I'm going to come out and say it right now so this doesn't get awkward: last week I struggled with my picks. I look at it this way, even The Greats have their off-days and since I'm a Great, I'll take my "off-day" pass. But it's a new week, so I'm putting last week behind me and looking at what to watch for this week and what to expect for the outcome.
Yes, this will be a good week. I just downed a Muscle Milk, and my intuition is feeling strong.
Just a reminder for those who forgot, Aaron Rodgers is a Super Bowl MVP and the creator of the Discount Double Check "dance."
Goodness me this is going to be a good game. Earlier this week I was driving my friends somewhere, and after ten minutes of bashing on my car and then another ten minutes of claiming how much better their car was, we somehow managed to talk about the game. And on behalf of the Giants Organization, I have an announcement to make: (like my car) the Giants bandwagon is officially full. I couldn't believe it. I mean who cares if the Packers are 15-1? Who cares if they are playing at Lambeau? Who cares if Aaron Rodgers might be playing quarterback as well as anyone ever has? Who cares if the Packers already beat them this year? Ya, who cares? This big Giants love-fest reminds me of the North Face and current Patagonia love-fest (just wait, I'll explain it.) Can anyone remember the days in grade school when I think maybe every person had a North Face? I remember I wanted one so badly, but my mom just laughed in my face.
"Son," she told me, "I'll print a North Face insignia on a jacket and that'll save us a lot of money." I didn't ask her for a North Face again.
Now Patagonia rolls around and just about everyone has made a purchase to buy one of their chic, cool products. This time I ask people why they buy it; they claim it's comfortable. I laugh. They look at me inquisitively. I continue to laugh.
See that's the problem with the Giants. Just like no one inconveniently points out the price tag of North Face and Pata-whatever products, no one inconveniently points out the Giants issues. The Giants are 29th in the league in passing defense. Sure, they might have the best pass rush in the league when healthy, but this is Aaron Rodgers, not Matt "water vapor" Ryan (I'm trademarking this nickname. He melted under the pressure and didn't win a big game all year). I'm not even mentioning the Giants run defense, which is 32nd in the league. If the Packers can get their running game going like they did last year during the playoffs, McCarthy will be able to utilize the play action and Tuck and company will have to stay honest when rushing the passer. Ultimately, the game will be decided by if the Packers can protect Rodgers.
I do think the Giants running game will give the Packers defense fits, but Dom Capers has had two weeks to study, analyze, decode, develop, and institute a defensive game-plan. I see Charles Woodson waking up with the start of the playoffs and taking one to the house for a pick six, which will help propel the Packers to victory.
I really like this matchup for a multitude of reasons. One high powered offense. One great defense. One great quarterback. One mediocre quarterback. One awesome local rookie (Aldon Smith is a boss. Plain and simple.) One awesome local veteran (Darren Sproles is a huge game changer). What's not to like about this game?
I don't trust the 49ers, I haven't all year. Ever since head coach Mike Singletary dropped his pants during halftime a couple years ago, you can never be sure when someone from the 49ers organization will have the urge to drop their pants. Obviously, I think you can understand my trust issues. And the biggest person I have no trust in is their quarterback, Alex Smith.
The 49ers will not be able to keep up with the Saints offense, which will set the stage for an NFC Championship game starring Drew Brees and Aaron Rodgers featuring the Saints organization and the Packers organization.
Tim Tebow's playing. That alone is enough of a reason to watch this game.
This time, though, there will be no late game heroics. There will be no incredible overtime victory. There will be no Tebow Twitter fiasco. That's because the Patriots will be up by so much by the 4th quarter, Tebow won't have the chance.
Does anyone remember when, after Tom Brady scored a rushing touchdown at Denver earlier this year, he spiked the ball with such passion and rage everyone thought the football was going to pop? Anybody?
Tom Brady doesn't like to be outdone. Ever. Prior to playing the Denver game, that's what was happening. Tebow had won 6 in a row. He was all the ESPN analysts talked about when discussing the game: him and his ability to win. That rubbed Brady the wrong way, because Brady must win. That's not an if question, it's a how question. When the Broncos came to town, Brady won 41-23. This time, when the Broncos come to town for the playoffs Brady will win big…again.
If this game is anything like the Kansas State vs. Baylor game, it will be worth every minute of your time. Can someone please create a montage of Frank Martin interview quotes?
Coach Martin, what did Stan ever do to you?
Anyway, the Kansas vs. Baylor game will be a thriller. Thomas Robinson and Perry Jones are both future lottery picks and both haven't even reached their full potential. The game, continuing with the story of KU's season, rests on the shoulders of Tyshawn Taylor. If I got a dollar for every joke someone said about Taylor and his turnovers, I would promptly buy a ticket to the Super Bowl and then bribe FIFA into having the 2026 (or whatever year they're on) FIFA World Cup in the United States. When Taylor doesn't turn over the ball, however, Kansas can be a tough team to beat. And after watching a week of Big 12 Basketball, we've learned that home-court advantage is one of the most important factors in the game. Because it's at Allen Fieldhouse, I see the Jayhawks pulling off the win in a thriller.
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All I can say is that I am looking forward to this weekend's slew of games !
Good stuff man, I think we are on the same page with most of our picks. What are your predictions for the Baltimore-Houston game?
If you would have told me Alex Smith would lead his team on not one but TWO game winning drives in the last couple of minutes? I would have traded you Matt Moore for Aaron Rodgers. Wow.


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Oldest T3 tram to ride in Prague over weekend
Prague Transport Authority has launched a series of events to mark the 45th anniversary of the opening of the underground rail system.
People will have a chance to ride the oldest model of the legendary T3 tram, made in 1962, which will be running on Saturday and Sunday between the districts of Petřiny and Braník.
There will also be a historic metro set running along metro line B between Zličín and Černý Most over the weekend. It will be made up of carriages, which were in operation between 1978 and 2009.
The first Prague metro line ran from Kačerov to Sokolovská station, which is now known as Florence, in 1974.
Income inequality in Czechia lowest in Europe
The differences between salaries in the Czech Republic are the smallest in Europe, the Czech News Agency reported on Saturday, citing data from the Eurostat and the annual report of the European Commission assessing the country's economic and social affairs.
According to the report, the income of the richest 20 % of the population was around 3.4 times higher than the income of the poorest 20% in 2017, while the EU ratio is 5.1. The Czech Republic also has the lowest share of people at risk of poverty or social exclusion. In 2017, it stood at 12.2 %, compared to an EU average of 22 percent.
Shot-putter Staněk takes bronze at European Athletics Indoor Championship
Czech shot-putter Tomáš Staněk has come third at the European Athletics Indoor Championship in Glasgow. Staněk threw a season-best of 21.25 metres. The best throw was by Poland's Michal Haratyk at 21.65 metres. The medal is the first for the Czech team at this year's competition.

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Helmut Newton Pop-up Exhibition Opens in London
Show includes a series of Helmut Newton's original vintage prints.
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REDISCOVERING NEWTON: ONGallery, the new London-based online gallery, has launched Vintage Newton, a three-day pop-up exhibition — online and in a gallery — featuring a rare selection of photographer Helmut Newton's original vintage prints from the Seventies and Eighties that capture his provocative aesthetic.
The 26 silver gelatin prints were produced in limited quantities by Newton himself, from a series of transparencies. The selection represents the images chosen by the photographer as his strongest work. The show runs through Nov. 28.
The prints had originally formed the foundation of the famed Private Property series of exhibitions, which took place in 1984 and 1985. They were then gifted to the photography agent Norman Solomon.
"Over the years, the Private Property portfolio has achieved legendary status, and represents an extraordinary photographer at the height of his creativity," said Lance Leman, ONGallery's head of artists' publishing.
Leman pointed to the image of the jeweler Elsa Peretti dressed in a Halston bunny costume as the exhibition's standout photograph. "In this photo shoot for American Vogue in 1975, Newton captures Peretti's stylish sexuality against a backdrop of the Manhattan skyline. I also love the political incorrectness of her smoking a cigarette," he said.
Other highlights include a black-and-white portrait of Charlotte Rampling; a 1977 one that shows a model's fitting with the designer Jean Patou; and a candid shot of Jerry Hall. The widely recognized Rue Aubriot image, shot in Paris and featuring a model wearing Yves Saint Laurent's Le Smoking, is also part of the show.
The prints are available to view, and to buy, via the gallery's Web site and at The Showroom Presents in Fulham, London, the temporary space used by ONGallery for the three-day pop-up.
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We are pleased to announce that Ryan Mills has been hired as the new accountant for Open Bible Churches. He began his responsibilities October 22, 2018.
I've been operating for a little over ten years as an accounting systems consultant and trainer and had no real desire to move away from such a successful venture. Yet this opportunity was introduced to me, and I couldn't ignore our Heavenly Father's presence in the circumstances. I look forward to meeting and overcoming new challenges in this position.
Ryan and his wife, Gisela, are the parents of two boys, Kyle, age eight, and Eli, age five. He enjoys assisting with children's ministries at First Church of the Open Bible in Des Moines.


Knock on your heart crooners, DE Dukes are taking promotion to another level by embarking on a radio tour around the country.
The duo who released two singles last year said in a chat with www.otowngist.com that they are visiting radio stations to thank them for promoting their songs last year.
'You fine eh' and 'Shekpe' are the two singles released last year, alongside 'Knock on your heart which was a national hit are enjoying air play around the nation, while the video of knock on your heart' is still playing in some satellite stations.
According to a release by the duo, the tour starts with Blaze FM Orifite, Anambra State on Tuesday January 22, 2013 down to Port Harcourt the next day where they will visit Rhythm FM, Wazobia FM, Cool FM and Love FM.
The tour will take them down to Enugu on Friday where they will visit Solid FM and Dream FM.
There next destination will be Abuja by next week.


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A million Britons want to cancel Trump's state visit
Parliamentary petition follows US president's immigration crackdown on on Muslim-majority nations.
More than a million people have signed a parliamentary petition demanding that US President Donald Trump is prevented from making a state visit to Britain.
Monday's milestone far exceeds the 100,000 signatures needed to get parliament to consider debating the issue.
The petition gathered the large number of signatures in less than 24 hours.
"Donald Trump should be allowed to enter the UK in his capacity as head of the US Government, but he should not be invited to make an official state visit because it would cause embarrassment to Her Majesty the Queen," the petition reads .
he response follows Trump's executive order banning visitors, refugees, and migrants from seven majority-Muslim countries from entering the US.
British Prime Minister Theresa May, the first foreign leader to visit the new president, formally invited Trump for a state visit during a meeting between the pair on Friday.
May's enthusiastic embrace of Trump and refusal to condemn his travel ban sparked outrage in the UK , earning her strong criticism from media personalities and politicians.
Following the furore, May said in a statement that she disagreed with the ban. Earlier, she had said the issue was a "matter for the US".
Protests planned
Several prominent personalities, including Somali-born Olympic champion Mo Farah and the British-Iraqi Conservative Party MP Nadhim Zahawi, said they were affected by the ban.
British Foreign Secretary Boris Johnson said he would work to ensure British nationals were not affected by the ban.
However, according the US embassy in London's website, British dual nationals with citizenship in the targeted countries were being advised not to apply for a visa.
Johnson has reportedly sought clarification from his US counterparts over the issue.
OPINION: Trump's Muslim ban is a dangerous distraction
Jeremy Corbyn, leader of the UK's main opposition Labour Party, has called on the prime minister to postpone a state visit, writing on Twitter that Trump "should not be welcomed to Britain while he abuses our shared values with [a] shameful" travel ban.
Meanwhile, European leaders including German Chancellor Angela Merkel and French President Francois Hollande have been forthcoming in their criticism of the ban.
Protests are expected in cities across the UK on Monday evening against the discriminatory measures, including one outside the prime minister's residence at Downing Street.
Nationals of Iraq, Iran, Libya, Somalia, Sudan, Syria, Yemen, are affected by the ban, which includes those who are dual nationals of states other than the US, and permanent US residents.
The decision triggered mass protests at airports and town halls across the US in solidarity with those affected.
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Q: Waiting for a background thread to complete Sorry if this is a duplicate, but I'm not quite sure what terms I need to use to find existing answers to this question.
I'm trying to improve start-up performance of an application, the pseudo-code looks a bit like this.
LoadBigFileFromDisk();  //slow
SetupNetwork();         //even slower
UseBigFileFromDisk();

I figured that as the first step is disk-bound, and the other network-bound (and slower), I could run the first in a background thread (currently playing with ThreadPool.QueueUserWorkItem, but not sure if that's the best way) and improve the performance a bit.
It works, but what worries me is that I'm relying on the second step being slow enough for the first to complete.
I know I could set a _done boolean somewhere and while ! on that, but is there a more elegant/idiomatic solution?
(Not .Net 4.0 yet, so though I'm interested in Task-based, I need the fall-back solutions).

A: You could try:
var loadTask=Task.Factory.StartNew(()=>LoadBigFileFromDisk());
var setupTask=Task.Factory.StartNew(()=>SetupNetwork());

Task.WaitAll(loadTask,setupTask);

UseBigFileFromDisk();

This uses the Task Parallel Library.
or:
var loadThread=new Thread(()=>LoadBigFileFromDisk());
var setupThread=new Thread(()=>SetupNetwork());

loadThread.Start();
setupThread.Start();

loadThread.Join();
setupThread.Join();

UseBigFileFromDisk();

When you're not using .NET 4. If these tasks take a long time to run then it's best to avoid the thread pool, as it's primarily for short lived tasks.

A: In the "main class" do this:
ManualResetEvent mre = new ManualResetEvent(false);

in your "main" method do this:
// Launch the tasks

mre.WaitOne();

in the task when it finishes (just before the return :-) )
mre.Set();

If you have to wait for multiple events, in your "main" create multiple ManualResetEvent and put them in an array, each event "connected" to one of the tasks, and then each task Sets its event when it finishes. Then in your "main" you do:
WaitHandle.WaitAll(arrayOfManualResetEvents);

Note that in this way you can wait up to 64 events. If you need more, there is another method (and note that you have to use this last method even if you are on a STA thread, like the main thread of a WinForm app).
ManualResetEvent mre = new ManualResetEvent(false);
int remaining = xxx; // Number of "tasks" that must be executed.

// Launch tasks

mre.WaitOne();

At the end of each task
if (Interlocked.Decrement(ref remaining) == 0)
{
    mre.Set();
}

Only the last task will decrement the remaining field to 0 and mre.Set().

A: Try Thread.Join . Something like networkThread.Join()
http://msdn.microsoft.com/en-us/library/95hbf2ta.aspx

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Bethulia
(Greek Betuloua ).
The city whose deliverance by Judith, when besieged by Holofernes, forms the subject of the Book of Judith. The view that Bethulia is merely a symbolic name for Jerusalem or a fictitious town, has met with little favor, even among those who deny the historical character of the book. Bethulia is clearly distinguished from Jerusalem (iv, 6; xi, 14, 19; xv, 5, 8; the references throughout the article being to the fuller Greek text), and the topographical details leave no doubt that the story, even if it be only a pious romance, is connected with a definite place. Its site, however, is in dispute. Beside Sânûr, Mithilîyeh, or Misilîyeh, Tell Kheibar and Beit-Ilfa, which have divided opinion for some time, Haraiq el-Mallah, Khirbet Sheikh Shibel, el-Bârid and Sichem (Bethulia being considered a pseudonym) have recently been proposed as sites of Bethulia.
The city was situated on a mountain overlooking the plain of Jezrael, or Esdrelon, and commanding narrow; passes to the south (iv, 6, 7; vi, 11-13); at the foot of the mountain there was an important spring, and other springs were in the neighborhood (vi, 11, vii, 3, 7, 12). Moreover it lay within investing lines which ran through Dothain, or Dothan, now Tell Dothân, to Belthem, or Belma, no doubt the same as the Belamon of viii, 3, and thence to Kyamon, or Chelmon, "which lies over against Esdrelon" (vii, 3). These data point to a site on the heights west of Jenîn (Engannim), between the plains of Esdrelon and Dothan, where Haraiq, Kh. Sheikh Shibel, and el-Bârid lie close together. Such a site best fulfils all requirements. It lies between lines drawn from Tell Dothân to Belæema, probably Belma, or Belamon, and from the latter to el-Yâmûn, probably Kyamon; there are a number of springs and wells in the neighborhood, and near by are the two passes of Kefr Adân and Burqîn, so narrow in places that two horsemen cannot ride abreast. One of the three above-named places is in all probability the site of ancient Bethulia. The other sites are all deficient in some essential requirement.
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Q: Spark, executors loading/querying data - very low performance My use case is following:
Wrtiting RDD to file by saveAsTable (so to ORC files).  Each saving creates new file (so 1000 000 writings give me 1000 000 ORC files).  I know that it is natural that for each RDD there are created new ORC files(s).  However, I don't knwo why it is so slow when it comes to query them from ThriftServer.
My question is: How to understand such strange behaviour ?
For example, SELECT COUNT(*) on 1000 000 rows (so the same files) takes about 1 minute (!).
However, when I save 1000 000 rows to one file, the same query works in 50ms.
I would like to understand this difference. After all, 1000 000 files it is small number.

A: High level execution plan of your count action will be like this (assuming you have your files in distributed file system, as example I'll use HDFS):

*

*Request files from HDFS NameNode

*Load HDFS blocks into executors

*Do count on each partition (using ORC metadata or directly - depends on implementation) and sum all together

Some estimations: 1000 000 files require the same number of requests to NameNode to resolve physical location of data blocks. It's done in < 60s (< 0.06ms per request) - pretty good job done by NameNode. Rest of the time Spark loads data into memory (if needed) or/and gets statistics from ORC metadata. So I would profile NameNode (or similar service if you use S3 or other) - it's first candidate to be a bottleneck. From ORC documentation:

Compared with RCFile format, for example, ORC file format has many
  advantages such as:
a single file as the output of each task, which reduces the NameNode's load

While ORC trying to reduce number of files, your code does opposite. And

The default stripe size is 250 MB. Large stripe sizes enable large,
  efficient reads from HDFS.
The file footer contains a list of stripes in the file, the number of
  rows per stripe, and each column's data type. It also contains
  column-level aggregates count, min, max, and sum.

So simple statistics like count are pre-calculated and should not be an performance issue. You can try to solve an issue by brute force simple adding memory and CPU power to HDFS NameNode, but I guess it's reasonable to keep modest number of files. If your data came from some stream source, you can create some kind of compaction job that merge small files into large one and run it periodically. Or, as alternative, you can read from the source once per 2-5 minutes, if such delay is OK for your use case.


Due to the rise of the Internet, many opportunities have been opened up for people looking for self employed jobs to make money working from home. Many people are now starting up Internet Jobs, or as the part-timers call it, Make Money Online Jobs.
Think the dot-com boom was the beginning and end of the Internet boom? Nope, it was just the end of fly by night companies having investors falling over themselves to invest in something they didn't really understand the value of, artificially inflating the price of many start ups that didn't really have much to offer.
There's plenty of room for the little people now, and fresh ideas like the social networking sites seen in recent times are always appearing.
Now you don't have to create the next big social networking site – although I'm sure you wouldn't say no if you could do so. But you can certainly start small and work your way up. There are a number of places online that teach you how to do this from complete novice, to someone that is a little more web technology savvy.
Pay per click – typically having a search engine display your ad when a user performs a search on one of the search engines (google, yahoo, bing, etc.) and/or when users visit specific sites with related content. If the user clicks on the ad you get charged for the click. The aim of this model is to get the customer to buy a product of yours or a product of someone you are affiliated with.
Cost per Action – you get paid for a certain action taken by a customer introduced by you, e.g. a customer arrives at a website owned by you and you have an advertisement for a company's product on your site. If they trialling out the product you get paid.
Search Engine Marketing – it's not enough to simply own a website. You need to learn how to market it to the search engines too to ensure you get a favorable ranking over your competitors. Being on the first page is critical.
Blogging – some people do this for fun, but it is also profitable. The term derives from Web (or Internet) Log (as in a log file or diary). As the name implies it's about tracking events of some kind – it could be news and events of a business, or it could be a diary of someone's personal life, or about someone's interest/hobby. The more you write, the more people will find your blog through the search engine, and the more regular readership base will build up. From here there are several strategies you can employ to start earning money from your blog. You can sell space on your blog for other people to advertise on. You can get paid for allowing one of the search engines to carry related advertisements on your blog. You can advertise other people's products.


Joshua felt a rush of adrenaline as he looked down into the square. He was 200 feet up, on the edge of the spire of a Regency-era church. From here he could see every crowded inch below. It caused the familiar sensation of controlled adrenaline to rise in his gut. This was the stress point of any assignment. The moment he could no longer walk away. It was what he lived for.
Every detail was visible through his rifle's telescopic sight. Joshua drank in the information, taking just moments to spot the obstacles that could still stand in his way. A less skilled professional would have taken longer to weigh up the evidence. Joshua was nothing if not efficient.
He moved away from the scope. It had told him all it could for now. Instead he viewed the crowd below with his naked eye. The numbers were immense. He wondered – not for the first time – at how unsuitable the location was. Joshua could see the political thinking. Where else for a ceremony to honour the British heroes of the recent Middle Eastern wars than Trafalgar Square, London's monument to military glory? But historical resonance made it no less of a security nightmare.
A grim smile threatened the corner of Joshua's mouth, brought on by the chaos below. The area might be policed by the world's finest security agencies, but any problems they faced were to Joshua's advantage. Right now those problems were legion.
Joshua's hands returned to his rifle.
With the slightest movement, the barrel swept upwards, his eye back behind the scope. He scanned the surrounding rooftops and spotted nineteen sharpshooters in less than a minute. It was rare that he was able to do this so quickly. It might even be unique, but then this was a unique contract. Every other assignment of Joshua's long career shared a common feature: the need to stay hidden in order to achieve the shot. Not today. Today Joshua had to remain in sight. If he did not, every one of those nineteen marksmen would wonder where their twentieth man had gone.
Joe Dempsey stood at a window, less than four hundred yards away. His view from here was every bit as good as Joshua's. His mood was not.
For half his life Dempsey had been employed to identify and neutralise threats. To expect the unexpected. The unthinkable. Eighteen years of that would affect any man and Dempsey was no exception. He saw danger everywhere. Dempsey sometimes wondered if this was thanks to his training, or if it was just paranoia. But such doubts did not worry him today. Today the threat was very real.
A soft voice with a distinct Edinburgh lilt interrupted Dempsey's thoughts. He turned towards the speaker.
Callum McGregor sat at the only table in the room. The director of the Department of Domestic Security was a colossus of a man. Six foot six and 270 lb. He over-crowded his empty desk.
Dempsey walked towards the director without a word. Dempsey was a big man himself, but he moved lightly. He pulled a chair to the other side of the desk and sat without waiting for permission.
He looked McGregor in the eye.
Dempsey's voice was harsher than McGregor's. It was less refined, more intense. This was to be expected. McGregor's was the voice of a diplomat. Dempsey was the diplomat's threat.
Dempsey's reply was blunt but not insubordinate. McGregor was the senior of the two, but mutual respect cut through rank. He continued.
McGregor was telling Dempsey nothing new.
Dempsey leaned back in his chair. It irritated him when McGregor was right. Which the director usually was. But knowing the 'why' did not make the facts any easier to swallow. An event this public, with US presidents past and present in attendance? Even without the British politicians on hand – and they would be on hand, thanks to the publicity it would bring – it was nothing short of a nightmare.
If there is a terrorist attack today, Dempsey thought, it'll take a miracle to stop it.
The thought was banished as his earpiece flickered into life.
The United States Secret Service had been protecting its presidents for over a century. And its former ones, too. In that time they had honed their techniques to perfection. Four short sentences were all it took to put every agent on notice.
Dempsey synchronised his watch as the voice in his ear declared 'mark'. McGregor did the same. Between them the two men had seen more action than the average infantry platoon. They had run covert missions from one side of the world to the other. Today's assignment was a walk in the park in comparison. But still Dempsey's instincts were screaming.
Dempsey got to his feet. His ramrod-straight military bearing took full advantage of his six feet two inches. That height, combined with a powerful physique discernible even under his suit, made him an intimidating presence. His dark, piercing eyes, set deep in a face that carried the damage of a life lived dangerously, completed the picture. He was not an unattractive man. Far from it. But when it suited him, Joe Dempsey could be terrifying.
Those dark eyes now met McGregor's, and no words were needed. The concern on the director's face said enough.
Perhaps Dempsey was not the only one with a bad feeling after all.
Joshua could not place the American accent in his ear. It was East Coast, but where? The failure irritated him more than it should. Joshua's obsession with detail – with control, with ritual – was shared by millions across the globe. To most it was debilitating. Obsessive Compulsive Disorder, capable of ruining lives. For Joshua it was something else. His was a career where attention to detail could be the difference between life and death. In that world, Joshua's condition had helped create the perfect killer.
Joshua synchronised his watch on the speaker's 'mark'. He felt his synapses fire as he did so, fuelled by another surge of addictive adrenaline. The transmission had come from the Presidential Protective Division, bringing complete focus to Joshua's mind. In exactly nine minutes the presidential motorcade would leave Buckingham Palace. It would then make its way along The Mall before arriving in Trafalgar Square in just under thirteen minutes' time. As always, the Secret Service was running like clockwork.
And so was Joshua. The effects of adrenaline differ from person to person. In most it leads to fight-or-flight. In others – fewer – it leads to paralysing terror. And in fewer still it leads to a cold clarity of thought. Where time seems to slow. Where every action is considered. Calculated. Lethal. Most would call it sociopathic – or worse. Joshua called it professionalism.
It was that professionalism which now took hold. With one sweeping movement he scanned the rooftops for the seventh and final time. A number that had long given Joshua comfort. Seven reviews of his surroundings. Seven confirmations that the team was in place, that every one of the sharpshooters was where he or she should be. Between them the team covered Trafalgar Square from every angle. But none of their angles mattered. One single line of sight would count today.
It was another perfectly planned detail from his employer. By now Joshua expected nothing less. The twenty-man team of marksmen and women had been cobbled together from a political tug of war. Half had come from the US Secret Services' Counter Sniper Support Unit, which left a ten-man British contingent. Five from Protection Command. Five from Counter Terrorism Command. Or at least that had been the plan.
Joshua had replaced the senior CTC operative at the eleventh hour. He had not allowed himself to ask how this had been achieved. Sure, he was curious to know. And someday he might even find out. But for today it was enough that – somehow – he was a part of the very team assigned to stop him. In a decades-long career Joshua had found many ways to get close to his targets. None had been so steeped in irony.
He turned his scope back to the square. It had been thirty minutes since he had first looked down. The crowd inside the hoardings – the temporary barrier between invited guests and the massing public – had tripled in that time, to full capacity. Two thousand men, women and children. All patiently baking in the unseasonable October sun.
As far as Joshua was concerned there could have been ten thousand. Or just ten. He was interested in only one.
A small, wiry man, dressed in ageing tweed and sitting in an aisle seat twenty-three rows back from the stage. Exactly as Joshua's instructions had predicted. The motorcade was still minutes away but Joshua's target was in place. From this moment that target would not leave his line of fire.
Sarah Truman asked the same question for maybe the tenth time in as many minutes.
Maguire nodded towards the nearby rooftops. Sarah followed his indication. For a moment she seemed to consider their options. A marksman was visible on a nearby church spire. It was a reminder that all raised buildings were off-limits.
Sarah turned back to Maguire.
Maguire's brisk words were said with a smile. He could understand her worries. For Sarah – much more than for him – today was a big deal. The first major story the network had given her. Maguire would have been concerned if Sarah had not been a little neurotic.
'You almost ready for a run-through?' Maguire asked, focusing his lens.
Maguire could tell that Sarah's grin was forced. That she was hiding her apprehension. Her stomach must be churning, he thought. But she can handle it.
Sarah quickly proved him right. She pulled her long brown hair free of the band that had secured it in a neat ponytail and scrunched her fingers through its thickness. It was something Sarah did before every take. A transformation from 'behind the scenes' to 'front of house'. A superstition that was almost as pointless as a rabbit's foot or a four-leaf clover.
Sarah placed herself in the centre of Maguire's shot.
Maguire's smile widened. He had worked with TV reporters and actors for years. He was used to their narcissism and had lost count of the shots wasted while 'the talent's' make-up was re-touched. But the last two years had been different. Not because Sarah was nothing to look at. In her own way the tall, slim American was as attractive as anyone Maguire had ever partnered. Sarah was not a classic beauty, sure, but she was somehow better for that. And, unlike the others, she was utterly lacking in vanity. At least as far as Maguire had noticed.
With her ritual complete, Sarah seemed reinvigorated, her pre-shot jitters now hidden by her honest smile and sparkling green eyes. Maguire beamed with pride.
Sarah's words trailed off, interrupted by the sound of cheers from the south-eastern end of Trafalgar Square. It could mean only one thing. The presidential motorcade had arrived.


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James Cameron is an ASIS International Board Certified Protection Professional, CPP, and has over 15 years' international experience in both the security industry and the corporate sector as well. He currently is a member of the ASIS Executive Protection Council and has operated Security Concpets Group since 2009. Mr. Cameron is a combat veteran, having earned a Bronze Star for his actions during combat operations as a Sniper in Iraq. Mr. Cameron also has earned his Bachelor's Degree in Business Information Systems.
Mr. Cameron has worked with the U.S. State Department as a member of the Diplomatic Security Services. There he served in multiple positions including Security Detail Leader for the U.S. Ambassador to Iraq and Afghanistan. He ultimately finished as an instructor and subject matter expert for the High Threat, Dignitary Protection Division of the U.S. Department of State Diplomatic Security Services.
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DUBAI: Dubai's Arabtec plans to sell four of its five Saudi Arabian units, the builder's annual results show despite also stating that one of its main aims this year is to expand its activities in the kingdom.
The board of Arabtec, which is 36 per cent owned by Abu Dhabi state fund Aabar Investments and reported a surprise fourth-quarter loss on Sunday, has approved disposing of Arabtec Saudi Arabia, Arabtec Construction Machinery, Saudi Austrian Arabian Ready Mix Co and EFECO Saudi.
Arabtec owns stakes of between 45 and 62 per cent of these firms and has control over all of them. Selling the quartet would leave the builder with a solitary Saudi subsidiary — Saudi Target Engineering Construction Co, although it also owns 24 per cent of a Riyadh residential project.
The proposed sale comes despite a company press release accompanying its results stating: "The company's plan [is] to continue expansion in attractive markets, mainly the Gulf region; in particular the Saudi market, and to study the expansion opportunities in other markets, taking into account the importance of the Egyptian market." Streamlining Arabtec's Saudi operations into a single business may make sense, especially after its board "expressed dissatisfaction" with surging general and administration expenses, which jumped 75 per cent in 2014 to 749.9 million dirhams ($204.2 million).
The four Arabtec units' gross profit margin was 11.7 per cent, higher than Arabtec's other operations, Naeem Brokerage wrote in a note.
"We are yet to hear from management on the reasoning behind the [proposed sale] and whether this would imply an anticipated spin-off situation," Naeem added.
The four units' combined profits fell by more than half last year to Dh120.3 million.
Arabtec, which was not immediately available for comment, values their net assets after liabilities at Dh860.5 million, according to its financial statements.


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A 17-year-old boy who went into cardiac arrest after being Tasered by police has been discharged from hospital.
He was part of a group involved in a disturbance in Prior Deram Walk, Canley, Coventry, just after 21:30 BST on Saturday, West Midlands Police said.
Police Tasered the teenager in a bid to detain him, but he went into cardiac arrest and needed hospital treatment.
The Independent Office for Police Conduct (IOPC) is investigating and has arranged to meet the boy's family.
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An IOPC spokesperson said it had gathered witness accounts from the officers involved as well as CCTV footage.
"A Taser which was discharged during with incident will be analysed," the spokesperson added.
Three 17-year-olds and a 13-year-old were held on suspicion of violent disorder and assaulting a police officer after the incident.
Police said they had all been bailed pending further investigation.
Two police officers received minor injuries, which did not require hospital treatment, and a police car windscreen was also smashed.
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Posted By: Traxus Date: 9/28/01 5:28 a.m.
First, one thing that has been haunting me for EVER: I know this doesn't sound serious to you, but I am honestly really disturbed by the terminal on Blaspheme Quarantine where Durandal says "'cause I got a shotgun, and you ain't got one" because THAT IS NOT PROPER GRAMMAR if it's the answer to the question "what is my purpose in this universe?"
Well, the real thing I want to say is, did you notice that Durandal goes through a huge personality change during marathon 1? The first thing you hear from him is "You've been kidnapped, do what I say or die!" "If things aren't working it's because I'm laughing so hard" and he feels scary and psychotic in every way possible.
Durandal's sudden personality change Traxus 9/28/01 5:28 a.m.
Re: Durandal's sudden personality change Johannes Gunnar 9/28/01 5:50 a.m.
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