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URL change to "fandom.com"—what this means for us
January 22, 2019 by K6ka
You may have seen this banner appearing around the wiki:
This is because our landlords (FANDOM, formerly known as Wikia) have begin moving domain names of wikis from "wikia.com" to "fandom.com". I just tested and "tlaststand.wikia.com" properly redirects to "thelaststand.fandom.com", our current address, so you should not have to worry about old links breaking (yet; I don't trust FANDOM).
We're still going to be that encyclopedia of knowledge that you've come to know and depend on for years now, and we have absolutely no plans on deviating from that. We will always have the articles and the wealth of knowledge available to you, and we're still the wiki looking for new editors to be bold and help us improve our articles. That isn't going away…
Wiki URL changed to "thelaststand.wikia.com"
December 10, 2018 by K6ka
You may have noticed that the wiki's URL was mysteriously changed from 'tlaststand.wikia.com' to 'thelaststand.wikia.com'. To clarify, I did not orchestrate this change. The change happened around November 30, and was done without any notification or prior consultation of the community here. When I discovered that the URL had changed, I immediately emailed Staff demanding an explanation. Today I got a response from Rappy:
First off, thank you for the response, Rappy, and for the apology. This cools a lot of flames within me. Secondly, I hope that there will be no repeat of this debacle and that changes to the wiki by Staff must always be done with the consensus of the wiki community, which in turn necessitates notification and communication o…
Unable to access TLS:DZ?
February 11, 2018 by K6ka
Users on Facebook and Armor Games have reported being unable to access , instead getting a browser-generated error message when they do so. Kongregate users seem to be unaffected.
Discord — Your Z-Mas Present This Year
Merry Z-Mas, survivors!
You may have noticed that the wiki's been a little quiet recently. There aren't as many editors around as there used to be, but our wiki readership has remained at a fairly stable ~2.5K views per day.
This year, I've decided to try to cater to those 2,500 people by creating a Discord server for The Last Stand Wiki! For those who are not aware, Discord is a free Internet communication software that rivals Skype and TeamSpeak, but is more tailored towards gamers. Discord offers both text-based chat and voice-based chat, which allows people to talk to each other over the Internet in real time. Discord is very simple to use, and you can access it right from your web browser or their standalone apps for Windows, macOS, Andr…
Undead Blitz update out now!
October 17, 2017 by K6ka
It has certainly been a while since I last posted a news blog here on this wiki. Note that we do have a Twitter account where updates are more frequent. Follow us at @LastStandWiki if you haven't already!
Anyways, Con and his cronies have blessed us with yet another update, just in time for Halloween! This time, we're up to something new. Looks like Con's been in a World War II mood recently (Or perhaps we're now receiving the carcass of Warfare Online... who knows?)!
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The Undead Blitz update is out, and more's going to come! For now, here's an incomplete list of what I do know is included:
Terrible Tommy Gun
Terrible Entrenching Tool
Subpar Sturmgewehr 44
Miserable MG42
Miserable M1 Garand
Inferior Imperial Sword
Trench Tommy Gun
Strong Sturmgeweh…
Wiki Activity Stats Now Public
May 2, 2017 by K6ka
It's May 2, 2017. My birthday! Happy birthday to.... me, I guess?
Well, as a birthday present, I have decided to unveil a project I've been working on since February.
Wikia records the total number of views, edits made, and photos that are uploaded to a wiki and makes it visible in the admin dashboard for up to 7 days. This information is not normally public, and is deleted after a week.
Recently I've been recording the numbers in the dashboard to a Google Sheets file, and I think I have enough information recorded to share it to the public.
If you're interested in seeing the number of views made to the wiki every single day, you can view the spreadsheet here. Note that the viewcount information is approximate, since Wikia doesn't show me the e…
The Last Stand: Dead Zone Roadmap 2017
March 23, 2017 by K6ka
Con Artist Games has finally released the Roadmap for The Last Stand: Dead Zone. The team has been busy with Warfare Online recently, but (Thankfully!) they have not forgotten about the Dead Zone.
While the 5th anniversary celebrations seem to have concluded, Con Artist Games have said that they plan on celebrating throughout the year. Not sure if there will be stuff in-game for us, or if it's just an office party that none of us are invited to. (And if it's the latter, can they at least make "Cake" a scavengeable food item?)
Knowledge is power in the Dead Zone, and it seems Con is opening up more opportunities to maintain a decent library in your compound. Tactics Manuals are a craftable set of boosts that'll enhance your survivors for a few…
2016 End of Year Reflection
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2016 has been a hectic year, no doubt. There were some ups, but a lot of downs, and I don't think I really need to list off some of the more obvious examples. What I do want to mention, however, is how poverty and misery still grips our world. I think we as humans can do better.
Anyways, this blog post will focus on what has happened on this wiki and in-game. It is far from being complete, but I do want to list off some of what we have done this year:
Unlock and explore Waterside and Green Plains, as well as Suburban Blocks, Forests, and Shopping Strips.
Unlock the Stadium and use it to host the Terror Dome competition.
Create an FAQ page (That had been sitting in my userspace since M…
"Fandom powered by Wikia"? Here's what you need to know
September 27, 2016 by K6ka
Wikia is now rebranding itself from plain old "Wikia" to "Fandom powered by Wikia". The clunky new name comes after Wikia supposedly is changing its business practice from being a wiki-farm hosting wikis that house boatloads of information to being a fansite where fans of all ages get together and, well, be fans.
An overwhelming number of users have spoken out against this, particularly among the older and more experienced group; those who have been with Wikia for years now. People have long since expressed disapproval of or even resisted Wikia's recent corporate transition to "fandom", creating so-called features intended to boost community unity and shepherd in new users, such as the infamous Discussions extension. What has happened, thro…
So... the thing about the News...
August 27, 2016 by K6ka
For the past two years or so I've kept a weekly news blog going on the wiki. From the very first edition to the latest one so far, the format has generally changed little, talking about new additions to the game, latest wiki news, occasionally some other news, and the wiki's front page poll. All weekly news blogs are listed at Category:Weekly news, and so far 113 editions have been released.
When the blog was young, the wiki was undergoing a pretty significant growth spurt, with lots of activity and editors and edits coming in around the clock. Many articles were being created, many more were being improved, and the wiki's community was thriving. Sure, the forums were quieter than I would've liked, but at least people were using them.
Sadly,…
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Accelerating healthcare AI innovation with Zero Trust technology
John Doyle Chief Technology Officer, Microsoft Health & Life Sciences
From research to diagnosis to treatment, AI has the potential to improve outcomes for some treatments by 30 to 40 percent and reduce costs by up to 50 percent. Although healthcare algorithms are predicted to represent a $42.5B market by 2026, less than 35 algorithms have been approved by the FDA, and only two of those are classified as truly novel.1 Obtaining the large data sets necessary for generalizability, transparency, and reducing bias has historically been difficult and time-consuming, due in large part to regulatory restrictions enacted to protect patient data privacy. That's why the University of California, San Francisco (UCSF) collaborated with Microsoft, Fortanix, and Intel to create BeeKeeperAI. It enables secure collaboration between algorithm owners and data stewards (for example, healthy systems, etc.) in a Zero Trust environment (enabled by Azure Confidential Computing), protecting the algorithm intellectual property (IP) and the data in ways that eliminate the need to de-identify or anonymize Protected Health Information (PHI)—because the data is never visible or exposed.
Enabling better healthcare with AI
By uncovering powerful insights in vast amounts of information, AI and machine learning can help healthcare providers to improve care, increase efficiency, and reduce costs. For example:
AI analysis of chest x-rays predicted the progression of critical illness in COVID-19 patients with a high degree of accuracy.2
An image-based deep learning model developed at MIT can predict breast cancer up to five years in advance.3
An algorithm developed at the University of California, San Francisco can detect pneumothorax (collapsed lung) from CT scans, helping prioritize and treat patients with this life-threatening condition—the first algorithm embedded in a medical device to achieve FDA approval.4
At the same time, the adoption of clinical AI has been slow. More than 12,000 life-science papers described AI and machine learning in 2019 alone.5 Yet the U.S. Food and Drug Administration (FDA) has only approved a little over 30 AI- and machine learning-based medical technologies to date.6 Data access is a major barrier to clinical approval. The FDA requires proof that a model is generalizable, which means that it will perform consistently regardless of patients, environments, or equipment. This standard requires access to highly diverse, real-world data so that the algorithm can train against all the variables it will face in the real world. However, privacy protections and security concerns make such data difficult to access.
Breaking through barriers to model approval
As both an AI innovator and a healthcare data steward, UCSF wanted to break through these challenges. "We needed to find a way that allowed data owners and algorithm developers to share so we could develop bigger data sets, more representative data sets, as well as allowing [data owners] to get exposed to algorithm developers without risking the privacy of the data," says Dr. Michael Blum, Executive Director of the Center for Digital Health Innovation (CDHI) at UCSF.7
With support from Microsoft, Intel, and Fortanix, UCSF created a platform called BeeKeeperAI. It allows data stewards and algorithm developers to securely collaborate in ways that provide access to real-world, highly diverse data sets from multiple institutions, where AI models are validated and tested without moving or sharing the data or revealing the algorithm. The result is a Zero Trust environment that can dramatically accelerate the development and approval of clinical AI.
BeeKeeperAI relies on a unique combination of software and hardware available through Azure Confidential Computing. The solution uses virtual machines (VMs) running on specialized Intel processors with Intel Software Guard Extensions (SGX). Intel SGX creates secured portions of the hardware's processor and memory known as "enclaves," encrypting and isolating the code and data inside. Software from Fortanix handles encryption, key management, and workflows.
Proving the Zero Trust model
In June of 2021, the BeeKeeperAI platform demonstrated the ability to send algorithm models via the Azure Confidential Computing environment to two data steward environments. Upon verification, the model and the data entered the Intel SGX secure enclave, where the model was able to validate against the PHI data sets. Throughout the process, the algorithm owner could not see the data, the data steward could not see the algorithm model, and BeeKeeperAI could see neither the data nor the model. The platform completed and passed a third-party HIPAA security audit and the first product release, EscrowAI, will be commercially available on Azure Marketplace in March of 2022.
BeeKeeperAI is currently working with aiScreenings, a Microsoft partner headquartered in France, to demonstrate the platform's global applicability as it facilitates the validation of aiScreenings algorithm for identifying retinopathy. "A critical advantage of BeeKeeperAI's Zero Trust environment is its compliance with EU General Data Protection Regulation data security standards," says Arnaud Lambert, CEO of aiScreenings. "BeeKeeperAI accelerates our time to market by reducing the effort we have historically spent to verify the performance of our algorithms against U.S. patient data." aiScreenings plans to use BeeKeeperAI to evaluate algorithms for critical cancer-based pathologies.
Collaborating for better care
This is only one example of how improved access to multi-site and rare data sets will open opportunities to develop novel algorithms that can improve care, reduce costs, and save lives. Additionally, the BeeKeeperAI team estimates that its technology may be able to reduce time to market by as much as 12 months and save $1M to $3M in development costs for a typical project.
"Microsoft has invested heavily in creating tools for healthcare and enabled BeeKeeperAI to assemble the capabilities required for a Zero Trust platform that will be deployed directly from the Azure marketplace," says Bob Rogers, Ph.D., co-inventor and co-founder of BeeKeeperAI and Expert in Residence for Artificial Intelligence (AI) at UCSF's Center for Digital Health Innovation. "Additionally, Azure is the only cloud we could use to access Intel SGX technology, which is a critical component of our Zero Trust platform."
"When researchers create innovative algorithms that can improve patient outcomes, we want them to be able to have cloud infrastructure they can count on to achieve this goal and protect the privacy of personal data," says Scott Woodgate, Senior Director, Azure Security and Management at Microsoft. "Microsoft is proud to be associated with such an important project and provide the Azure confidential computing infrastructure to healthcare organizations globally."8
Bringing together hardware and software security
The data steward uploads encrypted data to their cloud environment using an encrypted connection that terminates inside an Intel SGX-secured enclave. Then, the algorithm developer submits an encrypted, containerized AI model which also terminates into an Intel SGX-secured enclave. The Key Management System enables the containers to authenticate and then run the model on the data within the enclave. The data steward never sees the algorithm inside the container and the data is never visible to the algorithm developer. Neither component leaves the enclave. Even a malicious admin or malware-corrupted system component would not be able to gain access to the algorithm or data.
After the model runs, the developer receives a performance report on the values of the algorithm's performance along with a summary of the data characteristics. Finally, the algorithm owner may request that an encrypted artifact containing information about validation results is stored for regulatory compliance purposes. Then, the data and the algorithm are wiped from the system. "As an innovator and as an algorithm developer, I now have access to a large world of data that would have taken me years and cost millions of dollars to accumulate—if I ever could. I don't have to worry any longer that the IP [intellectual property] that I've struggled to develop is at risk for being exploited any longer. I now have access to the data I need to develop and validate my algorithms, and I know I can do that in a safe way. That's a much better world to be in from a healthcare and technology perspective than where we are now.", says Blum.9
Benefitting the entire healthcare AI ecosystem
BeeKeeperAI will enable developers to access the data they need without creating privacy or security risks for data stewards. "Bringing together these technologies creates an unprecedented opportunity to accelerate AI deployment in real-world settings," says Dr. Rachael Callcut, MD, CDHI Director of Data Science.10
Through BeeKeeperAI, data stewards with the mission of advancing scientific innovation will gain the ability to collaborate with each other along with algorithm owners while maintaining their commitment to privacy and security.
The solution will make it easier for innovators to create AI algorithms that benefit more people in more places and deploy the AI to providers and patients faster and at a lower cost. Whether it's battling the next pandemic, diagnosing the disease earlier, or enabling more personalized medicine, patients will ultimately be the most important beneficiaries of this technological leap.
Learn more about Azure confidential computing and Intel SGX.
Learn more about Fortanix Confidential Computing Manager.
1The impact of artificial intelligence in medicine on the future role of the physician, NCBI, 2019
2Prognostication of patients with COVID-19 using artificial intelligence based on chest x-rays and clinical data: a retrospective study, The Lancet, 2021
3Using AI to predict breast cancer and personalize care, MIT, 2019
4Artificial Intelligence That Reads Chest X-Rays Is Approved by FDA, UCSF, 2020
5The state of artificial intelligence-based FDA-approved medical devices and algorithms: an online database, Nature, 2020
7UCSF Joins Forces with Tech Companies to Eliminate Data-Sharing Risks, HealthLeaders Media
8Microsoft Azure Forms Collaboration to Enhance AI in Healthcare, Hit Infrastructure
10Microsoft Azure Forms Collaboration to Enhance AI in Healthcare, Hit Infrastructure
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Dr Redder - Citizens Living In Teamwork Organization Resourcefulness Insanity and Security, aiight.
This user or group was among the living that fought honorably against the Big Bash 2 in the one month long Battle of Giddings.
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Mrs Flibble's Harem has given you a bottle of Tomato-Free Ketchup for not being racist and taking part in Hareming.
This user or group has either taken an authentic and relaxing vacation on one of Malton's fifteen islands or been castaway there and forced into an authentic and mind numbing solitude.
This user does not own a Wii, because they are for old people, girls and children.
This User or Group was a member of the Mall Tour 2009, and came to your local mall! Thanks for having lots of fresh brains ready when they arrived with all their friends.
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Nation's Largest & Oldest Civil Rights Organization Says DACA Recipients And TPS Holders Deserve Action Now Too!
Washington, DC – – One day after his historic meeting in the White House, Domingo Garcia, National President for the League of United Latin American Citizens (LULAC) says, the Administration's decision to re-open the federal government is a step in the right direction and he urged President Trump to make sure federal workers get paid quickly and come back to their jobs as soon as possible.
"We told the Administration that playing political brinkmanship is a zero-sum game as we have just witnessed and it hurt millions of people including the workers, their families and everyone else affected by the longest government shutdown in our nation's history," says Domingo Garcia. "I am pleased President Trump heard LULAC but now it's time for both parties to also resolve the uncertainty for DACA recipients and TPS holders by addressing the issue through serious bipartisan collaboration. Anything less than that is unacceptable," he added.
Friday's action allows Congress to quickly pass spending bills to reopen vital federal agencies as soon as President Trump signs the bills. However, the funding only authorizes operations for the next three weeks until February 15. Also, federal workers will receive checks for the 35 days they worked without paid or that they were furloughed.


I feel old. Not in the bone-creaking, weary way that grandparents say they feel old but in the way that only young people can mean it. Old, older, it's all the same right now, I guess. I'm sure that 20 years from now I will look back on this and laugh but for now? Today? I feel old.
Time is moving forward all around me. People are getting older and dying, babies are growing up and attending college. Life. Moves. On. Even now. I'm older than I was last week, last month, last year. I'm older now, closer to the end, closer to tomorrow, closer than I was when I started writing this. I guess it's just one of those days, you know?
My birthday is on Monday. I will be 27. I keep thinking "this isn't how I thought my life would be. This isn't who I thought I would become." but the reality of it all is that whether or not I am the person I saw myself becoming when I was a child…this is so much better. It's lightyears away from where I thought I would be. I am not the woman the 10 year old me planned…but I like this version more. I like the spontaneous way I live my life. I like me. I have chosen to embrace this life and it's working out pretty great.
My advice to everyone for the coming year is this: whatever life hands you, decide now you will make the best of it. Death, disease, birth, laughter, health, disasters, parties…parties that end in disaster, failure, fatigue, excitement… It's all part of life. Make an effort to love it and whatever comes your way won't seem so bad.
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Discussion in 'Sports Photography' started by Tim White, Aug 12, 2008.
More fun at VIR this weekend!
I love bike racing photos, especially well done as these are.
#2 is my favorite, but I think #2, #6 and #8 are definetly poster material.
Don't get me wrong, they are all good...I just prefer those three, with #2 being my favorite of the favorites.
Good stuff Tim. Camera & lenses, AF settings etc. please.
Gear: D300, AF-S 300 f/4, AF-S 70-200 f/2.8, TC14E II. Manual exposures, Auto WB, Standard Picture Control, Dynamic Area AF.
Great shots Tim. . Look foward to seeing some more. .
WOW! Great captures, they all have me awe struck.
I would love an opportunity to shoot bike racing, that looks like such a rush!
Could you be more detailed on your AF settings ie. # of points etc. Thanks!
Whatever the minimum # is . . . 9? I'm not sure why I was even using it; Single Area works fine, better in some cases.
^ I am going to try going back to Single area focus myself. Not having as much luck with the multiple af while shooting auto racing. My D200 was easier to get sharper pics with the 200-400mm lense.
Excellent work Tim, I especially like the shot of Josh Hayes.
I like #1; it illustrates the closed-in nature of Mid-Ohio. Maybe it'd be better with more bikes in the frame. Next year . . .
#7 would be better on a less hazy day with better light. I like the farm in the background.
Are you shooting the Moto GP in Indy?
I'm hoping to go on Friday to watch and shoot the practice sessions.


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Melvin Villegas has compiled historical photos and oral stories from original church members. Every ten years, he has updated the history of the Aiea SDA Church. We pray, you are encouraged and reminded of how God blessed a bunch of kids that took interest in reading the Bible and had a dream.
- Passing the Torch "2017"


There is a really nice site which hosts a really creative collection of sketches inspired by the Bible. The artist is Deborah Reeder. There is no additional information about her in the website, but you do want to visit the site to view her great sketches. Some of them have very contemporary interpretation and special cultural applications embedded in the sketches. All in all, this is a great collection of 152 sketches.


The PST II was originally just a variation of the ever popular PST but it evolved into a tool of it's own and being originally labeled Leatherman Tool as the PST was became the PST II. It was the first Leatherman to have a diamond coated file (with fish hook groove) and a pair of scissors. At the time this was a major advance in the multitool world. It is also the first Leatherman to have a combo blade ( half serrated half plain edge knife blade). This tool was introduced in 1996 and later discontinued in 2004.
Needlenose/Regular Pliers with Wire Cutters and Hard-wire notch.
The black leather sheath that came with the PST is the same leather sheath that also came with the PST II. It is a rectangular sheath with a snap button flap and Leatherman is written in gold lettering on the front that fit the tool perfect. There is also a black nylon pancake type sheath, a camo pancake type sheath and many others.
The PST II originally was marked the exact same way as a PST but later on (around 1998) Leatherman started actually stamping PST II on the tool. It remained virtually unchanged after this minus a newer style plier head until they retired it in 2004.
Introduced in 1996. Made in the USA. Discontinued in 2004.
There are a several tools related to the PST II. First off is the PST , next is the Mini-Tool, next is it's big brother the Super Tool, the wacky Flair, the Pulse is sort of a mix of the PST and the PST II and the first Leatherman with a clip the Sideclip is also a close cousin to the PST II.
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Kiruv Organizations Must Stop Sending Participants To Places That Reject Them
By Allison Josephs
In Communal growth, Opinion
I didn't become observant through a kiruv organization. I became observant due to a search for meaning in life during my childhood. Thankfully, as I started to increase my observance at the end of high school, NCSY was there to give me a network of support and friends to help me acclimate into the Orthodox community. I never received anything but admiration from the Orthodox Jews I met because of my choice to become religious. I was told early on about the Gemara "Makom she'baalei teshuvah omdin, tzadikkim g'murim einam omdin." (Even a perfectly righteous person can't stand on the same level as one who returns to observance.) And I believed it. People would tell me over and over again how much they looked up to my decision to become observant and admitted that they didn't know if they'd do the same given the choice.
In terms of marriage prospects, I met my husband early on in college, and I was married by 20 years old. I never got the feeling that I'd fare worse in the shidduch process as a ba'al teshuva as opposed to someone born and raised religious (FFB – frum from birth). My sisters (who also became Orthodox) didn't have this issue either. In the circles I travel in, many people have a least one ba'al teshuva parent and I have never been made to feel weird or different due to my background. The baalei teshuva in my circles seem to feel equally accepted.
It is easy to assume that one's life experiences are everyone's life experiences, but that is obviously not the case. And the interesting thing about Jew in the City is that the more we speak about the good that exists in the Orthodox world – and there is so much good to speak about – the more we attract feedback from people who experienced the opposite.
Now there are two ways to approach hearing negative: you could ignore it and pretend that the problem doesn't exist. That the people reporting the problem are the problem. Or you could listen and try to understand and express sympathy and work to make things better. Being empathetic and trying to be better is the Jewish way.
So that is the purpose of this article – to speak to the people involved in Jewish outreach and to the people who have gotten burned by being baalei teshuva. The message for both groups is: it matters where a baal teshuva ends up.
To the educators working tirelessly to inspire and educate our brethren – if you send your students to communities too large or too insular, there is a decent chance they will never fully be accepted by their co-religionists. There is a good chance they will suffer when it comes to marriage prospects, and there is a reasonable chance that even their children will grow up seeing their parents treated as less than which will negatively impact their relationship to Judaism. (All of these examples have been reported to me by people who experienced them.) So when students of yours are ready to go out and join a community somewhere, please make sure that it is one that is known to be blind when it comes to a person's background. What a painful experience it would be to be given love and attention during the process of becoming observant, only to discover that you are considered less desirable when you finally try to join the ranks.
To the baalei teshuva (or in some cases former baalei teshuva) who have been burned by closed-minded Orthodox Jews: the people you've met do not speak for the entire frum world. Go out and look for happy baalei teshuva if an observant life still interests you, and find out what community they're part of and how they've fared. We can't stop closed-minded people from being closed-minded but we can raise awareness that something better exists and help make connections so than anyone who wants it can have access.
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Cvmay says on June 21, 2019
Hi Allison,
I enjoyed listening to your presentation at the OU Women's initiative. You are doing a marvelous job & filling an important void.
Yes, I agree you can advise Baalei Tshuva to choose the ideal communities before reteaching the "so called" frum how to behave, think & react.
Allison Josephs says on June 21, 2019
Thank you! Ideally, of course we'd want every community to be inclusive. But as that is a harder goal to reach, in the meantime, it's need to be given good advice.
B M says on June 25, 2019
Send them to a chabad community, or chabad friendly community, our philosophy is based on the how the Baal teshuva is at a higher level. my parents are Baal teshuva, you always feel like you are slightly different than your ffb peers when you have Baal teshuva parents, but it is something I and my siblings are very proud of. We know how hard our parents worked to be where they are today, we don't take things like kosher food and an appreciation for positive outlook in life for granted.
It is also great that we know and are close to people from all different backgrounds and we can see the beauty in being frum without having to test the opposite extreme of things for ourselves. Seeing the value frum people have of family over just work and careers first.
Thanks for your comment. I'm glad to hear that this has been your experience. Unfortunately, several of the people who have complained to me moved to Chabad communities and felt like they couldn't marry FFB's or had the same treatment as the families who were Frum all the way back. But obviously different people experience different things.
I agree that is an issue, as my grandmother always says "if they don't want us, we don't want them"
I feel like you will find elitists in every kind of community.
Surprisingly I myself married into a family that has always been frum, they don't see themselves as superior. There are plenty of people who just want to marry others very similar to them and they have a hard time understanding different cultures, but there are still a good amount of people with "Yichus" who see the value in different backgrounds. Anyway, it's more about the person. If someone is looking into a chabad community as a place to live they should find out if it is the type where people from different backgrounds are really made comfortable or if it's shtetl style. If you do research you can find out if the regular Anash Chabad community has a chabad house style Shul.
Also, I think it's good for old communities to have some new blood.
Another thing, I don't understand why Baal Teshuvah families would want to specifically marry into ffb families, the culture can be very different sometimes and it makes life easier to marry someone from a similar background. At this point I think there is a large amount of Baal teshuvah families if someone is looking for shidduchim. On the contrary I think Ffb families should be looking into Baal teshuvah ones, they are often times very sincere and take things more seriously since they took things on as adults.
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Allison Josephs is the founder and executive director of Jew in the City has been involved in the field of Jewish Outreach for over twenty years and is the Partner in Torah mentor to actress Mayim Bialik. She was named one of NJOP's Top Ten Jewish Influencers and one of the Jewish Week's 36 under 36. Allison has been quoted or written about in numerous publications, including The Wall Street Journal, The New York Times, People Magazine, NYPost, Daily News, TMZ, The Daily Beast, and Hollywood Reporter. She has appeared on numerous television and radio networks including CBS, ABC, Fox5, TLC, Associate Press TV, and NPR; her articles have appeared in publications including The Washington Post, JTA, Jewish Week, Jerusalem Post, The Forward, and Kveller. Pearson Education, the largest textbook company in the world, produced a video segment on Allison's life for the Judaism chapter of their textbook. She is a sought-after international lecturer whose corporate clients include Con-Edison and NYU Langone and hosts a weekly podcast on the Nachum Segal Network. She received her Bachelor of Arts from Columbia University in Philosophy and lives with her husband and four children minutes from the George Washington Bridge.
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Here's a list of terms and phrases you might come across and an explanation of what they mean. If you're looking for answers to common mortgage questions please visit our common questions section.
APRC stands for Annual Percentage Rate of Charge. This is the yearly cost of your mortgage. It includes not just the interest on your loan but any other charges you have to pay, such as a valuation fee. It also helps if you compare like for like between mortgage providers.
If you fall behind on your mortgage payments you are "in arrears".
A rate of interest set by the European Central Bank (ECB), which tracker rates and lenders' standard variable rates usually follow.
Some mortgages, such as a fixed rate mortgage, charge a fee if you pay back the loan early. This can vary, so check your original letter of approval or terms and conditions for the amount. This is known as and Early Redemption Charge (ERC).
An independent adviser who can help you with mortgages and other financial matters.
Your monthly payment covers the interest and also reduces the total balance outstanding.
Is the legal process of buying and selling property. This can be done by a solicitor or specialist-licensed conveyancer.
The difference between the amount you borrow and the amount you'll end up paying back taking into account interest and other charges.
The amount you need to pay yourself towards the cost of the property. This varies depending on the product and lender.
Is the difference between the current value of your home and the amount outstanding on your mortgage.
This is an administration fee payable to service providers when you fully repay your mortgage.
A mortgage where the interest rate stays the same for a specific period (e.g two or five years) even if the base rate changes in the meantime.
You own both the property and the land it stands on.
Gazumping occurs when a seller accepts an oral offer (a promise to purchase) on the property from one potential buyer, but then accepts a higher offer from someone else. It can also refer to the seller raising the asking price or asking for more money at the last minute, after previously orally agreeing to a lower one. In either case, the original buyer is left in a bad situation, and either has to offer a higher price or lose the purchase.
A third party who agrees to meet the monthly mortgage repayment if you are unable to. This is more common with first-time buyers, with the guarantor likely to be their parent or guardian.
With an interest only mortgage your monthly mortgage payments only pay the interest element of the loan and don't pay off any of the amount you borrowed. To repay the mortgage some borrowers pay into an investment such as an ISA, pension or an endowment. Others sell their property at the end of the mortgage term.
This is where you hold property ownership rights equally with another person or persons. If one person dies, ownership reverts entirely to the surviving person or persons. This legal agreement supersedes any Will the deceased may have made.
The official body that holds the details of property ownership.
You own the property but not the land it is built on for a specific number of years. Flats are usually owned on a leasehold basis. You may find it hard to get a mortgage if there are fewer than 70 years left on the lease of the property you want to buy. Leases are renegotiable, but the shorter remaining terms, the more expensive it will usually be.
LTV means Loan to Value. The size of your mortgage as a percentage of the value of your property. for instance, if you have €50,000 mortgage and your home is worth €100,000, your LTV is 50%.
The date the mortgage must be repaid in full, or by which a new agreement needs to be taken out.
The amount you pay to your lender for your mortgage each month.
This is your guaranteed offer. Once your mortgage is approved you'll get a formal offer setting out the terms and conditions.
The amount of time you are repaying your mortgage over (e.g. 25 years).
When the value of your home falls below the amount of your mortgage.
This is when you pay extra, over and above your monthly mortgage payment. You could choose to make a one-off lump sum overpayment or overpay a regular amount with your normal mortgage payment. Overpayments save you interest and will shorten your mortgage term.
Where an existing mortgage can be transferred between properties when you move house.
This is a period during which you make no payments on your mortgage. While you make no payments interest will continue to be charged. This feature is usually only available on a flexible mortgage.
The amount it would cost to rebuild your home if it is destroyed (by fire for instance). this is needed for insurance purposes.
When a person transfers their mortgage from another lender.
This is a tax you pay when you buy a property.
The default mortgage interest rate your lender will charge you after your initial mortgage deal ends. See variable rate below.
The fee charged by a lender who, with the customer's written consent, requests details from their existing mortgage lender.
The mortgage interest rate is set at a fixed percentage above the European Central Bank (ECB) base rate. The interest rate payable will rise and fall in line with changes to the European Central Bank base rate.
Mortgage lenders require a valuation to prove that the property is worth the amount you want to borrow.
This means the interest rate can go up or down if your mortgage lender decides to change their standard variable rate.


Practice healthy eating and physical activity habits throughout the school day.
Located at Montana State University within the Department of Health and Human Development, staff work closely with the MSU Food and Health Lab and MSU Extension Nutrition Education Programs.
Learn more about training and technical assistance opportunities on the Montana Team Nutrition Program website.
"Farm to school" is broadly defined as a program that connects schools (K-12) and local farms with the objectives of serving healthy meals in school cafeterias, improving student nutrition, providing agriculture, health and nutrition education opportunities, and supporting local and regional farmers.
Montana Team Nutrition Program and Office of Public Instruction have led efforts in Montana to strengthen farm to school programs by sponsoring and facilitating the Montana Farm to School Leadership Team and providing programs and support for schools and communities implementing farm to school initiatives.
Learn more about farm to school topics on the Montana Farm to School website.


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Liana Alverez was walking up the steep roadway to Jerusalem's King Solomon Hotel during a Jewish Women's Renaissance trip to Israel when suddenly a bus came careening down the hill. There was no way to dodge it.
Barbara Sofer, Liana and husband
Liana, 36, tumbled and screamed, "Stop, stop, stop!" But the bus landed on top of her. "Loads of people were there," she recalls. "I was feeling woozy. There were sirens. My clothes were being cut away, but I wondered why they weren't taking me out from under the bus."
Liana had not realized she was wedged under one of the wheels. The Fire Department had to jack up the bus to free her.
When Liana arrived at Hadassah Hospital, Dr. Miklosh Bala, Director of the Trauma and Acute Care Surgery Unit, was waiting for her. "She was very badly injured and in shock," he relates, "so that she couldn't understand the enormity of what had happened to her."
Liana was like a puzzle that needed to be put together again, Dr. Bala explains. It was difficult to decide what to do first. They needed to open her stomach. They needed to close off the bleeding arteries. The orthopedists needed to fix the broken bones. She had an open pelvic fracture from which 50 percent of patients die. "The initial treatment of an open pelvic fracture is critical in order to save the patient's life," notes Prof. Rami Mosheiff, head of Hadassah's Orthopedic Trauma Unit.
Liana was sedated and intubated and a multidisciplinary team of experts was summoned. She underwent several surgeries, including an urgent angiography to treat the internal bleeding into her pelvis and several other procedures to deal with her soft tissue injuries. Dr. Bala explains, too, that her damaged muscles and destroyed skin added to the challenge of managing her case because necrosis (death of the tissue) and infection are a great worry. Liana had to be anesthetized just to change her bandages.
"Having a private room for her made all the difference," comments Dr. Bala. "She had a much better chance of surviving in the new Sarah Wetsman Davidson Hospital Tower." Nevertheless, although optimistic, Dr. Bala did not allow himself to take one vacation day while she was under his care. "One slip up and she would die," he said.
It helped, too, that Dr. Bala spoke Russian because Liana was born in Baku, Azerbaijan and her native language was Russian. Dr. Bala, who was born in Russia, immigrated to Israel after finishing medical school there, having graduated from Moscow Medical Academy and Grodno State Medical University, in Rodno, Belarus. Dr. Bala did his residency in surgery at Hadassah, beginning in 2000, when the intifada began. His experience with terror victims exposed him to trauma medicine in which he later specialized. Dr. Bala is married to a physician and one of this two children served as an Israel Defense Forces medic during Operation Protective Edge last summer.
"Thank goodness, the treatment went like clockwork," Dr. Bala comments. "And Liana was a remarkable, upbeat patient, who did everything we asked of her to get her better."
"The doctors are brilliant," she says. "I know they saved my life."
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In a sudden unexpected move, early Tuesday morning the acting president of Brazil's lower house (the Chamber of Deputies) reversed his previous decision from Monday to annul a Chamber of Deputies April vote that allowed impeachment proceedings to move forward. The upper house — the Federal Senate — was already moving toward a vote to impeach Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff when word came that the Chamber was going to have another vote on the matter.
After decades of socialist policies, Venezuela's currency is collapsing. The destruction will continue until the country is laid waste or common sense is restored.
Abandoned even by many of her allies and facing impeachment proceedings at home supported by more than nine out of 10 Brazilians, Brazil's embattled president, former communist terrorist Dilma Rousseff, was in New York City last week to fight back.
How sad it will be when Brazil's citizenry, demanding political change, gets more of the same.
On Monday a congressional committee recommended the impeachment of Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff. On Tuesday, another one of her ruling party's coalition split. This coming Sunday, the Chamber of Deputies, the lower house, votes on her impeachment. Impeachment is looking increasingly likely.
The Obama administration has simple demands for the long-suffering people of Colombia and their legitimate government: Do not just negotiate with murderous Marxist narco-terrorists, but surrender to them. Give them full amnesty for everything from mass murder and kidnapping to torture and treason, and then allow them into positions of power. That was the message delivered most recently by Obama's Secretary of State John Kerry in Havana meetings last month amid "peace" talks between Colombian authorities and the Revolutionary Armed Forces of Colombia-People's Army, or "FARC," as the savage terror group is more commonly known.
Events surrounding Brazilian President Dilma Rousseff and her alleged links to the "Operation Car Wash" investigation and scandal are moving so quickly that one can scarcely keep up.
Judge Moro is taking on the crime syndicates in Brazil, putting top people in prison for long periods of time, including corrupt CEOs and government officials.
After the investigation into the money-laundering scandal of Brazil's state-owned oil giant Petrobas, some speculate that a sudden regime change is likely.


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This programme is designed to expose students to a wide variety of historical knowledge so that they are able to understand the nature and importance of history. More specifically, the programme aims at equipping students with research and analytical skills for the production and dissemination of historical knowledge, enhancing students' ability to appreciate the diversity of global historical and cultural experiences and inculcating in students patriotism and qualities of good leadership. The courses in the programme include surveys of world history, general histories of Africa, Kenya, Europe, Latin America, Asia, United States of America and the developing nations. Students are also introduced to research methods in history and historical thought. Finally, the programme offers specific courses in economic, political, environmental, medical, intellectual and gender history.
Structure of the programme
BAS 101
Ethnography of African Society (Required)
Introduction to Social Science (Required)
Introduction to African History to 1884 (Core)
Introduction to Historical Studies (Core)
Take any one of the electives
PSA 113
Introduction to Conflict Management
Government and Politics in East Africa
Introduction to Philosophy & Religious Studies (Required)
Introduction to World Civilization (Required)
Deviation and Rehabilitation (Required)
Social Science Perspectives in HIV/AIDS (Required)
Introduction to African History since 1884 (Core)
History of Southern Africa since 1800 (Core)
African Urban History (Core)
Themes in North Africa (Elective)
Kenya in World History (Required)
Introduction to Political Philosophy (Required)
History of Kenya to 1895 (Core)
Themes in East African History (Core)
Historical Transformation of Europe since 1789 (Core)
History of the Middle East since 1800
HIS214
British Imperial History
Decentralization and County Governance in Kenya
Religion and Society (Required)
Social Statistics (Required)
Critical Thinking (Required)
Ethnicity, Race Relations and Nation Building (Required)
History of Kenya since 1895 (Core)
International Organizations since 1919 (Core)
Take any one of the following electives
Themes in West Africa since 1800
The United States of America since 1776
Religion and Science (Required)
Nationalism and the African States (Required)
Development of Historical Thought to 1900 (Core)
Methods of Historical Research (Core)
*Take any one of the following electives History of Economic Thought
Africana Studies since 1900
African Medical History
Contemporary Political Ideologies (Required)
Social Change & Development (Required)
Development of Historical Thought since 1900 (Core)
African Military History (Core)
Economic History of the Developing World (Core)
*Take any one of the following electives
African Environmental History
Aspects of Latin America
Issues in Social Ethics (Required)
History of Science (Required)
Policy Analysis, and Project Management (Required)
Issues in African Historiography (Core)
Constitutional and Legal History of Kenya (Core)
Industrialization in World History (Core)
History of World Economic System
African Intellectual History
Comparative Labour History
Planning, Culture & Development (Required)
Kenya's Economy Since 1963 (Core)
Kenya's Foreign Policy Since 1963 (Core)
African Agricultural History
Gender in History
Objectives of the programme:
1. To sensitize learners on the significance of historical knowledge in creating national l cohesion, appreciate other cultures to have unity in diversity
2. To equip students in skills to conduct historical research and dissemination of the findings
3. To expose students to various theoretical approaches on the nature of historical knowledge and its contribution to development of society
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AO works with all sizes of company. AO customers are usually companies that have data acquisition, content management and omni-channel delivery 'issues' that need to be resolved to enable them to execute an efficient sales program.
AO actively works with companies in a 'top-down' endorsement and 'ground up' implementation of whatever solutions suit the specific organisation; AO has a track record of long-term commitment and dedication to its customer base.
AO's main market sector is Travel and Tourism but is also active in the Retail & Mail Order markets. Please be sure to read the respective case studies of recent client work in these areas to gain a better understanding of our core competencies.


What's better than doing something that makes a real difference in the world? Doing it from home. In addition to the convenience of being able to tackle tasks from the comfort of your own home, operating a non-profit out of your own residence through remote work is a good way to cut out the costs associated with renting an office space. Starting a non-profit organization is no small task, so it is important that you surround yourself with people who share your values and have the right experience to help you along the way. In today's blog, we'll be sharing some tips on how to get your non-profit off the ground and run it from home.
If you're even considering starting a non-profit organization, chances are good that you already have a cause that's near and dear to your heart. Whether your mission is to help underprivileged children, rescue abandoned animals, or provide assistance to the homeless, you want to make sure that your mission statement is clear and well-defined. Not only will this help you determine the focus and scope of your non-profit's mission, it will help your non-profit build its own distinct identity and niche in the larger world of non-profit organizations. Since you're just starting, you'll probably want to focus your efforts locally and maybe think about expanding the scope of your mission to a larger area later on as your non-profit (hopefully) grows in funding and resources.
To aide with legal matters, the acquiring of funds, and important decision-making, it is a good idea to appoint a board of trustees. Ideally, these should be people who have relevant experience, an interest in helping your cause, and most importantly, your earned trust.
Given the small budgets that most non-profits have to work with, it is likely that those you recruit will be volunteering their time and efforts to help. As such, you'll have to be accommodating of your team's work schedule and personal life as they will likely have other commitments to balance. Whenever possible, allow your team to remote work from their home or wherever is most convenient for them.
Dominic Price, Work Futurist at Atlassian shared his passion about the future of work and how adding value to both employee and employers play a crucial role in any work setup – be it remote based or office based.
To be officially recognized as a non-profit and gain tax-exempt status in the United States, you must file for 501(c)(3) status with the IRS. As is often the case when dealing with bureaucracies, applying for and gaining 501(c)(3) status is not an overnight process— it can take up to a year for the IRS to get back to you with a decision after you've submitted your application. Depending on your method of application, you will have to pay a user fee of anywhere from $275- $600 for its processing. Due to the costs and complications that come with gaining 501(c)(3) status, it might be worthwhile to consider some of the alternative ways to become involved in charitable and philanthropic causes.
While acquiring funds is not the end goal of a non-profit organization, it is definitely a necessity in order to finance the people and resources that are required to operating one. Two key sources of funding for non-profit organizations come in the form of grants and private donations. To be able to legally solicit donations as a charitable organization, you must register your non-profit in the state in which you incorporated.
To make the most out of your non-profit's operating budget, it is important to try to cut costs whenever and wherever possible. If you've chosen to run your non-profit from home rather than a rented office space, you're already saving substantially on overhead costs. Other ways to cut costs include utilizing free to aide with communication and collaboration among team members, like Google's G Suite as well as a free conference calling line. Not only are such collaboration tools free to use, they make remote work possible when you and your team are not able to physically convene for meetings.
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Today, The Potato Council, is not a quango but is an NDPB and again is no burden on the UK taxpayer.
I knew the cost was considerable but almost 10 billion for quangos in a wee place like Northern Ireland is a major scandal.
Indeed, the reason quangos are used, rather than civil servants in Whitehall, is because they have a degree of autonomy, supposedly allowing them to operate free from political interference.
Then Education Minister Jack McConnell put in Executive personnel to bring control of the quango closer to Ministers.
In this context the term quango, meaning 'quasi-non-governmental organisation', was used.
We were reluctant to set-up a new quango in the first place but if we had been told it would have cost pounds 800,000 to run annually we would have said 'No thanks'.
A document, dated August 26 and seen by the BBC's Politics Show, named 180 quangos which would be abolished, 124 to be merged, 56 to be retained "with substantial reform" and 282 to be preserved.
It claims there were 1,620 public appointments and reappointments to non-advisory quangos and NHS bodies in England and Wales in 2008-09, with quango chairs earning a median average of pounds 49,793.
Also known as quangos (quasi autonomous non-governmental organisations), these bodies mushroomed over the years.
While councillors are chosen in hard fought election campaigns surrounded by publicity, quango board members were typically appointed by Government politicians, and they were not accountable to the public.
WOULD it have mattered one iota to the vast majority of us if big quango, the Northwest Development Agency, had not saved little quango, The Mersey Partnership, from financial wipe-out?
Six-figure fat-cat salaries put quango kings like John Tiner of the Financial Services Authority on nearly pounds 360 an HOUR compared with just pounds 12 for a nurse and pounds 8 for a soldier.


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The Friends of the Metropolitan Police Heritage Charity have a national and international membership and becoming a member helps us to continue our work in supporting the history and heritage of the Metropolitan Police Service.
We have an annual subscription fee of just £15.00 for single membership and £25.00 for joint membership.
Fees and donations can be made via BACS to:
Account No.: 04027088
or by Standing Order.
As a registered charity we are able to receive gift aid from the HMRC for any donation that is made. This requires consent from you as a member, and you can download the Gift Aid form here.
Our aim for our volunteers and members
Our aim is for our members to always assist in the professional preservation and promotion of the history and heritage of the Metropolitan Police Service. We try to encourage some of our volunteer members to work alongside the professional heritage team within the Metropolitan Police Service. Our members help to raise funds and awareness of the charity in order to support the legacy of the important work in maintaining the history and heritage of the Metropolitan Police Service.
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The Oxford Handbook of Suicide and Self-Injury provides a comprehensive summary of the most important and exciting advances in our understanding of suicide and self-injury and our ability to predict and prevent it. Comprised of a formidable who's who in the field, this volume covers the full spectrum of topics in suicide and self-injury across the lifespan, including the classification of different self-injurious behaviors, epidemiology, assessment techniques, and intervention. Chapters probe relevant issues in our society surrounding suicide, including assisted suicide and euthanasia, suicide terrorism, overlap between suicidal behavior and interpersonal violence, ethical considerations for suicide researchers, and current knowledge on survivors of suicide. The most comprehensive handbook on suicide and self-injury to date, this volume is a must-read for anyone interested in the most current thinking and research on these devastating behaviors.
Matthew K. Nock, Ph.D., is a Professor of Psychology and Director of the Laboratory for Clinical and Developmental Research in the Department of Psychology at Harvard University. Nock's multi-disciplinary research is aimed at advancing the understanding of why people behave in ways that are harmful to themselves, with an emphasis on suicide and other forms of self-harm. His work on suicide and self-injury has been recognized through the receipt of early career awards from the American Psychological Association, the Association for Behavioral and Cognitive Therapies, and the American Association of Suicidology. In 2011 he was named a MacArthur Fellow.


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package webshop.webservice

import com.ing.baker.recipe.scaladsl.{Event, Ingredient, Interaction, Recipe}
import webshop.webservice.CheckoutFlowEvents._
import webshop.webservice.CheckoutFlowIngredients._
import webshop.webservice.CheckoutFlowInteractions._
import scala.collection.immutable.Seq

import scala.concurrent.Future

object CheckoutFlowIngredients {

  case class Item(itemId: String)

  case class ReservedItems(items: List[Item], data: Array[Byte])

  case class ShippingAddress(address: String)

  case class PaymentInformation(info: String)

  case class ShippingOrder(items: List[Item], data: Array[Byte], address: ShippingAddress)

}

object CheckoutFlowEvents {

  case class OrderPlaced(items: List[Item])

  case class PaymentInformationReceived(paymentInformation: PaymentInformation)

  case class ShippingAddressReceived(shippingAddress: ShippingAddress)

  sealed trait ReserveItemsOutput

  case class OrderHadUnavailableItems(unavailableItems: List[Item]) extends ReserveItemsOutput

  case class ItemsReserved(reservedItems: ReservedItems) extends ReserveItemsOutput

  sealed trait MakePaymentOutput

  case class PaymentSuccessful() extends MakePaymentOutput

  case class PaymentFailed() extends MakePaymentOutput

  case class ShippingConfirmed()

}

object CheckoutFlowInteractions {

  trait ReserveItems {

    def apply(items: List[Item]): Future[ReserveItemsOutput]
  }

  def ReserveItemsInteraction = Interaction(
    name = "ReserveItems",
    inputIngredients = Seq(
      Ingredient[List[Item]]("items")
    ),
    output = Seq(
      Event[OrderHadUnavailableItems],
      Event[ItemsReserved]
    )
  )

  trait MakePayment {

    def apply(processId: String, items: ReservedItems, address: ShippingAddress, payment: PaymentInformation): Future[MakePaymentOutput]
  }

  def MakePaymentInteraction = Interaction(
    name = "MakePayment",
    inputIngredients = Seq(
      com.ing.baker.recipe.scaladsl.recipeInstanceId,
      Ingredient[ReservedItems]("reservedItems"),
      Ingredient[PaymentInformation]("paymentInformation")
    ),
    output = Seq(
      Event[PaymentSuccessful],
      Event[PaymentFailed]
    )
  )

  trait ShipItems {

    def apply(shippingAddress: ShippingAddress, reservedItems: ReservedItems): Future[ShippingConfirmed]
  }

  def ShipItemsInteraction = Interaction(
    name = "ShipItems",
    inputIngredients = Seq(
      Ingredient[ShippingAddress]("shippingAddress"),
      Ingredient[ReservedItems]("reservedItems")
    ),
    output = Seq(
      Event[ShippingConfirmed]
    )
  )
}

object CheckoutFlowRecipe {

  def recipe: Recipe = Recipe("Webshop")
    .withSensoryEvents(
      Event[OrderPlaced],
      Event[PaymentInformationReceived],
      Event[ShippingAddressReceived])
    .withInteractions(
      ReserveItemsInteraction,
      MakePaymentInteraction,
      ShipItemsInteraction
        .withRequiredEvent(Event[PaymentSuccessful]))
}


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32% of U.S. Businesses Plan to Hire Additional Staff in 2011
Bi-annual survey shows more than a third of companies globally intend to increase headcount in 2011.
DALLAS, Oct. 12 /PRNewswire/ -- Businesses across the globe are now looking to hire new staff, in one of the first signs that global economic recovery and growth is on a sustainable upward trajectory. This is the key finding of the bi-annual Regus Business Tracker survey that interviews more than 10,000 businesses around the world.
The fact that companies are looking to hire additional staff will be regarded as a significant indicator that the mindset of organizations has shifted toward investment in growth through human capital. Regus, a global provider of flexible workplace solutions, found that more than a third of companies [36 percent net(1)] surveyed said they intend to increase headcount. U.S. business was close to the global average with almost a third (32 percent net) of companies preparing to add new staff in 2011.
These findings are particularly significant, coming in the wake of recent observations from the International Monetary Fund (IMF) and International Labour Organization (ILO) that global unemployment has reached record proportions in the last three years (up to 210 million since 2007). These organizations have warned about potential problems for national economies if this trend continues. Unemployment reduces national taxation income and increases public spending. The findings of the Regus Business Tracker provide important evidence that the world unemployment situation may be set to ease in 2011.
The survey canvassed the opinions of more than 10,000 senior business people in 78 countries asking them about their current revenue performance, their profitability, their projected future revenues and their wider expectations of national economic growth. These indicators form the basis for the report's Business Optimism Index, which unusually reflects actual performance as well as near-term outlook. Globally, this edition of the index revealed a far more positive outlook, with a greater proportion of optimist countries than six months ago. For the U.S. in particular, the global index revealed a bullish rating of 87, up seven points on six months ago.
Sande Golgart, regional vice president for Regus, comments: "The intention to increase headcount is a clear indicator that businesses want to be prepared to grasp the opportunities that recovering markets may throw their way. The U.S. in particular is still suffering from high unemployment levels, at 9.6 percent, although private sector payroll continues to increase slightly and this finding should be taken as a positive indication for employment.(2)"
"In spite of this optimism, our research also highlights that 41 percent of companies are still looking to reduce their overhead, through means other than reducing staff. This reveals an attitude of cautious optimism. As companies look to find economies in their own operations, we are likely to see more and more organizations offering flexible working practices to their existing or prospective employees in a bid to achieve a better work-life balance and run a leaner organization."
Regus is the world's largest provider of workplace solutions, with products and services ranging from fully equipped offices to professional meeting rooms, business lounges and the world's largest network of video communication studios. Regus enables people to work their way, whether it's from home, on the road or from an office. Customers such as Google, GlaxoSmithKline, and Nokia join hundreds of thousands of growing small and medium businesses that benefit from outsourcing their office and workplace needs to Regus, allowing them to focus on their core activities.
More than 800,000 customers a day benefit from Regus facilities spread across a global footprint of 1,100 locations in 500 cities and 85 countries, which allow individuals and companies to work wherever, however and whenever they want to. Regus was founded in Brussels, Belgium in 1989, is headquartered in Luxembourg and listed on the London Stock Exchange. For more information please visit: www.regus.com
To download a copy of the full report please visit www.regus.presscentre.com
(1) The net employment figures in the Regus Business Tracker consist of: (% of companies intending to increase staff over the next 6 months) minus (% of companies intending to cut staff over the next 6 months)
(2) http://www.bls.gov/cps/
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How Palace Guards saved Emir of Kano's life
On January 26, 2013 5:43 pmIn Crime Guardby adefaye
By Jide Ajani & AbdulSalam Muhammad, Kano.
…Ado Bayero responds positively to treatment in London hospital
Penultimate Saturday, history chose to repeat itself with fatal precision. This is about the story of two Emirs of Kano, whose body guards paid the supreme price for the safety of their temporal lords. In the afternoon of February 2, 1903, the Palace of Emir Alu, then Emir of Kano, was besieged by the British.
Their mission was to extract surrender from what appeared to be the last bastion of defence for the ancient city. Having convinced itself of the bounden duty to conquer the city in the quest to appropriate the massive land of Kano for Her Majesty , the British troops, under the command of Colonel Moorland, finally invaded the palace.
But they did not bargain for what was to follow.
Two Royal Guards, Sarkin shanu Dan'Gwari and Salama Jatau, put up a resistance that was at once shocking just as it slowed down the conquest of the city. At the end of the day, it turned out to be a futile resistance. In the duel that ensued, rather than allow the British to easily overrun the palace, Dan'Gwari and Jatau fought to the end. They died, trying to save the palace of the Emir of Kano.
14 days to that day 110 years after, a similar event of murderous proportions played itself out. But this time, it was not at the palace of the Emir. It was right in the precinct of religious and spiritual obeisance, a prayer place, a mosque.
The revered Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero, was just about leaving Masalacin Murtala area of the Kano metropolis where he had gone to attend a Qurfanic graduation ceremony when bedlam struck.
The Emir had barely spent 10 minutes there when it was time to leave. There was no premonition that something dastardly was about to happen.
Gunmen, operating on motocycle (Okada), opened fired on the Emir's convoy as the cars made to leave the area. The Emir, said to be hypertensive by palace sources, was hit by a bullet on his right hand. His blood pressure shot up immediately after.
Perhaps, had the guards not shielded Emir Bayero, the assassins'' bullets would have riddled his body. And he may have passed on.
The Emir's vehicles riddled with bullets during the attack. Inset: Emir of Kano, Alhaji Ado Bayero
Narrating the attack, a security source said the guards in the entourage of the Emir had, in line with tradition, fired their dane guns to signal the monarch's exit after the programme when some gunmen detonated a bomb. The explosion triggered pandemonium. "The blast", the source said, "was followed by sporadic gunshots on the convoy by four gunmen operating on motorbikes''.
In the process, Bayero's official vehicle was shelled by the attackers. In the milieu, the Emir's driver and three guards lost their lives.
The guards, identified as Ahmadu Magayaki, Barde Sarkin Ruwa and Dan'muri Sarkin Kano, died while trying to shield the Emir from the assassins' bullets. Others who died in the shooting were the Emir's driver; the eldest son, Sanusi Ado Bayero, was also badly hit by bullets. Other wounded sons were identified as Turakin Kano and Ciroman Kano.
The guards formed a human 'Wall of Berlin' around Bayero while the gunmen continued their shooting.
Everything lasted barely two minutes. According to a security source, "the casualty on the part of the royal guards was high because of their display of gallantry in the face of terror. Despite the danger, they massed round the Emir until he was rescued to the back up car and ferried away from the spot".
A title holder and member of Kano Emirate Council, who spoke to Sunday Vanguard on condition of anonymity, disclosed that the palace guards literally gave their lives to save the monarch.
According to him, ''the fearlessness they displayed saved this city from being plunged into an orgy of mayhem''.
The traditional title holder, who was in the Emir's entourage during the ugly incident, explained that the "guards formed a human shield round the monarch during the volley of fire", adding that "they stood their ground until the Emir was rescued to a back up vehicle.
"From what I saw at close range, it was evident that the casualty figure on the part of the guards was bound to be high",he said, but was quick to add: "We are lucky many of them survived though with gunshot injuries".
Later that evening, physicians were invited to attend to the Emir in the palace and the prognosis was that he needed a better medical attention as he was said to have relapsed into a very high hypertensive mode.
He was flown abroad that Saturday night. He was believed to have been flown abroad with his eldest son. Reports from palace sources indicate that Alhaji Bayero is responding well to treatment.
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Q: c++ error c2679: binary '[' : no operator found which takes a right-hand operand of type 'SalesItem' (or there is no acceptable conversion) I am new to this site (apologies if I am doing this wrong,) and fairly new to c++. I have run into an annoying error with an assignment for my c++ class
c++ error c2679: binary '[' : no operator found which takes a right-hand operand of type 'SalesItem' (or there is no acceptable conversion)
I'm not really sure what I need to include to help get an answer. I have included what I think to be the most relevant classes, leaving out the class with main(). I have  not included the headers, but I should be able to add those in if needed...
Here is the Invoice class where I am finding this error, I have marked the lines where the error occurs with astriks(*):
#include "stdafx.h"
#include <iostream>
#include "Invoice.h"
#include <vector>
#include <string>
using namespace std;

static int nextInvoiceNum = 1000;
Invoice::Invoice(const string name, const int vectorSize)
{
    customerName = name;
    salesItems.reserve(vectorSize);
    invoiceNumber = nextInvoiceNum++;
}

void Invoice::setCustomerName(string name)
{
    customerName = name;
}
string Invoice::getCustomerName()
{
    return customerName;
}
int Invoice::getInvoiceNumber()
{
    return invoiceNumber;
}
void Invoice::display()
{
    cout << "-------------------------\n";
    cout << "\n Invoice #: " << getInvoiceNumber() << "\n";
    cout << "\n Customer name: " << getCustomerName() << "\n";
    cout << "-------------------------\n";
    cout << "Items Purchased";
    cout << "-------------------------\n";
    for (auto &item : salesItems)
    {
********cout << salesItems[item].display() << "\n";
        cout << "-------------------------\n";
    }
}

void Invoice::addSalesItem(SalesItem&)
{
    salesItems.push_back(SalesItem());
}

double Invoice::getInvoiceAmount()
{
    double runningTot = 0;
    double total = 0;
    for (auto &item : salesItems)
    {
********runningTot = salesItems[item].getPartQuantity() * salesItems[item].getPartPrice();
        total += runningTot;
    }
    return total;
}

Invoice::~Invoice(void)
{
}

What I am attempting to do is use a vector of objects and where the error first occurs is when I try to call the display() method from the SalesItems class using the vector.
Here is the SalesItem class:
#include "stdafx.h"
#include "SalesItem.h"
#include <iostream>
using namespace std;

SalesItem::SalesItem(string partNumber, string partDescription, int partQuantity, double partPrice)
{
    partNumber = "";
    partDescription = "";
    partQuantity = 0;
    partPrice = 0;
}

SalesItem::~SalesItem(void)
{
}

void SalesItem::setPartNumber(string number)
{
    partNumber = number;
}
void SalesItem::setPartDescription(string description)
{
    partDescription = description;
}
void SalesItem::setPartQuantity(int quantity)
{
    partQuantity = quantity;
}
void SalesItem::setPartPrice(double price)
{
    partPrice = price;
}

string SalesItem::getPartNumber()
{
    return partNumber;
}
string SalesItem::getPartDescription()
{
    return partDescription;
}
int SalesItem::getPartQuantity()
{
    return partQuantity;
}
double SalesItem::getPartPrice()
{
    return partPrice;
}

void SalesItem::display()
{
    cout<< "-------------------------:";
    cout<< "\n Part number: " << getPartNumber() << "\n";
    cout<< "\n Part description: " << getPartDescription() << "\n";
    cout<< "\n Part quantity: " << getPartQuantity() << "\n";
    cout<< "\n Part price: $" << getPartPrice() << "\n";
    cout<< "\n Invoice amount: $" << getInvoiceAmount() << "\n";
}

double SalesItem::operator+(double total)
{
    double subtotal = getPartQuantity() * getPartPrice();
    total += subtotal;
    return total;
}

double SalesItem::getInvoiceAmount()
{
    double invoice = getPartQuantity() * getPartPrice();
    return invoice;
}

Again, sorry if I'm posting this in the wrong way. I would really appreciate some help with this. Will provide any other necessary info or make changes on a timely basis.
Thanks!

A: It's saying that the thing inside the square brackets is a salesItem object, but it was expecting an integer.  The normal use of square brackets is to pick out one item out of a collection, using some kind of index, usually an integer. In this case, though, your for loop has already picked the item out, so you can just say "item.display()" instead of "salesItem[item].display()".
(You'd use salesItem[item].display() if instead your code looked sort of like this:)
int item;
for (item=0; item < ?however many sales items you have? ; item++) {
    bla bla salesItem[item].display()
}

A: Your range for loop puts the reference to the item in item, not the index. Instead of salesItems[item] use item.

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