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The Different Faces of Activism
With the plethora of platforms available to express ourselves, more people are turning to activism. Expressing ourselves is both important and necessary as political and social issues become increasingly strident. While there are different faces of activism, the importance lies in involvement itself. We shouldn't ridicule others over what they choose to advocate for and the method of which they do it. Why Your Voice Matters A lot of times it's easier to sit in the sidelines. But we are at a point internationally, where that's no longer an option. On some level, even those that ignore the worldwide crises occurring, hold guilt for not doing more. It's time to change this. Leading a life of watching others tear down societies, environments, and more internationally, is no life at all. Helping others eventually comes back to you. We all have heard this at one point or another, but it's truer today more than ever. As the Amazon burns, bigotry seemingly lurks at every corner, and freedoms are threatened, matters worth fighting for are felt on an increasingly personal level. We now are driven to action by both personal and collective interest.
If you've remained quiet, it's time to start expressing your voice. Speak for yourself, speak for us all.
Supportive Activism Just as you, hopefully, have the freedom to advocate for the issues close to you, others should as well. Regardless of whether you disagree, as long as no harm comes to others, we all deserve to have an equal voice and platform. Non-supportive activism isn't really activism at all. The roots of advocacy sit within the freedom to do it at all. Furthermore, the channel one chooses in order to express themselves don't dictate the validity of their efforts. Many times I've seen those who choose marches and protests as their method of protest criticizing others for leaning more towards the removed forms such as writing or art. It's important to realize that everyone is different both in the way they perform and receive activism. Not everyone is going to be moved participating in or witnessing a mass-protest. Some people find it more effective when reached on a personal level such as through literature, paintings, or mere posts online. These approaches don't have to exist in separate spheres either. You can involve yourself in both in-person and virtual practices. It's often the combination of everyone's strengths that holds the most impact. If you feel stagnant standing amongst a crowd or feel that your online efforts of spreading awareness are futile, try out another way to get your message across. Finding Your Purpose In order to be an activist at all, we first must channel our efforts into a handful of issues. Mass extinctions, war, and environmental degradation undoubtedly upsets everyone. However, there's usually one issue that speaks to us stronger than others. With the mass of oncoming tragedies we witness internationally each day, it feels as though we must tackle all of them or none at all. But this idea is what keeps us from making progress in the first place. Find the cause that resonates most with you, that you feel your avenue of activism suits best. Just because we lean more toward one issues over another doesn't mean that we've disregarded other matters. It just means we're trying to make the largest impact possible through focusing our efforts on where we can have the most influence.
Ask yourself what really fires you up? What excites you, drives you to make a change? Now, chase that utilizing the skill set that only you possess.
Channelling Passion Effectively Once you find a cause that speaks to you, it's time to brainstorm how you will advocate for it. Ponder your skills, interests, and hobbies. Or maybe you're someone who would rather keep their activism in its own section of their lives. Either way, there's a path for you. For instance, if you write, paint, or play music allow your passion for this issue to inspire your work. Find ways to reach people on a level that's a bit more personal than mass protests. On the other hand, if you lean towards the more analytical side of things, attend the marches and get in touch with your representatives. Neither one of these practices of activism outdoes the other. They both have their place and both touch different groups of people in unique ways. We all have the responsibility to do our part. The mistake we make in our mindset is when we view this opportunity as a burden. The beauty of activism is the ability to do it in a way that you love. Find you cause, discover your method of activism, and get our there and make a difference. Photo by Heather Mount on Unsplash
With the plethora of platforms available to express ourselves, more people are turning to activism. Expressing ourselves is both important and necessary as political and social issues become increasingly strident. While there are different faces of activism, the importance lies in involvement itself. We shouldn't ridicule others over what they choose to advocate for and the method of which they do it.
Why Your Voice Matters
A lot of times it's easier to sit in the sidelines. But we are at a point internationally, where that's no longer an option. On some level, even those that ignore the worldwide crises occurring, hold guilt for not doing more. It's time to change this.
Leading a life of watching others tear down societies, environments, and more internationally, is no life at all. Helping others eventually comes back to you. We all have heard this at one point or another, but it's truer today more than ever.
As the Amazon burns, bigotry seemingly lurks at every corner, and freedoms are threatened, matters worth fighting for are felt on an increasingly personal level. We now are driven to action by both personal and collective interest.
If you've remained quiet, it's time to start expressing your voice. Speak for yourself, speak for us all.
Supportive Activism
Just as you, hopefully, have the freedom to advocate for the issues close to you, others should as well. Regardless of whether you disagree, as long as no harm comes to others, we all deserve to have an equal voice and platform.
Non-supportive activism isn't really activism at all. The roots of advocacy sit within the freedom to do it at all. Furthermore, the channel one chooses in order to express themselves don't dictate the validity of their efforts.
Many times I've seen those who choose marches and protests as their method of protest criticizing others for leaning more towards the removed forms such as writing or art. It's important to realize that everyone is different both in the way they perform and receive activism.
Not everyone is going to be moved participating in or witnessing a mass-protest. Some people find it more effective when reached on a personal level such as through literature, paintings, or mere posts online.
These approaches don't have to exist in separate spheres either. You can involve yourself in both in-person and virtual practices. It's often the combination of everyone's strengths that holds the most impact.
If you feel stagnant standing amongst a crowd or feel that your online efforts of spreading awareness are futile, try out another way to get your message across.
Finding Your Purpose
In order to be an activist at all, we first must channel our efforts into a handful of issues. Mass extinctions, war, and environmental degradation undoubtedly upsets everyone. However, there's usually one issue that speaks to us stronger than others.
With the mass of oncoming tragedies we witness internationally each day, it feels as though we must tackle all of them or none at all. But this idea is what keeps us from making progress in the first place. Find the cause that resonates most with you, that you feel your avenue of activism suits best.
Just because we lean more toward one issues over another doesn't mean that we've disregarded other matters. It just means we're trying to make the largest impact possible through focusing our efforts on where we can have the most influence.
Channelling Passion Effectively
Once you find a cause that speaks to you, it's time to brainstorm how you will advocate for it. Ponder your skills, interests, and hobbies. Or maybe you're someone who would rather keep their activism in its own section of their lives. Either way, there's a path for you.
For instance, if you write, paint, or play music allow your passion for this issue to inspire your work. Find ways to reach people on a level that's a bit more personal than mass protests.
On the other hand, if you lean towards the more analytical side of things, attend the marches and get in touch with your representatives.
Neither one of these practices of activism outdoes the other. They both have their place and both touch different groups of people in unique ways.
We all have the responsibility to do our part. The mistake we make in our mindset is when we view this opportunity as a burden. The beauty of activism is the ability to do it in a way that you love.
Find you cause, discover your method of activism, and get our there and make a difference.
Photo by Heather Mount on Unsplash
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How do I use Control Points to sharpen my images?
In the Sharpener Pro 3.0 interface, select Control Points in the drop-down menu of the Selective Sharpening section.
Click on the 'Add Control Point' button and then click on an object or area in the image that you wish to apply selective sharpening to.
Each Control Point enables you to work with your images and selectively control and adjust the sharpening applied to object or area selected by the Control Point.
Use additional Control Points to sharpen other areas or objects in your image.


I'd like some kiwi in my backyard too….
Kiwi releases attract plenty of media attention, often triggering individuals and groups to consider establishing kiwi in their patch.
Now, new guidelines have been created to help people understand the process and requirements.
Kiwi releases are good news stories and generate positive and widespread coverage. This media attention often results in a flurry of public enquiries about how individuals or groups can establish kiwi in their local reserve or the bush block at the back of the farm.
DOC Biodiversity Services Ranger, Pete Graham showing some of the children the kiwi pre release into a burrow.
The Northland Kiwi Forum Working Group and Kiwis for kiwi identified that, although there are many groups and individuals that aspire to have kiwi in their patch, there was no single resource that outlined the process and considerations for them.
Many individuals described obtaining this information as daunting and confusing.
A guide to establishing new kiwi populations (PDF, 2091K) was developed to fill this gap and provide a first check of the journey they might be embarking upon.
– Considerations for ongoing management once established.
The Northland Kiwi Forum Working Group in conjunction with Kiwis for kiwi drew upon the experiences and frustrations of applicants and approvers of past translocations in developing the guidelines.
Although drafted with an emphasis on establishing and protecting populations of Northland brown kiwi, the document should also be useful for other kiwi taxa or even other species.
Toby Shanley, Kevin and Gill Adshead of Mataia.
Kiwis for kiwi, iwi representatives, Department of Conservation and Auckland Zoo kiwi specialists about to 'hand the kiwi over' to the people of Mataia.
Jo Ritchie releasing a kiwi into a temporary wooden burrow.
Wendy Sporle of Kiwis for kiwi introducing Gill and Kevin Adhead of Mataia to one of their new kiwi, surrounded by the public.
The Northland Kiwi Forum is a collaboration of agencies, individuals, iwi, community groups, farmers, foresters, and central and local government staff who are actively involved in managing the Northland taxon of Northland brown kiwi on public and private land.
Kiwis for kiwi is a non profit organisation that supports the work of more than 80 community groups around the country, providing funding for vital kiwi conservation, breeding and hatching programmes.


Here's my next tech book I'm going to read. I found it both on bookshare and bard. I was actually surprised to find it on BARD, but it is actually there.
For those outside the United States, you can definitely get it off of Amazon through Kindle or autible.
your car in the same way again.
It is also available on bard as DB 81511.
I plan to review it for this cast as well when i'm done. It sounds facinating!
Data and Goliath: The Hidden Battles to Collect Your Data and Control Your World was released on July 20, 2018 at 8:30 am by tech in general-updates-and-announcements.


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Q: Resume two TLS sessions with Mbed TLS I'm updating an IOT device that's been up and running for several years. TLS is performed using mbedTLS 2.9.0, and the application currently serializes all tasks which require TLS so that only one secured connection is established at a time. The update is adding FTPS to its FTP client, and this requires secure connections for both command and data ports.
Filezilla server 1.4.1 complains "TLS session of data connection not resumed" when attempting to secure the data port. This issue is mentioned in the Stack Overflow support topic "How to establish a FTPS data connection to a FileZilla Server 1.2.0." That topic references Filezilla forum topic "forum.filezilla-project.org/viewtopic.php?t=54027," which states a prior session must be resumed.
In scanning through mbedTls header files I noted functions mbedtls_ssl_set_session() and mbedtls_ssl_get_session() which appear to be relevant. If they are relevant, I added a call to mbedtls_ssl_get_session() prior to starting TLS for the data connection, but that call attempts to free() uninitialized objects in the mbedtls_ssl_context.
Since trustedfirmware.org took over the MbedTls project, the prior forum, documentation, support articles, et.al, have disappeared, and their mailing list is pretty much dead. So, can someone please point me to some doc. describing how this is done - or describe what has to be done?
Thx!!

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that call attempts to free() uninitialized objects in the mbedtls_ssl_context

There shouldn't be any uninitialized objects ever. So I guess the problem is that you forgot to initialize the context. Whenever you have an mbedtls_xxx structure, always call the corresponding mbedtls_xxx_init() function before doing anything else.
With two connections and session loading, the code to set up the connections would look something like this.
mbedtls_ssl_config ssl_config;
mbedtls_ssl_config_init(&ssl_config);
mbedtls_ssl_context ssl_context_control, ssl_context_data;
mbedtls_ssl_init(&ssl_context_control);
mbedtls_ssl_init(&ssl_context_data);
int ret;

// prepare ssl_config here

ret = mbedtls_ssl_setup(&ssl_context_control, &ssl_config);
if (ret != 0) goto error;
ret = mbedtls_ssl_setup(&ssl_context_data, &ssl_config);
if (ret != 0) goto error;

if (have_saved_sessions) {
    mbedtls_ssl_session ssl_session_control, ssl_session_data;
    mbedtls_ssl_session_init(&ssl_session_control);
    mbedtls_ssl_session_init(&ssl_session_data);
    ret = mbedtls_ssl_session_load(&ssl_session_control, ...);
    if (ret != 0) goto session_done;
    ret = mbedtls_ssl_session_load(&ssl_session_data, ...);
    if (ret != 0) goto session_done;
    ret = mbedtls_ssl_set_session(&ssl_context_control, &ssl_session_control);
    if (ret != 0) goto session_done;
    ret = mbedtls_ssl_set_session(&ssl_context_data, &ssl_session_data);
    if (ret != 0) goto session_done;

  session_done:
    mbedtls_ssl_session_free(&ssl_session_control);
    mbedtls_ssl_session_free(&ssl_session_data);
    if (ret != 0) goto error;
}

// the contexts are ready for use here

For cleanup, the rule is that each mbedtls_xxx_init() function has a corresponding mbedtls_xxx_free() function. Note that the name free is misleading: these functions clean up the object and free embedded resources (e.g. malloc'ed sub-structures) but they do not free the argument in the sense of heap free(). If you malloc or calloc an mbedtls_xxx structure, you need to call mbedtls_xxx_free() and then call free(). If the mbedtls_xxx structure is on the stack or global, just call mbedtls_xxx_free().

Regarding documentation, the online documentation of Mbed TLS froze at an old version. And even when the version was current, the online documentation is for one specific compile-time configuration with all features enabled. Typeset the documentation for your version and configuration by running make apidoc in the mbedtls source tree. You need Doxygen (a pretty standard documentation typesetting tool, so it may already be available in your development environment).

TLS is performed using mbedTLS 2.9.0

Beware that this is a very old version which has many unfixed security issues. You should upgrade to 2.28.1 (and keep updating through the 2.28.x long-time support series).

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When you became a believer in Jesus, you also became a "fellow." That sounds kind of weird, doesn't it? But understanding your relationship with Jesus in this context, reveals the depth and closeness God longs to have with you. So let's follow this through for a while!
A fellow, is generally defined as a member of a group having common characteristics, like-mindedness, and a common mission or purpose. While God wants you to fully lean on Jesus' superiority for leadership and wisdom, He also has called you into partnership with Him as He goes about bringing His Kingdom's presence into the world. That makes you one called into fellowship with Him.
An earthly superior, let's take a king for example, may exert his authority over his subjects from the distant confines of an unapproachable castle, demanding obedience with impunity. But Jesus is a King of a completely different order. Jesus is a faithful King that calls you into a deep, personal fellowship with Him! And His demands are intended to bless you richly, draw you ever closer to Him, and to give you amazing Kingdom work to do!
So enter today knowing that you are not a mere subject. You are a blessed fellow, in a blessed fellowship with God's one and only Son, with a blessed common purpose. Carry it out today!
Are you looking forward to just another mundane day at the office. Well God has an antidote for that. You inject it directly into your heart and it not only cures workday "blahs," but returns a huge reward too.
There is a great difference between work done for the Lord and work done for others. Here's the typical workplace chain of command: you work for your boss, who works for upline managers, who work for executives and shareholders, all working ultimately for your company's customers. You get paid for the work you do, your boss gets paid, the executives get paid (much more!), and so on. God has a different authority structure and payout plan.
God's idea is to replace the word "work" with the word "serve," and the word "boss" with the name of Jesus. When you adopt an attitude of service to the Lord in your work, two incredible things happen. First, your work becomes a "heart thing" instead of just an obligation and a paycheck. Second, because your heart is behind it, you become more effective at the work you do. Jesus gets right in the middle of work that is done whole-heartedly for Him. The work becomes less about what your company pays you to do, which can be very limiting, and becomes more about the eternal reward the Lord promises you and the glorious purpose for which He has you in your workplace.
Work today, as working for the Lord, with the assurances of compensation far beyond a paycheck and effectiveness supplied by Jesus Himself. See what a difference it makes!
The image of the cornerstone of the Temple in Jerusalem had been used for hundreds of years to describe the coming Messiah. When a builder in antiquity began a building project, the first task was to select the very best stone to be laid down first, around which, the rest of the building would rest. The quality of this first stone determined the quality of the rest of the building. If the building in question was to be the Temple, the house of God, particular care would be taken in the cornerstone's selection. This was a very important building!
When God decided to build His true spiritual house, the family of believers saved by grace, He chose Jesus as His cornerstone. In order for God's house to be eternally perfect, He had to start with a perfect first stone. Jesus is it. God could now add the other stones that would make up the walls, floors, and the roof. That's where you come in!
God invites you to be built into His eternal home. It is not an inanimate structure built of rock and mortar. God's Home is built of living stones, eternally resting on the Living Stone that is Jesus. Once a part of such a living structure, what you can offer is pure, pleasing, and acceptable to God.
Be a living stone today, for you rest on the perfect foundation of Jesus!


Robert L. Stockdale, 86, of Baldwinsville, passed away Saturday at St. Joseph's Hospital. Born March 2, 1926, in Syracuse, Bob was a graduate of Nottingham High and S.U. School of Broadcasting. From 1944 to 1951, he was an announcer and producer at WAGE (now WHEN) Syracuse. He then joined Doug Johnson Associates, handling radio and TV production and media buying. In 1958 he built and was part owner and general manager of WSEN (AM & FM) Baldwinsville.
He also produced more than 50 major country music concerts at the War Memorial and State Fair Coliseum in the 1960s and '70s.
After selling WSEN in 1974, he became director of fundraising and then executive director of the Onondaga Unit of the American Cancer Society. From 1988 to his retirement in 1993, he served as the ACS N.Y. state manager of computer operations in 22 upstate counties. Appointed in 1974 to the Lysander Zoning Board of Appeals, Bob became chairman in 1975 and in 1977 moved to the Lysander Planning Board, becoming its chair in 1982.
In 1987 he joined the Lysander town board, serving two elective terms, and was deputy supervisor from 1991 to his retirement in 1995.
Bob's lifetime interest in music led to the authorship of three biodisciographies about big band leaders Tommy and Jimmy Dorsey, published in 1995, 1999 and 2008. Two of these books were given national awards for historical research in jazz. He served as president of the Baldwinsville Theatre Guild and was director of lighting and special effects for many Guild productions. He also appeared in several Theatre Guild dinner theatre comedies.
Bob was chairman of the Canton Woods Senior Center board of directors, serving two terms on the board. From 1995 to 2009, he was a volunteer teacher of computer classes for senior citizens.
A member of the funding group of Baldwinsville PAC-B, Inc., the non-profit operators of Channel 98, he served many years as technical and program director for the channel. He was named Baldwinsville "Man of the Year" in 2000.
Survivors: his wife of 62 years, Shirley (Judd) Stockdale of Baldwinsville; his daughter, Terry (Ron) Jones of Phoenix; two sons, Roger (Kathie) Stockdale of Ohio and Kenneth (Diana) Stockdale of N. Syracuse; 10 grandchildren; and six great- grandchildren.
Calling hours will be 4 to 7 p.m. Wednesday, with a service to follow at 7 p.m., at Falardeau Funeral Home, 93 Downer St., Baldwinsville.
Contributions in his memory may be made to Canton Woods Memorial and Endowment Fund, c/o Canton Woods Senior Center, 76 Canton St., Baldwinsville, NY 13027 or Baldwinsville PAC-B, 8 Mechanic St., Baldwinsville, NY 13027.


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The Prime Minister Does Not "Represent All Canadians" – the House of Commons Does →
The Civil Service, Not the "Public" Service
The Center of the Civil Service of Canada
As part of my series on the true nature of responsible government and Crown prerogative, I will now turn my attention to another part of the government that derives its authority from the Crown: Her Majesty's Civil Service. The civil service originated as and theoretically functions like the civilian equivalent of the Armed Forces: both derive their authorities from the Crown, both serve the Ministers of the Crown (i.e., the properly elected civilians who receive commission from the Sovereign or Governor General) and not Parliament or the public, and both operate under a clear, hierarchical chain of command. Contrary to popular belief, Parliament does not control the Civil Service; Parliament can hold only the responsible Minister to account. The Library of Parliament and the Officers of Parliament report to Parliament, but the Civil Service does not.
The official rebranding of the Civil Service of Canada as the "Public" Service of Canada has lent itself to the blurring of the constitutional lines of accountability and severing the chain of command: civil servants may "attend to the public good", but they do not "serve" the public[1], because the latter term implies lines of authority and accountability. Civil servants serve the responsible Ministers of the Crown, who take responsibility and accountability for the civil service in Parliament.
Of the main Commonwealth Realms, only the United Kingdom has preserved the correct and proper name of "Her Majesty's Civil Service". Australia, Canada, and New Zealand have all changed theirs to some variant of the "Public Service". But when "public servants" believe that they serve the public rather than the Crown through their responsible Ministers of the Crown, they may feel obliged to become insubordinate and not only break, but entirely invert, the chain of command: instead of going up through the hierarchy of director, director general, assistant deputy minister, deputy minister, and Minister of the Crown, they might feel compelled to go outside the service and directly to the public. The Civil Service's ranks mirror those of the Armed Forces and roughly correspond to the following:[2] Director is Lieutenant, Senior Director is Captain, Director General is Major, Assistant Deputy Ministers are Lieutenant-Colonels and Colonels, Deputy Ministers are Brigadier Generals, the Clerk of the Privy Council is a Major-General, the Prime Minister and Ministers of the Crown are Lieutenant-Generals, and the Governor-General or Sovereign as Commander-in-Chief is a full General. The non-commissioned officers likewise correspond to the non-executive civil servants; a manager is like a Chief Warrant Officer, and so on.
In principle, civil servants may express disagreement with their superiors in private under some circumstances, but never in public or amongst the organization as a whole. To do otherwise is to commit insubordination. This chain of command ensures that the responsible Ministers are accountable to Parliament and that the Civil Service is controlled by Cabinet. Members of the Armed Forces and Civil Service thus "serve their country" (i.e., the Crown), but they do not "serve the public."
According to the Ottawa Citizen, six public-sector unions have contributed to a campaign that inaccurately labelled itself "Professionals Serving Canadians" in order to protest the government's policies.[1] Civil servants serve the Crown by carrying out the policies and priorities that the government determines. They may interact with Canadians and attend to the public good, but they do not "serve" the public.
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[1] Philippe Lagassé, conversation with author, 3 March 2012.
[2] I'm using Army rather than naval ranks.
[3] Kathryn May, "Public service unions abandon neutrality to challenge expected Conservative cuts," Ottawa Citizen, 21 March 2012.
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B. Thomas Hall says:
The U.K. civil service is partly composed of departments and officers who are created and appointed by the royal prerogative, while all of the Canadian departments of government and almost all officials are appointed by the governor in council under legislation. This doesn't, of course, change the important point you're making, but it's something I've found interesting.
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How to Watch Sony's PlayStation 5 Reveal This Afternoon
Jun 11, 2020, 9:46 am EST June 11, 2020, 10:00 am EST | 1 min read
For all the hype that surrounds the PlayStation 5, we still have no idea what it looks like or what it can do. Sure, we've had a peek at the controller and a quick tech demo, but the "future of gaming" is still shrouded in mystery. That may change at 1 PM (PDT) when Sony hosts its PS5 reveal livestream.
Sony could lay everything on the table for its hour-long livestream. But hardcore fans should keep in mind that this reveal is for everyone, not hardcore spec nerds. According to Sid Shuman, senior director of Sony's content communications, the pre-recorded stream runs at 1080p and 30 FPS, and focuses on "the games you'll be playing after PlayStation 5 launches this holiday."
We'll probably get a look at Godfall, a PS5-only launch title, along with Assassin's Creed: Valhalla and Watch Dogs Legion. But there's no point in guessing what games Sony will show. All we can do is wait for the livestream and stare in awe at Sony's golden egg.
Sony will broadcast its PS5 revel on Twitch and YouTube at 1 PM (PDT). For reference, that's 2 PM (MT), 3 PM (CT), and 4 PM (ET). If you're in the UK, you can catch the stream at 9 PM (BST).


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Faith Front Page U.S.TERRORISTS AMONG US
U.S. churches warned of 'jihadist' threat
Man tells police within 2 weeks everyone will know his name
By Drew Zahn
Published July 29, 2013 at 9:26pm
Police in Fort Collins, Colo., are warning local churches to report any suspicious behavior after a self-proclaimed "Islamist jihadist" threatened Mormons and Catholics "would be destroyed" in the next two weeks.
According to the Coloradoan, police released a memo describing an unnamed white man in his early 30s who was stopped for attempting to shoot a video while driving. Wearing a T-shirt wrapped around his head and a bandana and sunglasses over his face, the man reportedly claimed he was the Archangel Michael and told police everyone would know who he was in the next two weeks, but didn't elaborate or make threats specific enough to warrant arrest.
The man is also reportedly linked to a white Honda coupe spray-painted with "F--- DHS" (Department of Homeland Security) on the trunk, "Rev 14-7" on its side and "YHVH" (the Hebrew name for God) on the back bumper and hood.
The verse on the vehicle, Revelation 14:7, reads, "Fear God, and give glory to him; for the hour of his judgment is come: and worship him that made heaven, and earth, and the sea, and the fountains of waters."
At this point, however, Fort Collins police have told the public there is no evidence of immediate danger. Sgt. Paul Wood further told the Coloradoan he doesn't believe the man has a criminal background nor is wanted for any crimes, which is why police haven't released his name.
"(His behavior is) way out of line for what we consider terrorism," said Wood, who is also a liaison to the Colorado Information Analysis Center, established after 9/11 as a way to coordinate terrorism prevention. "Right now, we don't feel there's any danger to the public."
Still, Wood said, "With recent and not-recent events, we can't take any [threats] for granted."
Rev. Steven Voss, of St. Joseph's Catholic Church in Fort Collins, told the Coloradoan he's heard from other religious leaders the man is "non-violent," but that he's made harassing and derogatory comments outside churches, notably in Utah.
When he first read the Fort Collins Police Services memo, Voss said, its words of caution made his "blood run cold." He also read the bulletin during Mass on Saturday and reported an "audible gasp" from those seated in the pews.
To reassure the congregation, Voss invited a police officer to stand watch during weekend services.
Fort Collins police have established a phone number – (970) 221-6540 – urging religious organizations to report any suspicious activity.
Drew Zahn
Drew Zahn covers movies for WND as a contributing writer. A former pastor, he is the editor of seven books, including Movie-Based Illustrations for Preaching & Teaching, which sparked his ongoing love affair with film and his weekly WND column, "Popcorn and a (world)view." Drew currently serves as communications director for The Family Leader.
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Restored and designed by reputable British designer, Anouska Hempel, this boutique hotel is an accurate representation of Singapore as it features a melting pot of elements from a diverse ethnic mix of – Chinese, Malay and European. Unlike many Six Senses hotels that are built at exotic locations like Fiji and the Qing Cheng Mountains in China, the chain decided to set foot on this island city-state, opting to have its first outlet situated in the heart of the eclectic enclave of Chinatown.
Be greeted by streaks of black, gold and yellow when you enter the hotel's lobby. Coupled with Chinese designed panels, massive fans and black-gold lacquered sofa, it is as though you had been transported to an ancient Chinese era. The hotel which consists of 49 rooms and suites comes in eight different themes.
While the opium-themed rooms feature a more Chinese look, befitting of a drug lord from the post-Japanese occupation period, their Pearl Suite adopted a look much akin to that of colonial times, with white walls and larger windows that allow natural light to flow in.
With an array of activities and sights to see in the vicinity, from cultural explorations and your local hawker haunt, Duxton Six Senses is the place to be.


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BOI OKs Coca-Cola's PET recycling facility project
The Board of Investments has approved the P2.3 billion PETValue recycling facility project of Coca-Cola Beverages Philippines Inc. and Indorama Ventures Packaging Corp. in Cavite......»»
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Coca-Cola delivery just a click away
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Sarah G spreads holiday cheer
While Christmas this year finds us in unusual and radically different times, it's worth remembering that despite the difficulties and challenges we face, the real essence of the season—of love, sharing, and that renewed feeling hope—will never change no matter what. This is the timely and meaningful message of the special Christmas song from Coca-Cola, performed by none other than one of the biggest pop stars of our time, Sarah Geronimo......»»
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Sari-sari stores for micro-retailers launched
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Coke PH expands Balik Pinas program for repatriated OFWs
Coca-Cola Beverages Philippines, Inc. (CCBPI)—the bottling arm of Coca-Cola in the country—has expanded its Balik Pinas program to national scale to reach more repatriated overseas Filipino workers (OFWs) and help them start their own business at home. Gareth McGeown, CCBPI President and CEO. "Coca-Cola's commitment to Filipinos has only grown stronger, in weathering this crisis together," said Gareth McGeown, CCBPI President and CEO. "We will help and support where we can. Through Balik Pinas, our goal is to help repatriated OFWs who have lost their livelihood abroad to start anew, via owning and operating their own business and be successful here, at home, with their families." With the help of the Department of Labor and Employment (DOLE), CCBPI aims to reach more OFWs who are interested to start their own business through Balik Pinas. Data from the Department of Foreign Affairs show that as of September 2020, over 190,000 overseas Filipino workers have been repatriated. Balik Pinas gives opportunities to OFWs to be part of the Coca-Cola family as a distributor, wholesaler, or a community reseller. Balik Pinas is a journey that the company and new entrepreneurs take together at every step—from setting up the business, to sustaining it, to ensuring growth. Coca-Cola assists former OFWs in choosing a suitable business model for their area, helps in managing their cash flow and inventory, and sees to it that they are given proper guidance and training until they are fully ready and equipped to operate on their own—all in all, a sustainable and profitable business founded on practical support from a global beverage brand. According to Carlos Rivera, CCBPI Territory Sales Team in Naga City, the Balik Pinas Program started as a small-scale initiative in Naga City to help former OFWs. Just a couple of months after returning home, Carlos Manzano and his family was able to set up their business as Coca-Cola distributor through the Balik Pinas Program, which Carlos said has reshaped his life and outlook forever. IN PHOTO: Carlos and their family's multi-cab routing unit with the Coca-Cola Naga Sales team. When the program's pilot rollout started, the Manzanos—brothers Carlos and Jazz, and their father Lito—were among the pioneer members. Carlos and Jazz had both been working for several years in Qatar until the COVID-19 pandemic shook the trajectory of their career and, consequently, the well-being of their families. Together with their father, Lito, who also used to be an overseas worker, they set up a beverage distribution business in their hometown Naga City. Their optimism, as with any new business venture, was tempered with anxiety over how it would all turn out—especially with the considerable challenge of launching during such tenuous times until Rivera offered them membership to the Balik Pinas Program of Coca-Cola. Now, the Manzanos are running a profitable business as Coca-Cola distributors. "Even when I had to leave Qatar suddenly because of the lay-offs, I always envisioned that I would head back to work there when things settle. But with Coca-Cola's Balik Pinas, I have a livelihood that doesn't take me away from my family as being an OFW had," said Carlos. Lito can still remember his first order of 60 cases of Coke products. Now, the Manzano family business has grown to an average of 4,000 cases a month, just five months after they started—a feat magnified for it being in the middle of a pandemic and strict quarantine measures. The Manzanos have also since invested in routing units to augment their business's capabilities—a multicab and a tricycle. Since starting his business in 2019, Billy Belleza (left), is now one of the prominent Coca-Cola distributors in his area and has added another mini truck to serve more routes and deliveries. Billy is one of the pioneers of Coca-Cola's Balik Pinas program. Another Balik Pinas program pioneer member is Billy Belleza who decided to return to the country after working for 20 years in Brunei. "I am really thankful that Coca-Cola reached out to me to be a part of this. They have never failed to present opportunities for me and my business to grow since I decided to take part in the Balik Pinas Program. My sales actually soared this year," said Belleza, who is also based in Naga City. According to Rivera, Balik Pinas Program was really designed for returning OFWs like Billy, Carlos, and Jazz and their families to set up and run a viable business at home. "With their success and in light of current events, this program was expanded to operate on a national scale, so the company can lend assistance to repatriated OFWs and their families as they weather through new challenges brought on by the pandemic," Rivera said. Coca-Cola has consistently sought to create programs to support MSMEs, more so now with the COVID-19 pandemic having disrupted countless lives and livelihoods. With programs like Balik Pinas, Coca-Cola remains firm in their commitment to help local communities, contributing to the restart of the national economy—by way of reaching out to Filipinos. To know more about the program, you may reach Coca-Cola's contact center at (02)-8813-COKE (2653). For SMART/PLDT users: toll-free number: 1800-1888-COKE (2653); and for GLOBE users: toll-free number: 1800-8888-COKE (2653). You may also contact 0919-160-COKE (2653) via SMS......»»
Source: AbscbnCategory: LifestyleOct 24th, 2020Related News
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Margaret Hamburg says the FDA's authority was ambiguous and incomplete.
Lawmakers lambaste FDA chief
By BRETT NORMAN
Appearing under subpoena before a House panel, the co-owner of the compounding pharmacy linked to the meningitis outbreak that has killed more than 30 people took the Fifth Amendment and refused to answer questions Wednesday.
And in the first congressional hearing on the tainted-drug scandal, lawmakers clashed with Food and Drug Administration Commissioner Margaret Hamburg about why the crisis hadn't been prevented — and whether her agency had, or would use, its powers to prevent another public health tragedy.
Barry Cadden, a co-owner of the New England Compounding Center, took the Fifth Amendment and refused to answer a series of questions from Republicans and Democrats alike. So far, 32 people have died and 438 illnesses have been linked to three lots of injectable steroids made by NECC. The toll is likely to rise.
The hearing began on a bipartisan and personal note, as many members of the Energy and Commerce Subcommittee on Oversight and Investigations mentioned people from their districts or states who had been sickened or killed in the outbreak of fungal meningitis. The widow of one early victim testified about her loss and her bewilderment that injections meant to kill her husband's back pain as he recovered from an accident had instead killed him.
But the questioning turned tough and skeptical when Hamburg said the agency needed clearer legal authority to regulate these compounding pharmacies, which act more and more like regular drug manufacturers but don't fall under all the same regulatory requirements.
But lawmakers are divided about whether the agency needs more powers or needs to better use the powers it has. Some committee members lashed out, accusing the agency of failing to take action based on the documented problems at the NECC. They also said they were frustrated because the FDA had not yet handed over email, memos and other documents about the NECC case.
Hamburg said FDA's authority is ambiguous and incomplete. She said the agency is not adequately empowered to address the "gray area" between traditional drug manufacturers and compounders who have gone beyond their traditional small-scale role of customizing prescriptions for individual patients and now make and ship large batches of drugs.
Hamburg argued that conflicting court rulings about FDA authority have led to different rules in force in different parts of the country. "The fact that we have unclear, contested and limited authorities, ambiguities in the law, a crazy quilt of legal authorities, has caused us to be very reactive," she said.
She said the law needs to be updated to give FDA specific authority to inspect compounding pharmacy facilities, review records, compel the labeling of compounded drugs and require reporting of any adverse events.
Hamburg estimated there are about 3,000 compounding facilities nationwide that produce sterile drugs like those implicated in this outbreak. There are about 5,600 traditional drug manufacturers that clearly fall under the FDA's full purview.
Lauren Smith, the interim health commissioner of Massachusetts, who also faced tough questions, said sterile compounders should be required to report data on how much they produce and where they distribute drugs. She said they should also be required to notify all relevant state or federal regulators of any investigations under way. She said the Colorado Board of Pharmacy had been investigating NECC in 2011, but Massachusetts wasn't aware of it.
But Rep. Joe Barton (R-Texas) was among those who suggested that FDA has the authority it needs to regulate compounding pharmacies like NECC. "You can take a horse to water, but you can't make him drink," Barton said in opening comments. "Well, you can take a regulator to a problem, but you can't make him regulate it." He added: "You've got to get a regulator to use the authority the states have given them and the Congress has given them."
Several Republicans and Democrats also blasted Hamburg for refusing to answer direct questions about whether the FDA could have seized drugs at the facility after a 2006 FDA warning letter to NECC and a series of safety questions dating back to 1999.
"If you do not cooperate, you are going to have a very hard time with this committee," warned Rep. John Dingell (D-Mich.). He told her that by being defensive, "I would assure you that you are putting your head in the noose."
Hamburg would not say definitively whether she could stop another NECC-like incident without more legislation and said unless FDA and Congress worked together, "there will be more" problems, she said.
Rep. Henry Waxman (D-Calif.) tried to shift the focus away from who had failed to who had made the tainted drugs. "First of all, let's not lose sight of the wrongdoing as we go around blaming the regulator."
"The regulators deserve blame, but the primary blame in my mind is the company," Waxman said.
He added that if Congress gave the FDA more authority, the agency would also need more money. But he also criticized the agency, saying he would have had FDA intervene in the NECC case whether its authority was clear or not.
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AURORA, Colo. -- The Colorado Freedom Memorial in Aurora's Springhill Community Park was seriously damaged over the Independence Day weekend.
A glass panel was shattered "in what appears to be a random act of vandalism," the president of the nonprofit organization said on the Facebook page dedicated to the memorial.
"What a sad comment it is that a place that honors Colorado's fallen who gave their lives defending the Freedom we celebrate on the 4th, would be subject to this," Rick Crandall wrote.
The Colorado Freedom Memorial is made up of 24 panels of glass that lean forward and back, representative of service members falling in action.
Replacing the one panel will cost $55,000 because no two panels are the same and each piece is a custom job, Crandall explained.
"While we have insurance I'm certain it won't be enough to cover the cost of replacing the panel," Crandall stated.
A GoFundMe page has been set up to accept donations to repair the memorial.
Organizers said any additional funds raised will "help support much needed surveillance for the Memorial."
The memorial is 12 feet tall and 95 feet long, and bears the names of nearly 6,000 service members and MIAs.
It was dedicated on Memorial Day in 2013.


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Finding Your Pumpkin
Immeasurable Existence
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Conga Lines & Coffee Table Dance Parties
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First Friday Shows
I've had a lot of people ask me about first friday and what it's all about. Is it just a downtown thing? My answer goes something like this: It's a way for businesses to support local and regional artists by showcasing their work for a month at a time. It's kind of a symbiotic relationship in that the artist benefits from the clientele that already frequents the business, and the business benefits from new customers that came in support of the artist. And perhaps it's just another excuse to hang out with your friends and maybe make some new ones on a friday night. And that's precisely what happened last night. Thank you Crafty Bastard, friends and family for showing your support. I love you all!


Antonello Radicchi is one of Italy's foremost horse-trainers, specialising in dressage and has been the director of the Reschio Stables and Stud since 2003. He was also instrumental in promoting and developing the San Fratellano horse which now has it's own stud book. He initially trained under Maestro Girardon for three years and then with M. Phillipe Karl which opened the philosophy of lightness to him. In 1999 he took a course in Iso-dynamics with Maestro Andrè Bourlet Slakov. He has a level 1 dressage FISE licence and has been a board member of S.I.A.E.C – Italian School of Classical Equestrian Art. From the beginning of his career he has trained and re-educated more than 500 horses in all manner of disciplines: vaulting, carriage driving, show jumping, dressage, working disciplines, etc.
From his work at Reschio, shut away from the environment of constantly training horses, competitions, shows and courses, and without the pressure of having to "demonstrate" and "achieve immediate results", he was able to concentrate his attention on a "qualitative" research into both theoretical and practical ethology. From the observation of horses in the herd, from the study of their functional anatomy, the application of ethology in the relationship between man and horse, he developed a technique of association of the bit and head collar with the intent of applying, in the saddle, the same communicative coherence of ethological language which works so well on the ground. This long experimental journey on various subjects brought him to achieve excellent and demonstrable results on various levels. Given the validity and naturalness of this method, (verified through the responses and consequently positive attitudes of the horse) and being able to execute all the figures of dressage in lightness using simply a head collar, the need to spread the use of this method became his principal objective and as a result he founded and developed F.E.E.L (Formazione di Etologia e Equitazione in Leggerezza) – School of Ethology and Equitation in Lightness. In 2016 his book, "Do You Speak Equis?" was published in Italian and in 2017 it was also published in English by Crowood Press.


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Q: "DB" data directive explaination What exactly is initialization of code memory IN 8051?  Does the db directive command DB "SAM'' burn data into ROM location?
WHAT DOES INITIALIZING WITH A BYTE VALUE MEAN ?
I am all confused?
I am programming assembly in 8051!

A: Yes, it literally puts those bytes into memory. There is no difference between bytes from code and bytes from data, both look exactly the same. The only difference is in how you use them.


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Carvana Billboard Blitz in Richmond Area is the Ultimate Drive-By
Just in case you miss the first six Carvana billboards along Interstate 95 southbound in Richmond, you can always catch the next seven or eight on an approximately 10-mile stretch between downtown and Chesterfield County.
The Arizona-based online used auto retailer has placed dozens of billboards along I-95, Interstate 64 and Interstate 195 in the Richmond area advertising its e-commerce car buying service. The 5-year-old company expanded to the Richmond market in June 2016 and delivers cars in 55 markets across the U.S.
"It's hard not to see them," said Bill Bergman, a lecturer in marketing at the Robins School of Business at the University of Richmond.
"It's a media strategy that basically says I am going to blitz one medium and get your attention," said Bergman, founder of The Bergman Group, a Henrico County-based advertising and marketing firm.
In Carvana's business model, customers can view, buy and arrange financing for vehicles online. After the deal is done, Carvana delivers the car to the customer's door or designated location. Customers have a seven-day "test own" period.
"They are really trying to make a statement that they are a player in the Richmond community," said Kelly O'Keefe, VCU Brandcenter professor of creative brand strategy, who also has noticed the billboards.
"They have shown a real interest in Richmond. It's an important market. ... I can't read their thoughts as to whether or not they want to thumb their nose to CarMax a little bit. It could be a combination of factors," O'Keefe said.
Goochland County-based CarMax Inc., founded in 1993, is the nation's largest used vehicle retailer.
CarMax vehicle sales for the 12 months that ended Feb. 28 were 671,294 vehicles sold at retail and 391,686 sold wholesale at its in-store auctions. CarMax has 185 stores in 41 states and plans to open 13 to 16 locations this year.
Carvana in 2017 sold 44,252 vehicles at retail, according to company financial reports released earlier this month. Carvana CEO Ernie Garcia said on a March 6 earnings conference call that the company missed its sales targets for the fourth quarter even as its revenue grew 148 percent in the fourth quarter year-over-year.
"We had a great fourth quarter by any reasonable measure," Garcia said. "We also had unexpectedly weak results from our Cyber Monday promotion that surprised us and we failed to sufficiently factor the unexpected into our guidance."
CarMax's first store on West Broad Street at I-64 is not far from where Carvana last year filed then dropped plans to build a token-operated, 71-foot-tall, eight-level automobile dispensing machine on Tom Leonard Drive in Short Pump.
Transportation economist George Hoffer said Carvana's strategy seems to be the same strategy that electronics retailer Best Buy took when it came into the Richmond market challenging rival Circuit City, which created CarMax and then spun it off.
"I think it's the same here — an in-your-face attitude by Carvana toward CarMax. That is why they wanted the Short Pump space for their (auto dispensing) tower — in your face," said Hoffer, an adjunct professor at the University of Richmond.
Carvana's billboards advertise the company's streamlined buying process with copy that reads: "Personalized Financing Pronto," "#UnsuckingCarBuying," "Buy your next car from your couch" and "Enjoy car buying without the bitter aftertaste," among others.
Lamar Advertising declined to disclose what Carvana is paying for its billboard space.
VCU's O'Keefe said billboard advertising costs can range from hundreds of dollars a month in outlying areas to thousands of dollars a month in highly trafficked, highly visible locations.
"Carvana has them in prime locations, so they are probably paying pretty much for it, but you're getting a tremendous amount of exposure," O'Keefe said. "Just think about on a road like (Interstate) 95 where they have billboards, you are not only getting that pass-through exposure of a huge volume of traffic, but sadly several times a day people are slowed or stopped in their cars so they are looking at those billboards for a long time."
Carvana, in its earnings call, said marketing/advertising costs per unit sold has steadily dropped.
Carvana plans to open in 30 to 40 additional markets this year.
CarMax has been testing a similar model for customers to buy and finance vehicles online with at-home delivery in Charlotte, N.C., and has expanded its online financing portal.
Bergman said Carvana is trying to disrupt the experience of going to the dealership. CarMax, in the same way, was also an industry disrupter when it was created with large used auto stores instead of a bunch of small lots, Bergman said.
Carvana officials, through an agency spokesperson, declined to talk about the company's advertising strategy, though Garcia on the March 6 earnings call said the company runs marketing tests all the time "whether it's different creative mixes, different channel mixes, different ways we present to the market."
The original article appeared on richmond.com»
Lamar Advertising Expands Outdoor Advertising Offering for Cleveland Marketers with Introduction of Bus Shelter Campaigns
Lamar Advertising is now delivering outdoor advertising campaigns utilizing its new bus shelter inventory in Cleveland, Ohio. The first campaign, designed to promote Kent State University, one of the largest universities in Ohio, utilizes 15 of Lamar's new bus shelters.
Four billboards say Serena Williams is the 'greatest momma of all time'
Tennis star Serena Williams' husband used Lamar billboards to welcome her back to tennis following birth of daughter in September.


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Why you need to paint en plein air to see the true colors in nature … photos are wonderful references when you understand color.
What you need to do BEFORE you ever start to paint to have half the hard work done.
How to plan your color values so they don't "fight" on the canvas or look jumpy and disconnected.
Learn which opaque colors will slaughter the beautiful mixes you really want — and what to do instead.
Imagine standing in front of your easel — somewhere on the North Rim of the Grand Canyon — painting a majestic view at sunset.
Then coming home with a masterful artwork … to enjoy … and show your friends and family. How astounded they are at the fleeting beauty you were able to capture! Who knew you could do such breathtaking work? You may even be startled by your own newfound expertise.
Is this merely the stuff of fantasy and imagination?
This dream — and the masterpiece you can paint — is entirely within your reach.
Much sooner than you think!
Would you like to be a better painter as soon as tomorrow?
Why Would I Want to Paint the Grand Canyon If I've Never Been and May Never Go?
"…the weight of deep time on display crushes comprehension. We look, we gasp, we shudder with awe."
It's that very sense of awe … and wonder … that artists seek to portray. Isn't that what you hope to achieve each time you put brush to canvas? Don't you long to create work that not only represents the world around you, but captures that little spark that lives in your mind's eye?
And it is much easier than you think.
In fact, with this video, you can be a better painter in a matter of hours!
Do one or more of these things elude you when you paint? Do your colors tend to get dull and muddy? Do you get to the end of the painting and that spark you were going for just isn't there?
It's happened to all of us. Talk about frustration! All that hard work, and the painting just doesn't look like you imagined it would. Hours and hours spent … expensive materials … are you wasting your time?
Of course not. You just need someone to show you exactly what to do. Step by step. How to plan. How to execute. How to know when you're getting off track … and how to get back on.
And that's exactly what Painting the Grand Canyon, featuring Amery Bohling, will do for you. Amery is a member of the "Grand Canyon 7," a group of artist friends who paint there regularly. "The Canyon," as they call it, has become their obsession. You don't need to make it your obsession, but this remarkable video will fuel your own passion for painting by ramping up your skills fast. Skills that will go on to apply to your future work, no matter the subject.
If you ever make your way to the beautiful desert oasis known as Scottsdale, Arizona, you MUST stop in at the Amery Bohling Art Gallery.
Right now you'll find breathtaking work by Amy Karnes, Matt Sterbenz, and, of course, Amery Bohling herself.
That's why everyone from complete beginners to advanced painters comes here to learn under Amery's guidance.
Amery Bohling is a full-time painter, a member of the renowned "Grand Canyon Seven" group of painters, and one of the most delightful and engaging teachers in the American Southwest.
But why do so many people love to learn from her?
We think it's because she has a talent for taking complex painting concepts and breaking them down into easy steps that anyone can learn and begin using quickly.
Plus, her personality is bright and infectious, and she brings a very down-to-earth approach to the entire painting experience.
That's why we've brought Amery into our studio to demonstrate her painting techniques, and why we're making them available in this new instructional video release.


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OM Asset Management Seen Rising on Bid Interest
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Fund manager OM Asset Management (OMAM) looks set to rise in New York after parent Old Mutual confirmed it's received bids for the business.
Old Mutual, which has since March been working on a four-way breakup, said it has received "approaches from third parties to acquire its stake in OMAM," which had a market value of $1.7 billion as of Monday's close in New York.
Old Mutual released the short statement - with the standard disclaimer that a deal may not result - after the Financial Times reported that Affiliated Managers Group (AMG) - Get Affiliated Managers Group, Inc. Report was close to securing a cash-and-stock deal with Old Mutual.
Old Mutual owns 66% of OM Asset Management having listed a minority stake in an October 2014 IPO. The IPO shares priced at $14, whereas OM Asset Management closed at $13.88 on Monday, down 0.3%. The stock has edged up from a price of $11.62 just before Old Mutual announced its plan to split.
As well as OM Asset Management, Old Mutual's restructuring involves 54.1%-owned lender Nedbank Group, of South Africa; Old Mutual's emerging markets financial services business, which serves sub-Saharan Africa and Latin America; and Old Mutual Wealth.
Old Mutual, which is led by CEO Bruce Hemphill, said in March it wants to complete its breakup by the end of 2018, though said it hasn't yet decided how to spin the operations out.
Shares in Old Mutual were recently up 2.3% in London at 171.20 pence. At that price its equity is worth GBP8.4 billion ($12.3 billion).
Affiliated Managers had a market value of $8.8 billion based on Monday's close. The company has in recent months bought stakes in Systematica Investments, Ivory Investment Management, Abax Investments and in Baring Private Equity Asia.
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Blackpink Rosé's First Single, "On the Ground," Smashes Records
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Fellow Kpop fans and BLINKS it is finally Rosé's time to shine! The 24-year-old, New Zealand-born musician Rosé, from the infamous Kpop girl group Blackpink, has notched a landmark debut on the Billboard Hot 100 with her new single, "On the Ground." This is her biggest achievement as a first-time soloist, but this is not her first time being on the Billboard Hot 100–with the help of her successful group Blackpink, which consists of fellow members Jennie, Jisoo, and Lisa.
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Rosé became the highest-charting female Kpop soloist in history when her single landed at No.70 on the weekly ranking of the nation's most popular tunes.
The main vocalist proves herself more than capable of holding her own with her two-song debut, R, which includes electro-pop lead single "On the Ground" and the guitar-led ballad "Gone."
The Korean-Australian singer has also set the record for the most YouTube views in 24 hours by a solo K-pop artist, gaining 41.6 million views with "On The Ground," according to Korea JoongAng Daily.
The Blackpink member has also broken the decade-long record that was set by none other than fellow Korean-soloist PSY back in 2012 for his "Gangnam Style" music video that gained 36 million views in its first 24 hours. The music video for "On The Ground" has also set the record for the most YouTube viewers for a solo artist.
On March 12th, Rosé's solo project R was released and very highly anticipated by all her adoring fans."On The Ground" opened at No. 10 on the latest Digital Song Sales chart, and by making its way into the highest tier on the purchase-only ranking, Rosé has made important history. 'On the Ground' sold about 7,500 copies in its first full-tracking frame.
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Capt Jay's History,I have been fishing my whole life. I caught my first fish with my father, at the age of 18 months. That first 2lb flounder was the start of it all. I am a fourth generation fisherman, and fishing rod builder. Although, I am the first in my family to take fishing from an avocation to their primary vocation. My great grandfather was a rod builder, and I still have a few of his hand made split bamboo rods. Every fishing rod on the boat was built by myself.My first paid fishing job was at the age of 13 as a second mate on the New Popeye, an 85 foot "party fishing boat".
Having fished many tournaments, wining several, and placing in many, it is charter fishing that I truly enjoy. Being able to help anglers catch there first Sailfish, break their own personal records, I.G.F.A. records, or the best of all catching a child or adult their first fish. That's the greatest part of professional fishing. But to me the most important part of charter fishing is to have fun !


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The 2019 Klasika Primavera was the 65th edition of the Klasika Primavera, a one-day road cycling race, held on 14 April 2019. It was part of the 2019 UCI Europe Tour as a category 1.1 event.

Teams
Nine teams started the race. Each team had a maximum of eight riders:

Result
The race was won by the Colombian cyclist Carlos Betancur of .

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The Flawed Nexus between Contract Law and the Rules of Procedure: Why Rules 8 and 9 Must Be Changed
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The primary purpose of this Article is to examine the relationship between basic contract principles and procedural rules that are generally applicable to contract litigation. The evolution of claims and defenses in contract cases has produced contradictions in burdens of pleading and proof in garden-variety contract cases,particularly with respect to the important issue of the plaintiffs performance. The continued evolution of substantive contract law and terminology, and the failure of the rule-making process to take these developments into account has exacerbated the problem. As a result, the federal pleading rules adopted in 1938 and many state procedural rules and statutes modeled on the Federal Rules of Civil Procedure no longer provide satisfactory guidance to practitioners and courts alike on burdens of pleading and proof in basic breach of contract cases.
Specifically, this Article argues that Federal Rule 8(c) should be amended to eliminate the poorly understood defense of failure of consideration from the list of affirmative defenses. Similarly, Federal Rule 9(c) should be amended by replacing the term condition precedent with terminology that accurately reflects the proper scope and operation of Rule 9( c) under current contract law principles and procedural standards.
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William V. Dorsaneo, III & C. Paul III Rogers, The Flawed Nexus between Contract Law and the Rules of Procedure: Why Rules 8 and 9 Must Be Changed, 31 Rev. Litig. 233 (2012)
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When you're travelling it's important to stay organised. It's not like real life. It's like hard work.
I know that might sound ridiculous. It sounds ridiculous to me too. But it's true, travelling requires you to be more on the ball than you ever need to be at home because one little slip can lead to a landslide of errors.
We should know. After three months on the road, we started to let things slide. We stopped planning ahead and we stopped checking important dates and times.
We overstayed our visa in Thailand. We thought we had a 30 day visa but if you arrive overland as we did it's only a 15 day visa. This meant we owed the state 500 baht a day each.
Because we were in such a rush to get out of Thailand, we booked flights to Vietnam but didn't look up visas. If we'd left a day earlier it would have cost half the price for the visa and 1000 baht less.
We stayed in Hanoi with friends for five days. And enjoyed ourselves so much that we missed our flight back to Bangkok.
We managed to catch our new flight to Bangkok, which gave us one hour to catch our next flight to Peru. With only an hour to catch our connecting flight we weren't confident we'd make it, but luckily those friendly Qatar staff had booked us onto the same flight we were getting on next so we didn't even need to get off and change. And it was only $66 for the privilege even though it was our fault we missed our flight in the first place – Qatar we love you.
I'd like to say that after all this we'd learnt our lesson and were instantly more organised, but we got on the plane to Peru only to realise that we hadn't checked visa requirements. Oops.
Fortunately for us bad luck really does come in threes. We managed to catch our flights and everywhere in South America seem pretty welcoming to people from the UK… although I think that's probably because as a country we don't really speak Spanish so as a result can't do much damage. Still we won't be testing our luck any further, from now on I'm back to writing lists, compiling spreadsheets and setting endless reminders.
Brutal. Traveling is really a lot of work sometimes, and mistakes can definitely be costly. I read the time wrong on our overnight bus to Iguazu in Argentina, and it cost us $250 to buy new ones and we lost a day. To add insult to injury, my iPod was stolen off the bus! 😦 Enjoy Peru and make sure you eat some ceviche!
Awww Shelley! I lost my iPod on a bus the other day too! But I think mine might have just slipped out of my pocket?!
And thanks for the Cheviche tip! I liked it, Gemma thinks people should cook their fish!


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ADDRESS OF HIS HOLINESS POPE FRANCIS
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Clementine Hall
It is with pleasure that I welcome you all, members of the National Federation of the Orders of Doctors and Dental Surgeons, and I thank your vice president for his kind words. I know you have devoted the last three years to the "general states" of the medical profession, or rather, to the exchange on how best to exercise your activity in a changed social context, to identify better the changes useful to interpret people's needs and to offer them, along with professional competences, also a good human relationship.
Medicine is by definition service to human life, and as such in involves an essential and indispensable reference to the person in his spiritual and material integrity, in his individual and social dimension: medicine is service to man, to the whole man, every man. And you doctors are convinced of this truth on the basis of a very long tradition, which dates back to the Hippocratic intuitions; and it is precisely from this conviction that there arise your just concerns for the pitfalls to which today's medicine is exposed.
We must always remember that illness, the object of your concerns, is more than a clinical fact, medically circumscribable; it is always the condition of a person, the sick person, and it is with this entirely human vision that doctors are called to relate to the patient: considering therefore his singularity as a person who has an illness, and not only a case of whatever illness that patient has. For doctors it is a matter of possessing, together with the due technical-professional competence, a code of values and meanings with which to give meaning to the disease and to their work, and to make each individual clinical case a human encounter.
Faced, therefore, with any change in medicine and in the society you have identified, it is important that the doctor does not lose sight of the uniqueness of each patient, with his dignity and his fragility. A man or a woman to be accompanied with conscience, intelligence and heart, especially in the most serious situations. With this attitude we can and must reject the temptation – also induced by legislative changes – to use medicine to support a possible willingness to die of the patient, providing assistance to suicide or directly causing death by euthanasia.
These are hasty ways of dealing with choices that are not, as they might seem, an expression of the person's freedom, when they include the discarding of the patient discard as a possibility, or false compassion in the face of the request to be helped to anticipate death. As the New Charter for Health Care Workers states: "There is no right to dispose arbitrarily of one's life, so no doctor can become an executive guardian of a non-existent right" (169).
Saint John Paul II observes that the responsibility of health care workers "today is greatly increased. Its deepest inspiration and strongest support lie in the intrinsic and undeniable ethical dimension of the health-care profession, something already recognized by the ancient and still relevant Hippocratic Oath, which requires every doctor to commit himself to absolute respect for human life and its sacredness" (Evangelium vitae, 89).
Dear friends, I invoke God's blessing on your commitment and I entrust you to the intercession of the Virgin Mary Salus infirmorum. Please do not forget to pray for me.
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