastern could then look to pick up bmi regional.
While some have queried whether Lufthansa would sell bmi to arch rival British Airways, thus strengthening the latter's position at London's Heathrow, one of the sources close to the deal said Lufthansa's desire to be rid of bmi would come first.
"Lufthansa is losing patience and could finally surrender to selling to IAG. They really tried hard to avoid giving them such a strong presence at Heathrow."
One airline industry specialist, who did not want to be named, said Lufthansa would also be keen to avoid bmi falling into the clutches of Gulf airline Etihad, which sources say is teaming up with Virgin for a bid.
"Lufthansa is doing everything in its power to keep the fast growing Gulf airlines at bay – why should they allow a main competitor to gain a foothold on Europe's busiest airport in Heathrow," he said.
Here's the link directly to the airwise.com article:
http://news.airwise.com/story/view/1320164902.html


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NEW LONDON (AP) — A spring ritual is underway in Wisconsin. And, it's an early start to the sturgeon spawning run on the Wolf River.
Dozens of the large, ancient fish spawn in shallow river water west of New London.State Department of Natural Resources sturgeon biologist Ryan Koenigs says the spawning season has started about nine days earlier than usual. And it could last just a few days.
Biologists say some male sturgeon migration every spring, but the females make the trip every three to five years.
Upstream in Shiocton, people visiting Bamboo Bend will have a new way to see the fish. WLUK-TV reports four cameras have been placed in the river to capture the underwater action. The video is played all summer long at a new pavilion.


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Peter Thomas ZABIELSKIS, as Associate Professor of Anthropology at the University of Macau, has continued to offer an international focus that has been warmly welcomed by students that can be seen in the popularity of his courses. His research interests include material culture, art, architecture, religion, heritage, and the urban built environment in Macau and Southeast Asia, especially Malaysia. He spent over two years doing field research in George Town, Penang, Malaysia and received his doctorate from New York University. Recent publications include studies of village festivals in Leizhou, China, civil society, tourism and heritage theory and urban development in Penang and Macau, including "Towards a Moral Ecology of the City: A new form of place-based identity and social action in Penang, Malaysia" in International Development Planning Review and "Faith and property: Pressures of development and change on the Kwan Tai - Tin Hau temple in Cheok Ka Chun, Taipa, Macau," in Macao: The Formation of a Global City. He is the co-editor of Penang and Its Networks of Knowledge (2017), a volume that brings together many distinguished scholars of Southeast Asia. Other projects include a study of the culture of gambling-related crimes in Macau in Crime, Law and Social Change, studies of tourism in Macau and the material culture of magic and trance in Chinese folk religion, as well as a comparison of past, present and future transformations in the meaning and use of public urban space in Macau and São Paulo, Brazil. Peter has frequently been interviewed about his research and teaching by the media in Macau.
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Academic Freedom Under Siege: Higher Education in East Asia, the US, and Australia, edited by Zhidong Hao and Peter Zabielskis, New York: Springer
"Afterword," in Academic Freedom Under Siege: Higher Education in East Asia, the US, and Australia, edited by Zhidong Hao and Peter Zabielskis
"The Material Moral Economy of Spirit Possession," in The Material Culture of Magic, edited by Antje Bosselmann-Ruickbie and Leo Ruickbie, Numen Book Series, Studies in the History of Religions, (Leiden and Boston: Brill
"Preface," Acclimation: The Art of Tang Kuok Hou
"Challenges of Heritage Development Projects in Macau and Penang: Preservation and Anti-preservation" in Dynamics of Community Formation: Developing Identity and Notions of Home, edited by Robert W. Compton, Jr., Ho Hon Leung, and Yaser Robles, New York: Palgrave Macmillan, 135-158
"槟城:东方之珠与物质主义精神" ["Bin cheng: dong fang zhi zhu yu wu zhi zhu yi jing shen], ["Penang: A Pearl of a Place and The Spirit of Materialism"], in 城市的精神2: 包容与认同 [cheng shi de jing shen 2: bao rong yu ren tong] [The Spirit of Cities 2: Inclusion and Identification] edited by Daniel A. Bell, Chongqing: Chongqing Publishing Group, 373-405
Penang and Its Networks of Knowledge edited by Peter Zabielskis, Yeoh Seng Guan and Kat Fatland, Penang, Malaysia: Areca Books
"At the Crossroads of History and Development: An Urban Kampung as 'Unseen' Heritage and a Critique of Development in Penang," in Penang and Its Networks of Knowledge, edited by Peter Zabielskis, Yeoh Seng Guan and Kat Fatland, Penang, Malaysia: Areca Books, 327- 366
"Introduction: Penang's Networks of Knowledge and Practice," in Penang and Its Networks of Knowledge, edited by Peter Zabielskis, Yeoh Seng Guan, and Kat Fatland, Penang, Malaysia: Areca Books, 11-27
"Too big to be bad? Implications for theory and review of research on crimes, vices, and misdeeds in the casino culture of Macau," Crime, Law and Social Change, 64 (2-3), 127-152
LINE – LINK – THREAD – RED – SILK – BLACK: An Elemental Syllabary of Life Art City in Recent Work by Tang Kuok Hou, exhibition catalog essay. Macau: BABEL
"澳門賭場文化的犯罪、惡習和劣跡" ["Aomen duchang wenhua de fanzui, exi yu lieji"] ["Crimes, Vices and Misdeeds in Macau's Casinos from a Cultural Perspective"], Journal of Macau Studies, 73 (2), 81-96
"Environmental Problems in China: Issues and Prospects," in Social Issues in China: Gender, Ethnicity, Labor, and the Environment, edited by Zhidong Hao and Sheying Chen , New York: Springer, 257-280
"Faith and property: Pressures of development and change on the Kwan Tai - Tin Hau temple in Cheok Ka Chun, Taipa, Macau, in Macao: The Formation of a Global City, edited by C.X. George Wei, London and New York: Routledge, 3-31
"The Significance of Leizhou as a Site for Anthropological Field Research," in 天南重地:雷州历史文化 Tiān nán zhòng dì: Léi zhōu lì shǐ wén huà [A Search for the Historical and Cultural Heritage of Leizhou], Guangdong Museum, Guangzhou: Lignan Art Press (Lignan Meishu Chuban She), 296-307
"The Environment with Chinese Characteristics: Implications for Policy, Governance, and Political Change," Journal of Law and Social Sciences, Vol.2, No. 1, December, 99-111.
Winner of Best Research Paper award, 2nd Annual International Conference Political Science, Sociology and International Relations (PSSIR), Global Science and Technology Forum (GSTF)
"Expanding Passions: The fourth Hong Kong International Art fair reaches new levels of recognition," Macau Closer, July
"Making Friends, Making Money: Macao's Traditional VIP Casino System," co-author: Wuyi Wang, in Global Gambling: Cultural Perspectives on Gambling, edited by Sytze F. Kingma , London: Routledge Criminology, 113-143
"Always Room for More: Macau Artists in Venice", Macau Closer, November
"From 'Made in China' to 'Created in China': The second Hong Kong International Art Fair", Macau Closer, June
"Towards a moral ecology of the city: A new form of place-based identity and social action in Penang, Malaysia," Special issue on Place-making and Liveability, edited by K.C. Ho and Mike Douglass, International Development Planning Review, 30 (3) 2008, 267-291
"An International Art Fair in Hong Kong: Why did it take so long?" Macau Closer, June 2008, 64-69
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Interviewed in "Prof. Peter Zabielskis: The Anthropologist who is Fond of Human Culture," My UM, Issue 62 (October 2016) Tell Us Your Story, pages 4-5 and video
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Mentioned in "Searching for Overlooked Landscapes: Macao Through the Eyes of UM Alumnus Tang Kuok Hou," UM Magazine, Issue 16 (Spring/Summer 2017), Interview pages 42-47
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LONDON – The first-ever exhibition of David Hockney's complete early prints (1961-1964) will open at Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert in early February 2017. This exhibition is a collaboration between specialist post-war print dealer Lyndsey Ingram, whose new London gallery space opens later in 2017, and James Holland-Hibbert, an established dealer in modern and contemporary British paintings and Director of Hazlitt Holland-Hibbert. The exhibition includes an impression of every print David Hockney made from 1961, when he began working in this medium, to 1964, including works that have never been seen before. Highlights from the show include a complete A Rake's Progress series, as well as the rare, unique self-portrait ECR (1961) on loan from Tate, and In Memory of Cecchino Bracci (1962) which will be on loan from a private collection. To provide context for Hockney's ground-breaking graphic work, the gallerists also aim to include some of Hockney's paintings and drawings from this period in the show. For an image sheet of key works, please contact Sarah Greenberg (sgreenberg@evergreen-arts.com) and see press information below.
The exhibition focuses on the years 1961–1964. This period represents a formative moment in Hockney's life as a young artist; it spans part of his time at the Royal College of Art (where he was a student from 1959-1962), his first years as an independent artist in London and a period in which his printmaking was solely focused on etching. They encompass his student years, his first prints, his ambivalent response to Pop Art, his first visit to the United States (after he won an art prize for one of his prints that funded his travel to New York), as well as the creation of his renowned A Rake's Progress series of etchings on his return. The entire Rake's Progress series will be on display.
Hockney's early prints in particular exemplify his raw talent, experimental energy and ability to radically transform every artistic medium he touches. He began making prints as an impecunious student at the Royal College of Art in 1961 because he couldn't afford paint supplies. Soon however, he mastered the medium and made prints with abandon, using the immediacy of printmaking to express, document and reflect upon every aspect of his life as a young art student in London at the time. Taken together, Hockney's early prints create a kind of portrait of the artist as a young man.