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A Fintech Fox in the Regulatory Henhouse
Adrienne Harris, an industry-friendly fintech adviser, takes over New York's powerful financial regulator.
by Timi Iwayemi, Max Moran
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Under a previous superintendent, DFS threatened to revoke Standard Chartered's New York banking license after a federal investigation uncovered money laundering.
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One of newly installed New York Gov. Kathy Hochul's first key decisions was naming Adrienne Harris as the head of the state's Department of Financial Services (DFS), which is responsible for regulating the activities of nearly 1,800 insurance companies with cumulative assets of $5.5 trillion and more than 1,400 banking and financial institutions with assets over $2.9 trillion.
If confirmed, Harris would be responsible for ensuring prudent financial conduct, robust consumer protection, and anti-fraud measures within New York. But given its role as the nation's—and the world's—financial center, her actions will have a significant impact on regulation and enforcement across the country and around the world.
The problem is Harris's own philosophy of regulation. Apparently, Harris just doesn't get why regulators have to be so skeptical of the industry all the time—which makes sense, coming from a fintech executive who's advocated for the industry on both sides of the revolving door.
DFS hasn't always had this philosophy. Benjamin Lawsky (the first DFS superintendent) beefed up the department's criminal division and built an agency of 1,400 employees, armed with New York's powerful financial laws like the Martin Act. Lawsky threatened to revoke Standard Chartered Bank's New York banking license after a federal investigation uncovered money laundering. This state-level scrutiny in turn pushed federal regulators to dole out harsher penalties, such as the record $1.9 billion fine against HSBC for similar violations. When led by committed fighters, DFS can be a major boon in the fight against financialization.
Contrast Lawsky's record with Harris's own vision of what financial regulation should look like. "The way we tend to regulate financial services, and most industries in the United States, is—and I always took a little bit of an issue with this—it's sort of like the list of no-no's," Harris said last year in an interview with the University of Michigan's Ross School of Business. "It's like 'Go forth, free market, but here are the list of no-no's,' and then when somebody finds a new no-no you're like 'OK, we'll add that to the list of no-no's.' Instead of what I always thought was a better approach, which is 'What's the outcome you're looking to drive?' Is it financial inclusion? Financial health? Consumer protection? Whatever it is. And how do you work toward the affirmative outcome that you want?"
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This seems to especially irk Harris when it comes to fintech. "We're so used to thinking about financial services in the predatory sense. Then they [regulators] come to fintech and then they're like 'Okay, where's the hidden fee? Where's the icky thing?' Instead of approaching it, again, with this affirmative mindset," Harris said.
On the face of it, it's obviously important for regulators to know the underlying purpose of their framework. But a lot of people would say that regulators establishing "no-no's" and looking for "hidden fees" or "icky things" means they're doing their job, which isn't to take industry actors at their word. Regulators instead are supposed to think first of the public that could be harmed if industry is not being forthright—which, of course, it rarely is.
The "no-no's" are there first and foremost because there isn't really any other way to force compliance on a regulated entity without articulating what they can and cannot do. In addition, many forms of "financial innovation" are really new ways to exploit the public, either through hidden usurious interest rates or new ways of permitting gambling with other people's money. The "no-no's" are there to prevent financial exploitation, which is a need that only government can fulfill.
Case in point: fintech firms, including some that Harris herself cited. She told the Ross School that "frankly, I'm not sure I understand why" so-called payday advance apps like Brigit and Earnin are controversial, since they "are helping people get access to their earned, but not yet paid, wages," as an alternative to payday loans. Except Earnin was subpoenaed by DFS—the same agency Harris may soon lead—for its "tipping" policy, in which users are encouraged (and by default, set up to) tip the company on withdrawals, which translates into extremely high APRs. Moreover, while the firm claims users don't have to pay them back for the advances, those who do not are cut off from using the app in the future. This may not be a payday loan interest rate, but to a low-wage worker who can't access the tool unless they ante up (by default, for a high APR), it's a distinction without a difference. For its part, Brigit makes money through a $9.99-per-month subscription fee and caps loans at $250. Unless a user is very regularly in danger of overdrafting, it may not be worth the $120-per-year cost.
Apparently, Harris just doesn't get why regulators have to be so skeptical of the industry all the time.
Notably, Harris was an adviser to Brigit at the time she made those remarks, and was a limited-partner adviser to one of its venture capital backers, NYCA Partners. During the Trump years, Harris also partnered up with Homie, a firm that buys and sells houses in lightly regulated Utah; States Title, a machine-learning product for real estate agents; Carver Edison, which makes products for buying and selling stocks; and BOND.AI, which claims to have created an "empathy engine" for marketing financial products to consumers. She also joined the Brunswick Group, a D.C.-based lobbying and public relations firm, this March. Companies looking for her advice to help "future-proof" their operations through her "regulatory intelligence" and "political expertise" can also request a direct consultation on her website.
Harris likely got most of those jobs thanks to her role as the Obama administration's policy head on fintech. Her work culminated in a white paper titled "A Framework for Fintech," which is less of a framework and more of an ode to public-private collaboration. The word "innovation" appears 51 times.
The paper's section on potential systemic risks from fintech is one paragraph long, in which Harris gestures toward regulators collaborating on oversight while assuring readers that "fintech represents only a small part of the wider financial services sector at present." To prevent algorithmic bias, Harris writes that the government should merely "partner with the private sector" and "evaluate innovations that have the potential to mitigate bias," but not actually regulate or ban any harmful practices.
All of this matters, since Harris is now inheriting several regulatory regimes that run counter to her own stated beliefs about the purpose of regulation.
During his tenure as DFS superintendent, Lawsky developed one of the earliest virtual currency regulatory frameworks—New York's BitLicense. BitLicense's requirements touch on consumer protection, anti–money laundering and fraud, cybersecurity, capital requirements, and audit requirements. The muscular licensing regime has been widely panned by various crypto firms, and only 25 companies have received licenses since its introduction in 2015.
Linda Lacewell, one of Lawsky's successors, moved to loosen some of the licensing requirements in a bid to encourage more crypto firms to operate in the state. Nevertheless, Lacewell's DFS challenged the national bank regulator under Trump's "authority to grant SPNB charters to nondepository fintech companies." That case has been mooted, but that it was brought so recently underscores the stakes for fintech with having a friend or skeptic running DFS.
As Harris potentially enters office after extensive work with fintech startups, the key question is how her enthusiasm for the space may influence her development and enforcement of regulations.
Early reactions to her appointment show that industry players are excited to see a like-minded person take up the regulatory mantle. "No one knows the future of financial services better than Adrienne and her hiring is a real competitive advantage for NY," wrote Matt Homer, Harris's former colleague at NYCA Partners who runs their crypto strategy. Trump-era fintech regulator Daniel Gorfine called Harris "an excellent choice," and Obama-era Treasury appointee Alex Zerden agreed it was a "smart choice." Both Gorfine and Zerden now run "consultancies" (read: shadow lobbying shops) for fintech and crypto firms. It seems Harris is truly a bipartisan nominee; revolving-door profiteers on both the Democratic and Republican teams endorse her.
They may have, in Harris's words, an "affirmative mindset," but that shouldn't be shared by hardworking New Yorkers hoping not to get ripped off. And less optimistic still are the implications for the rest of the world, as the global hub of the financial industry lifts up one of fintech's darlings.
This article has been updated.
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Commander's Cup 2019 Golf Tournament Concludes Successfully at China Bay
The Sri Lanka Air Force and the Eagles' Golf Links hosted the Commander's Cup – 2019 Annual Golf Tournament, which was concluded today (19 January 2019) in the picturesque settings of China Bay, close to the harbour city of Trincomalee.
The tournament, played under the 'Handicap Rules' was open to all and started off at 0700 hrs with the participation of seventy six (76) enthusiastic golfers.
Mr. Janaka Thebuwana won the Commander's Cup 2019 securing the highest marks in the Gents Division of 32 points while Mrs. Manori Jayakody won the Ladies' Trophy with a total score of 31 points. Mr. Ken De Alwis was placed as the runner up of Gents Division with 28 points. Commander PM Munmullage (SL Navy) and Mr. Rohan De Silva received the award for the longest drive and Mr. Kris Krishnarjah received the award for the closest to the pin in the gents category. Leading Aircraftman Priyadarshani AMI and Mrs. Niloo Jayathilake took the honours for the longest drive in the ladies category.
The Air Marshal Kapila Jayampathy Challenge Trophy presented to members of the Tri-Services (Men's Category) was won by Leading Aircraftman Ranasinghe NGCA while Squadron Leader WMTGPS Wijekoon emerged as the Runner Up.
The awards were given away at a gala awards ceremony held at the 'Marble Beach Air Force Resort' during today's afternoon. The Commander of the Air Force, Air Marshal Kapila Jayampathy were present at the links and at the afternoon's Awards Ceremony to watch the golfers in action and to give away the awards.
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Oh, My Pop Culture Religion: The Leftovers Season 2
Posted on October 11, 2015 by mikelywhiplash
I first came aboard this blog, oh so many moons ago, with The Leftovers, HBO's enigmatic drama about life after the rapture-like Departure. Somehow, we're just now getting to Season 2.
You're probably not watching this show. Most people are not watching this show. But you should be watching this show. Yes, the name makes it hard to find on Tumblr, unless you're equally interested in tips on spicing up last night's dinner.
But you don't have to take my word for it. Bonus: the Ninth Doctor is in it! Remember how we all used to love that show with that guy?
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Season 2 uproots the cast from suburban New York to the small town of Jarden, Texas—the only place on Earth where not a single person was taken away. The Leftovers shares a creator with Lost, and both shows are famously stingy with the solutions to their riddles. So there are no answers to be found one episode into season two, but there are an awful lot of mysteries, with the same dark, Biblical imagery that powered the first season.
The inciting incident in The Leftovers is the sudden disappearance of two percent of the world's population—the Departure. While the event is obviously supernatural, the show offers no explanation. Parallels to the rapture in the Book of Revelation are obvious—and the show's characters react as such—but there is no confirmation, and dozens of competing prophets offer their own explanation. The major, direct Biblical reference is a long reading from the Book of Job, offered by Christopher Eccleston's Reverend Matt Jameson. In that context, the season became a meditation on the arbitrary, meaningless nature of tragedy.
Season 2 appears to pivot from tragedy to miracle. Matt has a new flock in Texas, and when introducing himself, he announces that his wife, Mary, has been miraculously cured just by arriving in Jarden. A questionable claim; she still appears catatonic in her only scenes. Jarden itself was entirely spared from the Departure, which earned it the not-at-all-on-the-nose nickname of "Miracle". Pilgrims come to Jarden seeking some kind of blessing or cure, even trying to buy vials of water from the river. Daily life in Jarden continues almost normally, but the cracks are getting harder to ignore. Literally: there are fissures in the streets, which have not been repaired, but walled off. The town is walled-off from the outside world, and visitors and migrants are carefully limited by the National Parks Service. A hermit takes up residence in a lofted hut above the town square, and goat sacrifices have become familiar in the diner. Their meaning remains unknown. The town fire department demolishes the home of a palm-reader named Isaac. The town's population is fixed at 9,261, one in, one out.
But since the Departure, nothing supernatural has clearly happened here. A single question looms over the premiere: Is Miracle for real? There's no answer yet. But the premiere is stuffed with Biblical allusions, pitched to a dark, ominous tone.
After all, we're in Jarden, an apparent portmanteau of the river Jordan and the word "garden". If that's too subtle, most of the episode is focused on a young woman named "Evie," and the only natural enemy of miraculous gardens are young women named Eve. Laying it on thick, Evie has a twin brother, Michael, and their new neighbors—the Garvey family of last season—have a foundling daughter named Lily. The archangel Michael, at least in Paradise Lost, expelled Adam and Eve from Eden and guarded its gates; Lily hints at Lilith, Adam's first wife according to Jewish myth and folklore. Add a snake—seen in a harrowing-but-inscrutable sequence set in prehistoric Jarden, and we're good to go here. That scene also recalls the punishment inflicted on women for Eve's sin, by graphically depicting a traumatic birth. Sure enough, by episode's end, Evie—and the Jarden river—have vanished without a trace.
But while these are grim portents of the season to come, it's not all negative, and the show may be tracking a new course this season. Evie's name, after all, isn't "Eve"—it's a nickname for Evangeline, meaning the bearer of good news; it has no etymological connection to Eve. Matt's foil this year appears to be Evie's father, John. Matthew and John, two of the Gospels, and once again, "good news". Even Michael, despite ominous connotations for the Garden itself, commands the heavenly host against Satan, and he talked Adam through the upsides of expulsion by the end of Milton. And maybe Mary really is getting better—Evie's mother Erika (Emmy-winner Regina King) observes the sudden recovery of a baby bird, and in at least some theories, all angels are named Erika.
People even appear happy for once:
So, again the question: are miracles real? Is Miracle real? I don't know. The Leftovers might never answer it for us; we're never going to know if Miracle is for real. The first episode keeps both possibilities in sight, and pairs hope and fear with an overriding tension. The desire for miracles to be real is inseparable from the fear that they are not. That fear generates a need to protect miracles at all costs, manifested by attributing missing miracles to a lack of faith or a deviation from a divine plan.
Isaac was a palm-reader; divination is condemned by Leviticus and becomes a possible source for losing miracles—a questionable sacrifice, given the result when Abraham tried to sacrifice Isaac. The fence seeks to preserve Jarden exactly as it was, lest there be some hidden variable which destroys their protection. The population is significant: the digits in 9,261 add up to eighteen, the Hebrew symbol for life. Change the number, lose the miracle?
There's a fable in the Han Feizi, written by a philosopher during the Warring States period in China, about a farmer who sees a rabbit run into a stump, full-speed, and break its neck, giving the farmer a free meal. Deciding that there was something very special about this stump, the farmer put aside his plow and watched the stump, waiting for another rabbit that never came.
In Jarden, they don't know if they're watching a stump or not. Are they waiting for another rabbit to chance on by, or is there something real that protects them?
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Karasuthedreamer on October 11, 2015 at 8:38 pm said:
I may have to check out this show. Are there any legal places to stream it online?
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Top 10 Retro First Person Shooters
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Probably the single most dominant gaming format for most triple-A titles today, first-person shooters stormed the video games industry when they were popularised by a title from id Software called DOOM.
But DOOM wasn't the first FPS, though it did take the genre to the heights it enjoys today. Depending on who you ask, first-person shooters either got their start with Wolfenstein 3D or as far back as 1987's MIDI Maze by Hybrid Arts for the Atari ST.
Regardless of the origins of the genre, most every fan of it knows about some of its bigger names – especially today. Halo, Call of Duty, Overwatch… even battle royale games like PlayerUnknown's Battlegrounds owe a lot to founding fathers of the FPS genre.
This list, however, is going to be about the top 10 retro first person shooter games. It consists of a smattering of PC and console titles as well as those that do not focus on story and those that build the entire game around it.
Here are the 10 top retro FPS games:
10. Descent
Developed by Parallax Software and Interplay Productions, this 3D space combat FPS will either induce thrills or vomiting depending on your tolerance for motion sickness. As one of the few early FPS games that truly placed the player in a three dimensional space, Descent is unique and, if you get used to it, a lot of fun. Considered a cult classic by many, Descent is buoyed mainly by its novelty and relative coherence as a game. During the FPS craze a lot of titles were released to cash in on it but only offered middling to abysmal gameplay in return. Descent is a solid game from top to bottom – it just might not be for everyone.
9. Heretic
Probably the first official "DOOM clone," Heretic is by id Software and
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Media Fail! Poll Shows More Voters Support Businesses Without Onerous Employee Vax Mandates
The liberal media have made it a mission to convince people that businesses need to mandate a COVID-19 vaccination on employees and infringe on freedom. Voters are rejecting the idea.
A newly released poll of 1,080 likely voters revealed that a 42.7 percent plurality of respondents were "more likely" (10%) or "much more likely" (32.7%) to do business with companies "NOT requiring employees [to] be vaccinated." Even more revealing in the poll by The Trafalgar Group — in partnership with Convention of States Action — was that the percentage of voters who were "much more likely" (32.7%) to do business with companies not requiring a COVID-19 vaccine dominated all other categories. Only 34.3 percent of voters in the poll said they were "less likely" (11.8%) or "much less likely" (22.5%) to do business with companies not requiring a COVID-19 vaccine.
The poll also found that a 43.2 percent plurality of independent voters were "more likely" (8.6%) or "much more likely" (34.6%) to do business with companies that don't have vaccine mandates.
The results of the poll flew right in the face of the media, many of whom have been playing the part of COVID-19 vaccination tyrants shaming businesses into forcing their employees to get the jab.
CNBC Squawk Box co-anchor Andrew Ross Sorkin virtue-signaled on Twitter in May: "For all the companies that say they want to better society...mandate the vaccine." Sorkin decried in an attached video how "the one thing [businesses have] been unwilling to do thus far, is to help themselves and to help society by mandating the vaccine."
See how Sorkin pontificated below:
Sorkin wasn't the only one pushing COVID-19 vaccine mandates. Bloomberg Opinion Senior Columnist Timothy O'Brien published an op-ed Aug. 6, outlining his demands: "All Companies Should Require Vaccines for Workers Now." Fortune Magazine promoted an Aug. 10 op-ed headlined: "It's time for CEOs to mandate COVID vaccinations for all employees." The Washington Post posted a ridiculous op-ed by Columnist Paul Waldman Aug. 23, headlined: "Time to say it: We're done with the vaccine refusers." CBS News ran a slanted story Aug. 24 headlined: "8 in 10 economists say employers should require vaccine." And not to be outdone, Bloomberg News ran an insane headline: "Get Shots or Get Out, U.S. Employers Are Telling Workers."
Convention of States Action President Mark Meckler said the poll's results show that where businesses stand will have consequences:
For corporations and businesses, being on the side of mandates will directly impact their bottom line. On a larger scale, this irrational push for compliance at all costs will have a negative impact on an already pandemic-challenged economy.
Conservatives are under attack. Contact ABC News (818-460-7477), CBS News (212-975-3247) and NBC News (212- 664-6192) and demand they report on Trafalgar's new poll.
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Q: Pass in object as prop react I have a function class:
function TopicBox({topicName, article1}) {
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{topicName}

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export default TopicBox

As you can see it takes in the props topicName, which is just a string, and article1 which is an object. article1 variable will have child components, such as .imageLink as seen on the last line of code. Now on another file called I want to create a topic box like such:
<TopicBox topicName="Hi"
                        article1={imageLink:"google.com",
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So again the topicName prop is just a string, so that works fine. Now I'm creating a new object called article1 that contains the child variable imageLink. However this code doesn't work. I get the following error:
Parsing error: Unexpected token, expected "}"

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So to debug, I tried replacing the : to a = when I create the child object, but I get another error:
'imageLink' is not defined.eslintno-undef

Can you please let me know how to pass in an object as a prop?
Thanks!

A: Try this way
<TopicBox
  topicName="Hi"
  article1={{ imageLink: "google.com", title: "hi" }}
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A: You can do it like this;
const article1 = {imageLink: "google.com", title: "hi"}
<TopicBox
  topicName = "Hi"
  article1 = {article1} />

Another way you can do this is by passing an object property as individual props using spread operator;
const article1 = {imageLink: "google.com", title: "hi"}
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Purchasing property in the UAE used to come with a few restrictions. In April of 2018, these restrictions were lifted and now non-GCC Arab nationals can purchase property in Sharjah without the need for a UAE resident Visa.
The topics around property exchange between developers, private citizens and expatriates aren't new in the UAE. The country is known as a real estate haven and home to some of the most coveted property listings in the world. But, what kept potential buyers on the fence were the restrictions that came along with purchasing property in the UAE, specifically in Sharjah, for non-GCC Arab nationals.
This was semi-addressed in 2014 with the government announcement that stated it was effectively opening their real estate market to foreign investment. Non-GCC Arab nationals were then able to purchase property in Sharjah with a rider requiring a residence Visa.
The decision was largely brought on by expat residents who worked and lived in Dubai but had been priced out of their current residences. The alternative was to purchase property in the nearby city of Sharjah, which has an up-and-coming property development scene with lower prices.
At the time, there were still restrictions under this law that only allowed investments to be made on the edge of the city center. These were designed to reduce traffic and produce pre-planned clusters of communities around the city's center. The first to offer leases in 2014 was Talal City.
For expat residents, the demand for a resident Visa was not permanent. Visas that expired after any purchases were made, did not affect the buyer's property. They were free to continue to hold the property, lease it or sell it at their discretion.
This year, a groundbreaking law was signed into effect allowing expatriates to purchase property in Sharjah without the need for the residence Visa rider.
According to the new regulations, a property can be purchased by expats on a leasehold basis and leased for a period of 100-years. Afterward, the lease will require a renewal.
GCC Arab nationals can purchase property on a freehold basis.
The initial program started in 2014 to expand foreign real estate investments in Sharjah began as a partnership between Sharjah Asset Managment (the government's investment arm) and Eskan Real Estate Development. The venture was called Tilal Properties.
Tilal City, Sharjah is comprised of zones A, B, C and D and sits on Emirates Road. Sharjah International Airport is within 10km of the city. Developers can look forward to a complete infrastructure already in place, which can usually take up to two years to complete before a developer can begin building.
There is approximately 24 million square feet of developed land waiting for investment. Infrastructure, including street lights, electricity, water, gas and sewage, are all taken care of, also knocking off up to 40 percent of investor costs along with the time eliminated to establish this.
Along with government approval and the ambitions of Tilal Properties, the market in Sharjah is considered stable and a smart investment for foreign nationals.


00:00 Caleb Thompson at goalie for Me.-Presque Isle.
Foul on SUNY Canton Dustin Brown.
Foul on Me.-Presque Isle Dakota Patterson.
09:41 Shot by UMPI Chris Udobi HIGH.
10:57 Corner kick by UMPI Parker Thompson [10:57].
14:37 Shot by CANTON Conner Morse, SAVE Caleb Thompson.
15:31 Shot by CANTON Kyle Smith, SAVE Caleb Thompson.
18:17 Corner kick by CANTON Kingsley Owusu [18:17].
18:33 Shot by CANTON Justin Gardner DEFENSIVE SAVE by Paul Kaplan.
19:16 Substitution!UMPI substitution: Jacob Worthley for Dakota Patterson.
19:16 Substitution!UMPI substitution: Stephen Cochrane for Parker Thompson.
23:34 Shot by CANTON Kevin Velasquez, SAVE Caleb Thompson.
24:28 Shot by CANTON E. Malinoski, Jr. WIDE LEFT.
24:34 Substitution!CANTON substitution: Connor Bruyn for Conner Morse.
27:37 Corner kick by CANTON Kingsley Owusu [27:37].
27:56 Substitution!CANTON substitution: Brett Anderson for Kyle Smith.
27:56 Substitution!UMPI substitution: Michael Brown for Chad Bartlett.
28:28 Substitution!CANTON substitution: Brett Anderson for Evran Akman.
Foul on Me.-Presque Isle Paul Kaplan.
29:04 CANTON E. Malinoski, Jr. PENALTY KICK GOAL, goal number 7 for season.
30:13 Shot by CANTON Pedro DeSouza, SAVE Caleb Thompson.
Foul on Me.-Presque Isle Chris Udobi.
34:36 Shot by CANTON Kyle Smith, SAVE Caleb Thompson.
36:25 Shot by CANTON Pedro DeSouza, SAVE Caleb Thompson.
Foul on SUNY Canton Pedro DeSouza.
38:42 Offside against Me.-Presque Isle.
Foul on Me.-Presque Isle Ansumana Morrow.
39:35 Substitution!CANTON substitution: Daniel DeSalvatore for Kyle Smith.
39:35 Substitution!CANTON substitution: Jun Ukemori for Pedro DeSouza.
39:35 Substitution!CANTON substitution: Eli Byrd for E. Malinoski, Jr..
Foul on Me.-Presque Isle Zach Boyle.
41:47 Shot by CANTON Dustin Brown WIDE RIGHT.
42:22 Corner kick by CANTON Kevin Velasquez [42:22].
42:51 Shot by CANTON Kingsley Owusu HIT CROSSBAR.
43:31 Corner kick by CANTON Kevin Velasquez [43:31].
43:56 Shot by CANTON Daniel DeSalvatore DEFENSIVE SAVE by Paul Kaplan.
44:02 Shot by CANTON Daniel DeSalvatore, SAVE Caleb Thompson.
44:11 Corner kick by CANTON Kevin Velasquez [44:11].
45:00 For UMPI: #3 Chris Udobi, #5 Andre Rossignol, #7 Zach Boyle, #9 Ansumana Morrow, #10 Lucus Husser, #11 Stephen Cochrane, #12 Dominic Green, #17 Chad Bartlett, #24 Paul Kaplan, #25 Jacob Worthley, #35 Caleb Thompson.
45:00 For CANTON: #3 Justin Gardner, #4 Kingsley Owusu, #9 Pedro DeSouza, #11 Connor Bruyn, #12 Will Austin, #13 Mouhammed Thiam, #15 Dustin Brown, #16 E. Malinoski, Jr., #19 Evran Akman, #20 Kyle Smith, #25 Conner Morse.
46:45 Shot by CANTON Kyle Smith DEFENSIVE SAVE by Paul Kaplan.
47:39 Shot by CANTON Justin Gardner, SAVE Caleb Thompson.
48:07 Shot by UMPI Ansumana Morrow, SAVE Mouhammed Thiam.
Foul on SUNY Canton Evran Akman.
50:44 Shot by UMPI Stephen Cochrane, SAVE Mouhammed Thiam.
52:07 Shot by UMPI Ansumana Morrow HIT POST.
Foul on Me.-Presque Isle Jacob Worthley.
53:52 Shot by CANTON E. Malinoski, Jr., SAVE Caleb Thompson.
54:25 Offside against Me.-Presque Isle.
55:10 Substitution!UMPI substitution: Michael Brown for Lucus Husser.
57:52 Corner kick by UMPI Stephen Cochrane [57:52].
60:36 Substitution!CANTON substitution: Eli Byrd for Dustin Brown.
60:36 Substitution!CANTON substitution: Daniel DeSalvatore for Conner Morse.
60:36 Substitution!CANTON substitution: Brett Anderson for Connor Bruyn.
61:09 Tyler Petersen at goalie for SUNY Canton.
61:13 Substitution!UMPI substitution: Parker Thompson for Chad Bartlett.
61:58 Shot by UMPI Andre Rossignol, SAVE Tyler Petersen.
63:58 Shot by UMPI Ansumana Morrow, SAVE Tyler Petersen.
64:46 Shot by CANTON Kyle Smith WIDE RIGHT.
67:21 Substitution!UMPI substitution: Jack Harrington for Zach Boyle.
67:21 Substitution!CANTON substitution: Jun Ukemori for Kyle Smith.
69:57 Offside against SUNY Canton.
70:29 Substitution!UMPI substitution: Zach Boyle for Andre Rossignol.
70:55 Corner kick by UMPI Parker Thompson [70:55].
72:26 Shot by CANTON E. Malinoski, Jr. WIDE RIGHT.
72:33 Substitution!UMPI substitution: Chad Bartlett for Parker Thompson.
73:15 Shot by CANTON Evran Akman HIGH.
74:19 Shot by CANTON Daniel DeSalvatore WIDE RIGHT.
74:25 Substitution!UMPI substitution: Stephen Cochrane for Dakota Patterson.
75:47 Shot by CANTON E. Malinoski, Jr. WIDE.
76:02 Substitution!CANTON substitution: Dustin Brown for Justin Gardner.
76:02 Substitution!CANTON substitution: Kenneth Kincaid for Will Austin.
76:02 Substitution!CANTON substitution: Connor Bruyn for E. Malinoski, Jr..
76:02 Substitution!CANTON substitution: Conner Morse for Kevin Velasquez.
76:02 Substitution!UMPI substitution: Andre Rossignol for Dominic Green.
76:40 Substitution!CANTON substitution: Seth Tharrett for Kingsley Owusu.
78:26 Substitution!UMPI substitution: Cameron Lahey for Jack Harrington.
78:26 Substitution!CANTON substitution: Kevin Velasquez for Eli Byrd.
79:38 Offside against SUNY Canton.
81:26 Substitution!UMPI substitution: Gabe Hunnewell for Chris Udobi.
83:24 PENALTY KICK by CANTON Brett Anderson MISSED, save Caleb Thompson.
84:01 Substitution!UMPI substitution: Dominic Green for Andre Rossignol.
84:01 Substitution!CANTON substitution: Justin Gardner for Daniel DeSalvatore.
85:22 Substitution!UMPI substitution: Mason Moro for Parker Thompson.


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Lisa Marie Nowak (de soltera, Caputo) es una ingeniera y exastronauta de la NASA, que formó parte en la misión del transbordador espacial Discovery, vuelo STS-121, como tripulante.

Datos personales
Nació el 10 de mayo de 1963 en Washington Distrito Federal. Está casada con Richard T. Nowak, de South Burlington, Vermont y tienen tres hijos. Los padres de Lisa son Alfredo y Jane Caputo y residen en Rockville, Maryland. En su juventud compitió como atleta. En la actualidad practica ciclismo, vela, tiro al blanco, cocina, coleccionismo de sellos de caucho y toca el piano.

En 2009, Nowak aceptó un acuerdo con el fiscal y se declaró culpable de los cargos de delito grave de robo de un automóvil y delito menor de agresión contra Colleen Shipman.

Trayectoria académica
 Graduada por la C. W. Woodward High School, de Rockville, Maryland, en 1981
 Titulada en ingeniería aeroespacial por la Academia Naval de los EE.UU. en 1985
 Máster en ingeniería aeronáutica por la Escuela Naval de Postgrado de los EE.UU. en 1992

Experiencia profesional
Obtuvo las alas de piloto naval en junio de 1987.
En 1993 fue seleccionada como piloto de pruebas y apta para trabajos de ingeniería espacial. En 1996 fue nominada para el programa de astronautas.
Tiene más de 1500 horas de vuelo, habiendo volado en más de 30 aeronaves diferentes.

Experiencia en la NASA
Desde agosto de 1996 hasta marzo de 2007, trabajó en la NASA y fue calificada como especialista de misión, en áreas de control de misión, comunicaciones y comunicador principal con los vuelos tripulados. Participó en el vuelo STS-121, lanzado el 4 de julio de 2006 con destino la Estación Espacial Internacional, completando 12 días, 18 horas y 36 minutos de vuelo orbital.

Acusación de intento de asesinato
El 7 de febrero de 2007 Lisa Nowak fue detenida y acusada , tras secuestrar y agredir a Colleen Shipman, mujer a la que consideraba su rival por el amor de otro astronauta, William Oefelein, que integró la tripulación del Discovery en una misión a la Estación Espacial Internacional.

Nowak quedó en libertad tras pagar una fianza de 25.500 dólares, pero las autoridades de la NASA dijeron que recibió un permiso de ausencia de 30 días y fue relevada de toda actividad.

La Fiscalía de Orlando aseguró que Nowak, armada con una pistola y un cuchillo, había viajado 1.500 kilómetros desde Houston (Texas) hasta el aeropuerto internacional de esa ciudad de Florida para secuestrar a Shipman y, posiblemente, asesinarla. Existe, entre las pruebas, un video en donde se la ve esperando a la víctima para atacarla.

Al concluir el permiso de 30 días otorgado por la NASA, y al no ser considerada oficialmente una empleada de la agencia, el 7 de marzo de 2007 la despiden regresándola a la Armada con su cargo actual de oficial de marina mientras enfrenta el proceso judicial. Su destino es la jefatura de escuela naval de vuelo de Corpus Christi, Texas. El caso se resolvió desestimándose los cargos de secuestro, con sentencia de un año de libertad condicional. Posteriormente fue dada de baja "menos que honorable" de la marina.

Referencias

Enlaces externos

 Biografía (en inglés)
 Entrevista previa al vuelo STS-121 (en inglés)
 Tripulación del STS-121 (en inglés)
 Noticia sobre la acusación de homicidio (El Mundo)
 La NASA despide a Nowak el 7 de marzo de 2007 (El Mundo)

Ingenieras
Mujeres en la tecnología
Astronautas de la NASA
Mujeres astronautas
Astronautas de Estados Unidos
Oficiales de la Armada de Estados Unidos
Personas con síndrome de Asperger
Nacidos en Washington D. C.

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With the announcement, Dell joins a growing array of vendors offering a secure browsing experience by similarly locking it down through virtualization.
The list includes HP, which likewise borrowed Mozilla technology and VMware, which has long since offered a "browser appliance" also built on the open source Web browser. There's also Checkpoint with its browser-independent ZoneAlarm ForceField.
While these big-name firms have all tried some form of virtualization layer to protect users from malicious attacks, a key difference with the new Dell Kace Secure Browser is the fact that it can also be integrated with Dell Kace's K1000 management appliance, providing enterprises with the ability to control Firefox instances to ensure that they remain in a safe state.
"In addition to containing the browser as a virtual application, we've also extended it to allow for Web filtering and the ability to limit what processes can or can't be started by the browser," Bob Kelly, senior product manager at Dell Kace, told InternetNews.com. "If you have a K1000, then the secure browser can be centrally deployed and administered from our Web-based console."
The Dell Kace Secure Browser itself is a free download and can also be used without the benefit of a K1000 appliance as a standalone, isolated browser.
But it's the additional security offered when the Secure Browser is coupled with a K1000 appliance that really ups the benefit to enterprise IT. Kelly said the appliance's management interface enables an enterprise administrator to monitor the status of running Firefox instances, as well as giving them the ability to remotely terminate a secure browser, reset Firefox instances to a default install state or restrict use based on time of day.
"The K1000 has its own client agent on machines that are managed and its own protocol that is used to communicate between the client and the server," Kelly said. "So we're just riding on our existing infrastructure for management of the secure browser."
The actual browser application sits on the user's local machine, Kelly said, so unlike a virtual desktop application that runs from a remote server, the Kace Secure Browser uses file and registry redirection to help enable the secure isolation.
In addition to threats such as malware downloads, Firefox, as is the case with all modern Web browsers, is also at risk from Web-based vulnerabilities, including Cross-Site Scripting (XSS), which could lead to unintended information disclosure.
Kelly explained that Dell Kace's offering also includes a site filtering capability, limiting the sites a user can visit to help mitigate the threat.
He added that standalone browser users can set site filtering policies for their local PC, while K1000 admins could set policy for an enterprise-wide deployment of secure browsers.
For the actual sandboxing of Firefox, Dell Kace is not using a third-party virtualization hypervisor. Rather, the solution leverages Kace's own file-redirection technology called virtual containers, which is an application virtualization solution.
The technology does not provide a full virtual machine: Instead, Kelly said, it provides a virtual filesystem and registry for one application.
The concept isn't necessarily new. Kev Needham, partner management at Mozilla, told InternetNews.com in an email that the Dell Kace effort is similar to HP's earlier work with Symantec's App Virtualization technology in 2008. He added that a number of virtualization organizations are interested in app virtualization.
"In theory, the virtualization app adds an additional layer of protection, effectively insulating the virtualized app from the host operating system," Needham said. "It's something that's of interest to corporate IT/businesses, less so in the consumer space.
For now, at least, the app in Dell Kace's approach to secure browsing is limited to Mozilla Firefox. However, the plan is to deliver a Microsoft Internet Explorer version in the future, according to Dell's Kelly.
"We're actually looking at doing Internet Explorer 6 next as a first version of IE, as it will offers a solution for those that are stuck behind on IE 6 due to Web application compatibility issues," he said.


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Austrotoma is a genus of sea snails, marine gastropod mollusks, unassigned to a family within the superfamily Conoidea.

Species
Species within the genus Austrotoma include:
 Austrotoma aguayoi (Carcelles, 1953)
 Austrotoma ampla Powell, 1942 †
 Austrotoma clifdenica Powell, 1942 †
 Austrotoma cryptoconoidea Powell, 1942 †
 Austrotoma deducta Marwick, 1931 †
 Austrotoma echinata Powell, 1942 †
 Austrotoma excavata (Suter, 1917) †
 Austrotoma eximia (Suter, 1917) †
 Austrotoma finlayi Powell, 1938 †
 Austrotoma gemmulata Powell, 1942 †
 Austrotoma gracilicostata (Zittel, 1865) †
 Austrotoma hurupiensis Dell, 1952 †
 Austrotoma inaequabilis Marwick, 1929 †
 Austrotoma indiscreta Finlay & Marwick, 1937 †
 Austrotoma kaiparaensis Powell, 1942 †
 Austrotoma lawsi Powell, 1942 †
 Austrotoma minor (Finlay, 1924) †
 Austrotoma molinei Marwick, 1931 †
 Austrotoma neozelanica (Suter, 1913) †
 Austrotoma nervosa Powell, 1942 †
 Austrotoma obsoleta Finlay, 1926 †
 Austrotoma prolixa Laws, 1940 †
 Austrotoma suteri (Cossmann, 1916) †
 Austrotoma toreuma Marwick, 1929 †
Species brought into synonymy
 Austrotoma scopalveus Finlay, 1926 † : synonym of Austrotoma minor (Finlay, 1924) †

References

External links
 Finlay H. J. (1924). The molluscan fauna of Target Gully: Part 1. Transactions of the New Zealand Institute. 55: 495-516


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In attendance: Jim Ayers, Ann Barbas, Gay Campbell, Oren Campbell, Jackie DeFazio, Tamara Drake, Pam Fredericksen, Allen Hall, Connie Hall, Gwen Hoistad, Martha Huyler, Rose King, David Menard, Ann Neupert, Patty Paddock, Karen Schmidt, Barbara Scott, Mike Shea, Susan Shea, Kaye Sodt, Liz Tarbet, Bill Thorn. 22 members present. This meeting was recorded with permission of the group with no objections.
Meeting was called to order 7:00pm by Vice President, Jim Ayers.
Vice President Report– Jim Ayers is also on the Library Advisory Board, and the discussion will also follow what we plan from this meeting. It would be pertaining to helping the Friends develop the membership dues wrapping it with a fundraiser that Connie Hall is going to propose tonight. Agenda reviewed for tonight's meeting: Mission Statement needs to be updated, Budget Needs to be formed, present a new way to make money.
Jim Ayers says to go ahead and make it so to do paper media notices available. No vote needed.
Gay Campbell mentions in the past we mailed to people. It wouldn't be a bad idea to mail a postcard once in a while to say we want to include you, here are the dates we meet.
Patricia Bloom: Phone tree can be timely, but postcard is very handy.
Barbara Scott likes the idea of the post card of the reminder, but also to include the details of the speakers, or upcoming programs. Getting on the computer can be very hard for some people.
Oren Campbell reminds us that if anyone has a speaker interested in talking to the friends, please see him afterwards.
Camano Library Report– David Menard, no report other than, we had some money left over from snack money for the Teens. He will forward it to another event as needed.
Art Committee Report- David informs the teen area art was hung today. It was donated from Duane Simshauser who offered any piece that he had, and the Art Committee agreed on this piece. It will be dedicated along with other pieces for the reading room and the children's area. The John Ebner and the Dan Koffman art piece are in process due for February or March.
Old Business: Imagination Library decision to support is going to be talked about in January.
Camano Chamber of Commerce: Ann Barbas mentions the renewal is due. Jim will send email will be sent to Lynn Fogg to pay for this.
Fundraising Proposal and Membership Approach: Connie Hall, chairman of fundraising, presents the concept to have a fundraiser that will support a robust budget of $12,000.00. It will be simple, non-labor intensive and easy to understand. It will acknowledge the givers who at any amount will be known as a friend. Sponsors and business, family, individuals, patrons will be acknowledging for their giving efforts as a commemorative annual magazine. This is done by many organizations such as the Opera or Housing Hope. The magazine will promote and show the community and givers how their money is making a difference. Such past events like the community ready (Tiger), summer reading programs, and literacy programs for adults are just a few.
In the past Connie Hall reminds us of their valiant efforts and labor intensive fundraisers. We are not interested in this approach! Instead we can model our fundraising efforts after the art fundraising where donors gave us money as tribute. We simply asked for contributions. It was the easiest way without a lot of effort. It was very successful.
THE PLAN: The idea would be that our dues could be wrapped into tiers of giving. It would be matched equally with the activities that we're going to do. It would be tracked throughout the year through a sophisticated database. Letters to donors would also be issued for tax purposes. At the end of the year, we would have a magazine. It would convey information that may convey: "With Your Contribution this is what we did! And this is how you helped our community". It would show the tiers of giving with donor's names, photographs of the events, and programs the Friends support to help bring value to the community. There are samples of what those brochures would look like, and Sno-Isle has offered their help to help publish this.
Tonight's main request from you is to ask your permission to go ahead with this to help raise money.
A robust goal of $12,000.00 for the first year is very attainable. The past fundraiser for the art coming into the Camano Library, raised $33,500 in a very short time of 5 months. (Part of it was from a grant). The asking of money is the simplest way to raise funds. It would include businesses and individuals who would be publically recognized. No small contribution or large contribution would be weighed in any differently. Weather you gave $10 or $1,000, you're still a friend of the library. The library board would dovetail the activities and be asked to help promote the library to show what the CILF does for the community. It will take some details, and some coordinating within the fundraising committee, but very possible. Connie has talked extensively with Jackie DeFazio, Rose King, and Jim Ayers about this idea.
Jim Ayers presents the idea of possibly having a monthly newsletter stating the names of "platinum" level members as we develop this. Example: for $10 you're a friend of the Library, for $100 you're a patron, for $1000 you're a God/Goddess f the library! No set details are finalized at this point. But sooner the better, because it's time to renew memberships!
Oren Campbell questions if you already sent in money for the membership, what will that categorize at? Connie responds, it would be go toward your tier, and automatically you are a Friend.
Oren C. expresses concern with elitism. As a group we should not looked down at anyone for giving small amounts. We don't want anyone to feel uncomfortable. Connie affirms, if you go to the Opera you see who gave money, or like the Housing Hope magazine it shows who gave, and how the money is being used. When you give to the Friends, no matter what amount, you become a Friend. And now the magazine will show how your money is being utilized to benefit the community.
Gwen Hoistad relays how she likes that now we would have a visual showing people what their money is being used for presently and in the future.
Liz Tarbet doesn't want this fundraiser to forego Ann Barbas Tea fundraiser that raises over $1,000 with a simple tea bag! Connie Hall responds that it wouldn't preclude it, in fact it would be tracked and be included in the giving. For example, the $20 that went for Tea, would be added to your contribution. If we don't have a way to track it, it is a disservice to the donor! With this proposal and using the database, now we will have some accountability.
Allen Hall reminds us that in the past we've done poorly. For example a gentleman gave $2,000.00 to the library auction who was not present. Later, he was given a thank you letter, but he wasn't recognized publically. By having a magazine with tiers, this is a great way be able to recognize contributions.
Martha Huyler voices her concern that we need to have our mission statement in place before asking money. We need to have clear picture of the mission. What are the friends of the library? What is our role? How much money we need to reach a portion of that mission? What is our plan outlining how we are going to do it? Connie explains, yes, I agree the mission statement should be the driving the fundraiser, but at the same time, we need to start having a way to make money. In order to have a budget, we need to have a way to make money, which coincides with knowing how much money we project to make, and how we can support programs within our mission. Connie recognizes Martha having wonderful ideas, and perhaps she could help on the mission statement.
Martha H. mentions we had a goal to have a building, and we got it, but trying to figure out what we're doing here. Connie informs that David M. has some projected estimates for the library. We have to raise money, and we need a way other than book sales. We currently have about $10K. If we don't have a plan to make money (a vehicle) to facilitate reaching our goals, and a budget. They all go hand in hand. If you'd like to help with the mission statement please sign up. Jim Ayers interjects we need to do all 3 of outlining the budget, plan to make money, and how we are going to spend it. We need to get going on it.
David Menard gives estimate for Library $9,000.00 will be needed for Teens: $2K; summer programming (Steam) $2-3K; adult programming: $4K. In January this estimate will be asked to be approved to support the Camano Library.
Ann Neupert brings up a point that we are all too busy to help with a fundraiser. We don't have time to beg for auction items. Haul books here and there. This is an easy way to write a check with not a lot of effort. And it lets us have time for other things in our lives.
Martha Huyler brings up we need someone like the Treasurer to track the funds. Liz Tarbet mentioned that she did that with membership on a spreadsheet. Connie informs us that we will need a special database system. Martha: Single checks are easy to track, but if extra $10 cash…that will be more difficult to track. She gave examples from dog washes at CASA.
Jackie DeFazio thinks we should not have multiple fundraisers going on at the same time. It may burn people out. If we decide to do a tiered giving, we should do that after the mission statement is done, not before. She agrees with Martha if we're going to change the mission statement, we need that first. Then we go public with the plan after we figure what the tiers are, and what they are going to fund. If you don't, it may hurt our credibility of the Friends.
Connie Hall agrees credibility is very important because like what Allen H. said, when people give money and want to handle it correctly or you get yourself in trouble. Once it is set up, it will be fairly invisible.
There's no guarantee if this is going to work, but what Connie can tell us, is that she's studied over 200 samples for over a year. This is going to be something the fundraising committee is going to be trusted with to go move forward quickly. If every detail is presented to the group of every decision needed, it will move very slowly. Let the committee go forth with this. Yes, it is a different concept, and this would be a great way to show the community how the funds of the library are being spent making a difference in our community. Our last mission was to become permanent, now let's show the community what we can do!
Martha Huyler: Would it be yearly? Connie: Yes! This is not accumulative. All donations will be tracked on a database. A letter would be sent out, saying thank you for being a friend.
Ann Neupert: Would we also get letters for the IRS? Connie: Yes.
Since it is a fundraising committee, a show of hands is all that is needed to move this concept forward (not a vote). Jim Ayers requested a show of hands to support of this idea of fundraising that wraps dues in with donations to support the Friends. It would have tiers of giving and a commemorative annual magazine recognizing the donors and showing what the Friends of the Library does for the community. A brochure would first be made to introduce this concept.
A majority of hands were raised; therefore the concept has been given permission from the Friends.
Connie states, she will be in touch with the fundraising committee to proceed on this. Thank you!
Budget Committee: Jim mentions that it's been very clear that we want a budget. Several people have voiced interest to have a budget, so a signup sheet is going around to help with this decision. It would formulate what our immediate goals and stretched goals would be for the future.
In partnership with Sno-Isle Library, the Camano Island Library Friends will enhance library services and programs through community support.
It's a start, but needs work to fully include our goals. We need your help!
We want the community to be involved with the teen programs. We want to outreach. What could the library do for teen suicide? –was a request from a high school member. Sno-Isle has mission and value statements available.
David Menard reads the By-laws of the Friends: Article 2: Purpose, Section 1.
CILF has been organized exclusively for charitable purposes to support and enhance library services in partnership with Sno-Isle.
General response was that is well put, however, Jim is hoping to see more verbiage such as "to enhance the life of Camano Island". And Martha H. suggests throwing little individual things in there to support.
Jim suggests the committee comes back with 3 or 4 ideas for it and we will work it out at a general meeting.
Meeting adjourned 7:48pm. We enjoyed our time socializing afterwards with Christmas deserts and exchanging books!
Next Meeting: January 28th, 7pm.
Program Speaker: Sherri Graham from the Sylvan Learning.
Come learn about what the Sylvan Stem Course can provide for our kids! Sylvan offers cutting –edge STEM classes for your child. These are great after-school activities that help kids learn critical skills for the future. We will be explaining our new robotics and coding classes. And we will be showing a robot from the robotics course as well as a sample of the coding class. We look forward to seeing you there at the Camano Library Friends meeting, January 28, 7pm.


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basket fern
Drynaria rigidula - Some Magnetic Island Plants
detail of fronds
Drynaria rigidula
(Sw.) Bedd. 1869
pronounced: dry-NAR-ee-uh rig-ID-yoo-luh
common name: basket fern
Drynaria comes from the Greek δρυς (drys), the oak tree, referring to the oak-shaped fronds; rigidula is from the Latin rigidus, stiff, with rigidulus its diminutive– a little stiff.
Basket ferns occur in eastern Queensland and north-eastern NSW, although they are very rare in NSW – indeed, they were thought to be extinct there, and have only recently been rediscovered in tiny numbers and in only 3 locations. It is a very adaptable species: it grows on trees in rainforest and tall open forest, where it can form huge colonies high in the canopy, where it often serves as shelter for amethystine pythons (Morelia amethistina) and scrub pythons (Morelia kinghorni). In the 19th century, the Norwegian explorer Carl Sofus Lumholtz observed indigenous peoples scaling trees to reach colonies of these ferns for the purpose of hunting the pythons. The fern can also grow on rocks in more open areas, where it can form huge clumps. It grows as a much smaller plant sporadically amongst rocks in open forest, where it is probably kept from developing into big clumps by regular fire. It can also be found growing in the ground in poor sandy soils of old dune formations in locations such as Hinchinbrook Island in Queensland. This last form is a little different from the others, in that it has considerably larger basal fronds – indeed, it may be taxonomically different.
The fern has two types of frond: fertile foliage fronds and sterile nest fronds. The dark green foliage fronds are large, anything up to 120 cm or even longer, with elongated stalks. They are deeply lobed or pinnate, winged, and bear sori on the lower surfaces. The sori are round, 1 – 2 mm in diameter, in one row on each side of the costa.
The nest fronds, narrowly ovate to ovate, are smaller rounded leaves, basal to the foliage fronds. They do not bear sori, and persist after turning brown and dying. They form a sort of basket around the base of the plant, and collect litter and organic debris that decomposes into humus to provide the plant with nutrients.
Drynaria possess specialized nectaries on the bases of the frond lobes or the undersides of the fronds. The produced nectar is rich in sugars and amino acids. The function of the nectaries may be to attract ants or other organisms, or they may merely be excretory organs for exuding surplus metabolic products.
The rhizomes that attach Drynaria to tree or rock are about 1 cm thick, creeping, and densely covered in brown scales.
Basket ferns are found from equatorial Africa to tropical south and east Asia and Oceania, as well as in Australia. The ferns photographed are growing on Phoenix palms in the parkland at the southern end of Picnic Bay.
Photographs takin in Picnic Bay 2014
Page last updated 16th December 2018


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In a faith move, the evolving ministry team of Praise Temple Family Worship Center aspiring to purchase a church to start a ministry began negotiations with the realtor and Foursquare Church. The three minister's came up with $750.00 to use as earnest money to secure a bid on the church. After weeks of negotiations, Pastor Dean locked in on an agreement with the Foursquare to purchase the property and buildings.
In 2006 Pastor Dean met with Mr. Lynn Dean from Carolina First Bank in Shelby NC to discuss getting a loan to purchase and start a church in Dallas NC. the Bank processed all the ministry's loan applications for the loan request. At first, things didn't seem to be going well in the loan request. Mr. Dean advised that not all the loan applicants qualified to be part of the principal signers of the loan and that the loan request would have to be further reviewed and approved by the bank. Mr. Dean indicated that the loan would probably have to be processed with primary signers and co-signers as guarantors and that he would get back to the ministry when the bank completed its review.
Several weeks went by with no response from Carolina First Bank. Then on a Friday Mr. Dean contacted Pastor Dean and advised that the loan for the church would be closing on February 01 2006. The ministry team met with the bank, the realtor, and lawyers in Shelby, NC and closed on the loan. At the closing God's hand began to work in the ministry. A small church out of Georgia had sent $2000.00 up to help the church in its account. The realtor's father handling the contract had made two wooden offering plates for the church and he put the first $200.00 offering in them at the loan closing. The Foursquare church gave PTFWC its $750.00 back and the church was purchased with almost $100,000.00 in equity in it at the very onset of the ministry.
In February 2006 the newly formed ministry team and about seven other families began the transformation of the old Foursquare church into the new ministry of PTFWC. For weeks the work was hard and fierce, but the families worked diligently. On March 19, 2006 the first service of PTFWC was held. With over 100 in attendance at the first service, and the energy and excitement was full of Christ's love. The ministry was started with amazing support, sacrifice, love and a move of God. Two individuals gave their hearts to the Lord that morning.
The church continued to grow and move forward in Christ. In 2015 PTFWC became "self-sufficient" and the church was refinanced under the Church's name, and is now managed and operated under the church by-laws.
On May 17th of 2015 Rev. Dean and Lea Anne Harris became the Senior Pastors of the church as the former minister resigned. Rev. Jimmy and Vickie Sanders jointed the Pastor's team in May 2016 as Pastors of the church to support, help manage and continue the great work of Christ in the Gaston County area.
Rev. Lance Jimison in June 2015 joined the ministry as the Youth Pastor bringing a creative and fresh word to the youth of the church.
Dean and Lea Anne Harris
Jimmy and Vickie Sanders
Becky Staggs
Children's Ministry director
Praise Team Ministry
Nancy Newman
Praise Team Ministry director
Lea Anne Harris
Mime Ministry
Mime Ministry director
Youth Ministry director
Men's Ministry director
Praise Temple Family Worship Center
109 West Church Street Dallas, NC 28034 United States


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