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World Cup 2034 Open Thread
Netherlands Squad Review; Tournament Preview.
I've been waiting for this moment for a while now. We've got a strong squad, a favorable Group draw…now we just need to put it all together on the pitch.
As you will see below, we have a mix of seasoned, experienced players (who were with us at Euro 2032) and promising youth. If we can't secure the title this year, we will have an extremely strong group of players capable of mounting a challenge in 2038.
Before we dive into a squad review, just a quick word of caution: I'm going to keep it brief. I'm dying to get going with the tournament.
And, one quick reminder: we're playing the shadowganche tactics used at Panathinaikos, Gladbach and Partizan, developed as a collaboration with Guido at strikerless and detailed here: The Kansas City Shuffle – Rise of the Shadowganche.
Japan 2034 – Groups A-E
Japan 2034, Groups F-J
Japan 2034, Groups K-P
Japan 2034, Netherlands Squad Overview
Japan 2034, Netherlands Fixtures/Results
A solid group in goal, with PSG's Pijnenburg in the 1st XI. His backups are Rafael and Bos. Pijnenburg is another level, in my view. Bos will rival him for 2038 if we don't get the job done this year.
The 1st XI sees Hak as our libero, Mbuyama and Kasanwijro as the ball-playing CBs, and Adenie and Hoekstra as our wingbacks. This is the last hurrah for Mbuyama and Kasanwijro, so they'd better make it count.
We've got solid depth, though, with de Vries and Owel as centerbacks, with Thijssen at libero. De Vries is a question mark for 2038, but Owel and Thijssen will absolutely be in the mix. Our youngest players are also in the position where the Dutch seem to be the thinnest — but, while we may not have depth, we've got young talent in Bank and Theuns at wingback.
The central midfield pairing continues from Euro 2032, with Respen as our Mezzala, with van de Sande as the Carrilero. Their backups are van der Ven and van der Heide, 2 extremely talented youngsters.
Respen is another player who may be in his last World Cup, as he will be 33 in 2038. Fortunately, we have tons of talent in the 2nd XI and national pool as a whole.
As in the past, we have a ton of talent in the front 3.
Liverpool's Unuvar, Valencia's Visser and Arsenal's Bakker continue to be our starters, each of whom is likely playing in their last World Cup (at least, their last one as an attacking midfielder due to an expected drop-off in pace). Atletico's Bijl and Chelsea's Karabakal could be in the XI on merit, with Bijl in particular having been a massive player for us coming off the bench (even if he, too, has time working against him). Bogers is a brilliant young talent, but not to the point where he's truly challenging Unuvar.
We've got a really strong squad. I think we are capable of winning it all, but (as always) we'll need a little luck.
Group Stage; Matchday 1.
Talk about underwhelming. A 2-0 win over Costa Rica but the 2nd half was incredibly poor. We tried to let them back into the match, but fortunately Pijnenburg stepped up and saved the penalty.
We have got to improve or we'll be going home very early.
Since Australia and Costa Rica drew in their first match, our win over Costa Rica meant we qualified for the knockout rounds.
So I did the only reasonable thing and rotated my squad. Keeping people fresh for as long as possible is key in these tournaments, but this format is crazy (some teams had played 2 matches before we played our first match…).
The 2nd XI were dominant, but needed to be more ruthless in front of goal.
We'll face Ireland in the 2nd Round… I'm strongly considering sticking with the 2nd XI…
Group Stage Review.
Altogether, it was a meh Group Stage. This is where things sit, as we head into the knockout rounds:
Japan 2034; Group Stage (1 of 3)
Japan 2034; Second Round
Uhh…so, yeah. Next time I think I have a brilliant idea, could one of you please slap me? Thank you.
We could have very easily been eliminated. We probably should have been.
We beat the Irish.
But only after 30 minutes of extra time and penalties.
Meaning that, instead of resting my 1st XI, I've exhausted half of my squad (with 3 first XI players getting 40+ minutes on the pitch).
We'll face Argentina in the Third Round.
I don't think I can take much more of this.
We were the better team and deserved to go through, but…my nerves.
We'll face Thierry Henry's France in the quarterfinals.
Utter madness. Respen sees red, only for Adenie to go off injured minutes later…and we go through on a 95th minute goal.
Zlatan is refusing to brush his teeth, comb his hair or wipe, claiming that to do so would "jeopardize the precarious balancing between the Universe and the Zlatan." I'm choosing to ignore him.
We face Paulo Bento's South Korea in the semifinals. The winner will face the winner of Peru–Chile.
Yes, you read that correctly.
We began the match brilliantly — earning (and converting) a 3rd minute penalty, with Visser smashing one home in the 6th minute. There was a lot of football still to be played, though, so we could not let the lads' focus drop. Zlatan made sure of that, prowling the sideline like an angry leopard, no one would stand within 10 feet of him. The South Koreans certainly knew that the match wasn't over, and never stopping pushing.
When Owel fired home in the 68th, we knew.
We would play for the title.
The South Korean's goal did not change anything, and the celebrations when Bogers scored our 4th were immense. An entire nation, lifting the weight of history off of our backs. The lads were so happy, they even gave Zlatan huge hugs.
We have always said that we would need a little luck to reach the promised land…I, for one, was worried that we'd used it all up against the Irish, Argentinean and French. But tonight we put on a command performance. Ruthless when we needed to be, without extending ourselves too far.
Our opponent will be Chemo del Solar's Peru, who FM'd neighbors Chile, 2-nil — a scoreline all the more impressive when you see that Peru missed a penalty.
[PSA: I will be playing the final this evening, but without a Gary/Jamie live blog. I don't have the time, and have extremely intermittent internet. I'm not waiting until tomorrow night, so…yeah.]
Final.
The biggest night of my managerial career. 90 minutes, all to play for.
Truth be told, the match was over in the first 10 minutes. 2 goals with our first two chances — Bijl in the 5th, Mbuyamb in the 7th.
Followed by Hoekstra in the 18th.
Truly, we saved the best for last. Our finest performance of the tournament.
A massive triumph, celebrated by the entire nation.
But we cannot celebrate for long. Our work with the Netherlands is complete.
And Partizan kick off the Super Liga against Crvena zvezda in 6 days' time.
Post-Tournament.
What a ride. Needing a shootout to beat Ireland and Argentina, and beating the French with on 95th minute goal with 9 men.
As much as I'd enjoy a clean, easy run through a tournament…winning the World Cup is just one thing. It's the journey that makes it memorable, not the destination.
That being said, our time with the Netherlands is done. Nicolaj Bur has resigned. There may be news on the horizon, though, as there is an international job open that I very, very much want…
We also need to update the tracker to reflect both the Netherlands' success and Peru's newfound eligibility:


While our friends up north are scraping ice from their windshields, we're scooping it into our tropical cocktails and shoveling it into coolers full of fish.
Copious amounts of chum are essential to successful reef fishing. We supplement our frozen block chum with Yellowtail Up and ChumDrop from Aquatic Nutrition Sportfishing Chums. These innovative dry chum kits are just what Dr. Snapper ordered and have dramatically improved our snapper catches. Ask your local bait shop or visit them online at AquaticNutrition.com.
It's hard to beat the Hawk Channel and patch reef areas for excellent light-tackle fishing for all manner of fun-catching and good-eating fish. Conditions are generally smoother than out on the reef edge, with seas never getting much bigger than two to three feet.
The Florida Keys mackerel are excellent on the smoker, and Capt. Chris will smoke your fish and send it to you. It makes a superb base for Florida Keys Smoked Fish Dip!


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eBird Tendencies: Introducing the Final Drill-Down Software for Viewing Native Adjustments in Hen Populations
Rufous-collared Sparrow illustration by David Quinn/Birds of the World.
From the Winter 2023 issue of Living Bird magazine. Subscribe now.
A new generation of eBird Trends maps, released in November 2022, provides an unprecedented fine-scale view of where bird species are increasing or decreasing. The maps of population trends for more than 500 bird species are derived from big-data models produced by computer scientists at the Cornell Lab of Ornithology, using the more than 70 million bird-observation checklists submitted by citizen scientists to the Cornell Lab's eBird program.
The eBird Trends maps depict exactly where bird population declines or increases are happening at scales as small as 27 x 27 km (16.7 x 16.7 miles), an area smaller than many counties. The maps can be used to guide research that examines the drivers of declines for birds in trouble, or to identify where conservation programs appear to be working and could be replicated elsewhere. eBird Trends maps also show changes in bird abundance during different phases of a bird's life cycle and at different times of year, so scientists can untangle how factors on the breeding or nonbreeding grounds are affecting a species.
"Knowledge is power," says Amanda Rodewald, Garvin professor and senior director of the Center for Avian Population Studies at the Cornell Lab. "By serving as an early warning system for declines, eBird Trends gives us more opportunity and flexibility to protect species before they become candidates for the Endangered Species list."
A Sampling of Species Maps From the New eBird Trends Release
American Robins are considered a ubiquitous harbinger of spring, but the eBird Trends map for this species tells a different story of declining abundance, especially in winter. The large swaths of red are shocking for a species like American Robin that seems to be everywhere. It's very difficult for people to notice changes in abundance in real time, especially if the changes are occurring slowly year after year. Slow declines add up, and the eBird Trends maps are a wake-up call for the need to study robin populations, especially in the darkest red areas.
Cactus Wrens live in the desert Southwest, where the effects of extreme temperature, wildfire, rainfall, and expanding urban environments vary across the landscape. The eBird Trends map for Cactus Wren shows how local populations decrease and increase with respect to the presence or absence of these stressors. Red circles (declines) show up in the Mojave region. Extreme temperatures due to climate change could be a culprit: Scientists at the University of California found that birds in the Mojave Desert are declining due to decreased precipitation and elevated temperatures due to climate change.
Rufous-collared Sparrow has an enormous range and eBird data covers most, but not all, of its range from southern Mexico through Central America to the tip of South America. In the Andes region, sufficient eBird data allowed for eBird Trends analysis that depicts numerous red circles, indicating a declining trend. Farther south in the range of the Rufous-collared Sparrow, light gray shading indicates areas where there was not enough data to reliably produce trend estimates. Model uncertainty stems from a variety of factors, including that additional eBird observations are needed.
eBird Trends map for the Rufous-collared Sparrow. Illustration by David Quinn/Birds of the World.
When It is Okay (or Not) to Feed Birds
Who Wins the Feeder Struggle?

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{
    using System;
    using System.Collections.Generic;
    using System.Linq;

    public class Student
    {
        public Student(string firstName, string lastName, IList<Exam> exams = null)
        {
            if (exams == null)
            {
                exams = new List<Exam>();
            }

            if (firstName == null || firstName == string.Empty)
            {
                throw new ArgumentException("The first name cannot be null or empty.");
            }

            if (lastName == null || lastName == string.Empty)
            {
                throw new ArgumentException("The last name cannot be null or empty.");
            }

            this.FirstName = firstName;
            this.LastName = lastName;
            this.Exams = exams;
        }

        public string FirstName { get; set; }

        public string LastName { get; set; }

        public IList<Exam> Exams { get; set; }

        public IList<ExamResult> CheckExams()
        {
            IList<ExamResult> results = new List<ExamResult>();

            if (this.Exams == null)
            {
                throw new ArgumentNullException("The list with exams of the student are not initialized");
            }
            else if (this.Exams.Count == 0)
            {
                Console.WriteLine("The student has no exams!");
            }
            else
            {
                for (int i = 0; i < this.Exams.Count; i++)
                {
                    results.Add(this.Exams[i].Check());
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            return results;
        }

        public double CalcAverageExamResultInPercents()
        {
            if (this.Exams == null)
            {
                throw new ArgumentNullException("Cannot calculate the average result. The list of exams of the studen is not initialized");
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            {
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Allegories in Architecture is a series of articles written by Robert that are in-depth looks at architecture, symbols, and other hints about the nature of various Hyrulian structures and cultures, as well as their relationships to each other and to real-world cultures. The first Allegories in Architecture was a modification of an article Robert sent to Zelda Dungeon on Facebook.
~~~Articles~~~ Listed from oldest to newest.
A (deku) scrub here at Zelda Dungeon, Robert spearheads the Allegories in Architecture series, which aims to explore the Legend of Zelda's in-game culture and its real-world inspirations. When he's not scouring Hyrule for symbolism, he's been known to breed Pokemon, thwart Dr. Wily's evil plans and help Patricia Wagon round up those naughty Hooligan Sisters. Catch him on Twitter for more Game related cultural forays – and don't be afraid to challenge him at Mario Kart 7…if you're comfortable with defeat.


We are very happy to announce as of yesterday the project has been approved by the EIA board. It has been a long process but we are now in the position where all legal requirements requiring satisfaction before construction starts have been met.
The project was signed off yesterday afternoon in Bangkok, the paperwork is now being processed by the board who will send our certificate over the coming weeks.


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Q: Azure DevOps Services REST API: What is the equivalent to: git branch --contains  I use the Azure DevOps Services REST API, my problem is to identify a merge coming from stage.
The idea would be to get the iterations and the commits, and from each commit find the parent and see if it is already in stage. That would mean that a particular commit is a merge from stage.
The problem is that I don't find a way to know if a commit is already in stage. This is where I would expect something like contains in die API. Is there something like this ?
Or an alternative ?

    git branch --contains <commit>

A: Have you explored the following Azure DevOps Rest API endpoint:

GET https://dev.azure.com/fabrikam/_apis/git/repositories/{repositoryId}/commits?searchCriteria.itemVersion.version=master&api-version=4.1

Ref: Azure DevOps Git Commits - List
Sample Response:

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#DALvsLAC
Spagnola: Getting By With A Little Help From 'Em All
Mickey Spagnola
DallasCowboys.com Columnist
AP Photo/Kyusung Gong
INGLEWOOD, Calif. – Maybe Mike McCarthy is right about this.
Maybe it does take a village to win in this NFL.
Case in point: Cowboys 20, Chargers 17.
No DeMarcus Lawrence or Randy Gregory. Step right up football man Micah Parsons. Linebacker one day, defensive end the next.
No La'el Collins. Step right up Terence Steele. And please meet Joey Bosa, Chargers pass-rusher extraordinaire. And with a little help from his friends, they turned Bosa into a pass-rush specialist, not an every down player. Kudos there, Mr. Steele.
No Michael Gallup. CeeDee Lamb, eight catches for 81 yards, and nearly a spectacular touchdown when he raced with just three seconds left in the first half, alluding one tackle after another before pitching to Ezekiel Elliott for another 16 yards before being pushed out of bounds at the Chargers 3. Almost.
Need to challenge this Chargers defense on the edges with a running game, making those outside pass-rush specialists play the run? Why, turn to the speed of Tony Pollard, rushing for 109 of the Cowboys 198 yards rushing, the most since the 223 in the 2019 season finale against Washington.
No Donovan Wilson. Step right up Jayron Kearse at safety, six tackles, one for a loss, one QB hit and one pass breakup, along with an interception wiped out by a pass interference call. And you, too, Damontae Kazee, stalling a Chargers scoring drive with his end zone interception.
And if Dak Prescott completing 23 of 27 passes (85 percent) and throwing for 237 yards and a touchdown wasn't enough, some unintended consequences caused the Cowboys to send Greg Zuerlein out there with three seconds left in a 17-17 game to attempt a game-winning 56-yard field goal.
That's right, Zuerlein – he of the costly missed 31-yarder against Tampa Bay, along with a missed extra point – hits the game-winner that evens the Cowboys record at 1-1.
Oh, and if all that were not enough, there was a small village of Cowboys fans among the 70,240 folks in SoFi Stadium on a beautiful Sunday afternoon, turning the spectacular place into a home-field advantage for the Cowboys. That caused head coach Mike McCarthy to say after the game, "I felt in a lot of ways we were back in Oxnard."
Or Trevon Diggs to remark, "It was home. That was our home game." And Zack Martin to add, and this is no exaggeration from the wave of blue in the stands, "We didn't have to go in the silent count, and I think they did. It was pretty cool."
It's always pretty cool when you win, and goodness knows the Cowboys sure didn't want to start this season off 0-2. And sure is pretty cool to win when you only had eight offensive possession in the game, just 28 snaps in the second half and your opponent totals 408 yards and the quarterback they were leery of, Justin Herbert, throws for 338 yards.
But somehow, someway – two interceptions, too many untimely penalties the Chargers (1-1) committed – a Cowboys defense missing four starters holds them to a mere 17 points, matching the second-fewest points they have given up in the last 18 games. Maybe the start of … well, we'll see.
Oh, and how about this: This is the first time the Cowboys have won a game scoring less than 30 points since beating Tampa Bay, 27-20, in Game 15 of the 2018 season, encompassing their previous 15 victories. Incredible, right? And as for Dak, this is only the second time in his last eight starts, stretching back to the final game of the 2019 season, that he's put up less than 30 points, losing the opener right here in SoFi to the Rams last year by, uh, 20-17.
"To get a win is awesome," Zuerlein said. "It's so dang hard to win."
Yep, and the Cowboys made this one even more difficult during that final 49-yard, game-winning, walk-off drive. Recall the unintended consequences.
So, after the Chargers tied the score at 17 with 3:54 left on a 29-yard field goal, that after a touchdown was wiped out by an illegal shift and Parsons chasing down Herbert for an 18-yard loss on a second-and-goal play from the 7, Dak masterfully went to work as if this was child's play, conducting his two-minute drill.
"Goes back to when I was a kid," Dak said of his calm in these occasions.
But don't think the Cowboys, after driving to a first-and-10 at the Chargers' 45 – thanks to Amari Cooper's 12-yard catch, his apparent rib injury stopping the clock with 36 seconds left and costing the Cowboys a timeout – were willing to run the clock down on purpose for that 56-yard field goal.
Oh, no. They nibbled with a 4-yard pass to Cedrick Wilson, playing in place of Gallup, to the 41. Now 33 seconds left. Then Pollard runs for 3 yards, second-and-6 at the 38, clock is running, ticking under 30 seconds.
Plenty of time to run another play, with a timeout left, to inch closer for at least a more reasonable field-goal attempt while draining the clock. And that's when things got just a little bit crazy. McCarthy said they had a personnel mix up, Pollard was coming off the field when he wasn't supposed to. And then, as McCarthy said, "The clock went off the board."
The clock?
Yeah, as the clock was running after the Pollard run, I was thinking, OK, they are taking some time off so they don't leave Herbert time for a comeback, the way Tom Brady used the final 1:24 of the season opener after the Cowboys had taken the lead 29-28 to drive for the game-winning, walk-off field goal.
But wait, enough is enough. Run another play. Try to get like 10 yards and then call time out.
"The clock situation was just different," McCarthy said. "I've never had a clock go off the board on me like that. On the second down, we're trying to chip away and get a shorter field goal. We were going to attempt a third-down play, kicking on the fourth was the time frame we were in, I think 17 seconds. We were right on the threshold."
Evidently, he and offensive coordinator Kellen Moore were looking up at the clock high above on the SoFi's immaculate video board in the round. But as happens, once a play is over the board up there goes into replays, crowd shots, whatever.
Now, Dak said he knew exactly what was going on. He was watching the stationary clock on the end zone ribbon.
"We intended to run a third-down play," McCarthy said.
Well, when it became obvious there wouldn't be enough time, they decided they might as well drain the clock down to the three seconds and send Zuerlein out there for the 56-yarder.
Bet you held your breath, right?
Good thing that's not what Zuerlein was thinking, having wiped the slate clean after his misses in the opener.
"It's more about trusting the process," the veteran kicker said. "You don't throw out your swing because you missed a kick. You go and practice and figure out what you did wrong and you try and correct that. That's all it really is. Just be confident and trust the swing."
He did. No swing and a miss. Even from that far out.
And at least Zuerlein wasn't in a win-or-else situation. If he had missed, overtime then, although that's always a precarious situation, many times the game turning on the coin-flip outcome.
So atta-boys all around. To Dak. To the Tony-Zeke combo. The offensive line, with Zack back and Steele hanging tough. To the defense, only once all last year giving up no more than 17 points in a game. And with Parsons playing a lot of defensive end, mostly standing up, fist-bumps to Jaylon smith and Leighton Vander Esch playing a whole lot more snaps at linebacker than in the opener, Smith finishing with a team-high nine tackles and LVE next with seven, one for a loss, a QB hit and having recorded the Cowboys' first sack of the year, coming 88 minutes into the season.
Then, too, those two takeaways, giving them six in two games, four of those now interceptions. Why, they didn't get their fourth pick until the 11th game last year and their sixth takeaway until Game 8.
And a big hand to Parsons, playing defensive end for the first time since high school when he _was_ a defensive end. His first sack of the season turned second-and-goal at the 7 into third-and-goal at the 25, eventually forcing Tristan Vizcaino's game-tying field goal.
"I really wanted Herbert," Parsons said, "and I finally got him."
Yes, he did. And the Cowboys finally got that first win. And it's also their fourth in the past six games, going back to last year winning three of the final four. And they didn't get their first road win last year until their fifth try and they only had two overall.
"It is big, us coming out and getting this team win with a lot of our big-time players not on the field," Pollard said, and he could have added on the road to boot. "It shows the team that we all can do this. We're all that we have."
And by gosh, they 'bout needed every one of them in this one, including all of them blue-clad folks in the stands, too.
3 & Out: "The Long Road" With Zeke & Tony Pollard
It's a long season – longer than ever before – and the Cowboys are wisely taking a long-term approach with Zeke and Tony Pollard's carries.
What Might Micah Parsons' Role Look Like Next?
Against the Chargers, Micah Parsons gave his biggest glimpse so far of what he's capable of doing. What might that mean moving forward?
Cowboys Had NFL's Highest-Graded Week 2 Player
Heading into Sunday's game with the Chargers, it was easy to focus on the five players the Cowboys were missing.
John Fassel Explains Punt Rush Call vs. Chargers
Special teams coordinator John Fassel is known for aggressive in-game decisions, and Sunday's game against the Chargers was no different.
How A Camera Changed The Cowboys' Final Call
Kellen Moore summed up the end-of-game sequence aptly, and with a good sense of humor.
Amari Cooper Has Bruised Ribs; Injury Updates
Injury updates for the Cowboys following Sunday's win over the Chargers.
Further Review: Cowboys Prove Potential In LA
Here's a quick recap of the Cowboys' thrilling last-second win over the Chargers and the build-up throughout the week.
Finally, Dak & The Cowboys' Offense Get A Lift
It can't be understated how long this team has been waiting for this type of win.
Eatman: Wild, Crazy Week Gets A Hollywood Ending
Whatever could go wrong, did go wrong for the Cowboys this week. But somehow, they found a way to overcome all obstacles and get a huge victory on the field.
Run Game Rolls As Cowboys Feed Zeke, Tony Pollard
The Cowboys feed Zeke & Tony Pollard in Sunday's win over the Chargers.
Game Notes: Steele Trap; Feeling At Home & More
Terence Steele stepping up, another pick for Trevon Diggs & more in our Game Notes.


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Forever Alone No More
How about using version control on your website, just like the big boys? You can do that on WP Engine without rolling your own.
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24 July, 2012 by Ipstenu (Mika Epstein)
A lot of us work on projects by ourselves. We're the ones who build a website, alone. We write a plugin, again alone. When we do colaborate with others in the making of our site and codes, it's often a cumbersome, kludgy, thing at best. The advent of code management systems like SVN and GIT make the actually coding process easier. Now multiple people can make changes, branch and fork, merge and combine to fix all sorts of problems.
But web-development, for your personal site, is still in the dark ages.
Here's my workfolow:
Open Coda2
Preview changes
Push file
Now that's a huge improvement since the old days, when I would edit, FTP, and so on. I still use Transmit to run a sync/backup every day before I start editing any files, but that just goes back to my paranoia. It gets harder when you use something like WordPress, because the old days of being able to easily preview your site and how it looks doesn't exist anymore. That's part of why the totally incredible Theme Customizer is totally incredible.
It's also a little problematic if you share a site. Let's face it, maintaining a website with other people is a pain. When my fellow site-folk want a small change, they can make it, but I have no way to easily roll that back without comparing my personal backup with the new one, and go make a diff. Sure I can do it, but it takes time, and it's a hassle. A lot of the time, too, my fellow admins aren't as good at certain things (like CSS, or tables, or PHP) as I am, and I have to bail them out. In and of itself, that's okay. It's why they keep me around and fee me brownies, after all.
Have you ever had someone else make a change while you're on vacation and call you in a panic, even though you're on Bora Bora and have no internet, because this 'one small tweak' to the sidebar caused the site to go white, and they closed their file-editor, so they can't control-z?
A lot of us cowboy code. I sure do. I'm often banging away on my sites in vi when I want to make a fast CSS change. Clearly sustainable for a professional environment, this is not.
But… What if? What if you had a way to update the code on your site, like your personal mu-plugins or the theme, and make the changes 'live' but still have a way to roll back when you accidentally blow it all up?
And what if I told you that a WP dedicated host has an answer. Yeah, WP Engine figured it out.
Upfront disclosure: I don't use WP Engine. I have a lot of non-WP sites on my servers, and many of my sites aren't using just WP. I have a VPS and I'm very happy with it. But if you want a good host to run your WordPress site that's the step between your own VPS and WordPress.com, I strongly recommend them. Yes, it's more expensive than many other hosts, but I am a firm believer in 'You get what you pay for.' With WP Engine you get hosting, upgrades, backups, and support for $30 a month. And now you also get Git. They've come up with a Git-push-to-deploy method for their hosting platform.
Did that sound like gobbledygook? Hang on. This actually isn't something 'new,' as the technology's been around for a while, but this is something new for webhosting and WordPress hosting. WP Engine's applied it to their servers, making version control possible. It's like how we've always combined version control and staging to make a 'development platform' and now you get that in WP.
Okay, if you're like me, and a total raw rookie at Git, you sat here and went 'What the hell is this 'push to deploy' stuff?'
At it's heart, push-to-deploy and push-to-live is really a fancy, buzz-wordy way of saying this: I have a git branch that is the dedicated to my site version of my code. If I edit that branch by pushing my changes to it, I have created a version-controlled update of my site, which is beneficial in case you need to roll back a change, or pin-point a specific change.
Okay, maybe that's still unclear. You're going to have to take a look at git.wpengine.com to really see how they're applying the technology. Git, like SVN, is one of those things that makes a lot more sense once you sit down and use it a few times.
Really, my biggest hurdle is always wrapping my head around git's application of branches and merging and a decentralized database. It's complex and powerful. Vincent Driessen wrote a brilliant explanation of a successful Git branching model, complete with diagrams, that explains all this way better than I could. His examples will show you exactly what's going on, and that a 'push to deploy' is really just another sneaky way of using git to manage your changes in a controlled way.
Don't get the wrong idea. There's nothing wrong with being sneaky to control all this, when you get down to it! It's the perfect-world a lot of teams have been looking for, for many years. Having this built into your webhost, so you don't have to come up with your own solution, is going to be amazing for small companies that will, over time, have a slew of developers. Someone new comes along? Hand them your primer on naming conventions and merge rules, let them fetch the repository, and off they go. Everything is right there, as safe as your backups.
I can't say if this will revolutionize things, but it's a harbinger of change which web dev has sorely needed.
Check out WP Engine's Git FAQ (where they explain all the nitty gritty about handling version control, so if you're a nutjob like me and want to run aortic, you can), or just read their getting started guide. The directions are clear enough for a Git newbie like me to understand.
Unlike Capistrano or RAMP, this hasn't been released outside of WP Engine, but that makes sense as it's all homegrown and built to their servers. This should be interesting to watch how other WP (and non WP) managed hosts handle the next wave of support.
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Our Performance Befitting Answer To Detractors: Omar
'NC symbolizes solidarity, unity, harmony of J&K'
JAMMU– Chief Minister Omar Abdullah Wednesday said that four years' report card of his government on peace and development fronts amply substantiates its sincere intension to make Jammu and Kashmir a model State in the Country where public empowerment and transparency will ruling the roost.
"The historic initiatives initiated and achievements registered on ground are itself reply to the propagandist elements who cry hoarse to belittle the work done by the government to ensure peace, equitable development, economic prosperity, transparency and public involvement in governance", he said adding that those who have covered their eyes with black glasses see only dark.
Addressing a public gathering at Marh about 25 kilometers from here, the Chief Minister said that the network of roads and bridges, hospitals, educational institutions, power installations, irrigation and drinking water supply works and countless other development works in all sectors besides path breaking legislations to empower people enacted during the tenure of present dispensation is in itself a record and speak loud and clear on ground. He also mentioned the measures taken by his government to keep agriculture sector free from almost all taxes and help welfare of farming community and give boost to the agriculture production. He referred to SKEWPY and other steps taken by the government addressing unemployment and upgrading skills of youth.
Omar Abdullah said that people are best judges to judge our performance despite difficulties and slippery turf. "Overcoming problems of different natures, my government sailed the State through tumult waters", he said adding that the march on road to progress will continue with firm footing and determination. "Let you keep your support unabated, we will lead you towards prosperity and permanent peace", he maintained.
The Chief Minister referred to Public Service Guarantee Act and said that by this legislation his government has ensured time bound service delivery of 70 important public services to the people besides ensuring transparency and reducing the chances of corruption and malpractices. "My government gave you authority to demand identified services from the government departments in a fixed time line and if you do not get it in that time frame, the erring official will be liable for fine which would be paid to the aggrieved consumer as compensation for the delay caused in delivering the service", he said asking the people to take fullest advantage of this historic initiative.
The Chief Minister also spoke about the Right to Information Act and the power given to commoners to question the government on its every performance and action or omission. He also referred to the empowerment of Panchayats and said that transfer of authority from the Secretariat to the grass root public representatives in the field is the determination of his government.
Ridiculing the misinformation campaign by detractors of National Conference, the Chief Minister who is also the Working President of National Conference said that NC lives in the hearts of common people, its flag is unfurled up-mast in all the regions and sub-regions of the State and its strength is the wholehearted support of all sections of the people.
Omar Abdullah said that NC symbolizes unity, solidarity, communal harmony and equitable and inclusive development of the State. "NC has remained the voice and heartbeat of common people", he said adding that the propaganda against this party has always fallen flat on its detractors and enemies.


It's the everyday little things that matter. It's washing the dishes so someone else doesn't have to, it's holding the elevator even when you'd much rather have the space inside the rolling metal box all to yourself, it's not honking at the car in front of you when every fiber of your being is silently screaming, "Move!". It's often these little things that I shrug off as inconsequential. Except these little things really do matter. In the grand scheme of things, the little things matter.
I think sometimes I forget to thank God for the quiet life. I forget authentic worship is meant to be an everyday expression of my love for Him. That when I smile and say good morning to the neighbors, and in doing so take one step out of gloomy morning mood, it's an act of worship- a small act of love that cost me something and that has been released into the world to ripple outward and eventually find a home in a much larger stream.
Maybe carrying out the Great Commission isn't as hard as I make it out to be. Maybe it's just being a little bit friendlier than usual, a little bit more gracious than usual, more forgiving than usual. Maybe it's sometimes as simple as saying, "Hello". So I guess today my prayer is that tiny and new springs of hope are strewn throughout my corner of the world. That today when I smile and say, "Hello", I'll think it grand and will remember that the little things really do matter.
Dear World, I wish you a smile and "Hello".


Our summer holidays always end up being really busy but it is nice to spend some time at home too. When we are at home, I tend to find that I still need to keep the kids occupied to stop any petty squabbling. One of the things we like to do in the school holidays is to have 'theme days'. In the past, we have had a circus theme, a jungle theme, dinosaurs and lots more.
As Rio2 has recently been released on DVD and Blu-ray and the kids would desperately love to see it, we decided to have a Rio2 themed day.
With Gabi the frog on the other side.
Next it was time for some cooking.
How about some colourful cookies.
And finally a bit of Rio2 themed LEGO play.


Clean water is essential for a healthy life and well-being.
Maintaining this is equally important to many industries and production processes. However, water resources are under pressure due to human activities, with safe utilization of water constantly at risk, due in part to flood disasters, epidemics, infections, and the emergence of multi-resistant germs.
Water research is an ongoing international effort. The development and transfer of new knowledge, including practical conclusions gained from it, remains a worldwide challenge.
In Merseburg, a novel technology which has led to both a deeper fundamental understanding of the underlying reaction mechanisms and practical ways of treating water using minimal amounts of chemicals, was discovered nearly 10 years ago. Since then this technology has evolved into a multidisciplinary effort bringing safe, clean, and efficient water treatment solutions to many applications.
The aim of the 1st International MerWaterDays is to discuss the current status and knowledge of this technology and present examples and applications. A major emphasis is put on the discussion and interpretation of mechanisms and processes taking place within the water, and how this understanding will influence future research, development, as weil as create new opportunities. Lectures and discussions will be complemented by practical examples which demonstrate the use and performance of the technology.
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High heels and higher education
By Jennifer Standish
Courtesy of the University of Chicago
When it opened in 1892, the University of Chicago was one of the few universities in the country willing to admit both men and women. Despite its non-discriminatory foundations, the fight to retain the rights of women at the University was not an easy one, requiring unification, protest, and leadership.
In 2009, the University of Chicago library created an exhibit on Educating Women at the University of Chicago, documenting the transformation of the role of women at this school. According to the exhibit archives, the University's practice of coeducation was threatened only 10 years after it began. In 1902, University Administration voted to separate women and men in the classroom during their first and second years in the school. This was met by intense objection from students, affiliates, and faculty of the University. Because of this, the controversy ended only a few years after it began with the reinstatement of coeducation for all four years.
In the early 1900s, Marion Talbot, Dean of Women (a position that only existed until 1925), and two other female professors argued that women did not possess enough influence on campus. Despite their complaints, this issue was not taken into consideration until the '70s, when an unsuccessful sit-in demanding the contract renewal of Assistant Professor Marlene Dixon left 23 students expelled. This forced the administration to reexamine "the status and opportunities open to academic women on this campus." In the end, the report acknowledged the University's lack of opportunity for women and encouraged the recruitment of more women educators and students.
In addition to advocating for more female influence in the University, Talbot took it upon herself to create well-balanced women, supervising the female students' studies, social life, and diet during her time at the University.
William M. Rittase
Throughout the 20th century, women undergraduates continued to face restrictions that their male counterparts did not: The University established women's curfews and heavily supervised any event during which men and women socialized with one another. Women, unlike men, were not only required to live in the residence halls,: They were also expected to clean up after themselves while the men's rooms were cleaned by housekeeping. Under the administration of one dean of students, women were even required (although without protest) to wear skirts to dinner.
Fed up with the strict regulations imposed on student life, students clashed with administration, demanding more lenient, equal social expectations. Their protests eventually led to the transition to coeducational dorms whenever possible by 1966, and eventually the elimination of the women's curfew by the '70s.
The fight for women's rights on campus continued side-by-side with female activists across the country. In 1967, the first campus women's liberation organization, the Women's Radical Action Project, was formed, later expanding through other parts of Chicago. During the national abortion debate, a group of female students, organized under the Abortion Counseling Service, advocated for the legalization of abortion from 1960 to 1973. By the time of the Roe v. Wade Supreme Court decision legalizing abortions, the group organized an estimated 11,000 illegal abortions in the Chicago area.
Remnants of female progress and influence at the University can be seen to this day. In 1916, Ida Noyes Hall was initially opened as a women's clubhouse in response to the opening of the Reynolds Club and Bartlett gym for men at the University. Multiple residential houses are named after prominent women alumni, including Katherine Graham, former head of the Washington Post and Pulitzer Prize winner, and Sophonisba Breckinridge, the first woman admitted into the Order of the Coif, an honorary legal scholastic society. In 1985, Alpha Omicron Pi led the way for the formation of various sororities on campus, despite the administration's initial ban of such organizations. In contrast to 1910, when they only represented 22 percent of the undergraduate population, women today make up 47 percent of students in the College. This progression toward equality will persist as women continue to excel in the classroom, take student leadership roles, and serve as faculty members.


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Is Obamacare financially burdensome for businesses?
General Reference (not clearly pro or con)
The Lewin Group, a healthcare policy research and management consulting firm, wrote in its June 8, 2010 study "Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (PPACA): Long Term Costs for Governments, Employers, Families, and Providers," published on the website of the Lewin Group:
"Employer health spending will decline by about $55.3 billion over the 2010 through 2019 period. Most of these savings are attributed to discontinuations of health plans. However, employer costs will generally increase after 2018. Total private employer health spending will increase by $373.5 billion over the 2020 through 2029 period."
June 8, 2010 - Lewin Group
[Editors Note: The Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act was signed into law on Mar. 23, 2010. All references below to "current law" and "status quo" made prior to Mar. 23, 2010, refer to the circumstances prevalent before the passage of the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act.]
PRO (yes)
Robert F. Graboyes, MSHA, PhD, Senior Healthcare Advisor at the National Federation of Independent Business, wrote in his Mar. 31, 2010 Washington Post blog entry "Health Care Rx: Not an Ending, only a Beginning,":
"For small business, the new health-care law begins a long struggle against cost increases, uncertainty and perverse incentives. Traditionally, small business produces over two-thirds of America's new jobs, but this bill jeopardizes that role.
Premium increases will dominate the near-term horizon… Millions of people will begin gaining insurance, with no commensurate increase in the number of doctors and other providers; this will push medical fees upwards…
Premium hikes won't be limited to small business. Based on only one of the myriad new tax provisions, AT&T, John Deere, Caterpillar, 3M, and other companies are setting aside billions of dollars for anticipated losses. They can't spend these dollars on jobs, products, and investment. Small businesses who sell to these companies will feel the secondary effects of this contraction…
Small business will fight every day to survive this bill."
Mar. 31, 2010 - Robert F. Graboyes, MSHA, PhD
Orrin G. Hatch, JD, US Senator (R-UT), stated in a June 17, 2010 press release titled "Hatch Introduces Legislation Repealing Health Law's Liberty-Threatening Individual Mandate, Job-Killing Employer Mandate," publised on the website of the US Senate:
"…[T]he job killing employer mandate [in the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act] 'would force more layoffs and increase taxes on businesses at a time of near 10 percent unemployment'…
[P]rovisions in the health law forc[e] employers to provide health insurance for their employees or face a massive tax increase that the nonpartisan Congressional Budget Office (CBO) found would hit employers with $52 billion in new taxes. Almost every group representing employers, including the National Federation of Independent Business (NFIB), the U.S. Chamber of Commerce, and the National Association of Manufacturers (NAM), opposes the employer mandate.
'The employer mandate would force businesses to let people go or raise the cost of doing business to such an extent that they don't start hiring.'"
June 17, 2010 - Orrin G. Hatch, JD
John Ligon, MA, MPA, Policy Analyst at Heritage Foundation's Center for Data Analysis, wrote in an Apr. 27, 2010 webmemo titled "Obamacare: Impact on Businesses," published on the website of the Heritage Foundation:
"The new health care law will impose new compliance regulations, employer mandate taxes, taxes on business 'flow-through' and investment income, and numerous indirect costs on small and medium-size companies. Altogether, these constraints will dramatically affect companies' per-employee costs, firm-level allocation of labor, desire to take on health coverage, and motivation to grow both in terms of income and employment…
[C]hanges will likely produce upward pressure on health insurance premiums in the 'fully insured market'… Instead of adding more regular full-time employees, some businesses will simply increase hours for current employees, hire low-skilled and low-income labor, or opt for more temporary or seasonal workers…
Obamacare fails to appropriately address the concerns of small- and medium-size businesses relating to health care reform, and it will force many companies to react to new cost burdens."
Apr. 27, 2010 - John Ligon, MA, MPA
The US Chamber of Commerce, wrote in its Apr. 26, 2010 white paper "Critical Employer Issues in the Patient and Protection and Affordable Care Act," published on the website of the US Chamber of Commerce:
"The basic premise of the law fundamentally shifts the foundation of employer-sponsored benefits in America. What has been a voluntary and flexible system will now be a one-size-fits-some landscape. Employers will be required to offer health benefits or face a penalty… Without adequate incentives to address steeply rising medical costs, insurance is likely to become more expensive. Because of the mandatory nature of the law, employers may find it more difficult to offer affordable coverage, may become competitively disadvantaged, and may drop coverage altogether in an effort to stay in business."
Apr. 26, 2010 - US Chamber of Commerce
CON (no)
The Congressional Budget Office wrote in its Nov. 30, 2009 report "An Analysis of Health Insurance Premiums under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act," published on the website of the Congressional Budget Office:
"In the small group market, which is defined in this analysis as consisting of employers with 50 or fewer workers, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) and the Joint Committee on Taxation (JCT) estimate that the change in the average premium per person resulting from the legislation could range from an increase of 1 percent to a reduction of 2 percent in 2016 (relative to current law). In the large group market, which is defined here as consisting of employers with more than 50 workers, the legislation would yield an average premium per person that is zero to 3 percent lower in 2016 (relative to current law)…
Those figures do not include the effects of the small business tax credit on the cost of purchasing insurance. A relatively small share (about 12 percent) of people with coverage in the small group market would benefit from that credit in 2016. For those people, the cost of insurance under the proposal would be about 8 percent to 11 percent lower, on average, compared with that cost under current law."
[Editors Note:In March 2010, President Obama signed the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act (HR 3590), the Health Care and Education Reconciliation Act of 2010 (HR 4872), and Executive Order 13535 which restricted federal funds from being used for abortion services. Pro, Con, or Not Clearly Pro or Con positions made prior to the final wording of these three elements of the health care reform legislation may have changed since March 2010.]
Nov. 30, 2009 - An Analysis of Health Insurance Premiums under the Patient Protection and Affordable Care Act Congressional Budget Office (CBO)
Kathleen Sebelius, MPA, US Secretary of Health and Human Services, released the following information in a Dec. 3, 2009 fact sheet titled "New CBO Analysis Confirms Benefits of Health Insurance Reform for Businesses," published on the website of the US Department of Health and Human Services:
"American businesses know the health care status quo is unacceptable… Small businesses in particular struggle under the current health care system… If we do nothing, over the next ten years, health care costs for large businesses are projected to reach $28,530 per employee, a 116 percent increase from 2009…
Under current law, the Congressional Budget Office (CBO) estimates premiums to be $7,800 for single policies and $19,300 for families in the small group market.
Small businesses that opt for comparable coverage under reform could save up to $390 for single policies and $965 for family policies. Assuming all 25 million people insured through small business save at least $390 (more for families), this will yield nearly $10 billion in savings [for small businesses] in 2016 alone…
CBO estimates that, under reform, large business premiums will drop by $100 per single policy and $200 per family policy. With 134 million people enrolled in such coverage, this translates into at least $13.4 billion in savings [for large businesses] in 2016 alone."
Dec. 3, 2009 - Kathleen Sebelius, MPA
Gary Locke, JD, US Secretary of Commerce, wrote in his Apr. 1, 2010 opinion article "Dont Believe the Writedown Hype," published by the Wall Street Journal:
"[E]very serious health-care analyst agrees: The status quo was completely unsustainable for American businesses…
The Business Roundtable [2009] study said that if current cost trends continued through 2019, the total cost of employer and employee premiums and out-of-pocket expenses would be 166% higher than it is today.
That would either force companies to decrease or eliminate employee health insurance benefits or subject them to back-breaking costs that would make them less competitive in the global marketplace.
The bill President Obama signed into law… helps avoid each of these equally unappealing options.
[I]n the long run, the health insurance reform law promises to cut health-care costs for U.S. businesses, not expand them."
Apr. 1, 2010 - Gary Locke, JD
HealthCare.gov, a federal government website managed by the US Department of Health and Human Services, provided the following statement on its General Information page for Large Employers (accessed Aug. 2, 2010):
"Since 2000, employer premiums have doubled… The Affordable Care Act tackles waste, fraud, and abuse and other drivers of health care costs, which will provide employers significant savings in the cost of employee care."
Aug. 2, 2010 - US Department of Health and Human Services (HHS)
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In addition to operating a 95-bed inpatient facility for our patients, Trinitas has a one-of-a-kind unit for mentally ill/developmentally-disabled persons. Overall, Trinitas provides almost 200,000 outpatient visits a year.
Click above for more information about this exciting new initiative.
Click here (or on the photo above) to learn more about how the Trinitas-St. Joseph's Behavioral Health Network, in partnership with HPR Treatment Centers (a division of TMS Centers of America), is offering Transcranial Magnetic Stimulation (TMS) treatment to individuals with depression.
Click the link for press release on Trinitas' expansion of behavioral health services to Bayonne.
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A thriller based on a failed attempt to overthrow the government of East African nation Equatorial Guinea, which bizarrely involved Margaret Thatcher's son, is in the works.
Producer Jeremy Thomas is developing the feature based on Adam Roberts' book The Wonga Coup for Phillip Noyce to direct.
The protagonist is Simon Mann, a mercenary and a former officer in the British Army who was the alleged mastermind of the planned coup to depose President Teodoro Obiang Nguema Mbasogo and replace him with the exiled opposition leader Severo Moto.
The plot was exposed in March 2004 when a plane carrying more than 60 alleged mercenaries including Mann was seized by police in Harare, Zimbabwe, and they were arrested for attempting to send weapons into Equatorial Guinea.
In an interview with The Independent, Mann revealed he had approached Mark Thatcher to help fund the mission but Thatcher proved to be a 'weak link,' especially while he was in jail.
The screenplay of The Wonga Coup is being written by Steven Knight, whose credits include The Hundred-Foot Journey, Peaky Blinders, Locke and Dirty Pretty Things.
"Steven Knight has turned the real story of Simon Mann's failed coup attempt into an edge-of-your-seat thriller," Noyce tells IF.
Shooting is planned for South Africa and Mozambique beginning next September, with casting to be announced shortly.


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The Government is in principle ready to participate in capital investments to support the expansion of procurement at the University of Ulster`s Magee campus, as well as the UK Government`s commitment under this agreement. We look forward to a swift discussion in the North-South Council of Ministers on the continuation of these coordinated investments in order to bring this important project to the North-West region. – North West Strategic Growth Partnership The Irish Government remains committed to continuing to support the work of the North West Strategic Growth Partnership and is committed in principle to continue funding the North West Development Fund in collaboration with the Northern Ireland Executive. The Government is ready to continue discussions on the Northwest Strategic Partnership on key projects for employment and sustainable development in the region, including the Foyle River Gardens Project. By introducing laws to reclassify housing corporations, the executive will allow housing corporations to continue building new social and intermediate housing after March 2020, including the condominium system. Housing is considered a special priority in the government`s programme. If political tensions threaten the collapse of institutions in the future, the agreement provides for a longer period of 24 weeks before parliamentary elections are called. Ministers remain in office as directors. Recognize the unique challenges facing NI utilities and help resolve the wage dispute between nurses.
• allocate additional funds to the Executive in 2020/21, to give the Executive time to put Northern Ireland`s finances on a sustainable basis and address their priorities, such as. B parity with England and Wales for nurses` remuneration, which puts an end to the persistent wage dispute between nurses. The Executive will publish a mental health action plan within two months; a mental health strategy until December 2020; a follow-up strategy and action plan for the strategic direction of Phase 2 for alcohol and drugs within three months; and a new cancer strategy and implementation plan by December 2020. It is a pity that the obligations of the Irish and British Governments are separate and not presented jointly. But it is inevitable until the post-Brexit deal is concluded. But a certain degree of complementarity has been achieved. In recent years, eleven different proposals have been made regarding the management of the legacy of the past in Northern Ireland. Finally, a new approach to legacy was presented by the UK government in a statement from the Northern Ireland Office (NIO) in March 2020. h.
This legislation – including the creation of the Office and the two Commissioners – is introduced as new specific parts of the Northern Ireland Act 1998. It is the legislation implemented by the Belfast Agreement (Good Friday) and subsequent agreements and which sets the law of the Assembly and the Executive. The adoption of these new parts of the Northern Ireland Act will reflect the importance of these issues to the people and society of Northern Ireland. The Irish government has put in place a wide range of business and agri-food support programmes, including the €300 million Brexit Loan Scheme, the €300 million Future Growth Loan Scheme, Enterprise Ireland`s Brexit Scorecard, Bord Bia`s Brexit Barometer and InterTraireland`s Brexit Vouchers. The government is also continuing preparatory work on measures to curb Brexit as part of the 2020 budget and targeted funding for the most affected sectors in the event of a no-deal Brexit. The executive will reconfigure hospital care to achieve better patient outcomes, more stable services and sustainable staff. . . .
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SEC FORM 4
FORM 4 UNITED STATES SECURITIES AND EXCHANGE COMMISSION
Filed pursuant to Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934
or Section 30(h) of the Investment Company Act of 1940
hours per response: 0.5
Check this box if no longer subject to Section 16. Form 4 or Form 5 obligations may continue. See Instruction 1(b).
1. Name and Address of Reporting Person*
Hunt James S
(Last) (First) (Middle)
133 S WATERSOUND PARKWAY
(Street)
WATERSOUND FL 32461
(City) (State) (Zip)
2. Issuer Name and Ticker or Trading Symbol
ST JOE CO [ JOE ] 5. Relationship of Reporting Person(s) to Issuer
(Check all applicable)
X Director 10% Owner
Officer (give title below) Other (specify below)
3. Date of Earliest Transaction (Month/Day/Year)
4. If Amendment, Date of Original Filed (Month/Day/Year)
6. Individual or Joint/Group Filing (Check Applicable Line)
X Form filed by One Reporting Person
Form filed by More than One Reporting Person
Table I - Non-Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
1. Title of Security (Instr. 3)
2. Transaction Date (Month/Day/Year)
2A. Deemed Execution Date, if any (Month/Day/Year)
3. Transaction Code (Instr. 8)
4. Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed Of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5)
5. Amount of Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 3 and 4)
6. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4)
7. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
(A) or (D)
Common Stock 07/01/2019 A 2,854(1) A $0.00 5,521 D
Table II - Derivative Securities Acquired, Disposed of, or Beneficially Owned
(e.g., puts, calls, warrants, options, convertible securities)
1. Title of Derivative Security (Instr. 3)
2. Conversion or Exercise Price of Derivative Security
5. Number of Derivative Securities Acquired (A) or Disposed of (D) (Instr. 3, 4 and 5)
6. Date Exercisable and Expiration Date (Month/Day/Year)
7. Title and Amount of Securities Underlying Derivative Security (Instr. 3 and 4)
8. Price of Derivative Security (Instr. 5)
9. Number of derivative Securities Beneficially Owned Following Reported Transaction(s) (Instr. 4)
10. Ownership Form: Direct (D) or Indirect (I) (Instr. 4)
11. Nature of Indirect Beneficial Ownership (Instr. 4)
Date Exercisable
Amount or Number of Shares
Explanation of Responses:
1. On July 1, 2019, the Reporting Person was granted 2,854 shares of Restricted Stock pursuant to The St. Joe Company's (the "Company") 2015 Performance and Equity Incentive Plan. The Restricted Stock will vest on the date of the Company's 2020 Annual Meeting of Shareholders (the "Annual Meeting") and is subject to forfeiture upon termination of service on the Board of Directors of the Company prior to the Annual Meeting.
/s/Lynne Lewis, Power of Attorney 07/03/2019
** Signature of Reporting Person Date
Reminder: Report on a separate line for each class of securities beneficially owned directly or indirectly.
* If the form is filed by more than one reporting person, see Instruction 4 (b)(v).
** Intentional misstatements or omissions of facts constitute Federal Criminal Violations See 18 U.S.C. 1001 and 15 U.S.C. 78ff(a).
Note: File three copies of this Form, one of which must be manually signed. If space is insufficient, see Instruction 6 for procedure.
EXHIBIT 24 - POWER OF ATTORNEY
Know all by these presents that the undersigned hereby constitutes and appoints
each of Kenneth M. Borick and Lynne Lewis, signing singly, the undersigned's
true and lawful attorney-in-fact to:
1.	execute for and on behalf of the undersigned, in the undersigned's capacity
as an officer and/or director of The St. Joe Company (the "Company"), Forms 3,
4, and 5 in accordance with Section 16(a) of the Securities Exchange Act of
1934, as amended, and the rules thereunder, and Form 144 in accordance with Rule
144 promulgated under the Securities Act of 1933, as amended, and any other
forms or reports the undersigned may be required to file in connection with the
undersigned's ownership, acquisition, or disposition of securities of the
Company;
2.	do and perform any and all acts for and on behalf of the undersigned which
may be necessary or desirable to complete and execute any such Form 3, 4, or 5,
or other form or report, and timely file such form or report with the United
States Securities and Exchange Commission and any stock exchange or similar
authority; and
3.	take any other action of any type whatsoever in connection with the foregoing
which, in the opinion of such attorney-in-fact, may be of benefit to,
best interest of, or legally required by, the undersigned, it being understood
that the documents executed by such attorney-in-fact on behalf of the
undersigned pursuant to this Power of Attorney shall be in such form and shall
contain such terms and conditions as such attorney-in-fact may approve in such
attorney-in-fact's discretion.
The undersigned hereby grants to each such attorney-in-fact full power and
authority to do and perform any and every act and thing whatsoever requisite,
necessary, or proper to be done in the exercise of any of the rights and powers
herein granted, as fully to all intents and purposes as the undersigned might or
could do if personally present, with full power of substitution or revocation,
hereby ratifying and confirming all that such attorney-in-fact, or such
attorney-in-fact's substitute or substitutes, shall lawfully do or cause to be
done by the virtue of this power of attorney and the rights and powers herein
granted.  The undersigned acknowledges that the foregoing attorneys-in-fact, in
serving in such capacity at the request of the undersigned, are not assuming,
nor is the Company assuming, any of the undersigned's responsibilities to comply
with Section 16 of the Securities Exchange Act of 1934 or Rule 144 promulgated
under the Securities Act of 1933.
This Power of Attorney shall remain in full force and effect until the
undersigned is no longer required to file Forms 3, 4, 5 and 144 with respect to
the undersigned's holdings of and transactions in securities issued by the
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What's Old Is New What's New Is Old, New Design For A Rowing Boathouse On The Harlem River
Uptown Harlem was the home of rowing clubs called "Sculler's Row" along the Harlem River from Harlem to Inwood in the 1840s, today rowing is making a comeback uptown.
Architectural Digest writes that on any given day, boats dot the Harlem River between Upper Manhattan and the Bronx. Far from the romantic Central Park rentals, though, these are professional athletic vessels. And their crews comprise mostly young people. Established in 2003 by former collegiate rower Amanda Kraus, nonprofit Row New York provides both rowing training and academic support to young New Yorkers, picking up the tab for its mostly low-income students. Previously, sport and school were separated between a boathouse on the Harlem in Washington Heights and classrooms in Midtown. But thanks to a fortuitous email chain, and shared love for the crew, the organization will soon house its twofold operations under one roof for the first time, in a 16,000-square-foot riverside facility designed by Lord Norman Foster in association with Bade Stageberg Cox.
It's not every day that an acclaimed architect like Foster designs a boathouse, particularly pro bono. But when Kraus mentioned to Row New York funder—and former Harvard rower—Richard Cashin that the nonprofit was looking for a design partner to create a community boathouse in New York City, he suggested reaching out to his old friend Foster (the two-cycle together every year) to gauge his interest. Cashin put Kraus and the architect on an email chain together and ideas flew between them. Foster was intrigued.
Even after plans for a partnership had been set in motion, Kraus had her doubts that a world-known designer would take on the project for her organization, which currently serves approximately 300 middle- and high-school-age kids annually. That was, until her eagle-eyed team spotted an Instagram post on Foster's official page: The architect is seated at his Martha's Vineyard drafting table sketching what appeared to be their future boathouse.
Read the entire article and see photographs of design here.
Photo credit: Sculler's Row Wikipedia.
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On Friday, I live streamed myself working on Ruma for the first time.
I tweeted about it from my personal account and mentioned it in #ruma:matrix.org, but otherwise didn't publicize it.
A few people watched and helped work out the kinks with audio and video quality.
(Thank you to those who watched!)
I walked through the API endpoint for creating message events, explaining more or less line by line how the code works, then worked on implementing the API endpoint for creating state events.
The people who watched gave me good feedback, and I had a good time doing it, so I think I'll start to stream some of my Ruma development regularly.
It will be at 1:00 PM Pacific Time on my Twitch channel.
I will start tweeting about it from Ruma's Twitter account to remind everyone.
I'd love to get some questions during the stream, so if you're interested in learning about Matrix, Rust, or both, please come watch and tell me what you want to know!

Notable changes to ruma

Added initial support for the state event creation API endpoint.

Filled in missing functionality and fixed a few issues with the room alias API endpoints, which checks those off the list completely.

A new contributor is working on the API endpoint for joining a room, and in the process added a new Iron middleware for extracting a ruma_identifiers::RoomId from the URL path parameter wherever it's required.

A small quality of life fix: script/cargo now passed the value of RUST_LOG to the Docker environment when developing.

The project's README now includes some more information about how to determine which version of nightly Rust Ruma is built against for those not using Docker for development.

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In inflammatory bowel disease (IBD) the suspected etiological cause is a dysregulation of the intestinal immune system, in which it is possible to determine a cross-like immune reactivity against the resident microbiota; this mechanism explains the existence of Lesniowski-Crohn's disease, a variant of IBD in which patients manifest osteoarticular problems that may also be the primary manifestation of the disease. The aim of this study was to compare some cases encountered by our research group at the University of Palermo with others reported in international literature on osteoarticular manifestations in IBD.
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Native Speaker Henry Park Chang-Rae Lee Korean American
Henry Park's Identity through Selves and Space in Native Speaker
By Scott Berghegger
2009, Vol. 1 No. 10 | pg. 1/1
Keywords:Native Speaker Henry Park Chang-Rae Lee Korean American
Henry Park: family man, father, son, husband, spy, traitor to his race, without race, ghost among the corporeal, in the wrong place, homeowner, homeless. Borne of nothing, self-cesarean, autochthon. Native speaker of the hyphen, begat on a plane bordering no other.
This is how Chang-Rae Lee defines his narrator. It seems that everyone can describe Henry Park: his creator, his father, his boss, his victim of "race treason," his legend; Henry begins the story with a list of characteristics of his identity written by his then-estranged wife. Each important supporting character in the novel — his father, Jack, Lelia, John Kwang — is able to identify Henry; The only one who fails to define Henry is himself.
How does a person define what he is? Homeland? Henry was born on an airplane over the Pacific. Upbringing? His childhood home was founded in Korean morals but built on American capital. Residence? Henry asserts that he is American, but he becomes Korean in some parts of the cultural amalgamation that is New York City. Deficient of cultural root metaphors and myths, Henry Park's story has no place anywhere in the canons of strictly Korean or strictly American narrative except within itself. Everyone, save Henry, is defined by place in Native Speaker. But Henry is an anomalous category, not fitting into what is and what is not, something special, sacred, taboo. He knows only proximity to definition.
Henry's life is one of copies. However, unlike those with permanent, identifiable backgrounds, Henry clumsily picks and chooses what he believes should comprise a Korean-American man. Lelia's list creates for him an unwanted identity that Henry nonetheless copies and reminds himself of her conception of him almost everywhere he goes. Originals (and therefore origins) are precious to him, and thus, ironically, he destroys Lelia's original, smudged list. He extinguishes the origins of his supposed identity — his Koreanness, his Americanness, and his wife's record which defines him. Henry would take heart in Lévi-Strauss's ascertainment that "there is no single 'true' version of which all the others are copies or distortions. Every version belongs to the myth" (Lévi-Strauss 215). Unfortunately, the myth Henry belongs to is a copy itself — not Korean, not American, he is forced to create himself from the ground up. In the case of Mitt's death, Lelia closes herself up into her adopted secret room and builds her twig house, but Henry has nowhere to go. He demolishes his wife's twig house. Her copy, her myth of grief, is incompatible with his.
Half-compatible with Henry's narrative myth is the space his father occupies within the American dream. Henry describes him as "bound to 600 square feet of ghetto retail space," which he copied in four other stores around New York City (Lee 182-3). There is a clear, aware dichotomy between this starter space and the house his father dies in, a triumph of the typical American immigrant. He is strict, closed-minded, patently family-oriented and Asian — he would not be able to conceive of a narrative on the level of Native Speaker because he is a Korean in America, not a Korean-American. Lelia tells Henry that his father is merely a more brutal version of him; he "was obviously not modern, in the psychological sense. He was still mostly unencumbered by those needling questions of existence and self-consciousness" (58). He defines himself vicariously through his homeland, his residence, and his work as many people do, but also through his son, as witnessed through his admonishment of Henry when he goes to the prom. "You Korean man. So so different," Henry's father tells him when he asks why his white date cannot like him for the way he looks. In the father's case, as he is, so must his offspring be — a flagrant foul in the face of American individuality.
Jack is also defiant of a purported Americanness, but not of a way of life that counters the respect of elders and family-centered thought. He says, when Henry forgets that he is not American, "[i]f I were American, there would be much hell to pay. I would have strangled Dennis many times over. That I can view him as a curiosity has saved both of us" (163). Jack is able to clearly define the lines between his "big Greek heart" and what embodies the American spirit to him — gonads, bravado, machismo, his split American heart. That his American heart is split and not his Greek one is important to consider. The phrasing also implies that the essence of America, its heart, is divided into, in this work, one overarching binary opposition: native vs. immigrant. His Greek heart represents solidarity, familiarity, something with which he can identify, but the two American hearts present in all immigrants and their ethnic-appearing children are hard to reconcile. Jack is saying that were he in Henry's place, heads would roll. However, he is not American and he knows whence he came. Even though he may use American idioms to bring a finite end to conversation (169), Jack knows where his borders are and which side he falls on.
Lelia also knows on which side of the binary opposition she falls. The middle-class Massachusetts socialite is the truest representative of America in the novel, and is the "standard-bearer" of language in her country even though Henry is as capable with English as she. As the standard-bearer it is her job to define where others lie, linguistically, between American and "other," and she professes her presumptuously supreme knowledge of Standard American English to children and adults alike who come to the United States without the agency to legitimize themselves as Americans through language. She very easily and clearly identifies herself as White and female, as told to her by her native culture in her native language. This is why she may have trouble communicating on a deeper level with "others" such as Henry's father and Ahjuhma — she contrasts herself as White in opposition to her father-in-law, but when she tries to empathize with Ahjuhma as a woman, she is rejected on all fronts. She only knows her American cultural borders and cannot comprehend what it means to be a Korean woman.
As someone purely American, Lelia's comfortable spatial habits ring true with Jack's explanation of the cleft American heart. Lelia and Henry share a "dysfunctional space" in their apartment, clinging to the corners, "along the periphery," in "naturally separate habitats" (24). This behavior mirrors Lelia's very stereotypically-American parents', and indeed, Henry states that "Lelia liked houses that you could go all the way up and hide yourself in" (216). This explains her affinity for the secret room above the garage in Henry's father's house, but the significance of the room is that, in contrast to the expansive houses and apartments she is used to dwelling in, this little room in the big house is a private, close space, not quite decidedly American but not Asian either. This room is her escape into an Asian-Americanness that she cherishes in Henry, but Henry's lack of cultural definition is no comfort to her. He has no walls, no boundaries to keep her warm and safe, and Henry's compensation for a lack of an inner private space cannot satisfy her.
John Kwang's space, in comparison, is entirely public, but only on an impersonal level. He is a Korean immigrant and seems to have shed many of the cultural foundations of his homeland in order to achieve political assimilation in the United States. But in a more personal, private sphere, Henry muses that "John Kwang would be a man to keep his boys close, keep May even closer, that he would collect the four of them in one shut-away room and have them sleep and eat and bathe all together until the tempests subsided" (296). Korea still resides in this man who suppresses his accent in public at all times to appear supremely American — as American as his political opponent, Mayor De Roos, as American as Lelia, and certainly more American by leaps and bounds than Henry, even though Henry has never lived outside the United States. This may, in fact, be true. His Korean speech only emerges in drunken slurs, and he realizes his political and personal destruction in a Korean gentleman's club (a quite "un-American" setting). Kwang and Henry's feelings and expressions of the Korean-American question are never synchronous; it is always Henry's legend that speaks when Kwang asks him for the Korean-American perspective. They are on opposing sides of a spectrum, one demonstrably Korean and American, the other belonging to neither country. One of the last images of Kwang and Henry sharing the same space before Kwang's destruction is much like Henry's descriptions of his split habitat with Lelia: "…it's just the two of us, two Korean men at opposite ends of a stately Victorian house" (302). The space of that big American house may as well be an ocean.
In each character surrounding his life narrative, Henry sees a bit of the definition of his own self — what it is, and what it is not. What is still left unsaid, and what can never be determined, is whether Henry is Korean, American, Korean American without a hyphen, Korean-American with a hyphen, no definition seems salient. Ironically, the air of American independence has adapted itself to include members of all cultures. (In other words, "categorization is not something we do here.") But Henry's quest for the true Henry remains unsolved; to again quote Lévi-Strauss, "it is still the problem of understanding how one can be born from two: How is it that we do not have only one procreator, but a mother plus a father?" (Lévi-Strauss 213). Henry cannot see himself as simultaneously authentic and autochthonic. Perhaps this is why he ought to be pitied — perhaps this is why he ought to be ashamed. Or perhaps pity and shame can be reconciled and made into something more complex and greater than the sum of their parts, a figure of anomalous beauty.
Lee, Chang-Rae. Native Speaker. New York: Riverhead, 1995.
Lévi-Strauss, Claude. Structural Anthropology. New York: Doubleday, 1967.
Berghegger, S. (2009). "Henry Park's Identity through Selves and Space in Native Speaker." Inquiries Journal/Student Pulse, 1(10). Retrieved from http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/a?id=22
Berghegger, Scott. "Henry Park's Identity through Selves and Space in Native Speaker." Inquiries Journal/Student Pulse 1.10 (2009). <http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/a?id=22>
Berghegger, Scott. 2009. Henry Park's Identity through Selves and Space in Native Speaker. Inquiries Journal/Student Pulse 1 (10), http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/a?id=22
BERGHEGGER, S. 2009. Henry Park's Identity through Selves and Space in Native Speaker. Inquiries Journal/Student Pulse [Online], 1. Available: http://www.inquiriesjournal.com/a?id=22
Scott Berghegger graduated in 2007 with a concentration in Psychology, Communications & Culture from Clark University in Worcester, MA.
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