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Army of Crime (2009) Dir: Robert Guidiguian
An exciting and thoughtful movie about resistance and collaboration in Occupied Paris: based on an actual Resistance group and its formation, actions and betrayal.
Army of Crime is essential viewing for anyone interested in France under Nazi Occupation and the controversial issues of Resistance and Collaboration. At its most basic level, as a war movie, Guediguian's movie is exciting, with impressively mounted scenes of violent action.It generates considerable tension. Army of Crime avoids false heroics and sentimentality. It also successfully integrates a few romantic scenes, as well as careful observation of the process of setting up a resistance cell and planning attacks along with dynamic set-pieces.
On another level Army of Crime also succeeds in the uniqueness of its subject-matter. It is the only movie in the Resistance / Occupation genre that focuses on the role of resistance fighters whose members were drawn from foreign refugees who had sought freedom in pre-war France from persecution for their anti-fascist views: Poles, Spaniards, Armenians, Hungarians, even Italians. Some were immigrant workers. Many of them were Jews and/or Communists. Some had married French citizens. Of the members of resistance cell that is the focus of the movie, the 'Manouchian group' (named after its leader) Missak Manouchian, seven were from Poland, five from Italy, two came from Romania, Manouchian and one other came fro Armenia, and one came from Hungary, Spain and France. Eleven were Jews. The cell was known as the FTP-MOI - Francs Tireurs et Partisans - Main d-oeuvre Immigree. The movie shows that the 'French' Resistance movement included groups whom were not of French origin, or, in the case of French Jews, not regarded by the Germans and many French citizens as truly French.
The notorious "Red Poster" (Affiche Rouge) issued by the Occupation authorities after the execution of members of the Manouchian Group.
Instead of the executed members of the "Army of Crime" being condemned as criminals, they are now regarded as martyrs for freedom. This gravestone marks the burial site of most of the group's members. (Located in the cemetery at Livry, Paris)
Army of Crime makes dramatic reference to an event that occurred after the arrest of most of the Manouchian group in late 1943 and their show trial and execution in early 1944. The Vichy collaborationist regime tried to use the group to besmirch the Resistance movement, trying to portray it as dominated by 'foreigners', Communists and Jews.So after the execution, Vichy authorities published posters, tinged with red, and soon called the Affiche Rouge. The message was simple: "Liberators? Liberated by the army of crime." The poster also featured criminal-style mug-shots of ten of the group, detailing the ethnicity of each e.g. 'Polish Jew', and listing their crimes ('terrorist attacks' etc.)
Mug shot of Manouchian taken before his execution.
The cinematic version of Manouchian and his wife
Letter written by Manouchian to his wife a few hours before his execution. The English translation is on the right.
"My dear Mélinée, my beloved little orphan,
In a few hours I will no longer be of this world. We are going to be shot this afternoon at 3.00pm. This is happening to me as an accident in my life, I do not believe it and yet I know that I will never see you again.
What can I write to you? Everything inside me is confused, yet clear at the same time
I joined the Army of Liberation as a voluntary soldier and I die within inches of victory and of the objective. Happiness to those who will survive us and enjoy the Freedom and Peace of tomorrow. I am sure that the French people and all those who fight for freedom will know how to honour our memory with dignity. At the moment of death I proclaim that I have no hatred for the German people and for whomsoever, everyone will have what he will deserve as punishment and as reward. The German people and all the other nations will live in peace and brotherhood after the war, which will not last much longer. Happiness for all… I have one profound regret and that is not having made you happy, I would have liked to have a child with you, as you always wished. So I am asking you to get married after the war, no matter what, and, for my happiness, to have a child, and in order to fulfil my last wish, marry someone who can make you happy. All my goods and all my belongings I leave them to you your sister and my nephews. After the war you can claim your right to a war pension as my wife, for I die as a regular soldier from the French army of liberation
With the help of friends who will be willing to honour me properly, you will publish my poems and writings that are worth being read. If possible you will bring my souvenirs to my parents in Armenia. I will soon die with my 23 comrades with the courage and the serenity of a man with a very clear conscience, for personally, I haven't done any harm to anybody and if I have, I did it without hatred. Today is sunny. It is while looking at the sun and the beautiful nature that I loved so much that I will say farewell to life and to all of you, my beloved wife and my beloved friends. I forgive all those who did hurt me or those who wanted to do so, with the exception of the one who betrayed us to save his life and those who denounced us. Lots of love to you and to your sister and all the friends who know me, near and far, I hold you all in my heart. Farewell. Your friend, your comrade, your husband.
Manouchian Michel
P.S. I have fifteen thousand francs in the suitcase of the 'rue de Plaisance'. If you can take them, pay off my debts and give the rest to Armène. M.M."
Another intriguing feature of Army of Crime lies in the way in which it shows the dangerous process by which various individuals opposed to fascist rule gradually come together and coordinate their their efforts, eventually becoming a dangerous and effective sub-unit of the wider Resistance movement. The movie doesn't hesitate to show their stumbling learning process. Some, like Manouchian himself, have to overcome their initial qualms about using violence and also their initial misgivings and mutual suspicions. There is a scene of Kubrickian black comedy in which a planned attack on a brothel frequented by German officers is upset by a reluctance by some of the group to carry out the attack because it will mean killing women. Then they lose the pin on the grenade intended for the attack and have to hunt on hands and knees for it, before carrying finally clamping it with a safety-pin eventually obtained from one of their female supporters. Offsetting such scenes of macabre comedy is the understated way in which the film suggests that some of the Resistance members are in danger of succumbing to the allure of violence as their anti-Nazi activities become more daring and effective,
Not only does Army of Crime dare to examine the morality of violence used against a violent ideology. It also reveals the all too human weaknesses of the Manouchian group: suspicion, carelessness, weariness, the demands of love. But the movie shows that the Resistance cell's downfall is more than the result of human frailties. Most importantly, the greatest danger comes from the indifference and betrayal by French men and women who are willingly to collaborate with the German authorities. The movie repeatedly shows French police, detectives and civilians actively assisting the Germans - from passively observing deportation of French Jews to tracking down Resistance members, interrogating and brutally torturing them to assist the Gestapo. Army of Crime makes it clear that the German Occupation relied on the willing assistance of the French public at large.
On the other hand, the movie also suggests how collaborationist / German overreach could be turned against the Occupying regime. Although this demolition of the Gaullist myth of a France supportive of the Resistance and united against the Nazi tyranny had most famously been the subject of the great Melville movie Army of Shadows, Guediguian's film made its points more explicitly. The now infamous but once rather respectable (in the eyes of some) Milice Francaise had, for a time, considerable popular and institutional support. Perhaps these factors account for the rather muted reception it received in France, Overseas reactions were much more positive.The legend of the Resistance and the Occupation , and the French responses to each remains a contentious issue seven decades on.
The coolly effective, suave and ruthless Parisian police chief leading the fight against Paris Resistance members.
One of the Paris training schools for members of the Milice Francaise.
The movie emphasises the role of French officials in seeking, arresting and torturing Resistance members.
Fake Milice ID card used by a Resistance member.
Poster for the Milice Francaise, the French unit tasked with the job of hunting down Resistance units. Note the slogan and image: both focus on the anti-communist aspect.
The significance of the Manouchian group
Notice announcing execution of Resistance members.
The Resistance cell led by Manouchian -the FTP-MOI - was a group that was nominally under the control of the French Communist Resistance, whose motives, tactics and membership were frequently at odds with those of the Resistance movement loyal to Charles de Gaulle. In June, 1941, the various separate communist resistance cells formed a common organisation. It wasn't until the Nazi invasion of Russia that the Communist resistance abandoned its previous awkward official stance that Nazi Germany and Soviet Russia were not enemies but bound together by the Nazi-Soviet Pact. However Operation Barbarossa meant that French Communists played a much more enthusiastic and effective role in resistance, distinguished by their effective and aggressive tactics, with an emphasis on para-military activities rather than espionage and sabotage. (In late 1942 the Communist resistance and the de Gaulle resistance joined forces in the Comite Francais de Liberation National, although the partnership was full of tension and the two groups remained in fractious contention.) The Allies and de Gaulle regarded the tactics of groups like the FTP-MOI as endangering civilians and alienating French public opinion: the Germans retaliated with reprisal shootings of members of the public.
Army of Crime is accurate in the way in which it reveals the politics of the FTP-MOI. There was a tension between those members sometimes carried away by a growing love of violence and those who urged caution. Some of the group were unhappy with the Communist leadership's occasionally cavalier attitude towards the dangers faced by members and bytheir placing political objectives, especially those of their Russian masters, first and foremost.


The Physics Symposium would bring together world leading scientists and young researchers in various fields of Physics from across the U.S. and Korea. Both fundamental and emergent physics will be presented and the link between the two will be discussed. This meeting will serve as a timely event just a year after the General Relativity's Centennial. The progress of the Institute for Basic Science (IBS) and the associated Rare Isotope Science Project (RISP) as part of the International Science & Business Belt (ISBB) in Korea is in close connection with the Facility of Rare Isotope Beam (FRIB) and other physics facilities in US.


One of my daughter's best friends had her 10th birthday party today and because she just had her ears pierced we got her earrings. Due to the small size of the box we decided to forgo the usual wrapping paper and put the earring box in this cute take-out container. We popped a personalized round sticker on the top and tied it with tulle and it was ready to go. Cute, simple, fun to give and no fighting with the roll of wrapping paper or finding the tape and matching ribbon!
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Find the right role on Ansible Galaxy and check if there is nothing odd inside.
What is there inside ?
The steps are pretty straightforward and explained on the documentation.
If you have any question, feel free to ping me on Twitter and/or create an issue on Github. All feedbacks are very welcome =).
If you want to know more about how to build great Ansible playbook, this article may give you some ideas.
I loved the opening comments. That is exactly how I have experienced Ansible for provisioning. I'm still a huge Ansible fan because their roles are self-documenting executable code, even if that means you have to copy someone else's roles everytime you want to use it. I'm looking forward to seeing how this problem of repurposing and versioning "stable" Ansible roles between environments (rather than have to rewrite them) plays out.
Why the use of Capifony instead of Capistrano, since you are already using ansible?
Hi @Lumbendil:disqus . The idea is to avoid to recode a tool with Ansible. I try to focus only on adding value and since Capifony (which use Capistrano) works fine for use I don't see the value of creating an Ansible version of Capifony/Capistrano.
Cool, I didn't know this tool. I may switch to it because I'm not a big fan of dealing with all the ruby installation :). Thanks !
Careful with "copying" anyone else roles. I Get it, it speeds things up, but would you eat a food that you didn't know what it was simply because it was faster than looking? I Hope not.
Yes you are write you should alway read the role that you copy from somewhere.
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/**
 * A Jetty {@link Handler} which both compresses response entities to requests with {@code gzip} as
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15 Austrians awarded Diploma in Buddhism
Asian Tribune, JUne 25, 2012
Vienna, Austria -- The first batch of students from the University of Vienna who completed the inaugural Diploma in Buddhism was felicitated in Austria today.
The 15 Austrians were conferred with a Diploma after passing the examination conducted by the Buddhist and Pali University of Sri Lanka through the Academy of Buddhism and Christianity of the University of Vienna.
In honor of the students who were awarded the Diploma, the Embassy of Sri Lanka organized a ceremony to invoke blessings on the students and staff of the Embassy. The Most Venerable Wijayarajapura Seelawansa Thero, Chief Prelate of the Vienna Buddhist Centrum, conducted the ceremony, followed by a sermon delivered by The Venerable Wilachchiye Kassapa Thero from Sri Lanka.
Having invoked blessings on the participants, the Venerable Wilachchiye Kassapa Thero explained to the audience the Buddhist concept of humanity, which emphasised mutual understanding and accommodation, reaching out to people of all communities and from all walks of life.
The Chief Prelate of the Vienna Buddhist Centrum stressed the importance of working towards achieving peace and harmony among different religions and traditions. The Most Venerable Wijayarajapura Seelawansa Thero had pioneered the course of study in Buddhism at the Academy, following an agreement signed between the two Universities, facilitated by the Embassy.
The 15 Austrian students, who were awarded the Diploma in Buddhism, have expressed interest in pursuing higher studies in this field at the Buddhist and Pali University.
Earlier on, the students had been presented with Diploma certificates by Ambassador Azeez, Permanent Representative of Sri Lanka in Austria at a Certificate Awarding Ceremony that was held at the Academy of Buddhism and Christianity.

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The Latest: Iran says at least 140 killed, 300 hurt in quake
Posted on 11/12/17 by danielsmallzblog
People stand in the street after feeling aftershocks from an earthquake in Baghdad, Iraq, Sunday, Nov. 12, 2017. The deadly earthquake hit the region along the border between Iran and Iraq on Sunday. The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake was centered 19 miles (31 kilometers) outside the eastern Iraqi city of Halabja. (AP Photo/Hadi Mizban)
TEHRAN, Iran (AP) — The latest on an earthquake along the Iran-Iraq border (all times local):
Iran's state-run IRNA news agency says the death toll in the powerful 7.2-magnitude earthquake along the borders of Iran and Iraq has risen above 140.
IRNA also said over 860 people were injured in the quake that shook the region Sunday.
The report Monday morning said 141 had been killed in cities and towns in the western Iranian province of Kermanshah.
It said rescuers worked through the night and the operations will be accelerated during the day Monday.
The U.S. Geological Survey said the quake was centered 19 miles (31 kilometers) outside the eastern Iraqi city of Halabja.
Iran sits on many major fault lines and is prone to quakes. In 2003, a magnitude 6.6 earthquake flattened the historic city of Bam, killing 26,000 people.
Iranian officials say the powerful magnitude 7.2 earthquake that hit the region along the border between Iran and Iraq on Sunday killed at least 61 people and injured 300 in Iran.
Iranian state TV also says that Iraqi officials have reported six deaths and 200 injuries inside Iraq, although there has not been any official confirmation from Iraq's government. The TV report also says Iraqis reported more than 50 people injured in Iraq's Sulaymaniyah province and about 150 were hurt in Khanaquin city
The U.S. Geological Survey saysdthe quake was centered 19 miles (31 kilometers) outside the eastern Iraqi city of Halabja.
An Iranian official says at least 30 people died in Iran when a magnitude 7.2 earthquake hit near the Iran-Iraq border region. Deputy Gov. Mojtaba Nikkerdar of Iran's Kermanshah province also says more than 200 people suffered injuries.
Iranian TV says Iraqi officials have reported at least six people dead on Iraq's side of the border from Sunday's quake. It says the officials also report more than 50 people were injured in Iraq's Sulaymaniyah province and about 150 were hurt in Khanaquin city. There has been no official report from Iraq's government.
The U.S. Geological Survey says the quake was centered around 19 miles (31 kilometers) outside the eastern Iraqi city of Halabja.
Iran's semi-official Iranian ILNA news agency says at least 14 Iranian provinces were affected.
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It's no secret that Miguel Cabrera is off to an incredible start, but the Tigers are also getting major contributions from Brandon Inge, who appears to be reborn in his return to third base. Last season, Inge hit .263 in 13 games against the sale jerseys, striking out 12 times and registering only five RBIs. Inge's performance could play an enormous role on the outcome of this series.
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Peavy claims to be at 60-70 percent heading into spring training, so his velocity is likely to be lower than usual as his arm & shoulder regain strength. If he's throwing 94 mph on his fastball by the end of spring, maybe there's a chance he returns sooner than early May. But if his fastball is barely scraping 90 mph or is losing velocity early into outings, it'll be a longer road back.
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Texas will also have a lefty on the mound tonight with C.J. Wilson getting the call. He is 12-5 on the year with a 3.20 Era. His last time out, he held the Angels to two runs in seven innings to notch his 12th win of the season. Wilson is 3-1 against the Red Sox with an era of 1.69.
He could be in the mix for a bullpen role, but given he was better as a double-A starter than triple-A reliever in 2010 he could see some extended innings this spring as the Sox gauge his viability as a starting option. While his starting success didn't come in Charlotte, he probably has as good a shot to pitch well this March than Humber and/or Harrell just given their meddling triple-A numbers.
Cleveland and Chicago had an odd year against each other. The Tribe won five of the first six while the White Sox won five of the last six. In between, the Indians and White Sox split six games for a 9-9 season series.
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Study: Cyber Monday Attacks Cost Enterprises Up To $3.4M Per Hour
Holiday shopping season is popular time for launch of sophisticated attacks, RSA study says
The upcoming holiday shopping season could be prime time for attackers who hope to catch enterprises at their weakest moments, according to a study published this week.
According to a new survey of 1,100 retail companies conducted by the Ponemon Institute and sponsored by RSA, daily revenue surges by an average of 55 percent during the holiday season. If a retail site is hacked or disabled, average losses may amount to as much as $500,000 per hour, or $8,000 per minute.
Two-thirds of respondents (66 percent) said that such a disruption would also result in customer churn that would damage reputation and brand, pushing losses as high as $3.4 million from a single hour of disruption.
"This time of year is not just an opportunity for retail fraud, but an opportunity to launch attacks that take advantage of business logic vulnerabilities, DDoS [distributed denial-of-service] attacks, and more sophisticated attacks as well," says Demetrios Lazarikos, IT threat strategist at RSA.
Yet while 64 percent of organizations said they see significant increases in attack activity during the holidays, more than 70 percent of organizations do not take additional precautions in anticipation of increased attacks. And with their currently installed technology, 51 percent say that they do not have real-time visibility into Web traffic, making it difficult to identify the root cause of such attacks, the study says.
Just 23 percent of respondents said they feel that most holiday-season attacks can be quickly detected and remediated.
The report also identifies the top nine attacks organizations will likely face during the holiday season. In order of likelihood, these attacks are:
1. Botnet and distributed denial-of-service (DDoS)
2. App store fraud
3. Mobile access/account compromise
4. Click fraud
5. Stolen credit card validation
6. E-coupon abuse
7. Account hijacking
8. Electronic wallet abuse
9. Brand promotion hijacking
"We expect to see more of these attacks this year, and more attacks targeted at specific companies," says Lazarikos.
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Michelle Obama: School lunches to have more veggies, whole grains
ALEXANDRIA, Va. (AP) — The first major nutritional overhaul of school meals in more than 15 years means most offerings, including popular pizza, will come with less sodium and more whole grains, with a wider selection of fruits and vegetables on the side, first lady Michelle Obama and Agriculture Secretary Tom Vilsack announced during a visit Wednesday with elementary students.
Pizza won't disappear from lunch lines, but will be made with healthier ingredients.
Mrs. Obama, also joined by celebrity chef Rachael Ray, said youngsters will learn better if they don't have growling stomachs at school.
"We have a right to expect the food (our kids) get at school is the same kind of food we want to serve at our own kitchen tables," she said.
After the announcement, the three went through the line with students and ate turkey tacos with brown rice, black bean and corn salad and fruit — all Ray's recipes — with children in the Parklawn Elementary lunchroom.
The new rules aren't as aggressive as the Obama administration had hoped. Congress last year blocked the Agriculture Department from making some of the desired changes, including limiting french fries and pizzas.
A bill passed in November would require the department to allow tomato paste on pizzas to be counted as a vegetable, as it is now. The initial draft of the department's guidelines, released a year ago, would have prevented that. Congress also blocked the department from limiting servings of potatoes to two servings a week. The final rules have incorporated those directions from Congress.
Among those who had sought the changes were potato growers and food companies that produce frozen pizzas for schools. Conservatives in Congress called the guidelines an overreach and said the government shouldn't tell children what to eat. School districts also objected to some of the requirements, saying they go too far and would cost too much.
The new guidelines apply to lunches subsidized by the federal government. A child nutrition bill signed by President Barack Obama in 2010 will help school districts pay for some of the increased costs. Some of the changes will take place as soon as this September; others will be phased in over time.
The guidelines will limit the total number of calories in an individual meal and require that milk be low in fat. Flavored milks will have to be nonfat.
While many schools are improving meals already, others still serve children meals high in fat, salt and calories. The guidelines are designed to combat childhood obesity and are based on 2009 recommendations by the Institute of Medicine, the health arm of the National Academy of Sciences.
Vilsack said food companies are reformulating many of the foods they sell to schools in anticipation of the changes.
"The food industry is already responding," he said. "This is a movement that has started, it's gaining momentum."
The subsidized meals that would fall under the guidelines are served as free and low-cost meals to low-income children and long have been subject to government nutrition standards. The 2010 law will extend, for the first time, nutrition standards to other foods sold in schools that aren't subsidized by the federal government. That includes "a la carte" foods on the lunch line and snacks in vending machines.
Those standards, while expected to be similar, will be written separately and have not yet been proposed by the department.


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There are now two parliamentary inquiries into the Morrison government's Religious Discrimination Bill.
One is being run by the Parliamentary Joint Committee on Human Rights. It is accepting public submissions until 5pm (AEDT), 21 December 2021.
You can make a written submission, but they have also created an online survey to allow people to easily indicate their views. The questions asked by the survey are quite simplistic, so it's important to qualify or elaborate on your responses in the comment boxes.
The committee intends to hold public hearings in Canberra (with video or tele-conferencing available for those who cannot attend in person) on 21 December 2021 and 13/14 January 2022.
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There will also be a couple of public hearings as part of this inquiry, in Canberra on 20/21 January 2022.
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I used this product with the students I tutor for reading comprehension. It was great for lower level students because of the audio / read to me to be able to hear fluent, expressive reading as they followed along. Upper grade students liked have a vast variety of fiction and non-fiction books to pick from. It would be helpful to make the website a little more user friendly and easier log in process for students without having to use the teacher's email.
I loved this product. I would like if it was possible to add comprehension questions at the end for students to complete when they are done reading. I like that books can be loaded offline, there were book series the students are familiar with and that there are many options of genres to choose from. Students would be hard pressed to not find a book along their interests.


"Joseph is a fruitful vine, a fruitful vine near a spring, whose branches climb over a wall" (Genesis 49:22 NIV). That is the testimony of the Bible. "The LORD was with Joseph… The LORD blessed the Egyptian's house on account of Joseph… The LORD was with Joseph… The LORD was with him, and whatever he did, that the LORD made to prosper" (Genesis 39: 2, 5, 21).
The LORD God caused Joseph's vine to "climb over a wall" into Egypt, and God used him there. "God has made me fruitful in the land of my affliction" (41:52). "God has made me lord of all Egypt" (45:9).
Joseph was saying, "I saw God do it!" The LORD God was sovereign in his life, and it was His sovereign grace that delivered and sustained him during those long hard years in Egypt as a Hebrew slave.
If Joseph had been living in our day, he would say without Christ we can do nothing. However, when we are in union with Him, it is His life that is seen in us; it is His power at work in us, and our works are therefore His works.
Joseph's own brothers shot their bitter arrows of hatred and envy at him. "If God loves you, man will hate you; if God honors you, man will dishonor you," cried Spurgeon. Joseph's own brothers shot their bitter and hostile arrows at them conspiring to kill him, threw him in a cistern and sold him unto slavery and was taken to Egypt. The first archers were the archers of envying in his own home. "When they saw him, they plotted against him to put him to death" (Gen. 37:18).
The hot arrows of temptation from Potiphar's lusty wife took aim at Joseph. When given the opportunity that many a man craves for, Joseph ran for his life shouting, "How then could I do this great evil and sin against God?" (39:9). It was not just one lustful, passionate advance because "She spoke to Joseph day after day" (v.10).
Joseph said, "No!" "He did not listen to her to lie beside her or be with her" (v.10). He fled, and he paid for it by going to prison.
Joseph was maligned in the eyes of his master, and his character was ruined. Spurgeon said, "It was a marvelous providence that Potiphar did not put Joseph to death." This lying person ruined Joseph's character.
What was Joseph's secret? How did he bear such fruit of righteousness?
"His bow remained in an unyielding position, and the arms of his hands were agile, from the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob" (v.24 using the marginal notes). The NIV reads, "But his bow remained steady, his strong arms stayed limber, because the hands of the Mighty One of Jacob, the Rock of Israel, because of your father's God, who helps you, because of the Almighty, who blesses you…" (49:24-25b).
Joseph's arms "Were made strong by the hands of the mighty God of Jacob." The image is that of the LORD God placing His strong hands upon the hands of Joseph as he draws the string of his bow just as a strong father might steady and guide his son in giving an archery lesson.
Jesus said, "Apart from Me you can do nothing" (John 15:5b). The secret of Joseph's strength is divine strength. And if you and I ever accomplish anything to God's glory, it will be in and by and through abiding in Jesus Christ.


Every homeowner has an interest in home improvement projects. Although it's easy to visualize the potential benefits of a good home improvement project, some homeowners also find it easy to dwell on the potential pitfalls that can seem likely without proper education on the subject. The advice shared here will help you understand just how easy home improvement can be.
A great way to reduce your chance of mold growth in your household is by making sure your bathroom is well ventilated. Bathrooms that don't have a window or some sort of vent usually get steamy, but are unable to be rid of the humidity. Eventually this humidity contributes to extensive mold growth. If you do run into complications when trying to remodel a section of your house alone ask for help. There is no shame in asking for help when you come across an obstacle. A home that is properly remodeled looks better than a home that was remodeled poorly and not done properly.
When it comes to home improvement, consider remodeling either your kitchen or bathroom first. These are two of the best ways that you can add the most value to your house. If possible, add an additional bathroom to your house as this is always a way to boost the value of your home. If you have a small bathroom, consider finding ways to save space as your next home improvement project. It is easy to use an adjacent closet or to reformat an old kitchen cabinet into a new storage facility for your bathroom. Always make sure not to remove any structural support that the room has.
During a major home improvement project, homeowners should not take everything a contractor says at face value. It is not uncommon for unscrupulous contractors to mislead homeowners who are not involved in the process or are easily intimidated. You should always get a second option if they think that there may be a problem that is going to cost you.
Before you start a project for home improvement you may wish to speak with the neighbors to let them know what's going on and when. Being the neighbor during construction can be a certain nuisance. You will enhance neighborly goodwill by letting your neighbors know what will be going on so they are not unpleasantly surprised or inconvenienced.
Choose materials that last. The best materials might not be the cheapest ones or the most trendy ones, but they will save you money on the long term. You should choose asphalt, wood, stones and ceramic for the outside of your house. For the inside, vinyl flooring lasts much longer.
Installing a breakfast bar can divide your kitchen and dining or family room without a cramped feeling. The open space provided by a combined kitchen and family room can make any home feel larger; however, it can also make it difficult to treat the rooms as separate spaces, especially regarding dcor. A breakfast bar can serve as a functional divider that separates the rooms without closing them off.
As this article has shown, many home improvement projects may be completed yourself once you have knowledge. Embarking on a home improvement project not only upgrades your home, it gives you valuable experience you can use on many future projects. When you use the tips laid out here, you give yourself the information you need to do another project.


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Q: Crash in Dynamic Code Evolution VM I am trying to run a Swing Client using Dynamic Code Evolution VM in IntelliJ  using DCEVM integration plugin.When I start the app it crashes with following exception
Exception in thread "main" java.lang.UnsatisfiedLinkError: no freetype in java.library.path
    at java.lang.ClassLoader.loadLibrary(ClassLoader.java:1860)
    at java.lang.Runtime.loadLibrary0(Runtime.java:845)
    at java.lang.System.loadLibrary(System.java:1084)
    at sun.font.FontManagerNativeLibrary$1.run(FontManagerNativeLibrary.java:59)
    at java.security.AccessController.doPrivileged(Native Method)
    at sun.font.FontManagerNativeLibrary.<clinit>(FontManagerNativeLibrary.java:32)
And
Exception in thread "AWT-EventQueue-0" java.lang.NoClassDefFoundError: Could not initialize class sun.font.SunFontManager
    at sun.font.FontDesignMetrics.getMetrics(FontDesignMetrics.java:264)
    at sun.swing.SwingUtilities2.getFontMetrics(SwingUtilities2.java:1012)
    at javax.swing.JComponent.getFontMetrics(JComponent.java:1624)
    at javax.swing.plaf.synth.SynthGraphicsUtils.getPreferredSize(SynthGraphicsUtils.java:283)
    at javax.swing.plaf.synth.SynthGraphicsUtils.getMinimumSize(SynthGraphicsUtils.java:195)
    at javax.swing.plaf.synth.SynthButtonUI.getMinimumSize(SynthButtonUI.java:461)

I verified that SunFontManager is exist in rt.jar. Any idea?

A: DCEVM does not ship with fonts. So, when the JVM tries to load up the fonts, it doesn't find any and crashes. Fortunately, the fix is very easy. Simply copy the fonts from another JDK/JRE. You will find them at /jre/lib/fonts. Copy the entire directory to /lib.

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Does Kim Jong Un Have A Body Double? Why People Are Convinced After New Photos Emerge
Entertainment And News
By Nicole Pomarico — Written on May 05, 2020
There's been a lot of buzz about North Korean dictator Kim Jong Un and his declining health over the last few weeks, including reports that he's brain dead or dying ... but now, it seems like he may be just fine.
After sightings of Un over the weekend seemingly confirmed that he's doing well and is still alive, people are wondering if the photos may actually just be a hoax.
Does Kim Jong Un have a body double?
Or has he been fine the whole time? Here's what we know about this theory so far.
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Reports surfaced in April that Un was dead.
After multiple reports that Un was in poor health after heart surgery, news outlets in China and Japan reported that Un had died. Supposedly, he had been in a vegetative state after his surgery and had finally passed away, but the news was never officially confirmed, making people wonder what was really going on in North Korea.
Then, on Saturday, photos of Un at a ribbon cutting ceremony appeared.
On May 2, Un appeared at a May Day event, marking the first time he'd been seen in public since the rumors began. He was reportedly seen laughing, talking, and smoking, and nothing appeared to be amiss — in fact, he even gave a speech at the opening of a fertilizer plant.
"When the Sunchon Phosphatic Fertilizer Manufacturing Plant goes into operation, it will represent a historical development in our country's fertilizer industry, it will be a glorious revolution and a splendid display of our nation's great economic potential, and it will be an uplifting banner that assures us of the achievements of our country's general economic frontline," he reportedly said at the event.
But theorists on Twitter aren't convinced that was the real Un.
More of old and new photos "Kim Jong-un" to compare pic.twitter.com/zvaMlUpTcP
— Jennifer Zeng (@jenniferatntd) May 2, 2020
After seeing photos of Un at the ceremony, people on Twitter quickly chimed in to share the photos from that day side by side with older photos of Un, pointing out that there were differences in his ears, wrists, and face that could indicate that the person who made the appearance may not have been Un at all, but actually a body double.
Some think the man at the ribbon cutting had different teeth.
Look at these two images and note the teeth! The first one is Kim Jong Un a few weeks ago (the real one?), the second is KJU today as shown by RT. Note the gap in the teeth of the second image. A body double? pic.twitter.com/822ujeEOUZ
— Rik W (@Rik_J_W) May 2, 2020
Another tell tale sign that conspiracy theorists claimed meant that Un wasn't the man pictured? His teeth, which seemed to have a gap in the more recent pictures. Either Un's appearance had changed quite a bit, or the man in the newer photos wasn't the same Un we've seen before — but unsurprisingly, North Korea hasn't commented on these claims.
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Reportedly, he's used body doubles in the past.
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There have also been claims that Un is known for using a body double, who he reportedly travels with to protect himself from assassination attempts. In 2017, he was also filmed talking to two men who looked like him, and those men are thought to have been his doubles at that time. Again, he's never outright confirmed that he's used these body doubles in the past, and it will likely remain a mystery for a long time.
But does Kim Jong Un have a body double? That question can't be answered for sure.
It's still not clear if Un's body double is the man pictured at Saturday's event, but at this point, it seems like we may not get answers anytime soon, especially with how closed off North Korean media is to the rest of the world. We'll just have to wait and see ... and surely, even more conspiracy theories will develop in the meantime.
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Q: Printf splits a string at spaces using Bash I'm having some troubles with the printf function in bash.
I wrote a little script on which I pass a name and two letters (such as "sh", "py", "ht") and it creates a file in the current working directory named "name.extension".
For instance, if I execute seed test py a file named test.py is created in the current working dir with the shebang #!/usr/bin/python3.
So far, so good, nothing fancy: I'm learning shell scripting and I thought this could be a simple exercise to test the knowledge gained so far.
The problem is when I want to create an HTML file. This is the function that I use:
creaHtml(){
        head='\n\n\t\n\t\t<meta charset=\"UTF-8\">\n\t\n\t\n\t\n'
        percorso=$CARTELLA_CORRENTE/$NOME_FILE.html
        printf $head>>$percorso
        chmod 755 $percorso

}

If I run, for instance, seed test ht the correct function (creaHtml) is called, test.html is created but if I try to look into it I only see:
\n\n\t\n\t\t<meta charset=\"UTF-8\">\n\t\n\t\n\t\n'
+ percorso=/home/sviluppo/bin/test.html
+ printf '\n\n\t\n\t\t<meta' 'charset=\"UTF-8\">\n\t\n\t\n\t\n'
+ chmod 755 /home/sviluppo/bin/test.html
+ set +x

However, if I try to run printf '\n\n\t\n\t\t<meta charset=\"UTF-8\">\n\t\n\t\n\t\n' from the terminal, I see the correct output: the "skeleton" of an HTML file neatly displayed with indentation and everything. What am I missing here?

A: Try echo -e instead of printf.  printf is for printing formatted strings. Since you didn't protect $head with quotes, bash splits the string to form the command.  The first word (before first white space) forms the format string.  The rest are just arguments for things you didn't specify to print.
echo -e "$head" > "$percorso"

The -e evaluates your \n into newlines.  I changed your >> to > since it looks like you want this to be the whole file, rather than append to any existing file you might have.
You have to be careful with quotes in bash.  One thing can become many things.  This actually makes it more powerful, but it can be confusing for people learning.  Notice that I also put the file name "$percorso" in double quotes too.  This evaluates the variable and makes sure that it ends up as one thing.  If you use single quotes, it will be one word, but not evaluated.  Unlike Python, there is a big difference between single and double quotes.
If you want to use printf for compatibility as @chepner pointed out, just be sure to quote it:
printf "$head" > "$percorso"

Actually that is much simpler anyway.


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Cleveland Browns Odell Beckham (Photo by Gregory Shamus/Getty Images)
Ohio State football: Buckeyes unsurprisingly ranked 2nd in CFP poll by Alec Hartman
Cleveland Browns: 5 players whose stocks are down after Week 14 by Nick Dudukovich
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Cleveland Browns drama: OBJ trade rumors, Baker Mayfield takes on medical staff
by Nick Dudukovich 1 month ago Follow @dukeofnick
Even in victory, the Cleveland Browns bask in drama, as trade rumors involving Odell Beckham won't go away, while Baker Mayfield takes on the training staff.
The latest Cleveland Browns rumors are that Odell Beckham is begging players on other teams to "Come get me [of out of Cleveland."
Fox Sports Jay Glazer had the bombshell report, which indicated Beckham would like to play for a different team in 2020, via TheLandonDemand (subscription).
"Yes, the next one … the story from FOX's Jay Glazer that Beckham definitely wants out of Cleveland and has told players and coaches from other teams 'Hey, come get me. Come get me out of here.'
Then, it was revealed pregame Beckham has been playing with a sports hernia. The ailment will probably need surgery and shines light on why the Browns have labeled OBJ with "hip" injuries on the injury report dating all the way back to Training Camp.
Quarterback Baker Mayfield threw the medical staff under the boss stating that the team doctors and trainers should've caught the injury sooner.
"Yeah, I'd say it wasn't handled right…He's not able to run as well as he should be able to do as well as he knows. That is frustrating for him. You could sense that somebody's frustration and where it comes from. It wasn't handled the right way in our training room. It is what it is. His not 100 percent is still good enough for us."
Mayfield continued after being asked if OBJ should've had surgery earlier in the year.
Yeah, I think looking back, obviously hindsight is 20-20, he probably would have missed the first two, [Games] one and two, just based on the fact that it was during training camp. It is what it is. We're here right now. It's too late to do that. He's fighting through pain, playing through pain. That shows you what type of guy he is."
Mayfield had to apologize via Twitter and the quarterback has a track record of not apologizing for anything, really, so you know he really stepped in it this time.
1. As for OBJ wanting a trade, surely, you can be upset. The man gets paid a ton of money, he's been here months and he's already looking to make his next move.
2. I'm not sure I'm going to get any converts on this, but would life be so bad with OBJ? I won't pretend to know how much the hernia is impacting his season, but the guy sure looks like a player living off what he's done in the past.
I've written this before: My kids as me "How's OBJ doing." I replay: "Kids, I'll let you know when he does something."
3. Beckham had 35 touchdowns his first three seasons. In the three years since, he has 11. He currently has two for the Browns, despite playing in all 12 games. Prior to this season, his lowest mark for touchdowns in a season was 2017, when he missed 12 games because of injury.
4. I don't buy that it's the Browns fault for ruining him. Jarvis Landry is managing to put together a pretty stellar season, so you pin it all on Mayfield and Freddie Kitchens.
5. The Browns might be able to really boost their roster by trading OBJ, because as the roster tells us, this team is still in grave need of help on the line, at tight end, and also at linebacker.
6. I think it's unlikely the Browns will trade him, for the same reason they won't fire Freddie Kitchens. Doing so would be an indictment of GM John Dorsey. The front office veteran, in all his great wisdom, let it ride on both Kitchens and OBJ.
Giving up on either is the same as the GM admitting that maybe he doesn't know as much as we all think. Of course, the ego on Dorsey would fill all the Great Lakes, so don't look for these moves to go down.
7. Baker hating on the training staff looks bad, only because he's the quarterback. He's got to know by this point, that even though he's a player, his position is that of management. As the face of the franchise, you can't do this, publicly, anyway.
Next: 5 Browns whose stocks are up after Bengals tamed
8. All the drama, and this is on a day the Browns won. As Cleveland fans, we should never take a win for granted, but the smoke emanating out of the Factory of Sadness follows the trends that this sad season continues to take.
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Beverly Joel is the proprietor of the Brooklyn-based design studio pulp, ink., founded in 2005. The studio specializes in book, brochure and printed-ephemera design for clients in the arts. Clients include Artel Glass, The Baltimore Museum of Art, Chronicle Books, the Contemporary Art Center in Cincinnati, the Institute of Contemporary Art in Philadelphia, Johnson + Johnson, Monacelli Press, the Museum of Modern Art, the Neuberger Museum of Art, Prestel, Rizzoli, and Sundance Channel. Prior to founding the studio, she spent 10 years working with Barbara Glauber's studio, Heavy Meta. Beverly's work has been included numerous times in the AIGA's annual 50 Books/50 Covers juried competition and in Print magazine's Regional Design Annual. She is an adjunct professor at the Cooper Union, where she earned her BFA, and has been a guest critic at the Parsons School of Design and a guest lecturer at Columbia University.


COLONIAL HEIGHTS, Va. — Police have asked for help identifying two people caught on camera using an ATM skimmer to steal information from bank customers. The images were captured November 12 at the Bank of Southside Virginia on East Ellerslie Avenue in Colonial Heights.
This incident resulted in the theft of credit card information from "multiple" ATM users, police said.
The woman was described as between 20 and 30 years old with light colored hair and a medium build.
The man was described as between 20 and 30 years old with a medium build.
Anyone with information was asked to call Chesterfield/Colonial Heights Crime Solvers at 804-748-0660 or Colonial Heights Police at 804-520-9300.


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namespace app\modules\user\clients;

use Yii;
use yii\authclient\clients\YandexOAuth as BaseYandex;

/**
 * @author Dmitry Erofeev <dmeroff@gmail.com>
 */
class Yandex extends BaseYandex implements ClientInterface
{
    /** @inheritdoc */
    public function getEmail()
    {
        $emails = isset($this->getUserAttributes()['emails'])
            ? $this->getUserAttributes()['emails']
            : null;

        if ($emails !== null && isset($emails[0])) {
            return $emails[0];
        } else {
            return null;
        }
    }

    /** @inheritdoc */
    public function getUsername()
    {
        return isset($this->getUserAttributes()['login'])
            ? $this->getUserAttributes()['login']
            : null;
    }

    /** @inheritdoc */
    protected function defaultTitle()
    {
        return Yii::t('user', 'Yandex');
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Gray: Mahatma, Matt, if I can call you Matt, a big congrats on independence from Britain and doing it peacefully and all, that's got to be considered one of the big world wins for nonviolence and freedom.
Gandhi: Thank you and blessings to your family.
Gray. But Matt, with all the success, isn't it time you got a new set of tableware? I must say, a wooden bowl is all well and good for those lonely peasant photo ops but nobody's going to take you seriously if you show up at a state dinner eating off a tree limb. And what's with Hindus and that cow thing? How backward is that? Admit it. After a long day don't you toss aside the bowl and the shawl and chow on a big bloody steak? You eat meat, don't you? Don't you? Hamburger, prime rib, sirloin, chuck roast, the whole deal. You make me sick, you hypocritical carnivore.
Mother Maybelle Carter: Thank you, Jim.
Jim Gray: ...One of the most significant, influential and clearly dysfunctional families in the history of mankind. Once, just once, couldn't one of you marry someone or produce an offspring that could go for more than three months without getting tossed in the slammer? I think it's time you made a pledge to the American people to stop squeezing out kids like some trailer park Avon bottle collector. And Mother Maybelle, I have to say: An autoharp? What kind of brain-dead hick plays an autoharp? Why don't you nail a couple strands of piano wire to a washboard? Here a twang, there a twang everywhere a twang twang. If that's music, then I'm a giraffe.
Jim Gray: Hey, Laz, great to be back among the land of the living, right? Ha ha.
Lazarus: I am indeed blessed.
Jim Gray: Dead, right? I did hear you say dead. Oh come on, Lazarus, just raised you from the dead? Nothing else? No demons cast out, no leprosy healed, no all-you-can-eat fish fries, no bottomless clam bakes? Hardly seems worth the effort, does it? Who do you take us for, Laz? Two millennia from now, Doug Henning will be pulling tigers out of a girl's ear and all you can do is play possum for a few hours then pop back up fit as a fiddle with the wave of the ole magic wand. Real impressed here, Laz. Not.
Jim Gray: Hey Joanie, hot enough for ya?
Jim Gray: Joan, Joan, Joan, don't tell me you're going to try for the old sympathy ploy. Play on our heartstrings because of a little roasting. Joan the victim, right? Like someone put a gun to your head and made you wade head first into the Brits at Compiegne. Excuse me for not feeling your pain, to coin a phrase that won't be popular for another six centuries.
Jim Gray: You must be terribly proud of your nation's history, Your Highness.
Jim Gray: But isn't it time for Britain to end this tradition of hideous inbreeding, old girl? I mean the royal family is turning into a royal twit factory, if you know what I'm saying. Churning out village idiots with Dumbo ears and crooked smiles that look like a worn-out lawn rake isn't exactly winning you any points in the court of world opinion.
Queen Elizabeth: Well, if that's the way you feel, the girls and I have decided not to talk anymore. That one was for you, Grandma Victoria!


Illustration from the recent paper by Olivia Judson on "Nature Ecology & Evolution (2017) "The Energy Expansions of Evolution".
Olivia Judson published a very interesting paper this March on "Nature Ecology & Evolution". It is a wonderful cavalcade along 4 billion years of the history of the Earth, seeing it in terms of five "metabolic revolutions." It is an approach that goes in parallel with a paper that I wrote last year on BERQ; even though I focussed on the future rather than on the past. But my paper was very much along the same lines, noting how some of some of the major discontinuities in the Earth's geological record are caused by metabolic changes. That is, the Earth's changes as the life inhabiting it "learns" how to exploit the potential gradients offered by the environment: geochemical energy at the very beginning and, later on, solar energy.
Seen in these terms, the Earth system is a gigantic autocatalytic reaction that was ignited some four billion years ago, when the planet became cool enough to have liquid water on its surface. Since then, it has been flaring in a slow-motion explosion that has been going faster and faster for billions of years, until it is literally engulfing the whole planet, sending offshoots to other planets of the solar system and even outside it.
Judson correctly identifies the ability to control fire as the latest feature of this ongoing explosion. Fire is a characteristic ability of human beings and can be argued that it is the defining feature of the latest time subdivision of the planet's history: the Anthropocene.
Judson stops with fire, calling it "a source of energy" and proposing that "The technology of fire may also, perhaps, mark an inflection point for the Solar System and beyond. Spacecraft from Earth may, intentionally or not, take Earthly life to other celestial objects." Here, I think the paper goes somewhat astray. Calling fire a "source" of energy is not wrong, but we need to distinguish whether we intend fire as the combustion of wood, that humans have been using for more than a million years, and the combustion of fossil hydrocarbons, used only during the past few centuries. There is a big difference: wood fires could never take humans to contemplate the idea of expanding beyond their planetary boundaries. But fossil energy could fuel this expansion at most for a few centuries and this big fire is already on its way to exhaustion. If the Anthropocene is to be based on fossil fuels, it is destined to fade away rather rapidly.
Does this mean that we have reached the peak of the great metabolic cycle of planet Earth? Not necessarily so. Judson seems to miss in her paper that the next metabolic revolution has already started: it is called photovoltaic conversion and it is a way to transform solar energy into an electric potential, coupled with the capability of controlling the motion of electrons in solid state conductors. It is a big step beyond fire and thermal machinery (*). It is, by all means, a new form of metabolism (**) and it is generating a new ecology of silicon-based life-forms, as I discussed in a previous post that I titled "Five Billion Years of Photovoltaic Energy".
So, we are living in interesting times, something that we could take as a curse. But it is not a choice that we are facing: we are entering a new era, not necessarily a good thing for humans, but most likely an unavoidable change; whether we like it or not may be of little importance. It is a new discontinuity in the billion years long history of planet Earth that will lead to an increased capability of capturing and dissipating the energy coming from the sun.
The great chemical reaction is still flaring up and its expansion is going to take us somewhere far away, even though, at present, we can't say where.
(**) The supporters of nuclear energy may argue that the next metabolic revolution should be seen as the production of energy from nuclear fission or fusion. The problem is that the resources of fissionable material in the whole solar system are too small that they could hardly fuel a truly new geological epoch. As for fusion, we haven't found a technology able to control it in such a way to make it an earth-based source of energy and it may very well be that such a technology doesn't exist. But, on the sun, fusion works very well, so why bother?
Ugo Bardi teaches physical chemistry at the University of Florence, in Italy. He is interested in resource depletion, system dynamics modeling, climate science and renewable energy. Contact: ugo.bardi(whirlything)unifi.it . He blogs at Cassandra's Legacy where this article first posted.


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People never really liked them. They would call them "capitalists" and "oligarchs" even if these "capitalists" owned no more than a chain of three stores or a small confectionary
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Steve Day started his company ideaMachine Studio in the back of a New York church back in 2010. Within the first year, he considered cutting his losses and most of his team quit. Fast forward to present day, ideaMachine Studio now has a client list including Xbox, ESPN, and Dove.
The company offer motion capture and graphics, mixed media, 2D and 3D animation and live draw, it specializes in the service that began it all – whiteboard animation. Thriving on culture, imagination, and technology, ideaMachine Studio has helped clients grow from zero customers to a million in just a few years.
After overcoming a number of challenges over the years, ideaMachine Studio is now a leader in the animation industry and pursued by many businesses for creative, technology-based marketing. Steve has directed for Verizon, the United Nations, Sesame Street, the ESPN ESPY awards, Bud Light Superbowl ads, and the Elmo Xbox game.
While Steve's drawings and animations brought the company into existence, he actually began his career directing for the theater, where his productions won an NYIT award and nomination, a Drama League fellowship, and a membership with the Lincoln Center directing lab. He also directed and developed Son of a Gun a National Music Theatre Conference Winner. ideaMachine has won 21 Telly Awards in 4 years and it has animated for numerous Fortune 500 companies.
Besides dreaming up stories and metaphors, Steve also loves working with artists like Uzo Aduba (Emmy Award winner), Joanna Gleason (3x Tony nom.), Elizabeth Davis (Tony nom.), Tom Green, and Keir Dullea (Golden Globe winner, 2001: Space Od.). But what Steve loves most about ideaMACHINE is "using art to help companies serve others." Steve reveals his inspirational journey which is a much listen for anyone on their own tech startup or entrepreneurial journey.


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Do you regularly send out announcements to newspapers and web portals? And are they almost never published? Thanks to his experience with various news editing departments, our author shows you how you are most likely to get your press releases published.
Small and mid-sized companies especially often neglect to write press releases. However, newspapers, TV stations, radio stations and news portals with a strong regional connection are extremely thankful for anything newsworthy from their area. So, for that reason it's worth it for retailers, craftspeople etc. to bank on press releases.
Press releases, PR for short, are as a rule not adopted exactly as they were written. In particular, this is done to reduce the risk of publishing the exact same text as placed on other medias. On the Internet, where Google desires unique content, this practice is especially important.
That is one side of the coin, but the other is: Editorial teams hardly have the capacity to rewrite a PR, so often just the headline is changed and possibly a paragraph is supplemented or rearranged. So the better your PR fits into their editorial approach, the more likely it is to be published.
That means with a well-structured press release, you can make it easier for an editorial team to publish your PR. We'll show you how that's done.
When something is newsworthy, it is worth reporting or sharing. According to dictionary.com, news is "a report of a recent event; intelligence; information." And an "event" is to be understood here in the broadest sense. A product can also be an event. In addition, the newsworthy event could also be one that takes place in the future.
Something newsworthy also always has a novelty or rarity element. Perhaps you're familiar with this: When you become an aunt or uncle for the first time, you tell a lot of people about it. When you become an aunt or uncle for the fourth time, you hardly mention it.
And relevance is also important. If the accounting manager of a software company retires, that is of no interest whatsoever for a software magazine.
The shoelace producer "Bowman & Sons" introduces a self-tying shoelace. It will be available starting on the day of the press release. This event is newsworthy because the timetable is short.
Furthermore, until now no self-tying shoelace has existed. So it's unique. However, that uniqueness can be limited, for example to a certain region. "Bowman & Sons" is perhaps producing the first German self-tying shoelaces, or the first ones in the state of North Rhine-Westphalia.
Note: Even if nothing makes it newsworthy on a global scale, because there are already a lot of these in the world, it can still be thoroughly newsworthy in your region.
"Bowman & Sons" sends the press release to shoelace magazines and shoelace portals. But it also sends the PR to parenting magazines. After all, many mothers and fathers spend time tying their children's shoes on a daily basis. The press release is therefore relevant for professional publications as well as those with a specific target audience.
Enclose additional information about your company with each press release. The editor can use it for example to extend the text so that if fits in the layout. And the practical thing is: As long as nothing about the company changes, you can use the same information with each PR.
An ideal PR headline informs, arouses interest and is easy to understand.
This headline provides the what, who, when and where. However, this headline will hardly appeal to an editorial team because new shoelaces are really nothing rare.
To awaken interest, the headline has to call out the sensational part of the message right in the headline itself. In this example, it is that the new shoelaces are self-tying. A PR does exactly the opposite of a novel or a movie. The surprise is given away right in the title.
The headline can also be adapted to fit the respective editor. For an industry magazine a common technical term can be incorporated. For a regional newspaper, for example, it is the relevance to the reader.
The length of the title shouldn't exceed 200 characters. That is the industry standard.
A teaser is an informative summary of your press release which should also arouse more interest. We recommend always drafting a teaser. News portals especially need these as they are displayed on the summary page. Ultimately, the headline and teaser determine whether the reader clicks on the announcement.
A teaser should be comprised of two to four short, meaningful sentences.
Alternatively, you can also place bullet points with the most important content from your press release underneath the headline. The editor can then quickly see what exactly it's about and can then formulate a teaser himself. If you want to cover all your bases, write up bullet points and underneath also a teaser. Then the editing team has a choice.
Short, easy to understand sentences are just as important in a PR as in any other informative copy. After all, the editor wants to quickly pull the information out of the press release. If you build long complex sentences here, you've already lost.
Even if you like lengthy, convoluted sentences or consider them to be intellectually sophisticated, they have no business in a press release. Make it as simple as possible for the editors and readers to understand the text.
Even large companies still manage to make their press releases sound like advertising copy. Serious editors are scared away by this type of language because they know their audience values information, not self-praise. The editor therefore has to strike the advertising language from the copy. That takes time which is in short supply in most editorial departments. So editors would rather publish an objectively formulated text.
It is usually helpful to remove any superlatives from your press release copy. However, if you want to use a superlative, then justify it.
Superlatives like "most innovative", "most creative" or "grandest" etc. cannot be proven, so never use them. The editing team will cut them anyway.
Producing 30 million shoelaces a month, "Bowman & Sons" is the largest shoelace manufacturer worldwide.
Quotes are a popular device to artificially inflate press releases.
Say, companies A and B resolve to work together in partnership. It's an announcement that can be presented practically in a single paragraph. Because one paragraph doesn't seem to be enough though, quotes from both CEOs are presented. But in each quote the respective boss is just looking forward to the cooperation. That has no relevance for the reader and therefore none for the editor either. So, in your press releases, be sure to include quotes which convey further information.
A press release shouldn't be too short, but not excessively long either. 350 to 700 words is a good benchmark.
The announcement shouldn't be less than 350 words. The reason for this is clear in the print sector because the layout requires a certain length. Editors would prefer to shorten rather than lengthen something. In the online sector the reason is almost ridiculous: Many editorial departments use SEO tools, which ensure search engine optimized copy, for their web portals. At less than 350 words these tools become fussy. That makes editors nervous and they feel compelled to increase the length of the copy. And once again, adding to a text takes time. Thus, the chance of being published drops with a copy that is too short.
Very long texts are fatal for an editor. He usually only wants the essentials, especially since he doesn't have a lot of time to read.
Simply offer more information on your website. That way you can still keep press releases pleasingly short, even when they concern more complex subject matter.
Unfamiliar or very specialized technical terms should be avoided or at least explained in a press release. This is also true if you are sending your PR to a professional journal or technical portal. As a rule, their news editors are not trade journalists, as those people are busy writing their own articles. So you can't be certain that the person reading your press release will be familiar with all your technical terms. If he doesn't understand them, your chance at publication decreases tremendously.
If your press release mentions dates or deadlines, then it's best to do so right in the headline. Repeating the date at the end of the PR is also a good idea. That way the reader is reminded of it again.
Providing information for a scheduled event also always includes not just the date, but also the time and location.
It's easy to get your PR message to the people on press portals. When using them you can choose between no-cost and fee-based portals.
No charge portals publish your release on their website. That increases its findability via Google and the odd journalist will come across your PR when doing his research.
None of these meet your needs? You can find several additional free of charge press and industry portals at seogdk.com.
Fee-based press portals also publish your announcement and in addition they send them to a special distribution list. So your PR is received directly by the editing teams registered with the portal.
In addition, you can also send your PR directly to important press agencies like Associated Press (AP) or United Press International (UPI) via mail.
Take an afternoon and set-up your own distribution list for your press releases. Search for appropriate newspapers, magazines, and webpages. Don't forget regional radio and television stations.
On the "about us" copyright or contact page you can find the email address for the editor. Sometimes, there's even a direct address for press releases, so be sure to use that one. Save the email address in your email distribution list. When you find new press contacts, add them too. Over time you'll build up a good distribution list this way. The only thing you have to invest is a few hours of work.
Facebook, Twitter and others are superbly suited for publishing press releases. Generally speaking, press portals usually have an integrated function for publication to the social media networks.
Combine your in-house distribution list with one from a free press portal that is relevant to your content.
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Obama Pushes for UN Climate Change Rules Without Congress
27 Aug, 2014 by	Cassy Fiano
Liberals haven't latched on to "climate change" because they actually believe it's true — they've latched on because it enables them to accomplish goals that fit into their political agenda. Obama is doing just that, bypassing Congress to enter an agreement with the United Nations, Constitution be damned.
The Obama administration is working to forge a sweeping international climate change agreement to compel nations to cut their planet-warming fossil fuel emissions, but without ratification from Congress.
In preparation for this agreement, to be signed at a United Nations summit meeting in 2015 in Paris, the negotiators are meeting with diplomats from other countries to broker a deal to commit some of the world's largest economies to enact laws to reduce their carbon pollution. But under the Constitution, a president may enter into a legally binding treaty only if it is approved by a two-thirds majority of the Senate.
To sidestep that requirement, President Obama's climate negotiators are devising what they call a "politically binding" deal that would "name and shame" countries into cutting their emissions. The deal is likely to face strong objections from Republicans on Capitol Hill and from poor countries around the world, but negotiators say it may be the only realistic path.
"If you want a deal that includes all the major emitters, including the U.S., you cannot realistically pursue a legally binding treaty at this time," said Paul Bledsoe, a top climate change official in the Clinton administration who works closely with the Obama White House on international climate change policy.
Lawmakers in both parties on Capitol Hill say there is no chance that the currently gridlocked Senate will ratify a climate change treaty in the near future, especially in a political environment where many Republican lawmakers remain skeptical of the established science of human-caused global warming.
Obama campaigned in 2008 on his experience as a "constitutional scholar", which is a laugh, considering how little the Constitution actually matters to him. And interesting that liberals who cry "bully" anytime someone does something they don't like — say, not allow a lesbian couple to get married on their private property — yet here they are, pushing a treaty that will "name and shame" countries that don't do what they want them to do. What's the word for that? Because hypocritical doesn't seem strong enough.
Also see: 20 Reasons You Wouldn't Want To Live In An America Controlled By Liberals Like Obama