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As a means of sustaining our community and enhancing our faith in Jesus and our connection with each other, we have fellowship ministries and youth ministries that engage people at all levels to socialize and encourage faith development and common bonds. We are in this world together with others, and our ministries celebrate our collective unity with friendships and connections that help share the journey of life.
Fellowship gatherings for lunches, receptions, funerals, and special event all throughout the year.
Group Dining out once a month at local restaurants.
Our Worship Service includes a Time for Children. Children attend the beginning of service, and then are invited to go out for a children's presentation of the gospel, along with craft or game. Children return to the service in time for Holy Communion with their families.
Our Senior High Youth Ministry is called KICS and meets periodically, as well as particiating in summer workcamp, community service activities and fellowship events. Our youth can be seen doing yard sales, holiday babysitting, toddler parties, and more.
Children participate in an annual Christmas program, and are encouraged to share their musical talents with our choirs and instrumental performances.
If one of these groups is interesting to you, please feel free to join in. You may call the church office for more information. We would be happy to get you going.


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In this last Monday (04.05.2015) happened the MET gala at The Metropolitan Museum of Art, in New York, which includes the most anticipated red carpet of the year in the fashion world (or so they say).
This year, the event, hosted by Vogue Editor-in-Chief Anna Wintour and actress Jennifer Lawrence, paid homage to China, in particular, to the impact that Chinese aesthetics has in the Western world, and the celebrities sought to uphold the topic (kind of...). The red carpet was filled with silk (because China) and transparencies (lack of lingerie) and some, well, let´s be friendly and call it, excesses.Here are my favorite looks from the night (Thank God that Mr. Jacobs wore a tux this year. I´m still traumatized from 2012).
Rihanna in a dress from Guo Pei that took 2 years to make.
Amanda S. and Justin Long In Givenchy.
Ansel Elgort in Tom Ford.
Colin Firth in Tom Ford.
Dave Franco in Dior Homme.
Derek Jeter is wearing custom Rag & Bone.
Eddie Redmayne and Hannah Bagshawe in Valentino.
James Marsden is wearing Ermenegildo Zegna.
Joshua Jackson is wearing Alexander McQueen.
Kanye West and Kim K. in Roberto Cavalli by Peter Dundas.
Kerry Washington and Nnamdi Asomugha.
Maggie Q and Dylan McDermott.
Michael B. Jordan in Dolce & Gabbana (the vest and the shoes are too much tho´).
Neil Patrick Harris and David Burtka in Ermenegildo Zegna.
OIivia Wilde (what the hell are you wearing? You´re gorgeous but c´mon!!) and Jason Sudeikis in Prada.
Olivia Munn and Aaron Rogers wearing Lanvin.
Riccardo Tisci and Julliane Moore in Givenchy.
Richard Madden in Tommy Hilfiger.
Rita Ora and Tom Ford in Tom Ford.
Robert Pattinson wearing Dior Homme.
Rodrigo Santoro in Tommy Hilfiger Tailored.
Sofia Vergara and Joe Manganiello in Ermenegildo Zegna (it should be illegal to be such a good looking couple).
Cute matching couple (hate the clothes tho´).
Trevor Noah is wearing Ralph Lauren.
Wu Yi Fan in Givenchy.
Muita parra e pouca uva é o que me ocorre dizer!

industry_corpus2: Film & Entertainment


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Writing for The Verge, Vlad Savov recently argued that microprocessor giant Intel (NASDAQ: INTC) "let Apple (NASDAQ: AAPL) down once with the original MacBook's underpowered Core M processor, and the absence of an Intel Skylake upgrade for either the MacBook Pro or Air this year also seems to have been caused by Apple's dissatisfaction with Intel's CPUs."
Savov continues, declaring that "there is nothing that Apple would like to do more than rid itself of its reliance on Intel, which would eliminate such unforeseen hiccups in the future."
To that, I respond with the following: Don't be ridiculous.
If the first-gen Core M is under-powered, what was the A8X?
The first point that Savov brings up is the fact that the first-generation of Core M processor inside of Apple's first 12-inch fan-less MacBook was "underpowered."
I can sort of see what the author is talking about here. Intel's marketing claim that these chips delivered "the experience of Intel Core in fanless form factors" was something of a stretch. However, it was a reasonable first step.
According to Geekbench 4, the Core M-5Y71-based 12-inch MacBook (the Core M-5Y71 is the fastest of the Broadwell-based Core M chips) achieves a single-core score of 3251 and a multi-core score of 5691. Apple's fastest shipping processor at the time -- the A8X -- achieved a single-core score of 1833 and a multi-core score of 4001.
It looks to me that despite Savov's claim that the original Core M chip was "underpowered," Apple wasn't really fielding anything better at the time.
Later in 2015, Apple released the A9X chip, and Intel released a second-generation set of Core M processors based on a new architecture. The A9X was quite impressive, achieving a single-core score of 3150 and a multi-core score of 4893 -- almost as good as the first-generation Core M chip that Savov dissed.
The second-generation Core M-6Y75, in the same Geekbench 4 test, achieves a single-core score of 3715 and a multi-core score of 6974 -- solidly ahead of the older Core M chip, as well as Apple's A9X. This score is also better than what the A10 Fusion is able to put up (though if I were Intel, I would probably be sweating the fact that a smartphone processor is able to come this close to a late 2015 fan-less notebook/2-in-1 processor).
Intel has already announced the successor to the Core M-6Y75, known as the Core i7-7Y75, which should pull even further ahead of the A9X. That being said, I do expect Apple's upcoming A10X to be very close in performance to the i7-7Y75 (in Geekbench 4, my guess is that single-core performance between the two will be similar, with Intel pulling ahead in multi-core performance), which should be an excellent achievement for Apple.
Apple is good --really good. But it's important to keep in perspective that we are not comparing tablet-class Apple processors to power-hungry desktop processors -- we're comparing the Apple chips to very low-power Intel processors suitable for very thin and light fan-less devices, such as the 12-inch MacBook.
Savov claims that if a company wants to "develop the next great processor," that company had "better be going mobile first and building from there." Given the amount of effort that Intel has been putting into its low-power notebook processor efforts over the last several years, and given the fact that Intel has successfully developed Core architecture chips that can adequately power thin, light, and fan-less devices, such as the 12-inch MacBook, it's not clear where the author's criticism of Intel's efforts comes from.
How about that second claim?
Savov also argued that the fact that Apple hasn't updated its MacBook Air/Pro lineup to include Intel's sixth-generation Core processors (the Airs and the 13-inch Pro use fifth-generation Core chips; the 15-inch Pro uses a fourth-generation Core chip) is indicative of Apple's "dissatisfaction with Intel CPUs."
There's just no evidence to really substantiate that claim, particularly since the sixth-generation Core chips aremuchbetter than the fourth/fifth-generation Core chips that Apple is currently shipping in its MacBook Air and MacBook Pro lines.
It has been widely reported that Apple is planning substantial form factor and technology changes to its next-generation MacBook Pro products. These systems will very likely use Intel's sixth-generation Core processors.
If Apple is going to adopt these Intel processors anyway (albeit later than the rest of the industry), does it really make sense that the reason that we can't buy Skylake-based MacBook Pros today is that Apple is "dissatisfied" with Intel's chips?
It seems more likely to me that Apple didn't see the point in updating its systems with newer Intel processors without significant form factor/user experience changes elsewhere.
In other words, it looks more like a matter of Apple's Mac software/hardware development timeline not synchronizing with Intel's processor release cadence (which, frankly, is probably more dictated by the likes of Dell than by Apple)more than anything else.

industry_corpus2: Computing & Telecommunications


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In which workshops did you take part?
I took part in the Freshly Baked Pastries Workshop. It last 6 hours and we made croissants, chocolate rolls and brioche.
I had a very good moment. I may say that it was one of the happiest days of my life. I learned many new things in a friendly atmosphere, in the kitchen that was even better than in my dreams. I confess that I wish I could be able to use all the equipments or at least see them being used by the professionals. All the instructions, all the steps, all the achievements were so full of joy that I felt like a kid in an amusement park. I knew what I was doing and feeling the excitment of the senses through tacting, smelling and tasting, not to mention hearing the instructions and seeing the magic happens.
The campus was beyond my expectations. I wish I could stay more and do more courses. The rooms were really well equipped. There was nothing missing there.
The participants were above average. I was so lucky that in front of me I met two Brazilian girls from Rio de Janeiro. The same town as me. What are the odds?! We were exactly in front of each other and started talking to each other in French, then we realize we were all from the same town and there’s no reason to keep on speaking French, especially because my French is not that good. So, we found our tribe. It was awesome. And after that, during the whole workshop we had been helping one another without disturbing the class of course and after the workshop we went out for a beer and became friends up to now.
Details about fermentation of the dough, how to manipulate it, things related to temperature and the oven and to me especifically how to slide the knife.
The dreamy day I had and the possibility to think about of make a living with something I really like doing that is cooking. I wish I had the chance and opportunity to have an investiment to spend some time just to stop everything I do to take a chance on that and change my life and do this make over and live of what I like for good.
To be honest, not yet. Since I got back home I just have worked hard and didn’t have time to stop and organize my workshop material to put into practice, but I know I will quite soon. It’s a matter of honor.
I really would like to do jus and sauces workshop.

industry_corpus2: Subject Education


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industry_corpus2: Gaming


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For a time, Monash's misleading brochure on rates misled me too, but not in the way it was meant to — writes Gavin R. Putland.
In Monash City Council's brochure on rates reform, and in the July 21 edition of the Monash Bulletin (p.3), there's a numerical example purporting to show how CIV rating would affect the rates bills for a modest 3-bedroom house, a big new 4-bedroom house, a medical clinic, and a unit in a 4-storey block of 12 units, built on four “identical” 800 sq.m. lots “in a street”. The brochure describes the assumed “rates in the dollar” as “estimates only” for the CIV cases (“Options 2 & 3”) but not for the SV case (“Option 1”), although in all three cases the rates in the dollar are based on the official valuations used for the 2009/10 budget. This anomaly is noted in the post of July 31, in which I attacked the numerical example for ignoring the increase in site values due to special building approvals.
Earlier versions of that attack were contained in letters to the Monash Journal (submitted Jul.25, published Aug.3) and the Waverley Leader (submitted Jul.26, published Aug.4). Although the letters differed somewhat in coverage, both concluded that the offending example understates the rates bills for the clinic and the block of units under SV, “and overstates them under CIV”.
Question: What was the reasoning behind the last five words? If the SV is understated, isn't the CIV, hence the bill, also understated? Or if the CIV is correct while the part attributable to the site value is understated, won't the bill be correct?
Answer: I was reasoning from the general rule that a change from SV to CIV favours ratepayers with higher site-value fractions. This assumes that the “rate in the dollar” is determined by working backwards from the total required revenue and the total rateable value (SV or CIV). Changes in individual values affect the total value, which is the denominator in the calculation of the “rate in the dollar”, so that any change in the total value has an inverse effect on individual bills. And because the “rates in the dollar” for CIV were “estimates only”, I didn't see any reason to depart from the general rule!
However, I now know that the CIV rates used in the brochure, like the SV rate, are based on actual total valuations for 2009/10, so that it is misleading to describe them as “estimates only” (at least without describing the SV rate in the same way). As the total valuations are factual while the individual examples are fictitious (and indeed absurd), the effect of those examples on total values should be disregarded, so that there is no basis for the words “and overstates them under CIV”. These five words should never have been included in the text, and would not have been included if I'd known then what I know now. In all other respects, however, I stand by the two letters.
I have duly written to the Monash Journal and the Waverley Leader to correct the record. It remains to be seen whether they print the corrections.* It remains to be seen whether the pro-CIV camp seizes on the Five Words, or keeps quiet for fear of drawing attention to any of the other words in the same two letters. And it remains to be seen whether anyone would have known the Five Words were a mistake if I hadn't 'fessed up.
* Update (September 16): The Monash Journal printed the correction on p.8 of the Aug.17 edition.

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When DR published the documents regarding the 2014 Eurovision Song Contest we also got a look into which exact requirements a host city of such an event are met with. These are technical requirements to the stage, but also things like hotel specifications, size of Eurovision Village and even the number of bars at Euroclub.
Why should you host ESC 2014? Motivation and experince to take on such a task.
Venue which lives up to the requirements from EBU and is available for six weeks.
DR only received offers from Copenhagen, Herning and Horsens as Aalborg and Frederica pulled out after seeing the attached documents with the specific requirements. The specifications below are those sent out to the interesting cities which DR wrote based on information from EBU.
Techinical specifications were listed such as the size of DR’s production trailers and distance from TVC (TV Compound) to stage, but also lots of other things easier to understand for the non technical readers.
To service the participating artists a minimum of 30 wardrobes with space for ten people, seperate bathing facilities for men and women, 20 make-up tables and 15 hairdresser places were required, plus an overnight laundry with dryclean and a tailor.
For the commentators mimimum 50 boxes were needed, just as a lounge for 100 commentators had to be nearby. The boxes had to have space for two people working, aircondition, electricity, internet and a good TV signal.
Without sponsors there wouldn’t be any Eurovision Song Contest so of course they have to be taken good care of. Besides sponsor seats in the arena a seperate sponsor hospitality area for 700 people including catering had to be available close to where the sponsors would be seated in the arena itself.
After their rehearsals delegations go to see a video recording of it in the socalled viewing room, a recording they can use to request changes. It is mentioned that this needs to be of a size so that it fits 20 people.
It was also specified that greenroom should be near the stage and able to host 250 people with space for TV light and aircondition as well.
In order to gain good exposure of the contest a presscenter with good working facilities are needed. This is mentioned to be in the size between 6.000 and 10.000 squaremetres with phone and broadband connection for 1500 people, with minimum 900 at once. The press conference area should have space for 500 seating journalists plus a podium for TV cameras and a photoshoot area and three sound boxes.
There should also be individual interview rooms, up to eight eqiped radiostudios and a fan meet & greet room. The presscentre should also include a helpdesk with 3.000 pigeon holes, fax oppertunities and minimum 100 boxes for storage of photo equipment and a fan desk.
A first-aid room with medical staff has to be available as well just as a smaller press office with working spaces for EBU website team.
A Danish expression says that "without food and drinks no hero can work", and indeed for the long hours of working at a Eurovision Song Contest food, drinks and snacks have to be available. A total of three canteens operating on a daily basis are required: One for the journalists, one for the working delegations and one for the TV crew.
In the final contract between HostCity Copenhagen (HCC) and DR it is further mentioned that coffee, tea, water and snacks should be provided free of charge in the presscenter.
A Eurovision Song Contest is more than just a TV show for the involved parts. It is also a party for the local population and the foreign visitors. Eurovision Village should be between 600 and 1.000 squaremetres and include sponsor exposure and performers for the visiting audience to enjoy.
For nighttime enjoyment Euroclub is open for accreditated fans, journalists, delegations etc. and should be open to at least 03.00, be minimum 1.000 squaremetres and have six bars and two stages.
With a total of 10.000 accreditated people for a Eurovision Song Contest naturally good accomodation facilities are needed in the host city. DR writes in their material sent out to the five interested cities that it requires a minimum of 10.000 hotelrooms divided with 40% in the lower category (usually 3 star), 40% medium (4 star) and 20% high priced (5 star).
DR also writes that the hotelrooms must be located in an acceptable distance from the centre of the city and/or the venue. It was this which made Aalborg pull out concluding that they didn’t have the required hotel capacity. They took it to be a short walking distance from the city centre, and therefore hotels 10 drive away would be out, and even hostels in the centre couldn’t be used as it specified hotels. Herning and Horsens which did bid strechted it in the other direction with their Eurovision ideas relying on most of the hotels being nearly an hour drive away.
Journalists: 1.000 rooms spread over 3,4 and 5 stars, but can also be hostels, camping cottages and apartments.
Fans: 500 rooms suggested spread over 3 and 4 stars, and can also be hostels, camping cottages and apartments. It is clearly mentioned that this number is suggested and not required as it never will be the host city’s task to provide hotel capacity for fans.
To get to their 3.000 hotelrooms DR took it to be all hotelrooms, including the fan ones. If a city like Aalborg had read the specification from EBU instead and questioned their understanding of "acceptable distance from the city centre, the city would be on the safe side. Furthermore then they have a large harbour in the city centre where a hotelship easily could be placed. Many of these might not deliver the top star hotel experience, but would fine be able to serve as accomodation for journalists and fans. If Herning’s bid had been offering temporary accomodation as seen for student housing and during the Olympics, rather than relying on a city 80 kilometres away they would have stood with a much stronger bid as well.
In the final contract between DR and the host city it was further mentioned: "The host city needs to make sure that the hotels deliver at normal prices and that they don’t put the prices up due to Eurovision Song Contest". Copenhagen failed to live up to this part of the contract, just like every other previous host city has failed as well, and Vienna will as well as their hotelrooms have already seen a big increase in prices for the two Eurovision weeks next year.
DR published these documents after pressure from media and politicians. Today Wonderful Copenhagen also published their documents providing us with the chance to explore the situation from both sides. EuroVisionary will of course read those many documents as well and bring you more information about what actually went wrong.


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Manisha Koirala, 41, pulled herself together and turned out prim and proper to open an ice-cream parlour in Mumbai.
Madhuri Dixit, 44, has her charming smile intact even if she's gone thick around the middle.
Sonali Bendre, 37, keeps herself busy judging reality shows-Indian Idol, then two seasons of India's Got Talent.
Sridevi, 48, contented herself with flaunting her new svelte form in slinky dresses on the red carpet and the occasional walk down the ramp, as her pounds dropped and her hemlines rose.
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Abstract: Louis Pollock was a writer for motion picture, television, and radio programs, in addition to authoring a number of short stories and articles. He also wrote under the pseudonyms Joe Madison and Louis Benart. The collection consists of script and story files, articles written for magazine publications, and a small amount of correspondence and advertising materials.
Gift of David Pollock, 1989.
[Identification of item], Louis Pollock Papers (Collection PASC 83). UCLA Library Special Collections, Charles E. Young Research Library, UCLA.
Louis Pollock was born in Liverpool, England on February 16, 1904. In 1916 Pollock's family moved to the United States, where he finished high school and went on to pursue a career in writing. In 1925 Pollock began his career working as a reporter and re-write man on the staff of the Chicago City News Bureau, the American Weekly, and the Chicago Herald and Examiner. Throughout the 1930s Pollock worked in public relations, and publicized various theatrical ventures, before acquiring the position of Manager of Advertising and Publicity with Universal Studios in 1937. During his association with Universal, Pollock helped publicize actors such as Deanna Durbin and the comedy team of Abbott and Costello, in addition to arranging special promotions to advertise Universal's films. In 1943, he became the director of advertising and publicity for United Artists; however, he resigned the following year to devote all of his time to his writing career.
Pollock worked on several radio ns2:shows, including Prudential Family Hour and Duffy's Tavern. His motion picture credits include Prison Window (Paramount, 1943), Port Said (Columbia, 1948), Suicide Attack (Classic Pictures, 1951), and The Gamma People (Columbia, 1956), among others. In addition, Pollock authored numerous short stories and articles, as well as the book, Stork Bites Man, which was later adapted for the screen, and starred Jackie Cooper (United Artists, 1947). Pollock's writing career continued to grow until 1954 when studios began to reject his scripts. It was not until five years later that he became aware that a man with a similar name, Louis Pollack, had appeared before the House Un-American Activities Committee, and was subsequently blacklisted by Hollywood. Because Pollock had been mistaken for Pollack, his screenwriting career ultimately ceased. He was able to clear his name when the committee granted a full clearance in 1959, but he was never able to regain his earlier success. Pollock also wrote under the pseudonyms Joe Madison and Louis Benar. His television credits include The Richard Boone Show and Voyage to the Bottom of the Sea . Louis Pollock died on August 23, 1964. Biography information based on information from Louis Pollock Papers, Wisconsin Historical Society Archives / Wisconsin Center for Film and Theater Research .
The collection consists of material related to the career of radio, film and television writer Louis Pollock. Included are outlines, treatments and drafts of scripts, for various projects. Additionally included are a number of articles submitted to Modern Screen and Redbook magazines, and a small amount of correspondence and advertising material.


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Yesterday morning, I sent out a missive on Facebook, asking my friends and family to start sending me pictures for short story inspiration. I am so grateful to Hope for sending me my first picture, one of the beautiful gristmill in Cades Cove, Tennessee.
My original goal was to write a story involving the mill itself, which I started to do, but the characters took over the story as usual, and the mill ended up disappearing altogether. Despite that, this first work does take place in Cades Cove during the Civil War. I learned so much about the cove area and the families that lived there while I was doing my research yesterday, and for that I am so grateful! I can’t wait to go and visit the area again with my newfound knowledge.
One other thing that I learned was that I can, in fact, get myself to write historical fiction if I push myself hard enough. And complete said story in a day. Since it was such a quick turnaround, I hope you will forgive any grammatical errors.
All of the people in this story with the exception of Joseph Miller were people who actually lived in the cove. While I did take some creative liberties with Lizzie’s story, the rest of the history is accurate based off the research that I did.
~~ Russell Gregory had been killed. I couldn’t believe it. Why him? Mr. Gregory had been well liked in Cades Cove, Tennessee. I had particularly fond memories of him, because he used to let me follow along with him as he would lead his cattle herds up the mountains every spring, his loved gun, Old Long Tom, over his shoulder. I’d struggle to match his pace, my bare feet working as hard as they could. Often he would slow down just enough to let me catch up before his strides would lengthen again.
As soon as I heard about his death, I ran to find Papa in the fields, fighting back the tears that threatened to spill. Cades Cove had gone through so much since the war had started. The Confederate raids had continued over the last year despite the Federal occupation of Knoxville, and everyone had suffered in one way or another because of it. Poor Dr. Calvin Post, a strong abolitionist and Union supporter, had gone into hiding to avoid being murdered like Russell Gregory. Elijah Oliver’s barn had been burned down, and he had fled like Dr. Post. Rumor was he had found a place to lay low on Rich Mountain. Livestock had been stolen. People lived in fear of the next attack. When would it end?
I spotted Papa’s still figure, standing among the dirt mounds in the evening light, his eyes staring off at some unseen thing. I knew he was thinking of his future crops, even though it was only December, and planting season was still a long ways off.
“Papa,” I called out as I came up behind him. I may have been sixteen years old, but at that moment I felt like I was five, and I wanted nothing more than to throw myself into my papa’s arms and cry until the ache from Mr. Gregory’s death passed.
He turned, the lingering cloud of future plans in his eyes. The corner of his mouth lifted into a smile when he saw me, but then it fell again when he saw my expression.
“What’s wrong, Lizzie?” he asked, worry creeping into his voice.
“Russell Gregory’s dead!” I cried.
There was a moment’s pause as Papa let the news settle in, then his legs were moving, propelling him toward the Gregory’s property.
“How?” he asked as I fell into step beside him.
Papa started walking faster, his head swinging from side to side as he took in his surroundings. The rifle he had taken to carrying with him to the fields in case of attack was clutched firmly in his white-knuckled grip.
When we reached the Gregory’s property, the first thing I saw was the circle of men. They were all familiar to me, most of them people I had known since I was born. At that moment, though, all of their features blended together.
The one face that stood starkly out was that of Mr. Gregory. He was lying on the ground in the middle of the circle, the front of his white work shirt covered in blood, eyes closed, never to open again. Papa saw him too, and stopped.
He turned to face me and placed his free hand on my shoulder.
I gave a quick nod. He gave me one in return, then turned me toward the direction of home and gave me a gentle push that direction.
An overwhelming numbness replaced my tears as I walked away from the Gregory’s property. The rifle hung limply in my hand as if it, too, felt hopeless. We both knew I wouldn’t be able to defend myself against a group of Confederate raiders if I were to happen upon them or them upon me. I’d be lucky if I could get a single successful shot off. Papa had taught me how to shoot before, but those targets had been motionless pieces of stacked wood, not living, moving men.
I don’t know how much time had passed, or even really how my feet had gotten me home, but when I looked up, the cabin was in front of me. It was usually a place that made me happy. I loved my family and the home we shared. At that moment, though, I couldn’t bear the thought of going inside and facing their questions. Mama hadn’t wanted any of us to go out when she heard about Mr. Gregory’s death, but I had pushed out of the house despite her protestations. If I went in right away, there was a chance I would be in for a solid tongue lashing. I may have been too old for the switch, but that wouldn’t stop my mama from dolling out a verbal punishment.
The barn was about fifty feet or so to the right of the house, and it was in that direction I turned my feet. I would face Mama when my heart didn’t feel quite so heavy.
The barn doors squeaked familiarly as I pushed them both open, dust clouds dancing in the patch of evening light that streamed into the new opening. I placed the rifle by the door and welcomed in the smells of hay and manure. Grace and Bert, the two plowing horses, gave soft nickers to welcome my presence. The cows were quiet, which meant James, my younger brother, had already been by to milk them.
I stood in the middle of the barn, wanting to simply soak in the peace and quiet. Even when I closed my eyes, though, there was no peace to be had. Instead, I felt the hairs on the back of my neck stand on end. A subtle shiver ran through my body and I knew it, clear as day. I was not alone. There was a chance that it was one of my siblings, but they weren’t patient enough to remain hidden for so long.
My eyes darted to the gun by the door while I mentally berated myself for giving it up so easily. If I moved for it, would I get there before whoever was with me could get to me? Whatever the answer, it was the only choice I had. Trying to move slowly and as if I was not wound tight as a yearling colt, I took casual steps toward the door. I was about halfway to the gun when I heard the rustling behind me.
Giving up all pretense of ignorant ease of mind, I darted the last few steps to the rifle, picked it up, and swung around, my finger pressing in on the trigger.
“Please, don’t shoot,” a quiet, strangled man’s voice came from the shadows just beyond Bert’s stall.
“Show yourself!” I demanded, fighting to keep the quiver out of my own voice.
There was a silent pause, as if the owner of the voice was trying to decide on the best course of action. Then, there was more rustling as the man shuffled into view. I barely stifled a gasp when I saw him.
His right arm hung uselessly at his side, a mix of fresh and dried blood showing through the tattered, cotton sleeve of a once white shirt. His face, stained a deep brown by the sun, was hollow and haunted, a patchy beard covering his cheeks and chin. Long strands of brown hair poked out from under a worn, wool hat. As if his very appearance wasn’t enough to identify what sort of person he was, the upside down ‘US’ belt buckle shouted it loud and clear.
“Confederate,” I said, finger tightening a little more on the trigger. I had heard the stories of how the Confederates took the belt buckles off dead Union soldiers. How they took pride in wearing them in a manner they knew would seem disrespectful to their opposition.
A Confederate being in the vicinity around the time of Mr. Gregory’s death was no coincidence.
“I should kill you. After what you and yours did to Mr. Gregory. Killing him so heartlessly.” I made no attempt to hide the anger I was feeling.
The man gave a small shake of his head as he wobbled unsteadily on his feet. I lowered the rifle a little bit and studied him. The man was not doing well, that much was clear. He was physically spent, but it was more than that. He looked raw and confused, and I couldn’t help the small softening in my heart at his pitiful state. He seemed genuinely alarmed by the killing.
“Lizzie! You in the barn?” It was Mama.
My heart gave a jolt in my chest, and the man in front of me gave me a pleading look. I couldn’t decide what to do. If I was smart, I’d shoot the man down where he stood. He was one of the Confederates who had killed Mr. Gregory. I’d be a hero in the cove for years to come. Or I could at least keep him at rifle’s length until Papa got home. But Papa would give him up to the other men of the cove and they’d all probably decide to kill him. Could I really face the rest of my life knowing I had been the one responsible for a man’s death?
Giving a frustrated sigh, I motioned to the dark corner the man had been hiding in.
“Get back over there,” I hissed at him as I inched toward the barn door. To my surprise, the man obeyed. “If you take a step out of this building, I’ll shoot you,” I said to the shadows, then I moved out of the barn, lowering the rifle as I did.
Mama was standing on the porch of the cabin, hands on her hips. Her eyes widened when she saw I had the gun.
She walked back into the house, her long skirt swishing around her ankles, and I knew I would be spared her anger that night. It was the solemnity of the evening’s happenings, and her own fear of marauding Confederates that made her hold her peace.
I didn’t return to the barn until late that night after everyone else had gone to bed. Papa had gotten home after dark, his face tired and burdened. I knew the rest of the men in the cove would be greeting their families with the same expression. He didn’t tell us much because there wasn’t much to tell. There was no justice that could be done for Mr. Gregory. His killers were long gone, or at least so everyone thought. So many times throughout the evening I thought about telling him about the Confederate out in the barn, but something always stopped me.
By the time I snuck out of the cabin with a lantern, the rifle, a few pieces of food, and something to patch up the Confederate’s wound, my stomach was in one huge knot.
When I got to the barn door, I set my supplies down and lit up the lantern, then pulled the door open, rifle pointed into the dark exterior.
“Come out where I can see you,” I said.
He emerged from the corner I had ordered him into earlier in the day, but he was on his knees instead of his feet. I picked up the piece of fabric I had wrapped cornbread and a piece of dried meat in and threw it toward him.
“Some food if you want it,” I said.
In the glow of the lantern, I could see his dull eyes take on a small spark when the bundle dropped near him. With labored movements, he moved toward it and, once he had pulled the food out, began shoving it into his mouth like he had never eaten before.
While he was distracted, I stepped fully into the barn, closing the door enough behind me that the light wouldn’t be too obvious from the cabin. Not that there was much to worry about. The joke in the cove was that God himself would have trouble waking the Greer family.
When the Confederate finished eating, and it didn’t take long, I motioned to the other things that had been in the bundle.
He pulled out the needle, which I had already threaded, and eyed it warily.
“Have you never stitched up a wound before?” I asked.
The look he gave me suggested he thought otherwise. He held the needle above his arm for a minute or two, then gave a small sigh and fairly jammed the sharp tip into his skin. Even I winced at the harsh first prick. The stitches he administered to himself were rough, but they seemed to hold the wound together well. After he was done, he wrapped the cloth around his arm and studied his work.
“I didn’t kill him.” The man’s grey-blue eyes met mine, the same desperation in them that I had seen earlier.
“Well, you were at least privy to it, now weren’t you?” Hot tears were burning the backs of my eyes as I recalled Mr. Gregory’s lifeless body.
The man tried to stand to his feet, but his legs were shaking under the weight he tried to give them and collapsed before he could get all the way up.
“I don’t think I can,” he said when he was back down on his knees again.
I looked down at the rifle I still had pointed at him and knew I could never kill a wounded, defenseless man. Or was he defenseless?
“Do you have any weapons?” I demanded.
“A musket. A knife. Over there.” He jerked his head toward the shadow he had been hiding in.
My face turned bright red. I could tell based solely off the heat rising to it.
Suddenly I was very aware of the fact that I, a young woman, was all alone at night with a man whose intentions were completely unknown to me. It was downright scandalous, and I was almost certain I’d be shamed out of the cove if anyone ever found out. I took a step back.
The man opened his mouth as if to offer up a defense, but then sighed and closed it again, seeming to have no energy left for an argument.
There was an awkward, silent moment that passed. It was necessary to keep my eyes on him, but I found it hard to meet his gaze given our embarrassing exchange.
“What’s your name?” I asked when I couldn’t take the silence anymore.
“Do you miss home?” I asked, then snapped my mouth shut. The question was too personal. If I could have taken it back, I would have.
At first, I assumed he was being impudent with his answer, but then I saw his face had no malice about it. He was a tired, hurt man who looked like he hadn’t had a decent meal or night of sleep in a long while. Of course he’d be missing home. Who wouldn’t be?
“You miss it very much,” I said quietly.
“My name?” Did I want him to know my name? Was that dangerous? It wasn’t like he could figure out where I lived with a name. He was already there.
“Lizzie.” He repeated my name and gave a nod as if he approved.
The silence enveloped us again, and I saw Joseph’s eyes sinking dangerously close to sleep. He needed rest, and I had been there long enough.
I lifted my eyes to Heaven and silently thanked the good Lord that it was a man with no malicious intent in the barn and not someone who would have harmed my precocious little brother.
“I appreciate you leaving him be,” I said with sincerity.
“They’re a handful,” I said with a smile.
Joseph gave a tired smile back, the two of us sharing a moment of solidarity.
“Goodnight, Joseph,” I said as I moved for the barn door.
“Good night, Lizzie,” came the murmured reply behind me.
Over the next three days, I continued my ritual of taking the lantern, gun, and food out to the barn once the family had gone to bed. Joseph had managed to stay quiet and out of sight as he fought to gain back his health and energy. Our conversations, stilted at first, had been coming with more ease. It astounded me that, despite him being a Confederate, we actually thought very much the same on a lot of things. His family was just as important to him as mine was to me. He had been raised on a farm as I had been, and worked there until he left for the war. He even seemed to view the world in the same way I did. How could he be so similar to me, yet fall in with the Confederates? There were so many more serious questions I wanted to ask him, but I managed to reign in my tongue before I threw us headlong into true debate.
On the fourth night, I was sitting on a hay bale by the barn door, rifle leaning only for show next to my leg. We both knew I wouldn’t shoot it, but I figured I could use it as a prop to preserve my dignity if someone were to discover us in the barn. I felt guilty that I was willing to sacrifice Joseph at gunpoint over losing my reputation, but I was, after all, saving him by letting him stay where he was.
“You can ask,” Joseph said as he shoved the last bite of cornbread into his mouth.
“I told you. We stole a calf to eat. He came demanding payment. One of the other men shot him. It wasn’t me, though. I wouldn’t do that…” he trailed off as if he were speaking his disinclination to commit such a horrible crime for his own benefit more than mine.
I didn’t feel like delving into that any deeper. We’d probably never agree.
“How’d you hurt your arm?” I asked instead.
A furrow appeared between Joseph’s eyebrows as he contemplated my question.
I smiled at him. Joseph had already shown me the cards in with his meager belongings. I’d never seen a deck before, and didn’t think anyone in the cove owned one. Cards were of the devil, a sinful thing to take part in, which is why Joseph said most soldiers tried to get rid of them when they thought they were about to die. It wouldn’t do to face the Maker with a pack of cards in pocket.
“I hope you make it home long before death finds you,” I told Joseph, and I meant it. In our brief time together, I felt we had developed a true sort of comradery. I could see he was an honest, earnest person.
“Me, too. It’s beautiful there. Perfect. The sunsets over the mountain behind our homestead, I wish you could see it.” His eyes lit up as he imagined it, momentarily wiping away the shadows that still haunted his face. The fire died out from his eyes, though, and he began to look concerned. “You believe me, don’t you?” he asked, turning to me.
His eyes dropped to his sad excuse for boots as he fell deep into thought.
“I better go,” I said, my common ending phrase for our nights together. I stood up from the hay bale and shook clinging strands from my skirt. When I looked back at Joseph, he was studying me.
“I’m leaving tomorrow night,” he said, seeming bothered by it.
I swallowed past the quickly growing lump in my throat.
“Isn’t that a good thing? You can go back to your troops, with your fellow soldiers. It means you’re well again. That you’re strong.” Even as I tried to convince him he should be happy, though, I felt the same kind of sadness I saw in his eyes creep its way into my heart.
Knowing it was probably going to be the last time I ever saw Joseph Miller, I wanted to make sure our last meeting was one of good memories. To that end, the next night, I packed up more food than usual for him so he could go at least a few more days without hunger gnawing at his belly. I also grabbed scissors, Papa’s razor, and lye soap and slipped them into the pocket of my skirt. I left the rifle behind. If this one night someone happened to find us together in the barn, well, that was just how things were going to be. My conscience was clear before God and man.
“A razor?” Joseph asked in bewilderment when I showed him my procurement.
I couldn’t help but laugh at his quizzical expression.
“Yes, Joseph, a razor. Men use these to get rid of all that scruff.” I placed my hands on my cheeks to illustrate my point.
For a split second, Joseph thought I was serious, but then he gave me an amused scowl.
I used the scissors first, cutting the hairs as close to his face as I could. Then, using water and the lye soap, I got enough of a lather on his face to begin the actual shave itself. I bent low enough over him that I could work well, but not so low in his space as to be scandalous. Who was I trying to fool, though? The entire situation would be perceived as scandalous by society as a whole, not just the folks in Cades Cove.
“How about a little less thought and a little more concentration,” Joseph said when I lifted the blade away to clean it off.
Joseph muttered something unintelligible, but quickly stilled his face as I lowered the razor again.
When every last hair had been cleared from his cheeks, chin, and neck, I moved away and gave a low whistle, astounded by the transformation.
“Why Joseph Miller, you look to be a new man without all that scruff hiding you.” And he looked about ten years younger. “How old are you?” I asked.
“Oh, really? Don’t worry. It’ll grow back.” I smiled and crossed my arms over my chest, pleased with his new look.
I watched as he began gathering his things. He slipped on his leather belt, which held his percussion box, then he strung a leather strap across his chest that carried his cartridge box, haversack, a small cup, and his canteen. His lone knife went into a sheaf on his belt.
His look grew serious. He took a step toward me and my heart started beating erratically in a way it never had before in my life.
“I’ll come back,” he said, voice solemn with the promise it carried.
“I hope you do,” I said quietly.
He gave me a smile that contained both sadness and hope, an odd mix, but one that was appealing on him. Grabbing his musket in his good hand, he strode to the barn door. I followed close behind him. Before he stepped out into the night, he turned to me. In a move that seemed to slow time and speed it up all at once, he bent down and placed a light kiss on my cheek.
“Until I see you again, Lizzie Greer,” he whispered.
“Until I see you again, Joseph Miller,” I replied breathlessly.
He moved out into the night and stopped just before the tree line to turn and give me a last smile while I gave him a wave. Then, he disappeared into the night, and I had the strong suspicion he took part of my heart with him.
That was the last time I ever saw the face of Joseph Miller. He died In the Battle of Five Forks in Virginia on April 1, 1965, just days before the surrender of the Confederate army and the end of the Civil War.
Months after the war ended, I finally received a letter he had sent me the day before his death.
Battle is before me, and I can’t help but feel like this will be that glorious death I spoke of in your barn what feels like lifetimes ago. Better this way than through sickness, but I did want to see you again so very much. Please know that you were a very bright light in a very dark world, the brightest light I ever did see. You saved me, Lizzie, not just from starvation, but from the man I was becoming that I did not want to be. I wish I could have come back to you. I wish I could have taken you to see that beautiful sunset over the mountains in Durham. But know I have carried memories of our time together from the moment I left. My pockets are empty of playing cards, and I look forward to the day I can see you on God’s golden shore.
This is wonderful!! Historical fictions are a daunting task for me and you conquered this beautifully!

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CONTRIBUTED PHOTOS Citius players competing in the National Youth Baseball Championships July 26-31 in Yauphank, N.Y., included Cash Benavidez (standing, from left), Damien Sanchez, Sai Campos, Canon Chester, Xavier Arias, Jake Miller and Ryan Galvan; Marley Bernal (kneeling, from left), Richard Nalle, Rene Galvan, Aiden Gonzalez, Easton Dowell and Derek Hernandez.
Baseball Heaven is for real. It's also televised. Tommy Lasorda sometimes shows up, too, even for those who were too young to recognize him.
And 13 Coastal Bend youth ballplayers were drawn to its light last month and have returned to tell of its glory.
Team Citius, an under-12 select program with players from Corpus Christi andvarious other towns in South Texas, played in the National Youth Baseball Championships July 26-31 in Yauphank, N.Y.
In all, 80 teams — including 18 in the 12U division — converged on the eastern Long Island town and Baseball Heaven, a state-of-the-art complex featuring seven turf fields, an indoor facility, restaurant and pro shop.
"I would do New York again in a heartbeat," said Citius head coach Michael Hernandez. "The tournament was professionally ran. The hospitality, customer service… you could really tell that the competition was at its best. We were put to the test, and that's what we went up there for."
The team finished play with four wins, one loss and a tie — as the loss came in the semifinal round to eventual tournament champion Lamorinda (Calif.).
The NYBC is one of the largest 12U tournaments in the country, and has extended offers to Hernandez due to his teams' national ranking, but he said he wanted to wait until the players were 12 years old. Instead, the team traveled to Florida two years ago for the Elite 32 Baseball World Series, and typically makes three or four out-of-state tournaments each season, which runs from October to August.
Internally the team is referred to as Citius Hernandez, but officially the title is Citius Roland, named in honor of the family of Citius director William Roland, a childhood friend of Hernandez whose father "who was like my second dad," Hernandez said. Roland died from brain cancer a few years ago.
The team, with a record Hernandez estimates at "around 50-6," is ranked No. 1 by BaseballYouth.com and No. 3 by NYBC, behind Lamorinda and tournament finalist BC Phenom (N.J.).
Eight of Citius' 13 players have been on the team since Hernandez took the helm of Slam Baseball six years ago. Most had turned 13 by the end of the summer, though they competed in the 12U division in New York. Hernandez' son, the youngest on the team, turns 13 in January.
This season has been the first with Citius Baseball, a developmental and showcasing organization formed in 2011 that has sent more than 100 players to college baseball and 30 to professional leagues.
In Tuesday's pool play opener, Citius came from behind in the final inning to beat defending tournament finalist Wilson MVP Elite (Calif.) 3-2, despite Wilson pitcher Izeah Muniz — all 5-11, 180 pounds of him — striking out the first seven batters he faced before leaving due to pitch-count concerns.
"I think we had the first-game jitters," Hernandez said. "We'd traveled all the way to New York and the kids knew they were going to be live on TV. I could tell they were a little nervous. Our bats were a little flat. My chatter to them was 'Keep the game close.' "
Playing a double-header the following day, Citius defeated Long Island Junior Ducks 4-2 before tying Saginaw Bay (Mich.) Riverdawgs 3-3.
"We had seen maybe one team (Austin's Rivals Elite)," Hernandez said. "Everybody else, pretty much, you just didn't know what you were getting into. You'd have to see the kid's first at-bat and then play it from there."
On Thursday, the 18 teams were seeded and Citius was the No. 4 seed. They beat a pair of Texas teams, Rivals Elite 9-0 and Dallas' BN Phenom 3-2 (on Rene Galvan's walk-off double), before squandering a 3-0 fourth-inning lead in the semfinal and falling to Lamorinda 9-3.
"We knew they were tough," Hernandez said. "They also carry four or five pitchers that threw 75 (mph)-plus. We went up… and all of a sudden, I got the feeling that we were going to do something really special. I think if Jake (Miller) could've gone a full game we would have won that game."
A highlight of the trip was meeting 88-year old Hall of Fame Los Angeles Dodgers manager Tommy Lasorda.
"At first I didn't know who he was, and then my dad came over and said that that was Tommy Lasorda," Derek Herenandez said. "Me and my dad just came up to him and introduced ourselves and took a picture with him."
"I had some great conversations with Tommy Lasorda this past week," the elder Hernandez noted.
Soon it will be time for the now under-13 team to start preparing for the challenges of the new season.
"Usually we just take about a month or two-month break, then we get back together and start working again," Miller said. "We have a strong bond. We've been together probably the longest out of all the teams. We don't just pick up new players. We all stay, we all work together."


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Gordon, D., Kadish, A. H., Koolish, D., Taneja, T., Ulphani, J., Goldberger, J. J., & Ng, J. (2010). High-resolution electrical mapping of depolarization and repolarization alternans in an ischemic dog model. American Journal Of Physiology. Heart And Circulatory Physiology, 298(2), H352-H359.


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If they were going to continue the series after this game, they should have done something like put a "Reiji Arisu will return" message at the end of the game's closing credits just to reassure gamers and fans that the series has no intention of ending. Besides, didn't the creators already say that they would like to do PXZ3 in the future?
I dunno. Another game would be great, but I really liked the way this one ended. It felt more like a conclusion to the overall storyline started by Namco X Capcom.
Dwarven Vow Number 10: Play hard, play often.
Don't know how it concluded the arc, though. I don't think destroying Byaku Shin and Saya made Ouma itself disappear. Removing the leader of a terrorist organization doesn't eliminate the organization itself, sometimes. And besides, didn't Ouma have its own branches and Saya have any backup bodies like M. Bison had?
Too much of the series would get stagnant.
Most people are overly familiar with Reiji and prefer him.
Yes, the people behind the games would want to see a third in the future, but it is straw grasping now.
I would like to see the heroes of PXZ 1 and 2 again. They have to continue this.
2 felt dead on arrival and even if the producers want another one, it needs some spice and flare.
The battle system is what killed it for me and this is coming from someone who prefers SRW over PxZ's press this to hear flashy screaming.
Plus the whole customising your characters made it way too easy.
Inbefore "dat chapter waz hard!!" It was still cheesed with the customising your characters.
I didn't find that chapter hard, just a bulls*** chapter.
So what? They better not give us a chapter like that again, I swear.


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How to start with Orioly?
Once you create an Activity, you can start receiving bookings.
To create a new booking, you need to have at least one activity in your Orioly account.
Orioly registers each booking made through the booking button on your website. Each time someone books a tour through your website, you will find it saved in the Bookings section of your Orioly app.
Click the Add new button on the bottom left of Orioly app sidebar.
Through activities in the Activity section of the sidebar.
To create your first booking, click Add new in the lower left corner, then click Booking.
Complete the following steps such and click Finish to create a new booking.
Summary – review the booking.
1. Select the activity you want to book.
Use the search option to find a specific activity or use the filtering option to filter your activities by the following parameters.
First, filter activities by date range.
Second, filter activities by price range.
Third, enter the activity keyword in the search box.
When you find your Activity, click on it and move to the next step.
2. Select a departure from the Calendar of departures.
Calendar of departures displays date, time and cost of each departure.
Click on the departure you want to book. Now you’re able to see the departure details such as date, time, price, and the current booking status. These details show up in the green bar at the top of your screen after you’ve selected your departure.
Select another departure, or go back to the previous step and continue with your booking.
3. Enter the information about the customers who will be paying for the tour.
A payer is a company or a person who’s paying for the tour. Your customer does not need to be taking your tour or activity themselves. The customer could be paying for someone else to go. For example, a mother could be paying for her son to take a running tour.
A traveler is a person joining you on the tour. For example, the son from our example above.
Please note: To create a booking and before you proceed to the next step, you must enter the name and email address.
If the payer is already in your Orioly system, Orioly will recognize that. Customer information will be pulled out from the contact base as you start typing their name.
Check the Payer traveling checkbox in case the payer is also a traveler, i.e. actually taking your tour or activity. This will save you from entering the person’s details twice.
In case the payer is not a traveler, add at least one traveler. The process of adding a traveler is described in the next chapter – “Travelers”.
4. Add travelers for this booking.
Decide whether you need the traveler’s personal information or not. If you don’t need or have it, check the Details not needed checkbox.
Select the number of travelers for this particular booking.
If you don’t need the travelers’ information, leave the checkbox Details not needed blank. Click Add person on the right.
Enter the person’s name and email address.
If you want to add extra information about these people, click the gray info button next to the email field. Here you can edit the person’s details.
Enter client’s address, country, phone, web address and social media profiles.
To delete the person’s contact, click the red minus button next to the gray info button.
5. Check the Enable Children Discount checkbox if want to offer discounts for children.
Type in the amount of your discount for children and under Type, choose how you want to express this discount – as a percentage (%) or a fixed amount in the currency you’ve chosen under Settings.
Please note: The tour (or activity) price box is editable. This means that you can edit the default price for each individual booking if you need to.
Enter the price for your tour, additional fees, and add-ons. If you already added the price, fees, and add-ons when you create the activity, you can now edit those values.
Example: If three travelers are associated with this booking, you can charge for as many fees and/or add-ons as required. Let’s say that one of the travelers wants something extra. And this is not offered through fees and add-ons. In that case, click Add Addons and add the extra add-on for this person only.
To delete a fee or an add-on, click the red minus button on its right. You are flexible with adding extra costs to your basic price.
6. Add a payment, refund or manually change the booking status.
Select the payment method. This can be cash or wire transfer.
Set the payment date. You can also write some internal notes about the payment for future reference.
Please note: For companies operating in Croatia, check the Fiscalize Invoice checkbox if you want to fiscalize your invoice according to the Croatian fiscal standards.
Click Add payment to update the total amount paid. Or click Cancel if you don’t these adjustments to be saved.
Refunds are typically made in cases when someone cancels their booking. The reason can be bad service, technical issues, change in the person’s schedule, etc. Or maybe you need to compensate a customer.
You can create a partial refund, a full refund or just cancel the entire booking. In some typical scenarios, Orioly automatically offers you to make a full refund.
Click Add refund and enter the refund amount.
To change the Booking status manually, click Set status. Select the new status Canceled, Pending, or Pending.
Under the Payment section, you can apply a coupon.
7. Review your booking and decide if you want to print a quote, invoice or a voucher.
This is a useful functionality when someone wants to make an extra payment. For example, people whose payment status is Pending.
Click Create payment link to generate a payment link for your customers.
You can send them this link directly via email. Through this link, they can immediately make an online payment.
A customer calls your office or sends an email, and wants to make a booking. You enter all the information as described in this tutorial. To avoid waiting for the customer to make the wire transfer or come to your office and pay, create a payment link. Send it to your customer by email. Now they can open it and make an online payment immediately!
You have created an Activity with no fixed prices. The fee prices are likely to change before the beginning of the activity. In this case, your customer will not be able to make their payment through the booking button. Instead, you’ll get his/her inquiry via email and the new booking will be created in Orioly. Its status will be Pending. Then, navigate to this specific booking, calculate the exact price and send him/her the payment link. Again, the customer can make a quick online payment.
The customer has already made a deposit but didn’t pay the full amount. Create a payment link for the rest of the amount and send it to the customer so he/she can make the full payment.
Navigate to the Bookings tab on your left to get an overview of your entire booking inventory.
Here’s a short video that explains how to manage your bookings.

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This year we celebrated the Hondaween holiday all over Southern California at local pumpkin patches, children’s hospitals and organizations! We definitely had a scary good surprise for kids and families everywhere.
So what’s next for us? Throughout the holidays you can expect to see the Guys in Blue at your local gas stations helping Honda drivers with free gas! You can spot us at select home games for the Anaheim Ducks, the Rams, and at both UCLA and USC Football games helping fans with seat upgrades, free parking, and so much more. Got a sweet tooth? We’re bringing back the Helpful Honda Treat Truck full of tasty goodies for everyone to enjoy! Want the treat truck to show up to your holiday event? Make sure you ‘Like’ us at Facebook.com/SoCalHondaDealers, tweet us at @HelpfulHonda, and follow us on Instagram at @SoCalHondaDealers to share the details. We’re looking forward to a very Helpful Holiday season.

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I'm trying to make wz API export to jscript more straightforward using some Template trickery ; basically I'm providing a "wrap_(f, engine, context);" function that takes a C function whose argument are DROID*, STRUCTURE* (actually object holding id and player since it's what is used internally), int ... and calls it using argument found in QtScript engine and context, wrapping the result value in a QScriptValue.
There are however some drawbacks : for the wrapper to work the API function have some restriction : they must not be overloaded (the compiler has no idea which overloads to pick), they must not use jscript global variable (the mechanism is based on the function signature) and they must not rely on jscript engine to display message.
This means some jscript function must be modified to comply with these requirements : overloads must be renamed, global variable must be passed as argument to the functions and error message won't be jscript specific (ie they will be printed in the wz log not in jscript console). On the other hand the API should be easier to maintain and expand.
Are such modifications acceptable ? I think API breakage may require changing version number. On the other hand it may be incremental : compatible functions can be ported to this system and new can be introduced while the non compatible one may be marked as deprecated.
Re: Is slightly changing the jscript API possible ?
The idea looks super cool.
I recall that for QJSEngine you don't even get Engine or Context - the engine already does accept API functions in form of DROID*, STRUCTURE*, int, etc.
I think we have a lot of these when it comes to labels. The easy way to enumerate them is to Ctrl+F "|" through http://buildbot.wz2100.net/files/javasc ... cript.html - shows a lot of very widespread API functions. So that'd be a lot of fixes to scripts.
Can this be solved by providing "variant" or "union" wrapper types, eg. "structure_id_player" -> "structure_id_player_or_int_or_string" (potentially "_or_unspecified")?
Hmm, you mean like functions that lookup the variable by name in the engine and then return or modify its value? Did you see many of those? Random thoughts: i guess in this case the value should rather live on the game side. If it gets updated, we can probably update it in the script context accordingly. Not sure what to do if it's writable from scripts - can the engine catch the write and update the game variable immediately? Random thoughts, my main question is whether it should live on the game side.
Also looking for examples here, i'm a bit confused about what this means. Scripts print through debug(), and APIs print into wzlog (or even asserts) already, at least that's what i imagine.
]Hmm, you mean like functions that lookup the variable by name in the engine and then return or modify its value? Did you see many of those? Random thoughts: i guess in this case the value should rather live on the game side. If it gets updated, we can probably update it in the script context accordingly. Not sure what to do if it's writable from scripts - can the engine catch the write and update the game variable immediately? Random thoughts, my main question is whether it should live on the game side.
Actually I spotted several "engine->globalObject().property("me").toInt32();" ; I didn't see another property of globalObject used in C++ code so far. I guess "me" is used to determine if the player (represented by a number) is the human one, or at least the one that has interface in a multplay game.
]Also looking for examples here, i'm a bit confused about what this means. Scripts print through debug(), and APIs print into wzlog (or even asserts) already, at least that's what i imagine.
Aha, right, "me" is tricky. Its value is different for different engines. It allows API to work for "current player" (i.e. the AI works with his own objects, not human's or other AI's objects, and he doesn't need to explain that every time he uses the API). This is being relied upon actively, so i guess this cannot be easily changed without rewriting a lot of scripts.
Can both problems be fixed by providing a universal engine wrapper object as the first mandatory argument to every API function definition? That would be able to, i.e., ".getCurrentPlayer()" or ".throwException()"? (again, exceptions don't sound *super* important, but better keep).
Also if you need heavy API changes, you may want to introduce API levels, i.e. maintain multiple APIs with versioning and allowing scripts to pick whatever they want, probably in their accompanying .json (for AIs, we don't have that for rules or map scripts yet). But for now i don't see an immediate heavy need for that (it would have already allowed us to avoid some weird quirks in the existing APIs, but it doesn't sound much, and it can be delayed arbitrarily).
I think having no global state for JS functions would make them unreasonably argument verbose. Not sure how that could even possibly work for upgrades and other larger information blocks, which are stored in the global js state.

industry_corpus2: Programming


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PB Swiss Tools at Werk10.com. Fair shippingcosts worldwide.
Discover the many innovating applicationes of the PB Swiss Tools. Completely developed and produced in Switzerland. A special feature is the characteristic colour codings, which allows a quick identification of the varios tools. Tool technology made in Switzerland!


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I have been working within the area of family law since 2010, and I qualified as a solicitor in 2013. I am an accredited member of the Law Society Children Panel, and can therefore represent children in court as well as parents. I specialise in family law and deal with this area of law only, and therefore this is where my focus is.
I strive to keep clients fully informed, and it is important to me that clients understand what is happening with their case, as people can often get lost in legal jargon. I am friendly and approachable, and aim to give a compassionate service, whilst dealing with sensitive issues.
The areas of work that I specialise in include public law care proceedings, private law children act matters, non molestation orders and divorce.
I attend court on a regular basis representing clients to the best of my ability. My aim is to help families in what can be challenging times, and to secure the best outcome possible in each situation.

industry_corpus2: Law & Justice


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A short history of Gaar, Scott and Co., the venerated manufacturer of the 'Tiger Line' of steam traction engines and threshers.
The other side of John R. Gresh’s 1909 13 HP Gaar-Scott.
John R. Gresh’s 1909 13 HP Gaar-Scott, serial no. 14368. A popular unit in the Gaar-Scott line, the 13 HP was equipped with a single-cylinder simple engine. John acquired this engine in 2004, after its restoration in the hands of Tom Woodard. The engine is at John’s farm near Girard, Pa., just a few miles from Lake Erie.
his advertisement touting the superiority of the Gaar-Scott line of threshers and engines appeared in the August 1909 issue of The American Thresherman. Gaar-Scott had already established a solid reputation for its threshing machines prior to the introduction of a line of steam traction engines about 1884.
Gil Roberts and his 1913 25-75 HP Gaar-Scott, serial no. 15899. Gil, who lives in Somerset, Va., runs this engine every year at the Somerset Steam and Gas Engine Assn.’s Annual Steam and Gas Pasture Party.
Flywheel side of Bill Roberts’ 10 HP Gaar-Scott. A single-cylinder simple, this little side crank engine is big in working power.
Head on view of Bill Roberts’ 10 HP Gaar-Scott.
Bill Roberts, Somerset, Va., and his 10 HP 1884 Gaar-Scott. Bill, who calls this his “working engine,” displays the Gaar-Scott every year at the Somerset Steam and Gas Engine Assn.’s Annual Steam and Gas Pasture Party.
Abram Gaar was born on his family's farm in Wayne County near Richmond, Ind., on Nov. 14, 1819. In his early years, he worked as a pattern maker, a cabinet maker, and a millwright, but in the late 1830s and early 1840s he attached himself to academic pursuits.
During this same period, Abram's father, Jonas, helped establish Wayne County's first steam-powered venture, a foundry and machine shop. About 1842, Abram returned to his mechanical inclination when he gained employment at the machine works known as the Spring Foundry owned by Jesse M. and John H. Hutton.
In 1849, Abram, along with his father, his brother, John Milton Gaar, and his brother-in-law, William G. Scott, purchased the Spring Foundry, which was then reorganized under the name of A. Gaar & Co. John Milton Gaar was born in Richmond in 1823, and worked in the Spring Foundry as early as 1842, when that concern was engaged in building the old "chaff pilers" or "ground-hog" threshers.
A. Gaar & Co. moved into the manufacture of various agricultural implements, threshers, and portable steam engines, and in 1870, A. Gaar & Co. incorporated as Gaar, Scott & Co. Abram, who was active in the company until his death in 1894, was succeeded by his brother, John Milton Gaar, who had grown up with the threshing machine business and had developed the plant as the industry developed. William C. Scott was a Virginian whose parents had moved to Richmond in 1827. Scott was the businessman of the firm, and John M. Gaar devoted his time to the mechanical end.
Gaar, Scott & Co. began manufacturing portable steam engines in the mid-1850s, with steam traction engines joining the line about 1884. Gaar-Scott made steam engines with simple and compound cylinders.
The compound engine's two cylinders were directly and strongly attached to each other by a projection on the small cylinder and a counter bore on the large cylinder, with no open space between them. This ensured the cylinders were in perfect alignment, and in this position they were bolted rigidly together. If for any reason access was desired to the inside of the cylinders, the small cylinder could be easily removed and then replaced in its original position, and it would again be in perfect alignment with the large cylinder, with the connection as firm as if both cylinders were cast together.
Gaar-Scott's design meant there was no stuffing box to pack between the cylinders and only one steam joint, which was an obvious advantage over compound cylinders with an open space between them.
In the compound cylinder, Gaar-Scott used a brass bushing between the two cylinders, which took the place of packing around the piston rod. Five grooves in the cross section of the bushing filled with water supplied by the condensation of occasional drops forming on the piston rod as it passed through this bushing, which was cooler than the other chambers of the cylinder. This made for a durable and effective steam packing that was simple and easy to replace. A plate and three bolts held the bushing in position, and three setscrews also held the center head in position.
A small steam pipe, with a valve, was installed on the boiler to carry the steam directly to the large cylinder so that, in an emergency or hard pull, the engineer could turn on steam and get the full, direct pressure of steam in the large cylinder for a limited time, supplementing the exhaust steam from the small cylinder. The cylinder was jacked in conformity with the boiler and dome.
Gaar-Scott Co. made steam traction engines of simple and compound cylinders, plain portable steam engines, the Gaar-Scott three-way crank thresher, rice field Queen thresher, clover hulling outfit, water tanks, plantation circular sawmill, pony circular sawmills, and standard circular sawmills.
In 1911, M. Rumely Co. acquired Gaar-Scott and Advance Thresher Co., and became the Advance-Rumely Co. Gaar-Scott engines continued to be produced until about 1914, and were sold under the Rumely products umbrella. In 1931, Allis-Chalmers Corp. acquired Advance-Rumely.
Information for this article came from The Encyclopedia of American Steam Traction Engines, the County History Preservation Society, and Tom Woodard, John R. Gresh, Bill Roberts, and Gil Roberts.
Steam enthusiast Jack C. Norbeck is a frequent contributor to Steam Traction. Through his company, Norbeck Research, Jack puts together library exhibits around the world that work to educate the public on the role of steam in agriculture and society.


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ICICI bank was looking to implement tablet based banking to allow its customers to tap into the bank’s services from the comfort of their homes or offices. The bank targeted its account opening process for the purpose, where the average Turn-Around-Time for account opening was high. Out of the many workflows used in the bank, first time on-boarding was the most important with respect to customer experience and revenue growth. The existing process was manual, and required re-visits due to incomplete account-opening forms and KYC collections.
The bank decided to implement Newgen’s ZapIn, a mobile capture solution. Meant for the bank’s sales officers, the solution was installed on a tablet with a built-in high quality camera.
ZapIn allows the sales officers to capture the physical application forms in front of the customer and initiate its processing in real time. Depending on the application, certain key fields can be entered and images of Application Form, KYC Documents can be taken using the built-in camera and sent using a GPRS/3G connection to the back-office.
A key feature of ZapIn is its Quality of the Image Capture Module, which captures the document images along with metadata, do some basic imaging, and send the captured images over the network to a server where advanced image processing happens. The server element called Mobile Document Quality Analyzer does two things. One, it enhances the quality of the image by contrast and brightness adjustment, noise removal, orientation and perspective correction. Two, it analyzes the quality of the image to ensure usability of the document. This ensures that the captured documents always comply with minimum quality standards. The portable mobile stand is used to control some of the environmental factors such as ensuring stability of the tablet during capture and is also calibrated for maintaining the right distance to capture documents of different sizes.ZapIn is a highly secured application as it encrypts all data that get transferred over the network. Only registered Mobile/Tablet devices are allowed to communicate with the ZapIn server ensuring safety and security of customer information.
Before deployment: The turn-around-time for the bank’s account opening process was high, because sales officers had to make multiple visits to collect KYC documents, get the missing data in account opening forms, etc. As there was movement of paper involved, the whole process was time consuming.
What was deployed: The bank deployed a tablet based application from NewGen called ZapIn, which allowed sales officers to capture all KYC documents and fill up the account opening form at the customer’s door-step. Data was filled up in the tablet and sent to NewGen’s back-end servers or quality checks and validations.
After deployment: The TAT for account opening reduced from 4 days to less than 24 hours. Training time reduced from 15 days to 2 days.
Prior to implementing the solution, the account opening process was a paper based process and used to get processed through various groups before activation. For an account to get opened in the core system, the physically entered data was re-entered in digital format which was scrutinized by a checker and then sent for final account activation.
After deploying ZapIn and making suitable amendments to the bank’s process, the number of steps have been significantly reduced by almost 50% reduction for the Account Opening process. The entire process is now done digitally and the data validations help in reduction of data entry errors.
Currently, the bank is using around 2000 tablets in all the major cities in India. The solution helps the bank meet regulatory compliance norms, since each and every Account Opened is audited by a Sales Manager instantly. It avoids data redundancy, and the field level validations prevent initiation of account opening applications with wrong data.
The solution has helped to reduce operational costs related to scanning paper based documents. Since the accounts are processed in digital format, it saves time spent on movement of paper. Hence, the TAT has been reduced from many days to less than 24 hours. Customer satisfaction is obviously higher, because they get services at their door-step.

industry_corpus2: Finance & Economics


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While trying to use addHomeShortcutToPersonal from within the container (tried also from outside the container) I receive false as response.
Android O and Android P (J6 and S9).
Any idea what am I doing wrong?
This seems to be an issue. When I run this code I receive a "package name mismatch" exception. Could you reproduce the issue, capture a dumpstate and see if there are any exceptions when the app fails to add the shortcut? I have provided the instructions on how to capture a dumpstate below, in case you are unaware. Once we know exactly what kind of exception you are receiving we can investigate this further.
6) Select "Copy to sdcard"
8) Open the log file and search for the line: "addHomeShortcut has failed"
After you have finished, you can follow steps 1-2 again and Delete dumpstate/logcat and return the Debug Level to "low."
If you have any questions about this process, please let me know.
In the log I also see the package name mismatch. What am I doing wrong?
Thank you for confirming the problem you are experiencing. We are looking into this issue. I will update you as soon as I have more information for you.
We are still investigating this issue. If I require additional information from you, I will let you know. I will update you if I have any new information.
A fix for your issue has been deployed. Your devices should receive the fix soon.


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Re-reading my notes about our time in Myanmar I reminisce about what an amazing time we had there once again.
We flew into Yangon from Bangkok to see a flooded country. This year’s rainy season had been very extreme and we quickly discovered that we would be able to take neither bus nor train to reach the orphanage in Mawlamyine. The authorities decided to re-open the unused tiny regional airport and so we booked tickets, feeling pretty nervous about taking an internal flight. We heaved a sigh of relief when our plane came to a halt on the wet tarmac. After collecting our luggage off a hand pulled wooden cart in the pouring rain, we stood in the mud waiting & wondering where the children were? Finally they arrived, having also been delayed by the floods and it was just so wonderful to see their excited faces and receive their big hugs.
Now that the children are older, the orphanage is quiet during the day as they all go to school. We cannot break the rules and take them out, so our extended outings are reduced to the weekend only. Nevertheless they were proud to have us pick them up from school, show us their classrooms and introduce us to their teachers. We spend the latter part of the days together. This year we brought along some classic educational games and we also taught some of the older ones to play chess. We were surprised at how quickly they developed skill. We were delighted to learn that the oldest girl had excelled at school and will start Law studies at the town’s university. Everyone was so proud of her and we hope she will be an inspiration to the others….
We always go with the flow. One afternoon we had decided to take the smaller children to the park, but before we knew it, everyone wanted to come along and we ended up squeezing 28 of the children into our jeep! They really are so so funny. At the park it was lovely to watch them organize to play games where all of them were included. We could see how bonded they all are and more and more with us also.
Once again, we extend an invitation to you all to pay them a visit.
As always they manage amazingly with the money we bring them and are content with little. We always accompany them once at dawn as they go on their Alms round to collect food from the town’s people. It is especially exciting to see the older ones maturing and continuing to go to school. From the bottom of our hearts we thank you for your continued support of this rewarding project, which would not be possible without your help.


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MOUNTAIN VIEW, CALIF. (June 25, 2001) – Handspring, Inc. (NASDAQ: HAND), an industry-leading innovator in handheld computing, today announced that the Handspring Foundation, a fund established in March of this year to support organizations and programs dedicated to creating positive change in their communities, has awarded its first round of grants. The Handspring Foundation selected five nonprofit organizations to receive the grants, including: the Emergency Housing Consortium in San Jose, Calif., Via Rehabilitation Services in Santa Clara, Calif., Laura’s House in San Clemente, Calif., the Dance Institute of Washington in Washington, D.C., and the Greater Muchinjike Orphan Home Trust in Zimbabwe. Additionally, the Handspring Foundation announced the launch of its Product Donation Program to provide nonprofit organizations with Handspring Visors and the Handspring Volunteerism Campaign.
The Handspring Foundation awarded $10,000 to the Emergency Housing Consortium of San Jose, Calif. for general support for staffing and residential services of Our House, a 16-month transitional living program for runaway, homeless, and foster care youth who age out at 18 and no longer receive community services.
Via Rehabilitation Services of Santa Clara, Calif. received a grant of $7,500 for operation support to expand the services provided by the First Step Early Intervention Program, a series of early intervention services for children with disabilities or developmental delays. Funds will be used for staffing, equipment, program materials, diagnostic and assessment tools, and other program needs. The Handspring Foundation awarded $7,500 to Laura’s House of San Clemente, Calif. to fund the Children’s Learning Center and sustain Laura’s House’s efforts in providing direct services and child abuse and domestic violence prevention education to children experiencing the effects of domestic violence, as well as providing education and life skills that will be useful once the children leave the shelter.
The Dance Institute of Washington, D.C. received a grant in the amount of $5,000 for operating support for their year-round dance education program targeting high-risk youth in Washington D.C.’s historically poor neighborhoods since 1987. The grant will go towards dance and production training, workshops, journal writing and performance opportunities. The Handspring Foundation awarded $15,000 to the Greater Muchinjike Orphan Home Trust of Murewa, Zimbabwe. The grant will be used towards programs serving children orphaned by the AIDS epidemic, including HIV/AIDS education and awareness programs, expansion of the children’s food program, self-sufficiency projects, and school fees for the orphaned children.
In addition to the quarterly cash grants, the Handspring Foundation is launching its Product Donation Program, whereby qualified nonprofit organizations are invited to apply for Handspring Visor Deluxe handheld computers. The organization is required to utilize the Visor Deluxes in an innovative way that will create meaningful solutions to critical local and global community concerns. Qualified organization will focus on pre-K through 12 education and issues directly related to children and youth at risk, international humanitarian relief, arts and culture, health and human services, environmental protection, alleviating homelessness, or people with disabilities. The Handspring Foundation will donate up to 50 Visor Deluxes per selected request. The Handspring Foundation will make product donation decisions on a quarterly basis, and the deadline for the first round of requests is August 1, 2001. More information about the Handspring Foundation and grant applications are available at http://www.handspring.com/company/foundation/.
Handspring is also kicking off an additional component to the Handspring Foundation, the Handspring Volunteerism Campaign. The campaign will include company-wide volunteer and fundraising activities on behalf of local organizations, facilitating individual and group volunteer activities internationally, and quarterly presentations for Handspring employees regarding issues of interest.
“This campaign is being developed in response to the overwhelming number of requests from Handspring employees for individual, group, and company-wide volunteer opportunities and stems from a very community-oriented culture at Handspring,” continued Bushey.
The Handspring Foundation was funded in June 2000 with 45,000 shares of pre-IPO Handspring stock. The fund is administered as an Advised Corporate Foundation of the Peninsula Community Foundation. The Handspring Foundation is governed by the Employee Advisory Group, a committee of Handspring employees. The committee is responsible for evaluating requests and making formal grant recommendations in accordance with the foundation’s charter, which is to reflect the values, orientation and commitment of Handspring to be exemplary corporate citizens within the global community and to serve as a catalyst for change through charitable contributions and employee volunteerism. Grants are reviewed on a quarterly basis, and the deadline for the second round of grants is August 1, 2001. The Handspring Foundation has also established an employee product donation program that allocates Handspring Visors for distribution to qualified nonprofit organizations with established Handspring employee involvement.
Handspring is a leading innovator in the handheld computing industry. The company develops, manufactures and markets a family of expandable handheld computers for a broad range of markets and customers. Founded in 1998, Handspring’s flagship technology is the Springboard platform that provides a simple and easy method for hardware and software expansion. Today Handspring sells its Visor line of handhelds at Handspring.com and through select Internet, distribution and retail partners in the U.S., Asia Pacific, Canada, Japan, Europe and the Middle East, along with a line of Springboard expansion modules and accessories.
Handspring and Visor are trademarks of Handspring, Inc. and may be registered in certain jurisdictions. All other brand and company names are trademarks of their respective owners.


text: Kobo eReader is a joint-effort by Kobo and Borders. It is very light weight , stylish and travel friendly with WiFi . Its the Editor's pick for the Best eReader . You wouldnt need another device for reading becasue it can store over 30,000 books .


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Expansion Update & Screenshots He doesn't even have enough time for 1 Video game..you Expect him to Fully update and take care of 3? Every game SB has made has potential, VRB just won't live upto it.
New Multiwindow Apks Use them 90% of the time..i can't say how helpful these have been..Thank You!!!
Ozy, give me a reason to keep playing.... Paying in small amounts is fun, but I never understood why people dump 3K on a game...your basically paying to complete it...doesn't that take the fun out of it a little?
can't see Profile portraits in game QQ Working fine for me..most be on your end.
wonder what effect Tech Timers are wonderful in RON..but would be useless and awful in TIB..its just not setup like that.


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It should go without saying that information security controls – the measures you implement to protect your organisation – should be selected based on the real risks you face. After all, there’s absolutely no point going to the time, trouble and expense of implementing controls to protect against a threat that’s unlikely to occur or one that’ll have little material impact.
To enable you to make informed decisions about which controls to use, you need to carry out an information security risk assessment.
As defined by ISO 27000:2016 – the standard that provides an overview of the ISMS (information security management system) family of standards and definitions for key vocabulary – risk assessment is the “overall process of risk identification, risk analysis and risk evaluation”.
The assets your organisation has and the stakeholders who own them.
The business, legal and contractual requirements that are relevant to the identified assets.
The value of the identified assets, taking account of their confidentiality, availability and integrity in each of their business, legal and contractual contexts.
The threats and vulnerabilities that affect the security of those assets.
The impact on the organisation should the assets be compromised.
The likelihood of that compromise occurring.
Then, you must evaluate your existing security controls, address any gaps as necessary, and apply controls consistently according to the organisation’s risk acceptance/treatment criteria.
This is, obviously, a complex and time-consuming undertaking, and one that, if you rely on spreadsheets, will be prone to error – meaning there’s no guarantee that your risk assessment will produce “consistent, valid and comparable results”, as stipulated by the Standard.
If your experience carrying out risk assessments is limited, the prospect of spending hours interviewing relevant organisational stakeholders and populating spreadsheets will probably be filling you with dread. There is an alternative, however.
Vigilant Software’s risk assessment tool, vsRisk™, helps risk assessors deliver repeatable, consistent assessments year after year. Its pre-populated asset library assigns organisational roles to each asset group, and applies relevant potential threats and risks by default. Moreover, its integrated risk, vulnerability and threat databases eliminate the need to compile a list of potential risks, and the built-in control sets help you comply with multiple frameworks.

industry_corpus2: Information Services