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Vigil commemorates MLK Jr.'s life
By Bob Galuski Managing Editor|January 20, 2014
Illuminated by a wax candle wedged into a paper cup, Ronisha Frazier marched through campus Monday, just one of nearly 50 other members of the campus community.
Lyrics to the song "We Shall Overcome," laughter and high spirits filled the night air as Frazier, a senior family and consumer sciences major, joined others to commemorate the life of Martin Luther King Jr.
The candlelit vigil march sent students and faculty members walking from Thomas Hall to the Martin Luther King Jr. University Union Monday in remembrance of King.
Frazier said one of the main reasons she decided to march was because it was a good way to honor King's life.
"I always want to make sure people know why he fought for us," she said. "I want to portray that out to this generation."
Frazier added she thought the world might not be the way it is now if not for King.
Monday's candlelit march was the 27th march hosted by members of the Alpha Phi Alpha fraternity.
The march between Thomas Hall and the Union represents the Civil Rights marches that took place in areas such as Birmingham, Ala.
For students like Angelica Brack, a junior recreation administration major, the vigil represented a community coming together.
"It's about unity," she said. "Everybody is supporting and celebrating his life, and giving back to the community."
Salonje Dorsey, a sophomore pre-nursing major, said it was her first time taking part in a celebratory vigil for King.
"I wanted to start being more involved on campus," she said.
She added she believed King is relevant in modern society, especially on Eastern's campus because of how multicultural the campus is.
Before the march began, students were encouraged to write down what their dreams were, under the banner "Dreams Never Fade."
Chris Colson, a first year graduate student in the counseling department, wrote down his dream: "To be able to get back to my community, and have a positive impact on everyone I come in contact with."
Latarius Ferguson, a senior marketing major, also wrote down a dream pertaining to his community – but decided to go further.
"To see the growth and development not only in the local community, but nation-wide," Ferguson inscribed.
Other dreams, like Reggie Williams', a senior athletic training major, revolved around relationships between people.
"That unity continues to grow and improve with time," he wrote down on the poster.
Cameron Douglas, the president of Alpha Phi Alpha, said this year's vigil went as smooth as could be.
"Weather was pretty nice," he said. "It wasn't that rough."
As smooth as things went, however, Douglas said one thing he would like to improve on for next year's vigil would be the marchers' participation in singing.
He said a few ideas included handing out pamphlets with the lyrics or tweaking the lyrics to be easier to understand.
Along with the march, Andrew Robinson, a communications professor, was honored with the Alpha Image Award – an award that has been given out since the start of the vigil marches.
Robinson said he was extremely honored, but added no award comes from a lone person.
"No award is achieved by an individual," he said. "For this there were plenty of people involved."
Robinson said he served to help others in the campus community.
The Alpha Image Award defines leadership and community service, qualities Robinson said were fitting given the day.
"The key is love," he said. "And Martin Luther King Jr. is the greatest example. He loved people."
Bob Galuski can be reached at 581-2812 or [email protected]
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Building an easier way to get recurring tasks done.
My RolesProduct design, user testing and iOS development
ContextPersonal project
Timeline2019 / 4 months
Sometime is an iOS app that lets people track and complete recurring tasks in their daily lives. My brother, Jimmy, and I created it because we wanted a way to know when we haven't done something in a while and keep track of the last time we've done it.
In addition, I wanted to challenge myself in building a digital product from concept to launch. Thus, the scope of the project was kept simple so I could experience the full process.
Problem#
Audience: People who deal with many recurring tasks in their everyday lives. For example: watering the plants every 2 weeks and getting a haircut after a month.
Need: A way to keep track of them and get reminded when they haven't been done in a while.
Opportunity: How might we help people remember to do the things they'd like to do sometimes?
Validating the problem#
Although this is a problem we have, we wanted to know if other people may have it too. I've found quotes from users of productivity apps on Reddit that aligned with some initial ideas we've had for Sometime:
There were also mentions of similar apps, such as Due, Recurrence and Regularly. These show that there is a market for managing recurring tasks beyond a standard todo app.
Building the app iteratively#
After establishing our goals, constraints, and principles, the project went through the following milestones:
For the MVP, I designed the app based on what we thought Sometime should be. Once we were happy with the design, I learned how to code in Swift, and collaborated with Jimmy on building the iOS front-end.
User Test
With the MVP build on my iPhone, I planned and conducted 5 in-person usability tests. The results informed some significant changes we've made for the beta build.
To recruit participants for the beta, I posted a screening survey on Reddit. It garnered over 150 sign-ups within the first few days, which signaled a strong interest from the community. We then used the feedback from TestFlight and a post-test survey to prepare the app for V1.
The rest of this case study will go over some of the key changes made to the product based on my explorations and user feedback.
Task creation#
Goal: Make it easy for the user to create a task with recurring reminders.
People can add a task from the home screen, which takes them to the task creation view. From the start, I wanted the interface to be conversational, so it's easy to understand and gets the user to think about what they want.
An early design had a simple prompt and options to set a periodic reminder. The ideas list helps guide the user into thinking about recurring tasks.
An option we've added later was the ability to set reminders at a fixed interval (daily and weekly). To differentiate this from setting reminders that only occurred after completion, I used a segmented control.
Below: The three types of Auto Reminders, and their respective parameters.
However, in our MVP user tests, people were confused by Recurring vs. Interval and other variations of the copy. I struggled with this for a while, but I eventually settled on showing a picker to set the reminder type.
I also replaced all number inputs and segmented controls with pickers to create a consistent input experience. Overall, this setup was clearer and more elegant than before.
Below: A simplified Auto Reminders layout.
Aside: When Figma launched plugin support, I developed Fix San Francisco. It automates the correction of metrics and fonts for texts using Apple's SF typeface. The plugin allowed me to create iOS mocks more accurately and has been installed by over 1000 other designers.
Home#
Goal: Let the user see what's coming up at a glance to decide which tasks they should do.
In an earlier design, I borrowed Apple's Activity rings to represent the time until the next reminder. However, the mechanism was difficult to grasp because each progress ring was based on their own reminder duration. Our testers didn't understand them either, so we scrapped it.
Left: Home screen with tasks ordered by upcoming reminders.
Some participants mentioned that they'd like to see tasks that mattered today. Therefore, I grouped them into Today and Future.
The ring now shows task status, with green meaning it was completed today, and orange meaning that a periodic task has gone past its reminder interval. In the end, this model was well-received by our beta testers.
Right: Tasks separated by those with reminders for Today vs. in the Future. For daily tasks with multiple reminders in a day, the app intelligently displays a progress ring to represent completions for today.
Task history#
Goal: Enable people to understand their habits and let them manage completions.
The first version had a timeline that showed completions and the time intervals between theme. However, it didn't give a sense of how far apart the completions were.
Moreover, our testers couldn't tell the difference between Auto and Manual reminders due to the unintuitive placement of actions on this screen.
Left: Task history design from the MVP. The user had to pull down the header to edit reminders and tap the large circle to set Manual Reminder.
Jimmy proposed showing intervals as progress bars like the ones from MacRumors Buyer's Guide. So, I experimented with the idea and overhauled the screen with better visualizations. I also added a Quick Reminder and an Auto Reminders button to help people distinguish the two.
Right: The latest task history screen with dynamic data visualizations to help people see the frequency of their completions.
Onboarding#
Goal: Help people understand the value of the app and its core concepts.
Given the straight-forward purpose of the app, I designed the onboarding to be hands-on by getting the user to create a task and learn about app-specific shortcuts.
Furthermore, I wrote the copy to be concise and casual so people can feel that the app has a friendly persona.
Below: A video walkthrough of the first-time user experience.
Launch#
To prepare for release, I wrote the marketing copy and created a landing page. We promoted the app through ProductHunt, Reddit, and our mailing list.
On launch day, we had 61.58% conversion rate across our channels, and Sometime was downloaded over 200 times. Moreover, the app had a positive reception from our users.
On usability testing: For the MVP user test, I tested with people I knew to keep costs minimal. However, I didn't get quality feedback from some participants because they weren't heavy users of productivity software. If I had more resources, I would put more effort into screening to find those who are most likely to use our app.
On building an app: One thing I need to improve on is to prioritize getting feedback over perfection. I've spent a lot of time coding and fixing the UI, thus some tasks took longer than expected. But overall, the project was a success for me because I've become more confident in delivering an elegant product from scratch into the world.
Designed, coded and shipped Sometime, an iOS app for recurring tasks and reminders.
Planned and conducted user and beta tests to inform product design.
Developed and released a Figma plugin used by designers to create more accurate iOS mocks.


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Home Music Archives IBMA, Night Three: 10 Things I Learned Backstage at the International Bluegrass Music Awards Show
IBMA, Night Three: 10 Things I Learned Backstage at the International Bluegrass Music Awards Show
Photo by Grayson Haver Currin
Seldom Scene, posing backstage after their Hall of Fame induction
Jerry Douglas, Lee Ann Womack and award-show producers Amy Reitnouer and Chris Stuart
Seldom Scene performs as Blue Highway looks on
Last night in Raleigh, Memorial Auditorium hosted the International Bluegrass Music Awards Show for the second time. In 2013, I watched the program from one of the last rows in the house, and I was curious how it all worked: Where did they keep all those microphones? How did they stage it all so quickly? Where had they hidden Tony Rice?
This year, I decided to find out, and IBMA agreed to allow the INDY to be the first newspaper ever to report from backstage at its biggest night. It didn't make me want a cheeseburger.
For more on the winners, see Spencer Griffith's report here.
1. Lee Ann Womack and Jerry Douglas maybe aren't best buds?
The former country star and the award-generating dobro player co-hosted Thursday's ceremony. Their scripted rapport hinged largely on Womack's recent conversion to bluegrass emergence, a crossover position Douglas has experienced himself. He teased her with trivia and welcomed her to the bluegrass family, and she later rebutted with some deep-cut questions of her own, which he dutifully answered by reading a teleprompter. But offstage, the two barely interacted. Douglas stood just at the edge of the stage, teasing the producers and cavorting with other musicians. She sat instead at a rectangular plastic table backstage with a small posse of friends and employees. When the ceremony ended, Douglas trailed her offstage, nodded and briefly put his hand on her shoulder. No high five, no hug, no chest bumps—just two co-hosts going their separate ways. Given Womack's lackluster, diminished singing during her segment Thursday, maybe she's still the bluegrass family's stepkid?
2. Lee Ann Womack does, however, like McDonald's.
Remember that backstage table Womack shared with some pals? As the program entered its second hour, four massive bags of McDonald's appeared there. By the time all the crystalline spears had been handed out to the night's winners, those bags were near-empty. "We had reservations in a restaurant for later, but we were hungry now," Womack's publicist told me. "Single cheeseburgers and fries." In 2011, Womack won a Grammy for "I Hope You Dance," which my high school English teacher mimed at graduation. Last night, at the IBMAs, she ate cheeseburgers from the McDonald's on Wilmington Street. Bluegrass is the people's music, y'all.
3. What do you call Jerry Douglas' current hairdo?
Well, last night, it was curly, sandy blond, short in the front and just to the shoulders in the back. It flattened and fell a bit as the night progressed. So, was it a mullet? Was it a perm? Was it both? Was it neither? Is he joining an early '90s modern country group (Little Texas?) or a mid-'80s glam metal band? Could someone successfully live in dude's curls, or are they chemically enhanced past the point of supporting life?
4. If you want some cheese, get it early.
Perhaps you imagine the backstage area of a televised awards show to be a land of milk and honey, with local strawberries dipped in artisanal chocolate and olives stuffed with dreams. Good one! Last night's catering consisted of two small rectangular tables. One held plastic and paper cups for accompanying canisters of water and coffee. The other held some plates, an assortment of crackers and a large plate of semi-soft cheeses and the kind of fruit you find on a semi-soft cheese plate. At 8:57 p.m., less than 90 minutes after the show began, catering began to cart the entire enterprise away, but someone must've plead for mercy. The cheese and a few of the crackers remained, as well as the coffee, but forget about the water, kid, because bluegrass is meant to be fast. Maybe that's why Womack was so hungry?
5. Backstage at the International Bluegrass Music Awards, the vibe is definitively family-friendly.
Suge Knight gets shot at MTV VMA parties. Grammy celebrations are legendary bacchanalias. But backstage in Raleigh, I smelled exactly one Solo cup of red wine in the hands of bystander, and I heard exactly one report of pot being smoked in the well-lit house of Memorial Auditorium. But backstage, there was little-to-no alcohol to be found, no one doing rails off of Del McCoury's snow-white pompadour. The most indulgent behavior I saw came just before the show ended, when a man talking to his teenaged son backstage held a bag of Cool Ranch Doritos in one hand and a glass-bottled Mountain Dew in the other and shared with no one. In fact, he held those sweet-and-salty calories like a lucky predator might hang on to its prey, body centered around it and poised to strike anyone who might reach in for just one chip. I wanted to get the guy a beer.
6. When you get respect, you get the microphone.
Last night's awards ceremony was broadcast live by SiriusXM, through a webcast and, locally, by WNCN's channel 17.2. It needed to be on schedule. In a series of pre-broadcast announcements, the silk-tongued Ned Luberecki taught the crowd how to clap in unison and told the performers to pick who would make their winning speech and keep their remarks to 30 seconds. "If you haven't done so already, have a brief meeting among yourselves and decide who that might be," he told the bands. No one listened. Phil Leadbetter, who's been battling lymphoma for three years, broke the mold early with an emotional and endearing speech. And the IBMA Hall of Fame inductions for bluegrass historian Neil Rosenberg and Seldom Scene lasted so long they might've been better served by their own Ramble showcases. As show director Alan Reep noted at night's end, the program ran over by 79 minutes, but I didn't mind it so much. Despite its takeover of Raleigh, bluegrass remains a niche field, albeit a worldwide one. If it won't take time to honor its own, who will? Are the Grammys going to give Leadbetter five minutes to speak?
7. Measure twice, and place the microphones once.
If you didn't watch the ceremony, it's helpful to know at this point that the program is, as with most other music awards shows, a carousel of brief performances and presentations. That means that a set of stage hands have a few minutes, or the total time it takes to hand out two trophies, to get one band off stage (this is called striking) and another on stage (and this, you see, is called setting up). When the lights go up, the band has to start strumming without delay, so there's no room for misplaced microphones in front of unamplified acoustic instruments. To do this, the stagehands in Raleigh measured the height of every microphone needed by every performed and put the data on comprehensive paper stage plots. They then used a long gray pole, where every inch was marked, to quickly position and verify the heights. It was a marvel of engineering, about as precise and unerring as any solo I saw from the side of the stage Thursday night.
8. Cloggers are athletes, too.
Remember that campaign a decade or so back that correctly espoused the athleticism of cheerleaders? Clogging needs to co-opt it. Last night, bluegrass clogging Svengali Eileen Carson Schatz led a troupe of five dancers through a complicated dance that accompanied the opening number, played by an all-star band of folks like Béla Fleck and Sierra Hull. Before they sprinted onstage for the number, offstage for an instant outfit change and back onstage for the second half, I watched the dancers warm up backstage. It was intense. They checked their lipstick and décolletage, yes, but they also did deep knee bends, thigh stretches and jumping jacks. There was even a group huddle and a secret handshake. Go, team.
9. Béla Fleck and Abigail Washburn have a kid, and wow, that kid is cute.
When Béla Fleck and Abigial Washburn played a short, impromptu duo show at last year's World of Bluegrass, they were the new parents of a four-month-old son, Juno. They brought him along, and they were a little nervous. This year, though, Juno is in fully operational tow, and it's a joy to watch. When Fleck presented the award for Banjo Player of the Year last night alongside Tony Trischka, he took the kid onstage with him. When he and Trischka had to sing a comical duet, Fleck handed Juno to Washburn, standing just offstage. But between his lines of scripted dialogue, Fleck would dart off stage, kiss the boy on the head and jump back in place. They seem like two parents in love with parenting.
10. When Seldom Scene sings, you listen.
Last night, one of bluegrass's pioneering acts, Seldom Scene, was rightfully inducted into the IBMA Hall of Fame. Backstage at the ceremony is generally a tizzy of activity, but when the band stepped onstage to sing the gorgeous "Wait a Minte" with all its surviving original members, everyone stood stock-still. "That covers a lot of bluegrass innovation right there," Blue Highway's Shawn Lane said, standing offstage and ready to go on next. "That's one of the definitions of bluegrass."
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Parish, Town and Community Councils are the most direct form of democracy in England and Wales, being the first tier of local government. Thurston Parish Council has been in existence since 1894, making it one of the oldest Parish Councils and, in 1994, celebrated its centenary with various commemorative activities.
This tier of local government is set to have more responsibilities placed upon it due to changes within the law relating to the Localism Act of 2011, the Audit and Accountability Act of 2014 and a number of other legislation currently being laid before parliament. This will result in a busier Council - from a resident's perspective a more local place to access information and raise concerns.
The Council is an elected body with eleven seats filled by Thurston residents whose primary function is to ensure that the Parish is efficiently and economically run using a proportion of the annual Council Tax income. We meet on the first Wednesday of each month (apart from January when it is the second Wednesday), in the Community Library, Norton Road to discuss current Parish issues and members of the public are encouraged and very welcome to attend these meetings. There is always an opportunity during the meeting for residents to raise any topic relating to Thurston and the agenda under discussion for consideration and comment by the Parish Councillors, or for referral to District and County Councillors and Officers.
Should you be unable to attend a meeting, contact can be made with the Parish Council by telephoning 01359 232854, e-mailing or calling into the Parish Council Office during office opening hours of Wednesday 10.00am to 4.00pm and Friday 10.00am to 3.00pm and giving reports and queries to the Parish Clerk.
All notices from the Parish Council are displayed in the Village Noticeboards and in the Library including notices of elections; Council Meetings; Planning Applications to be considered by the Parish Council to name but a few.
The Parish Council has a broad range of responsibilities some of which can be summarized below:
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Home Sports BCCI bans Pakistani umpire Rauf for bribery
BCCI bans Pakistani umpire Rauf for bribery
India's cricket board handed Pakistan's former Test umpire Asad Rauf a five-year ban Friday after a tribunal found him guilty of taking backhanders from bookmakers while officiating in the IPL.
Rauf disappeared in the middle of the 2013 edition of the Indian Premier League after press allegations that he had accepted designer watches and other gifts in exchange for favourable decisions.
The 59-year-old was subsequently struck off the International Cricket Council's elite panel of umpires and has not officiated outside his native Pakistan since then.
Rauf did not attend Friday's closed-door disciplinary hearing at the Indian board's Mumbai headquarters although he had earlier denied the charges against him in a written submission.
In a statement announcing its verdict, the Board of Control for Cricket in India (BCCI) said Rauf was "guilty of misconduct and corruption" within the terms of the board's anti-corruption code.
"Mr Asad Rauf has been banned for a period of five years from umpiring or playing or representing cricket in any form or anyway being associated with the activities of the Board and its Affiliates," the statement added.
The allegations against Rauf came during the sixth edition of India's hugely popular annual Twenty20 tournament which was dogged by several fixing scandals.
Officials in two of the IPL's eight franchises were subsequently banned for betting on matches involving their own teams while the former Test player Shanthakumaran Sreesanth was sacked for deliberately bowling badly in exchange for thousands of dollars.
Rauf officiated in 49 Tests, 98 ODIs and 23 Twenty20 internationals before he was struck off the ICC panel.
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WASHINGTON (Reuters) - Congressional negotiators unveiled a $1.1 trillion U.S. spending bill that aims to avoid a government shutdown at midnight on Thursday and punts an immigration showdown between Republicans and President Barack Obama until February.
As the funding deadline loomed, Republicans successfully negotiated a number of policy provisions into the measure, including easing of regulations ranging from the environment to financial derivatives trading.
The measure was expected to be put to a House of Representatives vote on Thursday. But to enable Senate passage, a short-term extension of one or two days was being prepared, congressional aides said.
"This bill will allow us to fulfil our constitutional duty to responsibly fund the federal government and avoid a shutdown," House Appropriations Committee Chairman Hal Rogers said in a statement.
The measure largely keeps unchanged fiscal 2015 domestic spending, while adding funds to fight Islamic State militants in Iraq and Syria and to fight Ebola in West Africa.
It funds all government agencies through September 2015, except for the Department of Homeland Security, which would be extended only through Feb. 27. That move aims to give Republicans leverage over the agency implementing Obama's immigration order.
Next year, when Republicans control both the House and Senate, they intend to pass restrictions barring federal funds for Obama's plan to let millions of undocumented immigrants stay and work in the United States.
Current government spending authority expires at 12:01 a.m. EST (0501 GMT) on Friday.
Negotiations were delayed by wrangling over a Republican effort to block new curbs on derivatives trade that would require banks to shift these activities to units that do not benefit from federal deposit insurance and Federal Reserve loans.
The compromise that ended up in the bill grants a reprieve for derivatives trades on behalf of farmers and other commodity producers, who had feared the rule would require them to put up more collateral.
A bipartisan provision to shore up distressed multi-employer pension plans and the government fund that guarantees them was taken out of the bill and proposed as an amendment facing a separate vote. Changes include raising insurance premiums for these plans and allowing them to cut benefits for non-disabled beneficiaries under 75.
A six-year extension for a federal terrorism insurance backstop created after the Sept. 11, 2001 attacks was also excluded from the funding bill and is being dealt with separately.


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Q: Updating the render form a function in React I'm ignorant towards how Reacts render works and i was wondering , how or if it possible to update a style element from a variable created in a function. See the following :
this is my function that's called in order to determine the amount of columns for the sytle elemnt "gridTemplateColumns".
 function getSize() {
        var number 10
        var ColumnNo= "";
        for (var i = 0; i < number; i++) {
            ColumnNo+= "auto ";

        }

    }'

And this is the Grid Container with the style inside:
<div className="grid-container" style={{ "gridTemplateColumns": styletest }}>

I know that it works when you load the page , but how do you update the render with this new variable ?

A: You have to put the variable in the state of your component and update it with setState or pass it to the component using props and update the value from the parent component.
This way every time the variable changes, the render function will be called

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Review by Michael Calkins Patron
Captain Marvel 2019 ★★★
Watched Mar 19, 2019
Michael Calkins's review published on Letterboxd:
Falling definitely in the middling range of the MCU, Captain Marvel is a flawed film that still had a good deal of entertainment value for me. I enjoyed the hell out of Ben Mendelssohn, Talos (a slightly refreshing change of pace for the MCU), Sam Jackson kills it as a younger, slightly greener Nick Fury, and there are some solid and interesting ideas at play here. The idea of the Kree/Skrull war is great, showing us a fractured heroine trying to find out who she really is is a great idea too. The problem lies in the execution, and in my opinion, the script overall.
The third act of this film is a whimper too. That's partially because of a lack of investment, but also because the climactic battles feel so thoughtless and weightless.
I don't think this film is terrible by any stretch. But I found Carol Danvers to be the least interesting character in the entire film, and it's HER film. Larson is serviceable, but honestly it doesn't feel like she was given the best to do here. The better material seemed to go to Talos or even Fury. That's truly bizzarre to me, and firmly puts this as the worst origin story in the MCU.
There's the bones of an interesting film here, but it's not fully realized enough to have truly taken me to the heights it wanted to.
Captain Marvel gets a 65/100
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Diana Bryant  (born 13 October 1947) is an Australian jurist who served as Chief Justice of the Family Court of Australia from 5 July 2004 to 12 October 2017.

Early life and education
Bryant was born in Perth, Western Australia and attended Firbank Girls' Grammar School in Melbourne. Bryant holds a Bachelor of Laws degree from Melbourne University, and a Master of Laws degree from Monash University.

Career
Bryant was admitted as a legal practitioner in Victoria in 1970.  From 1977 to 1990, Chief Justice Bryant was a partner with the firm of Phillips Fox in Perth where she practised as a solicitor and counsel specialising in family law. She was also a Director of Australian Airlines from 1984 to 1989.

From May 2000 she was the inaugural Chief Federal Magistrate of Australia, the head of the Federal Magistrates' Court, thus being the first woman appointed to the position.

Prior to her appointment, Chief Justice Bryant had practised at the Victorian Bar from 1990 where she specialised in family law and de facto property disputes, particularly at the appellate level. She was appointed a Queen's Counsel in 1997 and was a founding member of Chancery Chambers, Melbourne.

In February 2009 Chief Justice Bryant was appointed Patron of Australian Women Lawyers, after founding Patron Mary Gaudron , in recognition of her support for women lawyers and efforts to promote equality of opportunity for women in the community.

Bryant retired as Chief Justice on 12 October 2017 reaching the constitutional retirement age of 70.

Honours

In 2012 Bryant was made an Officer of the Order of Australia for "distinguished service to the judiciary and to the law, particularly to family law policy reform and practice, through the establishment of the Federal Magistrates Court, and to the advancement of women in the legal profession". She was inducted into the Western Australian Women's Hall of Fame in 2018.

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Unexpected Israel with guest speaker Judy Lash Balint
Unexpected Israel was the topic of Beer Sheva Hadassah's recent meeting in Seward Park. Judy Lash Balint, an author and journalist from Jerusalem (and former Seattle resident), shared slides and stories of a dozen interesting places to see that even frequent visitors may have never seen.
Among them, Timna, an amazing National Park just off the highway north of Eilat, where King Solomon had copper mines. There's a beautiful little lake with camping, a visitor center, archeological sites and trails. (And it can top 115 degrees in the spring and summer!)
Judy Balint
Shiloh, an ancient city in Samaria mentioned in the bible, where the tribe of Israel assembled and set up the tabernacle — mishkan. Today it's a small town and amazing archeological excavation about an hour north of Jerusalem where you can spend a whole day wandering. Don't miss the nearby tastings in the olive groves and wineries, and visit the craft boutiques in this growing "settlement" town.Zichron, an artists town south of Haifa that was one of the first major agricultural, and was funded by the Rothschild family. Today it is a tranquil, beautiful spot with artists studios, shops, trails and the Beit Aronson NILI Museum which tells the historic story of the early pioneers who built the farms and orchards, and held back invading Arab armies to protect the settlers.
AbuGosh, a friendly Israeli-Arab town on the road from Jerusalem to Tel Aviv said to be the hummus capital of Israel. The residents there in 1948 chose to stay and become Israeli settlers, rather than flee as they were urged by Arab leaders.
Beer Sheva Hadassah co-president Meryl Alcabes treated attendees to a delightful spread of Israeli foods including hummus, babaganoush, salads and baklava.


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http://thebulletin.org/iron-dome-public-relations-weapon7308
John Mecklin
With the latest rounds of rocket fire from Hamas fighters in the Gaza strip, Israel's missile defense system, known as Iron Dome, is getting a lot of press again, much of it positive. As with much reporting on missile defense, however, the Iron Dome coverage has lacked context and misconstrued reality.
A CNN article [1], for example, carried the headline "How Iron Dome blocks rockets from Gaza, protects Israelis" and described a system that had knocked down 56 rockets fired out of Gaza at a string of Israeli cities. The article suggests that the system is accurate and used "only against rockets headed toward populated areas." It does not suggest that there is any question about the system's effectiveness.
The New York Times, noted for its authoritative reporting, wrote that the Israeli Army contended Iron Dome "intercepted about 27 percent of all the rockets fired between Monday night and midday Wednesday." But the Times did not indicate how many missiles had been targeted, leaving the efficiency of the Iron Dome system in this conflict unclear, even as the newspaper reported that "Israel has said that the system has a success rate of nearly 90 percent in intercepting the missiles it is meant to thwart." The Times also put a headline over its online story—"A Growing Arsenal of Homegrown Rockets Encounters Israel's Iron Dome" [2]—that could be read as suggesting Israel's missile defense was, overall, as effective as its name implies.
And less rigorous news outlets were, of course, less rigorous in their analysis. The New York Post, for instance, reported that "Israel foiled Hamas terrorist attacks from the air and sea." [3]
Ted Postol, an MIT-based missile defense expert and frequent Bulletin contributor, provided a dose of context to the Iron Dome coverage [4] in a National Public Radio interview Wednesday. "We can tell, for sure, from video images and even photographs that the Iron Dome system is not working very well at all," Postol said. "It—my guess is maybe [it hits a targeted missile] 5 percent of the time—could be even lower. ... And when you look—what you can do in the daytime—you can see the smoky contrail of each Iron Dome interceptor, and you can see the Iron Domes trying to intercept the artillery rockets side on and from behind. In those geometries, the Iron Dome has no chance, for all practical purposes, of destroying the artillery rocket."
Regular readers of the Bulletin are well aware of the long history of inflated claims of missile defense efficiency.
Late in 2012, MIT researcher Subrata Ghoshroy brought some reality to hyperbolic claims about Iron Dome's performance in an earlier Israel-Hamas clash [5]: "Israel seems to have shared little information to date, and so there is no way for observers outside the Israeli defense forces to know how successful Iron Dome actually was."
More important, perhaps, Ghoshroy noted that appraisals of Iron Dome should not be misinterpreted as vindication of defense systems that aim to protect against sophisticated, long-range missiles of the type designed to carry nuclear weapons. His analysis is worth quoting at length: "First, let's debunk the myth that Iron Dome—even if as successful as advertised in the Gaza conflict—constitutes proof that missile defense, writ large, works. Terminology is important here. Iron Dome is primarily a rocket defense system, and rockets are fundamentally different from missiles. Rockets do not have a guidance system; missiles do. Rockets follow a trajectory that is determined by the position and angle of the launcher and the propellant. ... While destroying a rocket in this way is a great technical feat, it is not the `hit to kill' system on which the US missile defense effort has been premised, and the Iron Dome system is not intended to work against larger ballistic missiles."
(Many, many Bulletin articles--including a remarkable knockdown, written by Postol and Cornell University researcher George N. Lewis, of a 2012 National Academies missile defense assessment [6]—have chronicled the long, abysmal record and extraordinary cost of the United States' efforts to create a system that could shoot down intercontinental ballistic missiles in mid-flight. Among other things, those articles have noted over time an enduring reality: Simple, cheap decoys and other countermeasures will likely be able to fool the tracking systems for the mid-flight missile defense platforms the United States has largely focused on developing.)
So if Iron Dome says little about the state of true missile defense, and if its effectiveness against short-range rockets is at best unclear and likely overstated, why does the system seem to take center stage whenever Hamas and Israel clash? The answer to that question seems to lie in the public relations arena.
As Postol noted in his public radio interview, Hamas rocket attacks are part of an "intended game." Hamas fires its relatively small, generally inaccurate, and largely ineffective rockets into Israel from Gaza, knowing from past experience that Israel's response will likely involve air strikes that will, despite the accuracy of Israel's high-tech weaponry, kill innocent civilians and, Hamas hopes, make Israel seem a callous oppressor in the eyes of the world.
Meanwhile, the Israeli government presents Iron Dome's performance as part of a sophisticated public relations effort that aims to persuade the broader public that Hamas is a heartless and calculating terrorist organization and Israel's defense forces are decent, determined, and effective. It's an effort that includes, for example, idfnadesk [7], the YouTube page for the Israel Defense Forces, which offers a video titled "Iron Dome Intercepts Rockets Over Ashdod," among many videos highlighting purported Hamas cruelty and Israeli "pinpoint" and "precision" weapons.
To the extent it fills news cycles with reports on Hamas rocket attacks and Iron Dome's supposed technologically advanced method of intercepting them, this PR effort also deflects attention from the human consequences of Israeli bombing strikes in Gaza.
Iron Dome is high-tech. So is the public relations campaign around it, a reality that more of the world news ecosystem could beneficially take note of.
Source URL: https://portside.org/2014-07-21/iron-dome-public-relations-weapon
[1] http://www.cnn.com/2014/07/09/world/meast/israel-palestinians-iron-dome/
[2] http://www.nytimes.com/2014/07/10/world/middleeast/israel-gaza-missiles-iron-dome.html?_r=0
[3] http://nypost.com/2014/07/08/rocket-aimed-at-tel-aviv-intercepted-by-israels-iron-dome-report/
[4] http://www.npr.org/2014/07/09/330183774/the-rockets-from-hamas-and-the-iron-dome-that-could-use-patching
[5] http://thebulletin.org/iron-dome-behind-hoopla-familiar-story-missile-defense-hype
[6] http://thebulletin.org/astonishing-national-academy-sciences-missile-defense-report-0
[7] https://www.youtube.com/user/idfnadesk
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John Carradine narrates five horror tales, each with a comically predictable surprise ending. In the first, "The Witches Clock" (sic), The Farrells have purchased an old mansion in Salem Massachusetts, and are warned by the town doctor, Finchley, of the history of witches in the community, and the old clock which they brought up from the attic. Then an old man named Tristram Halbin comes for a visit. The second story, "King of the Vampires" deals with a slight-figured killer, called the King of the Vampires by Scotland Yard, which sends Brenner to investigate. The third, "Monster Raid," is about a man turned zombie when he OD's on his experimental drug, who returns to avenge his death at the hands of his widow and her lover-now husband. "Spark of Life" deals with a doctor Mendell obsessed with the experiments of a thrown-out professor named Erich von Frankenstein, and two of his students who try to restore a cadaver to life. "Count Alucard" (called "Alucard" by Carradine and "Dracula: on the end credits, is a variation on the Dracula story, with the Count acquiring the deed to Carfax Abbey from Harker, as vampiresses and dead bodies start turning up. It, too, has a surprise ending unrelated to Stoker.
Genre: Horror, Sci-Fi
Director: David L. Hewitt
Actors: John Carradine, Lon Chaney Jr., Rochelle Hudson, Roger Gentry
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At the event ongoing at the Eko Hotel Convention Centre, Lagos, Ambode was invited to speak immediately after Tinubu.
And as he mounted the podium, the embattled governor acknowledged the dignitaries, before referencing Tinubu.
"Actually, I didn't prepare to come and say anything here… And who am I to speak after the Jagaban has spoken?" Ambode asked.
His sentence got the audience and himself laughing, before he went on to speak on Ovia.
Other dignitaries that graced the event are Vice-President Yemi Osinbajo, Ob of Lagos, Rilwan Akiolu, governors of Delta, Borno and Taraba states.
In an extraordinary turn of events, Ambode and Tinubu have reportedly fallen apart, with the Jagaban said to be working against the re-election of the governor.
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A transit opportunity
April 18, 2019 | RTA Blog, Thursday thoughts at 3
This week we released a statement, in concert with our founding chambers of commerce from Durham and Chapel Hill-Carrboro, affirming the regional business community's ongoing focus on accelerating multimodal solutions, particularly in the western Triangle, in light of the discontinuation of the light rail project.
The current situation is obviously not ideal. However, it does present an opportunity, and we remain committed to working with our partners to advance frequent, effective transit options for the entire Triangle.
RTA was founded nearly 20 years ago, and it was heartening to be able to speak to the continued strength and commitment of the business community in advancing transit options for our region. While we are somewhat in uncharted territory going forward, there are still several things we can say as an interested and supportive partner.
1. While the light rail project may have ended, the need for effective transit between Durham and Chapel Hill did not.
This week's joint business community statement specifically highlighted the ongoing need for high-capacity, effective transit connections — note the plural – between these vital points of the Triangle.
While I do not believe that we should or could simply "pave" the exact route of the light rail corridor as a bus rapid transit route, it may be that one or more frequent bus routes could be activated between Durham and Chapel Hill, along specific roadway alignments to be determined. To the extent that such routes might employ a form of bus rapid transit for at least parts of the alignment, that may provide some opportunity to focus land use and accomplish other complementary community goals.
2. We still have an opportunity to knit the Triangle together with both frequent and higher speed transit components.
The ending of the light rail project obviously eliminates that travel option. However, it does make available a future local funding stream, dedicated to transit, that can be used to pay for several other key projects serving the western Triangle and the region.
One major project is regional commuter rail, which we are committed to seeing initiated by 2027. The key element here will be the potential to effectively combine our region's three largest downtowns (Raleigh, Durham, and Cary) via high speed, congestion-free travel during peak commuting hours. The ending of the light rail project does free up funds for Durham County to pay for its share of commuter rail. The upcoming detailed study will help optimize the stations and frequency for commuter rail to ensure solid ridership as well as the opportunity to advance a number of community goals.
A second key set of projects are our five approved bus rapid transit corridors in Orange and Wake counties. Two of these — the Chapel Hill north-south BRT and the New Bern east corridor BRT in Raleigh — are slated to open within five years, with the remaining three Wake BRT corridors opening by 2027. Our 25+ mile, 5 corridor BRT network was already moving forward; the ending of the light rail project frees up additional funds to pay for the local share of the Chapel Hill BRT.
It turns out that an extension of a form of bus rapid transit may be able to complement our upcoming commuter rail line and help advance our regional transit network. CAMPO, the metropolitan planning organization serving the eastern Triangle, just voted this week to support leveraging the emerging Cary-Raleigh-Garner bus rapid transit corridor by advancing BRT service extensions east to Clayton and west to Morrisville via a request for state funding support. If approved by the western Triangle metro planning organization, DCHC MPO, and also by NCDOT, this would create a bus rapid transit line that spans the entire breadth of Wake County as well as western Johnston County, and bring bus rapid transit service to within a stone's throw of Durham City and County, and around 3 miles of Research Triangle Park's upcoming mixed use hub.
3. We still have a dedicated local funding source for transit — and a dedicated community, committed to moving transit forward.
The light rail project certainly would have been a transformative infrastructure initiative. However, even more important than any light rail, bus rapid transit, or other transit mode is the presence of a dedicated community, willing to invest in its own transit future. Durham and Orange counties led the way in our region with successful 2011 and 2012 transit referenda, and the leadership of the elected officials and citizens in advancing multimodal transportation has not been forgotten by the regional business community. With a dedicated local option sales tax remaining in place, we have the continued ability to advance a variety of transit solutions.
4. The regional business community is united and focused on mobility, and on moving us forward.
The members and partners of the Regional Transportation Alliance have been helping advance transit plans and funding sources for more than 15 years in concert with area chambers of commerce. We have held tours, conducted polls, commissioned research, highlighted options, advanced bus on shoulder systems, and led transit campaigns. While the light rail may have ended, our commitment and united approach in service to our communities did not. Together, we will explore and advance a host of purposeful, scalable solutions that will move us forward today and tomorrow.
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Poster highlights Hilda Solis
NYSUT Hispanic Heritage poster
with Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis
Labor Secretary Hilda L. Solis, the first Hispanic woman to serve in the U.S. Cabinet, is featured on this year's NYSUT poster that celebrates the important contributions of Hispanics.
Printed in both English and Spanish, the poster is issued annually to mark Hispanic Heritage Month, Sept. 15 through Oct. 15.
Solis was raised in California by immigrant parents from Nicaragua and Mexico who had strong union roots. Her father was a Teamsters shop steward in Mexico, and organized for the Teamsters after arriving in the United States. Her mother was a member of the United Rubber Workers and an advocate for proper working conditions.
Members can request a free poster by emailing orders@nysutmail.org. Reference Project No. 514A_11, and include your name and mailing address. Local presidents can request posters in bulk; quantities are limited.


The world has been dependent on the dollar – but maybe not anymore. In this interview, Peter Koenig discusses how a Russia-China led economy, particularly the gold trade between the two countries, can usher a global economy of peace free from the problems of the dollar.
MOSCOW (Sputnik) – The largest Russian bank Sberbank is planning to increase the supply of gold to China up to 10-15 tons in 2018, the head of Sberbank CIB, the bank's investment department, told Sputnik. "In July, our subsidiary bank in Switzerland started trading in gold in the Shanghai stock market. Under the pilot deal, we delivered 200 kilograms [440 pounds] of bars of gold to Chinese financial institutions. This year we are planning to additionally deliver about 3-5 tons of gold to China. Next year we expect the increase in deliveries to China of up to 10-15 tons. Perhaps we will even exceed this figure", Igor Bulantsev said ahead of the third Eastern Economic Forum (EEF) in Vladivostok.
Could you, please, enlighten us about what could possibly stand behind Sberbank's plans to increase the supply of gold to China?
This is just a continuation of the economic and trade agreements between Russia and China; the first such official deal was the 2014 currency swap agreement of about US$ 25 billion equivalent, or rather 150 billion Yuan.
Let's not forget, both currencies the ruble and the Yuan are 100% covered by gold; actually, the ruble is backed about twice by gold.
Both, the China – Russia economic cooperation and trade agreements, as well as their currencies being covered by gold is part of a larger already fairly advanced scheme of de-dollarisation of their economies. In other words, Russia and China as well as the entire Shanghai Cooperation Organisation (SCO), are rapidly moving out of the US dollar hegemony.
Let's face it, the entire western monetary system is basically a fraud. It is privately made and privately owned, with the entire international payment system being controlled by the FED – which is totally privately owned – and the BIS (Bank for International Settlement, in Basle, Switzerland – also called the central bank of centrals banks). All international transfers and payments have to transit through Wall Street banks. This is the only reason why the US can "sanction" countries that do not behave according to Washington's dictate. It is illegal, and would not stand up before any international law.


I have officially joined the 1912 Lending Library and I am currently working on my first piece. I am taller than most girls at 5'9″ and most definitely taller then the ladies at the turn of the last century. I had to do quite a few edits in order to make the corset cover even resemble something that would fit me.
I mapped 4″ from each end and drew a straight line to spread.
The peplum is spread 2".
The peplum is spread 2″ on each side and then the hip curve is used to smooth the lines on each side.
The peplum cut out and ready for mock-up.
Next is the back piece, again I am tall so I needed to lengthen and to widen the back slightly.
The back piece with length and width added.
You can see by the inch markings on the backboard that I did the length addition 3″ from the bottom edge and 2″ from the center fold line. I added 1″ to the width and 4″ to the length. I again smoothed all of the lines using the hip curve, except the center back which I used a straight edge as it will be on the fold.
Front Piece with initial additions.
Now the front piece is always the difficult one because everyone is shaped differently. I started by adding 4″ to the length and adding1″ under the arm and to the front. After the mock-up was made, the back and arms fit wonderfully, the front on the other hand was definitely too baggy.
the paper mock up with the changes on the right, the final edition on the left including the changes.
There were three main edits to the mock-up. The first, as can be clearly seen in the picture, was taking out a large section of the length addition in the front and tapering as it moved towards the back. The second edit was to take out a portion of the center front width, it was removed completely at the top and then tapered back in as it went down the length of the addition. The third edit was to shape the armhole slightly at the seam where the back and front sections meet. The darts were extended up to meet where the length addition separated the points and the lines were all smoothed with a straight edge or hip curve.
The mock-up with all of the changes was tried on over the Combination and the Corset with the mock-up of the top for both dresses on top, the sleeves on the Corset Cover were a little wide so I will edit that portion down for the final edition of the Corset Cover, but not for the pattern.
Tomorrow I will finalize the mock-up and make the Corset Cover out of cotton gauze, finishing with several small buttons and some muslin bias tape.
This entry was tagged Corset Cover, titanic, vpll1912.
I can't wait to see it! I am having to live vicariously through you right now as I had to pack away ALL of my sewing supplies (except for the quilt for the show, which I sort of have to finish). Thank you for posting all of this and feeding my addiction, lol!


Breaking the stereotype of art as inaccessible, a not-for-profit contemporary art organisation called ArtC unveiled its new media program of installations on Thursday, February 13 at Phoenix Market City mall in Chennai.
The works of art are diverse, including everything from videos by Pae White to giant metal robots by Thukral & Tagra to sound art by Yoko Ono, among many others.
"We tried to choose works that are representative of India and Chennai… so we see themes like elephants, discrimination on the basis of skin colour and the East India Company," says Diana Campbell Betancourt, the program's curator.
Inspired by the Time Warner building in New York, which has large works by sculptor Fernando Botero installed in it, the aim of the program is to introduce contemporary art to a new audience, explains Vijay Choraria, founder of ArtC, and the managing director of Sharyans Resources, a joint venture partner of the mall.
'Wild Raspberry Bush (Ballerina)' by Pae White from Urban Video Project.
'Dying Oak/Elephant (excerpt)' by Pae White from Urban Video Project.
While some of the works have been on display in the mall in the past, as part of rotating exhibitions, this year will see the inclusion of a photography exhibit in the atrium showcasing images from '70s Bollywood shot by Pablo Bartholomew, sound art — elevator music from around the world playing in the mall's own lifts, as well as several new installations.
"All these spaces would have otherwise been plastered with ads by retailers. I think art has created a soul for the mall," says Choraria. "The crowd loves seeing art popping up in their daily environment. It brings a curiosity and offers a platform they can relate to," adds Eve Lemesle, the program's producer.
Lemesle says sculpture and video art in particular are among the most popular and most photographed.
In its bid to make contemporary art more relatable, ArtC has provided the description of each installation in both English and Tamil, and mall goers will be given maps pinpointing the location of each art work. There are also animated LED sign systems on the escalators where people can share their reactions to the art via an interactive SMS platform.
"In India, corporate spaces fill the void for contemporary art museums (for example the Kiran Nadar Museum of art is also in a mall). Elsewhere in the world, this sort of art would be more likely to be seen in a museum than a mall," says Betancourt. "Someone once said, 'If you are excellent, you are accessible.'"
Dominoes by Aakash Nihalani, located on the lower ground floor.
Cola Blooms by Anjum Singh, located on the first floor.
Untitled by Arunkumar HG, located on the third floor.
Steps of Predicament by Gigi Scaria, located on the ground floor.
Juggernaut- 2 by LN Tallur, located on the ground floor.
Head by Ravinder Reddy, located on the lower ground floor.
Bar Coda by Samir Parker, located on the third floor.
Untitled (from the series Blind Bulb etc...) by Sunil Gawde, located on the ground floor.
Apocalyptron-1 (from the series The Dawn of Decadence) by Thukral & Tagra, located on the lower ground floor.
Khatmal (Bedbug) by Vishal Dar, located on the lower ground floor.


The Himachal Pradesh High Court today stayed any excavation, digging and blasting activity pertaining to 450-MW capacity Shanghton Karcham Hydro-electric project at Reckong peo in tribal Kinnaur district.
Shimla- A Division Bench comprising acting Chief Justice R B Misra and Justice V K Sharma passed the orders on petitions of the Central government and the Western Command authorities.
The Centre has alleged in its petition that the HP Power Corporation Limited went ahead with the tendering process and allotted the project to a company which commenced work despite several objections raised by the Army.
The petitioners submitted the project is in vicinity of the Ammunition Point of 36 Sector Ordnance Maintenance Platoon and blasting being carried out to construct a road next to the Point could seriously undermine the safety of the ammunition.
The petitioners also contended that a notification was issued in 2005 restricting construction activities in some 1200 yards area around the Ammunication Point.


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Q: Balancing out 2d array in C++ So I need to sort a 2d array. Unfortunately std::sort() isn't an option.
I have an int array[3][4] and I have to insert values from an int array[12] into it.
I'm supposed to "balance" the columns so that the values of each column is almost equal or at least as close to it as it gets.
In the end it's supposed to look a little something like this:
Tier 4:   8|11|12
Tier 3:   5|10|9
Tier 2:   4|6|7
Tier 1:   3|2|1

A: sort the initial array; you do have the initial array array[12]. Then insert them into the 2D array.

A: Sort the 1D array (arr1[12]) and then insert the elements in 2d array (arr2[3][4]) in a way something like... fill 1st row from left to right, then 2nd row from right to left, then 3rd row left to right...and so on.
the logic would be like :
// Let's say the int arr1[12] is the sorted one
int flag = 0, c = 0;
for(int i =0; i < 4; ++1) {
    if( (1+1)%2 == 0) {
        c = 2;
        flag = 1;
    }
    else {
        flag = 0;
    }
    for(int k = 0; k < 3; ++k) {
        if(flag) {
            arr2[i][c] = arr1[n++];
            --c;
        }
        else {
            arr2[i][k] = arr1[n++];
        }
    }
}


18 per cent of property buyers in Australia fail to get pre-approved finance before trying to buy at auction. While Dene Tucker from RE/MAX says the majority of buyers have their pre-approval in order, any percentage of non-pre-approved buyers is a concern. We talk to Dene and Pivotal Financial's Matthew Andrews about this concerning growing trend.
Kevin: There's been an alarming suggestion in a recent YouGov Galaxy poll that 18% of people in Australia failed to get pre-approval finance before trying to buy at auction. You've got to be crazy!
Joining me to talk about this, Dene Tucker who is the broker/owner RE/MAX Auction Services for Australia and also Matthew Andrews who is the general manager for Pivotal Financial.
Firstly, Dene, thank you for your time.
Dene: Not a problem at all. Good morning, Kevin.
Kevin: Matthew, welcome to the show.
Dene, I might start with you. Obviously, doing auctions all around Australia, do you find this happens more in any one state than the other?
Dene: Having had the opportunity to consider this since this story came out, I guess I've determined that I'm obviously quite privileged, because I'm clearly working with a lot of experienced agents, and frankly, over 5000 career auctions now, I've never actually come across this.
Kevin: Is it something that you would come across, do you think? As far as you're concerned, when it's knocked down, it's knocked down.
Dene: Look, my engagement with my agent clients, the salespeople I'm working with week in, week out, I'm pretty confident I'd hear if there was a situation where someone's bid under a hammer and then not been in a position to go through the deal because they didn't have the financing.
Kevin: I would imagine it's just best practice for an agent, though, to make sure if you have someone all the way to come to an auction to bid that at least they're going to get their finance set. It'd be one of the questions they'd ask them, I would have thought.
Dene: Most definitely. Certainly, in all the training work that we do and have done over years and years, a big part of it is about making sure that people are prepared for auction day when we're talking about buyers. Certainly, that remains a focus for us as part of the process.
Kevin: Matthew, to you for a moment, I imagine there would be occasions where someone – and I've actually heard of this – where someone is going there to buy a loaf of bread or something, they turn up at an auction and think "Wow, I love this place. I think I'll buy it." A pretty risky thing to do, but it could happen quite easily, couldn't it?
Matthew: Yes. And good morning, Kevin. It's a really interesting question. I think it comes down to the education of the client in the process of applying and being successful for finance and purchasing a home.
Unfortunately, at the moment, a client can turn up as long as they're a registered bidder at an auction and proceed with a purchase without any finance in place. What Pivotal Financial and ReMax are working together to do is work with the client at the earliest opportunity to prepare them for auction or any of their finance needs.
Normally, this starts off with a pre-approval and the lender's acceptance of the property they're liking to look at, so we assess their affordability and the attraction to the area of the properties that they're looking at.
Kevin: Matthew, when someone does come to you and wants to bid at an auction and you have to set their finance up, one of the things you don't know about auction is the eventual sale price.
Do you let them work within a barrier of a price range and then you're comfortable for them to bid within that range?
Matthew: Correct. The main driver is a lot of regulation and compliance within the finance industry at the moment. First of all, we look at the serviceability of the applicant, so what's the level of debt that they can take on dependent on the end LVR of the property purchase? That's a big one or a key one in identifying how much they can actually borrow. Then that sets them on the path of the properties that they can look at.
Kevin: In the event that someone did turn up to an auction and bid, then they're the successful bidder, it gets knocked down to them and they turn up to sign the contract and say "I need to make this subject to finance," the first thing you have to turn around and say is, "Look, I'm sorry you can't do that." What penalties could apply to them in theory if they couldn't complete?
Matthew: This is probably a question that Dene could help with as well, but potentially, they may be up for a deposit or be liable for the full purchase property or a dollar value of that loan depending on the circumstance of the vendor that's selling the property.
Kevin: Dene, did you want to add to that?
Dene: Yes, Matthew is absolutely right. The deposit immediately – of course, once that's been paid and cleared – is to the benefit of the seller. The process from there then becomes a matter of resource, whether or not the seller has appeared to have put the resources into pursuing their contract to settlement or whether it's economically more viable just to re-enter the property into the marketplace. But either way, if the deposit is paid, then that's forfeited by the purchaser.
Kevin: Yes, because it's quite clear, isn't it – Dene, once again, asking you this question – when you read out the terms and conditions or make them available for people to look at, part of it is that you're buying this on a cash unconditional basis. It's quite specific, isn't it?
Dene: Very specific. From a best-practice perspective, there are probably a couple of things in that chain of process that need to occur. Firstly, when the agent or whoever is assisting them registers the purchaser, that purchaser needs to clearly be told that they're bidding on an unconditional basis, that's part of the process.
The next part from a best-practice perspective is to have the purchaser not only sign the registration form and provide the ID as required in statute, but also sign off on the particulars and conditions of sale by auction, which clearly state that there are no conditions attached. So, clauses 3 and 4 of the agreement, which are the more common ones, your finance clauses and your inspection clauses, are removed.
The next part of the process is that it's re-emphasized by the auctioneer. I do that at every auction, quite clearly emphasizing those clauses are out and that they're bidding on the basis of it being an unconditional contract.
There's always going to be an onus on our industry as much as there is on the finance side of this for our people to be able to communicate these things succinctly and clearly and not allow these situations to occur in the process as part of the process.
Kevin: Gents, we'll leave it there. Thank you very much. Dene Tucker from RE/MAX Auction Services and also Matthew Andrews from Pivotal Financial. Gentlemen, thank you very much for your time, and I appreciate you giving us your wisdom today.


Episode background: Major character Finn Hudson accidentally burns his grilled cheese sandwich, imprinting one side of it with the face of Jesus Christ. Finn takes this as a sign to take his nominal Christianity more seriously, irony intended by the writers it seems as Finn begins to pray to his sandwich which he now refers to as Grilled Cheesus. Every trivial and selfish thing Finn asks of Grilled Cheesus comes to pass; meanwhile, Finn's Glee Club friend Kurt might be losing his father to heart disease — it doesn't dawn on Finn to pray for Kurt or his father; instead he prays that he might be quarterback again.
Most of the Glee kids turn to their faith in trying to deal with the news of Kurt's father and more poignantly, the immense pain of their friend. Kurt refuses to be comforted with his friends' prayers or anything which derives from religious faith, which he considers ridiculous, irrelevant, and ignorant.
There's much, much more to dig out and explore in this episode, which isn't uncommon for Glee. And there are multiple possible interpretations among all that lies beneath, and that isn't uncommon for Glee either; things are often complicated and ambiguous. You can't judge Glee by a single episode, or by what's on the surface. It's a project where characters and ideas are allowed to grow and develop in real-life messiness.


Place potatoes in large microwave-safe bowl; cover. Microwave on HIGH 6 minutes; rotate. Microwave 5 minutes more or until potatoes are tender.
In medium bowl, combine pulled pork and diced tomatoes. Cover and microwave on HIGH 2 to 3 minutes or until mixture is hot, stirring at end.
Carefully cut each potato in half lengthwise; fluff with fork. Top each potato half evenly with butter; sprinkle with salt. Place about ⅓ cup pork mixture on top of each potato half. Top evenly with sour cream and green onions.


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#define C_KINO_INDEXFILENAMES
#include "KinoSearch/Util/ToolSet.h"

#include "KinoSearch/Util/IndexFileNames.h"
#include "KinoSearch/Store/DirHandle.h"
#include "KinoSearch/Store/Folder.h"
#include "KinoSearch/Util/StringHelper.h"

CharBuf*
IxFileNames_latest_snapshot(Folder *folder)
{
    DirHandle *dh = Folder_Open_Dir(folder, NULL);
    CharBuf   *entry = dh ? DH_Get_Entry(dh) : NULL;
    CharBuf   *retval   = NULL;
    uint64_t   latest_gen = 0;

    if (!dh) { RETHROW(INCREF(Err_get_error())); }

    while (DH_Next(dh)) {
        if (   CB_Starts_With_Str(entry, "snapshot_", 9)
            && CB_Ends_With_Str(entry, ".json", 5)
        ) {
            uint64_t gen = IxFileNames_extract_gen(entry);
            if (gen > latest_gen) {
                latest_gen = gen;
                if (!retval) retval = CB_Clone(entry);
                else CB_Mimic(retval, (Obj*)entry);
            }
        }
    }

    DECREF(dh);
    return retval;
}

uint64_t
IxFileNames_extract_gen(const CharBuf *name)
{
    ZombieCharBuf *num_string = ZCB_WRAP(name);

    // Advance past first underscore.  Bail if we run out of string or if we
    // encounter a NULL.
    while (1) {
        uint32_t code_point = ZCB_Nip_One(num_string);
        if (code_point == 0) { return 0; }
        else if (code_point == '_') { break; }
    }

    return (uint64_t)ZCB_BaseX_To_I64(num_string, 36);
}

ZombieCharBuf*
IxFileNames_local_part(const CharBuf *path, ZombieCharBuf *target)
{
    ZombieCharBuf *scratch = ZCB_WRAP(path);
    size_t local_part_start = CB_Length(path);
    uint32_t code_point;

    ZCB_Assign(target, path);

    // Trim trailing slash.
    while (ZCB_Code_Point_From(target, 1) == '/') {
        ZCB_Chop(target, 1);
        ZCB_Chop(scratch, 1);
        local_part_start--;
    }

    // Substring should start after last slash.
    while (0 != (code_point = ZCB_Code_Point_From(scratch, 1))) {
        if (code_point == '/') {
            ZCB_Nip(target, local_part_start);
            break;
        }
        ZCB_Chop(scratch, 1);
        local_part_start--;
    }

    return target;
}


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Posted by Mersad On February 17, 2021
Google's Project Zero security team has an impressive track record when it comes to chasing down and addressing the most critical security flaws found. They're tireless in their work, which has saved untold billions of dollars and hampered the efforts of hackers all over the world.
The team has gathered some rather shocking statistics, however, including this eye-opener:
Based on their research, fully one fourth of the Zero-day exploits being discovered in use in the wild could have been avoided entirely if vendors and IT admins had properly patched their products.
Over the course of 2020, the team detected a total of 24 zero-day exploits. Six of these were variations on a theme; vulnerabilities disclosed in prior years, where hackers had access to older bug reports and had plenty of time to study older issues, making a few simple tweaks and winding up with a brand new zero-day exploit.
For instance, CVE-2020-0674, which is a Zero-Day Internet Explorer flaw is a variant that combines elements of CVE-2018-8653, CVE-2019-1367, and CVE-20191429.
In a similar vein, the devastating Google Chrome flaw tracked as CVE-2020-6572 is a variant that combines elements of CVE-2019-5870 and CVE-2019-13695. The Apple Safari zero-day issue tracked as CVE-2020-27930 is virtually identical to the one discovered back in 2015 and tracked as CVE-2015-0093.
On the one hand, this news is rather depressing as it seems that many in the IT security profession seem to be making things harder on themselves than they need to be. On the other hand, as Maddie Stone, a member of the Project Zero team observed, these kinds of insights are the exact reason the team was formed to begin with.
By studiously identifying and shutting down the most glaring and serious flaws and gathering statistics and data on them, the hope is to make them increasingly harder for hackers around the world to take advantage of in years to come. So far, that approach seems to be working. Kudos to Google and the Zero Day team.
PIXLR Data Breach Information Leaked Online
New Exchange Online Feature Helps Prevent Phishing And Ransomware
Morgan Stanley Banking Latest To Get Hit By Data Breach
Malware Called Phorpiex Delivers Ransomware With Old School Tactics
iCloud For Windows Adds Cloud Password Access And Management


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Eugene F. Scanlon Jr. is a former judge of Common Pleas in Allegheny County.

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