KANSAS CITY – Matt Millsap freely admits he made up the word, "theoludology" when he chose it as the topic of his doctoral dissertation in systematic theology. Google search the term, "theoludological," and literally every single result includes his name. Broken up into its roots, his topic becomes clearer, even if doesn't become easier to pronounce. "Theo-" and "-ology" are no-brainers. "Ludo" is the Latin root for "game" or "play." Mashed together, Millsap created a new discipline: thinking about video games from a theological point of view.
Millsap is the assistant director of library services at Midwestern Baptist Theological Seminary in Kansas City, and teaches courses such as Christianity and the Arts at Midwestern College. As readers might already have guessed, he is also a bit of a video game nerd. Literally every surface of his office is piled high with systematic theology textbooks and academic journals, but his home entertainment center is piled high with a PlayStation 4, Xbox One and a Nintendo Switch. While some may dismiss the gaming as a time-wasting holdover from boyhood or a trivial escape from the rigors of academia, Millsap would ask them to press pause.
Millsap argues that theologians regularly interact with media and the arts. Film and television are common topic for theological dialog, and religious thinkers have been pondering painting, literature, sculpture and music for hundreds if not thousands of years. Why isn't the same true for an art form that's emerged in the past 40 years?
One reason he feels the time has come to seriously consider video games with God in mind is that they have seriously evolved over the generations as technology improved.
So there basically wasn't one. Games were simple and straight forward. Players dropped Tetris blocks into place, urged a hapless Frogger across a busy road, or frantically pressed UP UP DOWN DOWN LEFT RIGHT LEFT RIGHT B A START to cheat an early shoot 'em up. Forty years later, gone are the primitive pixels of Pong or Pac-Man and the simple sprites of Super Mario or Space Invaders.
Indeed, it's now common for the most popular and awarded games to feature a 10-, 20-, or even 50-hour storyline complete with motion-capture acting and top-tier voice talent. A compelling single-player story can overcome technological weaknesses or the occasional gameplay flaw. Many high-profile games are essentially interactive movies.
And just like the opening level of an unfamiliar game, Millsap has come up with a tutorial for tackling these story-focused games and figuring out what they might communicate about God and then critiquing it.
So he came up with a game studies – or, ludological – analog to the Wesleyan Quadrilateral, a traditional Methodist way of approaching Christian theology that begins with Scripture, then folds in reason, experience and tradition.
Being a good Baptist, he keeps Scripture in the primary slot – an "extraludic norm" if you want to be fancy about it. With that in mind, Millsap cautions that Christians should be discerning when they choose which games to play to ensure no content will cause them to sin, just as they should do with movies or literature, and limit games to their appropriate audiences.
After the overarching umbrella of scriptural primacy is accounted for, game studies had its own versions of tradition, reason and experience.
Gaming's traditions, or doctrines become a sort of gaming literacy. Once a player "gets" how a certain genre of game works and is structured, they know what to expect and how to approach the next one. One doctrine informs the next.
"It's much like how you can't talk about Christology (the doctrine of Jesus) without having that bleed into your soteriology (the doctrine of salvation)," Millsap said.
Reason equates to game mechanics and structure: the press of a button will always do this, the nudge of a joystick does that. Just as there is order and structure to the Universe as God created it and He has given mankind reason to ponder it, video games follow the rules of their own creator.
Experience's ludological twin is what Millsap calls player identification and agency.
Millsap's go-to illustration of this type of theological thinking is the game, "Journey." A title originally released for the PlayStation 3 in 2012, it is also available for the PlayStation 4. Players take control of a mysterious, unnamed, hooded character and… go on a journey. You wake up, see a light on top of a mountain, and start your story. That's it. The Game of the Year according to the Academy of Interactive Arts & Sciences, it racked up more than its fair share of praise: various gaming publications called it "a hallmark of excellence," "a glorious, thoughtful, moving masterpiece" and "mysterious and beautiful." Not bad for a game with no dialog, no instructions and no text. Players experience the creation and inherently know the game's designers have something planned out.
So what's the point? He's not saying that mashing buttons is a path to a deeper understanding of God or a defeating the next boss is a discipleship tool. The idea is just that it's worth considering those stories and scenarios that gamers encounter from a theological perspective.


If Cricket South Africa were unaware that Duanne Olivier was intending to become a latest Kolpak player, then they are justified to feel aggrieved, writes GARY LEMKE.
Aiden Markram's heroics in the first Test at Kingsmead might have been in vain but he has announced himself to the world as a player of the highest class.
South Africa's chances of avoiding defeat against Australia at Kingsmead range between slim and none. And slim has just left Durban.
Australia's batsmen have shown more application and aggression while their bowlers have bowled with skill and patience. Which is why they are bullying South Africa after two days of the opening Test at Kingsmead, writes GARY LEMKE.
If the opening day of a four-Test series between two of the sport's giants can't attract a decent crowd, then Test cricket is in deep trouble. Or maybe, it's just Durban.
Virat Kohli might have lost the war but he won the battle of the batsmen in a series tailormade for the bowlers.
At times it's been men against boys as South Africa wrapped up a Test series in style against an Indian team lacking fight.
The fat lady has cleared her throat and now we're just waiting to hear her sing in the second Test at Centurion.
South Africa are in the box seat heading into day three on what is a slow pitch at Centurion, where batting last will be tough.
After the pyrotechnics of a Newlands Test that was over inside three days of actual playing time, this first day at Centurion was tame by comparison. Which is understandable. But. There's always a but.


Something interesting and new to play with: Fotonotes.net. It's a tool that allows you literally to annotate your images (well, JPEG images), providing information about the content of the pictures to people who are viewing them. It's sort of like captioning them, but within the image itself; the information is only visible when the viewer wants it. (Dan Gillmor explains the technology a little better than I do.) The fact that it only works with JPEGs, and that the information is actually written within the image file itself, leads me to believe that the tool uses the IPTC metadata standard. If that's the case, then there are a ton of other tools that should be able to read, if not manipulate, the information as well.
I really doubt they are using an IPTC block for that. The JPEG format is flexible enough to add additional blocks of data with an arbitrary format, altough some tools might discard an "unknown" block when processing an image.
Unless they use a "standard" comment block, with some kind of ascii formatting, which should be the safest way to store info inside the file.
Actually, a comment block (of which you can have as many as you want inside a JPEG file) can have a set of pixel coordinates (top, left, right, bottom) for the rectangle, and the text itself.
And the viewer could be implemented in dynamic HTML. No need for Java.


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Juror Mark Ormond was the former director and curator of exhibitions for the Galleries at Ringling College of Art and Design.
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Art Center Sarasota's 2019-2020 exhibition season continues with "Open Season," the center's premiere national, juried exhibition of works in any media and subject in all four galleries, Dec. 12 to Jan. 17.
Art Center Sarasota's exhibition season continues with 'Open Season'
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Art Center Sarasota's 2019-2020 exhibition season continues with "Open Season," the center's premiere national, juried exhibition of works in any media and subject in all four galleries, Dec. 12 to Jan. 17. For this exhibition, Art Center Sarasota invited artists from across the nation to submit work. The juror is Mark Ormond, an independent curator, writer, lecturer and consultant.
A "Garden Party," the opening reception from 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Dec. 12, features wine and craft beer, live music and food trucks will continue the reception until 9 p.m.
"This exhibit is a way for Sarasota to experience the diverse talents of artists from all regions of our country," says Lisa Berger, Art Center Sarasota's executive director. "The goal is to draw new artists and bring awareness of Sarasota as a cultural destination. Berger adds that the Art Center's commitment to inclusion and diversity will be reflected in the variety of artists shown in this exhibit" She adds that they expect between 250 and 300 works of art will be included in this exhibition.
Juror Mark Ormond was the former director and curator of exhibitions for the Galleries at Ringling College of Art and Design. At Ringling College, he taught courses in the business of fine art and the role of the curator. Ormond also taught classes in art history at the University of Miami, and in arts management at the University of South Florida. Previously, Ormond also served as curator of 20th-century art and deputy director for collections and programs at the John and Mable Ringling Museum of Art. In Miami, he was director of the Center for the Fine Arts (now the Perez Art Museum). Ormond has a B.A. in art history from the University of Pennsylvania, and an M.A. in art history with a concentration in museum studies from the George Washington University. He also has a certificate in museum management from the Getty Institute at the University of California at Berkeley. He is a founding member of the Sarasota County Art in Public Places Committee and served on the City of Sarasota's Public Art Committee.
'Open Season'
When: Dec. 12 to Jan. 17.
The opening reception is 5 p.m. to 7 p.m. Dec. 12.
Where: Art Center Sarasota, 707 N. Tamiami Trail, Sarasota
Information: 941-365-2032. or www.artsarasota.org
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Епишево-1 — деревня в Рославльском районе Смоленской области России. Входит в состав Епишевского сельского поселения. Население — 241 житель (2007 год).

Расположена в южной части области в 27 км к юго-востоку от Рославля, в 8 км южнее автодороги  Орёл — граница с Республикой Беларусь, на берегу реки Пет. В 11 км северо-восточнее деревни расположена железнодорожная станция Пригорье на линии Рославль — Брянск.

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В 1800 г. была возведена церковь Николая Чудотворца. В 1829 г. к храму пристроена колокольня.

В годы Великой Отечественной войны деревня была оккупирована гитлеровскими войсками в августе 1941 года, освобождена в сентябре 1943 года.

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Населённые пункты Рославльского района

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North Middlesex HospitalYou can attend the antenatal clinic at North Middlesex Hospital and self-refer at the door.
For more information: visit the North Middlesex hospital antenatal website.
North Middlesex HospitalFor your 1st hospital appointment- Complete the online antenatal self-referral form.
Booking line: 0208 887 3764 ( this is a voice mail service checked every 24 hours).
Whittington hospitalYou can alternatively attend the antenatal clinic at Whittington hospital and self-refer at the door. For more information: visit the Whittington hospital's antenatal website.
Fill in the referral form below and then email ([email protected]) or fax (0207-288-5576) to the antenatal clinic.
For more information you can telephone the department on 0207-288-5586.
Gwen Edwards, Immunisation Nurse specialist.
Specialist Immunisation clinic Ward M2 Child Development Centre.
St Ann's Hospital, St Ann's road.
Provides neonatal Hepatitis B Vaccination to babies in Haringey identified as needing the Hepatitis B vaccine as a result of antenatal screening.
All three and four year olds and some two year olds are entitled to up to 15 hours per week of free early education.
This is called Early Years Free Entitlement, or free early learning, and is paid for by the government through Haringey Council.
Research shows that good quality early education helps children's development and learning at school.
Local pharmacies are able to give emergency contraception without the need to see your GP.
Healthy Living Pharmacy (HLP) page.
Free sexual health screening is performed at a number of clinics across London.
Screening for sexually transmitted infections and treatment. HIV testing. HIV care and management.
4YP clinic (dedicated young people clinic).
Turkish clinic for Turkish speaking clients. Zone 15 clinic (gay men's clinic).
Hazel Clinic (sexually assaulted clients). Psychosexual clinic.
Contraception clinic (provision and advice on most methods of contraception including LARC).
Emergency contraception and referral to TOP service.
Offer a confidential walk in and appointment service.
Appointment lines are open Mon to Fri 9.30am – 4.30pm Contact help line on 0208 442 6536 for information and to book an appointment for sexual health screening or contraception procedure.
Visit their website www.shharingey.co.uk for more information about all services.
www.shharingey.co.uk for more information about all services.
Some practices offer repeat prescriptions of the contraceptive pill as well as depo injections which is given by nurse.
Coils and implants (implanon) are offered at certain sexual health centres across Haringey.
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Most residents in Canada who live in their own house or apartment own a washer and a dryer. Rental apartment buildings have washers and dryers in the basement. There are public laundromats in downtown areas of cities but not necessarily in the suburbs. Dry cleaners do clothes for affordable prices and offer home pick-up and delivery.


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Rising Stars of Women's Soccer
The women's game is staking its claim in world football like never before thanks largely to the success and superstardom of USWNT members, who have elevated the game and turned indifference into excitement.
The women's game is staking its claim in world football like never before thanks largely to the success and superstardom of USWNT members, who have elevated the game and turned indifference into excitement. The same women's players who appeared and then disappeared every four years to play in a World Cup look set to stay, as they are now being signed by the budding clubs of the Women's Super League, and stamped into the public eye.
Here's our list of rising stars in the women's game:
Rose Lavelle
Signed for Manchester City in August of 2020, which saw a wave of USWNT stars arrive to English clubs, Rose Lavelle is a skillful and dynamic midfielder for club and country. The 2019 World Cup was her breakout tournament, where she would start six games and score three goals, earning her the Bronze Ball - the award for the third-most-outstanding player of the tournament.
Another USWNT player and World Cup winner, Mallory Pugh has been a young starlet of the team since she was discovered at age 12. Often anointed the "future" of the USWNT, she is considered a prodigy of the modern day. Perhaps the pacey forward will one day reach the heights of national hero, Mia Hamm.
Jill Roord
Scoring a debut hat trick versus rivals Tottenham, Jill Roord hit the ground running for Arsenal last year. Roord's style of play is typically aggressive, and often breaks up opposition counter attacks by fair means or foul. The Dutch midfielder joined fellow country women Dominique Bloodworth, Vivianne Miedema, Danielle van de Donk, and Sari van Veenendaal at Arsenal, when she signed from Bayern Munich last year.
Leah Williamson
Joining Arsenal's Centre of Excellence in 2006 at the age of nine, Leah Williamson holds a strong allegiance to the club. Originally a midfielder, tactical changes for England prompted Phil Neville to convert the 23-year-old to a center back where she has had great success conducting the team's possession-based style and breaking up play.
Valérie Gauvin
Signed by FA Women's Super League club Everton in August 2020, after scoring an incredible 14 goals in 16 appearances for Montpellier the season before. The prolific striker will be a focal point to Everton's attack, and you can be sure to see her poaching goals from the box in as lethal fashion as she did in France.
Aitana Bonmatí
What 5'4" Aitana Bonmatí lacks in stature she makes up for with fierce competitiveness and innate elegance. The Spanish midfielder is hugely versatile and she uses her low center of gravity and technical gifts to great effect for Barcelona . It's no surprise to hear that her idols growing up in the Catalonian youth system were Xavi and Andrés Iniesta.
Georgia Stanway
Winning the PFA Women's Young Player of the Year award last year, Stanway has emerged as somewhat of a local and national hero. The 21-year-old striker has already won five trophies with Man City, represented England at a World Cup, and scored some glittering goals along the way.
Khadija Shaw
Khadija "Bunny" Shaw earned her nickname due to her appetite for carrots, but the Jamaican forward also has an appetite for goals. Rarely does a player standing 5'11" possess Shaw's speed, touch, and vision, making much more than a classic number 9. She currently plays in France for Girondins de Bordeaux and internationally at the U-15, U-17, U-20 and senior levels for Jamaica, debuting at age 14.
Jessie Fleming
22-year-old Jessie Fleming is a leader in the making. The Canadian emerged internationally when she captured Golden Ball honors at the 2013 CONCACAF Under-17 Women's Championship. She's gone on to earn an Olympic bronze medal, and caps for the senior national team at the FIFA Women's World Cup, while somehow navigating a Materials Engineering major at UCLA.
Victoria Pelova
One of Dutch football's brightest hopes, Pelova is a midfield ace who's an old head on a young pair of shoulders on and off the field. While she is not only a technician in midfield, she is also a student of Applied Mathematics and a talented chess player. The future looks bright for the Oranje with Pelova at the helm.


When you want to list a considerable amount of content on your page that is all related but can be broken down by categories (chronological, target populations, etc.), it's best not to "laundry list" this text. Visitors are unlikely to read beyond a certain point on the page. Tabs are a helpful way to categorize text into different sections so that the pages remain shorter.
Determine how your text can be broken down. For example, if you're using tabs for a publications page, separate the publications by years (2012, 2011, 2010, etc.) before you begin to create your components.
Once you've determined how you want to break down your information, create a new component in your Building Blocks folder. Select the "Content" schema from the drop down menu. Consider this the "landing" component for your page.
Enter a "Title" for your page and in the "Text and tables" field, enter introductory text. Example: "Below, please find a listing of our recent publications." Click "Save & Close" in the Home tab once you are finished entering text.
You may not always have introductory text. In this case, you can use a "Page Title" component that will only feature a title on the page.
Create a new component in your Building Blocks folder. Select the "Content" schema from the drop down menu.
Enter text in the "Text and tables" field. As you've already created a "landing" component, you do not need to enter a "Title." Depending on how many paragraphs you want under each tab, you may need to use the "Paragraph heading" field to help further distinguish your content.
Click "Save & Close" in the Home tab once you are finished entering text.
Repeat steps 2-3 for each section you want to include on your page. Once you've completed these components, you're ready to create tab labels.
To create a tab label, click on "Create New Component" and select "Tab Label" from the schema drop down menu.
Enter the name for your label. Some examples of names used for tab labels: 2012, Information for Parents, Nutritional Guide. Do not enter the word "label" in the "Tab Label" field. Repeat this step for each content component you have created. Keep the tab labels short and sweet, especially if you will have multiple tabs.
Once you've entered all of your components onto the page, you're ready to publish!
The content for each tab and the tab labels are all built onto a single page.
In addition, you can link to a tab on the same page by using an anchor link, like this one.
Using tabs on your page restricts your ability to include right column components. Each tabbed section cannot have it's own right column component, whatever right column component that you include on the page will always appear on the page regardless of which tab the visitor selects.
A- "Recent Publications by Year" was entered in the "Title" field of the landing component of a "Page Title" component.
C- Text that was entered in the "text and tables" field for each year.


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El detective Ryan Wolfe, es un personaje ficticio interpretado por Jonathan Togo, perteneciente a la serie de la cadena CBS, CSI: Miami.

Experiencia
Ryan Wolfe es un ex - oficial de policía que es contratado después de que el veterano CSI, Tim Speedle es asesinado en el trabajo. Tiene un fuerte conocimiento de ciencias, ya que se especializó en química en la Universidad de Boston y ahora está haciendo una maestría en genética. Según lo revelado en el episodio 9x14, "Stoned Cold", en sus años jóvenes, Wolfe fue atormentado por un matón en la escuela. Wolfe había estado ahorrado su mesada para comprar un telescopio que el matón más tarde rompió cuando hizo que la bicicleta de Wolfe volcara. El matón aumenta el tormento por el tono de burla preguntando Wolfe, "Hey Wolfie, se puede ver a las estrellas ahora?" Wolfe recuerda esto a Eric Delko y este le pregunta a Ryan que pasó con el agresor, Wolfe dice que llegó a ser elegido como un representante. No está claro si el agresor fue elegido a nivel estatal o federal. Al final del episodio, Wolfe abre su armario para encontrar un regalo, un telescopio nuevo comprado por Delko.

Wolfe llama la atención del Teniente CSI Nivel 3, Horatio Caine, cuando en la escena de  un crimen, el muestra un especial cuidado en el mantenimiento de su arma, una Beretta 92, lo que refleja su obsesión con los detalles, siendo minucioso con estas cosas como resultado de un Trastorno Obsesivo - Compulsivo. Este constante control y mantenimiento del arma, le ganó el respeto de Horatio Caine, ya que su predecesor había fallado al disparar debido al poco mantenimiento de su arma.

Él es zurdo, como se puede ver en el episodio "Sex and Taxes" y además, en la séptima temporada se muestra que tiene miedo a las alturas.

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The effect of timber harvesting and mass movement on channel steps and reach morphology was examined in 16 headwater streams of SE Alaska. Channel steps formed by woody debris and boulders are significant channel units in headwater streams. Numbers, intervals, and heights of steps did not differ among management and disturbance regimes. A negative exponential relationship between channel gradient and mean length of step intervals was observed in the fluvial reaches (<0.25 unit gradient) of recent landslide and old-growth channels. No such relationship was found in upper reaches (≥0.25 gradient) where colluvial processes dominated. Woody debris and sediment recruitment from regenerating riparian stands may have obscured any strong relationship between step geometry and channel gradient in young alder, young conifer, and recent clear-cut channels. Channel reaches are described as pool-riffles, step-pools, step-steps, cascades, rapids, and bedrock. Geometry of channel steps principally characterized channel reach types. We infer that fluvial processes dominated in pool-riffle and step-pool reaches, while colluvial processes dominated in bedrock reaches. Step-step, rapids, and cascade reaches occurred in channels dominated by both fluvial processes and colluvial processes. Step-step reaches were transitional from cascades (upstream) to step-pool reaches (downstream). Woody debris recruited from riparian corridors and logging activities formed steps and then sequentially might modify channel reach types from step-pools to step-steps. Scour, runout, and deposition of sediment and woody debris from landslides and debris flows modified the distribution of reach types (bedrock, cascade, and step-pool) and the structure of steps within reaches. © 2002 Elsevier Science B.V. All rights reserved.


Some people go the extra mile to ensure their products are made responsibly. They use sustainable resources, treat animals kindly, protect our environment and develop innovative technologies that do more with less energy. You can trust a product was made this way when it has an eco-label. Click on the labels to learn what they mean.
An international network of businesses who donate an equivalent of 1% of annual sales to environmental nonprofits.
Certifies that electronic products have achieved more than 80% energy efficiency.
Look for PETA's cruelty-free bunny logo—products proudly displaying this logo are cruelty-free, meaning that they were produced without testing on animals.
A new type of company that uses the power of business to solve social and environmental problems.
Ensures that products were made in a facility compliant with gluten-free regulations. Not quite an eco-label but we include it because it keeps people with celiac disease and gluten allergies safe.
Assures that the food products have come from facilities that meet precise, objective standards for farm animal treatment.
A not-for-profit organization that certifies foams are made without ozone depleters, regulated phthalates, heavy metals and other harmful substances.
A set of guidelines for designers and manufacturers to improve their process via material health, material reutilization, renewable energy and carbon management, water stewardship, and social fairness.
Certifies that products fulfill the strictest requirements on emissions and pollutants, so you can use it without worries your home or office.
A voluntary program that helps businesses and individuals save money and protect our climate through superior energy efficiency.
A set of environmental criteria for technology products from design and production to energy use and recycling.
EWG VERIFIED™ recognizes products that meet the Environmental Working Group's strictest standards for your health.
Ensures that people work in safe conditions, protect the environment, build sustainable livelihoods, and earn additional money to empower and uplift their communities.
Certifies that a company has made a full commitment to fair trading practices, meaning each and every business decision is made with the well-being of artisans and farmers in mind.
Sets standards for responsible forest management to protect forests for future generations.
The world's leading processing standard for textiles made from organic fibers.
Certifies that a business adopts principles, policies and practices that improve the quality of life for their customers, employees, communities, and the planet.
A voluntary pledge that cosmetic, personal care, and/or household product companies make to clear animal testing from all stages of product development.
Promotes products made in the USA to raise awareness and standards for fair wages, environmental rules, child labor and human rights.
Choose the blue fish label to make sure the fish you eat can be traced back to a sustainable source.
Sets international standards for defining the naturalness of cosmetic products.
The mission of the Non-GMO Project is to preserve and build sources of non-GMO products, educate consumers, and provide verified non-GMO choices.
OEKO-TEX® enables consumers and companies to protect our planet by making responsible decisions. We share with our partners and clients the common goal of and commitment to high social, ethical and environmental standards.
Indicates that a farm, forest, or tourism enterprise has been audited to meet standards that require environmental, social, and economic sustainability.
Biobased products are derived from plants and other renewable agricultural, marine, and forestry materials.
Certifies that food is grown and processed according to federal guidelines addressing soil quality, animal raising practices, pest and weed control, and use of additives.
These products are backed by independent, third–party certification and meet EPA's specifications for water efficiency and performance.
Provide spaces for producers, exporters, importers, retailers, and consumers to connect and work together, exchange best practices, forge synergies and speak out for Fair Trade – all working towards a sustainable and fair global economy.


The dawn of the smart-phones has brought about not only the phenomena of increasing head injuries as people walk into lamp posts while sending text message to their friends and playing Angry Birds. More interestingly however, the mass adoption of these lifestyle devices has brought about a renegotiation with the physical landscape and the way we interact with our environments. Here are the top 5 Navigation Apps for Smart Phones.
Not only have smart phones effectively made the trusty old Sat Nav obsolete, they've left the old timer trudging off into the distanced red-faced and feeling dejected. You see, a smart phone just tell you where you are and where to go, it tells you where your friends think you should, or recommends places it thinks you want go , yep it can read your mind.
So what are the top five navigational apps out at the moment for the iPhone?
All the functionality of a full sized Tom Tom Sat Nav, in one tint app. This allows you to do everything you would with a regular sat nav, on your phone. You can set a location and have the app read out directions to you in a range of hilarious voices, as well as save locations.
Foursquare is as much a game as a social network. It allows you to publish your physical location to all your friends so they can keep tabs on your whereabouts 24/7 – if you so wish! Find great places in hometown and recommend venues to others by adding tips. You can also get vouchers and exclusive deals by becoming the 'major' of certain locations.
This is a great app for anxious parents. Simply get your kids to install the app on their phone and you can track where they are and whether or not they are using their phone. Only problem is you may have some difficulty convincing your kids to install this one!
Not strictly an app since it comes as standard with the phone, Google Maps is like a 'diet' sat nav. You can now determine exactly where you are on the map and plot a route to your desired location, particularly useful for on-foot journeys.


The siege in Sydney's Martin Place is still unfolding. As I write this a few people have managed to escape. Hopefully the rest will get out unharmed.
I've been keeping up to date on Twitter. And what's interesting is how callous and stupid many of the tweets are. Because the terrifying event is occurring in the Lindt store there, some of the more cynical tweeps are making jokes about chocolate.
This is not a #SydneySiege. It's a chocolate shop siege. For all we know it could be an angry customer who didn't like the chocolates.
If #SydneySiege isnt a lone wolf #IS attack, Then it seems like a wannabe terrorist jst had PMS Evidence → chocolate shop!
UPDATE: But even that very reasonable exhortation provokes mindless abuse from the trolls. Amazing.
How did I actually get hater attacks for saying I wish we didn't make jokes about an unresolved hostage situation? DON'T ACTUALLY ANSWER.
UPDATE: And still the "jokes" keep coming, all of them as lame as they are revolting.
After the tweet about Sean Abbott, we shouldn't really be surprised. But imagine the leftwit fury if this was done to Michael Brown!
Yes, the double standards they adhere to are amazing, although not at all surprising.
The wanker post are disgusting and not even remotely funny.


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Vatican Council II
JPII Catechesis on God the Father
JPII Catechesis on God the Son, Jesus
JPII Catechesis on God the Holy Spirit
JPII Catechesis on Salvation History
JPII Catechesis on Mary, Mother of God
JPII Catechesis on the Church
BXVI Catechesis on relationship between Christ & the Church
Francis Catechesis on the Church
Francis Catechesis on the Holy Mass
Francis Catechesis on Baptism & Confirmation
Mary, Mother of God
The Epiphany
The Transfiguration
The Passion
The Crucifixion
Jesus in the tomb
The Ascension
Mother of the Church
Jesus the Eternal High Priest
The Most Holy Trinity
The Most Sacred Heart of Jesus
The Exaltation of the Cross
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Divine Mercy Sunday 2011 & the Beatification of Pope John Paul II
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Pope Benedict XVI's Homily at Mass in Saint Peter's Square
1 May 2011 - in English, French, German, Italian, Polish, Portuguese & Spanish
"Dear Brothers and Sisters,
Six years ago we gathered in this Square to celebrate the funeral of Pope John Paul II. Our grief at his loss was deep, but even greater was our sense of an immense grace which embraced Rome and the whole world: a grace which was in some way the fruit of my beloved predecessor's entire life, and especially of his witness in suffering. Even then we perceived the fragrance of his sanctity, and in any number of ways God's People showed their veneration for him. For this reason, with all due respect for the Church's canonical norms, I wanted his cause of beatification to move forward with reasonable haste. And now the longed-for day has come; it came quickly because this is what was pleasing to the Lord: John Paul II is blessed!
I would like to offer a cordial greeting to all of you who on this happy occasion have come in such great numbers to Rome from all over the world – cardinals, patriarchs of the Eastern Catholic Churches, brother bishops and priests, official delegations, ambassadors and civil authorities, consecrated men and women and lay faithful, and I extend that greeting to all those who join us by radio and television.
Today is the Second Sunday of Easter, which Blessed John Paul II entitled Divine Mercy Sunday. The date was chosen for today's celebration because, in God's providence, my predecessor died on the vigil of this feast. Today is also the first day of May, Mary's month, and the liturgical memorial of St Joseph the Worker. All these elements serve to enrich our prayer, they help us in our pilgrimage through time and space; but in heaven a very different celebration is taking place among the angels and saints! Even so, God is but one, and one too is Christ the Lord, who like a bridge joins earth to heaven. At this moment we feel closer than ever, sharing as it were in the liturgy of heaven.
"Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe" (Jn 20, 29). In today's Gospel Jesus proclaims this beatitude: the beatitude of faith. For us, it is particularly striking because we are gathered to celebrate a beatification, but even more so because today the one proclaimed blessed is a Pope, a Successor of Peter, one who was called to confirm his brethren in the faith. John Paul II is blessed because of his faith, a strong, generous and apostolic faith. We think at once of another beatitude: "Blessed are you, Simon, son of Jonah! For flesh and blood has not revealed this to you, but my Father in heaven" (Mt 16, 17). What did our heavenly Father reveal to Simon? That Jesus is the Christ, the Son of the living God. Because of this faith, Simon becomes Peter, the rock on which Jesus can build his Church. The eternal beatitude of John Paul II, which today the Church rejoices to proclaim, is wholly contained in these sayings of Jesus: "Blessed are you, Simon" and "Blessed are those who have not seen and yet have come to believe!" It is the beatitude of faith, which John Paul II also received as a gift from God the Father for the building up of Christ's Church.
But our thoughts turn to another beatitude, one which appears in the Gospel before all others. It is the beatitude of the Virgin Mary, the Mother of the Redeemer. Mary, who had just conceived Jesus, was told by St Elizabeth: "Blessed is she who believed that there would be a fulfilment of what was spoken to her by the Lord" (Lk 1, 45). The beatitude of faith has its model in Mary, and all of us rejoice that the beatification of John Paul II takes place on this first day of the month of Mary, beneath the maternal gaze of the one who by her faith sustained the faith of the Apostles and constantly sustains the faith of their successors, especially those called to occupy the Chair of Peter. Mary does not appear in the accounts of Christ's resurrection, yet hers is, as it were, a continual, hidden presence: she is the Mother to whom Jesus entrusted each of his disciples and the entire community. In particular we can see how St John and St Luke record the powerful, maternal presence of Mary in the passages preceding those read in today's Gospel and first reading. In the account of Jesus' death, Mary appears at the foot of the cross (Jn 19, 25), and at the beginning of the Acts of the Apostles she is seen in the midst of the disciples gathered in prayer in the Upper Room (Acts 1, 14).
Also today's second reading speaks to us of faith. Saint Peter himself, filled with spiritual enthusiasm, points out to the newly-baptized the reason for their hope and their joy. I like to think how in this passage, at the beginning of his First Letter, Peter does not use language of exhortation; instead, he states a fact. He writes: "you rejoice", and he adds: "you love him; and even though you do not see him now, you believe in him and rejoice with an indescribable and glorious joy, for you are receiving the outcome of your faith, the salvation of your souls" (1 Pet 1, 6, 8-9). All these verbs are in the indicative, because a new reality has come about in Christ's resurrection, a reality to which faith opens the door. "This is the Lord's doing", says the Psalm (118, 23), and "it is marvelous in our eyes", the eyes of faith.
Dear brothers and sisters, today our eyes behold, in the full spiritual light of the risen Christ, the beloved and revered figure of John Paul II. Today his name is added to the host of those whom he proclaimed saints and blesseds during the almost 27 years of his pontificate, thereby forcefully emphasizing the universal vocation to the heights of the Christian life, to holiness, taught by the conciliar Constitution on the Church Lumen Gentium. All of us, as members of the people of God – bishops, priests, deacons, laity, men and women religious – are making our pilgrim way to the heavenly homeland where the Virgin Mary has preceded us, associated as she was in a unique and perfect way to the mystery of Christ and the Church. Karol Wojtyła took part in the Second Vatican Council, first as an auxiliary Bishop and then as Archbishop of Kraków. He was fully aware that the Council's decision to devote the last chapter of its Constitution on the Church to Mary meant that the Mother of the Redeemer is held up as an image and model of holiness for every Christian and for the entire Church. This was the theological vision which Blessed John Paul II discovered as a young man and subsequently maintained and deepened throughout his life. A vision which is expressed in the scriptural image of the crucified Christ with Mary, his Mother, at his side. This icon from the Gospel of John (19, 25-27) was taken up in the episcopal and later the papal coat-of-arms of Karol Wojtyła: a golden cross with the letter "M" on the lower right and the motto "Totus tuus", drawn from the well-known words of St Louis Marie Grignion de Montfort in which Karol Wojtyła found a guiding light for his life: "Totus tuus ego sum et omnia mea tua sunt. Accipio te in mea omnia. Praebe mihi cor tuum, Maria – I belong entirely to you, and all that I have is yours. I take you for my all. O Mary, give me your heart" (Treatise on True Devotion to the Blessed Virgin, 266).
In his Testament, the new Blessed wrote: "When, on 16 October 1978, the Conclave of Cardinals chose John Paul II, the Primate of Poland, Cardinal Stefan Wyszyński, said to me: 'The task of the new Pope will be to lead the Church into the third millennium'". And the Pope added: "I would like once again to express my gratitude to the Holy Spirit for the great gift of the Second Vatican Council, to which, together with the whole Church – and especially with the whole episcopate – I feel indebted. I am convinced that it will long be granted to the new generations to draw from the treasures that this Council of the 20th century has lavished upon us. As a Bishop who took part in the Council from the first to the last day, I desire to entrust this great patrimony to all who are and will be called in the future to put it into practice. For my part, I thank the Eternal Shepherd, who has enabled me to serve this very great cause in the course of all the years of my Pontificate." And what is this "cause"? It is the same one that John Paul II presented during his first solemn Mass in St Peter's Square in the unforgettable words: "Do not be afraid! Open, open wide the doors to Christ!" What the newly-elected Pope asked of everyone, he was himself the first to do: society, culture, political and economic systems he opened up to Christ, turning back with the strength of a titan – a strength which came to him from God – a tide which appeared irreversible.
By his witness of faith, love and apostolic courage, accompanied by great human charisma, this exemplary son of Poland helped believers throughout the world not to be afraid to be called Christian, to belong to the Church, to speak of the Gospel. In a word: he helped us not to fear the truth, because truth is the guarantee of liberty.
To put it even more succinctly: he gave us the strength to believe in Christ, because Christ is Redemptor hominis, the Redeemer of man. This was the theme of his first encyclical, and the thread which runs though all the others.
When Karol Wojtyła ascended to the throne of Peter, he brought with him a deep understanding of the difference between Marxism and Christianity, based on their respective visions of man. This was his message: man is the way of the Church, and Christ is the way of man. With this message, which is the great legacy of the Second Vatican Council and of its "helmsman", the Servant of God Pope Paul VI, John Paul II led the People of God across the threshold of the third millennium, which thanks to Christ he was able to call "the threshold of hope". Throughout the long journey of preparation for the great Jubilee he directed Christianity once again to the future, the future of God, which transcends history while nonetheless directly affecting it. He rightly reclaimed for Christianity that impulse of hope which had in some sense faltered before Marxism and the ideology of progress. He restored to Christianity its true face as a religion of hope, to be lived in history in an "Advent" spirit, in a personal and communitarian existence directed to Christ, the fullness of humanity and the fulfillment of all our longings for justice and peace.
Finally, on a more personal note, I would like to thank God for the gift of having worked for many years with Blessed Pope John Paul II. I had known him earlier and had esteemed him, but for 23 years, beginning in 1982 after he called me to Rome to be Prefect of the Congregation for the Doctrine of the Faith, I was at his side and came to revere him all the more. My own service was sustained by his spiritual depth and by the richness of his insights. His example of prayer continually impressed and edified me: he remained deeply united to God even amid the many demands of his ministry. Then too, there was his witness in suffering: the Lord gradually stripped him of everything, yet he remained ever a "rock", as Christ desired. His profound humility, grounded in close union with Christ, enabled him to continue to lead the Church and to give to the world a message which became all the more eloquent as his physical strength declined. In this way he lived out in an extraordinary way the vocation of every priest and bishop to become completely one with Jesus, whom he daily receives and offers in the Church.
Blessed are you, beloved Pope John Paul II, because you believed! Continue, we implore you, to sustain from heaven the faith of God's people. You often blessed us in this Square from the Apostolic Palace: Bless us, Holy Father! Amen."
Papa Benedetto's words at the Regina Caeli at the end of Mass
Divine Mercy Sunday, 1 May 2011 in St Peter's Square - in English, French, German, Italian, Portuguese & Spanish
"Je salue avec joie les Délégations officielles, les Autorités civiles et militaires des Pays francophones ainsi que les Cardinaux, les Evêques, les prêtres et les nombreux pèlerins venus à Rome pour la Béatification. Chers amis, que la vie et l'œuvre du Bienheureux Jean-Paul II soit source d'un engagement renouvelé au service de tous les hommes et de tout l'homme ! Je lui demande de bénir les efforts de chacun pour construire une civilisation de l'amour, dans le respect de la dignité de chaque personne humaine, créée à l'image de Dieu, avec une attention particulière à celle qui est plus fragile. Avec lui, marchez sur les traces lumineuses des bienheureux et des saints de vos Pays ! Que la Vierge Marie vous accompagne ! Avec ma bénédiction.
I greet the English-speaking visitors present at today's Mass. In a particular way I welcome the distinguished civil authorities and representatives of the world's nations who join us in honouring Blessed John Paul II. May his example of firm faith in Christ, the Redeemer of Man, inspire us to live fully the new life which we celebrate at Easter, to be icons of divine mercy, and to work for a world in which the dignity and rights of every man, woman and child are respected and promoted. Trusting in his prayers, I cordially invoke upon you and your families the peace of the Risen Saviour!
Mit großer Freude grüße ich heute alle Brüder und Schwestern deutscher Sprache, untern ihnen die Mitbrüder im Bischofsamt und die verschiedenen Regierungsdelegationen. Der selige Papst Johannes Paul II. steht uns noch lebendig vor Augen, wie er uns die Frische des Evangeliums verkündet und die Barmherzigkeit Gottes und die Liebe Christi in seinem Wirken verkörpert hat. Bitten wir den neuen Seligen, daß auch wir frohe Zeugen der Gegenwart Christi in der Welt sind. Der Frieden des Auferstandenen geleite euch auf allen Wegen.
Saludo con afecto a los peregrinos de lengua española, y en especial a los cardenales, obispos, sacerdotes, religiosos, seminaristas y numerosos fieles, así como a las delegaciones oficiales y autoridades civiles de España y Latinoamérica. El nuevo Beato recorrió incansable vuestras tierras, caracterizadas por la confianza en Dios, el amor a María y el afecto al Sucesor de Pedro, sintiendo en cada uno de sus viajes el calor de vuestra estima sincera y entrañable. Os invito a seguir el ejemplo de fidelidad y amor a Cristo y a la Iglesia, que nos dejó como preciosa herencia. Que desde el cielo os acompañe siempre su intercesión, para que la fe de vuestros pueblos se mantenga en la solidez de sus raíces y la paz y la concordia favorezcan el progreso necesario de vuestras gentes. Que Dios os bendiga.
Dirijo uma cordial saudação aos peregrinos de língua portuguesa, de modo especial aos Cardeais, Bispos, sacerdotes, religiosos e religiosas, e numerosos fiéis, bem como às Delegações oficiais dos países lusófonos vindos para a beatificação do Papa João Paulo II. A todos desejo a abundância dos dons do Céu por intercessão do novo Beato, cujo testemunho deve continuar a ressoar nos vossos corações e nos vossos lábios, repetindo como ele no início do seu pontificado: «Não tenhais medo! Abri as portas, melhor, escancarai as portas a Cristo!» Assim Deus vos abençoe!
Serdeczne pozdrowienie kieruję do Polaków biorących udział w tej beatyfikacji osobiście lub za pośrednictwem środków przekazu. Pozdrawiam Kardynałów, Biskupów, Kapłanów, Osoby konsekrowane i wszystkich Wiernych. Pozdrawiam przedstawicieli władz państwowych i terytorialnych, na czele z Panem Prezydentem. Wszystkich zawierzam wstawiennictwu waszego błogosławionego Rodaka, papieża Jana Pawła II. Niech wyprasza dla was i dla swej ziemskiej Ojczyzny dar pokoju, jedności i wszelkiej pomyślności.
Rivolgo infine il mio cordiale saluto al Presidente della Repubblica Italiana e al suo seguito, con uno speciale ringraziamento alle Autorità italiane per l'apprezzata collaborazione nell'organizzare queste giornate di festa. E come potrei qui non menzionare tutti coloro che hanno da tempo e con grande generosità preparato questo evento: la mia Diocesi di Roma con il Cardinale Vallini, il Comune della Città con il suo Sindaco, tutte le Forze dell'Ordine e le varie Organizzazioni, Associazioni, i numerosissimi volontari e quanti, anche singolarmente, si sono resi disponibili ad offrire il proprio contributo. Il mio riconoscente pensiero va anche alle Istituzioni e agli Uffici Vaticani. In tanto impegno vedo un segno di grande amore verso il Beato Giovanni Paolo II. Infine, rivolgo il mio più affettuoso saluto a tutti i pellegrini - raccolti qui in Piazza San Pietro, nelle strade adiacenti e in diversi altri luoghi di Roma - e a quanti sono uniti a noi mediante la radio e la televisione, i cui dirigenti e operatori non si sono risparmiati per offrire anche ai lontani la possibilità di partecipare a questo grande giorno. Ai malati e agli anziani, verso i quali il nuovo Beato si sentiva particolarmente vicino giunga uno speciale saluto. Ed ora, in spirituale unione con il Beato Giovanni Paolo II, ci rivolgiamo con amore filiale a Maria Santissima, affidando a lei, Madre della Chiesa, il cammino dell'intero Popolo di Dio."


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As Nick Fury once said it, trouble always comes around. Nowadays, the same thing can be said about safety whenever we're out there on the streets or even at the comfort of our couches at home. Trouble, crimes to be specific, will always find ways to get to you, one way or another. You see, criminals, whether the police will admit it or not, have become smarter nowadays as they have developed new tactics to be able to cause so much trouble with lesser chances of getting caught. Unfortunately for them, stricter criminal laws have been passed by various legislative bodies around the world to toughen up the fight against criminality. In fact, in some of the countries like the Philippines for example where President Rodrigo Duterte has been receiving a tremendous amount of criticisms, mostly from allies of the previous administration, due to the- according to his critics, alarming deaths of presumed criminals. While the president has been strongly criticized, the rest of the Filipino people has been thankful for the fact that the crime rate in the said country has been down for the first time in years. In addition to this, homeowners across the globe have become more aware of their safety and security especially at home that they decided to install home alarm systems which will alarm them in case of force entry into their homes.
Just last July of this year, Kingston police, along with the experts from the security industry in Melbourne in Down Under Australia, has noticed that more and more homeowners have started to rely on security-related technologies such as the home alarm systems and CCTV cameras to be able to protect themselves from any form of home theft and invasion. Aside from home alarms which can produce vociferous sounds in case of an unauthorized entry in your home, the local police has said that with the installation of more CCTV cameras in homes, investigating and solving crimes have become a little bit easier for them because with the clarity of recorded video files that the cameras can generate, identifying possible suspects just got easier and smarter.


We're really excited to preview the first music from the forthcoming RVLVR & Ben O'Neill project, out December 1st.
You all should be familiar with RVLVR from his releases on this label, as well as Seclusiais and other imprints. However, Ben O'Neill may be a name you don't recognize. Ben met James (aka RVLVR) when as undergrads at Philadelphia's University of the Arts; so this project has been a long time in the making. For the past few years, O'Neill has been flexing his guitar skills on the road with the likes of John Legend, Jill Scott and Kanye West (amongst others).
Check out the group's take on drum & bass (?) with Fade Away courtesy of Walmer Convenience.


Hunter created the Flow-Clik flow sensor to guard against these damages in the event of a rupture. The Flow-Clik can be programmed at a specified level of flow. It will shut down irrigation if it detects a flow rate higher than the programmed limit. Therefore, the amount of water loss and system damage is substantially reduced in the event of high external leakage.


What is it really like swimming with wild dolphins in the Bay of Islands?
For many people, the opportunity to swim with wild dolphins is likely to be right up there at the very top of their bucket list. However, in our modern tech heavy world, an augmented reality of what swimming with wild dolphins is like seems to have taken hold. At Carino Sailing and Dolphin Adventures, we believe that it is important to manage expectations and educate all of our guests about the true reality of encountering wild dolphins in their natural habitat and on their terms, not ours!
Dolphin encounters and interactions in the beautiful Bay of Islands are strictly regulated and controlled by a comprehensive set of rules and guidelines laid down by the Department of Conservation (DOC). The amount of time and the number of boats that may view or swim with dolphins is limited, as is the number of swimmers that may be in the water with them. Whether or not our guests actually get the opportunity to swim with dolphins is very much down to the dolphins themselves and the criteria set out by the DOC.
If the dolphins are resting, feeding or with their babies, we are not permitted to swim and nor would we wish to. Baby dolphins are a precious gift. Female dolphins give birth to one live calf every 5 to 6 years and sadly the mortality rate for baby dolphins is over 40%. Dolphin pregnancies last for around 12 months. Once the live calf is born it will feed exclusively on its mother's milk for up to 18 months, suckling milk every 5 to 10 minutes. The baby dolphin will remain with its mother for a further 3 to 4 years, learning vital social and feeding skills. It is essential that we do not interfere with this process in any way and therefore we will never swim with dolphins if there are babies in the pod.
If we do encounter a pod of dolphins without babies and who aren't resting or feeding, we will also consider the general behavior of the dolphins as well as the sea conditions before offering our guests the opportunity to swim. To ensure that our swimmers have a safe, respectful and enjoyable experience, we will only offer the chance to swim if the dolphins are displaying a willingness to interact with us. We will never chase, pursue or harass the dolphins in order to satisfy a guest's desire to swim.
If you are fortunate enough to have the opportunity to swim with dolphins, it is also worth considering exactly what this intense experience might be like. Too often we find that swimmers are unprepared, overly confident, anxious to get what they came for, or preoccupied with capturing the perfect social media shot. It is important to remember that open ocean swimming is very different to swimming in a pool or just off the beach. The water is likely to be much colder than you are used to, there are no "sides" to hold on to if you get tired, you wont be able to see the bottom, it will be hectic and if you are unfamiliar with using the mask, snorkel and fins, everything will probably feel very alien to you. For these reasons we urge all of our guests to be honest and realistic about their in-water abilities. The very best recipe for a positive experience is a strong, confident swimming ability, coupled with a mature and respectful attitude towards the dolphins.


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Carlson Wagonlit Travel to roll out Price Tracking software worldwide
Carlson Wagonlit Travel is rolling out Price Tracking worldwide, following a successful trial that delivered savings of up to two per cent of total travel spend.
The Price Tracking technology continually monitors prices for flights and hotel rooms, checking them against existing bookings.
Whenever it identifies savings, CWT cancels and re-books for less, providing clients with the best possible deals – and delivering significant savings.
"This technology can save our clients up to two per cent – that's a huge sum of money for any company with a sizeable travel programme," said Patrice Simon, Carlson Wagonlit Travel chief technology officer, strategy and new product development.
"Best of all, it's largely automated, running in the background 24/7, delivering savings every single day."
The service is the result of a partnership between Carlson Wagonlit Travel and Yapta, a provider of airfare and hotel price-tracking services.
Carlson Wagonlit Travel tested offerings from a variety of competing technology providers, and found Yapta consistently out-performed all others, in some cases by a wide margin.
Initial trials in the US were very successful, and the scope for savings across the rest of the world is even greater, given the fragmentation of offerings across Latin America, Europe and Asia Pacific.
Currently, Carlson Wagonlit Travel counsellors manually rebook approximately one in 20 itineraries with the same flight or hotel at a lower rate.
Fully automating the process will further improve that rate.
Carlson Wagonlit Travel is committed to an ambitious global expansion of Price Tracking, targeting thousands of clients around the world over the next 18 months.
Vietjet to launch new Ho Chi Minh-Osaka route in December
Radisson Blu Bali Uluwatu welcomes first guests in Indonesia
New leadership role for Seiffert at CWT
Carlson Wagonlit Travel appoints Frymire as chief financial officer
Carlson Wagonlit Travel expands in-app mobile booking options
Sharp takes up meetings leadership with Carlson Wagonlit Travel
Amadeus signs new Carlson Wagonlit Travel partnership
Amadeus signs new partners for NDC-X program
Carlson Wagonlit Travel launches Travel Consolidator analytics tool
O'Brien joins Carlson Wagonlit Travel as chief technology transformation officer


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Far Cry 5's promise: "Go in any direction, meet any character, partake in any story"
The Far Cry series prides itself on freedom of approach – the ability to assess a situation, weigh your options and decide, 'Yes, I'm going to ride an elephant into that military base'. But its stories have always been linear – told to you in chunks in the fashion of GTA.
Read more: the best PC sandbox games.
No longer. In a major narrative shake-up, Far Cry 5 has chopped up its story with a machete so that it's "entirely up to you."
"We've always been pushing for big, expansive open-worlds, but the narrative has been fairly linear," Far Cry 5 executive producer and creative director Dan Hay told us. "Why couldn't we just do that with the entire game? Why couldn't we make it so you could go in any direction, meet any character, partake in any story? You could play it completely differently and it was entirely up to you how you authored it."
When you start Far Cry 5, you will have one very specific moment with the Father, the game's radical preacher villain. And, from then on, you pick the order of events.
"If you decide to go south you might meet Nick, you might meet Pastor Jerome, you might meet Casey," Hay expands. "There's a bunch of different characters down there."
But if you headed north, your first ten hours with the game would be utterly different – coloured by different animals, different people, different segments of story.
"It's designed so that you author your own story," Hay finishes.
Here's everything we know about Far Cry 5, which comes out on the far-too-distant February 27th, 2018.
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Filipinas compitió en los Juegos Olímpicos de la Juventud 2018 en Buenos Aires, Argentina, celebrados entre el 6 y el 18 de octubre de 2018. La delegación estuvo conformada por 7 atletas en 6 disciplinas y obtuvo una medalla de plata en las justas.

Medallero

Disciplinas

Tiro con arco
Filipinas clasificó a una arquera en esta disciplina.

Individual femenino - Nicole Marie Tagle

Esgrima
Filipinas clasificó a un esgrimador, Lawrence Tan, basado en su desempeño en el Campeonato Mundial Junior de Esgrima de Verona, 2018.

Golf
Filipinas clasificó a los golfistas Yuka Saso y Carl Jano Corpus.

Vela
Filipinas clasificó un bote para esta disciplina.

IKA Twin masculino - Christian Tio

Natación
Filipinas clasificó a la nadadora Nicole Justine Oliva para competir en cuatro eventos relacionados con esta disciplina.

Femenino - Nicole Justine Oliva

Tenis de mesa
Filipinas clasificó un tenista en base a su desempeño en la eliminatoria "Road to Buenos Aires – Oceania" llevada a cabo de Rarotonga.

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Países en los Juegos Olímpicos de la Juventud 2018
Deporte en Filipinas
Filipinas en 2018


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The economics of copyright expiry
I plan to write a lot more about this in the coming weeks. But for now I want to respond to Andrew Gowers' and Andy Burnham's debate in the FT.
Reading either article in isolation, you might be convinced. On the one hand by Gowers' assertion that extending copyright creates no economic incentive to create new work, and incurs administrative costs out of proportion with the benefit to the owners. On the other, by Burnham's sympathetic picture of retired vegan musicians losing their sole income and seeing their work abused in foie gras advertisements.
Maybe I'm betraying my inclination in this argument. But despite broadly agreeing with Gowers on this, I do understand the political logic and compassionate aspect of Burnham's position.
Economically it's a tricky issue, and Burnham is actually on the side of economic orthodoxy. Economists tend to consider that property rights are an incentive for people to create, husband and market their assets. They also assume that transaction costs are minor, or can be reduced to the point where they don't matter; so that property is allocated to those who can generate the most value from it.
However, how would you go about tracking down the various owners of a 60-year-old track and negotiating compensation with them in order to use a sample in a club remix? Just imagine the logistics. And then work out what return you would make from the remix. It would never be worth it.
So, contrary to common economic assumptions, the transaction costs in many cases probably outweigh the economic return from using the property. This makes property rights an inefficient way to generate economic value.
The case of publicly owned geographical data is another prominent recent example of this phenomenon. There is a campaign to release Ordnance Survey-owned data into the public domain. The premise is that it could generate up to £1 billion of economic value if available for use without the restrictions applied by Ordnance Survey (which earns only around £100 million under the current ownership rules and business model).
Note the mooted "death of the classical music industry" mentioned at Marginal Revolution. Under this scenario, the vast majority of recordings will never be heard or re-released because digital rights are owned by so many people that it is prohibitive to incur the cost of clearing them.
But it seems that the majority of Andy Burnham's objectives could be achieved without the need to extend copyright. A continued income to older musicians can be provided without restricting individual usage of individual tracks. A reasonable levy on either the sale of certain digital technology, the commercial release or performance of music, or simply a tax-financed fund, would substitute for all royalty revenue that would otherwise be earned in this way.
In order to make a good policy decision we would need to understand the amount of money at stake. I can't imagine we are talking about more than a few million pounds a year - the PPL now collects just under £100 million a year for all recordings, of which the vast majority must be from the last fifty years.
Another figure given by Charlie McCreevy recently is an average of €2,000 per musician per year (I could convert it into pounds but it's a bit of an empty gesture these days). One could imagine that there may be as many as a few thousand session musicians in the UK of the relevant age, but not many more.
There are many economic situations where we give up perfect equity in return for much greater efficiency: a fixed price for all first-class stamps, whether sending 5 miles or 500; publicly funded entry to museums and art galleries; a fixed £25/month cable TV package covering 40 channels, regardless of which ones you watch. In all these cases, the extra cost of administering the exact apportionment of charges would far outweigh the benefits of improved incentives.
It looks to me like recorded music - at least of a certain age - obeys the same rule. I certainly feel there must be a more rigorously demonstrable, less ad hoc formula than "50 years later", and this must apply also to the distribution of money from any fund that's set up (should it be based on the musician's earnings in the 49th year?). Much more to explore on this in future postings.
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Theories of one versus many
Bailouts for writers but not for cars
Who and how to rescue
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The biggest mistake of my life also led to the best decision I've ever made.
In 2013, a former employer of mine was sliding into bankruptcy. I managed to somehow hornswoggle my way into a graphic designer position at a community news organization -- but the commute was an hour and a half away from my Annex apartment. I couldn't do it; I didn't have the stomach for the commute and quickly resigned a couple weeks in.
This was absolutely a bad decision, and one that I think a lot about. It was the biggest mistake of my life -- over the course of eight months in 2013 (from May to December) I desperately applied around and found absolutely nothing.
A failed journalist with no "transferrable skills" wasn't exactly a standout in a Toronto job market thrumming with talented people.
2014 was a rough year for me. Working on contract, moving to technical support at a company that was an absolutely poor fit. I had made this bed, and now I had to lie in it.
That's when I discovered programming -- and made the absolute best decision of my life. Saving up half my paycheque every pay period, I saved just enough money to attend HackerYou. I was able to sneak in by the skin of my teeth, getting accepted three weeks before the cohort started.
My post-HackerYou career has been incredible -- see for yourself. Because I made the biggest mistake of my life and learned a lesson, which forced me to re-evaluate where I was going in my career -- and make a change for the better.


Denzel Washington is a salesman for death in Eugene O'Neill's boozy drama.
Denzel Washington weaponizes his famous charm in The Iceman Cometh. Eugene O'Neill's gloomy 1946 drama needs all the energy it can get: The play begins just before dawn in a run-down 1912 New York saloon, whose regulars have passed out at their tables from yet another night of drinking their hopes away. Into their placid river of denial dives Washington's grinning, glad-handing Hickey, their beloved old crony. But Hickey isn't on another bender; he has gone around the bend. With the drive of a traveling salesman and the zeal of a preacher's son, both of which he happens to be, he cajoles them to accept truths that he says will set them free—if only paradoxically, by making them happier in their cages.
Over the course of nearly four hours, The Iceman Cometh chronicles the effects of Hickey's disruption with almost hypnotic repetition, exhaustively tracing parallel arcs for almost all of its 16 supporting characters, including widower and shut-in Harry (a bluff Colm Meaney) and the ashen post-anarchist "foolosopher" Larry (David Morse). The language is stiff with dated slang; key terms like "pipe dream" recur literally dozens of times.
Yet the cumulative effect of this handsomely decrepit production is bracing. Director George C. Wolfe keeps things moving at a quick clip; not all of the bigger character choices pay off—and some of the actors are hard to hear or understand—but there are performances to savor. (I especially admired Michael Potts as a crapped-out gambler, Bill Irwin as a slick-handed ex-carny and Tammy Blanchard as a hard-nosed streetwalker.) In the end, however, it is Washington's show, and he seizes it with both hands in Hickey's climactic monologue, an aria of eroding self-deception boldly delivered straight to the audience. He takes us into his confidence, even as it crumbles.
Bernard B. Jacobs Theatre (Broadway). By Eugene O'Neill. Directed by George C. Wolfe. With Denzel Washington, David Morse, Colm Meaney, Michael Potts, Bill Irwin, Tammy Blanchard. Running time: 3hrs 50mins. Two intermissions and one pause.


As former military chief Mladic boycotts today's UN war crimes court after facing charges of genocide in Bosnia, we bring you the disturbing lost images of Srebrenica; key evidence in this turbulent case.
Everyone remembers the harrowing footage of the Srebrenica massacre shot by Zoran Petrovic, the only cameraman to capture the event. But this fascinating documentary shows that the very worst of his pictures never reached our TV screens. Key scenes were 'lost' or blacked over. Now his incriminating material is available for scrutiny. Chief prosecutor at the War Crimes Tribunal, Mark Harmon, affirms: "It's very important footage. Pictures do not lie".


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Choosing which school to attend can be a complex decision, full of tough choices. Will you stay close to home, or study abroad? Stick with your friends, or forge your own path?
Using a tried-and-tested approach might help you to make a choice more confidently. In business, we often apply a model developed by renowned educator and adventurer, Karl Rohnke. He says that every decision and action we take can be placed in one of three zones: comfort, stretch or panic.
Comfort zone: where things feel familiar and easy.
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This is the zone where you take actions and decisions for the first time or in new ways, and maybe meet some new people along the way. It's a place where you can sometimes feel out of your depth, but you're likely to feel stimulated and inspired too. Decisions and actions taken in the stretch zone can increase your skills and experience.
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This is the zone where any steps you take could feel like giant leaps into the unknown. Actions and decisions taken in the panic zone often have unpredictable outcomes, and can feel like a step too far in the present moment.
As we gain experience and knowledge, our decisions and actions will move across zones. For example, an exam you feel unprepared for might sit in your panic zone, then move into your stretch zone after a good revision session. Dividing your time between the comfort and stretch zones allows you to feel confident, while gaining a sense of personal growth.
Right now, making a commitment to an undergraduate program might sit in your panic zone, particularly if it involves a big move away from home.
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Day one of undergrad is day one for EVERYONE. So don't worry—every other student will be saying goodbye to family, friends and the place they call home too, especially if they're studying overseas.
It also means that every student will be looking to make friends as soon as they arrive too, and your campus will support that. Welcome Week involves various social events, helping you to meet your classmates. You'll also get chance to join a host of clubs and societies around things you're passionate about or have always wanted to try.
You'll soon build a new network of friends to explore campus life with.
2. What if my friends choose a different school to me?
Embarking on an undergraduate degree marks a natural shifting point in our lives, just like leaving for high school or elementary school did before now. And just as you may have felt sad about going to study somewhere different to your friends at each of those points, it also made room for new friends to come in.
Choosing somewhere close to home or where your friends are going could certainly make your first couple of weeks feel more comfortable. But you'll soon build a new set of friends and interests wherever you go. And if you choose to study on an international campus, you'll be learning about different cultures and making friends from around the globe.
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University-level studies can feel like a whole new ball game. But you ARE ready for it.
If you apply and are accepted to Hult, we're confident you already have the Hult DNA. Your open mind, bold spirit, and resourceful attitude will equip you for whatever challenges may come. And if you need any help or advice during your studies, you'll have a network of support on campus. Our faculty also have an open-door policy, so you can always find the help you need.
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But it's not been happening. I've doodled a bit, painted a bit, fiddled around with markers and paints and ended up really just making a mess. Which is fine. I'm ok with that. A day spent trying new things and "playing" is always a good thing. It would be nice to produce something you're happy with though.
I'm a bit obsessed with the blog Elvie Studio. Lori Vliegen's art work is amazing. I am inspired to create and make pretty things – water colour pages with quotes and cute designs. But I am a long way off doing anything as good as hers. I have been practicing my water colour technique but I am still a bit rubbish at it. My Mum tried showing me the other day (because there is nothing artistic that she can't do) but I am still a bit cack-handed and not quite getting things right. But I will. I am determined. I just have to practice and keep at it. I have to learn not to expect to be perfect at things straight off the bat. And I need to stop swearing so much when I fail.
I have decided to make my Art Journal more of record of my attempts and failures. I have been hesitating putting anything in it because I don't want to spoil the pages, but I guess even messes and mistakes have their place in a journey.
So here's a few of my attempts from today. I was mostly just messing about, as I said. Just putting pen or brush to paper – even if it didn't work out, at least I was doing something. I won't feel like I have wasted time if I have at least worked out what not to do. That's what I'm telling myself anyway.
I like this little tag. It is simple and sweet and it worked.
This could have been ok but I got a little heavy-handed with the paint and lost the plot.
But it's alright and will do as a tag for a gift or card.
I don't even know what I was doing with these leaves. I just wanted to use up some green paint on my palette. Again, might use it on the front of a card or make it into a tag or something.
The artistic process has no rhyme or reason (apparently).
So, a funny, wobbly-throwing, not getting things right kind of day. But that's ok. I will keep trying. I am still getting used to the idea of doing things for me. Just because I want to make something. Not for selling or because someone asked me to make something for them. For me.
Hope you have had a successful, enjoyable day, doing whatever you love doing.
Thank you 🙂 I am a fan of blobs – they fix everything ha ha.


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Barqa () was a Palestinian Arab village located 37 km north of Gaza near the modern-day Israeli city of Ashdod. It was referred to as Barka by the Greeks and Bareca by the Romans during their rule over the ancient Philistine city. In 1945, the village had a population of 890 and total land area of 5,206 dunums.

It was occupied and depopulated  on May 13, 1948 during Operation Barak, a Yishuv offensive in southern Palestine just prior to the outbreak of the 1948 Arab-Israeli War.

History
It is likely that Barqa was built on the site of the Greek town of Barka, which the Romans called Baraca. The villagers were Muslim, and around the village mosque were a number of tombs that they referred to as the tombs of Shaykh Muhammad, Shaykh Zarruq, and the prophet (al-nabi) Barq.

A burial chamber with four arcosolia have been  uncovered at Barqa. It contained three pottery lamps, dated to the late Roman or Byzantine era, and two Byzantine glass vessels, dated to  fifth century CE.  The village was a major centre in the Byzantine era. In 511 CE a richly decorated  basilica church was built, with a mosaic floor. It was in use until the seventh century.

Ottoman era
Barqa, like the rest of Palestine, was incorporated into the Ottoman Empire in 1517, and in the census of 1596, the village was located  in the nahiya of Gazza in the liwa of Gazza. It had a population of 12 households, all Muslim. They paid a fixed  tax-rate of 25% on agricultural products, including wheat, barley, summer crops, fruit trees and sesame;  the taxes totalled 2,100  akçe.

In 1838,  Robinson noted Burka as a Muslim village  located in the Gaza district.

In 1863  Victor Guérin visited and noted, lying beside a well, several trunks of greyish marble. A   kubbeh  was here, dedicated to Neby Barak, and surrounded by tombs. An Ottoman village list from about 1870 showed that   Burka  had  a population of 202, with a total of  80  houses, though the population count included men, only.

In 1882  the PEF's Survey of Western Palestine described Barqa as an "ordinary" village, with the tomb of Neby Burk.

British Mandate of Palestine

In the 1922 census of Palestine conducted by the British Mandate authorities, Burqa had a population of 448 inhabitants, all Muslims, which had increased in  the 1931 census  to 600, 593 Muslim, 6 Jews and 1 Christian, in a total of in 123 houses.

In  the 1945 statistics the population of Barqa consisted of  890, all Muslims,  and the  land area was 5,206  dunams, according to an official land and population survey. Of this, 667 dunams were designated for  citrus and bananas,
47 for plantations and irrigable land, 4,031 for cereals, while 26 dunams were built-up areas.

1948 and aftermath
Barqa became depopulated on May 13, 1948, after a military assault by the Yishuv's  Giv'ati forces. The area was subsequently incorporated into the State of Israel. In 1992, the village remaining structures on the village land were described:
"Two houses remain standing on the site. One serves as a warehouse; it is made of concrete and has a covered portico on two sides. The other, a stone house with rectangular doors and windows and a flat roof, stands deserted in the midst of wild vegetation. The site is overgrown with weeds interspersed with cactuses and eucalyptus and palm trees. Israelis cultivate the land around the site"

References

Bibliography

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External links
 Barqa, at Palestine Remembered
  Barqa, Zochrot
Survey of Western Palestine, Map 16:   IAA, Wikimedia commons
 Tomb of the Neby Burk (Barq)
 Barqa from the Khalil Sakakini Cultural Center

District of Gaza
Arab villages depopulated prior to the 1948 Arab–Israeli War


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