Newland Presbyterian Church, this is who we are: A caring fellowship of servants in Jesus Christ welcoming all in joyous worship, committed outreach and service, enthusiastic evangelism, and the building of confidence in God's future.
What an outstanding weekend we experienced as we celebrated the 100th Anniversary of Newland Presbyterian Church! And what a joyful experience it was to gather on the Square for a picnic with 100 other people connected to this congregation…in 70 weather…and with music from Don and Paul. Maybe my favorite moment of the whole picnic was watching such joy expressed in our kids as they ran here and there, kicking soccer balls and eating ice-cream and drinking a bottle of bubbles (Corbin!), and showing in their precious way the new life we are discovering in our midst. And what a glorious time we also shared together in worship on Sunday, with folks spilling out into the hallway in the back, and with ministers from long ago leading us from the front, and with elders spinning tales (Joe!), often at my expense, haha! What an incredible moment we experienced as our dear Martha Guy was recognized by the governor of North Carolina for the long history of service that she has carried out following Jesus as a member of this church. As an elder at NPC, what an example of Christ-like service she continues to be. Last August 20th, at our 100th Anniversary, I saw folks laughing and I saw folks crying and I saw all of you worshipping the God whose life we have come to share. So thank you for the privilege of being a part of this family, and thank you for the tireless effort that all of you put into making our 100th Anniversary celebration another amazing highlight in the long history of our congregation!
It was a great and wonderful time for our church as we celebrated 100 years of service to our Lord with members, former members, friends and guests on Homecoming Sunday, August 20, 2017 . With God's help we look forward to many more years of service and outreach.
Reflecting on the event of our Anniversary brings much joy and praise: The excellent worship service led by Rev. Michael McKee, past ministers and the church choir, the presentation of "The Long Leaf Pine Award" to Martha Guy for her outstanding service to her church, county and state, as well as Joe Banner's humorous history of the church as he remembered many facts, funny stories, various people, and important events.
Rev. McKee gave a message of thanksgiving for the past history of our church, and praise and encouragement for now and the future to carry on God's work here and in other places, as we reach out with love and care. God has been our church's guiding light through the past years and we look to Him for guidance still today and in the future.
Following the church service we enjoyed a delightful reception in the Fellowship Hall which was decorated, along with the Sunday School Room and the Hall, with beautiful flowers, great posters with many pictures of present and past members, pastors, friends, families, and church activities and events. Everyone enjoyed visiting and eating excellent hors d'oeuvres. A stunning birthday cake was presented to Martha Guy, who was celebrating her birthday on this memorable day.
We looked back to the time Rev. Edgar Tufts and R.E. Piercy walked or rode horses across the mountain from Banner Elk into Newland. They stopped to rest on a knoll. That knoll is the very ground our church sits on today. These two men were truly men of God, and with great faith and vision they said this land would be a perfect place for a church. They traveled on to Elk Park, where the county business was carried out, and purchased the deed for the land the Newland Presbyterian Church sits on today. A small stick church building was soon constructed and Mr. Piercy began Sunday School after the building opened. What courage these men had to trust in God enough to undertake such a wonderful task.
Look at Newland Presbyterian Church today! What blessings we have received through the years! To God be the glory and may we continue to work, grow, serve and reach out in His name today and always.
During our Planning Period for our 100th Anniversary a great idea sprung up: Why don't we ask members, friends and visitors who planned on joining the celebration to bring or mail some of their favorite recipes and we'll create a New NPC Cook Book and call it Anniversary Cook Book!
Our Cook Book Project is well under way!
As I briefly searched through the 109 recipes (so far) – I noticed that the variety is wonderful. It will take time to sort out by category and check for duplicates, but we look forward to all the "good" reading. Our cut-off date for more recipes is October 31, 2017. Expect a new book by spring! I will keep you posted!
Our nursery continues to be very busy on Sun. mornings from 9-12. During worship service, we average 4-5 children ranging in age from 6 months to 5 years of age. We have had as many as 9 children on special occasions like Homecoming.
We are fortunate to have such caring and conscientious nursery attendants like Amber Johnson, Heather Austin, Linda Benfield, and Marlee Austin. They are doing an outstanding job of providing care and supervision of all the children participating. Regardless of the number of children or ages of the children, the nursery attendants keep the children engaged and interact with them as much as possible. They provide a program of activities, songs, and teaching a short Bible lesson whenever possible.
Be sure to let the nursery staff know how fortunate we are to have them and how much we appreciate all they do to care for the children in our church.
Newland Presbyterian Church has been participating for many years now in Samaritan's Purse Program "Christmas Child Shoe Boxes". This year as well we want to help with the task of supplying Christmas gifts for millions of needy children across the globe.
Our goal is to fill 100 Boxes to be sent to children who need something!
This is a great way we can be helpful to children who have nothing!
It is fun to pick out items for the boxes and to know you gave something of yourself.
The boxes can be brought to the church by Sunday, October 15th, or any time before then.
Please put labels on the boxes and the money for postage in the box when returned.
Make the check out to Newland Presbyterian church and mark: Postage.
On Sunday, Sept. 18, 2016, the congregation of the church approved that the Board of Trustees (session) of NPC may obtain a loan of $150,000 to pay for the needed repairs to our church building. The three needed repairs stated at the meeting are: 1: New Roof – $52,000; 2: Water Damage Repairs – $35,000; 3: New Replacement Windows – $55,000. An explanation had been given prior to the motion that the loan would be paid off by a three year Capital Campaign to raise the money.
A year has passed and much had been done. The new roof has been completed and paid for in full in the amount of $54,900 which is slightly below the original estimate. Repairs are virtually finished and paid for in the amount of $18,428.0 which is significantly below the original estimate. By determining new replacement windows were not necessary and simply repairing, re-glazing and repainting would suffice at a cost of $15,000 paid in full, another significant amount was saved. Paid for cost to date is $88,328.
So far, $72,770 has been pledged; $53,643 has been given. This leaves us $34,685 short excluding pledged amount. A lot has been accomplished with much savings over estimates. The congregation is to be congratulated! However, remember we are still short $15,558 even if all pledges are met. Please keep this in mind and pray we continue to give and meet our goal!
Fortunately, the water problems our building had last year have been repaired . Bob Shoffner, with expert help, created a list of 36 problems that needed to be fixed, many of them water related. That list has been 97% taken care of. As Bob noted in February, the new roof was completed, the parapets were 50% completed then, they are 100% complete now.
We have installed five new awnings and re-covered the awning at the front door. Three new exterior steel doors have been installed, all with new awnings over them.
The windows have been scraped, re-glazed, and painted inside and out in the old part of the building.
The steeple has been scraped, sanded and repainted. The playground has a new drainfield and new mulch.
We also had to have two new A/C units installed for the old part of the church. The ceiling and the lighting in the choir room have been fixed, both had been damaged by water leaks.
The last thing on Bob' list was some water-damaged plaster in Ina's office, this will be addressed when we turn our attention to the up-dating of the library, which we hope to complete by late 2017 or early 2018. This was accomplished in addition to the little things that were needed to be done on a regular daily or weekly basis.
I think you can see that the Building and Grounds Committee, along with the help of Michael and your Session, have had a busy year making physical improvements to our church.
The funding for these improvements is coming from the 3 Year Capital Campaign.
of the Building and Grounds Committee.
Through God's gift of music our hearts can be drawn to thoughtful worship. Here at Newland Presbyterian Church we are making a "joyful noise unto the Lord" – from traditional anthems to contemporary choruses … from full-stop organ to meditative a cappella. We together share in proclaiming God's saving grace, His love, and His faithfulness through song, prayer and praise.
Joy is our new member on our wonderful Worship Music team. Her children Kenneth, Lydia and Jonathan often come to join in and are so much appreciated by the church family!
Our purpose as Presbyterian Women is to nurture our faith through prayer and Bible Study; to support the mission of the church worldwide; to work for justice and peace; and to build an inclusive, caring community of women that strengthens the Presbyterian Church (USA) and witnesses to the promise of God's Kingdom.
Our current Bible Study is Who is Jesus? This is a very exciting and interesting study of Jesus, as the messiah, the anointed one, who is both human and divine from various perspectives. We have studied Jesus according to the Gospel writers of Mark, Matthew, and Luke. Our next lesson, led by Kaye Gattis, will focus on the study of Jesus from John's perspective. Then we will study how Paul and other writers view Christ.
However, Presbyterian Women is much more than just participating in a Bible Study. It is a time of fellowship with other Christian Women. It is also an opportunity to support those in our congregation and reach out to others in our community who are in need. Over the past few months, we have paid an electric bill for a family and contributed $300 toward a mortgage payment for a single mom. We also gave a graduation gift to a senior at Crossnore Academy. We have also given wedding and baby gifts to employees and relatives of members in our congregation. The Women of the Church provide meals to families dealing with illness or loss of a family member. The Women of the Church help co-ordinate Family Night Suppers and when necessary purchase additional food. We provide flowers when needed in the sanctuary or for special occasions like Homecoming. Our 2017 Birthday offering was $275, which was sent to Presbytery to support special mission projects around the world.
This is an open invitation to all women of Newland Presbyterian Church, please plan to attend our next meeting on Mon., Oct.2 at 10:00. You are needed to help us grow in our faith and service to others in our church, community, and around the world!
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Peggy Baird has been instrumental in getting the design going and finding Yellow Mountain Enterprises, Inc. to do them for us at a good price. We completed several orders thus far and for this year Peggy is placing the last order by October 31. There is still time to order if you are interested!
Amber Williams' awesome display for 41 & change Nicaragua coffee in the hall reminds us how we can help to support a mission project of our church. Last June our congregation participated for the first time in a Young Life mission trip to Nicaragua and our five young people came back very impressed by what they experienced: the apparent poverty on one hand and the strong commitment to Christian values on the other. Please check it out, by buying the coffee (makes great Christmas presents too!) we can help sending young children to camp.
Newland Presbyterian Church members and their families worked and planned, together with other churches (Arbor Dale Presbyterian Church for one) and the Young Life Leadership in the High Country, to make it happen: NPC's first Mission Trip!
On June 24, Rev. Michael McKee, Amber and Blake Williams, John Henry Adams and Mason Winters, joined the group to fly to Managua, Nicaragua, and with a bus on to Esteli in the mountains, to share work and the gospel, and to make friends with their hosts who live there. For all five it was a time of intense living and learning. Michael likened it to experiencing the three stages of the Beatitudes. First, feeling empty and needful, seeing so much poverty; then God filling them up with the love and compassion of their new friends and lastly overflowing with the feeling of receiving and giving blessings, all in the name of Jesus.
What I liked most about our mission trip was how caring for us the people we met were; and although we had known each other only for the shortest time, they treated us like family.
We learned about each other what we liked to do, and about each other's culture. Also, they showed us what food they liked to eat and what sports they watched and played (I played soccer with Nicaraguan boys). My favorite thing we did together was when we played "Lento", which means SLOW in English. I sure hope to go back to Nicaragua to see my friends there!
Cookie bakers who are willing to bake 3 ½ – 4 dozen cookies for social time after church – beginning April 2018. Please contact Judy Marshall at 828 733-1748.
One of the very engaging habits Members and Friends of N PC have, is to let the church participate in their family celebrations by placing on Sunday flower arrangements in the pulpit. Sometimes a birthday, or a wedding anniversary, sometimes a memorial of a loved one, or sometimes "just because"… The occasions are varied. But it is always a beautiful sight to see and appreciate. Last Sunday was such an occasion, and our pulpit was graced with a most stunning and touching arrangement of beautiful flowers in a child's red wagon. Little Corbin Isley and Lisa, Roy and John Henry celebrated being a family together and sharing with the church their happiness.


Dr. Robert Sapolsky is a Professor of Neurology at Stanford University. Dr.Sapolsky Spoke at the Brain Connection to Education Spring Conference 2000.
If Robert Sapolsky wasn't a bit of a comedian as well as a celebrated neuroscientist, he may have had his audience clenching their teeth rather than bursting into fits of laughter. For his presentation on the effects of stress on the human body and brain contained a powerful message: stress kills slowly, suppressing the immune system, shutting down growth, and eroding memory and the ability to learn.
For a zebra, though, stress had an extremely short if potentially deadly span; it was "three minutes of screaming terror" after which the animal was either dead or once again roaming the Savannah and feeling safe. Human beings, on the other hand, had an "anticipatory stress response" that spun easily out of control, like a car losing traction on an icy slope.
Just what are the effects of chronic stress on people? Sapolsky cheerfully enumerated a series of maladies, including colitis, Addison's disease, arteriosclerosis, sexual dysfunction, and neurological damage. Most frightening of all, perhaps, was the cessation of growth in seriously stressed children.
Saplosky related a story about a boy from a very psychologically-abusive setting who was hospitalized in a New York hospital with zero growth hormone in his bloodstream. Over the next two months he developed a close relationship with the nurse at the hospital–undoubtedly the first normal relationship he had ever had–and soon, amazingly enough, the growth hormone levels zoomed back to normal. The nurse then went on vacation and the levels dropped again, rising once more immediately after her return.
"Think about it," Sapolsky said, commenting upon the story. "The rate at which this child was depositing calcium in his bones could be explained entirely by how safe and loved he was feeling in the world." He added that while this standard textbook version of stressed dwarfism is rare, there is nevertheless "major league psychopathology" throughout society, retarding human growth.
"Chronic," Sapolsky made clear, is the key word; stress hormones secreted into the brain can actually make you think more clearly over the short term. The student cramming for a final exam initially benefits from increasing oxygen delivery and nutrients to the brain. But by the six-hour mark that student would be thinking less clearly, the neurons not working as well and the capacity for memory retrieval fading.
While the hippocampus does have the capacity to regenerate, it's far from certain that this will occur, Sapolsky asserted. People who have endured horrible stress, such as Vietnam combat veterans and victims of prolonged childhood sexual abuse, are often fated to suffer permanent damage to the hippocampus, resulting in memory loss.
Depression, "what Sapolsky termed the common cold of psychopathology," also attacked the hippocampus with stress hormones. Massive long-term depression, he said, was almost certain to cause permanent damage in the form of memory loss.
Rat studies, Sapolsky said, have demonstrated several things about dealing with stress. For one thing, rats getting shocks can deal with it a lot better when they have an outlet: a bar to gnaw at, for instance. They also deal with the shocks better when they feel they have some control (even illusory control) over the number they receive, and when they have a sense that things are getting better–the rat going from 50 to 25 shocks feels a lot better than the rat going from 10 to 25.


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Aston Villa: Stalking Horses For Relegation?
The gloves came off at Villa Park last night. Leading by a goal and having dominated the match at half-time against Bolton Wanderers, Alex McLeish's team threw their lead away and now sit just three points above the relegation places with three matches of the Premier League season left to play. And with this defeat, the sullen cloud of dissatisfaction that has sat over Villa Park this season lifted, but what replaced it was a thunderstorm of noise and abuse. Aston Villa, their supporters will tell you, have been in a desperate state for months and months now, but this is something that had, perhaps, slipped under the radar of the press in many respects until last night. With the precariousness of the club's position now starkly obvious to anybody that glances at the league table for more than five seconds, the obituaries for their time in the Premier League are already being written.
We are totally conscious, as is everyone at the club, that this is a very trying time for those who love Aston Villa. We know that the team will continue to fight through every minute of the remaining games and we hope Villa fans will continue to show their great support.
It's a common enough theme at football clubs that are in trouble. "Do it for the team!", they cry. It's a clever ploy, simultaneously making those that have expressed their anger at the condition of a club feel guilty about offering any form of criticism, whilst deflecting this criticism away from those charged with its custodianship and onto those that suffer the most when a football team is doing badly. This is, to be completely fair, one of this phenomenon's more innocuous uses. Perhaps the Aston Villa team would react positively to ninety minutes of positivity coming from the Villa Park crowd. What harm, we might reasonably ask, could loud and vocal support for the last three games of the season possibly do?
The answer to this question is, of course, "none", but whether a wall of sound from the crowd itself will be enough to drive the team forward is anybody's guess. Some might even argue that it had better be, because Aston Villa have shown precious few other reasons for optimism over the last few weeks or so. The team has won just twice in the Premier League since beating Chelsea at Stamford Bridge on New Year's Eve – a run of sixteen matches – and it is difficult to see where any sort of immediate turn-around is going to come from. At the weekend, they travel to The Hawthorns to play a West Bromwich Albion team which won at Anfield last week, before finishing off with matches against Tottenham Hotspur and Norwich City. There are no certainties at this stage of the season, but Villa may need three or four points from these matches in order to have a likelihood of avoiding relegation that is much above fifty/fifty. None of the remaining fixtures – not even a home match against the free-falling Tottenham Hotspur – will give supporters much cause for optimism, especially when we consider that many of the other sides at the foot of the table are picking up points here and there.
The torpor of this season can be seen in the hard figures. Crowds are substantially down and financial losses are substantially up. The only thing keeping Alex McLeish at Villa Park right now is the brutal fact that it is now too late in the season to sack him, and it would be miraculous to see him survive the summer at the club, whether it is relegated at the end of this season or not. McLeish's dour style of football meant that he has had no option but to deliver on results this season, and a quick look at the Premier League table confirms that this has not been the case. It is possible that we can put the appointment of McLeish down as a momentary lapse of reason, but it is a lapse that may yet have profound consequences.
The decline of Aston Villa started with the resignation of Martin O'Neill as last season started and can be traced through Gerard Houllier's torpid time in charge of the club last season and through this season as well. Whether this ends up with the club playing football in the Championship or not remains to be seen, but that the club should have had two successive failures of this nature could suggest a more infrastructural problem within the club. Perhaps more than any other Premier League club, Aston Villa has felt rudderless over the last couple of years, and the only question which now remains is that of where this two seasons of folly will leave the club. Should Aston Villa survive the cut at the end of this season, the club should take heed of the warning that this season's close call will have taught it. The alternative – the relegation of Aston Villa from the top division of English football for the first time in twenty-five years – is not something that most Villa supporters dare contemplate too much at this precise moment in time, for their mental well-being, if nothing else.
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Attila Chikán (born 4 April 1944, in Budapest) is a Hungarian economist, university professor, Full Member of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences and Foreign Member of the Royal Swedish Academy of Engineering Sciences. His research areas are national and firm competitiveness, business policy, and logistics. He is Founding Principal of Rajk László College for Advanced Studies (Director 1970–2010, President since then). Minister of Economic Affairs in 1998–99, Rector of Corvinus University of Budapest (CUB, 2000–2003). Currently he is Professor Emeritus and Director, Competitiveness Research Center of CUB.

Career

He graduated in Mathematical Planning at the predecessor of Corvinus University of Budapest (CUB; at that time Karl Marx University of Economic Sciences) in 1967. Worked at the Engineering Office of Ministry of Metallurgy and Machinery in 1967–1968, then became Assistant Professor at Karl Marx University where he defended his doctoral dissertation in 1969. Full professor of this same university since 1990. In 1970 he was Founding Director of Rajk László College for Advanced Studies, a unique higher education institution, where he was Director till 2010 and has been President since then. in 1989 he was founding Chairman of the Department of Business Economics of Karl Marx University (later CUB), and led it until 1998, when he became Minister of Economic Affairs in the first Orbán government. He was Rector of CUB between 2000 and 2003, and Chairman of the Council of Economic Advisors of the Prime Minister between 2000 and 2002. Since 2003 he has been Professor of Business Economics and Director of Competitiveness Research Centre at Institute of Business Economics of CUB.  Since 2014 he is Professor Emeritus. He is a member of the Board of Central European University.

International positions and honors

His past and present international positions include President, IFPSM (1999–2000), President, Federation of European Production and Industrial Management Societies (1995), Executive Vice President, International Society for Inventory Research (since 1983) and membership in various refereed international journals.
He is Honorary Doctor of Lappeenranta University of Technology (Finland) and Babeș-Bolyai University (Cluj, Romania). He has a number of decorations for professional and public activity, including the Garner Themoin Award of the International Federation of Purchasing and Supply Management (IFPSM), the Life Time Achievement Award of the International Purchasing and Supply Education and Research Association (IPSERA) and The Middle Cross of the Order of Merits of the Hungarian Republic.

Current positions in Hungary

Chairman of the Supervisory Board and the Audit Committee, Gedeon Richter plc (a multinational company in the pharmaceutical industry), Vice Chairman of the Supervisory Board and Chairman of the Audit Committee of MOL (the Hungarian Oil and Gas Company). He is Chairman of several professional organizations, including the Committee of Economic Policy and Theory, Hungarian Economic Association, Committee of Economic Policy of the Hungarian Association of Entrepreneurs and Employers and the Hungarian Association of Logistics Purchasing and Inventory Management.

His main research areas are national and firm competitiveness, business economics and logistics. He is author and co-author of 15 books in English and Hungarian, as well as over two dozens of papers in refereed international journals. His monograph "Business Economics" has had seven editions since 1989 (latest in 2017) and has been the reading of tens of thousands of students and professionals.

Personal

His wife, Marta Nagy is retired Vice President of the National Competition Office, son, Attila CEO of an energy producing and trading company, daughter, Eszter is co-owner and Managing Director of a music management firm. Grandchildren: Anna, Bendegúz, Léna.

Selected recent papers

Chikán A., Kovács E., Matyusz Zs., Sass M., Vakhal P.:
Long-term trends in inventory investment in traditional market and post-socialist economies
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION ECONOMICS 181: pp. 14–23. (2016)

Chikán A.:
Managers' view of a new inventory paradigm
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION ECONOMICS 133:(1) pp. 54–59. (2011)

Chikán A., Gelei A.:
New Insight into the Competitiveness of Supplier Firms: Aligning Competences and Customer Expectations
SUPPLY CHAIN FORUM: INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL 11:(2) pp. 30–44. (2010)

Chikán A.:
Co-ordination and public administration in a global economy – A Hungarian point of view
SOCIETY AND ECONOMY 31:(1) pp. 71–92. (2009)

Chikán A.:
National and firm competitiveness: a general research model
COMPETITIVENESS REVIEW 18:(1-2) pp. 20–28. (2008)

Chikán A.:
The New Role of Inventories in Business: Real World Changes and Research Consequences
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF PRODUCTION ECONOMICS 108:(1-2) pp. 54–62. (2007)

Chikán A.:
The role of "Economics of Shortage" in the intellectual preparations for transition in Hungary
ACTA OECONOMICA 56:(2) pp. 195–207. (2006)

Chikán A., Demeter K.:
Company Characteristics, Operations Competitiveness and Overall Performance
INTERNATIONAL JOURNAL OF OPERATIONS AND QUANTITATIVE MANAGEMENT 12:(2) pp. 107–125. (2006)

See also
Rajk László College for Advanced Studies
Corvinus University of Budapest
Hungarian Academy of Sciences

References
Magyar Távirati Iroda (Hungarian news agency): Who is who? 2009, Magyar Távirati Iroda Zrt., Budapest 2008, p. 184
Curriculum Vitae on Corvinus University of Budapest's website
Publications list at Köztestületi Publikációs Adattár

1944 births
Government ministers of Hungary
Hungarian economists
Members of the Hungarian Academy of Sciences
Living people
Corvinus University of Budapest alumni
Academic staff of the Corvinus University of Budapest

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By: Michael Washbourne
Altan Rio Minerals Ltd has unveiled plans to reignite Southern Cross as one of Western Australia's premier gold production centres.
More than 10 moz has been produced historically from the Southern Cross gold belt, but output has significantly declined over the last 15 years since the once-prolific Sons of Gwalia went into administration.
St Barbara Ltd, then Hanking Gold Pty Ltd and more recently Minjar Gold Ltd have kept the 2.5 mtpa Marvel Loch process plant ticking over, but the amount of available feed has dried up in recent times due to a lack of exploration in the district.
Following some strategic tenement negotiations by chairman John Jones, Altan Rio has now assumed control of the northern half of the Frasers-Corinthian Shear Zone (FCSZ).
Altan Rio's tenure effectively extends south from the historic Copperhead mine for 28km to the boundary of the Southern Cross township.
"It's one of those unique situations where you can put a ruler over that 310-degree alignment and every 3-4km there's some sort of gold mine," Altan Rio director Paul Stephen told GMJ.
"The southern portion of this FCSZ has had far more work done on it than the northern portion, but the northern portion certainly hosts some very attractive historical and current mines, and the tenure we have goes right up to the boundaries of all of those mines.
"While there has been some work done in and around these areas, there's actually been very little drilling below a depth of 50m, so we're really excited about the opportunity to take a closer look at that."
Up until recently, Altan Rio was focused on copper porphyry exploration in Mongolia. However, with market conditions not favouring any activity by juniors in the country, the TSXV listed company is seeking to JV its ground in the Chadman Yol district and focus solely on Southern Cross.
One of the main drawcards for Altan Rio in Southern Cross is the hungry Marvel Loch plant which has recently been made available for processing of third-party ore by owner Minjar.
"It is very well set-up for toll treatment in that they have a sorting tower that allows you to deliver ore to the mill and have it assayed and sorted so you can efficiently toll treat your feed," Stephen said.
"That plant is within very economic trucking distance of all of our tenure, so one of our initial targets will be to look for shallow, easily treatable tonnes that we can deliver to Marvel Loch. We can then use that to fund further exploration, specifically exploration underneath the salt lake that has never been looked at before."
According to Stephen, Altan Rio has 17 drill-ready targets and permits in place for an initial campaign at Southern Cross. One of the first cabs off the rank will be the Aries target which is a northern strike extension of the historic Frasers mine, trending under the Lake Koorkoordine salt lake.
Other drill targets include a possible dip-extension of the Hopes Hill mine which had previously produced 93,000oz at an average grade of 1.8 g/t gold.
"We think the chances of us turning up something on one of these targets, whether it be toll-treatable ounces or whether it be a standalone opportunity, is extremely high," Stephen said.
"I think, without doubt, the biggest factor here for us is the gold price. The last time people were actively working on this area the gold price was less than $400/oz. Now it's $2,000/oz and we've also got a very available toll milling situation that didn't exist back then either. "
At one point in time, Southern Cross was the fifth largest gold producing belt in WA, but it really hasn't been properly drilled. So, we think there is an enormous opportunity for people to get involved in one of the premier gold belts in WA that has sat in private hands for the last 13 years."
Altan Rio Minerals Limited Appoints New Officers and Director
June 10, 2019 company news
28 th May 2019 – Vancouver, British Columbia: Altan Rio Minerals Limited (the "Company" or "Altan
Ro") (TSX-V:AMO) announces that the Company has accepted the resignation of Evan Jones as Chief
Executive Officer. Mr Evan Jones will continue to serve as a non-executive Director of the company. Altan
Rio's chairman Mr John L C Jones wishes to thank Evan for his service to the Company on behalf of all
shareholders and appreciate his desire to remain a director of the Company moving forward.
As a result of Mr. Jones' resignation, the Company is pleased to announce that Paul Stephen has been
appointed Chief Executive Officer and Corporate Secretary.
Mr. Stephen has also joined the Company's board of directors, to hold office until the next annual meeting
Mr Stephen has a Bachelor of Commerce degree from the University of Western Australia and is a
member of the Australian Institute of Company Directors. He has held directorships across both ASX and
London publicly listed companies and has a strong knowledge of operations and compliance across
multiple jurisdictions. Mr Stephen Co-founder and Executive Director of Crusader Resources Ltd oversaw
the discovery, development and operations of the Posse Iron Ore mine in Brazil. In addition Mr Stephen
managed the discovery and delineation of over 2.6 million ounces of gold whilst operating in Brazil
resulting in the company being valued at over $160M. Mr Stephen has extensive operational experience
in mine site servicing and contracting as a founder and Managing Director of Integrated Fuel Services a
West Australian company specialising in providing fuel services to mining and aviation throughout
About Altan Rio
Over the last six years Altan Rio (TSX.v:AMO) has taken a grassroots approach to exploration that has
generated highly prospective projects that have potential for large-scale copper and gold discoveries in
Mongolia. This company currently valid mining licenses over the "Chandman" project and is in the
process of conducting a technical review to evaluate the best path forward for this project.
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achievements of Altan Nevada to be materially different from any future results, performance, or
achievements expressed or implied by the forward-looking statements. These forward-looking statements
are based on management's current expectations and beliefs but given the uncertainties, assumptions
and risks, readers are cautioned not to place undue reliance on such forward-looking statements or
information. Actual results may differ materially from those currently anticipated in such statements, and
the Company undertakes no obligation to update such statements, except as required by law.
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An Introduction to Star Wars: Destiny
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What is Star Wars: Destiny?
Star Wars: Destiny is a collectible card game (often referred to as a CCG) with dice.
What is a collectible card game (CCG)?
A CCG is a type of card game where new cards are released throughout the year in specialized "sets".
The game is constantly evolving and changing as new cards become available.
Other examples of popular CCGs: Magic the Gathering, Pokémon, Yu-Gi-Oh etc.
Who makes it?
The game is created and published by Fantasy Flight Games.
How many players?
Star Wars: Destiny is primarily designed as a competitive game for 2 players. However, you can also play multiplayer.
When was it released?
November 2016.
How did I miss it?
Demand has far outstripped supply and the cards have been almost universally sold-out since release.
How many sets have been released so far?
So far just one set called "Awakenings" which contains 174 cards. "Awakenings" is considered a "Core" set.
When does the next set come out?
Very soon. The next set is called "Spirit of Rebellion" which will bring 160 brand new cards. It should be released sometime in May though the actual date has not been officially confirmed.
There is a pre-release being hosted by local game stores this weekend (April 1st, 2017) where players will get early access to the cards by participating in a tournament.
Spirt of Rebellion is considered an "Expansion" set.
What's the difference between a Core set and an Expansion set?
In general, Core sets are designed as an entry point for new players. They will often contain cards that feature easier interactions.
Both Core and Expansion sets are sold in "Booster packs" which are small packs of 5 random cards of varying rarity.
To accompany the release of a Core set, Fantasy Flight Games will also release, pre-made, fixed-list "Starter decks" that players can purchase to get started right away.
Expansion sets will often have slightly less cards than Core sets.
Cards from both Core sets and Expansion sets can be mixed together to create your deck.
Any word on future sets?
Yes, Fantasy Flight Games plans to release a Core set (with new Starter decks) around the beginning of each year that will be followed by two Expansion sets later in the year.
A total of 3 sets will be released each year. One Core set and two Expansion sets.
How do players get the cards?
Players can acquire cards by purchasing "Starter decks" or "Booster packs" from their local gaming shop. Some shops (such as us) will also sell cards individually for purchase as "singles".
Are the cards sold at big box stores like Walmart or Target?
No. You can only get them at specialty shops (for now).
What are the Starter decks?
There are two Starter decks currently available. Kylo Ren Starter Deck and Rey Starter Deck.
Both decks feature a fixed list of 23 cards. They also come with nine premium dice and tokens that you will need to play the game.
In addition, they feature some exclusive cards that cannot be acquired in booster packs.
Is the Starter deck enough to start playing?
The Starter decks can be played against each other. However they do not have enough cards to form a legal deck.
Do I have to start with a Starter deck?
No. You can build your deck completely from singles. However, the Starter deck contains cardboard tokens that are used to track damage, resources and shields so you would need to make or find your own substitute tokens.
What comes in a booster pack?
A booster pack contains 5 random cards and one premium die.
A pack will contain 3 Common cards, 1 Uncommon and one Rare or Legendary card.
The Rare or Legendary card will always have it's own die which is included in the pack.
What are the odds of getting a Legendary card?
There is a 1 in 6 chance of getting a Legendary card that will replace the Rare card in the pack.
What constitutes a legal deck?
A legal deck must contain exactly 30 cards.
Your deck will also contain 1-4 characters cards and 1 battlefield card that remain face-up during the game and are not counted in your 30 card limit.
You can have no more than 2 copies of a card in your deck.
How many characters can I have on my team?
You get 30 points to spend on your characters and each character has a point cost associated with adding them to your team.
Some characters have a different cost if you want to use them with one or two dice. For example, Rey can be played with two dice at a cost of 12 points or with one dice at a cost of 9.
Most decks will run 2 or 3 characters. However, there are special cases such as the upcoming Emperor card that will cost 28 points (with 2 dice). Also, some people are experimenting with four First Order Stormtroopers that cost 7 points each for a total of 28 points.
Can I mix Heroes and Villains in my deck?
No, you must choose a side.
All cards in the game are designated as "Hero", "Villain" or "Neutral".
If you are playing a Villain deck, you may only build it using Villain or Neutral cards. Hero decks can only be played using Hero or Neutral cards.
So what do I do with the cards I can't use?
Collect them, make a second deck or trade them!
High-level, how does a game play out?
You will build a deck around the characters you have chosen. Your character cards remain face up for the entire game and you will roll their associated dice in order to damage and eventually defeat your opponent's characters.
Throughout the game, you will augment your characters by equipping them with upgrades from your deck that may give them extra dice or abilities.
You'll also play other card types (such as event cards, support cards and vehicle cards) to help you achieve victory.
How long does a game take?
When you're first starting out it can take around an hour. But once you have more experience the average game will take around 30-45 minutes.
Where can I play?
Many local game stores are running tournaments and/or leagues so give them a call and find out!
I participate in a league with friends and we play at each others homes.
Can I play online?
Yes, the game is quite active through Tabletop Simulator which is available on Steam for $20 CAD. As you'll have access to all the cards, it is great for testing our new deck ideas!
Instructions can be found here:
https://www.reddit.com/r/swdestiny/comments/5ltzh8/how_to_load_custom_decks_for_star_wars_destiny_in/
Is the game addicting?
Yes. Fantasy Flight Games has a real winner on their hands here.
Is the game more skill-based or random?
It's a healthy combination of skill and luck. The game features dice so you will often be at their mercy, however there are plenty of avenues for skill-based players to mitigate the randomness and gain an edge.
Is the game hard to learn?
The game is very accessible and easy to pick-up. The complete rules fit on two pages and can be read here:
https://images-cdn.fantasyflightgames.com/filer_public/d7/de/d7ded364-2d09-4752-936e-fc3114c873de/swd01_kylo_rulesheet_eng-1compressed.pdf
Is the game balanced?
Surprisingly yes! Fantasy Flight Games has done an excellent job on the balancing. There are certainly decks you can build that are stronger than others but there is a lot of variation in the decks that are currently winning competitive tournaments.
Wasn't there another Star Wars CCG before?
Yes, you have a good memory. There was one back in the 90s but I don't know too much about that. This game is not related :)
I hope that gives you some background on this amazing new game and I urge you to start playing immediately!
Single cards are now available for sale
https://cosmictoys.ca/collections/star-wars-destiny-singles
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Q: Best storage and retrieval practices for comments in PHP/MYSQL I'm having a bit of a problem when it comes to my database and query design. Here is what I'd like to have (Honestly, a lot like stack overflow).:

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*An item has many posts.

*A post has many comments.

*Comments can be flagged, liked, and disliked.

*Comments cannot have subcomments.

The table structure is as follows:
Items
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desc
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Posts
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pid
iid
uid
date
desc
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Comments
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The logic for all of this is: get all posts for item -> for each post, get all comments.
Would it be best to do this all in one query? Is it best to do one query to get all posts then a separate query for each set of comments on each post?
If I do one query, then I'll potentially have a 100 row behemoth where I'll have a ton of duplicate data. If I do a separate call for each post, then I'll have far too many queries. Adivce?

A: I imagine your system is going to have 3 distinctive views and I would structure it as follows:

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*A list of items - showing the item description and the number of posts attached to that item. e.g. SELECT i.desc, ...., COUNT(p.pid) FROM items i LEFT JOIN posts p ON i.iid = p.iid GROUP BY i.iid ORDER BY i.date DESC

*A list of posts for a selected item - showing the posts and number of comments made for each post e.g SELECT p.desc, ...., COUNT(c.cid) FROM posts p LEFT JOIN comments c ON p.pid = c.pid WHERE p.iid = $iid GROUP BY p.pid ORDER BY p.date DESC

*A post page which shows the post and then comments underneath. This page would require two queries. A query to collect the post information, returning exactly 1 database row. And then a query to collect each individual comment attached to this post. E.g. SELECT p.desc, ... FROM posts p WHERE p.pid = $pid LIMIT 1 and SELECT c.desc, ... FROM comments c WHERE c.pid = $pid ORDER BY c.date DESC. You could alter the ordering here to mimic how stackOverflow orders the data by oldest, votes, etc.

I would say this is scalable model and I would always advise writing lean MySQL queries that only retrieve the information needed each displayed entity.
To mimic this page I would use the following code ...
itemRs = mysql_query("SELECT i,iid, i.desc, ... FROM items i WHERE i.iid = $iid LIMIT 1");

// all posts relating to the item
postsRs = mysql_query("SELECT p.pid, p.desc, .... FROM posts p LEFT JOIN comments c ON p.pid = c.pid WHERE p.iid = $iid ORDER BY p.date DESC");

// all comments for all posts relating to the item
commentsRs = mysql_query("SELECT c.pid, c.cid, c.desc, .... FROM comments c INNER JOIN posts p ON p.pid = c.pid INNER JOIN items i ON p.iid = i.iid WHERE p.iid = $iid ORDER BY p.date DESC");

You then would need to create a method to display this data. Perhaps encapsulate all this functionality into a DAO (Data Access Object) called Item that retrieves all this required data before calling a display() method to show the data in the format you want.

A: I would do this in two queries: one query for to get all the posts of a particular item and other query for to get all the comments of all posts of a particular item. Some ActiveRecord implementations work the same.

A: Assigning auto id to post and comment and also item and retrieving post and comment belongs to that item id will be best, i suppose.

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As if crippling your PC when you're running an unlicensed copy of Vista wasn't enough, Microsoft has now taken to limiting the number of times you can transfer your license legitimately to other computers. Unlike Windows XP, which previously allowed for unlimited license transfers between computers, Vista limits this transfer to a single time. As TechWeb reports, quoting the license for Windows Vista Home Basic (and other versions as well): "The first user of the software may reassign the license to another device one time. If you reassign the license, that other device becomes the 'licensed device.'" Still, as we noted last time, it's almost certainly a safe bet that the most determined folks will figure out a way around this, à la PlaysForSure.


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Q: Z-index "stacking" in creating a shadow I have the following HTML structure that I'd like to keep nested:

Shadow here!

CSS:
.parent {
    background: blue;
    z-index: 2;
    height: 200px;

}

.shadow {
    background: lightgrey;
    z-index: 0;
    opacity: 0.4;
    position: relative;
    top: 194px;
}

Essentially, I want the div .shadow to be underneath the div .parent. If you look at the rendering at the below link, you can see that part of the parent's blue background goes through the shadow; instead, I'd like the parent element to cover that overlapping part (stacked on top of, I guess you can say):
https://jsfiddle.net/9ya7kb67/
How could I do this? I'm fiddling around with z-index, but that isn't helping.

A: This is simple... give your shadow z-index property negative value like this. You can also manage z-index by giving higher value. Or you can use box-shadow property to make shadow.
.parent {
background: blue;
z-index: 2;
height: 200px;

}

.shadow {
background: lightgrey;
z-index: -1;
opacity: 0.4;
position: relative;
top: 194px;
}

A: You can use box shadow with CSS3 https://css-tricks.com/snippets/css/css-box-shadow/

A: CSS box-shadow works by creating a shadow behind an element. Thus, the element is already on top of the shadow. Here, z-index is not required.
the code:
.parent {
    background: blue;
    height: 200px;
    box-shadow: 0 8px 0 4px light grey;
}

is doing the same thing regardless if you include z-index or not.

A: I'm not sure if it is the answer you are looking for, but you can always use the CSS property box-shadow on your parent to get a 'shadowy' effect.
See this fiddle here
You can find box shadow generators online to make your life easier, such as this one

A: .shadow requires a negative z-index value as z-index is inherited from it's parent and is comparatively displayed. z-index:0; gives it the same overall z-index the parent has, and as the child was declared after the parent, it is therefore on top. This means that by setting it to z-index:-1 you are placing the shadow behind the parent.
However, if you simply want a box-shadow I would recommend actually using CSS3 Box Shadows instead of creating additional elements.

A: Because the shadow is INSIDE of the parent, there is no way to make the parent appear on top of whatever is inside. This is because in CSS a child element inherits the z-index of its parent as a BASE z-index. It can have its own z-index but it can never be less than its parent.
EDIT: Box shadow solution -
https://jsfiddle.net/9ya7kb67/3/
.parent {
   background: blue;
   z-index: 2;
   height: 200px;
   box-shadow: 0 8px 0px 4px lightgrey;
}

EDIT2: I stand corrected about it being impossible to put a child below a parent. You CAN actually do this, but that is assuming that the parent does not already have a z-index set. If the parent has a z-index, THEN it is impossible to place it on top of a child.


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Straight from print: Transfers leave men's basketball in tough spot
The class of 2019 was supposed to lead the Eagles to glory. Now they're all leaving the program
By Matt Holt | 05/11/17 4:52pm | Updated 05/11/17 4:52pm
Sophomore guard Delante Jones announced on March 15 that he would be transferring from AU. He is one of four players who are prematurely leaving the team.
ERICA VELTMAN/THE EAGLE
When Lonnie Rivera, Delante Jones and James Washington signed their National Letters of Intent to play basketball at AU in 2014, there was a genuine buzz around the program. Jones and Washington were 3-star recruits, and Rivera had international basketball experience with the Puerto Rican national team.
Serbian center Andrija Matic would fill the void of an intelligent, tough big man that The Eagles lost when Tony Wroblicky graduated after the 2013-14 season. Kevin Panzer, a senior transfer for the 2014 season, could not play consistent minutes -- whether it was due to injury or poor play -- and the Eagles made a run to the Patriot League championship with 6'5 forward Marko Vasic at center.
The recruiting class of 2019 had the tall order of replacing John Schoof, Jesse Reed and Darius "Pee-Wee" Gardner -- cornerstones of the program that brought a Patriot League championship back to Bender Arena in 2014 and finished runner-up the following year. This class would be the next generation to challenge for a Patriot League championship.
And now, sans Washington, all of them are gone.
"Four of our men's basketball players will not be returning to AU next year," Brennan told The Eagle in a statement. "Delante Jones and Lonnie Rivera have decided to transfer to study and play elsewhere, Andrija Matic is leaving school early to pursue a professional career overseas, and Alex Paquin graduates this spring and has the opportunity to return home to Canada to continue his education with two years of eligibility remaining."
Lonnie Rivera and Delante Jones announced their transfers on March 15 and 16. Soon after, Matic and junior guard Alex Paquin, who ia not a part of the 2019 recruiting class, announced they would be leaving the Eagles as well.
Matic announced via Instagram on March 22 that he would be leaving AU, and Paquin's transfer was reported by Pete Yannapoulos, a Canadian basketball analyst. These transfers leave just seven returning players on the Eagles' roster.
"We'd like to thank all four for their contributions to American University, and we wish them success as they embark on this new chapter in their careers." Brennan said in the statement. "I'm extremely excited about our returning players and the progress they have made so far this spring. Coupled with the incoming freshmen class, I feel we have a group that is capable of being competitive in the league, and helping us return to championship-caliber play."
What the Eagles are losing
Delante Jones made an immediate impact in his freshman season. Starting 28 out of 30 games, Jones was named the 2015-16 Patriot League Rookie of the Year. He scored 18 points or more eight times in his award-winning season, including a 23-point effort against Navy. With Jesse Reed leaving, it appeared as if Jones was destined to lead the Eagles in scoring for his remaining three years.
His sophomore year, however, saw little improvement to his game. Jones' inability to create off the dribble allowed defenses to run him off the three point line, and his stats were relatively the same as his freshman season -- if not a little bit worse.
Brennan told WTOP before the season that it would be a difficult one for Jones. "To be honest, I think he'll have a tough year as people know about him and he's our leading returning scorer," Brennan said. "But he's one of the hardest workers and one of the more coachable guys I've been around. He's made a lot of strides in the preseason."
Regardless of a sophomore slump, Jones was a big, athletic guard who was one of the most gifted athletes on the roster. Out of the four transfers, he is the biggest loss to the team.
Rivera did not make much of an impact his freshman year. Stuck behind experienced players like Vasic, Reed, and Charlie Jones, Rivera appeared in only 23 games and averaging about 10 minutes a game.
His sophomore season was riddled with injury, but there were flashes of what Rivera could do as a versatile player who was able to defend multiple positions. He started nine games, and averaged five points and two rebounds in 17.4 minutes a game.
The graduation of Charlie Jones this year would have meant an opportunity for Rivera to get more playing time. Although Jones was the quintessential glue guy, somebody who would do all of the overlooked "little things" for the team to win games, Rivera could have filled that role for the Eagles and made it his own.
Out of the sophomore class, Andrija Matic probably had the most disappointing season. His freshman campaign saw him play in all but two games. His stats were modest -- 4 points and 2 rebounds a game in 15 minutes a game. But with each game, he seemed to gain confidence, and looked more and more comfortable in the Princeton offensive strategy.
"[Matic] was thrown into the fire last year," Brennan told The Eagle ahead of the 2016-2017 season. "He was able to do everything we asked, score in the low post. He's going to be a big part of what we do going forward."
His sophomore season was an entirely different story. From playing in 30 games his freshman season, he only played 17 out of 30 games this year, averaging 6.8 minutes per game. With the emergence of freshman big man Mark Gasperini and the solid play of Matt Cimino, Matic found himself on the outside looking in.
Alex Paquin came to the Eagles with Gardner and Schoof ahead of him, which was one of the best backcourts in the Patriot League. Opportunities were hard to come by his freshman and sophomore seasons -- the emergence of sophomore James Washington and Delante Jones limited Paquin's minutes. He appeared in 25 games last year, and showed a desire to attack on offense.
Freshman Sa'eed Nelson, a member of this year's Patriot League all-rookie team, played 37 minutes a game, and with Jones averaging over 30 minutes a game as well, Paquin was relegated to short stints off the bench.
Uncertainty clouds AU's program. With the loss of these four players, the Eagles will have to rely heavily on their next recruiting class and transfers. The Eagles struggled this season, finishing ninth in the Patriot League. This was supposed to be a building year, getting younger guys valuable experience to compete for the Patriot League title in the coming seasons. Those building blocks are gone, and now Brennan and his staff will have to start from scratch.
mholt@theeagleonline.com


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Q: Laravel 5.4 eloquent hasMany and subsequent PHP to check an approval status I have two models, Email and EmailReview. Email hasMany EmailReviews. This query:
$data = Email::with('emailReviews')->where('created_by', '=', $personId)->get();

returns a collection of a specific person's emails that have a review_group_type of either approval or feedback and a relationship of email_reviews that have an approved property of either true, false or null. I'm looking for the cleanest way to check if the email is an approval email and all of the reviews in the collection have their approved column set to true in order to set an approval status for each email i.e., $email->approvalStatus. Some emails will also not have reviews yet, so I'll need to check for that. Something along these lines, but it's clearly getting ugly and I'm having a hard time getting my end result:
if ($data->review_group_type === 'approval') {
        foreach($data as $email) {
            if (!is_null($email->email_reviews))
            foreach($email->email_reviews as $review) {

            }
        }
    }

A: Building on @Salama96 response and going a little bit further, you can do this:
$data = Email::with('emailReviews')
        ->where(['created_by'=>$personId,'review_group_type'=>'approval'])
        ->has('emailReviews')
        ->get()
        ->map(function ($email){
           // Here, you check if all the emailReviews are 'true'
           $reviewsStatus = $email->emailReviews->pluck('approved')->unique();
           if ($reviewsStatus->count() == 1 AND $reviewsStatus->first())
           {
               $email->approvalStatus = true;
           }

           return $email;
        });
    }

PS: Haven't test it properly, but it should work.

A: I think you can simplify your query to be like this :
$data = Email::with('emailReviews')
 ->where(['created_by'=>$personId,'review_group_type'=>'approval'])
 ->has('emailReviews')->get();

Here you are going to get all emails created by specific person with an approval condition and have emailReviews


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Oscar-Nominated Scores: 'Munich,' 'Brokeback' Movie music buff Andy Trudeau continues his series on Oscar-nominated film scores. In this edition: Munich, composed by John Williams, and Brokeback Mountain, composed by Gustavo Santaolalla.
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Popular songs fill most of the soundtrack for 'Brokeback Mountain.' Composer Gustavo Santaolalla's score takes up just 13 minutes. Verve Forecast hide caption
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'Snow'
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'Hatikvah (The Hope)'
'Avner's Theme'
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This year's Oscar nominees for best musical score bypassed the action blockbusters, and there's nary a comedy in sight.
The emphasis seems to be on the somber, the intense and the restrained. And under consideration in the second of this three-part Weekend Edition series are the scores for Munich and Brokeback Mountain.
Munich reunites two of the most productive collaborators in Hollywood history: director Steven Spielberg and composer John Williams (who is also nominated for his score for Memoirs of a Geisha).
Williams tends to rely on melodies and the transformation of them as the germ for many of his music cues, and one of the most powerful in this score is for a central charater, Avner... a theme that reappears in a variety of forms, from guitar to solo cello, to string orchestra. The theme's emotional weight shifts according to the volume of the instrumentation behind it.
A vocal soloist, Lisbeth Scott, also figures prominently in the score, most often expressing feelings of sadness or lamentation.
But beyond the themes, Williams is always good at making things happen without a tune. When he goes into action mode, for instance, a rhythmic pattern suffices.
Williams is no stranger to the Oscars, but the score for the most talked-about film of the year -- Brokeback Mountain -- was composed by an Academy Award newcomer. Argentina's Gustavo Santaolalla produces records, plays guitar and writes songs.
The score for Brokeback Mountain takes up just 13 minutes on the soundtrack recording. Split into seven cues it somehow seems off balance, off kilter and out of place.
Time and again, Trudeau says, the music seems ready to break into a fully realized melody... then retreats into atmosphere. Santaolalla is playing with ambiguity throughout, as fragments of music struggle but fail to create an identity.
At the very end of the score there is a determined attempt to launch a theme... but once again, Trudeau notes, the gesture goes nowhere.
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While he released his solo debut, Dr. Dee this week, Damon Albarn has confirmed to BBC4 that he is already making another solo album. Albarn said, "This week we're mucking around with these Russian synthesizers in a very loose mind of doing some kind of record under my name. I suppose you could call it a solo record, but I don't like that word. It sounds very lonely - solo. I don't really want to be solo in my life. But yeah, I'm making another record."
The Joy Formidable have confirmed they have completed recording their sophomore record. The follow-up to last years, acclaimed, The Big Roar still has no release date.
In a very brave move, Tommy Gabel of Against Me! has confirmed to Rolling Stone magazine that he is coming out as transgender. The singer has revealed that he will soon undergo the transition process from man to woman and is set to begin taking hormones and undergoing electrolysis treatments in the next few months. Gabel, who has a wife and child, said to the magazine, "I'm going to have embarrassing moments and that won't be fun. But that's part of what talking to you is about – is hoping people will understand, and hoping they'll be fairly kind." Gabel will eventually switch his name to Laura Jane Grace.
Producer Nigel Goodrich (Radiohead, Beck) has formed a new band with former Beck drummer, Joey Waronker. The duo call themselves, Ultraista and have released the single, "Smalltalk." No other information is available about the band other than that.


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Android malware installs decreased by nearly 50% in 2014, says Google
Google has released a new report outlining what exactly the Android security team has been up to in 2014. The full report is a bit lengthy, but we'll walk you through some key points.
Jimmy Westenberg
Security isn't to be taken lightly, especially when it comes to dealing with sensitive consumer information. To shed some light on its recent efforts, Google released a whitepaper earlier today that explains what exactly the Android security team has been working on in the past year. The report, titled Android Security State of the Union, analyzes billions of data points gathered throughout 2014 that detail the current state of Android security.
The full report is quite lengthy, but there are a few main points Google would like to highlight. For starters, the company says the worldwide rate of Android malware installs decreased by nearly 50% throughout 2014. And over the entire year, fewer than 1% of all Android devices contained any type of harmful application at all. Of the devices that only installed applications from the Google Play Store, fewer than .15% contained a harmful app.
In addition, the company explains that over 1 billion devices are protected by its Verify Apps service, which now scans over 200 million devices per day. Lastly, the Android team and all affiliates responded to 79 externally reported security issues overall, and over 25,000 applications in the Play Store were updated following security notifications from Google.
Now, all of these numbers Google has laid to us out are quite broad, especially given the company's meaning of the word malware (or Potentially Harmful Apps). But if you are interested in getting some more information on specifics, Google has detailed everything in a very lengthy report, which you can find here.
Google has already made clear its intentions to focus more on reviewing policy violations in Google Play in hopes to reduce malware even further over the next year. Even though many users are still concerned with Android security, the company hopes this new report will bring those worries to an end.
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