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"People got a bit lax," Queen Elizabeth II said last week of the time leading up to the financial crisis. "Perhaps it was difficult to foresee."
The U.K.'s monarch also lamented that her nation's Financial Services Authority "didn't have the teeth" to curb risky business through 2008. And dental enhancements for global banking regulators continue to be a favorite topic from Brussels to Washington, D.C.
Mario Draghi, president of the European Central Bank and The Financial Times' recently-named Person of the Year for 2012, advocated broader authority for the European Union following a breakthrough arrangement on Thursday. Eurozone finance ministers hammered out a deal to make the ECB the region's central banking overseer.
"The 'single supervisory mechanism' (SSM) is just the first, and easiest, step in a banking union plan designed to prevent a repeat of the financial contagion that dragged down banks and sovereigns in the debt crisis," The Financial Times said. "The next phase — agreeing on a common resolution authority to oversee the orderly winding down of insolvent lenders — is likely to be even more fraught."
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But slow progress is still progress, as supporters of the Dodd-Frank Wall Street Reform and Consumer Protection Act know all too well. November's election made clear to Republican lawmakers that a repeal of Dodd-Frank isn't going to happen, so they're turning to "technical corrections" of the regulatory series meant to rein in financial-crisis-causing behavior of too-big-to-fail banks.
"As the act was moving toward passage its Democratic authors, Senator Chris Dodd of Connecticut and Representative Barney Frank of Massachusetts, said there would be a future bill to make corrections," reporter Cheyenne Hopkins wrote, brilliantly describing the situation in her Bloomberg article last week. "Dodd-Frank critics had hopes for a technical corrections bill even before the law was signed by President Barack Obama."
But what constitutes a technical correction is in the eye of the beholder, as Hopkins noted. Dodd-Frank proponents see technical corrections as a way to hone and enhance its regulations, while opponents attempt to co-opt technical corrections in order to undermine the entire system.
Fighting for the Little Guy
But massively ambitious regulatory schemes for too-big-to-fail banks — Global Systemically Financial Institutions (GSIFIs) — are creating a laundry list of non-revenue-generating compliance requirements. Such obligations strain small banks, according to Dwight Utz, president and CEO of Engelhard, N.C.-based ECB Bancorp.
He and his board recently decided to sell the company.
"The regulatory environment played a role in that," Utz told Finextra this month. "It's an expense that I'm not sure a lot of people outside of the industry understand."
Picking Up the Slack
Small banks are the ones that should have picked up the slack when big banks failed in 2008. Federal bailouts saved GSIFIs from themselves, and it would be tragic if the regulations meant to keep GSIFIs in line helped destroy small banks that played by the rules.
It would be equally tragic if Dodd-Frank lost its teeth and a similar financial crisis played out again. Here's hoping that no one technically correcting Dodd-Frank gets lax.
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President Obama owes Israel a big thank-you for yesterday's airstrike on a convoy of Russian-made missiles along the Syrian-Lebanese border.
News dispatches from the region say that sophisticated SA-17 anti-aircraft missiles were being shipped to Hezbollah terrorists. With Syria coming apart and Islamists taking the lead among the anti-government rebels, the Israelis did the only sensible thing with the convoy: They took it out.
In acting yesterday, Israel sent a healthy message not just to Hezbollah but to its sponsors in Tehran: Its red lines for military intervention are real.
Jerusalem's fear is that Islamist groups plan to take advantage of the chaos in Syria to get their hands on President Bashar al-Assad's arsenal — including chemical weapons.
Certainly that would make the neighborhood more dangerous for Israel. But it would also strengthen Iran's hand — and guarantee more instability throughout the entire Middle East. That's not something that Obama could want.
Unfortunately, the president's tough rhetoric about Iran hasn't been matched with resolute action. Indeed, this week we are reading about his administration's failure to counter the Islamist influence among anti-Syrian rebels by trying to unite them under military councils.
That's the price you pay for leading from behind. And if you are unwilling to step up yourself, you have an obligation at least to support those who do.
The coming days will likely bring any number of occasions testing American support for Israel — whether it comes in the form of a European Union sanction, a UN Security Council resolution or a Hezbollah counterattack.
Thus far the White House has remained silent. We encourage the president to let the Israelis know the US has their backs on this one — and prove it.


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One of the guiding principles with WebCenter Content has been to make it as easy as possible to consume content. And part of that means viewing content in a format that is optimal for the end user… regardless of the format the content was created in. So WebCenter Content has a long history of converting files from one format to another. Often this involves converting a proprietary desktop publishing format to something more open that can be viewed directly from a browser. Or taking a high resolution image and creating a rendition that download quickly over a slow network.
Over the life of the product, the types and methods for those conversions has grown to provide a broad range of options. It's sometimes confusing to know what conversion are available and where exactly they are done (Content Server or Inbound Refinery), so I've put together a flowchart and list describing all of the different types of conversion, how and where they are done, and the pros and cons of each. This list covers what's available as of the current release – WebCenter Content 11g PS5.
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When: Upon check-in
How: Multiple ways
Platform: All (* but depends)
So PDF conversions are probably the most common type of conversion done with WCC. This involves converting a desktop publishing format (e.g. Microsoft Word) into Adobe PDF format. The benefits obviously include being able to read the document directly in the browser (with a PDF reader plug-in) and not requiring the 3rd party product to read the proprietary format. In addition, PDFs also provide additional benefits such as being able to start viewing the document before the entire file downloads, possible compression on file size, and the ability to provide watermarks and additional security on the file. And optionally, PDF/A format can be chosen which is recognized as an approved archival format.
Within PDF conversions, there are several different methods that can be used to create the PDF, depending on the needs and requirements.
PDFExportConverter – This method uses Oracle's own OutsideIn filters to directly convert multiple format types into PDF. The benefits include multiple platform support (any platform that WCC supports), fastest conversion, and no 3rd party software requirements. The main downside to this type of conversion is it has the lowest fidelity to the original document. Meaning it won't always exactly match the look and feel of the original document. These formats are supported by the OutsideIn filters for conversion to PDF.
WinNativeConverter – Like the name implies, this type of conversion uses the native applications on Windows to do the conversion. By using the original application that was used to create the document, you will get the best fidelity of PDF compared to the original. The downside is that the Inbound Refinery can only be run on Windows and not other platforms. It also requires a distiller engine to convert the PostScript format that gets printed from the native applications to PDF. The recommended choice for that is AFPL Ghostscript.
OpenOfficeConversion – The Open Office conversion is a bit of a compromise between the two types of conversions mentioned above. It uses Apache Open Office to open and convert the native file. In most cases, it will give you better fidelity of PDF then the PDFExportConverter, but still not as good as WinNativeConverter. Also, it does support more than just Windows, so it has broader platform support then WinNativeConverter.
Where: Inbound Refinery
When: Upon check-in
How: Uses a 3rd party (CVISION PdfCompressor) engine to perform OCR and PDF conversion
Platform: Windows Only
When needing to convert TIFF formatted files into PDFs, this can be done with either PDFExportConverter or Tiff Converter. The major difference is if optical character recognition (OCR) needs to be performed on the file in order to extract the full-text off the image. If OCR is required, then Tiff Converter is used for that type of conversion. In addition, a 3rd party tool, CVISION PdfCompressor, is required to do the actual OCR and conversion piece. Tiff Converter acts as the controller between the Inbound Refinery and PdfCompressor. But because PdfCompressor is a Windows-only application, the Inbound Refinery must also be on Windows.
Where: Inbound Refinery
When: Upon check-in
How: Uses Oracle OutsideIn filters to convert native formats into XML
Platform: All
The XML Converter allows for native documents to be converted into 2 flavors of XML: FlexionXML (based on FlexionDoc schema) and SearchML (based on the SearchML schema). In addition, those formats can go through additional transformation with a custom XSLT. Because the XML Converter utilizes the Oracle OutsideIn filter technology, it supports all platforms.
Where: Inbound Refinery
When: Upon check-in and updates
How: Can use both Oracle OutsideIn filters as well as 3rd party applications to do image conversions. Flip Factory is required for video conversions.
Platform: All (* but depends)
DAM Converter is used to create multiple renditions of either image or video files. The primary goal is to convert original formats which can typically be high resolution and large in size into other formats that are geared towards web or print delivery. One thing that is unique to DAM Converter is the metadata that is used to specify the rendition set can be updated after the item has been submitted which will send the file back to the Inbound Refinery to be reprocessed.
When using the image converter, the Inbound Refinery comes with the Oracle OutsideIn filters to create renditions, so nothing else is required and it can run on all platforms. But the converter also supports other types of image converters which are command-line driven such as Adobe Photoshop, XnView NConvert, ImageMagick. Some are commercial and some are freeware. Each has different capabilities for different use-cases and are supported on various platforms. But for general purpose re-sizing, resolution, and format changes, OutsideIn can handle it.
For video conversion, Telestream's Flip Factory is required. The DAM Converter acts as the controller between the Inbound Refinery and Flip Factory. What makes this integration a bit unique is that it is handled purely at a file system level. This means that Flip Factory, which is a Windows-only application, does not need to reside on the same server as the Inbound Refinery. They simply need shared file system access between servers. So the Inbound Refinery can be on Linux while Flip Factory is on Windows.
Where: Inbound Refinery
When: Upon check-in
How: Uses Microsoft Office to convert Office documents into HTML
Platform: Windows Only
HTML Converter uses Microsoft Office to save the documents as HTML documents, collects the output (into a zip file if multiple files), and returns them to Content Server. Using the HTML save output directly from Office, you get a very good fidelity of HTML compared to the original native format. This is especially true for Excel and Visio which are less text-based. The downside is you have no control over the HTML output to make any changes or provide consistency between conversions. It's simply formatted based on Office's formatting. Also, it does not apply any templating around the content to insert code before or after the content or present the document within the structure of a larger HTML page such as in the case of Site Studio.
Where: Content Server
When: Upon check-in or on-demand
How: Uses Oracle OutsideIn filters to convert native documents into HTML
Platform: All
Like HTML Converter, Dynamic Converter converts Office documents into HTML. But there are several key differences between the two. First is Dynamic Converter uses OutsideIn filters to convert to HTML so it supports a wide range of different native formats. Another difference is the processing happens on the Content Server side and not Inbound Refinery. This allows the conversion to happen on-demand the first time the HTML version is requested. Alternatively, DC can be configured to do the conversion upon check-in and cache the results so they are immediately available and don't need to go through conversion on first request. DC also supports a wide range of controls over how the HTML is precisely formatted. The result can be very minimal and clean HTML with various div or span tags to allow styling with CSS. This can lead to a more consistent look and feel between converted documents. In also allows for insertion of code before or after the content to embed the output within a template and is what is used within Site Studio.
Where: Content Server or Inbound Refinery
When: Upon check-in
How: Uses Oracle OutsideIn filters to create a thumbnail representation of the document to be used on search results
Platform: All
As a new feature in PS5, thumbnails can now be generated directly in the Content Server and not require the document to be sent to the Inbound Refinery (if it doesn't need other conversions). This allows the document to become available much more quickly. But if the file is sent to the Inbound Refinery for other types of conversions, the thumbnail can be generated at that point.
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Who is Jesus Christ? He is the Perfect One, the only One who can satisfy the soul. He is altogether lovely. He gives everlasting life to those who love Him and believe in Him.
My friend, the birth of Jesus was foretold over 700 years before He was born. The Bible says in Isaiah 7:14 – "Therefore the Lord Himself shall give you a sign; Behold, a virgin shall conceive, and bear a son, and shall call His name Immanuel."
The word Immanuel means "God with us." This child, promised by God, would be God coming to live with us. The virgin birth of Jesus perfectly expresses how the Son of God came to earth as both God and man. He was the "Son of God" because God was His Father. He was the "Son of Man" because Mary was His mother.
Why did Jesus come into the world? He came to tell us and to show us what God is like. He told us that God loves sinners. The Bible says in Romans 5:8 - "God shows His love toward us, in that, while we were yet sinners, Christ died for us."
Jesus declared boldly that He was God. He said in John 10:30 - "…I and My Father are one."
If you go through all of history, you will discover that only one person seriously claimed to be God. That person is Jesus Christ. What did Jesus say of Himself? Here are His very words: John 14:11 – "Believe Me that I am in the Father, and the Father in Me…"
John 14:9– "…he who has seen Me has seen the Father."
Who is Jesus Christ? My friend, He is God!
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You may notice something a bit different in The Buzz column for this particular installment of GMHTP. Rather than show you industry news that will be as stale as three-month-old Doritos by the time this hits your mailbox, I've elected to give our readers a heads up on what we're working on for our YouTube channel (YouTube.com/GMHighTechMag). If you would rather see updates like this rather than outdated news on this page, let me know!
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GMHTP at PBIRA few months back, we took some of our latest project cars to Palm Beach International Raceway (PBIR) for some baseline testing. We brought out our 2012 ProCharged Camaro SS (Project G.M.H.T.P), 2012 ZL1 (Project Apex Assassin), 2008 Corvette Z06 (Project Track Attack), along with AntiVenom's 2000 Corvette and 2004 Silverado projects. It's not just boring on-track footage without any dialogue, either. We interview the drivers, update you on what's been done to the cars, and clue you in on what we have planned for the next round of mods. After uploading the first video onto our YouTube channel, our website at GMHighTechPerformance.com, and getting the word out via our social media outlets like Facebook, Twitter, and Instagram, the feedback we've received has been big! It's been so popular in fact that we've decided to make it an ongoing series. By the time you read this, Part II will have been shot, edited, and online! But don't think it's just going to be those five vehicles over and over again. Oh, no. We'll be featuring different project vehicles as cars get completed, and new ones get introduced; including old-school cars, like our Project Lethal Weapon '87 Formula, Project Wicked6 '87 GN, and even a few surprises along the way. Check it out, here: http://bit.ly/1do7yX5.
Project Cheap-GThis is an '87 Monte Carlo SS project that we've recently picked up (what is it with these 1987 cars, anyway?), and it is going to be an honest-to-goodness total budget build. Although it will receive the inevitable LS swap for the sake of a solid, reliable, trouble-free powerplant, it will be by way of a junkyard donor. No "big-money" crate engine. No "fancy suspension" that's worth more than the car—just affordable, budget-friendly (or even free), modifications that the average do-it-yourselfer can do in his driveway. In terms of the car, it's totally solid. It has the original drivetrain, and it could use a lot of love. We scored it super cheap, and it really is a real-world representation of what most of our readers own. Probably worse, actually. By the time this issue hits your 'box, we would have uploaded the first video. Like the 'PBIR series, it will be it's own series that our viewers can follow along with as the car progresses. We think you'll enjoy it. If you don't, I'm 100 percent sure you will tell us.
GMHTP TVYup, seriously. Well, sort of. We are in the process of putting together a monthly "TV show" for our YouTube channel that takes us on road trips, documents project builds, and will generally be us goofing off along the way. Somewhat similar to what you see on our Hot Rod Magazine colleagues' Roadkill show – just with all late-model GM toys. We'll even feature some of our friends in the tuning world and the aftermarket, too. Initially, it might not be as "polished" as Roadkill, if you can call it that. But as things progress and we find our niche, it will be something you can tune into monthly and fall in love with. Even if you hate us. We already have a few things on the drawing board now that we're sure you'll enjoy.
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A comprehensive study from Maritz Research details everything from the voting habits of the well-heeled to millionaires' views of their own advisors.
Of the later, only 28% of millionaires consider the economy to be healthy, yet they're much more upbeat about the quality of their own financial advisors.
"Financial advisors are being perceived in a better light in 2012 as 73% of millionaires are satisfied with the job their advisor has done managing their portfolios through difficult economic times, compared to the 59% who were satisfied with how their advisor managed their portfolio through the financial crisis in 2010," according to Rich Brose, a senior director for strategic consulting in the financial services research group of Maritz.
Brose, blogging recently on the results at Sound Check blog, first notes the "harsh reality;" only 57% believe the economy is improving and will continue to improve, a figure that is relatively unchanged from the 54% of millionaires who expected the economy to improve when they were surveyed in 2010 following the financial crisis.
"Millionaires give the government higher marks for steering the economy through difficult economic times now (38%) than in the wake of the financial crisis (23%), yet these numbers appear to be less than a ringing endorsement for the Obama Administration," he adds. "Moreover, millionaires seem resigned to the fact that they will be paying more taxes as 68% believe their taxes will increase over the next couple of years."
Yet taking a look at the "positive side," Brose notes that "millionaires seem to have regained confidence in the investment industry as 84% believe their investment firms are financially stable in 2012 compared to the 74% who expressed that opinion in 2010."
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As you know, here at Lavasoft, we're gearing up for the release of the new and improved version of Ad-Aware. While our original public launch date of August 25 has been slightly delayed, we're still pushing to deliver the all-new version – with its advanced anti-malware technology, easy-to-use features, and new community-based initiatives – to you as soon as possible.
What's the cause for the delay? We've integrated new anti-virus technology with our trusted anti-spyware protection; while implementing the anti-virus detection, we identified an area of concern that we feel does not deliver the level of convenience and experience that you require from Lavasoft's security software. In order to address this and make sure that the new Ad-Aware is everything that you need and want it to be, the launch will be a few weeks later than we previously posted. Stay tuned here for more information on the launch of the new version: Ad-Aware anti-virus + anti-spyware.
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Witness report: My wife and I noticed this last night, December 11th 2013 over Encinitas CA. it was around 8pm as we were walking to dinner. We first noticed the object because we were trying to find stars to look at. My first instinct was this is a normal commercial jetliner. After about ten seconds that quickly changed and I grabbed my camera phone. The object was entirely stationary for at least twenty minutes. We stood there for about ten looking at it and spent another ten walking to dinner. The object was still in the sky before we walked into the restaurant, although I cant confirm if it moved or not since my field of view changed so much from walking. The object appeared circular and had three roaring lights that were moving rather quickly. The lights were magenta and a light green and occasionally transitioned into adding a yellow light into the rotating motion. The even crazier part was about 10 degrees away was a solid dark black circular object. I first brushed this off as a weather balloon or hot air balloon but it was pitch black out and didnt over at all. Furthermore the apparent distant between the two objects didnt seem to change either. Unfortunately I couldnt get the black object on video. My wife was very scared and contemplative directly after. She wanted to get out of the area immediately. I was reassuring here that there is a logic answer to what we saw. But Im not sure if there is at this point. Ive never seen anything close to what we saw.
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Toronto Argonauts: Grey Cup champions?
It was to laugh.
Perhaps not out loud, but when this team gathered for training camp, it didn't have a whole lot going for it outside of maybe auditioning for America's Funniest Videos. It was all supposed to be about the Tiger-Cats this 100th Grey Cup year. Or, perhaps, an encore by the Lions.
But the Argos? They were the CFL's version of the Keystone Kops.
They had a rookie head coach, a pilfered defensive coordinator, a one-legged kicker headed for hip surgery and a No. 1 tailback who wouldn't last past mid-season. There was an offensive line that had all the cohesion of the United Nations. It had more leaks than a New Orleans dam.
Speaking of leaks, people wondered if there might be a few in general manager Jim Barker's head, too, when he pronounced none of this would be a problem.
They did finally have a proven quarterback in Ricky Ray. But he, too, was new. He had to learn a new system. Also new were his receivers. Well, except for Jason Barnes, who also came over from Edmonton. They just played like they were strangers the first three-quarters of the year.
So, yeah. Like this was gonna work: The Grey Cup, solve world hunger and have all the little children in the world sing ...
Well, they got the Cup and people Sunday were singing ... so, two out of three ain't bad!
But there is no doubt that getting to Tuesday's parade had its unrefined and prickly moments.
One week, Ahmad Carroll was the player of the week. Two weeks in a row he had interceptions. Key ones. The next week he was benched.
Hello T.J. Williams. Carroll has a motor that never stops and his lips move as fast as his feet. It drives opponents crazy and Carroll's penchant for inopportune penalties wasn't doing much for defensive coordinator Chris Jones either — except make him crazy.
So Carroll sat. Williams played. But not well enough. By season's end, Carroll was back ... and the penalties — at least the undisciplined ones — ceased. Through three playoff games, he was the superb cover corner that at one time made him a first-round pick with Green Bay.
"Everybody on this team, you ask them, somewhere they had to overcome something to get to this point. We're a family, we just came together, stuck together and just played great football," said Ray.
This was not a team born a champion.
It is a rag-tag assembly of lovable wannabes, a legion of unknowns, a sprinkling of has-beens and a shipload of dreamers. It was a team built, torn apart, reassembled, twisted, and mutilated. Moulded. It was ignored by all except a small but loyal fan base for the first 18 weeks of the season. Instead of cheers, it played to echoes at Rogers Centre. It played to doubters in the media — and there wasn't much media that bothered to show, even to doubt, on most weeks.
Most days there were perhaps one or two reporters, in a city with dozens, who ventured to the wilds of the Erindale training grounds.
Forgotten men on a forgotten team.
But through long nights in video rooms, through early morning strategy meetings, through two-a-days at training camp, through long, hot summer practices, somehow Milanovich, Jones and general manager Jim Barker made it work. Made the irrelevant once again relevant.
There was Robert McCune, the sublime linebacker, with six tackles Sunday against the team that had released him. There was Carroll, plucked from the Arena League Arizona Rattlers' refusal-to-report list, limiting Calgary's Nik Lewis and shutting down Larry Taylor.
Several Argonauts never had won a championship. Ever.
Ron Flemons stood quietly. "First time," said the big lineman, happily watching teammates celebrate on the Rogers Centre podium, surrounded by his kids and wife Jessica.
"He was a little nervous, I think. But it's hard to tell," she said.
Flemons pointed at the flashing lights, the air filled with cheers and fireworks and smoke.
"Remember I told you in November or October that we weren't worried?" he said, flashing a huge grin. "OK, maybe a little worried. But we stayed the course."
In the end zone, Marcus Ball was making snow angels as blue and white confetti fluttered around him. Three colleges. High school. And, last year, no team in football wanted him. But now, finally, a champion. "I always wondered what this moment would feel like," he said.
Now he knows.
Cornerback Patrick Watkins, a former Dallas Cowboy, was out of football last year, but became an East all-star. Injured in the East semifinal, instead of what might have been a devastating loss, Jalil Carter, who hadn't played a down since Week 4 and wasn't even on the roster anymore, came back and performed flawlessly.
Slowly, inextricably, it felt as if fate had decided to don Double Blue.
Defensive back Pacino Horne was out of football for two years. Sunday, his key 25-yard TD interception staked Toronto to an 18-point halftime advantage. Milanovich called it the turning point.
"To win a Grey Cup on my birthday, the 100th Grey Cup, this is an amazing feeling," said Horne, who turned 29 Sunday. "I can't say nothing else. I'm just living the moment."
Perhaps this team's renaissance is reflected best by Foley. Named the Most Outstanding Canadian Sunday for a performance that included four tackles, a sack and a fumble recovery that led to a Toronto touchdown, it might do well to reflect back on a hot August day.
It was then that he mused with a reporter whether he still belonged in the game.
Foley was the picture of befuddlement. One of the most creative sack specialists and rush ends in the Canadian game was back-pedaling.
Literally. Figuratively.
Foley had spent seven seasons in the CFL, the last three as a starter, creating havoc for quarterbacks and offensive linemen from his defensive-end position.
Now he was being called on to often drop into coverage. The havoc was still there, but it was being played out in his own mind.
"Our defence is doing well and we're shutting teams down, winning games so that's AWESOME. Personally, sometimes it's a struggle because I'm doing things I've never done before and sometimes I feel I'm not playing well," Foley said at the time.
But, somehow, he figured it out, in the process — some argue — becoming a more complete player. Somehow the Argonauts figured it out, becoming a more complete team.
And so, as champagine corks popped, Foley could ponder on how it all came together now in a most unexpected way.
"This team stuck together through the tough times. Last year (when the Argos missed the playoffs in 2011) guys kind of turned on each other. We didn't do that this year. When guys made mistakes, or felt bad about their performance, we picked guys up and we started on such a roll ... it's just so unbelievable."
Long after the on-field celebrations, the players gathered in the centre of a champagne-splashed dressing room, to calls of "Quiet! Quiet!"
Milanovich handed out the game balls. One to Chad Kackert. One to Foley. One to Jeff Johnson, whom Milanovich said has "been like a brother to me." And, finally, one to Jim Barker, of whom Milanovich said "sacrificed his position (as head coach) so that I could come here ... and so we could win a Grey Cup."
Players screamed, "Speech! Speech!"
Through early training camp and much of the summer season, Barker insisted that offensive line of untested, unwanted or second-hand parts could get the job done. Sunday, it held up — wonderfully. Calgary's Charleston Hughes and linebacker Juwan Simpson barely laid a paw on Ray. And chances are Kackert doesn't come anywhere near that most valuable player award if not for the gaps provided by Jeff Keeping, Joe Eppele, Marc Parenteau and Tony Washington.
All season, in the face of doubt and cynicism, Barker would preach patience and give people the squinty-eyed look — like he was some kind of Houdini with an ace up his sleeve. Talk. Talk. Talk. And then it happened. The miracle on Bremner Boulevard.
"I don't know what to say," said Barker.
Who knew?
All it took to shut him up was a game ball ... and a Grey Cup championship.
"It was," he said amid a shower of beer and champagne, "a magical year,"
A city applauds. Finally, somebody noticed.
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Ethereum was proposed in late 2013 by Vitalik Buterin, a researcher and cryptogrammer. The development was funded by a crowdsale online during July and August 2014. The system went into production on 30 July 2015 with 11.9 million "pre-mined" coins for crowdsale. What the time represented 13% of the total circulating.
In 2016, the Ethereum suffered a bifurcation ("fork") creating two blockchains, as a result, eventually precipitating the collapse of the DAO project. Most were left with the new model Ethereum, which retained its name. A smaller portion remained with the original model, which was named Ethereum Classic.
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Well that sounds pretty rough. Still, best of luck bro.
Because it might come in useful, I'm also taking a beginner course in computer science-just making your own algorithms and basic programming and that sort of thing. For history, there's a course that I'm taking centering around Modern China after the monarchy came to an end. It's my favorite time period regarding China and it's pretty popular, so I'm quite excited.


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This Thread is being marked with the EXPLICIT warning that it contains material that is not suitable for children or those of a sensitive nature.
Some time ago I came across an online EBook, titled "Trance – Formation of America". Now I'm pretty open minded, and not that easily shocked, but nevertheless what I found within the pages rendered me speechless, so speechless in fact, that I didn't know what to think, or what to believe. For the next 6 months I didn't mention it to another soul. Recently, however, I've had a few private discussions with Smeggy, and he encouraged me to throw this out of the floor, so to speak, and begin a discussion into this matter.
"Trance Formation of America" chronicles the life of Cathy O'Brien, a recovered survivor of the CIA's infamous MK-ULTRA Project Monarch mind-control operation, and of Mark Phillips, the ex-CIA operative who rescued her (and her daughter Kelly) in 1988 from certain death, and helped her recover her memories and regain some control over her life. Cathy O'Brien's troubles began at birth (in 1957) when her family subjected her to constant abuse. As she grew up, her father ensnared her in a corrupt paedophile ring and eventually sold her out to he CIA, where, under the auspices of Project Monarch, she became a mind-controlled White House sex slave, deprived of any love, free-will or self-respect, and forced to endure drug and electro-induced torture.
By the time you have read the following short quotes from the book, which cites individuals, names names (and WHAT names?!) and clearly and precisely documents locations, I have no doubt that you will be wondering, as I have, how it can possibly be that Cathy and Mark have not been sued, - or indeed liquidated! - by the powers that be. Far from it in fact, for the book has been published in both paperback and hardback, and is available certainly through at least two major retailers, Barns & Noble and Amazon Books.
Without further ado, I'm going to give you a few random quotes taken directly from the book. At the bottom of the quotes there is a link to one of the numerous conferences that Cathy and Mark have been holding worldwide, beginning, I believe, in around 1995.
Loyalty to the sovereign of our country is non existent under New World Orders.
"President" Clinton poses no more leadership or loyalty to our country than Ronald Reagan did since both follow(ed) New World Order directives from former U.N. Ambassador and CIA DIRECT or George Bush, Hillary Clinton is the only female to become sexually aroused at the sight of my mutilated vagina.
Hall's wife ordered me to take my clothes off while Hillary watched. "Is she clean?" Hillary asked, meaning disease free.
"Of course, she's Byrd's," she responded, continuing the conversation as though I were not there, "Plus, I heard Houston say something about her being a Presidential Model, whatever the hell that's supposed to mean."
"It means she's clean," Hillary said matter-of-factly as she stood up.
I was not capable of giving thought to such things back then, but I am aware in retrospect that all Presidential Model slaves I knew seemed to have an immunity to social diseases. It was a well known fact in the circles I was sexually passed around in that government level mind-controlled sex slaves were "clean" to the degree that none of my abusers took precautions such as wearing condoms.
Hall's wife patted the bed and instructed me to display the mutilation.
Hillary exclaimed, "God!" and immediately began performing oral sex on me.
Apparently aroused by the carving in my vagina, Hillary stood up and quickly peeled out of her matronly nylon panties and pantyhose. Uninhibited despite a long day in the hot sun, she gasped, "Eat me, oh, god, eat me now". I had no choice but to comply with her orders, and Bill Hall's wife made no move to join me in my distasteful task. Hillary had resumed examining my hideous mutilation and performing oral sex on me when Bill Clinton walked in. Hillary lifted her head to ask, "How'd it go?"
Clinton appeared totally unaffected by what he walked into, tossed his jacket on a chair and said, "It's official. I'm exhausted. I'm going to bed."
I put my clothes on as ordered, and Hall's wife drove me back down to the mansion where Houston was waiting for me. The meeting apparently had been a success. I heard discussions throughout the remaining years between Houston, his agent Reggie MacLaughlin, and Loretta Lynn's handler, Ken Riley pertaining to Hall's successful branch of the CIA cocaine operation emanating from Arkansas, No discussions were as poignant and revealing as those between Alex Houston and CIA operative country music entertainer Boxcar Willie.
Later, in his bedroom, Reagan accessed my sexual programming, and I became "my part" as a prostitute to "Uncle Ronnie". Reagan did not move during sex. After all, that was "my duty". And my duty was to please him, whatever it took, and it took more time than anything. Reagan never hurt me (he always made sure someone else did that) and used this as a "bond" to the little child ("Kitten") personality he always accessed for sex. Reagan's most apparent personality kink was his love for bestiality pornography.2 According to my handlers, his passion for pornography escalated its manufacture and distribution during his Administration. He wholeheartedly approved and encouraged the porn industry for funding covert activity.
Many commercial and instructional (private) pornography films I and others participated in, referred to as "Uncle Ronnie's Bedtime Stories," were manufactured solely for his pleasure-oftentimes according to his instruction, using Freedom Train slaves. After my initial meeting with Reagan, I was used in numerous films that were produced predominantly at Youngstown Charm School and/or by his "Chief Pornographer"3 Michael Dante, specifically to satisfy his perversions. These included a wide range of cryptic themes, but were mostly bestiality. Reagan often watched the videos while I was prostituted to him, requiring me to re-enact the porn however possible.
Cheney roughly grabbed my hair and pulled my head back, got right in my face and said, "Or, I'll get her, my pretty, your little girl. Follow orders as though her life depends upon it because it does. Or the next baby's ear will be taken from Kelly. So listen. When you see the baby's ear, you will listen," He spun my head in the direction of the hourglass as he released my hair. He was sneering and Simpson looked as though he thought Cheney overdid it. I was relieved it would not be my job to "soothe Cheney's savage beast" sexually that day.
Cheney look me back to the White Rouse office where we had started. He and Reagan shared another drink. Reagan patted my hair back in place where Cheney had pulled it, which made me feel safe somehow since I could not comprehend that he was behind my ordeal with Cheney. Reagan switched my personality to where I no longer regarded him as "Chief," but instead as "Uncle Ronnie", He did this by reaching into his Jelly Belly jar and giving me one.
Certain colors and flavors triggered certain programmed responses. Uncle Ronnie must have had other "Kittens" conditioned to the military green watermelon ones because he kept an excess amount of these in his numerous jars.
Cheney said, "How in the hell you drink cognac and eat those goddamn jelly beans is beyond me.
Reagan responded, "Well, Dick, you don't have to have a Jelly Belly if you don't want to. I was just giving one to Kitten, here."
I haven't been idle over the 6 months since finding this document and before posting this thread, I did some research myself, on the quiet, found some more material related to the book, and as well as that a number of related "Talks/Conferences" (on video) by the subject's involved, and before long I found myself starting a full scale personal inquiry into something that, if true, is the most shocking, - indeed horrific and despicable, - systematic cabal of child slavery, paedophilia and drugs-running (on an absolutely massive scale), by a number of combined, and highly influential organisations, that to name just a few, includes:
Army Intelligence (such as CIC)
British Intelligence, inc. MI-6, MI-5, & the Tavistock Institute
Catholic Church (incl. Jesuits)
Central Intelligence Agency, CIA (aka Agency, Company, Langley)
Church of Scientology
Defense Intelligence Agency, DIA
Department of Justice, DOJ
Mossad (Mossad le Aliyah Beth)
Mormon Church
NASA (National Aeronautics & Space Admin.)
National Security Agency (NSA)
Neo-nazi groups
P.4 (elite MI6 section)
Mind Control Video's:
http://brainwavesurfing.blogspot.com/20 ... brian.html
http://video.google.co.uk/videosearch?q ... aq=-1&oq=#
Further Documentation:
A large number of pdf books here: http://cid-dc07e0698ba2abdf.skydrive.live.com/browse.aspx/Public/PDFS
I need to hear all serious views on this subject folks, and hope to hear of your responses after you have had time to digest some of the information above.


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A couple of months back Oracle released "Oracle ADF Essentials"—a free version of the core technologies at the base of Oracle ADF, which is Oracle's strategic Java EE based development framework used to develop the Oracle Fusion Applications and other Oracle products.
This should be very interesting to developers who are currently using JSF to build their applications, as Oracle ADF Essentials is offering some unique capabilities and extensions around JSF.
Here are some of the things JSF developers should know about ADF Essentials:
A Richer Set of JSF Components
Oracle ADF Essentials includes what is probably the largest and most advanced set of JSF components out there: Oracle ADF Faces Rich Client Components. These components include:
- Advanced dynamic layout components
- A variety of input components
- Several data collections representations components such as tables and trees
- Over 50 types of graphs
- Various data visualization components such as maps, gauges, hierarchy viewers, calendars, and carousels
- Much more
The components have built-in Ajax behavior that leads to a very rich user interaction experience and smarter communication with the server.
Beyond components, Oracle ADF Faces offers support for:
- Skinning through CSS
- Accessibility
- Internalization
- Partial page rendering
- Windows and pop-up
- Drag and drop
- Advanced push of server events to clients
The components are also certified to run on iPads, automatically adjusting to support touch gestures, HTML5/CSS 3 rendering, adaptive layout, etc.
A good starting place for people who want to evaluate the components is the hosted components demo, which is also available as a WAR file you can download and deploy to your server.
Moving from Page Flows to Process Flows
Building on top of the JSF controller, the Oracle ADF controller extends to support complete reusable process flows definition. This enables developers to build process flows that navigate between pages, methods, and decision points—capability that in other frameworks requires a separate process engine.
A key capability of the ADF Controller is support for reusability of flows. Flows can be included as steps in other flows, but more important is the ability to run a complete flow as a region inside another JSF page. Dynamically changing the content of such a region is also supported.
To support this encapsulation of flows, Oracle ADF Essentials provides new memory scopes that extend the scopes provided by JSF with a page flow scope that is positioned between the request and session scope.
Some of the concepts that are already in the ADF Controller are making their way into the next version of the JSF 2.2 specification.
Simplified Data Binding
While it is optional when building applications with Oracle ADF Essentials, the Oracle ADF binding layer is definitely worth considering. It provides dramatic reduction in coding of managed beans and ELs that bind the UI to them, especially when you use the declarative development offered with JDeveloper or Eclipse (through Oracle Enterprise Pack for Eclipse).
The concept is simple: pick up a Java class, EJB, or Web service and create a "data control" with a simple wizard. Oracle ADF introspects the class to understand the structure of your business service, and then you can simply drag and drop individual attributes, complete collections, and methods to create your JSF UI, where they can be dropped as fields, forms, tables, graphs, etc. A meta-data file documents the pages and data controls that they are using. This simply accelerates the development of your JSF applications in a major way, eliminating a lot of tedious managed-beans and expression language coding.
There are other interesting capabilities included in the new Oracle ADF Essentials offering, but in this article we reviewed the parts that are of special interest to developers who are currently using JSF.
Oracle provides a host of tutorials and documentation that can get you started with the various components of Oracle ADF Essentials. Now that this powerful framework is free, you should definitely take a look into it.


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