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Who's inspiring whom? The internet has brought the world to our fingertips like never before.
Images that we've never had access to, or could only see on TV or read in the news irregularly and without our control, are now in cyberspace. All awaiting our discovery… that is if you know where to look.
Having the world so much closer, and on our screens, also means that we can see how more similar we all are. How we see our own immediate environments and how that inspires us. Including how businesses and organizations communicate their message through their identity.
That probably explains the striking resemblance between the logo and corporate identity design of the above diverse companies, from different countries and industries.
Defunct US car brand, Saturn (a GM Subsidiary); Bluestone Software (now part of HP), US; Dunham & Associates, Wealth Management Services, San Diego; and its subsidiary, Dunham Trust Co.; Pearson Toronto International Airport (the old logo, before the current revamped logo & corporate identity); Boston Museum of Science, MA, USA; ACATS, Oracle Database Solutions, Belgium; Wachovia Bank (which is now part of Wells Fargo Banking Group), USA; Talent Circles, Web-based Talent Recruitment Platform, USA; APE Capital, NYC, USA; World Snooker Sporting Organization, USA; Casa Travel, Travel Agency Specialist for Airtickets to Mexico, Latin America, The Caribbean, and Europe; Atlas Insurance, Sarasota, FL, USA; BaNorte Banco Comercial [a now defunct bank which was taken over by the government in 2010], Caracas, Venezuela; 7th Conference of Ministers for Saptial Planning and Development, Vilnius, Lithuania, 2009; Kenmore Appliances, USA.
All brought together by a similar vocabulary of design language!
Logos are, after all the primary visual identity that the outside world sees. The internet has enabled us to see the similarities in corporate identity from distant shores, representing organizations that are vastly different and yet have somehow been inspired by the same idea.
And although two logos may be close to identical, the message they emit is not the same. For its the meaning that customers attach to them according to their culture that gives them the value.
In other words, a logo is a sign or symbol that carries a meaning. "People can only value things that have a meaning. And because everything has a meaning, therefore, it has a value!" Or in other words: "People value more what things mean than what things are!"
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Casino Engine: Choosing the Solid Backbone to Your Business
1. Casino Engine Options for Gambling Clubs From the Best Providers
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1.2. Everymatrix
1.3. CasExe
1.4. SoftSwiss
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The professional team of Online Casino Market shall provide you with the necessary support and development. Quality online сasino engine, software, systems, licenses, traffic and many more from the leading providers of the world is what this company has to offer. Online Casino Market will be your honest and steady assistant on the way to creating a profitable gambling establishment.
What we recommend to focus on in particular is the casino engine or, as you may call it, online casino platform. The casino engine hosts all the online gambling software and provides game and finance management, thus, defining the safety, reliability and quality of the gaming products your clients shall deal with. Fair enough you would want the foundation of this whole affair to be firm and sound.
Stick to the qualified and reputable company, which Online Casino Market has proven to be. The casino engine list on the Online Casino Market website features only the topmost propositions.
Casino Engine Options for Gambling Clubs From the Best Providers
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A Break in the Timeline?
Much is made of the timeline in the Bible. Some say it is no more than 6,000 years. Others say it covers billions of years. Still others (like myself) are interested in the subject but suspect we will never know the answer.
For the literalist the timeline of the Bible is based on the Genealogies that are stated within the Bible itself. All of the generations from Adam to know historical figures are calculated giving a rough date around 6,ooo years,
I have no doubt there are many arguments that chip away at the genealogical method, the only one that I am familiar with is the notion that not all individuals in a family line are included. The idea here is that unimportant or uninteresting people weren't necessarily included. This would extend the timeline, but not so much as to harmonize the differing views.
One timeline issue that jumped out at me is the gap between Genesis 2 and Genesis 3. At the end of Genesis 2 we have the end of the creation account, so essentially the end of Day 7. Genesis 3 opens with the the serpent tempting Eve and continues with the Fall of Man.
The Fall of Man introduces death into the world. So before the The Fall there was no death. Now I suspect that The Fall didn't occur on Day 8. So how much time passed from Day 8 to The Fall? There was no death...so Adam and Eve could have existed in the Garden of Eden for any amount of time.
I don't know if this is relevant. I can't imagine how it would tie into anything, but I find it fascinating none the less.
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I believe that no matter what worldview we espouse we should understand what we believe any why. I hope to show others that the Christian worldview is not only accurate but true. If not, I hope they will be clear on why they reject it.
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In today's business environment, the role of software continues to grow as companies look to establish enduring success in a digital era when customers, staff and stakeholders demands on technology increase exponentially.
A software system that is misaligned to your business needs can create headaches and – even worse – missed opportunities. Throughout your search for the right software solution you'll encounter a number of industry buzzwords, different types of software, varying architectural styles, developers touting a wide range of skillsets, and many other topics native to any discussion about software solutions.
This is your definitive 'Guide to Custom Software Development'. Making sense of the glut of information out there, cutting through the sales speak and technical jargon that often dangles but doesn't deliver the software solution you need.
What is custom software, exactly? When is a custom solution the best software option for a business? What are the risks and benefits associated with custom software?
This eBook provides the answers and more, in an effort to assist you during your software decision.
Key Takeaways
- Determine if it's an appropriate time to look for a new software solution.
- Know when a custom or boxed solution best aligns with your scenario.
- Identify 10 benefits that custom software can provide.
- Weigh the challenges and benefits of outsourcing vs. an in-house team.
- Know what risks are common when developing custom software.
- Employ strategies to reduce custom software risk in your project.


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Using Summary Fields To Better Understand Your Donors
Having a system that helps organizations understand their donors is critical to maximizing the potential of their contributors. When a donor makes a contribution, a significant amount of data is recorded in CiviCRM. Much more than just the date and amount of the contribution.
"Summary Fields" helps us uncover this additional data.
Summary Fields is a CiviCRM community extension. It runs as a scheduled task to gather, calculate and summarize data from other data entered into your CiviCRM as contributions, membership or event participation. In this blog post, we are just going to look at contributions. Summary Fields make it easier to search for major donors, recent donors, lapsed donors as well as to show a synopsis of a donor's history.
Once you have the Summary Fields extension installed, you will find a tab on contact records that shows many fields and their calculations. The image on the left shows examples of the some of the fields that are available (click the image on the to expand it).
The fields that are part of the Summary Fields extension are implemented as custom fields in CiviCRM. This means that we can use these fields in searches and reports.
For example, we can search for any individual that made total contributions greater than $500 in the prior year or fond out when he made the last donation. We could also use this criteria to filter a report.
To use the Summary Fields in a search, expand the Custom Fields field set in Advanced Search. Scroll down to the Summary Fields field set and enter the values you want to search for.
To use the fields to filter a report, click on the Filters tab in the report and scroll down the Summary Fields section and expand the field set. From here you can enter the filter criteria. If you want to see the fields in the report, click on the Columns tab and expand the Summary Fields field set. You can click on the checkbox for the fields you want to include in the report.
Many of our customers at Cividesk are using this extension. We find it very helpful for expanding the reporting functionality of CiviCRM and getting data that help our customers reach and exceed their fundraising goals.


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The Islamic State (Isis) executed civilians in western Mosul who were trying to flee to the liberated eastern side of the city, where formerly displaced citizens continue to return.
An Iraqi army official told Turkish state-run news agency Anadolu that 20 people were killed by Isis militants, who still control the part west of the Tigris river in Iraq's second largest city. "The men were immediately executed by Daesh militants, while women and children were taken hostage," Brigadier-General Kazim al-Maksusi said, referring to the terror group by its Arabic acronym.
The brigadier-general also said that 55 people were able to flee to the other side of the river, controlled by the Iraqi forces.
In January, the army proclaimed the "total liberation" of the eastern side of the city. The Iraqi forces is supported by a US-led coalition of western countries, Shia militias and Kurdish Peshmerga forces in its offensive to retake the city, launched more than four months ago.
Mosul fell under Isis control in 2014. the group's leader Abu Bakr al-Baghdadi declared the city "the crown jewel" of their so-called caliphate as it was the biggest one under their control.
Despite the liberation of the eastern side of the city, around 750,000 remain at risk, living under Isis control on the bank of the river. The UN fears that around of a third of them could be displaced by the conflict as the fighting moves to the densely-populated western Mosul and fears for the lives of those who remain, as nearly half of the casualties in the conflict so far have been civilians.
According to the UN Refugee Agency, as many as 190,000 people fled the city since the army offensive began on 17 October, but around 30,000 have now returned. An increasing amount of returnees are crowding the checkpoints at the border with the Kurdish territories.
The security forces are reportedly struggling to process all the requests, overwhelmed by the thousands of civilians hoping to return home as well as, hundreds of other people who are transporting aid and commercial goods into recently retaken territory.
Norman Mohammed, who fled the city three years ago, waited a whole day at the checkpoint in vain, as he was turned back by Kurdish security forces. "We want to see our families and they are useless. I went back to Irbil and I came back today, early morning," he told The Associated Press on 7 February. After waiting the whole day for a second time, the man was again sent back to Irbil.


text: LJYO presents "In the Spotlight" concert. Our second concert of the season is a glamorous presentation of individual achievement. Each fall, LJYO members are provided the opportunity to audition for one of these coveted solo performance opportunities, and we are always amazed by the talent and calibre of our musicians. Returning this year are the area's youngest string players, from the private studios of LJYO Director of Strings Laurie Mitchell, and Northumberland resident private music instructor Debra Henderson. We look forward to welcoming these students every year, as for many it is their first opportunity to perform in a large orchestra setting. Admission to this event is $25, Youth is $15 and children under 12 attend free, with tickets available on tickets page, and at the door.


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5th Anti-Money Laundering Directive (Amendments to the 4th Anti-Money Laundering Directive)
The 5th Anti-Money Laundering Directive, which amends the 4th Anti-Money Laundering Directive was published in the Official Journal of the European Union on 19 June 2018. The Member States should have been transposed this Directive by 10 January 2020.
These amendments introduce substantial improvement to better equip the Union to prevent the financial system from being used for money laundering and for funding terrorist activities.
These amendments will:
– enhance transparency by setting up publicly available registers for companies, trusts and other legal arrangements;
– enhance the powers of EU Financial Intelligence Units, and provide them with access to broad information for the carrying out of their tasks;
– limit the anonymity related to virtual currencies and wallet providers, but also for pre-paid cards;
– broaden the criteria for the assessment of high-risk third countries and improve the safeguards for financial transactions to and from such countries;
– set up central bank account registries or retrieval systems in all Member States;
– improve the cooperation and enhance of information between anti-money laundering supervisors between them and between them and prudential supervisors and the European Central Bank.
Here you can find the factsheet on the main changes of the 5th Anti-Money Laundering Directive


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I supppose the main questions are, should you speculate on the value of BitCoin going up? Or even down? Will BitCoin become the benchmark currency in the future, or is it a flash in the pan and regular currencies will reassert themselves? Those are interesting questions, but they're more to do with trading than betting and thus outside my area of expertise.
In terms of betting the way I've decided to look at it is that BitCoin is already a gamble. The value of a BitCoin goes up and down so much that any investment is fraught with danger. Taking that into account, why would you use it to bet with as well? It's a gamble on a gamble. It's like buying shares in an internet startup and then wagering them on a horse........at long odds.
If you're into matched betting the idea is that you minimise your risk and are taking small (ish, they do add up!) profits consistantly. You might think that takes some of the fun out of gambling, and maybe it does, but losing is never fun. Using BitCoin as a deposit method is like anit-matchedbetting. It's putting an unecessary risk on one side of your equation.
I've written up some more on the subject of BitCoin betting and linked to some other useful information on the subject. But really, just don't do it!


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S01E04 - Bear In The Air (Seraphina Madsen, Thom Hammersley, Laura Simms-Luddington)
August 29, 2016
Hey Fat Roland is a podcast about meeting people by me, Fat Roland. In this fourth scandalous episode, I chat with Dodo Ink author Seraphina Madsen who is seventeen levels of cool. I also meet proper singers in proper bands: Rocketship Forest's Thom Hammersley and Monkeys In Love's Laura Simms-Luddington (pictured). One of these three refuses to answer a question and I go all Paxman on them. Producer Lee and I talk comedy and glidding. What-ing?! Listen and find out. Do rate, review and subscribe!


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Huawei Mate 20 Review
You must have read a lot of reviews already about the Huawei Mate 20.
So this won't be too long. We will share some stuff that we liked and we did not like about this smartphone with a price tag of P40,990.
After more than a week of actual usage, taking it to our regular events coverages snapped several photos and took a few videos, we are now ready
Here's what's inside the box of the Mate 20.
Huawei Mate 20 Specs
|Huawei Mate 20
|6.53-inch 3D curved OLED display, FHD+ 2244 x 1080 resolution, 381 ppi, 86.90% screen-to-body ratio
|58.2 x 77.2 x 8.3 mm
|188 g
|Android 9.0 Pie with EMUI 9
|2.6GHz 64-bit Kirin 980 octa-core processor w/ Dual-NPU and i7 co-processor
|Mali-G72 MP12
|4GB/6GB LPDDR4x
|128GB/256GB expandable via nanoSD card slot up to 256GB
|16MP f/2.2 ultra wide-angle + 12MP f/1.8 wide-angle + 8MP f/2.4 2x telephoto triple Leica cameras
|24MP 3D RGB + IR front camera
|Dual SIM, dual stand-by, supports LTE connectivity
|Bluetooth 5.0
|WiFi 802.11 a/b/g/n/ac
|GPS with A-GPS, GLONASS, BDS
|USB Type-C
|3D Facial Recognition, Fingerprint Scanner, Accelerometer, Gyro, Proximity, Barometer, Compass
|Battery: 4000mAh Li-Po, non-removable, with SuperChage
|Emerald Green, Midnight Blue, Classic Black, Pink Gold, Twilight
Huawei Mate 20 Design and Build Quality
The device has a glossy glass finish with a really thin bezel on the front, which is complemented by a dew drop notch where the front camera is located.
There is also a one-button volume rocker while the red-textured power button. All these are located on the right side. The opposite side has a hybrid nano-SIM tray.
Huawei Mate 20 Display and Media
The Mate 20 has a super clear display having a 6.53-inch 3D curved OLED display, FHD+ 2244 x 1080 resolution, 381 ppi, and an 86.90% screen-to-body ratio.
The bezel is really thin which is really nice for media consumption.
Huawei Mate 20 Software, UI & Apps
Out of the box the Huawei Mate 20 ships with Android 9.0 Pie with EMUI 9. Sounds really nice since it is the latest OS from Android.
But wait until you used it as your daily driver.
Firstly, the Huawei Mate 20 comes with a lot of pre-loaded apps which you don't really need. You can uninstall them without a problem. Also, there is no issue with the store since it comes with a really large one.
The HiBoard is kind of problematic. I've read in forums that it became coma after several updates. Others reported being working after the recent updates. As for our review unit, we just have to disable it. (Settings, Home Screen& wallpaper, Home screen settings).
Huawei Mate 20 Performance
In this department, the phone is really reliable and can deliver a really impressive performance. That's because the phone is armed with 2.6GHz 64-bit Kirin 980 octa-core processor w/ Dual-NPU and i7 co-processor, plus there's a 6GB RAM onboard.
Huawei Mate 20 Camera Review
There is where the Mate 20 may be unsuccessful. The cameras did not deliver well. The video recording in low-light areas is really dark, so as the photos.
But the close-up shots are really good. Here's one of them:
The wide lens on a night shot also got a spectacular result.
The selfie camera is good when the lighting is on its favor.
For the price of P40k, Huawei Mate 20 camera needs real improvement. I hope that it can be done thru a firmware update.
The fingerprint scanner at the back works perfectly, but its a totally different story on the face unlock feature. The Mate 20 face unlock feature needs some polishing. Out of 10 tries, we only registered at least five successful unlocking. Better turn it off and use the fingerprint scanner.
If I have a budget of P40,000 I'd look for another smartphone to buy. That's because I use the camera a lot in my work: I take photos and record videos.
But for its overall performance, design, and looks, the Mate 20 wins.


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James Wan is returning to his indie horror roots with his next movie, before he directs a sequel to Aquaman, which pulled in NZ$1.8 billion internationally.
The Saw filmmaker suggests his next film will be very bloody and made with practical gore effects rather than computer-generated imagery (CGI).
- Aquaman is a box office monster, thanks to female fans
- James Wan isn't a fan of the Saw sequels
- Watch: Terrifying IT Chapter 2 trailer released
Wan's next project was reported on by Variety before he confirmed the news in a since-deleted Facebook post.
"There's been a bit of speculation as to what my next project is… all I'll say is, I'm super excited to go back to my indie roots with this hard-R thriller," the post said, according to Bloody Disgusting.
"An original horror idea (not a reboot/remake or anything based on existing IP) with old school, practical effects and no giant, blue screen sets."
He's reportedly working on the film with Ingrid Bisu, star of The Nun.
Wan, whose last horror film was 2016's The Conjuring 2, is also producing an upcoming Mortal Kombat movie.


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If you are currently conducting research using government-provided statistics, reports, articles, images, or other information, you might hit some roadblocks due to the U.S. Government shutdown. Effective Oct. 1, many of the government websites and databases we take for granted are now unavailable or available in a more limited way. This could impact your research, as well as the research of faculty and students across the country. Here's a short list of some government-based databases and websites affected by the shutdown.
Government websites unavailable:
- ERIC — The Library has four different interfaces for this important educational database supported through the federal government. The interfaces through OCLC, EbscoHOST, and Proquest will provide article searching to find citations. However, full text is unavailable from the actual ERIC.gov site, and the direct interface at the ERIC website is completely offline at the time of this post. We have selected older ERIC documents available on microfiche, and some will be available in other publications at Tech Library by selecting the "Linksource" icon in the citation. The friendly librarians at the Reference Desk will also be able to assist you in finding these resources from other sources, and Interlibrary Loan can also help provide you with documents during the shutdown.
- Census.gov — Census websites are now closed, and all services associated with them. This includes American Fact Finder, Federal Statistics, and other government statistical websites.
- Bureau of Economic Analysis
- Business.gov
- CDC Wonder — a comprehensive on-line public health information system of the Centers for Disease Control and Prevention
- Data.gov
- Disability.gov
- FCC (Federal Communications Commission)
- FTC (Federal Trade Commission)
- National Center for Education Statistics
- National Parks Service
- USDA (United States Department of Agriculture)
- United States Copyright Office
Government websites with limited functionality or limited updates
- AHRQ (Agency for Healthcare Research & Qaulity)
- Bureau of Labor Statistics
- CDC (Centers for Disease Control), including National Center for Health Statistics
- HUD (U.S. Department of Housing and Urban Development)
- National Archives
- NIH (National Institutes of Health)
- NOAA (National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration)
- Pubmed
- United States Forest Service
- USGS (United State Geological Survey)
Government websites with full functionality:
- THOMAS — This government website contains a fully searchable database of congressional bills and legislation. The site continues to be updated as events in Congress unfold.
- Statistical Abstracts of the United States (via Proquest)–A comprehensive summary of statistics on the social, political, and economic organization of the United States.
- HealthCare.gov–This site features information for the new national health insurance program provided by Affordable Healthcare Act. The first day to sign up for the service was October 1st, and while there have been reports of glitches and crashes, the site appears to be functioning…for the moment.
- All websites and information necessary to protect lives and property.
- Most of the direct-links to government documents as found in our online catalog.
Some Arkansas-related websites and places affected by the shutdown include all of the national parks within the state, the Clinton presidential library, and other nationally funded museums and historic sites.
For more information about the government shutdown, visit the USA.gov site which describes in more detail the ramifications of the government shutdown on national services and agencies.
As the list grows or shrinks, we'll keep updating this post as we are informed. If you have problems locating information, contact the librarians here at Ross Pendergraft Library at email@example.com, and we'll help you find the work-arounds to the shutdown.


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Michelle Nordeen's Tattoo Portfolio
Michelle has been tattooing since 2010. She was trained with a formal apprenticeship in a professional studio as both a tattoo artist and body piercer.
Michelle has been published in Skin & Ink Magazine and sells her art prints at the studio.
Her style includes bold line work with vibrant colors.
When she's not tattooing, you'll find her drawing, painting, sewing, jewelry making and hiking.
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A hacker, known as Phineas Fisher, has published more than 2TB of data from the Cayman National Bank. This includes more than 640,000 emails and the data of more than 1400 customers. Phineas Fisher also calls on other hackers to hack banks and oil companies.
Phineas Fisher has made the archive publicly available, Motherboard writes. The archive include more than 640,000 emails along with the data of more than 1400 customers of the bank. An internal document from the bank with information about the hack has also been shared.
According to the hacker, theses documents are "The most detailed view of international banks that the public will ever have access to". Furthermore, Phineas Fisher accuses the bank of money laundering, "organised by Russian oligarchy, among others."
"I think hacking become more powerful, and hacktivism has only been used to a fraction of its potential," Phineas Fisher told also Motherboard "A little investment can help to develop that, the golden years [of hacktivism] are coming soon."
A quick overview on @DDoSecrets Twitter account and you can find the link to download a copy of this archive were you will see that half of the customers come from or are registered on the Isle of Man. The file also contains the complete address details of the customers, the balance of 3800 accounts and the information about the owners.
Massive Hack Strikes Offshore Cayman National Bank and Trust. https://t.co/ClhcgrkZeQ— Unicorn Riot (@UR_Ninja) November 17, 2019
Late last night, more than two terabytes of data hacked from a secretive offshore bank got released by transparency collective @DDoSecrets - handed off by hacker "Phineas Fisher".
Phineas Fisher added a file called ["hackback"] to the archive. It is a Spanish-language manifesto that also look like a 'do-it-yourself guide for robbing banks'. In the document, the hacker explains, among other things, how and why he hacked the bank.
Phineas Fisher claims to have 'stolen a few hundred thousand dollars'. The hacker also makes some activist statements such as : "Follow your conscience, not the law." In this document, Phineas Fisher makes a call to hackers to hack banks and oil companies. With this, the hacker hopes that more secret documents will become publicly available. Basically, Phineas Fisher is not clearly talking about money but he is offering a bounty of USD100,000 to hackers who successfully obtain and publish secret documents from banks or oil companies.
Phineas Fisher does not want to say exactly how much he made and how he did. But it's seems that he made 'a few tens of thousands of euros' from his work. The bounties promised by the hacker would be paid with the stolen money from the Cayman National Bank and converted in in crypto currency like Monero to secure the anonymity of the transaction.
Phineas Fisher is a notorious hacktivist, who was mainly discredited by the hack of the Italian company Hacking Team, which he or she carried out in 2015. At the time, Phineas Fisher released more than 400GB of data, including spyware source code used by governments.
The identity of Phineas Fisher is still unknown, earlier this year the Italian government admitted that they have unclear drawing about who performed this attack and leaked legal documents. The hacker indicates that he has adapted his method for this attack, so that he cannot be identified by his technique. The story starts with a description of the method and general tips are given, such as encrypting hard disks as a security measure.
The hacker also discusses his infrastructure, which consists of both stable and hacked servers. He also uses domain names to have a establish tunnel from the hacked network to command and control servers. To collect information about the target, the hacker praises the versatility of Google in combination with a number of specific search terms.
After Phineas Fisher had collected enough information, he started to penetrate the Hacking Team network. He chose not to use spear phishing because the Italian company itself often used this technique of targeted phishing attacks. He also considered buying a path from Russian parties, who would have access to the top 500 of the most rich companies but Hacking Team, however, was too small for using this approach. He was left with no other option then search for unknown vulnerabilities, or zero days, in the systems that were present Hacking Team's servers, including the content management system Joomla and the e-mail software Postfix.
Ultimately, he chose to look for such vulnerabilities in embedded devices that perform a certain function, such as a router. After two weeks he had found a leak that enabled him to remotely execute code on the device through RCE. Now that he had access, he was able to explore the rest of the Hacking Team network.
After this, he was able to download the company's e-mail and files, which he made them publicly accessible in 2015 via a torrent file. In total, the hack would have cost him around a hundred hours. The global financial elite are oppressors, not victims [...] Hacking that elite and returning the tiniest fraction of the wealth that they've stolen doesn't make them victims, It is cybercrime. It's also activism. It's motivated by a desire for social change, I'm not personally profiting or benefiting from it.


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Last week when I wrote about Jannie Lo's piano recital on Examiner.com, I discovered how little I knew about the piano music of Dmitri Shostakovich. Lo had concluded her recital with the last (D minor) of his Opus 87 prelude-and-fugue couplings; and, to my chagrin, I discovered that the only piano music I really knew came from the William Kapell recordings of a few of the Opus 34 preludes. Since those preludes were composed in 1932 and 1933, while Opus 87 was composed in 1950 and 1951, they did not make for particularly good preparatory listening.
Fortunately, I can thank Wikipedia for helping me to broaden my listening experience. Opus 87 has its own Wikipedia entry, which, while being up-front about needing a lot more work, is already endowed with some valuable hyperlinks. One is the earsense Web site, which offers rather thorough analytic material, including an index of the fugue subjects. However, for listening experience (particularly in this time of economic hardship), nothing can beat the free downloads of the complete set of preludes and fugues, recorded from a recital given by Denis Plutalov at Watson Hall of the North Carolina School of the Arts on May 23, 2005. I have only made it through the first 21 of the prelude/fugue pairs; but I have found them all to be capable (even if the volume is a bit low). Each pair has its own mp3 file, except for number 23 (F major), where the prelude and fugue have separate files. I had not previously heard of Plutalov, but I found many of the recorded performances he has made available to be fascinating. Among other selections, I plan to listen to his performance of Ferruccio Busoni's transcription of "Siegfried's Funeral March" from Richard Wagner's Götterdämmerung. First, however, I need to bring my head into greater familiarity with late Shostakovich!


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Winter Meetings: Day 1
A smattering of minor deals took place as the Major League Baseball Winter Meetings got underway in Nashville, TN on Monday. Clubs have begun the process of assessing needs and floating names around in the veritable think-tank that is the Opryland Hotel.
Everyone is talking about Johan Santana, who has generated a not-so-quiet interest among the mainstream coverage. Rumor has the Red Sox stepping up an offer that would include both Jacoby Ellsbury and Jon Lester, while the Yankees have set an expiration date on their offer of Melky Cabrera, Philip Hughes and another minor leaguer as yet unnamed. Most experts and executives seem to feel Santana will moved during the meetings. Don't count out the Los Angeles Dodgers as a dark horse candidate to take home the flame-throwing lefty.
The Braves have been quietly going about their business on Monday. No major moves are projected but an inside source confirmed the team does "have a couple of irons in the fire." Nothing too heavy just pieces that could help round out the club in 2008.
If Washington is particularly interested in Andruw Jones, they have yet to make a formal offer as of Monday afternoon. In fact, the Nationals have been dealing for younger and less expensive outfielder over the past few days. Lastings Milledge joined the club last week and the Nats added troubled Tampa Bay outfielder Elijah Dukes for a player-to-be-named Monday afternoon. Dukes seems to be excited about a fresh start and Washington must feel confident in their abilities to curb the off-field problems Duke has experienced.
Rumors have the Dodgers offering Jones a 2-year deal to become their center fielder. After Torii Hunter's contract last week, Jones's agent Scott Boras is still believed to be confident that Jones will command a five-year deal from his next employer.
Andy Pettitte surprised few by accepting his $16 million option to pitch for the Yankees next season. The value of Pettitte in the rotation certainly would be even higher should New York acquire Santana. The Yankees went into the off-season with a great deal of doubt surrounding their immediate future, but Alex Rodriguez, Jorge Posada, Mariano Rivera and now Pettitte have all chosen to return to the Bronx next season.
More later if something arises. So check back frequently,


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'90s Girls Carried These Things In Her Backpack
Nostalgia for the '90s remains at an all-time high! Even modern fashionistas like Kylie Jenner and Demi Lovato, each of which was actually born in the '90s, constantly nod and pay homage to the decade of their births with their clothing or their makeup, like flannels or matte lip liner. These 9 items were in every '90s girl's backpack, which could have been a plastic, Power Puff Girls-branded tote or shaped like a plush stuffed animal.
Personally, I yearn for the days of old, when Sassy still printed, when Britney Spears and her crop tops represented the height of fashion, when chunky-heeled platforms were a closet essential, when Delia's catalogs arrived with regularity, and when Manic Panic hair dye could give my locks colors not found in nature all the while irritating my mother.
Reminiscing about the '90s, its chokers, and its nighttime soaps like Melrose Place and Beverly Hills, 90210 makes me feel all warm and fuzzy. It also makes me want to scour eBay or Etsy to stock up on stuff from that period.
If you grew up in the '90s, chances are, you wouldn't leave your hour without any or all of these not-so-obvious items tucked safely in your backpack.
1. An Issue Of Sassy
Sassy was the edgy alternative to the other magazines all the other girls were reading. Therefore, you needed to carry your cool girl bible with you at all times and bust it out to kill time for those moments you didn't feel like writing in your butterfly-festooned journal.
2. The Latest Delia's Catalog
Online shopping apps didn't exist in the '90s, so you had to rely on the Delia's catalog, delivered by carrier pigeons, for fashion inspo. I'm kidding about the whole carrier pigeons thing.
3. A Beeper Or Pager
Before there were cell phones, there were beepers and pagers. If you couldn't get in touch with someone and it was "imperative," you messaged them with "911."
4. Sunflower Accessories
Drew Barrymore loved her some sunflower accessories. So did you. Like this barrette. It was like a garden... for your hair.
5. A Jar Of Manic Panic
Because you wanted oxblood hair to match your Doc Martens.
6. A Newsboy Cap
Brit Brit often donned a newsboy cap. So did you.
7. Victoria's Secret Vanilla Lace Body Splash
There are many varieties of the VS body splashes. Me and my friends used to spritz our clothes with the cloyingly sweet Vanilla Lace. Here's a secret: I still do that every morning. That's an actual ancient bottle of the stuff that I keep in a weekend travel bag and it still smells fine! I'm not questioning it.
8. Plastic Barrettes
The whole Riot Grrrl aesthetic, which was popular in the '90s and which was lead by Courtney Love, Kathleen Hanna, and others, relied on the mix of sexy and adult vs. rebellious and girlish. The plastic barrettes were an essential.
I hope you enjoyed this waltz down '90s backpack memory lane.
Images: Giphy (4); Sassy (1); Courtesy Brands (2); Amy Sciarretto (1)


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Angle Bay
South Pembrokeshire, Angle, SA71 5AZ
West Angle Bay is out on the western tip of the southern peninsular and if you're driving there it may feel like the journey is taking forever, but the final destination is worth it. Angle itself is a sleepy, unspoilt village. The beach is a horseshoe cove with a proper seaside feel – sand, shells, rock pools and a cafe – which makes it a popular choice for families.The beach is quite narrow at high tide, but at low water reveals a huge stretch of golden sand which is perfect for dogs. A circular coast path walk takes you to East Angle Bay (approx 3.5 miles) returning through the village – route map. This is a lovely scenic walk on a fairly easy going path with just a couple of gentle inclines.
Dog friendly all year!
Free car park above the beach – SA71 5BE


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Yet more evidence of a link between the body and mind comes in a new study of elderly people with severe depression.
Those who were assigned a 'depression coach' were far less likely to die during the five years of the study. And, inexplicably, deaths from cancer were 60 per cent lower than the group who were given standard care for depression.
The study looked at the impact of a 'depression coach', or depression care manager, on elderly people with severe depression who were registered with one of 20 practices in the USA that participated in the trial.
Overall, the death rate over the five years of the trial fell by 45 per cent among those who had a personal manager, but the most impressive improvement was in the reduction of deaths from cancer, which fell from 20.6 deaths per 1000 person years to just 8.9 deaths.
Researchers are baffled by the sudden improvement. Perhaps it's simply that the elderly had someone to talk to, and the manager gave them a reason to live.
Just a thought.
(Source: Annals of Internal Medicine, 2007; 146: 689-98).
E-news broadcast 31 May 2007 No.364


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This morning was one of the most bizarre birding trips I've taken in a while. The forecast was clear skies and low wind, a combination you need to take advantage of when it happens in South Dakota. I headed up to the Lake Thompson area in Kingsbury County, South Dakota, to shoot gulls, terns, shorebirds, herons, egrets…all the wonderful water-loving birds you find up there this time of year.
I wanted to arrive just before dawn, and given it's a 1 1/2 hour drive, I was up and on the road quite early. I knew right away something was different. Even before the sun arose, the lighting was strange. There were clearly no visible stars in the dark sky, but yet I had no doubt it was indeed cloud-free. We had a hint of this phenomena yesterday, but this morning it hit full bore…a sky full of smoke from the fires hundreds of miles away in the western US and Canada.
Not was I was expecting when I left this morning, and it certainly changed the types of photos I went after! As usual at this time of year, there were birds everywhere. However, even after sunrise, the light was so poor that it was difficult to grab any decent photos. It wasn't until about half an hour after sunrise when it started to get bright enough to shoot. It's not often you can point your expensive camera right at the sun at that time of day, and not permanently fry your sensor, but the light was so diffuse this morning I certainly could. I ended up settling down at a wetland area near Lake Thompson, trying to shoot the numerous Black Terns against the odd, but beautiful lighting. Not a situation I'm used to shooting in, but I was able to get some photos I thought were "cool".
I've been in South Dakota 25 years now, and lived at basically the same latitude down in southern Nebraska before that. Until the last few years, I just don't remember fire seasons out West being SO bad, that our air here on the eastern side of South Dakota was this affected. But last year too, on one rock-hunting trip, the air was so bad that my eyes were watering and I started wheezing a bit. Something has changed! That something most likely is due to, or at least severely exacerbated by, climate change!
Climate change is for the birds. But at least for one morning, it made for some cool photos.
Birders or photographers new to birding sometimes ask me how I get some of my bird photos. Sunday was a great example of one tool I use! It's not the camera. A LONG, expensive lens is definitely a huge asset in bird photography, but no matter what lens you're using, the challenge is to get close enough to a wild bird for a frame-filling photograph. With "only" a 400-mm lens (the lens that 99+% of my bird photos have been taken with), if means I typically have to be about 15-20 feet away from a songbird for it to fill a large portion of the image. How does one get close to a wild bird that's often skittish and shy around human beings?
Hide yourself. Often for me, that's meant using my car as a blind, but on Sunday when I was shooting shorebirds, that wasn't an option. The shorebirds were all foraging in the shallows in a portion of a wetland that was far from the road. In the back of my pickup I always have the perfect piece of equipment to help in a situation like that…a chair blind. It has a low profile and doesn't spook the birds once you're set up, and it's actually quite comfortable inside. In this case, as I approached the shoreline, all the birds scattered. No worries…set up the chair blind, make yourself comfortable inside, and after a little while, the birds will forget you're there and will come back.
The photo below is one a birding friend took of me and my chair blind on Sunday. Note shorebirds are calmly foraging in the shallows RIGHT in front of the blind. They were actually too close for my camera to focus on many occasions (my 400mm lens has a 12-foot minimum focusing distance). A great tool, and one of many ways to get close enough to birds to get great photos. For more help on how to get great bird photos, click below to check out a "Bird photography tips" page from my main website:
Ever since I started birding 15 years ago, I had wished I could somehow link my hobby of birding, with my job as a scientist with the U.S. Geological Survey. I've finally been able to do so in the past couple of years. My work right now focuses on the modeling of future land use and land cover, taking existing land cover maps produced by satellite imagery, and using a model to project what the landscape will look like in the coming decades. I've been able to take those projected land cover data and projected climate data, and look at how future bird species' distributions will likely be impacted in the future.
Fun work! But since I started birding, it's been interesting to see other research related to both my initial love (my bachelor's degree was in meteorology) and in remote sensing technologies (satellite imagery, aerial photography, etc.) that dominate my current work. Over the years we've had a couple of visiting scientists who have presented work on the use of weather radar to track bird migrations. Here's a nice feature story on the basics:
Doppler Radar Shows Bird Migrations
A cool thing to see! I guess I'm not quite sure of the practical applications in terms of bird conservation. Perhaps long term records and comparisons of radar patterns over multiple years could identify trends in the timing or patterns of migration. In the meantime, it's a neat application of a technology devised for other purposes.
I'm just not in a photo processing mood. Unfortunately, that's not an uncommon situation. It's a bad combination to ALWAYS be in a photo SHOOTING mood, but to rarely be in a photo processing mood. The result? A huge backlog of unprocessed photos. I typically make a directory on my computer where I put a day's worth of photos, then delete that directory when they're all processed and the good ones are on my website. Unfortunately right now I have many such directories worth of unprocessed photos!
That even includes a folder of "Virgin Islands birds" I made, from our recent vacation. I have a number of "new" species" for me that I don't have on my website, but I haven't gotten around to processing the photos yet. Here are a few more new species I did this morning. The highlight of this group for me is the Mangrove Cuckoo. They're around in the U.S. itself, with a few lurking in mangrove swamps of southern Florida. I find cuckoos in general to be SO incredibly difficult to try to see. I knew they were on St. John's Island, the island where we spent our vacation, but I wasn't really expecting much beyond maybe a brief glimpse, or just hearing them but not seeing them.
Fortunately the Mangrove Cuckoos on St. John's were the most visible cuckoo population I've seen! The first one I heard on the trip was in deed in the heart of a mangrove swamp, but their real stronghold on the island is in the dry scrubby forest that dominates much of the landscape. They may be a well-named species in much of their range, but they were definitely more common in dry scrub on St. John's than they were in the Mangrove swamps. I was able to get wonderful views of a number of different cuckoos, and it seemed on nearly every drive across the island, at some point one would fly across the road.
Another highly visible species on the island were Gray Kingbirds. If there was any kind of relatively decent-sized patch of open land on the island, you could almost guarantee there would be a Gray Kingbird or two looking out over the landscape from a high perch. The most common sight was of a Gray Kingbird sitting on a telephone/electric wire, but towards the end of the trip I was able to get some really nice photos of Gray Kingbirds hanging out on natural vegetation.
The third "new" species I processed today was the Zenaida Dove. This one generally falls into the category of "missed opportunity" from a photographic standpoint! They were extremely common on the island, basically the ecological equivalent of the ubiquitous Mourning Doves we have around here in the summer. They were most common in around settlements, but were found in nearly every habitat on the island. Because they were such a common sight, I kept passing on very easy photo opportunities, waiting instead for a chance at the more "exotic" hummingbird or other species. Before I knew it, the trip was almost over and I had no Zenaida Dove photos! I managed a few rather boring photos of Zenaida Doves walking across an open lot, but I definitely felt like I missed many chances to get some nicer photos of the species.
3 species processed…and now I'm no longer in the mood to process photos today! The rest of the Virgin Islands photos will have to wait!
What better way to start a Monday than with some deep thoughts…
Shorebirds are so named because they are, not surprisingly, often found on shores, wading in shallow water, on mudflats, etc. One of the most common summer birds in grassland parts of South Dakota is the Upland Sandpiper. Well-named, Upland Sandpipers are usually described in field guides as "shorebirds that don't act like shorebirds", as they are, not surprisingly given their name, found in upland environments. The most common way to see an Upland Sandpiper in the state is to see one sitting on a fence post in a grassland area, and typically there isn't a wetland or a "shore" in sight.
So, deep thought to start the week…How do you describe it when you see an Upland Sandpiper, wading and foraging in shallow water like a "normal" shorebird? What do you call a "shorebird" that doesn't act like a shorebird, but IS acting like a shorebird?
Deep thought…discuss amongst yourself.
I ran across (yet another) story this morning discussing the huge loss of habitat in the northern Great Plains over the last few years. It's not exactly "news" to anyone who has lives here and has paid attention. A bit of background…in 2007, Congress passed the "Energy Independence and Security Act". It was a huge energy bill, with many components. One of which actually was a huge boon to my work at USGS EROS, as we became part of a huge project to look at the potential for sequestering carbon through land use practices.
However, another component is a renewable fuels standard (RFS), with hard mandates for increased use of biofuels by 2022. In recent years the price of corn has gone up substantially, in no small part due to the RFS. The result? Massive loss of grassland in my part of the world, with the Dakotas being hit especially hard.
It's obvious everywhere I bird, both in eastern South Dakota (which has traditionally been a stronghold of corn production), and now increasingly in central South Dakota. In eastern South Dakota where I live, the only remaining grasslands are 1) those that are on hilly or very rocky ground, areas too difficult to farm, or 2) individual fields that are enrolled in the Conservation Reserve Program (CRP). CRP provides payments for farmers to keep land in a grassland cover around here, but those payments can't compete with the profits that can be made by putting arable land into corn production. I can point to numerous individual fields just on my drive to work that used to be CRP, and had been grassland ever since I moved here over 20 years ago, that have been plowed under and converted to cropland in just the last few years.
The further west you go in the state, the more iffy a proposition it is to grow dryland corn. The Missouri River dividing the state into "East River" and "West River" used to be a rough dividing line on where corn was grown. Rainfall in South Dakota is a gradient from west to east, with precipitation dropping as you move westward in the state. One of my favorite birding locations in the winter is around the Presho area. It's an area with a lot of grasslands and a lot of pheasants (and presumably voles and mice), creatures that attract a lot of winter raptors like Rough-legged Hawks, Ferruginous Hawks, and even the occasional Gyrfalcon or Snowy Owl. As a drier area than eastern South Dakota, cropland used to be limited to wheat, some sorghum, and sunflowers. Not any more, as you're starting to see farmers attempt to grow dryland corn even there.
It's not just the conversion of complete, large fields from grassland to cropland that you're seeing, it's land management practices and micro-scale habitat loss. From a land management standpoint, the other business that's booming right now in the Dakotas is the installation of drain tile, underground piping that efficiently drains the land and allows farmers to utilize areas that once tended to collect too much water for cultivation. One of my favorite little birding spots on my drive to work is now gone, thanks to drain tiling. It was a low spot along a little drainage way, a moist area that had a grassland and some scattered cattails. That area was drain tiled and is now a corn field. From the micro-habitat side, farmers are also ripping out vegetation along fencerows and shelterbelts, trying to squeeze out every acre they can as crop prices are high.
To be frank, it's damned depressing sometimes to drive around birding, seeing some of your favorite remaining grassland habitats being actively plowed under. It's a level of land-use conversion in the northern Great Plains that hasn't been seen in many decades.
Especially as a father, I can't help but think "when does it end"? When do people stop thinking about MONEY, and their short-term well-being, and when do they actually start worrying about their CHILDREN's future? It's not just habitat loss, it's sabotage of the very resources we need to survive. Increased agricultural land use, drain tiling existing land, and increased fertilizer use as farmers try to bypass crop rotation and plant exclusively corn…all are pumping up nitrate and other pollutant levels in the very water supplies we depend upon to survive.
I tell myself, that just as with the inexorable spread of urban areas across the world, it can't continue forever, right? At some point, it has to stop, right? The only problem is that human beings are too short-sighted to set that "limit" of when we stop degrading and destroying habitat and the resources we depend upon. What's going to eventually make it "stop" is ecological disaster…
My office has been under construction for nearly 2 months now, and my temporary office is, uh…not ideal. It's an open cube, shared with 2 other people, 6 feet from the bathroom doors. Lovely…and hard to work when you're used to your own office with a door you can shut. Because of that, I've been working at home most of the time.
I had an unexpected surprise today while working at home. I went into the kitchen to get a drink, looked out the patio doors at the thistle (niger) feeder, and saw a Pine Siskin. June 2nd? A Pine Siskin in southeast South Dakota? It wasn't even something on my radar, so I had to do a double take, and check it out at close range just to be sure. Pine Siskins are something you'd only expect in the winter around here, and even though they can be pretty locally common, I rarely get them at my feeders.
The map above shows the supposed range for a Pine Siskin. Strange! A nice surprise, and actually after checking my eBird list for the year, I hadn't seen one yet this year. June 2nd…not the date I'd expect to see my first Pine Siskin here!
It's been a great last week for migrants. Warblers are hit-or-miss around here, as some seasons are great for warblers, and some…not so much. Even within a given year though it's unpredictable, as they can seemingly be everywhere one day, and gone the next. What's been great about the last week is that there have been good to great numbers of warblers nearly every day, and the variety has been good as well.
The downside of a protracted, good warbler migration? Warbler neck!! I would be that on an hour-per-photo measurement, warblers rank much higher than most other kinds of birds. Around here, the most common place to spot warblers is up in the forest canopy. It makes for tough photography conditions, as either the warblers are usually too far away for a good photo, or you're shooting from directly below and just getting a shot of their bellies. It also makes for a SERIOUS case of "warbler neck", a sore neck you get from continually having your head tilted back, looking straight up into the canopy with your binoculars as you scan for warblers.
Yesterday I just couldn't do another trip of scanning the tree tops, so I thought I'd try some of my old tried-and-true locations for getting up a bit to the birds' level. Out here on the plains, trees are mostly found in woodlots, protected ravines, urban areas, and riparian areas. If there's a riparian area, that means roads with bridges over the water. I have several bridges in the area that I've used for taking photos of birds in the tree canopy, as the taller bridge places you up towards the tree tops a bit.
It was actually slower for warblers yesterday than it had been all week, and I was a little disappointed when I came to one of my "photo bridges". As I pulled over at the corner of the bridge, positioning myself right next to the tree branches, I heard a thin, weak buzzing song. I'm not the greatest at bird calls, but I knew that buzzy call..a Golden-winged Warbler. Beautiful birds, but pretty uncommon migrants through South Dakota. I had no photos of the species and was really hoping this bird would cooperate. Fortunately, he kept on foraging in the riparian trees, oblivious to the guy with the camera. When I first started to try to take a photo, he was obscured by leaves and branches, but after a minute or two of waiting, I was finally able to get some decent photos of a Golden-winged Warbler.
And all from my elevated "photo bridge", eliminating any aggravation of my warbler neck!


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Sensitise public on child abuse
Child abuse is a serious problem in Uganda. However, child abuse within the home is hidden from the public eye because of the vulnerability and helplessness of the child (as seen in the infamous video where a maid beat up a child).
It is commendable that the child's father had the skills and ability to use a CCTV camera to discover this evil. However, this is not the case for most working parents who rely on maids' services and who cannot all become detectives. The actions of the maid should be condemned and it is a relief that the baby is alive and well, thanks to the smart thinking of the father.
However, child abuse happens when the carer, usually a woman, even the mother, is stressed and herself suffering in some way. At MIFUMI we witness many distressing cases of child abuse.
There are two things urgently needed in Uganda. The first is raising the issue of child abuse in the public profile so that people become sensitised to the issue, understand its negative impact and begin to provide a collective neighbourhood watch for children at risk of abuse. Which in many communities already happens.
The second is looking into the situation of house maids and this is in no way referring to the current case. Many housemaids or domestic workers, are employed under terms and conditions of poor pay, are badly treated, work long hours and have enormous workloads without any holiday relief. Any effort towards standardising terms and conditions of maids, (without necessarily excusing the action) such as that done by certain groups in Uganda and lawyers, are urgently needed, if we are to protect the children left in their care. A child is only as happy as her mother, or her carer. That is why MIFUMI has decided to adopt the issue of child abuse as its theme during the 16 days of activism against violence against women.
Atuki Turner
Executive director
SOURCE: Daily Monitor


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Congregation of the Alexian brothers
Passion and commitment through the Love of Christ: The Alexianer Brotherhood are a Roman Catholic order. We live in small communities (monasteries) following the Rule of St Augustine, which forms the basis of our own constitution approved by the Church.
In our community, each person is accepted as an individual with his own strength and weaknesses. In all our work, we care for each other, work together and support each other. Through the community, our brothers are able to develop a deep understanding for one another, rooted in tolerance.
Sharing our faith - with brothers all over the world
The Alexian brothers is a Catholic nursing order looking after sick people in many locations all over the world. At the moment, the Alexian order consists of around 53 brothers in two provinces, two regions and seven countries (USA, Great Britain, Ireland, Germany, Belgium, Hungary, Philippines). In Germany, which is one of the provinces of the order, around 10 brothers live in four monasteries. The mother house of the congregation is located in Aachen, while the generalate of the order is based in Signal Mountain, Tennessee, USA.
Flyer of the Alexian Brotherhood
with further informations (PDF, german, 4,21 MB)
Becoming an Alexian Brother
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2018 is flying by already. At Caroline HQ we have a super cute new puppy, a Cavalier Kings Charles Spaniel who goes by the name of Yosemite, although we mostly call her Yosey (and Little Pig, Yose, Piggle Wiggle etc :D ) She is named after the place, where Martin and I spent some of our amazing Californian honeymoon at the end of 2017. Yosey has taken over life a little here so it's only now that I've got together by favourite wedding photos of 2017.
2017 was a year in weddings that I have particularly enjoyed. Having the privilege to be present for so many wedding days is always special but every now and then it really hits you just how lucky you really are and it was a year full of that! Thank you to all my fantastic 2017 couples who asked me to be the one to do this very important job for them. Looking through all their smiling faces again to choose my favourites has made me feel super pumped for the weddings I have coming in 2018! Let's do this!!
There's going to be some changes to blogging this year, but do keep checking back in for more. Coming soon I plan to share some of the photos I took on our honeymoon as it was all so magical I want to share :) For now though, hit full screen and make sure your volume is on and take a look at some of last year:


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Phone: 830-672-2826 ext. 6402
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Associate of Arts from Victoria Jr College Bachelor of Science in Interdisciplinary Studies- University of Houston Victoria Dyslexia Specialist
Mrs. Janacek
This is my 12th year of teaching in Gonzales ISD. I have taught 2nd and 3rd grade all subjects. I am curently the Dyslexia teacher for East Avenue. I have 2 daughers (Adysen who is in 3rd grade and Shelby who is 1 year old). We live in LaGrange, but are usually never home on the weekends. We enjoy hunting, fishing at the coast and bbq cook-offs.


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Was a busy Saturday in Milford: Arts, fishing, a marathon and more
Saturday morning opened sunny and cool, the perfect day for a host of activities taking place in Milford.
Tents staked for the MAC Fest dotted the downtown green, and artists and crafters were setting up their wares while local agencies and groups set up their displays as well. Danielle Valenzano, Milford Children's Library assistant, and Amy Edwards, who mans the Brain Station at the library, fiddled with two stands to hold a screen for their display. Library Director Christine Angeli stepped over to help, as musicians prepared to entertain, actors readied to perform short plays at the Milford Art Center, and a sidewalk was left clear for children to create chalk art.
Down at the harbor, wooden barricades closed part of the road to make way for runners in a Milford half marathon.
"The Gulf Beach Half Marathon is the most gorgeous and flattest Half Marathon in Connecticut," according to an announcement about the event. Participants ran along "the beautiful beaches of Milford featuring the Silver Sands State Park Boardwalk."
The runners also passed through downtown Milford, as nearby, young anglers baited fishing poles. Children and parents dotted the harbor around Lisman Landing for the annual Snapper Derby sponsored by the Milford Sport Fishing Association and the city. At the town dock, Julie Nash, Milford's economic development director, fished with her family. By 9:30 a.m., nearly all the children in the group had reeled in a snapper, proudly displaying their catches.
At the end of the event two of the group, Max Nash, 8, and Sawyer Andres, 5, won trophies: Sawyer came in first with his 21.05 ounce total for five fish; Max came in third for his total catch of 17.95 ounces. Jack Friedman, 8, fishing with another group, placed second with his 20.20 ounces of fish.
Even if they didn't get a trophy, all the children won a new fishing pole. Each child got a raffle ticket, and Cameron Hammond, president of the Milford Sport Fishing Association; Walt Kupson, vice president, and Ken Gabianelli, treasurer, patiently called off winning numbers and watched as the children realized they'd won and stepped up to choose a pole.
"All the children win," one of the officials explained. "But it's more exciting for them this way."
At Lisman Landing, Operations Director Ray Swift scanned the anglers and the boats docked at the city marina. "This is a great September," Swift said, noting that the marina was nearly full, and there were more big boats coming in later.
Just across the Hotchkiss Bridge, the Milford Irish Heritage Society was getting started on the second day of its annual Irish Festival. Friday night was the kickoff, and Irish Heritage Society founder Martin Hardiman said it was a perfect night, especially for drinking Irish beer: It wasn't too hot.
Bands played throughout the event, there was Irish food to buy, children's games, Irish sweaters and other Irish-themed merchandise to buy and more. Sunday would bring even more people to this very spot, for the annual Folks on Spokes/Folks on Foot bike ride and walk to raise money for Bridges, the area mental health agency located in Milford.
Not far away at Walnut Beach Saturday, the kick-off celebration for the sixth annual 'Step by Step to a Healthier Milford' took place. People gathered to walk and begin a six-week self-walking campaign, sponsored by the Milford Chamber of Commerce.
And at Jonathan Law High School, cancer survivors, caregivers and others gathered around the track to kick off the annual Relay for Life, which raises money and awareness to help in the fight against cancer.


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I've just come across this hunt but it looks like it was launched back in June 2009. The quest is for the "Hungerford Jewel" which was orginially valued at £4000.
The Hungerford Quest
However, according to an article in the Newbury Sound (Quest Continues), it has still not been solved and the value has increased to £5000.
According to the Terms of the hunt, you have to register for the quest and pay an entry fee of £10 which gets you 12 clues. Eleven of these will direct you to specific locations in and around Hungerford (which for those of you who don't know, is a small town in the South of England).
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3.7.2003: Meldung: Impco and Mitsubishi Go Clean in Australia
Wednesday July 2, 9:00 am ET
CERRITOS, Calif., July 2 / Impco Technologies, Inc. (Nasdaq: IMCO - News), announced today that two Mitsubishi Magnas completed a 1500 kilometer journey through regional towns in South Australia and Victoria.
The occasion was the inaugural Autogas Challenge Clean Air Rally; an event that contrasted the fuel consumption figures of conventional petrol-powered family sedans with cars running on Autogas (LPG). Clean burning Autogas in Australia is 35% the price of petrol.
All Australian vehicle manufacturers participated in the event, with teams leaving simultaneously from Adelaide (Mitsubishi), Melbourne (Ford), Sydney (Toyota) and Brisbane (GM Holden). Mitsubishi and Ford featured dedicated LPG vehicles, while Holden and Toyota ran dual-fuel models.
Ms. Pearl Kamdar, Impco"s Director of Asia Pacific Operations, said, "The dedicated propane Magna was in the development phase for two years. The propane dedicated Magna was the result of environmental awareness within Mitsubishi and increasing demand from fleet buyers; which comprise one of the single largest motorcar buying segments in Australia. Fleet operators now regard environmental issues as critical. We designed the propane Magna to be as user-friendly as the gasoline version. The only area you"ll notice a difference is in the fuel cost -- it"s much lower." Ms. Kamdar added, "Fleet buyers definitely see the value in a dedicated propane motorcar, and as a result have placed substantial orders with Mitsubishi for the new Magna."
"We were delighted to be involved," said Kevin Taylor, Manager of Mitsubishi"s Special Vehicles division. "The event gave us the opportunity to showcase our first ever dedicated production LPG Magna -- a major milestone for us and clear evidence that Mitsubishi takes its environmental responsibilities seriously." Project Engineer Alex Fejer said, "We designed the LPG Magna to be just as user-friendly as the standard car. The only place you"ll notice the difference is in your fuel bills! The price of clean burning propane fuel in Australia is 35% the price of petrol." With an 88-litre tank, original filler location, standard fuel gauge location and warning lights and buzzers to indicate when fuel is running low, the dedicated LPG Magna is no different in driving terms to a standard Magna.
Regarding Impco:
Impco designs, manufacturers, markets and applies advanced alternative fuel products and systems. Headquartered in Cerritos, California, Impco has offices throughout Asia, Europe, South and North America. More information can be found at www.impco.ws . Impco also operates under the BRC brand names through its 50% ownership in that entity.
Source: Impco Technologies, Inc.


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Derek's family loves a good veggie tray. His sister always seemed to make a good dip to go along with her veggies, so I asked her for the recipe. She informed me that it was actually Aunt Opal's recipe and that all her stuff is the best.
Honestly, I usually just eyeball everything, but these are the approximate measurements I used today.
- 1 C sour cream
- 3/4 C mayonaise
- 1/2 C fresh chopped parsley
- 1 Tbsp dried dill
- 1 tsp Bon Appetit seasoning salt
Mix it all together and it's best if it sits in the fridge for just a little bit before serving.


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Fall Softball 2019 – Returning Players
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Summer Softball week 2: Two Fields, One Day
Welcome to the week 2 edition of the newsletter. We started the Queensbridge portion of the schedule last weekend with four games on each field. Thankfully we had some quick games at Whitey, and finished before the rain. Here's a recap of last weekend's action: Whitey Ford field Upper Deckers 14-Pitchslap 2This game was ...
Summer Softball 2018 week 1: New Beginnings
The 11th season of Astoria Social softball is now underway! This season, we have sixteen teams divided into two divisions. With seven weeks on the schedule, each team will play the other seven teams in their division. The playoffs begin on Saturday, September 8th. The format is identical to the past few seasons, with ...
Week 8 Recaps
Let's start off by giving some love to the New World Outkasts. They were the sole undefeated team this season, finishing 7-0 and securing the top overall seed in the upcoming playoffs. Brian and Melinda jokingly told me they get no newsletter love. They defeated Just the Foul Tip on Saturday at Queensbridge by the score of ...
Week 7 Recaps
One week remaining in the 2018 spring regular season. As indicated on Faceboook, we have begun the summer softball signup process. You can go to our website and signup. Admittingly, I have had some A+ material over the past few weeks in the kickball newsletter. So let's try and get my newsletter writeups ...
Week 5 Recaps
Greener with the Scenery After a late night of partying, (HBD Ian) the SOP's continue their great season, defeating I'd Hit That by the score of 12-3 in a 10AM battle of the green. Their 4-1 record keeps them battling for a first weekend bye in the spring playoffs. Number 5 With a Bullet Joe Lad was hitting ...
Week 4 Recaps
Let me start this off by thanking Astros, I'd Hit that and the SOPs for assisting with the fields. The end result of our efforts created playable conditions for all games on Saturday and Sunday. Some of you may have seen the Parks Department at the field on both Saturday and Sunday-they had let us know that the ...
Week 3 Recaps!
Game of the Week The bike tour briefly delayed the start of the Astros/Recess Renegades game early Sunday morning. Fortunately, all players were able to get to Whitey as we had ourselves an exciting nine inning game. Down 5-4 in the third, the Astros capitalized on their powerful top of the lineup, scoring four ...
Spring Week 02 Recaps!
Whitey Ford field responded well to the Friday and Saturday night rain showers. All games were played as scheduled. This weekend we begin the Queens Bridge field portion of the schedule-there are two games each Saturday at Queens Bridge (3pm/4:30pm) For Astoria Social, this is an enjoyably hectic time ...
Welcome back to Softball!
Welcome back! It's been a long (and cold) five months since the end of the Fall 2017 season. We hope the cold weather is behind us as we embark on the long seven month stretch of softball in 2018. If this weekend is any indication, we are in for a memorable 2018. Here's a look back at the action from this ...
Week 04 Recaps!
Another weekend with no interruptions! We are now at the midway point for the summer season. With only a few weeks remaining, teams are jockeying for position in our two divisions. Who came out on top this past weekend? Battle of the Undefeated A much better name than the "Loot Train Attack." (Serio...


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Board Appointment
14th May 2013
Cello Group plc (AIM: CLL), the insight and strategic marketing group is pleased to announce the appointment of Stephen Highley to the Board as Group Corporate Development Director.
Stephen Highley is a co-founder of MSI, a strategy consulting firm acquired by Cello in 2007 and which is now a core component of Cello Health, the Group's specialist healthcare division. Since 2012, Stephen has also been Chairman of Cello Health.
Cello Group's strategy is to expand through a mixture of accelerated organic growth and selected acquisition. As Group Corporate Development Director, Stephen will share responsibility for helping drive this process from a Board level.
Mark Scott, Cello CEO, commented; "We are delighted that Stephen is joining the Board at this time. The Group has a solid foundation from which to expand internationally in its chosen areas of focus, and Stephen will make a big difference to the rate at which we can achieve this."
Under schedule 2, paragraph (g) of the AIM rules, the following additional information is disclosed:
– Mr Highley has a beneficial interest in 2,000,868 ordinary shares of 10 pence each in the Company, which represents 2.42 per cent. of the Company's current issued ordinary share capital.
– Prior to his appointment to the board of the Group, Mr Highley did not hold any active directorships. Mr Highley has within the past 5 years been a director of MSI Consulting Ltd; Mash Health Ltd.
There are no other matters to be announced under paragraph (g) of Schedule 2 of the AIM Rules.
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Personal profile
Peter was appointed as Professor of Teacher and International Education in 2013. His previous positions included working as a university teaching-research academic in Hong Kong, Singapore and Australia. At UC he coordinates and teaches postgraduate units on research methods and writing for academic publication. Before undertaking an academic career, Peter was a primary school classroom teacher, in NSW Australia.
At the University of Canberra, Peter is the research leader of the Centre for Studies in Teaching and Educational Development (STED). His previous administrative positions include: Director, International Marketing, Recruitment and Internationalisation; Director, International Office; Head, Centre for International Education; Head, Centre for Language Education and Deputy Head, Department of English.
Peter has an established international research profile in the internationalisation of higher education and English as a second language. More recently, his research has expanded to include the internationalisation of curriculum, international student acculturation and support, and interdisciplinary cross-cultural approaches to teaching. Peter works closely with schools, teachers and colleagues in developing teaching, educational reform and international student placement, marketing and recruitment.
Research interests
Research Interests: Internationalisation of education and curriculum; International student acculturation and support; Interdisciplinary cross-cultural approaches to teaching; Issues in international education and development; and First and second language literacy development
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Research Output
Language and Interpersonal Resource Predictors of Psychological and Sociocultural Adaptation: International Students in Hong Kong.Baohua, Y., BODYCOTT, P. & MAK, A., 1 Nov 2019, In : Journal of International Studies. 23, 5, p. 572-588 17 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
Psychological and academic adaptation of mainland Chinese students in Hong Kong universitiesYu, B., Mak, A. S. & Bodycott, P., 21 Nov 2019, In : Studies in Higher Education. 39, 2, p. 1-13 13 p.
Research output: Contribution to journal › Article
China: The role of parents in decisions about overseas study.BODYCOTT, P. & Lai, A., 2017, Understanding Higher Education Internationalization. Mihut, G., Altbach, P. G. & de Wit, H. (eds.). 1 ed. Rotterdam: Sense Publishers, Vol. 1. p. 197-202 5 p. (Understanding Higher Education Internationalization).
Research output: A Conference proceeding or a Chapter in Book › Chapter
International students on campus: Cultural difference and internationalisation policy and practiceBODYCOTT, P., 2016, Education in the Asia-Pacific Region. Cheng, Y. C., Cheung, A. C. K. & Ng, S. W. (eds.). 1 ed. Singapore: Springer, p. 171-184 14 p. (Education in the Asia-Pacific Region; vol. 28).
Research output: A Conference proceeding or a Chapter in Book › Chapter
Beyond Host Language Proficiency: Coping Resources Predicting International Students' SatisfactionMAK, A., BODYCOTT, P. & Ramburuth, P., 2015, In : Journal of Studies in International Education. 19, 5, p. 460-475 16 p.
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I Had the opportunity to speak to the future of medicine today. Love spreading CF awareness. This amazing class is the Medical Genetics class at Seton Hill University in Pennsylvania where my friend Katelyn West goes to school.
They are going to be changing lives. I told them to find a cure for CF, I bet they make that happen!


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Today, half of our Omega Tuition gang (Yali, Debra and I) met up for a catch-up session at City Square. Yali and I took a bus from Perling to City Square, so we chattered away during the entire 1-hour bus ride. Hehe.
To the other half of our gang (Elaine, Selena, Azrina) : Yes, we missed you girls!
I'm too lazy to write a lot, so I'll just let the pictures do the talking! Hehe!
We had lunch at Kim Gary's Restaurant.
Deb and I, while waiting for our food!
Yali and her I-dunno-what Rice.
I had the Pork Chop Cheese Baked Rice set. Debra had the Fish one.
Stuffed to the brim but happy and smiley!
Then we camwhored in the toilet… (?!) Haha.
And went on a shoe hunt, but found none that I liked 😦
So we took more photos! Hahahaha!
Then Yali bought a book about monks selling their Ferraris (wtf, so rich arh these monks! HAHA), and the Protege DVD, and Debra got a Winnie the Pooh mug. And I went home empty handed cos I couldn't find my shoe. Sucks.
But we had YAMI Yogurt! Haha!
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Soil Conservationist (Direct Hire)
U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA) Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS)
About the organization
Do you want to work for a premier conservation agency whose focus is to "help people help the land?" The Natural Resources Conservation Service (NRCS), a part of the U.S. Department of Agriculture (USDA), works in close partnership with farmers, ranchers, forest managers, non-governmental organizations, local and state governments, and other federal agencies to create and maintain healthy and productive working landscapes.
As part of USDA's new Farm Production and Conservation (FPAC) Mission Area, NRCS has 3,000 locations and covers every county in the U.S. We help stewards of agricultural lands and non-industrial private forest lands to plan and implement proven conservation systems through technical and financial assistance designed to enhance productivity, improve soil and water health, and restore wetlands and wildlife habitat.
We need people who are committed to action through public service-- people who help ensure that we all enjoy the benefits from a healthy environment.
This vacancy will be filled using the Office of Personnel Management's Direct-Hire Authority. Veterans' preference and traditional rating and ranking of applicants do not apply to positions filled under this announcement. For more information on OPM's authorization of Direct Hire Authority, please visit, https://www.opm.gov/policy-data-oversight/hiring-information/direct-hire-authority/
Assists in gathering and assembling preliminary data for all resource concerns for use in developing complete basic farm conservation plans.
Understands all applicable NRCS and Farm Bill programs available to address resource concerns and explains cost share programs and payment procedures to applicants and contract holders.
Carries out a follow-up schedule for applying soil conservation practices in accordance with plan and contract schedules.
With supervision, utilizes most current technology programs in the documentation and management of conservation plans and technical assistance by the service center.
Travel Required
Occasional travel - You may be expected to travel for this position.
Conditions of Employment
You must be a US Citizen or US National.
Males born after 12/31/1959 must be Selective Service registered or exempt.
Subject to satisfactory adjudication of background investigation and/or fingerprint check.
Successful completion of one-year probationary period, unless previously served.
Direct Deposit - Per Public Law 104-134 all Federal employees are required to have federal payments made by direct deposit to their financial institution.
Successfully pass the E-Verify employment verification check. To learn more about E-Verify, including your rights and responsibilities, visit E-Verify at https://www.e-verify.gov/.
Must possess and maintain a valid state motor vehicle operator's license for the type of vehicle(s) operated to perform the duties of this position.
Incumbent is required to obtain Conservation Planning Level certification.
Applicants must meet all qualifications and eligibility requirements by the closing date of the announcement including specialized experience and/or education, as specified in the job opportunity announcement.
$33,949 to $66,868 per year
Application instructions
Contact email: [email protected]
See application for additional requirements. Application documents must be submitted as specified in Job Opportunity Announcement NRCS-20-10675178-DHA-ND-OG at https://www.usajobs.gov
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Almost 7.000 spectators saw Vítkovice win the Czech championships today. The team beat Chodov with 3-2 in overtime.
The first period only had one goal, when Veronika Enenkelová opened the score and put Vítkovice in the lead. During the second period, Tereza Urbánková equalized, but again, Vítkovice took the lead. It was Michaela Šponiarová who scored from a rebound. Chodov didn't give up and again managed to equalize in the third period. Kristína Belicová set aside her defender and surprised Vítkovice's goalkeeper: 2-2.
As no more goals were scored, the game went into overtime. Hana Koníčková scored for Vítkovice, crowning herself and her team as the Czech champions!