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When Kyle took his first job as a minister to college students at a church in Texas, I was thrilled. On our first Sunday, we ate lunch with the student leaders, the first baby step of building relationships with those God had called us to serve. I tried enjoying the meal and conversations, but I was inside my head the whole time, questioning everything I said and did. What did they think of me? How could I prove myself as a spiritual leader? Was I capable of fulfilling the task God had given me?
I realized that afternoon that I had observed multiple ministers' wives over the years, but I didn't know how to be one myself. And I wanted to know; I wanted to get it right. I searched through Scripture for references to wives in ministry or any verses that spoke to my situation, but, surprisingly, there weren't any that started "Ministers' wives should…" I watched other wives whose husbands were on staff at our church, looking for a mold to fit in, but all of them approached ministry very differently. I waited for an experienced pastor's wife to take me under her wing, but none came to my aid. I felt lost without a checklist or job description.
Looking back, I see that I was looking for the role: costume, script, stage makeup and all. I've since learned that there is no checklist or job description, nor should there be.
In My Utmost for His Highest, Oswald Chambers says, "Your duty in service and ministry is to make sure there is nothing between Jesus and yourself." My job description as a church planting wife is to abide in Christ and, in the conversation we have together, listen for His love, conviction, and direction. When He says go, it's my job to go. When He says wait, it's my job to wait. When He convicts, it's my job to repent and allow Him to cleanse my heart. When He says no, it's my job to obey. But I cannot abide in Christ and hear His still, small voice unless I am making physical and mental space to be with Him. My heart must be tuned to Him, rather than myself, and when it's so, He meets my needs and tunes my heart to those He wants me to serve.
It sounds simple, but, as we all know, it's not. Making space for the Lord requires constant evaluation of our priorities. To spend time with Him, as a mom with three small children, I must get up early when the house is still. Then, when I'm with Him, it means quieting my heart so that I can hear His love and truth pouring over my life. Abiding in Him requires that I act in obedience, even when He asks difficult things of me. But when we do these things that give life to our souls, we find we can't be real before God and play the role at the same time; we are free from the lure of the role. Then, as we interact with others, we have the boldness and confidence to be and do what the Lord whispered to us in our intimate times with Him. We have the opportunity, in putting aside the role, to shed inauthenticity, to experience freedom in who God made us to be, and to be intimate with God.


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Manu was first spotted in the display window of the old sewing-machine museum touching holes of light on a babushka costume. He seemed to have appeared from nowhere, a pied piper staging gowns as soft instruments, framed by gauzy street lights. His fingers were curled into swathes of the costume's bulbous ruby-red taffeta skirt on a mannequin, surrounded by elaborately designed sewing machines, poised like an incongruous metal army. A spool of gold thread uncurled behind him, drinking from the night. A wind chime above the blue front door argued with the soft falling of snow. The letterbox slot had a black glove with silver studs slipped into the slash, like a misguided disruption. Manu gripped a large curved needle between his lips, wiped his brow with a spotted handkerchief. The ash in his pockets felt weightless. He inserted the needle into the skirt's hem, unpicking a shrunken, smoggy skyline. He gathered two more mannequins standing to the side, naked, arms stretched towards the skylight in a celestial pose. Their eyes stared ahead blankly, as though fixed on a mirage in the distance that could be broken apart, then fed into their artificial skin, into cloth. He placed them in the display window, naked calling cards waiting to be dressed. The spool of thread cut diagonally across rows of sewing machines moored on metal stands, rectangular golden plaques identifying each one. There was an antique Singer 66-1 Red Eye Treadle from the 1920s, a Russian Handcrank portable number from the fifties, a 1940s Montgomery Ward Streamliner US model, a compact 1930s Jones model from Bucharest with a silver flower pattern crawling up the sides of its sleek black frame. Manu gathered the thread slowly, a ritual he performed between each creation. A splintered pain exploded in his chest. In his mind's eye, the ash from his pockets assembled into feminine silhouettes. He needed to make more dresses, more corsets, more fitted suits, more gowns. He needed to find more ways to make women feel beautiful through his creations. The designs rose from dark, undulating slipstreams as if in resurrection. They were watery constructions, insistent, whispering what materials they needed, leaning against his brown irises until they leaked from his eyes onto the page while his fingers sketched feverishly. He walked to the atelier at the back, a hub flourishing under the gaze of light. There was a long wooden worktable, more sewing-machines dotted around it. A coiled measuring tape sat in the middle as if ready to entrap a rhinestone-covered, meteorite-shaped white gown that would crash through. Materials spilled from the edges towards the centre: rolls of bright silk, piles of linen, open boxes of lace, streams of velvet. There were jars of accessories, decorations winking in the glass: zips, studs, feathers, small jewelled delights waiting to adorn the pleat of a skirt, the breast of a jacket, dimpled soft satin. A black leather suitcase leaning against one wall spilled tiny grains of invisible sand from its gut. The air's pressure contorted a candy-hued ballerina-style dress carelessly flung over a guillotine.
It was on this night, while leafleting, Noma was drawn to the seductive glow from the museum, orbs of light mutating in the front entrance's bubble of glass, a coloured small window in a door, a geometric code for the eye. A head in the window of that door on a winter's night could appear trapped there, bobbing in the glass curiously. Noma arrived at that moment through a triumvirate of migration from Swaziland to Paris to the UK. Picking fruit to sell on the scorching roads of South Africa, homeless in Paris before working in a toy factory, leafleting in London, which was repetitive, flexible, mundane but easy, bookended by daily returns to her tiny bedsit on the other side of Wandsworth, in a death trap with no fire exits just off the high street. Noma held a roll of leaflets in her right hand, a run of five hundred for a show about a woman trapped in a warehouse encountering a doppelgänger at each exit every time she attempted to leave. She tugged one strap of her rucksack further up her shoulder, walked towards the museum door. Flakes of snow christened her, like a black Venus, in the cold. Spotting the babushka dress in the display window, she pressed her face into the glass partition in the door, intrigued. The door opened. Manu smiled warmly, motioned her in with one hand, a ruffle of taffeta material in the other. It smelt like incense inside. The gentle ring of wind chimes multiplied in her eardrums; the low skyline from the babushka costume bent over the sewing machines; the pressure of air made her skin hum; her senses were heightened. She felt sucked into a vacuum. Air seeped inside her like helium in the lungs. Mannequins facing the outside had drops of dew in their mouths.
'You have come for work,' Manu announced. His elegantly handsome face was wise in the light. Not even awaiting a response, he turned, rushing to the atelier. Noma trailed after him; the roll of leaflets fell from her hands, becoming confetti in the view from the front door's bubbled-glass partition.
She began working for him a week later, scouring shops for fine materials, measuring and cutting, learning to sew, hunting for unusual accessories. She visited milliners, procured fine hats the colour of quail eggs, the burnished gold of the Sahara, the hue of the Garonne at night. She watched his sketches come to life with a soft wonder in her throat, the outfits like architectural constructs waiting for bodies to invade them, her fingers spinning them slowly on a tailor's mannequin under the kaleidoscopic glow from the skylight, the quiet language of sand stealthily spilling in a corner, the chug of the sewing-machines temporarily silenced. The pop-up atelier in the sewing-machine museum sprang up, like a small Utopia longing for the flurry of action. And the women came like drunken butterflies drawn to Eden, one by one, until the atelier became a hive of activity, leaking laughter and excitable voices. The women were seduced by Manu, his beauty, his sophistication, the unpredictability of his style, his erudite tales and the assured rumble of his voice. He told them he was born in the Gambia, Namibia, Zanzibar. He was inconsistent, flamboyant. Oh, but where was he from again? No matter. He offered them Synsepalum, wild African berries, as if the fruit grew from the blade of the guillotine, the hands of the old grandfather clock on one atelier wall, the mouths of the mannequins. The break of sweet, exotic fruit flooded the women's tongues. They kept coming back for more; more Manu, more handfuls of Synsepalum, more Noma, flicking through his sketches, fingering the lines of all they could be, if only. Aspiration captured in drawings. All the while, kernels of pain formed inside Manu, gathering into a mass.
The orders increased. Mrs Jovan, head of the town council, had a nettle-green Boudicca gown made for her, which swished around her ankles romantically; Mrs Lonegran, owner of a chain of flower stores, cooed in pleasure at the final reveal of her metallic Joan of Arc-inspired ensemble on the atelier floor. Mrs Hunt, a wine buyer, blinked at her image in an intricately designed pale off-shoulder 1920s flapper number, with a crystallised beaded beret to match, gasping as if she hadn't seen herself before, at least not in this way. Manu made women feel marvellous, valued, appreciated. He not only understood the female form, he celebrated it: every dip of the back, every arch of a neck, every individual flare of hips. He masked and he revealed, he obscured and he unearthed. He knew how to make the most ordinary of women feel like a goddess. This was his gift. Every woman had a quality of beauty of her own making lurking beneath the skin. Manu knew ways to make it bloom, how to tease it to the surface. And every night, Noma would return to her lonely bedsit bone tired, fall into bed, unceremoniously woken by the leak in her ceiling landing on her face, acting as an alarm for the next day's activities.
Oh, but where was he from again? No matter. He offered them Synsepalum, wild African berries, as if the fruit grew from the blade of the guillotine, the hands of the old grandfather clock on one atelier wall, the mouths of the mannequins.
Five months passed. The women loved their new outfits. They danced in their hallways wearing them, spun in mirrors gathering mist the colour of Synsepalum. Their reflections were released, mimicking their poses in the poorer areas of town, the other side: a swish of silk skirt passing the window of a Turkish food hall that had shut down, a pantsuit limp against the keyhole of a gutted former Jamaican takeaway, a squeezed flamenco dress sleeve brushing the iron gates of an abandoned youth centre that had lost its funding. Slipstreams followed each reflection, like a watery shadow. By June, the shots of pain Manu experienced had intensified, spreading through his limbs. His hands in particular were in constant pain. He woke up in agony, the fingers appearing gnarled to him. He couldn't keep up with the orders, with the monster he'd created. The rise of sand from the suitcase in the corner of the atelier had become too much. The mannequins were pregnant with mirages; stomachs protruded, splitting material. The glove in the post slot had swelled with blood. Designs from the periphery had begun to crash through the skylight in confused stupors, unsure of how their material versions would manifest. The chug of the sewing- machines in his ears was constant, till he found himself impersonating the sound sporadically in conversation. He'd run out of ash. And his wild African berries no longer grew in the area for him.
On the third occasion the women wore their outfits, they discovered Manu had lied to them. They could wear the designs only three times. The third time, they couldn't get out of them. Seams tightened, buttons couldn't be undone, petticoats became silken cages. The women rolled around in the damp earth of their gardens, climbed onto their husbands, partners, lovers, hollering to them to get the scissors, knives, shears, anything to cut them out. They spilled onto the streets. It was on this morning that Noma arrived outside the museum to find the crowd of women. Manu had disappeared, gone to the next place, the next set of women who needed to feel good, whose images of themselves he could manipulate, like startled adult changelings behind a lens. The atelier was empty, the sewing-machines and mannequins forlorn in the void. Noma spotted something glinting at the foot of the front entrance. She picked up the curved needle. The baying women rounded on her. 'Who will make us beautiful now?' they chorused, like a warped choir on the loose, faces strained, mouths drawn, teeth bared, closing in, scissors and shears gripped firmly, raised above their heads. Noma almost dropped the needle just as the women began to turn to ash, the pads of her fingers sweaty, just as a bright red root bloomed in the eye of the needle.
Irenosen Okojie is a Nigerian British writer. Her debut novel Butterfly Fish won a Betty Trask award and was shortlisted for an Edinburgh International First Book Award. Her work has been featured in The New York Times, the Observer, the Guardian, the BBC and the Huffington Post amongst other publications. Her short story collection Speak Gigantular, published by Jacaranda Books, was shortlisted for the Edgehill Short Story Prize, the Jhalak Prize, the Saboteur Awards and nominated for a Shirley Jackson Award. She was recently inducted as a fellow of the Royal Society of Literature as one of the Forty Under Forty initiative.
Bio, and cover image courtesy of Dialogue Books.
Nudibranch by Irenosen Okojie is published by Dialogue Books, priced £14.99. Available now.


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Zoom (found pilot of revival of 1972 PBS children's series; 1997)
Zoom was a children's live-action TV series that originally ran on PBS and was produced by WGBH (now GBH) from 1972-1978, and ran a revival series from 1999-2005. The series consists of a group of children cast members that based on the idea they give, do a variety of types of experiments, games, skits and other miscellaneous activities.
Pilot[edit | edit source]
In 1997, a pilot was developed to pitch the revival to the network. The pilot was developed by Kate Taylor that also produced the 1972 iteration of the show.[1] She also mentioned kids reacting positively to the pilot.[2] The National Science Foundation then endorsed it and donated a grant to Taylor to develop episodes for the show's reboot.
Availability[edit | edit source]
In 2017, YouTuber ZOOMfan1 uploaded two clips of the pilot that was sent to them by one of the cast members, Hayley after said user contacted her. Nothing much was changed from the final show aside from a different theme song and the test logo looked similar to the 1972 iteration of the show. On June 20th, 2022, the pilot was uploaded in full to YouTube by user PoopToobYou.
Cast Members[edit | edit source]
- Enid
- Marcus
- Hayley
- Esther Mira
- Daniel
- Georgina
- Chad Nelson
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See Also[edit | edit source]
Zoom[edit | edit source]
Bumpers[edit | edit source]
- Bookworm Bunch (partially found interstitials from PBS Kids channel block; 2000-2001)
- PBS Kids (partially lost schedule bumpers and interstitial material of children's channel block; 1999-present)
- Someday School (partially found PBS Kids channel block; 1998-2000)
PBS[edit | edit source]
- Christmastime with Mister Rogers (lost holiday TV special; 1977)
- Lamb Chop's Play-Along (partially lost PBS children's puppet series; 1992)
- Mister Rogers' Neighborhood "Mister Rogers Talks About Conflict" (found episode arc of PBS children's educational series; 1983)
- The Puzzle Place (partially found PBS puppet series; 1994-1998)
- Reading Rainbow (found Johnny Kemp opening sequence for PBS children's television series; 1999)
- Storytime (found PBS children's reading series; 1992-1998)
- Where In The World Is Carmen Sandiego? "Auld Lang Gone" (non-existent episode of PBS children's game show; 1992)
PBS Kids[edit | edit source]
- The Charlie Horse Music Pizza (partially lost PBS Kids "Lamb Chop's Play-Along" spin-off series; 1998-1999)
- Curious George (lost test pilot of PBS Kids animated series based on books; existence unconfirmed; 2004/2005)
- Cyberchase: The Poddleville Case (found pilot of PBS Kids animated educational series; 1999)
- Dragon Tales "One Small Step for Cassie" and "Circle of Friends" (lost pilots of PBS Kids animated series; 1999)
- The Good Night Show with Melanie/Leo (partially found PBS Kids Sprout series; 2005-2006)
- The Good Night Show with Nina & Star (partially found PBS Kids Sprout series; 2006-2017)
- Kratts' Creatures (found PBS children's educational series; 1996)
- Molly of Denali (partially found unaired pilot of PBS Kids animated series; 2018)
- Nature Cat (lost pilot of PBS Kids educational animated series; early 2010s)
- Preschool Musical... On a Stick (partially lost PBS Kids Sprout "High School Musical" parody; 2008)
- Space Race (partially found PBS Kids web series; 2011)
- What's The Big Idea? (lost original pilot of "Sid The Science Kid" PBS Kids CGI animated series; 2007)
- WordWorld (lost 2D/live-action test pilot of PBS Kids CGI animated educational series; existence unconfirmed; 2005)
External Links[edit | edit source]
References[edit | edit source]
- ↑ Chicago Tribune article on the reboot series' pilot. Retrieved 01 Dec '21
- ↑ An article on the reboot's development. Retrieved 01 Dec '21


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Recently we have discovered a serious bug in Fedora 17, that is also present in Fedora 15 and 16 (I'm not sure about earlier releases). If you have your system updates applied automatically (which is enabled by default), you might break your system when shutting down/rebooting the computer. There is no safeguard that would tell you "please don't turn off your computer now, system is just being updated". No, we simply abort the update process in the middle. Horrible things may happen. Fortunately that doesn't occur too often, but the possibility is there.
I can heartily recommend everyone to disable automatic updates until we have a proper fix ready. In GNOME just open a tool called Software settings and switch Automatically install to Nothing.
KDE guys can be happier, because they have disabled it by default. But again, I recommend to check the setting. You can find it in System settings -> Software management.
It is highly unlikely that a proper fix will land in Fedora 17 Final. We will probably just flip the option in GNOME to have nothing installed automatically by default. That is not a fix, just a way to minimize damage. A proper solution might be available no sooner than in Fedora 18. Until that time… I don't recommend to enable this option.


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CNOOC Signs PSC with Smart Oil
Sep 16, 2013, 08:16 ET
HONG KONG, Sept. 16, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- CNOOC Limited (the "Company", NYSE: CEO, SEHK: 00883) announced today that its parent company, China National Offshore Oil Corporation (CNOOC) has signed production sharing contract (PSC) with Smart Oil Investment Ltd. (Smart Oil) for Block 05/31 in Bohai.
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Block 05/31 is located in the junction of Qikou Sag and Nanpu Sag of the West of Bohai. It covers a total area of 270 square kilometers with water depth ranging from 5 to 15 meters.
According to the terms of the PSC, Smart Oil will conduct 3D seismic data survey and drill exploration wells in the block during the exploration period, in which all expenditures incurred will be borne by Smart Oil. CNOOC has the right to participate in up to 51% working interest in any commercial discoveries in the block.
Notes to Editors:
More information about the Company is available at http://www.cnoocltd.com.
This press release includes "forward-looking statements" within the meaning of the United States Private Securities Litigation Reform Act of 1995, including statements regarding expected future events, business prospectus or financial results. The words "expect", "anticipate", "continue", "estimate", "objective", "ongoing", "may", "will", "project", "should", "believe", "plans", "intends" and similar expressions are intended to identify such forward-looking statements. These statements are based on assumptions and analysis made by the Company in light of its experience and perception of historical trends, current conditions and expected future developments, as well as other factors that the Company believes reasonable under the circumstances. However, whether actual results and developments will meet the Company's expectations and predictions depends on a number of risks and uncertainties which could cause the actual results, performance and financial conditions to differ materially from the Company's expectations, including those associated with fluctuations in crude oil and natural gas prices, the exploration or development activities, the capital expenditure requirements, the business strategy, whether the transactions entered into by the Company can complete on schedule pursuant to its timetable or at all, the highly competitive nature of the oil and natural gas industries, the foreign operations, environmental liabilities and compliance requirements, and economic and political conditions in the People's Republic of China. For a description of these and other risks and uncertainties, please see the documents the Company has filed from time to time with the United States Securities and Exchange Commission, including 2012 Annual Report on Form 20-F filed on April 24, 2013.
Consequently, all of the forward-looking statements made in this press release are qualified by these cautionary statements. The Company cannot assure that the results or developments anticipated will be realized or, even if substantially realized, that they will have the expected effect on the Company, its business or operations.
For further enquiries, please contact:
Ms. Michelle Zhang
Deputy Manager, Media / Public Relations
CNOOC Limited
Tel: +86-10-8452-6642
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SOURCE CNOOC Limited


text: That was the question bedevilling (did you see what I did there?) me all last week, until I finally got up the courage to email my publisher to ask for a progress update. A scary thought, because I could take the approach that no news is good news, but three months makes me doubt my oeuvre. Although in all fairness publishers and academics are probably in libraries or houses in Provence or Campania over August and September, I still feel rather uneasy. To spike my unease, I reassure myself that my reviews of other people's books on witchcraft will be published – something tangible. I have reviewed the rather excellent Malgorzata Pilaszek's work Procesy o czary w Polsce w wiekach XV – XVIII, [Witchcraft Trials in Poland in the 15-18th Centuries] in the Slavonic and East European Review (SEER) and a review of Michael Ostling's book Between the Devil and the Host: Imagining Witchcraft in Early Modern Poland is forthcoming in the wonderfully titled journal Magic, Ritual and Witchcraft.


text: Use your pain , disappointment, anger , trauma, to fuel your passion. No matter what do not allow yourself to be swallowed up in otherpeoples excuses and your own, because its easy to be caught up in the mesh. In the chaos of i could have been, i could have done, i could have seen. Fail and learn from those failures. Get active on the strategies and implement them, do not let the sun set on another day without a fight for the future you want. Remember it is not about money anymore, it becomes more than that. It becomes more tha just a fight for cash and display, you are no dreamer, these castles you will not build them in the sky, they have a foundation, therefore you must fight. It is easy to give into the negativity, cruelty and malice of others, it is easy for self destruction to overwhelm you. Yet i am someone who battled with finishing my whole life, partly because of ill health, partly because i accepted the excuses that were made for me. Let us fight to finish together, to reach the end of that finish line, because in the end when the chapters close you always had time, time to fight for you, though your thoughts and emotions were caught in the tidal wave of situation, a dystopian mess of hopes, and at times faith felt more like punishment, anger being the only prescription. Believe that you have the fight to see it through, so when you turn the blurb on a finished book you know beginning middle and end. There will be more challenges to come, steel yourself we were not put on this Earth not to be schooled.


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Academy of Nutrition and Dietetics
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BMI Calculator
Body Mass Index, or BMI, is a calculation that compares your weight to your height, to screen for overweight or obesity. Try it yourself! Adult and pediatric BMIs can be calculated at this Mayo Clinic site.
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The Children's Nutrition Research Center (CNRC) is an unique cooperative venture between Baylor College of Medicine, Texas Children's Hospital and the U.S. Department of Agriculture/Agricultural Research Service.
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Take a virtual visit to one of our country's most respected medical establishments. Check out the healthy recipes.
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Magna Carta 2 Gets Companion iPhone Application
From the files of "Did Not See That Coming" is a new application for the iPhone designed to provide extra information about Magna Carta 2. Designed by the game's developers, the Magna Carta 2 Title Guide includes character details, story information, gameplay videos, and images from the game. The Guide may be downloaded from the iPhone application store.
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You know what they say about the more things change… After Leroy Butler, a former Green Bay Packers safety, joined the huge chorus of other athletes who congratulated NBA player Jason Collins for coming out publicly as a gay man, he was informed his speaking engagement at a Wisconsin church had been canceled.
Butler has declined to reveal the name and denomination of the church but said he had been uninvited to speak as planned after using his Twitter account to say, ""Congrats to Jason Collins."
After receiving the news Butler then sent a series of tweets that read:
"Wow, I was scheduled to speak at a church in WI, and a member said that the pastor wants to cancel my event. I said ok why? Then I was told, because I said congrats to Jason Collins on Twitter. I said really? we have a contract, he said check the moral cause, FYI the fee was $8,500, then I was told if I removed the tweet, and apologize and ask god forgiveness, I can have the event. I said no, only god can judge."
In an interview with the Milwaukee-Wisconsin Journal Sentinel, Butler compared the church pastor's behavior to bullying.
"This is a form of bullying, what you're doing. You're trying to get me to do something I don't want to do," Butler said. "He disagreed, and I said, 'We agree to disagree' and he said 'No, I'm right and you're wrong.' "
Butler later tweeted that he had received an apology from the church but said it was "mainly thanking me for not releasing the church name" and he will never work with the church again.


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Five Critical Questions to Ask When Selecting a Service Provider (Web Design Company):
1) Can the service provider clearly showcase prior work and project management experience?
Many web design companies show only small screens of websites in their portfolios without any links to the actual website and very little information if any about the work involved. Often times this makes it very difficult to evaluate the actual product as the focus is only on the limited size visual without any access to test the functionality and web technologies used on the final product. Hiding this much significant information may be a red flag. Request access to real samples and ask the company to provide real links to at least 10 - 20 finalized projects. Request to know what the company's actual involvement and work load was. Often times a freelancer, for instance, might be involved with a small piece of production, but then ends up claiming a full credit of the final product. Interaria showcases over 45 website design and development projects in its company portfolio, most with real live web links to the actual final product. Each featured project is showcased with a case study that outlines our work involved in developing the website. We believe that clients have the right to access and evaluate past work.
2) Can the service provider program with modern Web code languages?
Does the service provider know how to program with HTML5, XML, AJAX, PHP and MySQL? If yes, what is the proof and prior experience? If not, what are the reasons that these code languages are not needed? Make sure that you will receive a final product that is developed and coded with the latest and most modern code languages. This guarantees an elegant and consistent user experience and a longer life line for your website. It also makes it easier to integrate content management systems, secure client login systems, and database driven custom Web applications to your website. Interaria is efficient in modern Web technologies, and for instance is one of the leading PHP/MySQL web application development agencies in Texas.
3) Can the service provider program Web applications required for dynamic and modern user experiences?
Today it is not necessarily enough that the service provider provides HTML code without any dynamic database integrations. Modern web sites often require several custom web applications such as customer registration and login systems, my account systems, custom searches to content, ability to save search results, and ability manage content with a database driven content management system. It is crucial to find real answers and knowledge on the service providers abilities and service offerings in order to make sure that the website development project can be completed successfully. Interaria has a strong side as a PHP/MySQL driven Web development agency. Our team codes efficiently in PHP/MySQL programming languages to create even the most demanding data base driven modern Web technology solutions.
4) Can the service provider offer a content management system and support it?
A modern web site development company should be able to offer at least a simple content management system. Downplaying the need for a content management system should be a warning sign (Typical downplay arguments: "very expensive to develop", "takes time to learn how to use", "our team can update your site for you"). Modern content management systems should be easy to use (with a short learning curve) and they should adapt to the website design without forcing it to any pre-existing template or structure. Many companies offer Joomla as their solution for content management. Joomla is an open source content management system that is not developed by the service provider. In consequence, the service provider offering Joomla will likely not be able to fix any bugs found in it or custom code web applications to expand it. Interaria is not completely against Joomla but provides this warning for any business considering to rely solely on Joomla. Interaria relies on our in-house PHP/MySQL database development and programming expertise for developing database driven Web application based custom content management systems. Our content management systems can be integrated to manage several other PHP/MySQL custom web applications such as client account systems or document management systems. We offer full support to all of PHP/MySQL code and functions. -- And not to get alarmed, if your company some reason requires Joomla, we can look into this as well.
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Don't ignore the growing audience accessing Web via mobile devices. Request to know how the developed website would be viewable and interactive via mobile devices. For instance, at the moment Apple does not support the Flash player on iPhones and iPads. Your company might want to also consider a separate mobile version of its website designed specifically for iPhone users. Can the service provider integrate your web applications (database) to this version? Interaria offers modern mobile media development services as part of our web design and development projects.
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I'll admit it, I get bored easily. Over the years, I've come to embrace my distractedness and celebrate what it brings to my life. Change! I crave moving furniture, changing decor, and for awhile even changing professions. Unfortunately when it comes to home decor and changing things up, my wallet does always meet my dreams. I'm always on the lookout for cheap and quick (remember my attention span) ways to give my home new life.
A while ago, I came across a blog called Beauty and Bedlam and a post about DIY Cheap Wall Decor. In it, the blogger highlights different ways to frame fabric. LOVE it! The one image I was struck by came from a design by Linda Woodrum for the HGTV Dream Home. Her simple framed fabric made such an impact in a bathroom of all places.
Stunning, isn't it?!?
As I said, this pin has been sitting in my Favorite Places and Spaces board for some time now, and recently I came up with a way to incorporate those ideas into my home and preserve memories as well.
Enter my mother-in-law's crazy wallpaper.
My mother-in-law passed a couple of years ago and while visiting the progress done to her home, I notice a bag of wallpaper in the trash pile on the porch. Now I admit I wasn't crazy about her choice in wallpaper, mostly because it was EVERYWHERE, but seeing it about to be tossed, broke my heart. I grabbed it, thinking of some way to preserve it without papering my own home in all it's late 60's early 70's glory. I did toy with papering one wall in the bathroom, but my husband put the kibosh on that really quick. Sigh.
That's when I remembered that pin from long ago. I made a quick run to Michael's, picked up a couple of cheap frames, and got to work. Voila! A project even I could finish!


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Work at Google is undergoing some big, systemic changes. At the end of September, Google CEO Sundar Pichai (who's also CEO of Alphabet, parent company of Google) announced that employees could adopt a "hybrid" schedule, working from home for part of the week if they so desired.
Pichai announced that decision after Google's internal surveys showed that a majority of employees only wanted to come into the office on some days. By offering that flexibility, Google stays competitive with Microsoft and other firms that are also adopting hybridized schedules for employees.
As Google moves into this new era, what kinds of jobs is it hiring for, and what skills does it need? We've noted before how the bulk of Google's hiring seems focused on the fundamentals—popular programming languages such as Python and Java, and roles such as software developers. That hasn't changed in our most recent analysis of data from Burning Glass, which collects and analyzes millions of job postings from across the country.
Here's the breakdown of tech jobs that Google has hired for over the past 60 days:
And here are the tech skills that Google wants, based on job postings:
Based on those skills, it's very clear that Google is on the hunt for project managers with a full complement of soft skills, including thought leadership and managing teams. This just re-emphasizes how success in a tech career doesn't hinge entirely on your technical skills (as impressive as those might be); you need to communicate with stakeholders, listen well, and understand the broader needs of the business.
The drive for product and project managers also suggests that Google, like many tech companies, is again focusing on long-term and strategic projects after months of reacting to the COVID-19 pandemic. The prevalence of Python and Java likewise suggests a focus on "core" projects (with an interesting spike in machine learning jobs midway down the list).
Another thing to mention: According to Burning Glass, the mean salary at Google is $105,404. That's quite a bit lower than what levels.fyi, which crowdsources salary data from tech-company employees, has suggested even entry-level software engineers get paid (for the record, that's $183,643, once you throw in stock and bonuses). Nonetheless, tech jobs at Google are clearly lucrative—even if Google is still a year or more away from reopening its famous in-office amenities.


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Tip #80: Nonsmoking, Please
Last week's blog post, Fair Housing Threat, generated a discussion among our members over whether landlords can legally reject tenants who smoke.
Here are some quick tips regarding nonsmoking policies in rental properties:
It is not discriminatory to reject an applicant who will not agree to honor a landlord's nonsmoking policy.
Landlords can be sued for illnesses resulting from second-hand smoke if they have allowed tenants to smoke in common areas or near ventilation systems.
Nonsmoking units are more popular than smoking units and easier to clean.
More and more cities are mandating nonsmoking rentals.
A nonsmoking policy reduces risks of fire.
For more on nonsmoking policies, see our post Landlords Applaud City's New Rental Law.
See last weeks Landlord Quick Tip.
American Apartment Owners Association offers discounts on products and services for landlords related to your rental housing investment, including rental forms, tenant debt collection, tenant background checks, insurance and financing. Find out more at www.joinaaoa.org.


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- Amazon is hiring 75,000 additional workers after it filled more than 100,000 positions in the last month.
- The company has added more warehouse and delivery workers across the country to help meet a surge in demand tied to the coronavirus outbreak.
Amazon is hiring an additional 75,000 workers at its facilities, on top of the 100,000 new positions it created last month, the company said Monday.
In March, the company said it would hire additional warehouse and delivery workers across the country amid a surge in online shopping during the coronavirus outbreak. Since then, Amazon said it has hired more than 100,000 new employees and, as a result, is staffing up even more to help fulfill orders.
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"We continue to see increased demand as our teams support their communities, and are going to continue to hire, creating an additional 75,000 jobs to help serve customers during this unprecedented time," the company said.
As it continues to hire more workers, Amazon has also raised employees' hourly pay and doubled overtime pay for warehouse workers. Through the end of April, warehouse and delivery workers can earn an additional $2 per hour in the U.S., 2 pounds per hour in the U.K., and approximately 2 euros per hour in many EU countries. Amazon currently pays $15 per hour or more in some areas of the U.S. for warehouse and delivery jobs.
Amazon has announced several benefits changes on top of the pay increases. The company has allowed workers to take unlimited unpaid time off and provides two weeks of paid leave for workers who tested positive for the virus or are in quarantine.
Amazon said it expects to continue investing in pay increases, benefits and safety improvements for warehouse and delivery workers. The company previously expected to spend $350 million on pay increases, but now estimates it will spend more than $500 million on those efforts.
Despite the pay increases and benefits changes, Amazon workers from at least three facilities have staged protests to call for the company to better protect workers amid the coronavirus outbreak. A dozen workers told CNBC they felt Amazon needed to provide employees with paid time off, among other concerns.
The company has faced increased demand from customers on multiple fronts amid the coronavirus outbreak.
With shoppers stocking up online, services such as Prime Now and the Amazon Fresh grocery delivery service reported limited availability for several days or told shoppers they were unable to make deliveries. On Sunday, Amazon said it would require new grocery delivery customers to join a waitlist and shorten some Whole Foods stores' hours for the public so that employees can more quickly fulfill online orders.
Meanwhile, Amazon has struggled to keep products in stock on its online marketplace. Last month, Amazon said it would begin prioritizing household staples and medical supplies at its fulfillment centers.


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On Tuesday December 9, 2014 Microsoft released Exchange Server 2013 Cumulative Update 7 and the UM Language Packs for Cumulative Update 7, 105 days after the release of the previous CU6 update. This release is a little overdue because of a last minute issue that was found moments before the original release date of CU7. As long as it improves the quality of the release this shouldn't be a problem though.
CU7 contains fixes for issues reported by customers, including the Russian Time Zone issue and fixes for issues identified in MS14-075. Updates for MS14-075 are also available for Exchange Server 2013 Service Pack 1 and Exchange Server 2013 Cumulative Update 6. Because of the Microsoft (N-1) support policy this hotfix won't be available for CU5.
Two improvements made it into CU7:
- Public Folder Hierarchies now support up to 250,000 folders. More information regarding Public Folders can be found on the On-Premises Legacy Public Folder Coexistence for Exchange 2013 Cumulative Update 7 and Beyond article on the Exchange Team blog.
- OAB Distribution changes as outlined in the OAB Improvements in Exchange 2013 Cumulative Update 7 article on the Exchange Team blog.
Important to note, there are improvements in backing up Exchange Mailbox databases so Microsoft encourages customers to upgrade to CU7 as soon as possible and create a full backup immediately after the upgrade has finished. Under very rare circumstances it is possible that a backup that was created successfully earlier cannot be restored. It is very rare and according to Microsoft no customer has reported this, but you should be aware of this.
Also released at the same time are updates for Exchange 2007 SP3 and Exchange 2010 SP3:
Update. Version 2 of the Exchange Server 2010 SP3 Update Rollup 8 was released on December 12, 2014.
Important Hybrid note: customers that are running a hybrid configuration with Exchange 2013 and Exchange Online are required to run on the latest available Cumulative Update to be running a fully supported environment.
As always, you should thoroughly test this Cumulative Update (or the Update Rollup fixes for previous versions) before bringing them to production. There might be undocumented changes in the product that can cause unexpected side effects.
More information regarding Exchange 2013 in general can be found on What's New in Exchange 2013, Release Notes and Exchange 2013 articles on TechNet.


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There is little doubt that people riding bicycles is a good thing on a couple levels.
It is good for the people on the bikes because they are getting exercise and lots of fresh air. And it is good for the environment because those bikers are not driving cars, which contribute to the serious problems of climate change.
Some communities set aside entire areas as bike paths, where cars are not permitted. Most others create bicycle lanes, usually between auto lanes and parked cars. And almost every Boardwalk has a bike lane.
Bicycles are good things and the overwhelming majority of the people riding them are careful and cooperative. But there are some problems – and some misunderstandings.
For example, some bike riders think that, like pedestrians, they have the right of way in crossing lanes. They think that cars are required, by law, to stop and let them cross.
They are wrong.
Drivers are required to stop for people on foot who have entered a crossing lane or stepped off a curb on a street corner. They are not required to stop for those on bicycles (unless the rider steps off the bike and walks beside it). In fact, bike riders are also required to stop for pedestrians preparing to cross an intersection.
Those riding bicycles should also generally ride in single file. That is the way bike lanes are set up, wide enough for one rider. Too often you see two bike riders side by side and taking up half of the auto lane.
The State of New Jersey has safety tips for bicycle riders.
"Obey all traffic laws. In New Jersey, bicycles have the same rights and responsibilities as motor vehicles. Ride on the right. Obey all traffic signals. Ride with traffic. Wear an approved bicycle helmet. Make sure the helmet fits properly. Ride within your abilities. Avoid busy streets, whenever possible. Ride a properly sized bicycle.
"Do not attempt stunts or tricks. Do not ride with more people on the bike than it is designed to accommodate. Do not hitch rides by holding on to moving vehicles. Do not weave in and out of traffic or between cars. Do not carry loads unless equipped with proper baskets or panniers. Do not ride against traffic. Do not ride on the sidewalk. Do not ride at night without lights."
The South Jersey shore is overcrowded at this time of year. That alone creates more traffic hazards. It also brings thousands more people who want to take advantage of the good weather, the fresh seaside air and the opportunity to get some beneficial exercise on their bicycles. Not all of these bikers are like Jack Neall or George McNally – careful, law-abiding cyclists.
Remember that, although riding your bike is good for you and the environment, you should approach your ride as though you are driving your car. Every traffic law that applies to a motor vehicle also applies to those on bicycles.
And, while you're driving your car during these busy summer months, don't expect everybody on a bike to properly follow the rules.
Watch out for that bicycle!


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but since the lab machines have been updated the gcc --version command states the compiler version is 6.3.0. I tried using the gtest library from /ACG/acgdev/gcc-4.9-x86_64/gtest/ but it gives the same error.
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What do Necromancers, an updated OR14 unit and Abed from Community have in common?
Soon, they'll all be a part of the Blizzard universe, one way or another.
The Necromancer class for Diablo 3 is set for release in "the second half of 2017". The blog post on Battle.net showed off all the skills you'd normally associate with a Necromancer: a Grim Scythe, a Death Nova, Blood Golem and so on.
The Necromancer will not be a part of an expansion pack, but rather a content pack which will feature "the class, an in-game pet, cosmetic wings, two additional character slots, two additional stash tabs (on PC), a portrait frame, pennant, banner, and a banner sigil." It will, however, launch together with a content patch, which will add a couple of new zones, Challenge Rifts .


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Reunited and it feels so good…
Last week, the CFL Hamilton Tiger-Cats signed former UC star wide-out Anthony McClung. Zach Collaros found a nice home with the Tiger-Cats. Last year Collaros threw for 3,376 yards, 25 TDs, and had a passer rating of 113.1. Now the two can live it up like their days at Nippert.
McClung is currently 24 years old. He spent time with the Houston Texans in 2014 and the Toronto Argonauts in 2015. During his days at UC, he racked-up 177 receptions, 2,378 yards and 15 TDs in 47 games.
It's always nice to see former Bearcats receive opportunities to not only play, but play together, at the next level.
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Remember those nice lads from the south who came to Bangkok and organized protests against the military junta's coal-fired power station plans? Yes, the lads who have a leader who is a royal and who called for a counter-coup if they didn't get their way?
Those lads seem to be good lads because they had the junta changing its mind on the power plant process and also forgiving the lads so that none of them have become subjects of harassment and jailing. This is because they are pro-coup.
It seems good lads can even threaten the junta without having to worry too much. Of course, the junta may change its political judgement about these lads, but at the moment they seem "protected."
Then there are bad lads, defined as
activists and drug dealers and troublemakers. Chaiyapoom Pasae, killed with a single shot by the Army, is said in the Bangkok Post to be an activist and artist. That article describes two stories of Chaiyapoom's death, and its pretty easy to see that the military and police story is struggling to paint him as a bad lad.
One of the very interesting parts of the story is the attached picture, a screen grab from TNN, showing a blurred out image of "the body of Chaiyapoom just after he was shot, as the police, military and their photographers begin to coordinate the stories they will tell the public." We assume it is accurate in its description and have clipped it and reproduced it below.
We find it interesting because we recall that at first "soldiers claimed that they found certain amount of amphetamine in the car Chaiyaphum was sitting in and that he was resisting the authorities to arrest him by pulling out a knife before running into a bush." First the knife went missing from the story and now, looking at the picture, the bush is gone too.
Earlier there were pictures, leaked by a Facebook page opposing the Single Gateway Internet control idea, that showed Chaiyapoom cooperating with the soldiers' search. The pictures seem to contradict the claim that the Lahu teenager resisted the soldiers.
The problem with Chaiyapoom's sad case is that the disbelief expressed by many is causing the authorities to have to embellish and refine their story. In other words to make it more believable by making him appear as bad as possible. But there's the troubling problem of witnesses who are not in uniform. The driver of the car involved has been held by military and police since the event. There may be others, and if this is a cover-up, then the authorities need to control them.
If previous cover-ups are a model, then this involves intimidation and violence. One measure of the moves being made is a statement by Army deputy spokesman Colonel Winthai Suvaree who:
yesterday dismissed reports of a witness to the killing being threatened as untrue, saying officers have been taking care of the witness who had been co-operative and provided useful information.
He went on to threaten the media: "…[he] warned that anything revealed to the media could be libellous."
Meanwhile, National Human Rights Commission (NHRC) commissioner Angkhana Neelapaijit:
took a man who was Chaiyapoom's mentor to Na Wai police station to file a report about receiving a threat. The mentor (whose name has been withheld) told the NHRC he found a bullet in front of his house on Wednesday night, after he spoke out in defence of the young activist. He said two men, who did not identify themselves, had showed up earlier at his house to tell him to stop talking about Chaiyapoom.
They will have been military thugs.
The NHRC stated that "[o]ther witnesses were too scared to even talk to members of the rights body team yesterday."
No soldier who manned the checkpoint at the time of the extrajudicial murder had been transferred or suspended. They were all continuing to work as normal.
Perhaps that's why the witness who has been threatened is being assisted by the NHRC and will likely "go into a witness protection programme."
Expect more efforts to paint Chaiyapoom as a bad boy, to intimidate his family and friends and to intimidate witnesses.


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"Our chief want is someone who will inspire us to be what we know we could be." – Ralph Waldo Emerson
What makes you tick? What inspires you to dream?
You are a leader. You are responsible for your 20 square feet. What makes you want to be the best you can be for your students? What inspires you?
Take a moment right now . . . Just stop for 30 seconds . . . What inspires you to dig deeper? What makes you want to give more? What drives you to get above the line, to break from autopilot?
Now, once you've thought about what inspires you, be that for others today. Be a leader today – inspire greatness in others.


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American Psycho was found to be "deeply and extremely disgusting" by Andrew Motion and "the most loathsome offering of the season," by the New York Times when it was first published. Almost quarter of a century later – in a move which would no doubt delight its controversial author – Bret Easton Ellis's divisive novel has become the subject of a police raid, after a bookshop in Adelaide was asked to remove copies of the book from shelves when it was discovered to be on sale without the required plastic wrapping.
Telling of Wall Street worker (and psychopath) Patrick Bateman's adventures through rape, torture, cannibalism, murder and necrophilia, ever since American Psycho was first published in 1991, Australia's classification laws have given it a "restricted classification" and insisted that it only be sold "in a sealed wrapper and to adults". This is a decision that Ellis has said he "love[s] ... I told my publisher I want all my books restricted and put in little bags. It's like a little sandwich!''
But, according to Jason Lake, co-owner of Adelaide bookseller Imprints Booksellers, the latest edition, featuring an introduction from Irvine Welsh, arrived from the publisher without the necessary wrapper.
"I had a phone call from a lady on Tuesday who was quite aggressive and questioned why we were selling this classified product out of its wrapper. My defence was it came to us like this. There's no way I would have removed the wrapping," he told ABC News in Australia.
Following the phone call, on Friday, Lake said he was asked to remove the book from the shelves by the police. "It was very gentle and polite ... I just think it's ludicrous that this person complained about the book," he told the Sydney Morning Herald.
With American Psycho dividing opinions ever since it was first published in 1991 – Joan Smith in the Guardian called it "nasty, brutish and long", and "an entirely negligible piece of work, badly written and wholly lacking in insight or illumination", while Fay Weldon called it "seminal" – the Australian bookseller sided with those underwhelmed by the novel, joking that it should be banned not for its content, but its "quality of writing".
"It's not a great book at all, but it's a work of satire, for goodness sake," Lake told ABC. "It was a comment on that period in America, the whole 'greed is good' era ... In a liberal society people should be free to read what they want to read."
Police confirmed that they had taken action over to ABC. "Police spoke with bookstore staff, who were very co-operative, and the matter was resolved to the satisfaction of police," said a spokesperson.
The book's publisher, Pan Macmillan, said that a "small number of copies" of the Picador classic edition of American Psycho – Welsh calls the book "one of the greatest novels of our time" in his introduction – had been released without shrink-wrapping "due to an unforeseen production error". "When the publisher was made aware of the error, the problem was immediately rectified and copies of the title already purchased without shrink-wrapping are returnable," a spokesperson told Books+Publishing.


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West Elmira advances to title game at Cal Ripken Western New York State Tournament
The West Elmira 12-under all-star team earned victories Friday and Saturday to advance to the championship game of the Cal Ripken Western New York State Tournament in Macedon.
Defending champion West Elmira, 4-0 in the tournament, will play in the championship game at 11 a.m. Sunday. The winner advances to the Mid-Atlantic Regionals next weekend in Yonkers.
West Elmira was a 10-7 winner over Letchworth on Friday behind two home runs from Davis Hall. Ryess Youmans was the winning pitcher.
Chris Mattoon went 4-for-4 Saturday for West Elmira in a 17-1 victory over Palmyra-Macedon. Erik Charnetski earned the win.
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Geddes 9, Horseheads 3: At Corning on Saturday, Tyler Kensey had a home run among his three hits and drove in three runs as Geddes downed Horseheads in the Section 2 10-11 all-star tournament.
Ethan Callahan and Tyler Stickler each had a hit for Horseheads in the pool-play game. Callahan, Rob Darmstadt and Owen King scored runs.
Horseheads plays again Sunday.
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Soaring Capital in consolation game: At the National Presidents Cup in Greenville, S.C., the Soaring Capital Firehawks 15-under team will play in the consolation game in its division against the SA Sa Spirits 99 (Ill.) at 10 a.m. Sunday.
Soaring Capital went 0-3 in preliminaries. Nick Steed scored for Soaring Capital.


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- Kate Bedingfield said that President Biden continues to oppose eliminating the Senate filibuster.
- "His preference is not to end the filibuster," she said on Sunday.
- Bedingfield's comments highlight a divide between the White House and progressive lawmakers.
White House Communications director Kate Bedingfield on Sunday said that President Joe Biden continues to oppose eliminating the Senate filibuster.
During an appearance on CNN's "State of the Union," Bedingfield said that Biden, a 36-year veteran of the upper chamber, remains committed to forging bipartisan consensus with the GOP, even after a narrow 50-49 party-line vote to approve the latest COVID-19 relief package.
Bedingfield stated that Biden aims to keep the filibuster in place.
"It is still his position," she said. "His preference is not to end the filibuster. He wants to work with Republicans, to work with independents. He believes that we are stronger when we build a broad coalition of support."
Host Jake Tapper then asked Bedingfield how the administration would handle other pieces of legislation, including H.R.1, the massive election overhaul that passed in the House last week, along with the party's longtime push to raise the minimum wage to $15.
The $1.9 trillion COVID-19 relief bill was passed through the budget reconciliation process, which was able to overcome the usual 60-vote threshold for legislation to proceed.
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With the Senate evenly split between 50 Democrats and 50 Republicans and Vice President Kamala Harris having the ability to break ties, every Democratic member has to be on board to proceed with major pieces of legislation unless Senate Majority Leader Chuck Schumer of New York can pick up support from the dwindling number of GOP moderates.
Still, Bedingfield argued that the relief package had bipartisan support in the public sphere and among elected officials.
"We also got it done with the support of 75 percent of the American people, including over 50 percent of Republicans," she said. "We able to pass this legislation with massive bipartisan support across the country. You had something like 400 mayors, Republicans and Democrats, come out in support of the rescue plan."
Bedingfield's comments highlight the divide between the White House and progressive lawmakers who argue that a minimum wage hike and voting rights legislation will not survive the Senate's 60-vote threshold.
While progressives have pushed for Senate Democrats to ax the filibuster, Sens. Joe Manchin of West Virginia and Kyrsten Sinema of Arizona are strongly opposed to the idea.


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I'm late for work, again, but that's nothing new.
Things at Dairy Queen are hardly tolerable, but then again, I wake up and think, God, I really need this money, so I go and I work. I rarely get shifts that end while there is still sun in the sky, and this whole getting off of work at midnight thing is starting to wear on me.
Danny is really the only person I've been hanging out with, and he starts work at eight every morning. By the time he gets off work, I'm usually at work, which gives us the night to hang out.
It's frustrating. My manager won't honor any schedule requests and our cleaning lady is out for awhile, so we are left to manage ourselves (as usual) with the added task of cleaning every night.
Since the robbery, we close at ten thirty, meaning that if we're lucky, we leave work by eleven thirty. If not, midnight.
These are the times I sincerely wish I was rich. They are few and far between, but not having to work until midnight seems like a pretty sweet deal.
Working for the man.
I'm late for work, again, but that's nothing new.


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by Mark Turner
The Innovation Special Interest Group (ISIG) of the IRM revealed the first copies of the Horizon Scanning: A Practitioners Guide at the 2018 IRM Risk Leaders conference in London.
During 2017 the ISIG, led by Mark Turner, were inspired by IRM's Risk Agenda 2025 to develop further thinking on 'Horizon Scanning' which came out of the review as an area where the risk manager will need to be more active.
With this in mind he pulled together a small team of interested volunteers to facilitate two workshops attended by over eighty risk professionals at the 2017 Risk Leaders conference. These workshops produced a significant amount of information, which the ISIG set about analysing and interpreting into a practical guide.
Helping with the task, Dr. Rodrigo Silva de Souza said,
"there was a lot of unstructured data from the workshops. Initial analysis revealed some common themes along the lines of what users needed to know about conducting horizon scanning. In addition, it also revealed that they wanted guidance on how such activities should be visualised and then reported to senior management."
Taking the results of the workshop as the key topics, a dozen members of the Innovation SIG set out to research and write the document. During the writing phase, the UK Government published the "Futures Toolkit". This influential document helped the ISIG to focus their report on how commercial and charitable organisations should make best use of the horizon scanning tool.
Sheila Milbourne was one of the authors. She said,
"having the government document released at the time of writing reassured us that we were tapping into a hot topic. It also reinforced the need for a practitioners guide for all types of organisations, not only government."
Clive Thompson, IRM Director and one of the lead authors said,
"this is a timely piece of work and demonstrates the power of the Special Interest Group model to help all in the risk community. I have enjoyed working with my fellow professionals and with the help of the Institute we have produced something which will be of real value to anyone interested in building a resilient organisation."
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This is the guide for the HPL-Particle editor which is a tool for creating various particle effects. This page is not up-to-date, the particle editor has more features and functions than listed here. Most can be experimented and understood without any documentation, but if you are up for it please update the wiki documentation.
A lot of values in the editor have both a min and max. This means that when the value is set to a particle a value between min and max is randomly selected.
Fading can be used to fade in and/or out some property like size or colour. The fading works like this. There are three relative values that are relative to the start value of the particle. The names for these values are start, middle and end and are used in that order. There are also two times that are relative to the life of the particle, for example if a particle has 2 seconds life time and the middle time is 0.5 then this occurs after 1 second (0.5 * 2). The first time is called middle time and this is when the start value is entirely faded from start to middle. The middle length is how long the middle value lasts. After middle time + middle length the middle value is faded to the end value.
The name of the emitter currently selected.
Max Particles
The maximum number of particles that can be alive at once. When this limit is reached no more particles willl be created.
Particles per Second
The number of particles per second that will be created.
Start time offset
Time offset in seconds before the emitter starts.
Respawn dead particles
If dead particles should be respawned.
Warm up time
Time that the emitter gets to warm up. This is useful when doing a a stream of something (like a fire or waterfall) and the particles should not be shown "starting up".
A pause is a break during which no particles are created. Particles are updated though.
Pause Length
The length of the pauses, 0 and 0 means that there are no pauses.
Pause Interval
The length between pauses. 0 and 0 means that there are no pauses.
Offset position
How the emitter is offset relative to its starting positon.
Offset angle
How to particle system is offset relative to its start angles.
Start type
Sets what method to use to generate the start position of the particles in the emitter.
Box start
A box start is created using an x, y and z min and max value. The collection of particles will get the shape of a box.
Sphere start
The positions are generated using an angle interval and the min and max value for the radius. You can think of it like this; an arrow start pointing up. This arrow is then rotated around the X axis (red) using a value between min and max. After that the arrow is rotated by the y axis (blue). The arrow will now be pointing in a specific direction and in this direction a position is created at a distance from center according to a number generated from min/max radius.
Velocity type
The way in which the starting velocity is generated.
Box velocity
The same as box start but with velocity instead.
Sphere Velocity
The same as sphere start but with velocity instead.
Coord system
The way in which the particles are related to the world and the object the system is attached to (if any). In world all the particles have an individual postion that does change depending on the parent object. In local however the particle position is dependant on the parent object so if that the particle moves and turns along with the parent.
Uses direction
If the direction of the start velocity depends on the way the particle system is "facing" (with no rotation it faces up). This is useful for systems like steam where the system has a direction.
Gravity Type
The type of gravity being applied to the particles.
None: No gravity it applied.
Vector: The gravity acceleration is applied.
Centre: The particles are drawn towards the centre of the particle system with Gravity Acceleration Y as acceleration.
Gravity Acceleration
Used differently according by the gravity type.
Accleration applied to all bodies.
Speed multiplier
How much the speed is multiplied by each second. For example, 0.5 means that the speed halfed each second. 2 means it is doubled each second.
Maximum speed
The maximum speed that the particles can reach.
Time in seconds that the particle will live.
NOTE: all of the colour channels have values from 0 -1.
This sets the colour of the particle.
Settings for fading the colour. See chapter 1.2 for fading.
Draw Type
The different ways in which the particles can be draw to screen.
Point: The particle is a point and will always be pointing towards the camera.
Line: The particle is aligned in the direction in which the particle is travelling.
Multiply RGB with Alpha
Some materials does not fade out the image when alpha is decreased (for example Additive) in this case it can be good to check this.
The size of the particle. This is the value used in the fading.
Size Fading
See 1.2 for instructions on fading.
Use Collision
If collision detection should be used.
Update Rate
How many times a second collision is check for each particle.
Maximum Collisions
The maximum amount of collions can have before dying.
Bounce Amount
How much of the speed is retained when bouncing. 0.5 means half of the speed. 2 means that the speed doubles when bouncing.
The material file to use.
Number of Files
The number of material files used. Normally this should just be one, but in some cases an animation needed is spread out over several material files. When using several material files these must be name "[name]01.mat", "[name]02.mat", etc. Also the file text must be just "[name]". So if the files are called "test01.mat", "test02.mat", etc it must say "test" in the file field.
Animation length
The number of seconds the animation lasts, if the particle lives longer than this time, the animation is looped.
Sub Division
This is used in order to animate individual particles (when using several files, the material for all particles are changed at the same time). It can also be used for more variety among particles. The sub divisoion is set up by specifying how the texture is to be split and then setting how the particles will be assigned to a sub division. The splitting is like this:
Sub Division Amount
The number of divisons on each axis.
Sub Division Type
How the subdivisions are assigned to the particles.
Random: A division is randomly picked.
Animation: During the life time of an object it has all the subdivisions. Starting in the upper left corning and ending in the lower right.


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Thayer Students Get Elementary With Science
Apr 30, 2013 | by Katie Beth Ryan | Valley News
Of all the musical instruments the first- and second-grade students at Thetford Elementary School played after school last Wednesday, their preferred instrument seemed to be their own voices.
After a long school day, running around and being noisy was top priority for a group of students in the inaugural session of the Thayer School After School Science and Engineering program in Thetford. So to start, Valerie Hanson, a Thayer master's degree student, introduced the youngsters to their own musical instruments by having them place their fingers on their necks and hum.
"Do you feel it vibrating?" she asked. Those were the molecules moving around to create a sound, she explained.
Better yet, "we're going to make our own type of musical instrument," Hanson told the students. Knowing both the energy level of the children and their propensity for making noise, Thayer students came prepared with rubber bands, red Solo cups and popsicle sticks for the students to create makeshift kazoos and guitars — rudimentary instruments, to be sure, but they would help them understand why, for example, a guitar has strings of different widths.
An extracurricular science program, held in the after-school hours when some students want nothing more to do with learning, may not strike one as an especially popular way for elementary schoolers to spend free time. Yet when word got out about the program at Thetford, "there was a stampede of interest," said Pam Podger, a Thetford Elementary parent who helped bring the program to the school.
The Thayer program had immediate appeal for Podger, who first learned about it when she accompanied a robotics team from Thetford to the First Lego League competition held last fall at Thayer. Knowing the elementary school was placing emphasis on so-called STEM (science, technology, engineering and math) education, "We thought, Our kids love science, love building things. Let's bring it up here and see what happens," she said.
It turned out that 50 Thetford students were ready to give after-school science a go. But for the first session of after-school science at Thetford, organizers decided to limit the number of students to just 13 in the first and second grades, so Thayer students could work with a manageable number.
The theme of the science program changes from week to week, but there's an emphasis on teaching via the inquiry method, which encourages students to come up with their own hypotheses for the scientific quandaries they encounter. Last Wednesday, Hanson held an electric guitar in front of the students and began plucking its strings, asking them what the difference between the strings were. It took a few guesses, but one student observed that some strings were thinner than others. "They all make different sounds," said first-grader Jack Cramer. Working together, the students concluded that the thinner strings produced higher notes.
Trying out chemical reactions on her own was what sparked Hanson's interest in science at a young age. "I was always in the backyard, building things. I had more tools than my dad by the time I was 12," she said. In working with students at Rivendell Interstate School District schools and Thetford, Hanson and other volunteers have tried to instill an understanding of science by having them build different items. In the first week of the program at Thetford, the students built their own batteries to power light bulbs.
"When they can see something happening or hear something happening," Hanson said, children can the rules of science better than if they were reading a textbook or watching a teacher perform a demonstration.
To create the kazoos, every student received two popsicle sticks, and wrapped a rubber band around the length of one, then inserted plastic straw pieces between the two sticks. They affixed the second popsicle stick by wrapping a rubber band around the width of both ends.
"That looks good," Hanson said to second-grader Madelyn Durkee. "Try it out and see how it works."
Nearby, Durkee's classmate Kway Antwi was giving his own kazoo a try. "That was Twinkle, Twinkle, Little Star," he said, before launching into a rendition of the Alphabet song. Around Antwi, his classmates blew sounds both familiar and indecipherable into their kazoos. Hanson decided to get the group to perform in a more cohesive manner.
"Instead of making random noises, we're going to make certain sounds," Hanson said. She turned to second-grader Addy Holzer. "Addy, do you have a favorite song?"
"Happy Birthday!" Holzer said. With Thayer school employee Christian Ortiz singing the lyrics to the song, the first- and second-graders blew into their kazoos, until they had the hang of the familiar melody.
By giving students a chance to build everyday objects and helping them discover the science behind them, the organizers of After School Science and Engineering hope to help young children develop a desire to pursue one of the STEM fields. More than anything, they want to see students get excited about science the same way they do about recess.
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An estimated 5,500 Cloverland Electric Cooperative members will remain without power overnight as a result of Winter Storm Dorothy. The combination of wet, heavy snow, and high wind gusts caused widespread outages across the co-op's five-county service area. Nearly 4,000 of these outages are in Chippewa County.
Cloverland Electric is asking members without power to make alternate arrangements as necessary to ensure their safety during this extended outage. Those who depend on electricity for medical equipment should activate their emergency back-up plan for alternate sources of power or alternate lodging. Members with unmet, non-emergency needs should call 2-1-1.
Downed lines, trees on lines, and broken poles caused widespread outages through Cloverland Electric's service territory. The co-op reported that ongoing storm conditions and challenging road conditions make restoration efforts slow going. All available crews from the co-op's five divisions have been dispatched. Crews restored over 13,000 outages since the storm hit early Wednesday morning. Although line crews worked into the night, they are required to suspend restoration efforts for a mandatory eight-hour safety rest. Restoration efforts will resume early Thanksgiving morning with the help of four mutual aid crews from Bay City Light & Power and Homeworks Tri-County Electric.
If using a portable generator during an outage, members are reminded to never operate a generator in an enclosed area or fuel it while it is running. For the safety of our line crews, never connect generators directly to your home's wiring. A special transfer switch installed by a licensed electrician is required to prevent the reverse flow of electricity onto the power lines.
Cloverland Electric reminds the public to stay safe and stay clear of downed power lines and report them by calling (800) 562-4953 or local law enforcement agencies. Those with access to Cloverland Electric's website and Cloverland Electric's Facebook page can stay current on restoration efforts and the latest updates available. However, the co-op reminds its members not to use Facebook or other social media platforms to report outages, post service addresses, or other account information.
Cloverland Electric Cooperative is a not-for-profit, member-owned utility located in Michigan's Upper Peninsula. It serves over 42,000 homes and businesses in Chippewa, Delta, Mackinac, Luce, and Schoolcraft counties.


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The HTC One S is the best designed phone of the year so far. It measures just 7.6mm in thickness but feels even thinner thanks to its slanted sides and the way the front glass surface slopes off the edges. For a 4.3-inch phone, the One S feels remarkably light and easy to handle. If you think back to the leap HTC made between the Desire HD and Sensation — making its 4.3-inch Android flagship significantly thinner, lighter and more ergonomic — the same delta is apparent between the Sensation and this handset. Part of that is down to the company moving to a Super AMOLED screen with the One S, allowing for a thinner display construction and improving dramatically on the viewing angles and vibrancy of the Sensation. It's not all good news, however, as the display is Pentile and exhibits the familiar lack of pixel-level clarity associated with that screen technology.
Don't let the above comparisons to HTC's previous handset fool you, though — this is no mere iterative upgrade. Stung by (rightful) criticism of its recent design timidity, the Taiwanese company has returned to MWC with renewed vigor and a distinctive new look. The aluminum unibody shell has been treated with microarc oxidation for increased toughness and its color is gradated so that it goes from dark at the bottom to light at the top.
Once you press the top-mounted power button you'll be greeted by Sense 4.0, which does a good job of disguising the fact this phone is running Ice Cream Sandwich, but that's not actually a terrible thing. HTC has managed to maintain the familiarity of Sense while trimming out a heap of unnecessary animations and faux 3D design touches. The user interface is now flatter and leaner, designed to let you get to the things you want to do quickly and without fuss. The onscreen keyboard, a perennial weakness of the Sense skin, has been entirely overhauled. While HTC is keen to highlights its expanded Beats Audio and Dropbox integration, the real star of its new Android software is the camera application.
HTC has shortened startup time for the camera to 0.7 seconds and autofocus time to 0.2 seconds. Onscreen buttons for recording video and stills are now right next to each other (no more mode switching), there's an intelligent burst mode that lets you pick only the best shot, and you can extract stills from video with a single tap. The only thing that would've made this a more appealing phone to camera enthusiasts is a physical shutter button.
One of the other ways in which HTC diverges from the stock Android 4.0 experience is by omitting the trio of onscreen menu buttons and instead offering them to you as a set of capacitive keys below the display. That may seem like a retrograde step, but its practical impact is actually positive: moving those buttons off the screen gives you more real estate to work with. Only aesthetics snobs will find reason bemoan this decision. Less forgivable is HTC's decision to leave the One S without a microSD card slot or a user-replaceable battery. While ultrathin phones will necessitate compromises, I hate to see storage and power flexibility being among them.
Although HTC now has the 4.7-inch One X as its leading Android smartphone, the One S is the device that has stolen away my attention. It's as distinctive a phone as HTC has launched in a long time, and it gives the company reason to once again be proud of its design department.


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Bid to pass Medical Education Bill fails
Kathmandu, October 12
The Parliament Secretariat could not list the Medical Education Bill in today's business schedule mainly due to the CPN-UML and CPN-Maoist Centre's opposition to the government's proposal to make some key changes in the bill to address the demands of Dr Govinda KC.
Dr KC has been staging hunger strike for over a week demanding reform in the medical education sector.
Deputy Prime Minister and Education Minister Gopal Man Shrestha today proposed in an informal meeting with Speaker Onsari Gharti Magar, the chief whips of the three major parties and members of Women, Children, Senior Citizen and Social Welfare Committee of the Parliament that the parliamentary panel's report should be changed to stipulate that no affiliation would be given to any medical college in Kathmandu Valley for the next 10 years; and a university could not grant affiliation to more than five colleges; and a university could grant affiliation only after the affiliation-seeking college completed three years of operation of its own hospital.
Nepali Congress lawmaker Gagan Kumar Thapa said that DPM Shrestha, who wanted to make three key changes in the bill, wanted the Parliament Secretariat to list the bill in today's business and also put the bill to vote today itself.
Sources said the speaker told the parties to hold more dialogue on the bill and reach a conclusion before the House meeting started tomorrow.
CPN-MC lawmaker Dhani Ram Paudel, who is a member of Women, Children, Senior Citizen and Social Welfare Committee of the Parliament, said Shrestha wanted to change the panel's report to address the demands of Dr Govinda KC, but CPN-MC and CPN-UML representatives did not agree.
UML Chief Whip Bhanu Bhakta Dhakal, who was present in the meeting, said he opposed Shrestha's proposals because they went against the changes made by the relevant panel of the Parliament and would also undermine the supremacy of the Parliament.
Paudel said Shrestha had also proposed that a university could not grant affiliation to a college without the college having completed three years of operation of its own hospital. This was against the parliamentary panel's provision.
Paudel said DPM Shrestha's proposal was against the panel's suggestion that said all provinces would have to open at least one medical college in the next five years.
"We cannot fulfil Dr KC's demands because we want to open more colleges in Nepal to enable Nepali students to get affordable medical education in the country," he said, adding that if Dr KC's demands were fulfilled then large number of our students would have to go abroad for medical education. Paudel said his party also did not favour concentrating all medical infrastructure in Kathmandu, but some elements were trying to give the message that only Dr KC was championing this cause.
NC lawmaker Thapa said the big three parties had divergent views on the medical education bill and there was no indication that they could reach compromise on the issue. "Therefore, parties should allow the Parliament to take a call on the issue. Blocking the bill from being listed in the Parliament's business schedule is not fair," Thapa said.
The Parliament Secretariat had been trying to list the bill in the business schedule since last week but could not do so due to the CPN-UML and CPN-MC's opposition.


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According to this site in 2010 we could be seeing a Netbook running Android and to prove it they have installed it in an Asus Eee.
The fact that various OHA partners have already developed Android enough to easily work on our netbook may be considered evidence enough that Google is getting increasing buy-in from industry players to realize this vision. We found two additional indicators that technology is being developed in this direction.