...That said some of the issues people have been getting (books not closing) I think its a bug as I checked those books and they are fine etc.
You may be right. At a glance I can't see anything wrong and there are no console errors or warnings about xdata.
but there are only 2 pages of actual text. Yet page 3 is there but empty quotes. That ought to work and just give a blank page. Well, it does show a blank page but it ought not to scroll off the end but that may be the bug. So if you try setting the num_pages to 2 or even put a full stop on the blank page 3, it will probably fix that one. I assume the others are the same.
or even put a full stop on the blank page 3.
Did I tell you about reducing thinking time? It's simple to do and certain to improve performance. I can't remember if I told you because I've posted it so many times in different places. If not I'll give you details.
Did I tell you about reducing thinking time?
Cant remember Fids, so give it me again..
If you run the FM and enter in the console: killmonsters then all AI are removed and you see a big improvement in fps. But of course you have no AI. So instead we slow down their processing (thinking at a distance.) This already happens by default but we slow it down more. You don't see any difference when they are near and they continue to patrol at normal speed at a distance anyway.
Is there any way to open the metal door in the sewers close to workshop?
Look in the corner that the stairs to the sewer door lead to. There are some crates etc. and a shiney mushroom, iirc. Still, your first target should be the workshop. It's pretty obvious once you enter it.
on the right side behind that door (with red palm print on the wall).
. Sorry, you need to take the long route through the workshop.
Oh, that's the door to the hideout! Thanks. I already was on the opposite side but I couldn't get through.
It can be possible move with the simple pression of the candle a person in the tavern!
Edited by lowenz, 17 January 2010 - 08:30 PM.
Bug found!, It can be possible move with the simple pression of the candle a person in the tavern!
Yeah I saw that, very amusing..
I could finally play this mission to the end (missing 178 loot). Although the area was small, I liked how you let the player approach some of the places from multiple directions.; that's always a plus. Some more care with readables would go a long way, and the player shadow wasn't a very good idea, but otherwise, I must reiterate what I wrote on the first page - for a "five weeks in level editing" experience, this is mighty impressive. The brief underwater segment, in particular, was an example of good lighting, and I liked the hotel - it somehow felt real with the ramshackle and cramped interiors and steep stairs.
I must reiterate what I wrote on the first page - for a "five weeks in level editing" experience, this is mighty impressive. The brief underwater segment, in particular, was an example of good lighting, and I liked the hotel - it somehow felt real with the ramshackle and cramped interiors and steep stairs.
Really? the water bit I think was one of the first things I did and even then I just did it the way i would expect it to look if I was actually in an underground cistern etc :-D ... A few people have mentioned that unlike other tdm mission's the water in my mission didn't suffer from the usual slowdown/fps lag - is it because mine was under ground..? The hotel took me several hour to do and originally was just a copy of one of the building facades, but as so many people have licked it, I will extract it from the mission and clean it up so it can be released as a prefab..
Edited by Bikerdude, 19 January 2010 - 07:54 PM.
"underground" is just a concept and the water is the same. The only difference might be if there is no water surface but as I recall there is in this because I kept surfacing for air. Perhaps it's the actual surface texture used.
btw, I've never seen underwater lag in any FM so surely it's a system problem. The surface can be turned off in one of the menu settings but of course then you can't see there's any water unless there is an extra static translucent skin.
A very nice mission with glowing mushrooms, ticking clocks and the reflection in the mirror but where's the cat ? I was looking for a frog in the pond of the garden.
Edited by id3839315, 20 January 2010 - 01:22 PM.
The mission left the playershadow option ON, no matter what mission i load, whats the console command for turning that off?
ps:I liked the tavern a lot:) felt like another game, not having to hide from people in a well-lit place.
Ok atm I can extract it without the doors, because Im still learning I dont how how to extract prefabs with multiple origins, and when you spin the prefab all that happejns is all the origins get sent all over the place.
But someone has suggested layers and this maybe a way to 'lock the prefab down' - watch this space.


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'Fly Away With Books' a New Series of Creative Workshops for Children just Launched
New York, June 12, 2019—The Cultural Services of the French Embassy launches Fly Away with Books, a four-day festival that aims to (re)introduce children of all backgrounds to the unique pleasures of reading. From July 11th to July 14th, renowned French illustrators and authors Lucie Brunellière, Marie-Laure Cruschi (aka Cruschiform ), Anouck Boisrobert, and Louis Rigaud will conduct playful and imaginative workshops in venues throughout New York City, from Inwood to Dumbo. Organized in partnership with the New York Public Library, Albertine Books, the Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy's Environmental Education Center and the French Institute Alliance Française (FIAF), the festival will be entirely free and open to both French and English-speaking children from 4 to 10 years old. http://frenchculture.org/events/10006-fly-away-books.
"As the world becomes more and more centered around technology," says Bénédicte de Montlaur, Cultural Counselor of the French Embassy to the United States, "Fly Away with Books strives to give new generations the opportunity to reconnect with books outside of the school context and explore the extraordinary resources they hold. From crafts and games to group story hour, this series of workshops will give children across New York City the opportunity to let their imaginations run wild."
Thursday, July 11 (1pm-3pm)
Location: Tompkins Square Library (NYPL's branch), East Village, Manhattan (31 E 10th St, New York, NY, 10009)
- Corals with Lucie Brunellière
- Colorama Memory with Cruschiform
- Garden Pop-Up with Anouck Boisrobert or Louis Rigaud
Friday, July 12 (2pm-4pm)
Location: Inwood Library (NYPL's branch), Inwood, Manhattan (4790 Broadway, New York, NY, 10034)
- Animal Geometry with Lucie Brunellière
- Atlas – A Geographic Color Chart with Cruschiform
Saturday, July 13 (11am–5pm)
Morning (11am–1pm)
Location: Albertine Bookstore, Upper East Side, Manhattan (972 Fifth Ave, New York, NY, 10075)
Location: Brooklyn Bridge Park Conservancy's Environmental Education Center, Dumbo, Brooklyn (99 Plymouth St, Brooklyn, NY, 11201)
- Storytime, featuring the books of the authors
This event will feature an Albertine Books pop-up shop offering a selection of children's in French and English books for purchase.
Sunday, July 14 (1pm-4pm)
Events on this day will be conducted as part of the annual 'Bastille Day' event organized by the FIAF (French Institute Alliance Française).
Location: 60th Street between Park Avenue and Fifth Avenue, Manhattan
- 1pm: Animal Geometry with Lucie Brunellière
- 2pm: Full Speed Ahead with Cruschiform
- 3pm: Garden Pop-Up with Anouck Boisrobert or Louis Rigaud
These events are part of Kids Trail, a program of the Cultural Services of the French Embassy and FACE Foundation.
Designed as a yearlong artistic journey, Kids Trail offers children and adults the opportunity to explore French arts and culture through a variety of disciplines: cinema, theater, design, dance, visual arts, philosophy, music and literature.
Anouck Boisrobert and Louis Rigaud
Anouck Boisrobert and Louis Rigaud form an author-illustrator creative duo of pop-up books, stimulating the imaginations of the young and old alike. Together, they have written 10 books, 4 of which have been translated in English. Their work Oh ! Mon chapeau (Oh, my Hat!) was rewarded in 2018 at the Fair of Bologna, where it won the Bologna Ragazzi Award.
Lucie Brunellière
Lucie Brunellière is a graphic artist and illustrator specializing in children's illustration. She studied visual communication in Paris and design in Strasbourg before putting her talents to the service of press publications for kids. Today, Brunellière devotes herself to the creation of albums for children.
Cruschiform
The work of Marie-Laure Cruschi (alias Cruschiform) lies at the intersection of art, graphic design, illustration and typography. Sensitive to color and geometric modular designs, she enjoys experimenting with various graphic devices in playful, poetic and sometimes didactic ways, creating narrative universes that are perpetually in renewal.
Camille Desprez, Cultural Services of the French Embassy, camille.desprez@diplomatie.gouv.fr, +1.212.439.1417
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judith.walker@diplomatie.gouv.fr
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Colette Browne: 'Corbyn's not up to the job of halting the Brexit death spiral consuming both Labour and Tories alike'
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With the Tories fighting like rats in a sack over how to deliver Brexit, what the British people need is a political Pied Piper to chase them from government. Regrettably, what they are stuck with is a tone-deaf Jeremy Corbyn who prefers to stick his foot, and not a pipe, in his gob.
British politics is undergoing one of its biggest crises in generations but, instead of heroically rising to the occasion, its politicians are undergoing a collective meltdown.
Relations between different factions of the Tory party are so poisonous that last week two of its MPs, Brexiteer Andrew Bridgen and Theresa May loyalist James Cleverly, refused to stand beside each other during an interview.
They loathe each other so much they can't even share the same oxygen. There are toddlers in preschools all over the country who comport themselves with more dignity and decorum during playground spats.
As the Tories continue to scrap and brawl, having lost any semblance of reason and rationality, it is long past time the opposition stepped in to save the country from their bickering and indecision.
But, look across the chamber in the House of Commons and what you see is a Labour Party that is equally riven with rancour and led by a man so plodding and inarticulate that he has been unable to land a single punch on an almost fatally wounded prime minister.
The Labour Party has been invisible throughout this Brexit debacle – arguably, the biggest threat to Britain's economy and democracy since World War II. Other than a few notable rebels, the party has added almost nothing to the debate and has no ideas on how to extricate the country from the quicksand it is submerging into.
The strategy of the Labour Party, as far as there is one, seems to be to sit back and watch the Tories eat themselves – and then, when they are done gorging and no one is left standing, to take over.
The only problem with this is that the Tories are also devouring the country's prospects and prosperity in their internecine war.
Already, Brexit is costing the British people £500m (€556m) a week, with the economy estimated to be up to 2.5pc smaller than it would have been if the referendum result had been different.
Yesterday, we heard the UK government was finally pulling the trigger on its no-deal planning by splashing £2bn in contingency funding among different departments.
A large chunk of this money is being spent, according to Health Secretary Matt Hancock, by his department – not on the NHS or on homecare for elderly people, but on fridges.
The UK's department of health is now the largest buyer of fridges in the world because they are urgently needed to stockpile medicines in the event of a no-deal calamity.
While cash is being spent with wild abandon on the folly that is Brexit, the UK is currently dealing with the biggest homelessness and housing crisis in its history.
There are at least 320,000 homeless people in Britain, including a staggering 170,000 in London alone. What do these people think about hundreds of thousands of pounds being spent on fridges instead of houses?
This is madness. Utter madness – and the Tories deserve to be hounded from office for at least 10 decades for overseeing this self-inflicted catastrophe.
But, compounding this tragedy, there is nobody in a leadership position within the Labour Party who is willing to shout that the emperor has no clothes – that Brexit is a disaster that will deliver only chaos and poverty.
On Monday, in the House of Commons, Mr Corbyn put in one of his more woeful appearances when he finally decided enough was enough – and opted to put down a motion of no confidence in Theresa May instead of the government.
He couldn't even get that right, as the government had the power to refuse to give time to his motion, which it duly did.
So, his bold move ended up being another damp squib, resulting in egg being sprayed all over his face and Theresa May emerging unblemished.
Now deceased Labour MP Denis Healey famously quipped that debating with Tory MP Geoffrey Howe was like "being savaged by a dead sheep". Mr Corbyn's embarrassingly awful oratorical skills don't even reach that 'dead sheep' threshold.
The perceived wisdom is that Mr Corbyn has been unable to take a definitive stance on Brexit because there are many Labour strongholds, especially in the north of the country, where large majorities voted for Brexit.
But how can Labour expect to change anyone's mind if the party is not willing to be honest, about the dangers that Brexit poses, with those who support it?
Instead of telling Labour-voting Brexiteers that leaving the EU will make them poorer – to the tune of between £100bn to £140bn over the next 10 years – the party leadership is still propagating delusions of achieving a "Lexit", a socialist Brexit, in which Corbynites sock it to the neoliberals running Europe and create a leftist nirvana.
Of course, absent from this rose-tinted analysis is any explanation of where Mr Corbyn will find the billions he wants to inject into services, infrastructure and housing when everything has been gobbled up by the insatiable money-monster that is Brexit.
In recent interviews, Mr Corbyn has insisted that if he were prime minister he would be able to march over to Brussels and demand a better deal than the one Mrs May managed to negotiate – one in which Britain was able to retain all of the benefits of EU membership and jettison all of the responsibilities, like free movement.
And he would do all of this before the March 29 deadline.
Clearly, this is a complete fantasy – but being unhinged from reality is now the norm, and not the exception, in British politics.
Depressingly, free movement, in which UK citizens have the right to live and work wherever they want in the EU, is still being depicted by those on the left in the Labour Party as a burden and not a benefit of EU membership.
While people like Jacob Rees-Mogg and Mr Corbyn desire Brexit for different reasons, it should alarm members of the Labour Party that they are on the same side of the argument as an aristocratic disaster capitalist.
With just three months left to go before Britain crashes out of the EU, real leadership is required to halt the death spiral that Labour and the Tories are both trapped in.
There is nothing to suggest Mr Corbyn can deliver it.
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Football: FA, Boris Johnson blast racist abuse of players after England's Euro 2020 final loss
England's players watch the penalty shootout at the Wembley Stadium in London, on July 11, 2021. PHOTO: REUTERS
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LONDON (REUTERS) - England's Football Association (FA) released a statement in the early hours of Monday (July 12) morning, condemning the online racist abuse of players following the team's penalty shoot-out loss to Italy in the Euro 2020 final on Sunday.
The sides drew 1-1 after extra time and Italy won the shootout 3-2, with England players Marcus Rashford, Jadon Sancho and Bukayo Saka, who are all black, missing spot-kicks.
"The FA strongly condemns all forms of discrimination and is appalled by the online racism that has been aimed at some of our England players on social media," the statement said.
"We could not be clearer that anyone behind such disgusting behaviour is not welcome in following the team. We will do all we can to support the players affected while urging the toughest punishments possible for anyone responsible."
British Prime Minister Boris Johnson said the team, who reached the European Championship final for the first time, deserved to be lauded as heroes and not racially abused on social media.
"Those responsible for this appalling abuse should be ashamed of themselves," he tweeted.
The England team also released a statement condemning the abuse directed at its players on social media.
"We're disgusted that some of our squad - who have given everything for the shirt this summer - have been subjected to discriminatory abuse online after tonight's game," the team tweeted.
Twitter said it had removed more than 1,000 tweets and permanently suspended a number of accounts following the "abhorrent" racist abuse directed at England players.
"In the past 24 hours, through a combination of machine learning-based automation and human review, we have swiftly removed over 1,000 tweets and permanently suspended a number of accounts for violating our rules," a spokesman said.
"We will continue to take action when we identify any tweets or accounts that violate our policies.
"We have proactively engaged and continue to collaborate with our partners across the football community to identify ways to tackle this issue collectively and will continue to play our part in curbing this unacceptable behaviour - both online and offline."
Former England defender Rio Ferdinand said it is a "disgrace" for anyone to receive such online hate.
"Immediately after the game social media platforms became the toxic and racist safe place for the ignorant and cowardly rats to start spouting their disgusting feelings," he tweeted .
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British police said they would investigate the posts.
"We are aware of a number of offensive and racist social media comments being directed towards footballers following the #Euro2020 final," the Metropolitan Police tweeted.
"This abuse is totally unacceptable, it will not be tolerated and it will be investigated."
Arsenal sent a message of support to their winger Saka, while Rashford was backed by his club Manchester United.
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"Football can be so cruel. But for your personality ... your character ... your bravery ... We'll always be proud of you. And we can't wait to have you back with us," Arsenal tweeted.
United said they looked forward to welcoming Rashford home, adding: "One kick won't define you as a player or person."
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(p.135) 9 Positive Obligations and Criminal Justice: Duties to Protect or Coerce?
This chapter explores the relationship between criminal law, criminal process, and human rights from a slightly different perspective. It seeks to demonstrate that while human rights may well be used to limit the excesses of security and law and order politics, the nature of the relationship between human rights and criminal justice cannot be captured alone by the view of rights as a limit on the coercive reach of the criminal law and criminal justice institutions. The chapter is organized as follows. It starts by outlining key areas where positive rights claims have shaped the criminal law and criminal justice process. It then examines the relationship between positive rights and coercion, and critiques the language used to frame certain positive duties. Finally, the right to security is used as a case study through which to demonstrate the concerns raised by the development of coercive duties.


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To start, SEO is important more than ever as most businesses, bloggers, vloggers etc are all competing with one another. Search engines like Google and Bing are working non-stop serving millions of search results to millions of people every day. These people are looking for products, services, answers to questions, tutorials, you name it, its being searched.
When people use search engines to find what they are looking for, they are choosing the top 5 results that are displayed to them. This means, the first page and first 5 links available. Also, most users are likely only going as far as page 5 before they make another search query. So getting on the first page is ideal, but also within the first 5 pages is mandatory if you want to be seen.
Based off the first bullet above, more people feel sites that are listed on the first page have more authority and are more trustworthy than those that are not.
SEO websites also get more attention on a social aspect as people who run searches that find you will most likely share your page within their social networks such as Twitter, Instagram and Facebook.
SEO sites will benefit those who are in competition selling the same product and/or service. Whoever has the better optimized site will reign king within their industry.
If you are new to the topic of Search Engine Optimization, then a lot of this may sound a little difficult. It's not something one can pick up right away and get on the first page of Google or Bing. It takes time, lots of it and a lot of practice to see what works and what does not work.
When someone performs a search on a Google, Bing or any other search engine, the order that the searches back back in are based on very complex algorithms that change on a constant basis. They are always changing to not only give you better results, but to also defeat black hat tactics, which are techniques used to abuse the search algorithms, giving others unfair advantages. Note, if you participate in black hat techniques, you will most likely get your website blacklisted.
When you look deep into SEO, it can be broken down to 2 forms that need to work with one another. The general term for these forms are Onsite SEO and Offsite SEO. Let's take a look at what Onsite SEO is and how you will need to use it.
Onsite SEO refers to the optimizations you make to your website itself. Things such as page titles and descriptions, permanent link structures, breadcrumbs etc. Little things such as these can help boost your rankings in search results. Below are some of the most important tweaks you can make to get the process going on making your site SEO.
Using H tags for titles such as H1, H2, H3 etc.
Content will always be king, no matter what. So fill up your site with good content.
Update with fresh content. Always add to your site, don't build and leave it alone. Search engines want new content.
Backlinks (Link Building) with other authoritative websites.
Offsite SEO is extremely important because engines like Google and Bing use their algorithms to locate links to your site from authoritative sites. The more authoritative the site, the better ranking you will get. Just remember though, it takes a good number of backlinks before you see any significant change in search rankings. The goal for offsite SEO is to build relationships with social media influencers, get mentions, backlinks and shout outs as much as possible to make your place within your industry.
Both Onsite and Offsite SEO are very important and both must be done for you to have a successful SEO campaign and to get ranked on the major search engines. One will not work without the other if you want full blown results.
In the past, all it took was some keywords on your site and a ton of backlinks, but now-a-days, it takes much more than that. Its not about a ton of backlinks, but a good amount of QUALITY backlinks and a highly optimized, fast website. This is the ONLY way to get ranked within the 1st to 5th pages on the major search engines. Good luck and happy optimizing!
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Its namesake is an old-school wonton house in Hong Kong, where only VIP customers order off-menu and grumpy waiters speed you through your meal with hyper-efficiency. Luckily, this unrelated Richmond resto takes a more democratic approach. Served in small, Hong Kong portions, the noodles have a toothsome bite and the broth is deep and clear. Start off with the gold-standard wonton and noodles in soup, and decide on your second plate as you finish your firstÑwe recommend beef brisket lo mein: tender brisket braised with star anise, nestled in noodles. Add a dish of steamed gailan with oyster sauce to round out your meal.


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Federal, state officials to visit Stephens Memorial Hospital in support of maternity care in rural communities
Contact: Abbie Graiver, Stephens Memorial Hospital
207-890-9819 / abbie.graiver@mainehealth.org
With rural services for expectant mothers in Maine at a critical juncture, the administrator of the federal Health Resources and Services Administration will speak, along with state officials and health care providers at a press conference set for 1:15 p.m. on Monday, Aug. 29.
Portland, Maine – The administrator of the Health Resources and Services Administration (HRSA), an agency of the U.S. Department of Health and Human Services (HHS), will visit Stephens Memorial Hospital on Monday, a MaineHealth critical access facility. She will highlight HRSA-supported programs that expand access to obstetrics and maternal care, as well as other vital services, in rural and underserved communities, and will announce new federal funding that will strengthen maternal health care in Maine and surrounding areas.
HRSA Administrator Carole Johnson will be joined by Maine Department of Health and Human Services Commissioner Jeanne Lambrew and other officials and clinicians working with HRSA to support the agency's efforts to help reduce disparities in birth outcomes, expand and diversify the health care workforce and increase access to obstetrics care for underserved rural mothers.
The administrator's visit comes at a critical time for rural maternity services in Maine. The event will highlight efforts to serve the needs of expectant mothers, including a mobile unit used by MaineHealth providers to deliver care in hard to serve communities in the state.
Where: Stephens Memorial Hospital, 181 Main St., Norway, Maine.
When: Monday, Aug. 29, 1:15 p.m.
Who: HRSA Administrator Carole Johnson will be joined by Maine Department of Health and Human Services Commissioner Jeanne Lambrew and other officials and clinicians supporting rural maternity care.
MaineHealth Awarded $1.2 Million Federal Grant for Statewide Overdose Prevention
Project DHARMA is a collaboration between MaineHealth and several other organizations across the state to prevent overdoses and infections through harm reduction programs.
Stephens Memorial Hospital to Host Access to Care Open House on June 29th
Stephens Memorial Hospital will hold an open house to celebrate MaineHealth's Access to Care program, which for 20 years has connected our community's most vulnerable populations to affordable health insurance and free and low cost health care and medications.
Emotional Message by MMC ICU Nurses Earns MaineHealth Videographer a Regional Emmy® Award
Videographer Charlie Berg won in the category of health/medical-short form content for the story entitled, 'Inside View of Maine Medical Center ICU Nurses Caring for Unvaccinated COVID-19 Patients.'
MaineHealth, agilon health agree to form partnership supporting primary care for Medicare Advantage patients
The organizations plan to enter a long-term partnership that will enable a greater investment in value-based models of care, emphasizing preventive services and chronic care management for MaineHealth's senior patients.
MaineHealth Named One of America's Best Large Employers by Forbes
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"Follow your heart." In pop culture -- especially in romantic comedies -- it's presented as the ultimate wisdom, the ultimate goal. And then the words "my heart's just not in it" are the ultimate conversation-ender, the big 'STOP' sign for any course of action. There's a certain kind of wisdom to that line of thinking, too. As Paul writes in Galatians 5, the fruit of the Spirit includes love, joy, and peace, as well as patience, kindness, goodness, faithfulness, gentleness, and self-control, and if those things aren't present over time in a course of action that we've chosen, that's a pretty good indication that the Spirit may be calling us in a different direction. That's why Frederick Buechner defines vocation -- the direction God calls us -- as the place where our deep joys and the world's deep needs meet.
But sometimes when we say things like "my heart's not in it," what we're saying is something like "my heart's torn" between multiple and conflicting desires. I want to be a good provider for my family, so I work hard and long at my job -- but I also want my family to have quality time together. I want to invest more time and energy in deepening my relationship with God, but at the end of a long day, I just want to turn on the television and order out for pizza. I want to feel closer to other people, but I want not to risk being hurt. So I have a hard time deciding to pass up on that assignment that would help me dazzle my boss. I have a hard time deciding to cut back on other activities and look for some support around church to take up some in-depth Bible study, or to deepen my prayer life. I have a hard time disrupting a routine that feels safe to try something new, like signing up for <i>Connect?</i>. I have a hard time deciding to do those things because with these conflicting desires, I can't do them wholeheartedly.
So that's pretty much it, right? If my heart's not in it to begin with, I'll probably just be miserable if I try to do it. Better just to do what I'm comfortable with now. After all, there's nothing I can do about it if that's how I feel … right?
Today's gospel tells us that there IS something we can do about that, and in the process it points to one of the best and least-discussed reasons for us to exercise stewardship of our money, our time, and our energy the way Jesus does -- with generosity that goes far beyond the bounds of what American culture would tend to see as sensible.
Jesus answers the question, "what can I do if my heart's just not in it?" with his saying, "where your treasure is, there your heart will be." That saying is often misquoted as or misinterpreted to mean the same thing as, "where your heart is, there your treasure will be," but that's not what Jesus says. Let me put it this way: Jesus says that our hearts follow after our treasure like a dog runs after a stick. How we spend our money determines where our heart will be -- what kind of a person we'll be.
In other words, our stewardship is a means of our formation. We have (and should have) a strong self-interest in treating possessions as Jesus teaches us here -- holding them loosely, selling them to take care of the needs of the poor, being generous toward others as God is generous -- because doing so is the best way, if not the only way, to experience that it is God's good pleasure to give the kingdom.
repeatedly through Luke's gospel, though, that strategy isn't wise, at least according to God's wisdom.
innumerable things in the world that we can't control, no matter how much money we've got. If we wait to be generous until we feel we can afford it, we might wait forever in fear.
The flip side of that, though, is that when we can let go of these things that we've worked so hard for because we thought they could give us security, we'll discover what really IS secure in this life, what is rock solid through all the changes and chances life has to offer: that it is the pleasure of the King of the Universe to give his kingdom away -- and specifically to give it to you. You are God's beloved child, co-heir with Christ, and while there's nothing in this life that can take that away, there are all kinds of things we can grab for to insulate us from really experiencing it. It is God's good pleasure to give us the kingdom, the fruit of the Spirit in abundance. Everything in this life we grab for as a way to try to do what God already has done and is doing for us is going to put us that much further from experiencing that fundamental truth, the one thing that matters. Let go, and we'll finally be able to receive Jesus' word at the opening of this passage: "Do not be afraid."
Don't be afraid??? Easy to say, but hard to do when your heart's not in it, when it's torn between trusting God -- trusting that these crazy things Jesus says really will yield the fruit of the Spirit -- and trusting what our culture says about who is really secure and how they get that way. The solution Jesus advocates is stepping forward in faith, giving our treasure to the poor and knowing our heart will follow.
This is not a "prosperity gospel" that says if you invest your treasure where God's heart is -- in extending God's justice and mercy among the poor -- you'll get that promotion you wanted, and have more money than before. This is an identity gospel -- we choose to behave as children of our Father, whose role model is Jesus, because of who we are, and our hearts follow. We take that step that the world says is foolishness, and we experience, as a result of that trust, not only deeper intimacy with God, but also real love in community. When we're all living into God's generosity, we find that when we do have needs, we're part of a family of sisters and brothers in Christ who KNOW who they are, and will express their ties with you as children of one Father by taking care of one another as family do. Trust begets trust; generosity births generosity.
you've got faith when, however your heart pounds as you do it and whatever fears you have, you take the next step forward into the desert. Your heart will follow your feet, and you will become more fully the person God sees as your true identity.
Today's gospel challenges us to let our heart follow our feet -- transforming us into people wholeheartedly following ALL of Jesus' message and experiencing ALL of the freedom that is ours in Christ -- in every way that God has given us something of value. Do your check register and your credit card records tell the truth of who you are in Christ and what's most important to you as a Christian? Today's gospel invites us to sit down as a family or with a trusted friend to see where our spending over the last month shows we're telling our heart to go. And how about something that's even more and valuable than money for many of us -- how about our time?  What does our appointment book from the last month show about where we're telling our heart to go? Today's gospel invites us to sit down as a family or with a trusted friend to take a hard look at that too.
And I mean a HARD look. If someone had complete access to your financial records, what would they say about who you are, or about who Jesus is? If someone had complete access to records of how you spend your time, what would those records say about who you are, and who your Lord is?
All of those messages we grew up with and are bombarded with every day create such a din that it takes a lot of intentional seeking to hear beyond them. Breathe, and listen to what your heart of hearts -- the part of you longing wholeheartedly for peace, and love, and joy, the fruit of the Spirit -- says. Our televisions say that our children want toys and snack foods. Social pressure says they must go to the right college, get the right degree and the right job. What do our lives, our checkbooks and our appointment books, say that children of God want and need? Our children are listening. Our hearts are listening -- and will run in whatever direction we put our treasure.
It's Jesus' word to the spiritually wise.


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NMIXX's Jinni leaves the group and its agency JYP Entertainment
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South Korea's newly formed female pop group NMIXX's member Jinni has officially departed from the group and terminated her contract with agency JYP entertainment.
According to Korean tabloid Soompi, on December 9, JYP released an official statement announcing the artist's exit from the group and agency by stating, "Hello, this is JYP Entertainment. Jinni, who has been a member of NMIXX up until now, will be leaving the group due to personal circumstances, and her exclusive contract has been terminated."
The statement continued, "We apologize for giving many fans cause for concern with this sudden news. As a result, we are letting you know that NMIXX will be carrying out all of their future scheduled activities as a six-member group. We ask that you give lots of encouragement to Jinni, who will be walking a new path, and we also ask that NSWER [NMIXX's fans] give their warm support to the six members who will continue to grow and race towards their dreams."
The agency concluded, "Once again, we apologize to the fans who have given [NMIXX] so much support. Thank you." NMIXX made their debut as a seven-member group in February of this year. After Jinni's exit, the current six members are namely Lily, Jiwoo, Kyunjin, BAE, Sullyoon, Haewon.
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The nail can be filed down and trimmed cautiously, either at house or by a podiatrist. If the infection is gentle and much localized then to treat toenail fungus a medical professional might advocate a medicated nail polish containing either Loceryl or Loprox. If the infection persists or carry on spreading then a physician may possibly prescribe an oral, systemic anti-fungal medication such as Sporanox or Lamisil. The remedy might takes about 12 weeks. Both of these drugs have some quite harmful effects that may not be suitable for some folks.
Most people think of allergies as respiratory allergies. These can be triggered by numerous diverse allergens, which includes dust, mold, mildew, pollen, and more. The most popular symptoms of a respiratory allergy are sneezing, coughing, runny nose, dry and itchy throat, and watery eyes. Some patients with low back pain have scoliosis, a deviation of the spine to the appropriate or left that can come about in the thoracic and lumbar spine. A lot of sufferers with low back discomfort have no notion that their low back discomfort has an emotional element.
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T.Y. Hilton has future All-Pro written all over him
Posted by Nate Dunlevy on Jan 7, 2014 12:34
As he blazed through the heart of the Kansas City Chiefs, leaving an ashen trail of their dreams dragging behind him, T.Y. Hilton burst into the national consciousness and the record books all at the same time.
His 64-yard reception from Andrew Luck vaulted the Colts to an incredible 28-point come-from-behind victory and gave him 224 yards receiving. That's the most for any Colt ever in a game – a significant record for a franchise that boasts names like Berry, Harrison and Wayne in its history.
It's a stunning turn of events for a young man who started the season as the third option behind Darius Heyward-Bey in the Colt pecking order. He would frequently come off the field for fullback Stanley Havili, because at one point in time someone involved with the Colts thought that was a good idea.
Once Indianapolis lost Reggie Wayne for the season and Heyward-Bey was benched due to a terminal case of not being good at football, however, it was Hilton's time to shine. He blossomed after Wayne's injury, picking up three 100-yard-receiving days and establishing himself as Luck's best option on any given play.
Indianapolis fans frequently wonder if the slightly-built former third-round pick might not be the next coming of the great Marvin Harrison. After all, the physical similarities are intriguing on the surface. Only Harrison had more catches and touchdowns in his first two seasons with the team, and Hilton even out-paced him in yards.
While Harrison has at least two inches on Hilton and legendary hands, it's undeniable that their numbers are very similar. In fact, fans too young to remember Harrison before Peyton Manning arrived can look to Hilton and see his virtual clone. Harrison put up almost identical stats, down to the catch rate, over his first two years, albeit in a much more challenging offensive environment and with grossly inferior quarterback play.
It's unlikely Hilton has that kind of ceiling. After all, Hilton could average 10 scores a year for the next decade and still trail Harrison by 16 career touchdowns, but that doesn't mean Indianapolis hasn't found an absolute gem who can be one of the best in the game.
Physically, Hilton is undersized, and it is a factor. Most teams would play Hilton as a slot receiver, a super-fast version of Wes Welker, perhaps. The truth is that Hilton may be more gifted that that. If he can make a living on the outside, he could wind up becoming the next Steve Smith.
Smith stands at 5'9", 185 lbs. and was taken in the third round of the 2001 draft. With 836 career receptions, and 12,197 yards to go with 67 touchdowns, he has had a fantastic career. Smith is a five-time Pro Bowler and two time All Pro, and at one time was considered one of the two or three best wideouts in the game.
Comparing the two coming out of college, Smith's Pro Day numbers were eerily similar to Hilton's, showing an almost imperceptible advantage in quickness, but with Hilton having a slightly faster top gear.
In fact, at age 24, Smith and Hilton were essentially the same player. Smith entered the NFL a year sooner, but spent his first season as a devastating kick returner. Compare his first two years in the league as a receiver to Hilton's:
It's possible to talk about Hilton's ceiling in terms of Pro Bowls and future Hall of Famers in part because he has shown an ability to be versatile. Though largely an outside receiver early in his career, the aforementioned injury to Wayne has moved him into the slot with increasing regularity. From there he's tortured defenses in a number of ways.
Hilton has shown remarkable ability to beat defenses deep. Luck has looked his way 29 times already this season for 13 catches and four touchdowns on balls thrown 20 yards past the line of scrimmage. Offensive coordinator Pep Hamilton efforts to get him the ball short as well, and 82 of targets have come within 10 yards of the line of scrimmage, with 17 such passes occurring on screens behind the line.
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In NFL history, only 17 players have started their first two years in the league with at least 1,900 yards, 125 receptions and 10 touchdowns. All but one (Marques Colston) appeared in at least one Pro Bowl, and vast majority wound up with All Pro honors at some point in their career.
It has been said that there is no ceiling for Andrew Luck, and that is true. It's also clear, however, that there is no ceiling for T.Y. Hilton either.
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Acting Chair Owens called the meeting to order at 8:04 a.m.
Rep. Wilde introduced the bill.
Rep. Stratton assumed the chair.
Mr. Troy Walker, Mayor, Draper City, spoke to the bill.
Mr. Robert Macfarlane, Draper resident, spoke against the bill.
Mr. George Chapman, citizen, spoke against the bill.
Mr. Adrian Dybwad, Draper resident, spoke against the bill.
Dr. Christopher Kelly, Draper resident, distributed a handout and spoke against the bill.
Rep. Owens moved to replace 1st Substitute H.B. 288 with 2nd Substitute H.B. 288.
Rep. Lyman moved to pass 2nd Substitute H.B. 288 out favorably.
Rep. Coleman introduced the bill assisted by Mr. Steven Clyde, Water Task Force.
Mr. Richard Bay, General Manager, Jordan Valley Water Conservancy District, spoke for the bill.
Mr. Mark Stratford, Assistant City Attorney, Ogden City and League of Cities and Towns, spoke for the bill.
Ms. Nancy Carlson Gotts, President, Association of Community Councils, spoke for the bill.
Rep. Wilde assumed the chair.
Rep. Stratton moved to amend H.B. 31 with Amendment #1.
Rep. Albrecht moved to pass H.B. 31 out favorably.
Sen. Okerlund introduced the bill assisted by Ms. Marie Owens, Division of Drinking Water and Chair, Water Task Force.
Mr. Norm Henderson, citizen, spoke for the bill.
Mr. Alan Bachman, representing Mr. David Robinson, a concerned citizen, spoke to the bill.
Rep. Stratton moved to amend S.B. 17 with Amendment #1.
Rep. McKell moved to pass S.B. 17 out favorably.
Mr. Stratford, League of Cities and Towns, spoke to the resolution.
Rep. Owens moved to pass H.J.R. 1 out favorably.
Rep. McKell introduced the bill assisted by Mr. Matt Seaholm, Executive Director, American Progressive Bag Alliance.
Mr. Lucas Palmer, student, spoke against the bill.
Rep. Sagers moved to adjourn.


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Joe Carmack's East Side plantings
June 8, 2015 | By Ron Bechtol
Joe Carmack and David Marquez at home in Denver Heights. Photo by John Mata
A wandering landscape artist makes a home in Denver Heights
Joe Carmack wants to plant orchards. Urban orchards. Orchards composed not of apples in the pioneering-America-of-legend sense, but mostly of citrus—with a pomegranate or two here and there. "They do well in San Antonio," he says.
But for the moment he's focused on a pioneering effort of another sort: bringing buildings back to life in the East Side's Denver Heights. We're discussing his efforts at revitalization in the house he and his partner, David Marquez, occupy on Denver Boulevard—over tea, no less. "Oh my God, I love tea," he says, without a touch of affectation or irony. It's mint tea, served from a teapot handed down by his grandmother, and in the grand tradition of such beverages our discussion is a kind of negotiation—not having to do with the price of a carpet but over information: I offer some, he reveals some more….like that.
I first learn that Carmack is a San Antonio native who left to pursue a degree in landscape design from George Washington University. Upon graduation he stayed on in the nation's capital to open a garden shop. During his 20 years there, he also wrote an occasional gardening column. Obliged (but "excited") to return to San Antonio three years ago to assist aging parents, he first landed in Mahncke Park. "I didn't do much to the bungalow there," he says. And he quickly began searching for another property.
He found the Denver Heights house almost a year ago. "It was the next-to-cheapest property I was shown," he says, adding that, though solid, it was not much more than a shell with rough boards and "vegetation growing inside." But price was not necessarily the determining factor. While some might feel hesitant about undertaking a project east of I-37, "I definitely wanted to be here," he states. For Carmack, it's all about proximity to downtown and Southtown, the availability of public transportation … "I'm about 10 minutes away from everything," he enthuses—and his enthusiasm is palpable.
He might have said that it's also about the availability of good, if often neglected, housing stock and, once you consider that there is some meaning in the "Heights" part of the neighborhood name, the fact there are great breezes. "I had to clean it all up with sheetrock, but this house breathes," he says.
The quietly intense Carmack must nevertheless be something of a taskmaster, as the house looks much more than merely cleaned up—and the work, accomplished with the help of a contractor, took an astonishingly short four months to complete. Bamboo floors (bamboo is sustainable, he points out) now gleam, colorful walls serve as backdrops for a personal art collection, a spiffed-up kitchen ("We don't cook that much," he admits) offers the latest amenities. And in the back yard, a freshly painted, but still slightly listing, shed awaits a more permanent foundation. Plantings of cacti, their soft green paddles contrasting with the structure's vivid barn red, testify to his continuing horticultural interests.
A version of that same assertive red, here accented with a soft Colonial blue, announces Carmack's second project in the 'hood, an almost completely renovated four-plex just down the street. Facing Denver is a building housing two, two-story units; in back, a structure containing a pair of one-story apartments helps frame a new, caliche-paved courtyard dominated by a magnificent grapefruit tree. Carmack rents these apartments as short-term accommodations for tourists and conventioneers, but the transient nature of the clientele in no way suggests a casual attitude regarding finish and detail. In one of the units, the dining table is set with pieces of Carmack's mother's china in anticipation of an arriving tenant, the bedcovers carefully fluffed and tucked … and guidebooks are thoughtfully laid out near a television fully loaded with Netflix and Pandora connections. In contrast to long-term rental, "there's lots more involvement from me, so I'm here almost constantly," he says—and one gets the impression that, the better to keep an eye on things, he likes it that way.
Given the rapid pace at which Carmack's first two projects have been completed, it's logical to ask "what's next?" Possibly a breather–though he clearly enjoys the variety of visitors that pass through from places as diverse as Minnesota and Holland. "Maybe something more community-oriented," he offers. Those mini-orchards, for example. That grapefruit tree may now stand as symbolic inspiration, but "the soil is really good around here," he says, returning to East Side booster mode. Satsumas, sweet kumquats and Meyer lemons here we come. (Meyer lemon is especially good with tea, just FYI.)
Ron Bechtol
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When Todd Carmichael approached Oat Foundry about the launch of his latest product, a canned draft latte, the team had no idea he meant actually launching the can, into space.
The team took his direction and ran with it, determining the best way to capture high quality video of the can in the foreground and the curvature of the earth in the back – over 100,000 feet up. Oat Foundry settled on a weather balloon launch scheme with a rig that could support the can, multiple GoPro's, a flight computer, and GPS. With a test launch completed in PA, and tweaks made to the rig, the team met Todd in Muskegon, MI at their newly opened manufacturing facility that churns out pallets of their canned latte. Instead of a ribbon cutting ceremony, Todd decided to launch one of the lattes into the stratosphere with the help of Oat Foundry – we filled the weather balloon to achieve our desired height and ran the calculations to predict exactly where it would land.
Dodging a couple of great lakes and some inclement weather, Oat Foundry recovered the rig after it's parachute brought it safely back to Earth. Check out some footage below from the test launch and the opening launch at the facility in Muskegon, MI.
Fueled by Todd's passion to push the U.S. coffee scene forward, La Colombe sits at the forefront of the ethical trade movement and regularly dabbles in new terrain, inventing ground-breaking new brewing devices and beverages, such as the first ever Draft Latte. He is also the host of two Travel Channel series, Dangerous Grounds and Uncommon Grounds.
A passionate crusader for social and ecological causes, Todd has a decades-long history of undertaking self-supported treks into challenging environments. He's visited nearly half of the world's countries, crossed large parts of the Sahara Desert on foot, as well as the Gobi Desert, Namib Desert, and others. He is also the first American to solo trek across Antarctica from the coast to the South Pole, establishing a world record speed of 39 days, 7 hours, and 49 minutes.
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Athletics' Bruce Maxwell Becomes First MLB Player to Kneel for National Anthem
Maxwell knelt and faced the flag with his hand over his heart.
Jeremy Woo
Oakland A's catcher Bruce Maxwell became the first Major League Baseball player to kneel for the national anthem in open protest ahead of Oakland's home game against the Texas Rangers.
Maxwell, who is African-American and comes from a military family, chose to kneel with his hand on his heart while facing the flag in solidarity with the NFL players who continue to protest racism and inequalities in America.
Major League Baseball issued the following statement on the matter:
"Major League Baseball has a longstanding tradition of honoring our nation prior to the start of our games. We also respect that each of our players is an individual with his own background, perspectives and opinions. We believe that our game will continue to bring our fans, their communities and our players together."
Earlier Saturday, Maxwell posted on Twitter following a series of comments from president Donald Trump that called for the firing of NFL players who chose to protest the national anthem. On Friday night, Trump referred to such players as "sons of b****es" in a public forum while addressing a crowd.
The A's issued a statement in support, as well.
Maxwell's teammate Mark Canha placed his hand on his shoulder in support as Maxwell protested.
Maxwell, 26, was born in Germany, where his father was stationed with the army.
Who is Bruce Maxwell?
Get to know Bruce Maxwell, the first MLB player to protest racial inequality in America during the national anthem.
By Jeremy Woo
Bruce Maxwell won't kneel for national anthem
Bruce Maxwell was the first MLB player to kneel during the national anthem but won't continue the protest.
By Dan Gartland
Exec: Anthem kneeling may keep Bruce Maxwell unsigned
Maxwell was the only MLB player to kneel during the national anthem in 2017.
By Michael Shapiro
A Conversation with Bruce Maxwell's Mother
The mother of Oakland A's catcher Bruce Maxwell, the only MLB player to kneel during the anthem to protest racial injustice, gives her first interview about her son, their family's military background, what prompted Bruce to speak up and what the reaction has been like.
By Nancy Levine
Bruce Maxwell: I was denied service by pro-Trump waiter
A's catcher Bruce Maxwell says a waiter declined to serve him because he kneeled during the national anthem.
By Khadrice Rollins
Derek Jeter "wouldn't mind" if player kneels during anthem
Jeter made the comment at an event for his Turn 2 Foundation.
By Daniel Rapaport
Bruce Maxwell finally broke MLB's silence on anthem protests
Bruce Maxwell became MLB's first national anthem protestor, and hopefully more will follow.
By Jon Tayler
VIDEO: A's fans give Maxwell a standing ovation
A's fans have Bruce Maxwell's back.


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Canaccord Genuity: Delivering a better investment platform using Google Kubernetes Engine, BigQuery, and Sheets
About Canaccord Genuity
Through its principal subsidiaries, Canaccord Genuity Group Inc. is a leading independent, full-service financial services firm, with operations in two principal segments of the securities industry: wealth management and capital markets.
Products: BigQuery, Cloud Storage, Kubernetes Engine, G Suite
About SenTai
Based in Paris and London, SenTai is a consulting and open source development group that helps its clients solve technical challenges using mathematically based models and cloud based computing. The SenTai team specializes in big data, artificial intelligence, renewable energy, and finance. To learn more, visit http://sentai.eu/.
Improved runtime performance by an order of magnitude
Reduced costs by moving to the cloud from a client-server application
Quest® now analyzes more than 9,000 companies, up from 3,000, hundreds of aggregate industrial sectors more, and can scale even higher if needed
The runtime of a complex analysis query dropped from 10 hours to less than 30 minutes, with massive increase in processed data
Over 30 billion data points calculated overnight
Canaccord Genuity, a leading independent full-services financial firm, uses Google Cloud Platform to manage an information platform for professional investors and business analysts. The platform, called Quest®, uses BigQuery to pull up and cross-reference over 9,000 companies, using a Sheets-based decision tree that defines more than 10,000 rules. With over 1,000 regular users, Quest® is a key competitive advantage to Canaccord Genuity and its investor clients.
Rewriting an obsolete server application
Since the mid-1990s, Canaccord Genuity has offered its investor clients and on-staff financial analysts access to a platform to analyze and value 3,000 companies, each with as many as 400 specific metrics updated daily, and historical data going back 20 years. The Quest® platform was last rebuilt in 2003 — that implementation, though still functional, was falling behind today's requirements.
The previous version of Quest® was hosted and maintained in-house on a now obsolete Microsoft Windows Server 2003, Microsoft SQL Server 2005, and Microsoft ASP.NET infrastructure. The old client-server platform simply couldn't scale in functionality, capacity, or performance to meet today's needs. The platform needed to increase its capacity by a factor of 25 to analyze triple the number of companies, triple the number of geographical regions, and triple the number of industrial sectors to 275. The old architecture simply couldn't handle the load nor perform at the speed required. Moreover, it had become too costly to maintain.
Behind the scenes, Canaccord Genuity's IT management needed Quest® to be more flexible and cost effective than the decade-old version running within an in-house data center in the UK. And that meant a totally fresh start, rewriting everything. Nothing from the legacy system has survived. The old Windows applications could not be improved and had to be reverse engineered.
In terms of maintenance and evolution, Google Cloud Platform provides all the scalability required, whether storage, computational, or memory, answering the exact requirements needed for the new Canaccord Quest® platform.
"The new version of Quest® in the cloud has deeper data, runs better analysis, is more customizable, handles more than 100 times the load and runs more than 10x faster than the old version."
—P.J. Davies, Quest® manager, Canaccord Genuity
Higher performance and faster
Working in partnership with SenTai, a consultancy specializing in open source software, Canaccord Genuity created a completely new Quest® platform that leverages both Google Cloud Platform and G Suite.
Instead of a classical three-tiered architecture, the new Quest® system has no application server, which simplifies the design and improves performance. Everything is packaged as Linux containers and orchestrated using Google Kubernetes Engine within managed virtual machines.
BigQuery drives the data analysis, grinding through over 100 million rows in only a few minutes, at speeds at least 100 times faster than the previous system. Quest® also uses Cloud Storage, since a typical analysis run generates more than 200 GB of data detailing all the cross-references, trend tables, and other information comparing companies against each other and against relevant industrial sectors.
Quest® uses Sheets, the spreadsheet component of G Suite, for business intelligence. Apart from a subset of complex calculations and procedures, all parameters required to accurately model a specific company's financials are coded into Sheets by financial analysts — not programmers — using a tree-based data structure with over 10,000 business rules. Those spreadsheets are passed to a Java engine by the Google REST APIs; the Java engine parses the spreadsheet and dynamically compiles those rules into bytecode for fast execution, making the new Quest® not only quick, but also flexible.
More complex analyses lead to greater insights
The new Quest®, rewritten from scratch to leverage Google Cloud Platform, runs several orders of magnitude faster: a typical complex query against 9,000 companies is completed in less than 30 minutes, compared to over 10 hours to analyze far fewer companies, sectors and regions, in the client-server era.
The new platform also empowers Quest® analysts to create sophisticated rule-based business models using the familiar syntax of the collaborative Sheets, part of the G Suite. Being able to have many analysts work simultaneously on the same spreadsheet, and for each analyst to be able to comment on relevant data in a way that assisted other analysts right within the spreadsheet, made it possible for them to respond to client requests not only very quickly, but also with greater insight.
This is how Canaccord Genuity systematically analyses 9,000 companies, or 95 percent of global market capitalization. With BigQuery, Google Kubernetes Engine, and Sheets, customers can make more informed investment decisions.
In terms of cost, frequent price drops and competitive offerings are driving the whole industry. Commoditization is driven by Google's know-how, and benefits customers such as Canaccord Genuity, which was able to start small and scale up only when ready. The benefits compared with previous hosting providers are substantial.
"We were amazed at the speed at which they could create, delete and update instances to meet new requirements," says Nigel Sedgley, Quest® manager at Canaccord Genuity. The affordability of Google Cloud Platform and G Suite made these tools the right combination for the software development team, as well as the business team.
BigQuery Cloud Storage Kubernetes Engine G Suite


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"""Tests for utils.py."""

import unittest

from protorpc import messages

from . import utils

class UtilsTests(unittest.TestCase):
  """Comprehensive test for the endpoints_proto_datastore.utils module."""

  def testIsSubclass(self):
    """Tests the utils.IsSubclass method."""
    self.assertTrue(utils.IsSubclass(int, int))

    self.assertTrue(utils.IsSubclass(bool, int))
    self.assertTrue(utils.IsSubclass(str, (str, basestring)))
    self.assertFalse(utils.IsSubclass(int, bool))

    # Make sure this does not fail
    self.assertFalse(utils.IsSubclass(int, None))

  def testDictToTuple(self):
    """Tests the utils._DictToTuple method."""
    # pylint:disable-msg=W0212
    self.assertRaises(AttributeError, utils._DictToTuple, None)

    class Simple(object):
      items = None  # Not callable
    self.assertRaises(TypeError, utils._DictToTuple, Simple)

    single_value_dictionary = {1: 2}
    self.assertEqual((1,), utils._DictToTuple(single_value_dictionary))

    multiple_value_dictionary = {-5: 3, 1: 1, 3: 2}
    self.assertEqual((1, 3, -5), utils._DictToTuple(multiple_value_dictionary))
    # pylint:enable-msg=W0212

  def testGeoPtMessage(self):
    """Tests the utils.GeoPtMessage protorpc message class."""
    geo_pt_message = utils.GeoPtMessage(lat=1.0)
    self.assertEqual(geo_pt_message.lat, 1.0)
    self.assertEqual(geo_pt_message.lon, None)
    self.assertFalse(geo_pt_message.is_initialized())

    geo_pt_message.lon = 2.0
    self.assertEqual(geo_pt_message.lon, 2.0)
    self.assertTrue(geo_pt_message.is_initialized())

    self.assertRaises(messages.ValidationError,
                      utils.GeoPtMessage, lat='1', lon=2)

    self.assertRaises(TypeError, utils.GeoPtMessage, 1.0, 2.0)

    self.assertRaises(AttributeError, utils.GeoPtMessage,
                      lat=1.0, lon=2.0, other=3.0)

    geo_pt_message = utils.GeoPtMessage(lat=1.0, lon=2.0)
    self.assertTrue(geo_pt_message.is_initialized())

if __name__ == '__main__':
  unittest.main()

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No. 3 [[Tenth Egg Street]], Ankh-Morpork
Pointers and Pickles is a dusty shop which sells Crystals, Minerals and Tumbling Supplies. It is run by two women in one body, Miss Pointer and Miss Pickles. They only cater to shoppers who take geology seriously, and Miss Pickles appears angry at people who believe in the healing power of crystals.
'''Pointers and Pickles''' is a dusty shop which sells Crystals, Minerals and Tumbling Supplies. It is run by two women in one body, Miss Pointer and Miss Pickles. They only cater to shoppers who take geology seriously, and Miss Pickles appears angry at people who believe in the healing power of crystals.
Space in the basement is rented out to [[Mr. Shine]]'s [[Thud]] Academy, a fact that Miss Pointer has kept secret from Miss Pickles.
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Pointer and Pickles
Crystals, Minerals & Tumbling Supplies
No. 3 Tenth Egg Street, Ankh-Morpork
Space in the basement is rented out to Mr. Shine's Thud Academy, a fact that Miss Pointer has kept secret from Miss Pickles.
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Five fish bones
Sartorial designers are making it big in the New Year. Thanks particularly to the five semi-break-away PDP governors, otherwise called the G5 governors led by Governor Nyesom Wike of Rivers State; fancy dresses have become another way of peppering political opponents. Perhaps, another stanza in the Wike's musical hit would be – 'as we dey dress fine, it dey pain dem, and as it dey pain dem, we dey dress fine.' Unarguably, the five governors have become like five fish bones that left the oesophagus and lodged in the thoracic spine.
Ordinarily, a fish bone lodged in the oesophagus can give a great discomfort. But as we were taught back in the days, one heavy mould of garri without soup could force the bone down the abdomen, even if it causes severe pain going down. Again, licking salt or gulping large quantity of water can also deal with that terrible discomfort. Of course, mothers would give doses of soft blows at the back to aid the descent of the bones.
Any of the above methods would see tears roll down the cheeks, and the pain accompanying the exercise would be a constant reminder for one to be careful the next time one is licking Ogbono soup, with pieces of bony fresh fish. There is little doubt that Alhaji Atiku Abubakar, has turned the PDP to his private estate which he returns every election cycle to lick the Ogbono soup, by way of a presidential contest. Unfortunately for him this time, he was careless with the fish bones in the soup.
As part of their unity pact, Governors Nyesom Wike (Rivers), Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi (Enugu), Seyi Makinde (Oyo), Okezie Ikpeazu (Abia) and Samuel Ortom (Benue), have become the five fish bones that left the oesophagus and lodged in the thoracic spine of Atiku Abubakar and his PDP. A thoracic pain is a dull, aching pain. It is sharp, stabbing and intermittent. And since the cause of the pain is difficult to access, it is also difficult to self-diagnose and determine how to deal a blow to the source.
To aggravate the sensational pain, the governors now deck-out in fanciful uniformed attires to dance on the political grave of the PDP's presidential candidate, Alhaji Atiku Abubakar. The dressing antics of the five fish bones reminds one of the youthful days when 'dressing to kill' was every child's dream at Christmas and the New Year. To add salt to injury, the governors, fully robed gyrate in the opposite direction of Atiku's presidential campaign train.
But the governors' gambit is beyond sensational dressing. Apologies to Lanny Wolfe's "dancing on the graves of my enemies" lyrics; at the end of the election cycle, will the five fish bones be rescued as the Israelites were from Egypt? Will they on February 25, cross over on dry ground and look back to see their political enemy drowned in the presidential election tsunami? Will they after the election be dancing on the troubles that have been troubling their political life since the PPD presidential election was hijacked by the Atiku forces?
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This column believes they will, even if they miss their mark on who to support for the presidential race. No doubt, making a group choice of the presidential candidate to support may become an albatross for the G5 governors, especially for Ifeanyi Ugwuanyi, Okezie Ikpeazu and Samuel Ortom. With Atiku Abubakar of their party thrown under the bus, the group is left with supporting either Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progressive Congress (APC) or Peter Obi (Okwute) of the Labour Party (LP).
In Enugu, Abia and Benue states, there are many potential voters who may desert any of the governors who openly canvass for any other presidential candidate other than Peter Obi of the LP, regardless of whether he is likely to win or not. The backlash against Governor Chukwuma Soludo of Anambra State, when he said that Peter Obi has little chance of winning the presidential election would be a pointer for them. The same abuse has been the lot of Arthur Eze, for openly denigrating the ambition of Peter Obi and canvassing for Atiku Abubakar.
But inevitably, all the music lyrics, the dances, the dressing to kill, the junketing and holidaying and partying, indeed all the scheming and trade-ins would amount to political disaster and waste of public funds if the G5 are unable to ensure that Atiku Abubakar fails at the presidential poll. They would also be in a damp squalid political situation if they support a presidential candidate that is unable to win at the polls. As the chickens come home to roost, the G5 is therefore in a political dilemma.
Interestingly, the leader of the group has boasted that the governors are in strong positions to determine the choices of the majority of electorates in their respective states, and would direct them on their presidential choice. How true that boast is would be tested at the polls. But from some indicators, Rivers State appears to be more politically cohesive than Abia, Enugu and Benue. However, Wike's control of Rivers State politics and state choice about the 2023 presidential election will soon be tested at the polls.
Enugu State which would have been a walk-over for Governor Ugwuayi who is contesting a senatorial seat, and the PDP, has one of its leading gubernatorial aspirant now heading the Labour Party threat. While Ugwuanyi may have done enough to secure an easy passage to the red chambers, can he afford to support the potential emergence of Asiwaju Tinubu, damn the political backlash? Interestingly, his filial relation and political associate Chijioke Edeoga, is the governorship candidate of the state LP.
On his part, Governor Ortom of Benue State will have to deal with the fog of contesting for a senate seat in PDP, having sympathy for Peter Obi of Labour Party, and having political heavy weights like David Mark and Gabriel Suswan canvassing for PDP. Making a dispassionate decision may even be more difficult for Governor Ikpeazu of Abia State, a senatorial aspirant also, as the state is even more volatile than Benue and Enugu states, with the pro-separatist groups operating heavily in that axis.
Governor Seyi Makinde of Oyo State has lesser stress, with making a decision. With Atiku out of the way, he can easily align with Asiwaju Bola Ahmed Tinubu of the All Progress Congress (APC), who has the brightest chance of winning the presidential election, and not suffer much backlash like his brother governors of Abia, Enugu and Benue. No doubt, Wike and his brother governors have so far taught Atiku Abubakar some political lessons, about political betrayal and the law of Karma. But will a disagreement over the choice of a common presidential candidate not dissolve the five fish bones lodged in Atiku's thoracic spine?
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Government announces review into illegal logging prohibitions
02 December 2014 — 1 minute read
An independent review into the impact of the Illegal Logging Prohibition Amendment Regulation 2013 on small business was announced yesterday with the aim of reducing the regulatory burdens for small business owners.
The review as announced jointly by Minister for Small Business, Bruce Billson, Parliamentary Secretary to the Minister for Agriculture, Senator Richard Colbeck, and Parliamentary Secretary to the Prime Minister, Josh Frydenberg. The review will focus on businesses with an income of up to $10 million, which Minister Billson said will ensure the review examines the impact of logging industry regulations on micro and small businesses.
Senator Colbeck said the independent review will ensure compliance costs of the new regulations do not unduly impact small businesses.
"We've been working hard on the implementation phase to ensure these regulations have the least possible burden on Australian businesses," he said. "The regulations are designed to protect responsible producers and markets – it's important that we get this right."
Frydenberg added that the Government is committed to an ambitious deregulation agenda that aims to reduce regulatory burden on businesses, community organisations and individuals by at least $1 billion a year
"A balance must be struck between reducing the risk that timber and timber products for sale in Australia have been illegally logged and the cost to small business," Mr Frydenberg said. "A major focus of the assessment will be looking at whether the current due diligence arrangements strike that balance in the most efficient and effective way for small business."
The review will report to government by March 2015 and will include targeted consultations with small business representatives throughout the process.
The new regulations commenced 30 November 2014 and require Australian timber importers to carry out due diligence on imported timber products. The Department of Agriculture's website contains a range of information to help businesses understand and comply with the illegal logging regulations. For the first 18 months the government's focus will be on raising awareness and promoting compliance.
The review will report to government by March 2015 and will include targeted consultations with small business representatives throughout the process. The Terms of Reference for the implementation analysis are available at www.agriculture.gov.au/illegallogging.
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