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Perfect storm ahead? Toxic political/monetary policy brew on tap?
More to the point, will we get a hawkish spin on a Fed hike combined with an upward shift in the median 2018 dot and will that end up colliding with the first serious effort by Donald Trump to disrupt the Robert Mueller probe?
Probably not, because let's face it, shit never turns out to be as "fun" as it could be, but hey: fingers crossed!
If you need a summary of all the latest developments inside the Beltway, you're in luck because we endeavored to provide you with just that in "Come One, Come All! Recapping The Trump Circus Ahead Of A Pivotal Week."
Suffice to say it's a truly epic clusterfuck and markets will be on high alert for Mueller headline risk over the coming days. Comments out of John Dowd and Trump's weekend tweets suggest the President's "strategy" (if that's what you want to call it) with regard to the special counsel has shifted. It looks like he might be ready to go on offense, with God only knows what consequences.
When it comes to the Fed, the most important thing for markets will be the dots. For their part, Goldman and BNP are looking for the median 2018 dot to shift up, signaling four hikes this year. Here's Goldman:
Public remarks by Fed officials suggest a broad shift in the committee's outlook towards a potentially faster pace of tightening, and we expect the median dot to show four hikes in 2018, up from three at the December meeting. Additional hawkish changes—a move to three hikes in 2019 or an increase in the longer-run funds rate estimates—are also possible but not our base case.
And here's BNP:
We expect the four things from the FOMC's March meeting: 1) a 25bp hike in the fed funds rate to 1.5-1.75%; 2) upward revisions to its economic forecasts, especially for GDP growth; 3) upward revisions to its rate dots so that the medians imply four hikes for 2018, two for 2019 along with lifting the longer run dot by 0.25pp; 4) Chair Powell to reiterate that headwinds are shifting to tailwinds in his press conference.
To be sure, not everyone agrees with that. Take BofAML for instance, who wrote the following in their preview:
We think the median forecast holds at 3 hikes for this year but shifts up slightly in the out years, including 2019 and the long-run. We expect an additional 25bp of forecasted rate hikes relative to December.
And here's Barclays:
We expect an unchanged median for 2018 and 20bp increases in the median funds rate in 2019 and 2020. We see the average funds rate rising 10-20bp across each of the three years. We view the committee as more likely to move to four hikes this year at the June meeting, when incoming data affirm that fiscal stimulus is having the anticipated effects.
Of course the dots are hardly the only thing that matters. The growth outlook is expected to be revised higher and for their part, Goldman thinks the inflation forecast is likely to tip a modest overshoot in 2020. As far as the unemployment path, it seems likely that will be revised lower. Below, find a summary of projections for the projections (and no, there are no typos there).
Needless to say, there are more, but you get the idea.
There's considerable risk around the press conference. This is Powell's first go at it and it will be a trial by fire. He's going to need to try and thread the needle by somehow coming across as hawkish, but not too hawkish and that will be made immeasurably more difficult if the median dot for 2018 shifts up. We'd imagine "someone" will be watching from her living room grimacing at every misstep and fuck up:
Additionally, you're reminded that the most recent big data point (retail sales) was a pretty egregious miss and while the February jobs report was obviously a blockbuster, the retail sales fumble served to deep-six a lot of folks' GDP tracking estimates, and that casts further doubt on the relative wisdom of getting too hawkish, too fast. On the other hand, it's far too early to sound the all-clear on the inflation scare, meaning it's still possible to accidentally fall behind the curve by remaining too gradualistic (assuming of course that with all the models now broken, the phrase "behind the curve" still has any meaning).
Meanwhile, barring something dramatic on Monday and Tuesday, this will play out against renewed flattening which, when taken with last week's lackluster equity performance, suggests markets have quickly moved from being worried about an inflation-induced tantrum, to a curve inversion and what that would entail for the economy.
For more on curve dynamics and the implications for the Fed, see "Breathe In, Breathe Out".
Assuming nothing monumental comes out of the new SEP, things might remain some semblance of calm, but as Bloomberg's Brian Chappatta writes in his preview, "that would do little to cool the curve-flattening fervor that's staged a comeback in the past few weeks."
Again, I guess what I would say here is that if something goes "wrong" with all of that and we get too much President Dennison over the course of the week, it could be a toxic brew. Although full disclosure, for those of us who perversely take pleasure in Trump's ongoing trials and tribulations, there's no such thing as "too much" Dennison.
This is all playing out against an aggressively expansionary fiscal backdrop that's thrown the Treasury supply/demand picture for a loop, raised questions about the outlook for the dollar given the deteriorating fiscal outlook, and added fuel to the fire in terms of inflation concerns. Additionally, the Fed will need to try and balance all of this against the threat posed by Trump's protectionist push.
But hey, that should all be fine, right? After all, we're in the capable hands of Larry Kudlow now.
And it's not just the Fed, we'll get the BoE this week and that will come just two days after UK CPI and amid the never-ending Brexit boondoggle which to be perfectly honest, is so convoluted that trying to keep track of it is an exercise in abject futility. The BoE won't do anything this week (May is in focus – in more ways than one), but there's more than a little ambiguity going on here. Just to give you an idea, have a look a the headings for the various subsections in BofAML's BoE preview:
- We expect BoE to stay hawkish despite data saying no
- Because Carney said go
- Or did he?
- The data say no
- But the BoE already went all in
- Or did it go all in?
- What about transition?
- Market puts high hurdle to BoE changing their mind
- We assume no news next week, but risks abound
Good luck with that. "We do not think that the March BoE meeting will weaken sterling either this week," Barclays writes, in their attempt to try and boil all of this down into something that's digestible. They add: "While unchanged policy is widely expected, SONIA markets still price about an 80% likelihood of a 25bp MPC rate hike in May and the MPC's statement will likely be consistent with current market pricing."
Mercifully, there's not a ton on the docket other than the Fed and the BoE, but again, the dearth of "known unknowns" from markets is more than compensated for by Trump, who you can bet your ass will keep things exciting.
Oh, and remember, he's "not ranting and raving" – he "loves doing this"…
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Nick + Kathleen Sutton | Colorado and Hawaiian Pines at Genesee Wedding
We all know that rain on your wedding day is good luck, but what about fog? Picture the most beautiful fog you've ever seen–where does that fit into wedding day superstitions? Regardless of if it has any true meaning, the insane storms Colorado has been gracing us with these last few weeks have made for some pretty incredible photos and helped make Nick and Kathleen's wedding day one of the most special we've been blessed to be a part of! These two are hopelessly in love and honest to goodness something out of a fairytale. Their adoration for each other and the incredible support from their wonderful family and friends was second to none on this beautiful May afternoon at the Pines at Genesee. Their incorporation of Hawaiian wedding customs made their ceremony so special and genuine. From surprise harps to the best man wiping away the grooms tears, from rainstorms to elaborate leis, and the greatest best man and maid of honor speeches in the history of weddings, the Sutton's wedding was one for the books!
Congratulations, Nick and Kathleen! Thank you for letting us be a part of your wonderful wedding day!
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Bekah + Wes | Red Rocks Winter Engagement Shoot
A couple in love at Red Rocks in the winter is probably one of my favorite things of all time! Bekah and Wes were such awesome troopers during their winter engagement shoot at Red Rocks a couple weeks ago. We are so excited for their big day this fall and can't wait to be a part of it all! Thank you so much, Bekah and Wes!
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Kelly | Boulder Colorado Maternity and Family Photographer
I think one of the most amazing and intimate aspects of my job is being at a maternity shoot. Kelly, a beautiful soon to be mama quickly welcomed me into her home a few weeks ago for her maternity shoot. Her and her husband Mat are expecting their first baby girl in just a few weeks. Despite the usual pregnancy symptoms, Kelly was absolutely glowing and said the one thing she misses most about not being pregnant is a good workout! Thank you so much, you two, for welcoming me into your home and following me around Chautauqua Park. I can't wait to meet your little lady!
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Southside Wrestling returns to the Priory Centre later this month and you could be there to see all the action for free.
The show will feature eight action-packed matches, including new Southside champion El Ligero who will be defending his belt against 'bruiserweight' Pete Dunne. The show will also feature the debut of former WWE/TNA star MVP - the former WWE US and tag team champion - who will face Joseph Conners.
There will also be a special guest - ITV's Love Island star Adam Maxted, who will be wrestling in St Neots for the first time when he will take on Paul Malen. Joining them will former WWE stars, Hornswoggle and Paul London as well a womens' match which will feature Scotland's Kay Lee Ray and see her take on Welsh fan's favourite Nixon Newell.
The show will also include stars from New Zealand and Australia as well as English favourites Robbie X , HC Dyer, Chris Tyler, Stixx and many more.
The Hunts Post has teamed up with Southside Wrestling to offer readers the chance to win a family ticket, worth £38, for the show on Novermber 26. To be in with a chance of winning, just answer this question.
What is the name of the Southside champion who will be defending his belt?
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A look at some of the people, places and events that have shaped Landcare in Queensland and Australia.
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Wedding Film at The William Allen Farm in Pownal Maine
A multi – generational loving story and celebration at The William Allen Farm just outside Freeport, Maine. If you haven't yet been to the property, you must get it on your radar! Owners Heidi and Al make strangers feel like family, and their barn feel like yours. It was a joy to document this beautiful DIY celebration in July. Details by the bride and family, dessert and cookies by the infamous Dany's Cakes! WOW! Officiant was brides Aunt, Flowers by brides Step Aunt, and Photography by Monty Rand.
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Detroit jobs initiative prepares youth for success
By Tom Watkins –
Kids need jobs.
Many in the business community complain about public education and the lack of preparedness among students exiting in the educational system. However, the educational system and the products of those systems will only grow and flourish as much as we invest in them.
Henry Ford once said, "Getting ready is the secret of success." Ford was right and the business community has a responsibility to help our young people get ready for the world of tomorrow.
This involves a solid education, as well as hands-on work experience which are critical to help prepare our children for successful futures.
We commend the vision and commitment that Mayor Mike Duggan has to the young people of the City of Detroit through his Grow Detroit's Young Talent Initiative which exceeded its goal and will be employing 5,594 young people this summer.
Designed to match youth with paid summer employment opportunities from various Detroit businesses, based on interest, ability, and accessibility. The program also incorporates work-readiness and financial literacy training. Businesses large and small from around the region are participating in the program in an effort to empower our young people and revitalize Detroit. Thank you!
Mayor Duggan said "talent is equally distributed, but what is not equally distributed is opportunity." It is the creation of opportunity that is the foundation of the mayor's GDYT Initiative. With over 17,000 youth applicants – it is time for us as a community to do more.
The Detroit Wayne Mental Health Authority (www.dwmha.com) is passionate about uplifting and motivating Detroit's youth. It was this passion that was the driving force behind our Board's commitment of $600,000 in funding to City Connect that will employ 386 young people in Detroit as part of the GDYT Initiative.
According to Herbert C. Smitherman, M.D., DWMHA Board Chairman, "This is our opportunity to take responsibility and make a difference. A child who is emotionally scarred, physically abused or without a decent education today is walking into our communities and businesses tomorrow. Consider hiring and training a high school student to work this summer in your business. We can meet the challenge to become the change we'd like to see in the world."
Many of us remember the desire to work, to land that first job. We might even recall the dichotomy in our early job hunts: We couldn't have the job without experience, and, conversely, couldn't get the experience without that job. Ah, the thrill of earning our first paycheck!
Research has shown that when young people are purposely engaged in education and employment they are more likely to stay away from alcohol, drugs and violence, thus improving their chances of graduating from high school and perhaps going on to attend college, a trade school or university.
During the most recent economic downturn, many of our young people have been deprived of the opportunity to be employed through no fault of their own. But as the economy picks up steam, if businesses were to make a concerted effort to hire young people, collectively it could make a huge difference for them our city, region, state and nation.
With massive deficits at the local and federal levels, it is unlikely that governments will fill the void to create youth employment opportunities. So who better to engage, train and mentor our young people than small business – the backbone of our community, and indeed our nation?
We applaud those organizations that have joined Mayor Duggan in accepting the GDYT challenge in funding, hiring, training and mentoring tomorrow's leaders. Hiring a young person not only puts money and experience in the pocket of a future adult, but it also benefits our entire community.
You may also consider hiring a person with a disability. The only group of people with greater difficulty finding employment than teenagers is people of all ages with disabilities. Today we have the power to prepare our future workforce while strengthening our communities and state. Hire a young person or people with disabilities — making an investment in them today is an investment in your company and our collective futures tomorrow.
Through proper training, education, and opportunities, we can help widen the "River of Opportunity" for Detroit youth and set an example for other regions worldwide. Next year, GDYT hopes to employ even more youths in their summer program. Tonya Allen, President and CEO of the Skillman Foundation cites relevant advice from her first job in light of this ambition: "Give your best and aspire for more – that's what we plan to do."
Employers who want to give back to Detroit and hire a youth can call 313-967-5641 or find more information at: http://gdyt.org/employers-supporters/
If you know someone with a mental illness, developmental disability or substance use disorder and would like more information about the programs and services at DWMHA, please contact our 24-Hour Crisis Help Line at 800-241-4949 or visit us on the web at www.dwmha.com
Tom Watkins is the president and CEO of the Detroit Wayne Mental Health Authority (www.dwmha.com). He has served the residents of Michigan as state superintendent of schools and state mental health director. Follow Watkins on twitter @tdwatkins88
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April 2, 2016
A Kinship Spanning the Ages
By Robert Asahina
Carol M. Perry, SU, is the author of Waiting for Our Souls to Catch Up, one of AARP's "best books of 2014." Her new book, Among Women: Lives of Challenge, Courage and Faith in Biblical Times, tells the stories of the familiar and the unfamiliar, the powerful and the powerless, the married and the widowed, and the saintly and the sinful women who appear in the pages of the Bible. As Sister Carol explains, they are from another world and from very different times, but they share our human condition.
Asahina & Wallace: A Daily News story from 2001 noted that you would be talking about "wonder women of the Bible" in your classes at Marble Collegiate Church. What led you to that topic, and how long have you been thinking about it?
Sister Carol Perry: I have been asking questions of the biblical text about women ever since the Women's Movement of the '60s began. I went to the Bible looking to learn where the scripture stood in relation to the roles of women, and I made discoveries about the amazing women hidden in those pages. Through book after book of God's word I have continued this search and I continue to be amazed.
A&W: The women you write about lived in a very different time and in very different circumstances from ours. Why should modern readers care about them?
CP: None of us stands alone. I always recall the great stained glass window at Chartres Cathedral, which depicts the four evangelists standing on the shoulders of the four great prophets of the Old Testament. We all stand on those who have gone before us, since we are the heirs of history. We have to care about these women of the Bible because they are our ancestors, just as the women of the American revolution were, or the women who never ceased advocating for suffrage until they got it. We have to care about their decisions and their struggles, since we have inherited the results. Didn't a wise person say, "Those who ignore history are condemned to repeat it"?
A&W: Some of the women you write about are well known, while others are obscure, even unnamed. How did you choose their stories?
CP: Choosing which women I would write about was a very personal decision. For reasons I cannot fully explain, each of them appealed to me at some point over these past decades and each of them cried out, "Tell my story." I would hope every reader might make her or his similar friendships in the Bible.
A&W: Not all of the "wonder women" you describe in your book are good. You note, for example, that we turn "with a shudder" from Jezebel. What can we learn from her story and from others like hers?
CP: Of course they were not all good. I think it is a refreshing surprise to Bible readers to discover that not everyone in its pages is a "good" person. But just as we learn from history how not to act, so we can learn from the "bad" women of the Bible what we shouldn't do. We can also ask why they acted as they did, so that perhaps we can better understand their circumstances.
Jezebel is a perfect example of someone we would call evil. Who was she? She was a woman from a higher culture married for political reasons, probably by the men of her family, into what was considered an inferior culture in northern Israel. She was determined not to be absorbed by it or by her weak husband's decisions. Her methods were atrocious, but she certainly claimed her place in history, while we can barely remember who her husband was!
A&W: All of the women you write about lived in patriarchal societies, which many fundamentalists praise and many feminists condemn. What do you have to say to readers who look at the Bible in those ways?
CP: We are not being asked by God to replicate the circumstances in which these biblical women lived. The modern Western world is no longer patriarchal. That societal form is no longer needed for either physical security or to meet the needs of women, who now have lives outside their homes too. If the Bible is to be a living text, it has to resonate in our time and place. To attempt to be patriarchal is not God's intention for us. We have to come to the text to ask: Is there something here that I, living in a western, democratic society, need to know so that I can live more fully and faithfully?
This might be the place to repeat my favorite rule for reading any page of the Bible: What did it mean then, what does it mean now, and what are we to do with it? Those simple rules put every text in its historical place and also help us move beyond mere literalism.
A&W: As a Catholic nun, you lead a life of sacrifice and devotion unimaginable to most contemporary secular women. At least in those respects, your life is closer to those of the women you write about than it is to your friend and students. Or is it? Is there a kinship among women that transcends time and place and religion?
CP: The great truth I have found as I return to the pages of the Bible again and again over the years is that human nature does not change regardless of the form that society takes. Whether nomadic or settled, rural or urban, living arrangements are transitory. However, women will always find kinship with other women. There is something that makes our hearts beat in unison with those of our foremothers. And to better understand us, men need to meet these women, too.
God made us two genders. We are not identical but complementary, each having gifts and qualities the other does not have. Genesis 1 expresses this by a simultaneous creation; Genesis 2 by having the man feel incomplete until the woman is made, and then he can say the Hebrew equivalent of "Eureka! At last I have someone with whom I can share." We forget this important truth at our peril.
A&W: Fewer women than ever are entering religious orders. Your own order, the Sisters of Ursula, is down to a few dozen members in America, although it has many more members abroad. At the same time, we see young women committing acts of terror in the name of Islam. How would you counsel young women seeking a life of faith in a secular society that is so different from the world you describe in your book?
CP: I belong to a religious community that was founded 410 years ago to educate women and girls at a time when there were no schools for them in Europe. Today, on three continents, Sisters are still doing this in some form. I assure you that our Sisters in France, Switzerland, Germany, India, Africa, and the United States are not playing identical roles because they are adapting to what society needs now.
The history of women's communities in the United States is a thrilling one. Sisters have established schools on every level, have run hospitals, opened college, taught generations of immigrants, and been social workers when that title did not yet exist. All this was work for a Church that wrestled, and is still wrestling, with the role of women in that Church. Where does the laywoman fit in a clergy-scarce church?
The challenge of religious life is: What are my gifts and how can I best serve God with them? For many, volunteer opportunities and a professional secular life can be the answer. Perhaps the Western world will see religious life in community diminish as an educated laity rises up. This is not true for Asia and Africa. Maybe we religious women have played our part on history's stage, and it is time for someone else to assume the newer role. Sisters were once the great innovators, offering women a calling different from motherhood. Is there something crying to be born?
Or, a greater maybe, the Church will realize that it cannot afford to lose the talents of so many educated laity — which in what we Sisters are, in church law — and it might finally find a place for us.
For all these reasons it is great to be alive as life unfolds. It is also so encouraging to reread the stories of these biblical women called, like us, to walk with little certitude into that unknown called the future.
Sister Carol's Sunday morning classes are streamed live online at 10:00 a.m., ET, repeated most Sundays at 12:45 p.m., ET. (Encores streamed in July and August when Sister Carol is away). Old episodes are available in Marble Collegiate's Webcast Archive or on Vimeo. Read more about Waiting for Our Souls to Catch Up here.
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In this fast-paced lecture, Miles O'Brien reveals the media's record of aviation journalism, beginning with the Wright brothers in December 1903. With unnamed sources and the Wrights' penchant for secrecy, the story of the media's response to the first flight at Kitty Hawk is not unlike media coverage of recent aviation events. Reflecting on his 25-year career covering aviation and space for CNN and other major news outlets, O'Brien will explore the untold story of how the news media treats aviation and how the media response to aviation events like Malaysia Airlines Flight 370 sometimes offers fact and fiction in pursuit of headlines.
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Hello to my first Unreal wiki entry :) This one is about using the SteamAPI so you can interact with it pretty easily using the Steamworks documentation as your friend. In this one, I'll talk about the Steam workshop, which is a pretty neat feature in Steam, and it's 100% usable in Unreal Engine 4. Most of the features can also be written inside a Blueprint Function library which allows you to access Steam functions through blueprints! In the following examples, I just show how to use this in general, in my case, the Game instance which allows me to get Steam things at startup, but you can simply move the code to where-ever you want to have it!
Because we are using Steam, you need to follow some steps to get Steam working. If you already see the Steam overlay in your game, then you can skip this part. If not, read this. For a successful compiling, I'll write a few things here aswell because the wiki is not complete at that point.
- You need to include the main steam_api header file into your code file so it can find the functions. To do that, just include "ThirdParty/Steamworks/Steamv132/sdk/public/steam/steam_api.h". Note that the v132 may change due to later Unreal engine versions!
- You need to compile the game with Steamworks, otherwise you'll get errors like UNRESOLVED EXTERNALS. To do this, simply go to your GameName.Build.cs file and add the following:
PublicDependencyModuleNames.AddRange(new string[] {
Thats all, so now your game should compile fine with using native SteamAPI functions!
Basic structure to interact with steam
So if we interact with Steam, we always need to make sure that Steam is up and running, otherwise the game will crash (for example if you test something in the editor, which will obviously not work). To be on the safe side:
if (SteamAPI_Init())
//do my steam stuff
//push an error or something
SteamAPI_Init() will return true if Steam is good to go, and false if not.
First Steps with Steam
So in this article I go with the Steam workshop, but I'll just introduce you to a quick example so you see how to interact with Steam. The API delivers many interfaces like SteamFriends, SteamUtils, SteamUGC and many others. On the Steamworks page you find anything and how to use it. So a small test to get the players steam name:
if (SteamAPI_Init())
const char* name = SteamFriends()->GetPersonaName();
GEngine->AddOnScreenDebugMessage(-1, 5, FColor::Red, name);
This prints my Steam name onto the screen!
Steam workshop
Finally, lets get to the hot topic: Steam Workshop. Nearly all interactions with the Steam workshop via the API use the SteamUGC interface (UGC = User Generated Content). I start by just getting the amount of items I have subscribed. We can use for testing the AppID 480, which is Spacewar, because that has Steam workshop support. Neat!
The count of subscribed items
Getting the amount of items I have subscribed to is really easy. In those examples here I won't show you a header file, because thats self-explaining. The full code:
int32 UMyGameInstance::GetSubscribedItemCount()
if (SteamAPI_Init())
return SteamUGC()->GetNumSubscribedItems();
return 0;
So, this is pretty simple. If the SteamAPI is valid, he just returns the output of the function SteamUGC()->GetNumSubscribedItems(); which is from the SteamUGC interface, as you can see. If Steam is not valid for some reason, I just output 0.
Getting file ids for subscribed items
The Steam workshop operates with File IDs, so every workshop object has it's own Workshop ID. In this example, I will return a TArray containing all IDs. This would also be blueprint node ready. The code:
TArray UMyGameInstance::GetSubscribedItemIDs()
TArray outArray;
if (SteamAPI_Init())
PublishedFileId_t fileIds[16];
int32 subItems = SteamUGC()->GetSubscribedItems(fileIds, 16);
for (int i = 0; i < subItems; i++)
PublishedFileId_t id = fileIds[i];
return outArray;
NOTE: The above uses signed int32 (because blueprint only works with 32-bit integers), verify all of your steam inventory item IDs will fit within positive half of 32-bits because the Steam API stores these natively in unsigned 64-bit as shown in sdk/public/steam/steam_api_flat.h:
typedef uint64 PublishedFileId_t;
Lets go over it step-by-step. First I create an empty TArray of type int32 where I can store the IDs inside, because Steam will return an own type. After the check if steam is valid, I create a standard C++ array (it's different from Unreal arrays!) of the type PublishedFileId_t which is Steam's type for those IDs. The array has an fixed size of 16 in this example, so 16 is the maximum output I want to have. Like a limit. Then, we'll execute SteamUGC()->GetSubscribedItems(), whereas the first argument is my array where all file ids should go, and the 16 is my limit again. Cool thing about this function is that it actually returns the amount of subscribed items he filled, so if you subscribed to 3 items, my variable subItems will be 3. Thats cool, because you need this now. I just run a simple for loop going from zero to the amount of subscribed items he got. Then I can just get one ID out of the array, and store this inside the id variable. Then, to make this unreal friendly, I add this id into the TArray. At the end, we'll just return this array, and done! Note the outArray.Add(0); which I made if steam is not valid! Pretty easy! Now, having an ID, we can go on with requesting details from items!
Requesting details
So, in this example, we want the name of this object. This one is a bit harder because we use Callbacks for this. The way it works:
- We send a request to the Steam Servers to get details for a specific file id
- We need to wait till we have an answer from Steam
- If we have received the answer, we call a function which processes the received data
- We extract the name out of the received data
In this case, I show you the header part of this:
/* Steam UGC details */
void OnUGCRequestUGCDetails(SteamUGCRequestUGCDetailsResult_t *pResult, bool bIOFailure);
CCallResult m_callResultUGCRequestDetails;
The OnUGCRequestUGCDetails is the method we call if we got an answer. You see it takes two arguments. They are described here. I also have the variable m_callResultUGCRequestDetails which is the CallResult handler we will use to receive callbacks. Notice the structure of it:
CCallResult someName;
yourClass is then equal to the class name where you specify the result function and theResult is just the type of the result you want to get! Okey, after telling you this, lets get to the code!
SteamAPICall_t hSteamAPICall = SteamUGC()->RequestUGCDetails(fileids[0], 20);
m_callResultUGCRequestDetails.Set(hSteamAPICall, this, &UMyGameInstance::OnUGCRequestUGCDetails);
Every operation which has something to do with requests return an SteamAPICall_t. In this case, I name it hSteamAPICall (h stands for handle). We use SteamUGC()->RequestUGCDetails(fileId, maxAge) for the requesting. fileID is the fileID where you want to get the details for (see the file id section above), and maxAge is actually a value in seconds which acts like a timeout. If we don't get an answer from steam for X seconds, he will terminate listening for that. Creating the callback then is relatively easy. We use our m_callResultUGCRequestDetails callResult and execute the .Set(apiCall, class, method). apiCall is as I said, the returned call of the request, class is equal to the class were listening at, in this case, we can use this, and method is the method we call when we have the result (we defined this in the header already!). The result method is then:
void UMyGameInstance::OnUGCRequestUGCDetails(SteamUGCRequestUGCDetailsResult_t *pResult, bool bIOFailure)
if (bIOFailure)
return; //Something went wrong
SteamUGCDetails_t hUGCDetails = pResult->m_details;
GEngine->AddOnScreenDebugMessage(-1, 10, FColor::Green, hUGCDetails.m_rgchTitle);
Pretty simple setup. If we have an IOFailure, then we just return, because thats an error. If not, we go on. I store the details in the variable called hUGCDetails, which is from type SteamUGCDetails_T. We can get the details easily by taking a look at the pResult variable we get back. It has the member m_details, which contains all the details for an item. Then, I just get the title and print it to screen. Examples for getting different values of an item:
void UMyGameInstance::OnUGCRequestUGCDetails(SteamUGCRequestUGCDetailsResult_t *pResult, bool bIOFailure)
itemName = hUGCDetails.m_rgchTitle; //Title
itemDesc = hUGCDetails.m_rgchDescription; //Description (max 8000 chars long)
itemLikes = hUGCDetails.m_unVotesUp; //How many upvotes we got on this item
This is all I wanted to show you. Thanks to Steam, we don't need to mess around with downloading, because Steam does that on his own. With the details you should be able to create a simple UI showing all subscribed items, and If you create a blueprint library out of this, contact me, as I want to see what people do with this information :)


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Marvel Shows on Disney Streaming Site Disney Plus
All the Marvel Shows Set to Premiere on Disney's New Streaming Site, Disney+
All the Marvel Shows Set to Premiere on Disney's New Streaming Site, Disney+
If you thought the adventures of our favorite Avengers could be contained on the big screen, you thought wrong, buddy! Back in 2018, Disney announced its plans to launch a brand-new streaming service called Disney+, and since then it's been steadily adding a number of limited series centered on popular characters from the MCU. At San Diego Comic-Con on Saturday, Marvel Studios president Kevin Feige was joined by some of the franchise's biggest stars and revealed some interesting details about the upcoming shows, and they sound pretty epic. As an added bonus, the service will also exclusively house Marvel films instead of Netflix, starting with Captain Marvel, which premiered on March 8.
Subscribers to the service will get the classic blockbuster MCU films along with their TV counterparts, which Feige revealed will be directly intertwined with the events from the movie side of the franchise. It's a different approach from other Marvel TV shows that have so far functioned as more of side stories to the MCU thus far. Freeform's Cloak & Dagger, ABC's Agents of S.H.I.E.L.D., and Netflix's now-defunct Defender series are rarely acknowledged by their movie counterparts, and thus are limited to their own worlds. These Disney+ shows will directly tie in with the films and be integrated in MCU's story-building. We're super excited for all these series and what they could add to the MCU lore. Check them out ahead!


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300 words
Sinner Tonight
It wasn't the first time for Dean. Not close to ten, but more than three. He hated when following the hunt brought him and Dad close enough that it was just a drive away. Hated it, because he knew he couldn't not go.
He'd tried. But it simmered and bubbled in his blood. It burned at the back of his head until his brain felt like it was going to explode.
It was sacrilege and Dean blamed Sam. If his brother were with them and not off pretending to be something he wasn't… pretending to forget who he was…
Dean's fist wouldn't be knocking on the door.
He wouldn't be standing in a private room. He wouldn't have his hands dug in around leather, his cock deep inside a mouth that could kill him without a second thought. He wouldn't feel the matching black and silver under his own chin because the blond vampire with the sinful sneer, the shocking ice blue eyes and the twisted mind that never failed to come up with new games, wouldn't put on a collar until Dean had.
When he left, he felt dirty. Felt like he should have used that stake in his pocket instead of leaving it untouched. Felt like he didn't do what his father would've, burnt the place to the ground. Salted the earth and Dean told himself that he would never come back. Never do that again.
As he drove, his hand stroked over the crotch of his jeans and if he hadn't just come three times in a row, he'd be getting hard… just thinking of Spike's wet, skilled tongue and the way he growled when he came inside Dean's sore ass. Narrow hips slapped and pushed deep.
Sharp teeth bit into leather instead of flesh.
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Leather Bondage
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The more Angel fought with him, the more Spike smiled. The more Angel postured and ignored him, the more Spike laughed.
The afternoon culminated with Angel throwing whatever he could reach and grab at Spike's head. And even down on the first floor they'd heard the slam of the office door.
Spike amused himself with the poetry of new rock and smoked too many cigarettes. He found Angel in his apartment after dark, paperwork littered the table and a bottle of Irish whiskey on the floor between his bare feet.
"Go away, Spike."
Spike kicked off his boots.
"I've got work to do."
Spike tossed his jacket over the back of a chair.
"I don't have time for this."
Spike unbuttoned his shirt, let it drop to the floor.
"Don't you understand? I'm not playing."
Slow zip, jeans off.
"Don't push me, boy."
Spike won when the bottle tipped and Angel didn't catch it.
A slap of leather, the smell of heated arousal. They didn't need the light, but Spike liked the way hot wax felt on Angel's chest. He really liked the way it made Angel jerk and twist and pull.
He liked the way the straps cut into Angel's wrists and ankles. He liked the spill of blood and he liked it when Angel broke for him.
"Who pushes you, 'Gelus?
"Who plays with you?
"Who do you have time for… who do you have forever for…?"
Shivered sigh, trembling muscles, reflexive breathing.
"You, Spike. Only you."
*dances with you*


text: I used to have a lot of fun with nail art until I completely abandoned it a year ago. But I think it's time to go back to the roots, and start being creative again! Nail art takes patience and skills, which I don't necessarily have a lot of; having said that, there are tons of cute and easy ideas out there even for us clumsy types. Today's tutorial is one of them. I think the mani is perfect for the summer. How about you? Also, let me know if you would like to see more nail tutorials from me in the future. I'll be more than happy to film them if you're interested.


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Western Growers has released a Careers in Ag Job Center for careers related to science, technology, engineering and mathematics in agriculture.
There are 60,000 job openings in agriculture annually, and only 35,000 graduates to fill them, according to the U.S. Department of Agriculture. The Careers in Ag Job Center aims to promote STEM jobs in the produce industry, according to a news release.
"Agriculture is no longer just cows and plows," Tom Nassif, president and CEO of Western Growers, said in the release. "As innovation and technological development within our industry continues to boom, hundreds of new job categories in science, technology, engineering and math-related fields are being created annually."
Employers and job candidates can create profiles and connect through the platform.
"Our new job board connects candidates directly to highly-skilled, high-paying jobs and makes the hiring and recruitment process easier for our farmers who are busy trying to feed the nation and world," Nassif said in the release.
The job board was created as part of the Wester Growers' Careers in Ag program to encourage college students to pursue produce/specialty crop careers in California and Arizona.
The job board is at agjobboard.com.
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What is God Up To?
Occasionally any thinking person must ruminate on the deeper things of God's plan. He has not left us ignorant of his ultimate plan and has drastically simplified the process by which we are included in that plan. Ephesians 1:9,10 says, "Having made known unto us the mystery of his will, according to his good pleasure which he hath purposed in himself: That in the dispensation of the fullness of times he might gather together in one all things in Christ, both which are in heaven, and which are on earth; even in him."
The verses above are a sample of the depth of this thing. A mystery to the old testament times, Jesus Christ becomes the revelation of God's ultimate will. Everything is totally explained in Jesus Christ. Obviously there can only be one God of the Universe. He has given us an inspired book that proves who and what He is. That book wonderfully reasons God's good will toward men. His only begotten son voluntarily came to this world to seek and to save that which was lost. He came unto his own and His own received him not, but as many as received him, to them gave He power to become the sons of God.
There is an un-crossable chasm between a holy God and depraved humanity. There is nothing that we can do to go round, jump over or navigate that chasm by our own man made methods. God has disregarded our filthy nature and designed a plan of redemption that is solely His plan. Man has nothing to do with it. The Bible tells us that the plan was made before the foundations of the earth. Jesus came to this earth to become the substitute in sacrifice. Then in order to present his sacrifice, He became our propitiation and is handling our defense as our advocate. No one, including the devil himself can find or use any flaw, unrighteous act, or illegal maneuver with which to blame God or declare unfairness in His plan.
With all that God has done in grace through Christ, it is no wonder that anyone refusing to accept Christ, or trying to gain access to God some other way is described in the Bible as trodding underfoot the blood of Jesus Christ. The probability of one who disregards Jesus, being tormented in Hell, is as sure as the devil himself winding up there.
We really cannot fathom what eternity will be like. The Bible gives us enough information to assure us that heaven will be the most wonderful place to exist and that there will be no better place to exist. Some of the verses of the scriptures reveal that Jesus, as life itself, will be the center of eternity's universe. The context of the verses above reveal that our eternal life is found in Jesus Christ and if we are in Him then we inherit everything that God promises.
My friend if you have not personally received Jesus Christ as your personal saviour and have the assurance that He has given you His eternal life, I urge you to know that He waits for you to make the move. You need to tell him that you are sorry for your sin. You need to turn away from any other self designed plan. You must realize that if you are taking a chance on Heaven, you will not make it.
Ask God to save you in Jesus' name, right now!


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Jessica Ayub has been DCTC's Director of the Career and Transfer Resource Center since 2015. Overall, she has 10 years of experience related to employment services. She earned a Master's degree in Counseling/Psychology from Bethel University and a Bachelor's degree in Human Resource Management with Honors. Additionally, she completed an Associate's degree in Liberal Arts/MnTC from North Hennepin Community College.
Jessica has held career roles at Globe University/Minnesota School of Business, Pine Technical and Community College, and Anoka-Ramsey Community College-Cambridge. Prior to that she was an Employment Counselor at O'Hara and Associates, a vocational rehabilitation workers' compensation firm.
In 2007, Jessica started in HR Talent Acquisition at Fairview Health Services. Jessica is a Global Career Development Facilitator (and instructor for this credential now), is certified in Myers-Briggs Type Indicator, and is a State of Minnesota Licensed Professional Counselor (LPC).
In her spare time Jessica enjoys volunteering in the community and being actively engaged in various professional associations. Jessica was a 2014-2016 board member and current professional member of the MN Career Development Association (MCDA). In 2018-19, Jessica serves on a Committee: Careers for Students with Disabilities Task Force and will be involved in the Leadership Advancement Program (LAP) with the National Association of Colleges and Employers (NACE), an organization with a membership of 12,000 institution career services professionals and employer representatives. She has also been with the National Career Development Association (NCDA) on their Global Connections Committee (GCC) since 2016 and Editor since 2015 for the "Professional Counselors and Specialists" department column with the organization's quarterly print magazine, Career Developments, sent to 5,000 members worldwide. She was just added as a group member to a Higher Ed Constituency Advisory to respond to members' voiced desires in shaping inaugural webinars and annual conference programming.


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MILAN — The international financial crisis and heavy investment hurt Giorgio Armani SpA's bottom line in 2008, and it is expected to see a further decline this year.
This story first appeared in the September 8, 2009 issue of WWD. Subscribe Today.
The company reported a 41.4 percent drop in net profits last year, to 128.1 million euros, or $188.3 million, from 218.7 million euros, or $299.6 million, the previous year. Consolidated revenues in 2008 rose 1.5 percent to 1.62 billion euros, or $2.38 billion. At constant exchange, the sales increase stood at 2.4 percent.
"The economic crisis has slowed down, rather than interrupted, the Armani Group's growth," said Armani, president and chief executive officer, in his letter published in his company's 2008 annual report. The designer added that "the first few months of 2009 have not been easy and the forecast for the rest of the year sees a further profit reduction in 2009 versus 2008."
Earnings before interest, taxes, depreciation and amortization slipped 14.6 percent to 303.2 million euros, or $445.7 million. Operating profit (earnings before interest and taxes) dropped to 225 million euros, or $330.7 million, from 288.5 million euros, or $395.2 million, the year before. In the report, the company said this is shown net of amortization, depreciation and impairment losses, which totaled 78.2 million euros, or $114.9 million. Dollar figures are converted from euros at the average exchange rates for the periods to which they refer.
"The downturn in both indicators is partly due to the group's conservative policy, which included the recognition of prudent provisions given the forecasts for 2009, when analysts foresee a further decrease in global demand and consumption," said the company.
However, leveraging on his "usual enthusiasm and energy," the designer, who in recent months has been recovering from hepatitis, showed confidence in the future expansion of his brand "by continuing to pursue our initiatives and concentrating ever more firmly on our strategy." Armani added that cost cutting and production efficiencies will help the company achieve further growth.
Noteworthy is the company's financial strength, with net cash at the end of 2008 totaling 371.8 million euros, or $546.5 million.
"I am often asked what is our secret? There is only one, really, I reply: the coherence of our strategy, which focuses our efforts on our long-term future," said the designer. "That is the real challenge which we renew every day."
Retail investments were among the company's top priorities in 2008, with 50 store openings globally, of which 15 were directly managed. The group's investments last year totaled 177.1 million euros, or $260.3 million, compared with 94.7 million euros, or $129.7 million, in 2007. The firm opened an Emporio Armani flagship in Moscow; Giorgio Armani and Emporio Armani boutiques in New Delhi, through a new joint venture with DLF Retail Brands Private Limited, and one Giorgio Armani and two Emporio Armani banners in Beijing in time for the Olympics in China, to name a few. The largest Giorgio Armani boutique in the world opened in via Montenapoleone in Milan in September 2008. The company also further developed its A|X Armani Exchange label, opening a 28 record stores, strengthening its market share in the U.S., Japan and the U.K., where it opened a flagship on London's Regent Street. Last year, Armani acquired a further 25 percent interest in Presidio Holdings Ltd., the joint venture that controls A|X Armani Exchange.
Armani Casa stores opened in Moscow, Istanbul, Kuala Lumpur and Kuwait City.
At the end last year, the company counted 539 boutiques, of which 171 were directly owned.
Among other 2008 initiatives, the company launched an e-commerce site in Europe, its Emporio Armani Samsung mobile and the Emporio Armani Women's Underwear line in the U.S., fronted by Victoria Beckham.
Including licensed products at wholesale value, sales grew 6.6 percent to 2.5 billion euros, or $3.6 billion, compared with the previous year, or 9.5 percent at constant exchange.
Apparel, Armani's biggest revenue generator, saw sales rise 8.2 percent to 1.4 billion euros, or $2 billion, accounting for 56 percent of sales. Eyewear was the category most hit by the economy, showing a 10 percent drop, while watches and jewelry grew 0.7 percent. Sales of perfumes and cosmetics inched down 0.9 percent, accounting for 26 percent of sales. Sales of home furnishing accessories, mobile phones and home entertainment products were up 234 percent, reaching 108.2 million euros, or $159 million.
By brand, the signature Giorgio Armani and more fashion-driven Emporio Armani made up 64 percent of total wholesale sales. The first grew 0.5 percent to 874.9 million euros, or $1.28 billion, while the latter rose 12.7 percent to 729.8 million euros, or $1.07 billion. The A|X Armani Exchange brand grew 14.8 percent to 231.8 million euros, or $340.7 million. Among others, sales at Armani Junior rose 36.1 percent to 47.9 million euros, or $70.4 million.
Geographically, revenues in the U.S. dropped 1.2 percent, accounting for 22 percent of sales, but grew 1.5 percent at comparable exchange rates. Europe grew 7.7 percent, accounting for 37 percent of sales. The Far East and the rest of the world grew 17.1 percent and 13.9 percent, respectively. China and Hong Kong showed a 29.7 percent rise.
Armani plans to continue its store-opening program, following the firm's unveiling of its fifth concept store, Armani/Fifth Avenue in New York, in February. Giorgio Armani boutiques will open in Tokyo; Dubai; Doha, Qatar, and Singapore, while Emporio Armani stores will open in Berlin, Singapore and Perth, Australia.


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The last bastion: The surrender document of German forces in Crete, 10 May 1945WW2, WW2 in Greece
By Pierre Kosmidis
A unique document, titled "Instrument of local surrender of German and Italian forces in Crete", put into paper the terms of the unconditional surrender of the remaining Axis soldiers on the island of Crete.
Following the Battle of Crete, in May 1941, the island saw a barbaric occupation by the Germans, which resulted in many crimes against humanity, including villages burned, mass executions and other extensive terrorism actions.
Whereas several historic accounts put the date of the surrender on May 12, 1945, this document actually mentions that the date hostilities ceased was May 10, 1945 at 10:00 hrs. GMT.


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Less is more when it comes to skincare. Studies have found that most women deal with sensitive skin, and the numbers are growing. Just under two decades ago, in 2001, studies found that one in two women had sensitive skin, but recent research from a Farage MA study in 2009 shows that over 75% of women complained of sensitive facial skin, while over 60% had sensitive body skin.
Now, these numbers are emerging as personal stories of trial, error, and derm-based heartache across the world. Recently, VICE reported on May 6 that more and more women — tired of expensive, extensive multi-step skincare routines — are opting for a minimalist approach to skincare following frustration from the lack of results. VICE spoke with 10 dermatologists to discuss further, confirming that indeed, less number of products used, as well as less fragrance and chemicals, goes along way to improving skin conditions. "Patients will come in and tell me they have one kind of cleanser for the day, another for the night, toner, spot treatments, some sort of oil, some kind of antioxidant cream, a facial brush, which usually makes acne worse—just a ton of stuff," Rachael Cayce, a board-certified dermatologist at the Los Angeles-based DTLA Derm, said. "I see 30 patients a day and I'm having this conversation with 15 of them. Usually what I'm doing is just decreasing their products."
Sensitive skin has special concerns. Even mild fragrances, colors or synthetic ingredients can cause redness, irritation, drying or acne. So opt for a simple routine that's kind to your skin made from nothing but clean ingredients that are clinically proven to be hypoallergenic, non-comedogenic, and fragrance free. Enter: the everclēn 4-step skin care line. Just ONE cleanser, toner, moisturizer and eye cream gentle enough for everyday use. Say hello to a routine that gives you supple, nourished and naturally radiant skin (and that doesn't break the bank!)
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First things first: you need a cleanser that's gentle enough to use a couple of times per day, but that effectively removes dirt and makeup. everclēn's Facial Cleanser softly eliminates unwanted gunk without stripping the skin of natural oils or clogging pores. Massage your face in circular motions with this light, creamy cleanser, both morning and night, to restore your skin's natural pH balance and get back your original glow.
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Deal with seasonally dry skin, work long hours, or need a hydrating pick-me-up for your skin? everclēn's Facial Toner works wonders to provide instant moisture to nourish and condition your complexion. Use it after cleansing and before you moisturize — or any time during the day when your skin feels thirsty. (Bonus trick: mists on beautifully over makeup to set your look and give you healthy radiance throughout your day.)
STEP #3: Quench Dryness with Face Cream
Moisturizing properly is the single most important thing you can do for your skin to keep it feeling soft and supple, always. The top trick to know? You can't skimp and go straight to makeup — moisturize morning and night for best results. everclēn's Face Cream contains calming essential oils and botanicals to help soften and soothe skin, without irritation. (And don't forget your neck! Smooth the cream on twice per day to give your complexion the hydration it deserves.)
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We all deal with under-eye bags or puffiness from late nights, early mornings and life stress. The good news is you can get ahead of it. Skin around your eyes is particularly delicate and sensitive, so combat the appearance of fine lines, wrinkles and puffy eyes with a heavy, nourishing cream. Dab a small amount of everclēn's Eye Cream to help moisturize, firm and tone this tender area. (Hint: this is a great piece for travel, small enough to slip inside any carry-on bag, and essential to eliminating travel-related under-eye bags.)


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"Drop out of school before your mind rots from exposure to our mediocre educational system. Forget bout the Senior Prom and go to the library and educate yourself if you've got any guts. Some of you like pep rallies and plastic robots who tell you what to read. Forget I mentioned it. This song has no message. Rise for the flag salute." - Frank Zappa in the liner notes of Hungry Freaks Daddy
Though Zappa valued education he was always very critical of the education system, particularly in the United States.
"I liked school a lot better than school liked me. They kept throwing me out. One day I got tired and tried to drop out of high school but then they wouldn't let me – sure did make me mad!" - Frank Zappa in The Fanzine Questionnaire
I heard you talking about UCLA. Did you go to college?
ZAPPA: "No. I dropped out of junior college after one semester."
So you're a self-educated man; but then, everybody's a self-educated man.
ZAPPA: "It's almost like college was invented by Madison Avenue so that after you've gone for a certain number of years and spent a certain amount of money on products which they're helping to sell to you, you'll get a piece of paper that says you're educated. That's definitely where it's at; and all you have to do is teach in one to find that out. Nobody's interested in getting an education in college – they're simply interested in getting out. That might not be true at Harvard – there may be a few freaks around at the top schools who really want to learn something. But if you go out in the provinces, like the University of Pittsburgh, forget it.'
(Quoted from Frank Kofsky interviews FZ)
Street: Do you think it's necessary to have a college education to survive in today's society? Zappa: It's probably a detriment.
Street: For what reason? Zappa: Well, the only real reason for going to college is maybe you can go there and marry somebody who's got some money already. But if you want to go out and earn a living, the best thing you can do is get out of high school and get a goddamn job. Because all the degrees in the world aren't really gonna help you. You got people with fucking degrees in all kinds of stuff who wind up working in professions that require little or no education and here they spent thousands of dollars on getting it. And how does our society reward them? With dogshit.
(Quoted from Phi Zappa Crappa Interview:)
Don't you have some sort of music degree? Zappa: I don't have any degrees at all. I'm fortunate to have a high school diploma. I tried hard enough to get out of going to high school, but they graduated me anyway. I had about 20 or 30 units less than you were supposed to have to graduate. They kept throwing me out, so I never made up the work. So they just decided to graduate me, rather than keep me there another year.
Aren't you glad, considering all the bullshit you have to go through in high school? Zappa:Yeah. High school was a wonderful preparation for life in a factory. That's all it is. Either they prepare you to be a consumer, or to be somebody who puts front bumpers on Chevrolets.
What about college? Zappa:It's the same thing. The best thing about college is you can get laid. You can get laid in high school, too, these days if you're lucky. But in high school, it is a bit tougher. The only thing that is really useful about college is that it's a good place for people to get together and go off and build their little lives together. Because if you didn't go to college, or some other place where there's a high concentration of like-minded people, you'd wind up spending all your time in bars.
(Quoted from Frank Zappa's Got Brand New Shoes)
Do you have some ideas about how to influence kids and get these kinds of concepts into the school system?
Zappa: No. In the Soviet Union you might be able to sell them an educational package. In the United States you've got a big problem. Kids don't learn in school; they learn from records or from watching TV or they learn from the street. Which is the real reason why some people are trying to put the lid on rock 'n roll and on speech in concerts. Because if they can enact legislation that clamps down on everything in the world of rock 'n roll, there will be no transmission of any politically controversial material.
(Quoted from Zappa!, 1990)
ZAPPA: Because in a way, I would agree with George Bush in that education in America needs to be reinvented, but certainly not in the way he would imagine it. Because the biggest problem we're facing right now is that education needs to be imparted to a post-literate generation. People who have no feeling whatsoever for a book or any data on a printed page, which should be worrisome to anyone who publishes a magazine.
It is.
ZAPPA: And if you have to teach people basic things that they will need in order to function normally, forget about achieving greatness, or even competing with Japan and Germany. Just to function, how are you going to do it if people can't read, refuse to read, and are so adapted to receiving data from optical and audio sources. I think you have to meet them halfway and install equipment into classrooms that are going to be able to deliver data into the language that the kids already understand. Costs money. And when you've got a state like California, with such a huge educational system willing to take up the twelve billion dollar deficit out of the schools, it also tells you something about the parents that would allow that to happen. Because obviously the parents don't give a fuck, 'cause they didn't enjoy school that much themselves. And giving the choice between paying more taxes and just hoping that it gets better and letting the "education President" take care of it, I mean, everybody is sticking their head in the sand.
Do you think somewhere along the line, it serves the powers that be, the pervading government for the last ten years, to have education dilapidate to where people don't think enough to really challenge?
ZAPPA: No question. I don't think it's any accident that the educational system in America has been brought to its current state. Because only a totally uneducated mass of people will be baffled by balloons. And yellow ribbons andlittle flags and buzz words and guys saying "new world order" and shit like that, I mean, only a person who has been dissuaded from any kind of critical thinking and doesn't know geography, doesn't know the English language – I mean if you can't speak English, then this stuff works on you.
One of the things that was taken out of the curriculum was civics. Civics was a class that used to be required before you could graduate from high school. You were taught what was in the U.S. Constitution. And after all the student rebellions in the '60s, civics was banished from the student curriculum and was replaced by something called social studies. Here we live in a country that has a fabulous constitution and all these guarantees, a contract between the citizens and the government – nobody knows what's in it. It's one of the best kept secrets. And so, if you don't know what your rights are, how can you stand up for them? And furthermore, if you don't know what is in that document, how can you care if someone is shredding it? (Quoted from Signs Of The Times, 1991)
Is there rhyme or reason behind the subjects you choose to attack?
Zappa: Whatever I'm mad at at the time. I like things that work. If something doesn't, the first question you have to ask is, 'Why?' If it's not working and you know why, then you have to ask, "Why isn't somebody doing something about it?" The government, for starters. Most institutions. The nation's education system is completely fucked up.
Fucked up how?
Zappa: The schools are worthless because the books are worthless. They still are on the level of George Washington and the cherry tree and "I cannot tell a lie." The books have all been bowdlerized by committees responding to pressure from right-wing groups to make every aspect of the history books consistent with the cryptofascist view-point. When you send your kids to school, that's what they're dealing with. Your children are being presented with these documents, part of a multibillion-dollar industry, which are absolutely fraudulent. Kids' heads are crammed with so many nonfacts that when they get out of school they're totally unprepared to do anything. They can't read, they can't write, they can't think. Talk about child abuse. The U.S. school system as a whole qualifies.
Did you find alternative schools for your kids?
Zappa:In California you can take your kids out of school at 15 if they can pass the equivalency test, so the first three have escaped. Diva still has a couple of years to go.
Before they escaped, how did you deal with it?
Zappa: We had them in public school and private school, back and forth, trying to find the best possible education that we could get for them.
Regardless of what they learned at school, they certainly must get an education around here.
Zappa:There definitely is a little stimulation around here. They meet a lot of people from all over the world and of all different nationalities and races and business backgrounds. The kids aren't shoveled into a room.
Did the perspective you gave them prepare them for those bad schools?
Zappa:It caused them trouble, because when they compared what qualifies as the real world here in this house with what they experienced as the real world in school, it was very different. Sometimes their friends think they're weird. On the other hand, their friends like to spend the night over here.
Were the teachers horrified?
Zappa: Some of them. They had a few teachers who were great. One could have taught a couch to read. She was fired because she wasn't Mexican. The school had an ethnic quota, and she was out.
(Quoted from Frank Zappa. Interview in Playboy, 1993.)
So, another way of trying to get people to believe that all time exists now is trying to get them to have an open mind, open senses, to not filter data that's coming in. It's the same thing.
Zappa: You've just got to listen to all the stuff that's coming in, good, bad, and indifferent. And hope that you have the educational preparation to be able to sort it. That's one of the problems why people would find what I do difficult for them to adapt to because I got out of the U.S. schoolsystem at a point where you could still learn to readand write, and I don't think that you can do that anymore. I think that the basic education that people receive in this country is so pitiful that they can't. They're not even equipped to sort data. And I don't think it's an accident. I think that the school system has been purposely damaged to keep people from being able to sort data because only a person who can't data will vote for a guy like Bush or Reagan. You have to be numb.
You have to be numb and at the same time, while they're making the school system impoverished, they are increasing the information flood on people with cable, the multi-channels, and fiberoptics. This is the ...
Zappa: More dread.
Yeah. So, maybe someone could overcome the stupidity that's been trained into them?
Zappa: I think it's possible, but it's just too expensive. And there's a lot of people who would say, "I don't want to know. I just don't want to know". And perhaps more than fifty percent in the U.S. prefer not to know. They have a suspicion that if they knew, they would be unhappy because they knew, and they will go to any extreme to keep themselves from knowing. In fact, they will even attempt to harm people who will help to let them know.
And that's our problem.
Zappa: That's one of them, yeah.
(Interview by Bob Marshall, 1988)
ZAPPA: Well, the problem with the youth market is the fact that they go to U.S. schools. And the United States' school system has been turned into a kind of assembly line for really ignorant little consumer clones. I was lucky. I got out of school back when they were still teaching kids to read and write. The market you're talking about now is basically people who can't spell, can't count, don't know anything about economics and think the most important thing in the world is dressing properly and having a party. So your guess is as good as mine as to what sort of music will fulfill the emotional needs of those people. I just think they've been cheated by the government. They're talking about yet another budget cut for education. And things are ugly enough already.
So I suppose they'll just buy into whatever type of music is advertised best.
ZAPPA: Yeah, well, what they're being taught in school is how to respond to advertising. The enemy of advertising is logic. Anybody with logic or common sense has got to look at what you see on television and say, "This is bullshit." But nobody is providing these kids with the criteria by which to judge between anything with any quality, or even to help them spot bullshit. They just don't know. They come into the whole thing completely unprepared for the tricks that are being played on them by the car companies and everybody else. They're just being used. It's really not fair.
(Quoted from Dynamo Frank, 2003)
References to school and education
- Hungry Freaks, Daddy: "Mister America, walk on by! Your schools that do not teach."
- Go Cry On Somebody Else's Shoulder: "I gave you my high school ring at the root beer stand."
- Status Back Baby: "I'm losin' status at the high school. I used to think that it was my school (...) My high school status is at an all time low."
- Certain photographed people on Zappa's album cover for We're Only In It For The Money are taken from his high school yearbook.
- Let's Make The Water Turn Black: "We see them after school in a world of their own."
- The intro to God Bless America goes as follows: "Here's one with your fathers moustache, the old cookie jar, rubbers, sneakers, galoshes, belt buckles, and book covers with the name of your high school neatly imprinted in crimson and gold on the front cover with a picture of the goal post and last years queen."
- Brown Shoes Don't Make It: "Quit school! Why fake it? (...) Got another year of school. You're okay. He's too weird. (...) Be a loyal plastic robot for a world that doesn't care. (...) TV dinner by the pool. I'm so glad I finished school."
- Penis Dimension: "You can console yourself with this age-old line from primary school."
- Dirty Love: "I'll ignore your cheap aroma and your little bo-beep diploma."
- Dummy Up: A high school diploma, stuffed with a gym sock, is smoked. Zappa also says: "A true Zen saying: Nothing is what I want... The results of a higher education!"
- Wind Up Workin' In A Gas Station: "You oughta to know now from all your education: well you know now: you're gonna wind up workin' in a gas station."
- Bobby Brown Goes Down: "Here I am at a famous school. I'm dressing sharp and I'm acting cool. Got a cheerleader here wants to help with my paper. Let her do all the work and maybe later I'll rape her."
- The album Joe's Garage is described in the liner notes as "a really cheap kind of high school play."
- Jesus Thinks You're A Jerk: "'Cause some folks don't want prayer in school!"
- Conehead: "At the drivin' school"
- Valley Girl: "Like my English teacher. He's like..."
- Fine Girl: "Oh yeah, she was a fine girl (...) didn't need no school."
- Yo Cats: "You've been to the Berkely school."
- Night School was a project voor a late-night TV show, intended to provide the audience with topical information about current events.
- Charva: "I loved you since in grammar school, when we were sniffin' glue."


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Axis tried to drown itself on results to break the jinxed 5200 levels but the results brought in more buying as the Topline jumped the usual 20% + on year and Net profits have held sequentially as well as on June 11. Net Interest Income is up almost 30% at INR 21.8B Net income is up 22% on the year. Gross NPAs are 1,06% , no further improvement but despite the school of hard knocks the bank comes from that is a best in class performance from the bank incl the CAR of 13% and Net NPAs are 0.31%
Net profit beat expectations. Net NPAs are 6 B from 4.73 B in March and was expected. Provisions have grown on a low base and INR 2.59 B is not the end of story and ill rise in future quarters even before Dynamic provisioning is sneaked in
The Loan portfolio is up to INR 1.7 T and that's creditable 30% growth over June 2011 while retail portfolio has started ticking up its share after the bank's thrust in cards and unsecured loans to INR40B or 24% of the portfolio. Both ICICIBanka nd orking Capital Experts HDFCBAnk have 50% of their assets in retail.
I am recommending buy before close of market hours today and adding to existing ICICIBANK and HDFCBANK portfolios. SBI may be sold on results as well
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Nearly four days after a violent car explosion that killed three people in Allentown, men and women in blue jumpsuits continue to scour several Center City streets, sifting by hand through debris for evidence and human remains.
As of Wednesday afternoon, police said some residents will now be able to start returning to their homes, but must check in with an officer on the perimeter of the blocked-off area. Assistant Chief Gail Struss of the Allentown police said the owners of a handful of homes heavily damaged by the explosion may not be able to return for several days.
The area remains closed to pedestrians and traffic, Struss said.
The meticulous process of cleaning streets, vehicles, businesses and buildings along the 700 block of Turner Street is being done by city street crews and police, as well as staff from the Lehigh County coroner's office, authorities said Wednesday.
Five investigators with the coroner's office are using their hands to sift through fragments searching for any remains, said Coroner Scott Grim.
"They are going hand-by-hand with due diligence to make sure nothing is left behind," Grim said.
The deaths of Jacob G. Schmoyer, 26, his 2-year-old son, Jonathan, and David Hallman, 66, all of Allentown, remain under investigation. Grim said all three died of traumatic injuries in the explosion, but has not yet ruled on the manner of death that could be homicide, suicide or undetermined.
At the site of the explosion — Turner Street between Seventh and Eighth streets — crews spent Wednesday morning cleaning the sidewalks and street, and flatbed trucks hauled away parked cars so a street sweeper truck could scour the pavement from curb to curb. A police officer said the vehicles were taken to a commercial car lot until their owners can be contacted.
Other workers filled trash bags in front of buildings. One official said the next step would be to wash the facades.
Because the street and adjacent alleys are closed, it is hard to see the damage wrought by the blast, though at least one building close to where the car exploded has a number of broken windows.
Struss said crews are being as thorough as possible and once that process is complete, the area will completely reopen. She was hesitant to give a time frame, but said the blast zone may not be cleared until Wednesday night or Thursday.
The process began with investigators removing all the vehicles parked along the street, Grim said. Authorities said at a news conference Tuesday that three vehicles had been seized as part of the investigation. Each of those vehicles will then be cleaned by a bio-hazard company.
The next step after removing the vehicles is to bring in street sweepers, he said. Any fragments collected by those sweepers are then picked through by members of the coroner's staff searching for remains.
After the streets are scrubbed, the outside of buildings and homes will be sprayed off, officials say.


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Like many Juneau rate payers, the Alaskan Brewing Company hasn't seen its first bill for expensive diesel-powered electricity in the wake of city's recent energy emergency. But the brewery's efforts to make beer less energy-intensive pre-date the April avalanches that cut Juneau off from its main source of hydro power.
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Upstream Gigabit Cable as Cisco Demos Full Duplex
Ready for customers 2019-2021. John Chapman made cable engineering history with the first demonstration of full duplex cable at ANGA COM in Cologne, pictured. The setup doesn't look like much until you realize this is the world's first prototype of a 10 gigabit down, 5 gigabit up, cable system. By using the same spectrum upstream and down, remarkable speeds are possible.
Chapman outlined the path to gigabit cable in 2005. Almost no one believed it possible except for a handful of innovative engineers. His ideas became central to DOCSIS 3.0 and 3.1. Comcast today is offering the gig downstream to millions of customers. If John says FDX gigabit upstream will work, I'm a true believer. (The schedule isn't guaranteed, of course.)
Full duplex communication has a long history, but not at the speeds of today's wireless and modems. Phil Levis & Sachin Katti of Stanford have spun off Kumu Networks, which has ambitious plans for wireless FDX and inspired renewed interest.
FDX for cable is a harder problem. Cable systems are "point to multipoint" - one central unit, the CMTS, attaches to many homes. The challenge with point to multipoint is that an echo canceller can only be used at the CMTS end.


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oh dear I've just taken the front wing off, there appears to be some metal missing. can anyone tell me as this is a series 1 should there be a hockey stick bit of metal running under the inner wing edge? also did rover use metal infused with aspirin on the P6 as it seems they dissolve with ease... oh well get the sheet steel and welder out again.
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Event Archive - Norine Braun, Adam Popowitz, Elliot Polsky, Huggybear Leonard, Alice Fraser, Scott Tucker
Fri. November 8th 2013 @ Railway Club (No Minors)
6:30 pm - 8:30 doors at 6:00
$10.00 at the door only.
Event CategoriesMusic: Funk / R&B, Jazz / Blues, Pop / Rock / Indie
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Her signature funky folk-blues sound simply cannot be matched. Best listened to as loud as your neighbours will tolerate. Abortmag Her music sounds like the union of Nick Cave with Patti Smith & City and Colour deep in the Canadian forests. MTM more info
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I was sitting in the living room one day channel surfing, when something caught my eye. The guy on the screen looked slightly familiar, but that's not what it was. It's what he was doing that stopped my remote finger dead in it's tracks. There he was, this vaguely familiar gentleman, on the floor, combing the fringe on a floor rug so it all went in one direction. He then went to the other end of the rug and did the same thing. So far so good, I thought to myself. I've personally done that many times. I understand where he's coming from. It was, in effect, almost perfect visually. He then proceeded to walk through what I assume was his house, moving objects and furniture, ever so slightly to the left or right. Clockwise and counterclockwise. Everything in the room was just the way he wanted to see it. At that point, I was totally engaged. It was probably because I had done the same thing, not only in my home, but also in just about every house I have ever photographed in my professional career. Visual perfection, while unattainable in reality, does make everything look so much better. Just an inch to the left ..... Perfect. And this, a little clockwise turn, forward two inches .... perfect. Overlap those items just a touch to create visual tension .... Pefecto. And on and on it goes. I can't remember how many times I have had to get off the couch at home to move something a "smidge", just so it doesn't bother me to look at it. Sounds a bit crazy, doesn't it? Well .... I guess it really is. The show I was watching was about OCD. The guy on the screen was some kids TV show star. I think it was the show that introduced "slime-ing" people to the masses but I don't remember the name of the show. He was opening his life to everyone watching the show so they could better understand OCD and it's effect on peoples lives. Needless to say, that shocked me a bit. Here was this guy, doing the same thing I do on a regular basis, claiming he had a problem. Which I'm sure he believes he has. But I didn't see it that way. While I feel for all of those people out there with major, debilitating OCD, I know we can also learn from it.
It's what I call ....... OCD for fun and profit.
By that I mean ..... if you see something in the viewfinder that you are about to shoot, but it isn't in the exact place you want it, and you have the ability to move the object before you click the shutter, go over there and MOVE IT! Don't say "I'll fix it later in Photoshop". The small amount of time it takes to move it will save you hours in the long run sitting behind a computer "fixing something" you could have moved before you shot it. I say this more to the next generation of photographers who have the luxury we "old timers" didn't have of "fixing it later".
Less time in post means more profit on the time spent on the computer.
Hence: "OCD for fun and profit."
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Published on Friday, 1 July 2016 at 12:00:00 AM
Avongro Inc is trialing a way to make it easier for landholders to succeed at establishing commercially promising native timber crops on saline land.
Frankia is a nitrogen-fixing bacteria that lives in symbiosis with some plants letting them grow in soils that are saline, low in nutrients, have extreme pH or even heavy metal pollution. Avongro wants to find out if, when planted in saline Wheatbelt farmland, swamp sheoak (Casuarina obesa) seedlings pre-treated with Frankia will grow better than untreated seedlings.
Avongro's agroforestry consultant Bob Hingston said "Swamp sheoak grows naturally around the margins of saline creeks, salt lakes and rivers throughout the WA Wheatbelt and Goldfields in rainfall zones from 275mm. It is an excellent agroforestry species due to its nitrogen fixing ability, it has palatable foliage (useful in drought), it is a useful shade and shelter species and its light crown assists pasture growth under the canopy of plantations. As an endemic species to WA, swamp sheoak fits perfectly with current natural resource management funding opportunities that promote revegetation of native species."
Swamp sheoak seedlings, half of them treated with Frankia, were planted last winter at 1.87ha trial sites on valley floor farmland at Aldersyde and Goomalling.The Aldersyde trial site, supported by funding from the Western Australian Government's State Natural Resource Management Program, is at Ian and Margaret Hall's farm and is close to several other agroforestry demonstration sites, making it a good stop on Landcare and forestry field days.
The Goomalling trial site is on Michael and Karen McGill's farm. Swamp sheoak is one of the native Western Australian timbers Michael's brother Brad McGill uses in his fine furniture business, Floating Edge Design. The Goomalling trial site is being developed in partnership with Wheatbelt NRM, through funding from the Australian Government's National Landcare Programme.
"Swamp sheoak may be suitable for carbon sequestration opportunities and has great potential as a long term commercial tree crop option provided that correct provenances are grown,' said Mr Hingston. "Previous Greening Australia, Wheatbelt NRM and Avongro trials I've worked on were looking for best bet swamp sheoak provenances for commercial agroforestry, chosen for growth rate and tree form," said Mr Hingston, "so in this latest trial we're also comparing the top five provenances we've identified so far, both with and without Frankia."
Soil salinity, soil profile, and soil nutrient data was collected from each site at the time of planting. Eight months after planting, it's much too soon to know whether Frankia has made a difference to tree growth. Despite overall poor tree survival on the lower half of the Aldersyde trial site, survival counts shows Frankia inoculated seedlings doing slightly better. At Goomalling there isn't much difference between the survival of treated and untreated seedlings. Details are in the reports Establishment of Casuarina obesa provenances with Frankia on Saline Avon Farmland available at www.avongro.com.au. Mr Hingston recommends both sites are tested again in 2022 for tree growth and form, Frankia nodulation, and soil condition, particularly nitrogen levels.
"Avongro is all about sustainable production and economic development in the Wheatbelt," said Avongro Chairman Alan Briggs. "If inoculating seedlings with bacteria increases revegetation success on saline farmland, it can open up more opportunities for landholders to reap the benefits of Landcare or agroforestry within their broader farming systems."
Dr Geoff Woodall inoculating swamp sheoak seedlings with Frankia (inset: Frankia nodules on sheoak roots) Photo credit: Bob Hingston
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Here at Central Utah Water Conservancy District, you might say that we've found ourselves in the business of being prepared since the district was founded in 1964.
It goes beyond preparing water for our customers and reliable sources for future generations. As anyone who caught September's Utah Prepare Conference and Expo in Sandy knows, we're also engaged in preparing our fellow Utahns for whatever might come our way.
There's a lot at stake here. While extreme winter weather conditions could leave you in dire straits without shelter and/or food, you'll likely survive for a few weeks. However, you will only last days without potable water.
Water storage and treatment is of upmost importance. While no one wants to think they will ever be in that sort of situation, our recent rash of hurricanes, earthquakes, wildfires, and other natural disasters underscores the need for preparation.
So, where do you begin?
• Commercially packaged water, if unopened, will last as long as its container remains uncompromised. You will want to aerate it after you do open it to freshen the taste. Pouring it from one container to another will do the trick. If you'd rather use your own containers, save some two-liter soda bottles (you can't clean all the protein and sugar out of milk and juice bottles, making them hotbeds for bacteria). Wash the soda bottles with water and dish soap, rinse them, then add a quart of water with a teaspoon of non-scented chlorine bleach. Shake the bottle, making sure to cover every surface, and then pour the bleach-water out and rinse well again. Fill it with tap water, which is already chlorinated, and seal.
• If you're in a situation without water, look for a flowing source such as a stream or spring. Even if the water looks clear, assume it is contaminated. You'll want to filter debris from the water and then disinfect it, preferably by boiling it for one minute, allowing it to cool, and capping it for storage. If boiling isn't an option, add two drops of non-scented chlorine bleach to each quart of water and wait for 30 minutes before using it. You can also add five drops of iodine (two percent solution) for each quart of water, but your kids are going to make awful faces at the taste!
• SODIS is not a new soft drink! When you're gone through your stored supply of water and you don't have the resources to build a fire, you can use solar disinfection, or SODIS. Fill a clear soda bottle with filtered water and leave it in the bright sunshine for five to six hours, long enough to let the UV rays do their work. Leave it in the sun for two days if it's partly cloudy. You can also heat water in a solar oven to 160 degrees Fahrenheit (71 degrees Celsius) for at least 15 minutes, as recorded by a Water Pasteurization Indicator (WAPI).
• While your primary concern is drinking water, you can use lesser quality water for sanitation needs. But use common sense; don't contaminate your water sources. Do not bury human waste! Line a five-gallon pail with a garbage bag and use it as a toilet, covering it when it isn't in use. Dispose of it when official waste-management agencies are available.