Information: Barricaded Subject/ 1608 Hayes Ave, SOUTH Beloit, Ill.
On Friday 9-23-11 at approximately 9:48P.M. South Beloit Police Officers and Winnebago County Sheriff's Deputies were sent to 1608 Hayes Ave in South Beloit in regards to an individual who had fired shots outside of the residence and then barricaded himself in the residence. Upon arrival the Officers spoke to relatives and neighbors of Chad Juno (male DOB 1-8-81/25yrs old). Juno lives alone at the residence. The family members advised that Juno is an Iraq war veteran and has been very depressed lately. They advised that prior to the Officers arrival he fired a gun several times and then barricaded himself in the home with weapons. The on scene Officers secured the scene and called for assistance. The Winnebago County Sheriff's Department Swat Team and Hostage Negotiators were called and responded to the Hayes address. Neighbors were evacuated and the Swat team deployed. Negotiators were able to make phone contact with Juno and spoke to him on and off for several hours and he finally gave himself up. A search of the residence was conducted and several weapons were recovered. Juno was charged with Reckless Discharge of a firearm and was lodged in the Winnebago County Jail. A photo of Juno is attached. Juno is considered innocent unless proven guilty in court. NOTE 9-26-11/ THE CORRECT DATE OF BIRTH FOR JUNO IS 1-8-86/ 25YRS OLD.


Setting: Sometime after Vol. 7.
Summary: Dee knows how much Ryo loves to see the trees changing colour in the fall.
Written For: My own prompt 'FAKE, Dee/Ryo, Enjoying the beauty of the leaves changing colour in fall,' at fic_promptly .
Dee is a city boy through and through, most at home in the urban jungle. It's where he grew up, and aside from occasional vacations, it's where he's spent his entire life.
Ryo's a New York native too, but he grew up in the quiet suburbs. He travelled a fair bit with his parents when he was a kid, enjoyed family vacations and days out. He's comfortable in the city, but when the opportunity presents itself, he loves nothing more than to get out of town.
Every October until his parents were killed when he was eighteen, there had been family trips to New England to enjoy the fall colours. Although his parents have been gone now for more than ten years, it's a trip Ryo still likes to make, even if most years he gets no further than upstate New York because of the demands of his job.
Dee's never been that comfortable in the countryside, but he knows how much these trips mean to his lover, and he's willing to endure anything for Ryo's sake. So this year, as a surprise, he's managed to wrangle a few days off for the both of them, and a room in a small hotel in Western Maine. They drive up there in early October, passing through scenery that even Dee has to admit is spectacular. They take their time on the journey, setting out while it's still dark so that they miss the rush hour traffic in the city and make the most scenic parts of the drive in full daylight. The weather's clear, the sun shining in a crisp blue sky, the trees every shade of red and yellow, orange and gold. Ryo can't stop smiling and snapping photographs every time they stop to enjoy the view, which they do frequently.
They eat their packed picnic lunch on a Maine lakeshore. The only sounds they can hear are insects, birds singing, the lake water lapping against the shore, and soft breezes rustling the leaves overhead. They're so far off the beaten path that not a single car has passed since they stopped here. They've been travelling via the back roads most of the way, staying clear of the busy interstate, in no rush to reach their destination because Ryo says the journey itself is half the pleasure. Seeing his partner so happy and relaxed, Dee isn't about to argue. Ryo needs this; they both do. Work has been even more stressful than usual lately and they haven't had as much time together as they've wanted. This trip will give them a welcome chance to reconnect and recharge their batteries.
Dee's a city boy, but he's learning to appreciate the peace and beauty of nature, and being out where the air is clean and fresh, full of the scents of fall. As he lays with his head on Ryo's lap after lunch, gazing up through russet-leaved branches at the blue sky above, he smiles contentedly.


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John Vlieger, Shell Shock Technologies Sponsored Shooter, Wins High Open, High Overall at 2018 Illinois Sectional
By lauraburgessmarketingAugust 16, 2018Featured Articles, News Reel, Shell Shock Technology
The match was held at CIPS Devil's Hole Range in Havana, Illinois, Aug. 10 – 12, 2018.
Westport, Conn. (August 2018) – Shell Shock Technologies, LLC., an early stage technology and manufacturing company focused on developing innovative case technologies for the ammunition industry, is pleased to announce its sponsored shooter, John Vlieger, won High Overall, High Open at the 2018 Illinois Sectional, held at CIPS Devil's Hole Range in Havana, Illinois, Aug. 10 – 12, 2018. Vlieger beat 241 other competitors with 1,579.5733 match points and a time of 175.90. Watch a compilation of Vlieger competing at the match here: https://www.facebook.com/JohnVliegerShooting/videos/700923700259054/.
"The heat, humidity and sand tried their best to slow me down, but my equipment and energy held up. Glad to be using Shell Shock Technologies NAS3 cases so I can keep the speed and accuracy at the forefront, and not worry about my equipment. Here's to the next challenge!" commented Vlieger.
Vlieger has fired over 15,000 rounds of ammunition with Shell Shock Technologies' NAS3 cases since becoming sponsored in 2017 and plans to continue using it.
Vlieger can be seen competing next at the 2018 Pro Am Shooting National Championship, to be held at the South River Gun Club in Covington, Georgia, Aug. 17 – 19, 2018.
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NAS3 is "Best in Class" for maintaining consistent velocity between rounds. In an independent test performed by H.P. White Laboratory (a major munitions testing facility), rounds fired using NAS3 cases achieved a velocity standard deviation of 0.093 FPS (124-grain FMJ bullet, 4.2 grains Titegroup powder, 10 rounds, extreme variation 3fps).
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Founded in Westport, Connecticut, in 2015, Shell Shock Technologies, LLC is an early stage technology and manufacturing company focused on developing innovative case technologies for the ammunition industry. Shell Shock is a component manufacturer supplying shell cases to the shooting sports market, as well as to U.S. and foreign ammunition manufacturers, law enforcement, military and other government agencies. Shell Shock does not load ammunition. www.shellshocktech.com
About John Vlieger:
John Vlieger began seriously competing in the action shooting sports in mid-2014 while stationed at Fort Richardson, Alaska. When relocated by the Army to Fort Campbell, Kentucky, Vlieger found easier access to the larger matches across the Eastern United States and competed in over 15 major pistol events in 2015. Initially focused on Limited Division with iron sights, Vlieger found his calling in Open Division. Relocating to Lexington, KY in 2017, his efforts have redoubled to improve his skills. He has since completed over 50 major-level matches with multiple regional and state titles under his belt. Vlieger plans to compete at over 20 competitions in 2018.
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Wild and Untamed: Animals on Indian stamps
September 10, 2018 Stamps of IndiaAnimals on Indian stamps, Asiatic lion on stamps, Indian Caracal on stamps, Indian Leopard on stamps, swamp deer on stampsTeam Mintage World
India is rich in all the aspects! Along with its peculiar melange of cultures and traditions, India has wide spectrum of flora and fauna too. Being the seventh largest country of the world, India has a variety of geographical zones with at least three major biodiversity hotspots. It is also one of the 17 mega-diverse countries of the world. The region's diverse wildlife is preserved in more than 120 national parks, 18 Bio-reserves and more than 500 wildlife sanctuaries across the country. India Post has always attempted to honour the uniqueness of India on its stamps. On October 1st 1976, India Post issued a set of four stamps commemorating the untamed wildlife of India. In this blog we will be discussing about the various types of Animals on Indian Stamps.
Swamp Deer: Also known as "Barasingha" these Swamp Deer are widely found in the Indian Subcontinent. It's distinctive antlers have more than 3 tines and some of deer are found to have as many as 20 tines, hence the name "barasingha" meaning "twelve-tined".
A 'Vulnerable' species of India, swamp deer are mostly found along the base of the Himalayas from Upper Assam, a few places in the Indo-Gangetic plain and the area between the Ganges and Godavari. These herbivores are threatened by poaching for antlers and meat, depleting wetlands and illegal farming.
This exotic animal of India has also made an appearance in Kipling's "The Second Jungle Book" and is the state animal of Madhya Pradesh and Uttar Pradesh. A stamp with the face value of Re. 0.25 commemorates Swamp deers.
Lion King of India: One of the five majestic cats of India, the Asiatic Lion or the Indian lion is different from the African lion with its less developed mane, larger tail tuft, a distinctive fold of skin on the belly and is smaller in size. The historical range of the Indian Lion extended from Turkey, Persia, Mesopotamia in the west to Indus River, to Bengal, and to the Narmada River in Central India. But sadly today their population is limited mainly to Gir Forest National Park in Gujarat.
By the turn of 20th century the existing Indian Lion population of Gir, the only Asiatic lion population in India, was protected by the Nawab of Junagarh in his private hunting grounds! This helped conserve and protect these Asiatic lions from being extinct.
The Asiatic Lion is listed as Endangered on The International Union for Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List because of its small population size of an odd 523 individuals in total. They are now bred in captivity in zoos from across the world.
Indian Leopard: Yet another big cat from the Indian sub-continent. The species of Panthera pardus fusca, the Indian leopard has larger rosettes than the other subspecies, with a paler coat in desert habitats, greyer in colder climates and more ochre in rainforest habitats. These solitary predators have a pattern of rosettes that is unique to each individual and can be used to tell them apart.
Being good climbers, the Indian Leopards are mostly found in forests. As they find a perfect camouflage at night, leopards are nocturnal by nature and have a very board diet of medium-sized herbivores.
The population has been severely affected by poaching for the illegal trade of skins and body parts, loss of natural habitat and ecosystem decay. The IUCN Red List has declared the Indian leopard as Vulnerable and a new threat to them is their conflicts with the humans in areas located closer to human settlements.
This exotic big cat of India featured in Rudyard Kipling's 1894 novel "The Jungle Book" as a black Indian leopard named Bagheera.
Indian wild cat: The Caracal: The caracal is a medium sized wild cat native to Africa, central Asia, Middle East and India. Though listed as Least Concern on the IUCN Red List it is fast approaching extinction in India. Conflicts with human over livestock, rapidly depleting natural habitat and advancing deserts are major factors that endanger this secretive and difficult to observe cat.
Even though the caracal is typically active during the night time, its day time activities can easily go unnoticed because of its perfect camouflage. As a carnivore, the caracal preys upon small mammals, birds and rodents.
The average life span of a caracal in the wild is around twelve years and seventeen in captivity. Caracals had appeared in Indian paintings dating back to seventeenth century and were also tamed and used for hunting in ancient Egypt until the 20th century.
The exploitation of land and forest resources by humans along with capturing and trapping for food and sport has led to the extinction of many species in India in recent times. The Indian government has established eighteen biosphere reserves of India which protect larger areas of natural habitat and often include one or more national parks and/or preserves, along buffer zones that are open to some economic uses.
If we intend to pass to this rich flora-fauna to our future generations then we should take care and protect these species. It's high time that we "Live and Let Live"!
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My second attempt at a more polished sheath for my light and multitool. I spent a lot more time on this one.
A comparison of the Leatherman Tread and the Tread LT. Plus installing a watch adaptors on the Tread LT. The watch adaptors are from Leatherman Link.
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Q: How can I change font rendering to sub-pixel BGR ordering? In Ubuntu 11.10, I can't find a way to change the sub-pixel byte ordering to BGR. I have a BGR monitor and fonts look blurry because of this. I've installed gnome-tweak-tool but I can't find an option for the sub-pixel ordering. This used to be easy to do with the old font settings window.

A: You also may want to change system-wide font settings (and re-login afterwards):
ln -s ../conf.avail/10-sub-pixel-bgr.conf /etc/fonts/conf.d

This fixes sub-pixel rendering on Google Chrome for me, too.

A: You can do this using a GUI (dconf-editor from the package dconf-tools) or on the command-line:
GUI

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*Open dconf-editor

*In the left pane, go to /org/gnome/settings-daemon/plugins/xsettings

*In the right pane, change the value of the rgba-order key to bgr:

Command-line
Just run:
gsettings set org.gnome.settings-daemon.plugins.xsettings rgba-order 'bgr'

A: In latest ubuntu versions (such as 22.10) sub-pixel ordering (RGB/BGR/VRGB/VBGR) is set in dconf-editor under path /org/gnome/desktop/interface/font-rgba-order - such as shown on this screenshot

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Thread: If Cory Booker or Eric Swalwell ever get their way and try to confiscate guns, they'l
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If Cory Booker or Eric Swalwell ever get their way and try to confiscate guns, they'l
If Cory Booker or Eric Swalwell ever get their way and try to confiscate guns, they'll be facing a minimum of 650,000 ticked off American rebels
Thursday, May 09, 2019 by: JD Heyes
(Natural News) Because they are big government statists, at least two Democrats running for their party's 2020 presidential nomination have indicated they would support legislation that would potentially require federal authorities to confiscate at least certain classes of firearms.
Rep. Eric Swalwell (D-Calif.), the original "Russian collusion" truther, made an asinine statement last fall on Twitter in response to someone who claimed there'd be a massive fight if Uncle Sam ever got into the gun confiscation business.
As noted in a November analysis by Larry Correia at Monster Hunter Nation:
He got into a debate about gun control, suggested a mandatory buyback—which is basically confiscation with a happy face sticker on it—and when someone told him that they would resist, he said resistance was futile because the government has nukes.
Swalwell walked back his tweet later, but his message was clear: All-powerful and well-armed, the U.S. government would quickly dispatch any ne'er-do-wells who refused to comply with a gun confiscation edict, the Second Amendment be damned.
Fast-foward to the present. In recent days, Sen. Cory "Spartacus" Booker of New Jersey published a gun control plan in which he claimed he would "fight" the NRA like never before (despite the fact that the NRA has never condoned nor called for gun violence or had one of its members shoot someplace up).
Essentially, what Booker is proposing as a means of rejuvenating his already-flagging campaign is a federal effort to curb your right to keep and bear arms including a ban on certain classes of guns (you guessed it — military-looking "assault" rifles) and universal gun registration. Presumably, if he ever got his plan through Congress and signed into law, like Swalwell's plan it would include an 'enforcement' provision.
Confiscation.
And that's when the real violence would begin, according Correia's analysis.
If we can't defeat Taliban insurgents, how are we going to defeat 650,000 American rebels?
"First, let's talk about the basic premise that an irregular force primarily armed with rifles would be helpless against a powerful army that has things like drones and attack helicopters," he writes. "This is a deeply ironic argument to make, considering that the most technologically advanced military coalition in history has spent the better part of the last two decades fighting goat herders with AKs in Afghanistan and Iraq." (Related: NEVER turn in guns, magazines or banned accessories to the government: They are creating a database of those who own gun gear.)
Essentially, Correia notes that despite the infusion of, at one point about 100,000 NATO and U.S. troops in Afghanistan and tens of thousands in Iraq, 'irregular' — another term is "rebel" or "guerrilla" — forces have managed to stick around for years despite the overwhelming technical/military advantage possessed by the United States and Western militaries.
Part of that is due to rules of engagement: We are no longer 'permitted,' via international law, to bomb cities and civilian populations into oblivion. But part of this is also because irregular forces fight asymmetrically — hit-and-run tactics, ambushes, etc. — instead of traditional force-on-force combat.
But overall, these forces are few; perhaps only as many as 15,000-20,000, tops. And yet, they continue to exist, armed only with rifles and light weapons.
If all bets were off and the U.S. government, under some tyrannical (Democrat) president and Congress, began military and paramilitary operations against non-compliant gun owners, Correia estimates very conservatively that there would be at least 650,000 American "insurgents" and "rebels" for the government to have to deal with. And these would be hard-core, fight-to-the-death constitutionalists who simply would not bend to the government's will.
Keeping in mind that even an authoritarian Democrat is not going to order the U.S. military to level an American city, how would he/she expect to deal with an insurgency/rebellion/guerrilla force this large when we can't even defeat one that is less than a tenth as big overseas?
Food for thought. Read Correia's entire assessment here.
Video at the page link "Gun-Control Advocates" Are the Vanguard of the Disarmament Movement
Read more about how the Left would use big government to steal our guns at BigGovernment.news and Guns.news.
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Here's what's going on Talk Among Yourselves, our reader-written blog: DanimalCart talks about the burden of completionism. In preparation for Grand Theft Auto V, Cimeas goes back to San Andreas to re-evaluate Rockstar's much-loved last-gen outing. And SylverFist offers up a take of the Killzone: Mercenary multiplayer beta, with a better-than-expected impressions of the upcoming Vita shooter.


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The level of a person's raw intelligence, as measured by aptitude tests such as IQ scores, is generally pretty stable for most people during adulthood.
While it's true that there are things you can do to fine tune your natural capabilities, such as doing brain exercises, puzzle solving, and getting optimal sleep – the amount of raw brainpower you have is difficult to increase in any meaningful or permanent way.
For those of us who constantly strive to be high-performers in our fields, this seems like bad news. If we can't increase our processing power, then how can we solve life's bigger problems as we move up the ladder?
The good news is that while raw cognitive abilities matter, it's how you use and harness those abilities that really makes the difference.
The world's most successful people, from Ray Dalio to Warren Buffett, are not necessarily leagues above the rest of us in raw intelligence – they have simply developed and applied better mental models of how the world works, and they use these principles to filter their thoughts, decisions, strategies, and execution.
Today's infographic comes from best-selling author and entrepreneur Michael Simmons, who has collected over 650 mental models through his work. The infographic, in a similar style to one we previously published on cognitive biases, synthesizes these models down to the most useful and universal mental models that people should learn to master first.
Concepts such as the 80/20 rule (Pareto's principle), compound interest, and network effects are summarized in the visualization, and their major components are broken down further within the circle.
In a recent Medium post by Simmons, he highlights a well-known mental model that is the perfect bread crumb to start with.
The 80/20 rule (Pareto's principle) is named after Italian economist Vilfredo Pareto, who was likely the first person to note the 80/20 connection in an 1896 paper.
In short, it shows that 20% of inputs (work, time, effort) often leads to 80% of outputs (performance, sales, revenue, etc.), creating an extremely vivid mental framework for making prioritization decisions.
The 80/20 rule represents a power law distribution that has been empirically shown to exist throughout nature, and it also has huge implications on business.
If you focus your effort on these 20% of tasks first, and get the most out of them, you will be able to drive results much more efficiently than wasting time on the 80% "long-tail" shown below.
This is just one example of how a powerful mental model can be effective in making you work smarter.
If you want to be a top performer, it's worth looking into other mental models out there as well. They can help you better frame reality, so that you can harness your intelligence and effort in the most effective way possible – and it'll allow you to deliver results along the way.


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Steve Miller Band – Recall The Begginig Of A Journey from Eden – CD
May 7, 2018 532 × 500 Steve Miller Band – Recall The Beginning…A Journey From Eden
Elemental Music, together with Universal Music Spain proudly presents a new CD reissue of the long unavailable Steve Miller Band's masterpiece Recall the Beginning… A Journey from Eden. This 1972 album, originally released by Capitol Records, was Miller's seventh and last as a cult artist before the commercial breakthrough of 1973's The Joker. "Dedicated to Mahalia Jackson and Junior Parker, it is split into two distinct sections. Side one dips into '50s doo wop ('Enter Maurice'), acoustic folk-blues ('High on You Mama'), upbeat down-home pop ('The Sun Is Going Down'), and good-time R&B blues-rocking with horns ('Somebody Somewhere Help Me') predating Southside Johnny & the Asbury Jukes' similar style by about five years. Side two, on the other hand, is where Miller really hits his stride, with beautiful, somewhat psychedelic folk-rockers that add his blues and rock roots to the string-enhanced acoustic ballad 'Nothing Lasts,' the Haunting 'Love's Riddle,' and the shimmering closing title track, certainly one of his most endearing compositions. Nick De Caro's string arrangements are beautifully and expertly integrated into these songs and previous Steve Miller Band member Ben Sidran's production is sympathetic and spacious, as is veteran Bruce Botnick's (The Doors) engineering." (Hal Horowitz, AllMusic)
01. WELCOME
02. ENTER MAURICE
03. HIGH ON YOU MAMA
04. HEAL YOUR HEART*
05. THE SUN IS GOING DOWN
06. SOMEBODY SOMEWHERE HELP ME
07. LOVE'S RIDDLE
08. FANDANGO
09. NOTHING LASTS
10. JOURNEY FROM EDEN
All Songs Written by Steve Miller
Recorded and Balanced by Bruce Botnick
Guitar . . . Steve Miller, Jesse Davis*
Bass . . . Gerald Johnson
Drums . . . Jim Keltner, Roger Allen Clark,
Gary Mallaber, Jack King
Keyboards . . . Ben Sidran, Dick Thompson
String and Horn Arrangements by Nick DeCaro
Album Coordinator — Lester T. Pouncy
Album Design & Serigraphy — Tom Lunde
Photography — Bill Walker
Art Director — John Hoernle
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Doug & Kent & Bill at Sunset Sound; Funky Jack
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Why Brazil's Monarchists See a Rare Ally in Bolsonaro
By Andres Schipani
Supporters of Jair Bolsonaro demonstrate Paulista Avenue in Sao Paulo.
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Brazilians wanting the monarchy's return see a rare opening under a far-right president.
Bertrand Maria José Pio Januário Miguel Gabriel Rafael Gonzaga de Orleans e Bragança e Wittelsbach has a regal name but no crown — which is what he craves.
"A return to monarchic rule is the only way to rule Brazil," says the man more simply known as Dom Bertrand or, as he may prefer, Prince Imperial of Brazil, heir to Brazil's defunct throne. "Because in the republic there is often schizophrenia."
Dom Bertrand is the great-great-grandson of Pedro II, Brazil's last emperor, whose grandfather, King João VI of Portugal, fled to Brazil with the Portuguese court in 1807 to escape Napoleon.
I voted for Bolsonaro and will still vote for him; his values go alongside ours.
Dom Pedro, younger brother of Dom Bertrand
Brazil's monarchy was overthrown in 1889, following 400 years of rule. But the rise of conservatism ushered in by far-right President Jair Bolsonaro last year has emboldened those who feel republicanism has wrecked Latin America's largest country. They call for the restoration of monarchical rule over Brazil's 210 million people.
Dom Bertrand is seen by many Brazilians as their country's king-in-waiting. His eldest brother — with whom he shares a rented house in São Paulo, crammed with portraits of family monarchs, royal memorabilia and Catholic relics — is 81 and reclusive.
The 78-year-old lawyer has been more active than ever in recent months, hosting royalist lunches and dinners and holding Christmas carols. He opened a Twitter account that gathered 20,000 followers in two weeks. One of his first was Eduardo Bolsonaro, a congressman and youngest son of the president. (Some of his followers also follow Reza Pahlavi, heir to the late Mohammad Reza Shah of Iran.)
"The monarchist movement has grown enormously: There's a monarchic circle in every Brazilian state," Dom Bertrand says, without providing figures.
Facebook hosts several pages dedicated to the restoration of the monarchy — one, Pró Monarquia, has 97,000 followers; another, Monarquia Brasil, has 69,000 followers; Movement for the Restoration of Monarchy in Brazil has 54,000.
"It's spontaneous," Dom Bertrand says. "It is because the Brazilian people are conservative."
At a lunch for monarchy fans held last year, in a private club in a leafy area of São Paulo, Dom Bertrand's younger brother, Dom Pedro de Alcântara de Orleans e Bragança, said, "I voted for Bolsonaro and will still vote for him; his values go alongside ours." He sat flanked by a priest, a judge and a congressman who sipped glasses of cheap Chilean merlot and addressed him as "Your Highness." A paper imperial flag of Brazil — also green and yellow but with the coat of arms of the Empire of Brazil at the center instead of the motto "Order and Progress," which is much despised by monarchists — was placed atop the table. A vast one made of fabric hung outside the building.
Brazil's Prince Dom Bertrand.
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"Us monarchists have to support the current government," says Dom Bertrand, adding that they are aligned with Bolsonaro's pro-gun, anti-abortion, climate-change-skeptical stance — and that of his free-market economic tsar, Paulo Guedes.
"I know some ministers who are friendly to the monarchy but they cannot declare themselves royalists," Dom Bertrand says. His book Environmentalist Psychosis has been quoted by Bolsonaro at international forums to challenge concerns over deforestation in the Amazon. In the book, Dom Bertrand calls climate change a "true conspiracy against our Western and Christian civilization," and criticizes young Swedish climate activist Greta Thunberg.
Two impeachments, a string of corruption scandals and a brutal recession prove that republicanism has damaged Brazil, says Dom Bertrand. But it has also given rise to Bolsonaro and a reinvigorated royalist spirit being fanned through social media.
"Monarchists rise following moments of grave crises, trying to take advantage of Brazil's institutional weaknesses," says a Brazilian historian who declined to be named for fear of enraging the monarchists.
Dom Bertrand's Stanford-educated nephew, Luiz Philippe de Orléans e Bragança, became a federal lawmaker on the coattails of Bolsonaro in last year's election. "Some royalists still find me a Jacobin," he jokes, as his father relinquished his regal rights.
After Fernando Collor de Mello was impeached as president in 1992, Brazil held a constitutional referendum to decide the form of government, and 10.3 percent of those who voted, or almost 6.8 million, said they wanted a monarchical regime.
Support for the monarchy remained at more or less that level in 2017, when pollster Paraná Pesquisas reported that only 10.7 of respondents favored the return of the royal family, versus 84.5 percent against.
These days, one of the staunchest monarchists is Carla Zambelli, a congresswoman who is close to the president and his politically engaged sons. A recent post on her Twitter account ended with the declaration "Ave Império!" ("Hail Empire!").
"Ideally, in the long run, we should move to a parliamentary system and then establish that the head of state be a monarch," Zambelli says. "The monarchist system is good for one reason: because the monarch is not concerned about the next election. He will always care more about the next generation, which is something most politicians today don't care about."
Yet for Paula Vedoveli, a historian at the Fundação Getúlio Vargas, royal rule will remain a thing of the past in Brazil. "It may be appealing to some, but there is no condition whatsoever for us to return to a monarchy," she says.
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Evidently, LL Brown owes to the seminal type designs of Edward Johnston and Arno Drescher, who with «Johnston» (ca. 1915) and «Super Grotesk» (ca. 1930) each created immensely influential and successful geometric typefaces.Yet Aurèle Sack was not aiming at a revival font. Using the historic predecessors for formal cues, he kept developing it more freely, adding a similarly purist and near-surgical flavour as with his earlier typefaces. LL Brown has been prominently featured in various design publications and was awarded the Swiss Design Award in 2010. It is available in five weights: Thin, Light, Regular, Bold and Black, all of them in Reclining and Italic.


Maytag Dairy Farms is recalling "Maytag Blue" blue cheese wedges, wheels and crumbles because they have the potential to be contaminated with Listeria monocytogenes.
Listeria can cause serious and sometimes fatal infections in young children, frail or elderly people, and others with weakened immune systems. Healthy individuals may suffer only short-term symptoms (high fever, severe headache, stiffness, nausea, abdominal pain and diarrhea), but the infection can cause miscarriages and stillbirths among pregnant women. To date, no illnesses have been reported.
This recall includes certain lots of 1-, 4- and 8-ounce wedges and 2- and 4-pound wheels; and 8-ounce crumbles and 5-pound crumbles. The recalled product was sold through distributors, wholesalers, retail stores, restaurants and direct mail orders nationwide between Nov. 24 and Feb. 11. Whole Foods Market has concurrently issued a recall notice for its stores related to this recall: http://www.fda.gov/Safety/Recalls/ucm488391.htm.
The potential for contamination was discovered after testing in Iowa revealed the presence of Listeria in two lots of product. Maytag Dairy Farms has voluntarily suspended production and distribution while working with FDA and State of Iowa to determine the cause of the problem.
Consumers who have purchased any of the affected products are urged to discard them immediately and not consume them. Contact Maytag Dairy Farms at 800-247-2458 or 641-791-2010, Monday through Friday, 9 a.m. to 5 p.m. CST, to arrange for a refund and return of the product.
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Q: Where is Sets, Collections in python3 In the vein of converting some ipython notebooks to jupyter and python3
I'm stumbling over the following two lines in my notebook:
from sets import Set
from collections import defaultdict

Where do I find them for Python3?

A: The sets module is deprecated since Python 2.6. You need to use the builtin types set and frozenset instead.
collections.defaultdict is alive and well in Python 3, so you shouldn't need to change anything.


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HomeAdvisoryCurrency GuideEvents & PressBanks and fintechs: a dream team for international payments
Banks and fintechs: a dream team for international payments
Bruno Mellado, the head of international payments and collections writes in GT News about the complex nature of international payments and how new initiatives are poised to add value to the industry.
International payments are complex by nature, due to both currency and individual country requirements. Working as partners in this area, banks and fintechs can offer high-value, complementary responses – provided that when they construct the partnership the different bricks are smartly integrated and banks maintain overall control of the relationship.
With each currency having its own set of restrictions and specificities, paying abroad and getting paid from abroad can easily look like an obstacle course. Yet no wave of a magic wand – or even blockchain in its potentially most accomplished form – is powerful enough to overcome the full range of challenges that corporates face when it comes to international payments and currencies.
Innovation in the payments domain is an ongoing journey and based on continuous improvement. What's evident is that it is unreasonable to expect a major disruptive technology such as blockchain to relieve the pain points experienced by corporates when paying – or being paid – from abroad.
Bringing strong value
Thanks to major evolutions such as SWIFT's global payments innovation (gpi) initiative (which went live last month) the ideas and solutions brought by fintechs -combined with our own new offerings – will bring significant value to international payments now and in the near future. There are many reasons to support this optimistic outlook; here are just three of them:
SWIFTgpi will address major shortcomings of the interbank network: The new service has already started providing faster, traceable, and less expensive international payments. This will be a reality in 2017 as it rolls out across the world. Further developments will see the use of distributed ledger technology (DLT) and SWIFT, already being network-based, is strongly positioned to boost adoption of the new standard. BNP Paribas is at the forefront of this industry movement and already has a pilot underway with a leading corporate.
Banks are continuously improving their services: For example, at BNP Paribas, our team is creating new features that enhance convenience when choosing foreign exchange rates or pre-agreed rates to execute or receive operational foreign currency flows.
Fintechs are critical to an improved user experience and a wider range of services: Banks also play an essential role in supporting the development of fintechs' client base and bringing their extensive data, network and liquidity to support them in a win-win combination. This is precisely the spirit that drives partnerships such as BNP Paribas' with the cross-border payment network Earthport, a fintech whose value proposition is to extend the highways of local automated clearing house (ACH) destinations.
Sharing risks and rewards
Combined with the bank's established network and operational resources, such as liquidity to fund payments, fintechs' solutions can greatly and rapidly improve the deal. However, a win-win partnership demands that the risks and rewards be equitably shared between stakeholders; given today's highly-regulated operating environment, the symmetry is far from perfect.
Banks and fintechs must also work towards a business model capable of benefiting both parties, under which banks can take a stake in fintechs to support their scalability and sustainability. Banks are ultimately responsible to corporates for a seamless service, thus the integrated service that encompasses the contribution of fintechs must provide identical standards of excellence. This is possible if banks maintain their role as 'quality guardians' of the relationship with corporates.
Again, we should never forget that international payments are complex by nature due to the specific requirements linked to currencies, and here only information and expertise can help anticipate potential problems. These can prove complex and are addressed in detail by BNP Paribas' global Currency Guide (see below), which currently covers more than 130 currencies across 400 pages.
In the end, banks must become excellent service integrators to manage complexity and ensure that corporates keep full visibility on all their international flows. Why does this remain a critical feature? Because less visibility either demands higher capital buffers or potentially leads to missed hedging opportunities. In addition to these risks, lack of visibility can eventually generate costs that are higher than those resulting from the inefficiencies that the bank was originally aiming to solve.
BNP Paribas Currency Guide: a cure for complexity
Making successful payments in more than 130 currencies is made easy thanks to the BNP Paribas Currency Guide. This operational tool is designed to support corporates faced with the challenge of making international payments, who want to ensure the success of international payment operations while avoiding pitfalls. Available online, the Currency Guide unveils the why?, what? and how? of making international payments. Further information is available at www.cashmanagement.bnpparibas.com/cg
This article was first published in GT News and can be accessed at https://www.gtnews.com/articles/banks-and-fintechs-a-dream-team-for-international-payments/


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Filipino Veterans of World War II Honored in New York with Congressional Gold Medal Award Ceremony
Consul General Claro S. Cristobal (2nd row standing, 3rd L-R) and US Army Major General (Ret.) Antonio Taguba (2nd row standing, 4th L-R) with Capt. Pablo Barros (seated 2nd L-R), surviving World War II veteran, and family members of other veterans who received the Congressional Gold Medal Award on 8 September 2018 at the Philippine Center in New York. Lambert Parong for PCGNY
NEW YORK - Fifteen (15) Filipino World War II veterans were honored in a ceremony organized by the Philippine Consulate General headed by Consul General Claro S. Cristobal and the Filipino Veterans Recognition and Education Project (FilVetREP) led by US Army Major General (Ret.) Antonio Taguba, held at the Kalayaan Hall of the Philippine Center on 8 September 2018.
Capt. Pablo Barros. Lambert Parong for PCGNY
Capt. Pablo Barros, surviving WW II veteran, and the family of 14 other veterans received a US Mint replica of the Congressional Gold Medal (CGM) awarded by the US Congress to Filipino veterans of WW II, as well as a copy of Public Law 114-265 otherwise known as the Filipino Veterans of World War II Congressional Gold Medal Act of 2015.
In his remarks, Consul General Cristobal expressed his most profound gratitude to the Filipino Veterans of World War II for the extreme sacrifices and bravery they unselfishly showed to protect freedom and democracy.
Consul General Claro S. Cristobal. Lambert Parong for PCGNY
He said, "We and the generations of Filipinos to come owe you our thanks and respect. Because of you, we are able to enjoy the fruits of progress, freedom and democracy." He likewise thanked the family members of veterans who have passed or unable to attend the ceremony. "Rest assured that their services to our country and people will never be forgotten," Consul General Cristobal said.
The Consul General acknowledged the efforts of Maj. Gen. Taguba, the FilVetREP, and all those who lobbied and supported the passage of the bill in the US Senate and House o Representatives, particularly those in the US Northeast. The law brought into fruition the efforts of various groups in the Filipino American Community and the Philippine Foreign Service Posts in the US led by the Philippine Embassy in Washington DC.
Maj. Gen. Taguba said that FilVetREP has conducted 44 awarding ceremonies across the US since October 2017 when the lone Congressional Gold Medal was presented and collectively awarded by the US Congress. He said that the group is now developing an education program that will educate the public on the historic importance of the contributions of Filipino veterans of World War II.
Capt. Pablo Barros with US Army Major General (Ret.) Antonio Taguba. Lambert Parong for PCGNY
The following veterans were the recipients of the CGM:
Major Jose Falco
Capt. Pablo Barros
Abelardo Perucho Andal
Santiago Hipolito
Filemon T. Magracia
Andres S. Friginal
Moises M. Santos
Romeo Guitterez
Leopoldo T. Osano
Mario J. Valdeavella
Fidel A. Ansay
Jaime B. Aban
Avelino Tanjutco
Jacobo Tanjutco
Ramon Pelaez Sobrepeña
US Mint replica of the Congressional Gold Medal. Lambert Parong for PCGNY
Filipino World War II veterans or members of their family who have not received the award may get in touch with FilVetREP at https://www.filvetrep.org


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Today, Peter and the crew sculpted a gargoyle dragon under the windows of the first tower of the Copper Crown suite of the Hazelnut Inn. More dragons are planned elsewhere on the castle facade as well. Since the tower is currently laying down in the shop (too tall to stand vertical) I had to climb on top of it to take the picture. This dragon will face south towards the parking lot of the inn. By tomorrow quitting time the sculpting on the tower will be complete. This will allow us to lift the tower into place next week. Our friend John of Wishlow Cranes is already scheduled. The top portions of the ship will be lifted into place at the same time. We can hardly wait!


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A survey was done of people who had done something heroic, and the conclusion was reached that in each case, they had done it because they believed they could.
People will do good things when they believe they can, when they see a need, and when they believe it will be appreciated. As I commented yesterday to grammahobbit, appreciation is an under-recognized human need; people will do a lot to get it.
Just so, I count how much fun I had this weekend by how well I filled a need, and how much appreciation I got for it.
For SFX this year, Daughter and I arrived at the Convention Center (CC) about 10:00 am Friday, and I asked whether she could do some volunteer work rather than just stand around. Since we weren't asking for another free ticket (she'd already bought hers online), Matt (person in charge of volunteers) said sure and gave her a t-shirt and volunteer ribbon. The first thing that needed doing was carrying the swag bags from the green room upstairs (up escalator) to the registration booth. The first 1300 registrants get a bag. The bags are tied together, 15 to a bunch, and each bunch weighs about 25 pounds, so it was a bit difficult, but I managed 3 trips before I had to call a halt. Then there were another 300 bags to put together for the after-party. With 5 volunteers, we arranged an assembly line and had it done shortly.
The next Friday task is to organize the line of thousands of people who are coming in. (59,000 tickets sold for the weekend.) They're allowed in in stages - to this point, then to this point, etc. so that things don't get out of hand. We try to get them to understand that the ticket they printed on their computer has to be exchanged for the 'real' ticket on the 600 level of the CC. Then at 12:30, the lines are taken down to the 800 level, with volunteers at the bottom of the escalators telling them that if they have the deluxe tickets they go there and if they have the VIP tickets they go over there.
Amazing how many people don't listen. Instead of waiting in their proper lines, they go up the other escalator to the 700 level where the panels will be. They sit in line for hours for their favorite star, then can't get into the room because they by-passed the process and don't have their hands stamped. One of the things I try to do early is go through those lines to find 'unstamped' people and tell them where to get their validation before their panel starts.
About 1:00, the volunteers will start validating the tickets. That is, we punch out the date on the side of the ticket and stamp their hands. It's the hand stamp that actually gets them into things during the day. The next day, the next date is punched out and another hand stamp given (in a different color, of course). We started doing this only a couple years ago. Before that, everyone had to get their ticket punched at the door, and people did miss panels because the process took so long. But at that time, people weren't being let in until 4:00 anyway, and panels start at 5:00. It's a whole lot more fair now (and I'm proud to say that I was in on developing the new system - in a small way). I think I was receiving special notice to be singled out to do the VIP line, and had another volunteer (Jane) assigned to work with me, doing the hand stamping.
It may sound like a boring thing, done by rote, but there is a lot more to it than meets the eye. If the two volunteers don't work together, paying attention each to what the other is doing, a ticket might get punched without the client getting their hand stamped, and officially they are then just out of luck for the day, since technically they could be trying to get in on someone else's already used ticket. So you have to pay attention. Second, everyone has already put their tickets into the plastic badge holders, and you have to get them all to take them out. This requires loudness, which I'm good at. I scream down the line for them to please remove their orange badges from the plastic and hand them to me when I get to them. Some still get it wrong. Some just aren't listening in the first place, and others try to hand me the wrong ticket (the extra VIP ticket or the red 'get in at 2:00' authorization). So obviously, it's important to be insistant but kind during the whole process, which takes the whole hour until 2:00, when the line starts moving. Jane caught on quickly even though it was her first year. They don't usually.
It's hardly surprising when you think about it, as most people do not, that the Fair requires the customers to go first into the dealer's room. The dealers are paying the lion's share of the bill, after all, in paying for their booths. If they don't do well, that's the end of SFX. So everyone must first go into the dealer hall (which is the same place that the Guests have their autographing booths). Another huge bug in the system comes in now, after 2:00, when people come in who were not waiting in line. There are fewer volunteers left in that area, and sometimes the customer gets missed and not told that they must go into the dealer's room. Then their ticket doesn't get punched nor their hand stamped, they go directly to a panel, and are refused entrance. Happens all the time, as hard as we try to stop it. And they consider it our fault for not telling them. We do try.
After 2:00, Daughter and I walked back to our hotel to register and unpack.
Sounds like a simple thing, right? Except that I had just shed the crutch a week ago, and this extra trip back to the hotel was really hard. I did walk down and back using both crutches - I wouldn't have made it otherwise, but this was the worst part of the weekend. Parking is $15 to $17 anywhere, with no in-and-out. We needed to park the car near the hotel, which was $3 last year, and they had raised it to $15 to cut the competition for their 4 slots. So I paid for Friday and Saturday, and we had to walk back and forth, because I couldn't very well pay the $17 at the CC also every day. At least I can say that I made it!
I had forgotten to change my shoes earlier, and the ones I was wearing were too hot, and crowded my toes, so that by the time I could change them, my toes were really hurting. The sandals I put on helped a lot, and I figured that it would be all right in a few hours. It wasn't.
We walked back down and went to some panels - Daughter to anime, and me to mostly Star Trek. Walter Koenig was introducing the Star Trek films that were being shown, which of course was interesting. Apparently there is an internet series called Star Trek New Frontiers, which is about the fourth year of the Enterprise voyages. It is officially approved by Paramount, so long as they don't take money for anything. They can't even raise money for charity with it. Anyway, WK was featured in one of these, because he felt he'd like to have something more important done with his character (Chekov, if you don't know) rather than the pointless "red-shirt" death from the first movie. He warned us that it wasn't 'canon'. It was entertaining though not great, WK being the only 'real' actor in it, and I regret missing his own panel to watch it. I hadn't really realized that was going to happen. I had in mind that I would work his line (help keep people in order, tell them what to expect, etc.), even though I knew that Leonard Nimoy (LN) was going to be there, because such big stars are 'sequestered' and only the staff get to work for them.
I watched another Star Trek show until 11:00 pm (my feet hurt too much to do much of anything else) while Daughter danced with the anime people, and then we walked 'home'. And it rained on us on the way. I'll laugh about that, sometime. Not yet.
To be continued ... here.


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Top strategy and management consulting firms in Australia
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More than 20,000 young professionals – students and graduates – in Australia have identified the country's best companies to work for. Analysis of the data shows that the world's largest strategy consulting firms and the globe's largest accounting and consulting firms are in the eyes of Australian graduates the top employers of choice.
Australia is home to around 1.3 million students, of which an estimated one fifth graduate per year. These graduates all seek to land their dream job, with analysis of survey data from over 20,000 respondents (graduates and recently graduated professionals) showing that if to would be up to them, the majority would venture into the healthcare, education and public sector industries. The field of consulting is the next in line in terms of popularity – over one tenth of Australian students relish a career in strategy consulting, management consulting or digital consulting.
Asked why consulting is such a popular industry to kick start a career, Australian graduates provide a number of reasons that resonate closely with some of the key facets of working in consulting. Students enjoy the prospect of working on variety of projects across industries and functions, allowing them to see different problems at different organisations in different sectors. This provides for a steep learning curve, which is further boosted by the high-impact (and sometimes meaningful) projects they can work on, the large investments in training & development provided by consulting firms, and the quality of colleagues and leadership. Working in consulting also caters for a good future career outlook, with many ex-consultants working in top management positions cross Australia's business and public landscape.
The feedback from Australian students is not much different to that received globally. In a similar survey by Universum, a research agency, held among over 100,000 students in Europe (amalgamated from country surveys), strategy and management consulting surfaced as the top sector to work in after graduation, with challenging work, a dynamic work environment, professional learning & development and high-profile leadership all standing out as facets that hand consulting an edge to other industries.
Big Four consulting firms
Overall, it are the booming Big Four giants of Deloitte, EY, KPMG and PwC that rank as Australia's top consulting firms for graduates. Deloitte edges its rivals for both students with a business and engineering background, with EY coming in second for both groups. Among students with a background in humanities, liberal arts or education, the roles are turned around, and EY edges Deloitte, as well as KPMG and PwC.
In Australia, Deloitte generates revenues of over $2 billion, making the second largest of the four, but is the fastest growing of the quartet. The company's employees provide a wide range of services across audit, assurance, tax, financial advisory and consulting. The latter division is the firm's fastest growing unit, against a backdrop of digital disruption and digital transformation which is driving stellar demand for consultants and digital experts. Deloitte markets its consulting services through three labels: Deloitte Consulting (the overarching brand), Deloitte Digital (the digital and creative unit) and Monitor Deloitte (the firm's strategy consulting arm).
EY is the third largest Big Four player, with revenues of around $1.8 billion (FY18). Consulting services are provided by EY Advisory, which helps clients with matters including strategy, mergers & acquisitions, finance & risk, operations, supply chain, technology and human capital. The firm's unit dedicated to strategy consulting is EY-Parthenon, which formed after EY acquired The Parthenon Group five years ago.
PwC, the largest of the four with over $2.3 billion turnover, and KPMG, share third spot. Both firms have grown by more than 20% over the past three financial years, and both have advisory units with a strong track record. PwC serves the consulting landscape with PwC Advisory, and Strategy&, its strategy consulting subsidiary which it launched after it acquired Booz & Company for a reported $1 billion, in a move that sent a tidal wave through the strategy consulting market. As part of contractual agreements with Booz Allen Hamilton (the former parent of Booz & Company), PwC had to rebranded the unit, and opted for Strategy&. KPMG's strategy, management and digital consulting portfolio is housed in its KPMG Advisory business unit.
Strategy consulting firms
Hot on the heels of the Big Four are the globe's three most well-known strategic consulting firms – the McKinsey & Company, Boston Consulting Group (BCG) and Bain & Company, collectively dubbed as the 'MBB' by analysts. While McKinsey is the largest of the trio in Australia (in terms of revenues), arch rival BCG edges its competitor in terms of graduate popularity. Among business students, BCG ranks just behind the Big Four, while among engineering students, the firm holds third spot overall, ahead of KPMG and PwC.
The recognition comes at a time when Boston Consulting Group is thriving in Australia. Last year, the company enjoyed stellar growth, lifting its revenues by one third to nearly $400 million. BCG first landed in Australia in 1990, following a merger with local consultancy Pappas, Carter, Evans and Koop, and has since grown to a headcount of roughly 450 partners, consultants and staff across offices in Sydney, Canberra, Melbourne, Perth and Wellington. BCG is active with several brands in Australia. BCG provides its traditional strategy and management consulting services, BCG Gamma focuses on data science, and BCG Digital Ventures focuses on incubation and venturing.
The globe's largest strategy consulting firm, McKinsey & Company, is next in line as the top employer of choice among students aspiring a career in the top echelon of the management consulting industry. McKinsey is of roughly similar size to BCG in headcount, and has four offices in Australia, in Brisbane, Melbourne, Perth and Sydney. McKinsey has been active in Australia for over 50 years, and more recently, the firm has branched out into new domains. McKinsey Digital is the firm's digital arm, McKinsey Analytics provides advanced analytics services, McKinsey Implementation is its strategy execution and project management unit, and RTS is a unit that helps clients with turnarounds and restructuring.
US-headquartered Bain & Company, founded by a former BCG partner, has three offices in Australia, in Sydney, Melbourne (launched in 2000) and Perth (opened in 2011). Bain & Company work primarily with ASX200 companies throughout Australia and New Zealand, and has a particular strong track record in the private equity sector. The strategic consultancy made its debut in Australia thirty years ago, and has booked strong growth in the past years – Bain has nearly doubled in size in the past seven years.
Other top consulting firms
The list of Australia's top consulting firms for graduates includes two other consultancies, Accenture and Grant Thornton. With around 480,000 employees in over 120 countries, Accenture is the largest IT services and consulting company in the world. The firm employs more than 4,500 people in Australia, with offices in Sydney, Melbourne, Brisbane, Canberra and Perth as well as people working at client sites across Australia. The firm's consulting services are clustered within the Accenture Consulting and Accenture Strategy brands, with Accenture Digital and Accenture Interactive used for digital and creative offerings.
Grant Thornton is together with BDO and RSM one of the largest mid-market accounting and consulting firms of the world, and in Australia, Grant Thornton has around 1,200 people working in offices across Adelaide, Brisbane, Cairns, Melbourne, Perth, and Sydney.
According to the latest data, Australia's management consulting industry is worth just over $5 billion.
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1/26/2004 H Bill scheduled to be heard by EEP on Thursday, 01-29-04 at 9:00 am in House conference room 312.
1/29/2004 H The committees on EEP recommend that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes were as follows: 5 Ayes: Representative(s) Morita, Waters, Evans, Thielen; Ayes with reservations: Representative(s) Kanoho; 0 Noes: none; and 2 Excused: Representative(s) Kaho`ohalahala, Bukoski.
2/4/2004 H Reported from the committee on EEP (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 7-04) as amended in (HD 1), recommending passage on Second Reading and referral to the committee on EDB.
2/4/2004 H Passed Second Reading as amended in (HD 1) and referred to the committee(s) on EDB with none voting no and Representative(s) Pendleton, Souki excused.
2/11/2004 H Re-referred to CPC, referral sheet 13.
2/12/2004 H Re-referred to EEP, CPC, referral sheet 14.
3/1/2004 H The committees on CPC recommend that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes were as follows: 11 Ayes: Representative(s) Hiraki, Herkes, Caldwell, Chang, Lee, B. Oshiro, Sonson, Finnegan, Marumoto, Stonebraker, Thielen; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 4 Excused: Representative(s) Ito, Kanoho, M. Oshiro, Souki.
3/4/2004 H Reported from the committee on CPC (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 618-04), recommending passage on Third Reading.
3/4/2004 H Passed Third Reading as amended in (HD 1) with none voting no and none excused.
3/5/2004 S Received from House (Hse. Com. No. 76).
3/8/2004 S The committee on ENE has scheduled a public hearing on 03-11-04 at 2:45 pm in conference room 224.
3/9/2004 S Referred to ENE, CPH.
3/12/2004 S The committee on ENE deferred the measure until 03-23-04 at 2:45 pm in conference room 224.
3/23/2004 S The committee(s) on ENE recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, UNAMENDED. The votes in ENE were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) English, Kokubun, Hooser, Hemmings; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 2 Excused: Senator(s) Baker, Kanno.
3/25/2004 S Reported from ENE (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 3030) with recommendation of passage on Second Reading and referral to CPH.
4/5/2004 S The committee on CPH deferred the measure until 04-08-04 at 9:00 am in conference room 016.
4/8/2004 S The committee(s) on CPH recommend(s) that the measure be PASSED, WITH AMENDMENTS. The votes in CPH were as follows: 4 Aye(s): Senator(s) Menor, Baker, Espero, Whalen; Aye(s) with reservations: none ; 0 No(es): none; and 3 Excused: Senator(s) Ige, Kim, Sakamoto.
4/8/2004 S Reported from CPH (Stand. Com. Rep. No. 3276) with recommendation of passage on Third Reading, as amended (SD 1).
4/13/2004 H Returned from Senate (Sen. Com. No. 507) in amended form (SD 1).
4/15/2004 H House conferees appointed: Morita, Hiraki Co-Chairs; Herkes, Bukoski.
4/16/2004 S Senator(s) English, Menor appointed as Co-Chair(s), Hooser, Hemmings.
4/20/2004 H House conferee(s) added: Representative(s) Chang.
4/21/2004 H Conference Committee will have decision making on Thursday 04-22-04 at 11:30 am in Conference Room 212.
4/22/2004 H The House Conference Managers recommend to agree to the Senate Amendments. The votes were as follows: 5 Ayes: Representative(s) Morita, Hiraki, Chang, Herkes, Bukoski; Ayes with reservations: none; 0 Noes: none; and 0 Excused: none.
4/23/2004 H Reconsideration of action taken on 4-15-04.
4/26/2004 S Received notice of House reconsideration of action in disagreeing to the amendments proposed by the Senate (Hse. Com. No. 639).
4/27/2004 S Received notice of House agreement and passage on Final Reading (Hse. Com. No. 671).
6/2/2004 S Act 99, 6/2/2004 (Gov. Msg. No. 600).
6/2/2004 H Act 099, on 6/2/2004 (Gov. Msg. No. 287).


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The 'Self-Actualizing' Spirituality of Søren Kierkegaard
How the Danish philosopher takes an idea that's congenial to modern ears and turns it upside down.
Kyle David Bennett| November 14, 2019
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Kierkegaard and Spirituality: Accountability as the Meaning of Human Existence (Kierkegaard as a Christian Thinker)
C. Stephen Evans
Protestants don't have saints. Or at least we claim we don't. But if we consulted our eyes, fingers, and hearts, they would tell us otherwise. Perhaps we don't own up to having saints because we worry it might impugn our identity, which is often anchored in the notion that we are those who resist and protest the ways of our elder brothers and sisters in Rome. But no matter what our minds tell us, our eyes, fingers, and hearts tell the truth. We are closet saint-admirers.
Which writer do you read when you are existentially famished? Whose thoughts do you continually find yourself pondering while putting away the dishes? Whose words do you break down and repeat with thrill and delight? Whose life inspires you? Who makes you want to be a better human being? That's your saint. One of mine is the Danish philosopher and theologian Søren Kierkegaard.
Ever since Kierkegaard's writing was introduced to an American audience (through the translations of Walter Lowrie, David Swenson, and Howard and Edna Hong), we've seen a near-bottomless amount of scholarship focusing on Kierkegaard the Philosopher. And over the past decade or so, the theme of Kierkegaard as Theologian has received a good deal of attention.
With the release of Kierkegaard and Spirituality: Accountability as the Meaning of Human Existence—the newest volume in the "Kierkegaard as Christian Thinker" series from Eerdmans press—C. Stephen Evans has hopefully opened up a new chapter in Kierkegaard studies: Kierkegaard the Spiritual Director. Evans, who teaches philosophy at Baylor University, brings philosophical grit and pastoral sensitivity to this book, making it a work on spiritual formation with a spine.
Errant Spiritualities
Evans summarizes Kierkegaard's spirituality in three broad strokes. He first outlines the natural basis of spirituality in Kierkegaard's thought, then the errant forms our spirituality can take, and then Kierkegaard's notion of a distinctly Christian spirituality.
Everyone is spiritual, Kierkegaard argues, in that we are created by a God who has endowed each of us with a spirit. When we use this "eternal dimension" as a launching pad and compass for relating to our Creator, we use it appropriately and fulfill our designed nature. When we use it to ground ourselves in something other than God, we use it inappropriately and typically fall into some form of despair, because it can't afford us what we're ultimately longing for. The heart wants its source; it wants the infinite.
Evans frames Kierkegaard's vision of spirituality in terms of "self-actualization." We all want to be something and live our lives to the fullest. But with so many possible paths to take, we're apt to wander and find ourselves lost. With stunning detail and coherence, Evans weaves together a typology of errant movements of the spirit discerned by Kierkegaard. They all share an attempt to ground identity and fulfillment in something finite, something other than God. This is not genuine self-actualization, though—not if God has created and designed us to be particular kinds of selves in relation to him.
In my estimation, Evans's discussion of these errant forms of spirituality, paired with his ensuing discussion of Kierkegaard's view of natural knowledge of God, is worth the price of the book. This is some excellent stuff for anyone looking to think seriously about interreligious dialogue, apologetics, and mission. Relevant applications to our cultural moment bleed through the pages. Case in point: I often sneer at the remark, "I'm spiritual, but not religious." This is because we all bind (from the Latin word religare) ourselves to someone or something, and various forms of reverence and obligation naturally follow. But Evans's discussion of errant forms of spirituality present in Kierkegaard's Sickness Unto Death lends the "spiritual but not religious" trope a little more cognitive weight.
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There are plenty of non-Christian or "secular" spiritualities out there—just scan the New York Times bestseller list or step into the foyer of a Barnes and Noble. Kierkegaard discusses (and even occasionally commends) several of these "generic" spiritualities in his writings. Evans groups them under the heading of "Socratic Spirituality" because Kierkegaard greatly respected Socrates—he went so far as to say that although he is a disciple of Jesus, Socrates was his teacher. I think we can agree with Kierkegaard that at least some pagan forms of spirituality have a measure of value and wisdom—and that certain forms of spirituality occasionally found in Christian circles are fundamentally flawed.
Routines and Rituals
Evans's portrait of Kierkegaardian spirituality as a matter of self-actualization is bound to warm the hearts of contemporary readers who love to peddle "self care" and repost defiant internet memes that read, "Don't ever let anybody tell you…" We long to be ourselves and to find ourselves. But in typical Kierkegaardian fashion, this is the exact moment when the Danish Socrates would turn the table upside down and ask: Whose self-actualization are we talking about? And according to which moral standard? You have to choose.
One aspect of Kierkegaard's thought that I wish Evans would have brought to the surface, especially given the current state of the American church, is the Dane's critique of Christian teachers, leaders, and ministers. Admittedly, Kierkegaard held his criticism of the Danish church for far too long, and when he unleashed it later in life, he did so with vitriol and ad hominem remarks, to which Evans rightly objects. But Kierkegaard's critique of Christendom, the established church, and leaders he knew personally is worthy of consideration in our day and age. If it doesn't move or act like Christ, it probably isn't Christian. More Christian pastors (and Christian university presidents) need to hear that, and heed it.
As I was reading Evans's book, I wondered, "How exactly do we live 'before God' and stay accountable to him?" Evans gives readers a handy snapshot of Kierkegaard's view of communion and personal Bible reading. But the extent to which these practices form one's spirit, helping you become the sort of creature God has designed you to be, isn't all that clear. Kierkegaard himself was formed beyond these two practices. He had his own routines and rituals that shaped the contours of his spirituality, such as his adolescent walks with his father, his neighborly philosophical discussions in Copenhagen, his reflective carriage rides to the country, and even his theatre trips. Evans doesn't mention these routines and rituals, but these were significant practices for Kierkegaard's own self-actualization.
If Kierkegaard is to serve as our spiritual director, we need to hold his feet to the fire. How do we self-actualize? If Kierkegaardian spiritual formation is a matter of "self-actualization," as Evans suggests, then we must press our spiritual director for practical guidance. The fact of the matter is we need to be apprenticed. The equipment of "self-actualization" is there, but we don't know how to use it properly. We need practices and people to help facilitate and sustain our spiritual formation. We need intercessory prayer, Christian friendship, and pastoral oversight to live an accountable life before God. We need a few apostle Pauls in our lives: "Follow my example, as I follow the example of Christ" (1 Cor. 11:1).
Is Kierkegaard a saint for our time? I don't know. But I do believe the time is ripe for him to (re)enter discussions on spiritual formation. As Evans ably displays, Kierkegaard is the sort of spiritual director who is unwilling to separate right living from holy living, or ethics from spirituality. I love that about him, and we need that right now. Kierkegaard believed that Christians need to hold themselves to a higher ethical standard than Aristotle and Immanuel Kant. A call from God rearranges the moral board. Revelation sets the playing field. It's unlikely that Kierkegaard gets read in the same class or small group as Dallas Willard or Eugene Peterson. But after reading Evans, one comes away thinking he should.
Kyle David Bennett teaches philosophy at Caldwell University, where he is program director of the Spirituality and Leadership Institute. He is the author of Practices of Love: Spiritual Disciplines for the Life of the World (Brazos).
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University of Silesia decided WRiTV tender
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University of Silesia had opened bids for the construction work on the Krzysztof Kieślowski Radio and Television Faculty's new seat (WRiTV) at the end of May. Last week, the university chose preferred bidder to be signed as a prime contractor of the undertaking. The new center for WRiTV students will be erected by Mostostal Zabrze.
© University of Silesia; new seat of the Krzysztof Kieślowski Radio and Television Faculty
There were six bidders willing to build the educational facility – the lowest price for the execution of the construction work was proposed by Mostostal Warszawa (PLN 19,53 million). The public procurement department of the university has been checking the six offers in accordance with the tendering terms over the last few weeks. Three out of the six bidders – including Mostostal Warszawa – were excluded from the procedure as the companies did not accomplish formalities.
The three remaining building firms (Budimex: PLN 34,5 million, Mostostal Zabrze: PLN 26,8 million, Unimax: PLN 29,5 million) were taken into consideration and their offers were evaluated. The most preferred bid with the lowest price was made by Mostostal Zabrze and the company will soon sign a contract for the execution of the construction work with the university.
According to the public procurement department, the contract should by signed by the end of July this year. The prime contractor will have 18 months to deliver the Radio and Television Faculty's new seat.
The building will be the first facility of UniverCity, an academic district to be created in the area of Pawła, Wodna and Górnicza streets by 2018.
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