Sunday was the 2nd in the two-part series on Malcolm Gladwell's book, David & Goliath -- Underdogs, Misfits, and The Art of Battling Giants. Gladwell's chapter on Martin Luther King Jr was especially fitting.
We mourned the loss of our dear elder-statesman, Ed Chipman after 93 years on Sat, Jan 18. The funeral will be Wednesday, Jan 22 at 10 am at Olinger Chapel Hill Mortuary.
Blessings for your Martin Luther King Jr Holiday. Here are some discussion items and links.
Read 1 Samuel 17. What stands out to you? Pray that the teachings of 1 Samuel 17 might be woven within you.
Where have you personally encountered a wound or failing being transformed into a strength?
Where have you publically seen the "weak" triumph over the "strong"?


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Jim Kiertzner
Published: June 7, 2012, 7:05 PM
Tags: News, Local
Police report: Tucker Cipriano called slain father, Bob Cipriano, 'hero'
Farmington Hills deadly baseball beating suspect, Tucker Cipriano, recalled attack on father, mother in police report
FARMINGTON HILLS, Mich. – Tucker Cipriano and his friend, Mitchell Young, have confessed to attacking the Cipriano family with baseball bats on the morning of April 16 at the family's Farmington Hills home.
Now, Local 4 has the police report which details Tucker's haunting recollections of the attack. According to the police report, Tucker told police he wanted to talk more. It's all outlined in the report.
Read: Police report from interview with Tucker Cipriano
The 19-year-old has plenty of time to think about the attack as he sits in solitary confinement at the Oakland County Jail. He and Young face murder and attempted murder charges.
Tucker's father, Bob Cipriano, was killed in the attack. According to the police report, Tucker has been haunted by the sound of the fatal blow to his father.
Complete coverage: Attack on Cipriano family
"Tucker stated that he had a dream last night in which he saw his mother and father," the April 18 police report reads. "That he was still traumatized with the sound of hearing his father being struck. Tucker stated he could still hear the sound played over and over in his head. Tucker said his father was his 'hero.'"
In contrast, when he spoke of his mother, Rose Cipriano, who was critically beaten, he had a different demeanor.
"His facial expressions changed and he mainly discussed arguments that he had with her," the report reads.
Later in the interview, Tucker told police he never struck his father and he did not recall ever striking his mother.
"Tucker indicated that he held onto his father as Young repeatedly struck him with a baseball bat," the report reads.
Still, when he was asked if he hit his mother, "Tucker stated that he may have," the report reads.
According to police, Tucker's 8-year-old sister, Isabella, came down from her bedroom and Tucker recalled what she said to him.
"I thought you loved me, why are you hitting mom?"
Tucker said his 17-year-old brother, Sal Cipriano, who also was critically beaten, came at him with a BB gun and that Tucker "had broken a BB gun on him."
Tucker fled to a friend's house in Keego Harbor where he told a friend his parents were dead, according to police. Then a group of five of them smoked spice.
The confessions are key evidence that will be in a court hearing on Friday.
The court hearing will be live streamed right here on ClickOnDetroit.com.
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DIRECT DEMOCRACY VIA REFERENDA
From Washington Star, November 6, 1976
(By Ralph Nader)
In any analysis of the recent election returns, the burgeoning Importance of Issues being decided by direct popular vote—the other elections, they might be called—deserves more than passing notice. For these referenda on consumer, tax, environmental, spending, energy and government disclosure subjects reflect the growing maturity of the citizen action movement.
Bypassing political parties and reliance on the promise of politicians, the citizen action movement Involves the patient gathering of thousands of voter signatures on petitions to place these questions on the ballot. It is a form of direct democracy.
Most of these citizen groups are shoestring operations whose lack of funds Is made up for by determination and imagination. It is no easy task to obtain as many as 500,000 signatures of voters on petitions as the People's Lobby (3456 W. Olympic Blvd., Los Angeles, CA 9009) has done In California to political reform measures.
Many people have to believe in the necessity for utility rate reform and a permanent consumer organization for residential utility consumers to do what Bob Koitz and his hardy associates did in Ohio for their ballot proposals. Outspent a hundredfold by the utility and other giant corporations, the Ohioans for Utility Reform (P.O. Box 10006, Columbus, 0. 43201) put a valiant fight in what they promise to be only the first round of an enduring struggle for consumer justice.
In Massachusetts, a grass roots civic group called Mass. Fair Share (864 Boylston St., Boston, MA 02116) displayed impressive organizing and publicizing skill in advancing to the ballot the reasonable notion that the venerable utility gouge which made the small user of electricity pay much more per kilowatt hour than the larger industrial electricity user needed an overhaul. The entire might of the state's Industry, commerce and many high state government officials was thrown against Fair Share. Why, you might ask, would government officials oppose such a presumably popular issue! More out of worry that direct democratic action would begin to challenge their powers of decision-making and, too often, the cushy relationship legislators have built up with friendly corporate lobbyists.
Direct referenda are used throughout the country for a variety of conservative and liberal causes. But this instrument of direct voter expression is by no means uniform throughout the states. It is much stronger in the western states than in the south and east.
Earlier this month, over 300 issues were subject to direct vote at the state election level. The number will increase as more people perfect the petition process and more community, consumer and other civic groups deepen their roots and expand their resources.
The defeat of many consumer and environment referenda is usually caused by an overwhelming television campaign which grossly distorts the question on the ballot and raises the false specter of massive unemployment. The atomic power industry and its allies used this scare technique together with millions of dollars to reach the public in several states this month.
Consumers interested n obtaining information from the California, Ohio and Massachusetts groups can send a self-addressed stamped envelop to the above-mentioned addresses.
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New Space Chills Via Flesh-Eaters
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Publication: Ottawa Journal
'DR. WHO' SERIES
The "Vicious Voords," a sinister enemy of flesh - eaters from outer space, are corning Wednesday, June 23, at 5 p.m. on CBOT.
The Voords are the newest horror to menace the time explorers of the CBC series, "Doctor Who" in "The Keys of Marinus," a new six - part series of adventures starting June 23. The remaining episodes will be telecast on June 28, 29, 34 and July 1 and 2.
The six - foot rubber men, with enormous beetle heads, web feet and nose antennae, will quite likely give children as much delicious, spine - chilling thrills as the prevous series which featured the "Dreaded Daleks."
In the first episode of "The Keys of Marinus," sub - titled. "The Sea of Death," Dr. Who, his granddaughter Susan, and their passengers, Ian and Barbara, have left earth in the 13th century and their adventures with Marco Polo, and travel far into a future which leads to the planet Marinus.
On landing the travellers are met by a scientist, Arbitan, who seizes their ship, Tardis, and forces them to go in search of four keys; vital parts of a machine which controls the planet and which ensures the safety of the friendly inhabitants from the evil Yartek and his Voords who are determined to take over the planet.
Four quite separate adventures involve the time and space travellers in their search. The first key is to be found in a land where apparently all wishes are granted . . . until they discover the truth. The second key is at the very centre of a place which nature is determined to destroy. The third is set deep inside a mountain and guarded by frozen figures who suddenly come to life in defence of the key,
The search for the fourth key leads to near - death for Ian Chesterton when he is accused by a group of aliens of murder, is sentenced, and the execution date set.
The Voords appear throughout the series in their attempts to get rid of the travellers and later to seize the keys and take control.
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Ku's selection was telling of his skill in seeing the many facets of how "best" is represented: some structures were classic, some quirky, others innovative, unusual, or minimalist. Unparalleled vistas, intricate floor patterns, rustic finishes, or calming auras all saw recognition in his list of must-see places.
It's Ku's vision for AG that's taken the label from boutique status to a global brand. After working in the family business (his father started the brand with Adriano Goldschmied) straight out of college, he took the helm as creative director in 2008. The company made several innovative leaps, adding laser-burning technology to create nuanced distressed looks; incorporating advanced fibers and stretch components; and trying out different chemical treatments for an array of washes.
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Song of the Week: "Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel)" by Billy Joel
This week's song is a reminder of the unpredictability of life and the love between a father and a daughter
Renee Nuevo
Photo: Billy Joel/YoutTube
Welcome to Song of the Week, Metro.Style Culture's new weekly series where we bring you one song every week—complete with history, the best scenarios to play them in, and what to listen to next if you liked it.
"Lullabye (Goodnight, My Angel)," Billy Joel
The start of this week was met with devastating news: Kobe Bryant had died in a helicopter crash, along with his 13-year-old daughter Gianna and seven other people on board. The Grammys, which happened later that night, had dedicated their show to the late basketball legend, with Grammy winner Lizzo singing her song "Cuz I Love You" for him.
This week's song, Billy Joel's "Lullabye" is a tribute to those who perished in the crash. It reminds us of the love between a father and a daughter, and encourages us to reflect on the frailty and unpredictability of life—something that now, more than ever, is abuzz in the general public's consciousness after Bryant's death.
The inspiration for Joel's "Lullabye" is his daughter, Alexa Ray Joel. According to Genius, the song was originally written as a monophonic Gregorian chant in Latin, as an interlude before "The River of Dreams." That idea was scrapped and instead became a sentimental piece dedicated to his daughter.
"Lullabye" is the fourth single from Joel's River of Dreams album and peaked at the Billboard Hot 100 at number 12. If you liked this song, listen to Sarah McLachlan's "Song For My Father," a song she had written in 2014 in tribute to her dad who had passed away.
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Divine Art, Infernal Machine (Monographie)
The Reception of Printing in the West from First Impressions to the Sense of an Ending
Elizabeth L. Eisenstein
University of Pennsylvania Press
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Thematik nach Sprachen
Disziplin(en)
Medien-/Kulturwissenschaft, Sprachwissenschaft
Renaissance, Buchdruck
There is a longstanding confusion of Johann Fust, Gutenberg's one-time business partner, with the notorious Doctor Faustus. The association is not surprising to Elizabeth L. Eisenstein, for from its very early days the printing press was viewed by some as black magic. For the most part, however, it was welcomed as a "divine art" by Western churchmen and statesmen. Sixteenth-century Lutherans hailed it for emancipating Germans from papal rule, and seventeenth-century English radicals viewed it as a weapon against bishops and kings. While an early colonial governor of Virginia thanked God for the absence of printing in his colony, a century later, revolutionaries on both sides of the Atlantic paid tribute to Gutenberg for setting in motion an irreversible movement that undermined the rule of priests and kings. Yet scholars continued to praise printing as a peaceful art. They celebrated the advancement of learning while expressing concern about information overload.
In Divine Art, Infernal Machine, Eisenstein, author of the hugely influential The Printing Press as an Agent of Change, has written a magisterial and highly readable account of five centuries of ambivalent attitudes toward printing and printers. Once again, she makes a compelling case for the ways in which technological developments and cultural shifts are intimately related. Always keeping an eye on the present, she recalls how, in the nineteenth century, the steam press was seen both as a giant engine of progress and as signaling the end of a golden age. Predictions that the newspaper would supersede the book proved to be false, and Eisenstein is equally skeptical of pronouncements of the supersession of print by the digital.
The use of print has always entailed ambivalence about serving the muses as opposed to profiting from the marketing of commodities. Somewhat newer is the tension between the perceived need to preserve an ever-increasing mass of texts against the very real space and resource constraints of bricks-and-mortar libraries. Whatever the multimedia future may hold, Eisenstein notes, our attitudes toward print will never be monolithic. For now, however, reports of its death are greatly exaggerated.
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Q: generate row number by using variable in mssql In MYSQL, I could use variable to generate the row number like below:
SET @num=0;
SELECT @num:=@num+1 rownum,id FROM test;

How should I do this in MSSQL? I tried below code:
DECLARE @num int
SET @num=0;
SELECT @num=@num+1 ,id FROM test;

then I got the error message:

A SELECT statement that assigns a value to a variable must not be
combined with data-retrieval operations.

I know there're some built-in functions in mssql to generate the row number, but I'd like to know how to use variables in this case to solve the issue.
Appreciate if someone could help on this. :)

A: As the error message says, you can't do variable assignment in a select statement that also does data retrieval.
You can assign a variable using a select statement...
declare @myInt int;
select @myvariable = 1; -- works just like "set" in this case

And you can do data retrieval...
select someColumn from MyTable

But not both at the same time.
You can assign a value to a variable when selecting from a table, as long as you don't also select columns that don't get assigned to variables.
declare @myInt int;
select  @myInt = myIntColumn from MyTable

If MyTable has a lot of rows in it, it's not clear which row will be used to populate the value of @myInt. SQL is "allowed" to pick any row it wants.
Of course, in your case that doesn't matter, since you're assigning a literal value to the variable. You can do this, where by "can", I mean the syntax won't be rejected:
declare @myInt int = 0;
select  @myInt = @myInt + 1
from    MyTable

But don't do this. It's an interesting quirk, which I am showing it to you with the good faith assumption that you won't use it. It is not supported and should not be relied upon.
Jeff Moden wrote an article about this where he goes over the dangers.
But don't do it even if you follow his rules.

A: If you want to create a rownum based on the variable value, you can do that by updating the value in the table like below:
drop table if exists #t
create table #t (id int, rownum int)

insert #t(id) select 100
insert #t(id) select 200
insert #t(id) select 300
insert #t(id) select 400

declare @i int
set @i = 0
update #t set rownum = @i, @i = @i + 1

select * from #t
order by rownum

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The poignant reason there are little positive pom-poms all over Temple Meads
"You are loved and strong"
Tristan CorkSenior Reporter
Powerful positive messages have been left in a Temple Meads coffee shop (Image: Bristol Live)
Commuters at Bristol's main train station have been picking up random positive messages attached to little woollen pom-poms for the past few days.
The cards and balls of fluff have been left in and around the Good and Proper cafe at Temple Meads - and there's a poignant and uplifting reason for them.
The messages say things like: "You are loved and strong", and are being picked up by commuters touched by the positive vibe.
The messages are part of an initiative from a Gloucestershire-based charity set up to try to both prevent suicides happening, and then support the grieving families left behind.
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The Sunflowers Suicide Support project has been leaving the positive messages around Temple Meads in the hope of giving a little random boost to people who need it.
The organisation was set up by the family of Pete Morris, an accomplished artist from Randwick, near Stroud, who took his own life at the age of 29 in 2016.
The family found there was a lack of specialist support in Gloucestershire for families left after suicide, and so founded the charity with the aims of suicide prevention and 'postvention' - support that helps those bereaved by suicide.
Last year the organisation became a charity, and now are branching out to reach commuters at Temple Meads, with a link up with Good and Proper.
"It is a really important cause and we did it to give people strength, just a little bit of a boost," said Loyi, from Good and Proper.
"People were welcome to take the little notes, and a lot of people did, but many just read them and left them for other people," she added.


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Review: Burn This (Sterling Studio Theatre)
April 13, 2014 Katharine O'Brien
Burn This takes a look at personal identity and relationships playing at Toronto's Sterling Studio Theatre
Wednesday night was my second experience with Sterling Studio Theatre. I enjoyed their production of Specter so much that I was really looking forward to seeing their preview performance of Lanford Wilson's play Burn This. An interesting space, I wondered what they would do with it this time.
Burn This begins shortly after the funeral of Robby, a gay dancer who drowned in a boating accident with his boyfriend. Set in a Manhattan loft shared by Robby's roommates Anna; his dance partner and choreographer, and Larry; who works in advertising, Burn This is about reconsidering identity and relationships. Pale, Robby's older brother, forces everyone to make sense of their lives when he bursts on the scene.
Having read the play several years ago, I was stunned when I walked into the studio space to see it so completely and beautifully transformed. Everything had such an industrial quality to it that one really felt as though you could be in a real Manhattan apartment. It was stark and cozy all at once.
Dozens of mason jar lanterns hung from the ceiling all over the room. And, in fact, it was these that provided most of the lighting for the production. Visually, this play didn't leave any detail unattended. The world that director Sophie Ann Rooney successfully created was very alluring.
However, in terms of the action on stage, it was a different story. As someone who has a certain degree of familiarity with this play to begin with, I found this production to be much too heavy. I actually left the theatre feeling exhausted as an audience member.
When everything is so thick and intense without respite, moments that could (and should) have had true meaning and power go missing. Because of this, I felt to a certain degree that the story was lost. And cue in the constant and somber cello music, I felt like I was watching an extremely melodramatic and sentimental staged version of Twilight.
Regarding performances, I thought the play only really picked up speed midway through the second act. I had high hopes for this production, but unfortunately it failed to deliver with the same success as Specter did.
Ashleigh Rains in the role of Anna was undoubtedly emotionally connected and invested in both the plot and her character. However, her performance seemed very forced, her dialogue unnatural, and it was as though she was working so hard to remain in that sad state rather than working to just tell the story.
I understand that the character of Pale played by Kyle Labine is a coke-snorting, hyperactive restaurant manager. But I'm pretty sure different tactics exist to convey intense emotions as anger and frustration other than just flat-out yelling. I'm actually not certain how he was able to keep from passing out. Maybe they should have provided an extra-strength Advil along with the complimentary cookie on everyone's seats.
Sean Connolly Affleck and Jason Stroud both had solid and believable performances. Jason Stroud in the role of gay best friend Larry was actually very enjoyable and funny. But I felt myself wanting to see more of him so that I could catch my breath from all the histrionics.
Toward the end of the play, things seemed to finally mesh and come together. Nonetheless, I'm not sure that was quite enough to make up for everything else. This won't discourage me, however, from returning to Sterling Studio Theatre. They generally produce good work and perhaps this production just happened to be a miss for me. But running at over 2 and a half hours, all I can say is "brace yourselves."
Burn This is playing at the Sterling Studio Theatre (163 Sterling Road)
Performances run Tuesday through Sunday at 8pm, until April 19th.
Tickets are $20
Tickets can be purchased online.
Photo of Ashleigh Rains and Kyle Labine in Burn This by Angela Besharah of Inside light Studio.
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The utilization of solar powered energy dramatically decreases electricity expenses, and that is one of the most popular reasons for picking it. Federal and state governments present solar incentives, which help to offset the initial costs of a solar energy system. The 2005 Energy Plan Act gives two methods to be provided with a solar energy duty credit from the federal government. Solar energy rebates may also be offered by a lot more than 50% of US states.
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There are 3 NFL Sunday picks!
1) Take San Diego Chargers at -1 spread against Miami Dolphins for 3% of the bankroll.
This is not only the final Chargers home game of the season but could very well be the last time they play in front of this crowd ever! Those that don't believe this fires up a team don't know Phillip Rivers well. As captain and QB, Rivers will want to go out on a high and will be demanding maximum effort from his teammates. The veteran quarterback has played his entire career in San Diego and will be determined to end on a winning note. In the backfield, RB Melvin Gordon has not had the season that many expected of the rookie but he's growing in confidence and recently promised big things to come in the future. We wouldn't be surprised if the speedy combination of him and Woodhead caused problems for Miami today.
Neither of these two teams will be making the playoffs or is playing well. However, while both come into this game off a defeat, the home team is much more likely to bounce back. That's because the Bolts have known for awhile that they will not be making the postseason while the Dolphins still had a mathematical chance as recently as last Monday when they took on the Giants at home. They had their good and bad moments in that game but ultimately did what they've often done this season which is fail to finish strong and fall short. That eliminated them and may well have cost Dan Campbell the chance to remove his 'interim' tag and remain as head coach next year. After that deflating narrow home loss, they had to fly coast to coast to play a game in San Diego and that does not bode well for them.
The Chargers' defense has played much better over the last two weeks, it is the offense that has let them down. The absence of one of the best wide receivers in the league, Keenan Allen was always going to impact them. Now that Inman and company have built somewhat of a rapport with Rivers however after quite a few snaps and a couple of games, we expect them to fare better against a Dolphins defense that is underperforming. Suh was the big offseason acquisition and that has not worked out well. Not only is he not performing as the level he is capable of but he's created some friction in the locker room with some of his comments and antics. This Miami team isn't the most united right now and the injury to their best pass rusher, Cameron Wake all but derailed their season.
There are rumors that Mike McCoy may not be around as head coach much longer if they fail to show some kind of progress over the next few games. The truth is that he's done a solid job overall and has had some unfortunate injuries to deal with this season. Nonetheless, with his job perhaps on the line, we expect him and his players to be extra motivated to put in a good performance today. Rivers has consistently shown his ability to read the secondary and make changes when necessary and has had an excellent season despite the Bolts' struggles. Look for him to connect with TE Antonio Gates on important downs. On this afternoon, we expect this squad to put in one of their better performances of the season and get a W in what is their final home game. There is a reason the 3-10 Chargers are favored in this contest. And at this short spread, all they have to do is win for us to get a cover or at least a push. Go against the fading Dolphins as their long trip to West coast does not end well.
2) Take Cleveland Browns at +14.5 spread against Seattle Seahawks for 3% of the bankroll.
Laying 14.5 points in an NFL contest is an extremely risky proposition. Although they are not something that can be counted on, backdoor covers and late scores are incredibly common in this league and something that needs to be taken into consideration when spotting a team this many points and something that we intend to take advantage of.
The Seahawks are playing at an extremely high level recently and there is no doubt the betting public has taken notice to that fact. They are coming off of 2 completely lopsided blowout victories which has severely skewed perceptions. We had stated that Seattle is a quality team, even when they were just 4-5 on the season and many were doubting them but now that they have won 4 in a row, they are a bit overvalued and many have forgotten the fact that this is still a team that has some issues.
This version of 'Legion of Boom' is not as dominant as they have been in recent years. We saw earlier this season how shaky the Seattle defense was without Kam Chancellor on the field and he will likely once again be out of this contest. Chancellor had been held out of practice all week to heal some nagging injuries and to rest. The fact that they may not truly "need" him on the field against what should be a perceived "easy" game against the Browns means that the team may take the cautious approach and hold him out of this contest. Even if Chancellor does play, he likely won't be at 100% and giving it his all which could be the different in holding the score within the two touchdown spread.
Not only has the defense struggled somewhat this season, but CenturyLink Field hasn't been as nearly a guaranteed win as it has been in years past. The Seahawks were nearly unbeatable at home the last few seasons, but have already accrued two defeats on their home field this season! Chances are they will pick up the victory over the Browns, but will they do so in another blowout fashion; we don't believe they will. The Seahawks are no doubt a bit overconfident coming into this matchup after two blowout wins on the road and thinking that the Browns should be another "easy" win, but they have key injuries that are piling up and are widely going unnoticed.
As if missing star RB Marshawn Lynch wasn't bad enough, Pete Carroll looked like he had a solid backup in Thomas Rawls but he is now out for the season! Seattle is now looking at laying more than two touchdowns without an established running back! On top of that, big off-season acquisition, TE Jimmy Graham is also out while veteran WR Ricardo Lockette was lost earlier in the season. While Wilsson is used to this Seattle offense and can do well in Graham's absence, Rawls was performing very well as Lynch's backup and he'll be sorely missed this afternoon.
This is also a letdown spot for Seahawks since their next 2 games are against not only division opponents in the Rams and Cardinals but two teams that have beaten Seattle this season and they will no doubt be looking for revenge against. They will surely be more motivated for those two games that the one that sits right in front of them. Their goals for this contest will be to simply pick up the victory and come away as healthy as possible. Pete Carroll does not care if his team wins by 10 or 20. We don't believe they will be looking to pile up the points against a non-conference opponent they have no bad blood with. They will instead focus on avoiding injuries while simply getting the W. The margin of victory is unlikely to be as great as many people think given the managerial tendencies and this particular scheduling spot.
Let's also not forget that Pete Carroll likes to rely on kicker Steven Hauschka and often settles for field goals instead of touchdowns to ensure that his team simply picks up the victory. That could go a long way in ensuring that the Browns have an opportunity to cover this spread with a single score. Even if Seattle does have a huge lead at half time or going into 4th quarter, there's always a chance for a backdoor cover when laying this many points.
The Cleveland Browns may be one of the worst teams in the league, but they will be motivated to take to the road and play a team that has appeared in back to back Super Bowls. This is unquestionably a big game for them to prove to people that they can be competitive against the best the league has to offer. Every player wants to measure themselves up against them and so this game means more to them than some other teams that are out of the running.
Not only will the players be motived, but the staff will be as well since coach Pettine and others want to keep their job for next season. His job is in jeopardy but after winning last week, an inspired display in Seattle could go a long way toward convincing upper managemnt otherwise. On the field, QB Jonny Manziel, former Heisman Trophy winner who has led this Cleveland team to 2 of their 3 wins also has a point to prove. While we are not fans of Manziel on or off the field, he is being given a chance and just like last week, he's keen to do well to cement his spot in the starting lineup. He's messed up enough times that he knows this is now his chance to impress and keep the quarterback job. Otherwise he'll be on the bench again next season with his career quickly heading south.
Manziel did well last week and may do so again today against a defense that is suddenly very arrogant and again may be missing a couple key players. Not only that, but just like Russell Wilson, he does have quick legs and has the ability to scramble and make something happen out of nothing. In that sense, he's harder to contain since he's a dual-threat QB. One additional attribute he does possess is his ability to play in high-pressure games since he experienced plenty of them in college and is used to having the spotlight on him. He has a lot of flaws but one thing he's not, and that is afraid. Being brave is part of being a good QB and Maziel for all his flaws, has that attribute. He won't have an easy time against the Seahawks and still makes questionable decisions at times but he does give this team a chance to stay within this generous spread.
With Manziel, Pettine and some others hoping to keep their job, look for Cleveland to play better football than many other teams with no playoff aspirations do this week. People have seen Seattle deliver some blowouts recently but this situation is different given the scheduling spot, motivation level, and injuries. Isaiah Crowell had a breakout game for the Browns last Sunday and finally has a bit of confidence heading into this game. The betting public is all over the former champs but we believe they'll have losing tickets on their hands at the end of the game while sharps take advantage of this inflated spread and cash out with the unfancied underdogs.
3) Take Minnesota Vikings at -5.5 spread against Chicago Bears for 3% of the bankroll.
The Chicago Bears are no strangers to playing closely contested games this season. They have dropped three games by exactly 3 points; have a two point loss on their resume and even managed to lose a game in overtime! For the most part, Jay Cutler and company have been competitive, yet lack the mindset and playmaking ability to finish games. That has become evident over the last two weeks having watched them lose back to back home games against the San Francisco 49ers and Washington Redskins. This is a game that we doubt will be closely contested as this situation favors the home side.
Kicker Robbie Gould missed a short range FG attempt which would have won the game only for Chicago to eventually lose in OT against the lowly 49ers! The normally reliable veteran then missed a critical shot in their loss to Washington last week which would have tied the game. That result pretty much summed up the entire Bears season this year and now being out of the running for a postseason spot, they don't have much to play for and we believe that will be the difference. The Minnesota Vikings, on the other hand, come into this contest with everything to play for. After dropping their last two games, they need a solid showing to bounce back and keep their Wild Card spot while maintaing pressure on the division leading Green Bay Packers.
The Vikings last took the field on Thursday 12/10 in a narrow defeat in Arizona and should be well rested heading into the contest. Let's not forget that the Vikings have one of the best weapons in the NFL in running back Adrian Peterson. While the Bears have been solid against the pass this season, they have been vulnerable to the ground game. Peterson is the league leader in rushing yards at 1,251 yards on the season, and is in a unique position with three games remaining to achieve some impressive milestones. In terms of yards gained on the ground, the 30-year-old can turn in one of five best seasons in NFL history among running backs that are at least 30! What makes him due for a bounce back here is that he's been held to less than 70 rushing yards in the past two games . He is only 169 yards away from Priest Holmes' fifth-best performance by a 30-year-old (or older) running back. He also needs just 240 to tie Barry Sanders in that category and 385 to pass Corey Dillon. The former Oklahoma Sooner is also on pace to move ahead of Fred Taylor for 16th on the league's all-time rushing list. Finally, he can also become just the eighth running back in NFL history to win three or more rushing titles!
Peterson has been a workhorse for this team for a number of year and we expect them all to do what they can to allow their workhorse to achieve these milestones. He has been somewhat bottled up by his standards recently, failing to crack the 100 yard mark in three of his last 4 games. Granted two of those games have comes against elite level defenses in the Seattle Seahawks and Arizona Cardinals. Against a somewhat soft and suspect Bears run defense, he should find success and we believe we will see a heavy dose of AP in this contest. When he's not getting the ball in backfield and is resting on the sidelines, Matt Asiata and McKinnon have provided useful alternatives.
The last time these two teams met on Nov 1st, the Bears played a nearly perfect game and yet still managed to come up 3 points short. Jay Cutler was impressive as he went 20 of 33 for 211 yards with one touchdown and no interceptions. The Vikings however were able to completely bottle up the backfield and held to Bears to just a mere 97 rushing yards on 25 attempts. Chicago amassed just 308 total yards and scored only 20 points despite not turning the ball over a single time and that game was played at Soldier Field! The Nov 1st meeting shows just how well the Vikings can contain the Bears offense. Cutler does not historically perform well in winter as the temperature drops. Minnesota has learned a lot over the last few games and barring a late backdoor cover by the Bears, the Vikings should have no problem winning comfortably as we foresee them having a double-digit lead at times.


Jivan Astfalck's artistic research activities focus on wearable and decorative objects, which exist outside the margins of a recognised design culture, signified by a continuous dynamic of rediscovery, recycling of meaning and appropriation. These objects resonate with intimacy and passionate investment, rather than a functional design agenda. It is body adornment that exists in stark contrast to the overwhelming standardisation generated by mechanised commodity production, a 'folk-art' of our own culture.
The relationship between the finding, collecting and conceptualising of marginalized artefacts and their meaning is explored within the area of metaphorical symbolisation. Jivan is interested in jewellery pieces that map out the demarcation lines, where body meets world, a place, or idea of a place, where narratives are invested in objects with the aim to negotiate that gap, complexity, confusion or conflict in relation to private and subjective mental experience.
There is a correlation between literature and creative activity. The love of reading complicated literature and continental philosophy has over an elongated period of time enabled a pattern to evolve. By isolating ideas and voices verbalised in literature and pitching against other often conflicting ones is like a kaleidoscope. You throw them around and they make a pattern, a new pattern, often more eloquent. These groups of ideas over time became her thesis.
1. Astfalck, Jivan, Narrative Structures in Body Related Crafts Objects, PhD Thesis, University of Arts, London, March 2007, pp 15.
Jivan Astfalck is a visual artist, jeweller and academic. Born in Berlin, where she was trained as a goldsmith, she has been living in London for more than 20 years. She obtained her MA in the History and Theory of Modern Art at Chelsea College of Art and Design and her PhD in Fine Art at the University of the Arts London. Dr Astfalck is now Professor at the Birmingham Institute of Art and Design, Birmingham City University and combines her studio practice, which she exhibits internationally, with teaching as the MA Course Director in Jewellery, Silversmithing and Related Product. Her main focus and research interest is in using hermeneutic philosophy, literary theory and other appropriate thought models as tools to investigate narrative structures embedded in body related crafts objects. In her view, the convergence of crafts, design and fine art practices is conductive to extending the theoretical vocabulary and map out new territories where crafts practices contribute to cultural production and dissemination.


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Closed Chambers: The Rise, Fall, and Future of the Modern Supreme Court is a 1998 book by Edward Lazarus, who served as a law clerk for U.S. Supreme Court Justice Harry Blackmun during the October Term 1988. Lazarus combines his reflections as a clerk with a substantial body of research to describe the collapse in comity between Justices – and particularly clerks – at the Supreme Court. The book is noted both for its extraordinary inside access to internal Supreme Court deliberation and its arguably balanced account of the controversy surrounding many high-profile Supreme Court decisions on the death penalty, civil rights, and abortion.

Summary

The subject matter is familiar, but Closed Chambers argues that the breakdown had less to do with Warren Court precedents or abortion (the latter being exceptionally divisive, but rarely on the court's docket), but rather a fundamental split over the death penalty.  This split was later widened over disagreements concerning civil rights litigation.  Lazarus presents the zealotry of the abolitionists at the Legal Defense Fund, compounded by the actions of Justices Marshall and Brennan, as a major and mounting frustration even for the moderate Justices of the court. This frustration eventually led even the center of the court – Justices White and Powell – to align with Chief Justice William Rehnquist in seeing behind almost every repeat habeas petition the LDF's unwavering desire to abolish the death penalty, a position that even the moderate justices had rejected. If true, this would mean that an organization that set out to abolish the death penalty actually succeeded in making it more capricious, less well-overseen and more commonly used.

Lazarus also argues that a tightly-organized network of conservative law clerks exercised substantial power over the Justices during his time as a law clerk.

Criticism

In the January, 1999, edition of the Yale Law Journal, Judge Alex Kozinski wrote a detailed criticism of the book as rife with factual errors, unreliable research methods, and strong biases in its analysis and tone.

Closed Chambers met with a wave of controversy over Lazarus's voluminous disclosure of the internal deliberations of the Supreme Court, which critics argued was confidential and protected by an oath taken by the law clerks. Similar controversy greeted the publication of Bob Woodward and Scott Armstrong's The Brethren, which relied on interviews with former clerks and Justices, two decades prior.

Lazarus's book was the first to reveal many formerly unknown facts about Supreme Court's decision-making, such as the fact that Justice Anthony Kennedy changed his vote during consideration of the 1992 abortion case Planned Parenthood v. Casey.

Popular culture

In the Curb Your Enthusiasm episodes "The Car Salesman" and "Thor" Larry David is seen reading Closed Chambers.

External links
Booknotes interview with Lazarus on Closed Chambers, June 14, 1998.
Presentation by Lazarus on Closed Chambers, July 24, 2005, C-SPAN

Supreme Court of the United States
Law books
History books about the United States
1998 non-fiction books
History of the Supreme Court of the United States

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Euro RSCG Worldwide PR is being renamed Havas PR, as part of the major rebranding by the holding group.
NEW YORK--Euro RSCG Worldwide PR is being renamed Havas PR, as part of a rebranding initiative by the holding group.
The move sees all Euro RSCG agencies rebranded under the Havas Worldwide banner. The move means that the entire Havas group now consists of two primary brands: Havas Media, which includes all global media agencies, and Havas Creative, which includes the Havas Worldwide network, the Arnold Worldwide micronetwork and all other communications agencies in the Havas family.
The rebranding affects firms such as Euro RSCG, Euro RSCG Worldwide PR, Euro RSCG Life and Euro RSCG 4D.
The rebranding of the PR network will not, however, affect firms such as Abernathy MacGregor, Maitland and Cake Group. Havas PR North America CEO Marian Salzman told the Holmes Report that AMO (which includes Abernatch MacGregor and Maitland) and Cake will be "part of the collective, but won't wear the brand name."
She added that the move would improve the emphasis on centers of excellence and best-practice sharing - "a true collective of great and good agencies."
In recent months Euro RSCG Worldwide PR has seen two of its most senior Paris-based global executives depart. CEO Laurent Habib and COO Nathalie Biderman have both left to start their own, separate, consultancies.
The rebranding does not create any changes in leadership.


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Q: SAML assertion from ADFS has a null SessionNotOnOrAfter attribute value I am working on enabling login to IDP (ADFS 3.0 in my case) from my server(SP) and I am using spring SAML plugin for the same. I am able to make login and logout working. But I have issue with token expiry.
After authentication, I can see an ExpiringUsernameAuthenticationToken generated and set in the securityContext, but the ExpiringUsernameAuthenticationToken.getTokenExpiration() is returned as null in my case. I was under the assumption that this field will be returned from the Idp(ADFS) as part of AuthNRequest in SamlAssertion.
I further debugged the getExpirationDate method of SAMLAuthenticationProvider and verified that the statement.getSessionNotorAfter() indeed returns null.
The ADFS server and the SP server is in different domains and thus has a time difference of more than 12 hours. Do you think this is an issue?
Any configurations needed from the IDP side (ADFS) so that SP will recieve this value?
I am stuck here and any help is appreciated. Thanks in advance.


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Coast Guard saves thousands stranded by Harvey floods
NEW YORK (FOX 5 NEWS) - The U.S. Coast Guard has rescued more than 4,200 people and more than 100 pets who were trapped by rising floodwaters in the Houston-Galveston area of Texas since Hurricane Harvey came ashore over the weekend.
Coast Guard crews are flying seven MH-60 Jayhawk helicopters and 14 MH-65 Dolphin helicopters in around-the-clock rescue operations in Houston. They have lifted people to safety from rooftops, flooded streets, and elsewhere.
"We have pulled assets and resources from across the country to create a sustainable force," Vice Adm. Karl Schultz said in a statement. "This is a united effort that is still in the early stages and we are focused on the safety of those in the affected area and saving lives."
Crews have also deployed on small boats, called punts, into flooded neighborhoods to get residents to safety.
The Coast Guard, which is part of the U.S. Department of Homeland Security, has almost 2,000 personnel working the rescue operations. Other Homeland Security teams, including helicopter crews from U.S. Customs and Border Protection and FEMA-trained urban search and rescue task forces, have responded to help victims of the devastation.
One urban task force is from New York City. It is made up of NYPD officers, FDNY firefighters and medics, and Emergency Department workers.
Federal and local agencies have rescued more than 13,000 people in the Houston area.


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Q: Which is better practice? Querying Server via VBA/SQL Command Text or VBA/Stored Procedure? We need to query data from SQL Server using an OLEDB connection from an Excel workbook. We have discovered that there are 2 ways to do this. In terms of security, maintenance, performance, daily use, end-user use, etc., do you think one has an overall advantage over the other?

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*VBA script to string parameters to define the SQL command text via Connections in Excel:
Sub ParamPass()
    Dim qPreText As String
    Dim qPostText As String
    Dim valueToFilter As String
    Dim paramPosition As Integer
    valueToFilter = "TableName.ColumnName ="

With
    ActiveWorkbook.Connections("ConnectionName").OLEDBConnection
    qPreText = .CommandText
    paramPosition = InStr(qPreText, valueToFilter) + Len(valueToFilter)-1
    qPreText = Left(qPreText, paramPosition)
    qPostText = .CommandText
    qPostText = Right(qPostText, Len(qPostText) - paramPosition)
    qPostText = Right(qPostText, Len(qPostText) - InStr(qPostText, ")") + 1)
    .CommandText = qPreText & " '" & Sheets("SheetName").Range("CellReference").Value & "'" & qPostText
End With

ActiveWorkbook.Connections("ConnectionName").Refresh

End Sub

*VBA script to call and pass parameters to a stored procedure in the database:
Sub ParamPass()
    Dim MyValueToPass As String
    MyValueToPass = Sheets("SheetName").Range("CellReference").Value

With
    ActiveWorkbook.Connections("ConnectionName").OLEDBConnection
    .CommandText = "exec dbo.StoredProcName '" & MyValueToPass & "'"
    ActiveWorkbook.Connections("ConnectionName").Refresh
End With

End Sub

A: I personally prefer the second method due to its simplicity.
The issue here is mainly defense against SQL Injection Attacks. In both solutions you are using String parameters. An user could enter "= 1; Drop YourTable;"
Im not too privy with VBA but I know in Java has "Prepared Statement" command which takes care of this. You should do some research on this for VBA SQL.
Here is a good article on it. http://bytes.com/topic/access/insights/864109-sql-injection-attack


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Company In W.Va. Spill Cited In Issues At 2nd Site
Inspectors on Monday found five safety violations at Freedom Industries' storage facility in Nitro, about 10 miles from the spill site in Charleston. The spill contaminated the drinking water for 300,000 people, and about half of them were still waiting for officials to lift the ban on tap water.
Jonathan Mattise, Associated Press
CHARLESTON, W.Va. (AP) -- The company responsible for the chemical spill in West Virginia moved its chemicals to a plant nearby, but state inspectors said Wednesday that facility also did not have adequate safeguards to prevent a spill.
State inspectors said Freedom Industries may have to move its materials again. According to a state Department of Environmental Protection report, inspectors found that, like the Charleston facility, the Nitro site's last-resort containment wall had holes in it.
The report described the site's wall as "deteriorated or nonexistent." Freedom Industries said the building's walls acted as a secondary containment dike, but they had holes in them near the ground level, and they led out to a stormwater trench surrounding the structure's exterior, the report said.
Department spokesman Tom Aluise said the ditch eventually drains into the Kanawha River. The Nitro facility isn't on a riverbank, like the other facility.
The facility had no documentation of inspections of the Nitro site. Nor did it have proof of employee training in the past 10 years, the report said.
Aluise said the state might force Freedom to move the material again or build secondary containment structures. The department said it would tell Freedom how to proceed later Wednesday, according to Aluise. Penalties have not been determined.
The report only specified that Freedom Industries has 20 days to provide a written response detailing corrective action.
Members of Gov. Earl Ray Tomblin's administration said they were aware of no problems with the Nitro facility during a Tuesday evening press briefing, even though the violations were discovered during an inspection Monday.
"My understanding, DEP has checked that facility and there is no issue with the storage there," Jimmy Gianato, director of Homeland Security and Emergency Management, said Tuesday night.
Tomblin also put faith in the agency during the Tuesday briefing.
"I'm sure that DEP is keeping a close eye on where that material is," Tomblin said.
The report was made available to the public Wednesday.
It's unclear whether the state had inspected the Nitro facility before Monday. The facility violated its stormwater permit, but that doesn't require routine inspections, Aluise said.
A spokeswoman for Freedom Industries said the company didn't want to comment. Keith Beneker, the Nitro plant manager, did not answer a phone call.
The Charleston facility flew under the regulatory radar because it only stored, not produced, chemicals, state officials have said.
During the 7,500-gallon spill Thursday, a cracked containment wall allowed the chemical to ooze into the Elk River. Freedom Industries then moved the remaining 70,000 gallons of that chemical to Nitro.
Under an agency order issued Friday, company still has to move 11 tanks of other chemicals from the Elk River location to another site, Aluise said. The materials include calcium chloride and glycerin.


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Home News 5 Footballers Who Changed Their Talents to Another Sport
5 Footballers Who Changed Their Talents to Another Sport
By comeontheoviedo
These former footballers had careers with mixed fortunes, but they are all united by the characteristic of defecting from football, either fleetingly or to a permanent end.
Curtis Woodhouse (Boxing)
Woodhouse is known as a reliable midfielder who played out the best years of his career in the second tier with Sheffield United and later Birmingham City. His only season in the Premier League (with Birmingham in 2002/03) was solid enough, helping the Blues defy expectations and finish 13th.
He became a journeyman in the summer of 2003, playing for eight different clubs in a steady decline through the pyramid, until his retirement in 2012. Remarkably, the last six years of his football career overlapped with the first 20 fights of his pro boxing venture, from which he gained a respectable 16-4 record.
By July 2011, Woodhouse was the International Masters light-welterweight title, and in with a shot at the WBO Intercontinental welterweight title. However, he would lose via split decision (after 12 rounds) to future IBF welterweight title challenger Frankie Gavin.
Jerzy Dudek (Endurance racing)
Jerzy Dudek's crowning moment as a professional was obviously the Champions League triumph of 2005, in which his off-putting antics in goal aided Liverpool's shootout win after an unforgettable comeback.
Liverpool's comeback is a tale that anyone learning about spread betting basics would do well to heed, and emphasised more than ever that a win is not certain until the final whistle. On the domestic scene though, Dudek was less of a hero, proving unable to help Liverpool win a first title since 1990, and the arrival of Pepe Reina in 2005 left him adrift of first-team plans.
A four-year spell at Real Madrid (2007-2011) yielded just two appearances, leaving Dudek to ponder his post-football options. While winning WEC titles is likely to be beyond his reach at his age, Dudek undoubtedly has the taste for the track, having been a driver in the 2014 Volkswagen Castrol Cup, finishing 18th in the overall field.
Bruce Arena (Lacrosse)
Current New England Revolution boss Arena was born to be an athlete, but as a youth who excelled in a range of sports, his path had little definition until his college years. While Arena likely harboured dreams of an NFL career, his size dictated that he would be of greater use on a soccer field. Ever the versatile player, he played both in defence and in goal, across spells with Cosmopolitan Soccer League side Hota S.C. and college team Nassau Lions.
It was after his transfer to Cornell University, and spell in goal for the Cornell Big Red, that his soccer career peaked. Arena enjoyed a run to the semi-finals of the 1972 NCAA University Division Men's Soccer Tournament. He was drafted by the New York Cosmos after graduation, but fate intervened, with his pre-season release forcing his defection to professional Lacrosse.
Lev Yashin (Ice Hockey)
Yashin, also known as the Black Spider, is perhaps the greatest goalkeeper ever to play internationally. He was a one-man club, making 326 appearances for Dynamo Moscow between 1950 and 1970, and additionally took 78 caps for the Soviet Union. However, he was largely locked out of the first team picture during his early years with Dynamo's soccer team.
That saw Yashin initially focus his attentions on goaltending for the Dynamo Moscow Ice Hockey team in the early 1950s, and his time spent with them undeniably gave him unrivalled reflexes compared to football thoroughbreds across the world. So too did it ensure that he was able to read quick counter-attacking games when the time came for him to focus fully on football.
Such was Yashin's prowess on the ice, he was part of the Dynamo side that won the Soviet Cup in 1953. The 1953/54 Soviet League season also saw Dynamo finish top after winning 15 of 16 season games, and coincidentally or otherwise, they would not win it for another 36 years following Yashin's permanent return to football.
Tim Wiese (WWE)
Wiese's muscular 6'4 frame, supporting a chiselled face and slick, blond and (occasionally) shoulder-length hair, was reminiscent of a wrestler long before he became one. So too was his fiery temperament, and infamous tendency to indulge in outbursts. He spent the bulk of his career (2005-2012) playing for Werder Bremen, memorably helping them finish second in 2006.
Hoffenheim was Wiese's last club, but he would spend just 18 months there, before his contract was mutually terminated, owing to his heavy frame. Though his body was no longer suitable for goalkeeping duties at the top level of German football, he still retained the athleticism shown in his Bundesliga career.
With his charisma as ever-present, it came as no surprise to see another 6'4 blond, musclebound antihero – namely former WWE champion Triple H (real name: Paul Levesque) – invite Wiese to the WWE performance Centre in Orlando for training.
His debut for WWE was a winning one, with Wiese fighting alongside Cesaro and Sheamus to beat the Shining Stars stable at a WWE Live event in Munich.
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Just six months after the launch of the Honor 7C, the Chinese smartphone company is set to launch its successor, the Honor 8C. This new smartphone is powered by the Qualcomm Snapdragon 632 processor and features AI-enhanced cameras, a notched display, and Android 8.1 Oreo out of the box. The Honor 8C is expected to be launched in two variants, one with 4GB of RAM and 32GB of storage, and the other with 4GB of RAM and 64GB of storage. We got to spend some time with the latter variant of the Honor 8C before its official launch – scheduled for November 29 – and here are our first impressions.
The front of the Honor 8C is dominated by a 6.26-inch HD+ display. The notch is quite small and can be masked thanks to an option in the settings. The area around the notch is used to display the time, battery level, and other status icons. First-party applications are built to accommodate the notch. In our brief time with the Honor 8C, the display seemed to have adequate brightness, good viewing angles, and punchy colours. However, text and images were not very sharp thanks to the HD+ resolution which is a bit lacklustre for a screen this size.
Users can choose from on-screen buttons or EMUI's gestures, which we found to be unreliable at times. The body of the Honor 8C is all plastic and the phone is a bit too wide and tall to be used comfortably with one hand.
The smartphone feels solid but doesn't look as premium as some of the other models in the Rs. 10,000 to Rs. 15,000 price level. The glossy plastic back attracts a ton of fingerprints and makes the phone very slippery. Honor has tried to replicate the color gradient used on its pricier glass-backed offerings, but hasn't succeeded fully. The black and blue gradient on the back of our review unit looked a little garish to us.
The left of the smartphone is blank save for the SIM tray, which has two Nano-SIM slots and a dedicated microSD card slot. The right side has the lock/ power button and the volume rocker, which are small but tactile. The single loudspeaker can be found at the bottom, along with a Micro-USB port and the primary microphone. The secondary microphone and 3.5mm headphone jack are placed on the top. The lack of a USB Type-C port in this day and age is rather disappointing.
We were pleased with the accuracy and speed of the rear-mounted fingerprint sensor, and face recognition was also quite snappy. Of course, a detailed assessment of these features will have to wait till the full review.
The Honor 8C is powered by the octa-core Qualcomm Snapdragon 632 SoC with its integrated Adreno 506 GPU, paired with 4GB of RAM. In our limited experience, the smartphone tackled day-to-day tasks quite well but struggled a bit with intensive use. Games such as Asphalt 9 and PUBG were playable but only after reducing the graphics settings. A definitive assessment of the performance will have to wait till our full review, when we can push the smartphone further and run synthetic benchmarks.
The Honor 8C runs Honor's EMUI 8.2 custom skin atop Android 8.1 Oreo. EMUI is is quite fast and fluid but feels cluttered and has plenty of bloatware. The phone uses Chrome and Android's default messaging app but the Dialer, File Manager, and Gallery are Honor's own. Facebook, Messenger, Netflix, and Camera 360 come pre-installed, along with a bunch of first-party apps from Huawei such as HiCare, Huawei Health, Themes, Honor Store, and Honor Club.


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August 25, 2022 - Emma Hruby
England's Wiegman, Spain's Putellas take home UEFA awards
Candace Parker cites 'family' in decision to sign with Las Vegas Aces
Sarina Wiegman led England to its first Euros title. (Naomi Baker/Getty Images)
Sarina Wiegman was named the UEFA Coach of the Year on Thursday after helping lead England to its first Euros title, while Spain's Alexia Putellas is the UEFA Women's Player of the Year for the second consecutive year.
Since taking over the England post, Wiegman has been on a tear. The team has yet to lose a match during her tenure and players like Beth Mead have thrived. Mead won the Euros Golden Boot, which goes to the tournament's highest scorer, and finished as one of the top two runners-up to Putellas for the Player of the Year.
This year brought the first Coach of the Year award for Wiegman but her second Euros title. She also won in 2017 as manager for the Netherlands.
"It's really nice to receive this very great award and I'm very honored," Wiegman said. "This award really is for everyone involved with the England team. The FA, the staff and of course, all the players. Since I started in September, things have gone really well. We've really enjoyed it and we've performed at the highest level. Our fans have been very great too, so thank you."
👑 𝐀𝐥𝐞𝐱𝐢𝐚 𝐏𝐮𝐭𝐞𝐥𝐥𝐚𝐬 😍@alexiaputellas is named the 2021/22 UEFA Women's Player of the Year - the first player to win the award twice in a row! 🏅👏#UEFAawards pic.twitter.com/cwoHXmqqJ5
— UEFA Women's Champions League (@UWCL) August 25, 2022
Putellas becomes the first women's player to win the award in back-to-back years.
A star for Barcelona, she played in 26 matches in the Primera División in 2021-22, scoring 18 goals and adding 15 assists. In the Champions League, she notched two goals through nine matches.
The midfielder is also up for the Ballon d'Or after winning it last year.
Gisele Thompson played at the U-17 World Cup in 2022.
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O'Hara left Sky Blue in 2017 because of subpar player standards.
Williams describes the moment she learned about the trade at USWNT camp.
Demand for tickets prompted the change.


The possibility of a well much of the time has awful ramifications. The presence of a water well and water hand pump is viewed as indistinguishable to that of a remote settlement having no other wellspring of water supply. Occupants are required to utilize hand pump from sole water well to get enough water for their day by day employments. Or something bad might happen, there's the presence of an out-dated stone all around topped off with water of rain. Those requesting waters slant a holder inside the well and torque some water out. Despite the fact that, these portrayals aren't totally thought up, yet on an ordinary level, well pumps, engine fueled and hand utilized assortments are required in far off areas without some other wellspring of water. In such sort of circumstances, a well is furrowed into the dirt, and after that an engine fueled or manual pump conveys the water from underground source to the surface.
Limit well pumps are appropriate when water isn't extremely distant from the surface. This kind is a fly engine fueled pump that is straddling over the surface and brings up water through the force, precisely like the approach you draw up liquid utilizing a straw. While, the Deep well pumps are typically required in different conditions, and they utilize a pump to convey water.
Going to the hand water pump, there are two classes of these pumps: diffusive and stream. A revolving dynamic or outward pump is utilized solely for limit wells likewise, without anyone else's input, conveys up water from very nearly 24 to 25 feet underneath the ground. To extend at a prevalent profundity, a tailpipe of 35 feet length can likewise be used in this pump. On the other hand, fly pumps rehearse a force or dragging movement created through weight in the environment to convey water up to the surface. Performing like a void, the pipe drives water. As a result, a fly pump can be utilized to restricted and in addition profound wells.
While coming to preservation of water, about 14 gallons of water are utilized by a solitary individual; ordinary utilization for a little family is almost 56 gallons. When water has been driven up from the earth saves, it can be held for longstanding use inside a nourishment appraised polyethylene holder, which holds green growth from creating. To store water for a more drawn out timeframe, the holder ought to be held in a quiet and cool space far from sunlight.
To have adequate water for day by day use, treat it through cleansing strategies with the reason to dispense with the greater part of the contaminants, chemicals, and germs.


Bats are the only flying mammals. Finland has 11 known species of bats. Most of the species hibernate in Finland, although a few of them migrate to the south.
According to the Nature Conservation Act, bats are protected. They are also under the strong protection defined in the appendix IV of the EU nature directive, and protected by several international agreements. If you are considering getting rid of bats in your building, you should first contact your regional Centre for Economic Development, Transport and the Environment, which will provide further instructions.
All Finnish bats are insectivores. They hunt in the dark with the help of the echoes of the high-pitched sounds they make. Each species has its own typical sounds. The bats form an exact image of their environment through the echoes they hear.
Bats can hide in attics during the day time, and may, thereby, cause some disturbances. Bats living in the attic may also bring in common bedbugs and their guano may cause odour problems, so their access to the building should be blocked by obstructing their access routes. Bats can crawl in through holes less than two centimetres wide.
Their access holes are usually on the west and south walls of the building. Sometimes, the access routes can also be found due the staining around the hole or the guano underneath it. Nearly all bats leave buildings during the night time, which enables their access to be blocked while they are gone. Bats cannot be evicted between May and September.
Bats that come indoors in human residences are usually young individuals who have gotten lost. Most often, they will leave by themselves if a door or a window is left opened and other exits are closed. Bats are not aggressive and do not attack, but they may bite, if they get caught. Do not handle bats with your bare hands, as some of them may carry the rabies virus.
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Chop up your bananas in small chunky pieces and place in a bowl with the lime juice.
Bring the sugar and water to a boil over a medium heat.
Once the sugar syrup is bubbling away, lower the heat, add the chopped bananas and stir everything up.
Add the cinnamon and vanilla bean.
Keep stirring to make sure things don't get too sticky!
Keep an eye on things, (constantly stirring) for about half an hour.
The jam is ready when it coats the back of a wooden spoon and it sticks well.


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