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"Stupid Little Things" is a single released by American singer-songwriter Anastacia in April 2014. It was taken from her sixth studio album Resurrection on the Sanctuary/BMG label in Germany. It was her first original release in five and half years. The single was moderately successful, charting in Belgium, Italy, Germany and Switzerland.

Critical reception
"Stupid Little Things" received acclaim from music critics. Directlyrics called the single "excellent" and viewed it as Anastacia's best song since "Left Outside Alone". MuuMuse praised the song as "an almighty return, and she sounds as defiant as ever. It's nice to hear those pipes wailing out from the speakers, yeah? Break out those tinted glasses — Anastacia's back." Popjustice rated the song eight out of 10. MTV's Brad Stern included it in his "5 Must-Hear Pop Songs of the Week!", stating that it was a "return to form" from the "pop princess and proof that Anastacia's a true survivor", after her second battle with breast cancer.

Music video
The official music video was uploaded on March 21, 2014.

Track listing
"Stupid Little Things" – 3:55
"Stupid Little Things" (Radio Edit) – 3:31
"Stupid Little Things" (Instrumental) – 3:55
"Dark White Girl" – 3:23

Charts

Certifications

Release history

References

2014 singles
Anastacia songs
2014 songs
Songs written by Anastacia
Songs written by Sam Watters
Songs written by Louis Biancaniello
Sanctuary Records singles
Songs about heartache
Songs written by Courtney Harrell

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Hands On With Microsoft Edge For iOS And Android
Microsoft has released Edge for iOS and Android. The app, at present, is in its beta version. If you're on the Windows Insider program, you can sign up to test Microsoft Edge Preview for iOS and Android. You might think there are enough browsers for iOS and Android but there's always room for one more. Since you need to be part of the Windows insider program with a preview build currently installed on a system, not everyone is going to be able to test it. Here's our hand on review of Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android.
To be fair, this app is in beta. That's why this is going to be a feature review, and not a performance review. The app crashed when we tried to sign in so it has its bugs and problems.
Microsoft Edge Preview Features
Microsoft Edge Preview supports a neat tabbed interface with incognito/private tabs. There's a speed dial feature that most mobile browsers have and there's a reading list much like the one you get on Microsoft Edge for Windows 10.
Windows Live Account Sync
You can use Edge for iOS and Android without signing into your Live account, however, it's better when you sign in. Also, Microsoft wants your browsing history but it's asking this time instead of just taking it.
Bar Code/ QR Code Scanner
Edge for iOS and Android has a bar code and QR code scanner built in. To use it, tap the little minus icon next to the search field on a new tab page.
How To Sign Up For Microsoft Edge Preview For iOS & Android
How To Add 'Search Google' To The Right-Click Context Menu In Microsoft Edge
Reverse Image Search
You can also conduct a reverse image search in Edge for iOS and Android. Tap the same minus button inside the search field on a new tab. Select 'Camera' or 'Gallery' to take/upload an image. Once the image uploads, the browser will search for it in the default search engine.
Bing is the default search engine in Edge for iOS and Android but thankfully, you can change it.
The options are hard-coded i.e. limited. You can set Google or Yahoo has your default search engine from the app's settings.
Reading List And eBooks
You can save links to your reading list in Edge for iOS and Android. Edge for Windows 10 has a neat library feature where books you download from the Windows Store are saved. For now, the library/ebooks feature isn't live but it's in the works. Your library will sync between your desktop and phone.
Send To PC And Action Center
One noteworthy feature in Edge for iOS and Android is that you can send links to your PC. You can push the link so that it opens in Edge, or you can send it to the Action Center as an alert. Tap the little phone icon at the bottom of the screen to use this feature. It's one of those features that require you to use your Microsoft account on both your phone and your desktop.
Judgement Reserved
Microsoft Edge for iOS and Android has decent features but again, for a beta app, we're not going to judge performance just yet. It worked well enough and it definitely has a few features that other browsers don't. It looks promising but isn't ready for stable release just yet. The UI is nice and intuitive.
How To Disable Tab Previews In Microsoft Edge In Windows 10
How To Export Bookmarks From Microsoft Edge In Windows 10
How to use the dictionary in Microsoft Edge
How To Read ePub Files In Microsoft Edge In Windows 10
How To Add 'Search Google For' In Microsoft Edge Context Menu
How To Set Tabs Aside In Microsoft Edge In Windows 10

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You can't do anything about the rain but you can know when to be thankful and put aside the things that in the end were simply background noise. This lovely couple had one of those days and I'm thrilled that they put no emphasis on the rain, they were married and the day was perfect. Easy as that. Of course I'm thankful that the wedding took place at Au Vieux Moulin, gorgeous as always!
You won't see any of their ceremony in the gallery. I usually experience one minister per year who adopts a strict rule to shut out the photographer. This is of course a decision I can't argue with, so long as the couple agrees, I take instruction from them. The nice thing about this was V+D were upfront and said yes, we want to respect these wishes, and we were given ample notice. Something to think about for couples who decide to have a religious ceremony that might come with a set of rules. I'm never happy about not taking photos, but I'm satisfied if the bride and groom are. I can at least tell you that the ceremony was lovely.
Congratulations to this great couple, thank you for having me!


The view from pier six on the Brooklyn side of the East river is breathtaking: the majestic skyline of downtown Manhattan boasts its latest addition, a new residential tower designed by Frank Gehry. In the distance to the right, the spires of the Empire State and the Chrysler buildings reflect the sunlight as if dipped in molten gold.
But the pier itself is not such a happy sight. A wasteland of concrete, rusty steel frames, rotting blocks of wood and mounds of gravel, it is testament to the decline of this stretch of Brooklyn, as well as to the neglect that for many years has defined New York's relationship with its waterfront.
There are few cities in the world that can compete with New York for the extent and diversity of its water. It has 520 miles of shoreline – more than Chicago, Portland, San Francisco and Seattle combined. The city is embraced by two powerful tidal rivers, the Hudson and the East river, and two major bays, Long Island Sound and the Atlantic, affording New Yorkers the pleasures of 16 miles of beaches.
Yet, until recently, you would hardly have noticed it. New York City looked inward to its famous buildings and Central Park, away from the gift of its waterways. As the mayor, Michael Bloomberg, has said: "At some point in our history, we literally and figuratively turned our back on the waterfront."
Now Bloomberg and his team have declared that they are determined the waste will be brought to an end, that New York will be reconnected with its water. Bloomberg has announced a $360m (£215m) three-year action plan that aims to bring the shoreline back into the heart of the community.
"The water is the connective tissue of this place – we see it as our sixth borough," said Amanda Burden, the city's chief planner. "The ambition is to make New York City once again one of the world's great harbour cities and to reclaim the water as a part of New Yorkers' everyday lives."
That is not an insignificant goal. Julia Vitullo-Martin, an expert on cities at the Regional Plan Association, said that making the most of rivers, lakes and seas had become an economic imperative. "When you think of any successful modern city – London, Paris, Amsterdam, Copenhagen, Sydney – they are all making great use of their waterfronts."
Under the new plan, 130 projects have been funded including 14 new greenways and esplanades and 20 hectares (50 acres) of new waterfront parks. New Yorkers will be encouraged not just to go to the water, but to go on to it. Within three years, there will be 60 launching pads around the city for those who want to go canoeing or sailing.
From this summer, a high-speed ferry service will run every 20 minutes between Manhattan, Brooklyn and Queens, which Burden says will help blur the boundaries of the five boroughs and integrate the city. Economic incentives will be used to revitalise the port, which remains the largest on the US east coast, providing $6.8bn in business revenues.
The paradox is that New York became the powerhouse that it is today largely because of the water, both in terms of its population, which swelled with the arrival of European immigrants landing at Ellis Island, and economically, with the triangle trade in cotton and slaves between Africa and the American Deep South.
"It's incredible given its origins that the waterfront has become such a dead loss to New York," said Lisa Keller, a historian at the State University of New York and executive editor of the Encyclopedia of New York City.
The trouble began, Keller explained, in the 1840s when railway lines were laid along the shoreline, cutting off New Yorkers from their rivers. That was accentuated in the early 20th century when the main roads through Manhattan, the East River Drive (opened 1929) and the West Side Highway (1931), were carved in concrete swaths all the way along the respective perimeters of the island. "You have just two arteries in Manhattan – only two – and they put them both on the water. That was crazy!" said Keller.
When low-cost housing was built after the second world war, that too was put on the water. Industrial decline in turn took its toll, leaving large stretches in the Bronx, Queens and Brooklyn derelict and dangerous to the public.
Since he entered City Hall nine years ago, Bloomberg has tried to tackle this sad anomaly. The city has bought up 151 hectares of shoreline and turned it into parks and recreation areas, and there are already 20 miles of accessible waterfront paths, such as the greenway along Manhattan's West Side, which has become a favourite haunt of joggers and cyclists.
Burden said that the aim of the three-year plan was to build on what had already been done and knit it together so that New York really began to feel like a water city once more.
There are still daunting hurdles ahead. The major highways and housing projects that created the problem in the first place cannot be removed without massive expense, which New York cannot afford, and much of the waterfront remains in the hands of private owners who may resist public access.
But the change is palpable, and spreading steadily across the city. In June, on the Manhattan side of the East river, a new Waterfront Park will open within walking distance of Wall Street. And within a year or so pier six on the other side of the river will no longer be the concrete wasteland it is today. Work has begun that will transform it into a park where Brooklynites will be able to watch open-air films on balmy summer nights or stroll up to Brooklyn Bridge, where the waterfront has already been converted into glorious green public space. That stunning view of the Manhattan skyline will then be there for everyone to celebrate, not behind the ugly wire fence that encloses the pier but from the water's edge with the powerful East river lapping at your feet.


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Endocrine disruption advocate Fred vom Saal says BPA may cause diabetes
IMAGE: Fred vom Saal and his team found that the Food and Drug Administration-approved "safe " daily exposure amount of BPA may be enough to have implications for the development of Type...
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In a first study of its kind study, researchers have found that a common chemical consumers are exposed to several times a day may be altering insulin release. Results of the study, led by scientists at the University of Missouri, indicate that the Food and Drug Administration-approved "safe" daily exposure amount of BPA may be enough to have implications for the development of Type 2 diabetes and other metabolic diseases.
"Bisphenol A is an endocrine disrupting chemical that is used to manufacture thermal paper receipts, plastics and a wide range of consumer products," said Frederick vom Saal, an endocrinologist and Curators' Professor in the Division of Biological Sciences in the MU College of Arts and Science, and a co-author on the study. "Experiments with human and mouse pancreatic cells have revealed that low-dose exposure to BPA, in the presence of glucose, triggers an insulin response. We wanted to test the potential effects of BPA in humans to see whether it held true."
In both of the studies, subjects were orally administered a safe dose of BPA, which led to the same amount of BPA in their blood that customers might encounter by handling a cash register receipt; or, the same subjects received a placebo exposure for comparison. Insulin responses were then assessed through an oral glucose tolerance test in the first experiment or a hyperglycemic clamp in the second experiment. Results of both studies showed that BPA altered insulin release relative to the placebo exposure in the subjects. In animal studies repeated BPA exposure resulted in insulin resistance.
"This exploratory study needs to be replicated because it suggests that BPA exposure at a dose considered safe by U.S. regulators could alter glucose-stimulated insulin responses in humans," vom Saal said. "Our study is an initial step toward investigating whether exposure to endocrine disrupting chemicals, such as BPA, contributes to insulin resistance and eventually Type 2 diabetes."


Whilst the LTTE's offer of unconditional talks in a climate of normalcy had been welcomed by the international community and many Sri Lankan political parties, including the main opposition United National Party, the ruling People's Alliance of President Chandrika Kumaratunge was pointedly refusing to comment on the matter, he said.
He noted that Sri Lanka's Prime Minister has vowed to continue the war and destroy the Tigers. Meanwhile Sri Lanka's Foreign Minister, Lakshman Kadirgamar, continued to insist to the international community that Colombo wished to resolve the conflict peacefully, he said. "There are several contradictions in the Sri Lankan government's statements," he told thousands of people at the London Arena.
"We have grave doubts about [President Kumaratunge's] intentions," the LTTE's chief negotiator said. "She is strengthening her armed forces, purchasing new weapons systems," he said. "The army is calling for new recruits."
Balasingham said the very structure of the Sri Lankan government hampered the peaceful resolution of the conflict. "The government comprises Sinhala supremacists, Buddhist nationalists and Tamil traitors," he said. "How can such a government give justice to the Tamil people?" he queried.
The international community has urged the LTTE to try to resolve the protracted ethnic conflict peacefully, he said. Therefore, the LTTE has responded by proposing unconditional talks following the restoration of normalcy, said Balasingham.
"This is a crucial step for us," he said. "We have not insisted on troop withdrawals or ceasefire as we have in the past," he pointed out. "But we insist that the severe hardships and attacks being endured by the Tamil people must cease before any meaningful talks," he said. "We can't talk with bombs falling."
"The Sri Lankan Prime Minister says that we are coming for peace talks because we are weakened," he said. "We are not weak. We are still strong. We will not shirk from fighting; that is our forte."
He pointed out that the Sri Lankan government's economic embargo has caused immense suffering. "The blockage of food, medicine and daily necessities, the ban on fishing, cement, etc has greatly affected the people," he said. "It has been going on for ten years."
"Sri Lanka says the ban is to prevent the growth of the LTTE," he said. "But we have other ways of getting everything a liberation struggle needs."
"The real aim of the embargo is break the people's desire for freedom and to make them stop supporting the LTTE," he added.
President Kumaratunge says she accepts the Tamil people have grievances, but blames foreign colonialists, rather than Sinhala racism for this, he said. "She talks about solving the ethnic problem and then vows to destroy the Tamil liberation struggle. But the Tamil people began their armed struggle after the Ahimsa form of struggle was crushed by racial violence," he added. "She refers to the Tamil freedom struggle as terrorism."
"Some international governments - you know who they are - have labelled us terrorists, even though they know full well we are fighting for our people's freedom," he said. "They have their own objectives."
"A state can do what it wants - bomb villages and kill civilians - that is war," he noted. "But if we strike back, that is deemed terrorism."
"The United States dropped two atomic bombs and killed large numbers of people. The Indian forces killed large numbers of Tamil civilians. That is considered war. If we set off a firecracker in Colombo, that is said to be terrorism," he said.
"Lakshman Kadirgamar has asked Britain to ban the LTTE as terrorists. Yet he tells the international community the government wants to talk," Balasingham said.
If the international community continues to assist Sri Lanka's military efforts by banning the LTTE, then there was no possibility of peace talks to resolve the conflict, he said further. Citing the US as an example, he pointed out that bans against assisting the LTTE in other countries had in fact increased support for the Tigers amongst the Tamils in those locations.
"Sri Lanka must lift its own ban on the LTTE before peace talks are possible," he reminded the audience. "So why is Kadirgamar asking Britain to ban the LTTE?"
Sinhala Buddhist supremacy was responsible for the protracted ethnic war, he said. "The Maha Sanga opposes any concessions towards Tamil aspirations. Don't give anything to the Tamils, they say."
"The international community says a solution can be achieved within a united Sri Lanka. Britain points to Northern Ireland as an example," he said.
"It is only when their ideas are crushed that the West will realise that the Sinhala Buddhist chauvinists will not concede anything to the Tamils," he said. "Then the world will recognise the Tamil struggle for independence."


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Q: Ranger filemanager defaulting to nano I set Ranger as a keybind with Awesome Window Manager (AWM). My environmental variables and shell (ZSH) for both visual and editor are set to VIM. When I use the keybind (super + f), Ranger defaults the editor to Nano.
The man page for Ranger says that it defaults to VIM.
I have no idea why it is doing this.
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awful.key({ modkey }, "f", function () awful.util.spawn( "alacritty -e 'ranger'" ) end,
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^^^This is the keybind.

A: Something probably set the EDITOR environment, somewhere. Follow these steps to fix it:

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*Open /etc/passwd and make sure your shell is zsh

*Make sure you have export EDITOR=/usr/bin/vim in ~/.zshrc

*Replace awful.util.spawn with awful.spawn.with_shell. This ensure it reads ~/.zshrc instead of launching range with an "empty" environment.

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White Paper or Blank Page?
Many years ago, Chicago Mayor Richard J Daley launched an international physics conference organised by the University of Chicago. "Hizzoner" wished the delegates well and hoped that the University and the City of Chicago would "rise to higher and greater platitudes". The Mayor might well have said much the same for the "Australia in the Asian Century" white paper and the Australian people.
Australia will have an innovation system, in the top 10 globally, that supports excellence and dynamism in business with a creative problem-solving culture that enhances our evolving areas of strength and attracts top researchers, companies and global partnerships.
We might well end up in the top ten as it is difficult to find "innovation systems" and others may not go looking for theirs. There are inventors, patent attorneys, people with money, and markets. But trying to organize them is like herding cats.
Innovation is a bit like a random walk. Who would have predicted in 1969 that the ARPANET, funded by the US Department of Defence, would have evolved into the Internet, providing access to a universal memory bank and becoming a threat to established publishing and entertainment corporations. A government might encourage innovation but the creative destruction that may go with it does not always suit the politics de jour.
Governments frequently overestimate their ability to influence events and innovation policy with its justification for funding universities and research organisations is a perfect example. Over 90% of innovations come from business with in-house ideas, company rivalry and interactions with customers being the main sources. Indeed a survey by the Australian Bureau of Statistics showed in 2006-07 that only 2.6% of ideas for innovation were sourced from universities and 4.1% from government agencies. These numbers are not unique to Australia.
In 2008-09 the total Australian spending from all sources on R&D was $28 billion, with $17 billion from business and the balance came from government expenditure in universities and government research institutions. Government institutions and universities don't give much bang for the buck, with 38% of Australia's R&D expenditure generating only 6.7% of the ideas.
This is a little unfair on universities, as they do play a key role in educating accountants, lawyers, engineers, scientists, doctors and many others who make innovations in the companies where they work and may have even founded. The universities are also in the business of publishing results and holding conferences so that research information can enter the public domain.
The white paper presents a grand design based on the idea that the CSIRO should be a centre piece of business innovation. But in the last fifteen years CSIRO has not managed to increase the direct funding of its R&D from industry. In fact it has declined by 33% in real terms — this while universities have received a sixfold increase in industry funding.
As in the past, Australia will continue to create new businesses, new processes and new products, but where and how is unpredictable. In the last twenty years there have been great successes in the healthcare sector. CSL (CSL.AX), Cochlear (COH.AX) and ResMed (RMF.F) are all examples of remarkable business development — and not without running substantial financial risks during product development and business expansion. But many of these businesses are now multi-national. ResMed is based in San Diego, CSL operates in Australia, the United States and Europe and Cochlear operates worldwide. However, the total sales revenue for the three was $6.4 billion in 2011-12, while mining and oil and gas revenue was $180 billion. So the idea that innovations will generate new business opportunities that make a significant reduction in the risk to the Australian economy of falling demand for minerals and energy exports is quite implausible.
In another market, there is a remarkable statistic. From the count of the top 100 companies filing patents in the USA for 2011 an Australian based company, Bayer Crop Science AG (Australia), was number 98. This must be the result of the excellence of the Plant Industry Division of the CSIRO and the benefits go to a foreign multi-national with $230 million revenue for 2011.
The white paper points to the growth in the numbers of patents filed by Asian businesses. Patent filing, just like counting published scientific papers, can be misleading. The United States remains the most innovative market on the planet, while a lot of patenting from Asia might be termed "patent flooding" as companies seek some purchase on the base patents. Patent disputes are the result of these intellectual property manoeuvres.
The path to new business happiness is not simple. A good example is Biota, the developer along with GlaxoSmithKline of the first of the broad spectrum influenza drugs. Initially Biota and GSK were outsmarted by Gilead Sciences and Roche Pharmaceuticals. However, Biota, joining with Daiichi Sankyo, now has a shared interest in a long-acting influenza drug on the Japanese market. This drug has so impressed the US health authorities that they awarded a $230 million contract to Biota to manufacture the drug in the USA and take it through the FDA clinical trial process. At the same time Biota has left its original home stock exchange, the ASX, for a new life on NASDAQ in New York. So you have a triangular settlement with an Australian and a Japanese business seeking US markets.
Another and more perplexing example is the development of laser enrichment of uranium by Silex Systems (SLX.AX). This process has been licensed to GE, and approval has been given for the construction of the first US plant. This and other nuclear fuel-cycle opportunities, such as Synroc, in the billion-dollar revenue range are presently out of bounds for Australians in their home country!
Even in the Asian Century we will remain a country with a small population and innovations and business opportunities will be taken and businesses grown where they find major financial support for their particular needs and where there are attractive markets.
One can only hope that the innovation system does not get in the way.


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We've entered a new era of catastrophes.
Over the last two years, the U.S. has experienced 30 natural disasters that have each caused at least $1 billion worth of damage. In many cases, the total was far more significant: the 2017 trifecta of hurricanes Harvey, Maria and Irma combined for $265 billion in losses.
When disasters strike, we're left to pick up the pieces. And pick up each other.
While The Salvation Army helps survivors in the aftermath of disasters, the general public is, no doubt, the unsung hero. Without the generous donations of ordinary people, much of that work isn't possible in the first place.
So, where exactly does all of this money go?
At their current participation rate, Americans are contributing about $10 billion in collective relief annually, according to a survey of 2,100 people from the Better Business Bureau's Wise Giving Alliance.
"If we didn't get disaster funds, that would really limit what we can provide," said Nicholas Nguyen, Emergency Disaster Services (EDS) Director for The Salvation Army California South Division. "We wouldn't be able to feed thousands of people, wouldn't be able to distribute immediate financial assistance through gift cards and vouchers, and we wouldn't be able to help people recover months and years afterward."
From the moment a donation comes through, be it online, via handwritten check or during a telethon, The Salvation Army gets to work, turning the public's hard-earned money into real, tangible impact in the affected community.
Every disaster is unique, as is The Salvation Army's role in each community it serves. So how the money actually gets spent varies quite a bit. But as the disaster relief process goes on, more specific needs become apparent on a case-by-case basis.
"There are always, always service gaps," said John Berglund, EDS Director for The Salvation Army Western Territory. "That could mean there aren't dumpsters in communities where people have to muck out their houses [after a flood], or maybe people need storage bins to store their remaining belongings. The beauty of The Salvation Army is in its flexibility and its willingness to adapt. We can always be looking at what's not being covered."
After Hurricane Sandy, The Salvation Army started helping pay off survivors' credit card debt. It wasn't something any other relief organization was doing—and that was the point.
"It can take government assistance several months to roll out. So I've seen situations where survivors have to stay in hotels three to six months, then they ruin their credit by running up credit card debt, and we have another issue," Berglund said. "The reality is, we've created a larger problem if we can't get help to them fast enough."
Often, depending on the scale of the disaster, The Salvation Army will earmark funds for the recovery phase—as long as the funds are available.
In Northern California, for instance, The Salvation Army is currently building a group of eight, two-bedroom transitional housing units specifically for Camp Fire survivors who have been displaced since the blaze broke out late in 2018.
With the help of several individual donors, these "turn-key" homes will house families who may be couch surfing or living in mobile homes or temporary trailer units after losing everything in the fires.
"We try to be a little more holistic when we go into disaster case management to say and ask, 'what's the plan for this family?'" Berglund said. "They have to have a new laptop, a new vehicle, a new phone to survive and move on with their lives."
Spending money quickly isn't always possible, nor is it the best approach, given that the response can last several years. But donating to The Salvation Army as soon after the disaster as possible can help them determine what type of services it can provide over the long haul.
"If you know you want to donate, the sooner you donate the better. Because the sooner we get the donation, that enables us to say, 'There's enough money to go into recovery,'" he said.
Of course, it's hard to talk about Salvation Army disaster relief without mention of the "Emotional and Spiritual Care" (ESC) it offers to survivors. Biblically, the foundation for this "ministry of presence" is supported through the mandate to bear one another's burdens (Gal. 6:28): "You must be compassionate just as your Father is compassionate."
After Hurricane Harvey late in August 2017, a two-person crew from Kentucky rolled into Houston after dark on Aug. 29. Just as they were ready to head out on their mobile feeding unit the following morning, residents in the Redwood Heights apartments were seeing the sun—and dry ground—for the first time in days.
Before the flood waters receded, heavy rain from Harvey had submerged their cars in the parking area and caused a loss of electricity in the 96-unit apartment community. The residents felt stranded and alone. When Lt. Jane Monroe and Captain Sarah Quinn arrived, they were greeted with smiles and cheers.
"They said we were the first ones on the scene," Monroe said. "No one checked on them, and they felt forgotten."
The Redwood Heights residents appreciated the food and the water, but what they really needed was for someone to listen, to be present for them to talk. "It brings us great joy to be able to help them when they felt like no one cared," Monroe said.
Regardless of what type of disaster The Salvation Army is responding to, Berglund noted it's critical that they follow the survivor. That way, they keep a pulse on the survivor's needs over the long haul, and "do the most good" for the greatest number of people. As long as they do that, good stewardship of the public's donations will naturally follow.
"The biggest misunderstanding is that if a disaster is no longer in the news, there's no more need," he said. "The reality is, it's just the beginning. You have to follow survivors along this path to recovery.
"But donors have to trust us—that's the bottom line. We'll do the most good. But they have to understand: that may take up to three or four years," Berglund said. "It doesn't stop when the news vans drive out of town. It doesn't stop when the shelters close. We're going to be good stewards of the money. We stay in the game until the money gets spent."
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For the first time in its history, Facebook is reportedly on the hunt for outside funding.
The New York Times reporter Nathaniel Popper dropped the news on Twitter April 8, saying that the company is seeking as much as $1 billion for a cryptocurrency project that was first reported on last year. Facebook has not confirmed news of such a project.
"It's interesting to think of one of the richest companies on earth raising money. When was the last time they did outside fundraising?" tweeted Popper.
Still, it's all but certain, based on reports by multiple sources, that Facebook is making a deep investment in cryptocurrency and exploring the option of launching a stablecoin -- a digital coin that is pegged to an existing currency -- that could be used to facilitate transactions across its network of 2.7 billion users through WhatsApp, Messenger and Instagram.
The Block has even tracked all the blockchain-related positions Facebook has posted in recent months, and it's reported that former PayPal President David Marcus is leading the project. Employees who are part of the team work in a secure building accessible by key card, sources tell the Times.
Facebook's latest venture may have less to do with money than it does with appearances.
Having outside backers involved would increase the perception that any currency introduced by Facebook is decentralized and not firmly controlled by the social giant, Popper tweeted. That would likely make it more appealing to crypto customers, given that decentralization is a main draw of cryptocurrency.


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Q: Using and Returning Realm Objects instead of static Array Objects Updated with answer for others If you are having this problem...
Problem I want to use Realm Objects rather than a static array inside a function to return an object output.
Solution you need to set up an Object instead of a struct....
e.g.
this :
class WorkoutGeneratorObject: Object {
    @objc dynamic var name = ""
    @objc dynamic var maxReps = 0

    convenience init(name: String, maxReps: Int) {
        self.init()
        self.name = name
        self.maxReps = maxReps
    }

not this :
struct WorkoutExercise : Hashable, Equatable{

let name : String
let reps : Int
var hashValue: Int {
    return name.hashValue
}

static func == (lhs: WorkoutExercise, rhs: WorkoutExercise) -> Bool {
    return lhs.name == rhs.name
}

then format the return of the function like this, within the class object :
class WorkoutGeneratorObject: Object {
    @objc dynamic var name = ""
    @objc dynamic var maxReps = 0

    convenience init(name: String, maxReps: Int) {
        self.init()
        self.name = name
        self.maxReps = maxReps
    }

    func generateExercise() -> WorkoutExercise {
        return WorkoutExercise(
            name: name,
            reps: Int(arc4random_uniform(UInt32(maxReps)))
        )
    }
}

Then you can use this in functions elsewhere in your code like this :
struct WorkoutGenerator {

// This is the "pool" of exercises from
// which it generates a workout (similar to your
// `exerciseBankArray`)
let realmExercisePool = realm.objects(WorkoutGeneratorObject.self)
let exercisePool: [WorkoutExerciseGenerator]

// Min and max amount of workouts
let minCount: Int
let maxCount: Int

// Generates a workout from the generator
func generate() -> Workout {

    let amount = Int(arc4random_uniform(UInt32(maxCount - minCount))) + minCount
    let myExercises : [WorkoutExercise] = (0..<amount).map { _ in
        // Selects an exercise generator at random
        let index = Int(arc4random_uniform(UInt32(exercisePool.count)))
        // Generates a random workout exercise from this generator

        return realmExercisePool[index].generateExercise()
    }

    return Workout(workoutExercises: myExercises)

}


It's estimated that over 60 people have been injured, 19 of them seriously, during 'an incident' at Falls Festival in Lorne overnight.
The event unfolded around 11pm local time, when some of the crowd leaving the Grand Theatre after the DMAs set slipped and fell on a steep embankment. The crowd behind, unaware of the problem ahead, continued to push through to get to London Grammar's set at another stage, causing a stampede-like event.
Thirteen women and six men aged from their late teens to late 20s were taken to hospital with serious injuries, including possible spinal injuries; head and facial injuries; leg, rib, hip and pelvic fractures, as well as cuts and bruises.
Festival-goer Lucy Spry posted on the Falls Facebook site that it began when someone slipped on gravel.
All subsequent performances on the Grand Theatre stage were cancelled last night. Scheduling was expected to return to normal today.
Due to limited mobile phone service at large-scale events, concerned friends and family should contact the festival via email at patroninfo@fallsfestival.com to find out the welfare of loved ones.