By Marc Poirier on 08/15/2012 in "FBPPC Blogs"
The story was almost so sensational as to be straight out of a Fox News report. "Facebook Accused of Click Fraud!" the headlines roared. The Internet let out an audible gasp.
And then we read the actual story and saw that there wasn't much more than just that: an accusation that wasn't even leveled at Facebook.
One thing we didn't get from the accusers was much in the way of data. Most of us online marketers are skeptics to begin with, so add a healthy dose of no data to this and you're going to find someone in this group who needs to find out a little more info. This story probably does a lot to debunk most of what was said – or does so, at least, until more data is shared.
I guess the question is, who cares? Or, more precisely, why is this even a story? Why wasn't this completely ignored?
I'll tell you why: Because Facebook seems to do everything it can, at every turn, to prevent us from putting our faith in them.
Seriously, Facebook, it's hard enough to get anyone to look over here at our ads without you making it harder.
The concern is really about how Facebook is handling these allegations. The thing is, we know so little about how Facebook handles click fraud, and what little we do know is information that we got ONLY because this story went viral.
Google tells us what they do, and we can see it in action. In fact, you'll see a discrepancy in your Analytics because at the end of a 24-hour period, Google cleans up what it perceives to be fraudulent clicks on AdWords, and these changes are not reflected in Analytics, resulting in a discrepancy. That's actually a good thing. It shows you it's working. Google is very transparent about how they handle click fraud. So is Yahoo!/Bing.
It's evident that Facebook does something of this nature; we know they have the mechanics in place, and we can be reasonably certain that they're telling the truth when they say they have a click fraud algorithm of some sort, but why so mysterious for so long?
Why hasn't Facebook always told us exactly how they're handling click fraud from the beginning? This is something that every online marketer is concerned about, and with each passing day Facebook's stock is declining, due, one might imagine, to a lack of trust of the product. What Facebook needs to do is start giving us more reasons to trust them.
This is going to, I believe, be a huge part of whether or not Facebook can succeed now and into the future. Facebook needs to start understanding the real power of their advertising platform, and start selling their product based on actual statistics, not on ethereal promises that can't be quantified.
We live in a digital world in which every aspect of what we do online can, in some way, be measured. Perhaps a Facebook advertising campaign doesn't garner, on its own, an ROI that one could be proud to report on. But follow the individuals that saw that ad, interacted with it in some way and didn't convert, and see if they don't convert somewhere down the line because they ended up searching for the product later on.
This is a measurable result, and part of a larger strategy that Facebook needs to get on board with. They should not be promoting themselves in a vacuum, but giving us a reason to advertise based on our overall marketing strategies.
There's a long, long road ahead for Facebook. They're doing a lot of things right for marketers, but trust is not something that Facebook has been good at acquiring – and that's because of their own actions. This click fraud story would be no story at all if Facebook weren't so much fun to take shots at; if people weren't so bound and determined to find a way to bring the giant to its knees; if people didn't revel in the failure of Zuckerberg and Co. so very gleefully.
The job for Facebook is to start getting us to trust them. They are going to have to open up and be a little more transparent about how it is that they're protecting, not just the users of their product, but the advertisers who give them money. Because we all know that the first step in getting a sale is to establish trust.


And managed to fall on his head Di I Siny, always breaks all his plans that it became increasingly difficult to implement. The hardest year for a young businessman. But... That's so sad and would have ended this story before it even started, if it weren't for the solar character of Yan Guan, who decided to help Di I Siny in difficult times.


This beautiful one bedroom ground floor apartment (named Oyster Catcher) is located in the quiet village of Pityme, ideally situated a few minutes drive from the stunning Cornish coast and beaches of Rock, Daymer Bay and Polzeath. The property boasts its own private patio and outdoor dining space overlooking the owner's mature gardens. The apartment is conveniently located near to local shops, including a deli, butchers, bakers, newsagents, post office, fish mongers, and Spa. The St Enedoc golf course, local sailing club, surf schools and the passenger ferry to Padstow are also minutes away, so there is plenty to occupy visitors within the immediate vicinity. The area is well-known for a wide range of great places to eat, including award-winning, Michelin starred food; Nathan Outlaw, Rick Stein and Paul Ainsworth all have restaurants close by. The Pityme Inn pub is located within easy walking distance of the apartment.
Oyster Catcher is located within the owner's newly renovated home and has been furnished and equipped to the highest standard. The apartment benefits from a separate entrance, ensuring complete privacy for guests.
Oyster Catcher benefits from a fully equipped kitchen, including built-in oven and microwave, dishwasher, fridge and washing machine. In addition, the property contains a smart TV, DVD player,an ipod-docking station and free wifi. All linen and towels are provided and changed weekly.
We moved to Cornwall in 2015 and have lovingly renovated and modernised this large 1970s property into a light,airy and contemporary home which we now share with our Goldendoodle puppy, Martha. Having enjoyed many happy holidays on the North Cornish coast, we are delighted to be able to offer the apartment to people who enjoy the rugged beauty and tranquility of being near the sea. We have enjoyed creating a peaceful and homely getaway and hope you enjoy it too!
A tarmac pathway leads from the parking space to the entrance to the apartment. There are no steps.
Helena, Ann and Mattie were very welcoming. The apartment has everything you need, was beautifully decorated and very clean, and is in a great location to explore Cornwall from. The welcome bottle of prosecco was a lovely touch. Will definitely stay here again.
Lovely apartment with everything you need and great location.
We have had a lovely few days in this lovely apartment. The apartment is very well equipped with everything you need. It's also in a really good location for visiting Cornwall.
The owners are very welcoming and always available for a chat if you need any advice.
Thank you for a great review. We are really pleased you enjoyed your break and were able to do quite a lot of coastal walking whilst here. Thank you for leaving the apartment in an immaculate condition, it is very much appreciated. We would love to welcome you back to Oystercatcher when you are next in Cornwall.
Perfect location and beautiful apartment.
Wonderful apartment, good location and great hosts.
We were made to feel very welcome as soon as we arrived. The apartment was perfect for us, with modern, top quality fixtures and fittings and a nice homely feel.
Location was ideal to explore beautiful Cornwall and we enjoyed the walk down to Rock and the ferry across to Padstow.
Thanks to Helena and Ann for making us feel so at home and Mattie for saying "Hello" at the gate most evenings.
We would recommend to everyone and hope to return again in the future.
We absolutely loved our stay. The apartment was delightful - tastefully decorated and beautifully and thoughtfully furnished with a charming little private patio where we could bask in the evening sunshine. The perfect base from which to explore the delights of this lovely part of Cornwall. Our hosts could not have been more welcoming and kind and we would not hesitate to recommend their apartment to anyone.
Thank you for such generous comments. We are so pleased you both had a lovely holiday; you were fantastic guests and we would love to welcome you back whenever you are in the area again.
My partner Colette and I stayed for a week in this lovely little apartment with our two dogs last week and we were delighted with our stay. Helena and Ann are very welcoming & hospitable, the apartment was immaculately clean, well presented just as the photographs and the garden was beautiful - perfect to sit out for meals and a glass of wine. The kitchen is very extensive, very well equipped, offering everything you could possibly want to cook yourself proper meals.
Location is perfect - two second drive to shops, Rock Beach and I would highly recommend this place to anybody looking for a perfect holiday base for the perfect Cornwall holiday.


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Muerte de una gaviota – faf.
There is pandemonium among the seagulls, great events seem to be taking place. Before my arrival a flock of them had come in from the sea and settled on the house, building their nests in the chimneys and the valley of the roof. Why they chose this spot I do not know; perhaps they liked the calm and quiet of our little square. They are anything but calm themselves. From earliest morning the sky is filled with their tumult. They clamour and shriek and make an angry rattling with beaks agape. Their favourite noise, however, is a staccato yacking, like a hyena's laugh or baboon's hoot, that decelerates gradually while simultaneously rising in pitch. Even at night they are restless, I hear them flopping about on the roof, grumbling and threatening each other. At dawn every day they set up a deafening racket. Why such uproar? Surely the mating season is well over—certainly there are young already being taught to fly, ugly, awkward, dun-coloured things that waddle to the edge of the roof and perch there, peering down at the drop and swallowing hard, or looking all about with a show of unconcern, before launching themselves out shakily on to the air currents. At certain times their elders all together will take to the sky and wheel and wheel in majestic slow circles above the house, screaming, whether in panic or wild exultation it is impossible to know.
Yesterday I looked up from where I was sitting and saw one of the adults standing outside on the window sill. I am always startled by the great size of these birds when seen up close. They are so menacingly graceful in flight, yet when they land they become sadly comical, perched on their spindly legs and ridiculous flat feet, like the botched prototype of some far more handsome, far more well-fashioned species. This one just stood there beyond the glass, doing nothing except opening wide its beak in what seemed a yawn or a soundless cry. Curious, I put down my book and went outside. The bird did not fly away at my approach, but held its place, shifting ponderously from foot to foot and regarding me with wary deprecation out of one large, pale, lustrous eye. I saw at once what the matter was: on the ground below the window sill a dead fledgeling lay. It must have fallen from the roof, or failed in flight and plummeted to earth and broken its neck. Its look was glazed already, its plumage dulled. The parent, for I have no doubt that is what it was, made its beak gape again in that odd way, with no sound. It might have been a threat, to warn me off, but I am inclined to believe it was a sign of distress. Even seagulls must have expressions of sorrow or of joy recognisable at least to their fellows. Probably they see our visages as just as blank and inexpressive as theirs seem to us. A man numb with inexplicable misery, for instance, I am sure to them would be merely another dead-eyed dullard gazing pitilessly upon a scene of incommensurable loss. The bird was male, I think; I think, yes, a father.
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[Traducción de Damià Alou: Hay un pandemónium entre las gaviotas, parece que están teniendo lugar grandes sucesos. Antes de mi llegada, una bandada había venido desde el mar para instalarse en la casa, construyendo sus nidos en la chimeneas y en el tejado. No sé por qué han elegido ese sitio; quizás les gusta la tranquilidad y el silencio de nuestra pequeña plaza. Pero ellas son todo menos tranquilas. Desde la primera hora de la mañana llenan el cielo con su tumulto. Gritan y chillan, y con los picos abiertos arman un furioso estruendo. Su ruido favorito, sin embargo, es una cháchara en staccato, como la risa de la hiena o el grito de un babuino, que se hace más lento a medido que adquiere un tono más agudo. Cada noche están inquietas, las oigo aletear sobre el tejado, gruñen y se amenazan unas a otras. Cada día, al alba, arman un barullo ensordecedor. ¿Por qué ese escándalo? Problablemente la época de celo ha acabado hace tiempo, aunque desde luego hay algunas lo bastante jóvenes para estar aprendieron aún a volar, unos bichos feos, de color pardo, que caminan torpemente hasta el borde del tejado y ahí se quedan, escrutando la caída y tragando saliva, o mirando a su alrededor con un aire de indiferencia, antes de lanzarse temblorosos a las corrientes de aire. En algunas ocasiones sus mayores se reúnen y echan a volar dando vueltas y vueltas en majestuosos círculos sobre la casa, gritando, es imposible saber si de pánico o de desaforada alegría.


Phones are pretty much almost the same in what they offer nowadays at various price points. The Hot 7 according to Infinix is an upgraded smartphone for optimized performance.
The HOT 7 features a 6.0" 18:9 Infinity screen, a Qualcomm Snapdragon processor, a powerful two rear-facing cameras of 13MP and 2MP lens adopting, Face Unlock capability, and a 4000mAh battery capacity. The device also ran on AndroidTM 8.0 (Oreo) operating system.
The Infinix HOT 7 pro, on the other hand, comes with a 6.2″ HD + notch display, a Quad-core MediaTek MT6580A processor, 16GB/32GB built-in storage expandable up to 128GB with a memory card.
The 1GB variant is an Android Go device which is basically a stripped down version of Android designed to run on entry-level smartphones with 1GB of RAM or less. It comes with a single 13-megapixel rear camera while the 2GB variant comes with Android 8.1 and dual 13-megapixel + 2-megapixel camera. Both phones have an 8-megapixel front shooter for selfies and are powered by 4000mAh battery.
The Hot 7 comes in four colours: Midnight Black, Champagne Gold, Aqua Blue, and the first gradient design – Cosmic Purple.
The phone will retail at Ksh. 9,999 for the 1GB/16GB variant and Ksh. 10,999 for the 2GB/32GB variant.


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Donald Trump's luck has run out
Lawrence MartinPublic affairs columnist
Special to The Globe and Mail
Published September 26, 2019 Updated September 27, 2019
Early in his administration when Donald Trump fired Secretary of State Rex Tillerson, calling him "dumb as a rock," Mr. Tillerson reacted calmly, but made a telling point.
"So often, the President would say 'here's what I want to do and here's how I want to do it' and I would have to say to him, 'Mr. President I understand what you want to do but you can't do it that way. It violates the law.'"
"It violates the law." Mr. Tillerson recognized right away that this was a President without a moral compass. Mr. Trump's backstory had amply demonstrated that. His actions in office would do the same.
But with his rhinoceros hide and some fantastically fortuitous twists of fate, Mr. Trump has endured. His call to the Ukraine President, tantamount to blackmail, came right after he had skirted serious culpability in the Mueller inquiry into Russian collusion. It surely increased his sense of invincibility, as had his surviving the Access Hollywood tape and so much else.
Whistle-blower alleges Trump's envoys met with Ukrainian officials over President's demands for Biden probe
Key takeaways from Trump's phone call with Ukrainian President Volodymyr Zelensky
Trump asked Ukraine's President to investigate Joe Biden's activities, rough transcript shows
When he said Wednesday that it was "a joke" that he could be impeached for the call to the Ukrainian leader, he probably meant it. He had lowered the bar so much that he thought his alleged pressing of a foreign government to investigate Joe Biden was no big deal.
Remarkably, he thought the transcript of the telephone call would clear him and released it. He couldn't see a smoking gun there. Former president Richard Nixon, we recall, didn't release the smoking gun Watergate tape until the Supreme Court ordered him to do so.
You reap what you sow. It seemed inevitable that at some point the President who goes rogue all the time would go rogue once too often. At some point the Soprano President would run out of luck. It's happening now.
For only the fourth time in America's nearly 250-year history, the House of Representatives has started an inquiry into whether the President should be impeached. Senator Elizabeth Warren, writing on Twitter, captured the seriousness of the charges. "Donald Trump solicited foreign interference in our elections from the Oval Office. He attempted to cover up his actions. And his appointees intervened, against the law, to attempt to suppress this whistle-blower complaint."
Mr. Trump will maintain the support of his base in railing from the rooftops against the charges. Republicans will maintain it's just another witch hunt and the Mueller result will assist them in making that contention. "Nothing has changed," said White House press secretary Stephanie Grisham, "with the release of this complaint, which is nothing more than a collection of third-hand accounts of events and cobbled-together press clippings – all of which shows nothing improper."
But their defence thus far is devoid of foundation. It is simply a denial that what has transpired is serious enough to merit condemnation and consequence. But unlike with respect to the Mueller inquiry, there is hard evidence here. There is the whistle-blower's transcript. There is the transcript of the phone call with the Ukrainian leader. There are the words of Mr. Trump's personal lawyer, Rudy Giuliani, who provided CNN's Chris Cuomo with a definition of bribery that is sure to haunt Mr. Trump. "The crime of bribery is if I offer something of value to someone in return for their official action."
Although the White House's redacted transcript of the phone call did not show an explicit quid pro quo in respect to Mr. Trump tying nearly US$400-million in military aid for Ukraine with getting its leader Volodymyr Zelensky to go after Mr. Biden, Mr. Trump did say, "I would like you to do us a favour."
The scandal comes with an election only a year away. It's a controversy that will drag on for months. It will make the government even more dysfunctional than it has been. It will jeopardize the chances of the new North American free-trade deal, USMCA, being ratified.
It will push other important issues such as gun control and the climate crisis even further down the priority scale. It will serve to exacerbate, if it can be imagined, the already extreme degree of political polarization that exists.
It brings more rage and hell to the United States. But there's a cancer on this presidency that has to be exorcised. The whistle-blower's revelations offer the best hope to date of that happening.
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There is one summary for H.R.3670. Bill summaries are authored by CRS.
This bill amends the Buy American Act to define the term "substantially all" to mean that articles, materials, or supplies shall be treated as made substantially all from articles, materials, or supplies mined, produced, or manufactured in the United States if the cost of the domestic components of such articles, materials, or supplies exceeds 60% of the total cost of all such components.
The bill prohibits the use of the overseas exception to Buy American requirements unless one of the following criteria is met: (1) the articles, materials, or supplies are needed urgently for national security reasons; or (2) a cost analysis demonstrates that the articles, materials, or supplies to be acquired would be more than 50% more expensive if made in the United States.
The bill requires the head of a federal agency, in determining whether to apply the public interest exception to Buy American requirements, to: (1) consider the short-term and long-term effects on employment in the United States, and (2) determine that preserving or increasing employment in the United States is consistent with the public interest.
The bill requires each federal agency that applies an exception or grants a waiver to Buy American requirements to submit to the Office of Management and Budget (OMB) a notification of such exception or waiver and post such notification on the OMB website.
The bill: (1) authorizes the Department of Defense to establish and carry out a program to make or guarantee loans to certain business entities, up to $500,000 per entity, under the Defense Production Act; and (2) sets forth eligibility requirements for such entities, including requirements that such an entity is a manufacturer in the United States, is certified as eligible to apply for trade adjustment assistance, and meets criteria relating to the availability of an item.


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Sanjay Leela Bhansali exploits Ganesh Chaturthi festival with the lunch of BAJIRAO MASTANI's first song Gajanana…
The auspicious Ganesh Chaturthi festival that begins today with the holy chants of Ganpati Bappa Moriya and worshipping of Lord Ganesh's idol has been skillfully exploited by filmmaker Sanjay Leela Bhansali as a perfect marketing vehicle to promote his magnum opus upcoming film BAJIRAO MASTANI.
Keeping an eye on the popular Ganesh Chaturthi festival, which is widely celebrated with much enthusiasm and passion in states like Maharashtra, Gujarat and South India, Sanjay Leela Bhansali has intentionally used it as an ideal platform to launch his movie's first song Gajanana…
The song that praises Lord Ganesha is thus likely to appeal all Ganesh devotees and would give a big boost to the film's promotion.
It may be noted on September 15, 2015 the song was launched at Pune's Balewadi stadium. Marketing gurus believe the release of the song on the eve of the most revered Ganesh Utsav and that too from Pune city, which is regarded as the hub of Ganesh Chaturthi festival, is an intelligent marketing gimmick by Sanjay Leela Bhansali and it will surely reap rich dividends to him.
A marketing guru predicts, "The song is sure to became a hit as the song will be the hot favorite at all Ganesha pandals around the nation and will be definitely be played repeatedly thus making it a national craze."
"Every year there is at least one Ganesha song and with Gajanana… being the newest addition in the Ganesh Chaturthi playlist it is sure to become quite popular," he added.
The song is sung by famous singer Sukhwinder Singh, who has a range of hit song like Jai Ho… (SLUMDOG MILLIONAIRE), Banjaara…. (EK THA TIGER), Shah Ka Rutba… (AGNEEPATH), Tore Bina… (KAHAANI).
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Elon Musk's company will begin selling solar panels and battery packs at the home improvement warehouse later this year.
Tesla's solar shingles are an exciting new way to power some of your home. Rather than put solar panels on top of your roof, the shingles themselves contain photovoltaic cells to harness the sun's rays. After over a year in development, you can now buy these solar shingles directly from Tesla's website. But if that's not your style, there will soon be a second option: buying Tesla's solar shingles at your local Home Depot.
According to a report from Bloomberg, Tesla has reached an agreement with Home Depot to have a designated section in 800 of its stores where the company will sell its solar panels and Powerwall battery packs. While you won't be able to pick up some roof tiles right away, one source says that they are likely coming soon.
Home Depot has slightly over 2,000 stores in the U.S, so Tesla won't be in every store, but there's a good chance they'll be at one near you. Tesla is also reportedly in talks with Lowe's, so if your local Home Depot doesn't have a deal with Tesla, there's a chance the neighborhood Lowe's will.
The move into brick and mortar stores will introduce Tesla products to millions of homeowners who might not be aware of the electric vehicle maker's solar rooftop technology. Seeing the product firsthand could also spur customers to start investing in a solar rooftop of their own. Thanks to this deal, more American households will replace their dull wooden shingles with solar cells to start generating clean electricity.


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This fully industrialized building is currently under construction in Modultec's factory in Gijón (phase 1) and will be soon shipped and assembled in its final location in Libreville, Gabón.
The building will be located in a prime position by the urban beach of Libreville at the mid point between the airport and the city centre. The typological solution for the complex is inspired in the traditional north African urban markets-where shops are organized around open yet enviornmentally controlled spaces- and adapted to the tropical climate of Libreville. Buildings and open space configure a network where all programs (shops, bars, restaurants, recreational, offices) are intensively interrelated. Buildings and open space search to be as multifunctional as possible in order to promote serendipity between users.
The project makes part of our ongoing research into industrialization as a new construction paradigm for the 21st century. In this case, offshoring concept acquires its most radical meaning, since the building is 95% fabricated 7.250 km away (port to port) from its final location and shipped through the Atlantic ocean. In this case, the luck of production industry able to face the growth urgent demand of Libreville's tertiary infrastructure make this solution the most appropriate. The fact that the factory and the final location are placed very close to the industrial ports of their cities drastically reduces the environmental impact of long distance transportation.


Nico Rosberg continues his winning streak in China. But Red Bull and Ferrari have caught up with Mercedes. An exciting race ahead. The Hondas are looking to challenge Williams, Toro Rosso and Force India. And how far will the young lions Verstappen and Wehrlein go?
BREAKING: Lewis Hamilton is changing from Formula One to…Dune Buggy!
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Q: What determines which virtual console the graphical interface is run on? I've learned that I can switch between virtual consoles by pressing Ctrl+Alt+F1–F12, and I've found that the graphical interface was usually running at either F7/F8 (now on F2).
Why does this vary, and is there a way to predict it?

A: X uses the first free virtual terminal, and the first six are now allocated for gettys by upstart from /etc/init/tty[1-6].conf, and traditionally by init from /etc/inittab.
To choose a specific virtual terminal for X, you pass it the parameter 'vtXX' (see X -help) , where XX is the desired terminal number. There are a bunch of ways to pass parameters to X, but that is stuff for another question. :)

A: F7 is the default Xserver console.
I believe that F8 is only used if there is already an Xserver running on F7, or if F7 is busy.

A: Some display managers, including lightdm, spawn Xorg server with the vt7 argument, that explicitly requests it to attach to tty7.

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CAPE CORAL — Crews who were working on an underground utilities extension project in southwest Florida uncovered a bone fragment that could be 2.6 million years old.
Cape Coral City Manager John Szerlag told the city's council on Monday that the bone found in June likely formed part of the upper arm of either a mammoth or mastodon.
The News-Press reports the city plans to donate the bone fragment to the Cape Coral Historical Society.
Florida Museum of Natural History collections manager Richard Hulbert tells the newspaper the fragment didn't have enough characteristics to determine whether it belonged to a mastodon or a mammoth. He says both elephant-sized mammals were present during the Pleistocene Era, which was roughly 12,000 years to 2.6 million years ago.


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Across The Pond: A Cracker of a Christmas!
A Cracker of a Christmas!
Christmas this year was my favourite yet - at least in all my grown-up years. Nostalgia is a very powerful thing to beat, and I have some very special Christmas memories from my childhood. The first Christmas I had to miss - when I went to work overseas at age 21 - was pretty miserable.
They can be hard, my family. I could hear Mum scolding them (only half heartedly) as they all jooined in the laughter at my expense. Apparently they'd set a place out for me at the dining table and stood my graduation picture up. Then during dinner they'd tried to hit me in the face by catapulting mash potato from their spoons. I can't be sure, but I suspect even Mum and Dad were participants in this mean game.
Anyway, in a twisted way, I understood, and I was flattered to be such a big part of the dinner, even if I was the brunt of all the humour. Now I'm 31, it's a decade on, and it's been many years since I've spent Christmas Day at my parents house. I don't think they've bothered to fire potatoes at my face in a long time. And I don't miss being there so much anymore. Especially now I've got my own children.
But I love the traditions and the memories, and I try so hard to bring a little of my childhood Christmases across the pond to Texas, and subsequently into my children's lives. It's pretty amazing how different the Holiday season can be from one continent to the next.
So this Christmas, we hosted Dinner at our cabin here in Texas. And we invited all of my local extended family to join us in the festivities. Dinner was an organized pot luck- everybody brings a different part of the meal - to save us from cooking for 20 or so people. The main dish was turkey - some Christmas traditions are pretty universal. I boiled some Brussell sprouts - it's just not Christmas without Brussell sprouts. And as an extra special treat I bought Christmas Crackers for entertainment during the meal. There were enough laid out on the dining table for everybody to pull twice and for each of us to wear a cheesy paper crown during dinner.
Crackers are an expensive rarity over here, I think because they're all imported. So getting the good ones, with a different trinket or toys in each cracker, a week before Christmas, turned into a bit of an online mission - one that took all evening. But, I eventually scored big, with a Cracker Box set that was on sale and would ship within 48 hours. I was so very excited, and also somewhat nervous that my treasured tradition would go down like a lead balloon with the Texan In-laws. The 48 hours delivery promise was still cutting it so fine that I also bought some back up mini Crackers from Target, just in case my online purchase fell by the wayside. This year I really had my heart set on Christmas crackers.
It turned out that the back-up crackers were not necessary. My Polka-dot Christmas crackers arrived a mere 2 days before Christmas and they were beautiful. And what a hoot they turned out to be during dinner. Not only did they make for a great ice-breaker for our Motley crew of extended family, the toys and games provided fun entertainment to adults and kids alike throughout the whole meal. Crowns were unabashedly worn, and tragic jokes flew back on forth across the table earning the groans they deserved.
Q. Why don't you see penguins in Britain?
While many of our guests had seen or heard of Crackers before, most had never actually pulled a cracker themselves. It was very special to watch Great-Grandmother and Great-Grandson in a tug-o-war combat over a hat, toy and joke. I can't be sure but I think Great-Granny reigned supreme. It's amazing how a bit of lighthearted competition can warm up a crowd.
Back home the silly little game of tug-a-war, usually raises everybody's energy and laughter to 'rabble' level. Once everyone is talking over each other and you can't hear yourself think - only then would it truly feel like Christmas, at my parents house.
My husband's family never quite reached 'rabble' level - but they got pretty close. And that was plenty good enough for me. Not only was I able to lessen my own homesickness by bringing my homeland tradition to the Christmas table, I was also super pleased to be able to share this new cracker of an experience with my Texan family. If I've got anything to do with it, it's a tradition that's here to stay.


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"Weaknesses in information security policies and practices at 24 major federal agencies continue to place the confidentiality, integrity, and availability of sensitive information and information systems at risk," GAO concluded.
"Until hundreds of recommendations are implemented and program weaknesses are corrected, agencies will continue to face challenges in securing their information and information systems," the report said.
"These findings are all the more troubling given that GAO has been telling us for some time that these are areas of vulnerability and must be addressed, yet we still haven't made enough progress in shoring up these obvious weaknesses," Carper said. "Federal agencies need to fully implement meaningful security programs that can withstand the serious cyber challenges we face today and will face for the foreseeable future, and they need the proper oversight and guidance to accomplish that goal. The implementation of FISMA was a good start, but it is clear more steps need to be taken to enhance the federal government's information security."


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FAI is governed by a volunteer board of directors representing leadership in the folk music industry worldwide.
The board is elected by the voting members of the organization each fall, and an annual general meeting of members is held during the conference each year. Our board- and membership-approved bylaws are available here.
Learn more about the board election process here.
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To read each director's biography, please click on their name.
Ashley Shabankareh
President (Term End: 2024)
Artist / NFP Arts Administrator, Artist Corps New Orleans
New Orleans, Louisiana, USA
Region: SERFA
Reid Wick
Vice President (Term End: 2023)
Sr. Membership & Project Manager, Recording Academy
Secretary (Term End: 2024)
Owner/Agent, ComboPlate Booking
Region: SWRFA
Kevin Dalton
Treasurer (Term End: 2023)
Certified Financial Planner
Wiles+Taylor & Co.
Rosalyn Dennett
At-Large (Term End: 2023)
Folk Music Ontario
Region: NERFA
Ayappa Biddanda
Term End: 2024
Sr. Director, Concord
Beau Bledsoe
Artist, Ensemble Iberica
Kansas City, Missouri, USA
Region: FARM
Lynn Cingari
Agent, Wasserman Music
Monterey, California, USA
Region: FAR-West
Iona Fyfe
Artist/Director, Traditional Music and Song Association
Catalina Maria Johnson
Journalist/DJ, Beat Latino
Chicago, Illinois, USA
Michael Kornfeld
Communications and Public Relations Strategist / Founder, AcousticMusicScene.com
Huntington, New York, USA
Sara Leishman
Executive Director, Calgary Folk Festival
Gary Paczosa
VP A&R, Rounder Records
Chris Porter
Producer & Talent Buyer, Hardly Strictly Bluegrass
President/CEO, Porter Productions LLC
Critic and Correspondent, NPR Music
Caroline Randall Williams
Artist / Author / Scholar, Vanderbilt University
Amy Reitnouer Jacobs
Executive Director, The Bluegrass Situation
Glendale, California, USA
Alka Sharma
Senior Program Advisor, Canadian Arts Presentation Fund
Guillermo Subauste
Whitby, Ontario, Canada
Gerald Torres
Professor of Law, Yale University
Fairfield, Connecticut, USA
Brandi Waller-Pace
Artist/Founder, Decolonizing the Music Room
Fort Worth, Texas, USA
Amy Reitnouer
Amy Reitnouer Jacobs co-founded The Bluegrass Situation (BGS) in 2012 with actor/comedian/producer Ed Helms (The Office, The Hangover). Today she serves as the executive director for the company, which encompasses online editorial/content creation, event promotion, and targeted audience marketing. In addition to producing a festival, BGS has curated stage takeovers at Bonnaroo, Newport Folk, MerleFest, Americana Music Fest, Bourbon & Beyond, The Long Road (UK), and others. The website has also become an advocate for change, diversity, and representation within the broader music community. Amy is also an artist manager for Aubrie Sellers, Matt the Electrician, and Mikael Jorgensen (Wilco).
Sr. Membership & Project Manager,
Reid Wick has served music communities across the South for many years. He is the Recording Academy's New Orleans-based Membership & Industry Relations representative, where his responsibilities include membership, advocacy, creating professional development and networking programs across a five-state region. For the two years post-Hurricane Katrina, Wick administered the MusiCares' Hurricane Relief Fund. Wick served Loyola University's College of Music as marketing communications manager and instructor in Music Industry Studies. He has served on numerous boards and co-owned an indie record label. He received the 2018 Cutting Edge Music Conference Lifetime Achievement Award. Wick is an active New Orleans musician.
Laura Thomas is the agent and owner of ComboPlate Booking, which opened in 1999. In addition to artist-based tour services, volunteerism and community have been integral to Laura's business. Since 2001, Laura has presented volunteer musicians at a monthly soup kitchen concert in Austin, Texas. In 2002, Laura started South By Soup Fest, a multi-day showcase at the soup kitchen. Since 2005, Laura has organized a day party raising funds for the same soup kitchen.
Senior Program Advisor,
Canadian Arts Presentation Fund
Ottawa, Ontario, CA
Alka works for the Canadian Federal Government with the Canadian Arts Presentation Fund as the Senior Programme Advisor. She worked at Folk Music Ontario as the Executive Director from 2013 – 2021. Prior to that, she worked as the Interim Executive Director at the Toronto Reel Asian International Film Festival and spent many years as the Senior Manager of Operations with the Toronto International Film Festival. Alka has also worked at CBC Radio as the Associate Producer for Outfront and in campus/community radio in Ottawa, Guelph and Toronto.
Toronto, Ontario, CA
Rosalyn Dennett is the Executive Director of Folk Music Ontario, Canada's largest arts organization and conference dedicated to Folk music. She established herself on the international music scene as part of the highly-acclaimed quartet Oh My Darling, and her work with Ken Whiteley, Donovan Woods, Fred Penner, Kaia Kater, and many more; performing in 11 countries and recording on over 25 albums. Rosalyn's passion for the music industry led her to work for MusicOntario, the Canadian Independent Music Association, Canadian Live Music Association, Music Canada, and the Canadian Federation of Musicians, as well as serving on the board of Folk Alliance International, Folk Music Ontario, and AFM Local 1000. In 2016, she founded Stump Media, a boutique label and management company, and in 2020, she co-founded The Arts Hub and Smiths Falls Music, which sees over 150 music students annually. She is a driven community organizer, with a deep understanding of the Folk music ecosystem.
Artist, Making Movies
Founder, Art As Mentorship
Enrique Chi is a singer/songwriter and the founder of the internationally recognized and Latin-Grammy nominated band Making Movies. Enrique has dedicated his platform to raise awareness of the political and cultural issues that divide America. He founded a nonprofit organization, Art As Mentorship, to expand on the music education and community outreach work that the band was already doing, launching the Rebel Song Academy in 2018 for youth songwriters, and produces an annual festival in Kansas City entitled Carnaval.
Lynn Cingari is and agent at Wasserman Music and has worked at the agency (and its predecessors, Paradigm Talent Agency and Monterey Peninsula Artists) since 1998. Getting her start at an agency in Los Angeles, Lynn decided that Monterey Peninsula Artists was a better home, and she began working as the assistant to legendary agent Chip Hooper. Today, Lynn is proud to represent a host of amazing artists, such as Allison Russell, Aoife O'Donovan, Bruce Hornsby, Chris Thile, Nickel Creek, Punch Brothers, Shawn Colvin and The Wood Brothers, among others.
Susie Giang
Agent, Ground Control Touring
Susie Giang is an agent with Ground Control Touring based in Portland, Oregon. Giang's current roster includes Ani DiFranco, Gregory Alan Isakov, Haley Heynderickx, Leif Vollebekk, My Bubba, Field Medic, Baskery, Peter Mulvey and Shook Twins, along with many other talented artists. Susie attended her first FAI in 2005 in Montreal and has taken on the Folkie Badge ever since. Previously, Giang was at APA in Portland and Fleming Artists in San Francisco.
Kevin Dalton is a Certified Financial Planner ™ with 15 years of accounting experience in the music industry in his role at Wiles+Taylor & Co. and at Copyright Exchange where he analyzed earning trends and valued copyright catalogs. Kevin represents an array of artists across many genres. He resides in Nashville with his wife and two children.
Catalina Maria Johnson, Ph.D. is a Chicago-based journalist, broadcaster and music curator. She hosts and produces her own radio show, Beat Latino, which airs in Chicago and other US cities as well as Berlin. Catalina also regularly contributes to NPR, Bandcamp, Billboard, Downbeat and other outlets. Thanks to the tenacious insistence of a Mexican mom and a German/Swedish dad, Catalina received the gift of a bilingual and bicultural heritage. Her cultural journalism explores the immensely rich diversity of the global music scene in all its variations, and in particular, music as it intersects with culture, identity and migration.
Michael Kornfeld is an award-winning communications and public relations strategist, a former contributing writer for The New York Times, and served on the boards of both the LI and NYC chapters of the Society of Professional Journalists. His online publication, AcousticMusicScene.com, has provided news and commentary for the folk, roots, and singer-songwriter communities since 2007. Mike is the current board president of the Northeast Regional Folk Alliance (NERFA) and serves as president of the Folk Music Society of Huntington, a presenting organization on Long Island. He is a Phi Beta Kappa graduate of Stony Brook University and a recipient of its Distinguished Community Service Award.
Calgary Folk Festival
Calgary, Alberta, CA
Sara Leishman was brought up on house concerts and CKUA Radio. Her love of music but dislike of practicing led to her interest in the business of music. With a communications degree and NFP work experience she secured the job of Development Director for the Folk Festival Society of Calgary (Calgary Folk Fest, Festival Hall and Block Heater). For 7 years she obtained sponsorship and donations before becoming the Executive Director in 2017. From 2011-2018 she served on the Board of CKUA Radio and in 2015 successfully completed the Rozsa Arts Management through the Haskayne School of Business.
Deana McCloud
Woody Guthrie Center
Tulsa, Oklahoma, USA
Deana McCloud is the Executive Director and Chief Curator of the Woody Guthrie Center in Tulsa. A member of the Tulsa Arts District Business Association, and the Tulsa Regional Chamber, she is also a board member of the Oklahoma Center for Community and Justice and the Oklahoma Center for Poets and Writers. McCloud was a charter member of the board for the Tulsa Office of Film, Music, Arts & Culture and currently serves on the executive board for Tulsa Regional Tourism. Deana is a National Board Certified educator. For 17 years she was a member of the Woody Guthrie Coalition, booking and producing concerts for the Woody Guthrie Folk Festival in Okemah, Oklahoma. She currently serves on the festival's advisory board as well as the advisory board for the Woody Guthrie Journal.
Gary Paczosa is a multi-Grammy winning producer and engineer. He is best known for his work with Alison Krauss, Dolly Parton, and Sarah Jarosz. He has served on the Grammy board and also works as head of A&R at Sugar Hill Records in Nashville.
Chris Porter has been a music industry professional for over 30 years. After working in college radio, he moved on to artist management and independent record label ownership. That soon led to opportunities booking various venues in Boston throughout most of the 1990s. In 1997 his career continued in Seattle as the music programmer for One Reel, producers of the long-running Bumbershoot Festival and other special events and concerts. After 18 years, Chris left One Reel/Bumbershoot in 2015 and now devotes time to his own company – Porter Productions. Porter offers talent buying, booking management, consulting, and production coordination for various festivals, special events, and venues around the U.S. Current projects include Hardly Strictly Bluegrass (San Francisco), WERS' Wicked Good Festival (Boston), The Town and The City Festival (Lowell, MA), and The South Lake Union Block Party (Seattle). Chris is also a DJ and sports fan event producer.
Artist / Author / Scholar,
Caroline Randall Williams is an award-winning poet, novelist, and cookbook author (Soul Food Love) as well as an activist, public intellectual, performance artist, and scholar. Born and raised in Nashville Tennessee where she is deeply connected to the music community she studied at Harvard and Oxford and joined the faculty of Vanderbilt University in 2019 as a Writer-in-Residence in the Department of Medicine, Health, and Society while she continues to work and speak to the places where art, business, and scholarship intersect, moving people closer to their best lives and corporations closer to their ideal identities. Named by Southern Living as "One of the 50 People changing the South," the Cave Canem fellow has been published and featured in multiple journals, essay collections and news outlets, including The Massachusetts Review, Essence, and the New York Times.
Carolina Rojas Posada
Director, Circulart & The Magdalena Festival
Medellín, Antioquia, Colombia
Carolina Rojas is the Marketing Director at Circulart (the premier market for Latin American music), where she is also responsible for international relations and strategic alliances for the organization. She is also the Director of the Magdelena Festival in Honda, Colombia. She had led projects for the Colombian Ministry of Culture, ProColombia, and REDLAT, and has spoken on industry panels at conferences including Womex, Musica Mundo in Brazil, China's Sound of the Xity, and Folk Alliance International. She is the co-founder of Cóngolo Travel, and has a degree in Business Administration and a post-graduate degree in marketing from Eafit University, in Medellín.
Festival and Artist Director,
Philadelphia Folk Festival
Doylestown, Pennsylvania, USA
Lisa Schwartz served as President of the Philadelphia Folksong Society from 2007 until 2015, and is currently the Festival Director, following nine years as Marketing and Press Relations. Under her direction, the PFS has focused on inclusivity, increased membership and attendance, a broadening scope of music, fiscal responsibility, and an increase in sponsors and grants. Lisa is a senior sales and marketing specialist with more than 30 years of experience providing marketing, project management, and consulting services in the new home construction, education, arts marketing, manufacturing, and retail arenas.
Matt Sever
Artist, Matt the Electrician
Matt Sever (Matt the Electrician) is a quirky, sincere folk/pop singer songwriter based in Austin, TX. He has self-released 8 studio albums, and 2 live CDs since 1998. With his newest project, Matt gets by with a little help from his friends. Throughout 2015 and 2016, he focused on a string of 7-inch vinyl singles. Matt regularly tours all over the world, playing theaters, festivals, clubs and house concerts, and is a fixture in clubs of his hometown.
Artist / NFP Arts Administrator,
Artist Corps New Orleans
Ashley Shabankareh (she/her/hers) is a musician, arts administrator, and music education and creative economy advocate. Ashley currently serves as the Collaborative Action Strategist for Artist Corps New Orleans, Director of Learning and Development for Upbeat Academy, and the Education Specialist for the New Orleans Jazz Museum. She also serves as the Vice President for the Jazz Education Network and Board Chair for the Music and Culture Coalition of New Orleans (MaCCNO). Ashley is a trombonist and vocalist and performs with Marina Orchestra and The Asylum Chorus. Previously, Ashley served as the Director of Programs for Preservation Hall Foundation.
Gerald Torres is a leading figure in critical race theory, environmental law, and federal Indian Law. He previously served as the Bryant Smith Chair in Law at the University of Texas School of Law and taught at The University of Minnesota Law School, where he served as Associate Dean. He is also a former president of the Association of American Law Schools (AALS). Torres has served as deputy assistant attorney general for the Environment and Natural Resources Division of the U.S. Department of Justice in Washington, D.C., and as counsel to former U.S. attorney general Janet Reno. He is an avid Blues-man.
In 20 years of music, Guillermo Subauste has worn many hats. Lead guitar/vocals in a Peruvian punk rock band, promoter for acts like STOMP and Beyonce, and FOH engineer for Grammy-nominated Adammo. A scholarship to the Banff Centre gave him his first taste of Canadian winter. When the 3-month program got extended to 2 years after being hired it led to collaborating with artists like Jane Bunnett and Joni Mitchell. Now in Toronto, Guillermo has engineered, produced, toured, and performed with The Sadies, Sarah Harmer, Measha Brueggergosman, The Honeyrunners, Blue Rodeo, Conor Gains, Royal Wood, Good Lovelies, and more.
Aberdeenshire singer, Iona Fyfe, has become one of Scotland's finest young folk singers, rooted deeply in the singing traditions of the North East of Scotland. She is the youngest ever winner of Scots Singer of the Year at the MG ALBA Scots Trad Music Awards. Iona is a fierce advocate for the official recognition of the Scots Language and is a fine exponent of Doric dialect, winning the title of Performer of the Year at the Scots Language Awards in 2020. Iona led a successful campaign to pressure Spotify to recognize Scots and add it to its list of languages.
Ann Powers is NPR Music's critic and correspondent. Throughout a long career she has worked at many publications including the New York Times, the Los Angeles Times, the Village Voice. A former curator at Seattle's Museum of Popular Music, she is the author of three books, most recently Good Booty: Love and Sex, Black and White, Body and Soul in American Music (2017), and co-editor of the classic anthology Rock She Wrote: Women Write Anout Rock, Rap, and Pop. Her essays have been widely anthologized and she has also written for television, radio and podcasts. In 2017 she co-founded NPR's Turning the Tables, an ongoing project that sheds light on marginalized, underestimated, and forgotten voices in popular music.
Having worked at Concord since 2004, Ayappa oversaw the Radio Department for Vanguard & Sugar Hill Records prior to joining the Concord Promotion team. He now leads the Folk/Roots division for Concord and its family of labels, serving artists in both traditional and innovative spaces. He graduated from The University of Tennessee with degrees in American Studies and Political Science and received his Master of Public Policy from UC LA (with a concentration in Art & Social Action). He adores his wife, daughter, and son (in chronological order). His favorite band is Counting Crows.
Brandi Waller-Pace is a musician and educator based in Fort Worth, TX. A former general music teacher, she is the Founder and Executive Director of Decolonizing the Music Room. Brandi earned a bachelor's and master's in Jazz Studies from Howard University and is pursuing a PhD in Music Education at the University of North Texas. She presents both nationally and internationally. Brandi is the organizer of the Fort Worth African American Roots Music Festival and has co-produced and curated events with Bluegrass Pride, The Bluegrass Situation, and PineCone. She performs as a solo artist and with her duo Pace & Barber.
Beau Bledsoe performs and records classical music, jazz and folkloric music from around the world as he seeks to integrate different musical cultures with diverse audiences. Through his many varied projects and ensembles, Beau has toured extensively throughout Europe, Russia, South America and North America in addition to producing fifteen recordings under his recording label Tzigane. Beau is currently artistic director and founder of Ensemble Iberica which explores the music of Spain, Portugal and other areas of the world connected to the Iberian diaspora.


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Unwindia  ist eine Gattung von Kurzschwanzflugsauriern (Pterodactyloidea) aus der Unterkreide Südamerikas. Bisher ist lediglich eine fragmentarische Schnauze mit Zähnen bekannt, die aus der Santana-Formation von Brasilien stammt und wahrscheinlich auf das späte Albium datiert werden kann. Einzige Art ist Unwindia trigonus.

Merkmale
Die Schnauze war relativ lang, schlank und im Querschnitt dreieckig. Von anderen Flugsauriern unterscheidet sich Unwindia durch die geringere Anzahl von Zähnen im Oberkiefer und Zwischenkieferbein (Prämaxillare). So zeigen diese Knochen insgesamt lediglich sieben Paar Zähne. Die Zähne waren in ihrer Form recht homogen und stehen damit im Kontrast zu der starken Heterodontie, wie sie bei allen anderen Flugsauriern der Santana-Formation beobachtet werden kann. Die Zähne waren auf den vorderen Bereich der Kiefer (vor dem Nasoantorbitalfenster) beschränkt und standen in sehr weitem Abstand zueinander.

Systematik
Unwindia wird innerhalb der Gruppe Ctenochasmatoidea klassifiziert; seine genauen Verwandtschaftsbeziehungen innerhalb dieser Gruppe sind jedoch unklar. Möglicherweise war diese Gattung am nächsten mit Yixianopterus und Cycnorhamphus verwandt.

Fund, Entdeckungsgeschichte und Namensgebung
Der einzige bekannte Fund (Holotyp, Exemplarnummer SMNK PAL 6597) besteht aus dem paarigen Zwischenkieferbein, dem Oberkiefer sowie Teilen des Gaumens. Vier Zähne sind erhalten geblieben. Das Fossil erworben die Forscher von einem Fossiliensammler, der es in der Region Santana do Cariri entdeckte. Es stammt aus dem Romualdo Member der Santana-Formation. Heute befindet es sich in der Sammlung des Staatlichen Museums für Naturkunde in Karlsruhe.

Der Name Unwindia ehrt den Paläontologen David Unwin, während der zweite Teil des Artnamens, trigonus, auf den dreieckigen Querschnitt der Schnauze weist.

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Flugsaurier
Pterosauria


FLAT FEET: Beint Håkon Hansen (68) from the town of Hauge i Dalane came to the Saturday miracle meeting in Vennesla with flat feet. When he went home, his footsole had a nice arch. See picture below.
Throughout his whole life Beint Håkon Hansen from Hauge i Dalane suffered with flat footedness. This caused pain in his back and legs. At the Saturday miracle meeting April 27, 2013 he was healed, and his feet formed nice arches.
When Beint Håkon Hansen (68) was a child, his family noticed that he had flat feet. After having visited the doctor, he eventually got insoles which made it easier to walk. The years passed, but as he grew older, he stopped using the insoles.
-The flatfootedness made it painful to walk. It was especially painful when I walked in nature, in staircases or down hills, he says.
Beint had throughout his life worked as a pastor and preacher. In addition, he has done ministry work in Eastern Europe for the last 20 years. Because of his ministry, he had to stand a lot behind the pulpit. Also during the worship at the beginning of the meeting he had to stand upright. He then felt pain in the spine.
-Because of my ministry as a preacher, healing was not unknown to me. When a friend recommended that I contact Svein-Magne Pedersen, I was still reserved. I had read about him, but thought that this was not for me. I was somewhat proud as well. My friend continued to nag at me, and finally I decided to follow his advice.
After 68 years of flat foot ailments, Beint and a good friend made the trip to the miracle Saturday meeting in Vennesla April 27, 2013. There were many people at the meeting, and Beint had to wait eight hours before it was his turn. It was past nine o'clock in the evening.
-When Pedersen prayed for me, he pressed his feet over mine, while he stroked my knees. I felt an intense heat that I have never experienced before. Suddenly I felt the soles of my feet getting arches. I was all fired up and so happy, says Beint thrilled.
In the time that followed after the meeting Beint had noticed a substancial change.
-I have taken my dog for many walks and my feet are nothing like they were before. I feel no pain when I am walking.
In the following weeks Beint Håkon went to the Ukraine, where he preached the word of God in various churches including a large Pentecostal church in the capital of Kiev. Here he testified about what had taken place.
-The congregation sat perfectly still with their mouths open while listening to my testimony. After the meeting people came forward and wanted to receive prayer for themselves.
Beint also had a chance to test his healing during worship. Normally his spine would start to hurt from standing too long, but in the course of the meetings his spine was completely well.
-I am so happy because of what has taken place. Now I pray every day for Svein-Magne Pedersen and Jesus Heals Ministries, he concludes.
ARCH: The footsore of Hansen had a nice arch after prayer.


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SingHealth's database containing patient personal particulars and outpatient dispensed medicines has been the target of a major cyberattack. About 1.5 million patients who visited SingHealth's specialist outpatient clinics and polyclinics from 1 May 2015 to 4 July 2018 have had their non-medical personal particulars illegally accessed and copied. The data taken include name, NRIC number, address, gender, race and date of birth. The records were not tampered with, i.e. no records were amended or deleted.
The Integrated Health Information System (IHiS), which is the technology agency for the public healthcare sector and runs the public healthcare institutions' IT systems, has implemented further measures to tighten the security of SingHealth's IT systems. These include temporarily imposing internet surfing separation. They have also placed additional controls on workstations and servers, reset user and system accounts, and installed additional system monitoring controls. Similar measures are being put in place for IT systems across the public healthcare sector against this threat.
SingHealth will be progressively contacting all patients who visited its specialist outpatient clinics and polyclinics from 1 May 2015 to 4 July 2018, to notify them if their data had been illegally exfiltrated.
Ensure that any sensitive data is encrypted, and limit access of employees and other stakeholders by their roles. Passwords that are stored should be encrypted.
Companies should review their data retention policies on the duration and the types of PII data that should be stored. To further limit data exposure, companies are advised to purge customer's PII if it is not required anymore, such as accounts which have been terminated.
The Personal Data Protection Commission (PDPC) has published a guide to help organisations develop or improve their data protection policies and practices. PDPC in partnership with CSA, has also published a guide to aid organisations in securing personal data. Enterprises may refer to these guides for information and good practices that organisations should undertake to improve and protect personal data.
Domain administrators have full control of the domain. Review and strictly manage domain administrator accounts, and disable inactive accounts when they are no longer in use.
PowerShell can be exploited by attackers to execute malicious commands and scripts. Consider disabling PowerShell if it is not required by standard user workstations.
Be on the look-out for suspicious SQL queries, especially those that return voluminous information relative to the size of your database. Remote access should have strong login passwords and be limited to authorised users.
Monitor long-running endpoints, such as 24/7 kiosks, for signs of infection. Decommissioned endpoints should be taken offline when no longer in use, as attackers could exploit these endpoints which may have outdated software and virus definitions.
Consider enterprise-wide application whitelisting for standard users. Whitelisting restricts standard users to a list of approved applications, while preventing all other applications from running, including malicious software that antivirus software may not have definitions for.
Apply software updates and security patches as soon as they are available to fix known vulnerabilities that could be exploited by attackers or malicious software.
The six Essentials are featured in Be Safe Online, a handbook to help companies enhance their cyber defence capabilities and digital risk management, so as to better protect themselves against the increasing frequency and sophistication of cyber-attacks. The Be Safe Online Handbook can be downloaded from CSA's website at https://www.csa.gov.sg/gosafeonline/resources/be-safe-online-handbook.


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Teaching is often seen as a set of skills that, when learned and replicated, results in successful collaborative instruction. What is often ignored however, is the great potential that both teacher and student can reach, as well as the level of satisfaction gained when a strong human link is made in those roles. Implications for the educational environment of this 'relationship of connectedness' are that resistance and passivity can be eliminated (both of which can occur in challenging academic environments), all the while creating unlimited potential for both student and instructor.
The aim of the talk is to present a 'rebalanced' view of common perceptions on the value of instructional skills vs. affective qualities, looked at through the framework of rapport-building.
Attendees will explore the benefits that exist in building rapport and barriers that are encountered. They will be presented with the three stages of rapport-building, and specific activities that can support this. They will also be presented with students' views of effective teachers, responses for which are collated through a survey conducted of learners of English as a Foreign Language at College of the North Atlantic-Qatar, by the presenter. This will be supported by the research of S. Saafin (2008), M. Murphy (2008), M. Sapon-Shevin (1991) and writings of Parker Palmer.
The aim is to inspire ideas on how, with the building of strong bonds, students can be empowered, teachers can remain in control and challenge learners without encountering complaints, rebellion, alienation or discordant attitudes.
keywords: rapport, enhancing learning, empower.
F. Jamal (2014) ENHANCING THE LEARNING EXPERIENCE THROUGH THREE STAGES OF RAPPORT-BUILDING, INTED2014 Proceedings, p. 5339.


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Andrew Gruttadaro at The Ringer points out a disturbing trend in the Marvel Cinematic Universe.
The White Rapper Joke
This essay by Hanif Abdurraqib is near the back of his first book, They Can't Kill Us Until They Kill Us, and after reading it last night I sat with it for a while. The whole book is really good; a mix of essays about music and blackness and America and death. What he manages to do in this essay is recontextualize some of the biggest white rappers to break out in the past 30 years. His assessment of Eminem and Vanilla Ice were confirmations of what I mostly understood already, but consideration of Bubba Sparxxx and Macklemore in particular were way more nuanced than I've seen either of them treated with before. Read this Guardian reprint now and then run and get your hands on the book (his second one, all about A Tribe Called Quest, came out last year and he has a new collection of essays due out this fall).
Reddit Comment Songs
Dan Hough's got a Youtube channel with a playlist full of songs he wrote adapting interesting comments he found while reading Reddit. While sometimes a good idea isn't matched by its execution, these songs are pretty legit?
Man Eating Food
The man eating food YouTube channel is a marvel, the kind of purely executed internet thing that I don't feel like we see online much anymore. I'm sure it'll be ruined in a few weeks by the reveal of it as some sort of marketing campaign, but for the time being I'm just basking in the over 300 videos that have been posted and how delightful it is that this exists.
Steve Gaynor Plays Hitman 2, Part 1
Steve Gaynor, cofounder of Fullbright Company (makers of Gone Home and Tacoma) and podcaster (Idle Thumbs, Tone Control) sometimes streams games on Twitch. He played a lot of the Hitman reboot that came out in 2016 and the streams were always a blast; the mutual love between him and the developers of the game resulted in a side mission in one of the episodically-released missions being named after him.
The sequel, Hitman 2, is coming out this week and starting last Friday Steve began streaming the game on his Twitch channel. It's been a lot of fun to watch him get back to it! His zeal for the franchise is contagious and his understanding of game design & development leads to some interesting insights about the game as well.
The link above goes to the first stream he did for Hitman 2; you can browse his channel from there to see the subsequent days' streams, which are ongoing and continued tonight.
We're currently just over a week away from the long-awaited premiere of season 2 of the podcast called Limetown. The first season aired over the course of the second half of 2015; I discovered it shortly after episode 3 aired and had the lucky experience of having to wait for each episode after that, speculating about the show's unanswered mysteries. Limetown is a fictional account of an investigative report; it's chilling but it's not a horror show, if that makes any sense. It's far more science fiction than horror, but I still refuse to listen to it at night.
I haven't listened to it since 2015, so when I started listening to the first season again recently I wondered whether it would hold up to the impression it left on me the first time around—and it totally does. I highly recommend listening to Limetown, and the good news is that the total running time of the first season is only something like 3 hours long, so most people should have no trouble getting caught up in time for season 2. If they can manage to continue what they did in the first six episodes, it's going to be worth it.
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In a previous blawg entry, I showed you what inflation is, i.e. an increase in the money supply, how to calculate it, and a little about what it means. In this post, I'll show you what happens when you apply these insights to the Gross Domestic Product (GDP) and Gross National Income (GNI) of Malaysia.
The Malaysian economy is expected to grow steadily at 5% to 6% in 2013, thanks to strong domestic demand, robust private investment and a better global outlook.
Bank Negara Governor Tan Sri Dr Zeti Akhtar Aziz expects growth to be sustained on the back of higher domestic demand and an improvement on the exports front as the global economy recovers.
She added that last year's better-than-expected 5.6% full-year growth came despite a weaker global economic environment.
Sounds pretty good right? A GDP increase of 5% to 6% is pretty impressive. But what happens if we take a look at GDP and GNI over the past decade and apply our new insight of how to adjust for inflation?
As in my previous articles, I've crunched the numbers and put them into a spreadsheet, and so here is a video where I show this to you, and explain briefly what it means.
And that's today's Reality Check.
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The Price of Austerity: The Impact on Women's Rights and Gender Equality in Europe (Oct 2012)
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[Brussels, 14 November 2012] The findings of the EWL study, The price of austerity – the impact on women's rights and gender equality in Europe , reveal that while austerity measures are hurting women, men, girls and boys across the European Union (EU), women are particularly hit the hardest. Because public sector employment and public services concern women to a far greater extent than men, any change in the public sector will impact on women more. Austerity measures that seek to reduce public deficits by cutting public sector jobs, services and benefits directly impact on women. Narrowing gender gaps in employment, unemployment and pay are not to be interpreted as growing gender equality but rather a deterioration of the working and living conditions for all.
Not a he-cession after all...the untold story behind the statistics
As predicated in the previous joint EWL/Oxfam publication in 2010, Women's poverty and social exclusion at a time of recession – An invisible crisis?, the first 'wave' of the crisis was a private sector crisis which impacted more on the male dominated sectors of the economy (car industry..), the extension of the crisis to the public sector impacts on women more.
Based on a survey of EWL member organisations as well as other sources, the study maps the pattern of the impact of austerity measures on women and gender equality. Focusing on three areas, namely, cuts in public sector jobs and wages, cuts in services and benefits and cuts in funding for women's rights and gender equality the findings reveal that the crisis is not a he-cession after all, as the official statistics do not tell the full story.
For example, while women's unemployment rate is close to that of men's, statistics fail to capture the fact that when women become unemployed they tend to withdraw from the labour-market or as involuntary part-time workers they are counted as being employed. Cuts in public services and benefits translate into a care crisis, as reductions in care services, cuts in child, disability, carers' benefits and reductions in tax credits, are translating into the privatisation of care. Cuts in statutory leave, including parental and paternity leave, are preventing men from taking their share of care, with the result that women' real choices to engage in paid work on the labour market are compromised.
Return to the past?
The EWL study questions the long term impact of austerity measures on women's rights and gender relations, particularly equality between women and men. The impact of austerity measures could roll back years of progress. Women's employment rate in 22 countries is back to 2005 levels, a far cry - which will require massive investments – from the EU's headline target to reach a 75% employment rate for women and men by 2020.
When States fail to provide public services and reassess their role in income and wealth distribution, women pay the price. More worryingly gender equality is damaged as the danger of a return to entrenched traditional gender roles and expectations put women's economic independence seriously at risk.
Silencing women's voices
The erosion of gender equality institutional mechanisms at national level, coupled with reductions in funding to women's NGOs, especially those providing vital services, the demand for which is increasing in times of austerity, impacts on women's capacity to respond in terms of service delivery, protection of women's rights and advocacy. Austerity is silencing women's voices.
Recommendations in the study call on Member States to safeguard vital services use gender impact analysis and gender budgeting tools. The European Commission must take a leadership role to halt the damage that is being done in recommending to Member States to reform labour markets and undertake social welfare reforms which are directly resulting in austerity measures. Finally, the study urgently invites women's NGOs to engage in budgetary processes and to lobby finance ministers.
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A Kiskarácsony mindenáron egy amerikai családi karácsonyi vígjáték Danny DeVito és Matthew Broderick főszereplésével.

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Steve Finch (Matthew Broderick) szemész a város díszpolgára, a téli fesztivál főszervezője és lelkiismeretes családapa. Egyik éjjel egy teherautó zajára ébredt fel: megérkezett az új szomszédja Buddy Hall (Danny DeVito) autókereskedő és családja. Egyik éjjel Buddy lánya mutat neki egy számítógépes programot (mely látszólag a Google Earth egy paródiája), a MyEarth-öt, mellyel éjszakai műholdképeket lehet letölteni. Buddy csalódottan látja, hogy az ő háza nem látszik egy felvételen sem. Ezért minden idejét és pénzét arra használja fel, hogy az ő háza legyen a legjobban kivilágított, legszebb ház a környéken. Ezzel azonban magára haragítja a szomszédját, Steve-et. Megindul a harc köztük minden fronton, melynek végén mindketten összevesznek a családjukkal, így kénytelenek egyedül tölteni a karácsonyt. A családtagjaik ugyanis december 25-én inkább egy nyugodt szállodában karácsonyoznak. A két szomszéd belátja, hogy csak együttes erővel tudják megmenteni a karácsonyt és visszahódítani szeretteiket. Buddy a díszítéshez használt égők segítségével kivilágítja a szálloda és a házuk közötti utat, így remélve, hogy vissza tudja csábítani feleségét és lányait. A terv sikerül, és mindenki közösen ünnepel. Steve pedig szól minden betegének, hogy segítsék valóra váltani a nagy tervet, kivilágítani a házat. Azonban egy zárlat miatt ez meghiúsul. Gyertyákkal és mobiltelefonokkal világítanak, miközben karácsonyi dalokat énekelnek. Steve fia azonban észreveszi, hogy nem zárlat történt, csak egy dugó húzódott ki. Miután visszadugta, a fények kigyulladtak, a MyEarth kezelői pedig lelkesen közlik a jó hírt: Buddy háza már a világűrből is látható!

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Danny DeVito mint Buddy Hall
Matthew Broderick mint Steve Finch
Kristin Chenoweth mint Tia Hall
Kristin Davis mint Kelly Finch
Alia Shawkat mint Madison Finch
Dylan Blue mint Carter Finch
Sabrina Aldridge mint Ashley Hall
Kelly Aldridge mint Emily Hall
Jorge Garcia mint Wallace
Jackie Burroughs mint Mrs. Ryor
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SuChin Pak mint saját maga
Shannon Ostrom mint Bystander
Vu Huynh mint Kid Next Door
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