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Johann Salmuth (* 1552 in Leipzig; † 29. Mai 1622 in Amberg) war ein deutscher evangelischer Theologe.

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Salmuth war der als Sohn des Heinrich Salmuth und seiner Frau Elisabeth, der Tochter von Johann Pfeffinger. Er besuchte er die Leipziger Nikolaischule und im Anschluss die Fürstenschule Schulpforta. Nachdem er sich an der Universität Leipzig immatrikuliert hatte, erwarb er 1572 den akademischen Grad eines Magisters. 1575 wurde er Subdiakon an der Nikolaikirche und 1577 Archidiakon.

Am 1. Januar 1587 trat er das Amt des Zweiten Hofpredigers in Dresden an, rückte 1588 zum Ersten Hofprediger auf und übernahm 1589, nach der Entlassung von Martin Mirus, die Stelle des Oberhofpredigers. Als solcher verfolgte er maßgeblich die Linie der Philippisten und unterstützte dabei maßgeblich den sächsischen Kanzler Nikolaus Krell.

So veranlasste er die Abschaffung der Exorzismusformel bei der Taufe und gab eine neue Ausgabe der Lutherbibel heraus, die auch calvinistische Elemente enthielt und als Krellbibel in die Geschichte eingegangen ist. Damit stieß er – besonders nach dem schnellen Tod von Christian I. von Sachsen – bei vielen Geistlichen und deren Gemeinden auf Widerstand. Daraufhin wurde er mit seinem Kollegen David Steinbach verhaftet und auf die Burg Stolpen gebracht. Dort blieb er ein halbes Jahr in Gewahrsam und wurde erst entlassen, als er seine Einwilligung unterschrieb, Sachsen zu verlassen. Auf Abraham Scultetus' Empfehlung berief ihn Kurfürst Friedrich IV. von der Pfalz als Prediger nach Heidelberg. 1596 kam er als Erster Pastor der Stadtpfarrkirche St. Martin nach Amberg, wo er unter anderem als Kirchenrat bis zu seinem Lebensende wirkte.

1576 hatte er Martha Harder, der Tochter des Leipziger Theologen Wolfgang Harder, geheiratet. Aus dieser Ehe gingen zehn Söhne und drei Töchter hervor, von denen erstere fast sämtlich angesehene Stellungen erlangten.

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 Jubelfestpredigten, Amberg 1619
 Auslegung über den 21. Psalm
 2. predigten von Bedienung des Abendmahls mit dem Brodbrechen und anderen Christlichen Zeremonien, Herborn 1611
 Leichenpredigt über Curfürst Friedrich IV, Basel 1613
 Leichenpredigt über Christian I. Curfürst von Sachsen, 1595

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 Wolfgang Sommer: Die lutherischen Hofprediger in Dresden: Grundzüge ihrer Geschichte und Verkündigung im Kurfürstentum Sachsen. Franz Steiner Verlag, Stuttgart 2006, ISBN 3-515-08907-1, S. 101 f.

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Bandwidth Co-Founder and CEO David Morken recognized nationally for leadership, innovation
Ernst & Young, American Business Awards honor Morken as Entrepreneur of the Year, Maverick of the Year
RALEIGH, NC – June 25, 2013 –Bandwidth, one of the nation's leading communications technology companies proudly announces that its CEO and Co-Founder David Morken was named an Ernst & Young 2013 Entrepreneur Of The Year and Gold Stevie Award winner for Maverick of the Year in the 2013 American Business Awards.
The prestigious awards programs recognize entrepreneurs who demonstrate excellence and extraordinary success in such areas as innovation, financial performance and personal commitment to their businesses and communities.
The Ernst & Young Entrepreneur Of The Year program is the world's most prestigious business award for entrepreneurs. The unique award recognizes the significant contributions of entrepreneurs who inspire others with their vision, leadership and achievement. Morken was recognized as a winner of the Southeast awards, honored at a black-tie awards banquet on June 6 in Atlanta. National finalists will attend Ernst & Young's Strategic Growth Forum in Palm Springs, CA, November 13-17.
Organized by the American Business Awards, the Maverick of the Year recognizes the individual who's affected the most positive change on his or her company and/or industry since the beginning of 2012. David was honored for his vision and steadfast focus on doing things right, empowering the best people and embracing technology to disrupt the status quo. Additionally, Republic Wireless, a division of Bandwidth, is currently a finalist in the New Consumer Products category which will be announced on September 15.
"Winning both awards is an honor and a credit to the terrific team at Bandwidth," said Morken. "The company is known for enabling disruptive companies to do new things with communications and has most recently gone nationwide to consumers with Republic Wireless, a hybrid Wi-Fi smartphone service that will allow people everywhere to afford a smartphone for the first time. However, as we continue to build on this success, it's important that we hold true to the original company values that have brought us to this moment and it's wonderful to be recognized for this vision."
Morken co-founded Bandwidth in 1999 and has grown the company into one the nation's largest and fastest-growing communication technology companies. Morken enters the next round of judging to determine a national Entrepreneur Of The Year, which is announced in November.
"The Ernst & Young award recipients are truly dynamic leaders who strive for business excellence and market leadership, and we are lucky to celebrate their tireless and inspirational efforts," said Connie Austin, Southeast Entrepreneur Of The Year Partner. "We look forward to their representation of the Southeast region at the Strategic Growth Forum and the fresh thinking, new business relationships and growth strategies and best practices they will bring back to the clients and communities they serve."
"This year's American Business Awards was outsized in every way," said Michael Gallagher, Stevie Awards founder and president. "More entries and more judges than ever before, and I'd have to say the most impressive collection of nominations we've ever received. We congratulate all of this year's Stevie winners for their outstanding work."
To view footage from the black-tie Ernst & Young awards ceremony and a Q&A with Morken following the event, click here.
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Bandwidth is among the nation's largest and fastest-growing communication technology companies. The company operates two divisions – wholesale & enterprise and consumer & SMB – that share a mission of transforming the communications industry. Across the divisions, Bandwidth provides a full range of communications services, including wholesale voice origination and termination, a full suite of 9-1-1 services, hosted VoIP and internet connectivity service for SMBs, and a consumer wireless business. Founded in 1999, and a certified CLEC in 49 states, Bandwidth is a profitable company headquartered in Raleigh, NC with a large remote office in Denver, CO and field offices in eight other cities.
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Cherry season – certainly the best of times and the worst of times on the farm.
There's nothing so beautiful as a cherry tree hanging heavy with ripe, red cherries. And what a luxury to go through the orchard grabbing cherries & eating as many desired. Then to top it all off, they're not only delicious but healthy too!
But cherry season is also one of the most stressful times of the year. As cherries begin to colour, they are attractive to insects, especially the cherry fruit fly (ie worms) and birds, subject to rot, and extremely susceptible to cracking or splitting from rain. The insects and even the rot can be controlled to a certain extent by pesticides. Birds are more of a challenge. Some farms use bird bangers to try and scare them. Others stretch shiny, reflective ribbons through the trees or hang balloons etc but none of these are totally effective. By far the greatest peril is rain, especially rain followed by bright, hot sunshine. This causes the cherries to swell & burst, or crack.
This past weekend we received a lot of rain again – just over 60 mm. This caused the cherries to crack … and crack ….
They end up looking much like popcorn, and then rot very quickly – not a pretty sight!
The few cherries that we picked on Friday, before the rain, were almost perfect. The cherries we picked today, after the rain, were almost 100% damaged. It is a big financial loss for us and a big disappointment for our customers.
Ripening with the cherries are red raspberries. This is probably the fruit with the heaviest crop for us this season – they look amazing! The rain is beneficial for the raspberries as it helps them to grow bigger. But it can also cause them to rot. We are optimistic for a good harvest this season.
Sweet cherries, red beets, snow peas, lettuce mix, broccoli and raspberries (full shares only).
Because of the weekend damage to the cherry crop (see explanation above), there will be limited cherries in the CSA boxes and the cherries will be cracked. This means they look bad, but still taste good. But eat them quickly as they will spoil quickly!
The red beets are baby beets – small, sweet & delicious!
The 2nd planting of snow peas is producing now, so quantities are increasing. Remember that snow peas are just as good (or better) eaten raw, as cooked. We like to eat them in our salads.
The lettuce continues to thrive and is part of your CSA box again this week.
Most of the broccoli will look slightly different this week. We have almost finished our normal broccoli heads and are now picking baby broccoli or broccoli stems. They taste the same, but don't produce big heads, but rather small broccoli stems – lots of them. They are supposed to keep producing these for weeks & weeks. It's our 1st time growing this & we're excited to see how they turn out. Tell us how you like them & if you taste any difference.
Raspberries are just starting and there is not yet enough for all shares. Tuesday pick-up will only have raspberries in the full share boxes. By next week everyone should get raspberries. Maybe even by Friday? Depends on the weather as usual!
Please remember to return all containers so they can be reused!
A CSA pick-up reminder – If you miss your pick-up, please call us that day & we can make arrangements for you to pick it up the next day. We do not save your produce beyond the next day.
Looking ahead … we picked our 1st cherry tomato today. More are coming!
Here are Flynn & Ryder, the latest additions to our farm.


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Prince Andrew denounces 'made up' newspaper stories about daughters
Media has speculated that Prince Andrew and Prince Charles have clashed over roles of princesses Beatrice and Eugenie
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Fri 9 Dec 2016 13.08 EST Last modified on Tue 28 Nov 2017 04.47 EST
Prince Andrew, left, denied that he had clashed with his brother, Prince Charles, over the roles his daughters should play. Photograph: Peter Nicholls/PA
Prince Andrew has denied claims of a rift between him and his brother, Prince Charles, over his daughters' roles in the royal family.
In a rare public statement, he moved to end speculation that he wanted princesses Beatrice and Eugenie to become more central figures, and bear greater responsibilities at public engagements. He also insisted he has not asked that his daughters' future husbands be given titles.
"As a father, my wish for my daughters is for them is to be modern working young women, who happen to be members of the royal family, and I am delighted to see them building their careers," Prince Andrew said, in a statement released on Friday.
"When they do support the royal family in its work, this is very much appreciated by my family and, most importantly, by those organisations and to those for whom their participation makes such a difference to their lives."
The statement follows a series of newspaper articles suggesting he was at odds with other members of the royal family. He was reported to have wanted his daughters, who are seventh and eighth in line to the throne, to carry out royal duties on a par with their cousins William and Harry. His brother Charles, however, favoured a slimmed-down monarchy, centred on him, his children and grandchildren, it was claimed.
In his letter, Prince Andrew wrote: "Over the past few weeks, a number of stories have been run in various newspapers that have no basis of fact and the most recent, relating to my daughters, requires correction to terminate further speculation and innuendo."
He added: "Whilst I appreciate, as granddaughters of the queen, there is considerable interest in my daughters, I cannot continue to stand by and have the media speculate on their futures based on my purported interventions, which are completely made up and an invention."
(Left to right) Sarah Ferguson, Princess Beatrice, and Princess Eugenie visited a London cancer unit on Friday, where the duchess defended her daughters. Photograph: Ian West/PA
Earlier on Friday, Prince Andrew's ex-wife Sarah Ferguson called on media outlets to "stop bullying the York family", saying her two daughters were "extraordinary examples of … good parenting".
She spoke as princesses Beatrice, 28, and Eugenie, 26, became patrons of the Teenage Cancer Trust, visiting a specialist teen cancer unit in London to meet young people with the disease.
Praising their hard work, the Duchess of York said: "Both the duke and myself, we could not be more proud of this moment because these two girls that work so hard in their own careers have taken time off today to spread the word of teen cancer, which is so important, and then go back to work.
"It's really an extraordinary example that, I think, good parenting and listening to your children and getting them to take responsibility for their own actions."
She said she was proud of her family's charity work, adding: "Let's focus more on this and less on tittle-tattle gossip. Stop bullying the York family, please."
Beatrice, who is said to be focusing on her "entrepreneurial ambitions", having had several jobs over the past five years, has been criticised in the media for the number of holidays she takes – 15 in 2015, according to one report.
She recently made headlines when she cut singer Ed Sheeran's face with a sword while pretending to "knight" James Blunt at a party at her father's Royal Lodge residence near Windsor.
Eugenie works as an associate director at a modern art gallery.
While statements from members of the royal family attacking the press are uncommon, it is not the first time the royal have felt the need to defend themselves and those near them in recent weeks. Last month, Prince Harry released a letter asking media outlets and their readers to respect the privacy of his partner Meghan Markle, who he said had been "subjected to a wave of abuse" that had taken on "racial undertones".
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The Sitti Soap team at the Women's Centre in Al Jerash Refugee Camp, Gaza. (Photo provided by Sitti Soap)
The Sitti Soap team at the Women's Centre in Al Jerash Refugee Camp, Gaza.
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Noora Sharrab and Jacqueline Sophia are co-founders of Sitti Soap, a social enterprise that educates, employs and empowers women from the Jerash "Gaza" refugee camp in Jordan, by bringing lifestyle products such as hand-pressed olive oil soaps created by refugee artisans to North America. LiisBeth recently spoke to the cofounders about their venture.
LiisBeth: How did you both come to work with the refugee community in the Jerash camp?
Jacqueline Sophia: I'd come to Jordan in 2011 as a Fulbright fellow. Initially, I was there to take on a very academic approach to my time, looking at the third-party response to gender-based violence in the capital. That quickly changed. I had experienced a lot of pushback and cultural barriers to those conversations. It was and still is a very taboo topic. But in the meantime, a friend of mine put me in touch with someone who was working with the refugee community in Jerash camp. They had known I had a background working with the refugee community resettled in Baltimore City during my time at university. They said, why don't you go to this community? They're looking for a volunteer yoga instructor. And so, I contacted them and I said I'd be happy to volunteer.
Noora Sharrab: My parents were born in Gaza. I was born in Dubai, and I grew up here in Canada. When I decided to do my master's program, I actually went and did my primary research in Jordan. And that's where I dived right in with the refugee community. I did a specialization in refugee and forced migrations. I was really interested in learning more about Palestinian refugees. And as a Palestinian myself and as someone who didn't grow up in a refugee camp, I was really interested in what it was like to identify being Palestinian but living out of a camp compared to someone who was a Palestinian but happened to live in a diaspora.
LiisBeth: What inspired you to create Sitti?
Jacqueline Sophia: We had yoga classes [at the camp] and I got to really know the community that way. Over time, the women and I would begin to work on different enterprise ideas. They really wanted to earn more steady income for their families. And I think they saw me as a link to the market that existed for them outside of the camp—I was always coming back and forth from the capital Amman, and so we started working on different enterprise ideas.
We explored the idea of Palestinian embroidery, and selling that in the form of different clothing items. But it was very labour intensive—it took a lot of time and it was hard to control the quality. We were also looking at food production for a while, but that didn't work out so well. Then one day, one of the women in the camp said she wanted to show me something. She opened the door, and there was this amazing smell of lavender. It was some 300 bars of olive oil soap.
Essentially what happened was the Italian embassy came in and did a soap making workshop with these women. But the embassy taught this workshop and then left, and so the women had all this soap and didn't know how to market or sell it. In the meantime, I was introduced to Noora and she was doing the exact same thing with another group of women in the same camp. So we were like, let's just work together.
Noora Sharrab: It's very common among development agencies and international agencies—they will come into these refugee communities, they'll do this big workshop, this big training, and then they'll leave. So you have these women who ended up being skilled, and it's really hard for them to take it on from there. We know 8 out of 10 businesses that start end up failing within the first two years because they don't have the right support, the mentorship and the capital. The resources available are very limited, let alone for a refugee trying to do this.
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LiisBeth: What was the process of building Sitti?
Noora Sharrab: Shortly after we partnered up, we launched a women's centre slash soap workshop because these women were making soap out of their homes. We wanted to be able to control the environment and control production and the manufacturing process, so we had to build a separate, dedicated area. We ended up creating a centre out of an existing home in the camp because we also wanted to make sure we remained in the camp—if we were to leave it would make it difficult for the women to access because commuting back and forth would be an added cost for them. We didn't want to have them worry about that.
Shortly after we launched the women's centre, I relocated back to Canada because I was having my second child and I wanted to be closer to family. At the same, Jackie also ended up moving out of Jordan. But both of us were like, we can't stop this project because we both left. So we brought it [the business] with us. When I came to Canada, I ended up registering the company as an LLC.
Jacqueline Sophia: As for our team, there's two employees on the ground in Jordan—Sophia is our regional manager and she oversees quality control. Amina is the facilities manager. And then we have our nine female artists and soap makers. They are a mix of regular employees, and then we have several part-time staff. The regular employees receive a regular salary every single month, and the part-time employees work on a project by project basis.
LiisBeth: What have been some of the challenges of working within a refugee camp?
Noora Sharrab: I don't want to generalize all families and all communities because they're not all the same, but there continues to be cultural sensitivities—to not have the woman out after dark or to limit them from travelling to the city. Some of them still need permission to be able to work and to be able to go to school to be able to go out. So, you still have that dynamic where having that male counterpart is important. When we first started the workshop, and we had recruited some artisans, it was very important for us to get family approval for these women. Not in a sense like they need permission, but we wanted their families to feel comfortable and to feel like their daughters, their mothers, their wives were coming into a safe space.
For us—Jacqueline and I—we were seen as these foreigners who came in and opened the centre. And even though I am Palestinian, and I am originally from Gaza, and from an identity perspective, I could relate—I'm still that foreigner that lived abroad, that spoke differently, that wasn't part of the community from that sense. So building the trust and building that credibility and transparency in the community was fundamental.
LiisBeth: Why did you choose to work with women refugees?
Noora Sharrab: When Jackie and I came together, we realized that this was not about the soap. This was about the resiliency of these women who—for some of them—it was the first time they ever got a job. Some were the sole breadwinners of their family, supporting eight to 10 people. It was like this one woman deciding, I'm not going to sit here in poverty. I want to do something about it. So, for us, we didn't see the soap as the soap itself, we saw it as more than that.
Sitti continues to be about a mission that is about education, employment and empowerment. It's about creating self-reliance for these women who for their entire lives have had to depend on aid and charity. How could we change that dynamic? How could we empower them?
LiisBeth: How has the pandemic impacted Sitti?
Jacqueline Sophia: I think this transition may have been easier for us than for some. We already had those communication pathways established as a remote team, so it wasn't difficult to act quickly. We weren't in a position where we had to say, how are we going to talk to each other on a weekly basis? So that was not difficult.
The difficulty [has been] that with a social enterprise, you don't tend to have a lot of runway in place, and so when you experience a sudden socioeconomic downturn like we've experienced with a pandemic, you have to triage. Our concern, first and foremost, was our staff in Jordan, specifically in the camp. Priority number one was to ensure that they had enough income, enough wages to help support themselves and their families because as soon as the pandemic happened and the socioeconomic collapse happened, those women were the only breadwinners, they were the only wage earners in their families. So we worked with our online network of consumers and different partner organizations. We worked with another women-owned business in Canada, and we created a crowdfunding campaign to bring in enough funds to provide relief kits essentially to over 170 families in the camp who are most in need.
LiisBeth: What's next for Sitti?
Jacqueline Sophia: We have a whole lifestyle product line that includes 10 or more products at any given moment, so soap is not the only thing we sell. That being said, it is what we do best. And so, at a time like this, it's important for not just the refugee community, but for the global community to be very aware of the public-health concerns that include washing your hands every day. These are things that we're certainly elevating in our messaging, and we're working with other corporate partners and corporate clients too—to help them spread that message.
Most people in refugee communities are not earning a steady salary. They're certainly not earning benefits. And there are structural barriers in place to prevent that from happening. As a company there are only so many things we can provide to our employees because of their refugee status. So, what we're trying to do is encourage people who are willing to purchase our goods right now by saying, if you're in a position where you can financially support us as a customer, maybe you can also support us from a charitable perspective. So, at checkout, for instance, can you offer an extra dollar towards a support fund for our employees?
We're also working to release a crowdfunding campaign [later] this year that will serve several purposes. First of all, it will serve the immediate needs—as in the next 12 months or so. It's meant to bring in the capital that we'll need in order to kind of cushion the blow of the economic downturn, and provide wage support for all of our employees to help them continue to help the business continue to run at a reduced capacity.
Jacqueline Sophie: [The campaign will] support additional operational costs for us to pivot the business and create new products to bring to market that will be awesome. It will set us up for success when things do eventually bounce back.
LiisBeth: That's awesome. Good luck with your venture and your campaign!
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My husband and I took a Sunday afternoon paddle down this section of the Pine River, recommended by a friend. He said the family goes inner-tubing down it in the summer, taking about 3 hours... but it only took us 1 1/2 hours in our kayaks.
The water level was good, with a steady, gentle current. The Pine River is part of the Wisconsin Wild Rivers, and is stunning with peaceful, untouched woods and wilderness on both sides. We saw a ferret(or something like it??), and a bald eagle.
There are parts of the Pine River where rapids and more rocks are encountered, but this stretch had just a few boulders, and a couple places where the water was more "riffly". Very nice for beginners and people like me who want NO white water!!
A few trees down, but the river is quite wide, and easy to just keep going through. It was a beautiful, relaxing trip where you could paddle or just let the river take you, and enjoy the view!
In Florence County, go north on Hwy. 101, east on "C", north on "N" until you find a boat landing where the road crosses over the Pine River. Put in there.
The take out is actually only a 1/4 mile down the road on the right side of "N", so we could do it with only one car, and walk back! There is a sign that says "Oxbow Take-out". Also, when you are on the river, there is a bright orange little arrow, and a brown sign with yellow paddles on it that tell you where the take out is. Very nice! You'll have to carry your boat up a small hill when taking out.
The man who recommended it gave us a Florence County recreation map. It was excellent!


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Q: Update MySQL using HTML Form I'm trying to create a form which allows you to update a database table using php.
I'm kinda new to PHP so excuse me if I make a stupid mistake in the code.
This is my edit.php code:

<?php

$con=mysqli_connect("localhost","root","root","test");
// Check connection
if (mysqli_connect_errno())
{
echo "Failed to connect to MySQL: " . mysqli_connect_error();
}

 $result = mysqli_query($con,"SELECT * FROM cats");

?>

<form method="post" action="<?php $_PHP_SELF ?>">

<?php

while($row = mysqli_fetch_array($result))
            {

$name = $row['name'];
$email = $row['email'];
$rank = $row['rank'];
$birth = $row['birth'];
$joined = $row['joined'];
$steamid = $row['steamid'];
?>

<?=$name?>

Email
<input name="emailid" type="text" value="<?=$email?>">

Rank
<input name="rankid" type="text" value="<?=$rank?>">

Birth
<input name="birthid" type="text" value="<?=$birth?>">

Joined
<input name="joinedid" type="text" value="<?=$joined?>">

Steamid
<input name="steamidid" type="text" value="<?=$steamid?>">

<?php } ?>

<input name="update" type="submit" id="update" value="Update">

</form>

<?php

if(isset($_POST['update']))
{

$name = $row['nameid'];
$email = $row['emailid'];
$rank = $row['rankid'];
$birth = $row['birthid'];
$joined = $row['joinedid'];
$steamid = $row['steamidid'];

$update = mysqli_query($con,"UPDATE cats SET email = '$email', rank = '$rank', birth = '$birth', joined = '$joined', steamid = '$steamid' WHERE name = '$name';");

$retval = mysqli_query($con,"UPDATE cats SET email = '$email', rank = '$rank', birth = '$birth', joined = '$joined', steamid = '$steamid' WHERE name = '$name';");
if (!$update) {
    echo "Could not update data: " . mysqli_error($con);
}
echo "Updated data successfully\n";

}
mysqli_close($con);

?>

It shows the table and information but the updating isn't working.
Updated data successfully

I've checked the database but it's not updating anything.

A: Dear i think you change the record based on Name because you can use $name in where clause and you can also change the Name than never true where clause so that your query execute successfully but not effected on any of the row.

you want to get for editable record and that's unique id base update row it will defiantly work.

A: Informations:
With mysqli_error() you need to write about which connection you want to get errors, like this:
mysqli_error($con);

With mysqli_query() you need to give two parameters, connection and query like this:
$update = mysqli_query($con,"UPDATE cats SET email = '$email', rank = '$rank', birth = '$birth', joined = '$joined', steamid = '$steamid' WHERE name = '$name';");

How to debug:
If you want to check that UPDATE query return any error you can do something like this:
if (!$update) {
    echo "Could not update data: " . mysqli_error($con);
}

You can try to debug your query with something like this:
$sql = "UPDATE cats SET email = '$email', rank = '$rank', birth = '$birth', joined = '$joined', steamid = '$steamid' WHERE name = '$name';";
echo $sql; // this output write in your phpMyadmin to check if there are any errors.
$update = mysqli_query($con, $sql);

Other problem we got:
1. I think also you should have else in your code, f.ex.:
if (!$update) {
    echo "Could not update data: " . mysqli_error($con);
} else {
    echo "Updated data successfully\n";
}

2. You are not getting data from $_POST it should be like:
$name = $_POST['nameid']; // not $row['nameid']
$email = $_POST['emailid'];
$rank = $_POST['rankid'];
$birth = $_POST['birthid'];
$joined = $_POST['joinedid'];
$steamid = $_POST['steamidid'];

More about used functions:
PHP: mysqli::$error
PHP: mysqli::query
In your case it is Procedural style

A: Try to use PHP PDO database access functions, your code as it stands is vulnerable to SQL-Injection! PDO will also make debugging and working with the database much easier.
I think your check for "update" in $_POST is not working because update is not a field inside your form but the submit button itself, try to check for one of the fields instead.

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Piece Of Spacex Rocket Will Crash Into Moon This Spring – The Hill
SpaceX's Starship rocket, a take a look at flight for an automobile anticipated to ultimately carry passengers to the moon and Mars, exploded after launch Wednesday, making impact with the ground whereas trying to land. The launch and ascent had been successful, but as the engines appeared to reignite for landing, the vehicle flipped back to vertical after which slammed into the ground. The ship had no one aboard. It had been anticipated to achieve an altitude of about 41,000 toes on the check flight. The automobile exploded on ground affect. The Serial Number 8, or SN8, rocket was going to launch from SpaceX's facility in Texas on Tuesday, but was scrapped on the final minute due to an engine subject. SpaceX founder Elon Musk tweeted, "Mars, here we come!" after the crash touchdown, though he proclaimed the take a look at successful despite the explosion. SpaceX wrote of the launch on its web site. The SN8, which Musk has invested billions of dollars in, is SpaceX's next mannequin — after SN5 and SN6 — in the quest to construct a reusable rocket that may take passengers to the moon and eventually Mars. The company introduced in 2018 that it had signed up a Japanese vogue designer to be the primary private citizen to travel to the moon.
In other phrases, in Dragon and Falcon Heavy missions alone, SpaceX already has 10-eleven launches scheduled in 2022 – all of which require the usage of Pad 39A. If SpaceX manages to pull that off on high of a myriad of other business and Starlink launches scheduled next yr, it will be a feat to recollect. Barring additional delays, USSF-44 might be SpaceX's first direct launch to geostationary orbit (GEO), requiring the Falcon upper stage to survive a multi-hour coast via and inside two radiation belts before reigniting for a circularization burn some 35,800 km (22,300 mi) above Earth's surface. However, a rideshare payload transferred to SpaceX's ViaSat-3 communications satellite launch not too long ago revealed that SpaceX additionally intends to send those payloads on to GEO in Q2 2022, that means that another few months may pressure the company to leapfrog USSF-44.
The Air Force has stated it is spending more than $60 million. SpaceX's amended complaint also questions the Air Force's purchase of launch companies for GPS 3-2 – the second of eight next-generation GPS satellites at present in production at Lockheed Martin. Has a hundred workers working on the process. The timing of the order creates an inconsistency in acquisition processes and shuts SpaceX out of the competitors, the amended complaint says. When the Air Force included the deliberate 2017 launch of GPS 3-2 in the block-purchase contract it gave ULA in December, SpaceX alleges, the Air Force broke with its regular follow of shopping for a rocket two years before launch. "Had the Air Force correctly waited to order this launch car till two years prior to its mission launch date, SpaceX would have been able to compete for and likely win that launch car," the complaint states. SpaceX's refiled complaint also contains information from a June 20 letter from Sen. John McCain (R-Ariz.) asking the Pentagon's acquisition czar about claims that RD-Amross earns income of greater than 200 % on every Russian-made RD-180 engine it sells to ULA. The RD-180 is constructed by NPO Energomash of Russia and offered to ULA by RD-Amross, a joint enterprise between Energomash and United Technologies Corp.
The second time was the charm for SpaceX – www.spacex.com/vehicles/falcon-heavy/ – . The company efficiently launched its Transporter-2 mission from the Florida coast on Wednesday after an aircraft in the realm forced the corporate to scrub its initial try. Transporter-2 was nearly 11 seconds away from lifting off from Cape Canaveral on Tuesday afternoon when SpaceX needed to shortly scrub the launch. "There is just no approach that humanity can become a spacefaring civilization with out major regulatory reform," he stated, voicing his frustration on Twitter after the scrub. The company made one other attempt on Wednesday afternoon. Successfully launched the mission on a Falcon 9 rocket. The Transporter-2 mission is SpaceX's second dedicated SmallSat Rideshare Program mission. "The current regulatory system is damaged. Three Starlink satellites will even be on board. Lower than 10 minutes after launch, SpaceX successfully landed Falcon 9's first stage on Landing Zone 1 at Cape Canaveral. This mission will ship 85 business and authorities spacecraft into orbit, including CubeSats, microsats and orbital switch vehicles. According to SpaceX, it was the eight launch and landing of that Falcon 9 since its first flight a yr in the past.
Spacex Stacking Giant Super Heavy Rocket Ahead Of Starship Orbital Flight Test (Picture)
SpaceX is gearing up for probably the most ambitious take a look at flight but of its Starship Mars rocket. Last month, a Starship prototype aced an excessive-altitude test flight for the first time, soaring about 6.2 miles (10 kilometers) into the skies above SpaceX's "Starbase" site in South Texas after which touching down safely again at the facility. Even before achieving that milestone, however, SpaceX had began planning out the primary Starship flight to Earth orbit. In March, for instance, company founder and CEO Elon Musk tweeted that SpaceX was concentrating on July for that landmark trial, which would require each components of the reusable Starship system – the 165-foot-tall higher-stage spaceship, referred to as (somewhat confusingly) Starship, and the huge first-stage booster known as Super Heavy. Super Heavy was not involved within the 6.2-mile-high flight; that may 5 jaunt employed just a prototype Starship higher stage, one outfitted with three of SpaceX's next-era Raptor engines. Federal Communications Commission (FCC) that was first reported by The Verge. In mid-May, we learned the main points of the approaching orbital check, due to a document filed with the U.S. The plan is that this: The Super Heavy-Starship duo will lift off from Starbase, and the huge first-stage booster will come down about six minutes later in the Gulf of Mexico about 20 miles (32 km) off the Texas coast.
SpaceX needs to construct a metropolis on Mars, and it is not waiting round to get began. On Friday, CEO Elon Musk confirmed via Twitter that he is nonetheless aiming to launch the primary ships to Mars by 2022. These ships will hold cargo designed to support a future manned mission. That mission will are available 2024, the subsequent time when the Earth and Mars are close once more. Musk first outlined this goal in a September 2017 presentation, where he described the BFR car that will help this mission. At the time, Musk mentioned the 2022 figure was "not a typo … although it's aspirational." A lot has modified since then – BFR grew to become Starship, a mini-Starship flew, a number of prototypes exploded – but it appears Musk's willpower to achieve the pink planet in super-fast time has not wavered. Why the rush? Musk explained via Twitter Thursday that he sees it as a race against time.
No, there isn't an enormous launch complicated in the midst of Cameron County, Texas. Not yet. Over the previous few years, Space Exploration Technologies Corporation (SpaceX) has been negototiating with state officials and the FAA to assemble a facility from which to launch commercial Falcon 9 and Falcon Heavy rockets. I have included two separate recordsdata: one has a Falcon Heavy rocket on the pad, whereas the opposite has none. This file marks my sixth spaceport for X-Plane, after Cape Canaveral Air Force Station, Kennedy Space Center, Vandenberg Air Force Base, Spaceport America, and the Mojave Air and Spaceport. In addition, I am using lessons realized with this surroundings to enhance my KTTS and KXMR sceneries (anticipate a highly modified version of the latter soon). Finally, I'm experimenting with a flyable Falcon 9. Object credit goes to Chris Noe, Michael Hoge, Walter Blenny, and OpenSceneryX.
Boeing's continued Starliner delays have prompted NASA to hedge its bets. SpaceNews studies NASA plans to order as many as three extra crewed SpaceX flights to ensure "uninterrupted" US journeys to the International Space Station as soon as 2023. The corporate's Crew Dragon is the only system that meets accomplice nation and safety requirements in the necessary time window, the company said. In other words, NASA does not wish to be with no experience to the ISS if Boeing is not ready. NASA was comfortable Boeing was specializing in "security over schedule" for Starliner after it delayed a second orbital take a look at to investigate an oxidizer isolation valve drawback. However, that nonetheless left the administration in a bind. It was "essential" to acquire additional flights now to maintain an US foothold on the ISS, associate administrator Kathy Lueders stated.
A senior official chargeable for driving technological innovation on the U.S. Department of Defense has resigned, saying the Pentagon wants "structural change" and will behave more like SpaceX, Elon Musk's satellite tv for pc firm that has shaken up rocket launches. "We're falling behind the industrial base in key areas, so we've bought to catch up," Preston Dunlap, the first person within the U.S. Department of Defense to fulfill the position of chief architect officer, stated in an interview. Dunlap, who handed in his resignation on Monday after three years within the put up at the U.S. Consequently the U.S. Space Force and U.S. Air Force, was answerable for pushing extra technology into a $70 billion funds for research, development and acquisition. He plans to start a space software program firm centered on the nexus with satellites, information and artificial intelligence.


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Friday . January 15, 2021
UAE aims to vaccinate over half of population
Probe suggests links between Assad regime, Beirut blast
Two families staged Indonesian suicide bombings, say police
Two families staged Indonesian suicide bombings, say police /node/1302761/world
Police at the site Sunday of a blast outside the Surabaya Center Pentecostal Church in Surabaya, Indonesia. (AFP)
The father of the church suicide bombers was a local leader in extremist network Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD), which supports Daesh, and the second family was also linked to JAD.
Indonesia has long struggled with Islamist militancy, including the 2002 Bali bombings that killed more than 200 people in the country's worst-ever terror attack.
SURABAYA, Indonesia: A family of five, including a child, carried out the suicide bombing of a police headquarters in Indonesia's second city Surabaya on Monday, police said, a day after a deadly wave of attacks on churches staged by another family.
The spate of bombings has rocked Indonesia, with the Daesh group claiming both the church and police station attacks, raising fears about its influence in Southeast Asia as its dreams of a Middle Eastern caliphate fade.
Indonesia, which is set to host the Asian Games in just three months, has long struggled with Islamist militancy, including the 2002 Bali bombings that killed more than 200 people — mostly foreign tourists — in the country's worst-ever terror attack.
Security forces have arrested hundreds of militants during a sustained crackdown that smashed some networks, and most recent attacks have been low-level and targeted domestic security forces.
But that changed Sunday as a family of six — including girls aged nine and 12 — staged suicide bombings of three churches during morning services in Surabaya, killing 18 people including the bombers.
On Monday members of another family blew themselves up at a police station in the city, wounding 10.
"There were five people on two motorbikes. One of them was a little kid," national police chief Tito Karnavian said. "This is one family."
An eight-year-old girl from the family survived the attack and was taken to hospital, while her mother, father and two brothers died in the blast, he said.
The children were probably led to their deaths without a full awareness of their fate, said Ade Banani of the University of Indonesia's research center of police science and terrorism studies.
If a family believes in traditional roles, the father "has the power, so everyone has to obey," Banani said.
"The children probably do not know what's going on or don't understand."
The father of the church suicide bombers was a local leader in extremist network Jamaah Ansharut Daulah (JAD) which supports Daesh, and the second family was also linked to JAD.
"It ordered and gave instructions for its cells to make a move," Karnavian said of the Daesh's role in the church attacks.
He added that the bombings may have also been motivated by the arrest of JAD leaders, including jailed radical Aman Abdurrahman, and were linked to a deadly prison riot staged by extremist prisoners at a high-security jail near Jakarta last week.
Abdurrahman has been connected to several deadly incidents, including a 2016 gun and suicide attack in the capital Jakarta that left four attackers and four civilians dead.
Despite their apparent allegiance to Daesh, the church-bombing family were not returnees from Syria, police said Monday, correcting their earlier statements.
However, hundreds of Indonesians have flocked in recent years to fight alongside Daesh there.
Its ambitions have been reined in after losing most of the land it once occupied in Iraq and Syria, and there are concerns that jihadists will now turn their focus on establishing a base in Southeast Asia.
On Sunday evening, just hours after the church bombings, a further three people in another family were killed and two wounded when another bomb exploded at an apartment complex about 30 kilometers from Surabaya.
That explosion appeared to have been an accidental detonation that killed a mother and her 17-year-old child who was not identified.
The woman's husband — a confidante of the husband behind the church bombings, Dita Oepriyanto — was badly injured in the explosion.
Police said they arrived after the explosion and shot dead the injured man, Anton Febrianto, as he held a bomb detonator in his hand.
"When we searched the flat we found pipe bombs, similar to pipe bombs we found near the churches," said Karnavian.
Police said they also shot dead four suspects,including the second-ranking member of the JAD cell in Surabaya, in raids on houses and offices Monday while nine others were arrested.
Indonesian police have foiled numerous terror plots, but the coordinated nature of Sunday's church bombings and the subsequent blasts point to more sophisticated planning than in the past, analysts said.
Topics: Surabaya suicide bombings Daesh Islamic extremists
2 militants on motorcycle blow themselves up at Indonesian police HQ, wounding 10 people
Deadly Indonesia church suicide bombings committed by one family
'No room for terrorism,' Indonesian leader vows as police end jail riot
Britain tightens borders to keep out new COVID-19 variants /node/1793316/world
Britain tightens borders to keep out new COVID-19 variants
Johnson is grappling to control a third wave of the virus and prevent the health service from collapse
The rule changes come into force at 0400 GMT on Monday
LONDON: Britain is tightening border controls to block new variants of COVID-19, suspending all "travel corridor" arrangements that had meant arrivals from some countries did not require quarantine.
Prime Minister Boris Johnson is grappling to control a third wave of the virus and prevent the health service from collapse while also racing to vaccinate millions each week.
"What we don't want to see is all that hard work undone by the arrival of a new variant that is vaccine-busting," he told a news conference, explaining the end of travel corridors at least until Feb. 15.
The rule changes come into force at 0400 GMT on Monday and mean all passengers must have a recent negative coronavirus test and transfer immediately into isolation upon arrival.
Isolation lasts for 10 days, unless the passenger tests negative after five.
On Thursday, Britain banned arrivals from South America, Portugal and some other countries over fears about a variant detected in Brazil.
Britain's current lockdowns ban most international travel meaning that airline schedules are currently minimal, but the withdrawal of any quarantine-free travel will be a further blow for an industry already on its knees.
UK-based airline easyJet said there was no immediate impact from Johnson's announcement, but in a statement added: "We need to ensure that travel corridors are put back in place when it is safe to do so."
Britain has already felt the effects of mutations in the virus, after a variant first discovered in England has proved to be more transmissible.
Critics say the government has been too slow to act and previously left borders wide open.
Much of the criticism prior to Friday's announcement has focused on whether rules requiring arriving passengers to quarantine are actually being enforced, with anecdotal evidence that few checks are made.
"We will be stepping up our enforcement, both at the border and in country," Johnson said.
Topics: Britain Coronavirus Variants
Turkey launches mass coronavirus vaccination
Saudi artist proves disability is no barrier to success


Due to their simplicity, hypercubes are a popular topology for the interconnection network of massively parallel systems. One critical issue when dealing with such parallel systems is routing: data transmission is at the center of any operation or computation. Additionally, as the number of processors inside modern supercomputers is huge, and continuously growing, fault tolerance ought to be addressed. Hence, for a routing algorithm to generating node-disjoint paths is of high interest as it maximises the probability of establishing a fault-free path in a faulty environment. Also importantly, generating disjoint paths allows for time-efficient data transmission; transfers are able to be realised in parallel as two paths are ensured to share no common resource. In an n-dimensional hypercube, given a source node and k (k < = n) destination nodes, Rabin described an algorithm finding k node-disjoint paths between the source node and the destination nodes of optimal lengths (at most n + 1) in O(k3 + kn) time. We describe in this paper a smart improvement to this algorithm to reduce its time complexity from O(k3 + kn to O(kn)O(kn) which is time optimal.
Received May 8, 2012; accepted November 15, 2012.


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In recent years, the Philippines has taken the top spot in South East Asia as far as Renewable Energy (RE) development is concerned. This was a well-planned initiative that was accomplished primarily by enticing energy technology experts and institutional investors to lead the charge in developing this sector. To support this, the government passed legislation and adopted what is called the Feed-In Tariff (FIT) system, in order to lessen the business risk of investors.
Under the FIT, a minute percentage of what you are charged on your electric bill – 0.54%, to be exact – is allocated to help fund RE growth. Indeed, it is a wonderful way for people to contribute a small part to help Mother Earth and leave something positive for future generations. This is a shared responsibility, after all.
Given this, I must reiterate how very commendable it is that our country is taking the necessary measures in trying to preserve our planet. Fossil fuels can have terrible effects on the environment, and RE is definitely a step in the right direction. Clean energy sources such as solar power, hydroelectric, geothermal, etc. are all more sustainable in the long run. They provide us more energy security since it would mean that we won't have to import fuel from other countries, and we would have our own plants and RE centers in the country. It's also good for the economy: based on a report done by the World Wildlife Fund (WWF) entitled "RE Thinking Energy," the costs for renewable energy have been decreasing considerably in the past years, and can most likely lower the cost of electricity at the consumer level.
I mentioned that fact in passing in the previous column, but let's now take a look at some quantifiable figures. According to a 2016 study conducted by the Philippine Electricity Market Corp. (PEMC), market prices were reduced nearly 50 percent with the inclusion of FIT-eligible plants in the market. The PEMC analyzed the financial impact of FIT in the Wholesale Electricity Spot Market (WESM), the country's power spot market, in the span of approximately one year. Moreover, it took into consideration that FIT-eligible RE plants are placed in the market under a "merit order" basis, which means its generating capacity is a priority in dispatch to the grid. The study concluded that the integration of the FIT-eligible RE plants in the market resulted in a cost reduction of P4.04 billion, or P0.0567 per kwh, in the case study span of 11 months.
Ultimately, when our supply of RE increases substantially, supply-and-demand forces will further drive energy prices down. However, this can only be achieved when the FIT and its implementing rules and regulations are properly implemented and fulfilled. I maintain my previously stated position that the Energy Regulatory Commission (ERC) should fulfill all its contractual obligations with the FIT-qualified resources, mainly in disbursing FIT Allowances.
Regie Casas and JJ Soriano from the Confederation of Solar Power Developers of the Philippines (CSDP), for example, reiterated a growing RE industry concern that investors have received the short end of stick even after making substantial contributions to the nation. At present, after more than a year after the deadline of their completion, repeated appeals for the government to honor its FIT and FIT Allowance commitments have fallen on deaf ears. So what do you think large-scale investors do when they find out that a country has a tendency to break its promises? They go to other countries, of course. This is a crying shame, because these companies and individuals believed in the Philippines and its potential, only to be left holding a (so far) empty bag.
As they say, every action has an equal and opposite reaction, especially when it comes to something as delicate and vital as the protection of our environment. We must continue to do our part – whether it be on a macro or micro scale – in order to contribute to our planet's well-being. As a nation, we are positioned to take a giant step with our renewable energy sector, for our country, for our world, and for our future generations. Whether that step is backwards or forwards, that is now up to us.
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Growing numbers of Americans suffer from depression, anxiety, trauma and substance abuse. Many are being helped by cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), an approach widely recognized for its effectiveness. By working with a CBT-trained professional, clients learn to reinterpret experiences and replace negative thoughts, beliefs and actions with positive, more realistic ones and go on to lead happier, more productive lives.
During the week of July 23, 2018, social workers, therapists, counselors, psychologists, nurses and others gathered in the Ruth S. Harley University Center Thomas Dixon Lovely Ballroom to learn how to administer CBT during the Adelphi School of Social Work's annual Summer Institute.
The School is renowned for its graduate program that U.S. News & World Report ranked in the top 10 percent in the nation, and for its undergraduate program that USA Today College ranked sixth nationally. The School also plays a vital role for the region's mental health professionals and the clients they serve through its Office of Continuing Education and Professional Development. Run by Audrey Freshman, Ph.D., the program enables professionals to earn continuing education units, which various state departments require professionals earn to update their skills and maintain their licenses. The School of Social Work holds these workshops throughout the year, at all campus locations.
After the introduction to CBT on the first day of the Institute, expert instructors taught attendees to use CBT to help those with depression, anxiety, obsessive-compulsive disorder and those who had experienced trauma. On the last day, attendees received the Interdisciplinary Postgraduate Certificate in the Fundamentals of Cognitive Behavioral Treatment.


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Home Depot Sued Over Ad Slogan
Atlanta, GA, Oct. 29--Sunshine Ace Hardware, an old-time hardware chain in southwest Florida that has seen Home Depot open several stores in its back yard, isn't backing away from its fight with Big Orange. Sunshine Ace sued Home Depot in June in U.S. District Court in Fort Myers, FL, saying the company's "You Can Do It. We Can Help" advertising slogan violates a trademark held by Sunshine Ace. The chain, which has four stores compared with Home Depot's 1,618, is asking a federal judge to bar Home Depot from using the slogan. Home Depot and Sunshine Ace have taken a "do-it-yourself" approach to settling their dispute. They are trying to schedule voluntary mediation and may resolve their differences within 90 days, according to a motion filed by Sunshine Ace attorneys last week. Home Depot confirmed the discussions Tuesday. Sunshine Ace may not get a permanent injunction, but the Naples, FL, chain probably will not walk away empty-handed, according to marketing experts. The "You Can Do It. We Can Help" slogan is at the heart of Home Depot's $350 million ad campaign. Home Depot has applied to register the slogan with the U.S. Patent and Trademark Office, but the office has not yet determined whether to approve the application. "I'm sure they don't want to lose it," said Ken Bernhardt, regents professor of marketing at Georgia State University. "It's a perfect slogan for Home Depot." However, Bernhardt said, Home Depot could find another slogan to reinforce its message that it can help do-it-yourselfers with household repairs and improvements. Mediation makes sense because the company could pay Sunshine Ace for the slogan with money Home Depot would have used to pay attorneys' fees, Bernhardt said. Sunshine Ace began selling hardware in 1964 and has been using the "You Can Do It. We Can Help" slogan "for a matter of years," the company's attorney, Jennifer Whitelaw, has said.


Save the Bees, Drink Mead!
At Golden Coast Mead in Oceanside, California, cofounder, CEO, and Head Mead Maker, Frank Golbeck, believes with all his heart that drinking mead can help save the honeybees. We caught up with Golbeck after first meeting him at the San Diego Fermentation Fest (read about the festival in a previous post) and couldn't resist stopping by his tasting room and production facility in Oceanside to sample a "flight" of his unique meads made with a 1-to-4 ratio of California Honey to Palomar Mountain spring water and an ale yeast.
Perhaps a disclaimer is needed here: We love mead. But the surprisingly flavorful and unique styles of mead crafted by Golden Coast Mead go unparalleled in our travels. And we have sampled some amazing meads from other parts of the country. But every kind of mead at Golden Coast had its own story, usually based on the source of the honey and the pairings with other ingredients, like coffee or Serrano peppers — and the flavor profiles change throughout the year. We tried a mead flight of Orange Vanilla, Savage Bois, Coffee, and Pucker Punch.
"We're doing very different things," Golbeck continues, on what sets his operation apart from others. "We call it San Diego-style mead. Ours is defined by using an ale yeast. We use some sour cultures to give them a bit of a complex edge. No one else is really doing ale-based meads on a commercial scale. No one else is really doing sours on a commercial scale."
We started our flight with Orange Vanilla Mead. We could taste and smell both the orange blossom and vanilla.
"We want to frame this as an 'adventuring mead,'" explains Golbeck, on what he termed a short mead for their Orange Vanilla. "It's only 6 percent alcohol, unlike our 12-percent meads where you might drink a bottle and that's the end of the night." He laughs.
"It's magic is the way I like to think of it," smiles Golbeck. "It's terroir taken to the next incredible level of quality." By the end of our testing, we agreed. We seemed to have traveled the coast without ever leaving the tasting room. If you like the taste of the mead, you'll likely enjoy the place where the honey is from and the time of year it's harvested.
So, drink up, we say. Savor what is good for the Earth, and do your part to help preserve the honeybees that must be allowed to thrive in healthy ecosystems. No monoculture crops of grapes or barley. No chemicals. Just great taste.
And if you want to learn how to make mead like the pros, take one of Golden Coast Mead's workshops.
If Gandalf traveled in these parts of California, he'd definitely include this place on his wanderings. And yes, Golden Coast Mead ships.


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Business incubators -- organization that supports startup and fledgling companies by providing a variety of resources and services meant to accelerate its development -- are becoming very popular and growing in number, reach and effectiveness.
While incubators vary widely in services and resources provided, as well as cost to be accepted, most entrepreneurs find them invaluable. The application process is grueling, with thousands of companies applying for a very few number of spots. For this reason, would-be entrepreneurs need to be prepared before they even start.
Resources at incubators include such things as access to experienced entrepreneurs, new human resources talent, and even startup capital. On most occasions, the business incubator provides these services in an exchange of a portion of the startup's equity.
I spoke with Mike Schroll, director of Startup.SC, a small-business incubator, in the beginning stages of development itself, which was recently funded by a significant grant by the South Carolina Department of Commerce. As an entrepreneur who himself has successfully gone through a startup accelerator, TechStars, I asked him about what startup companies and entrepreneurs should expect when going through the process of applying and working with a business incubator.
1. Do your research. Not all business incubators are the same. It is important to understand the resources and services offered, the cost of being involved, and make certain the whole package matches the needs of your company.
Mentors: Do the entrepreneurs and specialists in the incubator have experiences and networks that are beneficial for your startup?
Location: Most incubators will require you to relocate for the duration of your experience. Be sure the location is agreeable for you and your business. Consider also that as you build your network in this location, you may consider staying there after the program. Can your business flourish with the resources in that city?
Curriculum: Entrepreneurs who go through a business incubator are typically required to go through rigorous trainings and educational seminars. Be certain you can handle the curriculum, especially if your business is already operating and needs regular management.
2. Consult alumni. Most incubators will list the companies that have gone through the process. Do your best to contact and discuss the experiences of former incubator businesses. While asking them to rate their experience is important, also ask what they did specifically. One company's bad experience may be another company's ideal challenge. Prepare your questions in advance and be thorough.
3. Assemble your team. Business incubators look for strong founders with strong teams first, business ideas second. A startup that goes through an incubator will more than likely exit a completely different and certainly more refined business. It may even turn out that, in the course of the incubator, that the company changes directions altogether, pivoting toward a more feasible or economic business model.
The founders and their teams may also go through a transition, but ultimately, it is the original entrepreneurs that the incubator is depending on to execute the end business strategy. Make sure you have the right people in place.
4. Prepare your pitch. Your pitch is how you will differentiate your startups from the other applicants and should be well prepared and well rehearsed. Keep in mind that the incubator wants companies that can succeed, not only because they have an equity stake, but also for recruiting future investment capital and promising companies.
More important than winners, the incubators want doers -- founders that demonstrate the ability to execute. Be sure to focus on how your business will succeed, not just what it needs.
5. Determine what you want to give. As mentioned before, the cost of being accepted into an incubator is typically an exchange of equity in your company. Ask yourself how much you are willing to give to be in the incubator and make certain it matches the needs and goals of the incubator.
It would also be very beneficial to have your own legal counsel or advisor to help you with the final term sheets. One thing is certain, being comfortable with the experience before you go in will greatly increase your chances of having a great experience throughout.
Being accepted to a business incubator is an incredible opportunity for a startup. If not properly prepared, however, your great startup idea will be lost in the thousands of other applicants. Worse yet, if you are accepted into the wrong incubator, you could find it a colossal waste of time and valuable company equity. Follow these tips and do your homework to get the most out of your experience.
Have you been through a business incubator? Please share your experience with other entrepreneurs in the comments section below.


President Trump continued to use his camera time for tough talk on U.S./Mexico relations and immigration, on Tuesday, April 3. He did so after courting a group of Baltic leaders at the White House and decided to inform the public of plans to reinforce the border between countries with military personnel.
Border security became a hot topic over the weekend when the President was prompted to address reports of a 1,000+ deep caravan of migrants who were believed to have been headed towards the U.S. in order to escape violence in Central America. His response to the news riled up great opposition due to his willingness to throw Democrats and DACA under the bus while explaining that immigrants like those traveling north look to take advantage of such programs once they've settled in one of the nation's 50 states.
Trump asserted on Tuesday that in the days since he began to rant about the controversy much of the caravan has been broken up. He then credited the country's tough immigration laws and proceeded to openly challenge why past lawmakers have failed to institute stronger laws, after chiding former President Barack Obama and current U.S. policy for having (to his determination) weakened and effectively erased the border.
"We are going to be doing some things — I've been speaking with (Defense Secretary) Mattis — we're going to be doing things militarily," said Trump before delving in to the military option that he came up with after bringing Homeland Security Secretary Kirstjen Neilsen, Attorney General Jeff Sessions, Joint Chiefs Chairman Joseph Dunford and chief of staff John Kelly, together with Mattis to form a solution.


• Following widespread consultation, the PCC have agreed to rebuild All Saints in a way that will both honour our heritage, and provide a building that will resource the congregations and community of the future.
• The DAC have up to this point been very supportive and encouraging, but are currently waiting for a response from English Heritage before they give us their formal advice.
• Meanwhile, the rebuilding group are working with Architects, Quantity surveyors, Conservators, and our insurers, to ensure that we are in a position to move forward quickly with the rebuilding project.
Please continue to pray that in all this God's will be done.
Our new hat is complete!
The work on the "Tin Hat" is now in place. This will protect the fabric of the church until the rebuilding is complete.
The work of erecting scaffolding at All Saints goes on. The 'Top Hat' temporary roof will go on very shortly.
We have now compiled a very comprehensive list of architects who will be invited to register an interest in the rebuilding work. Our vision statement will be going out to them very soon.
Year 5 at All Saints school are currently doing a project about the rebuilding. They will be visiting the site of the church on Wednesday, and will be conducting research amongst the public about the future use of the church.
Don't forget the special Meeting on Saturday March 12th at 10.00am at P&J. Please note that this is not a consultation meeting like we had before, but an opportunity to ask questions and to hear in more detail how the project is proceeding.
Work has started on the removal of headstones from the churchyard. This is necessary to facilitate the erection of scaffolding and access by heavy vehicles. The work is being done by experienced stone masons and every care will be taken with both the removal and storage of headstones. Not all stones will be removed, but an area near the walls needs to be cleared to provide access and prevent damage to the stones themselves. If you know of anyone who has relatives buried in the churchyard, please let them know what we are doing and why. There is more information elsewhere on the website.
It may appear that there is very little happening right now but that's not the case!
Behind the scenes there is much work going on in terms of arranging for the temporary roof, permission to move gravestones and provision for vehicular access – when these are all in place we will publish more info.
Our PCC meet on 18th January to further consider the vision for the future and we will circulate a document to our congregations and community following this meeting.
The PCC met on Saturday 28 November to consider the many responses (56 pages of A4) to our consultation exercise. This was a very successful meeting, led by the Holy Spirit, and a fairly clear way forward was agreed upon. A detailed report of this will be published in the near future.
The young man who pleaded guilty of starting the fire was sentenced on Friday 27 November. He was sentenced to 4 years in a youth offender institution followed by 3 years of supervision. Please continue praying for him, his family, and all who have been affected by the fire.
Thank you to everyone who has attended our consultation sessions, or sent us their thoughts and ideas about the rebuilding. These are now being collated and we will shortly report back to you a summary of what people have been telling us.
If you would like to submit ideas in writing please do so to the Parish Office by Friday 16th October.
The clearance at All Saints by the specialists has now been completed and the church has been handed back to us. The pulpit, font and Lefroy memorial have been enclosed in plywood to protect them from winter weather.
The 'Top Hat' (temporary roof) will be fitted in the next month or so. This will cut out the light so these sunny views of the church may be the last you will see for a while.
The angel is holding All Saints Church before the extension in the1930s with the cloistered narthex on the west door.


Supporters of Arizona's cherished Salt River wild horses have received an early Christmas present, with news that federal authorities have decided to withdraw an impound notice.
The US Forest Service published the impound notice late in July, putting at risk the 100 or so horses that live along the Salt River, which flows through Tonto National Forest.
The notice caused a public outcry, with the Salt River Wild Horse Management Group (SRWHMG) mounting a well-organized social media campaign to save the horses.
The Forest Service backed down in a matter of days, putting in place a 120-day suspension of the impound notice following negotiations with the SRWHMG.
The group yesterday released a statement saying the Forest Service had indicated its intention to withdraw the impound notice.
Since August, the SRWHMG, the local community, the American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign and the Animal Recovery Mission have worked toward getting the notice cancelled, in order to allow time to negotiate an agreement for the long-term protection of the horses.
The horses are a tourist drawcard, and can often be seen wandering into the river to graze the aquatic grasses. The horses do not receive any protection under the 1971 Wild and Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act because they live outside formally designated herd management areas.
Last Friday, the Arizona US House delegation, led by Congressman Matt Salmon, sent a letter to US Secretary of Agriculture Tom Vilsack urging the Forest Service to move quickly to implement reasonable, humane solutions and protect the horses where they live.
The letter encouraged the agency to work with the community and questioned why the horses could not be managed under the 1960 Multiple-Use Sustained-Yield Act.
Last week, SRWHMG president Simone Netherlands met with Tonto National Forest supervisor Neil Bosworth and received assurances that the agency was committed to working toward a long-term plan for the humane management of the horses.
Netherlands welcomed the agency's decision to back away from its roundup plan.
American Wild Horse Preservation Campaign director Suzanne Roy said: "While much work remains to be done and many details to work out, this is a very positive step toward protecting these horses, who are clearly valued by the public.
The SRWHMG has lobbied hard for the horses and also filed a federal lawsuit seeking an injunction to stop the roundup. It later dropped the case as a sign of good faith in an effort to continue negotiations with the Forest Service.
Arizona's political leaders, including Governor Doug Ducey, Senators John McCain and Jeff Flake, and Congresspersons Matt Salmon, Trent Franks, Martha McSally, Ann Kirkpatrick, Raul Grijalva, Kyrsten Sinema, Ruben Gallego and David Schweikert, have expressed support for their constituents' desire to establish long-term protection for the horses.
Netherlands continued: "The continued freedom of these wild horse families means a great deal to the American people.


Anxiety disorders do not discriminate by age.
Anxiety disorders have historically been thought of as problems of childhood and early adulthood. However, the prevalence of anxiety disorders among older adults ranges from 10% to 20%, making this class of disorders more prevalent than other common late-life psychiatric problems such as dementia or depression.
The onset of generalized anxiety disorder (GAD) specifically can occur at any point in the life cycle; the average age of onset is 31 years old. Of all anxiety disorders, however, GAD stands as the most common in late life with estimates in the older adult age group ranging from 1%-7%.
Its prevalence in older adults may in part be reflective of the tenacity of GAD; young adults who struggle with generalized anxiety can experience a recurrence of symptoms in middle and later stages of life. The new onset of GAD among older adults is often related to co-existing depression.
Older adults may present their symptoms differently than younger people. They may articulate the physical symptoms of anxiety more readily than the psychological symptoms.
The presence of a medical illness (the odds of which increase with age) is a known risk factor for anxiety disorders.
Older adults are more likely than younger adults to be taking multiple medications. Because physical symptoms of anxiety may overlap with medication side effects, it's helpful to pay attention to the triggers and time course of physical symptoms as they relate to medication schedules or changes versus other potential stressors.
GAD is, unfortunately, under-treated in the elderly. Inadequate diagnosis is one reason for this, but another is access or ability to seek out treatment. Among older adults living with this disorder, it is estimated that only approximately one-quarter seek out professional help for their symptoms.
The first step in a diagnostic evaluation can involve speaking with a current physician — either a primary care physician or a clinician involved in the treatment of an existing medical illness. A referral for a comprehensive evaluation with a mental health provider may follow.
The treatments available for GAD in younger adults, which include medication and psychotherapy options, have not been studied as comprehensively in randomized controlled trials of older adults. Findings from medication studies for anxiety disorders completed in mixed-age adult samples and the existing trials in older adults generally do support the use medications for anxiety in late life individuals.
There is also evidence that the psychotherapy approach used to good effect in the treatment of GAD in children and young adults, cognitive behavioral therapy (CBT), is similarly beneficial to older adults. Modifications and enhancements to CBT — for example, using large print educational materials and delivering the treatment in a group format — show promise for even more benefit for this age group. To address barriers to treatment including mobility and access, guided self-help approaches derived from CBT principles are also under study.
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3.17pm: Sir Ian Carruthers has been appointed as chair of the Healthcare UK Governance Board.
"We are privileged that Sir Ian has agreed to chair the Healthcare UK Governance Board. He brings a deep understanding of the NHS from a career spanning 40 years".
The body represents GP OOH social enterprises. Its chair Dr Mark Reynolds said: "It is not safe for GPs to work and be personally on call 24 hours a day, 365 days of the year and today's Social Enterprise providers arose from collaborative partnerships of local GPs sharing the workload and working to clearly specified quality standards.
"We would like to extend an open invitation to Jeremy Hunt to visit us to hear the full story, review our quality programme, and to see the thousands of compliments received by hard-working GPs and staff," he added.
"This agreement will strengthen how we work together as the sector addresses the recommendations made in the Francis Report.
I think the only fair way to choose Sir David's successor is a televised competition. Called "The Nicholson Challenge", naturally.
12.55am: Alex Kafetz asks can Sir Bruce Keogh trump accusations that NHS England's review of high mortality rates will be a "whitewash", and is there any outcome that will satisfy the critics?
12.24am: Professionals working in dementia care can now bid for a share of a £150,000 prize fund for redesigning dementia services around patients under the NHS Innovation Challenge Prize for Dementia.
11.17am: The Guardian's social affairs editor also writes "Sir David Nicholson: the 'Stalinist' NHS chief who showed loyalty to Tory boss". In its profile of Nicholson the paper writes Nicholson was ever faithful to his political bosses. Even when Lansley was on the verge of being sacked by Downing Street, Nicholson continued to text support to the beleaguered cabinet minister.
11.12am: The Guardian also reports the Nuffield Trust and Institute for Fiscal Studies finding that spending on private services by the NHS rose to £8.7bn, up £3bn since 2006.
11.08am: The Guardian says Sir David Nicholson's announcement yesterday was down to "media pressure".
It says Ian Dalton is considered the odds-on favourite in the DH.
10.58am: Locum GP 'put baby at risk' in a month of 13-hour shifts reports Daily Telegraph. Dr Volker Bornmann clocked on for 13-hour stretches for 24 days at different organisations despite being warned about the risks of working excessively a tribunal hear yesterday.
10.44am: The Daily Mail also reports that "in a major speech tomorrow [Jeremy Hunt] plans to say that Labour's 'historic mistake' in agreeing the [out-of-hours GP contracts] had led to the scandal of out-of-hours services where patients are told to 'speak to a doctor who doesn't know you from Adam'.
The front page of the paper also carried a banner trailing a lead piece by columnist Sandra Parsons headlined: "GPs' refusal to do their jobs now threatens the NHS".
The piece inside the paper is headlined: "Can no one force GPs to do their job properly?" and she described the bypassing of GPs' surgeries for A&E as a "wildly expensive, ludicrous waste of resources [which] wouldn't be countenanced in any other industry".
The Mail only finds room to mention the Nicholson announcement on page seven, where it is the lead story underneath the headline "NHS chief to quit next year with a £110,000 pension".
The paper reports: "Last night bereaved families and MPs questioned the size of his pension and demanded to know why he wasn't leaving immediately.
"Although he is due to stay on another 1o months, he told the Health Service Journal he may leave earlier if a suitable replacement is found".
The paper said: "Although his retirement was announced only yesterday, Government officials are believed to have been planning it for some time, having realised his position was untenable.
"And while his letter of resignation had yesterday's date at the top, it includes a paragraph which refers to preparations for reforms beginning on April 1, suggesting it was written in March.
10.43am: NHS Confederation has responded to the Daily Mail's article on emailing GPs rather than going in to the practice. Speaking to the Health Select Committee yesterday Mike Farrar told the committee he had seen some studies of GP practices that had the lowest number of A&E attendances from patients on their list.
10.41am: The Daily Mail, the paper that probably did more than any other to hasten David Nicholson's departure, has an NHS-heavy frontpage – but no mention of Sir David.
The splash story is headlined: "NHS chief's answer to A&E crisis – Don't visit casualty – email your GP instead.
The chief in question is NHS Confederation chief executive Mike Farrar and the paper's story is drawn from his comments to the Health Select Committee yesterday.
10.15am: Non-Nicholson related news from the paper is that the NHS dumped flu drug worth £74m. Supplies of anti-flu drug worth millions of pounds had to be thrown away by the NHS because "shocking incompetence" meant it was unclear if they had been kept refrigerated says the Daily Telegraph.
10.08am: The Daily Telegraph's front page headline reads "A £2m pension pot: NHS chief's reward for failure". Man blamed for crisis at Stafford hospital, where 1,200 people died needlessly announces retirement, the paper writes.Yesterday's announcement that David Nicholson will retire next March coincided with warnings that basic NHS services were unsafe.
9.59am: The media campaign to unseat Sir David Nicholson from his post as NHS England chief executive played some part in his decision to announce his retirement but was not the main cause, HSJ understands. In a brief interview with HSJ, he said he would leave before March 2014 if a successor was in place and Professor Grant thought it was in the best interests of the service.
8.37am: Plenty has been written in the press around the duty for CCGs to manage conflicts of interest and there's a real risk that this picture will become more says Giles Peel. The danger for CCGs is that, if the issues are not managed effectively "in-house", then they risk being played out in public he writes today.
8.32am: Good morning, closures, and mergers of hospital services are nearly always viewed with suspicion by patients and the public but local citizens can be won over if they are encouraged to contribute towards shaping health services early on, say Robin Clarke and Deborah Rozansky.
The changes to service provision that are likely to work best are those that take into account the views and suggestions of local people and patients.


This report gives an indication of the expected evolution of the 2018-2019 South West Indian Ocean (SWIO) summer - namely, the likely cyclone activity, summer rains and temperatures in Mauritius and Rodrigues.
The official cyclone season for the Republic of Mauritius is from 01 November to 15 May of the following year.
The Start of the Rains is defined as the first occasion after the first of November that the seven-day total is equal to or exceeds 50 mm and includes at least four rainy days.
The contents of this outlook are meant to be used as general guidelines for planning purposes by stakeholders in various sectors.
A seasonal climate forecast aims to estimate the change in the likelihood of a climatic event happening in the coming months.
A seasonal forecast can provide information on how likely it is that the coming season will be wetter, drier, warmer or colder than normal.
A seasonal climate forecast is not an attempt to forecast the detailed day-to-day evolution of weather.
Outputs from dynamic climate models as well as persistence and the behaviour of meteorological and oceanic parameters in analogue years have been utilised to generate the most likely scenario for the 2018-2019 Southwest Indian Ocean summer. Global, regional and local predictors are analysed during the process of preparation of this outlook.
Regional and global observations over the past two decades as well as scientific reports indicate that the frequency of extreme weather and climate events has increased in the Southwest Indian Ocean.
The latest findings of the Special Report on Global Warming of 1.5 oC (SR15) above pre-industrial level confirmed the above observations. As such, it is very likely that similar events in the form of heavy/torrential rainfall leading to flash floods and violent thunderstorm, and explosive intensification of cyclones may occur during the forthcoming summer 2018-2019. Tropical cyclones evolving in the vicinity of the Mascarenes Islands may generate high waves that are likely to reach the shores of the Islands of the Republic of Mauritius.
1) Temperatures will be slightly above normal during summer 2018-2019. However, on certain days, temperatures will exceed the monthly average by more than two degrees Celsius in some locations. Maximum day temperatures may reach 36oC at Port Louis and along the Western coast during peak summer months.
At Rodrigues, maximum temperatures may reach 33 degrees Celsius along coastal areas on certain occasions.
Above normal temperatures, coupled with prolonged periods of high humidity and light wind conditions, may result in torrid conditions particularly during the months of January to March 2019. These conditions may lead to severe discomfort to the vulnerable groups of the population.
2) The onset of summer rains will most likely be in the second fortnight of December 2018.
Cumulative summer rainfall is expected to be near normal with about 1400 mm over Mauritius and around 750 mm over Rodrigues. However, there may be marked intra-seasonal variation with dry spells followed by wet spells characterised by heavy short duration rainfall.
3) During January to March 2019 atmospheric conditions will become conducive to the occurrence of extreme weather events such as torrential rains, flash floods, heat wave and violent thunderstorms.
4) The number of named storms evolving in the South West Indian Ocean basin for the 2018-2019 summer season will be slightly below normal to near normal, that is, between 7 and 9 tropical storm/cyclone formations. During this season, the preferred region of cyclogenesis will be west of 75 degrees east (the central tropical Indian Ocean and between Diego Garcia and Agalega).
1. All named storms that will develop in the Southwest Indian Ocean will NOT necessarily be a direct threat to the islands of the Republic of Mauritius.
This report may be updated upon the availability of fresh information.