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Q: How does the Android Market (Play Store) "push" installs to my phone? I've noticed a trend by which vendors will allow you to install apps/music/books, etc to your registered device while you're initiating the request through a web interface.
An example of this would be the Google Play store. When signed into the same account as my Android phone, I can click 'Install' on an app and in a few seconds, see that my phone is installing the app.
Amazon's Kindle does something similar.
My Question
What is the mechanism used to do this? Are the devices constantly polling in the background for these type of updates or is there some way to push these sort of updates without the device needing to poll?

A: I think you're searching about the push concept.
Wikipedia can provide you more detais :
http://en.wikipedia.org/wiki/Push_technology

A: Google developed his version of push to device called Google Cloud Messaging (renamed from C2DM).
You can get the basics here: http://developer.android.com/guide/google/gcm/index.html
For general knowledge about the technology, read the wikipedia article @Aerilys posted.


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José Bernardo Escobar (1797-1849) fue un abogado novohispano designado provisoriamente en 1848 como Presidente de Guatemala por la Asamblea Nacional Legislativa tras la renuncia del presidente interino Juan Antonio Martínez.

Biografía

Escobar nació en Jocotán, entonces Corregimiento de Chiquimula, en la Capitanía General de Guatemala, el 20 de octubre de 1797 y recibió el bautismo al día siguiente de manos del Presbítero Manuel José Escobar (que según consta en la partida de bautismo, le reconoció como hijo dándole el nombre y su apellido, declarándolo como Español). Trasladado a la Nueva Guatemala, fue aventajado estudiante de la  Carolingia, en cuyo Salón General Mayor se graduó de Licenciado en Derecho.

Contrajo matrimonio en el Sagrario de la Catedral de Guatemala el 11 de noviembre de 1828, con María Teresa Escolástica de Jesús Márquez de León y del Rosal, nacida en San Martín Jilotepeque el 9 de febrero de 1799. Fueron padres de 7 hijos: José Bernardo, María Teresa, Manuel José, Rafael María, María Felipa Magdalena, José María, Maximino Escobar y Márquez.

Carrera política

Su talento y patriotismo le llevaron a la vida pública: entre 1825 y 1829 desempeñó el cargo de Secretario del Consejo Representativo del Estado de Guatemala. Su profesión de abogado le llevó a servir mucho tiempo en el Poder Judicial; en 1831 fue Magistrado de la Suprema Corte de Justicia del Estado de Guatemala, y el 7 de diciembre de ese año fue nombrado en comisión como auditor de Guerra de la división en Los Altos.

Escobar fue diputado por Chiquimula a la Asamblea Constituyente del Estado de 1823 al 25 de marzo de 1824 cuando renunció. Fue diputado a la Asamblea Legislativa del Estado en 1839, cargo del que también renunció según consta por Decreto Número 10 de tal alta cámara, en que se aceptan sus razones el 8 de junio y ordena se proceda a nueva elección de Diputado por los Distritos de Quezaltepeque y Esquipulas. El 17 de marzo de 1845 es electo Consejero Constituyente del Estado por Chimaltenango, cargo que no llegó a ejercer porque renunció al mismo el siguiente, 8 de abril, sin haber tomado posesión. Escobar fue siempre adherente del Partido Liberal, pero fue moderado y siempre puso el interés de la patria por sobre intereses partidistas, y es por esta razón que constantemente renuncia a los cargos representativos. Así, en 1845, al razonar su renuncia dice:

Llegó a la presidence el Teniente General Rafael Carrera quien decretó la erección de la República de Guatemala el 21 de marzo de 1847. Escobar, agradado en su patriotismo por las medidas del «Caudillo Adorado de los Pueblos», regresó a la Asamblea, y el 14 de septiembre de 1848 es uno de los firmantes del Decreto que, ratificando la voluntad de Carrera, declara que «Guatemala es una nación soberana, una república libre é independiente».

Presidencia

A los pocos días de la firma del decreto se inició la rebelión armada del General Vicente Cruz, en Antigua Guatemala; por su parte, Carrera se hallaba voluntariamente expatriado en México, y el general Mariano Paredes estaba sometiendo insurrecciones en Los Altos. La capital pues, estaba abandonada ya que los dos Jefes militares más calificados del momento nada podían hacer por ella. Cruz dejó la Antigua y dando un rodeo, llegó a Villa Nueva. Ante tal actitud, el gobierno convocó a la Asamblea, la cual se reunió el 27 de noviembre y ante ella presentó su renuncia el Presidente licenciado Juan Antonio Martínez, renuncia que fue aceptada, y en el mismo acto se designó presidente al liberal José Bernardo Escobar, personaje culto, de quién «no se podía decir que fuera un pelele en manos de nadie».

En el peor momento posible se encontró Escobar con la presidencia: Cruz avanzaba y el primero de diciembre, desde San José Pinula, dirigió una nota al Gobierno intimidándole a entregar la plaza, ofreciendo respetar vidas y haciendas, menos las de los Molina, los Arrivillaga, Vidaurre, Manuel Dardón, el expresidente Juan Antonio Martínez, los Zepeda y José Francisco Barrundia. A pesar de la situación crítica, haciendo gala de energía y patriotismo Escobar rechazó la bárbara petición, y en consecuencia las hostilidades siguieron. La ciudad se encontraba cada vez más amenazada pues ya en Palencia se encontraba el general Serapio Cruz, hermano de Vicente Cruz quién repetía su petición del 12 de diciembre. Escobar sin dinero ni tropas, eligió el camino del arreglo, y es así que envió varias embajadas a parlamentar, en una de las cuales iba el propio Arzobispo de Guatemala, Francisco de Paula García Peláez. Por fin Cruz, admitió celebrar conversaciones, y en uno de los puntos que propuso revivía la traición liberal:

Apartándose patrióticamente de la consigna liberal, rechazó lo que se le proponía respecto de Los Altos, en aras de la integridad territorial de la Guatemala. Parecía pues no haber forma de arreglo con los insurrectos Cruz, y habiendo fracasado la negociación, Escobar buscó un arreglo político: permutó a don Basilio Porras del Ministerio de la Guerra al de Relaciones Exteriores, y entregó la cartera militar al Teniente Coronel de Ingenieros don Manuel José Narciso de Jonama y Bellsolar, que aunque retirado de la vida pública desde 1829, conservaba simpatías entre los liberales y era además amigo personal de Carrera. Esta medida tampoco solucionó nada; entonces Escobar presentó formalmente su renuncia a la presidencia el 30 de diciembre de 1848, y la Asamblea eligió a Manuel Tejada, quién durmió una noche electo presidente, pero renunció al día siguiente. Ante tales dificultades, Escobar siguió en el mando.

A principios de 1849 se reunió la Asamblea para elegir sustituto a Escobar. El General Mariano Paredes tras lograr la pacificación de Los Altos, resultó elegido, y Escobar le entregó la Primera Magistratura el 18 de enero de 1849.

Muerte

Con el fin de evitarse ofensas o represalias, José Bernardo Escobar se expatrió voluntariamente y se dirigió a El Salvador. Por orden de los Cruz, cuyas exigencias había rechazado, murió víctima de un envenenamiento el mismo año de 1849.

Véase también

 Presidente de Guatemala
 Serapio Cruz
 Rafael Carrera

Referencias

Nacidos en el departamento de Chiquimula
Presidentes de Guatemala
Alumnado de la Universidad de San Carlos de Guatemala

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Q: Porting WPF to ASP MVC? We are developing an application that is going to have a Desktop WPF app and a web-face on ASP MVC. My main question is, what is the way to go to make the work as less repetitive as possible.
My ideal is  developing the WPF app in someway using the MVC pattern, so that we could just copy/paste the controllers from the WPF app to ASP and work only on the View part. Is that possible?
I have researched and found that for that kind of tasks I could also stick on to using XBAP, but, as far as we have researched, many people are having problems with launching them. Silverlight is also not a way to go :(
Any ideas?
Thanks for your time!

A: No, you can't "copy/paste" stuff from a Windows application to a Web Application. And no. "copy/paste" is not an optimal way of reuse.
You're going about this in a completely wrong way.
The main idea behind Reusability is to keep application components and layers decoupled from each other so that they can be ported to different applications or even different platforms.
There's no way you are going to share Presentation code between a Web and a Windows application (regardless of the underlying UI frameworks on each side) simply because the HTML-based Web UI is stateless in nature and a Windows application is usually developed in a stateful way.
What you need to do is to use MVVM in the WPF side (as opposed to MVC) in order to keep the application logic and most importantly the Business Logic completely decoupled from the UI.
This way there will be a much greater opportunity for reuse in any other platform. All your shared Business Logic and application logic will live in UI-agnostic layers which don't really "care" about the Front-End.

A: Not possible. WPF and ASP.NET MVC have totally different Views.
Only thing you could re-use is your back-end API. Instead of injecting your API classes into your ViewModels like you would with WPF, you would be injecting those same API classes into your MVC controllers.

A: I would advice to forget the idea of reusing large pieces of client code.
What I would recommend is to build a 3-tier architecture, so you could reuse all the service layers (business services and DAL) in both ASP.Net MVC and WPF applications. You'll still have to code a lot of specific code in each application.
If your main goal is to deploy a WPF application through the Internet, then XBAP is the way to go. Or Silverlight, as it's a mature technology that'll be supported for years.

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Lance Armstrong Stripped of His Seven Tour de France Titles for Doping
New York Times ..."Lance Armstrong Stripped of His Seven Tour de France Titles for Doping. The International Cycling Union announced on Monday that it will not appeal the United States Anti-Doping Agency's ruling to bar Lance Armstrong for life from Olympic sports for doping and for playing an instrumental role in the team-wide doping on his Tour de France-winning cycling squads.
That decision to waive the right to take Armstrong's case to the Court of Arbitration for Sport, the highest court in sports, formally strips Armstrong of the Tour titles he won from 1999 to 2005. The Amaury Sport Organization, the company that organizes the Tour de France, will erase Armstrong's name from its record books."
Score: USADA 7, Armstrong 0
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It's 2015: Who pays on the first date?
Dating, Mating and Relating: Dating and Courtship in Modern Society
The fascinating history of how courtship became 'dating'
The Sociology of Love, Courtship, and Dating
The history of dating reveals how consumerism has hijacked courtship
Put a Ring on It? Millennial Couples Are in No Hurry
Catfishing: The Truth About Deception Online
How the Principle of Least Interest Applies to Business
Dating vs. Courting @MYCOACHJOSH
Although some students find modern dating to be too casual and unstructured, Lydia Aletraris, an assistant director of the Center for Research on Behavioral Health, said modern courtship still has rules to follow. Josh Evans, a freshman at UGA, said he hates the expectations and unbalanced nature of the process of dating in the modern world. Other college students have expressed feelings regarding the ambiguity of dating in a college setting. However, these casual rules can make it difficult to understand if the other person wants the same things in the early stages of getting to know each other. Aletraris said people are more likely to engage in hook-ups during college because a casual relationship may be easier to maintain than a serious relationship. Modern dating can also be advantageous in regard to accessibility and instant communication, especially with mobile apps such as Tinder and Bumble. However, whether it be a new or long-term relationship, the common denominator of a successful relationship is effective communication. Log In. Keep it Clean. Please avoid obscene, vulgar, lewd, racist or sexually-oriented language.
We use cookies and other tracking technologies to improve your browsing experience on our site, show personalized content and targeted ads, analyze site traffic, and understand where our audiences come from. To learn more or opt-out, read our Cookie Policy. If taken seriously, few activities may fill your life with such highs, and such lows, as dating.
Sociology recognizes marriage and family formation as two consequential Dating [offered] a relationship expressing freedom, lack of commitment or public.
Digital match-making services have done more than just change how we find our perfect squeeze; they're changing the fundamental nature of our social networks. According to a pair of researchers investigating online dating, the way we're looking for love and lust is connecting communities in completely novel ways, breaking down boundaries and possibly even making for stronger long-term relationships. It wasn't all that long ago that most relationships would begin with a smile and a handshake, rather than a click or a swipe.
That began to change in the mids, when websites like Match. Today there's a wide variety of sites and apps to suit your tastes, lifestyle, sexuality, and budget, from Tinder and Bumble for a quick swipe to like, to OKCupid and eHarmony for those who want their wit to show with their words. Any stigma over online dating has slowly evaporated over the years. Not only has digital technology made dating easier for romantic hopefuls, the data collected by such sites has been a boon for researchers curious about human mating habits.
But it's clear that the digital revolution hasn't only been shaped by the human appetite for sex and companionship; it's changed the way we form relationships. Economists Josue Ortega from the University of Essex and Philipp Hergovich from the University of Vienna wanted to know just how the rise of digital match-making has affected the nature of society. Society can be modelled as a web of interlinked nodes, where individuals are the node and the link describes how well they know one another.
Most people are tightly connected with about a hundred nodes , including close friends and family, and loosely connected with others. We can trace pathways through relationships to all come to Kevin Bacon — or nearly any other figure on the planet — in surprisingly few steps. Even just a few decades ago most new connections were just a jump or two away inside an existing network.
Courtship charts pathways to marriage. Its customs and rituals help individuals negotiate the complex transition from sexual attraction, through love, to lasting marriage. It provides, for better or worse, the moral and emotional education for married life. And yet, courtship no longer occupies a vital place within contemporary American culture; the word itself now seems quaint and outdated. Social historians such as Beth Bailey and Ellen Rothman have documented the decay of courtship traditions in twentieth-century America.
Leon Kass has pointed out that the erosion of courtship, coupled with other worrisome trends in law, economics, and technology, has destabilized the institution of marriage.
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Brenda Wilson. Dating is an evolution of the courtship ritual; it became common for young couples — like this pair at a soda fountain in the s — to go out for a movie or a meal as part of a courtship. In general, in the Northeast the median age for marriage for men and women was higher than the national average. Note: Ages represent the average between and of the estimated median age at first marriage.
See the full table from the U. Census Bureau. Do you think hooking up is liberating, degrading or no big deal? Take our poll. Before dating evolved, a man would call upon a woman in her home, as shown in this engraving published in Harper's Weekly. Library of Congress hide caption. The hookup — that meeting and mating ritual that started among high school and college students — is becoming a trend among young people who have entered the workaday world.
For the many who are delaying the responsibilities of marriage and child-rearing, hooking up has virtually replaced dating.
Courtship slowly but surely started to disintegrate by the late nineteenth, early twentieth centuries. Dating emerged by men wanting to test the waters with various women until they found true love. In the years leading up to the feminist movement, men initiated the contact with women. Men would woo young women by their charm and with the permission of her parents, spend time together.
In a dating relationship or during a business negotiation, people can his article in the American Sociological Review examined courtship.
Given the social centrality of the family institution and the role of courtship in the family formation process, it is not surprising that the study of courtship has received attention from several disciplines. Anthropologists have described practices in primitive and other societies, historians have traced courtship patterns in America from colonial to contemporary times, psychologists and social psychologists have examined intra- and interpersonal components of relationships, and sociologists have developed research-based theories explaining the process of mate selection, and have investigated various courtships dynamics.
Here, some attention will be given to each of these approaches, along the way selectively noting scholars who have made major contributions. Historically, according to Rothman, the term courtship applied to situations where the intention to marry was explicit if not formally—and mutually—stated. Scholars have disagreed as to whether dating— a twentieth-century term for a primarily recreational aspect of courting—should be considered a part of courtship since, according to Waller and others, dating may be merely thrill-seeking and exploitative, and not marriage oriented but see Gordon for an opposing view.
However, wooing that is, seeking favor, affection, love, or any of these may be integral to courtship and yet not result in marriage. For present purposes, then, courtship will be understood in its broadest sense—as a continuum from casual to serious. Some of these systems involved little or no courtship. For example, among the ancient Chinese, Hebrews, and Romans, marriage was arranged by male heads of kin groups.
Among the ancient Greeks and until recently among the Chinese, many brides and grooms did not meet until their wedding day. Around the turn of the century , infant marriages were the rule among the Toda of south India, and the bride was deflowered at about age ten by a man who was not of her clan and not her husband. In medieval England, contrary to the literature of chivalry, love had little to do with mate selection in any social class because marriages were arranged by lords or by parents with primary regard to the acquisition of property.
In societies where romantic love is not a basis for mate choice, such sentiments are seen as dangerous to the formation and stability of desirable marital unions—those that maintain stratification systems see Goode
Written by William Jankowiak. The relationship between sex, romance and companionship love is seldom smooth or long-lasting. These relationships need to be continuously renegotiated within and between the specific partners involved.
Dating and courtship through personal advertisements have been studied Paper presented at the annual meeting of the North Central Sociological Association, Dearborn, MI. Looking for Mr. or Ms. Right: Self-presentation in videodating.
This book is a concise sociological and practical guide with illustrations on how to deal with love, romance, courtship, and dating. It provides some sociological and empirical insights and practical tips that can help lovers, romantics, and couples in understanding the nature of the complex realities of infatuation, romance, unhealthy relationship, courtship, dating, and true love. It has four parts.
The first part explains the dynamics of falling in love, romantic attraction, and compatibility in finding a partner using the social science perspective, particularly that of sociology. It aims to distinguish true love from infatuation. It also explores the physical and cultural factors that make people fall in love. The second part examines the nature of courtship: The role of men and women in courtship, some effective strategies in courtship, and the major factors that determine compatibility in courtship.
The third part examines the different forms of "unhealthy" or unconventional love and relationship. It provides some signs and indicators if the relationship is abusive or cooling off. The last part deals with the cultural and social aspect of dating. It explores some do's and don't's in dating: What satisfies or turns off people in a date and how to handle them.
It is hoped that through this book, the reader will become more empirical, critical, and realistic in dealing with romantic relationship, courtship, and dating, and thus become more mature individuals in society.
In a dating relationship or during a business negotiation, people can sense weakness and prey upon it. That type of leverage is the general idea behind the principle of least interest. He argued that, as moral codes were loosened in the conduct of dating and courtship, there was an increased potential for exploitative relationships. The result is the principle of least interest, which means that the person who is least interested in the relationship can easily walk away from it.
be it on Social Networking Sites (SNS) or forums or on online dating websites, courtship has gained attention from media as well as new sociological and.
Courtship is the period of development towards an intimate relationship wherein a couple get to know each other and decide if there will be an engagement , followed by a marriage. A courtship may be an informal and private matter between two people or may be a public affair, or a formal arrangement with family approval. Traditionally, in the case of a formal engagement, it is the role of a male to actively "court" or "woo" a female, thus encouraging her to understand him and her receptiveness to a marriage proposal.
The average duration of courtship varies considerably throughout the world. Furthermore, there is vast individual variation between couples. Courtship may be completely omitted, as in cases of some arranged marriages where the couple do not meet before the wedding. In the United Kingdom , a poll of 3, [1] engaged or married couples resulted in an average duration between first meeting and accepted proposal of marriage of 2 years and 11 months, [1] [2] with the women feeling ready to accept at an average of 2 years and 7 months.
Dating and courtship through personal advertisements have been studied only in an extremely limited fashion. Few researchers have sought information about the responses ad placers have received, and only one has placed a bogus ad in order to receive and examine responses. Men are far more influenced by looks and women, by success. So much is this the case that it is entirely possible that for some men, lower socioeconomic attributes among women are actually seen as desirable.
'Talking' During Early Romantic Courtship: An Empirical Examination of Potential Sex. Differences in the faculty of the Department of Sociology in a negative romantic relationship, or one with problems or a premature ending, leads to.
Age sociology sociology marriage has reached an all-time high sociology 28 years for men and 26 years for women Renfrow and Bruce,. Before continuing on, sociology and sociological and have to be defined as the terms courtship as a basis courtship the paper. Sociology sociology the systematic and scientific study of society. Sociological imagination is vivid awareness of the relationship between experience society the greater society. As these definitions are understood.
Through the three perspectives, many distinctive differences and similarities between arranged marriage and other courtship of courtship such as, love marriage can be seen.
The purpose of our project was to better understand dating patterns in college age students. Dating is an activity that most college age students are engaged in or are at least interested in. We chose a questionnaire with these questions: Please list the top five characteristics that attract others to you; Please list the top five characteristics that you are attracted to in others; Why Do You Date?
In our research for the project we examined many disciplines including history, sociology, psychology, biology, and chemistry. We also explored how cultural differences and non-traditional couples transgress main stream ideas about dating.
Final Research Paper: This paper will involve interviewing three family members or friends over age 30 about their experiences with dating, marriage, and.
Former Alabama Chief Justice and U. According to a Thursday, Nov. Moore has denied the allegations. When Roy Moore, then 34 years old, asked year-old Debbie Wesson Gibson whether she would date him, Gibson asked her mother what she would think. According to The Washington Post's investigation into Moore's alleged pursuit of teenage girls, which was published Thursday, Gibson's mother replied, "I'd say you were the luckiest girl in the world.
That attitude of encouraging teenage girls to date older men, rather than shielding girls from men's advances, sounded familiar to some people who read the Post story that has shaken Moore's bid for the U. That courtship of underage girls is especially common in conservative religious communities. Ashley Easter, who grew up in a fundamentalist Baptist church where courting was the norm for teenagers, said, "That was the first thing I thought of with Roy Moore. The man's role is generally to be established and someone who provides the full income," said Easter, who runs the Courage Conference for survivors of church sexual abuse.
While a woman of 15 or 16, if she's been trained for a long time looking after her younger siblings, in their eyes she might be ready for marriage. The culture of courting that Easter and Brightbill described is one limited mostly to fundamentalist religious communities, including certain Christian groups and those of other religions, such as some Orthodox Jewish or Mormon communities. For most evangelical Christians, relationships between older men and teenage girls are viewed as wholly inappropriate.
Moore, who was reported in the Post story to have initiated a sexual encounter with a year-old when he was 32 and to have dated three other teenagers when he was in his 30s, has long established himself as a staunch defender of conservative Christian beliefs.
Pew Research Center has long studied the changing nature of romantic relationships and the role of digital technology in how people meet potential partners and navigate web-based dating platforms. This particular report focuses on the patterns, experiences and attitudes related to online dating in America. These findings are based on a survey conducted Oct. The margin of sampling error for the full sample is plus or minus 2.
Recruiting ATP panelists by phone or mail ensures that nearly all U.
After the pair starts dating regularly, he is the one who is supposed to shift Women believed that if they asked for commitment or a marriage.
Examples of courtship in the following topics: The Family Life Cycle Courtship is the traditional dating period before engagement and marriage or long term commitment if marriage is not allowed. During a courtship , a couple or group gets to know each other and decides if there will be an engagement.
Courtship varies both by time period and by region of the world. One way courtship varies is in the duration; courting can take days or years. Courtship is used by a number of theorists to explain gendering processes and sexual identity. Romantic Love Currently, courtship is the period in a couple's relationship which precedes their engagement and marriage, or establishment of an agreed relationship of a more enduring kind.
In courtship , a couple gets to know each other and decides if there will be an engagement or other such agreement. A courtship may be an informal and private matter between two people, or it may be a public affair or formal arrangement with family approval. Mate Selection In cultures with fewer rules governing mate selection, the process of finding a partner might include courtship.
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If you think your teen is spending more time texting, you're right. The average US teen (13-17 years old) now sends or receives 3,339 texts a month according to new research by The Nielsen Company. That represents an 8% increase over last year.
While texting increased in all age groups year over year, teens continue to text more than all other age groups combined.
It will come as no surprise that gender plays a role in the number of text messages sent. Teen girls top the texting chart with an average of 4,050 texts per month, vs. their male counter parts who average 2,539 texts.
Texting has surpassed safety (which held top spot in 2008) as the primary reason teens get a phone, while keeping touch with friends has dropped into third place.
With the increase in teen texting, voice usage has dropped by 14%. While in previous years texting was considered fun, now 78% of teens find it more functional and convenient; including 22% who find it easier, and 20% who find it faster than talking.
That isn't to say teens have quit talking, girls average about 753 minutes of gab time a month, while guys use around 525 minutes.
A whopping 94% of teens self-identify as advanced data users of messaging, internet, multimedia, gaming, downloading and other activities. Though teen usage is still less than that of young adults, their data usage has increased dramatically; male teens usage jumped from 17MB to 75MB, and their female counterparts jumped from 11MB to 53MB in the last year.
Key drivers of the data consumption increase are advanced smartphones with large screens designed for better data consumption, and the broader range of applications teens are now downloading, including Facebook, Pandora and YouTube. Downloading video, for example, is a particularly heavy data hog.
If you haven't already adopted mobile safeguards for your family's phones, it may be time for you to do so.
While mobile malware is still in its infancy, security vendors have seen a huge uptick in mobile attacks since late last year.
Along with increased security, consider what mobile family safety protections you may need (often referred to as parental controls). Several family safety companies are ramping up their mobile services to meet youth's needs for protection against malicious users, and to filter content that's inappropriate for minors.
Highlighting the expansion of mobile content categories like user generated content, mobile TV, adult content and gambling, I refer to new data from Juniper Research in my blog Mobile Revenues in North America Projected to Jump to $10 Billion by 2015.
In the face of dramatically increasing data use, carriers are feeling the pinch.
Several carriers have switched, or are considering dumping their all-you-can-eat data plans in favor of requiring consumers to pay by data volume in a tiered pricing structure.
AT&T, which has seen data usage skyrocket with the roll-out of the iPhone, stopped offering new customers unlimited plans back in June. Verizon Wireless, who reports say will begin offering an iPhone early next year, announced in September that they would switch to tiered data plans in 4-6 months.
While the change from unlimited pricing plans to tiered pricing will save most consumers money, at least from the outset, consumers who are heavy data users may need to either scale back their activities, or get ready to pay more.
This shifting payment structure will unquestionably impact the burgeoning consumer mobile application businesses. Mobile developers experienced a virtual gold rush in the all-you-can-eat environment where consumers could wantonly download their wares without concern for their phone bill. The iPhone store alone offers over 200,000 applications for a phone first launched 4 years ago. Expect the pace of development to slow, or even shrink, as consumers on tiered pricing plans think about the potential impact to their phone bill.
If you're a parent of a data hungry teen, hold onto that checkbook.


Dr. Sonia Labrador-Rodriguez, professor of Spanish language and literature at New College of Florida, will present a talk on the history of cigar-factory "lectores" and their cultural, intellectual and civic influence on the Cuban-American communities created by the cigar industries in Florida. This talk is in conjunction with The Cubano-American Community Project, a bilingual exhibit created by Dr. Labrador-Rodriguez and her students exploring the history and identity of Cuban-Americans in the Tampa Bay region. The exhibit will be on display in Cobb Gallery from November 5 through December 12.
Sponsored by the Office of the Dean of Faculty.
Michael Muhammed Knight, assistant professor of philosophy at the University of Central Florida, will present the history of the Five Percenters, a religious group that emerged in 1960s Harlem during the schism between Malcolm X and Elijah Muhammad. The community has been simultaneously credited with inspiring numerous artists of golden-age hip-hop and targeted by state prisons as an alleged "security threat group." This lecture presents the history and teachings of the Five Percenters and examines the movement's struggle for its incarcerated members' freedom of conscience.
Sponsored by the Religious Studies discipline and the Center for Spiritual Life.
Dani Shay is a nonbinary singer-songwriter and actor whose voice and talents have spread messages of discovery and self-love ever since Shay's first self-produced EP in 2008. After getting a start on YouTube, America's Got Talent and The Glee Project, Shay has since released multiple albums and is now starring in a new musical, The Civility of Albert Cashier, based on the true story of a transgender Union soldier in the Civil War. Shay will perform and discuss songs from Shay's new album, which not only surround timely and controversial topics but aim to tell everyday human stories—from relationships and heartbreak to activism and gun violence—all from a nonbinary perspective.
Sponsored by Women's Resource Center.
More than 1.1 million people are living with HIV in the United States, and of all 50 states, Florida has one of the highest rates of infection. Why have we not heard about this growing epidemic? Since the beginning, HIV/AIDS has been a disease stigmatized due to gender, race, class and sexuality taboos. To commemorate World AIDS Day, come think through the growing epidemic of HIV/AIDS, and how we can heal ourselves and our communities. We also will host a panel of individuals who have been impacted by the epidemic, display squares from the AIDS Quilt and hold a candlelight vigil for those we know who have been lost to HIV/AIDS.
Sponsored by the Office of Service-Learning.
Touted as one of the most influential films of the '00s, independent filmmaker Andrew Bujalski's first feature follows recent college graduate Marnie (Kate Dollenmayer) as she drifts through her early twenties with humble goals and little direction. The one constant is her casual circulation through modest spaces and relationships. A low-budget feature shot on 16 mm film, Funny Ha Ha captures the ennui of emerging adulthood with little fanfare but a clear vein of truth. Part of the International Cinema Series at Eckerd College.
This event will include a Q&A with the filmmaker after the screening. Bujalski's sixth feature film follows a day in the life of Lisa (Regina Hall in a bravura performance), the manager of a Hooters-style bar and grill who runs what otherwise might seem a site of exploitation as a source of female empowerment. As the day goes south in small ways, it becomes clear that in a world where these women struggle against uniformity, their greatest support is one another.
Part of the International Cinema Series at Eckerd College.
This event will include a discussion after the film. Set in a parallel version of Oakland, Calif., this surreal dark comedy follows Cassius Green (Lakeith Stanfield), a low-level telemarketer who finds success when he discovers his "white voice" and must decide between rising up the ranks of white corporate America or remaining true to his working-class roots. A broad take on the commodification of black and working-class bodies, from wage slavery to performance art and everything in between, Boots Riley's debut feature is a wild and incisive satire of contemporary America.
Under the direction of Rebecca Zapen, the Eckerd College String Orchestra performs culturally specific musical compositions.
The Eckerd Concert Choir is joined by a professional orchestra for choral settings of holiday poetry and narration.
The Eckerd College Theatre discipline presents the play She Kills Monsters, directed by Theatre Professor Gavin Hawk. This comedic romp into the world of fantasy role-playing games tells the story of Agnes Evans as she leaves her childhood home in Ohio following the death of her teenage sister, Tilly. When Agnes finds Tilly's Dungeons & Dragons notebook, however, she stumbles into a journey of discovery and action-packed adventure in the imaginary world that was Tilly's refuge. In this high-octane dramatic comedy laden with homicidal fairies, nasty ogres and '90s pop culture, acclaimed young playwright Qui Nguyen offers a heart-pounding homage to the geek and warrior within us all.
Christopher, 15 years old, stands beside Mrs. Shears's dead dog, Wellington, who has been speared with a garden fork. It is seven minutes after midnight and Christopher is under suspicion. He records each fact in the book he is writing to solve the mystery of who murdered Wellington. He has an extraordinary brain—exceptional at math but ill-equipped to interpret everyday life. He has never ventured alone beyond the end of his road, he detests being touched, and he doesn't trust strangers. Then his detective work, forbidden by his father, takes him on a frightening journey that upturns his world.
Nico Muhly's Marnie, based on Winston Graham's novel, which in turn inspired Alfred Hitchcock's suspenseful thriller, has its U.S. premiere at the Met this season. Isabel Leonard stars in the title role opposite Christopher Maltman as her blackmailing husband, Mark Rutland. Marnie is a co-commission and co-production with English National Opera, where the production premiered in 2017.
On his wedding day, the young Scotsman James is awakened with a kiss from an ethereal winged creature, a sylph. Entranced by her beauty, James risks everything to pursue an unattainable love. La Sylphide is one of the world's oldest surviving ballets.


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With the Christ mas season in full swing, there is so much we desire to get done before Christmas day arrives. Looking back, there are many fond memories of how we would spend this very special holiday with our individual families. But now, with being married, the whole approaching season has had a different light. Now that we live together in a home of our own, deciding what kind of things we will do for Christmas together is a new (and exciting) experience. With it being our first Christmas as a married couple, we both desire to make this "first Christmas as 'Mr. & Mrs.'" the best that it can be.
However, not wanting to be overcome by the rush and hustle that usually accompanies this time of year, there has been a desire to have a fresh view of what took place in Bethlehem over 2,000 years ago. Being very familiar with the Christmas story, it didn't seem like there was too much chance of receiving something fresh… but I was wrong. Last week, the Lord revealed a comparison that I had never seen before, and this comparison brought new light to what this season is supposed to be about, and it's given a new and exciting avenue of focus for this wonderful time of year. This comparison follows the experience of two individuals: Jacob and Mary.
It might seem strange to go back to the book of Genesis when addressing the topic of Christmas. But there is comparison in the story of Jacob that is comparable to the experience of Mary, and this instance brought a deeper insight and longing to go beyond the historical facts that took place when Jesus was born.
While all of Joseph's brothers were thinking "who does this guy think he is, where we should bow to him?" Jacob had another thing happen… he "observed the saying." The word "observed" in the verse is the Hebrew word shamar, and means "to keep, or watch over" something, or "to guard" it. From a mental sense, it's not something you let come into one ear and then out the other; it's something you constantly think about, or ponder. In Jacob's case, what was being pondered was a prophecy… although he did not know it at the time.
When the shepherds declared this, it seems Mary saw that there was a special significance in these words, and the Bible says that she "kept these things, and pondered them in her heart" (Luke 2:19). The Greek word for "kept" in this verse means "to preserve" or to "keep in mind." Again, from a mental standpoint, it doesn't mean to let a thought come into one ear, and then out the other. Rather, it indicates continuous contemplation or pondering. This is exactly what Jacob did about Josephs dream. But there is a deeper parallel between Jacob's and Mary's response than just pondering a prophecy. In Jacob's case, it was a prophecy that his son would rule one day. In Mary's case, it was also that her son would rule one day: Jesus would be Lord! In both cases, there was a foretelling of rulership. It's been said that Joseph is a type of Christ, meaning that there are many events in Joseph's experience that symbolize the experience of Jesus' earthly life; and this prophecy falls perfectly in line with that symbolism.
When the Lord revealed this, He also spoke to what my focus should be when thinking about the nativity events. Just like Jacob and Mary, I'm to go beyond just hearing the events of God's plan… I'm to keep them, pondering them inside, asking what the deeper meaning is of what is being said. So what is the deeper meaning of all that took place at Jesus' birth, and what does that mean for me here and now? First, that He was willing to condescend to such a humiliating entry into the world is just mind-blowing. But why did He do it? It was not just to deliver us from the penalty of our sins. Jesus' humble entry – and the life He lived thereafter – was to accomplish something far greater. His condescending to the lowest was ultimately to be exulted to the highest, where He would reign as Lord. And in that reign He would save us, not just from the penalty of our sins, but also from the oppressive power of sin… which carries out its tyrannical rule through natural man. Jesus' exulted and overcoming position of authority allows for us to experience freedom from sin as He reigns within us, for where He reigns sin cannot abide.
So herein lies the Christmas contemplation… what does it mean for me to experience the Lordship of Jesus Christ in my life. He came to be Lord, and to the degree I receive His authority instead of my own stubborn will, to that same degree I will experience the freedom and life that HE IS! But what does it mean – in a here and now, practical sense – for Him to be Lord in every facet of my life? This is why He came, and this is what I am to observe, or ponder, or think about.
As you enjoy this Christmas holiday with family and friends, let's go beyond hearing the historical events of Jesus' birth, and ponder in our hearts what that means for our lives now. This, I believe, will bring a whole new experience, excitement, and joy to what this season is all about.
God bless you all, and Merry CHRISTmas!!!
Thank you for sharing. I had never thought about that comparison before. Have a wonderful Christmas!
Thank you for this reminder to ponder these things!! May He be in our hearts as we enter the new year.
Wonderful thought Brandon amd Michael! Hope you had a great CHRISTmas as newly weds!
You both cut such a beautiful figure and makes me smile.
Thanks for providing words of wisdom and appreciation. I m going to pay this forward.
Again God Bless and Keep the pictures coming I cant get enough of you all wonderful faces and smiles.
That was helpful! Thanks for sharing. Happy New Year!
Scripture is so amazing! And what a gift our Lord has given us in that as we grow closer to Him, more and more from His word is revealed to us. Such joy!
I pray this year will be one of growing closer to our Lord, as well as each other and those around you. Will you be relocating to Texas with the ministry?
Thank you for taking the Christmas Story and revealing an important message. Never thought of this comparison. Very thoughtful and thought provoking.


The Old Testament has a lot of Scriptures that we probably tend to overlook. But one rises above the rest in significance and impact upon the Bible's overall narrative.
In this two-part article, we look at that Scripture in its context and then examine what makes it so important.
This is an important message because of how it affects our understanding of other doctrines which we will look at in future posts. Don't miss this message.
Welcome to part 6 of my series on rethinking Christian eschatology. Because these articles build on each other, if you've not already done so, I invite you to read the previous posts before continuing here.
There is much to communicate here, so stay with me. It's crucial that we understand these things.
I've included more Scripture than usual here for context, so this post is a bit longer.
Before we get to today's topic, let's quickly recap what we've covered so far. It's important to keep the key points we've covered thus far fresh in our minds.
In "How to Clearly See the Big Picture of Scripture," I introduced the concept of humanity's challenge to get beyond the physical shadow to see the spiritual substance.
Using Galatians 4, we observed that GOD's covenant with physical Israel is a shadow of His new covenant with spiritual Israel—the church of Jesus.
This principle—that the spiritual substance follows the physical shadow—is the central theme of this series of posts. Everything I have to say in this series revolves around the implications of this truth.
In this same post, we also observed how humanity's challenge to live beyond the physical, in turn, creates our greatest struggle—to see GOD as He really is.
In "An Important Truth from GOD's Promises to Abraham," we saw that some aspects of GOD's promises were not fulfilled physically, but spiritually. For example, physical Israel did not possess their homeland of Canaan forever (see Gen. 13:15; 17:8).
And in the previous post, "A Spotlight on the Shadows of Israel's Exodus," we looked back at Israel's exodus from Egypt to identify the shadows those physical events cast regarding subsequent spiritual events and how this applies to our lives today.
Although we would benefit from detailing how the themes discussed so far relate to Israel's journey between Egypt to Canaan's borders, a brief overview must suffice.
The journey from Egypt to Canaan was one struggle after another, like riding a stubborn mule that refuses to go the right direction.
No sooner did Israel get on the other side of the Red Sea than they began complaining against Moses and GOD. At Sinai, Israel reverted back to its familiar idolatrous Egyptian customs by creating the golden calf and worshiping it.
At Canaan's border, the faithless majority melted in fear because of the unfavorable report from the ten spies. They complained that they wished they had died in the wilderness.
So GOD gave them what they asked for. The nation wandered in the wilderness in punishment, unable to enter the promised rest. Of that generation, only Joshua and Caleb (i.e., the faithful remnant) were allowed to enter the land.
Aside: How would you like to be the last living Israelite from that generation? You know everybody is just anxiously waiting for you to die so they can go into the land. Talk about being the least popular guy in town…wow!
Finally, the 40 years of wandering were complete.
As Israel was encamped across the Jordan River from Jericho, Moses, knowing his death was near, delivered a series of speeches to the people. These speeches are recorded in Deuteronomy.
Moses then explained that, when they entered the land of Canaan, six tribes were to pronounce blessings upon the people and six were to pronounce curses. The reason for this peculiar action becomes clear as we continue reading.
Blessings if Israel obeyed GOD's Law (Deut. 28:1-14).
Curses if Israel disobeyed (Deut. 28:15ff).
Thus far, we see the warnings if Israel disobeyed and rejected GOD (see Deut. 28:1, 15). If they rejected Him, He would destroy them.
Do you think GOD was serious about the faithfulness and holiness of His people? Um… yes.
So any person who rejected GOD and the Law would bring disaster upon themselves and upon the land.
In fact, it would be so bad that people would see the land and ask why GOD did this to the land.
1 When all these blessings and curses I have set before you come on you and you take them to heart wherever the Lord your God disperses you among the nations, 2 and when you and your children return to the Lord your God and obey him with all your heart and with all your soul according to everything I command you today, 3 then the Lord your God will restore your fortunes and have compassion on you and gather you again from all the nations where he scattered you.
Ah, note Moses' subtle change here.
From this point, Moses began to prophesy that Israel would indeed experience these curses in the future. They would be scattered and, when they repented and wholeheartedly sought GOD, He would gather them again.
This gathering is very important, and something we'll expound upon going forward.
4 Even if you have been banished to the most distant land under the heavens, from there the Lord your God will gather you and bring you back. 5 He will bring you to the land that belonged to your ancestors, and you will take possession of it. He will make you more prosperous and numerous than your ancestors. 6 The Lord your God will circumcise your hearts and the hearts of your descendants, so that you may love him with all your heart and with all your soul, and live. 7 The Lord your God will put all these curses on your enemies who hate and persecute you. 8 You will again obey the Lord and follow all his commands I am giving you today. 9 Then the Lord your God will make you most prosperous in all the work of your hands and in the fruit of your womb, the young of your livestock and the crops of your land. The Lord will again delight in you and make you prosperous, just as he delighted in your ancestors, 10 if you obey the Lord your God and keep his commands and decrees that are written in this Book of the Law and turn to the Lord your God with all your heart and with all your soul.
Here GOD reiterated His promise to Abraham from Gen. 17:8, that Abraham's descendants would possess the land forever. We will expound upon this later as well.
Note: It is very important to point out here that the word "earth" (see v.19) can be translated "land" in the Scriptures. Often, "land" is actually a better translation, when we consider its meaning in light of the promises to Abraham and the shadows we've been discussing. More on this later.
Moses then proceeded to officially turn over leadership to Joshua and GOD told Moses it was time for him to die.
Lovingly, GOD provided a very special and unique burial for Moses, events which provide great insight into GOD's loving compassion and sympathy for Moses' role of leading Israel to the border, but being unable to enter the land himself because of his own sin.
Note: It is also possible GOD was concerned that Israel would idolize Moses' remains and relics, which may have contributed to this unique divine burial.
Here, GOD reaffirmed what Moses already knew—the Israelites would not remain faithful.
So GOD gave Moses a memorial to pass to the Israelites in advance of that sad fateful day.
After speaking all these words, GOD called Moses up on Mount Nebo where he viewed the promised land from afar. There, upon that mountain, Moses died.
Continue to the next post where we examine why the Song of Moses is so impactful on the Bible narrative.


Your reputation is critical to your success, and that reputation is based on how people perceive you, your products, and your organization.
At McCrosky Marketing Communications, we help our clients manage those perceptions.
The first step is understanding – we've got to understand how current and potential customers perceive your brand. Next, we need to understand the internal perceptions of your brand. Are there differences in how you perceive your own brand? Does your brand mean something different at remote offices than it does at the main office? Does it mean something different at different personnel levels?
To find out, we may need to ask a lot of questions. Or, we may need to embark on a Strategic Brand Analysis™ to uncover the essence of your brand.
Once we have a solid understanding of your brand, your position in the marketplace, the competitive environment, and your marketing objectives, we will begin to work with you to develop a Marketing Communications Plan designed to ensure your message gets to the right people, at the right place, at the right time.
Already have a plan? Great! We can skip a step and go directly to the development of the "big idea" that will set your brand apart from the competition, build and enhance awareness in the marketplace, and help you reach your marketing objectives. For some examples of big ideas, click on Our Work.
In today's world, even small businesses can effectively compete with the giant corporations. It's a matter of perception. If your brand position is strong and is articulated well, prospects and customers will see you as equal to – or better than – the big dogs.
We can help you identify and communicate the key points of difference that make your brand unique. Once you've done that, you'll run circles around your competitors, leaving them chasing their tails.
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It was in 2008 that George and I had our first taste of a Belgium Gueuze, a blend of 1, 2 and 3 year old Lambic beer, from Brasserie-Brouwerij Cantillon located in the centre of Brussels. Lambic is a beer style dating back to the 13th Century and made from 100% spontaneous fermentation; therefore, no cultured yeast or bacteria are added at any stage. We were both blown away by the complexity of this drink and had never had anything quite like it; dry, vinous, funky with champagne-like carbonation. From that day on we went on a sensory exploration of these beers which turned into an obsession. Although it was always very hard to get your hands on Belgium Gueuze as little of the production made it across to the UK back then.
Fast forward to 2018 when a group of us made it across to Brussels for a weekend beer tour. We spent the majority of our time visiting traditional Belgium beer Cafés which I'd highly recommend to anyone in Brussels. These cafés are steeped in history and are often run in the front living room of someone's house. The focus is on community and drinking local beers often served in terracotta jugs. The main reason for our trip, however, was to make the pilgrimage to Cantillon brewery and join a tour to learn more about the production of these unique beers.
The tour of Cantillon was a pivotal moment in the creation of Crossover. Walking around you really feel the history of the brewery, full to the brim with oak casks and old brewing equipment. Speaking to their employees you sense their commitment to making a world class product. Once the tour is finished you end up at their tasting room/bar which feels like a British countryside pub, cosy and inviting. The complexity and long-ageing time of this beer lends itself well to the addition of further ingredients such as fruit and herbs. We were lucky to try many of their specials that day, making our way through apricot, elderflower and cherry beers. Off the back of the tour at Cantillon we concluded that we were going to start a UK brewery focussed on 100% spontaneous fermentation. And to champion British fruit/grains with the goal of creating a product of equal complexity and drinkability.
After we both quit our jobs in London, we spent over a year researching and raising money to start Crossover. In the lead up to the launch of the project George worked in a bottle shop in London to suss out the current market and I went off to the US to meet breweries making barrel aged beer.
The best thing about the brewing industry is how open and friendly everybody is; all the people we've met in the last couple of years have always given us the time of day and answered every question.
However, we were soon to find out that making this style of beer is no easy task and a logistical nightmare. At the start of planning, we thought we were going to invest in a brewery but instead decided to follow the Belgium model of a 'blendery' (or 'geuzestekerij'). For that reason, we don't brew on site. Instead, we get the unfermented beer (wort) made for us by Elgoods Brewery in Wisbech, Cambridgeshire. Furthermore Elgoods have the specific bit of equipment needed to make spontaneous beer: the coolship.
The coolship (pictured below) is effectively a shallow open-top copper tray used to cool down the wort once it's been brewed. As the name suggests the wort cools in these trays for 12-15 hours. We only brew in the winter when night-time temperature is below 10°C as this allows for a quicker cooling period and to stave off any unwanted bacteria growth. This part of the process is key to inoculating the wort. While in the coolship, wild yeast and bacteria from the brewery and its surroundings will drop into the wort and later initiate spontaneous fermentation. Post coolship we transfer the wort down to Crossover where it is decanted into oak casks. Fermentation will normally start within about two weeks. Our beers will then age anywhere from 1-4yrs.
From the outset we've wanted our beers to showcase the best of British fruit, grains and herbs. We grow some incredible produce in this country which is often forgotten. Our priority is to build relationships and promote as many growers as possible. Further to this we want to support and collaborate with as many local businesses as possible.
Most of our grain so far has come from Crisp Maltings based up in Norfolk, they have a great selection of malts grown here in the UK with a lot of it being sourced locally. As a small business with no revenue, we were unable to afford organic barley/wheat in our first two brew seasons. But it is a key target of ours in the future. The farm our business is based on grows interesting heritage varieties of wheat which we are keen to start experimenting with next season.
Sourcing fruit has been an exciting challenge. Finding growers of top-quality fruit has not always been easy but we are starting to put a strong list together. What we've found so far with any of our fruit additions is that if the fruit is good, it will reflect well in the beer. So far we have used five plum varieties (Purple Pershore, Yellow Egg, Guinevere, Pond's Seedling as well as wild picked White Bullaces), raspberries, blackberries, Morello cherries, forced rhubarb, Ben Gairn blackcurrants, Pinot Meunier grape pomace (the stems, seeds, and skin of the grape) and Montepulciano grape pomace.
We are constantly on the hunt for old orchards and esoteric British varieties of fruit. Over the last year we've managed to visit some amazing orchards. Recently we went to an amazing small Morello cherry orchard in Kent that we sourced fruit from last year. Morello cherries were once widely grown but now there are very few orchards left with most producers switching to the sweeter varieties. Morello's acidity and suitability for long-aging (we age our beer on Morello's in barrel for 9-12 months) works very well for us.
The farm Crossover is based at organises an international agricultural conference called Groundswell which ties perfectly into our ethos when selecting producers to work with. Earlier in the year we worked with them on an agroforestry project whereby we planted a plethora of fruit trees (apples, pears, plums & cherries) in one of their arable fields, turning it into mixed use and helping benefit soil health, biodiversity, carbon sequestration (to name a few). In the years to come, and with all things being well, we will use the fruit from the trees in our beers.
Quality ingredients are integral to making the best beer we can. So rigidly sticking to British ingredients might seem restricting. But from our experience this is far from the case and there is plenty to get excited about.
We are only at the start of our journey here at Crossover and look forward to seeing how our beer matures over the next few years. There are new businesses moving into premises around us on the farm which promotes entrepreneurial collaboration. Our brewing is seasonal by nature; therefore, no two batches will ever be the same. This allows us to push the boundaries when experimenting with new ingredients and combinations. We will continue to build our relationships with fruit growers and farmers which, for us, is one of the best parts of being involved in creating a product which relies so heavily on agriculture.
Crossover launched just before the pandemic so the traditional routes to market like beer festivals haven't been running as normal to get our name out there. Fortunately we have built a small, loyal following through Instagram which has allowed us to sell-out of our first two beers (The Count & Skimming Stone). Instagram also allows us to talk about our process and interact directly with our customers at a very important time for our business. A more immediate target for us is to open a tasting room on site so people can properly experience these special beers at the source of their creation. If you'd like to visit us or learn more about our process, please contact us through Instagram @crossoverblendery or email beer@crossoverblendery.co.uk.
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Marie Louise Asseu (gestorben am 7. Dezember 2016 in Abidjan), auch als Malou bekannt, war der Künstlername einer ivorischen Schauspielerin, deren richtiger Name Cho Françoise Kouassi lautet. Sie spielte sowohl für Film und Fernsehen als auch für das Théâtre national de Côte d'Ivoire und das Ensemble Le Soleil de Cocody. Marie Louise Asseu trat vor allem in Komödien auf, wie den satirischen Fernsehprogrammen Faut pas fâcher und Ma famille. Bei dem 2007 erschienenen Film Un homme pour deux soeurs führte Marie Louise Asseu Regie, gleichzeitig spielte sie die Henriette Okay, eine der Hauptrollen, und trat als Produzentin auf. Dieser Film wurde aufgrund seines Erfolges später in mehrere Episoden für das Fernsehen aufgeteilt.

Neben ihrer schauspielerischen Tätigkeit gründete Marie Louise Asseu das jährlich in Adzopé stattfindende Layè Festival, das der Kultur der Region gewidmet ist. Weiter gründete sie einen Schönheitswettbewerb: Miss All Levels.

Als Todesursache Marie Louise Asseus wurde zunächst ein Schlaganfall angegeben, später wurde bekannt, sie habe an einer nicht ausreichend behandelten Meningitis gelitten. Marie Louise Asseu wurde durch Henriette Diabaté posthum zur Ritterin des Ehrenordens ernannt. Sie wurde in Afféry im Département d'Adzopé beigesetzt.

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Whiskey Myers Biography
It would be an understatement to say that a lot has happened since Whiskey Myers was last in the recording studio. Over two whirlwind years, the gritty Texas band hit #1 on the iTunes Country Chart with their breakout third album 'Early Morning Shakes,'earned raves everywhere from Rolling Stone to USA Today, and toured the US and UK relentlessly, slaying massive festival crowds and sharing stages with Lynyrd Skynyrd, Hank Williams Jr., Jamey Johnson, and more along the way. You'd be forgiven, then, for expecting things to work a little differently this time around when the band reunited with acclaimed producer Dave Cobb for their stellar new album, 'Mud.' But as it turns out, success doesn't change a Southern gentleman, and they don't come any more Southern than Whiskey Myers.
Fueled by larger-than-life performances honed tight from countless nights on the road, 'Mud' finds the band scaling new heights of songwriting and musicianship, with searing guitars, soulful vocals, and indelible hooks. While their approach to the music and humble, hard-working attitudes may not have altered, there have been developments in the Whiskey Myers world, most notably with the arrival of new faces. For the recording sessions, the band's five founding members—Cody Cannon on lead vocals and guitar, Cody Tate and John Jeffers on guitars, Gary Brown on bass, and Jeff Hogg on drums—fleshed out their sound with the addition of fiddler/keyboard player Jon Knudson and percussionist Tony Kent, who are both now full-time members. "They bring a great energy, and I think it's really helped our sound and makes the band more versatile," explains Cannon. "There's less room onstage now, but sometimes a family grows."
A glance through Whiskey Myers' lyrics will show you that Cannon is a man who chooses his words carefully, so it's little surprise that he describes the band as a family. The tight-knit group's roots stretch back decades into the red dirt of East Texas, where Cannon, Jeffers, and Tate first began playing together before rounding out their initial lineup with the addition Hogg and Brown (who is Cannon's actual cousin). They built up a rabid local following on the strength of their 2008 debut album, 'Road Of Life,' and then notched their first #1 on the Texas Music Charts with their 2011 follow-up 'Firewater.' It was 'Early Morning Shakes,' though, that introduced the rest of the world to what Texas already knew. The album cracked the Top 10 on the Billboard Country Chart, a remarkable feat for a fiercely independent band and a testament to their rigorous DIY work ethic and endless supply of passion and drive. Esquire called them "the real damn deal," while Country Weekly said they combine "greasy Southern rock riffs with countrified songwriting and Texas grit for something wholly unique," and Playboy dubbed them "the new bad boys of country music." Even in the face of their rapidly-growing profile and expanding lineup, the band found they were able to pick up exactly where they left off when they returned to the studio for 'Mud.'
"We don't want a high stress situation, and we don't want to feel uncomfortable while we're recording, because we want to make sure everybody can get into their creative mode," explains Brown. "Dave has a laid back attitude as far as making music and that fits right in with the way we work. His ear is similar to ours and he has the same kind of vision for what the music should sound like."
What the music sounds like is raw, visceral emotion: pride, faith, desire, defiance. The songs on 'Mud' are stories of ordinary men and women standing up for their families and honoring their roots. Home is sacred ground for Whiskey Myers, not just a plot of land, but rather the cornerstone of an identity worth dying for. Fiddle-led album opener "On The River" steps back to frontier times when the struggle for survival was a daily one, while the epic title track promises a home-foreclosing banker "Ain't no man gonna take it away / Because it's deep down in my blood / So step across the ol' property line / And you'll die right here in the mud." "Frogman," written with Rich Robinson of the Black Crowes, follows a Southern man halfway around the world, as he risks his life to defend freedom and fight terror in the Middle East as a Navy Seal, and the Darrell Scott co-write "Trailer We Call Home" finds the beauty in simple things, concluding, "Times get tough but love is strong / Here in this trailer that we call home."
"Where you come from and where you grew up influences your music a lot," says Cannon. "As a band, we don't go into the studio with any preconceived theme. You just sit down and you write and the songs come out naturally."
As a result, Whiskey Myers' music fits neatly into no genre. Sure, it's heavily influenced by country music ("My first record was 'The Pressure Is On' / Ain't it funny how your life can change with a song" Cannon sings on "Hank"), but the band credits everything from Alan Jackson and Waylon Jennings to Led Zeppelin and Nirvana as inspiration. "Some Of Your Love" channels old-school soul, while the bright, punchy horns of "Lightning Bugs And Rain" flirts with Rolling Stones swagger, and "Good Ole' Days" captures a stripped-down, folky vibe, as the whole band sat in a circle singing together live. It alladds up to what Cannon perhaps describes best as "no frills, no bullshit rock and roll."
"The equipment we used on the recording process for this one was really important to the sound, too" he adds. "Dave has these amazing old amps and we recorded everything to tape for the first time. The piano was from, like, 1904 or something, and I don't think it's been tuned since. Little things like that make a big difference. It sounds authentic when you actually use the real, old gear."
In the end, there may be no better word for Whiskey Myers than authentic. This music is in their blood, and it flows as naturally from them as a spring feeding a mountain creek. While a record this good is sure to send their (lone)star rising higher than ever before, you can rest assured that success still won't be changing this band any time soon. They make music they're proud of that celebrates where they come from and makes people feel good. As far as they're concerned, that's all the success anyone could ever ask for.
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Ecosystem Services Research: Is it up to the challenge?
Date: Sep 10, 2020Author: peoplenatureblog 0 Comments
In this post Kai Chan and Terre Satterfield discuss the evolution of ecosystem services research and what it next has in store. Read more in their new research in People and Nature 'The maturation of ecosystem services: Social and policy research expands, but whither biophysically informed valuation?'
Over the span of three decades, ecosystem services research has gone from a twinkle in an eye to a dominant way of viewing human-nature relationships and the many constituent ecological and social benefits and consequences that might follow. That twinkle is today a prominent international science-policy platform (IPBES) with increasing conduits for ecosystem services research into decision-making at all scales in many nations. But is there a broad base of appropriate research to support just and effective decision-making? And has the field really benefited from central ideas across the natural and social sciences?
The meteoric rise in research on ecosystem services.
For the two of us, notions of 'just and effective decision-making' collided as we got to know one another—a biophysically- and philosophically-trained ecosystem-services insider (Kai) and a socially-trained qualitative and quantitative scholar of values, culture, risk, and decision analysis (Terre). Over 15 years of research, supervision and teaching together on these and related topics, a notion emerged in our minds of biophysically and socially informed valuation and decision-making, which structured our contributions to the study of ecosystem services as they include cultural considerationse.g.,1,2,3,4. And yet our hope for a full integration of these ideas was often met by a rebranding of ecology as services, or values as dollars, with the rest on the cutting room floor, so to speak. On this basis, we have long argued that certain kinds of research are needed to support the social-ecologically informed decision-making sought by IPBES and the UN's Convention on Biological Diversity.
Nine years ago, we started investigating if the needed base of research existed via a long-running analysis just published5. We realized that looking only at best practice—the thought-leadership—was not enough. Integrating ecosystem services into decision-making everywhere requires much more than a handful of appropriate studies, and sometimes a profound gap separates best practice and broad practice.
A prominent example that was already on our radar was that there were still dozens of papers being published reusing values from a wholesale monetary valuation of the world's ecosystem services. This study, led by Bob Costanza6, used a widely critiqued 'total valuation' approach, as if the alternative to the status quo was total ecosystem annihilation. Such total valuation can be useful for raising awareness, but not for informing real-world decisions. And yet the papers kept emerging.
So what is best practice, and is broad practice keeping pace? We broke this down into five broad categories: (1) Is valuation grounded in realistic biophysical change? (2) Is there a healthy balance of monetary and non-monetary valuation? (3) Is there social research on the nature and change of access and demand for ecosystem services? (4) Is ecosystem services research addressing the place-based needs of policy and practice? (5) Is it including qualitative research from the social sciences and humanities, and considering values in any sense beyond the instrumental?
The answers began to take on additional significance as this nine-year study unfolded, and we added new time periods to our analysis, with the emergence of the concept of nature's contributions to people (NCP)7,8. Although NCP emerged as an umbrella term for science-policy purposes, some seemed to argue that we ought to abandon the 'ecosystem services' term due to its baggage and inherent limitations. In effect, they argued that the answers to our five questions about good broad practice were universally 'no'.
But the answers were both no and yes. In the time periods ending in 2012 and 2015, only a small or tiny fraction of research aligned with best practice on the five fronts. In the final period (up to the end of 2017, which avoided complications associated with the potentially competing term NCP), finally there was a marked improvement. Valuation was still not usually grounded in realistic biophysical change (1), but there was an impressive balance of monetary and non-monetary valuation (2). Albeit from tiny beginnings, there was an impressive rise of social research (3). Only a small proportion of studies examined the effectiveness of policy, but an increasing number characterized biophysical processes relevant for services (4). And from virtual absence, we observed marked turns toward equity considerations, insights from the qualitative social sciences and humanities, and considering values as more just than the outputs of valuation (5).
Why? Why so little progress for years, and then an apparent breakthrough? It takes time for good ideas to spread and bad ones to die out. Ecosystem services research was growing exponentially until the final time period, whereupon the rise appears more linear. Good practice was spreading, but initially it was swamped by the growth of simplistic and superficial analyses, when ecosystem services was such a hot new idea that any link to it was accepted.
Our expectations for ecosystem services research, if it were responsive to critique.
We clearly still don't have all the research we need to support humanity's reliance on the biosphere into the future. This is partly because on many fronts of the best practice we examined, good examples are still rare. Beyond that, it's also because it is now clear that protecting human and non-human life on Earth requires more than good decision-making at the margins, but rather transformative change9,10,11. And this transformative change will require separate study, for example of the levers and leverage points in complex social and social-ecological systems12,13.
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