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In Greek mythology, Procrustes (/proʊˈkrʌstiːz/; Greek: Προκρούστης Prokroustes, "the stretcher [who hammers out the metal]"), also known as Prokoptas or Damastes (Δαμαστής, "subduer"), was a rogue smith and bandit from Attica who attacked people by stretching them or cutting off their legs, so as to force them to fit the size of an iron bed.
The word "Procrustean" is thus used to describe situations where different lengths or sizes or properties are fitted to an arbitrary standard.
In the Greek myth, Procrustes was a son of Poseidon with a stronghold on Mount Korydallos at Erineus, on the sacred way between Athens and Eleusis.[1] There he had a bed, in which he invited every passer-by to spend the night, and where he set to work on them with his smith's hammer, to stretch them to fit. In later tellings, if the guest proved too tall, Procrustes would amputate the excess length; nobody ever fitted the bed exactly.[2] Procrustes continued his reign of terror until he was captured by Theseus, travelling to Athens along the sacred way, who "fitted" Procrustes to his own bed:
He killed Damastes, surnamed Procrustes, by compelling him to make his own body fit his bed, as he had been wont to do with those of strangers. And he did this in imitation of Heracles. For that hero punished those who offered him violence in the manner in which they had plotted to serve him.[3]
Killing Procrustes was Theseus's last adventure on his journey from Troezen to Athens.
Cultural referencesEdit
A Procrustean bed is an arbitrary standard to which exact conformity is forced.
- In Edgar Allan Poe's influential crime story "The Purloined Letter" (1844), the private detective Dupin uses the metaphor of a Procrustean bed to describe the Parisian police's overly rigid method of looking for clues.
- French philosopher Jacques Derrida, in "The Purveyor of Truth", his response to Jacques Lacan's seminar on "The Purloined Letter" (1956), applies the metaphor to the structural analysis of texts: "By framing in this violent way, by cutting the narrated figure itself from a fourth side in order to see only triangles, one evades perhaps a certain complication."[4] This is one of deconstruction's central critiques of structural (and formal) literary analysis. Slavoj Žižek draws upon the metaphor to critique poetic form: "The most elementary form of torturing one's language is called poetry—think of what a complex form like a sonnet does to language: it forces the free flow of speech into a Procrustean bed of fixed forms of rhythm and rhyme."[5] Poet Hollis Robbins draws upon the metaphor to structure a sonnet about cutting lines to fit meter and rhyme.[6]
- The concept of the Procrustean bed has been invoked by Eurosceptics to describe the relationship between the Eurozone and its member states.[7]
- Theodosius Dobzhansky, a founding figure in evolutionary biology and genetics, wrote "Progress of scientific understanding is often obstructed and side-tracked when a working hypothesis which proves serviceable in a certain field is used as a Procrustean bed to mutilate the evidence derived from other fields."[8] Dobzhansky made this chiding statement in response to claims that certain biological phenomena could only arise via one mechanism.
- The Austrian-American writer Erik von Kuehnelt-Leddihn's 1943 book The Menace of the Herd, or Procrustes at Large is a critique of what the author describes as the negative effects of egalitarianism as a political philosophy, where state power is used to force individuals to fit the standards designed by politicians and intellectuals.
- In a poem Damastes (Also Known as Procrustes) Speaks (Damastes z przydomkiem Prokustes mówi) Polish poet Zbigniew Herbert shows an analogy between 'fitting' people to the bed of Procrustes and totalitarian regimes of 20th century trying to create a 'new man' that will be subordinate to their authority.
- The Bed of Procrustes: Philosophical and Practical Aphorisms is a 2010 book by philosopher and probability theorist Nassim Nicholas Taleb, author of The Black Swan and Antifragile. Giving continuation to this idea, in Antifragile, the author uses the image of the Procrustean bed as an allegory to modernity, linking it to present-day man's fear of randomness.
- Procrustes analysis is the process of performing a shape-preserving Euclidean transformation to a set of shapes. This removes variations in translation, rotation and scaling across the dataset in order to move them into a common frame of reference. This is generally the precursor to further statistical analysis. A related problem in linear algebra is the orthogonal Procrustes problem of finding the closest orthogonal matrix to any given matrix.
- A Procrustean solution is the undesirable practice of tailoring data to fit its container or some other preconceived structure. In a Procrustean solution in statistics, instead of finding the best fit line to a scatter plot of data, one first chooses the line one wants, then selects only the data that fits it, disregarding data that does not, so to "prove" some idea. It is a form of rhetorical deception made to forward one set of interests at the expense of others. The unique goal of the Procrustean solution is not win-win, but rather that Procrustes wins and the other loses. In this case, the defeat of the opponent justifies the deceptive means.
- In computer science, a Procrustean string is a fixed length string into which strings of varying lengths are placed. If the string inserted is too short, then it is padded out, usually with spaces or null characters. If the string inserted is too long, it is truncated. The concept is mentioned in the Sinclair ZX81 and Sinclair Spectrum user manuals, where a portion of a string is replaced by another string using Procrustean assignment—the replacement string is truncated or padded in order to have length equal to the portion being replaced.[9] Although the term did not catch on in wider usage, it appears in some references, notably FOLDOC.[10]
- The film editor Walter Murch refers, not entirely negatively, to a certain style of film editing as "procrustean". If the first assembly of a film is too long by a certain amount, that amount is removed quickly, sometimes brutally. Then the film is viewed at this new length, and progress afterwards is aimed at smoothing out the amputations without adding length.[11] Similarly, Vince Gilligan alludes to the Procrustean bed when stating that each episode of Breaking Bad had to be edited to a length of exactly 47 minutes, 7 seconds, and 4 frames.[12]
- Procrustes appears in the Percy Jackson & the Olympians book The Lightning Thief. This version is depicted as a half-giant.
- In the Eastern world, the legend of Procrustes figures prominently in Malayalam literature beginning with the highly acclaimed poem titled eponymously "Procrustes" by Vayalar Ramavarma.
- Patul lui Procust (The Bed of Procrustes) a novel by Romanian author Camil Petrescu.
- Sleepless Nights in the Procrustean Bed is a collection of essays by Harlan Ellison.
- In A. F. Th. van der Heijden's novel Het Schervengericht (Jugement by shards) Procustes's bed is used as a symbol for the strict standards of the society.
See alsoEdit
- Ergonomics
- Generalized Procrustes analysis
- One size fits all
- Procrustes analysis
- Rack (torture)
- Xenia (Greek) - the Greek concept of hospitality that Procrustes was guilty of violating
- ^ Tripp, Edward. The Meridian Handbook of Classical Mythology. Meridian, 1970, p. 498.
- ^ This detail, which injects a note of verisimilitude, is reported by both pseudo-Apollodorus (Epitome1.4) and Hyginus. "Later it was stated, by those who did not think of the meaning of Prokrustes, Prokoptas and Damastes, that he even had two beds, a large one and a small one." (Karl Kerenyi, The Heroes of the Greeks, 1959:223, noting pseudo-ApollodorusDiodorus Siculus, 4.59.5.)
- ^ Plutarch, Vita Thesei §11a. (Theoi.com on-line English translation).
- ^ Derrida, Jacques, "The Purveyor of Truth", in The Purloined Poe: Lacan, Derrida, and Psychoanalytic Reading eds. John P. Muller and William J. Richardson,
- ^ Less Than Nothing: Hegel and Shadow of Dialectical Materialism Verso 2012 p. 871
- ^ "Acrostic" http://www.mezzocammin.com/iambic.php?vol=2011&iss=1&cat=poetry&page=robbins
- ^ Marine Le Pen, After Brexit the people's spring is inevitable New York Times 28 June 2016
- ^ Dobzhansky, T. (1955). "A review of some fundamental concepts and problems of population genetics". Cold Spring Harbor Symposia on Quantitative Biology. 20: 1–15. doi:10.1101/SQB.1955.020.01.003.
- ^ Vickers, Steven (1981). Sinclair ZX81 BASIC Programming. Sinclair Research Limited. Chapter 21.
- ^ Howe, Denis (12 September 1997). "Procrustean string". Free On-line Dictionary of Computing. Retrieved 8 July 2020.
- ^ "Nothing Ever Changes, or Does It?". Folkmanbrothers.com. Archived from the original on 23 January 2013. Retrieved 14 July 2014.
- ^ Dixon, Kelley; Gilligan, Vince (24 July 2012). "Episode 502: 'Madrigal'". Breaking Bad Insider Podcast. Stitcher Radio. Retrieved 1 February 2017. Approximately 1 hour, 10 seconds in.
- Diodorus Siculus, The Library of History translated by Charles Henry Oldfather. Twelve volumes. Loeb Classical Library. Cambridge, Massachusetts: Harvard University Press; London: William Heinemann, Ltd. 1989. Vol. 3. Books 4.59–8. Online version at Bill Thayer's Web Site.
- Diodorus Siculus, Bibliotheca Historica. Vol. 1–2. Immanel Bekker. Ludwig Dindorf. Friedrich Vogel. in aedibus B. G. Teubneri. Leipzig. 1888–1890. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Gaius Julius Hyginus, Fabulae from The Myths of Hyginus translated and edited by Mary Grant. University of Kansas Publications in Humanistic Studies. Online version at the Topos Text Project.
- Lucius Mestrius Plutarchus, Lives with an English Translation by Bernadotte Perrin. Cambridge, MA. Harvard University Press. London. William Heinemann Ltd. 1914. 1. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
- Pausanias, Description of Greece with an English Translation by W. H. S. Jones, Litt.D., and H. A. Ormerod, M.A., in 4 Volumes. Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1918. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library
- Pausanias, Graeciae Descriptio. 3 vols. Leipzig, Teubner. 1903. Greek text available at the Perseus Digital Library.
- Pseudo-Apollodorus, The Library with an English Translation by Sir James George Frazer, F.B.A., F.R.S. in 2 Volumes, Cambridge, MA, Harvard University Press; London, William Heinemann Ltd. 1921. Online version at the Perseus Digital Library. Greek text available from the same website.
- Xenophon, Memorabilia II 1.14 (4th-century BC).
External linksEdit
- Media related to Procrustes at Wikimedia Commons
- The dictionary definition of procrustean at Wiktionary


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|Tiny Toon Adventures
|Weekday Afternoon Live
|Season 3, Episode 95
|The Title Card
|Air date
|November 16, 1992
|Written by
|Peter Hastings, Deanna Oliver, Paul Dini
|Directed by
|Rich Arons
|Gag credit
|We wanted this to be funny - But noooooooo!
|End tag
|Dizzy: "Show over!"
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Weekday Afternoon Live is the 17th episode of the third season of Tiny Toon Adventures, the 88th in production, and the 95th episode overall. It is an episodic-parody of Saturday Night Live. It featured guest star Blard Simpleton who is voiced by Tress MacNeille.
Babs Bunny is applying make-up when Buster Bunny enters the powder room to tell her a joke: "How does a dumb bunny answer a question?" Babs tells him, "I don't know." And Buster tells her she's right. Says Babs with cynicism, "Brilliant. Very mature." Buster asks to use it for the opening, resulting in a fight between whether he or Babs is doing the opening until Babs' pupil kicks Buster's. Buster plays heads or tails with Babs with a coin, and Babs chooses tails. But when Buster flips the coin, it lands onto a high beam, causing Buster to get a ladder and look. It turned out to be heads, so Buster decided he was doing "the OPENING!!!!" (He was on the ladder when it tipped over). Later, he was doing the opening.
During the opening, the announcer announces (respectively) Babs and Buster Bunny, Plucky Duck, Elmyra, Hamton J. Pig, and even Montana Max, Dizzy Devil and Calamity Coyote in the Weekday Afternoon Live band, and some others that may not even appear, and finally, their guest star, Blard Simpleton (a parody of Bart Simpson). Babs shows Blard that their show isn't like his, because anvils falling, and getting eaten by monsters whole and alive, and getting uneaten in one piece, wouldn't happen. He asks Babs if it's too late to back out, and she says it is. As a camera falls on him, he says the guest-host monologue stinks, to which Babs tells him it is a tradition and is supposed to stink.
Then come the sketches.
After that, Blard says "Good night, man!" just before the stage falls with him and the other characters, including Elmer Fudd, whom there had been multiple clones of in one of the sketches.
"Cheese E. Sneezer's" Commercial
Buster and Plucky are bored, and Hamton is hungry, so Sneezer takes his friends to Cheese E. Sneezer's.
Another Moment in American History
Babs tricks Blard, as General Lee, to sign a surrender document (which is really her autograph book)
We're Going to Blow You Up
Buster and Plucky (who look and sound like german body builders in this sketch) help Hamton change from his porky, fat self to a muscular version of himself. However, after gaining the muscles he needed and ended up looking muscular, Buster and Plucky tell him he's not done yet and help him continue to exercise until he explodes, in which they literally "BLOW HIM UP!".
Samurai Film Critic
Hamton and Dizzy Devil review a series of movie parodies a la Siskel and Ebert, but with Dizzy dressed as a samurai. The movies they review include Gnome Alone Again, Dances With Lobsters, and Immature Radioactive Samurai Slugs III.
Elmyra's Reel (Be Prepared)
Elmyra Duff shows us a cartoon of Mr. Skullhead preparing for an earthquake.
Weekday Update with Rabbit Chase
Buster, as Rabbit Chase, reviews the top stories of Tiny Toon Adventures, such as Concord Condor revealed to have been the grandson of former Three Stooges member, Moe Howard (because they both have the same hairstyle), Barky Marky's lack of appearances on the show ("Who's Barky Marky?"), and the issue of too much violence on TV (which Elmyra mistakenly hears as violets, which she doesn't think there's enough of on TV).
"ABC Gum" Commercial
Sneezer and Sweetie enjoy their friendship, sharing their laughter, tears, and yes, even their gum. A lonely Sneezer decides to relive the feeling with ABC (Already Been Chewed) gum, which the announcer describes as "The next best thing to a best friend."
Countdown to Hunting Season
In this Sketch, we are at the Moose Liver Lodge where Plucky, as Plucky Funely the host and singer, announces the upcoming time for Hunting season. As he tells the crowd they have a few seconds, he decides to sing them a strange version of "A Hunting We Will Go". After the crowd applauds to his song, Plucky introduces his piano player, Ham-Tone Jones. He walks up and annoys one of the people (who is Elmer Fudd), such as singing "I've been working on the railroad" while on his arms. Just as it is about to be time for hunting season, Plucky asks all of the hunters to count down to hunting season. As Plucky asks what type of hunting is this season, we then see the crowd, who is revealed to be a lot of Elmer Fudd look-likes, who reveal it is Duck Hunting season, and begin shooting him.
The Cornheads
Buster, Babs, and Elmyra play The Cornheads, a family of extraterrestrials with corn on their heads. Blard Simpleton plays a paperboy and the non-corn date of Elmyron, who (not surprisingly) rejects her, causing her to get so angry, she pops her corn.
|Voice Actors:
|Charlie Adler
|Buster Bunny
|Tress MacNeille
|Babs Bunny, Blard Simpleton
|Joe Alaskey
|Plucky Duck
|Don Messick
|Hamton J. Pig
|Danny Cooksey
|Montana Max
|Cree Summer
|Elmyra Duff
|Maurice LaMarche
|Dizzy Devil
|Frank Welker
|Furrball, Gogo Dodo, Don Pardo, Elmer Fudd
|Kath Soucie
|Li'l Sneezer
|Candi Milo
|Sweetie Bird
- Blard Simpleton: "Stick around for a great show, I hope!"
- Blard Simpleton: "This guest host monologue stinks!"
- Babs: It's supposed to. It's a tradition.
- Hamton: "Tune in next week, when one of the films we'll be reviewing is Young Gums."
- Dizzy: "Dated reference! Another dated reference! Who cares about Keifer Sutherland?!"
- Buster: "Also in the news, complaints have been received at the Tiny Toons Central Casting Office that the character, Barky Marky is not in enough scripts. The Tiny Toons Casting Director had this to say;"
- Babs: "Who's Barky Marky?"
- Elmyra: "Hello, friends. I wanna know why people are all upsetty-wetty about violets on TV. What's wrong with little violets? They're pretty and cute and all lovely all over. I don't think there's enough violets on TV. How about shows like The Violet Bunch?"
- Buster: "Elmyra..."
- Elmyra: "Or I Love Violets?"
- Buster: "Elmyra..."
- Elmyra: "Oh, violets are oh, so pretty. If they were aminals, I'd hug them and Squeeze them..."
- Buster: "ELMYRA!"
- Elmyra: "Yes?"
- Buster: "The issue is not violets on TV. It is violence. Too much violence on TV."
- Elmyra: "Oh. Not this?" (Holds up a bunch of violets)
- Buster: "No, this." (Drops an anvil on Elmyra)
- Elmyra: "Never you mind."
- Buster: "And now we'll repeat today's top story with translation by Gogo Dodo for the wacky impaired. Topping tonight's stories, it was revealed today that Concord Condor is actually the grandson of former Three Stooges member, Moe Howard."
- Gogo: "My underwear is made of bologna!"
- Blard: Hey, back off, man! I'm not dating some chowder-headier corn! I'm the paper boy, not your blind date!
- This episode, specifically the title, is a parody of the live-action comedy sketch show, Saturday Night Live. The episode parodies classic SNL sketches such as Hans and Franz are Going to Pump You Up, John Belushi's Samurai character, Weekend Update (which includes parodies of Chevy Chase, Emily Litella, Garrett Morris as the Headmaster for the School of the Deaf, and Dennis Miller), Nick the Lounge Singer, and the Coneheads.
- Blard Simpleton, the guest star of this episode, is a parody of the famous The Simpsons character, Bart Simpson. Blard is Stephen Spielberg's personal friendly jab at Fox, because he provided the Indiana Jones theme song for The Simpsons' Season 3 episode, Bart's Friend Falls In Love, hoping in return, he would get to use The Simpsons theme song for the Pledge Week episode segment, It's All Relatives (during Babs' impressions of Marge, Bart, and Maggie). Even though Fox tried, he was denied the rights.
- Cheese E. Sneezer's is a parody of the famous restaurant/arcade, Chuck E. Cheese's.
- In the sketch, Samurai Film Critic, the movies that Hamton and Dizzy review are Gnome Alone Again (a parody of Home Alone 2: Lost in New York), Dances with Lobsters (A parody of Dances With Wolves), and Immature Radioactive Samurai Slugs III (a parody of Teenage Mutant Ninja Turtles III: Turtles in Time).
- In the sketch, Samurai Film Critic, Hamton also mentions next week, he and Dizzy will be reviewing Young Gums (a parody of Young Guns), and Dizzy complains about how dated that reference is.
- In the sketch, Weekday Update with Rabbit Chase, when Elmyra talks about there not being enough 'violets' on TV, even though she's supposed to talk about 'violence' on TV, she holds out title cards for the shows, The Violet Bunch (a parody of The Brady Bunch) and I Love Violets (a parody of I Love Lucy).
- In the sketch, Weekday Update with Rabbit Chase, Buster's first story reveals Concord Condor is grandson to former Three Stooges member, Moe Howard, because they both have the same hairstyle.
- On the Tiny Toon Adventures Vol. 4: Looney Links DVD, the episode stops at the end of the sketch, Elmyra's Reel (Be Prepared), and cuts to Plucky's verse in the Toon TV music video, Toon Out, Toon In, playing the rest of that particular episode afterwards. This glitch also occurred with The Hub's first broadcast of the episode. Warner Bros. has since sent replacement discs with the full episode to consumers who have reported this issue and also reissued the DVD set with the corrected disc, and the corrected version is now airing on the Hub Network.
- In the Weekday Update sketch, Buster is playing a parody of Chevy Chase, featuring his "hearing impaired" feature. Of course, around the time of the episode, Saturday Night Live, the show being parodized which was on Season 18, had Kevin Nealon as the Update anchor.
- Production-wise, this is the first episode animated at both Wang Films Productions and Cuckoo's Nest Studios.
- To read the transcript for this episode, click here.

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Shellsea is a jewel fish[1] and is Bea's best friend. She loves fashion, taking "disco naps", shopping, dancing and seeing who's less attractive than her in the yearbook[2].
Shellsea is very independent, focused, always speaks her mind, and can be mean at times. She also seems to dislike Milo and Oscar. She is a fashion diva and when Bea is not hanging out with Milo and Oscar, she always makes time for her friends, especially Shellsea. Like Bea, Shellsea has interest in the drama club. Shellsea enjoys dancing and listening to popular music. She also enjoys putting on makeup from her white handbag.
Personal Life
Shellsea had one of her first and most major roles when Bea was about to do a girls' party. When Milo wanted to go to the party, Shellsea told him that sometimes girls like to get together and have fun, and that it was nothing personal that they did not invite him. When Milo and Oscar came disguised as girls, Shellsea thought they looked ugly, and thought they were spying on them, so, instead of having Bea tell Milo and Oscar to leave, Shellsea told her that since they were trying to ruin their night, that they should ruin theirs instead. Bea and Shellsea then tortured them and sang "Eat Dip". When Oscar admits they are boys, Bea says that they already knew. When Milo and Oscar told Bea that they thought they were gonna lose her forever, Shellsea said she did not know that boys could be so sweet.
Shellsea had possibly her most major role in "I Have This Friend", when Bea and the rest of the girls suspect that Shellsea may be upset that she does not have a boyfriend. The entire episode is based on them trying to find a suitable mate for Shellsea and failing until they find Michael, a fish who is exactly like Shellsea. It seems perfect until they found out that Michael was Shellsea's friend all along.
Bea Goldfishberg
Bea and Shellsea are the best of friends. Shellsea gives her tips or advice and is seen with Bea everywhere, except when Bea is having an adventure with Milo or Oscar. They both have a lot in common and Shellsea is always there for Bea when she needs her. Shellsea and Bea usually talk about dating, boys and "girl stuff".
Shellsea knows Milo, but doesn't hang out with him much. But since Milo is Bea's friend, Shellsea may be just "friends" with him, though Shellsea tortured them for sneaking to their party ("Fish Sleepover Party"). Like the other students, Shellsea enjoyed Milo's entrance in the class with the eel ("Fish Out of Water"). In Rock Lobster Yeti, when everyone believes that Milo is captured and eaten by the yeti, Shellsea simply remarks, "Better save the leftovers." Despite any praise she has ever given him, she generally does not seem to like him, and seems to think he is immature.
Like Milo, Oscar and Shellsea's relationship is unknown. She suggested torturing him along with Milo for breaking into the party ("Fish Sleepover Party"). It is sometimes contradicting, such as Shellsea liking Oscar's sense of humor ("Funny Fish"), but, according to Oscar, talks about him behind his back ("Halloween Haul"). Their relationship was addressed in ("Fuddy Duddy Study Buddy"), when the two got paired up for a project, and it is shown that even though Shellsea may think Oscar is a bit lame, she tries to help him and even says that he is "awesome" to help him relax. Oscar did not seem to agree with Shellsea on a lot of things in this episode, but otherwise, he does not show much distaste for her. At the end of the episode, Shellsea eventually helps Oscar relax and get an A on their project.
|The image gallery for Shellsea may be viewed here.
Background information
- Her name is pun on the word "shell" and the name "Chelsea".
- She talks in a slow, valley-girl voice.
- Unlike Piranhica, Shellsea is never seen without her handbag.
- Her yearbook picture has her putting on lipstick.
- She was dating Steve Jackson, one of the most popular fish in her class ("Doris Flores Gorgeous").
- She seems to be a fan of football.
- She seems to get angry when someone is poking her as evidenced in "Parasite Fright".
- She likes lotions ("Diary of a Lost Fish").
- Sometimes after Shellsea speaks, it shows a close-up picture with a more detailed face and background singers singing "Come on!", as seen in "Fishing for Compliments: The Albert Glass Story", when she gave Bea the bag with handcuffs.
- Shellsea thinks cattlefish smell like farts.
- She doesn't like board games.
- Shellsea owns her own clubhouse, as shown in Fudddy Duddy Study Buddy.
- She may have a dislike/hatred for Milo. In Bea Dates Milo, when she hears from Bea that Milo's relationship with Pamela Hamster is over and that Milo thinks he likes Bea now, Shellsea says she should "dump" Milo, and she wants to watch her do it.
- Her last name is rumored to be Jewelerson.
- She hates ants. ("Live at the Hamsterwood Bowl")
- She never liked Oscar. ("Assignment: Babies")
- ↑ Disney Channel Medianet - Fish Hooks
- ↑ Shellsea's Fishbook profile


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Spirited Away, Huaraz!
After just a couple of days of plopping around in front of a huge TV with Wii, paused by a little research on the net, going through the local market with Kate who introduced me to my first awesome Manjar Blanco filled Churro, and meeting the Hamburger man with Julio, Kate and I planned a spur of the moment travel to Hauraz, a beautiful place about four hundred kilometers north of Lima situated between the magnificent Cordillera Blanca and the Cordillera Negra. [Continue reading…]Read more


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It was a rollercoaster ride for Korean swimmer Park Tae-hwan, nicknamed, "Marine Boy" after an old television cartoon.
The 22-year-old Olympic champion was disqualified for some unclear reason in the 400-meter freestyle heat, then reinstated about four hours later, and won the silver medal in the finals five hours later.
Day 1 of the London Olympics Saturday saw Park finding it difficult to contain his emotions, perhaps thinking that he could have won if he had not been so emotionally drained by all brouhaha. If he started to cry because of the overwhelming disappointment he thinks he brought to the nation, he should forget about it.
It would have been nice for Park to win back to back. But his silver medal should be taken as nothing less than the gold because he did his best. And there are other races ahead.
It was a loss seen to be from an apparently insurmountable gap he had with the winner on the last stretch of the race.
"It has been a long day for me," the 22-year-old said through a translator.
"It was very difficult for me in that period between the heats and the finals. I've been waiting for this day and there was a lot going on today."
Park, whose shocking disqualification was annulled by the global governing body, FINA, after Korea filed a protest, got off to a strong start in the final. He was the first to react to the buzzer at 0.67 seconds, and he led the pack for the first 300 meters.
However, China's Sun Yang, who entered the 400-meter race as favorite with the season's best record of 3 minutes 42.31 seconds, lived up to his billing. Sun overtook Park in the final stretch to beat his top rival by a large margin for his first Olympic title with a time of 3:40.14, just 0.07 outside the world record of 3:40.07, set by Germany's Paul Biedermann in 2009.
"I was so eager and impatient to get on the podium," the Chinese swimmer was quoted as saying.
"Today if I cry it's really because I worked hard for one year, or even longer. I got up very early and worked very hard. This is a reward for me and my coach, who is not well. After I return he will go through surgery. My parents came. They are really great parents, they gave me so much."
His maiden Olympic gold medal also marked the 20-year-old's first victory over Park in an international competition.
Park clocked in at 3:42.06 to win the silver, while American Peter Vanderkaay placed third in 3:44.69.
"I swam really well, it was a little bit of a pity that I came second," said Park. Had he won, this would have been his second straight Olympic gold in the 400 freestyle and he would have been the first South Korean to defend an Olympic gold in an individual event.
In the morning preliminary, Park touched the wall first in 3:46.68, which qualified him in fourth position, but moments later, found out that he was dumped for a false start, a surprise in that a swimmer can gain almost zero advantage from a faster start in distance races like the 400 freestyle.
"There was a lot going on for me this morning but I swam as well as I could, I have no regrets about this morning," Park said.
But the "Marine Boy" was unable to contain his emotions and broke into tears during an interview with the Korean press.
Team Korea's first appeal to FINA's technical swimming committee was rejected and it took an appeal jury to rule in Park's favor.
Despite the reinstatement, FINA did not give any answer to the disqualification.
"It's a very good question," said FINA executive director Cornel Marculescu. "Human error maybe."
ref: http://www.koreatimes.co.kr
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"Christ is our life: in heaven He ever liveth to pray; His live in us an ever-praying life, if we but trust Him for it. Christ teaches us to pray not only by example, by instruction, by command, by promises, but by showing us Himself, the everlasting Intercessor, as our Life."
~ Andrew Murray, With Christ in the School of Prayer, (preface)
The Danger of "I" in Christian Prayer
This article is an excerpt from my book, The Prayer that Turns the World Upside Down: The Lord's Prayer as a Manifesto for Revolution. This post is the third in an eight part series on the Lord's Prayer.
There is No "I" in Prayer: Combating Individualism in Our Prayers
Over the past several decades I have noticed that many Christians tend to begin their prayers by presenting their needs. Of course, in some sense, I understand why we naturally turn to petition almost immediately upon entering into prayer. We tend to begin with petitions because prayer reminds us of our deep need for God to sanctify us in our circumstances and save us from our trials. Additionally, our circumstances and trials are often the very thing that drives us to pray in the first place. Thus the tyranny of the urgent has a remarkable way of consuming our intellectual life and our thought patterns. As a result, our prayers, from beginning to end, are often marked by petition.
But the Lord's Prayer begins in a very different place. Petitions certainly are a part (a major part, in fact) of the Lord's Prayer, but Jesus does not begin with requests. He begins, instead, by identifying the character of the God to whom he prays while at the same time challenging our individualism in prayer. Jesus does all of this in the first two words, "Our Father."
The word "our," at first glance, seems like an insignificant little pronoun. But Jesus is making a tremendously powerful theological point by beginning his prayer with the word "our." Jesus is reminding us that when we enter into a relationship with God we enter into a relationship with his people. When we are saved by Christ, we are saved into his body, the church. In fact, this emphasis on our place in the corporate identity of the church is reiterated throughout the prayer. One way to notice this emphasis is simply to read through the prayer and stress each personal pronoun:
"Our Father in heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done, on earth as it is in heaven. Give us this day our daily bread, and forgive us our debts, as we also have forgiven our debtors. And lead us not into temptation, but deliver us from evil."
Do you notice what is stunningly absent? There is no first-person singular pronoun in the entire prayer! Jesus did not teach us to pray, "My father who is heaven, hallowed be your name. Your kingdom come, your will be done on earth as it is in heaven. Give me this day my daily bread and forgive me my debts as I also have forgiven my debtors. And lead me not into temptation but deliver me from evil." The point is not to deny our own sins or our own needs, but never to leave ourselves there.
One of the besetting sins of evangelicalism is our obsession with individualism. This obsession with individualism chronically besets us as evangelicals. The first-person singular pronoun reigns in our thinking. We tend to think about nearly everything (including the truths of God's Word) only as they relate to me. This is why when Jesus teaches his disciples to pray, he emphasizes from the very outset that we are part of a corporate people called the church. God is not merely "my Father." He is "our Father"—the Father of my brothers and sisters in the faith with whom I identify and with whom I pray.
If we are honest, even many of our prayer meetings fail to take into account Jesus' emphasis on the corporate character of prayer. Yet we must never lose sight of the fact that even when we pray by ourselves, we must pray with an eye toward and with love for Christ's church. We must remember the pattern of our Lord's speech in the model prayer and recall not only the words he used, but the words he didn't use. The first-person singular (I, me, my, mine) is completely absent from the Lord's Prayer. Evidently, prayer should not center on you or me.
The problem of overemphasizing ourselves in our prayers reminds me of G. K. Chesterton's famous answer to a question put forth by a major London newspaper, "What is the problem with the world?" This question was sent to many public intellectuals in Victorian England, many of whom sent back long essays delineating the complexities of everything wrong with the world. Chesterton, however, responded with a simple handwritten note that read, "I am. Sincerely yours, Chesterton."
What is the biggest problem with our prayers? Perhaps the most fundamental answer mirrors Chesterton's: "I am."
Why We Should Pray
"And the tax collector, standing afar off, would not so much as raise his eyes to heaven, but beat his breast, saying, 'God, be merciful to me a sinner!' "
A young lawyer who had just opened his law practice was sitting in his chair behind his new executive desk, waiting for his first client to come in. When he saw a man walking toward his office, he picked up the phone and began talking to his imaginary assistant. He said, "Yes, I am so busy right now. Ask them to call back. I have so many clients, I just don't have time." He hung up the phone, sure that he had just impressed his first visitor.
"I'm from the phone company," the man said. "I'm here to connect your phone."
That's how it is for us when we try to impress God with things we say and do. Jesus told the story of two men who went up to the temple to pray. One was a Pharisee who prayed, "God, I thank You that I am not like other men-extortioners, unjust, adulterers, or even as this tax collector. I fast twice a week; I give tithes of all that I possess" (Luke 18:11–12 NKJV).
The other was a tax collector who simply said, "God, be merciful to me a sinner!" (verse 13 NKJV).
Jesus said of the tax collector, "This man went down to his house justified rather than the other" (verse 14 NKJV). The primary problem of the Pharisees, the religious elite, was that prayer, for them, was theater. It was a performance. They would stand praying on a street corner, and sometimes someone would sound a trumpet. Jesus was saying that God doesn't care about things like that. They were so concerned with impressing people, but God wasn't impressed.
"In truth there is nothing more thrilling, more solid, more exhilarating, more humanity-restoring, more radiantly joyous, than holiness."
~ Dane Ortlund, Edwards on the Christian Life
by Stacie Marshall
The world mourns the loss of legendary Gospel singer Aretha Franklin who passed away on August 16, 2018. We've compiled 9 Aretha Franklin Gospel hymns to remember the life of this remarkable woman.
Aretha, who was 76-years-old was in hospice care, and her family hopeful that she would pull through. NME reports that the official cause of death was advanced pancreatic cancer, which Aretha has been battling since 2011.
The powerful soul singer will undoubtedly go down in music history. Influenced and inspired by gospel music, Aretha grew up in church.
Aretha spent a lot of time in church when she was younger since she was a 'preacher's kid'. Her dad was the minister at New Bethel Baptist Church, and that was where Aretha discovered her God-given gift for singing. Her faith was very important to Aretha so even as she began to gain fame as a singer, she maintained her gospel roots and never lost her faith.
Franklin released her first album, "Songs of Faith," in 1956. In her 62-year career, Aretha earned an incredible 10 top-10 singles, including "I Say a Little Prayer" and "Respect."
According to Business Insiders Aretha was one of the best-selling female artists in history with 75 million records sold worldwide. Our prayers go out to her family for their loss!
Below, please find nine of our favorite Aretha Franklin gospel songs. These hymns are so good!
In the first point we covered in our little talk about "Revival," we discussed the issue of why we might or might not need revival in the first place. I think we came to an agreement that, while we ought not to need it, that we unfortunately do. We then went on to discuss the […]
If you have more than two children, likely someone has asked you one of the more embarrassing and awkward questions: "Don't you know what causes those?"
At times I've wanted to answer, "No. Would you be willing to explain it to me?" But the truth is, as a mother of five living children and one that died in my womb, I do know what causes those little humans to exist. Just like I know what caused the person who asks such a question to exist. God does.
Often it isn't the children themselves that bother onlookers, but the impracticality of having so many that gets under their skin. They want to know if the kids share rooms, what the grocery bill is like, how we plan to manage college, and most importantly, why we would subject ourselves to so much work.
Queen of Heaven
The people of Judah were just as practical and pragmatic concerning children as people of today, but in an opposite, though just as idolatrous, way. The book of Jeremiah has some terrifying words for them. Jeremiah, God's chosen prophet, warns them over and over of their evil ways, but they are undisturbed. They defy his warnings,
"As for the word that you have spoken to us in the name of the Lord, we will not listen to you. But we will do everything that we have vowed, make offerings to the queen of heaven and pour out drink offerings to her, as we did, both we and our fathers, our kings and our officials, in the cities of Judah and in the streets of Jerusalem. For then we had plenty of food, and prospered, and saw no disaster." (Jeremiah 44:16–17)
The queen of heaven — that nonexistent goddess of fertility and love on whom God's people had set their hearts — was requiring offerings. What did she desire aside from their complete devotion? Drink offerings and fancy cakes with her face on them. The Lord called such idolatry and sacrifices an abomination (Jeremiah 44:4).
Elective Infertility
Picturing the women of Judah foolishly and sinfully baking cakes for their female fertility idol (Jeremiah 44:19) ought to stir our hearts and have us wondering where the finger should be pointed. If sacrifices of drinks and cakes to a false goddess of fertility kindled the Lord's anger to the point that he forbade Jeremiah to pray for the people (Jeremiah 7:16), then what must God think of a society that has made child sacrifice normal for the sake of elective infertility?
What must he think of a society that goes to such great lengths to do away with children, only to go great lengths to acquire other children when the time is right?
Many worship the false queen of heaven in her cloak of personal autonomy.
"…when we learn to regard it (prayer) as the highest part of the work entrusted to us, the root and strength of all other work, we shall see that there is nothing that we so need to study and practise as the art of praying aright."
~ Andrew Murray, With Christ in the School of Prayer, (preface)
I was in the Texas Big Country, an area famous for its annual Rattlesnake Roundup. My one measure of protection was a pair of plastic chaps, hard enough to deflect the fangs of a rattler, worn over my jeans. But the chaps weren't enough to take me off my guard. Like my childhood hero Indiana Jones, I hated snakes (still do!), and I never knew when a rattler would cross my path. One time I came within about two feet of stepping on one. That experience made me vigilant: I watched where I stepped, listening for any faint hint of a rattle, ready to jump at any sudden movement. Danger felt imminent, and I was watchful.
Spiritual Vigilance
Vigilance is an essential component to the spiritual discipline of watchfulness. To be vigilant is to be on guard. The sentinel of a city is vigilant. He watches for the approach of the enemy. Warriors are vigilant. They're watchful and wary of their antagonist's every move. People become vigilant when they realize they're in jeopardy. As soldiers of the cross, we are surrounded by enemies.
In the words of an old hymn:
Christian, seek not yet repose,
Cast thy dreams of ease away;
Thou art in the midst of foes:
Watch and pray.
Watchfulness, therefore, is as necessary to a healthy spiritual life as meditation and prayer. Jesus tells his disciples to "watch and pray, lest you enter into temptation" (Matt. 26:41). The letters of Paul, Peter, and John sound the same note, urging us to exercise moral vigilance and watchful prayer (1 Cor. 16:13; Gal. 6:1; Col. 4:2; 1 Tim. 4:16; 1 Pet. 4:7; 2 John 8). And Hebrews commands mutual watchfulness and exhortation while also reminding us to obey those leaders who keep watch over our souls (Heb. 3:12; 13:17).
Yet despite this biblical emphasis, watchfulness is one practice that rarely gets mentioned in contemporary manuals of spiritual disciplines.
That hasn't always been the case. In fact, the 17th-century Puritans wrote often about watchfulness and its practical outworking in our lives.
Richard Rogers, for example, was an early Puritan who published a substantial book called Seven Treatises in 1602. Divided into seven parts, the 900-page compendium on Christian living explores the full spectrum of religious life and experience. In the third treatise, Rogers discusses "the means whereby a godly life is helped and continued" and divides these helps into two categories: public and private. The private means include things you might expect, like meditation, prayer, and fasting.
But first on Rogers's list of private helps is watchfulness, "which is worthily set in the first place, seeing it is as an eye to all the rest, to see them well and rightly used."
The implication is clear: neglect watchfulness and you will hinder other spiritual practices. Watchfulness is the whetstone of the spiritual disciplines, the one practice that keeps the other habits sharp.
Guard Your Heart
The discipline of watchfulness includes both negative and positive aspects. Negatively, we're to ruthlessly guard our hearts from sin and temptation, making no provision for the flesh (Prov. 4:23; Matt. 26:41; Rom. 13:14).
This requires the cultivation of self-examination, where we take regular inventory of our personal tendencies towards particular sins, what the Puritan Isaac Ambrose called "Delilah sins." Delilah sins, like Samson's Philistine mistress, like to sit on our laps and whisper sweet nothings in our ears, but they will betray us to our foes in a heartbeat and cut off our moral strength. These are the specific sin patterns we've cultivated through willful and habitual sin. Like deep ruts that furrow a muddy road, these vices are etched into our lives through daily routines, self-justifying rationalization, and continual repetition.
Having identified these sin patterns, we then need to persistently protect the points of entry to the heart. John Bunyan, in his allegory The Holy War, refers to these entry points as five gates to the city of Mansoul: "Ear-gate, Eye-gate, Mouth-gate, Nose-gate, and Feel-gate." When we fail to watch, temptation clambers into our hearts through an unwatched gate. This means we can't tend our hearts without considering the websites we visit, the books we read, the shows and movies we watch, the places we frequent, and the music and messages that fill our ears.
The discipline of watching is like a home security system. An effective surveillance system includes several components, such as security cameras, motion sensors, floodlights, electric locks, and high-decibel alarms. All these components serve one purpose: protecting the home from dangerous intruders. In similar fashion, watchfulness embraces a variety of practices, such as self-examination, prayer, meditation, and accountability, but all governed by the single intention of keeping the heart.
Look to Jesus
But there's also a positive dimension to watchfulness. We mustn't only mortify sin and avoid temptation. We must also set our gaze on Jesus. To return to the city metaphor, we mustn't only guard the gates of our souls from dangerous intruders but also store our hearts with the gospel. Our goal in keeping our hearts isn't to keep them empty, but to make room for Christ to dwell in our hearts through faith (Eph. 3:17).


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By Sandeep G., SASTRA Deemed University, Thanjavur.
The discovery of the online trading concept has invoked positivity, not only in the minds of wealthy businessmen but also in the minds of health-protecting farmers. Although India is an agrarian economy, the non-existence of equipoise between the rural and urban economy contributes to the deprivation of both the corporate and agricultural domains. In spite of favouring the corporate domain with Make in India and other similar policies, the Union Government developed a policy on the refinement of the agricultural sector.
The APMC (Agricultural Produce Market Committee) was unsuccessful in uplifting the farmers by failing to contribute towards the prevention of exploitation of farmers, in a proper manner. Farmers account for 50% of the population in India. The physical existence of markets and the restrictions placed on farmers to trade in any market restricted the trade of agricultural products per se. Even the e-tendering policy failed to resolve the issues in respect thereof. Hence, there was a necessity to bring a new platform that can tether buyers and sellers across the nation. The Union Government brought a new online platform to bring together all the farmers and buyers across the nation with a view to promoting agricultural trade. e-NAM does not eliminate the value of physical markets but rather encourages the farmers to sell their products in any market. This policy preceded the introduction of GST (Goods and Services Tax, 2017). The similarity between the GST and e-NAM is the sacrifice of control over the subjects of the State by the State Government. In the case of GST, the States are required to sacrifice a part of their fiscal autonomy. Similar is the case with the e-NAM, which requires all the States to take off restrictions, such as the requirement of multiple licenses and imposition of multiple levies. This removal of restrictions would open the doors for the farmers to sell their agricultural produce in any market across the State. Therefore, the complex fragmentation of markets and hampered flow of commodities are no longer matters of concern.
The formalisation of the informal sector is essential for the economic growth and social welfare of the Country. Without demonetisation, the rise of e-NAM would have remained a dream. Though the policy was introduced prior to demonetisation, all the farmers did not have bank accounts and those who did, express their refusal to availing services provided by the bank. The farmers did not seem to have availed any other service except taking loans and later protesting for waiver of the same in case of the crop failure. Computerization of accounts and transactions backed by adequate cybersecurity, grants access to every stakeholder to gain relevant information in a very short span of time. The direct contact between farmers and buyers curbs the possibility of inflation and also increases the returns to farmers. Cashless mode of transaction boosts the credit-creating capacity of the banks which in turn reduces the number of Non-Performing Assets (NPAs). The increase in per capita income of 600 million farmers is a health-protecting factor as it restricts the farmers from committing suicide. The farmers are unlikely to protest for the waiver of loans as they would be backed with adequate finance to repay their existing loans. Computerization of agricultural trade acts as a considerable impetus to create employment opportunities for the graduates in the Information Technology sector. All these factors will contribute to the rise of India's GDP in the long run.
The APMC failed to address the issue of exploitation of farmers by the middlemen. Prior to e-NAM, the direct contact between farmers and retailers could not be established because of the middlemen. The manpower required for acting as intermediaries is diminished because of the emergence of the online portal. For instance, a farmer harvesting cotton can market the product directly to the cotton industries without any backing from any middleman. Presently, a farmer can go to any Mandi (market) in a State to quote the final price of the products as the license extends to the entire State. Though this online platform causes integration of existing mandis or markets, transport and warehousing are apparently disadvantageous. Until 2014, there were only 450-500 warehouses. Out of 16 agencies registered with the WDRA (Warehousing Development and Regulatory Authority), only 9 agencies have been accredited. Since the bidding process occurs digitally from any part of the nation, the farmers cannot get the products delivered in the required places swiftly and safely. For example, if a farmer from Tamil Nadu offers to sell 10 mangoes and the buyer bids online from Assam, then the swift transport of mangoes requires a high level of logistic support which is absent. Despite providing details pertaining to the quality and standards of the products, the buyers cannot be sure of the logistic support. This gives rise to the necessity of qualitative storage facilities and speedy mode of transport across the nation.
Training is provided only to Mandi officials in respect of quality testing, grading and other relevant subjects. There is no vacuum for the farmers to secure training related to online business. Having been accustomed to the cash transactions, the mindset of the farmers or even some of the traders is not dynamic enough to accommodate such changes in the digital arena. The lack of awareness among farmers and also some traders has the possibility to have them opt out of online trading. The farmers may not be able to even comprehend the problems that may arise due to transaction failure and they might require the aid of others. Thus, it is highly essential to spread awareness pertinent to online trading among the farmers for causing an upsurge in digital transactions.
In addition to fostering the welfare of farmers, this policy guarantees protection to them against exploitation by the middlemen. Any amendment or legislation or policy related to agriculture is subject to the State Government's approval, as agriculture is a subject of the State. All the agricultural platforms established by the State Governments can get connected to NAM upon affirmation given by the State Government. The adoption of this scheme is not mandatory. In spite of so much persuasion from the Union Government, only half of the States have responded positively towards this policy. The failure of other States to adopt this policy might widen the existing inequality in income distribution amongst the farmers in various domains. Therefore, unless one could notice a parallel growth in all States with a little difference, it will be a tremendously arduous task to refine the agricultural sector collectively.


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If you own an established company or are just thinking about creating one from the ground up, chances are that the thought of building your own mobile app has crossed your mind. While web development has become a relatively common service that most business and startup owners are familiar with, the same cannot be said about app development. To help you navigate this critical market segment, we have taken it upon us to research how much it really costs to build a mobile app from scratch.
The Low-Cost Option
If you are a sole-proprietor on a tight budget, your first choice for mobile app development will likely be an independent freelancer. These days, it's possible to find decent developers who will work for $50 per hour. And if you are willing to hire someone who is not based in the United States, that figure could be considerably lower.
Of course, any low-cost option isn't without its downsides. For starters, the absence of a project manager means that coordinating efforts of multiple people (for example, your main developer and two designers) could turn out to be very time-consuming.
What's more, freelancers will seldom help you nurture your vision and work together to create a cohesive app. You will have to know precisely what you want and be able to communicate your ideas to others.
But even with these downsides, hiring a freelancer could be the best course of action for small projects. You will be able to find plenty of talented developers on sites like upwork or toptal.
The High-Quality Option
There's only so much that even the best freelancers can do. The development of larger applications necessitates a well-organized team of talented individuals, including a designer, account manager, and product manager, among many others.
Ken Yarmosh, the Founder & CEO of Savvy Apps, said back in 2010 that everybody who has more than $10,000 should consider working with a professional or agency. Things have changed since then, and modern apps are more complex than ever. Consequently, simplest apps start around $25,000 and more complex apps can push up over $1,000,000.
These numbers reflect how much enterprises are actually spending on app development. According to the Enterprise Mobility Exchange, 29.1 percent of respondents had a budget of $250,000–$500,000, followed by 25.3% who had over $1.5 million.
Software companies who work mostly with medium-sized clients say that their typical budgets are somewhere between $100,000 and $300,000. And applications with backend services can eat up as much as $500,000 in no time. What's more, none of these numbers include a budget for Android, which is known for being much more expensive.
At bromin7, we see most of our startup projects fall somewhere between $70,000 and $250,000, depending on the complexity of the app. Medium-sized and Enterprise apps typically run at higher cost and fall under a web app category.
Cost Calculators
Probably the fastest way how you can get a somewhat accurate idea about the price of your app is to use mobile app cost calculators offered by several mobile app and platform companies.
A simple iOS app that lets users scan QR codes with a camera and share the results with friends on social media networks would cost almost $6,000, according to Otreva calculator. A more involved navigation for iOS and Android, with social login, navigation, GPS support, and dashboard would require more than $100,000, if we were to trust the estimation given by theimason calculator. The TCO Calculator by Kony provides us with our last example. The estimated price for an all-inclusive application for all major mobile platforms was well over $400,000.
It should go without saying that app development is not a one-time expense. Instead, it's an ongoing process that will require future investments and maintenance. According to an AnyPresence survey nearly a third of enterprise mobile application development professionals update their applications once a month. for a medium-sized enterprise application project, such maintenance costs can reach as much as $11,000 per month.
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MOSCOW, January 29. /TASS/. Russia offers favorable returns on its federal (OFZ) bonds, which can be viewed as risk-free assets, Deputy Finance Minister Sergei Storchak told reporters on Monday.
"These is because [Russian OFZ bonds - TASS] are risk-free assets with good earnings that simply do not have counterparts across the globe. Investors are now buying bonds of African states. Many of them are market newcomers and coupons with crazy rates are being offered. We offer normal returns now.
I believe we have risk-free assets," Storchak stated when commenting on higher demand for Russian securities.
Risk-free assets are "a great challenge for the modern world, where customarily developed risk-free economies make borrowings under almost negative interest rates," the official noted.
Higher demand for Russian bonds is not related to investor concerns on new US sanctions potentially affecting the coverage of Russian sovereign bonds, Storchak said. "If Moody's as an influential company in the United States and one of the strongest analysts changes the outlook [for Russia - TASS] several days' before the report's announcement, I do not think they would do that [if new US sanctions cover Russian bonds - TASS]," he added.


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his year (2011) marks the 400th anniversary of the publication of the King James version of the Holy Bible. To celebrate this momentous event, Baylor University's Institute for Studies of Religion is sponsoring a three-day conference (April 7 – 9, 2011) with some of the world's most pre-eminent scholars. Our podcast warly welcomes Scott Carroll, director of the Green Collection, principal investigator for the Green Scholar's Initiative, and former professor of ancient history at Cornerstone University. Dr. Carroll's work takes him around the globe collecting biblical manuscripts and ancient artifacts that will be on display in the Green Collection, one of the world's largest private collection of such antiquities (sponsored by the Green family, owners of Hobby Lobby). We begin our podcast with a brief overview of this collection, the scholarly work connected to the collection, and plans for a future museum. (Listeners wishing to get directly to the substantive discussion can fast foward to minute 18:00). We then engage in a broad conversation covering the diffusion and dissemination of ancient manuscripts, the various translation of the Old and New Testaments, and how such translations were viewed throughout history. This brings us up to the history behind the King James version. Dr. Carroll takes us through the tumultuous era of Tudor England, with the various machinations of monarchs such as Henry VIII and Queen Elizabeth. With the ascencion of the House of Stuart, we then discuss how King James's authorized translation was heavily influenced by William Tyndale and how the result of a decade-long process had a greater impact on the English language than Shakespeare (who was fond of quoting from the Geneva Bible). Not only do we examine how religious dissenters such as the Puritans viewed, and eventually adopted, the King James Version (particularly in the American colonies), but we assess the overall impact of the KJV Bible up to present day.
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Progress Report
Leveraging ESG issues to build brands.
In two recent exits, new capacity around ESG issues and management enhanced the brands. Capacity building played a role in each case.
Axalta. Carlyle created a stand-alone company after carving out a division from DuPont and rebuilt an ESG program including investing in new products with lower environmental footprints.
Vogue International. Carlyle mentored employees at a small, founder-owned company as they learned to navigate the world of sustainability expectations, particularly from large customers such as Walmart and Target. Environmental considerations were integrated seamlessly into key business objectives such as customer satisfaction, brand equity, marketing and communications and new product development.
New products meet customer needs
Carlyle acquired Axalta, formerly known as DuPont Performance Coatings, in February 2013 and took the company public in late 2014. One of the first orders of business in the carve-out of Axalta was drafting an inaugural sustainability report. Carlyle supported the Axalta team in telling the company's story in a way that resonated with various stakeholders, from customers to environmental groups.
In 2016, Axalta published its second sustainability report, spanning developments in 2014 and 2015. Significantly expanding on the scope of the first report, Axalta was able to successfully connect sustainability to its brand because of earlier efforts to understand emerging customer preferences related to sustainability and early insights into larger environmental trends affecting its customers.
Axalta's sustainability focus resulted in a range of new products:
3-Wet Coating System. This system saves customers time, space and energy by reducing drying time during painting, typically the most energy-intensive part of car manufacturing.
Waterborne and low-VOC coatings. Due to increased attention from regulators and the public, volatile organic compounds (VOCs) are an emerging environmental concern. Axalta directed its R&D efforts to find ways to reduce the environmental footprint of paints and coatings and succeeded in developing paint lines based on either waterborne or higher solids systems— which can eliminate or reduce VOC emissions significantly. Axalta is now a market leader, with close to 30 percent of the global waterborne coating market. In 2015, approximately 3.5 million vehicles in 31 automotive assembly plants, operated by many of the world's leading light vehicle manufacturers, were painted using low-VOC coatings applied with Axalta's Harmonized Coating Technologies™.
Vacuprime.® These powder primers offer a revolutionary technology that provides a foundation for a bright chrome appearance, replacing time-consuming, toxic chrome plating. There are virtually no VOCs or hazardous air pollutants used or generated in the process. In addition to environmental benefits, the use of Vacuprime® technology can significantly reduce the weight of the finished part, which improves fuel efficiency.
Alesta® Cool™ powder coatings. When darker colors are required in architectural applications, metal temperatures can heat up. Axalta developed its Alesta® Cool™ range of powder coatings to reduce heat transfer with darker colors. This product decreases the total solar reflection and heat transfer by as much as 20% and surface temperature by as much as 20° C, reducing energy costs for cooling and increasing the lifespan of the coating on the structure.
With robust reporting practices established and the bevy of value-adding ESG innovations described here, Axalta was well positioned for its IPO.
Leveraging sustainability to improve position with customers
In 2014, Carlyle invested in Vogue International, a fast-growing personal care company that sells its products into the food, drug and mass channels, including Walmart and Target.
That same year, Walmart expanded its "Sustainability Index" program to personal care products, scoring suppliers on the sustainability performance of their products. Because other retailers such as Target also score products on sustainability, Vogue and Carlyle quickly realized that it would be important to perform well on these supplier scorecards—and that there was room to improve on Vogue's initial scores, particularly given Vogue's focus on unique and natural ingredients.
Carlyle shared its resources to help Vogue improve its sustainability scores and support the team in understanding sustainability issues and opportunities. The Vogue team, with Carlyle support, developed sustainability policies for the company and its suppliers, codifying certain practices already in place.
The company increased its commitment to transparency through its website, which began disclosing detailed lists of ingredients. To seek healthier ingredients, Vogue began a new initiative for integrating sustainability criteria into product development and continuously monitoring evolving cosmetic science. Vogue also expanded its use of greener packaging labels and began reporting to CDP (formerly known as the Carbon Disclosure Project) which required surveying its own energy consumption and the practices of suppliers.
In addition to facilitating the creation of great products, these changes moved Vogue from the bottom quartile into or near the top quartile in Walmart's sustainability indexes.
In May 2016, Vogue founder and CEO Todd Christopher and Carlyle agreed to sell the company to Johnson & Johnson Consumer Inc.


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Carbon Auto Theft
Carbon Auto Theft Instructions
As far as controls go, Carbon Auto Theft is very typical compared to other racing and online car games - your directional keys would do most of the work. Hit the up button for moving forward and acceleration, down directional key for reverse, left and right button for steering. Nothing really fancy or complicated as far as controls go - BUT let me tell you this, the game is pretty advanced!
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Carbon Auto Theft Walkthrough
If you are looking for addictive and fun car games, Carbon Auto Theft is a game you should check out. HOWEVER, I don't think this game is meant for kids. Here's the premise: you are already the most famous and best car stealer in your country. BUT can you be the best in the whole world where security is very much tighter?
Stealing isn't good - whether it's something as big as a car or as small as 3 bucks. If your kids are going to play this car game, you better let them know that whatever it is they do in the game MUST NOT be done in real life. OK, with that taken care of, let's see what made this game fun to play.
Well, for one thing, the fact that your objective is to become the best car thief and the whole game revolves around that makes it really exciting. BUT don't get too happy and giddy. Just like in real life, stealing cars needs skills (which I don't have...not that I'm planning to steal one). You need to be quick, stealthy, and cool headed - and if you lack one of these qualities, you would hardly make it past the second stage. Unfortunately for me, I didn't.
First off, you need to unlock the car. This is the easier part. You will be presented with a code composed of arrows - just use your arrow keys and you should be good to go. Remember, you only have 10 seconds to get this part done. Next, you need to drive the car out of the parking lot. This is the trickier part as the parking lot is cluttered or the car is parked somewhere where you need to wriggle your way out...where only missing by an inch means getting caught.
Do NOT bump into anything - car, people, concrete islands, and everything else in between. Make the mistake of doing so and the cops will be alerted. You're busted! And being busted means starting from square one.
I don't know about you BUT this is one of the MORE advanced car games out there - it has the elements of parking games...and parking games, just so you know, are one of the MOST difficult genres in car games.
If you think your driving and maneuvering skills are pretty advanced, give this game a shot. I'm sure you will love it. As for me, I think I need a lot of practice before I can get past the second stage. And remember, don't try it at home!
Top 10 Games of the Month
- #1. Coaster Racer
- #2. Sim Taxi 2
- #3. The Fast and the Phineas
- #4. Freeway Fury
- #5. Drift Runners 2
- #6. Road of the Dead
- #7. Desert Rally
- #8. Formula Racer
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However, not much has been said about how we got here, and why nothing changes.
When we began measuring wait times in the early '90s, there were few (if any) alternatives to our report, so it was possible for those committed to the status-quo to simply dismiss our report out of hand. However, as provinces have developed their own publically accessible websites (which still leave much to be desired) and other organizations (like the [popup url="http://www.waittimealliance.ca/" height="600″ width="600″ scrollbars="0″]Wait Time Alliance[/popup]) published their own findings, it has become impossible to escape reality – the current system is forcing Canadian patients to wait too long for medically necessary care.
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Let's be clear: the goal of our health-care system is admirable – universal access to health-care services regardless of ability to pay. The problem is that we are failing to deliver these health-care services in a timely manner.
Let's examine a few reasons why this may be.
First, there are no pressure valves. When the system fails, patients have no recourse. Private options are few and far between, and they are generally unavailable to the majority of the population. Patients are left with the unhappy choice of remaining on the waiting list, or crossing the border and seeking treatment in a different country. Further, the public system also doesn't have many options to expand capacity, since provincial governments are already spending [popup url="https://www.cihi.ca/en/spending-and-health-workforce/spending/national-health-expenditure-trends/nhex2015-topic6″ height="600″ width="600″ scrollbars="0″]about 40 per cent of their budgets[/popup] on health care.
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Third, there are actually incentives to restrict the supply of services. Most hospitals in Canada are funded through a global budget set at the beginning of the year. While this controls costs (to an extent), it actually incentivises hospitals to treat fewer patients in order to stay within their budget.
Fourth, there are too many bottlenecks. Let's just focus on three:
First, as a result of following a gate-keeper system, patients are required to get a referral from a general practitioner to see a specialist. While this is not unusual, it's inefficient if general practitioners are unable to see which specialist has the shortest wait, and refer accordingly.
Second, there is often a significant wait to get a diagnostic imaging scan in order to assess the severity of a patient's condition. These wait times prevent an efficient system of triage, forcing those with serious conditions to be lumped in with those without, in a long line. Such diagnostic scans should be available almost immediately, on site.
Finally, there are many patients stuck in hospital because after they've received treatment there is no appropriate place for them to be discharged to. These ALC (alternate level of care) patients likely don't want to be there, the hospital likely doesn't want them there, and patients waiting for a hospital bed certainly don't want them there either.
While the presence of bottlenecks is likely a challenge faced by many systems, the other issues discussed are effectively addressed in [popup url="https://www.fraserinstitute.org/studies/for-profit-hospitals-and-insurers-in-universal-health-care-countries" height="600″ width="600″ scrollbars="0″]countries[/popup] with successful universal health-care systems. These relatively successful systems generally involve the private sector – either as a partner, or an alternative. They expect some level of cost sharing from patients – exempting the poor and chronically ill, and placing annual caps on levels of contribution. And they generally fund hospitals based on the amount and complexity of their activity.
Importantly, they do all this not in spite of their commitment to universal health care, but because it helps them better deliver on that promise.
In Canada, we unfortunately focus on the preservation of the Medicare system, and expect patients to adjust accordingly. Instead, we need to focus on the patients, and adjust the Medicare system accordingly.
Bacchus Barua is a senior economist in the Fraser Institute's Centre for Health Policy Studies.
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Numbering of drawing sheets, pages in one dwg file. Drawing up a table of contents.
This plug-in allows you to give names to solids in ordered digits and is a time saver for plug-ins Lay, Sawing Table, Smart Leader and Names.
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Display internal version of DWG files - the source Autodesk® AutoCAD® release, build number and language.
Controlling dyn.block + constraint parameters and object properties from Microsoft® Excel tables
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Powerful spreadsheet app to batch edit attributes of blocks across multiple drawings.
Plugin for creating descriptive memorials for parcels and subdivisions.
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tag:blogger.com,1999:blog-6999174.post1325776432234890568..comments2020-07-14T07:22:27.387-07:00Comments on The FamZoo Blog: Our Card Has Gone MinimalistBill Dwighthttp://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6999174.post-20348668993903020332018-12-30T07:11:58.720-08:002018-12-30T07:11:58.720-08:00Oh thank heavens. I am strongly considering gettin...Oh thank heavens. I am strongly considering getting your cards but the card design itself was perhaps my main obstacle. I knew it would never fly with my kid!Annehttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6999174.post-56096651425940198152018-11-30T19:28:20.663-08:002018-11-30T19:28:20.663-08:00Teresa, my kids were like yours. They were delight...Teresa, my kids were like yours. They were delighted to get money from me no matter how funky the cards looked :-)Bill Dwighthttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6999174.post-46408033562980282732018-11-30T19:27:11.573-08:002018-11-30T19:27:11.573-08:00Regarding Apple Pay, currently our card processor ...Regarding Apple Pay, currently our card processor does not support using our cards as a payment source for Apple Pay, and sadly has no near term plans to do so. We'll let people know if/when that changes. Note that parents can use Apple Pay to reload: http://blog.famzoo.com/p/load.html#applepay

Regarding chipped cards: that's in process as an option, but they'll cost extra to order and replace. Kids lose their cards ALL THE TIME, so we'll retain the non-chipped option for those who want free replacements.Bill Dwighthttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6999174.post-12524862323225663202018-11-30T19:21:50.454-08:002018-11-30T19:21:50.454-08:00Current cardholders receive the new design when: 1...Current cardholders receive the new design when:
1. a renewal card is shipped out upon expiration [no charge]
2. a replacement card is ordered (http://blog.famzoo.com/p/famzoo-card-faqs.html#order-replace) [no charge]
3. a new card is ordered (http://blog.famzoo.com/p/famzoo-card-faqs.html#more-cards) [$2 one-time shipping fee for 5th card and beyond]

Please note that on route number 2, the current card is knocked out of commission for 7 to 10 business days.
Bill Dwighthttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6999174.post-53094758845385431122018-11-30T18:23:08.332-08:002018-11-30T18:23:08.332-08:00Your post was funny. Mt 11 year old is on the cusp...Your post was funny. Mt 11 year old is on the cusp of being embarrassed by being associated with her parents, she'll appreciate this without knowing why.Anonymoushttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6999174.post-3172780941760228042018-11-30T16:11:41.487-08:002018-11-30T16:11:41.487-08:00I'm actually okay with either to be honest bec...I'm actually okay with either to be honest because my children could care less. Maybe when they get in high school it will matter but right now they are winning because most of their peers have neither...Anonymoushttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6999174.post-56518241919074112042018-11-30T16:10:14.364-08:002018-11-30T16:10:14.364-08:00The new card design is exactly what you needed to ...The new card design is exactly what you needed to do. I never liked how cheesy looking and obviously different they were from regular email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6999174.post-22854915993796161452018-11-30T15:29:53.560-08:002018-11-30T15:29:53.560-08:00Why wouldn't you mention in the article how to...Why wouldn't you mention in the article how to get a card with the new design...Barthttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6999174.post-77658418253745027202018-11-30T15:17:07.124-08:002018-11-30T15:17:07.124-08:00Same! I would have been happy to wait a few weeks ...Same! I would have been happy to wait a few weeks if I knew the design was changing. We've had the cards less than a month, and I like the newer card design MUCH better. How much is the fee to switch to the new cards?Anonymoushttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6999174.post-42170524250201160272018-11-30T15:02:09.283-08:002018-11-30T15:02:09.283-08:00Is there a charge to switch to the new cards? My k...Is there a charge to switch to the new cards? My kids hate the current ones but I just paid to replace them. I wish someone would've told me to hold out for the new design.Anonymoushttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6999174.post-33474980812221889092018-11-30T14:44:54.014-08:002018-11-30T14:44:54.014-08:00+1 on Apple Pay!+1 on Apple Pay!Anonymoushttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6999174.post-23594188461571983122018-11-30T14:36:06.439-08:002018-11-30T14:36:06.439-08:00love the new design. +1 on chip, apple pay. And ...love the new design. +1 on chip, apple pay. And how can we get the new firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6999174.post-19783119829572223962018-11-30T14:31:50.446-08:002018-11-30T14:31:50.446-08:00This is great - how do we switch current cards to ...This is great - how do we switch current cards to the new firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6999174.post-62183605476478630912018-11-30T14:28:37.213-08:002018-11-30T14:28:37.213-08:00What about a card with the security chip or suppor...What about a card with the security chip or support touchless?Anonymoushttps://firstname.lastname@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6999174.post-61231918529630668382018-11-30T14:26:07.152-08:002018-11-30T14:26:07.152-08:00How do we get cards with the new design? They look...How do we get cards with the new design? They look great!Anonymoushttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6999174.post-11585305193424459692018-11-30T14:23:12.902-08:002018-11-30T14:23:12.902-08:00This is a good change. I almost went with another ...This is a good change. I almost went with another company at first because of the child-like design, but stayed because of the customer service. Anyhow, will there be a fee to switch?Anonymoushttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6999174.post-77915406089032506972018-11-30T09:18:31.910-08:002018-11-30T09:18:31.910-08:00Candidly, no. MasterCard has to approve our card d...Candidly, no. MasterCard has to approve our card designs, and our card processor does not support user-defined designs, so uploading your own picture is not being considered. We may offer a small number of choices on the background color. It's very hard to please a broad family audience with card designs, and our primary energy/focus goes into financial literacy capabilities and personal customer support, so I doubt we'll ever be heralded for our "cool" card designs :-) Also, kids lose their cards ALL THE TIME, so keeping costs super low there are paramount for our target audience.Bill Dwighthttps://email@example.com:blogger.com,1999:blog-6999174.post-74094220818387343412018-11-30T08:26:45.692-08:002018-11-30T08:26:45.692-08:00Much better than the old one, but are you consider...Much better than the old one, but are you considering offering a card with the option to upload your own picture or even some different background colors/choices?Seanmachttps://firstname.lastname@example.com


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5. Ricky Gervais
One of the most successful all-rounders ever, Ricky Gervais has risen from the rank of unknown stand-up to international movie-star via integrative screenwriter, all in the space of little more than a decade. Announcing himself to his native UK in 2001 with now seminal sit-com 'The Office', Gervais has gone from strength to strength ever since- creating several successful TV series and Hollywood movies over the course of the last decade- all the while still managing to produce a series of world-class stand-up shows.
4. Eddie Murphy
When watching 'Daddy Day Care' it's pretty hard to process, at least for me, that the Eddie Murphy cavorting around in his now all too familiar family friendly way, is the same one from his 1980's stand-up heyday. In these formative years, a young Eddie enjoyed success as one of the world's most controversial comics, releasing legendary show 'Delirious' in 1983 to much acclaim. The Eddie of the 80's was a different creature altogether, opting towards outrageous routines tackling the likes of drugs and sex over the, perhaps more turgid roles he's known for nowadays.
3. Robin Williams
The first time I watched a Robin Williams stand-up show, I couldn't believe what I was seeing. Growing up with the likes of 'Flubber' and 'Jumanjii', I never could have fathomed that this institute of child-friendly comedy actually honed his craft as a cocaine and alcohol fuelled stage performer. Although often promiscuous and sleazy in nature, Williams' material secured his place amongst the world's finest- and even when Hollywood did beckon, he continued to tour as a stand-up- rarely holding back. What a guy.
2. Billy Connolly
The 'big yin' was already a celebrated stand-up and general TV personality on his native side of the Atlantic before making his way to Hollywood. The charismatic Scotsman has enjoyed several decades of international acclaim as a result of his continual exploits in the world of stand-up- mixing perfectly the conventional with the sordid. Having starred in largely dramatic roles alongside the likes of Tom Cruise in 'The Last Samurai' and Dame Judy Dench in 1997 drama 'Mrs Brown', Connolly remains a prolific figure in the industry.
1. Woody Allen
Arguably more notable for his work behind the camera than in front of it, Woody Allen is a legend of comedy non-the-less. Starting his career in the 1960's as a gag writer, it wasn't too long before he was performing the material himself- gaining a constant influx of popularity in the process. His fondness of writing eventually took prominence once again, with the young New Yorker penning plays for Broadway whilst barely out of his 20's. In more recent decades, Woody has continued to enjoy success as a writer/director winning a total of 4 Academy Awards as well as several other prestigious industry distinctions over his lengthy career.


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Peace, love, and fun. The Central Arkansas Library System's (CALS) Hillary Rodham Clinton Children's Library & Learning Center, 4800 W. 10th Street, will hold Kidstock on Saturday, October 24, from 2-4:30 p.m. Kidstock will occur on the grounds of the Children's Library and will include musical performances, activities, and games.
Music will be provided by Trout Fishing in America and Big Still River. Activities and games include tree painting, yoga, tug-of- war, bubble stations, farm animals from Dunbar Gardens, and a photo wall.
CALS' Hillary Rodham Clinton Children's Library & Learning Center is one of fourteen CALS branches serving Pulaski and Perry counties. The Children's Library is open Monday-Thursday from 10 a.m.-7 p.m., Friday and Saturday from 10 a.m.-6 p.m., and Sunday from 1 p.m.-5 p.m. For more information, call 978-3870 or visit www.cals.org.


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Ileana Yanez
January 30, 1961 - July 31, 2019
Ileana Yanez, 58, of Beaumont, died Wednesday, July 31, 2019. She was born on January 30, 1961, to Sylvia Zuniga Gonzalez and Andres Gonzalez, in San Juan, Texas.
Survivors include her husband, Enrique Yanez; son, Enrique Yanez, Jr.; daughters, Yanira Torres, Erica Rojas, April Ann Covarrubias, Selina Yanez, all of Beaumont; thirteen grandchildren; sisters, Imelda Castenada, of Pharr, Texas, Raquel Lopez, of Tulsa, Oklahoma; brother, Andres Gonzalez, Jr, of Pharr, Texas; sister, Idalia Landez, of Pharr, Texas; and her mother, Sylvia Gonzalez.
She is preceded in death by her father, and grandmother, Juana Zuniga.
A gathering of Mrs. Yanez's family and friends will be from 5:00 p.m. until 8:00 p.m., Friday, August 2, 2019, at Broussard's, 2000 McFaddin Avenue, Beaumont. Cremation arrangements were handled through Broussard's Crematorium, Beaumont.