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League of Legends World Championship 2017: The Underdogs of Play-ins
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It's that time of the year, the leaves are turning from green to red and orange, the weather is a bit chilly, and teams have been flying from all over the world to attend the finale in China for the League of Legends World Championship 2017. While 24 teams have entered, only 1 will reign supreme with the strong possibility that they are from South Korea. And even still, 4 teams will be heading home a lot sooner than the rest. There are a lot of teams that have been projected as the favorites for the play-ins, there are those few that have been projected as the passengers on the first flight out.
Analyzing the League of Legends World Championship 2017 Underdogs
We could talk about Team WE, Cloud 9, Fnatic, Gambit, and so many more, but there are so many articles that describe these teams and have a lot of coverage already. Instead, we will dive into the teams that many ignore, thinking that they can't keep up with the competition. While it is true that not everyone can be winners, these teams made it to World's and that is no small feat. Even if they might not measure up to the competition fully, these aren't teams to gloss over as they could just be dark horses.
LLN – Lyon Gaming
Let's go in order from groups A-D. That means starting with talking about Lyon Gaming. This might sound like a strange pick at first, but when you see names like Team WE and Gambit, this puts Lyon Gaming in a bit of a pickle. On the one hand, they have the team many consider to be a favorite to, not only make it out of the play-ins but, make it to the quarterfinals. The other hand holds Gambit, the team many fans are excited to see especially after a dominant season and their victory over another crowd favorite, M19.
This begs the question, is Lyon Gaming a bad team? Their history on the international stage can only be traced through this year. At MSI, they didn't perform horribly and only didn't make it out of the play-ins due to their pairing with Gigabyte Marines, the only team to beat them. It could be argued that if they were in the other group that they might have been able to fight against TSM and GAM there.
And to continue on their history, both Spring and Summer proved that Lyon is well ahead of the other teams in the LLN. In Spring they only lost a single game, while in Summer they did drop 4 games. Nonetheless, they were the best team by miles. Oddie, LYN's jungler, received the best KDA for junglers in the latter half of the summer split. Seiya was considered the best mid laner of the LLN along with WhiteLotus being the best ADC. Add on that Genthix allowed for WhiteLotus to be extremely aggressive and you have a grand team.
Yet with all of this, they are still placed at the bottom. In order for LYN to be able to make it out, it would be more about GMB playing poorly than LYN playing well. GMB have the talent to take down teams like WE, C9, and TSM, but have fallen to some of the worst teams, like Na'Vi. WE, meanwhile, does have a few red flags risen as they lost to Snake eSports several times, placed 4th in Summer LPL split, and barely made it to Worlds. A lot of pressure on WE could allow for LYN to pull off a couple miracles off the back of Seiya and WhiteLotus. It is a long shot, but keep an eye out for this underdog as the best odds are in their favor.
OPL – LG Dire Wolves
This year has been absolutely incredible for DW. They made it to MSI after a great Spring split and now are making it to World's after a great finish to Summer as well. What people don't realize is that this is a team that had a history of always finishing second to Chiefs Gaming and Legacy Gaming. And throughout another successful split, they only lost a single series to LGC halfway through.
However, the success for DW in Spring was brought to an abrupt halt when they could only manage to win two games. Granted, one of the wins was an upset over RED Canids to stop the Brazilian dreams to make it out of play-ins and ending the tie SuperMassive and RED had had prior. That was a glimmer of hope for DW, but the rest of their games lacked much to be desired. They had gone 1-1 with Rampage, a team that only picked up that one win, and looked outclassed by RED and SUP in all other games.
Now, they are placed in a group against Cloud9 and Team oNe esports. North America and Brazil. While oNe might be a bit of a mystery, C9 is considered a clear favorite to break out of the play-ins. The team that many thought would have been the opponents for TSM in the NA LCS finals. And the matchups swing towards C9 as well for most lanes. The only question mark could be how Contractz fairs against Shernfire, but even then it is heavily skewed towards NA.
oNe, on the other hand, came out of nowhere to take CBLOL by storm. INTZ and RED were the favorites for CBLOL, but both were upset in the playoffs to leave oNe against Pain Gaming, who placed 4th in the regular split. If oNe can play like they did against RED in the playoffs for CBLOL, there is a far greater shot for them to make it out that DW. But DW have been able to defeat RED in the past and could pull off a miracle against oNe to be the most successful Australian team internationally to date.
CLS – Kaos Latin Gamers
If you haven't seen clips of Phreak pronouncing MANTARRAYA, I highly recommend doing so before watching worlds (here you go – Phreaks Mantarraya Compilation). Might give you a new favorite team and underdog to cheer for. But I'm here to burst the bubble fairly quickly while still showing that there is hope. KLG have had a rough year with a lot of ups and downs along the way. From almost being relegated to a ticket to Worlds. This team has pulled off some amazing feats within just a few months.
But they have had a lot of rough patches on their way to the top. Throughout the split where they actually were on top, they managed to lose games to last place Born 2 Kill, third and fourth place Last Kings and Furious Gaming, and an entire series to Isurus Gaming. These aren't things that inspire confidence when you look at the performance of ISG at MSI, where they managed only a single win against Virtus.Pro.
Couple all of this with their opponents, Fnatic and Young Generation. The EU darlings, FNC, seemed like they were going to usurp G2 from the title of best in EU many times throughout the season, but fell on hard times to barely qualify for Worlds. However, that doesn't make them a bad team as they are favored to make it out of the play-ins and to the groups. With talent like sOAZ, Rekkles, and Caps, it would be a massive flop if they fell here.
But the bigger question mark for KLG's success is how Young Generation might be. In Vietnam, YG were the only team that managed to take a single game off of GAM all season, including playoffs. While it might only be one game, it does show that YG have the capability to play strong enough as a roster to take down the fury that is GAM. ISG certainly couldn't, so there are doubts to whether KLG can even beat YG here.
The key to the success for KLG boils down to the champions they get. A similar phenomenon happened with FNC when they started to win if Rekkles had Kennen or Kalista, KLG need to be able to draft their staple. In the finals for the CLS, they drafted the, almost, identical team every game and won, granted each game was a slugfest. Maybe that's what they need to do is delay the game long enough for them to take the bacon home.
LJL – Rampage
Alright, I want to start off with saying that picking between HK Attitude and Rampage was a bit difficult. I could honestly see either of them in this slot, but RPG gain the spot due to a strong finish to the gauntlet from HKA where they beat JTeam and the rising stars Raise Gaming. If you didn't watch the LMS gauntlet stage, just know that HKA were far from favorites to even make it out of one series, let alone two with those two being against those everyone thought would win.
Enough about HKA, let's talk a bit about RPG. This isn't their first time gracing the international stage as they were at MSI, but if you forgot, that's probably a good idea. They, like ISG in the other group from them, were the last place team with only a single win over DW. Even in that win, it wasn't the best time for RPG and they looked shaky with their jungler, Tussle, throughout the play-ins.
That's that right? We can write off the LJL and be on our merry way. GGWP. Well, except for what came next for RPG and the rest of Japan. The introduction of Rift Rivals might have been one of the greatest additions for international play as it gives an insight to the potential that teams can have, and LJL took that in great strides. Beating OPL is one thing, but toppling GPL and the legendary GAM, that's something else. While RPG might have been the worst performing team from the LJL at the tournament, they still had a positive win rate against GAM at 2-1, which isn't a feat any team from Vietnam can even say.
The competition for Group D should be pretty intense between HKA and RPG for who can take down the other. Both teams have had strange events and performances that culminated in them both being able to reach the stage at the League of Legends World Championship 2017 in China. While I might have placed HKA a bit higher that RPG, this might be a group with the highest chance of having the last place team be up in the air.
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Rumors continue to swirl about the future of Cox Media Group's TV station group.
Now, there's even talk that the company wants to deal all of its Dayton holdings.
With that backdrop, Cox has inked a new ratings deal with Nielsen — a company also looking to pare down its assets.
Nielsen and Cox early today (1/17) revealed that a multi-year renewal agreement for television and audio measurement services has been reached. The agreement covers all Cox Media Group's local television and radio stations, as well as its CoxReps and Videa entities.
The future of Cox's TV stations, however, remains in question. Sources tell RBR+TVBR that bids for the properties are now expected to arrive at the company's Atlanta headquarters within the next 30 days, with a late February announcement likely.
Further, a source close to the matter notes that Cox is interested in selling all of its heritage, grandfathered media cluster in Dayton. There, Cox owns the Dayton Daily News; radio stations WHIO-AM & FM, a News/Talk simulcast, market-leading Country WHKO-FM 99.1, and Classic Hits "The Eagle 95.3 & 101.1"; and top-rated WHIO-7, the market's CBS affiliate.
Nielsen has its own issues. While its Watch segment is financially solid, it has been plagued by data issues that saw the recall of ratings in its Nielsen Audio division in late 2018. This followed other issues that cropped up across 2018, ranging from markets such as Los Angeles to Tampa-St. Petersburg. It is the Buy segment that Nielsen is exploring strategic alternatives for; no updates have been given on the division's future.
Meanwhile, Nielsen has been challenged of late by Comscore as a formidable TV ratings currency alternative, with Gray Television nixing use of Nielsen data across all of its stations.


If You Come Any Closer I'll Kill You—this is the title of the pair of paintings that reside in Beckman Hall as a part of the Escalette Collection of Art here at Chapman University. The pieces are by Los Angeles based artist Judie Bamber.
Judie Bamber, If You Come Any Closer I'll Kill You, 1987.
The pair of paintings are square in shape, relatively small in size, and identical in color scheme and subject matter. In each work, a small object resides in the center of a soft pink monochrome color field. The object is painted in pink and purple and only upon closer inspection can it be identified as a shard of glass. This gives the piece a shocking effect. At first glance the soft pinks and purples and the tiny object all seem quite tranquil, but once you get closer you realize you are approaching a dangerously sharp object. The title of the work, If You Come Any Closer I'll Kill You, empowers the object and makes it all the more threatening. Essentially, the piece forces you to decide whether or not you dare to look closer and satisfy your curiosity or heed the title and stay away. It is this internal debate and strong contrast between the power of the viewer and the power of the piece that makes the work both shocking and intriguing to viewers.
Detail of Judie Bamber, If You Come Any Closer I'll Kill You, 1987.
Like most of Bamber's work, these pieces can also be read from a feminist perspective. Pink and purple are colors associated with femininity in our society, so by painting the pieces with this color scheme, Bamber could be intentionally trying to give the paintings a female identity. Further, the glass shard could be viewed as a metaphor for women. Similar to the glass shard from afar, women are often viewed as timid, powerless, and gentle, but in reality, they have the potential to be much more powerful and commanding than is initially recognized. Bamber's work makes the viewer think about the way we look at things and the way we interpret things, and consequentially the way we perceive people.
Her painting also suggests the larger issue of how we see women and how we look at them. Throughout art history, women have been popular subjects (or should I say objects) of paintings. As a result, viewers have inspected and looked with close scrutiny at the female body, just as they do with this shard of glass. The shard of glass, however, is aware it is being looked at and is warning you not to get any closer. The title personifies the object of the painting by giving it a voice to express its power, and in turn, it criticizes the way women are viewed in artwork and society and it declares that women are a powerful force to be reckoned with. Next time you are in Beckman Hall take a look at the pieces and see what meanings you discover!
Judie Bamber got her BFA in painting at the California Institute of the Arts (Cal Arts) in 1983. Since then, Bamber has gone on to become a professor at Otis College of Art and Design, and has exhibited her work at notable galleries across the United States. She is currently represented by the Gavlak Gallery in Los Angeles and in 2014 she acquired her MFA from Lesley University College of Art and Design.


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Managing Uncertainty Podcast – Episode #73: When you need a friend, it's too late to make one
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September 30, 2019 By // by Bryan Strawser
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When a major national-scale disaster strikes, neither the public sector – or the private sector – can go it alone. For a private sector organization though, how do you make that first leap into public/private partnerships? Do they really work? How can you get started?
In this episode, Bryghtpath Principal & CEO Bryan Strawser shares his experiences with public/private partnerships in emergency management as a private-sector emergency management leader. Topics discussed include Hurricane Dorian, Hurricane Sandy, United States Northern Command's public/private sector office, FEMA's National Business Emergency Operations Center, and more.
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Episode #17: Lessons Learned from the 2017 Hurricane Season
Bryan Strawser : Hello, and welcome to the Managing Uncertainty Podcast. This is Bryan Strawser, principal and CEO at Bryghtpath and I'm recording this episode just before Hurricane Dorian approaches the United States East Coast and begins to scrape really North Eastern Florida up into Georgia, South Carolina, and potentially making landfall in North Carolina. So one thing that's on my mind right now is the whole concept of public-private partnerships, particularly in the area of emergency management. But this area of public-private partnerships that I'm going to talk about is just as applicable to law enforcement at the local, county, state, and federal level. It's relevant to the fire service. It's relevant to emergency medical services. It's relevant in other countries because what we're talking about here is that sharing of information openly between the public and private sectors to achieve a more resilient community.
Bryan Strawser : And I've thought about this a lot in the last couple of days with Hurricane Dorian I was reminded of and I was sharing in some of our previous podcasts and videos something I'd learned a while ago that's actually on a challenge coin from the United States Northern Command that supports emergency management response in the United States. And on the outer ring of this challenge coin, and we'll post a picture in the show notes, it says, "When you need a friend, it's too late to make one." And the lesson here is that the time to make and establish those relationships for strong public-private partnerships is long before the disaster hits. It's long before the active shooter situation hits your corporate headquarters. It's long before the significant investigation where you need to work hand in hand with a cross-jurisdictional task force for a cybersecurity issue. It's long before any of these bad things happen. It's about forming these relationships upfront.
Bryan Strawser : So I want to go back to something that had happened seven years ago, almost seven years ago with Hurricane Sandy. At the time I was the head of global crisis management and business continuity and intelligence for one of the world's largest retailers, and if you remember Hurricane Sandy, it came ashore as a category one hurricane on October 29th, 2012 in New Jersey. It was a slow, strong, slow-moving category one hurricane and in Sandy's path that day were more than 200 retail stores, multiple distribution centers in two data centers that powered the E-commerce site for my employer. All were in harm's way. And more importantly to me, more importantly to my employer, tens of thousands of our employees were in harm's way as the storm came ashore. But I knew going into that day that I was not in that fight by myself and I knew that we as a company, we're not in that fight alone because we had spent the last decade coming to the realization that for our community to truly be resilient against a natural disaster that public and private sector entities must work together and share information in a collaborative and transparent manner.
Bryan Strawser : In fact for three years or so leading up to Hurricane Sandy, starting back in about 2009 local state and federal emergency management agencies across the country had really embraced this idea of outreach and joint planning with the private sector. In fact, the private sector, particularly retail and utility and communication sectors had really embraced this approach with open arms. The results of that had been this strong set of partnerships between the public and private sector that was apparent throughout the preparation, response and recovery efforts for Hurricane Sandy. For example, several days prior to Sandy's landfall public and private sector entities were exchanging information through channels that had been predefined. Emergency management agencies were sharing things like situational updates, storm path updates, forecasts, plans for road closures and evacuations long before landfall, which enabled the private sector to have better planning. The private sector were sharing their plans for a facility closure, how their employees were evacuating, the positioning of their recovery supplies and their post-landfall response plans.
Bryan Strawser : So this collaborative and transparent approach gave broader situational clarity for both sectors, the public sector in the private sector and it helped avoid confusion later during the very chaotic response phase of Hurricane Sandy. As Sandy began to dissipate and its impact in New Jersey, in New York and other states became clearer public and private sector entities remained in close contact. The federal emergency management agency, or FEMA, had activated their National Business Emergency Operations Center, which was new at the time. It was radically new. So it operated as a component as it does today within FEMA's National Response and Coordination Center or NRCC. The NRCC consolidated a lot of federal and state agency reports into a simple easy to read report for the private sector to digest. At the same time, private sector entities were sending their information to the national business EOC. That was consolidated by that team and then shared at the highest level of state and federal government.
Bryan Strawser : That information helped provide an understanding of the storm's impact on the private sector in New York, New Jersey, and adjacent states. I think more importantly that information helped FEMA and other public sector emergency management agencies make decisions for the distribution of their supplies and resources because thinking about it for a minute. If you're an impacted city in the state of New Jersey at Hurricane Sandy, but your Walmart and Target are open and they're able to supply food and water. Does FEMA really need to bring in disaster pods to provide food and water or are those resources best prioritized for somewhere else? And again, some of this is situationally dependent but that gives I think some perspective on that.
Bryan Strawser : As a major retailer my employer at the time was able to quickly bring in significant amounts of ice, water, recovery supplies for donations and for sale at those 200 locations within about 24 to 48 hours after landfall. Emergency management agencies could then prioritize and distribute supplies elsewhere strategically with that information in hand knowing that the needed supplies were available at other locations. That made for more efficient decision making and a more coordinated response process. It also contributed to interesting situational awareness that wasn't there previously because FEMA, for example, was able to brief the secretary of Homeland Security who could then inform The President of real on the ground context for what was happening between retail, power, telecommunications, and the other private sectors. Because that information was being communicated and shared transparently within the industry and with government partners like FEMA. This close coordination between the public and private sectors throughout all phases of business continuity and crisis management were really shown to be effective during the Hurricane Sandy response.
Bryan Strawser : And that approach allowed for a significantly faster and more efficient response in recovery of the private sector capabilities helping ease the burden on emergency management agencies in the public sector, and I think leads to faster economic recovery in those impacted areas. While opportunities do exist to continue to mature the interaction between the public and private sector entities this close coordination and transparent communication is really now viewed as a requirement to build resilient communities, companies, and nations. Some of that was taken from on a magazine article that we wrote in July 2014 reflecting on Hurricane Sandy, but as Dorian approaches Florida and the US South Eastern Coast it reminds me of what I thought was the most important lesson out all of all of this, which is that when you need a friend, it's too late to make one. Now is the time to build those partnerships and relationships with law enforcement, emergency management, the fire service, emergency medical services, and other entities so that when the disaster does hit, when the critical moment does happen that the relationships are there and you're able to share information in an open and transparent manner which will benefit both the public and private sectors.
Bryan Strawser : That's it for this edition of The Managing Uncertainty Podcast. We'll be back next week with a new episode. Thanks for listening.
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RECIPE TITLE "Strawberry Cheesecake Recipe"
Jewish and Italian immigrants alike brought their own distinctive versions of cheesecake to America. The kind most likely to be found in diners is more typically Jewish, and is now widely known as New York style. If you like, make this particular recipe with a combination of jams and fruit; apricots or plums are especially good.
Parrish 9x3 Round Cheesecake Pan with Removable Bottom This 9-in. Round Pan is the one you'll want to use for baking cheesecakes or any cake you wish to decorate and frost along the sides. A removable bottom plate lets you lift the cake out without disturbing the sides, allowing you place the cake on a more decorative stand for decorating and serving. The pan is made of heavy-duty aluminum and measures 3-in. high.
FOR CRUST: Preheat an oven to 350 degrees F. Grease a springform pan 9 1/2 inches in diameter and 3 inches deep with butter. In a bowl, combine the crumbs, sugar and melted butter, breaking up any large crumbs and mixing well. Firmly press the mixture evenly over the bottom and about 2 inches up the sides of the prepared pan.
FOR FILLING: In a large bowl, break the cream cheese into pieces. Using an electric mixer set on medium speed, beat until soft and creamy, about 3 minutes. Add the sugar and beat until the mixture is smooth, 1-2 minutes. Add the eggs, one at a time, beating well after each addition. Reduce the speed to low and beat in the sour cream, flour, vanilla and lemon zest and juice until thoroughly blended.
Remove 1 cup of the batter and place it in a small mixing bowl. Add the strawberry jam, mixing thoroughly, and then gently mix in the chopped strawberries. Pour this mixture into the rest of the batter and stir just until incorporated. Pour into the prepared pan and jiggle the pan until the batter is level.
Bake for 1 hour. Turn off the heat and allow the cheesecake to rest undisturbed in the oven until set, about 30 minutes longer. Transfer to a rack and let cool. Cover and chill overnight before serving.
Just before serving, run a knife around the pan sides to loosen the cake. Release the pan sides and place the cake on a plate. Arrange the whole berries evenly around the top, marking a slice with each berry.
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As we discussed in The Client-Server Conversation, it's important to distinguish between the code that is running on the server, and the response that it sends back to the client.
Many PHP developers are used to seeing server-side error messages and stack traces injected into the HTTP response, causing them to show up in their browsers automatically. In "plain PHP", this happens when PHP's display_errors directive in their PHP configuration file is set to on. Frameworks may do something similar, generating full debugging pages when something goes wrong in the developer's server-side code.
The lesson here is that code can contain sensitive information that we do not want to share with the end user - for example, passwords and API keys. If something goes wrong with the database connection code, it will generate a stack trace that contains the database credentials. By dumping this trace into the response, your application is risking making this information public.
Therefore we want to keep a tight rein on what makes it into the response, and this means disabling response debugging in production. UserFrosting makes this easy to do with its production environment configuration mode.
I should point out that there is a difference between developer-facing messages, and user-facing messages. User-facing messages are messages which are intended for the end user - things like "Please choose at least one owl" or "Sorry, your owlId is incorrect!" These are generally explicitly generated by your application, and can and should be sent in an HTTP response.
Developer-facing messages, on the other hand, should only be seen by developers and system administrators. These are things like the MySQL credentials error and stack trace we saw earlier. These are the types of messages we want to avoid injecting into our HTTP response.
In general, think of the HTTP response as a carefully crafted piece of content designed to be consumed in a specific way by the client - not a dump of every possible type of output that the server might generate.
Of course errors do happen in production, and we need some way to deliver debugging and error messages to our tech team. This is typically handled with logging. By default UserFrosting logs to files in production, but the Monolog logging package we use makes it easy to send error messages to email, databases, or other notification systems!


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Jah-Nhai Perinchief (* 31. Dezember 1997 in Hamilton) ist ein Leichtathlet aus Bermuda, der sich auf den Dreisprung spezialisiert hat und auch im Hochsprung erfolgreich ist. Im Dreisprung gewann er 2022 die Bronzemedaille bei den Commonwealth Games sowie die Silbermedaille bei den NACAC-Meisterschaften.

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Erste internationale Erfahrungen sammelte Jah-Nhai Perinchief im Jahr 2013, als er bei den Panamerikanischen Juniorenmeisterschaften in Medellín mit übersprungenen 1,95 m den 13. Platz im Hochsprung belegte. Im Jahr darauf gewann er bei den CARIFTA Games in Fort-de-France mit 2,03 m die Silbermedaille in der U18-Altersklasse und anschließend gewann er bei den Zentralamerika- und Karibikjuniorenmeisterschaften in Morelia mit 2,02 m die Bronzemedaille. Im August nahm er an den Olympischen Jugendspielen in Nanjing und belegte dort mit 2,00 m den achten Platz. 2015 gelangte er bei den CARIFTA Games in Basseterre mit 2,08 m auf den fünften Platz in der U20-Altersklasse und wurde anschließend auch bei den NACAC-Meisterschaften in San José mit 2,15 m Fünfter. Im Jahr darauf belegte er bei den U20-Weltmeisterschaften in Bydgoszcz mit 2,18 m den siebten Platz und ab 2018 studierte er an der University of Arkansas. 2022 klassierte er sich bei den Hallenweltmeisterschaften in Belgrad mit 16,95 m auf dem fünften Platz im Dreisprung und im Juli schied er bei den Weltmeisterschaften in Eugene mit 16,38 m in der Qualifikationsrunde aus. Im August gewann er dann bei den Commonwealth Games in Birmingham mit 16,92 m die Bronzemedaille hinter den Indern Eldhose Paul und Abdulla Aboobacker. Anschließend sicherte er sich bei den NACAC-Meisterschaften in Freeport mit 15,89 m die Silbermedaille hinter dem US-Amerikaner Chris Benard.

2021 wurde Perinchief bermudischer Meister im Dreisprung.

Persönliche Bestleistungen
 Hochsprung: 2,26 m, 16. April 2016 in Wichita
 Hochsprung (Halle): 2,25 m, 23. Februar 2019 in Lubbock
 Dreisprung: 17,03 m (+1,2 m/s), 11. Juni 2021 in Eugene
 Dreisprung (Halle): 16,95 m, 18. März 2022 in Belgrad

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150 Years of Yosemite
This article was first published in 2014, the 150th anniversary of Yosemite. When Abraham Lincoln signed the Yosemite grant in 1864, he couldn't have known the effect it would have on the American landscape. The grant, designating the area a protected wilderness, was one of the first steps along the road to establishing the USA's renowned National Park idea, which preserves the integrity of the country's most valuable regions of natural beauty. To this day the land is protected, and Yosemite has become an icon of the rugged majesty of the wilderness North America.
The Yosemite Valley at Sunset
To celebrate the 150th anniversary of this momentous occasion, we're sharing with you some of the very best images from our adventures in the famous park. Check them out in the content gallery below! Many of these pictures come from Exodus' Adam Roberts, who took them on our Western Explorer trip. Here's what he had to say about Yosemite: "Seeing the vast expanse of Yosemite Valley and the surrounding highlands from Glacier Point simply left me in awe that such a beautiful place could exist. The fact that it is protected land seems commonplace to us nowadays, but perhaps the landscape would look very different had the Yosemite Grant Act not been passed 150 years ago to protect the habitat and enable people to visit the region in a sustainable manner. Even more of a privilege was to trek the iconic trail up to Vernal and Nevada Falls. The combination of deep forest colours, abundant water and bright sunlight created magical scenes along the whole route that I'll never forget. There are a lot of contrasting faces to California and it is no wonder that Yosemite remains their pride and joy." Want to see this awe-inspiring epitome of the Wild West for yourself?
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Mules at Nevada Falls preparing to descend the John Muir Trail. View from the top of Nevada Falls. Rainbow shining across the Mist Trail. Climbing to Vernal falls on the Mist Trail. Vernal & Nevada Falls as seen from Glacier Point lookout.
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It's been more than a year since Gwen Stefani and Gavin Rossdale's divorce was first announced, and while the circumstances surrounding their split were incredibly messy (rumors suggest that Rossdale had an affair with the family nanny), all parties appear to have since moved on.
In fact, Rossdale has a message for everyone who's still discussing his divorce: Just get over it already.
Stefani is definitely not mourning the end of her relationship, as she managed to channel all her pain into a moving new album, This Is What the Truth Feels Like. She has also found comfort in the arms of Blake Shelton — rumors persist about the couple taking their relationship to the next level and getting hitched. But Rossdale is not doing too badly post-split either.
He's also not letting bitterness or the criticism from others bring him down.
Is it time everyone stopped discussing Gavin Rossdale's divorce from Gwen Stefani? Share your thoughts in the comments below.


Where's Runnicles: Temple at the Donmar, or, What does God require of us?
Russell Beale is ably supported by an excellent ensemble. I particularly enjoyed Malcolm Sinclair's ghastly Bishop of London (there's a gem of a comparison between the Bishop floating free of any building and the Dean tethered to his) and Anna Calder-Marshall's old fashioned, yet in her way moving, Virger. A particularly beautifully written moment (there are many) follows her memory drifting back to St Paul's still standing amid the horrors of Blitzed London. Shereen Martin is also spot on as the arrogant city lawyer.
The other two parts providing, to an extent, the Occupy side of the argument, are slightly less effective. Both Paul Higgins's Canon Chancellor and Rebecca Humphries as the Dean's temporary PA are sometimes in danger of tipping into caricature. Waters's writing is just less convincing when it comes to dealing sympathetically with Occupy (and maybe the fact that I was not really in sympathy with them myself enhanced my enjoyment of the play), but it is refreshing to have that perspective be more marginalised, and Waters does finally have interesting things to investigate about both these characters. I thought the play could have got nearer to exploring what both of them really want. In different ways we leave them in uncertainty, rather more than we do the Dean.
Howard Davies (like Russell Beale presently detached from his more usual recent home on the South Bank) does excellent work on the directorial front. There is superb use of stillness and the small gesture. Physical contact is frequently powerfully weighted, whether it's Russell Beale oppressed by Sinclair's determination to hug him (and the quite different parallel hug with Higgins much later), or his and Calder-Marshall's twin shying away from sympathetic hands on shoulders. There's much telling commentary on being reserved.
This is a powerful evening in the theatre and certainly deserves further life beyond its Donmar run (though it's also the kind of show that I suspect is unlikely to get it). It is also a reminder of the considerable talents of two regulars of Hytner's National whom Rufus Norris has so far chosen not to summon to his aid. Hopefully they will be back there soon.


Back to some 20/20 gains, today.
There's a decent sized backlog on science study reviews and hands-on things which we'll hopefully also get too, soon. But these gains have been sitting on my desktop and they just need to get done and posted.
No more diopter ratio, and almost down to the last diopter.
This is also the point where you really don't need to wear any glasses for close-up anymore. That's a big milestone and just generally practical. Anytime you're in front of a computer, don't even need any glasses at all. Very liberating feeling and so close to 20/20!
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Government Shuts Down: You Are Not Being Paid on Your Contract, Do You Pay Your Employees?
Even though the government shutdown has now ended, suspended work on contracts may cause payment issues to linger in the coming weeks. Employee wages are among the primary issues that are expected to surface. Given the continuing atmosphere of confrontation in Washington, another shutdown may not be out of the question.


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Yizumi-HPM's DP-N series two-platen servo hydraulic.
Yizumi-HPM Corp., a unit of the Yizumi Group, will announce the launch of three new series of injection molding machines at NPE 2018 May 7-11 at the Orange County Convention Center in Orlando, Fla.
The DP-N series two-platen servo hydraulic, A5-N series toggle servo hydraulic, and theFE-N series full servo are all built to North American design criteria and standards and make use of KEBA touch-screen control systems throughout the machine line. The "N" designation indicates the series is developed and configured for the North American market.
The three new series are based on HPM designs but utilize the engineering, manufacturing, and financial strengths of Yizumi, one of the world's leading manufacturers of injection molding machines, according to Bill Duff, General Manager, Sales and Marketing for Yizumi-HPM.
Yizumi-HPM has introduced the DP-N series two-platen servo hydraulic model UN1200DP-N-12050 (1200 US tons 240oz). At NPE2018, this machine will run a special MuCell "FoamPro" technology, which Yizumi developed with Wilmington, Mass.-based Trexel Inc., the developer of the MuCell foaming process. FoamPro is a "rapid heat, rapid cool" process that creates textured finishes, reducing part weight by up to 20% and required clamping forces by up to 50%.
At the booth, the company will demonstrate FoamPro technology with a single-cavity aluminum mold on a UN1200DP-N-12050 two-platen injection press, producing an 880-gram PP briefcase in a 49-sec cycle. The DP-N series boasts a box-shape platen that is designed for high rigidity and high parallelism. Mold closing and opening are controlled by a high-response servo valve with mold-open repeatability up to ±0.1mm. The DP-N series is offered from 550 tons to 3500 tons with a modular design that allows multiple molding solutions.
Yizumi-HPM will also launch the A5-N series toggle servo hydraulic model UN360DP-N (360 US tons 34oz). This machine will manufacture a 2.5 gal (9.5-L) HDPE pail, utilizing the company's exclusive Double-Wave barrier screw technology for rapid recovery and excellent melt quality. Key features includes a highly rigid clamping unit and extended ejector guiding platen design, along with an optimized injection structure design for reduced frictional resistance and enhanced precision.
Yizumi's third-generation energy-saving servo technology is stable, reliable, and durable. It is characterized by high efficiency, energy savings, low noise, strong power, and fast response. The A5-N series is offered from 65 tons to 1125 tons with numerous available options and technologies.
In addition, the company will also offer the FE-N series full-servo electric model FE-N-60 (60 US tons 2oz). This is a new fully electric machine designed for the North American market and is available from 65 to 290 tons. The machine features optimized injection unit structure, servo motor customization, and an optimum lubrication system. The FE-N series is configurable to different sizes with high-speed recovery and fill up to 500 mm/sec. At NPE, the machine will run a small medical part.
"We believe we're uniquely positioned to offer the market high-quality technical injection machines that deliver high performance at an affordable cost," said Duff.


It's about time I addressed this as an essay.
Dissonance is a textual and tonal device. It's also a sensibility, a kind of distinct affective response. It is not, in and of itself, a pejorative.
I don't mean to resuscitate that old debate around Clint Hocking's "ludonarrative dissonance", so please don't mistake this piece as trying to countenance that. It's more that I reject the terms of that debate altogether.
That's simple enough, at least in theory. "Coherence" is at least a term with very little cultural baggage and a relatively clear and versatile definition. That is to say, it describes a thing which is consistent and conceptually worked-out. But how can we practically apply this in a way which is not based on some relatively arbitrary prescription of what a game is or how its parts must properly interact in order to be considered successful? How do we know the difference between "coherence" and "dissonance", and when does it even matter?
The point of this is not to further mystify, to obfuscate, or to put forward some new standard ideal definition of "game." The point of this is to be useful.
In fairness to Hocking, I think he was actually really close to something when he coined the term. Our inability to simply identify a lack of artistic unification which most effectively translates the goals of a piece is not something I can blame on him. Our general failure to engage with the works and languages of other art forms outside of our little sphere is, I think, a major roadblock in our own process of developing and clarifying our understanding of the form. The other major roadblock is, of course, the language of marketing, industry and adjacent institutions having controlled that narrative for so long. It's chiefly for these reasons that we can intuit a phenomenon, but find ourselves unable to simply name it without intense insecurity and ultimately futile confusion.
Now, I don't think we ought to outright abandon "dissonance" as a term. It has its value as a descriptor of a certain kind of sensibility achieved through various techniques. Where devices like "assonance" and "consonance" refer to the repetition of vowels and consonants respectively, "dissonance" can refer to a clashing of elements, and can be represented tonally, narratively, aurally, visually or ludically. (Here, "consonance" can also be used to refer to "harmoniousness" and therefore, the opposite of "dissonance").
Dissonance is not, as I have pled the case before, unusual in different art forms, or even particularly controversial. There is no real expectation for all the pieces of a work to move completely in sync, particularly in narrative media, and if there were a great deal of artwork would lose the degree of conflict that makes it provocative and affecting. Dissonance, as far as the bulk of creative work is concerned, is not inherently a dirty word.
Of course, just like a work of art can be exceedingly boring if it's, for instance, too virtuosic or sanitized, a work of art can be a complete mess if the cacophony appears to not serve any purpose. "Weird for the sake of weird", for instance, can become its own kind of self-indulgence.
But I think we also have to draw a distinction: a piece can be "dissonant" while being coherent, while another can be "consonant" while also being completely incoherent. It's also crucial to reiterate that while "dissonance" and "incoherence" aren't the same thing, one can definitely lead to the other, and this usually depends on the reasoning—or lack thereof—for the presence of that dissonance. Poorly-applied film edits, instruments which are badly out of tune, or experimental grammar in a poem which renders it illegible, are all ways where "dissonance" can fall flat. However, a piece of aleatory music can create incredibly dissonant sounds, clashing non-harmonies, a mess of competing rhythms, and so on. But if the conditions of the piece are set to create exactly that kind of experience with purpose, then the dissonance can't really be said to be an unconscious accident or inherent flaw. (Although dissonance can be both deliberate and badly done!) This is just as true for punk rock, tone poetry, the painting of Francis Bacon, the music of Death Grips, and so on.
I'm annoyed with myself that it took me so long to come up with a satisfying answer to those questions (at least for me). Nonetheless, I generally agree with Yang that "dissonance" is not the problem with BioShock Infinite or any game like it, but I also feel that whether or not people notice something in a piece of media is a terrible litmus for whether or not it exists. It is very possible for a certain tension to exist between, say, the diegetic narrative (as told via a narrator) and the ludic enactments of a game, or between the sound and visuals, or between the order of events and the duration of story time, and so on. This tension can create a sensibility which is dissonant, uncanny, giving us a sense that something is "off", and that feeling may be directed toward some realization about the thing which we are consuming.
In the context of games, "dissonance" evoked via a tension between various formal modes and devices can and has been used to provoke reactions and point to specific statements. Deadly Premonition (2010), for all its shortcomings, masterfully achieves tonal dissonance through visuals and sound, often evoking equal parts bemusement and dread. Or, take GZ Storm's Vidiot Game (2012), which subverts expectations by, on the one hand, tasking the player with petty goals in the form of minigames, while on the other, removing the likelihood of any eventual victory. The player becomes caught in a nihilistic loop where success doesn't really add up, and this is eventually represented visually by the gradual glitching of the game's visuals. There is a slow, absurdist breakdown of meaning in a ludic context taking place which acts as a metacommentary for the labour put into "winning" games, and which is represented through an intense dissonance we experience aesthetically, through sound and visuals, as well as ludically, as our actions fail to meet up with our expectations. The game's statement is fairly simple, and occupies that moment when indie games were only just working through metatext as a mode of expression (The Stanley Parable came out in 2011), but it's also a clear example of dissonance as a sensibility at work.
The issue is not so much that these problems clash particularly noticeably in the moment of play in such a way that jars and therefore leaves an impression on the player. It's that, under scrutiny, they don't make any sense to what the game and its various elements are trying to accomplish. Like an unaddressed plot hole in an otherwise tidy-feeling television series, these things can go unremarked but as soon as they are reflected upon, we realize how quickly the game and its attendant statements dissolve into a pile of gibberish.
But, again, I can't base my observations here on whether or not an audience actually notices problems or takes them for granted. I'd even argue that the apathy Yang describes toward general incoherence in games is an ultimately ideological attitude, built on the very assumption, "because videogames." Recipients of media tend to not notice lots of things, which is in large part why the discipline of criticism exists. We may find ourselves bedazzled by a polished product which appears to make sense unto itself—which is consonant enough that the parts move together—only to realize after the fact that they never really fit right at all.
I admit this piece isn't really a full treatise on the subject so much as, I hope, a preliminary disambiguation of two terms I see confounded all the time. It's not that I wish to control critical language, and I don't deign to think I really can. But I do think that if we can more accurately define our terms, then we stand a better chance at interpreting and articulating the experiences we have with games. We all have a responsibility and an opportunity to take control of the language we use to describe the media we consume. To do otherwise results not just in incoherent games, but in incoherent ideas about them—and who benefits from that?


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Why do the Dutch tower over us?
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Tall story The Netherlands has the tallest people on Earth: on average, its women stand almost 1.71 metres tall, and its men 1.84 metres.
Two centuries ago they were renowned for being among the shortest. So just how they've shot up so fast has been somewhat of a mystery.
A popular explanation is nutrition -- a calorie-stuffed diet rich in meat and dairy products.
But that can't be the whole story, experts say.
Other European countries, too, have enjoyed similar prosperity and a rise in living standards, yet their citizens have not shot skywards as much.
The average male height in the Netherlands has gained 20 centimetres in the last 150 years, according to military records.
By comparison, the height of the average American man has risen a mere six centimetres over the same period.
Researchers led by Gert Stulp, a specialist in population health at the London School of Hygiene and Tropical Medicine, combed a Dutch database for clues.
Called LifeLines, the record contains exhaustive detail about the lives and health of more than 94,500 people who lived in the northern Netherlands from 1935 to 1967.
In this three-decade snapshot, the people who had the most children were tall men, and women of average height, the team found.
For example, the most fertile men were seven centimetres above the average height. Statistically, they had 0.24 more children on average than the least fertile men, who were about 14 centimetres below the average height.
Compared to counterparts in other countries where they often tended to have fewer children, taller women also reproduced more in the Netherlands.
Many postponed having children until after their studies, but once they forged a successful relationship, often had a large family.
The study did not involve genetic testing, but concluded from the observations that natural selection must have played a part: with time, more and more Dutch started sporting tall genes.
"Natural selection in addition to good environmental conditions may help explain why the Dutch are so tall," the researchers write in the Royal Society journal Proceedings B..
Tall, tallest, taller
"Height is very heritable -- taller parents tend to have somewhat taller children than shorter parents," says Stulp.
"Because taller individuals would have more offspring in the next generation who would be taller, the average height in that generation would a bit taller on average than the preceding generation, if all else is equal."
There seems to be a cultural preference as well.
Stulp points to figures showing that, in the United States, shorter women and men of average height have the most reproductive success.
"There is much variation in what men and women want," he said.
"When it comes to choosing a mate, height tends to have (only) a small effect, which is not very surprising given the many other, more important, traits people value in their mate."
How does Australia measure up?
According to the Australian Bureau of Statistics, the average height of an Australian man is 175.6 centimetres, and the average Australian woman is 161.8 centimetres tall -- an increase of 0.8 centimetres and 0.4 centimetres since 1995.
In general, Australian males and females aged 75 or over are 8.1 centimetres shorter than ones aged 18-24 years.
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Sabres down the Blues at home
Cory Hubbard
The Sabres down the defending Stanley Cup Champions 5-2 at KeyBank Center. Strong performances by Linus Ullmark (.929 SV%) and Jack Eichel, who extended his point streak to 14 games in a row, lead Buffalo to their second straight win.
"He's been awesome for us all year. It was great to see him get rewarded tonight." – Jack Eichel speaking of Linus Ullmark
This high paced game started early with a goal eventually credited to Sam Reinhart that bounced in off David Perron's skate just 18 seconds into the game. That pace continued through the rest of the game for Buffalo, fighting hard against a strong Blues team. Contributions from the entire Buffalo team lead to four different goal scorers and nine players with at least one point.
What a start! 🚨
Victor Olofsson draws first blood to put us at 1-0. #Sabres50 pic.twitter.com/LxlsJq2zHN
— Buffalo Sabres (@BuffaloSabres) December 11, 2019
The Blues played a hard fought game, but ultimately lose their third straight game moving to just 1 – 3 – 0 so far in December. Goaltending has been strong for the Blues, but they have been outscored 13 – 4 in their last three games including the 5 – 2 loss tonight. Jake Allen ended tonight stopping 28 of 31 (.903 SV%), but St. Louis could pull it out.
Troy Brouwer answered Reinhart's early goal in the first period to keep things close and Alex Pietrangelo did the same for Johan Larsson's late second period goal to tie the game back up at 2-2. It was Eichel that was left alone to walk out in front of the net and give Buffalo the 3-2 lead. Eichel and Zemgus Girgensons would add empty net goals to close it out.
THE POINT STREAK CONTINUES!!!!
Jack Eichel's streak reaches 14 games…
As he scores with 14:14 left in the period. 😱 #Sabres50 pic.twitter.com/cXNkSedNXf
Buffalo (15-11-6) will stay at home and play host to the Nashville Predators (13-10-5) on Thursday night in KeyBank Center. The Sabres will have a chance to extend their win streak to three games with this 7:00 PM puck drop.
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The Anglican Diocese of Brisbane, also known as Anglican Church Southern Queensland, is based in Brisbane, Queensland, Australia. The diocesan bishop's seat is at St John's Cathedral, Brisbane. The diocese stretches from the south-eastern coastline of Queensland, down to the New South Wales border and west to the Northern Territory and South Australian borders. The diocese currently markets itself as "Anglican Church Southern Queensland" (ACSQ). The "Anglicare Southern Queensland" brand is also heavily promoted by the diocese.

The position of Archbishop of Brisbane is currently vacant following the retirement of Phillip Aspinall in December 2022. The current assistant bishops are Cameron Venables (Bishop of the Western Region since 2014), Jeremy Greaves (Northern Region since 2017) and John Roundhill (Southern Region since 2018).

History
In 1858, the Brisbane diocese was separated from the Diocese of Newcastle. Until then, the area had been under the jurisdiction of the Bishop of Newcastle, William Tyrrell.

In 1859, Queen Victoria appointed the diocese's first bishop, Edward Tufnell (1814–1896). Tufnell designated St John's Cathedral in Brisbane as the pro-cathedral. The central stained glass windows in the apse were donated by Bishop Tufnell. In 1866, there was one archdeaconry: Benjamin Glennie was Archdeacon of Brisbane.

The second bishop was Matthew Hale, who was translated from Perth in 1876. Hale was succeeded by William Webber.

With the creation of the Province of Queensland in 1905, the Diocese of Brisbane became the permanent metropolitan see and its bishop the metropolitan archbishop.

Bishopsbourne
A bishops' house called Bishopsbourne (now Old Bishopsbourne) was built in Milton  for Edward Tufnell. It was used by subsequent bishops and archbishops until Archbishop Philip Strong purchased the house Eldernell (formerly Farsley) at 39 Eldernell Street, Hamilton, in 1964, renaming it Bishopsbourne.

In April 2007, then Archbishop Phillip Aspinall sold the Hamilton residence for $11.2 million and moved to a residence in Ascot costing $2.6 million, which has also been renamed Bishopsbourne.

Episcopate

Archbishops of Brisbane

Assistant bishops

The first co-adjutor bishop for the Brisbane diocese was John Francis Stretch, who was consecrated at St Paul's cathedral in Melbourne in November, 1895. Stretch was the first Australian to be made a bishop for ministry in Australia (and his consecration service was only the second occasion that such a service had happened in Australia at that time). Among the previous assistant bishops of the Diocese of Brisbane were: Henry Le Fanu (bishop coadjutor), who became Archbishop of Perth and Primate of Australia; De Witt Batty (coadjutor, 1930–1931); Horace Henry Dixon (consecrated 29 March 1932 at St John's; coadjutor, 1932-1961); John Hudson served as coadjutor bishop from 1961; Ralph Wicks was consecrated 27 July 1973; Adrian Charles and Bruce Schultz were consecrated on 1 March 1983; George Browning was assistant bishop for the Northern Region, 1985–1992, then for the Coastal Region until he became Bishop of Canberra and Goulburn in 1993; John Noble and Ron Williams were consecrated on 29 June 1993 — Noble served the Northern Region until his 2002 election to North Queensland, and Williams served the Southern until 2007; Ray Smith, Archdeacon of the Downs (Raymond Bruce Smith, not Raymond George Smith) was consecrated 1 November 1996 to serve as assistant bishop for the Western Region; Rob Nolan was consecrated bishop on 27 June 2003 and served the Western Region until 2014; and John Parkes who became the Bishop of Wangaratta. Alison Taylor served as Bishop of the Southern Region from 2013 to 2017.

The current assistant bishops are Cameron Venables (Bishop of the Western Region since 2014), Jeremy Greaves (Northern Region since 2017) and John Roundhill (Southern Region since 2018).

Saint John's Cathedral

The Cathedral of Saint John was completed in 2005, after 100 years of construction.

In 2015, a series of statues, costing $45,000 each according to the ABC, were purchased and blessed by Archbishop Aspinall before being installed on the cathedral's facade.

Shortly before this, a storm warped one of the cathedral's walls, causing millions of dollars' worth of damage.

Theological training
Clergy trained in a variety of colleges and seminaries are active in the diocese. Those trained within it attend Saint Francis' Theological College, an affiliate of Charles Sturt University. The principal of the college is Bishop Jonathan Holland.

A motion put to the 2017 synod that would have allowed diocesan ordinands to study at the more evangelical Brisbane School of Theology, a historic "Bible college", was not carried.

Churchmanship
The diocese has a dominant liberal Anglo-Catholic ethos. Religious orders such as the Society of Saint Francis and the Oratory of the Good Shepherd have made Brisbane their Australian base. The Society of the Sacred Advent was also founded in the city.

According to the diocesan handbook, in keeping with the Anglo-Catholic nature of the diocese clergy must always wear a stole over the cassock or alb when celebrating the Eucharist (plain clothes or business suits are not allowed).

Archbishop Phillip Aspinall is a liberal Anglo-Catholic of the Affirming Catholicism school and gave the keynote address at the Australian Church Union's 2006 Keble Mass.

Despite the dominant liberal Anglo-Catholic ethos, there are a handful of low church parishes in a few of Brisbane's southern suburbs, such as Coorparoo. However the diocese's Anglo-Catholic orientation has rarely been questioned.

Lobby groups
The dean of the cathedral, Peter Catt, is the founder of A Progressive Christian Voice and is, according to the Brisbane Times, an advocate for same-sex marriage. He also chairs the diocese's social responsibilities committee.

The Angligreen environmental group is also a significant voice in the diocese.

Issues

Biblical literacy
Archbishop Aspinall observed that "Few Anglicans in Brisbane have any depth of knowledge of the Bible; few read or study the Bible regularly ..."

Transgender priests
Archbishop Aspinall supported English-born Brisbane priest and Saint Francis' lecturer, Josephine Inkpin, when she came out as Australia's first openly-transgender priest. Aspinall's letter indicated he was aware "there are further transgender people involved in our wider diocesan life."  Inkpin's wife, Penny Jones, was one of the first female priests in the United Kingdom. In 2020, Archbishop Aspinall supported another priest, Selina McMahon, in her transition. The State Library of Queensland interviewed Revd Josephine Inkpin and her wife Penny about the intersection of gender, faith, religion and identity for their Dangerous Women podcast.

Same sex marriage
According to the Courier Mail, in 2015 the diocese's social responsibilities committee endorsed same-sex civil unions.

A large number of priests in the diocese publicly support same-sex marriage. In 2022, St. John's Cathedral announced that it would offer blessings for same-sex unions.

Reintegration of convicted child abusers
According to the Courier Mail and Brisbane Times, two convicted child sexual abuser priests attended church, perform lay reader duties and worked in a choir with children at Holy Trinity Church, Fortitude Valley. This led to public outcry. Although defrocked, "they were later allowed to keep reading to the congregation as what's known as a lector." The matter was referred to the diocese's professional standards board.

State-church relationship

Links to the military

According to an academic paper by Jonathan Holland, Archbishop Philip Strong had opposed 13 other bishops from around the country who had spoken out against Australia's involvement in the Vietnam War. Archbishop Strong had argued for National Service and vigorously defended Australia's support of America in Vietnam on the grounds that "Conflict at the right time and in the right place may serve the cause of ultimate world
peace." At the same time, the priest in charge of the Chermside parish sought to dismiss curates who took a Christian pacifist stance.

Links to the legal community
According to the ABC, the diocese has close links to the legal establishment in Brisbane. This has led to public concerns about a serious conflict of interest.

All Saint's Brisbane
A conservative Anglo-Catholic parish, All Saints' Brisbane, joined the Forward in Faith movement in protest over the issue of the ordination of women and the diocese's refusal to provide alternative episcopal oversight. Archbishop Aspinall suspended the priest in charge of the parish, David Chislett, after he was consecrated as a bishop by the Traditional Anglican Communion. In a speech to Federal Parliament, Peter Slipper declared, "I believe that this action by Archbishop Aspinall seriously brings into doubt his moral fitness to be the Anglican Archbishop of Brisbane."

Child sexual abuse
In 2009, the diocese refused to revoke an age limit for child sex abuse claims, retaining the requirement that victims must sue the church before they were 21 years of age. A victim said it showed the church was protecting its money rather than its flock. Another victim stated that "[We] sue the diocese because of the overwhelming evidence that the diocese knew about the abuse and knew about the offenders yet did nothing to stop the abuse nor prevent further abuse."

In 2015, a child abuse survivor who was threatening to sue the diocese, alleged to the Guardian newspaper that Archbishop Aspinall told him that litigation against the church would be sinful. Aspinall again denied the claims.

In 2017, the diocese failed to meet two deadlines to pay another victim the compensation they were due.

At the Royal Commission into Institutional Responses to Child Sexual Abuse in March 2017 it was reported that the Diocese of Brisbane was subject to more complaints than any other Anglican diocese.

In February 2018, a group of former students of the Anglican Church Grammar School called for an independent board to govern the school, saying that they no longer wanted the diocese to control church schools "amid concern about the handling of child sexual abuse cases and its dated school governance practices".

Ecumenism
The diocese has a strong ecumenical relationship with the Roman Catholic Archdiocese of Brisbane.

The Anglican, Roman Catholic and Uniting churches perform some collaborative ministry and the Lutheran Church of Australia has been in discussions with them. However, the diocese only recognises church denominations with an episcopal form of government. In 2002, Aspinall suggested that the Uniting Church in Australia adopt such a form of governance.

Demography
According to a synod paper, between 2011 and 2016, the number of parishioners in the diocese declined by 7%.

See also
Anglicare

References

External links
Official website
Bishops and Archbishops of Brisbane at Anglican Archives

Anglican Church of Australia Ecclesiastical Province of Queensland
1859 establishments in Australia
Religion in Brisbane
Anglo-Catholic churches in Australia


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Agriculture plus Livestock Remain Greenhouse Gas Emissions Major Sources
New Worldwatch Institute study examines the agricultural sector's impact on global greenhouse gas emissions
Washington, D.C.—Global greenhouse gas emissions from the agricultural sector totaled 4.69 billion tons of carbon dioxide (CO2) equivalent in 2010 (the most recent year for which data are available), an increase of 13 percent over 1990 emissions. By comparison, global carbon dioxide emissions from transport totaled 6.76 billion tons that year, and emissions from electricity and heat production reached 12.48 billion tons, according to Worldwatch Institute's Vital Signs Online service (www.worldwatch.org).
Growth in agricultural production between 1990 and 2010 outpaced growth in emissions by a factor of 1.6, demonstrating increased energy efficiency in the agriculture sector.
The three most common gases emitted in agriculture are nitrous oxide, CO2, and methane. Methane is generally produced when organic materials—-such as crops, livestock feed, or manure—-decompose anaerobically (without oxygen). Methane accounts for around 50 percent of total agricultural emissions. Enteric fermentation—-the digestion of organic materials by livestock—-is the largest source of methane emissions and of agricultural emissions overall.
Nitrous oxide is a by-product generated by the microbial breakdown of nitrogen in soils and manures. Nitrous oxide production is particularly high in cases where the nitrogen available in soils exceeds that required by plants to grow, which often occurs when nitrogen-rich synthetic fertilizers are applied. Nitrous oxide is responsible for around 36 percent of agricultural greenhouse gas emissions.
Finally, carbon dioxide is released from soils when organic matter decomposes aerobically (with oxygen). The largest source of CO2 emissions within agriculture is the drainage and cultivation of "organic soils"—-soils in wetlands, peatlands, bogs, or fens with high organic material. When these areas are drained for cultivation, organic matter within the soil decomposes at a rapid rate, releasing CO2. This process accounts for around 14 percent of total agricultural greenhouse gas emissions.
Emissions from enteric fermentation rose by 7.6 percent worldwide between 1990 and 2010, but regional variation was high. At 51.4 percent and 28.1 percent, respectively, Africa and Asia saw their emissions increase, while emissions in Europe and Oceania fell by 48.1 percent and 16.1 percent. Europe's significant reduction in emissions parallels the decline in its beef production between 1990 and 2010, but it may also reflect increased use of grains and oils in cattle feed instead of grasses.
"Adding oils or oilseeds to feed can help with digestion and reduce methane emissions. But a shift from a grass-based to a grain- and oilseeds-based diet often accompanies a shift from pastures to concentrated feedlots, which has a range of negative consequences such as water pollution and high fossil fuel consumption," said Laura Reynolds, Worldwatch Food and Agriculture Researcher and the study's author. "Aside from reducing livestock populations, there is no other clear pathway to climate-friendly meat production from livestock."
Manure that is deposited and left on pastures contributes to global nitrous oxide emissions because of its high nitrogen content. When more nitrogen is added to soil than is needed, soil bacteria convert the extra nitrogen into nitrous oxide and emit it into the atmosphere—-a process called nitrification. Emissions from manure on pasture were highest in Asia, Africa, and South America, accounting for a combined 81 percent of global emissions from this source.
These data indicate the huge share of global emissions that is attributable to livestock production. While reducing livestock populations is one way to reduce global emissions from agriculture, farmers and landowners have numerous other opportunities for mitigation, many of which offer environmental and even economic co-benefits. For instance, growing trees and woody perennials on land can sequester carbon while simultaneously helping to restore soils, reduce water contamination, and provide beneficial wildlife habitat. Reducing soil tillage can rebuild soils while lowering greenhouse gas emissions. Some practices can even result in increased income for farmers—-"cap-and-trade" programs allow farmers to monetize certain sequestration practices and sell them, while government programs like the U.S. Conservation Reserve Program pay farmers to set aside some of their land for long-term restoration.
Further highlights from the report:
Enteric fermentation accounted for 29 percent of emissions in both North America and Asia in 2010—-the lowest share of all regions—-but was the source of 61 percent of South America's agricultural emissions, reflecting that continent's world leadership in cattle production.
Rice cultivation was responsible for 17 percent of Asia's total emissions in 2010 but no more than 3 percent of emissions in every other region—-indicating Asia's dominance of global rice output.
Four out of the top five countries with the highest emissions from cultivated organic soils were in Asia: Indonesia contributed 278.7 million tons of carbon dioxide from this source, Papua New Guinea 40.8 million tons, Malaysia 34.5 million tons, and Bangladesh 30.6 million tons—-indicating the levels of deforestation and clearing for agricultural land.
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Yokohama signs deal with Idiada
TOKYO (Jan. 21, 2008) — Yokohama Rubber Co. Ltd. said it will be given preferential usage rights to Idiada Automotive Technology S.A.´s new test track, scheduled start operation in April.
Yokohama hopes the 15-year contract with the Spanish engineering firm will achieve better evaluation performance and faster tire development for European markets by securing a test track that can be used to evaluate tires even in winter.
Idiada´s main technical center, 40 miles southwest of Barcelona, includes a comprehensive proving ground equipped with 11 different test tracks for high-speed, fatigue, braking, handling, dynamics and off-road driving.
The contract signed by Yokohama Rubber covers the preferential usage of a wet handling track to be built within the proving ground with partial straight and circling tracks for hydroplaning tests. The tire maker plans to use the track mainly to evaluate tire compounds and tread patterns.


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The island has a long history. It takes its name from Zakynthus the son of the king of Phrygia Dardanus. Zakynthus came from the city of Psophis in Arcadia, where his brothers reigned, to colonize the island. He built an acropolis, probably at the location where the Venetian castle is today, which he named Psophida. According to Pausanias and Thucydides this happened around 1500 BC. It is believed that Zakynthos was part of the Odysseus kingdom of Ithaka. The islanders worshiped Apollo and Artemis. During the Peloponnesian War Zakynthos was a member of the Athenian alliance until it was conquered by the Spartans.
During Roman times Zakynthos had some autonomy and prospered but in the late Roman period it was frequently raided by pirates, Goths, Vandals and Arabs and its fortunes declined. Later it became part of the Byzantine Empire. During the Crusades it was overtaken by the Franks and in 1185 the Palatine County of Cephalonia and Zante was found, which survived for three centuries under the Orsini Family. In 1479 it was occupied by the Ottomans who held it until 1485 when they were replaced by the Venetians.
The Venetians dominated the island until 1797 when the post revolution French took over the island and proclaimed it republic. This state of affairs did not last more than 15 months. In 1800 the two powers decided to establish an independent state under the name "The Septinsular Republic" under the supervision of Russia and Turkey, the first Modern Greek state. In 1807 France reconquered the island to be succeeded two years later by the British who held the island ("The United States of the Ionian Islands") until 1864 then it became part of Modern Greece.
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The Politics of Small Things The Power of the Powerless in Dark Times by Jeffrey C. Goldfarb
02 January, 2017 David Efendi
Isolated men [sic] are powerless by definition.
For many people in America and elsewhere around the world, these appear to be gloomy days indeed. Whether it's the unease of life under corporate globalism, the ever-lurking fear of terrorist attack, or dread of the repressive impulses of all manners of fundamentalism, there doesn't seem to be much the average person can do to effect change in the larger scheme of things. Sociologist Jeffrey C. Goldfarb offers a way out of the seeming abyss with his new book The Politics of Small Things: The Power of the Powerless in Dark Times. The book takes its title from Arundhati Roy's novel, The God of Small Things, about an untouchable in a small town in postcolonial India. And like Roy's hero, who defies caste boundaries not so much to challenge the system as to simply live his life, Goldfarb's models are those who strive "to create small zones of independence and dignity."
Goldfarb is on the faculty of the New School for Social Research in New York City, where he is an authority on the connection between culture and politics, especially as it has played out since the late 1960s in Eastern Europe. In the 1980s, he reported for The New York Times and Christian Science Monitor on the trials of Adam Michnik and other Communist dissidents. During that time, he also led forums on democratic theory in Warsaw and Budapest, many of which were held in secret. In 2005, he was awarded a medal in recognition of his 30-year involvement with the Polish democratic movement presented to him by Solidarity president Lech Welesa. This latest book ties together signal moments of his research seen in light of current events.
For Goldfarb, episodes from the late 1960s and into the 1980s are examples of what Czech poet and statesman Vaclav Havel terms "living in truth," i.e., casting off ideological blinders in favor of genuine face-to-face interaction. The buds of self-determination are abloom in the 1968 revolt of Warsaw University students against the Polish Culture Ministry in presenting the anti-Russian play Dziady (Forefather's Eve) even as Soviet tanks rolled into Czechoslovakia during the Prague Spring repressions then taking place. The patronage of unofficial literary salons and underground bookstores in Poland and elsewhere under Communist rule illustrates the notion that acting as if one lived in a free society is a precursor for actually doing so, which subsequently came to pass as Eastern Europe emerged from the rubble of the 1989 collapse of Soviet Union. In each case, interpersonal relations constitute first conditions for bringing freedom and justice into being. Creating a public sphere that isn't stage-managed is necessary to deciding and acting upon matters of common concern in a true democracy.
The mandate of living in truth poses a significant challenge to America in the wake of 11 September 2001. And Goldfarb takes pains to untangle himself from the recent ideological posturing of both the right and the left so as to not confuse fundamental democratic principles with simpleminded Americanism or its sometimes equally crude critique. What's more, he rejects totalitarian thinking of all stripes to which the debate on the so-called war on terror has too often been susceptible. In this regard, he's an heir to the legacy of Cold War liberalism.
Coming out of the Second World War, "totalitarianism" became the watchword for liberals to describe the threat posed to personal freedom by both the fascism that had just been defeated and the Soviet Communism that had ostensibly arisen to take its place. The concept is notably developed by philosopher Hannah Arendt in her study The Origins of Totalitarianism, first published in 1951. And it's not surprising that Arendt (for years, a New School professor) figures prominently in Goldfarb's book.
Where many liberals of the period, including Arendt, ponder the existential plight of the "authentic" individual in the face of the "group think" of mass society, Goldfarb examines the day-to-day connections between people that help them escape isolation, loneliness and despair, the very things Arendt identifies as seeds of the terror that totalitarianism reaps. The ability to convert personal connections into political action has heightened potential with the advent of global communication tools such as the Internet, thereby counteracting present-day totalitarian impulses. And for Goldfarb, peer-to-peer networking isn't just about sharing opinions (though that's certainly important); it's about having a mechanism for achieving egalitarian political ends.
The clearest example is the 2004 presidential campaign of Howard Dean. And although Dean wasn't nominated, his candidacy did change the frame of the debate not to mention provide a new model for mobilizing constituencies. The continued influence of online independent media sources like Alternet and grassroots organizations like MoveOn.org further enables communities of interest and, more importantly, action to develop across divisions of geography, political jurisdiction and economic strata. And if there's a place to question Goldfarb, it's in that last area, which is to say, his tendency to want to set aside the influence of economic power in the political sphere.
It isn't that Goldfarb is unaware of economics, it's just that he's assiduously trying to steer clear of it because it's been so fundamental to the "totalized thinking" of the dominant ideologies of modernity (i.e., the socialist planned economy on the one hand and free-market capitalism on the other). This too is in some sense a liberal legacy. For as Yochai Benkler, in his new book The Wealth of Networks: How Social Production is Remaking Markets and Freedom, writes: "liberals leave property and markets to libertarians."
Arendt, for example, explicitly excludes economics (which she categorizes under "the social") from the political sphere, a distinction reaffirmed by other postwar thinkers on democratic liberalism such as Jurgen Habermas. But as Benkler notes, this ignores the concurrent, and some would say codependent, development of markets and democracy in modern experience. The bigger problem is that libertarians tend to emphasize the private individual as a rational actor in an impersonal process of exchange, relegating culture and politics to pure market functions and undermining concepts of the social upon which Goldfarb's network of "small things" depends. A corrective is offered by fellow New School social theorist Nancy Fraser who sees economic and political equality as necessarily intertwined.
The Politics of Small Things is a modest book—the main text runs less than 150 pages. But it's long enough to make the case that the phrase "reach out and touch someone" is more than some derelict advertising slogan. Not a revolutionary idea perhaps, but certainly the place to start in terms of living in truth.
by Vince Carducci, Dean of Undergraduate Studies at College for Creative Studies, a private art and design school in Detroit. Follow him on Twitter @cultrindustreez.


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"The nomenclature (designation) adopted by me is that of H. P. Blavatsky. In the valuable paper by Mrs. Sinnett and Mr. Scott-Elliot on the Lunar Pitris, H. P. B's "Lower Dhyanis", that incarnate in the third and fourth rounds, are taken as the first and second classes of Lunar Pitris; their third class is therefore H. P. B's first class, their fourth class her second, and so on.
There is no difference in the statement of facts, only in nomenclature, but this difference of nomenclature may mislead the student if it be not explained.


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Commons: 28 June 1977
Volume 934: debated on Tuesday 28 June 1977
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Mr. Wm. Ross
asked the Secretary of State for Northern Ireland (1) what was the target set in "Food From Our Own Resources" for farm income, gross and net, for Northern Ireland; and what has been the actual outturn to date;(2) what were the targets of numbers of each class of livestock set for Northern Ireland in "Food From Our Own Resources"; and what have been the actual figures to the latest available date;(3) what were the targets for potatoes, cereals, eggs, poultry, meat, milk, beef and fat sheep production set out in "Food From Our Own Resources" for Northern Ireland for each year since the paper was published; and what was the actual production and estimated production until the end of 1977.
Mr. Dunn
"Food From Our Own Resources" was a comprehensive exercise covering the United Kingdom as a whole and no regional projections were made.