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Stephen King (born March 6, 1986) is a former American soccer player.

Career

Youth and high school
King attended Shawnee High School where he was a four-year starter (2000–03) under coach Brian Gibney. He led the Renegades to a 99–5–3 record during his tenure, including 2001 and 2003 Group IV state championships. During the latter title run, King's senior year, he recorded 24 goals and 27 assists. King was named the New Jersey Gatorade and NSCAA Player of the Year. He was also selected as a Parade Magazine, EA Student Sports and NSCAA/adidas All-American. Additionally, King was named a USYSA Inter-Regional All-American and finished his prep career with 46 goals and 56 assists.

King was selected to play for the Region I Olympic Development Program team from 1999 to 2004 and participated as a U–16 national pool player. During his earlier years he was the captain of the U–15 national team and also played for the nationally prominent FC Delco club team.

College
Heavily recruited out of high school, King chose the University of Maryland over other high-profile schools such as Wake Forest, Duke, Boston College, Harvard, St. John's and Rutgers.

During his four-year tenure in which he started all 93 contests he played in (a Maryland career starts record), King would lead the Terrapins to two NCAA Sweet Sixteens, the 2004 College Cup, and the 2005 National Championship. He was a Hermann Trophy semi-finalist for his junior and senior seasons, and a Lowe's Senior CLASS Award, College Soccer News First Team All-American and First Team All-ACC for his senior season. According to UMTerps.cstv.com, "King finished his career second all-time in assists at Maryland with 33 while his 93 career points ranks sixth. He also scored 30 goals which is one away from the top 10. His three-assist performance against No. 14 Virginia on November 3, 2007 tied the program record for assists in a game. He racked up 13 assists in 2007 which is the second most in school history in a single season."

King was also named the 2007 ACC Scholar-Athlete of the Year for men's soccer, an award for recognizing the top junior or senior student-athlete in each respective ACC sport. Candidates must maintain a career 3.0 or better grade point average and have gotten 3.0+ each of their past two semesters to qualify. He was also named to ESPN The Magazine's 2007 Academic All-America Men's Soccer Team.

Professional
On January 18, 2008, King became the Maryland Terrapins' 22nd MLS draftee since its inception in 1996. The Chicago Fire selected him in the third round (40th overall). He made his MLS debut against Real Salt Lake on March 29, entering in the 54th minute., and made his first career start against the San Jose Earthquakes on April 12.

King scored his first MLS goal against the New England Revolution on May 3. It was an unassisted goal in the 76th minute.

On November 26, 2008, King was selected by Seattle Sounders FC in the fourth round of the 2008 MLS Expansion Draft. He made his Sounders debut on May 2, 2009 appearing as a substitute against his old club Chicago Fire.

King was traded to D.C. United on April 30, 2010. Seattle received a second-round pick in the 2011 MLS SuperDraft in exchange.  He made his debut for DC a day later in a 2–0 loss at home to the New York Red Bulls.  King signed a new contract with D.C. on September 8, 2011. Terms were undisclosed.

King was released by D.C. United on December 18, 2012.

Statistics

Honors

Seattle Sounders FC
Lamar Hunt U.S. Open Cup (1): 2009

Personal
King is the son of Douglas and Jayne King, and has two brothers, Brian and Sean.

See also
2008 MLS Expansion Draft
2008 MLS SuperDraft

References

External links

1986 births
Living people
People from Medford, New Jersey
Shawnee High School (New Jersey) alumni
Soccer players from New Jersey
Sportspeople from Burlington County, New Jersey
American soccer players
Maryland Terrapins men's soccer players
Chicago Fire FC players
Seattle Sounders FC players
D.C. United players
Major League Soccer players
Chicago Fire FC draft picks
Association football midfielders

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So Euros…How Was It For You?
The Euro Campaign is over. I have not blogged much. Too busy on Slugger with the usual regiment of Sinn Féin bots and Alliance Party trolls.
I have been in Coalisland, Dungannon, Carrickfergus and spent a few hours in Derry yesterday (polling day). And I spent an afternoon last week on the Eastwood Express. And of course I was getting a few messages from SDLP friends.
I voted SDLP. I did not give a second preference to anyone.
I am not optimistic. We needed a good turnout. SDLP canvassers told me that supporters who can be guaranteed to be early voters or school-run voters or lunch-time voters had not been seen.
Maybe there was just no enthusiasm to vote for representatives who will only be in a parliament for a matter of months.
Obviously I can only vote SDLP. To be fair they had a good campaign. And could credibly campaign on the basis that they were the most committed Remainers.
No second preference?
No …not this time. I am a nationalist, a republican, a socialist. Naturally I express my preferences along those lines. In the locals, it was 1 SDLP 2 Aountu and 3 Sinn Féin.
In this election, I did not give a preference to Sinn Féin. They don't need it. Martina Anderson will be near the quota or maybe over it. Likewise DUP.
The conventional wisdom is that UUP, SDLP and Alliance are in contention for the third (final) seat. So when DUP and SF are elected and the minor parties eliminated, it is likely that the transfers will be added to the first preference votes for the three parties left in.
The final seat will be determined without reaching the quota.
It boils down to……..3 Alliance… 4 SDLP… 5 UUP (and elimination of UUP electing Alliance) or 3 Alliance ….4 UUP….5 SDLP (and elimination of SDLP electing Alliance) or 3 SDLP…4 Alliance …5 UUP (and elimination of UUP electing Alliance) or 3 SDLP …4 UUP …5 Alliance(and elimination of Alliance electing SDLP) or 3 UUP …4 SDLP….5 Alliance (and elimination of Alliance electing SDLP) or 3 UUP ….4 Alliance….5 SDLP (and elimination of SDLP electing Alliance).
In other words, Alliance has more paths to the third seat than SDLP. Maybe SDLP will pick up transfers to add to their first preferences. But if the three parties are as close as expected, SDLP need Alliance to be the fifth party. I just cant see that.
To their credit, SDLP don't play the "green card" and have urged transfers to pro-EU candidates.
Sinn Féin ARE the "green card" but their position on transfers is odd. You might think that they would like to see a good "nationalist" total but according to Lucid Talk poll, committed Shinners are transferring to Alliance. The SF bots on Slugger O'Toole are also seemingly transferring to Alliance.
My local SF canvasser…admittedly very young asked me to vote Sinn Féin but I said that I could not do so as I am a committed SDLP voter and his Party was advocating transfers to Alliance. Why should I give a second preference to Sinn Féin.
He said that transferring to Alliance was not SF policy…but admitted that he personally giving his #2 to Alliance as it is "progressive". When I pointed out that Trevor Lunn, Stewart Dickson, Kieran McCarthy were not notably "progressive", he quite credibly said his transfer was to Naomi Long. Fair enough.
We did have some repartee around his belief that the Irish National Flag is green, white and gold….accounting for the not-too- subtle "yellow" (Alliance colour) on his leaflet. Article 7 of the Irish constitution notes that the Flag is "green, white and orange" and when I pointed this out, the canvasser said "well it used to be green, white and gold". Even a young Sinn Féin canvasser should know this stuff.
But…the lesson here is …don't get angry and post about this on Slugger. Like I say, the guy was young.
An interesting anecdote from polling day outside a polling station. A Sinn Féin canvasser handing out a leaflet "you know its 1, 2, 3 etc…so 1 Martina Anderson and for example (sic) 2 Naomi Long".
Hmmm now that seems like over-doing advice. In fact, the voter was so disgusted that he changed his vote to Colum Eastwood.
Overall the impression I have of Sinn Féin is that they play dirty.
Alliance of course portray themselves as the non-sectarian middle ground. They are in the parlance of Norn Iron elections "transfer friendly". But if your pitch is "give me #2 so that the nationalist does not win" or "give me #2 so the unionist does not win", then you forfeit the right to call yourself non sectarian.
This sort of tactic merely panders to the worst in people.
Alliance has pandered to DUP and Sinn Féin, getting ministerial salaries and perks beyond their electoral strength thru supplying "neutral" Ministers for Justice…as they would claim for the Greater Good of Norn Iron.
I have always been critical of LetsGetAlongerists. Of course getting along is great. But this is faux letsgetalongerism.
How exactly do Alliance get away with this con trick.
Well it helps to be bank-rolled. And it helps to be the Norn Iron Offices favourite political party.
So…if Alliance win that third seat, look out for the Media and Slugger O'Toole to rejoice at the break thru of "progressive politics". It is of course…bollox.
So….SDLP? All is well?
No…..but that's another story.
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28 Responses to So Euros…How Was It For You?
Wolfe tone says:
I did not vote as did many people I know. Not surprising that the turnout in my local polling station was very low according to an official there. The lack of turnout could alarm the nationalist parties who claim that we all want to remain. Personally I am enjoying the brexit mess and I dare say it's a gift to the shinners although they don't realise it.
I also voted LEAVE as I have previously stated. As I looked at it in 2016, my vote would be counted twice. In Norn Iron, REMAIN was certain to win so more important that my LEAVE vote was in the "UK" total.
I always thought that the overall result would be close so my tactic was to drive a wedge between England and Scotland/Norn Iron. The breaking up of the precious union is a good thing.
But I think part 2 of that strategy was to vote nationalist on Thursday.
CON MCKENNA says:
I voted UKIP then DUP and then for Jim Allister. I did not go further. I would not vote for a Remainer. I used to vote Sinn Fein – from 1982 to about 2012 or 2013. I stopped after Sinn Fein voted for an attempt to compel Catholic schools to employ heretics. From 1973 to about 1979/80, I voted SDLP – even to the extent of ferrying voters to the polling station on behalf of an SDLP candidate. That all ended when Sean Farren, then Chairman of the SDLP, in a letter to the Sunday Press, boasted that the SDLP was not a tribal party and would not become a tribal party. I decided that, if the SDLP would not provide tribal leadership, it did not deserve tribal loyalty. The first time I had a vote was in 1973. I was 28 at the time. I had always gone to the polling station but my name was never on the register even though I had been living at this address since 1951. The Prods, who controlled the electoral register, had cheated me out of my right to vote. In my first adventure into voting, I gave my first preference to the Alliance Party. What a fool I was. That night, watching TV, I learned that the Alliance Party was recommending coercion in order to achieve integrated education. I have never voted Alliance since then. I have recently been posting
Thanks John, this is a pretty depressing but accurate perspective on the likely results. I think SDLP did run an excellent and honest campaign, well ahead of the others. They should be rewarded for that but I fear will not. I have a hunch that the UUP vote share may have collapsed and that they will be in either 5th or 6th place. In that context it is impossible for SDLP to win.
SF may gloat about this and in the short term they may see some gain from it but in the not very longer term it will come back to bite (in the GE later this year). We are already seeing the beginning of their decline here. Transferring to Alliance whilst having "intellectuals" like Brian Feeney and Jude Collins in their midst is a stretch too far.
The exit polls and actual local elections in the South are interesting.
At the very least, Sinn Féin wont move forward and might even go back a little when local results are known.
The SF bots and trolls have a mantra that they move forward piece by piece but I think they have to take stock in the north as well as the south.
The generational thing is no longer with them. The Greens are now in that territory and the left thing is no longer convincing….whether its People Before Profit or Independent Socialists.
The significance is not just about actual votes …its about influence.
SF look less likely coalition partners in the Irish Government than they think. There will still be enough Independents, Labour, Green, Social Democrats around to be courted ahead of Mary Lou McDonald.
But even if SF was reduced to five or ten seats, that might be as useful to them as 25 seats in the Dáil…provided the overall arithmetic was right.
Mary Lou McDonald or her successor would be happy to lead a smaller SF if they had a Cabinet post than leading a bigger SF in Opposition.
Political Tourist says:
More curious in the non unionist v unionist vote. Will it be 2 unionists to 1 non unionist on the MEP front or will it change. Will i see a change in the percentages and/or the actual vote numbers at first preference level? Watching the numbers for 40+ years now since the old Irish Weekly days when the IW published the results from the Irish News.
I just don't know.
I suppose there are two factors.
The Alliance Party would present themselves as neutral but if they are status quo, they are in my view unionst. More so if they get more unionist votes> They are returning to their liberal unionist roots.
Alliance have/had a niche vote which built around staying under the radar. They now have to take up positions.
The new LetsGetAlongerists are the Greens and they can more legitimately claim to be "progressives".
The nationalist vote…well Sinn Féin happily transfer to Alliance.
So if the middle ground is 20% (say) and nationalists get 41% to unionists 39% …I am using these figures as examples then it would be a bit cheeky for SF to claim a nationalist victory.
It looks as if turnout in strong Alliance areas has held up better since the locals compared with areas west of the Bann where they are weak. Ergo their vote share will get a significant boost. Greens will also get a small boost since everyone in NI had them on their ballot paper compared with the locals. This provides Alliance with more transfers and Naomi's election is therefore inevitable with the concurrent drop in UUP vote share.
I would predict that both SF & SDLP vote share will take a hit with Martina Anderson depending on some Green transfers to get over the line & Colum Eastwood down at perhaps 10-11% first preferences.
Id prefer to see UUP or even TUV to Alliance.
I think that Danny Kennedy is a very decent sort who got left making an argument that he does not believe in. Gift for Alliance to be the only status quo remain party.
Alliance will hail it as a great victory but actually it is just the collapse of UUP and Alliance hovering up liberal unionist and anti-Brexit votes.
SDLP Activist - North Down says:
What is happening in the south council elections today, with such a massive fall in SF and a rise in Greens, came as a surprise to SF I think. Yes they may have expected to fall a bit. But to lose a third or a half of their vote? That was a shock.
A small fall could perhaps have been seen given the results in Northern Ireland council elections a couple of weeks ago. But its a bigger fall in the south for SF.
I am sure even with a lower vote they will continue to be relevant in the Dail, And at some point FF might form a coalition with them as a minor partner. But its a lot less exciting than had been imagined. The idea that they would in the driving seat in any such arrangement is a bit more difficult to put forward now. And in fact such a coalition would likely damage them – if history is a guide with what happened to the Greens and Labour.
Generational.
Sinn Féin look a little middle-aged and the Greens and various Independents look young.
SF entire strategy in south has hit a rock.
Here's to John Hume and Europe of the Regions.
Maybe next century.
Deeply disappointed. But after a couple of days I will try and figure it out.
John, don't be too disappointed. There is plenty of life in the SDLP – to increase vote share with a fairly hostile media, no money and a surge for Alliance/Greens was a very decent achievement – they need to build on it. There will be a GE later this year and I believe that they could win back Foyle and South Down with the correct candidates.
I was in Derry for a few hours. Turn out was terrible even with two local candidates.
As Wolfe Tone comments there is a lot of spin going on.
UUP will get a new leader (Doug Beattie I think) but Alliance was boosted by the locals, the surge of emotion after Lyra McKee was murdered and it was the only party that anti Brexit unionists could vote for.
Some will come back to UUP before a General Election.
Any votes SDLP lost to Alliance were prolly made up by votes gained from Sinn Féin. In the north SF had a setback (but it was adisaster in south) and SDLP held their own with a good honest campaign.
But in posts to come, I will not shy away from mistakes SDLP are making. It COULD have been better.
Alliance…their roots are in liberal unionism, allied with "Castle Catholics" and churchy people who went to conferences in Corrymeela.
That's a coalition.
And arguably in the locals they got new secular "progressives"….with more voters now from the unionist community, that actually gives them a problem in a few years….how to keep that coalition together.
Deborah in Dublin says:
While boundary changes in some individual constituencies meant that there were a number of Councillors that unfortunately lost their seats…..ETC ETC
EDIT…total bollox
Third election in a row that Unionist parties have came in under 50% of the vote. Long that may continue.
Despite the spin put on it by some this election is certainly no mandate for remain in the EU. Quite the opposite. The lack of turnout(36%)despite the unrelenting scaremongering and bias for 'remain' certainly didn't achieve the turnout the Brit State would've desired. Taking into account some folk were critical that Farage was even lending credence to this poll by participating in it(they wanted a boycott) and added to that that Europeans nationals in the UK could vote, it safe to assume most 'Brit citizens' are at least not bothered or/and want brexit. The words and speeches on the contrary from the political ruling classes are but propaganda.
It was a bizarre election and maybe Brexit is just a big thing with the chattering classes.
Alliance strength is interesting. I am not yet writing off UUP as unionists who were anti Brexit only had one logical choice…Alliance. And in a General Election or Assembly election, some but not all new Alliance votes will go back.
But we are now maybe in a transition phase where a lot of unionist bonds have been broken.
But as I said to Vince, Alliance were originally a coalition of liberal unionists (Bob Cooper), Castle Catholics (Oliver Napier) and churchy types like Basil Glass.
They still are that way. but arguably some of their Belfast councillors would say they are "progressive".
The nature of a coalition is that it cant please everyone (look at SDLP in recent months) and if it is to keep those new ex-UUP votes, then it means policy moves in that direction without losing their "progressives" and "liberals".
By my reckoning that's 9 Euro elections since 1979. Alliance lows have been 14,000 votes and one election there was a Unity candidate for the smaller parties that got 33,000. Alliance and the Workers Party, go figure. And there's been one or two howlers in Alliance like the chap that was completely against Gay Marriage, all very liberal!! I wonder who Eamon McCann voted for?
Id say that he wrote his name on a ballot. He is legend in his own lunchtime.
Went back and looked at the SDLP stats in previous elections. It looks a lot more steady ship than the chatter stated. There was even a small gain. Certainly wouldn't panic. As for Alliance lets be honest, that's as good as it's going to get this side of Irish Unity. Throw it on a few years and they could be right back at 44,000 votes on a good day. There only hope to stay in the big time would a melt down in the UUP and Alliance to hive off permanently a section of UUP voters.
I think youre under-estimating Alliance and the "middle ground".
BREXIT has severely dented unionism. It has had no real effect on the overall standing of TUV/UUP in terms of future elections but UUPs reputation for backing the economic pragmatic reasons for staying in the UK are severely damaged.
Thee is no anti-Brexit voice within traditional unionism and the garden centre unionists, Belmont Bowling Club have defected to Alliance on this single issue but I think many will stay with Alliance.
Alliance has a problem in how it deals with the component parts of its "new" base…the liberal unionists, the "Castle Catholics", the churchy do-gooders and the new "progressives".
For example a renewed "Flags dispute" would be a problem. A controversial march. Irish Language Act. And some of these new Alliance voters will want to be Alliance members. And candidates and so on.
The reality is that unionists were never going to stop being unionists on one day in (say) 2025 and become nationalists the next morning.
It was always going to be a transition thru Alliance and/or Greens.
As a committed SDLP supporter, I think you underestimate problems there. You are right in that the ship is steady…with the proviso that in 2014 there were problems in Derry and now Derry is ok. But in 2014 there were no problems in Newry. Now there is.
Omagh and West Belfast are problems.
There are people who simply wont vote Sinn Féin and yesterday a neighbour who I thought was apolitical and had little interest….you know the kinda guy that is always complaining about rates going up and not voting because of it….well yesterday he was pretty happy that SF had taken a beating.
There are good signs for SDLP …they WILL take back Foyle but Alliance look a good thing in East and South Belfast.
South Down??? I dunno.
But the underlying problem SDLP has is no real growth. They fight to maintain seats not to increase seats.
I will go into detail in a post next week.
Benbulben96? says:
They need to focus on Foyle, South Down in WM. Focus too on FST & Strangford for AE. They need to get Margaret Ritchie back on a ballot paper in S Down and decide now to run Colum Eastwood in Foyle in GE. Sharon McAleer is their best bet for FST – the sooner that they recognise that and get everyone used to it the better.
They would also benefit from more candidates with a story to tell and experience to bring – education, healthcare, business, housing etc. And in future they have to fight everywhere, even if only with paper candidates.
In West Belfast they need to back the young candidate they had in Blackmountian, move on from the Attwood era, and bring something of the Mallon/McCusker approach from N Belfast. Growth is possible. The mindset has to be front foot and not defensive.
The problem with Foyle is that Mark Durkan probably harmed his chances with the Dublin adventure. If Colum stood, he would win but then have to give up the leadership of the party. Mark H Durkan is not Westminster material.
We don't need another leadership election…Mallon versus Hanna.
Its the same situation that SDLP had in Upper Bann when Dolores Kelly lost her seat. You never miss a good thing til its gone. SDLP are now pretty good in Upper Bann.
Strangford is a possibility but maybe in exchange for Lagan Valley.
The result in Ards Peninsual DEA was just about the best SDLP performance in the locals with the exception of Paul McCusker. The problem is that its hard to put together a quota when the other part of the constituency is isolated from the Peninsula and there is no presence in Newtownards area.
South Down…I really don't rate Colin McGrath. Im glad Margaret has recovered but standing for Westminster would be an admission that there is nobody ready to fight the seat. I do rate Sinead Bradley and Laura Devlin.
Fermanagh-South Tyrone is looking good. I have never met Sharon McAleer but I have heard good things.
Your point about candidates with a story to tell is a good one (eg Mrs McAleer is a nurse) but there are other problems not necessarily the same in each constituency.
I think Pat Catney has dug in to Lagan Valley and may be hard to dislodge. I certainly hope so. Apart from Killultagh, the other DEAs that make up the Lagan Valley constituency saw a growth in SDLP votes in the locals – he can do it and he has genuine cross-community appeal.
They need to throw the sink at Strangford – there is a very good councillor in the other part of the constituency in Rowallane (Terry Andrews) who should be out knocking doors on Joe Boyle's behalf right now.
BTW, comment above was mine – apologies, hit wrong button.

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Ex-USC football player Jack Jones arrested, charged with breaking into Panda Express at 3 a.m.
Former USC cornerback Jack Jones talked to The Times on Tuesday night, keeping a positive outlook on his dismissal from the program on academic grounds and detailing his plan to get back to big-time college football. He said he felt it was all a part of "God's plan."
Two nights later, around 3:45 Friday morning, Jones was arrested in Santa Paula on suspicion of commercial burglary under $950 not during business hours and conspiracy to commit a crime — two felony charges. A press release from the Santa Paula Police Department alleged that Jones and two other young men broke into a Panda Express fast-food restaurant before being taken into custody.
Jones, 20, and two other former Long Beach Poly football players — Douglass Curry, 20, and Lohia Marks, 19 — were booked in Ventura County Jail, where Jones was held on $20,000 bond.
Jones, a five-star recruit who once predicted he would win the Heisman Trophy as a freshman, has experienced a startling fall after a sophomore season in which he had four interceptions and appeared to be building momentum toward a NFL career.
In May, Jones was dismissed by USC. He told The Times that he was informed at the start of second semester that he had to improve his grades. USC sat him out of spring practice so he could focus on staying eligible, but he was unable to do so.
Friday, his situation became markedly worse. The police state that Jones and Curry were found inside the Panda Express; Marks was in a car and fled the scene, leading officers on a chase for a couple of blocks before curbing the vehicle and being apprehended.
Jones was planning to enroll in a junior college — either Mt. San Antonio College in Walnut or West Hills College in Lemoore — for the 2018-19 school year to become academically eligible for the 2019 season. Asked if he intended to return to USC, Jones said he was keeping an open mind.
Jones has retained the Hollywood Hills law firm of Lessem, Newstat & Tooson for his defense. Attorney J. Tooson issued The Times a statement Friday evening.
"My office has been retained to represent Jack Jones regarding the current allegations," the statement said. "These past few weeks have been extremely challenging for Jack. However, with the support of his family, Jack will overcome this adversity and resume his education and collegiate playing career. Jack's family, along with Kathy Ultreras, is presently in the process of posting his bond. Moreover, I will be corresponding with the District Attorney's office in the next few days and look forward to working with them to resolve this situation."


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He is a utility player who can play as a defensive midfielder and winger.

Personal life
Awakan is a native of Ogun, Nigeria.

Club career

Awakan started his football career at FC Ebiede in 2011.

He made a name for himself while playing for Akwa United. On 15 November 2015, Awakan scored the only goal against Lobi Stars in the final matchday of the 2014–15 season, at the Nest of Champions to help Akwa United maintain their top-flight status.

On 22 November 2015, Awakan won the Nigeria FA Cup with Akwa United. His goal alongside Namdo Edo's strike earned the Uyo club a 2–1 win over Lobi Stars in the final at Teslim Balogun Stadium.

Awakan was voted Most Valuable Player of the tournament.

Awakan moved to Enugu Rangers from Akwa United alongside Fortune Omoniwari at the beginning of the 2016–17 season.

He is currently at Dakkada for the 2020-21 NPFL season

Club honours
Nigerian FA Cup
Federation Cup 2015 with Akwa United

Individual honours
Most Valuable Player
Federation Cup 2015

References
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External links
- "2015 Nigeria FA Cup Final" - Abdulazeez Awakan Match Highlights Adevou Kokou Youtube Channel

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Living people
1993 births
Association football wingers
Nigerian footballers
Nigeria Professional Football League players
Dakkada F.C. players


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While the Obama administration has abandoned Israel, several US senators are rallying in support of the Jewish state in the wake of the UN's anti-Israel resolution.
Several US senators are calling for a reassessment of US aid to the United Nations and are considering legislation against countries that promoted an anti-Israel resolution endorsed by the UN Security Council (UNSC) on Friday.
Senator Lindsey Graham (R-SC) threatened to campaign for a bipartisan consensus in Congress that would punish those who pushed for the resolution with a cut in US aid— as well as the UN itself, which relies on generous congressional appropriations. Senators Marco Rubio (R-FL) Tom Cotton (R-AK) and James Lankford (R-OK) signaled support for Graham's initiative.
American funding accounts for 22 percent of the UN's budget. Israel has already announced it is cutting at least NIS 30 million in funding to several UN bodies.
Likewise, Senator Ted Cruz (R-TX) on Saturday night called on the US to withhold funding to the UN until it reverses the resolution.
In a tweet, Cruz said he had spoken with Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu on Saturday night to wish him a happy Chanukah and assure him of the strong support in Congress for Israel.
"No US $ for UN until [resolution] reversed," Cruz tweeted.
"Today's vote is a blow to peace that sets a dangerous precedent for further diplomatic efforts to isolate and demonize Israel. Our unified Republican government will work to reverse the damage done by this administration and rebuild our alliance with Israel," Ryan said in a statement.
Senator John McCain (R-AZ) said Obama's abstention "has made us complicit in this outrageous attack" and added that the abstention "emboldens" Israel's enemies.


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Сен-Жермэн-ан-Лэ или Сен-Жермен-ан-Ле () — город во французском департаменте Ивелин, на реке Сене, в 19 км к западу от Парижа. Со Средних веков известен как местонахождение загородной резиденции королей Франции — Сен-Жерменского замка.

История
Сен-Жерменская святая капелла была построена св. Людовиком в 1238 году в средневековой крепости, которая погибла от пожара в XIV веке. Карл V вновь возводит замок. Затем в XVI веке он перестроен Франциском I в стиле Ренессанс с сохранением древнего донжона, который можно увидеть и сейчас. Здесь состоялась вторая свадьба Франциска и прошли его последние годы. Сюда шестилетней девочкой приехала и провела десять лет своей недолгой, но трагической жизни Мария Стюарт, невестка Генриха II, ставшая вдовой в 18 лет. Здесь Екатерина Медичи рожала наследников трона и будущую королеву Марго; здесь жили все последние Валуа, а затем Генрих IV с Марией Медичи и тринадцатью детьми от пяти разных возлюбленных.

Людовик XIII проводил здесь немало времени и именно тут был рождён Людовик XIV, его день рождения написан на городском гербе (5.7bre значит 5 сентября). Последний обожал замок, часто жил здесь, не жалел денег на устройство парка и дворца, где царила Мадам де Монтеспан. В замке расположен музей первобытной истории Франции.

24 августа 1837 года было открыто движение по .

Описание в ЭСБЕ

Сен-Жерменский дворец, построенный при Франциске I, служил во времена Великой революции казармами, а при Наполеоне I — помещением кавалерийской школы; теперь он реставрирован и заключает в себе музей древностей. Перед замком статуя Тьера (работы Мерсье).

Ратуша с библиотекой и картинной галереей. На склоне речного откоса сохранился павильон Генриха IV — остаток так называемого «Нового дворца» Генриха IV, служившего до перенесения Людовиком XIV двора в Версаль королевской резиденцией.

К павильону примыкает терраса в 2,4 км длиной и 35 м шириной, с великолепным видом. Сзади террасы, к северу от города, великолепный Сен-Жерменский лес (на полуострове, омываемом Сеной; около 4400 га); здесь, в 3 км от города, дачный дом Les Loges, построенный Анной Австрийской.

В 1562 году здесь подписан Сен-Жерменский эдикт, 1570 году — заключён Сен-Жерменский мир с гугенотами, а в 1679 году по Сен-Жерменскому договору великий курфюрст отказался от своих завоеваний в Шведской Померании. В 1919 году — заключен Сен-Жерменский договор, завершивший Первую мировую войну.

Известные уроженцы

 Лонже, Франсуа-Ахилл (1811—1871) — французский физиолог.

Города-побратимы
  Ашаффенбург, Германия (1975)
  , Марокко (1982)
  Эр, Великобритания (1984)
  Уинчестер, США (1990)
  Констанцин-Езёрна, Польша (1992)
  Нашик, Индия (2009)

Литература

Города Франции
Города, основанные в XI веке
Коммуны департамента Ивелин
Супрефектуры Франции


A completely different outfit today! The difference between my previous outfit and this one couldn't be bigger!
I found this pizza shirt at addmyberry, a Belgian label who makes all kinds of cool shirts and sweaters. As a pizzalover, pizza-adorer, I-want-pizza-everyday-person, I just had to have this one. The fit is boxy and I chose a size M for a loose fit, but I should have went for the S, because it's a bit tóo oversized. I covered it with the (faux) leather jacket, but you can see how big it is on the pictures where you can see the whole shirt. So if you want to order one, go for the S!
What do you think of this 'edgy' look? And do you like pizza as much as I do?
Pizza pizza pizza this is my fav mantra!!
Pizzaaaaa! Super leuke look! Die sneakers zijn echt prachtig!!!
Stunning! Gave sneakers zij maken het helemaal af.
Those sneakers are very desireable!
Hahahaha :D I NEED THAT SHIRT! Super leuke styling!


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package io.github.jazorp;

import org.junit.Before;
import org.junit.Test;

import java.util.*;

import static io.github.jazorp.Validators.*;
import static org.junit.Assert.*;

public class ValidatorTest {

    private Person person;

    @Before
    public void setup() {
        ErrorFormatter.getInstance().reset();
    }

    private static class Person {

        private String name;
        public String getName() { return name; }

        private int age;
        public int getAge() { return age; }

        private Address address;
        public Address getAddress() { return address; }

        private List<Pet> pets;
        public List<Pet> getPets() { return pets; }

        public Person(String name, int age) {
            this.name = name;
            this.age = age;
        }

        public Person(String name, int age, String address, String zip) {
            this(name, age);
            this.address = new Address(address, zip);
        }

        public Person(String name, int age, List<Pet> pets) {
            this(name, age);
            this.pets = pets;
        }
    }

    private static class Address {

        private String street;
        public String getStreet() { return street; }

        private String zip;
        public String getZip() { return zip; }

        public Address(String street, String zip) {
            this.street = street;
            this.zip = zip;
        }
    }

    private static class Pet {

        private String name;
        public String getName() { return name; }

        public Pet(String name) {
            this.name = name;
        }
    }

    private static class PersonValidator implements Validator<Person> {

        @Override
        public Aggregation collect(Person person) {
            return aggregate(notBlank("name", person.getName()),
                             positive("age", person.getAge()));
        }
    }

    @Test
    public void valid_test() {
        PersonValidator validator = new PersonValidator();
        person = new Person("Morty", 16);
        Result result = validator.validate(person);
        assertTrue(result.isValid());
    }

    @Test
    public void invalid_test() {
        PersonValidator validator = new PersonValidator();
        person = new Person("", 0);
        Result result = validator.validate(person);
        assertFalse(result.isValid());
    }

    @Test
    public void error_format() {
        PersonValidator validator = new PersonValidator();
        person = new Person("", 0);
        Result result = validator.validate(person);
        assertFalse(result.isValid());
        Map<String, Set<String>> errors = new HashMap<>();
        errors.put("age", Collections.singleton("age must be positive"));
        errors.put("name", Collections.singleton("name cannot be blank"));
        assertEquals(errors, result.getErrors());
    }

    private static class MultiplePersonValidator implements Validator<Person> {

        @Override
        public Aggregation collect(Person person) {
            return aggregate(notBlank("name", person.getName()),
                             notNull("name", person.getName()),
                             positive("age", person.getAge()));
        }
    }

    @Test
    public void mutliple_validators_per_field_test() {
        MultiplePersonValidator validator = new MultiplePersonValidator();
        person = new Person(null, 0);
        Result result = validator.validate(person);
        assertFalse(result.isValid());
        Map<String, Set<String>> errors = new HashMap<>();
        errors.put("age", Collections.singleton("age must be positive"));
        errors.put("name", new HashSet<>(Arrays.asList("name cannot be blank", "name cannot be null")));
        assertEquals(errors, result.getErrors());
    }

    private static class BlockingPersonValidator implements Validator<Person> {

        @Override
        public Aggregation collect(Person person) {
            return aggregate(notBlank("name", person.getName()).blocking(),
                             positive("age", person.getAge()));
        }
    }

    @Test
    public void blocking_test() {
        BlockingPersonValidator validator = new BlockingPersonValidator();
        person = new Person("", 0);
        Result result = validator.validate(person);
        assertFalse(result.isValid());
        assertEquals(Collections.singletonMap("name",
                Collections.singleton("name cannot be blank")), result.getErrors());
    }

    private static class UnorderedBlockingPersonValidator implements Validator<Person> {

        @Override
        public Aggregation collect(Person person) {
            return aggregate(positive("age", person.getAge()),
                             notBlank("name", person.getName()).blocking());
        }
    }

    @Test
    public void unordered_blocking_test() {
        UnorderedBlockingPersonValidator validator = new UnorderedBlockingPersonValidator();
        person = new Person("", 0);
        Result result = validator.validate(person);
        assertFalse(result.isValid());
        assertEquals(Collections.singletonMap("name",
                Collections.singleton("name cannot be blank")), result.getErrors());
    }

    private static class AddressValidator implements Validator<Address> {

        @Override
        public Aggregation collect(Address address) {
            return aggregate(notBlank("street", address.getStreet()),
                             length("zip", address.getZip(), 5));
        }
    }

    private static AddressValidator addressValidator = new AddressValidator();

    private static class NestedPersonValidator implements Validator<Person> {

        @Override
        public Aggregation collect(Person person) {
            return aggregate(notBlank("name", person.getName()),
                             positive("age", person.getAge()))
                    .nested("address", addressValidator, person.getAddress());
        }

    }

    @Test
    public void valid_nested_test() {
        NestedPersonValidator validator = new NestedPersonValidator();
        person = new Person("Morty", 10, "Hmmmm", "12345");
        Result result = validator.validate(person);
        assertTrue(result.isValid());
    }

    @Test
    public void invalid_nested_test() {
        NestedPersonValidator validator = new NestedPersonValidator();
        person = new Person("Morty", 0, "", "123456");
        Result result = validator.validate(person);
        assertFalse(result.isValid());
        Map<String, Object> errors = new HashMap<>();
        Map<String, Object> nested = new HashMap<>();
        nested.put("street", Collections.singleton("street cannot be blank"));
        nested.put("zip", Collections.singleton("zip must be exactly 5 characters long"));
        errors.put("address", nested);
        errors.put("age", Collections.singleton("age must be positive"));
        assertEquals(errors, result.getErrors());
    }

    private static class PetValidator implements Validator<Pet> {

        @Override
        public Aggregation collect(Pet pet) {
            return aggregate(notBlank("name", pet.getName()));
        }
    }

    private static PetValidator petValidator = new PetValidator();

    private static class NestedListPersonValidator implements Validator<Person> {

        @Override
        public Aggregation collect(Person person) {
            return aggregate(notBlank("name", person.getName()),
                             positive("age", person.getAge()))
                    .nestedList("pet", petValidator, person.getPets());
        }
    }

    @Test
    public void invalid_nested_list_test() {
        NestedListPersonValidator validator = new NestedListPersonValidator();
        person = new Person("Morty", 0, Arrays.asList(new Pet("Snuffles"), new Pet(""), new Pet("Gazorpazorpfield")));
        Result result = validator.validate(person);
        assertFalse(result.isValid());
        Map<String, Object> errors = new HashMap<>();
        errors.put("age", Collections.singleton("age must be positive"));
        Map<String, Set<String>> nested = new HashMap<>();
        nested.put("name", Collections.singleton("name cannot be blank"));
        errors.put("pet[1]", nested);
        assertEquals(errors, result.getErrors());
    }

    @Test
    public void top_level_valid_should_proceed_to_nested() {
        person = new Person("Morty", 10, "Foo", "123");
        NestedPersonValidator validator = new NestedPersonValidator();
        Result result = validator.validate(person);
        Map<String, Object> errors = Collections.singletonMap("address",
                Collections.singletonMap("zip", Collections.singleton("zip must be exactly 5 characters long")));
        assertEquals(errors, result.getErrors());
    }

    @Test
    public void error_customization_test() {
        Map<ErrorType, String> custom = new HashMap<>();
        custom.put(ErrorType.LENGTH, "The provided length (%2$s) for %s is not correct. It should be exactly %3$s characters long.");
        ErrorFormatter.getInstance().override(custom);
        person = new Person("Morty", 10, "Foo", "123");
        NestedPersonValidator validator = new NestedPersonValidator();
        Result result = validator.validate(person);
        Map<String, Object> errors = Collections.singletonMap("address",
                Collections.singletonMap("zip", Collections.singleton(
                        "The provided length (123) for zip is not correct. It should be exactly 5 characters long.")));
        assertEquals(errors, result.getErrors());
    }

    private ErrorFormattingFunc fmtFunc = new ErrorFormattingFunc() {

        @Override
        public String format(ErrorType error, Env env, Object[] args) {
            if (error == ErrorType.NOT_BLANK && env.get("locale").equals("el")) {
                return String.format("Το %s δεν μπορεί να είναι κενό", args);
            }
            fail("Formatting attrs where not matched");
            return null;
        }
    };

    @Test
    public void error_customization_using_env() {
        Env env = new Env.Builder().set("locale", "el").build();
        ErrorFormatter.getInstance().override(fmtFunc);
        person = new Person("", 10);
        Validator<Person> validator = (p) -> Aggregation.of(notBlank("name", p.getName()));
        Result result = validator.validate(person, env);
        assertEquals(Collections.singletonMap("name",
                Collections.singleton("Το name δεν μπορεί να είναι κενό")), result.getErrors());
    }

    @Test
    public void optional_test() {
        Validator<Person> validator = (p) -> Aggregation.of(notBlank("name", p.getName()).optional(),
                                                            positive("age", p.getAge()));
        Person person = new Person(null, 0);
        Result result = validator.validate(person);
        assertEquals(Collections.singletonMap("age",
                Collections.singleton("age must be positive")), result.getErrors());
    }

    @Test
    public void validator_composition() {
        Validator<Person> nameValidator = (p) -> Aggregation.of(notBlank("name", p.getName()));
        Validator<Person> ageValidator = (p) -> Aggregation.of(notNull("name", p.getName()), positive("age", p.getAge()));
        Validator<Person> personValidator = nameValidator.compose(ageValidator);
        Person person = new Person(null, 0);
        Result result = personValidator.validate(person);
        Map<String, Set<String>> errors = new HashMap<>();
        errors.put("age", Collections.singleton("age must be positive"));
        errors.put("name", new HashSet<>(Arrays.asList("name cannot be blank", "name cannot be null")));
        assertEquals(errors, result.getErrors());
    }

    //  TODO unique set
    // TODO composition with nested
    // TODO deeply nested
}


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costs of deregulation and privatization.
Time to play outside if you're a child. Time to relax if you're an adult, do some housework, have a cup of coffee or a nice cold glass of water. Time, if you live in the small Canadian town of Walkerton, Ontario, to walk down Durham Street to join your neighbours and look at the surging Saugeen River, which has flooded its banks after unusually heavy rains. The local park, a couple of adjacent streets and several unlucky cars, are under water, but since everyone is safe the property damage doesn't seem too tragic.
Time, if you live on the Tollensstraat in the Dutch town of Enschede, to stop what you're doing and watch the fire engines race by, headed for the paper factory down the street where, it seems, a fire has broken out. Time, just enough time, to grab the children and run back into the house when two explosions at the burning factory rattle windows and send debris hurtling skyward. Five short minutes later, time runs out. The supposed paper factory is actually SE Fireworks and at 3.30pm 100 tons of explosives ignite in a third and devastating explosion. In the Tollensstraat, not one house is left standing. In the surrounding working-class neighbourhood of Mekkelholt, 400 houses are utterly destroyed and another 1,000 are damaged. At least 20 people lie dead, more than 900 others are injured.
In the days that follow, disbelief and shock give way to anger and a demand for answers. SE Fireworks, it turns out, has been operating for years in open violation of the most basic safety procedures, yet government inspectors routinely rubber-stamped operating permits, while local authorities and emergency services were not even informed that a fireworks company had been allowed to set up operations in the middle of a residential neighbourhood. The Dutch Government, it appears, has been criminally negligent.
At that same moment, several thousand kilometres away in Walkerton, the day is tranquil and seemingly ordinary. But invisibly, below the surface, something has changed, and though its citizens don't know it yet, Walkerton will never be the same. Water contaminated with cattle manure has entered the poorly sealed wells from which Walkerton draws its water, passed through an inadequately maintained water treatment plant in which the chlorination system is malfunctioning, and is now being pumped into every home. Within days, seven people are dead and another 2,000, almost half the town's population, have been taken violently ill.
In Walkerton too, in the days and weeks that follow, there is anger and a demand for answers. Residents learn that Ontario's Conservative provincial government, responsible for drinking water safety in the province, has deliberately dismantled vital parts of the public-health infrastructure in the name of cutting 'red tape'. The Government, it turns out, has knowingly ignored repeated warnings from its own experts and agencies that its ill-considered cutbacks in environmental and health protection are jeopardizing public health. Committed to a 'free market' agenda of 'downsizing government', it has laid the groundwork for a disaster by cutting inspection staff, shutting down testing labs and eliminating reporting and enforcement procedures.
The Enschede and Walkerton tragedies are ominous portents – deadly instances of a frightening trend in industrial nations. Governments are abdicating or 'downsizing' even those regulatory and protective functions essential for ensuring public safety, or abandoning them to unaccountable private interests. The results can be tragic.
In Turkey, the death toll in the August 1999 earthquake is far higher than it need have been because many buildings supposedly constructed to withstand an earthquake turn out to have been built in violation of building standards. Civic officials are revealed to have colluded with contractors to certify substandard buildings. There is outrage, but to little effect. A year later, no-one has been charged, and some of the contractors whose shoddy buildings collapsed have won contracts to build replacements.
In Belgium, huge quantities of food, including chickens, eggs, dairy products, pork, beef and baked goods are discovered to be contaminated with dioxin and PCBs in the summer of 1999. The chemicals had been mixed with animal fat, the fat then put into feed for livestock – a still-routine practice in modern farming, despite the public furor over 'mad cow disease' linked to cattle fed on meat byproducts. This contamination was kept secret for four weeks before the authorities bothered to inform the public. The official reason for the delay: more tests were needed before making producers destroy their products.
Later in the summer, Belgium moves to raise permissible levels of dioxins in food, arguing that previous standards were too stringent and therefore too onerous for producers. The tactic of lowering health standards rather than make potentially expensive changes to meet them is popular with industry lobby groups. And governments are choosing to accommodate industry demands, even if it increases public risk.
In the United States, new legislation regulating pesticides was recently revealed to have been actually written by an industry lobby group. The new law is almost a word-for-word copy of the lobbyist's submission to friendly legislators. It makes it more difficult for regulators to restrict existing pesticides, and easier for companies to bring new chemicals to market. Before, it was necessary to provide evidence that a pesticide was safe for use. The new legislation reverses the onus of proof. A new pesticide can now be put on the market unless government regulators provide conclusive evidence it is not safe. Since pesticide-linked illnesses can take years to surface, the dangers of this approach are clear.
What we are witnessing is a drastic rolling back of the systems and structures which Western societies developed over the past century or more to safeguard public health and safety. A new generation of politicians and business leaders, permeated with free-market ideology, is jettisoning them, with little thought or understanding of the consequences. This apparatus has been built up by previous generations, piece by piece, to mitigate the most dangerous aspects of industrial civilization.
What we are losing are not only specific protective and regulatory mechanisms, important as they are, but the understanding of why they exist, why they were even created in the first place. The hard-won experiences of the past, the disasters that our ancestors learned from at great cost, are disappearing down the memory hole.
Governments, infused with the same free-market ideology, have made it an article of faith that the private sector is the most efficient provider of most products and services. If a service absolutely has to be provided by the public sector, it should be modeled on the private sector or provided in partnership with that sector. Social-democratic and 'third way' politicians share this unquestioning faith in the private sector with their conservative rivals. The result, all too often, is that responsibility for ensuring public safety is left in the hands of companies in a grave conflict of interest: the less they spend on maintenance, safety equipment and staff, the higher their profits.
The potential cost of this conflict of interest was revealed by the inquiry into the Paddington train disaster in England, in which 31 people died when a train went through a red signal. Thames Trains, the privatized company which owned the fatal train, had made a decision the previous year not to equip its entire fleet with Automatic Train Protection (ATP) systems which stop trains that pass through red signals and could have prevented the crash. The decision was taken despite the occurrence of a similar rail crash in Southall in 1997, and despite repeated incidents in which trains were passing through red lights, narrowly avoiding collisions. Thames Trains considered the $7.46 million cost of the system too expensive – yet the company paid a $6.00 million dividend to shareholders in the year it decided not to proceed with ATP, and another $4.60 million dividend the following year.
The same narrow logic may be behind the tread-separation scandal involving Ford Explorers with Firestone tires. More than 150 deaths in various countries have been linked to tread separations. Exposés by investigative journalists revealed that Ford and Firestone failed to inform regulatory authorities in the US that a problem existed. This despite the fact they had already ordered the recall of problem tires in Saudi Arabia and Venezuela, and were engaged in settling lawsuits from victims or their families. As a condition of settling lawsuits, Ford and Firestone demanded evidence revealed be kept confidential. Had the defect become public knowledge earlier, there is little doubt lives would have been saved.
'Those who cannot remember the past,' said George Santayana, 'are condemned to repeat it.' Industrial societies learned over the course of decades that private interests cannot be trusted to safeguard the public interest when it conflicts with their own self-interest. It was a hard lesson, learned at the cost of many lives, but the result was that gradually, piece by piece, country by country, a public infrastructure of regulations and agencies and procedures was brought into being to protect public health and safety. That infrastructure is now being undermined, not only from without, but from within government itself.
We may have to relearn our ancestors' bitter lessons, with our own lives.
Ulli Diemer is a Toronto-based writer and editor of the press briefing annual Sources.


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In the early summer of 2004, I got a phone call from Steve Jobs. He had been scattershot friendly to me over the years, with occasional bursts of intensity, especially when he was launching a new product that he wanted on the cover of Time or featured on CNN, places where I'd worked. But now that I was no longer at either of those places, I hadn't heard from him much. We talked a bit about the Aspen Institute, which I had recently joined, and I invited him to speak at our summer campus in Colorado. He'd be happy to come, he said, but not to be onstage. He wanted instead to take a walk so that we could talk.
Title Steve Jobs
Author Walter Isaacson
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Edition 1st Edition, 2015
He was born May 20, 1952, is an American writer and journalist. He is the President and CEO of the Aspen Institute, a nonpartisan educational and policy studies organization based in Washington, D.C., and University Professor of History at Tulane University. He has been the chairman and CEO of Cable News Network (CNN) and Managing Editor of Time. Isaacson was born in New Orleans, Louisiana, the son of Irwin and Betty Lee (Seff) Isaacson. His father was a "kindly Jewish distracted humanist engineer with a reverence for science" and his mother was a real estate broker. Isaacson attended New Orleans' Isidore Newman School, where he was Student Body President. He attended Deep Springs College for the Telluride Association Summer Program (TASP) before graduating from Harvard University in 1974, where he majored in History and Literature. At Harvard, Isaacson was the president of the Signet Society, member of the Harvard Lampoon, and resident of Lowell House. He later attended the University of Oxford as a Rhodes scholar at Pembroke College, where he studied Philosophy, Politics, and Economics (PPE) and graduated with First-Class Honours. He has written biographies of Leonardo da Vinci, Steve Jobs, Benjamin Franklin, Albert Einstein, and Henry Kissinger.
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The Bare Soul - "Lie With Me"
Genesis 39:7 - It came about after these events that his master's wife looked with desire at Joseph, and she said, "Lie with me."
Genesis 39 begins with Joseph's ordeal of being sold as a slave into the household of Potiphar where the young Hebrew quickly rises in stature and rank amongst his new lord's servants. As the meaning of Joseph's name means "God increases or adds to", so he rose to second only to Potiphar himself in this royal official's household. The scripture tells us (Genesis 39:1-6) that Joseph was both successful and prosperous in whatever he put his hand to do. This young man had risen, in a relatively short period of time, from being a slave sold in the Egyptian slave market to quite possibly the highest station a slave might hold in Egyptian culture. It appears that Joseph made the best of an imperfect situation by prospering both his master and himself in his once dire straits. However, this was not the end of God's design for Joseph's prosperity nor that of the Hebrew people in the land of Canaan. By a set of dastardly circumstances, Joseph must rise above his station and command all in Egypt in order to save his people. And the catalyst for this rise to power would come by the words and actions of Potiphar's own wife. The road to Joseph's destiny lie in a jail cell before it ended at the throne room. For Joseph, his success as Potiphar's slave would prepare him for his glorious future as the redeemer of the known world through his wisdom in staving off a catastrophic famine.
Our opening text tells us that Potiphar's wife looked with desire at Joseph. However, Genesis 39:7 is clear that this transpired "after these events". What were these events? As previously stated, the first six verses of Genesis 39 contain Joseph's rise to prominence in the house of Potiphar. Clearly, this handsome and strong young Hebrew that was successful in everything he touched became a desirous target to the possibly neglected wife of his master. As often happens, men of integrity and character are challenged morally by evil to determine if they truly are whom they might appear. (One only has to look at any number of moral failures in recent years of mega-church pastors and televangelists.) If Satan can use a temptress or a tempter to try to seduce a man or woman of God, then many times he might bring them down in their folly (Proverbs 6:26). However, if the Devil loses his bet, then the very one he seeks to pull down will often rise stronger in the end by persevering through the trial. We know from the remainder of Genesis 39 that Joseph held fast to his integrity and suffered the lying accusations of Potiphar's wife rather than lie with the woman and destroy all that he had thus achieved. Oftentimes, to stay true to oneself means to disregard any self-preservation, no matter what the cost.
Through the years, I have talked and counseled many that have been at this very crossroads where Joseph made a stand for his own character and integrity. As a practicing alcoholic, I knew what it meant to get a few months of sobriety and then to once again be wooed by the seductress alcohol. As a recovering alcoholic and a sinner saved by grace for many years now, I understand how the world can woo and tantalize those of undetermined wills. I have talked and prayed with many regarding any number of addictions or life style choices that once seemed controllable in their lives, but led them to a place of self-imprisonment that they could not free themselves. There are many such "couches of sin" where the wavering of faith might lie with their respective seductress or seducer. However, that is the time when moral character must be dredged up out of the inner man or woman to counter the attack. If we choose to lie horizontally on "beds of iniquity" and compromise ourselves, then our vertical, spiritual posture will be bowed down with the weight of guilt and shame. We cannot walk with straight backs and uplifted heads if we have given in to our besetting sin and it has once again mastered us. Just as Joseph undoubtedly learned character long before arriving in Egypt, we too must lay claim to small victories in our lives until once again we (as well as others) begin to regard us as people of character. Ah, but then comes the challenge and temptation! For when a man thinks he stands, let him take heed unless he falls (I Corinthians 10:12). Testing and trial will always be the examiner or the tutor, if you will, of the pupil of integrity. As success and prosperity overtake us in our respective journey's of sanctification, the adulteress or the adulterer will be there to try to destroy what we have accomplished by the grace of God. At this critical crossroad, we must stand firm, knowing that ... No temptation has overtaken [us] but such as is common to man; and God is faithful, who will not allow [us] to be tempted beyond what you are able, but with the temptation will provide the way of escape also, so that [we] will be able to endure it (I Corinthians 10:13; I Peter 5:9).
God's promise is that He will never give us more than we can handle. As with Joseph, when things seemed the bleakest in his Egyptian prison, then the Lord broke forth and redeemed his chosen in a marvelous way. We, also, must hold on and never succumb through every trial and temptation, awaiting each subsequent victory. As certain as the Devil hates our successes and the goodness we are germinating within our own lives and those around us, even so he would like nothing better than to kill, steal, and/or destroy these seeds of hope. There may come a time when it seems that God has abandoned us to a proverbial "jail cell" in our own respective Egypt. We may once again sense a loss of hope when just recently we experienced such success and prosperity. And now here we are once again in this dark, dank period where there is no apparent deliverance. Take heart! Fear not! Your redemption is close at hand -- only He can bring us out of the dark. As we allow Him to do it in His time, then we will see in hindsight the wonderful creature that He has created in us through our trusting in Him.
Holy Father, forge our characters in the furnaces of heaven while keeping us from succumbing to the fires and the passions of this world. Allow us to succeed and prosper in all our endeavors knowing that even these must be tried with fire. Let us pass through the flames of these trials, refined in character as precious gold, useful to the our Master and His will for our lives and others. We pray this in Jesus' Name and for His glory, Amen!


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Damien Dernoncourt & Guy Bedarida
John Hardy is a luxury brand of handmade designer jewelry and lifestyle accessories. Founded by John Hardy in 1989, the company is headquartered in Hong Kong and has offices in New York and Bali. As the first company to offset carbon emissions from its print advertising, business travel and electricity, John Hardy has become a major player in sustainable luxury.
The story of John Hardy jewelry starts in 1975 when the young Canadian art student John Hardy moved to the fabled Indonesian island of Bali and began to study Balinese jewelry-making techniques with a mast artisan whose ancestors were goldsmiths to the island�s former royal courts. As John adapted these techniques to fresh new designs, he formed the company in 1989.
In the early 1990s John Hardy initated ist first sales relationship with two of teh most prestigious department stores in the US � Neiman Marcus and Saks Fifth Avenue. The seed of the brand bgegan to sprout, and by 1998 John Hardy was ready to move into a new dimension of excellence. In a strategic development, Guy Bedarida, a senior designer of haute joaillerie, joined the company as Haed Designer in 1999 and helped develop the John Hardy workshop and design center in the central highlands fo Bali near Ubud.
In 2003 Damien Dernoncourt joined the company as President. With him the brand started to spread internationally. That same year, John Hardy started to sell exclusive �One of a Kind� pieces in Hong Kong, Shortly after, the brand began to be sold in Russia, Japan, Malaysia and Dubai.
The Earth is the companies inspiration adn responsibility. From the beginning on teh company contemplated ist eco-footprint and decided to do something about it. In 2006 it was pronounced as program by launching Sustainable Advertising to support teh concept of Sustainable Luxury: giving back to nature while using natural resources for business. Also that year, the Kapal Bambu showroom was opened at the Bali workshopl. The building, whose form resembles a ship, is built almost entirely of bamboo adn features natural air-conditioning and an underground vault lined with beeswax. In 2007 construction began on Tiga Gunung (Three Mountain workshop), a 1200-square meter bamboo building supported by three 15-meter towers and resembling teh three volcanoes on teh horizon.
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That same year John Hardy won the Town & Country Design Award for Best Silver for teh second year in a row at teh Couture Jewelry Collections & Conference in Las Vegas. The Tiga Gunung building was completed and teh company began ist first sales relationship with Europe. In 2008 John Hardy jewelry made ist debut in one of France�s most prestigious shopping locations � Le Bon March� Rive Gauche in Paris. In the same year, the brand launched ist first boutique in the International Finance Center in Hong Kong. Two years later, in February 2010 John Hardy was proud to announce ist debut in the United Kingdom in Harrods.
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The tech behind Apple's Animoji
To solve for that, Li and his team treated the face like a geometry problem. They trained their algorithms on a set of faces and expressions that allowed them to build statistical 3-D models that could describe, generally, what a face looks like across different populations and in different environments. With that computational model in hand, the algorithm can more easily match itself to a face's 3-D point cloud and create an illustrated avatar that mirrors facial expressions in real time.
So far, visual effects companies have mostly used this technology to streamline their production process. But the mainstream will soon experience it though features like Apple's Animoji and Intel's Pocket Avatars, which uses facial recognition software to turn your face into a digital avatar.
Li says face mimicking emoji are only the beginning. He now runs Pinscreen, a startup looking to automate the creation of photorealistic computer graphics, where he and his team are working on technology that would allow algorithms to build a hyper-realistic 3-D avatar based on a single source photo.
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We are empowering teens to live their daily life thru Christ by bringing them closer to God thru FUN, FELLOWSHIP, and FAITH. All teens 7th thru 12th grade are always welcome at any of our ministries' classes, meetings, service, or outings.
Sunday School class – 9:30am to 10:30am Teens meet in the Contemporary Service and sit together for Praise singing and then move down to the Youth room for Bible Study.
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The second Friday of each month from 6:00 p.m. to 8:00 p.m., our 5th & 6th graders meet for our Friday Night Club (F.N.C.) This is an opportunity for the children to meet together for a deeper study of God's word and is also a place where they can talk about issues or anything else they may need to discuss.
We also believe in the safety of our children. We are a "Safe Sanctuary" church. We have a check in station downstairs in the children's wing to insure accountability for your children while they are in our care.
Director of Children's Ministries, Kristin Crider, will be happy to answer any questions you may have.
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We've recently created new positions in the children and the youth areas to help us reach out more effectively to this growing segment of our church. Though most of these families have one or two working parents, we invite them to serve on boards and short term task forces to make sure their needs are heard and understood as we continue to embrace that niche of our membership.
Singles are represented in most of the ministries within our church.
The S.A.L.T. (Single Adults Learning Together) Bible Study group meets the first and the third Wednesday each month at 7pm in Room 4. The group selects an area of study which may be a book of the Bible, or a spiritual growth study book. Leaders may rotate, depending on area of study.
The Out To Lunch Bunch meets once a month to travel to some interesting place, or go shopping, and usually have lunch before returning to the church.
Retirees come in many age ranges. Our "seniors" have been retired for many years – but they still serve on ministries or committees that continue to be important to them. As our seniors move toward the retirement homes and even on to nursing homes, they are not forgotten – many of our ministries reach out to this cherished group of adults and find ways to celebrate their presence.
The younger group of "retirees" (around 50 – 70 years old), tend to be the leaders in our church. Many have come from very active lives in a church where they moved from; others have been so busy with jobs, that they really look forward to being able to commit more of their time to finding ways to serve God and church. And they often do that within the social groups they connect to in the church.
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Q: What type of hypothesis test for multivariate testing (Website) Situation:
A website I work on has the following funnel:
Home page (landing page) > pricing page > create account > convert (subscribe with credit card).
We ran a test on the pricing page. There were 4 variations + the original running at the same time. Each visitor who landed on the site was shown one of the 5 pricing pages.
In the past I have used a chi square test but in that situation there was just one test variant. Can I still use chi square somehow?
Here is how the data look:
Is pears really the best pricing page variant? Should we change our site to make pears the pricing page? Or is the difference likely down to chance and we would have seen these results if we just sent the different groups of visitors to the same page?
What method testing should I use?
Bonus points if you can provide the gist of how to do the test in R or Google Sheets. Perhaps there's a GSheets add on that you know of? Or a function? Or how do I do this in R?
I did do a fair bit of Google searching before posting but the internet is pretty crowded with testing methods making it tricky to find out which one I need in this exact scenario.

A: If this is really all of the data you have, then this is a simple logistic regression problem, and not multivariate at all. Your dependent (outcome) variable is the probability of a conversion, and the independent (manipulated) variable is the variant of the website used.
Multivariate problems are those in which you have more than one dependent variable, for instance conversion rate, and average amount of money spent.
Your predictor is categorical, so you're going to have to do two things. First, you test if there's any difference between the variants, in general (the main effect). Second, you compare each of the variants to every other one, to see if there's a significant difference between them.
This page looks like a decent introduction to this measure.
R code, where your data has a row for each visit to the site, and two columns, one specifying which variant that visitor saw, and one specifying if there was (value of 1) or wasn't (value of 0) a conversion:
m <- glm(conversion ~ variant, family=binomial, data=data)
summary(aov(m)) # Tests if there's a difference between the variants

library(lsmeans)
lsmeans(m, pairwise ~ variant) # Compares every variant to every other one

Alternatively, if your data has one row per variant, one column for the count of successful conversions (I'll call them successes, and one for the count of unsuccessful conversions (I'll call failures):
m <- glm(cbind(successes, failures) ~ variant, family=binomial, data=data)
anova(m, test='Chisq')

When comparing the variants with each other ("pairwise comparisons"), lsmeans by default compares everything to everything else, and adjusts the p value to account for these multiple comparisons. You may wish to only compare the original variant to everything else, as per your comment, which means that your p value won't be adjusted as heavily. This can still be done using lsmeans, but requires a little more work - you need to create contrast vectors specifying which conditions you want to compare. I've done this for your data below. To explain the first contrast, first.vs.second, c(1,-1,0,0,0) means "the difference between the first group (set to 1), and the second group (set to -1), with everything else set to 0, and so ignored.
m.comparisons = lsmeans(m, specs = pairwise ~ variant)
contrast(m.comparisons,
         list(
            first.vs.second = c(1,-1,0,0,0),
            first.vs.third = c(1,0,-1,0,0),
            first.vs.fourth = c(1,0,0,-1,0)),
            first.vs.fifth = c(1,0,0,0,-1)),
         adjust="tukey")

Finally, and this is very, very important: please don't just run the code I've provided, and consider your job complete. If you don't actually read up and understand some of how these analyses work, all of this information will be less than useless.

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Q: How to convert JS Object to JSON Is it posible to convert a js object to json or is a js object exactly a JSON ? Can someone tell me what a JSON exactly is ?

A: Quite literally, JSON is a stricter format for what is basically the right-hand side of a Javascript variable assignment. It's a text-based encoding of Javascript data:
var foo = ...json goes here ...;

JSON can be ANY valid Javascript data-only structure. A boolean, an int, a string, even arrays and objects. What JSON ISN'T is a general serialization format. Something like this
var foo = new Date();
json = JSON.stringify(foo); // json gets the string "2016-08-26 etc..."
newfoo = JSON.parse(json);  // newfoo is now a string, NOT a "Date" object.

will not work. The Date object will get serialized to a JSON string, but deserializing the string does NOT give you a Date object again. It'll just be a string.
JSON can only represent DATA, not CODE. That includes expressions
var foo = 2; // "2" is valid json
var foo = 1+1; // invalid - json does not have expressions.
var foo = {"bar":["baz"]}; // also valid JSON
var foo = [1,2,3+4]; // fails - 3+4 is an expression

A: To convert JS data object to JSON , you can use  JSON.stringify()
Exmaple
Input :-
var person = {firstName:"John", lastName:"Doe", age:50, eyeColor:"blue"};
JSON.stringify(person)

Output:
"{"firstName":"John","lastName":"Doe","age":50,"eyeColor":"blue"}"


It feels good to get on top of my TODO list and take back control over my life one task at a time. I finally got round to finding out what Getting Things Done is all about (stop yawning in the back there) and it seems to help me much more than the ad-hoc methods I've used before.
I think the reason it works so well for me up to now is that the book actually explains *why* simple time  management systems fail. The book takes the time to explain this and this resonates with my experience. For example, lots of tasks can indeed be done within 2 minutes.
Keeping your INBOX completely clean and moving things out that are in fact action items to do later is a lot better than having them sit around in your INBOX (broken window theory at play again). And the idea of contexts (I feel tired, give me some phone calls to make) is so natural I wonder why I didn't think of it myself.
Getting tasks outside of your head and into a system helps wonders to sleep at night and not lie awake thinking about stuff to do. I should put a notebook by my bed though.
It was going well before my two week tour of Europe (task on my todo list to BlogAboutIt), achieving zero mail INBOXes at the end of the day. And it only took me three days to catch up again after two weeks of only skimming them. A great feeling to be able to go to bed with all your open loops captured.
The only thing I'm trying to avoid really hard is rewriting this python-based GTD tool I'm using, and slapping a GUI on top of it. Really, I don't need more tasks.
One of my favourite free software-related ones is skipping through the freshmeat RSS feed.
Is there anyone left who even wants to use an editor that doesn't do UTF-8 ?
There are days in this city when the work is hard and the nights are easy. I was planning to get to bed before twelve every day of the week and didn't manage a single time yet.
Tuesday we had a drink for our Office Manager going away, and we ended up at the Risolis tapas bar for excellent tapas and two bottles of wine.
Wednesday the plan was to go eat the excellent rabbit at Can Margarit but that plan fell through and I ended up at El Rey De La Gamba. Some TODO dreams are of the kind where you cherish the idea of possibly doing something more than you would actually having done it. Taking holiday off of work and go work at El Rey for a week just to get one of those awesomely awful T-shirts they have is one of those.
Thursday a birthday party at bar Centric. Fun people all around, discussing work and life stuff, having home made tapas and some drinks.
And all the while at night the air feels pregnant and the temperature's tender. It is just bearable in the sleeping department, much more so than last year.
I have yet to try Second Life myself (it's for work, honest – I need to see whether we can stream out of the box to it!), but the next version of the Linux client will use GStreamer. The fact that I can't recall seeing any linden labs email addresses asking questions on the list is probably a testament to how far GStreamer has come over the years. They don't even need to ask questions anymore!
In unrelated news, this afternoon a single one of our customers managed to peak over 1 GBit/sec on our platform. Kaching. Next stop, 5 Gbit/sec.
At GUADEC, someone tripped very violently over my Belkin travel power supply for my laptop. I don't know who, the guy was away before I had a good look at him, mumbling excuses. This was at the spidery floor that was Etap's.
I couldn't get it to work anymore, so I quickly bought a replacement travel power adapter made by Trust. It worked fine in Belgium. This morning I plugged it in at work, then plugged it into my laptop, and after ten seconds it made a loud pop. Now the blue light on the power supply won't come on anymore. Sigh.
What's worse, since then, my laptop doesn't detect the power cable plugged in either – obviously not with the busted power supply, but it also does not work with the IBM one for this laptop. I can still boot the laptop, since I have some charge left in the battery, so I don't think it's the motherboard as such. I opened up the laptop completely, removing the screen, so I could tighten the power connector screw, but it didn't help.