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Herbalife may have misled investors, SEC on impact of FTC deal, one short-seller says (Reuters)
In its July 15 settlement Herbalife agreed to restructure its U.S. business so distributors are rewarded for sales rather than for recruitment of sales agents and it agreed to pay a $200 million fine. But Herbalife's filings with the U.S. Securities and Exchange Commission painted a much less optimistic picture than its presentation to analysts and investors, according to a private investor who flagged the differences to the SEC this month. Matthew Handley, an investor based in Lakewood Ranch, Florida alleged Herbalife made "purposefully deceptive statements" in its Aug. 3 quarterly earnings conference call and regulatory filings. Handley, who is betting Herbalife's stock price will fall, told Reuters about his outreach to the SEC and provided a copy of his letter to its whistleblower office.
Fed's Yellen sees stronger case for interest rate hike (Reuters)
The Federal Reserve is getting closer to raising interest rates again, the head of the U.S. central bankand other policymakers said on Friday in comments that left the door open for a hike as early as next month. Fed Chair Janet Yellen told a global monetary policy conference that the case for a rate increase had grown stronger, while Fed Vice Chair Stanley Fischer suggested a move could come at the central bank's September policy meeting if the economy was doing well.
Goldman Sachs, Morgan Stanley Reinvent Themselves (WSJ)
...both firms have turned to more basic banking businesses, betting that the cachet of their brand names can overcome relative lack of experience in dealing with the deposits and loans of middle-class Americans. The moves have surprised many and suggest capital-markets businesses have reached a turning point. "I would never have thought years ago that they would ever be doing this," says Richard Kovacevich, Wells Fargo & Co.'s former chairman and chief executive. But as regulation and muted client activity hammers trading revenue, "you either shrink, or you try to replace" lost profits.
Warned of a Crash, Start-Ups Narrowed Their Focus (NYT)
The worst fallout may yet come, but many of the start-ups have hung on. Across Silicon Valley, engineers are still commanding annual salaries that average $136,000, according to Hired, a recruiting firm. Demand is brisk for $4 buttered toast, and office space rents remain near record highs. The biggest start-ups, like Uber and Airbnb, continue to land billions of dollars in funding. And investors are shoveling money into venture capital funds, which raised so much cash in the first half of this year that it rivaled the amount raised in all of 2015...That is not to say there has been no adjustment. Some smaller start-ups, like the live-streaming app Blab and the on-demand private chef company Kitchit, have collapsed into Silicon Valley's dead pool. Other young companies have laid off staff. And many entrepreneurs are no longer able to demand whatever valuation they please for their companies. Yet it is precisely these adaptations that have allowed many Silicon Valley start-ups to stick it out — for now, at least.
New Mexico cop accidentally filmed himself stealing marijuana (NYDN)
A New Mexico police sergeant accused of unwittingly recording himself on a lapel camera taking marijuana from his office and giving it to his girlfriend has been released from jail...State police say Roshern McKinney was arrested Wednesday. An investigation was requested in July after the video recording was found. He faces charges of distribution of marijuana, conspiracy and felony embezzlement. According to state police, McKinney also allegedly embezzled $785 and an 8-ounce brick of marijuana not submitted to the department's evidence vault.
Anemic IPO Market Is Poised for a Rebound (WSJ)
A flood of share debuts is expected to invigorate the listless market for initial public offerings after the Labor Day holiday, but the revival might be short-lived. Companies in a wide variety of U.S. industries plan to go public after the long weekend. The level of new issuance should resemble what would normally be expected given record stock prices and historically low volatility. At the same time, the window for offerings is expected to shut about six weeks later amid political uncertainty ahead of the presidential election, bankers and analysts say.
Hustlers are selling EpiPens online amid 600% price hike (NYP)
Sellers told The Post they are simply filling a niche in the market — which has seen prices for epinephrine injection devices skyrocket to as high as $608 for a two-pack, infuriating patients who need the drug's emergency antidote to allergic reactions. "We saw on the TV a few days ago that people couldn't get them so we put up the ad," said a Bronx man who gave his name as Mike Black and said his 5-year-old son has a peanut allergy. He said he was selling an extra EpiPen Jr. 2-pack on Craigslist for $300 to "help someone out."
Japan Pension Giant's Losses Could Mean a $53 Billion Stock Splurge (Bloomberg)
The $1.3 trillion Government Pension Investment Fund would need to spend $53 billion on domestic shares to meet its target for the asset, according to Bloomberg News calculations, after the fund said Friday that holdings fell to 21 percent of investments at the end of June. Its goal is a quarter of the portfolio. The fund also has scope to offload $56 billion in domestic bonds after falling yields boosted their weight to 39 percent of the total, above the 35 percent level it seeks to hold.
Man Bathes In Hot Sauce, Immediately Questions His Life Choices (HP)
YouTuber Cemre Candar submerged himself inside a bathtub filled with what he claims is spicy sauce for his latest stunt — and immediately regretted doing so. Video going viral shows the United Kingdom-based vlogger screaming out in agony as 1,250 bottles worth of the condiment quickly cover his body...Several hours after cleaning himself off, Candar claimed that his skin was still red and blotchy and he still felt a burning sensation across much of his body.

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Chamber News: A rising tide to lift all Ruidoso businesses
The aphorism "a rising tide lifts all boats", though best known from John F. Kennedy came from The New England Council, a regional Chamber of Commerce organization.
It was used in reference to improvements in the general economy would benefit the entire Community. As the Director of our local Chamber of Commerce, it is my desire that our organization be in the business of helping to make the tides rise.
The reason we were formed was to strengthen the community by guiding the power of good business and enhancing the quality of life. Our job is to stay in the know about what is happening in Ruidoso and the surrounding communities.
We try to have a good working relationship with the local governments, as well as our county and state officials.
I feel that the tide is rising here in Lincoln County right now and that it is important that we continue to really make an effort to work together. All of us at the Ruidoso Valley Chamber of Commerce want to hear from the businesses in our area. If you own a business in this Community, give me a call and let us know how we can help your business endeavors.
There are many plans in place to make this a better place to do business and there are some very motivating people that are ready to make these plans come to fruition.
If you have ideas on what we can do as a community to make this a better place, call me.
I do believe that a rising tide does lift all boats. I also believe that we have more to offer together than we do individually. So once again I will say, by working together we can make this a better place to live, work and play.
Becky Brooks is the executive director of the Ruidoso Valley Chamber of Commerce. Brooks can be reached at 575-257-7395 or email the Chamber at firstname.lastname@example.com.


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Cycling advocacy group People for Bikes has selected six U.S. cities to receive funding and consultation for new protected bike lanes, as part of its Green Lane Project. The annual Project collaborates with cities over two years to expedite the installation of protected bike lanes, one of the ways People for Bikes aims to establish bike-friendly, lower-stress streets. This past January, the group published a report documenting how protected bike lanes help local businesses, drawn partially from cities selected by their Green Lane program.
This year's cities are Atlanta, GA, Boston, MA, Denver, CO, Indianapolis, IN, Pittsburgh, PA and Seattle, WA. During its first two programs (2012 and 2013), the Green Lane Project was responsible for nearly half of the entire nation's increase in protected bike lanes, growing from 80 to 142. Previous cities that benefited from the program include Austin, TX, San Francisco, CA, Portland, OR, and Washington, DC -- now serving as mentors for future cities chosen by the Project.
The 2014 Project will officially begin in late April, with a gathering and press conference in Indianapolis, IN.
Another notch in Indy's bike path belt. We're getting better pretty quickly, for a medium-size midwestern conservative city!
Visions of Tea Party Bikes makes my heart flutter......
Pretty liberal for conservatives.
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My Week: An American in Paris
I haven't actually (this week, or ever) been to the Parisian FDR tube station in this picture, but a student took it for me (in case you read this, Jan, thanks! It's much appreciated!), and I was in Paris this … Lees verder
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FDR Footage in the News
The above is the newly discovered clip of FDR being driven in his wheelchair. The news is spectacular in the sense that no such material was available before. Roosevelt was keen not to be filmed or photographed in his wheelchair … Lees verder
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Jay Winter and the Definition of Collective Remembrance
One of the most important memory scholars – and, I believe, the man who coined the phrase "Memory Boom", to refer to the massive increase in popular cultural and academic interest in memory (rather than or alongside history), is Jay … Lees verder
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My Week of Abstracts, Proposals and Feedback
This week was unsuccessful in really furthering the thesis chapter I am working on. At the very least, I had hoped to write out and develop the thoughts that my supervisor suggested when we discussed it last week, but even … Lees verder
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FDR Library Re-Dedication
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My latest make is one that I was a bit unsure about sharing. It was an uphill struggle from start to finish, and sadly I am quite underwhelmed with the finished dress. However, while wearing and making this garment was frustrating and upsetting, I must try and be positive, and think of the lessons and experience I gained when making it!
I was very excited to see the latest release from By Hand London, the Orsola Dress – it is such an interesting and stylish shape. I chose to make it for my final wedding of the year, and found a lovely deep red Atelier Brunette Viscose from Guthrie and Ghani. This beautiful fabric has a lovely drape and a stunning colour, but man-oh-man it creases more than any other viscose I have ever touched.
The fabric was pricy so I made a toile – especially as in the past I have had trouble fitting By Hand Patterns. I quickly made a size 12, but the top half just didn't fit at all. I had to move the waistline darts in towards the centre by 1.5cm, and the bust darts up the same amount. Then I had to do my first small bust adjustment (thanks to an excellent tutorial on the website it was easy peasy) and finally shorten the straps by about 1cm.
This seemed to do the trick for the front of the dress and skirt, but the back was another matter. There seemed to be a quite a bit of gaping, and I wasn't sure whether to try and alter the back so it lay flat against the skin, or to let it drape as I have seen on Instagram. As it seemed to be in the middle, I thought I would shorten the back panels so that it lay flat and didn't drape.
I took my cut-out pieces to The Sewing Weekender, and despite using a different sewing machine, and having limited space, everything seemed to go well – until I did the hem facing. I was chatting away and somehow pressed and clipped too much seam allowance. When it came to securing the facing with the recommended 2cm hem allowance I realised what a poor job I had done, and how uneven my pressing was. I wish I could have started again, but I didn't have enough spare to cut another. I just had to make do with a narrower hem and painstakingly trying to make the best of bad job.
When I finally tried on the finished garment I realised I shouldn't have tried to shorten the back panels, as now it was neither drapey nor fitted – just sort of lamely hanging somewhere in the middle. I was so disappointed (to put it mildly), and resigned myself to abandoning it and wearing something else. But when I showed it to my boyfriend he thought it was great, and was totally non-plussed at my dissatisfaction. So, I wore it, but inevitably didn't enjoy it or feel proud of what I had made. I was also very self-conscious and within 5 minutes of putting it on the dress was badly creased.
But hey, with dressmaking there is always a chance you are going to make something that goes wrong and it totally sucks, but this is what I can take from it:
-I learned how to do a Small Bust Adjustment.
-I learned to alter darts.
-I learned how important it is to make a toile in a similar fabric to your intended garment.
-I learned more about the positives and negatives of viscose, and to think about 'creasability' when selecting fabrics for garments you will move in.
-I re-learned that if you're not concentrating, or tired PUT THE SCISSORS (or iron) DOWN.


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I'm "biast" (con): nothing
I have not read the source material
(what is this about? see my critic's minifesto)
I recently said, after seeing the terrific joint Finnish-Estonian production The Fencer, that I was curious to see more of what is coming out of Estonia's newly revitalized film culture. I may have spoken too soon. November — Estonia's official submission to this year's Oscars (it was not nominated) — is an all-style and very-little-substance exercise in random oddity and weird imagery, mind-fuckery for mind-fuckery's sake, except it doesn't actually fuck with your mind, or with anything at all, at least not in any way that challenges us. This is a movie that dispenses with characters who engage us on any level, and doesn't bother with a setting or situations that make any sense, not even on a fantasy level, yet this is also a movie that believes that invoking fairy tales and magic means all bets are off and no rules apply. November isn't only the opposite of intriguing: it revels in its own meaninglessness as if emptiness were deep and significant.
Working from the bestselling Estonian novel Rehepapp, by Andrus Kivirähk (which does not appear to have been translated into English), writer-director Rainer Sarnet is ostensibly telling the story of 19th-century peasant Liina (Rea Lest), who longs for fellow villager Hans (Jörgen Liik), but he's in love with the beautiful young baroness (Jette Loona Hermanis). But even that simple description of the plot is more cohesive and more cogent than anything we get onscreen. Liina and Hans live in a nihilistic faux-pagan culture in which love is "insignificant," in which little animates anyone beyond rampant superstition, and where survival in their harsh, cold forest is a desperate struggle… or it would be, if anyone bothered to do a damn thing about their own welfare. I mean this: no one here seems to engage in any sort of work the likes of which we would associate with peasants trying to scratch out a living. They seem to focus their efforts, such as they are, on stealing from their neighbors and making deals with the Devil, literally, in order to bring to life robotic "kratts" assembled from farm implements that no one uses for actual farming. And then the kratts do some other work that also mostly doesn't seem to do with putting food on the table.
I'm making it sound more sensible than it all is.
What's left is Mart Taniel's cinematography, which is truly beautiful, and some striking, even unsettling imagery, such as the creepy kratts — some of which are insectile; others are like demonic robots dreamed up by medieval alchemists — and a sequence in which the spirits of the dead, dressed in white, move through a spooky nighttime graveyard. But while November may have atmosphere to spare, it is pointlessly bleak, with nothing consequential to say about all the significant matters it glosses over: family, class, greed, sloth, religion, death. It's so hollow that it's not even repulsive, even with a rape scene, another of attempted rape, a bit in which people eat their own shit as part of a magic potion, and other grotesqueries.
A pox on it, I say.


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YOU TUBE: https://www.youtube.com/watch?v=GR6WPkjIlAw
Luckydabo$$ is originally from the Ivory Coast which is in West Africa. The Ivory Coast is a nation that speaks French. As a young kid, Yovan aka Luckydabo$$ played a few roles in small movies in school and performed as a music artist a few times on stage. Luckydabo$$ has a unique style and he talks about today's issues that we see in our society. He also brings the good times and rap in French and English. Lucky is also a college student with a major in economics. He also has a certificate in Architecture, real estate. He is an engineering technician and love being an I.T . His lyrics are inspiring, his voice is for the people.
Luckydabo$$ is in a different position than most rappers, he's in the bi-lingual position of speaking out in two languages, to crossover in both French which is his native language, and English. This gives him an opportunity to be a voice for both cultures, facing similar but often different hardships in life. It gives him a purpose in that area within his music, to express himself about the trying times we face in the world. It doesn't matter where we come from, Me$$enger speaks loud and clear, with songs of reasonable substance that you can remember the melody and words of.
He's also the engineer, so the production is spot on for what he's got to offer both musically and technically. Some of the tracks take knowing French language, but the same could be said about English if this review were in French language. And that's just one of the things that makes this music difficult but also worth writing about. He could relate to that as easy as anyone can relate to his music, so it's a compromise worth making. And some of these songs not only contain a positive message, they also rock back and forth with just as much effort as the lyrics he does a good job writing. For instance, the first track comes recommended for its lyrics more than the music, but he worked out every note around it to perfectly match the words. Or, this comes naturally and he does it without even knowing. If that doesn't describe the finesse he applies, then you can just call it an accident. I'm convinced that a-natural put everything he had into it, rather than found himself improvising on "Go Get It." But your mileage may vary, if you don't dig down as deep into as that might take. It depends on what you're listening for, but this is an epic track compared to most of the others.
"True Story" loses itself easier, but again it depends on what you're listening for. If I were to choose between the two, the former wins, hands down. But this isn't bad at all either. But it's a good thing there's more to talk about in "Forever" which seems to come to the rescue by the time you hear it, and it sounds out everything it seems Luckydabo$$ needs to bring his music full-circle. This is almost as good as "Go Get It" and is even better if you like featured female guest appearances. "It's Been A Long Day" and "Friday Night" are my other picks worth checking out. But there isn't a band tune the Me$$enger is packing. "Chill in the mansion" with it, and a glass of wine.
SOUNDCLOUD: https://soundcloud.com/luckydabo
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Science project
Acid Rain
2nd – 4th grades
Difficulty of Project
Less than $5.00
Safety Issues
Material Availability
Readily available or can be easily purchased at a grocery store.
Approximate Time Required to Complete the Project
One day to collect data; another day to write results and prepare the science fair display.
To observe the effect of an acid on chalk to draw conclusions about how acid rain can cause rocks to erode
Materials and Equipment
- 2 small clear drinking glasses
- Masking tape
- Pen
- 1 cup vinegar
- Measuring cup
- 2 pieces of white chalk
Background Information
All rain has some acid. However, in places where large amounts of smoke are released into the air, gases such as sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide are released from smoke into the air. In the air, these acidic gases become water droplets that make up clouds. Then these acids are released in the form of rain back to the earth. Acid rain harms the environment by killing seeds and eggs of many plants and animals. It also wears away rocks.
In this project, the affect of acid rain is simulated by the acid, vinegar. Chalk is a soft rock made from limestone. This investigation will show in a short time what acid rain can do to rocks over a long period of time.
Terms, Concepts, and Questions to Start Background Research
acid: a chemical substance that can cause erosion
acid rain: rain that contains a significant amount of acid usually in the form of sulfur dioxide and nitrogen dioxide from smoke in the environment
erosion: the process by which the surface of the earth is worn away by the natural actions of wind or water
Vinegar is an acid. Chalk is made from a soft rock called limestone. Gases from smoke are released into the air. In the air, the acidic gases become water droplets which return to the earth as rain.
Research Questions
- What gases does smoke release?
- Where does smoke come from?
- How does the gas from smoke form into water droplets?
- What harm does acid rain cause?
Experimental Procedure
- Gather the necessary materials.
- Label the first glass "Water" and the second glass "Vinegar."
- Pour one cup of water in the glass labeled "Water." Pour one cup of vinegar in the glass labeled "Vinegar."
- Stand a piece of chalk in each of the glasses so that half of the chalk is in the liquid and half of it is out of the liquid. Place both glasses in a safe place overnight.
- The next day, look at the glasses. Notice the difference between the two pieces of chalk. Record the results.
"Acid Rain" at the Young People's Trust for the Environment website
"Weathering and Erosion" by Phil Medina at [email protected]
"How Acid Rain Works" by Sarah Dowdey at http://science.howstuffworks.com/acid-rain.htm
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Training Providers
Within each awarding organisation a training provider can have their own unique account. This account enables the training provider to do a number of things.
A training provider can continually track the progression of any of their apprentices. The tracking process gives the training provider an overall completion bar, with the areas an apprentice has completed and areas yet to be covered within the end point assessment.
Create Businesses
Businesses can be created, which an apprentice to be tagged to. This assists the training provider to organise learners per business. From this business logins can be made, giving the employer an opportunity to view and track their apprentices.
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Through PurpleTurtles unique system, training providers can upload all their learners by using our 'bulk candidate uploader'. Training providers are provided with a template, which when downloaded gives the user the opportunity to upload all learners in one go, saving the training providers time and money, from eliminating the need to upload apprentices one by one.


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So, you've decided to start exercising again and get back on the field or court
and start playing again. Great! However, many people end up injured and out
of commission after only one or two times out there. Why?
Those getting into shape for the first time or after a long lay off need to
start gradually because two-thirds of all sports injuries are a result of attempting
too much too fast. Muscles, tendons, and ligaments of older athletes may tend
to break down a little more readily, as well. Also, older athletes tend to ignore
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The Citadel
Robert Donat seems to me to be severely underrated these days. He's best known for The 39 Steps and Goodbye, Mr. Chips, for which he won an Oscar. Quite an accomplishment in the year of Clark Gable and Gone With the Wind, which swept nearly everything else. I never saw him in anything where he was less than excellent. But he died all too young, age 53, of a chronic asthma attack.
Ironically, here he plays a young doctor getting his start in a Welsh mining town, and he is seeing a lot of lung problems, a lot of what might be Pneumonoultramicroscopicsilicovolcanoconiosis. (Okay, most people just call it silicosis these days, but I couldn't resist the chance to use that word in a sentence.) He gains confidence in his abilities, marries Rosalind Russell (and what is this American doing there? It's never explained), and they get some lab equipment and guinea pigs and start experimenting.
Heaven help us! You'd think it was Dr. and Mrs. Frankenstein! The villagers are happy in their ignorance, and so is the medical establishment. Their lab is destroyed and they are more or less run out of town. He sets up a practice in London, but he's getting nowhere. Then he meets dashing, persuasive old classmate Rex Harrison, and soon is lured into the business of making pots of pounds by treating wealthy old hypochondriacs who can certainly spare the money, but still, where did your idealism go? He learns to pad the bills, and work with doctors he knows are incompetents.
And he loves it! He buys her furs, buys himself fast cars, forgets the people who helped him on the way up. Then he gets a shock that sets him back on the right path.
In the course of the movie his old friend, reformed drunk Ralph Richardson, proposes that he come in on some new idea that's being pioneered in America. Small regional clinics with all the best equipment and the best specialists, and patrons would be charged a set monthly fee, just enough for the doctors to make a decent living, and that payment would cover you for EVERYTHING. Basically a medical collective. Probably socialism. What Obamacare might have been without all the compromises. How did we go so wrong since 1938, and Britain get it so right? Insurance companies, that's how. And I don't think we will ever get their filthy buzzard claws out of our body politic.


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Meet Scott.
Scott is a computer professional. One day, Scott was walking around the net. He saw many .htmls and .pdfs. He also came across plenty of images on his way to the server. All of a sudden, he looked across to see a 'missing image'. Scott wondered what happened to the image – why it was missing and what could be done to fix it. As he was investigating the matter, the image jumped on Scott and started eating into his head. Our poor hero struggled and staggered in pain and frustration to get the missing image off his head but in vain. In the end, the fateful image consumed him and Scott had to go away, leaving the window empty and blank.
Moral of the story: If it ain't broken, don't fix it. If it is broken, then save your head and run away!


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What is Websrch.mobi? And how does it work?
Websrch.mobi is a browser extension created by AirFind Corporation. It works on several browsers like Internet Explorer, Mozilla Firefox, Google Chrome and more. It works as a search engine that supposedly provides users with improved web searches. It offers links to several search engines like Bing and Google Search. Websrch.mobi may look like a typical search engine but it's actually categorized by security experts as a browser hijacker and a PUP.
The instant it is installed, it will make a couple of changes in the default settings of your browser. These changes affect the default search engine, homepage and new tab page of your browser. As a result, you will now see Websrch.mobi when you open your browser. And if you think that this shady search engine can really give you improved search results, you're very wrong – when you try to search for any query using it, instead of generating related search results, it mostly displays sponsored content from its affiliated third parties. And that's not the only time you'll be seeing these sponsored contents as you can also see them on any website you visit. Some of them can get pretty intrusive that they cover the content of the website you're visiting.
Moreover, it also tracks all your browsing-related activities in order to harvest information such as your IP address, email address, browsing history, websites you often visit and other information. It does not even hide the fact that it collects users' data as stated in its Privacy Policy:
"We may now or in the future receive Personally Identifiable Information about you from third parties. For example, if you access our Sites or Services through a third-party connection or log-in, including social networking services such as Google, Facebook, or Twitter, by "following," "liking," adding the AirFind application, linking your account to the Services, etc., that third party may pass certain information about your use of its service to AirFind. This information could include, but is not limited to, the user ID associated with your account (for example, your Facebook user identification), an access token necessary to access that service, any information that you have permitted the third party to share with us, and any information you have made public in connection with that service."
Although it doesn't seem harmless, as you can tell, Websrch.mobi can still cause a couple of issues that mainly concern your privacy and even exposes your computer to cyber threats by redirecting you to suspicious sites. So before it's too late you need to erase Websrch.mobi from your computer.
How is Websrch.mobi distributed online?
Websrch.mobi is distributed via freeware and shareware found on peer-to-peer networks and free file sharing sites. If you use this kind of package, you risk installing unwanted programs like Websrch.mobi. Thus, it is recommended that you use the Custom or Advanced setup whenever you use to install any shareware or freeware.
You can get rid of Websrch.mobi from your computer by following the instructions provided below.
Step 1: Start the removal process by closing all the browsers infected with Websrch.mobi. If you're having a hard time closing them, you can close them using the Task Manager just tap on Ctrl + Shift + Esc.
Step 2: After you open the Task Manager, go to the Processes tab and look for the infected browser's process and end it.
Step 3: Then close the Task Manager and open Control Panel – to do so, tap the Windows key + R, then type in appwiz.cpl and then click OK or press Enter.
Step 4: After pulling up Control Panel, from the list of installed programs, look for Websrch.mobi or any suspicious program you don't remember installing and then Uninstall it.
Step 5: Edit your Hosts File.
- Tap the Win + R keys to open then type in %WinDir% and then click OK.
- Go to System32/drivers/etc.
- Open the host's file using Notepad.
- Delete all the entries that contain Websrch.mobi.
- After that, save the changes you've made and close the file.
Step 6: Reset all your browsers to default to their default state.
Google Chrome
- Launch Google Chrome, press Alt + F, move to More tools, and click Extensions.
- Look for Websrch.mobi or any other unwanted add-ons, click the Recycle Bin button, and choose Remove.
- Restart Google Chrome, then tap Alt + F, and select Settings.
- Navigate to the On Startup section at the bottom.
- Select "Open a specific page or set of pages".
- Click the More actions button next to the hijacker and click Remove.
Mozilla Firefox
- Open the browser and tap Ctrl + Shift + A to access the Add-ons Manager.
- In the Extensions menu Remove the unwanted extension.
- Restart the browser and tap keys Alt + T.
- Select Options and then move to the General menu.
- Overwrite the URL in the Home Page section and then restart the browser.
Internet Explorer
- Launch Internet Explorer.
- Tap Alt + T and select Internet options.
- Click the General tab and then overwrite the URL under the homepage section.
- Click OK to save the changes.
Step 7: Hold down Windows + E keys simultaneously to open File Explorer.
Step 8: Navigate to the following directories and look for suspicious files associated with the browser hijacker such as the software bundle it came with and delete it/them.
- %USERPROFILE%\Downloads
- %USERPROFILE%\Desktop
Step 9: Close the File Explorer.
Step 10: Empty the contents of Recycle Bin.
Refer to the advanced instructions given below to ensure the removal of Websrch.mobi as well as all the file residues it left behind.
Perform a full system scan using [product-code]. To do so, follow these steps:
- Turn on your computer. If it's already on, you have to reboot
- After that, the BIOS screen will be displayed, but if Windows pops up instead, reboot your computer and try again. Once you're on the BIOS screen, repeat pressing F8, by doing so the Advanced Option shows up.
- To navigate the Advanced Option use the arrow keys and select Safe Mode with Networking then hit
- Windows will now load the SafeMode with Networking.
- Press and hold both R key and Windows key.
- If done correctly, the Windows Run Box will show up.
- Type in the URL address, [product-url] in the Run dialog box and then tap Enter or click OK.
- After that, it will download the program. Wait for the download to finish and then open the launcher to install the program.
- Once the installation process is completed, run [product-code] to perform a full system scan.
- After the scan is completed click the "Fix, Clean & Optimize Now"button.


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Who's No. 1?
DETROIT -- With World Heavyweight Champion Batista watching from ringside, Finlay and Rey Mysterio faced off on SmackDown last Friday, battling for the right to be named No. 1 contender to The Animal's gold at Cyber Sunday. But the ring could not contain the tension that erupted between the Irishman and Mysterio -- nor could it ultimately keep out another threat to Batista's reign as champion. A threat that had already bested The Animal earlier this year.
The physically brutal Finlay did all he could to ground the high-flying Master of the 619, but the ever-resilient Mysterio refused to let the Irishman just walk through him to the title match. A frustrated Finlay, unable to keep his cool, shoved referee Mickie Henson out of the way so that he could deliver further punishment to Rey with his preferred weapon of choice, his trusty shillelagh.
It was then that our fans in Joe Louis Arena, as well as the World Heavyweight Champion, heard the familiar sound of Undertaker's gong and watched the arena go dark. Moments later, when the lights came back on, The Phenom stood in the center of the ring, over an incapacitated Finlay and Mysterio. The former World Heavyweight Champion next turned his attention to Batista and motioned for the gold. The Animal, never one to back down, stood up from the announce table as he and Undertaker stared each other down, in a scene reminiscent of their other historical showdown in Detroit, at WrestleMania 23.
It was announced before Mysterio and Finlay squared off that, beginning Saturday at noon ET, our fans can log onto WWE.com and vote on one of three individuals to be the guest referee at Cyber Sunday's World Heavyweight Title Match -- Mick Foley, SmackDown announcer JBL or "Stone Cold" Steve Austin. But since Undertaker's involvement resulted in no clear winner in the match, another question must be asked: Who is the No. 1 contender to Batista's championship?
Immediately after SmackDown went off the air, The Animal's opponent for Cyber Sunday was announced in a blockbuster exclusive available to WWE Mobile on AT&T subscribers. That announcement, however, will become available to everyone who logs onto WWE.com this Saturday at noon ET, when they vote for the guest referee of their choice. With so much at stake, it's safe to say that your vote will count more than ever before.
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The Pilot Way
Jun 25, 2019
It is the goal of Pilot Management Services to provide all of our customers with a healthier, safer and more environmentally friendly maintenance program.
To achieve this we have implemented "The Pilot Way". Simply it's the way we will be providing our services, maintaining connections to our client and potential clients but with our twist of professionalism, realistic costings and continued support.
We will be achieving this by doing the following:
- Always provide top-notch customer satisfaction/service
- Always improving our skill set and technologies
- Always being honest to our clients
- Always use the best resources that balance environmental responsibility with effectiveness
- Always embrace corporate social responsibility.
- Always show appreciation to ALL Pilot Employees


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If you have bad credit, you might think a good idea for a new business that has built behind your mind for years will never see results. Most people don't know that there are opportunities for those who have damaged credit or bad credit scores to receive money to fund their dreams – become their own boss. You might just look for the wrong place.
People with bad credit are not lucky with traditional lenders when they submit credit in any form, and this certainly applies to loans to open new businesses. However, the online loan environment through the internet has more to offer this type of borrower, including those who want to end nine to five daily grinding and become their own bosses. If you have a question "how can I get a small business loan if I have bad credit?" then you can get an answer from various web sources.
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- Online lenders to choose
You might think that with economic turmoil in this country today that there is no opportunity to receive funds for businesses, even for those who have good credit. It's just not true. There are many businesses that are financially booming, and many lenders can lend money to you to start you, regardless of the previous financial mistakes that you have made reflected in your credit file.
- Learn from your bad past behavior
Before you start your search for your new bad credit loan business, you must think of the reason why your credit has a rotten form at this time. If you have problems with excessive expenses, manage money, or other behaviors that might reduce your new business now is the time to identify them.
When you have decided the amount, you need to start your new business, find the lender is easy online. Because these lenders have more money to be loaned than banks on the road, you have a much greater opportunity for approval.


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"I have given them the glory that you gave me, that they may be one as we are one: I in them and you in me. May they be brought to complete unity to let the world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me." John 17:22 (NIV).
There is a pain in my heart over the friends we have lost while on the support-raising journey. It's the awkward avoidance of our phone calls or never returned emails because they think we'll be asking for money. Sadly, most of time we're contacting our friends just to get together, but they've become so fearful that we're going to put them on the spot that it's easier to avoid us than to continue the friendship. Although Jason and I have never made high-money demands in conversations and have only let our need be known, we still wish we had a different mindset when we first started fundraising—one that was more concerned about creating an environment of worship than one set on the philosophy of speed. Since we changed our way of thinking, it has made our conversations more glorifying to God, and He has still brought us the money needed to do the ministries He has called us to do—with our relationships intact!
Since we've been on this journey for over nineteen years, we have realized that the real focus of raising support isn't about our needs being met. This statement probably makes you think, "Um, Heather, the whole reason why we raise support is because we need money in order to be used in a particular ministry." Of course you have monetary needs, and they should be made known and goals worked toward. The error comes when whole philosophies are written with the premise that we build relationships and make high-money demands in order to be fully funded and make it to our ministries as quickly as possible. Therefore, raising support becomes all about us, and as I've experienced, this can have a devastating impact on relationships—the opposite of what God intended.
In John 17:22 Jesus declares through His prayer that the reason for being in complete unity with one another is "to let the whole world know that you sent me and have loved them even as you have loved me." Obviously, believers are to unite as one in our spiritual communities and in our church families so that others can see Christ's love in us; however, there is no asterisk by this verse with a footnote that suggests that the support-raising journey is supposed to be any different. In fact, I find it fascinating that this entire journey is set up as a team effort where we are to work together for the purpose of letting God's love be known here and around the world. This means that our needs should not be what drive this journey. They are only a secondary purpose that God holds in His hands. A greater purpose is for us to grow as one in order for His glory to be known in the world. We accomplish this by leading people into worship and providing opportunities for them to join God in His work.
God exists in community, and wants that for us as well. He has provided everything we need for this to happen—His glory. Therefore, instead of making our needs the primary focus, let's not miss the opportunity to let Jesus' prayer be ours during this time. Let's be one, a reflection of who God is, in order for others to know the truth of Jesus' love.
- How can using this prayer as your own change the dynamic of your support?
- Pray for God to take your focus off yourself during the support-raising journey, and look to Him to accomplish His work through your team.


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Who knew that Seth Godin was a prophet of doom!
by Stan Faryna
Judy Garland, Over The Rainbow
A scene from Chapter 1.1 in Book of Carrot, my novel about the endtimes. http://wp.me/pbg0R-98
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Meeru features two Buffet Restaurants on the Island, both with the same menu and a variety of international and regional cuisines to please everyone's taste.
Enjoy all-you-can-eat buffet style meals for breakfast, lunch and dinner including lively Theme Nights. Friday night dinner is Maldivian night with a themed menu and waiters in traditional dress. Sunday breakfast welcomes you with complimentary Sparkling Wine.
Soups, breads and desserts are homemade and the fresh, tropical fruits are delicious. The buffet lines also include live action, cooking stations. Watch our chefs prepare your food to your order.
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ANTHRAX Releases "Skeletons In The Closet" Clip From "Chile On Hell" DVDTuesday, 9th September 2014
New York thrashers ANTHRAX have posted a clip of "Skeletons in the Closet," which is culled from their new Chile on Hell DVD. The DVD is due on September 16. Chile On Hell was filmed at the Teatro Caupolican in Santiago, Chile on May 10, 2013 and features ANTHRAX performing an extended set that featured songs from the band's entire catalogue.
Chile On Hell will be available on DVD and Blu-ray, was recorded in 5.1 Surround Sound, and will retail for $16.98.
"Santiago was the perfect place to film the show for this," said ANTHRAX drummer Charlie Benante. "When we'd played there in the past, we'd finish our set, play our encore and go back to the dressing room. But every time, the fans would continue to scream and cheer and clap. I mean, they went on and on, they wouldn't stop. One time Scott [Ian, guitar] and I walked out to the side of the stage just to watch what was going on in the audience, it was intense. Why wouldn't we want to film a DVD in front of an audience like that?
"Plus," Benante continued, "the time was right to do this DVD… We wanted to finish on a high note. We didn't want to look back and regret that we didn't record the live show."
Chile On Hell was produced by Jay Ruston and filmed by City Drive Entertainment Group and DC3 Global. The DVD's cover art was designed by Stephen Thompson, who partnered with Benante to "redesign" the artwork from last year's Anthems EP.
The band's setlist was as follows:
1. Among The Living
2. Caught In A Mosh
3. I Am The Law
4. Efilnikufesin (N.F.L.)
5. A Skeleton In The Closet
6. March Of The S.O.D. (STORMTROOPERS OF DEATH cover)
7. In The End
8. Deathrider
9. T.N.T. (AC/DC cover)
10. I'm Alive
11. Indians
12. Medusa
13. In My World
14. Got The Time (Joe Jackson cover)
15. Fight 'Em 'Til You Can't
16. I'm The Man / Raining Blood (SLAYER cover)
17. Madhouse
18. Antisocial (TRUST cover)


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Creativity in the Classroom: Inspired Learning in the Community with the Bass Museum of Art Closing Reception
Family Day, April 28, 1pm (Family Day activities begin at 2pm)
Bass Museum of Art
2100 Collins Avenue
Miami Beach, FL. 33139
On view until April 28, 2013 in the Lindeman Family Creativity Center
A culmination of the Bass Museum of Art's ongoing initiative to work more closely with the Miami-Dade pubic school system. Creativity in the Classroom:IDEA@thebass is a samplings of works produced by the students of the Miami-Dade Public School system demonstrates the results from a series of professional development workshops that introduced the "Design Thinking†method of project-based learning to more than 100 local teachers. Workshop instructor Lourdes Fuller and Bass Museum of Art's Director of Education, Dr. Adrienne von Lates inspired teachers to customize what they had learned at the Bass Museum of Art to fit within their lesson plans. This exhibition demonstrates the product of this method creating unique cross-curricular lessons plans and encouraging students from Kindergarten to high school to create original works of art including: narratives, original cartoons, paintings, sculpture and drawings. In conjunction with IDEA@thebass, Creativity In The Classroom is graciously funded by the John S. and James L. Knight Foundation.
The Bass Museum of Art commends the following teachers for their efforts in bringing this work to the museum for the public to view:
Frances E. Arango, Coral Reef Elementary I Deborah Brown, Lehrman Community Day School I Vivian del Rio, Kensington Park Elementary I Lourdes Fuller, Shenandoah Middle I Monica Harmon, G.W. Carver Middle I Amy Kutell, Ada Merritt k-8 Center I Lorraine Mackinney, Fienberg Fisher K-8 Center I Ann Reyna, Southside Elementary I Mirena Suarez, Ada Merritt k-8 Center I Joseph Vasile, Pinecrest Preparatory Middle-High I Vivian Veiga, Kensington Park Elementary I Joann Young, Key Biscayne K-8 Center


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Beautiful beaches, the friendliest people and delicious food – what more could you want in a country? Well, if you travel to Turkey, you will get all of that plus more! Click here to read more about how to manage your stay in Turkey. Complete with some of the world's most beautiful architecture that reached its absolute peak during the Ottoman period and incredible sights across land and sea for as far as the eye can stretch, we strongly suggest that you visit Turkey on your next trip. Here are five reasons why.
- 1. Certified Healthcare
A significant amount of people travel to Turkey in order to attain certified hair implants for almost half the cost of the same treatments you can find in the rest of Europe. Plus, when you visit Turkey for this reason, you are able to receive an aftercare service that is difficult, if not impossible, to get hold of in other parts of the world, which is paramount during the first few days post surgery to ensure everything has gone to plan.
- 2. Good Value For Money
Due to the fact that Turkey is part of Europe, several people believe that travelling to Turkey is going to be expensive – but it's not! Whilst Turkey is not completely backpacker friendly, you are able to travel for less in Turkey compared to other European countries. What we can say however, is that the quality of transportation and accommodation is most definitely worth the extra money. Regardless of where you decide to stay, you won't be stung by the cost of food either, as you can eat out inexpensively, or cook your own meals to save even more!
- 3. The Hammams
If Turkey isn't already on your travel bucket list, we certainly suggest that you add it into the mix somewhere along the line! Whilst it might not be at the top of your travel bucket list, you certainly don't want to miss out visiting the traditional, ancient Turkish bath houses, otherwise known as The Hammams. Here, you can choose from a range of baths, including private baths where you can scrub yourself down. Alternatively, why not pay more and have someone else do it for you? The amount of dirt and dead skin that is scrubbed off your body during the relaxing process is truly unbelievable. Rest assured you will leave The Hammams with silky smooth skin!
- 4. The People
Admittedly, we always say that people from whatever country are some of the nicest in the world, but hear us out when we say that Turkey is home to some of the most accommodating people – ever! Just know that, when you visit Turkey, you will have no problem mingling with the locals, as well as like-minded travellers. Moreover, Turks really will go above and beyond to help you out, and will even invite you to their home for tea!
- 5. Off The Beaten Track
In some countries, it's not always easy to get off the beaten path, but in Turkey it certainly is. Whilst Turkey has its main tourist attractions, such as Hagia Sophia and Sultan Ahmed Mosque, outside of them you can discover your own piece of the city and venture to a random town that few tourists dare to do. Eastern Turkey, for example, is essentially tourist free and boasts the most picturesque landscapes, including some of the best people and goods! If you decide to head into eastern Turkey, we strongly suggest seeking advice from the locals. Ultimately, they are the best people to ask when you want to find the best places to go!


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Today, the climbing advocacy movement is larger and more powerful than ever before: there are over 20,000 Access Fund members across the country and more than 130 local climbing organizations working in every corner of the nation.
It's hard to imagine that a mere 30 years ago, you could count the number of climbing advocates on two hands. Access Fund was founded by these pioneers in 1991, and for many years after that, climbing advocacy in this country was advanced through the incredibly hard work of a handful of dedicated volunteers. One of the best among them was Jim Ghiselli.
Jim was one of the first Access Fund Regional Coordinators—representing the Colorado Front Range—and was instrumental in securing North Table Mountain (aka Golden Cliffs).
"Jim was an incredible role model, as both an advocate and a climber, and his infectious energy influenced many people's perspectives on climbing and the importance of preserving access and the environment for future generations," says Becky Hall, longtime friend and former Access Fund Board Chair.
To those who knew him, Ghiselli was a dedicated climber, advocate, and mentor with an incredibly humble and generous spirit. To Jim, being a climber meant being part of a community—sharing friendship, passion, and knowledge with new and seasoned climbers alike.
"Jim was an incredibly generous soul who felt that giving back was a way to give to yourself," says late wife, Sari Ghiselli. "In this world, the giving of a service or kindness is essential to being human. Jim lived by the saying that 'someday never comes'—both in his climbing and in his service to the cause. If there was something he wanted to do, he didn't wait."
And that is why when Jim passed away in 2015, those closest to him helped Access Fund establish a scholarship fund to provide assistance to climbing advocates as they advance their knowledge in the field. For many climbers, the cost of pursuing advanced knowledge in climbing advocacy can be cost-prohibitive. The Jim Ghiselli Scholarship Fund provides financial assistance to advocates looking to attend conferences on climbing conservation and management.
"We owe a great debt of gratitude to the climbing advocates who came before us," says Chris Winter, Access Fund's Executive Director. "The seeds of their work are still visible, every day, in Access Fund's work. We're thrilled to be a small part of carrying Jim's legacy forward to inspire a new generation of climbing advocates."
The Jim Ghiselli Scholarship Fund is currently open for applications, and Access Fund encourages applicants to apply for financial assistance to attend our upcoming National Climbing Advocacy Summit in Seattle, Washington this October. We especially encourage people who will contribute to the diversity of the climbing advocacy movement to apply. Scholarship recipients will receive funds for travel and lodging, free entry into the conference, and a free ticket to Access Fund's Summit Celebration Dinner.
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Pope Trump has decreed more than a few anathemas, and has himself been anathematised by more than a few. "If anyone denies that Muslims, visible and invisible, do not present something of a security problem and that we need a total and complete shutdown of Muslims entering the United States while we figure out what the hell is going on, let him be anathema. If anyone is so bold as to assert that a woman who has a discharge, and her discharge in her flesh is blood, she should not be hosting a television show, let him be anathema. If anyone says that the substance or essence of Mexicans is not basically that of druggies and rapists, and that we need a great, great wall along the Mexican-American border, let him be anathema."
Pope Francis doesn't particularly like any of this, so has himself issued a decree: "A person who thinks only about building walls — wherever they may be — and not building bridges, is not Christian. This is not in the Gospel," he pontificated. Pope Trump finds Pope Francis "a very political person", and Pope Francis, draped in saintly white and denying that he is a very political person, intervenes directly and dramatically in the US presidential race and tells Roman Catholic Republicans not to vote for Pope Trump, for he is the anti-Christ.
And so the Pope of Rome has excommunicated the Pope of Manhattan, and the Pope of Manhattan has responded in kind. Venom, mud and obloquy.
Pope Francis has rather proved Pope Trump's point, for both are manifestly very political popes, but only one should descend to the undignified fray of partisan politicking about contentious matters of policy. The Pope of Rome did try to backtrack a little, qualifying his extempore anathema with: "As far as what you said about whether I would advise to vote or not to vote, I am not going to get involved in that. I say only that this man is not Christian if he said things like that. We must see if he said things in that way and in this I give the benefit of the doubt."
But Pope Trump did most definitely say these things, of that there is no doubt, and so there is no benefit to be found in that granting of the benefit of any further doubt. And so we are left with a papal decree that Donald Trump is not a Christian, which isn't going to go down well in certain southern states where a presidential candidate's Christian credentials are a matter of political salvation or damnation.
But who is Pope Francis to judge whether a man is saved or not? Any why is the matter of walls and bridges the determining fruit of faith? Why is the wall-building presidential candidate not a Christian, while the abortion-advocating candidate escapes without censure? And what of the candidate who builds bridges to deception, error and idolatry? Clearly, not all bridge-building is beneficial, and one might expect one who styles himself 'Pontifex' — that is bridge — to understand that wall-building is sometimes a necessary strategy for survival. Whether in Rome or Manhattan, political popes do not tend to live up fortified towers or behind fortress walls for nothing: they have enemies — immigrants even — who seek to kill and destroy. You cannot be a bridge to a million immigrants who neither share nor respect your culture without profoundly changing your culture.
Is Ted Cruz a Christian? Is Ben Carson? Is President Obama? Is the individualist? Is the corporatist? Is the Civil Rights leader? Is the gospel singer? Is the one who believes in God's unmerited favour, or the one who believes in the Spirit-infused soul? Who can judge? Hymns and prayers do not sanctify: 'Ye shall know them by their fruits. Do men gather grapes of thorns, or figs of thistles?' (Mt 7:16). More than a few Roman Catholics are sifting the papal wheat from the chaff, and find this particular Pontifex more than a little wanting.
There is an undoubted moral obligation and scriptural exhortation to treat immigrants with compassion, for they are our brothers and sisters in the fellowship of humanity. But there is also a moral obligation upon our political leaders to govern wisely, justly and righteously for the common good; for peace and security. Pope Trump might offend with his venomous anti-immigrant rhetoric, but Pope Francis equally offends by looking into a man's soul and determining that he is no Christian: 'For all have sinned, and come short of the glory of God' (Rom 3:23).
Politicians err, and so do popes. You may judge them by your pure apprehension of scriptural righteousness and spiritual discernment. But who made you pope?


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I grew up in the times before the Internet, the times when the big three networks were the only ones with Saturday morning and after-school cartoons, when you knew it was time to start the activities of the day once it rolled around to 10am and the familiar, yet annoying, Soul Train song came on. Yes, it was the salad days of G1 Transformers, G1 G.I. Joe, G1 Smurfs, and yes, G1 Thundercats. Back in those days, a soon-to-be pube developing Chief was looking at Cheetara with a curious eye, and chanting the familiar "Thundercats, Ho!" along with Lion-O. I was too young back then to realize that the beloved intro animation and song, as well as the aforementioned cry to arms was a much more polished bit of animation than the rest of the show, which in retrospect, was not great looking.
You may remember the same sort of thing with Voltron. The entire segment when Voltron is assembled ("Form feet and legs... Form arms and body....And I'll form the....etc"), as well as when the blazing sword gleaned forth from his lion-head fists, were beautifully polished pieces of animated artwork used in every episode. The fact of this and the reasons for it are obvious now, but not to an eight-year-old.
Plots were a lot simpler back then. Show a little interpersonal conflict, or minor plot point that illustrates character development, show the threat, heroes go to save the day but fail, heroes form Voltron and still fail, heroes form Blazing Sword and kill threat with one swipe, wrap up interpersonal conflict, show ends - easy as Smurfberry pie. Kind of makes you wonder why they didn't just go into every battle already formed as Voltron with the sword out and just take care of business. I guess that doesn't make for a good half hour of show.
Back then, it was the early days of the Nerd Generation. The people who cared were under 10. Transformers Nerds in their thirties were exceedingly rare IF they existed at all. The people in charge of creating this content didn't care as much as they should; they knew they were only catering to the stupid 10 year olds.
Times are a-different now. There are still stupid 10 year olds to please, but now all the thirty-somethings reminiscing about Cheetara's skintight outfit and Optimus Prime's energon axe (it existed, look it up) are saying, "Hey, what about us?" The kids who cared back then are the adults who care now and demand a little bit more than shallow plots and crappy filler animation.
Enter the new series of the Thundercats, now starting the fifth week of its run on Cartoon Network. I just watched the most recent episode, "Song of the Petalars", and I was truly moved. This episode acts as sort of a side-step standalone plotline from the main arch wherein the Thundercats come across a tiny race of plant-like beings called the Petalars.
The real hook is that we find out that the Petalars' entire lifespan takes place over the course of one day in the life of a Thundercat. Birth, life and death, generation after generation, come into sharp view during this episode. Lion-O befriends a child Petalar named Emerich, becoming a mentor of sorts. Emerich's life perspective runs the gamut of a normally-aging being, from joyful child, to impetuous and rebellious teen, to brave young adult, to experienced grown man, to wise elder. Lion-O witnesses the changes as their journey progresses across the day, learning valuable lessons along the way about life and appreciation; he starts off as the teacher and soon becomes the student - it's quite clear the lessons of leadership that he takes away from Emerich that will help him on his overall quest.
I'll spare you the straight-up review except to say that this series is fantastic and this episode was beautifully written. Highly recommended.
My point in bringing this up is this: I no longer have the 10 year old perspective so I'm not sure if having an intricate storyline with a well-written dialogue is necessary for their sake. I know kids are maturing earlier these days and the Internet has desensitized them not only into knowing what a German Scheisse film is, but also into knowing what bad content is. So maybe weak voice acting and razor-thin plotlines in their cartoons will no longer fly; based on some of the new shows coming out and how they're done, the producers seem to recognize that.
However more importantly, I'm glad that the producers of what is essentially meant to be children's programming recognize that the adult contingent, the ever-growing demographic of youngsters of the 80's are tuning in to their product to reminisce; they want to pull us in and they can't get away with producing crap. You almost have to ask yourself, who are they really making this stuff for? Would I try and get my kid into the new Thundercats? Heck yes. Would I still watch it even if my kid didn't get into it? Hecker yes.
The young Nerds who grew up with me, watching the same plot week after week, the same basic characters saying and doing the same basic thing, are now the adult Nerds that are saying, "No way are we going to allow the wonderful shows that helped us form our personalities continue to be trite for the new generation of Nerds." But what is that going to mean when today's 10 year olds are 30? How is the evolution of show production going to have to adapt?
We've got years to contemplate that. In the meantime, Cheetara's outfit is significantly more meaningful to me.


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We are going through a tech explosion. Everything is becoming software defined. No matter what business you are in, your entire existence depends on software technology. In fact unless you are running your company under a rock, by now you have become a software company. BMW, Comcast, AT&T, Uber, Airbnb, Target, Walmart, Netflix…pick your brand name, they are all software companies.
John Donovan, Chief Strategy Officer and Group President, Technology and Operations at AT&T once said, "I am inching closer and closer to explaining our software transformation in the past tense and telling you that AT&T has become a software company."
The bottom line is, digital transformation is transforming every company into a software company. This transformation is creating new opportunities and new challenges. One of the greatest opportunity and challenge is talent pool. There are just not enough people to meet the growing demand of software professionals. There are survey after survey, report after report that point at the growing gap between the supply and demand of developers to keep up with digital transformation.
In the beginning of November, Cloud Foundry Foundation came up with a report/survey that points at the worrying situation.
There is a looming shortage of developers driven by non-tech companies' need for developers. A majority (64%) of companies see the gap and is starting to feel its impact. As companies start their cloud journeys, including the use of more cloud-native architectures, broader use of containers and multi-cloud environments, they will feel the shortage more acutely. Most respondents (57%) state that this shortage has already impacted their ability to hire skilled people.
Traditionally, non-tech companies relied on outsourcing their IT needs to cut costs. At the same time, being a non-tech company, they kept themselves at a distance from investing in technology other than basic infrastructure; outsourcing was cheap.
That approach is coming back to bite them.
Sam Ramji, CEO of Cloud Foundry Foundation told CIO in an interview, "You know what's more expensive than hiring good developers? Losing to your competition. Banks are challenged by the rise of the fintechs. Industrial companies across the board are seeing losses in market share and profitability,"
Smart companies know this and they are putting their money where their mouths are; they are investing heavily in technology. "Nike made a big move to shift their marketing spending from Advertising to Digital Experience in 2012-2013. Rather than spending $1.2B on ads, they put that money into technology: developers and platforms who built digital experiences for their customers. Nike+ was attributed to driving revenue up 60%, profits up 57%, and doubled the company's market cap," said Ramji.
Whether you are a giant like Nike with over $32.4 billion in annual revenues, or you are a small company, you can't afford not to invest in people. "With the speed that customer expectations for technology is moving, NOT investing in people has become the cost enterprises can no longer bear," said Ramji.
Immediate solution?
Ok, we get it that companies do need to invest in people, but these surveys and reports have made it abundantly clear that there is a shortage of people, so where are these companies going to find talent? Are there any short-term, immediate solutions?
"There is no immediate solution," said Ramji, "The long term solution is simple: training. Current and future developers have time to skill-up on the methodologies and approaches businesses are implementing to be ready. That said, the time to act is now. Cloud Foundry is planning to help meet this gap through training and performance-based certification."
I talked to some companies about the talent crisis and their answer is managed services and operations. They said that you don't have to hire new people, you can simply use their managed services. Does that really solve the problem? I still see a kind of 'out-sourcing'. And you still need 'people' to manage those services.
"Even if a company is using a managed service to address its business needs, there are developers building on that service," said Ramji. "The outsourcing you refer to is really outsourcing operators and operations. The problems we've identified in this study remain, it becomes less a matter of if the demand for cloud skills exist, and more about where they exist."
Long term solutions and cultural shift in education
There are no magic pills, there are no shortcuts to this challenge, companies need to develop in-house talent; you can't be a software technology company without a team of software developers. Organizations like the Linux Foundation and Cloud Foundry are offering courses to address these crises. But that's not enough, the problem is much bigger. We need fundamental change at education level. The good news is it's already happening, there are efforts like the Holberton School that's taking a more practical and realistic approach towards education.
Ramji agrees that education will need to shift. He said, "That is starting to happen. Recently Pivotal teamed up with Carnegie Mellon to offer a "Cloud Computing for Business" course to graduate students. In addition to the materials we've already released, we also have a lot in the works for 2017 to help solve this problem. Universities are generally not focused on curricula that prepare students for real-world work; we need to team up across open source projects and focus on delivering the raw materials for these classes to universities and professors around the world."
Legacy vs. cloud native
While growing the in-house talent pool, one challenge that companies face is the fleet of developers that have been with the company for decades. I have talked to my friends at such companies and they said that there are people who had been with the company for decades working on legacy systems, and they have no desire or incentive to learn completely new technologies.
Ramji said, "Developers tend to be bright, curious, and constantly seeking new knowledge. We see little evidence that developers don't want to learn how to build cloud-native applications. Developers are some of the most important people in the enterprise today. Part of what this means is those developers who are working on legacy systems may need to learn some new things – but in most cases, it's an expanding pool. We aren't going to have a complete turnover of legacy systems in a day; there will be bi-modal IT in most large enterprises for many years to come. This means an expanded developer pool – some of whom will need to know what's next and some of whom can focus on legacy technologies."
The new opportunities
Where there are challenges, there are opportunities. "There has never been a better time to be a developer," said Ramji. The digital transformation is creating new job opportunities. It's a boon for economy, it's a boon for next generation and it's a boon for those organizations and institutions that are involved in education.
The wise thing to do is stop running your company on software developers on lease, build your own army of software developers, no matter how small or big that army is. Start hiring new people, start training existing employees. That's the only way to survive in the age of cloud.
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(MEBG)- The following ar excerpts from a speech delivered by Richard H. Matzke, the vice chairman of the Chevron Corporation to the Iranian Oil, Gas & Petrochemicals Forum, London, U.K , on July 12.
Today, we're experiencing a period of high oil prices, prices which have invited close scrutiny of the role of Opec and its influence on global economic growth. Many economists are saying that the high prices could have an adverse impact on the economies of major consuming nations and quite possibly slow down global economic growth, if they're allowed to linger too much longer. Sustained high prices could ultimately have an effect on the movement of global capital as well.
Investment capital began to flee the Middle East, other Opec nations, and land in places like the North Sea. Today, there's a perception that high-energy prices are directly related to Opec's current production levels. However… Opec members, with the exception of Saudi Arabia, are now producing at maximum capacity or close to it.
Unfortunately, in the United States, high-energy prices have provided a convenient political platform for certain constituencies to point a finger at Opec and energy companies in general. At the same time, however, multinational oil companies and Opec countries, especially those in the Middle East, are perceived as responsible for driving the global economy.
Beating a path to the Middle East
Undoubtedly, the Middle East represents the heartbeat of the oil industry. And its significance will only grow with time. Two-thirds of the world's proved oil reserves and one-third of its proved gas reserves lie in the Middle East (also it offers a huge potential for significant oil and gas discoveries in the future,) And those are just the known reserves.
There's no doubt that these huge reserves are the main attraction, but there are other reasons why multinational oil companies are, once again, beating a path to the Middle East. The Middle East has many assets that support the development of its energy resources. First of all, there's existing infrastructure in all segments of the petroleum industry.Middle Eastern countries have a pool of available talent and a young work force. Its close proximity to markets in Europe and the Far East helps reduce transportation costs. And finally, Middle East oil and gas projects are characterized by low development and operating costs. Despite that, however, large, up-front capital requirements will still be necessary to bring those projects on-stream.
The role of multinationals:
Investment capital is just one area where multinational companies can play a role. Another is offering worldwide experience in the petroleum industry that's second to none.
Since the 1970s, the worldwide petroleum industry has gone through many oil price cycles, and Opec vs. non-Opec market-share fluctuations. The primary cause for these fluctuations, in Chevron's mind, is the closed economies of the Middle East, closed economies that drive private investment toward non-Opec oil developments.
Swing production by closed countries has also helped to increase non-Opec investment, which, in effect, subsidizes non-Opec market-share gain. Because of that, Opec's market share has dropped from about 53 percent in the early 70s, to about 39 percent in recent years.
The global market is not exploiting the low-cost, large reserves first, because the market has not been allowed to operate freely in the closed economies of the Middle East, where those low-cost, large reserves exist.
The most effective way for the countries of the Middle East to reclaim their global position is to allow free-market forces to attract private investment to Opec countries, and to Opec countries in the Middle East, in particular.
The future of the oil industry will be determined by where the capital flows, because multinational oil companies will only invest where they're allowed to invest and where they're permitted to make reasonable returns on their investment.
Politics & oil
Today, the nations of the Middle East face the challenge of exploiting their energy resources by the most efficient and cost-effective means possible, so they can develop diversified economies that will reap the greatest benefits from the global economy.
Unfortunately, politics often gets in the way of their meeting that challenge. Oil and politics often go together, particularly in the Middle East. The 1973 oil embargo and economic sanctions are just two examples of how oil and politics are linked.
Because of that linkage, the relationship between the multinational oil companies and the national oil companies has gone through many phases over the years, from close association to isolation.
Today, Middle Eastern countries face two key challenges: First, the closed economies of the Middle East must be opened up to the benefit of both the national and the multinational oil companies. Second, unilateral economic sanctions must be lifted.
During and after the oil embargo in the early '70s, the Middle East went through a period of nationalization; nationalization was viewed by many as the perfect vehicle to gain power, respect, and influence.
Unfortunately, with the departure of the private sector, went the unmatched ability of free markets to create healthy competition, so essential in today's global economy.
Many governments have come to this realization, especially Iran's. Iran was one of the first countries to open all segments of its petroleum industry to foreign companies. - However we must add that this openness so hailed by Mr. Matzke is being debated healthy in Iran - In order to build on the progress towards privatization and partnerships, national and multinational oil companies both have key responsibilities. Both should strive to achieve fair and transparent deals in accordance with established global industry standards, deals based on win-win principles capable of passing the public bulletin board test in the host country.
Companies should first: respect the history and culture of their host countries. Second: they should offer exceptional service as efficient long-term partners. Third: they should act as responsible corporate citizens by protecting the environment, creating local jobs, maximizing local content by supporting local companies, and by training and developing local manpower resources.
Countries, for their part, should first: accept the fact, as many have, that inviting foreign investment is in no way a negative reflection on their own capabilities. It's simply good business practice that creates jobs and prosperity. In fact, many Middle Eastern companies have major investments in all segments of the petroleum industry, in both the United States and in Europe. While this is certainly true, nobody disputes the fact that the U.S. and European countries are fully capable of running their own petroleum industries. Second, countries also need to offer attractive fiscal terms, so companies can achieve a reasonable risk/reward balance, recognizing that they're in the business to create value and provide reasonable returns for their shareholders. Squeezing profit margins drive companies away and discourage innovation and long-term partnerships.
The goal should be to create an environment where companies deploy their brightest and best talent through the right mix of incentives.
The role of U.S foreign policy
The other problem facing the region in general, and Iran in particular, is unilateral sanctions imposed by the U.S. government.
Unfortunately, unilateral sanctions are generally ineffective in accomplishing their stated goals. Chevron thinks that that engagement is by far the better alternative at resolving differences among nations. The company maintains that sanctions are harmful to the U.S. business and U.S. workers, by keeping them from doing business in markets that are open to our foreign competitors.
Iran's call for a "dialogue of civilizations" is the preferred means for resolving differences.
Unlike its relations with most other countries, such as China, U.S. policy towards Iran has been rooted in the assumption that commerce should follow diplomacy. Chevron, based on its experience and understanding of the socio-economic challenges facing the Middle East, believes that commerce should come before diplomacy, especially when diplomacy seems to have hit a brick wall.
Commerce has the potential to build a foundation of trust, and a network of interdependent relationships that can increase the probability of dissolving diplomatic impasses.
During her announcement, Secretary Albright called for a "new season where mutual trust can grow between the U.S. and Iran." There are a couple of things we could do to move that "new season" along a little faster.
First, allow U.S.-based energy companies to negotiate executor contracts in Iran and to expend $20 million annually on Iranian energy projects, as permitted to our global competitors under current U.S. law (ILSA).
Second, eliminate unilateral U.S. sanctions prohibiting energy investments in Iran.
Iran is a pivotal country in the Middle East, by virtue of its geography, its demographics and its resources, and because it provides a critical link between the Persian Gulf and the Caspian Sea.
U.S. companies could also provide Iran with access to a wider range of technological and financial resources. After all, the roots of the oil business lie in the United States where much of the technology and core competencies reside.
Finally, other U.S. industries like telecommunications, computers, and aviation would likely follow, stimulating Iran's economy still further and creating more jobs.
Of course, it's true that Iran can grow its production without the help of U.S. companies. However, without U.S. companies in the competitive mix, Iran can't take full advantage of the worldwide competitive marketplace to access capital and the latest technology, and ultimately increase the employment and prosperity of its citizens.
The world needs oil from multiple sources. Demand is expected to grow to 90 million barrels a day by 2010, which means our industry is running uphill against our own decline curves. That's why Iran will be a significant player in providing energy for the future.
Historically, partnerships between nations and private enterprise have also helped resolve political differences.
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