On February 3, Shimano announced that they will be entering the sports action camera market with their "CM 1000 Sport Camera". This camera has Wi-Fi capability that integrates with an iOS or Android application. This camera is waterproof to 30 feet (IPX-8 rated), and has an IPX5 dustproof rating. For those in the cold, the camera can operate at 14°F.
This camera is no "GoPro wannabe". The CM 1000 weighs 2.8 oz with the 950mAh battery, micro SD/SDHC card (class 6 or higher (max of 32GB)), and the lens cover. Note that the GoPro "Hero 3+" Black Edition weighs 4.4 oz. The CM 1000 is about the size of a deck of cards.
The camera has an F2.0 lens, ideal for low-light conditions, which is adjustable from 135° to a super wide angle of 180°. The camera has a 16-megapixel back-illuminated CMOS sensor that allows recording in the following formats: 640 x 360/240fps, 1280 x 720/120fps, and 1920 x 1080/30fps. Videos are recorded in MPEG4/H.24 format with stereo sound.
The CM 1000 will also provide high quality 6MP stills for those hero shots of you and your fish. It will also capture stills in ten, twenty, thirty, or sixty second intervals in 3MP.
There is no camera display, except for three status LEDs. Live viewing, playback, and remote camera adjustments is available through the smartphone app.
The CM 1000 has an auto leveling feature, keeping the shot horizontal when capturing video. This means that the camera will rotate to the closest 90 degree increment.
The battery is manufacturing by Xataka. They report that the battery's life is approximately two hours, and requires four hours to charge. This seems pretty close to the battery life cycle of most of the action cameras on the market. Note that the battery is built into the camera.
The Shimano CM 1000 camera is supplied with a helmet mount, an adhesive mount, and a lens cover. Currently available optional mounts include a chest mount, headset mount, a flexible type of mount, and a handlebar mount. There might be other accessories available from Shimano in the near future. The mount that attaches to the CM 1000 is unique to that camera. However, it will connect to other "standard" fixtures and mounting accessories that kayak anglers use to capture their experiences on the water.
While the Shimano CM 1000 Sport Camera may find a niche in the fishing environment, the main audience appears to be the cycling market. It will be available in May, 2014 for around $300. The camera also comes with PM/MAC video editing software, which includes fish eye correction. To help you to decide if this camera is for you, here is a short video on the versatility for fishing.


The former girlfriend of computer hacker Aaron Swartz is lashing out at the US Justice Department after Attorney General Eric Holder defended the prosecution that some say drove the prodigy into committing suicide.
Swartz took his own life in January while waiting to stand trial in a federal computer fraud case that could have ended with him serving upwards of 35 years in prison. Earlier this week, Attorney General Holder said the suicide was a "tragedy" but that the prosecution was indeed by the books.
The Justice Department, said Holder, demonstrated "a good use of prosecutorial discretion" in going after Swartz, who was charged with illegally accessing a trove of academic articles from the website JSTOR. The attorney general also went on to say that Swartz realistically was only facing a few months in prison, not the three decades reported by the press.
Now only days later, Swartz's partner Taren Stinebrickner-Kauffman has harsh words for the attorney general. In a statement obtained by the website TechDirt, Stinebrickner-Kauffman accuses the DoJ of lying to the American public, seizing evidence without a warrant and other claims.
In addition to singling out Holder, Stinebrickner-Kauffman goes on to accuse the Massachusetts attorneys who spearheaded the case, Heymann and Ortiz.
"The Department of Justice is not interested in admitting their errors, even when an out of control US Attorney's office has cost this country one of our best and brightest. The DOJ is only interested in covering their asses," Stinebrickner-Kauffman concludes.
TechDirt reporter Mike Masnick says the statement demonstrates "three really serious charges that I haven't seen much discussion about previously." Although Holder, Heymann and Ortiz have been accused or prosecutorial overreach in the past, Stinebrickner-Kauffman's latest claims allege much more.


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William Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 4:e earl Fitzwilliam, född den 30 maj 1748, död den 8 februari 1833, var en brittisk statsman. Han var far till Charles Wentworth-Fitzwilliam, 5:e earl Fitzwilliam.

Fitzwilliam, som var skolkamrat och ungdomsvän till Fox, tog 1769 säte i överhuset och tillhörde länge oppositionen, men förmåddes av motvilja mot franska revolutionen att i likhet med flera andra "gamla whigs" övergå på Pitts och regeringens sida, varefter han i juli 1794 som lordpresident inträdde i Pitts ministär och i januari 1795 som lordlöjtnant sändes till Irland. Han hade emellertid missförstått Pitts asikter och visade större eftergivenhet för de romerska katolikerna, än regeringen gillade, varför en konflikt genast uppstod och Fitzwilliam redan i mars samma år nödgades nedlägga sitt ämbete, till stor sorg för den av Grattan ledda irländska befolkningen. Snart försonade han sig åter med regeringen, tillhörde oppositionen mot Addingtons ministär (1801-1804) och var 1806-1807 ånyo lordpresident (i ministären Grenville-Fox). Fitzwilliam var systerson och artagare till den bottenrike markisen av Rockingham och förde på Wentworth House en lysande stat (bland annat omtalas en fest, varvid han skall ha undfägnat 40 000 personer).

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VIDEOS ABOUT GET INVOLVED CONTACT
NOLA Food Service Workers:
The Pandemic's Unsung Heroes
This project is building infrastructure to support the pandemic-related needs of New Orleans food service workers and their families over the long term.
People working at grocery stores, restaurants, and other food service businesses, their families, business owners, scientists, clinicians, and other interested parties are invited to join.
Mike Hoerger and Courtney Baker are leading the project in collaboration with other Tulane researchers, the Louisiana Public Health Institute, and members of the New Orleans community.
Please call (504-314-7545) or email (mhoerger@tulane.edu) Mike to learn more and discuss how you can get involved.
Community-Based Pandemic Research (12/14/21)
Townhall Orientation (10/27/21)
Introductory Presentation (9/22/21)
This project is building capacity to support the pandemic's "unsung heroes," frontline essential food service workers. Food service workers have been hit hard by the COVID-19 pandemic, especially in New Orleans. The delta variant and Hurricane Ida compounded these challenges. Food service workers and their families face three ongoing problems:
Over the 18 months from September 2021 through February 2023, we are developing capacity to conduct larger and longer-term projects that will support food service workers and their families in dealing with health and safety, stress, and the long-term consequences of the pandemic and COVID-19. Given the uncertainty of the pandemic, we devised our project plan using an adaptive strategy. This will allow us to focus on the greatest problems people are experiencing under best-case and worst-case pandemic scenarios. The New Orleans community will guide all aspects of this work. We have the following project objectives:
The project focuses on achieving these key outcomes:
Form a multi-stakeholder collaborative to support food service workers and their families
Identify community priorities for support with health and safety, stress, and the long-term impact of COVID
Develop a strategic plan to support food service workers and their families over the long term
Submit deliverables to the funder to support the broader research community in conducting similar projects
COVID-19 Research Guidebook
Scenario Planning Guidebook: An Illustrative Example from the COVID-19 Pandemic
Identify and obtain larger project awards to support food service workers and their families
We are currently finalizing the project's Steering Committee. The project is being led by individuals at Tulane University, the Louisiana Public Health Institute, and the New Orleans community. More details will follow soon.
This project is funded through a Patient-Centered Outcomes Research Institute (PCORI) Eugene Washington PCORI Engagement Award (EASC-COVID- #00265).
Organizing and communicating among those interested in supporting NOLA food service workers and their families
Setting Long-term Priorities
Gaining a better understanding of the community's needs surrounding health and safety, stress, and the long-term consequences of the pandemic
Survey (December 2021 through February 2022) - A survey of 40 people, including food service workers (grocery, restaurant, and other), family members, business owners, and school representatives of children of food service workers. The survey will span all three problem areas.
Focus groups (April, June, and October of 2022) - Each of three focus groups emphasizes one of the three problem areas. Focus groups involve 8-12 people each who are committed to supporting food service workers.
Interviews (December 2022) - Depending on the course of the pandemic, the goal is to identify an important context relevant to food service workers and conduct interviews with 20 people. Examples could include a booster vaccination event at a local food festival, a wellness event focused on the food service industry, a long-COVID outreach event for food service workers, and other options of key relevance to food service workers at that point in or after the pandemic.
Training in Project Design
Helping community members to become more familiar with designing and executing projects like this one and future projects (terminology, best practices, research skills, pandemic-related information, etc.)
Townhall (October 2021) - Community-wide orientation to the project background, goals, objectives, and activities, foundational training in working on a project like this, planning for next steps, and Q&A
Training Meeting #1 (December 2021) - Community-wide meeting focused on building skills to conduct pandemic-related research projects and identify priorities for specific problems to focus on going forward
Training Meeting #2 (August 2022) - Community-wide meeting focuced on developing specific questions to address in future research topics and transitioning toward a sustainable organization
Project Findings and Next Steps (December 2022) - Community-wide meeting focused on sharing what we have learned during the project and laying out plans for sustaining the organization
Leading the Project
Leading the project through an 11-member Steering Committee of community members and researchers (a few openings are available)
Steering Committee Meetings - Leadership team meets every other month over the 18 months of the project
Steering Committee Activities - Between meetings, the Steering Committee organizes events, shares information with the community, develops research materials (surveys, focus group questions, interview questions), makes training documents, investigates opportunities for long-term sustainability, and develops long-term strategy
Would you like to learn more about the project?
Contact Mike Hoerger at Tulane University
mhoerger@tulane.edu
@food_nola
foodnola
We would be pleased to talk to people working in grocery stores, restaurants, and other food-related businesses, their families, business owners, and other interested parties.
Copyright © 2023 Michael Hoerger
www.nola19.com (Est. 2021)

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College students say academic pressure is the most common cause of mental health problems — and not just at highly selective institutions
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Excerpted from "The Real World of College: What Higher Education Is and What It Can Be" by Howard Gardner and Wendy Fischman. Reprinted with permission from The MIT Press. Copyright 2022.
Along with our research team, we spent five years visiting ten disparate campuses, carrying out over two thousand intensive, semi-structured interviews. On each campus we interviewed approximately fifty incoming students and fifty graduating students, and smaller numbers of faculty, senior administrators, trustees, young alums, parents, and job recruiters. … Across all participants, nearly half (44%) rank mental health as the most important problem on campus — one of the few agreements among all participants. Put another way, each constituency group in our study — first-year students, graduating students, faculty, administrators, parents, trustees, young alums — ranks mental health as the biggest problem on the college campus. This alignment — among students at different stages, faculty and administrators who are on campus, as well as trustees, young alums, and parents who are off campus — is notable; indeed, it does not obtain with respect to any of the more than three dozen other questions in our interview protocol.
Academic Rigor: The Most Commonly Cited Cause
Across all students in our study, the most common explanation (52% of all student-reported causes) about why mental health is the most important problem on campus is academic rigor — the "pressure" of academics. Indeed, we also find that students describe this pressure as what "keeps them up at night." But what exactly is the pressure? Is it about learning difficult content? Or preparing for exams or writing papers? Or building a favorable transcript to get a job or get into graduate school? Or (reminiscent of response options on school admissions exams) "all of the above"?
Perhaps not surprisingly at this moment in history, when students discuss academic pressure as a cause of mental health, the most frequent explanation focuses on achieving external measures of success-securing a high grade-point average, or "doing well" on an assignment or an exam (51%). For example, a first-year student majoring in communications explains: "I know a lot of kids who ... get super stressed out over grades and they get really anxious about it ... like intense people make like, 'You have to have a good GPA, you have to have As and stuff.' And so, like people get really stressed out over that." A graduating student in the midst of applying to graduate programs describes needing to perform: "I think, you just want to have a good grade in the class because it's one step forward to your degree, right? It's one step forward to being [on] the honor roll ... Am I gonna graduate? Am I gonna graduate with honors? And like, you know, like, will I get into a good graduate school?"
Interestingly and importantly, these concerns with the external markers of success are the most common descriptors for academic rigor at every campus – from most to least selective. For example, of the three schools with the most students who comment on external measures of success, two schools are high-selectivity campuses in our sample (67% and 60%), and the other school is one of the low-selectivity campuses in our sample (63%). On the other hand, of the three schools with the fewest students who comment about external measures of success, two schools are medium-selectivity campuses (45% and 40%) and the other school is one of the high-selectivity campuses in our sample (45%). In other words, student stress with respect to academic rigor pervades every campus, regardless of its selectivity. Therefore, we can't – and shouldn't –presume that students at the most selective institutions feel more pressure than do students at other schools – nor that the faculty at these selective institutions apply more pressure than faculty at other schools. Students at all schools report stress with respect to "doing well."
The same pattern holds true for most of the other major categories of academic rigor which students describe. For example, among students who talk about academic rigor, the second most frequent category is managing academic workload (21%)-both in terms of managing the work across an entire course load and just in an individual course. One student, aspiring to become an elementary school teacher, comments "I started having a little bit of anxiety from ... the amount of workload that I had, and I felt like, everything was just, like, bundling up, so I would say that is the biggest issue." A second student, majoring in natural science, says: "You know, sometimes school can be overwhelming. I feel like I am drowning. I don't know if that is in the 'anxiety department' but it's like, sometimes it becomes very stressful."
Again, and notably, the school with the most students who comment on workload (33%) is one of the high-selectivity schools in our sample, whereas the school with the second most students who comment (32%) is one of the low-selectivity schools in our study. Moreover, of the two schools with students who comment the least about workload, one is a medium-selectivity school (4%), and the other is one of the low-selectivity schools in our sample (15%). Clearly, we can't simply assume that the students with the most problems managing workload are the commuting students who often need to balance academic workload with off-campus responsibilities-such as taking care of families or juggling jobs while trying to find some free hours for study. Though these demands or constraints might be challenging for some students most of the time, or for many students some of the time, it is not necessarily what these students see or cite as the primary or most frequent cause of mental health issues.
In light of a third category of student comments about academic rigor, we are again motivated to check our assumptions. We refer here to compensating for, or overcoming, lack of preparation-not feeling ready for college-level work, or experiencing general difficulty with academics. A first-year student double majoring in biology and Spanish says: "I feel like a lot of people, when they come to [school], they don't understand how demanding the academics are and get stressed out pretty easily." Another student specifically describes readiness issues related to the transition to college: "Stress, because [first-year students who] are not fully transitioned, start stressing out ... they start getting anxiety because, you know, they're too scared to ask for help from anyone."
Howard Gardner is John H. and Elisabeth A. Hobbs Research Professor of Cognition and Education at the Harvard Graduate School of Education. He has studied and written extensively about intelligence, creativity, leadership, and professional ethics, and is senior director of Project Zero and co-founder of The Good Project. The author of many books and articles, Howard is best known in education for the theory of multiple intelligences. He is the author of "A Synthesizing Mind: A Memoir from the Creator of Multiple Intelligences Theory" and many other books.
Wendy Fischman joined Project Zero at the Harvard Graduate School of Education in 1995. As a project director there, she has studied the meaning of education and work in the lives of young children, adolescents and novice professionals. Wendy has written about education and human development in several scholarly and popular articles, and co-developed The Good Work Toolkit, a curriculum for teachers and students to discuss issues of excellence, ethics, and engagement. She is the lead author of "Making Good: How Young People Cope with Moral Dilemmas at Work."


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My name is AISHWARYA and I am working as an Executive in the Private Sector. I have completed my BE. I grew up in a Upper Middle Class, Joint Family with Moderate Values.
My son is a Manager with a Bachelor's degree currently working in Private sector in India. We belong to an Upper middle class, Joint family with Traditional values.
I have a Bachelor's degree and I am employed in private Sector as a manager currently based in Delhi. I belong to a middle class, nuclear family with moderate values.
I am a 6'1" tall.I completed my engineering and currently working in MNC company.I am family oriented person.My hobbies include surfing, watching movies and some time playing outdoor sports. I also love to spend time with my friends.
I am an Executive with a Bachelor's degree currently working in Private sector in Delhi. I come from a Middle class, Nuclear family background with Traditional values.
My son has a Bachelors degree and currently works in a senior management role with a large global management consulting company in Delhi. He is a highly globalised citizen with a progressive mindset. Travelling to distant lands, enjoying outdoor adventures and nature photography are centric to his lifestyle. We belong to an Upper middle class, Nuclear family with Moderate values. Both parents being successful and self made professionals have inculcated strong values of independence in our children.
I am a manager with a Bachelor's degree currently working in private sector in Gurgaon. I come from a middle class, joint family background with orthodox values.
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package de.fzi.concurrentmatchers.util;

/**
 * Helper class to check whether exclusive access to a code region is
 * ensured, or are concurrent accesses from multiple threads possible.  It
 * should be used in assertions with the accessedExclusively()
 * matcher.
 *

 * In the following example AccessManager.waitUntilAllowed()
 * should ensure that only one thread may execute code regions between
 * waitUntilAllowed() and notifyWaiters().
 *
 *

 *     import static de.fzi.concurrentmatchers.Matchers.accessedExclusively;
 *     [...]
 *     @ConcurrentTest
 *     public void testExclusiveAccess() throws Throwable {
 *         final AccessManager am = new AccessManager();
 *         final CriticalSection cs = new CriticalSection();
 *
 *         Thread t = new Thread() {
 *             public void run() {
 *                 am.waitUntilAllowed();
 *                 assertThat(cs, accessedExclusively());
 *                 am.notifyWaiters();
 *             }
 *         };
 *         t.start();
 *
 *         am.waitUntilAllowed();
 *         assertThat(cs, accessedExclusively());
 *         am.notifyWaiters();
 *
 *         t.join();
 *    }
 *

 *
 * If AccessManager.waitUntilAllowed() contains a bug which in
 * some specific thread interleavings allow more than one thread to continue
 * and execute the critical section, then this test will fail with the
 * exception
 *
 *

 *    java.lang.AssertionError:
 *    Expected: <no other threads in critical section>
 *         got: <thread 'Thread-0' already in critical section>
 *

 *
 * because the two assertions can be invoked concurrently.
 */
public class CriticalSection {

	boolean violated;
	protected Thread threadInCS;

	public boolean checkExclusiveAccess() {
		boolean result = enter();
		exit();
		return result;
	}

	protected synchronized boolean enter() {
		if (threadInCS != null) {
			violated = true;
			return false;
		}
		threadInCS = Thread.currentThread();
		return true;
	}

	protected synchronized void exit() {
		if (!violated)
			threadInCS = null;
	}

	@Override
	public synchronized String toString() {
		if (threadInCS != null) {
			return "thread '" + threadInCS.getName()
					+ "' already in critical section";
		} else {
			return "no other threads in critical section";
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The Talairach Daemon (TD) is a high-speed database server for querying and retrieving data about human brain structure over the internet. It uses TCP/IP sockets for communications and minimizes the amount of data transferred during transactions. By keeping most transactions to a low number of bytes (less than 50 generally), even slow throughput network transfers (1 Kbyte/sec) should have reasonable response times.
The TD server data is searched using x,y,z coordinates resolved to 1x1x1 mm volume elements within a standardized Talairach space. An array, indexed by x,y,z coordinates, that spans the dimensions of the 1988 Talairach Atlas brain (170mm, 210mm, 200mm), provides high-speed access to data. Coordinates tracked by the TD server are spatially consistent with the Talairach Atlas. Each array location stores a pointer to a relation record that holds data describing what is present at the corresponding coordinate. Presently, the data in relation records are either Structure Probability Maps (SP Maps) or Talairach Atlas Labels, though others can be easily added. The relation records are implemented as linked lists to names and values for brain structures.
The Daemon can be accessed using the Talairach Applet or by using the Talairach Client.
To access a locally-run Daemon, use the command line options with an additional parameter: host=www.yourserver.com:port.


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The block where the right-click originated.
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Book 6 – Love Wins: A Book About Heaven, Hell, and the Fate of Every Person Who Ever Lived | Speaking of Jesus?
This entry was posted on Saturday, July 30th, 2011 at 2:06 pm	and tagged with Heaven, Hell, Kingdom of God, Kingdom of Heaven, Love Wins, Rob Bell, speaking of Jesus and posted in Uncategorized.	You can follow any responses to this entry through the RSS 2.0 feed.
Let me preface by saying I have read Love Wins, unlike some others I've encountered who proceeded to critique the reading. I really liked the many thoughtful, engaging questions Rob mentioned. I did not agree with everything in the book, but that is not why I read. I did enjoy it and stretched in very positive ways through it.
1. I'm having fun musing on the redemption opportunity after death. In the Old Testament, the pattern for redemption in my observation has been a repeated cycle…people stray from God, people struggle, God call's them back and offers a way (eventually Christ is the way)…over and over. Also, so many of the parables reflect the drop everything and find the lost thing intensity. I can't quite picture that coming to a dead end, so to speak, from what I understand of the character of God. When I think I deserve a sort of merit pay of heaven by choosing rightly and on time, I get in that uncomfortable place where I think heaven is exclusively (in an achievement sense, not a grace sense) for all those trusting Christ by the deadline, pun sort of intended. I've heard strong Christians then query, "Why would someone trust Christ now, if there's a back stage entrance to heaven?" At that point, I ask why did you trust Christ now? I have my reasons. And my joy, which I won't go in to here.
2. The part about other faiths getting to heaven did not trouble me. Perhaps I read too quickly or did not intuit enough, but I took it to mean that Jesus–God–the Holy Spirit will draw all men to himself and can use other religions to bring people to a place of trusting Christ's work, seeing that other faiths fall short. I probably need to give that more thought. I just feel if someone is seeking a relationship with God they are perhaps tender and open to what Christ reveals along the way through the Holy Spirit…in spite of their current faith posture, and in spite of my logic.
Three cheers for Rob Bell for boldly getting this topic and conversation center stage, acknowledging it is not new thought, only new level of attention. I love learning more about God who I think enjoys these theological rodeos and is beyond big enough to work in us through it all, without being threatened.
1. Rob is media savvy enough to know what he was doing in his teaser video for the book which (thanks to Justin Taylor among others) ignited the firestorm that promptly sent the book to the top of the bestseller lists. It was embarrassing to see the rush to judgment based upon either not reading the book at all! or reading a chapter or two. Sometimes we evangelicals are nitwits and Rob certainly exposed our nitwittery. This was humbling and good.
2. He got a discussion going on a crucial biblical doctrine. Thanks Rob!
1. Rob's tone towards especially those who hold a different (read conservative) view from him is often dismissive and denigrating.
2. Rob's exegesis is very poor. Aion being a prime example. "Forever is not really a category the biblical writers used." One wonders what his explanation of Rom 16.26 (eternal (aion) God). A God of a period of time? A God of a particularly intense experience? To be faithful to the text one has to teach what is there, not what one prefers to be there.
3. Perhaps most troubling is that Rob gives no clear and compelling reason for anyone to actually come to Christ in this life. What difference does it make if one follows Christ now, or after death? We will all (except for those who choose not to) be in heaven anyway, why quibble over how one gets there? This seems radically at odds with both the teaching and practice of the New Testament, and to the extent that the book drives people's thinking on this issue and (if Bell is wrong) leads them astray, then he has made a terrible, terrible mistake.
I've read the response to love wins by Mark Galli called "God wins." He takes Rob to task in a fairly non-polemical way. But I have to admit that God winning seems less stunning to me than love winning. Of course God wins. Who has a chance against God. But if love wins this means weakness trumps power, vulnerability stoops to conquer, and the way we look at heaven is beyond comprehension.
Read the book then it mysteriously disappeared. Hmmm. Try this on for size: most, if not all of the NASB citations of hell are saturated in metaphor. The same passages seem to be cited directly to the religious leadership of the day, a group Jesus is pretty pissed at for their very poor leadership. Jerusalem falls in 70 AD in judgment. That fall was hell or hellish. What does poor leadership deserve, a leadership that saw itself serving in the temple in the after life? To be left outside the temple after temporal destruction. Book of Revelation? Now the bad guys are the secular world leadership figures of Rome, rather than Jerusalem's leadership, also suffering temporal destruction. Just a few thoughts.
Rob Bell does an excellent job at making us FEEL the scriptures instead of just categorizing and classifying them as the study of theology often encourages us to do. After reading this book, I spent a day or two really thinking excitedly about new ways of understanding eschatology and processing some of the points Rob makes in Love Wins. I looked up some of the church fathers Rob cites and also some of the theologians/"heretics" that others have cited as Rob's forebears. After those couple days, I realized that while the emotion around the afterlife is true and real, I think I was pretty close to hitting one of those "adventures in missing the point." One of the things I like most about Rob's work seems to be the same thing the "Reformed" establishment is infuriated by: Rob doesn't give concrete answers or develop new systematic theologies to replace the old ones. No one can deny that there's a part of us (either of human nature or from our Industrialized-Enlightment mindset) that looks for concrete answers. Yet, I feel more and more as I have read Rob's works (I picked up Velvet Elvis right after Love Wins last week) that he does an excellent job of emulating Christ's ethos in that Christ was also extremely reticent to give hard and fast answers (which is why most systematic theology draws on Paul who throws out more hard and fast normative statements than he can seemingly handle at times).
How important is it for us to "get it right"? So I'm of the opinion that even if I indefinitely locked myself in a bomb shelter full of canned food and all the Biblical commentaries you could ask for (a frightening image if you ask me), I don't think I would ever come to a hard and fast answer to the questions Rob raises. Does this mean that these type of questions should be ignored? Certainly not. But how hard do we need to search for a right answer. In other words, while the effort implied in locking myself in a bomb shelter would certainly yield some fruit, does it mean we should ignore seeking the Kingdom in other ways. A reasonable answer is we should do both, but I think that might be an easy-out to yet another question that doesn't have a hard and fast answer.
I'm open to pushback on my (theo)logical framework if any of you aren't convinced.
Thanks again, Jeff, for your leadership here. Blessings to you and your family!
I haven't read the book; I don't get a summer vacation and this just isn't on my list of the most pressing books for me to read. 😦 So I will limit myself to a question about the way in which Christian brothers and sisters relate to each other in the context of speaking about Jesus.
I'm not sure I would praise the "media savvy" (John's term) demonstrated by the teaser video. To my ears, John, you seem to be saying that Bell intentionally set up a trap that his conservative opponents fell for hook, line, and sinker. That doesn't seem like the model of charitable discourse we want to encourage within the Christian community.
Of course, one can point to other instances in which more tradition-minded Christians have not been charitable to Bell and people like him. But this particular thing was raised as a positive item in an earlier comment, so I thought it was worth presenting a different view.
@Jeff: Given the currency of this book, I'd love to see you comments on one of the conservative responses to Bell. While respectful discourse is still important, I think it's particularly important for books like Love Wins to be tested in the crucible of cross-examination, and everyone who reads Bell should probably read what his critics have to say too (even if not in book-length form).


The interface is so simple you could navigate with your eyes closed. The registration process is extremely thorough. The communication tools provide you many alternatives that complement its messaging function. For every match they show you, you'll see your compatibility rate. They typically show 12 matches every 12 hours. If you think s/he's out of your league, just press the Skip button. This site's smartphone app is compatible with all major devices, supported by Android or iOS. Lastly, Match.com provides a simple way to exit the site.
No site can ever be perfect, and even Match.com can have some shortcomings. In fact, many of the features I mentioned have some problems that need fixing, though many of these problems don't really dent the site's efficiency. com's registration is thorough but it also leaves some users with boxed choices. If you have a tight budget, using this site would probably be an expensive venture.
Let's see if they have what it takes to back that claim up.
It's an online dating site that sports many unique, interesting features to suit different people's tastes. You can use a wide array of tools to ensure that the "matches" you will get will be according to your preferences.
First things first.Match.com's interface is very easy to use and understand. You begin with indicating what you are (i.e. a man looking for a woman, and vice versa). Then, you start the registration process, where you'll answer a bunch of questions.
They typically show 12 matches every 12 hours.
If you think s/he's out of your league, just press the Skip button.
No site can ever be perfect, and even Match.com can have some shortcomings. In fact, many of the features I mentioned have some problems that need fixing, though many of these problems don't really dent the site's efficiency.
com's registration is thorough but it also leaves some users with boxed choices.
Overall, Match.com lives up to the hype surrounding it. Easy interface, quick matches, thorough pickings, special features, and other stuff you can do—feels perfect. There will be more dating sites in the future and the competition will be tighter. More people will look for lovers. And Match.com has all that it takes to be around longer than many other online dating sites. For now, go ahead give it a try. It's a worthy choice of website.


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I've set this page up for myself; however, others can of course use this as a page as a resource to find places on the internet to learn programming for free.
It's great. It might be a little confusing at first, but what I like about this method of learning is that it gets YOU do to the researching and the work. You can simply copy and paste; however, the editor/writer has said himself you will not learn how to code that way. The editor also gets you to look things up on Google. I'll say this, it requires more than a little effort on your part, but so far I'm enjoying it. I've come to certain stages where things have just "clicked" in my head and I'm thinking to myself, "I'm a little thick" for not getting it before. But sometimes things seem harder than they really are. This book really illustrates how anyone can do programming with a little thought and with the right attitude.
While this course will not make you an expert programmer, or if we take advice from the programmer who wrote the book this essentially takes you to the "brown belt" levels of programming as there is still more to learn. However, the guy did say that this essentially gets you started for learning more in-depth studies of Python to where you can hopefully become a black-belt programmer! 😀 When I go back to the UK, I'm definitely going to purchase the .pdf. That isn't because it would make learning easier for me using that type of media, but because I would like to support the author of that website to continue doing what he is doing!
This is a mini-book that teaches you Unix or Windows command line skills. Unlike the "Learn The Hard Way" series, this crash course is designed to get you mostly capable in a few hours to a few days. It has little explanation and focuses more on doing a small set of commands until you remember them.
If you run into strings like "\s+.?(?i)a+b?" and your eyes glaze over like a pair of old fashioned donuts, then this book is for you. When you're done you will be able to read that string, understand what's going on with regex, learn when to use them, learn to write them, and learn how to write simple parsers to avoid abusing regex to process your strings.
This book will teach you the 80% of SQL you probably need to use it effectively, and will mix in concepts in data modeling at the same time. If you've been fumbling around building web, desktop, or mobile applications because you don't know SQL, then this book is for you. It is written for people with no prior database, programming, or SQL knowledge, but knowing at least one programming language will help.
Do you really want to learn programming but have no skill? Are you a system administrator who wants to learn Puppet or Chef? Are you a designer who wants to build your own websites? Are you a Ruby on Rails programmer who's ashamed that you don't really know Ruby? Then you should read this book. It assumes absolutely no prior programming knowledge and will guide you carefully and slowly through the learning process.
A Beginners Python Tutorial (Info maybe outdated) – It uses Python 2.4; however, I think it's still worth doing.
I have other resources that I know of and I will add them at a later date, as I'm currently learning Python! I'm doing it slowly as to make sure I don't skip or miss anything. I'm also writing everything down that I need to! 🙂 Yay for learning!
Ideone – Runs like Windows Powershell. You can run all sorts of code and save that code. You can then use that saved data and display it for others to see with links like this. This is good if you are posting on websites/forums and you are seeking help with improving your code or are at a stage where you need help from others. They can very simply view your code and find out what issues you have going on.


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Alcátoo () es el nombre de varios personajes de la mitología griega:

Alcátoo, hijo de Pélope.
Alcátoo, hijo de Esietes, marido de Hipodamia, la hija de Anquises y hermana de Eneas, quien fue educado en la casa de Alcátoo. En la Guerra de Troya fue uno de los líderes troyanos, y era uno de los más valientes de ellos. Fue asesinado por el rey cretense Idomeneo con la ayuda de Poseidón, quien prodjuo a Alcátoo ceguera y parálisis de sus miembros para que no pudiera huir.
Alcátoo, hijo de Portaón y de Éurite, hija de Hipodamante.Tideo mató a Alcátoo, hermano de Eneo y fue desterrado. En otra versión, fue Enómao el que lo mató, y fue uno de los pretendientes de Hipodamía.
Alcátoo, uno de los guardianes de Tebas. Anfiarao lo mató.
Alcátoo, un guerrero troyano, muerto por Aquiles en la Guerra de Troya.
Alcátoo, otro personaje desconocido mencionado por Virgilio.

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Personajes de la guerra de Troya
Personajes de la Eneida
Personajes de la Ilíada


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Mona Charen's Remarks at the VVS 2015 Breakout Sessions
Below are the remarks that Mona Charen delivered during the Values Voter Summit Breakout Session, "Irreconcilable Differences: Can Anything Bridge the Interests of the United States, Israel and Iran?"
No one in this audience needs to be convinced that we are in a profoundly troubling moment in American history. This is particularly true with respect to foreign policy. This administration's goal has been to diminish and subdue not the terrorists or tyrants of the world, but the United States of America. It reminds me of Robert Frost's reflection that "A liberal is a man too broadminded to take his own side in a quarrel."
As someone who wrote a book called "Useful Idiots: How Liberals Got It Wrong in the Cold War and Still Blame America First," I cannot claim to be completely surprised.
The Democratic Party has been weak-minded on defense for decades, but with the Iran capitulation, they've achieved a new threshold of cowardice and treachery.
Only a handful of Democrats have resisted the President's pressure to sign a miserable agreement with Iran, the overwhelming majority have chosen to go over the cliff with a President who never met an enemy he didn't wish to conciliate or an ally he didn't seek to betray.
Democrats have long tended toward appeasement of aggressors. Throughout the Cold War, they scared themselves (and everyone else) silly conjuring specters of nuclear holocaust. Then-Senator John Kerry was one of many prominent Democrats who endorsed the "nuclear freeze." It wasn't America's enemies that we should fear, the Democrats argued, but the weapons themselves.
2015 Straw Poll Results
Please click on the link below to view the 2015 straw poll results from the Values Voter Summit.
Sen. Lindsey Graham's Remarks at VVS 2015
10th Annual Values Voter Summit
Remarks by Senator Lindsey Graham
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC),
Republican Candidate for President
Location: Omni Shoreham Hotel, Washington, D.C.
Time: 9:52 p.m. EDT
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(Applause.)
SENATOR LINDSEY GRAHAM (R-SC): Good morning. (Applause.) Good morning. How are you doing?
AUDIENCE MEMBERS: Good.
SEN. GRAHAM: If we keep (padding ?) the military, we're going to need that guy. (Laughter.) Don't go away.
I'm from South Carolina. Anybody been there? (Cheers, applause.) Yeah. Come back, spend money. (Laughter.)
So a little bit about me. My dad owned a liquor store — (laughs) — a restaurant, and a pool room. This is why I would be a good president. (Laughter.) I ran the pool room as a kid, and I know liars when I see 'em. That's why I know the ayatollah is lying. (Laughter.) Yeah, he is lying.
Louisiana Gov. Bobby Jindal's Remarks at VVS 2015
Remarks by Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal
Louisiana Governor Bobby Jindal (R),
Date: Friday, September 25, 2015
LOUISIANA GOVERNOR BOBBY JINDAL (R): Thank you all very, very much. Thanks for that very warm reception. Thanks for that generous introduction.
You know, the strangest thing just happened backstage. I know Donald Trump was here earlier, and I guess he brought a copy of the Bible he was given as a child. But he left it backstage. (Laughter.) Now, one of the — knowing how close I am to Donald Trump, one of the organizers gave it to me and asked me to get it back to him, and so I was taking a look at it. You know, this is very different from my Bible. I'm not sure what translation — I don't know what translation you use. This is a very different — my Bible, it doesn't say "The Art of the Deal" on the front cover. (Laughter.) It doesn't have a picture of Donald Trump on the front cover. (Laughter.) So we'll have to make sure to get that back to Donald. (Laughter.)
You know, I want to talk — and I know you all have heard the news today that Speaker Boehner decided to step down. (Cheers, applause.) A reporter asked me what I thought about that. I said, well, that's good — that's one down, that's 434 more to go before we're done. (Applause.)
Dr. Ben Carson's Remarks at VVS 2015
Remarks by Dr. Ben Carson
Ben Carson, M.D.,
(Cheers, applause.)
DR. BEN CARSON: Thank you. Thank you very much. Thank you. (Cheers, applause.) I love enthusiastic crowds, you know? It makes up for my low energy. (Laughter.) You know, I got to tell you something about America. You know, I've visited at least 57 different countries. (Laughter.) And I am always so pleased when I get back here because America has been so good to me. You know, I was born in pretty dire circumstances, grew up very poor, had a bad temper. I was a terrible student — and the things that probably would have precluded success in most other places. But here in America, the opportunities were there.
Even if you didn't have a silver spoon in your mouth you could go to the library and it didn't cost you anything to go there, unless you turned your book in late. So — (laughs) — you know, those are the kind of opportunities that I want to preserve for other people. And I really get irritated when people complain about America and they say that we are a terrible place and we are the source of all evil in the world. If we were so bad, why is everybody trying to get in here and nobody's trying to escape? You know, that's craziness. (Cheers, applause.)
Former Gov. Mike Huckabee's Remarks at VVS 2015
Remarks by Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee
Former Arkansas Governor Mike Huckabee (R),
MIKE HUCKABEE: Thank you very, very much. It is a delight to be here at the Values Voter Summit, although I realized that my appearance is not the big news of the day. Boy, talking about getting upstaged. So, John Boehner has a private meeting yesterday with Pope Francis. And all the reports are that somehow the result of that meeting, he decides he's quitting. (Cheers, applause.) Now, here's what occurs to me. I wonder if we could get scheduled — (laughter) — a meeting with Pope Francis and the president, just the two of them, for a little while. (Cheers, applause.)
Some other news this day, one of the political magazines reports that the absolutely hideous, unacceptable, and untenable deal with Iran — that should have been a treaty; should never have been an executive agreement — but this horrible agreement, crafted by John Kerry, Energy Secretary Moniz and the Special Envoy Wendy Sherman — they were so excited about what they were doing that they sat around in Vienna talking about if a Hollywood movie was made about this process who would play each of them. And it was decided that — and I'm not making this up. This is not a joke. Ted Danson was going to play John Kerry. (Laughter.) Javier Bardem was going to play Secretary Moniz. And Meryl Streep would be playing the part of Wendy Sherman. I felt they have it terribly miscast. Given the agreement, they should have Larry, Curly and Moe. (Laughter, cheers, applause.)
Former Sen. Rick Santorum's Remarks at VVS 2015
Remarks by Former Senator Rick Santorum
Former Senator Rick Santorum (R-PA),
Time: 11:12 a.m. EDT
RICK SANTORUM: Thank you. Thank you. (Applause.) Thank you very much, Gill. Thank you so much for being here. You know, I've been here to every single Value Voter Summit. (Cheers, applause.) And, you know, one of the things — I was in Iowa the other day, in Osceola, Iowa. Of course, all of you have been there, right? And I was introduced by Chuck Grassley. And Chuck got up and sort of hemmed and hawed a little bit about what to say. And he said, well, let me just say this: The one thing I can say about Rick Santorum is I've known him for 20 years and he hasn't changed a bit. (Laughter.) You know, I think that's about as high a compliment as you can get in this town of Washington, D.C., right? (Cheers, applause.)
Donald Trump's Remarks at VVS 2015
Remarks by Donald Trump
Time: 12:01 p.m. EDT
DONALD TRUMP: Thank you very much. I see these beautiful teleprompters. Believe me, I'm not using them. (Laughter.) You know I said if you run for president you should not be allowed to use teleprompters. Get these things out of here. (Laughter.)
I was watching Hillary making a speech and it was outside. And they were dead, dark, big. They weren't even like this. These are clears. I can almost see right through them, but — which really is disturbing. Is that disturbing to the audience, wouldn't you think? But hers, because it was outside, were black, and they were twice the size. I said what kind of a speech is that? That's not a speech.
Sen. Marco Rubio's Remarks at VVS 2015
Remarks by Senator Marco Rubio
Senator Marco Rubio (R-FL),
Time: 9:47 a.m. EDT
SENATOR MARCO RUBIO (R-FL): Thank you very much. Thank you. Thank you very much. (Cheers, applause.) Thank you.
Well, thank you for having me. There's four bottles of water here. Isn't that a bit much? (Laughter.)
(Chuckles.) Thank you.
I'm really honored to be with you. Thank you very much. It's an honor and a pleasure to be with you here today and exciting times for us in terms of the future of our country. We face extraordinary challenges but also some real opportunities, and that's what I wanted to talk about today. In fact, I wanted to announce a couple of policy initiatives today I haven't discussed before, so I actually put it in writing, and the good news is I finally was able to retrieve them from my email system. (Laughter.) The bad — (chuckles) — so that's the good news.
Anyway, thank you so much. I'm really honored to be here with you today, with all of you who are motivated to participate in the public square because of our values. And this is important, because we've always had this debate about, well, what role should faith play in your life, and what role should faith play in politics? That's a silly debate. For starters, our country was founded on a spiritual principle, on the idea that every human being has rights that are given to you by God, not — not by your government, not by the king. It was a revolutionary idea. (Cheers, applause.)
Sen. Ted Cruz's Remarks at VVS 2015
Remarks by Senator Ted Cruz
Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX),
SENATOR TED CRUZ (R-TX): Wow! (Cheers, applause.) God bless the Value Voters Summit. (Cheers, applause.)
So I've got to ask, what are these things? (Laughter.) Is Barack Obama coming? (Laughter.)
Let me say thank you to my friend, Jim Bridenstine. What an incredible, powerful, fighting conservative. (Applause.)
You know, there's an ancient Chinese curse: May you live in interesting times. These are interesting times.
Yesterday Pope Francis was in Washington. Wonderful to welcome him here. I have to say, the press conference was a little awkward, because every time the reporters addressed a question to your holiness, Barack Obama answered. (Laughter.)
Well, and then today the president of China, President Xi, is in town. Media all across the world are reporting on this historic meeting of the world's most powerful communist and the president of China. (Laughter, cheers, applause.)


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"50th Anniversary" 1993 Honda GL1500 Goldwing Trike "Champion" Trike Conversion ROAD READY!!!!! Clean title, never been wrecked or damaged... NO RUST!!! Less than 51,500 miles!! (Goldwings have been known to go over 300K miles) This is a BEAUTIFUL "50th Anniversary" 1993 Honda Goldwing Trike. This trike has "all" of the standard options, plus a few others and is in very good condition. The original bike was equipped with a "Champion" Trike conversion. Champion Trikes is one of the BIGGEST and most well known premier companies in the trike industry. With their well designed air ride suspension, these trikes have one of the BEST RIDES on the market!!! This trike has been well maintained and taken care of.
*** RELISTED *** "50th Anniversary" 1993 Honda GL1500 Goldwing Trike "Champion" Trike Conversion ROAD READY!!!!! Clean title, never been wrecked or damaged. Less than 51,500 miles!! (Goldwings have been known to go over 300K miles) This is a BEAUTIFUL "50th Anniversary" 1993 Honda Goldwing Trike. This trike has "all" of the standard options, plus a few others and is in very good condition. The original bike was equipped with a "Champion" Trike conversion. Champion Trikes is one of the BIGGEST and most well known premier companies in the trike industry. With their well designed air ride suspension, these trikes have one of the BEST RIDES on the market!!! This trike has been well maintained and taken care of.
I have a 2008 Harley Davidson Roadking classic for sale. It s a beautiful bike with no problems. It is mechanically sound with only 6000mis.
1967 Honda CB450 Super Sport Black Bomber 1967 Honda CB 450 with 21,892 miles. Frame number CB450-1015467. Engine number CB450E 1013294. Please view all pictures which show the quality and attention to detail put into this bike. All parts are correct for this model right down to the nuts and bolts. Cables were replaced with correct new old stock cables. New ignition switch with a matching fork lock and four Honda keys. New brake shoes on rear. Rear tire is a new Dunlop Gold Seal K70 3.50x18. A nice reproduction seat. Tank badges / emblems are Honda new old stock. All chrome is in good condition with no rust or pitting, with light scraches. Mufflers are in good condition with light scratches and a few dents. Front wheel has all new spokes. Front and rear wheel rims have very nice chrome with light scratches. Front tire is a Dunlop 3.25x18, it is weather cracked from age. Front and rear wheel bearings were removed, cleaned and repacked.


Project Team: Dr. Bharat H. Desai, JNU., Dr. Biswajit Dhar, IFT., Shri S.C. Dey, GTF., Shri Pradeep S. Mehta, CUTS., Shri S. Ramaiah, Former Law Secretary., Shri Sanjay Kumar, Ministry of Commerce and Industry., Ms. Preeti Srivastava, Ministry of Environment and Forests., Dr. K.S. Kavikumar, MSE, Invitee., Dr. U. Sankar, MSE, Lead Expert.
The purpose of this Group is to provide policy inputs to the Inter-Ministerial Consultative Group on Trade and Environment on the relationship between specific trade obligations in multilateral environmental agreements and the WTO rules.
Specific Trade Obligations in Multilateral Environmental Agreements and the WTO Rules: A Policy Brief By U. Sankar, MSE.


With 58% of businesses in Yorkshire not reaching the five year mark, local business experts Gary King, Mike Hall and Clare Taylor wanted to create a support network to help reduce this figure. As a result, 'Business Squad' launched on Facebook in February this year, and through recommendation already has over 1,250 members.
The 'Squad' is a collaboration of three businesses coming together – Tendo (Business strategy and mentoring), ThinkSMART Marketing (Marketing strategy) and Your Hidden Gem (Admin support) to share more than 80 years combined experience.
Group members can either request to join or be recommended to the group by other members. They are then able to post questions asking for help in a similar way to LinkedIn, but with a group of likeminded business people who can then offer advice and support or share their own experiences. The intention being that business owners don't feel so alone, they have a support network in which they can share key challenges and be offered useful advice. The group members are predominantly from the Yorkshire area, but it is now attracting business people nationally and internationally.
According to co-founder Gary King, 'following research we carried out, we felt that SMEs needed a life line to improve their chances of success, so we wanted to provide 24/7 support for them to prosper and not feel so alone. Over 86% of business owners that we spoke to didn't feel they have a work/life balance with nearly a third saying they were losing sleep with concerns over cashflow'.
The group also has specific days of the week for businesses to share their challenges, successes or to thank others for their help. '#MyTimeMonday' reinforces the need to take time out from a business, whether it is family time, or just to switch off. '#WakeupWednesday' is a time to share any inspiration or small wins had during the week to help fellow Squaddies over the hump day! '#ThankyouThursday', so often in business we don't take the time out to thank those who have supported them, so this day is to thank fellow Squaddies for any referrals they have made or support/advice given to overcome challenges and #FabulousFriday not only celebrates the end of the week but gives the opportunity to share successes into the Group.
Once a month the Group runs #PromoDay when Squaddies have the opportunity to promote their business or a specific event they may be holding to the over 1,250 Group members.
Gary King, Mike Hall and Clare Taylor regularly post hints and advice tips from their experience, as well as useful download documents and live training on key topics across business strategy and marketing. Squaddies are encouraged to do the same to maximise the benefit from the different business sectors and experience within the group.
The group has grown through members recommending friends to join and is increasing on average by about 200 new members each month.
They also run two #BeMore Bootcamps a year, covering all aspects of running a business from developing your business model to creating a marketing plan that delivers, and how to outsource tasks like admin. Over 100 business owners attended the camps this year and priced at £45 it is available to businesses of every size, with a money back guarantee if not satisfied.
Mike Hall told us 'as part of the research we did, 74% of businesses said they needed help with all aspects of their business from trying to find the right kind of customer, to over half desperate for help with their admin. Our goal was to help these people realise they are not alone with these challenges, but also provide a means of asking others for help and opportunities for training. The rate at which the group has grown clearly shows the demand for this type of support'.
With the aim of the group being to help businesses to be more productive, effective and successful, it is certainly highly rated by its members. Group member Julie McGeever who is the MD of training company DIB Development Ltd stated 'Running your own business, you can feel isolated at times. Business Squad is a welcoming group of likeminded people who share similar aspirations and challenges across a broad spectrum of experience, happy to share and support each other'.
For more information about either Business Squad, or the next Bootcamp in 2019, contact Gary King on 0113 8970 900 or search for Business Squad on Facebook and ask to join the group.


Demnlus is working to revitalize Richmond's economy, supporting small businesses, recruiting new industries and jobs, preparing local residents for those jobs, and helping community members become successful entrepreneurs.
On the Citizens Police Review Commission, Demnlus works to keep Richmond safe and improve the police-community relations by fighting for greater accountability, and promoting collaboration between community members, law enforcement and local nonprofits.
Demnlus is well known as an advocate and resource for Richmond residents who is always looking to improve upon progress while keeping Richmond safe and affordable.
I was born at Brookside Hospital. My mother is an armor truck driver for Brinks and my father was a construction worker. Growing up in the Iron Triangle, I experienced firsthand how important economic opportunity and community engagement are for the success of community and how their absence is detrimental to people's lives. Families like mine had owned their homes since the end of WWII and helped create a tight-knit community in that period. Small businesses like Cotwright corner store and La Perla's Restaurant contributed to community identity as well as nutrition. It was the time I spent in the Nevin Community Center playing billiards where I learned the people's history of Richmond, became empowered through education that would allow me to compete in any arena, and developed a deep and abiding adoration for my hometown.
Upon graduating from Howard University, I returned to Richmond to serve my community, and I am currently the youngest member and Vice Chair of the Economic Development Commission, through which I work with the City Manager's Office to create community renewal without removal. As a Community Worker at Richmond High School, I partner with various community organizations to eliminate barriers in academic and social success for our youth. Through serving as Town Hall Moderator for Ceasefire, I work to better the relationship between Richmond police and civilians through working to build respect, trust, and understanding.
I want to join the Richmond City Council to continue moving Richmond forward in a manner that respects its citizens and heritage. I understand that safe streets, good schools, and economic opportunity will continue to advance the City of Richmond. I know that affordable housing and the Fight for Fifteen are necessary for immediate survival. I also know that issues in wealth, economics, education, and social mobility are systemic and if we are to truly transcend them we must aggressively attack them at their root and nourish fertile ground in Richmond. I understand that community engagement and economic opportunity are prerequisites and catalysts to closing those gaps.
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League of Women Voters set candidate forum in Sequim
by Sequim Gazette Staff
Tuesday, June 25, 2019 2:07pm
Voters and the candidates for Hospital District and Charter Review Commission positions will have a chance to consider key issues at a League of Women Voters of Clallam County free public forum set for 6 p.m. Thursday, June 27, at the Sequim Transit Center, West Cedar Street/Second Avenue.
The Olympic Medical Center commissioner race (Hospital District 2, Commissioner District 1, Position 1) will appear on the August primary ballot because there are more than two candidates running for this office. The top two vote-getters will advance to the general election in November. Candidates for this non-partisan 6-year term include Nate Adkisson, Ann Marie Henninger and Warren Pierce.
Though the Charter Review Commission election will appear on the November general election ballot, CRC candidates forums are being presented in all three districts this summer to give voters more time to learn about the CRC and the candidates.
Charter Review Commission District 1 candidates who have confirmed their attendance are Tony Corrado, Gary DeKorte, Alex Fane, Donald Hatler, David Lotzgesell, Ted Miller, Judith Parker, Candace Pratt and Jim Stoffer. Candidate Sue Erzen will be out of town, but will send a representative.
The position is a one-year, non-partisan term.
Before opening the floor to the candidates, Clallam County Deputy Prosecuting Attorney Kim Ortloff will give a brief overview of the Charter Review Commission, why it exists and what it does.
League volunteers will video-record this forum, and within a week or two of the event, a link to the recording will be available at the League's website: www.lwvcla.org.
All events are free and open to the public. Audience members are encouraged to bring questions for the candidates. Candidates for other offices who are in attendance will be invited to introduce themselves at the conclusion of each forum, after which there will be time for one-on-one questions-and-answers with all candidates.
The Clallam County League will present two more candidate forums leading up to the primary election on Aug. 6:
• 6 p.m. Wednesday, July 10 — Candidates for Charter Review Commission, District 2, at the Vern Burton Center, 308 E. Fourth St., Port Angeles.
• 6 p.m. Monday, July 15 — Candidates for Port Angeles City Council, Positions 5 and 7, at Port Angeles City Council Chambers, 321 E. Fifth St., Port Angeles.
The League of Women Voters is a national nonprofit, nonpartisan organization whose purpose is to promote the informed and active participation of citizens in government.
With a membership of over 125 people, the local Clallam County League regularly presents forums and debates to help voters become better informed about local and statewide races.
Find more information about the league and these forums at www.lwvcla.org, or email to VoterServicesLVWCLA@gmail.com.
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Community news briefs — June 26, 2019


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Q: Reverse latitude and longitude in mongodb 2Dsphere indexes Actually, mongodb stores coordinates ordered by [<longitude>, <latitude>].
As I use directly db models in my angular app, and all services like google maps or openstreetmap uses the maritime format (reversed order), it would be really more easy to play with coordinates without having to reverse them always in my calls.
Is there a way to do that on version 3.0.4 ?
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after much nudging and reminders from friends and church folk that my blog is a source of much misplaced affections for me (since access is "limited" to me"). I have been on a hiatus because I have been transitioning back to NYC with tons of boxes of books that need to be reorganized and reshelved and somehow going to be resold on half dot com. Transitioning has been a lot harder than I thought and my time in the 'cuse still haunts me and living in the urban rhythms still have me staggered at times. So between speaking at summer retreats (four, yes, four retreats and two major retreats in the fall), unpacking, actually going out to do laundry (a first for me), transitioning out of my time at Chinese Christian Herald Crusades and finding a new ministry to serve has got me all twisted that unwinding to share my thoughts in the blog world has been a bit unrealized.
So, I am back in the blogsphere, wondering who is reading this and still I am somewhat self contained since the wife is in China working a water project in Nanjing. I want to write more but there are times I want to just listen, to get reconnected with friends. To collide with my past and memories of people who have long faded but now reappear (via facebook).
I am leaving behind a season of my life in 'Cuse that I discovered and gave me tremendous insight on how ugly the church can be. It taught me to preach on rhetoric versus reality. How appointed servants use what Mclaren calls "motivation via exclusion" and yet, at the end, I found a fellowship among a few people who laughed at our shortcomings, who never took ourselves seriously but yearning to take our faith seriously. A place where lives were seen as relational and not just functional to what they can contribute to the church. It gave me so much insight and now I preach on this and it has been so impactful to those who have been so damaged by the church and its pretenses. I show them that we all have these inclinations of being a community of ungrace and that we and must realize there is hope.


Located in Mission Trails Regional Park, the Visitor Center Loop Trail is a scenic hike perfect for families and all skill levels.
The Visitor Center Loop Trail is a 1.4 mile hike in San Diego that features river views and allows dogs.
This trail allows for the practice of a variety of activities: rock climbing, mountain biking, trail running, birding, camping horseback riding, and hiking. There are shady spots available every so often, but bring sun protection and extra water. The trail is well maintained and is open year-round.


Pioneer Village in Searcy, celebrating its 50th anniversary, will host its Fall Fest on Saturday, Nov. 3, and Sunday, Nov. 4.
Pioneer Village in Searcy will continue the celebration of its 50th anniversary at its Fall Fest on Saturday, Nov. 3, and Sunday, Nov. 4.
Pioneer Village is a collection of buildings from the late 1800s that have been saved from around White County. After the gathering of the structures, the buildings were first opened for public viewing at the White County Fairgrounds in the fall of 1968. After many years at the fairgrounds, the buildings were moved to the present location in 2002.
A wonderful log house, called the Gordon House after the family that built it in 1865, is just one of the buildings in the Village. Others buildings include a one-room school/church, jail, general store, blacksmith shop, trapper cabin and the old railroad depot from Garner. You can even see how a wind mill pumps water for the farm and livestock.
There are additional buildings associated with a village, a wood working shop, cotton display, strawberry shed, various out buildings from the farm as well as farm tools, farming equipment and the Village tractors.
Volunteers in period costumes will be in the buildings and on the grounds to assist with information. Pioneer craftsmen will demonstrate skills such as blacksmithing, spinning, quilting, hand sewing, making rope, wood working, hewing a felled tree into a log and more. Live farm animals will be in the Rose Bud barn. Other activities include pioneer games for children, such as jump rope, stilts and rolling hoops. Entertainment includes live music, square dancing, line dancing and clogging.
Food, kettle corn, hot roasted peanuts, and other refreshments are available. This is a fun, family-oriented event. There is something for everyone regardless of age.
Hours are 10 a.m. to 4 p.m. Saturday and noon to 4 p.m. Sunday. The Village is located at 1200 Higginson St., in Searcy. Admission and parking are free. Donations are accepted. All donations are used to maintain and improve the Village.
Pioneer Village is a preservation project of the White County Historical Society, a non-profit organization. Village volunteers are members of the Friends of Pioneer Village.
White County Master Gardeners maintain the Village gardens.
For more information, please call 501.580.6633 or 501.278.5010.


We are developers, startups, remote workers, product companies and more.
We have dedicated event space for our members to host like-minded meetup groups.
Even if you're not actively looking for a space you can still get involved.
If you're the only one in the room you're now the smartest and dumbest one in the room.
We exist to fix this problem by connecting people, organizations and ecosystems in Greenville, SC using shared desk and meeting space as our vehicle.
We're open to businesses and individuals who want a space which is more than just an office.
Since 2013, we've been a community run work and meetup space in the middle of downtown Greenville focused on starting and sustaining good work.
Members are responsible for driving the culture, mission and vision of OpenWorks. From suggesting or executing on project ideas to hosting meetups, we believe this open, lean model is the future and provides an ideal mix of work and play.
Being at OpenWorks has been awesome and has helped us grow as a business and network with tons of people. We're super grateful for your generosity in running the space without taking profit to keep the costs for everyone down and cultivating a great community.
I was not just looking for a place to work, but a place where I could be part of a community of entrepreneurs willing to share their experiences and contacts to help make stuff happen – I found that at OpenWorks.
When you're the only people in the room, you're both the smartest and the dumbest people in the room. We don't want to be either.
OpenWorks is built on the daring, "can do" spirit found in every entrepreneur, and I'm not only excited to work in this environment, but contribute and be a part of something bigger than myself.
» Enter the lobby on the Main Street side, via ONE Plaza.
» Walk towards the bright side and OpenWorks is on the right in suite 302.
Interested in a Tour or Trial?


This glossary explains the meaning of key words and phrases that information technology (IT) and business professionals use when discussing IT operations and related software products. You can find additional definitions by visiting WhatIs.com or using the search box below.
IT operations are the processes and services administered by an organization's information technology (IT) department. As such, IT operations include administrative processes and support for hardware and software, for both internal and external clients.
IT operations analytics (ITOA) is the practice of monitoring systems and gathering, processing and interpreting data from various operations sources to guide decisions and predict potential issues.
IT service delivery is the manner in which a corporation provides information technology access to users throughout an application's lifecycle.
IT/OT convergence is the integration of information technology (IT) systems used for data-centric computing with operational technology (OT) systems used to monitor events, processes and devices and make adjustments in enterprise and industrial operations.
IT service management (ITSM) is a general term that describes a strategic approach to design, deliver, manage and improve the way businesses use information technology (IT).
Kubernetes, also referred to as K8s, is an open source system used to manage Linux containers across private, public and hybrid cloud environments.
A Kubernetes Node is a logical collection of IT resources that supports one or more containers.
Kubernetes Pods are the smallest deployable computing units in the open source Kubernetes container scheduling and orchestration environment.
Kubernetes scheduler is a part of the open source Kubernetes container orchestration platform that controls performance, capacity and availability through policies and topology awareness.
A Kubernetes volume is a directory that contains data accessible to containers in a given Pod in the orchestration and scheduling platform.


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import com.xml2code.core.definition.ProjectDefinition;
import com.xml2code.core.exception.XMLParseException;

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	public ProjectDefinition parseProjectXML(File projectXml) throws XMLParseException;

}


I meet Augustin Huret in a nondescript meeting room, situated on the 17th floor of a tower overlooking the esplanade. It's a fitting place, I think to myself as I sip a small, yet eye-wateringly strong coffee, for a discussion about the future. Augustin is a slim, quiet Frenchman, wearing a shirt and tweed jacket. At first glance, seated at the table with his Filofax, he looks like any other business consultant but the sharpness in his eyes quickly puts any such feelings to rest. "So, remind me. Why are we here?" he asks, head cocked to one side. I explain the background to the interview, which he considers just long enough to make me feel uncomfortable. Then he smiles, his hawk-like eyes softening. "Well, we had better get on with it," he says.
Augustin Huret had no ordinary childhood. Whereas many of us used to spend long car journeys playing I-Spy or spotting 2CVs, the Huret family was different. "My father used to ask us about his algorithms," says Augustin. "He wanted to be sure that they made sense to normal people." At the time, the older M. Huret was tackling the challenge of using mathematics to look for unusual phenomena in large, incomplete sets of data — needles in the information haystack. Augustin was just twelve years old but he listened, and he learned.
The human brain has a remarkable capacity to spot such anomalies. If you were faced with a painting of a vast, troubled ocean, after a while you might eventually spot a small difference of colour. Look more closely and you would see a small ship being tossed on the waves. You'd probably start to wonder whether it was in trouble, or what it was doing out there in the first place – what was the pilot thinking? You might think about a movie with a similar plot, and wonder whether there was any relationship between the picture and the film. But even as your mind wandered, you would still simply accept what you were seeing, completely ignoring how difficult it was for your brain to process the huge quantities of data involved.
M. Huret Senior was working in this area of data analysis, known as pattern recognition. Much of what we think of as 'intelligence' actually relates to our ability to spot similarities – from how we use our eyes when we're looking for our keys in a cluttered drawer, to that leaden feeling of déjà-vu we get when we find ourselves in a familiar argument. While scientists are still getting to the bottom of how the human brain makes such leaps of understanding, methods to replicate our simpler innate capabilities do exist. For example, a computer program can compare a given pattern (say, a fingerprint) with every known other one. If the pattern can't be found, it can be 'learned' and added to a database, so it can be spotted next time around.
Augustin's father was looking into more general methods of pattern recognition, which didn't need to know anything about the data they were working with. Throw in a set of data points – the bigger the better – and algorithms would build a picture, from which they could then spot anomalies like the ship on the waves. While the principle was sound, the main hurdle was the sheer scale of the problem — simply put, the algorithms required more data than 1970's computers could process. Time was not on Huret Sr's side: not only would it take several years of processing to deliver any useful results, but (with a familiar echo) funding bodies were becoming increasingly impatient. Even as Augustin's father was testing his theories, interest in the field in which he was working — Artificial Intelligence, or AI — was waning. In the end, the money ran out altogether. M. Huret Senior's theoretical models remained just that – theoretical.
A decade passed. Having completed his degree with flying colours, as the young Augustin was embarking on a Masters degree, he decided to take his father's challenge onto his own shoulders. The passage of time was on Augustin's side: one year before, the year before he started his MSc, at a cost of over 10 million dollars, the illustrious Polytechnique university had taken delivery of a Cray II supercomputer. Scientific computers are measured in the number of floating point instructions they can process per second (dubiously known as FLOPs) and the Cray was capable of running almost two billion of these. That's two billion adds, subtracts or basic multiplications – per second! At last, the younger Huret was able to test his father's theories on computers that were powerful enough for the job. He could even improve the theories – and, for the first time ever, use them in anger on real data sets.
He was faced with the perfect problem – systems failures in the production of nuclear energy. The French government had become a significant investor in nuclear power, as a direct response to the oil crisis in 1973. In consequence, by the mid-Eighties over 50 nuclear power stations had been built across the country, and more were being constructed. With the events of the 1979 nuclear accident at Three Mile Island still front of mind, the occasional lapse of this enormous, yet fledgling infrastructure was met with high levels of concern. Each failure was accompanied by massive quantities of data on all kinds of things, from equipment measurements to core temperatures. Without algorithms, the data was useless however. At that point, nobody had been able to analyse the data sufficiently well to identify any root cause of the different failures.
The Huret algorithms worked exhaustively: that is, they looked at every single possible combination of data items and compared them to every other in the data set, to see if they were linked. To make things even more complicated the algorithms then randomise the data set and go through the same, exhaustive process, to be sure that the anomalies aren't just there by chance. Given the size of the nuclear power plant data set, dealing with this processing task took inordinate amounts of processor time — 7.5 million seconds, or 15 million billion FLOPs! While this took the Cray a continuous period of 3 months to process, the results were worth it. The resulting rules highlighted what was causing the majority of systems failures across the network of nuclear power stations in France. Before Augustin knew it, he was presenting to heads of government and at international symposia. His father's original principles, honed, modified and programmed, had more than proved their worth.
Google built its search-driven advertising empire entirely on Bayesian principles, a model which continues to serve the company well — roughly 89% of the firm's $66 billion revenues in 2014 came from its advertising products. The blessing and curse of Google's probabilistic approach was illustrated by the momentous success, then the crashing failure, of its Flu Trends program, which used6 the company's search term database to track the spread of Influenza, connecting the fact people are looking for information about the flu, and their locations, with the reasonable assumption that an incidence of the illness has triggered the search. All was going well until the tool missed an outbrak by a substantial margin. Explained David Lazer and Ryan Kennedy in Wired magazine, "There were bound to be searches that were strongly correlated by pure chance, and these terms were unlikely to be driven by actual flu cases or predictive of future trends." It's a scenario reminiscent of Umberto Eco's novel 'Foucault's Pendulum', in which a firm of self-professed vanity publishers stumble upon a slip of paper containing what looked, to all intents and purposes, like a coded message. The hapless figures are plunged into a nether world of Templars and Rosicrucians, Mafiosos and voodoo, causing a chain of events which end (look away now if you don't want to know the plot) in their ultimate demise. The twist, it turns out, was that the scrap of paper was no more than a medieval laundry list.
Given that we have both exhaustive and probabilistic approaches at our behest, what matters ultimately is results. Top down is as important as bottom up, and just as science is now accepting7 the importance of both frequentist and Bayesian models, so can the rest of us. The creators of algorithms are exploring how to merge8 the ideas of Bayesian and Frequentist logic — for example in the form of the bootstrap, a computer-intensive inference machine.
The end result is that we will know a lot more about the world around us and, indeed, ourselves. For example, the Huret algorithms were used to exhaustively analyse the data sets of a ophthalmic (glasses) retailer — store locations, transaction histories, you name it. The outputs indicated a strong and direct correlation between the amount of shelf space allocated to children, and the quantity of spectacles sold to adults. The very human interpretation on this finding was, simply, that kids like to try on glasses, and the more time they spend doing so, the more likely are their parents to buy. Equally, did you know that in retail, brightly coloured cars make better second hand deals (they have more careful owners)? Or that vegetarians9 are less likely to miss their flights?
With the Law of Diminishing Thresholds holding fast, correlations such as these will become everyday, as will more deeply valuable topics, such as those in healthcare — such as monitoring10, and potentially postponing, the onset of Parkinson's Disease. Some, seemingly unsolvable tasks, such as weather prediction, have not changed in scale since they were first documented — might we finally be able to predict the weather? And it's not just unsolved problems that can be tackled — we are also starting to find insights in places nobody even thought to look, as demonstrated by our ability11 to compare every single painting in history to every other.
But what if such data was already, automatically and unequivocally interpreted on our behalf? What if immigration could be proven without doubt to be a very good, or a very bad thing? Would we be prepared to accept a computer output which told us, in no uncertain terms, that the best option out of all the choices was to go to war, or indeed not to? Such moral dilemmas are yet to come but meanwhile, the race is on: researchers and scientists, governments and corporations, media companies and lobby groups, fraudsters and terrorists are working out how to identify needles hidden in the information haystack. Consulting firm McKinsey estimates16 that Western European economies could save more than €100 billion making use of analytics to support government decision-making and elsewhere, big data is big business.
But right now, to succeed requires thinking outside the algorithm and using the most important asset we have: ourselves.


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In my book No Matter the Time I turn the lens away from my own life and towards history. I focus the lens on the greatest love stories the world has ever known. No Matter the Time is a collection of love letters between historical couples. In each of them, I find fragments of love I've known. I hope you do, too.
When writing this book, I knew I wanted to include an Albanian couple and, like most Albanian children, I grew up hearing the legend of Shote Galica. What I didn't know was that there was an incredible love story behind the legend.
The best kind of love strengthens us, tests our boundaries, and helps us become the people we always dreamed of being. This is how I think of Shote & Azem Galica. I feel lucky to be able to include them in this collection. I hope you enjoy.
or the blood rusting in a puddle on the floor.
you put on the uniform. You clean your gun.
even war is about love. Even love is about country.
with such resolve? So I'm gone now.
This is the human price of war.
We always knew this, but now it is close.
This time, you are kneeling over my grave.
putting on your uniform and cleaning your gun.
and pulling it through the mountains with you.
Is how you never stopped fighting, even for a second.
You can buy Fortesa Latifi's newest book No Matter the Time here or here.