Page: Now for the real deal — what is a 'wall'?
For more than a month, the federal government was in partial shutdown while President Donald Trump and congressional leaders were deadlocked over the president's demands for money to build his long-promised border wall.
Neither side would budge and all the wiggle room for negotiation, particularly over the stickiest issue, Trump's proposed wall, had been squeezed out.
Then suddenly on Friday afternoon, Trump announced a deal to make a deal. After a 35-day impasse, the longest partial shutdown in U.S. history, the government would be reopened and back pay released to some 800,000 federal workers, if only for three weeks.
Contrary to popular belief promoted by President Trump and his allies in this deeply partisan divide, Democrats have never opposed "border security." Over the past decade alone, the Democrats have voted for billions of dollars in funding for physical barriers.
In 2006 the Secure Fence Act passed with bipartisan support to construct physical barriers along 700 miles of the almost 2,000-mile Mexican border.
Bipartisan majorities voted to fund physical barriers in 2006, 2013 and even last year.
After the failure of President George W. Bush's comprehensive immigration reform bill in 2007, enter candidate Trump to inflame the issue in 2015 by describing immigrants in the country illegally in terms of menace.
"Build that wall" became Trump's defining chant at his rallies. According to Joshua Green's book "Devil's Bargain: Steve Bannon, Donald Trump and the Nationalist Uprising," the "wall" was a mnemonic device to help Trump remember to refer to the immigration issue, a sure crowd-pleaser.
Footnote: One of the advisers was Roger Stone, a longtime Trump friend who was arrested Friday in connection with special counsel Robert Mueller's investigation of Russian interference in the 2016 presidential race. Small world, Washington.
Yet Trump was about to back away in December from his commitment to a wall-or-shutdown until conservative author-columnist Ann Coulter stepped in. The author of "In Trump We Trust" scorched her former hero in a column, titled "Gutless President in Wall-less Country." Other immigration-skeptic conservatives joined in the scorching.
Suddenly Trump turned away from the bipartisan bill he was about to sign and instead made new demands of a border wall. But there was no way the new Democrat-controlled House under Speaker Nancy Pelosi was going to approve what sounded like a wall, although that left a long menu of other border security measures, including drones, sensors and additional Border Patrol personnel that would be more effective than an old-fashioned wall.
I see signs of hope, however modest, in Trump's evolving rhetoric. He has begun to describe his proposal as "a wall, a fence or whatever you want to call it." He also conceded that a "barrier" could be a fence or "steel slats," among other possibilities. That did not impress Speaker Pelosi much. "Beaded curtain," she sarcastically offered.
But that sounded to me and many others like a hint. Maybe the president was getting tired of this single issue, especially as it began to take a noticeable toll on his approval ratings. Estimates were reported of 1 in 5 Americans being affected directly and negatively by the shutdown. Some fraying was even beginning to show around the edges of Trump's base.
If things follow the traditional pattern in Trump's Washington, I expect to see both parties extract as many concessions as they can in negotiations, pressured by the possibility of another shutdown that nobody wants. With Democrats receiving almost none of the blame for the shutdown compared with President Trump, who naively let himself take "the blame" for it even before it happened, I don't expect them to surrender their wall opposition while they're ahead.
But I also don't expect Trump to do anything so blatantly obvious as to give up either. Instead, I predict the debate will turn on a barrier of some sort and, regardless of whatever it is, I expect President Trump to call it a wall. He's never allowed himself to be confined very long to actual facts. Why should he start now?
That is true. But any tunnels and any ladders make it ineffective. The irony of this whole chaos is that what President Obama was doing was more effective than all the chaos Trump oversees. Why? Because remember when the educated guess was that there were 12 million illegals in the country. Check now. Who knows after Trump but technically there are only 11 million illegals stated. How could that be. Because President Obama was deporting people right and left, quietly, and he deported more than came in and immigration slowed to the net effect of 1 million less. But of course Obama knew what he was doing and in the event he didn't he asked someone instead of him thinking well I know more about this than anyone in the world. Like Trump says about a lot of things. And then proves he hasn't a clue about anything. Not even what he himself weighs.


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Gary Rowett on the importance of a good start to Derby County's Championship season
The Rams do not want to repeat their sluggish start to the 2016/17 season
Jonny BonellDigital football writer
Derby County manager Gary Rowett has highlighted the importance of a good start to the 2017/18 Championship season.
The Rams got off to a sluggish start during the last campaign, a start which contributed to new boss Nigel Pearson losing his job.
Derby won just one of their opening nine Championship games and were left playing catch-up for the rest of the season.
Despite getting themselves back into play-off contention for a brief spell under Steve McClaren, they eventually finished the season in ninth place – 13 points adrift of the top six.
Rowett is no stranger to starting the season well, having Birmingham City in the hunt for promotion last term, before being controversially sacked in December.
Gary Rowett knows a good first few results is vital for any club in the Championship (Image: Getty Images)
And, as it was proved at St Andrew's, Rowett knows a positive start is big for any club in the Championship.
"The two years I had at Birmingham we started really well," Rowett told TalkSPORT. "We were top six from the first 10 to 15 games which helps you because it allows you to have a little bit of a wobble and still be in the mix.
Championship clubs still being linked with Derby County defender
"If you don't start well you've got a lot to do.
"Talking to one or two managers in the Championship this summer, everyone feels it's going to be a really open league.
"Of course we are one of the teams and our expectation, because of the size of the club and amount of money we've invested, we have to be up there."

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaCommonCrawl


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/*
 * Created on Nov 23, 2004
 */
package uk.org.ponder.hashutil;

import java.security.SecureRandom;

import uk.org.ponder.stringutil.ByteToCharBase64;
import uk.org.ponder.stringutil.CharWrap;

/**
 * Generates a unique ID composed of printable characters. 24 characters
 * are quasi-base-64-encoded from 18 random bytes
 * generated by a good (in this case java.util.SecureRandom) random number
 * generator. In case anyone is worried about the possibilities of collision
 * of these IDs over time, the formula for probability of non-collision is
 * $p = e^{-n^2/2k}$. Inverting and approximating for small p we gain
 * $n = \sqrt{2k/p}$. For 144 bits of hash (~ 10^43), if we ask how many
 * pages (resources) must be generated before the probability of collision
 * reaches 1 in a billion (10^-9), we require ~ 10^17 hashes, i.e. 200Pb of
 * pages if only one byte per page.
 *
 * This class is threadsafe, at the moment since SecureRandom is synchronized.
 *
 * @author Antranig Basman (antranig@caret.cam.ac.uk)
 */
public class EighteenIDGenerator implements IDGenerator {
  SecureRandom random = new SecureRandom();

  public String generateID() {
    byte[] eighteen = new byte[18];
    random.nextBytes(eighteen);
    CharWrap togo = new CharWrap();
    ByteToCharBase64.writeBytes(togo, eighteen, 0, 18, false);
    return togo.toString();
  }

}

redpajama_set_name: RedPajamaGithub


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India-China border conflict escalates
In another incident of a now long-running border dispute between the world's 2nd and 6th largest economy, Chinese troops tried to occupy land near the Southern bank of Pangong Tso Lake on 29 and 30th August. The swift development of Indian troops blocked this attempt by the People's Liberation Army (PLA). Fortunately, there were no physical clashes between the soldiers on both sides.
The Ministry of Defence (MoD) confirmed through a statement on 31st August that another two separate incidents took place to change the status quo on the ground by China but Indian troops were able to stave off these advances also. Since the violent faceoff in Galway valley, India and China have been involved in diplomatic talks to resolve the border issue. However, five rounds of talks between Indian and Chinese military talks have not led to a breakthrough.
Since this incident, a high-level meeting has taken place involving top officials of the Defence ministry and our armed forces where they decided to heighten the vigilance along the borders of China, Bhutan and Nepal. This decision has been conveyed to the respective organizations guarding the borders. The Indian Army has taken up positions along dominating peaks on the Indian side of the LAC, but not very far from the Chinese posts, heightening the chances of a localized conflict. The Brigade Commander-level talks will continue in Chilsul to resolve this impasse as the talks in the last two days didn't produce any outcome
China's recent actions on the ground completely contradict their actions through diplomatic channels as they show a willingness to resolve this conflict through talks. However, our defence establishment claims they are ready to face China's deceitful tactics and are still deliberating to come to a consensus. India cannot afford to let this situation escalate as then they face the prospect of a two-way war against collusive military allies Pakistan and China. With the economy's condition, the government can't afford to foot a large-scale war.
Reporter: Rishit Roy


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The Power of Being Yourself: Huda Kattan
By Rachel Strugatz November 30, 2018 18:44
The most powerful beauty influencer in the world wasn't able to build her Huda Beauty cosmetics empire until she accepted her 'weirdness.'
Huda Kattan | Source: Getty Images for The Business of Fashion
OXFORDSHIRE, United Kingdom — Huda Kattan, the founder and chief executive of Huda Beauty, credits the ascension of her brand — currently valued at over $1 billion — to being weird.
It all dates back to the second grade, when a seven-year-old classmate named Laura came up to her told her she was weird, Kattan said onstage at VOICES, BoF's annual gathering for big thinkers hosted in partnership with QIC Global Real Estate.
To make matters worse, a few more kids chimed in and seconded the sentiment.
"If so many kids are calling me weird, I must be so weird.... That's where you go for information. As a kid, they defined who I believed I was," said Kattan. "To be honest, I felt different. I was darker, hairier, my hair was unruly, my parents would speak loudly in Arabic across the hall. I was one of the only brown kids. My family were Muslim immigrants with very little money. We knew we didn't fit in. It showed."
https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=VAzbyT0c6Yc
Born and raised in Oklahoma City, Oklahoma, Kattan recalled her family's "two-tone duct-taped cars" and wearing hand-me downs growing up. She also had a big personality, a "huge obsession with the arts," and loved to talk, sing and dance. Classmates started to call her Honda and Hooters, which didn't go over well.
Desperate to fit in, Kattan stopped using her first name and went by "Heidi," her middle name, for years before she had an "identity crisis" after being fired from her first job out of college.
"I had no choice but to accept who I was. I wanted to be fully me, totally and utterly weird…. Being different challenges norms, but different is brilliant," Kattan said, citing vlogs she's posted on YouTube about using KY Jelly or Vagisil as makeup primers as an example. "The crazy part about accepting yourself is that the conviction of not caring what people think allows them to accept you in return. The only people who enjoy happiness and success embrace their weirdness."
Today, the beauty influencer and entrepreneur's line is on track to do $400 million in retail sales this year and she's the 60th most-followed person on all of Instagram, with 29.5 million fans to her handle. What started out as a line of five styles of fake eyelashes has expanded to a full range of colour cosmetics, fragrance and soon skincare. In less than three years, Huda Beauty has become one of the fastest-growing beauty companies in the world, with distribution at global retailers from Sephora to Harrods and Selfridges.
"We became limitless and we weren't chained to the beliefs of society. The impact was so profound our brand didn't blossom – it boomed," Kattan said. "We're competing against conglomerates with billions of dollars, people telling us we didn't have a chance. How did we not only compete but dominate with so little resources? We embraced our weirdness."
Kattan's team is full of a "bunch of weirdos," and by that she means people who have learned to embrace "their weird" – aka, their genius.
To learn more about VOICES, BoF's annual gathering for big thinkers, visit our VOICES website, where you can find all the details on our invitation-only global gathering, in partnership with QIC Global Real Estate.


Packaging KDE-Telepathy is complicated for two reasons: firstly, due to the modular nature of Telepathy, there are several distinct components in separate git repositories. Secondly, there are large numbers of runtime interdependencies to worry about. This page attempts to ease packaging KDE-Telepathy in a useful way by explaining these issues.
QJson build dependency for ktp-auth-handler.
telepathy-logger if you ware going to compile telepathy-logger-qt.
We're also using some bits from kdelibs 4.7.0 (Build and Runtime Dependency).
The IM networks that KDE-Telepathy can connect to are decided by which Telepathy Connection Managers are installed. These are runtime only dependencies, but which ones are installed will decide what IM networks KDE-Telepathy supports. The following are the ones we recommend - whether they are installed optionally or required is, of course, up to you.
telepathy-haze (for all the other protocols, as supported by libpurple).
It seems like telepathy-farstream should be compiled before telepathy-qt for compilation of ktp-call-ui to proceed.
The different components of KDE-Telepathy are housed in separate git repositories on quickgit.kde.org. Some of these components are currently recommended to use. Others are not yet ready to be installed by users.
These components have reached a level of maturity where they are interesting to users. We recommend providing these components at the current time.
We have several other components under development, however, unless they are listed above we do not recommend packaging them. This is because they are subject to major changes/removal at any time, and are not ready for end users yet.
Our 0.1.0 release had an extra package called telepathy-kde-accounts-kcm-plugins. These plugins have now been merged to the main telepathy-kde-accounts-kcm package and are no longer shipped separately.
Here is a list of known packaging efforst for various distributions. If you are also doing packages for a distribution, add your information here.
openSUSE The openSUSE Community (opensuse-kde@opensuse.org) http://download.opensuse.org/repositories/KDE:/Extra (repository).
This page was last modified on 13 July 2016, at 18:31.	Content is available under Creative Commons License SA 4.0 unless otherwise noted.


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Index OnAir: The Evolution and Future of Open Source
Companies built around open source are finding new ways to win over big business — and fight off ruthless competition from Amazon. CNBC technology reporter Ari Levy talks to Confluent President of Field Operations Erica Schultz, Cockroach Labs CEO and Co-Founder Spencer Kimball, and Index Partner Mike Volpi about the future of the sector, and why the shift to cloud-based infrastructure has only just begun.
Ari Levy: How have Confluent and Cockroach Labs had to change plans as a result of Covid-19?
Erica Schultz: Confluent has experienced quite a bit in the last seven months. There's a proliferation of Kafka in the world, and broad adoption across several hundred thousand organizations including Fortune 500 global companies. We've taken open-source adoption and used that to help companies build a managed fully cloud service that supports Kafka and event streaming. It's a more production-ready architectural standard, and more scalable and secure.
Before Covid-19, we were studying opportunities for growth in financial services, insurance and retail, as well as new geographies. We're executing against that plan, and investing in bringing our cloud service to market — that's a relatively new service and the fastest growing part of our portfolio. We wanted to make sure we're helping our customers solve their most pressing challenges, and a managed cloud service means they don't have to worry about spinning up their own infrastructure and hiring.
Many of our customers have accelerated their digital transformation projects. We started to lean into customer use cases like 360 inventory, or real-time fraud detection for banks, making sure we had clear value statements for our customers. This has helped make Confluent a business-critical technology partner that is above the cut line.
We also reexamined our business model to make sure our pricing aligned with customers. We had bet on pay-as-you-go and usage-based billing, rather than asking for big up-front commitments based on sales forecasts. That was a smart bet.
Spencer Kimball: Companies often run the relational database themselves because of the infosec requirements, so Cockroach's business has been on-premise or self-hosted. Most companies are more familiar with that model, especially big companies running Oracle or SQL servers. That's been our business, and it would be crazy to ignore that and go head-to-head directly with Amazon in the growth segment.
But things are changing. With Covid-19 we've seen increasing interest from bigger enterprises including Global 2000 and Fortune 500 companies who are asking if we're SOC 2-compliant and can run in Azure, GCP, AWS, or even across the clouds. Things that weren't part of the vision for the future even three months ago are now being actively sought after, so we've definitely seen acceleration in the whole program around replatforming. Companies consider Cockroach to be a crucial investment, and not something being delayed by Covid-19.
Lockdown provided an opportunity for us to take a step back and look critically at our processes, at our growth and at the efficiency of our sales model. We've moved to an agile headcount plan instead of a strategic plan, and we're looking at how we can increase efficiency. When you're a young company that grows quickly, you have a tendency to rush to hire because you've got investment and you want to deploy quickly.
Ari: How challenging is it to sell an open source-based service today?
Spencer: The idea of going through procurement to buy software became the dominant paradigm in the 2000s because it was simpler and faster to value. Nowadays, a cloud service provides a much better time to value. That's where the next generation of infrastructure is going to exist.
Our goal is to figure out the best of the open-core model, which is really time to value, and bring that to the cloud as a service. So how do we change the cost structure and really think about services being open, being across the cloud and perpetually free? That's the future of the open-core model.
Ari: You worked in a top-down sales environment at Oracle, and then moved to New Relic, which was a pioneer in selling to groups that proliferated within small companies. What's Confluent's sales strategy?
Erica: New Relic opened my eyes to the power of organic, bottom-up developer adoption and how that makes your product an acceptable standard in the market. You couple that with top-down selling, speaking to a CTO or head of engineering who are evaluating software developers already love. They will want to know that it has the right security, governance and scalability. That's what we're striving to balance at Confluent too, making sure Kafka gets wide adoption in the market and that the on-ramp through Confluent Cloud is easy. We want to meet customers early on in their adoption cycle.
Ari: Is it hard to sell at the highest levels of big companies?
Spencer: When we first went to market in 2018, we weren't really sure whether larger companies would be interested, given their extreme investment in other databases over the years. There can be hundreds of thousands of Oracle instances at a big bank, for example. But interest in migrating to cloud native platforms is high, including in those big companies, and Cockroach represents a very distinct new opportunity for doing that. Larger companies are interested in new technologies, and they're replatforming by using Kubernetes, Kafka, and Microservices. They're thinking about a database that will work well through the 2020s.
Ari: How has enterprise infrastructure changed in the past decade?
Mike Volpi: The explosion of scale of the web highlighted all the limits of classic infrastructure. For a relational database, the only way to make a bigger one is to get a larger disk and a faster processor, so once you got to a scaling limit you were blocked. Smart people like Jay at Confluent and Spencer at Cockroach understood that we needed to operate on internet scale, and that meant rethinking how software is built. The shift from pre-internet to post-internet created a whole new generation of enterprise infrastructure.
Spencer: Scale was a huge catalyst for the reinvention of infrastructure as it existed pre web, but there's a new one coming that we're betting on for the 20s and beyond and that's the idea of truly global services. Uber, Facebook, Netflix and Google have all built global data architectures to give customers what feels like a local experience, no matter where they are. You can't have Australian users jumping all the way to Virginia for their requests if you want instantaneous interaction.
Facebook spent millenia — more than 1,000 years of engineering effort — building its distributed data architecture. That's something that is going to democratize naturally as services like Cockroach and others start to make tools available in the public cloud. That will be within the grasp of every developer, but all this infrastructure has to be reimagined for this next inflection point.
Erica: Anytime you have that big kind of architectural shift, open source is such a great fit because it enables broad adoption and proliferation in the market. For these platform layers, developers and companies want to make bets on things that are open, popular and widely used. The alternative would be encouraging a technology team to make a big architectural change from the top down, and that's just a harder approach.
Developer-relations are critical. Ultimately we want to have a really strong presence in the community, and we want Kafka to be widely available so people can get trained up. Being able to meet developers where they are is super important.
Ari: How much of a challenge does AWS present to open-source companies?
Mike: The big open-source projects like Linux or MySQL were designed by a broad base of community developers working outside companies, and they would add to it through a central controlling body and the open-source software group. Amazon initially used those — EC2 is based on Linux, and they have a MySQL or a Postgres offering. That was all good.
As the world figured out a business model around open source, Amazon began taking the software and self-hosting it on behalf of people. These smaller companies were trying to accelerate the progression of open source and make it a sort of a hybrid model. You're now seeing a tension in the market because Amazon has been capitalizing on the value created by other companies.
The only answer is that licensing is going to change. Open source will become more of a commercial business model, with newer companies essentially disabling Amazon from using their product as a free thing. That will cause some friction with hardcore open-source people, but it's a reality of the capitalistic world. Five years from now, it's going to be harder for Amazon.
Spencer: AWS grew up with high-growth tech companies and has dominated that, but big companies are moving to the cloud en masse. There's a tipping point there, and big companies don't like the vendor concentration risk of AWS. If AWS is to attract hundreds of millions of dollars from those companies they can't be schilling products the way they have been. Instead, they simply need to offer the best software.
Erica: The bulk of enterprise workloads have yet to move to the public cloud, so most customers are going to be living in a hybrid environment for a period of time. Secondly, customers don't want all their eggs in one basket, so they look at multiple cloud providers. One of our strategies is to excel in that hybrid and multi-cloud environment, and be the streaming data platform across those environments.
We recognize that each of the major cloud vendors have some sort of messaging offering. Amazon has an offering based on Kafka, but it's not a fully managed service. Confluent has to have the best product on the market and earn customer choice, not only through our technology but by having the best expertise around Kafka. That's a big part of our value proposition.
Ari: Tell us about Cockroach's licensing model, and how that helped you compete with AWS.
Spencer: Our core assumption was that a big company like Google or Amazon wouldn't seek to compete directly with a smaller company that was stewarding an open-source project — but we were wrong. Some companies have struggled against Amazon because it used their open-source products and pushed them through their own platform. AWS took not only the open-core part but also started reimplementing enterprise features. I don't think Google would do that — it's just part of their company culture not to do things like that. But Amazon doesn't have those values. They obsess about the customer and from that perspective, it's good to give them whatever Cockroach or another open-source startup is offering.
We decided to use something that MariaDB came up with called the BSL, or business source license. It gives a kind of a patent protection, and we set the term for three years after which the core becomes Apache. That means it leaves an open-source legacy. The BSL is exactly like Apache, with the exception that you can't offer Cockroach core as a database-as-a-service to external customers in a commercial setting — that's our anti-AWS RDS exclusion. But you can fork it, all the code's available, and you can run it internally. Amazon could take a three-year old version of Cockroach and compete with us directly, but Cockroach will have progressed a lot in three years. It levels the playing field. We've had to explain it to customers sometimes, but they understand why we're doing it and they support us.
Ari: What advice would you give an early stage open-source company?
Spencer: The successful open-source companies were fairly established before commercialization started. We took a different route: Cockroach had a project there was interest in, but it wasn't even in alpha. It required huge investment in R&D to get it looking like a true enterprise-grade, production-ready system. You could argue we still have work to do to get there, and maybe in ten years we'll still have work to do. It's just a very big goal. We also have to educate the market and support early open-source projects so they can grow and strengthen the sector, as well as build community and build users.
It would have taken some risk off the table for everyone involved if Cockroach had had more gestation before we started building the company. But what made Cockroach palatable to early investors was the really big market.
Mike: There weren't many open-source investors six or seven years ago, because why would you invest in a business that gives away its core product for free?
Today, new investors love vanity metrics, like how many GitHub stars or downloads, or how busy their Slack channel is. But it's also essential to understand what this project is doing and why it is important. Confluent is interconnecting all forms and shapes of data inside an enterprise. When I first saw it, I understood it was the freeway system for data inside a corporation. And once you put in a freeway system it doesn't move, so this has huge longevity and becomes a critical asset. Cockroach is a relational database, which is the most common database on the planet. Everybody uses them, and yet there hasn't been a new one since about 1986 — instead we've invented all these newfangled databases because of the limitations of classical relational databases.
Ari: Both Confluent and Cockroach raised large rounds recently. How did the pandemic impact that?
Erica: We raised a Series E right in the middle of Covid-19. We were already committed to reducing our burn rate to enable more efficient growth but now it's super important.
Covid-19 has given us that lens of reexamining the bets we've made, making sure we double down on the things that really matter. Macro-environment challenges are an opportunity to make hard decisions faster. It's forced us to be more decisive and more aggressive in focusing on our growth bets.
Spencer: It was probably the worst time in the last ten years to raise. We'd started just before Covid-19 hit and it was a pretty difficult situation to be in. But we've come to see financing as a big opportunity to assess our approach, how we're going to spend money and how we're thinking about our three and seven-year plans.
Ari: Are you actively investing, and what's the outlook for IPOs in the second half of the year?
Mike: The financing climate has been slow at the early and Series A stage. Potential entrepreneurs are concerned about stepping away from Google or Facebook because the climate is so uncertain. For later-stage companies it's pretty lively, because going into Covid-19 everyone battened down the hatches.
But although the market as a whole is down an average 15-20%, no company is average. What we're really seeing is a bifurcation: some businesses are truly struggling, and some are benefiting. Those companies are actually seeing a push from their customer base to digitize. Investors have figured that out and are proactively going after these companies.
On the IPO side there's a lot of investor interest. We've seen a few successful ones, and there is still a pipeline out there, mostly from businesses that have benefited from Covid-19. We don't know what the end of the tunnel looks like, but we're going to see the markets open up a little bit.
Ari: How do you assess the value of an open-source company?
Mike: When you're investing in early open-source companies, you definitely want all the primary contributors to that code base to still be working at the company. Without that, it's hard to catalyze a community that will keep the project going in the right direction.
The second thing is that the majority of open-source self-hosted users don't pay. I'd be surprised if even 10% of a userbase pays, so if you're monetizing a smaller portion of the overall user universe, you've got to make sure that the universe is really big.
The last clue you're looking for is open-source projects that contain a lot of data. Traditionally, things like databases are the projects that tend to be easier to monetize, because the customer can count the number of nodes. The more nodes, the more they pay you.
Late-stage investing is pretty straightforward. You can see the metrics of the business, whether it is growing in adoption, and whether there's a large community with customers adopting both top-down and bottom-up. You have a lot of information to help you assess the business, so then it's just an issue of whether the valuation is worth it.
Ari: Since Zoom and Slack went public with virtual roadshows, is there now a blueprint for going public without meeting investors face-to-face?
Mike: Management teams usually fly around for two weeks on red eyes and kill themselves for one-hour meetings. Now they're just going to get on Zoom and talk to investors. It's probably better because both sides are more coherent. There may be one roadshow stop in New York and a couple of other markets, but it will be more rational than 17 cities in 3 days.
Spencer: We thought we'd struggle during Covid-19 because we have direct sellers that get on planes to visit customers. That's how they build relationships. But we've seen some really unlooked-for efficiencies. People are much more willing to take meetings, and things like workshops where we used to get 25 people in a room we've now had 130 people from all over the country. That's significantly more efficient than in-person meetings. It's a brave new world.
This transcript has been edited for clarity and length.
Published — July 17, 2020
Index OnAir: Looking Forward- 2021 and Beyond (Part I, AI)
Index OnAir: Looking Forward- 2021 and Beyond (Part II, The Startup Landscape)


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Listings >> Frontenac Arch
Silver Queen Mica Mine Trail
Farmers find themselves between a rock and a hard place…literally
Murphys Point Provincial Park is on the edge of the Frontenac Arch and the St. Lawrence Lowlands. When settlers first arrived in the area, they weren't expecting the type of ground they encountered. Instead of finding deep topsoil they found bedrock just under the surface. Quality farming plots were difficult to find and many farmers were unable to produce enough crops to clothe and feed their families. Other sources of income had to be sought. Side ventures included logging, trapping and maple syrup production, but late in the 1800's what the ground kept from them in the form of crops it gave to them in the form of minerals. But why here?…
The region is part of the Canadian Shield. It is a vast region of ancient rock, which once consisted of the tallest mountain range in earth's history. Through time, those mountains eroded exposing the metamorphic rock formed by the great heat and pressure of the earth. Some areas consist of these metamorphic minerals in small pockets where the existing shale was heated. In other places magma was able to inject it's way into fractures and fill vast areas. The slow cooling magma had room to grow extensive veins of crystals leaving a gift for the struggling homesteaders. It was discovered that the region was rich in Apatite, Mica and Feldspar. Apatite, rich in phosphorous, was mined and ground for fertilizer. Mica, with its thin, transparent mineral sheets, was used for woodstove windows and as insulators. As the economic value of these minerals was recognized, farmers began scouring their lands for accessible veins. Thus a mining economy was born.
The Silver Queen Mine Trail takes you in the footsteps of the men and women who worked these lands. The trail is a step back in time with amazing natural beauty and a history of hard working Canadians determined to work their land.
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Hiking: Murphys Point PP (Silver Queen Mine Trail) and Rideau Trail
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How to get to Silver Queen Mine Trail
Driving: To park, a day-pass must be purchased from the Murphys Point Provincial Park registration office. Once you have your pass, exit the park, turn left on the Lally Rd (Rt 21) and continue approximately 2.5 km to the trail head parking lot.
Cycling: Only the main gravel trails are accessible for cycling.
How to explore Silver Queen Mine Trail
Pick up a trail guide at the trail head then make your way along this 2 km interpretative loop. Numbered informational signposts correspond to entries in the trail guide to tell the history of the mine and highlight the many sites along the way. The best way to fully experience this trail is during one of the parks open houses or guided tours (check here for tour schedule). The mine and recreated bunkhouse are open to visitors only during open houses and guided tours. On your way back around the loop, take the Beaver Pond Trail as an alternate return trip and pass through a flooded section of forest, where you might get a chance to see beavers hard at work. While you are at this end of the park, you can also check out the remains of the Lally Homestead and if you're up for it, hike the .8 km Lally Homestead trail. This trail is also accessible in the winter for snowshoeing.
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Happy New Year everyone! I wish you and your loved ones all the best this year!
A quick update on the v3. It is going very well. I am still very busy making the changes and will have a screenshot update most likely in about 2 weeks. Besides the major updates to the plugin, I am also working on the following.
1 - This website will be updated with a fresh theme and content.
2 - I will be moving away from the home built license management system and use Easy Digital Downloads instead.
Boy, there are a lot of things still to do but I am very excited with these changes. Once v3 is out, it will enable me to add more sophisticated and useful features that will put Events Planner back on the top as the most flexible and powerful event registration plugin out there.
Just wanted to get in touch and let you know about version 3. It is going as planned and I have set a January deadline for the release. Things are going very well and I am sure you will be pleased with the new version. It is as flexible as it has always been, with better underlying code and data structure, new and modern screens, and a few new and awesome features 😉 I have been very busy with some significant sized side projects using different tools and have learned quite a few new ways of doing things. That is helping transform Events Planner into a better plugin. It is still one of the most powerful and flexible WordPress event registration plugins and I intend to keep it that way. I will do a full write-up in January and show you all what's coming.
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2016 Our Best Year Yet!
Kauai Community Cat Project: 2016 Our Best Year Yet!
Kauai Community Cat Project, KCCP, is a small non-profit supporting Trap-Neuter-Return (TNR) and cat rescue. TNR is a way to reduce cat populations in areas outside of sensitive wildlife habitats. KCCP also rescues adoptable cats and kittens that have been abandoned or born outdoors.
After years of increasing activity, KCCP's Board of Directors had planned for a steady year in 2016. The Board thought KCCP was near its max and that this would be a year focused on solidifying funding and improving efficiency.
Instead 2016 was the biggest year ever. The growth in numbers of cats helped was over 30% compared to 2015. This was after three years of 20% plus growth. We are on pace for helping almost 900 cats in 2016. Now, our long-term goal of helping 1000 cats per year seems achievable in 2017.
The effect of TNR is cumulative. Each TNR project creates a tiny island of declining homeless cat population. Over time, more and more of these exist. As these "islands" increasingly connect together, Kauai will reach a tipping point where the island-wide population of stray and homeless cats will decrease at 10% to 15% per year.
TNR is already reducing the homeless cat population and cat impacts more than all (lethal) cat removal activities combined, including those by State and Federal Agencies and by the Kauai Humane Society.
KCCP also had a banner year for rescuing and adopting cats. This year we'll adopt over 300, which is a 100% increase over 2015. About 1/3rd of these cats travelled to the mainland as part of our Wings For Whiskers program. Tourists adopted others while they visited here and then took them home – KCCP helps cat lovers like this with all the details. We tell tourists that a cat or kitten is the best Kauai memento they can have! But most rescued cats were adopted right here on Kauai.
To put these adoption numbers in perspective, Kauai Humane Society, with a total budget that's about 20x times larger than KCCP's, has adopted just over 300 cats for each of the last three years. KCCP projects 310 adoptions for 2016.
All of this is good news, but we have a long way to go. This year, we've worked with hundreds of people. But, there were too many times when we couldn't help because we were limited by available funds and volunteers.
Our business model is different. We are not a government agency that you call, and we show up and take care of the cats. Instead, KCCP helps people take responsibility directly. We don't do it for you; we help you do it. We provide support with advice, by helping financially, or by loaning traps. We'll show you how to trap. We believe that enlisting the community in the effort is the only way to solve the problem of too many homeless cats.
I hope everyone reading this will consider helping us by volunteering or sending a donation. Or, if you see a situation with too many cats, please fill out a sightings report.
Mahalo for supporting KCCP and Kauai's community cats!


A little seahorse, named "Cheeto," is alive and recovering thanks to the heroic efforts of one little girl and her mother.
While the mother and daughter were enjoying a day at Indian Shores Beach, a seagull dropped what looked like a Cheeto at a little girl's feet. After taking a closer look at the 'Cheeto,' the girl realized it was actually a little orange seahorse! She placed it in a bucket and showed her mother, who called Clearwater Marine Aquarium for help.
A CMA Rescue Team brought the little seahorse to the aquarium. After an intense week of care, Cheeto, a female orange lined seahorse, started eating grass shrimp.
"Although initially appearing very orange, Cheeto now has taken on a bright yellow color. Color change is common in some seahorses, which have an ability known as crypsis to camouflage and match their surroundings," the aquarium posted on their website .
"The level and amount of care we are providing Cheeto is indicative of the serious commitment and passion that CMA has for all marine life," says David Yates, CEO, "Each creature is important to us, and we are fortunate to have the opportunity to rehabilitate Cheeto."
Cheeto now appears to be recovering nicely. When healthy, Cheeto will be released back home, into the wild.
You can visit Cheeto at Clearwater Marine Aquarium now until release. Cheeto will be found at the water quality lab across from Mavis' Rescue Hideaway.
You can also watch Cheeto live on the Cheeto Cam .


The party cut through the wind and continued to fly.
They had to go around the mountains, which took longer than if they had flown directly over them. It was inevitable, since the dragons were not full grown and the party did not want to anger the Melt mountains' guardian, the Mist Garuda.
The elder dragons that Vizzy brought had yet to reach adulthood.
She had intended to bring adult elder dragons, but it was breeding season. It was not possible to remove them from Rashugum.
That was why she had brought the younger ones, who weren't ready for breeding yet.
Aside from their sizes, they weren't that different from the adults. However, their smaller stature impacted their flying abilities.
They weren't as fast as the adults, nor could they fly very high.
If the elder dragons were adults, it would have been possible to fly over the Melt mountains easily.
There was a variation in the pack's colors, because there weren't enough green elder dragons – the fastest ones. Aside from that, having a set of dragons with different specialties was better for an emergency.
Shin took out a tent for camping from his Item Box.
It wasn't a personal-sized tent, but for a party or a group. Since the tent comes out fully assembled, there's no need for extra work.
Still, some players enjoy assembling tents during game play.
The tent was large enough for a party of 6, the party limit, to the extent that they could all huddle up and sleep together. However, in this case the tent was divided into two sections. Men and Women.
There was simple bedding provided inside, with adequate temperature control. Obviously magic was involved.
A message arrived from Berett, as Shin set up camp. He had asked for more information about the church from the Golden Company that Berett managed.
Shin looked over the information.
The firm had a branch in the city of Sigurd, where the church's headquarter was based. Berett had ordered his workers to spy on the church's movements. So far nothing was out of the ordinary.
The church had gained support from several different regions, after being involved in revival movements post – "Dusk of the Majesty".
There were many religions across Eltnia, like those who worshipped indigenous gods and heroes. Still, church followers made up the majority of the population.
The Pope was at the top, with several cardinals and priests below him, dispatched across Eltnia and its many smaller countries. Due to the volume of followers and the expansion of the church organization, Sigurd alone felt like its own city state.
Of course, other countries did not approve of this way.
That was why the church's knights acted like a standing army, clearing out the monsters in the area as a way of keeping balance with the surrounding countries. Rumor has it, that there was even a special military force composed of only Chosen Ones.
Some individuals also possessed their own Chosen Ones.
Perhaps Bulk and Eline's relationship was just another form of that.
It was hard for Shin to decide whether Millie's abduction was Bulk acting out rashly, or the will of the church.
He felt like it was probably the former, but when he also considered Millie's abilities, it was entirely likely that the church's upper echelon had their own personal agenda.
Berett had already been notified that a child with special abilities had been abducted by a father of the church. It would take some time though for the details to become clear.
They were up against the church though. It would be irresponsible to drag in those who were not involved to begin with.
Was Bulk alone? Were there others? It was necessary to make it clear.
Regardless of who was responsible – whether it was just Bulk or a few others – it had to be stopped. And it had to be stopped at all costs.
If it were just a numbers game, the adventure guild had an advantage. However, the church had more Chosen Ones under its command that were free to do as they pleased.
This force was quite potent, especially since the extent of each individual's abilities were unknown. The church could easily take over any of the countries in the vicinity.
Shin was talking to himself, and Schnee responded while cooking.
This was if the church was in on it, or if the upper echelon of the church had been a part of it. If this were the case though, the church would have to go down.
Of course Tiera was upset about Millie.
However, it was worrisome hearing Shin and Schnee practically declaring war on the entire church.
But of course, it wasn't as if Shin and Schnee were going to attack the church right now, at this instant. Still, it was nothing to joke about.
Unlike Tiera, Wilhelm couldn't hide the astonishment in the tone of his voice.
Of course he was still bitter, but time had cooled down his temper. In comparison to before they had taken off, he had controlled his emotions much more.
The only two that he knew would be a handful, were Father Bulk and his loyal pet Eline. Aside from those two, Shin and company did not know; what other war potentials they had, why they were after Millie, and why they possessed Exvaine.
One thing was for certain, and that was Shin and his party's purpose.
They had to get Millie back. That was it.
The enemy could be the whole church, or part of the church. It didn't matter. They knew what they had to do, and they had the strength to do it.
Shin heaved a sigh like he was letting out all of the heat in his body. He loosened his shoulders.
He hadn't lost his cool, but he was aware that he was more aggressive than usual.
He apologized to a concerned-looking Tiera and tried to focus on something else.
Schnee had never stopped working throughout the conversation.
Shin looked over at what Tiera was talking about. The table was set and the food was ready.
Schnee called on Vizzy who was tending to the elder dragons.
Vizzy fed the 5 different colored elder dragons, and Shin and his party couldn't help her.
The dragons each bit into their own pile of meat, that would have come from at least one cattle.
Vizzy walked towards Shin and the party, and smiled at the meal.
She had known about Schnee leveling up at cooking.
Vizzy was cut off abruptly.
Schnee had stopped her from finishing her thought by blocking her mouth.
It was out of the blue, and Vizzy tried to get out of Schnee's hold. after all, she works for Cashmere in the Rokuten. She's much more adept than most upper class Chosen Ones.
Schnee however had been born and raised for combat. Vizzy's resistance was useless, given the class difference.
"Mmmmm! Mmmmmm! Mmmm…." Vizzy was growing weaker. She was out of breath.
Vizzy didn't look 'a little limp'. The moment Schnee let go of her, she gasped for air.
Schnee was raising her right arm with a gritty smile on her face, and Vizzy raised both hands as a gesture of surrender. Schnee was smiling, except she wasn't.
Not only did this exchange ease the tension, but it left Shin aghast.
Once they were finished eating, they prepared for the journey ahead and went to bed. No one was on guard duty. They had set up both 【Barrier】 and 【Wall】 spells, and no one stood a chance against this party.
At the rate that they traveled, it was possible for Shibaid to join them and for the party to arrive in Sigurd by the end of tomorrow.
Contact had been made with Berett already. If any new information were obtained through the Golden Company in Sigurd, it'd be relayed to Shin promptly. While he doubted that anything new would come up overnight, he still had the investigation continue.
The dawn came and the party was heading toward Kilmont.
They had left early in the morning, so before noon, they were a field away from the royal capital of Kilmont.
Shin and Shibaid were communicating via Mind Chat, and had a meeting place set. They would head back to Kilmont after getting Millie back.
The elder dragons landed a few kemels away from Kilmont.
In the direction from Kilmont, a shadow was approaching.
Tiera noticed the presence, and she tried to see more closely.
Shin told his party not to worry. They waited.
Within 5 minutes, the shadow emerged.
It was Shin's support character no. 4, Shibaid Etraku, covered in black scales and kicking up the dirt as he trekked to meet Shin.
His luggage must be in an Item Box. He wasn't as fast as Shin or Schnee, but he sped towards them at well past the speed of an upper class Chosen One.
He wore protective gear which was different to the full body armor he originally wore. Only parts of his body such as the hands, feet and waist were protected with armor.
Shibaid let out a fiery breath. In contrast to Vizzy, he scowled and showed his disdain clearly.
Shibaid showed more enthusiasm than Shin and the party. It could be the mix of his personality and his occupation – a similar field – as a holy knight.
For some reason Vizzy gave a thumb's up while giving out orders.
There was nothing to disagree with, so Shin accepted it.
Shibaid was heavy. It made sense to switch riders.
If there was any confusion, it was the fact that Schnee should ride with Tiera, since they were the two lightest characters.
Schnee wrapped her arms around Shin's waist, and held on tightly. Shin made sure that they were secure, and ordered his elder dragon to rise.
If it weren't for the dire situation, the ride should have been enjoyable. Unfortunately, that was not the case.
The 5 dragons leapt into the air. Shin and his party was now headed straight for Sigurd.
Meanwhile, the church had no idea that the world's most powerful ability holders were on their tail. Father Bulk had returned, and he was headed to one location.
Eline followed behind him carrying Millie.
The two were walking along a block that was not known to the public. Only powerful men within the church knew of its existence, such as a cardinal or an even higher status.
It was an undisclosed location within the guild house Palmirack, used as a safe house or an experiment room.
The building itself was sturdy and the walls and floors gave off heat.
Doors would open on their own just from sensing a presence.
Magic was abundant, authenticating individuals across several species.
Spells were active in these chambers that were impossible to recast from before the "Dusk of the Majesty," and the leaders of the church held their offices and slept in these halls.
A portion of the equipment in Palmirack was functional, and in a way that people could utilize it.
Father Bulk was walking through corridors that were divided into even smaller sections, where several clearances passes were necessary. Unlike the other areas with several rooms, they stopped at one room the size of an entire area. Beautiful decorations adorned the room where Father Bulk stopped.
It was the room of the 'Holy Woman'.
Father Bulk opened the door without knocking.
For a personal room, it appeared very sparse. One look and you'd think that it was a prayer room.
It was about 25 mels by 40 mels. The ceiling was 10 mels high. The room was enormous.
The floor in the center was a step higher than the rest of the room, giving off an even greater impression that this was a room for prayer.
Except that there was a bed there. A thin cloth draped from above, surrounding this bed.
You could see the shadow of a petite woman.
Bulk bowed elaborately, and this was only making the Holy Woman more disgusted.
Most people would have fallen in love with such a soothing voice, but the disdain was palpable.
The Holy Woman held her breath as she processed Bulk's words.
Of course, she knew that he didn't mean her own species, when he had said her 'own kind'.
As a holy man, Father Bulk has swayed far from the righteous path. But he would never bring an outsider to a Holy Woman's room, just because they're the 'same species'.
Which meant one thing with regards to her special title.
The Saint's expression became grim as Father Bulk's words sank in.
He calmly stepped forward towards the Saint and placed Millie on the floor, lifting her from his shoulders.
Father Bulk spoke as if it were a matter of fact.
However, the Saint knew that he was lying.
The word replacement triggered something in the Saint.
Of course, she wanted out. But that didn't mean that she would sacrifice a small child for her own sake.
The Saint had to bite her tongue to stop herself from all the profanities she wanted to spit at Father Bulk.
Father Bulk thanked her half heartedly and left the Saint's room.
Eline followed Bulk, leaving behind Millie and the Saint.
The Holy Woman squeezed her fist, fuming at the way Bulk had handled Millie like some sort of tool.
She stood from the edge of the bed where she was sitting, and lifted the thin cloth to inch closer towards the unconscious Millie.
She was no longer hidden by the cloth, and her physicality became more present.
She was beautiful – as beautiful as you'd imagine any saint.
Her marble skin, her silky white hair, her clear blue eyes.
The face staring down at Millie was as beautiful as a doll, while radiating the warmth that a doll could not.
This made the black collar around her neck stand out even more.
She was perhaps 16 years old. Maybe it was too soon to call her a 'woman,' but she was beyond the maturity of a little girl.
She held the sleeping Millie into her arm. Millie's eyes opened, after feeling a warm body pressing against hers.
Her voice was so close, she realized that she was being held.
It might have been due to her beastly instincts – Millie twisted herself out of the Holy Woman's embrace. She looked around the room and realized that she was no longer at the church.
Millie looked around everywhere, trying to find an escape route. The Holy Woman was calm.
She was so calm that it made Millie relax a bit.
Hermie's words remind Millie of the circumstances by which she was brought here. The last thing she remembers is Rashia in a pool of her own blood.
Millie had heard Bulk speak, and she had pieced it together that she was to blame for Rashia's injuries.
Rashia had been there for her when Millie had no family. She had smiled at her.
Millie couldn't stop thinking about Rashia's face, contorted in pain and sinking into a pool of blood.
As Hermie said that, she held Millie. Hermie's warmth made Millie forget her fears for a second.
Millie closed her eyes tightly, and saw the image of Rashia, smiling and patting Millie's head.
Hermie patted Millie's head, trying to comfort her.
When Millie looked up, she couldn't help but mistake Hermie for Rashia.
Upon hearing Hermie's words, Millie immediately thought of Wilhelm and Shin.
Millie's chest was bursting with relief.
Those two could save Rashia, Millie sincerely believed.
Millie had fallen asleep again. She had loosened up after being comforted. Hermie carried Millie to the bed, and stared at a point in the wall.
It may have been a coincidence. Or she knew. She was staring in the direction that Shin and his party were coming from.
She patted Millie's headed and heaved a sigh.
Her eyes cast doubt and fear.
Hermie knew that Rashia was safe, because of her title of 'Star Reader'.
While under normal circumstances, 'Star Readers' could only see very little of the future and randomly, Hermie had trained to target and specify what she wants to know.
As a result, Hermie had seen a woman being treated for her injuries. She had linked her senses with that of Millie, so that she knew that the woman was Rashia. There were also two men there- Wilhelm and Shin.
Hermie understood that Millie poured all of her faith into these two figures.
Unlike Millie, Hermie only harbored fear towards these two strangers.
The reason being that, both Wilhelm and Shin housed many species within themselves.
An abnormal, unique kind of strength. Hermie had been subjected to and known so many strong men, that she was not quick to trust any anymore.
She was particularly frightened of Shin.
She blurted out the question that no one could answer. Her words were absorbed into the memories of the wall. That was just how much power Hermie had gauged within Shin. With one glance towards Shin, Hermie had almost lost her consciousness.
From observing Eline, who could even make light of upper class Chosen Ones' strength, she was able to grasp an understanding of Shin's mighty strength.
It was frightening. But an overwhelming sense of wind of change compelled her.
They will definitely come to take Millie back.
Then, something else will happen. Hermie knew.
She didn't have to read the stars. It was an intuition – something even more unreliable. But she felt more sure about it.
As she scratched at the collar around her neck, Hermie prayed.
Shin and his party landed on solid ground after hours of flying.
Their gazes were towards something far away – the fortress city of Sigurd. With their abilities, they should be inside the city compounds within an hour.
Since their 'map' abilities had been reduced to initial stage levels, it's hard for Shin to get a grasp of what Palmirack is like on the inside.
It would be best to have options available, but it'd be cruel to have her wait forever.
While Vizzy works for Cashmere as a member of the Rokuten, that didn't mean that she had to follow Shin's orders. Unlike Schnee and Shibaid, there's some inconsistencies with her loyalty.
She might have a different master, but Vizzy's still good at heart. That's why she must have disagreements with Father Bulk and the church.
The other issue was that Eline could probably 【Teleport】 outside of the church too. It was necessary to secure an exit plan just in case.
They left Vizzy behind to care for the dragons, while Shin and the party headed towards Sigurd.
Kagerou pulled on the wagon, and they zipped past the field. In the middle of the journey, the wagon slowed down a little to blend in with the other wagons lined up heading towards the city.
A giant fortress wall surrounded Sigurd. The city surrounded Palmirack and built itself around it.
Due to the geography, Palmirack was built on a slightly higher elevation than the surrounding buildings. It was considered to be an icon of the city.
Wilhelm and Schnee discussed the city, while Shin covered his face with his cloak and stared at Palmirack from beneath his hood.
Palmirack was within Shin's radar, but he couldn't see inside.
With his introductory map abilities, it was not possible to see the insides of Palmirack from the outside.
The Rokuten's guild houses were always protected against internal scanner skills. That kind of defense mechanism could have inspired something here too.
They asked for directions and headed towards the Golden Company. It was expected, but the firm was quite famous within Sigurd. The familiar gold sign from Balmel could also be found here.
They called on the staff, showed them the seal and paperwork included in Berett's message card, and were welcomed inside. They left their wagon outside, and headed into the building.
Once they were led into the branch's head office, one young elf waited for them.
The youth bowed his head politely and introduced himself as Ertol Maik. Supposedly he worked directly for Berett.
It was not disclosed that Shin was a High Human.
According to Ertol, a saint called the "Soothsaying Holy Woman" was sick and being treated by the church. While it might not be a direct cause, the upper echelon of the church was quite active here.
Furthermore, within the church confines there was an area that only those appointed could walk freely. Security was quite extreme, so it was impossible to see the insides. It was a safe bet that anything hidden would be within this exclusive area.
Anything fishy regarding the church could basically be traced back to a drunk blabbering on about it, or another, even less credible source.
There were probably 10, maybe even 20 upper class Chosen Ones working with the church. Even if you wanted to break in, several upper class Chosen Ones guarded the church at different locations. They needed to be careful.
It was tricky to attack this fortress.
Despite the Golden Company that had been built by the "Golden Merchant" Reed, it wasn't as if it housed only upper class Chosen Ones. It's a matter of what's more valuable: quantity or quality.
There was only so much action you could take in stealth as an upper class Chosen Ones.
However, that wasn't necessarily the case for Shin or his party. If Shin and Schnee in particular were to move stealthily, very few could catch them in this universe.
There was no point in blaming Ertol over this matter. What little information he provided was useful. Shin continued to ask more general questions about the church.
They would require further assistance from the Golden Company. For now, they headed towards the inn.
The party looked for an inn that would also take their wagon. They walked around the city for 20 or so minutes and found a promising one.
Since Sigurd is a city where travelers come and go, many of the inns were restaurants on the first floor and rooms on the second.
The one that Shin and the party stepped into fit the stereotype. Waitresses wearing frilly uniforms bustled in between busy tables.
Of the many waitresses, one with semi-long hair approached Shin and the party.
They agreed, and took a room. The room was one big one for the whole party.
They held a brief meeting in the room and left the inn.
Shin, Schnee and Yuzuha went to see the church. Tiera, Kagerou and Shibaid went around the church to get more information. Wilhelm was on his own, doing his own bid.
Shin, Schnee and Yuzuha disappeared into a crowd.
Shibaid headed in the opposite direction from Shin. However, his unique appearance was well-known. He needed to change the color of his scales to red, and wear a fake horn.
Tiera was a bit nervous, following Shibaid. Kagerou was as usual, hidden inside Tiera's shadows.
Wilhelm didn't even see the four of them off and went solo. He was cautious as to not walk too fast, and dipped into an alleyway.


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Castelul Ambras este un edificiu cultural istoric situat la sud-est de Innsbruck în apropierea comunei Amras. Castelul a fost construit în stilul renașterii în timpul domniei arhiducelui Ferdinand II von  Tirol. În acest castel se găsește un tablou al lui Vlad Țepeș.

Muzeul de Artă
Muzeul de Artă Schloss Ambras Innsbruck este cel mai vechi muzeu din lume și unul dintre cele mai importante muzee de artă internaționale: muzeul prezintă în esență colecțiile prințului renascentist Arhiducele Ferdinand al II-lea (1529-1595), unul dintre cei mai importanți colecționari ai dinastiei Habsburgice. Pentru colecții, el a construit Ambraser Unterschloss, una dintre cele mai vechi clădiri ale muzeului și singura Renaștere care a supraviețuit, în care colecțiile originale sunt prezentate și astăzi. Obiectele prezentate în armoriu și în camera de artă și minune sunt deosebite ca număr și calitate. Muzeul conține singura cameră de artă și minune renascentistă încă păstrată pe site. Ferdinand al II-lea a implementat aici colecția și prezentarea sistematică, făcând din muzeu începutul managementului muzeului modern.

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Legături externe
 Castelul Ambras, 9 iulie 2008, Revista Magazin

Monumente în Tirol

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Imagining and hoping for the release of certain songs that were never recorded to begin with is a utter joke. I can imagine myself being a millionaire but not actually having the money is another truth. This song is not one of his better efforts to be blunt and if memory serves me right, it's on my recent version of "The Boy from Tupelo" where it rightly belongs.
A special gem, very exiting. I found it on spotify.
"Only You" and "Rock Around The Clock" in about the same You-tube quality would be a nice find. Without too much knowledge about the Elvis World, I do not know exactly if "Little Mama" rumored to exist in the hands of a certain Sherif. There is a story out there of someone who seems to possess RATC but not willing to share it with the rest of the Elvis Colletctors. Wasn't it Ernest Joergensen who heard a clandestinely recorded snippet of it by someone who was allowed to hear the original RATC tape? "Only You" would be intresting too. In comparison to "I Was The One" Well, wait they surely come out with it by April 1, 2013 ;-) Cheers, Pedro.
I have only heard this historic live recording on Youtube so perhaps I am not being entirely objective but it is like Fool Fool Fool to me, in how better it could have been properly recorded. To reallyy appreciate this performance demands visuals, and this would have been really something to see, but alas that is just a dream.
I'm so very glad that the acetate containing Elvis' version of "Little Mama" was finally released this year. For so many years, I thought that this Elvis recording would never be released. This is such a terrific song and Elvis' rendition of it was brilliant. Now, I'm hoping that Elvis' versions of "Sitting On Top Of The World", "Only You", "Uncle Pen" and "Rock Around The Clock" would eventually be located and officially released.


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A Department of Public Safety employee got a notification on their computer Friday morning and notified their IT department.
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The Virginian-Pilot reports that Petty Officer 1st Class Aaron Howard is accused of impersonating several different people.
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Called "The Land of Lakes and Volcanoes," Nicaragua supposedly received its name from the Spanish Conquistadors: a hybrid of Nicarao, the chief of a local indigenous tribe, and agua, the Spanish word for water. How ironic then, that the country boasting the largest supply of freshwater in Central America suffers from a chronic scarcity of safe drinking water.
According to El Porvenir, more than two-thirds of Nicaragua's rural communities lack access to clean potable water, with serious consequences for infant mortality, health, and even education – women and children are often forced to travel for hours each day to find water, leaving little time for school or work.
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The answer lies, in part, in the country's long water policy history. Under the Somoza dictatorship until 1979, much of the water system was owned and operated by the private sector, meaning that consumers had to pay full price for operation and maintenance of the system. This made the price of water inaccessible for Nicaragua's poorest populations. Although today the country's water supply and sanitation is a public good, pollution and service problems continue to restrict access. The city of Managua had been dumping untreated wastewater into Lake Managua for over 80 years, and the Nicaraguan Water and Sewerage Enterprise estimates that effective coverage is still less than 60% due to insufficient and unreliable service.
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George Willard Martin (October 27, 1886 – September 11, 1971) was an American mycologist. He was born in Brooklyn, New York. He received a bachelor of literature degree in 1912, and a Master of Science degree in 1915, both from Rutgers University. He received a PhD from the University of Chicago in 1922, under the direction of  Thurlow Christian Nelson and Henry Chandler Cowles, and he published the results of his research in the Botanical Gazette in 1923 under the title "Food of the Oysters". Afterward, he began work at the University of Iowa, where he became a professor, and he was head of the Department of Botany from 1953 to 1955. He became an emeritus professor and was still an active researcher until after he turned 80. Martin was the associate editor for mycology for the journal The American Midland Naturalist.

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> to copy every single page when the TWiki becomes the official LFS wiki.
> Kendrick, what do you think? Any preference for the old wiki / TWiki?
it's currently unstable, in that we're constantly making changes to it.
You may very well wake up to it being broken one day.