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What's the admissibility of investigators' covert recordings in Europe? Examining courts' sticky legal and ethical issues
Sometimes fraud examiners need to record covert surveillance in their cases. But will their audio and video recordings be admissible in court? Here we examine a high-profile bribery case to test all the legal angles in deciding the usability of evidence in Europe and, by extension, the rest of the world.
By Kieran Porter, CFE
In May 2019, two major German media publications, DER SPIEGEL and Die Süddeutsche Zeitung, released parts of a video purportedly showing Heinz-Christian Strache, then vice chancellor of Austria, and Johann Gudenus, former deputy mayor of Vienna, solicit illegal campaign support from a supposed niece of a Russian oligarch.
The video was recorded covertly two years before its publication in the run-up to the 2017 Austrian general election that resulted in the party of the two men — the right-wing populist Freedom Party of Austria — forming a governing coalition with Chancellor Sebastian Kurz's conservative Austrian People's Party.
On the tape, the "Russian" woman is heard seeking investment opportunities for 250 million euros, which she claims "cannot be deposited at a bank." Strache is then seen suggesting possible mutually beneficial solutions and then alluding to illegal financing channels for his party and trying to convince her to buy one of Austria's most widely circulated newspapers to influence voters in his favor — all, he suggests, in exchange for casino licenses and contracts for highway construction. (See The Strache Recordings – The Whole Story, by Maik Baumgärtner, Vera Deleja-Hotko, Martin Knobbe, Walter Mayr, Alexandra Rojkov and Wolf Wiedmann-Schmidt, Spiegel International, May 5, 2019.)
The publication of the footage triggered a storm of public outrage that wiped away Austria's government barely 24 hours later and will undoubtedly stain the two politicians' reputations for years.
It also raised questions about the legality of covert recordings in the investigation of fraud and corruption cases in Europe, where different courts have voiced various opinions and rulings on this matter.
In this case, the video's publication exposed those behind the video to legal attack. Strache's legal team said the production and distribution of the video was illegal because it was done without Strache's consent, and it breached his inalienable right to privacy. He eventually sued several publications. (The identity of the person(s)who produced the video remains unclear.)
However, in May 2020, the Austrian Supreme Court decided that the freedom of the press in service of the public interest — a fundamental, constitutional legal principle — outweighed Strache's right to privacy, which thereby rendered the distribution of the video lawful.
Key to the court's decision was that publication of the footage served the public interest because the news organizations were careful to publish only selected parts of the video that contained discussions of political matters. Parts of the unreleased material were rumored to contain conversations about drugs and sex, which the publications apparently deemed irrelevant to the public interest.
So, a precedent was set in Austria: Courts will decide, in retrospect, the legality of public distribution of covert material, and the lawfulness of the acts of recording, which Strache's legal team sought to address, won't factor into decisions.
Even so, the legal use of secret recordings to uncover fraud and corruption in Europe may not always be so clear-cut in cases that often cross borders and legal jurisdictions.
Indeed, the Strache case highlights some of these complications. It involved an Austrian citizen who was covertly recorded in Spain, but who sued German publications. The making of the video, considered in isolation and not for its relevance to publication, falls under Austrian and German jurisdiction. To further complicate the situation, Spanish laws don't prohibit recording someone without their consent.
In short, those producing the video had achieved their goals by swaying public opinion. But had the courts deemed the purposes of the video producers to have been different (to unduly malign Strache, for example), the legal remedy could've unfolded differently.
Man on a mission
Interview with David Green, CB, QC, Director of U.K.'s Serious Fraud Office
Amsterdam - 2014 ACFE European Fraud Conference - 03/2014
Learn the latest in fraud prevention, detection and deterrence at the 2014 ACFE European Fraud Conference, 23-25 March in Amsterdam.
Prague - 2013 European Fraud Conference - 03/2013
Learn the latest in fraud prevention, detection and deterrence at the 2013 ACFE European Fraud Conference, 17-19 March in Prague.


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— 26-серийный аниме-сериал режиссёра Горо Миядзаки по сказочной повести Астрид Линдгрен «Рони, дочь разбойника», транслировался в период с 11 октября 2014 по 28 марта 2015 года. Совместный проект студий Polygon Pictures и Ghibli — для последней «Рони» стала первым телесериалом.

Сюжет
Рони (в другом переводе Ронья) — единственная дочь Маттиса, атамана разбойников. Шайка Маттиса живёт в лесной глуши в старом замке, расколотом надвое молнией в ночь рождения девочки. Рони — смелая, добрая и искренняя, гордость отца, любимица всех разбойников. Большую часть времени она проводит, бродя по отцовскому замку и его окрестностям. Она счастлива и даже не догадывается о своём одиночестве.

Но однажды Рони случайно обнаруживает, что вторую половину замка заняла конкурирующая шайка атамана Борки. У Борки тоже есть ребёнок, сын по имени Бирк, отважный, задиристый и весёлый мальчик. Встреча с ним меняет жизнь Рони. Дети заклятых врагов, Рони и Бирк то спорят и соревнуются, то спасают друг друга от опасностей — и наконец, проникаются взаимной симпатией. В тайне от родителей они решают стать сестрой и братом. Но непримиримая вражда разбойничьих родов мешает их дружбе. Дети ссорятся с родителями и сбегают из замка в лес. Здесь среди опасностей дикой природы и сказочных чудовищ им предстоит испытать на прочность свою дружбу и прожить полное приключений лето.

Чтобы вернуть детей, родителям приходится отказаться от вражды. В конце повести разбойничьи кланы объединяются, а Рони и Бирк, к неудовольствию своих отцов, дают клятву, что никогда не станут разбойниками.

Отзывы и оценки
Сериал получил сдержанно-положительные оценки. Одобрительных отзывов удостоилась визуальная красота сериала, его персонажи и фэнтези-вселенная Астрид Линдгрен. Критиковали в основном затянутость и медленный темп сериала; некоторые критики также посчитали, что персонажи, созданные с помощью сэл-шейдинга, и рисованные фоны плохо сочетаются.

В России журнал «Мир фантастики» назвал мультсериал красивым, близким к книге, но слишком затянутым; по мнению автора, история лучше смотрелась бы в виде полнометражного мультфильма. За затянутость его критиковали и в обзоре издания «КГ-портал», отметив, однако, что сериал «неплохой, семейный, уютный».

«Рони, дочь разбойника» получила премии Asian Television Award как лучший 2D-мультфильм и International Emmy как лучший мультсериал для детей.

Примечания

Ссылки
 На сайте NHK
 На сайте Polygon Pictures

Studio Ghibli
Япония

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If you read John 17:5, it sure sounds like it!
He makes the point that Jesus speaks of having already given glory to believers who weren't born at the time.
This must refer to a glory that already laid up for us to receive at some point in the future. Could it be that John 17:5 is referring to the same thing by the words 'the glory I had with you before the world existed'?
There's a very important difference between the two, and it comes out when you look at the grammar. Take the phrase from verse 22, 'I have given [the glory] to them.' The subject of this phrase is Jesus. It's talking about something Jesus did at a time when Jesus existed. It doesn't matter much that we didn't exist yet. But this sentence wouldn't make any sense if Jesus hadn't existed yet.
Now look at verse 5, 'I had [the glory] with you before the world existed.' Once again the subject of the phrase is Jesus. Rather than having God be the subject, as in, 'God gave me glory before the world existed,' this phrase has Jesus as the subject. He's doing something; he's the one having the glory. If he's the subject – the one doing the having – shouldn't he exist at the time the having takes place?
In order for verse 22 to be the same as verse 5, it would have to say that we modern believers had glory with Jesus in the first century. But we didn't – and we don't have glory now. The glory has been given, but we haven't received it yet. Jesus, on the other, actually had glory with the Father before they made the world (John 1:3).
Why can't God just forgive?


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Case of the Day: Process & Industrial Developments v. Nigeria
The case of the day is Process & Industrial Developments Ltd. v. Federal Republic of Nigeria (D.C. Cir. 2022). The case, which is for recognition and enforcement of a multi-billion dollar arbitral award, has a long and complicated history, which I'll give very briefly, but the issue that the court decided last week was fairly straightforward.
P&ID entered into a 20-year contract with the Nigerian government for natural gas supply and processing. Nigeria provided the gas, which PI&D refined so that it could be use to power the Nigerian electrical grid. PI&D could keep valuable byproducts for its own use. The substantive contract was governed by Nigerian law, and the arbitration clause provided that the arbitration would be governed by the "rules of the Nigerian Arbitration and Conciliation Act."[eft_note]This was not good drafting, I think, because the Nigerian Arbitration and Conciliation Act, Nigeria's version of the UNCITRAL Model Law, has a set of arbitral rules based on the UNCITRAL Rules appended to it. Did the parties intend that the law of the arbitration should be Nigerian law, or only that the arbitration should be conducted in accordance with the rules appended to the statute? Or both?[/efn_note] The "venue of the arbitration" was London.
In 2012, PI&D demanded arbitration in London, alleging that Nigeria had not supplied the agreed quantity of gas or to construct the infrastructure it had agreed to build. The tribunal rejected Nigeria's challenge to its jurisdiction and issued an award on liability in 2015. Nigeria sought to set aside the award in an English court, but the court refused on the grounds that Nigeria sought relief after the deadline under English law for seeking relief. Nigeria then sought to set aside the award in a Nigerian court, even though the arbitration had taken place in England. The court obliged in a short and unreasoned decision. The arbitral tribunal held that the Nigerian court had lacked jurisdiction to set the award, and it awarded damages of more than $6 billion.
PI&D sought enforcement in England, and the English court found that the award was enforceable. But on the basis of a criminal investigation into the procurement process, Nigeria sought and obtained an extension of time in England to seek to set aside the award; the English court said that Nigeria had "established a strong prima facie case" that PI&D had obtained the contract by fraud and bribery. Those issues have not yet been tried in England.
In 2018, PI&D sought confirmation of the award in Washington. There was some initial skirmishing that I won't get into but that resulted in a DC Circuit opinion holding that a foreign sovereign is entitled to a decision on any FSIA jurisdictional arguments before it should be required to make its merits arguments. The district court then held that it had jurisdiction because Nigeria, which is a party to the New York Convention, had implicitly waived its foreign sovereign immunity.
This implied waiver argument has a good pedigree. The Second Circuit decided the leading case, Seetransport, in 1993. The idea is that any country that signs the Convention "must have contemplated enforcement actions in other signatory states." The DC Circuit has approved of Seetransport and its reasoning twice. The first instance was Creighton Ltd. v. Government of Qatar (D.C. Cir. 1999), although there its discussion was in dicta, because Qatar was one of the few states that at the time had not signed the New York Convention. The court again approved the rule of Seetransport, this time in a holding, in Tatneft v. Ukraine (D.C. Cir. 2019), but the decision is unpublished and non-precedential.
Nigeria appealed, and the court asked the United States for its views. The government recommended that the court should avoid deciding whether to adopt Seetransport formally, because whether or not Nigeria had implicitly waived its immunity, the court clearly had jurisdiction under the arbitration exception. That is precisely the path the court took in today's decision. It again spoke approvingly of Seetransport, but it declined to reach the issue, affirming on the alternative ground that the arbitration exception applied.
It's evident that there is a lot of overlap between the arbitration exception and the implied waiver theory of Seetransport. Are they coextensive? No–Creighton itself is an example of a case that came within the arbitration exception but not the waiver exception. And of course there are many cases, not arbitration cases, that come within the waiver exception but not the arbitration exception. So there is good sense to having two independent exceptions, but since most implicit waiver cases will also be within the arbitration agreement, it may be that the DC Circuit will be able to keep refusing to rule for a good long while.

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My favorite new life phrase is this. No apologies for the undone, the unwritten, the unaccomplished. Just beginning.
And since there are no more presuppositions or expectations of what has to go here or in my life, here's a video that inspired me to come back.


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About Christopher Noël
For the past thirteen years, Noël has been a student of the Sasquatch species. His goal has been to learn all he can and to share this knowledge with the world through books. First, he got to know people living at "habituation sites" (places where Sasquatch are more comfortable than usual interacting with us) and then included their testimonials, with permission, in Our Life with Bigfoot. In every book since then, Noël has explored a different aspect of Sasquatch nature and behavior—from their striking parallels with "autistic savants" (in The Mind of Sasquatch and The Sasquatch Savant Theory) to the kinds of stick and tree structures they build (in A Field Guide to Sasquatch Structures) to their apparent use of electromagnetic energy (in Electric Sasquatch) to how astonishingly close to civilization they routinely operate, much closer than most people ever realize (in Next of Kin Next Door) to, most recently, the widely reported phenomenon of psychic communication between our two species (in Mindspeak).
Christopher's Bigfoot Story
Like many people, Christopher first became fascinated with Sasquatch, as a child, after seeing the Patterson/Gilman film. As an adult, he began attending BFRO Expeditions and learning from veterans in the field. After finding out about habituation sites, he made contact with people who were experiencing regular visits to their homes and properties. At one of these places, in East Texas, Christopher was able to film a Sasquatch spying from behind a pile of lumber. You can see this footage here.
Next, he realized that he didn't have to travel far and wide to make contact with our kindred species. Two miles from his home in northern Vermont, in a deep ravine, Christopher experienced consistent interaction with a group of Sasquatch and especially two, whom he called Music Man and Pitcher. For twenty-one remarkable days in a row during August and September 2014, Music Man would knock loudly on trees (like drumming) behind a thick screen of trees, and Pitcher would throw barrages of pine cones toward Christopher, sometimes even hitting him on the head. He interpreted this as playful behavior and has never had reason to think otherwise.
One day in 2015, he filmed a juvenile Sasquatch (perhaps Music Man or Pitcher?) hiding behind a small pine tree.
Christopher's research in the ravine is documented here.
Currently, he's focusing his efforts on demonstrating how extremely close to human civilization Sasquatch routinely operate. Christopher believes that we can make progress in this field only by increasing our use of audio recording in the forests near us. When more and more researchers and ordinary citizens become interested in putting their ear to the keyhole, so to speak, the reality of how intimately we co-exist with our next of kin will emerge. His recent video on this topic is "At the Sasquatch Keyhole."
Until the existence of our enormous next of kin is finally accepted by society and science, it is vitally important that serious researchers continue to shed light on the remarkable reality of Sasquatch through field work videos, documentaries, and books; Christopher Noël says, "I'm privileged to be able to contribute to the conversation."
Christopher is Currently:
Available for Interviews
For the past thirteen years, Noël has been a student of the Sasquatch species. His goal has been to learn all he can and to share this knowledge with the world through books.
At the Sasquatch Keyhole: Six Months, a Micro Forest, and a Good Pair of Headphones
Sasquatch Up Close and Personal: My Two Years of Learning in the Ravine
Sasquatch is a Fellow Human Species
The Mind of Sasquatch and the Secret to their Success
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Discussion in 'Android Devices' started by darth_cholo, Dec 18, 2009.
I DO get email in my inbox BUT there are issues.
- INbox is always 1-3 hours behind or more with updates. (calendar is not).
- Manually hitting the "refresh" button does not do anything. the processing little circle moves, but no new emails come in.
- Eventually i do see new emails, but they are 1-3 hrs behind and my most recent emails do not show up.
-deleting account from Droid and re-adding.
issue still persists. any ideas?
i'm probably just going to a factory reset, and if that doesnt work a replacement then. the only reason i need exchange on my phone is for when away from my desk(wich is quite frequently), and it does me no good to have only 2-3 hour old email.
For what it's worth, I have the exact same problem since the last update. I am accessing Exchange 2007 and am experiencing a 30-90 minute delay in receiving message.
Really weird too because if there are, say, 10 messages waiting to be picked up, it will only pick up a few of the the oldest ones.
I've tried every configuration option and cannot solve the problem. I have not tried a factory reset yet.
Let us know if you figure it out.
In researching this problem, I learned all about Touchdown. What a great email app. I have completely switched and have no desire to go back.
Thanks to Google making such a crappy Exchange interface, I have found a much better email client.


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Albertsons Appoints Jonathan Mayes as SVP of External Affairs & Chief Diversity Officer Selected
Albertsons Companies Appoints Jonathan Mayes as SVP of External Affairs & Chief Diversity Officer
Posted on: March 10th, 2017
BOISE, Idaho, March 10, 2017 – Albertsons Companies today announced the appointment of Jonathan Mayes as Senior Vice President, External Affairs & Chief Diversity Officer. Mr. Mayes will be responsible for overseeing and leading Albertsons Companies' diversity and inclusion efforts, along with the company's Government Relations, Sustainability and Philanthropy departments. He will be based in Pleasanton, California.
"As one of the largest employers in the U.S., Albertsons Companies has a responsibility to grow a workforce that reflects the rich diversity of the communities we serve and to have a positive and transformative impact on them," said Bob Miller, Chairman and CEO of Albertsons Companies. "Diversity is vital to who we are as a company and I am pleased to have found someone within our team who champions our culture and values."
Mr. Mayes began his grocery industry career in 1991 as Senior Counsel at American Stores. He joined Safeway in 1994. In 1996, he was named Director of Government Relations, and was later promoted to Vice President and Group Vice President of Government Relations. In 2010, he was named Senior Vice President of Public Affairs, Government Relations, Sustainability, Philanthropy & Diversity Affairs, a role he continued to hold following the completion of the merger with Albertsons in 2015.
"I am honored to take on this role and looking forward to continuing to elevate Albertsons Companies' outreach, growth and leadership through an even stronger focus on diversity," said Mr. Mayes. "Albertsons Companies has developed a corporate culture that fosters different values, ideas and backgrounds, providing a firm foundation that will enable us to continue to attract a diverse set of talent and help our stores better engage with the local communities we serve."
Mr. Mayes has a Juris Doctor degree from Willamette University College of Law and a bachelor's degree in Social Science from Warner Pacific College. Mr. Mayes has received the Martin Luther King Jr. Service Award from Willamette University for his work regarding diversity and inclusion, and has been honored by the San Francisco Bay Area Minority Bar Coalition for his exemplary service to the community. He also has received Warner Pacific College's Alumnus of the Year award. Mr. Mayes is past chairman of the California Grocers Association, Charles Houston Bar Association, and Vice Chairman of the Warner Pacific College Board of Trustees. He was a founding member of the company's African-American Leadership Network and currently serves on the boards of the California Chamber of Commerce, California Grocers Association, and two community-based organizations.
About Albertsons Companies
Albertsons Companies is one of the largest food and drug retailers in the United States, with both a strong local presence and national scale. We operate stores across 35 states and the District of Columbia under 19 well-known banners including Albertsons, Safeway, Vons, Jewel-Osco, Shaw's, Acme, Tom Thumb, Randalls, United Supermarkets, Pavilions, Star Market, Haggen and Carrs. Albertsons Companies is committed to helping people across the country live better lives by making a meaningful difference, neighborhood by neighborhood. In 2016 alone, along with the Albertsons Companies Foundation, the company gave nearly $300 million in food and financial support. These efforts helped millions of people in the areas of hunger relief, education, cancer research and treatment, programs for people with disabilities and veterans outreach.


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After successfully securing large data donations from TED, the BBC, the Royal Society of Chemistry, Quora, Songkick, universities and more, I'd like to share my experience and offer (and solicit) suggestions for improving our approaches to donors, and our workflow for accepting and processing data. How can we conduct sensitive negotiations, with public and commercial bodies, while maintaining the open and accountable ethos of our movement? How can we grow a data donation into a more rounded GLAM collaboration?


Last week my friend Cathy from Curious as a Cathy had a fun 'getting to know you' post that looks like fun, so I thought I'd utilize that for this week's randomness. Sounds like fun, doesn't it?
I took that selfie as we were getting ready to head out to my sister-in-law's 50th birthday celebration on December 30th. We had so much fun!
1. Who are you named after? I am named after both my parents – my mom's name is Stacia, but she told me she was too 'selfish' with her name, hence making my name Stacy instead. Since I was the second born, my middle name ended up being Michael after my dad – according to my mom, he was supposed to put 'Michel' on the birth certificate, but accidentally added the 'a' in there because he was used to spelling his own name. Naturally I get a lot of things addressed to "Mr. Stacy Michael Swenson or Johnson". All of us kids have a portion of my parents' names in them – I wrote about that a while ago, feel free to peruse that post here.
2. Do you like your handwriting? Sometimes I do – if I slow down when I write. Otherwise it's just messy chicken scratch.
3. What is your favorite lunch meat? That's a tough one since I don't usually partake in lunch meat – but when I do, it's gotta be chicken.
4. Longest relationship? Significant other-wise, the hubby and I have been together for 21 years this coming May, and we'll be celebrating our 15th anniversary in August.
My best friend of all time and I have been besties for 28+ years.
5. Do you still have your tonsils? No, they finally got removed when I was 28 years old after suffering with tonsillitis every six months for years. They didn't, however, take out my adenoids, so I still end up with strep throat and sinusitis at least once a year.
6. Would you bungee jump? Depends on who's asking. I'd consider it, but it would have to be in some exotic location on an amazing vacation. Just sayin'.
7. Do you untie your shoes when you take them off? No – I usually slip them off since I'm generally in a hurry, but of course untie them before I put them back on again.
8. Favorite ice cream? That's a tough one – I'm not a big ice cream eater. Anything different or unique – like the Bananas Foster one I had recently, or any that has veins of caramel running through it.
9. What is the first thing you notice about people? Their eyes and smile – or if they don't smile, the fact that they're not smiling. Especially since I'm always smiling – it keeps people wondering what I'm up to.
10. Football or baseball? Football all the way. Although I do love a good hockey game, too. I'm not a big baseball fan. For that matter, I'm not a big football fan, but I do watch the Seahawks and have been very disappointment in them this year.
11. What color pants are you wearing? Jeans – I used to wear yoga pants a lot when I was lounging around, but since I've lost a significant amount of weight over the last year, I don't have any that fit me any longer. That's actually a good thing!
12. Last thing you ate? Based on when I'm writing this post, it's after dinner Sunday night – I made a delicious sirloin steak with balsamic sauce, crispy potatoes, and Brussels sprouts. I only managed to eat half my dinner, so Little Dude of course polished the rest off for me. He does have two hollow legs.
13. If you were a crayon, what color would you be? Burgundy red – like wine!
14. Favorite smell? I'm with Cathy on this one – because "the best part of waking up…" is definitely fresh brewed coffee. Mmm, good!
15. Who was the last person you spoke to on the phone? The dentist office. I know, lucky me. I was supposed to spend more than an hour there on Monday morning for a deep clean on half my mouth, with a follow up for the other half two weeks later, with a follow up on that to repair a chipped tooth and crown a molar that has a bunch of cracks in it. What can I say? I inherited 'soft' teeth from my mom. I remember breaking a chunk off a tooth one Thanksgiving when I was a teen while eating a piece of pumpkin pie. Crazy! But alas, I was under the weather so I had to cancel and reschedule. Darn.
16. Hair color? Dishwater blonde – I went through a period of time where I constantly lightened it because I didn't like the 'dishwater' aspect of my blonde hair, but now I embrace the darker blonde but do have highlights added every so often. I'm lucky, though – no grays yet! My parents are now in their 70's and neither of them have gray hair, either. Good genes! I suspect I'll follow suit with my Swedish grandparents – it'll turn pure white eventually.
17. Eye color? Hazel. I don't know many who have hazel eyes, but I like the uniqueness of them because depending on the lighting and what color I'm wearing, they'll be color-shifting – green or blue or gray.
18. Favorite foods to eat? I'm a sucker for any kind of pasta dish. Or fresh seafood.
19. Scary movies or happy endings? Definitely happy endings!
21. Favorite Holiday? It's a tie between Thanksgiving and Christmas.
22. Beer or Wine? Wine all the way for me – I make it, so I definitely enjoy drinking it. I do have a beer once-in-a-blue-moon if I'm hanging out with beer drinking friends watching football. But my first choice is always wine.
23. Night owl or early bird? Early bird, but I tend to end up burning the candle at both ends and end up a night owl more often than not. I need to remedy that, getting 4 hours of sleep each night starts to take its toll after a while.
24. Favorite day of the week? Friday. Even though I work from home, Friday's are still a favorite.
25. Can you crack an egg one-handed? Sure, but I'm not adept at it – I suppose if I did it more often I'd end up better at it – practice does make perfect, right?
26. Coffee or Tea? I'm a coffee drinker in the morning, but drink green tea in the afternoon.
27. Favorite go to beverage? Green tea – I really need to drink more water, though, I'm bad at getting my 'recommended' water intake daily. I'll work on that.
28. Mac or PC? All PC all the time. Only because over the years I've amassed a large amount of PC software programs that I have installed, and they don't play nice with a Mac. My brother switched over to a Mac a few years ago, and apparently there's a way to run PC stuff on a Mac, so maybe the next time I need a new computer I might rethink that stance.
29. Do you prefer to read or watch TV? I used to be an avid reader – if I was scarce, you could find me holed up somewhere with book in hand. I haven't found many quiet moments to read since the kids arrived, so now it's sporadic – I watch more TV mostly because I have it on in the background while I'm doing other stuff.
30. Which three of your favorite bloggers you would like to know more about? (link to their about page if they have one) I welcome the chance to get to know all of my readers, so if you like this concept then please lift these questions below to create your own post and don't forget to do a pingback to my blog so I'll know to stop by to check it out!
It's your turn! Lift & create your own "Get to Know Me 2018" post and be sure to either add a back-link to my place or leave me a comment. Have a fun!
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Thanks for playing along, Stacy! Love the randomness 🙂 My handwriting is a funky hybrid of printing and cursive. My 10 year old son's is chicken scratch. Sometimes not even he knows what he wrote (but we're working on it). Love the color burgundy! It was one of our wedding colors! (navy blue and white were the others).
My sympathy on the tonsils and adenoids — my tonsils came out at age 24, but i was blessed that my adenoids had shrivelled up and have caused no trouble. My throat still catches stuff easily, though, as i could always tell my children were about to come down with strep or something else when my throat would start to hurt. Weird, i know.
Loved learning about you, thanks for sharing this!
I still have my tonsils. Great pic of you. Thanks for sharing this. I am a 49er fan but used to live in the Seattle area 25 years ago and went to a bunch of Seahawk games in the old Kingdome.
Fun post! I didn't really have time for a long post this week. Barely got one up while it was still technically Tuesday. You look fabulous, btw!
Fun post, Stacy. I came over from Cathy's at Curious as a Cathy. Make it a great day!!
It was great to learn more about you! I enjoyed reading your answers. I love that you make wine! My brother makes wine too. What's your favorite kind? Do you experiment with a lot of different fruits?
I've been on a blog hiatus so it's nice to be back in action!
It was quite fun to learn about your some more.
I need to add Wonder Woman on my list.


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Q: json TimeSpan return object I work with Asp.net MVC4 (C#), I want to load data from controller to view.
from controller return an object in view, this object has an attribute of type TimeSpan (HH:DD:MM)
this is my function:
public JsonResult Buscar(string id){
        string Mensaje = "";
        Models.cSinDenuncias oDenuncia = new Models.cSinDenuncias();
        oDenuncia.sd_iddenuncia = id;
        var denuncia = Servicio.RecuperaDenuncia<Models.cSinDenuncias>(ref Mensaje, oDenuncia.getPk(), oDenuncia);
        return Json(denuncia);
    }

denuncia.sd_horadenuncia has for example this value 18:03:53 but I can't load this value when show in the view this is the value [OBJECT OBJECT]
In the view (Html.TextBoxFor):
$('#HoraDen').val(data.sd_horadenuncia);

How I can recover the correct value? (HH:MM:SS) and not [OBJECT OBJECT]
Regards
Ricardo

A: A TimeSpan is a complex type. This means that in your JSON it is serialized as such:
{
    "sd_horadenuncia": {
        "Ticks": 3000000000,
        "Days": 0,
        "Hours": 0,
        "Milliseconds": 0,
        "Minutes": 5,
        "Seconds": 0,
        "TotalDays": 0.003472222222222222,
        "TotalHours": 0.08333333333333333,
        "TotalMilliseconds": 300000,
        "TotalMinutes": 5,
        "TotalSeconds": 300
    }
}

You are attempting to assign this complex object to a text field which obviously doesn't make sense.
You could use a view model on your controller action to preformat the value:
public ActionResult Buscar(string id)
{
    string Mensaje = "";
    Models.cSinDenuncias oDenuncia = new Models.cSinDenuncias();
    oDenuncia.sd_iddenuncia = id;
    var denuncia = Servicio.RecuperaDenuncia<Models.cSinDenuncias>(ref Mensaje, oDenuncia.getPk(), oDenuncia);
    return Json(new
    {
        formattedHoradenuncia = denuncia.sd_horadenuncia.ToString()
    });
}

and then inside your view you could use the new property:
$('#HoraDen').val(data.formattedHoradenuncia);

Another possibility is to access individual properties of this complex object and format the value yourself:
var hours = data.sd_horadenuncia.Hours;
var minutes = data.sd_horadenuncia.Minutes;
var seconds = data.sd_horadenuncia.Seconds;
$('#HoraDen').val(hours + ':' + minutes + ':' + seconds);

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Just north of Sheridan, Indiana is a winery that is just too good to miss. If you consider yourself an oenophile, make the trip to Blackhawk Winery this summer to sip some local wine. Blackhawk offers wines for any taste including sweet wines, very much loved by Hoosiers, and more traditional offerings. Plus, Blackhawk makes many of their wines from grapes grown in surrounding vineyards!
Opening in 2014, Blackhawk is a joint effort of Deb and John Miller. When we asked what led them to open a winery, Deb responded that it "was a hobby that got out of control." These 'hobbyist' winemakers became serious vintners. As of this writing, Blackhawk offers 22 different wines ranging from dry and semi-dry whites and reds, sweet and semi-sweet whites and reds, rosé and sweet wines, and dessert wines.
The most popular and best selling Blackhawk wines including the Little Brother Red (semi-sweet red), the Catawba (semi-sweet white), the Marquette (dry red), and Cayuga White (dry white). We tried the Cayuga White, the Traminette, the Marquette, and the Chambourcin. We ended up taking a bottle of each home with us.
Although some grapes are sourced from outside of Indiana, Blackhawk grows ten acres of grapes, offering about twelve varietals including the aptly named Sheridan Grape (semi-sweet), Traminette, Cayuga, Chambourcin, and Crimson Cab. A full list of the vineyard's grapes are available on their website.
The winery and vineyard sit on the Miller's Blackhawk Farm, so named to honor the local school mascot, but also as a nod of respect to the hawks (red tail hawks/Buteo jamaicensis) that keep serve as the Miller's sentinels during harvest time. They help keep the grape-loving birds away from the vineyards.
The farm is an active farm and visitors who sip a glass on their patio will be entertained by a friendly brood of chickens and their seemingly titular leader, Tom Turkey (a.k.a. Felipé). The Blackhawk farm also has sheep and horses, rendering the experience entirely bucolic and 100% Hoosier.
The Miller's operate an award winning winery, having won several awards at the Indy Wine Fest, the Taster's Guild in Michigan, and the Finger Lakes Competition. In 2017, they won the Best in Class with their Vidal Blanc semi-dry at the Indy Wine Fest.
Blackhawk Winery also offers entertainment including live music on Saturdays and Sundays; with concerts and food trucks on Saturdays from 6-8 during the summer; and several festivals in the warmer months.
Blackhawk Winery is definitely worth the trip to Sheridan, but connaisseurs can find bottles around central Indiana at a variety of liquor stores and restaurants.
Blackhawk Winery is worth the trip to Sheridan.


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ACCent on Music!
By Paddy McKenna / September 21, 2018 September 21, 2018
What an incredible experience this week's concert was for all involved, as well as our community members in the audience. The strong focus on collaboration was very evident in all aspects of the performance – for staff and students. Hamer Hall was almost a sell out, with most available seats in the stalls and circle snapped up by family and friends. The audience was treated to some superb performances, as the ensembles showcased their individual and combined musical talents. The talent of the student performances was simply breathtaking and the production transitioned seamlessly from one ensemble to the next. It really was a magnificent celebration of ACC Music!
My congratulations to the wonderfully talented and dedicated Music staff that played such a pivotal role in its success. I would like to acknowledge the Production Team members in particular for their great work over the past 12 months – Cindy Frost (De La Salle College), Stuart Collidge (Whitefriars College), Martin Macaulay (Parade College), Carmelo Puglisi (Emmanuel College), Doug Leutchford (Mazenod College) and Bronwyn Dean (St Joseph's College Ferntree Gully). Their vision and insightful planning helped to create an incredible experience for performers and audience alike.
There was also a huge team of helpers working hard behind the scenes, with some having limited vision of the actual music on stage. I would like to acknowledge their contribution and thank them for playing such an important role. A selection of images from the event are included below and a video summary of the concert will be available in the near future. The video to open the show is below – this is a brief insight into our Association, leading towards a focus on music:
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Same Sex Marriage in Colombia
Steven L. Taylor · Sunday, May 1, 2016 · 2 comments
Via the BBC: Colombia legalises gay marriage
Colombia's top court has legalised same-sex marriage, making the country the fourth in Latin America to do so.
Civil unions had previous been legal.
The rest of the region:
Argentina, Brazil and Uruguay have previously legalised same-sex marriage.
In Mexico, gay marriage is legal in the capital and in certain states.
FILED UNDER: Latin America, Quick Takes, World Politics
About Steven L. Taylor
Steven L. Taylor is a Professor of Political Science and a College of Arts and Sciences Dean. His main areas of expertise include parties, elections, and the institutional design of democracies. His most recent book is the co-authored A Different Democracy: American Government in a 31-Country Perspective. He earned his Ph.D. from the University of Texas and his BA from the University of California, Irvine. He has been blogging since 2003 (originally at the now defunct Poliblog). Follow Steven on Twitter
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Sunday, May 1, 2016 at 09:59
Awesome. The US can now aspire (at least in this regard) to be as morally enlightened as Latin America.
grumpy realist says:
Expect the usual caterwauling from the usual suspects.
Federal Judge Strikes Down Utah's Ban On Same-Sex Marriage
Two Years After Obergefell, Public Support For Same-Sex Marriage Hits Another High
Marriage Equality Is Coming To Mexico
Seventh Circuit Strikes Down Indiana And Wisconsin Bans On Same-Sex Marriage
Same-Sex Marriage Gets Its Day At The Supreme Court


It has been 7 months since our Roman passed away. The family has gone on and continued with all our usual shenanigans and such. But how are we really coping? Many of us are still grieving, others still is disbelief, someone are staying strong, while other are so afraid of forgetting. We are are dealing and coping in our own ways. Doing what we feel is right. We are figuring out life without his physical presences with us. We are learning how to live with just his spirit and memory. He will never ever be forgotten. He is in each and every single one of us. The hurt is still strong, but so are all our happy and funny memories. These happy thoughts will remain with us long after the hurt has subsided. They will remain in us forever. We believe that he is in heaven and is an angel watching over us. My 8 year old niece has commented on occasion how happy she is that Roman was watching over Elaine during the car accident. I could not agree more. One of my first thoughts, after I realized the extent of my sisters accident and injuries was "Thank you Roman, this could have been worse". He is with us and watches over us as we go about our everyday lives. I can feel his presence, sometimes so strong. I have moments of sheer sadness when a songs lyric hits my heart, or when a random picture of Roman comes up on my computer screen. The sadness is strong and brings tears to my eyes, but I have not cried like I did the day we buried his body. I will always miss my cousin and I will always be sad that he is not physically with us. My family is holding together. As we trip and stumble through life without Roman we have each other to hold onto. Sometimes we have to hold each other tightly, other times we just need a reassuring hand on our shoulder. We know how lucky we were to have him in our lives for 19 years. And we know that all of memories and stories will always be shared so that the next generation will remember him as vividly as we do.


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Did bạn like the live action series of Negima! Magister Negi Magi?
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Devils on Horses
By Terry Kinloch
The unknown story of the ANZAC horsemen in the Middle East.
SKU: 1831 Categories: ANZAC, Books & DVDs
Telling the story of the mounted riflemen in Sinai and Palestine, Devils on Horses uses the soldiers' original letters and diaries to describe the crucial battles against the Ottoman Turkish Forces. The horses play a major part in the story, but of the thousands of faithful animals involved, only one would ever return home. By then the war was over and the Turkish Empire had been destroyed. The ANZAC soldiers and their horses had played a vital role in securing the victory.
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Except there's always the problem of consistency. If you use the term man-eating shark to distinguish it from a peaceful shark in paragraph one, then call it a man eating shark in paragraph two when it's attacked a surfer, it looks sloppy and unprofessional — and may be more confusing because you've already established the former spelling.
1. Find a dictionary and use it. For combinations that do not appear in the dictionary, find a style guide and stick to it. Whether it's Chicago Manual of Style or a corporation's in-house style guide, it's purpose is as much to ensure consistency as correct grammar.
2. LEARN the rules of hyphenation. It's a sign of professionalism to know the rules and tools you need.
Brava! Language is not a simple system, and it doesn't have simple rules. Understanding the purpose of the rule, and thinking about whether it is served in a given instance, is important. . .although that can also become time-consuming.
Should "sadder but wiser" be written as "sadder, but wiser"?
Unless the client wanted the hyphens included, I would always write it as "an 80 year old man".
How about "mid-sentence" or "ex-wife"? I always change those to "mid sentence" and "ex wife"?
How do other people handle these?
I've read 80-year-old man and 80-year old man in text. Thank you for the clarification.
I have the AP guide but don't have The Chicago Manual of Style. Is there a significant difference between them?
Love the opening paragraph….But, if that "man eating shark" is Mike Tyson, then spring well clear of his path.
Love this! Well, there's always the concern about whether something is supposed to be funny! That man-eating shark could be complimenting the chef, although I don't think we're cooked before bitten.
Points well taken, but, I still think you need to have that hyphen when talking about things that can be misconstrued — especially if you're a newspaper or advertising person!
I'm a medical transcriptionist, and we have our "Book of Style" as our guide. For the example above, we leave the hyphens in place (80-year-old man). I understand your point, that leaving the hyphens out would not make it less UNDERSTANDABLE. However, let me say this: It is a fact that as we progress from learning to recognize and read individual alphabet letters, then phonemes, then full words and so on, our eyes do a lot of skimming. Hyphens let you skim. Your eye can see the whole hyphenated phrase as a concept, and your brain will absorb that concept without having to stop on each individual word. The hyphens link the words into a concept, and your mind can understand it faster than if the words were not linked. Otherwise, I think your eye will stop on each word (man. eating. shark.) versus the concept (man-eating. shark.). I agree, however, that in some cases the hyphens would be detrimental (sadder-but-wiser).
I'm really grateful for all the notice people have taken of my modest contribution.
These answers have given me a lot to think about.
I'll try to answer each of your queries as I get a few minutes' time. I'm answering in no particular order, so don't think I've forgotten about you.
First Chris: ex- and mid- normally take hyphens because they aren't actually words on their own; they're prefixes in the cases you mentioned.
"Sadder, but wiser" vs "sadder but wiser" is a choice that depends on your rhetorical intentions.
People often forget that commas (and all the lesser stops, as I would call them) have two functions. One of them is clarifying the grammatical functions of major components in a sentence. But the other is rhetorical — drawing attention to an element so that it gains greater emphasis.
I won't go on about this, as there's another entire blog to be written on the subject. The upshot is that either construction can be useful, depending on your intentions.
PS My habitual style is British/Irish because Ireland is where I've spent the last 35 years of my working life, although I was reared and educated in the US. So I hope North American readers will excuse the British spelling and punctuation. It's just easier hen I'm trying to write quickly.
For BJ Muntain: Everything you say sounds like good sense. If only all the experts agreed, it might be possible to "learn the rules" instead of using your own judgement (UK sp).
Even in a sentence that provided a lot of context, the meaning of these two would have to be clarified if the writer intended a compound modifier. And if you were the copy editor, you might have to ask.
Despite her unfortunate surname, Butcher is anything but. And this less absolutist approach illustrates one of the basic differences between editorial standards on either side of the Atlantic.
For a good account of the differences, look for the anthology called The State of the Language, edited by Christopher Ricks and Leonard Michaels from 1990. See the essay called "Editing and its Discontents" by John Gross.
He argues that the British should become a bit more rigorous and the Americans should learn to relax a little.
Over the last 20 years, in which I have worked in Ireland and California, my experience is that the Irish (who use UK standard) are just plain lazy about mechanics, while the Americans apparently lose a lot of sleep worrying about consistent style. There's another good sized blog (or two) in this subject alone.
The one point on which all the published experts seem to agree is the avoidance of ambiguity in the compound modifier. And I suppose my main point is that you can't do that by rote. You have to think about it.
Absolutely not, Chris O'Byrne! (*Makes sign to avert evil*!).
Thanks for the succinct answer, Tony.
I've gone a little too minimalist in my quest for a world free of hyphens. I will now use hyphens when using prefixes such as ex and mid.
If the hyphen were removed, would readers really be confused?
No. Only momentarily distracted. A small cost to pay for a line of clean, hyphen free English. Better to make the reader do the work of mentally supplying the logical equivalent of the hyphen than to sully the page with that fussy looking glyph. It spoils the graphic design.
And if the "a" were removed from the last word of the sentence, would readers really be confused by that? "Yesterdy." Let it be. "Fixing" it might cause text to reflow, and then you'd have to pay the compositor to do more work. And what exactly would everyone gain from the exercise? Relax.


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Red Bull gave Max Verstappen's father strict instructions in order for his son to win the championship.
By Pascal Nalat on January 13, 2022 Sports
In the year 2021, MAX VERSTAPPEN won his first world championship.
According to AlphaTauri team manager Graham Watson, Max Verstappen's father, Jos, was told to take a break from his son's career when he joined Red Bull in 2016.
Five years later, in 2021, the Dutchman won the championship, defeating Lewis Hamilton in a classic Abu Dhabi showdown.
However, the victory was not without controversy, with a'miracle' from FIA race director Michael Masi factoring into the final stages.
Verstappen, on the other hand, pounced and sealed his maiden title when he and Hamilton were brought bumper to bumper.
Prior to joining Red Bull, he was with Scuderia Toro Rosso, which is now known as AlphaTauri.
Watson claimed there that Jos Verstappen was involved in his son's development and that he frequently clashed with the father of teammate Carlos Sainz.
That, however, is said to have changed when Max took the next step up.
"It wasn't until Max arrived at Red Bull that they told Jos that he needed to take a step back," he told Motorsport.com.
"I don't have children, but I imagine it's difficult to let go of your own son."
Jos Verstappen was a highly regarded driver who won two podiums in his nine-year Formula One career, which spanned 1994 to 2003.
His son, on the other hand, has already surpassed those accomplishments, with the entire Red Bull team still in awe of the dramatic final-lap victory at Yas Marina.
Meanwhile, little has been heard from the Hamilton camp as the Brit continues to recover from the heartbreak of missing out on a record-equaling eighth world championship.
Fans are hoping for a rematch this year, despite the fact that a new car and a new Mercedes teammate in George Russell could change the dynamic of the duel.
Even with his father stepping back, team boss Christian Horner believes Verstappen is more than capable of handling business on his own.
"Max is probably one of the easiest drivers I've worked with because he takes a binary approach," he told Channel 4.
"He values complete honesty and openness, and vice versa.
Some of his radio broadcasts, according to what you've heard, are shockingly candid.
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WHO: Anyone who currently rides their bike to work, or who wants to start riding their bike to work.
WHAT: Commute by bike as a group for a safer and more fun ride to work!
WHEN: The 1st and 3rd Wednesday of every month.
WHERE: Meet at Peoples Coffee at 17th and Brommer. We ride North on Brommer Street, through Arana Gulch, and we take Broadway. Commuters part ways in downtown Santa Cruz.
WHY: It's fun and there is always greater safety in numbers! Also, it helps to set an example to our community that everyone can commute by bike!


There is an old story which is not biblical but certainly illustrates the point. There are 6 blind men feeling an elephant, one said as he felt the side this is a wall. another blind man feeling the tail said this is a rope, another felt his leg and said this is a tree. yet another felt the air from his flapping ear and said this is a huge fan. another touched the trunk and said it was a boa constrictor snake. Another blind man touched the tusks and said he is a spear.
Who was right? Well obviously none of them. We are all in some ways like these blind men unable to see clearly, we all have our own opinions about things. But when it comes to spiritual matters we have a written code to help our blindness , so that their is no guesswork. You may have one opinion and I may have another, but if we go to the creators manual it should shed light on any matters that are in the shadows.
Phil 1:27 "whether I come and see you or am absent, I may hear of your affairs, that you stand fast in one spirit, with one mind striving together for the faith of the gospel."
Paul writes over and over again about unity but its not by feelings but by the word (same judgment, same rule) all for the Gospels sake.
Jesus in John 7:24 says: "Do not judge according to appearance, but judge righteous judgment." Jesus is saying to judge, but without malice having the facts.
Heb. 5:13-14 "For everyone who partakes only of milk is unskilled in the word of righteousness, for he is a babe. But solid food belongs to those who are of fall age, that is, those who by reason of use have their senses exercised to discern both good and evil,"
A person who is able to judge between good and evil shows spiritual maturity. Those who do not exercise this ability are not trained by the word and are open to being led astray. Experience is not able to be the test of truth. Truth cannot be felt from error, it is to objectively tested not subjectively experienced. Those detect something is amiss are discouraged today to follow their doubts and their first instincts. If one notices contradictions from what is being taught or practiced they should in all good conscience follow the directive of the Spirit which will lead us into all truth. There is nothing wrong with doubting something that seems wrong.It is not a lack of faith. We should pursue our doubts for the sake of our conscience and to be watchful over our own soul.
When the Pharisees disputed Jesus over his claims he pointed them to the word. When Paul reasoned with the Bereans they contested what he said at first. They went to the word as their source to see if what he was saying was truth. He called them of better blood than their brethren they were of nobility, of a better stock because they tested his statements. To honestly investigate truth actually shows someone has integrity and is willing to believe god and not man. If we detect a flaw that arrests our attention it just may be the H. Spirit giving us insight. There is nothing wrong with doubting experiences, what we cannot do is doubt Gods word. Not all doubt is from the enemy, God can give us doubt so we can test to see if something else might be in operation. 1Cor.2:15 to discern or appraise anakrino there are place the bible commands us to judge and their are places we are not to. In this scripture it tells us he who is spiritual is to judge all things.Just as Heb.5:13 explains it is the spiritual person who will test things.
EX. A diamond may look to have no flaws at first glance, but if we were to bring it to a jeweler, an appraiser someone who is trained to inspect it. He then takes out his magnifying glass to see how it was cut and find the flaws and imperfections. They have been trained to recognize what is not right. Thus a full examination is the safest course for a believer. Only those who are not teaching or practicing Christianity will object to being tested by the word. Darkness will always run from the light, never light from darkness.
If we find in scripture saying something is wrong that isn't you or I judging its God judging. He has his law written so he has already judged. When people persist to teach erroneous and false doctrines (on the gospel, scripture , Christ , morality) they are to be named and removed from leadership to protect the sheep.
Paul warned to watch out of certain people. They were named because they went against the apostles teaching. Its always pride that makes one participate in false doctrine. This is why he warned of the leaven of the Pharisees. Arrogance & pride. Jeremiah in chpt.28 rebuked the prophet saying,"you made Gods people trust in a lie Hananiah." The devil will use scripture, he's too clever to tell a Christian something outside the Bible. He did this with Adam and Eve by having them question what God said, giving them a new interpretation. Those who are unsaved have no standard he can use whatever he wants, but with believers he distorts the word.
The law of Moses solution was to stone them to remove them permanently Deut.18. The law of liberty says they should be removed to be called to back to repentance. To allow them to continue is to join in rebellion and falsehood with them.
There are places the scripture tells to judge and other places not to. When you hear those say not to judge them, they are violating scriptures that say to judge their teachings and actions. They want to do anything they want and not be accountable to any one but only God! Well that will be so, whether they like it or not. The NT teaching is not judgment for condemnation but always for restoration.
Keeping spoiled milk from babes can be prevented but once they drink it they can like it. They need to be kept from continuing to drink the only milk they know and dispensing sour milk to others.


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Last week we looked at how you can start transitioning from a block-based language to a text-based language by translating small programs from one language to another. You also began to learn the dark art of debugging, and practiced a few strategies to successfully debug your programs.
This week you're going to start to abandon your Scratch superpowers and focus more on the Python programming language. You'll learn how pseudocode can help you plan scripts you want to write, and aid in explaining algorithms without getting stuck on the syntax. You'll look into some of Python's built-in functions that can make writing scripts easier, as well as some modules from Python's standard library that you can easily incorporate into your programs. Finally, you're going to take another look at debugging some scripts to improve your proficiency.


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AN Orange man escaped a jail sentence in Orange Local Court after being discovered with two knives in a car. Richard Michael Harrison, 35, of Leura Road, was released from custody with four 12-month good behaviour bonds on Monday after being found with knives and drugs. Police pulled over a blue Holden Commodore after 11pm on March 19 and searched the vehicle and its three male occupants. Police said Harrison was in a rear passenger seat where a paring knife and a 25-centimetre curved handmade knife were found, in addition to a capped syringe of methylamphetamine. Harrison admitted the drug and the curved knife were his, saying he made the knife at home. But Harrison failed to attend court on July 25, prompting a warrant for his arrest. Police said on July 31, officers attended his home and searched him, finding 0.2 grams of heroin. In court, solicitor John Song said his client had worked as a wrecker since the age of 13, but suffered a back injury in 2014. Magistrate David Day asked how Harrison afforded heroin and Mr Song said he did not know. "He feels a [lack of purpose] and his drug use is to deal with the physical pain from his injury," he said. Mr Song said Harrison pleaded guilty early to the knife offences. "He was making knives as a hobby and someone he regarded as a father was a blacksmith – he has never intended using the knives for any other purpose," he said. Mr Day said Harrison had past non-compliance with corrective services. "They don't want to supervise him because he doesn't come along and play," he said. When Harrison said he needed help via video link, Mr Day decided to place him under supervision. "There's more to come if you don't address these matters," he said. "If I hear you say that again, I'll think, 'perhaps I should have taken the opportunity to take him out of circulation'."
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Harrison escapes jail for knife and drug offences
AN Orange man escaped a jail sentence in Orange Local Court after being discovered with two knives in a car.
Richard Michael Harrison, 35, of Leura Road, was released from custody with four 12-month good behaviour bonds on Monday after being found with knives and drugs.
Police pulled over a blue Holden Commodore after 11pm on March 19 and searched the vehicle and its three male occupants.
Police said Harrison was in a rear passenger seat where a paring knife and a 25-centimetre curved handmade knife were found, in addition to a capped syringe of methylamphetamine.
Harrison admitted the drug and the curved knife were his, saying he made the knife at home.
But Harrison failed to attend court on July 25, prompting a warrant for his arrest.
Police said on July 31, officers attended his home and searched him, finding 0.2 grams of heroin.
In court, solicitor John Song said his client had worked as a wrecker since the age of 13, but suffered a back injury in 2014.
Magistrate David Day asked how Harrison afforded heroin and Mr Song said he did not know.
"He feels a [lack of purpose] and his drug use is to deal with the physical pain from his injury," he said.
Mr Song said Harrison pleaded guilty early to the knife offences.
"He was making knives as a hobby and someone he regarded as a father was a blacksmith – he has never intended using the knives for any other purpose," he said.
Mr Day said Harrison had past non-compliance with corrective services.
"They don't want to supervise him because he doesn't come along and play," he said.
When Harrison said he needed help via video link, Mr Day decided to place him under supervision.
"There's more to come if you don't address these matters," he said.
"If I hear you say that again, I'll think, 'perhaps I should have taken the opportunity to take him out of circulation'."
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Blessed with a sunny disposition, my life mantra is to find a way to find and achieve 'real' happiness at the heart of all I do.
That's not to say that my life hasn't been without significant challenges and difficulties. On occasion, even I have felt fearful that there was no possibility of a positive outcome. However using all of the tools and techniques I have learned along the way, has stood me in good stead.
Through experience, I know that with the right support and self-belief anyone – YOU – can overcome the most incredible of circumstances.


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Logistics in South Sudan - a tale of persistence and creative thinking
It's 9:00 am in the Logistics Cluster office in Juba, South Sudan. The team there have their heads together with colleagues from WFP Logistics, Nutrition, Emergency Unit and UNHAS, planning the destinations and routings for thirty WFP cargo flights that will cross the country tomorrow.
Equipped with a cup of coffee and her trusty airfield map, our colleague Jessie is putting the final touches on the Logistics Cluster flight plans. She is the Logistics Officer responsible for air and barge operations for the Logistics Cluster in South Sudan.
Today she will walk us through her work and how she got here.
Jessie, can you tell us what you were doing just now?
I was finalising tomorrow's flight plans with our UNHAS colleagues. – She must have seen it in my face I was puzzled, because she immediately continues – You see, South Sudan is roughly the size of Texas, but it only has 200 km of paved roads and the rest of the main roads throughout the country are dirt.
This infrastructure can't sustain the heavy load of the humanitarian assistance required for the response. We are talking 7 million people affected by insecurity, hunger, disease outbreaks, insufficient access to clean water and safe shelter, scattered all across the country. Humanitarian responders are left with limited options to deliver lifesaving cargo.
While some road access is possible, this is generally limited to the six-month dry season, as most roads become completely impassable during rainy seasons. Therefore, air and river transport are often the only means to deliver humanitarian cargo to remote locations, cut off from any road access.
The Logistics Cluster facilitates air transport with three dedicated assets — two helicopters and one fixed-wing plane – made available by WFP Aviation, bringing large quantities of relief cargo to hard-to-reach locations.
Each day, I receive and register all the requests for air and barge movements from humanitarian organisations and then plan the daily flights with the colleagues from UNHAS, the United Nations Humanitarian Aviation Service, also managed by WFP.
And how is the planning done?
To plan the flights, I must take into consideration the priority locations determined by the Inter-Cluster Working Group, the cargo available, if emergency response teams are in place in the deep field locations to receive the flights, the flight times to various destinations, and the daily food drops WFP Logistics and the Emergency Unit have scheduled. It's both an art and a science.
I'm also constantly in contact with our Logistics Cluster teams in our Juba, Bor, and Rumbek hubs on the available cargo, loading plans, and daily tonnage dispatched. After registering any new requests and reconciling the available cargo after a day's dispatches, it's already time to start brainstorming the next day's plans.
You mentioned river transport as an alternative to air, can you tell us more about that?
To move larger payloads of humanitarian cargo we use barges along the river Nile. It is a valid alternative to costly air deliveries; movements on the river may not be as rapid as in the air, but the spacious barges allow for heavier and bulkier loads and are very useful when transporting large loads of shelter items, for example.
Last year we facilitated three barge trips on the river from Bor to Malakal.
So how much humanitarian cargo are we talking about?
On any given day, the Logistics Cluster may coordinate up to seven rotations of the three aircrafts and a fully loaded barge on the river. In a month, adding the road convoys, we facilitate the movement of approximately 1600 metric tonnes of cargo. To give it scale, this could fill approximately 60 shipping containers. We estimate that 90% of all Non-Food Items aid cargo in South Sudan is transported through the Logistics Cluster.
That is a lot of cargo and an impressive portion of the humanitarian aid into the country! What do you see as the biggest challenge?
Transporting cargo by both air and road becomes increasingly more challenging throughout the rainy season. The fixed wing plane requires three to four dry days with no rain to land safely on airstrips in the field, all of which are dirt and become very muddy in the rain. And none of the aircraft used can fly in the rain. This means we need forward planning and flexibility and a good amount of creativity when not even plan B or C are feasible.
There are some days when air travel is just not possible, which can be frustrating, but I learned not to let these setbacks affect my work.
How do you do that?
I think about the national NGO in Upper Nile who, without the support of the Cluster, could not carry out its distribution of shelter and kitchen sets for an IDP population that has fled to its area, or the UN colleague here in Juba who thanked me last week because their seeds and tools made it quickly to a remote field location where the local community will now be able to plant crops before the end of the planting season.
I also think about the thousands of South Sudanese who will be receiving life-saving medications, clean water, and materials needed to rebuild their home, thanks to our flights, convoys, and river operations. Knowing the impact the Logistics Cluster has on the humanitarian assistance in South Sudan makes my job so incredibly rewarding.
What would you recommend to a woman starting in this profession and longing for field experience?
I am actually not a logistician by training; I hold a master's degree in International Development and a certificate in Humanitarian Assistance and I worked in fundraising and event planning for more than eight years in Washington, DC before deciding to become a humanitarian.
Rather different from emergency logistics, but really just on paper, because many of the skills required, such as planning, budgeting, and vendors management are the same.
I like to think I've always been a loggie at heart—I was just doing the job in ballrooms instead of warehouses!
Logistics is a field where you can learn by doing. I think that with a solid education background and plenty of motivation and hard work you can learn the job. To excel though, you need strong organisational and planning skills, creativity, and especially flexibility and a good sense of humour.
Because logistics has historically been seen as a male profession, there's a stereotype that women can't or shouldn't do this work. I'm proud to be part of dispelling the myth that women don't belong in logistics, and to be working alongside several passionate and talented women, both South Sudanese and international, who have inspired me and pushed me to grow in this career. I hope that one day I will be the one mentoring the next generation of female humanitarian logisticians.