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Wenger hopes Fabregas will return to Arsenal one day
Arsene Wenger is hopeful Barcelona midfielder Cesc Fabregas will return to Arsenal one day.
The Spain international made 303 appearances in an eight-year spell at the north London side before moving back to boyhood club Barca in the summer of 2011.
But Wenger says Fabregas "watches every Arsenal game" and, while he accepts his short-team future remains at Camp Nou, is predicting him to make the switch back to the Emirates Stadium before he retires.
The Frenchman told reporters: "Fabregas was an exception, a world-class player.
"I'm not convinced that he will not one day come back here, because he is a real Arsenal man.
"He loves Arsenal, he watches every Arsenal game. But of course, Barcelona was his home town and you had to accept that that would come into it, especially with their club having the best team in the world at that time.
"In the next two to three years certainly not – but maybe later."
Wenger added that he believes former Barcelona coach Pep Guardiola would be the perfect fit for Chelsea if Rafael Benitez's interim deal is not extended in the summer.
"Guardiola started his career with caviar," he said. "Would he get caviar at Chelsea? Yes, certainly, so it's a good ingredient again to do well.
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Creating an Architecture of Listening in Organizations: The Basis of Engagement, Trust, Healthy Democracy, Business Sustainability, and Social Equity
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Two-way communication, engagement, dialogue, conversations, collaboration, and participation are buzzwords in contemporary public communication practices such as political communication, government communication, relationship marketing, corporate communication, and public relations.
Government, corporate, and many non-government organizations, with which citizens have to deal every day, spend millions of dollars, pounds, and Euros on public communication every year.
But how well do organizations implement two-way communication, engagement and dialogue — in particular, how well do they listen — the essential corollary of speaking in communication?
An international research study has found that, with some notable exceptions, organizations overwhelmingly create an 'architecture of speaking' with their substantial investments in public communication, designed and used to disseminate their messages. Despite their claims for two-way communication, engagement, and dialogue, they listen sporadically, selectively, and sometimes not at all.
When organizations do listen, it is predominantly for instrumental purposes to serve their own interests, such as gaining intelligence to 'target' potential consumers of products and services.
The two-year research project involved analysis of 36 case studies in three countries — the US, UK and Australia — explored through 104 interviews with senior communication practitioners, analysis of more than 400 relevant documents such as communication and consultation plans and reports, and 25 experiments testing organizational response.
This study also explored the reasons for the "crisis of listening" in contemporary societies and the cultural, political, structural, resource, skill, and technological elements that are necessary to create an 'architecture of listening' in organizations.
The study argues that there is an urgency to improve listening in government, political parties, corporations, and other types of organizations, and that there are major benefits from doing so, concluding that improved organizational listening is a key to citizen, customer, and stakeholder engagement; trust; healthy democracy; business sustainability; and social equity.
This 75-page report presents a summary of the findings, conclusions, and recommendations of the study. A detailed analysis will be available in a book to be released in December 2015 — Organizational Listening: The Missing Essential in Speaking in Public Communication (Peter Lang, New York, 2016).
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Posted byelizabethyoungrsm September 23, 2022 September 23, 2022 Posted inAll posts, Sisters, Stories
Sr Liz Morris RSJ was very keen to be interviewed for this blog. As she told me clearly, "Women are already doing diaconate ministry. It is just not called that." Liz is part of our quest to shine a light on what already has been, and is, occurring in terms of ministry to serve the people of God on the margins. She has a palpable passion for it. However, Liz added "There is a difference between ministering in a parish in ways similar to that of a deacon and being authorised to minister by the formal act of ordination."
Liz joined the Sisters of St Joseph after her fourth year of high school. At the time, most ended up being teachers, and so she followed in their footsteps in Adelaide, South Australia. But she soon became very interested in the work of the "Motor Mission Sisters", who taught religion to Catholic children in state schools and, during the school holidays, prepared them for their sacraments. It was a new ministry that began in the archdiocese in 1956. Liz was appointed to the Adelaide Hills Motor Mission, based at Aldgate, in 1965. She loved connecting with the children through their schools, the YCS groups – which the early missioners established – and the weekend or holiday camps. A most important outreach was to visit families. Apart from a three-year appointment at Renmark, Liz never went back to teaching in a Catholic School. Today she is writing up the history of the South Australian Motor Missions.
Liz recently reconnected with a woman to whom she taught Religious Instruction in 1971
After Vatican II, Liz explained, the Josephites and other congregations invested in theological and religious education for their members. "They were enriching times…Our diocese was gifted with good leaders – priests, religious and lay." After almost 20 years of educating young people within state schools and in parish settings, and focusing on family-based faith education, Liz did further study. Then she embarked on an 18-year journey of Adult Faith Education in the Adelaide Archdiocese, first as part of the CAES Team and then based at CTC. As the new millenium began, Archbishop Len Faulkner's Diocesan Pastoral Team launched a Ministry Formation Programme (MFP) for laity, with an initial focus on the Pastoral Associates already ministering in Adelaide. It was based at CTC and, gradually, married men participated and several were ordained as permanent deacons. Liz was asked to develop a Rural Ministry Formation Programme, (RMFP) and after considerable research, a four-year part-time course was launched in the South-East of the state in 2008. 11 women and 2 men from Mount Gambier and Millicent participated in the full programme, but the diaconate was not on the agenda. Many more people from the region participated in weekend workshops conducted on Scripture, Liturgy and Canon Law at Penola, Naracoorte and Millicent over those four years.
As 2009 drew to a close, Liz was hit "like a bolt out of the blue" when she was asked if she would take on the role of Pastoral Director in the parish of Bordertown, with Mass centres in both Keith and Kingston. Liz had only a few days to make a decision before the Bishop was to travel to Kingston to consecrate a new church opened in July 2009. He wanted to let the outgoing priest know of the move.
So Liz sought the wisdom of her Josephite spiritual director as well as her brother, Richard, parish priest of Mount Gambier, dean of the Region and ultimately priest-moderator of the Bordertown parish. Liz agreed to take up the role as a half-time position, while continuing the RMFP and her Semester Two teaching commitment on Pastoral Care for the Adelaide MFP. She resided at the vacant Bordertown presbytery. At the conclusion of the RMFP she was appointed to the Bordertown parish full time as Pastoral Director and served in that role for 8 years. Bordertown is 270 kms from Adelaide, Kingston 114 kms east of Bordertown and Keith is 46 kms closer to Adelaide via the Dukes Highway. Parishioners from Tintinara, once part of the Bordertown parish, occasionally requested baptism for their children and celebrated with the Keith Catholic Community.
It is worth noting that this was a direct appointment by the Archbishop and a Contractual Agreement between the Archdiocese and the Sisters of St Joseph was drawn up. Parishioners were not consulted. They simply received a letter from the Archbishop, which was read out at Sunday Mass three weeks before Liz arrived. However, she suggested to the Parish Council at their first meeting in February that they be involved in a commissioning ceremony at each of their three Mass centres, when Fr Richard made the first of his monthly visits. Liz also invited her Provincial Leader. A Parishioner presented Liz with their Vision Statement drawn up some years earlier. It was a meaningful 'authorisation' that parishioners endorsed.
Country people often feel on the margins of the Church. This was evident when one of the women in the Mallee Border parish, over 200 kms from Adelaide, rang Fr Richard in February of Liz's first year in Bordertown and asked him if he was their new parish priest. The priest in Bordertown, which is over 130 kms from the two Mallee Border churches, had been appointed to care for the parish after their resident priest was moved some years earlier. No provision was made for them when Liz went to Bordertown. So, Richard ensured they had a priest to celebrate Mass on a monthly basis and Liz took responsibility for the administration of the parish, visited them bi-monthly for Parish Council and Finance Council meetings and encouraged them to continue to lead Liturgies of the Word with Holy Communion. A small group of people living across the Victorian border at Murrayville were also part of the parish and they too led Liturgies of the Word in their little church. They attended Mass when it was at Pinnaroo and took the Blessed Sacrament back to their little church. The Mallee Border parishioners were not unknown to Liz, as some had been involved in the "Beginning Theology" segment of the RMFP and she had run adult education evenings in the parish. Parishioners had been trained to lead the Liturgy of the Word with Holy Communion by the personnel from CAES and the Diocesan Liturgy Office.
Liz reflects that, for her, Mass is "at the heart" of who we are – "it is a remarkable belief that Christ is truly present." Yet it is important to remember that "we have Eucharist to BE eucharist for other people. We can only do that if we build up the faith of each other in community." Therefore, she found that her ministry involved both the liturgical celebrations and the building and sustaining of community.
In her role as Pastoral Director, Liz found that it was so important to go and meet parishioners, to get to know them and allow them to share their stories. On the other hand, this was often something that priests found difficult, especially in the light of the "climate" surrounding past instances of abuse. For Liz, however, visiting was key to her ministry to people on the edges of parish life, and it was what people most appreciated. She said, "That kind of ministry helps build the community, lets people know that God cares, and the community cares."
Over those 8 years, Liz was "privileged" to minister to the housebound, sick and dying. She was with many people during their final hours. However, she was limited to praying the prayers for the dying, encouraging the person and the family, and sometimes leading the rosary. In her study of Church history, Liz knew that the sacraments of Anointing and Viaticum only came together as Extreme Unction – to be administered only by priests – in the Middle Ages. She wondered if a simple change to liturgical law might once again allow those in pastoral care of the sick to minister this sacrament. It could enable "people to have extra consolation at the time of their death."
Liz also conducted many funeral services, and fondly remembers numerous experiences of this privileged space. One time in Bordertown, a woman was not brought up Catholic, but knew that her dying father was. She asked a Catholic nurse if anyone could give him "a blessing". The nurse rang Liz, who called the priest to come from 80kms away to do the anointing. Then Liz stayed and prayed with him until the very end. She provided a safe environment for the daughter to grieve, then was asked to conduct his funeral.
Liz not only draws on her own life witness, but she has empowered and encouraged many others. She had a further word to say about the RMFP. At its conclusion, all participants received Certificates acknowledging their achievements in the various fields of Theology, Liturgy and Canon Law. Richard Morris, Dean of the South-East Region at the time, officiated at their presentation at a Sunday Eucharist in Mount Gambier. Among other things, she believes it is very important to honour these people and the qualifications they have attained.
However, Liz feels rather disappointed that their ministry training was not really recognised in the sense of being a pathway forward. It was the intention to prepare lay people for leadership in their parishes, but "the Church was not ready to hand over that leadership." Her hopes for commissioning ceremonies in parishes were dashed, because those trained received no formal authorisation. As one woman said twelve months later: "I am not doing anything more than I already did before I began the Rural Ministry Programme". So that is another reason why Liz believes that there is so much potential in the restoration of women deacons. It would enable recognition and sustainability for Church ministry into the future.
John Neil Collins and a Paradigm Shift
Formation to Become "Our Deacon"
2 thoughts on "Building Up the Faith of Others"
Anne Muirhead says:
SO inspired … thank you for your leadership Liz!
Judith Barber says:
The feeling of a lack of 'endorsement' or authentication resounded in this contribution. It seemed that it was especially so for the lay participants. it is a powerful reminder of how we need to support and encourage each other as we strive to navigate the path that the Holy Spirit is opening up for us in our respective situations.
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Join the Atlantic Coast Conservancy on the 4th Thursday of each month for Green Drinks - an international grass-roots effort to spread the word about environmental issues.
Join us for an entertaining, informative gathering focused on the environment. This month our very own conservation biologist, Dr. Robert Keller, Chief Executive Officer of Atlantic Coast Conservancy, will speak about our recent work with the endangered Gopher Tortoise.
A Look at Our Latest Project
Doris Wigington Jasper City Park opened to the public on June 28, 2014. Since then the 60 acre property has been little used as a park. In fact, the 3.5 miles of trails with entrances on Gennette Drive and Lumber Company Road had become known as a hot spot for unsavory activity.
In 2018 Atlantic Coast Conservancy's Robert Keller proposed adding features to the park to attract birds and birdwatchers, walkers and hikers, and the families, all while discouraging unwanted activities. One such project is the construction of Chimney Swift Towers.
Chimney Swifts are cigar shaped birds which spend summers in North Georgia. Their acrobatics may remind people of swallows, but Chimney Swifts are more closely related to Ruby-throated Hummingbirds. They have adapted to a life among humans, finding a home in chimneys after their preferred old-growth trees began disappearing.
The conservation status of the Chimney Swift was recently updated to Vulnerable on the International Union of Conservation of Nature (IUCN) Red List of Threatened Species. Stating that ""In recent times, the number of available chimneys has decreased as a result of the demolition of old buildings, the capping of old chimneys, and through chimney sweeps removing nests from chimneys (despite the species being protected by federal law). Even though a scarcity of chimneys may not be limiting the numbers of Chimney Swifts yet, the rate of habitat loss is increasing and possibly developing into a severe threat."
The ACC is supporting conservation by building Chimney Swift Towers in Doris Wigington Park. Chimney Swift Towers mimic actual chimneys, serving as roosting and nesting habitat for the birds. Much like a real chimney, the central tower and interior walls provide nesting and roosting opportunities for these birds. Specially adapted claws allow the Chimney Swifts to cling to the inside of the tower, where they build saucer-shaped nests made out of twigs glued together with the birds' saliva. Chimney Swifts will not allow other birds (including other swifts) to use "their" tower while they are nesting, but in late summer, hundreds or event thousands of individual birds may roost in one large chimney creating a spectacular site overhead as they flock into the chimney near dusk.
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Did Donnell Whittenburg Just Vault Himself Back In Contention For The Olympic Gymnastics Team?
By Chrös McDougall | June 24, 2021, 11:04 p.m. (ET)
Donnell Whittenburg competes at U.S. Olympic Team Trials - Gymnastics on June 24, 2021 in St. Louis.
ST. LOUIS — For a moment Thursday, even if literally just a moment, Donnell Whittenburg led the men's all-around standings at the U.S. Olympic Team Trials for Gymnastics.
Sure, it was just one rotation. And yeah, it was vault — vault scores are always high. Then, inevitably, the gymnasts marched to the next apparatus and the meet continued on like it always does, with most the attention focused on defending U.S. champion Brody Malone, two-time Olympian Sam Mikulak and the other top all-arounders competing this weekend at the Dome at America's Center in St. Louis.
In a twist, though, the U.S. men's gymnastics contingent heading to Tokyo next month includes not only the four-person team but also an individual whose scores don't count toward the team, but who nonetheless can compete for individual medals.
And while the coming media coverage will no doubt continue to focus largely on the team and then the individual all-around, an argument could be made that the country's top medal hope might actually be the event specialist who's expected to fill that "plus-one" spot.
So while the focus moves on from Whittenburg, maybe you shouldn't.
With his chiseled physique and bulging arm muscles, the Baltimore native with the powerful gymnastics was one of the bright young talents for the U.S. team during the last Olympic quad. He was selected for the 2014 and '15 world championships, winning a team bronze at the former and a vault bronze at the latter. One year before the Rio Games, he was the country's top-placing all-arounder at worlds in eighth.
Then, when the five-man team for Rio was announced, Whittenburg was the alternate.
He traveled to Brazil, along with fellow alternate Akash Modi, but they didn't stay in the athletes' village and, of course, couldn't compete.
In the usual post-Olympic turnover, Whittenburg was set up to be the guy going into Tokyo. Fired up, he came into the 2017 with big expectations, and mostly lived up to them — at least on his signature events: He won the U.S. title on vault and finished seventh in the world championships on floor.
As it turned out, though, he was competing that season with a torn rotator cuff. After surgery that fall, he used 2018 mostly as a recovery year. The expected bounce back in 2019 never came.
After a 2020 in which he didn't get in any competitions, and also moved to the Milwaukee area from the U.S. Olympic & Paralympic Training Center in Colorado Springs, Colorado, the 26-year-old simply wasn't top of mind coming into the Olympic year.
Ah, but the plus-one.
The operative words for that spot are medal potential.
Which athlete not already on the four-person team is most likely to reach the podium in an individual event?
In the Olympics, the team finals use a three up-three count format — meaning three gymnasts compete on each event, and all three scores count. With just four athletes to pick from, the prevailing wisdom is that the top all-arounders will be on the team.
That means the plus-one spot is likely to go to a specialist — a guy who really owns one or two events but doesn't have the full body of scores to merit team inclusion.
What does the selection committee look at to determine medal potential? U.S. national team coordinator Brett McClure summed up the criteria ahead of trials.
"All of the above," he said.
But more specifically: difficulty, execution, hit percentage and previous results.
Coming into nationals a group of four guys had risen to the top of that discussion.
Stephen Nedoroscik and Alex Diab are true specialists, competing in just pommel horse and still rings, respectively. Youth Olympian Alec Yoder does two events, but where he'll make his Olympic bed is on pommel horse. (Another specialist, Eddie Penev, figured to be right in the mix with his vault and floor but was injured in a mock meet just before trials.)
The wildcard in the discussion was Whittenburg. And his status coming into trials was all the more mysterious, as he was one of five guys who missed the national championships earlier this month in order to compete in the Pan American Championships in Brazil — a meet at which he didn't actually compete as the team's alternate.
So when he led off the trials on vault, the event in which he has the strongest case for medal potential, it proved to be one of the most anticipated performances of the night.
Performing an ultra-difficult Tsukahara full-in double tuck, he landed with a small hop and a score of 15.05, tied for the top score on any event of the night.
"It felt pretty good," he said. "I've been training it for a couple months now so I feel like I have no choice but to land it at this competition."
He followed that up with a second vault — a requirement for the individual event final at the Olympics — and landed a less difficult but still impressive double front, this time with a big step forward. He said he's considering upgrading this one to a more difficult Dragulescu vault, which is a double front with a half spin off the table.
Although Whittenberg's other events were less memorable — he finished third on still rings but outside the top 10 on the others, and 14th in the all-around — that might not have mattered. All he needs is one event.
Nedoroscik, who many considered the favorite for the plus-one spot coming into the weekend, fell on his lone event Thursday. Diab, who posted an Olympic-medal-contending routine on day one at nationals, wasn't as sharp on night two and, though he posted the top score on Thursday, it also was a few tenths lower than day one at nationals..
That left Yoder, with a confident, first-place routine on horse — the other 15.05 — and Whittenburg as the two to really hit on their key events.
With one night to go there remains much to be decided, and it'd be foolish to rule out Nedoroscik or Diab entirely. As for Whittenburg, he says whether he makes the Olympics or not he plans to compete for a spot at the world championships this fall and then likely retire. With another performance like the one tonight, though, he may just have a trip to Tokyo to plan first.
"I already know exactly where I stack up, it's just a matter of doing exactly what I need to do when I'm out on the floor," he said. "I know that I can compete with the best specialists in the world. If I just do my job then I feel like the rest will take care of itself."
Allan Bower Vault Day 1 | Gymnastics U.S. Olympic Team Trials 2021
Shane Wiskus Rings Day 1 | Gymnastics U.S. Olympic Team Trials 2021
Shane Wiskus Pommel Horse Day 1 | Gymnastics U.S. Olympic Team Trials 2021
Alec Yoder Pommel Horse Day 1 | Gymnastics U.S. Olympic Team Trials 2021
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Chrös McDougall has covered the Olympic and Paralympic Movement for TeamUSA.org since 2009 on behalf of Red Line Editorial, Inc. He is based in Minneapolis-St. Paul.
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import competition_utilities as cu
import features
from sklearn.ensemble import RandomForestClassifier
import numpy as np
from collections import defaultdict
import operator
from stop import STOP_WORDS

train_file = "train-sample.csv"
full_train_file = "train.csv"
test_file = "public_leaderboard.csv"
submission_file = "basic_benchmark.csv"

feature_names = [ "BodyLength"
                , "NumTags"
                , "OwnerUndeletedAnswerCountAtPostTime"
                , "ReputationAtPostCreation"
                , "TitleLength"
                , "UserAge"
                ]

STOP_WORD_SET = set(STOP_WORDS)

def words(text, limit=3):
    word_list = []
    for w in text.split(" ")
        if len(w) > limit and w not in STOP_WORD_SET:
            word_list.append(w)
    return word_list

def hack():
    print("Reading the data")
    data = cu.get_dataframe(train_file)

    counter = defaultdict(lambda: defaultdict(lambda: 0))
    grouped = data.groupby('OpenStatus')

    for name, group in grouped:
     print name
     for wrds in group["BodyMarkdown"].apply(words):
        for word in wrds:
            counter[name][word]+=1

    limit = 20
    for name, word_dict in counter.items():
        for word, count in sorted(word_dict.items(), key=operator.itemgetter(1), reverse=True)[:limit]
            print name, word, count

if __name__=="__main__":
    hack()

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Pastor Christopher joined the SRUBC ministry team June 2016. He is originally from Lower Sackville NS. He holds a Bachelors of Arts in Sociology and Anthropology from MSVU and a Masters of Divinity from Acadia Divinity College. He loves helping people imagine and live the life that Christ is calling them to. He is happily married to Meghan, and the proud father of Simeon, Ariella, and Asher. In his spare time you can find Christopher enjoying the gym, trying to beat the next level in some game or desperately trying to bake the perfect cookie.
Pastor Erin joined the SRUBC ministry team in June 2014. She originally grew up in Hillsborough, NB. After seeking God's will for her, she attended Heritage College & Seminary in Cambridge, ON receiving her Bachelor in Christian School Education with a minor in Children's Ministry. She then was the Children's Pastor at Stanley Park Baptist Church in Kitchener, ON for five years. During that time she had a prompting to pursue ordination, so she returned to the Maritimes in 2011 and completed her Masters of Divinity in May 2015. Pastor Erin enjoys seeing children, youth, and leaders have ah-ha! moments. In her spare time you can find her baking and decorating cupcakes, having a good cup of coffee or tea, and becoming a runner.
David joined the SRUBC ministry team in September 2013. He completed a Bachelor of Computer Science and Certificate of Applied Science through Acadia University, and went on to finish his Mechanical Engineering degree at McGill University in Montreal. During the day, David works as an engineering consultant. He has always had a passion for music, starting piano lessons at age 5. He went on to learn various instruments such as the clarinet, saxophone, violin, and percussion, and is learning to play the guitar. When it comes to musical selection for a worship service, he attempts to select songs which fit with the theme or passage, as well as finding a balance with the tempo, style and vintage of the music. David, his wife Deborah, and young son Quinlan, are all quite happy to be attending Stevens Road as they believe in worshiping and serving in the community in which they live.


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SCRIPT_DIR="$( cd "$( dirname "${BASH_SOURCE[0]}" )" && pwd )"
# shellcheck source=sbin/common/constants.sh
source "$SCRIPT_DIR/../../sbin/common/constants.sh"

# A function that returns true if the variant is based on Hotspot and should
# be treated as such by this build script. There is a similar function in
# sbin/common.sh but we didn't want to refactor all of this on release day.
function isHotSpot() {
  [ "${VARIANT}" == "${BUILD_VARIANT_HOTSPOT}" ] ||
  [ "${VARIANT}" == "${BUILD_VARIANT_SAP}" ] ||
  [ "${VARIANT}" == "${BUILD_VARIANT_CORRETTO}" ]
}

export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.9
export BUILD_ARGS="${BUILD_ARGS}"

if [ "${JAVA_TO_BUILD}" == "${JDK8_VERSION}" ]
then
  XCODE_SWITCH_PATH="/Applications/Xcode.app"
  export CONFIGURE_ARGS_FOR_ANY_PLATFORM="${CONFIGURE_ARGS_FOR_ANY_PLATFORM} --with-toolchain-type=clang"
  # See https://github.com/adoptium/temurin-build/issues/1202
  if isHotSpot; then
    export COMPILER_WARNINGS_FATAL=false
    echo "Compiler Warnings set to: $COMPILER_WARNINGS_FATAL"
  fi
  if [ "${VARIANT}" == "${BUILD_VARIANT_OPENJ9}" ]; then
    export CONFIGURE_ARGS_FOR_ANY_PLATFORM="${CONFIGURE_ARGS_FOR_ANY_PLATFORM} --with-openssl=fetched --enable-openssl-bundling"
  fi
else
  if [[ "$JAVA_FEATURE_VERSION" -ge 17 ]]; then
    # JDK17 requires metal (included in full xcode)
    XCODE_SWITCH_PATH="/Applications/Xcode.app"
  else
    # Command line tools used from JDK9-JDK16
    XCODE_SWITCH_PATH="/";
  fi
  export PATH="/Users/jenkins/ccache-3.2.4:$PATH"
  if [ "${VARIANT}" == "${BUILD_VARIANT_OPENJ9}" ]; then
    export CONFIGURE_ARGS_FOR_ANY_PLATFORM="${CONFIGURE_ARGS_FOR_ANY_PLATFORM} --with-openssl=fetched --enable-openssl-bundling"
  else
    if [ "${ARCHITECTURE}" == "x64" ]; then
      # We can only target 10.9 on intel macs
      export CONFIGURE_ARGS_FOR_ANY_PLATFORM="${CONFIGURE_ARGS_FOR_ANY_PLATFORM} --with-extra-cxxflags=-mmacosx-version-min=10.9"
    elif [ "${ARCHITECTURE}" == "arm64" ]; then
      export CONFIGURE_ARGS_FOR_ANY_PLATFORM="${CONFIGURE_ARGS_FOR_ANY_PLATFORM} --openjdk-target=aarch64-apple-darwin"
    fi
  fi
fi

# The configure option '--with-macosx-codesign-identity' is supported in JDK8 OpenJ9 and JDK11 and JDK14+
if [[ ( "$JAVA_FEATURE_VERSION" -eq 11 ) || ( "$JAVA_FEATURE_VERSION" -ge 14 ) ]]
then
  export CONFIGURE_ARGS_FOR_ANY_PLATFORM="${CONFIGURE_ARGS_FOR_ANY_PLATFORM} --with-sysroot=/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk/"
  ## Login to KeyChain
  ## shellcheck disable=SC2046
  ## shellcheck disable=SC2006
  #security unlock-keychain -p `cat ~/.password` login.keychain-db
  #rm -rf codesign-test && touch codesign-test
  #codesign --sign "Developer ID Application: London Jamocha Community CIC" codesign-test
  #codesign -dvvv codesign-test
  #export BUILD_ARGS="${BUILD_ARGS} --codesign-identity 'Developer ID Application: London Jamocha Community CIC'"
fi

echo "[WARNING] You may be asked for your su user password, attempting to switch Xcode version to ${XCODE_SWITCH_PATH}"
sudo xcode-select --switch "${XCODE_SWITCH_PATH}"

# No MacOS builds available of OpenJDK 7, OpenJDK 8 can boot itself just fine.
if [ "${JDK_BOOT_VERSION}" == "7" ]; then
  echo "No jdk7 boot JDK available on MacOS using jdk8"
  JDK_BOOT_VERSION="8"
fi
BOOT_JDK_VARIABLE="JDK${JDK_BOOT_VERSION}_BOOT_DIR"
if [ ! -d "$(eval echo "\$$BOOT_JDK_VARIABLE")" ]; then
  bootDir="$PWD/jdk-$JDK_BOOT_VERSION"
  # Note we export $BOOT_JDK_VARIABLE (i.e. JDKXX_BOOT_DIR) here
  # instead of BOOT_JDK_VARIABLE (no '$').
  export "${BOOT_JDK_VARIABLE}"="$bootDir/Contents/Home"
  if [ ! -x "$bootDir/Contents/Home/bin/javac" ]; then
    if [ -x "/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/adoptopenjdk-${JDK_BOOT_VERSION}/Contents/Home/bin/javac" ]; then
      echo "Could not use ${BOOT_JDK_VARIABLE} - using /Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/adoptopenjdk-${JDK_BOOT_VERSION}/Contents/Home"
      export "${BOOT_JDK_VARIABLE}"="/Library/Java/JavaVirtualMachines/adoptopenjdk-${JDK_BOOT_VERSION}/Contents/Home"
    elif [ "$JDK_BOOT_VERSION" -ge 8 ]; then # Adopt has no build pre-8
      mkdir -p "$bootDir"
      releaseType="ga"
      apiUrlTemplate="https://api.adoptopenjdk.net/v3/binary/latest/\${JDK_BOOT_VERSION}/\${releaseType}/mac/\${ARCHITECTURE}/jdk/\${VARIANT}/normal/adoptopenjdk"
      apiURL=$(eval echo ${apiUrlTemplate})
      echo "Downloading GA release of boot JDK version ${JDK_BOOT_VERSION} from ${apiURL}"
      # make-adopt-build-farm.sh has 'set -e'. We need to disable that for
      # the fallback mechanism, as downloading of the GA binary might fail.
      set +e
      wget -q -O "${JDK_BOOT_VERSION}.tgz" "${apiURL}" && tar xpzf "${JDK_BOOT_VERSION}.tgz" --strip-components=1 -C "$bootDir" && rm "${JDK_BOOT_VERSION}.tgz"
      retVal=$?
      set -e
      if [ $retVal -ne 0 ]; then
        # We must be a JDK HEAD build for which no boot JDK exists other than
        # nightlies?
        echo "Downloading GA release of boot JDK version ${JDK_BOOT_VERSION} failed."
        # shellcheck disable=SC2034
        releaseType="ea"
        apiURL=$(eval echo ${apiUrlTemplate})
        echo "Attempting to download EA release of boot JDK version ${JDK_BOOT_VERSION} from ${apiURL}"
        wget -q -O - "${apiURL}" | tar xpzf - --strip-components=1 -C "$bootDir"
      fi
    fi
  fi
fi

# shellcheck disable=SC2155
export JDK_BOOT_DIR="$(eval echo "\$$BOOT_JDK_VARIABLE")"
"$JDK_BOOT_DIR/bin/java" -version 2>&1 | sed 's/^/BOOT JDK: /'
"$JDK_BOOT_DIR/bin/java" -version > /dev/null 2>&1
executedJavaVersion=$?
if [ $executedJavaVersion -ne 0 ]; then
  echo "Failed to obtain or find a valid boot jdk"
  exit 1
fi

if [ "${VARIANT}" == "${BUILD_VARIANT_OPENJ9}" ]; then
  # Needed for the later nasm
  export PATH=/usr/local/bin:$PATH
  # ccache causes too many errors (either the default version on 3.2.4) so disabling
  export CONFIGURE_ARGS_FOR_ANY_PLATFORM="--disable-ccache ${CONFIGURE_ARGS_FOR_ANY_PLATFORM}"
  export MACOSX_DEPLOYMENT_TARGET=10.9.0
  if [ "${JAVA_TO_BUILD}" == "${JDK8_VERSION}" ]
  then
    export SED=gsed
    export TAR=gtar
    export SDKPATH=/Library/Developer/CommandLineTools/SDKs/MacOSX.sdk
  fi
fi


I am not one for staying at home all day long; we need to get out and see the world. We love checking out different parks, but you want to know our favorite? Sneaking into Pet Smart to see the fish, cats, and dogs being groomed. How is this creative? We don't have a pet. I think that makes it all the more exciting for my curious one - she could watch a dog get a haircut for at least an hour. Do it. It's like a free zoo. If you need to get out, take a walk and make it an adventure - point out shapes, colors, animals, etc. Your littles will love it.
I've said it before that you have to let your mom guard down and get out there. So what if you may be in your 30s and you forgot what it's like to make friends?? Join a Bible study, a moms group, introduce yourself to moms at the park, or at your child's gymnastics/music class. It felt weird to me to do this so late in life, but it has been so rewarding. Make friends and follow up - these moms need you too!
Make nap time work FOR YOU. My daughter naps at least 2-2 1/2 hours a day. I like to do a household chore/duty for the beginning of the nap then MAKE SURE I get in some quiet time for me - read, write, pray, or catch up on a show. I am not a napper, so I find one of these things to clear my mind and get me ready for the little tornado's afternoon. Another great tip - make a daily chore chart. I complete one chore during nap - sweep, vaccuum, mop, clean bathrooms, etc. This way, I am not spending all of nap knee-deep in Clorox. And, I don't spend hours cleaning the whole house. I use this printable for my chores because the sweet girl below makes big messes.
This tip goes with the nap time advice. I've said it before, fitness is MY thing right now - lifting weights or running makes me feel stronger physically. But, when I think that I am almost 40, mom of two, and I can lift some weights and run kind of far?? I feel invincible, and I feel like ME (and peace out to my anxiety). Write in a journal, workout, take pictures, go back to school, volunteer - just do something that makes you feel like YOU. Sometimes the mom life takes over, and we forget who we are.
Mom life is TOUGH. We are mentally exhausted more than anything. There is always something to think about or plan for - it's so darn exhausting. I've done the working mom gig as well as the SAHM thing - both are tough. We do not need to fight, bicker, or compare; these things just make it all so much harder. Instead, bring that tired mom a bottle of wine or even better - plan a night out (and keep the date!). We need each other, friends. No one knows a temper tantrum better than the next mom so support each other through it all.
If you could offer any new SAHM some advice, what would you say? Hang in there, mamas. Wherever you are.
Special thanks to my sweet, talented friend, Jennifer, for these great photos of my "employees." They make me nuts and happy all at once. Blessed, for sure. You can check out Jennifer's work here.
Love the cleaning chart idea!!! I need this in my life!
It's helpful! You know you just have ONE thing to clean per day. :) Thanks for reading, my friend!


Frankly, when you do mission work, a lot of people put you up on a pedestal, and that's a really bad place to be.
Because it's easy to fall off.
I'm not going to go into the every-Christian-is-by-definition-a-missionary, because that is another story and shall be told another time. My point for this particular blopgost is that many people (1) seem to think that only a "special few" have what it takes to tell others about Jesus in a "foreign" (also a topic for another time) country; (2) these same people make a big fuss over those who tell others about Jesus in a foreign country; and (3) these same people continue to put the "missionaries" up on a pedestal even 1.4 years after said "missionaries" are no longer working in a foreign country.
Please note that I am not trying to mock anyone or infuse my post with contempt for the well-intentioned folks who "fuss" over me.
..."I'm proud of you" is not a phrase that makes me feel good.
I am not the one who did the work--*God* did it--so there's no reason for me to be proud. The other person is not the one who did the work--so why should they be proud? I am glad I did the work; I wouldn't trade my time as a "missionary" for anything; I am pleased that God used me to encourage others. But pride is a dangerous thing for me, and I'd like to avoid even the appearance of it, even if it's well-meant.
...I appreciate the encouragement, but I do not want to be elevated in anyone's eyes.
The pedestal thing really doesn't work for me. Actually, it scares me--because pedestals are high; and I've been up there before; and I have liked it; and I have fallen. I really don't want to be up there again and face the possibility of liking the lofty heights again. There's only one way off, and it's fast, and it really hurts when you hit the bottom.
...it's an honor for people to be in the presence of God.
It is not an honor for people to be in the presence of me. I am no different, no better, no higher, no purer, nor more admirable than any other human being. Save the honor and the praise for God, because he is the only one who has done something to deserve it. He is the only one who *is* something to deserve it.
...I love to feel appreciated, and I love to hear that I'm appreciated.
Encourage me, yes. Be my friend, yes. Tell me you love me, yes. Ask me for my stories, yes. That is the way to let me know that I have encouraged you, that I mean something to you. But don't feed my ego. It's big enough already.
What is the way to say this in ten words or fewer? :o) I try really hard to give credit where it's due (--> GOD), but it's hard to find the right words without hurting the feelings of the well-intentioned. And I just don't want to hurt anybody. I've done enough of that, too.
*sigh* Life is hard, and then you do the potato wave.
I have really been enjoying getting books from the library.
Also, I like to read them.
Yesterday, I got to witness the power of prayer working in the life of a 6-year-old girl suffering from cherubism. A scheduled 6-hour surgery that only took an hour-and-a-half, and she got to go home today. God is good.
Our TV is broken, and we haven't gotten to watch this week's episode of Lost yet. I am in mourning.
I plan to factor the purchase of the "Twilight" DVD into our budget for April, and I plan to purchase said DVD on April 1st--no fooling.
Today, I heard two fish stories--one big, one little--and they both made me laugh.
Today, I remembered that Jim Carrey is the reason I didn't like "Batman Forever." I have enjoyed Carrey's performances in (a couple of) other films, but his "Riddler" in BF is just tasteless.
Christian Bale is my favorite Batman, hands down.
I miss seeing Chris O'Donnell in movies.
I really don't care what any radio dj looks like without his glasses.
It was a blast to spend the afternoon of Janine's birthday with her. I miss my Saxony friends.
I would like to live somewhere with a yearlong temperature between 68 and 80 degrees Fahrenheit.
If either my brain or my consciousness were somehow transplanted/transferred into a man's body, I don't think I'd be able to walk.
Hey, Germans: Do any of you remember "Knuffelbunte"? I had a pink one when I was a kid.
I started a painting in January, and I haven't finished it.
People have been asking me lately if I have lost weight, and I have answered "yes," and I have liked it.
I'm going to stop writing this and go to bed now.
Ed and I went to tonight's Thunder game. This was only the second time I've ever been to a professional basketball game, and I have to say that the first game a few months ago was more enjoyable than the second. Tonight, the refs stopped the game so often, it was as though somebody had a big remote control somewhere and kept hitting "pause." :oP But Jennifer, Andy, and Joel were there, so we made up in silly fun-ness for what the game lacked in continuous excitement. ;o) And I really enjoyed the extreme dunking guys during halftime!
Quoi? How could anybody trespass beneath the sidewalk? The plates weren't really large enough to allow access to any adult human with a pelvis and collar bones. And "eclipse blow-off"? I'm assuming it's not a "Twilight" reference. ;o) Do the plates blow off the sidewalk if there's an eclipse? Are we supposed to blow off the eclipse if one happens?
I'm having visions of little metal plates all over the city, exploding into the air at the first sign of the moon's edging over into the sun's territory.
This world is not short on oddities.
Labels: fun stuff, sports, weirdness, wha....?
I have decided to change my blog template. I've found several options that I like, but I'm having trouble choosing between them. If you're inclined to help me out, please check out the templates below and tell me which one you think would suit me best. I'll probably give this another week before I make a final decision.
"Ultimately, conflict is the reason we read novels. It forces characters to make decisions, it tests their strengths and weaknesses, it reveals what makes people tick. Conflict, ultimately is revealing.
"A man serenely walking down the street is not a story. It only becomes a story when he is captured by space monkeys who try to force him to root for Duke. Now that's conflict."
As some of you know, I am, by nature/nurture, a "fixer" of things. I see something broken, I want to fix it. I see a problem, I want to solve it. I see another person's dilemma, I want to resolve it. My instinctive reaction is, "Oooh! A challenge! Let's stop talking about it and DO something about it!"
It is very frustrating and discouraging to others when I react this way.
They don't want me to fix it.
They just want me to listen.
They just want me to feel with them.
This has been a very difficult lesson for me to learn. In the course of learning this lesson, I hurt people who were close to me. I did some severe damage to some very important relationships, relationships that are still recovering from my immaturity. And my arrogance.
I fight against this natural/nurtural tendency to try to fix everything. I still have to squelch that initial, overeager, overbearing reaction--and I will probably have to exercise that rigid self-control for the rest of my life. But I am *learning*. I am growing. And that's the point.
Faith is acting on the knowledge that when someone opens up to me, it is not my job to "fix" that person. It is not my job to fix that person's problem. It is not my job to worry and nitpick over how/when that person is ever going to change.
It is not my job to offer a solution. Why not? --> Because any solution I offer is a solution based on *my* experiences, *my* vision, *my* thought patterns, *my* emotions. The solution that I consider so clear and so right might be completely wrong if applied to the other person's life.
Faith is acting on the knowledge that God has a plan for the other person. Faith is acting on the knowledge that God has a "time schedule" for the other person, and that is *not* the time schedule that *I* would set. And this is The Way It Should Be.
My job is to make myself vulnerable and submissive to God's-will / God's-precepts / the-relationship-laws-God-has-set-up-for-his-universe.
My job is to let that will / those precepts/laws change me from the inside out.
My job is to ask questions in order to help others figure out what their worldview really is.
My job is to help others get to know who the Being is who set those precepts/laws in motion. The other humans' reaction to that Being is entirely up to them.
I don't know if this video is funny or sad, but you can see it here.
Labels: feelings and knowledge, human condition, humor, reality, stealing other people's blogging ideas ;o), wha....?
That "nefariously" line isn't actually part of the title, but it's printed on the front of the book, and I love it.
I liked everything about this book.
I'll definitely read the second novel in the trilogy.
As Sparks novels go, this one was somewhat disappointing; definitely not on the level of "Notebook," "Wedding," and "Walk to Remember." I checked it out to see if reading it would make me want to see the movie.
As expected, this novella is yet more proof that Lackey is a master.
First of all, this lady has a terrific first name.
I'd never heard of Murphy, so I didn't know what to expect.
I was definitely *not* disappointed.
I don't get into novellas as much as I do novels, for the obvious reason that they're shorter, and some of the story- and character-developments are truncated. That's why these three get plain "recommend"s instead of "highly"s. ;o) But I did enjoy all three, and I think any fantasy fan would get a kick out of them. Lackey's and Lee's are more standard sword-and-sorcery stuff, and Murphy's adds an interesting present-day-our-world contrast.


Join a team of passionate consumer marketers at a rapidly growing healthcare startup that is committed to empowering women with personalized health care. Pill Club is the first company to have a birth control pharmacy service in all 50 states. Our business has grown tremendously over the past year, and our expansion continues as we become the definitive leader in this space.
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I loved this class! John was very attentive and made me feel so comfortable in my first class. We did a combination of pad work and a cardio blasting routine that got my heart rate going! I'll definitely be coming back! I'm looking forward to becoming stronger and more confident version of me!
great addition to class pass. legit muay thai instruction.


Finding work or finding workers?
An upcoming report by the Center for Rural Policy & Development shows that there is no shortage of jobs available in Greater Minnesota these days. CRPD Research Associate Kelly Asche joins Jim this week to talk about job vacancies, wages and more in part 1.


A Mississauga man who has been charged with willful promotion of hatred says he's "not going anywhere," and that he intends to run for mayor of the city.
The charges come after "a lengthy investigation into numerous incidents reported to police, involving Kevin Johnston and concerns information published on various social media sites," Peel police said in a news release Monday.
Johnston does not have legal counsel yet. He will appear next Sept. 8.
Last year, a story published on the Mississauga Gazette site resulted in Crombie filing a hate-crime complaint with Peel police. It was not immediately clear if that complaint prompted Monday's charges.
For police to lay a hate-related criminal charge, a criminal offence must have occurred – such as an assault, damage to property — and hate or bias toward a victim must have motivated the criminal offence.
At Queen's Park, Attorney General Yasir Naqvi said the government "takes allegations of hate crime very seriously. Ontario prosecutes these cases vigorously, where there is a reasonable prospect of conviction.
"In a multicultural and inclusive province like Ontario, the promotion of hatred stands in direct opposition to our fundamental values of equality and diversity. Hate divides people and communities," Naqvi said Monday.
The consent of the attorney general is required to lay hate-crime charges.
Naqvi's office confirmed he received a formal request from Peel police to lay the charge of willful promotion of hatred.
"Hate crimes are, by their very nature, serious offences because their impacts can be devastating, spreading from the individual, through the social fabric of our communities and society as a whole," he said.


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AP Judicial Services Exam | Civil Judge (Junior Division): Notification, Syllabus, Pattern
By Legal Bites Academy / December 4, 2020 August 14, 2021
Applications are invited through ONLINE for General Recruitment to 68 posts of Civil Judge (Junior Division) in Andhra Pradesh State Judicial Service comprising of 55 vacancies to be filled under Direct Recruitment, and 13 vacancies to be filled under Recruitment by Transfer. The recruitment process shall be governed by Andhra Pradesh State Judicial (Service & Cadre) Rules, 2007.
The applications will be available on the official website of the High Court of Andhra Pradesh from 03.12.2020 onwards. The Last date for submission of Online Application upto 11.59 p.m. on 02.01.2021. The date and venue of the examination will be intimated later. The Handwritten/ Typed/Photocopy/Printed Application Form will not be entertained either directly or by Post or by Courier or in person.
As per the revised pay scales which came into effect from 1.1.2006, the Scale of Pay of the post of Civil Judge (Junior Division) is Rs.27,700/- to Rs.44,770/-.
The Abstract of vacancies is as follows:
Number of Vacancies
Only those candidates who possess the qualifications prescribed under the Andhra Pradesh State Judicial (Service & Cadre) Rules, 2007 which are mentioned below, shall be eligible to apply.
** Must Read: Official Notification
Syllabus for Screening Test, Written Examination, and Viva-Voce
Civil Laws
Indian Contract Act, 1872.
Hindu Marriage Act 1955,
Hindu Succession Act 1956,
Indian Easements Act 1882,
Specific Relief Act 1963,
Limitation Act 1963,
Transfer of Property Act 1882,
Civil Rules of Practice
Registration Act 1908, and Indian Stamp Act 1899,
Andhra Pradesh Land Encroachment Act, 1905
Indian Evidence Act,1872
Criminal Laws
Code of Criminal Procedure, 1973
Indian Penal Code, 1860
Indian Evidence Act, 1872
Negotiable Instruments Act, 1881
Protection of Women from Domestic Violence Act, 2005
Criminal Rules of Practice
Andhra Pradesh Excise Act, 1968
Andhra Pradesh Gaming Act, 1974
Juvenile Justice (Care and Protection of Children) Act.
An applicant applying under Direct Recruitment shall not have complete the age of 35 years as on first day of the month ( as on 01.12.2020) in which the notification inviting applications for such appointment is published in the newspapers i.e. 03.12.2020.
Provided that the upper age limit of 35 (thirty-five) years is relaxable by five years in respect of the persons belonging Backward Classes, Scheduled Castes and Scheduled Tribes.
For more information on Age Criteria refer to Official Notification here.
Scheme of Examination
Screening Test (Computer Based Test) for 100 marks comprising of 100 multiple choice objective type Questions. The duration of the examination will be two (2) hours. The Venue and Time will be mentioned in the Hall Ticket to be downloaded by the applicant at the appropriate time.
The candidates who secure 40% and above marks in the screening test will be shortlisted in the ratio of 1:10 of the available vacancies, for the written examination.
The marks obtained in the screening test shall not be added to the marks obtained in the written examination and they shall not be counted for determining final order of merit of the candidates, as the screening test is conducted for the purpose of shortlisting the candidates.
Written Examination consisting of the following three papers:
Civil Laws,
Criminal Laws and
English Translation test for 25 marks and Essay Writing test for 75 marks on legal subject. (Translation Test is from English to Telugu and Telugu to English only).
Each paper will carry 100 marks. The duration of each paper is three (3) hours.
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Moving Homes – Bye To The West, Hello To The East!
It was super last minute and so we didn't have much time to reconsider. At that time we didn't know we could have had something better in our budget-range since estate agents hinted 'it won't be easy with a dog' in Central London. Oh dear, it really isn't…Well, now we know that we easily could have had a better home.
Having already two weeks down, I can call myself a second year student. Only 6 weeks left for my assignments and I have quite mixed feelings about this term. Writing, research and filming interviews are due in November, October's almost behind us and I'm having wobbly fingers writing this. I feel guilty when I'm blogging!
In fact, I didn't even have time to do a life-update, which is long overdue. So here's the big news: I'm moving home again. If you followed my London journey from the beginning you might already know that I have had two homes to date. The first one was a student accommodation, only for one term and I had spent three months in East London, exploring the Hipster bakers around Finsbury Park. Three months on my own were quite fun, but also challenging with all the grocery shopping hunts I had to do alone.
When my husband finally joined me in December, we went on mission flat search to kickstart our new life in London the best way possible. Our Frenchie became our biggest challenge, since most London flats weren't pet-friendly at all. Close to Christmas we finally found a flat share with a couple in West London in Notting Hill for a pretty penny.
Ten month living in the West changed our mind quite quickly. From groceries to restaurants and even bakeries; everything was awfully expensive. Our landlord pretty much ripped us off and at the beginning of each month we were almost broke. So in August, K. and I decided to give it another shot and go on flat hunts again, but this time in North and East London.
From estate agent to private viewings, in the end we had about 5 viewings a day and both of us were drained. It's not that there weren't any flats that met our expectations, just all of them didn't allow pets when it got down to paper.
So beginning of October we finally found our happy place and while you're reading this I'll be already carrying heavy boxes from West to East. I had to renounce the current luxury of living only 15 minutes away from my campus – now its gonna be an hour to get me there – but it's worth it considering that our new home is going to be in the countryside. Especially for me and my head full of thoughts I believe its good to sometimes shut down and get away from it all.
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Are you ready to Attest to the 12/31/21 Federal Reserve Bank's Security Standard?
Annual self-certification for organization to meet the Federal Reserve Bank's security Standards.
Written by Angela Polania
Angela Polania, CPA, CISM, CISA, CRISC, HITRUST, CMMC RP. Angela is the Managing Principal at Elevate and board member, and treasurer at the CIO Council of South Florida.
In this article, we discuss the New FedLine Standard.
Starting December 31st, 2021, all institutions that use FedLine Advantage or FedLine Web are required to annually self-certify that their organization meets the Federal Reserve Bank's security Standards. Depending on the environment and tools used, institutions may have to certify to over 50 controls. As with most modern security frameworks, the self-assessment is risk-based. However, at the discretion of the Federal Reserve Bank, independent validation by third parties or internal audit functions may be required.
The requirements for the assurance program are outlined in the Federal Reserve Operating Circular No. 5. The program is focused on reducing the risk of fraudulent payments being sent through the systems. The scope of the program could extend not only to institutions but to potential service providers as well.
The Federal Reserve Bank has followed in the footsteps of the SWIFT (Society for Worldwide Interbank Financial Telecommunication) CSCF and has announced the development and implementation of a Security & Resiliency Assurance Program ("Assurance Program").
The assurance program is a collection of controls that stem from both the FedLine Advantage Security and Control Procedures and the FedLine Web Security and Control Procedures. Institutions can access these documents via the EUAC Center in FedLine Home.
The self-assessment consists of the following steps:
Acknowledge the institution has conducted the self-assessment was completed within the applicable timeframe
If applicable, if the self-assessment was completed internally or by a third party
Acceptance of the institution's responsibility for their compliance requirements
A statement of remediation plans that are in place (if any) as a result of the assessment
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Discussion in 'Lighting, HID's, And Retrofitting' started by BlackSI_12, Dec 3, 2018.
You'll likely have to just use led bulbs if you want an upgrade on the coupe. The coupe wasn't offered overseas where most aftermarket parts are made. They just have the sedan model.
Do they make much difference with the OEM housing?
Led bulbs will be brighter if that's what you're after. If you look at aftermarket tail lights for the sedan you'll see that they tend to come with leds.
Example - and then the next page he has pics with his brake pedal pressed.
It's hard finding a lot of exterior stuff for our coupes. Even harder for 14-15.


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That's indeed a great idea. I can see the value in language studies. But I wish the books they publish were originally in more diverse languages. I mean, look at the selection of the titles. Most were written in English, and then translated to other languages. I would love to have e.g. Don Quixote in Spanish and English, Madame Bovary in French and English, Calvino's novels in Italian and English, etc. I recently read Le Petit Prince in French, English and Chinese (a trilingual book) and noted quite a few differences or even errors in the English and Chinese translations. It was fun.
I'm a little surprised too. But note that the poll creator has both Mandarin and Chinese. If you add the two together, Chinese will be lower than Russian but higher than Portuguese. It's still lower than what many people would expect. The reason may be that this poll is about people's free choice of languages to study, not really out of usefulness to their career or work. Secondly, the members of the Polyglots group are probably concentrated in Europe. (I'm guessing. I don't have the stats.) It makes sense for Europeans to study Europeans languages more than non-European languages.
Everything "linguaholic" said. But it really depends on your personal interest. I choose languages to study 99% out of interest and 1% out of usefulness. I happen to know a big poll about what other polyglots are studying and I saved the result as follows I happen to be studying the top few languages. Not a pure coincidence! You listed "Spanish, French, Dutch, German, Greek" as possible languages to study. They are all good. But I heard that the Dutch people don't appreciate much if you study Dutch; they may ask "Why do you study that?"
It means, if the OCS skills (not sure what it is) are mastered earlier, then when these kids grow up, their skills are more relevant or (simply) more useful in a complex environment.
I have completed writing my book, Learning French Words Through Etymology and Mnemonics: A New Approach to Vocabulary Study. Please see http://yong321.freeshell.org/lfw/ for details. Unfortunately, I was not able to convince a publisher to have it published. In the meantime, I can accept donation for a free copy of the book, on the condition that the book is not shared beyond your immediate family. Any comment or critique or correction is very welcome.
Advice for beginner, struggling with French.
I subscribe to a few news feeds on Facebook, such as Le Figaro, Le Monde. On my cell phone, I use an old version Opera Mini browser, the only one I find that allows you to copy text in the big block of text plus image (not sure how to call it). In other browsers, you can't select the text. So, whenever in doubt, I copy the text and click the Google Translate bubble.
I just published my book Basic Chinese Characters https://www.amazon.com/dp/B07F5TC3RD/ with detailed descriptions in the Notes on page http://yong321.freeshell.org/bcc/ The book contains 2500 commonly used Chinese characters selected by the Ministry of Education of China. It sorts the characters by frequency usage according to Google's estimate of occurrences on the Internet. A learner may choose a certain point in the book suitable to his level and start to learn the characters. The book is ideal for learning Chinese characters in a casual way and on a cell phone.
How can language learners improve their pronunciation in English?
If the learner is an adult, I suggest learning IPA (International Phonetic Alphabet), just the subset of it that English uses. By no means do I suggest excluding other practices, especially lots of listening to native speakers and mimicking. But knowing and consciously checking the tongue positions and articulating places with the help of IPA is an important supplementary method. Most adults don't do this, and they end up with heavy accent the rest of their life.
l'Office québécois de la langue française has excellent webpages discussing the fine distinctions of various synonyms, e.g. the page about éclaircir and éclairer http://bdl.oqlf.gouv.qc.ca/bdl/gabarit_bdl.asp?id=3087 I wonder if there is another website, especially one hosted by a formal institution. The best would be one on Centre National de Ressources Textuelles et Lexicales (www.cnrtl.fr), a branch of French Academy of Sciences if I'm not mistaken. But as far as I can tell, they don't have such webpages. The Québécois pages are definitely authoritative. But sometimes I wonder if they may unintentionally bring in word connotations and nuances that are in Canadian French but not in French French.
"你吃了吗?" is a native greeting for sure, used around meal time. (You wouldn't say it around, say, 3 PM.) But as I said, it's slowly getting old-fashioned, at least to the young generation in big cities. How the English greeting "How do you do?" became old-fashioned is what's happening to this Chinese greeting now.
I'm a native Chinese speaker. If I utter an interjection spontaneously, it's distinctively Chinese. I think that's a good way to test how native one's language is, isn't it? "你好" is for greeting. "你还好吧?" can be used for greeting but more for inquiry (about health, about recovery from a car accident, etc.). I consider English "How are you?" a greeting more than an inquiry. "嗨" is used for greeting among the young generation that have at least some exposure to foreign culture. I worked at eBay Shanghai for over a year about ten years ago. People say Hi to each other. (I'm referring to the native Chinese speakers. But everyone is proficient in English as that's the language at work.) I guess its usage as greeting is equivalent to using "uh-huh" as a synonym for "Yes". All Chinese that have some exposure to foreign culture or language understand it, and some even say it. But when I said that to my mother in answering her question on a phone call, she repeated the question, thinking I had not heard her. The Chinese people are highly tolerant of variation of the language, not only in accent, but in word choice as well. When a foreigner says "嗨", they know he's greeting. When he says "你好吗?", it's understood the same way. If you explicitly ask a native Chinese whether these greeting words are correct, most likely they won't say they're wrong. But to many people, these greetings still sound foreign (and very friendly by the way).
Hi Wanda, "你好!" is equivalent to "how are you?" in actual usage, and is not just used for the first meeting. Well, it depends on how you interpret this "first". I can say "你好!" to my coworker (officemate) this morning and say it again tomorrow morning, but probably not again just a few minutes or even hours later. "嗨" is not used in China as a greeting. "你吃饭了吗?" is, especially around meal time, but this is slowly becoming old-fashioned.


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Our recent post about the standing of Beijing's international schools in the Hurun Education Top 100 is one of our most-read ever, having attracted thousands of views online and via WeChat in the space of three days. However, it has also prompted debate about the meaning and value of such school rankings.
On the face of it, it's good news for Beijing education, with 26 local schools in the Top 100, and half the top 10 based in the capital. But it's easy to see how such league tables cause more angst than celebration. If you're number two, should you worry why you're not number one?
Such concerns are compounded by the methodology used. The Hurun list is entirely subjective, based on votes from 330 experts. This might be justified by appeal to "the wisdom of the crowd", but is 330 a big enough sample? Who selected them, and on what basis? Where are they based geographically, and how might this have influenced their idea of which the "best" schools are? It's notable that, while there are K-12 schools on the list, there are none without a high school element; in other words, this is assessing education as a route to college. There may be extraordinary, innovative, transformative work going on at kindergarten and elementary level, which is not recognized here.
Even if a more rigorous method is used though, league tables for schools remain controversial. Educators complain that they result in "teaching to the test", skewing practice toward pushing the school up the table instead of treating children as unique individuals. There are allegations that schools "manage out" lower-achieving students so that they don't drag down their results, or simply don't allow them to sit exams. And then there is the "Matthew Effect," so named for a quote from the eponymous Gospel: "For to every one who has will more be given, and he will have abundance; but from him who has not, even what he has will be taken away." High-ranking schools attract more funding, better teachers, and more pushy, ambitious parents, so that the tables become a self-fulfilling prophecy.
Supporters of league tables point to an interesting real-world experiment which appears to vindicate their use. England and Wales began ranking schools in 1988, but in 2001, the regional government in Wales voted to abolish them. In virtually every other respect, the systems remained identical but researchers discovered a subsequent decline in standards in Welsh schools. "We find significant and robust evidence that this reform markedly reduced school effectiveness in Wales," they reported.
However, the researchers measured "school effectiveness" by the same measure that the league tables use: passing exams. There is no doubt that achieving qualifications is important, but it is not the most significant contributor to our children's future prosperity and happiness. The problem with league tables is that children are individuals and averages.
For our recent School Choice Guide, we spoke in confidence to numerous parents about their experience of Beijing's international schools. Some had horror stories to tell about their experiences, but other parents would praise enthusiastically the very same school. We concluded, in the words we used as the theme for the Jingkids International School Expo 2019, that "One Size Does Not Fit All." There is no "best" school – just the best school for your child, right now.
When it comes to choosing a school, I would argue that league tables are a much less useful indicator than visiting a school, talking to staff and parents, getting a "feel" for it and trusting your instincts; that a school's ethos and culture, and how they align with your own family's values, are vastly more important than the fraction of a percentage point which might separate first from second on a league table, or even first from tenth.


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By - The Washington Times - Wednesday, November 9, 2005
The recent announcement by Senate Judiciary Committee Chairman Arlen Specter, Pennsylvania Republican, postponing confirmation hearings on Judge Samuel Alito until January, was only the latest in a series of painful examples of what happens when Senate Republicans wimp out.
Mr. Specter did not wimp out. The Senate Republican "leadership" wimped out when they made him chairman of the Judiciary Committee after he fired a shot across the bow of his own president, right after the election, publicly warning President Bush not to nominate anyone to the Supreme Court who would stir up controversy in the Senate.
That was the time to replace Mr. Specter with a chairman who would support, or at least not sabotage, the president's attempt to put the kind of people on the courts he pledged to appoint in the election campaign. Instead, the Senate "leadership" accepted Mr. Specter's assurances of cooperation.
Well, he is cooperating — with Democrats on his committee.
The delay in Judge Alito's confirmation hearings gives Senate Democrats and all the liberal-left interest groups time to orchestrate a fear-and-smear campaign and raise the money to advertise those fears and smears, both directly and by organized protests that will get much free publicity in the liberal media.
There is another aspect to this. Liberal senators have every incentive to drag out the confirmation, regardless how the final vote turns out, because the longer they stall, the longer Sandra Day O'Connor remains on the Supreme Court. She is their kind of judge, who makes policy instead of applying the law.
There was a time when the nomination of someone with Judge Alito's high qualifications to be on the Supreme Court would be confirmed by the Senate with little discussion and the confirmation reported with little media comment. But that was earlier, when common decency could be taken for granted.
Today, we can look for a Roman circus, complete with Christians thrown to the lions. Worse yet, the idea will be reinforced that a judge's "views" on issues are important and need to be questioned at interminable length.
Actually, the only view that matters is a judge's view of the role of a judge. If a judge sees his role as applying laws passed by other people, his personal views on issues are irrelevant.
Demands for "more information" have become part of this Roman circus, even when the senators themselves know the information they ask for cannot be released.
If a senator thinks the information available on any nominee is inadequate, all that senator need do is vote not to confirm. The power to vote yes or no does not include obstructing other senators from voting or dragging out the confirmation hearings into a media spectacle and a public humiliation.
Justice Clarence Thomas said it best during his confirmation hearings: "Confirm me if you want, don't confirm me if you are so led, but let this process end."
It needs to end for everybody — not just for this nominee or the next nominee but for the good of the country, so the best-qualified people are willing to go through the nomination process, without fear a lifetime's reputation will be dragged through the mud.
Sen, Orrin Hatch, Utah Republican, has aptly said the coming battle over the nomination of Judge Alito will be "Armageddon." It will be Armageddon for the Republican Party.
If the Republicans are unwilling to fight for the things they were elected to do, then some of the people who elected them may not vote for them the next time.
People who have for years not only voted for Republicans, but donated time and money to the Republican Party, who have volunteered to stuff envelopes, man the phones and walk the precincts to get out the vote on cold election nights, deserve something better than senators who wimp out at crunch time.
If the fate of the legal system in this country is not enough incentive for Senate Republicans to show some backbone, maybe concern for their own re-election will be.
Thomas Sowell is a nationally syndicated columnist.


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A Staffordshire entrepreneur is following his dream and dedicating his life to making the world around us a safer place to live, thanks to a new mobile app he has developed.
Roberto Ferraris from Stafford has been developing his free-to-use app, KronoVisor, for the past 18 months through his business Inar Group.
Roberto observed all over the UK a perceived increase in Police appeal signs following a serious incident or road traffic accident and felt he could help to address the issue by coming up with something to improve not only the road network, but the entire community.
He now firmly believes the mobile app he has developed, which can be downloaded to your phone for free, will go a long way in helping create a safer world around us and even supporting the Police Force in the process.
The entrepreneur, who grew up in Argentina, Ecuador and US and worked in Italy before settling in Staffordshire, said: "I noticed a few years ago a real increase in the use of dashcams and with that Police appeals for footage following incidents such as kidnappings, car accidents, robberies or even murders!
"We know it is impossible to have a Police Officer or a Police car on every street corner these days, however I believe this mobile app can help massively.
"KronoVisor helps solve crimes and provides a tool when an appeal is made because it allows you see what happens on every public road in any place in the world at any point in time. It also doubles up as a high quality but low-cost dashcam – just download it to your smartphone and it is ready to use.
"The idea behind KronoVisor is pretty simple - the more people using it the more useful the app becomes to the community and the authorities in crime prevention and solving reported cases of crime."
With a host of dashcam products on the market, Roberto is keen to highlight the unique benefits and advantages of the free-to-use KronoVisor app, which includes the ability to protect people's privacy.
Roberto continued: "The mobile app is cloud-friendly and optimised to efficiently upload geo-referenced videos, and by logging into their account online users can explore their maps and videos.
"Privacy is important, so KronoVisor also includes an element of artificial intelligence which automatically blurs out faces and number plates on videos shared via the KronoVisor web portal."
A firm believer in living for the moment, Roberto is excited about KronoVisor's potential.
He concluded: "I didn't want to look back in 20 years and think 'what if', so decided to take the plunge and invest in the development of KronoVisor because of how much value it can bring to society."
KronoVisor will be launched in April for Android users – available via the Google Play store – with an iPhone release set for later in 2019. For more information contact us.


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The unit occupies a prime position on Bridge Street adjacent to TK Maxx and other near occupiers Poundland, WHS Smith and B&M. EPC is available on request.
The property compromises of approx 14,250 sq ft of mainly open plan floor space. 1st floor has 11,00 sq ft which could be made available on request. Adjacent to the subject property is Iceland. Offers a rear loading bay.
The available space comprises 490 sq m.
The available space comprises retail accommodation arranged over ground and first floors. A new lease is available at £60,000 pa.
The available space comprises ground floor A2 retail accommodation available on a sublease expiring in June 2026.
The available space comprises ground and first floor retail accommodation in Rivergate Shopping Centre. A new lease is available on terms to be agreed. The lease is available at £40,000 pa exclusive.
The available space comprises ground floor retaiil accommodation with first and second floor ancillary space.
The available space comprises ground floor retail accommodation within the building. A new lease is available on terms to be negotiated.
The rent is to be £22,500 per annum exclusive of VAT, Business Rates and other outgoings.