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Instrucciones de la Salivación

Padre Nicolás predicó como Dios nos enseña en la biblia como santificar nos. Y cada uno de nosotros podemos ser un santo también. (Mateo 10:32-38) Fr. Nicholas preach how God teaches us in the Bible how to be holy. And how every one of us can be saints also. (Mathew 10:32-38)




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¿Qué es tu Motivación?

Padre Nicolás predicó sobre que nuestro motivación va a ser la cosa que nos lleva al cielo. (1 Corinthians 9:2-12) Fr. Nicholas preached about how our motivation will be the thing that will take us to heaven. (1 Corinthians 9:2-12)




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Ghost Town Pumpkin Festival

the creator of A Short Hike relaunched his charming interactive ghost town where players design and share jack-o-lanterns #




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Cultivating a Hunger for Heaven

Fr. Apostolos Hill speaks on the theme of the Expulsion of Adam and Eve from Paradise and how we acquire a thirst for the Kingdom.




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The Motivation of Faith (Mt 19:16-26)

Anyone can do a good deed, but Fr. Tom reminds us that truly godly works are motivated by a faith in Christ which leads to salvation. (Twelfth Sunday after Pentecost)




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Cultivating a Generous Spirit (Lk 16:19-31)

In the dramatic parable of the Lazarus and the Rich Man, the Lord teaches us the importance of sharing our wealth with those in need. Fr Thomas turns to the topic of generosity, and how it can transform our lives and even our parishes.




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Unforgivable




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Inconceivable!




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Do You Know What Motivates You?




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Festival Evangelism

Is your parish too small to host its own summer festival? If so, you might want to consider bringing your parish to someone else's festival. Bobby Maddex speaks to Jennifer Beard Trusty, whose parish in Kokomo, Indiana, does just this each and every year.




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The Field: Cultivating Salvation

Bobby Maddex interviews Nicholas Chapman, the Director of Holy Trinity Publications, about a newly translated book by St. Ignatius Brianchaninov titled The Field: Cultivating Salvation.




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Orthodoxy and the Cornerstone Music Festival

An Evangelical Protestant rock festival that serves as a hotbed for Eastern Orthodoxy? That’s exactly what Bobby Maddex found last July at the Cornerstone Music Festival in Bushnell, Illinois. In this audio documentary, exclusive to Ancient Faith Radio, Bobby explores the uniqueness of Cornerstone—what it is about those who attend and play at the festival that makes them so receptive to Orthodox Christianity.




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Cultivation, Consecration, Navigation

Fr. Pat looks at three images of the Church found in 1 Corinthians 3 and Matthew 14.




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Captivating our Hearts to Christ

Father Pat looks at what we can learn about prayer from the story of the Syrophoenician woman found in Matthew 15. This is part one of a two-part series.




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The Survival of the Soul

Building on his homily from last week, Fr. Pat discusses an example of the authority of darkness, and encourages us with reminders of both Christ’s prayer for us, and of our fellowship with each other.




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Stargazers: The Cultivation of a Devout Mind

In this reflection, Fr. Pat considers what we have to learn from those in the Nativity story who look into the sky and ponder the moon and the stars.




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Spiritually Minded Eating and Cultivating a Spiritually Minded Lifestyle

Kevin's guest is Rita Madden, host of the AFR podcast "Food, Faith, and Fasting." Rita is a Registered Dietitian who finds inspiration in the great role that the Orthodox Christian faith can play in her modern-day healthcare profession. Here she discusses caring for your health in a spiritually minded manner.




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The Mysterious Death of Fr. Paul Kedrolivansky

Matthew recounts the first of many scandals that have rocked the St. Alexander Nevsky Russian Orthodox Cathedral in San Francisco and then explains why knowledge of such scandals is important. Learn more HERE.




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Survival School vs Homeschool

The fear of homeschooling or the fear that the virtual school stress we experienced this past spring is what we'd be sentencing ourselves to if we homeschool this fall. Let's talk about the difference between survival schooling and homeschooling. If schools remain closed this fall, is it possible to thrive and not just survive?




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Motivational Segmentation

The other day I wrote an ebook about motivational segmentation. It wasn't called that, because, seriously, who would choose to read something with that title. Instead, I called the eBook, Grow Your Coaching Practice 8X With One Single Sales Strategy. But what I shared in that free eBook isn't just for coaches. I would submit ... Read more

The post Motivational Segmentation appeared first on Chris Lema.




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Djokovic shocked by retirement of 'greatest rival' Nadal

Novak Djokovic says he is shocked and overwhelmed by the news that his "greatest rival" Rafael Nadal will retire at the end of the season.




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Rybakina appoints Ivanisevic as coach from 2025

Elena Rybakina appoints fellow former Wimbledon champion Goran Ivanisevic as her coach from next season.




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O'Sullivan's 'Doorgate' drama has BBC studio in hysterics

Ronnie O’Sullivan is frustrated by fans entering the Crucible arena while he lines up a shot, a drama which BBC pundit Steve Davis labels 'Doorgate' - much to presenter Rishi Persad's amusement.




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Watch as 'brilliant' Bingham knocks out O’Sullivan

Watch the closing moments as seven-time champion Ronnie O’Sullivan suffers a shock defeat by Stuart Bingham in the quarter-finals of the World Snooker Championship.




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O'Sullivan into International Championship third round

Ronnie O'Sullivan claims a 6-2 win over He Guoqiang to move into the third round of the International Championship in Nanjing.




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O'Sullivan beats Nutcharut after safety delays

Ronnie O'Sullivan is through to the International Championship second round after beating Mink Nutcharut 6-3.




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O'Sullivan beaten by China's Pang in Nanjing

Ronnie O'Sullivan suffers a 6-4 third-round defeat by Pang Junxu as the seven-time world champion is knocked out of the International Championship in Nanjing.




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England thrash rivals France 66-33

Watch highlights as England thrash wheelchair rugby league rivals France 66-33 at Robin Park in Wigan.




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The complexities of Alex Salmond in public and in private

Much is known about the public life of Alex Salmond - but far less about the man away from the spotlight.




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Badenoch accuses PM of 'milking' private sector

The Tory leader attacks the prime minister over the National Insurance rise, but he says she is resorting to a "magic money tree".




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Cannabis cultivation facility backed by planners

The GrowLab Organics complex in Ballasalla will cultivate medicinal cannabis for exportation.




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Festival offers mental health advice and support

BBC Radio Northampton is bringing wellbeing professionals together for 'Headfest'.




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Luke Evans comes to Yeovil Literary Festival

The Welsh Hollywood star has written a memoir called Boy from the Valleys.




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Wellbeing festival ‘to bring people together’

BBC Three Counties Radio is putting on free events in Bedford to promote mental health.




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Festival worker to become Antarctic postmaster

George Clarke will staff the most southerly post office in the world, living among a penguin colony.





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Dazzling Light Festivals To See In London: Winter 2024

Light tunnels, fire gardens and lasers.




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Hyde Park Winter Wonderland 2024: A Guide To Visiting London's Huge Christmas Festival

When to go, what to see and how to save money.



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WSO2 Stratos - Platform-as-a-Service for private and public cloud

Yesterday we announced something I believe is a game-changer: WSO2 Stratos. What is Stratos?

WSO2 Stratos is a complete SOA and developer platform offered as a self-service, multi-tenant, elastic runtime for private and public cloud infrastructures.
What that means is that our complete SOA platform - now enhanced with Tomcat and Webapp support - is available as a  "cloud native" runtime that you can either use on the Web (yes - you can try it out right now), on Amazon VPC, or on your own internal private cloud based on Ubuntu Enterprise Cloud, Eucalyptus and (coming soon) vmWare vSphere. It is a complete Platform-as-a-Service for private and public clouds.

I'll be writing more about Stratos over the coming weeks and months, and I'll also provide links and tweets to other Stratos blogs, but in this blog I want to simply answer three questions:

  1. I'm already talking to {vmWare, Eucalyptus, Ubuntu, Savvis, Joyent} about private cloud - what does WSO2 add that they don't have?
  2. What is the difference between Stratos and the Cloud Images that WSO2 already ships?
  3. Why would I choose WSO2 over the other vendors offering Platform-as-a-Service?
In order to answer the first question, lets look at the cloud computing space, which is most easily divided up into:
  • Infrastructure-as-a-Service (IaaS): this is where Amazon, Eucalyptus, vmWare, Saavis and Joyent play
  • Platform-as-a-Service (PaaS): Google App Engine, vmForce, Tibco Silver and now WSO2 Stratos play in this space.
  • Software-as-a-Service (SaaS): Google Apps, Google Mail, Microsoft Office Live, Salesforce, SugarOnDemand - these and many more make up the SaaS category.
To generalize wildly, most people talking about public cloud today are talking about SaaS. And most people talking about private cloud today are talking about IaaS.

SaaS is fantastic for quick productivity and low cost. WSO2 uses Google Apps, Sugar on Demand and several other SaaS apps. But SaaS doesn't create competitive advantage. Mule also uses Google Apps. They may well use Salesforce. SaaS cannot produce competitive advantage because your competitors get access to exactly the same low-cost services you do. In order to create competitive advantage you need to build as well as buy. For example, we use our Mashup Server together with our Sugar Business Messaging Adapter to provide insight and management of our pipeline that goes beyond what Sugar offers.

IaaS is of course a great basis to build apps. But it's just infrastructure. Yes - you get your VM hosted quicker. But someone has to create a useful VM. And that is where PaaS comes in. PaaS is how to speed up cloud development.

What does Stratos give you on top of an IaaS? It gives you an Application Server, Registry, Identity Server, Portal, ESB, Business Activity Monitor and Mashup Server. And it gives you these as-a-Service: completely self-service, elasticly scalable, and granularly metered and monitored. Someone in your team needs an ESB - they can provision one for themselves instantly. And because it's multi-tenant, it costs nothing to run until it gets used. How do you know how it's used? The metering and monitoring tells you exactly how much each tenant uses.

2. What is the difference between Stratos and the existing WSO2 Cloud Images?

The cloud images we started shipping in December are not Cloud Native. Stratos is Cloud Native. In practice, this means that when you log into Stratos (go on try it now) you can instantly provision your own domain, together with a set of Stratos services. This saves memory - instead of allocating a new VM and minimum half a gigabyte of memory to each new server you get a new ESB with zero extra memory cost. And it's much easier. The new ESB will automatically be governed and monitored. It's automatically elastically clustered.

3. Why would I choose WSO2 over other PaaS vendors?

Firstly, if you look at PaaS as a whole there is a huge divide between Public PaaS and Private PaaS. The public PaaS vendors simply don't offer private options. You can't run force.com or Google App Engine applications internally, even if you want to. WSO2 bridges that gap with a PaaS you can use in the public Web, on a virtual private cloud, or on premises.

The second big differentiator between WSO2 and the existing PaaS offerings is the architecture. Mostly PaaS is a way of building webapps. WSO2 offers a complete enterprise architecture - governance, business process, integration, portal, identity and mashups. And we support the common Enterprise Programming Model (not just Java, WebApp, JAX-WS, but also BPEL, XSLT, XPath, Google Gadgets, WSDL, etc). The only other PaaS that I know of that offers a full Enterprise architecture is Tibco Silver.

The third and most important differentiator is about lock-in. Software vendors love lock-in - and Cloud vendors love it even more. So if you code to Google App Engine, you are tied into Google's identity model, Google's Bigtable, etc. If you code to force.com or vmForce - you are tied to force's infrastructure services. If you code to Tibco Silver, you are tied to Tibco. WSO2 fights this in three ways:
  • No code lock-in: we use standards-based coding (WAR, JAX-WS, POJO) and Stratos is 100% Apache License Open Source.
  • No model lock-in: we use standards-based services: 
    • Identity is based on OpenID, OAuth, XACML, WS-Trust
    • Registry is based on AtomPub and REST
    • Business Process is based on BPEL, etc
  • No hosting lock-in: you can take you apps and data from our public PaaS and re-deploy internally or on your own virtual private cloud anytime you like.
I hope you found this a useful introduction to Stratos. If you want more information, contact me paul@wso2.com, or check out the Stratos website or code.




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Si te falta motivación ¡buscala!

En ocasiones, suelo desatender mis propios consejos, pero el universo se encarga de ponerme delante de mis narices historias inspiradoras como esta. Aquí está la frase final de Sergio Martínez, pero hacete un momento para ver la entrevista completa.

"Nadie muere en vísperas. Luchá hasta la muerte, hasta el final".




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Translating notary terms 2: What are public-form and private-form notarial acts?

A public-form notarial act is a document drafted by a notary that contains the entire notarial act. It is narrated from the notary’s perspective and includes all the details and circumstances of the act. All Spanish notarial acts are in public form (documents elevados a público). In England and Wales, notarial acts are usually in […]




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Security and Privacy Preservation for Mobile E-Learning via Digital Identity Attributes

This paper systematically discusses the security and privacy concerns for e-learning systems. A five-layer architecture of e-learning system is proposed. The security and privacy concerns are addressed respectively for five layers. This paper further examines the relationship among the security and privacy policy, the available security and privacy technology, and the degree of e-learning privacy and security. The digital identity attributes are introduced to e-learning portable devices to enhance the security and privacy of e-learning systems. This will provide significant contributions to the knowledge of e-learning security and privacy research communities and will generate more research interests.




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On Compound Purposes and Compound Reasons for Enabling Privacy

This paper puts forward a verification method for compound purposes and compound reasons to be used during purpose limitation.

When it is absolutely necessary to collect privacy related information, it is essential that privacy enhancing technologies (PETs) protect access to data - in general accomplished by using the concept of purposes bound to data. Compound purposes and reasons are an enhancement of purposes used during purpose limitation and binding and are more expressive than purposes in their general form. Data users specify their access needs by making use of compound reasons which are defined in terms of (compound) purposes. Purposes are organised in a lattice with purposes near the greatest lower bound (GLB) considered weak (less specific) and purposes near the least upper bound (LUB) considered strong (most specific).

Access is granted based on the verification of the statement of intent (from the data user) against the compound purpose bound to the data; however, because purposes are in a lattice, the data user is not limited to a statement of intent that matches the purposes bound to the data exactly - the statement can be a true reflection of their intent with the data. Hence, the verification of compound reasons against compound purposes cannot be accomplished by current published verification algorithms.

Before presenting the verification method, compound purposes and reasons, as well as the structures used to represent them, and the operators that are used to define compounds is presented. Finally, some thoughts on implementation are provided.




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Knowledge Extraction from RDF Data with Activation Patterns

RDF data can be analyzed with various query languages such as SPARQL. However, due to their nature these query languages do not support fuzzy queries that would allow us to extract a broad range of additional information. In this article we present a new method that transforms the information presented by subject-relationobject relations within RDF data into Activation Patterns. These patterns represent a common model that is the basis for a number of sophisticated analysis methods such as semantic relation analysis, semantic search queries, unsupervised clustering, supervised learning or anomaly detection. In this article, we explain the Activation Patterns concept and apply it to an RDF representation of the well known CIA World Factbook.





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Transactions on Data Privacy 12:2 (2019)

Transactions on Data Privacy, Volume 12 Issue 2 (2019) has been published.




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Transactions on Data Privacy 12:3 (2019)

Transactions on Data Privacy, Volume 12 Issue 3 (2019) has been published.




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Transactions on Data Privacy 13:1 (2020)

Transactions on Data Privacy, Volume 13 Issue 1 (2020) has been published.




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Transactions on Data Privacy 13:2 (2020)

Transactions on Data Privacy, Volume 13 Issue 2 (2020) has been published.




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Transactions on Data Privacy 13:3 (2020)

Transactions on Data Privacy, Volume 13 Issue 3 (2020) has been published.