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ClearSky Data raised $27 million in Series B funding
By Alexander Joe Published Nov 2, 2015 at 22:33 PM GMT
ClearSky Data, a new startup firm focusing on technology solutions in enterprise infrastructure, landed $27 million in its Series B funding round to boost its sales and marketing teams.
The round was led by Polaris Partners, with Akamai Technologies involved as a strategic investor.
The latest round brings total investment in the Boston-based startup up to a total of $39 million.
Ellen Rubin, CEO and founder of ClearSky, said that the company will expand its 40-person team in sales/marketing and operations/support. She added that the startup will benefit from the addition of Akamai Labs CTO Andy Champagne as a ClearSky board adviser.
"We'll be working with them as we go to market," Rubin said. "We'll engage with their sales teams and marketing teams as we go to enterprise customers. Basically, any enterprise we're speaking with is already an Akamai customer."
Tiered storage network
The company offers consumers a "tiered" storage network. Time-sensitive hot data is stored close to the customer, while archival or cold data is stored further away.
"ClearSky's global storage network is the way for enterprises to move their data to the cloud—with the security, performance and availability they need to succeed," Andy Champagne, vice president and chief technology officer, Akamai Labs at Akamai Technologies said in a statement.
"At Akamai, we know firsthand how to build a global network that meets the stringent requirements of enterprise customers, and we look forward to working with the ClearSky team to help customers worldwide as they adopt this new approach to enterprise storage."
"Managing primary storage is a huge and poorly served challenge in the enterprise infrastructure market. Legacy systems – out of date computer systems – have failed to address customer needs and no one has figured out how to leverage the economics and agility of the cloud – until now. ClearSky has addressed this challenge head-on, creating a breakthrough software-as-a-service (SaaS) offering for primary storage," managing partner of Polaris Partners Dave Barrett said in a statement.
"We've entered the next generation of the enterprise and ClearSky has a great opportunity to build the next major infrastructure company."
Rubin also plans on expanding the business to other locations in the US and the globe.
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Tony Calvin: Hoping to Crack another antepost race with a Jolly
Tony is having two cracks at an antepost winner at Ascot on Saturday
We have some high class racing at Ascot and Haydock on Saturday, and as ever, our in-form tipster Tony Calvin is here to take an early look...
"His last success came by 6 lengths off a mark of 138 here in November 2018, and the handicapper has given a real chance for dropping him 5lb in one fell swoop after his reappearance here in early November."
Back Jolly's Cracked It at 16/1 each way, four places, in 14:25 at Ascot on Saturday
Everyone loves to see top-class horses going at it in the big races, but the problem we are increasingly witnessing is that the pool of premier performers is so small.
Too small.
So - and let's be honest here, instead of trotting out the quality over quantity line time and again - we regularly get pretty pitiful fields racing for a lot of money, and that is usually a turn-off for punters (though, granted, Frodon was one of the best backed horses of last weekend when winning the five-runner Silviniaco Conti Chase at Kempton).
The situation is not helped by the English and Irish horses tending to stay on their own patch until the major Festivals - incidentally, the Betfair Sportsbook have priced up five races at the Dublin Racing Festival at Leopardstown on February 1 and 2, a meeting I shall be attending on my first foray racing in the Emerald Isle for many a year - though thankfully Un De Sceaux is a standing dish in the Clarence House Chase at Ascot, last year aside.
Just as well as his presence has stopped Defi Du Seuil being priced up as a 4s-on poke at the five-day stage for the £150,000 Grade 1 prize.
Veteran showing no signs of slowing yet
Willie Mullins' 12yo won this three times in successive years from 2016 to 2018, and age is not dimming his fire on the evidence of his last two performances.
He went down by only a neck to Defi Du Seuil in the Tingle Creek and he looks set to get a solo out in front here, something he didn't have the luxury of at Sandown when Ornua set the pace.
I would probably side with him at the prices, but if backing a horse at 13-8 in a five-runner race in a weekend ante-post race is the best we can do then we should perhaps give up this punting lark.
The wet forecast certainly suggests the old mudlark will be in his element - though the amount of expected rainfall in the next couple of days seems to have lessened somewhat - and you have to work on the basis of soft ground at a minimum (and probably heavy) for Ascot on Saturday.
That, of course, makes running plans hard to predict - and the prospect of backing no-shows obviously increases - but we soldier on regardless.
Jolly fancied to get the better of the jollies
I did my money in cold blood when putting up and backing Colonial Dreams for the Lanzarote last week and he must be considered an unlikely runner, once again, for the 2m3f58yd handicap hurdle (2.25pm) if Ascot gets the rain.
The 4/1 Lanzarote ante-post favourite Pic D'Orhy was another surprise absentee at Kempton - I didn't see anyone ask why - but he just about heads the betting here at 5/1, though the last-flight casualty in that race (when 3 lengths or so clear), Debestyman, is arguably the more interesting if turning out again, alongside impressive Haydock winner Bold Plan.
They have not been missed in the Betfair market though, and the one that I think is overpriced is the far more exposed, old-stager Jolly's Cracked It, and he is worth an each-way bet at 16/1, four places, with the Betfair Sportsbook.
At 11yo, he is the senior man of this particular party, and the other possible negative is the 2m3f+ trip given that his two starts beyond 2m have both ended badly, though to be fair one of those came at the Cheltenham Festival in 2015 and the other was over fences over 2m4f in the Uttoxeter heavy-ground gluepot back in March.
So I am prepared to forgive him those performances, especially off a mark of just 135 on his favourite track. And Sean Bowen is already jocked up.
It could be that he needs more of a trip at his age, too.
His last success came by 6 lengths off a mark of 138 here in November 2018, and the handicapper has given a real chance for dropping him 5lb in one fell swoop after his reappearance here in early November.
He didn't shape without promise there in a first-time, tongue-tie (maybe he has had his wind tweaked since?) and the excellent recent form of the Harry Fry yard has to give you further hope.
He is worth chancing at 16s, despite the doubts expressed above.
The handicapper has also given Allysson Monterg a fair old chance off 138 in the 2m5f handicap chase on the Ascot card (3pm), and I am going to suggest backing him, win-only, at 16/1, too.
I may have a decent crack at him, too, at the price.
Now, this lightly-raced 10yo is clearly as fragile as you get (he has tendon problems) but at least you know he will be 100% straight if getting to the track, which hopefully he will here (which is obviously no given, looking at his profile), and it sounds as if his trainer Richard Hobson has never doubted his raw ability.
He landed a bit of a punt (14/1 to 3/1) when winning first-time-up over 2m3f in heavy ground at Exeter in February 2018, and this trip in deep ground could be ideal for him, even though he has won over further and was tried in the Ladbrokes Trophy on his reappearance last season.
He is well-handicapped on his Perth win in 2018 but he is even more so if you take his most recent start, a fourth to Frodon in the Cotswold Chase a year ago, at face value.
And go and take a look at that race, in which he had a decent pop at the front-running Frodon for a fair while.
He went off 40/1 there - unsurprisingly given he was rated just 141 up against horses well over a stone better than him - but he travelled powerfully for a long way, in first-time cheek pieces, before weakening over the extended 3m1f (he traded at 6.8 in running) and he really could prove to be very hard to beat if he is in the same form.
He is 16s across the board and I am rather surprised all of the odds-compilers came to the same assessment about the horse.
Red can Definitly win the Peter Marsh
It will definitely be heavy, and then some, at Haydock, so it will be interesting to see who rocks up in the Supreme Trial and the Unibet Hurdle, as I doubt trainers will want to bottom their Festival hopefuls in bad ground, even if it is only January 18 on Saturday.
As such, it is probably giving both of the races a swerve, but I imagine a fair percentage will stand their ground in the Peter Marsh Chase (2.40pm).
I will stop short of putting him up as a bet at this stage, but the one that stands out for me is Definitly Red, who is available at 7/1 with the Betfair Sportsbook. Henry Brooke is already jocked up.
Lumbering 11st 10lb around 3m1f+ at Haydock in heavy ground will not be for the faint-hearted but this class act is at least well handicapped off a mark of 156 (he went off 8/1 for the 2018 Gold Cup after winning the Cotswold Chase by 8 lengths)and he comes here after a good fourth in the Becher.
And he is used to carrying 11st+ against quality performers in testing ground, so I don't think the weight will stop this five-times Grade 2 winner.
He has form figures of 12U around here - that unseat came 3 out when he was a 5/1 chance in this race in 2017 - and was rated 167 at his peak, so a mark of 156 is no barrier to success.
Haydock is his only weekend entry, but I am inclined to wait until the final decs before playing myself. The current 7s and 8s in the marketplace is very fair if you want to pounce now, though.
Be lucky.
Back Allysson Monterg at 16/1 win only in 15:00 at Ascot on Saturday
Tony Calvin's Ante-post Tips: Get involved in the Betfair Exchange London National
Betfair Tingle Creek Antepost Tips: Tony Calvin says keep an eye on Allaho
Tony Calvin's Ante-Post Tips: Dan Skelton's runner weighted to go well
Tony Calvin: Dreaming of another antepost winner in Saturday's Lanzarote Hurdle
Cheltenham Countdown: Clan takes second King George as Epatante sparkles
Cheltenham Countdown: Seuil makes his case for absent Altior's crown
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WANTED MAN (Dolph Lundgren, 2006-2021) (announced)
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by Moltisanti on 29 Oct 2021, 00:36
Hopefully this is truly a go now:
https://deadline.com/2021/10/dolph-lundgren-to-direct-and-star-in-action-pic-wanted-man-for-millennium-afm-1234864514/
Here comes the AFM brawn. The Expendables and Aquaman star Dolph Lundgren is set to direct and star in action pic Wanted Man, which Millennium Media is launching ahead of the virtual AFM.
Lundgren has also penned the script with Michael Worth (Killing Cupid).
In Wanted Man, when a cartel shooting leaves several DEA agents dead, an ageing police officer must retrieve an eyewitness and escort her across the border. But when they learn that the attack was executed by American forces, he must decide who to trust.
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Re: WANTED MAN (Dolph Lundgren, 2006-2021) (status unknown)
by Jox on 29 Oct 2021, 09:46
Re: WANTED MAN (Dolph Lundgren, 2006-2021) (announced)
by preacher on 29 Oct 2021, 11:15
Produced by Millenium now. Good sign, right?
Could Dolph have got this going with them as part of his EX4 contract?
I know Banderas did the same. He got a personal project made (Automata, I believe) in return for appearing in EX3.
Location: Stockholm, Sweden
by bomaz on 29 Oct 2021, 12:24
That's nice. At least with Millenium, he can got a decent co-star, and there's usually decent promotion. And he'll have freedom I guess (even if the budget is a bit cheap).
For the past 8-9 years, he had reasons to be reluctant working for Millennium again (aside from the EXP sequels) even though they would have wanted to, but looking back and seeing the current state of things, this is probably best doing it with them.
Regarding the announced tentative start date of February, I suspect it might actually happen a little later considering Dolph will be just coming back from doing EX4 and AQUAMAN...
by Tom on 29 Oct 2021, 21:52
I wonder if this might be targeted to hit one of the streaming platforms as an exclusive (initially). In theory it could mean a slightly better production value. Millennium don't generally seem as keen on the atypical DTV kind of thing they (or N.I) were doing with D prior to Expendables etc. Jolt with Kate Beckinsale ended up an Amazon premiere. It was one of those quite common in streaming action (Netflix have snapped up a few) which looks more than the general DTV fare going as far as budget, but still not 'theatrical' scale. At least it would be nice to see him in the 5 mill region rather than 1 (sometimes less as far as production budgets).
Location: Marlow, England
Interesting thought, Tom, I didn't see it that way.
Millennium signed a deal to make films for Screen Media a few months ago:
https://variety.com/2021/film/news/screen-media-reaches-distribution-deal-the-outpost-rambo-millennium-media-1235024471/
Screen Media, the distributor of "The Outpost" and "Willy's Wonderland," has reached a distribution deal with Millennium Media, the company behind The Expendables and Olympus has Fallen franchises, to release at least five films a year for the next three years. The first film under the deal will be "The Enforcer" starring Antonio Banderas, Kate Bosworth and 2 Chainz. Directed by Richard Hughes, the film is shooting this summer in Greece. Screen Media will handle the North American release in 2022.
WANTED MAN seems like the sort of film that would be part of this arrangement.
Michael Worth
Maybe it's like a fine wine? In this case there is no doubt the current incarnation of the story has benefited from our beating it into a pulp. Now it's time for Dolph to start doing that on camera…
https://twitter.com/MichaelWorth/status ... 7567003653
by savagesketch on 31 Oct 2021, 02:03
preacher wrote: Cool!
I didn't know that deals like this were still made in Hollywood. Reminds me of when Christopher Reeve did SUPERMAN IV in return for getting STREET SMART made. That was Cannon then, which Millennium was born out of, so it only makes sense that they're going this route. Coincidentally, Dolph did a similar deal with Millennium 10-11 years ago with DIRECT CONTACT and COMMAND PERFORMANCE (you can probably guess which one of that pair was the obligation, and which was the passion project ).
We've been on this one a LONG time working this out to get it right. Probably more drafts than anything I have written in my life. Makes acting in fight films seem less exhausting! But have been enjoying it the whole way while ramping up the "action content" lately. Got to put all this energy somewhere….
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by preacher on 02 Nov 2021, 12:59
I don't suppose you can share those reasons? Would be interesting to know.
Since the bottom fell out of the old DTV-market, working with Millenium is atleast preferable to what else is out there. Though VMI seems some what serious to me.
by JuV on 02 Nov 2021, 15:10
I'm actually kinda interested in that as well. I know Millennium used to be Nu Image and some of the Nu Image produced films had some troubled productions so that might be it? But I'm not sure, Jox can probably explain it best
https://juv.netlify.app/
And if they decide to give it more value, they can arrange to have Banderas as the bad guy here (and that would be fine by me, his part being the best thing I remember from The Exp 3).
preacher wrote:
JuV wrote: I'm actually kinda interested in that as well. I know Millennium used to be Nu Image and some of the Nu Image produced films had some troubled productions so that might be it? But I'm not sure, Jox can probably explain it best
I can't and I won't say more for several reasons and among those because I don't know "all the details"...
bomaz wrote: And if they decide to give it more value,
I hope that's the case, which I think would be possible particularly if they can make a deal with Netflix or the likes like someone of you mentioned. What's the name of the Mary Elizabeth Winstead action flick that Netflix just released? WANTED MAN could well fall under that category...


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At least my dad had the dignity to wait until after we took her off life support from the car accident to begin sowing his wild oats. If he did cheat, it was unbeknownst to me. Cheating was not for everybody and I was one of those people. No, I wanted to fight for my marriage. That's what people in love did, right? They fought. Unfortunately, that road was a two way street.
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Protesters demand halt to bank's tar sands financing (Scotland)
Protesters demand halt to bank's tar sands financing
cHRIS WATT and SIMON BAIN
PROTESTERS yesterday hijacked a meeting of the Royal Bank of Scotland to demand an end to state-backed funding for tar sands oil projects.
Representatives of Canada's First Nations visited Edinburgh to tell the bank's annual meeting that oil extraction could threaten their way of life and cause untold environmental damage in the event of a spill.
Is There Such a Thing as 'Ethical Oil'?
Is There Such a Thing as 'Ethical Oil'? Canada Claims it Has Lots and the US Is Buying It
By Jason Mark, Earth Island Journal
Sunday, Apr 17, 2011
To get to the quaint village of Fort McKay in the far north of Alberta, Canada, you first have to pass through some version of hell.
Draft Land Use Plan Infringes Treaty 8
First Nations in Oil Sands Region say that the Lower Athabasca Regional Plan does not protect enough land and resources to sustain their traditional livelihood and creates legal risk for Alberta
April 8, 2011, Fort McMurray
Madagascar tar sands: the bloody truth
A short briefing on tar sands in the Melaky region of Madagascar.
http://www.wdm.org.uk/clean-banks/madagascar-tar-sands-bloody-truth
Interviews with residents of Fort MacKay and Fort Chip, regarding cultural and environmental situations for their communities, especially with respect to the water coming from tar sands operation areas that are allegedly responsible for statistically impossible rates of cancer.
Sally Mauk: First Nations activists see changes since tar sands
By SALLY MAUK for the Missoulian missoulian.com |
I was standing on South Reserve Street in Missoula in the wee hours of the morning recently to report on the transport of two enormous coke drum halves and their impressive entourage of trucks and law enforcement as they snaked past a few dozen chanting protesters.
Waiting for the drums to arrive, I thought about the conversation I had the week before with two Canadians who live in northern Alberta near the world's second-largest deposit of oil.
Alberta wants to study tar sands more
Province says more study needed on oil sands impact
Ian Campbell Mar 09, 2011
The provincial government says any impact from the oil sands warrants further study.
The latest report by a government-appointed panel failed to dig up any differences than the findings of independent scientists.
The province says contamination in the Athabasca River comes from natural sources, but University of Alberta researchers say they've traced hydrocarbons and heavy metals directly to the oil sands.
Green groups call for more review of [Keystone XL] pipeline
Green groups call for more review of pipeline
By JAMES MacPHERSON
More from BusinessWeek
BISMARCK, N.D.
The U.S. government must evaluate the additional impacts of allowing domestic crude on a proposed pipeline designed to carry Canadian tar sands oil to refineries along the Gulf Coast, a coalition of environmental groups has said.
B.C. may face unprecedented native unrest if rights ignored
TEX ENEMARK,
In an article in The Sun Feb. 14, ("The Skeetchestn say enough already"),
Rich Deneault, the Skeetchestn Band chief served notice that the way
business and governments ride roughshod over native rights in British
Columbia has to come to an end, or face the consequences, which may not be
pretty.
He says, very bluntly, "In the days ahead, those companies and agencies
that have not acted honourably will be receiving letters from us, advising
Keystone's tar sands pipeline concerns environmentalists
The Cherokeean Herald
TransCanada's Keystone Pipeline System is being heralded as one of the largest infrastructure projects ever undertaken by the United States and Canada – four times the length of the Alaska pipeline.
The 2,151-mile pipeline already connects Hardisty, Can. with Cushing, Ok. Lying in the path of the Keystone Gulf Coast Extension (Keystone XL) from Cushing, Ok. to Port Arthur is Cherokee County.


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New Baby Productions Adapting Sci-Fi Master's Obscure "The Chronic Argonauts" Over 120 Years after First Published
March 23, 2011 - 04:15
Publisher New Baby Productions announces that a graphic novel adaptation of H.G. Wells' short story, "The Chronic Argonauts," is currently in production. Originally written by a 22-year old Wells, and published by the Royal College of Science in 1888, the story is considered to be the first well-developed use of a "time machine" in science fiction. It predates Wells' more famous time traveling novel, The Time Machine, by seven years.
"The Chronic Argonauts" begins with the arrival of the mysterious Dr. Moses Nebogipfel to a small Welsh town. The apprehensions of the simple rural folk eventually cause them to storm the inventor's workshop in an effort to avenge perceived witchery. Nebogipfel escapes with one other person, the sympathetic Reverend Elijah Ulysses Cook, in what is later revealed to be a time machine. After having been missing for three weeks, Reverend Cook returns, aged many years older. In recounting his experience, he states that he traveled with Dr. Nebogipfel to the years 4003 and 17901, but does not give any details beyond that. "The story ends there. I think that Wells intended to tell those tales at a later time, but abandoned Cook and Nebogipfel to write The Time Machine," stated New Baby Publisher, Eric Mullarky, "Over 120 years later, we are finally filling in the gaps and telling the whole story of Nebogipfel and Cook."
This new adaptation is scripted by writer Jason Quinn. Quinn has written for many UK comic books, including Barbie, Spectacular Spider-Man Adventures, Ben 10 Alien Adventures, and Action Man. He recently wrote the script for the European Ben 10: Live show, and has just published a Victorian murder mystery, The Palace of Wonder. Robin Cruz, Castaway, a graphic novel that he scripted, is due to be published by Campfire Publishing later this year.
Russ Leach and Tyler Smith, relative newcomers to the comic book industry, are providing the art for The Chronic Argonauts. Lettering is being done by Charles Pritchett, an industry veteran. He has lettered many books for Image Comics and IDW Publishing, including Dynamo5, Noble Causes, Eternal Descent, and Husk: The Hollow Planet, and is the co-creator of the upcoming IDW book, The Pound.
Wells' works, including The War of the Worlds, The Invisible Man, The Island of Doctor Moreau, and aforementioned Time Machine, have been adapted many times over for movies, television, derivative novels, comics, and other mediums. However, "The Chronic Argonauts" is relatively unknown to most. New Baby is hoping to change that. Quinn explains; "This is not just another time travel story, it is the granddaddy of all time travel stories. We have recreated the future, from the perspective of two Victorian adventurers, in a way that I hope is reminiscent of the old pulp magazines and penny dreadfuls, while offering something new and refreshing for a modern audience." Added Leach; "It manages to be funny, exciting, and thought-provoking without losing that core comic strip tale appeal."
The Chronic Argonauts is scheduled for a late 2011 release. Project updates will be posted on the project web site, http://www.ChronicArgonauts.com.
New Baby Productions is an independent comic book publisher formed in 2008 by Eric Mullarky with the intent to self-publish his Elemental Fources mini-series. The follow-up, Elemental Fources: Brothers in Arms, was released in 2010.


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Council set to vote on controversial Rosebud pool project
By Miki Perkins
MORNINGTON Peninsula Council will vote tonight on a controversial plan to build a large aquatic centre and pool on the Rosebud foreshore, which opponents claim will set a precedent for developing the state's coastline.
The size of the complex has increased by more than 40 per cent since it was originally proposed - from about 4800 square metres to 6800.
Rosebud is the only suitable option for the aquatic centre because of its transport links. Credit:Penny Stephens
But a council briefing paper says this will allow improvements, including more lap lanes and a play pool.
Residents say the foreshore is the wrong site for the pool and that it contravenes the state's Coastal Management Act, which stipulates that new developments must be coast dependent or, if not, bring a net community benefit. But supporters of the proposal - including about half the councillors - say there is strong demand for the pool in the area and the foreshore site is the only suitable option because it has seven-day public transport links.
In 2009, the Department of Sustainability and Environment wrote to concerned residents stating that the use of the land was inconsistent with the state's Coastal Management Strategy.
Last month Environment Minister Ryan Smith approved the council's proposal but added that more information was needed before developing the site, including detailed plans.
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OPINION: 4 Most Underrated Players In The History of Real Madrid
Real Madrid is one of the best football teams in the world. They have won numerous trophies and are unquestionably among the best. Today, I'd like to show you four underrated Real Madrid players. See below:
In July 2009, he was signed by Real Madrid from Lyon. Real Madrid also signed Cristiano Ronaldo and Kaka that summer. With both Ronaldo and Kaka having previously won the Balon d'Or, Benzema's arrival was overshadowed by the two high-profile signings.
Ronaldo quickly established himself as Real Madrid's primary goal scorer, and Benzema was eager to pass the ball to Ronaldo unless he had a clear shot on goal. Benzema has spent the majority of his career in Ronaldo's shadow. Under-appreciated. Many clubs have tried to sign him, but he has remained steadfast in his commitment to Los Blancos.
Despite all odds, the striker, who was born in Lyon on December 19, 1987, has managed to leapfrog his way into the sacred book of Real Madrid legends.
He is the club's fifth-highest scorer in history. He is also Real Madrid's foreign player with the most appearances. For Real Madrid, he leads the assists chart. In his twelfth season with Real Madrid, the Frenchman is the club's second highest scorer in the European Cup and fifth in the League. As a Real Madrid player, he won four UEFA Champions Leagues, four Club World Cups, three European Super Cups, three La Ligas, two King's Cups, and three Spanish Super Cups.
He conducts his business quietly, and no one congratulates him on his success. Except for a few individuals.
CASEMIRO
He does the most important thing for Madrid, which is to stop opposing counters and create space for Modric or Kroos to push the ball forward. When they make a mistake, he saves their defense.
He's not a particularly good ball carrier or passer, but he does the defensive work, and if Madrid loses/sells him, it'll be similar to how Leicester lost Kanté.
Claude Makelele
I believe he is the most underrated player in Real Madrid history, but he is arguably one of the most important players in Real Madrid history. He is not well respected, and few people speak about him; some don't even know he played for Real Madrid; only the most ardent Real Madrid fans know how great he was.
Claude was fantastic; he established himself as one of Real Madrid's greatest defensive midfielders, but despite this, Makelele was the club's lowest-paid player. When he approached the board to improve his contract, the President of the board said Makelele was useless, which was opposed by the majority of players, including Zidane, Luis Figo, and Macnanam.
Makelele defined defensive midfield and is one of the few football players to have a position named after him. Makelele was ordinary; Makelele was simply elegant.
In 2014, Madrid won "la Decima," their tenth UEFA Champions League, against city rivals Atletico Madrid in their toughest incarnation.
Indeed, Aletico took an early lead and defended it "with a knife in clenched teeth," as coach Simeone likes to say. Sergio Ramos equalized in the final minute of regulation time, sending the game into overtime. Madrid's scoring stars (CR7, Bale, and, yes, Benzema) were largely ineffective: Di Maria handled team play, but Ancelotti wanted him to play in midfield, so he continued to assist his star teammates - for nothing.
In extra time, he became frustrated with missed opportunities and took matters into his own hands, dribbling through the entire Atletico defense and shooting on goal. Courtois barely deflected it, and the ball hung near the line before Bale pushed it in. Real advantage.
For the first time, UEFA officials were present, as Di Maria was named Man of the Match. Sergio Ramos was chosen by Madrid fans.
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3e SRD:Perform Skill
Perform (Cha)
Possible Perform types include ballad, buffoonery, chant, comedy, dance, drama, drums, epic, flute, harp, juggling, limericks, lute, mandolin, melody, mime, ode, pan pipes, recorder, shalm, storytelling, and trumpet. The character is capable of one form of performance per rank.
The character can impress audiences with talent and skill.
10 Routine performance. Trying to earn money by playing in public is essentially begging. The character earns 1d10 cp/day.
15 Enjoyable performance. In a prosperous city, the character can earn 1d10 sp/day.
20 Great performance. In a prosperous city, the character can earn 3d10 sp/day. With time, the character may be invited to join a professional troupe and may develop a regional reputation.
25 Memorable performance. In a prosperous city, the character can earn 1d6 gp/day. With time, the character may come to the attention of noble patrons and develop a national reputation.
30 Extraordinary performance. In a prosperous city, the character can earn 3d6 gp/day. With time, the character may draw attention from distant potential patrons or even from extraplanar beings.
A masterwork musical instrument gives a +2 circumstance bonus to Perform checks that involve the use of the instrument.
Retries are allowed, but they don't negate previous failures, and an audience that has been unimpressed in the past is going to be prejudiced against future performances. (Increase the DC by 2 for each previous failure.)
In addition to using the Perform skill, a character could entertain people with tumbling, tightrope walking, and spells (especially illusions).
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Harbormaster Jack Peveler retires after 30 years of service
Catherine French August 28, 2014
CHANNEL ISLANDS — After 30 years of dedicated service to the boating community, Channel Islands Harbormaster Jack Peveler retired this August.
"Over the years, Jack has made many friends with commercial fishermen, sport fishermen, recreational boaters, harbor lessees, as well as regular harbor guests," said Channel Islands Harbor Director Lyn Krieger who has worked with Peveler for the last 18 years. "He has been a pleasure to work with. We'll miss him."
Peveler has had many accomplishments in his career as noted in a declaration awarded to him on Aug. 5 by the Ventura County Board of Supervisors.
Knowledgeable in vessel handling and design, Peveler spearheaded the planning and construction of many Harbor Patrol boats; was key in the creation of a partnership with Ventura County Fire, the city of Oxnard and Coast Guard training of personnel and improving communications across agencies.
In 1997, Peveler hired and trained the county's beach lifeguards, took the lead in professionalizing the county's lifeguard program, achieving U.S. Lifeguard Association certification and started the Junior Lifeguard Program that has served more than 4,000 youth in Ventura County.
Following the tragic crash of the Alaska Airlines passenger jet in 1998 just off shore, Peveler coordinated the response and the ferrying of Coast Guard personnel to the crash site, supervised maintenance workers on daily beach watches, and coordinated with commercial fishermen, boaters and members of the public.
Environmentally conscious, Peveler created a Snowy Plover and Least Tern protection program in cooperation with the Ventura County Audubon Society and the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service; installed the first free bilge pump operation in Southern California; led the Clean Marina Program in the harbor, and developed an oil recycling program. He was also involved in construction, repair and maintenance of harbor facilities and dredging projects.
What's next for Peveler? "I have a new boat and I am taking my beautiful wife out for fishing around the Channel Islands National Park," he said.
Gary Hirtensteiner, who has served with Harbor Patrol for 23 years, has been named the new Harbormaster for Channel Islands Harbor.
The water sports enthusiast joined Harbor Patrol in 1991,and was promoted to sergeant in 2001, then captain—a position that was created for him—in 2006.
"Gary has accomplished many important things in his tenure here," Krieger said. "He has been instrumental in developing Harbor Patrol training and writing patrol training manuals. He has been key in coordinating training with Ventura County Fire, the Coast Guard and other agencies."
Hirtensteiner has overseen Emergency Medical Training recertification, and the renewal of the Coast Guard Captain's licenses for all 15 of the department's officers, as well as keeping certification active for the Hazardous Waste Operations Program. He has also represented the County of Ventura at the Channel Islands National Marine Sanctuary Advisory Committee.
What Hirtensteiner says he likes most about the job is helping people.
"There is no better feeling when you can help someone out of a difficult situation," he said. "When we get a call that a boater is about to run aground, when we get there and throw them a line and tow them to safety, they are very thankful and we feel very rewarded by the experience."
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English stage actor Robert Donat had garnered acclaim playing opposite Charles Laughton in Alexander Korda's The Private Life of Henry VIII, and was brought over to Hollywood to star in the first talkie version of Monte Cristo. This is the first of director Rowland Lee's spate of swashbucklers, and he does an able job, supported by a stirring soundtrack from Alfred Newman. The story is necessarily streamlined from that of the lengthy novel, its European politics simplified for an American audience, and the plot pared down to its essence of triple revenge. It's pretty tight, and there's a desperate urgency to Edmond Dantes's escape from the Château d'If that's missing from the earlier silent versions.
In due course Dantes finds the buried Spada treasure and utters Dumas's immortal line, "The world is mine!" The film's final hour is the clockwork accomplishment of his vengeance. Transformed by the Spada wealth and the Abbé Faria's wisdom, Donat looks tremendous as the Count de Monte Cristo, silver-haired and rigid with purpose. Elissa Landi plays Dantes's old love, Mercedes, and when she first meets the count after twenty years of believing Dantes dead, the scene is genuinely affecting. After that the count's shocking revelations follow one upon the other, and it all ends as it should, with flashing swords and pistols at dawn. This was the definitive Count of Monte Cristo for a generation.
After this film's success, Donat was offered the lead in Captain Blood, but he didn't like Hollywood, and went back to Britain to work with Alfred Hitchcock. (And the part of Peter Blood, of course, went to Errol Flynn.) Monte Cristo's producer, Edward Small, went on to make eight more swashbucklers over the next fifteen years, mostly starring Louis Hayward, including two more Monte Cristo sequels.


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The 2009 Qatar motorcycle Grand Prix was the opening round of the 2009 MotoGP championship. It had originally been due to place on the weekend of 10–12 April 2009 at the Losail International Circuit located in Doha, Qatar. However, the meeting was extended to 13 April, as the MotoGP race was postponed to this date, due to adverse weather conditions on 12 April. The problems were compounded by the event being held at night under floodlights for the benefit of European TV viewers.

This was the last MotoGP round in which a tobacco brand name (Marlboro) was visible on a bike.

Report
The whole Grand Prix was disrupted by a rare event of rain in Doha, coupled with the impossibility of racing in the wet under floodlights. The 125cc race started at the scheduled time, despite rain being forecast sometime during the race. During the third lap rain began to fall, and the race was finally called after the fourth lap. Shortly after, it was decided to consider the race finished, so Andrea Iannone, who was leading at the time the red flag was exposed, was declared the winner and half points were given, since they failed to complete two thirds of the full race distance (18 laps). This was lucky for Julián Simón as he had crashed after the red flag was shown, and manage to recover back to the track, and was thus classified in second.

After this, talk began to decide whether to race the other two classes or not, since racing with rain in the night could pose a serious threat to riders' safety due to the glare off the track. The organizers, together with safety representative Franco Uncini and riders including Valentino Rossi and Loris Capirossi, made several reconnaissance journeys around the track, which was drying after rain stopped to fall. It was ultimately decided to start the 250cc race, 40 minutes after it was originally scheduled to run. The original race distance of 20 laps was reduced to 13 laps, allowing full points to be awarded while not causing a delay to the MotoGP race. The race went on without problems, and Héctor Barberá won the race ahead of a surprising Jules Cluzel. A frantic multi-bike battle for third place ultimately saw Mike Di Meglio finish third after overtaking teammate Álvaro Bautista and Raffaele De Rosa on the final lap; Hiroshi Aoyama also passed those riders to take 4th place.

MotoGP was kept in its original timeslot. However, shortly before the formation lap, rain began to fall again, and the intensity this time was much higher than the previous. The organisers decided to cancel the event, since the track was too damp to race. After negotiations, it was decided to move the race to the following day, in hope of better weather conditions. The start time was also moved to 21:00 local time, having originally been 23:00.

The Monday race started without problems. The victory went to Casey Stoner, who made a good start from pole and then led the entire race, pulling a comfortable gap over his opponents.
Valentino Rossi finished second; he tried to catch the Australian, coming as near as two seconds from him, but ultimately he had to settle for second, his Yamaha suffering with tyre problems. Third was Jorge Lorenzo, coming a distant 16 seconds from Stoner.

MotoGP classification

250 cc classification

125 cc classification

Championship standings after the race (MotoGP)

Below are the standings for the top five riders and constructors after round one has concluded.

Riders' Championship standings

Constructors' Championship standings

 Note: Only the top five positions are included for both sets of standings.

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Sostis (; ) is a village and a former municipality in the Rhodope regional unit, East Macedonia and Thrace, Greece. Since the 2011 local government reform it is part of the municipality Iasmos, of which it is a municipal unit. The municipal unit has an area of 229.190 km2. The population was 6,334 in 2011.

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Two Consumer Baby Monitors Show Worrisome Results in Measuring Vital Signs
CHOP Researchers Test Pulse Oximetry Monitors in Hospitalized Infants
Published on Aug 21, 2018 in CHOP News
Philadelphia, Aug. 21, 2018 — Researchers who tested two commercially available baby monitors are raising serious concerns about the accuracy of these products, which are marketed to parents, but are not regulated by the U.S. Food & Drug Administration (FDA).
Chris Bonafide, MD, MSCE "We evaluated how accurate these monitors were in detecting low oxygen levels in infants," said study leader Chris Bonafide, MD, MSCE, a pediatrician and safety expert at Children's Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP). "One monitor detected those levels when they occurred, but was inconsistent; the other never detected those levels when they occurred." The team also evaluated pulse rate accuracy in the babies, and found that the monitor that never detected low oxygen levels also often falsely displayed low pulse rates.
Bonafide and colleagues, including CHOP neonatologist Elizabeth Foglia, MD, MSCE and co-authors from the ECRI Institute, a nonprofit research organization that evaluates medical devices and practices, published a report today in the Journal of the American Medical Association (JAMA).
Last year, the researchers wrote an opinion piece in JAMA raising concerns about consumer use of physiological baby monitors being broadly marketed to parents. They argued that such products may cause undue anxiety to parents, with no evidence of medical benefits for healthy infants. "We previously discussed the consensus in the pediatric community that there is no medical reason to electronically monitor vital signs in healthy babies at home," said Foglia. "Our new study adds serious concerns about the accuracy of these consumer monitors, when we compared them to a standardized hospital monitor in a cohort of sick infants."
In the current study, the team studied 30 infants, six months old and younger, hospitalized in CHOP's Cardiology and General Pediatrics units between July and December 2017. Each baby wore an FDA-approved reference monitor (the Masimo Radical-7) on one foot and a consumer monitor on the other foot.
The consumer monitors were the Owlet Smart Sock2 and the Baby Vida, the only two currently marketed smartphone-integrated consumer baby monitors that use pulse oximetry — a measure of the blood's oxygen levels. The scientists analyzed hypoxia (low oxygen levels) and bradycardia (slow pulse rate), comparing results between the reference monitor and each consumer monitor.
While testing the Owlet, the reference monitor reported hypoxia in 12 patients, and the Owlet reported at least one simultaneous hypoxia reading in all 12 patients. However, at least once during hypoxia, the Owlet also erroneously indicated that five of those 12 infants had normal oxygen levels. Across all the data points, the Owlet's overall sensitivity was 88.8 percent—it detected hypoxia, but not consistently. "If something is going wrong with a sick infant, you would want to know that 100 percent of the time," said Bonafide.
Testing of the Baby Vida monitor showed that none of the 14 infants who experienced hypoxia according to the reference monitor had simultaneous hypoxia readings on Baby Vida—a sensitivity of 0 percent, a serious flaw. In addition to missing hypoxia, the Baby Vida monitor also falsely displayed bradycardia in 14 patients who had normal pulse rates, a high rate of false positives. "False positives raise the possibility of unintended consequences," said Foglia. "Parents who see an abnormally low pulse rate reading might call 911, or unnecessarily rush their baby to an emergency department."
The authors caution that as more vital sign monitors enter a largely unregulated marketplace, physicians and parents need to be aware that these machines may trigger unwarranted alarm.
Funding for this study came from Children's Hospital of Philadelphia.
Christopher P. Bonafide, et al, "Accuracy of Pulse Oximetry-Based Home Baby Monitors," Journal of the American Medical Association, Aug. 21, 2018. http://doi.org/10.1001/jama.2018.9018
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Children's Hospital of Philadelphia was founded in 1855 as the nation's first pediatric hospital. Through its long-standing commitment to providing exceptional patient care, training new generations of pediatric healthcare professionals, and pioneering major research initiatives, Children's Hospital has fostered many discoveries that have benefited children worldwide. Its pediatric research program is among the largest in the country. In addition, its unique family-centered care and public service programs have brought the 546-bed hospital recognition as a leading advocate for children and adolescents.


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Administrative expansion generates unnecessary expense
By Eileen Peck on July 1, 2020
Yesterday, I wrote about how executive positions tend to morph over time. It's one thing to talk about administrative expansion. It's another thing to see it.
WCC Org Chart 2001
The first graphic shows the organizational chart at WCC as it appeared in 2001. It shows the President, an Executive Vice President, a Vice President and four Associate Vice Presidents. In addition, the chart shows the Chief Information Officer, eight deans, a couple of directors and a couple of administrative assistants.
The second graphic shows the organizational chart at WCC today, based on information drawn from public sources. It shows the President, two Executive Vice Presidents, four Vice Presidents, four Associate Vice Presidents, the General Counsel, seven deans, 43 directors and a Chief of Staff. This is administrative expansion in all its glory.
In the second chart, black boxes represent positions that existed in 2001. Blue represents positions elevated since 2001. Yellow represents positions downgraded since 2001 and green represents new positions. The bright blue box shows the number and type of directors WCC currently has on staff.
Honestly, I don't know how many directors WCC had then, but directors hit the org chart in 2001. Today, they don't.
The most disturbing thing on today's chart is that the Vice President of Instruction is just that – a Vice President. In 2001, the only Executive Vice President at WCC was the EVP of Instruction. Today, the VPI is a mid-tier executive, and the EVPs are bureaucrats whose jobs do not directly tie into the College's academic mission.
Unfortunately, the College is no better served by having EVPs in these positions than VPs or AVPs. This is a perfect example of pointless title inflation that costs the taxpayers dearly with no positive benefit to WCC.
Unrestrained administrative expansion must stop
The number of directors is simply horrifying. This is the result of unrestrained growth in the administration. This needs to stop, and the current administration has demonstrated that it is not capable of – or willing to – restrain itself in terms of hiring. The Board of Trustees needs to examine new hires far more closely, and insist that cuts include positions in the Executive Suite. Make no mistake about it: the cost of administrative expansion is enormous, and it absolutely must stop. Eliminating low-paid employees cannot begin to make up for the financial damage this unrestrained growth has inflicted on the College.
Perhaps the Board of Trustees should establish a firm, formal policy that restricts administrative growth to no more than the size of the professional, full-time faculty. If the administration wants to hire a new administrator, it will either need to eliminate an existing administrative position or increase the size of the full-time faculty. The Administration has shown extreme restraint in hiring more full-time faculty members over the past decade. It is now time for the Board to demand that the Administration to apply that same restraint to itself.
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Since I started collecting in late 1966 I've spent countless hours listening, reading and reflecting on rock'n'roll, blues, jazz and other music.
Apart from Reviews and R.I.P., almost everything else in this part of the site came into being as avenues to structure my listening and reading about music and provide opportunities for reflection on what I've read and heard over the years. As such, articles appearing under Retrospectives and Thirty-One Themes are particularly likely to be modified based on further reading, listening and reflection as new books turn up on the bookshelves and new music is added to the collection.
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Q: Scheduled task on .Net Core I need to convert a couple of scheduled tasks from the Scheduler task of widows server to a standalone application using .Net.
In the past I've used Quartz on .Net framework 4.x, having some small issue with multiple long running tasks based on different schedulers.
Now I'm using .Net 5 and I'm wondering if there is a new way to schedule tasks, like the worker service or it's still better and more flexible to use Quartz.Net.
Since I need to run long time tasks, from 30s to 2 hrs, I need to create a timed background task, using System.Threading.Timer
The code should be the following:
    public Task StartAsync(CancellationToken stoppingToken)
    {
        _logger.LogInformation("Timed Hosted Service running.");

        _timer = new Timer(DoSomething, null, TimeSpan.Zero,
            TimeSpan.FromHours(24));

        return Task.CompletedTask;
    }

and it should call DoSomething every 24 hrs.
My doubts are:

*

*When does it start to work and to count the 24hrs, when I first run
the application?

*How can I say that the task must be run at a
specific time in a day, at midnight for example?

*Is the Worker Service suitable for managing scheduled tasks?

A:
When does it start to work and to count the 24hrs, when I first run the application?

Yes. Set a breakpoint and start your application. You'll see how quickly it fires.

Is the Worker Service suitable for managing scheduled tasks?

Yes.

How can I say that the task must be run at a specific time in a day, at midnight for example?

Let's take a look at this code:
public sealed class MyTimedBackgroundService : BackgroundService
{

    private static int SecondsUntilMidnight()
    {
        return (int)(DateTime.Today.AddDays(1.0) - DateTime.Now).TotalSeconds;
    }

    protected override async Task ExecuteAsync(CancellationToken stoppingToken)
    {
        var countdown = SecondsUntilMidnight();

        while (!stoppingToken.IsCancellationRequested)
        {
            if (countdown-- <= 0)
            {
                try
                {
                    await OnTimerFiredAsync(stoppingToken);
                }
                catch(Exception ex)
                {
                    // TODO: log exception
                }
                finally
                {
                    countdown = SecondsUntilMidnight();
                }
            }
            await Task.Delay(1000, stoppingToken);
        }
    }

    private async Task OnTimerFiredAsync(CancellationToken stoppingToken)
    {
        // do your work here
        Debug.WriteLine("Simulating heavy I/O bound work");
        await Task.Delay(2000, stoppingToken);
    }
}

This doesn't use System.Threading.Timer at all incase you are worried about the timer never actually firing off because of some boundary. Some people are paranoid of this. I have never had that happen to me. And I use Timer a lot for this type of work.
It will calculates the number of seconds until midnight then loop until it gets there.
This is a non-reentrant timer and there will be slight time slippage due to the business logic for processing the delay.
Here is another example using System.Threading.Timer:
public sealed class MyTimedBackgroundService : IHostedService
{
    private Timer _t;

    private static int MilliSecondsUntilMidnight()
    {
        return (int)(DateTime.Today.AddDays(1.0) - DateTime.Now).TotalMilliseconds;
    }

    public async Task StartAsync(CancellationToken cancellationToken)
    {
        // set up a timer to be non-reentrant
        _t = new Timer(async _ => await OnTimerFiredAsync(cancellationToken),
            null, MilliSecondsUntilMidnight(), Timeout.Infinite);
    }

    public Task StopAsync(CancellationToken cancellationToken)
    {
        _t?.Dispose();
        return Task.CompletedTask;
    }

    private async Task OnTimerFiredAsync(CancellationToken cancellationToken)
    {
        try
        {
            // do your work here
            Debug.WriteLine("Simulating heavy I/O bound work");
            await Task.Delay(2000, cancellationToken);
        }
        finally
        {
            // set timer to fire off again
            _t?.Change(MilliSecondsUntilMidnight(), Timeout.Infinite);
        }
    }
}

(this code was not tested, there may be some spelling/syntax errors)
This is a non-reentrant timer meaning you are guaranteed that it will not fire off again if it's currently processing data.
It will calculates the number of milliseconds until midnight then set a timer based on that calculation.
This idea was taken from Microsoft.
Both of these examples can be injected as so:
services.AddHostedService<MyTimedBackgroundService>();

Cloud Native Warning:
Keep in mind that since these examples are local to your application, that if your application scales up horizontally where you have more than one instance running, you will be running two or more timers, just in separate processes. Just a friendly reminder. If your application will never scale, then ignore this warning.


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Is God Just Too Great For Our Finite Minds To Understand?
I define faith as either an explicit or implicit willful commitment, to believe, hope, trust, or be loyal to an idea, a person (real or imagined), a group, an institution, or anything else more than the rational warrant justifies and even in the teeth of superior justification for contrary beliefs or in spite of a lack of justifying evidence altogether. In reply, theists often indignantly insist that by equating faith with a species of refusal to reason properly, I am accusing them too unfairly of all being irrational.
So, last week, I pointed out a number of areas where theists, specifically Christians–but I could have chosen adherents to any robust theistic religion to talk about–disregard canons of evidence and believe with greater strength and life commitment than any rational evidence warrants in a number of fantastic propositions. These include that Yahweh, the god acting in the Old Testament, is anything like the metaphysical concept of the Ground of All Being who is omnibenevolent, omnipotent, omniscient, eternal, etc. Just thinking you can prove some metaphysical god concept is not grounds for saying that the Hebrew stories of Yahweh are at all about that being. It's especially unlikely to be the case when Yahweh behaves flagrantly immorally (calling for genocides) and exhibits spatial characteristics (he has a body in the Old Testament and is "seen" and "heard" in various places) a temporal mind (such that he has changes of mind, expresses surprise, goes through emotional changes, etc.) If Christians are really rationally proportioning their beliefs like others do, then they would hardly be so dogmatically assertive and confident about this being whose characteristics are wholly incompatible with an eternal, perfect, ground of all being, was actually identical with that metaphysical principle. I also pointed out that there is no good reason to believe in absurdities like the existence of an eternal god that is simultaneously a temporal man. Believing in such an impossibility is not restraining one's belief to what has rational warrant. And committing to this supposed being as the center of one's life and commitments is not proportioning the strength of one's commitment to belief to the degree of rational warrant for the belief in such a godman even were he to be conceptualized as minimally possible in some remote and unlikely way.
So, as should be uncontroversial, Christians do not proportion their beliefs to rational warrant. Instead they willfully commit to believing things for which they are well aware as soon as you get past the smokescreens are well beyond rational justification. It's a misleading, maybe even willfully deceptive thing when they try to conflate all rational inquiry with their flights of arbitrary, self-serving believing as all equally "faith" as though there were no difference between restraining one's beliefs to evidence as people do in any number of areas of life, on the one hand, and believing a set of remarkably fantastic, contradictory, unlikely, supernatural tales and imaginary concepts like everyone can clearly see religious people doing (at least when it's other people's religions than their own).
Now, in reply to various contradictions I raised that make the Yahweh=Ground of All Being story and the "existence of a godman" claim at least highly unlikely and at most impossible (and in either case unworthy of belief by people who actually proportion beliefs to rational warrants), I received the following familiar dodge from a commenter.
Why should God who is, as you granted in the article, "an eternal, immaterial, omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent, rational designing ground of all being" have to be completely understood by you a finite material person limited in: power, knowledge, and goodness? The fact that you can't wrap your mind around all the aspects of God isn't suprising, and should be expected.
There is a difference between something that is more complex than we can understand and something which is outright contradictory. We might be able to say that there are things which we do not know everything about how they work but we know in fact they must work in some way because of observations that are clear to us. In this case we have a genuine mystery. We know A is true. We know B is true. It does not seem like they can go together but some deeper, rational situation about things can explain them both and we are just, thus far unable to puzzle it out. This is a genuine mystery.
But if you think you have strong rational inferences that the best explanation of the universe is that there is an eternal, omnipotent, omniscient, omnibenevolent, immutable, personal, ground of all being that exists distinct from the universe as its self-caused cause then presumably you have reasons to think these things. Presumably you must know something significant about the meaning of words like "eternal" and "immutable" and "personal" and "omni". Presumably if you think you know enough rationally about metaphysics to say that it is the inference to the most rational explanation to say positively such a being exists and that agnostics are wrong to withhold belief and atheists are wrong to think this being doesn't exist, then you are saying you know quite a bit about fundamental metaphysical categories.
So, suddenly, when I point out to you that what we can rationally infer about eternality precludes a fully eternal and immutable being being also, at the same time, fully a specific spatio-temporal person, you cannot suddenly say "our minds just can't grasp such mysteries for what do we know about time and eternity?" For one thing your whole supposedly rationally temperate and careful reason for believing in God was supposed to be that the temporal cannot explain its own being without reference to a distinct being that is eternal. Now you cannot backtrack and claim that eternity and temporality are simply inscrutable and may violate all logic.
I mean, maybe you could if you had unavoidable evidence of something being simultaneously an eternal, immutable, incorporeal, atemporal being and a specific fully mutable, temporal, corporeal being. But where is this unavoidable evidence? Simply the fact that people who didn't know the first thing about science, living in a superstitious age, deified a local preacher who did parlor tricks and appealed to their anxieties about being oppressed by the Roman emperor, and in order to reconcile the monotheism of his followers with Greek philosophy, and their deification of this human being, they devised a cockamamie meaningless idea that he was miraculously simultaneously fully a god and fully a human, fully the same being as monotheistic god and yet a different person? This belief is not some unavoidable fact that must be affirmed by a rational person if they are to make sense of experience. It is a piece of nonsensical, religious propaganda with no basis in fact, and which you would readily dismiss out of hand were you not raised in a culture that pressures you from numerous angles to worship and deify him.
Similarly, there is no puzzle about how Yahweh of the Old Testament can be simultaneously omnibenevolent and a commander of vicious genocides for the sake of assuaging his petty ego. The answer is simple. Yahweh is not a morally perfect character. He is the projection of an ancient people with barbaric tribalistic genocidal values. He has nothing whatsoever to do with moral perfection. That's the simple, rationally likely answer. That is far more plausible and justified than that somehow an omnibenevolent expressed itself genocidally or was "misconstrued" to be genocidal by the very same people who supposedly were reliable authorities that he was the ground of all being intervening in history.
Why in the world are the ancient Hebrews assumed to be are reliable guides when claiming that Yahweh is the supreme being that created all things? Where is the slightest evidence you're rationally proportioning yourself to scrupulously that they among countless ancient mythmakers identified the true creator's true interactions with the world? Why is this assumption held to? Where's the careful rational proportion of beliefs to evidence in clinging to this belief? Reason can conclude simply that even if there was a ground of all being it is not the kind of thing that goes around commanding genocides. It's likely, if anything at all, an unthinking metaphysical principle that does nothing so personal as that. It's likely no more personal than gravity or electromagnetism or abstract objects like the numbers. In order to vouchsafe Yahweh as the omnibenevolent personal ground of all being one would have to reconcile genocide with morally perfect goodness. But there is no good reason to assume that Yahweh is at all ground of all being intervening in history. Rather, it is simpler to just jetison the belief in Yahweh as the ground of all being.
That's what rationally honest people do.
But people of faith, they pretend that the bare possibility that we might not understand things is a good reason to continue believing an implausible, and I would argue impossible, proposition and continue to redefine words to hang onto centuries old beliefs that had no basis in the first place and are false on their face in the 21st Century to anyone who was not intensively indoctrinated in a culture that reveres them.
For much more on the problems with the very idea of God, see my post Examining Some Alleged Divine Attributes.
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Mobile Commerce enabler DOCOMO Partners with Safaricom to Launch first App Store Integration with M-PESA.
February 23, 2018 Dianne Jacobs
Global mobile commerce enabler, DOCOMO Digital has partnered with Safaricom to give customers the option to pay for content on the Google Play Store using M-PESA.
The integration, which is powered by DOCOMO Digital's mobile commerce enabling platform using Google Play's payment API, allows M-PESA customers to use the mobile money service to pay for goods and services from the app store.
The service is available to more than 27 million M-PESA customers in Kenya with an Android smartphone or tablet. From today, customers matching this criteria can purchase content and products from the Google Play Store and pay for them using M-PESA. The solution seamlessly combines Google Play with the M-PESA purchase experience that Safaricom customers are used to when paying for goods and services.
Hiroyuki Sato, CEO of DOCOMO Digital, commented: "One of our biggest goals is to break down barriers and develop ways in which the 5 billion global adult population can engage with the digital ecosystem. M-PESA has long been an innovator and leader in the mobile money space, and we are very excited to partner with them to bring this service to market. First steps like this are absolutely essential on the journey to connecting consumers, merchants, operators and service providers together to create a fair and inclusive ecosystem for everybody."
The M-PESA and Google Play Store service will ensure that users are able to buy apps and games in Play Store, using their mobile money wallet.
Joseph Ogutu, Director of Strategy, Safaricom, said: "Partnerships have been instrumental in deepening the convenience and value of M-PESA to our customers. Today's partnership will empower our customers to access Google Play content and further underlines our commitment to providing more choice and convenience to them."
Mahir Sahin, Head of Africa, Android Partnerships, Google, said: "We are thrilled to partner with Safaricom to bring Google Play carrier billing to Kenya. M-PESA has successfully demonstrated how important it is to offer financial services to the unbanked and deliver financial inclusion. Carrier billing is very important to the developer ecosystem in markets where credit card penetration is low. With this partnership M-PESA will play a critical role in the app ecosystem."
About DOCOMO Digital
DOCOMO Digital is a provider of a global payments platform to leading OTTs, merchants and content providers. It is a fully owned subsidiary of the Japanese mobile operator NTT DOCOMO. DOCOMO Digital is headquartered in London but is a global company having presence in 35 offices across six continents.
About Safaricom
Safaricom transforms lives. We provide voice, data, financial services and enterprise solutions for a range of subscribers, small businesses and government, using a variety of platforms. We delight over 29.5 million subscribers, providing over 200,000 touch points for its customers and offering over 100 different products under our portfolio. Listed on the Nairobi Securities Exchange and with annual revenues in excess of Kshs 200 Billion, Safaricom invested Kshs 38 billion in infrastructure this year, providing over 80% of Kenya's population with 4G and 3G coverage and providing 2G coverage to 95% of Kenyans. Safaricom has harnessed its proprietary fibre infrastructure to build a dedicated enterprise business, which provides managed IT services to clients in the East African region. Safaricom pioneered commercial mobile money transfer globally through M-PESA, the most successful service of its kind anywhere in the world. Launched in March 2007, M-PESA now has over 27.8 million customers and over 148,000 M-PESA Agent outlets countrywide.
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