Facebook users appreciate sending out messages, yet sometimes, mistakes occur, and they delete their Data consisting of photos, video clips and also More. If you are just one of those who intends to recover deleted Facebook messages, after that, this tutorial will certainly assist. Yet, remember that we are going to obtain the messages from your archived Data that Facebook stores on their servers. so below are the overview How To Recover Deleted Facebook Message.
On the next page, you get straightforward details concerning your archive content. Facebook stores your photos, video clips, messages, posts as well as a lot more. All you need to do is to click the switch claiming "Start my Archive". They will simply compress your archive.
Normally, you will ask, the length of time does it require to Download a copy of your Facebook Data? Well, that depends on your Facebook account size. But generally, it takes one minute or so. If you have large files saved in your account, and also you have lots of posts throughout years, you need to wait Thirty Minutes usually.
They will send a verification e-mail telling you regarding the archive instantaneously, as well as the other one will certainly be obtained later. Anyhow, Facebook will certainly send you the download link to your email that you have actually used to register for your account.
You will obtain the Facebook email with the subject "Your Facebook download is ready", and it includes your download link. If you cannot find the email, check your spam folder in Gmail. It's named "Junk" in Yahoo or other solutions.
Please remember the web link should be at the bottom of the e-mail. When you click that link, you obtain the below page and you just have to begin the download, and confirm your password by entering it again.
The downloaded archive file will certainly be in ZIP layout. To open that file, you need the ideal software application, or Download WinRar if it's not yet installed. That compressed folder contains all your Facebook Data, shared or personal info. You could open them by category, and also see them in your Internet browser.
In that folder, you could see, call details, occasions, Pals, messages, and all your Facebook archived Data. Click "messages" and also you will see them in your web browser.
Currently, you have actually successfully recouped all your removed messages in Facebook. That benefits you when you need to validate something. However remember that that's not good for those one billion individuals, who think that they are sharing personal information through Facebook. Absolutely nothing is risk-free there, as well as you need to take care of and also use your account smartly.
Facebook complies with the concept of 'off the internet' which implies it saves all those messages which you have actually sent or received someplace in your mobile phone's memory. This is how you could recover your Facebook messages which are erased from your smartphone memory.
Step # 2. Install and also open the ES file Explorer app on your Android phone and also most likely to 'Storage/SD card' alternative.
Action # 5. Below you will find lots of folders which are related to all the applications you are making use of, locate 'com.facebook.orca' a folder which is for the Facebook Messenger messages and tap on it.
Below you will find all your Facebook Messenger messages. You can do this process even by linking your smartphone to your PC and also making use of Windows Explorer.
Action # 2. Open up the above-mentioned software which you have downloaded as well as touch on 'recover from an iOS device'.
Note: Do not worry if your iPhone's display goes blank throughout the scan as it is regular.
When the scan is over you will have the ability to pick the Facebook messages you wish to recover from the complete listing of deleted messages from your screen.
Action # 5. Find the message or messages you desire to recover as well as pick it by checking the box beside it.
I hope you have recuperated the Deleted Facebook Messages. To obtain prosper in this procedure you need to obtain the backup of your conversation on a regular basis otherwise you could place the Back-up ON in the Messenger setups. This will assist to recover the deleted messages in easy actions.
If you have any more questions in this procedure, let me understand in remark section as well as share this article with others to obtain them helped with this.


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Despite the times, college grads still flock to big banks
Gigi Douban Jun 6, 2016
https://www.marketplace.org/2016/06/06/bank-hires/
People run in the rain outside the Goldman Sachs headquarters building December 16, 2008 in New York City. Chris Hondros/Getty Images
The cutbacks and controversy surrounding big investment banks during the financial crisis don't seem to have put a damper on interest in jobs at those firms. According to the Financial Times, students and graduates filed more than a quarter of a million applications — all to work at Goldman Sachs this summer.
You might think the 2008 financial meltdown would have left college students and grads with one gut instinct: run. Run far away.
"But in fact it didn't," Monica Butta, director of employer relations at Johns Hopkins University's Career Center said. "And students have had an increasing interest in going in that direction."
She said engineering and IT jobs are still top destinations for students. But interest in investment banking at John Hopkins is robust.
"Very, very steady interest from students in careers in financial services, and particularly Wall Street," Butta said.
She said for the past five years, firms like Goldman Sachs, JP Morgan Chase and Citigroup have been among the school's top 10 employers. And they're selective employers. Citigroup says of its applicants, only 2.7 percent were hired.
"They're really trying to actually attract that same top talent pool that Google has been so successful and Amazon so successful in attracting," Mark Williams, professor of finance at Boston University, said. He said banks are doing that not only by paying well, as they always have, but also trying to make it less of a grind.
"Today I think the view is that 'You need to be compensated for the work hours but also in particular you need a lifestyle,'" Williams said.
Better work-life balance is great, but Williams said the increase in interest might also just be a numbers game: fewer banks, and plenty of graduates still up for the challenge of making the big bucks.
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Kids' Climate Case 'Reluctantly' Dismissed By Appeals Court
Your Urban Drool (aka Polluted Runoff) Isn't Being Cleaned Up Quickly Enough, Says Heal The Bay
Let's give thanks to this Thanksgiving storm
One-third of Earth's groundwater basins could dry up, but scientists don't know when
One UC Irvine-led study released on Thursday, June 16, 2015, found a third of the world's large groundwater basins are in danger of being depleted. Another says we don't have the information to know when they'll run dry.
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Miguel Contreras | June 17, 2015
Californians were recently warned that they have about a year's worth of water left in the state's reservoirs if they are not replenished by rain or snow soon, a scenario that will require tapping even more into underground aquifers than we already have.
Now, the scientist who sounded that clarion call says humans have been depleting roughly a third of groundwater basins around the globe at a rapid rate with little to no water getting reabsorbed, and that we are doing it without knowing how much is in them.
"Available physical and chemical measurements are simply insufficient," said Jay Famiglietti, UC Irvine professor and senior water scientist at NASA's Jet Propulsion Laboratory, in a statement on Tuesday. "Given how quickly we are consuming the world's groundwater reserves, we need a coordinated global effort to determine how much is left."
Famiglietti was principal investigator in a pair of studies led by UCI. In one of those studies, researchers found that 13 of the planet's 37 largest aquifers observed from 2003 to 2013 were being depleted without being replenished.
Eight of those aquifers were classified as "overstressed." Not surprisingly, they include aquifers in very dry regions where groundwater is the main source of water, such as the Arabian Basin between the peninsula and India, the Murzuq-Djado Basin in Libya, and the Indus Basin between India and Pakistan — areas regularly entrenched in political and economic turmoil.
(A map from UC Irvine and NASA shows the names and locations of the world's 37 largest groundwater basins. Click for a larger view.)
"What happens when a highly stressed aquifer is located in a region with socioeconomic or political tensions that can't supplement declining water supplies fast enough?" said Alexandra Richey, a UCI grad student who is the lead author of both studies. "We're trying to raise red flags now to pinpoint where active management today could protect future lives and livelihoods."
Researchers used data from NASA's Gravity and Climate Experiment (GRACE) satellites. By measuring subtle changes in the Earth's gravity, GRACE can indicate shifts in the amount of water in certain segments of the planet, according to researchers.
Five aquifers were classified as "extremely or highly stressed," among them the California Central Valley Aquifer. About 60 percent of California water now comes from groundwater but little water is reentering the soil.
According to a recent report from the Center for Investigative Reporting, all that "deflating" of earth is causing the state to sink in parts.
The second study released Tuesday concluded that, as this rapid depletion of groundwater basins continues unchecked, scientists simply do not have enough information about how much water these natural water reserves contain.
That lack of information makes it difficult to estimate how much longer we can expect the aquifers to provide water, researchers said.
"Estimates of remaining storage might vary from decades to millennia," Richey said in the statement.
In March, Famiglietti minced no words about the severity of the problem when he spoke to Take Two:
One of the issues that we have with water management — it's not just California, it's all over the U.S. and, really, all over the world — oftentimes, we don't manage and look at our surface water, our snow pack, our reservoirs and our groundwater together. So when you put the picture together ... a very compelling, frightening picture appears, and that's the one that I'm compelled, as a private citizen ... to speak out about.
The study's authors said the way to fix this problem and prevent "irreversible depletion" is to create a transparent measurement, monitoring and management system of the world's aquifers in order to "improve system-wide resilience" and ensure they remain viable and sustainable sources of water.
Both studies were published Tuesday in the journal Water Resources Research.
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They guys at Softlayer are the best. I came across their YouTube channel a few weeks ago.
They have some pretty interesting videos. I love how universal everything from their racks to cable management is throughout their family of datacentres. If you have some free time, watch some of their videos.
Thanks for sharing the link to their channel..
They must have some very good videos and its cool how they let you see their whole network / business. and they way they do their things.
While it is great to see a company utilizing YouTube and giving everyone a visual, my understanding of it is that if you do something, do it right. They need to get professional host, camera man and sound people to make it visually attractive. You are only going to give 1 tour, so why not make it as attractive as possible.
See, I like the "homeyness" of the video. I really think it provides the customer with a more personalized experience. You really get to know some of the staff there, as well as how they operate. The guys at softlayer look like they have lots of good times in addition to owning some one of the most reputable datacenters in the world.
Don't get me wrong, you can use the employees themselves as hosts. But the production process still fails with camera and sound work. For me those are important elements in perceiving the information.
Those are nice videos. It's always nice to see how other datacenters do things. Maybe I can convince our datacenter guys to do something like that. Most places don't permit cameras without permission.
If they host servers other than their own, as most data centers do, then they would need permission to film them - and they don't always get that permission.


my twitter feed is full of women dressing as Death (Neil Gaiman version). It should be Halloween all the time.
"Should you worry when the skullhead is in front of you Or is it worse because it's always waiting where your eyes don't go?"
I'm not getting much from that link.
"Slovenian contemporary christian music bend"?
Did you not watch the show Johnny Bravo?
This makes much more sense than if you'd been talking about the Slovenian band. "Come on, you've never heard them? Seriously?"
so i noticed, when using the lookup feature, that music brainz will take an album with say.. 2 tracks that feature two seperate other artists and create 3 folder directories, for what is actually one album. is there any way at all to fix this?
i will further my reading online, if i fail to figure it out i will return later.
https://github.com/metabrainz/musicbrainz-serve... "as decided during the summit". yes, let's take private decisions not involving the community.
pankkake: Feel free to raise a discussion somewhere about reverting parts of this. 9 members of the community thinks this is the right path to take. Development decisions has been taken with less people behind it before.
As an example, 0.78% of add relationship edits have been either cancelled or voted down, whereas over 20,000 of the current open edits are add relationship, severely adding to the voting burden.
this includes "add label", "add release"
pankkake: You don't get to say who are and who aren't "part of the community". Sorry.
pankkake: I think that's a really odd definition of "being in the community"
As I said, feel free to raise discussion on reverting this or parts of it.
Ooh, more auto-edits? I can get behind that. Though labels are often enough screwed up that I'm not 100% sure that's a good idea.


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Atlus Might Be Teasing Catherine Follow-Up During Recruitment Livestream
by Imran Khan on Aug 31, 2017 at 04:05 PM
Atlus held a stream today intended to recruit new employees for its Studio Zero internal development team, who was recently announced to work on Atlus' RPG Project Re Fantasy. The live stream, however, was themed after Golden Playhouse, the framing device used for the 2011 Atlus narrative puzzle game, Catherine.
The stream was hosted by Trisha, the host of Golden Playhouse. Catherine was framed as a dramatic TV show that was being shown to the player with Trisha introducing and closing the game out with moral messages. During the recruitment stream, Catherine music frequently played, and Trisha teases future surprises about her next job.
A subtitled version of Trisha's segments can be found below, but any Catherine projects from the studio would have to wait until their fantasy RPG project gets off the ground. What form would you want a Catherine sequel to take?
Catherine had some problems, but most of the story was well-written and relatable. We hope a new game in the series is coming and lets the Persona team tell a story with more adult characters again.
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Imran has been playing games since he was five, but it is less the length of time and more the frequency that tends to alarm people.


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RT Airfare Boston to Terceira, 7 nights hotel stay, shuttle and breakfasts= $400.
No mortgage, debt, or kids.
Limited eating out/drinking and entertainment at home.
Goodwill/thrift store shopping. Occasional dumpster diving.
Should I be traveling or should my time and money be invested in something less selfish?
How do my animals feel? And those "watching" them?


States could wind up dealing with "massive" damage if there are deep cuts in federal health funding that helps pay for opioid addiction treatment, UMass Medical School's Tyson Thompson, PharmD, tells Managed Healthcare Executive.
Major health care reform now being debated in Washington could force states to reduce the number of residents enrolled in their federally-subsidized Medicaid programs.
And those dropped from Medicaid programs would in turn lose access to a range of services, including addiction treatment, warns Thompson, a clinical consultant pharmacist in UMass Medical School's Clinical Pharmacy Services.
The American Health Care Act, passed by the House and now being reviewed in the Senate, would put an end to Medicaid expansion starting in 2020, potentially ending health coverage for millions of people around the country.
Those cuts would have a devastating impact on efforts to battle opioid addiction, with Medicaid enrollees including a "disproportionate share of individuals affected by SUD (substance abuse disorder)," Thompson tells the magazine.
While addiction programs can be costly, cutting off access to treatment for those struggling with opioid abuse would trigger a far greater drain on public resources over the long-term, he says.
In addition to considering the impact of Medicaid cuts, consideration needs to be given to increasing access to state prescription drug monitoring programs (PDMP), Lenz says. This can help insurers, including Medicaid, monitor for fraud, waste and abuse as well as ensure coordination of care.
Thompson also points out the importance of expanding treatment in correctional facilities for substance abuse disorders. This should include both medication assisted treatment (MAT) and behavioral health programs, such as various forms of counseling, he says.
In many state and county correctional systems, prisoners grappling with addiction issues receive no treatment. However, by providing treatment to the incarcerated — many of whom are serving out sentences for drug-related crimes — states can reduce recidivism rates and save money that would otherwise be spent on courts and jails, Thompson notes.
UMass Medical School is currently taking part in a collaborative that is studying the use of MAT in four New England correctional systems.
The Trump administration and Congress also need to look at ways to close the gaps in the current treatment system that can cause patients with SUD to relapse.


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Trump's high-risk reversal of 70 years of trade progress
President Trump has slapped giant tariffs on the solar-cell industry, which is likely to raise the cost of solar, depress sales and cost jobs. (J. Lawler Duggan/For The Washington Post)
By Roger Lowenstein
In 1944, as the Allies were closing in on Nazi Germany, they did two things to try to ensure that the world would never again face a global war.
That October, at a private mansion in Washington, representatives of the big powers laid the groundwork for the future United Nations. And in the White Mountains of New Hampshire, at the Bretton Woods resort, a much larger international gathering agreed on a plan for economic cooperation.
As leaders of that era realized, laying down arms wasn't enough. It also was important to prevent the sort of worldwide economic depression that, in the 1930s, had led to protectionist trade and currency policies, which fostered ugly nationalism and ultimately led to war.
A key part of the new financial order was a gradual reduction in trade barriers. For most of the time since, the United States has been at the forefront of promoting trade. Until Tuesday.
Trump imposes tariffs on solar panels and washing machines
That was when President Trump slapped giant tariffs on the washing machine and solar-cell industries. The immediate practical impact, in the first case, will be to raise the price of washing machines. Every hard-pressed family that ends up spending a little more — every retail outlet that loses a sale — can thank the great theoretician in the White House. No wonder Sears begged the president not to go ahead.
The most likely impact in the second case will be to raise the cost of solar, depressing sales and costing jobs. Since the people who make solar cells (the ones receiving protection) are a small part of the overall industry, the tariff increase will help a small group of highly visible beneficiaries and hurt a much larger number. The Solar Energy Industries Association guesses that job losses will reach 23,000.
It's important to note that the tariffs, 30 percent in solar and up to a whopping 50 percent in washing machines, were imposed under a rarely used section of trade law whose only condition is that an industry is hurt by imports. Not by unfair imports — just imports. All that Whirlpool, the manufacturer that petitioned for the appliance tariff, had to establish was that somebody overseas — in this case, Samsung and LG Electronics, each based in South Korea — was making a better product, or a cheaper one. If you can't compete, call the government.
The knockoff effects will extend to far more than washing machines, as other domestic companies see if they, too, can bring a trade case. The two petitioners in the solar case were bankrupt. So much for rewarding success.
Internationally, other countries are sure to retaliate.
Trump pushes a buy-American brand of globalism at Davos
"U.S. exporters will pay the price as our trading partners emulate the U.S. example, overtly or covertly," says Gary Hufbauer, of the Peterson Institute for International Economics.
As the theorist in the White House knows, retaliation can take two forms. Countries hit by American tariffs will do their best to keep out our products. Chinese mainland producers are not directly affected by the solar tariff, but Chinese-owned firms are. You can bet that China will find a way to hit back.
Secondly, voters in other countries will be more inclined to elect nationalist regimes — a trend scarcely in need of encouragement. The front-runner for president in Mexico, which goes to the polls July 1, is Andres Manuel Lopez Obrador, a populist critical of globalism. Mexico is only our third-biggest export market, and China our fourth, so why worry?
Trump is scarcely the first president to resort to tariffs. Presidents George W. Bush and Barack Obama regrettably succumbed — but muted their overall effect by simultaneously pursuing trade pacts. Reagan talked free trade but — in the midst of a severe recession — protected American autos, steel and semiconductors.
Trump is the first in memory to advance, and to articulate, a broad protectionist agenda.
Trump's repeated threats to quit NAFTA can only result in a more defensive posture in Mexico, and to give succor to other nationalists, worrisomely on the rise. The administration's anti-cooperatist stance is the most antique aspect of its policy, a relic of the 1920s. The world, meanwhile, is going ahead with making, preserving and amending pacts without U.S. involvement or influence. To quote from a tweet by Larry Summers referring to the Pacific Rim pact that Trump withdrew from, "Everyone in #TPP group, except USA, will now get privileged access to Japanese market. Hard to imagine a worse deal."
Treasury Secretary Steven Mnuchin opened another front in the policy-by-nostalgia campaign Wednesday, when he declared that a weaker dollar would be "good for trade." On cue, the dollar fell to a three-year low.
A weaker dollar can certainly boost exports in the short run. Within limits, it can also promote growth in smaller countries. The problem is that other nations will seek to retaliate by cheapening their currencies, similar to the response when one person on a crowded sidewalk stands on tiptoes to see a parade. In the long term, as Presidents Richard M. Nixon and Jimmy Carter discovered in the '70s, devaluation can fuel inflation, trigger higher interest rates and make it harder to sell American bonds. Nixon and Carter, at least, were responding to a weak economy.
When a strong currency results from underlying strength, it is generally good news. The United States enjoys the remarkable privilege of being able to print paper and exchange it for the world's goods. Does the administration fear prosperity?
It seems to have a fixation with a single number, the trade deficit. While the effect of deficits on the economy is nothing if not complex, Benn Steil, a senior fellow at the Council on Foreign Relations, points out, "We can see long periods where greater trade deficits are associated with higher growth." What is unmistakable, adds Steil, author of the forthcoming, "The Marshall Plan," is that "the loss of such imports makes us poorer — not richer."
The underlying problem with tariffs, beggar-thy-neighbor devaluations and trade-pact tantrums is that they buy into a zero-sum, we-vs.-they mind-set. It is a singular misconception. When other nations prosper, it is good for the United States. Prosperity in infectious. Alas, so is retrenchment. Perhaps Ricardo — the apostle of free trade — is not taught at Wharton.
It is true that any given import will compete with, and potentially displace, a select group of workers and firms.
The statesmanlike response is to retrain, and to assist, those affected. Blaming bad foreigners for victimizing America is what sloganeers do. This is not limited to the political right. Sens. Sherrod Brown and Bernie Sanders are among the Democrats joining Trump in demonizing trade.
Long term, a closed door leads to economic sclerosis and cronyism, an authoritarian mind-set that rewards businesses that can lobby their way out of having to compete. In time, it leads to cultural and political sclerosis.
Over history, island states (think Singapore, England, Venice) punched above their weight because geography forced them to interact with the world. Diversity is nature's medium for improvement, in genetics and in economics.
So Trump is in Davos. He should listen.
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8 Things You Didn't Know About Anthony Ervin
Laid back, tatty'd up, and blisteringly fast, Anthony Ervin has been carving up pools worldwide over the course of his two part career. Here are 8 things you might not have known about the American sprinter. Stock photo via Simone Castrovillari
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One of the leaders on the American national team, Anthony Ervin's two part career has seen him participate in two Olympics 12 years apart, tie for an individual gold medal with training partner Gary Hall Jr., and more recently, placing 5th at the London Games in the 50m freestyle.
Here are 8 things you might not have known about Anthony Ervin:
1. He no longer has either of his medals from the Sydney Games. He donated his gold medal for the 50m freestyle to the Red Cross Tsunami relief fund, selling it over eBay and raising just over $17,000 to a swim fan in the Philippines. The silver medal from the 4x100m freestyle was also lost during his travels.
(Editor Note: We have heard from Anthony's mom. She explained, " I have his silver medal here at home; it was never lost, have always had it (along with hundreds of school and club medals, etc.")
2. He led off the silver medal winning 4x100m free relay in Sydney, a race the Americans would not win for the first time in Olympic history. Ervin's lead off leg of 48.89 was fast, but not as fast as Michael Klim in the lane next to him, who would break the world record in the 100m distance swimming a blistering 48.12. The American men would lose this race for the first time in Olympic history. The Australian victory was particularly sweet, not only was it done on home turf, but after the race they played some air guitar, a reference to a comment that Hall Jr. had made about how the US was going to "smash the Aussies like guitars."
3. His favorite concert to date is seeing Jack White perform. The guitar-playing Ervin is no stranger to music, having played in a band and also offering to write supporters a custom song during his crowd-sourcing drive in 2012. He watched White play in Berkeley at the Greek, and was impressed by the intensity the rock and roller displayed in commanding a wide variety of musical instruments. During his time off, Ervin graduated from the angry hip hop of his youth to rock & roll– "it was angst-ridden punk or country blues or romance-and-ballads-type stuff." (For a better look at what Ervin listens to, here is his playlist on Rhapsody.)
4. Ervin was put into swimming because he was a brat. A self-described "trouble maker, disobedient, (with) no discipline," Ervin was placed into the sport of swimming as a child with the hopes that he would channel his energy and aggression into something productive.
5. He broke Matt Biondi's American record in the 100m freestyle. In the year following Sydney, Ervin had arguably his best international showing of his career, winning the 50m and 100m freestyle at the 2001 FINA World Championships in Fukuoka. In the 100, an event he'd placed 5th in at US Trials the year before, he would beat Pieter van den Hoogenband and Ian Thorpe to improve on Biondi's mark in 48.33. At those World Champs Ervin would be one of the few bright spots for the American men, with the Australian men riding the momentum of a solid Sydney performance to sweep all of the relays.
6. He has Tourettes. As a teenager, just before he was to start high school, Ervin was diagnosed with Tourettes. He would be prescribed tranquilizers, which still didn't slow down Ervin from becoming one of the top ranked high school swimmers in the country.
7. He's got some DJ'ing skills. Ben Lovett, the keyboard player for the multi-platinum selling band Mumford & Sons, started Communion Presents, a regular club night in London prior to hitting worldwide popularity with Mumford. With the band on break, Lovett brought the club night state-side for a 9-city tour in October of 2013. The first stop, in New York City at Rockwood Music Hall, included one certain Olympic swimmer filling a guest DJ slot. During his set Ervin played tracks by Empire of the Sun, Arcade Fire, and The Strokes.
8. He split back-to-back 47's last summer at 2013 Worlds. Although the Americans would come up just short in winning gold in the 4×100 freestyle relay, Ervin swam absolutely out of his mind in his two relay swims. In the morning he was the fastest of the American men, swimming a 47.3 to secure himself a place in the final. That night, swimming the third leg – which would be blazing fast with Vlad Morozov (47.40), France's Fabien Gilot (46.9) and Italy's Marco Orsi (47.25) also in the pool– Ervin would again swim well below his best time of 48.33 by posting a 47.44. To give you some perspective on just what kind of speed he has, his split for the first 50m in the final was a 21.76.
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I was never able to find a decent video of his 50free final in Sidney, or of his performances (both individual and relays) in Fukuoka, except for the 100 free final – where the timing system, by the way, malfunctioned and for a few minutes gave the victory to VDH.
What he did last year in Barcelona was sensational on those relays . Many of us know also that if he still improves his starts on 50 free , he could be very tough to beat on top of the water . He will be very important for the Pan Pacs Usa 400 free relay this summer .
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Ervin was awesome in Barcelona. I loved it when he had to sit down on the deck during the post relay interview and Lochte looked down at him and said to the interviewer, "He's in a time-out."
One of my favorite and best swimmers of all time in the USA. Never had the fanfare, even during his 1st go at the Olympics (Gary Hall Jr. ensured that), and even his latest return to the sport (Phelps, Lochte), but the man took a decade off from the sport….came back, and just dominated proving that older guys like us can still 'go'. I love the fact that he is an ambassador for the sport and is giving back so much what the sport gave to him. In the annals of history, he may never be considered one of the top 3 or 5 greats (Phelps, Spitz, Lochte, Hall Jr (or Lezak), Piersol, Clary, Adrian, Jones etc etc etc), Ervin… Read more »
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Note: You'll have to replace all instances of "[[ ]]" with curly braces in your app.
I can't wait to share this new wonder, The people will all see its light, Let them all make their own music, The priests praise my name on this night.
It's XMLHttpRequest that gives AJAX its true power: the ability to make asynchronous HTTP requests from the browser and pull down content in small chunks.
In this chapter, we'll jump right in and build a simple AJAX web application -- a simple site-monitoring application that pings a page on a web server to a timed schedule. But before we start making the asynchronous HTTP requests to poll the server, we'll need to simplify the use of the XMLHttpRequest class by taking care of all of the little browser incompatibilities, such as the different ways XMLHttpRequest objects are instantiated, inside a single, reusable library of code.
We'll start by creating a basic class, called Ajax, in which we'll wrap the functionality of the XMLHttpRequest class.
Here, we create an instance of HelloWorld (called hw), then use this object to display two messages. The first time we call sayMessage, the default "Hello, world!" message is displayed. Then, after changing our object's message property to "Goodbye," we call sayMessage and "Goodbye" is displayed.
Don't worry if this doesn't make too much sense at the moment. As we progress through the building of our Ajax class, it will become clearer.
This code just defines the properties we'll need in our Ajax class in order to work with XMLHttpRequest objects. Now, let's add some methods to our object. We need some functions that will set up an XMLHttpRequest object and tell it how to make requests for us.
First, we'll add an init method, which will create an XMLHttpRequest object for us. Unfortunately, XMLHttpRequest is implemented slightly differently in Firefox (in this book, whenever I explain how something works in Firefox, I'm referring to all Mozilla-based browsers, including Firefox, Mozilla, Camino, and SeaMonkey), Safari, and Opera than it was in Internet Explorer's original implementation (interestingly, Internet Explorer version 7 now supports the same interface as Firefox, which promises to simplify AJAX development in the future), so you'll have to try instantiating the object in a number of different ways if you're not targeting a specific browser. Firefox and Safari create XMLHttpRequest objects using a class called XMLHttpRequest, while Internet Explorer versions 6 and earlier use a special class called ActiveXObject that's built into Microsoft's scripting engine. Although these classes have different constructors, they behave in the same way.
Fortunately, most modern browsers (Internet Explorer 6, Firefox 1.0, Safari 1.2, and Opera 8, or later versions of any of these browsers) adhere to web standards fairly well overall, so you won't have to do lots of browser-specific branching in your AJAX code.
// Try to create object for Firefox, Safari, IE7 , etc.
Maintaining compatibility with older browsers (by "older" I mean anything older than the "modern browsers" I mentioned in the previous note) requires a lot of extra code work, so it's vital to define which browsers your application should support.
If you know your application will receive significant traffic via older browsers that don't support the XMLHtmlRequest class (e.g., Internet Explorer 4 and earlier, Netscape 4 and earlier), you will need either to leave it out completely, or write your code so that it degrades gracefully. That means that instead of allowing your functionality simply to disappear in less-capable browsers, you code to ensure that users of those browsers receive something that's functionally equivalent, though perhaps in a less interactive or easy-to-use format.
This first part of doReq calls init to create an instance of the XMLHttpRequest class, and displays a quick alert if it's not successful.
1. Method - This parameter identifies the type of HTTP request method we'll use. The most commonly used methods are GET and POST.
2. URL - This parameter identifies the page being requested (or posted to if the method is POST).
In our Ajax class, the method and async properties are initialized to reasonable defaults (GET and true), but you'll always have to set the target URL, of course.
0: uninitialized - open has not been called yet.
1: loading - send has not been called yet.
2: loaded - send has been called, but the response is not yet available.
3: interactive - The response is being downloaded, and the responseText property holds partial data.
4: completed - The response has been loaded and the request is completed.
An XMLHttpRequest object tells you about each change in state by firing a readystatechange event. In the handler for this event, check the readyState of the request, and when the request completes (i.e., when the readyState changes to 4), you can handle the server's response.
We'll discuss how to "do stuff to handle response" in just a bit. For now, just keep in mind that you need to set up this event handler before the request is sent.
The send method takes one parameter, which is used for POST data. When the request is a simple GET that doesn't pass any data to the server, like our current request, we set this parameter to null.
This code will create an instance of the ScopeTest class, then call that object's doTest method, which will display the message "Greetings from ScopeTest!" Simple, right?
Now, let's add some simple XMLHttpRequest code to our ScopeTest class. We'll send a simple GET request for your web server's home page, and, when a response is received, we'll display the content of both this.message and self.message.
We can see that self.message is the greeting message that we're expecting, but what's happened to this.message?
If this concept isn't 100% clear to you yet, don't worry too much about it. We'll see an actual demonstration of this problem in the next chapter. In the meantime, just kind of keep in mind that if you see the variable self in code examples, it's been included to deal with a loss-of-scope problem.
When the response completes, a code indicating whether or not the request succeeded is returned in the status property of our XMLHttpRequest object. The status property contains the HTTP status code of the completed request. This could be code 404 if the requested page was missing, 500 if an error occurred in the server-side  script, 200 if the request was successful, and so on. A full list of these codes is provided in the HTTP Specification (RFC 2616) .
If you have trouble remembering the codes, don't worry: you can use the statusText property, which contains a short message that tells you a bit more detail about the error (e.g., "Not Found," "Internal Server Error," "OK").
responseText - This property contains the response from the server as a normal string. In the case of an error, it will contain the web server's error page HTML. As long as a response is returned (that is, readyState becomes 4), this property will contain data, though it may not be what you expect.
responseXML - This property contains an XML document object. If the response is not XML, this property will be empty.
There's one more option you can use if you want to get really fancy: you can return the actual XMLHttpRequest object itself to your handler function. This gives you direct access to things like the status and statusText properties, and might be useful in cases in which you want to treat particular classes of errors differently -- for example, completing extra logging in the case of 404 errors.
Implementations of XMLHttpRequest in all major browsers require the HTTP response's Content-Type to be set properly in order for the response to be handled as XML. Well-formed XML, returned with a content type of text/xml (or application/xml, or even application/xhtml+xml), will properly populate the responseXML property of an XMLHttpRequest object; non-XML content types will result in values of null or undefined for that property.
// couldn't override MIME type -- IE6 or Opera?
Being able to override Content-Type headers from uncooperative servers can be very important in environments in which you don't have control over both the front and back ends of your web application. This is especially true since many of today's apps access services and content from a lot of disparate domains or sources. However, as this technique won't work in Internet Explorer 6 or Opera 8, you may not find it suitable for use in your applications today.
The onreadystatechange event handler we've defined looks at the status property to get the status of the response. If the code is within the correct range for a successful response, the onreadystatechange event handler passes the response to the response handler method (which is set by the handleResp property).
The response handler will need to know what the response was, of course, so we'll pass it the response as a parameter. We'll see this process in action later, when we talk about the doGet method.
If the status property indicates that there's an error with the request (i.e., it's outside the 200 to 299 code range), the server's response is passed to the error handler in the handleErr property. Our Ajax class already defines a reasonable default for the error handler, so we don't have to make sure it's defined before we call it.
alert('An error occurred, but the error message cannot be ' + 'displayed. This is probably because of your browser\'s ' + 'pop-up blocker.
' + 'Please allow pop-ups from this web site if you want to ' + 'see the full error messages.
This method checks to make sure that pop-ups are not blocked, then tries to display the full text of the server's error page content in a new browser window. This code uses a try ... catch block, so if users have blocked pop-ups, we can show them a cut-down version of the error message and tell them how to access a more detailed error message.
Any function that's passed as a parameter to setHandlerBoth will handle both successful responses and errors.
This setup might be useful to a user who sets your class's responseFormat property to object, which would cause the XMLHttpRequest object that's used to make the request -- rather than just the value of the responseText or responseXML properties -- to be passed to the response handler.
This method changes the onreadystate event handler to an empty function, calls the abort method on your instance of the XMLHttpRequest class, then destroys the instance you've created. That way, any properties that have been set exclusively for the request that's being aborted are reset. Next time a request is made, the init method will be called and those properties will be reinitialized.
So, why do we need to change the onreadystate event handler? Many implementations of XMLHttpRequest will fire the onreadystate event once abort is called, to indicate that the request's state has been changed. What's worse is that those events come complete with a readyState of 4, which indicates that everything completed as expected (which is partly true, if you think about it: as soon as we call abort, everything should come to a stop and our instance of XMLHttpRequest should be ready to send another request, should we so desire). Obviously, we don't want our response handler to be invoked when we abort a request, so we remove the existing handler just before we call abort.
You'll notice that, along with the two expected parameters, url and hand, the function has a third parameter: format. This is an optional parameter that allows us to change the format of the server response that's passed to the handler function.
If we don't pass in a value for format, the responseFormat property of the Ajax class will default to a value of text, which means your handler will be passed the value of the responseText property. You could, instead, pass xml or object as the format, which would change the parameter that's being passed to the response handler to an XML DOM or XMLHttpRequest object.
It's finally time to put everything we've learned together! Let's create an instance of this Ajax class, and use it to send a request and handle a response.
This script gives us a shiny, new instance of the Ajax class. Now, let's make it do something useful.
Now that we have created the Ajax object, and set up a simple handler function for the request, it's time to put our code into action.
That's all this little scrap of code does: it waits somewhere between three and 12 seconds, then prints ok.
The fakeserver.php code sets the Content-Type header of the response to text/plain. Depending on the content of the page you pass back, you might choose another Content-Type for your response. For example, if you're passing an XML document back to the caller, you would naturally want to use text/xml.
Naturally, you should use this approach only when you're certain that the response from the server will be valid XML, and you can be sure that the browser is Firefox or Safari.
Now that all is well and our Ajax class is functioning properly, it's time to move to the next step.
We'll use the start variable to record the time at which each request starts -- this figure will be used to calculate how long each request takes. We make start a global variable so that we don't have to gum up the works of our Ajax class with extra code for timing requests -- we can set the value of start immediately before and after our calls to the Ajax object.
Notice that we've added to the target URL a query string that has the start value as a parameter. We're not actually going to use this value on the server; we're just using it as a random value to deal with Internet Explorer's overzealous caching. IE caches all GET requests made with XMLHttpRequest, and one way of disabling that "feature" is to append a random value into a query string. The milliseconds value in start can double as that random value. An alternative to this approach is to use the setRequestHeader method of the XMLHttpRequest class to set the If-Modified-Since header on the request.
In this very simple implementation, anything other than the expected response results in a fairly terse and unhelpful message: Request failed. We'll make our handling of error conditions more robust when we upgrade this app in the next chapter.
Note the test in the code above, which is used to see whether our div has any child nodes. This checks for the existence of any text nodes, which could include text that we added to this div in previous iterations, or the text that was contained inside the div in the page markup, and then removes them. If you don't remove existing text nodes, the code will simply append the new result to the page as a new text node: you'll display a long string of text to which more text is continually being appended.
The innerHTML property is not a web standard, but all the major browsers support it. And, as you can see from the fact that it's a single line of code (as compared with the four lines needed for DOM methods), sometimes it's just easier to use than the DOM methods. Neither way of displaying content on your page is inherently better.
Here's all the code from our first trial run with this simple monitoring application.
Try loading the page in your browser. Drop it into your web server's root directory, and open the page in your browser.
If the fakeserver.php page is responding properly, you'll see something like the display shown in Figure 2.3.
Here's a good reference page  from the Apple Developer Connection. It gives a nice overview of the XMLHttpRequest class, and a reference table of its methods and properties.
This is XULPlanet's exhaustive reference  on the XMLHttpRequest implementation in Firefox.
Here's another nice overview , which also shows some of the lesser-used methods of the XMLHttpRequest object, such as overrideMimeType, setRequestHeader, and getResponseHeader. Again, this reference is focused on implementation in Firefox.
This is Microsoft's documentation  on MSDN of its implementation of XMLHttpRequest.
XMLHttpRequest is at the heart of AJAX. It gives scripts within the browser the ability to make their own requests and get content from the server. The simple AJAX library we built in this chapter provided a solid understanding of how XMLHttpRequestworks, and that understanding will help you when things go wrong with your AJAX code (whether you're using a library you've built yourself, or one of the many pre-built toolkits and libraries listed in Appendix A, AJAX Toolkits). The sample app we built in this chapter gave us a chance to dip our toes into the AJAX pool - now it's time to dive in and learn to swim.
This Article is excerpted from: "Build Your Own Ajax Web Applications" published by Melbourne-based SitePoint.
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We had shared at earlier blog posts on our experience onboard Costa Victoria 5D4N trip to Langkawi and Phuket as well as our meals onboard Costa Victoria. With thousands of passengers onboard, you will definitely need to queue for various things from boarding to disembarking. If you want to save some time queuing and waiting, I have compiled 11 tips to make this entire cruise experience a more enjoyable one.
Our cruise (Costa Victoria) departs from Singapore Harbourfront Cruise Terminal at 10pm on Day 1. Embarkation starts from 4.30pm and last boarding time is at 9pm. We checked-in our luggage at around 6.15pm and was given a queue number of "27" which corresponded to a boarding time of 8.45pm! I guess that's how Costa Victoria do crowd control – 6-7pm is typically the most crowded period since most passengers intend to enjoy their dinner onboard the cruise. My tip for you is that you need not necessarily wait until your assigned boarding time. We went up to the boarding area at around 7.45pm and there were no queues at all so we went through the paperwork e.g. passport and security checks and boarded Costa Victoria! If there are queues, they will likely ask you to come back at your assigned boarding time.
Ensure that you have printed out your Cruise Ticket. The last few pages of your Cruise Ticket are luggage labels with your name and cabin number. These luggage labels will be used to tag your luggage. If you don't have your Cruise Ticket, it will take you more time to check-in and also print the pages with your luggage tags or else you will need to wait for the staff to collect luggage tags from somewhere else, label it and then tag your luggage.
Do web check-in too – it will save you some time at the boarding counter as they will already have most of your passport information.
This is the queue to check in your luggage at Harbourfront Cruise Terminal – if you are taking a taxi here, tell the driver that you are taking a cruise at Harbourfront (there is another cruise terminal at Marina South) so that he can drop you at the drop-off point nearer the check-in counters instead of at the Harbourfront Shopping Centre where you will need to walk for about 10 minutes to get here.
You will be required to complete a public health questionnaire – this will be issued when you check-in your luggage – do not lose this questionnaire and your boarding card (the one with your queue number as shown above).
Before you go onboard Costa Victoria, make sure you download the myCosta app onto your phone. This app will allow you to tap on the Wi-Fi network onboard Costa Victoria to text message or call other guests onboard the same ship (who also have the myCosta app downloaded onto their phones) – the best thing is this myCosta app is free to download and there are no charges when you tap onto the onboard Wi-Fi to contact your friends (who are onboard the same ship as you) using the app. This is perfect especially if you are travelling in a big group of families/friends and you want to coordinate on schedules and meeting timings.
The text messaging function works just like Whatsapp – you can add your personal contacts (just get the user ID that your friends register with their myCosta app). You will need to register for an account on the myCosta app – do note that you can only do so when you are connected to the onboard Wi-Fi.
You can also call the Excursion Office and Guest Services using this myCosta app if you have any questions on your cruise excursions and special requests for your room e.g. additional pillows.
Because Costa Cruises is an Italian company, the electrical sockets onboard Costa Victoria are all Italian ones – the 3 round holes in a line-type. You can borrow an adaptor from Guest Services for free – they will charge USD 25 to your account which will be waived when you return the adaptor. Do note that you will need to return the adaptor by 11pm the evening before you disembark at Singapore so there will be a 15-hour window where you won't have access to electricity to charge your laptops, phones and other devices. So bring your own adaptor and extension plugs if you need it.
Costa Victoria conducts 2 of these briefings in various languages – once (in English) at 8.30pm after you board the ship and another time (in English) at 5pm the day before you disembark the ship. The host will share some administrative information, the itinerary and what to expect onboard Costa Victoria and for the disembarkation brief, what time you need to leave your cabin and what to prepare for disembarkation. It is not compulsory to attend these briefings (the emergency drill is compulsory for all guests to attend) and some of the information will be reflected in the Today daily programme. I strongly recommend that you attend the briefings as they provide quite useful information to help you get started for the cruise and the briefings take only about 15-20 minutes.
All transactions onboard Costa Victoria e.g. shopping and casino games are cashless – just hand over your Costa Card to the staff and they will charge your payments to it. This is not exactly a tip since you don't really have much of a choice in all you want to pay – only by Costa Card. Anyway, the Costa Card is very useful since everything is charged in USD so you need not bring a bunch of US dollars onboard if you are settling your bill by credit card.
Do check if your cruise package that you paid for has taken into account gratuities. There is a compulsory daily service charge (gratuities) per guest for the duration of your cruise. If not, you should budget for the gratuities – i can't remember the exact amount. I think is about US$10++ per day per guest (not per cabin!).
Your Costa Card is also your form of identification when you disembark and embark at Langkawi and Phuket for your day trips – your passports will be kept by Costa Victoria. So don't lose your Costa Card.
In the case of emergencies onboard the cruise, you can also find the information for your Muster station (where to gather) – see picture below, in my case, it is Muster Station C.
If you intend to do some shopping or gambling onboard Costa Victoria, make sure you register your credit card at one of these self-service credit card registration machines at Deck 5 and 7. Do so within the first 24 hours of embarkation – I tried registering later than that, it won't work and the guest services counter is often unable to help you with the registration due to "network" problems.
The reason why you need to self-register your credit card is so that you can avoid long queues on the last day of the cruise when everyone is required to settle their outstanding accounts on the Costa Card. Even if you intend to pay by credit card, you will still have to endure long queues to settle your bill (if you had not register your credit card at the machine earlier).
If you had registered your credit card successfully within the first 24 hours, then you need not bother with the queues. Your bill will be placed in your cabin – check that the amount reflected is correct and no further actions are required. Your registered credit card will be billed directly by Costa Cruises.
Yup you can rent board games for free – they will charge a deposit on your Costa Card which will be waived when you return all borrowed equipment. I think there is a charge of US$1 for the ball to play at the foosball table – i think you can play infinite number of times with that ball you paid for (I guess one since I didn't buy/rent one and the ones who did seem to hang out at the foosball table like forever).
As explained in my post on dining onboard Costa Victoria, indicate you preferred dinner timing early with the maitre d'. There are two sittings for dinner at Fantasia and Sinfonia Restaurant – 5.45pm and 8pm and you can only enter at the sitting timing that have beeen assigned to you. If you have having a buffet dinner, then no need to worry about the sitting timings (as they only apply to ala carte dining).
If you did not book a shore excursion with Costa Cruises and you want to be one of the first few to disembark for your day trip in Phuket, then you should queue up early for the tender boat ticket. The plan was for Costa Victoria staff to start distributing tender boat tickets at Festival Theatre from 2.30pm onwards on Day 2 of the cruise. I started queuing at 2pm and was one of the first few. By 2.30pm when the doors open, there was already a long long queue formed.
Groups will be called in sequence by the number of their tender boat ticket to disembark the cruise ship. Even if you start queuing at 2.30pm for your tickets, I don't think you will disembark quite late because the schedule indicated that Groups 1, 2 (which I was in), 3, 4, 5, 6 will disembark at 8.30am (the earliest timing) and the last group (from Group 21 onwards) will disembark at 10am.
So in summary, if you want to be really the first few to disembark, then you should queue for your tender ticket 30 minutes before they start distributing. If you are not in a rush, then just go at 2.30pm.
The journey from the cruise ship to the pier (at Kalim Beach in Phuket) takes 20 minutes and the last tender boat from shore to ship is at 6.30pm. There will always be tender boat leaving the ship at regular timings until 5.30pm.
Thanks for Great sharing!!! This is awesome… keep up the good work guys!!
Many thanks! Appreciate your detailed sharing! God Bless you and family.
I'm traveling with 2 wheelchair bound n I young man with walking disabilities. May I ask how they are transferred to the tender boats?
I was told it wasn't convenient.
Hi! Do you happen to know the rates for the wifi packages? Also, if another credit card was used to book my trip can I register another credit card to my costa card? Thanks!
i am not sure abt the wifi rates – you can check with costa customer support. You can register another credit card to your costa card.
Hi thanks for sharing – very much appreciated. On the 1st day, do we disembark in Singapore or do we just stay on the ship? I see some excursions being offered by Costa Cruise for Singapore?
it depends on your cruise schedule. do you mean day 1 of your cruise (before even the cruise departs Singapore). If so, you are free to explore singapore until boarding time.
Hi there! If I do not have a credit card, will a debit card work as well??
Hi there, may I know how to pay the service charges to the crew? As my travel agent is not paying on my behalf..
Are there kettles provided onboard ? As I read somewhere the cruise only provides free beverages but not plain water..
1. I read that beverages and food are not allowed to be brought on board? I'm a bit concerned about this as I'm travelling with young children. Do they provide food 24 hours a day? As for free water do they provide that in the rooms?
2. We are thinking of moving around on our own in Phuket. How near is the boat drop off from the places of attractions eg shopping and food places?
The drop-off is very far from the main shopping and food places – bargain with a tuktuk to get your family to the shopping areas. Bargain hard!
Under that no kettle provided but is there any hot water provided from the dispenser? or we can request for it?
i didnt need hot water during the cruise but i think you can request for it from your butler.
Can I ask do they give free wifi on board?
Is there anything to do or shop at the beach of stop over in Phuket if we choose not to move beyond the place?
Hi. When the cruise back to Singapore Harbour front at 2pm on Day 5. How long it takes to check out/ leave the cruise? I need to arrange someone to fetch me.
it depends. they assign everyone a departure card that shows where you are in the queue to get off the ship so it can be very long considering that there are over 1000 guests onboard.
Hi for the tender boats to Phuket I pay USD hiw much as in cash to the Operators or charge to costa card ?
Can we walk from tender boat to Patong Beach ? Or do we need to call TukTuk and how much does it cost for that?
And where tender boat apprach in Phuket?
Hi. You mentioned no kettle in normal room and that means we have to bring traveller elect kettle for my grandchild feeding milk.
Hi ..we have to pay gratuity on board the ship. May I know is magnetic strip needed as I need to activate my dBs card is is it just the normal swipe like the one done in NTUC when we purchase our grocery? Thanks.
I followed your 11 tips to the T during my trip in Nov 2017. They were extremely helpful because it's a sea of confusion the moment I reach Harbourfront cruise terminal. Terrible. You might want to add that upon checking into the ship, the costa cards, ala carte dining tickets, ship's programme, luggage etc are already in the cabin. Finally Costa has taken feedback……there is a kettle in the cabin.
We are arriving Singapore from Manila around 11AM on the day of embarkation. Would you know if we can do early baggage-check-in at Harbourfront at 12PM, as we want to do a quick sightseeing to Marina Sands (without our luggage) before embarking the ship at 6PM. Appreciate your soonest response. Thank you!
1) Can Costa on board credit be used to pay for the daily service charges?
2) Can Costa on board credit be encashed through the slot machines in the casino?
Did Costa allow anyone to remove or adjust the daily service charges, and tip the crew directly?


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Farní sbor Českobratrské církve evangelické v Brně II je jedním ze čtyř sborů Českobratrské církve evangelické v Brně. Sbor spadá pod brněnský seniorát a působí v Blahoslavově domě v Lidické ulici.

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Cassidy Freeman Joins Cast of HBO's Danny McBride Televangelist Comedy
By Dave Nemetz / July 13 2018, 12:30 PM PDT
Courtesy of HBO
The Gemstone family keeps growing: Smallville alum Cassidy Freeman has joined the cast of Danny McBride's HBO comedy pilot The Righteous Gemstones, TVLine has learned.
Gemstones stars McBride as Jesse, the eldest son in a famous family of televangelists; John Goodman co-stars as the Gemstone family's patriarch. Freeman will play Jesse's wife Amber Gemstone, who gave up a career in journalism to devote her life to her husband and his church. The half-hour comedy project scored a pilot order at HBO last month, with McBride slated to write and direct.
Also joining the Gemstones cast: Tony Cavalero (School of Rock), as ex-Satanist Keefe Chambers, who was saved by the Gemstone family and is now their loyal servant; and Tim Baltz (Veep, Better Call Saul), as B.J., who's engaged to Jesse's sister Judy (Vice Principals' Edi Patterson) and struggles to fit in with the Gemstone clan.
Freeman spent three seasons on The WB/The CW's Smallville as Lex Luthor's half-sister Tess Mercer, following that up with a six-season run as Walt's daughter Cady Longmire on the A&E/Netflix drama Longmire. Her other recent TV credits include NCIS, The Vampire Diaries and Once Upon a Time.
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Talbots Inc. shares soared on Tuesday following the news that the struggling retail chain had secured $125 million in lines of credit from two Japanese banks.
Hingham-based Talbots said that it has secured agreements from Mizuho Corporate Bank Ltd. and Sumitomo Mitsui Banking Corp. to convert uncommitted capital lines totaling $75 million and $50 million, respectively, to committed lines of credit.
That means that under the previous terms, the banks could have cut off the lines of credit at any time and asked to be paid back immediately, said Julie Lorigan, a senior vice president at Talbots. Now, the banks do not have the ability to pull the credit lines at their discretion.
The credit lines augment another $50 million line of credit that Aeon Co., the Japanese company that is Talbots� largest shareholder, extended to Talbots in June. Such short-term borrowings are typically used to fund inventory purchases and other operations costs.
Shares in Talbots rose 25 percent to $2.66 a share at the end of the day on Tuesday. The shares had risen as high as nearly $3.50 a share earlier in the day.
Morningstar analyst Michelle Chang said obtaining the additional bank commitments was an important step for Talbots, especially since two other banks dropped their lines of credit for Talbots earlier this year.
Lorigan said Talbots is in negotiations to obtain committed lines of credit from two other Japanese banks where Talbots currently has uncommitted credit lines totaling $40 million.


Founded in the winter of 2006, Nàttsòl have made it their mission to combine melodic Black Metal with that special kind of aggression and mysticism that made the Norwegian school so legendary. Ulver's renowned trilogy might be a point of reference for Nàttsòl's musical journey, but they have definitely found their own manner in which to praise the magic of Norwegian nature. The predominant clanging fury is regularly broken up by skilful acoustic guitar parts and clear chants, taking the listener to the solitary vastness of Norwegian nature, to the world of fjords, mountains, forests, and mirror-like lakes, a world as unreal and mysterious as the music of Nàttsòl itself.


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其實好簡單, 向加州通常College 都有張野叫IGETC, 跟住佢, tran U實啱, 囉AA就8-90%啱。完成60Units後,填份achievement form, 佢地會Offer你一個 Associate Degree in Art/Science。大部分學科都有得選擇, 例如Physical and Biological Sciences column, 包括Geo, Chem等科, 完成9-12 quarter units就搞定, 唯獨是英文和數, 英文要完成English composition班(通常叫English 101 或 English 1A)或以上, 數就一定college algebra 或以上, 數學關及其他通常無乜問題, 唯獨是英文, 不是它特別難, 但要求學生跟足美國format同無proofread mistake, 加上不同instructor不同難度(例如Instructor A graduated from Harvard, Instructor from Cal State), 同一篇文跟不同instructor會有不同grade, 所以比較難捉路, 事實上港呢D很多舊同學, 都係衰呢犯搞到無得讀要番香港….各位同學要小心.
一般JC的學生會在Junior College 的第2個Semester已決定自己想讀乜Major,再選擇自己心悦的University's major requirement. 第三及第四個semester 就會follows自己心水Major的requirement讀所須Classes。就以Engineering為例,Physics 和 Math Engineering Major 就一定係Physics 和 Math, 如果想讀chem, 就反而選chem同bio. 切記, 唔同University有不同requirement, 如果讀University A requirement course但入左University B, 有D班可能唔計.
當你完成Year 1, semester 3 尾你就要開始Apply University啦,當然,不同University, 或不同major, 有不同GPA和courses requirement, 唔係讀哂IGETC就掂, d Courses越多A就即是越高GPA,又即是越大Chance入到心水大學/major。一點要注意,大多數大學都收Transfer Student,但並不是每間都收。記住Year 1尾要開始留意各University, 各major, 各GPA和courses requirement.


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A roadmap to utopia (with Rutger Bregman)
http://www.pitchforkeconomics.com/episode-player/386/a-roadmap-to-utopia-with-rutger-bregman.mp3
Rutger Bregman, who The Guardian has called "the Dutch wunderkind of new ideas", joins us this week to daydream a better future. Bregman won international fame by taking on everyone from Tucker Carlson to the wealthy elites at Davos on the topic of income inequality, and here he lays out a positive economic vision using the pillars of his book 'Utopia for Realists': a universal basic income, open borders, and a 15-hour workweek.
Rutger Bregman is a Dutch historian and author. He has published four books on history, philosophy, and economics. His book 'History of Progress' was awarded the Belgian Liberales prize for best nonfiction book of 2013, and the Dutch edition of 'Utopia for Realists' became a national bestseller and sparked a basic income movement that made international headlines. The book has been translated into 31 languages. Bregman has twice been nominated for the prestigious European Press Prize for his journalism work at The Correspondent.
Twitter: @rcbregman
https://www.theguardian.com/commentisfree/2016/apr/18/solution-everything-working-less-work-pressure
https://www.theguardian.com/books/2017/feb/26/rutger-bregman-utopia-for-realists-interview-universal-basic-income
https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/2019/02/20/dutch-professor-exposes-tucker-carlsons-fraud/?utm_term=.a252dc0fa581
https://www.theguardian.com/business/2019/feb/01/rutger-bregman-world-economic-forum-davos-speech-tax-billionaires-capitalism
'It feels like I'm at a firefighters conference and no one's allowed to speak about water.' — This historian wasn't afraid to confront the billionaires at Davos about their greed pic.twitter.com/TiXSJZd89M
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