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Q: Vue PWA Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'split') Even in commented code I'm trying to create a PWA from an existing project.
The build works fine en locally it also works.. however after building on production i get:
Uncaught TypeError: Cannot read properties of undefined (reading 'split')
at n (main.js:25:40)
at i (main.js:26:39)
at Array.map (<anonymous>)
at P (main.js:29:73)
at Object.getItem (main.js:43:33)
at i (vuex-persistedstate.es.js:1:1576)
at l (vuex-persistedstate.es.js:1:2281)
at vuex-persistedstate.es.js:1:2356
at vuex.esm.js:427:46
at Array.forEach (<anonymous>)

At random locations in the code (even in commented code)
Currently it points to:
/* Vue.use(VueNativeNotification, {
  requestOnNotify: true,
});
Vue.notification.requestPermission().then(console.log); */

what am i missing here?


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Jail for Albany man with thousands of child exploitation videos and images on his phone
ABC Great Southern
By Mark Bennett
Posted MonMonday 15 JunJune 2020 at 8:16amMonMonday 15 JunJune 2020 at 8:16am
An Albany man has been jailed for a string of child sex offences involving grooming and the accumulation of exploitation material over many years.
Stephen Van Der Ros, 32, pleaded guilty to six charges
More than 1,000 videos and 17,000 still images were found on his phone
The judge says he has a paedophilic disorder and would be at serious risk of reoffending
Stephen Van Der Ros pleaded guilty to six charges involving four children under 13, possessing child exploitation material and attempting to groom young girls while posing as a teenager on the internet.
The 32-year-old traffic control worker was sentenced to six-and-a-half years in prison, backdated to when detectives arrested him last November.
Judge Gillian Braddock said police had discovered more than 1,000 videos and 17,000 still images on Van De Ros's phone.
According to interview records, Van Der Ross immediately confessed to all the charges.
He told detectives he had been accumulating the child exploitation material over 17 years and he was glad he had been caught.
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Judge Braddock said he had a paedophilic disorder and would be at serious risk of reoffending as he would be unable to control himself.
She said his offences were "very serious" and he had moved out of the online pornographic fantasy world to involving the lives of young girls that would have long-term effects.
Appearing via video link from Albany Prison, Van Der Ros did not react when he learnt of his sentence.
Judge Braddock said she wanted to send a message that his behaviour was not something to be imitated and the sentence was required to protect the community.
Van Der Ros will be eligible for parole after four years.
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MillerCoors CEO Tom Long seeks growth with craft beers
Tom Long, MillerCoors' new chief executive, wants to prove that big beer hasn't gone flat.
But persistently high unemployment, an uncertain economy and young consumers' shrinking thirst for mainstream beer are standing in his way.
A month since taking the reins of MillerCoors, Long is shifting the Chicago company from cost-cutting to growth mode.
SABMiller of London and Molson Coors Brewing Co. of Denver merged their U.S. operations in 2008 to better compete with Anheuser-Busch of St. Louis, the world's largest brewer, which is owned by Belgium-based Anheuser-Busch InBev. Three years and $684 million in cost savings later, Long said, MillerCoors, the maker of Coors Light, Blue Moon and Leinenkugel, is poised to boost profits.
"It is clear we have done quite well in capturing synergies, which was the promise of the joint venture initially, and that was stage one," Long, 52, said in his first interview since taking over as CEO at MillerCoors' Milwaukee offices. "Organic growth in craft and imports and light beer is our ambition because our future earnings power will come from that growth more than from cost savings, and so that is the challenge of the business."
Long, a North Carolina native with a master's degree in business administration from Harvard, has the manner of a Southern gentleman with the cadence of a marketing veteran. He spent 17 years at Coca-Cola Co., eventually serving as president of the Atlanta company's Northwest European division,
Long joined Miller Brewing Co. as chief marketing officer in 2005 and was promoted to CEO the next year. He took the position of chief commercial officer when the MillerCoors joint venture was formed in 2008, ceding the top job to veteran Leo Kiely. Last fall Kiely announced that Long would begin sharing CEO responsibilities with him, although no titles were changed at the time.
Long took over as CEO in June, and analysts expect the transition to be smooth.
"The fact that they've brought someone up from the inside suggests that presumably he buys into the brand, which suggests there will be some continuity in the brand focus," Morningstar equities analyst Phil Gorham said.
Experts say Long will be judged by his ability to turn the company's sales around.
"The savings angle has kind of run its course and the next chapter has to be about growth," said Benj Steinman, president of Beer Marketer's Insights. "They've got to deliver the goods in a tough market for mainstream domestic beers."
Beer shipments declined 2% in 2009 and 1% in 2010, the first consecutive-year slide since the mid-1990s. U.S. shipments are expected to be flat or slightly down in 2011. Another down year would mark the first three-year slide since the 1940s.
MillerCoors and Anheuser-Busch have pointed to high unemployment among 21- to 34-year-old men, their best customers, as the primary reason for slipping sales.
Both companies lost U.S. market share last year, according to Beer Marketer's Insights. Anheuser-Busch slipped a full percentage point, to 47.9% of the beer market, while MillerCoors lost more than half a point, falling to 28.9%.
The economy is not the only enemy of big beer. Small-batch regional brewers, as well as wine and liquor, also are posing threats.
According to the Distilled Spirits Council of the United States, beer accounted for 49.8% of dollar sales of alcohol in 2010. That's down from 56% in 1999. Over the same period, spirits grew from 28.2% of sales to 33.3%, and wine increased from 15.8% to 17%.
There's also some question as to whether mainstream beer brands are as relevant with young drinkers as they once were.
Big beer brands have been losing the affinity of core drinkers over the last two years, according to YouGov's BrandIndex, a research firm that tracks brand buzz, loyalty and quality perceptions based on consumer surveys. MillerCoors' Miller Lite and Coors Light and Anheuser-Busch's Bud Light have had negative ratings for most of that period.
Craft beer has posted double-digit sales gains for three of the last five years and is likely to do so again in 2011. Craft brews account for about 5% of consumption, a figure that could rise to 10% in five or six years if industry sales were to remain flat, according to Beer Marketer's Insights.
Big brewers have responded to the rise of craft beers by buying or investing in craft brands and building "craft-style" brands, which mimic the taste of craft beer but have wide distribution.
MillerCoors built the Blue Moon brand from the ground up, and it owns Leinenkugel, a 144-year-old brand. Anheuser-Busch created Shock Top as an answer to Blue Moon and agreed to buy Chicago-based Goose Island Brewing Co. in March.
Last fall, MillerCoors created Tenth and Blake, a dedicated division for its craft and import brands, including Blue Moon and Leinenkugel, as well as Peroni, Grolsch and Pilsner Urquell.
"[There] will not always be thousands and thousands of tiny brands," Long said, referring to the 1,700 brewers in the U.S. today. "Big brands will emerge, and they already have: Sam Adams and Fat Tire and others. Certainly Blue Moon fits into that category."
MillerCoors' goal "is to make sure that some of those emerging winners are ours," Long said. To do that, he said, the company will have to be successful in gateway beers that introduce consumers to the craft segment, as well as to other brews for "eclectic palates."
But light beer is still the company's primary focus. And the company not only may need to sell more light beer but also get cash-strapped consumers to pay more for it.
MillerCoors has increased prices in the U.S., along with other consumer package goods firms. But persistently high gasoline and commodity prices make additional increases possible.
To make the increases palatable, Long said, consumers "have to love what's in the liquid itself."
Tags: craft beer, Molson Coors, SABMiller


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Genomic tests for ovarian cancer detection and management.
Evan R. Myers, Laura J. Havrilesky, Shalini L. Kulasingam, Gillian D. Sanders, Kathryn E. Cline, Rebecca N. Gray, Andrew Berchuck, Douglas C. McCrory
Epidemiology & Community Health
OBJECTIVES: To assess the evidence that the use of genomic tests for ovarian cancer screening, diagnosis, and treatment leads to improved outcomes. DATA SOURCES: PubMed and reference lists of recent reviews. REVIEW METHODS: We evaluated tests for: (a) single gene products; (b) genetic variations affecting risk of ovarian cancer; (c) gene expression; and (d) proteomics. For tests covered in recent evidence reports (cancer antigen 125 [CA-125] and breast cancer genes 1 and 2 [BRCA1/2]), we added studies published subsequent to the reports. We sought evidence on: (a) the analytic performance of tests in clinical laboratories; (b) the sensitivity and specificity of tests in different patient populations; (c) the clinical impact of testing in asymptomatic women, women with suspected ovarian cancer, and women with diagnosed ovarian cancer; (d) the harms of genomic testing; and (e) the impact of direct-to-consumer and direct-to-physician advertising on appropriate use of tests. We also constructed a computer simulation model to test the impact of different assumptions about ovarian cancer natural history on the relative effectiveness of different strategies. RESULTS: There are reasonable data on the clinical laboratory performance of most radioimmunoassays, but the majority of the data on other genomic tests comes from research laboratories. Genomic test sensitivity/specificity estimates are limited by small sample sizes, spectrum bias, and unrealistically large prevalences of ovarian cancer; in particular, estimates of positive predictive values derived from most of the studies are substantially higher than would be expected in most screening or diagnostic settings. We found no evidence relevant to the question of the impact of genomic tests on health outcomes in asymptomatic women. Although there is a relatively large literature on the association of test results and various clinical outcomes, the clinical utility of changing management based on these results has not been evaluated. We found no evidence that genomic tests for ovarian cancer have unique harms beyond those common to other tests for genetic susceptibility or other tests used in screening, diagnosis, and management of ovarian cancer. Studies of a direct-to-consumer campaign for BRCA1/2 testing suggest increased utilization, but the effect on "appropriateness" was unclear. Model simulations suggest that annual screening, even with a highly sensitive test, will not reduce ovarian cancer mortality by more than 50 percent; frequent screening has a very low positive predictive value, even with a highly specific test. CONCLUSIONS: Although research remains promising, adaptation of genomic tests into clinical practice must await appropriately designed and powered studies in relevant clinical settings.
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Myers, E. R., Havrilesky, L. J., Kulasingam, S. L., Sanders, G. D., Cline, K. E., Gray, R. N., Berchuck, A., & McCrory, D. C. (2006). Genomic tests for ovarian cancer detection and management. Evidence report/technology assessment, (145), 1-100.
Genomic tests for ovarian cancer detection and management. / Myers, Evan R.; Havrilesky, Laura J.; Kulasingam, Shalini L. et al.
In: Evidence report/technology assessment, No. 145, 01.10.2006, p. 1-100.
Myers, ER, Havrilesky, LJ, Kulasingam, SL, Sanders, GD, Cline, KE, Gray, RN, Berchuck, A & McCrory, DC 2006, 'Genomic tests for ovarian cancer detection and management.', Evidence report/technology assessment, no. 145, pp. 1-100.
Myers ER, Havrilesky LJ, Kulasingam SL, Sanders GD, Cline KE, Gray RN et al. Genomic tests for ovarian cancer detection and management. Evidence report/technology assessment. 2006 Oct 1;(145):1-100.
Myers, Evan R. ; Havrilesky, Laura J. ; Kulasingam, Shalini L. et al. / Genomic tests for ovarian cancer detection and management. In: Evidence report/technology assessment. 2006 ; No. 145. pp. 1-100.
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Q: Should autoscaling EC2 instances share the same db user account I plan to setup autoscaling on my api nodes, but want them to connect to the same RDS instance (with Multi AZ).
Will i notice any performance impacts if the api nodes all share the same db account?
Otherwise, what alternatives do i have that wont complicate the deployment process significantly?
Thanks

A: A database user account is used to control security (eg Is the user allowed to perform a command) and logging (eg Which user deleted the table?).
Having applications on multiple Amazon EC2 instances use the same database user account will not impact performance. Two requests coming from different database users will use the same amount of resource as two requests coming from the same database user.
An exception to this would be if any database configurations restrict resources by user, such as processing queues. However, this would not be a default behavior.

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Disclaimer: This is a guest post to Housewife Plus and is a humor piece. Please do not read this as factual information.
The children of housewife and stay-at-home mom Lucy Compton of Springfield, Illinois, were removed from her custody today after neighbors complained that the smell of ice cream bonbons and the sound of daytime soap operas were disruptive to their stroller jogging groups.
Ms. Compton, 34, reportedly did not protest when the children exited the home this afternoon and instead asked a sheriff's deputy to hand her the television remote which had fallen under the coffee table where her feet were propped.
The children will remain in the custody of their grandparents where they will be force-fed broccoli and allowed only educational entertainment until Ms. Compton has removed all frozen desserts from her home and canceled her cable subscription.
BIO: Jennifer is a freelance editor, writer, wife, and mother to two. She writes about anything that comes to mind at www.jenniferoradat.com. Follow her on Facebook and Twitter!


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Turnovers … by Alan B. Gibson
That didn't take long – winter postpones first game
Early weather forecasts – I like the Dick Frymire, now the Dick Frymire family forecast – are for the most part calling for a long, harsh and wet (white) winter.
If the way this 2018-19 roundball season has started out, that prediction might be spot on.
Even before the basketball season had started for our Lady Bulldogs, everything changed.
What should have been a season opener between the Lady Bulldogs and Garrard County last Tuesday night, a winter storm that moved across Kentucky just north of our area, coated the ground with a dusting of snow, and ended with a coating of frozen rain and sleet.
Needless to say, officials opted to keep the team bus off of the road and the players and coaches safe, and the season opener was postponed.
The Garrard County matchup between the Lady Lions has now been moved to Saturday, January 19, with the JV girls to tip at 3:00.
Lady Dawgs get off to a slow start, Dawgs move to 2-0
The Lady Dawgs and Bulldogs traveled to nearly the far western end of our 4th Region on Friday night to take on their counterparts at Franklin-Simpson High School, the Lady Lions and Lions, respectively.
For our Lady Bulldogs, their game went south in a hurry and long story short, they are off to an 0-1 start going into the stretch of three games on tap this week, Tuesday night at Monroe County, Friday night hosting Metcalfe County and Saturday in Bowling Green against Greenwood.
Coach Darrell Thompson undoubtedly spent the weekend and week in regroup mode and we'll see how the Lady Dawgs come out as this week's games progress.
The Bulldogs on the other hand came home with a win from Franklin-Simpson to take their record to a 2-0 mark as we head into this week's slate of games.
The Dawgs will face the exact same lineup of opponents as the Lady Dawgs through Saturday, with the Greenwood game being played at a different venue in Bowling Green, at South Warren with a 4:00 p.m. tip.
Told you this was going to get busy – but it's also going to get fun in a hurry.
Get on board now – these young players need to know their county fans are behind them.


Full Circle: First Nations Performance congratulates Yves Sioui Durand, of the Huron-Wendat nation, recipient of The Governor General's Performing Arts Award in the Lifetime Artistic Achievement Category (theatre) – one of the most prestigious national prizes in the field awarding artists for their lifetime achievement and for their exceptional contribution to the performing arts in Canada. Yves Sioui Durand is the first Aboriginal artist to receive the award in the Theatre category, the sixth Aboriginal artist in Canada awarded in the Performing Arts category and the second Aboriginal artist from Quebec to be awarded a GGPAA. A prize both paying tribute to an outstanding achievement and recognizing the significance of contemporary Aboriginal Francophone dramaturgy in Canada.
Yves Sioui Durand, author, actor, director, and filmmaker is, with Catherine Joncas, co-founder of Ondinnok, the first Aboriginal francophone theatre company in Canada within which, since 1985, he created his work.
A theatre of research and creation, Ondinnok – a Huron word meaning: 'a theatrical healing ritual that reveals the secret desire of the soul' – has, since its founding, focussed its work on the distinctive mythologies and cosmologies of the Aboriginal peoples. From April 1st to June 22nd 2017, Ondinnok will present, on stages throughout Montreal, its Aboriginal Spring of Art THREE including multidisciplinary artistic programs and a 'State of Affairs' on the conditions of Aboriginal Arts in Quebec.


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HomeSPECIAL FEATUREUN SRSG Mrs. Zainab Bangura addresses Council on Foreign Relations
UN SRSG Mrs. Zainab Bangura addresses Council on Foreign Relations
July 2, 2016 Publisher and Chief Executive Officer KABS KANU SPECIAL FEATURE, Uncategorized 0
The Special Representative of the UN Secretary General on Sexual Violence in Conflict was invited by the Council For Foreign Relations which is one of the big and influential Think Tank institutions in the US. She was asked to give this talk and engage in a Question and answer session with some of its members in line with the huge advances been made on this issue within the last few years both at the UN Security Council and the UN General Assembly.
It must be noted that UN Security Council Resolution 1820(2008), acknowledge that sexual
violence employed as a tactic of war can be a threat to the maintenance of
International peace and security.
Secondly, UN Security Council Resolution 2242(2015) notes that sexual violence
is used not as a tactic of war, but also as a tactic of terror by certain
extremist groups, as a means to advance their key strategic objectives.
Thirdly, The Secretary General's Plan of Action to Prevent Violent Extremism,
adopted by General Assembly Resolution on the 12th February, 2016, notes
that we must ensure that the protection and empowerment of women is a
central consideration of the strategies devised to counter terrorism and
violent extremism.
Finally, General Assembly through Resolution A/RES/69/293 adopted on 13th
July 2015 designated 19 June International Day for the Elimination of
sexual violence in conflict, to focus attention on the crime and honor the
survivors.
Remarks of SRSG Zainab Hawa Bangura during the Roundtable discussion on
"Violent Extremism & Sexual Violence as a Weapon of War"
Tuesday, 28 June 2016, 17:30 – 19:00
Council on Foreign Relations, 58 E. 68th St
Professor Catherine Powell, Fellow for Women and Foreign Policy at the Council on Foreign Relations,
Distinguished participants, ladies and gentlemen, good evening.
I would like to thank the Council on Foreign Relations for hosting this roundtable discussion, and for supporting efforts to advance the Women, Peace and Security agenda, both nationally and internationally.
This meeting is particularly timely, as just last week we observed the first International Day for the Elimination of Sexual Violence in Conflict. This date – the 19th of June – was designated by the UN General Assembly as a moment to stand in solidarity with the survivors, and with those working on the frontlines to support them, often at great personal risk.
To mark the occasion, my Office has displayed a series of photographs in the United Nations lobby. The aim of this exhibit is to put names and faces to crimes that have long been obscured by the so-called "fog of war".
One image is that of a survivor named Nasima, who endured sexual enslavement in ISIL captivity. She says: "When ISIL heard an airplane overhead, they would send me out; they thought that if the pilots saw me, they would not bomb them. But I hoped they would". For Nasima, bombs were preferable to repeated and relentless rape.
Another survivor featured in the exhibit is Sadiya. She was kidnapped by Boko Haram and fell pregnant as a result of rape. When she was eventually released, the local militias that were fighting Boko Haram threatened her, saying that they would return to kill her baby as soon as it was born. Sadiya's story shows how women can be victims of both terrorism, and the counter-terrorism response. Women, who had no voice or choice in the waging of war, can find themselves targeted by men with guns on either side.
The International Day was also an occasion for taking stock of achievements and challenges.
Indeed, recent years have given us great cause for celebration, but also grave cause for concern.
It was on the 19th of June 2008, that the Security Council elevated the issue of sexual violence as a tactic of war onto its agenda. That meant re-thinking and re-framing it as a peace, security and Rule of Law imperative. This new paradigm has shifted the way that sexual violence is perceived: it can no longer be dismissed as an "inevitable byproduct of war", mere "collateral damage", or the "random acts of a few renegades".
Through a series of successive resolutions, the Council established a new international architecture for combating sexual violence during and in the wake of war. This included the creation of my mandate in 2009, as well as a Team of Experts on the Rule of Law, working out of my Office, to support governments to strengthen institutional safeguards against impunity. It also called for the deployment of dedicated Women's Protection Advisers in the field to improve monitoring and reporting as an evidence-base for action.
The United States played a leadership role in framing these breakthrough resolutions, affirming that "the challenge of sexual violence in conflict cannot and should not be separated from the broader security issues confronting the Council". This cast a political spotlight on a scourge that had been called "history's greatest silence", and the "world's least-condemned crime of war". It clarified – once and for all – that sexual violence is not cultural, but criminal.
The task conferred upon me, is to translate groundbreaking resolutions, into solutions on the ground.
To this end, I have agreed Joint Communiqués to combat sexual violence with the authorities of the DRC, the Central African Republic, Guinea, Somalia, and South Sudan, as well as frameworks of cooperation with regional bodies like the African Union and the League of Arab States.
Further to these agreements, the President of the DRC has appointed a Special Representative to fight sexual violence; the President of Somalia has committed to establishing a specialized crimes unit in the police; and the Central African authorities have passed legislation to establish a special criminal court, and a joint rapid response unit on sexual violence in the gendarmerie.
My Office also compiles the annual Report of the Secretary-General on Conflict-Related Sexual Violence, which spans 19 countries. We have brought copies of the most recent report for distribution today. As you will see, it includes a list that "names and shames" credibly suspected perpetrators of sexual violence. Listed parties are required to take immediate action to investigate and prosecute these crimes. The report is a critical accountability tool, as being listed can lead to sanctions and other political, diplomatic and legal consequences.
While accountability is critical, my Office does not just "name and shame"; we also take every opportunity to "raise and praise" good practice and progress made by Member States.
For instance, I recently visited Côte d'Ivoire where 47 commanders have signed a commitment to take action against sexual violence within their units, and the military high command has adopted a Code of Conduct on sexual violence prevention for all Ivorian soldiers. This sets a precedent that can inspire others, and be replicated elsewhere.
The past year has also seen major milestones in the quest for justice.
Last July, 16 high-ranking officials – including former President Moussa Dadis Camara – were indicted for the politically-motivated massacre and mass rape that took place in Guinea in 2009. My Team of Experts on the Rule of Law provided technical assistance to bring hundreds of cases to court.
In March of this year, the International Criminal Court delivered its first conviction – at the level of command responsibility – for sexual violence crimes. This trial, of former Congolese Vice-President, Jean-Pierre Bemba, may have concerned just one perpetrator, but it gave voice to thousands of victims and witnesses from across the Central African Republic, where he waged war.
In May, the Extraordinary African Chambers in Senegal convicted the former President of Chad, Hissène Habré, of war crimes and crimes against humanity, including rape and sexual slavery. Once again, this process amplified the stories of survivors, and exemplified the determination of human rights defenders.
These convictions send a powerful signal that no military or political leader is above the law, and no civilian is beneath its protection.
I firmly believe that prosecution is also a form of prevention. It can restrain the behavior of belligerents, deter future crimes, and break the vicious cycle of violence, impunity and revenge.
But to turn that vicious cycle into a virtuous cycle of rights, dignity and respect, we must deliver justice – not just law.
Justice is not something that can be confined to a courtroom. It entails validation, reparations, and service-delivery. The Colombian peace process sets a path-breaking precedent in terms of reparative justice for wartime rape. Hundreds of rape survivors have received compensation, land restitution, employment opportunities, and credit, as part of this process.
Overall, it is my view that the past decade has seen greater progress to fight sexual violence as a tactic of war, than the rest of human history combined.
Yet, just as we take stock of this evolution, we also confront stark new realities. This includes previously unforeseen – almost unimaginable – threats, such as the systematic use of sexual violence as a tactic of terrorism.
Terrorist and violent extremist groups are using sexual violence to advance their military, political, economic – and even ideological – aims. Without exception, the rise of violent extremism has been accompanied by crackdowns on women's rights and freedoms. Extremists know that to populate a territory, and control a population, you must first control the bodies of women.
Despite this, when we think of terrorism, we tend to think of hijacking, hostage-taking, explosions, and property destruction. But we cannot deplore the public face of terrorism, while ignoring the violence that terrorists inflict on women and girls in private, behind closed doors.
Even as we speak, over 3,000 women and children remain in ISIL captivity. They continue to be traded, trafficked, auctioned and ransomed, as part of the political economy of war and terror. ISIL treats them as a kind of currency: to compensate its fighters, attract new recruits, and consolidate its power.
When I visited the Middle East last year, I met girls who had been traded up to eight times during their two years in captivity. Each transaction turned a profit for their captors. Forced marriage and sexual slavery is not incidental, but integral, to ISIL's campaign of conquest and genocide, particularly against the Yazidi minority.
Right now, hundreds of Nigerian women and girls remain in the hands of Boko Haram, including over 200 of the 276 abducted "Chibok girls".
For these women and girls, justice delayed is more than justice denied: it is terror and trauma continued.
Trauma also lives on in the plight of children born of wartime rape, who remain in the shadows: marginalized, undocumented, and often stateless. Up to 8,000 children are estimated to have been born as a result of rape in Northern Uganda alone. Hundreds live in Bosnia, Rwanda, Kenya, Nigeria, my own country Sierra Leone, and elsewhere. This is both a human rights and a security issue: with scant education, skills or social ties, such children may have no other opportunities than those presented by the armed and extremist groups themselves.
The weapon of rape is consciously used to shred the social fabric, as the shame can turn victims into outcasts. After all they have endured, many abducted women, especially those who return home pregnant or with children, face the additional heartbreak of being shunned by their own family and community. As we strive to "bring back our girls", we must also find ways to bring them back to an environment of support and opportunity. It is critical to bring them back, not hold them back.
Rape, and the threat of rape, can create a climate of fear, which drives displacement, and further erodes community cohesion. The use of sexual violence as a "push factor" to displace persecuted minorities in and around Syria has been linked with the current mass migration crisis. Sexual violence remains a security risk in camps, informal settlements, and other places of supposed refuge.
Men and boys are also victims of sexual violence, including as a form of torture in contexts of detention and interrogation.
In addition, the targeting of individuals on the basis of their actual or perceived sexual orientation is of increasing concern, and has been a "blind-spot" in the Protection of Civilians response to date.
Ultimately, justice may be elusive for the thousands of civilians who have been abused by ISIL, Boko Haram, Al-Shabaab, Ansar Eddine, and other extremist groups that have no regard for international law or international legitimacy. But even if these groups are beyond the reach of judicial deterrence, we can and must mobilize the moral authority of progressive religious and traditional leaders. They have the power to help shift the shame of rape from the victims to the perpetrators, and support the social reintegration of survivors.
My Office is working with Al-Azhar University in Cairo to develop an Islamic counter-narrative to ISIL, and to negate their attempts to legitimize rape on religious terms. After all, no UN workshop on human rights will ever be as well-attended as Friday prayers or Sunday sermons!
ISIL and its affiliates are sophisticated in their marketing of savagery. Information is their oxygen, and we must find ways to suffocate them! This will require a communications counter-offensive. It will involve greater investment in the capacity of women's groups to lead grassroots efforts to curb extremism and youth radicalization. And it will compel us to keep the searchlight of international scrutiny on these historically-silenced crimes.
For me, everyday – not only the 19th of June – is a day to work towards the elimination of rape in war. It is a day to give hope to those who have survived, and to remember those who have fallen victim. These women and girls are not abstract statistics. They are mothers, daughters and sisters like Nasima of Iraq, Sadiya of Nigeria, and the countless others like them, across the long sweep of history, in nations torn by war.
Thank you, and I look forward to our discussion.
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58 Sitting MLAs, MPs Face Hate Speech Cases, Over 50% Are From BJP: ADR
Hate comments by political parties on online platform should also be monitored and those found guilty should be penalised, says the report.
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New Delhi: The role of 'hate' in the world of governance and politics seems to be gaining currency, with 58 sitting MLAs and MPs having declared cases related to hate speech. More than half of these (27) elected representatives are from the BJP alone, says a report by the Association for Democratic Reforms (ADR), a non-profit election watchdog.
Among the 58 elected representatives who have declared cases of hate speech, 15 are Lok Sabha MPs, out of which 10 are from the BJP alone.
Among the 43 sitting MLAs booked for hate speeches, 17 are from the BJP, five each from the TRS and AIMIM, including Asaduddin Owaisi, three from TDP, two each from TMC, Congress, JD(U) and Shiv Sena and one each form DMK, BSP, SP and two Independent MLAs.
The sitting MLAs/MPs from other parties who have declared hate-related cases are AIMIM and Telangana Rashtra Samiti (six each), Telugu Desam Party, Shiv Sena (three each), Trinamool Congress, Congress, Independents, Janata Dal (United) with two each and the Assam-based AIDUF, Bahujan Samaj party, DMK, PMK and Samajwadi Party with one elected representative each with hate-related cases.
State-wise, Uttar Pradesh accounts for the highest number (15) of MPs and MLAs with hate related cases. Incidentally, BJP-ruled UP is also the state that recorded the highest number of communal incidents, with a rise of 17% in 2017.
UP is followed by Telangana where 13 sitting MLas/MPs have declared hate-related cases, followed by Karnataka and Maharashtra (five each), Bihar (four), Andhra Pradesh (three), Gujarat, Tamil Nadu, Uttarakhand and West Bengal (two each) and Jharkhand, Madhya Pradesh, Rajasthan, Assam and Delhi (one each).
ADR, which analysed the affidavits submitted by the elected candidates to the Election Commission, said it fully supported the Law Commission's report of March 2017 which suggested amendments to the model code of conduct to include 'hate speeches', which pose a "complex challenges to freedom of speech and expression."
It also called for strict action against candidates giving hate speeches prior and during the elections, and against the elected legislators even after the elections, if found guilty of indulging in 'hate speech, while suggesting fast-tracking of cases against MPs and MLAs in a time-bound manner.
" Political parties must not give tickets to candidates who have declared serious criminal cases against themselves," said ADR.
On the growing use and role of social media platform during elections, the ADR said Internet was an important tool for disseminating information and opinions, but also served as a platform for disseminating unlawful speech. "Political parties have been misusing the medium for unlawful statements. Hence, it is recommended that such unlawful statements on online platforms should be monitored and if the person found guilty, they should be penalised," it added.


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June 11 (Reuters) - The following bids, mergers, acquisitions and disposals were reported by 2000 GMT on Monday:
** KKR & Co said it will buy Envision Healthcare Corp, one of biggest U.S. providers of physicians to hospitals, in a deal valued at $5.57 billion as it builds up its healthcare portfolio.
** Factory automation equipment maker Rockwell Automation said it would buy an 8.4 percent stake in PTC for $1 billion as it looks to build on its software capabilities to make smarter manufacturing processes for customers.
** A group of Takeda Pharmaceutical Co Ltd shareholders is trying to build support to block the $62 billion acquisition of London-listed Shire Plc at an extraordinary general meeting, a leading member of the group told Reuters.
** Medical device maker Stryker Corp has made a takeover approach to rival Boston Scientific Corp, the Wall Street Journal reported, a combination that would give Stryker a strong position in stroke-preventing heart products.
** Workday Inc said it would buy Adaptive Insights Inc in a deal valued at $1.55 billion, paying a hefty premium for the cloud-based company that was expected to go public this week.
** Pebblebrook Hotel Trust raised its offer to buy fellow U.S. hotel owner LaSalle Hotel Properties, seeking to scuttle Blackstone Group LP's $3.7 billion deal with the company.
** WeBuyAnyCar owner BCA Marketplace said it had rejected a preliminary 1.6 billion pound ($2.15 billion) cash takeover offer from London-based private equity firm Apax Partners.
** Rent-A-Center Inc said it received an increased offer to acquire the company from one of the suitors that was involved in its sale process, hours after the rent-to-own furniture retailer said it ended its strategic review.
** A unit of Chinese state-run conglomerate CITIC Ltd will buy a near 20 percent stake in Canada's Ivanhoe Mines for about C$723 million ($555 million), the companies said.
** Mars Petcare is to buy European animal hospital operator AniCura, its second such deal this month, as the world's largest pet food maker expands its veterinary business amid a boom in pet-related spending.
** Qatar's Commercial Bank (CBQ) said on Sunday it has ended talks with United Arab Emirates-based Tabarak Investment to buy its 40 percent stake in United Arab Bank , after the pair failed to agree terms.
** U.S.-based investment firm Neuberger Berman LLC is close to acquiring a 25 percent stake in Brazilian college Uniasselvi for $100 million, one source with knowledge of the matter told Reuters.
** A U.S. panel that reviews foreign investments for potential national security threats has approved China Oceanwide Holdings Group's purchase of insurer Genworth Financial, the two companies said on Saturday.
** Internet Gold - Golden Lines said on Sunday it was considering offers to sell part or all of its shares in B Communications, through which it controls Israel's largest telecoms group, Bezeq.
** Germany's Fresenius Medical Care (FMC) has agreed to take a $150 million stake in U.S. tissue engineering firm Humacyte Inc and will become the exclusive distributor of the company's bioengineered blood vessels once they win approval.
** Finnish utility Fortum is set to gain unconditional EU approval to acquire a 46.65 percent stake in German energy group Uniper from E.ON, three people familiar with the matter said.
** France's largest food retailer Carrefour is teaming up with Google to boost its online shopping business on its home turf, where rivals are also launching e-commerce offensives. (Compiled by Nivedita Balu and Arunima Banerjee in Bengaluru)
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FOUR-DAY CLIMATE SERVICES WORKSHOP CONVENES IN ST. KITTS AND NEVIS
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Basseterre, St. Kitts, June 16, 2022 (SKNIS): Several key stakeholders from the Meteorology and Water Services Departments in St. Kitts and Nevis are currently gathered at the St. Kitts Marriott Resort for a four-day (June 13-16) climate services workshop aimed at improving the capacity in climate forecasting in the Federation.
"This workshop is part of a larger project that is looking at improving the capacity of certain national institutions, such as the Meteorological (MET) Services, in order to assist the Federation in meeting its climate change targets," said Auren Manners, Director of Economic Affairs & PSIP, Ministry of Sustainable Development. "We are here today, not only with the MET Services, but also the Water Services to examine the nexus between climate change and our hydrological conditions, and how climate forecasting can help us to mitigate the impact of drought and the impact on water supply."
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Mr. Manners reflected on the project dubbed "Capacity building to support Accreditation, Planning, Programming and Implementation of GCF-funded activities in St. Kitts and Nevis."
"When developing this project, it was noted that there is limited climate change capacity at the agency, sector and national level which results in delays or lack of implementation of critical, climate change activities, which are important, not only in meeting international targets, but also at the local level to protect our citizens, especially when looking at issues such as sea-level rise, threats to coastal communities, saltwater intrusion on the aquifer, the impacts of more severe storms, and, an issue that has been on our minds recently, drought," he said.
According to Mr. Manners, the Project recognizes that entities such as the MET Services, and Water Services, must be strengthened to provide the relevant data collection and other services needed to advance climate change adaptation. These agencies are a critical part of the country's Multi-Hazard Early Warning Systems (MHEWS) and their mandates must be broadened if the Federation is to effectively address climate change and increase resilience.
Adrian Trotman, Chief of Applied Meteorology and Climatology at the Caribbean Institute of Meteorology and Hydrology (CIMH) said that stakeholders are being trained in the art of climate services provision and climate forecasting.
"When we talk about climate services we are talking about being able to prepare, produce and deliver climate information related to monitoring the climate from month to month. "The monitoring and forecasting information together, as we look at the recent past and we look forward into the next three (3) to six (6) months, would be able to provide critical decision-making information for climate-sensitive sectors in St. Kitts and Nevis."
Mr. Trotman indicated that the workshop falls under phase one (1) of the project, while phase two (2) is expected to commence with the engagement process between the climate services providers and climate-sensitive sectors to enhance decision-making.
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Q: What is actually harmful in to use css hacks instead of IE conditional stylesheets? What is harmful in to use css hacks instead of IE conditional stylesheets. What is bad with css hack , will i get any problem in css management now or in future with hacks. I read many articles but haven't found any good reason.
adding extra external conditional stylesheet means one more HTTP request.

A: Relying on a CSS hack means two things could possibly happen:

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*A patch or update could fix the hack you're relying on, breaking your site until you find out about it

*Future browsers could also have buggy reactions to the hack, making your stylesheets unstable - you would need to remove the hack to fix for the newer browser and find a new workaround for the old one. Again, your site would be broken until you find out about the problem.

Either way, the safest thing to do is use standards-compliant stylesheets and conditional comments. By definition, support for these will only get better with time, so you are essentially future-proofing your site.
If you're especially concerned about the overhead of an extra stylesheet for certain browsers, consider putting them inline. Your overrides should typically be minimal - 90+% of styles should be shared across all platforms.

A: Biggest reason: Hacks usually rely on some implementation flaw - but if MS fixes the flaw, your hack won't work (or at least not the way you intended.)
If you use proper conditional comments, it will weather the updates fairly predictably.
This is why there was such a furor over IE7 and IE8 - both fixed a lot of bugs and jacked up a lot of sites that relied on IE6 bugs.


I've found but a single Superman story to approach the true gospel message. It's in a 2000 graphic novel, Mann and Superman.
The plot is simple: Small-time crook Marty Mann heists a priceless gem with the power to grant a man's fondest wish. Marty wishes to be Superman. One body-switch later, Superman finds he has become a loser with unpaid bills and a contemptuous son. He first struggles with his predicament, then decides to turn Marty's life around from within his own body.
Meanwhile, with the Man of Steel's muscles, Marty has the power and exaltation he's always wanted—but remains a failure. Superman, however, has made Marty a man worthy of his son's respect. The tale ends with a chastened Marty renouncing power in favor of a new life, a life made possible only by Superman's efforts in Marty's own weak flesh.
Sound familiar? It's reminiscent of the "emptying" of the God persona and the eternal Son's assumption of ordinary manhood. The personal redemption that follows is as gospel a message as any tract. Like Marty Mann, we who follow Christ experience new life—and more: eternal life, sharing our Savior's glory. There will come a morning when we wake to discover we really can leap tall buildings in a single bound, when the glasses are off, and the glory is on us.
That glory is ultimately what Superman represents. It's why we can hardly wait for his return to the big screen, and it's why, as believers, we anticipate a much greater Return. For what a fictional savior can never give us, Jesus will bring when He comes again. I can't wait.


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Singer Wayne Newton arrives at Caesars Palace during the resort's 50th anniversary gala Saturday, Aug. 6, 2016, in Las Vegas.
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Cleopatra's Barge recently closed out a limited run of shows from Paul Shaffer and was also home to "The Cocktail Cabaret." The David Perrico Pop Strings Orchestra takes the Barge stage Friday and Saturday nights at 10 p.m. after the 8 p.m. Pop 40 act. Puddles Pity Party, the seven-foot-tall singing clown recently seen on "America's Got Talent," will perform at the lounge January 17-19, 24-26 and February 7-9.


PROVO, Utah – BYU women's volleyball officially began preparations for the 2015 season Monday with team practices.
The Cougars will continue to practice until their first scrimmage, the Blue/White match, held Saturday, Aug. 22, at 1 p.m. MDT at the Smith Fieldhouse. Admission is free for the public.
Following the match, a 12-and-under kid's clinic will be hosted by the team, free of charge.
BYU looks to build off of its most successful season in school history in 2014, coming off a 30-5 record, a WCC title and a trip to the national championship match of the NCAA tournament.
The Cougars return several starters from last year's squad, including Amy Boswell, Alexa Gray and Whitney Young Howard. Additionally, libero Ciara Parker as well as starters Camry Godfrey Willardson and Alohi Robins-Hardy return at the setter position.
The first official match of the season takes place Friday, Aug. 28, at 5 p.m. PDT against Chicago State, beginning the Women of Troy Baden Invitational at USC.


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Albany - Anthony J. George, 98 of Albany, passed away Nov. 24, 2021. He was born Oct. 26, 1923, to the late Angelo and Josephine Morrell George. He was predeceased by his wife of 69 years, Martha, three brothers and two sisters. He is survived by daughters Barbara (William) Korn, Irene Landi, and Patricia (Gregory) Hamilton, six grandchildren, six great grandchildren, a sister, Mary LaBarre of Florida, and many nieces and nephews. A World War II veteran, he served as a staff sergeant in the Army-Air Force working as an airplane and engine mechanic. Tony was what people mean when they say "salt of the earth". He was kind and supportive of the women in his life, his mother, wife, and daughters. He was frugal and hard working. He enjoyed his vegetable garden and was always willing to share with his family and neighbors. One neighbor commented that "he was about the best gardener since God made Eden". Anthony's funeral mass will be celebrated at 10:00 a.m. Monday, November 29, 2021 at Christ Our Light Church, 1 Maria Dr., Loudonville. Entombment will be at St. Agnes Cemetery in Menands. Relatives and friends are invited and may also call at the church Monday morning from 9 - 10 a.m., prior to the mass. In lieu of flowers, please consider making a donation in his name to a charity of your choice.
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As we regularly discuss on our blog, preparing a comprehensive estate plan is a process that involves considering a number of different options in light of your own unique personal needs and circumstances. While some individuals may be able to plan their entire estates with a revocable living trust, a basic "pour-over" will, and some beneficiary designations, others will frequently need to use a variety of estate planning tools in order to minimize their estate's tax burden while ensuring that their final wishes are carried through with minimal burdens for their loved ones.
One often-overlooked estate planning tool that can have significant value under a wide variety of circumstances: Life insurance. When used appropriately in conjunction with other estate planning tools, life insurance policies can provide tax-free security for your beneficiaries after your death, while also helping ensure that assets with sentimental value remain within the family.
Term Life Insurance – Provides a set amount of coverage for a period of years, with your beneficiaries receiving payment if you die while the policy remains in effect.
"Permanent" Life Insurance – Provides coverage for your entire lifetime, typically with premiums that are higher than those for term life insurance, but also with the potential for appreciation in benefits.
Among the benefits of life insurance is that the proceeds paid to your beneficiaries will generally be tax-free. There are certain exceptions, but these can typically be addressed with careful planning.
Long-term care insurance is exactly like it sounds: It provides coverage for long-term care expenses should you incur them in the future. Long-term care insurance policies come with numerous options – almost too many to consider – and predicting what you will need and when you will need it while you are still eligible to purchase coverage (you won't be able to buy coverage if you are in poor health) presents some obvious challenges.
Recently, long-term care insurance premium has become extremely high with a rising nursing home cost and many families in need are not able to afford it anymore.
Life insurance premiums are generally lower than long-term care insurance premiums.
You may never need long-term care, and unused life insurance benefits pass down to beneficiaries instead of being lost with long term care insurance.
You have more planning options when it comes to maximizing the value of a life insurance policy.
As we mentioned above, when it comes to incorporating life insurance into your estate plan, you have numerous options available. However, two of the most popular options are: (i) using an irrevocable life insurance trust, and (ii) using as a supplement in a charitable remainder trust.
The overall size of your estate (and therefore your potential estate tax liability) is significantly reduced.
Since your estate tax bill will be lower, you will not need to purchase as much coverage for your beneficiaries.
The cash value of the policy will be better protected from your creditors should you incur a substantial liability during your lifetime.
Since an irrevocable life insurance trust is, by its nature, irrevocable, it is important to thoroughly consider your options and the requirements for establishing an ILIT before you move forward with including an ILIT in your estate plan. But, under the right circumstances, a carefully planned ILIT can have tremendous value as both an estate planning tool and an asset protection strategy.
Another popular option among those with charitable (and tax liability reduction) goals is to use a life insurance policy to replace values of properties given to a charity through a charitable remainder trust. You contribute your properties to a charitable remainder trust and you (and your loved ones after your death) receive an income stream in the form of either a fixed annuity or a payment based upon a percentage of the value of the trust's assets. At the end of specified period, often when a death occurs, a certain percentage of trust assets go to a designated charity.
In order to replace trust assets that have been given to charity, many families fund life insurance with an income stream generated from the charitable remainder trust. This can substantially increase the payments to your loved ones, tax-free.
Know the Value of Your Estate. First, you need to know the value of your estate. Will your loved ones have the money they need without life insurance? Will your loved ones have a substantial estate tax bill if you do not plan accordingly? These are critical questions for determining whether life insurance makes sense for your personal circumstances.
Assess Future Needs of Your Loved Ones. If your estate is likely to fall short of meeting the needs of your loved ones, how much life insurance should you purchase? You want to make sure your coverage is sufficient, but you also do not want to waste money on unnecessary premiums.
Research Potential Issuers. Like all types of insurance, life insurance issuers are a dime a dozen. Different issuers offer different coverage options, different premiums, and different levels of client service, and these are all issues you should consider when planning for your loved ones' future needs.
Choose Your Beneficiaries. When you read, "loved ones," who comes to mind? Your spouse? Your children? A dependent sibling or parent? You need to decide who will be entitled to the proceeds of your life insurance policy after your death.
Choose a Trustee. If you are going to establish a life insurance trust or a charitable remainder trust, who (or what charity) will you choose to serve as the trustee? For an ILIT, it is important to choose someone who is both able and willing to administer your trust effectively. For a charitable remainder trust, your options are vast, and you need to make an informed decision based upon your personal interests, your research of different charitable organizations, and a number of other pertinent considerations.
If you would like more information about incorporating a life insurance policy into your estate plan, contact Jiah Kim & Associates. To schedule an initial estate planning consultation, call (646) 389-5065 or choose an available slot on our calendar now.


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Bible > Sermons > 1 John 4:7-10
Love is of God
Bp. Stevens.
Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loves is born of God, and knows God.…
The point which I wish to illustrate is that all the love in the universe is the gift of God. This proposition involves consequences of the most responsible character. Let us first unfold the principle, and then ascertain some of its resulting consequences. When the apostle tells us that "God is love" he wishes to convey to us the idea that love is the great motive power of the Divine Being. Love is that which shapes and guides all His attributes, so that each is manifested under the working of love, and each directed to the securing of love. But when the apostle says "Love is of God" he looks at love from another standpoint. He marks it in its human manifestations; and beholding it not so much as a great and original attribute of the Most High, but as seen in daily life, ramifying through all the grades and conditions of society, he traces the affection to its source, and says, "Love is of God."
1. Take the first love which one human being ever felt for another — conjugal love — and mark how that is of God. In making the woman out of the rib of man — in uniting them, by the act of God Himself, in holy wedlock; in inspiring prophets and apostles to urge men to love their wives as their own bodies; and in likening the union of husband and wife to the mystical union which exists between Christ and the Church — God has indicated, by the most direct and authoritative way, that He was the author and giver of conjugal affection.
2. Take the second love which grew up on earth — parental love — and see how this is of God. We say, in common parlance, that it is natural for a man to love his child. But what constitutes the naturalness of this love, other than the fact that God implanted it in parents' hearts, as a part of their moral constitution?
3. Take the third kind of affection, which, in the order of time, rises in the human breast — the love of children for parents — and we shall find the same truth holds here also. What would a household be, devoid of children's love? What would a parent's heart be if its outgoings of affection found no response in prattling boys and gentle girls? And how much of the sunlight of home would become darkness if filial love were blotted out from mind and memory and heart? Filial love constitutes a large part of human happiness, and pervades every class and condition of our race, and as it could never, by its very nature, create itself, because it is begotten before reason and judgment begin their workings, it must be Divine.
4. The same line of remark applies also to that love of kindred which Constitutes a part of man's moral being. He it is "who setteth the solitary in families," who groups men into social circles, and, bestowing upon His creatures affections, calls out these affections in the various forms of social and domestic life.
5. Once more, look at love in the form of philanthropy. Here we behold it breaking over the dikes and channels of conjugal, family, or social affection, and spreading away like the Nile in its overflow, until it covers the entire lowlands of our race. This earth-encompassing and man-elevating love is of God. It is because the Bible tells us that we have one common Father, one common Saviour, one common Comforter, one common salvation, and one common earthly destiny. Now, what would earth be without these various kinds of love? What without philanthropy? It would be a mass of conglomerate selfishness, a world of war, of social discord, and of domestic misery. What would earth be without this love of kindred? The interlacing bonds of family with family would be sundered; society would be disintegrated, save only when force or interest made a union of what was else repulsive and undesired. What would the world be without filial or parental love? A family where there was parental authority without parental love, and where filial obedience was required without filial affection rendered, would not be a home but a prison. And above all, what would earth be without conjugal love — if there was no heart union between man and wife; no love to cheer, soften, and irradiate the lot of woman; no responsive affection to nerve and lift up and make happy the soul of man; if the marriage tie was only a bond of interest or of lust — a bond galling as the manacle of the convict? It would be as if some angel of the pit should pass through this world and turn its green fields into sand wastes, its forest-crowned and picturesque hills into bald rock, its floral kingdom into bramble land, its dancing, leaping, silvery waters into asphaltic streams, its exquisitely tinged clouds and its brilliant sunsets into Cimmerian gloom, its thousand bird melodies into discordant screams. Seeing, then, that with all man's sins and ill-doings, with all God's punishments and curses, He has continued to us this love, the question arises, Have you ever seriously thought how much you ought to love God, who has given you the inestimable boon of human affection? Can you sum up your debt to Him for this one gift? Yet, when man rebelled against God, and cast off His sway, and virtually said to Him, "We desire not a knowledge of Thy ways," God might most justly have stripped him of love and left him to the curse of the loveless and the unloved. It was His love to us which caused Him to continue love in us, There is no love in hell. There is one other aspect of the subject which I must touch upon. Wondrous as is the fact that, notwithstanding our sins, God still continued to us human love, and highly exalting as that fact is of His grace and mercy, it is not so great a display of His love as that manifested in providing for man's redemption.
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KJV: Beloved, let us love one another: for love is of God; and every one that loveth is born of God, and knoweth God.
WEB: Beloved, let us love one another, for love is of God; and everyone who loves is born of God, and knows God.


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Football and the Fans: What Marketers can Learn from Game Day & Beyond
If you haven't heard by now, football is officially back, which means some of the most creative and engaging campaigns around the nation are off and running.
This time of year, my life becomes all about football as I work with dozens and dozens of NFL and college teams to bring these campaigns to life. With a few weeks of regular season now in the books, I wanted to take a minute to highlight some of my favorite activations so far. The fan engagement and storytelling has been some of the best I've seen, and is something we can draw some insight from for any team, brand, or media company.
Let's start with some action around the NFL. Specifically, I want to give a shout out to a few of our partners leading the way on the broadcast side using Tagboard to not only engage fans at the game, but to interact with those tuning in at home and bring meaningful content into the broadcast.
Adding to the story in Kansas City
One of our newest partners, the Kansas City Chiefs, took an approach on both ends of the spectrum first utilizing a lower third display to highlight an intriguing statistic about Patrick Mahomes touchdown pass, but later using the same display to have some fun with their fans at home. It's important in any production to mix it up and accommodate the wide variety of fans tuning in; some of them are data heads who want to see all the numbers, while some want answers to the important questions.
Bringing Fans Behind the Scenes in Baltimore
Meanwhile in Baltimore, the Ravens brought their fans closer to the team by showcasing content posted by their players throughout the preseason. In this example, they displayed Eric Weddle's social feed and highlighted a post in which he had his kid write "I will follow the rules" over and over again. Though it seems like a simple 30 second segment, features like this where you're able to humanize the players on the team and remind fans that these athletes are people just like you and me can be extremely powerful.
Sponsoring Social in Seattle
Who needs commercial breaks when you have Tagboard? The Seahawks took to social with a sponsored display to fill time on their training camp Periscope and it was looking 💯.
To wrap up preseason, I had the privilege of joining the Vikings digital team in Nashville to produce the 2nd annual #Minnesocial broadcast. From ticker comments and lower third questions for the booth, to Snapchat stories and fans checking in on the Heatmap, it was the perfect example of how you get your fans excited about week 4 of preseason. More to come on this in a future post!
Web & Mobile Properties
Now let's shift gears and check out what teams are up to on their digital properties. Regardless of what you do in venue or on broadcast, web embeds are a fun and easy way to bolster the conversation online or simply showcase the incredible content your digital team is pushing out. Every campaign should have a hashtag, and every hashtag should have a Tagboard embed to promote it.
Family Fun in Oklahoma
Take the Oklahoma Sooners for example; they not only integrated Tagboard throughout their site to show off all of their own content, but they also continue to come up with fun fan-centered campaigns to drive engagement with their younger audience. If you take a look around soonersports.com, you'll find content from all sports embedded onto the homepage, while each sport-specific page shows posts only relevant to that page. Love this website redesign!
The creators of quite possibly the cutest tagboard embed last year (#MyFirstOUGame featuring nothing but adorable babies), OU was back at it again this year with their #SoonerSketches campaign promoting submissions from all their young fans. Turns out they have some great little artists over in Norman!
Challenge in Carolina
Hopping back to the NFL, the Carolina Panthers ran a fan-favorite campaign coined #PanthersLogoChallenge leading up to the season as a prelude to unveiling their logo on the field at the 50-yard line; the first time in 23 years that the logo has been on the field. The campaign encouraged fans to submit photos of the Panthers logo everywhere in an effort convince new owner, David Tepper, to put the logo on the field, and boy did it work! Tepper himself was found checking out the submissions on Tagboard, and eventually he gave in.
Two quick takeaways from this campaign:
It's important to find creative ways to get your fans involved and make them feel like they have an impact. This is perhaps the perfect example of how to give your fans a voice since it concludes with a payoff that all the fans contributed to.
It's one thing to promote a campaign on social, but having a place to collect and display the submissions will always help give it more lift. Every hashtag campaign needs an embed remember?
Stadium Displays
Though I love the innovation and creativity our partners continue to show on broadcast/digital, it wouldn't be right to end this blog post without a few badass stadium displays.
An oval screen; every designers dream right? Not quite, but hey we made it work!
Kansas City Chiefs Mural Display
Love the simplicity of this design and the emphasis on the fans themselves!
Oakland Raiders Mosaic Display
Find yourself in an absurd 6 hour rain delay? A little fun with fan Snapchat content can help fill the time..
University of Louisville Snapchat Display
Tagboard displays come in all shapes and sizes! If you have the ability to break up your screen into different sections like this, we can find a way to plug content in there.
Oklahoma Sooners Mosaic & Waterfall Displays
Okay just a few more I swear…Lets rapid fire through these.
Though football season is certainly one of the busiest times of the year for me and the sports team here, it's also my favorite time because we get to help contribute to these incredible campaigns.
If you have an upcoming social campaign or live stream in mind, let's connect and brainstorm some new ways to promote it and improve the overall performance with the power of display!


For modular home builders, pricing is one of the biggest challenges you face.
Have you ever wondered by 80% of all modular home builders close their doors within 5 years of starting their business?
Modular home builders live in a lower-margin, highly competitive environment. It makes a builder risk setting prices too high and maybe push potential new home buyers away or risk setting prices too low and you cut profits.
This "pricing paradox" drives most builders to default to 'beating' your competitor's price. However, risk in most cases can be eliminated by getting better information. Generally, the more you know, the less risk you perceive. From that perspective, pricing is all about getting as much information as you can about your market, your customers and your own internal numbers that drive your profit.
There are no secrets in business, there is just information you don't know yet.
When it comes to pricing, here are four things to avoid. If you can avoid these, you'll not only be ahead of your competition, but also you'll be ahead of most other businesses.
There are 4 major components in every modular home that you have to watch carefully.
For some builders, this isn't a mistake, it's an entire strategy, and it's not a very good one. Going in too low all the time might be great for your top-line revenue number, but it wreaks havoc on your bottom-line profit number--the one you will need to survive. You need to profit and price accordingly. You might not get business out of all of your price-conscious customers, but that's OK. Your competition will--and then they will have to figure out how to profit from the "price shoppers" when there is little or no profit to make.
Margin is always based on sales price. Markup is always based on cost. I recently talked with a builder who didn't understand the difference and thought a 20% markup on his costs was the same as a 20% margin. When I finished explaining that when his costs are $200,000 and he adds a 20% markup, his selling price is $240,000 but he prices his homes using a 20% margin that same house has a retail of $250,000. After I finished he realized the difference. Don't make the same mistake.
In order to price correctly--every cost needs to be identified. Even "little" things like job johnnies, clean up people and even pizza lunches for the set crews can typically add up to 2 percent on every house. Other items, like delivery or shipping costs, can also sneak up on you.
View them as diligently as you would your cost of goods sold as having an impact on your bottom-line.
Instead of "following" your competition, do a bit more homework and start to discover and uncover the value you truly offer your customers. Then price for value. That way, you are in an excellent position to defend your price against the competition, with a lengthy list of your own "reasons why" your homes are worth their price.
Every customer that comes into my office I tell them that if they are just going to look at the bottom number and nothing else we are not their builder. They need to look at all line items that bring in the final cost. We include EVERYTHING from demo through CO and beyond. If they don't make a change they will not see a single additional invoice and their contract number is their number. So many other builders put in unrealistic allowances (such as tile for labor and material including sub floor install of $2.00/sq. ft.-completely unrealistic). They during the job hit them every other day with upcharges-this is not way to go through a job. With our "all in number" it makes the job much less stressful, frustrating and in the end a MUCH happier customer. Surprises are not fun for the customer typically surprise is spelled MONEY. Thanks again for a great article.
Great article coach. We don't mind letting customers walk when price is their only concern. If a guy down the street wants to undercut our prices, they aren't going to be in business very long. We set our prices the same way - Anthony does. Unless the customer adds something after the contract is signed, they never get another charge from us. If we miscalculated a price, that's a learning lesson for us and we change it for the next time. We've had a lot of learning lessons over the years.
I hear the word "Price" a lot in this article and from potential clients. I don't talk price, I talk value.


Carol & Johnny got married in a beautiful little church in Gowran, Co. Kilkenny & held their reception afterwards in Lyrath Estate Hotel. They were both amazingly calm and took the whole day completely in their stride. A lot of their calmness has obviously rubbed off on their beautiful little girl Anna who was more than happy to have her photo taken…..she even managed to stay the course for the family shots! I completely fell in love with Carol's vintage veil….it added a lovely nostalgic & romantic feel to the photos. Everything about the day felt so personal – to top it all off Carol gave an amazing piano recital for all 100 guests!
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Today was our first late morning since I wanted to do the BMW museum premium tour which didn't start until 11:15am. We had breakfast the hotel again this morning but we got smarter and ordered eggs and specialty coffee from the waitress which were included.
I'm Tom Cruise at BMW Welt!
We arrived at BMW welt at around 10:15am but unfortunately tickets were already sold out for the premium tour, so we just wandered the welt and the museum. If you are interested, you might want to book ahead since we didn't. The welt is free, the museum costs 10 €. It took us 3 hours to do both, and we left at 1:15pm. The museum is well worth it. The welt on the other hand felt like a glorified showroom. We spent probably two hours at the museum and an hour at the welt. This included lots of pictures at both. The museum gave me a greater appreciation for BMW. It talks about their history, where they came from, vehicles that they've made, and they have lots of galleries that show their old vehicles and showed how they changed.
BMW 3 Series from 1966 to present day.
Next up is Nymphenburg palace. We arrived at around 1:45pm and had our sandwiches in the car and went in after. We did the museum, porcelain museum, amalienburg, pagodaburg, and maximilian. These all have a cost to them (included with our 14-day pass), but the grounds are free to visit and parking is free as well. It is up to you to decide if it is worth the cost to visit the sites. Personally, I think they were neat to see and they were different, but they did not live up to expectations. The grounds however are really impressive, given up how massive the site is and you can just wander around and enjoy your day. In my opinion, Neuschwanstein and Linderhof had better interior areas, and I would say that Linderhof and Nymphenburg both have very nice exteriors (I'm referring to the castle, gardens and grounds as a whole).
One of many sleighs inside Nymphenburg's Carriage Museum.
One of many carriages inside Nymphenburg's Carriage Museum.
Porcelain in the Chinese Room (notice how the vases are actually pieced together incorrectly).
Me jumping at the end of Nymphenburg (you can see it off in the distance).
A prayer room, notice how everything is actually made out of shells.
Augustiner brau munchen is where we stopped for dinner, a restaurant near Nymphenburg. We knew we weren't in tourist land anymore since they did not have English menus nor did they really know how to translate what they have. Tracey and I played it safe while Allison got a mystery pork dish. It actually turned out to be a bacon stuff pork lion with onions and it was the tastiest of the bunch. I guess we should've been more adventurous!
Schnitzel on the left, pork on the right.
Tomorrow, we visit Dachau, a concentration camp, return the car, and head to Salzburg by train in the afternoon.


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