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(MENAFN- The Peninsula) #qatar 2022 #world cup teams #fans #world cup carnival The Peninsula Doha: Thousands of football fans from across the globe are enjoying festivities organised at the Corniche Activation – which is part of the Cultural & Entertainment Experience Programme organised by the Supreme Committee for Delivery & Legacy (SC) during the FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022. The 6km promenade stretches from the Sheraton Hotel to the Museum of Islamic Art and includes a vast range of entertainment options, food and beverage kiosks and roving performances, such as musicians, dancers and various visual artists. The SC's Stakeholder Relations Director, Khaled Al Suwaidi, said there was something for everyone to enjoy.“The Corniche Activation is our biggest fan zone project, with a capacity to host 120,000 fans. It contains a variety of festivities, coffee stations, food carts and family-friendly areas. There is something for everyone.” He added:“We have worked closely with local cultural stakeholders and community groups to organise many of the activities, which celebrate the best of the host country, while highlighting our cultural diversity – which during the World Cup will make everyone feel that Qatar is their home away from home.” Previously, the Cultural & Entertainment Experience Programme delivered cultural activations during FIFA Club World Cup, FIFA Arab Cup, Emir Cup and other past football tournaments. Following the huge success of the programme, it launched the Cultural Activation FIFA World Cup Qatar 2022 project to add to the extraordinary fan experience that visitors can indulge in during their stay in the country. With 600+ acts delivering more than 6,100 performances at 200 activation spots – with each aiming to create a memorable experience for World Cup fans. The programme will deliver activations at all tournament stadiums last mile areas, Al Messila Bus Mall, fan accommodations, and will contribute to other sites such as the Corniche, FIFA Fan Festival and various other fan touchpoints such as D'reesha Performing Arts Festival at Education City. “We received more than 4,000 applications from talented artists interested in being part of this one-of-a-kind event,” said Al Suwaidi.“We carefully considered the applicants and invited several hundred to share their talent with the world. Through this project, we provided the opportunity for talented artists to experience an event of this magnitude and celebrate their culture and passion with the fans during this countrywide festival of art and football.” Al Suwaidi signed off by saying football fever had taken over the Doha Corniche. He said:“This place is buzzing with excitement with fans from all over the world. This is what we love to see – football passion is everywhere.” Fans are encouraged to head to the Corniche from 5-11 PM every day during the tournament. They can also use a free shuttle bus, which runs every 7.5 minutes at peak times, to travel between West Bay and Souq Waqif. Fans interested in attending Qatar 2022 should click here for the latest tickets, accommodation and Hayya Card information.
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Peninsula is admittedly better than most recent zombie fare, but is reflective of an overall cinematic failure to innovate the genre. The zombie film is, at this point, a cinematic staple. Given the sheer number of zombie narratives over the past decade, any qualitative assessment is sure to vary from person to person, the obvious highs and lows of the genre becoming less distinct amid the saturation. For film enthusiasts, it’s frequently difficult to find even one such film worth seeing in a given year, while elsewhere video gamers have been blessed with a wonderful streak of Resident Evil entries. Zombie fatigue is very real across all visual mediums, and it’s something that has been written about frequently, but the sentiment bears repeating: too many TV shows, too many movies, not many of them good. All the more reason, then, to celebrate the exceptions, and 2016’s Train to Busan, directed by Yeon Sang-ho, was among the most exciting and visceral horror-action spectacles of the year. It didn’t necessarily revolutionize anything; rather, it relied on an elegant handling of story and character, as well as a palpable sense of urgency, that had been missing from other recent forays into zombie fare. It arrived at a time when the Resident Evil series, under the guidance of director Paul W.S. Anderson, was completing its evolution from horror-facing franchise into something altogether more stylized and surfacely artful — a popular pivot among many cinephiles, but also an about-face from the genre tradition of its inception, leaving plenty of viewers less satisfied. And so, given Train to Busan‘s international success, a sequel was expected. Instead, what came first was an animated prequel of sorts, Seoul Station, also directed by Yeon Sang-ho and released only a month after the original (the director had been previously known exclusively as an animation director prior to Train to Busan). Seoul Station was a far grimmer affair and with few pleasures to be found, as it was too bogged down in the narrative origins of the zombie outbreak that would take over South Korea. Four years later and that sequel has arrived. Peninsula opens with a few sequences that look to re-establish its particular brand of zombie films: one that, while still possessing the requisite genre thrills, chooses to ground itself foremost in the moral quandaries (and resultant thematic and moral weight) that define such an apocalyptic scenario. Notions of camaraderie, piety, treason, and altruism permeate the film, and the plot kicks off Jung-seok, a South Korean marine, who, with his sister and nephew, seeks refuge from the undead scourge aboard a ship. Obviously, everything goes wrong, the ship is quickly overrun with zombies, and Jung-seok watches his family die; he then befriends another lonely outcast, and the pair spend the next few years as outcasts in Hong Kong. There’s fascinating allegorical potential in the idea of “zombie refugees” in Hong Kong, and it seems as if the film may follow this thread as the local population treats these individuals as if they were infected simply because they speak Korean. Unfortunately, it’s a suggestion that isn’t more than cursorily explored. Instead, Peninsula pivots to include a Chinese mob boss who contacts Jung-seok to form a team that will pillage Incheon, a coastal city which has been quarantined for the past four years. The group soon discovers that zombies “live” in the city, but so does an underground society of sorts that has flourished in the middle of the crumbling streets and buildings. What this means for Peninsula, then, is that it begins to heavily borrow from other post-apocalyptic films — notably the Mad Max series, and particularly Fury Road — and that sense of familiarity dampens much of the film’s potential thrills. The film’s digital imagery further complicates matters: there’s a commitment to compositions shrouded in darkness that, while recalling the particular flavor of Yeon’s animation origins, start to become repetitive across the film’s runtime. Indeed, it remains the human moments — ethical deliberations and acts of heroism — rather than the film’s technical craft or set pieces that evince its most exciting elements, with the exception of a series of car/foot chases that close out the film and inject some stakes into an otherwise commonplace zombie film. If Peninsula doesn’t measure up to its predecessor, it remains a more impressive effort than most other recent depictions in the flagging genre. But in the realm of living dead art, recent video game Resident Evil 3 is superior in storytelling, character, and visual artistry. It’s an unfortunate reality that a medium so essential in the development of zombie craft is falling so far behind other modes when it comes to innovation.
Russian cosmonauts on the International Space Station (ISS) are planning to transmit Slow Scan TV images on 145.800 MHz FM using the SSTV mode PD-120. The transmissions are part of the Moscow Aviation Institute SSTV experiment (MAI-75) and will be made from the amateur radio station RS0ISS in the Russian Service module of the ISS using a Kenwood TM-D710 transceiver. June 09, 2021 (Wednesday) from 09:35 GMT until 13:50 GMT* June 10, 2021 (Thursday) from 08:55 GMT until 15:50 GMT* *Dates and times subject to change. The signal should be receivable on a handheld with a 1/4 wave whip. If your rig has selectable FM filters try the wider filter for 25 kHz channel spacing. You can get predictions for the ISS pass times at ARISS SSTV Blog ARISS SSTV archive ARISS contact with school in Bombala, NSW, Australia An ARISS educational school contact is planned for Shane Kimbrough KE5HOD with students at St Josephs Catholic Primary School, Bombala, NSW, Australia. The contact is scheduled on Thursday June 10, 2021 at approximately 10:45 UTC, which is 12:45 CEST. The link to the ISS will be operated by the amateur radio telebridge station IK1SLD, located in northern Italy. Due to simultaneous SSTV transmissions on VHF, downlink signals for this school contact will be operated on UHF. Downlink signals will be audible in Europe on 437.525 MHz narrow band FM. Moreover, operations at IK1SLD ground station will probably be webcast on https://www.ariotti.com/ At St Joseph´s we are developing skills that will equip our students for their futures. The school has a focus on developing student interest in science, technology, engineering and mathematics. We are introducing coding, robotics, Virtual Reality and 3D printing. Currently we are all learning about the universe. We have visited the Canberra Deep Space Communication Centre and now we are looking forward to talking to a real astronaut. Students First Names & Questions: - Oliver: What is the process for getting up and down from the International Space Station? - Miller: Does zero gravity up there affect the way you are when you come back down to earth? - Zac: How long have you all been on the space station for? - Anna: What do the shooting stars look like when they go past your space station? - Henry: How does a satellite provide internet? - Grace: What made you want to be an astronaut? - Isaac: How do you keep warm? - Kobi: How long has the space station been around for/ when was it built and who by? - Octavia: Does outside in space always look the same? - Abbey: Have you seen any space junk? - Mrs Shannon: Thank you for answering our questions, to finish up we would like to know what advice you would give to someone who wanted to be an astronaut. Gaston Bertels, ON4WF
We World Cup Champ, A Secentralized World Cup gaming platform. The 2022 World Cup in Qatar is about to begin, the world’s hottest sports competition has attracted the attention of more than 3 billion fans around the world, when blockchain technology and Web3 meet the World Cup, what kind of wealth story will collide? The sports field is becoming a new way for crypto giants to expand their own ecology, and well-known crypto giants represented by Binance, Coinbase, and are extending to the soccer field through Web3 to further enhance their crypto ecology’s brand awareness and business system of cross-border integration. While a much-anticipated grand soccer feast will soon kick off in Qatar, the new crown epidemic has had a significant impact on soccer matches so far in 2020, resulting in the suspension of matches, player confirmations, live viewing restrictions, and tight cash flow for clubs. With these impacts, fan participation in the event has quickly shifted from offline to online. In this golden age of web2 internet to web3 internet innovation, the online participation of fans in tournament betting has become more diversified and encrypted. The concept of “data is an asset and everyone can participate” has led to the emergence of a large number of web3+football tournament projects, among which, WWCC was born. Unlike previous World Cup crypto investment projects, WWCC will provide participants with a more fair, transparent, free and pure open autonomous crypto soccer guessing platform, WWCC welcomes fans and crypto enthusiasts from all over the world to join the WWCC platform. WWCC will create your own World Cup championship in the name of Web3. WWCC is the abbreviation of “We World Cup champ”, which means “We are the World Cup champ”. WWCC is created by a team of top crypto developers who love soccer and are tired of the interference of capital power on soccer stars and tournament arrangements in the past. They believe that among many soccer events, the most important part that carries a soccer event is not the players, the teams, nor the event organizers, but the audience and fans who participate in this event. A tournament is not only about sharing the excitement and thrill to the fans, but also about direct and effective participation and value sharing. (1) Decentralized Guessing The WWCC team believes that WWCC will be a comprehensive Web3 platform for all fans to participate and share, and that WWCC respects the contribution of every member who participates in voting and guessing. With the concept of Web3.0, WWCC rewards all users who contribute to the platform with platform points, which can be exchanged for platform coins (contribution value is VPB points, 1 contribution value = 1 VPB) 1、When users vote, each vote gets 1VPB User A invites User B to vote, and User B gets 0.5VPB for every vote User B casts. 2、 When users participate in the competition, they can also get VPB.(specific ratio to be determined) 3、Users trading NFT, also can get VPB.(specific ratio to be determined) On this platform, every participant can directly participate in the sharing economy of every soccer match, and get the rewards and dividends of every exciting match in a fair and transparent way. To this end, WWCC builds an innovative web3 sharing economy between the football stars of each club and their fans, inviting the football stars to achieve mutual interaction and empowerment with their fans at zero distance. In the future, fans can participate in the management and investment of each player and national team through participation in DAO, allowing you to truly participate in a championship contest through a new way of loving soccer. Voting with your favorite athletes and clubs, the WWCC team uses decentralized smart contract editing to present fans with an open and transparent feast of luxury soccer betting. Users will pre-vote for this Qatar World Cup winning team and the Golden Ball Award one month before the World Cup kicks off. The voting method is BNB on-chain public address betting. In WWCC’s betting system for each race, member fans bet on BNB online to guess the win, loss and score, and participating betting users are rewarded with platform points, which can be exchanged for platform coins. (2) WWCC DAO WWCC will make every effort to build a web3 soccer guessing game ecology with no data boundaries and circulating assets, and create a crypto-economic soccer-like meta-universe multi-chain interaction platform to establish wwcc dao. wwcc dao will be the world’s first dao organization with soccer clubs as autonomous self-care co-builders, which provides a customized NFT token issuance mechanism to help teams or organizations issue NFT tokens and provide a dedicated trading venue and fan operation platform for team or organization to participate and make decisions on club affairs. wwcc dao will achieve a multi-win situation, for teams it provides tools to operate fans and for fans to participate and make decisions on club affairs. It provides a dedicated trading venue and fan operation platform for NFT token holders to participate and make decisions on club affairs. wwcc dao will achieve a multi-win situation, for teams, it provides tools to operate fans, and for fans, they have a channel to invest in the team and the right to make decisions on certain affairs. By spontaneously investing in supporting a star team through DAO, soccer clubs have completed voting through the Web3 voting platform, which is a big step towards further democratization of governance within soccer clubs . Web3’s soccer feast will not be absent from the collection and trading of NFT. When the World Cup meets NFT, limited edition and ip value will be able to send big, usually the platform will be some kind of privileged value empowered to a nft to be speculated, but often can not escape the problem of the value of the final liquidity becomes slow, the high value nft collected by the purchaser has a price but no market situation often happens. For this reason WWCC first invention casting NFT while issuing equivalent Token Web3NFT comprehensive platform, which is a new nft price automatic market making system, wwcc innovative proposed NFT and coins with the same right concept, that is, the platform issued NFT and Token can be replaced in the nft trading system, the NFT can be destroyed through smart contracts can destroy the NFT, destroy the NFT This means that every NFT you buy in wwcc will have the anchor of the value of the token, the token’s performance in the secondary market will directly link the value of the NFT fluctuations, imagine, your hand collection of NFT cards, the price will no longer remain unchanged, instead, it has more value investment appreciation space. wwcc will proceed to issue invitations for cooperation with various national teams and club stars. wwcc will issue NFTs of the stars to retain all the exciting moments of the King of the game, when the stars and the club enjoy the same NFT rights and benefits, and users holding NFTs, also enjoy NFT rights and benefits. (4) Metaverse and Foundation The WWCC team will redefine the concept of soccer metaverse. WWCC is trying to use the micro zero-delay camera wearable system developed by the team to try out in wwcc’s official player jerseys, presenting unparalleled live matches for club members with the player’s first visual system combined with ar, and supporting WWCC’s decentralized guessing system, allowing fans to fully participate in a new way. Wwcc will not only serve the global soccer fans, but also the WWCC fund will be established at the opening of the Qatar World Cup, when wwcc will make part of the platform’s profits for the wwcc global soccer development fund. The fund will be operated in an open and transparent manner and will be open to accept donations from other organizations for a long time. WWCC Youth Football Fund will be dedicated to supporting the cultivation and support of youth soccer in economically backward regions of the world and promoting the development of youth soccer talents worldwide.
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Our negative numbers worksheets are designed to help KS2 and KS3 kids master negative numbers. All of the resources available through Cazoom Maths prepare children for any type of negative number problem they come across, whether that is a worded problem, a question involving temperatures, or multiplying negative numbers. Our worksheets on ordering negative numbers equip children with the skills and knowledge they need to progress in their maths education. Negative Numbers Worksheets for KS2 and KS3 Students Our resources are clearly presented and easy to follow and contain plenty of enjoyable activities for them to practice multiplying, adding, subtracting and dividing negative numbers. Negative numbers appear when measuring temperatures and many more real life situations, so make sure your child or pupil is well prepared by using the resources available on Cazoom Maths. The Real Life Applications of Negative Numbers Many students question why learning about negative numbers is important, citing the reasoning that negative numbers of objects simply cannot exist. Their argument is that it is not possible to have -1 apple, which would be correct, however this does not mean that there are no possible uses for negative numbers in real life. Here are a few examples of when negative numbers will be useful. Negative Numbers in Everyday Life The temperature unit Celsius places zero at the point where water freezes. Anything below 0C is represented by a negative number, to differentiate between temperatures above freezing point and below freezing point. When temperatures are given as negative numbers on a weather report, this tells viewers that it is likely to be icy outdoors and that they should take extra care while driving. Negative temperatures are also displayed on food packaging to advise buyers what temperature they should store frozen items. Importance of Learning Negative Numbers Negative numbers are frequently used on bank statements. When the bank account holder has spent less money than they have in their account, the final balance at the end of the statement will be displayed as a positive number. However, when someone spends more money than they have, this number will be displayed as a negative number. Understanding how negative numbers work is important in order to work out how much you owe the bank, so it is important to prepare students well for this situation by using negative numbers worksheets throughout their education.
- Google's latest Android "choice screen" auction results show Microsoft's Bing was the main winner across most major European markets. - The process was introduced last year to appease EU regulators following a $5 billion antitrust fine on Google over Android abuses. - DuckDuckGo, which now features in just four markets, says the auctions are "fundamentally rigged by Google to benefit Google." LONDON — Google is still engaged in anti-competitive practices in the mobile search market, according to its smaller competitors, who claim a record antitrust fine from the European Union has done little to reduce the tech giant's dominance. The company announced late Monday the results of a quarterly auction to decide the winners of its so-called "choice screen," which lets Android users in Europe pick their default search engine when setting up their smartphone. The process was introduced last year to appease EU antitrust regulators following their 4.3 billion euro ($5 billion) fine on Google over unfair practices related to its mobile operating system. Search engines have to bid to be included among four options — including Google — that consumers choose from during setup. Smaller search engines object to having to pay Google for the right to be considered. Google's latest auction results show that Microsoft was the main winner across most major European markets, with its Bing search engine securing a spot in the U.K., Germany, France and 10 other countries. Privacy-focused search engine DuckDuckGo, which has previously found success with the bidding process, this time features in just four markets — Bulgaria, Croatia, Iceland and Liechtenstein. "Despite DuckDuckGo being robustly profitable since 2014, we have been priced out of this auction because we choose to not maximize our profits by exploiting our users," the company wrote in a blog post. "In practical terms, this means our commitment to privacy and a cleaner search experience translates into less money per search. This means we must bid less relative to other, profit-maximizing companies." "The current remedy is not a remedy at all — it is fundamentally rigged by Google to benefit Google. The Commission has said they have been waiting on data to act: such data is now available. To expedite this process, we are sending the Commission our data that demonstrates exactly how the current process inevitably eliminates DuckDuckGo." Germany's Ecosia, a search engine that invests its profits into planting trees, also lost out in the auction. It won a spot in just one small market, Slovenia. Google commands an overwhelming majority of the mobile search market in Europe, with its Android system running on almost 75% of the world's smartphones. "We've long asserted that this pay-for-play model would force out purpose-driven businesses from the Android platform, and here is the proof of that," said Ecosia CEO Christian Kroll. "Ecosia is the biggest Europe-based search engine, yet users can barely access us in Android via the auction screen." French alternative provider Qwant — which was also included in only one country, Luxembourg — told CNBC that, "through this auction process, Google continues to hinder access to the mobile search market." It's worth noting however that some lesser-known players, like PrivacyWall and info.com, did make the cut in the latest auction. Google maintains that the auction process "allows search providers to decide what value they place on appearing in the choice screen and to bid accordingly." The company says it is designed to ensure that no search engine is prioritized over another and that the results are determined through competitive bidding. "Android provides people with unprecedented choice in deciding which applications they install, use and set as default on their devices," a Google spokesperson told CNBC. "In developing the choice screen for Europe, we carefully balanced providing users with yet more choice while ensuring that we can continue to invest in developing and maintaining the open-source Android platform for the long-term." A European Commission spokesperson told CNBC: "We have been discussing the choice screen mechanism with Google, following relevant feedback from the market, in particular in relation to the presentation and mechanics of the choice screen and to the selection mechanism of rival search providers." "The Commission is committed to a full and effective implementation of the decision," the spokesperson added. "We will continue monitoring closely the implementation of the choice screen mechanism." Margrethe Vestager, the bloc's top antitrust official, has made a name for herself by trying to rein in Google and other internet giants when it comes to anti-competitive practices. She suffered a major loss earlier this year when the EU's general court ruled the Commission failed to prove that the Irish government gave an unfair tax advantage to Apple. The EU has since appealed that ruling. Google has so far been hit with three antitrust fines from the EU amounting to more than $9 billion, and is contesting each one through court appeals. The other two fines focus on the company's shopping comparison service and advertising. A fourth case is said to target the company's jobs search tool. News of Google's latest Android auction — the company's third so far — favoring Microsoft over smaller players comes as the U.S. Department of Justice readies a lawsuit against the firm following its antitrust investigation into allegations that Google favors its own businesses, such as YouTube, in search results.
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Atlético Madrid have offered the Wanda Metropolitano to Rayo Majadahonda until January as they embark on their first journey in the Segunda. The club from Madrid play at Atlético’s Cerro del Espino in Majadahonda — los rojiblancos’ reserves play there. The ground is not fit, however, to host second division games and they need an alternative. Miguel Ángel Gil Marín has made the Wanda Metropolitano available to the side at a cost of €25,000 per game, which given broadcast rights, is very reasonable. The Community of Madrid is home to six professional grounds including A Stadium Called Wanda: Santiago Bernabéu, Coliseum Alfonso Pérez (Getafe), Estadio de Vallecas (Rayo Vallecano), Butarque (Leganés) and Santo Domingo (Alcorcón). Madrid will have a whopping five teams in LaLiga next season, meaning several of these stadiums will be in use next season.
Taste, also called gustation, and smell, also called olfaction, are the most interconnected senses in that both involve molecules of the stimulus entering the body and bonding to receptors. Smell lets an animal sense the presence of food or other animals—whether potential mates, predators, or prey—or other chemicals in the environment that can impact their survival. Similarly, the sense of taste allows animals to discriminate between types of foods. While the value of a sense of smell is obvious, what is the value of a sense of taste? Different tasting foods have different attributes, both helpful and harmful. For example, sweet-tasting substances tend to be highly caloric, which could be necessary for survival in lean times. Bitterness is associated with toxicity, and sourness is associated with spoiled food. Salty foods are valuable in maintaining homeostasis by helping the body retain water and by providing ions necessary for cells to function.
Recently onegoodmove, a site I like a lot, posted an excerpt from a book called The Little Book of Atheist Spirituality. It was called “Six Reasons to be an Atheist” and seemed all right at first, until I got to number five… - The weakness of the opposing arguments, the so-called proofs of God’s existence - Common experience: If God existed, he should be easier to see or sense. - My refusal to explain something I cannot understand by something I understand even less. - The enormity of evil. - The mediocrity of mankind. - Last but not least, the fact that God corresponds so perfectly to our wishes that there is every reason to think he was invented to fulfill them, at least in fantasy; this makes religion an illusion in the Freudian sense of the term. No, no, no. Also no, and no. If you think mankind is mediocre, you’re an idiot. Please shut up and go be mediocre yourself in a far-off corner. Humanity mediocre? Give us a fucking break. Monstrous, yes. Insane, yes. Heroic, too. Self-indulgent. Idiotic. Brilliant. Clever. Imaginative. Godlike. Wormlike. Evil. Good. All of the above aspects of humanity, as paradoxical and maddening they are, are real. We’ve done terrible things. We’ve also done amazing things. But only the most bland and pessimistic moron, who has never understood anything about the passions and ideas and fears and visions that drive us, would think humanity to be mediocre. So yes, many people believe in God because they’re afraid of death. That doesn’t give you the right to feel superior because you’re not. Yes, it’s great that you can look death in the eye like that. I truly admire that. But if you think that the mind that posits an all-knowing and all-loving being in response to the fear of death is mediocre… then you have no imagination, and no perception, and I’m sad for you. Yes, the Bible is full of bullshit. But it is also filled with writings and thoughts of amazing beauty and depth, not to speak of the works it has inspired. Religion gave us the Inquisition but it also gave us much in the way of visions and dreams and poetry that we would never have had otherwise, and I pity the small-minded fools who cannot see that. A distaste for dogma, blindness and fanaticism is a good thing, in fact a necessary thing in these times of intellectual and social decline; but fashionable misanthropy and snobbishness have as little to do with reason and logic and the principles of thought as the Democrats have with Democracy, or the Republicans with republicanism. Re-reading the list, only points 1, 3 and 4 make any sense; the rest are extremely flawed. Texts such as this one (much like Richard Dawkins’ work) mean well but are ultimately pretty damn shallow and illogical. Religion is a complex issue, and should be treated as such.
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The Lord will rescue me from every evil deed and bring me safely into his heavenly kingdom. To him be the glory forever and ever. Amen. (2 Timothy 4:18) What kind of safety are you after? What will it take to make you feel safe? The apostle Paul was confident that the Lord will rescue him from ‘every evil deed’ and ‘bring me safely’ into His heavenly kingdom. Does this mean no suffering? Is this what Paul means in the verse above? Does ‘rescue’ and ‘safely’ mean no troubles at all? Does it mean that Christians will never be hurt or injured or even killed? Not at all. In 2 Corinthians chapter 11 Paul describes his ‘safe’ trip to heaven as anything but safe! He says he was imprisoned, had countless beatings – often near to death – he was beaten with thirty nine lashes five times, beaten with rods three times, stoned, shipwrecked, adrift at sea, often been in constant danger from rivers, robbers, his own people, betrayals, and gone hungry and thirsty without food and exposed to cold. Is this what it looks like to be ‘brought safely’ into His heavenly kingdom? And bear in mind that after Paul wrote this verse he was martyred during the reign of the Emperor Nero! Paul entered His heavenly kingdom by being killed! Where’s the ‘safely’ into His heavenly kingdom? What Paul means is that through it all, through all the sufferings and troubles we are still totally and completely safe. No matter how bad it feels, no matter how much we are suffering, no matter how scared we are, the fact is that we are completely safe. The Lord will rescue us from every evil deed. Evil deeds will never stop us entering His heavenly kingdom. True, evil deeds can destroy our bodies. But Jesus said, “Don’t fear those who can only kill the body.” Why? Because even being killed will not stop us from being brought safely into His heavenly kingdom. Stop being afraid of your fears. As a Christian, you are safe. Even the worst suffering will not endanger your entry into his heavenly kingdom. Why is this true? Because the Lord’s glory is at stake. It is to His glory that we will be rescued from every evil deed and brought safely into His heavenly kingdom. Imagine for a moment if one of God’s children didn’t make it into His heavenly kingdom. Will we be able to praise Him and give Him the glory for all eternity knowing full well that the Father lost one of His children? God is not a 99% brilliant Father. He is a Perfect Father. Not one of His little ones will be lost. Not one. He will rescue you from every evil deed and bring you safely into His heavenly kingdom. PRAY asking God to show you that you are totally safe. His reputation depends on it. Ask Him to help you not to worry about suffering and troubles. They can’t touch you.
Fr. William B. Wasson of Phoenix, Arizona, is ordained in Cuernavaca, Mexico, on May 24. Fr. Wasson is given custody of a boy jailed for stealing from his church poor box because “he was hungry.” By the end of the week, eight more boys had joined the family. Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos was officially founded on August 2. Hurricane Hilda hits the port of Tampico, Mexico. Father Wasson obtained a free airline ticket to the stricken city and began to collect orphaned children. Thirty-nine boys were flown by cargo plane to the warehouse in Cuernavaca. There were now a total of 69 boys in the family. Girls join the NPH family. There are now 396 Pequeños – 300 boys and 96 girls, and 60 were under the age of six. The children were living in various homes and warehouses in Cuernavaca and Acolman. NPH builds its own high school in Cuernavaca. NPH USA (then Friends of Our Little Brothers) incorporates as one of Arizona’s first non-profits. Our Little Brothers and Sisters, Inc. is established in Virginia to raise funds for NPH. It will subsequently establish fundraising offices in Europe as well as Canada. Casa San Salvador in Miacatlán, México, is acquired. Work begins to refurbish the old sugar plantation — now home to nearly 1,000 NPH children. Fr. Wasson receives the Mexican National Prize for his outstanding contribution to the children of Mexico. He was, at the time, the only U.S. citizen to have received the award. The National Catholic Development Conference gives Fr. Wasson the Good Samaritan Award. • Fr. Wasson receives the Franciscan International Award. • An affiliated but separate NPH USA nonprofit support group forms in Minnesota. A new NPH home opens in Haiti. A NPH USA office is established in Washington. • Fr. Wasson and Fr. Rick Frechette found a medical center in Petionville, Haiti. This would later become St. Damien Pediatric Hospital. • NPH Honduras opens Casa de los Angeles opened in the capital city, Tegucigalpa. Originally meant to house children with AIDS, the center soon grew to house orphaned youth with severe disabilities. • On October 30, the Mexican Government awards Father Wasson the Aztec Eagle for his work on behalf of Mexican children. This is the highest award the government confers on a foreigner. NPH Honduras opens Casa Eva, a home for elderly adults who have been abandoned. Fr. Wasson establishes an NPH home in Nicaragua. Guatemala is the site of the fifth NPH home. The Caring Institute of Washington, D.C. gives Fr. Wasson the National Caring Award. Fr. Wasson National receives KFC’s Colonel’s Way Award honoring amazing seniors and El Sol de Nuestra Comunidad Award presented by the Hispanic community of Phoenix, AZ. • An NPH home opens in war-torn El Salvador. • A NPH USA office is established in Illinois. Fr. Wasson receives Kellogg’s Hannah Neil World of Children Award for his life work with orphaned children. The $100,000 prize is given to individuals who make a world of difference in the world of children. • An NPH home opens in the Dominican Republic. • Fr. Wasson celebrates his Golden Jubilee as a priest and his 80th birthday. • Fr. Wasson receives the Jefferson Award for Public Service, which is recognized as the “Nobel Prize” for public service in America. Nominated by a former pequeño, Fr. Wasson was recognized for his volunteer service to the Hispanic community. From June 16 – 18, a total of 57 individuals were honored at events in Washington D.C. • Peru becomes the first country in South America to have an NPH home. • At a ceremony in Germany on October 3, 2004, Fr. Wasson receives the International Erich Fromm Society Annual Award “in recognition of his work as founder of Nuestros Pequeños Hermanos, as spiritual father of the orphanages in Latin America and for his permanently lived example of his ‘Love of Life’ in the spirit of Erich Fromm.” • NPH celebrates its 50th anniversary. • The ninth NPH home, located in Bolivia, opens. • NPH Honduras opens Pasos Pequenitos, a day care for single mothers in Tegucigalpa. • Fr. Wasson wins the Ivy Humanitarian Prize, awarded by the Ivy Inter-American Foundation to “recognize individuals who have made extraordinary humanitarian contributions toward improving the lives of children and their communities in the Americas.” He received a $10,000 prize to support NPH on September 22, 2005, in Washington, D.C. • The Opus Prize Foundation gives Fr. Wasson a $100,000 prize at a ceremony at Marquette University in Milwaukee, Wisconsin, on November 7, 2005, for making a significant difference in the lives of people who need help the most. • On July 1, the fundraising offices in Arizona, Illinois, Minnesota, and Washington became regional offices of the national organization – NPH USA. In addition, new regional offices were formed in Miami, Florida, and Washington, D.C., which were made possible by the fundraising support of Our Little Brothers and Sisters. Fr. Wasson dies on August 16 in Cottonwood, Arizona. A funeral is held in Phoenix and memorial services are held at all of the NPH homes. • Founded by John Shinsky, Ciudad de los Niños (“City of the Children”) opens in Matamoros, Mexico, as a project of NPH International. • Holy Family Surgery Center opens at NPH Honduras and offers surgerical services to NPH children, employees and the general public. • In response to devastating twin disasters of a 7.0-magnitude earthquake and cholera outbreak in Haiti, NPH creates new and expanded programs in childcare, healthcare and emergency aid. • NPH Nicaragua launches the Good Samaritan Program to provide medical services and therapies to children living with disabilities, and counseling and tutoring for parents so they may provide quality care for their children. Fr. Rick Frechette, CP, D.O., co-founder of NPH Haiti and St. Damien Pediatric Hospital, receives the Opus Prize, a faith based humanitarian award that recognizes unsung heroes solving today’s most persistent social problems. • Friends of the Orphans changes name to NPH USA in order to create a global brand with consistency to our donors, to more closely align the brand with our mission and the children we serve, and to expand the focus to both the children and programs that we support. • NPH Dominican Republic and NPH Honduras complete construction of special needs homes, and NPH Haiti constructs Kay Gabriel adult and pediatric rehabilitation therapy center. NPH International celebrates 60 years of raising children. • NPH Guatemala launches their NPH OneFamily program, reintegrating 29 children into their biological families’ homes. • On June 7, Dr. Pilar Silverman, Director of Medical Services for NPH International, receives the United Nations Women Together Award. NPH El Salvador opens Centro Bienestar Infantil (CBI) daycare center to provide children aged 1 – 7 who live in vulnerable communities in Santa Ana, and the children of Hermanos Mayores (“Older Siblings”) who were raised at the NPH home, with preschool education, health care, and meals. • NPH Dominican Republic opens a transition home in Monte Plata to provide protection, emergency, or short-term care to children and adolescents, focusing on family reintegration. • NPH Honduras opens Casa Mi Esperanza in Catacamas to provide a temporary home for at-risk children while a safe and permanent living situation is found. • NPH Guatemala opens Sagrada Familia Daycare Center on the NPH property to provide care and early stimulation for 2-to-4-year-old children of single parents with limited resources. • NPH Honduras opens San José Family Center in Mata de Plátano to provide vulnerable children, adolescents, and families with tutoring, physical and psychological therapies, training, healthcare, and nutritional assistance. NPH collaborator One World Surgery opens at NPH Dominican Republic and carried out 15 mission trips and 6,215 primary care consults. NPH Guatemala opens the Father William Wasson Family Center opened 5 miles from the NPH home in Chimaltenango to focus on supporting and strengthening families by filling vital gaps in services to help children, people with disabilities, and single mothers. The Center offers free nutrition, daycare, and tutoring for children; speech and physical therapy for children and adults; and training for parents.
March 20, 2019 How to Create a Trendy Graphic Liner Look Using Our Pro-Favorite Cake Eyeliner Graphic liner is the must-try bold trend for spring! With unlimited possibilities to unleash your inner artist, graphic liner allows you to play around with color, shape, negative space, and more. In this look, resident MUD artist Amber Sanchez used our long-lasting, water-activated Black Cake Eyeliner to layer and create a unique, alternative look. Our Cake Eyeliner is a pro-favorite and effortlessly achieves both super fine lines for everyday wear as well as thicker lines for more intense dramatic looks. Check out the step-by-step tutorial below to learn how to re-create this popular look. - Black Cake Eyeliner - #100 Eyeliner Brush, #210 Angle Liner Brush, or #900 Round Liner Brush for a precise, even application - Eyelash #107 Step 1: Start from the tear duct and create a traditional winged liner look using our Black Cake Eyeliner. Don’t forget to hug the lash line! Step 2: From the outer corner of your eye where your winged liner begins, use a #100 Eyeliner Brush, #210 Angle Liner Brush, or #900 Round Liner Brush and Black Cake Eyeliner to create quick, horizontal brush strokes using minimal product. The lines should look like a pencil sketch. Be careful not to extend them too far beyond your wing. Don’t worry about it being messy, that’s the idea! Step 3: Use the same method to apply a few quick, short brush stokes vertically over the horizontal lines you just created. If you brush starts to dry out too much, add more water and re-activate the Cake Eyeliner. Step 4: Create a small graphic line on the inner corner of your lower lash line to balance out the look. Step 5: Curl your lashes and apply our Eyelash #107 See the live demo here!
Hoping to lose some weight? All you have to do is stand tall, and listen up! Trying to get into shape and lose weight after 50 just got a whole lot easier. We spoke with Stephanie Thomas, a personal trainer on Fyt, who breaks down some of the best standing exercises for faster weight loss after 50. You don’t even need to roll out your yoga mat for these exercises, although you will need a pair of dumbbells for some. Working out to get into better shape is in your near future. “Standing exercises are great for toning the entire body. I always encourage my clients to practice each weighted exercise without weights to become familiar with the form. Once comfortable, begin to incorporate weights into the exercises,” Thomas tells us. “Standing exercises can be beneficial while looking to lose weight because the whole body—especially the core—is engaged. Standing can help increase a layer of muscle throughout your body and help burn fat.” The reason why you will love this standing workout is, it’s kind of a no-excuses routine. The reason why? You can do it in the comfort of your home, office, or even while you’re traveling. So listen up, and get ready to explore the below standing exercises for faster weight loss after 50. And when you’re finished, don’t miss out on these 5 Standing Exercises Women Should Do Daily To Stay Fit, Firm & Toned. Start off by doing some high knees. Stand tall, and activate your core. Then, bring your left knee up to your core until your thigh becomes parallel to the floor. Quickly switch legs as you bring your left leg down to the floor and raise your right knee toward your midsection. Perform three sets of 30- to 60-second reps. The standing side crunch begins in a hip-width stance. Your hands should be placed at the back of your head with bent elbows. Bend your torso to the right until your elbow is just a few inches away from your ribs. Return to the start position, and repeat the motion on your left side. Perform three sets of 12 reps. Another way to perform the standing side crunch is by starting with your left hand on your left hip. Bring your right arm overhead. Crunch to your right side by bringing your right elbow down to meet your right knee. Repeat on the opposite side. Begin this movement by holding dumbbells in both hands. Raise your right leg behind you as you lower your chest toward the floor, keeping your left foot grounded. Make sure your glutes and core are activated as the weight is lowered to shin level, keeping a little bend in your left knee. Use control to lift both dumbbells back to the position you started in, and bring your raised leg back to the ground. Repeat the same motion on your other side. Perform three sets of 12 reps. For dumbbell side bends, stand tall with a dumbbell in your right hand. Press your hips to your left side as you lower the weight until it’s above the side of your right knee. Gradually return to the starting position to complete your first rep. Make sure your core and obliques stay activated during the movement. Perform three sets of 10 reps for each side. Start with both feet together and your arms at the sides of your body. Then, quickly jump your feet out so they’re wider than hip-width, and raise your arms overhead. In another quick motion, jump your legs back in to the position you started in as you lower your arms. Perform four sets of 25 reps.
It's Kentucky Derby Time! DCC celebrates the annual “Run for the Roses” with our 9-Hole, 4-Person Couples Scramble on Saturday, May 6th. The event is $20 per person plus cart with a 2:30pm shotgun start. Following play, the 19th Hole Lounge will serve a good old Kentucky Derby lunch and drink specials. Prizes awarded for the scramble event & the all-important BEST DERBY HAT.
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Intense Djibouti diplomatic activity in the last week of August, with the aim of strengthening some of the main regional prerogatives of interest to the small republic in the Horn of Africa. On August 30, Djibouti’s Foreign Ministry expressed its “deepest regret” over Algeria’s decision to break off diplomatic relations with Morocco, hoping for a quick solution to the crisis. Morocco and Algeria, defined as “brother countries” by the Djibouti government, share, according to Djibouti, the interest in promoting African stability and the Arab world. The position expressed by Djibouti, although conciliatory, is in line with that of Morocco and its main international partners, including the United States. On August 31, Ethiopian Prime Minister Abiy Ahmed and Djiboutian President Ismail Omar Guelleh had a telephone conversation to discuss the main issues of bilateral interest. Although no indiscretions were leaked about the conversation, it is clear that security issues related to the evolution of the conflict in Tigray and, especially, the expansion of the conflict in the regional state of Afar, without a shadow of a doubt constituted the central pare of this conversation. The following day, instead, the new Ethiopian ambassador in the country, Abdi Mahmoud Ibe, presented his credentials to the Djibouti Foreign Ministry. To receive them the director general of protocol, Faisal Alie. Also on August 31, instead, the Kuwaiti Foreign Minister, Sheikh Ahmad Nasser Al-Mohammad Al-Sabah, received the Djiboutian ambassador Mohammad Ali Moumin for official greetings at the end of his mandate in the country. The strong ties between the two countries and the growing profile of cooperation were reaffirmed on the occasion.
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Chibi School Uniform Pack Sewing Pattern *This listing is for a DIGITAL Sewing Pattern CLOTHING ONLY. This is a clothing pack to go with the chibi person doll body pattern found here in the shop. The pattern comes as a file in PDF format with multiple pages of instruction and template pieces. -Sock pieces (that connect to body) -Directions for each garment The doll body is separate. Finished doll body measures 10" tall. Feel free to sell what you make using this pattern! Please do not re-distribute or sell the pattern itself. - easy, beginners will have no trouble - not as easy for beginners but simple enough * - intermediate, need sewing skills ** - difficult, best if you have prior plush experience *** - challenging, best if you have good experience making plush/sewing If you have questions or comments, feel free to reach out to me at [email protected] and I'll get back to you as soon as I can! Q: Why are custom plushies so expensive? A: Custom plushies are priced by the time and skill it takes to create one. There are materials and utility costs as well as the labour and skill level of the artist. Q: Why should I buy a sewing pattern instead of drafting my own? A: Buying a sewing pattern instead of drafting it yourself can save a lot of time and money. It takes a certain amount of skill to draft a pattern and it usually needs to be tested a few times. Plus the cost of materials from said testing can add up. Q: Can I sell my work using your sewing patterns? A: Yes! You can sell anything you make yourself using my patterns. Please credit when posting to social media, and don't share or send them for factory mass production. Q: How will I get my pattern purchase? A: All sewing and embroidery files are in either PDF or ZIP format and delivered to your e-mail address instantly! It should be from "Dollphinwing" with subject "Your downloads are ready" and may also go into your spam or junk folder so be sure to check there. If you think you may have made a typo in your email address, please let me know where to send your files by e-mailing [email protected] Due to the patterns being digital, refunds are not available. Q: Do you update your patterns? A: Sometimes patterns get updates. Once you purchase a pattern, all future updates are free and delivered automatically to your e-mail address. Q: When will you have this plush available again? A: I often restock popular plush. Follow my social media or join my mailing list to get updates on restocks and new plushies and patterns! Q: Do you do commissions? A: I don't take commissions or custom plush orders.
Version 84 of Microsoft Edge has finally arrived in the stable channel. This release is bringing improvements for full-screen mode, the Collections feature, and more. Here’s a look at what you need to know. We’ll start first with the new stuff. Microsoft says that Edge now provides full-screen mouse support when in full-screen mode, to access the address bar, and other items. In addition, users can now add custom nicknames to saved debit or credit cards. Finally, with Collections, Microsoft has added the ability to leave notes on Collections, and change the background color of notes. You can have a look below for other improvements and new features. - Read Aloud for PDF lets users listen to PDF content while carrying out other tasks that may be important for them - Now you can save an edit made to a PDF back to the file instead of saving a copy each time you edit the PDF. - This version of Microsoft Edge provides improved site list download times for Internet Explorer mode. We’ve reduced download delay for the Internet Explorer mode site list to 0 seconds - Microsoft Edge now allows users to sign-into the browser when it’s “run as administrator” on Windows 10. - TLS/1.0 and TLS/1.1 are disabled by default. - Microsoft Edge now enables Translation in the Immersive Reader. When a user opens the Immersive Reader view, they get the option to translate the page to their desired language. In addition to the new features, Microsoft has also added support for The Storage Access API. Developers will also see some new DevTools updates, including support for customizing keyboard shortcuts to match VS Code and viewing the DevTools in high contrast. Of course, there are new policies too, for a total of 7. We invite you to read more about those here, as well as the other new things for developers and security updates. Today is the first major version 84 release in the Stable Channel, but you can expect subsequent updates to follow later on. Version 83 of Microsoft Edge received a total of 8 patches after its initial release to Stable, so you can expect more of the same here, as Microsoft is always working to improve Edge. In fact, security researchers recently found that it beats out Chrome and Firefox when it comes to preventing and catching malware.
California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) System Each spring, most students in California participate in the statewide testing program, which is the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) System. The tests in the CAASPP System provide information to teachers, parents/guardians, and students about students' progress and readiness for college and career. In grades 3-8 and grade 11, most students take the Smarter Balanced online tests for English language arts/literacy (ELA) and mathematics. However, students who have a significant cognitive disability (as designated in their Individualized Education Program, also known as "IEP") are eligible to take the California Alternate Assessments (CAAs). California students in grades 5 and 8 will take the online CAST Science test, which is aligned with the Next Generation Science Standards. For high school, the CAST will be administered to students in grade 11 and 12. The state no longer mails home student score reports. Your student's electronic Student Score Report (SSR) can be obtained by logging into your Parent Portal Aeries account. Schools in the Tustin Unified School District establish their own CAASPP assessment dates within the months of March through May. For specific testing dates at your child's school, please contact the school office. The California Department of Education (CDE) has developed several resources to help students and parents understand the grade expectations of the Smarter Balanced Summative Assessments. - The Parent Guides to the Smarter Balanced Assessments (in English and Spanish) are posted on the CDE’s CAASPP web page, under Students and Parents. Separate guides have been developed for each of the three grade spans tested: grades 3–5, grades 6–8, and grade 11. Each guide explains the grade-level expectations for students in ELA and mathematics and provides sample test items. - The practice and training tests, which can be found on the CDE’s Smarter Balanced Practice and Training Tests web page, can help parents and students experience the type of test items that students will encounter on the Smarter Balanced Summative Assessments. Answers to the practice test and scoring rubrics for the performance tests are posted on the Test Administrator (TA) Resources for the Smarter Balanced Practice and Training Tests web page. - Smarter Balanced Parents and Student Page Provides access to fact sheets, questions and answers, and resources in English and Spanish. - Understanding the CAASPP Student Score Reports Page provides guides to help interpret the California Assessment of Student Performance and Progress (CAASPP) student score report. CAASPP Parent Exemption Information Pursuant to California Education Code Section 60615, parents/guardians may annually submit to the school a written request to excuse their child from any or all of the CAASPP assessments. If you have any questions regarding your child's participation in statewide testing, please contact your school principal. For more information on CAASPP, visit www.cde.ca.gov/ta/tg/ca For more information on California Education Code regarding Assessment of Academic Achievement click here.
Shingles is a condition involving an outbreak of a rash or blisters on the skin. It is caused by the same virus that causes chicken pox. People who have had chicken pox in the past are at risk for developing shingles later because the virus remains inactive in certain nerve cells of the body. A person must already have had a case of chicken pox in order to develop shingles. Unfortunately, not everyone knows for certain if they have had chicken pox. - About one in three people in the U.S. will develop shingles. - About half of all shingles cases occur in people 60 years or older. - There is evidence to suggest that a weakened immune system may cause the virus to break out of its inactive state, multiply and move along nerve fibers to the skin. People are at risk for shingles if they: - Have a weakened immune system (ex: people with cancer, HIV, taking steroids) - Are over the age of 50 - Have been ill - Are experiencing trauma - Are under stress Signs and symptoms So ““ how do you know if you have shingles? The disease usually starts as a painful rash in a single stripe on the left or right side of the face or body. Here are other symptoms to watch for: - Pain, itching or tingling will happen in the area one to five days before the rash develops. - Blisters on the rash that scab over in seven to ten days and clear up within two to four weeks. - Fever, headache, chills and upset stomach developing with the rash. You ““ or your loved one ““ cannot pass shingles to a person who has not had chicken pox. It is not likely to happen, but the shingles virus can be spread. The virus is spread through direct contact with rash blisters, not through casual contact, sneezing or coughing.
Bernette - Coverstitch Feet Kit Included Presser Feet: Standard presser foot with clear sole - The clear sole affords the perfect view of your sewing project. It is ideal for decorative seams which have been previously tailor-tacked, as well as for positioning at the beginning or end of a seam. Belt-loop foot - The belt-loop foot is used to fold bias or straight binding, which it then quickly and easily turns into straps or belt loops with the cover- or chainstitch. Hemmer foot - The hemmer foot quickly and easily sews even seams with a depth of 2.5 cm. A narrow or wide coverstitch can be used to neaten the cut edge. Binder attachment for unfolded bias tape - The binder attachment creates practical edge finishes with unfolded bias tape in a width of 40 to 50 mm. Self-cut bias tape or cross grain knit strips can also be used for a professional look. Cording foot - This presser foot guides decorative and fine cords of up to 2 mm thickness exactly and precisely below the coverstitch seam as they are being sewn on. Alternatively, it can also be used to create and insert piping. Lace foot - For sewing lace, trim and tapes onto hems. The bottom edge of the fabrics is simultaneously neatened with a narrow or wide coverstitch, creating a flat joining seam. Hemmer and lace foot - This presser foot sews tapes or lace below a fabric edge, which is simultaneously folded to form a hem. A coverstitch neatens both edges at the same time, whilst the material is folded by 1 cm.
Deloitte Ramps Up Google Cloud Partnership To Support SAP Migrations ‘Most clients are looking for skin in the game from the partner community and the technology partner, so…we've put our resources to bear to be able to do that for clients in a much more scaled way,’ says Tom Galizia, Deloitte Consulting’s senior technology partner and lead commercial partner for its Alphabet/Google alliance. Deloitte Consulting is ramping up its Google Cloud partnership with new solutions targeting large-scale SAP workload migrations in a global “major market thrust.” It's part of a much more concerted SAP effort in the enterprise space under Google Cloud CEO Thomas Kurian, now that the cloud provider has gone through multiple certification processes that allow it to scale SAP instances to market-leading sizes, according to Tom Galizia, Deloitte’s senior technology partner and lead commercial partner for its Alphabet/Google alliance. Deloitte is a launch partner for Google Cloud’s Cloud Acceleration Program, an evolution of its Lighthouse program launched this year with systems integrators to streamline customers’ SAP data and application migrations to the cloud. “We will jointly invest in clients in a much more material way,” Galizia told CRN yesterday in London, prior to the start of the Google Cloud Next ’19 UK conference. “Anything that might be a potential hindrance for a client considering doing it -- or if they want an articulated proof point, both technically and/or if there's a business transformation agenda -- we now collectively have created a pool of investments so we can go into that client and actually prove it out. Most clients are looking for skin in the game from the partner community and the technology partner, so…we've put our resources to bear to be able to do that for clients in a much more scaled way.” Deloitte has launched “Reimagine Everything… Anywhere,” a portfolio of SAP cloud services enabled by Google Cloud that includes best practices to accelerate SAP S/4 transformation and an SAP-specific, application programming interface library on Apigee for SAP-to-anywhere integration. Deloitte also is embracing TensorFlow and BigQuery to provide intelligent applications powered by Google Cloud machine learning and advanced data insight. The push will be global, according to Galizia. “It is very targeted at specific countries with specific clients and specific SAP workloads that we want to go after together, because we feel that Google, from a technology perspective, is well-positioned to be successful there,” he said. “Now that they've got those certifications, we're really able to go into financial services, life sciences, core manufacturing in terms of heavy engineering orientation, where there's heavy reliance on your infrastructure and the analytic capabilities.” Accenture, Atos and HCL also are partners in the Cloud Acceleration Program along with Capgemini, DXC Technologies, Hitachi oXya, Infosys, NTT, TCS and Wipro. Deloitte’s Google Cloud Relationship A Google Premier Partner, Deloitte formed a strategic alliance with Google Cloud in 2017. “It's been a rapid, ramping enterprise-ready experience,” Galizia said. “In the early innings, the coverage model wasn't as great. (Former Google Cloud CEO Diane Greene's) legacy was putting in place these technical underpinnings that now Thomas and his leadership team are taking advantage of. It's been a whole different day. Look at the velocity (with which) he's brought in senior leaders from every major company you can imagine that are enterprise-grade.” Galizia pointed to Kurian’s hiring of Robert Enslin, Google Cloud president of global customer operations, from SAP; John Jester, vice president of global customer operations, from Microsoft; and Chris Ciauri, president of Google Cloud for Europe, the Middle East and Africa, from Salesforce. “The people we're interfacing with are three-decade-old, two-decade-old, enterprise-grade executives,” Galizia said. “They really understand how to manage the space and manage partners or leverage partners.” Deloitte also is strengthening its Google Cloud relationship with new solutions for procurement spending optimization for enterprises, and the storage and sharing of data to improve biomedical and clinical research, and a commercial property database platform for property insurers. The collaboration “combines Deloitte’s expertise in business transformation with Google Cloud’s leading cloud technologies in areas like AI (artificial intelligence), ML (machine learning) and analytics to deliver transformative solutions to our joint customers,” said Kevin Ichhpurani, Google Cloud’s global ecosystem vice president. Deloitte and Google Cloud are rolling out CognitiveSpend, a new AI-powered solution to help supply chain-reliant companies’ finance and procurement teams gain visibility into their third-party spending and rapidly identify cost savings. The new cloud-native app, launched in beta earlier this year, is targeted at enterprise clients. “Fortune 500 clients are constantly trying to understand that spend better, manage that spend and identify opportunities for cost savings,” Galizia said. “If you're a global company, and you've got multiple parts of your business that are buying from the same place, and you haven't pulled that information together to figure out how do you take advantage of your buyer power…from a pricing perspective, when you look over the history of different contracts, you can do better. You can do better by leaning towards one vendor versus another, or you can use contractual data to go back to a vendor and ask for a more market-competitive pricing scenario.” Data And Biomedical And Clinical Research Deloitte also has developed solutions to more easily store, analyze and share large biomedical and clinical research data sets at the exabyte scale. The solutions, which run on Google Cloud Platform and leverage Google Cloud’s Healthcare API (application programming interface), AI, ML and analytics, answer Google Cloud’s call for partners to develop differentiated offerings in industry verticals, Galizia said. “(This) a combination of government, public sector and life sciences coming together,” he said. “It's a significant partnership that involves elements of the Alphabet family.” Galizia declined to name the other Alphabet companies involved. Alphabet, which owns Google, also owns Verily Life Sciences and Calico Life Sciences in the healthcare space. “At the highest level, it's about solving diseases faster,” Galizia said. “We research a disease, and that data sits, in many cases, in silos in organizations. This is actually providing a platform that allows access to, in a compliant way, that data and research, and allows collaborators to better collaborate.” Property Insurers Solution Deloitte and Google are creating a new AI-driven platform to help property insurers view data on commercial properties around the world and better conduct risk assessments. Using third-party, open data and Google Cloud technologies, the solution will create a digital footprint of commercial properties to help insurers in underwriting. “What (Google has) with Maps, what they have with a variety of different data sets that are available, you can actually do better assessing of commercial real estate that way, than if you were to have a much more limited set of data repositories that you are tapping into to do that evaluation,” Galizia said. “With Google Earth, you have visibility from the top-down on what's going on, and that gets refreshed with certain cycle times. With Street View, you've got different cycle times that go through that.” And although Galizia acknowledges it’s a little far-reaching at the moment, he anticipates providing the ability to do spot assessing with other vehicles, such as drones, and applying AI on top of that. “In a way, you're covering a span of a building far better than a human ever could,” he said.
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Narail is a picturesque and rapidly developing city in Bangladesh. It is known for its lush greenery, historic attractions, and modern amenities. The city is also home to some of the best IVF clinics in the country that offer top-notch infertility treatments. In this article, we will provide you with an informative and professional insight on the best IVF clinics in Narail. Infertility can be a stressful, frustrating, and disheartening experience for couples who are trying to conceive. However, with the right medical intervention and support, infertility can be solved. Infertility treatments such as IVF, IUI, ICSI, and surrogacy have helped millions of couples around the world to achieve a successful pregnancy and become parents. In Narail, there are several reputable clinics that offer these treatments. When choosing the best IVF clinic in Narail, it is important to consider several factors such as the experience and qualifications of the medical team, the success rate of the clinic, the quality of facilities and equipment, and the level of personalized care. It is also important to choose a clinic that offers a range of infertility treatments so that you can find the best one for your needs. One important aspect that couples often overlook when they are considering IVF treatments is the importance of a healthy diet and lifestyle. It is important to understand that lifestyle and dietary factors can influence fertility and the success of infertility treatments. Here are some do’s and don’ts for a healthy lifestyle and diet during infertility treatments. 1. Eat a diet that is rich in whole grains, protein, fruits, and vegetables. 2. Get enough sleep and rest in between cycles. 3. Exercise regularly, but avoid high-intensity exercise during the treatment. 4. Stay hydrated by drinking plenty of water and fluids. 5. Talk to your doctor about taking prenatal vitamins. 1. Avoid foods that are high in saturated fats, sugar, and salt. 2. Avoid caffeine, alcohol, and smoking. 3. Avoid stress and try relaxation techniques like yoga and meditation. Now let us discuss some of the best food choices for men and women who are undergoing infertility treatments. Nutritious and well-balanced foods play a significant role in promoting fertility and a successful pregnancy. 1. Green leafy vegetables like spinach, kale, and broccoli. 2. Whole grains like brown rice, quinoa, and oatmeal. 3. Berries and fruits like strawberries, blueberries, and oranges. 4. Legumes such as chickpeas, lentils, and kidney beans. 5. Nuts and seeds such as almonds, walnuts, pumpkin, and sunflower. 1. Foods rich in antioxidants like berries, tomatoes, and dark chocolate. 2. Zinc-rich foods like oysters, beef, and pork. 3. Omega-3 fatty acids found in fish like salmon and tuna. 4. Fruits like bananas and oranges. 5. Vegetables such as red pepper, sweet potato, and kale. Apart from food and diet, there are several other factors that can influence the success of infertility treatments. Here are some habits and lifestyles that can improve the chances of a successful pregnancy. 1. Maintain a healthy weight by exercising regularly and eating healthy foods. 2. Avoid exposure to toxic substances like chemicals, radiation, and harmful emissions. 3. Monitor your menstrual cycle and be aware of ovulation times. 4. Reduce stress levels by engaging in self-care activities like yoga, meditation, and mindfulness. 5. Communicate frequently and openly with your partner and healthcare provider. Now, let us review the various infertility treatments that are offered in the best IVF clinics in Narail. 1. In-Vitro Fertilization (IVF) – IVF is a fertility treatment that involves taking eggs and sperm from a couple and fertilizing them in a laboratory. The fertilized egg, or embryo, is then transferred to the woman’s uterus to implant and develop. IVF is considered the most effective infertility treatment with success rates ranging from 40 to 50%. 2. Intrauterine Insemination (IUI) – IUI is a fertility treatment that involves placing sperm directly in a woman’s uterus during ovulation. This treatment is ideal for men with low sperm count or mobility and is less invasive than IVF. 3. Intracytoplasmic Sperm Injection (ICSI) – ICSI is a type of IVF that involves injecting a single sperm cell into an egg in a laboratory, thus increasing the chances of fertilization. 4. Surrogacy – Surrogacy is an arrangement where a woman carries and delivers a child for another couple or individual. This treatment is ideal for couples with infertility, same-sex couples, and women who cannot carry a pregnancy for medical reasons. Finally, it is important to remember that infertility treatments can be expensive, physically draining, and emotionally challenging. It is vital to seek support from your partner, family, friends, and healthcare provider to help you through the process. In conclusion, infertility treatments have helped many couples around the world achieve their dream of becoming parents. In Narail, there are several reputable IVF clinics that offer a range of treatments such as IVF, IUI, ICSI, and surrogacy. Choosing the best clinic involves considering several factors such as the experience and qualifications of the medical team, success rates, and personalized care. In addition, adopting a healthy diet, lifestyle, and habits can improve the success of infertility treatments.
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Former executive director of Collinwood and Nottingham Villages Development Corporation arrested and charged with embezzling $172,000 from the nonprofit For Immediate Release U.S. Attorney's Office, Northern District of Ohio A former executive director of a Cleveland community development corporation was arrested this morning for embezzling more than $172,000 from the Collinwood and Nottingham Villages Development Corporation. Tamiko Parker, 46, of Cleveland, is scheduled to appear on Thursday at 2 p.m. in U.S. District Court in Cleveland. She has been indicted on one count of theft of federal funds. Parker served as executive director of Collinwood and Nottingham Villages Development Corporation, a nonprofit organization that was to acquire, develop and lease property on the northeast side of Cleveland. Parker misused various accounts through a variety of schemes including making unauthorized cash withdrawals, having checks issued to her and using debit and credit cards to pay her personal expenses. This took place between September 2014 through February 2016, according to court documents. Parker used the community development corporation’s debit card to make purchases at Harley Davidson, the Horseshoe Casino, Victoria’s Secret and in Atlantic City and Las Vegas. She used the community development corporation’s credit card to purchase appliances at Home Depot for her home. Parker collected cash rental payments from tenants of the nonprofit and deposited cash into her personal account, according to court documents. “This defendant betrayed the trust placed in her by a city and a community,” U.S. Attorney Justin Herdman said. “Instead of using her position to spur redevelopment, she used it as a personal piggy bank to gamble and travel.” “Ms. Parker stole hundreds of thousands of dollars planned for economic development in the community,” said FBI Special Agent in Charge Stephen D. Anthony. “The only thing Ms. Parker was developing was her lavish lifestyle. She will now be held accountable for being a thief.” “The charges disclosed today prove our continuing resolve to root out fraud and corruption in all forms, especially when the programs involved should have been used to help our neediest families,” said Brad Geary, Special Agent in Charge, U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development, Office of Inspector General. “It is our continuing core mission to work with our Federal law enforcement partners and the United States Attorney’s Office to protect the integrity of our housing programs and to take strong action against those who seek to personally benefit from taxpayer-funded grants.” “Those funds were designated to improve the lives of the residents and business owners in the Collinwood neighborhood,” said Cuyahoga County Prosecutor Michael O’Malley. This case was investigated by the FBI, the U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development -- Office of Inspector General. and Cuyahoga County Prosecutor’s Office and is being prosecuted by Assistant U.S. Attorneys Brian M. McDonough and Carmen Henderson. If convicted, the sentence in this case will be determined by the Court after consideration of the Federal Sentencing Guidelines, which depend upon a number of factors unique to each case, including the defendant’s prior criminal record, if any, the defendant’s role in the offense and the unique characteristics of the violation. In all cases the sentence will not exceed the statutory maximum and in most cases it will be less than the maximum. An indictment is a charge and not evidence of guilt. A defendant is entitled to a fair trial in which it will be the government’s burden to prove guilt beyond a reasonable doubt. Updated November 15, 2018
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A female patient aged 38years suffering from Systemic Lupus Erythematosus (SLE) (Homeopathy Treatment for Lupus Nephritis) came to my clinic from Una , Himachal Pradesh with the following symptoms: C/O Pain and stiffness of joints of upper and lower limbs for one and a half years. Pain first appeared in Rt. Leg followed by joints of hands, shoulder, neck and lower back. Severe biting and pricking type of pain < from motion, morning, < touch, pressure. Pain was so severe that she used to weep with least motion. C/o – fever since 1 month. Fever appeared with chill followed by perspiration. Coldness of feet during fever. Thirst for large quantities of water often during fever. C/O – Oedema (Homeopath Treatment for Oedema) all over the body since 4-5 months. Oedema appeared after steroids, which was given by allopathic doctors before coming to my clinic. H/O Rt. Tubercular lymphadenopathy ( Homeopathy for Tubercular Lymphadenopathy ) for which anti- tubercular treatment was given in 1999. H/O – Herpes Zoster at 13yrs of age. H/O- Drug abuse ( Pain killers) for headache . H/O- Grief and worries 3-4 yrs back as her son became mentally ill. Myocardial Infarction – Mother. Brain Stroke – Father. Hypertension- Sister. MENSTRUAL HISTORY- Menses are normal regarding frequency and duration. – Backache before menses. OBS. HISTORY– G2 P2 A0 S0 L2 Both deliveries were FTNVD TREATMENT HISTORY– Patient had been under allopathic treatment (steroids) from PGI , Chandigarh for about 1 year. PERSONAL HISTORY– Patient is a housewife. She eats non- veg. occasionally but otherwise she is vegetarian. Appetite – diminished since 3-4 months Desires— rice, salty things. Thirst- large quantities of water often since her illness Perspiration – earlier all over the body but now only after fever Thermals – chilly since beginning. Sleep – disturbed due to severe pain. Sleeps on sides. Dreams – of snakes. – Weeping due to pain. Suppresses her emotions. – Hurried in all activities. – Offended easily. Sleep disturbed if she is offended. H/O – Disappointment in parental love in childhood as her parents died when she was just 6yrs old. So was brought up by her paternal uncle. August 10th, 2016: I started her treatment with Natrum mur 200, 3 doses in the beginning based on the following symptoms: – Ailments from grief. – Ailments from cares and worries – Weeping with pains. -Thirst for large quantities often. Weeping, consolation agg. After Natrum mur 200, fever decreased for 2-3 days but she still had insomnia due to pains and her appetite also didn’t improve so I restudied the case. September, 2016: I prescribed Arsenic album 200 as her constitutional medicine on the basis of following symptoms- -Insomnia from pains – Desires salty things. – Aversion to milk – Chilly patient. Follow up- Arsenic album 200 was prescribed on 14.10.2016 after which her sleep, appetite and pains improved and even fever didn’t appear for 2 days so I gave placebo.) Her appetite again decreased after 1.5 months along with increase in pain and stiffness of her whole body. Fever again started increasing so Arsenic album 1M was given on Nov 30, 2016 after which she improved in pains , stiffness and appetite. Fever also started decreasing gradually. As of July 2017 she is still on placebo as all her symptoms have gradually improved. Now she is able to do all her household work, whereas earlier she was totally bedridden and couldn’t even walk without support. I withdrew all her allopathic treatment as her condition had worsened with steroids. After withdrawal of steroids, she was in great pain but Arsenicum helped her gradually. As SLE is a systemic disease, her kidneys were also being affected as per her reports but presently all her tests are normal. She is still under my treatment (placebo) but now leading a normal life .Her present condition surprises her relatives and friends as they were expecting her to be on her death bed seeing her condition before homeopathic treatment. I am glad that homeopathic medicines if well prescribed give such wonderful results
Petition to Speaker Of The House: Put America First by Ending Ukraine War Funding and Securing Our Southern Border Dear Speaker of the House, We, the undersigned, are deeply concerned American citizens who elected you to prioritize the well-being and security of our great nation. It’s high time we cease federal funding for the war in Ukraine and reallocate those crucial resources to securing our Southern border, a cornerstone of national security. We Must Secure Our Southern Border - Strengthen Border Security: According to the most recent Customs and Border Protection (CBP) statistics, over 2.8 million migrants have encountered authorities during this fiscal year alone, surpassing the more than 2.7 million migrants in 2022. Our Southern border is a critical issue that demands immediate and decisive action to prevent illegal immigration, drug and human trafficking, and potential terror threats. The Case Against Funding Ukraine - Ambiguous Objectives: Our financial involvement in Ukraine lacks clarity and is depleting crucial resources. - Distracting National Focus: Our extensive commitment in Ukraine diverts our focus and resources from domestic issues that directly affect American citizens. - Risk of Provoking Russia: Continued military and financial involvement in Ukraine could potentially escalate tensions with Russia, raising the risk of triggering a larger conflict, possibly even World War III. By signing this petition, you join us in calling on Speaker Mike Johnson to reallocate federal funding away from the Ukrainian conflict and towards pressing domestic issues, such as securing our Southern border and addressing veteran homelessness. Let’s hold our elected representatives accountable for putting America first.
The Unicorn is Down – But Not Out as Mad Jap and Jesus Imposter Resurrect a Mythical Chopper Jesus stands next to a unicorn. No, seriously. He does. And he has a sword. With which he is stabbing the unicorn. And of course there’s a rainbow. Dale Yamada of Mad Jap Kustoms dreamed up the image, and knew it would look good airbrushed onto his new chopper. So he talked to Calgary artist Doug Veness about it, and Veness suggested the unicorn should bleed Skittles. Oh, no, Yamada said — let’s not strain credibility. Skittles are out, then, but painted a bright white, the Unicorn chopper is still pretty tasty. It’s an anti-image bike — Yamada’s Gabriel to everybody else’s Lucifer. But it turns out that Jesus, or at least someone who resembles his popular image, did in fact slay the Unicorn. Leo Tancreti wears long, unkempt hair and a full beard, and runs Leo’s Speed Shop in North Haven, Connecticut. Yamada flew him to Calgary to help prepare a machine for the upcoming Born Free 4 custom bike show in Los Angeles. Then, while taking a ride on the Unicorn, Tancreti pushed it a little too hard and discovered the bike’s limitations. “I was more concerned about Leo than the bike,” Yamada says. “Bikes can be fixed.” Tancreti was scratched, but not seriously injured. “Leo killed the Unicorn!” Yamada posted on Facebook. Quickly the Unicorn will be resurrected. Tancreti soon had the bike apart, with the frame to paint and alloy polished and sissy bar tweaked and sent for chrome plating together with the exhaust. It could be a miracle, but the airbrushed artwork on the hand-formed gas tank suffered no damage. “It’ll be done by Tuesday,” Yamada said. Which is good, because one of his greatest joys is closing shop, kick-starting the Unicorn, and riding. He’ll take three or four days and travel south to Montana, or west into the Rocky Mountains and B.C.’s interior. Yamada stuffs only essentials in a backpack, and bungie cords two 2-litre cola bottles filled with gasoline and wrapped in a blanket to the sissy bar. At 90 km to a tank, he wouldn’t otherwise have enough fuel for Rogers Pass. “I ride the shit out of them,” Yamada says of his customs. “And I often end up riding by myself. I usually can’t find anybody who wants to share the same experience. Everybody wants to jump on their brand new bike, and they think they’re going for adventure. But they want to have everything planned out — where we’re going for this day, what we’re going to do, what we’re going to see. I don’t care, I just want to go. The whole point is not knowing what’s ahead, and just experiencing it as you go. “My best rides are the ones when I have the most trouble. When I break down, or the weather’s shitty.” Yamada likes the thought of simpler times, hippies and their easy sense of freedom. “It’s all these gay clichés,” he says. “I wasn’t around in that period, but I’d like to think it’s similar to what I do when I jump on the bike and just ride.” Born in Nanaimo and raised in the Vancouver area, Yamada grew up around custom Harley-Davidson motorcycles. These were machines of the 1970s, and his current builds are echoes of his youth. Yamada was managing a brake and muffler repair shop in 1996, though, when he bought his first bike, a used Suzuki GSX-R750. “I bought a helmet and all my gear at the same time I bought the bike,” Yamada says. “I rode it out of the dealership with all of the price tags still on my stuff. I was so severely hooked. I said this is my life.” He’d raced BMX and mountain bikes and toyed with cars and 4x4s. But motorcycles had now lit his fuse. “At the first set of lights after riding out of the dealership, a guy on a red Honda CBR900RR nodded at me and said ‘nice bike.’ When the light turned green he took off and did a stand-up wheelie.” Impressed, Yamada learned to pull the same stunt. “I started learning at the next light,” he laughs. Yamada rode hard on the street, and crashed often. He admits he was out of control when a local mechanic told him to get off the street and onto a track. A 1996 Suzuki GSXR 750, headlight taped and signal lights removed, was his first race bike, which he rode in Portland, Oregon. “I remember being nervous, and I’d crashed during practice,” Yamada says of his “beginner’s” race. “And my friends were there telling me to stop looking down — look ahead; that’s how green I was.” Yet, with 40 other racers, Yamada lapped the field and finished first. “I just pinned it and passed everything I could.” Yamada did well as a privateer, participating in club events. In 1997 Race City Motorsport Park in Calgary lured him and his wife, Michelle, to the city. His life was working and racing, until 2004 when there was pressure to move up to the Nationals. He couldn’t make it happen, with a young family and a new hot-shot trucking service to operate. Then, in 2007, he decided to build a custom motorcycle. Although an accomplished mechanic and tuner, Yamada had never constructed a one-off machine. He loosely based his first build on the choppers of his youth: Frisco tank, metal flake paint and chrome. Just like that, he was in business, filling his garage with TIG welding equipment and milling gear. “I’m not a welder, I’m not a machinist, and I’m not a painter, but I do most everything for myself,” he says. He chose his late father’s nickname for his fledgling chopper shop: the Mad Jap. More than one custom V-twin had rolled out of his garage, and deposits had been paid on at least six more when, in 2008, Yamada tangled with a car. “I remember the hit, how I flew, everything,” Yamada says. “I remember hearing the fire truck and the ambulance coming, and seeing all of the feet and people around me. And I remember seeing the damage to myself. I’d never felt pain like that before in my life.” Yamada broke his pelvis in four places, his lower vertebrae (L 5 and 6), and there were multiple compound fractures to his left tibia and fibula. He also suffered serious internal injuries. Doctors told him he was going to lose his lower leg, but he fought to keep it. After he got home, Yamada was in a rough spot, and he was angry. He’d had to return the deposits, and the economy had tanked. Parts were in his stockpile, though, and the only thing Yamada could do was build. Working from a wheelchair while his leg healed, Yamada crafted two customs, Funkmaster, and Sweet and Sour. He relied on friends to install engines and lift heavy components, and eight months later he was finished. Upon completion, Yamada sold Sweet and Sour to Sean Senos. “That lifted my spirits, and I said, ‘Okay, I can still do this.’ Sean has absolutely no idea what that did for me.” Four years later, Yamada is in constant pain but he’s got his leg. It’s a little shorter than his right, and he can’t properly shift a motorcycle — he can push down on the lever, but he can’t pull up. That’s why every scooter he builds for himself is equipped with a jockey shift. This spring, Mad Jap Kustoms moved to a single bay in a northeast Calgary industrial park. Yamada doesn’t miss working from home, and he feels more energized in the new space, even with distractions. “People come by and hang out, and because I live, eat, sleep, and breath motorcycles, they’re all welcome,” he said. “I’ve got guys on sportbikes and bone-stock cruisers stopping in.” On the benches out back are Harley-Davidson projects. Most are customer bikes, handed over to Yamada for customization. There’s a stock Sportster on one lift. He is crafting mid-controls and installing a belt drive. “I don’t care what kind of bike I’m working on,” says Yamada, pointing to the Sportster, “but I do want someone looking at it to say, ‘Where’d you get those cool mid-controls?’” In custom builds, Yamada says, the engine is the heart of the project.. He works around fully rebuilt Knuckleheads or Shovelheads. Recently, a customer rolled in a derelict Shovel chopper. Built in the late 1970s or early 1980s, it had no redeaming features that Yamada could see, and he convinced the owner to yank the motor. They’d start fresh. There are other bikes in for repairs, ones that don’t look anything like the customs he appreciates building and riding. “In the end, who am I to judge what you ride?” Yamada said. “It’s about bikes in general. I really don’t care if it’s about building a full custom, fixing a tire, or changing oil, it’s a bike.”
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Judges (RSV) 8 8 1 And the men of Ephraim said to him, "What is this that you have done to us, not to call us when you went to fight with Midian?" And they upbraided him violently. 2 And he said to them, "What have I done now in comparison with you? Is not the gleaning of the grapes of Ephraim better than the vintage of Abiezer? 3 God has given into your hands the princes of Midian, Oreb and Zeeb; what have I been able to do in comparison with you?" Then their anger against him was abated, when he had said this. 4 And Gideon came to the Jordan and passed over, he and the three hundred men who were with him, faint yet pursuing. 5 So he said to the men of Succoth, "Pray, give loaves of bread to the people who follow me; for they are faint, and I am pursuing after Zebah and Zalmunna, the kings of Midian." 6 And the officials of Succoth said, "Are Zebah and Zalmunna already in your hand, that we should give bread to your army?" 7 And Gideon said, "Well then, when the LORD has given Zebah and Zalmunna into my hand, I will flail your flesh with the thorns of the wilderness and with briers." 8 And from there he went up to Penuel, and spoke to them in the same way; and the men of Penuel answered him as the men of Succoth had answered. 9 And he said to the men of Penuel, "When I come again in peace, I will break down this tower." 10 Now Zebah and Zalmunna were in Karkor with their army, about fifteen thousand men, all who were left of all the army of the people of the East; for there had fallen a hundred and twenty thousand men who drew the sword. 11 And Gideon went up by the caravan route east of Nobah and Jogbehah, and attacked the army; for the army was off its guard. 12 And Zebah and Zalmunna fled; and he pursued them and took the two kings of Midian, Zebah and Zalmunna, and he threw all the army into a panic. 13 Then Gideon the son of Joash returned from the battle by the ascent of Heres. 14 And he caught a young man of Succoth, and questioned him; and he wrote down for him the officials and elders of Succoth, seventy-seven men. 15 And he came to the men of Succoth, and said, "Behold Zebah and Zalmunna, about whom you taunted me, saying, `Are Zebah and Zalmunna already in your hand, that we should give bread to your men who are faint?'" 16 And he took the elders of the city and he took thorns of the wilderness and briers and with them taught the men of Succoth. 17 And he broke down the tower of Penuel, and slew the men of the city. 18 Then he said to Zebah and Zalmunna, "Where are the men whom you slew at Tabor?" They answered, "As you are, so were they, every one of them; they resembled the sons of a king." 19 And he said, "They were my brothers, the sons of my mother; as the LORD lives, if you had saved them alive, I would not slay you." 20 And he said to Jether his first-born, "Rise, and slay them." But the youth did not draw his sword; for he was afraid, because he was still a youth. 21 Then Zebah and Zalmunna said, "Rise yourself, and fall upon us; for as the man is, so is his strength." And Gideon arose and slew Zebah and Zalmunna; and he took the crescents that were on the necks of their camels. 22 Then the men of Israel said to Gideon, "Rule over us, you and your son and your grandson also; for you have delivered us out of the hand of Midian." 23 Gideon said to them, "I will not rule over you, and my son will not rule over you; the LORD will rule over you." 24 And Gideon said to them, "Let me make a request of you; give me every man of you the earrings of his spoil." (For they had golden earrings, because they were Ishmaelites.) 25 And they answered, "We will willingly give them." And they spread a garment, and every man cast in it the earrings of his spoil. 26 And the weight of the golden earrings that he requested was one thousand seven hundred shekels of gold; besides the crescents and the pendants and the purple garments worn by the kings of Midian, and besides the collars that were about the necks of their camels. 27 And Gideon made an ephod of it and put it in his city, in Ophrah; and all Israel played the harlot after it there, and it became a snare to Gideon and to his family. 28 So Midian was subdued before the people of Israel, and they lifted up their heads no more. And the land had rest forty years in the days of Gideon. 29 Jerubbaal the son of Joash went and dwelt in his own house. 30 Now Gideon had seventy sons, his own offspring, for he had many wives. 31 And his concubine who was in Shechem also bore him a son, and he called his name Abimelech. 32 And Gideon the son of Joash died in a good old age, and was buried in the tomb of Joash his father, at Ophrah of the Abiezrites. 33 As soon as Gideon died, the people of Israel turned again and played the harlot after the Baals, and made Baalberith their god. 34 And the people of Israel did not remember the LORD their God, who had rescued them from the hand of all their enemies on every side; 35 and they did not show kindness to the family of Jerubbaal (that is, Gideon) in return for all the good that he had done to Israel. 9 1 Now Abimelech the son of Jerubbaal went to Shechem to his mother's kinsmen and said to them and to the whole clan of his mother's family, 2 "Say in the ears of all the citizens of Shechem, `Which is better for you, that all seventy of the sons of Jerubbaal rule over you, or that one rule over you?' Remember also that I am your bone and your flesh." 3 And his mother's kinsmen spoke all these words on his behalf in the ears of all the men of Shechem; and their hearts inclined to follow Abimelech, for they said, "He is our brother." 4 And they gave him seventy pieces of silver out of the house of Baalberith with which Abimelech hired worthless and reckless fellows, who followed him. 5 And he went to his father's house at Ophrah, and slew his brothers the sons of Jerubbaal, seventy men, upon one stone; but Jotham the youngest son of Jerubbaal was left, for he hid himself. 6 And all the citizens of Shechem came together, and all Bethmillo, and they went and made Abimelech king, by the oak of the pillar at Shechem. 7 When it was told to Jotham, he went and stood on the top of Mount Gerizim, and cried aloud and said to them, "Listen to me, you men of Shechem, that God may listen to you. 8 The trees once went forth to anoint a king over them; and they said to the olive tree, `Reign over us.' 9 But the olive tree said to them, `Shall I leave my fatness, by which gods and men are honored, and go to sway over the trees?' 10 And the trees said to the fig tree, `Come you, and reign over us.' 11 But the fig tree said to them, `Shall I leave my sweetness and my good fruit, and go to sway over the trees?' 12 And the trees said to the vine, `Come you, and reign over us.' 13 But the vine said to them, `Shall I leave my wine which cheers gods and men, and go to sway over the trees?' 14 Then all the trees said to the bramble, `Come you, and reign over us.' 15 And the bramble said to the trees, `If in good faith you are anointing me king over you, then come and take refuge in my shade; but if not, let fire come out of the bramble and devour the cedars of Lebanon.' 16 "Now therefore, if you acted in good faith and honor when you made Abimelech king, and if you have dealt well with Jerubbaal and his house, and have done to him as his deeds deserved -- 17 for my father fought for you, and risked his life, and rescued you from the hand of Midian; 18 and you have risen up against my father's house this day, and have slain his sons, seventy men on one stone, and have made Abimelech, the son of his maidservant, king over the citizens of Shechem, because he is your kinsman -- 19 if you then have acted in good faith and honor with Jerubbaal and with his house this day, then rejoice in Abimelech, and let him also rejoice in you; 20 but if not, let fire come out from Abimelech, and devour the citizens of Shechem, and Bethmillo; and let fire come out from the citizens of Shechem, and from Bethmillo, and devour Abimelech." 21 And Jotham ran away and fled, and went to Beer and dwelt there, for fear of Abimelech his brother. 22 Abimelech ruled over Israel three years. 23 And God sent an evil spirit between Abimelech and the men of Shechem; and the men of Shechem dealt treacherously with Abimelech; 24 that the violence done to the seventy sons of Jerubbaal might come and their blood be laid upon Abimelech their brother, who slew them, and upon the men of Shechem, who strengthened his hands to slay his brothers. 25 And the men of Shechem put men in ambush against him on the mountain tops, and they robbed all who passed by them along that way; and it was told Abimelech. 26 And Gaal the son of Ebed moved into Shechem with his kinsmen; and the men of Shechem put confidence in him. 27 And they went out into the field, and gathered the grapes from their vineyards and trod them, and held festival, and went into the house of their god, and ate and drank and reviled Abimelech. 28 And Gaal the son of Ebed said, "Who is Abimelech, and who are we of Shechem, that we should serve him? Did not the son of Jerubbaal and Zebul his officer serve the men of Hamor the father of Shechem? Why then should we serve him? 29 Would that this people were under my hand! then I would remove Abimelech. I would say to Abimelech, `Increase your army, and come out.'" 30 When Zebul the ruler of the city heard the words of Gaal the son of Ebed, his anger was kindled. 31 And he sent messengers to Abimelech at Arumah, saying, "Behold, Gaal the son of Ebed and his kinsmen have come to Shechem, and they are stirring up the city against you. 32 Now therefore, go by night, you and the men that are with you, and lie in wait in the fields. 33 Then in the morning, as soon as the sun is up, rise early and rush upon the city; and when he and the men that are with him come out against you, you may do to them as occasion offers." 34 And Abimelech and all the men that were with him rose up by night, and laid wait against Shechem in four companies. 35 And Gaal the son of Ebed went out and stood in the entrance of the gate of the city; and Abimelech and the men that were with him rose from the ambush. 36 And when Gaal saw the men, he said to Zebul, "Look, men are coming down from the mountain tops!" And Zebul said to him, "You see the shadow of the mountains as if they were men." 37 Gaal spoke again and said, "Look, men are coming down from the center of the land, and one company is coming from the direction of the Diviners' Oak." 38 Then Zebul said to him, "Where is your mouth now, you who said, `Who is Abimelech, that we should serve him?' Are not these the men whom you despised? Go out now and fight with them." 39 And Gaal went out at the head of the men of Shechem, and fought with Abimelech. 40 And Abimelech chased him, and he fled before him; and many fell wounded, up to the entrance of the gate. 41 And Abimelech dwelt at Arumah; and Zebul drove out Gaal and his kinsmen, so that they could not live on at Shechem. 42 On the following day the men went out into the fields. And Abimelech was told. 43 He took his men and divided them into three companies, and laid wait in the fields; and he looked and saw the men coming out of the city, and he rose against them and slew them. 44 Abimelech and the company that was with him rushed forward and stood at the entrance of the gate of the city, while the two companies rushed upon all who were in the fields and slew them. 45 And Abimelech fought against the city all that day; he took the city, and killed the people that were in it; and he razed the city and sowed it with salt. 46 When all the people of the Tower of Shechem heard of it, they entered the stronghold of the house of Elberith. 47 Abimelech was told that all the people of the Tower of Shechem were gathered together. 48 And Abimelech went up to Mount Zalmon, he and all the men that were with him; and Abimelech took an axe in his hand, and cut down a bundle of brushwood, and took it up and laid it on his shoulder. And he said to the men that were with him, "What you have seen me do, make haste to do, as I have done." 49 So every one of the people cut down his bundle and following Abimelech put it against the stronghold, and they set the stronghold on fire over them, so that all the people of the Tower of Shechem also died, about a thousand men and women. 50 Then Abimelech went to Thebez, and encamped against Thebez, and took it. 51 But there was a strong tower within the city, and all the people of the city fled to it, all the men and women, and shut themselves in; and they went to the roof of the tower. 52 And Abimelech came to the tower, and fought against it, and drew near to the door of the tower to burn it with fire. 53 And a certain woman threw an upper millstone upon Abimelech's head, and crushed his skull. 54 Then he called hastily to the young man his armor-bearer, and said to him, "Draw your sword and kill me, lest men say of me, `A woman killed him.'" And his young man thrust him through, and he died. 55 And when the men of Israel saw that Abimelech was dead, they departed every man to his home. 56 Thus God requited the crime of Abimelech, which he committed against his father in killing his seventy brothers; 57 and God also made all the wickedness of the men of Shechem fall back upon their heads, and upon them came the curse of Jotham the son of Jerubbaal. 10 1 After Abimelech there arose to deliver Israel Tola the son of Puah, son of Dodo, a man of Issachar; and he lived at Shamir in the hill country of Ephraim. 2 And he judged Israel twenty-three years. Then he died, and was buried at Shamir. 3 After him arose Jair the Gileadite, who judged Israel twenty-two years. 4 And he had thirty sons who rode on thirty asses; and they had thirty cities, called Havvothjair to this day, which are in the land of Gilead. 5 And Jair died, and was buried in Kamon. 6 And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD, and served the Baals and the Ashtaroth, the gods of Syria, the gods of Sidon, the gods of Moab, the gods of the Ammonites, and the gods of the Philistines; and they forsook the LORD, and did not serve him. 7 And the anger of the LORD was kindled against Israel, and he sold them into the hand of the Philistines and into the hand of the Ammonites, 8 and they crushed and oppressed the children of Israel that year. For eighteen years they oppressed all the people of Israel that were beyond the Jordan in the land of the Amorites, which is in Gilead. 9 And the Ammonites crossed the Jordan to fight also against Judah and against Benjamin and against the house of Ephraim; so that Israel was sorely distressed. 10 And the people of Israel cried to the LORD, saying, "We have sinned against thee, because we have forsaken our God and have served the Baals." 11 And the LORD said to the people of Israel, "Did I not deliver you from the Egyptians and from the Amorites, from the Ammonites and from the Philistines? 12 The Sidonians also, and the Amalekites, and the Maonites, oppressed you; and you cried to me, and I delivered you out of their hand. 13 Yet you have forsaken me and served other gods; therefore I will deliver you no more. 14 Go and cry to the gods whom you have chosen; let them deliver you in the time of your distress." 15 And the people of Israel said to the LORD, "We have sinned; do to us whatever seems good to thee; only deliver us, we pray thee, this day." 16 So they put away the foreign gods from among them and served the LORD; and he became indignant over the misery of Israel. 17 Then the Ammonites were called to arms, and they encamped in Gilead; and the people of Israel came together, and they encamped at Mizpah. 18 And the people, the leaders of Gilead, said one to another, "Who is the man that will begin to fight against the Ammonites? He shall be head over all the inhabitants of Gilead." 11 1 Now Jephthah the Gileadite was a mighty warrior, but he was the son of a harlot. Gilead was the father of Jephthah. 2 And Gilead's wife also bore him sons; and when his wife's sons grew up, they thrust Jephthah out, and said to him, "You shall not inherit in our father's house; for you are the son of another woman." 3 Then Jephthah fled from his brothers, and dwelt in the land of Tob; and worthless fellows collected round Jephthah, and went raiding with him. 4 After a time the Ammonites made war against Israel. 5 And when the Ammonites made war against Israel, the elders of Gilead went to bring Jephthah from the land of Tob; 6 and they said to Jephthah, "Come and be our leader, that we may fight with the Ammonites." 7 But Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, "Did you not hate me, and drive me out of my father's house? Why have you come to me now when you are in trouble?" 8 And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, "That is why we have turned to you now, that you may go with us and fight with the Ammonites, and be our head over all the inhabitants of Gilead." 9 Jephthah said to the elders of Gilead, "If you bring me home again to fight with the Ammonites, and the LORD gives them over to me, I will be your head." 10 And the elders of Gilead said to Jephthah, "The LORD will be witness between us; we will surely do as you say." 11 So Jephthah went with the elders of Gilead, and the people made him head and leader over them; and Jephthah spoke all his words before the LORD at Mizpah. 12 Then Jephthah sent messengers to the king of the Ammonites and said, "What have you against me, that you have come to me to fight against my land?" 13 And the king of the Ammonites answered the messengers of Jephthah, "Because Israel on coming from Egypt took away my land, from the Arnon to the Jabbok and to the Jordan; now therefore restore it peaceably." 14 And Jephthah sent messengers again to the king of the Ammonites 15 and said to him, "Thus says Jephthah: Israel did not take away the land of Moab or the land of the Ammonites, 16 but when they came up from Egypt, Israel went through the wilderness to the Red Sea and came to Kadesh. 17 Israel then sent messengers to the king of Edom, saying, `Let us pass, we pray, through your land'; but the king of Edom would not listen. And they sent also to the king of Moab, but he would not consent. So Israel remained at Kadesh. 18 Then they journeyed through the wilderness, and went around the land of Edom and the land of Moab, and arrived on the east side of the land of Moab, and camped on the other side of the Arnon; but they did not enter the territory of Moab, for the Arnon was the boundary of Moab. 19 Israel then sent messengers to Sihon king of the Amorites, king of Heshbon; and Israel said to him, `Let us pass, we pray, through your land to our country.' 20 But Sihon did not trust Israel to pass through his territory; so Sihon gathered all his people together, and encamped at Jahaz, and fought with Israel. 21 And the LORD, the God of Israel, gave Sihon and all his people into the hand of Israel, and they defeated them; so Israel took possession of all the land of the Amorites, who inhabited that country. 22 And they took possession of all the territory of the Amorites from the Arnon to the Jabbok and from the wilderness to the Jordan. 23 So then the LORD, the God of Israel, dispossessed the Amorites from before his people Israel; and are you to take possession of them? 24 Will you not possess what Chemosh your god gives you to possess? And all that the LORD our God has dispossessed before us, we will possess. 25 Now are you any better than Balak the son of Zippor, king of Moab? Did he ever strive against Israel, or did he ever go to war with them? 26 While Israel dwelt in Heshbon and its villages, and in Aroer and its villages, and in all the cities that are on the banks of the Arnon, three hundred years, why did you not recover them within that time? 27 I therefore have not sinned against you, and you do me wrong by making war on me; the LORD, the Judge, decide this day between the people of Israel and the people of Ammon." 28 But the king of the Ammonites did not heed the message of Jephthah which he sent to him. 29 Then the Spirit of the LORD came upon Jephthah, and he passed through Gilead and Manasseh, and passed on to Mizpah of Gilead, and from Mizpah of Gilead he passed on to the Ammonites. 30 And Jephthah made a vow to the LORD, and said, "If thou wilt give the Ammonites into my hand, 31 then whoever comes forth from the doors of my house to meet me, when I return victorious from the Ammonites, shall be the LORD's, and I will offer him up for a burnt offering." 32 So Jephthah crossed over to the Ammonites to fight against them; and the LORD gave them into his hand. 33 And he smote them from Aroer to the neighborhood of Minnith, twenty cities, and as far as Abelkeramim, with a very great slaughter. So the Ammonites were subdued before the people of Israel. 34 Then Jephthah came to his home at Mizpah; and behold, his daughter came out to meet him with timbrels and with dances; she was his only child; beside her he had neither son nor daughter. 35 And when he saw her, he rent his clothes, and said, "Alas, my daughter! you have brought me very low, and you have become the cause of great trouble to me; for I have opened my mouth to the LORD, and I cannot take back my vow." 36 And she said to him, "My father, if you have opened your mouth to the LORD, do to me according to what has gone forth from your mouth, now that the LORD has avenged you on your enemies, on the Ammonites." 37 And she said to her father, "Let this thing be done for me; let me alone two months, that I may go and wander on the mountains, and bewail my virginity, I and my companions." 38 And he said, "Go." And he sent her away for two months; and she departed, she and her companions, and bewailed her virginity upon the mountains. 39 And at the end of two months, she returned to her father, who did with her according to his vow which he had made. She had never known a man. And it became a custom in Israel 40 that the daughters of Israel went year by year to lament the daughter of Jephthah the Gileadite four days in the year. 12 1 The men of Ephraim were called to arms, and they crossed to Zaphon and said to Jephthah, "Why did you cross over to fight against the Ammonites, and did not call us to go with you? We will burn your house over you with fire." 2 And Jephthah said to them, "I and my people had a great feud with the Ammonites; and when I called you, you did not deliver me from their hand. 3 And when I saw that you would not deliver me, I took my life in my hand, and crossed over against the Ammonites, and the LORD gave them into my hand; why then have you come up to me this day, to fight against me?" 4 Then Jephthah gathered all the men of Gilead and fought with Ephraim; and the men of Gilead smote Ephraim, because they said, "You are fugitives of Ephraim, you Gileadites, in the midst of Ephraim and Manasseh." 5 And the Gileadites took the fords of the Jordan against the Ephraimites. And when any of the fugitives of Ephraim said, "Let me go over," the men of Gilead said to him, "Are you an Ephraimite?" When he said, "No," 6 they said to him, "Then say Shibboleth," and he said, "Sibboleth," for he could not pronounce it right; then they seized him and slew him at the fords of the Jordan. And there fell at that time forty-two thousand of the Ephraimites. 7 Jephthah judged Israel six years. Then Jephthah the Gileadite died, and was buried in his city in Gilead. 8 After him Ibzan of Bethlehem judged Israel. 9 He had thirty sons; and thirty daughters he gave in marriage outside his clan, and thirty daughters he brought in from outside for his sons. And he judged Israel seven years. 10 Then Ibzan died, and was buried at Bethlehem. 11 After him Elon the Zebulunite judged Israel; and he judged Israel ten years. 12 Then Elon the Zebulunite died, and was buried at Aijalon in the land of Zebulun. 13 After him Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite judged Israel. 14 He had forty sons and thirty grandsons, who rode on seventy asses; and he judged Israel eight years. 15 Then Abdon the son of Hillel the Pirathonite died, and was buried at Pirathon in the land of Ephraim, in the hill country of the Amalekites. 13 1 And the people of Israel again did what was evil in the sight of the LORD; and the LORD gave them into the hand of the Philistines for forty years. 2 And there was a certain man of Zorah, of the tribe of the Danites, whose name was Manoah; and his wife was barren and had no children. 3 And the angel of the LORD appeared to the woman and said to her, "Behold, you are barren and have no children; but you shall conceive and bear a son. 4 Therefore beware, and drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean, 5 for lo, you shall conceive and bear a son. No razor shall come upon his head, for the boy shall be a Nazirite to God from birth; and he shall begin to deliver Israel from the hand of the Philistines." 6 Then the woman came and told her husband, "A man of God came to me, and his countenance was like the countenance of the angel of God, very terrible; I did not ask him whence he was, and he did not tell me his name; 7 but he said to me, `Behold, you shall conceive and bear a son; so then drink no wine or strong drink, and eat nothing unclean, for the boy shall be a Nazirite to God from birth to the day of his death.'" 8 Then Manoah entreated the LORD, and said, "O, LORD, I pray thee, let the man of God whom thou didst send come again to us, and teach us what we are to do with the boy that will be born." 9 And God listened to the voice of Manoah, and the angel of God came again to the woman as she sat in the field; but Manoah her husband was not with her. 10 And the woman ran in haste and told her husband, "Behold, the man who came to me the other day has appeared to me." 11 And Manoah arose and went after his wife, and came to the man and said to him, "Are you the man who spoke to this woman?" And he said, "I am." 12 And Manoah said, "Now when your words come true, what is to be the boy's manner of life, and what is he to do?" 13 And the angel of the LORD said to Manoah, "Of all that I said to the woman let her beware. 14 She may not eat of anything that comes from the vine, neither let her drink wine or strong drink, or eat any unclean thing; all that I commanded her let her observe." 15 Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, "Pray, let us detain you, and prepare a kid for you." 16 And the angel of the LORD said to Manoah, "If you detain me, I will not eat of your food; but if you make ready a burnt offering, then offer it to the LORD." (For Manoah did not know that he was the angel of the LORD.) 17 And Manoah said to the angel of the LORD, "What is your name, so that, when your words come true, we may honor you?" 18 And the angel of the LORD said to him, "Why do you ask my name, seeing it is wonderful?" 19 So Manoah took the kid with the cereal offering, and offered it upon the rock to the LORD, to him who works wonders. 20 And when the flame went up toward heaven from the altar, the angel of the LORD ascended in the flame of the altar while Manoah and his wife looked on; and they fell on their faces to the ground. 21 The angel of the LORD appeared no more to Manoah and to his wife. Then Manoah knew that he was the angel of the LORD. 22 And Manoah said to his wife, "We shall surely die, for we have seen God." 23 But his wife said to him, "If the LORD had meant to kill us, he would not have accepted a burnt offering and a cereal offering at our hands, or shown us all these things, or now announced to us such things as these." 24 And the woman bore a son, and called his name Samson; and the boy grew, and the LORD blessed him. 25 And the Spirit of the LORD began to stir him in Mahanehdan, between Zorah and Eshtaol. 14 1 Samson went down to Timnah, and at Timnah he saw one of the daughters of the Philistines. 2 Then he came up, and told his father and mother, "I saw one of the daughters of the Philistines at Timnah; now get her for me as my wife." 3 But his father and mother said to him, "Is there not a woman among the daughters of your kinsmen, or among all our people, that you must go to take a wife from the uncircumcised Philistines?" But Samson said to his father, "Get her for me; for she pleases me well." 4 His father and mother did not know that it was from the LORD; for he was seeking an occasion against the Philistines. At that time the Philistines had dominion over Israel. 5 Then Samson went down with his father and mother to Timnah, and he came to the vineyards of Timnah. And behold, a young lion roared against him; 6 and the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he tore the lion asunder as one tears a kid; and he had nothing in his hand. But he did not tell his father or his mother what he had done. 7 Then he went down and talked with the woman; and she pleased Samson well. 8 And after a while he returned to take her; and he turned aside to see the carcass of the lion, and behold, there was a swarm of bees in the body of the lion, and honey. 9 He scraped it out into his hands, and went on, eating as he went; and he came to his father and mother, and gave some to them, and they ate. But he did not tell them that he had taken the honey from the carcass of the lion. 10 And his father went down to the woman, and Samson made a feast there; for so the young men used to do. 11 And when the people saw him, they brought thirty companions to be with him. 12 And Samson said to them, "Let me now put a riddle to you; if you can tell me what it is, within the seven days of the feast, and find it out, then I will give you thirty linen garments and thirty festal garments; 13 but if you cannot tell me what it is, then you shall give me thirty linen garments and thirty festal garments." And they said to him, "Put your riddle, that we may hear it." 14 And he said to them, "Out of the eater came something to eat. Out of the strong came something sweet." And they could not in three days tell what the riddle was. 15 On the fourth day they said to Samson's wife, "Entice your husband to tell us what the riddle is, lest we burn you and your father's house with fire. Have you invited us here to impoverish us?" 16 And Samson's wife wept before him, and said, "You only hate me, you do not love me; you have put a riddle to my countrymen, and you have not told me what it is." And he said to her, "Behold, I have not told my father nor my mother, and shall I tell you?" 17 She wept before him the seven days that their feast lasted; and on the seventh day he told her, because she pressed him hard. Then she told the riddle to her countrymen. 18 And the men of the city said to him on the seventh day before the sun went down, "What is sweeter than honey? What is stronger than a lion?" And he said to them, "If you had not plowed with my heifer, you would not have found out my riddle." 19 And the Spirit of the LORD came mightily upon him, and he went down to Ashkelon and killed thirty men of the town, and took their spoil and gave the festal garments to those who had told the riddle. In hot anger he went back to his father's house. 20 And Samson's wife was given to his companion, who had been his best man. Judges (RSV) 8
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Momentum and money spur state Departments of Transportation to invest in digital project delivery. Granular, interoperable, accessible data is the key to unlocking a completely new way of working in transportation. New interoperability between Civil 3D and AASHTOWare Project is the latest example of Autodesk’s leadership in transportation infrastructure with organizations like AASHTO and Infotech. Digital transformation has the power to connect data across the architecture, engineering, and construction (AEC) industry. Many of the world’s infrastructure systems were constructed for the population and climate of the mid-20th century and are well past their prime. In the United States, much of our infrastructure dates back to the 1960s and 1970s and was designed and built using what are now outdated design, construction, and project management methods. To modernize our infrastructure, we must modernize the engineering and construction industry itself with digitized workflows that enable better collaboration and seamless flow of data throughout the project lifecycle. We call this process digital project delivery. We are excited to work with states and the transportation technology ecosystem to make this monumental shift. Advancing interoperability for better project outcomes Digital transformation is about to accelerate for the government agencies that design, build, and maintain our nation’s transportation infrastructure through a new joint effort between Autodesk, Infotech, the American Association of State Highway and Transportation Officials (AASHTO), and the Montana Department of Transportation (Montana DOT). Initiated by Montana DOT, this collaboration underscores the agency’s commitment to embrace innovative technologies and enhance efficiency in the management and development of transportation systems. Together, we’re enabling interoperability between Autodesk Civil 3D and AASHTO’s construction contract solution, AASHTOWare Project, with the help of Infotech, the official AASHTOWare Project contractor. The interoperability will enable digital project delivery from design and documentation to estimation and asset management. Departments of Transportation (DOT) across the United States and Ministries of Transportation in Canada will soon have access to it. “With state transportation agencies in full pursuit of digital transformation, we’re excited to continue our work with Autodesk and provide an interoperable solution to those organizations,” said Chad Schafer, Chief Revenue Officer, Infotech. “This integration will help bridge the gaps in data and workflow between departments to ensure successful digital project delivery.” Autodesk Civil 3D is civil engineering design software that supports BIM (Building Information Modeling) with integrated features to improve drafting, design, and construction documentation. The interoperability couldn’t come at a better time. Momentum and money are finally on the side of the state agencies that are responsible for our transportation infrastructure. The Bipartisan Infrastructure Law will make a once-in-a-generation investment of $350 billion in highway programs through 2026. This includes the largest dedicated bridge investment since the construction of the interstate highway system 67 years ago. The need for new infrastructure is urgent, with 1 in 5 miles of highways and major roads, and 45,000 bridges in the US alone in poor condition. State DOTs and the industry have more reasons than ever to transform the way transportation infrastructure projects are designed, built, operated, and maintained. In a significant move, the Pennsylvania Department of Transportation (PennDOT), has established the Project Delivery Collaboration Center (PDCC), which is envisioned to be a Project Manager’s portal from project creation through final design, giving them visibility to details including, but not limited to, their project portfolio (two-week look ahead), cost (budget), dashboards and reviews. PennDOT has chosen to use Autodesk Construction Cloud as the primary tool for the PDCC. This decision, made with an agnostic approach, underscores a commitment to ensure compatibility and optimal performance across a broad spectrum of platforms, workflows, and systems. Making data work for you Data remains an untapped asset in engineering and construction, with consulting firm FMI reporting 96% of all data captured by the industry goes unused. But that’s about to change. The United States government is calling on state DOTs to use digital technologies such as cloud-based workflows, Building Information Modeling (BIM), GIS mapping systems, rapid construction, and digital project delivery. States can compete for grants from the Federal Highway Administration’s Advanced Digital Construction Management Systems (ADCMS) Program to invest in technology that boosts productivity, manages complexity and cost, and delivers massive infrastructure projects quickly and safely. This ADCMS program will award $85 million in grants, showing a significant federal commitment to digital transformation. At Autodesk, we believe that granular, interoperable, and accessible data is the key to unlocking digital transformation and driving a completely new way of working for engineering and construction teams. We simplified data management and collaboration by putting all our engineering and construction data in one location, Autodesk Docs, a common data environment that is open, secure, and accessible. Civil 3D is connected to Docs, supports BIM, and is integrated with GIS. The new AASHTOWare Project integration closes a workflow gap by enabling state DOTs to take quantities directly from Civil 3D without error-prone and time-consuming manual entry. They can use GIS information in design, push the design information to project execution with AASHTOWare Project, pull actual quantities back to as-builts, and push data back into GIS for asset management. “Interoperability between Civil 3D and AASHTOWare Project will help us connect our design phase to our field construction operations. It will save time, save costs, and ultimately, enable us to be more accountable to the taxpayers who fund our transportation projects,” said Patrick Lane, Digital Delivery Project Manager for the Montana Department of Transportation. Granular, interoperable, accessible data is the key to unlocking a completely new way of working in transportation. Advocating for the future of infrastructure Autodesk is more than a technology vendor. We’re advocating for digital project delivery at the state and federal level. And we’re supporting states’ efforts to advance digital delivery for transportation projects. For example, the California Department of Transportation, Caltrans, is using Autodesk Connectors for ArcGIS to develop workflows between data sources to improve project delivery, and the agency recently received funding in the first round of FHWA’s ADCMS grants. We also understand that states urgently need digitally skilled workers to successfully undertake digital transformation. So, we’re helping our partners empower current workers to be confident using the latest tools. And we’re working with DOT leaders and state engineering schools to make sure their graduates are ready for the digital future. We’re here to help states deliver on this once-in-a-generation opportunity to transform how our nation connects communities and moves goods, people, and services. Over the last ten years, Autodesk have integrated features into their product lineup to enhance customers’ creativity, automate repetitive tasks, and offer predictive insights through powerful analytics. “In 2024 and beyond, these capabilities will enable design and planning to become more effective, efficient, and better informed,” says Amy Bunszel. “For example, Autodesk Forma’s Rapid Operational Energy Analysis allows designers to understand how factors such as a building’s geometry and wall construction types will affect its predicted energy use–all during early stage design. Autodesk AI technology will help deliver better and more sustainable results for all.” The expansion of Building Information Modeling (BIM) within construction is intricately connected to the upcoming fusion with AI. Despite its solid presence in design and engineering, BIM’s growing acceptance in construction is pivotal for optimizing AI in the industry. By serving as visual databases, BIM models gather abundant data from various construction phases, fortifying customer datasets and enabling more profound insights through AI. Predictions for Emerging Tech in 2024 The utilization of emerging technologies like digital twins and virtual reality is gaining momentum in the construction sector. Digital twins are proving increasingly beneficial for owners and facility managers, offering support in areas such as remote asset management, predictive maintenance, and long-term asset planning. In response to the growing need for remote collaboration, Autodesk has introduced Workshop XR, a virtual reality workspace facilitating design reviews and issue identification before construction commences. This shift toward virtual reality explores enjoyable and efficient approaches to work, potentially shaping the future of work. Construction firms are also exploring operational opportunities post-build, with digital twins providing rich data for informed decision-making by creating a comprehensive record from initial design to the completed structure. Additionally, augmented and virtual reality enhance the early evaluation of architectural outcomes during design reviews. Read the full article from Autodesk: “2024 trends in the built environment: What to anticipate across AI, sustainability, and labor”, Amy Bunszel & Jim Lynch As technology advances, architects need to combine technical know-how with high-level problem-solving. Market pressures, technological advances, and climate change are driving the need for evolving skills in the architecture profession. Students in architecture programs and junior architects will need to learn strong technology skills, gain an understanding of the history and theory of architecture, and develop high-level critical thinking to succeed. As part of the job, architects will be called on to address the impacts of a project on its site, on nearby communities, and on global and local ecosystems. The world is changing, and so are professions. The architecture, engineering, construction, and operations industry (AECO) is facing supply-chain issues, rising costs, labor shortages, and a high demand for buildings and infrastructure—and the architecture profession is evolving to meet these challenges. But what do these changes look like? Accelerating technology, including machine learning and artificial intelligence (AI), is one aspect. Architects are also tasked with addressing their projects’ impact on the climate and communities, as well as how to build space- and resource-efficient structures. An understanding of technology and the ability to problem-solve at a high level will shape the skills architects need to thrive in the future. Merging technology and critical thinking Key among architect skills is a solid grasp of new software and tools. However, Phil Bernstein, associate dean and professor adjunct at the Yale University School of Architecture, cautions against putting too much emphasis on specific technical skills. “At Yale, we teach skills in support of training people to think like good architects,” he says, “but we know that a lot of the skills we teach have relatively limited shelf lives.” This is not new. When Alistair Kell, chief information officer at BDP, graduated from architecture school in 1993, his class was the last that didn’t need to produce a CAD drawing in order to graduate. After graduation, he had to learn how to use AutoCAD, then a prerequisite for getting a job. Today’s entrants to the job market are expected to have entirely new skills that are complementary to architecture, Kell says, like being able to use computational design, script and code, and understand data and data structures. But technological advances are already making it easier for architects to work with data without the ability to code. “If I want to write a Python script now, I just ask AI to write it,” Bernstein says. In addition, many junior architects can easily leverage new tools for the projects they’re working on. “At this point, most students coming out of architecture school are digital natives, so they’re already adept at jumping from one technology platform to the next,” says Amy Perenchio, principal at ZGF Architects. An ongoing need in architecture education will be fostering higher-level thinking among new architects. “Architecture is a profession where we solve problems, and technology assists in the solving of problems,” Perenchio says. “But critical thinking—in the design sense—is really the baseline skill set that is needed.” Bernstein mirrors this idea: “What we’re really trying to do is teach these people to be next-generation thinkers about the built environment—what’s important about it and how to create it.” For Kell, creativity remains a key component of being an architect, one he hopes the profession never loses. “Architects need to be able to leverage technology as a creative tool,” he says, “in the same way they would see a pencil or tracing paper as one of the fundamental aspects of how they express themselves and develop creative solutions.” Using AI to support innovative design One set of new tools that will have an outsize impact on the profession is machine learning and AI, though Perenchio says the industry is still in a phase of figuring out how to best bring these tools into practice. David Beach, associate professor at Drury University, thinks AI will be “incredibly useful” as a technical tool, used to provide checks and balances and reduce the workload associated with modeling or redundant tasks, what Kell refers to as “the drudgery and repetition of what we do.” Even more impactful, says Beach, will be AI for design creation. Where once it would have taken a team several months to generate 30 or 40 different design options, “now we’re getting that same kind of iterative design idea generation happening in minutes or hours,” he says. Artificial intelligence can automate repetitive design tasks. However, to use AI effectively as a design tool, he thinks there is a need “to establish a really strong understanding of precedent, analysis, and conceptual thinking.” Kell agrees: “It’s not just about the software. The software is fundamental, but it’s the art of the architecture that really matters,” what he sees as “sensibilities around form, our own place, and our own materiality.” “It’s important not to lose Vitruvius’s principles,” he says, referencing Roman architect Vitruvius’s three qualities necessary for a well-designed building: strength, utility, and beauty. “We can’t let technology drive us to a different outcome. The role of the architect is fundamental to enriching everybody’s lives, rather than simply supporting.” Considering architecture’s impact on the world One of the fundamental roles of architecture today is addressing human-driven causes of climate change. Bernstein says this broader approach is evident in how teaching architecture has shifted over the past 20 years from “making beautiful objects to making things in context.” Design, he says, now involves “trying to understand what the relationship is between the thing that you’re designing and how it affects the larger systems of where it sits—on its site, in its neighborhood, in its city, and in a global ecosystem.” Kell thinks new tools available to the profession will “help address some of the more fundamental challenges we’re all having, like how you better address climate change within your designs, and how you better calculate and reduce embodied carbon in your designs.” In fact, addressing climate change is “all about data, and it’s all about digital solutions…that will normalize this for architects and engineers,” he says. “But it’s only going to come about through a greater understanding and adoption of technology.” Beach also sees a need for architects, as “building experts,” to take on a larger role in adapting a building over its lifespan, based on both how the client is using it and how a changing climate affects a building’s performance. Architects are increasingly called on to address climate change in their designs, such as using vertical or rooftop gardens to help regulate internal temperature. In addition, given current supply-chain issues, labor shortages, and rising costs—and the potential for an influx of environmental refugees over the next two decades—he thinks students should learn skills that directly tackle these challenges. These include prefabrication and modular construction, Beach says. “Not that we think this is the future of everything, but we know that our students are going to have to be leaders in this.” In addition to addressing climate change, Perenchio sees a strong need for finding “ways to engage the community so that marginalized groups can have voices at the table.” This makes it necessary for team members to have “a sense of empathy and emotional intelligence.” While all architects need to consider the broader impacts of a project, Beach says the burden falls more heavily on the younger generations. “It is their responsibility to figure out how to usher us through these changes that are going to happen,” he says, and “to be responsible stewards of the environment and stewards of our communities.” If you’ve ever wondered how AI works in Autodesk’s AEC (Architecture, Engineering and Construction) software then read on. In this blog post we’ll take a look at how we’re advancing AI in our software, and how it supports improved workflows, more informed decisions, and better project outcomes for AEC teams. At Autodesk, we’ve invested in AI for the past ten years because we recognize its transformative power for the industries we serve. Across AEC disciplines and project types, Autodesk’s advancements in AI are helping customers tackle complex challenges and harness new opportunities in their projects–not just by increasing productivity, but by giving them the tools to be even more ambitious and creative. Recent releases of popular tools like Midjourney allow AEC professionals to prompt, generate, and refine vast multitudes of ideas, spurring the imagination forward. The focus in our product teams takes a complementary approach: how can you use AI to translate imagination to reality? We invest in AI to improve the design, documentation and construction workflows that help AEC professionals turn their ideas into the buildings, infrastructure, and communities we all use and inhabit. Our focus is on advancing Autodesk AI in three main areas: Our solutions use a combination of AI technologies, mostly rule- and learning-based systems. No matter the type of AI technology, we believe it should always support the user, to help improve your workflows and optimize for the best outcomes. AI is simply a tool that’s very good at completing specialized tasks. When we look at the toolbox used by AEC professionals, Autodesk AI is an evolution of these tools which lends a helping hand, like a digital assistant, to make light work of normally time-consuming tasks and help you get where you want to be faster. What’s important to keep in mind is that the AI is always steered by the user. You’re the one who decides how you want to combine manual and automatic adjustments to achieve your targeted outcomes, whether it’s for design and feasibility, compliance or buildability. You’re in the driver’s seat and the final decisions are always yours. Now, let’s take a look at some examples of how AI is integrated into our AEC software and how it helps users improve their way of working: Analyze: immediate insights, earlier What are the consequences of a design change? Where is there room for improvement? These questions can be answered even faster with predictive AI-powered analysis tools which analyse project data to provide quick, actionable insights to AEC professionals. They’re intended to help you better understand–and design for–the results you want to achieve from the very earliest phases. Machine learning speeds up the analysis process because, unlike conventional computational analysis, it can make accurate predictions–that were impossible before– based on previous simulations. This means you’ll get feedback in seconds, allowing you to assess and iterate your designs faster and more fluidly. Forma’s rapid analyses predicts results for noise and wind conditions and operational energy for early-stage design and planning, helping AEC teams design the healthy, sustainable communities they envisioned for their clients. Think of it this way: the rapid analysis offers an almost instant, educated guess which is comparable in accuracy to a full analysis thanks to machine learning. Use it like a pre-analysis for rapid experimentation and complement it with a full analysis for more detailed verification. Forma’s Rapid Operational energy analysis gives immediate insights into a building’s energy use, helping users design with energy efficiency in mind. When it comes to drainage design, stormwater analysis is a must for the design of resilient environments that can weather extreme conditions. With Autodesk InfoDrainage’s Machine Learning Deluge Tool, drainage designers can quickly generate responsive flood maps without having to rerun complex computational simulations. The tool analyzes and predicts water channelling and ponding, giving live feedback to help you complete a site analysis faster. This enables more informed decision making in the drainage design process whether it‘s locating optimal areas for stormwater controls or helping infrastructure owners and developers avoid problem areas when siting their structures. The interactive Machine Learning Deluge tool inside Autodesk InfoDrainage generates responsive flood maps for placing stormwater controls more accurately and efficiently. Augmentation: enhancing exploration and experimentation As many of you know, exploration, experimentation and iteration are at the heart of the design and make process–and now it gets a boost with AI and data. Augmentation features enhance the creative process by widening the scope of exploration while improving the speed and accuracy of iterations, helping users find innovative solutions faster. These features have been game-changing for data-driven ideation and optimization across different project phases. Starting with massing, Forma’s initial set of generative design tools helps you answer the question ‘what if…?’ in a fraction of the time it normally takes when assessing a site. You can rapidly generate layout options, using these quick massing studies to easily gauge a site’s feasibility. Key area metrics help you monitor targets and consider any trade-offs. Then, send your generated proposal to Forma’s rapid analyses (see Analysis section) to get a first impression of wind and noise conditions and operational energy. For car parking design, normally a thankless manual task, Forma’s parking tool happily takes this over. It lets you efficiently generate parking options for enclosed areas according to parameters such as lot dimensions, aisle width, and number of stories. For outdoor parking, you can leverage the optional TestFit parking extension, a third-party tool. Combining insights from both tools gives you a more complete overview of parking needs already at the early stage, helping you create a more accurate parking strategy, faster. Explore in Forma helps you create quick massing studies to get a first impression of a site’s potential. Generative Design in Revit gives designers a way to model the most optimal solutions by defining desired design outcomes, considered alongside competing goals and constraints. For example, how can you maximize the number of seats in a new stadium while ensuring each spectator has good sightlines to the field? How can you configure desk layouts in an open office to provide optimal occupancy while addressing egress and circulation? Leveraging what’s known as a genetic algorithm, Generative Design in Revit assists designers in quickly turning complex, multivariable design challenges into viable design directions for further development. Automation: reducing tedious tasks for more creativity Fewer tedious, repetitive tasks and more time for creative exploration and problem-solving: this is the potential of automation to help you do more of the high-value design and make work that you love doing and excel at. Automation features have the potential to unlock more streamlined, efficient ways of working, speeding up steps in a workflow that traditionally require significant manual input and effort. Automation features anticipate the user’s next move to help them complete their task faster. In AutoCAD, Markup Import and Markup Assist help drafters iterate faster. Markup Assist uses machine learning to identify markups on print or digital formats and help you incorporate changes easier and faster. When it comes to replacing block references, AutoCAD Smart Blocks: Replacement suggests similar blocks from your block library for you to choose from. AutoCAD Macro Advisor generates macro insights based on your unique command usage. Another valuable automation feature is Revit’s Steel Connection Automation which assists in the design of steel structural systems, helping structural engineers model design intent faster and estimate cost and constructability with greater accuracy, especially when facing bid deadlines. Reducing a normally repetitive task in the structural engineering workflow, this capability allows you to use rules-based connection libraries to efficiently identify, place, and replace steel connections. Revit’s Steel Connection Automation For sewer asset inspections, we’re exploring the integration of VAPAR’s AI image technology into Info360 Asset. VAPAR technology automatically flags problematic issues in pipes, saving operators hours of watching tedious sewer line inspection videos while significantly reducing capital expenditure costs. We will share more details in the near future. Like how a word processor predicts words to complete your sentence, Prescriptive Scripting in Dynamo (also known as Node Autocomplete) helps you create your scripts more quickly and accurately by predicting the upcoming nodes based on what you’ve written previously. In the bigger picture, AI advancements in Autodesk’s AEC software are there to help enhance your creativity and decision-making, enabling you to find new solutions to challenges faster and more sustainably. Autodesk AI is an evolution of your AEC toolbox that thinks along with you and supports more fluid workflows for your project teams; throughout the process, you as the user remain in the driver’s seat. At Autodesk we are committed to the thoughtful, responsible development of AI to address our customers’ needs and are actively researching, developing, and acquiring additional AI technology so that together we can design and make a better world for all.
Its unique shape and construction of solid brass rods, provide an extremely rigid connection to platter, bearing and tonearm support. There is no flat plate to resonate and transmit vibrations, only solid brass rods 50mm in diameter. A second brass rod provides stability and the two are clamped together in a T shape. The motor is housed independently in its own bras tower which dampens vibration of the motor itself. A ground, flat belt provides drive from the motor pulley to the subplatter. The bearing is of highly polished, fine grain carbon steel with a one point contact, while the bearing sleeve is of a resin/textile material which has excellent damping, non-resonant properties. With a mat on top and rubber damping insert underneath, the sold aluminium platter provides a stable non-resonant platform for records. An acrylic cover protects platter and tonearm while reflecting the turntable’s original shape. A 45 rpm adaptor is provided and is simply slipped over the 33 rpm pulley. The turntable can accommodate various tonearms by the use of different pre- cut brass plates and it allows for VTA adjustment on any tonearm mounted. The whole turntable is supported by an optional high density plywood plate.
Our family loves Escape Rooms. We enjoy working together and figuring out how to escape in under an hour. I especially love that we all have different strengths. It’s never one person doing all of the work. We all have to work together to solve the room. When I was in North Carolina visiting my sister and her family we visited Masterpiece Escapes in Union County. We decided to take on their “Wrecked” Room. Your friend Connor, an aspiring novelist has been working on a book about serial killers. He thinks he has scored his big break when he finds a lead on the Zodiac Killer. Obtaining information on a serial killer that was never caught was an opportunity too great to pass up. So he headed off to the small midwestern town to speak with this informant, Zed Holman, the owner of a junkyard. This was six months ago and you have not heard from Connor since. The police are not able to file a missing person’s report, so you decide to go see for yourself. When you finally arrive in town, night is falling and a storm is on the horizon. You approach the junkard with his journal in hand looking for answers as to the fate of your friend… We totally beat the room! One thing that we loved about the experience is they actually told a story. Sometimes you go through these rooms and you just try to get out. This one was a lot of fun and we definitely plan on going back. Connect with them:
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Every Sunday — after I do the grocery shopping and buy veggies at the local farmer’s market — I go looking for platypus. I live on the fringes of suburbia an hour or so north of Brisbane. A small creek runs though the nearby country town, crossing beneath the Main Street and running alongside the grocery store parking lot, eventually flowing through a small nature reserve. After my errands are done I walk along the banks, watching the still water for ripples or the tell-tale bubbles that appear before the platypus pops to the surface to chew its meal. I thought I knew a lot about platypuses. I’ve seen them on my grocery runs nearly every month, and I’ve even helped conservation scientists trap them for research. But after reading Jack Ashby’s new book, Platypus Matters, I’ve realized that the humble platypus is even more wonderful than I ever imagined. Here are three new books on Australian wildlife and natural history. I hope you enjoy them as much as I did. By Jack Ashby In December 1799, an unsuspecting Englishwoman was bonked on the head by a dead platypus when the barrel of alcohol she was carrying aloft burst and spilled its contents in a “cascade of ‘pungent and foul-smelling spirits.’” The woman nearly suffocated. And so begins Platypus Matters, a hilarious and engaging new book about platypuses and other Australian mammals. Author Jack Ashby is the assistant director of the University Museum of Zoology at Cambridge and a self-confessed platypus fanatic. (Who can blame him.) Building on his considerable scientific knowledge and decades of field experience, Ashby immerses readers in all things platypus: how they bewildered European explorers, their behavior and reproductive biology, and Winston Churchill’s inexplicable obsession with obtaining a live platypus during World War II. After a deep dive on platypus, Ashby turns to other Australian mammals like the echidna and kangaroo, walking readers through how western naturalists reckoned with these unfamiliar new species that upset their sense of taxonomic order. And that’s where we get to the heart of Ashby’s book. From the very moment that European naturalists stepped foot on Australian soil, they’ve derided the continent’s wildlife as weird, primitive, stupid, backward, and against the natural order of things. Ashby argues that those early descriptions still shape our perception of Australian wildlife more than 200 years later, to the animals’ detriment. I’ll be the first to admit that I’m guilty of describing platypus as ‘weird,’ as well as wonderful. To me, their weirdness is what makes them wonderful. But after reading this book, I’ve realized that it’s all too easy for the platypus-besotted among us to forget that terms like ‘weird’ and ‘primitive’ have long been weaponized to undermine the value of the creatures they describe. Ashby argues that how we talk about Australia’s animals influences how we value them, and therefore and how much we’re willing to protect them. And, in a country with the worst mammal extinction rate in the world, that matters. Platypus Matters is a must-read for any mammal nerd or Aussie wildlife enthusiast. By Alistair Paton If you finish Platypus Matters and still want more, Alistair Paton has you covered. Of Marsupials and Men (love the Steinbeck pun) chronicles the exploits of Australian first European naturalists. Many of these men and women were amateurs, armed with little more than a shotgun, grit, and considerable curiosity for the natural world. They tramped through the wilds of Australia, “discovering” new species — new to Europeans, that is — and shipping their specimens back to mother England. Paton works his way through 150 years of natural history, detailing not only the exploits of early naturalists but the consequences of colonization on Australian species. Soon animals were being shipped in the other direction, as acclimatization societies made a hobby out of setting European species loose in Australia, with universally disastrous consequences. He ends in the modern era, introducing readers to characters like David Fleay, one of Australia’s first conservationists, and the brave individuals who lost their lives in the effort to produce antivenom for Australian snakes. Fans of Australian natural history might have heard bits and pieces of these stories before, but Of Marsupials and Men pulls them all together in an engaging read. Available in Australia from Black Inc Books. By Jeff Davies, Peter Menkhorst, Danny Rogers, Rohan Clarke, Peter Marsack, & Kim Franklin I love big field guides. But I do not love lugging them around in the field, or on airplanes, or on long hikes. That’s why I’m absolutely delighted with the new Compact Australian Bird Guide. This book is a slimmed-down version of the Complete Australian Bird Guide, which was first published in 2017 and has served as my go-to guide for Australian birds ever since. Like the United States, Australia has several competing bird guides, each with its die-hard fans. (Sibley vs Peterson, anyone?) In my opinion, the Complete Australian Bird Guide is the best of the bunch, reminiscent of Sibley in its layout, illustration quality, and species descriptions. But, tragically, it doesn’t yet have an associated app version, so your only option (until now) has been to haul the sizeable book into the field. That’s why the compact version is such a welcome addition. Unlike the United States, Australian birdlife isn’t easily divided into east/west or north/south regions. To make the compact version, the authors included only the 700 species that are residents or regular visitors to Australia and its surrounding seas. (Not included are occasional visitors and vagrants.) To keep the size manageable, the authors also significantly reduced the species descriptions and dropped illustrations of some less common subspecies. Pocket guides always come with trade-offs. But in this case, the authors have done a fantastic job of giving you the information you need to make confident identifications in the field in a truly pocket-sized format. Diehard birders will still want the larger guide as a desk reference, but this compact version is equally indispensable.
I stopped beside a pool reflecting on what it is inside me, this fear. This is the same pool where I lost my dog to the wild man at the bottom. And now, my golden ball, rolling freely at my side like a replacement dog, sits as still as a planet. I watch it as it watches me. And in the water I have no face. The Return of the Agoraphobe At night they came and removed it, my pale osseous framework. Made it difficult to maneuver, impossible to chase rabbits or the mysteries of the human heart. But mark me tonight: I am set on re-engaging. Their eyes are red lights on the horizon and I am on a quest. I worked for hours this morning to lift the shadow of my sword. Tomorrow the sword itself. Corey Mesler: I have published prose and/or poetry in Rattle, StorySouth, Canopic Jar, Contrary, Pindeldyboz, Mars Hill Review, Pikeville Review, Arkansas Review, Stirring, Red River Review, Center, Small Press Review, Jabberwock Review, Orchid, Quick Fiction, Timber Creek Review, Green Egg, Poetry Motel, Raintown Review, Potomac Review, Poetry Super Highway, Big Muddy, Slant, Wilmington Blues, Drought, Rockhurst Review, Wavelength, Lilliput Review, Pearl, Aurorean, Lucid Moon, Heeltap, Sunny Outside, Fish Drum, Into the Teeth of the Wind, Mid-American Poetry Review, Independence Boulevard, Midday Moon, Turnrow, Now Here Nowhere, Dust, Cherotic Revolutionary, Cotyledon, Buckle &, Iodine, Snakeskin (England), Flashpoint, Freewheelin' (England), Pitchfork, Anthology, Poet Lore, Spillway, The Pegasus Review, Reverb, Kimera, Thema, Kumquat Meringue, Lonzie's Fried Chicken, Both Sides Now, Electric Acorn (Dublin), Razor Wire, Gin Bender, Blue Unicorn, Black Dirt, The Spirit that Moves Us, Wind, Red Rock Review, Art Times, Concrete Wolf, Memphis Magazine, Rhino, Visions International, others. I have a chapbook of poems, Piecework, from the Wing and a Wheel Press. I have work in the anthologies Full Court: A Literary Anthology of Basketball (Breakaway Books), Pocket Parenting Poetry Guide (Pudding Press), Intimate Kisses: The Poetry of Sexual Pleasure (New World Press) and Smashing Icons (Curious Rooms). I recently won the Moonfire Poetry Chapbook Competition and my chapbook, Chin-Chin in Eden, has just been published by Still Waters Press. One of my short stories was chosen for the 2002 edition of New Stories from the South: The Year's Best, edited by Shannon Ravenel. My novel-in-dialogue, Talk , was published by Livingston Press in 2002. Raves from Lee Smith, Robert Olen Butler, Steve Stern, Debra Spark, Suzanne Kingsbury, Frederick Barthelme and John Grisham. I've been a book reviewer (for The Commercial Appeal, BookPage, The Memphis Flyer), fiction editor (for Ion Books/raccoon), university press sales rep, grant committee judge (for The Oregon Arts Council), father and son. With my wife I own Burke's Book Store, one of the country's oldest (1875) and best independent bookstores. I have been suffering with agoraphobia, panic syndrome, social anxiety disease, for the past 6 years. what he believed he knew what he knew was true, this for him pristine a church bell in a light snow layering metaphysics once replete the contagious pact with reality reworked, the truth poser rang pealed the sanctity of doubt with an immoral aroma of almost rain sat him down to one riddle at a time The feeble written wit taps through the fog with an old man's cane, while the pompous elegant verse strides briskly past, seeking reality at the sidewalk's end. … Silently surveying his gutter world the street urchin humbly wonders at the tense waves of cold damp grey such efforts bring the night. Craig Kirchner: I live and work as a consultant on the east coast but consider myself a hobo of the universe. I write about what I know best and yet least - myself - in an effort to remove those labels. Twisted images of man dancing in the gale white silk blown around and around strange, this strange a kiss, a kiss a kitten barks animals explode one limp horse so helpless and poor I try to help but it reaches nothing it fades away before my eyes black to white lost in the snow these are disfigurements Colin Van Der Woude: I was only 15 years old and less than a year after diagnosis I was writing this work, heavilly influenced by late nights and music of The Cure. I am currently a 27 year old from Hobart Tasmania, Australia who loves writing emotion down in notebooks. This cement one sun or another has colored. The south wall of Saint Cecelia's was to this color built. Winter is over. The wall is the same every morning. Winter is over, the color is original. I photograph debris and think it beautiful for it is grey. Color is morning. Your travel one hand or another has driven. The stream of your wetness was to this hand released. Barriers be through. The shudder is recalled each morning apart. I photograph you bare for you will travel again apart; for I think our hands beautiful in this winter that is over, in your wetness that is new. Mine or your hand recall this to one in thought the other; for the wetness released. Barriers be through for the sugar and the hand. A man near death must tell his son "Go to labor your hands & build now a house; answer to not architecture, but bone of only your boy hands." So a man has & I went the stone valley & saw all to burn that I may study resistance to wrath & for my home use the strongest ash as clay. Imbalance of the river's casement dams in flood, a barb in the hand of an officer. A blue mouth, white woman smoking on the east coast. Language of my foreign birth. Ein toter Soldat und sein Sohn. I have suddenly again become the man my father sought to raise. It is like my dark hand again beside your face: here now the sun is not where I am but it does not matter what may here be seen: my dark hand again beside your face, a violet in the window & the sun weak on a brown house Wife Poem: Text Fifteen I will keep at your side if rooms are to fail, the ports submerge, the big guns manned blow into our home and level lanes & corner- -stones shatter I have by the barrel birthed fire, and there it will be I carry you for respite if your legs have buckled; there it will be I carry you, move in for warmth and keep at your side the big guns steam & hammer, the gods skirt further away. Pedro Trevino-Ramirez is 19 years old and resides in Texas with his wife. He is a Pushcart Prize nominee and author of 'Origin's and Anonymity', an introspective chapbook published by Foothills Publishing. He is a monthly contributor to The Hold Magazine, a guest editor to MiPo, and his work is published or upcoming will be seen in the following: Cotyledon, Poesy, Tryst, Thunder Sandwich, Third Lung Review, Jack Magazine, Pilgrimage, Cokefish, Tamafyhr Mountain Poetry, Rock Salt Plum Review and Tin Lustre Mobile. litmus test for liver: lie courage comes lily and yellow white feathers grace the headdresses of the chief accountant for the firm abdomen a section of a bug jackets yellow and tiger striped like the pants of prison inmates malfunctioning machine makes me mad don't drink and drive, my mother said said suspect slyly lies laughter of clowns always melancholic or alka-seltzer plop plop plop bird droppings on the bald man's pate- -ernoster prayed in genuflection like a real flexor muscle man lies and lifts weights in prison yard three feet under lying dead letter officials censor, cut before you deal the deck chairs too flimsy for the house a full one wins the hand- -yman prize for furnace installation art with yellow lilies painted Millie Niss is from New York City, where she writes and does web design. She has had poetry and web art published in trAce (UK), Beehive, Sidereality, Milk Magazine, The Museum of the Essential and Beyond That (Brazil), The Buffalo News, Artvoice, Sudden Magazine, m.a.g., wordcircuits.com, Rhizome/hypperhiz, Furthetxt.org (UK), wordcircuits.com, bannerart.org, etc. Her web site is www.sporkworld.org To: "M.K" From: [email protected] Subject: Re: my new-Attachments: it's nice to be virtual again.. missed life somewhere.. well, not life, the image.. the one that's in time with the other lifetime that will never recover... oh well, it's not that bad ... there's hot and cold running water and a candle.. forever on a stick To: [email protected] > From: "M.K" Subject: Re: your old attachments: that's right left without a moment's notice or a catalogue to the show. how was it you expected me to follow the seed trail without the seeds? take care mk don't think of it To: "M.K" < [email protected] > From: [email protected] Subject: Re: my relapses: you came in garbled, kind of smooth to the surface, but I could tell the real from the fake. and that's right I hit the skids again following a form oeuvre . . . there is more to tell, but I lost my metaheart in lala land. love forever non-stick buy a car quick, need to get a minimal cost plus am radio @ gateway to statistics To: [email protected] > From: "M.K" Subject: Re: you paste or add on item dear almost over as I stated in our last Do Not Resuscitate, prepared for the worst, since you know... once one knows no one knows who I am, I can be that something happened once again, with new favors and big hitters. so I welcome you to the party with all the battery powered widgets, including all the Portable Wireless Peripherals you can stomach mk I have the road map bite hard soon To: "M.K" From: [email protected] Subject: Re: my compulsion is too hard: frankly I wind up and fall down, I think it was a lie . . . with cards and PARADIGMS A banal through and through as runny as you know what . . . but every time I think, I crave the other side and a slow low return image. as you remember me. ps. this is it. I have hit the pavement. kari edwards is author of iduna, O Books (2003) and a day in the life of p. , subpress collective (2002). edwards' work can also be found in Scribner's The Best American Poetry 2004 (fall, 2004), Aufgabe, Mirage/Period(ical), Van Gogh's Ear, Call, Fulcrum: an annual of poetry and aesthetics, and Pom2.
The WooCommerce plugin makes for one heck of a powerful e-commerce WordPress website. With all of that great power comes with great responsibility…err…options. In this WooCommerce tutorial video, we’ll review the early setup process that you encounter after installing the plugin. This isn’t a step-by-step, highly detailed tutorial, but more of a broad overview of using WooCommerce altogether. Is WooCommerce the best WordPress e-commerce plugin? That might the question you’re asking yourself right now. The more accurate question is, is WooCommerce the best e-commerce plugin for you? If you read my guide, How-to Find the Best WordPress Plugin, Woo is the primary example of in that situation. Yes, it’s the most popular. Yes, it’s widely supported. Yes, it’s owned by Automattic. None of that means it’s the perfect solution for you. For instance, if all you care about is selling digital products, Easy Digital Downloads might be better. If you want to sell digital product AND traditional merchandise, then you have a better argument to use WooCommerce. In the end, the plugin is a powerful e-commerce solution with lots of options and available add-ons, all of which, aim to help you grow your business — online and off. WooCommerce installation & setup overview video
The actions of Malware are often controlled through uniform communications mechanisms, which are regularly changing to evade detection techniques and remain prolific. Though geographically dispersed, malware-infected nodes being controlled for a common purpose can be viewed as a logically joint network, now loosely referred to as a botnet. The evolution of the mechanisms or processes for controlling the networks of malware-infected nodes may be indicative of their sophistication relative to a point of inception or discovery (if inception time is unknown). A sampling of botnet related malware at different points of inception or discovery can provide accurate representations of the sophistication variance of command and control processes. To accurately measure a sampling, a matrix of sophistication, deemed the Complexity Matrix (CM), was created to categorize the signifying characteristics of Command and Control (C&C) processes amongst a historically-diverse selection of bot binaries. In this paper, a survey of botnets is conducted to identify C&C characteristics that accurately represent the level of sophistication being implemented within a specified time frame. The results of the survey are collected in a CM and used to generate a subsequent roadmap of C&C milestones. Library of Congress Subject Headings Computer networks--Security measures; Malware (Computer software)--Prevention; Computer crimes--Prevention Networking and System Administration (MS) Department, Program, or Center Information Sciences and Technologies (GCCIS) Finocchiaro, Conzetti, "A Historical evaluation of C&C complexity" (2012). Thesis. Rochester Institute of Technology. Accessed from RIT – Main Campus
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Premier League players abroad asked to return as restart edges closer There are players in England’s top-flight who are currently abroad and hence have been asked to return to the country by Tuesday, 5 May, as clubs have started preparing for the season to restart, while the Premier League are also facing a £4m bill for coronavirus testing kits for ‘essential’ players and staff. Due to the ongoing pandemic, the country has been on lockdown for a while now, while football has also been halted since mid-march. The return of football in England has been the topic of much discussion, with it being declared that the campaign can only restart when it is safe and appropriate to do so. Sky Sports’ Kaveh Solhekol has now provided on update on clubs’ plans moving forward. With the players asked to return to the UK by 5 May, the government plans to provide an update on lockdown restrictions just 48 hours later. The government is also very keen on football to return as soon as possible to boost the morale of the public at this testing time. The issue of social hygiene and social distancing will be raised but Solhekol adds that even the footballs that will be used when training resumes will be sterilized. This news came after Arsenal announced they would open their training ground to payers on Monday, with all government regulations taken care of. West Ham have also opened their training ground but a strict one-in-one policy has been applied. However, the Daily Mail report that the Premier League are facing a huge bill for the coronavirus testing as the resumption of the season edges closer. In a meeting between all medical officers from the top 20 top-flight clubs on Saturday, it was decided that all essential players and staff will be tested twice a week, starting when the group training recommences. It is noted that a testing kit costs roughly £150 and while clubs will interpret members who are in need, the clubs will provide up to 50 tests twice a week. featured image credits- espn.com
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18 February First Sunday in Lent – Year B A downloadable version of this page is available for anyone who would like to save or print it out. The Faith Action Programme would like to thank Rev Dr Jock Stein, retired minister, for his thoughts on the first Sunday in Lent. Weekly Worship, based on the Revised Common Lectionary, is for everyone – in any capacity – who is involved in creating and leading worship. It provides liturgical material that can be used for worship in all settings. Our writers are asked to share their approaches to creating and delivering this material to equip leaders with a greater confidence and ability to reflect on their own worship practice and experience and encourage them to consider how this material might be adapted for their own context. We would encourage continual reflection on the changing patterns of worship and spiritual practice that are emerging from disruption and how this might help identify pathways towards development and worship renewal. An archive of resources for daily worship can be found on the Sanctuary First website: https://www.sanctuaryfirst.org.uk/daily-worship We may not all be gathered in the same building, but at this time, when we need each other so much, we are invited to worship together, from where we are – knowing that God can hear us all and can blend even distant voices into one song of worship. When material is prepared a few months before the actual service, it is hard to anticipate current events, but Lent is likely to include some broad themes which play out in different ways year by year: - Our human frailty and failure to deal adequately with challenges like people movements, war-making and climate change. - Our appeal, ‘Lord have mercy'. In Lent (as in Advent) candles can be lit with imagination and significance. In our local church there is a regular quiet midweek evening hour. - Our recall in Lent of ‘the great events of our salvation', while always part of a ministry of word and sacrament, has special meaning when we lose our moorings to the past (and fear excessively about the future), for example: - How things that happen are part of a truth that is greater than ‘my truth' or ‘your truth'. - How we experience now something which happened a long time ago (like being buried and raised with Christ, Romans 6:4). It may be valuable, where you can, to introduce testimony. - How the journey of Jesus to Jerusalem, and the cross which followed, is something which has meaning for, and which actually did something for every person who ever lived and lives, and beyond that for the universe itself – as in the older hymn CH4 398, whose words can too easily be dismissed as beyond our understanding: ‘earth and sea and stars and mankind by that stream are cleansed all'. While humans stand at the climax of the creation story in Genesis 1, they share the same planet as birds and beasts. This chapter reminds us that God looks after all species, a simple but special motive for us to do the same. It is also heartening that God has to ‘remember' this covenant; God is not a computer but a living, personal being; and even if, in Calvin's words, God ‘lisps' with us in Scripture (talks to us as a nurse would to a child), God's ‘lisping' brings God close to us, as we are people who struggle to remember. Three words immediately stand out (not in text order): - Flood – two whole chapters, 7 and 8, and the experience of so many today, from dams which burst in Libya to houses built on flood plains in Britain. - Covenant – a promise initiated by God, given to humans then and now, a promise which makes its own demands on humans. Can we lean comfortably on the ‘never again' of verse 11, and assume the earth will not be destroyed, or does the covenant make demands on our stewardship of the earth? Is a covenant conditional, unconditional or simply consequential? - Sign – the rainbow, which has been appropriated in different ways today: by a scientific mentality which reasons that ‘knowing how' exhausts the world of mystery; by the LGBTQ+ community; and national support for medical staff during COVID-19. All, in quite different ways and for their own reasons, use the sign, whereas in Genesis the rainbow is an everlasting sign for every creature. This psalm has the same number of verses as the Hebrew alphabet, and is roughly, but not exactly, alphabetical – one thinks of the Muslim practice of leaving something awry in their art, ‘since only God is perfect', though it may be more helpful just to accept that even in scripture we humans offer to God and others simply the best we can. John Goldingay suggests the psalm was written as a model to teach someone to pray, even if it was also used in worship. Jewish, charismatic and the more ‘catholic' expressions of faith typically have more physicality in worship, seeking perhaps to hold body and soul together. It would be natural to accompany verse 1 with the lifting of hands, and Lent – for example with the ‘stations of the cross' – is a good time to encourage ‘body worship' for those who are comfortable with it. Verses 9 and 10 are congruent with walking round a church. Lenten themes include sin and mercy (vv6-7), waiting (v5) and humility (v9). Covenant is mentioned in verse 10. Below is a poem on this psalm I published in Temple and Tartan, in case it is of use. It's a pantoum, where the repetitions slow everything down so the reader has to spend time with the ideas and emotions of the psalm. In verse 7, the writer remembers the follies of youth, and the new things he has learned as he ages. Any poet loves new words, but the new words given involve pain and hurt as well as rhythm and right. A New Lexicon Back in my youth, wrapped up and gone, I was no angel: but it's age that opens a new lexicon, puts loss and pain centre stage. I was no angel: but it's age and wrinkles make a tender soul, put loss and pain centre stage and start to make the person whole. Yes, wrinkles make a tender soul, reflect the crooked paths of life, start to make the person whole for break and make are man and wife. Reflect the crooked paths of life, reveal success, transmute defeat, for break and make are man and wife, they share a house in every street. Reveal success, transmute defeat, play on my heartstrings and my gut which share a house in every street I drive through mindfully; so please, play on my heartstrings and my gut, sound blues and rhythm in the glen I drive through mindfully; but please deal with me kindly, even then. Sound blues and rhythm in the glen where trip wires cross, and boulders roll; deal with me kindly, even then, make music in my empty soul. Where trip wires cross, and boulders roll, I'll wear the hurt, I'll bear the wrong. Make music in my empty soul and I will answer with a song; I'll wear the hurt, I'll bear the wrong. Back in my youth, wrapped up and gone, I longed to answer with a song that opens a new lexicon. The writer of Psalm 25 seeks integrity, without the emphatic ‘I'm in the right' of Psalm 26, which sounds like ‘number one' on the Enneagram, while a concern for success and failure mark a ‘number 3' who has had to learn to bear hurt, which fits Psalm 25. The psalm is also a dialogue between the simple prayer of a man conscious of his need of help in the midst of enemies or worries, and his strong belief that God can help him. Athanasius wrote in his letter to Marcellinus that the Psalms become like a mirror to the person singing them, and so the poem speaks of the crooked paths of life which mirror success and failure. ‘Heart' and ‘gut' are important words in the Enneagram scheme, and do not always live comfortably together when they share a house. There is a challenging context here, earlier in the chapter – living with tender heart and humble mind (v8), suffering for doing right (v14), gently giving a reason for your hope (v14) – and our passage resonates with them in several ways: - Christ suffered for us, but also for all, including those who have died and were disobedient. - Noah's flood prefigures baptism. While in one sense only those in the ark were saved – which seems to contradict point 1 above – when the ark opened up, Noah and his family were given the rainbow sign for all. The Church is indeed the ‘ark of salvation', but Christ's work was for the unbaptised as well as the baptised. - Baptism (like the Lord's Supper) does not simply celebrate Christ's death for us, but His resurrection. We celebrate our own baptism and what it means, not just as a cleansing from sin, but as giving us a new and holy life in Christ and in heaven (cf. Colossians 3:1-3). A ‘good conscience' is literally a ‘good knowing of ourselves', which is both humble and happy. The most unusual bit of this passage – unique in the Bible, I think – is the idea of Christ visiting the realm of the dead on Holy Saturday. In His life with us, in the stories of the Gospels we find Jesus ‘descending' to be with us in our sin shame and despair, but in His death He goes even further. ‘Jesus did not skim death, He entered fully into it.' (See Gerrit Dawson's Raising Adam – available www.handselpress.co.uk – for a profound look at this.) Mark uses fewer and often more vigorous words than the other gospels. One notes here: the heavens were torn apart (v10), well pleased, which could be translated as ‘delighted' (v11), immediately (v12) and wild beasts (v13). Not so much of the ‘meek and mild' Jesus in this gospel (though it is other gospels which have Him clearing the money-changers out of the temple). My mind is travelling further than the text with the idea of the sky being torn apart. Quite apart from what this might tell us about the ‘eye witness' testimony of the gospels, it speaks to me of how this world is both connected to and ‘invaded' by the next. The incarnation took a huge effort on God's part. We speak, rightly, of the way God gently slipped into the world at the first Christmas, taking time to grow in the womb of Mary in the person of God's Son. But it is also high drama – steep drama, deep drama. There is an explosive element, like in the birth of stars, to the breaking in of the Spirit into human affairs. And this same Spirit ‘drove' Jesus into the wilderness. We sometimes speak about being ‘led' by the Spirit – should we also speak about being ‘driven' by the Spirit? One final violent word – repent. Turn round, change. The word is the heart of a sandwich in verse 15: the good news is preached, the kingdom draws near in the person of Jesus, so repent – and then believe the good news. Faith both precedes and follows repentance, because faith is dynamic, not once-for-all but growing and being renewed; to push the metaphor, we never stop chewing that sandwich. There are some links between the passages (e.g. death and resurrection, baptism, covenant) but this is perhaps a Sunday for choosing one passage and preaching on it. Psalm 25 would introduce Lent well. You could preach on prayer from verse 1, faith from verse 2, waiting from verse 3, but here is another theme from verses 4-5: the way, truth and life may and must fuse to make strong followers of Jesus. - Walking the right way is a matter of foot knowledge as well as head knowledge. (Think of the importance of ‘muscle memory' in things like playing the piano.) But it is knowledge, it is not simply ‘doing the right thing'. It is getting head knowledge into the heart, and heart knowledge into the walk. Maturity is a matter of constantly shrinking the distance between them, of letting intelligence into the bloodstream. - Walking the right way means being led and taught by God. It is a major miracle that the Creator of all should be able and willing to do this, and it is useful to rehearse ways that help us hear from God. - Walking the right way requires waiting on God . . . and also may involve walking blind, unsure of exactly where we are going, but trusting God to make God's will plain as we go, Solvitur ambulando, as anyone who has been taught Latin might remember. It is worth collecting biographies of well-known and not-so-well-known Christians to illustrate these points. Many of the older biographies are a bit hagiographical, they ignore the weak points and failures, but can still be useful. The idea of ‘walking through Lent' might be of interest. It could be developed in many ways, e.g. walking through a forest, round a lake, up and down a mountain; or taking different kinds of walking gear; or visiting different houses, churches, doctrines, or people; or pilgrimage; or walking as a child, a teenager, an adult, an older person. While it may be useful to simplify words when children are present, in many services one is uncertain exactly who may be present, and so it is desirable to keep it simple on the one hand, but also to be aware that good, even lovely language (and of course silence also) can take people into God's presence whether or not it is well understood. If you can make language beautiful without being precious, that's a gift worth cultivating. At the start of Lent it might be useful to speak about silence and the place that silence may take in the services during Lent. Call to worship (from Psalm 25) God leads the humble in what is right, and teaches the humble God's way. All the paths of the Lord are steadfast love and faithfulness, for those who keep God's covenant. Lord God, faithful in Your love, we come before You as we are, to worship You at the start of Lent. We come before You as we are, to hear what You have to say about our human journey. We come before You as we are, to seek Your help and strength for the week ahead, and for every week, through Jesus Christ our friend and saviour, Amen. We confess that we have thought too much about ourselves, and too little about Your ways. We confess that we have lived too much for ourselves, and too little for the sake of others. We confess that we have been taken up too much with ourselves, and too little with the demands of Your kingdom. Forgive us when we go the wrong way or the foolish way. Have mercy on us, and upon the world we inhabit. Be patient with Your people, and help us to walk wisely and walk well, for Jesus' sake, Amen. We give You thanks for a world of wonder and mystery, with so much to discover, and so many ways of doing that. We give You thanks for the variety of human life, and for the gospel which has been taken to every part of the world. We give You thanks for everything good that has happened this past week, for people whose kindness never meets the media, for prayers which have been answered, for situations which have resolved. We give You thanks for opportunities to praise and rejoice, for opportunities to learn and to grow, for opportunities to reflect and be quiet. We give You thanks for this Lenten season, and for the One whose season it is. We give You thanks for all things that make our life simple and special. Good guys and good gadgets, good friends and good food, good leaders and good lives around us. We give thanks for all who have walked before You in faith, and hope and love, and especially for those whose path has been part of ours. Above all, we thank You for Jesus Christ, who walked before You in trust and in truth, whose walk has inspired us and given us light, whose walk has taken Him to death and beyond for our sakes. Prayer for others We begin with a moment of silence, to wonder at the mystery of prayer, to reflect on our journeys and the journeys of others, and to collect our thoughts before God . . . [pause] We pray for those in leadership, that they may bless the life and peace of the nations, our common life here, and especially the lives of the poor . . . [pause] We pray the hungry might be fed, in body, mind and spirit, that the thirsty be satisfied, that God will hear the cry of those who long for justice . . . [pause] We pray for those we meet each day, at work or in the street, online or in person, at home or on the phone . . . [pause] We pray for those who teach, in college and school, in church and community, praying that knowledge may build up and not puff up, and that wisdom might guide the feet of all who walk our world . . . [pause] We pray for those with prophetic gifting, that they hear rightly, and share rightly, and that they have a wise community to assess what they say . . . [pause] We pray for the pastors and elders of our church and area, that they may serve with unity, with love and with joy . . . [pause] We pray for one another, that we grow up in faith during this period of Lent, that we renew our hope, that we open our hearts to the deep love of God . . . [pause] And all through Jesus Christ, in whose words we say together, Our Father … May God lead you in paths of righteousness and peace – and the blessing of God almighty, Father, Son and Holy Spirit, be with you now and always, Amen. Our online music resource is on the Church of Scotland website; you can listen to samples of every song in the Church Hymnary 4th edition (CH4) and download a selection of recordings for use in worship. You will also find playlists for this week and liturgical seasons and themes on the Weekly Worship and Inspire Me tabs. You can find further musical suggestions for this week in a range of styles on the Songs for Sunday blog from Trinity College Glasgow. A suggested playlist of songs from CH4 for use during Lent can be found on the Church of Scotland website. - CH4 21 – "Lord, teach me all your ways" – Psalm 25 - CH4 119 – "O God, thou art the Father" – a fine, vigorous, old hymn; verse 3 is especially relevant to Lent and Psalm 25 - CH4 120 – "God, we praise you. God, we bless you" – a good opening hymn at any time, verse 3 is suitable for Lent - CH4 263 – "God of freedom, God of justice" – the reference to ‘Christ who saw the dark of prison' in verse 1 fits the teaching of 1 Peter 3:19 - CH4 276 – "Wait for the Lord" – a very easy Taizé chant. - CH4 354 – "O Love, how deep" – a good Lenten hymn, and a suitable closing hymn - CH4 501 – "Take this moment, sign, and space" – this song speaks to many different themes we find throughout Lent. - CH4 508 – "I bind my heart this tide" – another good Lenten hymn, with personal commitment and concern for others. - CH4 634 – "Word of the Father, the life of creation" – new words to a familiar tune, suitable for Lent and for baptism or a focus on children - CH4 635 – "We know that Christ is raised" – another baptismal hymn which happens to echo strongly both of the New Testament readings. Verse 2 might lead you to make a link between Lent and Easter, otherwise the reference might seem a bit strange Reflecting on our worship practice Since the start of the pandemic in 2020, the way we worship has changed and we need to reflect on the changing or newly established patterns that emerged and continue to emerge as a result of the disruption. We can facilitate worship for all by exploring imaginative approaches to inclusion, participation and our use of technologies in ways that suit our contexts. This is not an exhaustive list, but some things we could consider are: - Framing various parts of the worship service in accessible language to help worshippers understand the character and purpose of each part. This is essential for creating worship for all (intergenerational worship) that reflects your community of faith. - Holding spaces for reflection and encouraging prayer to be articulated in verbal and non-verbal ways, individually and in online breakout rooms. - In online formats the effective use of the chat function and microphone settings encourages active participation in prayer, e.g. saying the Lord's Prayer together unmuted, in a moment of ‘holy chaos'. - While singing in our congregations is still restricted, we can worship corporately by using antiphonal psalm readings, creeds and participative prayers. - Using music and the arts as part of the worship encourages the use of imagination in place of sung or spoken words. - Use of silence, sensory and kinaesthetic practices allow for experience and expression beyond regular audio and visual mediums. The following questions might help you develop a habit of reflecting on how we create and deliver content and its effectiveness and impact, and then applying what we learn to develop our practice. - How inclusive was the worship? Could the worship delivery and content be described as worship for all/ intergenerational? Was it sensitive to different "Spiritual Styles"? - How was the balance between passive and active participation? - How were people empowered to connect with or encounter God? What helped this? What hindered this? - How cohesive was the worship? Did it function well as a whole? How effective was each of the individual elements in fulfilling its purpose? - How balanced was the worship? What themes/topics/doctrines/areas of Christian life were included? - How did the worship connect with your context/contemporary issues? Was it relevant in the everyday lives of those attending and in the wider parish/ community? How well did the worship connect with local and national issues? How well did the worship connect with world events/issues? - What have I learned that can help me next time I plan and deliver worship? Up-to-date information for churches around COVID-19 can be found in our COVID-19 (Coronavirus) advice for churches section. You can listen to samples of every song in the Church Hymnary 4th edition (CH4) and download a selection of recordings for use in worship in our online hymnary. You can find an introduction to spiritual styles in our worship resources section You are free to download, project, print and circulate multiple copies of any of this material for use in worship services, bible studies, parish magazines, etc., but reproduction for commercial purposes is not permitted. Please note that the views expressed in these materials are those of the individual writer and not necessarily the official view of the Church of Scotland, which can be laid down only by the General Assembly.
Have you ever seen a martial art were they are all doing crazy spinning jumping kicks and wondered what discipline it is? The chances are you were watching the Korean martial art, Taekwondo. Taekwondo is a combat sport which started in the 1940’s by experienced martial artists in karate. Since then it has become an Olympic sport and it offers a fast paced, very technical style. However, in modern combat sports like MMA, which requires destructive powerful striking, Taekwondo sometimes gets overlooked for an effective MMA style. In fact, Taekwondo is actually a great base for MMA, especially for its fast unpredictable movement. Many people have also believed there is no punching allowed in Taekwondo, but that is not the case, as punches and kicks are both allowed. According to the International Taekwon-do Federation (ITF), in competitions, punches score 1 point, whereas a kick scores 2 points to the body and 3 points to the head, this is why you see more of the flamboyant kicks. Taekwondo does have a grading syllabus with a coloured belt system, similar to other martial arts like kickboxing and karate, but the belt system has slightly different colours and depending on the organisation they may vary from one to another. A black belt level is called a ‘Dan’ grade, meaning degree in Korean, which is obtained after achieving the coloured Gup grades. There are 9 Dan black belt grades in total and to reach the 9th Dan can take decades of dedicated training, this is why the Gup grades are referred to as the junior ranks as it is the learning and understanding of Taekwondo. In Taekwondo, the uniform worn is similar to other martial arts which is referred to as a Gi, however in Taekwondo it is called a Dobok, Do means “way” and Bok means “clothing.” The Dobok is tied together with the grade of coloured belt so each student is recognisable in the class. So, what are the levels of Taekwondo? The grades of Taekwondo are referred as a Gup (급, also spelled Geup or Kup) which is the colour rank in Taekwondo. Students begin at tenth gup, which is a white belt and advance toward first gup, which is usually a red belt with a white or black stripe. The black belt (1st Dan) is then awarded after the first Gup. Here is the list of level Kup belts in ITF Taekwondo: How long does it take between each belt grade? Taekwondo schools will generally test their students every three to four months. More traditional schools require longer intervals between tests, sometimes it can go up to six months. The higher the rank, the longer period it is between grades, especially Dan’s grades (After black belt) it can take several years to advance from one Dan to another. What do you do in a Taekwondo belt grading? Each school might have a different structure for their grading, however according to the British Taekwondo organisation they suggest that the grading in Taekwondo consists mainly of patterns, ‘poomsae’, techniques and theory. Theory is displayed verbally and expresses information on Korean words, vital information such as the rules of the sport and a general understanding and knowledge of Taekwondo. Watch the video below to see a mind blowing Taekwondo demonstration on America’s Got Talent: How long does it take to get a black belt in Taekwondo? It all depends on how long you spend training in the dojang. In general, it takes around 1200 hours, which is around 3-5 years of training to get a black belt. Also, it depends on the quality of the teaching and your learning abilities. Some people spend around 6 years to get their black belt, others spend less than 4 years. In South Korea, there are some schools offering training programs for foreigners to get a black belt within 10 to 12 months of training intensely. Training is on a daily basis for around 4 hours. Once the training is complete, the student is tested by a national committee. Many schools in South Korea consider black belt as the end of the beginners’ stage and the starting of the “real” knowledge. What are the Taekwondo Organisations? There are many different Taekwondo organizations worldwide and their structure of each may vary between them. Here is a list of the most common organisations: - International Taekwon-Do Federation (ITF) - BTC British Taekwondo Council - World Taekwondo - American Taekwondo Association (ATA) The ITF is the most established organisation regulating in Taekwondo. The ITF was founded on March 22, 1966, by General Choi Hong Hi in Seoul, South Korea. The ITF was founded to promote and encourage the growth of the Korean martial art of Taekwon-Do. The British Taekwondo Council (BTC) is recognized by United Kingdom’s Sport and Home Country Sports Councils as the National Governing Body for Taekwondo in the UK. The BTC exists to ensure the safe delivery of Taekwondo through all its Member Organisations. World Taekwondo was established on May 28, 1973 at its inaugural meeting held at the Kukkiwon with participation of 35 representatives from around the world. There are now 208 member nations. Since 2004, Choue Chung-won has been the president of World Taekwondo, succeeding the first president, Kim Un-yong. ATA Martial Arts also known as (ATA) American Taekwondo Association. The ATA is a U.S.-outgrowth of Traditional Taekwondo run as independently licensed schools. The ATA was founded in 1969 in Omaha, Nebraska by Haeng Ung Lee, a former Traditional Taekwondo instructor in the South Korean military. The ATA is the organization with the least affiliations in the World, but it has great dominance in the United States. Grand master Haeng Ung Lee released his own published book “The Way of Traditional Taekwondo” which has the metaphor of the growth of a pine tree to give meaning to the different belt colours in Taekwondo. Why is it good to learn Taekwondo? There are plenty of benefits from learning Taekwondo, whether that be to learn a martial art, self-defense or to master those crazy kicks, Taekwondo has something for everyone. Also it can go a long way in improving both your mental and physical health.
Connecting with customers is a crucial part of every sales team’s success. But how do you know which technology is the best to help your company win? There are many different ways to connect with customers. You can send them an email, call them on the phone, or even use a messenger bot if you want! But which is the best way? It all depends on what type of business you have and how your customers prefer to communicate. Here we will discuss three popular options: Salesforce vs SharePoint vs Messenger Bot. Salesforce CRM is an online cloud-based customer relationship management (CRM) platform. It is designed to help companies maintain connections with their customers and channel partners, as well as streamline sales processes. Salesforce CRM has many features that allow users to automate tasks, share data across departments, and access it on the go. It also comes with standard business applications like email marketing, social media integration, and mobile apps to drive productivity while increasing customer engagement. Microsoft SharePoint is a collaborative platform for teams that provides powerful ways to work together across the organization. SharePoint offers cloud-based team sites, file sharing capabilities, and business applications all in one place—and it works on any device with an internet connection so people can access their information whenever they need it. A key benefit of SharePoint is it allows you to create a central place for collaboration and knowledge sharing. With easy-to-use tools like blogs, wikis, calendars, and event management features built in, your employees can find what they need when they need it—and work together seamlessly as one team across the company even if those teams are located around the world. Messenger Bot App is a great way to interact with customers and get more engagement on your Facebook page. Messenger Bot App is the best option for customer service, lead generation, e-commerce sales, and many other business processes that require high levels of engagement from businesses’ end users. Key Features Comparison Messenger Bot, Microsoft SharePoint, and Salesforce all have their individual benefits. The best one for you will depend on your business needs. It’s important to understand how each can be used before making a decision about which works better for your company. User Interface is the point of contact between a product and its user. As more of our lives are consumed by technology, it is critical that user interface design becomes a strong focus for the business. Software must be accessible to your users in order to get the most out of marketing efforts. It is important because it can make or break your customer’s experience with your company, which will influence their perception of your business as well as how they are likely to use you in the future. It also represents one facet of brand identity, so if done right – may help strengthen your brand. Salesforce is a cloud-based CRM solution that is designed for users to access from anywhere at any time. Salesforce provides easy and quick user tools such as email, calendar, tasks, reports on account details, etc. Similar to Salesforce’s interface SharePoint also has an interactive online interface that allows users to manage projects and their resources in one place through its web-based products. The user interface of Messenger Bot is also very simple and easy to access as it only requires the customer to enter their name, email address, mobile number, etc. There are no passwords or log-in credentials needed for this bot. Salesforce’s user interface allows for a more customizable and interactive experience, whereas SharePoint requires users to be logged in before they can fully utilize its features. Messenger Bot lacks certain key features that allow it to function at full capacity when compared to Salesforce or Sharepoint such as being able to access files, calendars, etc. While Messenger Bot is simple to use and has a visually appealing design – it lacks key features that are necessary for efficient management of marketing campaigns. Email Marketing is a marketing strategy that uses email to deliver promotional messages and content, such as product information and newsletters. It is one of the most cost-effective channels for marketers because it allows them to communicate with customers at scale. It is important because it has the highest ROI of all marketing channels. It is commonly used because it’s cheap, easy to use, and can be tracked. Salesforce’s native email marketing tool, Marketing Cloud Email is a powerful cloud-based email marketing solution that enables users to quickly create and automate personalized communications with customers. SharePoint’s built-in feature for creating emails is called Sharepoint Designer, which helps you target messages precisely by using the kind of data stored in your site. It also lets you send customized emails to your lists. Messenger Bot’s email marketing tool is called Messenger Marketing, which enables you to communicate with customers on Facebook directly via the new Messages tab on their profile. Overall, Salesforce’s Marketing Cloud has the most features and is a powerful tool. SharePoint has a great feature set as well, while Messenger Bot provides good targeting options for its email marketing campaigns. Analytics and Reporting Analytics provides insights into your business, why are you doing well or not. You can have reports that show how many people visited the website daily/weekly/monthly etc. It allows you to see where most of your customers are coming from (ex if they come from marketing campaigns). It allows you to see where your customers are coming from, which campaign worked the best for example if it was a TV commercial or an ad on Facebook. This way you can improve future campaigns based on the information gathered by analytics/reporting done in previous years. Salesforce, SharePoint, and Messenger Bot all have ways to track usage. Salesforce has a wide array of reports available within the platform that provide information about customer interactions with your team or organization through email, phone calls, chats, etc. In addition, you can also use existing reporting tools like Tableau for a more in-depth analysis of data collected by salesforce. SharePoint is integrated with Microsoft Office tools, so it has the capability to pull data from Outlook and other sources. Third-party reporting tools like Tableau can be used here as well to provide a more in-depth analysis of your SharePoint usage and organization. Lastly, Messenger Bot provides detailed analytics that indicates user interactions within the platform such as when users message the bot, what they type, and how often. This data can be used to track user behavior and improve messaging in order to increase customer satisfaction rates. In terms of Analytics and Reporting, Salesforce comes out on top due to the wide array of reports available in the platform. SharePoint provides a more limited set of analytics but can be used with third-party reporting tools like Tableau and Microsoft Office integration (pulling data from Outlook and other sources). Messenger Bot is not as capable when it comes to Analytics and Reporting, however, what metrics are available can be very useful in understanding user behavior and improving messaging. Messenger Bot vs Sharepoint vs Salesforce Knowledge Base A knowledge base is a platform where you can add different types of content that support the understanding and use of your product or service. In this way, customers can access it from anywhere they are without any additional purchase required. From a marketing perspective knowledge base is important because the more people become familiar with certain topics on Salesforce vs SharePoint vs Messenger Bot, app-building, or any other topic related to your product the more likely they are to purchase it. That is because you can provide them with all relevant information in one place and this way increases conversion rates. Messenger Bot Knowledge Base offers a wide range of features that can be used to build your own platform. It is the simplest way how you can provide users with information about Messenger Bot in just minutes. The setup process doesn’t require any special skills and it provides an opportunity for everyone to create their first knowledge base quickly and efficiently. Sharepoint Knowledge base, on the other hand, is a great choice for those who want to create something more complex and customizable. Users can upload a wide range of media files which makes it very efficient in case you need to share anything from presentations or articles to product manuals or videos with your customers. Salesforce Knowledge Base is very similar to the Messenger Bot one. The good thing about Salesforce is that it provides high security for your knowledge base and it doesn’t cost you anything if you create a public Knowledge Base or use it as part of a CRM package (which means this feature is free). In terms of Knowledge base, Messenger Bot is the simplest option. It doesn’t require any coding or special skills and it can be used by anyone who has a basic understanding of the app. Messenger Bot vs Sharepoint vs Salesforce Community A community is a place where people with the same interests come together to share their knowledge and experience. In marketing, the community is often used as a tool for building customer loyalty or attracting new customers. Creating a successful community requires time and effort from your side. First of all, it’s important to define your target audience and choose the platform where you will create a community. Once that’s done, you need to come up with an engaging content strategy. Asking questions or sharing valuable information is a simple way of keeping people interested in what you’re talking about. There are many benefits of having a community that is active and engaged with your brand. For example, you can use it as an additional channel for customer service or creating new leads. With the help of the right tools, there’s also room for personalization when building any kind of relationship with customers. Messenger Bot community is the most simple one to build. It’s easy for both marketers and customers because you can use an existing messenger app to create a chatbot inside your Facebook or Slack page. Sharepoint community is probably better suited for specific groups of people, especially those who are part of different organizations connected within industry protocols. The best way to use Sharepoint is to create a group on the platform and hire an administrator who will update it with new information. Salesforce Community, on the contrary, requires more resources because there are different modules that you can choose from depending on your needs. You can also implement a SalesforceIQ bot for Messenger which makes tasks easier if you want to monitor what is happening in your community. In terms of Community, Salesforce, Sharepoint and Messenger Bot are all great tools that can help you keep your customers engaged with your brand. Though they might seem similar at first glance, it’s important to understand their strengths and weaknesses in different situations. The best way to find out which one suits you is by creating a free trial and trying them yourself. Integrations are a way of connecting two different pieces of software together. This is a great tool for marketing because they can get more information from their customers and use that to get better leads, provide the right messaging at the right time, etc., all without having to develop an additional solution or ask customers to install another app on their phone. Messenger Bot’s integrations are great because the integrations are done through bots. All of them can be found in one place, making it very easy to find what you need quickly and get back to your work. For Salesforce, there are plenty of integrations that come standard with the product but this will not always be enough for every business’ specific needs. They have a good user interface but the integrations are only available to those who have Gold or Platinum licenses. Sharepoint has a lot of options for integrating your Salesforce data with their product, however, they do not offer any standard application programming interfaces (API) so integration is more challenging than it needs to be. Overall, Messenger Bot has the best integrations because it is easy to use and has a lot of different options without having to pay extra for them. Sharepoint does not offer any standard APIs, making integration more difficult than necessary while Salesforce may have great integrations but they are only available in higher-level licenses which can be costly. Data Security is the practice of protecting information from unauthorized access, use, or disclosure. Data security is a subset of Information Security (InfoSec). Why is data security important for marketing? Marketing requires companies to collect customers’ personal and professional contact information in order to better serve their client’s needs. Data collected by marketers can be used for good purposes like helping customers, but it can also be used for nefarious purposes (like identity theft). Messenger Bot’s data security is dependent upon the security of the website it is hosted on. Sharepoint data security is vulnerable to hackers because all information exists in one location and hackers have just one place to attack instead of many. Salesforce’s data security protections are similar to that of a computer or mobile device, meaning they can be protected with strong passwords, encryption software, etc. In terms of data security, Messenger Bot has the lowest level of security because it is hosted on a website. Sharepoint has better data security than Messenger Bot but falls short when compared to Salesforce’s advanced protections. Templates are also important in marketing. Templates are pre-written messages that marketers use to save time and get more results from their campaigns. A template is a type of “mail merge” which allows you to send out personalized content while using the same piece of code every time. Instead of typing up an email each time, they can simply change some parameters within the template to make it different for each person. The Templates of Messenger Bot are similar to templates in that they are designed to give marketers a head start. They should be able to look at the Messenger Bot Templates and get ideas for other types of messages they can send out themselves. While there aren’t any direct templates available with Sharepoint, you could still use their marketing automation platform (MAP) which allows you to create a workflow that is sent to each person based on their actions. This will allow you to send the same message every time they do something specific, which can be similar in nature to templates. Salesforce has an entire library of pre-written email messages as well as a landing page and ad copy ideas for marketers who are looking for inspiration from those who have already done it successfully. These can be a great place to start in order to get an idea of how you want your own templates and the type of messages will look when they are being sent out. In terms of Templates, Salesforce, SharePoint, and Messenger Bot are all fairly similar. You can get started with templates for each of these platforms even if you have little to no experience in marketing since they come with many pre-written options that allow marketers to start using them right away without having to design anything new on their own. SalesForce has the most resources available to help you get started with templates since it has an entire library of them that can be used for inspiration. Also, the options you have in SalesForce are also similar to what is available on AdWords and Facebook which many marketers may already be familiar with using. This makes it easier than ever before for marketers who might not know how to use these platforms in the past to get started with their own marketing efforts. SharePoint and Messenger Bot both require a little more experience, but they will also allow marketers to be able to create something that is entirely unique for each of their customers which can set them apart from others who are using templates instead. Which is better, Sharepoint Developer vs Salesforce Developer? The better developer among the two is the Salesforce Developer. This is because the tool consists of various unique features like social media integration, mobile application development, and many more which are not available on the Sharepoint platform. Salesforce developer offers better job opportunities for the candidate. How Salesforce.com compare with Microsoft? Salesforce.com has both sales and service capabilities, but it is generally considered to be more of a sales platform. Microsoft has many modules that can serve as either customer-facing or employee-facing platforms (depending on your needs). For example, Office suite like Word and Outlook are great for communicating with customers; Dynamics CRM is a great sales platform. Who’s more expensive? Salesforce CRM or Microsoft SharePoint? Among the two, the most expensive is Microsoft SharePoint. Salesforce CRM is comparatively less expensive as it offers a free starter plan for up to 25 users and an affordable pay-as-you-go pricing model based on the number of contacts, accounts, or even records you use in your organization. Which software includes more/better features? The software that has more/better features is Salesforce CRM. Salesforce CRM’s features are more advanced than that of Salesforce and Microsoft SharePoint because it is a complete customer relationship management software. Also, Salesforce CRM has more features for social selling and content marketing. Salesforce vs SharePoint – What is better for collaboration and document management? The best software for collaboration and document management is Salesforce CRM. Salesforce is a customer relationship management (CRM) software and SharePoint is an enterprise content management system, used for managing internal communication and document sharing in organizations. Salesforce has the best set of tools to support project collaboration and enable team members to stay up-to-date on progress with allocating responsibilities using standard Salesforce features. SharePoint, on the other hand, with its suite of collaboration tools for document sharing and communication is more like a repository that can efficiently manage documents including files in both traditional formats (e.g., PDF) as well as non-traditional formats (e.g., Microsoft Office Docs). Sharepoint will not be able to keep up with the latest technology and tools as Salesforce can. SharePoint will inevitably become dated because it has been around for a long time due to Microsoft’s sluggish development cycle. Bottom Line: Which is Better – Salesforce CRM or Microsoft SharePoint? While Salesforce and Microsoft SharePoint both provide a range of functionality, there are some key differences that need to be weighed up carefully. The ease of use and level of customization offered by SharePoint can’t be discounted while the ability to quickly deploy specialized apps for specific situations makes Salesforce CRM an attractive choice as well. Each solution has its specific strengths and weaknesses, so it’s important to make your decision based on the individual needs of your business. Connecting with your customers can be challenging. It takes time, resources, and expertise to create the right message at the right moment for your customers via Salesforce, Microsoft SharePoint, or Messenger Bot.
Starting this week, my Signalnoise Broadcast will be moving to a new weekly format, airing every Thursday at 3pm EST. This is something I’ve been debating doing for the past while, always worried that work or other things might get in the way of me doing my hour-long broadcasts, but it’s time to bite the bullet. I really enjoy doing these things and I want to do more of them. What else matters? Since I’m moving to a weekly, I will not be doing any announcing on the blog for upcoming shows other then the little plug in the upper-right corner. The best way of keeping track is via my Twitter, where I will be announcing the day of every broadcast so everyone has ample notice when I will be going live. So if you want to keep on top of things, hit that Twitter. That being said, hope to see you tomorrow at 3pm!
How to Get Hired in the what did he say tiktok Industry TikTok is a website where people upload videos and photos that they think are funny or funny people upload videos to. It is an easy way to make money, which is a big reason why the site has become so popular. If you are not making money from TikTok, you can always sell your photos and videos and make money that way. The problem with TikTok (and other similar sites) is that they are often filled with videos of people trying to be funny or ridiculous. That is, the videos are usually so bad that there is little that you can take away from them. The videos that are being uploaded to TikTok are not only very bad but often the ones with the most views are the ones with the most attention. One of the reasons TikTok is so popular is because it’s easy to see what people are doing. The problem is that this makes it hard to police. In fact, one of the biggest problems with TikTok is that it has become more of a problem to police. People are not taking the time to actually stop and think before they post a clip because “I think it’s funny” is much easier than “I think it’s a violation of a copyright law. TikTok seems to be a problem because it’s difficult to police. It’s the kind of thing that gets passed around a lot, so it’s hard to police. If you look at the data and compare the number of times people are tagged and then the number of times they are tagged that same day, you can see a huge spike in all of the videos TikTok is being used for. TIKTOK is a social network, so its one step above Facebook. They even have their own social network. But that doesn’t stop people from copying and sharing all of the videos TikTok makes. The problem with TikTok is that it’s very hard to police. If one video violates copyright (or if someone takes a screenshot of a video for no apparent reason) then the company is liable. It’s possible that TikTok’s algorithm will be able to identify individual clips that are being used without violating copyright. This is especially true if they are used in conjunction with other clips of the same video. The issue is that each clip that has a copyright claim is likely to be stored as a separate file. It also doesnt take much to start copying and tagging everything you see. It’s also possible that the main character will have a hard time finding what to do to prevent him from doing something he has to do. Perhaps he’s having trouble finding a way to use a few more bits of the character’s body that are actually being thrown at him. The issue is that copyright claims on video clips don’t apply to all videos. As a result, the video clip may be available in several different formats. The file size for a video clip is the amount of bytes that the video’s file size will be (in this case, 32,000 bytes). If you are using more than one clip to make a single video, video conversion may be necessary. The issue is that a video clip will need to be converted. For example, you might have a clip called ‘Mystery.mp4’ and you will need to convert it into a format called ‘Mystery.mkv’. This is because the first two bytes of ‘Mystery.mp4’ are the same (0x00) and a file that is named ‘Mystery.mkv’ will be a file with a different path, called ‘Mystery.mkv.mkv’. When shooting a video clip or file, you will need to convert it to a.mkv format and then manipulate it into two files called Mystery.mp4 and Mystery.mkv. The process you’re talking about is not really what you want to create. The process is the same for both files. The process is called: Convert, Transform, and Apply.
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Warning: This story accommodates language and content material that could be disturbing to some readers. Discretion is suggested. Worldwide pop star Lizzo has modified a lyric in her new single Grrrls following a backlash from incapacity activists on-line who complained the track included an ableist slur. Grrrls was launched by Lizzo, 34, final week and initially contained an offensive time period for cerebral palsy (often known as spastic diplegia) within the track’s first verse. Within the track’s unique opening, Lizzo sang, “Maintain my bag, b—-/ Maintain my bag/ Do you see this s—? I’ma spazz.” Justin Bieber says he has facial paralysis because of Ramsay Hunt syndrome Many followers and incapacity activists voiced their disappointment on-line, explaining the time period “spazz” must be eliminated, and the track re-recorded. Incapacity activist Hannah Diviney, who was recognized with cerebral palsy, was one in all many who tweeted Lizzo, calling for the lyric change. “‘Spaz’ doesn’t imply freaked out or loopy” Diviney wrote. “It’s an ableist slur. It’s 2022. Do higher.” The singer clearly took the criticism critically, as she introduced Monday that she has launched a brand new model of the track with out the “dangerous phrase.” Passport renewal wait instances now on-line as Ottawa seems to deal with lengthy lineups Airbnb host arrested after alleged knife assault on two feminine company at Vancouver rental The reworked Grrrls observe now consists of the phrases “maintain me again” rather than the offensive lyric. “Let me make one factor clear: I by no means wish to promote derogatory language,” Lizzo wrote in an announcement posted to social media. “As a fats black girl in America, I’ve had many hurtful phrases used in opposition to me so I perceive the facility phrases can have (whether or not deliberately or in my case, unintentionally),” she continued. She claimed the lyric change was a “results of me listening and taking motion.” Insurgent Wilson receives apology from Australian newspaper accused of ‘outing’ her “As an influential artist I’m devoted to being a part of the change I’ve been ready to see on the planet,” she concluded earlier than signing off the assertion. Grrrls has been up to date on a number of streaming platforms, together with Apple Music, Spotify and YouTube. Followers and activists rejoiced on-line on the lyric change, grateful to be heard by the singer. Based on the federal government of Canada, a prognosis of cerebral palsy “is accompanied by a considerable financial and social burden.” CanChild, an Ontario-based analysis centre for the research of kids and youth with developmental situations claims one in each 400 Canadians is recognized with cerebral palsy, making it the commonest bodily incapacity recognized in youngsters. © 2022 International Information, a division of Corus Leisure Inc.
Exploring the Rota das Falésias is a unique experience, full of spectacular landscapes, lush beaches and a rich cultural heritage. The route, which starts in Fortaleza – a lively city with a rich culture and beautiful beaches – can be done in a variety of ways, such as 4×4 vehicles or buggies. Next, the Historic Center and Beach Park are obligatory stops in Aquiraz, while trying rapadura – a typically northeastern sweet – is essential in Pindoretama. Just 67km from the capital, Cascavel enchants everyone with Caponga Beach and Águas Belas, where the meeting of the river and the sea forms a truly paradisiacal landscape. In Beberibe, the Labirinto do Morro Branco – a labyrinth formed by the erosion of the cliffs, as well as Praia das Fontes, the caves and natural pools, are witnesses to the beauty of this place. The famous Canoa Quebrada beach in Aracati, known for its colorful cliffs and exciting leisure options, is the highlight of the route. In Icapuí, its beautiful, quiet beaches are great for relaxing. In Tibau, beaches surrounded by colorful cliffs enchant tourists, while in Grossos visitors have the opportunity to visit archaeological sites, rivers, salt pans, dunes, beautiful beaches and the work of the famous lace makers. Following the itinerary, Areia Branca, known as the Land of Salt, offers paradisiacal beaches, while Mossoró, where the journey ends, is renowned for its thermal waters. Please contact us so that we can tailor the itinerary to each client’s preferences and time available, providing a trip that will be remembered forever!
Exciting growth is happening at LinkedIn. This week LinkedIn acquired the online, skills based training company Lynda.com to expand their global economy. If you are not familiar with Lynda.com it is a skills based learning platform where for a monthly membership fee you have access to thousands of practical LinkedIn courses (like mine) that teach you a skill. I have heard so much great feedback from people who were new to a skill and those who wanted to learn the latest, both found value in this platform. You can learn every type of technology from how to use WordPress to the latest in Photoshop for graphic artists as well as courses on how to build a better widget and how to sell it! I mean you can learn most anything on this platform. According to LinkedIn CEO Jeff Weiner, “LinkedIn’s fundamental value proposition is connecting people to opportunity.” The future direction of LinkedIn is clear in terms of the importance of skills. The partnership with Lynda.com will bring together the ability for everyone to obtain the skills necessary to get a job, further their careers and business. The bigger vision at LinkedIn is really what is exciting as they are developing the world’s first economic graph. According to Jeff Weiner, “we want to digitally map the global economy, identifying the connections between people, jobs, skills, companies, and professional knowledge — and spot in real-time the trends pointing to economic opportunities.” LinkedIn is an important platform and one that all professionals should be paying attention to because the future growth and expansion will affect every professional on the planet. We all will have more and more access to global opportunities and that is exciting. Combine that with the shift in making skills based training more accessible – WOW, the future is bright with LinkedIn growing skills for a global economy. Stay tuned! This week Starbucks CEO Howard Schultz announced the initiative to offer a college education for its employees in partnership with ASU. They are particularly seeking those employees who never had the chance at a college education because of economics. The social impact this public company will have now and in the future is truly incredible, it’s vision like LinkedIn is beyond profits. These visionary leaders are mapping out a future economy that will benefit more people. So stay tuned, this is truly an exciting time for professionals. Grow Your LinkedIn Skills Are you looking for new ways to extent your business on LinkedIn? Whether you need a LinkedIn Company Page redesign, personal profile update, want to add contacts, make new LinkedIn connections, or improve you LinkedIn summary, you have much to gain. The new LinkedIn’s Publisher Platform offers so much more than was previously available. By staying current with the latest opportunities and platform updates, you won’t miss out on what LinkedIn is offer it’s members. Some items roll out only to be replaced by something better.
We are always looking for volunteers who are open minded, non-judgemental, can empathise with and understand a young person’s perspective. The Youth Justice Service (YJS) sits within the local authority, but works closely with statutory partners (police, health, probation), the third sector, and partners from the secure estate (secure children’s homes, secure training centres and young offender institutions). The service is overseen by the YJS Partnership Board, chaired by the service director of children’s services. A child first approach informs the service and partnership. This is underpinned by 4 key tenets: see children as children (historically the criminal justice system does not) develop pro-social identities for positive outcomes true collaboration with children promote diversion from the criminal justice system Derbyshire YJS trains volunteers for the role of Restorative Justice Facilitator, to enable participation in Panel meetings, after a Referral Order has been imposed by the Court. The Referral Order is a unique sentence, directly involving the local community, whereby volunteers are asked to get involved. Referral Orders use restorative justice to encourage young people to take responsibility for their behaviour, and at the same time, give them the opportunity to make amends. The Referral Order Panel is chaired by volunteers from the community, assisted by a member of the YJS. The young person agrees a contract with the Panel which can include reparation or restitution to their victim, as well as undertaking a programme of interventions and activities to address their offending behaviour. The young person attends regular review meetings with volunteers and their YJS case managers to review and monitor their progress. All Volunteers are given the opportunity to undergo regular relevant training. This includes on-going support and all expenses reimbursed.
Grant Writing Workshop (Afternoon Session) Are you looking to build your understanding of what is required to successfully apply for and acquit grants? Latrobe City invites you to participate in the following workshop aimed at assisting you to understand what funders are looking for and to transform your ideas into fundable concepts. Content will include: The workshop will be delivered by Debby Maziarz, Creative Director – Debby Maziarz Productions DATE: Tuesday 21 June 2022 TIME: 1.00 pm – 2.30 pm LOCATION: Latrobe City Council Headquarters, Nambur Wariga Room (Upstairs), 141 Commercial Road, Morwell For further information, support or special requirements contact a member of the Active and Liveable Communities team on 1300 367 700 or email [email protected]. • Latrobe City Council organises a series of free workshops in 2022 designed to support members of community groups, clubs and organisations or individuals wanting to develop their community, run community events, activities and groups. • The personal information requested on this form is being collected by Council for the purpose of registering you in this workshop and to notify you of upcoming Community Development workshops and events through Latrobe City’s monthly Community Groups Newsletter. The personal information will be used solely by Council for that primary purpose or directly related purposes.
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formula-1 racer Charles Leclerc is now sitting in the Ferrari Cockpit. Now he told a moving story about his personal encounter with Michael Schumacher.F1 racer Charles Leclerc published a picture of Michael Schumacher* . Off-the-Corona-Pause the recording makes for beautiful memories. The Ferrari-Pilot met the formula 1-legend once in person. Le Castellet - While about the current state of health of Michael Schumacher not too much known to the Public, there is now a heart-warming anecdote for all the Fans who hold the record champion of the formula 1 in the memory. This could come just by Charles Leclerc , a team-mate of Sebastian Vettel* and in the case of Ferrari heritage of the man who, to date, the only racing driver with seven world titles to get. formula 1 legend Michael Schumacher: Charles Leclerc image In a Instagram Post the Frenchman Leclerc shows an old recording of him in a personal Meeting with the now 51-year-old Schumacher shows post move.+ Charles Leclerc was a little Kid when he met Michael Schumacher in person.©Reuters / Antonio Calanni on It to see how "Schumi" behind Leclerc and him for an autograph there. The archive-image on the edge of the race Course Paul Ricard in France, heard after a long absence and since 2018 to the racing calendar, the F1: check out this post on Instagram to So happy to have find back this picture. Quite a few years ago in Paul Ricard, I was testing on the karting track, Michael what testing on the F1 track. We met him, he signed our overalls, talked to us for a little bit before going back inside the pits. I never thought I would be driving for the same team he was driving for back then. @Scuderia Ferrari free to play game. at the Time, the sovereign of Monaco met with his Idol, personally , as he and three friends in the context of Kart-Tests in the Box on the Ferrari Pilot Michael Schumacher also was staying there. Leclerc writes to the entry: "I am so happy that I found this picture from earlier again. A few years earlier, in Paul Ricard, I tested on the Kart Track and Michael at the formula 1 test track. We met him, he gave us autographs on our overalls and spoke with us a bit before he went on his way back to the Pits,“ recalls the Frenchman. formula 1: Schumi-heritage Leclerc hope Ferrari in addition, Leclerc describes, touchingly, that he never would have memory, at some point for the same Team to drive to be able, like the legendary Kerpen. Since 2019, the 22-Year-old in the Team of Scuderia is, currently, the formula 1 due to the Coronavirus pandemic, however, is to inaction* damn. Ferrari of Vettel-mate in his first year two Grand Prix victories celebrate (Belgium and Italy), his contract at his former team of Michael Schumacher goes until 2024 could. at the beginning of the year 2020, the team presented their new car for the upcoming season. Ferrari presented the SF1000 as a beacon of hope for the world title. Currently, the pilots are allowed but only in the racing simulator ran. May be a Plan for the F1 season to start now, but. Michael Schumacher's son Mick said recently, why the private of the well-known racing family life under lock and key. And Nick Heidfeld remembered some of the moments in which Schumi was not exactly friendly. tz.de is a service of the nationwide Ippen Digital editors ' networkDate Of Update: 24 May 2020, 05:34
Powernail Company Relocates-Plans Genoa City, Wisconsin, Headquarters The 40,000-square-foot headquarters and production building is located on 4.5 acres along Williams Road, south of Twin Lakes Road. “Wisconsin is the perfect location for Powernail,” said Powernail President David Anstett. “There is a long history of manufacturing and a deep talent base to support our long-term goals. We are thrilled to be growing our company in a production-friendly state like Wisconsin.” Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation (WEDC) is supporting the project by authorizing up to $400,000 in state income tax credits over the next three years. The actual amount of tax credits Powernail will receive is contingent on the number of jobs created and the capital invested in the project. “Wisconsin is pleased to welcome Powernail, an innovative, family-owned manufacturer to our state,” noted Missy Hughes, secretary and CEO of the Wisconsin Economic Development Corporation, the state’s lead economic development organization. “Our skilled manufacturing workforce will help ensure Powernail’s success here. It’s a win for the region and a win for Wisconsin.” The Village of Genoa City is also supporting this project through its Business Tax Incentive Program, which includes a 4-year tiered reimbursement to Powernail for the Village portion of real property taxes. “Powernail is a valued addition to our growing roster of manufacturers in southeastern Wisconsin,” added M7 Executive Director Jim Paetsch. “We continue to attract corporate investment at a significant clip. Companies like Powernail are driving prosperity across our entire region.” Powernail is the industry leader for pneumatic Powernailers and Powercleats nails used in hardwood flooring installations. Powernailers are used for professional installation of Tongue & Groove hardwood flooring and sub-flooring for both residential and sport floor construction. 2023's Leading Metro Locations: Hotspots of Economic Growth The Logistics Analysis That Drives Industrial Site Selection 2023 Top States for Doing Business Meet the Needs of Site Selectors Technology’s Influence on Workforce Development Workforce Q4 2023 AI 101 for Site Selection First Person: Realizing the Inflation Reduction Act’s Full Potential 2023 Top States Commentary: Top-Ranked States Have What It Takes to Win Mega Projects
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International leaders on the World Financial Discussion board in Davos are intensely debating this yr’s theme Historical past at a Turning Level: Authorities Insurance policies and Enterprise Methods. The theme is supposed to evaluate the impression of the deep shifts created by the Covid-19 pandemic. Including additional complexity to the post-pandemic world are the geo-political dangers being triggered by Russia and China. Enterprise, political, and technological leaders are clear that deeper collaboration is crucial to rebuild a world broken by the pandemic and geo-political aggression. Central bankers and economists are more and more fearful that the world could also be headed for recession. Provide chains stay choked as lots of China’s factories are nonetheless shuttered due to Covid-19, markets are panicky, with expertise shares specifically misery, and inflation is working excessive throughout a lot of the developed world, WEF has assessed. “We aren’t in a recession but, however the indicators should not good,” stated David Rubenstein, Co-Founder and Co-Chairman of Carlyle. “The struggle shouldn’t be more likely to finish tomorrow and it is going to be a precipitative issue.” “Now we have downgraded projections for progress for 143 nations, accounting for 86% of GDP,” stated François Villeroy de Galhau, Governor of the Central Financial institution of France. “The horizon has darkened.” The struggle in Ukraine is forcing some leaders to recalibrate the expansion story. “Freedom is extra essential than free commerce,” NATO Secretary-Basic Jens Stoltenberg stated, and “the safety of our values is extra essential than revenue.” Enterprise leaders nonetheless are eager to speed up the method of therapeutic the international financial system and sustaining concentrate on local weather change and technological development. WEF launched a paper that calls for brand spanking new collaboration between humanitarian and growth organizations, companies, buyers, and entrepreneurs to make a distinction to the lives of the almost 1 billion folks dwelling in fragile and conflict-affected settings worldwide. “It takes greater than a single intervention to unleash transformational change in complicated ecosystems. To really leverage the potential for constructive and sustainable social impression whereas assembly investor demand for returns, new methods of collaboration throughout sectors are wanted,” stated Børge Brende, President, WEF. The EDISON Alliance for digital inclusion launched a brand new programme to speed up digital inclusion within the “life crucial” sectors of well being, training, and finance. A community of “Lighthouse International locations” together with Bahrain, Bangladesh and Rwanda will work with the United Nations Improvement Programme (UNDP) on the brand new programme of their respective nations. By facilitating new partnerships, incentivising initiatives, and unlocking capital at scale, the Lighthouse International locations Community will additional the EDISON Alliance’s 1 billion lives imaginative and prescient of offering reasonably priced digital options by 2025. Rwanda continues to maneuver in the direction of a cashless financial system supported by cell funds. Working with the EDISON Alliance as a “Lighthouse Nation”, it’s going to prioritise modern partnerships in the direction of equitable and reasonably priced entry to sensible cell units. “We’re excited concerning the partnership potentialities on the essential challenge of units, monetary inclusion and broader digitalisation that we are able to obtain by way of the EDISON Alliance,” stated Paula Ingabire, Minister for ICT and Innovation, Rwanda. The rising markets proceed to concentrate on enhancing infrastructure and digital capabilities. The digital transformation of customs and borders in Africa may enhance efficiencies in processes, akin to administration at customs and borders, and yield commerce positive factors on the continent of $20 billion a yr based on a brand new report launched by WEF at Davos. On the local weather change entrance, international leaders sought frequent guidelines and multilateral frameworks for measuring sustainable practices. As regulators in North America, Europe, and Asia grapple with how to make sure corporations report precisely on their environmental, social and governance (ESG) efficiency, the chief government of one of many world’s largest client items corporations warned of the hazard of jurisdictions setting assorted, onerous ESG requirements that can forestall hundreds of small and medium enterprises (SMEs) from getting onboard with sustainability reporting. Alan Jope, CEO of Unilever, talking on ESG disclosures Davos stated: “We’re at some extent of nice hazard proper now of letting good get in the best way of excellent, of letting complicated get in the best way of easy and of letting native get in the best way of worldwide.” Worldwide ESG funds and investee corporations throughout Asia and the west are struggling to create a typical framework to trace and measure ESG practices.
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Regression applied to protein binding site prediction and comparison with classification BMC Bioinformatics volume 10, Article number: 276 (2009) The structural genomics centers provide hundreds of protein structures of unknown function. Therefore, developing methods enabling the determination of a protein function automatically is imperative. The determination of a protein function can be achieved by studying the network of its physical interactions. In this context, identifying a potential binding site between proteins is of primary interest. In the literature, methods for predicting a potential binding site location generally are based on classification tools. The aim of this paper is to show that regression tools are more efficient than classification tools for patches based binding site predictors. For this purpose, we developed a patches based binding site localization method usable with either regression or classification tools. We compared predictive performances of regression tools with performances of machine learning classifiers. Using leave-one-out cross-validation, we showed that regression tools provide better predictions than classification ones. Among regression tools, Multilayer Perceptron ranked highest in the quality of predictions. We compared also the predictive performance of our patches based method using Multilayer Perceptron with the performance of three other methods usable through a web server. Our method performed similarly to the other methods. Regression is more efficient than classification when applied to our binding site localization method. When it is possible, using regression instead of classification for other existing binding site predictors will probably improve results. Furthermore, the method presented in this work is flexible because the size of the predicted binding site is adjustable. This adaptability is useful when either false positive or negative rates have to be limited. Structural genomics is an important field, the objective of which is the determination of the three-dimensional structures of all the proteins coded by a genome. Recent advances in this field increase our understanding of protein function but have also an impact on the pharmaceutical industry [3, 4]. The structural genomics centers provide hundreds of protein structures of unknown function . Development of automated protein function predictor from the structure is imperative and is nowadays an active research field in bioinformatics. One of the various approaches for assigning a function to a protein is to study the network of its physical interactions [6, 7]. In this context, identifying a potential binding site between proteins is of primary interest. The localization of such binding site can also reduce the search space required by protein docking algorithms to predict the best match between two proteins. This localization has also an importance in studies about interactions between proteins and small molecules, such as ligands or substrates. Bartlett et al. presented an analysis of the properties of the catalytic residues. They showed that catalytic residues share common properties including the propensity of residue types, the conservation and the solvent accessibility. Petrova and Wu compared 26 machine learning classifiers to specifically identify the catalytic residues within the whole enzyme. Gutteridge et al. trained a neural network classifier to score the residues of a protein by their likelihood to be catalytic. The location of the active site were determined by searching for clusters of high-ranking residues. Keskin et al., in their algorithm PRISM , used spatial similarity to predict protein-protein binding sites locations. Shulman-Peleg et al. proposed a method, called SiteEngine [12, 13], comparing the properties at different regions of the proteins surface, such as conformational properties, to find proteins with similar functions in databases. The same kind of approach has been done by Shatsky et al. to recognize binding patterns common to a set of protein structures. Jones and Thornton presented a method to predict protein-protein interaction sites. The prediction was based on the calculation of relative combined scores for patches constructed on the surface of protein structures. Zhou and Shan published a method based on a neural network for predicting individual residues in protein-protein interfaces. Since then, a lot of methods predicting individual residues or patches that overlap with interface have been proposed [9, 17–22]. Bradford et al. proposed a protein binding site predictor based on a Support Vector Machine (SVM) discriminating the patches constructed by segmentation of the surface. After the segmentation and the computation of some relevant properties for each patch of each protein, the SVM was trained and became usable to distinguish binding site from non-binding site surface parts. Bradford and Westhead used a Bayesian network in combination with a surface patch analysis to design a protein-protein binding site predictor. Petsalaki et al. presented a different approach to predict peptide binding sites on protein surface. This approach is based on the construction of spatial position specific scoring matrices for each of the 20 standard amino acid. Several groups performed the comparison of different tools usable for the prediction of protein-protein binding sites [25, 26]. In the literature, patches based binding site localization methods generally use supervised classifier to find the relationship between the patches properties and their overlap with the true binding site. Machine learning or statistical techniques are used to discriminate patches totally superposed with the real binding site from patches lacking joined surface with it. In these cases, the response variable is categorical because it only takes two distinct values. So, supervised binary classifiers are used to predict the response variable from the predictor variables. However, when predicting the location of the binding site of a protein, a lot of patches constructed are partially superposed with the real binding site. Using regression tools in place of classification tools allows to include partially superposed patches during the training process what should improve the predictive performance of the model. The first contribution of this paper is the description of a patches based protein-protein binding site localization method including either regression or classification tools. The predictive performance of several regression and classification tools are compared using leave-one-out cross-validation. Our method is also compared with three methods usable through Web Servers. The first method, named SHARP2 , is a patches based binding site localization method using a combined scoring function. The second method, named PINUP , is based on an empirical scoring function including a side-chain energy term, a solvent accessibility term and a conservation term. The third method named cons-PPISP is based on a neural network taking PSI-blast sequence profile and solvent accessibility as input. Another contribution is to consider the travel depth as one of the surface properties. The travel depth is a notion introduced by Coleman and Sharp to quantify the depth of pockets within a molecular surface. The third contribution of our method is the construction of the predicted binding site. In the literature, for patches based methods, the predicted binding site in chosen among the original patches according to the ranking of their probability to be the real binding site. Our method takes into account the output of the statistical model on the whole surface to construct a new patch, which forms the predicted binding site. The size of this predicted binding site can be adjusted according to the application. Whereas a too small predicted binding site increases the risk of false negative results, a too large counterpart increases the risk of false positive results. Limiting false negative results avoids to miss a binding site even if the predicted zone is too large, whereas limiting false positive results ensures that predicted zones is a part of the real binding site. The aim of this work is to develop a method enabling to predict the location of potential binding sites in a protein according to its 3D structure. The development of this method is composed of two successive parts: the training and the application. Input data of the training part are the PDB files of several protein complexes. External surfaces of the proteins are constructed by using the 3D structures encoded in the PDB files. Some characteristics are extracted and mapped on these surfaces. Then, the surfaces are segmented into patches. The mean values of the properties and an index quantifying the overlap with the real binding site are computed for each patch. Finally, a statistical model is used to find a relationship between the patches properties and their overlap indices. Input data of the application part are one or more PDB files. Patches are constructed in the same way as in the training part except that the overlap index with the real binding site cannot be computed. The location of the real binding site is indeed unknown. The statistical model previously trained is then used to allocate a score to each patch. Finally, a predicted binding site is located by using the score mapped on the protein surface. To validate the method, the application part can be tested on a protein of known binding site location. In this case, the location is considered as unknown during the prediction of the binding site location. Comparing the predicted location of the binding site with the real one, is used to validate the performance of our method. A scheme of the method pipeline is depicted in Figure 1. The input data of the algorithm in both the training and application parts, are a set of protein 3D conformations. For the tests performed in this work, they are downloaded from the Protein Data Bank . Two datasets are used in this work and both are composed of known protein complexes. The first one, used to train the models and to compare the statistical tools, is the one used by Bradford et al (See additional file 1: Dataset1). This dataset is composed of proteins in their bounded conformation and had already been filtered at 20% sequence identity. To compare our method with existing methods, the dataset used consists of 35 proteins in the enzyme/inhibitor category of Docking Benchmark 2.0 , after filtering at 35% identity (See additional file 2: Dataset2). The genuine binding sites were identified using the bounded complexes but the tests were performed on the unbounded structures. With the Van der Waals Surface Model, the electron clouds around atoms are approximated by rigid spheres of different radii, which are called the Van der Waals radii of the atoms. With the SAS Model, the inner surface of the volume is filled by the possible positions of the center of a ball representing a molecule of solvent (e.g., water). The SES Model is comparable but considering the exterior surface of the ball. In this work, we used the SES Model, which is approximated by a 3D mesh. A mesh is a collection of points, edges and faces defining surfaces in a 3D environment. As no conformation changes are taken into account in our method, proteins are considered to be rigid objects. It allows to work with surface points without considering what occurs inside the protein. A residue is considered to lie in the binding site if more than 1 Å of its SES area is hidden after a complex formation . As the proteins of the training data set originate from PDB files containing proteins complexes, the locations of their binding sites are already known. Properties of different types are affected to mesh points. These properties can be classified into three groups: geometric properties, composition and conservation score. In order to make the method more uniform, all properties are considered to be surface points properties. So, each point of the SES is related to the closest atom center and inherits its properties. Two geometric properties are considered: the local curvature and the travel depth. The mean curvature is negative for hollows, positive for bumps and zero for saddle points and planes. It is approximated as follows: first, the mesh is smoothed by a Laplacian operator and the displacement vector between each point position and the new position is evaluated. Then, the dot product between the point normal vector and the displacement vector is calculated. The curvature estimation is the normalized value of this product (Figure 3). The travel depth of a surface point is defined as the shortest distance that a solvent molecule should do to reach this point from the convex hull of the SES. It is more global than the curvature computation while keeping a good surface resolution. It is computed with a surface-based algorithm using octrees . The composition is the proportion of each surface amino acid composing a surface patch. For instance, if a fifth of the points in a patch corresponds to a leucine and the rest to a proline, the composition of the patch is Leu: 0.2, Pro: 0.8, other amino acids: 0. Other physico-chemical properties are redundant with the composition and are not significant for the statistical model. The conservation score is a property in relation with the structure conservation across the evolution process. Key amino acid positions are often under strong evolutionary constraints. They are important for maintaining the 3D structure of a protein and/or its functions. Thus, the biological importance of a residue is often correlated with its level of evolutionary conservation within the protein family. The web-based tool Consurf http://consurf.tau.ac.il/ was used to calculate the evolutionary conservation score of each residue . Once the mesh is created and properties are affected to each point, patches are constructed. The construction is very simple. Patches are geodesic circles centered on each surface amino acid. The area of these circles is constant and proportional to the area of the whole SES. They are wider than the amino acid SES areas so that an important overlap exists between patches. The size of the patches is set empirically to one tenth of the whole SES and in this case, each surface point belongs to about fifteen patches. The mean of the properties are computed for each patches. Every patch in the training pipeline is also associated with an overlap index, the Positive Predicting Value (PPV), reflecting its similarity with the true binding site: where S is the area of the SES, P is the analyzed patch and I is the true binding site. To give an intuitive vision of this measure, PPV is equal to one when the patch is completely included in the binding site. In the training part, the true binding site is also considered as an additional patch. The objective of the statistical model is to assign a score to patches of a protein of unknown binding site location. During the training part, the input data of the statistical model are the patches associated to their PPV and the properties extracted in the previous steps. The objective of the training is to find a relationship between the extracted patches properties (predictor variables), and the patches PPV (response variable). The relationship is used afterwards in the application part to allocate a score to the patches resulting from the segmentation of a target protein. In this section, different statistical tools are presented. They can be separated into two categories: the classifiers, which are more commonly used to treat this kind of problems, and the regression tools. The output of a classifier is the probability of each patch to represent the real binding site. The output of a regression model is a predicted PPV for each patch. The statistical model output, whether it be a probability or a predicted PPV, is denominated the score of the patch. The score has to be highly correlated with the genuine PPV to ensure the success of the method. Multiple linear regression (Lin. Reg.) Multiple Linear Regression is a statistical technique that fits the relationship between the response variable and the predictor variables, usually, by minimizing the sum of the squared deviations. The best multiple linear model can be found by using a stepwise selection of the predictor variables. Partial least square regression (PLSR) Partial Least Square Regression is an extension of the multiple linear regression. Using multiple linear regression with a high number of predictor factors leads to over-fitting: the model fits the sampled data closely but fails to correctly predict new data responses. In a partial least square regression, a few latent factors are extracted and replace the original predictor factors for the response fitting. Partial least square is useful to find a good predictive model without necessarily understanding the existing relationship between variables. Principal component regression (PCR) Principal Component Regression uses principal component analysis to fit the relationship between the predictor variables and the response variable. The first step is to compute the principal components of the predictor variables. The second step is the regression on a subset of the principal components. Multilayer perceptron (MLP) Multilayer Perceptron is a machine learning technique using multiple layers of neurons. A neuron is a simple processing element, connected to the neurons of the previous and of the following layers. The connections between the neurons are characterized by weights which are adjusted during the training step. Multilayer Perceptrons can be used for regression as well as for supervised classification task. In this work, it was used as a regression tool. Random forest for regression (RFR) and classification (RFC) Random Forest is a machine learning tool used for classification and regression tasks. In both cases, a random forest is a set of trees created by bootstrapping samples of the training data set. Random forests for regression use a set of regression trees. In this case, the prediction is made by averaging the predictions of the different trees. Random forests for classification use a set of classification trees. In this case, the prediction is made by a majority vote on the predictions of the different trees. Regression trees and classification trees are both decision trees. A decision tree is a technique used to predict a response variable using a set of predictor variables. Regression trees are used for continuous response variables, whereas classification trees are used for discrete response variables. In both cases, it uses a series of "if then else" conditions based on values of the predictors to predict the response. During the training phase, the decision tree is built through an iterative process of data splitting. This iterative process continues until each node reaches a fixed minimum size. For instance, if there are three predictor variables, the data can be separated from the root according to the value of the first variable. At each new node, the data can then be separated according to the value of other variables, and then, at children nodes, they can be separated according to the first variable again, ... During the prediction phase, a new data starts from the root and follows the branches corresponding to the value of its predictor variables. The leaves determine the value of the response variable. Naive bayes classifier (NBC) Naive Bayes Classifier is a machine learning tool using the bayes theorem to compute the probability of a case to belong to a category. The NBC is based on a conditional independence assumption. Given the value of the response variable, the predictor variables have to be independent. Despite the fact that this assumption is rarely true in reality, naive Bayes classifier often performs better than expected. Support vector machine (SVM) Support Vector Machine is a machine learning tool used for classification and regression. When used for binary classification, the objective of the SVM is to map the training data into a property space by the aid of a kernel function, and to constructs an N-dimensional hyperplane that optimally separates the case according to the category of their response variable. Predicted binding site construction After statistical analyses, the score assigned to each patch is used to construct a score map on the protein SES. Each point of the surface is associated to the geodesically closest center of patch and get the score affected to this patch. Next, the points of the mesh representing the SES are added successively to the predicted binding site in descending order of score. The growth of the predicted binding site stops when either a predetermined size or a score threshold is reached. Results and discussion The two major consecutive estimation steps of our method are the statistical prediction and the predicted binding site construction. The predicted binding site construction is divided in two steps: the score mapping on the SES and the score map thresholding. Results comparing, on one hand, the different statistical tools, and, on the other, our method to other existing methods are presented in this section. The different statistical tools were compared after the statistical prediction by calculating the correlation coefficient between predictions and real PPVs. Next, they were compared after the mapping step by analyzing the score distribution inside and outside the genuine binding site. Finally, overlapping indices between the predicted and the real binding site were computed. These indices were used to compare the results obtained with different statistical models, as well as to compare results of our method with results of other existing methods. The performance of our method strongly depends on the ability of the statistical model to correctly classify a patch or to predict the corresponding PPV. For both classification and regression tools, the output is a number between 0 and 1 called the score of the patch. Each classification and regression tool was evaluated through leave-one-out cross-validation, which is an iterated process. At each step, the data set, comprising the patches and their properties, was divided into two sub-sets: a test data set, which contained the patches of one protein, and a training data set, which contained the patches of all the other proteins. The statistical model was trained on the training data set, and used to affect a score to the patches of the test data set. The scores were finally compared to the real PPV through the computation of the Pearson Correlation Coefficient. The protein in the test data set was different at each iteration until prediction and correlation coefficient were obtained for the patches of each protein in the complete data set. After the leave-one-out cross-validation, each statistical tool was associated to 180 correlation coefficients, each of them corresponding to one protein. Distributions of these correlation coefficients for regressions and classifications are compared in the Box Plot shown in Figure 4. Using regression to fit the relationship between the properties and the PPV frequently led to better score correlations than using classification. As the correlation coefficients vary considerably from one protein to another for the same statistical tool, the box plots are stretched and overlap a lot. Building a relative box plot allows to better visualize which statistical tool generally gives the best results. For this purpose, relative correlation coefficients were computed for each protein separately, relatively to the mean of the scores for all the statistical tools. A positive relative coefficient means that the statistical tool better works than the average. The distribution of these relative coefficients is depicted in a box plot in Figure 5. The box plot of the relative correlation coefficients shows that, for one particular protein, regressions generally gave better prediction than the average, whereas classification generally gave worse prediction than the average. Binding site localization After statistical prediction, a predicted binding site was constructed in two steps, namely the score map construction and the thresholding on the score map. The score map construction was validated by comparing the score distribution inside and outside the genuine binding site, using a histogram. The thresholding on the score map was validated by analyzing the PPV and the sensitivity of the resulting predicted binding site. The validation results for the different statistical tools are compared in this section. Score map histograms For each statistical tool, the score distribution of the points within the real binding site was compared with the score distribution of the points within the rest of the protein surface. The score was weighted by the area of the targeted zones. Ten bins histograms are presented in Figure 6. A histogram is given when the exact PPVs are taken as the score, another one represents the expected values for a random method, and each other one corresponds to a specific statistical tool. Red hatched bars represent the proportion of score for surface points belonging to the binding site and green plain bars for points belonging to the rest of the surface. An ideal histogram would show 100% of the observation in the first bin for the non-site parts and 100% of the observations in the last bin for the site parts. In the histograms corresponding to classifications (RFC, SVM, NBC), a lot of binding site parts have a small score, what leads to a lot of false negative results. On the other hand, in the histograms corresponding to regressions (Lin. Reg., RFR, MLP, PLSR, PCR), as for the "Exact" histogram, the repartition is more distinct between site and non-site zones, what makes the prediction more accurate. Binding site prediction The location of potential binding site is predicted by applying a threshold on the score map. Then, the results vary with the chosen threshold and can be adapted to limit the false positive or false negative rates. The predicted binding site was compared with the real one using two indices: the sensitivity (or Recall) and the Positive Predicted Value (or Precision). They are defined as follow: where S is the area of the SES, P is the analyzed patch and I is the true binding site. Our whole method was tested using different statistical tools. A Precision-Recall graph comparing results for all these tools appears in Figure 7. Curves corresponding to regression tools generally are above the one corresponding to classification tools, what is consistent with the previous observations. In this experiment, the size of the predicted binding site was arbitrarily set to 1/10 of the whole surface of the protein, i.e., points with the highest score were added to the predicted binding site until it attained 1/10 of the total surface. Results were compared to the expected indices obtained via random selection of the predicted binding site. As in this application, the area of the binding site and the area of the predicted binding site are unchanged for one protein, the expected values of both indices are estimated as follows: where S T is the whole surface area. S(I) and S(P) are considered to be constant. So, in these formulas, the only variable is the overlap between P and I. The expected proportion of P inside I is the same as anywhere else on the surface. Then, E (S(P ∩ I)) is this proportion weighted by S(I). The reasoning is the same for the proportion of I inside P. To quantify the success rate of our method with each statistical tool, the percentage of proteins of the data set with a higher index than expected (via random selection) was calculated (Table 1). As for other tests, the results are better for regressions than for classifications. In 84% of the cases, the MLP gave a better result than the expected value, whereas the best classification tool (NBC) gave a result of 78%. The tool giving the best results was the MLP with a mean sensitivity and PPV of 0.34 and 0.54, respectively. A molecule with a predicted binding site representing approximately these mean values is depicted in Figure 8. Comparison with other methods Finally, our method was compared to other methods for which applications are available on the web: Cons-PPISP , PINUP and Sharp2 . These three methods return a score for each residue. These scores were mapped on the protein surfaces and the binding site localizations were predicted as it was done for the scores resulting from the different statistical models. The tests were performed on the second dataset (See Supplementary Materials 2). A Precision-Recall graph comparing results for all these methods appears in Figure 9. Performances of our method using MLP are higher than those of Sharp2 method and comparable to those of the PINUP and Cons-PPISP methods. The percentage of proteins of the data set with a higher index than expected (via random selection) was also calculated (Table 2). For both our method using MLP and the PINUP method, the result was better than expected in 71% of the cases. These results are a bit worse than for the other dataset, probably because the training dataset was made of proteins from bounded structures. In this paper, we present a patch based binding site prediction method based on either classification or regression tools. This was motivated by the fact that patches based method presented in the literature generally use classification tools. In this case a binary classifier is trained to discriminate patches totally superposed with the real binding site from patches lacking joined surface with it. Using regression instead of classification allows to include patches partially overlapping the genuine binding site during the training step. The variable to be estimated by the regression is the overlap between the real binding site and the patches constructed on the protein surface. Using leave-one-out cross-validation, we showed that regression tools have better predictive performance than classification ones. As the patches constructed during the application step partially overlap the genuine binding site, the predictions for these patches generally are more correlated with their PPV when regression is used. Among regression tools, the Multilayer Perceptron is the most efficient. In 84% of cases, with dataset 1 (See Supplementary Materials), the method using an MLP for regression, allowed a better prediction than the expected value via random selection. Our method used with MLP was also compared with three methods usable through a web server. Our method performed better than Sharp2, which is also a patches based method, and performed equivalently to the two other methods. To sum up, regression tools appeared to be more efficient than classification tools for a new patches based method comparable with existing binding site prediction methods. When possible, using regression instead of classification for other predictors will probably improve the results, not only when patches are used, but every time the output is a continuous variable. The method presented in this paper is also flexible. Indeed, the final predicted binding site is obtained by applying a threshold on the surface score map derived form the prediction of the regression or the classification tools. So, the size of the final predicted binding site is adaptable to the approximate false positive and negative rates required for the final application. Therefore, the output of our method is a single predicted binding site instead of a list of top ranked patches [18, 23] or residues . In future works, our method will be applied on real cases and combined with other bioinformatics tools. For instance, the combination of our method with dynamic molecular simulation will be used to study the impact of residue mutation on the location of the binding site. 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KYIV—Ukraine is ready to investigate the connections Joe Biden’s son Hunter had with the Ukrainian natural gas company Burisma Holdings, according to Anton Geraschenko, a senior adviser to the country’s interior minister who would oversee such an inquiry. Geraschenko told The Daily Beast in an exclusive interview that “as soon as there is an official request" Ukraine will look into the case, but “currently there is no open investigation.” “Clearly,” said Geraschenko, “Trump is now looking for kompromat to discredit his opponent Biden, to take revenge for his friend Paul Manafort, who is serving seven years in prison.” Among the counts on which Manafort was convicted: tax evasion. “We do not investigate Biden in Ukraine, since we have not received a single official request to do so,” said Geraschenko. His remarks last week came amid widespread speculation that U.S. President Donald Trump had made vital U.S. military aid for Ukraine contingent on such an inquiry, but had tried to do so informally through unofficial representatives, including his lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, and Giuliani’s adviser on Ukraine, Sam Kislin. But Geraschenko spoke before the appearance of a Washington Post story on Thursday that implied that an intelligence community whistleblower may have reported that the untoward quid pro quo was put forth directly by Trump in a phone call with Ukraine’s newly elected president last July. Geraschenko reconfirmed his statements in a phone call on Friday. The U.S. administration has thus far blocked efforts by Congress to learn precisely what the whistleblower reported, which Intelligence Community Inspector General Michael Atkinson deemed an “urgent matter” while offering no details. The Post, citing two sources, said the allegation involved a “promise” made to a foreign leader. Trump spoke to Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky on July 25 to congratulate him on his election. According to the official readout on Ukraine's presidency website, "Donald Trump is convinced that the new Ukrainian government will be able to quickly improve image of Ukraine, complete investigation of corruption cases, which inhibited the interaction between Ukraine and the USA." Toward the end of August, the White House reportedly was considering whether to block $250 million of funds to support Ukraine’s military in its war against Russian-backed separatists. On Sept. 12, however, that funding was released, and even increased. Congressional pressure played a role, and it is unclear whether the whistleblower’s reported “promise” allegations, made soon after the Zelensky phone call, did as well. (On Friday, Zelensky’s office announced that he will meet with Trump next week.) What’s certain is that American and Ukrainian politics are closely connected these days, and on Thursday evening Giuliani admitted he had asked officials in Ukraine to investigate Biden. Giuliani told CNN’s Chris Cuomo in a contentious interview that there is nothing wrong with pressing for an investigation into corruption. Others might call this whole affair a matter of political—indeed, geopolitical—extortion. At a minimum, Giuliani’s pressure has been interpreted here as weakening this country’s institutions by pressing them to dig for dirt on Trump’s most important Democratic challenger. Ukraine’s law enforcement agencies believe that it is up to U.S. investigators to ascertain, specifically, whether Biden’s son had any missed U.S. tax payments on income from Ukraine. Hunter Biden actually took a job with the Ukrainian gas company Burisma Holding in 2014 and worked there for five years, then quietly quit in April, soon after his father announced his presidential candidacy. It is unclear how much money Burisma paid Hunter Biden in total. Whatever it was, he may rue the work, given the political cost. Ex-MP Serhiy Leshchenko, the Ukrainian pro-Western politician and corruption fighter, has been in the epicenter of the scandal since Giuliani mentioned his name as one of “the enemies of Donald Trump and the USA.” The Trump attorney continued to criticize Ukraine’s leadership by saying that Ukraine’s president “is surrounded by people who are the enemies of the president [Trump] and people who are clearly corrupt.” Any word of criticism pronounced by such influential Americans may be damaging to careers here. As a result of Giuliani’s statements, Leshchenko has lost a promising role on Zelensky’s team. “Both the United States and Ukraine are throwing Biden’s case at each other like a hot potato, pushing each other to begin investigating Biden,” Leshchenko told The Daily Beast on Tuesday. “I totally understand, and I don’t want to be in the way, since Zelensky clearly does not want to quarrel with Trump. The United States is our main strategic partner and I value that.” Earlier this month, President Zelensky publicly thanked Trump for releasing the military aid vital for his country. Zelensky spoke at the annual Yalta European Strategy conference, which this year had a symbolic title: Happiness Now. Ukraine elected Zelensky and his supporters in parliament by a landslide earlier this year, largely in response to the alleged corruption of his predecessor and amid hopes the former comedian-turned-politician could end the war with separatists that has killed more than 13,000 people. To bring an end to the carnage, Zelensky needs strong international support. He hopes to strike a peace deal with Russian President Vladimir Putin with backing from German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Emmanuel Macron at a so-called Normandy Four meeting later this month. Russia and Ukraine recently swapped prisoners, a positive sign, but Zelensky has offered no clues on possible concessions. He demands, as did his predecessor, that Russia return the annexed Crimean peninsula to Ukraine, a non-starter for Putin. The Trump administration eventually released $390 million in military aid to Ukraine, $140 million more than the amount Kyiv had expected before the administration suspended the funds for “review” last month. “For now, we would like America to support us more, and not only with money but also with the newest weapons in our war against the aggressor, the Russian Federation,” Geraschenko, the adviser to Ukraine’s interior minister, told The Daily Beast. “We want a status as NATO’s special partner, allowing us to buy any weapons in the U.S., including the newest anti-aircraft rockets to defend our country in case Russia decides to attack from the air; our technology is more than 40 years old.” Zelensky’s team is struggling to overcome war, poverty, and corruption. Clearly, the idea of helping politicians of foreign states win elections is not a part of his public agenda. “This is a very special stage in Ukraine’s development: We have completely changed this year, our mentality has changed, we realize that the entire world is watching us right now,” Roman Truba, head of the State Bureau of Investigations, said in an exclusive interview with The Daily Beast. Truba’s agency neither investigated Biden’s son nor Burisma Holding. There were no signs of illegality in Biden’s work in Ukraine, he said. “The State Bureau of Investigations should be an independent institution. I wish we would become as highly qualified, equipped with all modern technologies, and professional as the FBI.”
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