Radio and Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers - What do Radio and Telecommunications Equipment Installers and Repairers do?
Nonetheless, the increasing reliability of switches and routers has simplified maintenance as new self-monitoring telecommunications switches can now alert central office repairers to malfunctions. Some switches allow repairers to diagnose and correct problems from remote locations. When faced with a malfunction, the repairer may refer to manufacturers' manuals that provide maintenance instructions.
Another type of telecommunications installer and repairer, PBX installers and repairers, set up private branch exchange (PBX) switchboards, which relay incoming, outgoing, and interoffice telephone calls within a single location or organization. To install switches and switchboards, installers first connect the equipment to power lines and communications cables and install frames and supports. They test the connections to ensure that adequate power is available and that the communication links work properly. They also install equipment such as power systems, alarms, and telephone sets. New switches and switchboards are computerized and workers often need to install software or program the equipment to provide specific features. Finally, the installer performs tests to verify that the newly installed equipment functions properly. If a problem arises, PBX repairers determine whether it is located within the PBX system or whether it stems from the telephone lines maintained by the local telephone company. Newer installations may use voice-over Internet protocol (VoIP) systems—systems that operate like PBX, but they use a company's computer wiring to run Internet access, network applications, and telephone communications.
Station installers and repairers, telephone—commonly known as home installers and repairers or telecommunications service technicians—install and repair telecommunications wiring and equipment in customers' home or business premises. They install telephone, VoIP, Internet, and other communications services by installing wiring inside the home or connecting existing wiring to outside service lines. Depending on the service required, they may set up television capability or connect modems and install software on a customer's computer. To complete the connection to an outside service line, the installer may need to climb telephone poles or ladders and test the line. Later on, if a maintenance problem occurs, station repairers test the customer's lines to determine if the problem is located in the customer's premises or in the outside service lines and attempt to fix the problem if it is inside. If the problem is with the outside service lines, telecommunications line repairers usually are called to fix it.
Radio and telecommunications equipment installers and repairers generally work in clean, well-lighted, air-conditioned surroundings, such as a telecommunications company's central office, a customer's location, or an electronic service center. Traveling to the site of the installation or repair is common among station installers and repairers, PBX and VoIP installers and repairers, and radio mechanics. Installation may require access to rooftops, attics, ladders, and telephone poles to complete the repair. Radio mechanics may need to work on transmission towers, which may be located on top of tall buildings or mountains, as well as aboard airplanes and ships.
As telecommunications technology becomes more complex, the education required for radio and telecommunications equipment installers and repairer jobs has increased. Most employers prefer applicants with postsecondary training in electronics and familiarity with computers. The education needed for these jobs may vary from certification to a 2- or 4-year degree in electronics or a related subject. Sources of training include 2- and 4-year college programs in electronics or communications technology, military experience in radios and electronics, trade schools, and programs offered by equipment and software manufacturers. Educational requirements are higher for central office installers and repairers and for those working in nonresidential settings.
Aviation and marine radio mechanics are required to have a license from the Federal Communications Commission before they can work on these types of radios. This requires passing several exams on radio law, electronics fundamentals, and maintenance practices.
Familiarity with computers, being mechanically inclined, and being able to solve problems are traits that are highly regarded by employers. Repairers must also be able to distinguish colors, because wires are typically color-coded. For positions that require climbing poles and towers, workers must be in good physical shape and not afraid of heights. Repairers who handle assignments alone at a customer's site must be able to work without close supervision. For workers who frequently contact customers, a pleasant personality, neat appearance, and good communications skills also are important.


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An audience collection is a fundraising appeal designed to ask audience members for individual donations for The AFC. Performers, FOH staff and volunteers can assist with the collection. Audience collections have proven to be a very successful way of raising money for entertainment professionals in need in our community!
The CTA and ITA both contain provisions requiring either an annual benefit performance or curtain speeches designed to solicit individual donations from the audience. With appropriate notice, Equity members may rehearse and appear in benefit performances without remuneration for The AFC. Provided that a benefit performance has been scheduled for that season, the Theatre may schedule other benefit performances with the prior written approval of Equity.
You can read the CTA's provision for benefit performances here.
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By contributing to The AFC through benefit performances or curtain speeches and audience collections, your company is making a contribution to Canada's theatre community and everyone in it. It's not only mandated in the CTA and ITA, it's also the right thing to do.
We'll mail you program inserts that thank your theatre personally. The program inserts also give your patrons some background information on The AFC and the opportunity to receive a tax receipt for their donation. If you need program inserts right away, you can download a generic version here. After the event, we let other theatres know about your commitment to Canada's artistic community via social media/e-blast. Please call us 416.975.0304 or 1.877.399.8392 toll free or email Lilya Sultanova at Lilya@AFChelps.ca.
The most effective curtain speeches are the ones that are delivered by one or two of the performers. Click here for a sample curtain speech or create your own curtain speech from The AFC's talking points. Experience has also taught us that audience collections increase dramatically if the actors themselves can be the ones at the doors collecting donations. The audience loves the opportunity to personally interact with the actors and give back to the artistic community at the same time. It's also a truly positive experience for everyone! If possible, while one or two performers make the speech, have the other performers move to the doors to hold buckets.
Individual donations at audience collection vary widely, ranging from $2 to $100. A great way to encourage larger gifts is to put a $20 and a $5 in each bucket before you begin. You can take them out again after the collection.
In this video President of The AFC Fiona Reid and Member at Large Seana McKenna give us their amusing and informative take on how to give a great curtain speech to raise funds for The AFC, the lifeline for Canada's entertainment industry, at an audience collection. Special thanks to ACTRA Toronto and IATSE Local 667 for helping to make this video possible.
Why else should we hold an audience collection?
For companies operating under PACT agreements: The CTA and ITA both contain provisions requiring either an annual benefit performance or annual curtain speeches designed to solicit individual donations from the audience for The AFC.
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The National Leader of the All Progressive Congress APC, Bola Tinubu and the former Governor of Ogun State, Ibikunle Amosun have failed to come out bold with their 2023 presidential ambitions.
Both politicians claimed it was too early to be talking about who would emerged president in 2023, adding that, it was too early to begin campaign. Amosun in a statement when the news of Presidential ambition broke, the Senate representing Ogun Central at the National Assembly stated "
…It goes without saying that anyone nursing a Presidential ambition at a time President Muhammadu Buhari has just begun to consolidate on the successes of his first term, is not only an enemy of the Nigerian State, but clearly does not desire any good for Mr President.
"The poster and any of such publication is nothing but sheer distraction. "As a Senator, my hands are full and I am committed to working with fellow patriots on how best to move our nation forward by supporting and working with President Buhari. "There is a time for everything. The time to address 2023 is clearly not anywhere close."
In the same vein, Tinubu after he visited President Muhammadu Buhari on Tuesday in Abuja said "That time is not now. We have just finished one election and Mr. President is busy sorting out the budget, working for the people of this country "..Of course, restlessness of politics is going to be there, but any lover of this country will not talk about the succession plan yet.
That's the truth. (We should) concentrate on working for the country; help the President to help the country. There's nothing more than that. "We cannot use 365 days in a year to work on politics, it's not possible. Anybody talking about that now is just completely restless and not focused on the agenda of nation-building and development of our country."
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William Congreve Poems
False Though She Be
FALSE though she be to me and love,
I'll ne'er pursue revenge;
For still the charmer I approve,
Though I deplore her change.
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A Hue And Cry After Fair Amoret
FAIR Amoret is gone astray--
Pursue and seek her, ev'ry lover;
I'll tell the signs by which you may
The wand'ring Shepherdess discover.
William Congreve Biography
an English playwright and poet. Early Life Congreve was born in Bardsey, West Yorkshire, England (near Leeds). His parents were William Congreve (1637–1708) and his wife, Mary (née Browning; 1636?–1715); a sister was buried in London in 1672. He spent his childhood in Ireland, where his father, a Cavalier, had settled during the reign of Charles II. Congreve was educated at Trinity College in Dublin; there he met Jonathan Swift, who would be his friend for the remainder of his life. Upon graduation, he matriculated in the Middle Temple in London to study law, but felt himself pulled toward literature, drama, and the fashionable life. Artistically, he became a disciple of John Dryden. Literary Career William Congreve wrote some of the most popular English plays of the Restoration period of the late 17th century. By the age of thirty, he had written four comedies, including Love for Love (premiered 30 April 1695) and The Way of the World (premiered 1700), and one tragedy, The Mourning Bride (1697) Unfortunately, his career ended almost as soon as it began. After writing five plays from his first in 1693 until 1700, he produced no more as public tastes turned against the sort of high-brow sexual comedy of manners in which he specialized. He reportedly was particularly stung by a critique written by Jeremy Collier (A Short View of the Immorality and Profaneness of the English Stage), to the point that he wrote a long reply, "Amendments of Mr. Collier's False and Imperfect Citations." A member of the Whig Kit-Kat Club, Congreve's career shifted to the political sector, where he held various minor political positions despite his stance as a Whig among Tories. Later Life Congreve withdrew from the theatre and lived the rest of his life on residuals from his early work. His output from 1700 was restricted to the occasional poem and some translation (notably Molière's Monsieur de Pourceaugnac). Congreve never married; in his own era and through subsequent generations, he was famous for his friendships with prominent actresses and noblewomen, including Anne Bracegirdle, for whom he wrote major parts in all his plays, and Henrietta Godolphin, 2nd Duchess of Marlborough, daughter of the famous general, John Churchill, 1st Duke of Marlborough, whom he had probably met by 1703 and with whom he had a daughter, Mary (1723–1764). As early as 1710, he suffered both from gout and from cataracts on his eyes. Congreve suffered a carriage accident in late September 1728, from which he never recovered (having probably received an internal injury); he died in London in January 1729, and was buried in Poets' Corner in Westminster Abbey. Famous Lines Two of Congreve's turns of phrase from The Mourning Bride (1697) have become famous, albeit frequently in misquotation: "Music has charms to soothe a savage breast," which is the first line of the play, spoken by Almeria in Act I, Scene 1. (The word "breast" is often misquoted as "beast", and 'has' sometimes appears as 'hath'.) "Heaven has no rage like love to hatred turned, Nor hell a fury like a woman scorned," spoken by Zara in Act III, Scene VIII. (This is usually paraphrased as "Hell hath no fury like a woman scorned") Congreve coined another famous phrase in Love for Love (1695). "O fie, miss, you must not kiss and tell.")
The Best Poem Of William Congreve
In hours of bliss we oft have met:
They could not always last;
And though the present I regret,
I'm grateful for the past.
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William Congreve Quotes
I find we are growing serious, and then we are in great danger of being dull.
In my conscience I believe the baggage loves me, for she never speaks well of me herself, nor suffers any body else to rail at me.
They come together like the Coroner's Inquest, to sit upon the murdered reputations of the week.
I nauseate walking; 'tis a country diversion; I loathe the country.
'Tis well enough for a servant to be bred at an University. But the education is a little too pedantic for a gentleman.
A wit should no more be sincere, than a woman constant; one argues a decay of parts, as t'other of beauty.
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Q: Ratio of Means or Mean of Ratios? Inference Across Groups Edit:
For the purposes of the bounty, it would suffice to answer my third question below for the statistic $\hat{P}_g$.

I have two groups $g \in \{1, 2\}$ and customers $i$ within those groups who generate revenue $R_{ig} \in \mathbb{R}^+$ by purchasing a quantity $Q_{ig} \in \mathbb{R}^+$. There is price discrimination, so the effective price per unit of the good for each customer, $P_{ig}$, is different.
An "average" price can be estimated for each group in at least two ways:

*

*as $\hat{P}_g = \dfrac{\sum_iR_{ig}}{\sum_iQ_{ig}}$.
By dividing by the sample size, $N_g$, this can be seen to be equivalent to the ratio estimator $\hat{P}_g = \dfrac{\overline{R}_{g}}{\overline{Q}_{g}}$, or

*as $\tilde{P}_g = \dfrac{1}{N_g}\sum_i{\dfrac{R_{ig}}{Q_{ig}}}$.
I have several questions:

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*Is there a difference in interpretation between the two estimators $\hat{P}_g$ and $\tilde{P}_g$ -- are they estimating the same underlying population quantity? I came across this, but there does not appear to be a version of this online.

*From a statistical point of view, is one of the estimators better than the other (for the common or for their respective population quantities), especially in terms of their bias properties?

*Lastly, for either one of the estimators, what is the right way to compare them across groups to test the hypothesis that $P_1 = P_2$? Is there a variance estimator for either of the two estimators? I want to be able to say that the price is, on average, the same across the two groups.
I believe this is related to the Fieller-Creasy class of problems, but I am not familiar with the problem family.

A: I feel like the concern should be with the underlying data-generating process and where you suspect 'error' or noise in your data is coming from. The whole point of taking averages is to be able to invoke a law-of-large-numbers argument that noise 'cancels out'.
1) For example, let's say we have measurement error in the amount of revenue generated but not in quantity (in reality this might be due to rounding, which is a very specific and ugly type of error), i.e. a demon decides to add an iid epsilon noise to our observations of $R_{ig}=R^*_{ig}+\epsilon_{ig}$ where $R^*$ is the true revenue generated and what we observe is $R$. Then taking the average over all observed $R$ will minimize the relative influence of the noise, and dividing through by the average of $Q$ should be the most efficient way to proceed. This is $\hat{P}$.
2) However, let's say that instead of observing $R$ and $Q$, we actually observe $Q$ and a noisy measure of price $P=P^*+\epsilon$ (although this begs the question of why we even bother with $Q$ and $R$ in the first place since we already have what we want, $P$, directly), and we use a spreadsheet to find $R$ by multiplying $Q$ and $P$, it makes a lot more sense to calculate $R/Q$ and take averages of the ratios instead, as in $\tilde{P}$.
Roughly speaking, how you want the noise to 'cancel' will determine what averages you take, but you cannot know how the noise cancels unless you first specify where it's coming into play. What if instead of additive noise you had multiplicative noise (multiply $R$ by +/- a few percent, this is actually very similar to part 2)? Then you'd want to take logs, add up the logs (since multiplicate noises are additive in logs), then re-exponentiate. etc.
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I'd argue that the above answers your 2nd point, since bias properties are a function of the error structure, of which I gave 2 examples, but I'll answer the 3rd question in particular.
If we assume no noise in our observations of $Q$ but additive iid $\epsilon \sim N(0,\sigma^2)$ noise in $R$, then our modeling assumption is $$R_i=R^*_i+\epsilon_i=Q_i P_i+\epsilon_i$$
Solving for $P_i$ is just an OLS of $R_i$ on $Q_i$ with a forced intercept through zero and two subgroups $g$, which means we can run a Chow test for equality of $P$ in the two subgroups. Using the example in Wikipedia, you would just have $y_t=b_1 x_{1t}+\epsilon$ and $y_t=b_2 x_{2t} + \epsilon$ for your two groups, and $y=R, b=P,x=Q$
If you insist on using the quotient estimators directly (which you shouldn't if you have enough assumptions to use an OLS-based method), then still assuming additive errors gives $$\sum_i R_i \sim N(\sum_i R_i^*, N\sigma^2)\\ \sum_i R_i / \sum_i Q_i \sim N(P_i, \sigma^2 \frac{N}{(\sum Q_i)^2})$$
But then you have to estimate $\sigma^2$ which is usually done by taking residuals after performing an OLS fit anyways. As before, any discussion of variance properties hinges on the properties of the underlying DGP and where the noise is: if we assumed $Q$ was measured with error we can't even analytically derive the variance since the variance of a quotient of 2 random variables is generally a mess.

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"The Island of Meats and Cheeses," by Devin Walsh
Devin Walsh
Devin Walsh earned an MFA in Playwriting from Adelphi University. His plays have been produced in San Francisco and Asheville. His short stories and poems have appeared in Swamp, Pindledyboz, Switchback, and Edifice Wrecked. He lives in Long Island with his wife and two cats.
The Island of Meats and Cheeses
It was a clear winter's day on one of the world's beaches when an old turtle happened on a fellow traveler who had a boot on his head. The boot, which could have once seen combat, was waterworn, laceless, bleached of color by the sea. The afflicted turtle perched stock-still looking, if he could look, out over the waters, the boot and its tongue forming a tilted, backwards F. The wandering turtle, whose name was Cameron, diplomatically cleared his throat.
"Damned boot on my head," came the response, and though muffled within the ragged leather and ossified tongue of the obstructing article, the voice struck a chord of familiarity in Cameron. He knew, in an inarticulate wave of sensation, that a long lost fragment of his past had met him here, at some otherwise anonymous intersection of tide and earth, under the cold descending sun and in the audience of none but fate, whose calendar all animals of the planet kept.
"Come down," he said. "Put your head down to the ground and I'll try to weight it for you."
The blinded turtle obliged, the boot flagged to the fine sand of the beach and Cameron waddled onto the hardened footwear, his old frame responding pleasantly to the challenge. "Now back up," he said, once firmly on the boot.
A moment later the other turtle's head was freed. Dazzled for a moment by the light, Eugene was necessarily slower to recognition than Cameron, who gasped. "Mother of God, it's Gene Street."
"Is that…?" Eugene blinked his eyes through their watering. "Well, I'm a monkey's uncle. Cameron von Pellier. I'll be damned." His eyes, Cameron noticed, were crisscrossed by a latticework of veins, and glassy even now that they were clear, and the green skin of his neck hung in bunched collops. He supposed that time had wrought like punishments on himself. "How long's it been, Cameron?"
"A while, Gene." Oh, a while! Oceans had been crossed! He'd touched each continent, surfed helplessly countless great rains that'd deposited him onto changeless suburban lawns and virgin woods and long salt-fatigued shelves of rock, had tracked his tired dogs about the world and lapped with the beef jerky of his tongue at the waves of lakes like blue ellipses between bleak formations of prose dirt; he had ridden typhoons and seen Japan and watched the first molten burps of a new island born, cleaving the waters of the Pacific Rim. He had slid on his belly, composing like a fool a joyous poem, on the ice caps of the North Pole, and been made temporarily the pet of a weepy tubercular Finnish fisherman he'd outlived. Nautical lives, many years-wide, had bridged the chasm separating the last time he'd seen Eugene Street, his brother-in-law, and this time now. He said, again, "A while."
"Be since the Island of Meats and Cheeses, wouldn't it? Sure. How could I forget?"
"How could anyone?" Cameron agreed.
A freighted moment here punctuated their reunion, and Eugene Street, who ages ago had fallen swiftly but retrievably under the spell of Cameron's sister, Mabel von Pellier—that fateful moment, at least on Gene's side, a first-sight variety of love occasioned at a pool of fresh water under a tree somewhere in Peru—brought his neck out to brush cheeks with his old friend.
"How's Doris?" he asked.
"Dead."
"Dead to me, I should say. Tsunami. Micronesia. God, I guess it's been thirty, forty years… We got separated."
Eugene chewed on this tragedy and broke his gaze from Cameron to stare ruminatively at the tumbling breaks of the beach. They had all suffered, of course. "Do you still write?" he asked after an appropriate interval.
Cameron nodded, sighed and came astride his friend to join the meditative watch. "I've been writing a poem," he heaved, caught by unexpected complexes of emotion in his throat. It felt good to say. He hadn't spoken a word since the last time he'd cried Doris's name into the briny din. When he slept, even still, the pitch and clap and gut-churning yaw of that terrible night stormed through the belly of his dreams.
His companion squinted and breathed in a way that signified his approval of the predictable. "Thanks for getting that boot off my head."
"How long was it stuck there?"
"Don't know. Couldn't tell for the darkness."
"Where are we, anyhow?"
"North America, I think… Washington?"
"That sounds right."
"Cameron, have you heard from Mabel?"
Cameron craned his neck to get an eyeful of the setting sun. He sighed deeply. "Do you suppose, Gene, that that is why fate has brought us together again, here? For the two of us ancient turtles to plumb and dissect once and for all sadnesses so bygone we'd be laughed at by grandfather oaks? To navigate gropingly the horse latitudes of what's lost and unrecoverable?" He looked again out over the water. "She set out when she realized you weren't coming back, and I haven't heard from her since."
Eugene squinted his old eyes once more, "You're still long-winded, I see."
Cameron said nothing.
"What's your poem about?"
"Life and death and love."
"Can I hear it?"
"Picked up the bug for verse somewhere, did you?"
"No. But I'd still listen."
"It isn't finished."
"Well, it's been thirty some-odd years in the making."
"Thirty years in that waterlogged old bean of yours?"
Cameron looked peripherally at Eugene, a slanting aside of begrudging humor.
"Color me impressed, old friend."
"It is good to see you, Gene."
The sun disappeared into the ocean.
When they were young, in a solemn and lovely ceremony, Gene and Cameron had respectively married Mabel and Doris. The courtships on both sides had been difficult and long but otherwise entirely distinct.
Gene Street aspired to cut a cosmopolitan figure back then: a dashing, urbane young turtle with a sophisticated palate and great dancing moves. But his ambitions were outsized and unattainable for one so lowborn. Though he really could dance a little, he had a nerve-wracking tendency to end up high in trees after bad storms, always made colossally stupid bets he never won, couldn't cook worth a damn, and never felt an unsuperlative feeling. It was these mosts and biggests and worsts that finally pierced Mabel von Pellier's reluctant heart and won it for him: she simply could not—no one could—resist indefinitely Gene Street's tireless charge.
The von Pelliers were of noble stock: a distant ancestor, Otto, had been the first turtle to traverse the Pacific Ocean, and his litter had gone on to distinguish themselves in the variegated worlds of turtledom. Mabel and Cameron's grandmother, Tu'i, had been gifted, quite famously, to a Polynesian royal family by a British explorer of some renown, and lived to 188. It was there, in the Tongan archipelago, that the contemporary clutches of von Pelliers migrated indomitably throughout the trade currents, bestowing on every locale they visited a rich perfume of privilege and history. That the long tides of her life brought Mabel, alongside her brother, to the same Peruvian pond where slurped young Eugene Street, a turtle without portfolio, whose carapace bore no distinguishing marks and whose carriage was lifted by no pedigree but the force of his enthusiasm and self-importance alone, was a mystery well worth a lifetime's unraveling. Alas, not everyone has the better part of two centuries to get to the bottom of things.
For his part, Cameron was a brooding sort, prone, as he presently discovered he still was, to alternating bouts of deathly silence and plangent pontification. He did not wear comfortably the mantle of greatness bequeathed him by the myriad preceding von Pelliers. He rebelled with full shell against expectations. He wished to commune, mostly, with other laconic turtles whose quiet he could freely misdiagnose as reverence. And he spent nearly all his time cornered ineluctably within the strictures of stanzaic verse spun, as if from an inexhaustible loom, in his mind. He was a poet.
The truth was Doris didn't care for his poetry. He could almost finally admit this now in the soft blue clarity of afternoon—this annihilating truth that for so long had been given its license to torment him only amid the colorless shrouds of night and nightmare; an insidious, diurnal truth. But it hadn't mattered whether Doris was a fan of his poetry or not, for his poetry was a great fan of Doris. She smelled odd and stuttered and Cameron loved her completely for reasons beyond his understanding.
In many ways they couldn't have been more different: where Cameron loathed filial obligation and longed for poetic immortality and the privacy to pursue it, Doris cared only for family and nothing for herself save that she did her part in the propagation of the species. Cameron was selfish: often a despondent, truculent mass of von Pellier unmovable but for self-interest; while Doris was perfectly happy with her place in the order of the universe…she wished nothing more than to hatch many dozens of clutches of eggs, nurse them cheerfully strong and release them blushingly into the waters, augmented there, Cameron had recited for her one long-ago day,
by the splashing of your tears
What slakes you, thirsty ocean, more?
These drops?
Or the sad flotilla of mother's dears?
Why he loved her he could not say, but he did, and if he'd ventured a guess early on in their marriage, it would've centered on how of every twelve months of the year, she spent eight to ten sitting on eggs while he plunged daily into whatever depths surrounded them, searching out new fodder for his next verse amid the submerged world: translucent flora drawn in the invisible breeze of deep current, lambent cities of moss, multifarious coils of reef and the impossibly busy underwater civilizations of marine life. While Doris sat on eggs, Cameron teased epics from seafloor sand that'd lain undisturbed for millennia. Once, he even met Levi.
At first he'd believed it a mountain, and then the mountain had breathed, and he'd realized in a suffocating terror of revelation what it was. He spent the next five full days limning a fraction of Levi's slumbering form, finally ascending to the great beast's apex. Here could be barely discerned, amid the awesome tumble of flesh that was time itself and from the cavernous valleys of its wrinkles that were time's wrinkles and fate's and all of Earth's, Levi's closed eye. Cameron supposed he could have stayed there forever, and fancied that the fount of his tears, blasted loose by a sight so unthinkable, so majestic, would spring a new ocean. And the world would drown.
He didn't know how long he stayed there, floating, vaguely ambulant, next to the first creature, but with a quick suddenness one day he was overmastered by a need to go home to Doris. It was night on the surface and baleful masses of clouds congregated on the horizon. Though his sense of direction had been obliterated by Levi's immensity, a strange, unerring compass directed Cameron home, where Doris waited on the shore, fear shining her eyes. Doris, he'd said, Doris, you're not gonna believe it!
Then a tremendous wave overtook them and they were out to sea. He was dimly aware of scores of his own children, too tiny to travel, cast willy-nilly on the black waves and taken perfunctorily under. He was primarily focused on Doris, remarkably far away and becoming more so. Mad blitzes of hard rain obscured the world and the frothing vaults of wildly multiplying waves walled him in. She called out to him, stuttering his name, her voice driven with terror and grief, and he was propelled away from her in a relentless current. He summoned all the strength of the von Pellier line and all the strength of Levi's eye and all the strength of his love to his lungs and yelled Doris, Doris, Doris.
But the thunder dwarfed him, and the tsunami carried him away.
He searched for years and never found her, and he wasn't even now able to fix a date that he'd given up. It was just one morning as if he'd turned a page without meaning to. He'd ended up North, somehow, incalculably far from the Micronesian chaos in which his journey had begun, and it occurred to him very simply that he wasn't looking for his wife anymore. It was around this time—which wasn't a good time for Cameron—that Oleg the fisherman, no doubt coughing and weeping, found him and scooped him up.
All of that—that wordless chapter with Levi, the progeny he'd never given a second thought to until it was too late, the uncharacteristic ebullience of his verse back then, and the picture of Doris, mirthful, patient, nursing, atop eggs, then to the waves and the storm and the aimless, unspooled yarn of those blank years on the seas, the unburied dead—all of that was epilogue to the beautiful interim of the Sheets and von Pelliers: the splendid days passed on the Island of Meats and Cheeses.
"Do you know why they call it a honeymoon?" Cameron asked Eugene.
They were still sitting on the beach, only it was night now, and they hadn't exchanged a word for some time. Cameron had traced back in his mind certain passages of his own history, which he supposed Eugene had also done, and now he felt talkative.
"Why don't you tell me, there, Cameron?"
"They call it a honeymoon because it was believed in ancient times that if a woman drank honey she'd be more likely to produce a male child. So, after the wedding, when it was night, the groom was sure to fill his bride with honeyed mead."
"How about that," Eugene said.
"How, indeed—indeed, Gene—how could anyone ever forget that glorious island…?"
"I was captured by the Hindus, Cameron. Did you tell your sister that?"
"She knew."
"I was holy to them. Seachild of Vishnu. I had to model for portraits…the world on my back. It's not like I left her."
"I know that, Gene," Cameron lied. "She knew that."
"I was captured."
Cameron here withstood a boisterous litany of disagreement, let it flare briefly and then die on his tongue.
A long time ago Gene Street had left his sister. His sister who'd broken a family covenant by marrying below her, his sister who'd had to prostrate herself to be on eye-level with her reckless, gambling groom; she who loved him dearly in spite of herself and who had sacrificed her inheritance and forfeited her rightful place for him had been abandoned the moment an opportunity for celebrity had winked open.
Cameron swallowed. He supposed it was possible he'd outlived his native contrariness.
"What happened to you, then? Why are you out here on the coast of America?"
"Oh, you know," said Eugene. "Beliefs change. New powers oust the old. I became out of style. Got sold, escaped, here I am."
Cameron thought on this. He supposed it was possible too that Gene Street had outlived his native flamboyance.
"Tell me about that island, Gene. In your own words."
"We'd all just been married."
"A lovely ceremony."
"It was a lovely ceremony, wasn't it?"
"And we honeymooned by—what was the word you used?"
"Exodus," Cameron breathed.
"Right. Exodus. We got the hell out of there."
"Where was the island, Gene?"
"Oh," he moved his head south, "out there."
"The best food, everywhere we looked."
"Oh, God, yes. The best food. Everywhere."
"You could hardly walk without rolling on a salami."
"Salami, hell. Prosciutto. Capicola. The finest cuts of beef."
"The finest!"
"And lamb shank and—"
"Lamb shank and spring chicken and all the cheeses of the world."
"How did they get there, those cheeses?"
"Gene, Gene, who can say, and why would you ask?"
"All right, Cameron. All right."
"Edam, gouda, emmental…"
"'Fortune favors the mold,' you said."
"A thousand cheddars and fields of asiago interrupted only by parmesan trees."
"Cameron, slow down, I'm getting full."
"I sliced pepperoni in the shade of a buffalo mozzarella, ate it with ricotta and chased it with…white wine?"
"Yeah, there was wine…" said Eugene. "Whole pools of it. I remember that. You'd sit under the mozzarella tree and Mabel and I'd go for a swim and come back and feast on summer sausage and cream havarti, champagne and chevrot for dessert. God, what did Doris do all that time?" Cameron noticed Eugene glancing at him and wondered if he saw the dew in his eye. "Parts of that place smelled like a damp barn with all the cheese around. Goat cheese. Sheep cheese. And the cold champagne spring—you remember that, Cameron? What did Doris do all that time?"
"Sat on eggs." And then there rose up from Cameron's belly a seismic, rolling laugh. "She sat on eggs!"
Eugene gradually entered the laugh, got his footing, and they roared together. Cameron went on, "Oh, the sun was always up and when it wasn't the moon was the size of God and the water was perfect—""Perfect!""—and the breeze and the leaves and the salami smelled so good you couldn't think straight and poor Doris!"
"Poor Doris!"
"Just sitting! Sitting on those eggs and as happy as can be…"
"She was happy though, Cameron." They were calming down. "Hey, she really was, you know?"
Cameron's laugh aired out. He felt tears on his face. He took a deep breath of the sea. "She was happy, Gene. Yes she was."
"We all were."
"Yes we were."
"Why did we leave, Cameron?"
"Why did we leave?"
"Who would leave such a place as that?"
"Maybe it wasn't there."
"Maybe it wasn't?"
"Maybe we dreamed it all up, Gene, weaved it together and draped it over our past. Over the lost and the grieved and the oceans of it."
"Maybe." Eugene didn't sound sure.
"Otherwise, why would we leave?"
"What does champagne taste like?"
"Like stars. You know that."
"Yes, but how come I know that? How come you know that?"
"It's from the story about the monk. 'Come quick,' he said, 'I'm drinking the stars.'"
"Yeah," said Eugene, "but don't you remember how it tastes, Cameron? How it feels in your mouth?"
"Yes. I suppose I do."
"So it was real, the island. The island was real."
"A tapestry we all weaved together—"
"—a hallucination we all conspired in, to conceal the unburied and floating dead."
"No, Cameron."
"A vibrant mural painted on the side of a morgue."
"We made it up, just now, you and I, in our senility."
"You remember how it tastes and feels in your mouth because it was there." Eugene nodded his head again in a direction generally southwesterly. "Over there. The Island. It was real."
"Well, I don't care if it was, Gene. I find that I enjoy the taste of champagne even if I didn't ever drink it." Cameron glanced over at Eugene and saw that a new intensity had driven the glassiness from his eyes as he stared resolutely over the staggered chop of the waves. "Gene?"
"Let's go, Cameron."
"Go?"
"Back to the island. Let's go find it. We're old now and I've just been sitting here for I don't know how long with a shoe on my head."
"You want to try and find it?"
"We have to. We have to go back there."
"We don't know where it is."
"Sure we do. It's that way."
"We might never make it. We could be lost at sea."
"We have to try. Look at us. We've got to get back there if we can. What kind of suckers are we if we don't try?"
They looked at each other and then, all of a sudden, Cameron and Eugene were in the water, paddling with determination, and Cameron didn't know how or why it had happened, only that he was happy. The moon was climbing and the water was very cold and the song that the waves played lapping against him—for once, for the first time in a long time—was not threnody, but a heated and in fact warming melody…the kind of tune a knight on a precious and important errand would command of his minstrels as he careened through a treacherous wood…just the right music, Cameron thought, for an odyssey.
"What's your poem called?" Eugene asked, his voice excited over the water.
"'O! Dwindled Waves...'!"
"Recite it to me!"
"It'll take years!"
"So does everything else! So does not reciting it!"
"I don't know if it's any good!"
"I don't care! I won't be able to tell anyway!"
"All right then!"
And Cameron began, and the moon climbed and the stars were in their mouths and together, happily, the two turtles steered into the waves.
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Five Paintings by Daniel Elson
Rubble and Ballet by Edna Dapo
Ten Paintings by Gaither Pope
Five Pictures by Scott Brennan
Five Photographs by Vicki Reed
"Everyone Was There," by Anthony Varallo
"It Had to Be Good," by Diana Grisanti
"A Catalogue," by Doug Cornett
"The Man with a Dove on His Arm," by Erik Russell Olson
"A Truly Awful Presence," by E.C Jarvis
"Admire, Perhaps, Abernathy," by Fletcher Cline
"Rabble of Butterflies," by Joy Lanzendorfer
"True Winter," by Michael Davis
"Tracks," by Sean Lovelace
"On the Promenade Deck" by Susan Messer
Beckian Fritz Goldberg
David St. John
Pam Houston
Scott Russell Sanders
Terese Svoboda
"Lost Luggage" by Cory Fosco
"Writing: A Sweet Release" by Diana Raab
"Object Parade: Coffee Table" by Dinah Lenney
"Mahlapane's Story" by Jerry Eckert
"Divorce and Gratitude" by Marcus Banks
"Backwards Life" by Marie Mockett
"The Bear Beside Me" by Sherry Simpson
Two poems by Benjamin S. Grossberg
Three poems by Brad Johnson
Two poems by Bruce Cohen
Three poems by Caroline Knox
Three poems by Elizabeth Bradfield
Two poems by Eric Gansworth
Two poems by Jesse Lee Kercheval
Four poems by Kelle Groom
"Late Blossoms" by Linwood Rumney
"Cormorants" by Marcia Golub
Four poems by Michael G. Smith
"The Fire" by Nin Andrews
"Karolino-Bouhas Belongs to Nastia" by Rachel Malis
Three poems by Scott Bade
A poem by Simon Perchik
"They" by Steve De France


After my fifth baby, I was sick for three weeks. My throat hurt, my head hurt, I blew my nose constantly, and I still had four other little people to care for.
Did I mention I was healing after delivery, also? Not exactly the dreamy postpartum bliss I'd hoped for!
Settling into a new normal after having a baby is hard. And, it's pretty common to end up feeling like you never get anything done and like life is a little out of control. But I don't think it has to be that way!
If you are a new mother or are about to be one, I want to help you ease into your season of transition by encouraging you to think ahead and plan your priorities for life after new baby.
While it doesn't eliminate toddler meltdowns, diaper blowouts in Target, and exhaustion from middle-of-the-night feedings, nailing down just a few priorities will help you better respond to the unexpected mini-crises.
As women, we tend to set the bar for ourselves pretty high. Unrealistically high. And often, we don't consciously do it.
But, when we begin to feel like a failure and convince ourselves that our three-year-old will probably need counseling as an adult because, to our horror, we discover that her hair hasn't been combed in three days, it's an indicator that something's off.
I've found it extremely helpful in my last few months of pregnancy to prayerfully consider what the Lord and my husband want my priorities to be after the new baby arrives. Life needs to slow down so that my body can heal, I can learn my baby, and everyone in the family can adjust to a new way of life. For me, things get basic.
Because I tend toward being a task-oriented person, I need my husband's help to determine what really is important. I can't tell you how many times he's told me that he'd rather have a happy wife than a clean house.
I narrow my priorities down to four. I've found this to be the most realistic number to enable actual execution!
Notice that I don't have any cleaning on my list. This isn't because I'm lazy, but because if I put that over the priorities listed, I get out of whack. And we all know that when mama is out of whack, everyone is out of whack.
The cleaning will get done, eventually. My husband told me this when we were adjusting to life with two kids. It was his way of reminding me that I'm not lazy, and it's not immediately important to load the dishwasher. Waiting until tomorrow really is okay.
Here's the beauty of having only four priorities daily: some days, you'll find that you can do a lot more. Don't you love that feeling of getting more done that you thought you'd be able to?
It won't happen every day, but that's okay because the extras weren't on your list to start.
You see, when you eliminate things like, "Do the dishes," on days when things are crazy and you just can't get to the dishes, you don't need to feel like a failure. They'll get done tomorrow probably, and that's okay.
There is no prescription in the Bible as to how often your bathrooms should be cleaned. So, go ahead and relieve yourself of the unspoken rule in your mind as to how often that needs to happen. And, as you have time, clean it.
Now, I probably don't need to say this, but, I'm not advocating laziness and nasty toilets. But I am suggesting that a tranquil heart will yield much more fruit than a harried wife and mom will. There will be time to clean toilets and vacuum floors (and eventually, you'll even have help from your children!).
I'm still growing in all of this!
Being a mom is demanding, exhausting, and depleting. If we don't take regular time to go to the Lord in prayer and Scripture, we'll find ourselves worn to a frazzle, and I believe we'll battle condemnation. He is our source of life and strength! So, spending time seeking Him, even in the littlest of moments can't be negotiable.
Please take care of your soul by taking time to seek the Lord. Spending uninterrupted hours at a time in quiet with the Lord is great, but that isn't the 11th commandment! However, the more time we seek to spend with Him, the more able we are to cultivate our relationship with Him.
Simply reading one sentence of Scripture and praying it back to the Lord, and meditating on it is doing something in the Spirit. As your baby grows, take advantage of the longer periods of time you have, and spend them with Him! He wants to know you and to help you, but you must go to Him. He is waiting like the tender Father He is, and delights in any amount of yourself that you'll give to Him.
Transition isn't easy, but I pray you'll be helped and encouraged as you seek to submit your priorities to the Lord!
Kelly has been married to Blane for just about 15 years, with five children that keep her very busy. She's a transplanted yankee married to a southern man, living the country life. Her first love is Jesus Christ, and she desires to joyfully walk with every crack and crevice of her heart aligned with His– a daily process laced with the reality of pain and suffering on this earth. She's an avid reader, runner, and learner. Hospitality is one of her favorite hobbies, along with writing encouraging notes to others. She blogs at kellytarr.com.
Thanks so much for this during a season of survival mode for us! My husband is working long hours as a CPA and I'm three or four weeks away from welcoming our 4th baby in 5 years… All that to say, Mommy is almost always out of whack because I'm aiming at everything and accomplishing what feels like nothing. Will definitely be working out a priority list ASAP.
This is wonderful and something I think the Lord intended on me to read today. Thank you!
As a mum to a 5-month old who still wakes in the night & doesn't nap well in the day & a perfectionist husband I feel I'm never enough – or doing enough – even though I fall into bed exhausted most nights. Thank you for this.
and my husband ended up having heart issues/open heart surgery with multiple complications and and extended stay in ICU and Rehab… extended healing that involved home health lasting 7 months… THANK YOU LORD for his almost full recovery.
I like this. 4 things. i can do this. Thank you Lord for this post.


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UMT Career Fair 2016 Attracts 3000+ Job Seekers
The Office of Career Services (OCS) at the University of Management and Technology (UMT) Lahore organized UMT Career Fair 2016 on November 16, 2016 under the theme 'Campus to Corporate.' The Career Fair brought 105 MNCs, local and SME organizations including Nestlè, Zong CMPAK, Hino Pak, Bayt.com (Strategic cCareer Partner), Huawei Technologies, Urban Sole, HBL, Stylo Group, Hardee's, Starlet, Netsol Technologies, Careerz360, Bank Alfalah Limited, Allied Bank, The Inksters, and many more under one roof. The Career Fair witnessed over 3000+ job seekers and study abroad applicants from UMT and other universities nationwide exploring internship/job opportunities and foreign education facilities in their areas of interest.
UMT is educating business leaders of tomorrow whilst creating knowledge that has critical significance for both industry and society. The Higher Education Commission (HEC) of Pakistan recognizes all degree programs offered by UMT, which distinguishes itself with 600+ faculty members including 125+ PhDs, 16,000+ alumni and 10,000+ plus students, currently enrolled from 100 districts of Pakistan and 18 countries across the globe. We are very proud of our students and graduates!
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The dedicated services of OCS play an important part in the life of UMT graduates. From helping in crafting an outstanding personal branding statement to providing guidance through the recruitment process step by step as a result of 360 recruitment consulting, OCS makes UMT participants and graduates stand out from the crowd. UMT graduates who work with OCS staff members vouch for the right mix of choices and decisions that OCS staff helped them to make. OCS extensive networking with employers benefits them as much as it benefits UMT participants and graduates. And so one can say with confidence that the OCS led 'wow factor' makes waves.
OCS is working very hard towards bridging the gap between the education and corporate sector. It has already helped hundreds of talented UMT graduates to find the right career path. The objective of the Career Fair was to provide an opportunity to the job seekers for personal and professional growth through interaction with top corporate organizations while presenting themselves as the best candidate for vacancies available in the market. It provided an excellent opportunity to meet top recruiters of the country with hundreds of job openings. On the other hand, it also provided organizations an opportunity to showcase their human resource function and employers branding, helping them to attract talented, qualified and motivated human resources.
Expressing their feelings, some of the participants stated that the UMT Career Fair was an exciting opportunity to interact with the companies of their choice. They said that the event had brought opportunities to learn from the exposure and polished their skills for seeking jobs in the competitive environment.
While addressing the job seekers and the organizations Jamil A Naz ((Industrialist and Chairman WTO Committees) who inaugurated the event along with David Guo (Director of Training and Certification, Enterprise Business Dept, Middle East, Huawei Tech), Ibrahim Hasan Murad (Director of Academic Quality and Assessment, UMT) and F Robert Wheeler III, J.D (Dean SBE) who appreciated the efforts of UMT and OCS to organize such a successful and beneficial Career Fair. He added that such events are a good initiative by academia's management for participants and they should take benefit from these opportunities by actively participating in such activities.
Moreover, Mr David Gwolang expressed that such event is a great opportunity for both the university participants/alumni as well as the organizations, as both the parties become better aware of each other's preferences, eventually making the recruitment process more fruitful. UMT's Dramatic Club highlighted the issues which participants face during the recruitment by performing a short yet entertaining skit.
The Career Fair gained remarkable popularity among students, professionals and corporate community in a very short span of time. In order to provide entrepreneurial orientation to the students and visitors from all over Pakistan, 30+ entrepreneurial stalls of different products were also exhibited; these stalls not only entertained the visitors with delicious food but also inspired students with creative ideas and instigated them to become entrepreneurs.
The Career Fair 2016 was organized in collaboration with the Jang Group as an Official Media Partner with a vision to 'Campus to Corporate' while Huawei Technologies, Careerz360, Bayt.com (Strategic Career Partner), Urban Sole, HBL, Stylo Group, Hardee's, Starlet, Careerz360 and The Inksters were the main sponsors.
Begum Zakiya Shahnawaz (Minister of Higher Education, Population Welfare and Environment Protection) and David Guo (Director of Training and Certification, Enterprise Business Dept., Middle East, Huawei Tech) were the chief guests at the event's closing ceremony. They presented souvenirs to all the participating organizations and also congratulated UMT, OCS and ushers for arranging an efficacious event.
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UMT Career Fair 2016 saved many job seekers from the hassle of going out for interviews and dropping CVs to different organizations as this mega event brought more than 900 jobs at a single platform that made this event spectacular and unique. After this outstanding success, we believe that UMT Career Fair2016 brought talented job seekers and employers at a single platform and shared common interest to excel. This indeed, was heartening and also enabled us to achieve our goal of empowering youth. No matter what area of interest anyone has or is specialized in, all types of jobs were offered in UMT Career Fair 2016.
At the end, Aqeel Baloch (Manager Career Services and Industrial Linkages, OCS) along with his team congratulated and thanked all the Sponsors, Organizations, UMT Faculty, Staff Members and Ushers for making the event successful.
It is worth mentioning that the students commended the services of UMT and OCS. They were of the view that UMT has provided quality education and healthy academic environment. This initiative has led to career guidance and professional growth opportunities for them. The students added that the UMT Career Fair 2016 has resulted in quick recruitment process in various organizations. Majority of the employers stated that HR branding, strong trust and familiarity with OCS were the major reasons that led them to participate in this year's Career Fair. A few employers considered it because of the high volume of hires and the huge benefit of networking.
UMT Career Fair 2016 has helped hundreds of job seekers from various universities of Lahore and proved beneficial for many corporate organizations. We hope that the future gives us another chance to witness more of such amazing and successful events!


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I've gotta say that I definitely agree with Lilah on getting a spray tan, I get one before any holiday as it makes me feel more confident and means I don't put so much pressure on getting a tan.
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The Raw crowd did the best they could with what they were given. Which was a terrible go home show for a PPV. They didn't have much, if anything, to cheer for so they definitely turned on the show with loud "boring" chants among other things. One high point for them was helping Enzo & Cass with their entrance promo when Anderson & Gallows "shut their mics off".
SmackDown had their crowd in the palm of their hand for most of the night. They were cheering what needed to be cheered, booing what needed boo'ed, and seemed genuinely into the show. SmackDown wins.
Yeah.. SmackDown wins here. Again. Like most every week because I simply enjoy JBL & Mauro more so than Byron & Michael Cole. Corey Graves gets the bad end of the stick here as he and Mauro are probably my two favorites, but he alone can't help the Raw commentary team.
SmackDown wins here again. I'm predicting a full fledged sweep this week for the blue brand as Raw was just abysmal this week. At one point Raw had an arm wrestling "match" between Bayley and Dana Brooke.. Remember when Bayley was main eventing TakeOvers? Every other match, outside of the main event, lost my attention very quickly. By the time we got to the main event most people were checked out of the three hour show anyway.
SmackDown had fun, entertaining, and meaningful matches throughout the night. Survivor Series qualifying matches with The Hype Bros vs. Ascension, and Nikki vs. Natty were both good bouts. The SmackDown Tag Teams Championship match with Heath & Rhyno vs. The Spirit Squad was a decent one too that I wasn't expecting. Then, of course, AJ vs. Dean was just as good as it should've been and having James Ellsworth hit another awesome superkick to AJ to cost Dean the match was good stuff.
What happened to Paul Heyman? The greatest mic man in the history of the business fell flat in rough fashion Monday Night when he and his beast tried to call out Goldberg. Why in the world did WWE think that Lesnar would be a heel in his hometown? Clearly, the crowd was supposed to be chanting for Goldberg, but the majority were on the side of Suplex City. Heyman still tried to gain heat on Brock, in his hometown that loves him, but it didn't work. At all. The contract signing was terribly awkward for me as Mick Foley all the sudden was afraid for Sasha Banks & Charlotte inside hell in a cell when, for weeks now, he was treating it like a good thing or a reward of sorts for the two. Other than that, the opening promo was okay, but nothing overly special.
SmackDown on the other hand, had some fun stuff. Randy Orton had a better promo than Heyman and all he said was, "If you can't beat em, join em." talking about The Wyatt Family and his turn on Kane. Dean and AJ, hell even James Ellsworth, all had decent mic segments throughout the night. Blue Brand clinches the win this week through the first four categories.
Normally, I'd choose Raw here because the main event scene is fun for me. The KO, Jericho, Authority, and Rollins mix is fun, but I'm patiently waiting for the KO and Y2J friendship to implode.
But this week I'm going with SmackDown. The main event scene with Dean and AJ was boring me a bit, but having James Ellsworth cost Dean his number one contendership has me intrigued as to what will happen in the weeks to come. Also, having Randy turn on Kane and "join" The Wyatt Family makes me think this is a Daniel Bryan storyline all over again. But again, I'm intrigued to see where this goes. Also, seeing SmackDowns Survivor Series teams begin to form over the next weeks will be interesting.
Two hours > Three hours. By the time we got to a good Raw main event, most people had checked out of a rough three hour show. I was tuned into SmackDown from start to finish.
I almost gave Raw a point here just for the sake of not having a complete sweep, and seeing how the shows are hard to distinguish in this category I probably could've and it would've been okay. But the way SmackDown handles The Wyatt Family, with the disappearing and reappearing, is impressive to me. It's simple, sure. But impressive and Raw doesn't have that aspect. So I'll give to SmackDown for having the slight edge.
If Raw had any points to take away, I'd take away a half point for having an arm wrestling contest between Dana and Bayley. Then another half point for trying to draw heat on Brock Lesnar in his hometown when that clearly wasn't going to work. Why does Lesnar & Goldberg need to be heel vs. face? Just let it be Lesnar vs. Goldberg. Nonetheless, Raw doesn't have any points, but I thought the show was so bad that I'm taking it from them anyway.
We have two firsts this week on Battle of the Brands! First time ever that one of the shows won all seven categories in one week, and the first time ever a show has finished with negative points. I thought this was one of the worst Raws I've ever watched, and it was incredibly weak for a go home show for one of your exclusive PPV's. SmackDown wins 7-(-1). Seven to negative one. Raw comes away with a -1 score, but the good news is that next week it can only get better. Right..?


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When I heard that Redgate had improved the Git support in SQL Source Control, I have to confess I got excited about it. I even tweeted about it. There's a good reason for that too.
I fell in love with SQL Source Control the first time I used it in another company. Before it came along, we scripted out database objects, which is a pain. At one point in one company, we used the Visual Studio version, and that's painful as well because you don't get the immediate gratification of knowing what's changed. You have to actually bring in the changes and then see what your changes are. I just found that very cumbersome.
SQL Source Control makes it a really easy process and defines all of your changes. It's especially useful if you're working on multiple projects and one project is sitting there for three weeks and you come back and look at the changes. You might think, for example, oh yeah, I was working on indexing and I should probably get those indexes into production. Using SQL Source Control, you can do it quickly and easily.
As much as I love SQL Source Control, a niggle I've had has been its limited support for Git. Like many other people, I moved from Subversion to Git because its branching features are so much better, and adopted Atlassian Stash (now called Bitbucket Server) as the repository.
That's where I had a difficulty because there was a gap between SQL Source Control and the Stash repository on the server. I tried a workaround using command prompts, but it was so painful and cumbersome I turned to Atlassian SourceTree instead. A free Git client, it provides a visual GUI to do the push and the pull between the server, Git, and the local repository.
At the beginning of October 2015, everything changed. That was when Redgate announced SQL Source Control users could now push to and pull from remote Git repositories.
And not just from within SQL Source Control – from within SQL Server Management Studio (SSMS).
I was thrilled because this one apparently small move eliminated an entire step in another application. No more closing this, opening that, moving this, quitting that, going back to the application you were happily working with before.
It also made things a lot clearer to team members who were new to using version control by taking the complexity out of the process.
I use SQL Source Control every single day and I've now got my entire team checking in their changes using Git.
So it has made my life easier, but do you know something? There are still some improvements I'd like to see.
What branch am I on?
How many changes are ready to push or pull?
Near the 'Push' and 'Pull' buttons, it would be nice to know if there are files to pull or push, in case other stuff has been checked in from other users. A number on the buttons would work as well, to show how many items have been checked in locally and are ready to go up or come down.
The pull button is the more important one, to make sure you're on the right version. Team keep forgetting to pull down changes that exist on the repository so this would be a real bonus.
Conflict resolution would be another great feature because sometimes it's difficult. The developers don't always remember to bring down the latest version and when they check something in, it causes a conflict. I think I spent an hour fixing that yesterday, and I still have to go back and deal with it on one of my team mate's machines.
Right now, I use KDiff3 to merge our QA branch and personal branches to fix conflict resolution, but a feature within SQL Source Control would make things a lot simpler.
Finally, I'm looking forward to when SQL Source Control is incorporated with migration scripts. At that point, everything will become a breeze.
If, like me, you want to see some of these features added then visit the SQL Source Control UserVoice site and vote!


An popular hiking trail at Taman Saga (Taman Cuepacs), Cheras (which is connected to Ah Pak San from Taman Cheras Awana.
It's about 90 mins to do a round trip to top, but you could extend it further to the waterfall or towards Ah Pak San, or both (which could take 4 hours plus leisure time).
You could go at anytime during the day as the trail is pretty shaded, and it's popular trail as local's weekend exercise and nature escape.


The federal government in the U.S. has proposed eliminating restrictions on the use of corn and soybean seeds genetically engineered to resist a common weed killer. Full story here.
The stranglehold which unelected agribusiness corporations now hold over all of us is nearing completion. God help us all.


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Geoff Habiger
The writing duo of Geoff Habiger and Coy Kissee have been life-long friends since high school in Manhattan, Kansas. (Affectionately known as the Little Apple, which was a much better place to grow up than the Big Apple, in our humble opinion.) We love reading, baseball, cats, role-playing games, comics, and board games (not necessarily in that order and sometimes the cats can be very trying). We've spent many hours together over the years (and it's been many years) basically geeking out and talking about our favorite books, authors, and movies, often discussing what we would do differently to fix a story or make a better script. We eventually turned this passion into something more than just talk and now write the stories that we want to read. Coy lives with his wife in Lenexa, Kansas. Geoff lives with his wife and son in Tijeras, New Mexico.
Email Address: ghabiger@gmail.com
Books By Geoff Habiger
Series: Constable Inspector Reva Lunaria
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Summary: The brutal murder of Lavalé fey Avecath, the King's First Magistrate and advisor, interrupts Constable Inspector Reva Lunaria's day off. The victim's status makes this a high-profile investigation, bringing with it unwanted attention from Senior Inquisitor Ailan Malvaceä of the Sucra, the King's secret police. The manner of the victim's death makes this case even more intriguing. A body cut perfectly in half - from top to bottom - is a rare occurrence, even in a city filled with all manner of magic weapons. All of this would be challenging enough, but Inspector Lunaria must also deal with a new partner, Seeker Ansee Carya, who is clearly not up to her standards. As Reva faces a growing body count, Senior Inquisitor Malvaceä undertakes his own mission to find the same killer, but with a very different agenda. Reva's investigation takes unexpected turns as wild conspiracies, hidden addictions, and Dark Elf soldiers all threaten to distract Reva from tracking down the killer. Reva's only hope of stopping the serial killer from cutting more prominent citizens of Tenyl in half is to figure out how to work with Seeker Carya and overcome her own weaknesses.
Fantasy - Magical Realism
Fantasy - RPG
Summary: Reva and Ansee face fresh threats as a new evil is imported into Tenyl and threatens the city with an undead plague. Constable Inspector Reva Lunaria's life is looking up. She's managed to put two groups of unruly adventurers in jail and she gets word that her boyfriend, Aavril, has just arrived in port. She is looking forward to a relaxing dinner, a present, and maybe some time getting reacquainted after Aavril's long absence. But Aavril's ship has delivered more than a cargo of spices and exotic merchandise and a new evil begins to take root within Tenyl. Reva's romantic evening is spoiled by news of a double murder. It should be a simple case, except that the victims have disappeared. Reva's investigation barely gets started before Lord Constable Inspector Betulla contrives a way to get Reva suspended. With Reva temporarily off the force, the murder investigation is given to Constable Inspector Pflamtael, who is looking to find the fastest resolution to the case. Meanwhile, Seeker Ansee Carya investigates what appears to be a simple missing person case, until he discovers that the missing people – including the two murder victims – have become zombies. Now, Reva, with the aid of a halpbloed cleric, must work from outside the constabulary to figure out who is creating the undead, and how to stop the creatures before all of Tenyl becomes infected.
Joy of the Widow's Tears
Series: Saul Imbierowicz
In 1920s Chicago, postal employee Saul Imbierowicz is unwittingly swept up in a city-wide conflict between rival gangs, federal agents, and supernatural forces beyond his control. After striking out on his own from his overbearing Jewish family, Saul quickly becomes involved with the seductive and mysterious Moira. He soon becomes mixed up in the events of the St. Valentine's Day Massacre, witnessing the shooting and fleeing from the scene after Moira takes a bullet and is presumed dead. However, Moira is far from dead, and due to her influence Saul finds himself increasingly entangled in the rival factions seeking control over the city, coming face to face with Bugs Moran, Al Capone, and the federal agents pursuing both. Everybody wants something from Saul, but will he be able to save himself and his family, and uncover the supernatural secrets of the city, before it's too late?
Unremarkable
Fantasy - Historical
Fantasy - Paranormal
Paranormal - Vampires
Summary: Saul Imbierowicz's life literally changed when Al Capone murdered him, and he was reborn as a vampire. Now Saul is working for Eliot Ness, trying to take down the famous gangster. But Saul's new "life" isn't what he expected, and an offer from Capone to answer Saul's many questions about being one of the living dead comes at a price that Saul is unwilling to pay. Being partnered with Agent Christian Wright, who sees Saul as an abomination and an affront to God, isn't great either, but the fledgling partnership must succeed before a vampire war engulfs Chicago.
Summary: Eliot Ness has deemed the notorious gangster off limits, while Director J. Edgar Hoover has taken note of Saul and Christian's activities and has his own plans for the two agents. Meanwhile, Mr. Brown's mysterious master finally reveals herself, putting Saul's family in more danger than they've ever been before. Saul's life is changing again, and not for the better. Will the choices Saul must make in order to save his family, stop Capone, and deal with the new threat be worth the price he must pay?
Unavoidable


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Ben Affleck felt 'trapped' in marriage to Jennifer Garner
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Ben Affleck turned to alcohol once again because he felt "trapped" in his marriage to Jennifer Garner.
While appearing on The Howard Stern Show, the 49-year-old actor candidly admitted that he would still possibly be drinking alcohol if he was still married to the 13 Going on 30 star.
"I'd probably still be drinking. It's part of why I started drinking… because I was trapped," Affleck admitted to the veteran radio host. "I was like, 'I can't leave 'cause of my kids, but I'm not happy, what do I do?' What I did was drink a bottle of scotch and fall asleep on the couch, which turned out not to be the solution."
The Last Duel actor was married to Garner between 2005 and 2015, when they separated. He has sought treatment for alcoholism multiple times since 2001, most recently in 2018, the year their divorce was finalised.
Affleck insisted that he and Garner fought hard to save their marriage for the sake of their three children – Violet, 16, Seraphina, 12, and Samuel, nine – but weren't able to make it work.
"The truth was, we took our time, we made the decision… We grew apart. We had a marriage that didn't work, this happens, with somebody that I love and respect, but to whom I shouldn't be married any longer. Ultimately, we tried. We tried, we tried because we had kids," he continued. "Both of us felt like we don't want this to be the model that our kids see of marriage."
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Media bill 'second phase' in opening freedom of expression;…
Media bill 'second phase' in opening freedom of expression; Minister defends anti-SLAPP rejection
Tuesday, 10 April 2018, 10:59 Last update: about 3 years ago
The Media and Defamation Bill presented today is the government's second phase in its commitment to open up laws on freedom of expression, with the third seeking to regulate the journalism profession itself, Minister Bonnici told a press conference at Parliament this morning.
The first, he said, was the opening up of censorship laws and removal of the vilification of religion in the previous legislature.
Bonnici, who was accompanied by OPM Communication Head Kurt Farrugia, also defended the government's decision to follow the advice of four legal experts and reject the Anti-SLAPP amendment proposed by the Opposition in yesterday evening Consideration of Bills Committee meeting.
The Media and Defamation Bill was presented last November, after a previous attempt at such a law by the government caused controversy.
Through the law, it will longer be possible for an individual to file 10 libel suits on 10 separate stories which deal in the same allegedly libellous claim, something which Farrugia said shows that the government is committed to fighting SLAPP within Malta.
Criminal libel will be finally removed through this bill while the definition of what constitutes a libellous claim has been changed to mean that the written statement must cause serious reputational damage to the individual, with the scope of discouraging frivolous libel claims.
The bill also seeks to retain the €11,640 maximum damages rather than push the previous proposal for an increase in the fine to a maximum of €20,000.
It will enter its third reading before being transposed to law, something which Bonnici said was a formality.
When asked about the anti-SLAPP amendment, Bonnici reiterated that the government took legal advice from four separate legal entities; Professor Ian Refalo, Lawyer Paul Cachia, Attorney General Peter Grech and UK Law Firm Bird & Bird.
He said that all of them agreed that EU directives, specifically the judgments regulation and, clearly state that a member state must recognise a sentence laid within another member state or any state that forms part of the Lugano Convention (Switzerland, Denmark, Sweden, Iceland.)
He did say that Malta will try to be at the forefront of the discussions when Anti-SLAPP directives are discussed at EU level.
The Malta Independent asked the Minister whether the government would recognise the anti-SLAPP amendment as public policy, given that despite the general rules, a judgement will not be recognised if it "to public policy in the Member State in which recognition is sought," as noted on Bird & Bird's client briefing on the matter.
He was also asked whether any of the experts had outlined why this could not take place.
The minister repeated that the Anti-SLAPP amendment went against EU law, and said that the government was following the advice of four legal experts and directed the newsroom to read the published material.
The newsroom asked the minister whether the government felt finch-trapping held more value than the rights of journalists, given that the government appeared to be willing to challenge EU directives and face court proceedings to defend the former.
Trapping was phased out after the island joined the EU, but was later reintroduced after 2013, with the government arguing that the season held a cultural derogation. Infringement proceedings were opened against Malta in 2015, and The European Court of Justice will make a decision this year.
Bonnici and Farrugia dismissed the idea and could not see a comparison between the two.
When told that the threat of SLAPP cases in foreign jurisdictions is the greatest threat journalists are facing, given that such a method was used by Schillings Law Firm last October against a number of media houses, Farrugia said that in those cases it was a legal letter.