A long time ago someone said to me "The programmers of tomorrow are the wizards of the future". I strongly believe that came true in time and that programmers now have magic powers. In the data economy, data islands are being submerged and information clouds are forming, fueled by API strategies. This is a step change and the magic powers just got nitrous oxide! OK, enough with the gas and cloud analogies!
Sweden has been continuously preparing for the digital era for the last few decades. Back in 1998 we had something called ´hem pc´ – all employees could buy a home computer via their employer. The adoption rate of computers in people's homes exploded. Soon the country started building out fiber to the home (FTTH) infrastructure. My family had fiber in our house back in 2001. This was a small village outside of Luleå in North Sweden. Years ago when my daughter started 6th grade all students in the school got iPads and from that day we communicated with teachers and students without paper, all digital. This and many other strategic moves created a very strong digital infrastructure in the country. Sweden has a strong foundation for the 4th Industrial Revolution.
How did this foundation show at the enterprise level over the last few decades? Think about the Swedish Fast 5 – Spotify, Skype, Mojang, King and Klarna. All have destroyed or revolutionised existing business models or created entirely new ones. Really The Fast are eating The Slow, and some older corporations may not know this – yet. I sat in a meeting recently with a large Swedish enterprise where the IT team assured me they had a handle on customer service expectations in the "Facebook and Twitter generation". I couldn't help but wonder if they saw Facebook etc as business model competitors, never mind customer service expectations.
HEALERS AND HELPERS – Intelligent processing of data could cure lung cancers earlier, and with fewer false positives. Supporting diabetics in real time with predictions. Finding cures and bring those cures to the market faster. Helping the disabled with intelligent machines for the elderly and connecting generations with social applications.
CREATORS AND COMPOSERS – Graphic, gaming and music production. My kids and their friends create and globally distribute unique personalized content in minutes. That was impossible when I was a kid.
I can go on forever but one thing is for sure. With all existing and coming applications and platforms there will be ´oceans of opportunities´ to create the future one application at a time by utilising data from different sources. The mashup apps become the killer apps.
Artificial Intelligence (AI) and deep learning will be part of our everyday, even if we don't know or choose to ignore its existence. This is not possible without large amounts of data. No data = no learning and no data (AI) training. With huge amounts of data we also need huge computational resource.
We are in a new computing era of superscale in the cloud. Edge and core data centers will evolve very quickly in this market. Certainly quicker than the 10-15 year life cycle of legacy data centers. This presents challenges to all data center owners with large sunk costs, expensive operating cost bases and an IT environment that is no longer fit for purpose eg high density compute capabilities for HPC, webscale, blockchain and other intensive compute applications.
– Must eliminate silos of complexity and plan for scale.
Conventional wisdom always told us big companies are unbeatable… and eat smaller competitors for breakfast. Not anymore. These days it's not The Big that Eat The Small… It's The FAST that Eat The Slow! Where do Hydro66, an ultra-efficient colocation data center operator fit in? We welcome any business, from startup to global hyperscale to contact us and see if there is a way we can work together. We are active in the startup community locally to ourselves and in Stockholm – we'd love to hear from you. Hydro66 are right now expanding our data center campus with another four data halls, the first build was quickly sold out to the kind of companies mentioned above, we are a located in North Sweden and support clients from all over the world. We are one of the FAST companies.
Broad Group, the organisers of the Datacloud series of international data center conferences always do a great job and I'm excited to be part of the Nordic event in Oslo next week. In advance of the event they asked me to contribute a few thoughts on questions around the reasons for Nordic data center growth, the rise of China and the concept of the edge – you can read my thoughts simply by clicking here!
So please, if you can be with myself and the Hydro66 team at Datacloud Nordics next week I'd be delighted. Otherwise please do get in touch with me here or on LinkedIn – I'd love to hear your thoughts on The Fast and The Slow!


Harrison Mills and Clayton Knight have earned a GRAMMY nomination and Gold singles in the U.S. and Australia while racking up 31 Hype Machine #1s, over half a billion combined Spotify and YouTube plays, and over one billion plays on Pandora. With two full-length albums to their name, the Seattle-based production duo creates atmospheric, cinematic music blurring genres and musical styles while incorporating live instrumentation into their performances. They have sold out every show in 2015 and 2016 and headline festivals around the globe.


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Стенешть, Стенешті () — село у повіті Мехедінць в Румунії. Адміністративно підпорядковане місту Бая-де-Араме.

Село розташоване на відстані 271 км на захід від Бухареста, 43 км на північ від Дробета-Турну-Северина, 144 км на південний схід від Тімішоари, 113 км на північний захід від Крайови.

Населення
За даними перепису населення 2002 року у селі проживали  осіб, усі — румуни. Усі жителі села рідною мовою назвали румунську.

Примітки

Села повіту Мехедінць

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Everyone wants to make things as easy as possible for themselves and growing a business is no different. We present to you some of the best examples of growth hacking that will inspire you towards success and show you just how easy it can be when you set your mind to it.
Before we give you the lowdown on growth hacking successes we will need to explain exactly what growth hacking is for those who don't already know anything about the term.
Hacking always comes across as a negative term and might conjure up images of masked members of Anonymous or, for those old enough to remember it, the 1980s film WarGames, but it can be attributed to positive things too. Life hacks is one example and growth hacking is another.
In a nutshell, growth hacking is a type of marketing where the focus is on the result rather than how you achieve it. It's all about experimenting and evolving to achieve success. It might sound like winging it a little, but growth hacking is really calculated risk taking that usually applies to small companies or start-ups. In some cases it has catapulted businesses to extreme success. It is the best solution for companies with a small marketing budget.
The term growth hacking was first used in 2010 and was coined by Sean Ellis who was already practising the then unnamed marketing technique.
One of the most successful men in the field of growth hacking and something of a guru on the subject is Neil Patel. Neil's history within marketing stretches back to 2001 when he created his first website. He was cheated out of money by some marketing experts and took matters into his own hands. Out of necessity he learned about and became a success. The expertise he gained has helped many companies to grow and he has been recognised by both Barack Obama and the United Nations for his services as a young entrepreneur.
This popular site for booking places to stay can often reward the user with some incredibly unique holiday experiences. In 2008 two men, Brian Chesky and Joe Gebbia, were struggling to pay their rent. They put three mattresses on the floor of their house and rented them out. They then came up with the idea for a website and linked it to Craigslist's rentals section to promote themselves better. Thousands of users became millions and the operation soon became worldwide. Brilliant in its simplicity, AirBNB is now estimated to be worth around $30billion.
We all like to watch videos online, whether they are music videos or films of cats looking cute. YouTube is the go-to place for all your video content, but it is a happy accident that it ended up that way. Originally YouTube was meant to be a search engine. The growth hacking technique they used was the ability to keep people on their platform and keep sharing their content. The ability to share videos via social media with just one click and the recommended videos which keep you watching boost their overall views and ultimately the website's value.
Social media has never been more popular. Some call it time wasting, while others think it's a fantastic way to keep in touch with friends and share content. Millions of users worldwide can't be wrong, but Twitter wasn't always as successful. Way back in the beginning people were unsure of how to use it and many registered but didn't return to the site. Twitter analysed this and came up with the idea of making new users follow at least five other users upon registration. This meant people returned regularly to see what their new 'friends' had to say. The presence of many celebrities has undoubtedly helped their cause, but the key to Twitter's success was fundamentally quite simple.
We've all had that email: "So-and-so wants to add you to their professional network on LinkedIn." For many people it's an annoyance, but for those who use what is basically a version of Facebook for professionals, it is a really help. LinkedIn began essentially as a networking site for professional people and was a tool to find work and develop contacts.
LinkedIn's growth hacking success was making users' profiles public. Now when you google a person's name, their LinkedIn profile is generally the first result which is returned. This helped both companies and workers and the move added a lot of credence to the website and of course increased its value.
This site for file sharing and storage is used by millions worldwide, but in the beginning they struggled to get people to sign up. That was before they employed their own growth hacking technique. Each user has a limited amount of storage, but if they get a friend to sign up they get bonus storage. This referral system accounts for 60% of new users signing up with the platform. Dropbox allegedly once turned down a nine-figure buyout offer from Steve Jobs, so clearly they are doing something right.
All these examples of growth hacking show that it's not as difficult as you might think to boost a new business to the sky and beyond. If you've got a good idea you're already on your way, but the key is in choosing your growth hacking technique. You need to be doing something that your competitors aren't and what no one else has thought of before.
Quite simply, successful growth hacking will equal a very successful business and if you make it, your company might one day end up in an article like this one!


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VIDEO: Inter scored 6 against Barça and won their 11th Copa de España!
Madrid-based team Inter Movistar won the 2021 Copa de España edition after crushing Barça 6:1 in the final match played in Madrid.
Barça opened the match better and scored in 4' after Ximbinha's sensational strike. Martel equalized in 13' from the second-penalty, and Borja got Inter a lead which they did not drop until the end of the match. Inter confirmed its victory (and trophy) between 28' and 32' minute when they scored four goals. Borja scored his second in 28', Martel scored his second a minute later, and Cecilio and Saldise put the final score in 31' and 32'.
It was Inter's 11th title (46th major trophy in history), and Barça remained on 5 titles.

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Fiji Employment Law Update: Covid-19 has led to an amendment to the Employment Relations Act
Jun 1, 2020 10:15:35 AM / by Siwatibau & Sloan
The Fiji government's response to the public health crisis posed by Covid-19 has been swift, and remarkable. At the time of writing this response based on WHO advice has reduced the known cases of Covid 19 in Fiji to 3 active cases bringing the number down from a peak of 18. This is a notable achievement, but Fiji's success has come with a steep economic cost.
In our firm's guidance to employers on 18 March 2020 (available here) published just before Fiji confirmed its first Covid-19 case, we noted that employers and employees may find solutions together to respond to the unprecedented situation. This is based on the premise that employers and employees have the option to work together in good faith to find compromises to employment relationships within the law. The unfortunate reality is that if an employer cannot afford meet wage obligations then employment will end for one reason or another. A little over 2 months after Fiji's first Covid-19 case many of us are aware of a number of Fiji employers who have had no choice but to terminate employment contracts, follow redundancy processes or seek to reduce wages. In exercising all of these options the employer still has the duty to act in good faith.
On 28 May 2020, the Government of Fiji introduced a Bill before the Parliament of Fiji, Bill No. 12 of 2020, that has passed into law as the Employment Relations (Amendment) Act 2020 ("Amendment"). The Amendment has changed Fiji's employment law with the aim of addressing difficulties faced by businesses due to COVID-19. The intention behind the Bill was explained in the explanatory note to the Bill as "to provide for a more realistic work environment which enables the sustainability of jobs and businesses, and to clarify the meaning of "an act of God" in the Act during the COVID-19 period".
This commercial law update outlines some of the major changes that this Amendment has made to the law, and how it relates to other sections of the Employment Relations Act 2007 ("ERA") such as termination of employment and redundancy.
This article is for information purposes only and is not and should not be relied upon as legal advice. We strongly recommend that any employer or employee concerned about an employment law problem or issue should seek legal advice.
Changes made by the Amendment
Act of God Defined
The Amendment's biggest change is to bring the Covid-19 within the definition of "act of God" for the purposes of section 24 of the ERA.
Section 24 of the ERA states that an employer must provide work to an employee in accordance with a contract of employment for the term of the contract of employment, and if the employer does not do this it must continue to pay the employee on the same wages as if the employee had performed the day's work unless the:
employee has broken his or her contract of service; or
contract is frustrated; or
performance of the contract is prevented by an act of God;
Under the ERA "act of God" was not defined only appearing in section 24, so the ERA left it to common law to define the term. Essentially the Amendment, by defining the term "act of God" to include a pandemic declared by the Word Health Organization, has made it clear that if Covid-19 has prevented the performance of the contract of employment this would be a good reason for the employer not to continue to offer work to an employee. Indeed, it is reported (here) that this has been confirmed by the Hon Attorney General, Mr Sayed-Khaiyum who is reported to have confirmed: "employers have to prove that they have no work to provide to an employee due to the impact of COVID-19 before laying off the employee".
In noting this, it seems to us that the employer will, in accordance with the duty to act in good faith, have the burden of being able to show that Covid-19 has prevented the performance of the contract, and be in a position to demonstrate this, if required.
Other changes in respect to section 24 of the ERA by reason of the Amendment include rearrangement of words and re-numbering.
Section 24 will, if the Bill becomes law, will read as follows:
24(1) An employer must unless the worker has broken his or her contract of service or the contract is frustrated or its performance prevented by an act of God:
provide the worker with work in accordance with the contract during the period for which the contract is binding on a number of days equal to the number of working days expressly or impliedly provided for in the contract; and
if the employer fails to provide work to the worker, pay to the worker, in respect of every day on which the employer so fails, wages at the same rate as if the worker had performed a day's work
(2) In this section, "act of God" includes a pandemic declared by the World Health Organization."
Definition of COVID-19 and COVID-19 Period
The Amendment also introduces a new Part 20A which is headed COVID-19 Response Measures. The new Part 20A addresses leave entitlements during the COVID-19 period.
COVID-19 is defined as coronavirus disease as named by the World Health Organization on 11 February 2020 (section 245B of the Amendment).
The COVID-19 period has been defined as the period commencing from the operative date (effective date of the Employment Relations (Amendment) Act 2020) and ends when the Minister shall prescribe by notice in the Gazette. The Minister will publish the end of the period only after consultations with the Ministry of Health and stakeholders in key economic sectors which includes the Office of the Prime Minister, and ministries responsible for finance, public enterprises, commerce, trade, tourism and transport and the Reserve Bank of Fiji (section 245B of the Bill).
The Amendment also reduces Paternity leave to two working days from five working days under section 101A of the ERA (section 245D of the Amendment).
A man is entitled to paternity leave provided all other provisions of section 101A of ERA has been met.
Family Care Leave
Under section 245C of the Amendment, a worker is entitled to a minimum of two working days as family care leave. An employer has the discretion to provide more than two working days.
Under section 68A of the ERA family care leave was for at least five working days and applied if the employee had worked for the same employer for three continuous months.
The Amendment provides section 245E which lists various scenarios and how entitlement to paternity and family care leave is to be decided.
Planning Points and the effect of the changes brought into effect by the Amendment
By including COVID-19 as an act of God an employer who, in good faith, cannot fulfill its duty to provide work to a worker/employee, may stand down the employee and not continue to pay the employee.
The changes do not, in our view, entitle the employer to terminate employment of the worker/employee by providing a termination letter stating due to COVID-19 his or her employment has been terminated but allows the employer to stand down the employee/worker as the employer is not able to provide work. The ERA still requires any employer terminating any employee to provide a reason and ensure that the reason accords with the contract of employment and the ERA.
The changes under the Amendment also do not provide guidance as to how an employer is to prove that they cannot fulfill an employers duty to provide work. In our view, the employer will still have the duty to act in good faith and be able to demonstrate the effect of Covid-19 has led to the contract of employment not being able to be performed.
On the assumption that an employee/worker is stood down for the COVID-19 period without pay, then once the said period ends, the employer may be obliged to bring the employees back to work on the same terms and conditions.
It should also be noted that if the employer faces dire economic hardship, and for this reason decides it has to restructure its business for economic reasons then Part 19 of the ERA, sections 106 to 108 may be relied upon. However, redundancy and the set procedures must be followed and employers do not always find this an easy task.
These are unprecedented times and more than ever, there is a need for empathy, thoughtfulness and encouragement and we hope a spirit of providing assistance to each other so that Fiji as a nation and its people get through these hard times together.
We encourage employers to engage in open dialogue with their employees and for employers and employees to work together in good faith to determine and agree on the best options. This means that employers should be prepared to be transparent and open with employees if they are proposing reducing wages or time requirements. After all employers still carry the burden of being able to show its employees that the effects of Covid-19 have made the changes proposed necessary.
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Q: Assign Aggregate Function Result to A Variable SQL Does SQL allow assigning the return of an aggregate function to another variable of the same type? I'm trying to take the Count(ID) of a table and assign the returned result to a temp table and my query continues to error with an 'aggregate function error' so I'm wondering if the return value of COUNT(ID) is able to be assigned to a variable?
SELECT Count(ID) From SomeTable

DECLARE @ttl INT

SET @ttl = Count(ID)

I'd like to take this returned number, let's say 500, and then assign it to an INT variable in a temp table
DECLARE @cnt INT = 0;
DECLARE @startYear DATETIME = '2011-01-01 00:00:00.000'
DECLARE @endYear DATETIME   = '2011-12-31 23:59:59.999'
DECLARE @ttl INT

SELECT DATEPART(year, @startYear) AS [Year of Totals], COUNT(ID) AS [Total For Year], GETDATE() AS [DATE/TIME of RUN]
FROM SomeTable
ORDER BY [Year of Totals]

    SET @cnt = @cnt + 1;
    SET @startYear = DATEADD(year, 1, @startYear);
    SET @endYear = DATEADD(year, 1, @endYear);
    SET @ttl = COUNT(ID);   --> Problem Points to this as Invalid column 'ID'

INSERT INTO TempYearlyResults (Year, Total_YEAR, Date_Time, Test_Data) VALUES (DATEADD(YEAR,-1, @startYear), @ttl, GETDATE(), 'Is this working')

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--Pseudocode BEGIN
-- Variable Declarations
--  Initialize counter to zero
--> EDIT this for the start year
--> EDIT this for that end of start year
--  Initialize for Total Counts for Year
-- Create A Temp Table to Drop Loop Data into
--WHILE the counter is less than the number of years being requested, run the following WHILE LOOP
WHILE @cnt < 3 --> EDIT this for the complete number of years being requested
BEGIN
-- SELECT the Year, Total Count for said Year, and Date/Time this run is being executed
-- Increment the counter to display the next year in the loop
-- Increment the Start Year to the next year
-- Increment the end of the start year
-- Set @ttl Variable equal to the Total For Year of each year
-- Populate the Temp Table with the results
-- Show the collected results in the Temp Table
-- Drop Table after populating to allow for creation next time
-- Pseudocode END

A: try assigning the variable in the sql.  @startYear and @EndYear should be used as Where filters and not part of the groupings
DECLARE @ttl INT
SELECT @ttl=Count(distinct ID) From SomeTable

select @ttl

Try partitioning ids by Year then counting them
  SELECT distinct DATEPART(year, YourDate) AS [Year of Totals],
     COUNT(ID) over(partition by DATEPART(year, YourDate) order by DATEPART(year, Date))  AS [Total For Year],
     GETDATE() AS [DATE/TIME of RUN]
FROM SomeTable

Try a Cursor, increment a counter variable and store the results in a temp table after each year changes.
declare c1  cursor for
    select ID, Datepart(year, theDate) Year from SomeTable ORDER BY Datepart(year, theDate);
open c1

FETCH NEXT FROM c1 INTO @ID,@Year;
declare @Counter as int=0
declare @PrevYear as int=0
WHILE @@FETCH_STATUS = 0
    BEGIN
       set @Counter=@Counter+1
       if @Year<>@PrevYear then
            begin
                 print @Counter
                 set @Counter=0
            end
       set @PrevYear=@Year
       FETCH NEXT FROM c1 INTO @ID,@Year;
    END

close c1
deallocate c1

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LearnBonds Poll: Britons split over student loans for prisoners
Author: Roger Baird
A narrow majority of the public say that prisoners should be able to take out student loans to pay for degrees.
Just under 42 per cent of British people either strongly agree or somewhat agree that "long-term prisoners should be allowed to take out student loans during their sentences to pay for degree courses", according to an exclusive poll by LearnBonds.
However, it also found that 38.5 per cent of the public either strongly disagree or somewhat disagree with the right of inmates to take out these loans. Just under 20 per cent were undecided.
The poll follows a report last week which said improving inmates' education would cut reoffending rates and reduce overall prison costs, according to the Open University and thinktank the Higher Education Policy Institute.
Survey Results: Should Long-term prisoners be allowed to take out student loans during their sentences to pay for degree courses?
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Lower reoffending rates
Prisoners need to borrow just over £18,000 for tuition fees to complete an Open University degree.
Currently, only prisoners within six years of release are eligible for student loans to cover tuition fees in England and Wales. About 2,000 prisoners are currently taking higher-education courses, mostly part-time, distance-learning degrees from the Open University.
The study estimates scrapping the six-year rule would add another 200 prisoners per year to student numbers – at a cost of £2.3m.
But the report adds that the move "could also save between £3m and £6m as a result of reduced reoffending rates".
The Open University said that reoffending rates are 20 per cent to 40 per cent lower among inmates who have studied for one of its awards.
Former prisoners begin paying back loans once their earnings hit £25,000 per year after release.
Higher Education Policy Institute director Nick Hillman said rules that mean only prisoners within six years of release are eligible for student loans "simply beggars belief".
He added: "Prisoners who seek to improve their education are positive role models for other prisoners and are less likely to reoffend on release.
"As they write their manifestoes for the next general election, all the political parties should consider a new commitment to helping prisoners better themselves through education."
The UK's overall prison population is 83,795, according to Ministry of Justice data at the end of October. Running the country's jails and probation service costs £4.9bn, according to the HM Prison & Probation Service 2018-19 annual report.
London leads
Londoners are most in favour of the drive for prisoner education with just over 65 per cent of those in the capital backing the move, according to our survey. The next most supportive region was the North West, where just over 41 per cent of the public are behind the initiative.
Scotland and Wales were the least supportive regions with just 33 per cent and 34 per cent backing prisoner higher education, respectively.
Just under 53 per cent of 25- to 34-year-olds either strongly agree or somewhat agree with loans for prisoners, but this falls to just 32 per cent support among people over 55.
Men were slightly more enthusiastic about prisoner education, with 44 per cent either strongly agreeing or somewhat agreeing with these types of loans, this drops to just under 39 per cent support among women.
The Department for Education said there are no plans for a change of policy in this area.
The survey interviewed a representative sample of 2,000 adults across the country between 26 and 27 of October.
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Further information on raising finance through loans or payday loans can be found here.
Roger Baird is News Editor at Finixio. He has worked as a financial journalist for 20 years reporting on companies, capital markets and the UK economy.
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When you make a gift of securities to Habitat for Humanity GTA, you receive a charitable tax receipt for the full amount of your gift. While marginal tax rates vary from province to province, on average, your donation will generate a tax credit worth approximately 45% of the value of the gift. That alone makes donating securities a wise financial move as well as a way of helping working, low-income families move into their Habitat homes.
There are other tax advantages as well when you transfer stocks, bonds and other investments to Habitat. Usually, when you sell a security, you must pay tax on 50 percent of the capital gain, but when you transfer the security directly to a charity, without first converting it to cash, there is no taxable amount on the gain. Publicly listed securities include shares, mutual funds, options and futures listed on most stock exchanges in Canada and around the world.
Consider also leaving securities to Habitat for Humanity GTA in your will. This can lessen the tax burden for your heirs. Your estate will be excluded from paying tax on any capital gains generated by the security. The more securities and other assets you leave to charity, the bigger the tax credit for your estate, and the fewer taxes that will have to be paid. Canada Revenue Agency allows you to donate up to 100 per cent of your estate's net income to charity.
By leaving securities to Habitat for Humanity GTA in your will, you lessen the tax burden on your estate and your heirs.
Whether you donate securities during your lifetime, or in your will, your gift starts to work as soon as the securities are sold, immediately helping families to build strength and stability through affordable homeownership.
By donating stocks, bonds and other investments, you may be able to make a substantially larger donation than would otherwise be possible, helping Habitat build more homes for more families.
Prior to transferring securities to our account, please download and complete the Gift of Securities form which includes instructions to your broker. Remember to sign and date the form.


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Bob Barton
Not to be confused with Robert (Bob) Barton or Robert E. "Bob" Barton.
Born: (1941-07-30)July 30, 1941
Norwood, Ohio
Died: January 15, 2018(2018-01-15) (aged 76)
Batted: Right Threw: Right
September 17, 1965, for the San Francisco Giants
Last MLB appearance
July 30, 1974, for the San Diego Padres
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Robert Wilbur Barton (July 30, 1941 – January 15, 2018) was an American professional baseball player who played catcher in the Major Leagues from 1965–74. He played for the San Francisco Giants, San Diego Padres and Cincinnati Reds.
Barton made his Major League debut on September 17, 1965 in a 9–1 Giants loss to the Milwaukee Braves at County Stadium, entering the game in the seventh inning, replacing catcher Jack Hiatt. He batted once, going 0–1 with a foulout. His first hit came in his next at-bat on September 28 in a 9–1 loss to the St. Louis Cardinals at San Francisco's Candlestick Park. Pinch-hitting for Baseball Hall of Famer Warren Spahn in the ninth inning, he singled off Larry Jaster.[1]
Barton was primarily a backup catcher, playing behind Tom Haller with the Giants and Baseball Hall of Famer Johnny Bench with the Reds.[2] His best statistical year as a hitter was as a starter for the 1971 Padres; in 121 games, he hit .250 with five home runs and 23 runs batted in along with 17 doubles. On defense, in 1971 he led National League catchers in runners caught stealing (42), percentage of runners caught stealing (51.2%) and errors committed (15) and was second in assists (67).[3]
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The Portland Traction Company was an interurban and local transit company that served the greater Portland area. Though the last rail passenger service ended in 1958, certain lines remained in service serving freight customers for some years afterward. The Portland Traction Company engine house is pictured here. Photo by Craig Bass, August 1981.
I have a small token that say's Portland traction Co. It says Good for one fare. Also it has a diamond shape cut out in the center,, just wondering if it was wroth anything.
I have one of these as well. Found it in the alley near my house.
Wayne, I have two Portland traction tokens with diamond cutouts and two Rose City Transit tokens with star cutouts, neither seems to have much if any value.
Found four Portland traction Co. tokens in Mom's old sewing kit. All have the diamond center cut out and "Good for One Fare" on the backside.... Might have been used by my Dad who was the last SP agent for the Tillamook depot.


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Officials preparing for flu season
By marylajolla
Flu season has arrived and upwards of 30 percent of the population could become ill
within the next 60 days without a combined effort of individuals, government agencies, and the business community to prevent and contain the spread of the pandemic H1N1 strain.
"We need to take (flu prevention) as seriously as we do fire prevention," said State Assemblyman Nathan Fletcher, R-75th District, a panelist on the public forum "Pandemic Flu: Know the Enemy," hosted Oct. 1 by the Burnham Institute for Medical Research.
Flu pandemics have occurred throughout history; three times in the 20th century alone (1918, 1957, and 1968). Media coverage last spring of the first reported cases of pandemic H1N1 flu led many to believe the strain is deadlier than seasonal flu.
This may not prove to be the case, but what is certain is that pandemic H1N1 is highly contagious.
"Since July, there have been 1,299 confirmed cases of flu illness in San Diego County, 99 percent of which have been pandemic H1N1," said Patricia Skoglund, R.N., administrative director of Disaster Preparedness for Scripps Health.
A troubling aspect of pandemic H1N1 is the high infection rate of among the young.
"We are seeing perfectly healthy young adults develop fatal results," said Stephen Waterman, M.D., M.P.H., senior medical epidemiologist and associate director of the U.S./Mexico unit of the Division of Global Migration and Quarantine for the Centers for Disease Control (CDC) in San Diego.
For individuals, being prepared for flu season means being proactive through vaccination and taking steps (such as frequent hand washing) to avoid exposure. Seasonal flu vaccine is available now and initial delivery to California of pandemic H1N1 vaccines begins the first week of October with additional allocations continuing to arrive through January.
"There will be enough to vaccinate the population," said Skoglund.
"I'd also like to put in a plug for the pneumonia vaccine as well," said Robert Liddington, Ph.D., director of Burnham's Infectious Disease program. Deaths from pandemic H1N1 are coming primarily from secondary infections and this is often pneumonia.
Government agencies play an important role in monitoring infection rates, coordinating vaccination programs, and informing the public.
San Diego County has had in place for years a program that monitors respiratory infections as reported by schools, hospitals, ambulance services, and other healthcare providers.
"We can see spikes and trends on a weekly basis," said Skoglund.
County health officials, the California Department of Public Health and the CDC share information in weekly phone calls. And the public will be kept informed through better coordination of communication efforts; the result of measures put in place following the lessons learned from San Diego County's catastrophic fire storms.
The business community needs to anticipate and plan for the economic impact of large numbers of people out of work due to illness for three, five, or seven days at a stretch. Employee absenteeism could also affect the ability of utilities and public safety agencies to deliver services.
"But, it's a false economy to keep sick employees at work," cautions Liddington.
For the next several months health officials recommend foregoing the common business practice of hand-shaking and to increase distance when standing next to people. Keyboard, phone, and doorknob surfaces can harbor flu virus; disinfect frequently. Companies are encouraged to cut down on face-to-face meetings by engaging in more conference calls and webinars.
Now is not the time for all of us "to come together in a small room," according to Skoglund.
-- "Pandemic Flu: Know the Enemy" was taped by UCSD-TV and will air on Thurs, Oct. 22 at 9 p.m.
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Chabad course in RSF explores life, death and the afterlife
This winter, Rabbi Levi Raskin of Chabad Jewish Center in Rancho Santa Fe will offer Journey of the Soul, a new six-session course by the acclaimed Rohr Jewish Learning Institute (JLI) that will answer a question which has occurred to every self-reflective person: What happens when we die?
Solana Beach scholar earns prestigious national award
A Solana Beach scholar and native of Oaxaca, Mexico, has earned a place in the prestigious national Ronald B.
'Transforming Your Mind and Transcending Limitations' program to be presented Jan. 19
A talk on "Transforming Your Mind and Transcending Limitations" will be presented by Del Mar Community Connections at 3:30 p.m.
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Why search for him without ?
"The True One was there from time immemorial.
Look within, you will see Him there enshrined."
Who is the link between what is inside and out?
Who it is who pervades the three worlds about?"
"I don't die... He who is merged with the omnipresent is never gone."


No one wants to talk about it, but Ontario taxpayers are funding a St Catharine's school run by Mennonites. Eden Christian College operated as a private school from 1945-1987, when it joined Lincoln County Board of Education. But it never gave up teaching religion (daily to Grade 9s, with services three times a week for older students).
"Over the years, Eden has grown in population to around 780 students. With so many students, there are so many different needs and situations represented. Often, students can get overwhelmed and wonder whether or not there is even a purpose to living and if there is any hope for them at all. We, as a department and as a school, believe that hope can be found in Christ alone. We believe that He desperately wants us to know Him and to follow Him," boasts the school's website.
According to the website, the school requires students to pass Bible classes, although it apparently doesn't require them to excel at it.
"Eden High School has a Bible teaching program for all Grade 9 students which runs from 8:25 to 8:50am on Wednesdays, Thursdays and Fridays before the official start of the school day. Grade 9 students will attend chapel on Mondays and Tuesdays. The Bible course is a survey of the main themes and content of the life of Christ, the book of Acts and an overview of the main themes of the Old Testament.
The website doesn't go into details of how the arrangement between the school and the school board came into effect.
Darrell Gillespie, the principal of Eden, did not return repeated phone calls requesting information about how the school's status came about and exactly what the school teaches.
The Niagara District School Board was only slightly more helpful. Tara Hall, the board's director of communications confirms the fact that Eden was operating as a Christian school under the board's aegis, but failed to produce anyone willing to be interviewed on how the arrangement came about, exactly how much authority the board has over what the school teaches and what kind of precedent the arrangement might set for other religious groups.
The ministry of education was even less helpful than the board. Patricia MacNeil is not even aware of Eden's special status.
"Eden is no different from any other public school," she says.
When told that the school's own website made it clear that it was different, MacNeil says only, "I don't know that." She adds that she will look into the school, but has subsequently failed to provide any further information.
But while nobody will talk about the school's teachings on religious matters, the website makes it clear what its religious affiliations are.
The Mennonite Brethren Churches are not exactly gay-friendly, according to the website of the Canadian Conference Of Mennonite Brethren Churches.
But despite these beliefs, Eden has nonetheless been adopted by those opposed to a private school tax credit as a prime example of the direction in which the Ontario public school system should be moving.
Jim Bradley, the former Liberal MPP for the St Catharines area, happily lined up with the school in a 2003 legislative debate over the tax credit.
And in a 2002 legislative committee presentation, Craig Brockwell of the Niagara OSSTF, was more than happy to get into bed with Eden to oppose the tax credit.
"A number of years ago, Eden Christian School was seeking a new home, probably for reasons of economic viability," Hansard quotes Brockwell saying. "Perhaps it saw, as many other citizens do, that the public system could be its saviour. After some deliberation, the public system, as it does with all, opened its doors to Eden. That is key, because the public school system provides for the needs of all. It can also provide for the spiritual needs of a specific community within the umbrella of a publicly funded school curriculum offered by certified teachers.


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Co-Mo Connect: From Leap of Faith to Internet Trailblazer
Co-Mo Electric Cooperative's leadership team took a leap of faith 10 years ago – and they've never looked back.
Serving Central Missouri communities desperate for internet service – with broadband available in only 15% of the territory – the co-op applied for government funds in 2010 to build out a high-speed network. Despite the enthusiasm, letters and lobbying from co-op members, however, the funding didn't happen.
Unwilling to give up, Co-Mo's team chose a different path.
Conexon Partner Randy Klindt, a member of the co-op's broadband leadership team at the time, wrote a financial plan for Co-Mo to self-finance a gigabit fiber-to-the-home network – a virtually unheard-of financial model. No co-op had been able to build out broadband without government subsidizing. Co-Mo's progressive Board of Directors agreed to a pilot, and if take rates were at least 25%, would support a full launch. In 2010, Co-Mo boldly launched a triple play pilot – offering not just Internet, but phone and TV as well.
Co-op members rallied behind the pilot, with some going door-to-door to convince friends and neighbors to subscribe, and in some cases paying the required $100 deposit for them. Two area banks even volunteered to pay the deposit for all their bank depositors. The pilot easily met the 25% threshold and Co-Mo Connect debuted as the co-op's broadband subsidiary, charged with building out fiber to the home to serve 100% of Co-Mo's members.
"Our Board was visionary, and willing to take a chance to build a network that would meet our members' needs," says Co-Mo CEO Aaron Bradshaw. "When we started building the network in 2012, we approached it in four phases with 'off-ramps' along the way so that if necessary, we could stop. Fortunately, that didn't happen."
Connected by 2020
Expected by 2024
Members Reached
And the rest is history
The unique design and architecture driven by Klindt enabled Co-Mo to construct the network and build out to all members at a low overall construction cost, which made the project initially feasible, and then cash flow positive at an extremely accelerated rate. By 2015, just five years after the start of the project, Co-Mo Connect was cash flow positive. It became the first co-op to build out a fiber-to-the-home network to 100% of its co-op membership without federal grants or subsidies. And by mid-2017, Co-Mo had completed a fiber buildout that covered its entire territory and beyond.
"We didn't stay exclusive to our territory when we built out," Bradshaw explains. "We took on several other cities that were underserved or unserved. Our approach was not to compete on price, but really just demonstrate the quality of our product. Some of the competitors in the market would advertise speeds of 10Mbps down and 3Mbps up, but customers were usually lucky to get 3 down. It was easy to win when offering gigabit speed at a lower cost, and service backed by the co-op."
Today Co-Mo Connect has more than 18,000 subscribers connected, and by the end of 2024, expects to have 32,000. Thanks to the broadband provided by Co-Mo Connect, professionals are now able to work at home, allowing them to be present with their children, while still maintaining their careers. Better healthcare is available to rural residents via telemedicine, made possible only with high-speed data. There are more job opportunities and the economy is improving. And thanks to Wi-Fi powered by Co-Mo Connect, Missouri's Lake of the Ozarks Boy Scout Council boasts the nation's only Scouting Invention Campus, a resource that provides them access to cutting-edge technology, engineering labs, 3D printing and more.
"Our Board was visionary and willing to take a chance to build a network that would meet our members' needs," says Co-Mo CEO Aaron Bradshaw. "When we started building the network in 2012, we approached it in four phases with 'off-ramps' along the way so that if necessary, we could stop. Fortunately, that didn't happen."
- Aaron Bradshow, CEO - Co-Mo Electric Cooperative
The Conexon influence
In 2018, Co-Mo Connect joined Conexon's Rural Electric Cooperative Consortium (RECC), bidding for Connect America Fund (CAF) II broadband funds. Under the leadership and guidance of Conexon Partner Jonathan Chambers, the RECC was deemed the largest, most successful bidding consortium in FCC history. For its part, Co-Mo was awarded $22 million, funds that will help fuel its growth and expand even further out of territory.
"I was ecstatic after the auction. Thanks to Conexon, we were extremely successful," says Bradshaw. "The CAF II funding has allowed us to expand our service to meet the needs of additional areas that otherwise would be underserved or unserved. And although we were always on target for a successful ROI, our timelines for that are shortened considerably with the CAF II funds."
Over its years in operation, Co-Mo Connect has expanded its staff to meet the needs of its growing subscriber base. But given Klindt's network design and initial project influence, and Chambers' experience in the regulatory and funding arena, the co-op continues to leverage Conexon expertise.
"Conexon is a great partner and we count on them to fill in gaps where we may not have expertise or knowledge," Bradshaw said. "The team comes from a background that gives them perspective and an understanding of the challenges in rural America."
Moving forward, Co-Mo Connect is all about growth – in four years, it will have as many subscribers as meters – and continuing to blaze new trails for other co-ops. Bradshaw's advice?
"If you're going to get into broadband, jump in with both feet," he says. "Prepare your staff for some big changes and choose your partners wisely.
"The need is great and as soon as people know it's coming, you'll be bombarded, so be ready," he adds laughing.


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package gate.creole.coref;

import java.io.File;
import java.util.Map;
import java.util.regex.Pattern;

/**
 * Utilities used in multiple places inside the gate.creole.coref package.
 */
public class Utils {

  /**
   * A RegEx pattern used to identify multi-word expressions containing only
   * words that start with a capital letter.
   */
  public static final Pattern MWE_UPPER_INITIAL_PATTERN = Pattern.compile(
      // (Upper-starting word
      "(?:\\p{javaUpperCase}(?:\\p{javaLowerCase}|\\p{javaUpperCase})+" +
      // followed by space), one or more times
      "\\p{javaWhitespace}+)+" +
      // ending with another upper-starting word.
      "\\p{javaUpperCase}(?:\\p{javaLowerCase}|\\p{javaUpperCase})+");

  /**
   * {@link Pattern} used to identify abbreviations based on initials (e.g.
   * "BT" or "B.T.&quot).
   */
  public static final Pattern INITIALS_PATTERN = Pattern.compile(
      "\\p{javaUpperCase}+|(?:\\p{javaUpperCase}\\.)+");

  /**
   * A word that starts with an upper case letter. This is a sub-pattern of
   * {@link #MWE_UPPER_INITIAL_PATTERN}.
   */
  public static final Pattern UPPER_INITIAL_PATTERN = Pattern.compile(
    "\\p{javaUpperCase}(?:\\p{javaLowerCase}|\\p{javaUpperCase})+");

  /**
   * Given an input string matched by {@link #MWE_UPPER_INITIAL_PATTERN}, this
   * method returns the initials for constituent words of the multi-word
   * expression.
   * @param input
   * @return
   */
  public static final char[] initialsForMwe(String input) {
    // split on whitespace
    String[] words = input.split("\\p{javaWhitespace}+");
    char[] res = new char[words.length];
    for(int i = 0; i < words.length; i++) {
      res[i] = words[i].charAt(0);
    }
    return res;
  }

  /**
   * Given a multi-word expression, this method splits it at whitespace and
   * returns its constituent parts.
   * @param input the String containing the multi-word expression.
   * @return the array of parts, in the same order as they occurred in the input
   * string.
   */
  public static final String[] partsForMwe(String input) {
    return input.split("\\p{javaWhitespace}+");
  }

  /**
   * Checks whether the input string is a multi-word reference as recognised by
   * {@link #MWE_UPPER_INITIAL_PATTERN}.
   * @param text
   * @return
   */
  public static final boolean isMwe(String text) {
    return MWE_UPPER_INITIAL_PATTERN.matcher(text).matches();
  }
}


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Gilles Peterson is a broadcaster, DJ and record collector who's played a pivotal role in supporting forward-thinking underground music in the UK and beyond over the past three decades. He hosts weekly primetime Saturday afternoon show on BBC Radio 6 Music that's one of the broadcaster's most popular music shows, helms independent record label Brownswood Recordings, and is the founder of online radio station Worldwide FM.
Throughout his career, Peterson has promoted the new frontiers of jazz, hip-hop, and electronic music. He's been recognised for his work with an MBE in 2004, an AIM Award for Indie Champion 2013, the Mixmag Award for Outstanding Contribution To Dance Music in 2013, the PRS for Music Award for Outstanding Contribution to Music Radio in 2014, and The A&R Award from The Music Producers Guild in 2019.
Starting his career installing illicit transmitters and hosting shows for pirate radio station Radio Invicta, he later joined the newly-founded Jazz FM and, after that, joined the influential pirate-turned-legal station Kiss FM. In 1998, he was hired by BBC Radio 1, where he hosted a weekly show until his move to his current slot on BBC Radio 6 Music. He also hosts a syndicated radio program that is broadcast all over the globe, from Mexico City to Paris.
He has been behind several game-changing record labels. Firstly, he founded Acid Jazz in the late eighties, and later he started Talkin' Loud, whose roster included Incognito, Galliano, Young Disciples, Courtney Pine, MJ Cole, Terry Callier, The Roots, 4 Hero, Nuyorican Soul, Carl Craig's Innerzone Orchestra and Roni Size's Reprazent project. Five of the albums on Talkin Loud were nominated for a Mercury Prize, with Reprazent's New Forms winning in 1997. His current venture, Brownswood Recordings, was formed in 2006 and has released Ghostpoet's Mercury Prize-nominated debut album and the 2018 We Out Here project, a celebrated compilation showcasing the UK's thriving young jazz scene. As a curator and collector, he's compiled over 100 albums.
In 2011, he founded the Steve Reid Foundation in memory of the legendary jazz drummer. The charity supports musicians who are ill and facing financial difficulties, with past recipients of support including Arthur Blythe, Bernie Worrell and George Cables. They've also partnered with the PRS for Music Foundation to create the Steve Reid InNOVAtion Award, which has supported upcoming artists such as Moses Boyd, Nubya Garcia and Sarathy Korwar. He curated the Look Up event series in 2018, which explored the arts and mental health and raised £20,000 for youth mental health charity Safaplace.
He is behind several events championing the music that he supports through his DJ sets and radio shows. Since 2005, he has hosted the annual Worldwide Awards in London and Worldwide Festival in Sète, France, and since 2015, a winter ski edition of the latter in Leysin, Switzerland. Gilles set up the online radio station, Worldwide FM, in 2016 and in 2019 he is launching the new We Out Here festival in the UK.


Greetings, If you're looking for posts from NCSOFT staff, the best place to look is in the Devtracker. You'll find many responses to frequently asked questions and information on game updates. Hope that helps!
Greetings, Please be aware that creating threads or posts designed to troll or flame your fellow forum users is against the forum code of conduct, and can result in the suspension of your forum posting privileges. This thread is now closed. Thank you.
Greetings all, This is a reminder that discussing forum moderation is against the code of conduct, and can result in the suspension of your forum posting privileges. Please keep your posts on topic. Thank you.
Greetings, Sorry to hear that your account was compromised, you can find a good summary of what to do along with some good security tips here. Once you have submitted a ticket Customer Service will be able to help you recover your account. Personally I would advise that you scan for malware on your computer and then change all of your passwords for something you have never used before as soon as possible. Hope that helps.
Don't speak badly about NCSoft or you might get sued!
Greetings, Thank you for warning your fellow forum users about this kind of activity, and thanks to everyone who reported the original posts. We've removed the link in this post as well, and in future we would ask that users avoid sharing links of this type even for 'PSA' reasons as there is a fine line between this and simply advertising them. Thank you.
Hi, Sorry to hear you're having trouble with your NCoin purchase. It looks like something has gone wrong along the way, if you let me know your ticket number we can help. Thank you for your patience.
Bonjour ! La maintenance est désormais terminée et tous les serveurs sont disponibles. Bon jeu !
Greetings, The maintenance is now over and all Blade & Soul servers are available! Thank you.
Hi, Account sharing is a serious violation of the User Agreement, and will lead to the account in question being closed entirely. I hope this helps to clarify the situation for you.
Hi, If you send me a private message I should be able to help you change your forum display name back to your old one.
Hi, It looks like your account has been compromised. If I was you I would use a tool like Malwarebytes to scan your PC for anything that shouldn't be there, then I suggest that you change the password on your email account to something you have never used before, and consider using the mobile authenticator if you can. If you cannot log in to your account you can still submit a ticket by sending an email to support@bladeandsoul.com Hope that helps.
Hi, If you've already submitted a ticket then Customer Support will help you as soon as they are able. For the time being I would suggest that you change the password on your email account to something you have never used before, and consider using the mobile authenticator if you can. If you cannot log in to your account you can still submit a ticket by sending an email to support@bladeandsoul.com Hope that helps.


Feeding my OCD/sodoku side today with a mindmap of Alvin and Heidi Toffler's book Revolutionary Wealth. It's a bit dense but worth reading.
Grab the mindmap (it's big and you may have to use your browser's magnify function).
Revolutionary Wealth Mindmap (PNG format, 661 KB).
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Claudia Juech
CEO and President, Cloudera Foundation
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Claudia is the founding CEO and a board member of the Cloudera Foundation. Working with partners around the globe, she and her team identify and support large-scale, data-driven opportunities to address the world's pressing challenges in any area of critical need, such as in health, the environment, economic inequality, education and more. She is pioneering a foundation model that combines intellectual capital and private sector expertise with financial grants to help nonprofits realize impactful data capabilities. Previously Claudia was Associate Vice President at the Rockefeller Foundation, leading the organization's Strategic Insights Division. Claudia also was a Vice President at DB Research, Deutsche Bank's think tank for trends in business, society, and the financial markets. Claudia advises organizations and consortiums worldwide. She is a member of the World Economic Forum's Trustworthy Data Initiative, GovLab's Global Advisory Group and 100Kin10's Strategic Advisory Committee. She has a degree in information science from Cologne University of Applied Sciences and an International MBA from the University of Cologne.
A data-driven pursuit of education that works for all
By Claudia Juech
Data projects' secret to success is not in the algorithm
Cloudera Foundation CEO Claudia Juech's statement on Black Lives Matter
Ready to set up a data collaboration among nonprofits? Here are six keys toward success
By Claudia Juech	, Nikita Japra
Collective intelligence is a team effort that's eager for more players


The righteous and the unrighteous – how do we tell who's who? It's an eternal worry, isn't it?
In the conversation in Wisdom, there is at least a whiff of the victim's complaint about the unrighteous whose aim in life is to go out and "get" the righteous ones. "Lie in wait for him, test him with insult and torture, so we can find out how gentle he really is!" The Psalm echoes it – God will save the righteous ones, even when they are in despair. Yet there is hope, even in the midst of the worst that life and our mortal enemies can dish out.
None of us has to go very far before we hear language like this. The letters on my desk yesterday included one complaining about what a bishop had encouraged her parish vestry to do, and how it had affected her; another was from people with a great deal of passion about directing – or rather, redirecting – some of the Church Center's operations; a third was from an sometime Naval officer complaining that we bishops are insufficiently assertive – using language like "bishops are the biggest and best guns in the battleship's arsenal…and we have to be willing to fire them." I'm not sure he knew what he had written. It's not hard to find somebody asserting his or her own righteousness in the face of the world's oppression – or even the church's oppression.
We're going to spend the next few days trying to remember that we're not victims – none of us, no matter where we stand on any of the issues. To use one particular strain of theological language, there has already been one cosmic victim, in order that there might be no more victims. If we're going to grow up into the full stature of the Christ in whom we have died and been resurrected, you and I will need to embrace the adventure of leaving victimhood, painful as it may be. If we remain victims, insisting that the unrighteous are out to get us, we will never start on the journey.
We have leaders in this church encouraging others to walk off the field because the opposition is stacked against them. We have others who sometimes seem to be out only to punish miscreants. Our task is to assert our status as subjects, rather than objects, actors capable of informed and compassionate service. Our task is equally to discover that we are subjects of a higher and mysterious authority.
I had a remarkable encounter on the way to the airport yesterday. A few minutes after I got in the car, the driver said to me, "I know you're a bishop. Can you explain to me just what that is?" I talked briefly about three orders of ministry, and ministry in a particular geographic area, and what my particular ministry is. I think he was fishing for how we were different from the Romans, in addition to the obvious issue of gender. In response, I got a synopsis of his life. He talked about his evangelical church, going to seminary for five years, that he had grown up in Ecuador, even though he was originally Italian, that his father was a diplomat, but had been killed in Colombia. And then he said he'd never been around a bishop before, that when he was a child they never saw any. Then we had a conversation about the Episcopal Church, and I told him some of what the Church in Ecuador was up to, including ministry with internally displaced persons there. He said, "yes! we need to get outside of our churches." He hadn't ever seen an Episcopal Church in Ecuador, and wanted to know if there was one in Cuenca.
Well, my friends, I think I was preached to yesterday. And it did not have much to do with who is righteous and who is not.
Wisdom says that the unrighteous go looking to condemn the unrighteous to death, and a shameful one at that. The first part of my conversation yesterday began with asking the driver how he was. "A bit scared." Apparently someone had set off some explosives not too far away, in front of an Army recruiting office. His assumption was that it had been done to embarrass. I continue to be astonished at how much of our rhetoric seeks to undermine the fundamental human dignity of "the other." National politics thrives on it, and it pervades a lot of our internet communication. When we disagree with another, a part of our response often seems to be to take him or her down a notch so we don't have to deal with an equal, so we don't need to look in the eyes of our neighbor, and see the face of Christ.
Yet Jesus manages to pierce that shame-mongering. "If you really knew me, you'd know where I come from." And there is the crux, and the cross. Following him all the way to Calvary, the grave, and Easter, means letting go of our shame-dealing and idolatrous certainty that we possess the fullness of God's truth. It means suffering the finitude of human uncertainty, the same kind that Jesus himself met in the Garden of Gethsemane. It means recognizing that there may be faithful fellow travelers who don't do things exactly the way we'd prefer – like Simon of Cyrene, perhaps a Jew, perhaps not, yet privileged to share the load. Following Jesus to the cross means setting down our tools of shame and picking up the only thing in which we can boast.
The one thing we really can know is where Jesus comes from, even if we cannot know the fullness of his source in God. Our task is to keep seeking that larger whole. The signal moments in our Anglican history have been about just that. The Synod of Whitby, looking to gather together disparate celebrations of resurrection into one coherent whole; the Elizabethan settlement, seeking a larger whole than any of the different theological and liturgical strands; even Gregory's missive to Augustine, to find the best of local practice and baptize it.
We know where Jesus is from. Our task is to keep looking for him in his followers.


Windows 7 comes with some very attractive new wallpapers, and it's not always easy to decide which one you like the best. So why not let choose a few, and let Windows display them all in a desktop slideshow? Right-click an empty part of the desktop, select Personalise > Desktop Background, then hold down Ctrl as you click on the images you like. Choose how often you'd like the images to be changed (anything from daily to once every 10 seconds), select Shuffle if you'd like the backgrounds to appear in a random order, then click Save Changes and enjoy the show.