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As part of the six-month Graduate Certificate program in Documentary Filmmaking at the George Washington University, the 2010 class was divided into two teams and each would make a short documentary during the last two months of the program.
After hours of heated debates, voting and re-voting among the sixteen topics proposed by our eight-member team, we decided to make the film about the previously incarcerated people's reentry into society. Except for our Director of Research who pitched this topic, most of us were fairly clueless about the issues we were to explore. Nevertheless, we were all drawn to the universal themes of human struggle, social prejudice, despair and hope, fear and security, and the meaning of freedom.
Given that we had to complete the film within two months, the chosen approach of the film is to compile a collective group of voices that are representative of the common experience of this population rather than creating unique and intimate individual profiles. We reached out to numerous non-profit organizations and government agencies to help us identify the people we would include in our film.
As we raced to film one interview after another and as our tapes started piling up, we were drowned in the issues we uncovered but not expected at the onset. For example, racial inequality imbedded in sentencing guidelines, the political reality that leads to over-incarceration, vicious cycle within the family, just to name a few. What theme(s) to focus on and how to structure the film became the biggest challenge for us all.
We eventually decided to deliver what we felt most strongly about during the course of the filmmaking – we have met a lot of amazing people whose determination to turn their lives around was truly inspiring and yet they are struggling against huge odds to make it in the world. They are human beings just like us. We feel it's our film's mission to bring down the barrier between "us" and "them", to demonstrate that the issues they are facing are also the issues of every citizen, to ultimately ask the viewers "What role can each of us play in finding the solutions?"
Our team consists of eight energetic men and women coming from all walks of life with diverse cultural and professional background, broad world views and vastly different personalities. Looking back at all the late nights we worked together, laborious discussions we went through and times we hated and loved each other, we have found the filmmaking process has been indeed a self-discovery journey that will have lasting impact on all of us for years to come.
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## Общие принципы генерации форм

Для каждой формы генерируется 3 файла: aspx-разметка, code-behind и designer-код.
Эти файлы генерируются на основании присутствующих в WebAppTemplate текстовых шаблонов, представляющих собой файлы с соответствующими расширениями. Например, для формы редактирования используются файлы `EditForm.aspx`, `EditForm.aspx.cs` и `EditForm.aspx.designer.cs`.<br>
Шаблоны эти можно редактировать вручную, используя следующие обозначения для указания, куда надо вставить те или иные значения для генерации:

* `@Formname@` - имя файла формы (без расширения).
* `@Codebehind@` - имя файла codebehind (без расширения). Используется в aspx-файле. Совпадает с `@Formname@` по значению.
* `@Namespace@` - пространство имен класса генерируемой формы.
* `@Classname@` - имя класса генерируемой формы.
* `@Classcaption@` - заголовок типа, отображаемого на форме.
* `@Formpath@` - относительный (серверный) путь к генерируемой форме.
* `@Typename@` - имя типа, отображаемого на форме.
* `@Viewname@` - имя представления, заданного для генерируемой формы.
* `@Editor@` - путь к форме редактирования (для списковых форм).

## Генерация с учётом пакетов

Чтобы структурировать папки, в которые будет выполнена генерация форм можно применить механизм разбивки по пакетам. Для этого у класса формы в CASEBERRY нужно указать свойство Packet. Это свойство будет использоваться для указания папки, в которую будет выполнена генерация файлов формы для этого класса. Эта папка будет находиться в папке forms проекта. В названии пакета нельзя использовать символы, которые недопустимы для имён файлов и путей до файлов. К свойству Packet транслитерация не применяется.

Примеры значений свойства `Packet`:

* Папка1
* Папка2\Папка 8

Если свойство Packet не указано, то файлы форм будут генерироваться в папку с именем объекта данных, для которого эта форма создана. При этом имя класса будет транслитерировано.

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The trouble is, Blair doesn't seem to grasp how far his credibility has been ruined. Between the Iraq War and his unseemly money-grubbing after leaving office, Blair's stature has become negative. His endorsement of a cause actively harms it. If he loves the UK and wants to help it, I think he would be best advised to take a vow of silence.
Leaving aside the qualities of the messenger, I must confess I'm not very optimistic about the chances of averting Brexit.
Who is available to lead an anti-Brexit campaign? Blair, as previously noted, is worse than useless. There are plenty of other retired or semi-retired grandees, from Gordon Brown to Ken Clarke to Vince Cable, but there are good reasons why they are out of front-line politics. I don't think they have it in them to mobilise an insurgency, even a decorous and well-mannered British one.
Among active politicians, Labour is consumed by internal divisions, and the leadership is ambivalent on Europe at best. The SNP is playing its own game; it hopes to parlay the disruption of Brexit into independence for Scotland, and has no particular interest in repairing damage done to the UK. The Liberal Democrats are doing their best; but after their near-wipeout in the 2015 election, they lack the numbers or authority to make their voices heard.
As for the Conservatives, they have long been a party that puts power first and principles second. Last year, they won a parliamentary majority for the first time in 23 years; but it was a majority of only 12 seats, gained on a feeble 37% of the vote. Their mandate to govern was shaky at best.
Now, the Tories scent something bigger and better: A landslide victory in 2020, securing a decade or more of unfettered power.
Parliamentary boundary changes will work to the Tories' advantage. The Labour party is weak and divided, as is UKIP. In a recent poll, the Conservatives held an 18 point lead over Labour, of 47% to 29%. Under the first-past-the-post electoral system, this is more than enough to give the Tories a stupendous parliamentary majority.
To secure this prize, all the Tories have to do is remain united and hold on until 2020, when the new parliamentary boundaries will be in effect. There are plenty of Conservatives who campaigned to remain in the EU, with varying degrees of enthusiasm; but they remember the long years in opposition and coalition. The party line supports Brexit, and they are not going to rebel now. Conversely, a substantial minority of Conservatives will fight with everything they have to secure Brexit. They would willingly break the Conservative party to do so, and everyone knows it.
Avoid economic meltdown, insofar as it is compatible with objective (1).
Lucifer may have said it was better to reign in hell, than to serve in heaven; but May is no fool. She remembers the financial crises faced by Gordon Brown in 2008, and by John Major on Black Wednesday in 1993, and understands she will not reign for long unless she is seen as a responsible manager of the economy.
The Prime Minister has a narrow line to walk. The first objective requires party unity, and the only possible way to achieve that is an unequivocal commitment to Brexit. The second requires productive trading relationships with the EU; protection for industries dependent on the European market, such as banking and car manufacture; and openness to European labour, where it is essential for the functioning of the economy.
May will try to square this circle by delivering something that can plausibly be called Brexit, including controls on immigration. At the same time, she will trim, fudge, and compromise wherever possible to minimise the economic damage. We are already seeing this with Nissan's decision to keep production in the UK, which depended on unspecified but presumably strong assurances from the British government.
It's a dispiriting prospect. About the best that can be said for it is, it's better than a headlong rush to leave the EU without heed of the consequences.
It may be that some massive shift in public opinion will compel May to change course, but I don't see it happening. Unfortunately, she has another three and a half years before she has to call a general election, which is more than enough time for the formal completion of Brexit.
At a moment of historic weakness for Labour and the Liberal Democrats, the Conservatives see an opportunity and are prepared to take it. It amounts to a perfect storm in favour of Brexit. We are left to hope that not too many of our homes and livelihoods will be swept away.


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Excerpt from Gil Bailie's Violence Unveiled: Humanity at the Crossroads (New York: Crossroads, 1995), the first several sections of chapter 11, "His Snares Are Broken," pages 201-210.
From an anthropological point of view, the uniqueness of the Gospels is structural. They perfectly reproduce and then decode the "Generative Mimetic Scapegoating Mechanism" [Robert Hamerton-Kelly's phrase to describe the Girardian version of the "powers and principalities"] by which human cultural systems have been structured since "the foundation of the world." The Gospels show, for instance, the underlying relationship between the conviction of the crowd and the "convict" at its center, between adulation and accusation, between violence and religion, and so on. At the narrative level, the level at which Christian believers revere the texts, the Gospels present us with a man whose relationship with God was so utterly profound, unique, and mysterious that the ordinary meaning of the word "relationship" broke down under the weight of it; a man whose incomparable understanding of the human dilemma could in no way be explained by reference to learning or genius or wisdom or experience. In this chapter, I will reflect on the issue of Jesus' understanding of his own mission and the forces against which he had to contend in trying to share that understanding with the rest of us.
John the Baptist, one of the most charismatic figures of his age, slammed into first-century Palestine's cauldron of religious and social agitation with shattering force. The role he played in the onset of Jesus' ministry was profound. John's effect on Jesus' awareness is summed up in the first words John speaks in the New Testament. Preaching in the outlying regions of Judea, John proclaimed: "Repent, for the kingdom of heaven is close at hand." Upon his own return from a period of desert solitude, one probably modeled on John's, Jesus repeated these words virtually verbatim.
When Pharisees and Sadducees came to John for baptism, he rebuked them: "Do not presume to tell yourselves, 'We have Abraham for our father,' because, I tell you, God can raise children for Abraham from these stones" (Matt. 3:7-9). For John, the religious pedigree was next to worthless as an amulet for warding off the historical reckoning he sensed was about to occur. Just as Israel's great prophets of an earlier age had appeared at a time of crisis to challenge the religious and social routines of their age, so John stood as an unmistakable rebuke to the conventional Judaism of his day. "Implicit . . . in John's whole movement," writes Edward Schillebeeckx, "is an unprecedented disavowal of the Jerusalem Temple cult and propitiatory sacrifices." (1) To pious fellow Jews -- whether of the Temple cult, the sectarian, or the politically zealous variety -- John's dismissal of Jewish distinctiveness represented a vehement attack on the centerpiece of their religious lives.
In the physical isolation of the desert, John had been far enough removed from the routine social fascinations to see how ultimately meaningless were the social and religious melodramas for which these fascinations served as the thematic warp and woof. Immediately after his baptism by John, Jesus headed straight for the lonely wilderness from which John had so recently returned with his vision of another reality.
The Devil and Satan
There can be little doubt that the most profound religious experience of Jesus' early ministry -- the one that brought that ministry into existence and into public view -- was Jesus' baptism by John at the Jordan. As embarrassing as it was for the early Christian community to have to admit that the man they claimed to be the messiah had so publicly deferred to another popular religious reformer, we can be sure that the story was not fabricated. Most likely, Jesus later reminisced with his friends and followers about the baptism and how it figured in his subsequent mission, and the evangelists worked these reminiscences into the narrative accounts of Jesus' baptism as they now appear in the Gospels. Were Jesus to tell his listeners that it was at the Jordan baptism that he first felt the power of God's call, it would be quite natural for Matthew to express it the way he did:
As soon as Jesus was baptized he came up from the water, and suddenly the heavens opened and he saw the Spirit of God descending like a dove and coming down on him. And a voice spoke from heaven, "This is my Son, the Beloved; my favor rests on him." (Matt. 3:16-17)
Practically while these words calling him God's son were still echoing, the Gospels tell us that Jesus went to the desert to be alone, to pray, and to struggle with the practical implications of the profound experience that accompanied his baptism in the Jordan. Since Jesus was alone during his desert retreat, had he not later spoken of it to his friends and disciples, nothing would be known of it. Furthermore, both Jesus and his disciples would have tended to understand his desert experience in terms of its religious and scriptural reverberations. Jesus' forty-day period of trial, for instance, obviously parallels the Israelites' forty years of Exodus wanderings and the numerous scriptural echoes of it. And yet, as we shall now see, it is as much with the book of Genesis as with the book of Exodus that the wilderness story coincides. Matthew's version of Jesus' trials in the wilderness begins:
Then Jesus was led by the Spirit out into the wilderness to be tempted by the devil. (Matt. 4:1)
According to the synoptic accounts, at his baptism Jesus experienced being called "God's son." The devil begins each of his temptations with the words: "If you are the Son of God ...." The devil tempts Jesus in precisely the same way that the serpent tempted Eve in the Genesis story. Just as Adam and Eve -- made in God's image -- were lured into envying God and striving to acquire that which would make them God's equal, Jesus is tempted to "grasp at divinity" by a dazzling display of messianic power. The devil in the wilderness and the serpent in the garden both advertise their alluring offerings in the same way. In both stories, the "tempter" tempts by mimetic suggestion, and both stories revolve around whether or not one can remain God-centered enough in the presence of these mimetic decoys to be able to resist them.
In the desert, Jesus was tempted by the devil, the diabolos in Greek. This was a fairly common term for the demonic force in New Testament times, but it is a particularly apt one for understanding the forces against which Jesus contended throughout his public ministry. The prefix dia means across, and bollo means to throw or cast. It means one who maligns, or slanders, or sows discord and division. The devil breeds animosity; he sows resentment. The New Testament personifies the diabolic force, and there is a good argument for doing so. By personifying the diabolic, we can better appreciate the autonomous way in which it actually functions. Since, however, demonizing is one of the devil's most devious tricks, the mere fact that we personify the demonic involves certain dangers. Care must be taken. If, according to André Gide, the greatest ruse of Satan is to convince us that he does not exist, according to René Girard his second greatest ruse is to convince us that he does. In any case, one gets closer to the reality of this strange and compelling force by speaking and thinking of "the devil," as the New Testament often does, than by trying to account for it in abstract terms or by invoking the familiar sociological or psychological idioms of our time. I will therefore follow the New Testament and personify the demonic force.
There is an unmistakable link between the call Jesus experienced at his baptism and his solitude in the desert that immediately followed the baptism. The story of the "temptations" is a story about Jesus wrestling with the nature of his vocation. It is as valid an affidavit as we will ever have for the mental and moral breakthrough that was to set Jesus' ministry apart from that of other religious reformers of the time. In the desert, he rejected the temptations to turn his vocation into a religious sideshow, or to undertake yet another campaign of social or religious reform. He was tempted to turn stones into bread, to throw himself down from the parapet of the Temple, and to worship the devil in return for "all the kingdoms of the world."
Matthew and Luke relied on the same source in constructing their respective accounts of the wilderness temptations. In Luke's version of the temptations, we read that "leading him to a height, the devil showed him in a moment of time all the kingdoms of the world" (4:5). Luke understood that what appears as a "very high mountain" in Matthew's Gospel was a metaphor, not for a panoramic vista, but for a moment of lucidity. He used the Greek word stigme, which comes from the verb meaning "to prick" or "to pierce," and is often translated as "in a moment of time." I feel that Luke provides the better account of the moment of clarity with which the trial by diabolic suggestion was brought to an abrupt end, while Matthew provides the better account of the reply that explodes out of the mouth of Jesus at that moment. (2)
If it is not just a frivolous figure of speech, what might the gospel mean when it says that Jesus saw all the kingdoms of the world in an instant? Since Luke has replaced a spatial reference with a temporal one, the reference to "all" kingdoms implies all that have ever existed and all that ever will. To see all such kingdoms in an instant of time can refer only to one thing, namely, a flash of insight into the nature of these kingdoms, a revelation about the nature of human culture itself. With the sketchy accounts of the wilderness temptations as a hint and with the whole of Jesus' public ministry as a ramification of that hint, one can say that in the desert Jesus decoded the metaphysics of power and came to understand the demonic mechanisms by which culture itself is convened and perpetuated. Please note: this revelation need not have been a conceptual one in order to have been decisive for the life of the man to whom it was revealed. It wasn't so much that Jesus had a concept, but rather that he apprehended the illusory and beguiling nature of the pre-conceptions upon which all cultures depend. All that the Gospels tell us of this revelation is that the kingdoms with which Jesus was "tempted" were at the disposal of the devil. Whatever the "kingdom of God" meant -- and it was Jesus' central proclamation -- it did not mean a more magnificent or more Jewish version of the kingdoms of "this world."
There was nothing in Jesus' subsequent ministry to suggest the kind of Gnostic contempt for the material order that some later Christian sects adopted, but neither did Jesus concede any ultimate significance to conventional human culture. As Marcus Borg writes, "the Teaching of Jesus is world denying; indeed, the world of culture as the center of existence comes to an end." (3) According to Borg, "Jesus called his hearers to a life grounded in Spirit rather than one grounded in culture." (4) The poet W. H. Auden remarked wryly that culture was one of the things that belong to Caesar. Like nature, it is to be given its due, and one ought to be grateful for its blessings, but the worship of culture is just as pagan as the worship of nature, and just as likely to lead to the sacrificial altars.
What was really at stake in the wilderness comes to the surface at the end of the temptations. In Matthew's version, the last temptation evoked from Jesus a powerful repudiation:
Then Jesus replied, "Be off, Satan! For scripture says:
You must worship the Lord your God and serve him only."
Then the devil left him, and angels appeared and looked after him.(Matt. 4:10-11)
This is the first use of the term Satan in Matthew's Gospel. Until this moment, the tempter was referred to only as "the devil," the diabolos. The fact that the terms satan and diabolos are used interchangeably in the New Testament has tended to obscure the structural significance of their interplay in Matthew's account of the wilderness temptations. The force with which the exclamation "Be off, Satan!" exploded from Jesus cannot be explained merely as moral exasperation. For that matter, one could argue that morally exasperating temptations hardly qualify as temptations at all. The force of Jesus' "Be off, Satan!" is not the result of exasperation or moral revulsion alone. It is the result of a sudden recognition. It is spoken by one who has just fully recognized the identity of his interlocutor.
As I said earlier, Satan is a Hebrew term that means "the accuser." The two terms -- diabolos and satan -- can be seen as the two complementary manifestations of the forces of delusion, despair, and violence. The diabolos sows discord by arousing mimetic passions and then exacerbating the social tensions and the psychological apprehensions that accompany such passions. The diabolos produces all the psychosocial complications for which Girard's mimetic theory so ably accounts. The fundamental tool of the diabolos is what the author of the book of Wisdom called "the devil's envy," the mimetic incentives that generate the delusions and distractions of the social melodrama. At the critical moment, when these passions have sown enough frenzy and reduced a society to pandemonium, the diabolos changes its modus operandi. The diabolos becomes the Satan. Suddenly, the accusing finger points, and a violent avalanche is set in motion, the end result of which is a pile of stones, a glorious memory, and the rudiments of yet another of the kingdoms of "this world." What Hamerton-Kelly calls the Generative Mimetic Scapegoating Mechanism -- a synonym for diabolos/satan -- "generates" such kingdoms, but if its spellbinding myths were ever shattered, "this generation" would have to account for all the blood it shed since the foundation of the world.
What the diabolos divides, satan unites, minus the victim that makes the union possible. It makes sense, then, to say that in the desert Jesus discovered that social division and social unanimity had the same source, and that it was demonic. By recognizing both the essential link between the diabolos and satan and the subtle difference in their roles, Jesus of the synoptic Gospels accomplished an unparalleled anthropological breakthrough, and much of his ministry can be understood in light of it.
The English poet John Milton wrote of Jesus' temptations in the wilderness in his Paradise Regained. For Milton, it was in renouncing the temptations in the desert that Jesus destroyed the satanic power. For Milton the crucifixion was the public expose of the perverse truth of human sinfulness that Jesus had deciphered and conquered in the wilderness. After Jesus renounces Satan, the narrator in Milton's poem simply adds: "his snares are broke."
As I said, however, the breaking of these snares is by no means an intellectual feat. It was not Jesus' superior understanding that made it possible for him to repudiate the tempter and his gaudy lures; rather it was his God-centeredness. Girard's groundbreaking examination of the central role of mimesis in human experience may be the most important contribution to our understanding of the doctrine of "original" or universal sinfulness since Augustine, but the mimetic hypothesis does not replace the traditional idea that sin is alienation from God; rather it demonstrates the anthropological validity of that notion.
When the Christian tradition insists that Jesus was like us in all things but sin, what are we to think? As I have said, Jesus was no doubt a moral paragon, but as long as we understand the sinlessness of Jesus only on the level of behavior, we do not go to the heart of his uniqueness, which was his God-centeredness. As the story of the wilderness temptations shows, the essence of his sinlessness was his immunity to the contagion of desire. His triumph over demonic snares in the wilderness was a triumph over the glamour of mimetic suggestion, but it was an achievement made possible, not by Jesus' strength of will, but by the superior strength of another mimetic desire: the desire "to do his Father's will," to become the image and likeness of the One in whose image and likeness he knew himself to have been made. The temptation to emulate another's desire -- the devil's -- was unable to lure him away from his desire to imitate the God of powerless love in rapport with Whom he lived and moved and had his incomparable Being.
As I have shown, throughout the Old Testament the renunciation of sacrifice always took place sacrificially. If we are to take seriously the New Testament's proposal for a new anthropos -- an alternate way of engendering social and psychological stability -- the text that proposes it will have to teach us how to avoid the trap into which the prophetic tradition fell from Moses to John the Baptist. It will have to decode and decommission the mechanism by which the old anthropology of sacrifice turned its fieriest critics into its most faithful perpetuators.
As illuminating as it is, it is not enough to recognize how the same mimetic forces that breed discord -- the diabolos -- restore social harmony at a later stage of the crisis -- Satan -- by transferring all the social poisons onto one scapegoat victim. We must better understand how even those who have begun to recognize this process and raise moral objections to it still get caught up in the social contagions choreographed by the diabolos and Satan. The New Testament cannot be humanity's revelatory text par excellence unless it can show us how to keep from turning our moral outrages into newfangled versions of the thing that outraged us.
If the fiery beginning of John's prophetic career set in motion Jesus' own vocation, another important factor in Jesus' growing understanding of his mission seems to have been John the Baptist's fatal collision with the court of Herod, the Jewish client monarch who ruled Judea at the time. Both personally and politically, Herod was a repulsive figure embroiled in endless plots and murderous intrigues, and John openly condemned him. Soon John was in Herod's prison, and not long after that, dead. John's fate seems to have had an effect on Jesus' ministry comparable in many ways to the effect of the desert temptations. While in Herod's prison, John sent his followers to Jesus to ask about the nature of Jesus' mission:
Now John in his prison had heard what Christ was doing and he sent his disciples to ask him, "Are you the one who is to come, or have we got to wait for someone else?" Jesus answered, "Go back and tell John what you hear and see: the blind see again, and the lame walk, lepers are cleansed, and the deaf hear, and the dead are raised to life and the Good News is proclaimed to the poor; and happy is the man who does not lose faith in me." (Matt. 11:2-6)
John took his spiritual challenge right to the core of Jewish apostasy and moral decay. With admirable courage, he challenged raw power and exposed himself to its cruelties. And what had Jesus done upon hearing of John's plight? Had he been as bold to challenge? Had he faced the powers-that-be? Was he prepared to become, if need be, the resurrected John the Baptist, as Herod had feared at one point? Seen from the perspective of Herod's dungeon, Jesus' innocuous behavior left some doubt in the minds of John and his followers.
John urged contrition on his listeners and railed against their sinfulness. By contrast, it was Jesus' conspicuous indifference toward his listeners' prior moral failures that caused certain righteous elements in Jewish society to regard his mission as socially pernicious. Contrary to John, Jesus seems to have understood that the only real and lasting contrition occurs, not when one is confronted with one's sins, but when one experiences the gust of grace that makes a loving and forgiving God plausible. John warned of the approach of the kingdom and passionately enjoined his listeners to renounce their evil ways. Jesus inhabited that kingdom and made it a palpable reality for others by forgiving sins, restoring faith and hope to those around him, and bringing people he touched fully alive. What the encounter between Jesus and John's disciples makes explicit, however, is that Jesus had consciously chosen not to do what John had done. John had raged at the shamelessness of the Herodian court in so bellicose a manner that the predictable reactions and counter-reactions were set off. Soon, John's life and ministry became consumed -- first morally and then literally -- by the very thing he railed against.
When John's disciples asked if Jesus was the one "who is to come," using the words of the prophet Isaiah, Jesus spoke of his ministry of healing and reconciling, and he concluded by saying: "Happy is the man who does not lose faith in me." In the literal Greek, he says: happy is he who is not scandalized by me. It is in this phrase that we find Jesus' rebuttal to the critique of his ministry implied by John's question. The Greek word skandalon is often translated as "stumbling block" or "offense." There is as well, however, an implication in the word of an almost irresistible compulsion, an obsession. (5)
When Jesus told John's disciples that "happy is the one who is not scandalized by me," he was responding to John's implied critique of his more reticent missionary work. John had allowed himself to be scandalized by the moral and religious shamelessness of the Herodian court. The passion of his contempt eventually entangled him in the very delusions he was condemning. In his well-meaning attempt to usher in the kingdom he sensed was imminent, John had become a player in the same melodrama whose insubstantiality and moral shabbiness he was condemning. Scandalized by Herod's depravity, John merely became the occasion for another depraved act. He accused Herod of the awful things that Herod did, but when the "diabolical" charade became "satanic," it was John at whom the Accuser pointed. John's accusations were certainly just, but they just as certainly gave the inevitable counter-accusations a thread of plausibility. John embroiled himself in the kind of sordid melodrama that destroys the moral coherence even of its despisers. If in the wilderness Jesus had come to appreciate something about the diabolical dynamic of mimesis, conflict, accusation, and scapegoating violence, John's fate would have confronted him with a vivid and horrifying example of exactly that dynamic.
I feel, therefore, that there is in the Gospels a structural link between the diabolos, the skandalon, and the satan. They constitute what we might think of as a demonic trinity by which we humans are forever being drawn into the mimetic scenarios that blind us and lead eventually to violence.
1. Edward Schillebeeckx, Jesus: An Experiment in Christology (New York: Random House, 1981), 134.
2. In pointing, these things out, I am not trying to burden the reader with the minutiae of exegesis. I am simply trying to highlight one of the structures of meaning buried in the temptation accounts.
3. Marcus J. Borg, Jesus: A New Vision (San Francisco: HarperSanFrancisco, 1991), 114 (Borg's emphasis).
4. Ibid., 116.
5. For a related discussion, see David McCracken, The Scandal of the Gospels: Jesus, Story, and Offense (New York: Oxford University Press, 1994).

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Current Status 2021 – Amia took 5 years, studying, until the script was finalized in November. Film project is now in the hands of a director, who polished the script adding back story and is coordinating all activities to develop a feature film beginning in 2022.
"Esther And The Prince is a unique story for film that will captivate your heart with amazing characters, romance and high sea adventure. So happy to have been given the opportunity to read Amia's brilliant
film story she has written the script for!" Theatrical friend Janet Merchant
"Pleasure working with Amia! Fun script and very clear vision! Excited to see what comes of it!!" Film director (to be announced) who also polished and added back story to the script
"The Journey" video, is for the Amia Franz "The Sessions" Amia 3.0 Music Funding Campaign. Click here https://gofund.me/831e7f4f Thank you so much in advance!
THE SESSIONS – In 2022, Black Bird Studios, Nashville producer, Bryan Clark, will produce Amia's vocals over her own music productions, for her album, she is calling "Extraordinary Love". One of the songs, is called "Extraordinary Love" https://youtu.be/XXn5TGqa0pA .
The studio session time, has been paid for, to record the first two songs "I Believe" and "It's Been A Long Time". I believe is a soulful, Sophisti Pop love song, that echoes the universal experience, of uncertainty in a romantic relationship, where one person is not yet convinced the other person really loves them. "It's Been A Long Time", is a song about long lost love, that has a chance to be rekindled, once again.
Amia Franz, has a unique vocal style, which Nashville vocal coach, Ron Browning recognizes and is helping her capture even more in sessions with her.
LIVE video interview with Shoggy Tosh Thursday October 21st w music artist Amia Franz. https://youtu.be/AxuPYAL-Tjw
RECORDING PROJECTS
The Amia Franz, current 10 song album recording project, at Black Bird Studios https://www.blackbirdstudio.com/studios , begins January 2022. Black Bird producer, Bryan Clark, is preparing her for when she works with him at prearranged vocal sessions. Her vocal approaches for all 10 songs, are under the direction of Ron Browning https://ronbrowning.net/super-star-clients They are planning to work together on live performance techniques, once recording is completed.
The new album goal, since Amia;s last 2011 pop album, is her own music creation and production for each song. Jordan, engineer at Black Bird, before moving to Sweden in 2021, is playing a very vital part in editing Amia's music productions.
Joining forces with Ron Browning and Bryan Clark, Amia is dedicated to releasing her project when they all agree she is ready.
"I never rush anything. Time is not of the essence, when the quality means more than anything else". Amia Franz
BAND TO FORM AROUND NEW RECORDING PROJECT
Amia Franz Band rehearsals begin right after the first 2 original songs "I Believe" and "It's Been A Long Time" are recorded in Nashville and have been released. Live Performances Starting in 2022 after the full "Extraordinary Love" album has been recorded in Nashville at Black Bird Studios under the vocal production direction of Bryan Clark.
ARTIST AMIA FRANZ MUSIC CAREER BIO
Amia Franz, is a beautiful singer, writer and music producer for her own original song gems in the musical genres oF Alternative Sophisti Pop, R&B, Neo Soul, Prince style Funk, Contemporary Smooth Jazz, Jazz Fusion, and Soft Rock. Her singing style is influenced by artists Sade, Jamiroquai, Daft Punk and others. One of the songs she wrote for this new album, is called "Extraordinary Love" unplugged on youtube https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=XXn5TGqa0pA . Her music productions are also influenced by Sade, Prince, Jamiraquai, and smooth contemporary artists Brain Culbertson and Paul Hardcastle.
Amia Franz is also a solo guitarist. She has written 8 original solo guitar instrumentals she plays and will perform when a band is formed. Her solo compositions are influenced by notable players George Benson, Wes Montgomery, Eric Clapton and others.
Amia's past experience is primarily writing songs, collaborating on music productions to sing over in world class recording studios in the united states and in Europe. From working with well known music production teams to singing on other artists projects, includes as a back up singer, for Paul Metsa "Paper Tigers" Album concert, in Minneapolis, at First Avenue at the start of her career.
Leading up to her current 2022 project, Amia's goal has always been to release her originals songs, singing them, writing the lyrics, and writing and producing the music.
She has been fortunate to have gained experience along her journey, working with some of the best producers and musicians in the business.
Between 2004 – 2011, Amia was invited to record at the recording studio of Joey Heredia out of Los Angeles (credits include Stevie Wonder, Sheila E, Sergio Mendez, Herb Alpert, Tania Maria, Scott Henderson, Frank Gambale, and Dianne Reeves) who produced and played drums on her song "Spinnin Round" https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=lkCv09FAntc&list=PL4hXdhndH33ZRiAp-mllhhVEhjCs2ttFJ&index=4 . The keyboard player on the project was Renato Neto (keyboard player for Prince NPG band). In 2009. Amia was also invited to record her Pop album of 8 songs under a music production group that wrote the music production and recorded Amia's voice out of the UK. Songs like Deep Love, Ecstasy, Wait Mariah and other songs you can hear on her youtube channel playlist here https://www.youtube.com/playlist?list=PL4hXdhndH33aB54rkY_lyV_Q8vYcoJxch .
In 2016, Amia was signed to Diamond Life Records, owned by Paul Cooke out of the UK, who is the original drummer and founder of the iconic band Sade. She parted ways with the label. this led to Amia going out on her own, writing the music for her brand new 2021 project.
Current music album project Stay tuned for Amia's current music album project release dates of her new project and video documentation of her recording sessions at Black Bird studios in Nashville, that fans who help help her funding campaigns can be apart of!
Amia is managed by #kalARtmgmt, who is Swiss, and is handling promotion, interviews, a live band that will feature Amia's brand new 2021 project and Amia's art talent.
The following pages on the net are the only legitimate pages to follow:
Personal Website – http://www.amiamusic.com www.amiamusic.com
Twitter- @amiasingersongs https://twitter.com/amiasingersongs
SoundCloud- https://soundcloud.com/amia-franz
Reverbnation- .https://www.reverbnation.com/amiasingersongwriter
Facebook- New pages replacing 2 hacked ones in 2021 There are only 2 legitimate pages now for artist Amia Franz
James Franz created for her https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100059939586558
James Franz created for me https://www.facebook.com/profile.php?id=100005775829176
Youtube Channel – https://www.youtube.com/user/mrjfranz1971
Amia Franz Word Press Blog- https://amiafranzofficial.wordpress.com/
Never to be forgotten -"Listening to your fabulous 2011 album! Congratulations! songs, vocal styling music production is slick, sexy, passionate, penetrating. Truly impressed. " Jeannie Deva, Celebrity Voice Coach (xfactor, American Idol, Christina Aguilera, Pink) Jeannie Deva
Amia Franz is multi talented in every sense of the word. Her songs are real with beautiful heartfelt music. Her brand new, long awaited original music features her own music productions with some complimentary Sade covers. Looking forward to seeing her capture these songs in live performance" Daniel Evans Amia Franz Fan
"I see great things ahead for this extraordinary yet approachable beauty and singer who writes captivating, original songs!" Steven Mathews
"You are a real talent" Paul Cooke founder, original drummer and co-writer of some of the iconic songs of 1980's band Sade
"Hi Amia! I received several of your tracks for review from Paul today. You are truly a brilliant writer and musician! I'm excited to start working on your track" Scott Lea of Radiclea Records
"Amia possess a very unique sound, style, and approach to music that the world will definitely want to hear." – Roger Burnely, Vocal Coach
"I had the opportunity to hear some demos of music Amia will release in 2018. She skillfully delivers high-energy elegance managing to stay far away from the abyss of contemporary easy listening music" – Phil Cartwright
"You are awesomely talented as a singer, songwriter and artist. Your artwork on the Divine Artistic Designs site is some of the coolest stuff I've seen. Very inventive. You've got a new fan here." – David Jerkins
"Good Luck as you follow your dreams painting the sky with song!!! Wishing you every joy and many opportunities to share your art!!!!!" Christie Brinkley Model/Actress/Artist
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Of Dollars Every Year. We Say No.
Milwaukee County Executive Chris Abele wants to cut health-care benefits for transit workers as part of a new labor agreement. He is trying to pit transit workers against transit riders, saying that unless drivers accept cuts, Milwaukee County Transit System will be forced to make deep, painful service cuts.
Abele's trying to "divide and conquer" Milwaukee County the way notorious former Gov. Scott Walker tried to carve up state employees. His cutbacks would affect all riders but fall heaviest on our communities of color, where buses provide services crucial to people's lives.
Transit workers deserve to keep their benefits, and a modest pay raise to make up for the years salaries have remained stagnant.
And we all need to stand together to build better transit for everyone.
Amalgamated Transit Union (ATU) Local 998 represents more than 1,100 active transit workers in Milwaukee, Waukesha, Kenosha and Sheboygan.
Our members are committed to providing safe and efficient transit services to our customers, promoting transit issues critical to our communities, and safeguarding the rights of our dedicated and hardworking transit workers.


Accelerated assessment reduces the timeframe for the European Medicines Agency's (EMA) Committee for Medicinal Products for Human Use (CHMP) to review a marketing-authorisation application. Applications may be eligible for accelerated assessment if the CHMP decides the product is of major interest for public health and therapeutic innovation.
Evaluating a marketing-authorisation application under the centralised procedure can take up to 210 days, not counting clock stops when applicants have to provide additional information. On request, the CHMP can reduce the timeframe to 150 days if the applicant provides sufficient justification for an accelerated assessment.
Any request for accelerated assessment should be made at least two to three months before submitting the marketing-authorisation application.
Before submitting a request for accelerated assessment, applicants should seek guidance from the EMA procedure manager to ensure timely submission of their request.
EMA strongly recommends that applicants request a pre-submission meeting six to seven months before submission to prepare for evaluation under accelerated assessment. In this meeting, they can discuss their proposal for accelerated assessment with the Agency and rapporteurs from the CHMP and any other committees concerned, such as the Pharmacovigilance Risk Assessment Committee (PRAC) or the Committee for Advanced Therapies (CAT). They can present the data package and risk management plan they intend to include in their application.
The request for a pre-submission meeting should be sent electronically to EMA together with supporting documentation.
Under the PRIME scheme launched in March 2016, it is now possible for applicants to receive confirmation during the clinical development phase that their medicine might potentially be eligible for accelerated assessment.
Applicants for accelerated assessment should justify their claim that the medicinal product is expected to be of major public health interest, particularly from the point of view of therapeutic innovation.
For details, please see pre-submission guidance question: Is my product eligible for an accelerated assessment?
The Agency has a legal obligation to verify that manufacturers applying for marketing authorisation as well as the studies they submit comply with Good Manufacturing Practice (GMP) and Good Clinical Practice (GCP).
Applicants should provide information concerning GMP and GCP aspects so that routine GCP and pre-approval GMP inspections can be integrated into the accelerated assessment procedure.
If a need for an inspection is identified, it will be requested as early as possible in the evaluation procedure.
Is my product eligible for an accelerated Assessment?
When can I expect a pre-approval GCP inspection and how are they conducted?
When can I expect a pre-authorisation GMP inspection and how are they conducted?
information for early identification of a need for pre-submission GMP and GCP inspections.
After the rapporteurs have received the request, they will produce a briefing note including their recommendations regarding an accelerated assessment.
the recommendations of the rapporteurs.
This decision has no impact on the eventual CHMP opinion on whether a marketing authorisation should be granted.
The CHMP conclusions will be communicated to the applicant and the reasons for accepting or rejecting the request will also be summarised in the CHMP assessment report.
If a request for an accelerated assessment procedure is granted, the CHMP will take into consideration the standard timetable agreed for the accelerated assessment procedure.
The accelerated assessment procedure is provided for by recital 33 and Article 14(9) of Regulation (EC) No 726/2004.
Pre-authorisation guidance question: Is my product eligible for an accelerated assessment?


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Q: Will specifying a model in partial view affect the whole razor body or only the partial view area? this is my partial View
@model MyModel

@using (Html.BeginForm("NewOrder", "Order", FormMethod.Post))
{

            @Html.LabelFor(model => model.CustomerMessage, htmlAttributes: new { @class = "control-label col-md-1" })

                @Html.EditorFor(model => model.CustomerMessage, new { htmlAttributes = new { @class = "form-control" } })

            @Html.LabelFor(model => model.CustomerName, htmlAttributes: new { @class = "control-label col-md-1" })

                @Html.EditorFor(model => model.CustomerName, new { htmlAttributes = new { @class = "form-control" } })

}

Now if I use this in a view will, this effect my whole page or only the section I have rendered this partial view will be affected??

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Now if I use this in a view will, this effect my whole page or only
  the section I have rendered this partial view will be affected??

No, it will not affect the whole page. It will affect only the section that you have rendered this partial view. Actually this is one of Partial Views benefits. You can render small pieces of html here and there without affecting the whole page in which they are included.

how to pass a Model to a partial view?

You can do so like this:
 @Html.Partial("~/Views/Shared/_Partial.cshtml", Model.PartialViewModel)

I suggest, in the Model of your View you define a property that would be associated with the model you want to pass to your partial view. This make sense, since in order to render the View, you have to render also the Partial Views that are contained to it. So it is a good practice to have all the model that are needed by the Partial Views as properties of the Views Model.

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How can I move the results of calculations (not the formulas) to a different part of a worksheet?
I have a list of names in a single column. How can I make the list appear in one row instead of one column?
I've downloaded U.S. Treasury bill interest rates from a Web site into Excel. The data lists a 5 when the interest rate is 5 percent, 8 when the interest rate is 8 percent, and so on. How can I easily divide my results by 100 so that a 5 percent interest rate, for example, is listed as .05?


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Q: Cambiar el estado de un campo cuando es menor a un campo fecha en MySQL Hola amigos y disculpen la molestia, me podrían ayudar para saber ¿Cómo cambiar en MySQL el campo estado de mi tabla carritoprestamos cuando sea menor a la fecha actual guardada en mi campo fechas?
Es decir mi tabla "carritoprestamos" cuenta con un campo "FECHAS" y otro campo llamado "ESTADO" quiero que el estado que por defecto es VIGENTE cambie a VENCIDO cuando la fecha sea menor a la actual y que cada vez que haga esta comprobación no me afecte a los estados que ya han sido marcados como AL DIA.
EDITO: (GRACIAS A UN GRAN AMIGO CON EL SIGUIENTE CODIGO ME AYUDA)
UPDATE bdprestamo.carritoprestamo SET ESTADO = IF(STR_TO_DATE(fechas,'%d/%m/%YYYY') <  CURDATE(),'VENCIDO','VIGENTE')

Solo que yo manejo 3 estados: (VIGENTE,AL DIA,VENCIDO) dentro del campo estado, no se como excluir que tampoco me modifique lo que se encuentre AL DIA.
Es decir que cuando se crea el registro todo esta por defecto en VIGENTE pero si se llega a la fecha guardada de ese registro y no se realiza el pago el estado pase a VENCIDO, pero si se realiza pasara a AL DIA que esto ultimo se ara al momento que el usuario registre el pago.
encontre una solucion justo ahorita 8:41:00 P.M. hablando con el mismo amigo que ya me habia iluminado y la solucion es tan basica y sencilla que consiste solo en lo siguiente:
UPDATE bdprestamo.carritoprestamo SET ESTADO = IF(STR_TO_DATE(fechas,'%d/%m/%YYYY') <  CURDATE(),'VENCIDO','VIGENTE') WHERE estado='VIGENTE'

con el Where estado='VIGENTE' estoy indicando que dentro de los registros solo me afecte a los que cuentan con esta etiqueta asi ya no afecta a fechas anteriores que contengan la palabra o estado='AL DIA' Saludos a todos!!! y muchas gracias a quienes se tomaron el tiempo en intentar ayudarme!!!

A: Intenta con esto:
UPDATE carritoprestamos
SET estado='VENCIDO'
WHERE estado!= 'AL DIA'
AND fechas < CURDATE()

A: Esta es la solucion:
UPDATE bdprestamo.carritoprestamo SET ESTADO = IF(STR_TO_DATE(fechas,'%d/%m/%YYYY') <  CURDATE(),'VENCIDO','VIGENTE') WHERE estado='VIGENTE'

ya edite para que quede mas explicado, saludos a todos!!!


Managing information security risk using integrated governance risk and compliance.
This paper aims to demonstrate the building blocks of an IT Governance Risk and Compliance (IT GRC) model as well the phased stages of the optimal integration of IT GRC frameworks, standards and model through a longitudinal study. A qualitative longitudinal single case study methodology through multiple open-ended interviews were conducted over a period of four years (July 2012 to November 2015) in a retail financial institution. Our empirical study contributes to both academic research and practice in IT GRC. First, we identified the various building blocks of IT GRC domain from vertical as well as horizontal perspectives. Second, we methodologically demonstrated the gradual metamorphosis of the evolution of an IT GRC from a single ITG framework to multiple IT GRC building blocks. The journey thus throws light on the gradual staged process of attaining maturity in IT GRC by an organization. The resultant IT GRC model thus, guides managerial actions towards a better understanding of the positioning of IT GRC building blocks in an organization through the understanding of the interaction of vertical and horizontal domains. The results of the paper thus enable practitioners and academics to better understand and evaluate IT GRC implementation for effective governance, reduce risk and ensure compliance in organizations.


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'Strange Days' Review – Rolling Stone
Published in Rolling Stone
The Doors are an amazing group. Each of them are highly competent and talented musicians, yet music is only secondary to what they are doing. They are violently anti-commercial in their stance and their approach and yet the finished product is highly commercial. And it would also appear that vocalist Jim Morrison is making a direct appeal to the pubescent market, but upon closer examination, it turns out that he is not.
As musicians, the Doors are very good. Their excellence of musicianship, however, is not seen as individualism because they do nothing really new or different as soloists. Their excellence is together as a group – the total effect that achieve. The group is original and highly evocative.
Many of the chord progressions and figures are easily recognizable from their first album. Except for the addition of an occasional bass, the instrumentation is nearly identical to the previous LP. Through very logical development, they have improved their original methods and techniques with more effective instrumentation (a variety of keyboard sounds, a lot of slid guitar, and strongly musical electronic bridges). They have not attempted to make any big changes in direction or music (like so many groups mistakenly feel obligated to), but have refined and enriched their previous efforts. Consequently their new album has all the power and energy of the first LP, but is more subtle, more intricate and much more effective.
On a track like "Unhappy Girl," the various instrumental pieces and the vocal combine perfectly. The effect overwhelming. "I Can't See Your Face in My Mind" is the only disappointing song on the record; it's mild without justification.
"My Eyes Have Seen You," "Strange Days," and "Love Me Two Times," all have the same commercial potential of "Light My Fire." They are heavy, evocative and climatic pieces.
As was strongly hinted in their first album, the Doors conceive their efforts primarily in terms of drama rather than in terms of music. The music is not meant to be particularly virtuoso or experimental. It is played to be dramatically meaningful. Before they formed as a group, the Doors were, individually, students at the UCLA drama school.
It was a unique qualification. Beginning with long hair and patterns of dress, rock and roll has become increasingly visual. Jimi Hendrix and the Who seem practically primitive next to the Doors. Rock and roll has become theatre.
Many people don't care to Jim Morrison making it with his microphone in the manner of Mick Jagger nor do they especially want to catch him writhing on the floor. If they don't, then they suggest he is selling out to commercialism, has an old-fashioned concept of rock and roll or something. However, what's actually taking place on stage, and what Morrison is doing, is about 3000-years old fashioned and very contemporary in approach.
Music is very sensual and it is particularly obvious in rock and roll. Morrison is just not making any bones about it. He's just doing what comes naturally.
One must think of the Doors in a theatrical rather than a musical way. Their whole album, individual songs and especially the final track are constructed in the five parts of tragedy. Like Greek drama, you know when the music's over because there is catharsis. And, as the Doors suggest in their closing song, "when the Music's Over," you "turn out the light."
Doors, a Way in and a Way Out, Rock on Coast
The DOORS is a registered trademark of The Doors Property, LLC. © 2022 The Doors Property, LLC. All rights reserved.


A qualified residential parcel may receive an exemption equal to 10% or at a local option, 15% of it's assessed value.
The exemption is limited to 10 years duration.
This exemption authorizes a limited exemption from real property taxes for real property owned by persons who rendered military service to the United States during the Cold War (defined as September 2, 1945 to December 26, 1991).
This exemption may apply to the school portion of your property taxes, if the School District has approved it.
Where a veteran has received a service-connected disability rating from the Veteran's Administration or the Department of Defense, there is an additional exemption, which is equal to one-half of the disability rating multiplied by the assessed value of the property.


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Q: card swipe status and identification information How I can get card swipe status and identification information from card data when card is swiped.
I'm using Velocity Card Reader and want to integrate Velocity payment SDK.
For Authorize(P2PE) APIs of Velocity Required Following parameters

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*KSN

*Encrypted Track2 data

*Swipe status

*Identification Information

I know how to get KSN and track2 data but don't known how to get remaining two parameters.
Example hex card data :
02ee00801f4221008383252a343239332a2a2a2a2a2a2a2a323532355e56414c5545442043555354
4f4d4552202020202020202020202f5e323530322a2a2a2a2a2a2a2a2a2a2a2a2a2a3f2a3b343239
332a2a2a2a2a2a2a2a323532353d323530322a2a2a2a2a2a2a2a2a3f2a913dc86ebf7541cc5c7518
8613f1e859c5204c3c4944a58b7e14bd1d323d415d00417a06ee63b64fe8e16e449057fb23be8fa9
e7baea4039d2944ea42b6fcf219ba0516af3005f9629adc5255602968e93b4360e1311cc76f66865
d6b4dfe1dd211573ad801d494efb7345af93138fdd35323554383939373939789001000000004000
f403d903

Thanks

A: That's hex-encoded data. Using an online conversion tool, you can see the raw data is:
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Really though, you'd need to refer to the documentation for whatever you're using to swipe the card. It looks like it's fixed-width data given the large amount of whitespace after VALUED CUSTOMER, but that's a complete guess on my part.
If you want to parse this string from hex into the readable (ish) string above, there's a relevant answer here on Stack Overflow.


Gleeds has signed up as an official participant in LandAid's annual London TowerAthlon challenge.
A team from Gleeds will face one of the property world's most exciting and extreme challenges - the London TowerAthlon - and raise money for disadvantaged young people across the UK.
With 3 people to a team, Gleeds will battle it out against competing construction firms to be crowned champion. The challenge requires teams to complete 3 different activities simultaneously; one member of the team will abseil down the 539ft Broadgate Tower, while the other two take on the building's 877 stairs and cycle the fastest they can on the building's ground floor plaza.
Organised by LandAid, the TowerAthlon will take place on Friday 18th September and be one of the first activities held as part of Gleeds Global Challenge, during which the company aims to raise £130,000 for charity in celebration of its 130th year in business.


SEA CHARIOT is an underwater vehicle suitable for commercial or military tasks to a maximum depth of 30meters. It can also be used for recreational purposes. This highly maneuverable submersible has been designed to carry three people, two divers and one pilot for an operational period of about two hours; alternatively it can carry two people plus equipment.
The Sea Chariot is complete with on-board air supply, underwater communications between divers and pilot plus a full range of safety features. A number of optional accessories such as Forward Looking Sonar and Navigation Modules are also available on request.
Sea Chariot complete with Lead Acid batteries, Compass, Battery Status Indicators and Air Contents Gauges.
Special configurations designed to meet specific specifications are available after consultation with T.E.I Ltd. A dedicated military version of the SEA CHARIOT is also available.


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High-Country Colorado Towns Wrangle Big-City Problems with Homelessness
By Nancy Lofolm
DURANGO — From his vantage point in a homeless camp on a scrubby mesa above Durango, Corey Davis could look down this summer on what resembled a Western-themed diorama.
Tiny figures darted up and down Main Avenue as a coal-fired steam train chugged out of a historic depot trailing a black cloud of coal smoke. The red brick tower of the 131-year-old Strater Hotel pinpointed where Louis L'Amour wrote several of his classic Western novels, and where "saloon girls" in fishnet stockings served drinks in the Diamond Belle bar. On some quiet evenings, Davis could hear the "blam, blam, blam" of faux gunfights and see horses drawing a stagecoach through downtown.
"When I discovered this area, I loved it and didn't want to leave. Everywhere you look you have something beautiful to look at," Davis said, as he waved a hand across the town and its backdrop of mountains and mesas that jut and ripple on all sides.
But the city-sanctioned camp where Davis and about 30 other homeless people pitched their tents has been closed and scraped clean. A new ban on sitting or lying downtown is in effect. "No camping" signs have popped up in city parks and greenways. Davis and other homeless residents have had to scatter and hide, the victims of a crisis of homelessness — and some say heartlessness — in this tourist town.
Davis boarded a bus headed for Colorado's Eastern Plains last week, while others searched for secluded spots to sleep — behind dumpsters, in the shadows of alleyway garages, in shrubs along the Animas River, or deep in the canyons of the San Juan National Forest.
Durango has been caught at the tough intersection of homelessness and tourism – a growing problem in many vacation hotspots. Homelessness has ticked up as destination-area living costs have stretched far beyond the wages paid for cleaning hotel rooms, serving meals and selling T-shirts.
The problem has increased in some of this country's most scenic places, where tourists often don't expect to see it. In Durango, visitors who come to ride the narrow-gauge train, have sepia portraits made in bank robber getups, and choose from more restaurants per capita than in San Francisco, have complained about the proliferation of homeless people and panhandlers.
Fixing that problem has left Durango and other tourist towns teetering on a constitutional line of trying to keep homelessness out of sight of visitors while not trampling on the rights of those without homes.
The American Civil Liberties Union of Colorado recently warned Durango that it has taken a step too far. Durango's latest attempts to rout the homeless and leave them with nowhere to spread out a bedroll or pitch a tent are "cruel and unconstitutional," the ACLU said in a letter to the city.
At a city-sanctioned homeless camp in Durango, people were required to pack up their tents and other belongings by 9 a.m. and not return until 6 p.m. The city in late August shut down the camp, sending homeless people scattering, some deep into the San Juan National Forest. (Scott DW Smith, Special to The Colorado Sun)
Durango can be a difficult place to work and afford to live. The average apartment rent has risen 13.6 percent over the past year, to $1,300 a month from $1,120. The median home price has zoomed 5.2 percent in 2018 to $430,000. A buyer would need to make at least $90,500 to be able to qualify for a loan on such a home, but the median household income hovers around $57,000 and the per capita income sits at around $33,000.
The overall cost of living in Durango is 34 percent higher than the national average, according to tabulations by Sperling's Best Places. Most of that is attributed to housing costs.
The spread of homelessness that tourists might take as a given in larger destinations, comes as a shock in this family-friendly, mountain community of 18,000 – a city that tourists keep financially afloat.
"Homeless everywhere," wrote a disappointed traveler on TripAdvisor. "Is it safe to go there?" asked others. A Fox News report picked up by news outlets around the world in the spring of 2017 didn't help. It depicted a Durango swarmed by pot-smoking beggars.
Even the homeless here note that people without homes have become a problem.
"This is a neat little town, but it's overrun with homeless," said 75-year-old Clarence Dobbs, with no irony, as he sat in the doorway of his tent before the city closed his camp, making his dinner of peanut butter on Wonder bread. His wheelchair was parked nearby.
Durango City Councilor Melissa Youssef framed it this way: "Homelessness is one of the most difficult human rights issues, and it's right here in our face now."
Homelessness grew into a full-fledged tourist-related problem in Durango several years ago. It had been troublesome before that, with homeless people camping along riverfront trails and in the vast public lands surrounding the town.
But that changed around 2015 when the city had to back off on a no-loitering crackdown under threat of legal action. That's when homeless people and panhandlers, in large numbers, started sprawling on downtown sidewalks, sleeping in public bathrooms and begging for doggie bags outside restaurants. They included a mix of down-on-their-luck locals, American Indians who had abandoned impoverished reservations, professional panhandlers, veterans, the mentally ill, and the wanderers, like Davis, who say they just don't do well inside four walls.
Durango and surrounding LaPlata County dealt with the problem for a time by creating camping areas for the homeless. This summer, though, a string of calamities turned homeless camping into a musical-chairs shuffle until it finally hit a dead-end.
A huge wildfire blew up in early June and closed a major highway into Durango. It put a weeks-long stop to the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge tourist-magnet train. The Animas River turned black when rains finally came, and then there were mudslides. Oozing mud closed the highway — and the train — again in late July.
Those misfortunes drove tourist numbers way down and tanked sales tax more than 30 percent at some businesses, in addition to displacing the homeless.
Homeless campers who had been staying on county land above town for years were evacuated with the help of the LaPlata County Sheriff's Office during the fire and moved to a Red Cross shelter.
When the immediate fire danger passed, the homeless weren't allowed to return to their camp. More fires were a concern. And residents in a cul de sac of million-dollar homes built near the trailhead for the homeless camp had been complaining about thefts, trash and inebriated wanderers. One bloodied homeless man knocked on a door in the cul de sac looking for help in the middle of the night after a black bear bit his head.
The city promised to move the homeless campers to the site of an old radioactive mill tailings pile next to a dog park. But state health officials questioned the safety of people bedding down there and the city withdrew that plan.
The city then put up some orange plastic fencing, and deposited several portable toilets and a dumpster on a plot of land next to a cemetery above town. About 30 of the homeless were staying there before the city closed the camp in late August, leaving people with few options.
Homeless advocates complained that wildlife is treated better than the homeless; there are ordinances that criminalize harassment of deer and other critters while the city OKs the rousting of sleeping homeless people in the middle of the night.
"It's not that we aren't compassionate. But Durango is not in the business of running a tent city," Mayor Sweetie Marbury said.
Durango Mayor Sweetie Marbury, left, and Mayor Pro Tem Melissa Youssef discuss the fate of the homeless population of Durango during a city council meeting on July 25, 2018. (Scott DW Smith, Special to The Colorado Sun)
The city has not only criminalized homeless camping and sleeping. A "pedestrian safety" ordinance enacted in mid-July outlawed sitting and lying on sidewalks.
"It was not safe here. I didn't like coming around a corner and tripping over someone or being scared out of my wits," Marbury said.
With that ordinance in place, the only people sitting on Durango sidewalks at the height of tourist season were ice cream-licking tourists. But visitors can no longer sit on benches because the city removed them: the homeless had been using them.
Downtown business owners have marveled at the quick turnaround. The homeless sidewalk sprawl mostly disappeared. On a busy tourist day, only one homeless person, Michael Ford — known around Durango as "Gorgeous George" — was sitting in front of a downtown mall with his guitar. He was wearing a T-shirt with the message: "I don't mean to offend you."
"They don't run me off because I am just out here spreading good vibes," he said. But 15 minutes later he was gone.
Durango represents a more-visible microcosm of the homeless-vs-tourist problem across Colorado and the country.
Denver has been trying for years, with ordinances and fences, to clean up a heavy homeless presence on the tourist-heavy 16th Street Mall. Colorado Springs, which counted a record number of homeless this year, has been in a cat-and-mouse routine of dismantling homeless campsonly to have them pop up again.
Steamboat Springs last year began tracking homeless after a problem became obvious on the streets of the small resort town. More than 200 people were found to be without homes or couch-surfing. Recently, a homeless man died of liver failure where he had been sleeping in a public bathroom in downtown Steamboat. Telluride had to helicopter 8,500 pounds of trash out of a camp above the town several years ago and last month had to chase a group of homeless out of the town's water-supply reservoir: they had been using it as a swimming hole.
Even Aspen, arguably the state's richest community, has a homeless problem. A day shelter was opened to give the homeless a place to go besides the downtown sidewalks. An overnight shelter is open in the coldest winter months.
"We are hearing from communities all across the state that the visible homeless problem is increasing," said Cathy Alderman, a spokeswoman for the Colorado Coalition for the Homeless. "We are hearing from more and more that it has become a crisis."
Tim Studer, who sells cowboy hats and sheepskin coats to tourists at a shop on Durango's Main Avenue thinks more should be done for the homeless, including those working in restaurant kitchens, at hotels, on cleanup crews and on construction projects.
"This sure is a hard place to be in terms of the working poor," Studer said.
Down the street, Marcela Reasner was taking in cash from a steady stream of tourists buying souvenirs at the Durango & Silverton Narrow Gauge depot.
She has been several steps removed from homelessness by living in an RV in a $1,500 a month space with her parents. It is 10 miles out of town.
"No way I can afford to live here,' she said. "But I wouldn't want to leave."
Old West attractions, such as this classic stagecoach, keep Durango's economy humming. But a growing population of homeless people and persistent panhandlers put a chill on the tourism industry, which led city officials to enact bans on sitting or lying on the streets. (Scott DW Smith, Special to The Colorado Sun)
At the other end of the spectrum, neither would Karyn Gabaldon, the owner of Karyn Gabaldon Fine Arts on a busy downtown corner. But she nearly did.
"It got so bad I was just about to sell my business," she said from behind a desk in her airy, upscale gallery where the cost of a single painting could cover two month's rent on a one-bedroom Durango apartment.
Gabaldon has owned her gallery for 38 years, but before the new sidewalk ordinance went into effect, she was having to call the police to escort her to her car at the end of the day. She was losing out-of-town customers who were telling her they wouldn't return to Durango because of the influx of panhandlers. Her revenues dropped 50 percent last year.
Her business troubles are mirrored in places like San Francisco, Honolulu and Orlando. Tourists who come for escape and adventure are complaining that they don't like seeing homeless people folded up in doorways, and drug syringes and feces littering the streets.
Many cities, including Albuquerque, Portland, Oregon, and Honolulu have started homelessness-abatement programs with promising names like "HomeNow!" "There's a Better Way" and "A Home for Everyone."
Teams of social workers are on the streets in San Francisco helping to direct the homeless to services. "Navigation centers" give the homeless, sober or not, a place to hang out during the day. Hotels have hired private security to shoo panhandlers away. None of it is not enough.
"Every day I hear complaints from hotel visitors. Every day," said Kevin Carroll, director of the Hotel Council of San Francisco.
For the past three years, Albuquerque has been sending city vans to areas with panhandlers and offering them transportation and pay for day labor. That program is being held up as a model for other cities, including the home of Disneyland, Anaheim, California.
Anaheim police recently rousted 600 homeless people from the banks of the Santa Ana River. The city is now sending social workers into the streets to try to get the homeless into appropriate shelters or housing. Anaheim gives the homeless gift cards in exchange for day labor.
"There is no place where you can magically send people," said Mike Lyster, a spokesman for the City of Anaheim. "We are never done with this problem. For every one you get off the streets, more come."
Honolulu has "street medicine" teams that dispense mental health help. Orlando, Florida, has "Family Promise," church-organized support services for the homeless.
People slow to rise from a city-sanctioned homeless encampment near Durango, like Astro Aliva, center, sometimes were asked by Durango police to pack up for the day. (Scott DW Smith, Special to The Colorado Sun)
Durango has little money for such programs, Mayor Marbury said.
With the drop in tourist dollars this year, a plan to hire a homeless coordinator has been delayed. The city has asked some of the 400 non-profits in the community to come up with solutions to the homeless problem. Some of them already offer an array of health and counseling services, a shelter, transitional housing and subsidized housing, but the housing is either full or only for the sober. There is a long waiting list for subsidized housing. One church is looking to buy a plot of land for a tent camp. Another is pursuing a tiny home development.
But these ideas are running up against not-in-my-backyard sentiment. A mental health provider is heading up a task force trying to find a solution. But nothing concrete is happening yet.
Ken and Arlys Hanson of Minneapolis had no complaints about homelessness as they climbed down from a narrow-gauge train ride through the mountains recently.
"We've not experienced anything bad from people. And we think it's gorgeous here," Ken said.
But making the homeless problem out-of-sight does not mean it can be out-of-mind for the City of Durango. It could face legal challenges for failing to provide any camping options for those without homes.
"It's a reality that a lot of people even working full-time in these towns can't afford a home. And these sweeps and confiscation of belongings and making people so uncomfortable they move on, that is not helping to solve the root causes of homelessness," said John Krieger, a spokesman for the ACLU of Colorado.
Corey Davis, drinking his morning coffee at the Manna Soup Kitchen in Durango, left the city for a shared apartment on Colorado's Eastern Plains after a campground used by homeless people was shut down. He says he may to return to Durango. "It's so beautiful." (Scott DW Smith, Special to The Colorado Sun)
Corey Davis said Durango's homeless folks are in dire straits. Some, like him, have been forced to move on — and to become another city's homeless problem. The remainder – if they aren't sleeping in vehicles or couch surfing, are dodging sweeps by law enforcement and drone surveillance in the woods.
Groups of them congregate every day near Manna Soup Kitchen, which has been a lifeline aid point for the homeless at a site above town for 16 years.
Manna offers showers and a room for counseling. It dispenses bus tickets and gas and grocery vouchers. Homeless clients tend small plots of vegetables out back and to pick up free produce each week. They can attend a culinary program at Manna where they learn skills that can lead to jobs: 46 have graduated from this program and the majority of those work in Durango restaurants.
But the gathering of homeless at Manna serves as a reminder that there are no easy answers to Durango's complex problem of homelessness.
Shawn Agoodie came to Durango from the Navajo Nation in Arizona and hoped to enroll in a culinary arts program at Manna Soup Kitchen. (Scott DW Smith, Special to The Colorado Sun)
Shawn Agoodie from the Navajo Nation in Arizona was eating Cheerios from an oversized bowl on a summer morning as he explained that he planned to attend the culinary arts program.
"I'm not sure when I will sign up," Agoodie said.
Roman "R.T." Little Ben, who sported a backward baseball cap and glasses that slide down her nose, also came to Durango from the Navajo Nation. She said she was looking forward to a time when she can work again. She lost her pharmacy technician job, her home and her car following a DUI arrest. She had a black eye delivered by someone she says was offended by the fact that she is a lesbian. She admitted that a fresh start is a stretch.
"Being sober and homeless doesn't work very well together," she said.
Davis admits his new destination at the end of his bus trip is a temporary fix. He plans to stay with friends who have an apartment lined up — for two months. After that, he doesn't know. He said he needs to develop some stability before he can plan into the future.
"I could possibly end up back in Durango where it's so beautiful," he said. "I just don't know."
Manna Soup Kitchen, which started in 1985 after a woman died from starvation in a horse stall at the La Plata County Fairgrounds, last year provided nearly 65,000 meals to needy people in Durango. The charity also provides showers, vouchers for groceries and some education programs. (Scott DW Smith, Special to The Colorado Sun)
Scott DW Smith, a Denver, CO native, has called the San Juan mountains surrounding Durango home for most of his life. Creating photography has been a lifelong passion and successful career for the past 25 years. A focus of deeppowdersnow, Colorado environments, creative local entrepreneurialism and genuinely honest emotions, are prevalent in his work.
Co-published with The Colorado Sun.
Colorado, Durango, Homelessness, Photography
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Baptism marks the beginning of a new life in Christ. It is the time that we celebrate God's grace working through the newly baptized and pledge as a community to support that person in their life in Christ.
At Saint Mark's Holy Baptism is celebrated during liturgies on All Saints' Sunday and at the 7:30 p.m. Easter Vigil.
Questions and/or to register contact Rev. Anna Ostenso Moore.
Preparation for parents of children being baptized is hosted in two sessions before. During preparation we explore the implications of the vows parents will make and build community within those that will support parents as they raise their child/children in the church. Parents are required to attend both sessions. Contact Rev. Anna for more information.
Teens and adults preparing for baptism are paired with a spiritual companion with whom they meet once a month for a year. With their spiritual companion they explore what baptism means for their everyday life and their faith questions. The spiritual mentorships are tailored to those preparing for baptism in order to meet them where they are in their faith.
For questions concerning life's big events, please contact The Reverend Siri Hauge Hustad.


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Keys Open to Middle Keys Residents; Residents of the Lower Keys and Key West Sunday
Florida Keys residents of the Middle and Upper Keys, with appropriate identification or re-entry stickers, can now return – after they evacuated for Hurricane Irma – Monroe County officials said Saturday. The regions opening Saturday include Layton, Key Colony Beach and Marathon. Key Largo, Tavernier and Islamorada reopened earlier in the week.
Residents with interests west of the Seven Mile Bridge in the Lower Keys and Key West are to be permitted entry beginning Sunday at daybreak.
The region is not open to visitors, and returnees should be aware of the continued lack of electricity, water, communications challenges, sewer challenges, limited food and drinking water supplies and debris on roads.
Returnees should bring plenty of supplies with them.
Monroe County officials said law enforcement presence between the Seven Mile Bridge and Key West — the hardest hit region — will be "saturated."
The checkpoint will remain at Florida City until further notice to manage the re-entry program.
A dusk-to-dawn curfew from MM 80 southwest through Key West remains. The curfew in the Upper Keys has been modified to begin at 10 p.m. and continue through dawn.
Monroe County has a website dedicated solely to the Hurricane Irma Recovery Effort. It is www.keysrecovery.org.
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My brother had to get an MRI last week. The technician warned him the machine was very loud—similar to a large motorcycle.
"I like motorcycles!" John told her.
Nevertheless she gave him earplugs, to block the noise as much as possible, and a set of headphones, through which he could listen to the music of his choice.
"Can you believe how insensitive Ms. __________ is? How can she be so hurtful and not even realize it?
Wouldn't it be nice if God handed out earplugs and headphones for our spiritual ears?
Maybe God wants us to develop some worthy habits in the process of manufacturing our own auditory devices.
And how might we do that?
Earplugs could be fashioned out of gratitude. We can occupy our minds with continual rejoicing in the blessings of this moment. Then we won't be able to hear the devil's negative and critical comments.
Let's see…I wonder if I could name a blessing for each of the five senses, for what I am experiencing right now?
Thank you, Lord, for books and the gift of sight that allows me to read and enjoy them, as well as learn from them.
Thank you for soft breezes that create a cheerful rustling of fall leaves.
Thank you, Father, for the cozy warmth of my fleece jacket.
And thank you, Lord, for the homey aroma of vanilla, coming from a nearby candle.
Oh! That was fun, and I didn't have one negative thought during the exercise. No wonder Paul told us to rejoice always.
Alright–earplugs are in place. Now it's time for the headphones—something worthwhile to pay attention to, that drowns out the noise of negativity and criticism.
"Blessed is the man who makes the Lord his trust" (Psalm 40:4).
"I will sing of your strength, in the morning I will sing of your love; for you are my fortress, my refuge in times of trouble" (Psalm 59:16).
"Your ways, O God, are holy. What god is so great as our God? You are the God who performs miracles; you display your power among the peoples" (Psalm 77:13-14).
Notice: We are blessed when we acclaim God. Disparaging ourselves or others, bemoaning our circumstances—even just in our thought life—is counter-productive. It is worship that transforms our minds and spirits.
So let's insert those earplugs and pop on those headphones! The difference will be remarkable.
LOVE this amazing and VERY practical reminder!
Oh, yes, we can even be grateful for the trials and hardships. Thank you, Heidi, for not only speaking such truth but living it (as you recently did when your son was so seriously injured). You are an inspiration to many, dear friend!
Very timely post for me, Nancy. Just tonight I have been struggling with negativity concerning how a 'Christian friend' has mistreated me for decades. I was feeling really good about the day…having accomplished many outside chores…when the devil brought this to my mind once again. (The things she has done to me are eating away at my heart…even years later it bothers me that I cannot figure out why.) I thought I had forgiven her but evidently not totally since I'm still obsessed with understanding her actions toward me. People can be unfair; life can be unfair, but my focus needs to be on HIM and how HIS ways with me are more than fair…having given His blood for my salvation. Nancy have provided me with the most amazing tools to drowned out future attacks from the devil. I will begin using earplugs and headphones for all negatively thrown my way. It won't happen overnight, as he doesn't give up easily. But now…I have a plan. When these negative situations that the devil reminds me of concern anything involving a particular person I am going to immediately pray for that person…and turn the tables on that abominable creature.
Oh, and Nancy. I don't know what is going on with John but he is in my prayers.
He's experiencing ongoing pain in his shoulder. Thank you for your prayers, Cheri.
We'll wear the earplugs of gratitude and headphones of praise together, Cheri! And you are so right: praying for the challenging people in our lives is another tactic that strengthens our spirits and foils the devil.
My mind gets out of the sound of the Lord's blessings and negativity comes through. What a great post about using headphones and earplugs. I will remember this when Satan tries to interfere. Satan stay away, I have the headphones and earplugs of the Lord. Blessings to you and Steve.
Thank you for being here, Laura, and your positive input. I've noticed your earplugs and headphones work remarkably well!!


Home ground advantage counted for little in the first weekend of this year's PlayStation 4 (PS4) National Premier Leagues (NPL) Finals Series with the four teams that advanced to the Semi Finals of the competition all winning on the road.
Players from Edgeworth Eagles FC (NNSW), Heidelberg United FC (VIC), Brisbane Strikers (QLD), and APIA Leichhardt Tigers (NSW) ensured their Club's progression to the final four of the PS4 NPL 2017 Finals Series with victories interstate.
Three of the four matches in the first week of the PS4 NPL 2017 Finals Series were decided in regulation time, while Bayswater City SC were eliminated by Heidelberg in extra-time after the score was locked at 1-1 after 90 minutes in Western Australia.
The first match of the PS4 NPL 2017 Finals Series was played on Saturday afternoon in South Australia as Adelaide City FC hosted APIA Leichhardt Tigers at Adelaide City Park in Oakden. Midfielder Tasuku Sekiya's 73rd minute goal for the Tigers settled what was a hard-fought contest between the two former National Soccer League sides.
The attention of PS4 NPL Finals Series fans shifted to the nation's capital later Saturday as Canberra Olympic hosted Edgeworth Eagles FC. Kieran Sanders gave Damian Zane's Eagles the lead in the 15th minute, before Jordan Tsekenis levelled proceedings 11 minutes later. Just before half time Josh Evans put Edgeworth back in front, and in the second stanza former Hyundai A-League golden boot winner Daniel McBreen bagged a brace to help the Eagles secure hosting rights for the Semi Finals.
The first of Sunday's Elimination Finals was held on the apple isle as South Hobart FC welcomed Brisbane Strikers to Darcy Street. In front of just shy of 1,000 fans the Strikers took the lead in the eighth minute when Ryan Palmer found the back of the net. Prolific attacker Jake McLean doubled Brisbane's advantage just two minutes later, before Jeremy Stewart made it 0-3 to the Queenslanders just after the hour mark. Ken Morton's Tasmanians rallied late in the game as a Jake Turner brace made the score 2-3, however McLean's second of the match in the second minute of added time ensured that Brisbane will be booking flights to Williamtown Airport to take on Edgeworth in the Semi Finals.
The last of the Elimination Finals matches was held on Sunday afternoon at Perth Plasterboard Centre Stadium in Western Australia. Ken Athiu bagged the first goal of the game for the 'Bergers' in the 36th minute, but Bayswater were level at the break after Gustavo Marulanda restored parity to the contest in time added on. The score remained at 1-1 until the end of normal time, meaning extra-time – and perhaps penalties – would be needed to separate the teams. Heidelberg rose to the occasion in the first 15 minutes of extra-time, scoring twice via key forward Athiu, as well as Sean Ellis. George Katsakis' side's victory ensured that they will now play host to APIA Leichhardt Tigers in the Semi Finals.
Edgeworth Eagles FC will host Brisbane Strikers, and Heidelberg United FC will host APIA Leichhardt Tigers in the Semi Finals of the PS4 NPL Finals Series this weekend. Match details regarding date, venue and kick-off times for the Semi Finals will be announced on www.nationalpremierleagues.com.au.
Tickets for both Semi Finals will be available at the venues on match day, while every match in the PS4 NPL 2017 Finals Series will be streamed LIVE via www.nationalpremierleagues.com.au, as well as on PS4 consoles and the official Hyundai A-League Facebook page (www.facebook.com/aleague).