Stirling Albion have made defender James Creaney their seventh summer signing.
The 25-year-old left-back joins from Alloa, having previously played for Stranraer and Dumbarton.
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First impressions: ASUS ZenFone AR with Tango, 8GB RAM, 128GB storage, for Rs 49,999
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Published Jul 13, 2017, 3:07 pm IST
Updated Jul 14, 2017, 9:29 am IST
The ZenFone AR will feature a massive 23MP rear camera with motion tracking sensor and a depth sensing sensor, suited for AR processing.
The ZenFone AR is compatible with Daydream View, and is specially focused for VR-based apps and games too.
ASUS today launched the first AR-enabled smartphone with Tango, the ASUS ZenFone AR, in New Delhi. The new smartphone is one of the first ones to make headlines in the AR smartphone world. The phone is aimed for architectural applications and also will be helpful to general public on the shopping front. In short, an architect, or you as a consumer, can place a piece of furniture by simply scanning the interior of his house. The furniture can be placed wherever he likes to see it and it will give the consumer a feel and look of how it gels with the existing interior. This is highly beneficial to the consumer since he does not have to go through the hassles of physically buying the furniture, placing it in the room and then get satisfactory results.
Take this to another level and you can do more with this new technology. You can soon simply have your walls virtually painted, or check out how your new seat covers would look in your car. Or maybe, even how you can visualise your lawn. As an initial stage, ASUS has developed a few special apps for VR, which include, photo collage, gallery and Zen circle, pre-loaded on the phone itself.
The ASUS ZenFone AR will feature a massive 23MP rear camera with motion tracking sensor and a depth sensing sensor, suited for augmented reality processing. The camera also features OIS and EIS for better stability and can shoot a massive 92MP photos in super resolution mode. The rear camera can record 4K videos and claims to have a focusing speed of less than 0.3 seconds. The rear camera is equipped with an IR laser-assisted sensor/projector for depth sensing. The front camera gets a single 8MP sensor for selfies.
Unfortunately, the new smartphone is powered by an older generation Snapdragon 821 processor, but ASUS says the processor is well optimized for AR + VR on the smartphone. ASUS has provided a massive 8GB of RAM on the device with 128GB (expandable to 2TB) of internal storage. The smartphone is built of aerospace-grade aluminium body and will sport genuine leather for the rear panel. A USB type C connector and a 3.5mm headphone jack is provided on the bottom. Fuelling the device is a 3300mAh battery with Qualcomm's Quick Charge 3.0. All this in a 7.3-mm thick body.
The ASUS Zenfone AR utilises an ageing Snapdragon 821 chipset, which made front page appearance with the OnePlus 3T and the Google Pixel. Now geeks and early adopters may be baffled with the ASUS' decision to go for the 821 instead of the current 835. ASUS says that the 821 chipset has been well optimised for the Zenfone AR, especially for all the heavy AR and VR hardware additions that its rivals don't have to bear. According to ASUS, the Zenfone AR with its optimised 821 outperformed this year's darling smartphone — the Samsung Galaxy S8, on several CPU and GPU benchmark tests. Unless we do a full review of the device, potential buyers for the Zenfone AR will be contended with performance of the handset, considering that it runs on Android 7.0 with support for Vulkan API.
Continuing ahead, the ZenFone AR will sport a large 5.7-inch 2K resolution AMOLED display with 515ppi to its benefit, and protected by Corning's Gorilla Glass 4. There is a single, 5-magnet, powered by an NXP smart amplifier with Dolby DTS audio for better audio output. ASUS is also shipping a 'digital data headphone' with the device, stating that it is a high-quality headphone with software enhancements for superior quality audio. The ZenFone AR is compatible with Daydream View, and is specially focused for VR-based apps and games too.
The phone will start selling exclusively on Flipkart from today and ASUS will be giving a free complimentary Reliance Jio membership with the device with 100GB of data, and a discount of Rs 2,500 on Google Daydream headset. The ZenFone AR will cost you a whopping Rs 49,999.
Here are some photos as a first impression on the new ASUS ZenFone AR.
Should you be interested in the ASUS Zenfone AR? Well, you will want to lay your hands on this one if —
1. You are an early adopter and want the latest tech.
2. You want the possibly best camera hardware on your smartphone with AR abilities.
3. If you have been fascinated by the concept of AR from the averagely-specified Lenovo Phan 2 Pro or dreamed about owning a Daydream supported phone not made by Google, then this one is for you.
4. You have too much money.
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TPS Hunter Valley start put back to Friday > Sports > Golf > TPS Hunter Valley start put back to Friday
The Hunter Valley event scheduled to start on Thursday at Oaks Cypress Lakes Golf and Country Club is going ahead as a three-round event, despite rainfall and flooding throughout New South Wales.
The first appearance of a major tour golf event in the Hunter in more than 10 years, the TPS Hunter Valley is a mixed-gender event with a $200,000 prize pool, part of the ISPS HANDA PGA Tour of Australasia and the WPGA Tour of Australasia.
Today the Tour organisers announced that the start of the event would be pushed back a day from Thursday to Friday to allow the course superintendent and his staff more time to prepare the playing surfaces.
"It's remarkable to think that we can consider playing at all," said Nick Dastey, the ISPS HANDA PGA Tour of Australasia's Tournaments Director.
"Full credit to Oaks Cypress Lakes for the work that they've already done in trying circumstances, with plenty of work ahead in the next 48 hours as well. Our rules and event operations team are unbelievably experienced in navigating through these challenges which always gives us the best chances of completing a successful event.
"We are extremely confident we will have the tournament up and running from Friday morning, and have no doubt it will be a stand-out event in a great part of the world. The forecast weather from Friday to Sunday is positive so we look forward to good crowds onsite and great pictures being beamed out through the weekend broadcast."
The tournament will now be reduced to 54 holes from 72 holes.
The TPS Junior Players Series will now be played as a one-round event on Sunday with the cut to the main tournament made at the completion of the second round on Saturday.
With $200,000 in prize money to be won and the top 13 players on the ISPS Handa PGA Tour of Australasia Order of Merit all in the field, PGA Australia Tournaments Manager Graeme Scott said it was important to protect the integrity of the tournament.
"We will be closing the course on Wednesday to allow it to start to dry out and then players will be allowed to play practice rounds on Thursday ahead of Round 1 on Friday," Scott explained.
"Given the nature of this golf course Superintendent Craig Molloy and his team the time to get onto the golf course and address the areas of the course that they haven't been able to prepare in recent days."
There is no change to the television broadcast times with Saturday's second round to be shown live from 2:30pm-5:30pm AEDT and the third and final round from 12:30-5:30pm AEDT Sunday on Fox Sports, Kayo and Sky Sport in New Zealand.
Event overview:
TPS Hunter Valley is an event on the ISPS HANDA PGA Tour of Australasia and WPGA Tour schedule with both men and women competing in the same field for the same prize purse and one trophy. Total prize money is $200k.
The Webex Player Series also looks to the future of amateur golf by including juniors to the weekend play to rub shoulders with the best of the best.
The Players Series' primary goal is to provide quality playing opportunities and genuine pathways for Australia's next generation of male and female professionals that complement the existing events on both tours.
Event schedule & information
Friday 11th – Sunday 13th March 2022
Oaks Cypress Lakes Resort
Opening tee times from 7:15am AEDT
The event will be televised across Saturday and Sunday on Foxtel and Kayo in Australia. Times in AEDT, check your guide for local times.
Round 3: Saturday 12 March: 2:30pm – 5:30pm
Round 4: Sunday 13 March: 12:30pm – 5.30pm
Official hashtag: #TPSHunterValley
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Elliott Shore, Executive Director of the Association of Research Libraries (ARL), recently began a one-year term as editor of the E-Content department of the EDUCAUSE Review. Shore, a member of the Committee on Coherence at Scale for Higher Education and CLIR Distinguished Presidential Fellow, plans to discuss the multifaceted work of the Committee in the E-Content columns. His first essay, "Coherence at Scale and the Research Library of the Future," was published on Monday, January 27, 2014.


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Effectiveness of universal programmes for the prevention of suicidal ideation, behaviour and mental ill health in medical students: a systematic review and meta-analysis
http://orcid.org/0000-0002-1489-4573Katrina Witt1,2,
Alexandra Boland2,
Michelle Lamblin2,
Patrick D McGorry2,3,
Benjamin Veness4,
http://orcid.org/0000-0001-5179-8321Andrea Cipriani5,
Keith Hawton5,
Samuel Harvey6,
Helen Christensen6,
Jo Robinson2
1 Turning Point, Eastern Health Clinical School, Monash University, Richmond, Victoria, Australia
2 Orygen, The National Centre for Excellence in Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
3 Centre for Youth Mental Health, University of Melbourne, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
4 Alfred Health, Melbourne, Victoria, Australia
5 Department of Psychiatry, University of Oxford, Oxford, UK
6 Black Dog Institute, Sydney, New South Wales, Australia
Correspondence to Dr Katrina Witt, Turning Point, Eastern Health Clinical School, Monash University, Richmond, VIC 3121, Australia; katrina.witt{at}monash.edu
Question A growing body of work suggests that medical students may be particularly at risk of mental ill health, suicidal ideation and behaviour, resulting in recent calls to develop interventions to prevent these outcomes. However, few reviews have synthesised the current evidence base regarding the effectiveness of these interventions and provided guidance to improve future intervention efforts.
Study selection and analysis The authors conducted a systematic review to identify studies of any design reporting the effectiveness of any universal intervention to address these outcomes in medical students. Embase, MEDLINE and PsycINFO databases were searched from their respective start dates until 1 December 2017.
Findings Data from 39 studies were included. Most investigated the effectiveness of relatively brief interventions designed to reduce stress; most commonly using mindfulness-based or guided meditation approaches. Only one implemented an intervention specifically designed to address suicidal ideation; none investigated the effectiveness of an intervention specifically designed to address suicidal behaviour. Five investigated the effects of curriculum-level changes. Overall, there was limited evidence of an effect for these programmes at both the postintervention and longest follow-up assessment on depression, anxiety and stress.
Conclusions Relatively brief, individually focused, mindfulness-based interventions may be effective in reducing levels of anxiety, depression and stress in medical students in the short term. Effects on suicidal ideation and behaviour, however, remain to be determined. There has been a significant lack of attention on organisational-level stressors associated with medical education and training.
http://dx.doi.org/10.1136/ebmental-2019-300082
Contributors All authors approved the manuscript.
Funding The study was funded by the Commonwealth of Australia Department of Health and was part funded by the Prevention Hub, Department of Health. Individual authors also wish to acknowledge the following sources of funding: KW is funded by a postdoctoral fellowship awarded by the American Foundation for Suicide Prevention (PDF-0-145-16), HC is funded by APP1155614 and JR is funded by a National Health and Medical Research Council Career Development Fellowship (ID1142348).
Competing interests One of the authors, AC, is editor-in-chief of Evidence-Based Mental Health.
Ethics approval The data presented in this review were obtained from previously published reports available within the public domain. Specific institutional approval was therefore not required.
Presented at Preliminary data relating to this review were presented by AB on 30 November 2018 at the 40th Annual Society for Mental Health Research Conference, Noosa Heads, Queensland, Australia.
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Come Anzac Day I always like to make Anzac Biscuits. I like to watch the March and reflect on the return servicemen in my family and the sadness and devastation of war. So making these biscuits has become a ritual. Having said that, I do make them periodically throughout the year because they are such a great biscuit and as biscuits go, not that unhealthy.
They are always a hit and a good standby if something sweet is required. If you are really pressed for time, press the mix into a slice tin, the cut up after baking.
Another thing, they can be varied, made as regular biscuits, or in a slice tin if time is critical, also great with chocolate chips or nuts added and my personal favourite, sandwiched together with chocolate icing.
The dry ingredients can be pre prepared in a jar, for quick making or to give as a gift with the recipe attached if you like.
Set oven to 150 degrees Celsius. In a large bowl mix all dry ingredients.
In a small bowl, or saucepan, melt the butter, golden syrup and hot water together. While the liquid is still warm, add the bicarbonate, mix through gently ( the mixture will begin to froth up).
Quickly pour into the dry ingredients and mix throughly. Put small spoonfuls on trays lined with baking paper and bake for 15 minutes or until golden. Allow the biscuits to cool before lifting from the tray as they firm up while they are cooling.
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Financial Ombudsman losing it?
2008-01-23 Banking security, Legal issues, Politics, Security economicsRoss Anderson
I appeared on "You and Yours" (Radio 4) today at 12.35 with an official from the Financial Ombudsman Service, after I coauthored a FIPR submission to a review of the service which is currently being conducted by Lord Hunt.
Our submission looks at three cases in particular in which the ombudsman decided in favour of the banks and against bank customers over disputed ATM transactions. We found that the adjudicators employed by the ombudsman made numerous errors both of law and of technology, and concluded that their decisions were an affront to reason and to justice.
One of the cases has already appeared here on lightbluetouchpaper; the other two cardholders appeared on an investigation into card fraud on "Tonight with Trevor MacDonald", and their case papers are included, with their permission, as appendices to our submission. These papers are damning, but the Hunt review's staff declined to publish them on the somewhat surprising grounds that the information in them might be used to commit identity theft against the customers in question. Eventually they published our submission minus the two appendices of case papers. (If knowing someone's residential address and the account number to a now-defunct bank account is enough for a criminal to steal money from you, then the regulatory failures afflicting the British banking system are even deeper than I thought.)
The Financial Ombudsman Service, and its predecessor the Banking Ombudsman, have for many years found against bank customers and in favour of the banks. In the early-to-mid 1990s, they upheld the banks' outrageous claim that mag-stripe ATM cards were invulnerable to cloning; this led to the court cases described here and here. That position collapsed when ATM criminals started being sent to prison. Now we have another wave of ATM card cloning, which we've discussed several times: we've shown you a chip and PIN terminal playing Tetris and described relay attacks. There's much more to come.
The radio program is online here (the piece starts 29 minutes and 40 seconds in). We clearly have them rattled; the ombudsman was patronising and abusive, and made a number of misleading statements. He also said that the "independent" Hunt review was commissioned by his board of directors. I hope it turns out to be a bit more independent than that. If it doesn't, then consumer advocates should campaign for the FOS to be abolished and for customers to be empowered to take disputes to the courts, as we argue in section 31-32 of our submission.
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34 thoughts on "Financial Ombudsman losing it?"
Ben Turner says:
Great stuff as always, Ross. With chip and pin came a definite attitude of "this stuff is technical, so unlike the old signature method, all losses are now all your fault, dear customer"
It's always reassuring to read that some proper research is still being done to show that this is not the case, and technology just makes the problems hardly to understand, but not necessarily harder to abuse. Especially when "the good guys" aren't being made aware what the exploits are, and how to best prevent them.
Stu Thomas says:
Public confidence is lost with the ombudsman in my case. Terrible and now typical it would appear. Justice and reason, sounds like some basic legal awareness is needed within those bodies that are meant to protect us, or at least be impartial and just.
Unhappy, again.
Matt Palmer says:
Good work. I heard the radio program at the time, and I also picked up on the "independent" review being commissioned by the FOS. The one good thing he said was that he acknowledged that no system gives a 100% guarantee of security.
However, he then neatly sidestepped the huge questions over a lack of technological / legal knowledge on their part, by just saying "each case is different". Which doesn't answer the specific questions at all. He didn't even accept that the FOS had any shortcomings in their approach in any of their cases.
History seems to be repeating itself. As long as these issues are externalities to UK banks we won't get better security.
A Job says:
I have difficulties in believing that, such organizations do actually exist in the so-called modern world, but when i know how powerful is the financial world and its links within the political spectrum, i understand while the common man like us got to be sacrifice. But thank heaven we got guys like you Ross and other who still believe in the name of integrity.
cassiel says:
Good article. I listened to the You and Yours item yesterday, and yes, it did indeed appear that the ombudsman gradually severed his connection with reality as the interview progressed. I just hope that we get some test cases going the right way before many more people become fraud victims due to such administrative arrogance.
William Watson says:
Interestingly, all parties in the cases provided did not challenge the authenticity of the card used in the withdrawal.
Surely, it should be expected that the Banks (and FOS) have to prove that the original copy of the card must have been used (and hence with some knowledge of the cardholder). Alternatively, the complainants should have evidence that all elements of the card are clonable in addition to the issue of 'yes-cards' – another non-contested point.
But I'm sure all this is more easily said than done, especially in the regimes on display here.
That was a very revealing interview from the FOS representative. I was especially surprised at the admission that they decide on a customers guilt based on procedures, evidence and criteria which are not disclosed to the public or complainant. I had hoped secret courts were going out of fashion given their abuse in the past — sadly it appears not.
The claim that the FOS's "funding comes in effect from the financial services authority" is also intriguing. It appears to directly contradict their March 2007 statement:
who pays for the ombudsman service?
The Financial Ombudsman Service is paid for by levies and case fees which businesses covered by the ombudsman have to pay by law. At the time the ombudsman service was set up, parliament decided that consumers should not be charged for bringing a complaint to us.
geoff chaplin says:
Not only banks, I believe the Ombudsman Service is equally prejudiced in favour of automatically defending the Insurance Companies, acceptiing their word without investigation, and even continuing the same view after proved wrong.
Is regulatory capture as common in the UK as it is in the US? If this ombudsman became a regulator after a long career in the industry over which he now makes decisions, it might explain (but not excuse) a thing or two.
R. Benson says:
What a complete waste of time the Ombudsman is, you do know that they have 'Members' don't you? All the banks and the Insurance Co's are 'Members' A damm good complaints dept, payed by the tax-payer. Your complaint unless its a few quid almost always gets rejected. NOT WORTH THE TROUBLE. They are there for appearances sake to make us think we are going to get a fair shake. NOTHING IS FURTHER FROM THE TRUTH.
Just one more word of advice.Avoid HSBC Insurance (Ireland) like the plague. They employ 'bully boys' Davies (loss adjusters) to help them avoid paying out.
FOS have certainly lost their mind but not in the favour of the financial industry as you claim. Quite the opposite. At the moment the secured loans brokers are in a state of shear panic as FOS has asked all accusations of PPI mis-selling to be paid out without contest – they refuse to back anyone. That means the broker – regardless of whether they were guilty of mis-selling has to pay back the entire policy amount and not just the commission they got off it. The lender doesn't pay anything, nor does the insurance company. It's only the broker that foots this bill.
What consumers and FOS fail to realise is that most brokers aren't big banks. They haven't the billion pounds of reserves to protect them. Some brokers are little more than family-run businesses. So across the country there's a huge number of brokers having to lay off their staff as each claim can be as high as £12k and after just a few of those they'll crumble.
FOS is doing this to protect its own image and it needs a scapegoat to flog. Brokers are a soft target.
Ultimately the consumer loses out as the level of choice diminishes and the only ones who survive are the big sharks who they wanted to attack in the first place.
So when you're all attacking the industry wanting your pound of flesh: Try to realise there's human beings behind it at all levels. Over 20 people got laid off at our broker – I was one of the lucky ones. We don't mis-sell and if we were allowed to contest the cases we'd win but with FOS declaring open season on us we're gonners.
I A Sutton says:
I believe the Financial Ombudsman Service lost it a long time ago. Were you aware that this 'Service' is not a Public Authority and therefore is not subject to the Powers, Fairness and Transparency of the 'Freedom of Information Act?' The FOS investigated a case that was based on my Company; ME the Director and Complainant. I applied for a Commercial 'Business' Loan and the bank agreed to lend, following credit-checking of director and Company. The bank stated it will take 5-weeks to complete. Instead, their procedure took 5-months. Of course, this proved financially detrimental to my Company start-up and as a result it could not trade. As a Complainant, I took my case to the FOS who investigated and sided with the bank. It was obvious that the FOS did not request or acquire information from the bank (Firm) as it would of confirmed that the bank did in fact agree to lend at the period we stated. Now, I cannot get ALL the information that the FOS used to conclude my case as the Freedom of Information Act does not apply to them. This is Outrageous! How can they not be 'Subject' to this level of transparency and Fairness? The FOS should scrapped and, instead, public money should be used to provide the tax payer with a Fair, Honest and Tranparent system. As a result of the banks failings, I have lost my business. Again, it seems like the 'systems' that govern us are failing us.
John Thomas says:
Collated information on the state of the Financial Ombudsman Service can be found on wikipedia:- http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Financial_Ombudsman_Service#Review
Mr David Burns says:
I am slightly concerned after reading many of these articles; I have currently a complaint going through the FOB, and has now been running for a year. The basics are that the bank gave an incorrect settlement figure to our solicitor when we were changing lender the capital sum of £1900.00 this allowed the bank to take a second charge without our knowledge when we went to sell the house 5years later the sum had grown to over £19k we had to pay £14k to get out of it. We never knew anything about this or even given a letter to state this. Solicitor claims he did what he was asked, bank says we should have known..Dont know what to do after reading the blogs on this site.
I don't understand why Ross Anderson says "consumer advocates should campaign for the FOS to be abolished and for customers to be empowered to take disputes to the courts".
Consumers can already take their dispute to court if they wish, instead of using the ombudsman. Why would consumer advocates want to campaign for consumer options to be reduced??!
The reason normal people can't sue banks is because of UK costs rules – the loser pays the winner's costs. This means you risk your house if you go to court. As a result we've seen the emergence of dozens of kinds of alternative dispute resolution, and in the case of banking these are simply unsatisfactory: the banks have captured them.
In the USA, where each party to a lawsuit pays its own costs regardless of the outcome, consumers get a much better deal.
Carol Croft says:
Excellent work! Has there been any progress in the refunding of the 'ghost' transactions to the people featured in your submission?
G.Forbes says:
I'm not sure anyone posting here hasn't an axe to grind….just a few points to restore some sort of objectivity:
1.Journalists have their own ultimate interests at heart – even good ones – that is to sell news!!! Surprised to see integrity mentioned in the same sentence as the word 'journalist'!
2. In most court cases, the case is decided on the basis of the evidence presented to it by both parties. You will not find a court doing any 'investigations' itself. Britain does not have an 'inquisitorial' legal system. No difference then in that regard.
2. Financial services businesses do not 'own' the FOS because they are 'members'. All that means is that under law in this country (Financial Services and Markets Act) all financial services businesses carrying out regulated activities (and certain others) have no choice but to pay a fee every time a customer takes a complaint to the ombudsman. Can't help but think they probably aren't too happy about that, especially as it's about 0.5K every time!!!!!! That could be for a complaint that gets the customer a coupla hundred!
3. As I understand it the reason the FOS can't give out the information either side sends in to the other party is that it is an alternative dispute resolution service – Data Protection law would have a bit to say about information being passed over willy nilly if it contains individual's information (which of course it often would). You may be interested to note that courts don't provide transcripts even when you were present unless you can afford tens of thousands of pounds. If you want your info from a financial services business do a data subject access request. This pretty much works for the knid of small businesses that can make complaints to the FOS, because although a business can't make a data subject access request as a business, the individuals in the business can request all information held by the financial services business which also contains information about them personally. That is usually most information. The Information Commissioner's Office can help with this if financial services businesses won't play ball.
The FOS were set up as an alternative dispute resolution service to the courts, costs consumers nothing, and they aren't obliged to accept the outcome FOS reaches! Businesses pay fees each time a complaint goes to the FOS and pay an annual fee as well, and are obliged to comply with an ombudsman's decision unless they can apply for judicial review. These can only be successful if the ombudsman hasn't properly followed its own processes so that doesn't pose much of a threat….
Oh and for what it's worth, it seems that noone likes 'em unless they have benefited from their intervention. I think that probably means they're doing a pretty good job on the whole!!!
I admit I haven't listened to this broadcast, so this is just facts. Will listen to it as soon as I get a chance, sounds interesting…….
Robin Sword says:
I send comment a year after this blue touch paper was posted and after Lord Hunts deliberations about the FOS.
From my perspective NOTHING has changed although at a puch I would say the attitude of the FOS toward the public is worsening (certianly in my case) the correspondence borders on the insulting.
It is apparent that the FOS FSA banks and all other Financial Institutions are above the law.
Now where did I put that shotgun
J. George says:
This article is exceptionally dangerous to consumers.
I quote, "The Financial Ombudsman Service, and its predecessor the Banking Ombudsman, have for many years found against bank customers and in favour of the banks."
You're absolutely right, but the FOS also finds in favour of the consumer on many occasions. That's what's meant by impartial. I think it's worth noting that organisations such as the FOS are not "consumer champions" (who are for the most part underinformed buffoons who do nothing but stoke the fires for their own personal gain). An ombudsman is an impartial platform to give an unbiased view of a complaint.
Not every complaint brought to any ombudsman service has merit. Sometimes, shock horror, the consumer is actually wrong, and is complaining for the sheer sake of it. Other times they have been through a horrible situation, however it's only a perception that it's the fault of a financial institution.
Why on earth do people like Mr Anderson persist in giving people false hope. The hand of justice falls in both directions..
Paul Grenet says:
The Hunt Review web site has removed the evidence it received from the public and others. My evidence was part of this so I have published it again on my own web site.
If anyone would like to know what really happens when an ordinary person takes a case to the FOS, please take a look at this web site. Sorry its so long.
Sorry, messed up previous post
http://www.financial-ombudsman-problems.co.uk
Joe Bloggs says:
What a load of moaners! it is people like this that clog the FOS up for the truly needy.
Having gone through their complaints process myself and having a relative that works there I can truly say the work they do is excellent and mainly thankless. He has told me of the times they uphold complaints in the favour of the customer – do they get a thankyou? No, just more whinges that the compensation is not enough!!!
Generally if a complaint has merit the bank will seek to resolve it in-house – therefore it stands to reason that a higher percentage of cases passed to the FOS will lose.
They are not there to pay out large sums (I have been told of the silly sums asked for for really minor incidents) but to put right what has gone wrong. People have too high views of their "rights". The banks fully fund this service making free to these people.
If your case is that good and the FOS has wrongly rejected it – go to court. Its amazing the people who say they have an excellent case but will not put their money where their mouth is!
He has told me some of the things people complain about (generically of course to protect personal information under the DPA) and I was shocked. The customer (not the bank) sets ae DD up wrong which causes the wrong payment to be made, therefore incur charges etc. The bank, as a gesure as it is a long standing customer, offers to refund the charges etc. However that is apparently not enough – the customer wants compensation – WHY? IT WAS THEIR MISTAKE, NOT THE BANKS???
We just, unfortunately, live in a compensation society now where people just want something for nothing. If these timewasters stopped clogging up the system then the truly needy and with merits cases would be looked at quicker – and possibly with more sympathy and less jadedness.
The fact is, a lot of people lie to get "free" monty – and when they are caught out they lie more. I am willing to bet that a fari few of the stories about people losing probably aren't the truth about what actually happened – however the FOS does not go running to the press with the real truth. Maybe if it started to do so then we would really find out whether these complaints are warranted or not.
Foonswippersoon't says:
I have to say in most cases the Ombudsman will side with the institution. They do not understand legal procedures and do not follow them and they make numerous mistakes. They will not consider anything you provide as evidence and will believe anything the institution says.
The UK has an obligation, under the Payment Services Directive, to provide a dispute resolution service. Until the points raised in our submission to the Hunt Review are dealt with, our government cannot plausibly claim to have discharged this obligation.
And if the FOS are indeed the paragons of virtue that you proclaim, they could abandon their exemption from the Freedom of Information Act, so that outsiders can get decent statistics of what they do. They should also have a proper independent review of their operations, unlike the somewhat circumscribed one done by Lord Hunt.
Margaret Blackwood says:
My case with the FOS is currently with the Independent Assessor. The Adjudicator, the Ombudsman and the Service Review Team didn't even read statements the bank I complained of sent them. How do I know that? 1) the statements proved my case 2) right in the middle of them was a statement belonging to another customer of the bank – and neither the bank staff nor 3 departments at the FOS noticed. That isn't a mistake – that is sheer biased negligence. My MP has written to the Independent Assessor that he is "alarmed" at what has happened. Reasonable? Unbiased? I don't think so – amd I am not a whinger. The FOS is unfit for purpose.
I would not hold out too much hope for the Independent Assessor, he may well decide its not a matter he is allowed to consider. He is, in any case, too close to the FOS itself and cannot compel them to do anything much. In my case he told me that there was force in my complaint about interest rates and asked the FOS to reconsider the interest rate used to calculate the redress payment. FOS simply refused and the IA just accepted that, after a cosy chat with the Principal Ombudsman. I wonder why he bothered to ask in the first place if he was prepared to accept a blank refusal.
But truth is stranger than fiction. Although FOS refused to look at the interest rate (The Ombudsman's decision is final, no Ombudsman can over-rule another !) they did decide to look at the tax situation which the IA had not asked them to look at and where I was content with the deal I negotiated with the bank myself… and found a mistake which the Principal Ombudsman instructed should be corrected with a cheque from the FOS itself … the bank was not asked to repay the tax it had incorrectly deducted ! (The Ombudsman's decision is not so final in tax matters it seems ).
The questions of why the Ombudsman missed the tax error in the first place, or why he approved the award as fair and reasonable without considering tax at all (thereby allowing a £4000 tax error to get through), or why the Principal Ombudsman chose to blame the Service Review Team who had nothing to do with the original mistake rather than the Ombudsman who made the decision, all remain unanswered.
Please let us know what happens.
J. Collins says:
I do not have a major grievance (loss of money) but was illegally treated by the insurance company who refused to disclose evidence(tape) for 9 months and then said they had lost it. I was guilty although they could produce no evidence. FOS treated the matter as of no consequence, that they do not act in the same way as courts in respect to evidence – the loss of the tape was not fatal, they fabricated arguments and took 19 months to come to a decision. I was sent a cheque for £100 by FOS which I did not ask for. The insurance company is now assured that it can treat customers as it pleases – there is a clause at the end of car insurance policies which states that the company can decide disputes as it likes – I did not know of this clause – I thought matters were decided on evidence.
FOS is to come under the Freedom of Information Act with effect from October 2011.
I have a complaint atm with HSBC which has been running since August this year while I was on hoiliday in Majorca.
It starts like this: (bit of a trek so please bear with me)
2 days before i was due to fly, i found out my holiday company had gone bust. (friday), phone the company and after mny phone calls to majorca, i was told i had to pay the hotel again for my stay, thankfully, the flights had been booked seperatly. But the hotel was going to cost me anpother 270es,
A friend leant me £300 in order so that i had some holiday money to go away with, After 10hours of non stop hassle i eventailly arrived at thehotel nad booked in, paying them 270e out of my 470e holiday money, leaving the £300 in the bank to take out when i needed it, never thought i would need my credit cards.
at midnight on the tuesday eve, while sat in the hotel bar i decided that the following morning i was going ot take the 300 out of the bank as i was misteriously running short on funds.. didnt occrur to me that maybe the cleaning staff might have had a hand in that. Sof about half 11 i appraoched the santander bank in palma nova to take the money out, enetered my pin, card was spat back at me saying that i had already readched my daily limit, tried another atm, same problem, came back to the santander atm and tried again with a lower amount, thinking that as i was abraod maybe the limits were different due to exchange fess.. after a 3rd time with no luck, i phoned tha bank from a payphone, to be told that thre was already a pending transaction on teh account from earlier that day.. i argues with this but was told that was the case. I returned back to the hotel and logged in to my bank accoutn to see for myself, nothing was showing, so after making sure i had logged out of my account i returned to my room and phone the bank AGAIN from my mobile.. (Cue and expensive call) .. after a rather lenghty phone call.. i was eventually transfered to another department who then upped my overdraft so that i could take some money out as i still had 4 days left on my holiday..
i decided to leave taking the money out until the following day hoping that the fraudulent transaction would clear before i took any more out.
so thursday morning i walked to a different bank, and took the money out with no problems. this transaction cleared within the hour.
When i got home i went to the bank and spent numerous hours on the phone to the fraud department who put the money back into the account. at the start of september.
The bank have now TAKEN THE MOINEY OUT of my account (with no notice to me, they say they sent me a letter on the 1st oct to inform me, which to this day i have not received, stating that a valid pin was used and there fore i must have taken the money out. they keep asking me if i kept the pin with the card, which after 12years of banking with hsbc i have NEVER done, to that point i have never even written the damn pin down anywhere)
As i was on my own on holiday, there was no one with me who had access to the card.
The last time i physically used the card before attemptng to take money out of the account was on the saturday before i left the uk.
My problem i have now is that dspite the bank themselves telling me that the fraudulent transaction was taken out at 00:17 on teh 18th.. it didnt clear through my bank account until the 19th which is when i took the 2nd lot of 300es out (after upping my overdraft to do so) for which i am NOt disputing. How do i get the bank to agree that the original transaction for the 18th is fraudulent? is there anyway i can do so? OR as a single mum who can barely afford to loose £20 am i looking at being £254 + out of pocket even tho i didnt take the 1st transaction out?
Any help would be much appreciated as i cant afford to loose this much money….. now the bank are telling me that another investigation will hve to be conducted, and it will take upto another 5weeks to resolve, at which time i still run the risk of not getting my missing money back!!!
Please can anyone help?
Complain to your bank quoting the Banking Code and the Consumer Credit Act. The bank is liable for the disputed transactions because your conduct was not grossly negligent. In the event that the Bank does not accept liability, refer your case to the Financial Ombudsman. Good luck!
Gordan Finch says:
All of the Ombudsman services in Britain are paid for by the Industry (you) are complaining about.
They have no legal powers and can only recommend a limited compensation payment.
The Bank, Insurer etc, CAN JUST SAY SOD OFF.
In other words the Ombudsman is just a toothless Mouse with no power.
The system of Ombusman Services is just a time consuming tactic to put YOU OFF taking action at law.
Knowing that most claimants give up after being frustrated by long delays.
OMBUDSMAN SERVICE (its just a limited company) WORKING FOR THE CROOKS IN SOCIETY, BANKS INSURERS ETC.
If you really want to take action (advertise your case) using THE INTERNET, THE MEDIA, BANNERS, PLACARDS, UNIVERSITY, ANY LEGAL TACTIC FREE AND AVAILIABLE TO YOU.
Then ask the Minister in charge for an appointment (they are just MP's) and lobby the hell out of them to change legislation.
The energy ombudsman is also a chocolate fireguard and just a final wing of industry anti-customer attitudes. I told SSE not to use my personal data to promote themselves. I left them and they sent a "final statement" for leccy, with lots of details of services they offer that were not energy. 8 weeks later and off to the Ombudsman, another 8ish and they copped out with "we cannot rule on wording". The intent presumably can then be ignored, meaning the complaint – and the industry normal habit (to ignore people's statutory rights to privacy) – can be dismissed. No risk of criminal or civil consequences, and another non-creative, un-innovative, wealth-consolidating globalised corporation gets to just make a mockery of the public it is meant to serve.
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«Убийства по алфавиту» () — детективный телесериал от студии BBC One снятый в 2018 году, основанный на одноименном романе Агаты Кристи 1936 года. Он транслировался в течение трех вечеров подряд, начиная с 26 декабря 2018 года. Он был адаптирован Сарой Фелпс и поставлен Алексом Габасси.

Телесериал был выпущен на DVD компанией Universal Pictures UK 11 марта 2019 года.

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Пуаро получает письмо от неизвестного человека под псевдонимом «A.B.C». Этот человек обещает совершить преступление, которое не под силу раскрыть полиции. Вскоре действительно происходит несколько убийств, и на месте преступления всегда находят алфавитный железнодорожный справочник.

Серийный убийца настолько самонадеян, что посылает письма Пуаро, где сообщает о следующем месте преступления. Пуаро догадывается, что убийцей является не безумец, страдающий психическим расстройством, а человек, убивающий своих жертв с вполне определённым мотивом.

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Джон Малкович снялся в роли Эркюля Пуаро, в телепроекте также приняли участие Руперт Гринт, Тара Фицджеральд и Ширли Хендерсон в ролях второго плана.

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Revelation 2:18-29
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"To the angel of the church in Thyatira write." (Revelation 2:18).
It was not exactly a vacation spot.
You wouldn't go there on a honeymoon.
If you went there at all, you were usually just passing through.
Of the seven cities of Revelation 2-3, Thyatira was the least important.
And that's where we need to begin.
To help us think about Thyatira, perhaps we should find some modern-day counterparts. For Ephesus we could think of a city like Dallas, bold and brash with lots of commerce and lots of religion. For suffering Smyrna, think of a city like Cairo where the Coptic Christians are under assault from the Muslim majority. For Pergamum the closest equivalent might be Washington, D.C. with its worldly power and marble monuments.
What, then, would correspond to Thyatira? Perhaps we should think of a union town like Flint, Michigan. Flint is to Chicago as Thyatira was to Ephesus. The city was known for its high-quality bronze used to produce weapons that when properly polished gleamed like gold. It was also known for producing cloth dyed red or purple. Acts 16:14 tells of Lydia, the dealer in purple cloth from Thyatira, who met Paul when he came to Philippi. Economically the town was dominated by various trade guilds that mixed their trade with paganism and immorality. If you were a carpenter or a potter or a metalworker, you joined a trade guild that met at the local pagan temple. Along with the regular trade guild business came the associated idol worship, drunkenness, and rampant sexual perversion. It all came as one big package. You couldn't say, "I want to be in the guild, but I'll skip the idol worship part." That wouldn't go in Thyatira.
Perhaps it is ironic that the church in the least important city should receive the longest message from our Lord. Small churches matter to Jesus. His eyes behold the true faith of the tribal church on a remote Indonesian island, and he sees the faithful saints huddled behind shuttered windows and locked doors in North Korea.
Small churches matter to Jesus.
Let no one say, "My church is too small for Jesus." In his eyes there are no small churches. You cannot find the slightest word in the New Testament to make you think that Jesus favors the megachurches of the world. Though big churches garner most of the publicity, by and large the work of Jesus goes forward in churches of less than 100 people. This is true in America, and it is certainly true around the world.
Do not despise the day of small things. Our Lord loves small churches just as much as he loves big churches.
I. Jesus Knows the Truth About the Church.
The message begins with a description of Jesus Christ. This letter comes from
the Son of God, whose eyes are like blazing fire and whose feet are like burnished bronze (v. 18).
This is the only time in Revelation where Christ is called the "Son of God." In our pluralistic society this is the most divisive claim we can make. We believe that from all eternity God has existed as Father, Son, and Holy Spirit. To say Jesus is the "Son of God" means that when we worship him, we are truly worshiping God himself. So this is God speaking to the church at Thyatira. His eyes blazing like fire are the eyes that see all things and overlook nothing. The feet like burnished bronze come in judgment over those who oppose him. This verse tells us that we'd better pay attention to what Jesus says. It's like when a pilot tells the passengers, "Buckle up. We're about to hit some turbulence."
To say Jesus is the "Son of God" means that when we worship him, we are truly worshiping God himself.
II. Jesus Praises the Good in the Church.
But first we get the good news. In many ways Thyatira is the best of the four churches we have studied so far. Look at what Jesus says about it:
I know your deeds, your love and faith, your service and perseverance, and that you are now doing more than you did at first (v. 19).
This church has the good works of Ephesus along with the love Ephesus lacked. It has the perseverance of Smyrna and the good theology of the majority of the church at Pergamum. Jesus even says, "You are doing more than you did at first." I don't think we should read this and think, "It must have been an extremely busy church." I doubt our Lord means to commend a crowded church calendar. I think he means that the congregation itself was growing in faith, growing in love, growing in hope, and that growth was seen in the way they worshiped and served and reached out to others.
To Ephesus, Jesus said, "You were strong but now are getting weaker."
To Thyatira, he says, "You are good and getting better." That's high praise from our Lord.
It's wonderful to be part of a united church that is growing in love and knowledge and zeal for Christ.
Whatever else we can say about Thyatira, the Lord clearly says that they were still making progress spiritually. It's wonderful to be part of a united church that is growing in love and knowledge and zeal for Christ. So our Lord has high praise for this church that was advancing for the gospel in an unlikely place.
III. Jesus Exposes Evil in the Church.
And it is that high praise that makes the rest of this passage so unsettling. Somehow in the midst of their growth they had allowed an ungodly woman to rise to a place of enormous spiritual influence:
Nevertheless, I have this against you: You tolerate that woman Jezebel, who calls herself a prophetess. By her teaching she misleads my servants into sexual immorality and the eating of food sacrificed to idols (v. 20).
There are many mysteries here that the text does not explain. Who was this woman and how did she rise to prominence in an otherwise excellent congregation? Our Lord here clearly refers to a real person even though the name Jezebel is likely not her real name but an allusion to the wicked wife of King Ahab first mentioned in 1 Kings 16:29-33. The short version of the story goes like this: Jezebel was the daughter of a pagan king named Ethbaal. When she married Ahab, king of Israel, she exerted such an evil influence that the entire nation turned to Baal worship. Even though the spiritual tone of the nation was not good to start with, under Jezebel's influence evil was exalted and enthroned in the land so that Ahab was more evil than all the kings who came before him. The crafty Jezebel became a symbol for a seductive form of evil that not only allowed for idolatry but promoted it, and not only allowed adultery but encouraged and rewarded it.
Such a toxic mix will soon destroy a nation or a church.
But how could such a woman come to power in the church at Thyatira? I think the answer is in the word "prophetess." By claiming to speak for God, she gained credibility with gullible, untaught Christians. One could imagine that such a woman combined a powerful personality with persuasive speech, a seductive smile, and withering scorn for her critics. She was no doubt clever, quick on her feet, slick in her presentation, and extremely dangerous.
With Jezebel you could have it all.
With Jezebel you could have it all:
Idol worship.
Friendship with the world.
Guilt-free sex.
And you got to do all of it under the guise of being a "good Christian." No doubt her followers filled the pews at Thyatira. Perhaps they sang in the choir. Some of them no doubt derided the Bible teachers at Thyatira as narrow-minded fundamentalist killjoys.
It worked for the first Jezebel in the Old Testament.
It worked for her namesake in Thyatira.
I pause here to offer a solemn warning. Be wary of those who advertise themselves as "prophets" and "prophetesses." It is one thing to be a Bible teacher or a pastor, but it is something else to claim to receive special messages from God. Anyone who says such things takes upon themselves a fearful responsibility. It is one thing to say, "God has said this in Romans 8." It is another thing to claim that a dream or a vision you have comes from the Almighty.
In putting the matter this way, I do not wish to pass judgment on any particular person. But there are many false prophets in the land.
Be wary of those who advertise themselves as "prophets" and "prophetesses."
We have the Word of God. Is that not enough for us?
Yet another question remains. How could such a woman be tolerated in such a fine church? Perhaps she was related to one of the church leaders and that gave her cover for her sin. Perhaps the leaders feared that if they confronted her, she would split the church. Perhaps they hoped that by tolerating her, she would eventually go away. Who knows? They may have thought that it was a mark of grace to "accept her" in the hopes of reaching her for the Lord. I suspect it was some combination of all those factors.
But whatever the reason was, the church had gravely sinned by not dealing with this evil woman. It is frightening to consider that this sort of thing may happen in an otherwise strong congregation. Lots of well-meaning people want to go to "St. Jezebel's Church of What's Happening Now" because it's so much fun. You can go to church and believe what you want and do what you want.
IV. Jesus Judges Evil in the Church.
I have given her time to repent of her immorality, but she is unwilling. So I will cast her on a bed of suffering, and I will make those who commit adultery with her suffer intensely, unless they repent of her ways. I will strike her children dead. Then all the churches will know that I am he who searches hearts and minds, and I will repay each of you according to your deeds (vv. 21-23).
When Jesus says, "I gave her time to repent," he perhaps means that the church leaders had confronted her about her sinful behavior and she did not respond. While it is true that the patience of God is meant to lead us to repentance, it is also true that God's patience has a limit.
Many want to go to "St. Jezebel's Church of What's Happening Now" because it's so much fun.
He will not wait forever.
If we persist in sin, judgment day will come at last.
The one piece of good news is that her followers still have time to repent.
Jezebel is beyond redemption.
Her followers are not.
But the bell that tolls for her will toll for them too. Let no one reading these words be deceived. You cannot continue in sexual sin forever without facing the judgment of God.
In this case the judgment is spelled out:
You cannot continue in sexual sin forever without facing the judgment of God.
First, there will be intense suffering (v. 22).
Second, her followers will die (v. 23a).
Third, all the churches will know that God is serious about sin in the church (v. 23b).
These harsh words must not be watered down. Let those who promote free sex, casual sex, hooking up, sleeping around, premarital sex, fornication, filthy talk, child pornography, prostitution, adultery, sexual experimentation, homosexuality, bisexuality, and all other forms of sexual sin hear this message from heaven:
Be sure your sin will find you out.
What you do in secret will be shouted from the housetops.
What you do in the darkness is seen as if it were done at midday.
V. Jesus Encourages His Faithful Followers.
Verses 24-25 contain Christ's call to the faithful remnant at Thyatira:
Now I say to the rest of you in Thyatira, to you who do not hold to her teaching and have not learned Satan's so-called deep secrets (I will not impose any other burden on you): Only hold on to what you have until I come.
The phrase "so-called deep secrets" gives us a clue to what was going on. Jezebel enticed her followers by promising them knowledge and experience that came through some combination of pagan ritual plus Christian symbolism plus sexual experimentation, all under the banner of learning "deep secrets" that other people do not know.
False prophets love "deep secrets."
It's almost irresistible.
We love it when someone says, "Let me tell you a secret."
When you cloak the "deep secrets" with a veneer of religiosity, it becomes even more attractive. Why be stuck with the Bible when you can enter into a world of direct messages, omens, signs and prophecies that give you insight into the "hidden world" that regular Christians don't have?
Note that Jesus in this case doesn't tell them to cast the woman out of the church. Evidently Jezebel is so deeply embedded in the life of the church that Christ will take care of her personally. This presumably means he will come in some form of physical judgment leading to her death and to the death of her followers.
False prophets love "deep secrets."
Remember Ananias and Sapphira (Acts 5:1-11).
Remember those who got drunk at the Lord's Supper (1 Corinthians 11:28-30).
Jesus has only one command to his faithful followers: Hold on!
Don't give into her seductive schemes.
Don't join those who follow her teachings.
Sometimes godliness is measured by holding on when it would be easier to give up.
VI. Jesus Promises to Share His Victory With Us.
Here is the promise Christ makes to those who hold on in Thyatira:
To him who overcomes and does my will to the end, I will give authority over the nations-'He will rule them with an iron scepter; he will dash them to pieces like pottery'- just as I have received authority from my Father. I will also give him the morning star (vv. 26-28).
Those who remain faithful will one day reign with Christ on the earth. They will share with him in his coming kingdom that will spread across the globe. Two thousand years ago the world crucified Jesus. But one day he will rule the world with an iron scepter as King of Kings and Lord of Lords.
If we are faithful, we will share in his victory.
And we will know him deeply and personally for he is the true "morning star" that lights up all of heaven.
Starving on the Inside
Before I close this message, let's consider the implications of this passage for the 21st-century. No one disputes that we live in a sex-saturated society. We glorify sex and talk about it so much that it almost bores us. But rampant sex is only a symptom of a much deeper problem.
We are starving on the inside.
A starving man will eat anything you put in front of him.
He'll eat food that will kill him in the end.
Why is pornography such a huge business on the Internet? It's a matter of supply and demand. People make millions off pornography because it offers a temporary fix for the inner emptiness we cannot satisfy.
When Vic Pentz preached on this passage ("Sex: Sacred and Profane," January 28, 2007), he explained why God's way is always better than the world's way:
When it comes to matters sexual, less is more. When it comes to love, it's less experience that's desirable. How romantic is it when someone says, "I know so much; let me show you all the stuff I've learned." This is one area where going pro is not a plus. It is far more romantic to be a stumbling, bumbling amateur in matters of love.
Then he offers this illustration that makes it clear:
When you think about an orchestra, can you imagine a musician saying, "You're not going to tie me down my whole life to playing the violin. I've got to play the tuba some nights and some nights a clarinet or oboe and, of course, I'm going to go through my trombone phase." You guarantee you will never be a virtuoso- and you will always be mediocre - until you give yourself to one totally and completely and devotedly- to one and only one for the rest of your life.
Though many have tried, no one has ever improved on God's plan for sexual happiness: One man with one woman, faithful to each other for a lifetime.
When it comes to love, it's less experience that's desirable.
Everything else is a cheap counterfeit.
We've got too many Christians who are "going through a trombone phase" with their sexual experimentation. And there is always a Jezebel out there ready to talk to us, ready to listen to our problems, offering a cheap and easy and quick satisfaction. If necessary, she can quote Scripture while you sleep with her.
Beware of Jezebel! She has a host of modern-day sons and daughters. She'll take your body and your soul and then she'll lead you straight to hell.
There is no such thing as casual sex.
There is no such thing as a guilt-free one-night stand.
God wired us so that we would find our deepest sexual fulfillment inside the boundary of marriage between one man and one woman. Sex starts not with a physical act but with a relationship that leads to a commitment that makes a covenant before God that creates a "marriage bed" that God delights to honor (Hebrews 13:4). We honor God when we honor the holy estate of marriage and the physical union of a husband and wife.
We ought to teach our children that when God created sexual desire, he also created the proper place where it can be fully enjoyed. To do that we must also teach our children the last half of Hebrews 13:4, preferably in the King James Version:
But whoremongers and adulterers God will judge.
Whoremongers. You don't hear that word very often.
Modern translations use other words like "fornicators" or "sexually immoral," but I think "whoremongers" gives it a distinctly evil sound, which is what we need to hear.
God has no use for whoremongers.
And he has no use for churches that excuse them.
Sex starts not with a physical act but with a relationship that leads to a commitment.
Let's not miss the main point. God takes sexual sin seriously. He judges those who practice it, he judges those who promote it, and he judges those who tolerate it, laugh at it, or make light of it.
This sort of message is not very popular. Let's keep the lines sharp and clear between the church and the world in the realm of sexual ethics. Let the world do as it will. Left to itself, the world always chooses the path of self-indulgence. But it is the church's job to shine the pure light of God's truth in the midst of the prevailing darkness. If the church lives like the world, why would the world ever want to be part of the church? Any doctrine that makes it easy to sin, any doctrine that redefines sin, any doctrine that makes sin less sinful comes straight from hell.
Saved After Sexual Sin
What, then, do we say to those who have made repeated mistakes in the sexual area? Is there grace for them too? Could Jezebel herself have been saved? Could such an evil woman have found forgiveness? We aren't left to wonder about that. Look at what Jesus said in verse 21:
I have given her time to repent of her immorality, but she is unwilling.
Evidently Jezebel preferred her version of sex plus idolatry to doing the hard work of repentance before the Lord. She had her chance but she was unwilling to repent so for her there was nothing left but judgment. But we find in that solemn statement the hope of the gospel.
If the church lives like the world, why would the world ever want to be part of the church?
If you are willing, you can be changed.
If you are willing, you can be made clean.
If you are willing, you can have a new start.
If you are willing, your sins can be washed away.
We are all saved the same way, by the free grace of God. To those who are scarred by wrong choices in the past, if you are willing, you can be forgiven and made clean. You may still live with certain consequences of your past, but you can have the burden of guilt lifted from your heart.
"If anyone is in Christ, he is a new creation; the old has gone, the new has come!" (2 Corinthians 5:17).
Think of it this way.
You can have Jezebel or you can have Jesus, but you can't have them both.
Which do you want?
You can have Jezebel or you can have Jesus.
You can have the cheap thrills of the world and feel sick to your stomach the next morning. Or you can have Jesus now, a new life now, forgiveness now, real pleasure now, and you will one day rise to shine like the Morning Star.
If you want Jesus, you must turn your back on Jezebel and turn your heart over to the Lord. Give to him all that you are, including the sins that stain your past, trust in him as your Lord and Savior. Come to Christ just as you are, and he will never turn you away.
He loves you.
He came from heaven to save you.
He died on the cross for you.
He invites you to come to him.
A new life awaits those who say "Yes" to Jesus.
But you'll never know until you come to him.
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Q: Is there a book that teaches proofs from simple to intermediate level? I am looking for a book that teaches proofs and the book has many exercises from very simple to more difficult?  I have noticed with most math books, they seem to leave out pieces too soon before the reader gets a chance to work through lots of examples of a specific level before progressing to the next level. I want more structured approach so that after a couple dozen proofs of class "A", I want to advance to class "B".  I cannot overemphasize my need for exercises. BTW, this is in preparation for an analysis course.

A: I recommend
Mathematical Proofs: A Transition to Advanced Mathematics by Chartrand, Polimeni, and Zhang. (link below)
http://www.amazon.com/Mathematical-Proofs-Transition-Advanced-Mathematics/dp/0321797094/ref=sr_1_1?ie=UTF8&qid=1462468981&sr=8-1&keywords=mathematical+proofs+a+transition+to+advanced+mathematics
The nice thing about this book is that it teaches proofs from the ground up. You learn basic proof techniques in a variety of mathematical areas including analysis, abstract algebra, and number theory. The book is very simple to read and has lots of great exercises, including very easy ones as well as more challenging ones. It presupposes no background in any of the aforementioned fields.
The nice thing is that you can get a taste of the different kinds of mathematical proofs (including the $\epsilon-\delta$ proofs you'll be seeing a lot of in analysis) in a simple, clear, informative setting. I.e., the things that you learn to prove and are proved for you are not that advanced, but the help illuminate what really goes on in a proof.
The link I put is to the 3rd edition, but I see that the 2nd edition is available on amazon at a much more reasonable price.
Good luck!

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It's much easier to collect data than it is to create value from it. It's not hard to get customers to sign up for a loyalty program or to get customers consent to use their data. So why is it so hard to create value from it? The truth is, because it's unbelievably difficult to create value at scale. It's easy to create a campaign that makes money but it's hard to do that at scale. However, it's scale you need to move the dial on your business. Scale means pouring over every piece of data.
Amazon reckons that around 30% of their sales are a result of their targeting decisoning and product recommendations. To achieve this Amazon invests billions in technology and specialist skills every year.
So here is my take on why most organisations have data, people and technology, but don't get the 30% uplift in sales.
For most organisations, data science and customer engagement might be a focus but it's never the business. Amazon is a data company that started selling books but could have been selling anything…and now it does. In most businesses that I see they talk about having a focus on putting the customer and data at the centre, but as soon as sales go soft….they start blasting everything to everyone. They invest in tools and people, but the people move on, the focus changes and they get new tools, new people and it all starts to look like groundhog day.
Success requires a constant and relentless commitment to innovation. There are a lot of people who work in this space and who understand it, but there are very few innovators. On top of that, most innovators generally, don't want to work for a single brand (unless you are Amazon) and if they do they won't stay very long. Usually, innovators want to work in a startup or an environment where they get to work with multiple clients in multiple industries.
Under David Thodey, Telstra was relentlessly focused on the customer and invested heavily in analytics and customer marketing. When Thodey started, their share price was around $3.20, over 6 years the share price had risen to around $6.30 in 2015. After Thodey left, Telstra swang back to being product-centric again, most of the marketing folk under Thodey left too, and the 6 years of gains have been lost in 3. The share price is now back to where it was in 2009.
So how can organisations get value out of their data and drive significant sales, when it is not their core business and innovation and sustainability are constant challenges? One option is to have a partner who has this in their DNA. A partner who lives and breathes data, customer centricity and engagement, a partner who has it as their business to bring innovation to your company.
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GOP shifts focus to House Dem 'squad' in campaign attacks
Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez says 'badass' Millennials are the true greatest generation
Democrat Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez claims Millennials and Generation Z are better 'informed' and more well-versed in history than past generations.
Move over, Nancy Pelosi. Rep. Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez and the "squad" of freshmen women of color are emerging as new stars of Republican attacks against Democrats running for Congress.
The tone is being set from the top as President Donald Trump bashes the four squad members with a strategy Republicans are quick to mimic, modeled on his own rise to the White House. Trump set a new standard in 2016, making some Republicans uneasy, by taunting rivals and branding them with exaggerated nicknames intended to make them unelectable.
The GOP is embracing the tactic for 2020.
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A first test will be a Sept. 10 special election in North Carolina, the state where Trump sparked the "send her back!" rally chant. The Trump-endorsed Republican, Dan Bishop, is portraying Marine veteran Dan McCready and other Democrats as "crazies," ''clowns" and "socialist."
"These crazy liberal clowns ... They're not funny," Bishop says in one ad that features images of McCready, Pelosi and squad members to a soundtrack of circus music. "They're downright scary."
Yet it remains to be seen whether this line of attack will work. For years, Republicans relied on attacks depicting Pelosi, the House speaker, as an out-of-touch San Francisco liberal as they tried to snap GOP voters to attention.
But singling out a new generation of female leaders is risky when Republicans are trying to prevent an exodus of suburban women and independent voters.
The attacks are especially fraught because two of the women — Reps. Rashida Tlaib, D-Mich., and Ilhan Omar, D-Minn. — are the first Muslim women elected to Congress, part of the historic freshmen class with more women and minorities than ever. The other two members of the self-described squad are Ocasio-Cortez, of New York, and Rep. Ayanna Pressley, D-Mass.
Michael Fauntroy, an associate professor of political science at Howard University, said Republicans down the ballot are taking Trump's cue with thinly veiled attacks on race and religion.
"Beating up on Pelosi isn't such a big deal because she's been around forever," he said. "This 'squad' is perceived as a new threat and it's this perfect collection of religion, race and policy position, all tied up in a neat little bow, if you will."
It's not just the North Carolina election where Republican candidates are running against the squad.
A Minnesota Republican warned voters off the squad and its home-state representative, Omar, who wears a headscarf, as he launched his campaign to unseat Democratic Sen. Tina Smith. And Republican strategists are trying to link other Democrats to the group's liberal agenda by branding it "socialist," even if the candidates have not signed on to the Green New Deal, Medicare for All and other liberal proposals favored by the four freshmen lawmakers.
"We will make every Democrat own de facto Speaker Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez's socialist agenda," said Bob Salera, a spokesman for the National Republican Congressional Committee. "And if a member isn't for it, what are they doing to stop it?"
Republican strategists believe the squad, like Pelosi, will provide a powerful focal point for attacks. Ocasio-Cortez is a recognizable name among voters — higher than some presidential candidates — and not all favorable, they say. The Congressional Leadership Fund, the main outside group aligned with House Republicans, is calling out freshmen Democratic lawmakers they say are "as woke" as Ocasio-Cortez and "palling around" with the New Yorker widely known as AOC. The NRCC routinely assigns Democratic candidates Trump-style nicknames.
What Republicans don't want is a repeat of the Trump rally last month in Greenville, N.C., when the president endorsed Bishop on stage but also went after the women one by one, sparking chants of "send her back!" when he got to Omar, who is a Somali refugee. All are U.S. citizens.
"It's no longer a dog whistle, it's a bullhorn," said Waleed Shahid, a spokesman for Justice Democrats, a group backing the squad.
Republicans acknowledge the risk of taking the rhetoric too far and are trying to keep the barbs focused on policy rather than personalities. They target their liberal policies and criticism of Israel, particularly its treatment of Palestinians.
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One Republican strategist said the GOP only expects to use the message in about 13 key House districts where Trump easily won in 2016, rather than more competitive suburban districts that have been trending toward Democrats in recent elections. The strategist was granted anonymity to discuss the internal deliberations.
Ann Gibson, 74-year-old retiree from suburban Charlotte, said Trump's focus on the first-year Democratic women is part of a larger tendency of constantly looking for enemies.
"I think he's a sexist and racist and I think he needs somebody to rage at and that's this squad," said Gibson, a registered Democrat who voted early for McCready. "Everything that he stands for is just, I'm tired. I'm tired of him, I'm tired of the stuff that goes on every day. ... Just the whole thing."
But Republican Denise Shirhall, 65, said she didn't like the squad's directness or the Democratic establishment's tolerance of the women, which she attributed to their being members of minority groups — "because they're Muslim, this and that."
"They're running amok," Shirhall said outside an early voting site in the Charlotte suburb of Matthews. "If they were my kids, I'd pop their hand."
Both parties now say the North Carolina contest is a toss-up. In a district Trump swept in 2016, the tight race is raising questions about whether the attacks will resonate during the 2020 presidential campaign.
Trump, who's making a return visit to North Carolina on the eve of the election, shows few signs of changing course, tweeting that McCready "likes the 'Squad' more than North Carolina."
Pelosi, who appears with cameos in the GOP ads, frequently expresses pride at the more than 130,000 attack ads run against her in 2018. Despite those ads, Democrats won control of the House and she regained the speaker's gavel after six years of GOP rule.
Ocasio-Cortez appears to be taking a similar approach, finding humor in the broadsides against her.
"I love everything about this GOP attack ad," she tweeted about one ad labeled "shallow thoughts" that shows her discussing climate change.
Republicans, she ribbed, are "paying for ads that spread & explain our policy positions."


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FIRE > Newsdesk > Top Story > University of Colorado Board of Regents endorse freedom of expression in letter to all first-year students
University of Colorado Board of Regents endorse freedom of expression in letter to all first-year students
by Bill Rickards
Sometimes FIRE's Newsdesk can feel like a parade of bad news, from reporting on administrators suppressing speech on campus to detailing unconstitutional policies. So it's a great occasion when we have the opportunity to report some positive campus free speech news. Last week, the University of Colorado system sent a letter endorsing freedom of expression to all incoming first-year students.
This effort had been in the works since June, after the University of Colorado Board of Regents approved the distribution of the letter to incoming first-year students.
"The mission is quite simple," said Colorado Springs employment attorney and University of Colorado Regent Chance Hill at the time. "Its primary purpose and aim is to demonstrate and signal to all first-year undergrad students at all four campuses the first week of the academic year, that the senior leadership is committed to building a campus culture that values free speech in all its forms and diversity in all its forms."
The letter, which was sent out to all new students last Tuesday, endorses free expression and academic freedom and challenges students to rise to the occasion when confronted with new and different ideas on campus. It also crucially distinguishes between academic freedom and freedom of expression, noting that the latter applies to activities even outside the classroom. The letter offers a bold call to students for reasoned debate as they engage with each other on complicated or hot button issues:
Every person in our community has a responsibility to protect the university as a forum for free expression of ideas, and we uphold our students' ability to voice their beliefs, even when others construe their speech as wrong or insensitive. Rather than attempting to interfere with or suppress ideas you find offensive or unwarranted, we expect you to challenge them through the exercise of reason and debate.
The Board of Regents' letter builds on the great progress made by the University of Colorado System, which just last year passed several new policies to protect student and faculty expressive rights. This included a free speech policy statement modeled after the "Report of the Committee on Freedom of Expression" at the University of Chicago (the "Chicago Statement").
FIRE is glad to see the University of Colorado system continue to make freedom of expression a priority and hopes campus administrators will keep up the good work by building on the progress already made!
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Q: MVC Delete record but how to code this in Controller I'm a beginner of MVC3 with ASP.Net (C#) but I don't get the next situation to delete a record.
I have a View that ask the user to confirm delete a item (record). As code I have this to initialize the view:
public ActionResult KeywordsDelete(Guid id)
{
    _db = new BlaContext();
    return _db.SearchTerms.Where(x => x.id.Equals(id)).First();
}

But when confirmed, then I have the next code.
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult KeywordsDelete(Guid id)
{
    _db = new BlaContext();
    var term = _db.SearchTerms.Where(x => x.id == id).First();
    _db.SearchTerms.Remove(term);
    _db.SaveChanges();
     return View("Keywords", _db.SearchTerms.ToList());
 }

Building is not possible because the signature of this method is already exists (same parameters and method name).
So I don't get how to delete a record in this situation. The view is created with a default Scaffold template (delete).

A: I found an alternative solution to this problem while reading up on MVC. Check out: Improving the Details and Delete Methods
[HttpPost, ActionName("Delete")]
public ActionResult DeleteConfirmed(int id = 0)
{
    // Delete stuff...
}

This will route the action Delete to the method DeleteConfirmed.

A: You can give your post function another additional parameter
[HttpPost]
public ActionResult KeywordsDelete(Guid id, FormCollection collection)
{
    _db = new BlaContext();
    var term = _db.SearchTerms.Where(x => x.id == id).First();
    _db.SearchTerms.Remove(term);
    _db.SaveChanges();
     return View("Keywords", _db.SearchTerms.ToList());
 }

But your GET Action should also return a View not a data object, I think.
public ActionResult KeywordsDelete(Guid id)
{
    _db = new BlaContext();
    return View(_db.SearchTerms.Where(x => x.id.Equals(id)).First());
}


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New Delhi, Mar 1 (PTI) Non-profit group Accion International today said it has extended credit guarantees worth USD 1.5 million to two micro finance companies in India.
Accion has issued a USD 1 million standby letter of credit (SBLC) for its partner Swadhaar FinServ and another guarantee worth USD 500,000 to Bihar-based Saija Finance.
The credit guarantees helped Swadhaar FinServ and Saija Finance secure loan facilities to the tune of Rs 50 million and Rs 30 million, respectively, Accion said in a press release issued by Asianet.
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Spacecraft have flown passed, orbited, landed, and roved on Mars, but now is the time to surf Mars! No, there is no ocean on Mars, or even a drop of water to be found, so how is it possible that a spacecraft planning to be launched in a few months will hit the waves later next year and actually go surfing at the Red Planet?
MAVEN, the Mars Atmospheric and Volatile EvolutioN mission is a new class of orbiting spacecraft that will be capable of skimming or surfing the upper atmosphere of Mars safely without danger of accidentally entering too deeply and burning up. It will sample the upper reaches of the atmosphere to study how the atmosphere is being lost. This type of mission is called an aeronomy mission and has been the desire of scientists since the beginning of Mars exploration. It was never a priority mission because it lacks the public appeal of an orbiter, lander or rover with high-resolution cameras. Now that the exploration of Mars has evolved far enough along where we are "following the water" and trying to detect any evidence of life, past or present, sampling the upper atmosphere to see how it evolved and how it could affect life has become important.
On September 15, 2008, NASA selected MAVEN, which was part of the now-defunct Mars Scout Program, as the Mars Scout 2013 mission. The three-week long launch window opens on November 18, 2013 and MAVEN is expected to go into orbit around Mars on September 16, 2014. It will go into an elliptical orbit from 3870 miles to only 90 miles above Mars. The mission will cost $485 million, not as expensive as most planetary missions these days, but robust enough to return excellent science. It will focus on collecting data about the atmosphere which includes determining the loss of volatiles such as carbon dioxide, nitrogen, and water to space from the atmosphere through time; the state of the atmosphere and ionosphere and its interactions with the solar wind; the current escape rates of specific gases to space and the cause; and determining the ratio of stable isotopes in the Martian atmosphere.
Scientists will be able to use the data to extrapolate backwards in time to see how much atmosphere has been lost in the past hundred million years, and possibly as far back as one billion years. It will also be possible to determine which gases are escaping, how much, and how fast. This is especially important as methane has been discovered on Mars and can only originate from two sources, volcanoes or life. There may still be a few barely active volcanic vents on Mars so MAVEN's measurements will aid in determining the actual source of the methane.
MAVEN will be like a true surfer, feeling the atmospheric waves of Mars as it orbits as low as safely possible sensing density and air pressure as it conducts its samplings and experiments. A lot has been learned from Mars, but there is still much more. So it is time to catch a wave and surf Mars for more adventure and discovery!