1.Your measure determines God's measure to you.
2.People are not blessed equally by God from the same message they hear.
3.The measure of study, attention and meditation you apply determines what truth you get out of a revelation.
4.The effort a man applies to the grace of God he has received determines the total outcome.
5.It is the physical side that we can control that determines how big we get with God, not the supernatural side that we cannot control. When you receive an impartation in church, God expects you to go and work with that grace you've received in order for it to manifest in your reality.
6.God will do for us supernaturally what we cannot do naturally.
7.God will not do for us supernaturally what we can and should do naturally.
8.The supernatural flow will stop when human obedience stops. Therefore, the degree of your human obedience determines the measure of supernatural flow you enjoy with God. The wife of the sons of prophets (2 Kings 4:1) could have been the wealthiest person alive if she got all the vessels in Israel.
PRAYER: Lord, I receive the grace for full obedience. Help me to follow through on every divine instruction you have given me in my Christian journey in Jesus' name.


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This recipe takes a little work, but so delicious it's worth your time. It's a great comfort soup for this cold weather.
De-seed the red peppers, then cut lengthwise into 2-3 inch strips and roast both sides on barbeque (med-high) until skin side blisters and turns partially black.
Place roasted pepper strips in paper bag for half an hour to cool and make easier to peel. Lay the pieces flat on a cutting board, then peel off the skin using a knife. Set aside.
Slice garlic cloves into thin strips and fry for a few minutes until golden in a large frying pan. Add the raw vegetables (except for the bell peppers), and pour in enough broth to cover, and boil gently until soft.
While the vegetables are cooking, pour 1 cup chicken broth into a med-large sauce pan. Heat on low. Add half a package of cream cheese and stir until melted. Remove from heat.
Pour cream cheese/broth mixture and cooked vegetables into blender and blend until fine. Pour back into saucepan, add 2 Tbsp. tomato paste and 1/2 cup cream (or milk) and the remainder of the chicken broth from the container.
Puree the bell peppers in a blender or food processor (if too dry, add some of the soup mixture to the blender). Add the pureed peppers to the soup pot, and then add the shredded mozzarella cheese.
Stir, heating gently, (do not boil) and serve in soup bowls with bacon bits sprinkled on top (optional).


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Kurt Cobain is considered one of the forerunners in creating "grunge" music. His band, Nirvana, surfaced in the early 1990's in Seattle with a unique and different sound, quickly gaining popularity around the country. Cobain was ranked the 12th greatest guitarist according to Rolling Stone. His music was an emotional journey for many listeners, and especially hit people in the age range of 13-25. His music was about angst, and captured the emotions of growing up.
As many rockers do, Kurt Cobain got wrapped up in drugs and alcohol, and became very depressed towards the end of his life. He fought an addiction to heroin, and was constantly worried about how the public was perceiving him, and that his audience wasn't getting the correct message from his music. He was married to Courtney Love, and had a daughter, Frances Bean Cobain.
Kurt Cobain sadly died April 8, 2004. The main theory is that he committed suicide, leaving behind a suicide note, with a shotgun lying on his chest. There are many other theories that he was murdered, or that it was a homicide. However he died, it was a tragic event in many people's lives. Cobain was an inspirational artist to many, and his music continues to be played on all major radio stations.
News and Information about Kurt Cobain
This website provides more recent information about Kurt Cobain and events surrounding him and his music. It also contains biographies, and links to interviews.
Complete List of Nirvana's Music
This link provides a complete list of every song released by Nirvana.
Death of Kurt Cobain
There is all of the main conspiracies of Cobain's death listed on this website. It explains each conspiracy, and the proof behind it.
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The Affects of COVID-19 on the film industry
It's hard to track everything that's going on with COVID-19. There's such a large amount of information coming out that even if you limit your inquiries to the effects on the entertainment industry, it's easy to get overwhelmed and lose the big picture. Since I've been trying to keep up with it, I thought I would put a list of the reading, resources, and links that I've found useful or informative on one page in my site so that my visitors can help see the forest through the trees in this massive upheaval. I'll try to segment this and summarize the links before posting them. I'll also update regularly as time allows.
Occasionally I'll include a few insights from my personal experiences working remotely through the crisis, and please feel free to tweet things you find relevant at me. I'm @TheGuerrillaRep.
This page is for. a newsfeed, I also have a resources page here.
General Summary
Prepare for the Death and Rebirth of Hollywood
This piece is a well thought out and researched summary of the likely affects of COVID-19 on the Film Industry. It's a long read, but an important one. Take an extra few minutes from your coffee and dive in. It seems to draw on all the other articles posted on this page.
The TL;DR version is that The Agencies are poised to lose power, and producers set to gain it. The impending bankruptcy of theater chains coupled with recent deregulation could cause acquisitions by outlets like Amazon (and maybe Disney, for stock) and a reformation of the theatergoing experience by incorporating other aspects of the brand's retail and entertainment outlets.
Read the whole thing on Medium
Effects on Development
Personal Takeaway
Development is plowing ahead. I'm still taking meetings about a few projects over Zoom and other video conferencing platforms. From What I've seen, studios seem to be continuing development to make sure they're ready for when they can shoot. I haven't found any sources that are listing this information that aren't behind paywalls, but I'll leave this heading here to add personal takes and experiences and articles that come across my feed.
Effects on Financing
The Equity markets are very hesitant. Pre-sales are becoming more viable, but still have heavy restrictions. Many of the Studios I've been talking to are extremely hesitiant to work with first time directors. This is normal, but the hesitancy has been increased. Investors are risk averse, and will require you have a plan on how to work through this crisis.
Disney Warns investors of low returns in the short and medium turn.
Executives at Disney are warning their shareholders that returns will be "Significantly lower" than they might expect. Disney parks aren't set to reopen until 2021, and other profit centers like Theatrical and associated merchandise have taken a bigger hit than may be publicly known.
Read more in the Hollywood Reporter
Effects on Production
This is not where I tend to work, so my insights are limited. I will post articles as Good ones become available. The common threads seem to include some degree of cast and crew sequestration, Lots of additional regulation when it comes to cleaning, sanitizing, limiting cast and crew on set, limiting extras, and swapping out equipment that's hard to clean. It's also notable that there are some aspects of filmmaking such as most aspects of post production and animation that are much more friendly to social distancing than others.
Parts of the Blacklist Season Finale will be animated, due in part to COVID-19
Since the shoot for Season Finale was underway in NYC, The Blacklist season Finale will be part live action and part comic book animation. I think we'll be seeing more animated series in the next few years while we shelter in place.
Read the Whole Article On Variety
Lionsgate Production Safety Documents
Here's a link to the Production Safety Documents Lionsgate released. As with the others, there's a large emphasis on sanitation and testing. Read it for yourself below.
Check out the document on Google Drive
Leaked Film & TV Safety Documents Lay Bare the Enormous Complexities of Re-Starting Shoots
Not every plan is public, here are some leaks showing the gargantuan task we face in re-opening large scale film productions.
Read The Whole Article
How Denmark is handling it.
Denmark seems to be looking into implementing of restrictions, many but not all put on individual responsibility. They all seem reasonable, and in line with Perry's and Florida's proposed restrictions.
Read this film organization's take.
How Tyler Perry Proposes we handle this.
Tyler Perry's Plan is similar to the others I've listed here, with a more clear call for testing and sequestration on his studio lot.
Read more on Deadline
How Florida is handling it
I'm kind of surprised to see it, but Florida's regulations on the matter seem pretty reasonable. Although I'll admit I'm sad it's not really warranted to put a Leroy Jenkins Gif here in place of text.
Read the full release and analysis from Deadline here.
Affects on Moviegoers
The way that people watch movies is changing. The theatrical experience will likely change for for far longer than just this crisis. Here are some insights that I've found interesting.
Amazon Looking To Acquire AMC/Odeon
Amazon is looking more and more likely to acquire one of the major movie chains, AMC seems to be the most likely candidate as of right now. If you're not in the US, this still affects you. More below from this UK site, this is money.
Read more on This is Money.
Alamo Drafthouse Launches Virtual Cinema
Alamo Drafthouse has long been at the forefront of the US on new trends in moviegoing. They continue that trend with the launch of the virtual cinema. It's unlikely it will ever fully take the place of a more traditional theatrical window, but it's likely to be a stop gap that won't go away.
Read the full story on Drafthouse.com
AMC Theaters looks like it will go bankrupt.
The Jist AMC is facing a major credit rating downgrade from B to CCC- (essentially in danger of immediate default.) from too much debt. As a result, the largest theater chain in the country may become the cultural equivalent of blockbuster. This may mean a bankruptcy and restructuring with the loss of some locations, or it might mean the chain completely folds.
Read the optimistic view in Deadline
Read the pessimist view in Inside the Magic.
Affects on Distribution
I think that we'll see a big boon to users for Subscription Video on Demand platforms and Ad-Supported Video on Demand platforms. It's going to be ingeresting to see what happens with the internal workings of film markets.
AMC's Fight With Universal over Windowing Dies out shortly after starting.
ICYMI, AMC and Universal were fighting about whether or not Universal could release movies on Premium Video On Demand same day as theaters. This came about Due to the success of Trolls 2, Universal alluded to the notion that they want to create a permanent premium video on demand window that will coincide with the theatrical window. This created a strong disagreement between studios and theater chains. However, insiders think it's overblown, and will likely end up as something similar to Day and Date releasing for prestigious indiefilms or Direct to Home Video sorts of movies.
Read more on Deadline.
Theatrical Film, TV Ads, PayTV to Fade out like CDs, DVDs, Print, according to analyst.
The Jist is that a a watershed moment that marks the collapse of some of the crumbling pillars of traditional media. this analyst does not think that this will go away any time soon.
Read in full on Deadline
Affects on Festivals and Markets
Given how communal film festivals tend to be, it's safe to say that a lot is going to change for them. Here are some of the more interesting and relevant articles I've found to illustrate that.
Tribeca, YouTube, Cannes, and more create We are one Streaming Film Festival film festival.
It's unlikely this will have s pertinent an effect on the film community as the events themselves would have, but it is a good plan since holding their festivals would be irresponsible.
The American Film Market will Still be held Live and In Person in November 2020.
AFM is going ahead as planned. It's unclear exactly what sterilization methods will be used, or if social distancing will still be necessary or enforced.
Direct Effects on Filmmakers
This section is for how filmmakers are likely to be effected as separate from the films they make. everything else on this page will inform that, but here's some articles that should be of interest.
Jim Cummings (Thunder Road) Warns this shutdown will last far beyond January of 2021.
In a very detailed and well reasoned article, Cummings lays out what's likely to happen to the industry and film production in the next 12-24 months. By this, he means that nothing is likely to happen. His logic is sound.
Check it out on his medium
General Effects on Industry
A Running list of postponed or cancelled shoots.
A lot of sites are keeping running lists of COVID-19 cancellations, so I think it's appropriate to link to a few here.
View in on Indiewire
View it on Deadline.
View it on Variety
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Consumer credit reporting bureau Equifax today announced a major data breach affecting approximately 143 million Americans. The company said that from mid-May through the end of July, criminals exploited an Equifax website vulnerability to access names, Social Security numbers, birth dates, addresses and in some cases driver's licenses.
Equifax has set up a website to help consumers determine if their information was breached and, if so, to sign up for credit monitoring and identity theft protection offered by TrustedID, an Equifax subsidiary. Equifax will also mail notices to consumers whose credit card numbers or dispute documents were breached. Check the website.


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THE SKEPTICAL ENVIRONMENTALIST by DR BJORN LOMBORG
Graham Reid | Mar 24, 2002 | 9 min read
Good news arrives in small paragraphs. Take, for example, remarks from John Caldwell, a professor at the Australian National University in Canberra, at a United Nations conference on demography.
If his report was published at all, it was buried behind the stories of tanks rolling into Palestinian camps and the usual warnings about the decline of civilisation through pollution, poor spelling and video games.
But Caldwell spoke of a large ray of light. It appears fertility is dropping to lower than expected levels and the trend means that over-population, long the bogeyman to frighten an already nervous planet, might not happen.
Caldwell even said the world's population - once expected to exceed 10 billion, up from the present 6.1 billion - might pass itself on the way down again.
This is a rare piece of good news - but would have come as no surprise to Dr Bjorn Lomborg, once an inconspicuous statistician and associate professor of political science at the University of Aarhus in Denmark, who is now a household name and bete noire in the homes of insecure environmentalists everywhere.
Lomborg, a 36-year-old Dane with the boyish good looks of a Eurovision song contest competitor, announced last year that things were not as bad as we had been led to believe, and were actually considerably better.
A former member of Greenpeace, Lomborg is a different kind of Euro-sceptic, and a highly unpopular one with the many scientists and eco-activists who recoiled from his projections of a moderately bright future on uncrowded, increasingly clean and fossil fuel-dependent Planet Earth.
Lomborg's controversial book, The Skeptical Environmentalist, published by Cambridge University Press last year, made some radical and unfashionable claims which grabbed headlines and column centimetres. The Herald's lengthy article last June was one of hundreds that appeared in the international press and which tossed this researcher into a lions' den of claim and counter-claim.
According to Lomborg's findings, while the threat of biodiversity loss is real, it is exaggerated. His statistical studies also showed our air and water is becoming less polluted, that the population explosion predicted by Dr Paul Ehrlich's 1968 book, The Population Bomb, which asserted hundreds of millions starving to death in the 1970s, simply didn't happen, that natural resources are not running out, and it is far too expensive to do anything about global warming.
His book, 350 pages of jargon-free language and with a whopping 2930 footnotes, tackled doomsayers such as Isaac Asimov and Frederick Pohl, who wrote in 1991 that it was already too late to save the planet and all we could do was decide just how bad we were willing to let things get.
"Mankind's lot has actually improved in terms of practically every measurable indicator," wrote Lomborg. But he cautioned that while things have improved, that doesn't mean it's good enough.
Even so, Lomborg was giving a big thumbs-up and his book, which effectively skewered the environmental-protection industries for their alarmist scenarios, came trailing favourable reviews from The Economist, the New York Times, the Wall Street Journal and even Rolling Stone. Because of its populist style it was one of the few science books reviewed in the popular press.
Matt Ridley, author of Genome (an analysis of the 23 human chromosomes), considered it something which "should be read by every environmentalist so that the appalling errors of fact the environmental movement has made in the past are not repeated".
Needless to say, the environmental lobby and many scientists saw it somewhat differently and the author has since been at the centre of a firefight.
Lomborg, with appropriately lefty interests such as the use of surveys in public administration, was accused of misinterpreting or being selective with his data. He was pilloried for not being an environmental scientist (his degree is in political science), nailed as an anti-environmentalist who gave comfort to the machinery of rapacious capitalism, and much more.
Websites crackled with angry accusations, and the considered response of fellow-author Mark Lynas, who is working on a book about the effects of climate change, was to shove a pie in Lomborg's face at a book-signing in London.
"I don't see why the environment should suffer every time some bored, obscure academic fancies an ego trip. This book is full of dangerous nonsense," he said after delivering Lomborg what media reports waggishly called "his just desserts".
The debate has been heated, but scientific journals full of technical talk and graphs don't have the headline-grabbing glamour of a good stoush. And for laypeople, the science-speak which refutes Lomborg is too dense to be comprehensible.
Among the other charges, many scientists say Lomborg has exaggerated for effect (a device he criticises others for doing) and that he used discontinued data. There were also suggestions of an evil conspiracy.
Richard Bell, of the Worldwatch Institute, noted that the Washington Post reviewer was Dennis Dutton, identified as "a professor of philosophy who lectures on the dangers of pseudoscience at the science faculties of the University of Canterbury in New Zealand". Dutton - who hailed the book as "the most significant work on the environment since the appearance of its polar opposite, Rachel Carson's Silent Spring, in 1962" - is also the editor of the website Arts and Letters Daily.
Bell said darkly, "The Post did not tell its readers that Dutton's website features links to the Global Climate Coalition, an anti-Kyoto consortium of oil and coal businesses".
To be fair, the Post also didn't tell you Dutton's website has links to ifeminist, the religious studies journal Killing the Buddha, Village Voice and about 100 other magazines, journals and newspapers. It also has "Lomborg pro and con" pages.
High-profile Canadian environmentalist David Suzuki, who visited New Zealand this month, was sceptical, not to say downright cynical, about why The Skeptical Environmentalist had received such wide coverage.
It was not only a good news story - rare in the media - but on his website he suggested "the reason the book received so much publicity is because of the deep pockets and influence of some big businesses that have vested interests in maintaining the status quo".
He too cited Lomborg's take on the state of the planet as similar to the positions of some large industry-financed institutes and groups, such as the Global Climate Coalition.
"These groups wage big-budget campaigns to confuse the public about issues like air pollution and global warming."
And yet, says Suzuki, Lomborg's views went largely unchallenged in the media, although his beliefs ran contrary to most scientific opinion and, even before his book was published in North America, his views had already been widely discredited by many of his colleagues at Aarhus University.
Other Lomborg critics said that by coming under the imprint of Cambridge University Press, one of the most hallowed of names in scientific publishing, his book was afforded immediate cachet and credibility by book review editors, and it was often reviewed by those without the time and resources to analyse that litany of footnotes. Who checks footnotes anyway?
Well, some scientists did - and found Lomborg's research and interpretations wanting. In January Scientific American ran an 11-page attack on Lomborg which contained articles by four well-known environmental specialists: Stephen Schneider of Stanford University; environmental scientist and energy expert John P. Holdren of Harvard; John Bongaarts, a vice president at the Population Council in New York City, and Thomas Lovejoy, chief biodiversity adviser to the World Bank.
They battered Lomborg for "egregious distortions" (Schneider), for "elementary blunders of quantitative manipulation and presentation that no self-respecting statistician ought to commit" (Holdren), and for sections "poorly researched and presented ... shallow ... rife with careless mistakes" (Lovejoy).
The real concern is that while Lomborg grabbed the headlines and book reviews, those who are challenging his contentions are not getting equal time. The Union of Concerned Scientists' webpage opened with the quote by Sir Winston Churchill: "A lie gets halfway round the world before the truth has a chance to get its pants on."
In fact some scientists looked at Lomborg's book early on, but simply dismissed it as foolishness. It was only after articles started appearing which said Lomborg had exposed environmentalists as wrong about just about everything that the scientific community realised it had a fight on its hands.
And it still rages.
One simple question comes up frequently: Why has Lomborg had no support from any major environmental organisation anywhere in the world for his assertions?
The answer is perhaps obvious: it is hardly in any such agencies' interests (especially if it is seeking government funding or public donations) to lie down with those who might say things are hunky-dory.
"I thought initially we would have a couple of weeks of debate and that would be it and we'd all move on," said Lomborg recently. "But it just kept on and on and on."
That's because saving the planet is a big business full of professional lobbyists and fundraisers, market share jargon and ad agencies. And for business to be good it must expand.
Patrick Moore, one of the co-founders of Greenpeace who fell out with the organisation over its radical tactics, has long asserted that, having been successful in its early battles, the environmental lobbies had to invent new concerns.
Despite the international outcry, the Danish Government announced it was appointing Lomborg to head a new, small environmental monitoring agency, the Institute for Environmental Evaluation. Its mission will be to decide the best ways to spend taxpayer dollars on environmental remediation.
Many environmentalists are mad as hell.
However, Lomborg has sent a blast through the environmental lobbies, found sympathy within some for the need to be objective rather than emotive, and produced some curiously telling responses.
Tom Burke, a member of the Executive Committee of Green Alliance, an environmental adviser to BP and as green as it gets, wrote a lengthy plain-English rebuttal of Lomborg's contentions which was apposite, tart and convincing, but also of great interest to those who shove dollars in a Greenpeace envelope and feel good when they walk to work rather than taking the gas-guzzler out of the driveway.
Burke says no environmental organisation or leading environmentalist asserts we are having an energy crisis (it was in the 1970s when many did, apparently), that environmentalists do not believe natural resources are running out (that dates from the Club of Rome in 72), and "that some environmentalists exploit, sometimes aggressively, the gap between perceptions and reality, playing on people's fears to generate headlines and revenues". These are revealing admissions from a greenie on the inside.
And Suzuki's latest book, co-written with Holly Dressel, is Good News for a Change, which counters the criticism that environmentalists are all a bunch of doomsayers. "We've got to give people a sense of hope ... thousands of things [are] going in the right direction".
But that doesn't change his overall message about the seriousness of our global problems.
So maybe we're not going to eco-Hell. Or maybe it will be worse than we've been warned. Or maybe we simply don't know. But we do need to question closely the banner-wavers of all persuasions.
On the Scientific American website author Michael Shermer, the founding publisher of Skeptic magazine, has a column headed "Baloney Detection" in which he makes a valuable point. After challenging common beliefs held by many of his students, he is often asked by them why they should believe him.
"My answer: You shouldn't."
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Recorded in over seventy spellings forms including Robert, Robart, Robb, and Rupert, which is from the same root, to Luparti of Italy, Rubke and Ruppertz of Germany, Rops and Rubbens of Flanders, Roberts and Robertson of England and Scotland, this is a surname of pre 7th century Germanic origins. It derives from the male given name "Hrodbeorht", a compound consisting of the elements "hrod", meaning renown, and "beorht", bright or famous. This type of (originally) baptismal name, was very popular throughout Europe for many centuries, and has remained so today. Like the name Ro(d)ger with which it shares a similar ancestry, it was 'adopted' by the Norsemen as they swept through Northern Europe on their march of conquest which took them to Normandy (the home of the North men), in the 10th century. The final joining of the circle was to introduce the name into Britain after The Conquest of 1066. As Rodbertus, Rotbert and Robert, the name is recorded in the famous Domesday Book of 1086. It was adopted as a surname in Europe in the latter half of the 13th Century, and early recordings include: John Roberd, in the Hundred Rolls of Berkshire, dated 1279, Counrad Ruprecht of Eblingen, Germany, in 1282, and William Robert, in the Fines Court Rolls of the county of Essex, England, in 1292. Other recordings of the medieval period include Richard Roberdes, which was dated 1327, in the Subsidy Rolls of Worcestershire, England, Neyneke Robeken of Hannover, Germany, in 1359, and Eberlin Rubbart, of Stuttgart, Bavaria, in 1445. Throughout the centuries, surnames in every country have continued to "develop" often leading to astonishing variants of the original spelling.
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Alana and Leo May Have the Confidence to Make It on 'The Amazing Race'
By Chrissy Bobic
Nov. 4 2020, Updated 10:44 a.m. ET
Contestants on The Amazing Race are no strangers to fierce competition once things get started. And when Alana Folsom and Leo Brown were cast on the show together less than a year after they started dating, it became not only a test for them to win the prize, but also a test of their new relationship.
As the couple speeds toward victory, they are also navigating their relationship and how they can or can't count on each other. Well, maybe the more appropriate term would be that they are inching toward it, being that they narrowly missed being eliminated in the Oct. 28, 2020 episode.
Although they have a while to go before they make it to the top of the leaderboard, Alana and Leo are still gaining traction among fans, who are more curious than ever about them.
Who are Leo and Alana from 'The Amazing Race'?
The couple started dating just 10 months before they began their journey to $1 million on The Amazing Race. They began training six months before they started filming, however, meaning that they had a lot of faith in each other after dating for just a few months from a Tinder connection. That's right — the two brainiacs who plan to use their intelligence to downplay their athletic prowess met on a dating app and managed to make a strong enough connection to go on The Amazing Race together.
In their official show bio, Leo said he wants to use the show to prove to Alana that he's a "keeper" and Alana said she hoped to "gain a better understanding" of Leo. Nothing like racing across the world with money on the line to bring you either closer together with your partner or drive you both apart.
Me and Hiking Barbie ™
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Outside of The Amazing Race, they both have impressive jobs. Leo works as a data analyst in healthcare and Alana works in communications at MIT and Harvard. Together, they are every bit as brainy as their fellow competitors might view them, but so far, they have proven themselves worthy of the physical aspect of the competition too.
Leo also isn't shy about his political beliefs and rallied for Elizabeth Warren on Instagram in March 2020, writing, "It's time for a woman in the White House." And Alana's love for the outdoors on her Instagram shows how much sense it made for her to embrace the world travels that The Amazing Race afforded her and Leo as a couple — even if the show came into their lives 10 months into their relationship.
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A post shared by Alana Folsom (@axfolsom) on Sep 21, 2020 at 11:52am PDT
They are one of two 'Amazing Race' couples who are dating.
Although some fans are already rooting for Alana and Leo, they aren't the only couple on The Amazing Race 32 who is dating. Their competition in the game and as another unmarried couple is Will Jardell and James Wallington. They were previously annoyed with Alana and Leo for divulging a big clue to another team and made it a point to target them in turn. Moving forward, it might not be great for Leo and Alana's game to have Will and James close by.
Are Alana and Leo still together after 'The Amazing Race'?
Alana and Leo's relationship isn't necessarily on the line as they compete and literally race around the world to beat the other remaining teams, but viewers are curious about where they stand. The Amazing Race 32 was filmed almost two years before it aired and in that time, Alana and Leo got engaged and married.
It's unclear if Leo and Alana win The Amazing Race or how far they get this season. But the fact that they came out of it together and with their connection intact means that, at the very least, the show certainly wasn't bad for their relationship.
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Less than one in 10 of us keep our New Year's resolutions. Jeff Haden explores four that should be on your list, and are well worth keeping.
New Year's resolutions: easy to make, hard to keep. Research indicates approximately eight per cent of people actually achieve their resolutions.
Yet here are some digital resolutions you not only can achieve, you should achieve – because they'll make a positive difference in your business.
And best of all, each one is easy.
I should know: I lost over a week of work and dozens of files when a hard drive crashed and my backup was anything but complete. The next day I spent a few hours organising and moving all my files to the cloud. Now my backups are automatic. And I can access those files on the go.
Sound simple? It is. The dumbest thing I did last year was to not move my data to the cloud… until it was too late.
Taking advantage of cloud services can help streamline your process and protect your data.
Learn more about Telstra's Cloud Services.
Whatever ways you currently sell your products or services, it's possible you're missing an opportunity to broaden your reach.
Take me again: I self-published a collection of my columns and set up an online storefront through Gumroad, a digital fulfillment site. I sold some books. Great.
Then my wife asked why I wasn't selling a Kindle version on Amazon. Good question.
So I did. I sold a lot more books.
Then she asked about other sites, about selling a print version… and every time I took the time to set up a new distribution channel, I sold more books.
Take a look at how you currently sell. If you don't have a website (and 44 per cent of SMEs don't), setting one up is easy. Maybe you can create an affiliate program. Maybe you can partner with the right distributor. Maybe you can turn a product into a suite of services.
Expanding your sales channels digitally is easy – and the broader your reach, the greater your chances of increasing your revenue next year.
You have the tools: LinkedIn, Facebook, Twitter… but are you actually using them?
Resolve to spend 10 minutes a day making connections. Pick a person to connect with – then maintain that connection.
Or go old school and send an email recognising someone's achievement or success. Or go really old school and call a vendor to compliment the service they provide, or call a customer to thank them for their business.
Just make sure that 10 minutes is focused on giving, not receiving. The only way to build a genuine connection is to give without expectation of return: people care about you after they know you care about them.
Every business has a few key metrics that drive success. Maybe yours are sales related: number of inbound leads generated, number of sales calls booked, conversion rate, cost of customer acquisition, etc. Or maybe yours are operations related: productivity, quality, work-in-progress, or on-time delivery.
You know your business. You know what matters. But do your employees know how your business is doing where what matters is concerned?
Maybe not. Spend a little time creating a simple dashboard that tracks overall performance. It doesn't have to be complicated or sophisticated – you can create one in Excel – and then make sure everyone can see that dashboard in real time.
Ultimately you are what you measure. People instinctively adjust their behaviors based on the way they're evaluated. Let your team know what is truly important and show them how they're doing and they will work hard to give you exactly what you want.


Mr Vinod Kannan is the Chief Commercial Officer (CCO) of Scoot, experienced in the areas of marketing and sales, business development, customer service, and strategic planning.
Before his appointment to Scoot, Mr Kannan was Vice President Network Planning at Singapore Airlines, responsible for strategizing the airline's long-term growth plans and fleet deployment. Prior to that, Mr Kannan held General Manager roles in Indonesia, Italy and the Middle East. He was also posted to Kolkata in India, as Manager Eastern India, and held various commercial roles in head office before that.
Mr Kannan holds a UCLA NUS Executive Masters in Business Administration and Management, a Masters in High Performance Computing from National University of Singapore & Massachusetts Institute of Technology and a Bachelor's degree in Electrical Engineering from Nanyang Technological University, Singapore.


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Paramount Pictures Digital Drivers 2017
Bob Buchi, President, Worldwide Home Media Distribution
Buchi oversees all aspects of Paramount's home media division. Having spent more than two decades in the business, as president Buchi consistently works to expand opportunities across all digital platforms worldwide. He has built dedicated international digital sales and marketing teams to maximize revenue for the studio's content. He has been responsible for strategic brand, retail and digital marketing for some of the industry's most successful franchise releases, including "Transformers," "Star Trek," "Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles" and "G.I. Joe."
Dan Cohen, President, Worldwide Television Licensing
Cohen oversees the global licensing and distribution of all Paramount films, television series and other content across multiple platforms including mobile, pay television, broadcast, cable and SVOD as well as emerging digital arenas. He leads the television licensing teams in setting strategy and guiding the teams in their negotiations across the global marketplace and finding strategic distribution opportunities. Prior to joining Paramount, Cohen spent 20 years at Disney/ABC where he most recently served as EVP of pay television and digital sales for Home Entertainment and Television Distribution for The Walt Disney Studios.
Steve Siskind, President, Marketing, Worldwide Home Media Distribution
Siskind is responsible for creative advertising, media, publicity, interactive marketing, brand and market research for all of the studio's home entertainment releases across physical and digital platforms. Siskind joined Paramount in 2004 as EVP of worldwide marketing and advertising, helping to craft Paramount's global marketing efforts in advertising investment strategy, marketing partnerships, cross company synergy, and the management of creative content.
Tripp Wood SVP, Digital Sales and Distribution, Domestic
Wood's team manages the studio's domestic transactional digital business with Internet, cable, satellite and telco customers. He also leads digital business development, including new initiatives in Ultra HD and collaborations with theatrical marketing for lifecycle partnerships. Before joining Paramount, Wood spent a decade in interactive entertainment at Electronic Arts and Disney Interactive.
Shane Kao, SVP, Worldwide Business Affairs and Legal
Kao is the key business affairs executive driving content distribution across digital platforms worldwide, negotiating and structuring agreements with all major platforms. An engineer by training, he is responsible for building new business models and adapting existing strategies as technology accelerates the rate of change in the industry.
Dina Marovich, SVP, Worldwide Media and Interactive Marketing
Marovich since 2006 has provided strategic vision and led marketing execution at Paramount by integrating digital, interactive marketing and traditional paid media. Her responsibilities include marketing for physical and digital media, including electronic sellthrough and rental, VOD and pay-per-view. She optimizes resources to maximize revenue and deliver results while also generating massive amounts of earned media on top-tier franchises, including "Star Trek" and "Transformers."
Dennis Miyata, SVP, International Digital Distribution
Miyata manages a diverse transactional digital distribution business across regions that encompass nearly 4.5 billion people, including some of the largest international, as well as rapidly emerging, territories. Before joining Paramount, Miyata helped lead new business development at Panasonic and CCC/Tsutaya in Japan.
Howard Hsieh, VP, Worldwide Digital Business Development
Hsieh oversees all new business growth efforts globally for the division, including establishing new partnership opportunities and adopting emerging technologies. He studies how people consume entertainment content, as well as innovative business models. Hsieh previously oversaw domestic business planning and distribution strategy for home media.
Ken Lloyd, VP, Digital Sales and Distribution, Domestic
Lloyd manages key transactional Internet customers in the United States and Canada. He also oversees business development and lifecycle opportunities across a variety of new and existing digital customers and platforms. He previously managed expansion of transactional TV offerings across multiple platforms for Microsoft's Movies & TV service, and before that oversaw digital distribution for Nickelodeon.
Alastair Frusher, VP, Digital Distribution, EMEA
Alongside his European-based team, Frusher oversees relationships and commercial affairs with cable, satellite, telco and OTT customers across Europe, the Middle East and Africa, driving VOD and EST digital distribution. He previously spent a number of years on the platform side, including stints at Liberty Global and Sky.
Seth Zachary, VP, PPV & VOD, domestic
Having previously overseen VOD agreements in Latin America, Zachary currently negotiates key domestic VOD and EST deals with residential cable, satellite and telco clients. Prior to joining Paramount, Zachary managed licensing agreements at Universal Television Network Group and Disney/ABC Television Distribution.
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Apart from one glimpse of the TV during a brief discussion with Mrs C. I have avoided the TV and radio thus far today. An honourable mention in dispatches to Planet Rock for an ordinary music day with no mention of royalty. I still believe a quick trip out to Las Vegas and an Elvis wedding would have sufficed. Cheaper, fun and a holiday rolled in as well plus some good music.
My plastic greenhouse is shop bought and a lot smaller so as to take advantage of the shelter and avoid the Montgolfier effect that kiboshed the previous two greenhouses. My other purchase was a new computer chair to replace the knackered chair which caused a certain numbness in the knackers (excuse the medical terminology) after being seated for more than twenty minutes. I did look longingly at some plastic inflatable chairs and I have suggested to Mrs C. that bean bags and inflatable furniture is the future for home furnishings. She pointed out the downside of having three cats and anything inflatable. The inflatable paddling pools for those all too brief English summers rarely survived the curiosity of our cats.
Time for more coffee and check if the all clear has sounded yet.
Rather like my cat Mog I have been sheltering from the world of blogging and attending to a busy schedule at work and at home. As a positive I have lost 22 pounds in weight over the past six weeks having joined fat fighters. I can certainly notice the improvements and I feel much better for it. A long way to go but a diet is for life, not just after Christmas! The mutt is certainly enjoying the longer walks. Work is the same old same old... a post for another day. I am pleased to have the next four days off and my plans are to do as little as possible. There is a party in one of the local parks tomorrow for Bert and Ethel's wedding and I might pop in. However, being a staunch republican I may be joining some friends in a local hostelry that has no TV. This may involve visiting several until I find the right one. Alternatively, a BBQ with music and beer in the garden would perhaps be cheaper. I just have to sort out a new barbecue.
This will be a short post as I finally have three days off after a hectic week at work and the sun is shining outside. I plan to enjoy the sunshine, fresh air and get stuck into the garden. Plenty of seedlings and young plants to be moved and planted into various pots. So raise your pint glass to St. George and go forth to slay ye dragones!
After over imbibing of the barley and hops last night I am having a quiet day in. Mrs C. is unwell so my day off is a welcome quiet one administering to her needs. As always on a day off a large cafetiere of freshly ground coffee sits before me and is fortifying the inner man. It struck me I have no idea what a coffee plant looks like but with google I have now rectified that, as well as learning the history of coffee. Interesting that black slaves en route to the Arabic peninsula from Africa chewed the beans and brought it with them. Maybe Cameroon can apologise and offer some largesse for that because the British empire made an appearance in that area several centuries later. It is fascinating to see how trade, especially of sugar, coffee, etc... made the various empires, led to the growth of insurance (Lloyds) and enhanced banking, as well as the despicable trade in slaves. Back to the coffee... I tend to avoid it on working days because of its laxative effect and we rarely have time to brew up a cuppa. Mrs C. drinks a lot of instant coffee but she refuses to touch the real stuff. As with my previous experiments to make the perfect Martini I have been trying various coffee brands including Jamaican Blue Mountain. I still haven't hit on a favourite yet although I like the Java beans. For the sake of convenience I generally buy a supermarket Italian blend for ground coffee and whichever beans take my fancy at the time. I will also get around to trying "Camp" coffee which I remember from my childhood as something my mother drank.
As for over imbibing last night... four bottles of various excellent beers thanks to Tesco's 'Four bottles for a fiver'. Until I accompanied Mrs C. to buy her baccy in Sainsbugs and found their beers reduced even further! However, I had planned on today being a lazy day after the frenetic activity of the past week at work and a much needed day to recharge my batteries.
Having cut the 'lawn' today I am currently suffering from very itchy eyes despite anti-histamines. But the grass needed cutting and the sun was shining gloriously. I got stuck in and then surveyed my work whilst sipping a welcome mug of tea... then the bunged up nose and itchy eyes crept up on me. However, it's a small price to pay and there are far worse afflictions compared to a bit of hayfever. The garden now looks tidier and the grass actually appears healthy considering the bad winter and a frequently urinating dog. She will only piss on grass!
Mrs C. suggested we place bets on the Grand National today and given her propensity for picking out winners but not backing them we popped in to the bookies and placed an each way bet. My horse came in second so I think I've won a few quid but I only picked it following the racing tips of Clare Balding. That's a pint or a G&T I owe her if our paths ever cross. I rarely bet on the horses as I cannot see the fascination and my gambling is generally confined to the Fantasy tax (lottery) each week. My Dad was a major contributor to the local turf accountant as well as the local pubs. I inherited the latter but I worked briefly in a bookies when I was eighteen and I could see what a mugs game it was even at that tender age. I have been to Ascot for a stag do and it was a good day out but I have never wanted to repeat the experience. Banger and stock car racing appealed more to me rather than horses. Mind you, I have never been dog racing although I have frequently gone to the dogs! I have been told that 'The Dogs' is a good fun evening out although Doncaster is a long way to go for an evening out. I will collect my winnings tomorrow and that'll be my lot with the bookies until the next Grand national.
I bit the bullet and I bought a small plastic greenhouse for the seedlings when they are ready. Cheap as chips in a local poundstretcher where I wandered around looking at all the stuff Woolies used to sell. Grimsby is full of pound stores and they are generally crowded as people look to save money or are forced to buy cheap goods in these straitened times. Although a day off I was up very early, dog walked and necessary shopping completed. But after a very long day and a lot of mileage yesterday to complete assessments and training staff in care homes all I want to do today is mooch around and relax. If anything I need is not within walking distance I can live without it.
I bought the little Suzuki as a runabout and for the thirty mile commute to and from work. But it is having to cope with long journeys and so am I. Regular long trips over to Nottinghamshire or Leicestershire see me prepared with the ipod touch plugged in, good real coffee in the flask and planned pit stops. The seats in the car get very uncomfortable on journeys of more than fifty miles so a walk and good stretch is necessary. I know long journeys here in the UK are short trips in the US but our dreadful third world roads only enhance the journey! I am even considering a satnav although I still prefer ready reckoning and a good map. I'll be alright when solar flares burn the satellites to a crisp... well, according to those channel five made for TV on a budget disaster movies. Suffice to say my days off generally see me walking and avoiding any driving if possible.
No.1 son is taking driving lessons and work have suggested they may consider him as a potential van driver when he passes his test. He is looking around for cheap cars but it's the cost of insurance which has caused him to take a deep breath. I suggested he buy an old and very cheap Nissan Micra or a Ford fiesta: cheap for spares for the inevitable prang and costs will be low. As he is getting excited about entering the world of motoring I see it as freedom from public transport but otherwise a necessary chore and expense. With unleaded petrol now costing £1.30 per litre I am increasingly drawn to future possibilities of working nearer home and returning to cycling again. Speaking of which it's time for my daily turn on the exercise bike.
I have been somewhat tardy in posting over the last month with the usual excuse offered. Work and real life got in the way with lots of early nights, deadlines to meet and making the most of any good weather. Not that anything exciting has happened. Work is busier than ever with lots of referrals for the crisis job. Given the current economic situation and our lack of staff I don't see that getting any easier. I guess I should be happy with the increase in work but seeing people crumble to the point where mental health services have to intervene is no cause to feel thankful for. Having just worked the last two weeks with only one day off is the reason I am so glad to have this weekend off. I haven't any special plans apart from attending to the garden. Another new rose plant in, a climbing rose this time, plus compost bought and seeds ready to go into propagators. After the disaster of last year I have waited until now to sow seeds. Mrs C. has new solar lights in to replace those broken (waggy tailed dog!) plus some colour changing spinning ones / wind chimes. I am expecting planes to land each night. Lots of seeds with the inevitable salad leaves, chillis and tomatoes plus various flowers. No.1 son broke both garden chairs in his enthusiam as he leaps into them. The exuberance and inconsideration of youth. So a couple of garden chairs will be on my shopping list. I am ever hopeful of a hot summer and I have plenty of mosquito repellents ready for when I sit out with a good book and cold beer. Here's hoping for sunshine over the Easter holidays and long lazy days.


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Not your average notebook
The whole page can be erased. Again, there is a tint left behind, but anything written on the page would definitely be legible.
Note taking has modernized with Rocketbook
by Alexis Tucker, Editor-in-chief
Looking for a better solution to your notetaking headaches? Look no further then this Kickstarter and Indiegogo funded product aimed at organizing all your notes in an eco-friendly manner.
Rocketbook was an idea which originated co-founders Joe Lemay and Jake Epstein in 2015 and crowdfunded on Indiegogo in order to obtain funding to build the first books, apps and integrations. The idea was to create a notebook that could be reused over and over again. Simply put, it is a "smart notebook" with compatible, erasable pens.
How is this accomplished?
There are symbols, as well as a QR code, which are located at the bottom of the page. The user then circles a specific symbol, which proceeds to upload information to their desired location.
However, since the paper is just paper, users have to show the Rocketbook app all of the pages that were written on. These files can be uploaded to any number of locations including Google Drive, Microsoft OneDrive, Dropbox, Trello and many more.
Additionally, the user has the option of uploading the file as a jpeg or a pdf. Also note, once the app is shown the page, the user presses a button and the page is automatically uploaded to the intended location. Each symbol can be sent to completely separate places; for example, the "apple" could have the user's files sent to Google Drive while the "star" sends their files to their email or the "diamond" sends other files to Microsoft OneDrive. This leaves many options available such as creating several folders for taking notes in class or it can send all work-related stuff to the user's email and personal items elsewhere.
There is a pros and cons list written on the page as a demonstration. At the top, one can notice "##TEST##", which is another feature Rocketbook. The ## before and after the writing is what Rocketbook calls "Smart Text", and this is used to automatically name the file of that page. They also have a "Handwriting OCR" feature where the more pages uploaded, the app will get used to one's handwriting, which appears that it would help the quality of the files uploaded.
The paper of the notebook is thicker and uses pens that are erasable. After the notebook is filled, the user takes a cup of water and places the notebook and cup in the microwave for a few minutes. This allows for the notebook to be wiped clean of the information.
While the setup is not too difficult, it seems a bit convoluted. New users do have to create another account, but it's quite simple. It may take a few minutes to get the hang of things in regards to navigating the app. Ultimately, this appears to be the best option, allowing the user freedom to choose where they would like their files stored.
Users should note a few key things such as: don't leave the pen or the notebook in hot environments (such as a hot car) and do not use anything other than the Pilot FriXion pen. Consequently, leaving the notebook in such a hot environment would wipe the information from the pages and the ink within the pen would turn invisible. The website is quite clear stating the reasoning behind choosing the Pilot FriXion pens was because they are easily erasable, especially with water, while meeting the purpose of the notebook.
In addition, there are markers and highlighters available in the same line of pens that will work for the notebooks, but they are definitely not necessary. The paper feels nice and Pilot pens in general are always nice to use. It writes just like a normal notebook, so the thicker paper doesn't get in the way. If a mistake is made, work quickly to erase it before it dries as it becomes much more difficult to erase, leaving behind a colored tint to the paper.
Typically there are two options for how students want to take notes either via computer/laptop/tablet or by hand. Rocketbook combines those two ideas, bringing taking notes by hand into the future. They do this by being able to keep notes nicely organized like a computer as well as being more environmentally friendly by not having to buy so many notebooks.
Rocketbook offers a wide array of options for students to professionals or any other reason would want to write in a notebook. For more information about Rocketbook or to purchase one go to getrocketbook.com or on Amazon.
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- Add /etc/modprobe.d and /usr/lib/modprobe.d (bsc#1082050).
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User not able to see any list in the "sourcing cockpit"
When the user goes to EB and then PURCAHSER role and clicks on "Sourcing cockpit" the user was not able to see any items. But when he goes to "FIND" option and searches for the SC he is able to find the SCs. why this is happening. Is it a pefromance issue . the PURCHSER attribute is maintained for the user. Then why he is facing the probelm.
First the purchaser must be in a purchasing group in organizational structure.
In SOCO worklist, he will see sourcing relevant items (defined in SPRO) assigned to his purch group.
In FIND tab, he can access SC items from other purch group, and assign some of them to his purch group (in case the requestor entered the wrong product category and purch group for example).
In the buyer worklist, you will find unsourced SC items assigned to the buyer's purch group (the user ID must belong to this purch group in PPOMA_BBP).
Check that your SC items are assigned to your local purch group.
In "Find" tab, he can find unsourced SC items from all other purch groups, and assign them to his own purch group.
Is the worklists in SOCO sourcing cokpit just a list of the local purchasing groups? If so, is it possible to group the worklist of requirements in the SOCO sourcing cockpit by criteria other than category? Our local purchasing groups are regional and aligned to high level categories but we need to be able to use other criteria to group the worklist in the sourcing cockpit for more buyer efficiency.


This world is kept at balance thanks to the mysterious shadow blocks, but a dark and powerful wizard cast a spell and scattered many of the various shadowbox formations that kept the shadow at bay.
You have been chosen as the owner of the amulet to restore the balance between light and darkness.
As the amulet owner only you can control the shadowbox blocks and return them to their original state to bring balance back to our world.
Umbra is a simple and addictive 3D puzzle game. The goal is to match the shadow cast by the block to make a specific pattern. Players must use both their logic and creativity to analyze the 3D shape and match it with the pattern provided. A challenging brain game for everyone.


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Q: Is is possible to create a grouped bar chart in HighChartJS? Basically I want same grouped column chart(in the JS fiddle) to be displayed as a grouped bar chart, and I think setting the chart type to 'bar' does not do the trick.
Is it not possible to have a grouped bar chart, or am I missing some other configuration options that need to be changed?
JS Fiddle Link Here

Highcharts.chart('container', {
    chart: {
        type: 'column'
    },
    title: {
        text: 'Monthly Average Rainfall'
    },
    subtitle: {
        text: 'Source: WorldClimate.com'
    },
    xAxis: {
        categories: [
            'Jan',
            'Feb',
            'Mar',
            'Apr',
            'May',
            'Jun',
            'Jul',
            'Aug',
            'Sep',
            'Oct',
            'Nov',
            'Dec'
        ]
    },
    yAxis: {
        min: 0,
        title: {
            text: 'Rainfall (mm)'
        }
    },
    legend: {
        layout: 'vertical',
        backgroundColor: '#FFFFFF',
        align: 'left',
        verticalAlign: 'top',
        x: 100,
        y: 70,
        floating: true,
        shadow: true
    },
    tooltip: {
        shared: true,
        valueSuffix: ' mm'
    },
    plotOptions: {
        column: {
            grouping: false,
            shadow: false
        }
    },
    series: [{
        name: 'Tokyo',
        data: [49.9, 71.5, 106.4, 129.2, 144.0, 176.0, 135.6, 148.5, 216.4, 194.1, 95.6, 54.4],
        pointPadding: 0

    }, {
        name: 'New York',
        data: [83.6, 78.8, 98.5, 93.4, 106.0, 84.5, 105.0, 104.3, 91.2, 83.5, 106.6, 92.3],
        pointPadding: 0.1

    }, {
        name: 'London',
        data: [48.9, 38.8, 39.3, 41.4, 47.0, 48.3, 59.0, 59.6, 52.4, 65.2, 59.3, 51.2],
        pointPadding: 0.2

    }, {
        name: 'Berlin',
        data: [42.4, 33.2, 34.5, 39.7, 52.6, 75.5, 57.4, 60.4, 47.6, 39.1, 46.8, 51.1],
        pointPadding: 0.3

    }]
});

A: Notice that this config includes also the plotOptions for column series, you need to change it to do the same for bar series.
plotOptions: {
    bar: {
        grouping: false,
        shadow: false
    }
},

Demo: https://jsfiddle.net/BlackLabel/fzqr4h2u/
API: https://api.highcharts.com/highcharts/plotOptions.bar

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Wyndham Garden enters Philippines with first hotel in Quezon City
Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, the world's largest hotel franchising company with approximately 9,200 properties worldwide, is bringing a fresh approach to hospitality in the Philippines with the launch of the country's first Wyndham Garden hotel in Quezon City.
The new-construction Wyndham Garden Quezon City, located directly opposite the ABS-CBN communications and broadcasting center in the heart of Quezon City, Metro Manila, is expected to start welcoming guests in 2021. Upon opening, this modern 25-story hotel will feature 235 sleek and stylish rooms and suites, plus an extensive selection of upper-midscale amenities, naturally-lit meeting spaces and eco-friendly design.
The new-construction hotel is being developed by Wellworth Properties and Development Corporation, a real estate and property development company dedicated to building quality and well-designed developments. The hotel will be constructed by its parent company, H.S. POW Construction and Development Corporation which has more than 35 years of experience in the construction and engineering industry.
"Wyndham Garden is the perfect fit for the Philippines, where tourism is thriving. The country welcomed a record total of 7.1 million international visitors in 2018, up 7.7 percent year-over-year, so it's important to introduce innovative international hospitality brands to the country's key destinations. Wyndham Garden will be a breath of fresh air, with intuitive amenities that make every stay a breeze. We are delighted to be working with Wellworth Properties on this exceptional new project and we look forward to offering smart, stress-free stays to guests in Quezon City," commented Joon Aun Ooi, president and managing director, Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, South East Asia and Pacific Rim.
Wyndham Garden Quezon City joins an extensive collection of Wyndham hotels in the Philippines. A total of 21 properties are currently operating all across the archipelago, located in key destinations such as Manila, Makati City, Quezon City, Boracay, Cebu City, Davao and Puerto Princesa. Wyndham Garden becomes the company's sixth brand in the country, following Ramada by Wyndham, Ramada Encore by Wyndham, Days Inn by Wyndham, TRYP by Wyndham and Microtel Inn & Suites by Wyndham.
"We are very excited to be working with Wyndham Hotels & Resorts, one of the world's leading international hospitality companies, to introduce the vibrant Wyndham Garden concept to the Philippines. Together with our capable team in the Philippines, we look forward to tapping into their hospitality expertise to implement state-of-the-art amenities, international standards and eco-friendly practices in the hotel's construction and operations," said Harrison S. Pow, president & CEO, Wellworth Properties.
"We believe in building with a purpose and sincerely serving our customers better. For the design of the first Wyndham Garden hotel development in the Philippines, we kept both the business and leisure traveler in mind. We incorporated contemporary, purposeful and functional design to make the traveler's stay relaxing, convenient and comfortable. We also plan to include natural materials, pops of green and abundant natural light in the development, as well as introduce technologies and systems to reduce waste and energy consumption," said Harly Geraldine Pow, Business Development & Marketing Manager, Wellworth Properties.
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51% For Nothing
October 16, 2018 / by Ronald Tichenor
The potential for 51% attacks has plagued cryptocurrencies since Bitcoin's founding in 2009. There are plenty of different possible ways to attack a blockchain or cryptocurrency. The famed 51% attack is perhaps the best known. When a consortium of miners control more than 50% of a network's mining hashrate, this opens the possibility to print their own blocks and essentially approve the double spending of coins. Using their majority of computing power, they can rig the network in their favor. The obvious defense to this attack is to prevent anyone from having 51% of mining power. Decentralization of the network has been the accepted structural deterrent, but that is not enough to stop a determined transgressor.
This past weekend, a white hat hacker named GeoCold announced that he would attempt a 51% attack on Einsteinium (EMC2) and livestream it to demonstrate how easy it is to pull off. Just before the attack was planned to take place, the Einsteinium team banded together to hike up the hashrate, making an attack much more expensive. It staved off the attack on Einsteinium but wasn't entirely unexpected. But the hacker had a backup victim.
He turned his sights toward Bitcoin Private (BTCP). With inexpensive hashpower rented on NiceHash (a cloud mining platform), he began his attack. It was livestreamed on Twitch until the stream was shut down. He continued the broadcast on a different streaming platform before having that stream shutdown as well, all the while continuing his attack and gaining mining power on the network. The Bitcoin Private team found ways to combat the attack, but it was eventually successful in that the hacker was able to gain a majority of hashing power on the Bitcoin Private network.
This is not the first time this sort of thing has been carried out for (relatively) ethical purposes, and there have been many more such attacks with bad intentions. In this case, there was no damage done, other than to prove the vulnerability of low-market cap Proof-of-Work cryptocurrencies.
Aside from passively hoping that no one mining group gains a majority or waiting until the last moment to try to defensively increase the hashrate, there have been few substantial improvements to the defenses against a 51% attack. Recently, the Horizen (ZEN) team (formerly Zencash) wrote a white paper, outlining a potential fix for the 51% attack problem. It wouldn't solve the problem completely but would increase the cost of a potential attack exponentially, making it far less likely to be carried out. In addition, it would be a simple code upgrade for Bitcoin, Litecoin, and many other major cryptocurrencies.
The whole crypto ecosystem is still a technological experiment, and we are watching it play out in real time. Literally. With hackers (with good intentions or bad) able to livestream their assaults on cryptocurrency infrastructure, we can see how attacks can happen and the defensive measures that can be taken to thwart them. Attacks will continue and the responses to them will evolve as this technology matures.
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The Third Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Services Sector Development Program will support the development of rural infrastructure and basic services, institutions, and human capacities. The program will support the government's commitment to expanding rural water supply and sanitation access while leveraging difficult and critical decentralization reforms necessary to ensure that the investment loan and other investments in the sector are sustainable and meets objectives.
The program's outcome will be improved access to safe water supply, sanitation, and hygiene for rural areas in selected priority provinces in Cambodia. The program will have four outputs: (i) Rural water supply and sanitation (RWSS) management will be decentralized; (ii) Rural water supply infrastructure and service in the priority provinces will be expanded; (iii) Rural sanitation in the priority provinces will be expanded; and (iv) Human resources will be strengthened and management capacity will be developed in the priority provinces.
This design study undertakes sector preparatory work and defines the scope of the ensuing Third Rural Water Supply and Sanitation Services Sector Development Program.
Component 1 focuses on the preparation of a policy, governance, and institutional assessment, as well as detailed actions required to support the policy-based loan. These includes all of the program-level assessments required by the Asian Development Bank.
Component 2 conducts a background assessment of the rural water supply and sanitation sector in the priority provinces and supports the selection and phasing of target districts and communes for the program, develops an overall procurement plan and conducts feasibility studies for subprojects.
Component 3 develops, and partially delivers, a capacity building and training program.
The capacity building and training program directly supports the decentralization of RWSS activities under Component 1 with a national focus, and the expansion of RWSS infrastructure and services under Component 2 with a focus on priority provinces.


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USA Cricket (USAC) is the governing body of cricket in the United States. USA Cricket operates all of the United States national representative cricket sides, including the men's and women's national teams and youth teams, as well as Minor League Cricket, which is the highest level of domestic American Twenty20 cricket.

The body was unveiled on September 24, 2017, as a proposed successor to the United States of America Cricket Association, which had been expelled from the International Cricket Council (ICC) in June 2017 due to governance issues. In January 2019, it was approved as an associate member of the ICC.

History

Background
In June 2017, the ICC voted to expel the USACA from the ICC, due to issues with governance of the sport in the United States. Control of the United States national team was handed over to ICC Americas until a new board was formed.

Creation and first years
On September 24, 2017 (the anniversary of the 1844 Canada-United States cricket match, and on the heels of a U.S. victory in the Canada-U.S. K.A. Auty Cup), USA Cricket was announced as a new proposed sanctioning body, including a logo unveiled by Denver-based group Adrenalin (using a cricket bat as the main symbol, deeming it to have stronger symbolism with the sport among the U.S. audience than other common symbols, such as the stumps or ball). The new body stated that its goal was to help build popularity for the game among a "mainstream" audience (as opposed to predominantly expats from other regions), with project manager Eric Parthen describing it as a "fresh start" that would "celebrate the past and look to the future".

USA Cricket elected its first independent board in mid-2018. In November 2018, USA Cricket put out a request for proposals surrounding the establishment of a domestic Twenty20 league by 2021, with goals to "engage existing fans and grow new ones to support the bullish vision this Board has for cricket in the US", and "support the sustainable development of cricketing infrastructure across the United States" (noting that Central Broward Regional Park was the only ICC-certified cricket grounds in the country). In January 2019, USA Cricket was officially approved by the ICC as its 105th associate member.

In May 2019, USA Cricket announced that it had accepted a bid by American Cricket Enterprises (ACE) for a $1 billion investment in its proposed T20 league; ACE's partners include Satyan Gajwani and Vineet Jain of The Times Group, and Willow TV founders Sameer Mehta and Vijay Srinivasan. ACE will provide investments for the league (including developmental and professional circuits), facilities, and support of the U.S. national teams.

During its inaugural annual general meeting in February 2020, USA Cricket announced plans to launch its franchise-based T20 league Major League Cricket in 2021, stage the inaugural season of its development league Minor League Cricket in 2020, back proposals for cricket to be staged at the 2028 Summer Olympics in Los Angeles, and pursue bids to host a future ICC tournament in the country between 2023 and 2031. It was also stated that USA Cricket may attempt to pursue full member status with the ICC.

In October 2020, USA Cricket unveiled a "foundational plan" for 2020–23, including plans to promote youth and women's cricket, primarily focus on T20 (including the launch of Major League Cricket in 2022, delayed from 2021 due to COVID-19), and partner with Cricket West Indies on bids to host ICC events in the United States. The organization plans to initially target its activities towards markets where there is "already significant interest in and passion for the sport". USA Cricket also set long-term goals to reach ICC full member status by 2030. It aimed to qualify for the 2022 Under-19 Cricket World Cup (however, all qualification tournaments were cancelled due to COVID-19, and Canada thus qualified automatically based on previous performance), and to "develop a clear and balanced long-term international playing calendar for our national teams that includes more content, played more frequently against competitive opposition."

In November 2020, USA Cricket announced that ACE had leased AirHogs Stadium in Grand Prairie, Texas (which previously operated as the home of the recently folded Texas AirHogs baseball team), with plans to redevelop it as a cricket-specific stadium and as home field of a Texas-based franchise in Major League Cricket.

In November 2021, the ICC announced that Cricket West Indies and USA Cricket would co-host the 2024 Men's T20 World Cup, with matches expected to be played in both regions.

Continued non-compliance and financial issues
In March 2021, two USA Cricket board members filed a lawsuit against CEO Iain Higgins and five other board members, alleging irregularities in its election process, including a referendum to immediately grant voting rights to members rather than requiring that they be members for 12 months (allegedly expanding the voting base to over 20,000 eligible members) that was implemented despite not meeting the required supermajority, and the organization having indefinitely delayed annual elections that were required to occur at the end of November. The election continued to be delayed . On November 15, 2021, it was reported that Higgins had stepped down as CEO, amid internal issues within the organization; the position remained vacant. The lawsuit was settled in May 2022, after board chairman Paraag Marathe announced his resignation, which allowed the elections to move forward and begin on July 8, 2022. Separately, ex-CEO Iain Higgins was given $300,000 as part of an agreement to avoid more legal action against USAC.

On October 3, 2022, it was reported that USA Cricket was seriously in debt, had failed to file annual financial reports, and failed to host an annual general meeting in 2020, leading the ICC to suspend funding payments. The curtailment of Ireland's December 2021 series against the United States due to COVID-19 outbreaks (causing only the T20 matches to be played) was reported to have resulted in six-figure losses for the sanctioning body.

It was concurrently reported that USA Cricket had been removed as an administrative co-host of the 2024 T20 World Cup due to these issues, but that Cricket West Indies would still host tournament matches in the United States. Ahead of the next annual general meeting on October 9, Srinivasan stated that ACE was concerned over USA Cricket's mounting debt, and concerns that players and board members were not being paid despite ACE's agreements and funding.

ACE had chosen not to fully back the Ireland series due to cost concerns related to its scheduling and COVID-19 protocols. The series, which cost $400,000 to host, was not part of USA Cricket's budget for 2021. Srinivasan explained that USAC "came in far, far below even what we thought they would come short of", and "the way this arrangement is meant to work is they find a Full Member or multiple Full Members to come and we would fund all of that. The exposure is meant to be ours and then we would monetize it, commercialize it and if there is a loss, that's our loss to bear. This was unique in the sense that we were not willing to do it given all the constraints. So we said if this is something you still want to go ahead, you do all of it. We'll front you the cash to pull it off, but you keep all the revenue. But the exposure is also yours."

On October 10 during the AGM, USA Cricket's new treasurer Kuljit Singh-Nijjar issued a report stating that it had amassed $650,000 in debt by the end of 2021, citing spending higher than budgeted projections, nearly $800,000 in "administrative expenses", and falling short of its projection of $1.1 million in sponsorship revenue. Due to these issues, the 2022 USA Cricket senior men's and junior national championships were cancelled. Interim board chairman Atul Rai stated that it had resolved its outstanding payments to the ICC, and was also evaluating candidates for its new CEO. On October 21, Vinay Bhimjiani was appointed as the new CEO of USA Cricket. Later that week, USAC's Nominating and Governance Committee (NGC) announced that they were accepting applications for 3 independent directors.

USA Cricket, in cobordance with the NGC, then went on to announce their postponed 2021 elections on November 19, 2022. In their announcement, they released their member eligibility lists and also separately announced calls for 3 board directors.

Fresh lawsuits and governance problems
In December 2022, USA Cricket announced that Jagadeesh Arunkumar's tenure as USAC men's head coach ended and as such began their recruitment process to find a replacement for Arunkumar.

In January, USAC then announced Patricia Whittaker, David Haubert, and Pintoo Shah replacing the former Paraag Marathe, Rohan Sajdeh, and Catherine Carlson as independent board directors. This sparked controversy as Whittaker served USA Cricket prior as a selector in 2021, going against USAC's constitution, stating that a person must not have held position in USAC, the ICC, or any national, local, or regional governing and administrative body within 3 years of the date of applicable election.

Shortly thereafter, an email co-signed by 21 people was sent to USA Cricket challenging the constitutionality of the NGC. The email protested and pointed out many instances of USAC constitution violations ahead of the 2021 USAC elections, threatening legal action if the problems weren't resolved. Following the email, USAC excluded email co-signers Sushil Nadkarni, Ajay Jhamb, and others from their final candidates and voter list for the 2021 elections. Additionally, USAC also approved many ineligible candidates for the elections, sparking further controversy.

Following many email co-signers' exclusion from the 2021 elections and USAC's inability to overhaul and "roll back any past improper actions" of the NGC, Nadkarni and Jhamb filed a joint-lawsuit against USA Cricket and members of the NGC. The lawsuit alleged "numerous" violations of USA Cricket's constitution by the NGC and requested that USA Cricket be forced to deconstruct its NGC, which they allege was formed unconstitutionally. The lawsuit additionally points out other numerous unconstitutional actions, including the appointment of Whittaker as an independent director, a lack of election candidates, and the approval of many ineligible election candidates and voters. As a result, a court hearing was scheduled for the third week of February. The court then imposed a restraining order on the 2021 elections which were set to be held on February 6.

See also
List of United States ODI cricketers
List of United States Twenty20 International cricketers

External links

References

Cricket administration
Cricket administration in the United States
Cricket
Sports organizations established in 2017
Cricket in Florida

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In geometry, the Steiner ellipse of a triangle, also called the Steiner circumellipse to distinguish it from the Steiner inellipse, is the unique circumellipse (ellipse that touches the triangle at its vertices) whose center is the triangle's centroid.  Named after Jakob Steiner, it is an example of a circumconic. By comparison the circumcircle of a triangle is another circumconic that touches the triangle at its vertices, but is not centered at the triangle's centroid unless the triangle is equilateral.

The area of the Steiner ellipse equals the area of the triangle times  and hence is 4 times the area of the Steiner inellipse. The Steiner ellipse has the least area of any ellipse circumscribed about the triangle.

The Steiner ellipse is the scaled Steiner inellipse (factor 2, center is the centroid). Hence both ellipses are similar (have the same eccentricity).

Properties

 A Steiner ellipse is the only ellipse, whose center is the centroid  of a triangle  and contains the points . The area of the Steiner ellipse is -fold of the triangle's area.

Proof
A) For an equilateral triangle the Steiner ellipse is the circumcircle, which is the only ellipse, that fulfills the preconditions. The desired ellipse has to contain the triangle reflected at the center of the ellipse. This is true for the circumcircle. A conic is uniquely determined by 5 points. Hence the circumcircle is the only Steiner ellipse.

B) Because an arbitrary triangle is the affine image of an equilateral triangle, an ellipse is the affine image of the unit circle and the centroid of a triangle is mapped onto the centroid of the image triangle, the property (a unique circumellipse with the centroid as center) is true for any triangle.

The area of the circumcircle of an equilateral triangle is  -fold of the area of the triangle. An affine map preserves the ratio of areas. Hence the statement on the ratio is true for any triangle and its Steiner ellipse.

Determination of conjugate points

An ellipse can be drawn (by computer or by hand), if besides the center at least two conjugate points on conjugate diameters are known. In this case
 either one determines by Rytz's construction the vertices of the ellipse and draws the ellipse with a suitable ellipse compass
or uses an parametric representation for drawing the ellipse.

Let be  a triangle and its centroid . The shear mapping with axis  through  and parallel to  transforms the triangle onto the isosceles triangle   (see diagram). Point  is a vertex of the Steiner ellipse of triangle . A second vertex  of this ellipse lies on , because  is perpendicular to  (symmetry reasons). This vertex can be determined from the data (ellipse with center  through  and , ) by calculation. It turns out that

Or by drawing: Using de la Hire's method (see center diagram) vertex  of the Steiner ellipse of the isosceles triangle  is determined.

The inverse shear mapping maps  back to  and point  is fixed, because it is a point on the shear axis. Hence semi diameter  is conjugate to .

With help of this pair of conjugate semi diameters the ellipse can be drawn, by hand or by computer.

Parametric representation and equation

Given: Triangle
Wanted: Parametric representation and equation of its Steiner ellipse

The centroid of the triangle is

Parametric representation:

From the investigation of the previous section one gets the following parametric representation of the Steiner ellipse:

 The  four vertices of the ellipse are   where  comes from
  with  (see ellipse).

The roles of the points for determining the parametric representation can be changed.

Example (see diagram): .

Equation:

If the origin is the centroid of the triangle (center of the Steiner ellipse) the equation corresponding to the parametric representation  is

with .

Example:
The centroid of triangle  is the origin. From the vectors
 one gets the equation of the Steiner ellipse:

Determination of the semi-axes and linear eccentricity
If the vertices are already known (see above), the semi axes can be determined. If one is interested in the axes and eccentricity only, the following method is more appropriate:

Let be  the semi axes of the Steiner ellipse. From Apollonios theorem on properties of conjugate semi diameters of ellipses one gets:

Denoting the right hand sides of the equations by  and  respectively and transforming the non linear system (respecting ) leads to:

Solving for  and  one gets the semi axes:

with .

The linear eccentricity of the Steiner ellipse is

and the area

One should not confuse  in this section with other meanings in this article !

Trilinear equation

The equation of the Steiner circumellipse in trilinear coordinates is

for side lengths a, b, c.

Alternative calculation of the semi axes and linear eccentricity

The semi-major and semi-minor axes (of a triangle with sides of length a, b, c) have lengths

and focal length

where

The foci are called the Bickart points  of the triangle.

See also
Triangle conic

References

 Georg Glaeser, Hellmuth Stachel, Boris Odehnal: The Universe of Conics, Springer 2016, , p.383

Curves defined for a triangle
Conic sections


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