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We are fully committed to a number of measures to comply with the Bribery Act and to ensure we carry out our activities in an honest and ethical manner.
Adopting the principles set out in the government guidance relating to the Act, we have introduced a number of internal policies and procedures to prevent the risk of bribery and corruption both within our organisation and among our clients, partners, suppliers, contractors, sub-contractors and any other third party associated with Surftec Ltd.


[Ottawa – October 16, 2015] As we enter the final weekend before Election Day, vote intentions appear to be settling in. At 34 points, the Liberals hold a marginal lead over the Conservatives who are at 33 points. At 23 points, the NDP are well back in terms of popular support, but the rather efficient distribution of their support means they will likely still be looking at a fairly impressive seat count on Monday.
The Liberals continue to lead in the key battleground of Ontario, although there is some evidence that the race may be narrowing here. Although the NDP maintains its lead in Quebec, the race remains unclear with both the Liberals and the Conservatives vying to make gains. The Liberals hold a clear lead in Atlantic Canada, while the Conservatives lead across the Prairies. British Columbia is still very much anyone's game.
The Liberals may be peeling back the senior vote from the Conservatives, as the Conservative advantage here has narrowed significantly over the last week. The biggest divide, however, remains education. The Liberals maintain a clear lead with university graduates, while the college educated have rallied around the Conservatives.
To account for those who have already voted, either at an advance poll or by special ballot, we ask Canadians whether they have already voted in this election. Overall, the two groups – those who have already voted and those who have not – mirror each other fairly closely in terms of party preference. Nevertheless, the Conservatives hold a slight advantage among early voters; indeed, if the election was called off and the victor determined by ballots already cast, the Conservatives would likely eke out a slim minority. Surprisingly, the Green Party fares quite well among early voters, which is highly notable for a party that routinely struggles to get its supporters to turn out on Election Day.
Finally, while we know that the percentage of early voters in our survey is exaggerated due to social desirability and other factors, we note that cellphone users are showing up in comparable numbers to their landline-using counterparts. Of those who do not have access to a landline, 23 per cent tell us they have already voted, compared to 26 per cent on average. This is a rather significant finding, as cellphone-only households have historically been less likely to vote and we would speculate that this does not bode well for Stephen Harper's prospects.
This study involved a blended sample collected using two separate methodologies: Computer Assisted Live Interviews (CATI) and EKOS' proprietary High Definition Interactive Voice Response (HD-IVR™) technology, which allows respondents to enter their preferences by punching the keypad on their phone, rather than telling them to an operator. In an effort to reduce the coverage bias of landline only RDD, we created a dual landline/cell phone RDD sampling frame for this research. As a result, we are able to reach those with a landline and cell phone, as well as cell phone only households and landline only households.
The figures in this report are based on a three-day rolling sample. Each day, a new day's worth of interviewing is added and the oldest day is dropped. The field dates for this survey are October 13-15, 2015. In total, a random sample of 1,813 Canadian adults aged 18 and over responded to the survey (1,331 by HD-IVR, 482 by live interviewer). The margin of error associated with the total sample is +/- 2.3 percentage points, 19 times out of 20.
Cellphones are ubiquitous now. And btw your already voted numbers don't support your hypothesis that cell phone users would be less likely to vote Conservative.
It is interesting that the early voting numbers appear significantly more in favour of the conservatives than the polling done by EKOS over thanksgiving weekend. Shouldn't they match more closely?
THere it is again … EKOS weeding out lots of Green support (no pun intended). Why is the Green support so high in EKOS polls?
Settle down everyone let's post our comments on Tuesday morning.
i would have actually expected advance voters to support the conservatives in much higher numbers, because they have the highest number of decided & dedicated voters. the average conservative voter made up their mind months or years before the writ dropped. the election isn't a period of contemplation, for the bulk of them. i would have expected something more like 45%. so, those are actually relatively good numbers for the liberals in the advance polls.
in a sense, polling the advance voters does the same thing that removing very high numbers of undecideds does. when you reduce the sample space to dedicated decideds, the conservatives invariably get the highest numbers.
to put it another way: if the liberals were clearly ahead in the advance polls (remember that there's margins here…it's a statistical tie), even by a point beyond the margin, you'd expect them to be on their way to a a huge majority. that would demonstrate endemic apathy in the conservative base, which you expect to dominate advance polls because they're not deliberating anything. these numbers, as they are, suggest some pretty low levels of enthusiasm for the conservatives in their base. you may see the situation reversed (as it was in the 2014 ontario election); it may be the conservatives that end up with some turnout problems.
i mean, that's just unusually low for a party that continually polls 75+ in terms of dedicated voter support. what are they waiting vote? why *didn't* they vote in greater numbers in advance polls?
The reason that the Conservative voters haven't already voted is that they were busy working. Somebody's got to pay the taxes.
Considering the only age group where the Conservative party leads is 65+ this might be a stretch.
And don't forget, advanced polling was over a long weekend. Generally people who work over a long weekend are part-time, students or shift workers in the retail, hospitality and health services. Not your typically supporter of the Harper government.
Alberta? Is that you again?
I've read elsewhere that the advance poll totals are the highest they've ever been. A 75% increase.
This could signal strong support for conservatives.
What polls can't measure is situational effects on elections like a concert, strike, sporting event etc. In the case of this election the 3rd game of Jays divisional title is on election night.
Many will rush to they're favourite cave and likely not vote. The consensus was that the game would have a major impact & would decide a number of ridings and most likely benefit the Tories.
Either way we will likely be at this again within 18 months as a minority seems most likely.
Advance voting is an option. You must make your vote by the closing of the polls on election day. Your intention does not change if you don't advance vote.
MOnday night will be the longest night in Canada history. There will be blood for sure. Conservative still resilient and support their party strongly.
Tories to win. Ontario Liberal support slipping. BC will decide this election and the NDP is splitting the leftie vote.
The election of 2015 has been powered by a well-founded desire for change. But it has also been an election where the opposition has recognized the electorate's desire for stability and continuity on all things economic. That's why the Liberals and the New Democrats, while running on the rhetoric of change, put forward economic platforms built largely on acceptance of the Conservative status quo.
How is pledging to run deficits and put it into infrastructure maintaining the status quo? How is repealing income splitting maintaining the status quo? Your comments have no factual merit.
As I understand it pensioner income splitting will not be repealed. Splitting for others was introduced just a few months ago, hardly time to become the status quo.
Seems to me that the Liberal promise to continue the PC practice of carrying deficits is maintaining the status quo. Although they have promised to spend it on job creating infrastructure projects rather than using the money to buy favour with special interest groups.
It's still a throw the bums out election and the swing to the Liberals from the NDP will continue (not that I like that!) and strategic voting will see the Liberals get more seats than expected. There could be a last minute gelling of the Francophone vote in Quebec, the Anglophones are going Liberal and if the Francophones do too then it could be a Liberal majority.
What I have yet to see anyone mention is what is it that actually makes Turdeau PM material, other than the fact that they dont like Harper. Says a lot really, does it not?
Wrong question. Were we electing a dictator it might be valid. But in a parliamentary democracy, the team is what must be evaluated, not just the team leader.
Justin Trudeau and the Liberals have promised a return to true Canadian parliamentary style democracy. Abandoning the divisive, hate promoting and undemocratic practices of the current party in power.
Seems to me he's better PM material than someone who consistently misspells his name in a disrespectful and immature manner.
It's anybody's game. the Conservatives have held steady throughout the campaign. If they get out on Election Day the Conservatives could still pull through with a slim minority. It is obvious the general public wants change. I just don't see why they want it because the change is not much better. Fiscal Management vs high debt, borrowing and spending. Lobbying Scandal already before the vote is over! The Conservatives are seeing the Liberals tactics all over again and may just get out and vote.
Just a quick question. The Nanos Poll shows a stark difference 37 Libs 31 Cons 23 NDP.
Why is there such a different Picture?? Which is more accurate???
Both the Leger and Mainstreet polls, out today, are in line with the Nanos numbers. Ekos is now the only pollster with these close numbers.
Angus reid advanced voters CPC 34, Libs 34.
Ekos and Angus are almost identical.
Ekos has a pretty shady track record with accuracy (look up their historical federal election accuracies). All 6 of the other pollsters, all of which have better historical accuracy, have a consistent minimum spread of 4,and 5 have a spread of 5 to 8. Based on that I have to discount EKOS a lot.
Where is the breakdown of people who have already voted? Is this based on Friday's sample size only? I notice the question wasn't included in previous days full reports.
I would like to know what the sample size of the people who have already voted was, the region breakdown and the weighting. Also, what is the MOE for this group only? 10% of 1800 people is a very small sample size. Even 30% of 1800 is still very small.
Some extra details would be greatly appreciated.
It's a mystery to me how the conservative government remains in the running. I have never witnessed such slathering vitriolic outright hatred in my life. 99% of the news outlets slant unabashedly against Harper. The CBC is so worried that they might have to actually do some work to survive under a tory re-election that they continually attempt to steer the narrative.Also ctv, toronto star,huff post,La presse, ad nauseum. Naive old me always assumed the media would take a neutral position in something this important. Same in the U.S. when you are a conservative.
Thank God Canadians are much smarter than the media thinks.
99%? Oh please! At least you could try for a tiny bit of objectivity. The outlets you site are probably read or listened to by less than 25% of the public. Conservative media includes Post media, Globe and Mail, the Sun, most AM talk shows. Both dailies here in Vancouver are heavily biased to the right.
Really if you don't like Liberal left media they are easy to avoid. But I can't read a local daily here on the supposed left coast without throwing up.
What moderation is required. I don't see anything wrong in calling the some of the media biased against the Tories.
The NANOS polls sponsored by the GLOBE & MAIL [who endorsed the CPC's policies but not HARPER] and CTV…Those are hardly left wing institutions.
MAIN STREET is sponsored by POST MEDIA who is already endorsed HARPER.
If HARPER is behind in right leaning sponsored polls then he is in big trouble.
The CBC who does NOT sponsor any of the polls says that the LIBS has the lead at 35.6% taking all of the polls into account in their poll average.
Still , in every single poll the LIBERALS hold the lead of some short.
We will see on Monday.
As EKOS says above it all depends on who you phone an who answers their phone.
I am voting LIBERAL I haven't been polled nor have I answered my phone. I have caller identification.
Ekos is IVR. I don't know about others, but I hang up immediately when I hear a bot. So I would likely respond to a Nanos poll and not to Ekos. This may or may not have a bearing on the accuracy of the pollsters, but it does indeed seem odd that Ekos has been so consistently out of step. They way underestimated conservative support in 2011. Are they overcompensating now? I don't pretend to know. I do know that I wanted to vote early in my urban NDP-Liberal riding, but was put off by the long lines. I will vote tomorrow, and strategically. We're the lines perhaps shorter in rural areas where the Cons can expect to do well? Are strategic voters waiting until the last minute?
It's all a guess, but a certain pollster is going to look either awfully good or awfully bad on Tuesday.
I don't see any reason to believe the Liberals will outperform advance polls by some 10%, given 3 million Canadians have already voted and we will only get to about 18 million votes in total, leaving only 15 million left.
I would read the last paragraph of EKOS article.
The "already voted" numbers are not valid. There is no way of knowing how people voted until the ballot boxes are opened.
Justin Trudeau copies a lot of PM Harpers new benefits, whether the largest infrastructure projects in Canada's history, while he hesitates regarding if he should support trading with over 800 million new customers and dozens new trading partners the Prime Minister worked so hard to acquire. He will tax people higher each year, and leave you the change in your pocket….real change, don't you know. Don't hold your breath on initiating promises.
My kids tell me that their friends are voting Trudeau because he's young and 'understands' them. When asked if they know what the Liberal ideologies are, as show by Wynne's spending spree etc in Ontario, they answer 'no'. They don't even realize Ontario has RECORD unemployment for university grads (FYI – this trend started under McGuinty who also introduced the highest tax increase in Ontario history after signing a document saying no tax increases before he was elected). I'm wondering if our education system is failing to teach these kids to think for themselves??
In the UK in May, it was the majority of pollsters that got it wrong, for reasons they still don't quite know. Beware of writing off the outlying company (i.e. Ekos).
Shouting is not going to make the message any more accurate. Check your history. Last Liberal government left current Conservative government a healthy surplus. Guess what? The Conservatives managed to blow it in less than a year!
Besides, the logic is simply wrong. Higher taxes do not necessarily "kill" an economy. Since you claim to be a student of history, take a look at historic tax rates and economic performance.
ALSO TRUDEAU WANTS TO TAKE AWAY INCOME SPLITTING AND LOWER THE TAX FREE SAVING, WHICH IS THE BEST THING SINCE SLICED BREAD,THEREFORE, THE CONSERVATIVES ARE THE PARTY OF THE WORKING CLASS BECAUSE THEY HAVE LOWERED OUR TAXES AND BROUGHT IN THOSE FINANCIAL GIFTS FOR ALL OF US.
THE WORLD IS IMPLODING BECAUSE OF HIGH DEBT, AND CAUSING BIG PROBLEMS AROUND THE WORLD, AND NOW WE WANT TO VOTE IN TRUDEAU TO PUT US BACK IN DEBT, AND WON'T BE A SMALL DEBT EITHER LIKE HE SAYS, BECAUSE HE DOESN,T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT BUSINESS OR ECONOMICS.HE IS A RICH, SPOILED FRENCH CANADIAN THAT DOESN'T KNOW ANYTHING ABOUT THE REAL WORLD.
PLUS IF YOU TALK ABOUT CORRUPTION THEN THE LIBS ARE IN A LEAGUE OF THEIR OWN. LIKE 2 BILLION DOLLARS TAKEN FROM TAXPAYERS AND NO ONE WENT TO JAIL FOR IT AND WE ARE PAYING FOR THEIR BIG FAT PENSIONS. SO THEY CAN'T TALK ABOUT CORRUPTION.


What it is: One dictionary defines boondocks as slang for rough backwoods or bush country. The term boondocking as used by campers (rv or otherwise) most often refers to camping in the boondocks without the use of commercial campgrounds and hookups (water & electricity). For some it might also mean overnighting in a Walmart parking lot. Universally it means FREE, which is always good. It's one of those things that takes a while to get hang of - but when you do, it's surprising how easy it becomes to find a free place to spend the night.


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Q: How to use replace() to only change text, not html attributes? So I'm writing JS for a bookmarklet that will scour the page I'm in for specific words. Once found those words would then be replaced with something else. This only happens client side, on my web browser.
This is what I have so far:
const replaceString = function (condition, target, replacement) {
    /* Stop if page doesn't have CONDITION in it somewhere */
    if (!document.body.textContent.includes(`${condition}`)) return false;

    /* Turn TARGET string into a regular expression (e.g. 'Foo' -> /Foo/gi) */
    const regTarget = new RegExp(target, 'gi');

    /* Search for hits and replace them with REPLACEMENT */
    document.body.innerHTML = document.body.innerHTML.replace(regTarget, replacement);
};

replaceString('overflow', 'Foo', 'Bar');

This code successfully checks if the site contains 'overflow' somewhere. If it does then it scours for 'Foo' and subsequently replaces it with 'Bar'. Works neatly.
Except it doesn't only apply to text, it also changes HTML attributes. So if there's an element like img href="Foo.png" it would turn into img href="Bar.png", breaking the link.
How would you change the code so it only applies the desired change to plain text?
I'm moderately savvy with Javascript, but Regex is an entirely new thing for me and I got this far after going through several threads about replacing words. It's imperative for my purposes that the code goes through the entire page. Like, say, a wiki article containing a lot of 'Foo' that I want to display as 'Bar' instead, but don't want the image links and such to break.
Writing this, the editor suggested some threads with similar issues, but I couldn't figure out the solution to mine from what was written there. XML parser sounded promising, but I know nothing about it.

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Although marketing has been a part of our lives since remote times, it is with the spread of the Internet and the eruption of social media that the idea of digital marketing was originated.
The first steps of the Internet were characterised by the rigid and static webs 1.0: the Web´s grannies. The World Wide Web could be defined as the systems of archives interrelated by hypertexts links, available online. It flourished in the 90's, and rapidly became a source of revolutionary consultancy that fascinated millions of people.
The only purpose of this primitive version was to inform the user through a code, offering written content. Also, websites were rarely updated and there was no interaction with the person behind the screen. In fact, only the webmaster was able to upload and administrate the contents.
The Web 1.0 used a HTML (HyperText Markup Language) format that enabled users to keep and build websites. Curiously, at that time the number of sites were not excessively large, so it was possible to keep them track and register the websites that were uploaded online.
Marketing 1.0 is mainly promoted through traditional channels that most people are familiar with; billboards, newspapers, flyers, TV, magazines… By these means, the potential client receives information and the option of acquiring the product if he likes. Furthermore, the customer is incapable to participate in the process and consequently, it is only possible to measure the impact of his business on the market by evaluating sales, without any feedback from the customer.
On the one hand, Marketing 1.0 is focused on the quality and convenience of the product and on the other hand, on smarter ways to finally sell it to the customer. This type of marketing operates by employing methods that capture the attention of the customer's mind, aiming to imprint the brand in his memory. It started in the middle of the industrial development, where the demand was higher than what was on offer. Needless to say, Henry Ford, famous for adopting chain production methods, was the most emblematic exponent of this period. His famous quote "any customer can have a car painted any color that he wants, so long as it is black" illustrates not only his view, but an epoch.
In the midst of the 1940s, marketing ideas were in a boiling state. The discipline was experiencing a transition while setting down its foundations. For a period of time, Professor Neil Borden had an idea fluttering in his mind while lecturing at Harvard University: was it possible to apply a colorful terminology to synthesize and understand an approach that, to that day, had not been formulated in captivating expressions?
On a certain day, Borden was reading a bulletin authored by his colleague, Professor James Culliton. In this article, Culliton described the activity developed by a business executive as a "mixer of ingredients", as if the core of his activity was to decide how to mix the ingredients at hand. Then the image took shape, and during his lectures at Harvard University, Professor Borden established the idea of Marketing Mix, which became a classic concept in the field.
In other words, Marketing Mix is a formula that rests on a series of key tools and strategies to capture the attention of the client, enabling you to personalize the technological devices according to target specific profiles. Still, from the many variables that could be quantified, which are the main focus points to obtain the desirable results? Borden´s work can be boiled down to twelve elements that every business must combine in their marketing mixture, namely advertising, branding, channels of distribution, display, packaging, personal selling, physical handling, fact finding and analysis, pricing, product planning, promotion and servicing.
However, when referring to traditional marketing, the work developed by another outstanding Professor, Jeromy McCarthy, comes to mind: the golden rule of the 4 P´s: product, price, placement and promotion. The analysis of these four elements has been widely adopted since: the product, designed to satisfy specific expectations from the client; the price, to establish a reasonable economic quantity for the sale of the product; the place, so the company is situated logistically, easily accessible to potential customers; and finally promotion, also known as the visible "P", which covers the areas of advertising, sales and public relations among others. This system is more practical than its predecessors, although we cannot forget that the 4 P´s is just another example in the world of Marketing Mix.
As shown above, the objective of marketing 1.0 is to sell the product to the masses without considering personal needs, by standardizing the means of production, applying scaled economy and reducing costs. Thus, products can be sold at more economic prices and a larger number of people may access them.


Root6 Technology hired us to design a new visual style for Content agent and Job agent, both video management and processing products. We designed an interface that was intuitive from a user perspective and executed it in a striking visual style.
HeavyLight were also involved in the branding of the software from logo to splash screens and desktop icons.


Wigan have completed the signing of Paraguay international Antolin Alcaraz after the defender was granted a work permit.
Alcaraz agreed a deal with the Latics prior to playing in the World Cup after his contract with Belgian side Club Brugge had expired.
His performances in South Africa led to suggestions other clubs might try to hijack the deal but Wigan were always confident of landing the 27 year-old.
Alcaraz has signed a three-year contract at the DW Stadium.
Manager Roberto Martinez said: "It's fantastic news that we can finally confirm the arrival of a defender who I feel was one of the very best at this summer's World Cup.
"This is a massive boost for the club and we are thrilled to welcome him on board." Martinez was one of a three-strong Wigan delegation stating the case for signing the player at a Wembley hearing today.
Alcaraz joins a strong Latin American contingent at Wigan including Honduras pair Maynor Figueroa and Hendry Thomas and Colombian Hugo Rodallega.
"I am so happy that everything has gone through now," said the World Cup quarter-finalist.
"I want to thank Roberto and the club for all the hard work to get me to Wigan and now I just want to play football.
"The Premier League is a big challenge for every player and I can't wait to get started."
Wigan are now hoping to complete a deal for Hamilton midfielder James McArthur.
The two clubs agreed a fee yesterday and the 22-year-old was due to undergo a medical.


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Cruz Alta è un dipartimento collocato nella parte est della provincia argentina di Tucumán, con capitale Banda del Río Salí.

Confina a nord con il dipartimento di Burruyacú, a est con la provincia di Santiago del Estero, a sud con il dipartimento di Leales e a ovest con i dipartimenti di Lules, Capital e Tafí Viejo.

Secondo il censimento del 2001, su un territorio di 1.255 km², la popolazione ammontava a 162.240 abitanti.

I municipi del dipartimento sono:
 Alderetes
 Banda del Río Salí
 Colombres
 Delfín Gallo
 El Bracho y El Cevilar
 El Naranjito
 La Florida
 Las Cejas
 Los Bulacio y Los Villagra
 Los Pereyras
 Los Pérez
 Los Ralos
 Ranchillos y San Miguel
 San Andrés

Altri progetti

Cruz Alta

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Q: Is this a ruby's bug in class Matrix? I use Matrix class in ruby to caculate eigenvalues and eigenvectors. With this code:
m = Matrix[[0.6868,0.6067],[0.6067,0.5978]]
v, d, v_inv = m.eigensystem

the correct result should be:
[ 1.25057433  0.03398123]
[[ 0.73251454 -0.68075138]
 [ 0.68075138  0.73251454]]

which I confirmed with numpy using Python.
However, I got the result below:
d=[[0.033970204576497576,   0],
 [0,    1.2506297954235022]]

v=[[0.6807528514962294, 0.7325131774785713],
 [-0.7325131774785713,  0.6807528514962294]]

Is this a ruby's bug? My ruby's version below:
ruby 2.1.2p95 (2014-05-08 revision 45877) [x86_64-linux]

A: This would be by no mean an answer, but I'll put it here for the sake of formatting:
When it comes to math, I would use r to check the correctness of the result:
> entries <- c(0.6868, 0.6067, 0.6067, 0.5978)
> input <- matrix(entries, nrow=2, byrow=TRUE)
> input

#        [,1]   [,2]
# [1,] 0.6868 0.6067
# [2,] 0.6067 0.5978

> input_eigen <- eigen(input)
> input_eigen

$values
# [1] 1.2506298 0.0339702

$vectors
#            [,1]       [,2]
# [1,] -0.7325132  0.6807529
# [2,] -0.6807529 -0.7325132

I trust the result above, which means ruby is probably doing better, than python/numpy.


Some Christians think that you don't have to forgive unless the other person has apologized. But in the sermon on the mount, Jesus blows that idea out of the water. He tells us to love our enemies. He tells us to bless those who curse us. He tells us to do good to those who hate us. He tells us to pray for those who spitefully use us.
These are obviously not people who have repented and apologized to us, and yet, we are called to do much more than forgive them. To forgive means that we let go of the offense someone has perpetrated against us. We give up the right for pay-backs or revenge. We forgive, not just for their sake, but for ours as well. By releasing the offender, we release ourselves from the offense, and are no longer held back by it — we are free to move forward with our lives.
But it is not enough to take a neutral position, simply to refrain from hating our enemies, cursing those who curse us, doing ill toward those who hate us, and being spiteful to those who use us. Such restraint is wise and healthy and good. But much more is required of those who follow Jesus.
Now, someone will say, "But you don't understand what so and so did to me." And maybe I don't. But Jesus does, for He was mocked and scorned and nailed to a cross. And He tells you to love and bless your enemies.
Yes, it is very difficult — even impossible — to live that way. In our own strength, we cannot do it at all. We need divine assistance. That's why Jesus adds, "that you may be sons of your Father in heaven." The essence of fatherhood is inheritance, which means that a son is like his father. Our Father in heaven shows love and forgiveness even to those who hate Him. They may reject that love and forgiveness and so never enjoy His blessing, but that is because of their own unbelief and rebellion, not because the Father is unwilling.
And indeed, we might love our enemy and it won't make one bit of difference to them. We might bless those who curse us, and find that they curse us still. We might do good for those who just continue to hate us. We might pray for the sake of those who spitefully use us, and they may yet persecute us.
No matter. It is the nature of the sons of God to manifest the character of our Father in heaven. Now, that is not how we become the sons of the Father. We become His sons through faith in Jesus Christ. "But as many as received Him [Jesus], to them He gave the right to become children of God, to those who believe in His name" (John 1:12). Through faith in Him, we are born again, born from above, by the Spirit of God. It is through the power of the Holy Spirit that we can begin to forgive, love and bless our enemies. When we do, we demonstrate that we truly are sons of the Father, because that is what He does. Indeed, we have the authority and power to act that way precisely because we are His children.
As children of God, we have the right to display His love, His grace, and even His power to the world. Jesus invites us to move past our own resources and step into divine sonship with Him, to let the love of the Father be revealed in and through us. It is a radical shift for us, but that is why He has given us the Holy Spirit. It is in this divine empowerment that we learn, not only how to forgive, but to move beyond forgiveness to blessing.


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An Online Magazine of the Arts by Women Over Sixty
The Woman Next Door
by Anne Batzer
The woman who lived in the house next door is Syrian. Her name is beautiful and exotic, some syllables you glide over, like watercolors; others you pounce on, staccato dots on fine linen paper.
Every morning at 6 a.m. she walked her dogs. Golden labs called Rose and Iris, they have the air of "animal companions" pampered as only the pets of childless couples are: sleek, well behaved, confident. When I decided to join her one morning my Aussie shep was a stark contrast. For years, my kids fed him scraps under the table. There was never time enough to remove the burrs from his underbelly. He's shaggy and likes to rub his rump on your leg in hopes you'll pet his back. I pretend this isn't disgusting.
We walked together up the dirt country road that connects our homes. She's thirty years younger than I, just starting out. Emergency room doctors, she and her husband Jim met in medical school.
That first morning, I think it was two years ago, it was February and the sun had not risen above the ridge. Three owls, forming a wide triangle hidden in the high ponderosas, carried on a conversation, the sound seeming to come from the depths of the dank grey sky above us.
"Good morning," I said. I yanked on my dog's leash to keep him from toppling her.
She smiled but said nothing, then nodded in the direction of the owl talk, as if she were afraid of interrupting their train of thought. We walked a mile and a half in quiet witness to the exchange. When the sun's first rays pierced the blue expanse, the owls fell silent.
"What do you think they talk about?" I asked her.
"It seems like something important," she answered. "Pearls of wisdom we need to know. For weeks, I've been trying to figure it out." She paused and smiled at me. "But their secrets are safe, lost in translation."
I laughed, but I remember we finished that walk in silence.
Days passed; daylight came earlier and our conversations grew livelier. As we walked, her long black hair kept rhythm, swinging from side to side. In the way of women, we shared our stories. She'd grown up in the Middle East. A medical school scholarship brought her to this country, where she'd settled. About once a year she returned to the city of Homs to spend time with her mother and brother.
The first time she talked about her childhood, I confess I hurried home and Googled Syria, embarrassed that I couldn't place it on a map. I knew it was near Iraq, where the war raged on; and Egypt, where there were the first stirrings of what would later be called Arab Spring.
While she was gone visiting her Syrian family, I continued the morning walks, collecting Rose and Iris from their fenced yard. They kept a steady pace while my dog strained against the leash to pursue every random scent.
On his days off, her husband would be out in the driveway hitching his riverboat to his truck or putting his hunting rifles in its gun rack. He had made a name for himself as the local head of Ducks Unlimited, often quoted in the outdoors column in the newspaper. Always busy.
"What do you hear from your wife?" I asked him one morning.
"Not much, brief e-mails," he said. I never could figure out how to get a conversation going with him.
When the woman returned from her visit she pulled a faded paper package tied with black string from her jacket pocket. "For you," she said.
My cold fingers unwrapped the gift and a glorious swath of silk unfurled. The long scarf was striped with rich shades of magenta and one simple gold streak. Immediately my dog became alert; his knob of a tail perfectly still, he sniffed its musty, odd aroma. I pulled the scarf across my back and around my shoulders, out of canine range. Its colors clashed with the subtle greens and grays of the rural Oregon landscape.
"It must be so different there," I said.
"Yes and no," she answered. "It's ancient and poetic, a country full of beauty," she stopped walking, turned and looked at me, "but the people there are just like me. Educated. Strong. Exactly like me."
One June as we stopped to gaze at a field of wheat, catching its moment of transition from green to gold, she said, "I long to have a child." I smiled at her, delighted, imagining a tawny, black-eyed baby in a front pack on our morning walks. "But Jim says he's not ready."
"It's a big decision," I said.
"Friends tell me to just go ahead and get pregnant." She looked at me to check my reaction. "That once the baby's here he'll adjust—he'll be a good father."
I tried not to look horrified.
"But I don't think I should do that to him."
"Good," I said. "A baby's a big responsibility. I think you're wise to wait until you're both ready."
"Yeah. Tell me, what's it really like to be a mother?"
I turned and looked at her. How do you answer this? How do you describe this alternate universe where everything, except yourself, takes on more meaning. Where heart and longing and fear expand? Where you see yourself barely apart, as if in bas-relief?
"It's not for everyone," I said, "but I think you would love it."
That June morphed into full-blown summer. We walked right through it and the following winter. She never mentioned wanting a child again. But that year brought a change in her. She walked more slowly, she gained weight. She cut her hair to shoulder length. Finally, I broached the subject with her.
"Have you and Jim thought more about having a baby?"
"He still says he's not ready. I don't know if he ever will be. It would interrupt his hunting and fishing."
And the news from Syria was bleak. Revolution, celebrated in Egypt, was not going well. People were dying. "What do you hear from your family?" I asked her. "Are they okay? What do they say?"
"They say they're fine," she said. There was a long pause. "But then what else can they say? It wouldn't be safe for them to send me any other message."
"What about you? What can I do to help?"
"Remember," she said. "I've told you I'm strong."
One morning when I went to meet her, she wasn't there. I walked to where Rose and Iris paced in their fenced yard. Jim came out of the house, carrying two fishing poles and a tackle box.
"Hi, where is she?"
"She went home," he said.
"What? To Syria? It's dangerous, right?"
"That's what I told her, but she wouldn't listen." He paused. "Now she doesn't answer my e-mails."
She's never answered my emails either.
Retired from a career that included roles as diverse as news reporter and autism consultant, Anne Batzer has always enjoyed the writing life. Her nonfiction experience includes articles for arts and natural history projects, documentary writing, political speech writing and in-depth profiles of women who live with intention. She began writing fiction when she joined a dynamic women's writing group. She also pursues a lifelong interest in nonviolence and a passion for making education more accessible to children in Kenya.
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Noma Edwards says:
It reminded me of the many walks I have taken with women friends and how deeply we shared our stories. This was wonderful and I will look for this writer again.
Eve Richardson says:
Elegiac, dark, these characters stayed with me, filling me with questions that run the gamut from why does the husband have two fishing poles to what of the life — interior and exterior — of the narrator? Fine imagery; I'd like to read more.
Kianna Bader says:
I loved the story. It is beautifully written. I was drawn into it immediately and will be thinking about the characters for some time.
Nancy Purcell says:
A wonderful story of a look inside another culture. It is the quiet calm of the scene that piques the readers interest.
The importance of the owls, the dogs; two separate worlds that live compatibly in each others realm. A soft, touching
glimpse of things revealed and not revealed. Lovely.
Esther Bradley-Detally says:
Such a fine piece. Your writing is fabulous, clean, pure and suggesting dimensions unsaid, but somehow known in a woman's bone marrow. Loved it!
Mary Carol Day says:
You have left much to the reader's imagination in this well-crafted short story. I find it interesting and a bit disturbing that the woman has no name. Does her husband call her by name? Her dogs have feminine, flower names, yet at the end of the story, they "pace" in their "fenced" yard. Perhaps the nameless woman felt the same way in her marriage and needed to be with people who are "just like me."
Samantha Hammell says:
I love picturing the setting and then reading the light hearted, humorous description of the Aussie Shepherd…There are so many choices in life and so much beauty, pain, humor, love and wonder. This short story makes the reader feel all of these things as well as getting heavily invested in the characters. I have been thinking about the Syrian woman, the husband and neighbor all day- well done!
Fayegail Bisaccia says:
Poignant story, Anne.
Your descriptions take me right into that country-road world. You pique my curiosity about the woman's name. I love that the owls' "secrets are safe, lost in translation." It's a description of the neighbor's life, too.
You have managed in so few words to tell about relationship and revolution and the challenges of women and the homey life, and living in a multicultural marriage, and estrangement–and so much more. This peek into the simplicity and complexity of these women's time together is just enough. It's the kind of story that will stay with me and keep me pondering.
Linda Fitzgerald says:
Beautiful, made me cry
Rachel Givens says:
I loved this story!
Suzanne Sauisse says:
Lovely, thoughtful and somber story with wonderful descriptions! I hope I get to read more…
Garnet Deetken says:
This precise, bittersweet story tells of the many vast worlds on our tiny planet; the worlds of trees and wild creatures, of domesticity and dogs, of dreams and heartache, of conflict and family. Reading it reminds me that we all just want to live.
Shirley Utterback says:
The opening lines are beautiful as are descriptions of this restrained friendship. There are so many layers in this short story–a glimpse into the character of each person that propels the
sad longing. Even the owls and the dogs have their magic place in this relationship between two women. And, somehow I want to hear more, though the story is a complete gem as it is.
Teddy Jones says:
A beautiful, sad story, made real with lovely imagery and excellent description.
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Today begins the Diversity AF Comedy Festival at one of the most unique comedy venues in New York, CAVEAT. Not only is this a place for one to digest the most engaging performers, novel events and scrumptious culinary offerings, but you could call it a center of learning where one can totally level up with some personal achievement points. Caveat's lead comedy booker, CARLY HOOGENDYK, couldn't agree more with the learning aspect. She's a member of the team that makes Caveat a veritable fountain of "playful, intelligent nightlife." A graduate of Columbia University, Hoogendyk has turned a background in improv and production into an exciting career booking groundbreaking comedy shows non-stop! AND she wants you to have fun and expand your mind when you attend the shows she's had a hand in bringing to stage. Allow Carly to tell you all about her work at this popular establishment, the performers whose careers she thinks you should be watching closely, plus the diverse, academic-infused programming she's looking forward to bringing you in the coming months! Enjoy!
COMEDY CAKE: Caveat's shows are off the charts unique. How'd you get involved in the booking process at the venue?
CARLY HOOGENDYK: I first heard about Caveat back in October (they had only been open for just over a month). I caught wind of the venue on social media at around the same time Michael Wolf and Colin O'Brien (hosts of Literati, a show I co-produce) were interested in booking there. I got to know the leadership team at Caveat (co-founders Ben Lillie and Kate Downey) as we brought Literati there, and the more I learned about the mission behind the venue and their attitude in running it (both of which RULE) the more I wanted to be involved. I was doing part-time audience outreach for them, as well as producing a handful of shows at other venues, when they asked me to join their staff full-time. I started in early January.
CAKE: In your opinion, what sets Caveat's performances apart from other venues?
CARLY: In short: shows at Caveat will teach you something. Our shows are unconventional, educational, and entertaining. We put academics and entertainers on the same stage 7 nights a week and it's my experience that everyone involved benefits — especially the audience. The goal is to make information more accessible by pairing it with delight — it's entertainment curated for the curious, the intellectually adventurous, and the unabashedly nerdy (all of which I identify as).
The space has a uniquely cool-smart vibe and on THAT NOTE, I gotta shout out Caveat's venue staff!! The teams that take care of house management (Anne Huston), bar (Jesus Diaz), and tech (Andrew Kerr-Thompson) deserve so many awards. The folks who run the day to day at Caveat are smart and committed and capable and they're working their tails off because ultimately we're all working for the show.
CAKE: How'd you get started in comedy?
CARLY: I was part of Columbia's improv team Fruit Paunch, so that's the earliest kickoff. After that, it's a litany of starts and stops that could best be summed up as "eventually I quit my day job, started taking improv at UCB while freelancing, and everything got a little better from there." The first comedy show I ever produced (at least for a team that I wasn't on) was called Life! With King Regis at the Tank in 2012, and King Regis was Becky Abrams, Brian Fithian, Caroline Martin, Tim Platt, and Casey Donahue, and Jeremy Gundel.
CAKE: What's a day in the life of Carly typically look like these days?
CARLY: No such thing as typical days anymore (thank god). Some days I'm biking to meetings with people around the city, other days I spend twelve hours in a basement and eat nachos for dinner because it's an "email day," but the only really typical daily activity is that I see some kind of performance six or seven nights a week.
CAKE: What do you think is the perfect recipe for a popular show?
CAKE: You produce "SUP," which features a comedy collective of female, queer, and gender non-conforming performers making folks laugh. What have been some of your favorite SUP moments? What talented up-and-coming performers do you think we have our eye on?
CARLY: The Sup Show is co-produced by myself (on the Caveat side) and the five freaking geniuses who organize the Sup Open Mic: Jesse Roth, Fareeha Khan, Stephanie Pace, Maddie Fischer and Juliet Prather. And those women FOR SURE are the talented up-and-comers you should have on your radar. That said, my favorite Sup moments are the ones I've witnessed at their open mic at the Creek and the Cave — you won't find a more supportive audience at an open mic anywhere else in the city. A few of my favorite sets from the Caveat show were from Maggie Widdoes, Michael Foulk, and Karolena Theresa.
CAKE: Which have been the most stand out shows of Women's History Month at Caveat?
CARLY: Yeah She Did was our spotlight women's history show, held on the "eve" (wink) of International Women's Day. It was a total triumph. We had a stacked lineup of comedians and storytellers share the story of one women from history that we all really ought to know (but probably don't). It was SUCH a sincere show, but it was also the funniest because of the women who contributed: including Georgia Clark, Aparna Nancherla, Taylor Garron, Keisha Zollar, Maggie Widdoes, Karen Chee, and Janice Maffei. On top of all that, Chloe Koser was our host and listen: you want Chloe Koser to host your show. She's a treasure.
Every month, Generation Women is an incredible show happening at Caveat — as evidenced by the fact that it is already sold out a month in advance! Seeing what Georgia Clark has assembled has been a total inspiration to me. She books an age-diverse lineup of accomplished women storytellers and it's always such a warm and intelligent evening!
CAKE: Do you think Caveat will expand its presence out West?
CARLY: I mean, we'll see! I'd say it's an idea worth spreading but I think that phrase is like… trademarked.
CAKE: Can you tell us a little about the upcoming DAF Comedy Festival and what we can look forward to there?
CARLY: A little about DAF: Milly Tamarez is both funny as hell and a force for good. She and Taylor Gonzalez have put together an incredible two-day festival (lineup here) and I'm planning to camp out at Caveat for the entire thing. You should too.
CAKE: What other Caveat shows should we have on our radar in upcoming months?
CARLY: For anyone motivated to get involved at Caveat in our pursuit of "intelligent nightlife," you should know that every Sunday from 4-6pm Scratch Paper is our open mic. Comedians, academics, and journalists have been using our stage every weekend to try out rough material that educates AND entertains.
Also, I'm so nerdily excited about our TWO upcoming climate science comedy shows (a testament to Caveat's uniqueness: we have two COMPLETELY DIFFERENT comedy shows that deal with climate science in April).
On April 9, we partnered with Inverse to produce a show called An Inconvenient Truth 3: Maybe I Wasn't Clear the First Two Times — a talk show hosted by a pissed off Al Gore (played by Rollie Williams), in which Gore tries for a third time to get it through our thick skulls that THE EARTH IS DYING. Featuring bits from Sudi Green, Bowen Yang, and Peter Smith. Directed by Mark Vigeant. Music by Will Moritz. I mean. Come ON.
Then, on Earth Day (Sunday 4/22), Caveat is putting on a huge climate change show -slash- party called What the F*ck Do We Do, hosted by the absolute dreamboat Keisha Zollar. That one will have climate experts (including Kate Marvel, a TED speaker and Columbia research scientist) sharing a variety show lineup with comedians. The format is a bit of an experiment; we're hoping that the climate experts will educate us to confront the realities of climate change and the comedians will be there to help us process. And since the outcome of climate change is either grim or uncertain… we serve beer!
Mentions: Check out the bevy of nightly performances you can take in and learn a thing or to from HERE.


There are nearly as many ways for musicians to sell self-released CDs as there are CDs. The following stories show how two artists colored outside the lines.
Tony, an acoustic folk singer/guitarist in New Zealand, says one method he uses to drum up sales is day-long appearances at record stores.
Tony also does a lot of busking (playing live for tips in randomly chosen locations) at country fairs.
"I always have a table beside me with CDs," he explains. "The trick here is that I busk acoustically, but take regular breaks during which I play the CD through a Peavey Solo amp and a Sony Discman, both running on rechargeable batteries. I'll sell a dozen albums this way, plus earn busking money and make contact with people who want to hire me or my band.
Josh of Josh Max's Outfit says his band has sold more than 550 copies of its "Make It Snappy" CD. Not impressed? You may be when you find out how.
Josh explains: "We sold 150 to fans at our shows so far, but the way we moved 400 CDs was to hook up with a fashion magazine for plus-size women and promote our singer, Julie James, who is plus-sized and an amazing, sweet yet powerful singer. Julie has loads of personality — and the media love juicy people like her.
It's also a good example of a band taking what some in the business would perceive as a weakness and exploiting it to the band's advantage. Therein lies the lesson: Any characteristic of your band can be repositioned to be perceived in a fresh light.


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The Law Magazine and Review: A Quarterly Review of Jurisprudence, Volume 22
The Publications of the Selden Society. Select Pleas in the Court ot Admiralty. Vol. II., A.D. 1547—r6o2. Bernard Quaritch, London, 1897. Price £1 8s.
Outline of the Law of Libel. By W. Blake Odgers, Q.C. Macmillan and Co., Ltd., London, 1897. Price 3s. 6d.
Encyclo/uzdia of the Laws of England. Under the General Editorship of A. Wood Renton, M.A., LL.B. Vol. II. Sweet & Maxwell, Ltd., London; and William Green & Sons, Edinburgh, 1897. Price £1.
International Law Directory, 1897. Edited and compiled by Philip Graburn Kime. Bowden, Hudson & Co., London, 1897. Price 7s. 6d.
Monopolies by Patents. By]. W. Gordon. Stevens & Sons, Ltd., London, 1897. Price 18s.
Robinson on Gm/elkind. Fifth Edition. By Charles I. Elton, Q.C., and Herbert]. H. Mackay, LL.B. Butterworth & Co., London, 1897. Price 15s.
Oke's Game Laws. Fourth Edition. By J. W. Willis Bund, M.A., LL.B. Butterworth & Co., London, 1897. Price 14s.
The County Courts Act, I888. By Edwin Shuttleworth. John Smith & Co., London, 1897. Price 5s.
Four Lectures on the Law of Employers' Liability at Home and Abroad. By Augustine Birrell, Q.C., M.P. Macmillan & Co., Ltd., London, 1897. Price 2s. 6d.
Roman Law Examination Test. By W. Addington Willis, LL.B. Butterworth & Co., London, 1897. Price 6s.
" The Pacific Blockade of Crete."—Mr- Th- Baty. referring to the note by Dr. Gover on this subject, at pp. 184-5, writes to us:—Dr. Gover thinks that we who assert that pacific blockade is war merely object to the name. The objection lies a great deal deeper than that. A power which initiates a blockade and calls it "pacific," will consider itself to be at peace. It will claim all the advantages of being at peace, and this is what it is submitted should be impossible. These advantages are neither trivial nor few. They comprise relief from constitutional embarrassments, exemption from the reproach of breaking the peace of the world, permission to enjoy neutral assistance, and freedom from the fear of military surprise. And, no doubt, this does not exhaust the list of conveniences.
" A Question of Legitimacy." - Ar p. I73. line 24. read " lew enfant, leur mariage, en quelque lieu." And at p. I74, for § I92 read §55.
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Select Pleas in the Court of Admiralty. Vol. II., A.D. 154.7—I6o2. Edited for the Selden Society by REGINALD G. Mansmzn. London: Bernard Quaritch. 1897.
We reviewed the first volume of this interesting compilation in our February Number, 1896, and we are pleased to see the compilation continued in the volume before us. It begins with the history of the Court of Admiralty, and follows with an account of the Admiralty jurisdiction of the seaports—wrecks, droits and salvage; also of prohibitions, early references to the Admiralty Court, summary of cases litigated in the Admiralty 1528-r6o2, a series of exemplifications and examinations, and some remarks on the records subsequent to the reign of Elizabeth.
Notwithstanding the determined attack upon the Admiralty Court by the Common Law judges, the businesstransacted by it during the seventeenth century was very considerable. Its character is very similar to that of the sixteenth century. Forty-five prohibitions were issued during the first eight years of the reign of James I. In the view of the Common Law judges, the Admiralty had no jurisdiction in most of the matters with which it had hitherto dealt. Collision in a county, wreck (or salvage), charter-parties, bills of lading, bottomry, wages, piracy and even prize were all held to be matters for prohibition. Nevertheless the Court, whether by right or by sutferance, went on very much as before until the Restoration. During the Commonwealth, its business seems even to have increased, owing, probably, to an Ordinance of Parliament which declared or gave the jurisdiction which it claimed. With the Restoration, the attack of the Common lawyers upon the Court began afresh, encouraged by the disfavour which then attached to all the doings of the Commonwealth, including the recent settlement of the Admiralty jurisdiction. The efforts of Sir Leoline Jenkins to induce Parliament to confirm that settlement, and their final failure, are historical; ample references to them occur in the Admiralty Court records. The decadence of the Court ates from this period. Admiralty lawyers then gave up a hopeless struggle with the Common Law judges, and the business of the Court rapidly declined. During the eighteenth and early part of the nineteenth century, the business consisted principally of piracy, salvage, collision, wages and bottomry suits, but the amount of the business was trifling, compared with that of former years; and the jurisdiction, even in these matters, was questioned by occasional prohibitions.
Notwithstanding one or two prohibitions in matters of prize, the jurisdiction upon this subject was never seriously contested, and it was finally recognized towards the end of the eighteenth century. The separation of prize from instance business appears to have been made shortly after the Restoration, partly in consequence of conflicting claims of Charles II. and the Duke of York, the Admiral, to certain droits. From this time the instance and prize records are kept distinct.
Extracts from the records of the High Court of Admiralty, together with their translations, take up the greater part of the volume. We must congratulate the editor on the able manner in which he has designed and carried out this laborious task, which cannot fail to cast a new vista on the proceedings of our ancient Admiralty.
Robinson on Gavelkind : the Common Law of Kent, with additions relating to Borough-English and similar Customs. By CHARLES I. ELTON, of Lincoln's Inn, Q.C., and HERBERT ]. H. Mxcxsv, LL.B., of the Middle Temple, Barrister-at-Law. Fifth Edition. London: Butterworth & Co. 1897.
In some 250 pages a great deal of information is contained concerning the Common Law of Kent. All lands whatsoever lying in the county of Kent are presumed to be of the nature of gavelkind till the contrary be made to appear. Lord Hale says that such presumption is not allowed in any other county, but the person claiming the benefit will be bound to prove the custom. The descent of lands in Kentish gavelkind has long been settled as being among all the sons or their representatives, and in default among all the daughters or their representatives, and so in the case of the males and females in other degrees. The history of this peculiar tenure is a sealed book to many lawyers; hence it is with pleasure that we welcome the new edition of this work, which is well brought down to date, and will be found very reliable by those practitioners who have to deal with the matters in question.
Oke's Game Laws: containing the whole Law as to Wild Birds throughout the United Kingdom, systematically arranged with the Acts, Decisions, Notes, and Forms. By W. W11.1.1s Bum), M.A.,
LL.B., of Lincoln's Inn, Barrister-at-Law. Fourth Edition. London: Butterworth & Co. I897.
It is now sixteen years since the last edition of this book was published, and one of the most important features has been the legislation for the protection of wild birds. By the Wild Birds Act, 1896 (59 and 60 Vict., c. 56), a County Council may, with the approval of the Secretary of State, prohibit the killing of, or taking, any kind of wild bird at any time. This legislation is most beneficent to the interests of our country, and contrasts very favourably with the barbarous practices of Italy, where a traveller may pass over the open country or through woods and orchards, for many miles, without hearing the chirrup of any bird. The editor has fully maintained the repute of Mr. Oke, and has brought the book down to date with the latest Acts and cases.
Encyclopedia of the Laws of England, being a new Abridgement of the most Eminent Legal Authorities. Under the general editorship of A. Woon RENTON, M.A., LL.B., of Gray's Inn, and of the Oxford Circuit, Barrister-at-Law. Vol. II. London: Sweet and Maxwell, Limited. Edinburgh: William Green and Sons. 1897.
This, the second volume of a very useful compendium, continues to maintain its own. We notice an interesting article on " Trial at Bar " from the pen of Mr. F. H. Short, followed by a uselessly long dissertation on "Barbed Wire" by Mr. James Weir ; an article perhaps appropriate to the name of the writer, but which might have been condensed in a few lines. Mr. Manson subscribes an article on how to "Become a Bankrupt." We should think that the answer might fitly be found in the picture "Vice Gambling with Death." The phraseology of the title is unfortunate, although the article itself is well compiled. Mr. Barclay has contributed an interesting article on " Blockade " and on kindred subjects, although we notice at p. 183 a misprint, which turns Halleck's International Law into Harleck. Mr. Craies again suffers under the obligation of dealing in unsavoury subjects; while " Candidate," "Canvassing," and "Capital Punishment" from the pen of Mr. G. H. B. Kenrick are particularly happy, and probably the best articles in the volume.
An Outline of the Law of Libel. Six Lectures delivered in the Middle Temple Hall during Michaelmas Term, 1896. By \V. BLAKE Onoens, of the Middle Temple, M.A., LL.D., Q.C. London: Macmillan & Co., Limited. 1897.
These Lectures, having been written and delivered verbally, would best have been buried in oblivion, and we think it unfortunate that they have been printed and published as an " Outline of the law of libel." They certainly are not to be relied on as containing an accurate, or anything approaching an accurate, outline of the law of libel, and they are besides, in many respects, misleading. They are chiefly gossiping discussions, speculative and argumentative, interlarded here and there with some trumpery case, in which the lecturer himself was concerned as counsel on one side or the other; for an instance of which see pp. 102-4. At p. 23 the author states: " It is very doubtful whether a Corporation can sue for words which merely affect its dignity or honour." This is misleading, it being entirely free from doubt that a Corporation cannot sue in such a case ; it was expressly decided in the very case quoted by Mr. Odgers (that of the Mayor and Corporation of Manchester v. Williams) that there is no principle of law on which such an action could be founded.
It seems an unusual and vulgar mode of authorship of a law book, to state an imaginary case, pp. 33-4, and then to offer to argue it when it arises " in the Court of Appeal on either side." Again, his illustrations are as unsound as his law; at p. 85, he states another imaginary case; " suppose," he says, " a newspaper published a libel on an ' eminent Q.C. ' (without naming him): Can all eminent Q.C. sue, or only one?" Mr. Odgers says he should advise any friend of his so libelled to be the first Q.C. to sue. We have no hesitation in saying that no " eminent Q.C." would act upon such advice. If he did, woe betide him ! In the first place his opponent would at once traverse and deny that the plaintiff was an "eminent Q.C."; an unpleasant issue would thus be raised at the very outset, which plaintiff woulJ find no little difiiculty in meeting ; and if he failed in so doing his action would fail, however gross the libel might be. Both the illustration and the advice given by Mr. Odgers are, to say the least, unfortunate.
But these are not the worst features of the book, at pp. 111-112, referring to " Malice," the author says that our older Judges and text-writers state the law thus : " Malice is the gist


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Robot Portfolio Tripped Up As Single Energy Stock Nose-Dives
Robot Portfolio Tripped Up As Single Energy Stock Nose-Dives by John Dorfman, Dorfman Value Investments
A single disastrous energy stock was enough to scuttle my Robot Portfolio last year.
The portfolio suffered a 3.8 percent loss in 2015, dragged down by a 62 percent drop for Atwood Oceanics Inc. (ATW), an offshore driller that suffered as energy prices collapsed. The defeat reduced, but . . .
Burned By Oil, Armajaro Commodities Slides 2.5% In August
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New management company closes North Chapel in Liberty Station for remodeling
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North Chapel in Liberty Station. / Photo by Thomas Melville
The two Catholic congregations that have shared use of North Chapel in Liberty Station for years have not been granted a lease extension, and the chapel has been closed indefinitely for future remodeling.
Those are the latest developments with the historic church, which was once the last prayer stop for sailors going off to war. It is now being eyed by the new owners of Liberty Station for redevelopment as something other than religious purposes.
It was announced in early December that much of Liberty Station, including the North Chapel, were sold for nearly $159 million to Pendulum Property Partners, a Southern California-based real estate firm in partnership with The Seligman Group. Pendulum has acquired 327,000-square-feet of Liberty Station multi-tenant retail and office space, which is approximately 98 percent occupied.
Seller McMillin Cos. retains ownership of one hotel site, two hotels under construction and a number of neighborhood office assets.
Previously, the new ownership group had suggested a deal might be negotiated to allow the two congregations to remain. But that appears now to be off the table.
In a letter sent to the congregations before the year-end holidays, 828 Venue Management Co. attached these conditions to continued use of the chapel site by the two church groups:
Rent will stay the same and be on a month-to-month basis.
Modifications will be made at some point and your parish may not be able to hold services for the duration of the construction.
You and your parish must be supportive of 828 and our proposed changes to the North Chapel.
In its letter, 828 Venue also made it clear that any further religious use of North Chapel would be "inclusive of the community and other faiths, and we intend to bring that versatility back with some modifications to the North Chapel so it can support all types of celebrations."
"Why can't we just use [North Chapel] and rent it in the meantime," asked Torben Bruck of Our Lady Of Fatima, one the two congregations involved. "Why does this have to be a bargaining chip?"
Pointed out Bruck, "If [Pendulum] keeps it closed – they're not going to be making any money."
Bruck said his congregation's services have been moved indefinitely to Rose Creek Cottage, a popular Pacific Beach wedding venue.
Speaking for the other parish, St. John Bosco Mission, Arlene Paraiso said: "After I made it clear where I stood in regards to wanting to uphold the historicity of the chapel, keeping the pews intact and in the building and bolted to the ground etc., all other contact attempts from me were ignored. … At first it seemed that things would be good and we might be returning to the chapel … but after my pastor clearly stated our stance on wanting to uphold the integrity of the building, they basically told him that they couldn't rent to him."
St. John Bosco is currently operating temporarily out of a facility in Clairemont.
Ron Slayen, an artisan and tenant in Liberty Station Arts District, vowed that public opposition to adapting the chapel for other uses will continue.
"We will absolutely fight to the end, until we see the pews being emptied out," Slayen said half-jokingly, adding, "And I will be wrapped around one of those pews."
Since 1942, North Chapel has served as a Naval worship site.
The chapel has also been rented out for weddings, funerals and special events.
Characterizing North Chapel as "a very sacred and significant historical building," SOHO, a historic preservation organization, described plans to close the chapel for "interior renovations" as "suspect."
SOHO has since questioned whether interior alteration, such as removal of the chapel pews, would constitute a violation of NTC Precise Plan and Historical District Guidelines.
Both San Diego City Council President Pro Tem Barbara Bry, and San Diego Congressman Scott Peters, have called upon the city to investigate proposed alteration of North Chapel for non-religious uses.
The Beacon was unable to contact 828 Venue for further comment by press time.
I'm happy to see it no longer be a church. However, I hope they keep the historic integrity of the building and it's architecture. As long as it's not a venue for any sort of religious worship I'm OK with it. A plaque or memorial can always be placed there to honor those who are no longer with us. Just keep religion out of it.
Larry Gray
I went to services in this beautiful North Chapel during Boot Camp and Radioman School in 1970-1971. It was built shortly after Pearl Harbor as a memorial to the 2,008 Navy personnel who dies in the attacks on Dec. 7,1941. Now it is in the control of "828 Venues" who want to change it into a "multi-purpose" building for rentals, including "cocktail receptions," etc. History and religion, including the memory of those lost mean nothing to these heartless profit seekers. The building has been advertised as an "ideal" location for a restaurant or retail tenant. This chapel has served Navy personnel, many of those who worshipped here since 1942 never made it back home after the war. And now this historic and beautiful Memorial Chapel is in the hands of people who see it only as an avenue toward making money on renting it out for events, parties, dinners, etc. Evidently the memory of those 2,008 Navy personnel now mean basically nothing, and a shrine to their memory is now being "remodeled" for "multiple use rentals." What happened to patriotism and honor for dead American sailors? 828 Venues "declined comment." No doubt as to the reason for their silence.
William Keet
Apparently the 828 Venue people do not respect religion or history. The chapel is a church, and a shrine honoring those who lost their lives in the attack on Pearl Harbor. The idea of turning this church into something solely for profit is disgusting. I visit San Diego a few times a year and trust me I will not spend a cent at Liberty Station if this church is continued to be used as anything other than a church.


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In helping couples better manage their money, HoneyFi and similar apps help them create a more stable financial—and, hopefully, personal—future. But before that, some fun: crowdsourcing apps help wedding guests send money to newlyweds for a dream honeymoon. Once the happy couple has returned from their trip, plenty of other FinTech apps will help them manage expenses more efficiently and transparently. And for major expenses like a home or the wedding itself, FinTech apps—such as LendingTree and Money View Loans—can help them secure loans, comparing offers across providers with an eye toward simplifying the loan process.
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Q: Why is the pricing of t2.large similar to m4.large? They all have 2vcpus and 8G ram.
But with t2.large, you can only use 60% of a single vcpu, average 30% for each of the two vcpus. Even considering the "cpu credits", t2.large seems far weak than m4.large.

A: I researched this myself and everywhere you look everyone is just talking about bursting.
But it's a fact that the hardware specs for e.g. t2.large and m4.large are either exactly or roughly the same. That means even if you burst on a t2 you will get  the same performance as on m4.
But AWS, as in the video John Rotenstein linked, claims you still get 60% more performance on t2. This is due to a little difference in how AWS defines a vCPU.
https://docs.aws.amazon.com/AWSEC2/latest/UserGuide/instance-optimize-cpu.html

Each vCPU is a thread of a CPU core, except for T2 instances.

So while on m4 a vCPU is a just a thread, on t2 you get a full core.
2 vCPUs on m4 is just 1 core with 2 threads and on t2 it is 2 full cores but without hyperhtreading.
You can see this when reading /proc/cpuinfo. I used this script to make it easier to read:
t2.large:

CPU model:  Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2676 v3 @ 2.40GHz 1 CPU,
  2 physical cores per CPU, total 2 logical CPU units

m4.large:

CPU model:  Intel(R) Xeon(R) CPU E5-2686 v4 @ 2.30GHz 1 CPU,
  1 physical cores per CPU, total 2 logical CPU units

So depending on your application 2 hyperthreading threads on 1 core might result in the same performance as 2 cores, in other use cases the 2 cores perform up to 60% better.
So this little note, noone seems to mention or know about, in their documentation makes the difference.
Hope this clears it up.

A: The main difference between a t2 instance and an m4 instance is the burstable nature of the t2 instance. (See T2 instance type documentation.)
While the machines are of similar specification, a t2.large instance that is bursting has approximately 60% higher performance than an m4.large instance. However, if the instance runs out of credit then it will be limited in performance.
For an explanation, see the T2: From Startups to Enterprise, Performance for a Low Cost presentation from AWS re:Invent 2016. The difference is explained at the 7m:30s point of the presentation:


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Aissatou Bella Diallo née en république de Guinée, est une journaliste, femme politique guinéenne.

Elle a été la première femme ministre de l'information de la Guinée.

Biographie
Aissatou Bella Diallo, née d'un père chauffeur de maître, est la première d'une famille de cinq enfants, dont deux filles et trois garçons.

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 1997 : caméra d'or du meilleur journal télévisé au Fespaco 1997 à Ouagadougou au (Burkina Faso).
  Chevalier de l'ordre du mérite de la République de Guinée

Vie privée
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Polémique
Elle est citée par le Mouvement FNDC comme promoteur de la Constitution guinéenne de 2020.

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St Luke's Church
Gloucestershire Places of Worship
Ellwood, Coleford, Ellwood Methodist Church (formerly 'Providence Chapel')
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Ellwood, Coleford, Christadelphian Hall
Coleford, St Margaret Mary Church (RC)
Coalway, Coleford, Coalway Methodist Pisgah Chapel
Coalway, Coleford, Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints Coleford Chapel
Clearwell, St Peter's Church (Demolished)
Clearwell, Clearwell Cemetery
Coleford, Ebenezer Chapel (Demolished)
Clearwell, Bethel Chapel
Coleford, Old St John's Church (partly Demolished)
Coleford, Countess of Huntingdon's Connexion Chapel
Coleford, Mount of Olives Assembly of God
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St Luke's Church, Milkwall, Coleford
St Luke's Church [no longer consecrated]
Milkwall, Coleford, Gloucestershire.
This Place of Worship was founded in 1909, but we understand it was closed after 1984, and the premises are now in secular use.
St Luke's is shown on several Old Maps, and labelled on OS 1972-1978 1:2,500 as "St Luke's Church (C of E)". According to the Victoria County History series: A History of the County of Gloucester, Volume 5: Bledisloe Hundred, St Briavels Hundred, The Forest of Dean (1996), pp.389-396 (Forest of Dean - Churches), a mission from Coleford dates from 1895. A wooden hall was erected in 1909, which was brought from Moseley Green by Thomas Morgan. This was replaced in 1935 by a small brick church dedicated to St Luke. It was designed by William Leah, who also designed the Church of The Good Shepherd at Broadwell. Some of its fittings came from St Luke's church in Gloucester, which had been demolished in 1933.
St Luke's in Milkwall is still shown with a '+' on my OS Map of 1984, but it has now (2012) closed, and has been converted into private occupation, known as "The Old St Luke's Church".
Now or formerly Church of England.
This Church was located at OS grid reference SO5840409235. You can see this on various mapping systems. Note all links open in a new window:
St Luke's Church, Milkwall, Coleford shown on a Google Map.
Places of Worship in Coleford shown on a Google Map.
I have found many websites of use whilst compiling the information for this database. Here are some which deserve mention as being of special interest for Milkwall, Coleford, and perhaps to Local History and Places of Worship as a whole.
The Victoria County History series: A History of the County of Gloucester, Volume 5: Bledisloe Hundred, St Briavels Hundred, The Forest of Dean - drill down the Table of Contents to find Milkwall, Coleford. (verified 2018-11-06)
Information last updated on 30 Dec 2014 at 15:13.
Search for other Places of Worship in Gloucestershire
Please note the above provides a search of selected fields in the Gloucestershire section of the Places of Worship Database on this site (churchdb.gukutils.org.uk) only. For other counties, or for a full search of the Database, you might like to try the site's Google Custom Search, which includes full webpage content.
Please also remember that the former St Luke's Church is understood to be in secular use, so care should be taken to preserve the privacy of its occupants.
This Report was created 23 Jun 2019 - 19:37:14 BST from information held in the Gloucestershire section of the Places of Worship Database. This was last updated on 14 Jun 2019 at 13:31.
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