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When most of us get up in the morning we have a good idea of what we need to, or want to do that day. We have To Do lists or check a daily planner that we check. Sometimes our day actually goes the way we hoped it would go. Many times it does not. What is our reaction when things don’t go our way? Frustration? Anger? Depression? Anxiety? Usually our reaction depends on the extent to which we are inconvenienced or the magnitude of the interruption of our plans, or whether we perceive the change of plans as positive or negative.
A few days ago I went out to the soccer field at the home for needy children where I cooperate with God in blessing poor children. I am the gardener and one of my jobs is to water the soccer field every morning. It’s usually a simple, mundane task. I go into the room that houses the water pump, push the power lever up, the pump goes on and the playing field is irrigated.
On this particular day, I found the door locked. I never lock it. Evidently someone, probably one of the kids, was fooling around and inadvertently closed the door and locked it. I had to walk back to my house, find the key and unlock it. My plans for the day had already been thrown off kilter, although mildly. With key in hand I trudged back to the pump house, unlocked the door, and threw the power switch. The 5h.p. pumped roared to life, but no water came out of the sprinkler.
The pump had lost its prime, which happens occasionally. I keep a water bucket handy just in case. Normally the water bucket actually has water in it, or I can dip it into the 10,000 liter cistern to fill it up. That day the bucket was dry and the cistern too low to get any water. I had to take the bucket to a faucet, fill it up, and carry it back to prime the pump. A bumpy start to my well planned day. I had an uneasy feeling that this was not going to be my day. Fortunately, when I turned on the power, water shot out of the sprinkler, and I was back to my regularly scheduled day.
I tell this story to illustrate a point. When something interrupts my plans or expectations, I think negatively. In the account above, I blamed irresponsible kids for locking the door. When I had to go for water, I figured it was going to be “one of those days!” Maybe your the same way. It’s what the old positive thinker, Zig Zigler called “stinking thinking”. What if we considered every interruption of our plans, an interruption by a God who loves us and wants us to be happy?
A verse that I have been thinking about a lot lately is 1 Corinthians 2:9, “Eye has not seen, ear has not heard, and no mind has conceived what God has prepared for those who love him.” One reason that I have been thinking about this verse is that I listened to a teaching on YouTube from Dallas Willard. He mentioned that when he goes to teach or preach, that he prepares thoroughly, but that he also hopes and expects that when he is teaching, something unexpected will happen. He wants something that he has not prepared for to happen. Why? Because of 1Corinthians 2:9. He loves God and hopes that God has prepared something for him that he has not conceived of.
What a great attitude. I want that attitude. I want to constantly have the mindset that when something I have not prepared for happens, that it is a gift from God who loves me and wants me to be happy. A God who knows everything and who knows me better than I know myself. He created me and knows what makes me tick, therefore he throws things in my path from time to time that I have not prepared for or conceived of.
I think that we have all been going about our day and out of the blue we find some money. Maybe a ten dollar bill in the gutter, or a couple of bucks in the washing machine. How do we feel? Great. It’s a pleasant surprise to find money. It’s something unexpected that we didn’t prepare for. I think we should have the same attitude toward whatever unexpected event happens in our lives. Even if on the surface it appears bad or negative. As Christians we know that ALL THINGS work together for those who love God and are called according to His purpose (Rom. 8:28). We also know that IN EVERYTHING we should give thanks, for this is God’s will (1 Thes. 5).
The greatest, unexpected thing happened over two thousand years ago in a stable in the small town of Bethlehem. God became flesh and dwelt among us. No one saw that coming. No one had ever conceived of such a thing. A savior, Our Savior was born! Who would have thought? Who could have known? Nobody. But God did it because he loves us and wants us to be happy.
So how about, the next time that we are having one of those days, and nothing seems to be going right, we pause for a minute and thank God for intervening in our well planned, well organized day, because He has prepared something better for us.


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This project developed in Lithuania country, total 226 square meters in build up this design. The river homes mostly build in the vacant space inside of river otherwise Eco surrounding. Fully Natural Surroundings in build this home so atmosphere such as very feeling comfortable.
Embedding the modern river house into the sloped surroundings made it easier to keep a constant temperature with such a great glass wall overlooking the panoramas. Geothermal heating and smart natural air supply systems optimize operation costs, while natural materials integrate the modern river house in its surroundings.

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Automechanika 2012 closed its doors today after setting a new record of 4,593 exhibitors from 74 countries. Around 148,000 visitors from 174 countries (2010: 153,837 ) came to Frankfurt for the world’s leading trade fair for the automotive sector. “The aftermarket is booming and, despite the current economic disruptions, Automechanika has once again proved to be a reliable constant”, said Detlef Braun, Member of the Executive Board of Messe Frankfurt. “With an increase in the number of visitors from East Europe and Russia coupled with a decline in numbers from South Europe, Automechanika reflects the current situation in the world economy”, added Detlef Braun. This observation was underscored by Klaus Burger, President of the Federal Association of Manufacturers and Importers of Automobile Service Equipment (Bundesverband der Hersteller und Importeure von Automobil-Service Ausrüstungen ASA e.V.), who said, “Although visitors from South Europe had scarcity value, there was a very large number from Germany, the Benelux countries and East Europe.” As was to be expected, German exhibitors and visitors see the current economic climate in a more positive light than their colleagues from other nations.
The results of the exhibitor poll indicate that the quality of visitors to the fair has risen further in comparison to Automechanika 2010. 70 percent of all exhibitors were satisfied to extremely satisfied with the quality of visitors to the fair compared to 64 percent at the last Automechanika. In particular, German exhibitors reported being able to make more new contacts than in 2010 (from 62 to 67 percent).
In terms of content, this year’s Automechanika, which covered 305,000 m² at the fully-booked-up Exhibition Centre, struck the right notes with three main themes: ‘Truck Competence’, e-mobility and basic and advanced training. “The idea of spotlighting ‘Truck Competence’ at the fair was a great success among both visitors and exhibitors because many of our body-repair shops and garages work on both cars and trucks. Promoting young people is also important for us and, with its workshops and training events, the fair was spot on in this respect, too. Both concepts are capable of expansion – and represent a significant additional benefit for visitors”, said Peter Börner, President of the German Federation of Body and Automotive Engineering (Zentralverband Karosserie- und Fahrzeugtechnik e.V. – ZKF).
Siegbert Müller, Head of Carbon Sales and CEO of Miracle-Europe GmbH, also supports Automechanika in this respect: “We were one of the sponsors of the new workshops in the Galleria, for which numerous visitors registered in advance of the fair, and we will be happy to help again in the future, if required. For us, Automechanika is a market place unparalleled anywhere in the world. This was our sixth time here because the fair is extremely important for our export business – once again, we have been able to make contacts with people from all around the globe. Naturally, we also made numerous high-quality contacts with visitors from Germany.
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With a turnover of € 467.5 million and 1,725 employees worldwide, Messe Frankfurt is Germany’s biggest trade-fair organiser. The Messe Frankfurt Group has a global network of 28 subsidiaries and around 50 international Sales Partners, giving it a presence for its customers in more than 150 countries. Events ‘made by Messe Frankfurt’ take place at more than 30 locations around the globe. In 2011, Messe Frankfurt organised 100 trade fairs, of which more than half took place outside Germany Messe Frankfurt’s exhibition grounds, featuring 578,000 square metres, are currently home to ten exhibition halls and an adjacent Congress Centre. The company is publicly owned, with the City of Frankfurt holding 60 percent and the State of Hesse 40 percent.

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Open source middleware provider Emic Networks today renamed itself Continuent and announced a new database virtualization technology designed to extend high availability and scalability with major databases. Open source middleware provider Emic Networks today renamed itself Continuent and announced a new database virtualization technology designed to extend high availability and scalability across major databases.
Tbe news comes on the first day of the Open Source Business Conference in Newton, Mass. The new products are based on a virtualization technology will "significantly increase our market reach," Eero Teerikorpi, CEO of Continuent, said. "Our focus has been on MySQL, but MySQL is not enough and we're now expanding to support Microsoft SQL Server, Oracle and Sybase."
The company decided to make the name change to Continuent because "Emic never really meant anything. We wanted to better communicate what we do," Teerikorpi said. "Continuent provides business continuity in the enterprise by guaranteeing the highest availability and scalability."
Continuent's open source based database virtualization technology is designed to abstract both commerical and open source databases, presenting it as a virtualized database to an application. The result, according to Continuent, is seamless fail-over capabilities with vertical and horizontal scalability and load balancing that are transparent to the application layer.
"Today, data availability is the lifeblood of enterprise success," Teerikorpi said, "Yet current options are simply too narrow to meet the needs of enterprises that are increasingly reliant on data to serve their employees, customers and partners."
Continuent m/cluster (for MySQL) p/cluster (for PostgreSQL) are designed to provide transparent failover and disaster recovering services for all transactions, and automatic continuity at the transaction level with no lost transactions. "Typically, today if a database goes down, any transaction will fail and the user will get an error message. However, our middleware level captures the transaction," Teerikorpi said.
The virtualization technology is designed to provide the right level of performance by scaling to meet application needs. This includes adding low-cost commodity hardware while maintaining the image of a single large database to the application tiers.
"The scalability inherently is not limited," Teerikorpi said. "Practically," he added "there probably is a limit, but we tested it with 64 databases." To ensure the optimal use of hardware investments, a variety of load-balancing configurations are possible, the company says.
Because it supports heterogeneous applications, Teerikorpi said, the technology is "perfect for migration if you are moving from, say, Oracle 8 running on Solaris to Oracle 10 running on Linux." To manage the database environment, a single graphical management console is designed to provide a global view of the virtual databases and the database cluster. Alerts and administrative tools can be generated to notify users of system status.
Continuent m/cluster for MySQL is available immediately with pricing starting at $4,995 per database CPU. p/cluster for PostgreSQL, uni/cluster (universal database support), ms/cluster for Microsoft SQL Server and s/cluster for Sybase will be available in early 2006, Teerikorpi said. Continuent o/cluster for Oracle will available later in 2006, he added. Pricing for those versions has not been determined. "Prices may be slightly higher than for the m/cluster, but we haven't decided yet," he said.
Last month, the company launched Continuent.org, an open source portal and community dedicated to high availability and scalability services for databases and related technologies. The goal of the portal, according to Continuent, is to provide a framework for solving the issues of high availability and scalability associated with either databases used in a heterogeneous environment or tailored to a specific database.
Dan Muse is executive editor of ServerWatch, internet.com's Small Business Channel and EarthWeb's Networking Channel.

industry_corpus2: Computing & Telecommunications


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It is a useful tool. I'd like to see what I type on my Android Tablet.
A layout editor for win/mac/linux?
is there a layout designer for pc?


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Live slots tournaments: These as the name suggests are live competitions where players from around the world can compete against each other in real time on online slot machines. Players can keep track of their positions on the “leaderboard” where you can see your position relative to others in the same slot tournament. The more you win in the slot tournament the more your “win box” will increase along with your rank on the leaderboard. So it is easy for you to keep track of how much you would win if your position remained unchanged in the slot tournament. Players compete for a prize pool or “the pot” which is often of significant value for live slots tournaments. Such slots tournaments are built into online casino software and one only has to navigate to them from the casino lobby in order to play.
Buy in slot tournament: A slot tournament with a buy in amount is not open to all players for free. Players will have to buy in to the tournament for a specified amount in order to take part. From 0.1 cents to $500.
Freeroll: Freeroll tournaments are free slot tournaments which are open to all and free for anybody to join and compete without paying. These are often used to reward loyal customers. There are always free slot tournaments available in top casinos.
Rebuy: A rebuy is an amount paid in the slot tournament in order to remain in the same competition by paying a specified fee. It is like starting over in the tournament or trying again. However your win box will return to zero. In affect you are asking for another go. Your position on the “leaderboard” however will remain unchanged. Thus your best score between all your rebuys will be taken for your final placing when the slot tournament ends.
Continue: A continue as the name suggests is an opportunity to build on your current score for a specified fee. If you choose to continue your winbox will remain unchanged and you will add to your current score. A continue usually gives you half the play time and half the coins compared to a rebuy but allows you to build a big score to reach the top of the leaderboard.
Scheduled slots Tournaments: These are slots tournaments that start at a specific time. Players are usually notified by email or another form of communication. Thus these are usually invite only competitions for online casino promotions.
Sit ‘n go slots tournaments: These slots tournaments are not by invitation and are open to all. Play in these tournaments will begin as soon as enough players have joined to cover the prize split of the prize pool.
Play Time: Play time is the duration or minutes one can play for. This can be increased by selecting the “continue” option.
Tournament Coins: When a player joins the slot tournament he/she will be allocated with a set number of coins when play begins. They have no value anywhere else but in the tournament. Everyone will start on the same number of coins. These coins may be used up before time expires.
Leader board: A leader board is a way for player to keep track of their positions in live slots tournaments. It is essentially a list where each player is currently standing in the slot tournament relative to others. Joe may see that his place is 14th and he needs on reach 10th place to win an extra $2000.
Alias: Every person that wants to take part in a slot tournament will need to register an “alias”. An “alias” is a name you have chosen to represent yourself in the tournament. If you don’t have an alias you can easily set one up by following the quick easy steps that appear when you attempt to enter a tournament. Your “alias” will show up on the “leader board”.

industry_corpus2: Gaming


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Several entities are calling on the US Food and Drug Administration (FDA) to make changes to its recently released draft guidance on medical device cybersecurity, saying the guidance-which is intended to ensure that devices aren't easily susceptible to unauthorized intrusions or errors-either goes too far, doesn't go far enough or just needs changes in general.
The last several years have brought a drumbeat of warnings from security researchers, analysts and government agencies regarding the susceptibility of medical devices to hacking attempts. Several government reports, including ones from the US Department of Homeland Security (DHS) and the National Institute of Standards and Technology (NIST), called on FDA to do more to ensure the safety of devices.
In June 2013, FDA answered that call, releasing a draft guidance document recommending that device manufacturers submit proof that their devices adhere to three principles: confidentiality, integrity and availability.
As the failure to ensure those principles might result in injury or death in patients, FDA said that companies that fail to consider the cybersecurity of their devices might be denied approval under its risk framework.
Then, in July 2013, FDA also announced its intent to launch a cybersecurity testing laboratory to "fuzz"--a process which subjects a piece of software to a barrage of unintended input data to find defects-medical devices in the hopes of finding vulnerabilities before a device makes it to market.
That fuzzing process is set to run off software developed by Codenomicon, a security testing company which recently weighed in on FDA's draft guidance, saying FDA needs to institute fuzzing requirements for all devices that are reliant on software for their proper functioning.
The risk, Codenomicon explains, lies primarily in zero-day exploits-those unknown to either the company or security researchers before it is exploited or triggered. Fuzzing requirements, the company said, would allow these defects to be fixed prior to the release of the product, "resulting in a safer, more robust and more secure product."
As a result, the company said it "strongly recommend[s] that FDA's guidance includes generational fuzzing, a testing technique for locating unknown vulnerabilities in all types of software, as a method of mitigating zero-day threats."
"In addition, premarket submissions should include test results demonstrating that the submitted product has passed all applicable generational fuzz testing," the company continued in its docket submission in the Federal Register.
Other entities have also weighed in on the draft guidance, including the Center for Internet Security (CIS), a nonprofit security firm. In comments submitted to FDA's docket, CIS highlighted a perceived shortcoming of FDA's guidance: It's a guidance.
In other words, it is by its very nature non-binding, as opposed to a regulation, which is grounded in statute. Rather, a guidance is merely a strong suggestion that illustrates FDA's public understanding, and is most often intended to expedite approvals. Calling this a "major constraint," CIS said that even if FDA intends to place the cybersecurity testing components under its overall risk analysis for devices, the agency still lacks enforcement authority with which to compel compliance.
And this, too, raises another question: What is to be done about devices already on the market? FDA's guidance calls for all new devices to submit cybersecurity risk data, but says nothing about already-marketed products.
"Perhaps there will be forthcoming guidance for post-approval medical devices," CIS wrote, adding that it hopes this does occur given the large number of "vulnerable devices already in use in/by healthcare facilities … around the country." The ability to force these devices to make improvements would ultimately benefit patients, the group postulated.
CIS also commended FDA for the issuance of what it called "high-level" guidance, but recommended a narrower, more "prescriptive" approach to determine exactly which standards should be followed and how devices should be configured depending device type. Bringing together a working group of experts would prove useful in this regard, CIS added.
And while many independent security experts weighed in, one comment from Lawrence Rochowicz stands out for its similarities to an issue that many generic pharmaceutical companies have complained about: access. In 2007, when FDA formalized Risk Evaluation and Mitigation Strategies (REMS) plans, which were intended to require some companies to submit plans to make it more difficult or misuse or abuse certain (i.e. riskier or more dangerous) products, some generic pharmaceutical companies complained that branded companies were engineering the restrictions to ensure that generic competitors could not get hold of their product to make copies of it.
Rochowicz's comments make close parallels to this scenario, saying he is "concerned that this document will be used by medical equipment manufactures to "severely limit" or "completely lock-out" all non-manufacture medical equipment servicers (i.e. hospital in-house certified clinical/biomedical engineers) from access to service and diagnostic tools required to assemble, install, adjusted, calibrate, test and perform maintenance on the medical equipment used on our patients."
"Manufacturers already use service keys, password of the day, service CDs and USB keys to limit our access," he continued. "Even after spending thousands of dollars to attend the official manufacturer training classes and becoming authorized or certified to service their medical equipment, keys and passwords become disabled or expired without purchasing additional service licenses or service contracts at exorbitant yearly fees."
In other words, could a system meant to promote security actually raise prices for hospitals-and ultimately consumers-by creating a de-facto monopoly on servicing and maintaining products?
Comments on the draft guidance remain open until 12 September 2013, after which time we'll see if FDA agrees with the sentiments of Codenomicon, CIS or Rochowicz.

industry_corpus2: Biopharmaceuticals


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“The plan is to benefit the day-residents and full-time residents of Queens Center for Progress,” said NYRP’s Director of Garden Horticulture Jason Sheets. “They had a couple of raised-bed gardens in the complex, which was very popular, so they wanted to use this wide-open space to create more room for vegetable gardens, for folks to come in and use the beds as horticultural therapy,” he said.
In June, NYRP built a garden on a quarter-acre plot at Queens Center for Progress in Bellerose, Queens, which included eleven raised beds with three of the beds being wheelchair accessible, a picnic area, and accessible paths lined with flowers and ornamentals. Generous help came from Home Depot, Scotts and 45 local Home Depot employee volunteers over 3 days. Rich Gess, an old NYRP supporter from Home Depot led the way raising funds and securing donations to make this garden a reality. The project was completed as part of NYRP’s Gardens for the City program, which helps the nonprofit work with partners across New York City to extend its reach beyond the spaces under its direct stewardship and benefit those most in need.

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The School plans a weekly program of varied activities providing an opportunity to have fun, practice your English and meet American people. At weekends there are excursions to beautiful places such as the Bahamas, Key West, Cape Kennedy and Disney World. We organize evening activities featuring visits to restaurants, pubs, theatres and cinemas.
Shopping Florida is a shopper's paradise. The Galleria Mall, the shoppes and art galleries of Las Olas Boulevard and Sawgrass Mills - the world's largest discount mall - offer a great variety of products at bargain prices. We will gladly advise you on where and how the best buys can be found.
Cultural Activities The Broward Center for the Performing Arts features many Broadway shows including smash hit musicals like "Phantom of the Opera" and "Les Miserables," and hosts the worlds best musical directors and opera companies. Our Executive Program includes evenings of concerts, plays or recitals depending upon the season schedule. Fort Lauderdale offers a variety of outdoor festivals, such as the Lousiana Zydeco Festival, Jazz in the Park and the Air and Sea Show which showcases the U.S. military's most sophisticated aircraft.
Dining Fort Lauderdale has more than 3,500 restaurants offering a wide variety of American and international food. At night you will be able to enjoy first- meals while watching the parade of yachts as they slowly pass by. We shall be happy to arrange reservations for you.
Boat Shows Boating is one of the most popular sports in the U.S. There are more than 20 marinas in the City of Fort Lauderdale. The Fort Lauderdale Boat Show has become the largest boat show in the world and attracts thousands of international visitors from Europe, South America and the Far East. For those of you who love boats and the ocean, it is the perfect opportunity to learn English and admire some of the most beautiful yachts in the world.
Sports Fort Lauderdale is an aquatic sports paradise. The beach offers jet-ski and parasail rentals and are equipped for beach volley.The City is also home to the Swimming Hall of Fame, where the US Olympic teams practice swimming and diving. This complex is open to the public.

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Third party litigation funding continues to grow and evolve. The basic business model – funding of all legal and other ancillary costs related to a claim in exchange for a share of the damages if the claim is successfully resolved – has withstood the test of time and is highly attractive for both claimants requiring funding as well as investors looking for above-average returns. There follows an overview of the major current trends that underpin the growth of this fast-moving and still relatively young industry.
The industry has experienced a steady increase in the number of claims requiring third party funding. This increase can be attributed to a combination of factors such as the recognition that funding of claims ‘works’ and benefits all those involved (claimants, funders, professional advisers), an established track record of successfully funded claims by institutional funders and better promotion of the industry through marketing efforts by recognised players who are members of the Association of Litigation Funders of England and Wales.
Another explanation for the increase in the number of claims being presented for funding resides in the cost reforms introduced in England and Wales as of April 2013, also referred to as the ‘Jackson Reforms’. These reforms have altered the landscape of claimants litigating with the benefit of Conditional Fee Agreements (CFAs) and After the Event insurance (ATE).
Under a CFA, a solicitor or barrister in England and Wales will work for the claimant client with no payment during the course of the case and on the basis that he will receive nothing at all if the case is lost. The benefit for the lawyer is that he is rewarded for taking the risk of getting nothing by receiving a success fee if the case is won, which can amount to a maximum of 100 percent uplift on his normal hourly charges. Prior to April 2013, the cost of the success fee could be passed on to the defendant if the case was won.
Under the new regime, claimants can no longer recover success fees from defendants but all claimants’ lawyers are permitted to work on a ‘contingency fee’ basis and thus agree with their clients to structure fees as a proportion of damages awarded. These arrangements, also known as ‘damages based agreements’ or ‘DBAs’, were supposed to facilitate the funding of claims for the claimants by their lawyers. What we are finding is that, due to a total lack of clarity in the regulations governing them, lawyers are unwilling to enter into DBAs as they could win a case and then be deprived of their remuneration as a result of non-compliance with incomprehensible regulations. Lawyers prefer to continue to invoice their clients on an ongoing basis and are increasingly recommending third party funding as the ‘go to’ solution to clients instead of entering into CFAs or DBAs.
The new costs regime has also impacted claimants who chose to take up ATE cover and who are now looking to third party funders to cover the cost of such cover.
An ATE policy is a policy of insurance under which a party to litigation insures against the risk of losing his case and having to pay the opponent’s costs. As was the case with CFAs, prior to the Jackson Reforms a claimant could litigate with the benefit of an ATE policy and, if he won the action, pass the cost onto the losing defendant who had to pay the premium on the claimant’s insurance policy, which the claimant chose to take without consulting him. Since April 2013, claimants other than insolvency practitioners who take out an ATE policy must pay the premium out of their own pocket. The whole premium now comes out of the successful claimant’s damages. As of April 2015, insolvency practitioners will lose their special exemption and also have to absorb their ATE premiums. As some funders are prepared to offer claimants an indemnity to cover the defendant’s costs in case the claim is lost, claimants increasingly see the benefit of third party funding to secure such an indemnity as part of the funding package.
We are also noticing an increase in the volume of claims being presented for funding by insolvency practitioners. Third party funding is well known to them. Liquidators are very often in the position of ‘David’ having to face the ‘Goliath’ claimant whose only hope is that David will not be able to find the money to sue him. If the defendant happens to be a former director of the now insolvent company on whose behalf the liquidator is pursuing the claim, he most probably made sure before the liquidation that the company was thoroughly stripped of all cash and assets to leave the liquidator with little or no money to pursue any claim against him. Third party funding then becomes ‘the only game in town’ for any insolvency practitioner who lacks the funds to pursue the claim.
Third party funders have become accustomed to ‘bad claims’ being presented for funding. ‘Bad claims’ come in various forms and guises. First, there are always straightforward unmeritorious claims, often presented for funding directly by the claimant without any supporting documentation. Then, there are cases proposed for funding just before trial or when their limitation period is on the point of expiring. Again, these are usually presented by claimants themselves, either because they have run out of money to pay the lawyers or because they have tried to conduct the case on their own without legal representation. There are also cases that could have been fundable but have been destroyed by the claimants doing them ‘on the cheap’ until they realise that they have ruined their chances of success. They then turn to a funder in desperation, in the hope that the funder will finance a decent legal team to rescue the case. In those circumstances, funders can be forgiven for feeling that they are treated more as maritime salvage companies rather than investors. Finally, there are the cases that are supported by opinions from the legal team who have fallen in love with the case and become unable to spot obvious weaknesses.
Reviewing and rejecting bad claims is part and parcel of a funder’s job. What is reassuring and is evidenced by our more recent experience is that claims of a much higher quality are now being presented for funding.
‘Good claims’ in our industry means claims where the professional funder can clearly understand and evaluate duty, breach, causation and the damage suffered by the claimant. These are claims which are conducted by able legal teams who provide the funders with detailed legal analysis supported by a suitable bundle of relevant copy documentation, a realistic estimate of the quantum of the claim and a well-considered budget. These are what funders want and expect to see in order to offer terms.
The increased awareness of the availability of third party litigation funding creates both challenges and opportunities. We briefly focus on several opportunities available to the industry and on the main challenge flowing from these opportunities.
Claimants are aware that litigation funding is available and gives them the opportunity of avoiding the damage to their cash flow caused by having to pay monthly lawyers’ bills. Lawyers have accepted that they have to respond to that awareness and demand for alternative funding on the part of their clients by assisting them to approach third party funders. This is precisely the expansion of access to justice which the Jackson Reforms were intended to achieve. As a result, the volume of claims referred for funding is increasing rapidly and we expect this trend to continue.
Litigation funding is now an accepted, viable and alternative asset class for investors who wish to diversify their portfolio. The fundamentals of this asset class are compelling: reputable and institutional funders have an established and proven track record of above average returns, demand far outstrips supply and the asset class is not linked to economic cycles. Based on these highly attractive fundamentals, the industry has managed to attract hundreds of millions of dollars from investors, be they quoted funds on the London Stock Exchange, hedge funds, family offices or private individuals. We expect this trend to continue and believe that more money will become available for case funding over time.
With these opportunities comes an important challenge: namely, how to satisfy the demands of claimants and investors alike, while at the same time maintaining the high level of caution and professionalism required to ensure the industry’s continued growth and success.
As investors are attracted by the high returns offered by this asset class, they are prepared to invest more money but will insist on commensurate returns. The seduction of a much larger funding capacity and that of a potentially much higher personal compensation (often in the form of a management fee and a carry) can lead some funders to invest in claims that do not meet stringent due diligence requirements simply in order to deploy available capital. When a funded claim fails because a judge rules it spurious, everybody gets hurt: claimants, investors and the industry as a whole, because it is still too young to afford bad publicity.
It is the responsibility of each professional and reputable funder to ensure that it avoids the temptation of taking on excessively risky cases simply to deploy investors’ capital. The funders who belong to the Association of Litigation Funders of England and Wales have acquired a justified reputation for professionalism and probity and it is to be expected that they will hold fast to those standards in order to ensure their own and the industry’s continued success.
Marius Nasta is chief executive of Redress Solutions PLC. He can be contacted on +44 (0)207 495 3900 or by email: mnasta@redresssolutions.co.uk.

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To grow and become the primary focus for multi-faith and interfaith and interfaith activities.
To do all sorts of interfaith activities through the steadily increasing number of local interfaith activities occurring throughout Pakistan and abroad.
To encourage members of all religious to meet together on a regular basis in order to foster friendly relationships, deepen each other’s understanding of different faiths and promote community harmony and goodwill. The actively seeks to advance religious freedom within a society free from racial and religious prejudice, hatred and discrimination.
To commitments specifically for the oneness of humanity, the value of religion and spirituality, respect for cultural and spiritual diversity and fostering mutual understanding.
To provide a forum which promotes the principles of equal rights and opportunities for members of all religious groups without prejudice or discrimination?
To facilitate the provision of information, education and understanding about different religions with the purpose of enhancing religious harmony.
To encourage cooperation through statement and other activities against racism as one means of publicity applying the humanitarian principles of social justice and care for the rights of individuals and groups from different cultural, religious and ethnic backgrounds.
To promote multiculturalism as a catalyst of social cohesion and harmony.
To promote respect for the individuality of all religious groups.
To join others from time to time and as required bringing influence to beer to ensure thatSHRD continues to assist those fleecing from war, racial and religious intolerance and persecution.
To work for meeting of minds and hearts belonging to all any religion or sect, which are the natural products of understanding? And, which are the pre-requisite for any kind of co-operation, this is, a genuine co-operation and having laid the foundation (appreciation) for genuine co-operation, let us now raise the pillars to build the structure of a genuine co-operation, not only multi religious, but multi-gender, multi-national, multi on all levels.
To infiltrate most of our moderate religious groups. At the grassroots they are no longer as solid, and as moderate as they used to be. It is unfortunate that the elites of these groups choose to remain silent, in fear of losing support from them.
To promote loyalty, towards nation, towards profession, towards fellow citizens, and towards the entire world family. It is greed that makes us disloyal towards our motherland. And, if we are disloyal towards our motherland, how can we be loyal towards the world family?
To work hard, this is equally important, truthfulness, loyalty, and skillfulness may come to nothing without hard work.
To seek and share relevant information about and seek collaboration with appropriate national and international organizations with similar aims and objectives.
To ensure the integrity of this process we make opportunities for all participants to shair their beliefs, describe their religious and spiritual practices and express their questions, doubts and dilemmas.
To sensitize target communities about their collective problems and to encourage them for participatory self help development.
To standardize and promote indigenous methods and low cost technology in development projects of marginalized communities.
To identify and incorporate gender issues and concerns in participatory social development work of target communities.
To rise generates and /or collect funds through profit, earning, contributions and/or donations for the promotion of the aims and objects of the trust.
Interfaith Harmony/peace building and respect of all religions in Pakistan.
SHRD has arranged many seminars and mega events to promote interfaith Harmony peace building and to respect all religions in Pakistan and provoke tolerance between communities to bring peace in Pakistan and to maintain better picture of Pakistan in front rest of the world.
Current situation of Pakistan has does not allow to present better picture of Pakistan in front of rest world because, we are not focusing tolerance even in our daily life we always put our utmost efforts to get first position in negative activities we are running to get more resources for our home and families but we are even not focusing our beloved country.
Some external powers are using our internal man power to build noise around the Pakistan by manipulating their monopolies in result of that Pakistan is at fair since couple of years most of our country men of Pakistan are out of practice to tolerate each other and we are not focusing to respect all religions in Pakistan.
SHRD has had keeping in view raising our voice to promote interfaith harmony, peace building and respect all religions in Pakistan. SHRD has organized different mega events with the support of UK Christian organization and gathered guests from every school of thought and people related to different religious at one point to promote tolerance, peace building and interfaith harmony which is urging of a time in Pakistan.

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Achan Agit was pregnant when she decided to close her hair braiding business in Des Moines, Iowa, in 2009. The store was called "African Dream" and, in addition to offering hair braiding services, it sold retail items to the city's growing African immigrant community. But as her difficult pregnancy progressed, thinking about the store's future became a nightmare, all because she felt she couldn't hire the best workers to sustain its operations while she stayed home.
"I can't hire anyone to braid because I don't have a license, which would get me in trouble if I hired people without having the license," she told Mic this week. "So I had to close it."
Agit is still braiding hair, but she does it almost in secret from her home. She doesn't advertise her services and relies on mostly word-of-mouth referrals. It's undoubtedly good business — braiding a full head of tiny, so-called "micro braids" can net up to $200 per client — but she could be making even more, she said. The profits would certainly make life easier for her husband and five children, not to mention the family she still supports in her native South Sudan.
Without a cosmetology license, her main source of income comes at a great risk: a $10,000 fine and up to a year in jail. In Agit's eyes, getting such a license wouldn't just be a headache but completely irrelevant to her craft. Of Iowa's 27 cosmetology schools, not one school offers specific coursework on natural hair care for black women or braiding in particular. And even if they did, Agit is a far cry from being able enroll: Iowa's cosmetology board requires licensees to have a high school diploma, but Agit left school before she was a teenager as her country grappled with civil war.
Now, she's one of two plaintiffs suing the Iowa Board of Cosmetology Arts and Sciences in an effort to loosen licensing requirements for women who braid hair. Iowa has become the latest battleground in a decades-long showdown over African hair braiding. It's a fight that's being waged not primarily by the women themselves, but an unlikely ally and is marked by centuries of thinking about black women's beauty standards.
Agit, 35, learned to braid the way many black — both African and African-American — women do: as a child, watching her mother while growing up in a small village in what was then known as Sudan. When she was 10, villagers began to pay for her work. She married at 17 and was eventually forced to flee the country with her family as the country's political and legal infrastructure collapsed under the weight of the Second Sudanese Civil War, which lasted from 1983 to 2005. The family's first stop was Egypt. When her daughter's classmates and their parents asked where the girl had gotten her hair braided, Agit realized she'd stumbled upon a decent hustle that knew no borders.
"That's when I started charging money for doing hair, so I can help support myself and my kids," she said.
Three years later the family moved to the United States. First Nebraska, then Kansas City, Missouri, and finally Des Moines, where they had relatives. In fact, it was an extended family member who convinced her to open "African Dream." "'Instead of working under someone, why don't you come here and open your own shop?'" they told her. So she did.
Then the pregnancy happened. The shop closed. And now, six years later, there's the lawsuit.
"I decided to sue them, so they can give me the opportunity to have my own business without having to worry that I would get in trouble with the law," she said.
Agit got in touch with attorneys from the Institute for Justice, a libertarian law firm based in Arlington, Virginia, that has made African hair braiding one of its most high-profile crusades. Since the 1990s, the institute has filed suits in 13 states, including Missouri, Texas and California. Each suit has a similar narrative: embattled women of African descent up against a hopelessly bureaucratic regulatory system that's bent on criminalizing a natural, chemical-free practice that is not only a cultural art form, but a potentially lucrative business opportunity. The cases make national news and incite public outrage across the political spectrum. And, with the exception of institute cases still pending in Iowa and Missouri, they are seeing meaningful results.
Meagan Forbes, an attorney for the Institute for Justice who's representing Agit in the Iowa case, said the motivation is simple. "We work to protect the rights of workers across the country to create an honest living, free from irrational governmental interference," she told Mic. "And these cases exemplify the government interfering with a person's ability to earn a living and do something that's completely safe, but here they're being prevented from doing that because of the state's licensing laws."
Hair and history: For the women at the center of these cases, that narrative isn't quite so simple. Isis Brantley sued the State of Texas with the institute's help in 2013. Brantley has had a long and decorated career in the industry; some of her most famous clients include Erykah Badu and Stevie Wonder, she said. While her suit didn't force the board's hand in getting rid of regulations altogether, it did lead them to admit that those rules are not "sensible or particularly well-crafted," according to the court's records.
For Brantley, today's fight isn't just about the present, it's about a much more painful past. "African hair has been enslaved in this country since they indoctrinated and enslaved us," she told Mic. "We were not allowed to comb our hair, groom ourselves, shampoo our hair, and we were not allowed to be seen in public with afros and braids and locs and twists. So, of course, now that we are saying, 'Hey, I'm a human. Oh, I look different. It's OK.'"
A burgeoning industry: Since the late 19th century, when Madam C.J. Walker's line of black hair and beauty products made her one of the country's first self-made female millionaires, black hair has been big business in the United States. But that business revolved around chemicals and heat that would melt tightly curled hair into compliance. The results were usually painful, sometimes deadly and always carried a reminder that black hair in its natural state just wasn't good enough.
It's only within the last few decades that natural black haircare has flourished. Some estimate that it's a $500 billion industry, and YouTube is brimming with do-it-yourself tutorials on shampooing, moisturizing, twisting and locking. But beauty schools have been slow to adopt coursework that teaches the nuances of caring for black hair in its natural state. Instead, braiders are required to take classes in everything from chemistry to hair cutting and doing manicures.
Those schools insist that they're trying. "The hair braiding field is growing within the U.S.," Ashley Morris of the American Association of Cosmetology Schools told Mic in an email. "Schools training in the beauty profession are consistently expanding and modifying their curriculum as the industry demands and consumer needs change."
Meanwhile, professional braiding has become one of the hundreds of industries that's come under state regulation in recent decades. Tanisha Ford — an assistant professor of women, gender and sexuality studies at the University of Massachusetts, Amherst, and author of the forthcoming book Liberated Threads: Black Women, Style and the Global Politics of Soul — told Mic that it's an example of "where the cultural meets the commercial." In Ford's analysis, black braiding has gone from the intimacy of getting cornrows while sitting on a pillow on a neighbor's floor to something much more lucrative and, therefore, messy. "A lot of hair braiders are African women working in hair braiding salons," Ford told Mic. "This is [a] way the government is trying to limit what types of money immigrants can make in this country."
It's a generally agreed-upon fact that regulations on some level are necessary to ensure customer safety. People have died or suffered irreparable damage in hair salons. But critics of such licensing are quick to point out that those injuries are rare among braiders.
"It should be relatively easy to get information on whether or not a hair braider is good or bad," Rebecca Haw Allensworth, an associate professor at Vanderbilt University Law School whose work focuses on occupational licensing, told Mic. "We tend to think the market tends to do a good job of sorting out good and bad products, and word of mouth or Yelp does all that well. So, I don't think of African hair braiding as a very good candidate for licensing."
For the women caught in the crosshairs of this regulatory battle, the hope is simple: They want to work.
"I'm still looking for a job," Agit said. "For me right now, the only help I have is doing hair at home, which is only my relatives that I do their hair and they give me some money to help myself with. So, it means a lot to me."


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text: Identity theft has fostered to a major security problem on the Internet, in particular stealing passwords for web applications through phishing and malware. We present TruWallet, a wallet-based authentication tool that improves previous solutions for protecting web-based authentication. In contrast to other wallet-based solutions, TruWallet provides (i) strong protection for users' credentials and sensitive data by cryptographically binding them to the user's platform configuration based on Trusted Computing technology, (ii) an automated login procedure where the server is authenticated independently from (SSL) certificates, thus limiting the possibility of attacks based on hijacked certificates and allowing less dependency on the SSL PKI model, and (iii) a secure migration protocol for transferring wallet data to other platforms. Our implementation uses a small virtualization-based security kernel with trusted computing support and works with standard SSL-based authentication solutions for the web, where only minor modifications and extensions are required. It is interoperable so that we can re-use existing operating systems and applications like web browsers.


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California: Richard Linklater's film Boyhood has taken the top honours at the Golden Globe Awards. A film that was made over 12 years and portrays a child's growth to adulthood, won three prizes: best drama; best director, for Richard Linklater; and best supporting actress, for Patricia Arquette.
British actor Eddie Redmayne won best actor in a drama for his role as physicist Professor Stephen Hawking in The Theory of Everything.
Wilson was named best actress in a US TV drama for The Affair.
Leviathan is Russia's candidate at the Academy Awards for the Best Foreign-Language Film Oscar -- a prize that will be presented next month.
The director said in a recent interview with Screen magazine that Leviathan's plot was sort of inversely inspired by a 2004 case in the United States in which a man in a dispute with the local authorities used a bulldozer to destroy the town hall and the former mayor's house.
The Golden Globe Award is an American accolade bestowed by the 93 members of the Hollywood Foreign Press Association (HFPA) recognising excellence in film and television, both domestic and foreign. The annual formal ceremony and dinner at which the awards are presented is a major part of the film industry's awards season, which culminates each year with the Academy Awards.
The Award function was held on January 11 in Beverly Hills, California.

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More and more woodlot owners are taking a broader view of their forests. They look for values other than the immediate return on wood harvested. These values include other forest products such as ground hemlock and mushrooms; carbon storage; water purification; leaving a legacy for their children; and healthy wildlife populations.
The brown creeper, a small bird that is occasionally seen eating insects living on tree bark, makes its nest under a loose piece of bark hanging from a dead tree. That big old white pine with the broken top that is starting to die might just be the perfect nesting platform for a pair of bald eagles or osprey. Looking at the bigger picture, we have too few of these old giants left in suitable locations.
Eastern redback salamanders also make great use of wildlife trees. They thrive in older Island woodlands that have a strong hardwood component. These 7-10cm (2.8-4″) long amphibians make good use of the dark, moist conditions under loose bark. Once the wildlife tree falls to the ground, it continues providing those conditions and can be home to blue spotted and (yellow) spotted salamanders, as well as redbacks. Birds of prey, such as hawks and the smaller falcons, and many of our flycatchers rely on snag trees as perches. The loose bark of dead trees is an ideal roosting spot for little brown bats and spring peepers. Raccoons, red squirrels, northern flying squirrels and deer mice use cavities for nesting or denning.
Snags are not just home to birds and mammals – insects and other invertebrates, as well as fungi, recycle dead tissues of the tree into new life. They also provide habitat for ants and other important food sources for many birds.
Now that we have an idea about how important dead and dying trees are to wildlife populations, how do we ensure that our forestry practices reflect this?
Think of dead and dying trees as the “condominiums” of forests. Due to the large number of species that rely on wildlife trees, it is important that we see dead and dying trees not as “wasted resources” but as critical habitat in healthy forests. The poplars in an old-field white spruce stand are important not only for the leaf litter they produce but because they get large quickly and begin to rot in the centre. This makes them ideal places for chickadees, nuthatches and woodpeckers to make nests. And as so often happens in the complex world of nature, these holes can later be taken over by the owls who, with their hooked beaks, can’t drill holes in solid wood but can easily enlarge a flicker hole in the soft poplar.
Leave plenty of wildlife trees. A review of existing literature finds a wide range of guidelines on both amounts and sizes that should be present in forests. Some guidelines call for leaving 10-12 snags per hectare (4-5 per acre), but are working with much larger trees than we generally have left in Island forests. Since there is much left to learn about the complexities of forests, it makes sense to err on the side of caution and perhaps leave double that amount. And not surprisingly, snags with the largest diameter support the greatest number of species, so we need large snag trees. According to the Forest/Wildlife Guidelines and Standards for Nova Scotia, “Large trees over 50cm (20″) diameter at breast height are better for cavity users because they provide habitat for both large and small wildlife species. Trees smaller than 20cm (8″) dbh are of limited value to cavity nesters and will not provide nesting habitat for woodpeckers larger than the downy woodpecker, our smallest.” In Maryland, wildlife managers suggest that leaving 10-20 small snags, and 2-5 large snags greater than 30cm (12″), per acre, or 25-50 small and 5-12 large snags per hectare.
Plan for a continuous supply of wildlife trees. This means that young and middle-age trees must be left to become future snags, not just the ones you leave for today. Ideally you would find 2-3 larger wildlife trees and leave clumps of other trees around them, including a mix of younger and non-merchantable trees. These clumps should be scattered as evenly as possible throughout the cut.
If a woodland lacks snags but has large living trees, you can speed up the natural process and create snags by girdling a few trees, both coniferous and deciduous. With an axe or chainsaw, remove a complete ring of bark and cambium layer to prevent nutrients from flowing from the roots to the crown of the tree. On larger trees, make two cuts around the tree at least 5-7.5cm (2-3″) into the sapwood.
Allow at least some trees to become quite large. Studies on the pileated woodpecker in Oregon suggest that size of nest and roost trees is an important consideration. Research showed the smallest diameter nest tree to be 61cm (24.5″) while the mean diameter was 80cm (32″). Snags of that size are only possible when we consciously allow trees to get old. If we view them as important to both wildlife and the forest itself, there is no loss, only gain.
Attention to wildlife trees should be part of any sound forest management plan. The time it takes to maintain and enhance this valuable habitat will be worth the effort.
Again, the rule is no large clearcuts – even recent changes towards leaving select snag trees in clearcuts is unacceptable. Most are shallow rooted and too exposed to the wind. They will blow down within a few years, leaving the site without any snag trees for a long time.
When doing selective harvesting, make sure to leave a sufficient mix of snags in the forest. We do not know exactly how many to leave, but according to the Forest/Wildlife Guidelines and Standards for Nova Scotia, “Large trees over 50 cm (20 inches) diameter at breast height are better for cavity users because they provide habitat for both large and small wildlife species. Trees smaller than 20 cm (8 inches) dbh are of limited value to cavity-nesters and will not provide nesting habitat for woodpeckers larger than the downy woodpecker, our smallest.” The guidelines call for leaving 10 snags per hectare (4 per acre). So we would want at least that many continuously available in the forest. This means that young and middle age trees must be left to become future snags, not just the four old trees you leave for today. This is almost impossible to do in a clearcut.
If your woodland lacks snags but has large living trees, you may want to speed up the natural process and create snags by girdling a few trees, both coniferous and deciduous. With an axe or chainsaw, remove a complete ring of bark and cambium layer by axe or chainsaw to prevent the sap from rising in the tree.
Plan to allow some trees to become quite large. Studies on the pileated woodpecker in Oregon suggest that size of nest and roost trees is an important consideration. Research showed the smallest diameter nest tree to be 54 cm (24.5 inches) while the mean diameter was 84 cm (32 inches). This is hard to achieve on short-rotation plantations.
Make sure that there are logs on the ground or larger trees that have blown over throughout the forest. They provide drumming logs for ruffed grouse; perches for hawks and squirrels; and are full of insects and other invertebrate that serve as a food source for animals.
Fallen trees also are excellent nursery sites for yellow birch and hemlock seedlings, offering a moist environment and nutrients that are released slowly.


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The gaming company TellTale started up in October of 2004, and nearly 14 years later, they shut down. But why? Were they not making good sales? Were they in the middle of a huge controversy? Did the employees stop caring? Well, here’s where you find out.
TellTale started off small, and it wasn’t until a crisp April day in 2012 that TellTale truly got its start with their game, The Walking Dead. The first season of their game boasted five episodes, and by November it was all complete. It received huge praise, winning over eighty awards. It topped the sales chart for Xbox, and when I say pretty much everyone played it, I mean it.
The Walking Dead started an era. An era of choice-driven games. In TellTale’s series, you, the player, can choose what to say and how to act. You are in charge of your relationships with others, who dies, who lives, and how well your group survives.
But is that true? TellTale tells the player in the beginning “Your choices matter,” but is that a lie? Sadly, pretty much. Sure, you have choices, you can make someone hate you, and you can even sacrifice someone to save another. But it doesn’t matter.
In the game you have to choose between two people to save. Doug and Carly. You would think that whoever you save would change the game. That these two characters will start a new storyline, and the game will change depending on who lives, and who dies. But no matter you save, they die soon later anyway, leaving the game unchanged. It creates an illusion of choice.
Sure, if TellTale’s games were only one of a few choice-based games then maybe nobody would have minded. The problem is that The Walking Dead became so popular that game companies realized they could make massive profit from those types of games. And why play a game that tricks you into believing that your choices matter when you can play a game where they actually do matter?
A good comparison is between TellTale’s The Walking Dead, and Quantic Dream‘s Detroit: Become Human. In the latter game, you can see a map at the end of every episode or section you play. You can see what choices you made, and the different branches of choices that you didn’t. There are tons of endings and small details that differ depending on what you, the player, chose.
So really, TellTale started an era in the gaming world, but it was their eventual downfall. The games being created to capitalize on the popularity of that genre were better than the one that started it all.
But I’m sure you’re thinking “That can’t be the only reason! Just because their games didn’t have real choices!” And you’re right. So let’s look at the next reason why TellTale couldn’t keep afloat.
Employees were generally unhappy. Many worked long hours, and the management was toxic. There was barely any organization. Nobody really kept track of what was going on. The management stopped interacting with their staff, and that meant less morale.
As TellTale got more popular, the more they made games. Soon they started working on multiple games at once. Instead of choosing developers to stick to one game, they rotated developers. This made the creation process to be more sloppy, and many workers didn’t understand this decision.
There wasn’t even any proper schedule. Rewrites and improvoments of the game were asked very last minute. Employees say that it was a constant barrage of work with no break, six day work weeks, with about 18 hours for each of those days. New developers couldn’t handle it, and the older ones were not putting in all their effort.
Eventually, TellTale couldn’t handle the stress. It collapsed under its own foundation.
Over 200 workers were laid off without severance, many took to Twitter to say not to work extreme overtime for a company that, in the end, will not care about you.
Many other game companies told these employees that they could always come and work them. At least there’s a silver lining to the storm clouds.
It is unknown if TellTale will continue the final season of The Walking Dead. The episodes are set to release in November and December, and their MineCraft Netflix series will be finished.


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Lord Hutton's damning report of the BBC is a whitewash. The result will create fear at the Today programme, where there should be pride. As so many times before, they were there with a story that nobody else would touch. And I still cannot see why Gavyn Davies and Greg Dyke have had to resign. It flies in the face of reality, ripping all evidence to shreds.
This is a theatre of the absurd. It has left everybody I know shaking their heads in disbelief and anger. Such a performance should make us all deeply nervous about the future of Britain. While Blair wishes to draw a line under the whole episode, I hope this doesn't happen. Sometimes a story will end up being told, no matter how many times they try to close the book.
As Andrew Gilligan submitted to Hutton, why was the BBC singled out when other media reports questioned the intelligence as well? Why did Campbell suddenly give disproportionate attention to the Today programme's story, after weeks of hoping it would go away?
Campbell needed to deflect attention from an issue that stood to bring down the government. He had been told to construct a truth that would justify a "pre-emptive" war against international law, while voices in the wings were whispering "lies". His response was unforgivable. He deliberately went on the offensive, choosing his favourite soft target, one that had dared to go beyond the embedded reporting of the war to show it in a less than flattering light.
Campbell himself chose to become the story, using his indignation at such a slur on the government's "integrity", and so avoiding the substance of the accusation itself.
He now claims the BBC, from the top down, did not tell the truth. In what way? It didn't check out the story? It seems, sir, your little story about WMD didn't check out either. Are we supposed to feel sorry for him after this sustained attack on his integrity? Nobody cares about his integrity; they just want to know why we went to war against international law on weak single-source intelligence.
And are we supposed to feel sorry for Blair? He has made a very dangerous political mistake which endangers global stability and has sent thousands to their deaths. He tells us that he will be judged by his maker. Well, he certainly wasn't judged by Hutton, was he?

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This Amazing Elestial Smoky Amethyst Quartz Crystal was discovered and partially polished in Madagascar. This piece is absolutely natural, crystals are partially polished, tips are in perfect shape. Amethyst crystals display beautiful smoky purple color and excellent luster.
Dimensions: 3.09" x 3.56" x 2.22. Amethyst - Amethyst is the gemstone variety of quartz, produced by the presence of manganese in clear quartz crystal.
Increments of iron within the crystal as it formed vary the color of the amethyst, which ranges from pale lilac to deep purple. Amethyst has been popular with royalty, sages, mystics and magicians for centuries. It bestows protection, release of addictions, purification, and assists with Divine connection.
Supports the Third Eye (6th), Crown (8th), Etheric (8th and beyond) Chakras. Counters addictive behavior and thought patterns; promotes clarity of mind; balances the nervous system and the brain. Smoky Quartz - Smoky Quartz is a crystal that exhibits a light to dark smoky grey to black color throughout the crystal, usually due to being exposed to Uranium or other natural radiation during growth. It is a wonderful companion stone for those who seek "grounding and centering, " enhancing focus and attentiveness to the moment. In addition, Smokey Quartz is an excellent choice for those seeking to promote creativity and "good business acumen" within all relationships in their lives, and is also an excellent choice for those who are under a lot of stress.
Clear Quartz - Clear quartz is a silicon dioxide. This crystal is the ideal vehicle for Universal Life Force energy, and has been used for millennia by shamanic healers, Tibetan Buddhist practitioners, Chinese healers, European alchemists and healers and spiritual teachers from many other cultures around the world. It's great for programming and amplifying our intentions. It magnifies ambient energies, assists with clearing, cleansing, healing and memory enhancement. Clear quartz works with all the chakras, and equilibrates the bearer's entire energetic system including: the physical vessels, the meridians, the nadis, and the chakra system.
The item "3.09 Rare Shape Elestial Smoky Amethyst Crystal Cluster Skeletal Quartz, Ame44" is in sale since Friday, October 17, 2014. This item is in the category "Collectibles\Rocks, Fossils & Minerals\Crystals & Mineral Specimens\Crystals". The seller is "madagascargemstones" and is located in San Francisco, California.


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While various theaters in the Milwaukee area host their holiday shows throughout this month, Waukesha Civic Theatre’s Candy Cane Tales and Holiday Carols tells a story noticeably relatable.
Bill Bickford (Mike Owens) is a Harley-Davidson employee and family man whose favorite time of year is none other than the Christmas season. The story begins with his wife Judy (Jen Hull Anderson) and their four kids walking into their house after picking up Christmas trees for each member of the house, a Bickford family tradition. The kids hurriedly go about their business, scurrying to their rooms of solitude, playing with toys and texting boys while Bill brings in boxes of decorations and belts out some classic holiday tunes. He then gathers the family together to announce a month-long list of Christmas activities for them to complete, just as they have done in the past. Much to his surprise, however, the kids (and even Judy) are not too thrilled on the activities that span every day of the month. As the story progresses, each character brings up an alternative priority to get them out of watching the same movies, going out caroling and game nights. The most vocal of his distaste is the son Augie (Tristian Harris), who continuously holds himself up in his room, even when he is the last family member at home one night with Bill. One of Augie’s sisters jokes that he is just “going through a phase” but it is a true distinction of growing up.
I think it is fair to say we have all had an Augie moment during the holidays where even if we aren’t trying to leave the house, we would rather stay in our rooms or do other activities than family traditions. With scenes broken up by musical performances and classic Christmas skits (I enjoyed the elf who wants to be a dentist and meets Rudolph), Candy Cane Tales reminds us that while some traditions may be boring to us, they matter to others. This time of year is a reflection on how we spend our time with family, even as we grow older.
Through Dec. 16 at Waukesha Civic Theatre, 264 W. Main St. Waukesha. For tickets, visit waukeshacivictheatre.org or call 262-547-0708.


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This is a post I got from the Truly Faithful group on Facebook created by Pastor Anthonio Vance and his wife Octavia Evans Vance. This message was written by Octavia and it's worth reading by every couple who wants to remain married. The days are evil and the devil is fighting to make sure that marriages fail, we thank God that marriage is His idea and He will always help us as we relie on Him always to see us through our marital journeys . Read and put what you have read into practice. God bless and help us all.
A Truly Faithful Message to Married Couples Enduring: "FIGHT FOR YOUR MARRIAGE"!
As I am still basking in the glow of my husband's success in finishing school, I am writing in tears at this moment but not because of what you all may think. I am in AWE of my Savior! I am thankful that He kept us TOGETHER during the toughest time of our marriage. Many of you may think the toughest time was when we thought our marriage was over, but the toughest part of our marriage has been during THIS trial. But how? Well, it's EASY to give up but HARDER to ENDURE! Let me share more.
In 2009 as hurt and upset as I was, it was easier to stay mad and be separated than to work and reconcile with my husband. But during this trial, there was nothing to reconcile because there was no quitting. Not only did we have to deal with the loss of MANY things, we also had to deal with not knowing how we were going to make it EACH MONTH. Not knowing how we were going to clothe our growing children, not knowing how we were going to buy basic things, not knowing how utility bills were going to be paid. Having our electric, water and phones ALL DISCONNECTED around the same time. I also lost my Grandmother and my Mom had not one but TWO major health issues with the first happening in February 2011 with heart failure, then almost a year later a heart attack right after her Mom passed. Our business stopped making money, we were emptying out the children's piggy banks, we exhausted my husband's 401k and our personal IRA, our bank account was wiped out and on top of ALL OF THAT, God was PRUNING us.
I mean as hard as it has been, THAT is the part I didn't get at first. Here we were going through so much yet God was purging our marriage of things He wanted GONE! So there was constant dying to self, sleepless nights working things out, lots of tears in prayer and some heated arguments to go along with it. So YES this trial is harder than all others combined because it made us look in the mirror and start there and THIS TIME we could not run from the truth by separating. THIS TIME we could not use money to take care of everything. THIS TIME we had NO CHOICE but to stick together IN CHRIST. THIS TIME we had no choice but TO LOVE EACH OTHER no matter if we were in the dark, in the cold, without water or without phones. We had to literally CHOOSE TO LOVE EACH OTHER THROUGH EVERY THING!
We had to love each other at our worst; we had to love each other when we didn't feel like it. We had to love each other when they took our car right in front of us; we had to love each other when we didn't have one dime! We had to love each other when we were tired; we had to love each other when we HURT! WE HAD TO LOVE PERIOD!
I saw a post yesterday that said, 'Behind every happily married couple is a couple who had to fight to get to that point'. That is the TRUTH! Many see the RESULTS in our marriage but you didn't see the FIGHT! And I'm not talking about a fight between each other; I'm talking about the fight with our flesh; the fight with our tongues; the fight with SATAN HIMSELF! You didn't SEE that because it was a SPIRITUAL BATTLE; one that can NOT be fought in the flesh!
And that is the point of this post. Married couples enduring, you can NOT fight for your marriage in the flesh. You will lose EVERY SINGLE TIME! You MUST fight for your marriage IN THE SPIRIT! You must fight for your marriage IN PRAYER! You must fight for your marriage WITH THE WORD OF GOD! The reason why you are still hurting by what your spouse has done is because you are focusing on the pain they have caused you. You are focusing on ALL they have done wrong instead of WHO can right every wrong in your life: JESUS CHRIST! It is time to take your eyes off your spouse and all they’ve done and instead PUT YOUR EYES ON CHRIST.
When I had my eyes on my husband's bad decisions, short comings and his tone of voice when he was upset, I almost began to hate him. Yes this was in 2011 when the trial first started. So I texted the oldest of the older wives in the Lord and told her the truth and Oh My God did she minister me to tears of repentance through TEXT MESSAGES! She told me to stop focusing on my husband and focus on my SAVIOR! That's the part you all did not hear because God had not released me to share it publicly. But now I am to share with those in troubled marriages so you can prepare for battle. Oh yes, there is a battle going on and it goes beyond your marriage. It's a battle for your SOULS as well as your MARRIAGE. The God in you is ready for battle; He's just waiting on YOU!
I say all of that to say this. We do not wrestle with flesh and blood and this is the reason you may have been unfocused. When you realize the battle is won in prayer, even with fasting and total surrender to God, then you will stop taking the easy way out and trying to get your spouse to repent in your flesh.
Wives with unrepentant husbands; stop trying to do this yourself and give it to God and then battle for your husband’s soul in prayer. Do you realize if he loses the battle while in his sin, his very soul could be lost to satan? Don't believe me? Read Heb 13:4-5 or even 1 Cor 6:9-10. After you read that with conviction, you will stop focusing on your hurts and will begin to battle for your husband’s soul. Because once he repents and goes back to Christ, EVERYTHING will fall in line, but with much work. So let God heal your hurt, and then you can war for your husband's soul as well as yours and your children's if you have any. This is the part most people won't tell you because lukewarm, carnal or even well meaning Christians will tell you to divorce him. But those in Christ who understand forgiveness and reconciliation will tell you to be led by the Spirit and pray for your husband.
Husbands with unrepentant wives; stop trying to MAKE her submit and repent to God. If you deny your flesh, love her like Christ loves the church, then you may "love her to" our Savior. We know of MANY wives who will endure, but husbands “seem” to be quicker in putting away their rebellious wives. But where are the husbands who have not bowed down to Baal? Where are the “NO MATTER WHAT” husbands like Hosea? Where are the husbands who will pray adultery off and deliverance on their wives as my husband did for me? Are you telling me God only raises up wives to endure? No, you are a MAN OF GOD! It’s time to go to work in the Spirit for your wives. Don't beat your wives into submission, BEAT YOUR FLESH INTO SUBMISSION AND OBEDIENCE TO THE SPIRIT OF GOD! How? By DENYING YOURSELF and giving up YOUR LIFE FOR YOUR WIFE as Christ did for you! Most or almost 100% of people will tell husbands not to tolerate a rebellious, "unsubmitted" wife and move on because they can EASILY find a woman who will submit; but we at Truly Faithful will tell you what the Spirit of the Lord says based off His word, not ours! And that word is to COVER HER ANYWAY and LOVER HER TO REPENTANCE by doing your role and obeying the word of God.
I'm still praising God because we are LIVING WITNESSES of what WILL HAPPEN when you OBEY GOD AND DIE TO YOUR FLESH! You cannot argue with results. The results of prayer, the results of deliverance, the results of enduring, the results of obedience, the results of repentance; all of the results are good even when there are consequences for the sin.
So BE ENCOURAGED! God is STILL on the throne answering the prayers of His People! Pray that He shows Himself strong in your marriage as that was the prayer I prayed. We are still praying for your marriages to be restored to the glory of God! But you “FIGHT FOR YOUR MARRIAGE” and believe God for the Victory!
This is so unpopular, but the word is the word and it will offend so many, especially our flesh! Fight for your marriage in the spirit and give it over to God!
I cannot say anything but this: GBAM! OEV nailed it.


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Astrology is easily dismissed as hokey malarkey. In fact, that’s exactly what I dubbed it as. That is, until I caught a glimpse of life’s magic spewing into action.
Our relatively uninspired, regurgitated elementary curriculum, involving astronomy and internal earth activity rarely resonates with the young, evolving mind. It wasn’t until personally witnessing the crimson spatter of internal regeneration that I was able to fathom the unimaginable. Peering down at earth, violently creating earth prompted a visceral experience of epic proportions. While vulnerably basking in the warmth of our planet’s core, I was overcome by glorious revelation.
Suddenly, the impossible began to reveal endless possibility.
What does any of this have to do with Mercury in Retrograde?
Quite honestly, I had never heard of Mercury in Retrograde until this afternoon. My yoga instructor opened today’s session with the acknowledgement of imbalance and potential challenges associated with planetary alingment. My former, cynical self would have disregarded her mention. Today I was intrigued. I left class and launched my investigation.
Mercury in Retrograde is a phenomena in which the planet Mercury slows its roll. It does so to such a degree that it appears to stop and move backwards. This optical illusion occurs 3-4x a year and is known in the world of Astrology as a precautionary time. Mercury has in fact been in retrograde since October 4th and will continue its charade until the 25th.
What sort of precautions should we be taking?
Mercury rules communication, clear thinking, truth & travel. Apparently as a Virgo, ruled by Mercury, I should not be making any major decisions until the 26th of October. As synchronicity would have it, I’m in the midst of heavy transition, extraordinary opportunities, and BIG decisions. I embraced this fanciful notion and devoted the next 10 days to contemplation and reflection. This is not to say that decision making won’t be taking place, it simply calls for mindful attentiveness, caution, and unwavering certainty within the process.
Astrology is based in belief and perceived energetics. Lacking a scientific backbone leaves it wildly open for cynicism and disbelief. I’m certainly not advocating the avoidance of communication, travel or decision making while Mercury is in Retrograde. Rather acknowledging the bigger picture. Just because we have yet to experience or visualize something does not mean it ceases to exist.
Reality need not be confined by the limitations of the human mind and experience.


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There's an amazing scene in this movie where the character played by Gena Rowlands visits an animal farm and buys practically the entire stock. She's heartsick and probably insane, so she becomes ecstatic just because a dog starts licking her hand. This scene reminded me what a great actress Gena Rowlands is. I've seen all of her Cassavetes movies, and she's tough, smart and heartbreaking in all of them. She gets put through the emotional wringer in virtually every movie, but her reactions never seem phony. People might disagree over the value of Cassavetes' movies, but I think everyone could agree that he was very lucky to have her.
A line of dialogue is repeated several times in Love Streams (1984) which is . . . "love is a stream - it's continuous, it doesn't stop".
Robert Harmon: You talked to him or you dreamt this?
(at around 1h 40 mins) The camera crew can be seen clearly behind the taxi when Sarah brings the animals home to her brother.
When released on videotape in the US by MGM/UA, "Love Streams" was cut to 122 minutes.


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