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Trump, 501c3 Govt Preachers and Sunday Laws!
"An executive order (EO) signed by President Donald J. Trump this morning could welcome more overt political activity by charities and churches. It also appears to open the door for more litigation against his administration. …The full EO was released this afternoon and what it actually does could be up for debate. The EO states that it will be the policy of the executive branch to "vigorously enforce federal law's robust protections of religious freedom," and will honor and enforce those protections. It goes on to state that the Treasury Secretary will ensure that the department does not take adverse action against any organization for "speaking about moral or political issues from a religious perspective, where speech of similar character has not ordinarily been treated as participation or intervention in a political campaign on behalf or opposition to a candidate for office." –Source
As was revealed and then shared back in July of 2016 in a video I made, Trump will never remove the prophesied 501c3 even though many preachers and pastors hoped and declared otherwise. Prophecy must be fulfilled and to remove that government contract now will prevent it from fulfillment. What he will do (as we saw yesterday) is change how that contract is written, or as the headline of the article I link out at the start of this blog entry said, Trump's "Executive Order Relaxes Johnson Amendment Enforcement." Since prophecy cannot be changed by the wicked desires of mankind, that contract had to stay intact, but as I stated last year, it must be rewritten so as to allow the preachers to keep their tax free status as well as preach political sermons. The truth as it was revealed in the prophetic Scripture of our Lord is rock hard fact and no matter how many false shepherds and wolves proclaim otherwise, it will happen!
The prophecy clearly states the ecumenical churches in bed with Rome will have the ability to legislate and pass religious laws against anyone refusing to worship the man of sin in Rome to the point they will lose the ability to buy and sell and then eventually pass laws to have them killed if they refuse to keep his man-made Sabbath holy over and above the never changing and eternal Sabbath of the Creator God. And the Bible clearly says it's not Sunday.
Revelation 13:15 literally says, "And he had power to give life unto the image of the beast, that the image of the beast should both speak, and cause that as many as would not worship the image of the beast should be killed." And just so you know, the "speak and cause" reference in the prophecy here is defined as legislation and enforcement. See my Symbols of Revelation defined page on the website to double check that prophetic definition when you get time.
Again, many scoffed and insisted for years that the 501c3 was not an image of the beast even though the only way to get the 501c3 contract was to join your church with the State so as to make an exact copy of the beast in Rome which is both Vatican city (A STATE) as well as the Roman Catholic CHURCH. (click here to see if your church is a Government agent) But they yelled, screamed, ridiculed and even stomped their feet proclaiming students of prophecy were lying when they said the 501c3 would eventually find the money worshipping preachers becoming viable agents of the State. And then as was revealed and then posted in that video I made in 2004 which was a summary of my image of the beast page on my website I made years prior regarding how all this will go down as Scripture predicts, is in fact proof that it is happening just as the Lord reveals in His written Word.
Now yes, some assume the image was never given life as of yet. But I beg to differ as it was obviously given its life in 2006 when Bush signed that law making all the pastors official government agents (his words not mine) with the ability to lobby religious law. But because of rampant disobedience across the board in all the churches, nary a preacher caught that because the only way to understand bible prophecy is to be obedient. And even after Trump said what he said during his campaign 9 months ago that moved me to make that video back in July of 2016, the truth as it was written in the prophetic Word of God was ignored for the most part by all those pastors. They actually had the ability to lobby law since 2006 as President Bush's signature confirmed. But, their fear of losing their golden tax exempt carrot blinded their eyes and their fear of losing the money they worship forced them to sit on their hands. But no longer. Trump signed that executive order yesterday and now they have the government they trust above the God they supposedly preach for protecting them on that pulpit.
When the Loud Cry goes forth much louder, it will show all with eyes that see that the Government approved preachers sold out to keep their money growing and are now working hand in hand with the dying god of this world who has been running things from the Vatican for centuries who declares the Ten Commandments have been abolished at the cross, the truth we preach about the Law of God will empty their pews because some of their flock will open their Bibles as did the Bereans of old. That means the hirelings standing at the pulpit will be moved by satan to fabricate a need to pass a law demanding all people attend church on Sunday so as to stop the prophesied increased calamities. Of course that will only be the excuse they use when in fact as prophecy dictates is their way of combatting the truth about the Sabbath of the Creator God that is causing their pews to empty. Their people actually opened their Bibles and found students of prophecy were telling the truth!
The real truth is they pass that law because the love of the money that is in the pockets of those leaving their church is far greater than their love of the Lord or even the people they were ordained to shepherd. That law will cause many to run back into their churches for fear of losing their lives. And so, as prophecy also predicted, the main issue in the last days that divides the disobedient from the obedient or as prophecy puts it, will point out who gets the mark of the beast and who gets the seal of God will come to fulfillment with an exactness only a Creator God can declare.
We are THAT CLOSE NOW!
They literally now have the ability to enforce the mark of the beast and if you are a Christian who is riding the fence on this long prophesied fact, you need to get off that fence and obey the Lord that wrote that Law with His own finger in stone so as to declare it eternally unchangeable. For if you refuse to accept Jesus as Lord and stop offering Him lip service as prophecy proclaims most will today, you will be those very Christians that the prophet Jeremiah declared will shout, "The harvest is past, the summer is ended, and we are not saved." -Jeremiah 8:20
I pray you make the right decision and join the people of God who declare on that great and dreadful day, "And it shall be said in that day, Lo, this is our God; we have waited for him, and he will save us: this is the LORD; we have waited for him, we will be glad and rejoice in his salvation." -Isaiah 25:9
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May 5, 2017 Nicholas
Well, isn't that special? IRS bends over for 'Satan'
"A new report from the Washington watchdog Judicial Watch on Thursday revealed that the IRS was able to slash the wait time for Satanists wanting a tax-exempt status to 10 days – during the time frame the agency was delaying results for Christian and "patriot" groups by years. "Records obtained by Judicial Watch from the Treasury Department show that the Satanic cult applied for tax-exempt status on October 21, 2014, and received it on October 31, 2014," officials said. That was at a time when the IRS was delaying – and being sued for delaying – the tax status registrations of a multitude of organizations with "Christian," "Patriot" or "tea party" in their names." –Source
Have you seen my "National Pride" page on the website? Or how about the "USA in Prophecy page?" Or what us this new video titled "Second beast of Revelation 13 speaks as a dragon." Notice the prophetic and historic confirmation that America would start out as a Christian nation only to become a Satanic nation at the end. The aerial pictures of Washington DC that I have on the first link I shared in this paragraph prove it hands down, and the prophecies matched with historic evidence lock it down in the second link I posted. As for the last link. That video was done by a brother in the faith 3 days ago. Satanists are now praying openly on the steps of the US Capital!
For those of you that are new to present truth, prophecy also said the Vatican will join with the American government near the end and that too is highlighted in many areas on my site including those two pages I posted above. But here's what most people never knew about for some odd reason. I made a page many years ago, in the beginning of this website in fact with proof the IRS is in fact a Vatican inspired and now controlled entity in the USA. See my Roman Catholic IRS page when you get time.
That all being said, is it a shock when the United States IRS office panders to Satanists but harasses Christians? If you are still a bit confused in that area see my Hating the Christian page when you get time. All of that we're seeing here in America today from the political wars within our very own borders to the IRS doing all it can to giving the OK to Satanists that want to teach our children how to worship the dying god of this world in after school programs was prophesied. It's as I've been saying for literally decades. When we get real close to the return of our King and Saviour Jesus Christ, Satan will bring out the big guns of deception and control so as to get as many into his camp as possible so as to have a massive army for his Armageddon war. That is happening right now. The fact they are teaching Satanism in the schools, granting Satanists full-fledged authority to worship as real churches, granting Satanists tax free contracts and our nation's capital had roads built long ago that from the air declare symbolic loyalty to Satan confirms the USA has been speaking as a dragon for year! We are THAT close! Maranatha!
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April 5, 2017 Nicholas
Trump vows to repeal political limits on churches
"Warning that religious freedom is "under threat," President Donald Trump vowed Thursday to repeal the Johnson Amendment, an IRS rule barring pastors from endorsing candidates from the pulpit." "I will get rid of and totally destroy the Johnson Amendment and allow our representatives of faith to speak freely and without fear of retribution," Trump said during remarks at the National Prayer Breakfast, a high-profile event bringing together faith leaders, politicians and dignitaries." –Source (also see this article)
As I stated in the video I made back in July of last year, Trump is going to appeal to the religious right because the timing is perfect, but he will never completely dissolve the 501c3. For in so doing it will prevent the pastors from gaining the long prophesied political powers they need to literally become the "Church & State" image of the beast in Rome so as to push for the religious laws that are headed our way. He will remove the mandate that states the Preachers cannot speak politically from the pulpit even though that was the original reason Lyndon Johnson set it up in the first place back in 1954. He must do this to assure more religious banter in politics so as to assure the long expected Sunday Laws come to fruition. But no, he will never remove the Church & State foundation of the 501c3 completely because if he did not only would the pastors lose their ability to lobby for religious law as government agents, it would also cause the prophecy regarding the image of the beast to fail. And quite frankly, that just won't happen!
The 501c3 incorporation is just too big a foot in the door of every church in America for the powers that be to just walk away from it now. 100% of every church has bought in expect the remnant church and a few other smaller churches who are beginning to see clearly. And for those that created "simple corporations" with their ministries, truth is, whether you join your church or ministry with the State in a simple corporation or you do so with the 501c3 makes no difference now. In both cases you have no choice but to follow certain guidelines of the second beast of Revelation in how you do the work of the Lord. And that means in both cases, your church and or ministry is willfully outside the will of God.
We as Christians cannot join with the State so as to do Church business because we have already joined with the Lord and are then citizens of New Jerusalem ordained to do the work He ordained. And so, as the prophet Amos said in 3:3, "Can two walk together, except they be agreed?" And since students of prophecy know for a fact that the United States Government is evil to the core, would not 2 Corinthians 6:14 also apply when it says, "Be ye not unequally yoked together with unbelievers: for what fellowship hath righteousness with unrighteousness? and what communion hath light with darkness?" Yes, we are to obey the laws of the land as long as they don't demand we break God's law, (See Romans 13:1-7) but to join with such wicked leaders would be deadly.
Since it was also prophesied that the preachers of today would be more interested in the cash in the pockets than the souls in the pews, all the churches have opted to join with the State so as to make money on tax exempt benefits. To dissolve this Church & State contract so close to the end when it is needed the most by the dying god of this world would be spiritually insane. In so doing it would cause his wife's (The Whore of Babylon) plans to use the religious right to bring about Sunday laws to fail. And again.. that just won't happen.
As for the nay sayers out there. Even if there wasn't a prophecy regarding religious laws coming to the USA on the books of Heaven; (which there is) the fact the government approved (and paid for) pastors will soon have the right to speak on political topics from their pulpits without danger means they will most assuredly mix their doctrinal stand into their political agenda which we all know is well seeded with Vatican dogma as of June 26, 2000 when the one world church began. Seriously, if the pastor has the ability to influence the laws of the land legally, what money worshipping preacher would pass that option up? Truth is, they already sold their souls to the dollar, that means their hearts are no longer after God's heart and so they will do whatever pleases the flesh. And since all the churches have already officially joined with the man of sin in Rome just as prophecy predicted they would, they are all in agreement to do as the Pope commands. This one world church will do whatever it can to increase its power over the people because they were prophesied to do just that. And so, whether you believe in Christian prophecy or not, there will be Sunday laws!
Bottom line is this.. Trump's actions to rewrite the 501c3 will actually help the preachers to not only be an exact image of the Roman beast, opening their eyes to this political power will most assuredly bring on the Sunday Laws, BUT they cannot do so without a valid voice in legislative halls and as of March 07, 2006 they have had that voice forever written into the fabric of the 501c3 contract by President George W Bush.
I believe and have stated more than a few times that the stroke of the pen that day actually gave life unto the image of the beast. But most of the pastors missed it because none of them understand prophecy. Truth be known, just emulating the Vatican image as the churches have been doing since 1954 was bad enough, yes. But all along they had no political power and so they were politically dead in the water. But thanks to Bush's signature, they now have that power just as prophecy predicted. And now we see Trump is being used by Beelzebub to make sure those pastors are very aware they have and can now use that power. Hence the reason I did that video back in July. We are THAT close now! Are you ready? ARE YOU SURE?!
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February 3, 2017 Nicholas 1 Comment
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package auth

import (
	"encoding/json"
	"errors"
	"fmt"
	"net/http"
	"net/url"
	"strings"
	"sync"
	"time"

	"github.com/distribution/distribution/v3/registry/client"
	"github.com/distribution/distribution/v3/registry/client/auth/challenge"
	"github.com/distribution/distribution/v3/registry/client/transport"
)

var (
	// ErrNoBasicAuthCredentials is returned if a request can't be authorized with
	// basic auth due to lack of credentials.
	ErrNoBasicAuthCredentials = errors.New("no basic auth credentials")

	// ErrNoToken is returned if a request is successful but the body does not
	// contain an authorization token.
	ErrNoToken = errors.New("authorization server did not include a token in the response")
)

const defaultClientID = "registry-client"

// AuthenticationHandler is an interface for authorizing a request from
// params from a "WWW-Authenicate" header for a single scheme.
type AuthenticationHandler interface {
	// Scheme returns the scheme as expected from the "WWW-Authenicate" header.
	Scheme() string

	// AuthorizeRequest adds the authorization header to a request (if needed)
	// using the parameters from "WWW-Authenticate" method. The parameters
	// values depend on the scheme.
	AuthorizeRequest(req *http.Request, params map[string]string) error
}

// CredentialStore is an interface for getting credentials for
// a given URL
type CredentialStore interface {
	// Basic returns basic auth for the given URL
	Basic(*url.URL) (string, string)

	// RefreshToken returns a refresh token for the
	// given URL and service
	RefreshToken(*url.URL, string) string

	// SetRefreshToken sets the refresh token if none
	// is provided for the given url and service
	SetRefreshToken(realm *url.URL, service, token string)
}

// NewAuthorizer creates an authorizer which can handle multiple authentication
// schemes. The handlers are tried in order, the higher priority authentication
// methods should be first. The challengeMap holds a list of challenges for
// a given root API endpoint (for example "https://registry-1.docker.io/v2/").
func NewAuthorizer(manager challenge.Manager, handlers ...AuthenticationHandler) transport.RequestModifier {
	return &endpointAuthorizer{
		challenges: manager,
		handlers:   handlers,
	}
}

type endpointAuthorizer struct {
	challenges challenge.Manager
	handlers   []AuthenticationHandler
}

func (ea *endpointAuthorizer) ModifyRequest(req *http.Request) error {
	pingPath := req.URL.Path
	if v2Root := strings.Index(req.URL.Path, "/v2/"); v2Root != -1 {
		pingPath = pingPath[:v2Root+4]
	} else if v1Root := strings.Index(req.URL.Path, "/v1/"); v1Root != -1 {
		pingPath = pingPath[:v1Root] + "/v2/"
	} else {
		return nil
	}

	ping := url.URL{
		Host:   req.URL.Host,
		Scheme: req.URL.Scheme,
		Path:   pingPath,
	}

	challenges, err := ea.challenges.GetChallenges(ping)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}

	if len(challenges) > 0 {
		for _, handler := range ea.handlers {
			for _, c := range challenges {
				if c.Scheme != handler.Scheme() {
					continue
				}
				if err := handler.AuthorizeRequest(req, c.Parameters); err != nil {
					return err
				}
			}
		}
	}

	return nil
}

// This is the minimum duration a token can last (in seconds).
// A token must not live less than 60 seconds because older versions
// of the Docker client didn't read their expiration from the token
// response and assumed 60 seconds.  So to remain compatible with
// those implementations, a token must live at least this long.
const minimumTokenLifetimeSeconds = 60

// Private interface for time used by this package to enable tests to provide their own implementation.
type clock interface {
	Now() time.Time
}

type tokenHandler struct {
	creds     CredentialStore
	transport http.RoundTripper
	clock     clock

	offlineAccess bool
	forceOAuth    bool
	clientID      string
	scopes        []Scope

	tokenLock       sync.Mutex
	tokenCache      string
	tokenExpiration time.Time

	logger Logger
}

// Scope is a type which is serializable to a string
// using the allow scope grammar.
type Scope interface {
	String() string
}

// RepositoryScope represents a token scope for access
// to a repository.
type RepositoryScope struct {
	Repository string
	Class      string
	Actions    []string
}

// String returns the string representation of the repository
// using the scope grammar
func (rs RepositoryScope) String() string {
	repoType := "repository"
	// Keep existing format for image class to maintain backwards compatibility
	// with authorization servers which do not support the expanded grammar.
	if rs.Class != "" && rs.Class != "image" {
		repoType = fmt.Sprintf("%s(%s)", repoType, rs.Class)
	}
	return fmt.Sprintf("%s:%s:%s", repoType, rs.Repository, strings.Join(rs.Actions, ","))
}

// RegistryScope represents a token scope for access
// to resources in the registry.
type RegistryScope struct {
	Name    string
	Actions []string
}

// String returns the string representation of the user
// using the scope grammar
func (rs RegistryScope) String() string {
	return fmt.Sprintf("registry:%s:%s", rs.Name, strings.Join(rs.Actions, ","))
}

// Logger defines the injectable logging interface, used on TokenHandlers.
type Logger interface {
	Debugf(format string, args ...interface{})
}

func logDebugf(logger Logger, format string, args ...interface{}) {
	if logger == nil {
		return
	}
	logger.Debugf(format, args...)
}

// TokenHandlerOptions is used to configure a new token handler
type TokenHandlerOptions struct {
	Transport   http.RoundTripper
	Credentials CredentialStore

	OfflineAccess bool
	ForceOAuth    bool
	ClientID      string
	Scopes        []Scope
	Logger        Logger
}

// An implementation of clock for providing real time data.
type realClock struct{}

// Now implements clock
func (realClock) Now() time.Time { return time.Now() }

// NewTokenHandler creates a new AuthenicationHandler which supports
// fetching tokens from a remote token server.
func NewTokenHandler(transport http.RoundTripper, creds CredentialStore, scope string, actions ...string) AuthenticationHandler {
	// Create options...
	return NewTokenHandlerWithOptions(TokenHandlerOptions{
		Transport:   transport,
		Credentials: creds,
		Scopes: []Scope{
			RepositoryScope{
				Repository: scope,
				Actions:    actions,
			},
		},
	})
}

// NewTokenHandlerWithOptions creates a new token handler using the provided
// options structure.
func NewTokenHandlerWithOptions(options TokenHandlerOptions) AuthenticationHandler {
	handler := &tokenHandler{
		transport:     options.Transport,
		creds:         options.Credentials,
		offlineAccess: options.OfflineAccess,
		forceOAuth:    options.ForceOAuth,
		clientID:      options.ClientID,
		scopes:        options.Scopes,
		clock:         realClock{},
		logger:        options.Logger,
	}

	return handler
}

func (th *tokenHandler) client() *http.Client {
	return &http.Client{
		Transport: th.transport,
		Timeout:   15 * time.Second,
	}
}

func (th *tokenHandler) Scheme() string {
	return "bearer"
}

func (th *tokenHandler) AuthorizeRequest(req *http.Request, params map[string]string) error {
	var additionalScopes []string
	if fromParam := req.URL.Query().Get("from"); fromParam != "" {
		additionalScopes = append(additionalScopes, RepositoryScope{
			Repository: fromParam,
			Actions:    []string{"pull"},
		}.String())
	}

	token, err := th.getToken(params, additionalScopes...)
	if err != nil {
		return err
	}

	req.Header.Set("Authorization", fmt.Sprintf("Bearer %s", token))

	return nil
}

func (th *tokenHandler) getToken(params map[string]string, additionalScopes ...string) (string, error) {
	th.tokenLock.Lock()
	defer th.tokenLock.Unlock()
	scopes := make([]string, 0, len(th.scopes)+len(additionalScopes))
	for _, scope := range th.scopes {
		scopes = append(scopes, scope.String())
	}
	var addedScopes bool
	for _, scope := range additionalScopes {
		if hasScope(scopes, scope) {
			continue
		}
		scopes = append(scopes, scope)
		addedScopes = true
	}

	now := th.clock.Now()
	if now.After(th.tokenExpiration) || addedScopes {
		token, expiration, err := th.fetchToken(params, scopes)
		if err != nil {
			return "", err
		}

		// do not update cache for added scope tokens
		if !addedScopes {
			th.tokenCache = token
			th.tokenExpiration = expiration
		}

		return token, nil
	}

	return th.tokenCache, nil
}

func hasScope(scopes []string, scope string) bool {
	for _, s := range scopes {
		if s == scope {
			return true
		}
	}
	return false
}

type postTokenResponse struct {
	AccessToken  string    `json:"access_token"`
	RefreshToken string    `json:"refresh_token"`
	ExpiresIn    int       `json:"expires_in"`
	IssuedAt     time.Time `json:"issued_at"`
	Scope        string    `json:"scope"`
}

func (th *tokenHandler) fetchTokenWithOAuth(realm *url.URL, refreshToken, service string, scopes []string) (token string, expiration time.Time, err error) {
	form := url.Values{}
	form.Set("scope", strings.Join(scopes, " "))
	form.Set("service", service)

	clientID := th.clientID
	if clientID == "" {
		// Use default client, this is a required field
		clientID = defaultClientID
	}
	form.Set("client_id", clientID)

	if refreshToken != "" {
		form.Set("grant_type", "refresh_token")
		form.Set("refresh_token", refreshToken)
	} else if th.creds != nil {
		form.Set("grant_type", "password")
		username, password := th.creds.Basic(realm)
		form.Set("username", username)
		form.Set("password", password)

		// attempt to get a refresh token
		form.Set("access_type", "offline")
	} else {
		// refuse to do oauth without a grant type
		return "", time.Time{}, fmt.Errorf("no supported grant type")
	}

	resp, err := th.client().PostForm(realm.String(), form)
	if err != nil {
		return "", time.Time{}, err
	}
	defer resp.Body.Close()

	if !client.SuccessStatus(resp.StatusCode) {
		err := client.HandleErrorResponse(resp)
		return "", time.Time{}, err
	}

	decoder := json.NewDecoder(resp.Body)

	var tr postTokenResponse
	if err = decoder.Decode(&tr); err != nil {
		return "", time.Time{}, fmt.Errorf("unable to decode token response: %s", err)
	}

	if tr.AccessToken == "" {
		return "", time.Time{}, ErrNoToken
	}

	if tr.RefreshToken != "" && tr.RefreshToken != refreshToken {
		th.creds.SetRefreshToken(realm, service, tr.RefreshToken)
	}

	if tr.ExpiresIn < minimumTokenLifetimeSeconds {
		// The default/minimum lifetime.
		tr.ExpiresIn = minimumTokenLifetimeSeconds
		logDebugf(th.logger, "Increasing token expiration to: %d seconds", tr.ExpiresIn)
	}

	if tr.IssuedAt.IsZero() {
		// issued_at is optional in the token response.
		tr.IssuedAt = th.clock.Now().UTC()
	}

	return tr.AccessToken, tr.IssuedAt.Add(time.Duration(tr.ExpiresIn) * time.Second), nil
}

type getTokenResponse struct {
	Token        string    `json:"token"`
	AccessToken  string    `json:"access_token"`
	ExpiresIn    int       `json:"expires_in"`
	IssuedAt     time.Time `json:"issued_at"`
	RefreshToken string    `json:"refresh_token"`
}

func (th *tokenHandler) fetchTokenWithBasicAuth(realm *url.URL, service string, scopes []string) (token string, expiration time.Time, err error) {

	req, err := http.NewRequest("GET", realm.String(), nil)
	if err != nil {
		return "", time.Time{}, err
	}

	reqParams := req.URL.Query()

	if service != "" {
		reqParams.Add("service", service)
	}

	for _, scope := range scopes {
		reqParams.Add("scope", scope)
	}

	if th.offlineAccess {
		reqParams.Add("offline_token", "true")
		clientID := th.clientID
		if clientID == "" {
			clientID = defaultClientID
		}
		reqParams.Add("client_id", clientID)
	}

	if th.creds != nil {
		username, password := th.creds.Basic(realm)
		if username != "" && password != "" {
			reqParams.Add("account", username)
			req.SetBasicAuth(username, password)
		}
	}

	req.URL.RawQuery = reqParams.Encode()

	resp, err := th.client().Do(req)
	if err != nil {
		return "", time.Time{}, err
	}
	defer resp.Body.Close()

	if !client.SuccessStatus(resp.StatusCode) {
		err := client.HandleErrorResponse(resp)
		return "", time.Time{}, err
	}

	decoder := json.NewDecoder(resp.Body)

	var tr getTokenResponse
	if err = decoder.Decode(&tr); err != nil {
		return "", time.Time{}, fmt.Errorf("unable to decode token response: %s", err)
	}

	if tr.RefreshToken != "" && th.creds != nil {
		th.creds.SetRefreshToken(realm, service, tr.RefreshToken)
	}

	// `access_token` is equivalent to `token` and if both are specified
	// the choice is undefined.  Canonicalize `access_token` by sticking
	// things in `token`.
	if tr.AccessToken != "" {
		tr.Token = tr.AccessToken
	}

	if tr.Token == "" {
		return "", time.Time{}, ErrNoToken
	}

	if tr.ExpiresIn < minimumTokenLifetimeSeconds {
		// The default/minimum lifetime.
		tr.ExpiresIn = minimumTokenLifetimeSeconds
		logDebugf(th.logger, "Increasing token expiration to: %d seconds", tr.ExpiresIn)
	}

	if tr.IssuedAt.IsZero() {
		// issued_at is optional in the token response.
		tr.IssuedAt = th.clock.Now().UTC()
	}

	return tr.Token, tr.IssuedAt.Add(time.Duration(tr.ExpiresIn) * time.Second), nil
}

func (th *tokenHandler) fetchToken(params map[string]string, scopes []string) (token string, expiration time.Time, err error) {
	realm, ok := params["realm"]
	if !ok {
		return "", time.Time{}, errors.New("no realm specified for token auth challenge")
	}

	// TODO(dmcgowan): Handle empty scheme and relative realm
	realmURL, err := url.Parse(realm)
	if err != nil {
		return "", time.Time{}, fmt.Errorf("invalid token auth challenge realm: %s", err)
	}

	service := params["service"]

	var refreshToken string

	if th.creds != nil {
		refreshToken = th.creds.RefreshToken(realmURL, service)
	}

	if refreshToken != "" || th.forceOAuth {
		return th.fetchTokenWithOAuth(realmURL, refreshToken, service, scopes)
	}

	return th.fetchTokenWithBasicAuth(realmURL, service, scopes)
}

type basicHandler struct {
	creds CredentialStore
}

// NewBasicHandler creaters a new authentiation handler which adds
// basic authentication credentials to a request.
func NewBasicHandler(creds CredentialStore) AuthenticationHandler {
	return &basicHandler{
		creds: creds,
	}
}

func (*basicHandler) Scheme() string {
	return "basic"
}

func (bh *basicHandler) AuthorizeRequest(req *http.Request, params map[string]string) error {
	if bh.creds != nil {
		username, password := bh.creds.Basic(req.URL)
		if username != "" && password != "" {
			req.SetBasicAuth(username, password)
			return nil
		}
	}
	return ErrNoBasicAuthCredentials
}

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Dr. Firas Zakaria is a highly respected internal medicine specialist in Palos Heights, Illinois. As part of his commitment to the area, Dr. Zakaria offers urgent care services to his patients and the residents of Palos Heights and the surrounding communities. He accepts both walk-in and same-day appointments. If you've got the time, give the clinic a call. If not, feel free to visit without an appointment. You'll receive the same quality care either way.
Urgent care is designed for patients who aren't sick enough for the emergency room but can't see their doctor for one reason or another. Business travelers and tourists often find urgent care to be a perfect solution when they come down with a respiratory illness or flu bug on their journey. You might also consider urgent care when your doctor is on vacation or doesn't have an appointment available until a week from Thursday, and it's Monday.
Because the everyday hustle and bustle of life can make it easy to forget about renewing prescriptions, urgent care may also be an option for a one-time medication refill for a chronic condition like asthma.
Urgent care can't replace routine visits with your doctor or emergency room treatment for a life-threatening illness or injury, but it fills the gap between the two.
What Illnesses Should I Go To Urgent Care For?
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Revisiting Little Feat's Career-Saving Third LP, 'Dixie Chicken'
Jeff Giles
After their low-selling debut nearly cost them their record contract, Little Feat had to fight their way through to a second album, and they nearly fell apart before they could make their third — but all that struggle paid off with the end result, 1973's Dixie Chicken.
While they may have been on firmer footing with their label, Warner Bros., after posting improved sales with 1972's Sailin' Shoes, Little Feat remained unsettled behind the scenes — a situation highlighted by the departure of bassist Roy Estrada, who quit to join Captain Beefheart. Years later, Estrada would claim it was nothing personal — just a desire to get out of Southern California, where the air quality was bad for his asthma — it left the Feat lineup at temporary loose ends.
In the meantime, frontman Lowell George — creatively restless even in the happiest of times — seemingly contemplated the idea of putting Little Feat to the side, at least temporarily. After hooking up with former Lovin' Spoonful singer John Sebastian, George briefly toyed with the idea of putting together a three-part harmony project that would have also featured Phil Everly. While it's unclear just how serious the idea ever was, the trio played together at least once — an experience that clearly wasn't enough to lure George away from his group.
"We had one get-together which was really nice. Real great three-part harmony, with John on the bottom, Phil on the top and me in the middle," said George. "But it could never have come to fruition, not in a million years. ... I don't think that Phil Everly and I could share a stage. I mean, I'm 20 pounds overweight and he's 20 pounds, er, over the hill."
Listen to Little Feat's 'Dixie Chicken'
George was also invited to join up with Jackson Browne for a group project during this period, but ultimately drifted back to Little Feat, who moved beyond Estrada's departure by bulking out into an augmented lineup that not only included new bassist Kenny Gradney, but added percussionist Sam Clayton and guitarist Paul Barrere.
The new band members understandably altered the Little Feat sound, triggering an evolution away from the rawer approach captured on the first two albums. With Gradney and Clayton joining drummer Richie Hayward in the pocket, Bill Payne adding color with his distinctive keyboards, and George adding vocals and socket wrench slide guitar, the grooves they explored took on a much looser, more syncopated feel, adding a New Orleans-influenced flavor to the new material — and sending leftover pages from the group's stockpile of songs in new directions. One example that would prove particularly fateful was the song that ended up serving as the new album's title track, which George and songwriting partner Martin Kibbee had penned during the period that produced Sailin' Shoes.
"Lowell and I had been up all night trying to write a song. We had the Ace Screen Door factory down on Laurel Canyon. As I was leaving, there was a chicken place with a sign that said, 'Dixie chicken,'" Kibbee later recalled. "He'd been playing the damn thing all night, you know, [imitates riff], which was going through my brain. By the time I got home, I had written this song. When I came back the next morning to the rehearsal hall at the Warner Bros. soundstage, I went, 'I've got it! I've got it!' And they all looked at me like, 'Puh-leeze, you're kidding!'"
In the short term, Kibbee's version of the band's reaction might have seemed justified — "Dixie Chicken," like the album it led off and lent its name to, wasn't much of a hit. Yet there were signs that Little Feat's exceedingly hard-fought momentum was finally beginning to build: Long thought of as musicians' musicians and frequently hired to guest on other artists' projects, the band was edging into the mainstream just as its classic lineup really hit its stride.
Though turbulent times were far from over, Dixie Chicken has remained a persistent highlight in a discography with more than its share, with the title track proving a popular cover choice (and inspiring at least one other band's name). It'd be hard to argue that Little Feat were ever really given their due in terms of record sales, but they'd spend much of the ensuing decade as one of rock's more consistently acclaimed — and all-around exciting — acts.
"It got a lot better really fast," said Hayward of the lineup changes leading up to Dixie Chicken. "There was much more input, more people to play off of. Groove-wise, there was a lot of psychic arm wrestling going on for the next bunch of years. We were all coming from different places, and to make it work there were a lot of compromises made, voluntarily and involuntarily."
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Regarded as one of the world's greatest road races, the TCS New York City Marathon has seen more than one million runners cross the finish line in Central Park since it began in 1970.
The TCS New York City Marathon is the premier event of New York Road Runners (NYRR) and the largest marathon in the world. Over 1 million people have finished the race since its first running in 1970 with just 127 entrants and 55 finishers running four laps around Central Park. The race expanded to all five boroughs in 1976 and just celebrated its 40th year as a five-borough affair.
Participants from approximately 125 countries tour the city, starting on Staten Island at the foot of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and running through the neighborhoods of Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx before ending in Manhattan.
Held annually on the first Sunday of November, the race features over 50,000 runners including the world's top professional athletes and a vast range of competitive, recreational, and charity runners. Participants from approximately 125 countries tour the city, starting on Staten Island at the foot of the Verrazano-Narrows Bridge and running through the neighborhoods of Brooklyn, Queens, and the Bronx before ending in Manhattan.
More than one million spectators and thousands of volunteers line the city streets in support of the runners, while millions more watch the television broadcast in 175 countries and territories.
Tata Consultancy Services (TCS) is the premier partner of NYRR and the title sponsor of the TCS New York City Marathon. The 47th running of the TCS New York City Marathon is set for November 4, 2018.
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When Carol fell in August 2013, she was hesitant to call for help, thinking her injury would improve. However, after waiting for a couple of days, she could no longer stand the pain. She called for an ambulance, and it brought her to Swedish Covenant Hospital. She was so grateful that she made that decision, and for the care she received, that she made a generous donation to thank the hospital.
"I was told by Dr. [Ermias] Tilahun that I was close to going into a coma and I believe he saved my life," Carol said.
In addition to Dr. Tilahun, Carol praises the work of the many nurses and staff that provided care during her stay. The care she received was so exemplary that three years later, she still remembers the names of the nurses who got her back on her feet. Carol knows that there is something special about the nurses at Swedish Covenant Hospital. She said that after spending nine days as an inpatient getting to know them, they felt like friends and she always wanted to return to say "hi."
Following her discharge, Carol wanted to show her appreciation for the care she received, but she did not know how. When she received a mailing from the hospital, she decided to show her gratitude by making a generous donation.
Last fall, when Carol needed treatment after another fall, she knew she wanted to return to Swedish Covenant Hospital. So appreciative of the care she received from the nurses in the Emergency Department, she chose to increase her donation.
"As you can see, I don't know any other way of saying 'thanks for being there for me when I needed help,'" Carol said.
To learn more about the Grateful Patient Program at Swedish Covenant Hospital click here, or contact the Foundation at (773) 293-5121 or Foundation@swedishcovenant.org.
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Police say they responded to the 13600 block of Legacy Circle in the Herndon area around 2 a.m. Monday where shell casings were found.
Officers searched the area on ground and by helicopter. Authorities say gunfire did strike the apartment structure.
No injuries were reported but officials did say repairs were being made after an odor of gas was reported in the area. It is unclear if the odor of gas was related to shots being fired.
There were no evacuations and police cannot confirm if the shooting was random or intentional. The investigation is still underway.


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In this Monday, June 25, 2018, file photo, people gather at the Supreme Court awaiting a decision in an Illinois union dues case, Janus vs. AFSCME, in Washington. An Oregon state employee and a labor union have reached a settlement over her lawsuit seeking payback of obligatory union fees, marking the first refund of forced fees since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in late June that government workers can't be required to contribute to labor groups, the employee's lawyers said Monday, July 30, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) - Bulletin
In this Monday, June 25, 2018, file photo, people gather at the Supreme Court awaiting a decision in an Illinois union dues case, Janus vs. AFSCME, in Washington. An Oregon state employee and a labor union have reached a settlement over her lawsuit seeking payback of obligatory union fees, marking the first refund of forced fees since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in late June that government workers can't be required to contribute to labor groups, the employee's lawyers said Monday, July 30, 2018. (AP Photo/J. Scott Applewhite, File) 7673377
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SALEM — An Oregon state employee and a labor union have reached a settlement over her lawsuit seeking payback of obligatory union fees, marking the first refund of forced fees since the U.S. Supreme Court ruled in late June that government workers can't be required to contribute to labor groups, the employee's lawyers said Monday.
Debora Nearman, an employee of the Department of Fish and Wildlife, said in her lawsuit filed in April in federal court that the state's practice of forcing her to pay fees to fund union activity violated her First Amendment freedoms.
She said the Service Employees International Union, or SEIU, opposes her political and religious views and even led a campaign against her husband when he ran as a Republican candidate for the state Legislature.
Nearman is a member of a statewide bargaining unit represented by SEIU but doesn't belong to the union.
The National Right to Work Legal Defense Foundation, which was involved in both the Supreme Court case and Nearman's, is handling some 200 other cases across the country, including a class-action lawsuit in California by 30,000 state employees, said Patrick Semmens, the group's vice president.
If the 9th U.S. Circuit Court of Appeals rules in favor of the plaintiffs in the California case, they stand to be refunded more than $100 million, Semmens estimated.
Melissa Unger, executive director of SEIU Local 503 in Oregon, said the union chose to settle Nearman's lawsuit rather than go through a costly and time-consuming legal battle.
"The settlement we entered into last week was about being the best stewards of our members' dues money as possible, period," Unger said in a statement.
The Oregon branch of the nationwide SEIU claims 72,000 members who work in state, local government, nonprofit agencies and higher education. Its spokeswoman, Jill Bakken, said the Supreme Court's ruling that eliminated obligatory fees has led to a drop in membership "well within our expectations."
"While we're not sure what the long-term impacts will be yet — the case is still relatively new — we're very encouraged," Bakken said.
Nearman, whose husband, Mike Nearman, is a member of the Oregon House of Representatives, will be refunded the almost $3,000 she paid over two years.
A statute of limitations prevented her from recovering earlier payments, Semmens said.
The Supreme Court ruling on June 27 involved Illinois state government worker Mark Janus, who argued that everything unions do, including bargaining with the state, is political and employees should not be forced to pay for it.
"The Janus case said it violates public employees' First Amendment rights to be forced to fund a labor union," Semmens said. "This (Oregon) case takes the precedent and follows it to its logical conclusion."
The fact that SEIU spent $53,260 to oppose Mike Nearman's candidacy by campaigning against him and distributing fliers that disparaged him "is a vivid example of why people frequently don't want to fund a labor union," Semmens said.
Besides SEIU Local 503, also named as defendants in Nearman's lawsuit were the heads of the state Fish and Wildlife Department and the Department Of Administrative Services.
Spokesmen of those agencies didn't immediately respond to requests for comment.
In its 5-4 ruling in the Janus case, the Supreme Court's conservative majority scrapped a 41-year-old decision that had allowed states to require public employees to pay some fees to unions that represent them, even if the workers choose not to join.
The decision freed non-union members in nearly two dozen states from any financial ties to unions. It could also encourage members to stop paying dues for services the court said they can get for free.
The unions say the outcome could affect more than 5 million government workers in about two dozen states and the District of Columbia.
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Chernivtsi is a city in western Ukraine, situated on the upper course of the River Prut. Chernivtsi is the administrative center of Chernivtsi Oblast (province) - the northern, Ukrainian part of the historical Moldavian region of Bukovina.
At the time of the 2001 Ukrainian Census, the population of the city was 240,600.
Together with the city of Lviv, Chernivtsi is viewed at present to be a cultural center of western Ukraine. The city is also considered one of modern Ukraine`s greatest cultural, educational and architectural centers. The city is also a major point of railway and highway crossings in the region, and houses an international airport.
Chernivtsi is located in the historic region of Bukovina, which is currently shared between Romania (south) and Ukraine (north). The city lies 248 meters above sea level, and is surrounded by forests and fields. The River Prut runs through the city`s landscape.
According to the latest All-Ukrainian population census in 2001, the population of Chernivtsi was approximately 240,600 people of 65 nationalities. Among them, 189,000 (79.8%) are Ukrainians; 26,700 (11.3%) Russians; 10,500 (4.4%) Romanians; 3,800 (1.6%) Moldovans; 1,400 (0.6%) Polish; 1,300 (0.6%) Jews; 2,900 (1.2%) other nationalities.
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Because you asked for it – Sony is putting a dark spin on "The Little Mermaid"
Wait, you didn't ask for it? What's that...no one did? Well, someone needs to inform the suits in Hollywood, because apparently they are under the impression that what people want is dark takes on...well, everything. Dark comic book adaptations, dark spins on kid's shows, and now the latest trend; dark retellings of fairy tales. We've heard about the likes of a dark Peter Pan coming our way and now it seems Sony will be giving us a dark spin on Hans Christian Andersens' The Little Mermaid. Why do I get the overwhelming feeling of a Little Mermaid/Prince/Lobster love triangle is upon us?
The studio has optioned the rights to Carolyn Turgeon's Mermaid: A Twist on the Classic Tale for Shana Feste (COUNTRY STRONG) to write and direct. According to The Hollywood Reporter, the book centers around "a princess who, in order to save her ravaged kingdom, sets out on a dangerous journey to marry the prince of her rival kingdom, not knowing that a beautiful mermaid has fallen for the same man and has sacrificed everything to be with him."
Told you. Love triangle. And a female director to boot. This seems like an obvious ploy to catch the TWILIGHT crowd in their nets, a la RED RIDING HOOD and the trio of Snow White retellings. We'll be sure to let you know when Evan Rachel Wood gets cast.
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A dark spin? That's pretty dark, considering how grim (pun intended) Andersen's original story is. Aren't most fairy tales dark in their original forms? Meant to frighten children into being good.
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Oh, absolutely they are! But I was more referring to the new trend of "Hollywood dark." In other words, dark as a gimmick in an attempt to reach the "Hot Topic crowd" and create this obsessive fandom around it vs using it as a story telling device as you are referring to.
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Every summer produces "the big hit." In 1980 that hit was "Funkytown," an innovative assembly of pop styles that grooved from the strobe-lit rooms of American discos to the top of international charts. "Funkytown" put the Minneapolis group Lipps, Inc. on the map, at a time when popular music was pre-Prince and post-punk. The obituaries for disco were being written; Lipps, Inc. put the funeral on hold.
With deceptively simple hooks and instrumentation, Lipps. Inc. merged the sounds of disco, new-wave pop and old rhythm and blues staples to create a crossover hit that knew no musical, racial or gender barriers. For all its irresistible simplicity, the song left an indelible stamp on the culture. There was a message in the music and in-between the beats: "Funkytown"'s longing lyric promised release – a chance to get out, bust loose and get down.
People Magazine proclaimed "Disco lives in Funkytown," although the record proved to be more than just a disco single. It crossed from the dance charts to the black and pop charts, where it became Number One for a month during the summer of 1980. Then "Funkytown" devoured the international charts, selling over 20 million copies in over 40 countries worldwide.
Many persuasively argue that the Lipps Inc. sound preceded the legendary "Minneapolis Sound" made by a host of Twin Cities musicians from Prince, Terry Lewis and Jimmy Jam to The Replacements, Husker Du and many others during the 80's. You don't have to look far for the reasons: Any dance floor will do.
OUR SONG IN 15 DIFFERENT SHADES OF SOUND AVAILABLE FOR LICENSING.


The Philosophy Department is very pleased to welcome to Berkeley our new colleague, Lara Buchak. Lara did her graduate work at Princeton on issues in the theory of rationality. She is teaching Philosophy 100 and a graduate seminar in her first semester on our campus. We are delighted to have her here, and look forward to working together with her in the months and years to come.
It is always a pleasure at this time of year to welcome to our community a new group of students. This year six students will be starting their graduate work in our Department, including Peter Epstein (Harvard University); Maxwell Gee (Brown University); Kelly Glover (University of Toronto); Alison Niedbalski (Indiana University-South Bend); Umrao Sethi (Columbia University). In addition, Arthur Tilley (University of Colorado) will be starting in the philosophy track of the Logic and Methodology Program. We wish them every success in their graduate studies and beyond.
The Berkeley Philosophy Department regularly attracts a large group of visiting scholars from around the world, who join us for shorter or longer periods, and contribute substantially to making ours a more cosmopolitan and stimulating community. Please check the Visiting Scholar section of our website for a list of new and continuing visitors to our Department.
In other news, Alva Noë returns this fall from a sabbatical year in Berlin, where he was in residence at the Wissenschaftskolleg. We also welcome back John Campbell and Sherri Roush, both of whom were on leave last spring.
We are very pleased to report that two of our faculty members have recently received prestigious national awards: Paolo Mancosu was selected as a Fellow of the John Simon Guggenheim Foundation for 2008; and Sherri Roush was awarded a major grant from the National Science Foundation to study "Fallibility and Revision in Science and Society". Congratulations to both colleagues on these signal achievements!
Paolo will be on leave for the academic year 2008-2009, dividing his time between Berkeley and Princeton (where he will be a Visiting Fellow at the Institute for Advanced Study in the spring). Niko Kolodny is also on leave for the academic year, and John MacFarlane is on leave for the fall semester.
We have, as always, a very lively program of philosophical events scheduled for the coming year, including a Townsend Visit by Ned Block, a Howison Lecture by John Perry, a George Myro Memorial Lecture by Robert Stalnaker, and many talks and colloquia by distinguished philosophers from the US and abroad. Detailed information and updates are available on the events section of our website.


200mm f2E FL ED VR ?
Re: 200mm f2E FL ED VR ?
IMHo this is rather a copy/paste typo from the media agency who did the editing. Copy/paste because the other E FL super teles were used in the same movie.
Unless Nikon plans to introduce updates of the 200 and 300 for the Olympics in 2020 I rather expect to see a FL version of the 300mm first, maybe even as Z mount type together with a Z9.
I don't think it's a typographical error but a deliberate hint that such lenses are in testing with select photographers.
In my opinion the 200/2 and 300/2.8 are both due updates. I find the 70-200/2.8 for example to have more consistent AF than the 200/2 (II), and both the focusing motor and VR system have become more sophisticated in the newer lenses (less jitter and audible noise, more precise) there is also the question of weight reduction and image quality with TCs which tends to improve with the FL designs. The 300/2.8 tripod foot should be made more rigid. Canon's versions of both lenses are significantly lighter and I believe these things affect system choice and via system choice, substantial revenue for the manufacturer. As for mirrorless, I don't think Nikon have the technology to make a top professional sports mirrorless body at the present time and suspect this might not appear for another four years. Also Nikon seems to regard the delay in the EVF substantial enough that it affects the best sports photographers and therefore they are likely to continue to develop DSLRs for these applications, along with appropriate lenses. Notice that Canon recently produced ultra light weight 400/2.8 and 600/4 and they too are DSLR lenses, so the development and competition in this sector continues.


Defines Scalar "pimp" for GridProjection on Java side.
Essentially this class extends Java GridProjection interface with Scala specific API adapters using primarily implicit conversions defined in ScalarConversions object. What it means is that you can use functions defined in this class on object of Java GridProjection type. Scala will automatically (implicitly) convert it into Scalar's pimp and replace the original call with a call on that pimp.
Type alias for '() => R'.
Type alias for '(E1) => R'.
Type alias for '(E1, E2) => R'.
Type alias for '(E1, E2, E3) => R'.
Type alias for node filter predicate.
Type alias for '() => Boolean'.
Type alias for '(E1) => Boolean'.
Type alias for '(E1, E2) => Boolean'.
Type alias for '(E1, E2, E3) => Boolean'.
Type alias for '() => Unit'.
Optional sequence of objects to send. If empty or null - this method is no-op.
Optional node filter predicate. If none provided or null - all nodes in the projection will be used.
Optional object to send. If null - this method is no-op.
Optional node filter predicates. If none provided or null - all nodes in the projection will be used.
Alias for the same function call$.
Optional closure to call. If null - this method is no-op and returns null.
Optional node filter predicate. If null provided - all nodes in projection will be used.
Sequence of result values from all nodes where given closures were executed or null (see above).
Optional sequence of closures to call. If empty or null - this method is no-op and returns null.
Alias for the same function callAsync$.
Optional closure to call. If null - this method is no-op and finished future over null is returned.
Future of Java collection containing result values from all nodes where given closures were executed or null (see above).
Optional sequence of closures to call. If empty or null - this method is no-op and finished future over null is returned.
Alias for the same function run$.
Optional closure to call. If empty or null - this method is no-op.
Optional node filter predicate. If none provided or null - all nodes in projection will be used.
Alias alias for the same function run$.
Optional sequence of closures to call. If empty or null - this method is no-op.
Alias for the same function runAsync$.
Optional absolute closure to call. If null - this method is no-op and finished future over null will be returned.
Optional sequence of absolute closures to call. If empty or null - this method is no-op and finished future over null will be returned.
Alias for the same function reduce$.
Optional sequence of closures to call. If empty or null - this method is no-op and will return null.
Optional reduction function. If null - this method is no-op and will return null.
Reduced result or null (see above).
Alias for the same function reduceAsync$.
Optional sequence of closures to call. If empty or null - this method is no-op and will return finished future over null.
Optional reduction function. If null - this method is no-op and will return finished future over null.
Future over the reduced result or null (see above).
Executes given closure on the nodes where data for provided affinity key is located.
Executes given closure on the nodes where data for provided affinity key is located. This is known as affinity co-location between compute grid (a closure) and in-memory data grid (value with affinity key). Note that implementation of multiple executions of the same closure will be wrapped as a single task that splits into multiple jobs that will be mapped to nodes with provided affinity keys.
This method will block until its execution is complete or an exception is thrown. All default SPI implementations configured for this grid instance will be used (i.e. failover, load balancing, collision resolution, etc.). Note that if you need greater control on any aspects of Java code execution on the grid you should implement ComputeTask which will provide you with full control over the execution.
Notice that Runnable and Callable implementations must support serialization as required by the configured marshaller. For example, JDK marshaller will require that implementations would be serializable. Other marshallers, e.g. JBoss marshaller, may not have this limitation. Please consult with specific marshaller implementation for the details. Note that all closures and predicates in org.apache.ignite.lang package are serializable and can be freely used in the distributed context with all marshallers currently shipped with Ignite.
Name of the cache to use for affinity co-location.
Closure to affinity co-located on the node with given affinity key and execute. If null - this method is no-op.
Optional filtering predicate. If null provided - all nodes in this projection will be used for topology.
ClusterGroupEmptyException Thrown in case when this projection is empty. Note that in case of dynamic projection this method will take a snapshot of all the nodes at the time of this call, apply all filtering predicates, if any, and if the resulting collection of nodes is empty - the exception will be thrown.
IgniteCheckedException Thrown in case of any error.
IgniteFutureCancelledException Subclass of IgniteException thrown if computation was cancelled.
IgniteInterruptedException Subclass of IgniteException thrown if the wait was interrupted.
Unlike its sibling method affinityRun(String, Collection, Runnable, GridPredicate) this method does not block and returns immediately with future. All default SPI implementations configured for this grid instance will be used (i.e. failover, load balancing, collision resolution, etc.). Note that if you need greater control on any aspects of Java code execution on the grid you should implement ComputeTask which will provide you with full control over the execution.
Note that class GridAbsClosure implements Runnable and class GridOutClosure implements Callable interface. Note also that class GridFunc and typedefs provide rich APIs and functionality for closures and predicates based processing in Ignite. While Java interfaces Runnable and Callable allow for lowest common denominator for APIs - it is advisable to use richer Functional Programming support provided by Ignite available in org.apache.ignite.lang package.
Non-cancellable future of this execution.
ClusterGroupEmptyCheckedException Thrown in case when this projection is empty. Note that in case of dynamic projection this method will take a snapshot of all the nodes at the time of this call, apply all filtering predicates, if any, and if the resulting collection of nodes is empty - the exception will be thrown.
Synchronous broadcast closure call on this projection without return value.
Closure to run all nodes in projection.
Optional node filter predicate. If null provided- all nodes in projection will be used.
Synchronous closure call on this projection with return value.
Synchronous closure call on this projection with return value. This call will block until all results are received and ready.
Synchronous closures call on this projection with return value.
Synchronous closures call on this projection with return value. This call will block until all results are received and ready.
Asynchronous closure call on this projection with return value.
Asynchronous closure call on this projection with return value. This call will return immediately with the future that can be used to wait asynchronously for the results.
Asynchronous closures call on this projection with return value.
Asynchronous closures call on this projection with return value. This call will return immediately with the future that can be used to wait asynchronously for the results.
Synchronous closure call on this projection with return value. This call will block until all results are received and ready. If this projection is empty than dflt closure will be executed and its result returned.
Closure to execute if projection is empty.
Synchronous closures call on this projection with return value. This call will block until all results are received and ready. If this projection is empty than dflt closure will be executed and its result returned.
Gets iterator for this projection's nodes.
Gets sequence of all nodes in this projection for given predicate.
Optional node filter predicates. It null provided - all nodes will be returned.
Synchronous closures execution on this projection with reduction.
Synchronous closures execution on this projection with reduction. This call will block until all results are reduced.
Asynchronous closures execution on this projection with reduction.
Asynchronous closures execution on this projection with reduction. This call will return immediately with the future that can be used to wait asynchronously for the results.
Synchronous closures execution on this projection with reduction. This call will block until all results are reduced. If this projection is empty than dflt closure will be executed and its result returned.
Gets sequence of all remote nodes in this projection for given predicate.
Optional node filter predicate. It null provided - all remote nodes will be returned.
Synchronous closure call on this projection without return value.
Synchronous closure call on this projection without return value. This call will block until all executions are complete.
Synchronous closures call on this projection without return value.
Synchronous closures call on this projection without return value. This call will block until all executions are complete.
Asynchronous closure call on this projection without return value.
Asynchronous closure call on this projection without return value. This call will return immediately with the future that can be used to wait asynchronously for the results.
Asynchronous closures call on this projection without return value.
Asynchronous closures call on this projection without return value. This call will return immediately with the future that can be used to wait asynchronously for the results.
Synchronous closure call on this projection without return value. This call will block until all executions are complete. If this projection is empty than dflt closure will be executed.
Synchronous closures call on this projection without return value. This call will block until all executions are complete. If this projection is empty than dflt closure will be executed.
Sends given object to the nodes in this projection.
Optional node filter predicate. If null provided - all nodes in the projection will be used.


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OPINION: Yes, McGrath lost too much, but story's more complicated
There was plenty that C.B. McGrath could control at UNCW, but it's easy to forget the things he couldn't control.
By Alex Riley
For StarNews Media
C.B. McGrath did not win enough basketball games. That is why he is no longer the head coach of the UNCW men's program.
An 11-game losing streak, complete with a loss to CAA cellar-dweller Elon over the weekend, became the lynchpin moment needed for change. It's not surprising. This move felt inevitable, a matter of when, not if.
What happened on the court decided McGrath's fate. And, rightfully so. Coaches don't last long when they only win 31 percent of the time. McGrath never adjusted his schemes, especially on defense, to create a successful formula. UNCW consistently ranked near the bottom nationally in points allowed and defensive shooting percentages.
There was plenty that McGrath could control, however. He could have hired a defensive-minded assistant to fill Joe Wolf's void after he bolted to the Greensboro Swarm, an NBA G League team affiliated with the Charlotte Hornets. He could have retooled his schemes, especially on defense. He didn't and it cost him.
But it's easy to forget the things he couldn't control.
He was one of the last five or six hires made among the 47 coaching changes after the 2016-17 season. Introduced at an April 5 press conference, McGrath was late to the party.
He inherited a two-time conference championship team that graduated three starters and later lost a fourth when C.J. Bryce opted to follow Kevin Keatts to N.C. State. All five of Keatts' 2017 commitments bailed, leaving McGrath with an underwhelming crop of talent. Of that first group, only Jay Estimé remains, and he's recovering from injury.
In the past two and half years, nine players left UNCW with remaining eligibility. Four were Keatts recruits (Bryce, Matt Elmore, Jaylen Fornes and Ty Taylor) and five were McGrath signees (Jacque Brown, Jeantal Cylla, Jeff Gary, Kai Toews and Carter Skaggs). Success might have kept some of them. The allure of greener pastures certainly lost many.
For all the non-Division I and even non-NCAA teams that peppered UNCW's schedule (and there were plenty), it's hard to say the Seahawks didn't get their fair share of good competition. Four different Power Five programs (UNC, Stanford, LSU and Vanderbilt) dotted the schedule, two of which came to Wilmington. Not to mention that traditionally quality mid-majors like Furman, Loyola-Chicago, Davidson, Campbell, UNC Greensboro and Valparaiso made life difficult. Unfortunately for McGrath, almost a fifth (five) of his 26 wins were against non-Division 1 competition.
Injuries affect every program, but UNCW always seemed to be down a man or two. It's hard to remember a time when the Seahawks had every player on the roster healthy and eligible to play.
None of this is an excuse. They are facts. McGrath was hired late, had an abundance of roster turnover and injured players, and played a schedule that was sometimes difficult to reconcile. It comes down to wins and losses, however, and McGrath didn't have enough of the latter.
Whoever inherits this program will – barring a mass exodus -- get something to work with. There's All-CAA talent in Trask Coliseum. McGrath could evaluate talent, of that there is little doubt. Jaylen Sims has certainly put himself in contention to be on a CAA postseason team. Shykeim Phillips should earn some all-rookie honors. The upside for Jake Boggs, Imaje Dodd, Brian Tolefree and Mike Okauru is high. A healthy Ty Gadsden? Who knows. Marten Linssen? Just beginning to untap his potential.
Win games and you get to keep the job. But as C.B. McGrath proved, there's always more to it than that.
Alex Riley is communications coordinator for Pender County Schools. From 2016-2019 he was UNCW basketball reporter for the StarNews.


The first thing they did was search for retirement topics. Then the listed the top sites with the most Referring Domains to URL.
You can see Financial Samurai's article, How Much Should You Have In Your 401(k) By Age, is 4th on the list for number of referring Domains to URL, only behind CNN Money, CNBC, and the New York Times. Not bad!
But if you sort the list by the percentage of Referring Domains to Total Referring Domains to each respective site, Financial Samurai shoots to #1 at a whopping 2.57%. The next site that comes closest is Nerd Wallet, at 0.27%. But Nerd Wallet is a well-funded startup that spends aggressively on marketing in order to make most of their money from credit cards, bleh.
The green column shows that ANY website in the world can compete with the giants. Google algorithms and social media make it so that good content truly does get rewarded. Of course, the system isn't perfect. But it's nice to see that it's possible to stand toe-to-toe with large media companies.
Would I like to have 1,269,154 linkbacks like the New York Times? Of course I would! Alas, Financial Samurai neither has the manpower nor the funds to produce endless content every single day. But that's OK because once you drill down to the revenue per employee, I'm sure Financial Samurai blows the New York Times out of the water because it's just my wife and I versus ~3,700 at the New York Times.
1) Tell a story. Almost all of Financial Samurai's content tells a story. And when you're telling personal stories, you are by definition, writing original content.
2) Have an opinion. The beauty of blogging is that we are not reporters. We share our opinions and buttress them with facts. Controversial opinions help create buzz. Controversial opinions backed up with logic creates a huge win.
3) Don't be a predominantly product review site. Yes, writing endless product review posts will help generate revenue, but damn does your site become really boring. The only audience you end up getting are those from search, which means you lose out on gaining ardent fans who act as ambassadors of your site. Keep product review articles to less than 50%.
4) Never quit. Why give up when you can keep on going? The longer you are around, the higher your chance of getting discovered by large media outlets and other people. I've seen too many bloggers quit by year three, thereby truncating all potential. The longer Financial Samurai is around, the stronger the brand grows. The stronger the brand grows, the higher the credibility and conversion rates.
5) Write what you know. Readers are smart nowadays. They know when you're just shipping it in with fluff. They know when you're faking your knowledge or enthusiasm. Write about topics where you are truly the expert. Be congruent in your thinking.
6) Befriend the giants. It's always good to build relationships with websites larger than your own. Link to and share relevant journalists' works. Reach out and see if you can be a resource. Once you provide good work, they'll keep on coming back to you over and over again. Once you're see in one major media publication, others will find you more credible and want to highlight you. My latest article that did well was on CNBC called, How a family of 3 survives in San Francisco without jobs. It did so well that I have an open door policy to guest post or have them republish my posts whenever.
If you have the expertise, there is no reason why you can't compete with larger media publications in your field. Below is another example of a Financial Samurai article being highlighted by a well-known wealth manager in his morning reading roundups on Bloomberg. Institutional Investor, The New York Times, The Wall Street Journal, and Bloomberg are all heavy hitters in the investment world.
If a guy who was born in Asia, who speaks English as his second language, and who never focused on writing after attending public high school can survive and grow in the blogging world, surely an American-born native English speaker can do just as well.
Blogging is the best business in the world because it doesn't feel like work at all. It's awesome to be able to product a free product and have products you like pay you. I'm glad more and more people are starting their own website to brand themselves online.
Here's to becoming an overachiever!


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Structure Chart Board of Directors Staff P&F House System Culture
Mercy Partners commits to faithfully carry out the sponsorship task of ensuring that St Ursula's College flourishes as an educational ministry in the Catholic Church and remains faithful to Gospel values and to the Presentation Charism and Educational Vision.
St Ursula's College Board of Directors
In 1992, the Presentation Sisters incorporated the College as a Company, St Ursula's College Limited, and established a Board of Directors. This was done with careful preparation and ongoing formation.
The Presentation Sisters, like many Congregations, faced the challenge of declining numbers and looked for a governance model to meet the needs of the future. When the decision was made to incorporate the College, the Sisters developed a constitution that provides for the governance of the College through an appointed Board of Directors. St Ursula's College is thus a 'stand alone' Religious Institute School, unlike other Secondary Schools and Colleges in the Rockhampton Diocese that are controlled by the Diocesan Catholic Education Office (DCEO) and, ultimately, the Bishop. Of course, St Ursula's enjoys valuable working relationships with the DCEO.
In June 2014, the Canonical sponsorship of the College was transferred from the Presentation Sisters to Mercy Partners. The College continues in the Presentation tradition under the guidance of the St Ursula's College Board and with the dedication and commitment of the Principal, College Leadership Team and staff.
The College Board has a membership of 11 Directors:
Mr Justin Power BEcon, MSustDev
Ms Clare McCormack LLB(Hons), BComm
Mr Thalep Ahmat – CEO Bidgerdii Community Health Service
Mrs Margaret Whitchurch – Queen's Medal 2012
Dr Gillian Busch Dip Teach, B Ed, Grad Dip (ECE), MEd, PhD
Mrs Lisa Wain Grad Cert Man, GIA (Cert); Company Secretary
Mrs Kerry Attwill Bus-LLB, Grad Dip PLEAT
Rosemary Grundy PBVM
Mr Gavin Hill BEng (Civil), MIEAust , RPEQ , AdvDipIT
Mr Andrew Bourne BBus, McSc
Mrs Ann Marie Pawsey MEdL, BA, Dip.Ed, Grad Cert RE
Unless they choose otherwise, members remain on the Board for a maximum of nine years, served on a rotational basis.
College Leadership Team
Principal – Catherine Dunbar
Deputy Principal (Learning & Teaching) – Belinda Connolly
Deputy Principal (Spiritual & Pastoral) – Deidre Pascoe
Business Manager – Peta Tomkins
Director of Operations & Analytics – Ben Flanders
Middle Leaders
Year Level Coordinators
Junior School – Miranda Crane
Middle School – Megan Slade
Senior School – Arianna Greinke
Religious and Cultural Studies (including Ministry and L.O.T.E.) – Kathy Strelow
Humanities (English and Social Science) – Mark Avery
Mathematics, Business and Technology – Kevin Wallis
Science and Health – Samantha Meager
Practical and Creative Arts (including Instrumental Music and VET) – Nicole Francis-Leah
Head of House (Boarding) – Erin Lee
Sports Coordinator – Krista Vatubua
Catholic School Parents Queensland (CSPQ) (formerly the Parents and Friends Association) is an integral part of the College community. This Committee provides the opportunity for parents to share their opinions on issues relevant to the College, and assist in improving the educational opportunities available for their children.
St Ursula's CSPQ meets approximately twice each term. New and continuing parents and carers are encouraged to join. This Committee aims to:
Keep parents and carers informed about educational issues;
Provide a forum for exchange of information and for consultation and discussion;
Promote parenting programs, parent/teacher interaction, and parent support;
Foster a sense of belonging, i.e. parents as part of the College Community; and
Support College activities through fundraising or attendance in an official capacity.
Parents & Friends Executive Committee Members
President: Jane Walsh
Vice President: Megan Weinert
Secretary: Majella Keily
Treasurer: Jo Couper
Diocesan Delegate: Nat Salisbury
At St Ursula's College, each student belongs to one of four College 'Houses' for the duration of their enrolment:
Kennedy – Green
Madden – Red
Nagle – Blue
Shiel – Yellow
The House system provides a structure for competition in Sporting and Cultural activities at St Ursula's College. Smaller groups within each House also meet twice weekly for pastoral care activities and mentoring under the guidance of a staff member, in a set area. Students are encouraged to regard their House Group Teacher as their primary staff contact person. The House Group Teacher's role is to take a special interest in the welfare of those students in the group and to report to parents on the general progress of those students in their care.
Where a student is experiencing difficulties, she could approach:
The Subject Teacher (if the problem relates to a particular subject);
Her House Group Teacher;
Head of Junior School (Year 7 & 8), Head of Middle School (Year 9 & 10) or Head of Senior School (Year 11 &12);
Deputy Principal Spiritual & Pastoral, or Deputy Principal Learning & Teaching.
At St Ursula's College, Yeppoon, we cultivate an environment of belonging, so that each and every member of our community knows they are respected and welcome. A culture which empowers and encourages each student to seize leadership opportunities, know their self-worth, and reach their potential is evident throughout the College. Our staff are dynamic and dedicated professionals who specialise in the education of young women. A prominent and active well-being program supported by three Heads of School, a School Counsellor and a School Nurse, is based on the principles of Positive Psychology and Growth Mindset, and ensures that girls are well supported as they navigate adolescence.
The multicultural atmosphere of the College fosters a sense of belonging and inclusion among all students. Students and staff from various cultural backgrounds share their knowledge and skills within the College Community and are appreciated for their contribution to campus life. Harmony Day is celebrated annually, and the Cultural Captain, a Student Leader, works with staff to create opportunities to celebrate cultural awareness and acknowledge diversity in a respectful and affirming manner.
A Yarning Circle, created at the College in 2016, provides a sacred space for students to remember, pray, and relax. Designed and built by Indigenous Elders, staff and students, the Yarning Circle has unique Aboriginal and Torres Strait Islander cultural influences.


Who are the Greeters? History of the Greeters? Book a Greeter ?
Booking a Greeter is the promise of a meeting of a volunteer who is in love, passionate and ambassador of his city or region. Greeters enjoy welcoming visitors as they would with friends. They offer their time to help them discover the places they love, tell their story, their neighbourhood or village and share their way of living the daily life. See article Wikipedia.
A Greeter is not a professional guide. He welcomes visitors to his living environment and explains it with passion. Come alone or in groups of up to six people and discover the best deals during a walk or a discussion over a drink. Whatever the form of the discovery, the most important thing is the encounter.
Tourism is often mentioned as a vehicle for peace and better understanding between peoples. The Greeters believe that this hypothesis is only correct if there is an exchange between people and visitors. The tourist visit should not be limited to an act of consumption.
A greeter makes you a proposal for a ride and if you agree, the ride is confirmed. Your email and telephone addresses are then exchanged so that you can contact each other and better prepare your "Greet".
In 1992, Lynn Brooks wanted to erase the negative image of New York City, a frightening and sprawling city. She wanted to make her city known as she loved it. With the help of her network of friends, she then offered tourists unusual walks organized in the districts of the "Big Apple" by residents. The first Greeters organization was born.
You want to become a Greeter, yourself? Here's how to do it.