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1. H. Xu, J. Jiang, Y. Dai, M. Cui, K. Li, X. Ge, J. Hoo, L. Yan, S. Guo, J. Ning, H. Sun, B. Sarkar, W. Guo and J. Ye, “Polarity Control and Nanoscale Optical Characterization of AlGaN-based Multiple Quantum Wells for Ultraviolet C emitters,” ACS Applied Nano Materials (in Print, 2020)
2. M. H. Breckenridge, Q. Guo, A. Klump, B. Sarkar, Y. Guan, J. Tweedie, R. Kirste, S. Mita, P. Reddy, R. Collazo and Z. Sitar, “Shallow Si donor in ion-implanted homoepitaxial AlN,” Applied Physics Letters, 116, 172103 (2020).
3. P. Reddy, D. Khachariya, D. Szymanski, M. H. Breckenridge, B. Sarkar, S. Pavlidis, R. Collazo, Z. Sitar and E. Kohn, “Role of polarity in SiN on Al/GaN and the pathway to stable contacts,” Semiconductor Science and Technology, 35, 055007 (2020)
4. S. Washiyama, P. Reddy, B. Sarkar, M. H. Breckenridge, Q. Guo, P. Bagheri, A. Klump, R. Kirste, J. Tweedie, S. Mita, Z. Sitar and R. Collazo, “The role of chemical potential in compensation control in Si: AlGaN,” Journal of Applied Physics, 127, 105702 (2020)
5. A. Ray, S. Bordoloi, B. Sarkar, P. Agarwal and G. Trivedi, “Numerical Simulation of Enhanced-Reliability Filleted-Gate AlGaN/GaN HEMT,” Journal of Electronic Materials, vol. 49, no. 3, pp. 2018-2031 (2020)
6. B. Sarkar, P. Reddy, A. Klump, F. Kaess, R. Rounds, R. Kirste, S. Mita, E. Kohn, R. Collazo and Z. Sitar, “On Ni/Au alloyed contacts to Mg-doped GaN,” Journal of Electronic Materials, vol. 47, no. 1, pp. 305-311 (2018).
7. B. Sarkar, S. Mills, B. Lee, W. S. Pitts, V. Misra and P. D. Franzon, “On Using the Volatile Mem-capacitive Effect of TiO2 RRAM to Mimic the Synaptic Forgetting Process,” Journal of Electronic Materials, vol. 47, no. 2, pp. 994-997 (2018).
8. B. Sarkar, S. Washiyama, M. H. Breckenridge, A. Klump, J. N. Baker, P. Reddy, J. Tweedie, S. Mita, R. Kirste, D. L. Irving, R. Collazo and Z Sitar, "(Invited) N- and P- type Doping in Al-rich AlGaN and AlN," ECS Transactions, vol. 86, no. 12, pp. 25-30 (2018).
9. R. Rounds, B. Sarkar, T. Sochacki, M. Bockowski, M. Imanishi, Y. Mori, R. Kirste, R. Collazo and Z. Sitar, “Thermal Conductivity of GaN single crystals: Influence of impurities incorporated in different growth processes,” Journal of Applied Physics, 124, 105106 (2018).
10. R. Rounds, B. Sarkar, D. Alden, Q. Guo, A. Klump, C. Hartmann,T. Nagashima, R. Kirste, A. Franke, M. Bickermann, Y. Kumagai, Z. Sitar and R. Collazo, “The influence of point defects on the thermal conductivity of AlN crystals,” Journal of Applied Physics, 123, 185107 (2018).
11. R. Kirste, Q. Guo, J. H. Dycus, A. Franke, S. Mita, B. Sarkar, P. Reddy, J. M. LeBeau, R. Collazo and Z. Sitar, "6 kW/cm2 UVC laser threshold in optically pumped lasers by controlling point defect formation," Applied Physics Express, 11, 082101 (2018).
12. R. Rounds, B. Sarkar, A. Klump, C. Hartmann, T. Nagashima, R. Kirste, A. Franke, M. Bickermann, Y. Kumagai, Z. Sitar and R. Collazo, “The thermal conductivity of single crystalline AlN,” Applied Physics Express, 11, 071101 (2018).
13. I. Bryan, Z. Bryan, S. Washiyama, P. Reddy, B. E. Gaddy, B. Sarkar, M. H. Breckenridge, Q. Guo, M. Bobea, J. Tweedie, S. Mita, D. L. Irving, R. Collazo and Z. Sitar, “Doping and compensation in Al-rich AlGaN grown on single crystal AlN and sapphire by MOCVD,” Applied Physics Letters, 112, 062102 (2018).
14. P. Reddy, S. Washiyama, W. Mecouch, L. Hernandez-Balderrama, F. Kaess, M. H. Breckenridge, B. Sarkar, B. Haidet, A. Franke, E. Kohn, R, Collazo and Z. Sitar, “Plasma Enhanced Chemical Vapor Deposition of SiO2 and SiNX on AlGaN: Band offsets and interface states as a function of Al composition,” Journal of Vacuum Science and Technology A, 36, 061101 (2018).
15. B. Sarkar, S. Mita, P. Reddy, A. Klump, F. Kaess, J. Tweedie, I. Bryan, Z. Bryan, R. Kirste, E. Kohn, R. Collazo and Z. Sitar, “High free carrier concentration in p-GaN grown on AlN substrates,” Applied Physics Letters, 111, 032109 (2017).
16. B. Sarkar, B. B. Haidet, P. Reddy, R. Kirste, R. Collazo and Z. Sitar, “Performance improvement of ohmic contacts on Al-rich n-AlGaN grown on single crystal AlN substrate by reactive ion etching surface treatment,” Applied Physics Express, 10, 071001 (2017).
17. B. Sarkar, P. Reddy, F. Kaess, B. B. Haidet, J. Tweedie, S. Mita, R. Kirste, E. Kohn, R. Collazo and Z. Sitar, “(Invited) Material considerations for the development of III-nitride power devices,” ECS Transactions, vol. 80, no. 7, pp. 29-36 (2017).
18. P. Reddy, B. Sarkar, F. Kaess, M. Gerhold, E. Kohn, R. Collazo and Z. Sitar, “Defect-free Ni/GaN Schottky barrier behavior with high temperature stability,” Applied Physics Letters, 110, 011603 (2017).
19. B. B. Haidet, B. Sarkar, P. Reddy, I. Bryan, Z. Bryan, R. Kirste, R. Collazo and Z. Sitar, “Nonlinear analysis of Vanadium- and Titanium-based contacts to Al-rich n-AlGaN,” Japanese Journal of Applied Physics, 56, 100302 (2017).
20. P. Reddy, S. Washiyama, F. Kaess, M. H. Breckenridge, L. H. Hernandez-Balderrama, B. B. Haidet, D. Alden, A. Franke, B. Sarkar, E. Kohn, R. Collazo and Z. Sitar, “High temperature and low pressure chemical vapor deposition of silicon nitride on AlGaN: band offset and passivation studies,” Journal of Applied Physics, 119, 145702 (2016).
21. B. Sarkar, B. Lee and V. Misra, “Understanding the gradual reset in Pt/Al2O3/Ni RRAM for synaptic applications,” Semiconductor Science and Technology, 30, 105014 (2015).
22. B. Sarkar, N. Ramanan, S. Jayanti, N. D. Spigna, B. Lee, P. Franzon and V. Misra, “Dual floating gate unified MOSFET with simultaneous volatile and non-volatile operation,” IEEE Electron Device Letters, vol.35, no.1, pp.48-50 (2014).
23. B. Sarkar, B. Lee, and V. Misra, "Implications of lower zero-field activation energy of dielectric in Al2O3/HfO2 bi-layer dielectric RRAM forming process," ECS Transactions, vol. 64. no. 14, pp. 43-48 (2014).


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Free Meals for ALL Students in 2021-2022 School Year
The Department received approval to offer free breakfast and free lunch to ALL students attending schools on the national school lunch program through the entire 2021-2022 school year. This opportunity continues the US Department of Agriculture and Ohio Department of Education’s dedication to meeting the needs of the whole child during the COVID-19 pandemic. The expanded program will provide nutritious meals to all students with fewer barriers, serving children learning in person and remotely. For more information, schools can contact their assigned education program specialists from the Office of Integrated Student Supports at 1-800-808-6325.
FCS Offers Online Payments through SchoolPay
SchoolPay is a payment service that allows families to pay for items such as registration fees, food service, school fees, Chromebook Premium, athletic fees, and donations online at your convenience. With SchoolPay, there is no need for cash or sending money with students. Pay online from anywhere, at any time, on any device via Visa, MasterCard, Discover or electronic check.
SchoolPay offers Soft Registration which makes registration quick and easy for payers. Here’s how it works:
If you have an email on file with the school an account has already been created on your behalf. Simply go to SchoolPay: https://schoolpay.com/login, click Find My Account and enter your email address. When you log into your account you will find your students and payment items waiting for you. If your account is not found, simply click “Create Account” and follow the easy steps. (A link to SchoolPay is also available under the Parent/Student Tab)
Though it is convenient when making multiple payments over time, you are not required to save payment information to make payments. SchoolPay is PCIDSS certified (Payment Card Industry Data Security Standards)
Fostoria City Schools families. This is a reminder that Fostoria City Schools has partnered with Final Forms, an online forms and data management service for the 2019-2020 school year. You will now be required to complete and sign all annual forms for your students online. Directions on how to get started using Final Forms were mailed home in May. We are asking that all families complete these steps as soon as possible to help ensure their students are registered for the upcoming school year. Those who would like help or need access to a computer are asked to please call 419-435-8163 to set up an appointment. More information can be found here: https://www.fostoriaschools.org/parents/enrollment. Thank you and have a wonderful summer!
Fostoria City Schools is partnered with FinalForms, an online forms and data management service. FinalForms allows you to complete and sign all annual enrollment and athletic participation forms for your students online – it is simple enough you can do it right from your smartphone. FinalForms saves data from year-to-year and season-to-season, meaning that you will never need to enter the same information twice! FinalForms also pre-populates information wherever possible, for each of your students, saving you time. Once you have completed your registration online, you will simply be asked to review and update your information at the beginning of each school year to verify the information is current and sign the forms.
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This holiday season, display your love of Christmas with this Gnome Christmas Pillow Set. The Gnome Christmas Pillow features a cheerful red and white Christmas theme complete with three gnomes dressed in holiday attire.
An evergreen wreath with berries and pinecones surrounds the gnomes, and the bottom of the pillow reads “Merry Christmas” in red scripted letters on an ivory banner. Display this pillow on a couch or chair to accompany holiday décor. Pillow measures 15" by 15" and is 3.5" deep.
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The pest seaweed Undaria is a threat to Fiordland’s marine environment with its ability to quickly establish and outcompete native marine species.
Learn about the carnivorous weeds that can wreak havoc on New Zealand's native vegetation.
Freshwater weeds degrade New Zealand's wetlands and waterways. The plants described here pose the most serious threats.
Golden dodder is a threat to Waikato wetlands and lakes. It's a parasitic plant which sucks the nutrients out of host plants which weakens them. It can significantly reduce yields and plant growth.
Weeds threatening native flora and fauna on Matiu/Somes Island in Wellington Harbour.
Wilding conifers are invasive weeds that threaten to permanently alter the unique landscapes that are only found in New Zealand.


Thwarted by Law, New CUSO Revs Up N.C. CU's Commercial Lending
RALEIGH, N.C. -- Having launched its commercial lending division back in August 2006, Local Government Federal Credit Union had every intention of being able to offer loans to the 100 counties and more than 540 cities and towns in North Carolina.
A general state statute, however, prohibited cities and counties from making deposits into credit unions, essentially bringing the innovative lending effort to a halt. The $792 million LGFCU pressed on, shifting its focus toward nonprofit organizations and volunteer fire and rescue departments. Over the past two years, the credit union amassed a little over $3 million in loans--but still kept its eye on expansion.
Fast forward to April 2008 with the rollout of LGFCU Financial Partners, a unique credit union service organization that will offer commercial loans to North Carolina's cities and counties. Deborah Isenhour, the CUSO's president, said serving governments is at the core of the credit union's foundation.
"The organizations that we're now targeting make loans that are helping communities. The CUSO can help improve those communities," said Isenhour, who spends half of her time with the new subsidiary and the other half as vice president of financial services at the credit union overseeing research and development and operations.
For starters, since April 28, LGFCU Financial Partners has met with officials from several counties, cities and towns to discuss how the CUSO can be a commercial lending partner. Isenhour said it's not just about making loans but assessing financial situations and making recommendations such as restructuring debt to improve cash flow or refinancing. The CUSO has also scanned North Carolina to identify those counties that may have a need for commercial loans. So far, a dozen have been targeted and plans are in place to meet with their respective county finance directors.
"These counties are often in poor parts of the states where other financial institutions don't want to make loans," Isenhour said.
While commercial loans will be the main offering, there are no immediate plans to offer other business services or Small Business Administration loans. Isenhour did say they want to price their current loans competitively--a move that could offer pacing against some of the larger financial institutions in the area.
"And, I know we will run up against more of them now that we have the CUSO. We ran into many community banks with the fire and rescue organizations," Isenhour said.
LGFCU Financial Partners has garnered praise from the North Carolina Association of County Commissioners, the trade group representing the state's 100 counties, Isenhour pointed out.
Meanwhile, Maurice Smith, president/CEO of LGFCU, said the trend in the credit union industry is to have unrelated select employee groups.
"That's not a condemnation. Our credit union has limited its market share," Smith explained. "Setting up this entity to lend to local government units positions the credit union to be an employee benefit and a corporate vendor."
Isenhour agreed, "While a lot of credit unions are running away from their membership, we're running towards our members."
Over the next few months, Isenhour will continue to pitch the commercial lending alliance to boards. She is confident that the CUSO has something different to offer.
"We're not focused on profits but we need to be self-sustaining," she said. "We want to leverage the credit union mission of building and serving communities."


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Am Peterhof provides warmly decorated apartments located in the green Grafenau, on the edge of the Bavarian Forest. The historic town of Passau is just 40 km away from the property.
Each of the apartments at Am Peterhof boasts a living room with a sofa bed and a TV. The bathroom in the apartments comes with a hairdryer. A sauna is available for an extra fee.
Guests are invited to prepare meals in the fully equipped kitchen in each apartment. In the summer, the BBQ facilities can be used to enjoy outdoor dining overlooking the picturesque surroundings.
Schönberg’s Treetop Adventure Park is set just 13 km away from the accommodation. Hiking and cycling are popular in the Bavarian Forest, and guests can store their skiing equipment onsite during the winter.
Grafenau’s train station is 3.3 km from Am Peterhof. Free private parking is available on site.
What they offer
Free Wi-Fi in all rooms
Services and conveniences
Available in all rooms
Free bottled water
Extra beds are dependent on the room you choose. Please check the individual room capacity for more details.
When booking more than 5 rooms, different policies and additional supplements may apply.
Children up to 14 years old pay EUR 4 per day for breakfast. Please inform Am Peterhof in advance of your expected arrival time. You can use the Special Requests box when booking, or contact the property directly with the contact details provided in your confirmation.

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text: Outlook for GBP continues to point higher though hesitating after taking out the 1.6472 level, its Aug 01'2011 high.We are looking for a return above the 1.6587 level, its Aug 17'2011 high. A clearance of this level will create additional strength towards the 1.6743 level, its 2011 high and then the 1.6900 level, its psycho level. Its daily RSI is bullish and pointing higher supporting this view. On the downside, the risk to our analysis will be a return below the 1.6472 level but the bigger risk will be a break and hold below the 1.6110 level, its Aug 11'2011 low. This will create scope for more weakness towards the 1.6006 level. Further downside, the big support stands at the 1.5778 level, its July'2011 low. All in all, GBP remains biased to upside as risk continues to build on the 1.6587 level and beyond.


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AgBiTech’s Fawligen registered in Sri Lanka to fight fall armyworm
Jan. 8, 2020
The product is called Fawligen and belongs to the new IRAC mode of action Group 31 (host-specific occluded pathogenic viruses). It contains a nucleopolyhedrovirus specific to the Fall Armyworm pest and underwent multiple regulatory trials and assessments in Sri Lanka in 2019. Fawligen is manufactured by the global leader and innovator in biological pest control, AgBiTech Pty Ltd.
Dr. Shachi Gurumayum, Head of South Asia for AgBiTech said, "Last summer, I visited Sri Lanka to monitor Fawligen trials. The farmer was extremely satisfied when we harvested his field and, today, I am very pleased that Fawligen is registered in Sri Lanka. This is thanks to the work done by local researchers from the Department of Agriculture and various farmers, and the strong support from Baurs and other stakeholders in Sri Lanka. Farmers like Mr. Jayasuriya here now have a safe and viable biological solution to combat Fall Armyworm in this highly biodiverse island nation".
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14 karat gold plated sterling silver 1.3mm wide band unique wrap ring featuring a prong set 3mm x 5mm pear shaped faceted labradorite stone on the end of the wrap and a row of 4 prong set faceted labradorites in the middle of the wrap band as follows: 4mm x 6mm pear, 4mm round, 3mm x 6mm marquis, and a 3mm x 5mm pear. This ring is available in whole sizes 5-9. .925 Sterling SilverUsually ships next business day. Holidays and weekends may affect shipment.
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Join us at 5:30PM for a pre-lecture book signing with David Lewis, author of Tribal Histories of the Willamette Valley.
February 20th, 2024 6:00PM-7:30PM – Tribal Histories of the Willamette Valley with guest speaker David Lewis
From oral history to written word, learn about the history of Oregon through the stories of the Indigenous peoples of the Willamette Valley.
The Willamette Valley is rich with history—its riverbanks, forests, and mountains home to the tribes of Kalapuya, Chinook, Molalla, and more for thousands of years. This history has been largely unrecorded, incomplete, poorly researched, or partially told. In these stories, enriched by photographs and maps, Oregon Indigenous historian David G. Lewis combines years of researching historical documents and collecting oral stories, highlighting Native perspectives about the history of the Willamette Valley as they experienced it.
The timeline spans the first years of contact between settlers and tribes, the takeover of tribal lands and creation of reservations by the US Federal Government, and the assimilation efforts of boarding schools. Lewis shows the resiliency of Native peoples in the face of colonization.
Undoing the erasure of these stories reveals the fuller picture of the colonization and changes experienced by the Native peoples of the Willamette Valley absent from other contemporary histories of Oregon.

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Do I Need a Lawyer
Do you need a lawyer for disability benefits? The answer to that question may surprise you. A disability attorney knows how to present your case in the best possible light. He or she can give advice about how to determine the onset date of your disability and whether or not your condition meets the criteria set by Social Security. An attorney will prepare you for hearings and can present key medical evidence in support of your claim. Disability lawyers can help you move your claim forward more quickly if you are in urgent need of money.
Hiring a disability discrimination attorney is a smart move because the legal assistance of a disability attorney increases the chances of your claim approval and helps your case move through the system more efficiently. They know how to handle the application process and how to get the most out of the benefits you qualify for. They can also arrange for an “on-the-record” decision, which will allow you to receive benefits immediately without having to undergo a hearing.
The best way to find a good disability attorney is to call and request a free consultation. The attorney will review the strength of your case and help you with your initial application. Disability attorneys are generally more successful than non-disability lawyers and are therefore worth their weight in gold. They may even save you money in the long run, as their fees are regulated by federal law. In addition, disability lawyers do not charge any upfront fees and will only get paid if you win your case.
Do I Need a Lawyer For Disability Benefits?
If you think you may qualify for SSI benefits, it is in your best interest to hire a disability lawyer. The Social Security Administration receives 2.5 million applications a year and most are denied. A disability lawyer can help you navigate the application process and appeal hearing process. If you have a medical condition that makes it impossible for you to work, you should seek the help of a disability lawyer for SSD benefits.
The eligibility criteria for Social Security benefits are stringent and complicated. An experienced disability lawyer can help you determine if you qualify. Your work history, education, and other factors are used to determine whether you are disabled. Your lawyer can explain your eligibility to the Social Security agency and prepare a winning case. This is crucial for any case. It is also important for your health and well-being. You may not be able to work due to your medical condition, but the disability laws make it essential.
The medical records that you submit to the Social Security Administration are crucial for your application. A disability attorney will review your medical records to uncover missing evidence and spot problems that need to be addressed during the hearing. In addition to supporting your testimony, a lawyer can also ask questions that support the medical evidence. This is especially helpful during the application process, when a vocational expert will be asked to explain your disabilities. A disability attorney will be able to ask the questions that will support your testimony.

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Simon Zebo - Will miss this weekend's South Africa Pro14 clash with the Southern Kings
Munster have today confirmed that Simon Zebo and Darren Sweetnam, who are both carrying knocks are unavailable for Saturday’s clash against Southern Kings. The duo, who were injured playing against Toulon last weekend, could still feature on the South African tour, when Munster play the Cheetahs on Friday week April 13.
In other news, Head Coach Johann van Graan boosted his touring squad numbers with the addition of Stephen Fitzgerald and academy scrum-half Jack Stafford ahead of the upcoming fixtures against Southern Kings and Cheetahs.
Guinness PRO14 Fixtures
Round 19 | Southern Kings v Munster, Sat 7 April, Outeniqua Park (7.35pm)
Round 20 | Cheetahs v Munster, Fri 13 April, Toyota Stadium (7.35pm)


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iPhone Game Review: Metal Slug Touch
Reviewed by JadeDragon
There are quite a few classic arcade 2D scroller shooter games, but few achieved the popularity or longevity as Metal Slug series did. The series has been imitated countless times and is often used as a yardstick for many new games with similar gameplay. Metal Slug Touch brings both a blessing and a curse to the iPhone and iPod touch: the gameplay emulates almost exactly as the original arcade versions with trademark graphics and sound, (we can hear the cheers from our fellow Metal Slug lovers), but as many straight ports of classic titles, Metal Slug Touch brought some limitations that make us wish the developer has reworked the game a bit to suit the new platform a bit better.
We won't lie to you: we are long time Metal Slug fans and couldn't wait to see it on the iOS. The Touch version sends you on four missions, which aren't nearly enough to fulfill a long time Metal Slug fan's desire anywhere, and offers four soldiers from the get-go (yes, Fio made it into this version), no unlocking needed. Levels aren't very long and each level has a large boss. The first mission sets in a desert with music an voice in Arabic to match; mission 2 takes you to the sky, replacing your tank with Slug Flyer and replacing bombs that come with tank with missiles firing from you plane; mission 3 takes place in a warehouse/submarine hub where aliens from Mars bleed green goo and a tough boss comes in a shape of gigantic alien mothership; the final mission goes into an alien ship that looks like the set of Alien, the movie.
Along with your favorites soldiers, SVs and fighter planes, you get the familiar enemies we?ve been over the years in Metal Slug series. The armed soldiers, the rocket firing heli?s, the Nazi-style armed cars, and even the alien squids from Mars with green blood in flying saucers. The prisoners too made it into the Touch version. So make sure you shoot in 360-degree so that you can rescue the prisoners you can?t see. Rescued prisoners give you bonus items including gas, bullets, points and more. Be sure to stick around to pick up the loots.
Metal Slug Touch offers three types of controls mostly let you decision where to put the virtual joystick on the screen so that you can control the movement and the direction of firing with your left joystick, and jump and special weapons (bombs, missiles, cannons, etc.) with your right. The controls work nicely emulating the real joystick and buttons in the arcade, but do try all three control schemes and find the one that suits you the best.
Unlike in the arcade, Metal Slug Touch gives you unlimited continues so that you won?t die in the first couple of mission and are guaranteed to see the end of the game. The game offers local scoreboard.
Graphics & Sound
Retro games don?t often win high praises in graphics because they try to emulate the classic look and feel. That said, fans of Metal Slug series will love what they see here. The style, colors and motif from the original series are well presented in the iOS version, and the graphics look quite good. Animations move smoothly and explosions are fun to watch. There are no frame drops or any slow-downs in the game.
Metal Slug Touch has the typical loud and techno music and funky voice-over we remember from the arcade. Each level has a bit different music but overall music tracks have over-exaggerated serious overtone, with voice like ?Thank you? from the prisoners or cries and yelps from enemies on top of the music. It sound funny and fun.
For the Metal Slug Touch faithful, an iOS version of the game brings back the memory and we can now play it anytime we want without going to the arcade. But 4 missions aren?t nearly enough, which is a fatal flaw in the eyes of series? fans. Just think after many title in the series, there are so much material, the giant crab, the yetis or mummies, and not mention so many characters to choose from, especially the Touch version has no ground soldier gameplay only vehicles and planes. Even so, if you are a die-hard MS fan, this is still a must have title in your iPhone game library.
Ratings (scale of 1 to 5):
Graphics: - 4.5 - Very cool retro style that works well on the iPhone.
Sound: - 4 - Arcade music remains in the game and the over the top quirky voice overs.
Controls: - 4 - Controls work well, though you need to pick the control scheme that fits you the best.
Gameplay: - 4 - Awesome gamplay but way too short.
Playing Hints and Tips:
- It?s worth the time to wait for the prisoners to give you the bonus items.
- You can shoot at all directions, so jump on a ledge to avoid enemy fires but rain down bullets on the enemies.
- Shoot at 360-degrees because you often can?t see the prisoners but you can free them when you shoot especially up.
Developer: SNK Playmore
Release Date: Feb 9, 2011
Price: $1.99 on sale
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‘Unacceptable’ errors led to Telstra triple zero bungle
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Telstra’s boss has revealed a series of embarrassing failures, including incorrect emergency services numbers, prevented Australians from speaking to triple zero call takers for more than an hour.
Vicki Brady on Wednesday detailed what led up to the March 1 outage, saying the issues started at 3.30am when callers’ locations and phone numbers – or “calling line identification” – were not coming up on calls.
Telstra needed those details to transfer callers to emergency services, and so had to switch to its backup process whereby operators manually asked callers where they were located before passing them to the correct emergency service.
Telstra managed to successfully transfer 346 calls through this process.
However, another 127 languished in wait because the telco had incorrect emergency service numbers on file.
Telstra had 24 backup phone numbers for state emergency services on file and eight of them were wrong, Ms Brady revealed.
That meant the 127 callers had to wait for an email transfer and call back, while another 21 said they no longer required emergency assistance.
The failures did not end there, though, with Ms Brady noting further delays in call backs because a staff member incorrectly typed in an email address.
“When our team identified an issue with the phone numbers they resorted to email, and were supplied an updated email address for Triple Zero Victoria during the incident,” the Telstra boss said in a blog post on Wednesday.
“This address was incorrectly entered into the system. Our team identified the error within 13 minutes, but this did still cause a delay.
“Ensuring we have the right contact numbers for emergency services operators is basic and something we should have gotten right.”
Ms Brady described the email error as happening in the “heat of the moment” and said call back delays mostly affected people in Victoria.
An investigation ultimately found the calling line identification issue happened because a triple zero database maxed out, triggering an existing but previously undetected software issue.
Ms Brady was personally overseeing Telstra’s work to avoid further failures, including updating instructions to staff to diagnose and address any future issues quicker.
The telco had also increased the capacity of its affected database and was reviewing its approach to triple zero processes.
Within 90 minutes of the incident starting, the service returned to normal, Ms Brady said.
“Let me reinforce that the series of failures that occurred on March 1 are unacceptable,” she said.
“Australian public rely on triple zero in their times of greatest need, and we let them down by not being prepared enough for the situation.”
She apologised to everyone affected, but in particular, the family of a man who suffered a cardiac arrest and died.
Telstra would roll out a software change to fix the technical issue that led to the triple zero outage by early April, Ms Brady said.
Victorian Ambulance Union secretary Danny Hill in March told AAP the death of the man during the outage was distressing for the family members involved and paramedics who tried to revive the patient in inner Melbourne.
He said the family struggled to get through to triple zero and later received a call back after their loved one had died.AAP


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Windsor fell to their fourth defeat in five games after they were beaten by Kew in Division 2a of the Thames Valley Cricket League on Saturday.
Having won the toss Kew elected to bat first and put together a tidy innings with Barney Atikins (56) getting his eye in for a half-century while Dave Ramsden (39) and S Vanden (42) also chipped in with solid knocks as the hosts build a competitive total of 221-10.
Chasing a target of 222, Kai Ziemkendorf (34) top scored for Windsor as they struggled to get near a well-built Kew total.
Chris Dixon (28) also chipped in with a healthy contribution but the visitors struggled to build a meaningful chase as Danish Zamen took five wickets for Kew in the
Windsor face a tough task this coming Saturday as they host title-chasing Eversely at Home Park.
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Storytime & Craft: International Dot Day Celebration
September 7 @ 10:30 am - 11:30 am
September 7, 10:30 am | All ages, with adult
Free with membership or paid admission | Family Art Studio
On the first Thursday of this month, join us in the Family Art Studio to celebrate the 20th anniversary of The Dot by Peter H. Reynolds. We’ll also be embarking on an exciting adventure with The Museum by Susan Verde. Both books are available at the Clarksville-Montgomery County Public Library. Inspired by the endearing characters and themes from the stories, our craft activity will revolve around creating a “snail dot” masterpiece.
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Продолжительность: 12 лекций по 30 минут
Год выпуска: 2008
Описание: В курсе лекций рассказывается о культуре Древней Греции, о вкладе древних греков в современную культуру, науку, искусство.
Matthew Arnold, English poet and literary critic, observed a century ago when considering our Darwinian ancestor—that "hairy quadruped with pointed ears and a tail..."—there seems to have been something in him "that inclined him to Greek."
Arnold was suggesting that our basic assumptions about virtually all of the major building blocks of our culture (law, government, religion, science, medicine, drama, architecture, and more) derived ultimately from the ancient Greeks.
In this course of 12 lectures you explore the continuing influence of the classical Greek achievement on contemporary life. The point of the lectures is not the often tedious claim that there is nothing new under the sun. Rather, it is to underscore the remarkable continuity of the Greek perspective and ethos preserved over several millennia.
Your guide to the Greek achievement is Professor Daniel N. Robinson, a member of the Philosophy faculty at Oxford University, where he has lectured annually since 1991. He is also Distinguished Professor, Emeritus, at Georgetown University, on whose faculty he served for 30 years. He was formerly Adjunct Professor of Psychology at Columbia University.
In his introduction, Professor Robinson traces the rise, fall, and return of Greek influence on Western culture. He then explores the "Greek Legacy" in specific aspects of our lives.
Literature and the Arts
Literature. Professor Robinson explains the profound Greek contribution:
"The great literary themes that have dominated creative writing over the past two millennia were developed and bequeathed to us by a handful of ancient Greek poets and dramatists. There is scarcely a corner of the 'human dilemma' not first uncovered and then illuminated in the works of Greek antiquity.
"To achieve this abiding influence, the literary minds of that culture must have understood what is virtually universal in the human experience—that is, what transcends time and place and lends itself to ready translation across cultures. In longing to know themselves and the world, Homer and his successors marked out the contours and dimensions of the human condition, and they created a literature that was at once diagnostic and therapeutic, individuated and trans-cultural."
In art and architecture, the Greeks remain an ideal. At the end of his illustrious life, Leonardo da Vinci complained that in all of his efforts he had failed to achieve "that one thing necessary": the symmetria prisca ("pure symmetry") of the ancient Greek world of art and architecture. You'll study this pure symmetry, its source, its influence on art, architecture, and even politics.
Learning, Science, and Medicine
Learning. You examine with Professor Robinson the Greek ideals in scholarship and the relationship they saw between what you study and who you become.
Science and Medicine. You study the origins of the modern scientific method in the mathematical deductions of Pythagoras and the explosively productive inductive inquiries of Aristotle.
You explore the origins of modern clinical medicine in the work of Hippocrates of Cos and the Greek writings of Galen.
The State and the Self
Government. You see what drove the Greeks to create trial by jury—and how this system created a new emphasis on individual responsibility.
And you study statecraft. Professor Robinson offers an overview of Greek achievement as follows:
"Contemporary notions of freedom, self-government, virtuous leadership, and a decent and flourishing civic life have their origins in the Athens of Pericles, Plato, and Aristotle. These men shaped the problems and possibilities of governance into nothing less than a political science, the terms of which have been remarkably preserved from their original understandings in ancient Athens.
"Nonetheless, our rather romantic conception of ancient Athenian 'democracy' conceals the bitter resentments that obtained among political factions in Athens, as well as the principled reservations about democracy recorded by Plato and Aristotle."
The Individual. In these lectures, you study:
the central importance of "character" in the Greek view of the individual—character which was evident early in life, which followed "types," and which greatly determined the course of one's behavior and life
"invention" of an ethical system that was not derived from received religious authority
the polis, the city, as the fundamental unit of human being.
The Perfectionist Ideal
The course examines the Greek ideal of perfection, a theme that runs through Greek art and architecture, drama and philosophy, and even to the Greek view of body and mind.
Though the perfectionist ideal remains summoning and central to us today, Professor Robinson examines its limitations. In striving for the ideal, the Greeks:
were often hostile to what was merely practical; while their abstract undertakings in science were remarkably inventive, experimentation and technology were undeveloped
showed a tendency to require life to justify its own existence—the elitism of the ideal can foster an instrumental view of life and the devaluation of lives that do not meet the standard
often depreciated the common sense of ordinary citizens
often depreciated the little pleasures of daily life that provide joy, if not transcendental meaning.
As Aristotle said in his Nichomachean Ethics: "The pleasure arising from thinking and learning will make us think and learn all the more." This course brings those joys in every lecture.
01. "Depth Psychology" From the Dance to the Drama
02. The Aesthetics of Harmony
03. The Invention of Scholarship
04. Science and the Nature of Things
05. The Hippocratics
06. The Rule of Law
08. Ancient Greek Religion
09. Character and Personality
10. The Moral Point of View
11. The City and the Civic Life
12. Perfectionism and the Greek Ideal
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The Calendar Girls musical
In 2012, Gary Barlow and Tim Firth began writing songs for a musical based on the tireless fundraisers.
The Girls opened at the Leeds Grand in 2015 and toured across the UK. The show received widespread acclaim and the cast opened the 2017 Olivier Awards. The musical continues to tour the UK throughout 2019, with a cast featuring Fern Britton and Anna-Jane Casey.
We held bucket collections at performances of Calendar Girls The Musical raising over £200,000 of vital funds for blood cancer.


Learn about LEDs.
In a half hour session I will teach you the history of the LED. You will learn how LEDs function. Lean how to wire and power them to use in art or home lighting projects. Learn how to color match the white spectrum (soft/warm, cool, daylight). Learn the process for dimming and color mixing RGB (red-green-blue) LEDs.


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Changemaker: Merit Chiamaka Olumba
Country of Implementation: Nigeria
Empowering Tomorrow’s Leader: Enhancing Civic Literacy Among Students in FCT, Nigeria.
Misinformation and disinformation can have a number of negative consequences for civic literacy. It can erode trust in democratic institutions, make it difficult for people to make informed decisions, and discourage them from participating in civic life.
To curb this menace, Merit Olumba and a group of five community changemakers in partnership with Global Changemakers decided to organize a ‘CIVIC LITERACY WORKSHOP’ in six secondary schools in Abuja, Nigeria. The project aims to equip secondary school students in the Federal Capital Territory (FCT), Nigeria, with essential skills to combat misinformation and foster informed civic engagement. Through a four-month workshop series across six schools, students aged 15-18 will delve into topics covering misinformation identification, fact-checking, critical thinking, and advocacy for active civic participation.
The workshops, led by seasoned facilitators and experts in news literacy, will engage students in interactive sessions, role plays, and access to valuable resources like fact-checking websites and online courses. This
initiative aims to empower over 500 students with the tools to navigate the digital landscape responsibly.
Join us in shaping a future where informed, engaged, and responsible citizens lead the way toward
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He just made a big mistake.
According to Breitbart News, Sen. Ron Johnson attacked former President Donald Trump supporters stating that they are “dangerous.”
“Obviously, leaders in Congress think walls and barriers work because they’ve surrounded the Capitol with them,” Johnson joked.
“[I]t’s amazing,” he added. “A month has gone by, and we still don’t know [what happened]. And yet, we have these eight-foot-tall fences with concertina wire completely surrounding the Capitol. We’ve been told they are going oh to be put in place sill March at least. Listen, the Capitol is the people’s house. It shouldn’t be barricaded unless there [are] some real threats that I’m not aware of that they are not telling us about.”
He added, “I think we ought to take that fencing down and return to as normal position as possible. I think the fencing is remaining in place to send a signal — a narrative that 74 million voters who voted for President Trump are dangerous to our democracy, they’re all insurrectionists, and that’s simply not the case.” You can watch a clip of Johnson’s remarks here.


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The thing weighs 72 pounds and it costs $2700. Ouch. The yellow one I tried out felt like an electric motorcycle, except for the on-off feel of the throttle setup – that didn’t feel like a motorcycle throttle at all, no sir/ ma’am. And the full suspension seems there mostly for looks, but with all the squatting and diving (just like your dad’s old Datsun 280ZX) you’ll never forget it’s there.
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Would it be a hard job for some people just to put it up on its kickstand? Yes. And then where would you park it?
The A2B is the Segway scooter of mopeds, it’s the Tesla Motors Roadster of mopeds. It’s not undesirable just because it’s expensive, it’s undesirable because it’s heavy (primarily, there are other factors as well). So, the people at Ultra motor might consider this product a high-end bicycle, just as the people at Tesla consider their Roadster a high-end exotic sports car. O.K. fine.
In short, two thumbs down.
But hey, if it makes you happy….
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The 23rd release on Soulvent comes from the rather unknown producer Prash Chouhan, otherwise known as Rho.
Hailing from Watford, UK, now furthering his production at the University of Leicester, Rho has delivered a killer release.
‘All Night’ opens with ethereal sweeps, percussive pops and a true sense of unease, backed by a filtered drum break. Progressing into a dark roller full of momentum with a pulsing bass that drives the scarce vocal sample into an all out heavy hitter.
Rho represents a new chapter in young UK talent and proves once again why Soulvent is the most exciting up and coming label around in the scene.
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Bonjour, je suis français (48 ans) et ma femme est roumaine.Bravo pour la carte, je l'attendais depuis longtemps, je vais pouvoir l'utiliser avec mon camion ROMAN.Pour l'instant aucun bug avec ets2 v.126.96.36.199s sur steam.Martial (firstname.lastname@example.org)
I love your work i have downloaded romania extended as wellBut i really hve much pleasure for as long as your loading screens mod exist, its fantastic to see those beautifull girls show while waiting a few seconds. I want to ask if you can tell me where you found these nice pictures so i can view a few of them on my screensaver.There is a tiny issue with the random showing of the pictures as i see almost allways a limited amount of pictures. Some in the mod kinda never show on my screen. It did not help to add the old pictures from the old version to the mod its most of the time limited to 4 pictures and once in a very long time i see one i seldom see.
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A novel permanent-magnet (PM) motor used in an integrated motor propeller (IMP) is designed. The motor has no bearings and employs a Halbach array in its rotor structure. Optimization is conducted in such aspects as PM structure, magnetizing angle of PM, and the best ratio of PM length to poles. The designed motor has a thinner rotor and a larger air gap, and a 3-D coupled-field finite element method (FEM) is used to analyze the temperature distribution of this water-cooled thruster. Losses in windings and stator core are calculated in 3-D eddy current field, and the loss is used as the input to calculate the thermal field. Furthermore, a multicomponent fluid method is proposed to deal with the influence from rotating rotor upon the water convection in the air gap. An experiment of this IMP is done under water and temperatures in it are obtained. The temperature results of experiment and calculation are in good agreement, verifying the effectiveness of the analyzing method proposed in this paper.


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The Human Welfare and Community Action Commission of Berkeley, charged with dealing with the issues of poverty in Berkeley is under fire for bypassing their central mission and instead focusing on the Israel/Palestinian issue.
Berkeley City Councilman Darryl Moore, appalled at the misuse of the commission, terminated his appointee after she refused to withdraw the matter. Cheryl Davila had been a commissioner since 2009.
Anti-Israel groups packed the South Berkeley Senior Center last Wednesday evening to urge the commission to pass a divestment from Israel resolution. Three supporters of Israel also addressed the council.
The events in Berkeley highlight the narcissism at the core of the BDS movement, and the hypocritical willingness of anti-Israel activists to sacrifice anything to achieve their goals- including those they purport to represent.
Hundreds of Palestinians lost their jobs because of the BDS vendetta against Sodastream. On Wednesday night, the same phenomenon was on display. Berkeley’s poor were simply collateral damage as JVP and AROC pushed to have the resolution passed.
The long discredited Berkeley Daily Planet has picked up the cause, printing verbatim a press release by local anti-Israel activists. In a desperate attempt to tie the resolution into her Commission’s mandate, Cheryl Davila is quoted as saying the war in Gaza caused a “ severe social welfare crisis, particularly for children, women, and the elderly in Gaza.”
Commissioners voted to revise the resolution, in an attempt to get other Berkeley Commissions to endorse it. Voting will likely take place at the Human Welfare and Community Action Commission October 21st meeting.
What can you do?
Drop the Human Welfare and Community Action Commissioners an email, urging them to avoid distracting, divisive foreign policy proclamations, and to focus on the very real problems of Berkeley.
And please, come to the Oct 21 meeting, and let your voice be heard
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Greg Hull, security chief for the American Public Transportation Association, said Friday the transit systems are at "code yellow-plus" following the bulletin about a possible terror plot from the FBI and the Homeland Security Department.
CBS News Correspondent Stephanie Lambidakis reports the warning urged rail and bus industry personnel to step up security and passenger screening.
U.S. officials said they had received uncorroborated intelligence reports about a plot by terrorists to target commercial transportation systems but had no information about specific cities or dates.
A senior federal law enforcement official, speaking Friday on condition of anonymity, said the intelligence, coupled with the deadly commuter train bombings in Madrid, in which bombs went off inside backpacks, has increased the level of wariness about a similar attack in the United States.
"It should not be considered unusual that the FBI should issue this kind of a bulletin in the wake of what occurred in Madrid last month," the Amtrak passenger railroad said in a statement.
Homeland Security spokesman Brian Roehrkasse said information in the bulletin was being shared via the National Law Enforcement Telecommunications System to ensure proper security measures are implemented nationwide.
Officials said the message was sent mainly out of an abundance of caution, and the threat - deemed "somewhat credible" by one official - was not causing undue alarm throughout the government.
The nation's terror alert level remains at yellow, or elevated, the midpoint of the five-color scale. It was last raised to orange, or high, on Dec. 21 amid suspicions about terror attacks using commercial aircraft. The level returned to yellow on Jan. 10.
Passengers could see changes because of the bulletin. Federal officials are encouraging local transit authorities to conduct random passenger inspections and security sweeps of stations and to increase public announcements encouraging people to report unattended baggage or suspicious behavior.
Intelligence indicates a plot might involve bombs made of ammonium nitrate fertilizer and diesel fuel, similar to the explosive concealed in a rental truck that blew up the Oklahoma City federal building in 1995. Both items are readily available.
The improvised bombs would be concealed in luggage and carry-on bags, such as backpacks or duffel bags, and detonated either aboard buses or trains or in transportation stations, the government warning says.
on suspicion of being involved in a possible terrorist plot that included the discovery of 1,000 pounds of ammonium nitrate.
And police in Thailand say suspected Islamic rebels.
In addition to Oklahoma City, ammonium nitrate was used in the 2002 blast in Bali, at the World Trade Center in 1993 and in Pakistan in mid-March of this year. In years past, the Irish Republican Army used ammonium nitrate in attacks in London and in Northern Ireland.
Al Qaeda and other terrorist groups have "demonstrated the intent and capability" of attacking public transportation systems using a variety of bombs, the bulletin says. Attacks in Israel, Greece, Turkey, Spain and elsewhere have used suicide bombers or triggered bombs with timers and cell phones.
Between 1997 and 2000, more than 195 terror attacks occurred on transit systems worldwide, congressional investigators say.
On Friday,connected to a detonator with a 450-foot cable under tracks of a high-speed railway between Madrid and Seville.
In France, authorities last month found a bomb half-buried on a train track some 100 miles southeast of Paris andin connection with an investigation into a mysterious group's threats to bomb French railways.
In Boston, which is preparing for the Democratic National Convention in July, commuters have gotten used to increased security on public transit.
So news that security could be tightened even more in response to the new warning didn't faze most residents, who accepted it as a necessity after the 2001 terrorist attacks.
"If it can help make us a whole lot safer, the inconvenience is worth it," said Queen Owens, a 44-year-old Boston medical assistant. "After Sept. 11, I think we should all be worried a little bit. What's to prevent a surprise from really happening again?"
The warning was taken in stride in other cities as well.
Gabriel Banda, 19, of Dallas, who rides the bus every day, said he would not vary his plans because "What are the chances of that happening here?"
He was skeptical of any increases in security that include baggage screening. "Almost everyone in DART is carrying a bag. To search all those bags on one ride, it just would annoy everybody."
Massachusetts Gov. Mitt Romney asked the state public safety secretary to work with transit authorities to develop "more robust plans" to protect citizens on public transportation. He said officials would consider a number of options, including baggage screening and limiting access to parking facilities.
Dallas-based Greyhound Lines Inc. said Friday it already had a plan in place to deal with security for each terror threat level.
However, when a bulletin is issued, like the one given to law enforcement agencies Thursday night, company officials tell employees to be extra vigilant, said company spokeswoman Lynn Brown.
Dallas Area Rapid Transit Police Chief Juan Rodriguez said the 193-officer force has taken no extra precautions because it has been on a higher level of alert since the 2001 attacks.
In Chicago, a spokesman for the Metro commuter rail service said security was increased after Sept. 11 and last month's train bombings in Madrid, and that those security measures remained in place.
Spokesman Tom Miller said it would be difficult to secure everything all the time.
"The question is asked, 'Why can't you seal off train stations like airports?' We have a completely open system, with over 200 stations in our system. They are impossible to seal off like airports," he said.
More than 9 billion trips are taken each year on the U.S. public transportation system, with 32 million trips every weekday - about 16 times the number of trips taken on airlines, according to the American Public Transportation Association.
The association estimates that $6 billion is needed to upgrade and modernize U.S. transit systems to meet security needs. The Transportation Security Administration dedicated only $10 million for passenger rail and public transit security in the current year's budget, according to the House Homeland Security Committee.
"Failure to invest in the security of passenger rail and public transit could leave these critical systems vulnerable to terrorist attack," the committee's Democrats said in a letter to Homeland Security Secretary Tom Ridge. "Making these systems as safe as they can be from terrorist attack must be a high priority."
After the Madrid bombings, the Homeland Security Department announced a series of security initiatives, but with no major new funding plans.


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On November 30, megachurch pastor Bob Bryant died from COVID-19 complications days after contracting the virus.
Bryant, pastor of the multisite, nondenominational Water of Life Community Church in Fontana, Calif., was rushed into the COVID intensive care unit at a local hospital but his health worsened soon after being admitted.
“He was only in the hospital for a matter of hours and they put him on a respirator. And then a few hours after that, he had a heart attack,” Bryant’s wife, Lori, said.
Bryan began exhibiting symptoms while he and his family were on vacation, and his wife and one of their children also tested positive but had no symptoms. Lori said that her husband’s symptoms quickly advanced to bilateral aggressive COVID pneumonia and he had kidney failures before he passed.
Bryant’s death is a huge blow to Water of Life’s church leadership and is yet another heartbreaking development in a year full of disappointment and sadness. Naturally, anyone who has read about these events will likely have their own interpretation of how they came to pass.
However, there are several ways that people who observe these events from afar should not react to Bob Bryant’s passing.
1. Do not use Bryant’s death as an example of how church gatherings are dangerous.
Throughout the pandemic, the right to religious freedom has been so heavily under attack by certain governors (including California’s Gavin Newsom) that it took a Supreme Court ruling to protect churches’ First Amendment right to gather for worship. Churches had previously been shut down or heavily restricted to prevent a potential spread of COVID-19.
Water of Life had been holding outdoor services until Oct. 31, when it began having in-person services with both social distancing and facemasks required. The church also offered outdoor services using a large screen and online services for anyone who didn’t feel comfortable worshiping inside. Bryant’s wife has indicated that her husband did have underlying health issues and had always taken every recommended precaution to protect himself and others.
Despite their best efforts, Bryant still contracted the coronavirus and died.
Now that a pastor of a church has died from COVID, many will assume that Bryant’s death is a direct result of holding in-person church. However, we simply do not know if this is the case and it would be inappropriate to assume so. Bryant could have been exposed in any number of daily activities outside of his occupation, so we cannot pinpoint the church’s in-person meetings as the reason he passed.
2. Do not assume that meeting in large gatherings means someone will die.
One of the widely accepted guidelines for safety from contracting COVID-19 is that one should avoid large gatherings to limit your contact with people who might be sick. According to this logic, a service at a megachurch would be something one would want to avoid.
Nevertheless, large gatherings are not as unsafe as they seem. Newsom and Chicago Mayor Lori Lightfoot have both been in close proximity with large numbers of people (Newsom at a birthday party inside of a restaurant and Lightfoot at a protest), and thousands of people gathered for Trump rallies in the month before the presidential election. None of these gatherings led to anyone’s deaths.
Thus, gathering in large crowds does not automatically mean someone will die. While it might be easier to contract the virus, that is a risk the public must take when trying to conduct their lives as normally as possible, just like Water of Life did when they decided to have in-person services again.
3. Do not politicize his death to support a specific narrative.
In today’s politically charged climate, most events are used to bolster the credibility of one agenda or another. While it may be tempting to do this with Bryant’s death, we must refrain and instead show compassion.
A church has just lost a pastor, a wife has just lost her husband, and children have just lost their father. This should be enough to move the heart to sadness and compassion and to put aside all political biases. The Bryant family and Water of Life community need prayer and support, not accusations and judgment.
Bryant’s death is a tragedy, but it is not completely without hope. A faithful servant of the Lord has gone home to receive his reward, and in that the body of Christ can find joy. We should keep that as our focus and refrain from inappropriate reactions to his passing.


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The Equipment Leasing and Finance Association, a trade association that represents companies in the equipment finance sector, had been pushing back against some of the earlier versions of the new lease accounting standard that were proposed in recent years, but it is satisfied with the final standard.
“We’ve been at this a long time, and the standard that’s just been announced today and issued is a far cry from where it was a few years ago,” ELFA president and CEO Ralph Petta told Accounting Today. “Even before that there were some conceptual models that were being kicked around that were very, very detrimental to the industry. We’re delighted that the FASB has been very open and basically took a lot of the feedback that they received from organizations like ours, businesses, lessees, lessors, the analyst community, and they really did what they thought was in the best interest of commercial enterprises here in the United States who essentially book a trillion dollars’ worth of lease transactions, so we’re gratified that things came out the way they did.”
FASB unveiled the long-awaited standard Thursday after a decade of work on trying to converge it with the International Accounting Standards Board with the goal of having operating leases appear on company balance sheets (see FASB Releases Lease Accounting Standard).
“Leases are going to go on balance sheets,” said Petta. “That’s an accounting construct, but the good thing is the P&L, the income statement doesn’t change, so there’s still going to be a two-lease model here in the United States, which is not the case in the rest of the world. The IASB adopted the one-lease model where are all leases are treated as finance leases, so they preserved what we think is the best of lease accounting, which has been for the past 30 years of so, which is differentiating between the two types of lease transactions. We’re pleased that things came out the way they did. A lot of hard work and a lot of people doing things and pulling in the same direction, which was a good thing.”
FASB worked closely with trade associations, accounting groups and other constituents while readying the new standard.
“I think the standards have benefited significantly from the constructive feedback that we’ve had from all our constituents, both preparers doing that through associations or directly, as well as investors,” said FASB vice chair Jim Kroeker. “As you would expect when you’re making change, not everyone is at the outset as happy with the change as everyone else. We will continue to be available for outreach particularly as it relates to successful implementation.”
Petta doesn’t believe the equipment leasing companies will have much trouble adjusting to the new standard.
“It won’t be a very onerous process,” he said. “The FASB has given U.S. companies a few years to transition to the new rules, so public companies will have until 2019, and private companies will have to come online in 2020, so there will be time to transition to the new rules. Some of our member companies have already started looking at that, and we have been pretty diligent in keeping our members, the lessor community, abreast of all the changes. Oddly enough, we hear some anecdotal information that there are some pockets of lessees and customers of our members that really haven’t been paying much attention until the actual rules were issued, so those people who haven’t really been paying attention, are going to have to do so because it’s pretty much a done deal.”
But Petta doesn’t anticipate much change in economic behavior or the popularity of equipment leases. “The good thing is we’re heartened by the fact that we do not expect behavior to change,” he said. “When companies perform a lease vs. buy analysis, all of the reasons that lease financing makes a lot of sense in the United States, and the reason that there’s a trillion-plus dollars in new business volume transacted every year, is because there are a lot of positives and a lot of advantages to choosing a financing product over a straight debt or sale product. We really don’t anticipate that the rules are going to impact lessee behavior in selecting the financial product that they use to acquire equipment.”


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Once, when I was deeply in love with a musician, I moved to Paekākāriki. Back in town my perfectly nice flatmates and I had started irking one another, my shy boyfriend felt uncomfortable around them and it felt like the whole housing arrangement was about to go sour. I was already beginning to feel nervous about the things I was doing wrong, and I knew before long anything good that was left in the house would be overwhelmed with awkwardness and suppressed anger.
G. was a trumpet player, and I'd wait for him after busking stints loving the melancholy hooting that drifted down Cuba Street. He thought Miles Davis was a genius and was so in love with On-U Sound System, his desperation for a sequencer to do his own take landed him a loan from his mother. Thousands on what you doubtless get on a phone now. It was a sweet anguished time. I bailed the city and took over a boarding arrangement from my friend Amanda. She was boarding with the grandmother of twin anarchists we both knew through activism. The house was a rambling california-style bungalow perched brown and beautiful on a hill above the railway line. It was a house of possibilities, semi-rural and demi-glamorous.
The house was divided in two. The grandmother lived in one half of the house with the kitchen and her bedroom with its windows looking out to a small aviary and a large bay window in her half of the lounge.
In theory I shared the other half with a man was renting the room up the steep steps and the view out across the garden but he was never there. I think he stayed with cousins somewhere else in the village. I rented the downstairs room which had its own leafy bay window. Once, lying on my futon with G., a huge weta crawled over my face. I liked to think of myself as robust and outdoorsy but it unnerved me, those huge prehistoric legs all over me.
To get to the kitchen you went on to the porch through huge french doors, and around the back of the house to an adjoining part of the house. I shared the bathroom with the grandmother. There was no shower only a bath, but it must have been summer because I remember swimming.
One weekend two friends of mine came from up and down country and the four of us spent the night talking and laughing. We were city kids all of us, and terrified ourselves by hearing loud breathing noises outside. Every time we ventured to the kitchen we ran back panicking sure something was watching it all. G. fluctuated and tried to persuade us to calm down coming up with explanations but deep down we all knew it was the darker side of humanity. Eventually we figured out it was happening when cars swinging around the corner shone their lights into the dark bush around the house. And later, chagrined in the light of morning, we figured out it was possums.
It was my first time living alone. G. and I had so many intense moments it couldn't possibly be sustained. I'd stay with his flat in the weekends or he'd come out for a few hectic heavenly days. We saw no-one and did nothing but be together. We burnt ourselves out and saw less and less of each other. I felt stranded in a strange land. Some nights I was aghast with loneliness and I felt shaky with the need to be with someone. I wasn't picky but human companionship was a hunger larger than any I'd experienced. I would drink tea with the grandmother, sheltering in her kitchen. Sometimes watching television. She loved birds, and we went once with her son, an academic visiting from Malaysia, to Staglands. Birds and a odd motley collection of other animals.
Thinking now, maybe the loneliness was just once, maybe it was just one big panicked night, the mood so large it splays out in my memory. Years later a friend, prone to axioms, said 'We are not meant to eat alone'. I thought of the doves cooing, and the weta on my face, and the cups hanging in the grandmother's kitchen.
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Players have complained about a variety of issues, including long queues and frequent crashes, which cause them to lose their position in the queue. A number of people believe that the queue system should not have been implemented in the first place, while others believe that the game's code issues should have been addressed before it was made available for purchase on the market.
As an additional point of clarification, according to this original poster, the game's issues are more serious than most people realize, and that the entire Game Creation/Joining interface could and should be completely reworked with advanced filters, fast responsiveness, and ease of use, and that there is no reason why this cannot be completed by 2021 with no impact on the game's gameplay.
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I’ve been drawing ever since I could pick up a pencil and fell in love with animation, after watching the Lion King in theatres! I went to Pasadena City College to build my art skills during that time I also worked in radio. After 4 years I applied to ArtCenter College of Deign and got my BA in Illustration Entertainment Arts. Read more>>
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The Prison offered a secret way of Escape. But even as the man agreed, he felt its hidden laughter. They played for a year and a day. The lights stayed dark. The dead were fsher removed.
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Food was not provided. The Prison ignored the cries of its inmates. Sapphique was the man. He had one riddle left. He said, “What is the Key that unlocks the heart? Then it said, “If I ever knew the answer, I have forgotten it.
Jared slept beneath them, uneasy in the rustling leaves. From the battlements Finn gazed up at them, seeing the impossible distances between galaxies and nebulae, and thinking they were not as wide as the distances between people. In the study Claudia sensed them, in the sparks and crackles on the screen. In the prison, Attia dreamt of them, She sat curled on the hard chair, Rix repacking his hidden pockets obsessively with coins and glass discs and hidden handkerchiefs.
A single spark flickered deep in the coin Keiro spun and caught, spun and caught. And the words of that have never been written down. But it was sweet and of great beauty, and those that heard it were changed utterly. Some say it was the song that moves the stars. And all he had found was a new prison. Not to its Prisoners. Every prison is a universe for its inmates. And think, Jared Sapiens. Might not the Realm also be tiny, swinging from the watchchain of some being in a world even vaster?
I love you, Master. He made a coat that would transform him; he would be more than a man; a winged creature, beautiful as light. All the birds brought him feathers. It means I have to teach you all my tricks. All the substitutions, the replications, the illusions. How to read minds and palms and leaves.
How to disappear and reappear. And then Sapphique climbed over the fense and killed the many-headed monster and picked the apple, because he wanted to know, you see. He wanted to know how to Escape. She was close to his pocked face. Or give it to me.
How much of a nothing he was. He would see catgerine as a speck in the vastness of the Prison. Animals fled; people pointed up.
He flew so far, he saw the sky above him and the sky said, “Turn back, my son, for you have climbed too high. This time I beat on you xapphique you open. As the Dragon I give you my hand. Now you have crawled and clambered into my heart I can’t see you anymore. Are you still there? Sapphiqye could you let me fall? I thought I was your son. It seems I am your fool.
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No one can break in or out. The Warden will hold the sole Key. Should he die without passing on his knowledge, the Esoterica must be opened.
But only by his successor. For these things are forbidden now. And the petals will fall to the ground like snow. They saw his coat was feathered like the wings of the swan when it dies, when it sings its secret song. And he opened the door that none of them had seen until now. Just a moment while we sign you in to your Goodreads account.