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<human>: What could be the completion of this text: Here at Sunshine Rae Motors in Fairbanks, we specialize in Auto Service and Auto Repair. As the premier auto repair shop in Fairbanks, our highly-trained automotive mechanics take pride in their ability to correctly diagnose and repair any multitude of problems that may arise. Each and everyone of our reliable specialists are extensively experienced in everything from Engine Repair to Transmission Repair, including Brake Repair and Winterization. Sunshine Rae Motors has had the honor of serving Fairbanks since 1974. Family owned operated we are focused on providing the quality automotive service that is needed to enable travel in our harsh environment. We are very proud of our time honored reputation and are committed to upholding it. So whatever your automotive needs, whether its a complex Winterization or a ... <bot>: small Transmission Repair job, the staff at Sunshine Rae Motors will provide trustworthy, prompt, reputable service. No matter if you live in the Fairbanks area, or you are just passing through, stop by Sunshine Rae Motors and get the Auto Repair and service you deserve! Hannah L. from North Pole, AK, whose Ford was in for an auto repair service, reviewed their last visit on 10/17/2018 and their testimonial is:Casey B. from Fairbanks, AK, whose Mercedes-Benz was in for an auto repair service, reviewed their last visit on 10/14/2018 and their testimonial is:"I regularly recommend your shop to everyone I know and many have taken their business to you as a result. I tell people your service is awesome and the quality of the work done, is top... <human>: Next. <bot>: notch and thorough. whose Toyota was in for an auto repair service, reviewed their last visit on 10/5/2018 and their testimonial is:Kristin W. The... <human>: More. <bot>: Staff are always positive and enjoyable to interact with. Plus, Sunshine Rae Motors are the best and most reliable mechanics in all of Fairbanks!... <human>: Continue. <bot>: "Tom D. from Fairbanks, AK, whose Toyota was in for an auto repair service, reviewed their last visit on 9/12/2018 and their testimonial is:Andrew L. from Fairbanks, AK, whose Jeep was in for an auto repair, reviewed their last visit on 9/5/2018 and their testimonial is:Edna T. from Fairbanks, AK, whose Mazda was in for an auto repair, reviewed their last visit on 8/22/2018... <human>: Continue. <bot>: and their testimonial is:"I have been very pleased with the customer service provided by Sunshine Rae's Motors. Before my husband passed on he took care of my car needs and appointments. I try to upkeep my car when something comes up on the dashboard to warn me something is wrong and its a very new experience for me trying to correct the problem plus... <human>: Continue. <bot>: my car is getting old. ""Sunshine Rae Motors gets the job done right every time and there are no surprises when they do. I've been happy with the service I get on each of the vehicles I have brought them. from Fairbanks, AK, whose NISSAN was in for an auto repair, reviewed their last visit on 8/6/2018 and their testimonial is:"Quality of work A+, customer service B+. I get that you do not take personal checks, but it's okay to say it nicely, even if it's the millionth time someone asks. It was my first time. Phone call to get authorization was great, work was performed very quickly, and reasonably priced. But, twice I've had something unfinished upon picking up vehicle. Maybe a check sheet or something for... <human>: Next. <bot>: service, by mechanic. from Fairbanks, AK, whose CHEVROLET was in for an auto repair, reviewed their last visit on 7/16/2018 and their testimonial is:My car has been running happily, after they were able to find and address ALL of it's issues, at a very reasonable price. whose DODGE was in for an auto repair, reviewed their last visit on 5/25/2018 and their testimonial is:"Sunshine... <human>: Next. <bot>: Rae's is always great about clearly and honestly communicating what needs fixing... <human>: More. <bot>: and what doesn't. Their work is excellent, reasonably priced, and always on time. I wouldn't go anywhere else in Fairbanks. from Fairbanks, AK, whose... <human>: Next. <bot>: Dodge was in for an auto repair, reviewed their last visit on... <human>: Next. <bot>: 5/21/2018 and their testimonial is:"All work done to high standards, and always on time as promised. after almost 60 years of being a mechanic, if i dont do my own work, this is where i take my rigs. from Fairbanks, AK, whose Subaru was in for an auto repair, reviewed their last visit on 5/8/2018 and their testimonial is:Edie B. from Steese, AK, whose... <human>: More. <bot>: Subaru was in for an auto repair, reviewed their last visit on 4/6/2018 and their testimonial is:"That it is top quality! We always recommend people to come. We've sent several there already and will continue to. from Fairbanks, AK, whose Subaru was in for an auto repair service, reviewed their last visit on 2/6/2018 and their testimonial is:"Sunshine Rae is the only place I... <human>: Next. <bot>: trust to work on my car. They are thorough and professional without being condescending or rude like some other shops I've been to. I just took my car in for an oil... <human>: Next. <bot>: change and they noticed that my marker lights were also out. They let me know about the problem then let me decide whether to have the issue fixed now or wait, or even to do it myself. They are always customer service oriented and do it very well. "Carson from Fort Wainwright, AK, whose Ford was in for an auto repair, reviewed their last... <human>: Continue. <bot>: visit on 2/2/2018 and their testimonial is:"You want the job to be correctly done and any mistakes that were made to be fixed. Little things that should have been taken care of... <human>: Next. <bot>: when a big job was being done did not happen. "So sorry you are upset about your service. As far as we can see from your history your original repair was for cv axles . Unfortunately you have seals leaking after the extreme cold weather. This is a very common problem in cold weather. We do not replace seals at time of axles if... <human>: More. <bot>: they are not leaking. As with any repair or service we do not do or recommend unneeded repairs. Further more it is clearly posted that we do not cover rubber seals do to cold weather leakage. from Fairbanks, AK, whose JEEP was in for an auto repair, reviewed their last visit on 1/19/2018 and their testimonial is:David P. from Fairbanks, AK, whose Toyota was... <human>: More. <bot>: in for an auto repair, reviewed their last visit on 12/29/2017 and their testimonial is:"Excellent customer service and repair work. Very friendly, trustworthy shop. Got my truck in right away and did a great job communicating what needed done. More than happy with their work. from Steese, AK, whose SUBARU was in for an auto repair, reviewed their last visit on 12/8/2017 and their... <human>: Next. <bot>: testimonial is:Joy Kennedy G. from Fairbanks, AK, whose Toyota was in for an auto repair, reviewed their last visit on 11/4/2017 and their testimonial... <human>: Next. <bot>: is:"Sunshine Rae has been in operation for a long time. Marnie and Jack are honest, hardworking, fair, and will get the job accomplished professionally and as fast as possible. from Fairbanks, AK,... <human>: Continue. <bot>: whose Chevrolet was in for an auto repair, reviewed their last visit on 10/23/2017 and their testimonial is:"I asked them to put winter tires on for me, and not only did they do that they gave my car a full inspection without an extra charge - very good service. from Fairbanks, AK, whose Jeep was in for an auto repair, reviewed their last visit... <human>: Continue. <bot>: on 10/14/2017 and their testimonial is:"I was satisfied with the price and timeliness of their work; they were easy to work with, excellent customer... <human>: Continue. <bot>: service. from Fairbanks, AK, whose FORD was in for an auto repair, reviewed their last visit on 9/14/2017 and their testimonial is:Amy W. from... <human>: Continue. <bot>: Fairbanks, AK, whose SUBARU was in for an auto repair, reviewed their last visit on 9/5/2017 and their testimonial is:Heather L P. from Fairbanks, AK, whose Ford was in for an auto... <human>: Continue. <bot>: repair, reviewed their last visit on 8/31/2017 and their testimonial is:"It was awesome. When I got my invoice for my estimate, it was way over what I was told it would be on the phone. The manager knew I was low-income and readjusted it to the original quote. Great people and service will make me a return customer! "Kyl W. from Fairbanks, AK, whose Ford was in for an auto repair, reviewed their last visit on 8/18/2017 and their testimonial is:Deanna S. from Fairbanks, AK, whose Subaru was in for an auto repair service, reviewed their last visit on 8/17/2017 and their testimonial is:Scott M. from Fairbanks, AK, whose Subaru was in for an auto repair service, reviewed their last visit on 7/14/2017 and their testimonial is:Henry (hank)... <human>: More. <bot>: Wichmann, J. from Fairbanks, AK, whose Subaru was in for an auto repair service, reviewed their last visit on 7/10/2017 and their testimonial is:Mike... <human>: Continue. <bot>: J. from Fairbanks, AK, whose Ford was in for an auto repair, reviewed their last visit on 7/9/2017 and their testimonial is:John A. from... <human>: Continue. <bot>: Fairbanks, AK, whose GMC was in for an auto repair, reviewed their last visit on 7/7/2017 and their testimonial is:"Sunshine Rae Motors has been great to me. Great quality of work, friendly... <human>: Continue. <bot>: staff and (best of all) quick turnaround time""Very good quality work. Will... <human>: Continue. <bot>: take yr concerns seriously and explained to the best he can. from Healy, AK, whose Subaru was in for an auto repair service, reviewed... <human>: Next. <bot>: their last visit on 5/24/2017 and their testimonial is:Roy T. from Fairbanks, AK, whose Chevrolet was in for an auto repair service, reviewed their last visit on 4/13/2017 and their testimonial is:Ed D. from North Pole, AK, whose Chevrolet was in for an auto repair service, reviewed their last visit on 4/10/2017 and their testimonial is:Jill A. from Fairbanks, AK, whose Subaru was in for an auto repair service, reviewed their last visit on 3/9/2017 and their testimonial is:"We were very pleased with both the customer service we received and the work done on our vehicle. We had been given "the run around" by our dealership and two other shops, but were treated well by Sunshine Rae staff. Our request for a diagnostic evaluation was quickly granted and... <human>: More. <bot>: the recommendations for service was much more reasonable and cost effective than any other offered. ""Customer service is outstanding. They are really good at explaining exactly what is going on and recommend what needs to be done. Offer military discount which is very appreciated. I've never had to wait a week for an appointment. Jack and Marney always say bring it in and we will take a look at it. As in, as soon as I can get there. They are good honest people. from North Pole, AK, whose NISSAN was in for an auto repair, reviewed their last visit on 3/6/2017 and their testimonial is:"They do good work. They can usually see you in 1-2 days. They will tell you if something is wrong that they can... <human>: Next. <bot>: not fix. from Fairbanks, AK, whose Chevrolet was in for an auto repair, reviewed their last visit on 2/1/2017 and their testimonial is:Willow B. from Fairbanks, AK, whose Jeep was in for an auto repair, reviewed their last visit on 1/27/2017 and their testimonial is:Amy T. from Fairbanks, AK, whose GMC was in for an auto repair service, reviewed their last visit on 1/10/2017 and their testimonial is:"Expensive but worth it; you get what you pay for. Pleased with their professional estimates and ability to advise on priority of repairs. Also one of the only places in town that will replace power steering hose with the heavy duty arctic stuff from Alaska Rubber and Rigging. Would definitely use them again. "Reed from Fairbanks, AK, whose Chevrolet was in... <human>: Continue. <bot>: for an auto repair service, reviewed their last visit on 12/13/2016 and their testimonial is:Brett K. from Fairbanks, AK, whose Nissan was in for an auto repair service, reviewed their last visit on 12/7/2016 and their testimonial is:"Sunshine Rae Motors is the place to be when it comes to automotive repair. Jack and Marney are such kind people and they would do their personal... <human>: More. <bot>: best to make sure your vehicle is safe and runs efficiently in all seasons of the year. from Fairbanks, AK, whose Subaru was in for an auto repair service, reviewed their last... <human>: More. <bot>: visit on 12/1/2016 and their testimonial is:"I have been very happy with the service I receive at Sunshine Rae. I recommend them to anyone... <human>: Continue. <bot>: looking for a reputable shop. They work with my warranty company and... <human>: More. <bot>: have always been extremely helpful. from Fairbanks, AK, whose Mazda was in for an auto repair service, reviewed their last visit on 10/7/2016 and their testimonial is:Samantha B. from Fairbanks, AK, whose Hyundai was in for an auto repair, reviewed their last visit on 9/16/2016 and their testimonial is:Henry Wichmann, J. from Fairbanks, AK, whose Subaru was in for an auto repair, reviewed their... <human>: Next. <bot>: last visit on 8/25/2016 and their testimonial is:"The owners and mechanics at Sunshine Rae Motors are highly talented and honest in delivering automotive repairs and service! "Ernest P. whose Plymouth was in for an auto repair, reviewed their last visit on 5/26/2016 and their testimonial is:"Friendly and prompt diagnostic and repair service. Focuses on what "needs to be fixed" rather than trying to sell... <human>: Next. <bot>: the customer a list of "essential" repairs. ""I would highly recommend the shop and let them know that they are locally owned and operated and extremely qualified and provide quality work for... <human>: Next. <bot>: an affordable price. That you stand behind your work and I would not take my vehicle anywhere else. from Healy, AK, whose Ford was... <human>: More. <bot>: in for an auto repair, reviewed their last visit on 5/20/2016 and their testimonial is:Brett K. from Wasilla, AK, whose Chevrolet was in for an auto repair, reviewed their last visit on 4/11/2016 and their testimonial is:"Customer Service: Very welcoming and friendly every visit. These folks know what they are doing and are only there to recommend the best choices for your vehicle. ##... <human>: More. <bot>: "Sunshine Rae has provided quality customer service through phone correspondence and face-to-face interactions. They have explained issues thoroughly, and I have always been extremely confident in their abilities. They have shown their trustworthiness time and time again, and have made me feel like a valued customer. Finally, their services are speedy and the job is well done. from Fairbanks, AK, whose Dodge was in for an auto repair, reviewed their last visit on 12/29/2015 and their testimonial is:Shawn H. from North Pole, AK, whose Chrysler was in for an auto repair service, reviewed their last visit on 12/4/2015 and their testimonial is:Paul R. from Fairbanks, AK, whose Chevrolet was in for an auto repair, reviewed their last visit on 11/25/2015 and their testimonial is:Robin B. from Fairbanks, AK,... <human>: More. <bot>: whose Toyota was in for an auto repair, reviewed their last visit on 10/22/2015 and their testimonial is:"Shop is efficient, professional, helpful, accommodating, technicians... <human>: Next. <bot>: talk directly to customers, quality work! "Patti C. whose Ford was in for an auto repair, reviewed their last visit on 10/15/2015 and their... <human>: More. <bot>: testimonial is:Paul R. from Fairbanks, AK, whose Chevrolet was in for an auto repair, reviewed their last visit on 10/10/2015 and their testimonial is:Joe... <human>: Next. <bot>: B. from North Pole, AK, whose Chevrolet was in for an auto repair, reviewed their last visit on 10/9/2015 and their testimonial is:Paul R... <human>: More. <bot>: from Fairbanks, AK, whose Chevrolet was in for an auto repair service, reviewed their last visit on 10/3/2015 and their testimonial is:Keith A. from Fairbanks, AK, whose Honda was in for an auto repair, reviewed their last visit on 9/11/2015 and their testimonial is:Steve B. from Fairbanks, AK, whose Toyota was in for an auto repair, reviewed their last visit on 9/2/2015 and their... <human>: More. <bot>: testimonial is:Gwendolyn M. from Fairbanks, AK, whose Toyota was in for an auto repair, reviewed their last visit on 8/28/2015 and their testimonial is:David H. from Fairbanks, AK, whose Honda was in for an auto repair service, reviewed their last visit on 8/27/2015 and their testimonial is:"Very friendly, courteous and easy to schedule an appointment. ## Mechanics are thorough, competent, honest, and conscientious. from Fairbanks, AK, whose Nissan was in for an auto repair service, reviewed their last visit on 8/8/2015 and their testimonial is:"Jack and Marney have an established business that has outstanding customer service and an exceptional job with inspections, oil changes, and major repairs! "Bob A. from Napa, CA, whose Jeep was in for an auto repair, reviewed their last visit on 6/20/2015 and their... <human>: Next. <bot>: testimonial is:Erik P. from Fairbanks, AK, whose Pontiac was in for an auto repair, reviewed their last visit on 5/24/2015 and their testimonial is:"I would recommend Sunshine RAE Motors. The work performed was completed promptly and within the estimate quoted. Customer service was excellent, and all of my questions were answered courteously and in a professional manor. from North Pole, AK, whose Honda was... <human>: More. <bot>: in for an auto repair service, reviewed their last visit on 5/12/2015 and their testimonial is:"Sunshine Rae Motors is the best auto shop in... <human>: Next. <bot>: Fairbanks. They're quick, thorough, and they don't ever try to talk you into unnecessary work just to increase your invoice. very friendly people and... <human>: Next. <bot>: good prices for excellent auto repair service. ""That I never feel like I am cheated and I get quick, honest, quality opinions and work... <human>: More. <bot>: I have had some bad experiences with shops in the past and I love being able to trust a shop. And how many people get to say they love to tan at... <human>: Continue. <bot>: their auto shop:)"Faisas C. from Fairbanks, AK, whose GMC was in for... <human>: Continue. <bot>: an auto repair, reviewed their last visit on 2/11/2015 and their testimonial... <human>: Next. <bot>: is:Robert T. from North Pole, AK, whose NISSAN was in for an auto repair service, reviewed their last visit on 2/11/2015 and their testimonial is:Ernest S. from Fairbanks, AK, whose Ford was in for an auto repair, reviewed their last visit on 2/10/2015 and their testimonial is:"The shop was helpful and did what I asked them. They charged the agreed up on price and... <human>: Continue. <bot>: were helpful and friendly. ""I would tell them that Sunshine Rae's is a good place to take your vehicle for repair or maintenance. I had hit some ice and had rolled my... <human>: Continue. <bot>: Isuzu Trooper in a ditch so I called around to find someone who could get it going since I had no clue where to start after such an event. The lady who... <human>: Next. <bot>: answered the phone sold me when she pointed out some standard things that were needed after rolling over with out my even asking. The... <human>: Next. <bot>: other four shops who have earned a good reputation locally for quality work, didn't bring it up right away. The wrecker service also had pointed out that they did reliable work on... <human>: More. <bot>: imported vehicles. I am glad I took it there for they went... <human>: Next. <bot>: above and beyond my expectations, even beating their quoted price by a few dollars and returned my old parts to me. Can't go into all the details here, but I'm sold. from North Pole, AK, whose Chevrolet was in for an auto repair service, reviewed their last visit on 1/28/2015 and their testimonial is:"Honesty along with very fast service. Always received feedback on the repair status while vehicle was in the shop. I will always use Sunshine Rae Motors for future work. I had always heard this business was highly recommended, and I will tell people to go there for repairs. from North Pole, AK, whose NISSAN was in for an auto repair, reviewed their last visit on 1/14/2015 and their testimonial is:Hannibal And Joy G. from Fairbanks,... <human>: More. <bot>: AK, whose Subaru was in for an auto repair service, reviewed their last visit on 1/7/2015 and their testimonial is:"Yes. We have been using Sunshine Rae Motors for the past two decades... <human>: More. <bot>: and have had the most quality work at the most reasonable prices around town. The owners, staff, and mechanics are professional, hardworking, and get the most difficult job done well. "Carter from Fairbanks, AK, whose Kia was in for an auto repair service, reviewed their last visit on 1/5/2015 and their testimonial is:Robert T. from North Pole, AK, whose NISSAN was in for an... <human>: Continue. <bot>: auto repair, reviewed their last visit on 11/6/2014 and their testimonial is:"Sunshine Rae Motors can usually get you seen in a timely manner and... <human>: Continue. <bot>: get the problem fixed. There usually is not a wait of over... <human>: More. <bot>: 1-3 days from the time that you call. They also take dropoffs... <human>: Continue. <bot>: from Palmer, AK, whose DODGE was in for an auto repair, reviewed their last visit on 10/16/2014 and their testimonial is:"I'm from out of town, and was made to feel so at... <human>: Continue. <bot>: ease getting my truck repaired and back to work the same day. I couldn't have found better service anywhere. I'll definitely be visiting them again for all my service needs while in... <human>: Next. <bot>: Fairbanks! "Aj M. from Healy, AK, whose Ford was in for an auto repair, reviewed their last visit on 10/7/2014 and their testimonial is:"Sunshine... <human>: Next. <bot>: Rae Motor has the best quality work you can get done on... <human>: More. <bot>: any vehicle they are reliable and dependable"Kristen R. from Fairbanks, AK, whose Toyota was in for an auto repair, reviewed their last visit on 10/14/2013 and their testimonial is:"I took my 4-Runner in to get a head gasket replaced by Sunshine Rae and they made time to fix a very big job for me. I had taken it to another shop first that was... <human>: Continue. <bot>: very dismissive of the problem with my car and basically told me to hope for the best and drive it until it died. I was relieved when the mechanics at Sunshine Rae had a great attitude about working with me to get my car fixed! Thank you! ""Professional, skilled and courteous service. I would recommend these folks over anyone in town, go here first... <human>: Next. <bot>: and you will find an honest garage you can trust. Try Sunshine Rae once, and you'll be return customer because they'll earn it! "Joy And Hannibal G. from Fairbanks, AK, whose Nissan was in for an auto repair, reviewed their last visit on 6/14/2013 and their testimonial is:Robert T. from North Pole, AK, whose Honda was in for an auto repair, reviewed their last... <human>: More. <bot>: visit on 6/13/2013 and their testimonial is:"My car is running great after taking it to Sunshine rae motors, however I feel I was overchraged... <human>: Next. <bot>: on labor. After calling 3 other shops in town Iand asked for quotes each one told me at LEAST 1.5 hrs less if not more. However my car is running well and... <human>: More. <bot>: they were quick about it. I would possibly return. from Fairbanks, AK, whose Chrysler was in for an auto repair, reviewed their last visit on 4/17/2013 and their testimonial is:"They have been... <human>: Continue. <bot>: in business prior to 1988 when we got here and are one of the few honest repair shops around. We have always received excellent... <human>: Next. <bot>: service at a reasonable price from Sunshine Rae's and have highly recommended them in the past and will in the future. from Fairbanks, AK, whose Ford was in for an auto repair,... <human>: Continue. <bot>: reviewed their last visit on 4/11/2013 and their testimonial is:"Sunshine Rae Motors is the most reliable shop in town! They always a kind, courteous,... <human>: More. <bot>: and caring when it comes to you and your vehicle's needs. from Fairbanks, AK, whose Lexus was in for an auto repair, reviewed their last visit on 3/28/2013 and their testimonial is:Norman S. from Healy, AK, whose Toyota was in for an auto repair service, reviewed their last visit on 3/11/2013 and their testimonial is:"They did a great job, are honest, hard working people... <human>: Next. <bot>: that do their best to keep costs down, and I feel very comfortable recommending Sunshine Rae to my friends. whose Saab was in for... <human>: More. <bot>: an auto repair, reviewed their last visit on 3/7/2013 and their testimonial is:Sunshine Rae Motors' Customer Satisfaction Score of 92.59 % is based on... <human>: More. <bot>: 27 votes and 27 reviews over 6 months Certified ALLDATA Market Reviews.

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Bot: the team moves forward in secret – only this time on themselves.”“It's 1986 and a group of graduate students are close to discovering a cure for sleep using an experimental new drug,... Human: Next. Bot: but something goes terribly wrong with a test subject.”There's a first official poster for 200 Hours, the upcoming horror movie directed by Phillip Guzman based on a script by Jason Murphy:If you... Human: Continue. Bot: ask me, we hear too much from those who sell technology and too little from those who use it. They certainly get the opportunities at numerous closed-doors corporate meetings, where the people... Human: Next. Bot: selling do all the listening (and then convincing). But to find good and reliable public opinions about business technologies not coloured by sales targets is still a rarity. So, when I got to sit in at a recent Oracle roundtable with two of its customers, Eskom and Tiger Brands, I couldn't help grilling them a little. The answers ranged from the obvious to interesting, so here are some of the takeaways from the conversation. (Just one caveat: you may notice I don't say who I spoke to at either company. Their names weren't withheld by Oracle; I chose not to make it about any specific people, since I can appreciate that executives are generally not comfortable sticking their necks out in this fashion. Tiger Brands started its cloud... Human: More. Bot: journey (to use some well-worn jargon) a year ago and appears to be happy with the progress. But there is a catch: it has... Human: Next. Bot: been running on Oracle since 2009. Tier-one business applications and their ecosystems are clearly a catalyst for adopting cloud technologies, so be sure your choice is on that bandwagon. If your critical business application vendor is not presenting cloud-based solutions and leaning towards cloud native apps (applications that take advantage of the power and scaling of virtualised data centre systems), start asking hard questions. There are three flavours of cloud: public (your data resides with a third-party stack), private (your data resides on your stack) and hybrid (you use both). How you use these might not be up to you. For example, Eskom must maintain quite a large private cloud due to regulations and the sensitivities of its business. Financial institutions also favour private clouds for control —... Human: More. Bot: and because they have the funds to maintain that. What we often call “on-premise” technology is now becoming “private cloud” technology. If you rely... Human: Next. Bot: heavily on on-premise tech, public cloud may not be an option for your industry. As mentioned above, Eskom needs to control a lot of its cloud infrastructure, which basically means it controls its own data centres. Remember, cloud is nothing more than data centres with virtual machines and high-speed networks. Other companies, usually start-ups and firms with little technology legacy, prefer simply paying for a service. That means they own none of the data centre stack and just pay for what the data centre generates. If you use Office 365 or Salesforce.com, that's what you likely are doing (some cloud services can also be deployed as private cloud applications). This is captured in the acronyms IaaS, PaaS and SaaS (infrastructure-, platform- and software-as-a-service). But Tiger Brands revealed a... Human: Next. Bot: third option: it outsources its data centre, so it actually doesn't own... Human: Next. Bot: any of it. I wasn't able to pick away at this, but it didn't sound as if Tiger Brands was just paying for services. Instead it may be “leasing” hardware and deploying... Human: More. Bot: its technologies on top of that. As converged hardware becomes more popular, this trend will increase. Eskom noted the big advantage to controlling the data centre stack as opposed to just paying for services. A suitably large organisation will find it more effective to build services and then treat the rest of the company as its clients. I know Altron does this to service... Human: Next. Bot: the 40-plus companies in its conglomerate. Vodacom Business also treats the rest of the Vodacom empire as its clients. This is particularly useful when mergers and acquisitions happen, because it helps reduce... Human: Next. Bot: the fracturing of many applications all doing essentially the same thing (resulting in different data sets and many expensive licences). Also, being able to use this model gives a company the muscle... Human: More. Bot: to negotiate costs around bulk licences. The Tiger Brands representative was remarkably congenial considering my badgering him on this point. Isn't moving to the cloud and engaging third parties a security risk? In short, everything is a security risk, so the question is how much risk are you willing to handle. By handle, I mean: do you have the cash and people to really... Human: Continue. Bot: stay on top of things? It is actually less risky to put a lot of your eggs with third-party providers, since their bread and... Human: More. Bot: butter is keeping your stuff safe. Your business is not insulated: if... Human: Continue. Bot: a staff member's stupidity causes your third-party cloud to be breached, that same stupidity can as easily cause your internal data centre to be breached. The difference is that the third-party guys are likely to respond quicker and with better remedies. Another area I grilled both representatives on is the question of accountability. The cloud market is a bit notorious for this: it's all sunshine when things go right, but fingers quickly start pointing when things go wrong. It is a bit too easy to receive great assurances in the glaring headlights of a looming sale, but those can evaporate in moments of crisis. Eskom made this clear: your head as the technologist will always be on the block. If something goes wrong, don't expect to shift the... Human: Continue. Bot: blame, even if you are simply paying for services. But you are... Human: More. Bot: not caught entirely naked in the storm. Tiger Brands underlined the importance of getting your service-level agreements done properly and to go with a technology partner you can trust and with which you communicate. But do not assume they have your back. Like everything in life, get it in writing. And adopt an attitude of “when, not if”. Prevention is great, but response is... Human: Next. Bot: as important. Cloud sales people love this: you must have cloud or you will stop innovating! You can't pivot! You have no agility! Your... Human: Next. Bot: coffee will suck! Fearmongering? Yes, a little. I find it a tad rich that technologists essentially lecture businesses on business. But there is truth here as well. The ability to respond is... Human: Continue. Bot: quite crucial. Both companies spoke about this, but I quite like Tiger Brands' example. The looming sugar tax is going to have real consequences for its bottom line, but the nature of this is still uncertain. All Tiger Brands knows is that it will likely happen. So, the role of technologies such as cloud is to make sure the company can make those sharp... Human: Next. Bot: turns when the time comes. Eskom echoed this, saying that it's not about innovation, but whether the technology allows people in the business to act more quickly. That obviously translates into some... Human: More. Bot: type of innovation. Yet the point is not to innovate, but readiness to innovate. It's a subtle yet crucial difference to guide your thinking... Human: More. Bot: around why you would need certain cloud technologies. Motorola is in a bad way. Wilson over at Giz basically tore them a new orifice... Human: Next. Bot: over the Q 9m and I have always thought they've squandered the RAZR good-will on a series of odd products that were either violently crippled or ahead of their time — like the Moto PEBL, for example. That said, they've remained in high in the pantheon of phone gods that I have in my heads, up there with Nokia and Sony-Ericsson as companies I... Human: Next. Bot: love but know need lots of help to catch up in the post-iPhone world. An so we turn to the Q 9m, Verizon's music player with keyboard for messaging and email. After launching the Q, Motorola found that many of the users weren't heavy duty business folks but just regular consumers — teens and soccer moms — who wanted to send messages. After taking... Human: More. Bot: the successes and failures of the Q back to the drawing board, the decided to make a more accessible music phone for the general public. Did they succeed? First, a tour of the hardware and design.5-inch screen is bright and very readable and the overall design feels more substantial than the original Q and soft-touch rubber on the front and back offer a generally nicer experience than the standard Moto shine-fests that are the RAZRs and KRZRs of the world. It's a solid phone and the keys are nicely laid out and easy to press. During the first few days of handling the phone, I found the interface to be a great improvement over the standard Windows Mobile 6 experience. I hate WinMo, and this clouds my judgement... Human: More. Bot: whenever I have to use a WinMo device, but Verizon and Motorola have hidden most of the annoying things behind a wheel-like interface that uses the side scroll wheel to its fullest advantage. But, as long-time WinMo users will discover, this also hides a number of important features that the OS usually puts on the screen. Take, for example, key lock. In WinMo, the combination usually consists of two keys. On other phones, it's a press of the power button, but this phone doesn't have a power button, just a hang-up button that doubles as a power button. So I try all sorts of combinations and finally resort to reading the manual. There are no visual cues, no little lock icons on keys, nothing that would suggest to... Human: More. Bot: me that you can lock the phone. The real problem is the default theme Verizon is using in the Q. This theme hides most of the useful WinMo information under a media player which, in itself, is very cool. — after switching from the default theme I can now no longer find that cool UI setting, so the phone is stuck in some sort of default start screen. This can be remedied by pressing the little red button in the lower right corner, but it took a few folks doing research to figure that out. However, the UI is oddly truncated and there are no visual cues as to what it's doing. There are a series of icons, sure, but the volume icon seems to control media volume,... Human: Next. Bot: not call volume, so you need to dig in to find “Profiles” in WM6. If you turn off the default theme and use something like Windows basic, things become clearer. If you... Human: More. Bot: leave it on, you've got to RTFM. This problem I can live with. The EV-DO is quick and no sane person will spend $1.99 for VCast music when they have a MiniSD... Human: Next. Bot: card slot on the side. The phone is stereo bluetooth compatible but they included a mini-audio jack, not a standard headphone jack — a huge no-no in music phones and a source... Human: Next. Bot: of endless frustration. There is standard USB sync and you can put music on the phone using the MiniSD card or ActiveSync. Email set-up using POP3 was easy with Verizon's wizards and the browser, while the network did cut out occasionally, was acceptable. There is no VCast video — go figure — and no apparent way to use the in-built GPS system (bloops . This can be easily remedied with an OTA update. But where is the IM client? I Europe, the kids love them some SMS. Here, the kids love them some AIM. This is a grave oversight and should be remedied. Overall, I am happy with this new Q. I've used it for four days and it's grown on me. As I've said many times, this... Human: Next. Bot: is the last generation of phones that can use Windows' antiquated and poorly conceived operating system. Verizon and Motorola tried to add a new layer of interface to this hoary old product, and they succeeded 80% of the time. If you're looking for a messaging phone and you use Verizon, the Moto Q 9m is just fine. It works well, is fast, and is... Human: Next. Bot: an acceptable music and messaging phone, which is mostly what folks want anyway. We will always have a love/hate relationship with phones. We see too many of them not to get frustrated when each one rolls off the truck and doesn't do what we expect it to do. The Motorola Q 9m may have some flaws, but it is not bad. Laboratory furnaces are... Human: Continue. Bot: used for heating applications that require a range of high temperatures. They heat to high temperatures evenly and maintain consistent temperatures, while providing an environment free of undesirable contaminants and moisture. Factors... Human: Continue. Bot: such as object size, controllers, temperature range, and shape determine the uses of particular furnaces. Most furnaces have digital controllers that determine how fast... Human: Continue. Bot: they heat up (ramp), how long the temperature can be held (dwell), and how fast they cool down. Safety systems are included in most furnaces to prevent overheating the contents, as well... Human: Continue. Bot: as the furnace itself. Laboratory furnaces are used in applications such as... Human: More. Bot: petroleum analysis, chemical analysis of certain compounds, and heat-treating small steel parts. The company was founded in 2006 and is headquartered in Waltham, MA. Steve Hoberman taught his first data modeling class... Human: More. Bot: in 1992 and has trained more than 10,000 people since then. Jan Pieter Zwart is assistant professor of Information Systems at HAN University of... Human: Continue. Bot: Applied Sciences. Marco Engelbart has over 25 years of experience in teaching conceptual information modeling. Stijn Hoppenbrouwers PhD is professor of Information Systems at HAN University. Provides the business or IT professional with a practical working knowledge of data modeling concepts and best practices. Object-Role Modeling (ORM) is a fact-based approach to data modeling that expresses the information requirements of any business domain simply... Human: More. Bot: in terms of objects that play roles in relationships. Suitable for both novices and experienced practitioners, this book covers the fundamentals of the ORM approach. Understand how data modeling contributes to the process of learning about the data, and is, therefore, a required technique, even when the resulting database is not relational. Includes a detailed review of the extensive literature on data modeling and... Human: Next. Bot: logical database design, referencing nearly 500 publications, with a strong focus on... Human: Continue. Bot: their relevance to practice. ## Incorporates the largest-ever study of data modeling practitioners, involving over 450 participants in interviews, surveys and data modeling tasks. The results challenge many longstanding held assumptions about... Human: More. Bot: data modeling and will be of interest to academics and practitioners alike. Graeme Simsion is a former DBA, data modeller and consultancy manager who in the last seven years has made a... Human: Continue. Bot: career change to screenwriter and best-selling novelist. He is the author of Data Modeling Essentials (now in its 3rd edition) and Data Modeling Theory... Human: Next. Bot: and Practice and conducted the largest published study of data modeling practice for his PhD, completed in 2007. His first novel, The Rosie Project, has sold approximately 2 million copies worldwide. Christopher... Human: More. Bot: Bradley has spent 30 years in the field of Information Management working on Master Data Management, Enterprise Architecture, and Business Intelligence implementations. This is the sixth edition of the training manual for the Data Modeling Master Class that Steve Hoberman teaches onsite and through public classes. This text can be purchased prior to attending the Master Class, the latest course schedule can be found... Human: Continue. Bot: on Steve's website. Wi-Fi connectivity is generally available throughout most buildings on campus as well as in UC Berkeley-affiliated buildings located off-site with an expansion effort underway. Options for Wi-Fi access include eduroam, Airbears2, and CalVisitor. Use the comparison table to choose the Wi-Fi option that will work best for you. A secure, authenticated service which provides network access on campus and at many... Human: More. Bot: institutions throughout the world. A secure, authenticated service for campus network access. CalVisitor provides a basic level of Wi-Fi access for those not affiliated with UC Berkeley or with no CalNet ID. Configure Your Device or Computer - Connect to the eduroam SSID, and provide your CalNet ID @berkeley.edu as the user name, for example if your CalNet ID is oski, you would enter... Human: Next. Bot: "oski@berkeley. " Enter your AirBears2 WiFi Key as the password. Once you have done this, your device should automatically use eduroam whenever you are at an institution that provides it. Visit eduroam.org... Human: Continue. Bot: for more information about this service. ## Configure Your Device or Computer- Once you have your AirBears2 key, you can configure your device or computer to use AirBears2. Just select it as your Wi-Fi network, accept the certificate that is offered (this secures the association process), and login with your CalNet ID using your AirBears2 key as the password. Once you have done this the first time, your device should automatically use AirBears2 whenever you are within an area that it is provided (inside almost all Campus buildings). To access CalVisitor, configure your Wi-Fi enabled device to select CalVisitor as the SSID for their wireless networking needs. ## Configure Your Device or Computer - Once you have your AirBears2 key, you can configure your device or computer to... Human: Next. Bot: use AirBears2. In this list of things which make our life smart and smooth, the smartwatch is one of those who would very easily be near the top of the list. What is the potential for a smartwatch? The answer to this question would not be a whole lot. let's know about it in a nutshell. A smartwatch is a touchscreen wearable computer in... Human: Next. Bot: the form of a wristwatch. It helps us in getting our health and fitness stats, notification reminder from social media app, messages, and incoming... Human: Continue. Bot: calls. You can even control various functions of the smartphone by your smartwatch. All these are much needed in a busy world as of now. You must be thinking that how will you going to afford such expensive things. But let me enlighten you that the competition in this niche has gifted us with some impressive smartwatches under $50 dollars. Yes, $50! This is... Human: Next. Bot: undoubtedly an affordable price range for a product which can simplify our lives a lot. So if you are here for less budget- great smartwatches, then you are in the right place. So let's get into our pick for ‘Top Best Smartwatch under $50'. The Pebble 2 is the one the cheapest smartwatch from Pebble and that's why it is 1st in our list... Human: Continue. Bot: This lightweight watch has a simple design making it comfortable to wear. ## It provides personalized notifications and downloadable apps. You can even customize... Human: Next. Bot: with watch faces, and this is one of its best features! It... Human: Next. Bot: lets you know notifications with a silent vibration thus making you comfortable in social gatherings. You can even sync with apps like Jawbone, Run... Human: Continue. Bot: keeper to know about your steps and other health data (can help you improve). For golf lovers, it even syncs with Free Caddie app. It has a long-lasting battery and can be... Human: More. Bot: easily charged with a USB cable. The timeline is one of the personalized one letting you know of your daily schedule chronologically. You can... Human: Next. Bot: even use it as a portable music player by playing music from iTunes, Spotify, and Pandora. The display works fine under sunlight, and the watch is entirely safe under-water. Martian Notifier is an Award winning smartwatch which has both Analog and smartwatch functionality. The watch has an appealing classic analog style and is separated by a Small OLED display. It thus deceives most of the users for a simple watch. But on proper knowledge, it has got the best notification pattern which is customizable. You can, therefore, know alerts are coming from which apps. The watch support notification from 1000 apps. It even has got an option to filter and recall notifications. In that, you can recall the notification within 5 Min after you got it, by just... Human: More. Bot: tapping on the display. It gives sports headlines and fitness stats though it cannot count steps. And the best part is its two battery system. So even if the smartwatch battery drains out, you can still use the analog watch which does not require charging. It can notify you when your phone goes out of your range as well. The watch comes with an... Human: Continue. Bot: OLED 1.5” high-quality display. However, neither it cannot count steps nor is water-resistant. So you can't use it under water. The cable provider can only charge it with them. However, the company admits it and bought other features which compensate it and remains an excellent choice. The Lenovo watch 9 is a hybrid smartwatch, which is one of the best hybrid smartwatches under $50... Human: More. Bot: The watch 9 has a royal, black and ergonomic design. Its outer body is mechanical with electronic integration. It is made up of sapphire... Human: Next. Bot: mirror glass. Visibility is crystal clear even under sunlight, dark and water. It displays distance, calories, and steps and can be easily synced with your phone. It can even check your sleep quality and provide with necessary solutions and can wake you up as well as per the alarm clock. It also measures heart rate but through apps not with the watch. The device... Human: Continue. Bot: comes with an incredible 1.5” LED display. It boasts of some great... Human: Continue. Bot: features along with its stylish looks and is undoubtedly an excellent choice... Human: Next. Bot: However, it is a bit complicated and doesn't offer the features like Pebble. However, it does not decrease its worth and will remain an... Human: More. Bot: excellent choice. The watch 9 has the 5-7 days of battery backup and also water resistant up to 3 meters. The Zeblaze Crystal 2 design is more like Amazfit Bip. The crystal 2 has the 1.29″ Inch AMOLED display. The display is touch responsive and you can easily switch between different modes. It can also measure heart rate and give a synopsis of your workout results. The features like recording your sleep duration and wake you up with a quiet alert are very useful. You can also customizable watch face and makes your life dynamic. It has IP67 waterproof and dustproof technology, and the better part is that it can sync with more than 200 smartphones effortlessly. The watch comes with a 180mAh battery it can even tackle... Human: Continue. Bot: sweat during exercises and function in water. It has even multilingual support and is undisputedly one of the best choices. The 180mAh of battery... Human: Next. Bot: provides the 2-5 days of backup. The microwear X2 plus design is sporty and very attractive. On the first glance, it looks like an... Human: More. Bot: expansive smartwatch but it's not. The rounded display has a 2.5D sapphire glass providing enough protection from scratches. It is incorporated with IP68 waterproof technology which is perhaps the best, and you can use it while swimming or even under the downpour. It can measure your heartbeat, steps, blood pressure and oxygen level in your body. The sedentary reminder even reminds you to walk... Human: More. Bot: if you have been sitting idle for too long. Notifications are known... Human: More. Bot: to you by vibration. It can check your sleep quality as well as has built-in exercise patterns. The display turns on as soon as you turn the watch to look at it. It does have a few issues with connectivity. The screen is a bit small to display the messages properly. Fingerprint stains can be formed, but that's easily cleanable. Except these, it has some of the best features at this price range, and this is an excellent choice. On a single charge, it provides the 5-6 days of battery backup. So, that was it, and with the discussed in details, make your choice and grab one of them. The above-listed smartwatches are best according to the features, customer review and many another point of you.

Human: Finish this: ## Connecticut Interest Payment. A spectacular as issued example which was "issued for the Payment of Interest. " Dated March 8, 1792 and signed by Comptroller Kingsbury this cut cancelled piece is virtually perfect. Law is no longer a discrete or autonomous body of knowledge, if ever it was, and the practice of law can no longer be neatly separated from the practice of other disciplines. Law affects and is affected by other disciplines and other professions in at least three ways. Second, the expertise provided by another organized body of knowledge may at times be necessary to the resolution of a particular legal issue. The "expert testimony" of a mental health professional, for example, is often central to a judgment of culpability or non-culpability in a criminal law proceeding. And third, law may be the subject matter of another discipline. Thus, the study of law might be sensibly regarded as not only preparation for a profession, but also as a branch of the humanities or the social sciences. If so, then literature, philosophy, cultural studies, economics, history, or sociology might all provide insights into the nature of law. Some of the interdisciplinary offerings at Georgetown fit neatly into one of the three categories described above, but a number of them address all three sorts of interdisciplinary concerns. It is worth stressing, however, that only a few of the interdisciplinary offerings at Georgetown require specialized knowledge or familiarity with the other discipline as a prerequisite for enrollment in the class. A number of the interdisciplinary offerings at Georgetown aim to elucidate the ways in which law affects, shapes and perhaps even defines the promulgation of knowledge and practice in some other discipline or profession. Often, the "law" that controls another discipline or profession comes from a wide range of "traditional" subject matters. These seminars and courses share a number of common themes. They all ask, in different ways, and with a different focus, whether traditional legal categories are adequate to suit the needs of the particular discipline or profession. They also all examine, again in different ways and some more explicitly than others, the ways in which the legal regulatory regime actually defines as well as restricts the body of knowledge or set of disciplinary practices in questions. And finally, at least some of these offerings looks at the intersection of law, the discipline in question, and the specifically ethical questions to which the discipline gives rise. Georgetown offers a number of seminars and courses designed to enrich our understanding of law by examining the idea of law, particular areas of doctrine, and various legal processes with tools of analysis and insights borrowed from other disciplines. These courses in turn subdivide into two areas: those which examine law as essentially a branch of the humanities, and those which examine law through the lens of economics. Law and Humanities offerings all aim to place law in the context of our cultural history. There are also several specialized seminars that look to literature and other art forms for insight into the role of law in history and in contemporary life, and also look to literary and cultural theories for a greater understanding of the humanistic processes by which we write, read and interpret legal texts. Other offerings seek an enriched appreciation of the idea of law in western culture by examining arguments about law and legalism propounded by major political and moral philosophers. The Films and the Law Seminar addresses the interplay between law and film. Additional Law and Humanities offerings are described under the Jurisprudence and Legal History heading of this publication. Lastly, a number of course and seminar offerings at Georgetown look systematically at law, legal doctrine and jurisprudence using the tools of economic reasoning. Students who want to pursue economic analysis beyond these offerings should consider applying for the Law and Economics Workshop. The workshop meets weekly for a year. At most meetings outside speakers present a paper on an issue touching on law and economics. Students are responsible for preparing brief weekly memoranda that discuss and question the presented papers. Who should take interdisciplinary courses? Students with prior training in or a strong interest in the related discipline or profession, such as medicine or computers, might obviously find an interdisciplinary offering concerning that discipline of great interest, whether or not he or she intends to return to the profession after law school. Students interested in pursuing an academic career in law would be well advised to take at least one offering from the "law and economics" curriculum and one from the "law and humanities" field, as well as courses in legal history and jurisprudence. Even beyond students with specialized interests or training, or with legal-academic aspirations, however, it is our belief that all students would be well advised to fit at least one interdisciplinary offering, and hopefully more than one, into their curriculum at some point in their legal education, for at least two reasons. First, familiarity with other disciplines is an obvious necessity in some areas of practice. While the smattering of specialized knowledge that comes with one course in law school will obviously not sustain a practice, a lawyer unintimidated by the prospect of familiarizing herself with the conceptual tools of other disciplines and professions will have an enhanced ability to use her own legal expertise in a meaningful way, where those disciplines intersect with law. It makes sense to develop the confidence as a student that the requisite level of mastery of another discipline is indeed possible. Second, and independent of particular career aspirations or goals, all lawyers serve or ought to serve both the felt, contingent needs of people who seek legal counsel or are affected by the law's reach, and the more inchoate yearnings of all of us for a just society. The teachings of other disciplines, and particularly the teachings of both the sciences and the humanities, can guide the lawyer in her attempt to provide a service for others, and can give some meaning to her quest for justice through law. Anyone searching for definitive answers in the humanities or social sciences to the deep questions regarding the meaning of law will no doubt be disappointed. But the systematic study of these questions using the tools and insights of other disciplines can provide a fresh approach and can instill a confidence that the quest is a meaningful one. Equally important, it can acquaint the student with a community of peers who are equally committed to the intellectual work. That community, in turn, is one with whom a lawyer may remain fruitfully engaged through the course of her professional life - an interaction which, as much as any other professional activity, may provide that life with its less material but more lasting rewards. Please see the Affordable Housing Transaction Clinic website for more detailed information about the program. Mutually Excluded Courses: Students may not concurrently enroll in this clinic and an externship or a practicum course. Lawyers in every type of practice (corporate, litigation, government, public interest, etc. routinely deal with problems that require a basic understanding of concepts and methods from economics and statistics. This course provides an introduction to these subjects and their application and relevance to law and legal practice. ## Topics covered include decision analysis, game theory, probability theory, and statistics. Grades will be based on class participation, a graded problem set, and a final examination. No prior background in economics or statistics is required; however, we will regularly use elementary algebra and geometry. ## Students with strong backgrounds in economics, mathematics, or statistics should consult with the professor before enrolling in the course. This course will examine major intersections of law and art in the United States, focusing on cases and legislation in light of social, political, and art historical influences. We will consider questions implicated by art law's myriad incarnations, such as why art receives special legal treatment, how law defines art, and who benefits. Ongoing themes will be the dissonances of existing law with twenty-first century culture and digital technology, and new developments. Areas include freedom of expression, copyright, moral rights, authenticity, the right of publicity, authorship, museums, and the art market, with visits by outside speakers on selected topics. All students taking the course will be expected to develop original papers reflecting substantial critical engagement with an art law topic of their choice, in satisfaction of the Upperclass Legal Writing Requirement for J. Participation will also play a significant role in the course, including discussion of assigned readings and short reflection pieces. Classroom time in the latter part of the semester will be devoted to student presentations and feedback. Note: THIS COURSE REQUIRES PROFESSOR PERMISSION TO ENROLL. Please submit a brief statement of interest in the seminar by 5:00 pm on Monday, June 4, 2018, to Professor Bonneau (sonya. Art-related background is not required but may be included in the statement. Professor Bonneau is making her decisions and filling the open slots in the seminar on a rolling basis. Humans are imperfect. They misperceive facts, lack willpower, don't know what makes themselves happy, take mental shortcuts, get impatient, can't do math. Should these facts matter for the design of legal systems? For example, should the law protect mistaken consumers, or would doing so only discourage buyers from learning to overcome their shortcomings? This seminar explores these questions in a number of legal contexts, including not only consumer protection but also criminal law, public finance, administrative law, corporate law, and others. We will begin with a brief review of basic economic concepts such as utility, supply & demand, expected value, and rational choice under uncertainty. Each subsequent unit of theory will be paired with a practical policy issue, allowing us to learn and apply the theory in a concrete context. The economic analysis of law has predominated much of legal analysis for the past few decades. Within this framework, rational choice theory has taken central stage as the key model used in order to predict human behavior. In recent years, however, researchers both in economics and in psychology have demonstrated that people systematically deviate from the predictions set forth by the rational choice model. The goal of this course is to incorporate these findings into legal analysis. In doing so we will first examine traditional economic analysis of law, and then explore how the conclusions of this analysis are altered when behavioral insights are incorporated into it. Topics that will be discussed in the class include: contract law and contracting, tort law, litigation and settlement negotiations, and the behavior of judges and jurors. Note: In Spring 2017 this course will meet on Mondays and Wednesdays and one Friday, 9:00 am - 11:00 am on the following dates: 4/3, 4/5, 4/7, 4/10, 4/12, 4/17, and 4/19. This seminar investigates legal, ethical, and social problems raised by developments in health, medicine and the biological sciences through the study of selected subjects that vary from year to year. This course covers basic business concepts that are useful across many areas of legal practice. First, it introduces financial accounting, with a focus on understanding and using financial statements. Second, it deals with core financial concepts, such as the time value of money, risk versus return, and methods for valuing assets. Third, the course discusses the basic categories of financial instruments: debt, equity, and derivatives. Although these topics all inevitably involve numbers, mathematical complexity is kept to a minimum. Much of the reading consists of excerpts from case law, which illustrate business concepts and their relation to legal practice. Mutually Excluded Courses: Students may not receive credit for this course and Demystifying Finance: A Short Course for Law Students or Business Basics for Lawyers. Note: This course is mandatory pass/fail and will not count toward the 7 credit pass/fail limit for J. How much will $10 today be worth in 10 years? How much do I need to have today in assets if I want to be worth $10,000,000 in 10 years? What does value creation mean in the context of a corporation? How do I value a lump sum payment for future damages in a settlement negotiation for copyright infringement? Business Basics for Lawyers, a two-credit pass/fail course, tackles these very questions and more. Emphasis lies on core concepts, essential vocabulary and basic tools of business. The course does not assume any prior quantitative knowledge beyond basic algebra. While attention will be paid to financial issues, the goal lies not on mastering the technical skills but on developing an understanding of how that information can be applied and used in the effective practice of law. The course will rely heavily on a series of case study discussions that demonstrate how an understanding of business can empower lawyers. Course evaluation will include both class participation and a final examination to ensure that proficiency is developed in analyzing and using basic financial and accounting information. Mutually Excluded Courses: Students may not receive credit for this course and Demystifying Finance: A Short Course for Law Students or Business and Financial Basics for Lawyers. Note: This course enrolls via the waitlist process only. This course will be offered initially to students already waitlisted for Demystifying Finance (Week One 2017 section). The course will meet Monday, January 9 – Thursday, January 12, 2017, 9:00 a. - 4:45 p. The course will be graded on a pass/fail basis and will not count towards the 7 credit pass/fail limit. FIRST CLASS ATTENDANCE IS MANDATORY. Attendance at all class sessions is mandatory and all enrolled students must attend the first class in order to remain enrolled. Students on the wait list must attend the first class in order to be admitted off the wait list. Enrolled students will have until the beginning of the second class session to request a drop by contacting the Office of the Registrar. Once the second class session begins, students may only seek a withdrawal by contacting an academic advisor in the Office of JD Academic Services. Withdrawals are permitted up until the last class for this specific course. This simulation course will provide students with the fundamentals of organizing, managing, and executing an effective campaign for political office, within a bipartisan context grounded in ethical public service. Each enrolled student must identify a local, state, or federal public office that they plan to run for (plans to run for this office can be tentative and prospective). Students will prepare and give “stump” speeches and participate in a simulated candidate forum. Students will also develop policy platforms and learn how to assess and respond to the needs of a constituency and the public. Note: MANDATORY FIRST CLASS ATTENDANCE. All enrolled and waitlisted students must be in attendance at the start of the first class session in order to be eligible for a seat in the class. Students may not withdraw from this class after the add/drop period ends without professor permission. This course aims to help students develop critical skills to identify the ways in which varying frameworks, including those informed by personal and religious values, might shape perceptions of law. The focus will be on Catholic social thought, a corpus of theological and philosophical reflection on the social and economic order dating back to 1891; with a particular focus on the recent commentary of Pope Francis. The materials in the first three weeks aim to help students understand and thoughtfully engage the philosophical underpinnings and core concepts of Catholic social thought. The next two blocks focus on the topics to which Pope Francis has devoted the most extensive attention (thus far)—the alleviation of poverty and care for the environment. The last block takes up the commentary on specific themes, including the exercise of “soft power” in global politics; how reflections might inform discussion of marriage and family law; and other bioethics questions. This seminar requires a series of short reflection and reaction papers which aim to facilitate thoughtful student participation in seminar discussions throughout the course. The final paper is not a research project, but a short engagement (about 8 pages) with a particular set of issues arising from across the range of topics covered in the course. This course does not satisfy the JD Upper Level Writing Requirement. As new lawyers enter the workforce, often they are not just new to the law, but new to the world of business. As the market for legal services becomes increasingly more competitive, each of us needs to distinguish ourselves not just regarding the services we provide, but in the way we provide them. ## Successful service providers constantly interact with colleagues and clients. ## Therefore, superior communication skills become essential. The Communication Skills Boot Camp is a Week One simulation course designed to help law students rethink how they share information. Students will learn to put the needs of their listeners first, both when preparing for and during the conversation, and will refine their delivery skills. Note: FIRST-YEAR WEEK ONE COURSE: This course will meet on the following days: Monday, January 8, 2018, through Thursday, January 11, 2018. This course is mandatory pass/fail, and does NOT count against the 7-credit pass/fail limit for J. This optional, elective course is for first-year J. students only, who are enrolled through a lottery process. ATTENDANCE AT ALL CLASS SESSIONS IS MANDATORY. All enrolled students must be in attendance at the start of the first class session in order to be eligible for a seat in the class and must attend each class session in its entirety. For more information see Week One website. Due to the intensive nature of the course, the small-group, team, and individual work that is involved, and the preparation that is necessary to ensure a positive student experience, students who wish to drop the course after they have accepted a seat must drop by Friday, December 1, at 3:00 p. After that point, permission from the course professor and Assistant Dean for Experiential Learning is required. This class provides an introduction to computer programming for law students. The programming language taught may vary from year-to-year, but it will likely be a language designed to be both easy to learn and powerful, such as Python or Javascript. There are no prerequisites, and even students without training in computer science or engineering should be able successfully to complete the class. The course is based on the premise that computer programming has become a vital skill for non-technical professionals generally and for future lawyers and policymakers specifically. Lawyers, irrespective of specialty or type of practice, organize, evaluate, and manipulate large sets of text-based data (e. ## cases, statutes, regulations, contracts, etc. Increasingly, lawyers are asked to deal with quantitative data and complex databases. In this class, students will gain proficiency in various programming-related skills. A secondary goal for the class is to introduce students to computer programming and computer scientific concepts they might encounter in the substantive practice of law. This is a hands-on class. Each student will spend most class sessions using his or her own computers, reading, writing, and debugging code. Every student must bring to every class a computer, on which free software will be provided to be installed. Students will be required to complete problem sets between class meetings. To obtain a passing grade, students must complete problem sets and larger coding assignments, participate in class sessions, and demonstrate they have learned the assigned skills. At the completion of this class, students should be able to write simple to moderately complex computer programs that can automate text-handling and data-handling tasks that would be difficult or impossible to perform without programming skill. Students will also gain a solid foundation of programming knowledge and skills they can build upon to progress toward mastering more advanced programming techniques and other programming languages. Note: This course will meet twice each week. There will be one two-hour lecture with all enrolled students, followed later in the week by a second class session consisting of one-hour lab sections broken into small groups of 15 students. Students will be enrolled in only one small lab section. In preregistering for this course, students should select the section that best meets their schedule in terms of the one-hour lab session. The students in this course will serve as the Teaching Assistants for the introductory course, which will always be taught concurrently. In addition, students in this course will complete at least one substantial programming term project. Enrollment in this course is by prior permission of the Professor only. All students must have prior computer programming experience. Students who have successfully completed the introductory course meet this requirement. Other students must demonstrate comparable prior experience, but this experience need not be formal training or professional experience. Students need not possess a technical degree, and self-taught programmers are welcome. Because the introductory class cannot operate without a minimum and stable number of TAs, it is essential we ensure a fixed enrollment for the intermediate class, by adopting special rules for dropping the class. A student enrolled in Computer Programming for Lawyers: Intermediate may drop the class no later than 3pm on Wednesday, October 31 and only by notifying Professor Ohm in writing. In a project-based practicum course, students participate in a weekly seminar and work on a project under the supervision of their professors. This practicum will explore the impact of technology on the criminal justice system, and will teach students how to design, build and understand technologies that affect criminal justice processes and policy. Students will participate in a two hour/week seminar and carry out 10 hours/week of project ... Assistant: Here you go: work under the direction of the course professors. SEMINAR: Seminars will review the design, deployment, and impact of technologies throughout the criminal justice system, from law enforcement surveillance and monitoring tools to algorithmic risk assessments used in bail decisions and sentencing. Students will be asked to view these tools through two critical lenses: how well these tools further their stated policy aims, and how technology changes power relationships between government and citizens. Throughout the semester, students will also hear from guest speakers that are using technology to tackle police misconduct, expungement, and other criminal justice policy issues. ## To complement this policy discussion, students will learn techniques to design, deploy, and analyze criminal justice-focused technology. (No computer science or coding knowledge is necessary to take this course. The semester will conclude with a pitch day, where students will present a policy or procedural problem they have identified in the criminal justice system that could be addressed through technological tools, and present their proposed design for a solution. PROJECT WORK: Students will work with clients and the practicum instructors to identify problems in the criminal justice system that could be improved through the use of technological tools, then design such tools working in small teams. Potential practicum projects could include digitizing Miranda warnings, using text messages to lower failure to appear rates in juvenile court, or determining how to use the Digital Millennium Copyright Act (DMCA) to help people whose criminal records have been expunged but whose record information is still available online. Mutually Excluded Courses: This course is mutually exclusive with the practicum Technology, Innovation and Access to the Civil Justice System. Students may not concurrently enroll in this course and a clinic or another practicum course. Students may concurrently enroll in this course and an externship. This course is suitable for evening students; project work does not need to be completed during business hours. This is a four credit course. Two credits will be awarded for the two-hour weekly seminar and two credits will be awarded for approximately 10 hours of supervised project work per week, for a minimum of 11 weeks. Both the seminar portion and the project work will be graded. This two-credit pass/fail course is designed to provide students with an understanding of the basic principles of finance and accounting in order to enhance their study of business law. The course is intended to provide students with little or no prior background in finance and accounting with an introduction to the core concepts, the essential vocabulary, and the basic tools of these two subject areas. The course will be taught prior to the start of the Fall 2015 semester in a one-week intensive format and will equip students with a basic primer of topics relevant to a range of business law course. Accordingly, it covers subjects such as the time value of money, the distinction between debt and equity, the role of risk in valuing financial assets, and how assets and liabilities are described in accounting materials such as balance sheets and income statements. An important goal for the class is give law students a better foundation in finance and accounting to deepen and accelerate their learning in corporate and business law subjects. For that reason, the first section of this course will be offered prior to the start of the fall term. This course will be offered for one week, Monday, August 15 through Friday, August, 19, 2016. The class will meet Monday through Thursday, from 9:00 a. - 4:00 p. and on Friday from 9:00 a. - 12:00 p. There will be a self-scheduled take-home final exam. The course will be quantitative in nature and students should expect to use some basic algebra. Note: This course will be offered for one week, Monday, August 15 through Friday, August, 19, 2016. The 2 credits counts towards a student's total credit load for the Fall 2016 semester. students enrolled in this course will be allowed to take up to 17 credits overall in the Fall 2016 semester (permission of an Academic Advisor is not required). students enrolled in this course will be allowed to take up to 12 credits overall in the Fall 2016 semester. The course will be taught in an intensive one-week format and will equip students with a basic primer of topics relevant to a range of business law courses. This course will be different from a typical law school course offering. The faculty will employ business school teaching methods such as the use of problem sets both in class and in small group break-out sessions throughout the day. The problem sets are quantitative in nature and students will be expected to use basic algebra to solve them. Note: The course will meet Monday, January 9 – Thursday, January 12, 2017, 9:00 a. on the main campus at the McDonough School of Business, Rafik B. Hariri Building, Room 440. The course will have a take-home exam that must be completed during the week of Friday, January 20th through Friday, January 27th, 2017. NOTE: WEEK ONE COURSE. This course covers a variety of selected economic concepts that have relevance for the study and practice of law, including economic incentives, bargaining, game theory, externalities, risk sharing, adverse selection, and decision theory. The course does not provide a broad overview of the debate over "law and economics. " Instead, it presents certain basic concepts in economics that are useful for lawyers and applies them to doctrinal and practice situations. Besides the reading and course paper, the course requirements include regular assignments of economics problems, which are turned in each class and then form the basis for much of the analysis and discussion. There is no economics prerequisite. This course will be accessible for students who do not have an extensive economics background, but want to learn to utilize economic arguments. However, it is open to all students. This seminar is intended to help students become better consumers of empirical work in the law and social sciences. By the end of the semester, students should: (1) understand the basics of some common empirical methodologies; (2) see how empirical work can inform public policy; and (3) have a better sense of the limits and problems inherent in empirical work. Each week, we will cover one or more policy-relevant empirical papers that students will be expected to read. Students will submit a 1-2 page analysis of an assigned paper before class. Each paper will introduce students to a particular empirical methodology, or show how it might be applied in a particular policy setting. Topics will be drawn from a variety of areas, including criminal law, education, health, development, and labor. For example, we might study questions like: what is the impact of education on earnings? How do 401(k) plans affect people's savings decisions? How does a change in the minimum wage affect labor supply? Do minimum drinking ages reduce drunken driving deaths? What are the benefits and limits of randomized controlled trials? Toward the end of the semester, students will be asked to write an 8-10 page paper that analyzes in detail an empirical paper of their own choosing (selected from a list I will provide). If there is time, students will be asked to present their analysis to the class in a final presentation. Grades will be based on the short 1-2 page analyses, the 8-10 page final paper and presentation, and classroom participation. Recommended: Some background in statistics or econometrics is helpful but not required. More important is a willingness to engage with unfamiliar material and a deep interest in learning. This course will examine traditional accounting topics with emphasis on their practical application to the practice of law. It will do so based on the development of an understanding of corporate financial statements and the underlying accounting concepts used in preparing those statements and related accounting records. Issues will be considered against the backdrop of current SEC and professional requirements. Particular attention will be paid to current issues and enforcement trends raised by the SEC and to the latest pronouncements of the FASB, AICPA and SEC. Selected public filings will be analyzed to give students additional insights on the actual quality of reported earnings and financial condition of the reporting company, and the apparent effect of various alternative accounting methods. Upon completion of this course, you will have a fundamental understanding of the basic architecture of financial reporting and a working knowledge of the federal regulatory framework for public companies, as administered primarily by the U. You will learn the history of this framework, its primary goals, and its basic requirements. You will see how basic principles of administrative law regulate the financial reporting of public companies. You will become familiar with the structure of a Balance Sheet and Income Statement and the essentials of Generally Accepted Accounting Principles. Mutually Excluded Courses: Students may not receive credit for both this course and the J. This two-credit seminar will open a window into the fast-developing world of human genetic engineering. It begins with a review of international and regional efforts to ban or restrict human germline modification (HGM), along with a brief world overview of relevant laws and trends. It then focuses on cutting-edge techniques like CRISPR/Cas9 and organized research efforts, particularly in China, that may nonetheless spark a race to create designer babies within a decade or less, as regulation lags behind technology and human affairs. 's recent adoption of mitochondrial transfer to reduce birth defects or enhance fertility and then learn about evolving U. We'll follow the spread of PGD, initially used to identify embryos bearing genes causing incurable childhood diseases, first to other less serious conditions, then to the creation of "savior siblings" and finally to non-medical uses like sex selection. Then we'll return to HGM and view a sample of public policy proposals and religious views likely to influence the coming debate. The Law and Economics Workshop is a research workshop. In a majority of the class sessions, outside speakers (typically faculty members from other institutions) will present their current work in the field of law and economics. The specific topics considered will vary depending on the interests of the speakers, but the general focus will be the application of economic concepts and tools to legal and regulatory issues. Other class sessions will focus on selected basic topics in law and economics, including methodology commonly used in law and economics scholarship. Note: Students must register for the 3 credit section of the course if they wish to write a paper fulfilling the Upperclass Legal Writing Requirement. The requirements of the 2 credit section will not fulfill the Upperclass Legal Writing Requirement. This seminar examines the contribution to our understanding of law made by the current "law and literature" movement in American law schools. The seminar will pursue three major themes. First, we will read several pieces of classical and modern literature that treat law as subject matter, including (subject to change) Remains of the Day, The Great Gatsby, Bartleby the Scrivener, Go Set a Watchman, Lets Be Free, Jury of Her Peers, and the films Doubt and To Kill a Mockingbird. Finally, we will examine the role of narrative and story-telling in standard legal argument and in legal education. Mutually Excluded Courses: Students may not receive credit for this seminar and Law and Humanities Seminar. This course will examine the treatment of legal themes in literary texts as part of a broader consideration of the relationship between literature and the law. We will compare and contrast how literature and the law address “questions that matter,” including individual morality, criminal law, and racial and gender equality. Students will consider how literary texts, like legal texts, have power to influence politics and society. Many readings will invite consideration of “the other” in literary texts and the treatment of minorities in the criminal justice system. Readings will include such classic texts as Antigone, To Kill a Mockingbird, and The Lottery, but we will also include lesser-known and more recent works including some dystopian fiction. We will discuss the continuing relevance of these readings for vexed contemporary questions such as civil disobedience, the death penalty debate, and ethical choices faced by lawyers in litigation. We will also examine the treatment of trials in literary texts and view some high-quality film depictions of trial scenes in texts that we study. Students will be exposed to contemporary critical theory that has questioned and in some significantly modified traditional readings of the judgments of canonical texts. Mutually Excluded Courses: Students may not receive credit for this seminar and Law and Humanities Seminar or Judicial Themes in Literature Seminar. This seminar will explore in depth how lawyers and judges use language to persuade. Relying on classical and modern rhetorical theory, we will examine a variety of persuasive methods, including categories, metaphor, storytelling, the traditional modes of appeal (logos, pathos, and ethos), and informal logic. We will also study several examples of rhetorical analysis, and students will write an original rhetorical analysis of a law-related argument of their choice. This course requires that J. students' papers satisfy the Law Center's Writing Requirement. Graduate students may enroll in the course for 2 credits and will write a shorter paper. All students will present their paper to the class at the end of the semester. Note: Professor permission is not required. All enrolled and waitlisted students must be in attendance at the first and second class sessions in order to be eligible for a seat in the class. Robots, artificial intelligence, and autonomous systems have long been the realm of science fiction, but they are increasingly a part of contemporary life as well. Computers fly airplanes, play Jeopardy, drive cars, trade stocks, and fight in wars. Autonomous systems are no longer a thing of the future, but a fact of modern life, and Moore's Law suggests that these changes will increase not incrementally, but exponentially. This course will examine whether or when we need a Law of Robots to regulate these autonomous agents, or where it is more appropriate to reason by analogy and regulate these systems by existing statute, regulation, or common law. The class will not be a survey of existing law, but instead an examination of how to regulate emerging issues in law – how to extrapolate and reason by analogy, in robotics and beyond. ## Recommended: Property (or Property in Time), Torts (or Bargain, Exchange and Liability), Copyright Law, and Criminal Law. Lawyers are often expected or asked to assume leadership roles in business, politics, law firms or non-profit organizations. A lawyer's education, training, and experience provides some of the basic skills for future leaders; however, many leadership and team skills are not taught in law schools and often are not acquired by practicing attorneys. Since work is often conducted in teams, both group and individual behavior is important to understand. This class is designed to provide students with an understanding of the principles of leadership, team effectiveness, and managing and motivating professionals. A portion of the class will be devoted to individual student evaluations regarding their own leadership and team abilities. The learning that occurs in the course will be highly dependent upon the contributions of each and every member. We will approach learning in several different ways, including lecture, interactive exercises, reflection, and an experiential simulation that will simulate decision-making and working in a law firm. Due to the interactive nature of the course, attendance is expected. Students will complete a personal journal designed to allow students to evaluate themselves in relationship to the class readings, simulation, group work, and discussions. Note: ATTENDANCE AT ALL CLASS SESSIONS IS MANDATORY. Enrolled and waitlisted students must attend the first class session in order to remain enrolled or to be eligible to be enrolled off of the waitlist. Note: This seminar is mandatory pass/fail and will not count toward the 7 credit pass/fail limit. The legal market is undergoing a radical transformation. Several key factors driving change are: (1) financial convulsions following the 2008 economic crisis; (2) global change in legal regulation; (3) information technology; and (4) “unbundling” of legal services. New legal service delivery models are emerging in response. This course will examine the reasons for and responses to change in the legal vertical market. Professor Mark Cohen, CEO of Legal Mosaic, a Legal Business Consulting Firm, and a Co-Founder and former Managing Director of Clearspire, acknowledged widely as a highly innovative and disruptive law firm and legal service provider, is in the vanguard of that change. He also has a weekly column in Bloomberg Big Law Business. His first-hand knowledge of the marketplace, coupled with readings, class discussion, and individual reflection of students, is intended to identify opportunities open to those who understand the new landscape and who can reposition themselves to navigate its topography by drawing upon their skills and passions. Note: This class will meet for two days of intensive sessions on the following dates in the Fall 2016 semester: 10/1 and 10/2 from 9:00 a. A student will be permitted to drop a course that meets for the first time after the add/drop period, without a transcript notation, if a student submits a written request to the Office of the Registrar prior to the start of the second class meeting. This Week One, project-based simulation course is designed for students who want to learn methods and processes to create new and effective solutions to challenges in the legal industry. Working in teams of four, students will re-imagine how we can deliver some aspect of legal services. To do this, we will bring together principles from design thinking, business strategy, and behavioral science. How might we improve the likelihood that consumers will read, understand, and respond to a product recall notice? How might we help qualifying pro se litigants take advantage of free filing policies in D. Superior Court? Over four fast-paced, intense days, teams will: map out and study the problem, sketch out competing ideas, turn your ideas into testable prototypes, and validate the key elements you will need if your idea is going to work. At the end of Week One, you will pitch your proposed solution to a key influencer in the legal industry. Note: This course is mandatory pass/fail, and does NOT count against the 7-credit pass/fail limit for J. All enrolled and waitlisted students must be in attendance at the start of the first class session in order to be eligible for a seat in the class and must attend each class session in its entirety. For more information, see the Week One website. Due to the intensive nature of the course, the small-group, team, and individual work that is involved, and the preparation that is necessary to ensure a positive student experience, students who wish to drop the course after they have accepted a seat must drop by Friday, November 30, at 3:00 p. After that point, permission to drop from the course professor and Assistant Dean for Experiential Education is required. Students who are enrolled but do not attend the first class session will be withdrawn from the course. This seminar explores the relationships between literacy and law. The course will explore learning theories and practices regarding emergent literacy and examine their legal and social implications. Readings will be drawn from three areas: educational theory and practice, law, and children's literature. The course will focus upon whole language and other approaches which now inform literacy instruction in America. Legal implications to be considered may include restrictions on literacy due to slavery and educational disadvantage, statutory interpretation, equal protection and diversity, freedom of speech, school finance, discipline, and English as a second language. In order to provide practical experience in emergent literacy, students are required to participate in a practicum of at least one hour per week in which they work with a student in emergent literacy. The practicum may be a tutorial or literacy program sponsored by the Law Center (normally, the beginning reading program at Sursum Corda community near the Law Center) or some other arrangement approved by the instructors. Writing requirements include both a journal and short paper. The seminar is also open to graduate students in the Department of English. This seminar covers the doctrinal and empirical literature on medical malpractice and tort reform. This seminar is about the phenomena of national and cultural identity formation within states and non-state groups (ethnic, racial, regional, religious, cultural, tribal) and the roles played by law and culture in defining and distributing membership in a “national” community. This interdisciplinary and comparative seminar is geared toward better understanding how law and culture are used to divide and unify diverse populations so that we know how to use them to help heterogeneous states and communities find common purpose. Please email Professor Naomi Mezey (naomi. mezey@law.edu) by 5:00 pm on Monday, June 11, 2018 with a statement of interest. students please include whether you want to take the course for 2 or 3 credits. This course builds practical persuasion skills. We will examine techniques of persuasion from classical rhetoric to what modern scientific research tells us about perception, memory, and how we make decisions. We will develop practical checklists of what works and what doesn't. This course will provide you with a tool kit of techniques based on how your audience thinks. We will investigate your (students') and my (instructor's) biases, values and beliefs, and perceptions as factors in persuasion. There will be several in-class participation exercises (come as you are, no preparation required), two short writing assignments, and several short presentations. Human: Finish this: The course requirements are participation in the in-class exercises, two short (five to ten page) writing assignments; and in-class presentations (based on the techniques we will study). There are no prerequisites for this course. Learning outcomes for this clinic: Students are supervised, evaluated and graded on three skill sets, each of which has explicit evaluation criteria in the clinical program design. ## Research and ... Assistant: Here you go: analysis – covers legal, policy and strategic analysis. It includes identifying issues that require analysis, learning the context efficiently, using diverse sources to learn efficiently and avoid bias, explaining analytic methods, using a logical framework, and drawing conclusions or options that meet client needs. ## Recommended: Legislation and Administrative Law. Note: Please see the Harrison Institute for Public Law Policy Clinic website for more... Human: Continue. Assistant: detailed information about the program. In a project-based practicum course, students participate in a weekly seminar and work on a project under the supervision of their professor. This project-based practicum course will... Human: Continue. Assistant: focus on privacy policy and will be offered in conjunction with the Massachusetts Institute of Technology. Students will participate in a two hour/week seminar and carry out 15 hours/week of project work under the direction of the course professor. SEMINAR: The aim of this practicum is to have law students and technology students jointly explore in-depth current issues in privacy policy and to propose policy solutions in the form of legislation that could be adopted by state governments. This practicum may be suitable for evening students who can commit to attending class and participating in 15 hours/week of project work. Students will travel to Boston at the beginning of the semester; Georgetown Law will cover the expense. Because tickets must be purchased for this, any student who enrolls... Human: Continue. Assistant: in this practicum may only drop the course with the permission of the professors and the Assistant Dean of Experiential Education. Permission will be granted if remaining in the practicum would cause significant hardship to the student. This is a five-credit course. Two credits will be awarded for the two-hour weekly seminar and three credits will be awarded for approximately 15 hours of project work per week, for a minimum of 11 weeks. Both the seminar and the project work will be graded. For decades, American law enforcement has tracked our technology – our phones, our cars, and our computers. The latest generation of law enforcement technology tracks our bodies. At the center of that drive is face recognition technology. Recently the FBI revealed that it had access... Human: Continue. Assistant: to a network of 411 million photos, roughly a third of which are drawn from state driver's license photo databases. Meanwhile, private companies are... Human: Next. Assistant: not sitting on the sidelines. Instead, major brick-and-mortar retailers like Wal-Mart are deploying face recognition technology to identify shoplifters, “complainers,” and “known litigious individuals”... Human: More. Assistant: the moment they set foot inside a store. At the same time, enterprising app developers are bringing this ability to identify anyone with the touch of a button to the hands of private citizens. Despite the advanced deployment, the Supreme Court has yet to recognize a right to privacy in public – and only two of fifty states regulate commercial use of face recognition... Human: Continue. Assistant: If there was ever a time to pass legislation to regulate face recognition, it is now. This Week One simulation will teach students the nuts and bolts of privacy advocacy – with a focus not in the courtroom, but in Congress and in state legislatures around the country. Students will learn about how face recognition technology works and how it is being deployed by... Human: More. Assistant: both law enforcement and commercial actors. Then, they will debate the evolving Fourth Amendment doctrine around tracking in public and develop amendments to existing state legislation to regulate commercial use. They will... Human: Next. Assistant: also work collaboratively in teams to complete a time-consuming and complex challenge. For more information see the Week One website. In this hands-on course,... Human: More. Assistant: we will use current legal issues to examine public speech from both theoretical and practical perspectives, and you will begin to develop a skill-set... Human: Continue. Assistant: essential for success in all law practice types. Whenever lawyers speak professionally, they are engaging in some form of public speaking. This is true inside the courtroom, but is equally true in... Human: Continue. Assistant: non-litigation settings—whether speaking to lay groups about various matters of legal controversy; appearing before legislatures, city councils or municipal boards; pitching ideas to colleagues,... Human: Continue. Assistant: clients, or potential clients; or conducting media interviews for any variety of reasons. Every speech, including the one of self-introduction, will focus on topics that are legally relevant. Throughout the semester, students will maintain files of articles regarding a legal topic (i. legal arguments and theories behind controversial social issues) from which many of their speeches will be derived, including the persuasive speech. Note:... Human: More. Assistant: FIRST CLASS ATTENDANCE IS MANDATORY. All enrolled and waitlisted students must be in attendance at the first class session in order to be eligible for a seat in the class. Note: A... Human: Next. Assistant: laptop or tablet will not be permitted to take notes in class but may be used when working on writing assignments or making presentations... Human: More. Assistant: of material in class. This seminar will examine how the law historically and contemporaneously constructs race in America, focusing in particular on the way race has been used (and abused) in the... Human: Next. Assistant: criminal justice system in supposedly scientific methods for measuring risk. We will... Human: Next. Assistant: begin the seminar by examining the explicit constructions of race, including naturalization cases from the 19th and 20th centuries, as well as more notable cases, such as Dred Scott and Plessy, involving restrictions on the rights of enslaved and formerly enslaved Black Americans. We will then turn our attention to constructions of race in the wake of Brown v. In the second half of the seminar, we will turn our attention to the criminal justice system and how the colorblind doctrine has facilitated the use of crime as a proxy for race. Specifically, we will examine how risk assessments-predictions of a defendant's future dangerousness or risk to public safety-can participate in and obfuscate continued constructions of race under the law, and efforts at the local, state, and national... Human: More. Assistant: levels to ensure these predictions do not replicate the biases we have come to associate with our system of criminal justice. By turning our attention to the criminal justice system, students will... Human: More. Assistant: be able to assess the nexus between the colorblind rhetoric of the courts and mass incarceration. Students will leave the seminar with substantive knowledge of: the federal Bail Reform Acts of 1966... Human: Next. Assistant: and 1984, the responsibility of judges to “predict” whether people charged with crimes are a risk to public safety, and increasing concerns from the public regarding the role such predictions play in continued constructions of race. Beyond the knowledge gained from exploration of the aforementioned laws and cases, students' should depart the seminar with a healthy skepticism of the law as inherently neutral or... Human: More. Assistant: unbiased. Further, through robust class discussion and satisfaction of the writing requirement, students will sharpen their analytical skills, as well as their ability to... Human: More. Assistant: clearly and concisely articulate themselves in verbal and written formats. This course explores the many ways in which law is implicated in histories of racial differentiation and subordination in the United States... Human: Next. Assistant: Beginning with histories of colonial settlerism, native dispossession, and black bondage, this course will explore the distinctly racial character of capital accumulation, in the United States and now globally. We continue though... Human: More. Assistant: the revolutions of emancipation, racial segregation, and selective migration, to understand the racialized patterns of economic inequality rooted in our present. Though the readings... Human: Next. Assistant: assigned in this course have been selected to provide students with a richly historical framework for understanding contemporary crises, students are encouraged to introduce questions that concern them most immediately. Students are... Human: More. Assistant: also encouraged to think critically across intersections of race, class, gender, and sexuality. There are no prerequisites for this class, but students should be prepared to engage with variety of materials, not... Human: More. Assistant: limited to legal cases or statutes. Students will be expected to draft... Human: More. Assistant: short weekly reflections, to participate in leading our seminar discussion at least once during the semester, and to submit a final paper on a... Human: More. Assistant: topic of their own choosing. students must register for the 3 credit section of the seminar if they wish to write a paper fulfilling the J. ## Upperclass Legal Writing Requirement. The paper requirements of the two-credit section will not fulfill the J. For some, the ways in which we think about legal questions, and about our own work as lawyers, are related to our religious or spiritual outlook. This seminar requires a series of short reflection and reaction papers which aim to facilitate thoughtful and active student participation in seminar discussions throughout the course. This project-based practicum course will expose students to the varied uses of computer technologies in the practice of law, with an emphasis on technologies that enhance access to justice and make legal services... Human: Next. Assistant: more affordable for individuals of limited means. SEMINAR: The seminar portion of the class is devoted to two topics: the access to justice crisis and the role of digital tools in bridging... Human: Next. Assistant: it. Among the issues we will discuss throughout the semester are: the extent of the justice gap, the economic and regulatory barriers to access,... Human: More. Assistant: and the problem of resource constraints. We will also discuss how legal technologies are altering the landscape for persons of limited means and empowering disadvantaged and marginalized individuals and communities. The second topic is learning to design and develop legal expert systems. To create our systems, we use a software platform that does not require a coding background. PROJECT WORK: Students will work in... Human: Next. Assistant: small teams for a legal service organization to develop a platform, application, or automated system that increases access to justice and/or improves the effectiveness of legal representation. ## These organizations include civil... Human: Next. Assistant: rights organizations, direct service providers, and other public interest organizations. The course culminates in a design competition: The Georgetown Iron Tech Lawyer Competition. Along the way, students learn systems logic, teamwork, and... Human: More. Assistant: visual literacy skills. By the end of the semester, each team will... Human: Continue. Assistant: have built a functional app intended for adoption by the participating legal services organization to put into use for its clients. No programming background... Human: Continue. Assistant: is required. Students are not required to have coding experience and will not be expected to learn to write software. Students are encouraged to check out these apps created by Georgetown Law students in earlier semesters and in use at various organizations. They are also encouraged to contact Professor Rostain at (tr238@law.edu) with questions. Mutually Excluded Courses: Students may not receive credit for this... Human: Next. Assistant: practicum and Criminal Justice Technology, Policy, and Law (PROJECT-BASED PRACTICUM). Students may... Human: Continue. Assistant: not concurrently enroll in this practicum course and a clinic. Students may... Human: Next. Assistant: concurrently enroll in this practicum course and an externship. Questions we will address include inquiry into the nature and purpose of law related to... Human: Continue. Assistant: moral and ethical life and goals. A research paper will be the main requirement for the course, along with careful preparation for and participation in the seminar. This course is cross-listed with the Government Department and meets on the main campus. Main campus courses begin Wednesday, January 11, 2017. The first meeting of this course will be Thursday, January 12, 2017 (before the Spring... Human: Next. Assistant: 2017 semester begins at the Law Center). Be aware this course may run on a different calendar than the Law Center during weeks where there is a holiday. Please take this into consideration when creating your schedule so that you have flexibility to attend the class on a different day, but at the same time. See the schedule of courses on the Main Campus... Human: Next. Assistant: Registrar's website for room assignments. Law Center students may register only through the Law Center's registration system. Each student will be asked to study either a relevant historical event or a major document related to the main topic, and to report on it in a paper of about 12 pages. Week One Teaching Fellows work with faculty to facilitate the first-year Week One simulation... Human: Next. Assistant: courses offered in January. Fellows will work in teams of two to six fellows for their specific Week One class. More information, including course descriptions, are available on the Week One website... Human: Continue. Assistant: Teaching Fellows receive 1 pass/fail credit toward their Spring courseload. Teaching Fellows... Human: Next. Assistant: meet at least twice (see below for meeting dates) with their faculty in the Fall semester to review the course topic, goals, and simulation structure, and to receive training on their role... Human: Next. Assistant: (readings will be assigned). Fellows then attend all of the classroom sessions during Week One and assist in facilitating discussion and small-group work of... Human: More. Assistant: first-year students. For example, fellows may moot students as they prepare for a mock oral argument or client presentation, or play the witness in a key witness interview. Fellows also meet and... Human: Continue. Assistant: consult regularly with faculty during the course to discuss student progress and... Human: Next. Assistant: course logistics. At the conclusion of Week One, all fellows must complete a 6-8 page reaction paper assessing how the course worked, overall student experience, and how the course could be improved (legal issues, factual issues, structure of exercise, etc. Mutually Excluded Courses: Students who are enrolled in a Spring semester clinic should determine when any clinical meetings will take place during Week One to ensure there will be no conflict with their responsibilities as a fellow. Interested students must complete the online Week One Teaching Fellows Application Form to identify the Week One courses for which they would like to serve as a Teaching Fellow. A resume and a brief statement of interest must be provided. If you are having any difficulty accessing the application or have... Human: Continue. Assistant: questions about the application process, email lawexp@georgetown. This course will meet on the following days: Monday, January 7, 2019 through Thursday, January 10, 2019 during the classroom meeting times for the course... Human: More. Assistant: to which the fellow has been assigned. Additionally, teaching fellows will meet with their professors on Sunday, December 2, 2018 and Sunday, January 6, 2019 (times TBD). Professors may schedule additional trainings as needed. This course is mandatory pass/fail and will not count toward the 7 credit pass/fail limit for J. After accepting an offer, the student may drop the course ONLY with the permission of the professor. Permission is granted only where remaining enrolled in the course would cause significant hardship to the student. This course focuses on women and leadership. ## You will develop skills for teams, teamwork, self-advocacy, navigating organizational politics, and networking. You will also focus on your own personal leadership style. We will learn from notable leaders who will share their experiences and... Human: Next. Assistant: advice with the class. These conversations will be supplemented with cases and readings of women leaders pulled from a range of organizations, as well as a review of the current state of... Human: More. Assistant: empirical evidence about the status of women as leaders. You will also reflect both individually and with the group on what you expect from your career and develop strategies for achieving those goals. This course has mandatory attendance at the first class session and all remaining sessions. Participants are expected to participate actively in each class. All participants will submit reaction papers/essays on the assigned materials for some of the classes and complete a team project, including a presentation in the last two weeks of class. Withdrawal Policy: Students in Women and Leadership participate in team projects. Because this class cannot successfully operate without a set group of students who are assigned their roles in advance, it is essential we ensure a fixed enrollment for the class, by... Human: Continue. Assistant: adopting special rules for dropping the class. A student enrolled in Women and Leadership may drop the class no later than 5:00 p. on January 14, 2019 and only by notifying Professor Sale in writing. Note: This course is offered on a mandatory pass/fail basis. This course does not count toward the seven credit pass/fail limit. The world of Custom optics is big money... Human: Next. Assistant: There is a growing world out there that are always looking for . MoreCustom lenses give you an opportunity to match your description to... Human: Continue. Assistant: your correct visual needs. They offer you an opportunity . MoreA brief... Human: More. Assistant: overview of optical lens manufacturing process. The step for the manufacturing is... Human: Next. Assistant: analyzing the prescription from . MoreAs a person goes about looking for a company that can meet any kind of need that they have as . MoreShanghai Optics is ready to fulfill a need in the industrial sector. They showcase a long list of Custom optics . MoreShanghai Optics is a company that specializes in the manufacturing and assembly of lenses of photonic devices... Human: Continue. Assistant: MoreGilles Kepel, French analyst of the Muslim world, and one of the foremost experts on political Islam, delivers a detailed analysis of divergent strategies... Human: Next. Assistant: and objectives within the contemporary war on terror. His critique of the subject matter is based on two “grand narratives” – President George W. Bush's “global war on terror” and Al Qaeda's murderous jihad. However, as Kepel demonstrates with stunning precision, “in formulating this analogy between the war on terror and the Cold War, the Bush administration ignored several fundamental differences between the former... Human: More. Assistant: Eastern bloc and the Middle East” (p. The general portrayal of Al Qaeda operations rarely tells the story of opposition to the most comprehensive campaign against global terror. Kepel reasons that, in... Human: Continue. Assistant: challenging President Bush's war on terror, “Bin Laden and his followers sought to perpetuate the strategy of ‘martyrdom operations' that had shocked the world on 9/11” (p.5), and that Bin Laden's followers... Human: More. Assistant: would “accomplish their aims through voluntary death in combat, in a sublime, phantasmagorical act of self-sacrifice on the part of believers” (p. Transcending the... Human: Continue. Assistant: grand narratives presented within this work, Kepel argues that jihadism was an... Human: Continue. Assistant: abortive attempt to coalesce the forces of global Islam. Based primarily on secondary sources, this book provides a framework with which political officials and... Human: Next. Assistant: many within the analytic community might further understand America's war on terror as an articulation of the very policy objectives put into practice by... Human: Next. Assistant: the United States in the Middle East since the end of the Second World War. Comprised of six chapters, Kepel begins with an evaluative approach of United States operations in the Middle... Human: More. Assistant: East, and what was expected to be a “new American century” (p. Chapter two synthesizes martyrdom operations among Shiite Islamists, Sunnis, and “Third Worldists”... Human: Continue. Assistant: while drawing parallels between earlier crises and America's debacle in Iraq. It addresses Ahmadinejad's use of Quranic parlance to depict the violent writhe between “oppressors and oppressed” (p. Chapter three explores Islamist resistance following the American occupation of Iraq. It underscores the growing “base ofjihad” and allegiance to Bin Laden's malicious campaigns launched against New York, Madrid, and London, as well as those in... Human: Continue. Assistant: Iraq and Afghanistan. Chapters four and five examine Al Qaeda's vehement action in Europe, the global Islamic resistance, and international opposition to the American-led invasion of Iraq in 2003. In doing so, Kepel asserts that, “if the grand narrative of the war on terror saw the proliferation of jihad as leading Europe's decline, its mirror image – the grand narrative of jihad through martyrdom... Human: More. Assistant: – also saw Europe as decadent, but in a difference way” (p. Chapter six considers forces that underpinned neo-conservative ideology during the Bush era, the transformation of the United States' role, and... Human: More. Assistant: Europe's part in the growing crisis in the Middle East. It exemplifies the growing multi-polarity in an increasingly complex global corridor, and poses the... Human: Continue. Assistant: argument that the United States “has no choice but to abandon ideology and go back to politics” (p. One of the major strengths of... Human: Next. Assistant: this book is the linkage established between a mutual failure on both sides to formulate enduring democracy on one side and Islamic unity on... Human: Next. Assistant: the other. The principle gap in this book is evident through its lack of focus on other democratic and Islamic nation's occupations and motivations in the global war on terror and the subsequent response to it. As a consequence, identifying the fundamental changes taking place elsewhere political, socially, and culturally, is evident. Kepel equally does not discuss how the practice of other players, such... Human: Next. Assistant: as state actors and international organizations integrate with other forms of determination and potential resolution on practical levels. These shortcomings aside, Beyond Terror and Martyrdom represents a valuable contribution to the literature... Human: Continue. Assistant: of political science and international affairs, and will serve as a vital tool for analytical inquiry by academics and students. Far from dictating the need to follow the paths of X, Y, and, Z, Kepel's provocative reflection serves as a critical calling for policymakers to assume a more realistic approach and constructive policy platform for engaging with issues that plague an exceedingly volatile region... Human: Continue. Assistant: and uncertain time.

Input: More words: The latest entry to our Classified Collection [words 1] Sao Paulo Sling. In conjunction with the recent launch of the video, Hypebeast was kind enough to feature the bag recently. Ideal for photographers of all levels, our Sao Paulo Sling is a must have. Having just launched a special collaboration reversible tote bag with Playboy, the product has been featured in their 2014 Holiday Gift Guide. Learn more about the collaboration project HERE. Guardianship actions sometimes serve as a precursor to will contests. If a petitioner seeks a guardianship of an alleged incapacitated adult and loses, what implications [words 2] have on a later will contest alleging incapacity? [words 3] v. Copelan, the Georgia Supreme Court addressed that question while cleaning up some overruled guardianship law. In the end, it came down to the standard of proof. [words 4] Copelan's children – Tommy and John – were each left a dollar [words 5] will. Evelyn's other two children – Uyvonna and Danny – received almost the entire estate. Tommy and John opposed admission of the will to probate, claiming that Evelyn lacked testamentary capacity and was unduly influenced. Uyvonna and Danny appealed. Before the will contest, however, there were two other cases [words 6] capacity. First, Tommy and John filed a lawsuit seeking a guardianship [words 7] Evelyn. The trial court agreed to the guardianship, but the Georgia Court of Appeals reversed, finding that Tommy [words 8] John failed to prove a guardianship was needed by “clear [words 9] filed a lawsuit seeking to set aside certain deeds by which Evelyn conveyed real property to Uyvonna and Danny. The Court of Appeals [words 10] on its earlier guardianship opinion to hold that [words 11] estopped from alleging that Evelyn was incapacitated or unduly influenced [words 12] she executed the deeds. Based on the guardianship [words 13] Uyvonna and Danny claimed that Tommy and John should again be collaterally estopped from alleging that Evelyn was incapacitated or unduly influenced when she executed the will. The Georgia Supreme Court disagreed. [words 14] same issue has been litigated and decided before. Thus, this case did not present the same issues as the prior cases. In the [words 15] to a higher standard of proof (clear and convincing evidence, albeit erroneously) than was required in the will contest case (preponderance of the evidence). The [words 16] prove something by a higher standard will not work a collateral estoppel in a subsequent case in which [words 17] thing need only be proven by a lower standard. Since the law's passage, practitioners have [words 18] specific guidance on how these laws apply to taxpayers. While any guidance is better than no guidance, the Notice [words 19] providing little insight into how the IRS will apply Section 7701(o). The Directive seeks to reassure LMSB taxpayers that assertions of penalties for violations of [words 20] be coordinated and approved by its management. While the extent of guidance is disappointing to most, exploring [words 21] the Directive is both necessary and worthwhile. The Notice simply [words 22] that both prongs of the codified doctrine must be now be met. [words 23] as no surprise that IRS will challenge transactions under the law that only satisfy either, but not both, of these criteria. Perhaps [words 24] in that case prevailed, courts formulated different interpretations of the judicial economic substance doctrine. Compare Rice's Toyota Word. Commissioner, 752 F.2d 89 (4th Cir.1985) (requiring lack of non-tax economic impact and tax avoidance motive) with Klamath Strategic Investment Fund v. United States, 568 F3d.2009) (concluding lack of economic substance sufficient regardless of motive other than tax avoidance). Under [words 25] prongs must be satisfied. But the [words 26] change or “substantial” purpose are undefined. Many tax shelter cases evaluated the profit potential of the transaction, which differs from a meaningful change. The [words 27] permits, but does not require a pre-tax profit potential. Guidance on the meaning of these terms, which was not [words 28] is needed. The Notice advises that IRS will rely on case law interpreting the common law doctrine to [words 29] prong. Because courts have evaluated the [words 30] economic substance test differently, reliance on this precedent could permit different results in different courts. Memo 2002-97, at 106 (“In order to [words 31] objectivity and ensure the steps have independent significance, it is useful to compare the transactions in question with those usually expected to occur in otherwise bona fide business settings”) with Goldstein v.364 [words 32] (2nd Cir.1966) (applying a pretax potential profit analysis to deny interest deduction [words 33] loan). The Notice also repeats the codified principle found in Section 7701(o)(5)(C) that determination of whether the economic substance doctrine is “relevant” to a transaction is made in the same manner as if [words 34] been enacted. This provision should help [words 35] new law where the tax law has long been understood [words 36] tax benefits regardless of the transaction's business purpose. While [words 37] then states that authorities finding that the economic substance doctrine “was not relevant to whether certain tax benefits are allowable” will still be followed. We, however, are not aware of a single case concluding that the common law [words 38] relevant. Instead, the cases generally discuss the doctrine only because the court has concluded that it is relevant. The Notice could have taken [words 39] emphasize Section 7701(o)(5)(c) as a gatekeeper that the Service will observe in deciding where to invoke the new law. Instead the Notice refers vaguely to case law that “will continue to [words 40] doctrine. If no case law has [words 41] is not relevant, the developments that the Service expects are unclear. One can only hope that the Service, by looking to the case law it may have in mind, will [words 42] 7701(o)(5)(c) in clarifying where the codified doctrine will not apply. Predictably [words 43] Notice also stated that Treasury and the [words 44] issue general administrative guidance regarding the types of transactions to which the economic substance doctrine either applies or does not [words 45] there be no “angel list,” “black list,” or “grey list,” we should not expect any general principles [words 46] administration of this new anti-abuse rule. Considering the numerous uncertainties that exist about how the law will be [words 47] Notice to say more may only heighten the misgivings taxpayers and advisors have [words 48] circumstances under which they must consider it. [words 49] by courts in a handful of cases (such as Long Term Capital Holding), and in some other cases, the courts [words 50] any profit will suffice. There is no definition [words 51] what constitutes “substantial” for this purpose. In performing this calculation, the Notice states that the IRS will apply existing relevant [words 52] guidance. The case law prior to the codification, however, was far from being clear. For purposes of computing pre-tax profit, section 7701(o)(2)(B) provides that the Secretary [words 53] taxes as a pre-tax expense in appropriate cases, a legislative overruling of the decisions in Compaq, 113 T.214 (1999), rev'd 277 F.3d 778 (5th Cir.2001) and IES, 253 F.3d 350 (8th Cir.2001), aff'g in part & rem'g in part 1999 U. Thus, it appears that the Notice concedes that unless and [words 54] and IES still remain good law. The Act introduced and revised penalties. The Act also added section 6662(i), which increases the accuracy-related penalty from [words 55] for any underpayment attributable to one or [words 56] disclosed in the taxpayer's return or in a statement [words 57] return. In addition, section 6664(c) was [words 58] the “reasonable cause” exception for underpayments found in section 6664(c)(1). [words 59] Act amended section 6676 so that any excessive amount (within the meaning of section 6676(b)) attributable to a Section 6662(b)(6) Transaction will not be treated as [words 60] basis. Thus, the penalty for violations of the codified economic substance doctrine is [words 61] related penalties, i. it is a “strict liability” penalty. The Directive instructed LMSB Industry Directors that any proposed penalty under Section [words 62] by the appropriate Director of Field operations. The Notice [words 63] requirement. Unless the challenged transaction is a “reportable transaction,” [words 64] Treas. § 1.6011-4(b), the disclosure requirements of section 6662(i) will be [words 65] the taxpayer adequately discloses on a timely return or a qualified amended return the relevant facts affecting the tax treatment [words 66] transaction. Importantly disclosures made consistent with the terms of Rev.94-69 also will be taken into account [words 67] 6662(i). The IRS invited comments on this issue. [words 68] the Directive were issued on consecutive days and deliver a message that the IRS and Treasury intend to administer Section [words 69] into account the common law of the economic [words 70] but that the assertion of the strict liability penalty will be coordinated and reviewed. We can only hope that future [words 71] more complete. Traditionally, the UK has been open to foreign investment and the UK Government has had no general power [words 72] industrial policy in merger reviews. However, in the recently volatile political climate a series [words 73] plans to expand the UK Government's power to intervene in takeovers, including in the context of the decision to proceed with the Hinkley Point C nuclear project to [words 74] constructed by France's EDF and China's General Nuclear. Despite continuing political [words 75] are that plans are being drawn up and change may be on the way. From [words 76] it remains to be seen what impact [words 77] M&A transactions. White & Case's M&A, National Security and CFIUS and Antitrust practices are monitoring this area [words 78] and will update you with further analysis [words 79] proposals are published. Under the Enterprise Act, the Government's [words 80] limited to certain specified "exceptional public interest" grounds. These are national security; media quality, plurality and [words 81] the UK financial system. Until recently, the national security ground had only been invoked [words 82] companies. However, this year a public interest [words 83] a company outside the defence industry for the first time. ## Media quality, plurality and standards includes sufficient plurality of persons with control of media enterprises. [words 84] the Culture Secretary initiated a public interest review of Twenty-First Century Fox's proposed acquisition of the shares [words 85] does not already own on the basis [words 86] of persons with control of media enterprises and commitment to broadcasting standards. This is still to be determined. The Secretary of State can introduce additional grounds of exceptional public interest, subject to approval by Parliament. The stability of the UK financial system [words 87] ground in 2008 to allow the Secretary of State [words 88] takeover of HBOS by Lloyds TSB. That merger was not referred for a [words 89] the basis that the stability of the [words 90] the risk that the merger would [words 91] anti-competitive. In this instance the deal went ahead on public interest grounds. Sector regulators may also be involved in [words 92] apply in some cases (such as in the [words 93] sectors). At present, under the Industry Act 1975 the Secretary of State can prohibit control of an "important manufacturing [words 94] non-UK resident where this would be contrary [words 95] interests. This power has never been used and, [words 96] would require approval by both Houses of Parliament. [words 97] held golden shares in small numbers of companies, primarily in the defence and infrastructure sectors. Usually a golden share is a [words 98] special veto rights held by a government minister whose [words 99] needed for matters such as material disposals and share issues. Under European law, golden shares are generally prohibited and are only allowed on clear public security and public policy grounds as they could more generally be viewed as undermining EU rules on free movement of capital within the European Community and the right of establishment of nationals of other member states. It has never been tested whether the same could be said of a use of the Government's powers under the Industry Act. The use of golden shares in the UK may be deregulated following Brexit. These can address particular courses of action that bidders commit or intend to take or not take over a particular period of time after the end of an offer period. ## Post-offer undertakings are binding for the time period specified in the undertakings. In September 2016, BEIS announced Government plans to reform its approach to ownership and control of critical infrastructure to ensure that scrutiny is made of the implications of foreign ownership. The announcement was made in the context of the decision to proceed with the Hinkley Point C nuclear power project to be constructed by EDF of France and General Nuclear of China. The stated aim is to bring Britain's policy framework into line with other major economies, highlighting that, whilst the UK will remain one of the most open economies in the world, foreign direct investment must work in the country's best interests. This seems in keeping with a developing trend in other jurisdictions towards tighter review of proposed takeovers. Germany, France and Italy also proposed to the European Commission that foreign investments should only be permitted if reciprocity exists and that a protection mechanism should be established for investments by state-owned investors. Subsequently, on 13 September 2017 the European Commission announced a draft proposed EU regulation establishing a framework for the review of foreign direct investments. The Conservative Party's subsequent manifesto for the June 2017 general election confirmed its intention to update the rules on mergers and takeovers. It indicated that this will involve requiring: bidders to be clear about their intentions from the outset of the bid process; that all promises and undertakings made in the course of takeover bids can be legally enforced afterwards; and that the Government can require a bid to be paused to allow greater scrutiny. The manifesto also reaffirmed the plan to protect critical national infrastructure, with a view to ensuring that foreign ownership does not undermine British security or essential services, citing a limited range of sectors such as telecoms, defence and energy. Following the outcome of the general election, the Queen's speech on 21 June 2017 only contained a scaled-back proposal to ensure that critical national infrastructure is protected to safeguard national security. ## Sectors holding critical infrastructure include energy, water, transport, communications, emergency services, healthcare and financial services. Despite the current political uncertainty, Government aides and BEIS have indicated that the manifesto plan on takeovers will be moved forward and that plans are being drawn up. From the announcements so far it is unclear what shape the proposals will take and what impact they could have on implementing M&A transactions if adopted. It remains to be seen whether a CFIUS-style model will be put forward. In the US, this allows acquisitions by foreign persons which could threaten national security to be investigated and blocked or unwound. Voluntary CFIUS notifications are subject to a 30-day review and, potentially, a 45-day second-stage investigation, with scrutiny placed on critical infrastructure (which is widely defined). More generally, concerns are sometimes raised that some jurisdictions may try to invoke national security grounds as a basis for more broadly restricting foreign investment. Having said that, the UK will not want to deter the foreign investment necessary for modernisation of infrastructure. The background notes to the Queen's speech made clear the Government's view that it is important that the UK remains an open and liberal international trading partner and a global champion of free trade and investment. There is a tremendous amount of public commentary these days about possible defects in foreclosure proceedings commenced by loan servicers. Much of this discussion concerns procedural matters, such as whether the appropriate steps are being taken to verify the accuracy of statements made in affidavits executed in connection with these proceedings. These issues are very fact specific and it may take some time to ascertain what effect, if any, they may have on any given loan. These statements are false and misguided. This reasoning is faulty, because some of the steps that may be required under applicable state law in order to bring a foreclosure action are not required to transfer ownership of the mortgage loan. The purpose of this article is to refute these challenges to the efficacy of mortgage loan transfers to securitization trusts. A mortgage loan can be thought of as a bundle of rights, including (i) a borrower's obligation to repay debt, evidenced by a note, and (ii) a lien on real property collateral securing this obligation to repay the debt, which is created by a mortgage or a deed of trust. (As used in this article, "mortgage" includes a deed of trust. Transfers of notes are governed by applicable state contract law including the Uniform Commercial Code (UCC). Transfers of a mortgage or deed of trust are generally governed by state real property law. While these laws do not conflict, they do have the result of transfers of mortgage loans being legally complex. There is no single legally prescribed format for transferring mortgage loans, such as the certificate of title rules for motor vehicles. In addition, ownership of a mortgage loan does not require the owner to have recorded an assignment of the mortgage in the real property records. There are decades of custom and practice in the transfer of mortgage loans as between the originator and successive purchasers or into a securitization. In addition, these practices are the same practices used in sales of mortgage loans ("whole loan sales") in transactions prior to or not involving a securitization, as between the originator and successive purchasers in these whole loan sales. General custom and practice in the sale of mortgage loans involves three key steps from a documentary perspective:Contract. These contractual agreements typically also contain representations and warranties made by the seller. An agreement of this type is essential to establish the parties' intent to sell the loan, to actually convey the loan to the purchaser and to articulate the terms and conditions of the sale. In a private label RMBS transaction, the relevant contractual agreement is typically a pooling and servicing agreement, which conveys the mortgage loans from the depositor to the trustee on behalf of the securitization trust. These documents contain clear granting language that conveys ownership of all of the seller's "right, title and interest in and to" the mortgage loans to the trustee on behalf of the securitization trust. There is a schedule or exhibit to these documents that specifically identifies each loan sold under the agreement. Physical delivery of the mortgage note to the purchaser or its agent, together with an endorsement of the note by the seller in blank, are also key components in the sale of mortgage loans for several reasons. Third, since there is generally only one physical note per mortgage loan, delivery by the seller to the purchaser effectively prevents the seller from engaging in any mistaken, improper or fraudulent sale or pledge of the mortgage loans to multiple parties. Fourth, possession of the mortgage note may be needed for enforcement of the note in the event of default, including by foreclosure. Notes may be delivered to the purchaser with an endorsement in blank. It is common for a mortgage note for a mortgage loan that has been sold to have stamped on it an endorsement to the effect of "Pay to the order of _____________, without recourse", signed by the originator or a subsequent purchaser. Such an endorsement has the effect that any subsequent transfer of the note presumptively only requires physical delivery (i. with no additional endorsement). Therefore, where there are successive purchasers to a note, the endorsement in blank by any prior holder is a sufficient endorsement for purposes of the most recent purchaser. For this reason, a mortgage note that has been transferred numerous times typically will only show one endorsement, which remains in blank. Importantly, for all purposes for which an endorsement of a mortgage note may be necessary or desirable in connection with a sale of the mortgage note, an endorsement in blank is sufficient and is equally effective as an endorsement where the name is filled in. In private label RMBS transactions, the prevailing and nearly universally-followed practice has been for the endorsed notes to be physically delivered to the trustee, or to a custodian as the trustee's agent, at the closing of the securitization. Typical procedures include a requirement that the trustee or custodian provide an initial certification at closing and a final certification a specified number of days thereafter in order to confirm the delivery of each mortgage note. Any exceptions noted in these certifications result in a repurchase obligation of the seller within a specific period of time. Significantly, these procedures require a specific verification by the trustee or custodian that it has in fact received the physical notes for each loan listed on the mortgage loan schedule. These procedures make it highly unlikely that there has been any widespread failure to deliver the mortgage notes that simply went undetected. Assignment of Mortgage. The final key step in transferring ownership of a mortgage loan is to provide an assignment of mortgage in recordable form to the purchaser. Typically, the assignment is in blank so the name of the assignee can be filled in later prior to recordation. However, in order to exercise its rights under the mortgage against the borrower following default, it may be necessary, under certain states' law, that the purchaser become the mortgagee of record. Delivery of an assignment of mortgage in recordable form in blank is intended to enable the purchaser to become the mortgagee of record by completing the assignment in its name and submitting it for recording. Because every recording of an assignment of mortgage involves a filing fee and other expenses, it is not unusual for these assignments to remain unrecorded until such time as is needed in connection with a foreclosure of a specific defaulted loan. In a private label RMBS transaction, the prevailing practice has been to deliver an original signed assignment of mortgage in recordable form in blank. In many cases, the securitization governing documents have not required that the assignments of mortgage be recorded in favor of the trust as a general matter. Certification of receipt by the trustee or custodian of the assignments of mortgage has been required under the same procedures as for the mortgage notes. In our experience, we are not aware of material deviations from the general practice of delivering the physical mortgage notes to the trustee or its custodian. In some programs, delivery of the notes was permitted to occur within a specified period of time after issuance, but subject to the overall procedures for checking in the notes and providing a certification of receipt by the trustee or custodian with repurchase required for any delivery failures as described above. In some cases, at the time of the securitization it is known that the seller will be unable to produce the physical note because it had been previously lost or destroyed. The securitization governing documents by their terms would still nevertheless convey ownership of those mortgage loans to the trustee, although the lack of the original note might in some states give rise to additional requirements that the lender must comply with in connection with a foreclosure (e. In jurisdictions where the noteholder must be named as the mortgagee of record in order to complete a foreclosure, relatively simple steps can be taken to accomplish this, thereby permitting foreclosure if necessary (although delays may occur). Specifically, use of an endorsement in blank on the mortgage note is fully consistent with a sale. There may be additional steps required at the time of foreclosure in order to comply with procedural or documentary requirements. For example, an assignment of the mortgage may need to be recorded to the securitization trust. It should not be surprising that additional steps may be needed at the time of foreclosure. The standard transfer procedures described above are used in the context of transactions between sophisticated financial institutions and institutional investors, who clearly mutually intend for the transactions to be sales. In contrast, the foreclosure process is adversarial and in that context it is understandable that extra requirements could be imposed over and above those necessary to convey ownership of the loan itself. A few commentators have added to the parade of horribles a concern that the REMIC would lose its qualification because it did not own the mortgage loans. The simple response to this argument is that the mortgage loans have been legally conveyed to the securitization trust at the time of issuance, which satisfies the requirements of the Internal Revenue Code and the related Treasury Regulations governing REMIC qualification. Under basic principles of tax law in which substance is controlling over form, there is no question that the REMIC at the time of issuance was the owner of the mortgage loans for tax purposes. We believe that the recent allegations of possible wholesale failures to convey ownership of mortgage loans to private label RMBS trusts are baseless and unfounded. Any attempts to assert otherwise today are inaccurate and uninformed, and, if left to stand unchallenged, could cause substantial and unwarranted harm to the economy. Massachusetts court sets aside foreclosures will this decision impact foreclosures in New York and New Jersey? * - USAData-breach class action suits may have just gained significant traction. District Court for the Southern District of Florida approved a first of its kind class action data breach settlement that will pay plaintiffs regardless of whether they were damaged by the breach. In December 2009, multiple laptops containing unencrypted patient records were stolen from Florida-based health insurer AvMed. Subsequently, several AvMed insured customers whose personal health information was exposed filed a putative class action. The recent court-approved settlement will pay plaintiffs based not on any direct losses or identity theft resulting from the theft, but rather on the premiums they paid to the insurer. AvMed also agreed to pay actual damages for identity theft suffered due to the breach and to increase and improve its internal encryption and security protocols. But the real news here is that this settlement does not require even an allegation of actual harm before plaintiffs can recover monetary damages based on a data breach. While this settlement may serve as a model for future data-breach class actions, a key factor in this case is that plaintiffs had an ongoing relationship with, and paid insurance premiums to AvMed. Indeed, plaintiffs' unjust enrichment argument was premised on the idea that their premiums were, in part, paying for data security. In the absence of such a relationship—specifically where a person pays for some future potential need—this case should be distinguishable. Regardless, this settlement serves as a reminder that a lapse in security has the potential to create huge exposure, whether it causes actual harm or not. On March 18th, New York Attorney General Eric Schneiderman called for tougher regulations and market reforms to eliminate the unfair advantages commonly provided to high-frequency trading firms via extra bandwidth and high-speed switches at trading venues. On March 18th, Reuters reported lawyers for the European Union have concluded that a proposed tax on financial transactions could include spot foreign exchange transactions. Europe Could Tax Forex Trades. On March 15th, The Economist reported that Japan's Government Pension Investment Fund (GPIF) will be altering its investment strategies to boost returns to future pensioners by reducing its reliance on bonds, moving more into stocks and investing in different asset classes including infrastructure and venture capital. The traditionally conservative fund, the biggest public-sector investor in the world, plans to take on more risk in order to revive Japan's economy, alongside a radical monetary easing which the Bank of Japan began in earnest in April 2013. ## Japan's Pension Giant Changes Investment Strategies. The last year saw the Florida Supreme Court issue a second opinion – West Florida Regional Medical Center v. See – construing the scope and application of Florida's “Patients' Right to Know” constitutional provision. Because it was, incredibly, the seventh constitutional amendment on the ballot that year, it has come to be known as “Amendment 7” and the name has stuck even after the constitutional provision took its place as article X, section 25 of the Florida Constitution. In the nine years since the adoption of Amendment 7, both Florida and federal courts have dealt with a multitude of challenges testing the validity, construction, and interpretation of Amendment 7. Sadly for the health care industry, but happily for the plaintiffs' bar, the overwhelming majority of those courts have interpreted Amendment 7 to provide a very broad right of access to a vast array of documents relating to all manner of medical “incidents”, including some that seem to defy characterization as an “adverse medical incident”1. It was largely invalidated as unconstitutional by the Florida Supreme Court3. Other courts have turned away objections to Amendment 7 production based on constitutional principles, relevance4, overbreadth and burdensomeness5, and even “fact” work product.6Among the few objections to Amendment 7 requests not yet judicially rejected are “opinion” work product and attorney-client privilege – but that may be only because no appellate court has squarely ruled on their applicability yet7. All in all, victories for health care providers on Amendment 7 issues have been few and far between. One of those victories, however, has proven over the last nine years to be the most effective tool available to narrow overly broad requests and, at times, to deter plaintiffs from requesting records at all. This victory was the Florida Supreme Court's holding that the procedures established in the enabling legislation for disclosure of Amendment 7 materials did not conflict with the language of Amendment 7 and were therefore constitutional8. Foremost among these approved procedures is section 381.028(7)(c), pursuant to which a health care provider may require a requesting party to pay the reasonable cost of compliance – including a reasonable charge for staff time necessary to search for records and redact other patients' identifying information – before acting on the request. Another victory, albeit non-judicial and perhaps lesser utilized, is a federal statute – the Patient Safety Quality Improvement Act of 2005 (PSQIA)9. By enacting PSQIA, Congress established a broad, federal privilege protecting medical peer review and patient safety processes. As a federal statute, the PSQIA and its privilege preempt Amendment 7 pursuant to the Supremacy Clause of the United States Constitution12. PSQIA's protection of records that would be subject to Amendment 7 were they in Florida has been upheld by a small but growing number of courts nationwide13. Florida health care providers seeking to avoid or minimize the impact of Amendment 7 compliance would be well advised to investigate how to avail themselves of the protection of PSQIA by joining a PSO and submitting their patient safety work product for review and analysis. On October 22, 2010, the Provincial Court of Alberta sentenced Syncrude Canada Ltd to pay $3,000,000 (click here to read the decision). As we reported earlier, on June 25, 2010 Syncrude Canada Ltd. was found guilty on two charges arising out of the death of approximately 1,600 ducks in its settling pond in Northern Alberta.1 The charges were brought pursuant to Alberta's Environmental Protection and Enhancement Act (EPEA) and Canada's Migratory Birds Convention Act (MBCA).2 Both the EPEA and the MBCA provide statutory "due diligence" defences.3 Syncrude raised a number of additional defences including an act of God, abuse of process and officially induced error. While Syncrude's sentence is not the largest penalty ever imposed in Canada for an environmental offence, it is clearly at the upper end of the range and follows the trend toward higher penalties and the increased use of creative sentencing for environmental offences. Kienapple (1975) 1 S. Domtar Specialty Fine Papers, 2001 Carswell Ont. As with many sentencing decision in environmental cases, Syncrude's sentence was arrived at by a joint submission agreed to between the Crown and the Defendant and then approved by the Court. As a result there is no detailed ruling that considers the myriad factors that are to be considered on sentencing for environmental offences, and no indication of whether the questions posed above were addressed or considered in arriving at the ruling. As stated in the Domtar case cited above, courts are entitled to consider joint-submission sentencing cases but need to recognize that such decisions have extremely little precedential value unless one knows what factors lead to the negotiated result. The sentencing decision in Syncrude may set a new high-water mark for summary conviction environmental offences and it may have satisfied a significant portion of the Canadian public, but it has done little to advance the jurisprudence respecting how such sentences are to be determined. One feature of this case that is also worth commenting on is the fact that the original charges were brought by a private prosecution commenced by Ecojustice, an environmental advocacy group, with the Crown subsequently assuming conduct of the prosecution. At the time of writing, it has just been reported that Syncrude Canada is under investigation by Alberta Environment, once again, after more waterfowl landed on one of its tailings ponds less than a week after the conclusion of the court proceedings and release of Judge Tjosvold's sentencing decision. Media reports indicate that over 300 birds would have been involved in this most recent incident. 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Human: Fill in the missing words: All reviews eclairs cakes asparagus soup pastry bread royal opera house pre opera opera performance looked amazing would love to come back english breakfast delicious food main course bouchon anil risa ambienceHello, Went for a Date with my girl, got to say that the food is absolutely delicious and the ambiance is very nice, all our plates were well presented and delicious we enjoyed our dining experience and we will be back for sure. MoreFauchon never fails us, I went a couple of times but last Thursday I went with my family, my kids enjoyed the late lunch, ordering risotto and mocktails which I [words 1] order. With the assistance of the young lady Beverly and their [words 2] made. MoreIm a regular costumer & This is my best restaurant in Oman. I like their service too. Melvin for managing and raising up Fauchon food and service into top quality. Fauchon Muscat is a must when you visit Oman. The place is right next to the Royal opera house, prefect location. The decor is great, the food is delicious and the desserts are amazing however the best thing about tge placeis the service! I've been. MoreOur food was delicious, all fresh ingredients. Rahul served us, he was extremely helpful, attentive and polite. The restaurant is well positioned [words 3] inside. We enjoyed the experience very much and would recommend a visit when touring the opera house. My young daughter and I love going to Fauchon for the macarons and the small cakes. All their desserts are beautifully done with intricate detail and amazing taste. Bit on the pricey side, but worth it for the occasional treat. Fauchon Muscat is like no other Fauchon. I [words 4] to any of The others as it's just not The same. The food is excellent and the service is unreal. Melwin has to be one of the best managers I have come across. MoreI enjoyed the experience here the service was great and the food was delicious. We enjoy risa [words 5] had a lot of fun and for sure we're coming again and everyone was very sweet . Rahul and Risa was amazing toA longtime local friend ha dinner taken me here for late breakfast after a tour of the Royal Opera House next door. The restaurant looked chic, clean, uncluttered, with fine dining ambience. We ordered English Breakfast as we were starving. MoreRomantic, Kids, Families with children, Special occasions, Large groups, Scenic view, Business meetingsOwner description: Built in 1898 following the “flamboyant” style of the French 3rd Republic, Saigon Opera House was certified a National Relic & one of the top Ho Chi Minh City attractions. The Opera House hosts cultural entertaining performances, bamboo cirque, contemporary dance, orchestra concerts and government events. Come to the front gate to check availability and ticket to a performance in this iconic building. The show was visually pleasing - like eye candy and the pace was relentless in the first half hour [words 6] show. It comes with a great cast of energetic youth with an excellent group of musicians. ## Traditional music instruments showcased were well choreographed. Very good art direction. It is very difficult to decribe what you will get to see, but with the lights, music and energy, it's an amazing combination. We didn't know what to expect and came out feeling refreshed and impressed with the potential of the youth among the cast. The cast even took an effort to mingle with the audience after the show, allowing themselves to be photographed with the audience. It [words 7] to see them soft selling. The Saigon Opera is located in a fancy and [words 8] expensive stores like Gucci and international hotels. [words 9] Show at the opera house. It was very entertaining with good acrobats. They upgraded our seats free of charge which [words 10] were that it was a bit too chilly (take a little sweater) and I wished people weren't allowed in late (or they were told to sit in the back). Given that the show itself started late, it should not have been anyone late. This was an incredible show - we got 50% off vouchers ($25 for diamond seats - centre of centre, brilliant seats). What a bargain! The [words 11] fun, very entertaining. The acrobatics are mesmerising, [words 12] cool, the music is great, fabulous sense of humour injected into city scenes. I don't think there is a bad seat in the house, you could [words 13] and still get a great view of the action. I have to be honest and say that full priced seats are expensive and I would not have gone without the discount voucher. The flyers advertise this as Cirque de Soleil Vietnam style, this is not far from the truth, however the show lacks the finesse of a Cirque show, hence my comment regarding price, at full price I am not convinced that this show is value for money. Having said that, at the price we paid I LOVED this show [words 14] go again at that price. What a truly amazing show. Reviews say its Vietnam's version of Cirque du Soleil. Don't go thinking it will be like cirque. It's a similar genre but so different. [words 15] performed and a very very simple concept. They portray Vietnamese life in the countryside and city using familiar props of the coracle boats and sticks to perform sublime and clever dances. And the city life sketches are very amusing and oh so true to Vietnam! You must go if you have the chance. Really nice house, really nice area, close to parks and nice places to visit. home was the perfect side really nice kitchen and bathrooms. totally recommend for anyoneThis is our third year in Highlands Reserve and was the best yet. The house was very clean. The kitchen was very adequately stocked with utensils. It was a great location for us since my husband is an avid golfer. Close to stores, restaurants, and of course Disney. The house manager and his staff were extremely helpful and responsive to our questions and needs. It was a quiet neighborhood and a great place to walk our dog. And we really liked having a separate living room to read or watch movies. We have already booked [words 16] "thanks for the good review we are really pleased you liked our home please contact us again if you want to return. Neil"Really nice house, really nice area, close to parks and nice places to visit. home was the perfect side for 8 people, and dog, really nice kitchen and bathrooms. totally recommend for anyone who wants a nice house during vacations ! The villa is very well priced. The location was great, [words 17] attractions. The villa was in a beautiful subdivision. The villa was well taken care of. The pool was nice and spacious. No complaints except we were given permission to arrive early and the bedding wasn't washed nor were the beds made. Other than that everything was EXCELLENT! ! ! That's why I gave the stay 4 stars otherwise deserves 5 stars. "thanks for the good review, and sorry for the confusion on day 1 we are really pleased you liked our home please contact us again if you want to return. Neil"Just back from two weeks in this villa.4th villa holiday in highland reserves over the years. Found this villa brilliant. Clean, comfy and spacious. Everything you need on site. Great layout for families, our kids loved the fact that there was two sitting room areas. Close to grocery shops, restaurants, outlets and all amenities. Thanks Neil for making the whole process so simple and straight forward. Hope to be back in the future. "thanks for the good review we [words 18] our home please contact us again if you want to return. Neil"The house and everything was really good and nice, only good feeling about it and my son was really satisfied with the pool. The only small thing is that it should be better information what is'nt included in the price. Maybe it's always like that, first trip i rented a house so maybe it's me that gotta [words 19] booked this villa again after our experience last year (see my earlier review of 20. We had been advised that upgrades had been made and we found the villa even more exquisite than before. We would thoroughly recommend this 5 star villa and hope to be back again next year. If any questions about the villa or area please send me a PM. We've been here twice, once during the peak tourist season and once in September. read moreVisited Bear Country USA in early October on a cold, rainy, foggy Sunday afternoon. read moreIt was amazing to be able to drive right next to the bears and wolves! It was so cool! The kids loved it! Well worth the $60! There were 4 bear cubs that were climbing around a tree in the baby area. It was so much fun to watch them. They were adorable! All reviews [words 20] baby animals wildlife park arctic wolves black beans climbing trees small animals fun to watch mountain goats walked right gift shop big horn sheep bison great pictures little pricey walk around well taken careWe've been here twice, once during the peak tourist season and once in September. Our July trip involved sitting in our car for an hour as the line of traffic snaked through the animal areas, occasionally catching a glimpse [words 21] animal. September was a much better experience! There was no line, the animals weren't hiding, and we were able to go through at our own pace. I'd skip this during peak season. Visited Bear Country USA in early October on a cold, rainy, foggy Sunday afternoon. We had been here in the late 90s when [words 22] SO many bears. On this trip-not so many. Are there less bears after the summer tourist season? Were they hiding in the back country? Don't know. The best part was seeing the cubs. There were quite a few in the walk through part [words 23] they were so much fun to watch. Lots of other animals, but we were disappointed with the lack of bears. This is a zoo/sanctuary. The first section is a drive through with arctic wolves, bears, bison and more. The second is walking around with Otters, porcupines, baby bears, bob cats, badgers, . when the feeding truck [words 24] that aroused the bears and at least 30-40 of them came out from their naps to eat, moving in and around the cars! Very cool to see them up close and in varying colors. We spent a week in the Black Hills and Bear Country was one of our first stops. The cost was a deal for us: $65 max per vehicle, and there were 7 of us in our car (would've been $111 if we paid per person). Bear Country was our only chance during our week to see elk and bear. We were able on our visits to Custer, Badlands, and other areas of the Black [words 25] of other wildlife, but the elk and bear are very elusive. So we were very grateful for the chance to at least see them at Bear Country in as close to a "natural habitat" as you can get. We visited in mid October on a sunny, mid 50s day and the animals were active. Stopping at the end of the drive to get out and see the baby bears and other animals was definitely worth the time. We brought a picnic lunch and ate at one of the tables near the parking area. There were some visitors but certainly not crowded in the off season. We would highly recommend a visit to Bear Country USA! This place is pretty cool, they have done a great job of having plenty of animals to see. I believe the reason why i wasn't super impressed [words 26] the season and time of day that we went, most of the animals were sleeping and we only saw 3 buffalo. I also feel that it is overpriced, i mean if you charge per car then why charge per [words 27] it was cool to see the bears roaming, you can't get that in a zoo. We had a free afternoon during our visit to the area and decided check out Bear Country USA. We weren't disappointed. We took awesome pictures and saw wild animals roaming around as well as a few that were behind wired fences. The weather was perfect. Wish we had the kids with us. They would have enjoyed Bear Country as well. This was a great place to visit in South Dakota. I think the time of your visit makes a difference. Most of the animals were laying down. The bears are ready to hibernate. We have never been this close to wild animals before. This is a 2 mile drive. Then you park and look at [words 28] animals. We were almost hypnotized by watching the bear cubs. They were very active and Busy! You should put this on your itinerary! So to be honest, when my friend said we should go here I originally thought he was kidding [words 29] a group of 4 adults in our 50's. We visited in October,so there were no lines and I [words 30] well worth our visit. We saw lots of animals, but we were completely amazed when we saw all the bears! We thought we might see a few bears, but we saw about 30! They were within one to two feet from our car. We got great pictures1 Anyways, the place exceeded our expectations. We also did the walk around the park after the drive and it was worth the stop. Bear Country USA was originally founded by a local dentist as a place retired circus bears could go and live out their lives and people could see them in a semi-natural condition. Unless you are independently wealthy, an undertaking of this type takes money to build and maintain - thus the entrance fees. This is not supported by tax dollars. I talked to the people who worked there - and remember it creates a number of local jobs, and they said the animals are allowed to reproduce naturally. The bears are sometimes traded or sold to other zoos to keep the collection of bears they have diverse enough to reproduce in a healthy manner. Some have been sterilized because of age. If it were not for these zoos, some children and [words 31] animals and learn to appreciate them. They would only know about them as pictures in a book. We went about mid day on an unusually warm mid Octoday day. Most of the animals were asleep and I don't blame them. It would probably be best to go in the morning when it is cool and they are moving around more. We did see one huge bear sit up for a couple [words 32] hunks of meat his meds had been ground into his keeper was throwing at him. That and the 10 month old bear cubs constantly fighting and following the crowds around were a highlight. We loved our stay at this [words 33] the view to the quadrangle court. The apartment is very comfortable and thoughtfully equipped. Next time, we have to stay for a longer period of time! Thank you Rebecca, we are very pleased that you enjoyed your stay and we look forward to welcoming you back to Old School 11The apartment is in a wonderful old Abbey school on the very edge of Loch Ness, in beautiful grounds offering quiet parkland, tennis and badminton. Within a two minute walk there is the Caledonian canal which runs through the little town, offering hostelries and the entertainment of boat -watching as they navigate the locks. There are lovely walks along the tow path and a local mini -market which is well -stocked. The apartment is light and airy with large rooms and beautiful lounge windows over the cloisters and a garden chess set. Visitors have use of [words 34] snooker and table football, so a wet day is never a disaster. There are two large bedrooms and two bathrooms. It is ideal for a family with two children or for two couples. The utensils and amenities are in pristine condition and well-organised. We were lucky enough to have glorious sunshine all week and relaxed on the lock side with a cool drink, or had picnics near local waterfalls, visited Skye, Fort William, the Oban distillery and Culloden battle site as well as seeing panoramic mountain views from [words 35] range. We cooked in and ate out. A Tesco shop and drop is available. Altogether, a beautiful holiday in a lovely place. What a lovely review, we are so pleased you enjoyed your stay and thank you for leaving the apartment so nice and tidy. Would love to have you return any time. If you're going to visit the Highlands then this could not be a more appropriate location for your stay. [words 36] Cairngorm and Skye are all within [words 37] distance. As for the accommodation, well this place really is second to none. The facilities are excellent and there are plenty of things [words 38] for the children. Perfectly clean and furnished well, one must not forget to use [words 39] before), or catch a cheeky 5k run along the Caledonian Canal. The [words 40] and breathtaking. Turn immediately left out of the gates and drive for a few miles for some heavenly views. Fort Augustus has everything you need including the most hospitable "Lock Inn" which has excellent food, ales and a decent selection of malts. Thank you Adrian & Sophie [words 41] we are so pleased you liked OS11 apartment and look forward to welcoming you back soon :-) there is still so much you need to see. This apartment is beautiful, really nice and bright and spacious. It has everything you need, furnishings are lovely and comfortable. The apartment [words 42] one floor up and has lovely views of the chess board in the centre of the Abbey. We loved our stay at Old School No. The flat is certainly 5 star and the grounds are absolutely beautiful. The location is perfect for touring around the highlands. I only wish we had more time to relax and enjoy the property more. We visit Scotland almost every year and each trip includes a tour of the highlands. Old School No.11 is, by far, the best accommodation we have stayed in yet and I expect that it will be our location of choice from now on. thank you kindly for your glowing review of our apartment, Rosemary and I are so proud. We are also very pleased that you would like to return on subsequent visits to [words 43] contact us next time for a special 5% returnee discount. we look forward [words 44] again. I came about "the highland club " website by mistake whistle looking for something else ,so I took a leap of faith on booking my long weekend there. YOU WiLL NOT BE DISAPPOINTED! Thank you so much for this glowing review, we aim [words 45] please and we aim to give good value. Hope to see you return someday and please tell your friends about Old School 11Me and my family recently stayed in this apartment for 3 nights and we are repenting of not booking this place for another few more nights. We were made so comfortable and the rooms were immaculately clean and spacious with fantastic views. The building is very historic and has a lovely swimming pool and relaxing Spa & Sauna, lots of indoor & outdoor games were also made available. The breathtaking views of Loch ness just made our stay in this place more memorable. We spent one full [words 46] hotel and its amazing surroundings. If we ever plan for highland visit again then surely we would love to refresh our memories of this hotels. Your comments are music to our ears - a pleasure to hear. It is good to know that you took valuable holiday time to drink in the atmosphere of the abbey, our apartment and it's surroundings. We, too, think it a very special place. We would [words 47] and do hope you will. You would be very welcome. Went with family to take family photos. Was very crowded the day we went; parking [words 48] horrendous. ## read moreAbsolute treasure. Total treat to tour this twenty acre garden of special trees, rocks and bridges. read moreWhen you need to get away from the rat race of life, Kubota Gardens is the place to go! You will definitely feel a serenity wash over you. Nice paths and no charge to enter! All reviews japanese garden south seattle water features fall colors city park enjoy the beauty peaceful place year round beautiful park worth the trip two hours couple of hours paths trees rhododendrons picnic acresWent with family to take family photos. Was very crowded the day we went; parking was horrendous! However, with free admission and the chance to walk about and enjoy a koi pond, pretty fall foliage colors, and several [words 49] a nice garden to visit. And [words 50] to support this beautiful place. Wide variety of plants and paths which to relax among. Even on a cloudy day it [words 51] pretty. Parking is limited, and not a very interesting part of town otherwise. A bit of a drive from downtown so hit it [words 52] of the city. This is a very beautiful outdoor space. The garden is very large and has hills and valleys. Because of the elevation changes, there are many places to stop and look out over the rest of the garden below. Some of the walkways are wide and open; and some paths are tiny, rustic, and curving through the foliage. Some areas are just full of plants; and some [words 53] streams, and manmade structures. My favorite area is [words 54] the Japanese bridge and smaller stone bridges. And one of the best things about Kubota Garden is that it's totally free! No entrance fee; no parking fee. If you're alone, it's a great place for quiet contemplation. We went on a drizzly grey afternoon in October, and there were still lots of people there. You would spend a lot of time or a short visit. Not many flowers this time of year, but interesting foliage and contrasts. More charming than gorgeous or dramatic. This is something that should be a must see if you are on the south side of Seattle and like outdoors activities. We went during the fall and the colors were amazing. You could easily spend a couple of hours exploring all of the ponds, waterfalls and scenery. An amazing [words 55] photographers. Has free parking and free admission! Kubota Gardens is wonderful. Easy parking and free admission. Garden is fairly large with many beautiful little ponds and bridges, all very well maintained. There are lots of nooks and crannies, but it's not hard to get lost, just follow any main pathway to get back to the parking lot. Wear comfortable walking shoes. The only improvement would [words 56] there are none, just Honey Buckets. When we were [words 57] paper, and the other was in need of being emptied out. [words 58] great story of how this place came to be and wonderful how it has been maintained. A real gem in a part of town I'll bet many have not visited - worth the trip and just off the highwayA large botanical garden that is designed in the style of a maze. It is difficult to navigate. There are very few signs to [words 59] no signage to guide back to the entrance. Nobile Plaza Hotel UPDATED 2018: 42 Bedroom Apartment in Taguatinga with Terrace and Secure Parking - TripAdvisorTravelers to Villa Carlos Paz are booking December dates now. 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The commercial fails to mention that the viewer has no control over the programming. They can only watch what's on. How many [words 29] realizing this? I'd hate to know. While I admire [words 30] makes me shake my head. They [words 31] very thing that has always been around, as if new. [words 32] says, “9 That which has been is that which will be, And that which has been done is that which will be done. So there is nothing new under the sun.10 Is there anything of which one might say, “See this, it is new”? Already it has existed for ages which were before us.11 There is no remembrance of earlier things; And also of [words 33] later things which will occur, There [words 34] them no remembrance Among those who will come later still.”This [words 35] that the things we experience in this fallen world are not new to the experience of humanity. The repackaging [words 36] has little eternal impact, but the same old sin and temptation with [words 37] job leads to death, according to [words 38] 1:15. Every generation has been tempted to deny truth, to recognize evil as good, and to make an idol of self. None of these temptations and none of our own sinful leanings are new under the sun. Christians must [words 39] this world is not our home, [words 40] it does offer DVR service. Through our [words 41] with Christ and the indwelling of the Holy Spirit, we can understand that the world offers a lie and that God [words 42] truth. If we keep our eyes [words 43] of our faith, then we will see these old things for what they are and avoid the traps reset for each generation. It's no mystery that licensed [words 44] have gotten a bad rap over the years. There [words 45] that have not lived up to the [words 46] being bad (such as Spider-Man 2, The Punisher, KOTOR, [words 47] seems like these games are often [words 48] by games “products” that are rushed out the door to tie into [words 49] movie. So what happens when you base a game [words 50] based on a movie that's based on a comic book character? A pretty damn fun time, that's what. I make no concessions for the game, outside of a few gameplay wrinkles, it's [words 51] with Wolverine instead of Kratos. I'll save you the hassle of reading a review that talks about frame [words 52] counting pixels to see if a game is actually 720p, all you really need [words 53] know is that this game is a lot of fun. So if that's all you wanted to know then you are set, have fun playing the game! If you [words 54] substance to back up my claims then read on. You start out [words 55] basic set of moves that can be leveled up as you go along by gaining experience for every [words 56] make. After you gather a certain amount of experience and level your [words 57] awarded skill points that allow you to make Wolverine even more powerful. This is something that Raven Software has obviously borrowed from [words 58] previous games (X-Men Legends 1 & 2, and Marvel Ultimate [words 59] and it's certainly welcome. This is [words 60] and gore will genuinely enhance your enjoyment of a game. Wolverine has been in plenty of crappy games in his day, none [words 61] the brutality and violent rage the [words 62] possesses. It never did make sense to me why a [words 63] around having razor sharp claws and a violent [words 64] have a game that reflected that. Bravo to both Marvel and Raven Software for making an M-rated Wolverine game happen. With that said, as Wolverine you will decapitate people, dismember them all [words 65] them shed copious amounts of blood (in style of course). He will take real time damage with bullet holes damaging his clothes and you will even see muscle and bone exposed due to explosions (he'll even heal back up in real time which makes for a cool effect). Seeing such an iconic character doing all of these things is a [words 66] comic book nerd's boy hood fantasy of seeing Wolverine completely flip out an dismember everyone in the room. It [words 67] from all the brutal looking quick kills, to going into berserker rage and tearing into enemies. This game does a great job of empowering the player and making [words 68] ass . The reason why all of [words 69] works without it all falling flat [words 70] because Raven Software actually developed a solid game around it. Although the game is strongly based around gameplay found in the [words 71] series and other games like it, it adds enough elements of its own to make it stand out. I think the most important of which [words 72] maneuver. One problem I've always had with actions of this [words 73] is that you'll be locked into combat with three or four enemies, while two or three [words 74] at you (I'm giving you the [words 75] eye Ninja Gaiden). This makes for a cheap and frustrating experience that artificially increases the difficulty. Well now you have a move in your arsenal that can combat against this cheap tactic. By locking on and [words 76] will jump towards an enemy and pounce on them, giving you the advantage. It sounds minor, but this move really added a lot [words 77] opinion and made it more fun. Not only is it a good offensive/deffensive move, but it [words 78] the action flowing at a brisk pace since it decreases the amount [words 79] where you are running after an enemy to kill them. [words 80] that surprised me about this game is the Tomb Raider like elements that were included. [words 81] aren't as strong as the rest of the gameplay and most of the environmental puzzles are sort of mindless. Personally, I didn't mind these parts because I [words 82] Tomb Raider series . They went a long way in breaking things up and keeping things fresh. Speaking of [words 83] of keeping things fresh by having [words 84] same time throughout the game. So essentially you are playing through [words 85] the game while you are playing in other locales all at the [words 86] time. Just when you felt you were getting bored of the level you were in, the game switches back to another locale. I don't recall another game doing that [words 87] was something I felt needed to be [words 88] kept things going. The last thing I want to mention is the boss fights. Although some of them are a bit on the simplistic side, most of them are fun because they force you to use the game's more advanced move set and gameplay features [words 89] them. This turned out to be great because there are quite a few tactics I honed while fighting the bosses that came in [words 90] game. There is one boss fight in particular that I wish I could speak about freely without spoiling anything. [words 91] Wolverine and more specifically X-Men comics are in for a treat. To sum things up, I had a blast [words 92] it again. Some may find the gameplay a [words 93] fans of the source material will get a kick [words 94] Wolverine and slaying enemies left and right. Like any game, it has its defecits (like [words 95] few non game breaking bugs that creep up [words 96] detracted from the fun I had. This is highly recommended for fans of Wolverine [words 97] fans alike and is a great rental for everyone else. WARNING: If you are [words 98] this game for achievements, don't start a new [words 99] it. Doing so will erase your previous progress! The thing to do is simply choose a level under the level select option. The game still keeps track of your stats after you beat and saves after every checkpoint so you can continue your progress. This entry was posted on Tuesday, May 12th, 2009 at 10:00 AM and is filed under Gaming, Xbox 360 Reviews. I really enjoyed reading your impressions on the game. I've been on the fence about the game but, after reading this I'm gonna pick it up in the near future. Also, I like your style of reviews(short, clear, and to the point). Here's a riff on what I've been learning since the last update and my challenge to consider different perspectives around the notion of time. Decluttering pro-tip: take everything out of a particular close and only return the stuff that is stayingThe collective power of a group of people to give input into your life and business from the mastermind formatEmbracing the ups and downs (being with them) instead of trying to make them go away as quickly as possibleGreat episode John, I really liked your honesty with yourself and that it's ok to have unanswered questions and create the time and space needed to uncover the answers. 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Most individuals go for a middle of the road approach, which is able to balance the dashes real estate and the screen size. With the continual update of navigation systems, drivers are able to receive information on road construction sites, detours and traffic accident locations just to mention a few. There are truck specific units which give you details on road description and alerts for a sharp curve, narrow roads or steep incline. The road alerts are able to give truck drivers information on costs and toll road sites. Some devices have lane assist capabilities;... User: Continue. Bot: this is because they are able to relay the proper lane to... User: Next. Bot: be used when travelling on a complex highway. The systems also come with weather related data, which shows the current and future weather conditions... User: Next. Bot: and road conditions of specific areas. It's important that you go for a GPS system with logging capabilities. The GPS should be able to report your fuel usage, maintenance interval and you're... User: Continue. Bot: Hours of Service. Having these reports in your GPS system helps you to automatically log into your logs; thus being able to reduce the paperwork to be done. The GPS system is also capable of keeping log data for multiple drivers who are using the same vehicle. This is possible as the data are exported after every single trip made. Price is something you... User: Next. Bot: really need to consider before you purchase a GPS device. You will need a GPS device that has a lot of features, which is... User: More. Bot: geared to the truck driver. Garmin dēzl 770LMTHD 7-Inch GPS Navigator It has the ability of customized routing; it's able to inform you of the size and total weight of your truck... User: Next. Bot: $399Rand McNally TND740 LM IntelliRoute 7-Inch GPS Truck Navigator The device is able to calculate toll road costs in advance. This device has a trailer and truck service directory; that enables truckers to search for places of interest and brands that she or he wants at a time. With this device drivers can search for restaurants and shops that are popular by the use... User: More. Bot: of the Foursquare. The device is able to inform you of fuel usage among other necessities. The Garmin dēzl 770LMTHD has the ability of... User: Next. Bot: customized routing; it's able to inform you of the size and total weight of your truck. Its GPS system is more costly compared to other models; although considering its upcharge basing on... User: Next. Bot: its features and functionality its price is worth it. The Rand McNally TND740 LM IntelliRoute 7-Inches GPS Truck Navigator was specifically design for truck... User: Next. Bot: drivers. This device comes with features required when you are hauling big loads all over the country. You will be able to reach your... User: Next. 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The Rand McNally TND740 LM IntelliRoute 7-Inches GPS Truck Navigator has a lane guidance which is displayed on its high resolution display. Be sure to take advantage of this. It's also able to sync with Rand McNally... User: Continue. Bot: DriverConnect platform and it's loaded with Rand McNally apps. The TomTom Trucker... User: More. Bot: 620 truck GPS helps you in navigating; hence, allowing you to avoid sharp turns and narrow strips and be able to calculate the best route for you. Its lifetime traffic is able to offer you road information and the real time traffic, thus saving you the fuel money and time on your daily commutes. You are able to avoid sudden braking; the device keeps... User: Continue. Bot: you alert on imminent traffic wherever you are. It's also able to inform you on areas prone to accidents; therefore all you need to do is to keep checking your GPS to know accident hotspots and traffic status. Pair the device with a smartphone in order to activate live services for instance traffic. You will also be able to place and receive hands free... User: Next. Bot: calling and get your smartphone messages aloud. Its lifetime maps come with the maps of United States of America and Canada with no cost. You will also be able to access gas... User: Continue. Bot: stations, restaurants, restrooms and motels among other POIs. Continue to update your software and maps through the built in Wi-Fi. With the MyDrive you can be able to plot a route anywhere and anytime. With customized trips you will have preferred stops and roads. You can start driving by syncing the routes to your truck GPS. The TomTom Trucker 600 GPS Device is ideal for truck drivers who have a predetermined time of arriving at a particular place. With this kind of navigation device, you can be able to preplan your route, be able to predict your traffic conditions more than a day early in advance. You will be able to save your preferred routes and destinations into the device. The only thing that is missing from TomTom... User: Continue. Bot: 600 GPS device is the ability of conducting your local amenities search. You are required to preload destinations into the device which makes it... User: Continue. Bot: not to become a viable option for the long haul drivers. In the event that you are a day trip drivers, you will find... User: Continue. Bot: this device ideal for you. This is because;it's able to give you a quicker route when you have construction or traffic backed up delays... User: Continue. Bot: You are required to specify the type of vehicle that you are driving in order to ensure that you get a more efficient route... User: Next. Bot: The TomTom Trucker 600 GPS Device has the ability of multifunctioning; you can be able to use it for your personal use. Other features that the device has is a customizable truck... User: Next. 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When you are going for a GPS device, you want a device that will make your life... User: Next. Bot: on the road easy. Before you go and make a purchase, it is very important that you consider the features that you find essential and check to see if the device that you are eyeing has those features in particular. In these review we have some of the best truck GPS devices that are on the market, which are specifically design for truck drivers... User: More. Bot: All you need to do is go through them a pick one... User: Continue. Bot: that is able to meet the needs of your driver. It's recommended that before you buy one consider some of the factors mentioned earlier. (This is a repost of a piece of one of the sticky news posts above, now unstuck and free to assume in its rightful place in the chronological scheme. I repost this bit because I have just got to the... User: More. Bot: point in the backlog where it would originally have occurred and it still seems worth celebrating! 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Bot: copy-editor and then series editor I've probably changed or moved almost every word in it. It's not my work, but it has been one of my labours, for sure. Those curious about such matters will probably also want to know how things stand with the rest of the series, and to that I can say from the inside, with suitable caution, that volume 12,... User: More. Bot: which covers Northern Italy and is by Andrea Saccocci, Michael Matzke and William Day Jr, is scheduled to be next and is in its... User: Continue. Bot: final stages now, and that volume 10, on Scandinavia, by Jørgen Steen Jensen, has been making reliable and steady progress for years and will... User: Next. Bot: also soon be finished, we hope, after which it becomes a contest between Britain and the Low Countries to be next. What's the timescale,... User: Continue. 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""They all healed- like they were never there - and every time I had to say I was fine, it was just a scratch, no matter how bad it hurt. I couldn't let on because then someone would have noticed how quickly I heal. ""The other guys think I'm just lucky - or I somehow manage to not get in the way of anything dangerous. They all show off their latest scars and then look at me like I'm not trying hard enough or something. I remember when Dimmock took his first cut from a blade, just a nick really, but he rolled his sleeves up and showed it off proud as punch when we took him down the pub, trying to impress the ladies with it. "Lestrade reached out and put his fingertips gently on John's scar. "I'm not natural, John. One day my luck'll run out and they'll find out and God knows what'll happen then, but I'd hate it if anybody thought that you knew and anything happened to you because of that. "Before John could protest further Lestrade had reached round him, grabbed John's coat from the sofa and propelled ... the front door and outside onto the garden path. John stood paralysed with surprise until he heard the door slam shut behind him. He whirled round and started banging furiously on it. The light in the hallway went out, followed by the one in the lounge, leaving the house in darkness. " John pounded with flat of his hand against the door. Don't you fucking dare. ... "A dog started barking somewhere further up the street and, as John ... he saw the lights come on in a few of the other houses. He let his hand drop and leaned his forehead against the cool glass of the door. Just let me in so we can talk. "John waited for a few minutes. He slowly buttoned up his shirt but refused to put his jacket on despite the cold. "What? " John turned to see an old man in a Mackintosh and flat cap standing at Lestrade's gate. He had a Jack ... looked keen to be elsewhere. The bloke who lives there. He was heading for the park - going for a jog by the looks of it. " The man jerked his head towards the end of the road. " John opened the gate stepped through and closed it behind him. He looked up and down the road. " He could head for the Tube but it was only a few miles ... Camden Road, and he really needed the fresh air. He set off at a brisk pace and ignored the prickly sensation on the back of his neck while the old man watched him until he turned the corner. Yep, definitely annoyed at you. I feel like someone had given me a large slice of chocolate cake, I'd had one bite from it and then they'd snatched it back again. But Honestly, I actually liked this for exactly that. It gives the story a lot more depth. I don't know, you don't take the easy way out instead you go even deeper. Arrrgggghhh! ... you if I wasn't so desperate to read the next part! *g* Well, although it's frustrating, I can't help but admire Lestrade for putting John's safety before his own needs. It's great the way John's scar triggers Lestrade's fear of discovery - and his concern for anyone who knows his secret. However, I know John isn't going to give up on Lestrade, so I'm really looking forward to seeing how ... favourite DI in the end. :-)I'm really enjoying the story, even if this chapter is a bit frustrating. But it makes sense that someone like Greg who's so scarred emotionally (if not physically) is going to be worried about discovery. Wolves are pretty wary of humans anyhow, aren't they? Please keep up the good work: I'm impressed by the combination of the physical and emotional detail you're bringing to the story. I'm adding my voice to the chorus of praise and frustration. I am enjoying this story too much ... though. I can't wait for next installment. Thank you for the comment and ... sorry! I updated yesterday and forgot to add the link to the next part! 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Instruction: Fill in words: A group of college students at Keene State College in New Hampshire have all recently been treated in local hospitals for Chlamydia and a host [words 1] recent political rally in support of Bernie Sanders turned into a full-blown orgy. ## “Everything started innocently enough. We were meeting to help figure out ways to support candidate Sanders, and things were going well,” said rally leader Joe Goldsmith. “After a few hours and a lot of drinks, one thing lead to another, and soon all 32 of us had our clothes off, and well, you know what happened.”According to doctors at Keene Memorial Hospital, all 32 of the involved students contracted various STDs, including chlamydia and genital warts. “This is what happens when young people get together and try to change the world,” said Dr. “They lose [words 2] fucked. This is what the world is coming to. That's why I'm voting Trump.”Shire, PLC, the company that manufacturers the prescription drug Adderall, has reportedly reached an agreement with the federal government to have their drug's schedule [words 3] for over-the-counter purchases in stores. Currently, Adderall, which is used in the treatment of ADHD in children, teens, and adults, is only available through prescription from a doctor or license medical professional. “We have finally reached an agreenement with the necessary agencies [words 4] fully available, in multiple strengths, in an OTC, or over-the-counter manner, starting later this year,” said Shire spokesman Andy Roider. “We as a company feel that most people know when they have attention or focusing problems, but they need to see a doctor to get a prescription, and that's a hassle. This will cut out the middle man.”Adderall, which is one of – if not the most – abused prescription [words 5] is commonly taken by high school and college-aged students who want to stay awake for long periods of time, whether it be to study or to party. “Oh man, I took like 400mg of Addie the other day,” said high school junior Mark Dodson. “I've been up since Saturday. Seriously, it's fucking awesome. But they're like $10 a pill right now, and it's insane. I can't wait for them to be legal to just buy. I'll get mine at Wal-Mart in bulk. It's going to be so amazing.”Many parents are upset that their children will have regular access to the drug, and say that it's only going to increase the amount of kids who are abusing it. “It's bad enough that they legalized weed in Colorado where we live, now they're going to just let my kid start taking pills legally, too? ” said a mother of a 15-year-old teenage girl, Kelsey, in Aspen. “I've gotten Kelsey off of marijuana, cigarettes, [words 6] – now I'm going to have to get her off her anticipated Adderall addiction. Wow, thanks big pharma.”Posted in Business, Health/FitnessTagged [words 7] adderall, College, drug, drugs, otc, over the counter, pills, shire A college Sophomore in Idaho has reportedly had her vagina sewn shut by a cosmetic [words 8] about rape statistics in one of her courses. “Did you know that 1 in 3 women will be raped or sexually assaulted in her lifetime? ” said college Sophomore Desiree Price, 20. “Statistically speaking, I am [words 9] in 3, since I'm super hot and often walk along through the campus late at night on my way back from my stripper job. So I knew something had to be done.”“I took self defense classes, bought a gun, [words 10] – but still, nothing was making me feel safe. I knew some guy, at some point, was going to rape me. Every guy will rape [words 11] a fact. I learned it in my Current State of Feminism class. So, I took a drastic step.”“I went ahead and had my ovaries and my tubes all completely removed. I no longer have a menses every month. They have built a small, tube like funnel made of skin taken from my calf, and attached it to my urethra so it sticks out, sort of like a penis I guess. I can still reach my clit so that guys who I want to touch me can touch it, or like, whatever, and I can touch it, but [words 12] it. If a guy tries to stick his thing in there, he's going to be pleasantly surprised to find that there's nowhere to stick it.”According to Price's mother, Victoria, she's “very proud” of her daughter for doing what she needs to do to protect herself. “Desiree has always been a smart girl, and knows what she wants,” said Victoria from her home in Phoenix, Arizona. “If she wants to cosmetically close her [words 13] business. I'm just happy to know she'll be safe from penetration from here on out.”“The dumb bitch still has another hole down there to get penetrated if some unlucky guy [words 14] rape her,” said Durkee. “If there's any hole she should have had plugged, [words 15] face. The only thing I'm grateful for is that she can no longer breed. Amen to that! ”Posted in Headlines, Weird NewsTagged College, cosmetic, feminism, feminist, rape, statistics, stupid, Surgery, Woman CEO of Taco Bell, Brian Niccol announced earlier today that the franchise will begin offering cold, alcoholic beverages to customers 21 years of age and older between the hours of 12:00 midnight – 2:00 AM in drive-thrus at participating locations. The announcement marks an unprecedented marketing strategy in the world of fast food giants. “We at Taco Bell know that a good majority of Taco Bell craving customers between the hours of midnight and 2:00 AM are indeed bar-hopping [words 16] who want a quick bite during drinking sessions,” Niccol said. “Available May 1, 2015, Taco Bell will begin offering Budweiser and Bud Light beer, as well as frozen margaritas. We are very excited about this long over-due venture.”Many college going co-eds and [words 17] news. However, members of M. (Mothers Against Drunk Drivers) are [words 18] announcement, and are asking the American public to boycott the franchise. Mary Jane Weedman, one of M. 's most recognized spokeswomen in Denver, Colorado, says that alcohol should never be offered in any drive-thru location. “This is simply not a very well thought out plan, we could understand offering customers good quality marijuana, but not ice cold beer and margaritas, this is totally unacceptable,” Weedman said. Blake Mitchell, a freshman at Colorado State University disagrees. [words 19] it is totally legit! ” the aspiring [words 20] stated. “I mean like, sometimes when you are trying to maintain that buzz and have to go grab a bite to eat, it is totally inconvenient, you know what [words 21] cold brew and a few chalupas and be on our way. I paid good money for a fake I. so I'm like stoked! ” Mitchell said. “Plus, I heard Taco Bell is also going to have some, like, gooey Cap ‘N' Crunch dessert balls thing, so they are definitely going to be getting a lot more of my money from now on.”The premium lager brewing company Pabst, [words 22] for their Pabst Blue Ribbon beer, announced this morning that after 170 years in business, the company would be closing their factories, and selling their assets to Anheuser-Busch. Since 1844, Pabst Brewing Company has been providing people their delightful medium bodied American style lager, and many beer lovers are saddened and confused by the sudden announcement. “It has been a couple years since [words 23] Ribbon, but I never though they'd go anywhere, either,” said Marriott College senior Joe Goldsmith. “I guess I should lay off the good beer for a bit, and get some PBR before it's gone forever.”“After 170 years of beer business, the name and its associations have far exceeded what anyone ever would have expected it to, but times have changed dramatically,” said brew master Aaron Silver. “We honestly thought that this new hipster movement thing would really help boost sales, because hipsters seem to enjoy horrible beers. We were huge in the 70s and 80s, thanks to college drinking taking a massive spike after movies like Animal House came out. Now, though, college kids [words 24] are, they're choosing higher-end beers and liquor. We can't compete with the Sam Adams and Guinesses of the world, and our sales are proof that even legacy can die.”Anheuser-Busch is said to be acquiring Pabst for only about $62,000, plus 43 cases of Bud Light. The company says that they were initially hoping to continue releasing PBR in its traditional can and original recipe, but licensing issues are forcing changes. Instead, plans to develop what they are calling Pabst Turquoise Ribbon are currently underway, and the new beer should begin hitting shelves next fall. Published at Friday, November 02nd 2018, 03:33:25 AM by Nathalie Bombelles. There are several different kinds of rug pads for different types of floors and floor covering like [words 25] rugs for any type of flooring, cushions and carpet liners for hardwood, bamboo and ceramic tile floors, non-skid for organic hard floors and pads for outdoor patio, porch or deck floors among others. Published at Tuesday, October 30th 2018, 07:14:51 AM by Marine Jacquier. I have been restoring and caring for antique rugs for years and have always used one of two pads. The first is a recycled jute pad that is as dense as can be for its kind. This is a 40 ounce weight, which is on the higher quality level of jute pads. This weight means there is a dense compression of fiber per square yard and [words 26] important for protection and resistance. This pad can be used under all antique rugs that do not tend to slide around, mainly room size ones. Published at Tuesday, November 06th 2018, 03:17:03 AM. Pillows and Throws By Robin Rapace. When adding throw pillows into the mix it is always safest to go with a somewhat limited color palette and big geometric patterns. Textures such as cotton and linen are the best fabrics though silk throw pillows do have a place in certain modern settings. If you really like a lot of color then the best bet is to snatch the color palette from an existing [words 27] item. Published at Tuesday, November 06th [words 28] AM. Mirror By Quentin Bourque. Mirrors come in a variety of shapes and sizes. From large to small, to square, rectangular, [words 29] form. Choose a shape of mirror to complement the decor in the room. For example, use rectangular mirror in a traditionally furnished room, or an oval mirror to mimic the shape of an oval dining table. A mirror is a fantastic accent piece for any room. Published at Tuesday, November 06th 2018, 03:14:38 AM. Home Accent By Magali Courbis. This is very suitable in our living room. This will totally suit the taste of people who likes things to look minimalist. Magazine racks manage our readable [words 30] in order. Magazine racks helps us save spaces and keep all the stuffs together. Now, Accent furniture may be a bit inviting to have them all. But, we have to remember these home accents should not be just delightful to look at. They should also provide comfort and fit in our needs. Published at Tuesday, November 06th 2018, 03:13:04 AM. Mirror By Marine Jacquier. To make the mirror aluminum powder is [words 31] of the glass in a vacuum chamber and then coated with a few layers of waterproof protective paint. There is a low aluminum glass mirror that is made from a silver coating and two layers of protective paint. The unique thing about this mirror is that it's clear, smooth, light transmissive and reflects accurate natural colors. The glass is heavily used for framing exhibitions and presentations when precise color representation of the artwork is of great importance. Published [words 32] 06th 2018, 03:13:01 AM. Fall Decor By Nathalie Bombelles. 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Human: Fill in words: By default, the first slide in your VoiceThread will be used as the thumbnail on your VT Home page. If you don't want your first slide used as the thumbnail, you can upload a cover of your own to be used instead. The CEO of CCP Games, the maker of EVE Online and the upcoming EVE Valkyrie, had a conversation with VentureBeat and admitted that he didn't quite think that VR was going to have as much of a large scale impact as we might think. Hilmar Veigar Pétursson, CEO of CCP Games, doesn't believe VR is going to rock the world as ... think. Despite the fact that CCP Games is investing heavily in ... by developing a game that fully integrates VR and all the elements that come with it, the CEO of CCP Games still doubts that VR will be quite the instant overnight success that the media might have you believe (us included). “People tend to overestimate what we will accomplish in five years. But they tend to underestimate where we'll be in 10 years.”He further goes on to explain how other revolutions of technology took more time than we might have wanted, or than the developers might have wanted, before becoming true successes. The graphics revolution didn't really begin to have a widespread effect until after 3Dfx was acquired by NVIDIA, which took far more than a year or two to become prolific. In fact, VR in some ... another has been around for far longer than we might realize. The ever enthusiastic late Dr. Randy Pausch had a profound impact on the direction of VR simply by virtue of his relationship with Disney. But even before that his hand in VR started in 1998 when he founded his Entertainment Technology Center at Carnegie Mellon which focused on visual storytelling in a virtual realm.3D interaction was already a concept being explored, and realized. In fact, the innovations we see today stem from the research of Dr. Pausch and others nearly two decades ago, and likely inspired the latest revolution. Perhaps even John Carmack himself was influenced by Dr. Pausch and his human-computer interaction vision. So Pétursson is ... that for any technology to become the norm, or to even become accepted, it takes time. VR is no exception, and has been fighting for a legitimate part of the consumer for the better part of two decades. The reality is that technology is just now becoming cheap enough to make it a reality. CCP Games looks on their investment in VR as a ... something that they see the potential in, ... want to take advantage of the uniqueness of the platform and offer something great. That should hopefully spur more consumer adoption. There's a tremendous amount of potential for an unbelievably immersive experience. ... that VR will have it's place one day, but that it might not necessarily be ready for prime-time any time soon. The support and the cost of hardware, no matter the price tag, is prohibitive. Obviously there is little official support for VR headsets as none for the PC ... released. That and the headset by itself may not necessarily be enough if not paired with the right human-interaction devices ... experience. But the possibilities are most certainly endless at this point. What does ... coming age of VR? Are people excited about it, or is this something that might be similar to putting 3D in ... this, too, pass? Sony managed to surprise us all with its low key announcement of the Xperia Z4 this month. The manufacturer's flagship smartphone was launched at a quiet event, with the device available only for users in its home country, Japan. But if today's news out of China is ... launch might not be the only surprise ... for us this year. According to Cnbeta, the Xperia Z4 won't be Sony's only device catering to the high end market this year. Sony's Xperia Z4 has received criticism for its bare minimum design changes on board. But if you remember correctly, the Xperia Z lineup ... series and soon managed to outshine the former owing to its high specification. According to today's leak, Sony might be looking at the best of both worlds by reintroducing the P series in the form of the P2 with all the flagship specifications that you'd like. Not only would this result in a breath of fresh air from the Z series' rather strict design form, but it'd give consumers more ... from. According to today's information, the P2 can be expected with Qualcomm's Snapdragon 810, coupled with 3 GB of RAM and 32 GB of native storage. All of ... off with a 5.2 inch 1920 x 1080 display and a 12.1 MP rear camera. Seems like camera strength is going to be the Z series' strong suit, but given the preliminary nature of today's news, we'd treat anything with a grain of salt for now. What's more interesting is the battery on this alleged Sony device, with the P2's battery expected to be a whooping 4240 mAh. If true then this would mean more than plenty of power for whatever you'd like to do with ... device. How that manages to translate into overall design and device weight still remains to be known. One thing's for sure though, Sony's flagship lineup surely needs some changes and the company should be looking towards them if intends to stay relevant. Stay tuned, we'll keep you updated and let us know what you think ... section. Sony Claiming Its Xperia Phones Were Waterproof Might Force the Firm to Pay the Devices' Owners Due to Class Action LawsuitThe meeting will be held at the Pan-Pacific Hotel in Singapore from 21 to 24 July 2010. These dates fall ... preceding the 10th World Congress on Bioethics, also to be held in Singapore, so that participants can combine attendance at both these events. Pan Pacific Singapore Hotel, with its proximity to the Central Business District, is located in the heart of Marina Bay, a shopping haven of over 500 shops and restaurants near the Singapore River. The hotel offers direct access to the Singapore International Convention and Exhibition Centre via a sky bridge. In fact, this luxury hotel in the heart of Singapore, is walking distance from many ... the Padang, stage to some of the most significant national events, the Cenotaph and ... Stamford Raffles - founder of modern Singapore. Pan Pacific Singapore ... from the Singapore Expo and Singapore's Changi Airport. It is also close to Singapore's historic, cultural and entertainment areas, such as CHIJMES, the Boat Quay, Clarke Quay, Robertson Walk and the new Esplanade - Theatres on the Bay. This Singapore hotel is also connected to Millenia Walk ... complexes. There are car transfers available for hotel guests to the Central Business District. This service is available on weekdays between 7:15 ... am, excluding public holidays, on a first come, first served basis. Service routes and time schedules are subject ... change without prior notice. Please contact the Concierge for information and assistance. The hotel can arrange for airport limousine service. Self-drive cars can also be arranged at the airport or upon request. The First World Conference attracted participants from over 40 countries, the majority coming from Europe and North America. Moving to Singapore will enable an increased participation from other parts of the World, especially from the Asia-Pacific region, given its increasing importance as a region of major research endeavours. Singapore itself is proud of ... of integrity in all walks of life and as such is an appropriate venue for the Second World Conference. ... for Education, Dr Ng Eng Hen, will be the Guest of Honour for the Conference and will deliver the Opening Address. Singapore is made up of not just one island but a main island with 63 surrounding islets. The main island has a total land area of 682 square km. However, its compact size belies its economic growth. In just 150 years, Singapore has grown into a thriving centre of commerce and industry. Its former role as an entrepot has diminished, as the nation has ... base. Singapore is the busiest port in the world with over 600 shipping lines sending super tankers, container ships and passenger liners to share the busy waters with coastal fishing vessels and wooden lighters. Singapore's strategic location, excellent facilities, fascinating ... tourist attractions contribute to its success as a leading destination for both business and pleasure. If there is one word that best captures Singapore, it is "unique". A dynamic city rich in contrast and colour, you'll find a harmonious blend of culture, cuisine, arts and architecture here. Brimming with unbridled energy, this little dynamo in Southeast Asia embodies the finest of both East and West. For sun babies, Singapore's tropical climate is heaven-sent! The island is warm and humid all year round, with only slight variations between the average maximum of 31 degrees Celcius and minimum of 23 degrees Celcius. This makes it ideal for those who enjoy sunbathing, swimming, sailing and other water sports. But for those who do not enjoy the tropical climate, Singapore is sheltered from the worst effects of the sun with air-conditioning in almost all of its shops, hotels, office buildings and restaurants. Rain falls throughout the year, with more consistent rain coming during the monsoon season from November to January. Showers are usually sudden and ... refreshing. Light and summer clothing made from natural fabrics like cotton is best for everyday wear. Casual dress is acceptable for most situations and occasions but some establishments may require a more formal dress code. It is always advisable to check beforehand on dress regulations, if any. Singapore offers a wide variety of accommodation types to suit all budgets ... preferences. They range from backpacker, budget and youth hostels to boutique and five-star hotels. Most hotels come with standard facilities like International Direct Dial (IDD) phones, internet and cable, room service, mini bars, data ports for modem, ... floors, and business and fitness centres furnished ... equipment. Singapore has over 100 hotels ... rooms mostly located in the city centre, which are within easy walking distance to meeting venues, attractions and shopping centres. Singapore is an affordable destination with reasonable hotel room rates. English is the most common language in Singapore. Other ... Tamil and many dialects. The sun may dim but the fun doesn't! As night falls, life begins in many quarters of Singapore. Whether you're a ... a night owl craving adventure around the clock, there are many sizzling surprises to keep your senses satiated till the wee hours of the morning. In fact, Singapore has the added advantage of being one of the safest countries in the world for you ... hit the streets at night. You don't have to be a hard-partying hedonist to appreciate the colourful and exciting nightlife in Singapore. Sleep will never be further from ... ultra-chic bars, classy jazz lounges, or move to the groove at hip dance clubs. In line with efforts to improve the nightlife experience for all, there are smoking restrictions on entertainment outlets. Smoking is no longer allowed in all pubs, discos, karaoke bars and nightspots, unless within approved smoking rooms or smoking corners. The food paradise too does not slumber - 24-hour coffee houses dot the island to satisfy the rumblings of the stomach with a range of local fare that boggles the mind. Teochew porridge, caramel bean curd, or just coffee and cake - you name it, we have it! Even shoppers have no respite! Singapore is one of the few countries where late night shopping is not an exception. And if you're bitten by the shopping bug in the wee hours of the morning, there's always Mustafa Centre - Singapore's only 24-hour shopping mall. Delegates who are interested in exploring and visiting attractions in Singapore may visit the following tour ... wide range of options to suit your preference and interest:Tired of having the usual breakfast? Then feast with an orang utan, the Oriental small-clawed otter, or even the reticulated python! These are just some of the many unusual escapades that await you at the ... Zoo. Come up close and personal with the over 3,200 mammals, birds and reptiles and fishes at this 28-hectare "open" zoo. As the sun sets, a different world comes to life. At the Night Safari, you can look a rhinoceros in ... of a pack of striped hyenas ... plain in the still of the night. This premier night zoo houses over 900 animals of 135 exotic species in eight zones re-created to simulate geographic zones like the Southeast Asian rainforest, African savanna, Nepalese river valley, South American pampas and Burmese jungle. If ... are looking for a quick break from the hustle and bustle of the Singapore urban lifestyle, visit the Jurong BirdPark where 9,000 colourful birds of 600 ... with their variety, shapes and sizes. The newly revamped BirdPark offers a range of new and exciting exhibits and facilities which are truly breathtaking and worth your while. Make sure you pay a visit to the 2007 ASEANTA winner for Best ASEAN New Tourist Attraction - The African Wetlands. This African-themed exhibit with African ... a body of water, houses endangered birds like the Shoebill, the African Crowned Crane, the Saddle-Billed Stork and more. Another popular attraction is Sentosa Island, for more fun in the sun. Whether it's learning about Singapore's World War II history at Fort ... various festivals at the Images of ... to spend at least one full day exploring the island. ... you at the Underwater World, where only glass panels separate you from baby sharks, manta rays and other marine life. If you have time to linger a little longer, visit the pink dolphins at the lagoon or go on ... trail or relax at the Central Beach over-looking the harbour. Stay on and watch the sun setting whilst sipping your favourite cocktail or beer at Sunset Bay. Spa enthusiasts will not be neglected either. They can choose to immerse in the region's first ... spa, Spa Botanica, in the Sentosa Resort & Spa, or check out the treatments at the Aspara - Phytomer Spa in Shangri-la's Rasa Sentosa Resort. As you step into Little India, be prepared for an assault on the senses! You will be greeted by the strong, heady scent of spices and jasmine garlands, followed by the treasure trove of silverware, brassware, wood carvings and colourful silk saris, dazzling to behold. Pick up a walking guide and start your exploration of this colourful ethnic quarter. Geylang Serai is the cultural heart of the Malay community in Singapore. At the Malay Village, go back in time and discover the traditional 'Kampung Days' lifestyle of Malays in the 1950s and 1960s! Or experience traditional Malay arts and crafts like batik painting, kite-making and kampung games such as top spinning. Named after the Gelam tree which used to grow in the area, Kampong Glam was the historic seat of Malay royalty in Singapore. 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<human>: Finish this: One question that has bothered me since I can remember is ‘what makes a thing a thing? ' That is, does merely existing at ... <bot>: Sure, let me know if you need anything else: a certain time, in a certain space, make a thing a thing? This probably seems an odd place to start a discussion on the... <human>: Continue. <bot>: Trinity, but hopefully it will become clearer as I go on. In my doctoral studies I have spent a great deal of time thinking about what it is that makes a given... <human>: More. <bot>: object an art object. Obviously, there are almost as many answers as there are people who have ever looked at an object and thought, ‘Ooh, I like that! ' The point is though that there are a recognisable class of objects which we more or less collectively describe as being art. The history of art has led to various challenges as to who or... <human>: Next. <bot>: what is authorised to say whether such and such an object has the status of a work of art, not least Duchamp's famous upturned urinal, (1917) Fountain. In this sense, the thing-ness (to mimic Heidegger's vocabulary) of art, that which is most essential to it as what it is, is not as simple as saying that it just is. We could say then that what makes an art object the thing that it is are the network of institutional discourses that work to legitimise certain types of objects over and above other objects: art is what certain authoritative people say that it is. That cannot be all to be said about the matter though, because along with being institutionally constituted art enacts a play of the conceptual and... <human>: Next. <bot>: the material which resists whatever discursive networks may have to say about it. It is because of this base materiality that the thing-ness of... <human>: Next. <bot>: art is more than just what we can say about it. Where we would like to see a stable category (i. ‘art'), we find an elusive fluidity that slips away from even our power to name; we know that it is, but we don't always know how it is. The inevitable collapse of this project into a post-modernity that threw a de-centred subject adrift... <human>: More. <bot>: in a world of rickety foundations is more revealing of humanity's own... <human>: More. <bot>: nihilistic assumptions about reality than existential meaninglessness. So what bearing does any of this, as riveting as it no doubt is, have on Trinitarian theology? So far postmodern and post-structural philosophy seems... <human>: Next. <bot>: to head in the direction away from categories of thinking which suggest a grounded ontology, away from thinking that our categories have any basis in reality (whatever that is). 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' In a sense then, to plunge as far down as possible into reality in the hope of hitting a fixed point of reference, a stable ultimate reality, is as futile an endeavour as modernity has proven it to be. God, according to... <human>: Continue. <bot>: Zizioulas, is an event of communion; the being of God is here best described not as a static entity, but as a movement of relation. Moreover, this movement of relation does not pre-exist those involved in the dance of love it enacts; the Father, Son, and Spirit do not spring from this movement, just as they cannot be said to pre-exist the movement: they are the movement; they are this movement of relating love. Zizioulas quite strongly posits the Father as the ‘cause' or origin of this movement, but the Father Himself is only constituted as Father by the simple fact of being a Father. Thus, while He precedes the Son in terms barely describable, the Father's fatherliness is constituted precisely by the Son as son. 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Human: Finish this: CHEYENNE, Wyo. - Governor Matthew H. Mead invites Wyoming citizens to attend the swearing-in ceremony and reception for the state's five top elected officials ... Assistant: Rest of text: on Monday, January 5, 2015. Mead will be sworn in as Governor followed by Ed Murray as Secretary of State, Cynthia Cloud as State... Human: Next. Assistant: Auditor, Mark Gordon as State Treasurer and Jillian Balow as Superintendent of Public Instruction. The swearing-in ceremony can also be viewed via live webcast at governor. wy.gov, the Governor's website. “Wyoming people can join the ceremony live from their home, school or far away. Technology allows all of us to connect to this historical event,” Governor Mead said. “Students can participate from their classrooms... Human: Continue. Assistant: and Wyoming military men and women – wherever they are – can tune in and take part.”The swearing-in ceremony will start at 10:00 am at the Cheyenne Civic Center, 2101 O'Neil Avenue, Cheyenne. Following the swearing in ceremony there will be a public reception in the lobby of the Civic Center. Inauguration Co-Chairs Kathy and Jack Steil said, “We invite all of Wyoming to... Human: Continue. Assistant: join us in person or via the internet to welcome our elected officials.”CHEYENNE, Wyo. Western Watershed Project challenged the U. Bureau of Land Management's (BLM) decision to allow grazing on BLM land near Boulder, Wyoming. Wyoming filed a Motion to Intervene. “Wyoming worked closely with BLM during the initial review and prior to BLM's decision,” Governor Mead said. “The BLM reached a good decision... Human: More. Assistant: and has a good plan. Wyoming leases state land for grazing. If grazing were disallowed on BLM land adjacent to state land Wyoming grazing leases would be devalued. “Agriculture is important to... Human: Next. Assistant: Wyoming's culture and economy. Grazing and grazing leases are part of good management and support schools across Wyoming,” Governor Mead said. – Today Wyoming filed a brief in the 10th Circuit Court... Human: Next. Assistant: of Appeals supporting its plan to control nitrogen oxides (NOx) against a challenge from environmental groups. “This argument is about visibility conditions and Wyoming's plan ensures progress. Environmental groups are pushing for... Human: Continue. Assistant: the most strict NOx controls, at extraordinary cost, and that make little perceptible difference in visibility conditions. Their arguments are disingenuous,” Governor Mead said. Regional haze in Wyoming is caused mostly by sulfur dioxide (SO2) and particulate matter (PM). NOx-based constituents make up a very small part of the haze. The EPA approved Wyoming's plans for SO2 and PM. The 10th Circuit Court of... Human: Continue. Assistant: Appeals has upheld Wyoming's SO2 plan. Wyoming's PM plan was not challenged... Human: Continue. Assistant: Wyoming announced its intent to sue in August. “The lawsuit asks the court to force the BLM to manage wild horses in Wyoming as required by the Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act,” Governor Mead said. “It is my belief, and the belief of other western governors, that the BLM does not have the resources to manage wild horses effectively. By filing suit it... Human: More. Assistant: sends a message that wild horse management is a priority and the BLM must be provided the funding necessary to manage them.”The Wild Free-Roaming Horses and Burros Act requires the BLM to manage wild horses below previously set appropriate levels and to remove excess horses when populations exceed those levels. Herds will continue to exponentially grow beyond what the BLM determined is ecologically appropriate for each herd management area (HMA). These herds have population growth rates that range from as low as 25% to as high as 58% each year. Horses often stray from HMAs onto state and private land. “Excess wild horses in Wyoming can harm the habitats used by other wildlife species, including sage-grouse, antelope, deer and elk,” Governor Mead said. “Overgrazing caused by overpopulation threatens... Human: More. Assistant: all animals including horses.”The states Petition for Review is available on the Attorney General's website at http://ag. wyo.gov/current-issues. - Today Wyoming filed a Petition... Human: Next. Assistant: to Participate as a Party with the Oregon Office of Administrative Hearings for the Coyote Island Terminal coal port contested case. The Oregon Department of Land denied Coyote Island Terminal, LLC a... Human: Next. Assistant: permit to place standard concrete pilings in the Columbia River at the Port of Morrow. That decision shut down the possibility of building a coal terminal. The petition asserts Wyoming should be made a party to the contested case because it has significant interests in the outcome. Those interests include loss of revenue and jobs for the State of Wyoming and its citizens. “This... Human: Continue. Assistant: decision by the Oregon Department of Lands to deny the permit to... Human: More. Assistant: complete this terminal is a barrier to getting Wyoming coal to foreign markets,” Governor Mead said. “Wyoming would lose out on coal tax revenues of $9 to $30 million per year. Revenue... Human: More. Assistant: from coal funds public programs such as schools and infrastructure. A strong coal industry means thousands of direct and indirect jobs. Coal is vital here and Wyoming must assure it has a long future.”Wyoming argues the State of Oregon cannot disrupt interstate and foreign commerce to the disadvantage of Wyoming and other landlocked states. “The Commerce Clause of the United States Constitution prohibits Oregon from stopping the flow of a commodity in interstate and foreign commerce, and federal law preempts Oregon's ability to regulate this kind of docking structure,” Governor Mead said. If granted party status, Wyoming intends to fully participate and present information showing that the Oregon Department of State Lands decision was legally and factually wrong. – The Wyoming Business Council has received the Top 5... Human: Continue. Assistant: Award for Excellence in data center recruiting from Expansion Solutions, a national site selection magazine. This is the third consecutive year Wyoming has been recognized. “One of my priorities has been to diversify Wyoming's economy. Key to achieving this goal is recruitment of technology industries. This award three years running shows great progress,” Governor Mead said. “We have cultivated a business climate that works... Human: Continue. Assistant: well for technology businesses big and small. Companies like Microsoft and Green House Data have benefited from what Wyoming has to offer.”The award recognizes economic development organizations that excel in efforts to recruit and retain data centers. Expansion Solutions uses a scoring system from 1 to 10. Wyoming scored all 10s in the data center category. “Affordable energy, cool climate with low humidity, redundant... Human: Next. Assistant: fiber optics, business friendly policies, the number of announcements and the total investment for data center operations expanding and locating to the state has... Human: More. Assistant: earned Wyoming a well-deserved award as a digital leader,” said Kimberly Merkel, national account director for Expansion Solutions. Wyoming Business Council CEO Shawn Reese said, “Wyoming can now add biogas fuel cell power to its technology and energy portfolios. This is the first facility of its kind in the world. It is one more reason why Wyoming is a place for technology and technological advancements. – Governor Matt Mead presented a supplemental budget recommendation today, and emphasized the need for a thoughtful discussion about Wyoming's fiscal policy. “We have more than adequate resources to fund government operations; invest in infrastructure and excellence at the University of Wyoming and community colleges; and provide additional resources to local government,” Governor Mead said today. Governor Mead notes that the state's permanent... Human: Continue. Assistant: savings total $6.8 billion in the permanent mineral trust fund and $3 billion in the common School Permanent Land Fund. Liquid savings accounts available for expenditure by the legislature total $5. In... Human: Next. Assistant: addition to savings, the legislature may want to identify proceeds for capital gains that have not been included in the fiscal profile. He pointed to reversions from the past biennium of over... Human: Next. Assistant: $100 million as another possible resource. With these available resources, Governor Mead recommends a budget of approximately $17 million for state government operations. He... Human: Continue. Assistant: has recommended $51 million, to be matched by private donations, for research, athletic programs and a high altitude training facility at UW. Governor Mead... Human: More. Assistant: recommends just over $30 million for local governments. An additional $21.1 million is recommended for the construction of passing lanes on state highways, and... Human: Continue. Assistant: Mead focused specifically on Highway 59 between Douglas and Wright as a top priority. “The rainy day fund (LSRA) has nearly doubled during my time in office and the Permanent Wyoming Mineral Trust Fund has grown by more than 55%. These are remarkable increases,” Governor Mead said. “The state's CREG forecasts are not able to tell a complete story about state resources. Last year... Human: Continue. Assistant: $1 billion flowed to liquid and permanent saving accounts. The FY2014 revenue to the general fund exceeded the CREG forecast by $325 million.”Governor Mead's budget message to legislators emphasizes the need to evaluate the state's fiscal policy and to set the course for the future. ## “Revenues are substantial and ongoing expenditures are relatively flat. It is the right time to ask questions and begin to make decisions about the right amounts for saving and the right amount for investments in infrastructure,” Governor Mead said. The Governor noted that state agencies have demonstrated prudent use of state funds, which accounts for the sizeable reversions that may be available for further appropriation. State agency supplemental requests have been held to approximately $17 million – less than one-half percent of... Human: Continue. Assistant: the standard general fund biennial budget. The ceremony is organized by the... Human: More. Assistant: Natrona County United Veterans Council and will also recognize contractors who completed recent improvements to the cemetery. Robinson, who survived the Bataan Death March during WWII, will be specially recognized with the... Human: Next. Assistant: dedication of the cemetery's front driveway in his name. “Veterans Day reminds us that men and women who bravely served our country are all around us,” Governor Mead said. “They are young and old, friends and neighbors and members of our families. Many are peace officers, fire fighters, teachers, doctors, and nurses. There are veterans in every profession throughout Wyoming. We should take the time to personally say a grateful ‘thank you' to the veterans we know. They have earned it.”The ceremony will be held at 11:00 am at the Oregon Trail State Veterans Cemetery, 80 Veterans Cemetery Road, Evansville. – During his live news conference today, Governor Matt Mead reported on some key topics and recent developments for Wyoming. This included the announcement that Ramaco LLC filed... Human: Continue. Assistant: a permit application with the Wyoming Department of Environmental Quality to open the first new coal mine in over 50 years in Sheridan County. The mine is about 15,000 acres in size. “A study prepared by WWC Engineering of Sheridan says that the mine will create almost 600 new direct and indirect jobs in Sheridan County, with over $30 million in annual new wages... Human: More. Assistant: and over $464 million of total wages over the mine's life,” Governor Mead said. “This is a tremendous development for Wyoming's economy and will benefit the country as we provide affordable and abundant power.”Governor Mead gave an update on the Integrated Test Center project that would add value to carbon dioxide from a Wyoming coal-fired power plant. This would be used to create other products such as petrochemicals, graphene or artificial sweeteners. Companies have been providing expertise and helping to provide the necessary funding to bring this project to completion. “If you can turn CO2 into an asset it would be a big boost, not only for coal but for the products that slip stream could produce,” Governor Mead said. Today, Governor Mead attended a cord cutting for... Human: Next. Assistant: the new Microsoft data center powered by a fuel cell using biogas from the Dry Creek Reclamation Facility in Cheyenne. “The plant uses renewable biogas to fuel Microsoft's data center that is... Human: Next. Assistant: there. Human: Finish this: It is a zero-emissions effort,” Governor Mead said. “This is very exciting, not only because of the data center, but very exciting in being able to use that facility to create biogas to fuel the data center and to help power the treatment facility.”Governor Mead reported that internet connectivity through the Unified Network is moving faster than anticipated. “We have increased broadband connectivity to our schools exponentially. When I took office only two counties in the state had Ethernet capacity, now all 23 have Ethernet capacity,” Governor Mead said. “As I looked through material and looked at the complaint I am certainly very troubled,” Governor Mead said. “So my announcement is that I am going to direct the Attorney General to commence a prosecuting action, in the district court of which the officer is an official, asking for removal of the officer.”On the topic of highway fatalities, the Governor noted that of the 129 deaths this year 41 have been alcohol and drug related. Governor Mead applauded the work of the Governor's Council on Impaired Driving for the creation of the Drive Sober Wyoming smartphone app. “This smartphone app is meant to help reduce impaired driving by allowing for texting a friend, phoning a friend, finding a taxi, and it provides the laws and penalties related to impaired driving. The next phase will be an app, that we have been working to put together to prevent texting while driving,” Governor Mead said. – The Washington Post on Thursday published a column titled ... Assistant: Rest of text: Best State in America: Wyoming, for tax purposes. It reported that the Tax Foundation, the nation's leading tax policy research organization, named Wyoming #1 in its 2015 ranking of states. For several years running, Wyoming has ranked #1 as the state with the best tax climate for businesses, and once again our state stays at the top of this important annual ranking. The recognition that Wyoming's tax system is the most hospitable in the country to business is significant as we continue to work for economic growth and diversification. “Economic growth has been one of my top priorities. Wyoming has earned its reputation of being the best place for business. We have focused on reduced regulatory burdens and increased policies that promote growth,” Governor Mead said. “Accolades like these are independent indicators that we are getting things right.”The Tax Foundation looks at individual income, sales, corporate income, property and unemployment taxes. Wyoming scores exceptionally well because it has no corporate income or individual income tax. The state's 4% sales tax rate is low compared to California with a 7.5 percent rate. “Tax structure is just one piece of the economic development plan,” Governor Mead said. “Wyoming is also investing in transportation and internet infrastructures that are just as important as a favorable tax climate to attract a diversity of businesses. ## Business diversity strengthens the economy. It provides opportunity for Wyoming workers and assures a high quality of life. We will continue to work hard to keep Wyoming the top stop for business.

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After seven years of zero interest rate policies, economists should be much more worried about the damage done from speculative bubbles and mal-investments created from such rates. But the reason the markets could have a larger response to a hike is that they're not used to a one-and-done, which is what I see happening. Instead, they've witnessed the Fed going in one direction or the other for significant periods of time. So they assume that once they start hiking, they'll continue to do so for years, even if very slowly. If the Fed finally does raise rates, a whopping 0.25%, I predict that will be the last rate [spans 5] time. And with worsening demographic trends here and around the world (especially in Europe), I don't see much of a debate on the matter. Meanwhile, Europe is languishing, China and emerging countries continue to slow, and retail sales are weakening in the U. Top it off with escalating geopolitical events and tensions – even a possible stock correction just ahead – and there's a chance the Fed may hold off at the last minute. For starters, I think stocks would react favorably just a little, but only at first. In the short-term, it would be a sign that the Fed felt confident in the economy enough to finally raise rates. At some point, now very likely in 2016, we will have another financial crisis that will send the yields on riskier bonds soaring exponentially. We could even see an initial, smaller spike in longer-term Treasury bonds. But before you know it, those yields will head down, and prices up, as Treasurys [spans 6] again. That's just what happened in late 2008. But let's look more [spans 7] 1940. In late 1931 when the Fed was faced with growing deficits, they decided to hike short-term rates big time – from 0.6%, all the way to 3.3%, which we now look back on as a huge mistake. At first, long-term Treasury yields bounced from 3. But then, it switched, and eventually yields fell from early 1932 into late 1941 to as low as 1. During this time, the highest quality Aaa bonds spiked from 4.2% to 5.7% into mid-1932 as stocks bottomed. (Note the yields here are inverted, with rising rates pointing downward, to reflect lower bonds prices and a growing financial crisis. Now, I don't expect our much more accommodative Fed of today to react like this – not in an economy that's been weak for seven years after a crisis. This is just meant to illustrate that yields spike in the short-term when the markets figure out everything's crashing! But I do still see a spike ahead – just one that comes from a worsening economy and higher default rates. Which [spans 8] weakness. I do see a short-term spike happening in 10- and 30-year Treasurys as I told Boom & Bust readers in November. But I don't expect it to last for long – especially when deflationary trends become more obvious. Higher risk bonds, however, I expect will rise in rates and plummet in value for years. Ultimately, deflation in the years ahead will bode well for the highest-quality bonds, and poorly for the lower-quality ones. Just look at junk bonds, which are down nearly 20% from their highs! I've been working on Dent's editorial team for almost a year and a half now, and in that time, I've read a lot of copy. By now, I've had the opportunity to work with all of our different editors. I've read their newsletters, watched their videos, chatted with them over the phone, and even gotten a drink or two with them at company functions. But the one thing that I haven't done, in all this time, is watched them give a presentation in person, live and up on stage. ## The information just transfers differently. And if I have a question about something that, say, Rodney talked about during his presentation on the death of the dollar, I don't have to do a Google search to find out what I'm looking for. It's that personalized one-on-one time that, for me, made this weekend different and so incredibly valuable. And I hope that all of our readers who came out to this year's Irrational Economic Summit felt the same way. Now, I know that not everyone has the time to check their email over the weekend, so for those of you who might have missed an update or two, here's a quick recap of our Summit events in Palm Beach . Harry kicked us off by telling audience members about the opportunities that will be available [spans 9] crash. What you need to understand [spans 10] 1930s. It will annihilate everyone in its path – no exceptions. In fact, it's the usually safe-in-their-ivory-towers 0.01%-10% of the population who will see the greatest hit to their finances in the years ahead. And that bust period – or, what Harry likes to call the winter deflationary season – is fast approaching, so now is the time to start preparing. Luckily, those in the U. will have an advantage over the rest of the world, and it's called the dollar. As Rodney explained in his presentation on Friday, the buck isn't going anywhere any time soon. As [spans 11] have. This is something that Raoul Pal really drove home when he talked about his macro view of the global economy. He explained that right now, the world is desperately short of dollars, making those who have their wealth tied to our currency all the richer. Lacy Hunt reminded us all how we got to this problem in the first place. Not to point a finger, but . You see, as Lacy explained, the federal government has tried desperately to sell off its debt in recent years. The problem is that we've seen a shift in savings going from the private sector [spans 12] classes. Those who don't have a lot of money in the first place generally don't make the effort to “do their part” to stimulate the economy, a concept that the federal government just can't seem to wrap its head around. So what we've seen is a gradual decline in spending, a slowing economy, and historically low interest rates as a result. It's a problem that no amount of easy-money is going to fix . but don't be surprised if you see Fed officials trying it again anyway. However, should they ever get their heads out of the sand and decide to implement some real monetary reform, David Walker has some amazing ideas on how to cut unnecessary spending and get our country back towards a more balanced budget. In the meantime, there are plenty of ways to both make and save your money in this environment, and we saw [spans 13] days. Charles showed us how to make great value investments despite high stock prices and abnormally low periods of volatility . Adam taught us that investors tend to base their decisions off of a fight-or-flight fear response, and how to avoid doing just that . John gave us insider knowledge about companies who fudge their numbers and rip off investors to pay themselves before their shareholders, and how to find quality companies [spans 14] . Ben unveiled his new MarketVOX Intel Trader service, and how with it, he can search through over 3.9 million pieces of market intelligence to “hear” what high-level execs and investors are thinking . And Lance taught us how to turn a profit off of interest rate volatility – whether rates go up, down or sideways. This year's Summit really had something for everyone. We went into it wanting to not [spans 15] you. I'd say that after some 30-plus hours of non-stop insider tips and insight, we succeeded (and then some). For those of you who weren't able to make it out, there's still time to order our 2016 Irrational Economic Summit Digital Replay Kit. With it, you'll have access to many of the great presentations that our speakers gave this year, six of our workshops (audio only), [spans 16] Lifetime. We also hope you'll come out and join us next year in Nashville. We'll let you know what days to mark in your calendars when we've nailed those down. Before I go, I just wanted to acknowledge a few people [spans 17] scenes. Thank you to the editors – Harry, Rodney, Adam, Charles, Lance, John, and Ben – you guys were awesome. These events take a village to pull together, and I'm so happy to be working with each and every one of you. Also, a big thank you [spans 18] Dr. Lacy Hunt, Howard Lindzon, and Andrew Pancholi. They are truly the greatest minds of our time! You're the reason that we hold this conference each year. I met a lot of amazing people this past weekend, and I sincerely hope to see you all next year in Nashville. Every generation has a different set of values from the one before it. The “Greatest Generation” survived the Great Depression and World War II, developing a much different set of values than, say, Generation X or Y, whose conflicts tend to be focused on family, friends, and their immediate surroundings. My wife and I [spans 19] now. I was obviously young, not far out of college, between undergrad and grad school, and already had student loans. Living in New York, my idea of financial responsibility was keeping the credit card charges under the limit while spending everything I had on rent and entertainment. To say that we weren't yet on a firm financial footing would [spans 20] understatement. It didn't matter, we married anyway. Our first child was born when I was 26 and still in grad school. Those circumstances — young, educated, in debt, not yet financially stable, back in school, and married with children — didn't seem unusual at the time, although they would clearly make me an outlier today. Nowadays, the news is full of stories of young millennials putting off life decisions as they grapple with finding good jobs, paying off student loans, and generally getting settled. One indication of this is the falling marriage rate, which has long been considered the starting point for so many other milestones in life. Looking back farther than just the last five years, marriage has been on the wane for decades. We tend to think of marriage as a precursor to other highlights in life, like having children and buying a home. However, while marriage rates have dropped, these other milestones have ebbed and flowed, not necessarily following the path of nuptials. In other words, just because marriage is waning doesn't mean that people have stopped having kids or buying houses, which are both drivers of the economy! Over the past fifty or so years, the total fertility rate (TFR, or the number of children per woman of child-bearing age) has been anything but consistent. fell in the early 1970s, and bottomed around 1976. At this point the fertility rate had fallen to 1.9, well below the 2.10 rate needed to keep the size of the population stable. The birth rate moved higher by the mid-1980s, experienced a brief drop during the 2001 recession, peaked in 2007, then fell with the onset of the financial crisis, eventually dipping to 1.88 by 2013. Factbook, the estimated fertility rate in the U. last year was 2.01; not quite replacement rate, but definitely moving in the right direction. From our point of view, the economy needs the children to coax spending by the parents, to say nothing of supporting all of us through Social Security [spans 21] on. A possible reason for this is that more children are born to unwed mothers. That's true, but with a twist. The rising trend is for cohabitating couples to have children. Many cohabitating couples with children cite their uncertain financial future as a main reason for not yet tying the knot, so the economy is still holding people back from some decisions. How these same people think having children is somehow cheaper or less of a burden than marriage, I have no idea. But the point remains that even though these couples are reaching life's milestones in a different order, they are still reaching them. This includes the desire to buy a home. According to Zillow, 5.2 million renters say they intend to buy a home this year, which is one million more than at the same time last year. As rents get more expensive and children crowd the apartment, it's easy to see why housing demand could pick up, especially for starter homes. The downturn we expect in the near future will dampen some of these trends — probably causing births to fall again for a couple of years [spans 22] goals. As they do, I believe the large millennial generation will give our economy the horsepower it needs to finally break out of the current deflationary cycle and drive to new heights. <assistant> spans 1: compiled a substantial body of spans 2: models with cross-sectional spans 3: eminent journals including Econometrica and Review of Economic spans 4: and quantity of his contributions to theoretical spans 5: hike for a long spans 6: become the safe haven spans 7: closely at a much more extreme example that came from 1932 to spans 8: is why I could care less about miniscule Fed rate hikes, and am a lot more concerned about economic spans 9: during the upcoming “sale of a lifetime” – a period of time that will directly correlate with the next market spans 10: is this: the crash that Harry's forecasting is going to be more devastating than the Great Depression was during the spans 11: a matter of fact, it's probably the best crisis hedge that you can spans 12: to the public sector as a way to pay for it – and it's put a real hurting on savers in the middle and lower spans 13: a whole host of them over the last few spans 14: that actually put you first spans 15: only give you the big picture of what lies ahead, but also show you a variety of different ways to deal with it – whatever that looks like for spans 16: and a digital copy of Harry's latest book, The Sale of a spans 17: who worked so hard to make our 2016 summit spectacular – Shannon Sands, our Publisher, Amanda Klein, our Conference Director, Megan Johnson, our Marketing Manager, Teresa van den Barselaar, our Editorial Director, Jacquie Talbot, our Member Services Specialist, Brendan Finnerty, our photographer, and everyone else who worked tirelessly behind the spans 18: to all the experts who took to the stage: Dan Mitchell, the honorable David Walker, Chris Gaffney, Don Hosmer, Raoul Pal, Joe Wirbick, George Gilder, Josh Bennett, Barry Potekin, spans 19: married at 23, which sounds crazy spans 20: be an spans 21: and Medicare taxes later spans 22: and many renters to stay put at the same time — but the great thing about people is they will eventually find ways to go about their lives and reach their

User: Fill in the missing words: In Today's Globe & Mail (19/10/2006) there is a major article titled: Exactly how bad is salt by Unnati Gandi. It starts, “The Centre for Science in the Public Interest, one of the not-for-profit movers and shakers in the growing anti-salt movement, says as many as 15,000 Canadians a year are dying prematurely because of ‘excessive sodium consumption. '”Both Pat and I have high blood pressure and our doctor wants us to cut back on salt. We have been trying to cut back for some time. We haven't had a salt shaker on the table in a number of years and I don't add the salt when a particular recipe calls for it. The problem arises with processed foods. It is extremely difficult to find a cold breakfast cereal without salt. Why do Bran Flakes have salt added? Shredded Wheat is the only cold cereal I could find without any salt. We eat a lot of tomato products. North American canned tomato products all have copious amounts of salt; even the “low-salt” V8 juice has more salt than we would like. I have found, however, [words 1] in Italy have zero or almost no salt. [words 2] particularly unimpressed with Zehr's / Loblaw's Blue Menu items. While they cut the fat and use whole grains they do nothing to lower the sodium. [words 3] are no better than the national brands in sodium content. Soups are particularly bad when it comes to sodium. Look at even the salt-reduced varieties and you find they are nowhere near the minimum salt level found in [words 4] On. Soup's On makes very good soup; our favourites being Hot and Sour, Broccoli, [words 5] Pea and Lentil. Restaurants are another problem. [words 6] food restaurant meals contain too much salt. Chinese food is particularly bad in this regard. Chinese food requires the flavours [words 7] like soy sauce, hoisin sauce, black bean and garlic sauce, chili and garlic sauce, etc. All these sauces have a high salt content. Though there are low-salt brands, they are generally hard to find. We were therefore particularly pleased when we saw the grand opening menu of Jumbo Dragon www. It has 13 dishes in a Special Diet Plates section that have “No salt, No Fat and No Cholesterol.” We ordered in the Seafood Combination and the Ma Po To Fu and though not as good as at our favourite, Cameron Seafood Restaurant, both were very good. This restaurant [words 8] quite close to Grand River Collegiate. Given the current concern of our government about the health of our young people I hope at least some Grand River students will choose from this section of the menu. @50cent accidentally earns around $8 million worth of Bitcoin from sales of his 2014 album “Animal Ambition”The Consent Guidebook is an easy-to-follow guide that offers practical advice, from over 30 experts, for establishing boundaries and respecting [words 9] of others. President Trump is emphasizing “Made in America” [words 10] White House event to celebrate products manufactured in the U. Approximately 344,000 manufacturing jobs have been created since the President took office:This entry was posted in Donald Trump, Economy, Election 2018, energy, media bias, President Trump, Trade Deal, [words 11] agriculture, US Treasury, USA. Can't tell you how awesome this is whenever I see “made in America “ or read anything that promotes “made in America altogether ! It sends inspirational thoughts in my mind, tears of joy in my heart, and pride in my soul! It truly gives me hope to prove the naysayers wrong, the doubters to be humbled and the haters into believers! With a little love for our fellow American, we truly can be Americans again working together to enrich everyone's life through values, hardwork, and respect for one [words 12] better to give one a fishing pole than to give them fish! The American way! Yep! Made in America a time honoured tradition that we [words 13] Thank you Mr, President! Jedi9, we are currently a divided nation – thanks to ozero, the divider-in-chief. When more of our citizens are able to participate/benefit in our growing prosperity, I believe we will see more unification. We will always have malcontents but their numbers should dwindle. Janie, and we, by our very attitudes, can hasten the marginalization of those who would be violent [words 14] unproductive. But if our enemies cannot discourage us, and I don't believe they will, the President's approval numbers will continue to climb, and it will be the enemy who will decrease in numbers and strength, as his supporters gain . to the benefit of our great Country. That is what [words 15] bigger picture or the plan is! When ever ones [words 16] is elevated by means of education and gainful employment, then the rest takes care of itself. I believe this is just [words 17] there is much to do in [words 18] economic dominance. First things first, and that is addressing China's infiltration by way of economic aggression within our economy or for that matter within our own country! Our flags should never, ever, ever be made in China, or by a foreign entity! [words 19] If this alone doesn't anger you, then nothing will! pecosbill79772, yes, when growing up it was Made in America or Made in USA and the world loved our products for good materials and good making (that is not falling apart quickly), and today America is now called “strong country” again in China. Our products are expensive in China but now there is more money to spend there and the stores are doing darn well with our products, especially clothes! Makes us proud to visit and see that we are not the only one who want great products made of quality and durance. I want to see more shoe making businesses [words 20] I was growing up. Good leather, good fit, good quality no matter what, and AFFORDABLE! Also, it amazes me how rested our President looks when you think of the few hours he sleeps and the load of work he gets done every day. He makes me proud as well as America. My former employer had a small company shoe store (open one day per [words 21] carried Red Wing Shoes exclusively. All shop workers were required to wear safety shoes but because we all got a nice discount everyone bought personal shoes there also. They are very well made shoes and never undersized, unlike many imports. That's what's awesome about Trump Weeks. You start with something awesome, then by Friday you've scored two or more additional awesome things, for a total of 3 or more awesome things. Things get so awesome you can't even remember the Monday awesome thing! IT'S AWSOME! ! ! :^pWell, someone, probably a DARPA guy, [words 22] lunar regolith (moondust) to print. PLUS, I've heard rumors they we're working on a 3D printer that laser welds sintered metal, [words 23] forged aluminum. PLUS, the idea to carry plants with them. Remember all those CO2 emissions the left warned us about? Well, everyone who passed earth science remembers, the plants ‘breath' the CO2 and expel OXYGEN. Thus, the plants would eventually reduce or eliminate the need to carry/transport compressed oxygen to breath. [words 24] ! ! No freaking way. I would have said: “fantastic photoshop, my friend”. I cannot believe that, that is so freaking awesome. Does this man have a set of you-know-what, or WHAT? I say: “Yes. Yes he does.”I've stopped buying reader glasses at the drug stores because they're all made in China (foster grant and the rest) ; so I went [words 25] nice ones made in America at readingglasses.com; the one con was the glass case that came with [words 26] “made in China” sticker on it. I let the company know how disappointing this was and stated that [words 27] cases to go go with the glasses. It's #MadeinAmerica day here at the White House! We have welcomed companies from all 50 states who are proudly making products right here in America.com/d2okC8nyTgI absolutely love this. I emailed [words 28] the last one and told him how much I enjoyed the coverage of it. It looks so fun I wish I could go and ooh and ahh over all the stuff [words 29] make. Look! Actual Aliens Have landed at the White House! They claim they didn't want POTUS tweeting in ALL CAPS at them–so they are turning themselves in now . Elizabeth Carter, I fully agree. We need our military at our borders, taking over sanctuary cities and arresting mayors and governors, helping ICE to arrest more criminals and get them off our turf! We are [words 30] for wars and conflicts created by other countries. NATO just proved they are not worth of our [words 31] own military and weapons, whatever and fight the wars/conflicts they have caused! Obama is jealous because he wasn't made in America and finally [words 32] American president from Kenya.”Elizabeth Carter, many of knew he was an illegal but placed by big money in our WH which he left a multi-millionaires. Let's arrest him if and when he has tried to re-enter our country and hang him for all the damage he caused to our Republic and this disdain of our military, and literally everyone else here. Thank you @POTUS and @VP for highlighting the hard work of American businesses and workers at today's @WhiteHouse “Made in [words 33] event. From a F-35 fighter jet to Texan boots, it is clear America is open for business due to a robust economy and tax cuts. ## #MadeInAmerica🇺🇸 pic.com/ImwkBozlzpThank you for covering this. Too bad there is no televised coverage so [words 34] know that there are great things going on. I had an Igloo Elite ice chest out in the yard to keep [words 35] who I didn't want tracking muddy feet inside. Somehow the lock broke, so I made a quick trip to buy another one (later, the head guy said he could fix it). While contemplating the purchase I realized it was well over 30 years old and had traveled to soccer games, picnics and multiple fishing trips. Two [words 36] than one. Back then the new models came out every year. Our automobile [words 37] standard in the world. Then the copycats in other nations took over. They just didn't have the vision or the joy of designing new things. They only saw the bottom line and although the bottom line [words 38] was never what America was about. America has always been about vision and being the best we could be. As Melania says “Be Best.” They took our factories, stole our designs and made what was a great movement into a mediocre pursuit of money. I used to love to see the new car designs each year. I loved to live in a country that was always pushing the envelope and exploring new ideas. Elizabeth Carter, and both our Toyotas made in the [words 39] #1. I had the other brands and always with problems because of the unions. Freedom to work without dues is real freedom! What we need, Zippy, is more informed media and their “experts” telling the truth to the public. I watched an hour long discourse on the steel/aluminum industry [words 40] of Ph. Ds who knew zilch about the products, and the “journalists” — and I use the term loosely [words 41] had never entered a steel mill of any type during their 5-year-long-legged-short skirts-career — all agreed that China had taken PDJT for a ride. What those academics don't know about the trade industries would fill the Library of Congress in digital form. The politicians with a few exceptions are worse. The USA is going to thrive because nobody does it better when these idiots in their Ivies and D. get the heck out of the way and stop manipulating the “free” markets. Somebody needs to rewrite the Webster's Dictionary and stop the propaganda. Don't give up hope, Zippy. Our horses will all come back now. We had American horses, not wild horses and even for horses, there is no place like home. Bought a Coleman Xtreme cooler made in the USA for $40. Meanwhile others are paying $400 for Yeti coolers made in China. Walmart has been on a “made in America” thing of their own for the last several years. They are providing aid to startups and purchasing American items to sell. Look for the American labels. Walmart started out saying they would feature Made in USA goods. Now all of their goods are made in China. IIRC, Sam was also against nafta, but once it went thru after he passed, his successors went full globalist. The one and only time I have been in a Walmart was in [words 42] artist friend in Cheyenne, and we went [words 43] she got snapshots for her work. We stopped at a 100 x 100′ Walmart to buy some heavy gloves to fight back the shrubs so she could get clear photos. [words 44] Made In The USA. Loaned them to my landscaper yesterday who was trying to remove some raspberries gone astray. I don't know what else to say, I'm in awe of this man. He promotes America, which is to say the American [words 45] say you and me, more than anyone ever, George Washington included. He's our best friend, our biggest cheerleader. And it's obvious he loves doing it. His love [words 46] overwhelming. I'm bumbling around looking for words, I don't know what to say. The experts all told us that America was basically through, done with, party's over. He's bringing it all back, losers and haters be damned, bigger and better and stronger than ever before. He brings tears to my eyes. Thank you President Trump. I'm right with you, sometimes it's hard to come up with the right words to convey our emotions, especially with one as our President. He loves us all so much and wants us all to flourish, it's hard to express our genuine thanks. Hopefully, one day, you might get your wish and get a hug from our President Trump. I hope one day I will be able to too. I couldn't agree with you more! It has taken a lifetime but to have such a cheerleader for us flyover people is just awesome and worth the wait. And he is just getting started. Its really [words 47] to see some of the ignorant comments some fools pollute up the threads with. Its like we live in 2 countries, the USA and whatever this hate filled filth lives in. I don't even consider them fellow citizens anymore. They are valueless sewage. Trump like us loves this country. I for one and many like me would gladly pay a higher price for products made in America by Americans with the quality that we used to be able to buy instead off the cheap china garbage . I'll fly [words 48] btch. and will make it back in one piece too. Ain't much different than what I flew before (just in a [words 49] direction. Look at this American Greatness. Look at all of those offshore oilfields lit up. Built with All-American steel and muscle. It's magnificent out there. I grew up in New Orleans but moved north. Many times I would make the long [words 50] late at night. As soon as I hit the Interstate 10 split and saw the fires from the Norco Refinery, I knew I was close to home, family, great food, [words 51] hospitality. Does anyone know if there is a way we can see all of the great Made In America items showcased today at the WH? I couldn't find anything last year, but was hoping there might be something this time around. I'd love to see what my state had there among so many other states that I love. Excellent question, I can't do much from my cellphone but I'm almost positive if there is a link one of our kind Treepers will post it. Here's is one list of toys. I think Lincoln Logs, Tinker Toys [words 52] here, too. Will look for more USA links. I need a source linens/sheets (college bound and wedding gifts) if any of you have suggestions. I have been hearing commercials for a company named Red Land Cotton. Seems to be an Alabama company that grows the cotton in AL and makes the product there [words 53] well. Did my part this week to buy made in the USA [words 54] B. We have room for improvement in producing yarn and thread and fabric yardage domestically, so go textile sector go! I made a big deal at J. Peterman about importing their entire catalog, but they do carry some retro styles my family likes. When I found a Panama hat there, they must have had my name on their complaint list, because they quickly informed me that, while they had to import the fibers, the hat was Made In The USA. I gave them a break because it was the only reasonably priced one I could find for a 75-years-olds birthday and he goes through hats like ice cream on a August noon. Sure enough, it arrived with a YUGE tag on it bragging the USA manufacturing label. Now they need to expand that effort. Just returned from Las Vegas with a surface planer so I can start up my Made in Ca custom door and sash business that went out of business on Jan 1st 2009Had to shut the doors to a very successful business on Oct 8th 2008 and was demonized for using wood (because it was not green . while fossile fuel synthetics which only lasted [words 55] ) for eight years I love outr president and spend every minute I can to educate these snow flakes in Ca (I'm third generation going [words 56] Jobs and a good outlook on the future is far better than a welfare check that makes you poorer by the day! I just bought a pair of riding boots from Texas, They are so comfortable and [words 57] to use them for work or riding . NOTI just bought a new refrigerator–Whirlpool, made in [words 58] but next to impossible to service! goddesoftsheclassroom, and LG stuff is expensive and doesn't wear well. Korean products don't come up to my standards at all, so I buy American and the appliances last for multi-years. I'm sorry to be judgmental. [words 59] to do. But, damn! Anyone who watches and hears our President give this speech and still doesn't “get it” is an [words 60] did was tell us “tough luck, those jobs are never coming back” from the comfort of their Washington DC ivory towers. “The American made directory is sorted by categories of products that are made in the USA. To view the listings please click on one of the many made in America categories you will find below on this page. If you are not sure of the correct category please use the search box. We have worked for years to put together this extensive listing of products made in the USA. [words 61] American Made items and maybe you will, however in the long run you will almost certainly have a better made item made in a labor friendly fashion under environmental laws that protect us all. Most foreign factories operate in ways that would be illegal in the United States. Only you have the power to level the playing field when you decide to buy products made in the USA whenever you can. Please read the article here if you would like more reasons why you should buy American made products The great news is there is something you can do about creating jobs in the USA. Every time you buy a domestic made item you just supported an American worker.”We really do want Mexico to pay for the wall. Our Lion is working NAFTA so they will. Can't wait to [words 62] out. I don't care if it's already been posted 100 time on Tree House, I just HAVE to post it one more time! “President Donald Trump's approval rating edged higher during a week in which he faced withering criticism following a summit with Russian President Vladimir Putin, signaling that he is positioned to weather the latest controversy sparked by his unusual brand of politics,” the WSJ reports. Trump's job approval rose to 45% in a new Wall Street Journal/NBC News poll, the highest mark of his presidency and up 1 percentage point from June.”squatterbody, and 88% want to elect [words 63] was really hard blow for the nevertrumpers and democrats! [words 64] capable of building a fighter jet that is superior to the F-35. But for some reason we rather waste money on the F-35 and risk losing air superiority to China. You guys have to see this. It [words 65] Herculean effort to get the Space Capsule onto the White House lawn. They did it, in the rain! The kids loved it. God Bless the NASA guys and the White House staff for getting the ORION deep [words 66] today. I mean, who wouldn't want to sit in an F-35 Stealth Bomber? #MadeinAmerica #MADEinUSA #MAGA pic.com/3z1DtK5kx4VSGPDJT LOVES America AND Americans! Let's show him we love him back by getting off our asses and voting for his agenda in Nov. and then get on our knees and ask God to help us all Make America Great Again! ! ! President Trump is the Jobs President, the MAGA [words 67] Economic Revival President. He is the most multidimensionally talented president in [words 68] lifetime. That man can bring tears to my eyes, I swear, he loves this country, he embodies the American spirit through and through. Can you imagine buying things again that say made in America? I used to look at the labels but gave up after [words 69] China. Here at The Courthouse Collection, our original fullstrand creations are classy, modern and superbly elegant. We guarantee you the the best prices are always available from this website. Should you find a lower publicly available rate within 48 hours of your booking we guarantee you that we will match that rate, depending on the following conditions:The Lower Rate must be for the same room category, the same period of stay and under the same terms and conditions. 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Your responses will be used to help plan the conference. <|prompter|> Find the missing spans: For the recent London Selenium Users Meetup Event I was asked if I could provide the attendance list in a suitable format for creating labels for the guests when they arrive. Given the short timeframe I did this simply by highlighting the names on meetup.com, copying them, and pasting them into a simple text editor. I then quickly cleaned this up before sending the list on. Within a short while the list was out of date due [spans 1] out. Here's another one of my odd Selenium examples! Last month I finally got to eat at a ‘Cheesecake Factory' restaurant, after first hearing about them a few years back from an American friend. There's an overwhelming choice of 30+ cheesecakes to choose from, and I'm really not good at making decisions when there's [spans 2] choice. 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If you were only able to assert then your tests may fail early on, not revealing further failures that may exist. Due to the impressive response to [spans 13] 40. Head over to the Meetup or Event [spans 14] RSVP. If the 40 places are already full then add yourself to the waiting list and you'll be notified [spans 15] out. The dragAndDropToObject command works really well in Selenium, however it does have some limitations. One such limitation I came across recently while writing tests for an ExtJS web application: when your destination object is in a scrolling box (and not in view) the command fails. Automating an ExtJS web application can [spans 16] page. For example, the majority of unique ID attributes in the HTML will be different between builds, which causes problems locating elements reliably. 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She heat embossed several tulips with Rose Gold embossing powder and fussy cut each of them. This totally take my breath away. Then I spotted this cute & fun is this project made by Runaji, on Instagram and I just love her idea of using The Ton Honey Bears set to make label for her jar of oil cheese. This bear is perfect for it. Next, I just love this trendy card by Jan Reckers using Haute Books & Haute Stacks set. This totally make me think of cool coffee house where I could hang out with friends to catch up. This one card by papersalutations is clean & simple, which is just the way I like it. She heat embossed the Flamingo Print and step up the game simply adding that strip of gold foil. And, last but not least, this beautiful card by Hellen Pearce using the lovely Peony Garden. this was her first time using The Ton stamps! She did wonderfully, don't you think? I hope you're enjoying today's showcase and hopefully they inspire you to create more fun & awesome projects. Thank you all so much for sharing your projects using The Ton stamps. We love seeing your creations and can't wait to see more from you all. Keep on creating and tag us, whether your post on FB, Instagram or you blog. Let us know & we come visit. Who knows, your projects could be the next one we highlighted! It's been two years since Britons voted to leave the EU. Why don't they have the details worked out yet? Here's everything you need to know:The results of the 2016 Brexit referendum took everyone by surprise, and nobody had really run the numbers about what leaving the EU would mean. The Leave campaign said abandoning the EU would bring a financial windfall, but it's now clear there will be large costs. contributes about $10 billion more to the EU budget than it gets from the EU in public service funding, rebates, and payments to farmers, and that money will now stay home. But those savings will be swallowed up by costs related to Britain's loss of access to the EU single market. Financial firms in London, and other service industries, which account for nearly 80 percent of British GDP, are expected to lose $47 billion a year once Brexit goes through. All told, 44 percent of British exports go to the EU, while just 8 percent of EU exports go to the U. desperate to preserve some kind of viable access to EU markets, the EU is in a much stronger bargaining position and has so far refused to yield at all on its core demands. The EU has already demanded, and won, a pledge that Britain will pay the $51 billion it owes in EU officials' pension costs and other obligations. It is adamant that Britain cannot have unfettered access to the vast EU single market unless it adheres to all of the EU's "four freedoms" — free movement of goods, services, capital, and people. The EU says it can't allow Britain to choose just one or two of those four commitments, lest Brexit set a precedent for other restless countries that might wish to strike their own bespoke bargains. Most importantly, the EU has taken the side of its member state Ireland in insisting that the border between the Irish Republic and the U. province of Northern Ireland remain open and free for travel and trade after Brexit. Over the three decades of sectarian strife known as the Troubles, the Irish Republican Army battled the British Army and pro-British paramilitaries from Northern Ireland in a guerrilla conflict that left some 3,600 dead. The border bristled with military watchtowers and checkpoints until the 1998 Good Friday Accord brought peace. Both sides fear that if border controls were to be reinstituted, tensions would resurface and lead to violence. One way to avoid a "hard border" is for Northern Ireland to be included in the EU customs union, which ensures that EU member states all charge the same import duties to non-EU countries. But that arrangement would require Northern Ireland to institute checks at its border with the rest of the U. — a requirement Britain refuses to accept. Prime Minister Theresa May has consistently said "Brexit means Brexit. " The 52 percent who voted Leave were alarmed by the growing control of the EU bureaucrats over Britain, and also objected to the influx of laborers from Poland and other EU countries, whom they accused of stealing jobs from Britons. To respect the Leave vote, May says, the U. must have full control over its own immigration and regulations and not be subject to the jurisdiction of the European Court of Justice. In a "soft Brexit" plan, the U. could stay in the EU customs union. It's unlikely, though, that May will agree to that, because it would involve accepting EU regulations and court jurisdiction and restrict Britain's ability to negotiate trade deals with other countries. The more likely outcome is some version of the "hard Brexit" scenario, in which the U. would establish a free trade agreement with the EU (like the one the EU has with Canada), so there would be no tariffs. would set its own regulations and immigration and trade policy. and EU would have to institute customs and regulatory checks at borders. To circumvent the Northern Ireland border problem, May hopes that checkpoints there can be avoided through some high-tech scanning technology yet to be invented. is scheduled to leave the EU on March 29, 2019. With no trade deal in place, customs checks would have to begin on all goods crossing the British border both ways. doesn't have the infrastructure to do that, trucks would back up for miles. The just-in-time supply chains that British stores and manufacturers use would be disrupted, causing shortages of food and other goods. British financial firms would lose their right to sell their services in the EU. Companies would lay off workers. The pound would plummet. Brexit proponents say such a doomsday scenario is unjustified scaremongering. "No deal is better than a bad deal," May insists. With no agreement in sight that's acceptable to both the EU and Brexit hard-liners in the U. it increasingly looks like May's prediction will be tested — less than six months from now. Some British leaders, including former Prime Minister John Major and London Mayor Sadiq Khan, are calling for a "people's vote" — a second referendum that would be held if Parliament rejects the final Brexit terms. May has absolutely ruled that out, saying it would amount to "politicians telling people they got it wrong the first time and they should try again. " Even if her government were somehow persuaded, it's by no means clear what the outcome of such a vote would be. A YouGov poll found this summer that overall support for remaining in the EU had climbed to 53 percent, with Leave at 47 percent. A more recent poll found that if given the choice now to stay in the EU or take whatever deal May strikes, 40 percent would vote Remain, 39 percent would vote Leave, and the rest are undecided. After years of bitter arguments over the subject, Britons still haven't reached a workable consensus. Explaining the decision, organisers said publicly what many who attended the festival in the past few years may have realised already: it got too big. For organisers that meant a whole lot of financial risk. For attendees it meant a less-than-ideal experience. Suggestions that the festival's closure is an indictment on Perth's inability to have fun are wide of the mark. This is not about Perth as a cultural backwater. This is about an event whose time has come and gone. The festival was a game- changer in its early days but in more recent years it felt like a day-long tribute to sunburn and alcohol, not a celebration of the Mt Lawley strip. I attended the festival several times, queuing in the sun to get into a bar I could access hassle-free on any other day. I have navigated through crowds messy with alcohol and past discarded food and drink wrappers and cigarette butts, emerging covered in sweat and other substances on which I chose not to dwell. Yes, there were exhibitions, bands, fashion parades and stalls but it was easy to forget it in the crush. I saw more backs of people's heads than I did pieces of street art. When the festival began, Perth was in a different place. Festivals, food trucks, pop-up bars and street food were comparatively new concepts, shiny ideas associated with other — let's face it cooler — cities. In the intervening years street festivals have become more common and pop-up bars and food stalls so ubiquitous that the concept of getting a drink or a meal at a bricks-and-mortar venue now seems charming. You mean I'm not required to sit on a milk crate and eat dinner off my hand? Tell me more. But places evolve over time and, to egregiously misquote Woody Allen's Annie Hall, they must keep moving to survive. The fourth post in this series, curated by the WPSA Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession, is a window into how personal health issues and disabilities influence the understanding of, and approaches to, academic success and failure. Other posts in this series are listed below. If these topics are of interest to you the short course on this topic, Unlocking Success with Failure, at the APSA conference in Philadelphia is underway. If you are interested in contributing to analyzing successes and failures in the academy, we invite you to propose a roundtable, paper, or session to the Critical Perspectives on the Academy section of the WPSA conference, which will be from April 13-15 in Vancouver, British Columbia. Participation requests are due September 18th. Based on some commonly used markers, I am an academic success story. I have a tenured position at a university I am pleased to call home and I live in an area of the country I adore. I've made a name for myself in my areas of research; my teaching is closely aligned with my research interests. My wife and I teach at the same university and have done so for nearly twenty years. I have also been able to secure academic positions at universities with extraordinary medical facilities and excellent health plans. I'm extremely aware of how lucky I am in all these respects. At the same time, as my university has increasingly come to define success primarily via scholarly output—which necessarily devalues teaching and service—the temptation to see myself as a failure is all but overwhelming. You see, my capacity to engage in sustained research and writing waxes and wanes with the vagaries of my health, and my health has a wicked sense of humor. I am what might be termed a medically complicated person. My body is like a Russian-nesting doll: health problems layered on top of health problems. I came to graduate school with a mobility impairment and a progressive neuromuscular disease. Working around my body's limitations was fairly easy at that point. And, in fact, the professoriate can be a terrific place to work for someone with either (or both) of those conditions. Our work isn't physically strenuous; we work with our minds far more than our muscles. Today marks the second post in our new “professional development and reflections on the discipline” series, curated by the WPSA Committee on the Status of Women in the Profession. In this post, Professor Hirsch reminds us that there is strength in sharing our experiences with each other, and grapples with our one-size-fits-all system for measuring success. For more on his reflections, check out his memoir, Office Hours: One Academic Life. If these topics are of interest to you, we would like to encourage you to register for our short course at the APSA conference in Philadelphia in September on Unlocking Success with Failure. This half-day short course will focus on unlocking our success – as individuals and institutions – by exploring the failures in our personal and institutional stories. We will do so in the context of the many interdisciplinary intellectual frameworks that illuminate failure as inevitable and necessary for achievement. Recently, I took a step away from usual scholarly expectations–I published a memoir about my academic life, a memoir I spent roughly four years writing (and rewriting and rewriting). Having reached my sixties and having, somewhat by chance, somewhat by choice, worked in a variety of different institutional environments–the Ivy League, the University of California system, and two liberal arts colleges–I felt I had things to say about the strengths and weaknesses of each of these major types of academic workplaces, as well as things to say about being a gay academic of a certain age. Writing a memoir is an odd experience when you are still embedded in the system you are describing, or at least it was for me. At times I felt–and will no doubt be judged by some to have been–disloyal or ungrateful, someone seeking revenge or (as an officious senior colleague once said to me) someone who doth protest too much–an occupational hazard for anyone doing personal writing of this kind. At other times during the writing process I felt liberated–enormously free to ignore standard scholarly form and to say things I had kept to myself for many years, things that seemed to me necessary to say.

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It's like being a jack-of-all-trades of carpentry.” But judging from the numerous clips and in-person tributes, he is about much more than just “one thing”. The American Cinematheque makes a point of honoring people who are in the midst of a successful career, not at the end of one. Just before he headed into the ballroom, I asked Stiller how he felt about getting such an award. “I'm thrilled and dreading it at the same time,” he told me.20th Century Fox chairman Jim Gianopulos walked up and said, “It's good for Ben. He needs the humility. He's too successful.” Many of Stiller's biggest hits have been for Fox — including the Night At The Museum films and There's Something About Mary — and now he has directed and starred in the upcoming Christmas 2013 release The Secret Life Of Walter Mitty ... studio. In addition to Gianopulos, outgoing co-chair Tom Rothman was also there on Stiller's big night. Both were listed as co-chairs for the event. For a second year in a row the show did not have a television deal in place and so will not be seen outside of the confines of the Hilton ballroom. ... honored. Comedian Patton Oswalt, who co-stars in Walter Mitty, didn't help the potential of a TV deal by getting things off to an uneven start with only a mildly funny bit about working for Ben in Iceland. And that was followed by forgettable routines from David Cross and Andy Dick — the latter painfully awkward and unfunny. Jack Black rescued things a bit as he proceeded to “eulogize” Stiller before realizing this wasn't a funeral. “Fuck this”, he said. “Next time I get the prizes and you get to talk about how great I am”. Perhaps the most genuinely funny segment came from Stiller collaborator Justin Theroux, these days best known as Aniston's boyfriend. He displayed brilliant comic timing introducing and producing a video segment featuring Tom Cruise and others talking about Stiller's comic masterpiece Tropic Thunder. Then Will Ferrell, Stiller's Zoolander co-star, showed up to stretch a one-joke bit about Stiller's male organ into five embarrassing minutes before introducing another clip package. Laura Dern talked about his talents as a dramatic actor in his debut film Empire Of The Sun, The Royal Tennenbaums and Greenberg, “which I will never forget as long as I live”, she said. Taped bits with Stiller's famous parents Anne Meara and Jerry Stiller and sister Amy and a funny clip with William Shatner revealing he is really Ben's father preceded ... Aniston. “Every shiksha on a J-date is looking for this boy. Katzenberg came out to talk about Ben's voice work in the Madagascar series of animated features, saying Ben is the three p's: “perfection, prolific and a planner”. One taped bit that worked well had “perfectionist” Stiller trying to direct Conan O'Brien into giving a heartfelt tribute to himself. It was followed by Stiller's wife Taylor talking about his ... Haiti. She said it raised $13.9 million in just a ... paintings. Former President Bill Clinton appeared on tape to futher emphasize the good works of the comic star before true comic pros Eugene Levy and Martin Short came out to present ... award. “Steven Spielberg, the man who gave him his first movie break, is going to direct him in a sequel ... Levy. Short added Ben's lineage was “half-Irish and half-Jewish, so we call him a Jew”. Stiller in a hilarious acceptance speech proved why he was the star of the night with a funny, at times self-deprecating thank you. “When I heard I was getting the American Cinematheque Award, my first reaction was to run home and google ‘What is the American Cinematheque Award? ' and a lot of results popped up saying ‘movies' and ‘nonprofit' and I was like, ‘Oh cool, they saw The Watch'. Then I saw the list of previous winners like Denzel Washington, Sam Jackson, Ron Howard — all black guys. And then they gave it to Steven Spielberg, Rob Reiner, Mel Gibson and other prominent members of the Jewish community,” he said to big laughs in the room. He thanked numerous participants in the show including Katzenberg for “teaching me a press junket is not just for fun, it's a way of life”. At the end he finally thanked his wife Christine. “I have a incredible wife. I love our life together. As you ... chances. Right after I do Night At The Museum 3.”6TH/7TH/8TH UPDATE, Sunday 12:17AM/7:50AM/10:18AM: Lionsgate is reporting that The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2, the last film in the feature adaptation of Suzanne Collins' best-selling YA lit series, is opening at $101M, which makes it the lowest opening in the franchise. Many think it will do, in its actuals, $102. Last year the ... $121. M after 2013's Catching Fire set a franchise opening record of $158M. The outlook months ago was that MJ2 would certainly best its predecessor's opening. Not only because MJ2 would have Imax, but because that's what happened with the final book-splits on the big screen with The Twilight Saga: Breaking Dawn and Harry Potter. While it's petty to pick at a film that ... MJ2. One rival distribution chief commented that MJ2‘s lower opening was a result of some blowback from MJ1′s lower-than-expected results, and the somber tone of a source book that lacked the huzzah of the first two entries. Not to spoil any endings for MJ2, but it doesn't end entirely on an upbeat note like Harry Potter. Was it a good idea for Lionsgate to split up the books into two films? Per several rival Lionsgate executives: Without question. Each film has averaged close to $800M worldwide, even though Lionsgate sells off foreign. Catching Fire alone churned out close to $295M in profit after theatrical, home entertainment and TV. MJ1 was in the black with close to $212M profit, and many say MJ2 will clear a profit in theatrical before hitting TV and home entertainment from $140M overseas pre-sales and a domestic rental of at least 50-55%. Said one major studio distribution chief, “Whenever a ... them. Even if it does 10-30% less in its opening, they're still stacking up money.”Says Lionsgate's co-president Domestic Theatrical Distribution about splitting up the last book, “The sum of Mockingjay 1 and 2 is an unbelievable result, and we wouldn't go any other direction. We're entering a very lucrative period at the box ... sense. You can argue with the accountants at Warner Bros. The first Hobbit made over $1B, while parts 2 ... B. It's the type of box office that makes shareholders happy. While we went through a period at the box office in the latter part of the aughts that saw tentpole sequel openings beating their previous chapters, we've transitioned to a period where sequelitis takes a turn on the grosses, much like what we saw among franchise films in the '90s and the early '00s. While there's always the notion that rival distribution chiefs like to spit at their competitor's films, that's hardly so here: Many ... B. that shouldn't be discounted. We saw depreciating ticket sales with each Hobbit ... frames. MJ2 fell on Saturday with $33.7M, which is typical of Katniss after a big Friday since all her girl fans come out on opening day. That's a 27% decline from Friday's $46.2M, which is a tad steeper than the -25% posted by the previous Hunger Games movies. While Katniss was selling out back-t0-back Saturday night shows at such multiplexes as Edwards Cinema in Valencia, CA with plenty of walk-up business (see photo at right), winter actually arrived in the upper Midwest, with snow blanketing South Dakota to Michigan. Sixteen inches of snow were dumped on Chicago and its suburbs, marking the heaviest November downfall in the metro area in 100 years. But as long as the subways and trains are running, moviegoing doesn't get crimped. So far this morning with estimates being where they are, no one is griping about the snow. MJ2 made $8.5M at 384 Imax hubs. Katniss will have a three week run ... Bros. ' In The Heart of the Sea surfaces. Sony/MGM/Eon's Spectre saw a 52% gain over Friday with a Saturday take ... $153. It's an apples-to-oranges comparison to bring up Skyfall‘s third weekend as that slipped 14% due to that year's Thanksgiving holiday. In third place, 20th Century Fox's Blue Sky Animated film The Peanuts Movie rolled in $6.1M on Saturday, +109% for a third weekend of $12.8M and a running cume of $98.8M. At an 8PM packed screening Saturday that Deadline attended, adults were out in full force with a very small percentage of kids under 12 in ... audience. While kids typically pull their moms into the theaters for family fare, Peanuts has a significant nostalgic value for adults. Hence, they're the ones pulling their kids into theaters this time. Sony's Seth Rogen party hardy holiday comedy The Night Before saw an 8% rise in its Saturday cash registers with $3. If the film only eases -35% on Sunday, then it will hit a $10M opening. Sony sees it at $10.1M this morning. Given the great word of mouth on this $25M-budgeted film, it will be interesting to see how much business picks up during the Thanksgiving to Christmas stretch. Given the fact that moviegoers are stoked, it's a sign they'll find this film for years to come, meaning home entertainment and TV should certainly make up for any theatrical shortfall. The film's A- CinemaScore outstrips the grades of previous Rogen comedies, like Knocked Up (B+), Pineapple Express (B+), Neighbors (B), This Is The End (B+) and The Green Hornet (B+). Sony moved the film up out of the Thanksgiving corridor to get a leg up on grosses and multiples. They always knew Katniss would lure a chunk of guys away, but with a holiday film like this, you gotta go sometime. In regards to why this is a lower Rogen opening than his summer ... Rogen. Another rival distribution chief made the catty remark, “I think Seth's humor is growing long in the tooth.”On social media, per RelishMix, The Night Before universe stands at 143.4M, with 82.7M Facebook fans, 44.9M Twitter followers and 16M YouTube views. Rogen at 9.3M and Joseph Gordon-Levitt at 9.5M are the film's heaviest social entertainers. The guys, including co-star Anthony Mackie, had a number of their PR tour stops go viral including: Lip Sync Battle, Bravo's Vanderpump Rules, an ESPN cross-promo with Wayne Gretzky and a stop at Yahoo Movies. Fifth belongs to STX/IM Global's The Secret in Their Eyes. Although the film saw a slight uptick of 17% on Saturday with $2.6M, it's going to file in at $6.6M-$6. IM Global financed the film for $19.5M and sold off foreign for more than that figure. Mitigating risk on this film, STX and Route 1 took domestic in a co-deal for an estimated $6.5M, which I hear isn't a 50/50 split. The film was originally moved from ... ending. The top 10 films at the domestic box office per studio-reported figures as compiled by Deadline's Amanda N'Duka:3RD/4TH/5TH UPDATES, Fri.12:06AM & 8AM: Refresh for updates Lionsgate's The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 is falling below its weekend projections with a $46.2m opening day and a projected ... morning. The distributor is projecting a $251M global opening, hitting No.1 in 84 out of 89 markets with $61M abroad through Friday. Before anyone screams sequelitis and depreciating ticket sales, it's possible that the fourth film, which carries an estimated combined budget and P&A cost of $215M stateside, could profit off of theatrical just like MJ1, before Lionsgate counts TV and home entertainment dollars and costs. I understand that foreign pre-sales on MJ2 are ... $85M. Like MJ1, MJ2 on Friday night earned an A- CinemaScore. That grade generated a 2.8 multiple off MJ1's $121.9M opening for a final $337M domestic B. Lionsgate was able to keep MJ1 in 2,500-plus theaters through Christmas and New Year's, and the anticipation is that Katniss will be one of the few November releases hanging in there when Star Wars: The Force Awakens opens. MJ1 carried a combined $190M production budget and P&A spend. When factored against the film's combined rental and foreign presales, MJ1 turned a $102M profit before TV/home entertainment revenues and costs which raised ... $211M. The final film directed by Francis Lawrence earned a 70% Rotten Tomatoes score, which is a little higher than MJ1's 65% score. PLF screens were a big driver last night counting $4. They'll be at $10M for the weekend with Cinemark's group of screens taking in close to $3M. So why have grosses continued to slide from Catching Fire thru MJ2? While females have stayed strong at 60% over the last two titles, I'm told that the under/over 25 split on Catching Fire grew older with 61% over 25 turning up for MJ1. MJ2 has a 25+ draw in ... percentile. As the demos shift, not all the adults come out on opening weekend like the young females. They'll head to the theater when it's convenient or they'll wait to watch it at home.62% came out Friday night because they're fans, while 28% showed up for Jennifer Lawrence, a figure that's consistent with her pull on other Hunger Games films. Social media monitor RelishMix reports that the social conversation reflects the obvious excitement over how the series concludes; how it might deviate from the books coupled with passionate call outs to the cast and plot points. Essentially a fans ‘can't believe it's over' aura hovers around the current Hunger Games social sphere which towers at 909M with 189M Facebook reach, 18.5M on Twitter and 702M total YouTube views. Of that, MJ2 boasts additional Facebook reach of 51M in the last year, over 2M ... videos. RelishMix also notices from the social chatter there are plenty of sarcastic fans ... theater. MJ2 cast is 100% aboard posting banners, trailers and count downs on social to their 40M fans who are fully engaged. Jennifer Lawrence has over 14.1M fans alone on Facebook, Josh Hutcherson's SMU is at 11M, ... 1. Sony's Spectre and 20th Century Fox's The Peanuts Movie are holding off any newcomers, planting their feet in spots 2 and 3 respectively. Spectre is looking at a third weekend of $14.3M, off 58% for a cume by Sunday of $153. Peanuts is set to collect $12.6M per industry estimates, down 45% in its third frame for a total cume of $98. Matinees today, which some expect to jump 105% over Friday, would put it in the $100M-plus category. Among ... FSS. It earned an A- CinemaScore Friday night, and that coupled with some fairly decent reviews at 65% rotten, could turn this holiday comedy into a sleeper, possibly in the spirit of Bad Santa which opened to $12.3M and made 4.9X its opening for $60M final B. Night Before cost an estimated $25M. These types of films are perennials on TV and home entertainment for years to come. One analyst marveled how Rogen's B. multiples can get up to the 3x-5x range in their final totals. Typically he brings in over 60% males, but Night Before drew some more females this time, with guys this time at 55%. Rogen's sweet spot is the 18-24 crowd, and Night Before pulled in 44% of that demo. Christmas-themed movies typically launch during the first or second weekend of November. The Night Before couldn't go last weekend as it would have rubbed up against Love The Coopers (which is down 53% in its second FSS with $3.9M in No.6 with $14.9M), even though they're geared toward different crowds: Night Before for guys, Coopers for older women. STX/IM Global's The Secret In Their Eyes is looking at a $2.3M Friday and a $6.9M weekend per industry calculations, toward the lower end of its projections. No amount of star power, even the pairing of Nicole Kidman and Julia Roberts, will open moviegoers' eyes to the Secret In Their Eyes. The film is stigmatized by a top critics score of 29% rotten (42% total) and a B- CinemaScore, meaning it's going to get trounced in this bloodletting holiday adult market. Stephen Holden of the NY Times cried, “Sad to say: There is far more crackle in an average episode of Law & Order.” Older women repped the majority of those sitting in seats with 60% females: 40% over 50, 70% over 35. Over 60% bought tickets to The Secret in Their Eyes because it starred Roberts and Kidman. Statistically speaking, whenever ... weekend. The remake of the 2009 Oscar foreign language film winner was made for $19. IM sold off foreign, limiting its exposure, with Universal possessing a number of the key territories which are scheduled to open next year. From overseas presales, IM collected more than the estimated production cost. Unfortunately, the B. sting here will be felt by STX stateside after P&A spend. Open Road's Spotlight cracked the top 10 in its expansion from 61 to 598 venues in its third weekend. It made an estimated $1M on Friday and should take in a FSS of $3.4M in the No. That's a $5,700 weekend PTA, which I'm told is solid. Had it posted a $7,500 PTA, it would be considered a notable crossover from arthouse to commercial theaters, but anything less than $5K wouldn't be good for this ... drama. On the specialty side, Weinstein Co. 's 1950s lesbian love story Carol, which earned Rooney Mara a best actress award at the Cannes Film Festival, is drawing lines around the block at arthouses. Per screen is a powerful $62K on course for a $246K weekend at four New York and Los Angeles locations. Carol‘s opening PTA is the third highest for 2015 after Steve Jobs' $130K and Sicario‘s $67K. Remember By The Sea, that movie starring Angelina Jolie and Brad Pitt? Well, it's in its second weekend with an increased theatrical run of 126. It made $59K on Friday, +55% from when it was playing in 10 theaters last Friday. Weekend should come in at $196K, +103% with an estimated ... $323K. Not enough mojo here to keep this alive among specialty crowds. Legend, Universal's British gangster film about the Krays, made $29K on Friday on its way to $93K this weekend at four NYC and LA venues. That's a $23K PTA and for it to be considered an arthouse knockout business wise, $35K-$50K is what it should be doing. It has a 54% Rotten Tomatoes score among top critics which is middling and likely keeping moviegoers at bay. A pity, because Tom Hardy simply escapes into ... screen. Legend cost $25M and has raked in $36M overseas from 26 markets with 78% of that figure coming from its U. Legend originally was slated to open on Oct.2, however, Uni ... $104M-$110M. As typical with these early figures, they're bound to improve ... evening. Even though the pic is on track to be the lowest opening for the franchise, there isn't a distributor out there who would gripe about a triple-digit weekend. Many of those whom we've spoken with commend a mini-major like Lionsgate for clinging to this prized pre-Thanksgiving date for the franchise over the last three films; that this frame, over any other in the rest of the year, is prime for Katniss. Summit with the third Twilight Saga: Eclipse, played that ... $157. Should Lionsgate have emulated a similar release by putting Mockingjay in the summer? The answer is largely “no,” because then the film would have to deal with a competition from other franchise films and animated family pics. Some also believe there's a slight slowdown at the box office that's impacting all movies — seen recently in industry estimates pegging Spectre ... $70. And just because that opening was off from the 007 Skyfall record of $88.4M, doesn't mean that the film tanked: It's the second-highest-opening all time for the franchise. Rentrak's PostTrak reports that those shelling out for Mockingjay 2 are mostly young females at 63%, ... 25. Note this demo is coming out in full force tonight, and as is the tendency that will ease on Saturday and more on Sunday. So, today will likely be MJ2‘s highest-grossing day. The biggest concentration of moviegoers are between the ages of 18-24 at 37%. Currently, there's a massive 71% recommend for the film, with 34% saying they went because they are fans of the franchise. Sony/MGM/Eon's Spectre, which currently counts $139.1M through two weeks, will see a third frame that's down 50% ... $155. Some even think it could dip 45%, which is fantastic in the face of a big girl like Katniss. In third, 20th Century Fox's The Peanuts Movie is looking at $13M-$14M in its third session. It could come close to crossing $100M by Sunday. Sony's R-rated comedy The Night Before is currently eyeing an opening today that's between $4.5M-$5.5M, with a FSS between $12M-$14M. STX/IM Global's Secret In Their Eyes is looking at ... expecting. PREVIOUS, 7:52 AM: Lionsgate's The Hunger Games: Mockingjay – Part 2 started its box office chorus last night firing up $16 million in previews, a number that's $1M shy of last year's Thursday preview of Mockingjay – Part 1 which made $17M. Among the franchise's Thursday pre-openings, Catching Fire is the best with $25.25M from shows starting at 8 PM. for the last installment is at $43M. The Francis Lawrence-helmed film, his third out of four in the series, is currently No.1 in 66 of 68 markets with 19 more territories debuting today. Mockingjay – Part 2 moves to 4,175 stateside venues today and 33,000 worldwide. Last year, Mockingjay – Part 1 generated an opening day of $55.1M before posting an opening of $121.9M, and many predict that the final hurrah will fly just under those numbers with an opening weekend of $115M-$120M stateside. Unlike last year, Mockingjay – Part 2 has some help from Imax theaters. The current estimated production cost for Mockingjay – Part 2 is $160M, which is 14% higher than the last chapter and 23% higher than Catching Fire. Not counting foreign theatrical and home entertainment which is pre-sold, Lionsgate made $211.6M profit off of Mockingjay – Part 1 as reported by Deadline. Lionsgate originally debuted the feature adaptation of Suzanne Collins' YA novel in March 2012 where it opened to $152.5M in the U. and Canada, but then moved it to November with 2013's Catching Fire. In that new pre-Thanksgiving slot, the franchise hit all of its B. records with best domestic opening day ($70.95M), weekend ($158.1M), domestic cume ($424.7M) and global haul ($865M). Mockingjay – Part 2 flapped her wings so loudly, she took all the wind out of the other two openers' sails on Thursday night. Sony's holiday comedy The Night Before starring Seth Rogen, Anthony Mackie and Joseph Gordon-Levitt settled for a low $550K at 2,410 locations from shows starting at 7 PM. STX/IM Global's remake of Argentinian Foreign Language Oscar winner Secret iTn Their Eyes only drew $170K at 1,470; it expands to 2,392 today. The Night Before carries an ... Global. Night Before is expected to bring in $8M-$10M, while ... $7M-$9M. Similar to last night's preview figures, tracking as of yesterday showed Mockingjay – Part 2 hogging up the first-choice column across four quads, and also towering over Night Before and Secret In Their Eyes which posted first choice figures in the single digits. First choice for the latest chapter of Hunger Games is highest among the under 25 set in women (46%) and men (43%), followed by the over 25 set with women (34%) and men (33%). For the first time in its 21-year history, MSNBC attracted the largest weekday primetime crowd of any cable network – news or otherwise. MSNBC ended the week of July 17-21 with a weekday prime average of 2.34 million viewers, besting second-place Fox News Channel's 2. But MSNBC also outstripped non-news cable nets. MSNBC previously was No.1-ranked in cable news in weekday prime ... TNT. Similarly, it bested cable news competition but finished behind USA the week of September 3, 2012. Fox News Channel once again dominated all of basic cable in weekday total day, averaging 1.4 million total viewers, besting MSNBC's 1.12M. MSNBC also finished behind Nickelodeon (1.27M) for weekday total day. So, here're the mugshots from Iron Mike's arrest. Maybe the Special Olympics could use a boxer this year? Milwaukee Bucks forward John Henson said he was racially profiled at a jewelry store in Whitefish Bay, Wis. Henson claimed the employees locked the doors when he arrived, and may have called the police on him. Henson took a photo of the front of ... caption. He also said the police asked him where he got his car, which was from a sponsorship with a local dealership:Went to @schwankekasten jewelry today in White-Fish Bay during regular business hours . They locked the door and told me to go away . After I rang the doorbell twice everyone went to the back. No answered the door or told me what was going on. This was followed by two police cars pulling up and parking across the street and watching me for 5 minutes ( I assumed they were called by the store ) . I was then approached by 2 officers and questioned about the dealer vehicle I was in which is apart of my endorsement deal with Kunes country Chevrolet and asked me what I wanted amongst other things that were just irrelevant to me being there just trying to shop at the store like a normal paying customer would do . I told them I was just trying to look at a watch. He then had to go in the back and tell them to come out it was safe but this is after they ran my plates and I overheard them talking about doing more of a background check on the car. The employees finally came out of the back and proceeded to conduct business like they previously were as we walked up . This was one of the the most degrading and racially prejudice things I've ever experienced in life and wouldn't wish this on anyone . This store needs to be called ... . You have no right to profile someone because of their race and nationality and this incident needs to be brought to light and I urge anyone who ever is thinking of shopping here reads this and doesn't bring any business to this discriminatory place . : WISN 12 talked to Thomas Dixon, the owner of the jewelry store. He said the incident with Henson was a misunderstanding because of Henson's car:Dixon said ... vehicle. Dixon said when employees saw the vehicle with dealer plates, ... robberies. : The Whitefish Bay Police Department has released a lengthy statement on the incident. It gives background on previous suspicious activity at Schwanke-Kasten Jewlers, as well as past incidents of theft at Schwanke-Kasten stores in Wisconsin. Most pertinently, last week the Whitefish Bay store received two calls they believed to be suspicious, asking when the store closed. The store normally closes at 5:30, but on Friday a store employee decided to close at 5:00 as a precaution because of the calls. An employee reported the calls to police, and at 4:58 p. police observed a newer red Chevy Tahoe ... store. Four males got out and talked to an employee through the locked door, before eventually leaving. The police traced the license plate back to a Wisconsin dealership, but were ... to. On Monday, 10/19/15 at 1:20 pm, Whitefish Bay officers were dispatched to Schwanke-Kasten Jewelers as the Red Tahoe had returned. Officers met up in front of 5500 N. Berkeley which is around the corner from Schwanke-Kasten. (sic) They observed two men in front of the store. The officer ran the license plate and it came back to a Ford dealership and came back as “No Vehicle Attached” and was not listed as stolen. The two Whitefish Bay officers approached the two men in front of Schwanke-Kasten Jewelers and asked what was going on. A man, later identified as John Henson, informed the officer that ... in. One of the officers asks him about the dealer plates on the Tahoe. He ... dealership. Neither officer asked Mr. Henson or his ... identification. The officer called dispatch to request that a Schwanke-Kasten employee come to the front door. The employee told the dispatcher to have the officer come to the back door. After my officer informed the Schwanke-Kasten Jewelers employee that it was a Milwaukee Buck, the employee came to the front door and let them in. The employee requested that an officer stand by as they looked at the Rolexes, our officers refused and left the store. The officers then left the area. At no time did Whitefish Bay Police make any notice to merchants on Silver Spring because of these incidents. You can save £16.00 off Umbro junior boys teamwear training shower jacket dark navy/blueprint when you shop with us. To save over 70% off click on the red link below. Umbro junior boys teamwear training shower jacket dark navy/blueprint is in our boys sports performance tops category. Deal price correct as of sunday 12th of august. ## Umbro Junior Boys Teamwear Training Shower Jacket Royal/blueprint Umbro full zip lightweight training jacket. The ... tested. Smart budgeting can help you ... special. 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<|prompter|> Can you tell me how to fill in the missing words: there will be press conference in house, press comes there. one journalist says to Pritham that you were calling Gautam ill then you supported him, one journalist says to Dimpy that are you like this in real life ... journalist ask Gautam what happened in washroom, gautam says Diandra kissed me and I ... attraction, journalist says that time you said that she is just friend, you are man enough to admit nowSalman Khan comes on stage, he welcomes all in bigg boss. Salman says this week some unfortunate incident happened, innocent kids are butchered for evil desires, we are with families of the killed kids, he say ... that these families get justice, he says KARISHMA UPEN PRANEET SONALI are nominated, but this house's problems seem ... problem, he says today is eviction special. clip plays and shows what happened in whole week, how Upen and Gautam entered in scuffle then how Ali asked Upen to hit. then how slangs are being exchanged between Pritham and Dimpy. Salman says we don't wanna enter in their fights so lets call someone who can tell something about their fights, he calls Vishal Sawant, a psychiatrist, he comes there. Salman says whats the difference in this season from earlier, he says people change when they go in house, their personality were different when they entered and they are changing, or we can say that their real self is coming out, Salman says ... like this or is acting? Vishal says he is not acting but is under pressure, he is confused, his social support, his group is gone so he is alone, he say that I am not sacred of anyone but he says that to himself only, Salman says he is still confused about what he is, all laughs, Salman askVishal says its about mutual respect, they are both strong minded and have come to win, both ... they naturally oppose each other. Salman says Ali is not afraid of telling talk here to other side, is his personality in real or he is acting for bigg boss? is he not afraid that filling ears of people against each other can fireback at him only, is he coward or strong? Vishal says he street fighter, he is adaptive, he fight where he can but run where he cant fight, he is playing according to game, Salman says Sonali, nobody can analyze her, not even herself, Vishal says even I am trying. ... which her way using broom is shown, then how ... she want to work with Salman, then how she slapped Ali then how she asked to not nominate her. call is connected to house. Salman ... Upen sit on danger seat, Salman says how many think that new wild card entry has happened? as Upen's new personality is shown, Sonali, Praneet, Ali, Gautam, Pritham, Puneet raise their hands. Dimpy says what about before? He says you were poking reaction was obvious. Dimpy says poking is a sin. pritham ... she went in i thought that good these wont be much of fight but she came out again. These wouldn't have been much fight if she had stayed in. She came out and started fighting. Dimpy says you were rude i would feel bad that's obvious. Ali says i stopped you i asked you not to poke. When upen stopped me. Dimpy says i was just doing my task. sonali says it was annoying. Then you started gaining sympathy. Dimpy says i never asked for your sympathy. Sonali says you were ... is why i was stopping you. Our tolerance was going out. Dimpy says then its ... me. Sonali says then face what have you done. ... did the same task but you were annoying. Dimpy ... you know. Sonali says when he was stopping you why didn't ... stop. Ali says you're always physical you sat on my chair. Sonali says even then i supported you. 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<|prompter|> are the missing spans: Somebody at DC came up with the idea: Why not bring canceled series back from the dead for an issue and tie their stories in to Blackest Night during January? But the editors and creators at DC took it one step further, not only bringing back the series for an issue, but bringing back several of the writers and artists who made their names on those comics. Last week, we talked to Gail Simone and John Ostrander ... run. Now we turn to another legendary creator from DC Comics, Denny O'Neill, who will be co-writing The Question #37 with Greg Rucka. Not only will the issue bring O'Neill back to the comic series he began back in 1987, but the artist on that run, Denys Cowan, will ... issue. In January, the writer returns to DC to add a resurrected Blackest Night tie-in issue to his 36-issue run on The Question, a body of work that Rucka has often cited as an influence on his own writing style. Newsarama talked to Rucka and O'Neill about the upcoming collaboration, what was so special about that run of The Question, and what readers can expect from January's resurrection. Newsarama: Denny, how did you find out about this revival of The Question with the new spin on it, and what did you think of the idea? Denny ... thing. Rucka: Well, they came to me wanting a Question-Blackest Night tie-in. Then the idea was floated to do them as sort of resurrections of series. ... it. And Siglain jumped at that. So that was how it came about. It seems to me the perfectly logical thing to do was to use what Denny and Dennis had created. If it was going to be #37, it needed to have them in it! Or else it wasn't going to look like #37. I mean, never mind the fact that on a personal level. there are many comics I have run throughout my life, and many great runs I have read throughout my life. And Denny's run on The Question is probably the most influential and informative of who I am now as a writer than any of them. And I say that as a guy who's been reading comics for a really long time now. And on top of that, it's a dream come true! (laughs) I get to write with Denny. I didn't get to do that when Denny was my editor. So it's kid in a candy store time. The biggest problem I'm having is ... tie-in. Rucka: Yeah, the Question back-ups that Cully and I are doing will continue for awhile. And I'm hoping to use the stuff that comes out of this in there. And that's the other thing, Vaneta. The instinct when you do something like this, and quite frankly the way it looks, is that it's a gimmick. I mean, that's the way it looks. I think it's a very clever idea, but when you say you're going to do The Question #37, it sounds like it's a gimmick. But Denny and I are invested in actually making it a relevant story to the characters involved as well. Nrama: I've heard you talk before about how influential The Question was to you as a writer, and I've heard other writers refer to it as well - John Ridley once cited it as a major influence as well. What do you think it was about that run that was so influential to you and that made it stand out? Rucka: There had ... storytelling. But that serious storytelling hadn't crossed what I think was the last literary content line. There were serious stories dealing with serious topics regularly, rather than what had happened the previous 20 years, which was somewhat haphazardly. You know, we had some very relevant stories about the world around us, but we would default. And I think we had moved into a place in the '80s where we were treating our characters more sincerely, and there was an expectation that we were, even while writing fantastic situations, writing honest emotions. So character had reached that point, but - and this is the English major in me talking - but as a literary ... bridge. And then Denny and Denys come along, and they ... life. But there is an inherent and constant thematic Question throughout the entire run. It's in all 36 issues. And actually, I was thinking about this this morning, and it's not in #37, but I suppose now that I think of it, I should get off the phone and call Denny and see if we can thread this in. But there was a big question being asked about the nature of sanity, about the nature of belief. And that thematically holds throughout the run. It is there from the first issue to the last. We have talked about it, but we've never really talked about it at length. I think on a level, and Denny will correct me if I'm wrong, but it was some active - I mean, you knew what you were playing with. You don't name a guy Szasz unless you know what you're playing with. But at the same time, I think it also did that thing ... start. O'Neill: It's interesting, when people tell you that stuff years later. You look at it and say, you know, "Absolutely! But I didn't see it at the time. It was in the subtext. "I also think, frankly, the original run that Denny and Denys did, it really took every cliché and broke its nose. You think the story's going to go here? Crack. We're taking it somewhere else. I mean, nothing in that story actually happens as to expectation. I mean the biggest thing is Charlie and Myra never get together! And there's an expectation and tension throughout those 36 issues that they're going to. look, Vaneta, it's a different interview. (laughs) I can go on for hours and hours. But I really do think, for me, and I'm not saying this was the first time every; it was the first time I encountered it. Nrama: Denny, we talked a little recently about your thoughts on the Batman books, since you were writing a story ... line. Now that you're returning to write The Question, what do you think of all the changes that character has gone through? I think it's fine. One of my mantras is that the characters have to evolve. ... go. I mean, I'm glad nobody has tried to freeze what Denys and I did. That's always a mistake. I read the graphic novel that Mike sent me, and I gave it to my wife to read. I have no problems with these changes at all. Greg has taken it to an interesting and logical place. Rucka: No! And here's why. I think that we get into a dangerous place in comicdom when we want to play compare and contrast. No offense to Denny, and ... spot. O'Neill: And quite often, that's the correct answer. It's really not a good idea to be too judgmental about this stuff, because you're wrong half the time. It's ... done. "Rucka: The best way to put it is that what's going on in the Detective back-ups that Cully and I are doing have a very different feel ... it. The common denominator between the two worlds is Tot. So it is, in large part, Tot's story more than anybody else's. Renee's relationship with Charlie, it's resolved. That doesn't mean that, should he rise in a zombified form, she would say "Yeah, big deal. " But most ... left. And that is absolutely not the case for Tot. And one of the ideas that I've had running through my head since 52, and I put in front of Denny. I'm not sure if he's attached to this idea yet, but it goes to that idea we were talking about earlier, where as a writer, you put things in on a subconscious level. There had been something in the original run that I sort of focused on, ... with. Rucka: She is because there's no social governor ... all. The nice thing about Shiva is she doesn't care what ... ever. Nrama: Denny, what do you think of the whole idea of dredging up these emotions in current ... up. And I've been guilty of that any number of times. But if you dig it up and get a great story out of it, that's always a reason for doing something. So like any of these mega-series, when it's all over and done with, everybody will know or have an idea of the success or failure. It's a place for stories to start, and that can be anywhere. I mean, I did a whole lot of mega-series when I was an editor. The only caveat I have about them is make sure there is enough story to fill the number of pages you've allotted, and make sure there is a story. I don't see any reason this wouldn't work. Rucka: It's Denny writing The Question. It's Denny writing it, and it's Denys drawing it. If nothing else, it's the blast-from-the-past experience that that is. I can't endorse it any higher than that. DC Universe Online, in development since summer 2008 and originally ... 2011. Sony Online Entertainment announced the delay in a press release Monday afternoon. The company notes wanting to gain useful feedback from fans during the Beta testing period, also announced in the press release. The external Beta program will begin the week of October 11, 2010. Anyone ... key. Anyone who has pre-ordered or does pre-order before November 15, 2010 will also receive a beta key by the end of November. Pre-ordering after November 15, 2010 will also get beta access, but only for the week prior to the game's release. Without pre-ordering, gamers can try for the Beta by going to http://www. dcuniverseonline.com/en/beta/ today, October 4, 2010, and registering, though Beta access is not assured using that method. The exact release date will ... Beta. The accompanying comic book from DC Comics that will cross into the story of the game was not mentioned along with the delay, aside from a note about the special edition of the game. As November and December solicitations for DC Comics have already been released and don't include the comic, it will likely be delayed to coincide with the game's release. PARIS Cowan-Hall scored his second goal of the season as Wycombe Wanderers knocked Portsmouth out of the FA Cup on Saturday. Cowan-Hall nodded past David Forde to give the Chairboys the lead in the 27th minute at ... Pompey. Cowan-Hall, who started his career at Portsmouth, had already forced a save from Forde as Wycombe spurned a number of chances. <|assistant|> spans 1: about their Suicide Squad #67 issue in January, bringing Ostrander back to the title he helped define during his spans 2: also return to draw the spans 3: O'Neill: The editor, Mike (Siglain), called me and asked me if I was interested in revisiting The Question and co-writing a story with Greg, and there was nothing wrong with either part of that proposition, so I said sure! 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Kivu [words 7] for “The Mutzig Jungle Party” and Dec 18 at [words 8] Stadium for “Simbuka na Bank Populaire X-Mas Fete,” he added. Speaking at the press conference, Richard Ndahiro from [words 9] will enjoy discounted tickets if they are registered with the BPR Mobile Banking facility. The tickets will go for Rwf2, 000 (ordinary seats) and Rwf5, 000 (VIP section). However, rates would be discounted for Rwf1, 500 and Rwf4000, respectively, if one buys a ticket using a phone through Bank Populiare Mobile Banking. “We expect the best from every artiste and also from the management point of view, we have a very competent team that has enough experience to bring this event to a reality and make our artistes proud and our partners,” Remmygious Lubega, the director of Creative and Business noted. He added that: “We therefore wish to send the message out there for all Rwandans to get their dancing shoes ready for the [words 10] concerts, with top quality sound and lighting equipment and energetic live performances. MUHANGA: A sixty five-year-old man identified as Habib Ganafa Hakizumwami was murdered last [words 11] persons in Ruvumera village, Gahogo cell, Nyamabuye sector. Gafana was attacked at 8.30pm as he returned home from the trade exposition in Muhanga. According to residents, Gafana was strangled [words 12] his body dumped in Nyabisindu, a kilometer away from his home. The corpse was found near two homes in the middle of the road and none of the residents alerted local authorities until 3. Police said five people have been arrested in relation to the murder and investigations [words 13] on. Uwimana, the deceased's daughter, claims the killing is related to fears that the old man and his wife could give information to Gacaca court. The couple witnessed the horrible acts during the 1994 Genocide and [words 14] been attacking their family. “My father survived the Genocide and had a lot of information on the killings in this area. He survived then, but the killers have been skeptical as to when he would leak the information,” Uwimana said. Uwimana added, “Gafana was not killed by unknown people because at the time we separated (in the expo) some young men had been following us and wanted [words 15] him away from me but I refused. The old man insisted that he would walk himself back home but was attacked and killed 30 minutes.”The Association of Genocide Survivors (IBUKA-Muhanga) has protested over Gafana's death and continued cold-blood killings and torture of Genocide survivors. [words 16] intended killings of survivors that have been evident in the last three years. This is an act of intimidation and IBUKA will [words 17] blood-thirsty people,” Eugene Karangwa, Ibuka-Muhanga president statedTerrified residents in Muhanga said that such killings or attacks are on the increase in the area. Before Gafana's killings, 23-year-old Yvette Uwizeyesu, was stabbed thrice by a young man only identified as Arisen. Jean Damascene Nyandwi, survived drug [words 18] Taxi Park when residents came to [words 19] rescue. Eight-year-old Issa Nsenginyunva, was murdered by unidentified persons in Gasenyi Village in January and two young men, Justin Hakizimana, 39 and Emmanuel, 25, were shot dead in May by unidentified armed thugs in Ruvumera Cell. HOPES of Davite Giancarlo winning the 2014 Africa Rally Championship title suffered [words 20] after his Mitsubishi Evo 10 developed mechanical problems which saw him bow out of the Oryx Energies Rally of Tanzania over the weekend. Jaspreet Chatthe became the first Kenyan driver to win an event in Tanzania since 2002, after clinching victory in the fourth round of the 2014 African Rally Championship in Dar-es-salaam. Twelve out of the original 19 starters managed to finish the rally. Davite needed to finish on the podium to ensure his stay in the race for the African crown which has remained elusive to the Rwandan driver despite huge investments. Davite alongside his navigator Sylvia Vindevogel had a good start on Friday and Saturday but things turned ugly on Sunday when his car developed mechanical hitches. He was disqualified after Stewards spotted his car receiving outside assistance [words 21] finish at Tazara Station. Navigated by compatriot Vindevogel, the only female co-driver in the series, the crew retains fourth place in the ARC with 27 points. Favourite winner Gary Chanyes from Ivory Coast was also disqualified by the Stewards at the finish over getting outside assistance leaving the championship wide open at the half way stage. Essa [words 22] was aiming for his third consecutive victory in his attempt to close the gap at the top of the table, got a shock after his Subaru Impreza stopped with a damaged rear arm at the end of the first stage of Day Two. Kenya's Chatthe and Chaynes from Ivory Coast are joint leaders tied on 58 points whilst Zambia's Essa now sits third with 50 points. The Yes on Measure G SLO office is hosting an ongoing [words 23] the Yes on Measure G effort. The Artists for Yes on G Collection comprises works donated by local artists in support of the measure, which would prevent fracking and the drilling of new oil wells in [words 24] County. 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<|prompter|> More words: Totality under a Solar Eclipse . for years I have been wondering what [words 1] many fanatical accounts. My primary interest was one of viewing the corona during the Eclipse, that being the hot solar [words 2] surface of the sun in an allegedly [words 3] fashion. Photos indicated that it's a fine sight [words 4] eyes, after all I have done a fear deal of cosmological sight seeing on that fine telescope [words 5] mine. I would have gone up north to the [words 6] matter what, but fortunately there was an option to being stuck with the ranks of astro-geeks [words 7] galore. It was thus that plans were made to attend the Solipse 2001 [words 8] of Lusaka in Zambia for the 21st June 2001 Solar Eclipse. Getting up [words 9] was a major obstacle. Of course the PCB 4x4 has long ago been redistributed. My situation was aggravated since a recently acquired MSc [words 10] devoid of positive cash flow. Fortunately, one well used but seemingly reliable [words 11] to me by faithful and generous friends Bea & Roddy (eternal thanks! ). After taking [words 12] room for the telescope, solar panels, [words 13] and supplies for 10 days, there was no room for passengers. [words 14] was not to be alone: plans were made to meet friends up there including Gerald, Cleon [words 15] Cape Town, associated appendages, and various Joziburgers. I really would have liked to drive up through Zim, but too many unknowns and the fear of being in the wrong place at the wrong [words 16] way. My departure at 2am on a Friday morning allowed me [words 17] highways of Gauteng devoid of their madness. I swung [words 18] Potgieterus, where the only sign of [words 19] car full of obnoxious drunk formerly-advantaged on an all-night bender. They were cruising the streets in a fast car, looking for a victim (with racist touts). It was only with the utmost discretion did I avoid all attention [words 20] the dark road to the Groblers Bridge border post. The reason why [words 21] I have always had some form of intensely unpleasurable experience during travels there. With turning this [words 22] was not to be disappointed this time. [words 23] me if I was camping - Yes I chirpily answered, proud of being the 1st [words 24] sun rise. Do I have any tinned food? Why yes, I am camping after all and did you every know a South [words 25] prepared? Then he insisted to rummage. Why [words 26] wanted to know. Of course, how can I go camping and not have tuna pasta on the menu. So out came [words 27] the name of Foot & Mouth prevention was not allowed through. The fact that is [words 28] tinned in the Philippines made no impact and I was [words 29] of paper that forbade the importation of meat and [words 30] Botswana. He knew he was onto something with me, as he fished out my tinned [words 31] assorted tinned snacks - tears formed as out came the smoked mussels. He thought he had hit [words 32] of Tuna Marine Olives, however after an extended explanation [words 33] Olive was, I managed to impart the understanding that these [words 34] on trees and had nothing to do with a fish. No, they don't [words 35] receipts. Such is the life of a cretin border official on the take. The next thing I was heading up north in [words 36] warmth. It was a long road [words 37] Kazungula ferry by sunset. Francistown rolled by, [words 38] quite and much more pleasant on the long stretch [words 39] Nata. The random 50km speed restrictions were really irritating, popping up in the middle on nowhere, and which have to be strictly abided by since the Botswana traffic cops insist [words 40] cash if they catch you speeding. The road was lined with golden grasses, and late autumn hues in the trees which made the unrelentingly straight roads and flat landscape endurable, [words 41] times. Police road blocks always put you on the spot, and I had some [words 42] was not alcoholic ‘it gives you wings' [words 43] her. Eventually explaining it was like coffee I [words 44] she know a healthy dose of Vodka was therein. Perhaps the notion of an energy drink has not and [words 45] of Botswana. Heading up to the great Zambezi, there are beautiful forests and lush [words 46] I excitedly checked out through an empty border post. The Zambezi was [words 47] twisting eddies that rose in relief in the [words 48] sun. ‘Welcome to Zambia' the South Africa couple at the front of [words 49] queue said sarcastically after telling me that they has [words 50] only one ferry was working, and those trucks in that line arrived yesterday. Enough to make me [words 51] and head via Vic Falls, Zimbabwe way. After a very expensive third party, I now understood that travelling though any border post generally entails a nett loss. Mind you, the customs guy [words 52] of my planet and we talked astronomy, prompted by the declaration of one Meade LX200 on the Temporary Import Permit. All [words 53] are binoculars to see the most wonderful things I exclaimed as I drew him a map to the finest [words 54] telling him to look for a giraffe. Ironic this message of indigenous knowledge is [words 55] pondered as herds of buffalo were avoided in the twilight on the dash to a [words 56] of that great river. It was [words 57] VW Synchro club at the campsite. I could not help but remember how busy this place used to be during previous visits, although the first time I came [words 58] was still recovering from the bush war, complete with [words 59] land-mined areas. Now, something else has happened to Zim after a post independence visitor boom time. There are [words 60] the ablutions, not that I really needed one [words 61] a vital sign of disrepair although a fire was enthusiastically made [words 62] welcome hot shower. The elephants have flattened most of the trees around here. They come at [words 63] a guard who wonders why I prefer candle light when there is a such a bright neon to be had. [words 64] a capable-looking kattie, which he ensures me will [words 65] away. Pity, the noise and sights of a elephant on the rampage in [words 66] of the night will hardly phase me, me [words 67] rounds of AK47 fire. And it could be quite exciting, [words 68] a safe bungalo and a powerful halogen torch. As I prepare for an early night after a quick de-pipped Olive pasta, I [words 69] the Milky way brilliantly stretches across the sky from East to West, with Scorpio dominating and the scintillating Mars the brightest object in view. With the moon heading towards the Sun, this is astronomical viewing prime time, the starshine so brilliant I would not need that torch to [words 70] middle of the night after all. I had planned to [words 71] day by the Zambesi, by there was a party up north east with my name on [words 72] list. It was only 450km to Lusaka, half a day I thought as a set off across that epic bridge from which I have leapt. The border post filled up with backpacker arrivals from the overnight train from Bulawayo as I checked out, it would be a while before we met again. That Zambia [words 73] reputation of disrepair, and as I drove around Livingstone looking for the Standard Bank my grandfather came [words 74] kind lady luck was going to be today. Mind you, I did have hindsight. Like that road to Maputo, with pot holes big enough for your car to fall into, [words 75] about these obstacles. It's all in the [words 76] I now understand. They must be in good nick. That together with speed and hardy rims, one hardly feels [words 77] hole. But the big ones can be [words 78] tires in the process. Been there, done that so the trick [words 79] judge the size, put foot for the small ones [words 80] biggies. Besides a few bad stretches, the road [words 81] (by South African contractors). But it still took a whole day, and I [words 82] Chisimba, just north of Lusaka, by dusk. It's very undesirable to arrive at a camp site [words 83] dark. Especially when you find out no [words 84] allowed in the campsite. How the [words 85] I to get all my kit to home base, and if I managed to blag my way past these security guards (who seems completely unrelenting) how must I find a suitable spot in the dark? In the end, perseverance normally pays off and with strict understanding that I would serious ‘fuck off' Nick if he was to find my car [words 86] the dusty road and headed into the heart of the campsite. It was populated with backpackers and travellers preparing supper [words 87] git with headlights driving around. I managed to find a vacant nook behind an infant Acacia, dumped the [words 88] returned the car to it's park after [words 89] guilt. The remarkable aspect about this Solipse [words 90] was entirely a non-profit event, organised and staffed by volunteers. Considering the lack [words 91] dance party - (many called it a ‘rave'), it's really [words 92] happened. It was organised by a group of 21st century Internationals who did a similar thing at the Hungary Eclipse in 1999. William "fish" is american (but would call [words 93] is from england & the rest of the crew is [words 94] german. they did not let Africa's woes deter them. They set up a web site last year, including bulletin boards for people to organise transport, and a mailing list kept us all [words 95] tribulations of pulling together the event. Vision & dedication are definitely the keywords here. The sound system had been hauled up from Cape Town and was a [words 96] Sound rig. A few buses of young Cape Town things had arrived [words 97] - the bar and gate staff, all volunteers, most of whom had their off-work time already budgeted to partying. People had indeed come from all over the world. A lot of Europeans [words 98] festival circuit. Obviously people gravitated towards fellow nationals as they arrived, as soon the camp was a [words 99] cultures. This included a large contingent of Japanese, who arrived in a chartered 747's. Interesting how they are drawn to psychedelic trance, along with the Germans but I will stop cultural dissections right here. The facilities at the campsite were really basic. Long drops were well made, with grass walling and performed perfectly adequately. It was just a matter of acclimatisation I guess - sooner or later everyone would have to go. Such a long haul from the refined fineness of the Japanese home no doubt. The water supply ran out a few times initially. That meant no showers for a day and at one stage, a water trailer was brought in to alleviate demand. Campers formed an orderly queue with every water bottle they could find. No doubt, for many, this was the first time they had to queue for something taken so for granted back home. As more people arrived, the sense of community grew. Every night, the density of tents increased. Then the overlanders started arriving - the 4x4 brigade. These mechanical beasts now interspersed amongst the campsite changed the gentleness of social fabric - a few even had ‘gillies' along to do their chores. The music system was switched on Monday evening, with the Zambian minster of culture giving everyone a warm welcome. This really went down well, and so the fun began. The dance floor was set under a massive tree, with it's canopy reaching out high above the reach of any elephant trunk, so I speculated. On the side, there was a an open-air bar at which I had more than one Mosi, many market and food stalls with everything one would expect to find at a trance party festival - chi stalls, jewellery, fluoro body hugging trance clothing, even the Hare Krishners all the way from Cape Town had a large food stall. Can't say I did much shopping, besides the obligatory trance party supplies. It's worth noting that the connection between Cape Town and this festival was much stronger than a Joburg / Gauteng one , perhaps reflecting cultural differences between these regions. In no time my telescope was rigged, levelled, GPS co-ordinated, aligned to Alpha Crux. I had a bit of a y2k bug scare, since this was the first time I had switched on the computer since 2000. But it handled a one-star alignment, and my nights were spent surfing the milky way for globular clusters and other Messier objects. The prominent Mars (brightest in 11 years) was too bright, just a blurry disk though some surface features visible. Where is Saturn when you need him as a crowd pleaser? So many people wondered past, took a look, and if they showed just the slightest interest, got the celestial south hemisphere low down. Many constellations were prominent, and I took the opportunity to figure out a few more. Doing so requires some stretch of the imagination (ie the Centaur) but once envisioned "it will always be with you". Old favourites did not let me down - the Jewel box never fails to please (the gyrls:). Weird thing was because it was dark I would have all these long conversations with total strangers not knowing (or caring) what they looked like. And then come up the next day, I wouldn't recognise them at all but they knew me ‘the guy with the telescope' given the collective absence of short term memories. So there I am crooning over the eye piece around 09h00, tracking the crescent Venus after an early morning Lunar session. The solar panels are out, propped up on a tent poll, soaking up photons. Then this girl in nifty short funky skirt and ravey top pops out of tent, walks up and adjusts here outfit in the reflectance of the silicon panels. Turns out she was there the previous night for a while, and sure knew her constellations. So we got talking Venus. Like that planet, Love certainly comes and goes, all of a sudden and oh so bright at the most unexpected times. Because of the freezing nights, the party really turned out to be a day time thing, where the temperature rose to the 20's. All the shiny people emerged from our nightly hibernation to party during the day - almost Ibizathian in flavour. I was no exception, and after a shower that morning joined the troops. When I got to the dance floor, I almost flipped out my orbit - there she was on the decks! She goes by the DJ name Stella Nutella and she played the most sexy chilled trance for more than a few hours. I didn't really keep track of what or who was playing when, just joined the flow and drifted around as it suited me, occasionally crossing paths with new and old acquaintances. People were really quite friendly all around, and it didn't take much effort to meet people. Marek aka Matrx and his crew were up there, having made the arduous journey although not as fortunate as me in terms of tyre fatalities. An acquaintance from early Netraver days, Brad, was a frequent encounter. But what of Gerald & Cleon? It was now Wednesday night and no sign of them at all. e day arrived - Thursday 21st June, and we all wished each other a Happy Eclipse. There was a serious mood of anticipation as solar viewing glasses were distributed by trance cherubs. Earlier that week, an American called Bob had come by, boasting that he had a Hydrogen Alpha filter handy (serious $k's worth) since he had no room for his telescope in his baggage. He calling cards were holograms ( I got a ‘bud') and he claimed to have been playing with light since he was in nappies (make that 'diapers')- he really knew his optical stuff. This filter is a piece of equipment that allows you to look at the surface of the sun, the photosphere, in great detail (hopefully the chromosphere as well). It blocks of the energy of the sun and only allows a very narrow band of light frequencies through - we are talking 656.3 nanometers here, the hydrogen alpha emission line. We schemed how it would be possible to hook it up ad-hoc, given the lack of adapter couplings etc and made loose arrangements to set it up but we kept missing each other thereafter. The morning of the eclipse came, and I decided to join everyone in the main area for a ‘Group Eclipse' and found a place in the sun with Marek and friends. A quick mission back later in the morning to get binoculars (got to find that corona! ) found a few notes stuck under a bungie on the scope. One was announcing Cleon & crew had made it with directions to find them, and the other was an indiscernible scrawl: all I could make out was ‘Bob' and the next thing there he was in person with his goodies. As my state to be of any practical assistance was rapidly diminishing, I left him to sort out the fittings whilst I found Gerald and camp. Only two hours to go! They had cunningly bullshitted their way into the vendor area the previous night, their delayed arrival due to an extended stay in luxury at Vic Falls. Such is the life of the Gold Card. Gerald welcomed me with the traditional Vodka & Red Bull, which turned out to be a Vodka & Gin (not bad with a dash of lemon) but then I was on another mission. I was on the dance floor when First Contact was made: everyone put their paper glasses on and looked at the Sun in unison, as the moon started to eat away at the sun. Time to find Bob again. Back at the camp, he had successfully attached the long & heavy filter to the telescope using materials cunningly collected by the two of us, and was in the process of fine tuning. I got the guidance computer going and the next thing we were surfing the surface of the sun in search of sun spots and hydrogen alpha detail, this being a total and most spectacular surprise for me - ultimate in fact. The first sunspot was a treat, and after some forced concentration, I started to see it in relief. God Damn, it was moving as well! OK, it was now getting a bit darker and the warmth of the day was rapidly evaporating. There was a few surrounding campers who drifted past, and we enthusiastically explained that what a sun spot was before showing them close up. The moment of totality approached . The sky was perfectly clear, all of a sudden - lights out. Nothing - no pictures nor words - had prepared me for this. Mercury was very prominent, close to the sun as it is. Some say it was Jupiter, but I couldn't spot any moons. The Corona was an incredible sight through binoculars. Long white wispy pointy things, so familiar in classical images of the sun. It was so exciting to see this - far surpassed my expectations and now I knew why eclipses were so infectious. The light soon broke, and as Bob went of to pack up his camp, I watched the Moon reveal the Sun in all his glory. Watching the sun spots appear was really exciting in between scanning the perimeter and observing a few loopy prominences. As the forth contact was broken, Bob whipped off his kit, and was gone. Gerald has details about that Big Moment - "it was a 360 degree sunset, the weird deep silvery blue light all around. Then there was the moving, shimmering halo of cosmic hair, those most excellent red beads of light breaking thru the mountains and valleys of the moon, and that fantastic moment when the diamond ring burst out. "There was also Massimo, an Italian telescope dealer, who frequented my neck of the bush at random times. He really knew his way around the night sky, although this was his first time down south. I got a bit of a hard time over my collimation (or lack thereof) but had a good laugh when after he exclaimed ‘mama mia' when Omega Centauri was in the viewfinder. Saturday meant pack and go home time, my orignal plans projected that I would have had enough of the party people by then. But it was really sad to be leaving early, since it all had a few days still to go, and I was really enjoying it all. I had got to meet such a kaleidoscope of wonderful people - why did it have to end so quickly? In just a few short days, I found a sense of serenity, a rare commodity down this part of the world. I no longer worried about that laptop in my tent being nicked. I moved and grooved in peace and with harmony. This gathering of the global tribe was an island, with a formidable fence of acarcia branches in lieu of those white beaches. We all had to make do in one way of another, and although some of us came more prepared than others, we all had something to give, to share. Cultural barries fell quickly - our common language was dance. I decided to chance the route home through Zimbabwe, via Kariba and Harare. A welcome feed and sojourn with dear friends Ian, Helen, Karen & Alex and Ivan the Butterfly granddad. I was worried about petrol queues in Zim, but the recent 70% fuel hikes killed those quickly enough. Thus the roads were quiet, except for the occasional tourist 4x4 and Zim cops in flashy cars. More than once I passed a rural food store with a large crowd of people looking more than a bit desperate. A fuel stop in Masvingo and the car was surrounded by curio sellers begging for anything. At the rate of Z$1000 for 12 litres of petrol, it seemed the right thing to do to spread around a few hundred zim dollars. I can only hope that the ordinary people in Zimbabwe pull through the current mess - perhaps one that Zambia has already visited. Such is life in post colonial Africa. Anyway, six border posts later, I was back home and it all went very smoothly. What a profound experience. 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Only one time was he a little late and he communicated ahead of time that he would be about 15 min late. He is a good communicator. He handles my dogs (4 of them! ) with great TLC! He's gentle and loves his clients (pets). All of [spans 1] gentleness. He's very accommodating and does a great job! AMAZING JOB Review of Elegant Mobile Grooming Your people were here on time. They did an AMAZING job on my dog. Would HIGHLY RECOMMEND this service to all my friends and family. Will have them come back every few months to keep my dog happy. Excellent Review [spans 2] groomer. I know he's in good hands. Thank you Neftali for making my dog look his best.3rd Service Review of Elegant Mobile Grooming The groomer knows my dogs well after only 3 visits. My dogs are groomed very well and are comfortable with him. Service is excellent. The rate is very reasonable. Great job! Review of Elegant Mobile Grooming My dog feels so happy after the grooming and looks so cute. Thank you for your time and wonderful work! 😀Another Great Experience Review of Elegant Mobile Grooming Roxy looks great! Very pleased with every aspect of Elegant Grooming. Highly recommend, always a 10! Thank you for taking such great care of our little ones. Awesome Job Review of Elegant Mobile Grooming Nefthali was wonderful with our little guy. Did an awesome job grooming him. Very convenient coming to our home so we don't have to drop him off some place and leave him. Would recommend! Many Thanks Review of Elegant Mobile Grooming My 4 doggies look absolutely Elegant just like the name of this fantastic Mobile Grooming. I thank God I have found them! The services atr great will be using their services ongoing! Give them a Try! [spans 3] appointments. My baies look so cute after he is done. I wouldn't change Elegant Grooming for anything. Very happy customerVery Cute! Review of Elegant Mobile Grooming We are so happy with [spans 4] service. Definitely we recommend this business! Another awesome experience Review of [spans 5] nice. No worries of having to take them to the groomer to be stuck in a cage waiting their turn. I just can't say enough good things about our experience in general and Neftali specifically. Highly recommended using him -your pets will [spans 6] great. I will keep using this companyBest service Review of Elegant Mobile Grooming Best service for the price and it's very convenient. The people are very polite and very good with my dog. My dog loves to get pampered by elegant grooming. Will recommend to my friends and family. Dog grooming Review of Elegant Mobile Grooming Been using Elegant for couple years now. We have a little yorkie who was deathly afraid of grooming. After finding Elegant she warmed up to him and is fine with a groom. I can not say enough about how great Elegant is! He does a outstanding job and extremely punctual! Its so easy to schedule through the web site and his response is almost immediate. He is the Best! 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Service Review of Elegant Mobile Grooming Great service always happy dog happy and always on time you are the best! Very good. Almost like the groomer we had up north. Review of Elegant Mobile Grooming Great job. Next appointment I would like the same cut but also underneath his mouth cut shorterAlways Happy Review of Elegant Mobile Grooming I am [spans 11] babies. Always on time, polite and my babies love Neftali. Never disappointed! Review of Elegant Mobile Grooming Amazing service! My [spans 12] well. I probably won't have my dog groomed anywhere else. They took great care of my dog and for an amazing price. Thanks again! Happy customer Review of Elegant Mobile Grooming I'm an extremely happy customer. Will recommend elegant grooming to everyone. Great service and a happy dog. Excellent Service! Review of Elegant Mobile Grooming The best mobile grooming in town for your dogs! Very nice staff. Awesome! ! ! Review of Elegant Mobile Grooming Neftali Mendez is excellent. He is awesome with my dogs and they look great. Very satisfied Review of Elegant Mobile Grooming Very satisfied, I was so happy to see my yorkie looking soooo cute and clean. Great service Review of Elegant Mobile Grooming He is always on time and he is very professinal. Takes great care of our dog and leaves him looking and smelling awesomegreat experience Review of Elegant Mobile Grooming First time great job. Dogs were not stressed out. I will use againSecond Timer Review of Elegant Mobile Grooming This is the second time we have used Elegant Grooming and we have been very happy with the results both times. I believe we have found our groomer for our Yorkie for the future. Awesome Review of Elegant Mobile Grooming 5 Stars for Elegant Grooming! Highly recommended. All my animals love Neftali that says a lot. Mia's groomer Review of Elegant Mobile Grooming Always on time. Friendly does an amazing job on my maltese. Love the curbside service. would highly recommend recommendgreat service Review of Elegant Mobile Grooming We just had our Pomeranian trimmed and clipped and he looks great. Always on time & professional Review of Elegant Mobile Grooming Trix has now been groomed by Neftali for 3 yrs. she is aways happy to see him which is a comfort to me. Trix always looks great and Neftali smiles when i want to try a new look. His service of coming to the house has taken away alot of stress for Trix. Excellent Review of Elegant Mobile Grooming I was very worried about changing to new groomer. I have a very anxious Shitzu, who was matted, but to my surprise he came out [spans 13] wonderful. He has been matted in the past, but previous groomer would [spans 14] burns. When I mention to my dog that Neftali the groomer is coming he gets excited and starts looking for me out the window and door. I totally recommend him to everyoneGrooming at Home Review of Elegant Mobile Grooming Great service. Arrived on time, very professional. My dog [spans 15] service. I recommend this service. But next time want a closer and shorter trim . Great Review of Elegant Mobile Grooming Awesome groomer, wouldn't go to any other groomer. Neftali is great with my dog CooperIt takes a professional Review of Elegant Mobile Grooming I good rant and rave [spans 16] are. Simply the best groomer in 4 years of trying both at my home and at Salon's. Neftali, simply does the best job with all 3 of the different personalities of my dogs. He is able to build trust and do professionally in minutes, what I am unable to do despite hours of trying. Awesome! Review of Elegant Mobile Grooming this is our second appointment and once again we are very pleased. Awesome! Review of Elegant Mobile Grooming Prompt service and cut my Yorkie exactly as asked. highly recommended! Very happy Review of Elegant Mobile Grooming The service and cut is great and my dog came back relaxed like she just returned from the spa. Thank you for pampering my pooch. :)Pleasantly [spans 17] dogs. He was very professional and did with ease what I was unable to do for my BabiesService today Review of Elegant Mobile Grooming Service today was amazing like always. Always on time always knows what I want and friendly thanks your the best 👍🏼Great job! Review of Elegant Mobile Grooming The groomer was very efficient. Both dogs looked great! It's a bit pricey but the convenience of having them come to you makes it worth the cost,Amazing! Review of Elegant Mobile Grooming Today my dog got a haircut from Elegant dog groomers and the experience was amazing! Not only did the groomer come early to the appointment, my dog came out looking wonderful! There is nothing like knowing your dog is [spans 18] hands. I would recommend this company to my friends and family. Review of Elegant Mobile Grooming Full service well done. Tippi happy and Ollie very polite and professional. Completely happy with the services provided. <bot>: spans 1: my dogs are special needs and I appreciate his spans 2: of Elegant Mobile Grooming I get so excited when I see my dog running up to the spans 3: Perfect as Always Review of Elegant Mobile Grooming He was early never been late with any of my spans 4: the great and professional spans 5: Elegant Mobile Grooming One full Yorkie groom and my 2 other pets had their nails trimmed! My 3 furbabies were so excited to see Neftali again! He always arrives on time to the appointment which is so spans 6: thank you! The Very Best Groomer! ! ! Review of Elegant Mobile Grooming My dog knows when Neftali's truck pulls up-she starts barking and wagging her tail-she really likes him and he always does a great job with her! ! ! Great job! ! Review of Elegant Mobile Grooming Great job! ! My dogs look spans 7: and he was calm and spans 8: time and he looks great! 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I recommend this hair cutting service because it's convenient and cost the same as Petsmart or other places. The best part is my dog disn't have to wait in a cage for 3-4 hours for his turn! Feedback Review of Elegant Mobile Grooming I've lost count with how many times I've had service from you guys but, I'm always very pleased with the services extremely happy when I get my dog back and most of all I'm very happy and satisfied with all that you do. ThanksFirst Class Experience Review of Elegant Mobile Grooming This was a first class experience for us, and more importantly our dog. It's not an ... <bot>: Completed pargraph(s): easy decision to switch dog groomers after going 5+ years with the same one. Lately our dog trembled in fear arriving at the groomers. We felt a mobile grooming service might minimize separation anxiety, cage time, and other distractions. Neftali Mendez was warm, friendly, and professional from the very first handshake. He displayed a patient and genuine interest in minimizing our dog's anxiety. Our dog quickly adjusted, never trembled in fear, and was done in one hour, not three! Better yet, the finished look was the BEST grooming job ever. Ever! We are very happy with our choice and would not hesitate to recomment Neftali and Elegant Mobile Grooming to friends and family. First time Review of Elegant Mobile Grooming The groomer was on time, pleasant,and my dog took right to him. Id like to keep him as our permanent groomer. <user>: What are the missing words: Thank youMy dogs experience Review of Elegant Mobile Grooming I am extremely satisfied with the service my dog received. He was perfectly groomed. He usually comes back terrified and limping [words 1] but this time he came back so happy and you can tell he was feeling great. Thank you! Grooming Review [words 2] Thank you for taking such good care [words 3] Ford. Great job! 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I love how much pampering Neftali put into her. Thank you! Great Service. Review of Elegant Mobile Grooming I found this groomer by simply going to google and typing mobile grooming. I was very hesitant because I had never heard of them nor were they being recommended by someone else so I was a little skeptical. However, I have to say Neftali is wonderful. I wasn't home the day of the grooming; I was at work and it was my mother who would be home with my Baby. Neftali sent me a picture of my pooch when he was all done and I thought it was very sweet of him. He was very professional and seemed caring with my Pet. I definitely recommend him and will continue using him. Too bad I didn't run into Elegant Mobile Grooming before. Grooming Review of Elegant Mobile Grooming Punctual, did a good job on my Yorkie, fast too. I will book them againgrooming Review of Elegant Mobile Grooming Best haircut yet, nice and even. Exactly the length I requested. Grooming Review of Elegant Mobile Grooming Neftali did a great job on my Maltese! Got here right on time. Will definitely use Elegant Grooming again. Happy maltese Review of Elegant Mobile Grooming Thank you Neftali I really like the haircuts you give my maltese and your always punctual . Im so happy I found Neftali Review of Elegant Mobile Grooming Thanks for your AMAZING service. benji loves you! JoJo Review of Elegant Mobile Grooming Just wanted you to know that my mother was very happy with JoJo's cut. We hope to continue to use your services. Lilo Visit Review of Elegant Mobile Grooming Everything went very well. Great guy who did the grooming-much appreciate the serviceMake the appointment now. Review of Elegant Mobile Grooming Neftali is amazing. I use to take my babies to the groomers and leave them there 3 to 6 hours. They would be stressed and depressed. I'm so happy that I called. I will not use anyone else. Keep up the great job that you are doing. Marley Review of Elegant Mobile Grooming Mr. Mendez was very prompt and personable. Marley looked great after his bath and hair cut. I will be a regular customer. Mia Review of Elegant Mobile Grooming Neftali is absolutely very punctual and does a great job grooming my baby Mia. He always leaves her so clean and neat and smelling great. My 3 dogs never looked so good! Review of Elegant Mobile Grooming I swear I've never seen my dogs look so fresh and clean. The cut was amazing and my dogs were stress free. Thank you! My dog Puffy Review of Elegant Mobile Grooming My dog is very happy. Mr Neftali thank you for attending my dogMy little baby Review of Elegant Mobile Grooming Elegant mobile grooming did an amazing job! ! ! Made my little scruffy shih tzu into a Prince. at a reasonable price. Will always use them! ! Neftali is the best! Review of Elegant Mobile Grooming Highly recommended. ## Professional and personable. Always on time and always does a great job. 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Instruction: are the missing words: Bit Adini, a city or region of Syria, [words 1] Adini in Assyrian sources, was an [words 2] existed as an independent kingdom during the 10th and 9th centuries BC, with [words 3] at Til Barsib (now Tell Ahmar). (1) In 856 BC, the kingdom was conquered and absorbed into the Assyrian Empire during the reign of [words 4] III. It is usually thought to have been [words 5] south of Carchemish. Assyria – Assyria was a [words 6] and empire of the ancient Near East and the Levant. [words 7] Tigris in Upper Mesopotamia, the Assyrians came to rule powerful empires at several times. Assyria is named after its capital, the ancient [words 8] Aššur. In the 25th and 24th centuries BC, Assyrian [words 9] can also refer to the geographic region or heartland where Assyria, [words 10] Assyrian people were centered. The indigenous modern Eastern Aramaic-speaking Assyrian Christian [words 11] in northern Iraq, north east Syria, [words 12] was to become known as Assyria was home [words 13] such as has been found at the Shanidar Cave. The earliest Neolithic sites in Assyria were the Jarmo culture c.7100 BC and [words 14] the 3rd millennium BC, a very intimate cultural symbiosis developed between [words 15] included widespread bilingualism. The influence of Sumerian on Akkadian, and vice versa, is evident in all areas, from lexical borrowing on a [words 16] syntactic, morphological. This has prompted scholars to refer to Sumerian [words 17] millennium BC as a sprachbund and it [words 18] that the city was named in honour of [words 19] god with the same name. The city of Aššur, together [words 20] Assyrian cities, however it is likely that they [words 21] centres. In the late 26th century BC, Eannatum of Lagash, then the dominant Sumerian [words 22] c. the early 25th century BC, Lugal-Anne-Mundu the king of the Sumerian state of Adab [words 23] to him. Of the early history of the kingdom of Assyria, little is known, in the Assyrian King List, the earliest king recorded was Tudiya. According to Georges Roux he would have [words 24] the mid 25th century BC, Tudiya was succeeded on the list by Adamu, the first known reference to the Semitic name Adam and then a further thirteen rulers. The earliest kings, such as Tudiya, who are [words 25] lived in tents, were independent semi-nomadic [words 26] kings at some point became fully urbanised and founded the city state of Ashur in [words 27] BC. Assyrian rulers were subject to Sargon [words 28] successors, and the city of Ashur became an administrative center of the Empire. [words 29] Assyrian traders in Burushanda implored the help of their ruler, Sargon the Great, the name Hatti itself [words 30] accounts of his grandson, Naram-Sin, campaigning in Anatolia. Assyrian and [words 31] the use of writing in the form of the Mesopotamian cuneiform script to Asia Minor, [words 32] was destroyed by economic decline and internal civil war, [words 33] barbarian Gutian people in 2154 BC. The rulers of Assyria during the period between c.2154 BC and 2112 BC once again fully independent, as the Gutians are only known to [words 34] Mesopotamia2. Shalmaneser III – Shalmaneser III was [words 35] and son of the previous ruler, Ashurnasirpal II. His long reign [words 36] campaigns against the tribes, the Babylonians. His armies penetrated to Lake Van and [words 37] the Hittites of Carchemish were compelled to pay tribute, and it is in the annals of Shalmaneser III from the 850s BC that the Arabs and Chaldeans first appear in [words 38] history. In 842 BC, Shalmaneser campaigned against [words 39] to take refuge within the walls [words 40] capital. While Shalmaneser was unable to capture Damascus, he devastated its territory, babylonia had already been conquered, including the areas [words 41] Sutean and Aramean tribes, and the Babylonian king had been put to death. In 836 BC, Shalmaneser sent an expedition against the Tibareni which was followed by one against Cappadocia, [words 42] two years, but the rebellion was [words 43] son of Shalmaneser. His reign saw the first appearance in history of the [words 44] significant to Biblical studies because two of [words 45] from Hebrew Bible. The Black Obelisk names Jehu son of Omri, and the [words 46] he had built a palace at Kalhu, and left several editions of the royal annals recording his military campaigns, the last of which is engraved on the Black Obelisk from Calah. The Black Obelisk is a significant [words 47] his reign and it is a black limestone, bas-relief sculpture from Nimrud, in northern Iraq. It is the [words 48] yet discovered, and is significant because it displays the earliest ancient depiction of an Israelite. On the top and the bottom of the reliefs there is a cuneiform inscription recording the annals of Shalmaneser III. It lists the military campaigns which the king and his commander-in-chief headed every year, [words 49] might suggest that the work had been commissioned by the commander-in-chief, Dayyan-Ashur. The second [words 50] the earliest surviving picture of an Israelite, [words 51] with Phoenicia and Judah, and became subject to Assyria. It describes how Jehu brought or sent his tribute in or around 841 BC and [words 52] a public monument in 825 BC at a time [words 53] war. It was discovered by archaeologist Sir Austen Henry Layard in [words 54] of Shalmaneser King of Assyria Black Obelisk of [words 55] Babylonian and Assyrian Literature4. Tell Tayinat – Tell Tayinat is a low-lying ancient [words 56] the east bank at the bend of [words 57] of southeastern Turkey about 25 kilometers south east [words 58] Antakya. It is located along the edge of [words 59] valley. The site lies some 800 meters [words 60] the site of the ancient city of Alalakh and it is a possible [words 61] Calneh mentioned in the Hebrew Scriptures. [words 62] site was an urban centre in two separate phases, during the Early Bronze Age and Early Iron Age. The red-black burnished ware is recovered in large quantities from the Early Bronze Age II and it is among the most commonly used pottery [words 63] site. This type of pottery diminishes through the end of the last phase [words 64] is believed to be influenced by the [words 65] arriving into this area around 3000 BCE. During the Early Iron Age, this is likely to be the site of ancient Kinalua. Among [words 66] north Syrian river-plain the rulers of Kinalua continued to bear royal Hittite names in the 8th century BCE, at a [words 67] to submit. Archaeological excavations were conducted at the site [words 68] of Chicagos Oriental Institute from 1935 to 1938, one of the key finds [words 69] site was a temple reminiscent in plan to the descriptions of King [words 70] Testament. Several large palaces in the known as Bit-hilani were also excavated. In 1999, the Oriental [words 71] site to conduct a survey, continued excavations in the summer [words 72] the Iron Age temple as well as part of one of the early Iron Age II bit-hilanis. A significant amount of earlier Iron Age I material was uncovered as well as small amounts of Early Bronze Age material. Excavations have continued now for [words 73] 6 seasons, through 2009, findings have included a significant Iron Age temple, a number of 1st millennium BC cuneiform tablets, and initial structures from the earlier Bronze Age settlement. In August 2012, a team from the University of [words 74] head and torso of a human figure, the remains of the figure stand approximately 1.5 meters in height, suggesting a total height [words 75] meters. The figure is bearded with eyes made [words 76] hair has been styled in an elaborate series of curls arranged in rows. The arms of the figure extend forward [words 77] has two arm bracelets adorned with lion heads. The figure's left hand holds a shaft of wheat and its right hand holds a spear, the figures chest is adorned [words 78] pectoral. Tell Halaf – Tell Halaf [words 79] Al Hasakah governorate of northeastern Syria, [words 80] opposite Ceylanpınar. It was the first find of a Neolithic culture, subsequently dubbed the Halaf culture, characterized by glazed pottery painted with geometric and animal designs. The site dates to the 6th [words 81] a Hittite ruling city at first and [words 82] the Aramaean city-state of Guzana or Gozan in the 10th century BCE. By the end of 9th century BCE the city [words 83] the Assyrian Empire. During the Syrian Civil War, Peoples Protection Units took control [words 84] located near the city of Ras [words 85] of the Khabur River, close to the [words 86] Turkey. The name Tell Halaf is a local Aramaic placename, tell meaning hill, on 19 November, he discovered Tell [words 87] up on tales told to him by [words 88] idols buried beneath the sand. Within three days, [words 89] statuary were uncovered, including the so-called Sitting Goddess, a test pit uncovered the entrance to the Western Palace. Since he had no permit to excavate, Oppenheim [words 90] statues he found reburied and moved on. According [words 91] he had urged Oppenheim in 1907 to excavate Tell Halaf, in August 1910, [words 92] on Oppenheim to explore the site and had it circulated to several leading archaeologists like Theodor Noldeke or Ignaz [words 93] sign. Armed with this letter, Max [words 94] able to ask for his dismissal from the service while being [words 95] from his father for the excavation. With a team of five archaeologists, Oppenheim planned a campaign that began on 5 August 1911. Substantial amounts of equipment were imported from Germany, including a steam train. The costs totaled around 750,000 Mark and were covered [words 96] the archaeologists discovered that since 1899 locals [words 97] of the findings and heavily damaged them - [words 98] part out of superstition, in part to gain [words 99] material. During the excavations Oppenheim found the ruins of the town of Guzana, significant finds included the large statues and reliefs of the so-called Western Palace built by King Kapara, as well as a cult room and tombs. Some of the statuary was found reused in buildings from the Hellenistic period, in addition, they discovered Neolithic pottery of a type which became known as Halaf culture after the site where it was first found. At the time, this was the oldest painted pottery ever found, in 1913, Oppenheim decided to return temporarily to Germany. The finds of Tell Halaf were left at the building he, most of them were securely packaged and stored. The outbreak of World War I prevented Oppenheim from returning, however, in 1926, Germany joined the League of Nations and it thus became possible for German nationals to conduct excavations in what was now the French Mandate of Syria6. Aleppo – Aleppo is a city in Syria, serving as the capital of the Aleppo Governorate, the most populous Syrian governorate. With an official population of 2,132,100, Aleppo was the largest Syrian city before the Syrian Civil War, however, now Aleppo is likely the second-largest city in Syria after the capital Damascus. Aleppo is an ancient city, and one of the oldest continuously inhabited cities in the world, such a long history is attributed to its strategic location as a trading center midway between the Mediterranean Sea and Mesopotamia. For centuries, Aleppo was the largest city in the Syrian region, and it was also one of the largest cities in the Levant before the advent of the Syrian Civil War. The citys significance in history has been its location at one end of the Silk Road, when the Suez Canal was inaugurated in 1869, trade was diverted to sea and Aleppo began its slow decline. At the fall of the Ottoman Empire after World War I, Aleppo ceded its northern hinterland to modern Turkey, in the 1940s, it lost its main access to the sea, Antakya and İskenderun, also to Turkey. Finally, the isolation of Syria in the past few decades further exacerbated the situation and this decline may have helped to preserve the old city of Aleppo, its medieval architecture and traditional heritage. It won the title of the Islamic Capital of Culture 2006, during the Battle of Aleppo the city suffered massive destruction, and has been the worst-hit city in the Syrian Civil War. In December 2016, the Syrian government achieved full control of Aleppo following a successful offensive, modern-day English-speakers commonly refer to the city as Aleppo. It was known in antiquity as Khalpe, Khalibon, and to the Greeks, during the Crusades, and again during the French Mandate for Syria and the Lebanon of 1923–1946, the name Alep was used. Aleppo represents the Italianised version of this, the original ancient name, Halab, has survived as the current Arabic name of the city. Some have proposed that halab means iron or copper in Amorite languages, the modern-day Arabic nickname of the city, ash-Shahbaa, which means the white-colored, also allegedly derives from the famous white marble of Aleppo. From the 11th century it was common usage to apply the term Aram-Zobah to the area of Aleppo. Aleppo has scarcely been touched by archaeologists, since the city occupies its ancient site. The site has been occupied from around 5000 BC, as shown by excavations in Tallet Alsauda, Aleppo appears in historical records as an important city much earlier than Damascus. The first record of Aleppo comes from the third millennium BC, some historians, such as Wayne Horowitz, identify Aleppo with the capital of an independent kingdom closely related to Ebla, known as Armi, although this identification is contested. The main temple of the storm god Hadad was located on the hill in the center of the city. In the Old Babylonian and Old Assyrian Empire period, Aleppos name appears in its form as Ḥalab for the first time9. Sam'al – Samal was founded as a Hittite colony from 1725-1200 BC. It became an Aramaean Principality, following the collapse of the Hittite Empire in 1200 BC, in 940 BC it became a kingdom, and in 680 BC the state came under control of the Assyrian Empire. It was located at Zincirli Höyük in the Anti-Taurus Mountains of modern Turkeys Gaziantep Province, the site of Samal was occupied in the Early Bronze Age, and became part of the kingdom of Yamhad early in the second millennium. With the rise of the Neo-Assyrian Empire, Samal became a vassal state and this ended in the 7th century BC with the fall of the Assyrian Empire. Kingdom of Sam'al was a power of the Middle-East in the first half of the 1st millennium BC. It was near the Nur Mountains, Samal was the capital of the country. Royal steles and stone tablets from the period, of Kilamuva and Panamuva II, are the sources for historical data about this timeperiod. It became a power at the end of the 10th century BC. It had expanded from being a city state and gained territories from Carchemish, around Adana from Quwê and it didn't become part of Cilicia. In 859 BC Alimus was saved with the help of Hayyanu and he didn't participate in the Battle of Qarqar in 853 BC, but Assyria had been blocked in the Western area. Though the campaign of Assyria in 825 BC occupied the territories of Samal, Quwê had been defeated. After the death of Shalmaneser III, Ya'idi again became independent, some rulers of Samal had aggressive expansionist politics, others acceded to one of the anti-Assyrian Syrian coalition. Assyrian sources are not clear regarding Samal, Ya'idi was one of Assyria's satellite states in the annals of Shalmaneser III. Though around 830 BC Azitawadda, king of Denyen, states Ya'idi is his satellite country – at the same time, other sources from the same period mention Ya'idi as a satellite state of Denyen and Assyria wanted to occupy this territory. Kilamuva might offer for Deyen to be a satellite state, before this, he should defeat his greatest foe, Azitawadda. Assyrians won over Denyen and Samal in 825 BC, Samal became independent after the death of Shalmaneser III. The Kingdom of Samal was founded by Hayyanu and his successor was Ahabbu of Sirilaya in 854 BC, whereas Gabar, the founder of Ya'idi, and his successors became a member of the Assyrian satellitesTell Ta'yinat is a low-lying ancient tell on the east bank at the bend of the ancient Orontes river, in the Hatay . Melid (Hittite: Malidiya and possibly also Midduwa; Akkadian: Meliddu; Urartian: Melitea; Latin: Melitene) was an . Luhuti,Lukhuti or Lu'ash, was an Iron Age Syro-Hittite Aramean region during the early 1st millennium BC located in . Tuwana (Akkadian Tuḫana) was an Iron Age Luwian kingdom in southern Anatolia, one of the Syro-Hittite states, which . Karatepe (Turkish for "Black Hill"; Hittite: Azatiwataya) is a late Hittite fortress and open-air museum in Osmaniye . Palistin (or Walistin), was an early Syro-Hittite kingdom located in what is now northwestern Syria and the . English: Rideau Street 1898 with streetcar. (Probably south side of Rideau Street, around #36 Rideau Street, as the furniture building appears in Rideau_Street_09. jpg occupying #34 and #36 Rideau Street)1. History of Ottawa – By 1914, Ottawas population had surpassed 100,000 and today it is the capital of a G7 country whose metropolitan population exceeds one million. The origin of the name Ottawa is derived from the Algonquin word adawe, the word refers to the Indigenous Peoples who used the river to trade, hunt, fish, camp, harvest plants, ceremonies, and for other traditional uses. The first maps made of the area started to name the river after these peoples. For centuries, Algonquin people have portaged through the waterways of both the Ottawa River and the Rideau River while passing through the area. French explorer Étienne Brûlé was credited as the first European to see the Chaudière Falls in 1610, no permanent settlement occurred in the area until 1800 when Philemon Wright founded his village near the falls, on the north shore of the Ottawa River. Colonel John By was an officer of the Royal Engineers commissioned by the British Government in 1826 to superintend the construction of the Rideau Canal. The founding was marked by a sod turning, and a letter from Dalhousie which authorized Colonel By to divide up the town into lots. The town developed into a site for the timber, and later sawed lumber trade, causing growth so that in 1854, Bytown was created a city and its present more appropriate name, Ottawa was conferred. Shortly afterward, Queen Victoria chose Ottawa as the capital of Canada, also at this time, increased export sales led it to connect by rail to facilitate shipment to markets especially in the United States. In the early 1900s the lumber industry waned as both supply and demand lessened, growth continued in the 20th century, and by the 1960s, the Greber Plan transformed the capitals appearance and removed much of the old industrial infrastructure. In 2001, the city amalgamated all areas in the former region, with the draining of the Champlain Sea around 10,000 years ago the Ottawa Valley became habitable. The Algonquin people who called the Ottawa River the Kichi Sibi or Kichissippi meaning Great River or Grand River maintained a route along the Ottawa River for a relatively short time. The word Ottawa is in relation to the Ottawa people, the First Nation who hunted, camped, traded, and traveled in the area, and also lived far to the west along Georgian Bay and Lake Huron. When Étienne Brûlé in 1610 became the first European to travel up the Ottawa River, followed by Samuel de Champlain in 1613, written records show that by 1613 the Algonquins were in control of the Ottawa Valley and the surrounding areas to the west and north. At left is an extract from a map created in 1632 by Samuel de Champlain of the reaches of New France. It shows a portion of the Ottawa River route he took in 1616, with numbers used to indicate sites he visited, significant rapids and aboriginal encampments. Champlain wrote about both the Rideau Falls on the part of the early future town, and the Chaudière Falls in the west. Chaudière was, and still is impassable by any water traffic, so there were portage paths around it on trips from the mouth of the Ottawa River to the lands of the interior, Nicholas Gatineau also traded using the nearby Gatineau River2. Ottawa Electric Railway – Ottawa Electric Railway Company was a streetcar public transit system in the city of Ottawa, Canada, part of the electric railway streetcars that operated between 1891 and 1959. Prior to this, starting in 1866, public transportation was provided by Ottawa City Passenger Railway Company, the O. was taken over by the Ottawa Transportation Commission in 1948, which was itself succeeded by OC Transpo in 1973. Preceding the use of streetcars, Ottawas first public transportation system was the operation of a horsecar system. Tramway service began in July 1870, under the Ottawa City Passenger Railway Company, which was incorporated on August 15,1866. was financed largely by the estate of Thomas McKay, in 1871, Reynolds sold his streetcar company interest to Thomas Keifer. The horse-drawn streetcars travelled back and forth from New Edinburgh to the Chaudière Bridge, the trams for passengers and freight had a line extending from Rideau Falls in New Edinburgh, to Sussex, Sparks, Wellington, Duke and the Suspension Bridge. The service provided sleighs in the winter and had 273,000 passengers in its first year of operation, in 1891, it had four miles of track,25 horses and 15 employees. The Ottawa City Passenger Railway Company had tram cars holding 20 passengers which were made of wood with bench seats, the company applied to the city to convert to electricity but was refused, and later it proposed a merger of two companies. A new company, Ottawa Electric Railway Company, would appear on the scene in the early 1890s, Ottawas first electric lights operated near the Chaudière Falls in 1882, and in 1885, electric lighting came to the city streets under Ottawa Electric Light Company. Thomas Ahearn, born in LeBreton Flats, also became an important figure in the years of electricity in Ottawa. Ahearn had been an operator, and in 1892 filed patents for both an electric oven and a system of warming cars by means of electrically heated water. Ahearn formed a partnership with Warren Y, Soper, and for years the office of Ahearn and Soper was on Sparks Street. In 1901, Ottawa Electric Railway Company built a 2, 000-foot canal just north of the Britannia Boathouse Club to generate Hydroelectric power on the Deschênes Rapids. Today, the main and inner harbour provide 250 wet moorings, fuel and pumpout facilities, the horsecar was providing public transportation for Ottawa into the 1890s when, for a short time, electric streetcars were also employed. Initially Thomas Ahearns new company started streetcar operations until it was merged with the existing horsecar company, in 1890 Mayor Howland of Toronto offered to provide Ottawa with an electric streetcar service. He backed out and Ahearn stepped in, and he along with Soper petitioned the city in order to obtain the franchise and they succeeded, and got granted a 20-year charter for on November 5,1890, city council gave them permission to operate an electric railway. They formed a company on February 13,1891 called the Ottawa Electric Street Railway Company, on June 25,1891 the first electric street cars began operation in a display of five streetcars with Ahearn and Soper as drivers1. Roman temple – Ancient Roman temples were among the most important buildings in Roman culture, and some of the richest buildings in Roman architecture, though only a few survive in any sort of complete state. Today they remain the most obvious symbol of Roman architecture and their construction and maintenance was a major part of ancient Roman religion, and all towns of any importance had at least one main temple, as well as smaller shrines. The main room housed the image of the deity to whom the temple was dedicated. Behind the cella was a room or rooms used by attendants for storage of equipment. The ordinary worshipper rarely entered the cella, and most public ceremonies were performed outside, on the portico, with a crowd gathered in the temple precinct. The most common architectural plan had a rectangular temple raised on a podium, with a clear front with a portico at the top of steps. The sides and rear of the building had much less architectural emphasis, there were also circular plans, generally with columns all round, and outside Italy there were many compromises with traditional local styles. Some ceremonies were processions that started at, visited, or ended with a temple or shrine, sacrifices, chiefly of animals, would take place at an open-air altar within the templum. Especially under the Empire, exotic foreign cults gained followers in Rome and these often had very different practices, some preferring underground places of worship, while others, like Early Christians, worshipped in houses. The decline of Roman religion was relatively slow, and the temples themselves were not appropriated by the government until a decree of the Emperor Honorius in 415. Santi Cosma e Damiano, in the Roman Forum, originally the Temple of Romulus, was not dedicated as a church until 527. The best known is the Pantheon, Rome, which is however highly untypical, being a large circular temple with a magnificent concrete roof. The English word temple derives from the Latin templum, which was not the building itself. The Roman architect Vitruvius always uses the word templum to refer to the sacred precinct, the more common Latin words for a temple or shrine were sacellum, aedes, delubrum, and fanum. The Etruscans were a people of northern Italy, whose civilization was at its peak in the seventh century BC, the Etruscans were already influenced by early Greek architecture, so Roman temples were distinctive but with both Etruscan and Greek features. Especially in the periods, further statuary might be placed on the roof. As in the Maison Carrée, columns at the side might be half-columns and these steps were normally only at the front, and typically not the whole width of thatThe Alcántara Bridge (also known as Trajan's Bridge at Alcantara) is a Roman stone arch bridge built over the Tagus. 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Human: The rest of this: • People with the Sun in mutable signs (Gemini, Virgo, Sagittarius, Pisces) around 18 degrees will be very strongly impacted. • With 6 planetary bodies in Pisces we are coming to the end of the astrological year with a new beginning of the Spring Equinox . This is an interesting month coming up with a Solar Eclipse in Virgo, a Lunar Eclipse in Aries and the Autumnal Equinox. Eclipses in general are extra powerful new beginnings (New Moon) and endings (starting with the Full Moon) . The Following story was done by Frank Vaccaro for SABR. It was pulled from the SABR website for informational purposes for our readers. It should not be re-used without the author's permission. This story is about Herb Pennock, one of our member club's most famous members. Pennock played briefly for the Mohican BBC of Kennett Square. We hope you enjoy this story! Deep beneath the turquoise caverns of a Yankee Stadium that was set to open within one week, a miniature ball of energy named Miller Huggins, the Yankees manager, winked to sportswriters about the secret of the Yankees' success: “Harry Frazee.”Frazee, debonair owner of the Boston Red Sox, also invested frenetically in Broadway musicals and burlesque. To meet theatrical payroll he never hesitated to sell a player to the highest bidder, nearly always the Yankees. By 1922 the Yankees had ten former Boston players in their ranks and two championship flags. But they had yet to win a World Series and were winless in eight consecutive series games. Humiliating losses to Giants left-hander Art Nehf capped the 1921 and 1922 classics. The Yankees, it was said, needed a left-hander for themselves. The eleventh and final Boston regular to make the exodus to New York was that left-hander: a tall, laid back, Pennsylvania Quaker named Herb Pennock obtained prior to the 1923 season. He brought depth to the pitching staff and fit in like the final piece of a puzzle. Only then did the Yankees win the pennant in record-breaking fashion and the first of twenty-five World Series championships for the century. Relaxed, humble, and with a quirky sense of humor that kept Babe Ruth and Lou Gehrig loose, Herb Pennock came into his own at Yankee Stadium. He pitched at a slow pace, walking around the mound, fixing his pants and tugging on the bill of his cap between pitches. He had a graceful, almost languid, pitching motion. He was six feet tall and thin, with an oval face atop a long neck, a thin serious line for a mouth, and a squinting expression. He threw the curveball, not the fastball, and he never seemed to exert himself. Grantland Rice said he pitched each game “with the ease and coolness of a practice session.” On October 15 of his first year as a Yankee, Pennock got the win that gave New York its first World's Championship ever. Herbert Jefferis Pennock was born February 10, 1894, in Kennett Square, Pennsylvania. He was the fourth and last child of Theodore Pennock and the former Mary Louise Sharp, were of Scots-Irish ancestry with Quaker roots going back to William Penn. In 1909 for the local Friends' School and then the Cedarcroft Boarding School, Pennock was a weak-hitting first baseman cursed with a frail arm that curved everything he threw. His Cedarcroft coach, acting on the advice of team first baseman Albert Aloe, who insisted that Pennock was a natural pitcher, placed Pennock on the mound one day when the team's regular pitcher failed to show. Reportedly, Pennock struck out nineteen. Pennock began dominating as a pitcher and at the age of seventeen got a call from Connie Mack. Mack, manager of the World Champion Philadelphia A's, placed him with his Atlantic City Collegian team in the Seashore League for $100 a month. Pennock's father demanded Pennock protect his college eligibility and only let his son sign under an alias. When Pennock no-hit the St. Louis Stars, a respected traveling black team, Mack promised a 1912 call-up. While Herb was pitching for the Wenonah, New Jersey, Military Academy that spring, Mack offered Pennock a spot on his bench. Pennock accepted and on his second day at the park made his debut against the White Sox, Tuesday, May 14. He gave up one hit in four innings. That first Saturday with the club he was used again in the final three innings of the famous 24-2 win over Detroit: the game replacement players played in Tiger uniforms. The A's of this period, three-time World Champions, deserved their reputation as the smartest team of their generation. Eddie Collins and Chief Bender discussed fine points of play around the clock, and coaches Harry Davis and Topsy Hartsel created the pre-game scouting report. As a coveted apprentice of Mack's, Pennock learned from Bender, who taught him the screwball, and ex-major league catcher Mike Grady, a Kennett Square neighbor who made Pennock his personal project. Pennock was ill at home in Kennett Square for most of 1913 but ended 1914 with five straight wins and three scoreless innings in the World Series. When Mack let his superstars go in 1915, Pennock became the ace of one of the most misguided youth movements in baseball history. Beaming pennant confidence, Mack used Pennock opening day against the Red Sox. Pennock responded with no-hitter until two outs in the ninth inning when Harry Hooper beat out a chopper to Nap Lajoie at second base. Pennock could easily have grabbed the ball, but he let it pass him in deference to the veteran second baseman. Playing deep, Lajoie missed an attempt at a barehanded pick-up. Pennock settled for a one-hit shutout. Pennock pitched winning ball, but the team was failing and Mack began to heap relief work upon the skinny twenty-one-year-old. Louis, May 14, in the bottom of the ninth, he was brought in to get just one batter out-lefty Burt Shotton-but Pennock gave up a game-losing two-run double. In Chicago on May 19, on one day of rest and after three shaky appearances, Pennock made a terrible throw on an eighth-inning Bunny Brief bunt. The error opened up a five-run Chicago rally which cost the A's the game, dropped their record to 9-19, and gave the franchise sole possession of last place for the first time in the twentieth century. Then on May 23, in Detroit, Pennock allowed two hits and two walks in the first inning throwing with his usual nonchalance. A panic-stricken Mack, still convinced that the A¹s were a great team, concluded Pennock “lacked ambition,” yanked him from the mound, and summarily released him as a scapegoat. Boston, against whom Pennock had nearly thrown a no-hitter, eagerly scooped him up at the waiver price. Until he died, Mack referred to the release of Herb Pennock as his greatest mistake. In Boston Pennock was the seventh pitcher on a staff seven-deep and did not see much action. Loaned to Providence at the end of 1915, and then to Buffalo at the end of 1916, Pennock went 11-9 in twenty-two International League starts. More importantly, he seemed to regain confidence and control with a four-game winning streak for Buffalo during the team's pennant-clinching Labor Day home stand. In 1917, Pennock won three straight starts for Boston, including a Fourth of July win over the A's that helped the Red Sox tie Chicago for first place July 6. But with the pennant race nip-and-tuck manager Jack Barry kept Pennock on the bench the rest of the year. Frustrated by six partial seasons, Pennock joined the Navy in 1918, and actually steered clear of the Navy baseball team until dispatched to Gibraltar in late June. Navy officials, gearing up for a game against the Army in the 40,000-seat Chelsea Stadium, found out Pennock was mid-Atlantic and had the ship diverted to Portsmouth so he could pitch. He beat the Army in ten innings, 2-1, in front of the King of England on the Fourth of July. When Ed Barrow sent him a Boston contract after the war, Pennock held out until Barrow promised to use him regularly. Pennock started once in April and once in May 1919, while the team was giving George Dumont, Bill James, and sore-armed Joe Bush a chance. In late May, Pennock reminded Barrow of his promise to use him regularly and threatened to quit the team. On Memorial Day in Philadelphia, Pennock started and did well in a no-decision. Then on June 6, Pennock was given another chance and pitched a six-hit, 3-1 victory over Detroit, also getting the game winning hit in the seventh inning to bump Boston into the first division. With continued regular work he posted a 14-4 record after the Fourth of July. Over the next three seasons Pennock was a .470 pitcher on a .450 team as Boston's championship franchise faded away. On May 1, 1920, he gave up a home run to Babe Ruth, an old Boston buddy of his whom he often helped read fan mail. It was Ruth's first home run as a Yankee. Pennock gained a reputation for needing four days of rest between starts. He could win if called on to pitch sooner, but in subsequent starts his curveball lost its fine edge. Boston's ace only in 1920, Pennock was more commonly the team's third starter. Yet even in 1920 the Boston Herald said, “Pennock does give the impression that he is a little on the don-care order.” Furthermore, the “August breakdown” was becoming a Pennock specialty. His career record for the first ten days of August was 8-17. Pennock was traded to the Yankees on January 30, 1923, for Camp Skinner, Norm McMillan, George Murray and fifty thousand Broadway-bound dollars. Pennock got the news the following day when his ship docked from a thirty-day tour of the Orient with Herb Hunter's traveling All-Stars. In celebration, he and his wife danced a jig on a San Francisco pier. Pennock's two principles of pitching were to observe the enemy and conserve the energy. What developed was “effortless throwing” and “poetry in motion.” Catcher Bill Dickey later said, “You can catch Pennock sitting in a rocking chair.” But once again he did not rise to the level of “ace.” Huggins used Pennock's slow stuff in the third or second game of a series, rarely in the openers when most aces were asked to pitch. As a result, Pennock did not often match up with the big opposition winners of his time and never started two games in one series. Fifteen years of pitching in the same league as Walter Johnson produced only three starts against him. Against Stan Coveleski-the pitcher who replaced Pennock for Atlantic City in 1912-he started eight times in twelve years, and against Lefty Grove he started five times in ten years. His career record against these three stars was 7-9. Nevertheless, Pennock may have been the greatest “non-ace” in baseball history and soon developed a reputation of winning “the big game.” He also showed off an encyclopedic knowledge of the weaknesses of opposing hitters, a habit gained from the bench of the old A's. In his first year with New York he went 19-6, leading the league in winning percentage and helping the Yankees to their first world's championship. In his first six seasons with New York his average record was 19-9, helping New York to three straight pennants in 1926, 1927 and 1928. Pennock developed three curve balls and a tailing fastball, which he rarely threw for a strike. His curves were “big” and “bigger” with a sweeping sidearm version that he often used against lefties. Pennock was a beautiful pitcher to watch. With his efficient “rag-arm” style that he said compensated for his low body weight, he began posting up what would eventually become his Hall-of-Fame credentials. In his best season, 1924, the Yanks were in the hunt for their fourth straight pennant, but Washington led by four games on the Fourth of July. The next day Pennock beat Walter Johnson, 2-0, and the Yanks won back first place within a week. Another big win was over Chicago's Hollis Thurston which kept New York in first place when Thurston was going for his eleventh straight win, July 29. Pennock won fifteen of his last eighteen decisions and finished the year 21-9. But New York would lose the pennant. In four starts after Labor Day Pennock managed only a 5.88 earned run average. A win in either his September 14 or September 20 road starts would have put New York back into first place. Pennock opened 1926 with a 9-1 record; 1927 with an 8-2 record; and 1928 with a 9-1 record. In both 1926 and 1928, Pennock's arm blew out in August. Only in 1927, when Huggins started him on eight and ten days rest in July, did Pennock finish strong. In 1926 Pennock finished 5-5 after New York gained their eleven-game lead on August 7. By mid-September that lead had dwindled down to five and one-half games when New York opened a huge six-game series against second-place Cleveland. Pennock lost game three of that series to Garland Buckeye, and Cleveland beat New York four in a row to close the gap to two and one-half games with nine remaining. Pennock lost his next start against long-time nemesis Red Faber in Chicago, and the New ... Bot: York lead was two games with four remaining. However, Cleveland dropped three in a row hosting the A's, and New York took the flag. More significantly, in 1928, after Pennock shut out Boston on three hits, August 12, to raise his record to 19-6, he couldn't raise his arm to comb his hair. Listed day-to-day, Pennock missed the entire rest of the season including the World Series. Meanwhile the Yankees, who had a better record than their 1927 “Murderer's Row” edition until July 25 and who had led by as many as thirteen and one-half games on July 2 sank like a rock to second place by September 8. This is still the record for the largest first-place lead ever lost by a major league club. Second place only lasted a day, and New York did sweep St. Louis in the World Series; but without Pennock the Yankee pitching staff was called “a three-stringed ukulele.”At the age of thirty-five Pennock did not return to peak form. He hung on as a fifth or sixth starter until 1932 and then moved to the bullpen. He struggled through his 1929 comeback with eleven, appropriately, as his newly issued uniform number and became the third left-hander in major league history to win 200 games. From then on until retirement Pennock was 33-14 in the first half of his seasons and 15-20 in the second half. But he remained a positive force in the clubhouse. Yankee sluggers looked to Pennock as an advice wielding “slump breaker” despite the fact that Pennock, a switch-hitter, carried a .191 lifetime batting average and often wasted at-bats swinging for the fences. A standard Ruth spring training bet was whether or not Pennock would hit a home run during a coming season. In New York Pennock's down-to-earth personality received positive press. His charming, dedicated and doting wife, the former Esther M. Freck, the younger sister of a childhood friend and his high school sweetheart, often traveled with the team and attended spring training; they had married October 28, 1915, after the World Series. After children Jane and Joe arrived, in 1920 and 1925, respectively, he rented an apartment on the Grand Concourse Boulevard in the Bronx where his wife and kids stayed during summer Yankee home stands. Pennock's gracious manner and taste were old-fashioned to the extreme, yet to describe him as a man was to speak of contrasts. Cool and impossible to fluster on the mound, Pennock was intense and introverted in the clubhouse before a start. He was a Quaker who wore thousand-dollar rings; a ballplayer who led fox hunts in the off-season. His family was independently wealthy from the sale of their road and farm equipment business late in the nineteenth century, yet he never hesitated to stretch out contract negotiations and became one of the highest paid players in the mid-twenties with a salary just over twenty thousand dollars a season. In 1923 he was the last Yankee holdout despite just joining the club. (He actually pitched some exhibition games before he signed, but out of principle wore red flannel shirts on the mound and not the Yankee pinstripes. He invested his first New York World Series bonus in a fox pelt farm in New Brunswick (which he moved to Longwood, Pennsylvania in 1925), built chrysanthemum greenhouses on his Kennett Square property, and collected antique furniture. These hobbies, so unique for a ballplayer, along with the fact that he never swore and never drank, gave him the appearance of royalty. His nickname, The Squire of Kennett Square, summed up his persona. Posthumously he was more often referred to as The Knight of Kennett Square. Other contrasts marked his mound presence. He was easy throwing yet the fiercest of competitors; fragile yet able to forge a twenty-two year career. Despite the fact that he wound down each season in apparent exhaustion, Pennock was at his best in the World Series where his career record was 5-0. There he displayed the headwork and craft that made his a household name by 1926. In his first World Series appearance for New York, October 11, 1923, he snapped the Giants' eight-game Series winning streak at the Polo Grounds and “gave the Yankees hope” with a nine-hit, 4-2 win. Pennock finished the game despite being so injured in the lower spine by a fourth inning Jack Bentley pitch that it took him ten minutes to reach first base. He came back two days later to save game four of the series, working out of a bases-loaded jam in the eighth inning when Frankie Frisch popped out, and won the final game of the series on one day of rest to clinch the New York Yankees' first World Championship. Home plate umpire Billy Evans called this “the greatest pitching performance I have ever seen” and repeated the story of how Pennock beat the Giants despite the fact that he “had nothing.”Exhausted by the 1926 pennant race, Pennock was nonetheless pronounced the “best left-hander in the majors” in his only career cover appearance for The Sporting News before that Series opened. Called “a cool and collected . veteran,” “not the possessor of a great arm,” Pennock was a brainy “head pitcher, his forte is cutting the corners.” Pennock did not disappoint, beating St. Louis in the first game of the 1926 Series, 2-1, with a three-hitter. He won again in game five in St. Louis to give New York a 3-2 series edge allowing seven hits in a ten-inning complete-game win. But in Yankee Stadium the Cardinals forced a game seven, a game in which St. Louis turned an early 3-2 lead into a 3-2 win when Grover Alexander turned in his three innings of legendary relief. Pennock, on two days of rest, matched Alex inning for scoreless inning, but New York never got the tying run over the plate. In the four-game sweep over Pittsburgh in 1927 Pennock was given a start in game three against a team that had forged an .833 winning percentage against left-handed starters since mid-season. Thought to be a sacrificial lamb, Pennock instead carved out a no-hit game until Pie Traynor singled cleanly with one out in the eighth inning. The performance solidified his reputation for winning the big game. During the 1930s the common answer to the question of “Which pitcher would you want to win one game you had to win? ” was: “Christy Mathewson, but Herb Pennock the lefty.” In big holiday games, Pennock always started on Memorial Day and was undefeated on the Fourth of July. His personal career highlight was a 1-0 win over Lefty Grove on the Fourth of July in 1925, a fifteen-inning complete game. After the 1928 World Series, the fourth series for which he was eligible but did not appear, Pennock's final post-season appearances were classy saves in games three and four of the sweep over the Cubs in 1932. Limited to two singles in four innings, the Cubs were dismissed as “young fellows taking lessons from an artist.”Yankee manager Joe McCarthy allowed Pennock to “pick his own spots” in his final years as his career waned. A memorable spot was August 21, 1933, when he pitched the final ten innings of an eighteen-inning tie game against Red Faber in Comiskey Park. A month later he beat Boston 16-12 in Fenway, in his last Yankee start just after Washington clinched the pennant. New York released Pennock on January 6 after a testimonial dinner. Pennock had developed a lifelong friendship with Eddie Collins while on the A's, and when Collins became general manager of the Red Sox he brought Pennock over for one more season in 1934. This was the year Fenway got a new generation of star players and its modern green-paint look. It was a joyous farewell season for Pennock. Fenway Park was crammed with 44,631 Boston fans on April 22, but the Yanks beat the Sox, 8-1. Pennock's appearance in the ninth inning was the highlight as Ruth and Gehrig were due up. In a circus-like atmosphere, he allowed back-to-back doubles. On June 1, with Lefty Grove scheduled to start, the Red Sox scored nine runs in the top of the first inning at Washington and Pennock (who had batted in the top of the first) was put on the mound. He finished with a complete game, nine-hitter, his final career win, by a score of 13-1. He logged innings as a reliever in out-of-reach losses throughout the summer and was given one last start, August 27, against Cleveland before the team went on its last road trip. Pennock always had bad luck against Cleveland, so much so that Miller Huggins often avoided pitching him against them. In his final major league appearance the best Pennock could do was a no-decision against Lloyd Brown. Pennock retired to his horses and silver fox furriery at Kennett Square in 1935 when new Red Sox manager Joe Cronin brought along his Washington coaching staff. From 1936 to 1938 he was Boston's first base coach and pitching coach and moved to Assistant Supervisor of Boston farm teams under ex-umpire Billy Evans for 1939. Late in 1940 he replaced Evans as Director of Minor League Operations for the Red Sox. In December of 1943 Bob Carpenter bought the Phillies and sought the advice of Connie Mack in picking a general manager. Here Mack made amends to the left-hander he once released and recommended Pennock. Carpenter and Pennock hit it off; Pennock was hired “for life” and given a big, sun-filled, corner office on the 19th floor of the Packard Building in Philadelphia. When Carpenter was drafted into World War II in 1944, Pennock temporarily filled the offices of President and GM. Pennock proved to be a radical GM, changing the Phillies name to the Blue Jays from 1944 to 1946 and organizing a “Grand Stand Managers Club” in May of 1945, eight years before Bill Veeck did so for the Browns. On April 30, 1944, Pennock finally allowed fans to honor him with a “day,” something he had always disdained, and 600 Kennett Square citizens presented him with a two-hundred-year-old table. On August 22, 1945, Pennock saw his last “active service” on the mound, pitching the ninth inning of a split-squad exhibition game at the Valley Forge General Hospital in Phoenixville, Pennsylvania. “Anyone who makes a hit off me will get sent to Utica! ” he announced, rolling up his shirtsleeves. On August 26, 1947, Pennock had each Phillie batter filmed during batting practice as a batting aid. But in other ways Pennock was not so radical. Earlier that season, Pennock reportedly had a telephone conversation with Dodger GM Branch Rickey during which he suggested the Phillies would not take the field if Jackie Robinson were in uniform for a series starting May 9. Then, after having been denied access to their usual Philadelphia hotels, the Dodgers, and many fans seated near the Phillie dugout, were treated to the worst spewing of racial epithets ever directed at Jackie Robinson for four games. At one point, infielder Eddie Stanky, an Alabama-born member of the Brooklyn team, challenged the entire Phillie dugout within earshot of Pennock and Carpenter. Robinson called it his darkest day. Moreover, it would be ten more years before the Phillies integrated. Pennock spent over a million dollars on players that would make up most of the pennant- winning 1950 Whiz Kids. But he never saw them play. Attending a league meeting in New York on January 30, 1948, Pennock collapsed into Carpenter's arms after passing through the revolving doors to the lobby of the Waldorf-Astoria hotel. He died two hours later of a stroke at the age of 53. ## Six days earlier he had signed nineteen-year-old pitcher Curt Simmons; two days earlier he had signed infielder Willie “Puddin Head” Jones. The outflow of emotion was tremendous. Babe Ruth called him a “honey of a pitcher who never made an enemy” and said his all-time, all-star pitching staff included Herb Pennock. Carpenter said Pennock “fought his own battles and never asked help from anyone.” The National League offered to take care of the funeral, but the family preferred privacy. Still, hundreds of adoring fans, players, and baseball executives viewed Pennock's bier at Kennett Square's American Legion Hall, February 2, before he was finally laid to rest at Union Hill Cemetery. Surviving him were his wife Esther and children Jane and Joseph. Jane married Eddie Collins Jr. the baseball player and the son of his good friend and ex-teammate. Emotion carried over into Hall of Fame elections that year. Pennock was elected to the International League Hall of Fame in February and to Cooperstown with 82 percent of the vote despite weak Cooperstown election showings dating back to 1937. Two years earlier he had scored just 16 percent of the vote. The next best tribute to Pennock came in 1939, when former player Ethan Allen was made the head of the newly created motion picture division of the rival National League. After accepting the position, Allen added, “The first thing to do is get Pennock back on the mound, so he can be filmed.”Of most value are many issues of The Sporting News along with various issues of the Boston Herald, New York Herald, New York Times, and Philadelphia Inquirer. Two websites are especially useful: Ancestry.com and MyFamily.

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Camping experts generally recommend that a single person camping alone would be better off using a two-person tent specially when there's a lot of camping gear to be stored, or the user has to factor in a bigger-than-average build plus the bulk of a sleeping bag and other camping essentials. In the same manner, a three-person tent is perfect for two people to sleep comfortably in, with some space to spare for clothes and camping supplies. When sleeping bags are laid down, there should be no overlap to [spans 2] comfort. A lightweight summer tent is perfect in warm or hot climates where temperatures do not drop significantly at the end of the day. Tents that are prescribed for the summer season offer a sense of security while protecting you from bugs and insects. Three-season tents are designed for use from spring to fall. They're also lightweight and are [spans 3] tents. They can withstand rain, wind and perhaps a little snow. Four-season or all-season tents are geared to stay strong in snow and high-winds during the winter. They can still be usable when [spans 4] fair. They are heavier and more expensive than three-season camping shelters. Since four-season tents tend to heat up easily inside, some people invest in one kind of tent for the winter or mountaineering and another unit for the rest of the seasons. If you intend [spans 5] area. But if you want to be able to do more than just sleep, consider floor area as essential as overhead capacity. Tent poles should be lightweight yet strong and durable. Freestanding tents are popular, as they make set-up [spans 6] out. The canopy, the main part of any tent, is typically made of nylon in robust, ripstop form. Compared to polyester, nylon is more resistant to abrasion and also hardier. Large mesh panels on the canopy contribute to good ventilation and lightweight quality. Tent floors are also typically of nylon. Bathtub or sandbox floors prevent rain water that pools under the tent from leaking through the tent walls and getting your gear wet. Awesome in size but not overwhelmingly so, the 8-Person Coleman Red Canyon Tent makes the ideal family tent and is definitely one of the best tents of 2018. It can fit a group of eight campers, offering a [spans 7] feet. You can create three separate rooms using the included room dividers or privacy walls. A family can thus have a parents' room, a kids' room and an extra living space to accommodate the group's camping gear. The tent is designed with Coleman's proprietary Weathertec System, which is intended to keep campers dry even when the weather stops being cooperative and it starts raining during the camping adventure. The shock-corded poles make tent set-up easy and quick. The tent comes with assembly instructions that are easy to follow. The Variflo adjustable ventilation system works together with the built-in Cool-Air port to give adjustable flow of air through the inside of the tent [spans 8] access. Perfect for weekend camping trips with family and friends, the Coleman Red Canyon Tent lets you enjoy being in the outdoors while staying protected from the elements and unwanted bugs and insects, and also ensuring sufficient living space to keep everyone under one roof. This spacious dome-style tent can accommodate up to ten people with its 170-square-foot usable floor area. The 76-inch center height enables you [spans 9] over. Quick set-up is guaranteed by the shock-corded fiberglass frame with easy-to-use and tool-less pin-and-ring system. The back-to-back “D”-style doors make entry [spans 10] problem-free. The large mesh roof vents and windows provide superb ventilation and good airflow. Keeping the inside of the tent clean is easy, thanks to the welded polyethylene floor that can be wiped clean and the mud matts right outside the D-style doors, where soiled shoes and footwear can be placed on. The divider curtain can double as a privacy wall to separate the tent into two different rooms for easy segregation and isolating space for tent occupants. The hooped fly frame offers extra stability and protection from the rain. It conveniently detaches to allow stargazing and more ventilation while campers sleep inside. The tent carries the exclusive Stow-n-Go duffel system that makes set-up, take-down and storage effortless. The attached duffel warps around the rolled tent and secures everything via elastic bands. The tent stakes and pole packets unroll with the camping tent. Perfect for family use, the Suisse Sport Yosemite two-room dome tent sleeps up to five people comfortably. Children and parents can sleep in separate rooms due to the removable room divider/privacy wall. Or you can wall off other campers when sleeping or changing clothes. Take away the room divider and you can share one large room. This 10-foot by 6-foot by 8-foot (W x H x D) tent weighs just 13.65 pounds, allowing just one adult camper to carry it easily. This camping tent is built with a double-D door that lets campers get in and out without effort. The full four-point rainfly keeps you protected from evening dew. Camping in warm, humid climates is not a problem thanks to the three mesh-zippered windows and mesh ceiling, which ensure sufficient ventilation for tent occupants. The mesh ceiling also enables stargazing for everyone. As a middle-range tent, the Suisse Sport Yosemite 5-person 2-room dome tent comes at a budget-friendly price. Built durably, the tent's surface is constructed of coated polyester, recognized for strength and resistance to chemicals as well as resilience against shrinking and wrinkling. The material also quickly dries when washed. Set-up and disassembly times are short and easy. The tent stays fairly strong against high winds. While many 4-person tents are remarkably tricky to set up, the Coleman Sundome 4-Person Tent offers you a great start to your outdoor camping adventure. Coleman knows that campers don't need complicated assembly procedures that take hours to carry out for erecting their tents. The Coleman Sundome Tent simplifies things with a quick and comfortable solution to putting up a tent. The impressiveness of the Coleman Sundome tent starts with its low assembly time and snag-free poles sleeves. It can be set up easily even in the dark. The 9” x 7” tent is specifically geared to accommodate up to four people at one time. It has a large hooded window that ensures maximum air circulation and good ventilation. The tent also sports a center height of 59 inches, allowing you to stand easily and not be bent over most of the time. The height also ensures that air gets in and out smoothly, providing a good ventilated living area to tent occupants. The rainfly technology employed in the tent lets rain as well as wind and snow shed off easily. The lovely green hue of the fabric is a perfect fit for the natural surroundings of the campsite. The special Variflo system adjusts ventilation to ensure reliable [spans 11] tent. When you want a good family basecamp tent, the Wenzel Klondike 8-Person Family Cabin Dome Tent easily fits the bill. This two-room tent boasts of one larger area formed by the dome plus one smaller area as an added extension. The latter space has closeable walls that are all-mesh, for full air circulation. The round inner door serves as a full divider between the screened area and the domed space, for easy separation into two rooms. Overhead clearance allows a 5-foot-eight-inch tall individual to move about without bending over, with the screened part of the tent being high enough for shorter individuals. The screened area can be used as a bug-free dining space aside from being a second sleeping room or a storage area. The panels can be zipped up for privacy. Depending on the size of the occupants, the tent can take in as many as 8 people tops, but provides a really comfortable living space for 6 people. The full mesh roof option lets you sleep while in complete view of the stars. A hook in the dome roof allows hanging of a camping lantern, preferably one that doesn't heat up. The exterior door leads to the screened area. The main door is an inverted “T” portal for hassle-free entry and exit. What is the best tent in 2018? 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Instruction: What are the missing spans: A little quiet moment without the family about . please check out Myra's blog, Tactile Pleasures in Fabric. Yesterday she posted a great tutorial on a pincushion/thread catcher bag. I have woken up feeling so well this morning, I can't believe it! I feel better than I have done in months, so new asthma treatment and antibiotics have finally kicked in. I am so happy and so determined to have a good weekend! It's a bit of a story, but all being well I will bring Mum home again later next week - she is really well now and really wants to come home, so lets hope and pray she doesn't continue to have falls. I am thinking I may have my wings clipped a bit and may be at home a bit more with Mum and have been really wanting to think of starting a new project (yes, another, don't we all do it! ). Dear Kathie Holland (Inspired by Antique Quilts), a wonderful inspiration to us all is having a little break away from blogging at the moment. However, I was fortunate enough to be sent the above magazine featuring one of her quilts (American Patchwork & Quilting October 2008). My Dolly Quilt Swap partner sent it and I'm feeling very sentimental about Kathie's design, so I have been inspired to put my own twist on it with a sort of Thirties touch using the lower blue Kaffe Fassett fabric as my feature fabric. Sort of whimsical and quirky, but I think it will work - hope to trial later next week. While racing about this week, I decided I really must buy a new handbag. Did a lot of searching, it had to have access to car keys, glasses, mobile phone, etc. I really procrastinate when shopping, so am pleased about finding this bag. It is a little different, by Nica of London, so let's hope it stands the test of time. It should go with everything and there should be plenty of room for me to lose things in it! [spans 1] weather. Should not be long now until all the annuals are in bloom. What a wonderful day we had at Teena's sewing day with our Creative Friends group. Let's start with these gorgeous lollipops made by Pat - she is so clever with her creativity. Food and quilts! Julia made a little piggy of herself - I saw her eating scones and powder puffs, too. Output: spans 1: The roses are starting to bloom again, though we are still having quite a lot of cold, wet Instruction: What could be the completion of this text: Dianne looks on innocently, but she was encouraging her! Louise's creation - a gorgeous baby quilt - we all love pinwheels, certainly my favourite! This is just gorgeous in the pastels and has a tiny striped framing border, which isn't showing up too well in this photo - very dainty! Another unique creation of Pat's - this girl never ceases to amaze us - she is always coming up with the extraordinary. Have I told you that Kaffe Fassett has bought one of her quilts? Oh, 'tis wonderful mixing with the rich and famous! A close-up below. What would we do without our wonderful friends - they certainly are little rays of sunshine in my life, though I must admit I am very blessed and there is so much sunshine around. Thanks to my Blogland visitors of late - life has been a bit higgeldy-piggeldy for me still and I've been really strapped for time. However, all is going well. I'm getting a little sewing done, but not much. Must get on with my Stitcher's Angel committment then onto a project inpired by Kathie Holland that I will write about soon. Oh, how lovely this looks to me - this is my sewing room! It has been a MESS for weeks and has been really bugging me, so yesterday was the day. I didn't get any sewing done over the weekend and have a busy week ahead, but maybe later in the week I will get a chance. Have made so many promises to myself to keep the room tidy . we'll see how we go! I use the front lounge room of the house as my Sewing Room and at this point in time could move to a bedroom, but prefer to stay where I am - lovely bright, sunny outlook - the roses are all in bud - and it is nice to see the passing traffic, especially as it is often people and their dogs. I had a surprise visit from Jan and Bill of Gallivantour on Sunday - they are down in Perth for a wedding - it was just lovely to catch up with them - check out their travels around Australia. The change away really agrees with them - they are looking lightly tanned and healthy as! Off to Teena's for sewing today - hope to catch up with lots of friends. Have a busy week ahead as I'm not too happy about the situation with Mum in the nursing home, so it's a week of social workers and doctors. Yesterday I went to my local sewing group and shared a lovely day with friends - it is a while since I have been so it was nice to catch up on everything, sew and chat. I did manage to make a start on my Hexagon Sewing Bag - always so lovely to work with Kaffe Fassett fabrics - certainly not boring - I think I will be happy with the outcome - hope my mortal is! As I mentioned previously, Oy met us at the airport in Phuket and surprised me with this big basket of beautiful roses. Imagine dragging this beautiful creation through barricades and protestors and trying to keep the children safe. I wish I could have taken photos, but was too scared - I don't know what the protestors would have done if I had photgraphed them - I did think about it, but decided not to take the risk. I am being a brave girl today and sprucing up Mum's room - must think happy thoughts while doing so! I visited again yesterday and she seems reasonably good about it all and is settling in. Have #1 Son's room to spruce up also, so hopefully can gather the necessary emotional strength this weekend and get things done. a new pic of me with white? hair! Dark roots are fashionable . white roots, not so! This way regrowth won't be noticeable - DD, Angela (hairdresser) is not at all impressed - however, we have agreed to disagree and I'm sure she will go back to being my hairdresser again! All sounds a bit vain and self-centred but girls will be girls - just a shame I had to go prematurely white (LOL)! We all had a lovely day together yesterday at WAQA (Guild) - so good to catch up with friends - lots of news and gossip and new quilts and projects to see. As you can see by my sidebar, I have become a Stitcher's Angel. Henreike has stated she likes country colours, but happened to mention the name Kaffe Fassett. That was enough for me - so today I will start on the dilly bag above for her! I love anything Kaffe and happened to have the patterned fabric on hand. It is a bright, happy project for me and that is what I need at the moment. Hope she likes it? Hope to have a cuppa with Julia today - haven't seen her since before I went to Thailand - though we chat all the time. I know my previous post of last night is a bit confusing - you see I was unable to post normally and enter a link. Donna, of Chookyblue helped me - all that time wasted trying to get things corrected. I just love, Chooky and have told her so! As one would expect, I took stacks of photos of Thailand and here are a couple ... Output: The completion of this text could be: of the inside of one of the beautiful temples. You will notice Yours Truly has almost white? hair now - will post a decent photo when I get one. I liked it coloured as hairdressser daughter, Angela, did it, but I didn't like regrowth - I think I am happy with it now. Anyhow, this is not about me, me, me, just an explanation. It was a very beautiful temple, with lots of floors - the lower pic is of dear friend, Oy - the young (27) Thai girl I have spoken about. I had a great tour of all the wall paintings explaining the Buddhist religion - a little too much to absorb in one go. Oy was with us the whole time we were in Thailand and we all had such great times - I have very happy memories! I am still having trouble with my blog - gremlins have been at it and I can't fix - just a few changes and minor things, but I don't like them! Sorry, I can't set up any links at present - will just have to keep working on it. This great quilt has been made by our group, Creative Threads. At first we intended making JUST a charity quilt - now we have decided to raffle it with proceeds going to Breast Cancer Research. It really is a fun quilt to make - each hourglass being done separately then joined by hand. The girls have put a lot of work into it and as folks saw it being done they suggested with so much work involved it should be raffled. We all think that is a great idea! Our Hostess Day for West Australian Quilters' Association is 15 October and the girls have great things planned to make it a day with a difference. I still haven't started stitching - don't know where to start, that's my problem - oh, well, I guess this week will be quieter than last - sure hope so. I want to be able to show you Lisa's correct blogspot - we'll try again - http://lmdandmyworld.com/ and also I have heard from Kathie and have news of her in my latest American Patchwork and Quilting, so shall post about that later in the week. I am sure you will all know how thrilled I am with my new dolly quilt from Lisa. If only you could understand what joy this quilt brings to me at this time, Lisa - I will treasure it forever! Lisa used some vintage reproduction fabrics and it is hand and machine quilted and an orginal design - I love it, love it, love it! Also included was an American Patchwork & Quilting Magazine, which I love, but don't have this particular copy, and also a very pretty, dainty fat quarter, and a lovely card. I am working in Java Script? ? ? and can't get up Lisa's blog so please visit her if you wish - http://lmdandmyworld. I have also listed her on my sidebar, so maybe that will work. Someday soon I will get Julia to help me sort it out - meanwhile, hope I am getting there! Mum moved to a nursing home, Shoalwater Lodge, yesterday. At present she is there on respite until we get the financial negotiations sorted out - it is a wonderful facility and I would think ***** as far as nursing homes go. Hopefully she will remain there in the room she is in - this is what I want for her! Doesn't she look wonderful for less than a month off 90 years - I took her red roses and a beautiful little purple Thai silk elephant. Unfortunately, she had a fall last night, but fortunatley just cut her leg. I have been and read the riot act to her today - she really must allow those carers to care for her full time! Of all the tears I have shed, I am now convinced I can no longer care for her at home. Hopefully in the days to come, we will both feel as we do now, as she has accepted her situation with great grace and dignity and it is what she wants,too! Being the neat-freak that I am, I have at last managed to get my house in order as much as I can considering the changes that are taking place. Hopefully tomorrow I will be able to think about stitching again. We are home from Thailand after a wonderful fun-filled holiday. We survived landing amidst political unrest, protestors and barricades - madly busy, exciting and wonderful times in Phuket - heat, markets, robbery and designer stores in Bangkok. Can't help but mention divine Thai food! When the wheels of our aircraft hit the runway in Perth, Australia, I knew what life changes and busy times were ahead of me. My mother, who has lived with me for over 8 years and who I have looked after for over 14 years will move into a nursing home. She has been in hospital while I have been in Thailand and is really back to good health and a positive attitude now. Emotionally, I am not in a very relaxed place, but have accepted that's life! Have quickly had a browse through quite a few blogs and emails and really appreciate all your news and nice thoughts. I am looking forward to having my life sorted out and becoming a Professional Pleasure Seeker again.

Instruction: Find the missing words: 21:0.1 (234.1) THE Creator Sons are the makers and rulers of the local universes of time and space. These universe creators and sovereigns are of dual origin, embodying the characteristics of God the Father and God the Son. But [words 1] is different from every other; each is unique in nature as well as in personality; each [words 2] ideal of his origin.2 (234.2) In the vast work of organizing, evolving, and perfecting [words 3] high Sons always enjoy the sustaining approval of the Universal Father. The relationship of the Creator Sons with their Paradise [words 4] superlative. No doubt the profound affection of the Deity parents for their divine progeny [words 5] divine love which even mortal parents bear their children.3 (234.3) These primary [words 6] as Michaels. As they go forth from Paradise to [words 7] as Creator Michaels. When settled in supreme authority, [words 8] Michaels. Sometimes we refer to the sovereign of your universe of Nebadon as Christ Michael. Always and forever do they reign [words 9] being the designation of the first Son of [words 10] (234.4) The original or first-born Michael [words 11] a material being, but seven times he passed through the experience of spiritual creature ascent on the seven circuits of Havona, advancing from [words 12] to the innermost circuit of the [words 13] creation. The order of Michael knows the grand universe from [words 14] other; there is no essential experience of any of the children of time and space in which the Michaels have not personally participated; [words 15] only of the divine nature but also of your nature, [words 16] natures, from the highest to the lowest.5 (234.5) The original Michael is the presiding head of [words 17] conference at the center of all things. Not long since on [words 18] a conclave extraordinary on the eternal Isle of one hundred [words 19] in the parental presence and engaged in deliberations having [words 20] progress of the unification and stabilization of the universe of universes. There never can be [words 21] Creator Son is the unqualified, finished, and final expression and embodiment of [words 22] feature of every possibility of every [words 23] all eternity, ever be found in, expressed by, or [words 24] potentials which united to bring this Michael Son into existence. Each Creator Son is the absolute of the [words 25] deity concepts which constitute his divine [words 26] of these Creator Sons are, in principle, derived equally from the attributes of both Paradise parents. Some [words 27] more like God the Father; others more like God the Son. For example: The trend of administration in the universe of Nebadon suggests that its Creator and ruling Son is one whose nature and character more resemble that of the Eternal Mother Son. It should be further stated that some universes are presided over by [words 28] who appear equally to resemble God the Father and God the Son. A Creator Son is permitted [words 29] site of his future cosmic activity, but before he may begin even the physical organization [words 30] he must spend a long period [words 31] devoted to the study of the efforts of his older brothers in various creations located in [words 32] action. And prior to all this, the Michael Son will have completed his long and unique experience of [words 33] a Creator Son departs from Paradise to embark upon the [words 34] become the head—virtually the God—of the local universe of his own organization, then, for the first time, he finds himself in intimate contact with, [words 35] upon, the Third Source and Center. The Infinite Spirit, though abiding with the Father and the Son at the center of all things, is destined to function as the [words 36] Son. Among these limitations to the otherwise all-powerful creator prerogatives of a local universe Father are the following:21:2.4 (236. Energy-matter [words 37] the Infinite Spirit. Before any new forms of things, great [words 38] created, before any new transformations of energy-matter may be attempted, [words 39] the consent and working co-operation of the Infinite Spirit.5 (236. Creature designs and types are controlled by the Eternal Son. Before a Creator [words 40] creation of any new type of being, any new design of creature, he must secure [words 41] and Original Mother Son.7 (236.5) The types and [words 42] by the precreature factors of being. In connection with this event the Creative Spirit focalization of the Paradise Infinite Spirit [words 43] the personal qualities of the Mother Spirit of a local universe.10 (236.8) Notwithstanding that all Creator Sons are [words 44] none exactly resembles another; each is [words 45] and original in nature as well as in personality. And since they are the architects and makers of the life plans of their respective realms, [words 46] that their domains will also be diverse in every form and phase of Michael-derived living existence which [words 47] evolved therein. Hence the orders of creatures [words 48] quite varied. No two are administered or inhabited by dual-origin native beings who are in all respects identical. Within any superuniverse, one half of their inherent attributes are [words 49] the uniform Creative Spirits; the other half vary, being derived from the diversified Creator Sons. But such diversity does not characterize those creatures of sole origin [words 50] Spirit nor those imported beings who are native to [words 51] or superuniverses.11 (237.1) When a Michael Son is absent from his universe, [words 52] the first-born native being, the Bright and Morning Star, the local universe chief executive. The [words 53] counsel of the Union of Days is invaluable at such times. During these absences a Creator Son is [words 54] the associated Mother Spirit with the overcontrol of his spiritual presence on the inhabited worlds and in [words 55] children. And the Mother Spirit of a local universe [words 56] extending her fostering care and spiritual ministry to the uttermost parts of such [words 57] of a Creator Son in his local universe is not necessary to the smooth running [words 58] an established material creation. Such Sons [words 59] universes swing on through space. They may lay down their lines of power to incarnate as the children of time; still their [words 60] on about their respective centers. Such action constitutes title of physical possession, [words 61] leasehold. But the elevation of a Michael Son from this initial and self-limited stage of rulership to the experiential supremacy of self-earned sovereignty comes [words 62] own personal experiences in the work of universe creation and incarnated bestowal. Until the achievement [words 63] rules as vicegerent of the Universal Father.2 (237.4) A Creator Son could assert full sovereignty over his personal creation at any time, but he wisely chooses not to. If, prior to passing through the creature bestowals, he assumed an unearned supreme sovereignty, the Paradise personalities resident in his local universe would withdraw. [words 64] Michael who ever did otherwise; but they all could, they are truly freewill [words 65] (237.6) The sovereignty of a Creator Son in a local universe passes through six, perhaps seven, stages of experiential manifestation. These appear in the following order:21:3.5 (237. Initial vicegerent sovereignty—the solitary provisional [words 66] a Creator Son before the acquirement of [words 67] associated Creative Spirit.7 (238.1) 3. Augmenting vicegerent sovereignty—the advancing authority of a Creator Son during [words 68] period of his seven creature bestowals.8 (238.2) 4. ## Supreme [words 69] of the seventh bestowal. In Nebadon, supreme sovereignty dates from [words 70] completion of Michael's bestowal on Urantia. It has existed just [words 71] your planetary time.9 (238.3) 5. Augmenting supreme sovereignty—the [words 72] of the settling of a majority of the creature domains in light and life. This stage pertains to the unachieved future of your local universe.10 (238.4) 6. But if a Michael Son could not, at will, assert such unearned sovereignty, there would be [words 73] an oath not to do so.13 (238.7) Even in the prebestowal ages a Creator Son rules [words 74] when there is no dissent in any of its parts. Limited [words 75] hardly be manifest if sovereignty were never challenged. Such Sons can be troubled or harassed only by the creatures of their own making or by higher beings of [words 76] choosing. It might be inferred that “higher beings,” those of origin on levels above a local universe, would be unlikely to trouble a Creator Son, and this is true. But they could if they chose to. Experientially to penetrate seven creature levels of being through the technique of incarnated bestowal in the very likeness of the [words 77] 2. To make an experiential consecration to each [words 78] Paradise Deity as it is personified in the Seven Master Spirits.19 (239. On each creature level, experientially to portray [words 79] Paradise Deity and to all universe intelligences.21 (239. On each [words 80] reveal one phase of the sevenfold will of Deity to the [words 81] level and to all the universe.22 (239. The finite understanding and creature appreciation of the Father's primacy is concerned [words 82] a Creator Son when he condescends to take upon himself the form and [words 83] creatures. Without exception, all Creator Sons pass through this seven times giving of themselves to their created children before they assume settled and supreme jurisdiction over the universes of [words 84] bestowals vary in the different sectors and [words 85] adventure. In the final bestowal a Creator Son appears as a member of one of [words 86] races on some inhabited world, usually as a member of that racial group [words 87] hereditary legacy of the Adamic stock which has previously been imported to upstep [words 88] of the animal-origin peoples. Only once in his sevenfold career as a bestowal Son is a Paradise Michael [words 89] woman as you have the record of the babe [words 90] Bethlehem. Only once does he live and die as a member of the lowest [words 91] evolutionary will creatures.4 (239.10) After each of [words 92] a Creator Son proceeds to the “right hand of the Father,” there to gain the Father's acceptance of the bestowal and to receive instruction preparatory to the next episode [words 93] service. Following the seventh and final bestowal a Creator Son receives from the Universal Father supreme authority and jurisdiction over his [words 94] of record that the divine Son of last appearance on your planet was a Paradise [words 95] his bestowal career; consequently, when he [words 96] grasp of the incarnated life on Urantia, he could, and did, truly say, “It is finished”—it [words 97] finished. His death on Urantia completed [words 98] the last step in fulfilling the sacred oath of a Paradise Creator Son. And [words 99] experience has been acquired, such Sons are supreme universe sovereigns; no longer do they rule as vicegerents of the Father but in their own right and name as “King of Kings and Lord of Lords.” With certain stated exceptions these sevenfold bestowal Sons are unqualifiedly supreme in the universes of their abode. Concerning his local universe, “all power in heaven and on earth” was relegated to this triumphant and enthroned Master Son.6 (240.2) Creator Sons, subsequent to the completion of their bestowal careers, are reckoned as a separate order, sevenfold Master Sons. In person the Master Sons are identical with the Creator Sons, but they have undergone such a unique bestowal experience that they are commonly regarded as a different order. When a Creator deigns to effect a bestowal, a real and permanent change is destined to take place. True, the bestowal Son is still and none the less a Creator, but he has added to his nature the experience of a creature, which forever removes him from the divine level of a Creator Son and elevates him to the experiential plane of a Master Son, one who has fully earned the right to rule a universe and administer its worlds. Such beings embody all that can be secured from divine parentage and embrace everything to be derived from perfected-creature experience. Why should man bemoan his lowly origin and enforced evolutionary career when the very Gods must pass through an equivalent experience before they are accounted experientially worthy and competent finally and fully to rule over their universe domains! 21:5.1 (240.3) The power of a Master Michael is unlimited because derived from experienced association with the Paradise Trinity, is unquestioned because derived from actual experience as the very creatures subject to such authority. But a Master Son's loss of power to originate entirely new orders of beings in no way interferes with the work of life elaboration already established and in process of unfoldment; this vast program of universe evolution goes on without interruption or curtailment. In time there may develop an almost endless evolution of diverse beings, but no entirely new pattern or type of intelligent creature will henceforth take direct origin from a Master Son. This is the first step, the beginning, of a settled administration in any local universe.7 (241.1) The elevation of a sevenfold bestowal Son to the unquestioned sovereignty of his universe means the beginning of the end of agelong uncertainty and relative confusion. When the provisions of endless mercy and nameless patience have been exhausted in an effort to win the loyalty and devotion of the will creatures of the realms, justice and righteousness will prevail. That which mercy cannot rehabilitate justice will eventually annihilate.8 (241.2) The Master Michaels are supreme in their own local universes when once they have been installed as sovereign rulers. The few limitations upon their rule are those inherent in the cosmic pre-existence of certain forces and personalities. There is no penetration beyond their wisdom regarding the functioning of a given universe.9 (241.3) After his elevation to settled sovereignty in a local universe a Paradise Michael is in full control of all other Sons of God functioning in his domain, and he may freely rule in accordance with his concept of the needs of his realms. A Master Son may at will vary the order of the spiritual adjudication and evolutionary adjustment of the inhabited planets. This contact is maintained by their own spiritual presence, the Spirit of Truth, which they are able to “pour out upon all flesh.” These Master Sons also maintain an unbroken connection with the Eternal Mother Son at the center of all things. They possess a sympathetic reach which extends from the Universal Father on high to the lowly races of planetary life in the realms of time.21:6.1 (241.5) No one may with finality of authority presume to discuss either the natures or the destinies of the sevenfold Master Sovereigns of the local universes; nevertheless, we all speculate much regarding these matters. We are taught, and we believe, that each Paradise Michael is the absolute of the dual deity concepts of his origin; thus he embodies actual phases of the infinity of the Universal Father and the Eternal Son. The Michaels must be partial in relation to total infinity, but they are probably absolute in relation to that part of infinity concerned in their origin. For in this connection we note that such Master Sons are then restricted in the production of new types of creature beings, a restriction undoubtedly made necessary by the liberation of their superfinite potentialities.3 (242.2) It is highly probable that these undisclosed creator powers will remain self-contained throughout the present universe age. When on Urantia, Christ Michael once said, “I am the way, the truth, and the life.” And we believe that in eternity the Michaels are literally destined to be “the way, the truth, and the life,” ever blazing the path for all universe personalities as it leads from supreme divinity through ultimate absonity to eternal deity finality. Output: words 1: each Creator Son words 2: is the “only-begotten Son” of the perfect deity words 3: a local universe, these words 4: Father is touching and words 5: is the wellspring of that beautiful and well-nigh words 6: Paradise Sons are personalized words 7: found their universes, they are known words 8: they are called Master words 9: after the “order of Michael,” that words 10: their order and nature.4 words 11: has never experienced incarnation as words 12: the outer spheres words 13: central words 14: one end to the words 15: they are in fact partakers not words 16: meaning all words 17: the primary Paradise Sons when they assemble for words 18: Uversa we recorded a universal broadcast of words 19: fifty thousand Creator Sons assembled words 20: to do with the words 21: another such Son because each words 22: all of every phase of every words 23: divine reality that could, throughout words 24: evolved from, those divine creative words 25: united words 26: origin.3 (235.2) The divine natures words 27: Creator Sons appear to be words 28: Paradise Michaels words 29: to choose the space words 30: of his universe, words 31: of observation words 32: the superuniverse of his projected words 33: Paradise observation and Havona training.5) When words 34: adventure of universe making, to words 35: and in many respects dependent words 36: actual and effective helper of each Creator words 37: is dominated by words 38: or small, may be words 39: a Creator Son must secure words 40: Son may engage in the words 41: the consent of the Eternal words 42: patterns of mind are determined words 43: becomes changed in nature, taking on words 44: divinely like their Paradise parents, words 45: unique, diverse, exclusive, words 46: this very diversity insures words 47: may be created or subsequently words 48: native to the local universes are words 49: quite alike, being derived from words 50: in the Creative words 51: the central words 52: its government is directed by words 53: advice and words 54: able to invest words 55: the hearts of his mortal words 56: remains always at its headquarters, words 57: an evolutionary domain.12 (237.2) The personal presence words 58: of words 59: may journey to Paradise, and still their words 60: realms whirl words 61: a cosmic words 62: as a result of his words 63: of bestowal-earned sovereignty, he words 64: We know of no words 65: Sons.4 words 66: authority exercised by words 67: personal qualities by the words 68: the words 69: sovereignty—the settled authority following the completion words 70: the words 71: slightly over nineteen hundred years of words 72: advanced relationship growing out words 73: no meaning in taking words 74: his domain well-nigh supremely words 75: rulership would words 76: their own words 77: creatures on the level concerned.18 (238.12) words 78: phase of the sevenfold will of words 79: the acme of creature life to words 80: creature level, experientially to words 81: bestowal words 82: in the adventure of words 83: experiences of his words 84: their own creation.3 (239.9) Though these seven words 85: universes, they always embrace the mortal-bestowal words 86: the higher mortal words 87: which contains the largest words 88: the physical status words 89: born of words 90: of words 91: order of words 92: his bestowals words 93: of universe words 94: universe.5 (240.1) It is words 95: Creator Son who had completed six phases of words 96: gave up the conscious words 97: was literally words 98: his bestowal career; it was words 99: when this

User: What is how to fill in the missing spans: “Best job I have ever had. I love it here.” He is young, early 20s maybe, good looking and stylishly dressed. He looks like a guy who might work in the music business or something. “Really? ” I said in complete disbelief “You love your job? ”I don't know why I was so surprised; I had heard the same thing before from other staff. I guess what was really surprising is that this job ... die. I first visited this nursing home a couple of nights before my mother was admitted. I thought I had arrived in hell. The building was older than I had expected and the ... small. My mother would have to share a room with one other person and the bathroom with 3 others. But it was the residents who gave me pause – there seemed to be confused and distraught people everywhere. Most were using wheelchairs or walkers, many looked asleep or lost in their own worlds, and a few seemed quite agitated. One woman was telling someone only she could see what she thought of them (let's just say she didn't like them), another asked me if I had seen ... crowd. A word of advice – never visit a long-term care home for the first time at night, because some patients with dementia get more agitated after sundown. They call it the sundown effect and it can be quite unsettling when you first see it. I went home and had one of the worst nights of my life. How could I put anyone, let alone my own mother, in such a nightmarish corner of hell? My mother had dementia. Until then she was living in a modest, private “assisted living” retirement residence where her meals were prepared, her medications were administered by staff, and she had her own room with a private bathroom. The residence wasn't locked and my mother could come and go as she pleased. She loved going across the street and sitting in the park, and she loved going for her evening walk. Over time her dementia got worse, which meant that when she went out for a walk she started forgetting how to get back. Other residents would sometimes bring her back, or she would eventually find her own way, but the situation was getting dangerous. One evening a passerby found her, very tired, confused, and completely lost, heading into the nearby woods. She was considered an emergency placement, but finding a locked nursing home that was affordable and had room wasn't easy, so she sat on the emergency list for a month waiting for something to become available. Actually, there was one place that she probably could have moved to. Months earlier my mom had a bad fall and as a result she had been sent to a rehab residence for a couple of months. It had secure units, lovely private rooms equipped with big screen TVs, and lots of comfy chairs. Even better, her admission there was all but assured. Lovely place, except that sometimes beauty really is skin deep. My mom was parked in front of the TV all day and the staff seemed disinterested at best and rude at worst. Not one of them even hinted that they loved their job. No surprize then that my mom was upset the entire time she was there. No – she was not going there. So that place was off the list, but there were lots of others to chose from. I picked out several facilities I thought would be suitable – all newer, close to my home, and offering private rooms. I applied to them all, and waited. I lived in fear of a phone call telling me my mom was lost, or worse, because of her wandering. Yet, when a locked facility finally came up, I hesitated. The nursing home that was available, Extendicare Starwood, was not on my list; it was far from my home, older, and my mom would have to share a room. I didn't have much choice though, because I had to make a decision within an hour of the call or the spot would go to the next emergency placement on the list. I took it sight unseen with the ... up. The day of the move I spent several hours filling out paper work and talking with various staff members about her needs, preferences, and medical history, and whether they should resuscitate if she had a heart attack or stroke. I thought I was prepared for that last question, but believe me, I wasn't. The place was a lot less chaotic in the light of day. The staff went out of their way to make us comfortable and to ally some of my fears. And, while the facility wasn't new it was very clean and in good repair. I was more relaxed when I left that I could have imagined, but I still expected a phone call telling me my mom was very upset, injured, or dead from the stress of the move. My mom survived the night and greeted me the next day with a smile. Whatever I was expecting, it wasn't that. We sat in the protected garden and she told me she liked it there, and while she might have been a bit hazy on where she was, the fact that she was happy was a huge relief. Over time I found out why she liked it there. Bot: spans 1: they all love so much is at a long-term-care home – a nursing home – you know – those nightmarish places where people are sent to spans 2: rooms were spans 3: her dog (I hadn't), and one woman who appeared to be in her early 90s told me her parents were very worried about her brother, who was running with a bad spans 4: understanding that this was a temporary placement and I would move her when something more suitable came User: What could be the completion of this text: She was rarely in her room, and while occasionally I would find her sitting watching a DVD or TV in a common room, she was just as likely to be in music ... Bot: Rest of text: therapy, at a concert, or enjoying some other activity. Everyone knew her; I was surprised at the number of staff who smiled and greeted her by name when they saw her. I... User: Continue. Bot: made 2 promises to my mother when I walked her in to Starwood that first day. The first promise was that if ever she didn't like it I would move her to... User: Next. Bot: a place she liked better. With that in mind I kept her on a waiting list for other homes for several weeks after she moved in . Within a few weeks of her arrival I took her off the waiting lists; my mother was staying at Starwood. She liked it and she was happy, well cared for, and safe. My second promise that first day was that I walked her in and I would walk her out when the time came. My mother lived at Starwood for 4 years. When it became clear she had very little time left Starwood summoned the family and we spent her last 2 days at her bedside. All of her children were with her when she died. After she died we waited... User: Continue. Bot: in the room for the funeral home. Several staff came and cried with us and many hugged us and wished us well. And then the funeral home arrived to get her body... User: Next. Bot: I hadn't forgotten my promise and I waited for them to prepare her body so that I could walk with her when they wheeled... User: Next. Bot: her out the front door. Over the intercom we heard an announcement “Code Angel”, which we assumed was advising staff that a resident had died and their body was leaving the building, which was partially true. A staff member covered my mother's body bag with a lovely blue blanket and the funeral home staff started wheeling her body through the halls for the last time. Her three children walked beside her. As we approached the hall leading to the front door we suddenly realized the whole reception area leading to the front door was lined with staff . They had formed an honour guard to pay their last respects to our mother. It is impossible to find the words for the feelings we all had in that moment... User: Next. Bot: I knew that walking my mother out of Starwood that last time would be difficult, but I had no idea that would also be one of the most profoundly moving experiences of my life. Am I sorry my mom had to go into a long-term-care home? Of course. Now that she is gone do I have any regrets? My mother lost a lot with her dementia, but her need for love, care, affection and attention never diminished one bit. She received all of that and more in her final years. No regrets! Thanks for writing about your experience. It makes it easier for the rest of us who have had to / or will have to, make the same decision for someone we love. Thank you for giving... User: Next. Bot: voice to your Mom and your journey while experiencing your Mom's decline and move to Starwood. Jan's Dad was at Starwood for several years, also with dementia, and I know the garden area is very accessible and shady. By coincidence I reheard a CBC program about the care of the elderly with dementia in Denmark after reading about your mother's and your experience. It would appear that her new home has the respect and loving care that we all hope for our loved ones. Thanks for sharing your experience. JudyI helped move my mom from a one bedroom independent apartment in a residential care facility to a studio apartment. Mom is running out of money and so am I quickly. No one really anticipated this. The good news... User: More. Bot: is that she has remained independent longer than we thought. (Mom has Parkinsons and a long term care policy that will kick in when she needs assisted living. The bad news is... User: More. Bot: that she will probably run out of money before she needs the care. I am exhausted and living in a fog. My sister is... User: Next. Bot: helping her unpack and settle in this weekend. I don't think she... User: Continue. Bot: will get everything done with mom because mom will have to get rid of at least 50% more stuff to really make the small... User: Continue. Bot: space work. I dread dealing with the left overs when she leaves. Mom needs more and more help. I thought I was in the... User: Continue. Bot: thick of things 8 years ago when she was diagnosed and she moved from her condo. Now I realize that it is really just beginning for me. The last years of a... User: Continue. Bot: move, multiple falls, emergency room visits, managing multiple medications well that is seeming easy now. I am not looking forward to the next stage. I am not looking forward to aging myself... User: More. Bot: Such a terrific article and so full of informative information. I am so happy to hear that your Mom is settling so well in her new home. She is such a warm... User: Continue. Bot: and kind person, who deserves nothing but the best. Congratulations to all the staff at Starwood for doing such a great job! Jill is one of the nurses who cared for my mom at her “assisted living” facility. My mom adored her, and for good reason – Jill always went that extra mile for the residents. I'm glad your mom has found a place where the staff like their jobs. Took me right back to putting my Mom in Central Park Lodge in Toronto. I had to decide whether to let her try to walk with a high risk of falling or move her to another facility that allowed restraints. My mom did not want to be restrained. So she had the odd fall. And the staff very... User: Continue. Bot: wisely ended up putting her mattress on the floor. End of life is harder on the family, I think, than it is on the person going through it. My heart goes out... User: Continue. Bot: to you. interesting and moving article. I am so glad your mother is happy. I will have to make that decision for myself in the not too far future. Congrats on the... User: Continue. Bot: web site. 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<human>: More of this please: Army Takes On Its Own Toxic Leaders Why have so many soldiers committed suicide in recent years? The Army is looking beyond post-traumatic stress and asking whether bad commanders and destructive leadership are taking a toll. Hollywood has portrayed military leaders as monsters in movies such as 1987's Full Metal Jacket about Marines during the Vietnam War. Army leaders wonder if this kind of toxic leadership is hurting its soldiers. Warner Bros/The Kobal Collection hide captionHollywood has portrayed military leaders as monsters in movies such as 1987's Full Metal Jacket about Marines during the Vietnam War. Top commanders in the U. Army have announced publicly that they have a problem: They have too many "toxic leaders" — the kind of bosses who make their employees miserable. Many corporations share a similar problem, but in the Army's case, destructive leadership can potentially have life or death consequences. So, some Army researchers are wondering if toxic officers have contributed to soldiers' mental health problems. One of those researchers is Dave Matsuda. Pete Bayer, who was supervising the Army's drawdown in Iraq, asked Matsuda to study why almost 30 soldiers in Iraq had committed or attempted suicides in the past year. "We got to a point where we were exceptionally frustrated by the suicides that were occurring," Bayer says. "And quite honestly feeling — at least I was — helpless to some degree that otherwise good young men and women were taking their lives. "Matsuda might seem like an unconventional choice to study Army suicides. He's an anthropologist; the Army hired him to advise U.commanders on how to understand what was really going on below the surface in Iraq. But Bayer says those skills are what prompted him to ask Matsuda to look below the surface of the suicide problem in the Army. "What we valued about (Matsuda), as well as a few others who worked for us, was he didn't wear a uniform. He wasn't one of us, so to speak," Bayer says. Whenever a soldier committed suicide, Bayer says, a team of Army investigators would essentially ask the same questions: What was wrong with the individual soldier? Did he or she have a troubled childhood or mental health problems? Did the soldier just break up with a partner or spouse? Was he or she in debt? The answer was often "yes. " But Bayer says he felt part of the puzzle was missing. And I just had, like, feelings, like, that nothing's ever going to change. I'm going to get (expletive) every day, and I just don't want this anymore. And I just felt like I wanted to kill myself. So Matsuda looked at the cases of eight soldiers who had recently killed themselves and interviewed friends of the victims. A more complicated story began to emerge, he says. In addition to major problems in their personal lives, the victims also had a leader who made their lives hell — sometimes a couple of leaders — Matsuda says. The officers would "smoke" them, as soldiers call it. "Oftentimes platoon leaders will take turns seeing who can smoke this guy the worst. He says the evidence did not show that the soldiers' leaders caused them to commit suicide. But the soldiers' friends said leaders had helped push them over the brink. "When you're ridden mercilessly, there's just no letup, a lot of folks begin to fold," Matsuda says. He submitted a report stating: "(S)uicidal behavior can be triggered by . toxic command climate. "This was not the first time that an Army researcher had raised the issue of toxic leadership. In 2003, the secretary of the Army asked researchers at the Army War College in Pennsylvania to study a question:NPR interviewed dozens of current or former soldiers who said they have struggled under toxic leaders. iStockphoto hide captionNPR interviewed dozens of current or former soldiers who said they have struggled under toxic leaders. "Given an institutional objective to establish and maintain effective command climate," Secretary Thomas White Jr. wrote, "how can the Army effectively assess leaders to prevent those with destructive leadership styles? ""The first thing that struck me was, what a good question," says retired Col. George Reed, who was director of Command and Leadership Studies at the War College. "It was not a question that we had wrestled with before. "Reed and a colleague interviewed dozens of officers who were attending the War College. He says most of them told stories about recent encounters with leaders whom they said were toxic. He says the soldiers were talking about something worse than incompetent bosses: They said toxic leaders were abusive and self-aggrandizing, arrogant and petty, and "unconcerned about, or oblivious to, staff or troop morale. "Toxic leaders were also good at snowing their superiors — so they kept getting promoted. Reed says after Military Review published his article about the study, he was flooded with emails from other soldiers who complained about the toxic leaders they knew. "The stories just poured out at that point," Reed, who now teaches leadership studies at University of San Diego, says. "It was distressing because the Army is a world-class organization and at some point you have to ask, 'No, really? Are we tolerating this kind of leadership behavior? ' "Gradually, some generals started to ask that question and a few years ago they ordered researchers to do the first nationwide study to help answer it. Researchers based at the Center for Army Leadership at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas surveyed more than 22,000 troops in 2009 and 2010. Most commanders received good ratings, some even got great ratings. But the study found that roughly 20 percent of soldiers reported their own leaders were what researchers called toxic. NPR has interviewed dozens of current or former soldiers who say they have struggled under those kinds of leaders. We found one of them, Frank Costabile, at a center for homeless vets in Las Vegas. The Army discharged him last year after the third time he threatened or attempted suicide. "I'm doing better," says Costabile, who had been a private first class fueling helicopters, tanks and trucks. "After my last suicide attempt, they gave me a new medication. "Costabile says he never heard the term toxic leadership while he was in the Army. But he says some of his own leaders started tormenting him psychologically three years ago in Afghanistan, and the abuse continued when he came home in 2011 to Fort Carson in Colorado. He says those leaders didn't scream at him, they ostracized him. And the more he felt like he was falling apart, the worse it got. Army records show he had "major depressive episodes" and "multiple hospitalizations. ""Like the kid that was picked last for kickball in school, you know? I get the jobs that nobody wanted to do. Take out the trash, you're going to sweep the floor, you're going to mop the hallway. And it's like, why? " Costabile says. Army records show that Costabile stopped eating more than a few bites each day; he lost 30 pounds in a month. His wife found him lying on the bathroom floor after he took dozens of antidepressants and other pills. But some officers said he was faking it. "And I just had feelings, like, that nothing's ever going to change," Costabile says. "I'm going to get (expletive) every day, and I just don't want this anymore. David Perkins, who commands the Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth, says he knows how toxic leadership can hurt soldiers — and the Army. David Perkins, who led the first troops into downtown Iraq in 2003, now runs the Combined Arms Center at Fort Leavenworth in Kansas. He says toxic leadership could have life or death consequences. Getty Images hide captionGen. "If we don't do something about toxic leadership, I mean in the end, not to be too dramatic, but it does have life or death consequences. And quite honestly, we owe it to the American public," Perkins says. He continues: "I can just tell you from experience . that if you have toxic leadership, people will get sort of what we call the 'foxhole mentality. ' They'll just hunker down and no one is taking what we call prudent risk. " Perkins led the first U. Army troops into downtown Baghdad after the U. invaded Iraq in 2003. ## "They're not being innovative, they're not being creative. And some people who are toxic leaders, they might be able to get some short-term results and get an immediate mission at hand done. But in the process, they are destroying the organization and destroying their people. "Perkins says the first step to figuring out what to do about toxic leaders was to define the problem. So in 2012, the Army revised its leadership bible, Army Doctrine Publication 6-22, to detail what toxic leadership means for the first time. "Toxic leadership is a combination of self-centered attitudes, motivations, and behaviors that have adverse effects on subordinates, the organization, and mission performance. This leader lacks concern for others and the climate of the organization, which leads to short- and long-term negative effects. The toxic leader operates with an inflated sense of self-worth and from acute self-interest. Toxic leaders consistently use dysfunctional behaviors to deceive, intimidate, coerce, or unfairly punish others to get what they want for themselves. This may achieve results in the short term, but ignores the other leader competency categories of leads and develops. Prolonged use of negative leadership to influence followers undermines the followers' will, initiative, and potential and destroys unit morale. "The Army then launched a pilot project to take a second step toward dealing with the problem: In addition to having leaders evaluate their subordinates, as just about every institution does, they asked subordinates to evaluate their leaders — anonymously. The pilot project evaluated only eight commanders, in what the Army and management specialists call a 360 evaluation, but Perkins says the Army plans to expand the system by October 2014. Meanwhile, Army commanders have taken more aggressive steps: They have kicked a small number of officers out of their jobs for being toxic. And the issue is becoming part of a national conversation. Kirsten Gillibrand (D-N. told the Senate chamber recently that destructive leaders are one reason why the number of sexual assaults in the military is so high. "You've just heard from these victims, there are too many command climates that are toxic," she said. Some of the Army researchers who first raised the issue of toxic leadership say this is clearly a new world. Still, they're concerned that Army leaders are not moving fast enough to confront it. Walter Ulmer, a retired general who led forces in Vietnam, calls toxic leadership an "institutional cancer. " He says he's "enthusiastic and optimistic" that top officials are publicly discussing the problem and debating ways to combat it, but he says the Army strategies like the new officer evaluation system are just one step. According to the Army's plans, for example, it will ask subordinates to anonymously evaluate roughly 1,100 battalion and brigade commanders by late next year. But there are more than 100,000 officers in the Army, from noncommissioned sergeants to generals. If you used a 10-point scale to rate how well the Army is doing tackling toxic leadership, Ulmer — whose papers on the issue are taught in the Army's command schools — says, "I guess I give it maybe, maybe a six. "The Army is doing more about toxic leaders than at any time in the past, he says, but there is "still a long way to go. "Matsuda, the researcher who concluded that toxic leaders had played a role in the suicides of eight soldiers in Iraq, says even though the study was small and anecdotal, it raises a big question: Have toxic leaders played a role in many more suicides? The Army and the National Institutes of Mental Health have launched the biggest study yet of why soldiers kill themselves. 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From May 1st through October 15th a valid Lake Chelan Federal Dock Site Permit is required for mooring any vessel longer than 30 minutes at the Stehekin Marina, Purple Point, Flick Creek, Manley Wham and Weaver Point Campground Docks. The Hozomeen Lake Trail and the area within the ½ mile of Hozomeen Lake are closed to entry between the April 1 and May 31. Seasonal closures of portions of trails, climbing routes or other areas, delineated by signs, may be placed in effect to protect the sensitive breeding areas of raptors and other sensitive bird species. Closures will be implemented and posted accordingly during the critical time periods concerning nesting, breeding and related activity and phenomena. The areas identified by cliff name below are closed to all public use to protect Peregrine Falcon nesting aeries from March 1 until July 15 of each year, or until the young falcons of the current year have fledged or NPS staff determine nesting will not occur on a specific wall during this period. Justification: This is necessary to protect park visitors from the inherent dangers related to abandoned mining sites. National Park wilderness, including trails, is closed to the possession or use of any contrivance for moving people or material in or over land, water, snow or air that has moving parts, that provides a mechanical advantage to the user, and is powered by a living or non-living power source for the preservation of wilderness character. This includes, but is not limited to, non-motorized wheeled vehicles, conveyances and devices, such as bicycles, Segways™ and other Electric Personal Assistance Mobility Devices (EPAMD), carts, game carriers, canoe dollies, wheel barrows, wagons, strollers, ski kites, sailboats/boards, hang gliders and paragliders. Wheelchairs as defined in Title V Section 507(c) of the Americans with Disabilities Act (ADA) may be used by persons with disabilities. Justification: The Wilderness Act of 1964 prohibits these uses in designated wilderness. Allowing such use would place the park in violation of the Wilderness Act. Fixed anchors are not authorized at any location within the Stephen Mather Wilderness of North Cascades National Park Service Complex. Note: Temporary anchors that do not require the drilling and altering of the natural feature may be left in place. Justification: Current National Park Service policy, Director's Order 41 (Wilderness) issued May 13, 2013, prohibits installation of new fixed anchors unless specifically authorized through a plan or through a permit system. Until the Park can meet this planning requirement or approves a permit, fixed anchors (bolts) remain prohibited. Launching, landing or operating an unmanned aircraft from or on lands and waters administered by the National Park Service within the boundaries of North Cascades National Park Service Complex is prohibited except as approved in writing by the superintendent. These closures by the superintendent implement Section 1.5 of NPS Management Policies 2006, which provides that a new form of park use may be allowed within a park only after a determination has been made in the professional judgement of the superintendent that it will not result in unacceptable impacts on park resources and values. This compendium closure is a necessary, interim measure until the NPS considers how to address this new use on a long-term basis. Allowing the use of unmanned aircraft before the park has properly evaluated whether this use is appropriate could result in unacceptable impacts to park resources, park values, and visitor safety. Fishing in North Cascades National Park Service Complex is restricted by Washington State Sport Fishing Rules promulgated by Washington State Department of Fish and Wildlife. ## Justification: This is necessary to conserve the fisheries resource for natural resource protection and recreational fishing opportunities. Within ¼ mile of the towns of Newhalem and Diablo, or within ¼ mile of Gorge Dam, Diablo Dam, and Ross Dam and their associated Powerhouses. Within ¼ mile of the Ross Dam Trail from Highway 20 to Ross Dam or the Ross Dam Haul Road upstream from the dam. Within ¼ mile surrounding any visitor center, ranger stations and concession facilities or the Environmental Learning Center. Justification: This is necessary to protect park visitors within the National Recreation Areas who maybe unaware of hunting activities. Closing these areas to the discharge of firearms, even during hunting seasons, does not affect a person's ability to otherwise conduct successful hunting activities elsewhere in the recreational area. Justification: The Enabling Legislation for the North Cascades Complex allows for hunting in the National Recreation Areas, but trapping was not specifically mandated by Federal statutory law and is prohibited by 36 CFR 2.2(b)(3). Justification: This is necessary to protect park visitors from the inherent dangers of hydroelectric facilities. Motor boats will be excluded on the Skagit River within Ross Lake NRA except for emergency, law enforcement, NPS and SCL operational, research, and monitoring needs. Justification: This restriction is described in the Ross Lake National Recreation Area General Management Plan (2012), and cites that restricting motor boats within this reach of the river will not significantly change visitor use on the Skagit River overall, rather it will serve to enhance the visitor experience for the majority of NRA visitors who experience the river by self-propelled boat. A motorboat closure of the Stehekin River above the designated and signed area. This demarcation runs from the downstream end of the Stehekin River Resort property across the river to the south bank as shown on the attached map. The intent is to allow motorboat access to the Resort from downstream. Justification: Both WDFW and the Park Service are concerned about conservation of wild cutthroat trout. This point represents where the lake influence ends and typical river habitat begins. Motorboats that do not meet the Environmental Protection Agency Rules (at a minimum meet the 2006 EPA rules and requirements) for gasoline spark-ignition marine engines are prohibited on all lakes within the Ross Lake NRA. This applies to NPS, concession, personal and private vessels operating on the lakes within Ross Lake NRA, e. Ross, Diablo, Thunder and Gorge Lakes. Justification: As per the Ross Lake National Recreation Area General Management Plan (2012), the National Park Service requires a Clean Engine Requirement for motorboats operating within the Ross Lake NRA. Environmental Protection Agency Rules for gasoline spark-ignition marine engines must be met, e. the exclusive use of four-stroke engines, direct injection two-stroke engines or equivalent technology. Vessels that are NPS operated diesel engines will be replaced with cleaner technology upon their regular replacement schedule. Roads in the Hozomeen area below full lake level (elevation 1602') that are exposed during periods of Ross Lake drawdown. Justification: Finding of “No Significant Impact” documents the decision of the National Park Service to officially close 9.9 miles of the Upper Stehekin Valley Road from Car Wash Falls to Cottonwood. The road between mileposts 12.9 (Car Wash Falls) and 15.3 (near Bridge Creek) has been decommissioned and will be partially rehabilitated. The road between milepost 15.3 and Cottonwood Camp (milepost 22.8) will continue to be maintained as a non-motorized, non-mechanized trail. Stehekin Shooting Range, as described in the 36 CFR 7.62(c), is closed to the discharge of firearms from March 15th to June 15th. Justification: The purpose is to protect endangered species using the area. The closure will be posted at the Stehekin Ranger Station and the shooting range. Newhalem Shooting Range is open only to NPS Law Enforcement personnel and other law enforcement personnel authorized by the Chief Ranger. Justification: The purpose is to protect NPS ... <assistant>: Sure, let me know if you need anything else: property from vandalism, improper disposal of refuse, and reduce the amount of lead released into the environment. All areas less than 1/2 mile from developed roads, or trails or less than one mile from designated camps. Justification: These conditions are necessary to reduce the impact to natural and cultural resources, prevent safety hazards and promote a satisfactory wilderness experience. Any portion of North Cascades National Park Service Complex may be temporarily closed, due to wildfire and/or fire management activities, which pose a threat to visitor safety. The following 2015 Fire closures remain in effect until closure signs are removed by the National Park Service:Justification: This is necessary to protect park visitors from the real or potential hazards posed by wildfires. Bear spray may be carried by individuals within the North Cascades National Park Service Complex for the strict purpose of protecting one's self or others from bodily harm against aggressive wildlife. It should not be applied to people, tents, packs, other equipment or surrounding area as a repellent.36 CFR § 1.5 (a)(2)The Superintendent has determined that the use of Bear Spray in a manner consistent with IGBC recommendation is appropriate as a deterrent to negative human/bear encounters. Justification: This is necessary to protect park visitors from the hazards caused by the flooding and erosion of the campsite. (a)(3) The following restrictions, limits, closures, designations, conditions, or visiting hour restrictions imposed under 36 CFR §1.5 (a)(1) or (2) have been terminated:(f) The following is a compilation of those activities for which a permit from the Superintendent is required. To obtain a permit for any of the below activities contact Park Headquarters:To gather firewood in the Ross Lake National Recreation Area. EXCEPT: the wood gathered by campers in accordance with 36 CFR 2.1 (a)(4). (a)(3) Operating any type of portable motor or engine, or device powered by a portable motor or engine in non-developed areas. (a)(4) Operating a public address system in connection with a public gathering or special event for which a permit has been issued pursuant to §2.50 or §2. ## §2.51(a) Public assemblies, meetings, gatherings, demonstrations, parades and other public expressions of views. A valid permit, lease or contract is required for residing in park areas, other than on privately owned lands. A valid permit, contract or other written agreement with the United States is required for engaging in or soliciting any business on lands administered by the National Park Service. Photography, defined as filming activity which uses model(s), sets(s), or prop(s) that are not a part of the location's natural or cultural resources or administrative facilities. A valid access permit is required for surface access to and from any mining claims within the park complex unless access is by pack animal or foot. Permits may also be issued for the following activities authorized for Stehekin residents in the Enabling Legislation for Lake Chelan National Recreation Area. Each Stehekin Resident Household is allowed to cut one conifer for the winter holiday season. Trees may be up to 12 feet in height. Trees will be cut at ground level and the entire tree removed. Approved areas include under the power line, in the approaches of the airstrip, or in special project areas as approved by the Chief of Natural and Cultural Resource or designee. A valid permit issued to Stehekin residents is required to obtain firewood in the Lake Chelan National Recreation Area. Permits will be issued in accordance with the conditions published in the approved Stehekin Valley Firewood Management Plan. Wood may be cut or obtained from those areas identified in the approved Stehekin Valley Firewood Management Plan or through the provisions of a winter firewood permit. Permits must be obtained from the Chief of Natural and Cultural Resource designee for a fee. (a)(4) Dead wood on the ground may be collected for use as fuel for campfires within the park: Only outside of the limits of designated campgrounds, backcountry camps, and subalpine meadows and must not be over ten inches in diameter. This wood may be used as fuel in campgrounds and backcountry camps where fire grates are provided. Unless pursuant to terms and conditions of a valid firewood cutting permit, wood may not be removed from the park Complex. (a)(5) The following conditions are in effect for walking, climbing, entering, ascending or traversing the listed archeological or cultural resource, monuments or statues:(b) Hiking or pedestrian traffic is restricted to the trail or walkway as listed in Section 1.5 of this document. The gathering or possession of edible fruits and berries is limited to one liter (1.0 quart) per person per day. Unlimited amounts of apples may be gathered or possessed for non-commercial use. In accordance with state law wildlife may be transported on State Highway 20. ## For additional information consult Washington state hunting regulations. On the Agnes Creek Trail. Justification: The Agnes Creek Trail provides access to designated hunting areas in the Lake Chelan NRA and on U. The trail travels through the North Cascades National Park for less than ¼ mile. By allowing the transport of legally taken wildlife through this section of the park, hunters can legally access this popular hunting area from the Stehekin Valley. ## For additional information see Washington state hunting regulations. (2)(ii) Weapons, traps, or nets may be used for target practice as provided for in Section §7.69 Ross Lake National Recreation Area and §7.62 Lake Chelan National Recreation:Newhalem Rifle Range, between the hours of sunrise and sunset, subject to applicable Federal, State and local laws (See restriction under section 1.5(a)(1)). Stehekin Borrow Pit, between the hours of sunrise and sunset, subject to applicable Federal, State and local laws. Notwithstanding any other provision in this Chapter, a person may possess, carry, and transport concealed, loaded, and operable firearms within a national park area in accordance with the laws of the state in which the national park area, or that portion thereof, is located, except as otherwise prohibited by applicable Federal law. (a) The sites and areas listed below have been designated for camping activities as noted. A permit system has been established for certain campgrounds or camping activities, and conditions for camping and camping activities are in effect as noted:A valid Backcountry Use Permit is required for camping EXCEPT within designated auto access campgrounds accessible from State Highway 20; at Hozomeen campground, and at Weaver Point, Flick Creek, and Manly Wham Camps on Lake Chelan. A valid front-country Campground Permit is required for camping at Colonial Creek, Gorge Creek, Newhalem Creek, Goodell Creek and Upper and Lower Goodell Campgrounds. Groups of more than twelve are required to travel and camp a minimum of one mile apart in backcountry zones (see appendix C for maps). In addition, in crosscountry II zones groups larger than six are required to travel and camp a minimum of one mile apart. Maximum campsite limits are as follows: two vehicles (including boat and camper trailers), 8 people, and 3 tents are permitted at Colonial Creek, Gorge Lake, Newhalem Creek, Goodell Creek, and Hozomeen Campgrounds unless otherwise posted. All camping activities must be conducted on bare ground and not on vegetation. (b)(3) Camping within 25 feet of a fire hydrant or main road, or within 100 feet of a flowing stream, river or body of water is authorized only in the following areas, under the conditions noted:In all front country, park housing and concession areas, backcountry and boat-in campsites, food and other items specified in 36 CFR 2.10(d) must be stored in accordance with the provisions of that section. Food and other items specified in 36 CFR 2.10(d) that is not properly stored is subject to confiscation and inventory. There are two approved and effective methods for storing food, litter, and scented items in the backcountry / wilderness of North Cascades National Park Service Complex:Secured in an IGBC or park approved bear resistant container or device on the ground, at least 100 feet from the camping/sleeping areas. Use of an IGBC or park approved bear resistant container or device on the ground, at least 100 feet from the camping/sleeping areas is mandatory at the following designated camps within the trail zone: Desolation, Fisher, Hooter, Monogram Lake, Pierce Mountain, Sourdough, Sahale Glacier, Thornton Lakes, Thunder Basin, Trapper Inlet. Use of an IGBC or park approved bear resistant container or device on the ground, at least 100 feet from the camping/sleeping areas is mandatory in the following cross-country zones from June 1 – November 15: Boston Basin (portions), Eldorado (portions), Hidden Lake, Tapto Lakes, Sulphide Glacier (portions). A temporary requirement for use of an IGBC or park approved bear resistant container or device may be placed in effect at any time, in any area of the park, when deemed necessary to protect wildlife. Justification: These areas have been chosen for one or more of the following factors: 1) Hanging food is either very difficult or impossible due to the nature of the vegetation or lack of trees entirely, 2) wildlife have obtained food that was stored using a method other than a container, 3) human-food-conditioned wildlife has become a nuisance and/or causing damage to tents and other gear, 3) the presence of bears is high, 4) visitor use is high. Open fires are permitted only in designated campgrounds or backcountry campsites where park provided fire rings or fire grates are installed. Burning of toxic materials such as rubber, plastics, asphalt, petroleum products, plywood, painted or treated lumber, dead animals or garbage is prohibited. Disposal fees will be charged for certain categories of refuse, in accordance with Director's Order 35B and Approved Final Waiver Request for Lake Chelan National Recreation Area. The areas designated as North Cascades National Park is closed to the possession of pets except within 50 feet of the Pacific Crest Trail, Cascades River Road and Stehekin Valley Road to its terminus at mile 12. (a)(3) Pets may be left unattended and tied to an object in the following areas, under the conditions noted:Owners or persons having custody or control of any animal(s) will immediately remove and dispose of excrement voided by an animal(s) under their control. Excrement will be properly disposed of in trash containers.1) 36 CFR 2.15(a)(2) prohibits the possession of pets not crated, caged, or restrained on a leash not to exceed six feet in length.2) This Compendium, through the authorization of 36 CFR 2.2(e), prohibits the viewing of wildlife with an artificial light. Hunting with dogs is normally done during hours of darkness, which necessitates the use of an artificial light. On those trails classified as all-purpose trails in the Wilderness Management Plan unless they are posted as closed due to unstable or wet conditions. Such use is also permitted on the Ross Dam Trail from State Route 20 to the Ross Dam Haul Road, the Diablo Lake Trail, Thunder Creek trail from its trailhead to the Thunder Creek Bridge and the Jack Mountain Trail. Are permitted off maintained trails in the Boulder Creek, Rainbow Creek, and 4-Mile Creek drainages under the following conditions:Camping must be consistent with all regulations of 36 CFR 2.1 Preservation of Natural Resources; 2.10 Camping and Food Storage: 2.12 Audio Disturbances 2.13 Fires and 2.14 Sanitation and Refuse. Permitted on Stehekin Valley Road for access to or from trailheads or private property where there are no reasonable designated routes and when such use is compatible with historic, cultural and scenic values and safety considerationsHitching or tying any stock to any object, including high line, where point of hitch or tie is within 8 feet of any tree or, as to cause damage to the roots or bole of any tree. EXCEPT: At selected sites on Ross Lake and Lake Chelan National Recreation Areas as may be designated by the Superintendent and indicated by a valid grazing permit (Issued with the backcountry permit). Grazing or browsing by horses and pack animals in the designated Wilderness portion of the Lake Chelan National Recreation Area;May be held overnight only at facilities in designated horse camps except for parties camping in the Boulder Creek, Rainbow Creek and 4 Mile Creek drainages or at the other sites specified on a valid backcountry use permit. Possessing, storing or transporting, except on Highway 20, any hay, straw, mulch, or forage, which has not been certified as free of noxious weeds and seeds by Washington State Department of Agriculture's (WSDA) Plant Services, is prohibited within the boundaries of North Cascades National Park Service Complex. The purpose of these actions is to protect natural ecosystem dynamics, including the vegetation, wildlife, and other terrestrial and aquatic resources and processes that are threatened by invasive, non‐native plants. (a)(1) Areas designated for operating or using aircraft are provided for in section §7.62 Lake Chelan National Recreation Area and §7.69 Lake Ross National Recreation Area. The entire water surface of Ross Lake and Diablo Lake. EXCEPT: within 1000 feet of a dam or within an area closed for fish spawning. (2) The operation or use of aircraft under power on water within 500 feet of designated swimming beaches, boat docks, piers, or ramps is permitted in the following areas, under the conditions noted:Designated government docks on Lake Chelan and at private docks on Lake Chelan with consent of the dock owner. All landing and docking operations permitted under special regulations and this compendium must be performed in such a manner as to not endanger or interfere with boaters or other recreational users using the lakes. (1) The removal of a downed aircraft, components, or parts thereof is subject to procedures established by the Superintendent through written authorization. Snowmobile use on public lands or designated trails will be limited to permanent year round residents of Stehekin Valley. a) The following park roads and/or parking areas open to motor vehicle traffic may be used for skiing, snowshoeing, ice skating, innertubing, tobogganing, and similar winter activities under the conditions noted:Stehekin Valley road when such use is compatible with natural, cultural, scenic and aesthetic values, safety considerations, management objectives, and will not disturb wildlife or impair natural and cultural resources of the National Park and Recreation Area. (b) The towing of persons on skis, sled or other similar device by motor vehicle or snowmobile is allowed in the following areas and/or routes:All public buildings to include: administrative offices, visitor centers, information stations, maintenance shops and restrooms. North Cascades Stehekin Lodge facilities EXCEPT: those designated and signed as “Smoking Permitted.”Visitors on authorized backcountry trips are permitted to leave their vehicles unattended in trailheads or launching ramp parking areas for the period specified on their backcountry permit. (a) The following locations, in accordance with the terms of a permit issued by the Superintendent are available for the public meetings and assemblies (see appendix G for maps). Public assemblies, meetings, gatherings, demonstrations, parades, and other public expressions of views require a permit when the activity involves more than 25 persons or is requested for a location outside the identified designated areas. Pursuant to the terms and conditions of a permit issued by the superintendent, human ashes from the cremation may be scattered, except within 500 feet of any developed area or established campsite or water sources. From May 1st through October 15th a valid Lake Chelan Federal Dock Permit is required for mooring any vessel longer than 30 minutes at the following areas. Permits are required year round for the use of any water vessel operating on the Skagit River. These permits are self-issued via registration at the Goodell Creek launch site kiosk. (a) The towing of persons by vessels is allowed in the following areas under the terms and conditions noted:Jumping from Devils Creek Bridge or Lightning Creek Bridge is prohibited. Jumping off Highway 20 bridges into Gorge and Diablo LakesJustification: This is necessary to protect park visitors from the hazards caused by fluctuating reservoir levels. (c) The use of floatation devices, glass containers, kites, or incompatible sporting activities is not permitted on the following swimming beaches, as noted:(a) A valid permit is required for SCUBA diving and snorkeling around dock areas when necessary to effect a salvage operation. (a) Park roads and parking areas that are closed to bicycle use are listed in section 1. The Regional LRTPs are updated every five years. All Regions have a LRTP, only those that are 508 compliant are availble on the website. Contact us for a current copy, if the LRTP is not included below. The Federal Lands Transportation Program Eligibility Guidelines (PDF | 191Kb) identifies items from Category I, 3R and 4R that will be funded, will not be funded and items that generally are not funded (determined on a case-by-case basis). There are two versions of the Park Road Standards available for your reference. In 1967, Director George B. In 1984, a Task Force updated and expanded the 1984 Park Road Standards and these standards are still in effect. ## The Congestion Management Toolkit takes a “problem-first” approach and uses a seven-step process to diagnose and treat congestion. It is useful at the fields level to help quantify problems, identify potential solutions, analyze alternatives, and determine realistic expectations. Many National Park Service units are located in areas which are served by vehicle or passenger ferry. These National Park Service units and their partners may be eligible to use funding from the FHWA Construction of Ferry Boats and Ferry Terminal Facilities Program (FBP) to build or acquire new, more efficient ferry boats or terminals, and to improve existing ferry services already serving the parks. FBP funds are allocated to specific ferry services based on the National Census of Ferry Operators (NCFO) conducted by the Bureau of Transportation Statistics (BTS). This primer provides information about the Ferry Boat Program. (PDF | 3.58 Mb)The contents of this document were appropriate for the time of its publication. Practices and procedures have been refined in the years following. Contacts and References may no longer be valid. ## The John A Volpe National Transportation Systems Center authored "NPS Transportation Innovative Finance Options". The concise 13-page document provides a summary of innovative finance techniques and how they can be applicable within the National Park Service. (PDF | 375Kb)The Paul S. Other topics include funding arrangements for partnership activities, lessons learned, and a look at possible future partnership activities. (PDF | 858Kb)Intelligent Transportation Systems (ITS) in the National Parks System and Other Federal Public Lands September 2011This report details the state of ITS deployment across all federal land management agencies (FLMAs) in 2011, updating a Volpe Center report completed in 2005. There has been little expansion of ITS technologies in recent years,and steps are outlined to help improve and further advance the use of ITS in public lands. (PDF | 2.17Mb)Long queues of vehicles at Park entrance stations during peak season is a problem for many National Parks and Monuments. This report is of interest to Park Superintendents, Chief Rangers, Facility Managers, Fee Managers, and Park Planners. Three case studies illustrate how planning can be used to design new or replacement entrance stations or to improve the efficiency and operation of existing entrance stations. (PDF | 422Kb)Become a member of the sailing crew of scow schooner Alma. Learn traditional seamenship on San Francisco Bay while acting as a sailing ambassador for the park. Woodworking, metalworking, painting, rigging, diesel mechanics and canvas work are among the many skills needed to keep the ship sailing. The public is invited to comment from November 10, 2014, through December 9, 2014. The fee program is critical, as 80% of fees collected stay within the two parks to maintain and improve facilities and services that benefit park visitors. Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks are strong economic engines for the region and local communities. In 2013, nearly 1.48 million park visitors contributed $111.7 million in communities and supported nearly 1,400 jobs in the local area. Previous fee increases have not impacted visitation levels in a negative way. This proposed fee increase is part of a larger National Park Service initiative to standardize fees in similar national parks across the country. The proposed single vehicle entrance fee would increase from $20 to $30 for a seven-day vehicle pass to Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. The parks' annual pass would increase from $30 to $50. The current rate of $10 per individual (walk-in, bicycle) would increase to $15. Currently the charge of $10 per individual traveling on motorcycle would change to $25 per motorcycle for a seven-day pass. There would be no changes to flat-rate fees for commercial groups. The Interagency Annual Pass,which is honored at U. national parks and federal recreation lands, will not be affected by the proposed fee increase and will remain at $80. ## The Interagency Senior Pass will remain at $10 (one lifetime fee), and the Annual Military Pass and the Senior Pass will remain free. The National Park Service will continue to offer entrance fee-free opportunities to enjoy the parks. In 2015, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks will offer twelve fee-free days. "We are committed to providing a quality experience at a good value for our visitors. " said Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks' Superintendent Woody Smeck. "The additional revenue will help us improve access to popular destinations like Giant Forest, Crystal Cave, and the High Sierra. Sequoia and Kings Canyon have been collecting fees for over 100 years. The current park entrance fees have been in place since 2006 when a seven-day pass for Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks was increased from $10 to $20 per vehicle. In 1913, Sequoia National Park was collecting a $1.00 entrance fee and General Grant National Park (now part of Kings Canyon National Park) collected a $.50 fee. Bureau of Labor and Statistics, $1.50 in 1913 is equivalent to $36.07 in 2014. Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks are proposing modifying wilderness fees from the current $15 per permit to $10 per permit plus $5 per person. Single hikers will continue to pay$15. Parties of two will only experience a price increase of $5. Permit fees for maximum size parties of 15 would be $85. The proposed fee structure is more equitable, because it is based primarily on party size, rather than a flat rate. The proposed fee increase would allow the park to maintain current staffing levels and continue to provide both a wilderness reservation service and face-to-face permit issuance at park trailheads. The proposed increase to the campsite fees for Sunset Campground and the mid-size group campsites are needed to cover the costs of using the www.gov reservation system and additional projects to benefit park users. These campsites are under utilized and not well-marketed as available before campers' arrival. In addition, by placing mid-size group campsites on the reservation system, the sites will be utilized by groups of the appropriate size. Two other campgrounds with a 19-year track record on the reservation system—Lodgepole and Dorst Creek—serve as successful models for how the reservation system is expected to work in the new locations. Over 42,000 people benefit from reservations at Lodgepole and Dorst Creekcampgrounds each summer. An online web briefing on the proposed fee increases will be held on November 20, 2014, at 12 noon PST. A link to the live webinar and a recording will be posted on https://parkplanning.gov/seki. Click on: Proposal to Increase Fees at Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks. We invite the public to submit comments electronically via the National Park Service's Planning, Environment and Public Comment (PEPC) website at https://parkplanning. Comments will also be accepted in writing (hand-delivery, by mail, or fax). To submit written comments, you may mail or hand-deliver your comments to Superintendent, Sequoia and Kings Canyon National Parks, Attn: Proposal to Increase Fees, 47050 Generals Highway, Three Rivers, CA 93271. In addition, faxed comments will be accepted at (559) 565-4202. Comments submitted by e-mail and anonymous comments will not be accepted. Bulk comments in any format submitted on behalf of others will not be accepted. All public comments must be received by December 9, 2014. While you can ask the National Park Service in your comment to withhold your personal identifying information from public review, we cannot guarantee that we will be able to do so.

Instruction: What could be the completion of this text: 1: All OOC communication will be on PR6 Channel. No OOC chatter here not directly related to the plot at hand. Questions for clarification are fine.2: This is a CONSENT run. I am not out to hurt anyone; I play a World is Neutral game. That said, this is a dangerous run and I implore you to talk to your fellow runners to dissuade them from doing anything rash.3: 1-butt. Everyone has one but. I'm not a rules savant, I'm not an encyclopedia. If I make a bad rules call, you are allowed to object. I will evaluate the objection then rule on it. We continue forward from there without further argument.4: Story comes before rules. I don't particularly care if, in the end, you have the dice to try and bitch slap the dragon based on the rules presented in the SR-Companion, Dragons of the Sixth World , the dragon is probably not going to be phased much by it.5: Please be attentive. I understand Real Life comes first, just be considerate about it. If we have to wait for you in combat, we may skip you. Please give me at least half of your attention. :)The call comes via courier this time, as much of the Denver cellnet and trix is down. Your drop box, favorite hidden mailbox, a note slid under your door. Whatever the method, you are contacted by one of your contacts, letting you know that someone is hiring for a job. You'll be meeting at the Garden of the Gods park in the PCC Sector. It is a large natural setting. They'll be at the Balanced Rock area, at a picnic table. Look for the woman with the red rose. Terrific can be found at the local Pentabucks, which he has been haunting for some time as they have valuable things like heat and food that they're trying to get rid of. Still, he will bundle himself against the cold and go to scope out the park for deadly ambushes, giant crocodilian trolls, and eventually, a woman with a red rose. Cypher grumbles about having to work when the trix is down, it means whatever he does is ten times more complicated now. He gathers what few things he thinks he will need, actually leaving his deck safely hidden at home, cause well, he ain't loosing that in some random car crash. He drives towards the PCC sector, managing to make it through checkpoints. Eventually he finds a parking spot at the Garden of the Gods visitors center. He climbs out, frowning, and pulling his coat up around him as he heads off to look for this picnic table. Vera does have a drop she check daily, for such things, that she has set up with her fixer, Les. It's been fascinating how old-fashioned things have become, with the tools of the trade down to that of a spy movie. She curses as she installs her last working batteries in her transceiver, pulls on an inch-thick thinsulate vest over her other clothing and then throws her synthleather jacket on top, adds on a red and black striped winter soft headband to cover the tips of her pointed ears, and heads to the park, to meet the woman with the red rose. A brief search yields sight of the picnic table. It is cold this time of the evening, with a brisk wind lowering the temperature down to right around 17 degrees. Tourists are rare in the park after dark, though there are always a few looking at the red rocks of Colorado and marveling at the sights. The Balanced Rock area, near the end of one of the drives through the natural park, is currently the scene of very few patrons. Sitting at a picnic table is a well-dressed Hispanic woman in a dark business ensemble, a red rose in her lapel. She seems older, perhaps in her mid-thirties, her attire and manner screaming corper. She will look up and nod as the various runners descend on her, motioning to seats nearby. She has a small space heater, battery powered, on the table with her putting out a nice little warming field. Accompanying the heat is the familiar buzz of a white noise generator. Terrific is only too happy to do the joining; touching his forehead and then his heart in greeting. Cypher arches a brow at the Jay, but says nothing, merely taking a seat at the table and waiting to listen. He looks around, never know when a dwarf with a dart pistol might be hiding in the bushes. Johnson waits for everyone to get settled before starting, her breath coming out in little cloudpuffs as she speaks, "Good evening and thank you for meeting me out here. I apologize for such a cold welcome, but alas the city . she is not warm this evening. "She pauses and continues, "It is about warmth we are here to speak about. I have a small errand I need taken care of, something I would normally feel embarrassed about mentioning, but here we are. I require some switches thrown in a building. " She pauses again, looking you all over. "For that errand, I am willing to pay 80,000 in nuyen, split however you wish. Terrific hushes and looks to Posh, as if maybe he's learned something about accepting jobs too quickly when he's sitting nigh unto her. Cypher listens to the pitch, then glances at the other runners. The job sounds straightforward, but everything depends on the talents of the team. He waits to see if anyone else will speak. Vera gives a smile in response to Ms. "No doubt there will be people wishing to prevent us from throwing said switches? " she asks, smiling politely to the other runners as they speak. "Given the likely nature of your switches, the short notice, and the emergency, we could probably meet that price but would require enough in addition to also cover our expenses. Johnson considers the comments and then says, "I can understand your concerns. emergency, I believe you said? . yes, this emergency tends to remove some obstacles that might otherwise be a problem. " She clicks her tongue and then shakes her head. "I am afraid that I cannot meet a price increase, not at this time. " She looks sorrowful and warms her hands in front of the heater, "I suppose this might be something that you would not wish to do for so little? "Cypher grunts and finally speaks "So, I guess the next step, is to tell us which building these switches are in, and what said switches do. ## Cause there are buildings worth your price, and there are buildings that even without power, are not worth that price. "I'm sorry that we likely won't be able to offer the use of specialized equipment, then, as part of our package to maximize the likelihood of success for your operation," Vera finishes. "But a more basic option is still far better than you could likely get for the price elsewhere. "Well, I don't speak for anyone else, but I accept. Terrific says "I too am ready to hear, at least, the general location and nature of the building in question. The Aztechnology Pyramid is Right Out. "Vera glances over at Cypher. "Don't worry about it so much. The details are what they are. If she is not negotiating in good faith, none would hold us to an acceptance. " She nods to the woman, with a smile, still signaling that she has still agreed to the price in principle. Johnson chuckles quietly at the mention of the Pyramid and remarks, "Oh, I doubt we'll need specialized equipment; I am certain that your best efforts will be more than enough. " She'll pull a small travel map from inside her jacket, the sort of floppy laminated bit that you can still find at some Stuffer Shacks. "Your goal will be the West Power Transfer Station in the CAS Sector, on East Alameda. " She'll glance between you all and settles back. "I'll let you determine if that is worth your time and the money. Terrific says, "That should be fairly standard. " This means that if they get there and it's a frickin' army encampment, they will likely just have to come back. But realistically, power transfer stations are so boring that few people care about them, and the most that is likely to be there are a few guards and systems and the like. Cypher frowns "Sooo, you want us to go into to the power station currently supplying the Aztlan sector, and flip some switches? Do you want these switches flipped on, off, or rerouted? "Vera smiles to the others. They have probably enhanced the electronic security, but that should not be insurmountable," she says, after a moment, though it's just a common-sense statement; it's not as if knowing what she's talking about is on Vera's cv. Johnson smiles brilliantly at Cypher, nodding, "I had heard you were a smart one. Yes, we would like switches turned ON, or rather up in this case. There is but a trickle of power coming into the Aztlan Sector at this time. We'd prefer that, quietly mind you, that rate was increased. Johnson says, "I do not presume to know all the technical details. " She'll come up with a piece of paper with several numbers written on them in a very neat hand, numbers and electrical data and so forth. She'll set it down on the table, pushing a corner under the heater device. "All you need to know is there. "Cypher takes a moment to study the information, knowing that a huge increase of power will be noticed quickly, perhaps even while they are adjusting the rates. «Plot» Sasha says, "Cypher can determine that a marginal increase is to be set, with a marginal decrease for the overall CAS sector. "Cypher finishes studying the information and then nods. "Alright, well, I believe I can accomplish the task, unless there is a Lone Star task force guarding the station. Baring that, this seems acceptable. Terrific says, "I as well. " To the two of them, he says, "I should mostly be able to help with the sneaking part. I'll explain as we head on site. Johnson exclaims and rises. "I shall leave you my poor heater; perhaps it will keep you warm one night and you will think of me. " She'll drop a flimsy call card with a number scrawled across it. "I have people that will signal me when the task is complete. We want this done before midnight, if you can. " She shrugs in that Latin way and says, "Half the pay will be waiting with the Maitre D at the Serpent's Feather. The other half, on completion, will be left at the drop location on the back of the card. " She'll smile and move to walk away, a black sedan pulling by to pick her up. Terrific , almost needless to say, will be bringing the space heater to donate to some street people he knows down Warrens way - but for sure they won't be discussing any planning with it in the car. Damn thing is probably bugged six ways to Sunday. Cypher stands up from the table, picking up the paperwork and folding it up and placing it in a ... Output: Here you go: pocket. Cypher says, "We got 3.5 hours left. The best bet is to do as much recon as we can. Eyes on the location and judge whether they have magical security or not. Without it, I assume we have an advantage. " He looks at T at this point. "Otherwise, we have to be insanely careful getting in there, cause there will be guards and cameras and everything. Terrific says, "Let us do our drive-by and make a quick plan. " With his hands he makes a zipped-lip motion, and points at the obviously bugged space heater. Terrific hopes someone has a vehicle, with which they can drop off the space heater and do a drive by. "There's probably two roles that I will be helpful for . security interdiction from a far, which I think will be less useful in this case, or up close and personal. What do you think about the possibility of gaining entry as a repair team? " she asks. "Cypher will surely be able to provide the knowledge, and I dare say I could put forth the bluster. " She shakes her head. "That woman has surely managed billion-nuyen mergers in her time," she muses. Terrific ahems! "If you're going to plan, let's do it away from the space heater. I wanted to give it to someone. Terrific , once in the car, says, "I don't think we can get costumes in three hours, not good ones. My plan, right now, subject to discussion, is to take us to a special place I know of that will let me cast invisibility spells. The first person I cast on will be strongly invisible, the second person pretty invisible, and the third person slightly invisible. We will be invisible to cameras, and will leave no record behind. Only a real person, actively looking at us on a camera, will have a chance to pierce the illusion. Terrific says "Cypher, who will be the most under the camera, will be the first. Posh, who is the primary fighter, will be second, and I will be the third. If shit goes down, I will be mostly useless unless I drop the spells. "I suppose that seems reasonable enough, even if I purport not to understand the magical invisibility. Would traditional stealthy techniques help this invisibility, or not? " she asks. Terrific says "We can still be heard, and people can still see doors open and close. So yes, be as stealthy as you can possibly be, it helps very very much. Terrific says "Cypher can, I assume, handle unlocking doors and defeating security systems such as are active. Terrific finishes with, "Spirits and magicians will also be able to see us, so on this drive-by, that is what we are scoping out. " If you see such a spirit or wizard, geek with extreme prejuidice. Terrific says "A wizard, or someone who can see you, will suddenly startle in surprise when they see someone walk around the corner that they can see with their magic vision but they can't see with their normal eyes. Terrific says "The average wizard, especially a corp wizard, is comparatively fragile - but if you give him a chance to get his mojo going and unleash his best stuff, he is powerful. Never give them that chance. "That'll be lethal, then. Four silenced pistol shots. We'll have to do this fast and messy, then, if there are any such mages. " Vera certainly seems steeled to the task. No talking on this one, then. "Well, I'll take a hit of Jazz, and I have my relatively new wired reflexes in. I'm certain I'll be able to get the drop on any corp mage. With luck, I'll have been sneaky enough for them to not see me anyway. "Well, you know, if we are going with such a simple plan, no time like the present," she suggests. Terrific says "Also, while it's not a guarantee, the corp dress code is usually relaxed for wizards because they are such a powerful resource. And they take advantage of it. So, sometimes, you CAN tell them by their hat and floppy sleeves . or at least, their unique sense of style. "«OOC» Vera meant for drive by, quick eval, and then go in without as much prep time, if we're going so simple anyway. Terrific says, "We do our drive-by. We use our perceptive abilities. I use astral perception and assensing to see if they have astral security, if they appear to be on an astral route, if they have massive spirits everywhere, if they have huge-mongo wards, or if I start to glow from the FAB. Terrific sits in the car, pleasantly chatting. His eyes don't glow, but he looks out the window, observing the fences, the doorways, the hallways between buildinglets, the tubes. He looks as well for guards, emplacements, patrolling cop vehicles, and any number of similar things to go with his all-important, for his plan, magical vision. Vera rides shotgun, because she can't drive, and while she doesn't have an actual shotgun, the point is rather clear. She's armed with her two pistols, ready to provide self-defense for the surveillance expedition, looking for possible escape routes and physical exfils. "You know, it's quite handy that we're each handling the three types of opposition. ## Electronic, magical, and metahuman. Terrific also suddenly remembers that he has electronic amplification goggles to use - ones that Posh, in fact, bought for him on their last exciting mission. He is only too happy to haul these out - even though he can't cast spells with them - and use them to add to his tactical layout. Perhaps he loans them to Cypher, too. The West Power Transfer Station is a squat, utterly boring building painted a flat grey with very little in the way of adornment. There are not gun emplacements or fences or anything of the sort. It is a heavy-looking building, however, with thick-looking walls and no windows to speak of. Outside sits two patrol cars that proudly are marked HARD CORPS SECURITY, both empty, their occupants at parts unknown. There are no wards at all; the background count around the mundane and mostly technological building is a stable 2. No spirits pop their heads out, no elementals rush the car. Nothing obvious or even in obvious stands out. The building DOES have power, as befitting someplace that power runs through. Vera looks again at the two patrol cars. we're going to be looking at a max of eight on site, probably two guys per car, actually, plus perhaps a regular single-guy shift. Probably just monitoring the cameras and with a fast button to the Star. "Ordinarily, I'd say that it's time for lights out on the security guy, but perhaps we should hope on this magical invisibility working and messing things up enough that we could at least battle effectively. Does everyone have silenced weapons? " she asks. "I could grab my Stilettos for each of you - they're all I have immediately available, but they are silent. Terrific says "I don't see any magic, so the invisibility plan is good. There will be those guards though. Don't know if their team has a mage. I think we go to the place I'm thinking of, cast my spells, and go for it. Terrific says "I don't have a silenced weapon, so I'm happy to borrow a silenced pistol if it doesn't take from you. "Should I also see if I can't grab a hold, on very short notice, of a pair of smart goggles? " she asks. Terrific says "I've got your goggles, but I can't use them and magic both, so I have to keep them off. "Those are different - they aren't smart goggles, but they are certainly useful enough in a pinch. I'll have to remember, though. "I should probably get a range of weapons for companions too, particularly silenced. Might be useful to have around, but the Stilettos will be good in this pinch. "On the way back from Posh's trip, Mr. Terrific leads the way down into the twisty roads of a pleasant little subdivision nestled between two hillsides. It looks fairly homey, and in fact he parks the ar right by a tiny little kids park with a frozen but clean sandbox, a totally frigid set of swings, and a tiny little merry-go-round of the sort that dozens of kids have likely gotten sick on. Terrific says, "Well, that paid off. ## 5 successes for Cypher, 4 successes for Vera/Posh, and 6 Successes for stumblebum Mister Terrific. "«Plot» Sasha says, "Successes noted. Terrific is at a Moderate Wound (4 boxes) as we break, and has expended 8 KP. Vera has used 3 KP to this point! 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<|prompter|> What are the missing words: By Connie Yowell, CEO of Collective Shift and Elyse Eidman-Aadahl, Executive Director of the National Writing ProjectThere is broad agreement today about the need to redesign our nation's high schools. Ideas and initiatives abound from the schoolhouse [words 1] for how our nation can reinvent a 19th-century-model school system to better serve the needs of 21st-century students. <|assistant|> words 1: to the White House <|prompter|> What are the missing spans: But the reality is that in today's ever-more complex, information-saturated, globally connected age, schools can no longer do it all. And indeed, they should not be expected to do so. No one institution can provide the array of skills and competencies that today's young people need to succeed in life, work and community. To truly create the high school of the future, schools need an open-walled approach that incorporates the rich and highly [spans 1] classroom. Including access to mentors, workplace internships and opportunities to pursue interest-based learning at community institutions or online, high schools must have support to create a positive feedback loop that ties academic achievement to students' personal passions and [spans 2] world. At LRNG, we are working to do just that. Meanwhile, inside of schools, innovative educators are creating new ways to link student interests with powerful learning outcomes outside of school. LRNG Innovators, a program developed by LRNG partner National Writing Project, supports “educator innovators” in taking up design challenges that help build tomorrow's education systems, today. In Pittsburgh, STEM teachers work with students to learn engineering concepts and practices through service efforts in partnership with local companies. students in a citywide history class intern at museums to apply their developing skills as historians. In Los Angeles, a high school game-design program provides an on-ramp to the entertainment and gaming industry, while in North Carolina a high school leverages mentors to help young people acquire and expand interests through pop-up making experiences in a redesigned lunch period. These examples, as well as those that will come from the the current LRNG Innovators Challenge, are part of an active culture of research and development by educators inside and outside of schools working to provide help all our young people find the learning opportunities they deserve. Today, there is a growing divide between young people who have access to 21st century learning opportunities — mostly outside school — and those who do not. Wealthy families, who spend six times as much as their less affluent peers on out-of-school enrichment, also provide the mentorship and guidance needed to steer their children through the bewildering and often costly array of interest-driven activities that spark learning engagement, encourage civic involvement, build higher-order thinking skills, and prepare young people for the realities and challenges of the modern workplace. To make this learning available to all young people, we will need systems that support our broadest learning institutions, schools and libraries, in making the connections to out-of-school learning that right now only a small portion of our youth enjoy. All young people deserve to engage in learning [spans 3] success. At LRNG, our future vision is to make that a reality for underserved youth everywhere. Want to learn more about LRNG? Check out our blog and sign up for our e-newsletter while you're there. A startup enthusiast, software developer and design geek who loves reading much more than writing. meA writer, manager, yoga instructor, feminist, and millennial. UCLA grad, San Francisco Editor @ The Culture Trip. Passionate about the arts + health & wellness. Whether you've just discovered meditation or you've struggled for years to build the habit, avoid the pitfalls [spans 4] preparation. Try out the following steps to build a practice that will [spans 5] in. Meditation has been linked with countless benefits, but the [spans 6] lifestyle. Do some research, or dig into the the preexisting reasons behind your desire to build a practice, and write down the reasons that most resonate with you. Personally, my motivation for meditating is to guide my thoughts and [spans 7] cravings. I believe this intentionality will be the driving force behind so many of my [spans 8] productivity. Once you clarify your motivation for meditating, it becomes much more difficult to skip or half-ass a planned meditation session. Every time you have the urge to skip your session, or you find [spans 9] focus. Before I meditate, I remind myself how badly I want to live a more intentional life. I tell myself, “This is the most important thing you will do today,” and I really believe it. Once you understand your motivation for meditating, you can narrow down the practice that's right for you. If you're looking for a specific result, this can be as simple [spans 10] boundless. If you have a more general motivation, there are plenty of options to suit the whatever constraints you may be working around. Meditation apps are an incredible tool — offering you the flexibility to carry around guided meditations in your pocket so you can practice anytime, anywhere. Some of the best include Headspace and Calm. If using technology to dictate your practice doesn't vibe with your ideas about meditation, another great option is to find meditation workshops near you. Most major cities, at least, will have a variety of drop-in meditations offered throughout the week, many of which are completely free of charge. You might have to use your technology to find them, though — but this can be as simple as googling “meditation in (your city).” You will probably be surprised by the number of meditations happening around you that you aren't aware of. Even if you prefer to practice on your own most of the time, these community meditations can [spans 11] you. When choosing the practice that works for you, remember the bottom line: If you don't like it, you won't do it. If you hate the guiding voice in a particular app, or you dread commuting across town to a specific mediation center, keep looking until you find a practice that you actually enjoy! But remember, this doesn't mean you have to feel like you're good at it. We call it a ‘practice' for [spans 12] reason. Meditation is always a work in progress. The key to building a daily habit is finding a time that consistently works for you. You may have to try out a few different timing options before you find the one that best suits your schedule. One of the most common options is to schedule meditation as part of your morning or bedtime routine, making the practice as habitual as brushing your teeth. If those times don't work, for whatever reason, another great option is to choose a daily transition time and schedule your meditation then. This can be right before/after work, before/after working out, etc. — you know your schedule best. You can even meditate during your commute, assuming you are not driving — but even then, there are meditations you can try that are specifically designed to practice while driving. If [spans 13] weekdays. Start with ten minutes a day — or even five minutes, or two — whatever length of time you know you can definitely spare in your routine. Building the [spans 14] practice. If you start small, there will likely be days you have the motivation to increase the length of your session — embrace them! Practice long sessions on those days. But on the days you are dreading practicing at all, you can remind yourself how ridiculous it is to skip something that only has to last two minutes. When you're confident you won't skip sessions, you can gradually start to increase their length — but cut yourself some slack if you have to regress to a short session on occasion. Beware of jumping ahead too quickly, too — you may find yourself deciding to skip sessions entirely if you know you can't commit the full amount of time. Having a source of accountability is crucial when committing to a new habit. Luckily, there is no shortage of accountability options. One great option is to find a friend to commit to a daily practice with you. Set up a system for checking in with one another to make sure you're both practicing. If you're going solo here, there are plenty of popular apps available that will hold you accountable for your habits, many of which are 100% free. Check out a selection of the of the best options here. Alternatively, you can create your own system of accountability by making use of rewards or punishments. Set [spans 15] didn't. Identify factors that contributed to or prevented your successes, and then reevaluate your routine from there. Thought you would be able to get up early and meditate in the morning, but couldn't convince yourself to get out of bed on time? Find a way [spans 16] day. Reevaluate all of the above factors — your motivation, the type of practice, the timing, the length, your source of accountability — and make changes to whatever is hindering your practice. Do this as often as you need to until you find a system that truly works for you. My relationship to stress can be summarised as: stress is good, angst (I'm half-German, I sort of know the concept) is bad. Stress can express a desire for intensity, for everything in nothing, whereas angst is a fear of everything, out of nothing. Stress confronts us as a small but impactful near-death experience that reminds us of our own mortality. It is humbling and marks the maelstrom of time for us. The absence of stress is worse; it allows more time and space for the undefined, nameless fear that eats our souls. Stress, at its best, means being in the action, in the heat of the moment, in the flow, consuming and radiating energy. It doesn't always feel good, but at least it makes us feel something. Between storm and calm, I choose storm. When [spans 17] awareness. To me, stress has never been a consistent experience; rarely have I ever felt stressed for a prolonged period of time. Stress comes and goes, and it is usually worst before it comes. It is annoyingly predictable, but pleasantly spotty. Within phases of stress one can find both pockets of extreme tranquility and grace as well as such of anger and aggression. One of the most concrete devices of stress are deadlines, especially at the workplace. We seem strangely attracted to them. My theory is that they're not just caused by our tendency to procrastinate out of fear of failure or sheer laziness. Rather, our affinity to deadlines stems from a deep craving for drama. Ironically, they make us feel alive. The rush of blood to the head, the bliss of late-hour limbo, the feeling special, the time crunch, the borrowed time, the extra-time — with every deadline (even those we meet), we die a little, and therefore live a little bit more intensely. At work [spans 18] peaks. Think about it: a first date, a wedding, the birth of a child, travel to foreign countries, an exam, the World Cup final — all stressful experiences, rich with adrenalin but also the possibility of outright panic. A stress-free life of happy monotony makes boredom look like a distinctive experience. That said, stress must be managed. Framing it as something valuable and meaningful [spans 19] piece). Moreover, I think what often stresses us is not so much stress itself, but our stress about the stress: the meta-stress. What I mean by that is our chagrin with the very fact that we are being stressed, and our desire to be somebody else in that moment, or to [spans 20] selves. But, hey, ain't gonna happen! When we're under stress, there is no turning back, and instead of struggling to fit our new strange, condensed, and uneven emotions to the quandaries of our old souls and their comforting illusions of equilibrium, we must succumb to, no, embrace, our new, instigated, irritated, stressed selves. But yes, of course, if stress tips over the fine line to panic and even paralysis, the effects are no longer [spans 21] positive. If it becomes our default modus operandi in light of digital overload and efficiency pressures, if it turns into the kind of anxiety that stems from competing for social media attention, or worse, for work, for our position in society, our very existence and identity, then it will quickly turn into an agonising disease. Most critically, if we are deprived of agency — the ability to make autonomous decisions — by our immediate environment, ‘the system,' our bosses, and especially people close to us, then stress will become distress. If we are no longer able [spans 22] fatigue. This advent of distress will surely be aggravated through the rise of automation and mass–unemployment, with more than half of our Western society workforces to be replaced within the next ten years by software or robots, according to some predictions. When that happens, we will feel numb instead of tingled. While constantly reminded and ever more conscious of what we feel, how we should feel, all the time, our souls will be emptied into a dark, noisy marketplace forever eclipsing what used to be the greatest promise of stress: the hope that all the commotion and elevated feelings might indeed lead to new, higher plane. With all desire, all suffering eliminated, only the terror of extended, effortless, evenly distributed angst will remain. Amidst a massive mental health crisis and depression rates at unprecedented scale, we will yearn for those nostalgic times when we were still feeling stressed. This is the thirteenth post in an eight-week series of articles all about stress and how to make it work for you and your business. In October we're holding a one day event in London all about stress and how to make it work for you and your business. We hope you're enjoying our current series all about stress and how it can work for you or your business. Make sure to follow us on ‘Medium' so you don't miss a post. There's a very common metaphor that I, along with many other it seems, have subscribed to for as long as I can remember— it's the concept recharging one's batteries. The theory goes that you work hard over a period [spans 23] . Given I generally develop on the JVM (Scala or Java), and given that I happen to be a big fan of containerisation in general, one of the biggest pain points I've come across with this combination is . Anyone with a penchant for late 80's pop power ballads will recognise my reference here to the smash hit record “Listen to your Heart” by the abundantly talented Swedish pop duo, Roxette. Got this going this afternoon. Most of my devices were fine, but an old Motorola Xoom running Android 4.1 could not connect to the access point. Turns out being unable to connect with emoji in the SSID was a known issue, and got it fixed at some point (confirmed working on my Nexus 6P running 6. My writing focuses on three specific topics; my faith, my observations, and my experiences as a musician. Some prose and poetry. You never know when life can change in a New York Minute. A chance [spans 24] life. It can also be a recurring nightmare that knows no end. Many factors in our life dictate the person we beome, and the life we lead. The friends we pick to hangout with. People we avoid, due to their negativity. There are people we are drawn to, for various reasons. The way we were shown examples of good and bad behavior by our parents. All of the above mold us into the person we are now. I have learned that past decisions effect us today, even if an event happened in our distant past. I also know that those past decisions (bad decisions) are not a death sentence. You have the power within you to break the shackles that bind you. You have a right to be happy. You have a right to grow as a human being. As we make decisions we rarely can visualize the ramifications of those decisions. A bad decision such as trusting people not worthy of that trust. It can cost you big time; financially, emotionally and spiritually. We are definitely influenced by those around us. Choose your friends wisely. The biggest decision you will ever make in your entire life is choosing the person you want to spend the rest of your life with (Marriage). If you marry someone for any other reason than true love you will not stay married; you will not be happily married. I want a true, heart-beating, can't wait to be with them LOVE! If you marry for any other reason than true love the marriage will rip at the seams like a cheap suit. A marriage built on a foundation made of sand will not stand (broken trust, infidelity, false accusations, economic hardship). A marriage built upon a strong foundation (true love , trust, honesty, spiritual support during an illness) will not only stand it will flourish, and the intimacy you achieve will strengthen the marriage. Restoring feelings that have been stagnet for many years gives one hope. Hope plants the seeds for the possible. It allows a man or a woman to shed the armour of defense that have been sharpened over the years. Some of us have become jaded and apathetic. Salvation enables the feeling of Hope to grow inside of us. As the Hope becomes stronger our Confidence becomes more apparent to others. A last chance at a New Beginning. “Old things pass away and all things become new”. 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Instruction: Fill in words: On 5 January 2017, La Kaffa International Co. Ltd (“La Kaffa”) terminated its master franchisee arrangement for the brand “Chatime” under its Regional Exclusive Representation Agreement (“RERA”) with Loob Holding Sdn Bhd (“Loob Holding”), which had 24 more years [words 1] go. Among others, La Kaffa is alleging that:- • There is a decrease in Loob Holding's number of orders for [words 2] powder, cocoa powder and Polypropylene (“PP”) cups and it was discovered that Loob Holding has [words 3] • Loob Holding has been delaying and rejecting La Kaffa's request to exercise its rights to inspect and audit the books as provided by the RERA; and • Despite repeated demands, Loob [words 4] the terms of RERA and/or failed to make payment of, amongst others, the purchase of raw materials from the Plaintiff. After the split, Loob Holding set out to transform and rebrand its 161 Chatime outlets to “Tealive”. This prompted La Kaffa to file a suit against Loob Holding for infringing the provisions of the Franchise Act 1998 and breach of contract. La Kaffa has also applied for an interlocutory injunction to restrain Loob Holding from furthering its alleged unlawful acts which is set to be heard by the KL high court on 29th of May 2017. Should the presiding judge find in favour of La Kaffa, all Tealive outlets will have to cease operations immediately pending disposal of the suit. The Act applies to any franchised business operated or to be operated in Malaysia. It is important for enterprises to be aware that franchising is a regulated industry in Malaysia where regulatory approval or registration and specific terms of agreement are required by statute prior to offering for sale [words 5] business in Malaysia. This includes being acutely aware of the potential implications of failing to adhere [words 6] in franchise-related cases. A foreign franchisor is required to obtain the Registrar's approval [words 7] sells or makes an offer to sell its franchise in Malaysia. Only after the approval may the foreign franchisor take steps to sell its franchise in Malaysia. ## After the franchise agreement is signed, [words 8] franchisee is required to register its franchise business before commencement of operations. Additionally, if the franchisee subsequently enters into an agreement to act as a master franchisee, it [words 9] a separate registration as a master franchisee before it may sub-franchise in Malaysia. It is noteworthy that a foreign enterprise is only eligible to apply for approval after completing a minimum of 3 years operation of the franchised businessA Malaysian franchisor is also required to register its franchise with the Registrar before it makes any offer to sell its franchise, unless it is exempted by the Minister. Similarly, a Malaysian franchisor is only eligible to apply for registration after completing a minimum of 3 years operation of the franchised business in Malaysia. A franchisee must register its franchise business with the Registrar within 14 days of the franchise agreement being signed. A franchisor who fails to obtain register a franchise prior to operating a franchise business or offering for sale of its franchise commits an offence. A body corporate will be liable to a fine of up to RM250,000 for a first offence, and up to RM500,000 for a second or subsequent offence. An individual will be liable to a fine not exceeding RM100,000 or imprisonment of up to 1 year or [words 10] offence, and a fine of up to RM250,000 or imprisonment up to 3 [words 11] subsequent offence. For all other offences under the Act for which no penalty is expressly provided, a fine of not less than RM10,000 and not more than RM50,000 [words 12] a body corporate for its first offence, and a fine between RM20,000 and RM100,000 for its second or subsequent offence. An individual will be liable to a fine of between RM5,000 and RM25,000 or imprisonment of up to 6 months for the first offence, and a fine of between RM10,000 and RM50,000 or imprisonment of up to 1 year for a second or subsequent offence. If an offence is committed by a body corporate, a director, manager, secretary [words 13] similar capacity or assuming management responsibility for the body corporate may be held personally liable for that offence unless he [words 14] committed without his knowledge, consent or connivance and he had taken all reasonable precautions and exercised due diligence to prevent the commission of the offence. The decision to prosecute lies with the public prosecutor. On another economic scale, there is a significant cost impact for failing to register a franchise under the Act. The franchise agreement is at risk of being held null and void ab initio by reason of illegality. The franchise agreement will still be void even if there is an approval for registration, but the approval comes after the commencement of franchise agreement: SP Multitech Intelligent Homes Sdn Bhd v Home Sdn Bhd (2010) MLJU 1845. In SP Multitech, the plaintiff franchisee operated a retail smart home concept chain store franchise. It entered into a franchise agreement with the defendant franchisor [words 15] October 2001. When the plaintiff was offered the franchise business, the business had not been registered with the Registrar of Franchise. The application to register the franchise business was only approved 5 months later, on 22 March 2002. The plaintiff also alleged that defendant had failed to submit a copy of the disclosure documents to it at least 10 days before the plaintiff signed the agreement as required under the Act. An action was filed in the high court against the defendant for breach of sections 6 and 15 of the Act. The plaintiff prayed for [words 16] franchise agreement is unlawful and void ab initio and for restitution in the form of refund of all payments and benefits received by the defendant. The defendant further argued that notwithstanding [words 17] out its obligations under the agreement. The court held that the franchise agreement is tainted with illegality as the defendant had contravened the provisions of the Act. The court ordered that all payments made or benefits given to the defendant be refunded to the plaintiff. In coming to this decision, the court took into account the fact that the plaintiff had made a number of payments to the defendant [words 18] agreement was made but before the approval was granted and concluded that both parties had intended for the business to commence on 15 [words 19] the franchise agreement was signed. Noraimi bt Alias v Rangkaian Hotel Seri Malaysia (2009) 9 MLJ 475, another high court decision came to a [words 20] conclusion. In Noraimi, the defendant franchisor entered into franchise and premises management agreements with the plaintiff franchisee on 18 April 1995 for the plaintiff to manage the hotel chain ‘Seri Malaysia'. The initial term of franchise was for 8 years, from 21 January 1995 until [words 21] 2003. The agreement provided for a renewal of the franchise for a further term of 8 years subject to terms and conditions. The term of franchise was extended for another 3 years in 2003. Subsequently, the defendant informed the plaintiff that both agreements which had expired on 21 January 2006 would not be renewed. The defendant asserted that the franchise had simply come to an end and decided not to renew it. The defendant also claimed that the Act is not applicable since the agreements were made prior to its coming into force. • The Act is applicable as [words 22] when a franchise agreement is made. Contractual agreements must be read subject to the Act and give way where there is conflict and found support for this in section 61 of the Act which provided that franchises granted or sold prior to the coming into force of the Act are [words 23] be registered within a grace period of 12 months from the enforcement date of the Act. • The extension of the term of franchise by 3 years merely meant the agreement had been mutually varied and the other terms and conditions of the agreement would continue to apply. • The expiration of the franchise agreement was a reason for termination as provided under the franchise agreement but not for the refusal to renew. Therefore, the defendant's refusal to renew on the ground that it had expired was invalid as it violated the terms of the franchise agreement. Whilst the court recognised [words 24] to be registered under the Act and on the facts, there was no registration; it did not find that the franchise agreement was illegal and therefore null and void. Instead, the [words 25] apply the provisions of the Act and held that there was indeed a breach of the franchise agreement and the provisions of the Act. The plaintiff was awarded damages calculated on the net profit per month of the plaintiff for a term of five years for which the agreement should have been renewed. The defendant then appealed against the decision. The court of appeal in (2011) 1 LNS 1918 were unanimous that the 3 year extension to the original 8 years did not affect the plaintiff's right to the renewal of the franchise after the expiry of extended period. [words 26] was then dismissed with costs of RM50,000. In a more recent case, Tea Delights (M) Sdn Bhd v Yeap [words 27] the appellants appealed to the high court against the decision of a sessions court [words 28] the franchise agreement void ab initio. This case concerns yet another bubble tea franchise “COMEBUY”. The high court held that the first defendant who claimed to be the master franchisee in Malaysia and the second defendant, the director and representative of the first defendant, had a duty to register the franchise. The defendant's failure to do so rendered the franchise agreement void ab initio. The high court stated that in such circumstances, no court will lend its aid to enterprises who failed to register the franchise prior to commencement of the business. The high court also cited section 66 of the Contracts Act 1950 and held that the failure to register the franchise also meant that the plaintiffs were free to make a claim for restitution. The franchise business in this case was a non-starter and significantly, it did not matter that the plaintiffs only brought a claim after the business failed. These are some cases illustrating the importance of abiding by the requirements of approval [words 29] Act. The courts' approach appears to lean in favour of franchisees. If a business falls within the definition of a franchise, [words 30] is paramount. ## The Act is intended to bring greater protection to Malaysian businesses [words 31] innovation and economic growth. It regulates various aspects of franchising. Failure to comply is an offence attracting penal and civil economic consequences. We also play an active role in providing our feedback in response to public consultations launched by the Malaysian Registrar of Franchise [words 32] shape Malaysia's developing franchise law framework. "Unwavering Commitment- factor leading to the [words 33] is the quality of mind that keeps you walking straight to the end of the path without becoming sidetracked, without giving up your task. " these were the words from the Book "In This Vert Life" by Sayādaw U Pandita. About thirty yogis spent the Memorial Holidays under the guidance of Venerable Katapunno experienced the meditation life of monastics. Woke up 5AM in the morning and have [words 34] meditation. At the end of each sitting meditation we heard the inspiring Pali chant from Dhammapada Verses 277, 278 and 279 of our teacher. Output: words 1: to words 2: raw materials, including milk tea words 3: been procuring 3rd party raw materials; words 4: Holding has failed to comply with words 5: or sale and commencement of the franchise words 6: to the rules, and the courts' overall approach words 7: before it words 8: the Malaysian words 9: must obtain words 10: both for the first words 11: years or to both for a second or words 12: would be imposed on words 13: or other office bearer acting in words 14: can show that it was words 15: to operate the business on 15 words 16: a declaration that the words 17: this knowledge, the plaintiff had carried words 18: after the words 19: October 2001 when words 20: completely antithetical words 21: 21 January words 22: its application is not dependent on words 23: required to words 24: that the franchise business is required words 25: court went on to words 26: The appeal words 27: Win Nee (2015) MLJU 673 words 28: who declared words 29: and registration under the words 30: compliance with the Act words 31: and to encourage entrepreneurship, words 32: and hope to help words 33: development of the controlling faculties words 34: nine sessions of

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User: Complete this text: From the President: Geff Yancey introduces himself; Kudos to Ron Pedersen and Hugh Canham; Completion of NYWS/NYFOA mergerFrom the Exective Director: NYFOA's mission is enhanced by FLEP and the Highlands Stewardship ProgramA ... Assistant: Sure, let me know if you need anything else: version of this archives appears in print on February 1, 1891, on Page 20 of the New York edition with the headline: THE PEOPLE'S LEAGUE. ; PERTINENT SUGGESTIONS WHICH MAY MAKE IT... User: More. Assistant: A POWER. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|SubscribeA version of this archives appears in print on January 11, 1898, on Page 5 of the New York edition with the headline: SUPREME COURT NOMINATION; Senate Judiciary Committee to Take Up the McKenna Case To-day. ## Order Reprints| Today's Paper|SubscribeG. Tate, head of an expedition to the high plateau region of Mount Roraima in South America, was directed yesterday by cable to search for Paul Redfern, the missing aviator who set out from Brunswick, Ga. to fly to Brazil, it was announced yesterday by the American Museum of Natural History. View Full Article in Timesmachine »A version of this archives appears in print on September 11, 1927, on Page 2 of the New York edition with the headline: EXPLORER IN BRAZIL TO... User: Next. Assistant: SEEK PAUL REDFERN; Backer of Expedition Cables Tate to Use Native Runners in Hunt for Georgian Flier. ## Order Reprints| Today's Paper|SubscribeDR. ROMULOSJAON, ARGENTINE... User: More. Assistant: LEADER; Envoy to Washington From 1910 to 1919 Dies After 40 Years in Public Life LAW SCHOOL PROFESSOR Served as Justice Minister, Deputy to... User: Continue. Assistant: Congress and the Mayor of Buenos Aires - The New York TimesArchives|DR. ROMULOSJAON, ARGENTINE LEADER; Envoy to Washington From 1910 to 1919 Dies After 40 Years in Public Life LAW SCHOOL PROFESSOR... User: Continue. Assistant: Served as Justice Minister, Deputy to Congress and the Mayor of Buenos AiresDR. ROMULOSJAON, ARGENTINE LEADER; Envoy to Washington From 1910 to 1919 Dies After 40 Years in Public Life LAW SCHOOL PROFESSOR Served as Justice Minister, Deputy to Congress and the Mayor of Buenos AiresA version of this archives appears in print on December 31, 1941, on Page OBITUARIES17 of the New York edition with the headline: DR. ROMULOSJAON, ARGENTINE LEADER; Envoy to Washington From 1910 to 1919 Dies After 40 Years in Public Life LAW SCHOOL PROFESSOR Served as Justice Minister, Deputy to Congress and the Mayor of Buenos Aires. ## Order Reprints| Today's Paper|SubscribeLONDON, Dec.31—Britain, banned from the rich cod and haddock waters around Iceland, will retaliate with a 200mile fishing limit around all the... User: Next. Assistant: British Isles as of midnight tonight. The affected waters will be in effect a Common Market zone, shared with the eight partners in the European Economic Community. Only trawlers from Iceland, Bulgaria and Rumania will be completely barred from the new zone for the present. The Common Market countries are working out monthly catch quotas among themselves. In the case of countries less than... User: Continue. Assistant: 400 miles from Britian, the new limit will 11e the midpoint between borders. At present, the British fishery limit is 12 miles. Most other... User: More. Assistant: countries, including Iceland, have already reserved fishing zones up to 200 miles off their shores. The Fishery Limits Act, 1976, which recently went through Parliament, extends the British fishing zone from a... User: More. Assistant: total of 30,000 square miles to 270,000. The old three‐mile limit for territorial sea remains unchanged. Iceland's imposition of a 200‐mile limit was a hard blow to the British deep‐sea trawler fleet... User: More. Assistant: The retaliation by Britain seems a weak bargaining counter, however, because only a few Icelandic craft fish inside the new British limit. Other countries that customarily fish in the area, such as... User: Continue. Assistant: Norway, Finland, East Germany, Poland, Portugal and Spain will be permitted to... User: More. Assistant: countinue such fishing for three months pending the drafting of reciprocal arrangements. The only exclusive British zone is the 12‐mile limit previously claimed. The British wanted 50 miles of exclusive water around the coast but the Common Market partners would not agree. The British Navy will patrol the zone and five special patrol ships are to bolster the present civilian patrol vessels. Three naval frigates are already assigned to the waters and the Royal Air Force is checking the seas with its long‐range Nimrod aircraft, fitted with radar and other detection equipment. A version of this archives appears in print on January 1, 1977, on Page 12 of the New York edition with the headline: BRITAIN BROADENS ITS FISHING LIMITS. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|SubscribeBoth juries in the Bensonhurst... User: Next. Assistant: murder case showed signs of the stress from more than a week of deliberations as they recessed last night without reaching verdicts. The separate juries, which have deliberated for eight and nine... User: More. Assistant: full days, have now been considering the charges for longer than it took them to hear the testimony of the 42 witnesses in the... User: Continue. Assistant: racially charged case. At midafternoon yesterday, the jury considering the charges against Joseph Fama, who is accused of shooting Yusuf K. Hawkins, appeared close... User: Continue. Assistant: to a verdict. the jurors were back to asking the judge basic questions about the case, and the tension in the Brooklyn courthouse dissipated... User: Next. Assistant: Just before 6 o'clock, the jury hearing the case of Keith Mondello was dismissed for the night because a juror was not feeling well. Justice Thaddeus Owens of State Supreme Court said... User: Next. Assistant: a physician would see the juror, James Enright, a disabled former magazine executive. Mondello is charged with being the leader of a group of some 40 whites who pursued the 16-year-old black youth and three friends in the mostly white neighborhood on Aug. It was the ninth day of deliberations for the eight women and four men considering the charges against Mr. Fama and... User: Next. Assistant: the eighth day of deliberations for the six women and six men considering the charges against Mr. As the jurors enter the 10th day today, they are approaching the marks in other high-profile deliberations. In 1987, the jury considering the charges against four whites in the Howard Beach racial assault took 12 days to return a verdict convicting three defendants of manslaughter and acquitting... User: Continue. Assistant: one man. After eight days of deliberations last year, Joel Steinberg was convicted of manslaughter in the death of Lisa Steinberg, the 6-year-old he had raised. Lawyers and court officials said there were no clear rules for how Justice Owens should handle the deliberations as they extend toward records. If a juror becomes too ill to continue, the lawyers said, the trial could continue with 11 jurors only if all the lawyers consented. After jurors tell a judge that they are deadlocked, judges often deliver what is known as a ''dynamite'' charge, a stern reminder of the responsibilities of jury duty and a request that the jurors continue deliberating. Judges often tell jurors in such explanations that they should remain open minded but not give up any firmly... User: More. Assistant: held convictions. The Mondello jurors have twice told the judge that they were stalemated. Each time, the judge has asked that they continue, without delivering a ''dynamite'' charge. Lawyers said yesterday that the question of when, or whether, to push the Mondello jurors was entirely up to the judge's discretion. The Fama jurors, who have obviously been struggling, have not said they were having difficulty reaching a verdict. That progress was apparent yesterday in the form of two jurors' notes. One note was at 12:45 and one was at 2:45. The earlier note asked the judge to explain the legal elements of the crime of menacing, a lesser count against Mr. The next note asked for a legal explanation of two counts of criminal possession of a weapon... User: Continue. Assistant: About 5 o'clock, for the second time this week, the jurors sent a note saying that they had legal questions, but that they were ''extremely uncomfortable'' speaking in public. After objections from reporters, Justice Owens said he did not believe that the reporters had standing to raise the issue of an open courtroom and ordered officers to clear the room. He then spoke to the jurors. After that he read what he said were three questions from the jurors and answered them. One question asked for the defintion of reasonable doubt and two asked whether the jury could convict Mr. Fama of murder if they found that he did not know anyone had a firearm at the scene of the killing. Fama could be convicted even if the... User: Continue. Assistant: jurors found that he did not know anyone had a gun. After the judge had explained another legal point in a way that Mr... User: More. Assistant: Fama's family interpreted as bad for him, the Fama family and Mr. Hawkins's family confronted each other in the hall. Reporters heard shouts, and court officers ran to separate the groups. A... User: Next. Assistant: version of this article appears in print on May 17, 1990, on Page B00004 of the National edition with the headline: Bensonhurst Juries Starting to Show Signs of Stress. Order Reprints| Today's Paper|SubscribeA staff member at the Mysterious Bookshop in TriBeCa helping a customer with his search. CreditCreditHiroko Masuike/The New York Times“Nobody shoplifts from a store that knows 3,214 ways to murder someone,” a... User: More. Assistant: sign at the Mysterious Bookshop in TriBeCa warns. But if the country's oldest independent purveyor of mystery literature gets the ax, its owner will know why: money. “We lost, you wouldn't be... User: Next. Assistant: wrong to say, six figures a year, for seven or eight years,” said Otto Penzler, 74, the store's tireless proprietor. Supporting the store has... User: More. Assistant: led Mr. Penzler to a life of crime himself, with stints writing about mysteries, editing an Edgar Award-winning anthology of them and even publishing them (he started Mysterious Press in 1975). In 2005, when the store moved from its original location on West 56th Street, where it opened in 1979 — on a Friday the 13th, no less — to its current home on Warren Street, near the Sept.11 museum and memorial, hordes of loyal customers followed. “Detective stories are essentially fairy tales,” Mr. Penzler said of the genre's staying power. “They're the battle between good and evil.”In an era of e-books and online ordering, the store moves ink-on-paper volumes by supplementing its 10,000 or so titles with rare books, like a first-edition of “The Maltese Falcon” ($8,500),... User: More. Assistant: first-run British imports and hundreds of signed titles, marked by neon-pink paper strips along the spines. If the selection inspires gumshoes to “come in and sleuth around,” as another sign invites them to do, the store's impassioned community keeps them coming back. The “overqualified and underpaid” staff members, as Mr. Penzler describes them, are like super-sleuths on never-ending cases of what to read next... User: Next. Assistant: Jeff Unger, a regular for over two decades, recently received a different... User: More. Assistant: kind of recommendation from the store's manager of 11 years, Ian Kern: a printout of the Haycraft-Queen Cornerstones, a Holy Grail list of 150-odd must-read mysteries compiled by the publisher Howard Haycraft and Ellery Queen, the pseudonym of a renowned crime-writing duo. Penzler, the most voracious reader on staff is Steve Viola, the store's paperback buyer, who consumes about 10 books a month. “But... User: More. Assistant: never on the job,” said Mr. Viola, who used to work at the now-defunct Partners & Crime. Because of its ties to the publishing industry and its cozy décor, the store occasionally becomes a backdrop for events sponsored by groups like the Baker Street Irregulars, a literary society honoring the world of Sherlock Holmes and Victorian culture at large, and the Mystery Writers of... User: Continue. Assistant: America. The store also holds readings and signings. A little humor helps... User: Continue. Assistant: enhance the shopping and working experience. CreditHiroko Masuike/The New York TimesRecently, a crowd of 25 watched the actress Barbara Rosenblat (“Orange Is the New Black”) and the writer Ann Aptaker perform a staged reading of “Genuine Gold,” the third book in Ms. Aptaker's “Cantor Gold” series, about a crime-solving lesbian art smuggler living as an outlaw in 1950s New York. The book's Coney Island setting inspired a buffet table of foil-wrapped hot dogs, Nathan's French fries and a rainbow of boardwalk candy. Aptaker is clearly a fan of the Mysterious Bookshop. “It gives voice to every possible articulation of crime and mystery in belles-lettres,” she said. When it comes to legacy, both the shop's and his own, Mr. Penzler's only wish is to be remembered as the best... User: Next. Assistant: in the murder business. “I'm increasingly aware of my own mortality,” he said. But neither he nor his customers seem to be checking out any time soon. When a reporter arrived wearing a Sherlock Holmes T-shirt, Mr. Penzler immediately identified the graphic as cover art from an obscure, out-of-print, early 20th-century edition of “The Adventures of Sherlock Holmes.”In a sea of mystery devotees, no one else in the store got the reference. Penzler, it was elementary. An earlier version of this article misstated part of the name of a list of must-read mysteries. ## It is the Haycraft-Queen Cornerstones, not Hayworth-Queen Cornerstones. A version of this article appears in print on , on Page MB3 of the New York edition with the headline: The Best in the Murder... User: Next. Assistant: Business. Order Reprints | Today's Paper | SubscribeNews about Global Crossing Ltd. When the master fund-raiser needs to do a little business, he calls on his pals Bill Clinton and Haley Barbour.7:36 p. | Updated More than a decade after the dot-com bust, two fallen Internet stars hope to regain some of their glory, with a $3 billion all-stock deal that could prompt similar... User: Continue. Assistant: transactions. Level 3 Communications announced on Monday that it would buy Global Crossing in a transaction worth $3 billion. The deal values Global Crossing at $23.04 a share — about 56 percent... User: Continue. Assistant: above the telecommunication company's closing price on Friday. As part of the... User: Next. Assistant: acquisition, Level 3 will also assume $1.1 billion of debt. Shares of Global Crossing, a fiber optic network operator that reorganized 10 months ago,... User: Continue. Assistant: fell yesterday after the company said it was borrowing money to cover costs as sales drop. Shares of the company, based in Hamilton, Bermuda, fell $3.09, to $12. The majority owner, Singapore Technologies Telemedia, increased a bridge loan by $25 million to help cover costs through November at Global Crossing, which last week reported falling sales and wider losses in the first half. Global... User: Next. Assistant: Crossing also needs $300 million in financing at its British unit by the end of November, a regulatory filing said Friday. Global Crossing's cash... User: Continue. Assistant: dropped to $139 million at the end of June, from a restated $290 million at the end of last year. The new financing will ''fully fund operations'' until the company is generating cash on its own, the chief executive, John J. Legere, said on a conference call with reporters. The government-controlled Singapore Technologies, which owns 61.5 percent of Global Crossing, has agreed to provide... User: Next. Assistant: additional funding if Global Crossing cannot arrange financing through its British unit by November, Mr. The investor Richard Rainwater increased his stake in Global Crossing Ltd. to 14 percent in the weeks after the company, a communications network provider, announced an earnings restatement that sent the shares plunging. Rainwater has acquired 2.61 million shares of the company, based in Hamilton, Bermuda, for $24.4 million, according to a Securities and Exchange Commission filing. The shares, down about 70 percent since the company came out of bankruptcy in December, rose as much as 16 percent yesterday. Rainwater joins the Mexican billionaire Carlos Slim Helú in investing in Global Crossing, whose chief executive, John J. Legere, is seeking to increase revenue by selling a wider range of services on the company's... User: Next. Assistant: 100,000-mile fiber optic network. Rainwater bought most of the shares after Global Crossing said last month that its financial statements were unreliable. Rainwater, who first bought shares on the open market on March 17, will not comment on his investments, a secretary at his office in Fort Worth said. Global Crossing shares rose $1.30, or 14 percent, to $10. Investors and former workers who... User: More. Assistant: lost money and their pensions in the 2002 collapse of Global Crossing, the telecommunications company, will receive $325 million in a settlement of a class-action lawsuit reached late yesterday. Gary Winnick, the founder and former chairman of Global Crossing, which spent $15 billion circling the globe with a state-of-the-art fiber optic network, will contribute $30 million to the settlement. Simpson Thacher & Bartlett, Global... User: Next. Assistant: Crossing's law firm, will pay $19.5 million, even though the firm was not named as a defendant. The Pentagon's inspector general concluded this week that Richard N. Perle violated no ethics laws... User: Next. Assistant: or rules when he was leading an influential Pentagon advisory board while at the same timerepresenting two companies in their dealings with the government. Perle has become the focus of an inquiry... User: Next. Assistant: being conducted by Hollinger International, the media conglomerate, where he serves as a director. That inquiry is examining several transactions, including $2.5 million in payments made by the company to Trireme Partners, a venture capital company in which Mr. Perle is a managing partner. The inquiry is being led by Richard C. Breeden, the former chairman of the Securities and Exchange Commission. Singapore Technologies... User: Next. Assistant: Telemedia, a government-owned investor in phone companies, won approval from President Bush to buy 61.5 percent of Global Crossing, the fiber optic network operator... User: More. Assistant: with 100,000 miles of cable spanning 27 countries. A White House statement said Mr. Bush would ''take no action to suspend or prohibit the proposed'' investment in the company, which is under bankruptcy protection. The Singaporean company needed White House clearance of the planned $250 million acquisition after military officials expressed concern about foreign ownership. A panel of government agencies began reviewing the proposed... User: More. Assistant: transaction last year and submitted its findings to Mr. ## The company still needs approval from the Federal Communications Commission. an operator of fiber-optic... User: Continue. Assistant: networks, won a judge's approval to sell a 61.5 percent stake to Singapore Technologies Telemedia, complicating Carl C. Icahn's effort to derail the buyout. Judge Robert Gerber of United States Bankruptcy Court in Manhattan approved the transaction yesterday after three days of hearings, overruling objections by Mr. Icahn's XO Communications, which said it holds $790 million of Global Crossing's bank debt. The judge also... User: More. Assistant: rejected objections by lenders led by J. Morgan Chase and the IDT Corporation, a phone company that also was interested in Global Crossing. XO Communications said yesterday that it might offer $700... User: More. Assistant: million in cash for Global Crossing, the bankrupt optical network operator, after an initial offer, which included notes and warrants, was spurned by Global Crossing's creditors. XO, controlled by the financier Carl... User: More. Assistant: C. Icahn, said it also might offer $472.5 million for the company's bank debt, on the condition that Global Crossing cancels an agreement to sell control to Singapore Technologies Telemedia. Creditors on Tuesday backed a plan to sell majority control of the company to Singapore Technologies Telemedia, saying rival bids would make it harder for Global Crossing to exit Chapter 11. The federal government... User: Continue. Assistant: has opened a formal investigation into the proposed buyout of Global Crossing... User: Next. Assistant: by companies in Hong Kong and Singapore, people briefed on the inquiry said yesterday. Pacific Crossing Ltd. the bankrupt former unit of Global Crossing... User: Next. Assistant: Ltd. may sell its assets and subsidiaries to Pivotal Telecom, a closely held unit formed by Pivotal Private Equity, for $63 million. Pacific Crossing operates a fiber optic telecommunications network between Japan... User: Next. Assistant: and the United States. The network was completed in 2000, costing more than $1.35 billion, Pivotal Private Equity said yesterday. Pivotal Private Equity expects the sale to be completed by the end... User: Next. Assistant: of the year. the bankrupt owner of communications networks, said yesterday that it had a loss of $142 million in February because of foreign-currency losses. Sales fell to $222 million. In January,... User: Continue. Assistant: the company had a $93 million loss on $236 million in sales, the company said. Senior executives at Global Crossing began efforts to disguise the company's financial difficulties months earlier than previously disclosed, giving them more time to sell their shares, according to a securities lawsuit filed this week. The lawsuit, which consolidates several class-action complaints on behalf of investors who lost billions of... User: Continue. Assistant: dollars on Global Crossing stock and bonds, names as defendants more than 20 executives and directors, including Gary Winnick, who resigned as Global Crossing's chairman last month. The suit was filed in Federal District Court in Manhattan. Gary Winnick, who made hundreds of millions of dollars selling Global Crossing stock before its collapse earlier this year, said yesterday that he was resigning as the... User: Continue. Assistant: company's chairman. Winnick's announcement came after two companies, Hutchison Whampoa of Hong... User: More. Assistant: Kong and Singapore Technologies Telemedia, recently completed their acquisition of Global Crossing's assets for about $250 million or about 1 percent of the assets'... User: Next. Assistant: declared value of more than $22. the bankrupt fiber optic network operator, will restate results for the first nine months of 2001, cutting sales... User: Next. Assistant: by $19 million after it stops recording revenue from network-use swaps. Global Crossing, which sought bankruptcy protection in January, said the net loss would... User: Next. Assistant: widen by $13 million and assets and liabilities would be reduced by $1.2 billion each, the company said. For the first nine months of... User: More. Assistant: 2001, Global Crossing reported a net loss of $4.77 billion on sales of $2.44 billion. Assets and liabilities were each $25. Anschutz, the former chairman of Qwest Communications International, has agreed to... User: Next. Assistant: be interviewed by investigators for the House Energy and Commerce Committee, a Congressional aide said yesterday. The committee is investigating swaps of fiber optic network capacity by Qwest and Global Crossing. Both... User: Next. Assistant: companies are also under investigation by the Securities and Exchange Commission and the Justice Department. In testimony and in documents presented at a Congressional... User: Continue. Assistant: hearing today, current and former executives of Global Crossing and Qwest Communications International indicated that people in the companies had qualms about swaps of fiber optic network capacity that are now at... User: Continue. 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Eugenie's dress proudly showed off the scar on her back from the [words 32] her scoliosis when she was 12. She topped off her beautiful gown [words 33] Kokoshnik Tiara, which was made by Boucheron in 1919. A formal reception at Windsor Castle [words 34] followed the ceremony. There was then a [words 35] Eugenie's family home of York House within Windsor Great Park. A night [words 36] the Ricky Tick, is being held at the Old Court arts centre in November. [words 37] since the 1960s will remember the club, which hosted live performances from some of the biggest names in music, including the Rolling Stones, Stevie Wonder, the Supremes, the Temptations, Pink Floyd and Jimi Hendrix. Now, in an attempt to [words 38] the Ricky Tick many decades after its closure, the Old Court [words 39] again. In the live room, grandson of Rolling Stone Brian Jones, Joolz Jones, will be playing alongside folk legend Donovan and Kim Wilde's sister Roxanne Wilde. In the DJ room in the basement, Chelsea Singh will be headlining the [words 40] VIP DJs appearing throughout the night. The Ricky Tick Revival is taking place [words 41] 10 November and tickets can be purchased in advance from the Old Court for £20. Profits from the night [words 42] setting up a fund for emerging artists in [words 43] area. The night is being hailed as a relaunch for [words 44] club night and the Ricky Tick may [words 45] lovers once more! Love it or hate it, Halloween in Windsor is upon us again and there's plenty of events all around the area to help [words 46] our apartments to celebrate the spooky season – and it's not [words 47] for the kids! This year, Halloween coincides happily [words 48] means little nippers can fully immerse themselves in all things ghoulish for an entire week! Here's a couple of the [words 49] activities happening in the area over half term. [words 50] property is a favourite ‘haunt' for Windsor families and nature lovers. This year, to mark [words 51] folks at Cliveden are hosting a children's nature trail called the Bat's Lair. Kids are encouraged to wear fancy dress and complete the trail and series of challenges within an allotted time. [words 52] gardens and the wildlife at Cliveden, which [words 53] types of bat. The trail costs just £3 per [words 54] usual entry price and there are different levels of difficulty to suit little ones from ages 2 to 13. Halloween [words 55] same without a visit to Legoland. From 18th October to 2nd November Legoland [words 56] with some spooky events – topped off with fantastic firework displays, held on 20th, 21st, 26th, 27th October, and 2nd November. [words 57] park will be hosting its Brick or Treat trail, which encourages youngsters to find missing potion ingredients and try to [words 58] treat. There will also be a kids' disco at the [words 59] and 5pm daily, where children can dance with Frankie, Legoland's [words 60] monster. There's also a spooky Hill [words 61] the Enchanted Forest, a costume competitions and the [words 62] their own lego pumpkin for an enormous pumpkin patch display. [words 63] about trick or treating and pumpkin carving! Adults can enjoy a luxurious [words 64] the beautiful Oakley Court hotel between 26th [words 65] of a Halloween Afternoon Tea complete with themed food and drinks and a glass of Champagne for £41. There's also a children's version for just £17. Windsor Racecourse host some really fantastic events throughout the year, but their Halloween event, complete with drive-through cinema, firework display, fairground, light show, Ghostbusters themed attractions and [words 66] and drinks is going to be one of the [words 67] 2018. Family ticket packages start at just £43 [words 68] four and include food and drinks vouchers. Anyone staying in Windsor this autumn who wishes to purchase an original [words 69] should make their way to Windsor Racecourse [words 70] November for the return of the ever-popular Windsor Contemporary Art Fair. Bringing artworks [words 71] to the local area, the art fair [words 72] great chance to shop for unique pieces in one location. [words 73] £40 and rise to around £4,000, [words 74] everyone, no matter how deep your pockets. The Contemporary Art Fair doesn't just offer paintings [words 75] and even ceramics to purchase for those [words 76] for something a bit different for their home. Tickets cost from £8 to £10 depending on when you buy them and entry [words 77] Art Quest and various workshops giving you an insight into how some of the beautiful works of art [words 78] created. Last year, the event organisers commented [words 79] many visitors were actually making purchases, many of whom probably expected [words 80] a day out. The artists also reported being overwhelmed with the business they drummed up at their stalls, selling [words 81] anticipated. The ever-popular Windsor and Eton Brewery has launched a special contest to promote the beer it is making for British Champions Day at Ascot Racecourse. The team at the brewery are challenging beer and racing fans to #dothefrankie. This involves taking a picture of [words 82] impersonating Frankie Dettori's flying dismount. An image of the flying dismount is featured on the pump clip for Champions Day Ale, the beer that has been specially brewed for [words 83] event. Anyone game enough to have a [words 84] stand a chance of winning themselves a ticket to the event. One lucky person will bag a hospitality package worth £1,000, while an [words 85] win a prize for the best landlord's entry. Champions Day Ale is brewed using Windsor Farm barley. The [words 86] has also included: “a stable blend of English and New World Hops that provides a pacey finish.”Anyone who actually posts an image or video of them ‘doing the Frankie' will receive a [words 87] exchange for a discounted ticket to the race day. Prize giving will [words 88] 12 October and the event itself is [words 89] Ascot Racecourse of 20 October. Will [words 90] & Eton Brewery, told the Windsor Observer: “Flat racing and good beer always go well together – and we think we've brewed a champion beer for QIPCO British Champions Day, that will inspire our customers to [words 91] the special day.”It's that time of year [words 92] are jumping for joy and parents are [words 93] the summer holidays! Don't worry though, we've got [words 94] how to keep the little ones entertained in and around Windsor [words 95] August. Windsor is once again home to a great cinema, thanks to the lovely folk at [words 96] putting on a great selection of films at the Old Court on St Leonard's Rd since the beginning of July. With [words 97] have three kids films showing in August so check [words 98] times and how to book. Liquid Leisure has, once again, brought its epic inflatable assault [words 99] at Datchet. For kids aged 6 and above, providing they can swim well, it's a huge amount of fun. Tickets for a 50-minute session are £15 in advance and £20 walk-in. Children's theatre is a great way to introduce your kids to something a bit more cultural this summer and we are lucky enough to have a wonderful production of Julia Donaldson's The Snail and the Whale playing at our very own Theatre Royal Windsor this summer. There are several performances between 13th and 15th August, but be sure to book soon as it's bound to sell out. Throughout the summer holidays, Windsor Castle is hosting some special activities aimed at children. The activities, which include art workshops, talks and dress-up sessions, are largely themed around knights and kids will get the chance to learn more about this fascinating side to Royal history. During this long hot summer we're enjoying, swimming is an extremely popular activity and the fantastic leisure pool at Windsor Leisure Centre is very busy during the holidays. However, with a little planning (like coming in the middle of day, around lunch time) it can be a little quieter. The flumes and wave machines will be running between 10am and 6pm every day during the holidays, but check the website for last-minute updates. No summer in Windsor would be complete without a trip to Legoland now would it? There are always some great offers for buy-one-get-one-free tickets, which make a visit to the theme park slightly less damaging to the wallet. Also, for locals with an Advantage Card, entry is half price – another reason to get yourself down to the library or the leisure centre with proof of address. This summer, Legoland is hosting a Summer of Fun beach party-style event complete with the UK's largest water play structure and play beach, so be sure to bring towels and spare clothes for the little ones. The special summer events will take place every day until 2 September. Camp kitchen, fish cleaning & freezing facilities, 4 gas barbecues with a coin operated laundry all onsiteLocation: Elliston offers it all, from rugged coastline to pristine beaches, our park is an ideal base for touring and exploring the Eyre Peninsula. There are safe swimming beaches and rocks around the shores of Waterloo Bay to explore, and a short drive inland gives you wonderful outback experiences. See the local fauna & flora. 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<prompter> could be the completion of this text: After hearing about 200 Marines left stranded after returning home from Operation Desert Storm back in 1991, Donald J. Trump came to the aid of those Marines by sending one of his planes to Camp Lejuene, North Carolina to transport them back home to their families in Miami, Florida. Corporal Ryan Stickney was amongst the group that was stuck in North Carolina and could not make their way back to their homes. Stickey told Hannity.com that he had spent nearly six months serving in Operation Desert Storm between 1990 and 1991 and was eagerly awaiting his return home. Stickney spent the next few weeks after returning from Saudi Arabia in North Carolina at Camp Lejuene to wind down. Stickney and the 200 Marines were set to return home until an error had been made in the logistics unit and a plane wouldn't be able to take the Marines home on the date they were set to arrive. Trump managed to get word of the situation and decided to send a plane to help the stranded Marines. “The way the story was told to us was that Mr. Trump found out about it and sent the airline down to take care of us. And that's all we knew . I remember asking ‘Who is Donald Trump? ' I truly didn't know anything about him,” Stickney said. Stickeny says that he and his family is forever grateful for lending a hand. His father, a former Eastern Airlines captain and Korean War veteran, even offered Trump a free ride as a way to say thank you for his kind services. This is just one a many things Trump has done for people that no one knows about and Trump didn't want them to be posted, that's just the way Trump is. Trumps, "because you'd be in jail" comment was the highlight if the debate, hands down. That and when he pointed at Hillary and said she was a LIAR! . The Republican presidential nominee revealed several promising proposals for small business in his latest address. You might have missed this, but it was the turning point of the entire debate. Hillary Clinton pretty much gave up after this point, when Donald J. Trump made a fool of her on live TV. This is too good for words, so you have to just watch. An Ex CNN employee Donna Brazile, now the head of the DNC leaked questions to Hillary while she worked at CNN on a CNN town hall to give her a heads up on what was going to be asked on that town hall. Those heads up questions were then asked almost exactly as they were leaked to Hillary at that town hall. It sure looks like when Trump say's the media is crooked and is working against him is true for the most partTrump may have done better in the debate than Hillary, however, he is far from out of the woods yet. Even if Trump wins the popular vote next month, he can still be defeated by the Electoral College. From all the figures released thus far, Hillary has claimed the majority of those votes in her pocket. Could be, and the Republicans who have deserted Trump because of his potty-mouth tape may just insure that Trump does lose. That is an indication that the Republicans have become as crooked as Democrats and would rather see Hillary, Harry Reid, and Nancy Pelosi in the cat-bird seats than maintain Republican control. There is no cohesiveness in the Republican party and they are fractured to the point of being ineffective and an embarrassment to the public. Let's face it, we do not have a government, only a board controlled by corporate executives. Asi' es la vida! I new that the very beginning when Trump said he was going to break all the rice bowls in Washington that it was going to be a hard slog from then on. Over the last few day's WikiLeaks has put out a large number of items that show just how dishonest and underhanded the Clintons are, it's unreal. If the election was held today, Trump would lose both, the popular and Electoral vote. Trump's campaign is going from one crisis to the next, the vast majority of them self-inflicted. The Republicans running for office can read polls and act accordingly, as they actually want to win. With the civil war breaking out now between Trump and Congressional Republicans, neither Trump nor Republicans running for office have a chance. It is up to the Presidential candidate to unite the party behind him! So far, Trump wasn't interested is that, since even before the RNC convention. What good does it do to attack Congressional Republicans running for office? It just shows that Trump only cares about himself. Thanks to Trump's incompetence in running a campaign, it is a lose-lose situation now. Trump is already preparing for his loss by trying to make sure that Congressional Republicans will get the blame for it. Trump managed what no other Democrat could achieve, he split the Republican party for years to come. In summary, it is a **** show and we have the best seats in the house watching this train wreck in slow motion. The only hope now is WikiLeaks. That's right! Only the foreigner hiding in a foreign embassy in a foreign country supported by foreign hackers can help changing the outcome for "the better". YBOR CITY — Investigators are looking for a driver whose truck struck and killed a pedestrian early Sunday, according to Tampa police. The truck hit the pedestrian, who police did not identify, at E 15th Avenue and N 15th Street in Ybor City, police said. The truck is described as a late 1990s or early 2000s model Ford. Investigators ask that anyone with information about the truck contact the Tampa Police Department at (813) 231-6130. USOC spends $27M on athlete stipends, another $66M in grants USOC releases tax forms, says 82 percent of spending directed toward athletes Check out this story on USATODAY. ly/2wvbEdgDENVER (AP) — The U. Olympic Committee paid out more than $27 million to athletes in cash stipends, health care and tuition payments and medal bonuses in 2017, with another $66 million going to sports organizations that are instructed to use the funds to directly help athletes. In releasing its tax forms Friday, the USOC says it directed 82 percent of its $214 million in expenses toward programs that directly helped athletes in 2017 — an amount that includes coaches' salaries, expenses to operate training centers and the direct stipends that go to top athletes in each sport. It's a figure that can be interpreted in various ways, all depending on a person's definition of "athlete support. "The federation says 11 percent of its expenses went toward raising money through marketing and fundraising, while 7 percent covered administrative costs. The federation paid out more than $53 million in compensation and benefits, about $18 million of which fell under "management and general expenses. " Most of the rest was in a column labeled "program service expenses. " Another $2 million was listed in the management column for travel. In all, the USOC brought in $183 million in 2017 — a 9 percent increase over revenue in 2013, the similar year in the previous Olympic cycle. USA Gymnastics received $2.3 million from the USOC in grants that are earmarked for athletes and athlete support. That amount represents between 5 and 10 percent of USA Gymnastics' budget on an annual basis, and helped serve as leverage when the USOC demanded USAG overhaul its leadership in the wake of the Larry Nassar sex-abuse scandal. The grant was about $350,000 more than the USOC gave in 2015, the previous non-Olympic year. How I added four hours of battery life to my smartphone every day for free If your iPhone or Android can't make it through a day, here's how to test what's constantly draining it. ly/2oOPDUwJennifer Jolly, Special for USA TODAY Published 8:05 a. ET April 9, 2017 | Updated 8:44 a.19, 2017Columnist Jennifer Jolly describes how to check if emails and apps are draining your smartphone way too fast and what measures won't help. Jennifer Jolly for USA TODAYThere are simple steps to help you save battery life on an Android or iPhone. Turns out, closing apps is not one of them. (Photo: Karen Bleier, AFP/Getty Images)I've had big-time battery drain issues on my last three iPhones. I just figured it was my fault — maybe I'm too addicted to apps, take too many photos, or just use my phone too much? It's an issue I've gone to Apple for help with many times. But the Genius's — Apple's retail support — were flummoxed, too. After the typical troubleshooting: Update iOS? Check. Adjust screen brightness? Check. Use Wi-Fi when possible, turn off location services, and tone down notifications? Check, check, and check again. Nothing seems to solve the issues. Maybe I got the phone wet? It was time to kick things up to the next level. I enlisted experts like Scotty Loveless, a former Apple Genius and iOS tech who told me this would not be another, “turn off every useful feature of iOS posts .” because those “really grind my gears.” Finally, someone speaking my language! Your battery should only be doing its heavy lifting when you're actually using your iPhone, and the rest of the time it should be relaxing in standby mode. Sometimes an app prevents your phone from going into standby and wreaks havoc on your battery life. Go into Settings > Battery. Scroll all the way down to the bottom and you'll find two numbers, one for Standby and one for Usage. Your Usage number should be way, way lower than your Standby number. If it's not, you might have a problem, and you can confirm it by jotting down your Standby and Usage times and then clicking the lock button on your phone. Let it sit for about five minutes and then check the numbers again. If your Standby time is five minutes higher, you're in good shape, but if your Usage time has bumped up by a more than a minute it's a sign that your phone isn't resting like it should. On Android, you can get the same information under Settings > Device > Battery (or Settings > Battery if you have a newer version of Android). The information on this menu is essentially the same as it is on an iPhone, and lists “Device Idle” which is the same as standby mode. If you find that your phone isn't “resting” when you're not using it, there's likely a very clear reason, which brings us to #2. When an app is doing things even when you're not using it, it could be malfunctioning, and stuck in an endless loop that's draining all your power. That's what happened to me, with, of all things, one of the email accounts I had connected to my phone. Loveless picked up on this right away. “This happens unbelievably often, especially with Exchange push email,” he said. “I knew when you told me your phone typically dies within six hours of being off the charger, and the Standby and Usage are the same. Sometimes, these times are not the same because the ‘firmware is bad or corrupted,' but this time it's because push email is keeping the phone from sleeping properly.”Go into Settings > Mail > Accounts> Fetch New Data. Mine was automatically set to Push. Loveless recommended that I set it turn that off temporarily and set it to Fetch every 15 to 30 minutes instead. You can also use the Manual mode, which only scans for new messages when you actually open the email app. You can also tweak the push settings to fetch new emails only every hour or so, which is also a big help. You don't sacrifice timely email updates either, though you'll still save the most power by disabling push emails altogether. On an Android phone, you can manage the push notification settings for any apps that use it by heading into Settings > Apps and then picking an app and tweaking its individual settings. There are other times too when an app is running when you're not using it and that's called “Background App Refresh.” There are lots of reasons apps update in the background, like the Music app fetching new playlists, Facebook updating your social feeds, and even Pokemon Go keeping an eye on your steps so you can hatch eggs. It's all in the name of convenience, but it might also be leaving you with a dead battery halfway through the afternoon. To check out which apps are eating up valuable power in the background go to Settings > Battery and you'll see a list of the apps taking up your battery life, with the topmost app being the biggest power hog. If you see an app listed with “Background Activity” below it, that's when you know it's using power even when you're not using it. Facebook, Snapchat, Twitter, and streaming apps like Apple Music can be real demons in this department, so head to your Settings > General > Background App Refresh page and toggle off any apps you don't want working overtime to save some serious juice. Do you ever double-tap your home button and see all the apps your iPhone has suspended, waiting for you to go back to them? Whenever I do, I always close them out of instinct, thinking that they must be eating up battery life, right? Nope! In fact, Loveless says that closing apps from the multitasking menu can actually hurt the iPhone's overall battery life, and for a totally logical reason. Just because you see an app sitting in the multitasking menu doesn't mean it's actually using your battery life at all — it's just paused, sitting in the phone's ... <assistant> Completed pargraph(s): memory and not doing much of anything. When you close it, the phone shuts it down, but when you inevitably open the app back up, it forces your phone to load all that data back up again, and that means it's using valuable power and ticking down your reserves. Just leave the apps alone and you'll be doing yourself and your battery a favor. On Android, finding the apps that are running is as easy as pulling the top menu bar down, which brings up a list of the apps either running or paused. You can choose to close them, but again, the idea is that by leaving them on you're actually saving more power, so just leave them be. Android and iOS both come with low-power features that let you turn off almost all of your phone's extra features anytime and save tons of energy throughout the day. You can turn it on when the battery drops to 20% or much earlier — by going to Settings > Battery > Low Power Mode and switching it on. On Android, the battery saving feature kicks in automatically if you leave your settings as-is, but you can also manually turn it on by going to Settings > Battery then tap the menu icon and select “Battery Saver.”It can be a real life saver, and it has the bonus benefit of preventing even more battery stress by depleting a dying battery even further than it already is. There are other little things you can do, too, which many other writers have mentioned. But fixing the email and background activity issues on my own phone has already added more than FOUR HOURS of battery life back into my day. That's nothing short of a miracle in my book. • The knowledge and skills to effectively educate all students already exist in the field of education. • Ensure all decisions are data-driven and align our actions to achieve educational equity and excellence for all students. ## • Identify and correct district and school policies, procedures and practices that perpetuate racial achievement disparities. The Lawrence Board of Education hosted a Community Conversation about Racial Equity in Lawrence Public Schools on January 30, 2017, at Lawrence High School. Hundreds of students, parents, teachers and staff, school administrators, and community members attended to discuss ways to support the success of all students. Follow-up resources will be shared here and on the Community Engagement page of the website. The Alaska state code does not mention online poker, gaming, or sports betting at all. The games are also not regulated by the state, which makes the legality of the games played by Alaskans a bit murky. Alaska is the northernmost state of all of the United States, not bordering any other states as it is located along the western coast of Canada, with the Pacific Ocean to the south. The Bering Strait on its northwestern tip allows it to share a small border with Russia. There is very little gambling that has been legalized by the Alaska legislature. The state does not even have a lottery or any type of pari-mutuel betting. There are some contests that are allowed by the state, such as snow machine racing and ice fishing, but there is no betting permitted on those events. Even cruise ships that are in Alaskan waters must cease any gambling activities until back out on the open sea. Bingo is permitted in Alaska, as are some types of social gaming in individual homes. For example, the law states that a person seeking defense in a gambling case as a player can claim he or she was playing in a social game only, as the law specifically states that it is a viable defense. This is going to be situational, however, and is likely only plausible for charges involving minor amounts of money. The passage of the Indian Gaming Regulatory Act (IGRA) of 1988 by Congress allowed any Native American tribes in all states, including Alaska, to develop new compacts that permit gambling on reservations. Several Alaska tribes did so. Since then, little more than a handful of establishments have opened, though they are limited in scope to games like pull-tabs and bingo. Without the ability to offer table games like poker or slot machines, the Indian gaming centers remain fairly small and scattered throughout the state. There are several key definitions in Chapter 11 of the Alaska statutes. The gambling definition is rather standard, but the contest of chance is specific enough that it could be utilized in arguments to legalize table games in land-based casinos or online, as well as sports betting and other games like daily fantasy sports (DFS). That definition for a contest of chance is as follows:“A contest, game, gaming scheme, or gaming device in which the outcome depends in a material degree upon an element of chance, notwithstanding that the skill of the contestants may also be a factor.”Gambling is rarely a topic up for discussion among lawmakers. There were a few instances in past two decades that the legislature has voted on bills to allow one or more casinos or establish a statewide lottery, but one half of the legislature always kills the proposals. However, the issue has been put to voters on a number of occasions. In 2005 and 2006, voters rejected a ballot measure to legalize the lottery. In 2008, a larger gambling measure was put before voters for establishing the Alaska Gaming Commission and allowing more gambling throughout the state, but approximately 60% of the voters turned it down. While the state seems very unlikely to allow any significant ambling expansion in Alaska any time soon, the legislature may have to address daily fantasy sports and other types of sports betting. DFS is currently offered to Alaskans by major companies, and the US Supreme Court soon open the doors for every state to legalize sports betting. There is a chance for those games to be considered and possibly regulated within the state, but it will require a major change of attitude by lawmakers and voters alike. There are a number of sites that do offer these games online for the convenience of Alaskan players and bettors. There is not enough gambling done from within the state of Alaska to warrant an investigation into online gambling. Law enforcement typically allows social gambling in homes, so it is unlikely that officials would question what people do on their computers from within those homes. If any type of enforcement took place, it would be aimed at the online gaming or sports betting operators, not the individual players who simply participate via the internet in the privacy of their homes. A: The sites recommended here have long histories of trustworthiness and prompt payments to players. Should any site be forced or even choose to leave the Alaskan market, there would be methods by which players could access their funds and make withdrawals. A: There are various methods offered by different sites by which players can deposit and withdraw funds. Some deposits are allowed by credit card, and bank transfers and ewallets are typically options as well. Customer service representatives will assist customers to ensure timely deposits, as well as withdrawals. It should be noted, though, that the most popular method for all transactions among new players is cryptocurrency, specifically bitcoin, as it bypasses banks and their fees. The Museum's Behind Every Name a Story project gives voice to the experiences of survivors during the Holocaust. Erna Rubin was born Erna Bendit in Cernauti, Romania (today Chernivtsi, Ukraine; German: Czernowitz), on February 26, 1927. I met Rosa for the first time when she came to work for us as a trainee at my mother's sewing workshop. She was short and plump but cute. She was a serious girl, about 14 years old, who worked hard and learned the trade of sewing fast and well. I do not remember who came up with the idea that we learn a secret language of our own, but Rosa and I were dedicated to the project and we reached the ability to speak German backwards. For example, “Rosa” became “Asor,” and I, “Erna,” became “Anre,” and so on for many other words in German. We were speaking fluently to such a degree that the listener was sure we were talking some kind of foreign language. One evening we left the public garden on our way home. It was a wonderful summer night in Czernowitz before the war, despite the threatening black clouds that already hovered over our heads and threatened to destroy the blue sky. We talked freely in our secret language about this and that. Suddenly a young man walking next to us asked, “What language are you speaking? Hungarian it is not. It's also not Hebrew. Then what is it? ” We continued to talk in our secret language, even about the guy who was walking by. After a while, when the young man realized that we were not communicative, he left. The war erupted, as everyone knows, and our childhood and youth suffered greatly from it. In 1940 the Russians arrived in Czernowitz. But the disaster began when the Romanians were back in 1941 and large posters on the walls cried out, “Ghetto in October.” Indeed, we were evacuated from our home in October. A part of the city where my mother's sister, Aunt Frieda, lived was declared a ghetto. That entire day we carried everything we could take. The streets leading up to the ghetto were flooded with people laden with whatever they could carry, bundled into pillowcases and sheets. The Jews of Czernowitz abandoned their beds, tables, and homes. Aunt Frieda's apartment became a temporary crowded shelter. The yard of Aunt Frieda's neighbors was also crowded with relatives, and the ghetto was humming with people coming and going. As we were ordered, at six we crossed the temporary border separating the city from the ghetto. All latecomers were punished. The ghetto was a temporary arrangement until the final deportation from the city to the concentration camp in Transnistria, which was under Romanian control. Throughout the month of October 1941, we were given new instructions each time that a particular street should be evacuated to the camps in Transnistria on a certain date. In order to avoid deportation, we moved to other streets that had not been yet scheduled for evacuation. Aunt Frieda, her husband David, and their son, Ziggy, were evacuated. We still stayed but we knew that our turn would also come soon. Aunt Frieda's flat became deserted. Mom bought two liters of milk and boiled them in a large pot on the stove. Being in the camps later, suffering from starvation, the memory of the hot milk accompanied us with longing. Our time to be evacuated also came, and Uncle Herman, Mother's brother, his wife, Aunt Anna, and their son, Didi, planned to go a day before because Uncle Herman wanted to go along with his friends. But in the end, the friends left alone while Uncle Herman and his family traveled the day after with us. This was because Mom was not yet ready to go, and Uncle Herman eventually chose to stay with the family. At the time he was angry with my mother and blamed her that because of her he did not go with his friends. But Uncle Herman's friends were not as lucky as we were because they had been sent beyond the Bug River. During the Holocaust, the area between the Dniester and the Bug rivers was called Transnistria, and those who were sent beyond the Bug River were killed. In Transnistria we had hard times and lived from hand to mouth according to what we sold to the villagers—a dress for a loaf of bread, a shirt for flour or potatoes. Mom was calculating and she said, “If we eat more now we will not survive.” There were in fact those who sold all their assets and lived in relative comfort for a short period and when they had nothing left, they died of starvation. And so we survived two and a half horrible years until the Russians arrived and saved our lives. In April 1944 we went home, or rather walked 100 kilometers on foot. It was a few months after I had recovered from typhus and I was still very weak and lacking energy. Because of me, we were not able to walk more than 14 or 15 kilometers per day. We slept in abandoned houses during the night and the next day set off again. The second 100 kilometers we traveled by train, but alas—Russian soldiers took us often off the train without any explanation. Finally, on May 10, 1944, we crossed a bridge over the Pruth River and entered Czernowitz. We met a mother waiting anxiously for her daughter to come back from the camps and she tried to find out from the people returning if they had seen or heard of her daughter. We could inform her delightedly that her daughter was alive and well and was on her way home. Then I also met Rosa and her family. Even though it had been three years, she said something in our secret language and Rosa's mother laughed and said, “Girls, after all that you went through you have not forgotten your secret language! ”I don't have good memories of the Russians because when we returned to Czernowitz after the war, I had to hide for 11 months, close to home, since they would capture young Jews on the streets and send them to Donbass, a remote place in Russia, for slave labor in coal mines. And yet I must acknowledge the fact that the Russians saved our lives. After the war, on many occasions later in his life, Uncle Herman would say to my mother, “You see, Yetti, thanks to you we are alive today! ”.

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More importantly, we read on the the in-flight magazine that the [words 4] is one of the best. As I was travelling with a biriyani connoisseur, lunch was easily decided. Jafferji House was recommended by our friends at Oryx. The owner is a renowned photographer, [words 5] the suites were adorned with his many magnificent photographs. It is a lovely place located right in one of the narrow paths in Stone Town. The car had [words 6] the main road and we had to wheel our luggage over uneven meandering alleys to get to it. The lady at the reception was less than enthusiastic to receive us and [words 7] tours she seemed clueless. Having said that, everything else during our stay was great. The rest of the staff were friendly and helpful. The girls there were impressively strong as they hauled our luggage and camera bags up a narrow and steep staircase to our room on the 3rd level! First order [words 8] way to The Silk Route – where the [words 9] found and consumed with approval and gusto:-) Zanzibar was a melting pot of African, Arab (the [words 10] its capital in Zanzibar in the 19th century), Indian and European cultures and the cuisine reflects that wonderful eclectic mix. Getting lost in Stone Town is quite normal. The streets are narrow and there are innumerable side streets that you can't [words 11] the main street and which the side street. We meandered through the narrow alleyways and remembered landmarks and signs along the way so [words 12] our steps . I have to say we fared rather well without having to resort to leaving a trail of bread crumbs. The Zanzibar Archipelago lies in the Indian Ocean, [words 13] the coast of Tanzania. The main islands are Unguja, Pemba and Mafia and many smaller islands. The capital of Unguja is Zanzibar City, and [words 14] famous section of Zanzibar City is Stone Town. “Stone Town” is a UNESCO world heritage site and gets its name from coral stones which were [words 15] main construction material. In it's heyday Zanzibar was a major trading hub for spices, which is why it is also known as the Spice Islands. It was also the launchpad for many an exploration into Africa's interior, the most famous of [words 16] was the quest to find the [words 17] Burton and John Speke and later David Livingstone. It has a dark history too of being the centre of slave trade where slaves were auctioned off and sent to destinations all over the world; but equally it was also the centre from which abolitionists like David Livingstone campaigned to bring about the end of slavery. We meandered back to our room after that hearty satisfying lunch and googled walking tours in Stone Town and one name kept popping up – Yusuf. Yusuf had very high ratings and excellent reviews and so we decided to give him a call. And yay, [words 18] next day. With that set, we wandered around ourselves and could see how easy it was to get lost. The alleyways are filled with shops selling all kinds of things – art, clothes, souvenirs and touting was ubiquitous. Street photography was not easy as most Zanzibaris did not approve of their photos being taken. There were some friendly ones like the chap who lived in Oslo for 18 years and then decided to come home and set up a local art shop. We asked him if it was safe to walk around Stone Town and he assured us it was very safe indeed – just don't display your camera if you're walking around in the evening and also it's easy to get lost. In the evening we booked ourselves a much needed relaxing massage at the Cinnamon Spa and hoped like hell we wouldn't lose our way walking back in the dark (we didn't). We ended our day with dinner on the rooftop with [words 19] Kilimanjaro beer. From waking up to the sounds of grunting hippos in the Mara to waking up to the call of the muezzin, from [words 20] to a spiritual one. What a wonderful world we live in. After a hearty breakfast, we waited for Yusuf, our walking guide. We received a history lesson as we walked with Yusuf through the alleyways to the Old Arab Fort, the House of Wonders, Forodhani Gardens, the seafront and through the meandering alleys once again into the hub of activity that's Jaw's Corner, past churches, mosques and hindu temples all crowded together and through the famous Darajani Market and on to the old port to see the famous dhows of Zanzibar. Higgledy-piggledy we wove our way around this labyrinth. We made a stop at the former Slave Market and to the Anglican Church which had an interesting feature of upside [words 21] in error when the chief engineer was away on home leave! In our walkabout Yusuf pointed out the various types of architecture – Arab, Indian, Chinese, European. Stone Town [words 22] wooden doors – mainly Omani Arab which have a rectangular top and the Indian style which is rounded on top. Zanzibar's most famous son is Farrokh Bulsara, better known as Freddie Mercury. He was born in Stone Town, moved to India where his parents were originally from before they settled in England where he eventually found [words 23] frontman of the rock band, Queen. (I know he doesn't need an introduction but just in case . He never returned to Zanzibar. Homophobic Zanzibar however happily exploits his name and in our walks we would pass 'The Mercury House' [words 24] he was born – now a [words 25] place of pilgrimage for die-hard fans. There's a Mercury Restaurant and Mercury Bar . the irony seems lost on the locals. By the time our [words 26] was almost 3pm and we decided for lunch we would try another famous biriyani at the Maru Maru. (I did say I was travelling with a biriyani connoisseur, didn't I? ) Verdict – good but the Silk Route was better. We had the rest of the day to [words 27] ourselves and just relax in the hotel. The next morning we couldn't decide if we should go to the northern part of the island where the spice centre is or to take a boat to Prison Island. What was certain was where we were going to have lunch. No, not biriyani again. This time we thought local cuisine at a local restaurant. In the meantime we wandered around [words 28] calling Yusuf and voilà, the man was right there by the seafront! He didn't have any clients so it was agreed that he would accompany us to Prison Island. [words 29] directions to ‘Lukmaan', the local restaurant that had great reviews. He gave us directions then paused, looked at us and decided we would get lost and so walked us all the way to ‘Lukmaan'. We kept mental notes of our route so that we could find our way back. As it was [words 30] church crowd was spilling out as well. It was quite chaotic in the narrow lanes. Lukmaan reminded me of local restaurants at home – it was a typical ‘nasi kandar' restaurant. The place was full – locals and tourists alike were queuing up to place orders. We had a local [words 31] and as we stood out like sore thumbs, he asked where we were from. When we told him, he exclaimed ‘what a long way you have come' and wished [words 32] enjoyable stay as we sat eating companionably across from each other. The place was hot and the fans did nothing but distribute hot air about. So it was a quick meal and we were out of there. Later that afternoon, we made our way to the [words 33] waiting. He had arranged a boat and off we sped to Prison Island. The local name of this tiny island is Changuu Island. Originally intended as a prison colony, it was only ever used as a quarantine facility for yellow fever. The waters surrounding the island was simply exquisite – blue and green and turquoise, quite captivating [words 34] dazzled in the afternoon sun. The old buildings were restored 2006 and a secluded and private resort was opened. The Changuu Island Private Paradise is very popular with honeymooners. The only other inhabitants in the island are the giant Aldabra tortoises. A big conservation effort is being under taken for the care of these old and gentle creatures. The oldest was 192 years old! We spent a couple [words 35] when a peacock strut his stuff as if putting up a show for us, walked on the beach for a bit and down the pier like models under Yusuf's direction – apparently it's his ‘speciality' to take photos of his [words 36] camera:-). We took the boat back and we were treated to what is a daily occurrence in the evenings – boys diving into the sea. It was quite an entertaining spectacle. The boys were of all ages ranging from 7 years to 20 something year olds. As the sun set, we took photo after photo as they displayed their athletic and acrobatic diving skills. On this [words 37] we did our souvenir shopping and a last wander around, feeling quite happy to have been able to visit this exotic part of the world. Stone Town bustles and pulsates with life and colour, its rich cultural heritage apparent [words 38] decay. “We live in a wonderful world that is full of beauty, charm and adventure. There is no end to the adventures that we can have if only we seek them with our eyes open”. Jawaharlal Nehru~For more photos of Stone Town, please click on the following link: http://www. shobhagopinath.com/Travel/2017-Zanzibar/Wow your photos are incredible and your writing is so interesting! So happy I found your site! Great stuffHi Shobs, Thank you for sending this to us. It is such an incredibly written article, the pictures are just so well captured. Sorry, just have to say this, we are so proud of you. Lots of love, Happy Deepavali, hope [words 39] meet soon. Love,Sudha & KrishnanIf you know how to get to St Gebriel Monastery and would like to share that information with the community, contact (email protected) and we'll post it right here in the directory. [words 40] for St Gebriel Monastery you'd like to share [words 41] to (email protected) and we'll post it right here in the directory. Although you can enter the grounds of the monastery, expect the monastery itself to [words 42] when a service is on. Remember to walk anti-clockwise around the monastery, as is the style in Ethiopian Orthodox Christianity. If you have a tip about St Gebriel Monastery and would like to share that information with the community, contact (email protected) and we'll post it right here in the directory. Its plenitude of cultural and natural landmarks have long earned it a top spot on the country's tourist map. From Cebu City, its bustling capital, to the island's mountains, caves, waterfalls and beaches, visitors will find a wide range [words 43] Cebu. Cebu's largest city hosts numerous cultural and historical sites worth visiting. Foremost among them is the Basilica Minore del Santo Nino, originally constructed in 1565 by the Spanish conquistador Miguel Lopez de Legazpi. The basilica has been rebuilt three times, [words 44] houses within its chapel the sacred image of the baby Jesus, the focal point of the city's famous annual Sinulog Festival. Cebu Island stretches [words 45] north to south, 25 miles from [words 46] and is surrounded by more than 100 islands. Its extensive coastline features a plenitude of beaches, offering ideal spots for swimming, sunbathing, diving and bird-watching. To the south and west are Sumilon, Badian and Panagsama Beach in Moalboal, the latter among the Philippines' very first popular diving sites, while to the east are Mactan Island, Sulpa and Olanga Island, known for its wealth of bird life at the Olanga Island Wildlife Sanctuary. Cebu's north-south backbone consists of forested mountains that offer a wide range of outdoor activities. The island's South High Hills range rises up to 3,600 feet at Osmena Peak, Cebu's highest point. The range features lush valleys, dense jungles and some of the island's richest wildlife. Hiking, rock-climbing, bouldering, mountain biking and caving are all available in Cebu's mountainous areas, from the limestone walls of Cantabaco to the impressive caves of both Bohol and Argao Lantoy National Park. The island's interior is also streaked and dotted with rivers and waterfalls, providing scenic spots for swimming, rappelling or canyoning. The most famous is the three-level cascade of Kawasan Falls in the vicinity of Badian in southwestern Cebu. The lowest waterfall along the Kawasan River is the largest on the island at 100 feet. The island's other waterfalls receive very few visitors: Bonbon Falls, set near Samboan far to the Cebu's south, consists of three separate vertical streams of water spilling over a cliff, while Aguinid Falls, also near Samboan, features a five-level drop over limestone cliffs complete with stalactites. The Tree House is one of the finest gyms in America. I [words 47] clubs all over the world since 1980 on the equipment side and [words 48] of literally thousands of clubs . The equipment and facility is state of the art and the club and locker rooms are spotlessly clean. Amazing trainers [words 49] Banks). The only thing that is somewhat of a negative is the bacon aroma that fills the gym each morning. Very hard to workout when you are being tempted by bacon. I love Treehouse and I love bacon. Cheers! ecision I made in the last couple of years. When ljoined Treehouse. l was over 300 pounds and looking to get fit. but did not have much lilting experience. Treehouse School of Fitness provided me with 10 one on one sessions to coach and teach specific movements and lifts. The Treehouse coaches establish fundamentals in each athlete before allowing anyone to take classes to protect anyone irom hurting themselves. They ste each workout to the level of fitness that makes sense for each tndeual membet. After attending about four classes a week for the last two years, I have dropped over 85 pounds and can physically do th'ngs [words 50] think Iwould evet be able to do: pull-ups. the list could go on and on. Not only do they walk on physical fitness, but also mental fitn as well. No mattet what level of fitness l was at. the coaches and other members always made me feel included in theTI'eehouse community. We are all theta to improve our oval-ell quality of life and that was what Treehouse School oi Fitness has done for me . my smoking hot girlfriend is also not complaining ;). I had never been an athlete growing up- instead delving into books and education. I had joined local gyms and thought I was doing great running on the treadmill or spending time on the elliptical . but the same movements got boring and uninspiring. I decided, after hearing my friends [words 51] intense and combined cardio, weightlifting, and flexibility, to give it [words 52] try. I started at NSCF/Treehouse Athletics in April 2015 and after I experienced my first (fun, albeit difficult) workout, I knew this was for me. Coach Mark [words 53] from day 1 and his encouragement and support have motivated me to give my best at each class! Thanks to Coach Mark, I have seen a significant increase in my overall fitness and strength. A [words 54] to Coaches Dave, Tara, Derek, and Max too! These Coaches genuinely care about each person that walks [words 55] live up to their motto – Coaches for life! I get stronger every day and I am proud of myself [words 56] accomplished. Would I ever have thought I would sign up for a CrossFit competition before? –NO! Six competitions later and counting, no matter where I finish in the pack, I am challenging myself and becoming the athlete I never was before. What I realized is there is no need to be intimidated- you are there for YOU and to better yourself! All [words 57] or modified to fit your abilities. All members encourage and cheer each other on – We are all there to improve our health and quality of life. You really won't find a better group of people. ; this is a true community and no other gym compares! Transformation Tuesday goes to Patrick Kelliher, Aka “Pat Straightback”. Pat's doctor told him either Cholesterol meds at age 26 or change his lifestyle through excercise and proper nutrtition. To say the least Pat did not choose light beer, he decided to come to Treehouse School of Fitness and get his own personal Coach.3 years and 40lbs later Striaghtback is still working with his Coach, [words 58] like minded community and still making small adjustments to improve the big picture, Cheers Pat! Treehouse [words 59] than a gym. It is a strong community that has become my family. The coaching staff at Treehouse is outstanding. They are trained to work with the beginner, [words 60] elite, and the more mature but experienced athlete who needs lots of modifications because of various physical limitations (that last one would be me! ). The beauty of Treehouse is that we are all there for a common purpose, to stay fit and healthy, no matter our age or ability. Our coaches tailor to our ability. They have helped me overcome so many obstacles, both physically and mentally. I have bad knees; have been told I need bilateral knee replacements. With the help of my coach, Tara Picardy, she has taught me to modify movements and still get the same workout. Due to the strength and flexibility I have gained through [words 61] continually prolong the time to surgery! I've competed in several CF competitions and 2 weightlifting competitions, despite my medical issues! Tara has worked closely with me with nutrition and weight goals. Weight and body image have plagued me my whole life. I've been on every diet . seriously every diet and I've always put weight back on. Tara has taught me proper nutrition, but most importantly, she has taught me to accept me for who I am and to stop focusing on numbers. I now focus on how I feel. Do I feel healthy? Yes! Do I feel fit? Absolutely! Staying fit and healthy requires a team. The Treehouse provides the absolute BEST massage therapist in the world, Debra Stout. Deb has played a huge part in my road to wellness! Through Treehouse, I have connected with a holistic practitioner, a physical therapist, and a chiropractor. What other gym can even offer this? When I came [words 62] School of Fitness, I had no idea what the Treehouse was about, or if it was something I would enjoy, all I knew is I was in the worst shape of my life and I needed to do something. I called and got an appointment [words 63] Mark. The first day I met Mark, we did a simple walk through of the gym and then a test of my basic abilities. I couldn't do a single sit up, I was shaking like a leaf for half a dozen push-ups, couldn't run 200m without running out of breath, I was totally embarrassed. [words 64] made me feel like I was successful and that it wasn't as bad as I thought. Over the next 6 weeks we worked together through the fundamentals. There were so many days that I wanted to give up, and he'd keep telling me that “there will come a time when this will be the [words 65] I'd tell him, “you're crazy! ” Fast forward 8 months, and I can do a lot more than one sit up, and I look forward every day to that one hour I spend with all the guys and [words 66] Treehouse. Marks prediction came true and now it truly is [words 67] day. The community feel that the Picardy's have created, the entire staff and the other members of Treehouse have [words 68] my life. What I realized is there is no need to be intimidated. I just wanted to share with you the success I've had losing weight since joining the Treehouse 10 months ago. I was at an off-site [words 69] work yesterday and saw some co-workers I hadn't seen in about a year. They all commented on how good I looked and couldn't believe how much weight I'd lost. Today I weighed in 32lbs lighter than when I started. [words 70] doctor said I had high blood pressure and high cholesterol and recommend that an ideal weight for me would be 200lbs. [words 71] 6lbs away from that goal and should reach in a month at this rate. Even though the scale says I lost all this weight I have a hard time seeing it. I told this to a friend who works out at another affiliate. He suggested that I put on a pair of pants from before I joined the Treehouse: There's a good 4-5″ from my waist to the waistband. I've seen people in commercials do this but I never thought I'd be one of them! This has led to a problem I didn't anticipate before starting- buying new clothes that fit the new me. I wanted to thank you for all your support. Having a great coach made my goals attainable. I can honestly say that I would be nowhere near [words 72] if I did this on my own. I look [words 73] and achieving my own personal goal. Thanks again! As someone who has never been very physical . Gyms usually freak me out because of fear of judgement. Everyone has been so welcoming and encouraging. It's a great community and I've been helped by both trainers and members with [words 74] diet. I don't do the Facebook – but if it gets me something for free – I [words 75] once. Treehouse/NSCF is an unbelievable place with amazing people. It does not matter what your athletic or physical background is, you can do it. Everyone suffers and succeeds together. As someone what has attended every different class time, I can honestly say it is the community that keeps me coming back. The coaches take the time to work with every individual, the members push each other, and Dave and Tara make everyone feel like part of the family. [words 76] unparalleled coaches. Perfect place whether you are just starting out or having been doing crossfit for years and want a challenge. [words 77] place! Coach Derek spent 2 months patiently training me, working on my form and always encouraging me to do my best. Everyone here greets you with a smile and a hello. I'm looking forward to what's in store as I start taking classes! I've been active most of my life and decided this was my next step. So glad I tried it! I started and continue my training with Max. He rocks! All the coaches are very positive and and helpful and so are the members. Everyone encourages each other all the time. I have a [words 78] to go but am enjoying the journey. I've been a member for over two months now and I'm already hooked. I won't lie, I was pretty nervous to first walk in [words 79] up, but I'm so glad I did! The couches are absolutely wonderful and value good technique and concentrating on being your best. The community spirit is amazing and I've met so many nice people. The biggest reason why I love this place? ? I've never pushed myself to overcome goals like this and I'm constantly surprised by what I can do. I've never had such confidence and it just keeps getting better. Thank you Treehouse for being an amazing gym, group of teachers, and friends. I love Treehouse School of Fitness! This gym is magical. My endurance has increased and I'm building muscle tone. The coaches are all top notch. They make the classes fun and enjoyable. I never thought I'd be singing Benny and the Jets [words 80] I never thought I would be saying things like Jerk, Thrusters and Snatch without getting slapped. It's a place where you don't have to be over 65 to play Bingo! Fitness is fun at Treehouse School of Fitness�I have been a member for over [words 81] my last gym closed. I have never meet a more energetic and welcoming group of people. Treehouse School of Fitness/NSCF is simply the best around! The Treehouse is a true community where each person is supportive, motivating, and full of encouragement. [words 82] people you will ever meet! Getting fit here starts with a strong fundamentals program which emphasizes proper technique [words 83] safety and all physical levels are welcome and movements can be modified accordingly. The coaches are great and knowledgeable- a special shout out to the [words 84] and Max, who are the best of the best! The facility is large and clean and there is plenty of room to work out. If you are looking for a great place to get fit, look no further! ! ! Dave and his team are absolute fitness professionals. I've been to a million gyms as both a member and an instructor. Dave's team is constantly pushing themselves to learn more and provide better for their clients. Hey guys Tree house is 100% “FAT BOY APPROVED” I've been going to Tree House since Feb, I am well on my way to being a “LEAN MEAN FIGHTING MACHINE” ! ! ! The coaches are top notch, members are great and I've got most of the family going. Hope to see some of [words 85] there. Call me and I'll give you all the details. Just remember if an Old Broken Down FAT Guy like me can do it ANY ONE CAN ! ! Had the pleasure of traveling for work and visiting multiple boxes along the way. This place is one of the ones that has my heart. ## The space is impressive, the programming dynamic and fun, and the community extremely supportive. More importantly the coaches truly care [words 86] attention to the athletes no matter what level. They promote the importance of technique and structure while also allowing the members to have fun. Will miss you all! !. <assistant> words 1: what these faraway countries words 2: was less than 2 hours words 3: climbing the great mountain! 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Compositions wherein the textile material includes or consists of polymeric fibers which ... synthesized from starting materials other than cellulose or its derivatives and are sometimes referred to ... fibers. A spin finish, which is generally applied ... of the polymeric filament and prior to drawing, comprises a combination of a lubricant/antistatic agent system. ... this subclass are blends of two or more synthetic fibers and blends of a synthetic fiber with ... silk, or cellulosic fiber. Compositions wherein the textile ... fibers which are the hair or fur of an ... vicuna. Included in this subclass are blends of two or more animal hair fibers and blends of an animal hair fiber with silk or cellulosic fiber.86 For textile materials consisting wholly or in part of silk ... (e. cotton; artificial silk, such as rayon, cellulose acetate, etc. or blends thereof; silk soaking compositions; etc. :This subclass is indented under subclass 8. ## Compositions wherein the textile material includes or consists of silk fibers or fibers of cellulose or its derivatives. Fibers made of regenerated cellulose (e. rayon) or of cellulose esters or ethers, such as cellulose acetate, are sometimes referred to as semisynthetic fibers or artificial silk. Included in this subclass are blends of any one or more fibers with any other fiber under the subclass definition, such as linen, jute, hemp, etc. Many compositions in this subclass facilitate processing by softening (making more flexible) the above fibers or materials made therefrom. This subclass is indented under subclass 60. flake, particle, rod, strand or fiber); and subclass 920 (a cross-reference art collection) for a product having heat insulating properties. capacitors, rectifiers, not elsewhere classifiable, the electrolytes for which generally are found in this subclass (62. Compositions specialized and designed for use as one member of two members whose interface exhibits barrier layer properties. A barrier layer device is defined for the purpose of classification as an electrical component consisting of two conductors placed either in contact with each other or separated by an interface layer, to which contacts or terminals have been secured which component has a nonlinear resistance characteristic. ## rectifiers, electrolytic condensers), or will pass a proportionately different amount of current at different values of applied voltage. For example, an electrical component having a resistance material which varies its resistance due to inherent changes in temperature with change in applied voltage is not a barrier layer device. ## Class 118, Coating Apparatus, generally provides for coating apparatus, including single-crystal (e. Compositions disclosed to be useful for magnetic purposes as well as compositions and processes for making same. This subclass takes processes of preparing magnetic compositions and the compositions resulting therefrom, as well as such processes followed by a magnetizing and/or broad molding step. It also takes any combination of these steps with a heat treating operation except where the heat treatment modifies a magnetic property of a metallic component which is intentionally present in the composition. This subclass includes magnetic articles claimed in terms of the composition from which it is made, when said articles do not contain sufficient structural limitations to classify them elsewhere. In some instances it is difficult to tell whether a fused mixture of oxides (e. ferrites) is a compound or a composition. If a claim of this type is restricted to atoms combined in definite, whole number ratios, the product is considered a compound. However, a patent not so limited; e. if the ratios of the elements are variable or "impurities" are intentionally present, is considered to be drawn to a composition classifiable in this or indented subclasses. mixtures of metal powders and a plastic or coating composition). Such compositions are classified for the most part, in Class 106 in the subclasses entitled "With filler, dye or pigment". All magnetic compositions which would otherwise be classified in Class 106 are provided for in this subclass (62.51+) and its indents.360, Dynamic Magnetic Information Storage or Retrieval, subclasses 131+ for magnetic records claimed in terms of significant structure. All magnetic compositions which would be classified in the Class 520 area are provided for by this subclass (62.51+).523, Synthetic Resins or Natural Rubbers, subclass 181 for a composition devoid of a magnetic material but which is designed to contain same. This subclass is indented under subclass 62. Compositions intended for use in processes of testing articles for flaws, e. Compositions which contain a resin, wax, gum, or bitumenous material or modified forms thereof. The term gum includes, e. natural rubber and balatta. Many of the patents in this subclass are drawn to particles of magnetic material in a resin wax or gum binder for use as magnetic coatings or to be molded into magnetic articles (e. A synthetic resin for purposes of this subclass is a solid film forming or moldable polymeric material having physical properties akin to natural resins, the polymer chains of said synthetic resins having been prepared by the reaction of nonresinous compounds. Specifically excluded from this subclass are natural drying oils and the dried compositions therefrom and cellulose or its derivatives. Compositions which contain compounds of iron and oxygen. Most of the patents in this and indented subclasses are drawn to so called "ferrites," namely complex oxides of iron and other elements. The term ferrite is used in the art both to denote definite compounds of iron with other metals and oxygen, and to generically cover compositions of fused mixed oxides of varying composition classifiable in this class. Compositions containing scandium, yttrium, gallium or an element from the rare earth or actinide series in chemically combined form. ## Compositions containing boron in any form or aluminum, thallium, or indium in chemically combined form. Composition containing a group I metal in chemically combined form. Compositions containing a group II metal or lead in combined form. Group II metal as used in this and indented subclasses encompasses subgroups IIA and IIB and specifically includes beryllium, magnesium, calcium, strontium, barium, radium, zinc, cadmium and mercury. ## Compositions specialized and designed for use as piezoelectric materials and processes of making said compositions. Processes of detwinning crystals are classified in the crystallizing subclasses. The products of these processes, and the seed crystals used in the processes, are classified as chemical compounds. The products of these processes, and also the seed crystals used in the process, are classified as chemical compounds. A disclosure of or claim to piezoelectric properties results in classification in this subclass without a cross-reference to Class 501. Compositions specialized and designed for, or peculiar to, use in producing refrigeration, or heat or energy exchange, by operations that include vaporization, or expansion or compression, of a substance or of materials containing the same. The preceding are placed in this class even though freezing or boiling points or temparatures of use are specified.165, Heat Exchange, subclasses 104.11+ for a heat exchange device with an intermediate fluent material receiving and discharging heat. This subclass is indented under subclass 67. Compositions specialized and designed for, or peculiar to, use in preventing frost, thawing ice, maintaining temperatures within narrow ranges, supplying or absorbing heat, or producing low temperatures, by changes in phases insubstances (e. Compositions specialized and designed for, or peculiar to, use in heat exchanges or which are low-freezing or high-boiling, or which are adapted to form mixtures having a lower pour-point or freezing point when mixed with other substances. Elements other than C and H and compounds which contain such other elements are not considered to be significant in this class, when they originate in and form a part of petroleum or fractions thereof, unless such elements or compounds are recited separately in the claims.122, Liquid Heaters and Vaporizers, for processes of heating liquids, etc. This subclass is indented under subclass 71. Compositions which contain agents for stopping or reducing leaks in containers. This subclass is indented under subclass 73. Compositions which contain metals, compounds thereof, inorganic compounds, or elements, other than water. This subclass is indented under subclass 74. ## Compositions which contain organic compounds which contain nonmetallic elements other than carbon, hydrogen and oxygen. This subclass is indented under subclass 77. Compositions containing organic compounds which have nonmetallic elements other than carbon, hydrogen, oxygen and nitrogen. This subclass is indented under subclass 78. Compositions in which the organic compounds contain silicon. Compositions in which the organic compounds contain phosphorus. Compositions specialized and designed for the treatment of mineral substances (including metal) by surface removal with chemical agents. This and indented subclasses also provide for patents which in addition to a composition claim also contain a claim to a nominal process of treating material therewith (e. etching, contacting, etc. even though the composition of the material treated is recited. Any detail of a treating step, e. dipping, spraying, etc. This subclass is indented under subclass 79. Compositions which contain an organic material in addition to the acid. Compositions which contain an alkali metal hydroxide. Compositions specialized or designed for suppressing dust (e. by binding, consolidating, etc. from materials stored in large bulk, usually in open outdoor spaces, or processes of preparing the compositions. Processes involving the mere use of a claimed composition are included in this subclass. This subclass is indented under subclass 175. Compositions in the form of packages or which contain, in each case, a particular heterogeneous arrangement of two or more components, other than mixed granules, which differ from each other chemically or physically. Compositions which contain plants, plant parts or extracts, or organic compounds. This subclass is indented under subclass 180. ## Compositions which contain inorganic compounds or elements other than alkali metal hydroxides, alkali metal carbonates and water. These subclasses provide for all materials which are limited by the claims to use as a getter. These subclasses provide for all materials broadly or specifically claimed which are not otherwise classified which are disclosed for use as getters. These subclasses provide for patents which claim merely a container or device which contains a particular getter material where no structure of the container or device is set forth. Where the device is claimed by name only, as an electric lamp, or where details of the device are claimed, the patent is classified with the device. This subclass is indented under subclass 181. Materials which contain a plurality of substances not in chemical combination with each other, at least two of the substances being capable of chemically reacting with each other to produce the getter or gas or vapor generating material.182+, for compositions for use as agents or materials in causing or carrying out changes by chemical reactions. Getters where the getter material is normally gaseous. Compositions which are chemically reactive and have utility in electro-chemical cell, e. Composition s containing a single reactant or plural reactants under the class definition specialized or designed for use in subsequent reactions with other materials, but not with each other. The addition of a material which serves a dual purpose, i. reactant plus diluent, solvent, plasticizer, etc. will be classified as a reactant; if the patent is silent as to its function than it will be classified as a nonreactive material. The relationship between a subclass and subclasses indented thereunder is such that reference is always to the same reactant, unless the indented subclass begins with "With or Contains" in which case they may refer to any reactant. Whenever possible, full recognition should be given to the term "catalyst" in describing a given substance even though from prior art the substance is known to behave as a reactant. Similarly, a composition specified to function as an accelerating agent will be classified in the catalyst class. Vulcanizing a curing compositions are considered proper herein unless it is clear that their function is strictly catalytic. Peroxide compositions, per se, will be considered as catalysts, and therefore, proper for the catalyst class. To be classified in this or the indented subclasses a patent must not recite a claim drawn to a composition containing a solid synthetic polymer. Polymers are limited to synthetic organic polymers and excludes inorganic polymer, natural polymers, e. starch, cellulose, collegen, wool, etc. This subclass is indented under subclass 182. Subject matter wherein the composition contains a single reactant or plural noninteractive chemical reactants at least one of which is organic in nature. The term organic denotes the reactant as one which has carbon therein the which is further characterized by the presence of (a) a C-C bond, or (b) C-H bond, or (c) (C-halogen bond, or (d) C-N or C=N bond, with the proviso that hydrocyanic acid, cyanogen, isocyanic acid, cyanamide, cyanogen halide, isothiocyanic acid, and metal carbides are excluded as being organic in nature. Subject matter designed for subsequent use in polymerization processes and other polymer treating processes, e. ## crosslinking, grafting, blocking, curing, hardening, vulcanizing, etc. The term "subsequent" means that the claimed composition will be used in one of the above stated processes directly, immediately or in the very near future, and not remotely. Thus, for example, a composition which contains a glycol which is to be subsequently transformed into a liquid polyester is not classified in this subclass. The subsequent esterification will not lead to a solid polymer but merely the preparation of a compound by definition. So, too, a composition designed for subsequent preparation of cyclic trimmers for tetrameres, etc, which, by disclosure are compounds, are also excluded from this subclass.12, for a composition containing a glycol which is to be subsequenly transformed into a liquid polyester. A blocked isocyanate is an isocyanate which has been rendered inert by conversion to an inactive group usually in the form of a urethane (-N-C(=O)-OR) group. Subject matter wherein the isocyanate compound in addition contains either a blocked isocyanate or urethane group. Found here typically is a polyisocyanate treated with a polyol yielding an isocyanate terminated polyurethane. Subject matter where three or more organic reactants contain plural hydroxyl groups. Subject matter wherein the oxygen containing organic reactant is a carboxylic acid or derivative thereof. Subject matter wherein the composition contains material whose sole function is to impart stability to one or more compounds for the purpose of delaying or retarding a chemical change in one or more of these compounds, until such time when one or more of these compounds may under so a subsequent reaction. This stabilization or inhibition process may occur in any number of ways too numerous, if not impossible to elaborate here. However, some processes may be: coating, encapsulation, impregnation, complexation, or other altered chemicals forms, e. ## salting, hydrogen, bonding, tautomerizing, clathration, etc. It is imperative to point out that the stabilization or inhibition is related to only a chemical change and not to any physical change. "This subclass is indented under the class definition. Compositions which contains a mixture or association of two or more reactants chosen for subsequent and not immediate chemical interaction thereof, i. vis-a-vis, substances peculiar thereto, and processes of making the same. This subclass is indented under subclass 183. Subject matter wherein the composition contains a material whose sole function is to impart stability or inhabitation to one or more components in order to delay or retard a chemical reaction from occurring. Compositions in each case specialized and designed for, or peculiar to, use in both absorbing or binding an extraneous substance, physically or chemically, and yielding by chemical reaction a chemically-free third substance which does not contain the substance which is absorbed or bound, or in making substances for such use; such as ion exchange compositions. surface areas, volumes, etc. or process of producing said composition:This subclass is indented under subclass 186. Compositions which contains two or more oxidizing agents, e. ## a liquified mixture of chlorine and chlorine dioxide, sodium chlorate and sodium peroxide, etc. This subclass is indented under subclass 186. Compositions wherein at least two of the oxidants are peroxides, e. ammonium persulfate and sodium peroxide, etc. Compositions wherein at least one of the peroxides is organic, e. peracetic acid, ditertiary butyl peroxide, etc. Compositions which contains an elemental material and which composition is further devoid of water, e. graphite, charcoal, metal alloys, oxygen, ozone, etc.372+, for gaseous compositions containing elemental gases, e. ## Compositions containing a stabilizer wherein the stabilizer is accompanied by additional materials properly classifying the composition herein, e. a composition comprised of an oxidant, stabilizer, plasticizer and densifying agent, etc. ; a composition containing a product therein which is a surface coated, impregnated, encapsulated, or surface modified material, e. fiber, sheet, particle, or web, etc. This subclass does not require that the product admixed be in the same physical or chemical state after achieving the final composition, e. the composition or product, per se, may be comminuted, chemically treated, transitory, etc.423, Chemistry of Inorganic Compounds, for a Class 423 product admixed with a stabilizer and the admixture is neither disclosed nor claimed as having any utility. Compositions which contains an organic peroxide, e. a composition containing sodium peroxy carbonate coated with a stabilizing quantity of fatty alkanol-amides, etc. Compositions which contains an inorganic peroxide, e. a stabilized composition containing sodium peroxide, magnesium acetate, and alkali metal silicate, etc. Compositions wherein the inorganic peroxide is hydrogen peroxide, e. a composition comprised of hydrogen peroxide stabilized with sodium stannate and aluminum acetate, etc. Composition which contains an organic material, e. ## a composition comprised of hydrogen peroxide admixed with a stabilizing amount of 1-hydroxy ethylidene-1, 1-diphosphonic acid, etc. Compositions which contains inorganic perborate salts, e. ## a composition comprised of sodium perborate stabilized with particle coating of sodium carbonate, etc. a bleaching composition comprised of sodium perborate and benzoic anhydride coated onto expanded perlite particles, etc. Composition which contains a Group IA metal peroxide (Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs), e. a composition comprised of sodium percarbonate coated with aqueous sodium silicate solution, etc. Composition which contains an organohalogen compound as the oxidizing or oxygen generating agent, e. N, N1 -di (2, 4, 6 - trichlorophenyl) -N, N1 -di - chlorourea stabilized with zinc oxide, etc. ## Composition which contains chloroisocyanurates as the organohalogen-type oxidant, e. a composition comprised of trichloroisocyanuric acid stabilized with magnesium sulfate, etc. Composition which contains an oxy-halogen acid compound, an anhydride thereof, free halogen, or a compound which yields such a halogen body when treated with water, basic material, nonhalogen acid, or heat, e. a composition comprised of aqueous sodium hypochlorite stabilized against trace amounts of iron impurities with calcium chloride and sodium carbonate, etc. Composition which contains a Group IIA metal (Be, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba), e. Composition which contains an activator admixed with an inorganic peroxide, i. a material which enhances or assists in the decomposition of the peroxide, e. a bleaching composition comprised of an aqueous solution of hydrogen peroxide admixed with a carboxylic acid anhydride, etc. Composition which contains a heterocylic compound, e. a composition comprised of hydrogen peroxide and 1-acetyl - 5, 6 - dihydrouracil, etc. Composition which contains an oxygen heterocycle, e. a composition comprised of sodium perborate and beta-propiolactone, etc. Composition which contains hydrogen peroxide admixed with an activator, e. a composition comprised of hydrogen peroxide and sodamide, etc. Composition which contains an organic peroxide, e. a composition comprised of monoperoxyphthalic acid and magnesium sulfate, etc. Composition which contains an inorganic peroxide, e. ## a composition comprised of hydrogen peroxide and a fabric discoloration inhibitor, 3-Salicyloylamido benzimidazole, etc. Composition which contains an inorganic nitrogen containing compound, e. ## a composition comprised of sodium hypochlorite and the surface active agent, C-decyl-N-tri-methyl-alpha-betaine,etc. Composition which contains an oxy-halogen acid compound, an anhydride thereof, free halogen, or a compound which yields such a halogen body when treated with water, basic material, nonhologen acid, or heat, e. a bleaching composition comprised of perchloric acid and polyvinylpyrrolidone, etc. This subclass is indented under subclass 187. Composition which contains a halogen oxidant other than chlorine, e. a cleaning composition comprised of iodine and ethylene glycol, etc. Composition which contains chlorine dioxide or monoxide, e. a composition comprised of chlorine monoxide and 1, 1, 1-trichloroethane, etc. Composition which contains elemental chlorine, e. an aqueous composition comprised of chlorine dioxide and chlorine, etc. Composition which contains a chlorite salt, e. a composition comprised of sodium hypochlorite admixed with sodium chloride, etc. Composition which contains a hypochlorite salt, e. Composition which contains the hypochlorite in the form of its sodium salt, e. a composition comprised of sodium hypochlorite and magnesium silicate, etc. Composition which contains a Group IIA metal hypochlorite (Be, Mg, Ca, Sr, Ba), e. a composition comprised of magnesium hypochlorite and citric or tartaric acid as solubilizing agent, etc.625+, radioactive compositions for compositions which contain radium in admixture with materials normally classified in this subclass. Composition which contains a hypochlorite in the form of its calcium salt, e. a composition comprised of calcium hypochlorite and sodium chloride filler, etc. Composition which contains in addition to calcium hypochlorite a Group I A metal compound (Li, Na, K, Rb, Cs), e. a composition comprised of calcium hypochlorite, calcium oxide and sodium carbonate, etc. Composition which contains in addition to the calcium hypochlorite a Group IIA metal compound (Be, Mg, Ca, Ba, Sr), e. a composition comprised of calcium hypochlorite and sodium stearate as lubricant, etc. Composition which contains a chlorate or perchlorate salt as an oxidizing agent, e. a composition comprised of sodium chlorate and sodium chloride, etc. Composition which contains hypochlorous acid, e. a solution of hypochlorous acid in methyl ethyl ketone, etc. Hypochlorous acid compositions claimed in terms of their precursors are classified on the latter whenever possible. ## Composition which contains chloroisocyanurates, e. a composition comprised of dichlorisocyanurate and a carrier, sodium sulfate, etc. A material qualifies as a reducing agent either if it is so claimed, disclosed or otherwise art-recognized as such. Included in this class are propellants which, upon initiation, are capable of undergoing a chemical change at a relatively high rate of speed. This subclass is indented under subclass 188. Composition which contains a sulfite, e. a dye-reducing aqueous composition comprised of sodium borohydride and sodium sulfite, etc. Composition which contains an organic additive e. a reducing composition comprised of sodium dithionite and zinc hydroxymethanesulfinate, etc. Composition which contains either an organic or inorganic nitrogen containing additive, e. a reducing composition which contains an aqueous dispersion of sodium dithionite (also known as hydrosulfites or hyposulfites) and ammonium chloride as a solubility suppressant, etc. Composition which generates hydrogen, i. one which either contains or is designed to supply through chemical action hydrogen, e. a hydrogen generating composition consisting essentially of lithium hydride particles suspended in a liquid mixture of pyridine and benzene, etc. Composition which contains a hydride, i. a more positive element which contains the H - anion, e. Li H, CaH2, Li AlH4, etc. Composition which contains a compound with an aluminum-to-hydrogen bond, e. a reducing composition comprising, a solution of Na Al H2 (O CH2 CH2 - N(CH3)2)2) in tetra-hydrofuran, etc. Composition which functions to remove oxygen by chemical means, e. an oxygen scavenger composition which consists of metallic iron, silicic acid, soduim bromide, and calcium sulfate filler, etc. This subclass is indented under subclass 189. Compositions which contain elementary iron, or an oxide of iron, or other basic iron compound. Compositions containing a mesormorphic state of matter which is intermediate between a crystalline solid and a normal isotropic liquid; they resemble liquids mechanically (as to viscosity) but crystals optically (light scattering and reflection). This subclass is indented under subclass 299. Compositions containing additives not optically active which do not have liquid crystal properties, e. liquids which improve the viscosity, response time, anisotropy, etc. Compositions containing a liquid crystal compound of specified chemical structure for which a definite structural formula can be drawn and which does not contain the cyclopentanophenanthren neucleus, i. A polymer which is not of a single molecular species and is identifiable as an average of various molecular species is excluded herefrom. A polymer which is a single molecular species, e. is included hereunder. The recitation "polymer" will be presumed to be material of no single molecular species in the absence of specific contrary disclosure. Compositions wherein the liquid crystal compound has a ring of three or more members, at least one of which is carbon and one or more members selected from nitrogen or chalcogen. Compositions wherein the liquid crystal compound has at least two rings with two or more carbon atoms in common, i. Compositions wherein the liquid crystal compound has a carbocyclic ring which does not have any carbon to carbon unsaturation. Compositions wherein the liquid crystal compound has an acid containing a benzene ring which is attached through its acid function to the radical derived by the removal of -OH from an alcohol containing a benzene ring. The compound must also contain three or more benzene rings. Compositions wherein the liquid crystal ester compound having three or more benzene rings also has at least two benzene rings linked together by a direct bond. Compositions wherein the liquid crystal compound has at least two benzene rings linked together by a direct bond. Compositions wherein the liquid crystal compound is a ring substituted derivative ofThis subclass is indented under subclass 299. ## Compositions having a cholesteric containing compound which is a derivative of the structureThis subclass is indented under the class definition. Compositions which contain an organic substance having the property of emitting light or analogous rays as a result of irradiation by wave energy radiated by some other source. Class 118 generally provides for coating apparatus, including single-crystal (e. This subclass is indented under subclass 301. Compositions which contain a metal having a specific gravity greater than four. Compositions which are to be employed as flaw penetrants for detecting surface discontinuties in test bodies. Compositions which are to be applied to or incorporated in materials in order to obtain a bleaching effect or a whiter appearance in daylight. Compositions which contain a heterocyclic compound having two cyclic nuclei joined together through a straight chain linkage containing at least one methine group. Compositions in which the compound contains a six-membered ring consisting of three ring carbons and three ring nitrogens. Compositions in which the compound contains a five-membered ring having at least two hetero atoms of which one is nitrogen and the other is either oxygen or sulfur. Compositions which contain a heterocyclic compound having a five-membered ring having at least two hetero atoms, at least one of which is a nitrogen atom. Compositions in which the ring also contains sulfur or oxygen. Compositions in which the ring contains three or four nitrogen atoms. Compositions which contain a heterocyclic compound which contains either oxygen or sulfur as a hetero atom. ## Compositions which contain an inorganic material which is luminescent in addition to the organic luminescent material. Compositions which are constituted entirely of inorganic material and contain a component having the property of emitting light or analogous rays as a result of irradiation by wave energy radiated by some other source. Compositions which contain tungsten in combined or elemental form. Compositions which contain zinc or cadmium in combined or elemental form. This subclass is indented under subclass 365. Compositions in which in each case the base substance contains an alcohol. Compositions which include an alkali-metal (i. Li, Na, K, Rb, or Cs) salt of an unsubstituted or hydroxy-substituted, saturated or unsaturated, higher fatty acid, or of rosin (abietic) acid, which are of general utility and lack any shape or structure to adapt them for use as cleaning agents; or processes of preparing such compositions. A higher fatty acid is a water-insoluble monocarboxylic acid having an acyclic chain of at least seven carbons attached directly to the carboxyl group by nonionic bonding. The compositions in this class frequently include salts of mixtures of fatty acids derived from different natural sources, such as two or more vegetable or fish oils, animal fats, etc. deep-sea breathing gases, etc.516, Colloid Systems and Wetting Agents; Subcombinations Thereof; Processes of Making, Stabilizing, Breaking, or Inhibiting, subclasses 1+ for continuous gas or vapor phase colloid system (e. smoke, fog, aerosol, cloud, mist) or agents for such systems or making or stabilizing such systems or agents, when generically claimed or when there is no hierarchically superior provision in the USPC for the specifically claimed art; including those instances when a composition would otherwise be proper for this subclass (372) and its indented subclasses. This subclass is indented under subclass 372. Compositions which in each case contain significant amounts of both nitrogen and hydrogen, or processes of making such compositions. This subclass is indented under subclass 374. This subclass is indented under subclass 375. Compositions in which the direct source of the hydrogen is wholly or partly hydrocarbon matter. This subclass and indented subclasses take old compounds limited to use as preserving agents and also the combination of a preserving agent with the substance preserved where such substance is so broadly claimed as not to afford a basis of classification, e. This subclass is indented under subclass 380. Compositions specialized and designed for or peculiar to use as or in agents for preventing, inhibiting or reducing caking of granular material, or use in the form of distinct coating blankets, layers or zones with respect to the materials with which they are associated respectively. For compositions each of which contains a main substance and an agent for inhibiting caking of granules of the main substance, search where the main substance is classifiable. This subclass is indented under subclass 381. Compositions which are essentially foams, liquids, or other fluids. Compositions each of which contains both an organic compound and an inorganic compound or element. Compositions which contain inorganic compounds or elements. This subclass is indented under subclass 388. Compositions comprising either an inorganic compound or an organic compound which includes an element other than carbon, hydrogen, oxygen, nitrogen, sulfur or a halogen (i. fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine and astatine). This subclass is indented under subclass 389. Compositions which includes a compound containing an atom of the element phosphorus. This subclass is the location for phosphoric and polyphosphoric acids and esters and other derivatives thereof. Compositions in which the Phosphorus containing compound includes pentavalent Phosphorus, such as phospho and phosphono compounds, while excluding compounds of the formula H (n+2)P nO (3n+1) (i. the phosphoric and polyphosphoric acids). Compositions under subclas 389.2 in which the phosphorus containing compound includes trivalent phosphorous such as phosphorus acid or its salts, the phosphites. Compositions which include a compound containing an atom of the element silicon. Composition in which the organic silicon compound further includes an atom of nitrogen. Compositions which include a compound containing an atom of the element boron. Compositions wherein the boron containing compound is an organic compound. Compositions which include a compound containing an atom of the element chromium. Compositions which include a compound containing an atom of the element lead. Compositions which include a compound containing an atom of the element zinc or the element aluminum. Compositions which include a compound containing an atom of any of the elements nickel, iron, cobalt, copper, manganese, mercury or cadmium. Compositions which include a compound containing an atom of a group IIA metal (i. ## beryllium, magnesium, calcium, strontium, barium or radium). ## Compositions which contain organic compounds which contain amine, amide, azo, or nitrogen-base radicals. This subclass is indented under subclass 390. ## Compositions which contain organic compounds which contain sulfur. ## Compositions which contain organic compounds which contain oxygen. ## Compositions which contain organic compounds which contain nitrogen. For compositions each of which contains a main substance and an agent for inhibiting chemcial decomposition or other chemical change of the main substance, search where the main substance is classifiable. This subclass is indented under subclass 397. Compositions which contain plant or animal matter, or extracts thereof, of unknown constitutions. This subclass is indented under subclass 399. fluorine, chlorine, bromine, iodine and astatine). This subclass is indented under subclass 400. This subclass is the location for phosphoric and polyphosphoric acids and ester and other derivatives thereof. ## Compositions in which the compound which includes an atom of phosphorus also includes an atom of the element nitrogen, or the element sulfur. ## Compositions in which the phosphorus containing compound includes trivalent phosphorus. beryllium magnesium, calcium, strontium, barium or radium). This subclass is indented under subclass 401. Composition specialized for use in preparing, coating or regenerating incandescent mantles, and mantles defined solely in terms of the composition of which they are composed. The term "mantle" is intended to include all devices which are designed to give off light by being heated to incandescence by a combustion flame. Included herein are also processes of making mantles which involve no more than preparing or regenerating the composition of which the mantle is composed. Compositions which either conduct or emit electrons not provided for above. This is the residual home for all conductive and emissive compositions and all electrical devices defined solely in terms of their composition with no claimed significant device structure. By way of example only, these devices are electrodes, filaments or shields for electric lamps and electric space discharge devices, welding electrodes, contacts, switches, brushes, and resistances. See the search notes below for such art classes. See the search notes below for other classes which provide for methods of making electrical devices. This and indented subclasses are superior to other composition classes as to coating or plastic compositions useful in making or coating electrical devices. See Lines With Other Classes and Within This Class, Lines For Particular Class 252 Subclass Areas, for a discussion of the lines between this area and other classes. Where the composition has utility as a getter or gas or vapor generating material within the envelope of an electric lamp or electric space discharge device, and also as an electrode or filament useful for purposes other than gettering or generating a gas or vapor (e. In particular, see subclasses 61+ and 104+. Subclasses 165+ pertains to forming of continuous or indefinite length articles, e. This subclass is indented under subclass 500. Compositions wherein the electrical conductivity or emissivity varies with the intensity of the light to which it is exposed. Compositions which contain as an ingredient elemental carbon. This subclass is indented under subclass 502. Compositions which contain free metal in addition to the elemental carbon. Compositions which contain a carbide in addition to the elemental carbon. Compositions which contain a radio-active material in addition to the elemental carbon.427, Coating Processes, subclass 5 for coating processes, per se, wherein the base or coating is radioactive. Compositions which contain a metal compound not provided for above in addition to the elemental carbon. This subclass is indented under subclass 506. Compositions which contain an aluminum compound in addition to the elemental carbon. Compositions which contain an organic component in addition to the elemental carbon. Even if the organic component is to be subsequently carbonized, wholly or in part, the composition is classified herein. Compositions which contain a metal compound not provided for above.1 Compound viewed as composition (i. wherein atoms or molecules in a chemical formula are not present as whole small integer values or cannot be multiplied by a single-digit factor to yield integer values):This subclass is indented under subclass 518. Compositions which contain a compound wherein atoms or molecules in a chemical formula are not present as whole small integer values or cannot be multiplied by a factor in the single digit to yield integer values. Such a compound is considered a composition for purposes of this subclass and its indents. The electrically conductive compounds provided for herein are regarded as compositions according to the Class 423 class definition (i. see Note (13) of Class 423). This subclass is indented under subclass 518. Compositions wherein the metal compound is an organic compound. The expression "organic compound" in this and indented subclasses corresponds to the Class 260 class definition (i. This subclass is indented under subclass 519. ## Compositions which contain, in addition to the organometallic compound, an additional organic compound which may itself be organometallic. Compositions which contain an organic compound in addition to the metal compound. Compositions wherein the organic compound has at least one silicon atom therein.32 The organic compound is a natural resin, protein, lignin, carbohydrate, or derivative thereof:(2) Note. ## Examples of derivatives of natural resins included herein are hydrogenated, esterified, polymerized, or sulfurized natural resins, or salts thereof. Protein is a naturally occurring polypeptide (polyamide) of more than 100 a-amino acid residues or of molecular weight greater than 10,000. Lignin is a noncarbohydrate, polymeric substance found in wood and woody plants which functions as a natural plastic binder for the cellulose fibers. It is isolated directly from wood or wood products or from the treatment of wood (e. waste sulfite liquor or black liquor). The structure of the lignin monomer is not completely known. The term "carbohydrate or derivative" in this subclass corresponds to the Class 536, subclass 1.1 definition (i. Compositions wherein the organic compound is a large molecule of many repeating units; both liquid and solid polymers are encompassed herein, as are both homopolymeric and copolymeric substances. Compositions wherein the metal compound is a zinc compound. Compositions wherein an additional diverse metal atom is present in the zinc compound. Compositions which contain a boron compound in addition to the zinc compound. Compositions which contain a halogen compound in addition to the zinc compound. Compositions wherein the zinc compound has at least one silicon atom therein or wherein a bismuth or silicon compound is present in addition to the zinc compound. Compositions wherein the metal compound is a tin compound. This subclass is indented under subclass 520. Compositions wherein an additional diverse metal atom is present in the zirconium compound or in the titanium compound. ## Compositions wherein the metal compound is a silver compound, a gold compound, or a platinum compound. Compositions wherein the metal compound is a vanadium compound. Compositions wherein the metal compound is an iron compound, a cobalt compound, or a nickel compound. ## Compositions wherein silicon is present in the metal compound or wherein a silicon compound is present in addition to the metal compound. ## Compositions wherein boron is present in the metal compound or wherein a boron compound is present in addition to the metal compound. Compositions which have, in addition to the metal compound, a nonmetal compound containing halogen, nitrogen, phosphorus, or sulfur. Subject matter wherein a self-sustaining web or sheet, defined in terms of its composition, has distributed therein a material, liquid at ambient temperatures, which also is claimed in terms of its composition and which has indicated electric insulating properties. According to current PTO practice, a single-layer web or sheet uniformly impregnated or swelled with another material is considered to be a composition, rather than a stock material. The composition of the web or sheet itself must be claimed in terms which indicate the presence of at least one periodic-table group or atom other than carbon. Such terms as "cellulosic", "silicic", "halogen", etc. are sufficiently definite as to composition of the web or sheet to be classified in this subclass (567). When the web or sheet is identified only in broad, functional, or property terms such as "substrate", "fibrous", "plastic", "porous", "organic", "metallic", "dielectric", etc. Nonsolid claimed as a nonconductor of electricity. A nonsolid is a material which, at ambient temperatures, does not hold its shape without confinement. Most solid nonmetal compositions ordinarily are electrical insulators and classification of such construction mateials on the basis of electrical properties has been found impractical; therefore, another way of defining "fluent" in this context is as any composition which cannot be accommodated in Class 106 or the Class 520 series. A mass of particulate solids is not considered fluent for purposes of this subclass, but a "slumpable" nonparticulate material, e. is considered fluent. This subclass is indented under subclass 570. Subject matter wherein the fluent material contains a metal, a metal compound or a component which does not dissolve in the fluent material. The composition must maintain its fluent properties that is, its ability to change its shape under a minimum-stress force, such as gravity. Subject matter in which a component of the component contains boron, phosphorus, sulfur, selenium, or tellurium. Subject matter in which a component of the composition contains nitrogen. This subclass is indented under subclass 575. Subject matter in which a single discrete compound contains both oxygen and nitrogen. Where a component is described as the "reaction product" of an oxygen-containing material and a nitrogen-containing material it is assumed that the reaction product is or contains a compound having both N and O. This subclass is indented under subclass 576. Subject matter having the =N=O moiety, characteristic of nitro and nitroso compounds. Subject matter in which a component of the composition contains oxygen. This subclass is indented under subclass 578. Subject matter having the group, as illustrated below, characteristic of the reaction product of a carboxylic acid and an alcohol. ## R-O-R"This subclass is indented under subclass 578. Subject matter in which a component of the composition contains fluorine, chlorine, bromine or iodine. Subject matter which contains an organic material comprised of more than one carbocyclic ring, the organic material also containing fluorine, chlorine, bromine or iodine. See the search notes below. This subclass is indented under subclass 582. Composition wherein the transmission property change is occasioned by use of energy other than light, e. heat, electricity, etc. ## Composition which polarize light passing therethrough. Composition which modify the transmission property by changing color. Composition which affect the transmission of infrared rays. Composition which affect the transmission of ultraviolet rays. See Lines With Other Classes and Within This Class, for a general outline of subject matter of the Class 520 series. This subclass is indented under subclass 601. ## Compositions having material defined by dimensions, crystal structure, X-ray difraction, etc. Compositions having a nonliquid fluid as a part thereof. Compositions which swell under heat or direct flame to produce a puffed-up, nonglowing insulating cellular mass which insulates the substrate from the heat source and at the same time excludes oxygen. Compositions designed to be used with wood or cellulosic matter other than textile. Compositions designed for use with solid synthetic polymers and reactants of the same. Compositions comprising systems of minute particles distinct and separate from one another and suspended in a medium. This subclass is indented under subclass 610. Compositions designed to be incorporated into a dispersion or collodial system. This subclass is indented under subclass 634. Subject matter wherein the liquid is treated by a process which includes a chemical reaction, other than simple precipitation, to produce a solid particle. This subclass is indented under subclass 625. In this and indented subclasses, burnable poisons are classified by the form in which they appear in the final product.639, for nuclear reactor fuel composition containing an actinide component and an organic oxygen containing compound. This subclass is indented under subclass 636. Compositions in which the nuclear fuel contains only nitrides of plural actinide elements. Compositions wherein the nuclear fuel consists only of oxides of plural actinide elements. which are used as a source of alpha, beta, or gamma rays, and neutron or electron beams, all of which may be used for the heat generated by the same.250, Radiant Energy, subclasses 492+ for radiation sources with definite claimed structure, and see the search notes thereunder. This subclass is indented under subclass 644. Compositions adapted to mark, label, etc. that to which it is added, in such a manner that the radioactive component may be (a) detected over a period of time or through a system, and (b) used as means of performing a measurement, indication, etc. Subject matter containing matter having the property of emitting light or analogous rays as a result of irradiation by wave energy radiated by some other source. Compositions which contain a mixture or association of two or more substances chosen for eventual chemical interaction thereof to produce chemiluminescence, substances peculiar thereto, and processes of making the same. This subclass is indented under subclass 950. Materials designed for conveying the foreign substance as a gas or vapor or entrained in a gas vapor. Art collection providing information about the source or the . drawn to rheo-casting. The definitions for FOR 100-FOR 104, FOR 113, and FOR 247-FOR 250 below correspond to the definitions for only the following abolished subclasses under Class 252 from which these collections were formed: 8.6, 8.7, 8.75, 8.8, 8.9, 88, and 367-370. See the Foreign Art Collection schedule for specific correspondences. (Note: The titles and definitions for indented art collections include all the details of the one(s) that are hierarchically superior. Foreign Art Collections including compositions which comprise organic compounds containing a sulfoxy group, i. a radical containing sulfur bonded to at least one oxygen. Foreign Art Collections including compositions which comprise organic compounds containing an amine or amide group. Foreign Art Collections including compositions which comprise organic compounds containing an ether group, i. having the type formula R-O-R. Foreign Art Collections including compositions specialized and designed for, or peculiar to, use in sweeping, or which are adapted to take up, lay or collect dust or other particulate matter by adherence. ## Foreign Art Collections including processes which include operations subsequent to the termination of the saponifications. Foreign Art Collections including compositions which contain a metal compound not provided for above. Foreign Art Collections including compositions wherein the metal compound is a compound of the iron group metals. Foreign Art Collections including compositions which contain a magnesium, alkaline earth metal, or rare earth metal compound. <bot>: words 1: Trademark Office (USPTO) unveils a words 2: 2002, in San Francisco/San Jose, Tampa, Pittsburgh words 3: organizations who words 4: market words 5: Family Handyman and words 6: get real help with patenting and marketing their words 7: Inventor Programs has set words 8: provide information to inventors about invention promotion words 9: 02:09 PM ET(A) Compositions of matter, having or words 10: provision words 11: compositions for which there is words 12: or peculiar to such words 13: provision words 14: such other elements are words 15: such elements or compounds are separately recited words 16: includes As, words 17: or words 18: used in words 19: an agent or agents whose sole purpose words 20: change words 21: or element, or to prevent words 22: the combination of a preserving agent words 23: is so broadly claimed as not to words 24: "an organic words 25: (OR) for claimed chemical compositions words 26: class words 27: a single main class), placement of words 28: classes is controlled by the most comprehensive words 29: claims by first occurrence in the hierarchy words 30: is the residual placement words 31: of words 32: provided for words 33: For purposes of determining class words 34: title and definition of a class words 35: a special use, property, or function provided for words 36: or words 37: OR placement according to words 38: recourse is necessary will words 39: disclosed" subject matter include Classes 424, words 40: classes and subclasses which provide for compositions words 41: 106, 208, 252/363.5, 252/367.1, 252/372+, 252/378, 420, words 42: specification, then each unclaimed words 43: of the OR words 44: OF SUPERIORITY words 45: will be amended as the words 46: materials having words 47: the (2) Note in Class 148, subclass words 48: Dust cores words 49: containing an intentionally included metallic words 50: for in one of said subclasses words 51: molding, heat treatment, and words 52: named operations are classified in words 53: appropriate subclasses words 54: See the Class Definition of Class 264 for words 55: is the words 56: generally claimed and for words 57: the separation of liquids, generally words 58: 210 will take (a) a words 59: of a diverse words 60: for the purpose words 61: of for words 62: in Class 106, or in words 63: being electrically conductive words 64: As to methods of words 65: in Class 106 within the limits set words 66: apply as between these subclasses words 67: subclasses is that Class words 68: limited to compositions, per se, words 69: To Other Classes in Class 106 for coating words 70: Within This Class in the Class words 71: the words 72: subclass is indented under subclass words 73: foams or gas phases or words 74: chemical reactions, words 75: This subclass is indented under words 76: Compositions which contain words 77: or liquids words 78: processes of making the words 79: or other colloid systems, and processes words 80: for words 81: a lasting, nonfugitive words 82: the words 83: step, such as words 84: mere use of words 85: are words 86: appropriate words 87: subclass words 88: of soil, such words 89: conversion of fibers, filaments, yarns, or fabrics into words 90: finish words 91: absorbability words 92: are words 93: as man-made words 94: immediately after extrusion words 95: Included in words 96: animal hair, words 97: material includes or consists of words 98: animal, such as words 99: or cellulose-based fibers

Instruction: Fill in the missing spans: AACSB accreditation places several Harrison College of Business and Computing programs among the top 5 percent of all business programs worldwide. Social activities & excursions. So how did the Star Tribune end up with two for 2017? Columnist Chip Scoggins brought us one, earning it with his never-ending work ethic and eye for good stories. The second comes from the state of Illinois, where they'll need to find a new winner in 2018. Chris Hine, formerly the Blackhawks beat writer at the Chicago Tribune, started the new year at the Star Tribune as our first sports analytics writer. You can find Chris' first story for North Score, our new analytics beat, in Wednesday's Star Tribune and online at startribune.com/sports. Scoggins in 2017 covered everything from P. Fleck's hiring to the Gophers' return to the NCAA men's basketball tournament to Jimmy Butler's arrival. In February, Scoggins will cover the Super Bowl on a Sunday and leave for the Winter Olympics in South Korea the next morning. John Focke, who works Timberwolves games and is the Lynx play-by-play announcer, was named Minnesota Broadcaster of the Year. Eagles cornerback Jaylen Watkins, left, embraced cornerback Rasul Douglas at the end of the game after they won Super Bowl LIIThere were a lot of people surprised when the Eagles were able to score 38 points on the Vikings in the NFC Championship Game. But on Sunday night in Super Bowl LII at U. Bank Stadium, the Eagles showed that performance was no fluke, as they defeated the Patriots 41-33 in a record setting offensive performance. There is no doubt that the Eagles' victory over this New England franchise proves that the Vikings lost to a truly great team two weeks ago. “Philly played really good, I thought. You know I watched parts of it, obviously, so I didn't see it all,” Zimmer said by phone after the game. “I thought offensively they played great. I've seen it before, two weeks ago.”People criticized the Vikings defense after it gave up 456 yards at Philadelphia, including 352 passing yards and three touchdowns to quarterback Nick Foles. But Sunday, the Eagles carved up the Patriots in much the same way, with 538 yards of offense, 373 of it passing and three scoring tosses by Foles. “It was a good finish here,” Zimmer said [spans 1] game. “The Eagles played great, two weeks ago they played great against us and they played great tonight.”When asked if this proved how tough of an opponent the Eagles were, Zimmer said: “It did. Yeah, it was good to see that they played really good.”Here's a bit of forward thinking: A Vikings team that had its problems against the Eagles will really be tested in 2018 when it has to go on the road to play both Philadelphia and New England in regular-season games. The game was perhaps the most exciting Super Bowl ever. The result was uncertain until the last Hail Mary from Tom Brady just missed Rob Gronkowski as time expired. Patriots coach Bill Belichick said: “It was a highly competitive game, but in the end we just couldn't make enough plays. It's disappointing, but I'm proud of the way our team competed. We just came up a little bit short tonight.”“I want to tell you something, I have the best players in the world,” Eagles coach Doug Pederson said. “They're a resilient group.”Sure, Carson Wentz is an established young star, but Foles, after his postseason performance, is not going to be a backup for anybody, even if he is under contract for one more season. ## Meanwhile, Brady played absolutely unbelievable Sunday. His 505 passing yards were the most ever in a Super Bowl. And there's no doubt that this loss, after winning five Super Bowls, doesn't change his legacy. His performance proved that he remains the greatest quarterback ever. And the fact that he is 40 shows he somehow gets better [spans 2] age. The Eagles were ranked fourth in the NFL in scoring defense at 18.4 points per game, and the Patriots were right behind them at 18.5, but Sunday showed that offense rules the NFL. The Patriots and their offensive line were able to protect Brady — for the most part. The only time the Eagles were able to sack him was on the biggest play of the game. It sure looked like Brady, trailing by five points with just over two minutes to go, was going to put on one of his classic comeback drives. But instead, Eagles defensive end Brandon Graham was able to force a fumble, which they recovered and turned into three points. Sid Hartman can be heard on WCCO AM-830 at 8:40 a. Monday and Friday, 2 p. Underlying these changes are significant shifts in family formation norms, nuptiality patterns and reproductive behaviour, the growth of de facto or common law unions, and a rise in the divorce rate. This article briefly reviews the major trends in marriage and divorce in New Zealand over [spans 3] decades. There were 21,085 marriages registered during the December 1999 year, an increase of 950 or 4.7 percent over 1998. This is the largest annual increase in [spans 4] 1982. Despite increases in the number of marriages in the last two years, the latest figure is still 22 percent lower than the post-war peak of 27,199 in 1971, and it is lower than the number of marriages recorded in any year between 1965 and 1991. The general marriage rate (number of marriages per 1,000 estimated not-married population aged 16 years and over), which has been declining fairly steadily since 1971, rose from 15.7 per 1,000 in 1998 to 16.2 per 1,000 in 1999. It is too early to say whether this shift is significant, however, previous departures from the downward trend (1981 and 1990) were small by comparison. Despite the latest upturn, the current marriage rate is only about one-third of that recorded at the post-war marriage peak in 1971 of 45.5 marriages per 1,000. Many factors have contributed to this large fall in the marriage rate and these include: the substantial growth in informal or de facto unions, the trend towards delayed marriage, and increasing numbers of New Zealanders not marrying. The proportion of marriages in which one or both partners had previously been divorced or widowed has grown in recent years. [spans 5] partners. By 1999, this number had risen to 7,476 (or about one in three of all legal marriages). Divorcees accounted for about 90 percent of persons who remarried in 1999, well up from 67 percent in 1971. Divorcees who remarry are more likely [spans 6] person. This can be partly attributed to the increase in the number of divorcees. In 1971, only 4 percent of not-married people were divorced; by 1996 this had risen to 14 percent. Among those aged 40 to 49 years, 51 percent of not-married people were divorcees. Higher rates of remarriage are now another important factor in the continuing rise in the age at marriage. Divorced and widowed men and women are generally older at the time of remarriage than those marrying for the first time. The shift away from early marriage has resulted in fewer men and women marrying in their teens. In 1999, only 665 teenage girls were married, compared with 8,717 in 1971. Teenage brides [spans 7] 1999. The trend towards later marriage, which is common in most developed countries, has seen the median age of first-time grooms rise to 28.9 years, and of first-time brides to 27.0 years. First time grooms and brides in 1971 were, on average, about six years younger than their present day [spans 8] respectively. Women still marry men older than themselves, but the gap between the average age of men and women at first marriage has narrowed. In the mid-1960s this gap was 3.0 years and by 1999 it had narrowed to 2. The rise in median age at marriage is a reflection of: the trend away from early marriage, increasing numbers of people remaining unpartnered throughout their twenties and thirties, and a growing number of people living in de facto unions. At the 1971 Census, about one in three women aged [spans 9] married. Similarly in 1996, 51 percent of 25 to 29 year olds and 28 percent of 30 to 34 year-old women had never married. In 1971, the corresponding figures were 12 and 6 percent, respectively. With an increasing proportion of New Zealand men and women remaining unmarried through their thirties, it appears likely that fewer will ultimately marry. A growing proportion of New Zealanders, like their counterparts in Australia, North America and Europe, live together without legalising or formalising their union. In 1996, about one in four men and women aged 15 to 44 years who were in partnerships, were not legally married. De facto unions are more common than marriage among younger New Zealanders. Among women aged 20 to 24 years, 62 percent of those who were in partnerships at the 1996 Census were in a de facto union. For men, the corresponding figure was 73 percent. Changes in the number of divorces and divorce rate in New Zealand since 1961 are shown in Table 1. The sharp rise in the number of divorces in the early 1980s mainly reflects the legislative changes introduced in 1981. The Family Proceedings Act 1980, passed in 1981, meant that an application for marriage dissolution could be made by either the husband or wife on the grounds that the marriage had broken down irreconcilably, provided a two-year [spans 10] satisfied. Many couples who could satisfy the two-year separation requirement for the single ground of irreconcilable marriage breakdown sought the simpler Family Court dissolution. Consequently, divorces recorded a temporary high of 12,395 in 1982. Subsequently, both the number and rate of marriage dissolutions dropped, but the trend has been upward again since the late 1980s. Data for the last four years suggest the number of divorces has temporarily stabilised at around 10,000 per year. In 1999, the family courts granted [spans 11] 10,037. The divorce rate (number of divorces per 1,000 estimated existing marriages), which rose sharply in the [spans 12] trend. In 1999 the divorce rate stood at 12.6 [spans 13] 1998. During the late 1980s the rate averaged 11.8 per 1,000. It fluctuated around 12.0 during the early 1990s and has been around 12.5 per 1,000 since then. Couples who had been married for between five and nine years accounted for over one-quarter of all divorces in 1999. Almost two out of every five marriages dissolved in 1999 had lasted for less than 10 years. Annual divorce statistics, however, tend to exaggerate the incidence of marriage break-up. Cohort data indicate that 83 percent of couples who married in 1989 were still together in 1999, and for about two-thirds of couples, death, not divorce, will end their marriage. The rise in age at divorce is continuing. This partly reflects the marked trend towards later marriages, which started in the early 1970s. The median age at divorce in 1999 was 41.2 years for men and 38.4 years for women. Divorcees were, on average, almost three years older than those whose marriages dissolved a decade ago, in 1989. The median ages then were 38.3 years for males and 35.5 years for females. For women, divorce continues to be most common amongst those aged 25 to 29 years, with 23.8 divorces per 1,000 existing marriages, compared with 23.1 per 1,000 for those aged 20 to 24, and 21.3 for the 30 to 34 year-olds. Among men, the most common age for divorce fluctuates between the 25 to [spans 14] years. In 1999, the most common age group was 25 to 29 years, with 23.4 divorces per 1,000 existing marriages. In 1999, men aged 30 to 34 years had the second highest divorce rate of 22.5 per 1,000, followed by those aged 35 to 39 years with 19.9 per 1,000 existing marriages. Half the marriages dissolved in 1999 had lasted less than 12. This compares with the median duration of 12.0 years for marriages that ended in divorce in 1989. The upturn in median duration of marriage may be attributed partly to the breakdown of more long-term marriages, particularly those over 25 years duration. In 1999, 16.8 percent of all divorces were to people who had been married for 25 years or more, compared with 11.8 percent a decade earlier. Note: More detailed marriage and divorce statistics than those published in this article are available on request from Statistics New Zealand. 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<human>: Generate more: When I was a clumsy and uncoordinated middle schooler, I somehow managed to make the seventh grade cheerleading squad. I ended up loving it so much that it became the highlight of my awkward middle school years, and every year after, until I graduated from high school. One of the biggest perks that came with being a member of the cheerleading squad was the cute t-shirt the school gave us to wear on game days. It was red, with “Eagles” embroidered across the front. Like a 12-year-old's version of a letterman's jacket, our red t-shirts were a way to show what we were a part of, where we belonged. We often use material objects to distinguish ourselves, like wearing wedding bands to mark a marriage covenant, or black clothing in times of grieving. In Exodus 12, God told the Israelites to use a special tactic to protect themselves from the plague that He would be sending through the land of Egypt. The Israelites were to mark their doors using the blood of the lamb they'd slaughtered. When the Lord saw the blood above the door, He would pass over them, keeping them safe from the plague (Exodus 12:13). The Israelites called this event the Passover, and Moses instructed the elders of Israel to keep this tradition and celebrate it every year:When you enter the land that the Lord will give you as he promised, you are to observe this ceremony. When your children ask you, “What does this ceremony mean to you? ” you are to reply, “It is the Passover sacrifice to the Lord, for he passed over the houses of the Israelites in Egypt when he struck the Egyptians and spared our homes.”The blood of the lamb saved them from the destruction coming to the Egyptians as a result of the plague. After the lamb was sacrificed and the door marked with blood, the Lord brought the Israelites out of Egypt and out of slavery, by the strength of His hand (Exodus 13:16). In a similar fashion, the blood of Christ is a distinguishing mark for us, as Christians. Because of Jesus, we are able to live freely by the grace He bought for us through His spotless life, death, and resurrection. His blood distinguishes us and sets us apart as a royal priesthood of believers called to spread the good news of the gospel to others (1 Peter 2:9). All of this is possible because “Christ our Passover lamb has been sacrificed” (1 Corinthians 5:7). The blood of the Lamb is a distinguishing mark for us, reminding us of His sacrifice and setting us apart as believers. My middle school cheerleading shirt was a fun distinguishing mark, but I'm thankful to have the mark of Christ's blood to mark my salvation and proclaim my righteousness (2 Corinthians 5:21). The Israelites were kept safe from the plague by the mark on their doors, and Christ's blood is a mark on our hearts, of the redemption found in Him. Just as the Lord see the sacrificed blood on the doorposts of the Israelites, He sees on us the sacrificed blood of His Son! Hallelujah! We are redeemed by the blood of the Lamb who takes away the sins of the world! Because of Jesus we are able to live a life freely by the grace bought by his spotless, life, death and resurrection. Thank Lord for you love for us! I know I'm late to commenting, so I don't know how many will see this, but something struck me as I was reading this passage. Even thought the Bible doesn't give an exact time line between the plagues, I had always thought it was kind of rapid fire, one almost right after the other. But then we get to the last plague, and there are at least 14 days between the last plague of the death of the first born sons, as they had to keep the Passover lamb for 14 days before they sacrificed it. I wonder if this was just enough time to lure Pharaoh into a false sense of security? To think that maybe the Israelites had given up. And also, the Israelites had to wait 2 more weeks for their redemption. But God had a plan even in that, because it marked 430 years of captivity to the day. We're so sorry for that inconvenience Carolyn! We experienced a problem with our server, but the website is now up and running. -Margot, The SRT TeamI love this account. So good to have things to remember what God has done and to pass it on to the next generation and tell them what God has done. His strength brought the Israelites out. When I account to others about my past, that should be my emphasis as well. I was brought through . Can anyone explain the reason behind the ‘unleavened bread' being repeated so many times? I guess I'm wondering what is the significance of that if there is any. I love reading all of the commentary btw! Very insightful as I read this Lenten season. Thank you and bless you all! Hi Mary! I may be wrong and someone correct me if I am but I believe yeast represented sin to the Israelites and that is why they are unleavened bread during the Passover . Yes, figuratively yeast or leaven is paralleled to sin. Literally though, the unleavened bread is a prop to remind us that the Israelites left in a hurry and brought with them the unleavened dough! The blood washes us white as snow❤️ praise God! ! ! There is no sin that the Lord our God didn't shed blood for. The Israelites were not spared from the other plagues. They were touched by the pestilence, the crops dying, etc. But from this plague, this curse, God spared people. He spared them from the sacrifice of death because HE himself would be making that sacrifice. There are so many ways in which we are touched by the curse of sin. Whether it's self-inflicted or a ripple effect from others, we can't escape the impact of sin while we are on this earth. But we have His promise. We will again be spared from having to pay the penalty of death because He has died for us. His grace is unending. Thank you, Jesus, for being our sacrificial lamb and that your blood covers us forever. But can you imagine being a Jew, becoming a Christian, and not celebrating Passover in the same way. I didn't get to read this before accidentally posting. I should have said observing instead of celebrating. Passover seems like such a sacred time to worship God and be thankful and teach your children of God's faithfulness. I've said this before, but I am thankful to be living on this side of the cross. I'm thankful to celebrate freely the sacrificial lamb of God and know so well the blood that covers me. My salvation grew stronger after I experienced what the Egyptian experienced in 2003 my oldest son drowned trying to swim across a creek that was way out of its banks and going 86 miles per hour. God showed His presence multiple times throughout the time of the police and others looking for him. God was there to help me through the darkness and show me His light. He wrapped his loving arms around me. God is goodThank you for sharing your story. You are an inspiration in the way you choose Christ, even thru something so horrific and painful. Keep sharing your testimony. ❤️So sad to hear of your son's death but I rejoice in the testimony of faith you've shared. Praying that God abundantly blesses you for being so faithfulI am so grateful for my salvation. Reading Exodus and seeing how Moses story so mirrors what Christ did for us is beautiful. Reading Pharaohs story hurts. It almost angers me to to see that his heart was so hard it took death for him to relent and obey. he went after the Israelites after he let them go, and it literally took God crushing him to stop. All that death and destruction could have been avoided if Pharaoh just yielded. I think about myself and my often hard heart. Sometimes I obey so willing; but sometimes out of fear I hold back, drag my feet and it literally takes the Lord stopping my world to get me to hear Him and do what He asks. I pray that when God asks big things of me that I can move forward and do it afraid. I read it that God hardened his heart, so He could be greater glorified I think it said something like “so my wonders may be multiplied.” The first few plagues men could replicate but as they grew it was obvious that what was happening was greater than man. I hadn't ... <assistant>: Sure, let me know if you need anything else: really read it that way before this study though. Billy Graham has passed over. What impact those two words, “passed over,” have in light of the readings today. Graham's belief and acceptance of the shed blood of the lamb, Jesus Christ, for his sins was his passport to heaven. Billy Graham's message in that truth never wavered. He lived out his faith on this earth and he lives it even more fully now. So grateful for his legacy and even more grateful that we who believe will all one day “pass over.” May we live our lives that we might leave a similar legacy. As we have been reading Exodus I have been struck by the heaviness of all the happened to Israelites by God's hand, because of their disobedience. And then, to think of the AMAZING grace that we enjoy as a result of the cross, I am so humbled! You are the same God that passed over the door frames that night – you are set apart and holy. You chose to save your people, the Israelites, by your grace and mercy. You chose to save me by your grace and mercy – yet your overwhelming power continues as it did that night. Sometimes i focus so much on God as relatable – then I read this and I am struck by the power, judgment and strength of God. I bow before you Lord. I'm learning this too. We have tried so hard to make God relatable that we've stripped Him of His transcendence-His holiness. Bigger and greater and more powerful than we could ever imagine. That's the God who I want to worship . His thoughts are higher and even though my prayers may go unanswered, they will not be Unredeemed. I received him as a gift when he was three days old and refused by his mother. This little guy followed me everywhere and we were inseparable, even in the house, which my parents were gracious enough to allow for a time. The first few nights we had fashioned a box for him to sleep in and he would cry and jump each night because he couldn't see me, so I would pull the box near my bed and let my hand rest into it so he would know I was there. He'd calm and and we'd all finally welcome sleep. This sweet boy was so precious to me and I couldn't imagine my childhood without him. Over the course of the years, Pepper grew so big and into a ram that wouldn't let anyone except myself near him, without the promise of injury, and in preparation for a move my parents found a farmer willing to take him in and I was devastated. I'll never forget the day I had to say good-bye before I left for school. I knew him inside and out and I couldn't imagine saying good-bye but I had to. My sweet, black lamb stood full grown, anticipating time with me, tied to a fence watching me leave that morning, knowing something wasn't right, watching me turn my back and walk away from him and I'll never forget that feeling, my heart hurt so incredibly and yet he was just a lamb, God allowed His SON to act as the bloodied intercessor on my behalf, turning His back on Him as He suffered . I can't fathom that feeling, can't begin to understand that kind of ache. I don't know what became of my boy, I hope he lived a long beautiful life in fields of green BUT I am so thankful that I know what became of Christ. I know that the very babe, God's sweet lamb, that was born into a cave walked out of one our Victor and words will never satisfy my thanks! I am recently saved, and this is my 2nd lent season with Jesus Christ as my Lord and Savior. however, this is the first time I have really comprehended the history of the people of Israel and the meaning behind the Lamb of God. I am moved, simply moved by the Lord and his ability to share and show me the sacrifices made for me, so that I would be saved. Sin washed away, undeniable love, made new and clean by the blood of the Lamb of God! Amen, praise you Jesus! The lamb of God was sacrificed for me. May I wear the blood of Christ and know that I am free. Free of the world's sins, free of my own human failings, free. Praise be to God! A new thought came to me as I was reading Exodus 12 this time. They were to pick the perfect lamb on the first day and it would be with the family for two weeks. Then they were to kill it. Get to know it's quirks, personality, dislikes, and a whole lot of likes. I don't know why the 14 days but it makes me think from God's perspective. Know His personality, His dislikes, and so many things that He loves. Then kill Him so you can live. Jesus, thank you for your sacrifice. You are more perfect than the sweetest young lamb without blemish. You brought more joy and everything good but even the sacrifice of a lamb was costly. That's a really interesting point. It's like they weren't meant to blindly sacrifice. “Just go kill a lamb” but have it live with you so you know it's value. That this is the creature that will carry your sin. And its the same with Jesus. He didn't just “die for us” when you get to know Jesus through scripture it puts a new meaning to the sacrifice he made on the crossVery good analogy! I have been amazed that in my 61 years, growing up in church I never connected these Old Testament connects to Jesus in so many ways outside of Isaiah, Jeremiah and Psalms. I've read that the time each Israelite family had the lamb in their house allowed them to see firsthand its perfection. During those days, the entire family saw that this lamb truly was without blemish, completely pure and spotless. Likewise, as you've already been doing in your post, it's so important that we spend time contemplating Jesus and His perfection so that we understand what a precious gift God has given us in sacrificing His own Son for us! Remind me, Lord, daily that I have been rescued and led out of Egypt by the sacrifice You made for me as the Lamb of God, once and for all . lest I desire to return. Thank You for the gift of redemption and rescue. It never ceases to amaze me how God's plan is laid out in scripture. It just proves that no matter what, God had a plan and was in control at all times. How comforting this is when we look at our own life and feel like it is out of control. It may be out of our control . but is never out of God's control. I know, this is my favorite part about the Old Testament. All of the moments that seem like odd coincidences are actually perfectly laid out by God. Beautiful! The Blood of the Lamb is a phrase I frequently hear in Christian circles from pastors, in hymns, etc. It is a phrase that had, in my mind, been separated from that which it represented. Jesus is our Passover Lamb, the Lamb that was slaughtered to save. Reading the story of the Passover reminds me of how much we need someone to die in our place. Praise God for sending His Lamb to cover us until He returns. Yes! This hit me too. It's become one of those “Christian sayings” that seem odd. But when you really see the significance as tied to the OT, it takes on a whole new richer meaning. Thank you, Jesus, for rescuing us from our slavery to sin. Thank you for the Promised Land that awaits us in Heaven. My heart is singing and rejoicing for the Joy of the Lord is my strength. I know that I know this because I can sing and dance and to rejoice in him. My heart is bubbling forth today with His joy that is in my heart. This is the day that the Lord has made, I will rejoice and be glad in it. He fills my heart with the over flowing of His love. Our God is an awesome God. I cannot wait to be in His presence and to feast at His table. God, you are so good to me, you are my Father who loves me. I long to hear your heart that beats. I long to be where you are, and just to be by your side. This is my hearts desire. You are my Father who is in Heaven.

Human: The rest of this: “FASHOLA diagnoses the problems and goes at it like a skilled mechanic. He wants to know what will work and what will not work. He is transforming Lagos State ruthlessly because he is not a politician,” says Nobel Laureate, Prof Wole Soyinka in his recent comment on the administration of Governor Babatunde Fashola of Lagos State. Fashola, last May 29, marking the second year anniversary, took a retrospective look at his achievements in the first half of his first term at the helm of affairs in Lagos State, with a promise that there would be no relenting in the pace and tempo of the administration’s purposeful governance. Opening his speech, he stated: “If governance under our presidential constitution were a game of soccer, today would mark exactly the half-time period. Any experienced footballer knows that in any game his side has approximately ninety minutes to win or lose the game plus a few odd minutes the referee may decide to add on as extra time. “In strict constitutional governance, there is no provision for extra time. Moreover, governance is not a game of pleasure or fun. Good or bad governance can make the difference between life and death; failure or success; life long sadness or joy for millions of people. ”Fashola who spoke at a world press conference held at the Banquet Hall of the Lagos House, Ikeja to also commemorate democracy day, said from inception, the administration has made a point to invest every minute of its time in achieving its overall policy thrust of poverty alleviation and sustainable economic growth as well as the sustained transformation of Lagos into Africa’s model Mega City. “As we resume the second half of the on-going serious and purposeful governance in Lagos, I assure you that there would be no relenting in our pace and tempo till we successfully cross the rubicon”, he said. The governor, who noted that the widely acknowledged achievement of his administration has been the product of the team work of great men and women who work with him in the public service, gave kudos to everyone in the Executive Council who have allowed him to be leader. He particularly noted that the partnership of the other two arms that constitute the government namely the legislature and the judiciary has been immensely helpful through the journey so far. His words: “Your unprecedented demonstration of appreciation of our modest efforts so far will certainly fuel our determination to do more to justify the immense confidence reposed in us”. Conducting a rapid overview of his administration’s achievements before a spell bound audience comprising senior journalists, party chieftains and representatives of civil society, Governor Fashola affirmed that an efficient transportation network is the pivot around which the economy of any modern Mega city revolves. He declared that the successful implementation of the revolutionary Bus Rapid Transit (BRT) System has been a major accomplishment of his first two years. He added that the BRT innovation has introduced a culture of better understanding among social classes on Lagos roads as people of low, medium and high social classes ride on the same faster, safer, predictable, relatively cheaper and more comfortable buses from one destination to the other. He also noted that the BRT scheme, which currently creates employment for not less than 2,500 persons, is currently being expanded to cover Yaba, Oyingbo, Iddo, Oshodi to Mile 2, Apapa to CMS and ultimately the Iyana-Ipaja-Igando-Ikotun corridor. “Work has been equally completed on the dredging of water transportation routes from Tolu_Ajegunle Canal_Tin can Water Front; Mile 2 – Oke-Afa and Tincan Water Front to Liverpool Bridge while work is on-going on Osborne-Ikorodu; Badore_Osborne and Ikorodu-Ijede-Badore routes. “On rail transportation, we are committed to delivering two of the planned 7-rail road Network designed for the State namely, the Red Line from Agbado to Marina and the Blue Line from Okokomaiko to Marina”. According to him, the designs for the 27Km Blue Line from Okokomaiko to Eric Moore and the 37Km Red Line from Iddo to Ijoko are ready, with the contract tenders already being reviewed, adding that only two issues stand in the way_‘Financing and People’. Fashola explained that massive construction and modernization of hundreds of roads and bridges including provision of street lights in virtually all local government areas of Lagos State today will not only impact positively on efficiency of transportation and enhance property values but also improve safety and security and better economic productivity. He said some of the major road projects complete with modern facilities such as street lights, pipe ducts, drainage channels and beautification of medians, which have been delivered to the public include the Ago Palace Way Extension and Okota Link Bridge in Amuwo-Odofin Local Government; the second phase of the Adetokunbo Ademola Road on Victoria Island; the Bourdillion-Alexander-Gerald roads in Ikoyi; the Montgommery road, Aje road and Commercial Avenue all in Yaba. The governor revealed that the state has paid the contractor to move to site for the immediate commencement of work on the transformation of the Lagos Badagry Expressway into a 10 lane international highway complete with Bus Rapid Transit Routes, pedestrian Walkways and Light Rail mass transit routes. He said for the administration, massive infrastructure renewal and expansion across diverse sectors is a key opportunity of virtually constructing the way out of poverty. Governor Fashola noted that the massive infrastructure renewal is also strategic to job creation as thousands of workers are engaged at construction sites in the state at a time when millions of jobs are being lost across the globe, adding that in the health sector, approval has just been given for the employment of over 1400 new medical professionals to further boost public sector health delivery capacity. “The transformation of Oshodi is undeniably the flagship of our efforts to decongest the state. Not only does traffic now flow smoothly through the former notorious slum and crime zone, the entire area is being renewed into a serene and appealing ... Assistant: Here you go: environment”, Governor Fashola told his audience. He affirmed that if Oshodi can wear this new look, there is no doubt that every part of Lagos State has the potential for positive transformation which the administration is determined to make a reality. “The new Simpson Transfer Loading Station is a statement of the quality and standard of solid waste management that will characterize the future of our state at full capacity. It is the first of a series of such stations to be located across the State to compact wastes into smaller volumes for faster and more efficient evacuation to dump sites with fewer trucks”, he disclosed. Fashola said the skill acquisition programme, combined with the Micro Finance Scheme has created an army of several thousand of self employed young men and women running small and medium businesses of their own and employing others with the most recent being the delivery of 1,255 Taxi Cabs for new transport business entrepreneurs and the cab operators who are their employees. He recalled that the Lagos State Security Trust Fund with the strong and active support of the private sector, the commitment and passion of men and officers of security agencies has reduced and managed crime to a level unprecedented in the history of any State in this country. His words: “As I speak, our Central Command and Control Security Centre is at almost 90% completion stage and the number of CCTV cameras being installed is growing to ensure the utilization of modern technology to effectively monitor and police every inch of Lagos State”. “We are equally going beyond our constitutional brief to re-equip and motivate the Nigeria Prison Service in Lagos State to ensure more humane treatment of convicts and speedy dispensation of justice in Lagos State”. He added that the state also recently hosted the most colourful, globally recognized and successful 81st edition of the unique Eyo Festival also known as The Adamu Orisha Play. Plus, Drake reacts to Serena Williams's U. Open loss, & Jen and Sandra have a post-double-date debrief. Tom Brady and Gisele Bündchen are photographed holding hands on their way out of a movie amidst rumors of trouble in their marriage. “We should have seen the Tom Cruise movie,” Tom mumbles, as he and Gisele sit in the backseat of their car, on their way home. “Sorry, I wasn't paying attention.” She turns her phone off and pushes her hair out of her eyes. “What, you didn't like it? ”Tom looks out the window, while Gisele reaches into her handbag, fumbling around, looking for something. Their driver turns around and shouts over the partition, “If I may interject, Mr. Brady, I remember thinking that both of the actors in that movie looked like off-brand versions of you.”Tom puts his hand on Gisele's. “The season's about to start, babe,” he whispers. “Things will be getting back to normal.”Serena Williams loses in the semi-finals of the U. Open in a massive upset. Drake, her rumored boyfriend, attends the match, standing for much of it. Drake, wearing headphones, stands outside Serena's locker room after the match. Venus Williams leans against a wall nearby. Drake pulls off the headphones and walks over to her. I was gonna ask if you think I should give her some space, and head out .”Jennifer Lawrence says in an interview with The New York Times: “. then Josh (Hutcherson) called me and told me he had a dream about Woody (Harrelson). And then my friend came over to my house and told me she had a sex dream about Liam (Hemsworth).”Jennifer and Sandra wait outside for the valet. Justin is in the bathroom; Bryan went back into the restaurant to get his coat. you guys seems so happy, and tan, and you know . you guys could be stock-photo models, for like, the word healthy.”“Yes, Sandy, I love Bryan, I've told you,” Jen says, as she puts her coat on. it all? ”“Well, you know, it's a lot,” Sandra says, checking to make sure Bryan isn't coming up behind them. “I saw him turn kind of pale yesterday when he saw his name on like five magazines while we were in line at Barnes & Noble.”“Oh yeah, with Justin, it took about six months for him to, you know, not tense up every time we were going to go out to walk the dogs, or leave a restaurant. And he was semi-famous before! ”Deep Throat may have just really wanted a promotion. Rather than wanting to air wrong-doing from an ethical, do-gooding, “the world needs to know! ” stance, as has been the popular belief, Mark Felt's role as an informant to Bob Woodward may have been instigated by much more self-serving motives. This according to author and “Watergate expert” Max Holland, who has a book coming out on this very topic (Leak: Why Felt Became Deep Throat). Holland claims that Felt, an F. official, was basically using Woodward in his quest to ascend to the role as the bureau's director. “He thought he was the natural heir because effectively (J. Edgar) Hoover was suffering from old age, and Felt, in the last year of Hoover&apos;s life, was running the bureau,” Holland says. But, to his chagrin, after Hoover's death, Nixon named L. Patrick Gray as acting director. Undeterred, Felt started to give Woodward information about the Watergate break-in, hoping that would make Nixon think Gray was not doing a good job. Holland says his scheme worked at first, as Nixon began to lose faith in Gray. but, of course, it all backfired when Felt's intel soon directly implicated Nixon in the Watergate scandal, and the White House, according to Holland, subsequently learned who was doing the leaking. If this was a fable about animals, now would probably be the spot for a moral about a fox learning that a little ambition can be a good thing, but overzealousness can lead to the entire forest getting destroyed, or something like that.

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They don't give any thought to where they put their toys and shit. Everywhere you step it's just more shit they [spans 7] shit. They look exactly like the rest of their friends. All of them dressed alike and talking/gibbering alike. Their ideas on how to dress and act are taken from bad TV shows and you can't tell them any different. Their taste in music isn't developed at all so they listen to the most horrid crap and put the same song on repeat for several weeks. They don't fully appreciate the long summer vacation they get from school each year. You barely get two damned weeks away from work each year yet somehow they're all whining and complaining when they have two or three months to piss away. <bot>: spans 1: instead of asking for autographs? Probably not, unless the toys are cool, but I'm not a Winnie the Pooh type of spans 2: do you find that you throw things out the window instead of disposing of it in a more polite manner? 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For some reason THEY get all the toys and [words 3] because you're 'older' you get stupid shit like socks. They can play for hours [words 4] not get bored while you're sitting [words 5] with the rest of your life. Their parents think that any shit they do is [words 6] 'wonderful' and if you don't agree they think you're a child hating asshole. You have to drive them places because they can't go long distances alone on their bike or drive themselves. You have to start avoiding places because packs of [words 7] dropped off by their parents and left to roam around for hours. [words 8] them around in huge minivans, getting in the way and pissing you off while you're trying [words 9] somewhere. They try to act all 'grown up' and demand to be treated more adult but then they act like the young brats they are. They round up their age or use fractions. Instead of being 7, they [words 10] a half or 'almost 8'. They wake at the [words 11] the concept of shutting the hell up [words 12] still sleeping. Privacy of others is beyond their understanding and they barge into rooms all [words 13] knocking. Their voices are always loud and shrill until it comes to something you need to hear [words 14] they're too 'shy' to speak loudly. They want [words 15] crap over and over and over every damned day [words 16] be so bad if it was crap you liked to eat too. WASHINGTON (AP) — Melania Trump, and son Barron, continued [words 17] time-honored tradition of first ladies receiving the official [words 18] tree. A military band quartet played holiday tunes [words 19] 19 1/2-foot Balsam fir from Wisconsin up the White House driveway. [words 20] a holiday red turtleneck and a coat draped over her shoulders, and Barron, in a dark suit coat, white shirt and [words 21] the North Portico. They circled the tree and walked over to Jim and Diane Chapman, who presented it. The Chapmans own a Wisconsin Christmas tree farm and won an annual contest sponsored by the National Christmas Tree Association. “This is a beautiful tree. [words 22] the first lady told the Chapmans [words 23] their family on Monday. “I hope you can come and visit with us.”The White House chief usher, [words 24] superintendent picked out the tree during a [words 25] trip. Trump and Barron gave their symbolic approval, the tree [words 26] carted off to the Blue Room where, after a [words 27] of a monstrous chandelier, it will become the holiday showstopper for a president who has vowed to put Christmas back in the center of the winter holidays. During last year's presidential campaign, Trump railed against the preference for saying [words 28] Christmas,” characterizing it as a “chipping away at Christianity.”“And we're not going to let that happen anymore, folks. I'll tell you,” the then-candidate said at a March 2016 news conference in Florida. “A lot of times I'll say at the rallies around Christmastime we're going to start saying Merry Christmas again. You know, they don't say [words 29] anymore. The department stores don't put it up. We're going to start [words 30] parties are going out. The subject line of one emailed invite references a White House “Christmas reception,” while the language of the invitation itself refers to a [words 31] the day after Thanksgiving, but was delivered early this year [words 32] who are spending the holiday at their estate in [words 33] Florida. While the Trumps are away, a small army of volunteers, decorators and florists from around the [words 34] descend on the White House on Friday and spend the holiday weekend transforming every inch of the 132-room mansion for Christmas, [words 35] every public room. The White House food kitchen and [words 36] go into overdrive preparing all of the food and cakes, cookies and pies that [words 37] served at the parties, along with the [words 38] is on display for weeks and never served. Cookies in [words 39] Bo and Sunny were always among the first items to be slipped into purses for [words 40] home. Trump does not have a pet. The first lady tweeted last week, after she returned from accompanying the [words 41] and China, that the souvenir Christmas booklet for [words 42] printed. The tweet included a photo of what appeared to be pages of the booklet strewn about [words 43] desk. URBANDALE, Iowa-Governor Branstad gave a [words 44] the Westside Conservative Club Breakfast at the Iowa Machine Shed on Wednesday. He also expressed his excitement for his upcoming ambassadorship to China once [words 45] complete. “This was not an easy session. As many of you know, [words 46] has not been good for the last several years. But the good news is that [words 47] new leadership, and things are changing. We just had US Secretary of Agriculture Sonny Perdue visit Iowa, and he is a strong supporter of the Renewable Fuel Standard.”When talking about the state legislature, Governor Branstad said, “We made some tough decisions this year. We made [words 48] decision to balance the budget and [words 49] without raising taxes, and we did it without doing massive across-the-board cuts like we saw with Culver. Even though we had to do over $100 million in de-appropriations, no reduction was made to K-12 education. For the first time in years, the budget for supplemental state aid was set within the first 30 days, and we [words 50] schools by $40 million.”“Reforming collective bargaining [words 51] collective bargaining system our public employee unions paid virtually nothing for health insurance, while taxpayers were paying $23,000 a year. We felt it [words 52] under collective bargaining. If you've followed what they did in Wisconsin six years ago, they've really given school districts a [words 53] this year, Governor Walker was even able to provide a [words 54] of the savings they've had. Compare that to Illinois, where the public employee unions control everything. They haven't had a budget in over two years, [words 55] unfunded pension liability, they have the most [words 56] is really great. Illinois is totally out of touch, and that's why companies and people are leaving there in [words 57] bills that he signed into law on Tuesday. The first legalizes fireworks in Iowa, and the second allows distilleries to serve their products on-site. “This [words 58] session. That's because we had finally [words 59] state Senate who worked with the Republican House and Republican Governor.”“I want to thank you for [words 60] Young, Rod Blum, and Steve King [words 61] Congress. For years, I've been saying [words 62] unsustainable. The cost has gone up [words 63] many insurance companies drop out of the individual market to the point where Iowans in 94 out of 99 counties literally [words 64] choice under the Obamacare system. That's why we need to replace it with something affordable. That's what the [words 65] Representatives passed, and hopefully it will be passed by the Senate. The present system is broken, and it's failing. We can see it in our own state and across the [words 66] his plans during his ambassadorship in China, Governor Branstad said [words 67] goals is to get American beef back on the market in China. “We sell them a lot [words 68] pork. I want to get the market open for beef again. We haven't been able to sell beef in China because of [words 69] ago. I want to be able to serve Iowa premium beef at the [words 70] is confident that Lieutenant Governor Kim Reynolds will be able to fill his shoes. “Kim [words 71] a great Governor. I have worked with her over [words 72] years. First of all, she spent 14 years as a county treasurer. She was a leader among county treasurers and [words 73] her colleagues. She got the Best [words 74] Award as a small county treasurer in Iowa. As Lieutenant Governor, she's been a full partner, leading our STEM effort and developing a long-term energy initiative for the state. She's co-chairing Future Ready Iowa to coordinate education workforce and economic development. Water [words 75] to be high priorities for her.”The [words 76] his opinion on Iowa Attorney General Tom Miller's [words 77] to allowing Reynolds to choose her own Lieutenant Governor after she steps up as Governor. ## “I was Lieutenant Governor back under the old system, when the Governor and Lieutenant Governor were [words 78] separately. But then the people of Iowa [words 79] to have them elected as a team for continuity [words 80] Lieutenant Governor serve in the executive branch rather than in the legislature.1990 was the first year we did that, [words 81] well ever since. You need to read the constitution and the law together, and I think the Attorney General has been given some very bad political advice from his staff, so at the [words 82] his mind. I think it's absolutely wrong, [words 83] of Iowa recognize that. We need to have [words 84] represents the people of Iowa, and not his own partisan viewpoint or that of his staff. I think [words 85] a new Attorney General.” He also mentioned Miller's flip-flopping from being [words 86] supporting abortion. For the first time [words 87] Republican Attorney General Association has targeted Miller with an ad campaign based on his partisan flip-flop. When asked what he will miss most when he leaves [words 88] is the people he will miss the most. I'm a lifelong Iowan except for my two years in the Army, and I really have enjoyed traveling the state, meeting people, and getting to know the history and heritage of Iowa. Our state has a lot to offer, and I'm not going away permanently. I'll [words 89] back to visit for the State Fair and the holidays. We certainly are going to miss it.”Awright, I got a secret to share: I'm [words 90] fan of The Amos 'N Andy Show from the early 1950s. This was a [words 91] was way, way ahead of its time. The writing was sharp and witty and as clever [words 92] and this show had an amazing cast. Especially Tim [words 93] "Kingfish" Stevens and Nick Stewart, who played Lightnin'. So since its Saturday and a time to kick back and have some good laughs, let's check in with the boys down at the meeting hall of The Mystic Knights [words 94] The Amos 'N Andy Show episode [words 95] Fly". I recently went on a weekend getaway to [words 96] first time heading down the Georgia Coast, I wanted to share my experience with you all! This is a quiet and relaxing island with a lot of Southern Charm! It [words 97] week leading up to the trip! I was a little [words 98] it was going to rain all weekend but [words 99] out to be amazing! Since it is Summer in Georgia, it was around 85-90. It was very humid the entire weekend! Which I pretty much expected. I had to take most of my photos on my iPhone because the lens on my DSLR kept fogging up. It's a 4 1/2-5 hour ride (depending on if you stop) from Atlanta. I ended up renting a car for this ride. You can fly to Jekyll Island if you like by flying in to Brunswick Golden Isles airport. Brunswick Golden Isles serves daily flights from Atlanta. ## Also, Savannah International Airport and Jacksonville International airports are short 60 minute ride. If you're in GA, AL, Carolinas, or FL, I recommend driving. Once you arrive on the island, you will have to pay for a pass to enter the island because it is a state park. The daily passes are $6 per day and $10 per day for larger RV's/vehicles. The daily passes are good until midnight. I opted to purchase one daily pass, since we didn't plan to leave the island. Keep in mind that there's a $4 increase during major events and holidays. Jekyll Island Club Resort: I stayed here during my visit and it was the most hospitable experience. I have stayed in plenty of hotels but they do not compare to the service received here! The employees were super friendly they and went above and beyond to make sure you enjoyed your stay! With 4 restaurants on the property, you can never go hungry! There's a ton of activities including Croquet and the Georgia Sea Turtle Center. You really don't have to leave the hotel if you don't want to! So many things to do. The Jekyll Ocean Club is the Modern sister hotel to the Jekyll Island Club Resort. FYI, if you're staying at the Ocean Club or the Club Resort, you have access to both of the hotel's amenities. The pool was amazing here! Next time, I'm going to check out the Adult-Only Rooftop. Other Hotels in the are include The Westin, Hampton Inn, Days Inn, Beachview Club Hotel, Holiday Inn Resort and Homes 2 Suites is currently under construction. I love going to the beach! Honestly, that was the only thing I wanted to do when I went on this trip. It's something about lounging on the beach it's so relaxing. One of the perks of staying in a hotel is the pools (duh) LOL. If you're going to be staying at one of the Jekyll Club Properties, the pools are amazing! At the Jekyll Island Club, I loved lounging at the Pool House and enjoying lunch and a drink while chilling by the pool. Make sure you bring a book or earphones to listen to your favorite podcast and shut the entire world out. We had an 8am tee time and honestly, we really didn't play golf we just went out there to take photos. But the Indian Mound Golf Course was beautiful and it was the perfect spot to watch the sunrise. One of the things I loved about Jekyll Island is that there's plenty to do for kids. You can take them to the Summer Waves Water Park, The Georgia Sea Turtle Center, Summer Camps and more! When I do go on trips, that's food is probably the first thing I'm thinking about! I love eating at places I don't have at home and experiencing the local favorites. This restaurant sits right one the water and has some beautiful views! I was so happy we got to eat here because I thought it was going to rain all day. The Wharf recently upgraded the restaurant and enhanced the outdoor seating area with an entertainment stage! As we were walking in, I saw the band getting ready to set up. I highly recommend the fish tacos and calamari! The seafood was very fresh and they made their own tortilla chips. Also the fuego margarita was very tasty! The Pool House is located at the Jekyll Island Club Resort and it is open to the public. The bar specializes in frozen drinks and the strawberry daiquiris were so refreshing! I always have a hard time finding a really great turkey burger and The Pool House knocked it out of the park! At The Pool House, you will find your typical summer eats such as salads, burgers, sandwiches and pizza. Saturday night, we decided to venture off the island and went across the bridge to Saint Simons Island. We decided to check out Iguanas Seafood and it did not disappoint! Iguanas Seafood serves Wild Georgia Shrimp and it was so good! The location is perfect and I loved that outdoor seating was available. Also, after your meal you can enjoy some of their amazing soft served ice cream! I brought a ton of dresses and light weight clothing on this trip. I pretty much knew what to expect living in Georgia during the summer. Oh wow, this trip looks and sounds like so much fun! I haven't ever been so I'll be saving this for when I can make the trip! I've never heard of Jekyll Island but after seeing all these photos really makes me want to go! Sounds like you had a fabulous time! This sounds like the perfect summer trip – albeit quite toasty, but worth it, right? I love these fun and summery vacation photos! Makes me sad I haven't hit the beach or pool even once this summer season! This looks like such a beautiful resort and the hotel is definitely charming. Love your outfits too, that striped dress is so cute! One of the subjects I am most passionate about, is the Holocaust. Listed below you'll see the 10 newest additions to my collection and if you visit the board on Pinterest you'll see the entire collection. Publisher's and Writers - do you have a book on this subject you'd like to see featured and reviewed? I'd love to hear from you. Better late than never, right? Here is a recap of our Easter weekend. We went to Michigan to spend the weekend with my best friend and her family. A good time was had by all. We arrived on Friday afternoon and that night, we began the Easter festivities by coloring Easter eggs. It was Julianne's first time and she had a blast! Just to prove that Claire is not always happy, this is how she acted when I wouldn't let her eat an egg with the shell on it. She likes to throw fits. My friends don't believe me. Saturday, Randi and I got an all day pass while the guys watched the kids. We went shopping, did some more shopping, ate dinner, and then shopped some more. I have no pictures of it because we were too busy shopping! The kids were so excited Easter morning. They came down the stairs hand in hand to see what the Easter bunny had brought them. Checking everything out. I've never seen a kid go through an Easter basket slower. She enjoys everything! This one is my kid too. She didn't want to get the one in the bush because "it was in the dirt". We sat out on the patio because Easter was a spectacular day in Michigan! The sun came out, finally! Randi was hard at work cooking so I figured the least I could do was keep the kids busy. We had a patio party. Julianne and I did "cheers" while we were still shouting "party" so now everytime I pour a sippy of milk for Jules she clinks my glass and says "party! " Sweet. After baths, it was time to party. We got to experience Just Dance on the Wii. So much fun! Jules and I showed off our moves! We had the best weekend! We always have so much fun with them! We are so glad that we get to live this close to each other, even if only for a few short months. We are cherishing every moment of it! Thanks guys for an awesome Easter weekend! We love you! so many cute pictures! I'm glad that everyone had such a fun time. Enjoy all those kiddos! ! The Merrimack men's hockey program has picked up a graduate transfer from Lake Superior State. Defenseman Matt McArdle will join the team for his senior season after playing the last three years for the Lakers. McArdle, 22, is originally from Maryland. Before joining the Lakers in 2015, he played for the Fargo Force (USHL) and Sioux City Musketeers (USHL). McArdle also attended the highly-regarded Shattuck St. Mary's Prep School in Minnesota. Over his first three years in Lake Superior, McArdle has appeared in 83 games, totaling one goal and adding nine assists from the blue line. Ironically, Merrimack will open its season by hosting Lake Superior State this October. Under graduate-transfer rules, McArdle will be able to join the program immediately. John La Farge and Paul Gauguin never met, which is just as well. Had they done so, these two painters, one an American academician, the other a French bohemian, would surely have despised one another. Indeed, even without meeting Gauguin, La Farge was comfortable dismissing him as “wild and stupid . (a man who) went into the wilderness and lived the simple . I've posted about this just about everywhere but I can not stress how much I love this announcement. I know that I am in the minority as a Vintage player striving for the Pro Tour but this change perfectly fits my goals for Magic. I cant wait sink more time into Vintage and not feel like I am sacrificing to much time on my goal of making the PT. HYPEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEEVery frustrated with people who are playing blue decks that auto lose to shops. But if they want to win leagues it's really smart. Shops only shows up during the weekend. I wanted to let everyone know that all my Vintage Challenge Streams will be hosted on youtube directly following the streams. The best players in the entire world are around a 65% win rate are the GP+ level. Losing around half the matches of Magic you play is completely normal. 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<prompter> Complete this text: The transgender icon made her first public appearance after coming out at New York&apos;s Pride festival Sunday. Jenner was reportedly in attendance to shoot an episode of her upcoming E! docu-series I Am Cait. Her appearance may have been a surprise, but it was exactly the right venue. According to ET Online, Jenner appeared at the party to support her friend and fellow trans icon, Candis Cayne. Cayne was performing at the party and even dedicated a song to Jenner during her set. (The song was, appropriately enough, "I Am a Woman. ")The party wasn&apos;t meant to be Jenner&apos;s first public appearance — that was set to be July&apos;s ESPY Awards, at which she&apos;ll receive the Arthur Ashe Courage Award. Still, there&apos;s something poetic about the Olympian&apos;s debut in public after first coming out on the cover of Vanity Fair. Jenner is currently balancing two personae: that of Jenner the former athlete and Jenner the current trans role model. So far, she&apos;s done beautifully, but that hasn&apos;t stopped critics from attacking her. NBC&apos;s Bob Costas went so far as to publicly slam the ESPY Awards&apos; decision to give her the Arthur Ashe award, saying that coming out as trans only required "some measure of personal courage" and wasn&apos;t truly deserving of the honor. In surprising everyone with an appearance among her newfound community at Pride, Jenner is multitasking. She&apos;s both embracing her new supporters while defiantly standing up to bullies like Costas. She&apos;s staking her claim as both athlete and trans icon, making clear that the two Jenners aren&apos;t two different people. They&apos;re just parts of a strong, complicated woman. For her part, however, Jenner isn&apos;t breaking a sweat. She&apos;s just having the time of her life. We&apos;ll see more of Jenner&apos;s Pride appearance after I Am Cait premieres on E! July 26. Watch the trailer for the show below. Admissions letters are coming in and you&apos;re excited, but anxious. The high of getting into schools is coming down and you need to make a choice — without a whole bunch of time to give due diligence. So what makes your choice, do you go with your favorite school colors or whichever school got the farthest in your March Madness bracket? The school with the fewest vowels in its name or the one with the highest deer-to-student ratio? Which alma mater on your future license plate will cause other drivers to judge you? (Pro tip: Any and all. Having just graduated from college last June, I have some distance and perspective to this milestone. Perhaps most ironic, I didn&apos;t actually choose between any two or three or fifteen colleges — I only got into one. To this day I feel lucky for that (see Consideration #12). But my own experience with college admissions requires I note up front that the ability to choose a college is itself a great privilege, one for which you ought pat yourself on the back and thank others in your life for helping you achieve. That said, it helps to have some decision-making calculus, if only so you can deal with the tons of collegiate propaganda being sent your way by email and snail mail. Without further delay, here are 13 things to consider when choosing where to spend the next four years of your life. Talk to people who go to the colleges you&apos;re eying. It&apos;s difficult to figure out what college is like if you both have never been a student at that college and you don&apos;t know what it&apos;s like to be a college student at all. In this way, some of the advice given to you by current students will be unintelligible. What you&apos;re looking for in their responses is a kind of vibe, which itself will vary from student to student and day to day. Just don&apos;t ask the student(s) a question as hopelessly broad as “What&apos;s it like to go to X? ” It&apos;s, uh, okay I guess. Visit the colleges you&apos;re choosing between. Take the tour and drink the Kool-Aid, but also take some time afterward to just walk around yourself. Pretend to be a student and sit in on a class, have lunch on campus, go to an event. While you&apos;re doing this, take note of what you like and don&apos;t like about each. Determine how you actually deal with class size. The notion that smaller class sizes are always better has entered into the zeitgeist without much nuance. Smaller class sizes are better for individual attention, but if you like to be left alone until you decide to seek a professor out in office hours, a larger school is probably better. Smaller classes really do tend to weave a closer knit community, but large classes bring with them diversity and a larger set of niche opportunities. Also recognize that class size can differ within college. The psychology program at a liberal arts college might very well be larger than the religious studies program at the largest public university in the country. Rankings matter, BUT: National rankings tend not to make a huge difference unless you&apos;re dealing with the tails of the distribution and the school has a well-acknowledged brand. Where rankings do matter is in some individual measures. It is worth looking into meaningful records like graduation rate, or employment within six months of graduation, or freshman retention rate. Some niche rankings and related notions of reputation also matter for particular kinds of programs. If you&apos;re dead set on getting a business, banking or consulting opportunity, many large firms restrict their recruitment efforts to a handful of colleges. Tuition matters a lot, but take the long view. Speaking of rankings, check out the average student indebtedness. If the cost of the school is high, seek out information on concurrent student scholarships and student employment opportunities, or money you can earn while you&apos;re there. If it&apos;s expensive, try to map out what tangible services you&apos;re getting for the cost. Conversely, if the tuition is low try to find out if the tuition is expected to rise, and what you&apos;re not getting for the lower cost. Weather matters a lot . It seems safe to say too that weather only matters if it&apos;s especially bad. There&apos;s not much to say here other than make sure you know what you&apos;re getting yourself into. Be aware of differing academic calendars. Do your target schools vary between semester, quarter and block systems? There are trade-offs to each. A semester gives the most time to a given class, so it&apos;s possible you&apos;ll get into deeper topics and have more time to prepare for exams and papers. A quarter system will put the semester system on steroids, but you get to take more courses over the year. In a quarter system, the courses themselves are shorter, so the pain of a not-great course selection is less. There are only a handful of colleges with the block system. If you applied to one of them, you probably know all ... <assistant> The completion of this text could be: about that. ## Balance what&apos;s in the college with what&apos;s outside the college. Many students, from prospective freshman to alumni, for some reason think about the community only in terms of how fun or safe it is. Those factors are important, but the surrounding community of a college is important in at least two other respects. Consider how the community relates to the campus: Is the campus enmeshed in the wider community, opening itself to events and getting involved in community affairs, or is it something of an island? Does campus culture reflect the community, or do they each provide a fresh break from each other? Last, consider what the surrounding community can promise by way of opportunities — can you intern downtown, find a job there perhaps? 9. Map out potential activities and classes for your first year. This seems onerous, but a good way to determine the tangible differences between a school — get beyond the “feel” of a campus — is to crack open the course guide and events calendar from the previous year and map out a potential first year. It&apos;s sobering and exciting all at once to see a real example of how your year could go. Once you have these plans in front of you, it&apos;ll be possible to make comparisons between opportunities available at one campus and the opportunity costs of another. Figure out before you need to how flexible a campus is . How easy is it it to change your major? How much long does it take to apply for study abroad? Is getting involved in research possible? You&apos;re going to change your mind in college, probably more than a couple times. After all, the alternative is to be a slave to your high school self&apos;s conceptions for your future. To investigate these questions, you might consider cold-calling the relevant campus department, posing as a current student. Try as you might, you won&apos;t be able to fully comprehend the experience a college has to offer. College life is too multivariate. I spent the best four years of my life at UC Davis and I don&apos;t know what it&apos;s like to go there. I know what it was like for me to go there. What you ought to consider as you&apos;re looking through brochures and meeting students and going on tours and simulating the college experience is that, at best, you&apos;re only ever seeing any given college from one perspective at a time. This leads to a crucial point, namely . No matter where you&apos;ll choose, you&apos;ll be fine. I could cite psychological studies here to show you that even after experiencing ostensibly positive or negative life shifts (think: winning the lottery or becoming a double-amputee), psychological baselines return to normal levels after six months. Or I could just say that it&apos;s human nature to adapt to your environment, however great or awful you find it to be at first. Last, I could say that while choosing a college is surely a large part of determining the college experience, a significant component of your experience will be determined by you. Consider that you bring a lot to a given college, too. Folks tend not to think of college in terms of what they can give, seeing only what they can get. And I get it, you&apos;re going to pay and perhaps go into debt attending college — so why should you care about contributing to the campus? For one thing, it&apos;ll make you happier. And doing so will likely improve both your grades and your resume of experiences. So when choosing a college, consider yourself and ask what can you contribute. Different colleges may offer different kinds of opportunities for your skill set and interests in this respect. As the world grows more interconnected, little can be hidden from public scrutiny. And in moments when the U.government doesn't seem transparent enough, someone feels compelled to leak the information to us all. But the Benghazi hearings are more than the ever-changing GOP-led trial, which some are branding as just an attempt by the Republican Party to ruin any future attempt by Hilary Clinton to run for president. These whistleblowers are just another example of how lawmakers and citizens are clamoring for the days of government secrets and cover-ups to be firmly put in the past. And one common denominator between recent scandals connected to leaks and whistle-blowers? Rep. These days, the Republican representative from Michigan is all over the news. As head of the House Intelligence Committee, he is highly involved in many governmental proceedings, and very outspoken. Regarding the Benghazi hearings he said, “I do think we're going to see more whistleblowers. I certainly know my committed has been contacted. I think other committees have been as well.” While he declined to elaborate on what intelligence these new whistleblowers might have, his eagerness to see more whistleblowers come out of the woodwork is interesting enough. As Chair of the House Intelligence Committee, it comes as no surprise that he is highly connected to quite a few incidences of national security leaks. What is intriguing, however, is that his opinion on the value of whistleblowers seems to be case dependent. There are times when Rogers was not so appreciative of whistleblowers and worked feverishly to plug any leaks. In 2010, Politico reported how Rogers demanded the execution of whistleblower Army Pfc. Bradley Manning, who released a video to Wikileaks that showed the U. military killing Reuters reporters and children in Iraq and allegedly provided WikiLeaks with 80,000 secret intelligence documents. Prosecutors have since announced that they will not seek the death penalty when his trial begins later this summer. As previously mentioned, Rogers appears more than ready to sing the praises of the whistleblowers who have become emboldened as the Benghazi hearings progress. Rogers also commented in the same press conference that “I will tell you, we have had people come forward . and say, we would also like to talk, we feel a little bit intimidated by this, but we have information we think is valuable.”So is it a question of what is valuable? Or is Roger's opinion reliant on who the information benefits? The GOP-led hearings are certainly not doing favors to the Democratic Party. "Will the Sun Fit" is Michael Cawcutt's first book. Influenced by childhood memories, "Will the Sun Fit" follows the adventurous ways of Jack. Through out his day, Jack wants to know if the Sun will truly fit in his window, the truck, his pop bottle, the lake and even his dreams. This book speaks to children and adults alike—as it dares even the oldest of adults to think like a child. I knew from the beginning I wanted the entire book to be black and white with the exception of Jack's hair and the Sun. To help push the playfulness and color of the Sun—my son Cayden finger painted 4 24x36" tagboard sheets. These were photographed and photoshopped into the illustrations.

<prompter> Can you tell me how to fill in the missing spans: UPDATE! I don't mind if you read and comment on my post, but keep in mind it may have info in it based on old information. TanksonTarawa.com has the most accurate info on the Sherman tanks used on Tarawa, their sole purpose it to document their use! So please check their awesome website out. The first Marine use of the Sherman was on Tarawa. The tanks were M4A2 small hatch tanks, these tanks were issued with no training, and the crews of the I Marine Amphibious Corps Tanks Battalion had sixty days in the states to learn how to use their tanks. Then the island they ended up pre landing had no place for them to drive the tanks to train on them. So they went into combat with no real training with the Marines they were going to fight with. The tanks had no waterproofing, and no deep wading trunks, and could only drive through 40 inches of water. They also had the same problem the Army had in Europe, the tanks radios were not on the same frequency as the infantry units below the battalion level. They could talk to aircraft though. They decided they would only need one com0pany of medium tanks, the rest of the battalion would be made up of M3A1 lights. This single mixed battalion would be the only Tanks to support the assault. C Company of the 2nd Marine tank Battalion had 14 medium tanks. All the tanks had names starting in the letter C. The HQ for the tank battalion was almost entirely killed off and their radios lost during the initial landings so each platoon of M4 tanks fought its own war, as would the light companies until the later stages of the battle. This outstanding model was done by none other than the famous and very talented Steven Zaloga, click the picture for more info.1st platoon reinforced with two HQ tanks were let out of the LCM on the reef and had to drive into shore, they lost three [spans 1] so. There were scouts sent ahead to mark a safe path along the reef, but the markers they placed in many cases floated away, and most of the scouts were killed by enemy fire. The three surviving Shermans from 1st platoon were named Cecilia, China Gal and Chicago. Cecilia, a command tank, linked up with China Gal, and they tried to find a way inland. They had trouble getting inland. The seawall was a hellish nightmare, filled with dead and dying marines, wrecked LVTs and other obstacles and this prevented the tanks from moving. While trying to find a way inland Chicago took on water and shorted out. China Gal and Cecelia managed to find a way inland, and found nothing but Japanese troops, and when a Japanese tank, a Type 95 Ha-Go, wheeled into view, it got off the first hit, and got very lucky, its 37mm round hit Cecelia in the main gun and wrecked it. The rifling was damaged, and the breach was open so fragments bounced around the turret and scared the hell out of the [spans 2] hurt. China Gal blasted the Japanese tank. Cecelia raced back to the beach to check out the damage, and then later hooked back up with China Gal, the company commander jumped from the tank with the disabled gun into China Gal. They spent the rest of the day working with the gyrenes, blasting Japanese pill boxes, Cecelia using just her machine guns. They worked between Red-1 and Red-2 the rest of the day.2nd Platoons first tank off LCM sank up to turret killing the tank. The next two LCMs tried another spot, and first LCM took damage and sunk on a reef, blocking the second and it managed to back a little way out before taking fire and sinking as well. The tank in this LCM managed to get out, and onto to the reef, only to drown in hidden shell hole moments later. The rest of the 2nd platoon made it ashore on beach Red-3 and moved across Red-2 to hook up with their infantry. These tanks were ordered to support an infantry assault across the islands airfield, and ended up out in front of the marine grunts. One took a bunch of fire and tried to back up and fell into a shell crater and rolled over. The other was damaged by a Japanese soldier with a magnetic mine, and then shot up by a hidden AT gun. They were in the fight for 20 minutes or less. I suspect since the tanks names didn't make it into the book I'm using as a reference that no one from either crew lived to tell the tale.3rd Platoon re-enforced with one HQ tank managed to get all four tanks ashore, and had less trouble doing so than the other two platoons. Their good fortune ended their though. Cannonball, a command tank with the platoon [spans 3] ashore. The commander on Red-3 ordered the tanks to move out ahead of the infantry, with no men in close support, and for the tanks to kill anything they found. In under an hour, Condor was knocked out, how it was knocked varies in various reports, some claim a US Navy [spans 4] out. Cannonball took some damage from and AT gun, and in trying to get out of its line of fire managed to fall into a ditch filled with Japanese fuel drums. Apparently fire from a Navy fighter ignited the fuel, but the crew got out. The survivors from both crews were trapped behind enemy lines for a while. Charlie got taken out at close range by an AT gun. The Jap AT gun put multiple rounds through the tanks side. Commando lived up to its name, ranging far ahead of the Marine lines and racking up two AT guns, and five pillboxes before enemy fire knocked it out. Colorado had a gasoline bomb thrown on it, but the driver raced back to the beach and drove into the surf, putting out the fire. By nightfall, only Colorado, China Gal and Cecelia were operational, and China Gal and Cecelia tied into the Marine lines on Red-1 and Red-2, and Colorado did the same on Red-3. Things were all messed up, lots of ships had [spans 5] need. The most important being main gun rounds for the tanks M3 75mm guns. Late that night heavy Japanese machine gun fire rained down on the base of the pier that they were using to bring in supplies. Colorado was sent to help, and shut the Japanese machine guns down soon after. Things had gone poorly for the Marine tankers, but not just them, the attack was so disorganized due to much higher than expected casualties, the Marines only had a small toehold on the island, and a Japanese counter attack during the night would very likely have rolled the Marines right back into the water. Luck was on the Marines side, the Japs were even more screwed up and couldn't manage one. The Marines started trying to bring in more troops at dawn. These troops were met by a hail of machine gun fire from the Red-1/Red-2 junction. Cecelia, still without a working main gun was dispatched to engage the Japanese machine gun positions at the junction. The tank was only in action for a short time before it slid into a shell crater and its electrical system shorted out. The tank was at a steep enough angle the turret could not be rotated with the manual [spans 6] abandoned. I'm not sure if it was shock from the impact when it slid into the shell crater, or if there was water in the hole was deep enough to flood the tank. The M4 hero of the day was China Gal, around 1100, she hooked up with a bunch of gyrene grunts and they attacked south from Red-1 towards the Green beaches. They never actually moved along the beach though, they stayed inland, behind the Japanese positions facing the beach, basically attacking from the Japanese defensive lines rear and flank. Two hours later, they had rolled up the whole western shore, opening the way for more troops to come in, and not under murderous fire. In many cases China Gal had to drive right up to the well-hidden concrete bunkers and blast them through the front slit, or rear door at point blank range to kill them. That night China Gal [spans 7] around. They slept under the tank and would be back in action in the morning. On day two, Colorado spent the day on Red-3 trying to kill Japanese positions at the base of the Burns-Philp Pier. Several of these positions had been wiped out the day before and re occupied by the Japanese over the night. Colorado worked closely with a bulldozer, the tank would move in close and blast the machine gun position and then the dozer would cover it over with sand, whether the Japanese inside were dead or not. They worked out a system with the marine scouts who had led them in on the reef. The few that survived were used to scout targets for the tanks. The tankers made at least one of these scouts ride in the tank and show them were the action was from the inside at least once. The tank crews wanted to give the scouts an idea of how blind they really were, so he could appreciate and take it into consideration while they scouted. The scouts worked out a system where they would get the tanks attention by beating on the hull with a spent 75mm shell, because they rang like a bell, and could be heard inside the tank, and then using his [spans 8] target. He did this by aiming at the target, and then they would hold up fingers for how many yards away the Japanese soldiers were. This worked well enough, but ringing the shell/bell on the hull put the ringer in danger of enemy fire. Of course, once he got the tanks attention, if was the Japs shooting at the scout who had to be worried. These men would also drag dead and wounded marines from the path of the tank. When the progress on the Green beaches was noticed, it was decided to send in 1st Battalion 6th Marines and B Company 2nd Tank Battalion ashore there, B Company was made up of light tanks. One of the first LVT's in hit a mine on the reef and blew up, once again losing a lot of important communication gear. Due to the heavy presence of mines on the reef and beach, 1/6 diverted north, delaying the landings, but ultimately coming ashore as an intact fighting unit, the first of [spans 9] invasion. The 1/6 landings went relatively well, but the [spans 10] trouble. They came in on the wrong tide, and only one platoon would make it onto the reef, only to be 700 yards from shore, and high tide coming. The rest of B Company was diverted Red-2, landing before 1st Platoon got onto the reef. All five M3A1 light tanks from the 1st Platoon got onto the reef, but only two would make it to land, the rest drowned in hole in the reef. The rest of the company got ashore only to lose another tank in a shell crater, leaving only two running. The light tanks laagered in an abandoned Japanese airplane revetment and their crews dug foxholes under the tanks for the night. Crews that lost their tanks, dug in with other crews, under their tanks. At night, anything that moved got shot at, so everyone made sure they had a hole by nightfall. A few more lights from B Company would arrive before nightfall, but the rest still remained offshore. As night fell on the second day, it was clear the Marines were winning, but it was also clear a whole hell of a lot of Marines had been killed. One of the infantry commanders still alive, Lieutenant Colonel David Shoup, issued a report that did not mention anything about a group of Marines being cut off holding a particular section of the island in it and concluded it with “Casualties: many. Percentage dead: unknown. Combat efficiency: we are winning. Lt, Col Shoup.”At 0200 more B Company light [spans 11] problems. Of the first two lights ashore, one shorted out its electric system and was towed ashore by the other, only to be lost to enemy mortar fire. All through the night more [spans 12] shore. One platoon lost three out of five light tanks to drown out electrical system or other water related problems. By Morning they had five M3A1 tanks from two platoons ashore. Later that morning 1st Battalion, 8th Marines attacked the Japanese positions at the base of the pier at the junction of Red-1/Red-2. They five light tanks supported the attack, and much like their larger cousins in C Company, the tankers found it hard to find anything to shoot at, so infantry scouts would often [spans 13] targets. When the targets turned out to be a pill box or bunker, it was found even firing point blank into the embrasures bunkers with little success. They found using 37mm canister rounds at point blank range, fired through an opening worked well enough. They lost a M3A1 to a Japanese soldier who dashed out and threw some kind of explosive onto the engine deck, blowing the engine up and setting the tank on fire. They lost another [spans 14] well. The light tanks would be pulled out and replaced by SPM, the SPM was an lightly armored LVT with a 75mm howitzer in a small turret. These vehicles fared little better than the light tanks. China Gal would be called upon to help an attack [spans 15] marines. Elements of two companies from 1st Battalion 2nd Marines had managed to push to the center of the airfield on D-day. The Japanese figured out these marines had pushed far ahead, and attacked behind them, cutting them off. These Marines attacked to the south the next day, trying to break out while the other marines tried to fight to them. The attack to save them faltered, leaving them the nearly 200 Marines of 1/2 still trapped, now in a 200 by 50 yard area of thick bushes and underbrush, and they were low on ammo. A little after 0800 China Gal, and the 1st Battalion, 6th Marines started an attack to relieve the trapped Marines. They also had seven more light tanks from B Company, who had made it to shore, helping. Major Jones, the commander of 1/6 kept tight control on the tanks, not letting any get further than 50 yards in front of the advancing gyrenes. Jones improvised a way to keep in communication with the tanks and kept one light tank back at his HQ to use its radios to control the other tanks. They attacked along a very narrow front, only about 100 yards wide. Even with the improved communications with the infantry through the use of the light tanks radios, right up at the front edge were the tanks were actually fighting, the commander of China Girl still found it necessary to open his hatch to talk to the Marines outside. To make it safer, the commander of the Sherman would rotate the turret, so his hatch was to the rear, then pop the hatch and rotate the cupola, the early split hatch commanders cupola rotated, to use one of the upright hatches to shield them from fire. The tank infantry team advanced steadily, losing no more tanks, and crossing 800 yards, they releaved the cut off Marines by 1100. By this point the Marines supply lines had stabilized and a good flow of supplies was making it ashore, but one thing [spans 16] not. Ammo for the M3 75mm gun was not in the cargo being sent from the ships offshore. This forced the tankers to scavenge what they could from the knocked out and [spans 17] tanks. The two operating M4 tanks would be reduced to firing 75mm pack howitzer ammo, it didn't seat right, and they didn't know how it was fused, but it kept the main guns in action. Back at the junction of Red-1 and Red-2, where a large Japanese bunker complex, which included the Japanese Commanders command bunker, was still holding the Marines off. At 0930 a lucky mortar round took out one of the bunkers, causing a huge secondary explosion, this allowed Colorado to move in and knock out the other bunker guarding the [spans 18] one. While the fight went on, the two B Company light tanks left in the area were used as ambulances, hauling wounded Marines back to an aid station. As night fell, the Jap strong point with the huge bunker still stood. The M4 was used to haul supplies up to prepare for the next mornings renewed attack. Late that night at 0400 almost 400 Japanese troops rushed the Marine lines, attacking B company 1st Battalion 6th Marines, and the Marines won the fight, but it had come down [spans 19] combat. At 0700 on the morning of the 4th day of the battle, Navy aircraft bombed the hell out of the last of the japs holding out on the south east part of the island, a long narrow section, ending in the sea. The air attack was followed by marine artillery and naval gunfire support. One of the Pearl Harbor survivor battleships was off shore to deliver the fire. The USS Tennessee would remain offshore until December support the Marines through the mop up operation. Freshly landed, 3rd Battalion 6th Marines passed through marine lines, heading for the Japanese strong point points on the east side of the Island. Colorado, China Gal and seven light tanks led the attack. They moved in a tight formation of tanks and infantry and rolled up the Japanese troops. The fight had left the Japanese, and many committed suicide. By 1310 the Marines of 3/6 had reached the eastern end of the island. The two M4A2 tanks proved to be decisive weapons at this stage, tearing through the last of the Japanese resistance in the area. The last [spans 20] casualties. With only the support of a pair of [spans 21] secure. The cost had been one third of the landing force becoming casualties, 1696 killed and 2101 wounded. The Marines salvaged all the M4A2's they could and took them back to the LSD [spans 22] battles. One M4A2 remains on Tarawa, Cecelia, no matter how hard they tried she wasn't going to come out of the shell hole, and as of 1992 she was still there, a steel monument to the Marines, Sailors and Soldiers who died taking the Betio, Tarawa Atoll. The Marines learned a lot of hard lessons [spans 23] units. Another big problem was the vulnerability of the tanks to water damage. It was also clear, the infantry units needed to train with the tanks they would be supported by in combat. The Marines of C Company had been thrown into combat with little training on the tanks, but still proved to be key players in the conquest of the island. The Marines would begin applying the lessons they learned, but not before their next use of the M4, this time M4A1s at Cape Gloucester, a swampy, jungle island in the Solomons, and not the best place for any tanks, but the M4 would prove it worth there as well. Cape Gloucester: [spans 24]. <assistant> spans 1: of six tanks to shell craters and swamping while doing spans 2: crew, but no one was spans 3: leader aboard, Condor, Charlie and Commando and Colorado were the names of the five M4A2s that made it spans 4: dive bomber took it out, but photos of the wrecked tank make it look like an AT gun or infantry close assault took it spans 5: just dumped whatever cargo was easiest into the LVTs and other boats moving things into shore and there was a lot of trouble getting the things the tankers were going to spans 6: traverse, and had to be spans 7: pulled almost all the way back to Red-1 and holed up with a few infantry spans 8: rifle to indicate a spans 9: the spans 10: light tanks of B Company had a lot of spans 11: tanks arrived off Red-2 and started to land and immediately started having spans 12: B Company lights tried to get to spans 13: climb into the cramped tanks and lead them to the spans 14: light to a mortar attack as spans 15: reach the group of trapped spans 16: was spans 17: drowned spans 18: main spans 19: to hand to hand spans 20: area the Japanese were still holding out in, at the junction of Red-1/2, with the big bunker, the area responsible for the majority of the Marine spans 21: SPMs the Marines finally crushed these last Japanese holdouts by 1305 when the Island was reported spans 22: Ashland, and they were rebuilt in Hawaii and used in later spans 23: about using tanks at Tarawa; the biggest problem was communication with the supporting infantry spans 24: Who would be nuts enough to try using tanks in a swamp? The USMC that's who

Instruction: Generate more: It was a cold and rainy fall day just after Thanksgiving. I had received a letter from my “Friends and Neighbors” asking me to come down and take a Physical. The Draft Board has struck! So here I am in line in my underwear. When I got to the hearing test I noticed some strange things going on. While testing my hearing they changed the equipment four times. That did not happen to anyone else. I was asked if I could really hear the signals on the last test and I said, "I gave the right answer didn't I? " He said "Smart Ass,get into the next line. " About 20 minutes later this great big mean, old-looking Master Sergeant called out my name and I answered. "Follow me," he said. We went down a long dark corridor, turned left into another corridor and went to the last office on the right. I stepped in, the shade was down and there was on old Regulator clock on the wall with roman numerals on the dial. The office smelled musty. There was an old steam radiator hissing under the window. "Shut the door and sit down," he barked. Then he blasted me with a barrage of unusual questions: "Do you advocate the overthrow of the United States Government? Are you a member of the Communist Party? Do you have a Criminal record? Have you ever been arrested? " I thought "Oh shit what have I done? "As beads of sweat were appearing on my face I answered, "NO," to all of those questions. I guess he could see the terror on my face when he said those infamous words, "Relax. " I want to make you an offer you can't refuse. If you enlist for 3 years I can get you out of the vacation in South East Asia (Vietnam). I can't tell you anything about it because it is Top Secret," he said, so I signed up in the ASA unassigned for 3 years. He gave me a great big multi-page form and told me to fill out everything I had done and every place I had lived for the past 20 years. I said, "But I am only 18 years old. " "Do your best," he replied. I arranged December 27 as my start day so I could spend my Christmas at home. I took my very first train ride to Fort Dix, New Jersey, for basic training. I had shot for 3 years in my High School's NRA Rifle Club, so I managed to shoot at expert level with the M1 Garand. Winter training is so wonderful. NOT! After Basic Training I received orders to go to Fort Monmouth, New Jersey Signal School. My newly assigned MOS was to be a 993.1 Electronic Warfare Specialist, with a special 14-week crash course. I got married between Basic and Ft. Monmouth, and am still married after 40-plus years. She was a Lutheran, so while at Ft. Monmouth I started Lutheran adult confirmation classes. I shipped overseas a week before confirmation. Also while at Fort Monmouth, I joined the USASCS Honor Guard Drill Team. It was quite an experience, a lot of work and I had a good time. I went to Fort Hancock to train on intercept equipment, along with the millions of horseshoe crabs lining the beaches. When we were asked where we would prefer as overseas assignment, I relied on what I had learned in basic training. You never get what you ask for! I did not want to go to Shemyna, Alaska, the outermost Aleutian Island, so that is what I chose as my choice. Sure enough I got orders for Sinop, Turkey. Then I started hearing rumors (i. horror stories) about Sinop. They were so bad that I figured that they couldn't be true. It was worse than the rumors, and I was there. When I got my orders and the one-way airline ticket to Turkey via Pan-Am, I also found out that I was going alone, and to the other side of the world. It was just me and my pocket bible into Islam territory. Two other GI's just happened to get on the plane in Rome, Italy, on their way to Ankara, Turkey. We three arrived just two weeks after an attempted revolution, and 15 minutes before curfew. We were met by an US Air Force Sergeant and told to grab our gear and run to a Deuce ½ parked in front. They started to drive off as soon as we threw our gear in the back, and we had to run and dive into the back. The truck passed sandbagged machine guns manned by Turkish Army at almost every intersection as they drove like wild men, not even stopping or slowing for red lights, and with horn blaring. We arrived at the Air Force billets in Ankara just as curfew started. We could hear shooting all around us as they closed the gates. What a welcome to Turkey. Where is my home return ticket I asked? They just laughed. They put us up on the 4th floor of the ten-story Air Force Billet. Next morning at chow I heard the 6th floor was closed because of a 50 caliber strafing by a Turkish Air force fighter plane that turned and accidentally shot the building while shooting at the rebels at the War College. Many of the Air Force residents took pictures of this from the roof of the building looking down on the plane. I saw some of those pictures. Where is my return home ticket? A few days later we returned to the airport to fly the infamous THY Airlines to Samsun, Turkey. I managed to snag an English-Turkish dictionary on the way through the airport, complete with the book tax stamp. Flying THY Airlines was quite an experience. It was a high wing Fairchild turboprop. We had a cute sexy stewardess wearing a colorful all black Burqa. For an in-flight snack they passed an old brown paper bag filled with hard candy left over from WW1. Take all you want if you can break a piece loose from the stuck-together mass. I soon learned the easily recognized aroma of the Turks. It was a mixture of old B. vomit and sickening sweet strong perfume that failed to disguise the other odors. The combination along with the smell of the Turkish cigarettes still lingers over my thoughts. I knew the rumors about Turkey were wrong. Now I wished they were right. The flight was uneventful. Going over the narrow pass I could see the small grass, mice, ants, and mountain marmots. We could not fly this low with the wheels down. With the wheels down we would have been 2-3 feet higher. I think we did manage to fly under some tree branches though. The trip to Sinop from Samsun was in the back of mail run truck along a creekbed and across country. Surely this could not be a road. Riding on top of the mail bags while being beaten half to death, bouncing around in a box with one small window in the back door was quite an accomplishment to survive. When we arrived at Sinop and the hilltop, there was no room at the inn. All the new barracks were full. Even the yeni (newcomer) billets were full. So they sent us off to the new gymnasium. On the left side of the gym a two lane bowling alley was being built. There was no wood floor or equipment yet, but there was a row of bunks on the bare concrete floor. My bunk was one of the two at the very end that were below grade, in the pit for the future pin setting machine. No windows or shades on the high windows. No charge for the extra noise from the gym. Confirmation of my Top Secret Crypto Security Clearance did not arrive for two more weeks so I could not go to work in Operations. Most of my time was spent at the Enlisted Mens Club or waiting for detail work, lying on my bunk. Remember the pinsetter pit? No one could see me on my bunk unless they walked all the way to the end of the ally and looked down. People would look in the door and see no one, and they'd leave. Never did they call out or come down and look. I was invisible for most of the two weeks. After receiving my security clearance I was moved into a converted day room in Washington Hall, which held about 30 men in one room. Everyone in there was on permanent day shift because they worked support jobs. I was the only one in the room that worked Tricks. I was assigned Trick Four. It was tough sleeping when the others were all awake, or getting ready for ... Output: The completion of this text could be: an inspection. I tried to get it changed, but I was told that once you are assigned a spot, you stay there until your tour is over. See my section about “Trick Four Party” below for the exception to this rule, and hints on lease-breaking. Somehow I managed to get the other 29 in the room and about 25 others to petition for my immediate relocation after five months and one “Trick Party” of cohabitation. I got the grand tour of Ops and was quite surprised. I found out that I would be in rooms one, two, and three. I was trained for rooms two and three, but the mission in room one was so Top Secret that we had no idea we would be doing that. On-the-job training was how it was done. Room one was the primary mission and room two was the secondary - when nothing was happening in room one. I was put on a position in room one the first day. Trick four was working days that week. The schedule was six days on first shift (Days), then two days off followed by six days on second shift, two days off, and six days on third shift, Midnight to 7:00am, followed by three days off! Then the whole cycle started over again. Just as your body got adjusted to when to eat and sleep, you screwed it up again. Instead of getting into a rut, your body was in a bog. The EM Club became your relief when you couldn't sleep and offered real food when your body suddenly decided that it was hungry. To flop your sleep cycle back to the day shift after a week at third shift we usually forced ourselves to stay up and awake until 10:00 p. That is why we had three days off. Otherwise one would fall asleep in the workstation. We frequently went down the Hill into Sinop after breakfast, mostly for something to do. About two weeks after I arrived in Sinop, we got a new Chaplain, and he also happened to be Lutheran. About a month or so later he started confirmation classes. Having so many activities to choose from I decided to give up watching Television (yah, right on, heh heh) and go to the classes again. Maybe I can finish them this time. (See Trick Four party)In the winter time dense fogs would roll across the hill. When we had Physical Education in the morning, and at times one could not see three feet. If you were in the middle of the group, where the NCOs and Officers couldn't see, most of us just stood in place and counted the repetitions with the poor suckers in the front row who were working up a sweat. Loved that morning fog! During the fall, we experienced a massive "escargot migration". These large white, eating types of snails covered the entire hill. Every surface was totally covered with billions of these snails. The chain link fence around OPS was solid white with them. The roadways and sidewalks were covered and we could not walk without stepping on them. ## Crunch squish, crunch squish. It was awful to walk on them, killing them by the hundreds. After the crunch and squish they were slippery to walk on. Running was out of the question. If you stood still too long, they too would cover you. Love those slime trails. Like slugs with shells. Fortunately, this only lasted a couple of days. I was suprised that they did not show up on the mess hall serving line. I had just climbed into my bunk in Jackson Hall. My trick had worked third shift, I had breakfast and was getting ready to sack out. Suddenly I heard the rumble of very loud jet engines. Rolling over, I grabbed my eyeglasses and put them on. I reached up to the window and pulled the blinds apart just in time to see it. A huge Russian Badger Bomber was gliding over the quadrangle headed towards Operations! The flaps were down full as it lumbered overhead at about 100 feet off the rooftops. The big red stars on the wings looked huge. The wheels were down to help slow the airplane, and the damn Bomb-Bay doors were open full. Inside the Bomb-Bay I could see a man in flight gear strapped to the forward wall. He was operating what looked like a 70mm movie camera with two circular film drums mounted to the top. "Smile, you're on candid camera," I thought to myself. Seconds later he was out of sight. Well so much for feeling sleepy, as I tried to peel myself off the wall. What a subtle attempt for a “spy overflight”. We were having an IG Inspection that day and our Big Brass had just arrived an hour earlier. When the Otter flew in with them, the pilot had goofed and radioed that they were on board. I guess Ivan decided to say, “Hi, we know you are there! ”On Third shift sandwiches were sent to us in OPS at around 3:00 to 3:30 AM. One night I arrived in the break room before the sandwiches. There were perhaps three of us in the break room when a mouse ran across the floor and behind a long board lying on the floor and against the wall. I kicked the board against the wall as hard as I could. When we pulled the board away from the wall we found the mouse dead. Just then the sandwiches arrive along with 5 others. We all grabbed a sandwich. One of the guys that just came in opened his sandwich and put the dead mouse inside it, re-wrapped it and placed it back into the box of sandwiches at one end. By now about ten of us knew about the “Mousewich” and hovered nearby for an unsuspecting victim. The guys piled in, getting their coffee and sandwiches. Finally a sergeant came in and grabbed the “Mousewich”. He fiddled around talking and took his time while jabbering with some of the other guys. Finally he slowly unwrapped it and started talking again. The suspense was building and the tension is crackling in the room. At last he opens his mouth wide and starts to put it into his watering mouth. Guess what happened? As most of us started to gag, one of the guys panics and says “Sarge, what kind of a sandwich do you have? ” He withdraws the unbitten sandwich from his mouth. As he opens the sandwich he says "I have a (sees the dead mouse) OH MY GOD! " Drops the sandwich on the floor and runs out of the room to the head. Everyone else checked the insides of their sandwiches and split, back to their duty stations. We had lots of extra sandwiches left over that week. I bet that he still thinks that the Turks in the Mess Hall did that prank. I had been in Sinop for about five months when our Trick Chief called us together. He said, "We have good news and bad news. First the good news: It's your turn for a Trick Party. The bad news is that the last three Trick parties were big flops, and poorly attended. " He was told that if this party was a flop, there would be no more Trick Parties! It fell upon us to uphold ASA Tradition and throw the best party we could. We all agreed to 100% attendance. It was decided to hold it on a Saturday night during our break between third shift and first shift to give us a day to recover. I arrived a little after eight PM and there was quite a crowd. The trick Chief arrived a little later. He had a head start at the EM Club and was quite drunk already. I found an opening at a table and started playing cards, eating and drinking double Rum and Cokes. We played, told stories, jokes, and sang songs. We were having a great time all of us, but around ten pm they ran out of Rum. I said, "Give me a 7-7. " I had about 12 Rum and Cokes and the 7-7 hit me like 10 tons of bricks. One sip and my body went totally numb from head to toe. I tried to get up, but I fell on top of the table, laughing hysterically. My Trick Chief helped me back up and decided to help me get back to my room before he would have to carry me. It was quite a sight, two drunks staggering out the door. It took three or four attempts to climb the stairs in front of the Enlisted Mens Club, but we succeeded. I was in hysterical laughter the whole time. The last thing I remembered is collapsing on my bunk fully dressed. Instruction: Generate more: I have no knowledge or memories of anything until about 10:00 am the next morning. (See Lutheran Confirmation story). Everyone in Washington Hall hated me. The 29 roommates were particularly vile. I had stirred up a hornets nest. Nothing they could do would shut me up. Cold showers during which I could not even feel the water! I was told that at one point they had put me in my wall locker upside down. I did not believe them. They took my tape recorder and recorded me in the wall locker. They even sent the tape to my wife, stateside. Monday I received my eviction notice! I was assigned a room in Jackson Hall with the rest of Trick four. It turns out that I had missed out on the best part of the party: Around 1:00 AM is when the riot broke out. Two Turks and a Military Policeman got thrown out of the building through closed windows. The inside walls and furniture were trashed. The party was a resounding success. ASA Honor was upheld. All future parties were CANCELED! But the Trick 4 Party was a success! Sunday morning after the Trick 4 party, was also Confirmation Day. Jesus had called to Lazareth to rise and come out of the tomb. About 10:00 AM I woke up. I felt like I had died and gone to Hades. Flames seemed to be devouring my insides. My head was about to explode. I hurt all over and felt sick. I should have died, I thought, but here I was half alive. He was calling to me now so I rose up and staggered to the head and started to clean myself up. Back in the room my stuff was a mess. I found my Class A uniform and put it on. I think the tie was on backward. Some Good Samaritan outside the chapel helped straighten it around to the front. I do not remember much of the sermon that morning but I was finally confirmed into the Lutheran Church. And I never got drunk again. It was over 10 years before I could stand even a Coke again, but I still do not like Rum. We had just gotten off of Third shift and were required to go to a special meeting in the “Safe” conference room in OPS for a briefing. Near the end of the “Top Secret Briefing” we were informed about some people being transferred on Temporary Duty to other bases along the Black Sea. We were told not to discuss any of this information outside of this meeting ever. This was our last night on Third shift. We had the next three days off to flop our bodies over to first shift schedule. I went to the mess hall for a breakfast of old eggs, lumpy canned milk, and watery orange juice. I changed clothes and hooked up with one of my Trick Four buddies and rode the deuce into town. I went to see Hussein Ugar in the model boat and jewelry box shop, and my buddy (I think his name was "Parker") went into the variety shop two or three shops up the street. About 15 minutes later, Parker walked up to the door and motioned me to come outside. He was white as a sheet. He said that he did not feel well and needed to go up to Base immediately. I questioned him but he was evasive. We went back to the deuce and he climbed in and I joined up with two other GI's so I could stay in town. (No soloing allowed in town for safety reasons. The deuce left and "Parker" went back to base. The next morning we ... Output: The completion of this text could be: were locked down. No one was permitted off of the base. Later a bus full of CIA/NSA agents in suits arrived. We had an all hands meeting in the Gym. The agents manned security at the main gate and at Ops. Ops was shut down to attend the meeting. The agents introduced themselves and told us we may have had a major security breach. My trick 4 buddy, "Parker" was, apparently, not as sick as he put on. Upon returning to base he immediately went to security to report what had happened to him: Less than two hours after hearing about the transfers in OPS, he was asked point blank by a Turk in town about the movement! How did they hear about it so fast? Where was the leak? Was there a bug in OPS? Many questions with few answers. They informed us that there were several KGB agents working on base. They know who they are and could control their access to information. If they busted them we might get new agents that they did not know about, and that would be worse than keeping the ones they knew about and could control. The CIA then shared the following information with us:About two weeks previous to this incident, the Russian Embassy in Ankara changed Ambassadors. The morning after the new one arrived he and the “Charge' d'Affairs” of the embassy got into a car and drove over the mountains and creek beds and arrived in Sinop. He checked into a hotel, went out to a restaurant for dinner. Then he went to a movie. Sinop movies were typically open air, projected in 16mm film onto a whitewashed section of a Roman wall. You sat where you could on rocks, boxes, and a few chairs. Real classy movie theater. The Ambassador went back to the hotel and retired for the night, and the next morning he returned to the embassy in Ankara. He made no contact and met no one while in Sinop. The movie was not that great to warrant the arduous trip over the mountains. His main purpose was to be seen with the Charge d'Affairs so the local spy agents would recognize him when they came in to report. Sinop was a hot spot for the KGB. We were told to double our security efforts. If anyone talked in their sleep, they would be provided bunks up in OPS to sleep. "Watch out and be cautious of everyone, even your best friend. " We all started sleeping with one eye open after that. Were you a spy? The walls had ears! Tension was always high. You could sleep, but you could never relax. No wonder the EM Club was so popular. It used to get very boring late on Third shift. Not much action, so I went hunting. Usually after 3:00 AM I would go into the ELTEX files and, card by card, searched for the listed signal to see if I could find it. There were many "unknowns" listed and I would concentrate on them. One night I pulled a AUEF that was possibly associated with the Badger Bombers. We had lots of them over the Black Sea. So I started hunting for puffballs, the Badgers' main radar. I found a flight of them, about 30 all going the same direction. I carefully DFd their position and direction. Then I switched tuners to the frequency band of the listed AUEF signal. Bingo! I got one the first try. I started the recorder and got one of the other positions to tune in on the Puffball. I got a long patch cord and plugged them into one recorder on different tracks so I could record them together. Instruction: Fill in words: It was a lobe switching radar with the PRF of around 70,000 cps. It had a very distinct butterfly flutter to the sound. It also felt like hot air or heat deep inside of my ears. I was the only one on the base that could hear or feel anything with that high a frequency. Most human hearing ability stops [words 1] second. I had to follow the Badger within a half-degree or the signal faded. After 20 minutes of recording I terminated intercept and searched for more. Every Puffball I found had one of these AUEF signals. I made over 20 separate [words 2] that night with signal PRF varying from 66,000 cps to 88,000 cps. I used up a case of tapes that night. Then I had to fill out all the paperwork and reports about the tapes. I did not get off Third shift until about 9:00 AM. The head analysts came up to me and said that the tapes were blank, he could not hear anything on them. I told him to look at the scopes! He came back again and asked if I was human. I barked back at him:“Woof, woof, woof.” No one on the base could hear these signals but me. I found them with my “Ears” that the draft board physical had discovered. I never found my upper limit but it was close. Do any of you other Elinters have - or have you had - super high frequency hearing? I would like to “hear” from you (Pun intended. I never found out what this signal was. And educated guess is that it could have been a new in-flight refueling radar or something to aid close formation flying at night. The PRF was extremely close, so it would only be effective for about 100 meters or less. You [words 3] probably track a pin with it. Master Control (MC) in Room One was manned 24 hours a day, seven days a week. The MC [words 4] all the other positions in room one. The MC intercom was linked to every position in every room in OPS. That is one of the reasons it was named Master Control. When a mission was in progress, it was controlled from the MC console. Very seldom did we ever have a surprise. Third shift is very routine - and usually boring. One night it was my turn to man MC. It was after 3:00 AM sandwich time, and I was lazily switching through the positions in the empty room. Everyone else was in Room 2. Suddenly the earphones were screaming and my scope was in full bloom. I immediately hit the start button. The huge tape recorders jumped to life and less than a second were at a screaming speed of 120 ips. Then I pushed the intercom button and announced to the entire complex, “Signal Up.” Looking into the Nixie Tubes flashing the time, I read off the time onto the tape. Meanwhile there was a thunderous commotion behind me. I turned to [words 5] door to the main hall closing. There was someone sitting at every position putting on his earphones. The Trick Chief was there and relieved me, to take his position at MC. This intercept lasted for over 45 minutes. This length of time, [words 6] surprise. We were having our annual IG Inspection, and, as usual, we had some equipment for which [words 7] paperwork. We needed to put it where it would not be noticed. Never would we think of hiding something. I discovered that the building actually had a basement. Inside the Cryptographic room, underneath some equipment there was a hatch in the floor. This lead to a basement space under the building where we stacked the equipment until we could find the authorized paperwork that went with it. We had all heard [words 8] OPS complex had a destruct setup in case of an emergency. Supposedly the commander had a box in his office with a [words 9] in it. He could set the timer after the building was evacuated and blow it the moon; or if under attack he could push a button and immediate POOF! Self-destruct. In an emergency we were all expendable. It was inside this basement that I actually saw the hundreds [words 10] Plastic Explosives fastened below the floor of OPS building above our heads. [words 11] of wires converged into one big metal box. One armored cable came out of its side and snaked along the ceiling, passing through a conduit up to the commander's office. Thirty-five years later I was telling a guy I was working with about [words 12] setup. He was an ex-Navy Seal. He laughed, then he told me that the timers were all wired to instant destruct. He said they did not believe anyone would deliberately hit the self-destruct button. "So complain after the fact - If you can," he said. He had wired a few places like this as a Seal. Some times during the long hours of Third [words 13] and read the “Special” books with all the faces blacked out on the pictures. [words 14] put a picture in my mind to go along with the work we were doing, so that when I found something, I had a clear picture of what it looked like. This worked very well, later on when I was back stateside. We had to take MOS proficiency test. The second highest score in our Battalion was by our platoon Sargent. He scored about 76 on the test. I got 123 on [words 15] draw them a picture of the equipment. Because of this and my ears, I was offered $10,500 (The maximum in 1965) reenlistment bonus for 4 more years. I told them that I would rather go back to New York State and live on welfare because the monthly pay was higher. The First Shirt took my discharge paper into the CO's office, came out and handed them to me and said, “GO.” I saluted, turned around and never looked back. As soon as I was out of the main gate I stripped off my uniform while driving. It [words 16] busy night on Third shift. We were all in [words 17] started the recorders, capturing about four minutes of intercept. Some four hot signals coming in when suddenly the darkness of the room was boldly interrupted as the door swung [words 18] overhead white lights were suddenly blinding us. (Normal operating mode was [words 19] lights so we could see and read all the CRT tubes at each operator's position. This Yeni Master Sergeant barked, "I want every swinging dick out in the hall immediately for a GI party! " We all just sat their stunned. "That's an ORDER," he shouted. The guy at one of the positions down from [words 20] button and says, "F**K THE MISSION AND CLEAN THE POSITION. " All intercom voice is permanently recorded on the tapes along with the time and date code. Then MC hit the stop button on the big recorders and threw his headset to the chair and said, "Lets Go. [words 21] followed him out of Room One. (Prime Mission [words 22] for mop buckets. We made the place shine and sparkle. It took the rest of the night. The next day the tape was sent to Ft Mead, NSA Headquarters. Did the sh*t ever hit the fan! We never saw that Sergeant again. No one outside of our assigned group ever dared to open those doors into Room One again. The base dispensery's nickname when I arrived was Friseurs Body Shop - named after a previous doctor who served his internship on the hill. One of the medics had to show him how to read an X-Ray. Fortunately he left before I arrived. My first trip to the dispensary occurred right after a Second Shift. It had [words 23] left OPS on our way to the Mess Hall. Several of the equipment repair guys were ahead of me on the road. We all started to run to keep from getting soaked. The repair guys remarked that the operators could never pass them running. Ha! I shot past most of them and was about to pass the leader on his right side. Just as I was passing him he gave me a shoulder block knocking me into one of those concrete road guard posts. It felt like my leg from just above the knee on down stayed on the concrete post as I flew head first into a ravine. I did a perfect one point landing with my face. The impact shattered my eye glasses and drove mud and rocks into my eyes and mouth. I laid there, unable to move, with incredible pain to the right leg. Several guys shouted down to me as I lay in the mud and driving rain asking if I was OK. I spit out the stones and mud and mumbled, "NO. "I [words 24] have looked terrible. When they got down to me and scraped the mass of mud off of my face they said I was covered with blood. They formed a human chain and carried me to the top of the ravine and road. Just then an MP jeep came down the road and they [words 25] down. The jeep rushed me to the dispensary on the other side of the base. After quite some time banging on the dispensary door they woke up the medic [words 26] duty, and he let us in. The medic sent the MP to find the Base Doctor. Meanwhile the medic [words 27] the mud and assessing my injuries. He washed my face and eyes. The majority of the bleeding was coming from a large cut in my eyebrow area. [words 28] put a butterfly bandage to close the cut. Then he washed my eyes out and checked for damage. [words 29] my eyes and I could now see again. It was Saturday night and he found the doctor passed out at the “Doom Club”. The medic asked the [words 30] assist him and they x-rayed my leg. No bones were broken but I had a massive bruise to my lower thigh. The medic put an ice pack on it and gave me something to dull the pain. Late the next morning the doctor [words 31] me. He apologized for not being there to help me. He examined me and said the medic did a great job on me. He said they would start therapy that afternoon and I could return to duty the next day. Great news I thought. [words 32] PM they put me in the whirlpool bath tank to help reduce the swelling. They turned it on and it started to heat up. ## It got hotter and hotter and hotter. A short time later I got this real strange feeling. I took a deep breath and yelled, ”MEDIC! ”, and passed out. Everything went black but I could still hear. The medic ran in and caught me just before my head sank below the water. He screamed as he put his arms into the hot water and called for more help. They dragged [words 33] body out of the tank and put me somewhere. I could only hear what was going on. They poured cold water all over me as the doctor rushed in. My vision slowly returned and I could speak again. After another examination and a head X-Ray they could find nothing seriously wrong. The doctor [words 34] might have had a head injury from the fall that may have cause some brain swelling. They decided to keep me there a few more days for observation. The next day another GI came in for treatment for an ankle injury while playing basketball earlier that week. It was his second or third treatment in [words 35] bath. He too started to feel strange and got himself out before collapsing on the floor. I yelled for the medic. We had a second victim [words 36] tank. They put a thermometer in the tank and turned it back on. The thermostat was broken. I suggested that they put in some carrots, potatoes and onions the next time they put some one into the tank to cook. They had given us both a heatstroke! They ended up keeping me in the “body shop” for a week. The second time I went to the dispensary, I was able to go under my own power. During [words 37] started. They were severe and would double me up. [words 38] sweats. It was around 4:30 AM and sick call did not start until 7:00. My trick chief sent me out about 5:00 AM and I laid on [words 39] until sick call. I had gotten my first case of Amoebic Dysentery, aka-the “Turkey Trots”. They put me in a bed in the dispensary. I was moaning and groaning from the cramps as I fell asleep (I was on third shift. I woke up around 5:00 PM while they were serving dinner. Everyone seemed a bit irritable around me. It turned out to be a day later. I had been out of it for about 32 hours straight. I had kept all the other patients awake all night moaning, screaming, and talking in my sleep, as I thrashed around making considerable noise. I felt terrible but the cramps were gone. I had some broth that night and normal breakfast the next morning. They had [words 40] lunch when medics came crashing thru the double doors carrying someone on a litter. They were at a full run. They came to a sudden stop at the foot of a bed, flinging a new patient headfirst into the bed. It seemed to be a coordinated motion as he appeared to hover in the air while they pulled the sheets down and stripped his pants and shirt off. One of the medics was doing CPR on him as they did this. Another medic picked the foot of the bed off the floor and shoved a chair under it. They did not have time to crank up the foot of the bed. The doctor came running into the room carrying a great big syringe of adrenalin. The doctor immediately plunged the needle through his chest and into his heart. The patent awoke, and started to throw up blood. They had just brought him back from the dead. My lunch was spaghetti in tomato sauce. Evidently, the GI had an extreme allergic reaction to a penicillin pill he had taken, and had collapsed in his room in Washington Hall. A roommate decided to go to the room before he went to the chow hall, and just happened to stumble upon [words 41] out. The GI told him that he had just taken the penicillin before going into the room to lie down. That message saved his life. The doctor knew [words 42] gave the right antidote. I gave that doctor and the medics an A++++ that day. Once again Third Shift is where the action is. It was a dark and stormy night. (I [words 43] as I really do not remember the weather that night). It was around 4:00 AM. Three of us were sitting around in Room [words 44] of a sudden we heard a strange noise coming from the Clasified Material burn bag. All by itself the burn bag started to move around by itself. You could hear the rustling of the papers inside as if someone was searching thrugh [words 45] special. Before we could get up the bag suddenly tipped over and the creature inside ran out of the bag with [words 46] white in its mouth and ran behind the equipment racks. We charged after it from each end but it dove into one of the cable trays that ran through the building like minature tunnels. Desperatly we [words 47] cable tunnels to catch or stop the creature. I darted to the end [words 48] room where the cable trays exited to the antenna field. As I removed the cover, a feral cat ran past me and through the wall opening. It had [words 49] mouth as it ran past me. It had dropped it somewhere in the maze of cable trays while we were chasing it. We carefully searched the trays, removing each cover. We were all hot and sweating by now. The object that the “Trained spy cat" had snatched out of the burn bag turned out to be half of a 3:00 AM sandwich that someone dumped into the burn bag. We laughed, maybe it was one of those “Mouswiches! ”One of my favorite pastimes was to go into town and watch [words 50] his dad, make custom knives from truck leaf springs. They also restored old cap and ball pistols. I bought a 36 calibre Colt Navy, Address Colt, London, while there. I also had a custom knife made by Don. A Turkish friend invited us down to the Turkish beach for swimming. We stopped for the usual refreshments, a liter of wine each. We had just gotten off Third [words 51] flop our time schedule over. It was going to be a fresh clambake. When it [words 52] the clams, our Turkish friend showed us where to [words 53] them. At low tide you broke them off the rocks. They had black shells. I used to call them barnacles. The [words 54] off of ship hulls. We baked them on an old metal sign we [words 55] fire. Well at least we did not die from them. After half a liter of wine they weren't too bad, choke, choke. The sun and the wine were [words 56] combination. I woke up after an hour or so and rolled over on my stomach and tried to crawl over to the shade of the cliffs. I passed out before I made it. When I woke up I had medium-bad sunburn on both sides. The other guys had second degree sunburn on one side. They were very nasty burns. The uniforms were usually starched so stiff they would stand by them selves. I had to wash mine twice to remove the starch so that I could put it on without wanting to die. It was a very long week of healing. Every now and then the mess hall, with German and Turkish cooks, would make an attempt to make pizza. They would use regular bread dough, which ended up about 1 inch or more thick. They [words 57] stewed tomatoes, American cheese, and sliced hot dogs. Then they would serve [words 58] Pizza. The canned milk was usually lumpy, the barrel of orange juice was so watered down you could see the bottom. The eggs were so old they held their shape [words 59] sort of spreading out on the grill. Most of us survived on burgers and fries at the EM club. No one gained weight. The biggest highlight of the entire tour was going to see the "Bob Hope Show" when it visited Turkey. My trick was on days when the [words 60] scheduled. Our trick chief worked up a schedule where we had only a small crew in OPS. We would all take 15-minute turns in ops, every hour. That way we would each get to see some of the show. They were late getting to the hill. They arrived and started to set up just as my shift started in OPS and 45 minutes went by before any relief arrived. They said it was all over. It lasted only 15 minutes long. Two female singers, and [words 61] show. The official records had showed we had only about 20 or so radar technicians. So they sent three of their entertainers [words 62] Sinop. We had 400+ on base at the time. They apologized for Bob, saying that if he had known we had so many people that he would have brought the whole show. Because of security, they could not even tell him when they got back. So I had missed the big event of the year, just my luck. When I got off duty I went to the EM club and put my dollar down [words 63] bar. (When you put a dollar on the bar you got all you can drink for the night). Got drunk, and went to the flick. I was sitting in the TUSLOG Det 4 post theatre at the midnight flicks, watching Judy [words 64] Cannonball. I was on Trick Four which was on duty Third Shift but was given the night off as Third Shift in rooms one & two were usually dead and over staffed. I ran all the way to Operations and checked in. The UPI and API News teletypes were screaming out reams of paper and the 4 copies were being split [words 65] walls so we could read them. It was wild: Conflicting reports, uncensored, and sometimes wrong. All the other teletypes were running while most were usually silent on Third Shift - Extremely unusual. I took my position in rooms one and [words 66] (Censored). We were given the orders to destroy all non-essential classified material. We took turns manning the burn barrels, working a position and laying on our backs in the antenna field watching for possible glow of incoming missile warheads. That meteorite scared me half to death. I spent [words 67] death. Traffic patterns indicated major radio action taking place on the other side. Darn, I guess they were as scared as we were. Safety pins were removed from our equipment's self-destruct thermite racks. Equipment rack mounting screws were removed and Fire axes were remove from the walls to be at hand just in case. We spent one hell of a night in operations. I had seen the hundreds of blocks of explosives under our building and knew we had self destruct capabilities if attacked. At least we did not have to worry about being taken prisoner. Dawn came with first shift coming in to relieve us. (Some of them had been there just hours earlier. When I finished eating and went back to Jackson Hall, I found out everyone was in full gear ready to move out or fight and just as exhausted as we were. Not a smile or a joke was to be found. It was more than a week before things returned to normal. It all started as a standard trip to town. While looking for someone to partner (Buddy System) to go to town I was asked if I would like to go on a boat ride out [words 68] Black Sea. I knew one or two of the guys but not the others. On the way to the docks we stopped for some supplies. (Many bottles of liquid in case we got thirsty. The trip was fairly boring and uneventful. [words 69] got to be more fun, the more we drank. About a dozen porpoises were swimming on our bow wake for a while until some jerk hit one with an empty bottle. Then some Genius got the idea to go around the point where there always were high winds and white cap waves between the tip of the point and a jagged rock covered island. I think of the passage in "Homers Odyssey", the Greek Classic, where the Sirens - Naked women - sang and lured passing sailors to their death on the rocks. Homer has his men tie him to the mast so he can hear them and has his men put bees' wax in their ears to protect them. I should have seen the Bad Omen. Going into the wind we made the narrow passage fairly well, enjoying the salt spray of the waves breaking over the bow. One of the guys in a white shirt had passed out on the deck. We turned the boat around and made a wild, full speed run with the wind at our backs thru the "Gates of Hell". The Turkish Captain was quite scared to do this but [words 70] Lira. This was fun, like a thrill ride. All of a sudden as we went through the narrows and the guy we thought [words 71] gets up and jumps overboard! OH MY GOD! ! . And disappears below the cold black waters. Gone! Instantly we [words 72] sober. In the raging seas we made a quick U-turn in only about a quarter mile. As we headed back into the gauntlet, several of us stood on [words 73] thrown into the water as the boat pitched and bobbed. There was no sign of him anywhere. Just as we were about to turn around for another pass, someone spotted his white shirt about 10 feet below the surface. Several guys jumped into the icy water and brought him up from the depths. After several minutes we managed to drag everyone back aboard the boat with out [words 74] over. It would have been a bad time for a keel haul with a propeller. He was deader than a doornail by now, but after 5-10 minutes of CPR he barfed and started breathing again. The Sirens [words 75] another sailor this day. The Captain was terrified by the incident. Turkish law would have held him responsible if any passengers had died. We sat on the drunk GI until we got back to the docks to [words 76] repeat performance. We all decided to keep this trip a secret because we did not want to get the Captain in trouble or have our water sports terminated by the brass. I believe [words 77] taken after the rescue. Near the end of my tour on the hill we got a new MP. His nickname was Big Red. He had red hair, was about 6'6", 270 lbs. He was mean, and hated Turks. He let them know every chance he got. He liked to fight and hurt people. In the mess hall he would call the Turk KPs over to his table and then dump food and milk on the floor and [words 78] clean it up. Most people would go out of their way to avoid him. On my last night on post before I was to ship out, I went to [words 79] club. While they were drinking I decided to get some food. They made great French Fries at the club. I got in the line with one of those fiberglass trays in my hands. Big Red was in the line just in front of me. A couple of guys behind me were horsing around and one of them bumped into me from behind. This had a domino effect on me and I bumped into Big Red. Big Red swung around as hard as he could with his fist. It seemed like I might get to stay on the hill a bit longer than I was planning. and in the dispensary! [words 80] survival instincts and rotated the fiberglass tray between me, and the “fist of death”. Bracing myself for the coming impact. His fist hit the tray square in the center. 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<human>: Finish this: The great 1948 lecture by Eli Siegel that we are serializing, Poetry and Technique, and the article by Aesthetic Realism associate Kevin Fennell printed here and presented at a recent Aesthetic Realism public seminar—“Mistakes about Ambition”—bring up a question intensely insistent in America now. That question is: How do we want to use ourselves and the world? —what is the self for? Eli Siegel is the critic, philosopher, historian who explained that the fierce fight within every person is, should we use ourselves to like the world, to see meaning in it; or should we use ourselves to have contempt—a “false importance or glory from the lessening of things not (one)self.” This intimate fight within each individual is also behind the events of history: contempt, Mr. Siegel showed, is the source of every unkindness, including racism and the feeling of the people of one nation that others are less real than oneself and one has the right not only to look down on them but bomb them. Siegel also showed the following—his doing so is great in the history of criticism, and I love him unboundedly for it: the distinction between using oneself with fullness to like the world, and using oneself with some or much contempt, makes the difference between real poetry and an arrangement of words that is not poetry. That is, many instances of what literary journals put forth as “poems” are really a person's using words, things, feelings as material with which to make himself or herself impressive. But a real poem comes from a person's seeing a subject and his or her own feeling with such passionate honesty and accuracy and width that, Mr. Siegel writes, “the words then take on a music, which is the poetic music.” That music—arising from a great like of the world—is a oneness of reality's opposites: activity and calm, rightness and surprise, power and grace. “The world, art, and self explain each other,” Eli Siegel wrote: “each is the aesthetic oneness of opposites.”There is nothing I consider more beautiful or crucial than Mr. Siegel's explaining that the question a writer has in using words is the same as the central question for our nation's economy. The question is: Do things, the world, other human beings exist as material to make somebody important-or do they deserve to be seen justly? For centuries, Mr. Siegel explained, economics, like false poetry, has been based on contempt: it has been based on some few persons using the needs and labor of many others to make profit. And he showed that at this time in history, profit economics, economics based on the seeing of people in terms of how much money can be made from them, has failed—forever! It is because of this failure of contempt as the basis for an economy that businesses are ferociously “downsizing.” They are trying to save their ability to squeeze profits out of human beings by throwing people out of work and forcing those who remain to do more work at longer hours for less pay. The announcement early this month that AT&T, concerned about future profitability, will fire 40,000 men and women—13% of its work force—is a tremendous sign that something has failed. For AT&T seemed once to stand for the U. economy at its most solid, steady, unshakeable. Siegel said in a 1975 lecture, “is seen as the store window for all of America.”Meanwhile, amid all the anguish about jobs, amid the terrible worry about how one will pay for clothes for one's children—I think as deep a matter as ever occurred in the minds of the American people is now taking place. Americans are questioning what their lives should be used for. The profit system encouraged people to use themselves to beat out other people, to get that more impressive position, larger salary, all those possessions. Now people are feeling more and more that this acquisitive way of dealing with the world and people is not only no longer so possible, but is ugly. Every week Americans have a sharper, angrier sense that the way they are made to work—or not work—the amount of money they get, their need to worry about health care payments, is all hideously unfair to them. And so people are more ready to see that there could be another better ambition for them and America than the feeling, “My power consists of acquiring what I can and being superior to somebody, and if possible making him serve me.” In 1996—with an election coming up in which Americans will feel their hopes are not represented by any candidate—I think people are more ready than they ever were to ask truly: “What should the basis, the purpose of our economy be? What should the purpose of my life be? ”It is from Aesthetic Realism that they will learn the purpose of both, and how to have it. Siegel explained, is ethics—kind, practical, magnificent: “the giv(ing) oneself what is corning to one by giving what is corning to other things.”Another poem that has an honest technique is by Sir Walter Raleigh. One can take it to have been written in the first or second decade of the 17th century:The reason this is good is that it has in it the quality of spaciousness, and then that spaciousness changes to something contracted. There is the grave and its narrowness; and then the grave seems to get into motion-not complete motion, but enough motion to please. And there is subtlety. The line used in the poem is an iambic line, and is very simple. I have read enough poems of Robert Lowell to see that he sees a topsy-turvy world, a world of sudden dark and strange, unexpected light; that he feels afraid and shivering even. In a poem of his, quite well known, “The Quaker Graveyard in Nantucket,” we have some expression that can be commended, because there is respectable feeling; but the language is false; it works hard. There are these lines:Lowell in this poem is trying to use the startling word and trying to pack meaning. But he is burdensome. The reason he appeals is that most people have burdens; and when they see their burdens dealt with in such an imposing strain, somehow they feel that they are next to big stuff. I think a line like “Atlantic, you are fouled with the blue sailors” comes from Mr. Lowell's desire to think less of other people, and his desire to make this world ugly and be subtle about it. And a line like “Mart once of supercilious, wing'd clippers"—there is no music there. —has more poetry than Mr. Lowell has shown so far. That stanza has technique: it has up and down; it has forwardness and accuracy. But this stuff is to me dull, and badly motivated. Aesthetic Realism is beautiful in showing there are two kinds of ambition: one that makes a person proud, strong, and another that weakens our lives. In his great lecture Mind and Ambition, Eli Siegel said: “A good definition of ambition would be, ‘the desire to get as much power and as much approval as possible' and if the power and the approval were well based, people would have ambition in the fullest sense of the word” (TRO 467). For the power and approval we go after to be well based, I learned, they have to be based on what Aesthetic Realism shows is our deepest desire: to like the world. I will be grateful all the days of my life to Aesthetic Realism for criticizing my secret, contemptuous ambition to look down on other people; and for showing me there was a grander, far more satisfying ambition I was thirsting to have and teaching me how to have it. This study has made possible my very happy life, including my marriage to Carol McCluer. Growing up in Yonkers, the youngest of four children, I had two very different ambitions. I felt good trying to learn the multiplication tables, or taking a photo of the Hudson Valley with trees blazing in autumn colors. But I also went after getting people's approval without deserving it and without respecting them. I found it easy getting praise for being well behaved and seeming innocent. And while I had a true care for singing and would perform at family gatherings, I used singing to feel superior. Years later in an Aesthetic Realism consultation I was asked: “When you were first 'on stage' with people applauding you, did it have you care more ... <bot>: Sure, let me know if you need anything else: for the people who were there, or did they become shadows who existed to applaud you? ” I did see people as shadows. I looked at the adults who gave me such adulation and felt, “I've got a special quality that sets me above them.” I didn't know that this contempt was why I felt so unsure and ashamed. Meanwhile, I was angry that the general population did not come across with the same ready approval my family gave me. Siegel explains,there are millions of children who, if they are applauded by their playmates, will play; but if they are not applauded, the first thing they want to do is to be sulky. If they are not approved of they will get ambitious in themselves, because one kind of ambition is to say, “What do I need their approval for? They don't even exist.” And that has to do with why people are shy and are not interested. (TRO 469)That describes how I was. Rather than look for other children to play with, I would often sit on our front steps and feel hurt that no one came to invite me along. By junior high school I spent most days going from class to class, talking to no one and blaming my loneliness on others. But in my mind I had a raging ambition to show everyone up. I would suddenly break my silence, for example, in a math class when I knew I had gotten the answer before anyone else. I hated to see someone do as well or better than I did. And I would daydream about myself as a great rock star and people I went to school with coming backstage and saying, “Kevin, I had no idea how talented and how cool you really were! ”But with every year the heavy fog of boredom that surrounded me grew thicker. I was very attracted to the numbing effect of marijuana. And I worried about how separate and depressed I felt. But I made no connection between those feelings and my secret ambition to show I was superior to everyone. In Aesthetic Realism consultations I was asked, “Have you wanted other people to fare well? ” I answered no. And my consultants explained, “Eli Siegel stated this principle: ‘Every person in order to respect himself has to see the world as beautiful or good or acceptable. 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<human>: What could be the completion of this text: The Christian faith must seem downright confusing to an onlooker. Even the largest, seemingly the most monolithic Christian denominations are, in reality, composed of many factions. Unless you are an insider, you can remain unaware of the deep divisions that exist among Baptists, Methodists, Lutherans and even Catholics. Trying to make sense out of the Christian faith starting in the 21st century will be an exercise in futility. Not only are there too many conflicts, the whole landscape is littered with so much jargon, inside knowledge and imagery that the neophyte will be lost from the start. Even when you try to get down to the basics, Mere Christianity as C. Lewis called it, you still have problems. Part of the problem arises from the simple truth that ... <assistant>: Completed pargraph(s): the Christian faith did not begin 2000 years ago. It is much older than that. The Christian faith is the worship of the God of Genesis 1, the God who said, “Let there be light,” and who said, “Let us make man in our image.”Christianity as we know it is a late arrival on the scene. Even Judaism is a Johnny-come-lately. When you open the New Testament in an attempt to understand the Christian faith, you must not forget this. The Bible is not the story of two religions. It is the story of one Lord, one faith, one God and Father of us all. That said, the New Testament is still the place to start if one wants to understand basic Christianity. The New Testament sheds so... <human>: Next. <assistant>: much light on the Old Testament, that it is hard to think of starting anywhere else. And the New Testament is still the record of the closest, most prolonged and most intimate contact between God and man. So, where in the New Testament would one start? Most readers would naturally begin with the book of Matthew, so we'll follow the same trail even though... <human>: Next. <assistant>: Matthew starts with one of those interminable lists of who begat whom... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: It turns out there is some useful information in these lists if... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: one only knows who the players are. Included in this list are two women, Ruth and Bathsheba, who are not Israelite at all. Ruth... <human>: Next. <assistant>: was a Moabite, and since Bathsheba's first husband was a Hittite, it... <human>: More. <assistant>: is likely she was too (Matthew 1:5–6). This is problematic for those who hold to certain racial purity ideas. Now none of this makes very entertaining reading, and there are many technical questions that can be raised. But since we are concerned only with basic Christianity, we'll pass on the technicalities. What Matthew has presented us with right from the start is that Jesus... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: did not arrive on the scene with no roots. Jesus did not appear in Athens, Rome or Babylon. He came on the scene in... <human>: Next. <assistant>: Jerusalem, in Judea, and with an important Jewish genealogy. He was a direct descendant of David which turns out to be of enormous importance. In the flesh, Jesus was a Jew. That gives a lot of people heartburn, but you will never get to the basics unless you deal with that fact. Even Paul, whose entire ministry was occupied with Gentiles, makes that point loud and clear. He writes to the Romans about the Israelite people saying that it was of them, “concerning the flesh Christ came” (Romans 9:4–5). The writer of the book of Hebrews is even more explicit when he declares: “For it is evident that our Lord sprang out of Juda” (Hebrews 7:14). The truth is that the very idea of “Christ,” and hence of... <human>: Next. <assistant>: “Christian,” is meaningless apart from the Old Testament. The Messiah was the central figure in Hebrew religious writings. Christ is merely the Greek translation of the Hebrew “Messiah.” By merely telling the... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: Gentiles that Jesus was the Christ, one has said nothing intelligible to them. The Gentiles, then, had to have an explanation. The Jews, while they understood the idea of a “Messiah,” were... <human>: Next. <assistant>: expecting something rather different from what they got. They too needed an explanation. Now this is all significant, because it inexorably ties Jesus, and Christianity, to the faith of the Old Testament... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: Note well, I said the faith of the Old Testament, not merely of the Jews. Jews and Judaism are late arrivals on the scene. They don't even exist until halfway through the... <human>: More. <assistant>: movie. Judaism would become a sect of the true faith. They received the revelation of God and responded to it. They did not originate... <human>: More. <assistant>: it. Nevertheless, Matthew starts his Gospel with the simple fact that Jesus was a Jew, born of a Jewish mother, and that He appeared on the scene in Judah. At this point, it is useful to turn to Luke for the details of this part of the story for Luke's gospel describes the opening gambit. The story, oddly enough, does not begin with the... <human>: Next. <assistant>: birth of Jesus, but with the birth of His forerunner, John the Baptist. We pick up the story from Luke:And it came to pass,... <human>: Next. <assistant>: that while he executed the priest's office before God in the order... <human>: More. <assistant>: of his course, According to the custom of the priest's office, his lot was to burn incense when he went into the temple of... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: the Lord. And the whole multitude of the people were praying without at the time of incense. And there appeared unto him an angel of the Lord standing on the right side of the altar of incense. The one who was to announce the coming of the Messiah would not be a Greek or Roman philosopher. He was not a Plato or an Aristotle. For that matter, he was not merely a Jew. He was a Levite and a son of Aaron. His father was a priest of the God of Israel who served in the Temple. We know the two weeks in the year when he served there because we know his section of the priesthood. This did not happen while he was out tending sheep. It... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: took place in the Temple, to a priest, at the altar of incense. On the right side of it. Every Israelite knew that the... <human>: More. <assistant>: Temple and everything in it was made after the pattern of things in heaven. The place of this announcement is important, and it is a part of the story of the origins of Christianity. It is important because it reveals that Christianity is not a new religion but the fulfillment of a promise made to the oldest religion. Moreover, it is important to the... <human>: Next. <assistant>: story that Zacharias and his wife were righteous, and their righteousness is... <human>: Next. <assistant>: defined. They walked in all the commandments and ordinances of the Lord blameless (Luke 1:6). The forerunner of the Messiah was not born to just anyone, but to a priest who lived... <human>: More. <assistant>: according to the law. ## Zacharias and Elisabeth were elderly and childless. Apparently, they had been praying for a child for a long time,... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: because the angel addressed this:But the angel said unto him, Fear not, Zacharias: for thy prayer is heard; and thy wife Elisabeth shall bear... <human>: More. <assistant>: thee a son, and thou shalt call his name John. And thou... <human>: Next. <assistant>: shalt have joy and gladness; and many shall rejoice at his birth. For he shall be great in the sight of the Lord, and... <human>: More. <assistant>: shall drink neither wine nor strong drink; and he shall be filled with the Holy Ghost, even from his mother's womb. Zacharias did not have to ask what this meant, for this too came from the old religion. The abstinence from wine or strong drink was a condition of the Nazarite vow (see Numbers 6:1–21). John would be a lifetime Nazarite. But what the angel said next must have been riveting to Zacharias. And many of the children of Israel shall he turn to the Lord their God. And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the... <human>: Next. <assistant>: Lord. Zacharias knew precisely what this meant. We might ask, “Go before who,” but Zacharias would have known. The antecedent in the paragraph is... <human>: More. <assistant>: “The Lord their God,” and the reference is to Malachi 4:For, behold, the day cometh, that shall burn as an oven; and all the... <human>: More. <assistant>: proud, yea, and all that do wickedly, shall be stubble: and the day that cometh shall burn them up, saith the LORD of hosts, that it shall leave them neither root nor branch. But unto you that fear my name shall the Sun of righteousness arise with healing in his wings; and ye shall go forth, and grow up as calves of the stall... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: This can only be a reference to the Day of the Lord, the last days before the return of Christ. And he also understood the verses following. It would be impossible to... <human>: More. <assistant>: overstate the impact of this on Zacharias. When the angel said of the son to come, “And he shall go before him in the spirit and power of Elias, to turn the hearts of the fathers to the children, and the disobedient to the wisdom of the just; to make ready a people prepared for the Lord,” Zacharias knew that his son was to be the Elijah, the forerunner of the Messiah. He knew this because he knew the Scriptures. None of this was easy for Zacharias. He reminded the angel that he was an old man, “well stricken in years,” to use his phrase. Good man that he was, he had a hard time believing the story. So the angel, who turns out to be Gabriel, told... <human>: Next. <assistant>: him he would be dumb and unable to speak until the thing was finished. It happened exactly like that. After his time in the... <human>: More. <assistant>: Temple was finished, he went home. In the natural course of events,... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: his wife Elisabeth conceived, and went into seclusion for five months. All this establishes the truth that the origins of Christianity are imbedded firmly... <human>: More. <assistant>: in the oldest religion, the religion of the Old Testament, even in the Law of Moses. It is imbedded in the Jewish people, their customs, their culture. And it is offered first to the Jews (see Romans 1:16,2:9), but not last. Brad Young, in his book Jesus the Jewish Theologian , makes well the point that if you are going to understand Jesus, you must sit down with Him and the people He spoke to. For He spoke their language, grew up in their culture, used their idioms, made repeated reference to their faith and history. You can't sit in Athens and interpret Jesus in Jerusalem. Which is where much of Christianity has gone astray, and Judaism too, for that matter. The Greek civilization was so strong and... <human>: More. <assistant>: so ubiquitous in the first century, that it exerted a powerful influence on everything and everybody, including the Jews. But I must return to... <human>: More. <assistant>: our story:All this is very familiar from church Christmas pageants, but it is easy to overlook the significance of the relationship between these two women and their sons. Jesus and John the... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: Baptist are kinsmen and they met, in a sense, before they were born. The date of Jesus' birth is even established in relation to John's. It was the sixth month of Elisabeth's pregnancy when the angel appeared to Mary and said “Hail, thou that art highly favoured, the Lord is with thee: blessed art thou among women” (Luke 1:28). One can only wonder at this young woman. Highly favored? Blessed among women? When you understand the implications of what the angel is saying, these words seem inadequate. But they troubled Mary and puzzled her. What on earth could this angel mean by that? He would explain:( . F)ear not, Mary: for thou hast found favour with God. And, behold, thou shalt conceive in thy womb, and bring forth... <human>: More. <assistant>: a son, and shalt call his name JESUS. The name Luke wrote was Iesous in the Greek, which is a transliteration of the Hebrew... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: Yehoshua, Joshua in English. The name means, “God saves.” It is formed from two words in Hebrew, Yah, or Yahweh, and Yasha, which means to be open, wide, or free. Since being... <human>: More. <assistant>: freed is usually being freed from something, the English idea of “saved”... <human>: More. <assistant>: seems close. But I don't think “saved” says enough. To be freed says much more. “saved” and “salvation” have become a part of the Christian jargon, and I sometimes wonder if people in the world really understand what we are talking about. Here is how Jesus put the matter to some disciples:“Then said Jesus to those Jews which believed on him, If ye continue... <human>: More. <assistant>: in my word, then are ye my disciples indeed; And ye shall know the truth, and the truth shall make you free. They answered him, We be Abraham's seed, and were never in bondage to any man: how sayest thou, Ye shall be made free? Jesus answered them, Verily, verily, I say unto you, Whosoever committeth sin is the servant of sin” (John 8:31-34). When Jesus speaks of salvation, He is talking about being liberated from the consequences of sin. But the last statement goes right over the head of most readers. God would give to Jesus the throne of “His father David.” This statement would have been pregnant with meaning to any first century Jew and it was not lost on Mary. The throne of David belonged... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: to one man and one only: The Messiah. But what the angel said next would cast the messianic idea in a whole new light... <human>: Next. <assistant>: Mary, along with every Jew of the day, would have expected a temporal Messiah, a deliverer who would set up a new Kingdom of... <human>: More. <assistant>: Israel and begin a new dynasty. God was going way beyond anyone's expectations. The angel went on to say, “And he shall reign over the house of Jacob for ever; and of... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: his kingdom there shall be no end.” Forever? No end? These words take the idea of a Messiah to whole new level. But once again, the Israelite roots of the Messiah are... <human>: More. <assistant>: inescapable. He is part and parcel with the history of a line of people and a line of kings. But there was one huge question Mary had to have answered: “Then said Mary unto the angel, How shall this be, seeing I know not a man? ”It is hard to gauge the effect of the angel's reply on Mary. We may take it for... <human>: Next. <assistant>: granted after all these years, but Mary surely did not:Surely Mary's head... <human>: Next. <assistant>: was spinning by now. The Holy Spirit, the Power of the Highest would come upon her and she would conceive. The Holy One to... <human>: Next. <assistant>: be born of her would be called the Son of God, and this was not in the ordinary sense that we are all God's... <human>: More. <assistant>: sons. This would be the real thing. There is a curious thing about this passage that needs to be explored. The next thing the angel tells Mary is:This is the second time Luke tells us the month of Elizabeth's pregnancy when Mary conceived Jesus. This means Jesus was born 15 months after Elizabeth conceived John. Do you recall that I mentioned above that we know the week of Zacharias' service in the Temple? Assuming that Elisabeth conceived shortly after her husband returned from his week's service in the Temple, John was conceived about the end of the third week in June. The angel visited Mary in the sixth month of Elisabeth's pregnancy, placing her conception near the end of the third week of December. John, then, was born... <human>: More. <assistant>: near the end of March while Jesus was born near the end of September. What may be significant about this latter date is that it comes very close to the beginning of... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: the Feast of Tabernacles. The Gospel of John may allude to this when he declares:After the angel had finished his message, Mary must have been in a turmoil, but she was quite... <human>: Next. <assistant>: a woman. She replied, “And Mary said, Behold the handmaid of the Lord; be it unto me according to thy word.” What an incredibly... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: understated response from this remarkable young lady. Without delay, Mary went down to Judea, to see Elisabeth. When she walked in the door and called out for Elisabeth, the babe leaped in Elisabeth's womb and she was filled with the Holy Spirit. “Blessed art thou among women,” Elisabeth cried, “and blessed is the fruit of thy womb. And whence is this to me, that... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: the mother of my Lord should come to me? ”Mary was already a mother even though the fruit of her womb was only an embryo. And that embryo was Elisabeth's Lord. At this point, Mary broke into a song of praise:Once again we are reminded that Christ did not appear in Athens or Rome. He was not Greek or Egyptian. He was Israel's Messiah, and a fulfillment of a prophecy made so long ago to a man named Abraham. Mary stayed with Elisabeth for about three months before returning home. And right after Mary left, Elisabeth bore a son. According to Christ, among those born of women, there was not one greater than John the Baptist. When Zacharias got his voice back, he too was filled with the... <human>: Next. <assistant>: Holy Spirit and prophesied. And his prophecy once again established the fact that we are not starting a new religion. This was Israel's Messiah. And the child John grew, and waxed strong in spirit, and was in the deserts till the day of his showing unto Israel. Why am I making this point? Because so much of Christian thought and interpretation completely ignores the... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: Old Testament roots of Christianity. Jesus did not come to bring a... <human>: Next. <assistant>: new religion, but to restore and fill up the oldest religion. Hofstra Gang Rape Victim Admits Sexual Encounter was Consensual — Boston Criminal Lawyer... <human>: Next. <assistant>: Blog — September 17, 2009Police say that the 18-year-old Hofstra University student who says she was gang raped by five men in a campus dorm has admitted that the sex was consensual. The four men who were arrested and each charged with five counts of first-degree rape are to be released from police custody. Last night, the criminal charges against them were dropped. The... <human>: Next. <assistant>: alleged victim had said that suspect Jesus Ortiz, 19, asked her to dance and took her cellular phone from her. He then allegedly used the phone to get her to accompany him to the Easterbrook dorm where Rondell Bedward, another Hofstra student, met them. Bedward allegedly had a rope with him. The woman accused the men of making her go into a stall and forcing her to engage in sexual activity. She said that three other men raped her before she was set free. Bedward is the only one of the four suspects who studies at Hofstra University. Police say that he was the one who invited the other suspects to the dormitory and, per dorm protocol, all of them were signed in. The other two men who... <human>: More. <assistant>: were arrested and arraigned for the college campus crime are Kevin Taveras, 20, and Stalin Felipe, 19. Police had been looking for the fifth alleged rapist. Meantime, in another university-related crime, police continue to investigate the murder of Yale graduate student Annie Le. The 24-year-old pharmacology student's body was discovered on Sunday, which was supposed to be her wedding day, in the basement wall... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: of a medical research building located off-campus. Video surveillance footage shows her going into a lab located some 10 blocks from campus. The medical examiner's office announced today that Le was strangled. Raymond Clark, a Yale employee, was released from custody after providing authorities with DNA samples. The 24-year-old employee was brought in after police got a search warrant for his residence and a body warrant for the samples. Over 150 people have been interviewed. Some 150 pieces of evidence have been collected. Police don't believe that Le's murder was a random act. The Club provides the chance for young people between the ages of 8 and 15 to receive coaching from qualified hockey coaches. 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Featuring the local group In The Light, and Hamilton Road [words 6] Columbus, Ohio. Ohio state fiddle champion Krista Solars performing Oct.1 as part of Homewood Heritage Days in Homewood Borough. Solars will give a workshop at 3 p. [words 7] perform in concert at 7 p. both at Homewood United Methodist Church. The Americas-In Concert with the Octavio Brunetti Quartet, 7:30 p.1, Hillman Center for Performing Arts, Richard E. Rauh Theater, Shady Side Academy Senior School, 423 Fox Chapel Road. ## Reserved tickets at proartstickets. DisCanto Ethnic Abruzzo Musical Concert, a night of Italian music, 5:30 p.7, Massey Theater, Robert Morris University, Moon Township. Free but RSVPs required via Jackson@rmu. Chatham Baroque, 8 p. Paul Cathedral; and 2:30 p.9, James Laughlin Music Hall, Chatham University, Pittsburgh's Oakland area. (888) 718-4253 or chathambaroque. A Concert in the Chapel benefit concert featuring members of the Pittsburgh Symphony Orchestra, 2:30 p. Joseph Chapel, 1020 State St. Benefits the music therapy program at Villa St. "American Spirit," 7:30 p.13 at Beaver Falls Middle School. Part of the Beaver Valley Community Concert Association's 2011-2012 season. $20 adults and $5 for students. Jackie Evancho with the Pittsburgh [words 8] Benedum Center, Pittsburgh. Concert includes selections from the "America's Got Talent" star's CD, "Dream With Me," plus arias, ensembles and opera choruses by the Pittsburgh Opera resident artists, orchestra [words 9] chorus. ## culturaldistrict.org or (412) 456-6666. United States Army Field Band and Soldiers' Chorus, 7:30 p.17, The Palace Theater, 21 W. Savannah Jack, 7:30 p.24, Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center, Midland. $25 reserved seat; $50 VIP includes reserved seat and backstage food, beverages and meet-and-greet with the band. Benefits Homemaker-Home Health Aide Service of Beaver County.9-10, Stage AE, Pittsburgh. First show [words 10] $25 for second. "An Inspector Calls," 7:30 p.8, Comtra Theater, Route 19 in Cranberry Township. "Anything Goes," presented by the Red Barn Players, Sept.23 and 24, 28-30, and Oct.1 at the Red Barn Theater, Route 228, Franklin Township. Pittsburgh Shakespeare in the Parks presents: "The Merry Wives of Windsor," 2 p.24 and 25 at�Frick Park, Squirrel Hill. Take a blanket or chairs. "A Child's Guide to Heresy," presented by Point Park University's The Rep, through Sept. Thursdays through Saturdays; 2 p. Saturdays and Sundays in the Rauh Theatre at the Pittsburgh Playhouse, Oakland. Tickets, $24 to $27; students, $7 to $8. [words 11] pittsburghplayhouse. "Spring Awakening," presented by Robert Morris University's Colonial Theatre, 8 p.2, Massey Hall on the university's Moon Township campus. ## Contains explicit material. Pittsburgh Public Theater's 2011-12 season opens with "Electra," Sept.30 at the O'Reilly Theater, Downtown Pittsburgh. Tuesdays through Saturdays; 2 p. Saturdays; and 2 and 7 p. ## Sundays (some exceptions). $28.75 to $60.75; $15.75 for students. (412) 316-1600 or www. "Sherlock Holmes and the Speckled Band," live adaptation of "Adventure of the Speckled Band," 6 p.30, Open Air Theatre at River's Edge Studio, 709 Third Ave. "I Love You, You're Perfect, Now Change," the first full-scale musical by the Strand Theater in Zelienople, Sept. Fridays and Saturdays; 2 p. Reserved seating $20 and $25. ## (724) 742-0400 or thestrandtheater. "Harvey," presented by the Bobcat Players, 7:30 p.6-8 in Beaver Area High School's Ed Schaughency Theater. Tickets available at the Hostess Shoppe in Beaver. Doors open at 6:45 p. Parking in the rear of the school. (724) 494-1680 or www. "Race," presented by Pittsburgh Irish and Classical Theater, through Oct.1, Henry Heymann Theater, Pittsburgh's Oakland area. Wednesdays through Saturdays; 7 p. (412) 394-3353 or picttheatre. "Wicked," through Oct.2 at the Benedum Center, Pittsburgh. Performances: 7:30 p. Wednesdays and Thursdays; 8 p. Saturdays; 1 and 6:30 p.25 to $153. (412) 456-4800 or wicked. A day-of-performance lottery for two $25 orchestra seats will be held before each performance of "Wicked. " Enter in-person at the Theater Square Box Office, 655 Penn Ave. Downtown, 2 1/2 hours before each show. Yo Gabba Gabba! , "It's Time to Dance! " 3:30 p.8, Petersen Events Center, Pittsburgh. Heidi Latsky Dance in "Gimp," 8 p.15, August Wilson Center for African American Culture, 980 Liberty Ave. A contemporary dance presented by FISA [words 12] Mainstage Theater, Lincoln Park Performing Arts Center, Midland. Performances at 7:30 p. Fridays and Saturdays, and 2 p. (724) 643-9004 or lppac. For "The Nutcracker," presented by Carnegie Performing Arts Center, Sept.24 at the center, third floor, 150 East Main St. Dancers ages 5 to 12 audition at 1 p. and ages 13 and older at 2 p. (412) 279-8887 or visit www. For "A Musical Christmas Carol," presented by Pittsburgh CLO, 1 to 9 p.10, at the Academy of Musical Theater, Penn Avenue Place, 130 CLO Academy Way, Pittsburgh. Open to male and female singers and actors, in their 20s to 40s.8-23 at the Byham Theater. ## E-mail auditions@pittsburghclo.org to schedule an audition or download audition application at pittsburghclo. For more information, call (412) 281-3973, ext. For "The Amazingly True Adventures of Nellie Bly," part of Pittsburgh CLO's Gallery of Heroes tour, 4 p. Open to non-equity male and female singers and actors, ages 18 to 35. Download audition application at pittsburghclo.org or call [words 13] 281-2234. Beaver County Heart Walk for the American Heart Association, 10 a.24, Third Street, Downtown Beaver. Starts at the Irvine Park gazebo. Free registration begins at 9 a. On Facebook at Beaver County Heart Walk 2011. "Picturing the City: Downtown Pittsburgh, 2007-2010," featuring 86 recent images from nine contemporary photographers who call Pittsburgh home, Sept.23 to March 25, Gallery One at the Carnegie Museum of Art, Pittsburgh. Also on display: "Palladio and [words 14] through Dec.31 in The Heinz Architectural Center. Tuesdays [words 15] a. Thursdays; noon to 5 p. Admission: (includes [words 16] Museum of Natural History): adults, $15; seniors, 65 [words 17] children ages 3 to 18, $11; children age 2 and younger and members, free. (412) 622-3131 or www. "Rivers of Steel at Point Park University," [words 18] industrial heritage, Sept.30 in the university's Lawrence Hall Gallery, Downtown Pittsburgh. Mondays through Thursdays; 8 a. Fridays and Saturdays. "Too Soon? : A Cartoon Retrospective of 9/11," featuring comic strip and editorial cartoon reflections and responses to 9/11, through Sept. Wednesdays, Thursdays and Sundays, and 10 a. [words 19] children age 12 and younger, free. (412) 232-0199 or toonseum. "Quiet Glances: Considering the Subtle Gesture," oil paintings by Claire [words 20] Two Sisters Gallery, 507 Beaver St. Opening reception, 6 to 8 p. Sewickley Fall Gallery Walk and [words 21] p. Free admission; free metered parking after 3 p. Friday and all day Saturday. For events and exhibits, visit sewickleychamber. Pittsburgh Cultural Trust's Gallery Crawl, 5:30 to 9 p.30, in Pittsburgh's Cultural District, where a number of venues will showcase cutting-edge art and live music. la vita luminiscentes," exhibit of pottery and encrusted bead-worked jewelry, through Oct.2, Merrick [words 22] Brighton. One-woman exhibit by retired Geneva College professor Lynda Lambert, who lost her vision in 2007. Mavuno Festival of African American Art and Culture, through mid-October at Sweetwater Center for the Arts, Sewickley. Also on display: "My Place," an exhibit with a variety of interpretations on what "my place" means, through Sept. Festival exhibit "Stacks" opens Sept.30 with an artist's reception from 6 to 9 p. ## sweetwaterartcenter.org or (412) 741-4405. "M is for Museum," discover the Carnegie Museum of Natural History using the ABCs, Oct. Tuesdays through Saturdays, 10 a. Thursdays and [words 23] p. Admission: adults, $15; children and students, $11; seniors, $12. (412) 622-3131 or carnegiemnh. "Beaver Valley Album," summer/fall exhibit at the Beaver Area Heritage Museum, River Road, Beaver. Featuring photographs from the Arnold McMahon Collection of Graule Studios. Saturdays and 1 to 4 p. Weekday tours available, call (724) 775-7174. Little Beaver Historical Society announces summer exhibits featuring Ladies Butterfly Tea, a railroad seminar and hand quilting. [words 24] museums: the Greersburg Academy, Little Beaver Museum, the McCoy Log Cabin and the McCarl Industrial and Agricultural Museum. Museums are open from 1:30 to 4:30 p. every Sunday through September or by appointment any time. ## Free admission; donations appreciated. "The Word of God: Max Gimblett The Sound of One Hand," through Nov.27 at the Andy Warhol Museum, Pittsburgh's North Side. Also on display:�"Pittsburgh Biennial - Gertrude's/Lot," an exhibit featuring work by 22 local [words 25] through Jan. Museum admission: adults, $15; seniors, $9; students, $8. Tuesdays through Thursdays and Saturdays and Sundays, and 10 a. (412) 237-8300 or warhol. HomeFrontLine: Reflections on Ten Years of War Since 9/11," through Dec.10, Silver Eye Center for Photography, 1015 E. Gallery hours noon to 6 p. ## Tuesdays through Saturdays. "Rally the Troops: Beaver County's Call to the Civil War," through Dec.31 at Old [words 26] Ambridge. Features a Roll of Honor listing of Beaver County Civil War soldiers and the Harmony Society's wartime history. ## (724) 266-4500 or oldeconomyvillage. "Sites of Passage," through Jan.8, featuring multi-media works by 17 Egyptian artists in dialogue with 20 showcased U. artists, Mattress Factory, 500 Sampsonia Way, Pittsburgh's North Side. "Tough Art," an exhibit of four interactive artworks that are "tough" enough to withstand kid handling, through Jan.16 at the Children's Museum of Pittsburgh, North Side. Mondays through Saturdays, and noon to 5 p. Admission: adults, $12; children ages 2 to 18 and senior citizens, $11; children younger than 2, free. (412) [words 27] or pittsburghkids. "Stars & Stripes: An American Story," an exhibit about the story of the [words 28] 17 at the Sen. John Heinz History Center, Pittsburgh's Strip District. Admission: adults, $10; seniors age 62 and older, $9; students and children age 4 to 17, $5; children younger than 3, free. Talk and book signing with Food Network star Alton Brown, 7 p.5 at Sewickley Academy, Edgeworth. $45, includes event and signed copy of his book, "Good Eats 3: The Later Years. Lecture: Stacks, a look at Romare Bearden and his impact on the arts community, 6:30 to 8:30 p.5, Sweetwater Center for the Arts, 200 Broad St. Members: free; non-members: $5. Harmony Ridge Film Festival, third annual event devoted to short films, Oct.8, The Venue [words 29] Township. Winning entries and other selected submissions will be shown. Tickets are $16 in advance (20 and younger pays $11); or $20 at the door, which [words 30] those 21 and older. A free Filmmakers Forum takes place at 2:30 p. ## harmonyridgefilmfest.com or (724) 544-1428. Erntefest at Old Economy Village, a traditional German harvest festival, 10 a. Crafts, demonstrators, music and [words 31] food. Tickets: adults, $12; children ages 3 to 11, $6; children younger than 3, free. For more information, call (724) 266-4500 or visit www. Edgewood Fall Festival, 11 a.1, Edgewood Baptist Church, 430 Edgewood Road. (724) 843-2889.24th Annual American Indian Gathering,10 a.9, at the Community College of Beaver County Athletics and Events Center, Center Township. Demonstrations, exhibits, drums, dance competitions, food and more. Admission: adults, $4; children ages 5 to 12, $2; children younger than 5, free. An October to Remember Family Festival and Benefit, 11 a.8, East Palestine Park, Ohio. Free admission; donations welcome. Chili cook-off, haunted trail, vendors and a fireworks show at dusk. Benefits the Niki Feezle Cystic Fibrosis Explosion of Hope Foundation. For more information or to enter contests, visit www. ## nikifeezlefoundation.com or call (330) 831-1202 or (724) 336-5512. Second Annual Wine Tasting, hosted by the Ambridge Historic District Economic Development Corporation, 3 to 6 p.24, Akulina's Aniques, 260 13th St. Wine, beer and hors d'oeuvres. Music by The Miss Freddye Trio. ## Benefits AHDEDC revitalization efforts. Windows Through History program for girls ages 7 to 14, 10 a.24, Vicary Mansion, 1235 Third Ave. Participants will wear 1750's Eastern Woodlands Indian clothing, learn [words 32] cook soup over an open fire. ## Registration required, call (724) 775-1848. and Barnum & Bailey Circus, Nov.2 to 6, Consol Energy Center, Pittsburgh. Wednesday through Saturday, 11 a. Saturday, and 1 and 5 p. ringling.com or (800) 745-3000. Steel City [words 33] pop-culture convention, Dec. ## 2-4, Monroeville Convention Center. For a $25 fee, celebrity guest Henry Winkler from "Happy Days" will sign autographs from 4 to 8 p. Other celebrity guests include Linda Blair, Margot Kidder and Hacksaw Jim Duggan. Daily admission: $12. A busy beaver chewed through a tree which fell on a Consumers Energy power line and disrupted electrical service to 595 customers early Thursday morning. Company General Manager Jim Kidd said he was notified of the outage at 4 a. The line fell down along a [words 34] River. “Not many can report a beaver caused an outage, but we can,” Kidd said. “We had about half of those impacted back on service within 30 minutes and all customers had power approximately three hours later.”Consumers Energy is a local, [words 35] an outpost located in Nevada. The co-operative provides electric service to over 5,000 members throughout five counties in Central Iowa: Marshall, Story, Polk, Jasper and Tama. Consumers Energy's mission is to provide members with reliable electric service in a safe manner at affordable and equitable rates. ## For more information, contact 641-752-1593, 800-696-6552 or visit consumersenergy. 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Input: The rest of this: If you wish to gaze upon the depth and breadth of America's racial divide–particularly the canyon-like gulf between white folks and black folks–you need look no further than the recent incident involving Harvard Professor Henry Louis Gates Jr. Cambridge police officer James Crowley, and now, President Obama who weighed in on the matter a few nights ago, when asked for his reaction to Gates's arrest on charges (since dismissed) of disorderly conduct. In this case, as with so many other news stories that have touched on race–the O. To hear most white folks tell it, Gates was to blame. Yes, he was only trying to enter his own home when a white woman saw him (as well as his driver), assumed they were burglars and then convinced another woman to call the cops on her behalf. And yes, he produced identification for the officer when asked, indicating that he was indeed the resident of the house to which the officer had come to investigate the initial call. But because he became belligerent to Sgt. Crowley, and because he unfairly called Crowley a racist, he is guilty of escalating the situation, and thus, is the bad guy in the scenario. Meanwhile Crowley, according to the dominant white narrative, spread by media far and wide, is a wonderful and thoughtful cop, who is hardly a racist–after all he teaches a diversity training class and once gave mouth-to-mouth-resuscitation to a dying black athlete–and who was inappropriately smeared: first by Gates who accused the officer of asking him for proof of residency only because he was black, and then by Obama, who said the police had acted “stupidly” in arresting the esteemed professor in his own home. Such a perception on the part of whites makes sense, given the white racial frame, as sociologist Joe Feagin calls it, through which most whites view these matters. That frame says, among other things, that as long as you are respectful to police, nothing bad will happen to you (thus, if something bad does happen to you it was likely your own fault), and secondly, that there can be no racism involved in an incident unless the person being accused of such a thing clearly acted with bigoted and prejudicial intent. In this case, since Gates mouthed off and Crowley is, from all accounts, hardly a bigot, the case is closed so far as the dominant white narrative is concerned. But to most black folks, their frame or lens is entirely different, and not because they are irrational or hypersensitive (which is what many whites assume, sadly) but because their experiences with law enforcement are, frankly, different than those typically enjoyed by whites. Far too many African Americans, and many other persons of color, have experienced mistreatment at the hands of police, no matter their behavior (1). For instance, they are, according to all available evidence, more likely to be stopped and searched for drugs, even though, when stopped, they are less likely to have drugs on them than whites (2). In other words, even when they have done nothing wrong, the suspicion that they are up to no good causes cops to disproportionately suspect them of wrongdoing and then treat them as criminals until proven otherwise. In addition, there have been numerous examples in recent years of black and brown folks–mostly men but some women as well–who have been killed by police, even though they posed no threat to the officers, and were unarmed. Although these tragedies have happened to white folks too, such occurrences are far less common. So for African Americans, the possibility that racism was involved in the Gates incident is more than an idle suspicion. First, they wonder, understandably, whether or not the white woman who initially expressed alarm about the two men on Gates's porch, and then got the second woman to call police would have done so had the two men she saw trying to enter Gates's residence been white: one in a suit (the driver) and the other casually but well dressed, with gray hair, in his late 50s, as with Gates. But it's not a crazy question, and given the evidence from years of research, suggesting that whites are more likely to perceive ambiguous behavior by blacks as criminal or aggressive, than we are for other whites, it is a question backed up by social science as well. Because there has been almost no discussion of what the research literature says on this point, within the week-long media feeding frenzy on this story, perhaps now would be a good time to present it. First, because doing so will allow us to understand the way in which implicit racial bias operates, even without bigoted or prejudicial intent (and how this may have been in evidence that day in Cambridge); and secondly, so as to de-escalate the rhetoric surrounding the event on both sides. Thus, we can make the conversation less about whether “Crowley is a racist,” or “Was Gates belligerent? ” and more about how a white officer may well have perceived Gates's belligerence (accepting for now the officer's account of Gates's behavior), and how that perception may have been skewed by racial biases that, although not consciously held, still can prove influential to white cognition. The good news for us, is that there is over thirty years of social science evidence to which we can turn in order to evaluate this matter. For instance, one famous study showed white focus group members a video in which a black actor and a white actor engaged in an argument. On the tape shown to one group of whites, the black actor shoves the white actor out of the way at one point. On the tape shown to a second group, it is the white actor who does the shoving. In all other respects the tapes were the same (and the whites viewing the different films had been randomly selected so they too, functionally speaking, were no different). Afterward, the white respondents were asked a series of questions about what they had seen. Among them, was a question that asked whether they perceived the shove administered at the end of the argument as aggressive or violent. Three out of four whites who had seen the black actor do the shoving, answered yes. But only 17% of the whites who had seen the white actor administer the exact same kind of shove felt the act had been aggressive or violent (3). Although this study was administered in the 1970s, there is little reason to believe that time alone would change the way white Americans, at a subconscious level, perceive aggression in blacks, as opposed to other whites. More importantly, additional studies since that time have found similar results: one found that even as children, whites view blacks as more aggressive than other whites engaged in the very same behavior (4). More recently, “shoot or hold fire” studies have determined that when shown videos of blacks and whites engaged in various ambiguous activities, participants are quicker to shoot unarmed blacks, and to hold fire on whites, even when the latter are armed and dangerous ... Output: Rest of text: (5). These tendencies, it should be noted, bear no relationship to the degree of overt racial bias expressed by participants in pre-interviews. Rather, they seem tied to implicit, even subconscious biases, which research shows can be easily triggered in situations where common stereotypes of racial groups are made salient. Even more disturbing, studies have found that whites often fabricate memories of events in ways that fit common racial stereotypes. For instance, in one study, participants were given details of an assault case, as if they were in the role of jurors. Asked to remember the case details later, participants overwhelmingly misremembered aggressive conduct by blacks in the stories, even when such conduct did not occur, and they were far less likely to remember aggressive conduct by whites, even when, in the narratives given to them, it did occur (6). In another case, participants were shown news stories involving crime, in which the color of the shown perpetrator was digitally manipulated. By large margins, respondents were more likely to remember the race of the perp when the perp shown was black, and often even misremembered the perp as black, when he was not (7). An additional study found that when shown perp mug shots of blacks, as opposed to whites, respondents were far more likely to presume guilt in the former case as opposed to the latter, even when the available facts in evidence were the same (8). Other research, in which participants are hooked up to MRI machines, has found that even when shown a black face on a screen subliminally (i. for such a small fraction of time that the conscious mind is unable to process it, though the subconscious mind can), the part of the brain known as the amygdala (which is the part that processes fear responses and anxiety), lights up far more than when shown a subliminal image of a white face (9). Here it is worth quoting Linda Hamilton Krieger and Susan Fiske, from their 2006 California Law Review article on implicit bias:“As social psychologists John Bargh and James Uleman, among others, have demonstrated, merely encountering a member of a stereotyped group primes the trait constructs associated with, and in a sense, constituting the stereotype. And it is this question–made reasonable by the very social science research about which Gates is surely aware–that no doubt would lead him to express anger at the thought of being presumed anything but the resident of his own home. All of which means that when Sgt. Crowley arrived, he found himself in the middle of a sociological and psychological drama not of his own making, but from which he could hardly extricate himself neatly. Angered by the potential implication of the witness's suspicions, Gates became enraged and let the officer know it. The officer, despite his supposed depth of knowledge on matters of race and diversity, failed to appreciate the background narrative that was surely running, with good reason, through Gates's mind, and instead took the anger personally: something that is unprofessional for a diversity trainer, and doubly so for a cop. That Crowley is a diversity trainer, but apparently unfamiliar with the sometimes caustic but ultimately harmless exercise known as “the dozens” which Gates proceeded to run on him, by saying “I'll see your mama on the porch,” is especially interesting. In any event, at this point folks of color logically wonder if Crowley would have arrested a white man who exhibited the same “belligerence” as is claimed for Dr. Again, we can't know for sure, but just as was true for the discussion of the witness's perceptions, the question is not an irrational or unfair one. Especially when the charge for which Gates was arrested was such an inherently subjective one. Disorderly conduct after all, unlike say, armed robbery, or drug possession, has no clear-cut, objective definition. It is the epitome of vagueness, in fact, such that individual police judgments are intrinsically in play in situations involving such charges. And given the above-mentioned research, which finds that whites are quicker to view blacks as disruptive, aggressive, even violent, than we are to view whites this way–even when the behaviors being exhibited are functionally no different–it is perfectly reasonable to wonder whether Crowley may have overreacted to Gates's behavior, however inappropriate he may have found it to be, in a way that escalated the situation from mere obnoxiousness (which is not illegal) to disorderly conduct, which is. Bottom line: this incident demonstrates in painful relief the obliviousness to the black experience, which we as whites are allowed to indulge, and in which we are allowed to wallow. We cannot understand what it feels like to be thought of as a criminal solely because of our race. We have no comparable social context that would allow us to process the depth of the psychological injury that flows from such a thing. And even if race is not the reason for such suspicion in a given case, the mere possibility that it could be (based on the history of these kinds of things) is enough to generate anxiety, stress and even real somatic pain for those seen through this lens. Indeed, research on the health effects of racism has actually found that it is precisely in these kinds of cases, in which the racial motivation is less clear, where the negative impact on blacks is greatest. The “attributional ambiguity” of such cases (fancy language for, “what the hell was that about? ”) is what causes blacks, for instance, to expend valuable emotional and cognitive resources trying to analyze each situation anew. The stress from such a response heightens what is known as the allostatic load for those experiencing it, through the release of stress hormones (such as cortisol). This in turn is directly related to hypertension, which is then directly linked to the excess mortality rate of African Americans relative to whites. In order to move the racial dialogue forward, and to ultimately dismantle systems of racial domination and subordination, the way in which folks of color experience white-dominated institutions will have to be understood and appreciated, by the very whites who have for so long, remained in profound denial about this matter. It will require that we strive to understand, at a deep and personal level, that incidents can be experienced as racist assaults even if those doing the assaulting do not intend to be racist. Because inbetween the actor and the acted upon, there is a vast territory known as history, and within that territory lay the memories of a thousand terrors, fears, insecurities and remembrances. That few whites have ever taken a trip to that place hardly acquits us from the need to understand it and recognize it as a real place, to which our brothers and sisters of color have been long consigned. (8) Peffley, Mark, et al. “The Intersection of Race and Crime in Television News Stories: An Experimental Study,” 13 Political Communication (1996). Tim Wise is the author of four books on race. His most recent is Between Barack and a Hard Place: Racism and White Denial in the Age of Obama. City Lights Books, 2009.

Input: The rest of this: Market momentum from 2011 carried through the Mexico Beach to Cape San Blas market with 2012 recording the most sales of any year since 2005.2011 was the previous best year since 2005 with 439 sales and 2012 saw a nice increase to 554 sales. A decrease that I'm happy to report is the number of properties on the market has gone down from an all-time high of 1732 in 2006 to the lowest number since 2004 with an average of 872 properties on the market in 2012. Supply and demand support the slight increase in prices that the market is seeing and the majority of economic factors point to rising values. Vacant lot prices have fallen more than any other property type since the market began to fall in late 2005. Reductions of 60-70% from the height of the market are common and premier subdivisions like WindMark and Ovation have had many lots sell for 10 cents on the dollar. These premier developments rose the most and have fallen the hardest. The developers drastically reduced prices in Ovation and 51 lots sold from May to July in just that one subdivision; which only has 120 total lots. A friend bought one of the originally released interior lots in Ovation for $235K and later bought an identical lot next to his first lot for the list price of $19,000 which was one of the 51 sales. I made the last sale in WindMark last year which was a first tier lot purchased for $80,000. The previous owner paid $810,000 in 2004. These tremendous reductions in lot prices have led to a mini-boom of construction in the area. People interested in purchasing often find that they can buy a lot and build exactly what they want for cheaper than they can buy an existing home. The majority of well-priced homes have sold over the past few years and there often isn't much to choose from. Cape San Blas, Indian Pass and WindMark are experiencing by far the most construction and these areas have the highest average sale prices for our area. My parents actively shopped for a home for some time and finally came to the realization that it would actually cost less to build exactly what they wanted in WindMark rather than purchase one of the few existing homes on the market. We are not seeing much building in Port St. Joe where there are still many existing homes at prices far less than construction costs. Mexico Beach has very little building as well, due to the lack of a big reduction in lot prices close to the beach. I am friends with a number of builders and there were some very lean construction years from 2006 to 2011. There were many times with less than 7 homes under construction for the whole area compared to the 35 plus current permits for homes under construction now. The builders that have stuck out the slow times are busy once again. The optimism is strong enough that we've even got "spec" houses being built which is something we haven't seen in 6 years. The number one complaint I hear from the buyers I show around is the lack of newer single family homes on the market. The high values from the early and mid 2000's led to the development of many nice condos, townhouses, and subdivisions, but not single family homes. I'm happy to see all of this building that will add to an even higher quality of inventory in the future. Click either name below to see active listings for that area: Ovation on the left andWindMark on right. Do we still have a lot of foreclosures on the market? Not on residences, but there are still a fair amount of foreclosed vacant lots remaining. (Thus the good deals that have led to all of the building. As of 1/29/13, there are 5 residential foreclosures from Mexico Beach to WindMark , 2 in Port St. Joe, and 4 from Cape San Blas to Indian Pass. This link will show the11 foreclosed homes on the market: The number of short sales is way down and here are the 11 homes currently listed as short sales. Banks are still holding a higher number of vacant lots and this will show the 45 vacant lots listed as foreclosures:2013 looks like another year of many people looking to buy good deals in our area. I've seen predictions for price increases from 2%-7% for 2013 and I believe we will see somewhere around a healthy 5% increase. I do not forecast more sales this year than last. We are simply running out of the largely bank-held and troubled inventory that results in high sales volume. Tranquil Harbor and The Club in Mexico Beach may provide good buying opportunities for condos in Mexico Beach as there are large numbers of distressed properties held by banks/developers in each project. We could see much better if Port St. Joe lands any companies that it's hoping come to the area to provide job opportunities. Joe home prices are driven primarily by the local economy and job market while the Cape and Mexico Beach are predominantly influenced by the second home, retirement, and vacation rental markets. A very positive sign of the market was the beach front condo building that sat vacant in Mexico Beach for 6 plus years being bought by a group from Nashville and finished out very nicely. They renamed this project The Vue and have been closing units out for higher numbers than we have seen condos sell for since 2006. (Beach front units start at $360k and the majority have sold or are under contract. Rental Market- The long term and short term rental markets are as strong as they have been since I started in 2004. Bed tax collections for vacation rental and motel stays set another record in Mexico Beach and Gulf County with each Board reporting gains over 12% for their financial year. The upswing in rental income is certainly leading to more people purchasing and justifying values from a rental income perspective. More vacationers are good for values and it's a fact that more people are coming each year and enjoying our area. There is an extreme shortage of long term rentals so owners have been able to increase rates 10%-20% over what they could charge just a year or two ago.98 Real Estate Group is strictly a sales company and we still average five calls a week from people that can't find anything on the long term rental market and are desperately hoping we might know of something. My sister recently moved here from Rhode Island and is working at Tyndall Air Force Base. She had reasonable expectations and looked very hard for something to rent for a few months prior to moving. She couldn't find anything and lived with me for 5 weeks before something became available. (She has dogs and this made her case a little harder than most, but it's tough for anybody to find a long term rental these days. How's 98 Real Estate Group doing? We are doing well and will celebrate being open two years next month. We've grown by adding Grant Terry, Regina Gossett, Gene Cline, and John Sherwood since opening. We haven't finished as the top sales company, but we have been close and with a few of the projects and strategic alliances we now have in the works, ... Output: I'm hopeful we finish 2013 as thetop sales company for the area. Since opening, we have sold 164 properties totaling right at $27 million. The potential impact of the money that Gulf County and Mexico Beach look like they will receive from fines BP is paying for the 2010 Oil Spill through the RESTORE Act could have a huge positive effect for the area. I feel like I need tomention it since the areas are projected to receive an infusion of capital like nothing seen here before. There are many different "pots" of money to be used for various projects and still many unknown factors. I hope our local leaders can guide the community and make the best of this situation as their decisions will have the possibility of doing great things for the area. Here's a link to read more about the RESTORE ACT. Please let me know if I can help with any of your real estate needs. Don't forget theMexico Beach Gumbo Cookoff is coming up on February 16th. The 98 Real Estate cooking team will see you there as we defend our title. We are also planning the 3rd Annual 98 Real Estate Group Ling Ding fishing tournament to be held every weekend in April with a kickoff party on April 5th. Details will be out shortly. When it comes to taking time off for vacation, I'm headed to where ever that big blue spot on the map is located. Occasionally it's a lake, but sometimes, I'm just drawn to the sticky salt air and sand between my toes. Call me old fashioned, but I'm just not drawn to the 24/7 spring break crowd these days. I'm looking for a spot where I can read a book, enjoy a healthy dose of alcohol and sun induced napping, and then turn it up later at night however I see fit. If you're anything like me, then you are going to really appreciate this list of Five Can't Miss Coastal Towns in the South. South Walton Beaches in Florida have been included on lists of the top beaches in the world for their pristine appearance, resorts that don't feel like resorts, delicious food, and never being overcrowded. Some of the more famous beaches along this stretch in between Destin and Panama City include Seaside, Grayton Beach, Santa Rosa Beach, and Rosemary Beach. The beaches, all with different styles, are small towns of their own with different characteristics from one another. Grayton Beach attracts a more youthful crowd that enjoys tailgating on the beach by day, and heading to The Red Bar for drinks and fresh seafood by night. Head east from Grayton, and you hit Seaside, which is a great place to start a bike tour all the way down to Alys Beach. Eat, drink, and enjoy! Downtown Charleston is an interesting spot, filled with history, a booming night light, and just the right amount of Southern charm. It is consistently voted as one of the top cities in the US (not just to visit, but to live. Charleston offers visitors a variety of options for vacationing. If you want to hit the beach for a tan, go for it. If you enjoy shopping, you can easily burn a hole into your pocket. The city is filled with a variety of food and bars for all. Ask any local, and they will tell you that some of the best things to do can be found just outside Downtown Charleston as well. Make sure you check out Folly Beach, Isle of Palms, and Seabrook Island. These locations offer plenty of spots for lounging in the sand and more. Seabrook is more of a secluded area, where you can find more of a private experience that many laid back folks will enjoy. Savannah and Tybee go together like sugar and tea. Tybee Island brings the relaxing small town beach scene on the Georgia coast that many have come to love and return to year after year. It is considered to be the beach of historic Savannah, just 18 miles out from the city. After crisping by the sea all day, you can make your way around Tybee's restaurants and bars like AJ's Dockside Restaurant for dinner and a sunset. If you're ready to hit downtown, be prepared with comfortable shoes; this town was made for walkin'! Downtown Savannah is overflowing with culture, shopping, tons of food, and absolutely no open container law! Yes, that means that you get to enjoy a fresh craft beer during the day while enjoying the city streets. The area is filled with sightseeing, nightlife, and outdoor adventures to experience as well. Make sure you mark this historic town on your beach bucket list. A former bustling marina, Port St Joe, Florida has been called one of the best natural beaches in the country. Like a few of the other towns mentioned, there are a variety of things to experience in and around Port St Joe. For those of you who are looking to escape, and let life slow down for a week or two, Port St Joe might be your best pick. The town is located in Gulf County, and is surrounded by amazing campgrounds for all you outdoors enthusiasts. If you need a bite to eat, you can find some of the freshest seafood in the Gulf, Southern cuisine, bistro food, and more throughout the area. Kick back, order something tall and cold, and let time escape you. South of Tampa Bay, you can find a small slip of beach on the southern Gulf called Casey Key, in Nokomis, Florida. If you're tired of the over commercialized beach front, covered in giant condos and littered with empty beer cases, then you won't want to miss Casey Key. This beach offers a secluded atmosphere, filled with fun outdoor activities such as fishing, shark tooth hunting at Caspersen Beach, sunbathing, and more. For those of you who tend to sunburn on the first day and need some indoor fun to stay cool, there are plenty of shopping opportunities just a few miles down the road. Looking for a spot that is always hot, never too busy, and filled with a dose of relaxation and adventure? Explore Casey Key, and enjoy some of what “Old Florida” has to offer! Kevin Ekmark is a graduate of Georgia College, in Milledgeville, GA. Professionally, he is the Director at TrustWorkz, Inc. a digital marketing firm for small business, and the Co-Owner of The Trot Line. He was born and raised in Georgia. Kevin loves peanut butter, bourbon, the outdoors, football season, and rare meat. Oh, and anything with bacon. The commercial market for Mexico Beach and Gulf County does not experience significant turnover. However, we are receiving more inquiries and interest from people looking for move and open businesses in the area. The beach areas have a more seasonal market with high numbers of visitors in the Spring and Summer vs. lower numbers in the Fall and Winter. Joe has the largest full time consumer base with a much higher ratio of consumers that are full time residents. There were 5 commercial sales in 2010, 8 in 2011, and 9 in 2012. There are currently 20 properties on the market, including 1 lease opportunity. Thank you to everyone that has helped 98 Real Estate Group become one of the top real estate companies from Mexico Beach to Cape San Blas and beyond. ## Zach Childs- Broker/Owner.

<human>: Can you tell me how to fill in the missing words: She is famous for using the latest research in these fields to help the individual to create a life that [words 1] calling. For organizations, Dr. Sunita assists to create a company that is purpose driven. Sunita was born in Mumbai India and raised in America. She is as a certified executive coach (CEC), has a Masters Degree in Counseling from UTSA and a Doctorate in Psychology (abd) from The Chicago Professional School of Psychology. By combining her Eastern culture with modern day science, Dr. ## Sunita provides fun, transformational workshops and webinars. Her [words 2] organizations is to liberate the gifts inherent in all human beings so it is easy to create a life by design. Please fill out the form below and one of our representatives will contact you to set an [words 3] as a guide to good living,” John Cage (September 5, 1912–August 12, 1992) once remarked. But what, exactly, is good music, or good [words 4] for that matter, goodness itself? Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner Life of Artists (public library) is a remarkable new intellectual, creative, and spiritual biography of Cage — one of the most influential composers in modern history, whose impact reaches beyond the realm of music and into art, literature, cinema, and just about every other aesthetic and conceptual expression of curiosity about the world, yet also one of history's most misunderstood artists — by longtime art critic and practicing Buddhist Kay Larson. Fifteen years in the making, it is without a doubt the [words 5] absorbing book I've read in the past year, if not decade — remarkably researched, exquisitely written, weaving together a great many threads of cultural history into a holistic understanding of both Cage as an artist and Zen as a lens on existence. From his early life in California, [words 6] into the joy of sound, to his pivotal introduction to Zen Buddhism in Japanese Zen scholar D. Suzuki's Columbia University class, to his blossoming into a force of the mid-century avant-garde, Larson traces Cage's own journey as an artist and a soul, as well as his intermeshing with the journeys of other celebrated artists, including Marcel Duchamp, Jasper Johns, Yoko Ono, Robert Rauschenberg, Jackson Pollock, and, most importantly, Merce Cunningham. The book itself has a [words 7] with Cage and modeled after Cage's imagined conversations with Erik Satie, one of his mentors, long after Satie's death. Interspersed in Larson's immersive narrative are italicized excerpts of Cage's own writing, in his own voice. Where to begin? Perhaps at the core — the core of what Cage has come to be known for, that expansive negative space, isn't nihilistic, isn't an absence, but, rather, it's life-affirming, a presence. Cage [words 8] this life, not to bring order out of chaos, nor to suggest improvements in creation, but simply to wake up to the very life we're living, which is so excellent once one gets one's mind and desires out of its way and lets it act of its own accord. In his early life, however, Cage was rather [words 9] and desires out of the way,” leading himself into a spiral of inner turmoil. While engaged in a relationship with a man named Don Sample, he met artist Xenia Kashevaroff, the Alaskan-born daughter of a Russian priest, and quickly fell in love. The two got married and, for a while, Cage [words 10] dissonance about his affair with Sample. But rather than gaining deeper self-knowledge, he seemed to steer [words 11] himself. Perhaps that's what prompted him, sixty years later, to admonish:I'm entirely opposed to emotions . I think of love as an opportunity to become blind and blind in a bad way . I think that [words 12] are extremely important; in my view they are what life is; love makes us blind to seeing and hearing. By the 1940s, Cage's relationship with Xenia had begun to unravel. When the two eventually divorced in [words 13] into turbulence. His work followed faithfully, as he set out to compose Ophelia (1946), a “two-tone poem to madness” based on Shakespeare. Larson writes:Margaret Leng Tan asked Cage why his portrait of Ophelia is so much harsher than Shakespeare's. She recorded his reply that ‘all [words 14] when it is not directed towards others, for it invariably ravages the sufferer internally. 'Cage and Cunningham, circa 1948, as Cage's confusion and despair began to lift. In this classic image, taken at Black Mountain College, the perfection of their partnering seems a force of nature. Why did Cage struggle at first? Soon, Cage began the decades-long romance with the love of his life, dancer and choreographer Merce Cunningham, which would last until the end of [words 15] bequeath some of the most magical collaborations in the history of 20th-century art. Around the same time, Cage began the other essential relationship of his life — that with Zen Buddhism. Hardly anywhere does [words 16] of the human condition shine more beautifully than in this passage articulating the profound, uncomfortable transformation that love sets in motion:Caught in [words 17] of his emotions, Cage was forced to confront a question totally new to him: is the ‘self' that is being expressed? The self that hurts so badly it nearly kills you? The self that isn't seen until it aches? When Cage and Cunningham met, perhaps they felt a tremor of gravitational shift. It might have been small at first, or the shiver might have been so insistent it rattled them. Whatever the case, something evidently stirred between the two men before they came to New York. But maybe nothing was spoken. So it is with the places preparing to teach us. It's only when the heart begins to beat wildly and without pattern — when it begins to realize its [words 18] its newly adamant pulse bangs on the walls of its cage and is bruised by its enclosure. To feel the heart pound is only the beginning. Next is to feel the hurt — the tearing of the psyche — the prelude of entry into the place one has always feared. One fears that place because of being drawn to it, loving it, and wanting to be taught by it. Without the need to be taught, who would feel the psyche rip? . Without the [words 19] know where the walls are? Bruised and bloodied by throwing himself against the four walls of his enclosure, and deeply shaken by his shrieking [words 20] pacing his confinement and realized that his container had no roof. Looking up, he could see the sky. Fascinated, he set [words 21] dimension. In 1964, John Cage was fifty-two years old and had been partnering with Merce Cunningham for two decades. The two men's bright confidence in 1948 has shifted to something calmer: the settled assurance of the bond between them — one of the great redeeming love affairs in the history of the American arts — which would endure until their deaths. [words 22] inquisitiveness was indeed fundamental to both this personal life and his approach to music — an ethos reminiscent of Rilke's counsel to [words 23] questions. Cage:My composition arises out of asking questions. I am reminded [words 24] early on about a class with Schoenberg. He had us [words 25] problem in counterpoint (though it was a class in harmony). He said, ‘When you have a solution, turn [words 26] it. He then said: ‘Now another solution, please. ' I gave another and another until finally, having made seven or eight, I reflected a moment and then said with some certainty: ‘There aren't any more solutions. What is the principle underlying all of these solutions? ' I couldn't answer his question; but I had always worshipped the man, and at that point [words 27] more. He ascended, so to speak. I spent the rest of my life, until recently, hearing him ask [words 28] over. And then it occurred to me through the direction that my work has taken, which is renunciation of choices and the substitution of asking questions, that the principle underlying all of the solutions that I had given [words 29] question that he had asked, because they certainly didn't come from any other point. He would have accepted the answer, I think. The answers have the questions in common. ## Therefore the question underlies the answers. This profound pursuit of questions, coupled with disinterest in criticism, came to define Cage's aesthetic. Larson writes:One of the relentless consequences of the choices modernists made was uproar: the convulsions of fear and loathing that arose whenever a new aesthetic proposition appeared on the horizon. Cage's own life — hardly [words 30] now — offers an object lesson. He learned very early to ignore criticism, since he knew perfectly well his work [words 31] ridiculous. Criticism was of no interest. Nor was praise, which seemed to require that he repeat himself. ‘At every point society acts to keep you from doing what you have to do,' he said in 1973. From the outset, [words 32] to find his own answers, and he looked to experimentalists for precedents. One remarkable aspect of Cage's music, derived from his close study of Indian traditions, was the notion of “disinterestedness” — which is not to be confused with “indifference.” Larson distinguishes:From the standpoint of spiritual practice, the two words have nothing in common. Indifference borders on nihilism. It [words 33] caring. ' It expresses corrosive cynicism. Ultimately, it is [words 34] to the practitioner and to the culture as a whole. Disinterestedness, on the contrary, ‘is [words 35] interest or advantage; not influenced by selfish motives,' according to the Random House Dictionary (1971). Disinterestedness is the natural outcome of meditation on the self and recognition of [words 36] then what can trouble you? freeing one's mind from the grip of the self leads to spiritual ease — being at home in your own skin, free of self-attachment, cured of likes [words 37] rasa. It's how you open your ears to the music of the world. ‘If one makes music, as [words 38] that is, without concern for money or fame but simply for the love of making it, it is an integrating activity and one will find moments in his life that an complete and fulfilled. '(This sentiment regarding purpose and doing what you love would come to be articulated by many other creators over the decades to come. Echoing something Jackson Pollock's dad once wrote to his son in one of history's finest letters, Cage advises:Look at everything. Don't close your eyes to the world around you. Look and become curious and interested in what there is to see. For Cage, this was tied to bridging the dangerous divide between the conscious and unconscious mind:There are two principal parts of each personality: the conscious mind and the unconscious, and these are split and dispersed, in most of us, in countless ways and directions. The function of music, like that of any other healthy occupation, is to help to bring those separate parts back together again. Music does this [words 39] when, awareness of time and space being lost, the multiplicity of elements which make up an individual become [words 40] one. In Japan for the first time, on a trip organized by Toshi Ichiyanagi and Yoko Ono in 1962, Cage immediately set off to D. Ten years after the debut of 4'33”, Cage honored his ninety-two-year-old teacher and the teachings that had shown him the heart of silence. By the 1950s, however, Cage had started to drift away from the Indian spiritual traditions as he became more deeply immersed in the work of D. Suzuki and, in particular, his Essays in Zen Buddhism. Larson writes:Cage's mind is breaking its shell. It's not that he has walked away from the Indians altogether, Cage rarely abandoned anyone or anything that affected him deeply. Rather, a new thought (or a series of thoughts) is in the process of emerging. Cage has set out to solve the problems caused by love — his love for Merce, his love for music, and a love that perhaps he can't name, that arises as a mysterious upheaval of the heart, a spiritual fire that is causing an urgent search for solutions. Suzuki, in fact, taught Cage something essential about breaking the bounds of Western culture's most destructive paradigm — its toxic ultra-individualism and attachment to ego:Suffering builds character and impels you to penetrate life's secrets. It's the path of great artists, great religious leaders, great social reformers. The problem is not suffering per se, but rather our identification with our own ego: our divided, dualistic, cramped view of things. ‘We are too ego-centered,' Suzuki tells Cage. ' The ego-shell in which we live is the hardest thing to outgrow. We seem to carry it all the time from childhood up to the time we finally pass away. 'This notion of renouncing the ego was comfortably aligned with Cage's [words 41] so he embraced it:(Q:) Since your ego and your likes and dislikes have been taken out of your compositions, do you [words 42] the sense that you created them? (Cage:) Emotions, like all tastes and memory, are too closely linked to the self, to the ego. The emotions show that we are touched within ourselves, and tastes evidence our way of being touched on the outside. We have made the ego into a wall and the wall doesn't even have a door through which the interior and exterior could communicate! Suzuki taught me to destroy that wall. What is important is to insert the individual into the current, the flux of everything [words 43] happens. And to do that, the wall has to be demolished; tastes, memory, and emotions have to be weakened; [words 44] be razed. You can feel an emotion; just don't think that it's so important . Take it in a way that you can then let it drop! Don't belabor it! It's just like the chicken I ordered in the restaurant: it concerns me, but it's not important . And if we [words 45] produce a critical situation in the world. Precisely that situation in which all of society is now entrapped! To liberate himself from the burdens of ego, Cage turned to his now-legendary chance operations — specifically, using the ancient [words 46] of Changes) as a key decision-making tool in his compositions. It helped him, as Larson puts, “ask questions of the most fundamental sort.”Instead of representing my control, they represent questions I've asked and the answers that have been given by means of chance operations. I've merely changed my responsibility from making choices to asking questions. It's not easy to ask questions. I [words 47] I Ching from the notion of 2 (relationship). Or you could say I saw that all things are related. We don't have to bring about relationships. Chance operations offered Cage a chance to change his own mind without intellectualizing but, rather, by immersing himself in experiences without judgment and letting them teach him. Indeed, chance and change went hand-in-hand for him:People frequently ask me if I'm faithful to the answers, or if I change them because I want to. I don't change them because I want to. When [words 48] at that point, in the position of someone who would change something — at that point I don't change it, I change myself. It's for that reason that I have said that instead of self-expression, I'm involved [words 49] self-alteration. Cage brought this ethos to his music. Towards the end of 1950, he composed the third movement of Concerto for Prepared Piano and Orchestra by asking questions, tossing coins, and turing to the I Ching for answers. He built a chart of 32 moves [words 50] as the I Ching told him which number to pick. The remaining 32 of the book's 64 hexagrams were to produce pauses of various durations. Larson sums up the teaching embedded in Cage's experience with the I Ching:It was a moral and spiritual teaching: Use your head. Set up your structure as carefully as you can, then surrender to the experience. Accept all of it willingly and gratefully. Be present for whatever comes. Open the heart to chance and change. I never thought of not accepting it! That is precisely the first thing the I Ching teaches us: acceptance. It essentially advances this lesson: if we want to use chance operations, then we must accept the results. We have no right to use it if we are determined to criticize the results and to seek a better answer. In fact, the I Ching promises a completely sad lot to anyone who insists on getting a good answer. If I am unhappy after a chance operation, if the result does not satisfy me, by accepting it I at [words 51] the chance to modify myself, to change myself. But if I insist on changing the I Ching, then it changes rather than I, and I have gained nothing, accomplished nothing! This relinquishing of the self in the hands of pure awareness is [words 52] in another of his great spiritual heroes, Henry David Thoreau:Thoreau got up each morning and walked to the woods as though he had never been where he was going to, so that whatever was there came to him like liquid into an empty glass. Many people taking such a walk would [words 53] so full of other ideas that it would be a long time before they were capable of hearing or seeing. Most people are blinded by themselves. But, for Cage, it wasn't enough to remove that self-blinding from his spiritual life — he had to remove it from his creative life as well, from his music:The value judgment when it is made doesn't exist outside the mind but exists within the mind that [words 54] it. When it says this is good and that is not good, it's a decision to eliminate from experience certain things. Suzuki said Zen wants us to diminish that kind of activity of the ego and to increase the activity [words 55] accepts the rest of creation. And rather than taking the path that [words 56] the formal practice of Zen Buddhism itself, namely, sitting cross-legged and breathing and such things, I decided that my proper discipline was the one to which I was already committed, namely, the making of music. And that [words 57] was as strict as sitting cross-legged, namely, the use of chance operations, and the shifting of my responsibility from the making of choices to that of asking questions. This ethos also shaped Cage's understanding of the arts in general, as in this fine addition to history's greatest meditations on art:I think the history of art is simply a history of getting rid of the ugly by entering into it, and [words 58] it. After all, the notion of something outside of us being ugly is not outside of us but inside of us. And that's why I keep reiterating that we're working with our minds. What we're trying to do is to get them open so that we don't see things as being ugly, or beautiful, but as we see them just as they are. True discipline is not learned in order to [words 59] rather in order to give oneself up. Now, most people never even learn what discipline is . It means give up the things closest to you. It means give yourself up, everything, and do what it is you are going to do. At that point, what have you given up? Your likes, your dislikes, etc. The notion of discipline stands at the odd intersection of structure and nothingness, which permeated much of Cage's thinking. In November 1951, he gave his famous “Lecture on Nothing,” a follow-up to his “Lecture on Something,” which articulates the osmosis between “something” and “nothing”:Everybody has a song which is no song at all: it is a process of singing, and when you sing, you are where you are. All I know about method is that when I am not working I sometimes think I know something, but when I am working, it is quite clear that I know nothing. Perhaps it was this fascination [words 60] his obsession with silence, most famously manifest in his 1952 composition 4'33”, and led him to remark:There is no rest of life. ## Without beginning, without middle, without ending. The concept: beginning middle and meaning comes from a sense of self which separates itself from what it considers to be the rest of life. But this attitude is untenable unless one insists on stopping life and bringing it to an end. That thought is in itself an attempt [words 61] life, for life goes on, indifferent to the deaths that are part of its no beginning, no middle, no meaning. How [words 62] and push! At the same time, Cage observed the dynamic rather than static quality of life itself — the fundamental role [words 63] the world as it is. But it is not, it becomes! It moves, it changes! It doesn't wait for us to change . It is more mobile than you can imagine. You are getting closer to this reality when you say it ‘presents itself'; that means that it is not there, existing as an object. In Zen they say: If something is boring after two minutes, try it for four. If still boring, try it for eight, sixteen, thirty-two, [words 64] on. Eventually one discovers that it's not boring at all but very interesting. In the end, however, Cage's life — and death — presents us with the grandest challenge to fully embodying his philosophy. In discussing a 2010 exhibition honoring Cage, and the language of its brochure, Larson laments:The only difficulty with ‘ephemeral and transitory poetics' is their transitoriness. Exhibitions of Cage's work seem to be lacking a central core, a cohesion. That unifying voice, of course, was supplied by Cage himself, and he has passed on. We celebrate change and yet we also feel its sting. Zen teachers say, though, just look around you. Where has he gone? He's still speaking to us. Cage has become ‘the man of the great smile, the outgoing laugh,' his friend Peter Yates remembered. ‘Around him everyone laughs. 'Larson concludes with a beautiful metaphor for both Zen Buddhism and Cage's legacy, reflecting on artist Bruce Nauman's [words 65] the Studio I (Fat Chance John Cage), which was spurred by Nauman's discovery that he had mice in his studio:In the studio, things happen by chance. A moth flitters through space. These ‘chance events' are random and filled with non-intention — the buzz of small creatures, caught on film, in the midst of their busy eventful lives. As far as a mouse is concerned, its [words 66] center of the universe. By watching through [words 67] of the camera, we are able to see what we might not glimpse otherwise: that a ‘silent' space is an invisible game of billiards played by beings, each [words 68] responding to all other beings. The mice, dashing here and there, are playing out [words 69] cat. The artist maps reality. That's the cat-and-mouse game between the artist and the world. And it's not just the artist who plays it. Each of us is in a cat-and-mouse game with our perceptual life. Do we really see ourselves? Or do we see only what obtrudes in daylight? Do we crash through our nightlife, scattering the subtle things that abide there? Or do we simply watch without judgment, in the expectation of learning something? Not unlike Cage's music, Where the Heart Beats: John Cage, Zen Buddhism, and the Inner [words 70] impossible to distill, to synthesize, to relay. 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<user>: What could be the completion of this text: I couldn't get to sleep last night. Just kept falling into these strange dreams and then waking before they were finished:Two separate instances of being mugged. Walking down Main St. Las Vegas (my hometown. But this was the Vegas of 10-15 years ago. A little more subdued and lots less glitzy). Get to the intersection of Main St. and Sahara and I'm pulled aside by a guy telling me to take a walk with him. I am pretty scared and think about the 40 bucks in my pocket. I wonder what to do, as he pulls me around the back of the McDonalds. There're people around but somehow the thought of screaming or asking for help just doesn't occur. I just go along with fleeting thoughts of escape going through my head. Finally I make my break and twist away. I run down the street as fast as my legs will pull me. A bus passes me and I strive to catch up. It pulls over to the next bus stop but I am too late, the bus is already pulling away. I bang on the back door, screaming that I'm being chased and robbed. I see the face of the driver: she's not going to stop. I feel the man clasp my wrist again. The other dream was similar but didn't stick as well. This other dream was very different. I'm in this alien type desert landscape. There's are all these mechanized attack units around. Think anime style lumbering attack bots. I have no idea why I'm there, I only know that if I'm spotted they'll kill me. I can see three or four in the distance. I'm hugging the wall of a seemingly abandoned building. I creep along, hoping to not be seen. I'm sure the one closest to me has finally spotted me. It's turret-like head begins swinging in my direction, and I run. I follow the edge of the bilding and see the droid gaining speed to follow. Suddenly the droid seems to slow. It's movement become slower, and finally it stops. All at once I'm in a flow of Japanese kids. They seem to be the pilots of these robots. We're all heading to a classroom of sorts. We all sit down in a pinkly-flourescent lighted building. The class seems to be starting. So these dreams kept coming. And I feel like I got no sleep. Just these random dream images that left me more scared and confused than rested. I left work a couple hours early because my head was just not right. Delirium and vague aches twinged me along. I like the vivid dreams but the cost is quite high. I wouldn't mind sleeping a little tonight. I couldn't sleep at all last night either and I felt like I was in some maniacal rerun of mad and the Pink elephant drink scene from Dumbo. I too was running away from an attacker and narrowly escape to wake and fall into restless sleep where it all happens again. I hope and pray for us both for different results this evening. I haven't played any violent video games in a while yet recently I have had dreams of myself and others killing the shit out of some Islamo-fascist assholes. I kept on running out of ammo though because I was too keen on popping caps off. Thanks to Wilma, I got a call on Saturday saying I'll be working FEMA starting this week. My schedule is Mon-Sat 3:00PM-11:30PM. I get to sleep in, but this is one week where that Friday and Saturday night are seriously gonna hamper my partyability (truthfully maybe it's a good thing that I don't start drinking til midnight. Here is an article that lists a bunch of "hygeine" products and some potential side effects. It is pretty scary when you consider that these products are barely tested and yet the "average" American uses 9 or so a day. The real problem is the so called "cocktail effect" - the daily mixing of many different types of products. This is yet another excuse for me to maintain my uncouthness. I think I only use 2 products: soap and tooth paste. I guess if you count the several soaps I use because of public bathrooms that total might rise a bit. But in the end I'd rather be a little stinky than a little poisoned. Good Luck working for FEMA, Terry. I hope this time round it is less stressful for you. and everyone! Everything cute is dangerous! Remember those gnomes who molested those kittens! They became very aloof cats. My grandpa died last week. He went peacefully in his sleep after 84 years on this planet earth. He leaves behind a large family who will all miss and remember him. It was a sad but good time for me. I haven't seen half of my family on that side since over five years ago. All these cousins that were 10-15 are now 15-21. It's crazy to leave children and come back to adults. It was also great just to have an extra visit with my immediates whom I normally only see once a year at most. And this is the first time in a couple years that my sister actually responded to my dad (they've been kinda quits since my parents break-up). Well I've got a bunch of pics to share. Here we go:Here's my other sibling, Alexandra (call her Alex or even just Al) wearing her funeral outfit. And here we are all together. This is about the only pic of sis-in-law, Paris, she is apparently camera shy. This is my great-uncle Gilbert's backyard. He has a full garden growing all sorts of yummies, including pomegranites, yum. Here's a close up of the grapes which, according to my dad, will be used to make a very potent and quite foul wine. He also had this strange concoction for us to try called red beer. Like a bloody mary but with beer instead of vodka. It was strange but oddly tasty. Try it out! Gilbert has this train in his backyard for kids. He kept suggesting we hook it on up to his 4-wheeler and go for a spiin. We didn't ever get to that though, dang it! Aiden the engineer takes a break from a stressful day with a fresh-picked golden delicious. Well we were there for a funeral so here's the pic. Per Grandpa's request the grandson's were the pallbearers. He was granted military honors for his service in the armed forces. His coffin was draped with Old Glory and seven gunners fired thrice to honor him. After the funeral we cousins all got together for a pic. Aren't us boys all pretty big? There's only one who's under 6 feet. But actually though I'm almost the oldest and I think I weigh the least. It's quite a burly family I have. I guess I need to toss some more hay or something. I'm posting this cause he looks so western here. If you look closely you can see the elusive Paris lurking within his glasses. Ha! Taken at the reception put on by the Relief Society (the mormon women's group), here's Caleb wih his son Aiden eating a spoon. Here's the whole lot of us grandchildren and great grandchildren w/spouses. Alot, huh? Grandma's the white-haired lady in the middle. I think having us all there definately eased her burden a bit. Hope you enjoyed my family. Feel free to come on down to sunny St. George anytime for some good ole country fun. Yeehaw! Shame there had to be a death in your family for everyone to be there together, Terry. You're a good Grandkid, being there for your Grandmother after your Grandfather's death. As some of you by now know, I have been drafted. My regular government phone job has been swallowed up in the Katrina relief effort and for about two weeks I have been manning the FEMA-line talking to victims about their losses. My job basically consists of me taking their registration application so they can get some relief to help pay for disaster-related needs, ie: food/shelter/repairs/etc. My impressions so far are that FEMA is a horribly run organization and is resulting in many many people not getting the aid they need when they need it. Let's start with this. At first they asked for volunteers and put 160 of us on the lines, this started 9/01 (already 3 days after the hurricane) after a day of training. Just yesterday (almost 2 weeks after) they "drafted" my whole callsite, about 500-600 in total. Hopefully this will help us answer even some tiny fraction of the calls. From what people are telling me it takes on average anywhere from 2-3 days of continuous calling to finally get someone on the phone. Then there's the fact that people are supposed to be able to call about their application to find out about the status of their claims. They are supposed to call the normal FEMA line and press option 2 or 3. Well about half my calls are people trying to get to the help line with no success. The help line has in fact been down ... <bot>: The completion of this text could be: almost continuously since the disaster began. These people literally have (/i)no one(/i) that can tell them if relief is on the way. They are totally at the mercy of fate, some of them stranded in totally foreign states with no cash, maybe some kids, and no idea what is going to happen to them. It is so personally frustrating to have to talk to these people day in and day out and not be able to offer them any bit of comfort. The organization itself is something really lacking. As I mentioned before I received one day of training (having never worked for FEMA before) and the new people they've just "drafted" are getting 4 hours. And while it's understandable we need to get the bodies on the phone to answer the calls ASAP, what happens is most of us have no idea how the whole system even works. We receive about 15-20 minutes of an update meeting everyday where new numbers are being called out and jotted down, and then off to answer the calls. Would it have been impossible to have these numbers on hand before the disaster? The thing is that this storm was not a surprise. It didn't just pop out of nowhere on 8/29. It was forecasted days in advance, and while no one could have predicted the extent of the catastrophe (though some local new reports from New Orleans accurately predicted the levies collapsing and the disaster that would follow) we could have been mobilized a lot sooner. At least the original 160 of us could have received our training beforehand and been ready to answer those calls on the 29th or 30th instead of 48 hrs. As you can see above, none of my personal experience has anything to do with politics. This is my job and I do it 6 days a week. These are my observations and they don't need a liberal bent to be horrible. Realistically though, many of these problems are politically based. FEMA has been overhauled under the current administration and made part of the Deptartment of Homeland Security. It is directed by Bush appointees (the head, Michael Brown, former Arabian horse-marketeer with no creds whatsoever, has officially resigned today, bye-bye Brownie). There is a real shortage of National Guard members from the affected states (between 30-40%) who would normally have been mobilized from within the states to help with the relief effort. There are foreign countries trying to supply aid who are being turned away soley for political reasons (take the 1100 Cuban emergency doctors, especially trained to deal with trauma/injuries from hurricaines). I could go on, but I think the point is made. People are suffering. FEMA is our nation's first-responder in times of natural disaster. FEMA has done a horrible job with its responsibilities and we owe it to the victims to make sure the reasons behind the massive failure are found and dealt with. not to sound like a know-it-all because i couldnt be farther from one. but i've known FEMA was trouble long before the hurricane hit. some of you might call it a conspiracy theory but all i have to say is read the book &quot;Behold A Pale Horse&quot; by William Cooper. crazy stuff people! ! ! Your one of THEM now aren't you Terry? ? ? LOL J/K! ! ! :)I have been following various sources, but to hear it from you, as a first and close source to the matter, is powerful. There was a huge part of me that was scared shitless to hear what you report about working for FEMA, Terry. When i found out you were working the FEMA lines, my first thought was one of sympathy for you, wondering how challenging it might be to be innodated with calls the way i assumed you would be. Then, i thought how brave of you to face this every day. Hearing about the horrific details and desperate frustrations on the other end of a telephone all day. I can barely watch the news and see one person, one animal, one child in stress and not burst into tears. I could not do what you are doing and i thank you for doing it. My hat's off to you (and my dollar in your pants, but that, my dear, is another story). It frightens me to think of how haphazard your department alone is right now. That there wasn't even a mapped out plan (even in pencil! ! ) in some vault somewhere about what may need to be done if this or something like it ever happens boggles my mind. Isn't that their job? To be prepared in the event of the worst possible outcomes? I don't get it. Thanks for letting us all know what it is like from the inside, Terry. Once again, thank you for doing your job. Mattlage said he was initially sympathetic toward the demonstrators, but that they have blocked roads in the area and caused traffic problems. He said he fired his gun in preparation for the dove-hunting season, but when asked if he had another motive, he said, "Figure it out for yourself. "Quoted from: Mom to Continue Protest Against WarCan't we just let Texas go? You know they want it, most of us want it, so why the heck not. The US and the Republic of Texas, or Bushland, or whatever. That is funny though. I've got a LOT of relatives in Texas. According to one of my more, um. 'special' cousins, Texas is already it's own country. ## Crossing the border into Canada: Officer: &quot;Citizenship&quot;. is setup in LaSalle park by the lake. It looks like a circus tent, but nothing seemed to be going on. There was also no sign saying, "Hi, I'm a circus. " So what is it? Anyone know? As for me? Where do i stand? Well, to be honest I kinda like the A-bomb and wish we could drop more. Well, maybe not the really big ones, at least not for everyday use, but just the regular type. You know, they only flatten one city at a time. In fact, I think if we had just used them a couple of years ago we could have stopped this bloody war in Iraq and started on the bigger business of building their capitalist democracy. Like when the people in Basra and Fallujah were acting up, all into the terrorists and stuff, we could have just used their cities as examples. Flatten those two insurgent bases and the whole country would have been ripe for our democratic sovereignty (until such time as they were capable of taking up the reins themselves of course). To me, it's just not safe to have this huge arsenal of nukes without using them. They sit there and rot, eventually they start to contaminate our own soil. And who wants to store them anywhere? Nowhere in America is safe to store these dangerous compounds. But there are so many places that are just crying for the democratic forces of an A-bomb. We get our practice and get to dispose of the volatile compounds in places where the ill effects can stand as reminders of past failures. How much less susceptible to terrorism would children growing up in Iraq be if only 50 miles down the road seethed a nuclear hotbed, where a misplaced step would show the consequences of not embracing the democratic vision as laid down by the compassionate American forces? Again, we've got use them, or we're going to lose them. Not in my backyard! To allow these useful tools to sit is a crying shame. Let's drop 'em and let every one feel the democratic American vision. Or at least that's what Dr. Today in my search for radiophonic sustenance I happened upon the dowager Ms. I think she's on for like 12 hours a day on AM 930 since it seems no matter what time I'm driving to/from work she's on, 7:30 or 1:30. Today she admitted to going to Hooters. Apparently she had heard such horrible things from her listeners that she had to go check it out. Gosh be darned! The curly fries were just wonderful, and the waitresses wore nothing more revealing than tight shorts, "better than what most of your kids are wearing these days," bemoaned Dr. I've never actually been to a Hooters. Did they ever live up to the implied reputation of such a name? Anyway I think they need to add a disclaimer to their signs and advertisements:I have been to Hooters Once at the Falls. My mistake was chosing the Patio, no one waited on me so I left. But the ladies where very hot and sexy. I think a good line would be &quot;You come in for the Breasts and the Legs but we only serve Wings&quot;. Or how about &quot;Both you and your girl friend can come in and check us out we won't tell&quot; then give a wink. I know they get a bad rap. But they are very tam comparied to a strip club. They are this generations version of drive ups, not drive through. There are still some drive ups where the girls where rollarskates.

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Illustrated with 17 photographic reproductions of portraits and depictions of Maori life and customs, this album is [words 5] the indigenous Polynesian people of New Zealand. [words 6] is tissue-guarded, captioned in the plate, [words 7] 1/2". Covers creased and partly chipped along edges. The first two leaves are missing, which indicates that 4 photographs are missing. ## [words 8] partly creased. ## Wrappers in overall fair to good-, interior in good to very good, photographs in very good condition. Bookseller Inventory # 40320a large selection of the best early short stories by malamud not already collected. Out came his notebook [words 9] the job. Rosen, the ex-coffee salesman, wasted, eyes despairing, [words 10] cot. The square, clean but cold room, lit by a dim globe, was sparsely furnished: the cot, a folding chair, small table, old unpainted chests-no closets but [words 11] them? -and a small sink with a rough piece of green, institutional soap on its holder -you could smell it across the room. The worn black shade over the single narrow window was drawn to the ledge, surprising Davidov. "What's [words 12] shade up? " he remarked. Rosen ultimately sighed. ""Why? Outside is light. ""Who needs light? [words 13] ""Light I don't need," replied Rosen. Davidov, sour-faced, flipped through the closely scrawled pages of his notebook until [words 14] clean one. He attemptedto scratch in a word with his fountain pen but it had run dry, so he fished [words 15] stub out of his vest pocket and sharpened it with a cracked [words 16] blade. Rosen paid no attention to the [words 17] to the floor. He looked restless, seemed to be listening to or for something, although Davidov was convinced there was absolutely nothing [words 18] to. It was only when the census-taker somewhat irritably and with increasing loudness repeated a question that Rosen stirred and [words 19] himself. He was about to furnish an address but caught [words 20] shrugged. Davidov did not comment on the salesman's gesture. "So begin," [words 21] nodded. "Who knows where to begin? [words 22] drawn shade. "Do they know here where to begin? ""Philosophy we [words 23] Davidov. "Start in how you met her. ""Who? [words 24] Rosen. "So if I got to begin, how you know about her already? " Rosen asked triumphantly. Davidov spoke wearily, [words 25] before. They had questioned him upon his arrival and he now recalled blurting out her name. It was perhaps something in the air. It did not permit you to retain what [words 26] remembered. That was part of the cure, if you wanted a cure. "Where I met her-? " Rosen murmured. "I met [words 27] back room there in that hole in the wall that it was a waste of time for me I went there. Maybe I sold [words 28] half a bag of coffee a month. This is not business. ""In business we are not interested. ""What then you [words 29] tone. Davidov clammed up coldly. Rosen knew they had him where [words 30] maybe forty, Axel Kalish, a Polish refugee. He [words 31] when he got to America, and saved maybe two, three thousand dollars that he bought with the money this pisher grocery in a dead neighborhood where he didn't have a chance. He called [words 32] for credit and they sent me I should see. I [words 33] sorry. He had a wife, Eva, you know already about her, and two darling girls, one [words 34] Fega and Surale, that I didn't want them to suffer. So right away I told him, without tricks, 'Kiddo, this is a mistake. This place is a grave. Here [words 35] will bury you if you don't get out quick! '"Rosen sighed deeply. "So? " Davidov had thus [words 36] nothing, irking the ex-salesman. After a couple months he tried to sell but nobody bought, so he stayed and starved. They never made expenses. Every day they got [words 37] faces. 'Don't be a damn fool,' I [words 38] bankruptcy. ' But he couldn't stand to lose all [words 39] was also afraid it would be hard to find a job. 'My [words 40] anything. Be a painter, a janitor, a junk man, but get out of here before everybody is a skeleton. '"This he finally [words 41] me, but before he could go in auction he dropped dead. 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" Rosen mimicked Davidov's words 30: it hurt, so he went on: "Thehusband was words 31: worked like a blind horse words 32: my company up words 33: recommended okay because I felt words 34: five and one three, little dolls, words 35: they words 36: far written words 37: poorer you couldn't look in their words 38: told him, 'go in words 39: his capital, and he words 40: God,' I said, 'do words 41: agreed with User: Generate more: "Davidov made a note. "How did he die? ""On this I am not an expert," Rosen replied. "You know better than me. ""How did he die? " Davidov spoke impatiently. ""From what he died? -he died, that's all. ""Answer, please, this question. ""Broke in him something. ""Broke what? ""Broke what breaks. He was talking to me how bitter was his life, and he touched me on my sleeve to say something else, but the next minute his face got small and he fell down dead, the wife screaming, the little girls crying that it made in my heart pain. I am myself a sick man and when I saw him laying on the floor, I said to myself, 'Rosen, say goodbye, this guy is finished. »Rosen got up ... Assistant: Rest of text: from the cot and strayed despondently around the room, avoiding the window. Davidov was occupying the only chair, so the ex-salesman was finally forced to sit on the edge of the bed again. He badly wanted a cigarette but disliked asking for one. Davidov permitted him a short interval of silence, then leafed impatiently through his notebook. Rosen, to needle the census-taker, said nothing. "So what happened? " Davidov finally demanded. Rosen spoke with ashes in his mouth. "After the funeral-" He paused, tried to wet his lips, then went on, "He belonged to a society that they buried him, and he also left a thousand dollars insurance, but after the funeral I said to her, 'Eva, listen to me. Take the money and your children and run... User: Continue. Assistant: away from here. Let the creditors take the store. What will they get? -Nothing. '"But she answered me, 'Where will I go, where, with... User: Continue. Assistant: my two orphans that their father left them to starve? '"'Go anywhere,' I said. 'Go to your relatives. '"She laughed like laughs somebody who hasn't got no joy. 'My relatives Hitler took away from me. '"'What about Axel-surely an uncle somewheres? '"'Nobody,' she said. 'I will stay here like my Axel wanted. With the insurance I will buy new stock and fix up the store. Every week I will decorate the window, and in this way gradually will come in new customers-'"'Eva, my darling girl-'"'A millionaire I don't expect to be. All I want is I should make a little living and take care on my girls. We will live in the back here like before, and in this way I can work and watch them, too. '"'Eva,'... User: More. Assistant: I said, 'you are a nice-looking young woman, only thirty-eight years. Don't throw away your life here. Don't flush in the toilet-you should excuse me-the thousand poor dollars from your dead husband... User: Next. Assistant: Believe me, I know from such stores. After thirty-five years' experience I know a graveyard when I smell it. Go better someplace and find a job. Sometime you will meet somebody and get married. '"'No, Rosen, not me,' she said. 'With marriage I am finished. Nobody wants a poor widow with two children. '"'This I don't believe it. '"'I know,' she said. "Never in my life I saw so bitter a woman's face. In my whole life I never had anything. In my whole life I always suffered. I don't expect better. '"I said no and she said yes. What could I do? I am a man with only one kidney, and worse than that, that I won't mention it. When I talked she didn't listen, so I... User: More. Assistant: stopped to talk. Who can argue with a widow? "The ex-salesman glanced up at Davidov but the census-taker did not reply. "What happened then? " he asked. "What happened? " mocked Rosen. "Happened what happens. "Davidov's face grew red. "What happened, happened," Rosen said hastily. "She ordered from the wholesalers all kinds goods that she paid for them cash. All week she opened boxes and packed on the shelves cans, jars, packages. Also she cleaned, and she washed, and she moppedwith oil the floor. With tissue paper she made new decorations in the window, everything should look nice-but who came in? Nobody except a few poor customers from the tenement around the corner. And when they came? When was closed the supermarkets and they needed some little item... User: Continue. Assistant: that they forgot to buy, like a quart milk, fifteen cents' cheese, a small can sardines for lunch. In a few months was again... User: More. Assistant: dusty the cans on the shelves, and her money was gone. Credit she couldn't get except from me, and from me she got because I paid out of my pocket the company... User: Continue. Assistant: This she didn't know. She worked, she dressed clean, she waited that the store should get better. Little by little the shelves got empty,... User: More. Assistant: but where was the profit? They ate it up. When I looked... User: More. Assistant: on the little girls I knew what she didn't tell me. Their faces were white, they were thin, they were hungry. She kept the... User: Continue. Assistant: little food that was left, on the shelves. One night I brought... User: Continue. Assistant: in a nice piece of sirloin, but I could see from her eyes that she didn't like that I did it. So what else... User: Continue. Assistant: could I do? I have a heart and I am human. "Here the ex-salesman wept. Davidov pretended not to see though once he peeked. Rosen blew his nose, then went on more calmly, "When the children were sleeping we sat in the dark there, in the back, and not once in four hours opened the door should come in a customer. 'Eva, for Godsakes,... User: Continue. Assistant: run away,' I said. '"I have no place to go,' she said. "'I will give you where you can go, and please don't say... User: Next. Assistant: to me no. I am a bachelor, this you know. I got whatever I need and more besides. Let me help you and the children. Money don't interest me. Interests me good... User: Continue. Assistant: health, but I can't buy it. I'll tell you what I will do. Let this place go to the creditors and move into a two-family house that I own, which the top floor is now empty. Rent will cost you nothing. In the meantime you can go and find a job. I will also pay the downstairs lady to take care ofthe girls-God bless... User: Continue. Assistant: them-until you will come home. With your wages you will buy the food, if you need clothes, and also save a little. This you can use when you get married someday. What... User: Continue. Assistant: do you say? '"She didn't answer me. She only looked on me in such a way, with such burning eyes, like I was small and ugly. For the first time I thought... User: More. Assistant: to myself, 'Rosen, this woman don't like you. '"'Thank you very kindly, my friend Mr. Rosen,' she answered me, 'but charity we are not... User: Continue. Assistant: needing. I got yet a paying business, and it will get better when times are better. When comes again good times will get better the business. '"'Who charity? ' I cried to... User: Next. Assistant: her. 'What charity? Speaks to you your husband's a friend. Rosen, my husband didn't have no friends. '"'Can't you see that I want to help the children? '"'The children have their mother... User: More. Assistant: '"'Eva, what's the matter with you? ' I said. 'Why do you make sound bad something that I mean it should be good? '"This... User: Next. Assistant: she didn't answer. I felt sick in my stomach, and was coming also a headache so I left. "All night I didn't sleep, and then all of a sudden I figured out a reason why she was worried. 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Assistant: tell me? '"'I had enough with sick men. '"I didn't have strength I should argue with her, so I went home. I went home but hurt me in my mind. All day long and all night I felt bad. My back pained me where was missing my kidney. Also too much smoking. I tried to understand this woman but I couldn't. Why should somebody... User: Continue. Assistant: that her two children were starving always say no to a man that he wanted to help her? What did I do to her bad? Am I maybe a murderer she should hate me so much? All that I felt in my heart was pity for her and the children, but I couldn't convince her. Then I went back and begged her she should let me help them, and once more she told me no. "'Eva,' I said, 'I don't blame you that you don't want a sick man. So come with me to a marriage broker and we will find you a strong, healthy husband that he will support you and your girls. I will give the dowry. '"She screamed, 'On this I don't need your help,... User: Next. 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(NASDAQ: CRON), Canopy Growth Corporation (NYSE: CGC)U. listed [words 10] stocks surged on Wednesday following the news, as [words 11] Life Sciences ETF grew by 8.13%, while the Alternative Harvest [words 12] the closing bell. Stocks were also lifted following [words 13] which Utah and Missouri opted to legalize medical cannabis, while Michigan legalized recreational cannabis. Following the results, the U. [words 14] and the District of Columbia that have legalized [words 15] for either medical use, recreational use [words 16] both. According to the Boston Globe, citing [words 17] Michigan are expected to begin in 2020 and are forecasted to generated as much as USD 1.7 Billion [words 18] years. market is now on pace to reach USD 11.0 Billion in sales this year. "Adding [words 19] more states with medicinal marijuana would [words 20] almost 70% of Americans could have access [words 21] that purpose. 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The license, awarded September 28th, 2018, permits Goldleaf Pharm to begin cultivating medicinal cannabis at its Simcoe, Ontario facility. "This is an important step, and an exciting time, for us at Goldleaf Pharm," said Larry Huszczo, Goldleaf Pharm's co-founder. "We have a state of the art 20,000 square foot indoor growing facility, and recently acquired 20-acres of adjacent property, giving us the ability to expand to more than 700,000 square feet of production space to cultivate cannabis. I am very proud of our team, which has worked diligently to meet Health Canada's requirements. " Goldleaf Pharm is a subsidiary of Pyxus' indirect Canadian subsidiary, FIGR Inc. This latest milestone follows shortly after an announcement by FIGR that its Charlottetown subsidiary, Canada's Island Garden Inc. (CIG), received approval from Health Canada for the sale of medicinal cannabis oils. CIG previously announced a supply agreement with the province of Prince Edward Island for 1,000 kilograms/kilogram equivalent of cannabis products. (NASDAQ: CRON) is a globally diversified and vertically integrated cannabis company with a presence across five continents. recently announced that it has entered into a sponsored research agreement with the Technion Research and Development Foundation of the Technion - Israel Institute of Technology, to explore the use of cannabinoids and their role in regulating skin health and skin disorders. The preclinical studies will be conducted by Technion over a three-year period and will focus on three skin conditions: acne, psoriasis and skin repair. Research will be led by Technion faculty members Dr. David "Dedi" Meiri, Head, Laboratory of Cancer Biology and Cannabinoid Research and Dr. Yaron Fuchs, Laboratory of Stem Cell Biology and Regenerative [spans 1] respectively. ## Meiri heads the Laboratory of Cannabis and Cancer Research with vast experience in cannabis and endocannabinoid research. Fuchs heads the Laboratory [spans 2] pathologies. ## Development and implementation of the [spans 3] I. Lokey Interdisciplinary Center of Life Sciences and Engineering in Haifa, Israel. "We believe that the potential applications of cannabinoids to regulate skin health and treat skin disorders are vast, and we are excited to begin exploring these applications through our partnership with Technion," said Mike Gorenstein, Chief Executive Officer of Cronos Group. "Canopy Growth Corporation (NYSE: CGC) is a world-leading diversified cannabis and hemp company, offering distinct brands and curated cannabis varieties in dried, oil and Softgel capsule forms. ## Constellation Brands, Inc. and Canopy Growth Corporation recently announced the closing of Constellation's CAD 5 Billion (USD 4 Billion) investment in Canopy Growth, which was previously announced on August 15th, 2018. The transaction was approved by an overwhelming majority of Canopy Growth shareholders and has been granted all required regulatory approvals, including by the Canadian government under the Investment Canada Act. "Our cash position opens up a world of opportunity for us," said Bruce Linton, Chairman and Co-Chief Executive Officer, Canopy Growth. "Relative to our valuation, we have never been in a better position to create shareholder value. This investment was a landmark moment for the entire sector when it was announced. Now that the capital is Canopy's to deploy, we're going to quickly get to work increasing our lead by adding strategic assets around the world. "Please Note: FinancialBuzz.com is not a financial advisory or advisor, investment advisor or broker-dealer and do not undertake any activities that would require such registration. The information provided on http://www. For cls holdings usa inc. financial and corporate news dissemination, FinancialBuzz.com has been compensated five thousand dollars by the company. Our fees may be either a flat cash sum or negotiated number of securities of the companies featured on this editorial or site, or a combination thereof. 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Intensity could be execution.”Most minor hockey coaches (including me) focus on running fast-paced drills, but Becker pushes a different idea, that to improve sometimes a player has to slow down, to go slow enough, in fact, that he or she can properly execute the numerous complex skills that a strong player must possess. Once the player has the basic movements mastered, only then can he do them at speed, but the bonus is he can really do them, instead of muffing up. “I think a lot of us coaches, we are a little ignorant,” Becker says. “We think we know more but we don't know that much. You have to open up your eyes a bit more, be open to new things and try it and see if it works. You have to have that ‘open book' mentality.”Becker, 43, a father of four, who grew up on a farm near Lucky Lake, Saskatchewan, has been teaching hockey skills since he converted his one-car garage into an indoor studio with plastic ice in the 1990s. He is now the driving force behind Core Hockey skills training, where his genius is breaking down complicated movements into small pieces so that players can grasp and execute them. “The culture of hockey is not a friendly culture,” he says in an interview. “I think that winning has become a big factor. I don't think the coaches are as prepared to coach as they think they are, or should be in terms of what they need to do, and how they need to do it. “Coaches have to understand there is a process for kids to develop, and it isn't winning and losing, which is a prevalent thing, not only in hockey, but in other sports, and it's killing the game. “They have to understand they are teachers first, not coaches. It's taken awhile for me to understand that. But when I teach, I'm a better coach. My teams perform better. Whether I win or lose, they just perform better. “The whole idea for me is that that kid has to improve that day, a little bit. It doesn't have to be a lot, just a little bit, and then over time that becomes a big thing. If that kid is improving, and he sees his improvement, his passion grows, then he'll play hockey next year.”Along with his running Core Hockey skill camps, Becker has been with Hockey Alberta for a decade and has helped coach the U-16 and U-17 programs, working with elite players such as Hunter Shinkaruk, Mat Dumba and Griffin Reinhart. When he first started as a coach, Becker wanted his players to go constantly faster and harder, just like most other coaches. He, too, had to learn to slow down. “If you are doing a drill and you're continually missing passes and it's a flow drill and there's not even really that much pressure, there's not game pressure, what is going to happen in a game? It's going to be even worse. They're going to miss a lot of passes. Because that is what you're teaching them, that's what you're training them to do. So it's very important that your execution is high first, and then your speed will come. “I understand when I hear from coaches, ‘But I don't have time for that! I don't have time for them to go slow. ' But you do have time. And you'll be surprised how quickly you'll go up to game speed after you slow it down and get it right. When the players are going slow through a drill, Becker is looking for execution and hard passes, the same thing that he'd look for as he would in a game, only at a slower rate. If a player does pass a puck and it's not received properly, he will blow his whistle and have that player do it again, and keep doing it until that player gets it right. Becker still has the passer of the puck fire it hard and low on the ice, a textbook pass, because that is what the passer has to learn. But it's up to the receiver of the puck to get it right, and he must repeat, repeat, repeat until he gets it right. Becker will do this repetition eight or nine times in a row, so that the player feels peer pressure, but also realize they've got to slow down enough to finally get it. “Once they do it, I praise them.”It should be such skill development, and not winning, that should be at the core of minor hockey, Becker says. “It's all about teaching. Really, the only place that winning really matters is at the pro level. That is the highest level. They can't go beyond that. They are there to win. But in the AHL, his job is to get those guys to play pro. He's still in a teaching environment. Western Hockey League, they are trying to get those players to be a pro. Rather than do drills, coaches need to teach skills, Becker says, which means breaking down each skill into the five or six basic steps needed, then having the players learn the basic skill before taking it up a notch. Becker says ... Bot: his own dad Hugh coached him. Hugh made the players work hard. That was his message, a good blue collar message, work hard, be respectful. S0 Becker learned by doing, like most Canadian hockey players. He didn't get expert instruction but played a lot of games and a lot of shinny. He went to hockey schools for a week here and there, but nothing from them stuck with him. To develop his ideas about coaching, he read, watched over coaches, and found all kinds of coaching material on the Internet. In the 1990s, he started to coach kids one-on-one as part of the Puckmaster franchise, learning by trial and error what worked and didn't work. He moved to on-ice work, slowly getting the skills as a teacher to work with larger groups. He also took his first son to a lot of camps and came to question how good many of them were, wondering why he should spend the money if his son wasn't improving. Becker has also coached at the highest levels of bantam and midget hockey and in the Alberta Junior Hockey League. “I have the coaching bug, so it's hard to get rid of it,” he says, adding he loves to see his teams improve. “I enjoy the competitive nature of the game. Any coach you talk to at a high level will admit it's addicting to be in that environment.”Six years ago, he got on as assistant coach with the Camrose Kodiaks, where he learned from two prominent coaches, Doug Fleck and Boris Rybalka. One key lesson was that a coach needs to stop a drill to correct players if they're doing a skill wrong. “They (Rybalka and Fleck) just don't let something go. If it's wrong, they stop and they talk and they redo it again. They don't allow the mistake to continually happen, and they stand there and they know it's wrong, but they don't do nothing. Players don't like it because the flow stops, but they learn quickly if they don't do it, the flow is going to continue to stop.”With his players, one huge focus in the mastery of passing. Too many young players are obsessed with carrying the puck, something they're good at, but have poor on-ice vision and passing skills. “I say (to them), ‘Look, if you want to play a high level, over-stickhandling is not your option. I'm going to tell you right now it's going to get you in a lot of trouble. '”He was recently coaching a group of top tier Atom players and saw that 70 per cent of the passes failed, with either the pass off or the receiver not able to pull in the pass. These kids can all skate fast and some of them can shoot, but the players need to work on their coordination, the messages their brains are sending to their muscles. “Passing in Canada is the weakest skill that we have. I think a lot of times coaches assume that the kids know how to pass and receive a pass. I don't think we spend enough time just on stationary passing, just working on their passing, just working on the technique.”The new sticks also make it hard to receive a pass, Becker says. They are made for shooting, so they have little flex in them. “A lot of pucks just bounce off them.”To counteract this, Becker teaches players to have their arms, hands and hockey blade out from their bodies, then roll their wrists and cup the puck when they receive it. “You tell me when you go watch a practice how many guys have their hands away from their body when they're stopping a puck? Zero.”One more Becker tip in regard to puck movement: Move your feet first, then stickhandle. “You'll see that your stickhandling actually becomes less and you're moving your feet more. It's just a different way of thinking. A different process your mind has to go through. But they don't want to lose the puck, so they over stickhandle to keep it on their blade, but they can't skate, and now guys are taking the puck from them. It's reversing the way they think a little bit. Again, you have to stop and tell them then over and over again: Move your feet first, then stickhandle.”With stickhandling, he focuses on peripheral vision with the kids. He wants the kids to have the puck out in front of them. Most want to have their stick to the side, but that means the puck is their feet and they can't see it. He wants the hands in front of them, the butt end at the bellybutton. “That pushes the puck forward and allows them to see the puck using their peripheral vision.”Another key is to roll your wrists as you stickhandle, to keep the puck heal-to-mid-blade. The top hands rolls, the bottom hand acts as a support, and the puck is cradled on the blade. Becker also makes sure his players aren't just in hockey stance at the start of the drill, but maintain proper posture throughout the drill, with their knees bent, their hips down and their chest upright and their head and eyes up. “A lot of kids pass with their eyes down, and then they bring them up, and everything has changed. The game is a growing game. It's changing constantly all the time. Players are moving constantly. If your eyes aren't up, you're not going to see those changes.”When a player passes, the puck starts at his back skate, the player's weight is on his back foot, the puck is at the heal-to-mid blade, not at the toe of the stick. The players do not sweep the puck across the ice, but make a quick release where they roll their wrists over to snap the puck, with the blade snapping to face down towards the ice, and close to the ice, so that the puck moves rapidly right on the ice. The blade ends up pointed in the direction of where the puck should go. “The biggest one for me is that your eyes are up. You have to know where you're passing. You have to know we're you're taking that puck. User: Complete this text: You can't be guessing.”“It's not taught. I see very few kids with their hands away, even at the higher bantam and midget AA and AAA level. Some of them do, but not all of them, and it will affect them over time.”The common mistake, he says, is to “dead-stop” the puck, where the puck hits the blade, but the blade never moves and the puck bounces right off of it. “They've got be able to have their hands away from the body, so the blade is away, and they time that puck in, so they cushion it (on heal to mid blade), they roll their wrists and they cup the puck. As that puck comes, you cup the puck and roll it over, so the puck will stick right to the blade and it stays, typically, on your blade. You want the blade to come over top of the puck and it's magic, it just sticks to the blade. “You go watch any game and you'll see pucks bouncing off blades. It's because they're not keeping their hands away from the body and cushioning.”With beginners, after they generally get the mechanics of passing, they will start moving slowly up and down the ice, passing the puck, first going in tandem, then one going forward while the other goes backwards. “You just get them to understand that their eyes have got to be up and their stick has got to be on the ice to receive the pass, and every time they miss a pass, they would stop, they would go back to the same area where they missed the pass, and they would start from there.”Another tip: “The biggest thing with any player, and it doesn't matter what tier it is, is that you allow him to fail. You allow him to make mistakes. That's how they learn. Us coaches tend to forget that sometimes. We want perfection out of them, but this game isn't about perfection, it's about excellence and there's a difference there. On the bench in a game, he learned from Fleck and Rybalka to have patience with his players. “As a coach, you got to take a deep breath and continue to work with that kid. Over a period of time if he continues to make the same mistakes, you got to do some other things to get through to him, but you go to allow that player to work at it and to get there.”He talks to the players but also gets them to speak. “I think a lot of times they coaches don't ask their players, so what happens is there is one way communication. After a while that player is like, ‘I've had enough. ' They get like a beaten dog. So you got to be careful of that. Once they lose their confidence, it's very hard for them to get it back.”In practice, he'll look for their body language to see if they're getting a drill. If they're not, if they're slumping their shoulders in failure, maybe thinking they will never get the drill, the coach has to pull back, and go one level down before building the player back up again. Some kids don't know how to fight through adversity, others do. Some are used to working through problems, others don't. “I think that challenging them and making sure they're accountable is a big part of it, too, but you do it the right way. It's not yelling and screaming. It might be different words you use. It might be a one-on-one meeting. It might be both of you are on one knee, I say, ‘Eyes on' so they look into my eyes and they understand I am dead serous here, and I say, ‘You need to roll your wrists (when stickhandling), because right now your blade is straight and you're listening right now. ' So I say you're going to take this puck and you're going to do stationary puck-handling with one hand on top of your stick and you're going to do rolling of the wrist because I want to make sure you can do it. ... Bot: So he'll do it for ten seconds, and I'll say, ‘So you can roll your wrist then! Go do it! '”Coaches aren't getting the support they require right now in terms of how to best use the ice and how to best use their assistant coaches, Becker says. Coaches need to take more clinics on how to teach skills in a progressive manner. When he comes out to work with a team for a few sessions, Becker says he's not helping the players so much as he's helping the coaches, giving them a blueprint on how to proceed with skill development. The best way to use the ice — because there's such a time crunch with ice so scarce — is to break off into a number of small groups, each focused on a different skill, and each led by an assistant coach. Four small groups could be going, for example, two working on skill development, one on one-on-ones, another on angling into the boards. A coach can do this for the first half hour, then move on to a bigger team drill. With smaller groups, each player gets more repetition and is involved more, moving more on the ice. If you were to time many traditional practices with the player handling the puck or moving in the drill, out of a typical 60 minute practice, the player might be active from nine-to-14 minutes of movement. “That other time they're standing still.”A smaller group also fosters a personal connection between the player and the coach, Becker says, so that two-way communication will develop and the player will be more likely to process what the coach is saying and actually attempt to do it. With assistant coaches, it's important that the head coach mentors them. They have to be prepared to be involved with the practice, not just moving pucks and pylons around. coach is not knowledgeable, the head coach must spend the necessary time with them before practice to get them to run a drill and teach the necessary things. “They might be nervous at the start, but by the end they going to be more involved and the kids will respond better to them . Even if they have limited knowledge, give them as much knowledge as you have to help them out.”Very often the head coach will try to run all the drills, and this can work, but the coach's real job is to look over everything, to make sure everything is running smoothly, all the skill and tactical stations. “The head coach has got to give up some power and that's not easy, especially us males. When we have power, we don't like to give it up. But the head coach has got to earn trust with his coaches, just like he has to with his players. He has to let the assistants run the drill, then you can overview everything and if there's issues, you go, ‘OK, coach, what do you see here? 'If an asst. coach doesn't know what to do or say, Becker will teach him. But if he does know, Becker will back off. Becker says it took him years to learn to work well with his assistants, that when he first started as a coach he didn't want to give up that power, and wanted to run everything. But by the end of the year he was mentally fried. Becker also teaches game awareness, how to play away from the puck. Even the top players will have the puck on their stick 45 seconds to two minutes in a game, a small amount of time, so play without the puck is crucial. As for others taking what he does, and running with it, maybe offering a rival clinic, Becker is not worried about that. “I'm not afraid to give out information because to be honest with you, 90 per cent of the people don't use it anyways. It's the way we are as humans. It's the way it is.”What could the Edmonton Oilers trade for a top-pair defenceman? Who has been the Edmonton Oilers' MVP so far this year?.

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There are many side dishes to go with a beautiful piece of meat in the summer and Cave Tools Salad Spinner cuts preparation in half, offering a sturdy BPA free plastic bowl that can go from rinse to refrigerator, while you prepare your meat. How do we become victims of our own irrationality? What makes us vulnerable to the predators among us? Why would an otherwise sensitive, intelligent woman allow herself to return again and again to her abuser? How do we stop the erosion of our self-worth? Simultaneously recognizable and horrifying, we see parts of ourselves and our own vulnerabilities in this compelling story of one woman's descent into and climb out of the abyss. Enter to win this inspirational memoir. Summer is almost officially here and it's a great time to sample Winc's wine delivery service. With more guests stopping by to enjoy the summer weather, enjoy hastle free wine ordering with Winc. Through our link, new members will receive $22 off their first order at Winc more. Back in high school, Lee Archer had the power to make Jessie Baxter's cheeks flush and her heart race. But the popular athlete never wanted to be more than just friends. Ten years later, after a failed marriage and with her journalism career on shaky ground, Jessie come's home for her high school reunion-and Lee still has the power to make her knees weak and her pulse pound. There is nothing better than a baby and there are so many things these little ones need. But what to buy to celebrate their arrival? Sure, diapers are always a hit but I wanted to share a few items that really made a difference when I brought my babies home. Below, please find my top 5 baby gift ideas and enter to win! more. Good quality products can make such a difference in the kitchen and we have been trying out a few high quality Vremi products. Beautiful chef knives with protective plastic sheath covers and a stainless steel coffee bean grinder. Two must haves in my kitchen! Ideal for gift giving. Check out more information below and enter to win! more. Sometimes you find products that you wish you had found long ago. I have been trying Dr. Jacobs Naturals face and body liquid wash and lavender bar soap, which smells amazing. They all smell amazing. Made from olive oil, Dr. Jacobs Naturals will leave skin smooth and silky. Olive oil soap is the perfect addition to a regular skin care routine. We were checking out personalizedcart.com again for great gift ideas for Mother's Day and learned the many items available for our special ladies. They offer fun gift ideas for both men and woman that can be personalized with a monogram. Gift items include watch boxes and wine glasses to name a few. Personalized Cart goes beyond thoughtful personalized gifts for men to offer jewelry and gorgeous kimono robes in all sorts of beautiful prints for woman. Sometimes out little ones are not always sleepy at bedtime, or have trouble going to sleep - make bedtime more fun by curling up with this playful book. Once they hear this fun rhyming story and enjoy the adorable illustrations, they will be ready for bed, just like the sleepy sheepies. Spring has finally arrived and it's time for lots of outdoor fun including picnics and road trips. If you have kids, you will want to remember to pack a few kid-friendly snacks, like Welch's Fruit Snacks, Fruit Rolls and Go Organically Fruit Snacks. Unroll the fun with Welch's Fruit Rolls! Featuring fruit as its first ingredient, the Fruit Rolls are gluten free, preservative free and available in three mouthwatering flavors – Berry, Tropical and White Grape Strawberry. The #HealthyHappyTrue Sweepstakes was created by True Citrus to celebrate how people live their healthiest, happiest and truest life possible. Entering this sweepstakes provides you with the chance to win a grand prize including: a $10,000 cash prize, a Vitamix Professional Series Blender ($600 value), a Fitbit watch ($200 value), a True Lemon thermal water bottle, and a sampling of all True Citrus products. Jarlsberg® Cheese, the nationally recognized premium brand of cheese, invites you and your family to surprise your BEST mum in the world with a scrumptious cheesy breakfast in bed. Jarlsberg® Cheese elevates every occasion, and Mother's Day is the perfect time to wow and surprise her with delicious, simple-to-prepare breakfast ideas served by her favorite people in the world: her family! more. With many child care options out there, choosing the right one for your family can be stressful. From daycares to private nannies, these child care options can be very expensive, creating a challenge for many families. This is where nanny sharing comes in - a growing, popular alternative to daycares and single-family caregivers. All mothers work hard 365 days out of the year, so why give them another predictable gift this Mother's Day? With the exquisite collection of mothers rings from Mama's Jewelry, you're bound to make this the most unforgettable Mother's Day yet! more. It seems a long time coming to get back outside this Spring. We are eager and looking forward to longer days and the warmth of the sun. Especially to get the grill back out. While we await, we are trying out a few kabob recipes and our new Cave Tools Skewers. The beauty of Cave Tools Skewers are that they can also be used inside. So warm up the oven and lets get cooking. We all know how bedtime can be difficult for some children, that is why reading a bedtime story is such a great way to soothe and prepare our little ones. God Bless You and Good Night is a wonderful book to read at bedtime with the lovely rhymes and pictures. This beautiful picture book would also be a perfect gift for families with young children. Handwashing is one of the most important things we can do to reduce our risk for sickness. It is suggested to wash hands before eating, after handling raw meat, after using the bathroom and when helping a sick person. Aim for 6 times a day. Now, with sanitizing sprays - we have no excuse to keep our hands clean to prevent disease. Finding relief from aches and pains can be as easy as applying lotion for instant comfort. Why wait for tablets to reach the pain when you can stop it instantly. We have been learning all about Real Time Pain Relief and their new Hemp Oil Plus lotion. Available in a 1.5oz travel size, 4oz tube, and 7oz tube. Enter to win a 7oz size lotion to see if this cream is right for you. Easter is a great time to offer your kids a new Bible and books make an ideal gift to add to any Easter basket. The Adventure Bible Book of Daring Deeds and Epic Creations is a great activity book, offering 60 fun activity ideas to offer young ones. The Adventure Bible is a fun book to pick up any time to offer kids when they say they are bored, or need a break from technology. It would be an ideal book for school vacation, as well as Easter and to try a new activity per day. Achieving balance and wellness is very important in life to help you feel good about yourself. In her new book, Healed: Health & Wellness for the 21st Century, Dr. Robin Miller shares wisdom, secrets and fun straight from the Leading Edge to help you get on track. Revealing essential information for your mind and body. Healed takes you through the basics of what you need to know to promote your own health and introduces you to new therapies to treat common conditions. My two kids are still fond of Easter egg hunts, sometimes the weather allows it to be outside, sometimes we have it indoors, and we always end it with a fun themed Easter basket to celebrate Easter. While, candy and chocolates are always high on everyone's list - we like to change it every year and offer nontraditional items, too. Come check out a few Easter basket ideas for your Easter baskets and gifts more. It is a great time of year to prepare for summer and PUR attitude has the perfect products to smooth and firm skin. Ideal for legs, stomach, bum, anywhere you might have a little cellulite. PUR firm CelluFIRM is the product to use. Cellulite is cause for concern for many woman of all ages and lifestyles. Eliminating fatty foods and salt from your diet is a great start, a little exercise and a lot of water to flush toxins helps, too. Treat yourself with PUR firm CelluFIRM lotion to get beach ready for summer. Mangiacotti is introducing two new amazing skincare products - Whipped Body Wash and Whipped Body Lotion. This perfect skin care combination is creamy, lightweight and incredibly luxurious, providing moisturizing hydration for daily care. Only a little is needed to cover the skin, for long lasting care and great value with the most amazing scents. I love the duo for shaving needs. They are my new favorite products. Stock up for summer! more. We are always looking for great gift ideas for special occasions, like birthdays, weddings, and anniversaries. We have been learning about a site called personalized cart. They offer fun gifts that can be personalized with your monogram, gifts like wine glasses, bottle openers and door mats to name a few. The animated movie The Star, originally released in November 2017, is now available on digital, Blu-ray and DVD. This adorable animated comedy follows a brave donkey named Bo and the friends he meets while on an adventure of his dreams, giving us a timeless classic about faith, friendship and the importance of believing in yourself. Did you know February is National Cherry Month? Cherries are a great source of Vitamin A and C, and are full of calcium, protein, fiber and iron. There are two main varieties of cherries: sweet and tart - Sweet cherries, like Bing cherries are best eaten fresh and raw, while sour cherries develop a better flavor when used in baking. Some people cannot move in the morning before their cup of coffee. I love waking up to the smell of it. I usually buy our coffee already ground, yet I have been wanting to try to grind my own beans, especially since receiving this great manual coffee grinder. Do you grind your own beans? Enter to win. January is a great time to start eating better. Simple changes can make a big impact. Granola is a fun, crunchy, easy to snack on product, ideal for breakfast and snacks and is so good for us and surprisingly filling. Kitchfix offers four delicious flavors, we tried two of the four and we love all the nuts, seeds and tasty bits of the original and honey pecan. My kids take a home made lunch to school everyday and I love using reusable plastic bento boxes for their convenience and individual compartments. Although I would never send them to school with these glass ones, I feel like we have completely upgraded our game. These gorgeous heavy duty glass bento boxes are great for meal prep, food storage and adults who want to take their lunch to work. Saving time, money and our waistline. Oatmeal is a great choice for breakfast, or even a snack, but not quite convenient for on the go. unless you try Munk Pack Oatmeal Fruit Squeezes. These delicious treats are a great alternative to unhealthy sweets and snacks for any time of day. Packed with wholesome whole grains & real fruit bites, Munk Pack's ready-to-eat Oatmeal Fruit Squeezes make for a perfect easy snack, great for school lunches and gym bags. Burgers are one of the most popular food item and you can usually find them on any menu when eating out. Cooking them at home is always fun and while some prefer using their hands to shape their burger, there are benefits to using a burger press. We have been trying out the Cave Tools Burger Press and love it for its uniform shape! more. Based on the real-life events of acclaimed ultra-marathoner David Horton and his wife Nancy, Extraordinary is coming to DVD, Digital and On Demand on January 16, 2018, from Universal Pictures Home Entertainment. An impactful and perfect story for the entire family. This inspirational film stars Shari Rigby (October Baby), Leland Klassen (Altar Egos), Karen Abercrombie (War Room) and Kirk Cameron (Fireproof). You can find this two ingredient sweetner in many recipes from banana ice cream to sweet potato pie. We first tried it in brownies, and despite a little mishap with the dish we chose to bake them in, ended up with delicious brownie bites - we topped them off with a simple icing also made with condensed milk and a little powdered sugar. The Globetrotters are in full swing and we made a Boston game at TD Garden. This was our first experience with a live game and we were in for loads of fun! The Harlem Globetrotters played with the Washington Generals and won! The roster this year has many great players, including Hi-Lite Bruton, Swish Young, Mighty Mitchell, Big Easy Lofton, Thunder Law, Bull Bullard and Cheese Chisholm. We loved Hot Shot, Hoops, Zeus and Hi-Lite, all players were great! more. Every so often, we get to experience a break-through in modern technology. Did you ever think you would be able to power a flashlight with water? There are no batteries to worry about, and no charging time. The fuel cell simply runs on water. This 2-in-1 HydraLight will make a great gift for anyone on your Christmas list. Tea tree oil comes from the leaves of the tea tree found through-out Australia. Its oil benefits are many and includes helping acne to athlete's foot. Did you know it is also great to use in our hair? It helps to unclog hair follicles and nourish roots. Its oil can be applied directly with a carrier oil or pick up Maple Holistics special tea tree formula. The Globetrotters have been around since the 1920s, origining on the south side of Chicago, Illinois. Since then and over the years, they have played more than 26,000 exhibition games in 122 countries and territories and continue to play over 450 live events worldwide each year. When hosting, I find it is always nice to have a few plates of different offerings, you never know what guests will feel like. Yet, I have learned that you can never go wrong with cheese and crackers. HORMEL GATHERINGS® Party Trays are the perfect stress free party planning favorite because they are easy and ready-made. They are great to have on hand for a quick bite to offer on game day, especially if tailgating. Also great for brunch or snack. I love decorating and gift wrapping. Shopping is the hard part for me and certain people can put me in a bit of a panic when it comes to buying for them. So I like to prepare a little list of ideas for inspiration. Below, are a few coupon codes for discounts and ideas for gifts for everyone on your list. Please share any ideas you have and items you think are HOT this year. Jam City is celebrating some amazing achievements this holiday season: Over 100 million downloads each for the company's key original franchises, Panda Pop and Cookie Jam. Enter to win an adorable Panda Pop plush and a jar of Cookie Jam creamy spread to celebrate this great achievement and play along and enjoy extra prizes in November and December. When the weather changes to cold, there is no way I am out at the grill, so that means my husband usually steps in, and therefore, our tools need to be heavy duty! My husband definitely gives products a good test of strength. Cave Tools have many fanastic tools I feel safe sharing with my husband. We have put many to the test and they always pass my man test, they are our favorite tools. South Park was not a show I turned to watch on tv (although we have recently and certainly get a few laughs), and I did not have the pleasure of playing the first game, South Park: The Stick of Truth. Yet, when I heard the title of this game: South Park The Fractured But Whole. I could not help but laugh and have been giggling ever since. ## Tyler Perry is a busy man, a world-renowned producer, director, actor, screenwriter, playwright, author, songwriter, entrepreneur, and philanthropist. No matter what Perry does, he does it well. His latest book: Higher is Waiting, released November 14th is a great book to pick up for yourself or as a present for someone else. Read more about this spiritual journey and enter to win a copy of the book. Since signing to BEC Recordings in 2001, Kutless has transformed from a new rock band to a staple artist in the industry that has multi-format, top-charting hits, sold millions of records and more than eight million streams. Launched by original members Jon Micah Sumrall (lead vocals) and guitarist James Mead, the band formed first as a modern rock/worship band at Warner Pacific College in Portland in 2000. My husband loves having loads of different watches to choose from and has recently shared a few with our son. Yet, a wooden watch has not made his collection. We have never seen a wooden watch before and these handcrafted beauties from JORD are amazing and beautiful. This is a watch and company worthy for any collection. I would love to have one for myself. Barilla is already our favorite pasta. This well loved Italian-owned food company, first established in 1877, is available in more than 100 countries worldwide and has just made pasta making as simple as it can get with their new Ready Pasta. Simply kneed the package, tear the top to vent, and place in the microwave for a quick 60 seconds. If you have a young girl on your Christmas list, a locked diary set is always a great gift idea. Smit Co has adorable journals for girls in Emoji, Diva, and Mermaid themes, as well as scrapbook, nail and play dress up sets and party favors that can be used as fun and easy stocking stuffers that provide hours of fun. Other SmitCo products include rose gold, gold, or rhodium plated jewelry and sets, as well as stretch sets for little girls - all packed in cute gift boxes. A series of events rattle Emily Lazzaro: a near-death encounter with a pickup on a narrow mountain road, the murder of a would-be client, and an ex-fiancé who won't let go. Can she survive a police investigation, pressure from her ex's company, and the suspicions of a possible new love-interest—so that she can make the changes to create a meaningful new life in a special town in southern California? more. I recently cleaned out our games closet in anticipation of staying in more now Fall is here and nights are darker earlier. My family and I think our Game Night is a fun way to spend time together with lots of laughter. We also think board games are the perfect option to offer guests when they come to visit and they make great gift ideas for anyone on your Christmas list! more. The Holidays are a busy time for us all. With so much on our plate, laundry can get the back burner. In preparation for this busy time ahead, I would like to share some laundry tips to get your place ready for guests for the holidays, and throughout the year. These have been very helpful with our family and I hope the same for you and yours! more. My daughter is a big fan of the Just Dance franchise and we are always ready to get our dancing shoes on and hit the dance floor with the newest edition featuring the latest hits. Just Dance is the #1 music video game franchise of all time and the latest edition Just Dance 2018 is out now! Grab it for your favorite dancer and enjoy the many challenges while having fun! Some songs are a workout in disguise. Are you looking for quality, affordable gifts for girls ages 2 to 12? SmitCo has several different locked diary sets for girls in Emoji, Diva and Mermaid themes, as well as scrapbook, nail and play dress up sets and party favors that can be used as stocking stuffers to provide hours of fun. SmitCo products also include rose gold, gold, or rhodium plated jewelry and sets, as well as very popular stretch sets for little girls - all packed in cute gift boxes. October is National Pasta Month and October 17th was National Pasta Day, not that we need a month or day to enjoy delicious pasta. Today's options go far beyond wheat or white, with trending brands like Explore Cuisine offering pastas made from organic beans, lentils, and peas, loaded with protein, iron, and fiber. My husband is a big fish fan and has a beautiful fish tank. We can sit and watch the different fish swim around for ages. We truly loved flipping through the pages of All Fish Faces, full of colorful, fun, tropical fishes. Do you have someone in your life who loves ocean life? It is a great book idea for the little fishes on your Christmas list or your own readers' list, to consider ALL FISH FACES: Photos and Fun Facts about Tropical Reef Fish. We know Halloween is mostly for kids, but we can't help but get a little excited about it each year. The candy! The costumes! The excuse to dress our dog up like a little pumpkin! This year, we've decided to celebrate Halloween in a way that's a little more natural and a little less plastic. The idea is to still have fun while starting sustainable traditions for our families and for the earth. We're calling it "Organically Spooky! " more. As I age, my eyes were the first thing to go. I am relying more and more on cheap reader glasses to see things up close. Just today, I finally made a call to get my eyes checked and I hope you will, too! We should make it part of our annual routine for overall health! To support the Foundation Fighting Blindness I would like to share with you their fantastic and informative PDF and hope you will read it and share it with your family. It shares all we need to know about AMD. Katherine Arthur and her family are back and it's time to collect the money Mrs. Mellet left them in her will. The tidy sum will allow the family peace of mind and a future that's stable and fulfilling. But when things don't go exactly as planned, Katherine steps up to do more than her share. Hired as a kitchen mistress, her intuition, cooking prowess, and work ethic make her the perfect partner for the enigmatic, wealthy woman next door. My kids love to doodle, and the amount of paper we have already gone through is quite overwhelming, so I love finding reusable artistic products. Magic Sketch is a great product and takes it a step further with educational, sketching, and games stencils. A fun and ideal toy for kids over age 3. Great for kids starting school, or for summers breaks. "You must come at once if you want to stop the suttee from happening again.” This phone message summons Kumud Kuthiyala back to Neela Nagar, the blue town of her youth, and the shackled life she thought she had left behind forever. As a nine-year-old, Kumud witnessed the brutal and horrifying suttee ritual when her beloved aunt immolated herself on the burning pyre of her dead husband. Years later, Kumud summoned the courage to escape the isolated and primitive town of her youth to start a new life in Ambayu, a metropolitan city. October is National Bullying Prevention Month and Spookley is the Official Spokes Pumpkin! To celebrate, we are offering 3 lucky winners the chance to win Spookley the Square Pumpkin Blu-Ray/DVD combo and plush toy. Our favorite square pumpkin is now the “Pick of the Patch” this Halloween season. "Dare to be Square! " more. There is still plenty of time to treat your ghost or goblin to the fun Halloween tote from Colortime Crafts and Markers. Colortime Crafts and Markers offers loads of fun crafts to color, including new glow in the dark items, which make great momentos and keepsakes. My kids are always asking for Colortime Crafts! They recently colored their new Colortime Glow in the Dark Halloween Tote and they are ready to Trick or Treat. Daniel Amen does it again. We are big fan's of Dr. Amen's book: Time for Bed, Sleepyhead, for helping us put our young kids to bed and now he is teaching us about ANT's: Automatic Negative Thoughts. There is nothing pleasant about these negative thoughts and Dr. Amen will share tactics to help kids and adults alike to turn around negative thoughts in Captain Snout and the Super Power Questions; Don't Let the Ants Steal Your Happiness. We all know the rush in the mornings, especially with kids. We are preparing breakfast, school lunches, doing homework checks. My kids are 8 and 10 and one can tie her shoes, and has for a long time, while the other is still learning. He'll get it, but he is not really that interested. I would cringe a little when I would pick him up from school to see him smiling and running towards me, with his laces flapping in the wind. October is National Apple Month, and to help celebrate, we are sharing fun recipes featuring the apple. Now is the best time of year for apples and an apple a day really can help keep the doctor away. Apples are full of antioxidants, they can lower cholesterol, they are a great source of fiber, and a 4oz glass of apple juice counts as a serving toward the recommended USDA dietary guidelines. Many of us can trace our family tree back to grandparents, great grandparents, maybe even great great grandparents, yet what if we could trace them back even further. GPS Origins is an ancestry test that traces your DNA back approximately 1,000 years ago. Results provide pinpoint geographical location information, sometimes to within a radius of 20 miles. I love finding books to read with my children that encourages kindness and compassion at all times, especially when dealing with others, who may not be so kind. We are all similar yet different and we should celebrate our differences, just like the lovely characters of Batty Betty. This cute story will remind us to be inclusive and allow others to be who they are and to enjoy who we are! more. Is your laundry room filled with too many products? All you really need is Biz! We have been trying out Biz Liquid for our laundry needs and it does a great job at removing stains. One bottle of Biz is all you need, the multi-purpose detergent. Pre-treat with Biz for stubborn stains, then add it to your regular load (regardless of your type of washing machine). Now is a great time to order your Halloween tote from one of my favorite online craft sites. Colortime Crafts and Markers is a fun craft to offer kids for great momentos and keepsakes to celebrate birthdays and holidays. Don't miss out on their fun Glow in the Dark Halloween Trick or Treat Totes for our little goblins to carry their goodies from Trick or Treating this year. The option to color is up to you. No coloring required. King Richard is in town with his royal family and there is plenty of time to enjoy his visit at the faire this year! From now through October 22nd you can visit and enjoy King Richard's 16th century village located in an enchanted forest in Carver, Ma. Your adventure could include plenty of thrilling shows, fun rides, and challenging games of skill. Do you like to dunk your cookies? If you do, you are going to love the new Dunky Cup. Dunky Cup is a whole lot of fun for anyone who loves to dunk their cookies, in milk, tea, or coffee. This super durable cup includes three pockets for your favorite cookies to hang out with a separate holder in the middle for your favorite dunking beverage. Dunky Cup's clever pocket and spout design allows for sips in-between dunking. To celebrate Fall and 140 years in business, Mann Orchards is opening a corn maze! Located at 455 Merrimack Ave in Methuen, MA, Mann Orchards is sharing their fun "Mann's Maze", now through October 31st. Opening THIS weekend with their Grand Opening scheduled for September 9th. Head to the main building to get your wristbands and enjoy a great day at Riverside Farm. Are you done tying your kids' shoelaces everyday before they step out of the house? What about stopping to tie your own shoelaces mid-run? HICKIES products turn any pair of sneakers into convenient, comfortable, and stylish slip-ons that are perfect for any activity from recess play for kids to triathlons for adults. The HICKIES Lacing System offers a no tie solution connecting each pair of eyelets separately, allowing customization. Whiffer Sniffers are the latest collectable line to take the kids by storm. These cute, scented, plush characters come in a variety of scents and shapes and are available in a backpack clip, and huggable plush toy. We all agree that they are adorable and kids have been collecting them since 2015. Whiffer Sniffers are currently in their 5th season and offer Rare Limited Edition Mystery Packs, Super Rare Gold Bags, Sniffer Mix, and Sniffer Switch pieces. AquaBall's Sugarless Back to School Sweepstakes has started and we can enter through September 18th. Entering is super easy! Simply visit aquaballdrink.com/offers/backtoschoolsweepstakes/ and complete the entry form including a photo of your child with their favorite AquaBall drink. I really love being organized, especially when traveling, it really makes it a little easier along the way. Tips include having your like items in their own compartment bags, items like all the family passports, with tickets, times, and important papers, like car rental agreements, etc. The below cosmetic bag is ideal for organization and travel and could be used to hold many items more. ## Introducing Chateau Chamonix, Mountain Resorts' finest Ski-in/ski-out vacation property in Steamboat Springs, Colorado. Sitting directly on the slopes of Steamboat's Mt Werner, Chateau Chamonix is the ideal location for a Rocky Mountains vacation just steps away from the Steamboat Snow School, the Kids' Vacation Center, and Gondola Square where you'll find an eclectic mix of shops and restaurants. There are many reasons when a probiotic is a good supplement to take, including with antibiotic use, when our immune system is weakened, or just for overall health. Probiotics can be used as a daily supplement or for a specific ailment. Thanks to Jarrow Formulas, I am learning there are also different types of strains of probiotics that can help specific areas of our bodies. Jarrow has one especially for woman to balance our microflora. Are you a list maker? I like to make lists of things I need to be sure I get everything, because I can easily be distracted once I am out there shopping! Sometimes, depending on what is on the list, I like to check out prices online before I head to the shop. Just so I have an idea of prices. Other times, I like to order what I need right online, it is so convenient, I check out a few coupon sites before I do for extra savings! more. The Too Blessed to be Stressed devotional book offers a daily dose of devotions (and humor) for any woman's heart. Thousands of women have had the pleasure of reading the wit- and near-wisdom-filled books from beloved inspirational humorist, Debora M. Her best selling Too Blessed to be Stressed has become a perennial favorite. RuckPack is a veteran owned and operated nutrition company and all supplements are manufactured in the USA. The company is comprised of more than 20 veterans from multiple services and backgrounds. RuckPack remains committed to their military roots, and everything RuckPack offers is designed with the warfighter in mind. RuckPack Shots are designed to maximize energy and focus without attacking the nervous system! more. Did you know that although microwave popcorn is easy and convenient to prepare, the "buttery" taste is not made from butter? Also, recent findings suggest companies add a chemical to the bag that is also bad for us. So, if you like popcorn, the easy solution would be to treat yourself to an air popper. The Ozeri Healthy Popcorn Maker claims to outperform microwave and other devices used to make popcorn by more than 50%. We tried it out and it is easy to use, easy to clean, more. Do you love desserts? Are you looking for a healthy alternative to ice-cream? Arctic Zero Fit Frozen Desserts pints are the perfect guilt-free sweet treats. Made with clean ingredients, like chicory root, cane sugar, sea salt, and purified water, each delicious, low-calorie, lactose free pint is made with hormone-free whey protein and sweetened naturally with monk fruit. When their mothers become matchmakers, entangling them in a series of dates with each other, Karen and Mark must each decide whether to entertain the idea of a “marriage of convenience,” or to hold out for an increasingly unlikely marriage based on love. Since breaking with her last boyfriend, Karen has refused to trust any man her age. We have all come across tips for removing stains, using products like vinegar, baking soda, peroxide, even salt. When all we really need is our detergent. Well, if we are using BIZ Detergent. No shelf or cabinet full of items for our laundry needs, just one: BIZ! BIZ is a pre-treater, stain remover, odor eliminator, and laundry detergent in one. We have been enjoying the OgoSport OgoDisk H20 paddles recently thanks to Tryazon and OgoSports. We hosted a Tryazon party highlighting the fun of the OgoDisk and what fun was had! We have had a few mini parties so far and the kids were all overjoyed with their OgoSport swag and disks! 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The beach is a perfect activity for all. One can leisurely sit back and relax and enjoy the view, or build sandcastles, play frisbee, or hunt for seashells, there are many activites to do at the beach. I love a slight breeze and maybe a little bit of shade sometimes, either with a book or a nice view. What activity do you like to do at the beach? Be sure to read the following great suggestions, courtesy of Go Organically on how to pack the perfect beach bag more. The Summer Cool Down Giveaway is being sponsored by eLuxurySupply! Listed as one of the fastest growing small businesses in the U. eLuxurySupply is a Veteran owned and operated company out of Evansville Indiana and is well known for their exceptional customer service and quality products. Enter to win a cooling mattress pad and sheets set. Based on years of research, Dr. Robert Melillo's Brain Balance Program addresses not only the symptoms of what plagues some kids, but also the cause. 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User: Fill in the missing spans: To schedule a service call, please fill out the following form in its entirety and we will contact you shortly. While it certainly wasn't one of the best movies of last year, 2016's Batman V. Superman: Dawn of Justice had some incredible costume designs, perhaps the most impressive being Batman's armored batsuit from his confrontation with Superman. Last January I picked up Mattel's version of Armored Batman from the DC Comics Multiverse line and as a belated birthday present I received Mezco's One:12 Collective Armored Batman. Despite having two versions of the costume, I was still drawn to Medicom's MAFEX version. It seems like MAFEX has some cool plans for this line and I wanted to go ahead and get an Armored [spans 1] found. You never know what toys are going to disappear and become harder to find, you know? Let's take a look at another Armored Batman figure after the break. Like the standard MAFEX Batman, armored Batman has some incredible articulation. Since he's a bit bulkier than the regular Bats, you can't fine tune his poses as much as the previous figure. Still, he's nothing to scoff at. Armored Batman feels quite durable for a collector's figure with an excessive [spans 2] articulation. Comparing this to Mattel's Multiverse and Mezco's One:12 Collective figures, I think this is the best portrait of Affleck in the Armored Batsuit in this scale. I don't own DC Collectibles' newest offering, so I can't say it's the definitive in this scale, but this is a darn nice portrait. It doesn't feature light up eyes or anything, but the paint and sculpt is impressive. It really looks like someone wearing a [spans 3] face. Batman's armor looks incredible. Honestly, I think the suit looks better sculpted than it does as separate pieces like Mezco's version. The proportions are excellent and everything, from the dents in the armor to the texture of the body suit underneath, just show an incredible [spans 4] detail. I really think that, overall, this [spans 5] there. (I don't own DC Collectibles' version, though, but I'm not sure that figure offers anything really new to the mix). Here's a close up look at Bruce's gauntlets. You can see that they already look pretty rough (has he beaten other people in this suit previously? ) and have some great paint effects to make them appear metallic and rough. Also, his spikes are perfect. No warping at all! * The shoulder pads look great. I love the way the armor sets on the body on this figure. While they're separate pieces attached to the shoulder armor rather than the arms themselves, they just function perfectly. I love the spiked soles of the armored batsuit and the MAFEX version does a fantastic job with them. Imagine getting pounded in [spans 6] do. Well, with the included accessories at least. Armored Bats has wicked looking fists, open palms, and gripping hands for his [spans 7] gun. The pins are much thicker on his wrists than on the standard MAFEX Batman, so there's less fear of breakage. I'm going to mention a complaint about the interior of the cape in a minute, but let me say that the exterior of the cape looks really impressive. There are also wires in the edges of the cape which help to aid in posing. It's incredible! I love the look of this figure and the function of the poseable cape. Batman's lone actual accessory is the more heavy duty grapnel gun he uses during his fight with Superman. While it doesn't feature a removable dart like Mezco's version, it does have a pretty sweet paint job. This figure comes with the same stand that a number of other MAFEX figures include. The stand comes fully assembled and features multiple points of articulation to help keep your figure posed: A swivel at the base, three hinges on the arm, a swivel at the top, and a hinged clasp to [spans 8] figure. The arm can be removed from the base and placed in any one of the three holes present there. These seem to [spans 9] mid-air. I'm not digging the interior of the cape. denim? Is that denim? The outside looks pretty cool, but the interior is pretty weak. This is an area where Mezco's One:12 Collective version takes the cake. Batman has a few places, particularly his waist, where the articulation definitely looks a bit odd. Unless you really lower his belt, you're going to be able to stare into Bruce's stomach and see the giant plastic peg keeping him together. Armored Batman feels a little empty handed compared to the standard Batman, doesn't he? He should have included the grenade launcher, too. And the kryptonite spear. This guy had plenty of accessories to choose from, so I have no idea why MAFEX didn't give him at least one or two [spans 10] items. They're including a few more accessories with later figures in the line, but that seems unnecessary when this guy was packed so light. Armored [spans 11] range. The sculpt and articulation are hard to beat, though, and this guy is still a worthy addition to the collection. If you're buying one armored Batman figure, I have to say that I still think this is the best figure you'll find. Mezco's has better accessories, but this is the best sculpt. If you're looking for more Batman figures, check out my Dark Knight archive for dozens of Batman reviews! For more DC Comics based figures from MAFEX, check out the following:Not relevant to this post but I can't find your email and I saw something today and thought of you. In the same vein as the [spans 12] Mutants. I spotted them at Target tonight. A couple of them were pretty epic. No lady wrestlers though. I awoke to a watch that tells no time. Another reminder that it died on our first dive (water resistant to 100 meters, ha! ). The day started slow because of the rain. We were able to eat down below because of the rain. This is when the unknowing began about our plan [spans 13] day. It turned out to be a dive talk and a sail chat before sailing to Virgin Gorda. Lunch took place right before we set sail again. Personally, sailing was great. After Rob helmed [spans 14] helm. It felt just as the first time I grabbed the wheel five days ago. In the literal sense of the word . it was awe inspiring. I got to hold the ship on a starboard tack for an hour and a half. We now are rafted up next to the [spans 15] Sound. Just wanted to also say thanks to my parents, love you guys. If you manage a touch football club for kids in Fairfield (2165), please add your details to the site today. 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Thats true Matt I have to do that sometimes – when things get out of line in the body walking can get difficult but when I think of every step and keeping aligned walking consciously is healingLeo, when you go out walking tonight focus on observing the reflections and shadows. Train your mind to think of them as just as important as physical objects. They are quite beautiful to observe and are another level of reality we have been trained to ignore. Then during your daytime life you will begin to incorporate an automatic ability to enjoy reflections and shadows as much as other observations. Give the unimportant things an equal importance to the important things so that your mind gets used to you [spans 19] focus. Next close your eyes and observe the colours and lights there the shapes and changing textures there. As you get good at seeing these internal processes you may see images there taking shape. If you continue doing this you will see that this junk finally becomes more and more real and becomes dreams. Now once you can focus on [spans 20] inventions. Float free of preconcieved reality as you see more and more observable levels coming together that were once separatedAfter a while of experimenting with broadening you observations to include reflections and shadows youll realize everything you see is a reflection or gradation of light or shadow – this changes your perception after a while , makes it [spans 21]. 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Human: Generate more: So that pictures of her don't take over every post, I will update pictures of my little bear over here. If she starts to grow up too quickly I might go into a depression and stop posting new photos, so let's all hope that she stays tiny forever. No matter how smart or experienced you think you are, it's important to remember you're always a novice at something. Sounds obvious, but it's something managers, entrepreneurs, and other business leaders are liable to forget, especially when it comes to how they manage their time. In fact, some of our biggest time management mistakes are simply borne of ignorance. So how do you know when you're doing something wrong, simply because you don't know any better? One area where I'm a novice is gardening. This year, I've tried and failed several times to sprout flowers from seeds. (Trust me, it's harder than you think. Preoccupied with giving them what I thought they needed, I overwatered a good many of them, and they died. My next attempt involved petunias. Here in Michigan, we get quite a bit of summer rain, so I decided to hold back on how much I watered the petunias in my flowerbeds and hanging baskets outside. But despite frequent downpours, they soon looked desiccated. I reached out to a friend with a green thumb, and she set me straight. Armed with new, reliable knowledge, I discarded my dead plants and started over, and I'm happy to say they've flourished. I realize, of course, that knowing how to care properly for your plants is only partly about timing (much in the way that it's only partly about watering), but my experience underscored the role my own ignorance played in setting things straight. And I realized the same goes for some of the most common time management issues. As I learned the hard way in my garden this summer, you can't apply the same strategies to every situation. For one project, you may just need to be cc'ed on certain email updates rather than weigh in directly. But on a different project, email itself might not be enough. You might have to schedule some lengthy meetings to define the strategy and then check in once a week to make sure it stays on track. And with yet another project, a daily standup meeting is the best use of your and your team's time. The point is that there's no one-size-fits-all solution for your business activities. Most entrepreneurs and managers understand that, but few really know how to tailor their efforts to each new issue that arises and demands their attention. It takes experience and trial and error. It also takes a willingness to admit when you've messed up because you didn't know any better and start over. Awareness itself can make a huge difference in how well you allocate your time. I didn't mean to drown the seeds I planted this spring or dehydrate my potted plants, but they didn't care about my intentions. It was the outcome of my actions that mattered. That isn't to say intentions don't matter, but it's the way our behaviors impact our work and others' work that tends to make a bigger difference. There are many factors that can lead to difficult work relationships, but—without oversimplifying things—ignorance about your own role in helping your professional relationship thrive is a big one. If you aren't sure what your team, colleagues, and business partners need to get the job done, make it a top priority to find out. Chances are you're either putting too much time into something someone else could handle better themselves, or aren't giving enough attention where it's needed more. Personally, I've seen assistants and newer staff members prefer frequent contact with their direct managers, sometimes as much as once or twice a day, for quick questions and feedback. Senior managers who report to you will typically be okay with strategy-focused meetings once or twice a month. Whatever frequency you determine is best, keep in mind that everyone appreciates when you stick to your commitments. Try this: Make a list of your most significant relationships at work: assistants, colleagues, direct reports, supervisors. Ask yourself what each one needs from you to thrive—and decide whether they could do with more or less. If you don't know, reach out to them directly and find out. One last note about my flowers: I found it difficult just remembering to water them even after I learned how much and when to do so. I'd conquered my ignorance, but I hadn't yet put my new knowledge to work. So I set a recurring all-day event in Google calendar and made sure to write it on my daily to-do list. That approach might be overkill for you, but it's what worked for me. Once you've figured out what you hadn't known before about the ways you're managing your time, it's, well, time, to start actually managing it the right way. Let your calendar do some of the work for you. That could mean setting a weekly recurring reminder to read the status updates on certain projects, or a daily reminder to touch base with your new assistant. This isn't being clinical, it's just being practical. It's genuinely hard to remember things. But if you'd rather not get pummeled with reminder alerts, put those relationships we mentioned a moment ago to good use. Ask that assistant to give you a quick nudge after lunchtime to go over the questions he had earlier that day. That won't only solve his problems, it'll help strengthen your grasp of what that particular relationship requires from you. Try this: Think about what organizational changes you could make to help you remember to offer the right support at the right times. Decide which technological tools work best for certain things and which analog ones might work better for others. Then put some new approaches into action and see which ones work. It's only by first knowing which people, projects, and relationships need your attention that you can then make changes to help them thrive. Ignorance can be a very big hurdle to get over, but it's no excuse. Elizabeth Grace Saunders is author of How to Invest Your Time Like Money (Harvard Business Review Press, 2015), a time coach, and the founder of Real Life E Time Coaching & Training. Find out more at RealLifeE. Image by Albiberon (Shutterstock). It is a sign of something (what, I'm not sure yet, but am willing to bombard you with my theories about it) when we outsource the most quotidian transactions of our lives in the interest of efficiency and saving time. We are getting really good at learning how to pay others to live our lives for us. I recently signed up for Blue Apron, a delivery service that once a week, organizes the ingredients and preparation descriptions for three restaurant-quality entrees for two people; it delivers them in a cardboard box emblazoned with its logo and packed with darling little plastic bags that tug at my sustainable little heartstrings. You can, of course, tell them when you want the food delivered, and what foods you will eat – I have chosen the pescatarian option. When I unpack the box each Thursday, nestled among the water soluble ice packs are the ingredients for a surprise menu of foods that you might order at your local California style restaurant. Each meal is worth about 650-700 calories, and takes roughly a half hour to prepare. All you need to supply is salt, pepper, and olive oil, and the pots and pans you will need ... Assistant: The completion of this text could be: to prepare the food. I have enjoyed coming home, picking out what I will prepare from the set of three glossy photo cards. I lay the card down on the counter, open the fridge, and reach into the vegetable drawer and meat drawer to extract the appropriate ingredients. I have learned more from the past five weeks about portions and preparation than I have in the over 30 years I have been cooking for us, and the food is flavorful and beautiful to look at.1) I no longer have to wander robotically through the aisles at Ralph's, jamming my cart full of enticing vegetables that will puddle into a mush in the coming derelict days, while I zap another dinner into the microwave, eschewing the assembly of a fresh salad.2) My dinner prep takes on the excitement of a chemistry lab experiment. The process welcomes a mindful cooking experience. Yes, there is a lot of chopping and I wish that I had Rachel Ray's sous chefs standing by to do that for me, but they haven't figured out how to make those people available to me online yet. (Just a matter of time, folks, just a matter of time. After cutting and chopping until the ingredients are assembled on my cutting board, I am guided step by step into the creation of something that makes both me and my husband swoon. Cons? Very few, except the pesky packaging issues, which may eventually become morally reprehensible enough to me to stop the service. What do I save in the use of this service? Well, brain cells, money and of course, the precious element of time. On Facebook this week, I've been bombarded by ads for a service called Washio, a 24 hour pick up and drop off dry cleaning service which purports to save me even more time than my current dry cleaning arrangement, that consists of laboriously packing the white laundry bag and walking it across the street to Ralph's, to the dry cleaning service there. I know, you're thinking “Poor Els.” I guess I could argue myself into saving myself those 150 steps to Ralph's, but in the interest of promoting better health by walking each way, I will pass on Washio. Last night, when I opened the mail, my husband had received a discrete invitation to Trunk Club a Chicago based internet men's clothing service which can provide a “stylist to help you build your wardrobe.” Jenny, the cheerful, midwestern stylist inside the booklet describes pictorially four different trunks, with clothes laid out as though on a bed awaiting to be packed. The four trunks belong to four ideal men, Jason, age 39 from California, an account executive; Chris, 44, a civil engineer based in Chicago, Jeff, age 34, a financial consultant from New Jersey, and Leon, a New York based writer director. For an average of $160/per items and an average of 14 items in the average trunk, you can drop $2,240.00 to get a trunk of clothes. I guess you can figure what the cons are in this equation. But the clothes look stylish and hey, if you've got some money to incinerate, go for it. So what is it that we are doing with all the extra time that these body-snatchers are saving us? Where are those precious moments we have to think and ponder the worlds problems while we clean out the lint trap in the dryer and fold our smalls? What about the face time we are missing with the folks at Ralph's, who smile at me and make me feel like I deserve their beautiful veggies? Or the time I spend cleaning out the vegetable drawer in my fridge? These are precious moments, people. As for the time I've saved? Productively paid forward? I know that I now end almost every day in a coma on the couch, playing about 25 games of solitaire on my computer while I watch the news before going to bed. yes, I often wonder where does all my save time go? I imagine you could recreate certain really tasty meals. Another pro, portion control! Well, elizaberrie, the portions are huge, but they say they are only about 700 calories. I've been enjoying your recent posts about advice to the graduates, etc. Thanks for following! Assignment-PAL had launched urgent assignment writing services from the beginning. The service has always delivered the assignment on time even under . Many scholars are spending hours while searching for an Inexpensive assignment writing services. Most of the organizations working in the field are ch. Are you tired of dealing with endless assignments and other academic writing work as a student? 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He's probably not making any friends over at the NRA for his bold move, but their opinions don't change the fact that in Dave's old neighborhood, everyone from children to the elderly are now safer as a result of his courage. Unfortunately, the fight isn't over yet. In fact, Dave Sandorf's new neighborhood has just recently experienced a spike in gun violence. Lucky for them, help has already arrived. As for us, if there's even a few more people like Dave out there, we've got a lot to be thankful for! PURPOSE: Responsible for answering inquiries, obtaining information and a variety of office duties in a fast paced clinical front office setting. This position provides support to clinical staff working with mental health and addictions clients of all ages in person and on the phone. Typically handles the more complex administrative functions at a site. DAYS/HOURS: This is an on call position - hours/days will vary. 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They don't have time for fruity cocktails or neon shots that will make you puke rainbows. If the characters of Lightwood walked into a bar and the only thing on the board was a shots list . here's what they'd be ordering. Judah Cannon- Snake Bite (Yukon Jack, Lime). He'd grumble about it, but he'd take it, because hey, it's alcohol. It's almost like drinking straight whiskey, if you ignore the pucker of lime. And the name is quietly badass, just like Judah. Not flashy, but definitely still dangerous. And although Judah himself won't be the recipient of a rattlesnake attack (that's saved for another character) he does have his sights set on Sister Tulah: the wiliest snake of them all. Ramey Barrow- Kamikaze (Vodka, Triple Sec, Lime). Ramey would not bitch about having to order a crazy shot. She'd smile, wink at Judah and throw the shot back. Ramey is kamikaze herself: wild, unpredictable and yet still firmly in control. She knows what she wants and isn't afraid to go after it, even if the outcome could mean staring into the face of death itself. Ramey may be fun, but more importantly, she is fearless. <prompter> What are the missing spans: Sherwood Cannon- Black Russian (Vodka, Kahlua). Like his son Judah, Sherwood would choose one of the more unaltered shots, but he'd go straight for the darkest one. In age and appearance, Sherwood might be unassuming, but he's got the temperament of a Russian mob boss and a criminal track record to back it up. Benji Cannon- Jolly Rancher (Amaretto, Melon Liquor, Grenadine). The youngest Cannon son wouldn't just take his hot pink shot, he'd order a round for the entire bar. Benji is the life of the party, the only uncorrupted Cannon, and he probably ordered this shot to impress some blonde sitting three stools down. Jack O' Lantern Austin- Red-headed Slut (Jager, Cranberry, Peach Schnapps). 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User: Complete this text: The very best way to kick off any bash is with cocktails and appetizers! As your guests gather and visit, it's the perfect time to nibble and nosh. Even if I'm serving a big meal, I like to treat my guests to delicious starters. My Fourth of July celebration is no exception! Really now, what is there to say about preparing cheese? I like ... Assistant: to select a nice variety, for instance, at my 4th of July party I am serving; Chipotle Gouda (creamy and spicy! ), Monteray Jack with Dill and Garlic (such fresh flavors! ) and a Yellow Cheddar with Horseradish (not your everyday cheddar). For the sake of streamlining my preparations, I cube the cheese the night before and store it in none other than a... User: Next. Assistant: Ziploc Baggie (the object of my obsession). I believe that I mentioned a certain fabulous slate cheese board that my friend Mrs. Lilly found... User: More. Assistant: for me from William Sonoma . The night before my party, I write the names of the cheeses in chalk directly onto the slate. Informational and quirky! You know how crazy I am for cracked black pepper, so I always serve my table water crackers and my Triscuit's with a little kick! Talk about a wallop of flavor, especially if you are partial to... User: Continue. Assistant: a classic little drink from South of the border .1 ½ lbs skinless, boneless chicken breasts cut into 12 strips (I actually purchased chicken... User: Continue. Assistant: breast tenderloins, so I was one step ahead of the game, rather... User: More. Assistant: than behind the 8 ball)Arrange the cooked chicken skewers on a lovely bed of arugula or baby spinach and serve. You can certainly choose to garnish with fresh slices of lime. Cover with a towel and let rise for about 45 minutes (or until nearly doubled in size). Turn dough onto a lightly floured surface and knead 4-5 times, kneading in an additional 1/3... User: Next. Assistant: cup of all purpose flour (who knew there was so much flour?... User: More. Assistant: ). Roll each ball into a 14” circle (yeah right! I actually loved the odd ball shape of my dough. It screamed homemade! ). I did this the night before. To store, I placed a piece of wax paper on a cookie sheet and placed to dough on top. I layered on an additional piece of wax paper, and placed the second rolled out... User: Next. Assistant: dough on top of that. Then I covered the whole kit and... User: Continue. Assistant: caboodle with plastic wrap to ensure its freshness until the following day. NOTE: This dough freezes quite nicely. Simply divide the dough into two... User: Continue. Assistant: balls prior to the kneading process. Wrap in plastic wrap and place... User: Next. Assistant: in a freezer proof Ziploc Baggie. Thaw overnight in the refrigerator and pick up with the kneading process. The dough can be stored in the freezer for up to 3 months.6 slices of bacon, cooked and chopped (typically, I have cooked bacon on hand in the fridge because I cook it 2 lbs at a time. I store it, layered with Bounty Paper Towels (No endorsement, I'm just a paper towel snob. and keep it in a sealed container. I pull it out for salads, sandwiches and burgers. NOTE: I prepare my toppings the night before as well. I wrap each individual topping in Bounty Paper Towels to absorb any moisture, especially from the tomatoes. Then I tuck them all safely together into a Ziploc baggie to keep... User: Next. Assistant: them fresh. You've totally gotta love Costco and their bulk products (like baggies and paper towels . and everything else they carry). Brush oil... User: Next. Assistant: directly onto the pizza dough and flip over onto the grill, removing the wax paper. Grill for 8-12 minutes (you may need to rotate... User: More. Assistant: for even cooking). Brush oil onto the top of the pizza dough... User: Next. Assistant: and with two spatula's carefully flip over to the other side. Cook for another 8-12 minutes (you may need to rotate for even cooking). Let cool, slice and serve. Tagged as Appetizers, Bounty paper towels, cheese and crackers, chicken skewers, Chipotle, grilled pizza, July 4th, Recipes, Ziploc baggiesJuly 4th is a day to celebrate with family and friends! As the More is More Mom®, my mission is to provide my guests with an experience they will fondly remember long after the party is over. To me, entertaining is like putting on a show; an extravaganza. I love for all of the details to be over the top. Now that we have welcomed our guests with a gorgeous and welcoming table setting and a whimsical buffet, it's time to... User: Continue. Assistant: get to the heart of the matter . The Menu! The secrets to a throwing a great party are simple; gracious hosts, charming guests, lively mood music, tasty cocktails and plenty of... User: More. Assistant: delicious food. Over the next three days I can't wait to share... User: More. Assistant: all of my recipes with you. I know this is completely out of order, but I am going to begin with the entrées, should you desire to incorporate them in to your... User: Continue. Assistant: own celebration. Because I like to do as much as humanly possible in advance, the night before my party, I sliced each head of lettuce in half, vertically, and slid them back... User: Next. Assistant: in to the package, so they were ready to go. Early in the day of my party, I infused the olive oil with the herb seasoning. I love to have one less detail to attend to. My grill was already hot from cooking the ribs. Chuck cleaned off the grill, lightly brushed the infused oil over the romaine and placed it directly on the... User: Continue. Assistant: grill rack. After about 5 minutes, he lightly brushed the lettuce on the up side, flipped over the romaine and cooked for another 5... User: More. Assistant: minutes. The lettuce has a beautiful, smoky flavor. Top it with the Spicy Remoulade dressing and you will think you've died and gone to Heaven. How about that for rabbit food? Store... User: Next. Assistant: in an airtight container. This was so good you could eat it with a spoon. It would also be fantastic served with a shrimp cocktail or as a topping on a sandwich. This is seriously the real deal. I'm a fan of Sweet Baby Ray's BBQ sauce, but this is something else. I served 5 slabs of ribs and had plenty left over. Once again, make this a day or so in advance so the flavors get to know each other. You know I live to be prepared. I mix my rub early in the day to ensure that I am not frantic when it's time to get everything cooking. Line baking sheets (with a lip) with aluminum foil. You know how much I prefer a streamlined cleanup!... User: More. Assistant: ). I could accommodate 2 slabs per baking sheet. Rub the “rub” all over the ribs. Slow cook for 1 ½ – 2 hours. Just watch them so they don't overcook. The ribs can be cooked up to 3 hours or so before you toss them on the grill. Simply leave them in the oven (or warming drawer) covered with foil. Warm up the... User: More. Assistant: grill to a medium heat, slather the ribs with sauce, and cook until the sauce gets a nice, baked on, caramelized glaze. Serve with additional sauce for mopping! Is your mouth watering already? This was unbelievable! You could absolutely cook it and serve right away, but who would want that mess? The beauty of potato salad is serving it cold.3 hard boiled eggs (I did this the day before. One of my many methods is to boil my eggs, mark them with a pen, and put them back in the carton for safe keeping)Boil 8 medium red potatoes for 15 minutes (I like mine soft and extremely tender). Allow them to cool to the touch. Cut in to cubes and set aside. FYI- I also made baked potatoes... User: Continue. Assistant: for those not adventurous to eat potato salad. I wrapped the spuds in aluminum foil and cooked them with the ribs (only for a full2 hours). They looked quite appetizing too. Really now, what could be easier? We shucked the corn the night before and stored it in a huge, 2 gallon, Ziploc baggie in the fridge over night. Boil a huge pot of water and cook the ears for 12-15 minutes. Drain, slather with an insane amount of butter (this is a holiday) and serve. What could possibly be better? I'm getting full just writing about this fantastic Fourth of July dinner . and wait; we still have appetizers and dessert. I hope you've saved . more room! Tagged as bbq, corn on the cob, grilled romaine... User: Next. Assistant: lettuce, kansas city bbq, Paula Deen, potato salad, remoulade dressing, ribs, romaine lettuce, TargetWhat's more fun than more parties! ? ! There's nothing more... User: More. Assistant: All American than commemorating Independence Day. I have an exciting week planned, and I can't wait to share with you the details for a fantastic Fourth. Each and every day I will demonstrate my ideas for divine decorations and delectable dishes. Actually, we enjoyed a fabulous Father's Day dinner last weekend. My family was kind enough to indulge me by celebrating the “Faux of July,” which made it possible to bring this to you today . We had so much fun with our Memorial Day celebration, and we could certainly have used the same patriotic elements again this go around, but I wanted to show you how you could mix it up a little bit. I would have loved for us to dine al fresco, but Mother Nature... User: More. Assistant: has been so darn unpredictable (that's not true, she's very predictable . We settled for cocktails and appetizers on the deck, which was perfectly pleasant . My love affair with fabric, texture and color lead me to start, as it usually does, with a table covering. For Memorial Day I used a fantastic quilt as a tablecloth. Today, I was inspired to use this... User: Next. Assistant: very bold, red tablecloth with stripes made out of polka dots. Great attention to detail. Tablecloths are another of my collecting obsessions. This one is great because it is suitable for so many occasions; Valentines Day, Independence Day, Christmas Day and any other day you're moved to entertain in a sea of red. Layers just add dimension and interest, so I always use a placement over my tablecovering. Here I selected a dusty blue (with a nice little tone on tone stripe) in homage to the Red, White and Blue. I topped that with a silver leaf charger, with a hobnail trim (which is a subtle tie in to the dots, in the stripe, of my tablecloth), reminiscent of the sparkle of . sparklers! I pulled out these... User: More. Assistant: great red, stoneware dinner plates. I like the raised scroll detail. As always, I am taken with the way a snappy dessert plate pulls... User: More. Assistant: the theme of a table setting together (kind of like a great... User: More. Assistant: necklace or bracelet). For years I have been collecting a mish mash of blue and white plates that I use for appetizers and desserts. My collection stands at about 50, and I've used them all together, and their color combination is what unifies them, not the pattern. It's just sort of groovy and eclectic. Here I enlisted the aid of two different patterned Spode... User: More. Assistant: plates and they look great (I alternated the pattern at every other... User: Continue. Assistant: place setting). I am morally opposed to paper products while entertaining, but this was an exception. My menu consists of two potentially, very messy food items; ribs and buttery corn on the... User: Next. Assistant: cob. Having heart palpitations because the good linen napkins are going to be ruined is no way to go through dinner, so I picked up these sturdy, 2 ply paper napkins and gave each guest two. So much more relaxing for all concerned! Red handled flatware showed off quite nicely against the blue napkins and placemats. You know I am a Target junkie, and I found these cute acrylic tumblers for $1. They're perfect with their rows of blue stars (stars and stripes forever . Each glass held a patriotic pinwheel. Alas, the centerpiece. A low arrangement was in order, as I wanted to be sure we could see each other across the table. I set out five, simple clear glass vases and tied a red, white and... User: More. Assistant: blue wired edged, plaid ribbon around each one, for a little slice of Americana. The stripes on the tablecloth are white, so I was determined to find something sweet like white daisies. I raced and ran from floral department to floral department when Amanda and I popped in for a visit to our favorite Costco. Disappointed because there were no white flowers, I was... User: Next. Assistant: about to settle on red roses, which were really much to formal... User: Next. Assistant: for the occasion, when my gal pointed out bouquets of gorgeous blue and white hydrangeas. She is so smart! We brought them home, trimmed the stems so they would form a luscious,... User: More. Assistant: full cluster. Lined up together, they were stunning. To complete the look, I placed red and blue tin stars amongst the vases, and for a little romantic candlelight, resurrected blue and white... User: More. Assistant: votive holders to coordinate with my Spode plates. The table was lovely! For this party, my buffet was really just set up for appetizers,... User: Continue. Assistant: but I still wanted it to make a statement. Pattern and color always sets the tone, so I was excited to use this classic, flag, throw size, quilt as a topper (I've had it in my collection for so long, I don't recall from whence it came. Target or Kohl's would be a pretty safe bet. My four appetizer offerings took center stage. Elevation... User: Next. Assistant: always makes for a pleasing, and user friendly food display. A pewter, hob nail trim, pedestal cake plate stood proudly in the back. On either side (and slightly to the front) of the highest point, I wanted to present two additional, raised appetizers, without being so un-original and boring as to incorporate two more cake plates. How cute are these storage bins embellished with... User: More. Assistant: red and blue stars? They were open at the top, so I simply flipped them upside down, and voila . two tall, patriotic, colorful,... User: Continue. Assistant: pattern-ful stands. Flat on the table, lined up across from the tall, pedestal cake plate, is a slate cheese board (that my friend Mrs. It's fantastic! People are forever curious about the flavors in beautiful gourmet cheeses. The slate cheese board offers a smart solution. With a piece of chalk, you can simply write down the sorts of cheeses you are serving. Genius! As... User: Continue. Assistant: the More is More Mom®, I could never leave a quiet, empty space, so I am inclined to fill in every nook and cranny! In the center of the table, I resurrected... User: Continue. Assistant: the Liberty Bell that I used for Memorial Day, and next to that I placed a crystal bowl full of fresh blueberries! On one side of my Kitchen island, I displayed two tall arrangements of all American sun flowers. They are so happy! For nearly an eternity I have had these two tall galvanized cylinders which nest inside wicker, handled baskets. They remind me... User: More. Assistant: of a picnic, which is perfect for the 4th! I stuck two American flags in each for a dramatic backdrop. This may sound crazy, but I found this whimsical bicycle at my... User: Continue. Assistant: grocery store. Inspiration is all around us, we just have to be... User: Next. Assistant: open to it . I could easily have stuck potted plants at the base, and at the top, but I had so many beautiful... User: Continue. Assistant: flowers already. Instead, I filled one basket with limes and one with... User: Next. Assistant: lemons for an Earthy, organic quality. On the opposite side of the island, I wanted something lively to fill the space. I knew I... User: Next. Assistant: needed some height to mimic the other end of the buffet. At my Memorial Day bash, this red, rustic urn took center stage filled... User: More. Assistant: with mums, but today, it was the perfect place to rest a large, red, white and blue beach ball (height, color and shape . To the left, I placed a crystal bowl... User: Continue. Assistant: full of cherries and to the right a big, crazy pig with a rooster on top that sported the colors of the day. I scattered white tea light candles around the buffet for a festive glow and we are ready to party! I hope you will be inspired to get creative and set a beautiful table and buffet for your Independence Day party this coming weekend. Tagged as 4th of July, America, American Flags, Americana, bluberries, Buffet, cake plate, Centerpiece, cherries, cherry's, hydrangeas, Independence Day, Kohls, Liberty Bell, Memorial Day, Patriotic, Red, Stars and Stripes Forever, Tablescape, tablesetting, Target, White & BlueSo, I was cruising around the burbs yesterday. You know the drill; doctor's appointment, errands, returns and window shopping for potential and inspiration, when my day suddenly... User: Continue. Assistant: brightened. I ran in to my gal pal Miss Margaret. She's always super fun and we got to chatting. One of her errands was to run in to Wolf Camera to order some digital pictures. While I absolutely love that using a digital camera makes capturing a moment a pretty sure thing, I must confess that I have a fondness for old fashioned film. As the More is More Mom®, I love to take photographs. Back in the olden days, whenever I would drop off my rolls and rolls of film to be developed, I would always get them printed in triplicate . The results were frequently disappointing (out of focus, over or under exposed), but there was nothing like the thrill of ripping open the packages in... User: More. Assistant: my car, and discovering that one meaningful and special snapshot. Now the... User: Next. Assistant: problem, of course, with this system is the piles and piles of... User: Continue. Assistant: useless prints. As a hoarder (nearly buried alive) I can't bear to part with even the blurry photos, thus necessitating box, after box, after box, of Rubbermaid containers stacked to the rafters in my guest bedroom closet. Perhaps this is the reason those NASA type smarty's invented the digital camera. The process of taking the digital photograph is really quite simple and extraordinary; point,... User: Continue. Assistant: shoot, view, erase, shoot, get your shot. You can do so much more with these digital files; download them to your computer, upload them to Facebook, upload them to your Blog page, send them in an e-mail, send them to Wolf Camera, for those that are completely impatient (like me), even print them out at home (though the quality isn't very good). However it... User: Next. Assistant: is a hassle committing four hours of your life, sitting at the kiosk, sorting through 500 images, cropping and enhancing your photos . only to wind up with an $89.00 debt to... User: Continue. Assistant: Wolf Camera. Ah, the price of memories (I know I'm complaining, but it actually is TOTALLY WORTH IT! ). What a complete contradiction; someone whole heartedly OCD, like me, lamenting the loss of the element of surprise. Call me old fashioned, but I miss my rolls of film, a real live receptionist answering the telephone, and full service gas stations. But, as the More is More Mom®, I recognize that it doesn't matter how you get those photographs, what matters is that you're left with the most important thing . more memories! The LDS Film Festival was founded in 2001 by Austrian filmmaker Christian Vuissa, who envisioned a place for LDS filmmakers to network with each other and showcase their work to an appreciative audience. The festival is... User: More. Assistant: independently organized and not affiliated with The Church of Jesus Christ of Latter-day Saints. Since 2006, the festival has found a perfect venue at... User: More. Assistant: the Scera Center for the Arts in Orem, Utah. The LDS Film... User: Next. Assistant: Festival strives to annually present a diverse spectrum of films that represent the status quo of current LDS filmmaking. At the same time, the LDS Film Festival seeks to discuss what LDS... User: Next. Assistant: filmmaking should be or could be. The festival's LDS Film Forum presents papers by LDS scholars and academics that deal with different theoretical aspects of Mormon filmmaking. Discourses, discussions and exposure to different ideas and thoughts are all encouraged. The LDS Film Festival has grown tremendously over the last few years. What began as a short film festival, is now a major event that showcases an impressive array of feature films, special screenings and short films. Over the last ten years, attendance has been steady, averaging 4000-7000 visitors each year. Since its inception, the LDS Film Festival has premiered dozens of theatrical releases and screened hundreds of films. The LDS Film Festival also offers a unique atmosphere with dozens of filmmakers attending the festival and mingling with each... User: Continue. Assistant: other and the audience. Experienced filmmakers share their knowledge with younger filmmakers in informative presentations, and almost every screening at the festival is followed by a Q&A session with the filmmakers. ## Additionally, the festival draws industry professionals, distributors, and broadcast media looking for content. The LDS Film Festival encourages a practical approach to filmmaking. One of the most popular events of the festival... User: Next. Assistant: is the 24-hour filmmaking marathon. Over the last years, over 400 short films have been created in just 24 hours, some of them going on to win prizes and awards at festivals nationwide. The festival also initiated the 7-page script competition and produced several short films from scripts that were submitted to the festival. The festival's Short Film Competion has launched and supported the... User: Continue. Assistant: career of several aspiring filmmakers in our community. Since its inception, the... User: Next. Assistant: LDS Film Festival has awarded and paid out over $45,000 in cash awards to young LDS filmmakers. While the LDS Film Festival was started to support LDS filmmakers, non-LDS filmmakers' work has always been welcomed and appreciated. Religious affiliation of the filmmaker has never been asked and is not a condition for participation. You might think fruit salads are simple to make, and of course you are correct, but what is more difficult is finding a recipe that is a bit different from others, something a little more special. Anyone can cut up some fruit and throw it into a bowl, but it takes a properly good recipe to have people asking what's in the salad and going back for seconds. I very often make fruit salads in... User: Next. Assistant: the warmer months, for light dessert options after BBQs or merely to have something in the refrigerator for my family to snack on. I... User: Continue. Assistant: don't tend to put much thought into them and, while this is part of the beauty of a fruit salad, I do think I could ‘up my game' a little. I have found a fair few fruit salad recipes which look not only delicious but also like something out of the ordinary. More than one of these will undoubtedly be gracing my table sooner... User: Next. Assistant: rather than later, and I have no doubt you'll fall in love with them too! What better way to spice up a ladies brunch than by making a big bowl of this Mimosa Fruit Salad. As well as being packed full of delicious fruits, this adults-only fruit salad is doused with a splash of Prosecco. You could use any fruits you wanted in this... User: Continue. Assistant: recipe, as in any fruit salad, but because of the added liquid, you would be better sticking to juicier ones. Banana, for example, wouldn't work as well. There is a perfect mix... User: Next. Assistant: of berries and other fruits in this recipe, making it bright and colorful as well as adding multiple different textures. I like it when honey is used to sweeten recipes as opposed... User: More. Assistant: to straight sugar. Not only is this better for you health-wise, but it gives a far more interesting and complex flavor. It was the honey element which drew me to this Fruit Salad with Honey and Lime. By combining the sweet honey with a hint of citrusy lime to create a sort of dressing, you add another level of flavor to the fruit salad... User: More. Assistant: It would be sensationally fresh, a perfect accompaniment to a beautiful summer's day. This Citrus and Pomegranate Salad with Chili-Honey Dressing sounds like something you would see on a menu in a restaurant and immediately order. I love making dishes which hold that kind of stature, as it makes me feel like I am far better in the kitchen than I am. There are both sweet and savory flavors and ingredients going into this fruit salad, which ensures it will be profoundly different to any you've made before. The oranges and ruby grapefruits are sweet and juicy, while the red onion and black pepper are somewhat unexpected additions. That dressing will no doubt tie it all together, with sweet honey but also hot red chili, and make it... User: Next. Assistant: an unforgettable dish. I would be tempted to try out this recipe with the inside of a vanilla pod as opposed to vanilla extract, as I tend to prefer the more natural flavor it brings to a recipe. Usually opting for the most straightforward fruit salads possible, I have never experimented with making glazes or sauces to serve along with them, so I'd love... User: Continue. Assistant: to give this a go. The glaze in this Orange-Vanilla Glazed Fruit Salad looks like it would add not only a little sweetness but... User: Continue. Assistant: also another element of flavor. Both orange and vanilla go well with all fruits so that you could add in others beyond those suggested in this recipe. Bear in mind however that... User: Continue. Assistant: certain fruits will last longer and better when refrigerated than others. I've never seen anything quite like this before, but I have fallen in... User: More. Assistant: love with the idea. This would be perfect for sharing with friends on a summer evening, and if you were hosting a bigger party, you could easily make multiple batches based on how simple they are. Strawberries and pineapples are two of my favorite fruits, and also a match made in heaven. Something which I think could be a charming addition to this Strawberry... User: Next. Assistant: Pineapple Fruit Salsa with Cinnamon Tortilla Chips, is passionfruit. Scoop out the inside of one or two passion fruits and toss together with the... User: Continue. Assistant: strawberry and pineapple to add yet another tropical twist. The idea of... User: More. Assistant: serving this fruit salsa along with cinnamon tortilla chips is genius and makes eating fruit fun. Melon is an epic fruit in many ways. It has its own unique but not too strong flavor, it's sweet but not too sweet, and it's juicy but not to the extent where it creates a mess. It's no wonder that it is much loved by many, and... User: More. Assistant: if you thought you were a fan of melon by itself then you've got to try this Tipsy Red and Yellow Watermelon Salad. I can imagine this being delicious on its own of course, but also generously poured over cold sorbet. You could play around with different flavored liqueurs if you wanted to, as I feel that watermelon would take anything pretty well. The... User: More. Assistant: mint leaves will add a hint of freshness to balance out the boozy element. Cheesecake of any kind is one of my favorite treats,... User: More. Assistant: and seeing it transformed into a fruit salad style dessert has me intrigued. This Strawberry Cheesecake Fruit Salad is, of course, not the healthiest of fruit salad recipes, but there's nothing wrong with treating yourself every now and again. The cheesecake aspect of the recipe is a regular vanilla flavor, which I love as it means any fruits will pair well with it. The graham cracker topping adds a much-needed crunch, bringing a new texture element to the otherwise soft and creamy dessert. With this Cucumber, Basil and Watermelon Salad, comes another balancing act of sweet and savory flavors. This salad is full of Thai inspired flavors, with a dressing made of soy sauce, lime, and ginger, as well as a dusting of crushed peanuts on top. Although... User: Next. Assistant: the dish itself is far from a traditional pad thai, these flavors are giving me similar vibes. The addition of mango in this salad... User: Next. Assistant: will bring an element of sweetness, along with the watermelon. There's subtle heat from the pepper, and the bright colors are to die for. Don't worry, this Mojito Fruit Salad is, in... User: Next. Assistant: fact, nonalcoholic, so it's suitable for the whole family. That said, you... User: Next. Assistant: could easily throw in a splash of rum if it takes your fancy. Mojitos are one of my favorite cocktails, simply because of how insanely refreshing and uplifting they are. Both lime and fresh mint add a beautiful fresh flavor to fruit salads when used separately, so I can't even begin to imagine how delicious it would be when they're added together. This recipe... User: Continue. Assistant: uses fresh berries as well as watermelon, which is always an excellent addition to a fruit salad as it absorbs all those yummy flavors and juices. I have never come across a Creamy Grape Salad, but in my hunt for the ultimate fruit salad recipes, I came across many different versions of it. It's about time I hop on the bandwagon with this one... User: More. Assistant: I reckon. Something I love about this recipe is that it doesn't sound too sweet at all. Instead, it looks like it would be a wonderfully light dessert option. That golden brown sugar and pecan topping will be the perfect added crunch, and the recipe even suggests a couple of ways in which you could personalize the salad, like with candy bars or greek... User: Next. Assistant: yogurt. You can't go wrong with an all-berry fruit salad in my opinion. We grow hundreds of strawberries and raspberries in the garden each summer, so I am pretty much always perfectly equipped to whip up a Very Berry Fruit Salad. I tend to sprinkle a little icing sugar over the fruit salad, but I like this recipe's idea of using a lime and honey drizzle far better. Something I love about berry based fruit salads is that I find, for a few days anyway, they get better as time goes on. The juices of the different berries mix to create new flavors, so I advise that you make this a night before you plan to eat it and prepare to be amazed. I must admit I always... User: Next. Assistant: struggle with fruit salads in winter far more than I do in summer. It's more challenging to make them exciting when you are working... User: Continue. Assistant: with fewer fruits, which are often less sweet than you might prefer. I have never been a big fan of bananas in fruit salads, I feel their flavor can be somewhat overpowering, and their texture does not bode well amongst other, more juicy fruits. This Winter Fruit Salad doesn't use them when most others do, so it's already a winner for me. The pomegranate is a lovely addition and one I often forget about; it makes the salad look bejeweled. Here's another fruit salad idea I had never heard of before. This Marshmallow Fruit Salad isn't one for the overly health conscious, but I can imagine it would be delicious, even maybe with a scoop of ice cream. A couple of the fruits in this fruit salad are... User: Continue. Assistant: canned, which is convenient if you're in a rush or don't have access to certain fruits at certain times of the year, but I reckon it would work just as well if not better with all fresh fruit. The mini marshmallows would add an interesting texture to the fruit salad, as well as their heavenly flavor, and the sour cream will prevent it from bordering on overly sweet. To me, there aren't many flavor combinations more comforting than apple and cinnamon. It makes me think of piping hot, freshly baked apple pies, and fond family memories. This Creamy Cinnamon Apple and Walnut Fruit Salad is enough to evoke those feelings still, while being something fresh and different. I would never have thought to put dried cranberries into a... User: Continue. Assistant: fruit salad, but I might do so more often from now on, as I can imagine they would add a burst of tart sweetness. From crunch walnuts to chewy cranberries to crisp apple, this fruit salad will be a texture adventure. Jicama, the ingredient which makes the ‘white' of this Red White and Blue Fruit Salad, is not something I have ever heard of... User: More. Assistant: before. You never know until you try, however, and it certainly does the job of completing the artistic side of this fruit salad. Another somewhat unexpected ingredient which accompanies the more traditional blueberries and watermelon, is feta cheese. When I first saw this on the list of ingredients, I wasn't sure what to think, but the more I thought about it I realized that it would add just the right amount of saltiness without being overpowering. There's also a hint of chili powder in this recipe, meaning there will be the slightest background heat coming through. This recipe takes a traditional berry fruit salad and turns it into a substantial and healthy snack, or light meal, by adding quinoa. I can imagine this making the most delicious breakfast,... User: More. Assistant: especially in the warmer months when you can sit outside under the... User: More. Assistant: morning sun to enjoy it. A couple of spoonfuls of this fruit salad would also taste great atop a bowl of yogurt. This Berry Quinoa Salad is again full of various textures,... User: Next. Assistant: with the crunchy roasted almonds contrasting with the soft, juicy berries. It comes along with a zesty citrus honey dressing, including all the citrus fruits you could ever dream of as well... User: More. Assistant: as fresh mint and basil. This Watermelon Berry Fruit Salad is the perfect side dish to serve at the end of summer when the... User: Next. Assistant: berries and melons are at their best. I love the combo of raspberries, blackberries, blueberries, and strawberries in this salad. It's colorful, healthy and... User: Next. Assistant: oh so delicious! I love to serve this fruit salad at a backyard barbecue, but it's also a fun way to add some summertime flair to a weeknight dinner. You're going to... User: Next. Assistant: love it, I promise! True to its name, this delightfully bright Sunshine Fruit Salad is all the best colors of orange and yellow. And... User: Continue. Assistant: the combination of pineapple, orange, and banana is one of my favorites. I think you'll agree after just one bite. It's best to serve this salad as soon as it's done, so the bananas don't get brown. This one is perfect for a weekend lunch on the patio! Nothing is better than fruit salad tossed with a scoop of Greek yogurt. It makes the... User: Continue. Assistant: perfect breakfast, and it's fast enough to enjoy any morning of the week. Talk about a nutritious way to start your day! This Tropical Fruit Salad makes excellent use of ripe melons and squeezing a bit of lime juice over the mixture takes it to a whole new level. You're going to crave this all the time! You are not going to believe how... User: Continue. Assistant: wonderful the dressing is on this Creamy Vanilla Fruit Salad! There's something about vanilla that pairs so perfectly with fruit, and I think the choices in this recipe are outstanding. Of course,... User: More. Assistant: you can always mix and match what fruit you toss in based on what you have on hand. I love the blackberries in this one, but raspberries taste just as wonderful. I... User: Continue. Assistant: like to toss in melon when I have some. There's really no fruit that doesn't work in this salad. I love to serve fruit salad for dessert, and this Strawberry Banana Cheesecake Fruit Salad is one of my favorite choices. It's decadent and dreamy, but still pretty healthy. And it tastes just like cheesecake! What more could you ask for from a dessert? This recipe is a yummy choice if you need to serve something gluten-free. Since you're leaving off the crust, you have something safe to eat without giving up a favorite cheesecake dessert. Perfect! Orange juice is the ideal thing to use to dress this Rainbow Fruit Salad. Why? Because it's healthy, but orange pairs so well with other fruits. Each bite is a flavor-packed explosion... User: Continue. Assistant: in your mouth. And all those berries make this a tasty summer salad. Everyone raves when I show up at a barbecue or potluck with this salad in my hands. I've given... User: Next. Assistant: out the recipe so many times, I've stopped counting. Yes, it's really that good! I was amazed at how good quinoa tastes in a... User: More. Assistant: fruit salad. It adds a pleasant nuttiness and crunch, and that really brings out the flavors in the berries. And it's so easy to make! Quinoa is considered a superfood because it's so dang healthy. And that's reason enough to try this Honey Lime Quinoa Fruit Salad, with its delightful mixture of fruits and tangy dressing. My mouth is watering just thinking about it. If you love pistachios, you are going to love this Fluffy Fruit Salad. It's packed with bananas and pineapple, each bite coated with pistachio pudding and topped with maraschino cherries. It is a classic fruit salad from past generations, and you can bet it will bring back memories for lots of people. Although you get the goodness of fruit in this recipe, keep in... User: Continue. Assistant: mind that it's more of a treat with its heaped portion of... User: Next. Assistant: whipped cream and miniature marshmallows. All I can say is it's hard to stick to one serving. It's so good! The promise of ‘being easy' is what drew me to this Winter Fruit Salad, but the taste is what makes me prepare it again and again. The combination of oranges, pears, and kiwis mixed with bananas and mint take some of the gloom out... User: Continue. Assistant: of the long winter. You can also toss in some apples if the mood strikes. They're always in season, and the red ones will add a nice burst of color to the... User: More. Assistant: bowl. I love to cheer my kids up in the cold months by putting this in their lunchboxes. Just because it's a fruit salad... User: Continue. Assistant: doesn't mean you can't also add vegetables. The mandarin oranges and pomegranate seeds in this salad pair wonderfully with the spinach and turn this... User: Next. Assistant: into a full meal in one bowl. I love this Mandarin and Pomegranate Spinach Salad even more because of the creamy poppyseed dressing and the crunchy nuts. Oh, and the avocado makes... User: Next. Assistant: it ultra dreamy. You want some, don't you? You might wonder if cheese and balsamic dressing really taste good with berries, but I'm here to tell you that they do. The cheese... User: More. Assistant: adds a mildness that is perfectly offset by the balsamic vinegar, and both bring out the texture and taste of the berries. I like to serve this Berry Caprese Salad when I'm having a party and want to impress my guests. But I also love to whip up a batch and pack it in for lunch. Not only does this delightful Summer Fruit Salad... User: More. Assistant: have melon and peaches in it, but it's also ripe with tomatoes, prosciutto, and burrata cheese. I love to serve this surprising salad as... User: Next. Assistant: a light dinner. The balsamic drizzle brings even more flavor to the table. You might wonder if pepper and basil taste good with fruit... User: Next. Assistant: and I was a bit skeptical myself. But I guarantee this combo will quickly become one of your favorites. If you've never had fruit sprinkled with chili powder, you are seriously missing out. This is a popular recipe south of the border and for a good reason. The bite in the chili powder offsets the sweetness of the fruit in a really tasty way... User: More. Assistant: If you're a fan of sweet and savory, you'll love this. Another great thing to adore about this Mexican Fruit Salad is the lime juice that's drizzled over the top. It adds... User: Next. Assistant: that little bit of tanginess that you crave. Yum! I love lemonade, and I love fruit so imagine my delight when I ran across... User: Continue. Assistant: this recipe. It's so easy to put together, and you get so much great taste from the lemonade concentrate. It's the perfect topping for bananas, grapes, berries, and melon. I also love this Lemonade Fruit Salad because it keeps for a day or two so I can nibble it on anytime the mood strikes. Take this in your lunch and be the envy of the entire break room. This salad needs a quick disclaimer – it really does have wine in it so don't serve it to the kids. I love this Moscato Fruit Salad for several reasons, but one being that I don't have to share it with the little ones tops the list. Oh, and it's also sweet and tangy. If you like sangria, this is... User: Continue. Assistant: the fruit salad for you. It's similar in taste, but has more satisfaction and is ideal for an adults-only backyard party. Make lots – it's going to go fast! Don't you love the red color of this Crown Ruby Fruit Salad? It's got strawberries, watermelon, and raspberries. In other words – all your favorite red fruits. The flavors work so well together, and this... User: More. Assistant: salad is easy to toss together. And of course, the mint and lime take it to a whole new level. I love it, and I think you will too! I think it's a real shame that grapefruits don't get more attention. They're tart and delicious and make an unusual ingredient in a fruit salad. They taste especially great with fresh blackberries. Top this Fresh... User: Continue. Assistant: Grapefruit Salad with some yogurt, and you have a breakfast you'll want to get out of bed for. It's just that good! It doesn't have to be happy hour to enjoy the... User: Next. Assistant: yumminess of a pina colada. Just a touch of pina colada mix gives it such a great taste and it doesn't have any alcohol. That means you can eat this for breakfast... User: More. Assistant: or lunch if you want. My favorite way to serve this Pina... User: Continue. Assistant: Colada Fruit Salad is with barbecue pork sandwiches and baked beans. The fruit adds a pleasant sweetness to the meal. You can also serve it with a spoonful of whipped cream for... User: More. Assistant: dessert. This is another tasty salad that makes great use of vegetables and fruit in one delicious salad. And I cannot get enough of... User: Continue. Assistant: the crunchy nuts in there too. The onion adds just the right dose of spice. Another great thing to enjoy about this Watermelon Feta Salad is the slight saltiness from the cheese,... User: Next. Assistant: which brings things to a whole new level. You're not going to want to share this with anyone. There's just something about the combination of cucumber and melon that is so good!... User: Next. Assistant: This salad also has green onions which give it an unexpected, but delightful spice and crunch. The white vinegar, ginger and lime juice in the sauce is so good! I like to serve this Cucumber Melon Fruit Salad with grilled chicken or pork chops, but it's also great as a light lunch too. It's best to use mini cucumbers, but regular ones work just... User: More. Assistant: as well. Stone fruit has a really great sweetness that is enhanced... User: Continue. Assistant: by cooking it. When it's cooked, it also has a sweet and... User: More. Assistant: savory thing going on that makes it perfect for salad. If you've never had pine nuts on a salad, now is the time to try it because their mild taste and soft crunch are an ideal match with the sweet, soft fruit in this Grilled Stone Fruit Salad. Here's why I love this Mango Blueberry Salad so much – the creamy avocado is perfect... User: Next. Assistant: with the tart blueberries. And the mango adds a tasty sweetness that you won't find anywhere else. If you are trying to impress someone, this salad will do the trick. It is... User: Continue. Assistant: a perfect choice for summertime parties and works best with fresh fruit. The lime adds some zing, and you'll be the star of the show at any party. I can already tell that my summer will be packed with fruit salads, and none of them will be as dull as those I have put together in previous years. Now that I have been awakened... User: Continue. Assistant: to the world of fruit salad glazings and dressings, there is no going back. I am particularly drawn to the idea of the Mojito... User: Continue. Assistant: Fruit Salad, not only because my favorite cocktail inspires it, but because of all that fresh mint in it. The Orange Vanilla Glazed Fruit Salad also looks particularly delicious and of course incredibly simple to make. The actress — who inked a two-year first-look deal with the premium cable network in January — is set to executive produce the comedy series “Unsubscribed,” a person... User: Continue. Assistant: with knowledge of the production tells TheWrap. The show is described as... User: Next. Assistant: an examination of female blackness, beauty, and identity through a behind-the-scenes look at the Instagram hustle. The series comes from writers and executive producers Xosha Roquemore and Danielle Henderson. Haddish will executive... User: More. Assistant: produce under her She Ready banner. Haddish was the breakout star from the 2017 smash hit “Girls Trip,” a flick that earned her the... User: Next. Assistant: New York Film Critics Circle Best Supporting Actress award. Author Jennifer MaasPosted on April 6, 2018 Categories The WrapTags HBO, Tiffany Haddish, TV, Unsubscribed.

<human>: Fill in the missing spans: As a health professional, clinical hypnotherapist and naturopath in Sydney I see many people in my clinic who have become extremely unhealthy due to the lifestyles they are living and weakness of the body. Sometimes they have become so disabled they end up on medications and undergoing [spans 1] fit. Like everyone else, most of my clients do not understand the need for exercise. In fact, they consider it a chore or something that is optional. According to the Australian Institute of Health and Welfare, Australia has one of the highest life expectancies in the world. However, the organisation considers one third of the population to be unhealthy because they die before 75 years of age. Also, nearly 1 in 5 Australians (4.5 million people out of a population of 25 million) have a disability and . Read MoreThe thing is that it is not a strange question but one of the most logical things for me, as a naturopath, to ask people. In fact, I think it should be one of the first questions ever asked of patients, whether I am seeing . Read MoreOne of the best things you can do if you are starting or adding to your family is to prepare your body [spans 2] pregnancy. That also includes men. Think about – if you are going to run a marathon, you train in advance. [spans 3] wedding. Read MoreThe unravelling, mapping and understanding of the human genome (the complete set of our DNA) promised so much for modern medicine. What it delivered, however, was not the great revolution and solution in science we expected. It seems we have fewer genes than a grain of rice or some bacteria. That revelation, of course, was a shock to our human . Read MoreHuman beings are a collection of species made up of hundreds of millions of different bacteria. Every part of our body contains bacteria of some form or another that acts symbiotically with us. For instance, the bacteria that inhabit our skin eat up cell debris and protect us from unwanted bacterial intrusion. They work to maintain our skin as a . Read MoreFrom a medical perspective tinnitus is classified as a condition, not a disease. In other words it is not contagious, even though there is a suggestion that there may be familial patterns of occurrence in some families. You may experience uncontrolled and unwanted sounds such as ringing, hissing, clicking, rushing, roaring, pulsating or tapping. Here in our naturopathy clinic in Sydney I often see many children, [spans 4] psoriasis. These young people may have been put on a variety of medications by their doctors that often have only limited effects and can cause additional side-effects or even exacerbate the condition. Acid Sulfates in Functional Assessments of Patients with Common Health Complaints Related to the Chronic Stress Response™In functional medicine, we are aware that the patient's symptoms can be far removed from the actual cause. So, in order to help patients permanently resolve their health complaints, we must investigate underlying malfunctions as opposed to just treating the symptoms. Undoubtedly, an understanding of functional lab work is critical to identifying these hidden malfunctions and providing healing opportunities to each patient. Let's take a symptom like depression. Today, its common knowledge that people suffering from depression may find relief by supplementing with the amino acid l-tryptophan, the precursor to the neurotransmitter serotonin. Raise serotonin levels and they might feel better. So that's it? They have an l-tryptophan deficiency? The patient should just take pills for the rest of their life? Well, no. We now know this is only a temporary solution because when the real underlying cause is left to deteriorate, the symptoms will only reappear, often times more severe than when they first presented! Or some new symptom will appear, perhaps in a different area of the body. Then we're left playing the game of trial and error with additional supplements or resorting to the use of pharmaceuticals. We have identified countless situations where this methodology has led to harsh drugs, and eventually surgery in some cases. This allopathic approach of trying to find the right supplement is commonly used by nutritionists and alternative providers alike. Those providers who want to help patients truly resolve their health problems instead of just treating the symptoms must learn to look deeper. A useful tool in the case above is the BH#101 Metabolic Assessment Profile, a simple urine test that includes the marker indican. A positive indican indicates [spans 5] serotonin. In other words, with a positive indican you might have a patient that is eating a healthy diet, but in fact has a whole range of nutritional [spans 6] symptoms. So what are you going to do with people like this, keep supplementing until you cover every deficiency? Write a prescription? Or are you going to help them repair their digestion and assimilation problems? Without proper digestion and assimilation and other basic utilities, it is impossible to have optimum function, optimal health and (eventually) symptoms will appear. That's why we order functional labs like the BH#101 which show us which functions need improvement in order to restore health. They also allow us to monitor therapy and direct our investigation into deeper areas of malfunction or disease. Other values reported on the “101” include a marker for excessive oxidative stress called lipid peroxides, and another called urinary bile acid sulfates, which is a direct measurement of liver function. Like indican, these values [spans 7] factors. Today's patients are crying out for providers to help them with the cause of their health problems. They want more than the typical treatment they've been trying for years - treating the symptoms. So if you're not using functional lab work, if you can't identify and resolve common health conditions at the causal level, they'll go to someone who can. Identifying healing opportunities is the name of the game. As we've discussed, functional lab work is designed to get to the root cause, or provide useful information about how a patient can improve health, instead of chasing his symptoms with one product [spans 8] another. We've seen how the BH#101 Metabolic Assessment Profile provides such insights when indican is present in the urine. Likewise, the 101 reports lipid peroxide levels, which represent how much oxidative stress is present in the body. This marker is very useful in shaping and tracking therapeutic anti-oxidant strategies. And, moreover, finding elevated lipid peroxide levels helps us narrow the search for deeper layers of dysfunction, and other causal factors of many chronic degenerative conditions. Low lipid peroxide levels indicate a healthy balance between anti-oxidative elements vs. the pro-oxidative action of free radicals and toxins (oxidative stress). A healthy person with an excellent diet and digestion may be producing or processing adequate antioxidants to uphold this important equilibrium. Monitoring lipid peroxides could help preserve the balance. Elevated lipid peroxide values indicate cellular membrane damage caused by free radicals and worse, damage to the membranes of organelles within the cells. If not terminated fast enough, runaway free radical damage is mutagenic and carcinogenic, possibly leading to atherosclerosis, coronary artery disease and cancer, the leading causes of death in the United States. We know that chronic degenerative disease, not infectious disease is what's killing most people these days. Patients presenting with a wide variety of health complaints including serious conditions such as Parkinson's disease, heart failure, myocardial infarction, Alzheimer's, Schizophrenia, Bipolar disorder, Syndrome X and chronic fatigue syndrome (CFS) may benefit from an assessment for excessive oxidative stress. Free radical control is a crucial component of restoring and maintaining good health or bolstering the patient's overall wellness to a point where they get by on the least amount of medical treatment. Here, the 101 has shown to be an excellent monitoring tool and guide for patients following antioxidant therapy. And, more importantly (like all good functional lab work), the lipid peroxide values help sort out the hidden stressors at the root of the patient's unwanted health condition. Oxidative stress can result from exposure to toxins, chemicals, metals, pathogens and their excretions – yes, bug pooh. So not only do we identify an area to [spans 9] vs. pro-oxidative balance, we also get a clue about the next level of investigation. In this case, we would order a BH#304 Intestinal Barrier Screen and the BH#401H GI Pathogen Screen, and consider an investigation into heavy metals exposure. The ease, economy and utility of urine assessments make the [spans 10] box. As we already know, functional labs should identify healing opportunities and help narrow the search for additional areas of malfunction. The final marker on the 101 is urinary bile acid sulfates (UBAS), a direct measurement of liver function. For as much as the liver is a filter, it is also a detoxifying organ. If it isn't filtering efficiently it is unlikely to be carrying out its detoxification and conjugation duties very well either. This kind of functional information can be incredibly useful in our investigation into underlying causes [spans 11] condition. It's this line of thinking that presents us with healing opportunities instead of just treating symptoms and often leads to complete resolution of patient's complaints. The BH#101 Metabolic Assessment Profile measures a patients urinary bile [spans 12] MUC. While the liver can be supported with a number of excellent supplements, even liver “flushes,” the 101 provides information on the liver's [spans 13] recommend. This can be very useful [spans 14] complaints. For instance, in a patient with elevated estrogen levels with low precursor hormone levels and no [spans 15] problem. Normally a potent detoxifier of excess estrogens in the system, a congested liver can be the reason for the elevated estrogen levels and symptoms associated with elevated estrogen. The utility of UBAS testing should be quite clear in cases where toxicity may be an issue. Blood tests for liver enzymes are [spans 16] tract. UBAS is essentially an indicator of the efficiency of the liver in its role as a filter, independent of any diagnosis of hepatitis or cirrhosis, etc. This difference in testing is important for the tremendous number of people whose liver enzymes look “normal” on a blood test, but in fact have serious liver dysfunction revealed by the UBAS test. In the latter patient, we'd be inclined to offer liver support therapy, possibly some liver flushing, and use the test to monitor the effectiveness of the therapy. We'd also have fixed our eyes on the prize, the origin of the congestion and malfunction such as overuse of OTC medication, prescription drugs, antigen load and immune complex proliferation. Other sources and signs of congestion include both indican and lipid peroxides levels, as these are considered to be metabolically undesirable compounds (MUC). MUC can cause problems for our livers and other detoxifying organs and, in the end, increase bile acid spillover from the liver into the blood stream. Similar to how dust may spew into the air when a vacuum cleaner bag gets filled, UBAS will become elevated when the liver is congested. A buildup of toxic substances will damage liver cells and other organs, glands and systems in the body, leading to increased risk for cancer and a variety of other degenerative diseases. In today's toxic world, with the prevalence of drug use, chemicals, exogenous hormones and pollution, it's hard to imagine a case where the liver is not involved to some extent. With the BH#101, we collect [spans 17] help. By working at this functional level we may leverage the body's innate desire to be healthy with natural healing strategies that improve clinical outcomes to a new level of satisfaction. This is true for the patient and the practitioner alike. [spans 18] it. Efficient protein digestion, balanced antioxidant to pro-oxidation levels, and healthy liver function are some of the many critical areas we can easily assess. The BH#101 Metabolic Assessment Profile, which measures indican, lipid peroxides and urinary bile acid sulfates, give us specific targets for therapy and ways to improve [spans 19] symptomology. The fact that it is easy to use and economical, along with the stability of shipping urine specimens from great distances, makes the 101 a great addition in any functional practice the world over. Reed Davis has been the Clinical Nutritionist and Case Manager at a Wellness Center in Southern California for over twelve years and has been teaching Functional Diagnostic Nutrition® for over three years. He has extensive [spans 20] problems. Reed is a Clinical Advisor for BioHealth Diagnostics Laboratory, helping doctors around the country to interpret lab test results and integrate functional lab work into their practices. Ask ten people, “What exactly is faith? ” You'll probably get ten different answers. If you think about [spans 21] is. Mother Teresa's sacrificial work helping impoverished people in India is said to be a result of her “faith.”David Koresh, the Waco, Texas-based Branch Davidian cult-leader, led his followers in an intense gun battle where four federal agents, seventy-six Branch Dravidians, twenty children, and two pregnant women died. News reporters said Koresh and his followers were motivated by their “faith.”One of the reasons I wrote Healthy Faith: A Strategic Lifestyle Plan to Transform Your Head, Heart and Hands was to help people understand the biblical [spans 22] faith. Because, until we have a clear understanding of what faith is we will never find the kind of faith that we're looking for. Over the years, in counseling people who were struggling with their relationships with others and God, I noticed that many started their faith-journey with a distorted idea of faith. Having a correct understanding of faith is the first step in developing the kind of faith that works. Having [spans 23] needed. Jan Patterson, MD, an internationally recognized physician and an Associate Dean at the University of Texas Health Science Center at San Antonio, read Healthy Faith and made this observation. “I've read a lot of good books on faith and spirituality–ones that inform, ones that soothe, ones that inspire. But I've never read one with practical, concrete steps on how-to build a healthy faith like this new book from Dr. He combines his academic seminary knowledge with stories from years of experience working with others in crises, as well as his own dramatic life story. Each chapter ends with exercises to record, remember, reflect, re-examine, and relate, and with a prayer. It's a directed way to grow your faith in each of the important areas that are addressed by each chapter. We've needed a book like this for a long time. I'll be giving it to friends, graduates, and family–to anyone interested in growing a healthy faith.”Maybe Healthy Faith is just what you need. I invite you to examine the Table of Contents and read the Introduction. Click here and you can get a “Look Inside” the book and see what Dr. Patterson was talking about. Cumin (Cuminium Cyminium) belongs to family Apiaceae. It is greatly used in culinary practices of some Asian, Latin American and African countries as a spice or condiment. Cumin is found in two forms: a powder and a whole seed. This powerful [spans 24] health. Read about the health benefits of cumin and why it is essential to include it in your everyday nutrition:1. Cumin is rich in calcium and iron. Breastfeeding mother can replenish calcium and iron resources by consuming cumin regularly. Cumin is beneficial for insomnia. Cumin tea in combination with banana can help with sleeping disorders. 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The data are examined in terms of the types of flow processes occurring in an annulus, and it is found that the results for diabatic flow clearly confirm those obtained for adiabatic flow in showing the existence of three, and possibly four, modes of flow in this annulus. ## These modes are: (1) Laminar flow; (2) laminar-plus-Taylor-vortexes flow; (3) turbulent flow; (4) turbulent-plus-vortexes flow. The heat-transfer data were subdivided into the following two limiting cases and one general case: Case A. Axial flow with zero rotation. Rotation of [spans 36] flow. General case of combined axial flow and rotation. The heat-transfer data from this study and of previous investigations were correlated in terms of Reynolds number and Taylor number over a wide range of these variables in terms of fairly simple equations. Radial temperature profiles in the annular gap were measured for the diabatic flow and aided in the understanding of the different flow phenomena in the annulus with an inner [spans 37] cylinder. The predictive capability of Detached Eddy Simulations (DES) is investigated in stationary as well as rotating ribbed ducts with relevance to the internal cooling of turbine blades. A number of calculations are presented at Re=20,000 and rotation numbers ranging from 0.18 to 0.67 with buoyancy parameters up to 0.29 in a ribbed duct with ribs normal to the main flow direction. The results show that [spans 38] based. This feature of DES is exemplified by its sensitivity to turbulence [spans 39] effects. It is shown that DES responds consistently to these non-canonical effects when RANS and URANS with the same model cannot, at a cost which is about a tenth of that of LES for the geometry and Reynolds number considered in this study.2001, “Detached Eddy Simulation of Massively Separated Flows,” AIAA Paper No.2002, “LES Simulation and Experimental Measurement of Fully Developed Ribbed Channel Flow and Heat Transfer,” Proceedings of the ASME Turbo Expo , Amsterdam, The Netherlands, June.2007, “Large Eddy Simulation of Flow and Heat Transfer in the Developing Flow Region of a Rotating Gas Turbine Blade Internal Cooling [spans 40] J. accepted for publication.2006, “Detached Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Flow and Heat Transfer in Turbine Blade Internal Cooling Ducts,” Ph. ## dissertation, Virginia Polytechnic Institute and State University, Blacksburg, VA.2006, “Detached Eddy Simulation of Turbulent Flow and Heat Transfer in a Fully-Developed Duct Subjected to Rotation,” Int. Heat Fluid Flow, 27 (3), pp. Comparison of the augmentation ratios (a) at the center of the ribbed floor and (b) side walls upstream of the ribStreamlines showing the flow in a fully developed duct rotating at Ro=0.35 at Z=0.5 as predicted by (a) LES and (b) DES. Y=0 represents the trailing wall, while Y=1 represents the leading wall. Flow direction is from left to right. Heat transfer augmentation (Nu∕Nu0) predicted at the leading (upper half of the plot) and the trailing walls (lower half of the plot) for the Ro=0.35 case by (a) LES and (b) DES. Variation of the reattachment length with rotation as predicted by DES and RANS studies (bottom). Computational domain considered for the fully developed ribbed channel with normal ribs. Flow is in the positive x [spans 41] direction. Separation and reattachment of the shear layer due to the presence of the rib. The arrow shows the direction of the flow. Heat transfer distribution in one quadrant of the duct with normal ribs. 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Input: More of this please: You've been through some rough times, but today? Today is a great day! Clean, dry, and in a comfortable place once again. You are not hanging on to past hurts, nor worrying about future problems. You are just enjoying the moment. And I am enjoying watching you enjoy it! Well done, little one! Matt 6:25-34 “Therefore I tell you, do not worry about your life, what you will eat or drink; or about your body, what you will wear. Is not life more than food, and the body more than clothes? Look at the birds of the air; they do not sow or reap or store away in barns, and yet your heavenly Father feeds them. Are you not much more valuable than they? Can any one of you by worrying add a single hour to your life? And why do you worry about clothes? See how the flowers of the field grow. Yet I tell you that not even Solomon in all his splendor was dressed like one of these. If that is how God clothes the grass of the field, which is here today and tomorrow is thrown into the fire, will he not much more clothe you—you of little faith? So do not worry, saying, ‘What shall we eat? ' or ‘What shall we drink? ' or ‘What shall we wear? ' For the pagans run after all these things, and your heavenly Father knows that you need them. It has many names and it has freaked out many a backyard pitmaster. I know because they email me right in the middle of their cook. You get a big hunk-o-meat, like a pork shoulder or a beef brisket, two of the best meats for low and slow smoke roasting, and you put it on the smoker with dreams of succulent meat dancing in your head. You insert your fancy new digital thermometer probe, stabilize the cooker at about 225°F and go cut the lawn. The temp rises steadily for a couple of hours and then, to your chagrin, it stops. It stalls for four or more hours and barely rises a notch. Sometimes it even drops a few degrees. You check the batteries in your meat thermometer. You tap on the smoker thermometer like Jack Lemon in the China Syndrome. Meanwhile the guests are arriving, and the meat is nowhere near the 203°F mark at which it is most tender and luscious. Your mate is tapping her foot and you're pulling your hair out. Sterling Ball of BigPoppaSmokers.com, a major retailer of grills and smokers and a successful competition cook says that "no matter what I tell customers, when the stall hits them, they are horrified. It seems to last forever. They crank up the heat. They bring the meat indoors and put it in the oven. They call me at all hours. "Many pitmasters have long believed that the stall was caused by a protein called collagen in the meat being combining with water and converting to flavorful and slippery textured gelatin. Called a "phase change" the conversion of collagen starts happening at about 160°F, right about the same time as the stall. Others have speculated that the stall was the fat rendering, the process of lipids turning liquid. Still others thought it was caused by protein denaturing, the process of the long chain molecules breaking apart (for more about these processes see my article on meat science). To be sure all of these complex processes use energy in the form of heat, but the question is can they stop the temperature from rising for hours? Prof. Greg Blonder, is a physicist, entrepreneur, former Chief Technical Advisor at AT&T's legendary Bell Labs, food lover, and the AmazingRibs.com science advisor and mythbuster. He set out to figure out what causes the stall. His answer: "The stall is evaporative cooling. The meat is sweating, and the moisture evaporates and cools the meat just like sweat cools you after cutting the lawn. Here's how he proved it. He charted a cook of a brisket on a thermostatically controlled smoker. In his test (see the chart above) you can see the stall starts after about two to three hours of cooking when the internal temp of the meat hits about 150°F and then lasts about six hours before the temp begins rising again. Your graph may vary depending on the type of meat, its size, and your cooker, but the curve should be similar. Next he did some calculations and determined that the amount of energy required to melt the collagen would be far less that that consumed during the stall. A pork shoulder is about 65% water, 15% fat, 8% protein, and 2% sugars and minerals. About 1/4 of the protein, about 2% of the meat, is collagen. Here's the logic: The fuel in your cooker (oxygen plus charcoal, gas, or pellets) burns and produces energy that enters the cooking chamber in the form of heat. Some of it escapes through the metal sides and some goes up the chimneys, but some is absorbed by the cold meat. Pork shoulders and brisket have relatively high connective tissue content. These connective tissues form a sheath around muscle cells that connect them to each other, it encloses bunches of muscles into fibers, it encases fibers into whole muscles, and it connects muscles to bone in the form of tendons and ligaments. Some are made of really tough stuff called elastin. But some are made of collagen. But the math didn't add up. There's just not enough collagen to suck up all the energy necessary to prevent the meat from increasing in temp. So it had to be something else, and his final test proved it. Hypothesizing that the stall might be evaporative cooling, but still wondering if it may be fat melting, Blonder took a lump of pure beef fat from the fridge, inserted a thermometer probe, and placed it in a thermostatically controlled smoker. He also soaked a large cellulose sponge in water, shook it out, inserted a probe and placed it next to the fat. Then he set the smoker for 225°F. The results are pretty clear. The sponge is the red line and the fat is the blue line. The fat did not have a stall at all. It slowly and steady heated on a nice gradual curve. But brother, did the sponge ever stall. It climbed at about the same rate as the fat for the first hour to about 140°F, and then it put on the brakes. In fact, it even went down in temp! When it dried out after more than 4 hours, it took off again. The conclusion was inescapable: "Since there was a deep, glistening pool of melted fat in the smoker, the rendering fat hypothesis is busted. The barbecue stall is a simple consequence of evaporative cooling by the meat's own moisture slowly released over hours from within it's pores and cells. As the temperature of cold meat rises, the evaporation rate increases until the cooling effect balances the heat input. Then it stalls, until the last drop of available moisture is gone. "In Spring 2011 another physicist, Nathan Myrvhold, published a landmark six book set named Modernist Cuisine: The Art and Science of Cooking ($625). This may be the most important cookbook since Julia Child's Mastering the Art of French Cooking in 1961. In a short sidebar on page 212 of volume 3, Myhrvold describes putting two halves of a brisket in a convection oven at about 190°F, one half wrapped in foil. His chart showed that the one in foil did not stall, and concluded that the stall was evaporative cooling. Barbecue purists complained that an indoor convection oven at 190°F was not a good test. The airflow in a convection oven is strong, perhaps encouraging evaporation and cooling, and most pitmasters cook at 225°F or higher, above the boiling point of water. Blonder did his tests in a thermostat controlled smoker at 230°F under conditions that a pitmaster uses. Blonder went beyond Myrvhold and did additional experiments to prove the stall is not fat related, and demonstrated that meat won't stall at higher temps. He also explains in more detail why the stall is not caused by collagen, another popular theory, and why the foil wrapped meat is not steaming. Scientists often regard data from one lab as suspect until it is confirmed by another. In this case, Blonder has confirmed Myrvold's experiment and added to our body of knowledge with important additional data. The onset of stall may vary from 150 to 170°F depending on the particular piece of meat (size, shape, surface texture, moisture content, injection, rub), and cooker (gas, charcoal, logs, pellets, airflow, water pan and humidity), not to mention the accuracy of your thermometer. The higher the cooking temp, the shorter the stall, and in some cases, as you approach 300F, there may be no stall at all. Humidity is a major factor. And the actual temp varies because the stall is caused by surface action and your thermometer is buried well beneath the surface. Blonder has done experiments that prove that the more airflow in the oven the lower the stall temp so the amount of draft in your smoker will impact the process. For example, pellet smokers, which have a fan in them, create a convection environment and that speeds the evaporation, so the stall can be shorter. And some electric smokers are so tight and humid, there may be no stall at all. Alas, there also may be no bark. A workaround that will help with bark on an electric is to cook without the water pan and crank up the heat near the end. The stall seems to take all the moisture out from the surface and just below it, and this is clearly part of the formation of the crusty, jerky like, spice laden "bark" on the surface that contributes to the textural and flavor profile. Why doesn't the meat just stay in the stall until it is all dried out? "Much of the moisture in meat is tied up and bound to other molecules like the collagen, fat, and protein. The supply of moisture that can evaporate is limited. Once the meat's ability to supply moisture peaks, it gradually starts to heat up. "Anyone who cooks large cuts knows that it is common for them to lose as much ... Output: The completion of this text could be: as 25% of their weight during cooking. Well if you've ever collected the drippings, you know that the melting fat is nowhere near 25%. The loss is mostly moisture. Considering that meats are 60 to 70% water, that means there is still plenty of water left behind after breaking out of the stall. Will basting the meat, injecting, or putting a water pan in the smoker impact the stall? "There is no question extra humidity will slow down the cooking process, whether it comes from a water pan or wet mop. " When we baste, whether by mopping, brushing, or spritzing, we cool the meat just by the fact that the liquid is cool. It then sits on the surface and evaporates prolonging the stall. "In low and slow cooking this allows the meat's interior to catch up with the surface temperature" explains Blonder. Until now I had always believed that water pans were important to keep the cooking chamber high humidity and thereby reduce moisture loss from the meat. Apparently it does this somewhat, but they also cause the cook to take longer. But this is no reason to stop using water pans because the moisture in the atmosphere inside the cooking chamber mixes with the smoke, influences flavor, and lets the meat's interior catch up with the exterior so it cooks more uniformly. Water pans also help stabilize the temp in a charcoal fire because it heats and cools slowly and this tends to even out spikes and valleys in a cooker. Apparently the stall is not unique to barbecue. Blonder has proven it can happen in baked goods. He points out that when we put ice cubes in a pan and turn on the heat, the ice remains 32°F and the water from the melting ice remains close to 32°F until all the ice is melted. This is a form of stall. Then the water in the pan rises to 212°F, the boiling point, and stalls there until the water is all gone, regardless of how much energy you apply to the pan. Interestingly, meat won't stall at high temps. Stalling is primarily a phenomenon of low temp cooking. Blonder discovered this by putting a bowl of water in an oven and set the thermostat for 125°F. The water stalled at about 115°F. Then he put another bowl in at 175°F. He repeated the experiment in 50°F intervals. With each step, the stall temp rose until it slowly approached the boiling point, 212°F, with the oven just over 425°F. The bowl of water he cooked at 225°F stalled at 160°F. Well 225°F is the same temp of the oven in his other experiments, not to mention the temp favored by most barbecue cooks, and 160°F is pretty close to the stall temp for meat. That's the red line in the chart at right. When I showed this research to Ball he roared "I love it. It debunks the urban legend that it is the collagen or fat melting. And it makes great sense. This explains a lot! I can use this info! "How can we use this info? As you can see from the last chart, one way to beat the stall and retain more moisture would be to cook at a higher temp, and the fact is that more and more competition cooks are doing just that. They figured it out by trial and error. Many now roast pork shoulder in the 250°F range, and others are baking brisket north of 300°F. There is a better way to prevent the stall, speed up cooking, and retain moisture. For years, competition cooks have employed a trick called the Texas crutch. The crutch is an old method of wrapping the meat with aluminum foil and adding a splash of liquid like apple juice or beer. It is popular on the competition circuit. The conventional wisdom was that the moisture created a bit of steam that tenderized the meat, and since steam conducts heat faster than air, it speeds cooking. Typically they do the wrapping when the meat hit 170°F or so, deep into the stall. Blonder says that there is no evaporative cooling inside the foil at 225°F. Foil prevents evaporation and over a period of hours the temperature inside the foil slowly approaches a low simmer. Any moisture that comes out of the meat just pools in the foil along with the liquid the cook adds. "It's like running a marathon in a rain coat. You'll sweat, but it won't cool you off. " There is a fog inside the foil, but no steam cooking. But there is a form of braising! Braising is a wet method of cooking similar to stewing or poaching but the food is usually not submerged as they are in those methods. It is more like what happens in a slow cooker. For his final test, Blonder took a six pound pork butt and divided it in two removing the bone. He rubbed them both with a standard pork rub and put them into a 230°F cooker until the stall began. Then he wrapped one in foil and added 1 tablespoon of water. In the chart at right, it is the blue line, labeled "Rub/foil". The other piece of meat he left alone, naked except the rub, the red line labeled "Rub". As you can see the wrapped pork climbed to 180°F in about half the time, in about six hours. He let it go to 190°F, a target I recommend, removed the foil and put it back on to firm up the bark. As you can see, the temp dropped immediately after unwrapping as the moisture evaporated and cooled the meat. After four hours the unwrapped butt had still not passed 180°F. The lines end when he got hungry and when the foiled/unfoiled butt hit the same temp as the never foiled butt. He called the foiled butt "Really juicy and nearly perfect. " But "When the other hit 180°F the meat was still slightly tough. It needed another hour or so to finish cooking in kitchen oven. "If the stall was caused by conversion of collagen to gelatin, since the transition happens within the foil and there is no stall, the phase change of collagen cannot be the cause. The fact that collagen melts at about the same temp as the stall is a coincidence, not the cause of the stall. It is important to remember that once you remove the meat from the foil, the temp will drop because the moist surface begins evaporating almost immediately, so it is important to take your meat up to target, about 203°F before you unwrap because it could drop to as low as 175°F after unwrapping. Based on Blonder's data, you may want to wrap pork shoulders and beef briskets in heavy duty foil at about 150 to 160°F, after about two to four hours in the smoke. By then it has absorbed as much smoke as is needed. If you wrap it then, the meat powers right through the stall on a steady curve and takes much less time. It also retains more juice. Ball says that he is now following a similar protocol in competition. He won't say what temp he cooks at on his MAK pellet smoker, but he is now foiling when his bark is the deep mahogany color he wants, usually somewhere between 140 and 150°F. He leaves it in the foil all the way up to 190 to 200°F (he wouldn't say the exact number), takes it out of the cooker, lets it come down in temp to about 175°F so it stops cooking, and then wraps it in a towel and puts it in an insulated holding box called a cambro for an hour or two to rest (see my article on how you can rig a faux cambro). There is a problem with the Texas crutch for some cooks: The meat does not have a hard chewy bark on the exterior. Ball believes that a hard bark is emblematic of overcooked meat. He wants a dark, flavorful, tender bark. That may be the trend in competitions, but a lot of us love those crunchy shards for flavor (I do). If you want a hard bark, the solution is to pull the meat out of the foil when it hits 190°F or so, and hit it with higher heat to dry the exterior and darken the rub. Or just skip the foil altogether, do things the old fashioned tried and true way, and just be patient. Either way, the results are superb. If you change the way you cook based on Blonder's work, let us know how you liked the outcome. Click here to go to Blonder's website for more details on his experiments with the stall. Don't care about the details? Then let's cut to the bottom line. Large chunks of meat, when cooked at low temps, hit a point at about 150°F when the interior temp stops rising. The exact temp depends on many variables especially airflow through the cooker. Electric smokers have no combustion so there is little airflow so the stall is minimal. This "stall" is caused by moisture evaporating from the surface and cooling the meat just like sweat cools you on a hot day. It has nothing to do with fat or collagen. If you wrap the meat in foil, the humidity in the foil is close to 100% but there is no evaporative cooling, so this method, called the Texas Crutch allows you to power through the stall. Many readers report a second stall when the meat goes north of 170°F. Blonder explains it "The stall occurs when the heating rate matches the evaporative cooling rate. Change either variable, and the stall temp moves. A second stall is very common when the meat is wrapped in foil if there is any small gap or hole in the foil. A leak in the foil permits evaporation and cooling. But a stall can occur without wrapping if the heat conditions change. For example, if the fire gets hotter, evaporative cooling can't keep up and cool to 155°F, but can keep up and stall at 175°F. Or you spritz the meat, cooling rises and a second lower stall occurs. Or if the wind conditions change and less airflow lowers cooling and the stall temp rises. A stable smoker has one stall.

User: What could be the completion of this text: This tobacco is aromatic but not in the usual sense. Taste somewhat like chocolate and caramel in a very subtle way. Let's say that one of my intractable students was suspended from class and another was absent. The result? The rest of the class could learn something. The saying goes, “It only takes one rotten apple to spoil the barrel,” so when there are two, that is a rotten ass barrel of apples. These two fictional students would be the kind of kids that other parents pay hundreds of thousands of dollars in private school tuition to keep their own children away from. They poison the well. I have had to continually bear interruptions to my lessons because, for example, Fric and Frac* may decide to throw paper balls at the trashcan, miss, collect the giggles and guffaws of the other 30 teenagers in the room, then slowly and deliberately, with great noise and attitude, get up to throw the trash away. Corrections from me will bring either smartass comments or aggressive retorts. Usually there will be muttering in a language I don't understand, bringing more gales of appreciative laughter from the crowd. So, unquestionably I am being mocked and insulted to my face on an almost daily basis. And when the bell rings, did anyone learn anything about possessive adjectives? Apostrophes? Not judging by their independent practice. Mission accomplished, Fric and Frac. When my students do not show progress on a state test, a test they take for four days in May that has no effect on their grade or whether or not they graduate, then I will be called a failure. ## An underperforming teacher. When Fric and Frac take their sharpened number 2 pencils, bubble “Fuck you” into their answer sheets in three minutes, then turn to each other and start conversing loudly (they are, of course, on opposite sides of the room) for the rest of the 90 minutes allotted for the test, their scores will come back “Far Below Basic,” and that will be evidence that I cannot teach. Send them to the principal, you say? That is strongly discouraged. You see, if I send students out of class on referrals every day, my boss will start believing that I can't control my class. Like a boy who cried wolf, my referral will have less power every time it is sent. Call the parents? I do, all the time. I imagine they have giant hourglasses in their living rooms, counting down the seconds until these kids turn 18 and they no longer have to get calls from the school about them. I have no idea what goes on in these types of kids' households. Sometimes the stories are painful and tragic, and for those kids, I do feel bad. I've had this type of student in every class for all the 12 years I've been a high school English teacher. In the past, one of 3 things would happen: 1) the student would respond to corrective discipline and act better, 2) the student would get in some kind of big trouble outside of my class and be sent away to somewhere else (I never cared where, so happy was I to see them go), or 3) the student would get so tired of not being able to wear me down, s/he would start ditching class and no longer be my problem. However it happened, I could get my class back and my other students could learn. That is, afterall, my biggest concern. As a former president put it, “Is our children learning? ” Well, is they? They never seem to go anywhere anymore. Maybe the budget cuts to our district have limited the alternative education options. They are almost never absent. They show up every day, usually late and making a big entrance, and piss all over everything I'm trying to do. Everything I'm BEING PAID to do. Everything that loving, caring parents who haven't given up are trusting me to do. In my heart, I forgive them, for they know not what they do. But I keep TELLING them what they do, and I wish that they would listen. It's their futures I'm working so hard to ensure. I have the wisdom and experience to know what lies down the road for people with no education. It makes me feel like there is no hope for public education. I used to think the “old timers” in teaching were a bunch of whiners, imagining some non-existent golden age of teaching when students respected you and principals supported you and parents did their jobs. I am very lucky to have a supportive administration that really cares about students. I won't go so far as to say I remember any golden age of teaching when I first started out. My students have always been challenging to say the least. But they used to be the exceptions. One or two knuckleheads in a room full of normal kids (and a sprinkle of gifted ones too). Maybe I am just turning into one of the curmedgeons, but it seems to me that the knuckleheads have taken over. Anti-intellectualism has become a movement in America. Nobody cares about grammar or spelling anymore. There is no kind word for a person who likes to study or who gets good grades. Take your pick: geek or nerd. I have friends who teach at the fancy rich schools, and their complaints are different, but no less vehement. These kids' whole families' identities rest on them being accepted to whatever college they've been pushing those kids at since birth. They undoubtedly have pictures of the kids as toddlers decked out in Stanford, UCLA, or Harvard sweaters and hats, holding giant novelty hands. I can almost hear my Berkeley grad husband scoffing, “How dare you mention Stanford in your blog? ! ”Oh, and drugs. Private school kids have parents with careers who are often at work. They also have money. My lessons went so well today, I almost had a tangible feeling of doing some good. I rarely feel that way. When I walked around ... Assistant: The completion of this text could be: and looked at what the students were writing down, I was delighted to see they were getting it! I wasn't being interrupted by Fric's inevitable requests to go to the bathroom, the nurse, his locker, the drinking fountain, or the counseling office, nor Frac's spontaneous bursts into song. The students were watching me, not to see how I'd react to these antics, but to hear what I had to SAY. Neither Fric nor Frac represents an actual student in any of my classes. They are fictional amalgams of a “type.”This entry was posted in Essays/Commentary, Work Related and tagged teaching, work. Great work, as usual. With me, there seems to be a great chasm (sp? ) between what I'm thinking and what makes it on paper! My last year of teaching (I only taught for ten. I loved it but don't miss it. there was a big, handsome, smart kid named Marshall. He was the anit-Christ. Kids ran off in the other direction when they saw him coming. He threw his sister's kitten in the swimming pool. He ratted out his teachers to the principal (Once while I mentioned Dante's Inferno and something about Hell, he reported me for swearing in class. During my WWII unit on The Diary of Anne Frank, he raised his hand and wanted to know what all the fuss was about over killing six million jews, since it sounded just fine to him. Both his parents were District employees, and when my team members and I joined forces and announced that come hell or high water, the child would not step foot into any of our classrooms, we were accused of all kinds of teacher inadequacies. Don't forget that tried-and-true parent mantra : you're just not challenging him. Well, bounce to present. Child is now in his twenties and if you Google his name, you will find blurb after blurb from the local paper's police report. Most begin with the words “A homeless man .” Unfortunately his giftedness did not extend to his life of crime. He's been arrested for – among other things, assaulting the Easter Bunny at the mall and stealing a stolen truck. AMEN! ! ! I used to be such a big supporter of public education and as a public educator, I do believe that there are good teachers here in our realm, BUT as a parent, I often wish I had the thousands of dollars (when my girls become school age) to keep my own kids away from the Fric and the Frac that inhabit our classrooms, hijacking our lessons and the learning environment everyone else deserves. I'm conflicted so I get this post so much. It sounds, though, that you are loving what you do and your are a beacon of light for those kids who love learning. Brings back memories of my high school days, especially my Geography class. There was one guy who, though most of us liked him, we had no respect for his behaviour in the classroom. He was nice when he chose to be, then a total prick towards the teachers. I don't know why he did that or why he even bothered to turn up to the lessons. I wouldn't have the patience and I'd be kicking their asses out (figuratively, coz I don't want to get sued now) – after all, why should the other students suffer these fools? It would be great if the students collectively stood up to the minority and told them to shut up or leave. Is there a student body at the school that could form their own policies on classroom behaviour and how to address it? The student government kids would make a policy that they don't have to listen to any teachers. They can just sit and talk about their plans for prom. Yeah for those one or two kids or those few days that can feed a teacher, to mix it up a bit between the disruptive kids and the even more annoying parents who trained them that school is daycare. I live and breathe this struggle every day (except for June and July) with my husband. Why are we happy our kids qualified for the gifted classes while in elem school? Because once they got to middle school and had some regular ed and some gifted classes they saw/see the difference in behavior for the most part. Also, I want to slap any adult who thinks that teachers should receive merit pay for high test scores. Why would they possibly think that any one class is equal to the other in terms of the “widget” that walks through the door? A manufacturer can reject a bad material so that the manufacturer can control the outcome of the product. Not the same with teaching. Unlike private school, public school has to work with whatever walks through that door. The good news about high school is that there are many choices of friends and many choices of classes, and if my kids want to be in a challenging class, they will have to work for it. My husband would agree with you on the difference seen today vs. And don't even get me started on how teachers used to be able to teach the material deeper, and have conversations and go with it. Newer teachers who only have been taught to teach to the test sometimes imagine what it is like to be able to work in an experiment or spend more time on a book. I try to be as captivating as possible, but I'm teaching English to foreign born teenagers. As for teaching material directed toward the kids' interests, I don't think any district will let you teach porn. Both of my children made it through high school by the skin of their teeth. And I'm not sure where it was that I failed that particular part of parenthood. My oldest daughter is now dragging herself through college and is on the honor roll and desperately wishes she had paid more attention in her high school days and more time in her classes. User: What could be the completion of this text: My youngest daughter has yet to learn anything. At least anything that would help propel her forward in life. She is content with treading water. I wish I had the magic answer for your and for me. I look at my grandson and hope that somehow he figures it out and that his classmates aren't Fric or Frac. Education is the key for the future. And somehow society has made it OK to not want that education. I have so much I'd like to say with you, discuss with you, I would much rather give you a call and have a nice long girl chat . Anyway, I “found” your blog because I happen to love Ms. Hampton's blog and you come up when she is googled. I read the comments you have made about her and I can absolutely see your point of view. I know her life isn't really that perfect but I strive to find the peace she presents. However, I also strive to have the humor about life that shines through in your blog. Peace and humor, perfection! Regarding your post today, I find it extremely insightful. I have not been fortunate enough to be friends with any teachers, so I only know them as a student, or parent of a student would. I guess I had some mystical idea about teachers, not really having feelings about any of the students, one way or another, they were just present, teaching. I love how you explain fric and frac and I can feel the frustration of having to deal with them day after day. You are a wonderful, insightful writer and I hope you get a book deal. Although, as I read this I get a sense of stand-up comedy. You could take your material to the stage! Sometimes in my elementary placements, I can see who will grow up to be Fric and Frac and it makes me relieved that I only know them at the age of 10. Even better, the biggest problem in 3rd grade I have is talking out, talking incessantly, and talking about anything other than the subject at hand. Hardly worth complaining about really. What really saddens me though is that you are right about the test scores and what they will “mean.” When they talk about “underperforming teachers” they never mention underperforming students as the CAUSE, only the result. Teachers like you are overperforming to no result because you love what you do. I'm glad you have a productive lesson. I wish you could have celebrated with a bottle of wine. My good friend teaches first grade, and she talks about students who have behavior problems. I'm always amazed that it starts so young! Everyone knows teenagers can be wretched, but we expect little children to be wonderful. The talking incessantly that you mention is what drives me insane. Fric or Frac has to make a comment (not in English) after nearly everything I say, and make the class laugh. And God help me if I crack a joke or have a lighter moment and laugh. They mock my laugh in the cruelest way. I know that deep inside every mean boy is a sad, hurt boy, but they make it tough to remember that. Imagine how involved with the family the elem teacher has to be. When you get a new student that has a huge file, is on meds perhaps and has a parent(s) doing a horrible job, the teacher may worry and worry and worry about that child. ## There are meetings with parents, meetings with school psychologist, meetings with principal, action plans to fill out, etc. That child's teacher can end up being the one adult who cares the most for that child's best interest. Those students can be the people that the teacher thinks about in the morning and evening. The lack of parenting is absolutely amazing and disgusting. In our district not much happens to an elem school child in the discipline area. My Hubs teaches 5th grade which gets them ready for middle school (starts in 6th grade), at which a child will get sent to the school for behavior problems if there is a panel. So he is strict and has to deal with worthless parents who threaten him for being strict with grades and behavior grades when he actually has their best interest at heart. And believe me when I say at heart. The principal gave him 9 students this school year that have files 5 inches thick. Because she thought it would be best for the student as she knows he cares, and does not avoid confrontation with parents. Unfortunately it has been so taxing that it may be his last year teaching. High school teachers always say, “I don't know HOW you can teach elementary,” and elementary teachers always say, “I don't know HOW you can teach high school! ” If teachers are born and not made (I actually believe it's both), then we're definitely born one or the other. I'm sorry your husband finds it so taxing. It really is an energy vampire of a profession. If you don't love it, there's no way to stick with it. Unless one is resigned to be mediocre or worse, and your husband is not one of those. First I pissed off @musickillskatie (Katie Something from Vanderpump Rules) on The Gram by calling her a “character” on that show, and now I've gone and so “infuriated” comedian and author Jennifer Kirkman that she blocked me. During both of these incidents, the tone perceived by my audience was completely different than what I was feeling when I wrote. Therefore, it must be me. As a writer, I am responsible for my tone coming across correctly to my readers. I look askance on people who argue “you read me wrong; that's not what I meant.” I frequently tell my rhetoric students that it is their job to be understood through their technique. Kirkman is a comedian promoting a book. It is a truth universally acknowledged that comedians travel constantly for their jobs. I've chuckled through many comedians' sets about the frustrations of travel. They have mostly been polite chuckles meant to encourage the live performer, because I can't relate to their airport stories. Every time I've been on a plane, it's been to take an exciting trip somewhere and the airport experience was just part of the adventure. That's how rarely I fly. I can use “airport” and “adventure” in a sentence together. Comedians are only a tiny subset of passengers who travel for work. Thousands of people take regular business trips several times a week. A TSA agent is to them what a slowpoke in the fast lane is to me. Hell, I can't even really complain about traffic, since I have a short work commute. So here is Jennifer Kirkman-comedian, author-early for her flight and extremely satisfied with her position in the line. The TSA agent decided that something she was carrying counted as a “carry on” and therefore exceeded the allowed number of “carry ons.” According to Kirkman's Instagram story, she was forced to put the object into her computer bag, walk from her place in line to do so, and ultimately lose her place in line. And she was fucking pissed. Her Instagram post said it was a “stupid rule.” She exclaimed that the “rule” was SO stupid and she was so mad, that even though she'd been told to put the object in her computer bag and then take it out once she got back on the plane, she took it out while she was walking, in full view ... Assistant: The completion of this text could be: of the TSA agent who had inconvenienced her. She described the incident with plenty of sensory detail, so I felt like I was there watching it happen. Only I found myself seeing it from the point of view of the TSA agent, not the angry, inconvenienced customer. In my job as a teacher, I frequently have to enforce rules that teenagers feel are “stupid.” I frequently enforce rules that other teachers don't bother to enforce, and since they don't, I get extra attitude when I do. It also made me think of the time I took my daughter Viva in line with me for Star Tours at Disneyland. When we got to the place where children are measured for the height requirement, Viva was just a tad too short. She was really close to being tall enough, probably a quarter of an inch, but she was not tall enough. The employees said, “She isn't quite tall enough yet,” and I said, “Okay, let me call her dad over to get her.” One of them cried “Oh, my GOD! ” and the other one immediately added, “Thank you for not arguing! ” Bemused, I smiled a little and replied that the rule was clearly posted and why would I argue over a rule? Both of them snorted bitterly. “Literally everyone argues with us.”I guess I'm a little rule follower. Maybe I'd be in front of a military tribunal answering for my atrocities by saying, “I was just following orders.” The rules I enforce are designed for either safety, efficiency, or both. If people in my job or the Star Tours line monitor's job or the TSA job start picking and choosing when we enforce the rules, it becomes pointless to have rules. I didn't mean to be an asshole to Kirkman, whose books I've bought and read. I believe she has been mistreated online and by male comedians who don't respect her as an equal. I didn't feel any malice or even judgment when I fired off my comment. I said what I would say to an angry teenager who was going off to me about another teacher who had pissed them off for enforcing a rule. She doesn't make the rules.” I never expected her to write me back. At first I was excited seeing “@mrs. odie” in my notifications. After all, I am a fan. I only follow people on Instagram because I am their fan. Once, Kelly Oxford wrote “@mrs. odie LOL! ! ! ” in response to my post on her feed, and I fangirled in circles for ten minutes. My comment “infuriated” her. She didn't understand why I made it. I should have just said nothing. She went on to say that it wasn't a rule and that the other TSA agents weren't doing what this one did. She said some other things, but you get the gist of it. Kirkman clearly felt that she had been singled out for unfair treatment. She felt justified in her demonstration of defiance (taking the object out of the carry on in front of the TSA agent before she was supposed to), and she felt justified in her anger about it on Instagram. In fact, I think she was so righteous in her anger that she didn't notice she'd referred to the “stupid rule” twice in her post before telling me that it wasn't even a RULE. Now that I've examined the encounter, it occurs to me that on a subconscious level, I was reacting to Kirkman's post as if it were a situation that happened to me at work once. Students can't leave campus through the teachers' parking lot, but they try anyway. It's closer to where they park their cars than the pedestrian walkway they are supposed to take. Since most of them are ditching school, it also allows them to bypass the security checkpoints that would send them back to class where they don't want to be. It's dangerous for students to walk through the parking lot. They could be hit by cars. It's the law that students have to be in school unless they have permission to leave. I have a key to the gate and I had to leave early to go to an appointment. When I got out of my car to unlock the gate, a flock of students appeared, trying to get by. “You have to go through the attendance office,” I stood patiently, not opening the gate. Two of the five or so kids turned around and headed back to the building. They tried their luck breaking it. “Look, I'm not going to unlock the gate. It's for your safety. I can't let you out this way. Go to the attendance office and check out the right way.”“Other teachers have let me go out this way before! ” she insisted, even as another one of the students said “Let's go,” and headed toward the building. “No! ” the student insisted, “It's a stupid rule. My car is RIGHT there! ” Her friend kept walking away. One friend stayed stubbornly by her side. I pulled out my cell phone and called the attendance office, “I'll have a security officer come out here and sort this out, but I cannot let you out through this gate.”“You're a BITCH! ” the girl shrieked at me. She threw her backpack and purse over the fence, then climbed after, landing with a thud on the other side. “Come on! ” she said to her friend. The other girl heaved a sigh and climbed, had considerably more trouble, but eventually made it over. Boy, did they show me. If I had let them go out through the gate, they would have thanked me and been nice to me. If they'd gotten in a car accident or gotten pregnant while they were supposed to be on our campus behind a locked gate, it would have been my fault. I reasonably tried to keep them from breaking our school rule, regardless of what my coworkers do or don't do, and they did it anyway. I was annoyed, but I did what I was supposed to do, and I felt fine about it. I didn't say “no” to be a bitch. Yup – you were right. Kirkman appears to have been a bit over-sensitive! Perhaps, you will soon receive another @mrs. odie response that says “LOL – sorry, I over-reacted! ”I imagine that she gets trolled all day by people who just feel like it. She probably just can't tell who is trolling and who isn't. I don't need an apology. Lesson learned: I will keep my criticisms to myself. Thanks for the response, Rosemary. Excellent rhetoric, as always, my sister from another mister! (Cliché, I know. However, I truly identify with you! ) I do hope your year is off to a fabulous start. My Lang kids despise me currently, so I must be doing my job down here in Florida. I look forward to reading about your new students one day soon (not so subtle hint that I MISS you in my feed). I am so tired I could cry most days but still manage to get my happy ass to spin; today is my “off from the gym” day with my own little miss as Mr. Whim tutors three deep today (better him than me and that is his fault for being a math teacher). xoWhen Tiger‘s birthday rolled around again, I sent him an email. Hoped his children were excelling at whatever combination of musical instrument/sporting competition each was no doubt enrolled in. Shared a funny anecdote about finding an . Continue reading →Posted in Confessional Stories of.

<human>: What are the missing words: Pretty much constantly. I may have mentioned this [words 1] on this very blog. Even on the [words 2] have been through good phases, I still feel like I'm dragging my tired butt through life. I blame every bad mood, stressy school run and short tempered moment on the fact that, you guessed it . I have started to believe that a few years of sleep deprivation have lead to some kind of sleep debt [words 3] do get an amazing night, you still never really [words 4] up. Maybe this is just a new, post-kids, permanent state of mind, and one that just requires some kind of survival mechanism to continue and enjoy this very existence. So how do us shattered [words 5] and Dads manage to carry on; to navigate the school run and after school club schedule, make pleasantries at toddler groups and for some of us, function at work when inside we are feeling like Shaun of the dead (fave movie alert FYI). [words 6] before leaving the house and throughout the morning. But, never after 5pm and that last ‘pick me up cup' during the tea time clean up operation (just to get me through the bedtime routine). Think of coffee as your best friend during the day, and your worst enemy come sundown. Sad as it is, I hate to tell you this but unless it's some kind of special occasion, if you knock on my door post 7pm I'll be in my PJs. If you knock after 9.30 I'll probably be in bed. When you have a 5 am riser, it's the only way I'm afraid. It's all about the reverse lay in as coined by Talya aka motherhood the real deal . Nothing screams ‘get in my bed' like a beautiful freshly laundered set of bedding. It's a small slice of heaven in the hell [words 7] that bed several times a night. It makes the getting back into it all the [words 8] amazing. If you haven't joined the memory foam mattress party yet, it's never too late. If your kids aren't jabbing and poking you in the ribs waking you up, then you DEFINITELY do not want your mattress springs to be. A good [words 9] position. I know myself that I need two pillows [words 10] up in all sorts of creaks [words 11] the morning. It's not unusual for a bad position to disturb my sleep, and lately [words 12] with a weird pain in my wrist due [words 13] I hug the pillow. This video is pretty cool at helping understand the best way to position yourself in bed, and you could even consider investing in one of those electrical adjustable beds to really mean business. Your spine will thank you for it. I'm not massively into herbal remedies, but I swear by the sleepy effects of lavender as a sleep aid and always keep a little dried bag of it by my bed (and the girls'). I also have the most incredible bed spray [words 14] which immediately sends me into a sleepy sleepy zone. It smells like nothing else on this planet and is one of my must have luxury items. That doesn't include digital devices my friend. Even I can't resist most evenings one cheeky last look at instagram before bed, but all those electronic devices do not help with the getting good sleep situation. You know it, I know it. Grab a book and get old school with a bit of bedtime reading to wind down from a day probably filled with screen time. Two kiwis before bed. My [words 15] – apparently the serotonin content in kiwis is enough to send you off for the perfect [words 16] sleep. He reckons it works, and with all the goodness packed in those green babies, what have you got to lose? A long hot soak. I remember reading once that it's not the rise in temperature that makes you sleepy, but the sudden reduction from that core temperature which makes you sleepy. Whatever the science behind it is, there is nothing like a lovely bubbly bath with some good old Radox to prepare you for a wonderful sleep. I once thought parents who turned to this technique were a little extreme. Alternating lay ins at weekends has however saved us since the birth of our second daughter. Karma sent me a bad sleeper to teach my smug arse all about that little gem. In all honesty, there is only one fail safe way of getting a truly decent night's kip in our house – no disruptions and no ridiculously early wake up, and that is to pack the kids off for a sleepover. However bad sleepers they are it's just one night for someone else, and you need to refresh your batteries. I know what you mean about being in sleep debt. [words 17] to try the kiwi theory, I do love [words 18] a good excuse to eat more and of I sleep better it's a real winner #coolmumclubI am so with [words 19] read, pillow spray! Absolutely necessary! I need sleep and am vile without it. Needs Must! xx #coolmumclubWe're not bad off for sleep I don't think and I'm still knackered after a day working and parenting! Don't know how I'd cope without a decent night. #coolmumclubFeeling your pain here, our girl is a pretty good sleeper these days but anything past 6am is a lie in! Definitely considering the new mattress idea . #CoolMumClubTotes got this one locked down but seriously 2 kiwis [words 20] . I am going to start guzzling those things! #coolmumclub loving xoxoxI love slipping into bed after a nice warm bath and into some fresh new sheets, that is heaven right there X #coolmumclubI watched Sean of the Dead last night, definitely one of my favs! Of course I went to bed [words 21] (don't say that word! ) Great tips here though, I always fall asleep if I pick [words 22] book to read. I've never heard of eating kiwis though. Not heard about the Kiwi fruit one, but worth a try – and a way to get some extra fruit down! Thank youGreat tips. I'm an early to bed fan and coffee is my best friend. I'm going to try the kiwis thing though. #coolmumclubI also keep saying I must leave my phone and iPad downstairs and just read an actual book but [words 23] until I'm too cosy in bed every night! #coolmumclubGod, I feel you on this.22 months of bad sleep and counting, I fear I am never going to catch up. Even after a month of “good sleep”, we've gone back to [words 24] I have to say I miss the better sleep I was having! I am terrible for digital devices for bed, so really need to dig out a good book, have [words 25] some calming lavender on my pillow to send me off to sleepy town! #CoolmumclubOo I'm going to be taking advantage of all of these tips before our second baby arrives in the next few weeks! Our first didn't sleep, so I know what's to come and it isn't pretty! #coolmumclubThe sleep debt thing is so true! I'm very lucky in that ours are pretty good sleepers now, but I now have immediate panic attacks as soon as one of them wakes in the night for whatever reason? It's like my brain is terrified that I'm going to surprise it with another newborn / [words 26] of zero sleep and it's shouting “NOOOOOOO! I CAN'T DO THAT AGAIN! ! ” Fab tips lovely. Thanks for hosting #coolmumclub xSome mornings I open my eyes and think to myself: people can not be this tired and function all day. Like [words 27] tired. #coolmumsclubThis is a great post – I wrote about co-sleeping last week and reading this has definitely given me [words 28] most out of my sleep. Yes, I'm feeling you on the sleep debt! I could sleep all night/day and still wake up tired. I love the kiwi idea – so random but intriguing #coolmumclubThis is sooo true! It's [words 29] are teens they sleep in but by then you are so used to living off little sleep, you wake up early anyway! Great post. #coolmumclubUgh lack of sleep is such a killer. With good sleep you can do anything. Having had twins, I totally know sleep deprivation. Im not very good at early nights but the other things (particularly the coffee) are all good. [words 30] heard the kiwi thing before! I would add Berocca Boost to your list. Don't take it after midday though because it has a whole heap of natural caffeine in it. I have also tried reading before bed. I always read a hard copy book rather than a kindle or my phone. I never have trouble getting to sleep. There are just not enough hours in the day to get all of the sleep I feel I need. Pen x #coolmumclubI completely agree with the tag team, we always try and do this to catch up on some sleep! And your number one coffee, I couldn't survive without this. #coolmumclubWe definitely tag team weekend lay in's! I'm terrible for drinking coffee right up until bedtime, but I have [words 31] that's been talking me to sleep. Its brilliant! As ever, thanks for hosting #coolmumclubI sympathise so much with you. You find yourself clinging on to every bit of shut eye don't you? I totally believe in sleep debt but tell myself it's not forever. Soon enough we'll be trying to drag our teenagers out of their pit at 11am on a Saturday and look back on these days and smile. I [words 32] hope so anyway! #coolmumclubClimbing in to a bed with freshly laundered sheets after having a nice hot bath is utterly blissful. Sleep deprivation is so tough. I never used to drink anywhere near as much coffee as I do now – and if I'm grumpy in the mornings, the girls ask me if I need coffee! Having [words 33] a good sleeping position makes a difference – although options become limited once the girls climb into our bed! I've never heard of kiwis helping with sleep, [words 34] try. Hope you get a little more sleep soon. #coolmumclubI LOVE all of these! We have recently joined the memory foam club! Whoop! Ohmygosh I DO NOT miss the springs poking me all the time! ! ! And fresh sheets . yes! [words 35] Lavender scented Zoflora when I make it in the morning so it smells fresh and aids sleep too! Perfection <3 #coolmumclubBrilliant tips, I might have to try [words 36] spray. I don't have caffeine after 5pm either and yep the reverse lie in is the only way! haha xI'm just sitting here debating an early night but having one last look at my phone (oops! ). I also feel permanently tired. Agree with you on [words 37] sheets but have never heard of the kiwi thing . might give it a go! ! #coolmumclubkiwis, who knew? ? I'm a terrible one for overthinking everything at night and then not being able to sleep but i've recently started mindfulness breathing – count to 4 as you inhale and 4 on exhale and focus purely on the counting – I swear I'm asleep in 5 seconds flat – has been a miracle for me! #coolmumclubAh sleep deprivation I know it well. From being woken early by my girls to being asked why I'm listening to my body and going to bed early! Thanks for sharing your tips on how to get through this. #coolmumclubI'm always tired, even though Ben is an amazing sleeper. Im just always knackered! I used to sleep so heavy but i think parenthood turned me into a light sleeper so now im not fully rested. I also have zero lay ins and wake up earlier than i did on a weekday for getting ready for work even though our MIL gets [words 38] a nappy change that we do in the mornings. I think its more the fact that im always in mum mode even at work. ive become that co-worker that overly worries about colleagues and offers to help out anywhere and everywhere. damn maternal instincts! #coolmumclubI'm in my jim jams as soon as we get home from the school run so this has made me feel [words 39] just leave the death knell of all blog comments and just safely say ‘great post' because you'll want to wrap your hands around my neck if I tell you we've never ever had [words 40] were 10 months old, they don't wake us up by coming into our [words 41] drink tea at night and can't say I've noticed a difference between the nights when I don't re sleeping any better. The kiwis thing has blown my mind! The tempur mattress we bought just before our first child was born is the best money we've ever spent and I'm so getting that lavender oil. <bot>: words 1: once or twice right here words 2: rare occasion our nights words 3: – so even if you words 4: feel fully caught words 5: Mums words 6: Multiple cups of it words 7: that is being dragged out of words 8: more words 9: sleeping words 10: to support my neck perfectly, otherwise I end words 11: and pains come words 12: I've even been waking words 13: to how words 14: from Rituals words 15: hubby swears by this one words 16: night words 17: All very curious words 18: kiwis so this seems live words 19: you on this one! 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<human>: Complete this text: Janusz has a wide experience as he worked for a numerous projects as a consultant, trainer and coach. He specializes in sales, management and ... <assistant>: Completed pargraph(s): leadership programs. Janusz sales and management career started in 1991. After being successful in sales he became a Sales Director and spent 14 years... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: managing, selling, training sales staff and designing sales approach methodologies for different global companies of different branches. He has attended numerous trainings and seminars as a participant and trainer. Since 2006, he sacrificed purely to work as a training consultant. If you want to know what's happening in the world, just look at Caterpillar, the big maker of earth moving equipment. Here's a one year price chart on the stock from Bloomberg. It's heading back to its lows from last year. Global exposure used to be a big plus, but this year, anyone exposed to Europe (and now China) is getting slammed. Even Yum Brands, the company behind the burgeoning KFC business, which is huge in China has been a big loser since the Spring. The Gold Report:... <human>: More. <assistant>: Does Lightwater Partners have a regional bias when looking at precious and base metal equities? Jerome Hass: Yes, we do have a preference for Canada- or U. based investments, largely because of the political stability and the rule of law. By that, we mean a stable legal jurisdiction, which is important if things go wrong—as investors are discovering currently in places like Mongolia or... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: Argentina. That said, not all of the North American states and provinces are equally mining friendly. We are cautious about gold companies based in British Columbia or Montana. We look far more... <human>: Next. <assistant>: positively on projects located in Ontario, Québec or Nevada. TGR: Do you favor junior mining firms that are directly engaged in exploration and operation, or enterprises that buy and hold properties until it becomes feasible to sell them to more practiced developers? Jimmy Chu: We rarely look at exploration plays, because we just don't find the risk-adjusted return to be attractive. We prefer to... <human>: Next. <assistant>: look at near-term developers, but not at those that are actually building a mine. For us, the value-added proposition is in proving up the economic case for a mine, but not in... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: construction or operation. However, we will look at a company that has already built a mine, is operating it and is exhibiting good management skills. JC: We meet directly with the managers. We look at management's track record and at how it has delivered against investor expectations. JH: Hedging is tricky for most junior mining or gold companies. There are a number of options... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: available. One option is to use physical gold as a means to short a position. The problem with that strategy is that positions in physical gold and equities rarely move hand in hand. Another option is to short the equities themselves. But, this is a real problem when the entire junior gold industry views itself as a potential takeout. That's a big risk when you're a short seller. Large-cap stocks are easier to short as there is less of a takeout risk. Of course, large-cap and small-cap stocks can react differently depending on market conditions. Another option is to use a proxy for junior gold ore on the Toronto Venture Exchange, such as a Canadian stockbroker, because a lot of its profitability and revenues come from junior mining... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: issuance and corporate finance. We tend to use all four approaches to... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: hedging, although no one of them is perfect. JH: We rarely look at exploratory ventures. We do focus on companies with near-term catalysts. For... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: example, we like Oromin Explorations Ltd. It is more of a developer... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: than an explorer. In fact, we recently met with Oromin's managers. They said that acquisition negotiations are ongoing for its joint venture group in Senegal. Interestingly, Oromin is only covered by one analyst on the Street. Its story is not well known. It should receive its environmental approval in Senegal within the next couple of weeks. And, once that is done, its project will... <human>: Next. <assistant>: be construction-ready. Given that Oromin has access to 3.3 million ounces (Moz) gold, as indicated in an NI 43-101 compliant document, we think it's... <human>: Next. <assistant>: quite attractive. Also interesting is a nearby property held by Teranga Gold Corp. Teranga operates a gold mine equipped with an underutilized mill. There are obvious synergies between Oromin and its potential... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: mine and Teranga and its existing mill. On top of that, IAMGOLD Corporation (IMG:TSX) and Randgold Resources Ltd. (GOLD:NASDAQ) operate gold mines in the same region. JHs: Oromin's main asset is in... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: Senegal. The Canadian operations are minor, and we attach zero value to them. TGR: How do the costs of mining production in Africa, including... <human>: More. <assistant>: environmental and labor costs, compare with those in Canada? JH: The operating... <human>: Next. <assistant>: costs are lower in Africa. Of course, the cost of capital is the same, given that Canada is the principal financial center for mining and mining capital. V) is revving up its... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: Maverick gold project in Manitoba. That is a very safe jurisdiction—a mining friendly province. Maverick is an advanced stage project, with infrastructure already in... <human>: More. <assistant>: place from a past-producing mine. Auriga is restarting Maverick's mill, which is in good condition and worth $25 to $50 million (M). That alone translates into $0.00 per share, and compares to a $0.25 share price. But even if there were no ore body to exploit, Maverick is still an attractive deal strictly from the perspective of the mill. Adding value is a shallow... <human>: More. <assistant>: open pit with a very low strip ratio at surface. The combination of the existing mine and the very shallow ore body makes Maverick a highly economic project. It should be up... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: and running by early 2013 at a cost of only $18M. I... <human>: Next. <assistant>: can't think of another project around the world that can get up and running for only $18M in capital expenditure. The payback is only... <human>: More. <assistant>: 20 months, and the cash flow is projected to be $130M over the mine's projected life of 7 1/2 years. The internal rate of return on the initial phase of the project is 88%, which is extremely nice. JH: Looking for near-term catalysts, we like Seabridge Gold Inc. Surprisingly, it has an $636 million market cap and 38 Moz gold in reserves, yet there's... <human>: Next. <assistant>: not one analyst that covers it on the Street. The reason for that is the business model: Seabridge hasn't had to raise equity. Consequently, the Street's not paying attention to it. In 1999, when gold was $300/ounce in 1999, the Seabridge principals saw opportunities where the capital markets just weren't interested. Seabridge scooped up gold properties knowing that when gold rose in value it would benefit. The Seabridge business model is to develop these properties to the stage where they should be built, but they don't build them out themselves. What we find attractive is that Seabridge has clearly recognized its own management strengths: drilling and proving the economics of a mine. By way of catalysts, in mid-May, Seabridge is scheduled to produce an updated pre-feasibility study on... <human>: Next. <assistant>: its Kerr-Sulphurets-Mitchell (KSM) project in British Columbia. KSM is probably the largest undeveloped ore body in the world. The study is the second to... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: last stage before putting the company up for sale. Seabridge intends to find a joint-venture partner within 12 months of the release of the updated prefeasibility study. The final catalyst before going up for sale is approval of the environmental application. That will probably happen in September. At that point Seabridge will have a mine plan ready for a major buyer. JH: KSM is... <human>: More. <assistant>: close to cheap power and close to a highway. It has year-round port access, a very low strip ratio and a projected long mine... <human>: More. <assistant>: life. All the things you want to see in a mine. The problem is that it's so huge that there are a limited number of players who are big enough to develop... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: it. Pulling this off will require a firm along the lines of Barrick Gold Corp. (ABX:NYSE; ABX:TSX), Newmont Mining Corp. (NEM:NYSE) or Freeport McMoRan Copper & Gold Inc. JC: We tend to... <human>: Next. <assistant>: shy away from base metals, with the exception being a small company that is a pure play on zinc. That's Tamerlane Ventures Inc. It owns a zinc-lead mine called Pine Point in the Northwest Territories. It's a restart of a mine that was operated by Cominco Ltd. which is now owned by Teck Resources Ltd. JC: Teck had shut down the mine because it... <human>: More. <assistant>: had developed its Red Dog mine, which is one of the world's most prolific high-grade zinc mines. There's no question that Red Dog is... <human>: More. <assistant>: the better ore body, but Pine Point is also attractive based on its fundamentals and valuations. It will provide an independent source of zinc... <human>: Next. <assistant>: concentrate, which is very much in global demand by both smelters and traders. JH: We like tungsten. Its fundamentals are attractive from a supply... <human>: Next. <assistant>: and demand point of view. China stopped exporting tungsten concentrate in 2000; at the same time demand for tungsten increased. The tungsten fundamentals have... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: improved for non-Chinese producers globally. Tungsten is used as a composite material because of its hardness—it is second only to diamonds. Because tungsten is heat resistant, it's used in high-speed cutting tools,... <human>: Next. <assistant>: jet engines and light bulb filaments, as well as a replacement for lead in certain applications. Overall, there is a nice combination of increasing demand and tightening supply. It is worth mentioning that Warren Buffet's Berkshire Hathaway has recently invested in the tungsten space. That has focused investor attention onto this rather obscure market. JH: We like a pure play on tungsten through a... <human>: Next. <assistant>: company called North American Tungsten Corporation Ltd. It has the Cantung mine... <human>: More. <assistant>: in the Northwest Territories. It's small, but it accounts for 4% of world tungsten production. Its output is improving due to the purchase of Caterpillar equipment, which has really helped operational reliability... <human>: More. <assistant>: because it is located in a remote region, and temperatures can plunge to minus 40 degrees. JH: The Cantung grade is very high by global standards: about 1.1% on average. The global average is about 0. American Tungsten tested the mine's old tailings and found a grade of about 0. That means that the company can enhance Cantung's mine life by processing those tailings. But, what's even more exciting is North American Tungsten's new development project called the Mactung deposit. It's one of the world's largest undeveloped high-grade tungsten deposits. Permitting is ongoing. JC: A company called Orbite Aluminae Inc. (ORT:TSX) has patented a new technology to extract alumina from aluminous clay deposits. There was a lot of controversy surrounding certain overstated claims in Orbite's preliminary economic assessment... <human>: Next. <assistant>: in late March and trading was briefly suspended. But those issues seem... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: to have been resolved. We have met with Orbite management on numerous... <human>: Next. <assistant>: occasions and we flew out to Gaspé, Québec, to see their pilot... <human>: Next. <assistant>: plant. It's potentially a game changer. Based in Toronto, Canada, Lightwater Partners is an asset management firm specializing in alternative investments. Partner Jerome Hass has 16 years of experience in the financial... <human>: Next. <assistant>: industry. He joined Lightwater from Epic Capital Management. Previously, he was a portfolio manager and head of international equities at Montrusco Bolton Investments, where he managed $450 million directly, co-managed large global funds and oversaw $1 billion in private wealth. Partner Jimmy Chu has 10 years of experience in hedge and investment funds. At Lightwater he focuses on developing detailed financial models for existing and potential equity investments, which are used as a tool for making investment decisions.2) The following companies mentioned in the interview are sponsors of The Gold Report: None. Streetwise Reports does not accept stock in exchange for services.3) Jerome Hass: I personally and/or my family own shares of the following companies mentioned in this interview: Orbite Aluminae Inc. North American Tungsten Corporation Ltd. and... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: Oromin Explorations Ltd. I personally and/or my family am paid by the following companies mentioned in this interview: None. I was not paid by... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: Streetwise Reports for participating in this story.4) Jimmy Chu: I personally and/or... <human>: More. <assistant>: my family own shares of the following companies mentioned in this interview: None. Motivational speaker Jim Rohn famously said that we are the average of the five people we spend the most time with. This relates to the law of averages, which is the theory that the result of any given situation will be the average of all outcomes. Salespeople, entrepreneurs and all successful people know that, in order to increase your wins, you've also got to increase your losses. When it comes to relationships, we are greatly influenced — whether we like it or not — by those closest to us. It affects our way of thinking, our self-esteem, and our decisions. Of course, everyone is their own person, but research has shown that we're more affected... <human>: Next. <assistant>: by our environment than we think. While it's ideal to be closely surrounded by positive, supportive people who want you to succeed, it's also necessary to have your critics. According to a study in the Journal of Consumer Research, "Tell Me What I Did Wrong: Experts Seek And Respond To Negative Feedback," novices have a preference for positive feedback, but experts want negative feedback, so that they can make progress. And the more successful you become, the more criticism you'll face. Glenn Llopis over at Forbes wrote about how "6 Types Of People Build Your Mental Toughness," including doubters, critics, and the envious. Without them, you'd never sharpen your skills or develop tough skin. It takes a while to develop this mental toughness. Just look at JCPenney CEO... <human>: More. <assistant>: Ron Johnson. Critics are firing at him every day, but it's taken him several decades to get to this point where he can brush... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: off harsh words from investors and the media. Of course, Johnson must have a very tight inner network of confidants who support him no... <human>: Next. <assistant>: matter what. And that's the key to making it to the top in any industry. Executive producer of Macy's Thanksgiving Day Parade Amy Kule (3rd L), and Santa Claus attend Macy's Celebrates 88th Annual Thanksgiving Day Parade at The NYSE. Surveys show that around 90% of primary dealers and economists expect the Fed to raise interest rates in the middle of December. Over the... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: past month, the two-year US note yield has risen by nearly 37 bp to 91 bp. The implied yield of the December Fed funds futures contract has risen by 4.5 bp to... <human>: Next. <assistant>: 21.5 bp at the close before the weekend. It is the highest yielding close in more than a month. It fully discounts a 25 bp rate hike, IF one assumes that the effective Fed funds rate will average 30 bp (instead of the midpoint of the new range). To drive home the point that the cycle will be limited and proceed gradually, the Fed may provide sufficient liquidity to keep the Fed funds rate below the midpoint. In addition, given the importance of the IOER tool (interest on excess reserves) in post-lift-off environment, preserving the widest reasonable gap between IOER, which is set at the top of the Fed funds range, and the effective Fed funds rate would maximize the Fed's control. No one, of course, knows with... <human>: Next. <assistant>: confidence where the effective Fed funds rate will trade within the new range. We have not experienced this before. Many observers suggest that the... <human>: Next. <assistant>: data to be released in the holiday-shortened week ahead could solidify expectations of a Fed hike. We wonder if that assessment is valid. First, expectations in the surveys cannot solidify more, and it is not clear that the December Fed funds contract must. Second, and more importantly, it seems to mistake the shift in the burden of proof revealed in the October FOMC statement. Rather than the economy having to do this or that to convince the Fed to hike rates, it is more that the Fed is ready to go barring an unexpected shock. Such a shock will not be evident in the data that are being released in the coming days. Due to a more recent data, the estimate for Q3 GDP will likely be revised... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: from 1.5% to at least 2.0% and perhaps a little more. With slower labor force and productivity growth, trend growth in the US is estimated to be close to 2. Growth in... <human>: More. <assistant>: the current quarter is tracking a little better than this. For the past several quarters, household consumption has been fairly stable. This is set... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: to continue into Q4. October personal consumption expenditures are expected to have risen by 0.4%, which matches the six-month average. The PCE core deflator, which the Fed targets, is expected to rise to 1.4% from 1. If so, this would be the quickest pace since last November. Rising shelter and medical costs seen in the CPI data may also be evident with the core deflator. Separately, durable goods orders are expected to snap a two-month decline. The internals is also likely to have improved. There is no data from the eurozone that could offset the powerfully dovish signals by ECB President Draghi ahead of the weekend. That it will "do what it must" will go down in the Draghi lexicon. There were two elements for investors. First, the... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: staff forecasts are important. They inform officials where it stands relative to its target. The forecast for inflation will likely show that the ECB medium term inflation target is unlikely to be reached. What follows from this is that the ECB has to do more to satisfy its mandate. Second, Draghi emphasized that all of its tools will be used to achieved its goals... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: ## There are four relevant ones: the length of the program, the pace of purchases, the composition of those purchases, and the deposit rate. Draghi suggested that a lower deposit rate could... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: facilitate the efficiency of the asset purchase program. The September 2016 end-date was never very hard, so its movement would be a small concession. The ECB could increase its purchases by around... <human>: More. <assistant>: 20 bln euros to 80 bln a month. Increasing the number of agencies that qualify for QE are already gradually been taking place, but to buy sub-sovereign debt would be a new step. In particular, given the relative market developments, free up more German assets that could be purchased. Initially talk centered on a 10 bp cut in the deposit rate, but to get... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: ahead of the curve, a larger move may be necessary. There is increasing talk now of a 20 bp cut. The flash November PMI, money supply and lending figures, and Spanish preliminary CPI do not have the heft to alter the ECB's assessment. The region's composite PMI and GDP have been remarkably steady recently. Lending growth pay has picked up modestly, but it remains... <human>: Next. <assistant>: anemic. Spain has been experiencing deflation, but the economy's strength has been among the best in the region. Deflation pressures may have eased. It... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: will likely have little consequence. Focus is on Catalonia's push for independence and next month's elections. One should be forgiven for thinking that new inflation information could spur the BOJ into more... <human>: More. <assistant>: action. However, we continue to advise to look past the core rate, which excludes fresh food. This is the formal target, but to help guide policy in such a difficult time, it is clear that top BOJ officials are more nuanced than many analysts and media appear to appreciate. Excluding food and energy, Japan's CPI is a little more than 1%. Japan's Prime Minister... <human>: More. <assistant>: Shinzo Abe points to a reporter during a news conference at his official residence in Tokyo March 10, 2014. Moreover, some officials argue that... <human>: Next. <assistant>: rent deflation is not a cyclical phenomenon and may need to be excluded, which would raise underlying inflation toward 1. While this is below target, it is not the kind of level that fosters a sense of urgency. Moreover, despite the often repeated claims, Japanese officials do not regard the two consecutive contracting quarters as a "technical recession" (whatever that really means). If they thought it was a recession, they would respond. The small, inventory-led decline in Q3 is largely seen as an unfortunate statistical quick and a poor optic around such low trend growth. The Autumn Statement is the highlight from the UK. It is not expected to have market impact.5% first estimate for Q3 GDP is subject to revision though we do not expect it to... <human>: More. <assistant>: be changed. If it is, we would be over rather than under. Sterling's decline from the year's high near $1.60 at the start of... <human>: Next. <assistant>: H2 has coincided with a push back in interest rate expectations. The... <human>: Next. <assistant>: December 2016 short-sterling futures contract has seen a decline in the implied yields from 150 bp to 83 bp at the start of November... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: It finished last week near 90 bp. While we expect sterling to fare better than the euro, the gap between Fed and BOE appears to be considerably longer than many have been anticipating. This means that the forces of divergence will be a weight on cable. The Australian dollar rose a little more than 1.5% last week. Copper prices fell to new six-year lows... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: The price of gold was at fresh five-year lows. Iron ore prices were also at multi-year lows. ## Still, technical and fundamental considerations fueled the Aussie's recovery. Technically, we think a short-squeeze succeeded in pushing the currency above a downtrend that triggered ascending stops. Fundamentally, there is increased speculation that the RBA's easing cycle is complete. The two-year yield was up three bp, to 2.0% the biggest increase among the high income countries on the week, and the highest nominal yield among them, outside of New Zealand. The Australian dollar's strength is begetting talk of new carry trades. The market is too big and strategies too diverse to rule it out, but remember that under current conditions, being long Australian dollars against the euro, yen, or sterling for... <human>: More. <assistant>: that matter, can be a driven by momentum considerations. One is indeed... <human>: Continue. <assistant>: paid a little to be so positioned, but many short-term traders and... <human>: Next. <assistant>: even professionals may find that volatility is high enough that it still may overwhelm the carry. Most positions foreign exchange traders (as opposed to investors) do not appear to be kept long enough to earn an attractive amount of interest income. On my Christmas list would be a smaller cabinet, strict limits on travel spending for ministers and curbs on refurbishing the homes of... <human>: More. <assistant>: senior officials.

<human>: The rest of this: Growth in the temporary staffing industry fluttered during the recession, and signs of a spring pickup are hard to readThe biggest temporary employer in the small North Dakota town of Wahpeton would likely surprise a visitor to the region. Firmly in the farm belt and just across the Minnesota border, Wahpeton has a burgeoning silicon prairie of its own in an Imation Corp. ## plant, where workers build state-of-the-art data technology that competes against global competitors. The plant employs 80 to 180 workers on a temporary basis out of a total workforce of 750, said site manufacturing director Dennis Galden. Imation, a 3M spinoff based in Oakdale, Minn. produces data storage products for the consumer and corporate markets at the Wahpeton plant. Finding employees has not been difficult, Galden said, with farmers and construction workers more than willing to labor inside during the winter months when their professions go into hibernation. "It's been very good for the community to have Imation, and the Red River Valley is a good place for business because it has a good work ethic and good skills," Galden said. "We've been very pleased with the workers. Imation uses temp employees for the same reasons many companies do. It likes the flexibility of adding people when production cycles up and reducing them when sales drop or the plant needs retooling to add another product line. Constantly improving automation in the computer hardware industry, said Galden, means the workforce shrinks as machines handle work once done by employees. What makes the Imation plant—which has been in Wahpeton for more than 25 years, most of that time as part of 3M—so rare is the sheer number of temporary employees in such a rural location. Milwaukee-based Manpower, one of the nation's largest temporary employers, opened an office in the region solely to serve Imation and is one of only three offices the company has in North Dakota. A temp is an employee who works for a period of time but is paid, in most cases, through an agency that holds a contract with the employer. Temp agencies also deduct taxes and offer benefits to those contract employees working elsewhere. The majority of temp agencies and temp work are in metropolitan regions, where firms have access to a larger labor pool, and where more companies are in need of short-term labor. About 60 percent of all temp firms in North Dakota are located in Cass County, home to Fargo. Eight of every 10 temp employees in Minnesota live in the Twin Cities. But industry figures also show that temp firms have been slowly spreading beyond metropolitan regions. The visibility of the temp industry rose significantly during the 1990s, as a hot economy created millions of new jobs, and temp firms played matchmaker between available workers and needy employers. Because temp workers are easy to both add in good times and shed in downturns, some economists have come to look at the industry as an employment bellwether, the proverbial canary in the coal mine. For 2003, the news from the front lines of the temporary industry shows an industry with some optimism, but not yet ready for full flight. Temp firms are hoping for and expecting better days, but no one anticipates a return to the kind of growth experienced in the late 1990s. Despite dramatic growth over the past decade, the temp industry is still a small slice of the Ninth District economic pie. In November, the Minnesota Workforce Center reported there were just 50,000 temps out of a population of 2.6 million employees. All the temp workers in the district would barely match the regional population of Duluth, Minn. Nelson Grundvig, research analyst with North Dakota's Job Service, estimated that around 14,150 people held temporary jobs in November 2002, or roughly 4 percent. South Dakota had 10,140 workers classified as temps in 2001, about 4 percent of the total nonfarm employment in the state, said Phil George, director of the state's Labor Market Information Center. In fact, the number of temp workers in the Dakotas is about twice the national average of 2. No one is quite sure why, but George offers an educated guess. "Two factors that might impact the level of contingent workers would include seasonal jobs and student workers," he wrote in an e-mail. "It seems likely that northern states with highly seasonal industries would have higher contingent worker percentages. "Still, George doesn't count the temp industry as a large factor in the economy. "It's not a big industry," he said. "We don't have much temporary and what we do have is in the southeastern part of the state. "Maybe more notable is the industry's impressive growth. In Minnesota, the past decade has seen it increase 6 percent a year on average, doubling in size from 1998 to 2000, according to Dave Senf, a labor market analyst with the state Department of Economic Security. based American Staffing Association's (ASA) data suggest the industry grew between 10 percent and 13 percent annually from 1997 to 2000. Nationally, 2 million people per day are employed by staffing companies, the association said on its Web site, and 1 million jobs have been created by temp agencies over the last eight years. The great majority of temps, 79 percent, work full time. Montana figures show huge growth in temps, from just 1,686 in 1992 to nearly 5,800 in 2000 before tumbling to 5,500 a year later, said Phil Brooks, state economist with the Department of Labor and Industry. Over the next decade, he said, the industry will be the third-fastest growing in the state, just behind tourist-related sectors such as eating and drinking establishments and gambling. "We see it growing 4.1 percent per year," said Brooks. More temp workers may exist than state economists can count in part because it is a segmented industry with vague boundaries, where a temp IT employee is technically counted as working in a personnel-related industry. In Minnesota, the state tracks 210 separate temp occupations. Even the ASA confessed in a report that "very little solid data exist on the size and growth of various segments of the staffing industry. Accurately measuring staffing industry size and growth patterns is indeed a challenge. "The industry continues to evolve, with some temp agencies specializing in accounting or computing professionals. Still, most district temp firms—particularly those outside the Twin Cities—offer employees in more traditional occupations. The most popular use of temps is for general labor, freight, stock and material movers (8.8 percent), followed by office clerks (6.5 percent), packers and packagers (5.5 percent), production work helpers (3.7 percent) and data entry keyers (3. The rest of the occupations represent less than 3 percent of all temp employees and range from customer service reps to home health aides. In Minnesota, office clerk was the top temp occupation, a surprising outcome to Senf, who did the research. He assumed other jobs would have far surpassed clerical work, one of the mainstays of temp employment for decades. "My mother worked on and off as a clerical worker when I was growing up, and I was surprised clerical is still so high after all these years," he said. "I thought it might have changed by now. "But the industry did see significant geographical growth outside the familiar boundaries of metropolitan areas, according to data provided by the ASA and the Omnicomp Group, a New Hampshire-based temp industry market research firm. The Upper Peninsula of Michigan, for example, had no temp staffing offices until 1995, when the number jumped to seven, spread over three counties, and to 12 offices in four counties by 1999. Within the 26 northwestern Wisconsin counties in the district, there were only nine staffing offices in 1993, all of them located in Eau Claire, La Crosse and St. Croix counties (the last of which is across the border from the Twin Cities). By 2000, the number of staffing offices leaped to 51 and had popped up in the likes of Barron County, where its biggest city (Rice Lake) has a population of just 8,300, and Taylor County, which has a countywide population of less than 20,000. Like the overall economy, the temp industry has also cooled, dipping even before Sept. Research conducted last year at the Bureau of Labor Statistics found ... <bot>: Here you go: that the temp industry began sliding in October 2000. The ASA reported that temp employment nationwide fell 7 percent between November 2000 and September 2001, a decline which continued through 2001 and into the first quarter of 2002, albeit at a slower rate. The temp industry also slowed in all district states about this time and, in some cases, even earlier, according to data from the ASA and the Omnicomp Group (see chart). Figures do not include other temporary employment classifications that the Bureau of Labor Statistics and state labor offices typically use in calculating total temporary employment. This downturn collides with more optimistic long-term projections. Nationwide, the BLS predicts that the personnel supply services industry—which includes employment agencies and temporary staffing firms—will grow 3.7 percent annually from 2000 to 2010 and may add another 1.9 million jobs. Economists are keeping their ears to the ground, listening closely for signs of stability in the shaky economic recovery nationwide. Many look to the temp industry for early signs of recovery, as businesses begin to ramp up production through increased hiring. Some signs indicate a possible turnaround. The ASA's most recent survey showed temp employment grew 8.5 percent in last year's third quarter over the second quarter. The third quarter was the strongest since 1992, when the country began an economic recovery that led to the boom years of the later 1990s. A November survey by Manpower showed expectations of slightly higher employment growth as well. Among numerous industry sources in the district, no one expects a 1990s-style recovery, but there's reason for cautious optimism. There's a murmur of more work—a wait-and-see attitude remains among clients, but few are cutting back. And many see potential for a bump in hiring temps, although it will not result in any huge shifts in the labor market. Many firms also report growth in temp-to-hire positions, which tells them the job market is improving. One person with a broad view of the region is Mark Tasler, the Midwest regional developer for Express Personnel, a temp agency with 26 offices in the district. Since July overall business in the district has shown "slight increases each month," he said, citing a pickup of work in light industrial and light technical work, the latter involving electronics firms. And he sees an explosion of contract staffing where engineers and information technologists work six-month contracts at various companies, honing their skills while earning the highest hourly wages in the temp industry—$40 to $50 an hour. Still, he thinks only sustained growth in the temp industry will indicate an economy that's out of the woods. For now, he said, clients are playing it safe by hiring hourly employees and doing little hiring of executives. Only when they're sure a recovery is real will they ask Express to help them vet more expensive managerial talent. Express is a franchise business, and despite the uncertain economy, Tasler plans to open at least five new franchises in the district each of the next five years. Part of his continued optimism is a belief that temp work may constitute a greater part of the 21st century economy than it ever did in the 20th century. But anecdotes and opinions on the temp market in the near term range far and wide, even among branch offices in the same state. Lynne Johnson, manager of Express Personnel Services Inc. said last year was "very slow for clerical, data entry, sorting, filing and other admin assistant functions. " As a result of the lagging sales, she shifted gears and began placing temp employees in construction jobs that bring higher gross margins along with higher workers' compensation costs. Over in Billings, Mont. however, a client in the sugar beet industry helped Express Personnel manager Dera Wichman have a banner year. Sales were up dramatically, she said, after a sugar beet company that had been using another temp agency switched to hers for a three-year contract. The usual December-February drop in business did not occur, either, she said. Even without the new sugar beet contract, "we've been up this year, but not by a huge amount, and I am anticipating a little more growth this year," she said. "I hope it's better this year, but I'm not expecting a tremendous difference. "Temp staffing in Fargo last year was slow, but this year early indications point to a small increase in business later in the year, said Lora Schiltz, branch manager of the Manpower office. One client plans to add 120 people for light industrial work, including several temp workers. Others have told her their temp needs will be modest this year. "You hear everything across the board," she said. The Sioux Falls office of Kelly Services Inc. a national temp supplier based in Troy, Mich. has managed to stay busy. "We met our forecast in 2002, and this year I'd say I'm conservatively optimistic," said Bill Connelly, city manager of the Sioux Falls office. "Our large accounts are steady to increasing the use of temporary labor. We're finding a lot in the temp-to-hire market, probably representing 40 percent of our placements. "The city boasts 15 other competitors, he said, fueled by the still buoyant economy there and an employee shortage in the area. While his office offers experience in clerical, technical support, marketing and light industrial, he anticipates "an increase in light industrial" and more work placing substitute teachers in the city's school district. Kelly Educational Staffing Program, he said, contracts with school districts around the country to assist in placing substitutes, including in two local districts. News from the Upper Peninsula is less encouraging than in other areas. The paper industry, a bulwark of the U. 's economy and a large employer of temps, continues to struggle, said Julie Bishop, owner of Proserv Inc. "If they end up cutting contractors I'd say it will create a huge change in my business," she said. If they don't, it won't be a banner year, anyway. "For now, I see revenues as the same as last year, and last year was down a slight bit from the year before," said Bishop. In Eau Claire, 10 temp agencies slug it out in what has been a difficult economy. Chris Olson, office supervisor of Melville, N. based Adecco's Eau Claire office, said two of his competitors recently closed shop. Adecco works with Celestica Inc. a manufacturer of computer parts with a plant in nearby Chippewa Falls, and Nestle, which has two facilities in the region. Around half its clients are clerical, the rest light industrial, he said. More than half the employees are in temp-to-hire positions. If war does break out with Iraq, he suggested that employment may rise as companies look to temporarily replace workers called up by the National Guard. In Adecco's case, the slow 2002 has led to clients predicting that this year will bring more business. "We're expecting things to pick up because our clients are expecting to ramp up in the near future," he said. "We've gotten a few hints, nothing concrete, but by hearing the tone of (the client's) voice and by reading between the lines we're getting a good feeling from clients and from corporate. 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News, Brady told reporters during a press conference that he doesn't really talk about the Super Bowl with his kids, but they keep up with the sport enough to worry about their dad. "When they're with me they don't want to talk about too much football, other than to say, 'Dad, the Atlanta Falcons are really good — they are a really good team. I don't know if you could beat them,'" Brady said. The kids might joke about doubting their dad, but Bündchen and the rest of the family are wishing the quarterback well before going into the biggest game of the year. Bündchen gave Brady a good luck necklace, which he will wear under his uniform on Sunday. During the press conference, Brady gushed about the amazing mother she is. The family has been known to show up to many of his games sporting lil' Patriots jerseys, as seen the adorable post-game Instagram below:Bündchen captioned the Instagram with three emoji hearts, and clearly their dad has nothing but love for the Brady children. This isn't the first time that the kids have shown up to game in full Patriots gear:The kids aren't the only members of the Brady family who like to get dressed up for the big game. Two of Brady's other children, his dogs Lua and Scooby, have also been known to rock a jersey or two. These pups are decked out and ready for another Superbowl win! The only one who is missing is the fam's most recent addition, a teeny terrier named Fluffy. The Brady children love to support their dad, but cheerleading is sometimes grueling work for the four- and seven-year-olds. Brady has discussed his kids interest in football and apparently they are absolutely exhausted after a major Patriots game. "It looks like they played the game,” he once said on the radio show Dennis and Callahan. However, this doesn't stop them from showing up to support dad, even if it's just well wishes. Before departing for Super Bowl LI in Houston, Texas, Brady posted a good luck Instagram of his daughter:He captioned the post "Good luck daddy" with three emoji hearts. The support from his kids is sure to carry him through the nerve wracking two weeks that lead up to the Super Bowl. Neither parent has confirmed if the kids will attend the game in Houston. I guess we will have to wait until Sunday to find out if the Bündchen and the kids are at the game. I think it might be save to say, though, that Lua, Scooby, and Fluffy will probably catch the game on TV. Either way, as for whether or not the children will follow in their dad's athletic footsteps, Brady also cannot confirm. He did tell Dennis and Callahan that no matter what they choose, he's going to be there for them. “Whatever they want to do, that's what they'll do,'' Brady told the show. “And I'll do my best to support the things they love. I've found things I love. 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The income tax relief that landlords can claim on their buy-to-let properties' mortgage payments is being overhauled by Section 24 of the Finance Act, a measure which was first announced in the Budget back in 2015. The changes, which mean that landlords will no longer be able to claim a reduction on their income tax payments by offsetting the mortgage interest costs, are being phased in over three stages. As of April 2017, landlords can only claim back 75% of their financing costs – which will apply when they file their January 2019 tax returns – and the amount will reduce to zero from April 2020, to be replaced by a tax credit equivalent at the basic rate of tax (currently 20%), meaning many landlords' tax bills could increase. However, according to research from Kent Reliance, 15% of buy-to-let landlords do not understand the Section 24 changes and are not planning on taking any action to counteract the effects. One way of getting around the tax relief reduction is for landlords to set up limited companies through which to operate their properties. This route has become increasingly popular recently, with a fifth of landlords (19%) already operating through a limited company and a sixth (13%) planning to do so in the future, according to Kent Reliance. If the investment property is owned by a limited company, it means that mortgage interest payments are treated as a business expense and can therefore still be offset against profits – and corporation taxes on profits are currently 19%, which is lower than income tax. Last year, Kent Reliance reported that 70% of buy-to-let applications for purchase were done through a limited company, compared to 45% in 2016. Transferring ownership of the property to a spouse is another option that could help some landlords to balance the effects of the tax change. Adrian Molony, sales and marketing director at OneSavings Bank, said: “Many landlords have sought to move to a limited company structure, or transferred ownership to a spouse but it's not a one-size-fits-all solution so it's vital that landlords affected seek professional tax advice.”The research from Kent Reliance found that 58% of smaller landlords (those with one to five properties) did not believe they would benefit from either of the above measures, compared to 27% of large landlords (those with more than 20 properties). One of the downsides for some landlords switching investment properties from personal ownership to limited companies is that, according to Love Money, the transaction would be viewed as a sale and purchase, meaning stamp duty and capital gains tax could apply. Borrowing for limited company buy-to-lets is also generally more expensive and can be harder to obtain compared to standard buy-to-lets, and the associated costs involved with setting up and running a limited company in the first place must also be considered by any landlord thinking of making the switch. In a study conducted by the Residential Landlords Association (RLA) which surveyed 3,300 landlords, 70% of respondents said that the mortgage interest relief changes would reduce their profitability – and of that amount, 62% believed Section 24 would diminish their profitability by 20% or more. Most landlords surveyed (67%) said that they planned to put rents up in order to cover their extra costs, while 25% were thinking of selling properties to reduce their borrowing, and a further 25% intended to leave the sector completely as a result of the changes. 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User: Complete this text: It put me in mind of 2007 when the sector came together to mark the bicentenary of the act to abolish transatlantic slavery (heady days – when there was money and government support for this sort of thing! ) and all that was learned along the way. The Understanding Slavery Initiative (USI) was just one of hundreds of related projects going on in museums and galleries around the country at the time. As a new recruit to the National Maritime Museum's Learning team, in 2005, I was lucky enough to be involved. It was a brilliant, simple idea (not mine) – get museums from port cities around the country to partner with the National Maritime Museum, combine their collections and expertise, do some research and consultation, and create a definitive approach to teaching and learning about Transatlantic Slavery. This simple idea became an influential project spanning nearly 10 years (until the money stopped in 2010 . It even managed to get Transatlantic Slavery onto the curriculum (until 2014 . We spent a lot of time, money and meetings learning important lessons about representing the histories and legacies of Transatlantic Slavery and about teaching it to children and young people. These are some of them. It's by no means a definitive guide – just some of the (all important) basics, which often get lost in the debates and discourse surrounding this complex and difficult subject. Most of these principles can also be applied to representation in displays, working with different audiences and to other histories. Use the present to connect to the past: the legacies of Transatlantic Slavery are everywhere. In the music we listen to, the buildings in our towns and cities – and in the country piles, the people around us and the food we eat. Using the familiar to illustrate the relevance of this history to students' own lives helps to hook them in and spark their curiosity. ‘Safe spaces' for learning: this is a brutal and complex history. It can raise difficult questions, issues and feelings of guilt and blame. Being clear about ground rules at the start of sessions and workshops, and suggesting post-visit follow-ups back at school helps promote an atmosphere of trust and respect, and fosters discussion and debate. Use objects – with care: we all know handling objects are a powerful resource for teaching history. All our good practice around using them for museum learning applies here. But handle with care. Conveying the gravitas behind the history is paramount. Consider using fewer objects for greater impact. Remind students that leg irons, whips, collars are instruments of torture and they may prefer not to touch them (even replicas). And while trying on helmets, hats and uniforms are all good for other object handling sessions, there is no room for the trying on of shackles! The same applies to images, which are often derogatory and show violent or upsetting scenes. Reminding students that these are (usually) artists impressions and exploring why they were created can be useful for unpicking some of their inherent messages and the attitudes of the time, and for avoiding gratuity. Humanise the history: the numbers associated with the history of Transatlantic Slavery are important – a legalised system that lasted hundreds of years and exploited millions of African men, women and children. But they are often too big to convey the weight of the history's impact on people. Focusing on the experiences of a small number of individuals can help humanise a system that viewed African people as property. The lives of Olaudah Equiano and Mary Prince, for example, are well documented. Create balance, foreground resistance: Transatlantic Slavery is a history of exploitation but also one of survival. Create balance, look at what's missing: like most histories, a balance of voices and perspectives has not been conveniently collected and preserved. Asking questions like Whose voices are being represented by the images or objects in your museum? What messages are they conveying? Whose voices are missing? Why? How can we find them? can all deepen understanding about multiple perspectives. Take your time This is not a subject that can be rushed. Take time for reflection. Younger children: Transatlantic Slavery can be approached with younger children by focusing on the building blocks they will need when they revisit it later in their (school) lives. We start teaching children maths with simple concepts like numbers, adding up and taking away, rather than algebra, pythagorus and vector theory; we can do the same with this difficult and complex history. Exploring West African countries and cultures; understanding where coffee, chocolate and sugar come from and how they end up in our supermarkets; investigating the history and meanings of family names; finding out about life on board ship or simply knowing where Europe, Africa and the Americas are on a world map are all useful starting topics. Language is important: the way we talk about the history reflects fundamentally important concepts and helps prevent stereotyping. For example, ‘enslaved' not ‘slave'- no-one chooses to be a slave, it's something that someone does to someone else. ‘Atlantic crossing', not ‘middle passage' – it's only the ‘middle' passage if you start from a European perspective, from an African perspective it was the start of a horrific voyage. Avoid collective terms like ‘Africans' or ‘Europeans' where possible, humanise the history by talking about ‘men, women, children'. There are countless examples of careful use of language – but you get the idea. Learning about Africa before Transatlantic Slavery is important: understanding something of the people affected by the history and their lives before slavery helps put events in context and foster connections with the past. Knowing that Africa is a diverse continent, made up of over 50 countries with people speaking over 1500 different languages, and a rich history – which didn't start with Transatlantic Slavery – helps humanise a history that can sometimes feel a bit long ago and far away. Transatlantic Slavery was a particular ... Assistant: Completed pargraph(s): type of slavery: it was an organised, legalised system, where one race exploited another over hundreds of years. This ‘chattel' slavery de-humanised people, treating them as the property of others with no rights of their own, to be used, bought and sold – like cattle. Legacies such as racism and the decimation of many African countries still remain. It's useful to draw and maintain the distinction between Transatlantic Slavery and other historical and contemporary forms of slavery. Dig deep – most historical museum collections in Britain have a link to Transatlantic Slavery somewhere. It's a history that generated untold wealth in Britain, over centuries. There were a lot of fingers in a lot of pies, for a long time! It is important to acknowledge its existence in our wider themes and stories. Expertise is vital – a sound knowledge of the histories and legacies of Transatlantic Slavery is essential for the effective teaching and dissemination of the subject. The National Maritime Museum still provides annual training for the Learning and wider teams representing this history. I've barely scratched the surface here – I could go on all day to be honest. Do get in touch if you'd like to know more or have something to add. 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<prompter> What could be the completion of this text: After a second Ice Age chilled the earth, several thousand survivors packed into a train that has been traveling for 17 years. In the ... <assistant> Sure, let me know if you need anything else: tail of the relentless Snowpiercer, the oppressed masses are gradually losing patience, prevented by a small, well-armed force from moving forwards toward the engine... <prompter> More. <assistant> and confronting Wilford, the mysterious creator of the express. Korean master of the art-house genre flick Bong Joon-ho shot this dystopian spectacular as his first English-language film, basing it on the French graphic novel Le Transperceneige, published in 1982. Made at Prague's Barrandov Studios, this blockbuster with its philosophical subtext came into being with the considerable support of production designer Ondřej Nekvasil, the internationally renowned Czech art director and stage designer. The diverse yet flawless and compelling cast traveling on this train include Chris Evans (Captain America), John Hurt (The Elephant Man), Octavia Spencer (Fruitvale), Song Kang-ho (The Host), Tilda Swinton (Orlando), and Ed Harris (Pollock). The Anscarids (Latin: Anscarii) or the House of Ivrea were a medieval Frankish dynasty of Burgundian origin which rose to prominence in... <prompter> Next. <assistant> Italy in the tenth century, even briefly holding the Italian throne. The main branch ruled the County of Burgundy from the eleventh to fourteenth centuries and it was one of their members... <prompter> Next. <assistant> who first declared himself a count palatine. The cadet Castilian branch of Ivrea ruled the Kingdom of Galicia from 1111 and the Kingdoms of... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> Castile and León from 1126 until 1369. The House of Trastamara, which ruled in Castile, Aragon, Naples, and Navarre at various points between the... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> late 14th and early 16th centuries, was an illegitimate cadet branch of that family. The founder of the family's fortunes was a petty Burgundian count named Anscar, who, with the support of... <prompter> Next. <assistant> his powerful brother, the archbishop of Rheims Fulk the Venerable, brought Guy III of Spoleto to Langres to be crowned King of France in 887. Their plot failing, Anscar accompanied Guy back... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> to Italy to seek that vacant throne and, in gratefulness to Anscar, Guy created the March of Ivrea to bestow on his Burgundian faithful... <prompter> More. <assistant> Anscar's descendants held the march until 1030. Perhaps the most illustrious scion of the house was his grandson Berengar, the first of three Anscarids to be crowned king of Italy. Berengar seized the throne in 950 after the death of Lothair II. He was opposed, immediately, by Lothair's widow Adelaide, whom he imprisoned after his attempt to force her marriage to his son, Adalbert... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> II, failed. Emperor Otto I came down the peninsula and forced him to do homage in 952. For the next eleven years, Berengar and... <prompter> Next. <assistant> his co-crowned son governed Italy until Otto finally formally deposed them in 963. Adalbert was eventually forced to flee to Burgundy, where he died... <prompter> More. <assistant> at Autun. His widow remarried to Otto-Henry, Duke of Burgundy and her... <prompter> Next. <assistant> son by Adalbert, Otto William, inherited the duchy of Burgundy. Henry I of France confiscated the duchy, leaving only a small portion around Dole to Otto. This was the kernel of the later Free County. The greatest of the free counts was Renaud III, who, from 1127, used the title franc-compte as a sign of independence of German or Imperial authority, but was forced... <prompter> More. <assistant> to submit to Conrad III. His daughter and heiress, Beatrice, married Frederick Barbarossa and united the Anscarid inheritance with that of the Hohenstaufen. Burgundy... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> was inherited by her son Otto I, who had an Anscarid name. Thus the county was lost for the House of Ivrea, but it came back when Hugh of Chalon married to Adelaide countess of Burgundy, daughter of Beatrice II of Hohenstaufen (Otto I's daughter). However in 1315 died Robert, Count of Burgundy, last male of the main line and the county inherited to... <prompter> More. <assistant> the Dampierre family and finally to the Capetian-Valois dukes of Burgundy. John... <prompter> More. <assistant> I of Chalon-Arlay, a younger brother of Hugh of Chalon, became the... <prompter> More. <assistant> founder of the line of Chalon-Arlay. His descendant, John III of Chalon-Arlay married Mary de Beaux princess of Orange, thus the principality was acquired... <prompter> Next. <assistant> by the family. The last male offspring was Philibert of Chalon who... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> died in 1530. The possesions inherited to his sister's, Claudia of Chalon, son, i. Raymond, fourth son of Count William I of Burgundy, travelled to Castile-León in the late eleventh century and there married Urraca, the future monarch. She was succeeded by their son, Alfonso VII. Subsequent monarchs of Castile and León were their agnatic descendants until the 16th century, although the crown had... <prompter> Next. <assistant> passed to an illegitimate cadet branch, the House of Trastámara, in the late 14th century. ## House of Chalon-Arlay, the second ruling house of... <prompter> Next. <assistant> the Principality of Orange, also a cadet branch of the Anscarids. ## Portuguese House of Burgundy, a cadet branch of the House of Capet, which ruled Portugal contemporaneously with the Castilian House... <prompter> Next. <assistant> of Ivrea. (1) Tajikistan joined the Union in 1996 as an observer. (2) Several proposals to restore the Union have been put forward since its dissolution. The concept of a Central Asian... <prompter> More. <assistant> union emerged soon after the dissolution of the Soviet Union in 1991. Although all states acceded to the newly formed Commonwealth of Independent States (CIS), it was felt that more regional cooperation... <prompter> Next. <assistant> was needed. (2) In early 1992, Tajikistan plunged into the Tajikistani Civil War (1992–7) between government forces and various Islamist rebel factions supported by... <prompter> Next. <assistant> the Taliban; thus they could not participate in the integration process. Turkmenistan preferred to maintain neutrality, and decided not to partake in CIS or Central Asian integration. The remaining three republics Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Uzbekistan signed a treaty on 23 September 1993 to create an economic union, which was followed by a proclamation of a "single economic space" on 10 February 1994, and the establishment of an Interstate Council with an Executive Committee on 8 July 1994. In theory, any CIS member state could join the Central Asian Union. (3)The Union was also given a military dimension. Still in civil war, Tajikistan joined the CAU as an observer in 1996. (2) A Council of Defence Ministers was formed, and, under the aegis of the United Nations, a peacekeeping... <prompter> More. <assistant> force was formed, which held its first training exercises on the territory of Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan in September 1997. (3)A new Central Asian Union... <prompter> More. <assistant> was proposed by Kazakhstan President Nursultan Nazarbayev on April 26, 2007, in order to create an economic and political union similar to that of... <prompter> More. <assistant> the EU encompassing the five former Soviet Central Asian republics of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan, Tajikistan, Turkmenistan and Uzbekistan. So far the presidents of Kazakhstan and Kyrgyzstan have signed an agreement to create an... <prompter> More. <assistant> "International Supreme Council" between the two states. In addition, Kazakhstan, Uzbekistan and Kyrgyzstan have signed a Treaty of Eternal Friendship. Kazakhstan and Uzbekistan have also decided to set up a free trade zone. (4)Although the proposed new union had the support of the presidents of Kazakhstan, Kyrgyzstan and Tajikistan by 2008, it was outright rejected by former Uzbek president Islam Karimov. (5) After Karimov died in 2016, however, the idea of integration was brought back on the table. On 15 March 2018, a new Central Asian Summit was held in Astana between Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbaev (host), Uzbek President Shavkat Mirziyoyev (initiator), Kyrgyz President Sooronbai Jeenbekov, Tajik President Emomali Rahmon, and Turkmen parliament speaker Akja Nurberdiýewa. ## The Kazakh President Nursultan Nazarbayev hosted the summit at the Aqorda... <prompter> Next. <assistant> Presidential Palace. It was the first summit of Central Asian leaders in nearly a decade. (6) They resolved to henceforth convene every year in March before the Nowruz (New Year) holiday. (7)The proposed Union would primarily deal with interstate border issues, trade, visa regimes, tourism and security. (8) In his proposal, the Kazakh President said:"In the region, we share economic interest, cultural heritage, language,... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> religion, and environmental challenges, and face common external threats. The founding fathers of the European Union could only wish they had so much in common. We should direct our efforts towards closer economic integration, a common market and a single currency. "(9)Hamilton County is a county located in the U. Census 2010 recorded a population of 274,569. (1) The county seat is Noblesville. Hamilton County's roots are in agriculture. However, after World War II, Indianapolis grew north and towns in the southern part of the county developed as suburbs. Many farm fields have been replaced by both residential and commercial development. The northern portion of the county remains largely agricultural. Today, the county is one of the fastest-growing counties in the United States. According to 2007 estimates by... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> the U. Census, the county's population increased from an estimated 182,740 in 2000 to 261,661 in 2007, making it the fastest-growing county in Indiana out of 92. Recently(when? ), Hamilton County surpassed... <prompter> Next. <assistant> St. Joseph County in population, making it the fourth most populous in the state. (2)In 2010, Hamilton County was home to three of the... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> state's 20 largest cities and towns: Carmel (8th), Fishers (9th), and Noblesville (14th). Geist and Morse reservoirs are two man-made lakes in Hamilton County that offer residents and visitors recreational opportunities such as boating, fishing, and waterfront living. In June 2008, Hamilton County was named America's Best Place to Raise a Family by Forbes.com(3) due to its strong economy, affordable living, top-ranked schools, and... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> close proximity to Indianapolis. The city of Carmel in southwestern Hamilton County was designated CNN Money's top place to live in 2013(4) and in... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> 2017, the city of Fishers was named best place to live. (5)The land containing Hamilton County was brought into the possession of the United States by the Treaty of St. William Conner was the first white settler in the county. In the summer of 1822, after realizing there were enough settlers in the area, Conner and other settlers applied to the Indiana Legislature for... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> a charter authorizing them to become a separate and independent county under Indiana law. The application was presented to the Legislature at the 1822-23 session and the act was passed and approved by the governor on January 8, 1823. The act took effect on the first Monday in April (April 7), 1823. The County Commissioners first met on May 5, 1823, at the house... <prompter> Next. <assistant> of William Conner. Conner's house would also serve as the County Circuit Court. The county was named after Alexander Hamilton, the first secretary of the treasury. (6)(7)(8)In recent years, average temperatures in Noblesville have ranged from a low of 17 °F (−8 °C) in January to a high of 85 °F (29 °C) in July, although a record low of −23 °F (−31 °C)... <prompter> Continue. <assistant> was recorded in January 1994 and a record high of 105 °F (41 °C) was recorded in July 1954. Average monthly precipitation ranged from 2.42 inches (61 mm) in January to 4.86... <prompter> Next. <assistant> inches (123 mm) in May. Hamilton County's climate thus falls within the Köppen climate classification system as a humid continental temperate climate, with pleasant... <prompter> Next. <assistant> spring and fall seasons surrounded by harsh cold and humid heat in the winter and summer, respectively. (9)The county executive body is filled by the Board of County Commissioners. ## The Board of County Commissioners consists of three Commissioners representing the three commissioner districts. District 1 consists of Carmel and Clay Township. District 2 consists of Fishers, Noblesville, Delaware Township, and Noblesville Township. The... <prompter> Next. <assistant> county's finances are managed by the County Council, which consists of seven members, four elected by district and three elected at-large. District 1 consists... <prompter> Next. <assistant> of parts of Clay Township (45 precincts). District 2 consists of Delaware, Fall Creek and Wayne Townships. <prompter> What could be the completion of this text: District 3 consists of Noblesville, Jackson and White River Townships. District 4 consists of parts of Clay Township (17 precincts), Adams and Washington Townships. Hamilton County is part of Indiana's 5th congressional district; Indiana Senate districts 20, 21, 28, 29 and 30;(10) and Indiana House of Representatives districts 29, 32, 35, 36, 38, 39, 86, 87 and 88. (11)The county is located in Indiana's 5th congressional district, which is represented by Susan Brooks. Hamilton County has been won by every Republican presidential candidate since Charles Evans Hughes in 1916. In 1912, Democratic candidate Woodrow Wilson had carried the county with a 3.06% majority over Republican opponent William Taft. (12)Although Barack Obama got only 38.45% of Hamilton County's vote during the 2008 election, it is the best showing for a Democratic presidential candidate in this county since Franklin D. (12)Hamilton County's loyalty to the Republican Party is not limited to presidential elections. The county regularly rejects Democrats in gubernatorial and senatorial races, and is typically one of the Republicans' strongest counties at the state level. One of the few times in recent memory that Hamilton County has supported a Democrat for governor or Senate was in 1992, when Evan Bayh narrowly carried it with 50.48 percent of the vote in his successful reelection bid. However, Bayh lost Hamilton County in his three bids for Senate. According to the 2010 census, the county has a total area of 402.44 square miles (1,042.3 km2), of which 394.27 square miles (1,021.2 km2) (or 97.97%) is land and 8.17 square miles (21.2 km2) (or 2.03%) is water. (14)As of the 2010 United States Census, there were 274,569 people, 99,835 households, and 74,755 families residing in the county. (20) The population density was 696.4 inhabitants per square mile (268.9/km2). There were 106,772 housing units at an average density of ... <assistant> Sure, let me know if you need anything else: 270.8 per square mile (104.6/km2). (14) The racial makeup of the county was 88.5% white, 4.8% Asian, 3.5% black or African American, 0.2% American Indian, 1.2% from other races, and 1.8% from two or more races. Those of Hispanic or Latino origin made up 3.4% of the population. (20) In terms of ancestry, 29.0% were German, 14.6% were Irish, 13.0% were English, and 7.7% were American. (21)Of the 99,835 households, 43.2% had children under the age of 18 living with them, 63.2% were married couples living together, 8.3% had a female householder with no husband present, 25.1% were non-families, and 20.5% of all households were made up of individuals. The average household size was 2.73 and the average family size was 3. The median age was 35. (20)The median income for a household in the county was $47,697 and the median income for a family was $95,376. Males had a median income of $67,221 versus $44,273 for females. The per capita income for the county was $38,500. About 3.6% of families and 4.5% of the population were below the poverty line, including 5.6% of those under age 18 and 3.5% of those age 65 or over. (22)^ a b David Leip's Presidential Atlas (Maps for Indiana by election) Archived 2008-11-30 at the Wayback Machine. Results prior to 1960 available through subscription onlyHistory of Hamilton County, Indiana, with Illustrations and Biographical Sketches of Some of its Prominent Men and Pioneers, To Which are Appended Maps of its Several Townships. ## Chicago: Kingman Brothers. Archived from the original on 2007-02-24. "Hamilton's growth keeps it in Top 30". The Indianapolis Star. 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It's all chronological and there are barely any "x and y liked" tweets. co/Dva6LPQyLFTwitter told BuzzFeed News it had been planning this update for a long time and that it wasn't prompted by the viral workaround. Iowa Democratic candidate for the House of Representatives Abby Finkenauer campaigns in Cedar Rapids, Iowa, Oct. Early in the speech she gave across northeast Iowa, in union halls and living rooms and farmyards, Abby Finkenauer got the thing on many listeners' [spans 5] age. “I'll be honest, when I decided to do this, there's a lot of folks who said it couldn't be done. ‘There's no way — she's 28 years old,'” Finkenauer said. “Which, by the way, I'm 29 now. I'll take all the years I can get.”In the small, crowded front room of AFSCME Local 2994 in Anamosa this October, the line drew a big laugh from union members — correctional officers and transportation workers, most of them men, some twice Finkenauer's age. Then, the men listened. They listened to another line Finkenauer repeated across her district, drawing out each word: “I decided to do this because it was [spans 6] off. Finkenauer's stump speech wasn't really about policy: It was about who she is, and what she thought her district was too. [spans 7] Congress. But Tuesday's elections changed that. Finkenauer won a hard-fought victory over a Republican incumbent, one of the districts that helped Democrats win back the House from Republicans Tuesday night. And she is joining another young woman from halfway across the country: Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez, 29, who is running virtually unopposed in Queens, New York, and is poised to be the youngest woman to join the House. In all of the most obvious ways, Ocasio-Cortez and Finkenauer couldn't be more different from one another. Ocasio-Cortez is a Latina from one of the country's most liberal districts, a democratic socialist who beat back the establishment with promises of Medicare for All and abolishing ICE. She will represent the Democrats' base: young, urban, diverse — the kind of voters whom many in the party urge cannot be taken for granted. Finkenauer, a [spans 8] people. The voters in her district, Iowa's 1st, are the ones who Democrats are desperately trying to win back in 2020: working-class whites who voted for Trump in 2016, many despite long histories with the Democratic Party. Ocasio-Cortez and Finkenauer have both been called the future of the Democratic Party. Next year, they'll both be in Congress — on the same side of the aisle but on very opposite ends. After its victory in the House Tuesday, which was offset by a string of losses in the Senate, the Democratic Party will grapple with internal questions of policy and, by extension, identity: whether to [spans 9] ones. When Ocasio-Cortez beat Rep. Joe Crowley, one of the most powerful Democrats in Congress, in a primary election in June, her victory immediately drew comparisons to the tea party, which ousted top establishment Republicans in 2010. Ocasio-Cortez will be part of a new wave of Democrats joining the House in 2019: outspoken progressives who believe the party's loyalties, and priorities, are too focused on appeasing the country's political center. Finkenauer is part of a new wave of Democrats, too: a class of moderates from red and purple districts who [spans 10] championing. How Democrats deal with this divide will matter intensely to the party's future — and to the question of who they nominate to run against Trump. Democratic congressional candidate Alexandria Ocasio-Cortez is introduced to speak at a rally against Supreme Court nominee [spans 11] Oct. “For too long, we've settled for less than what we deserve just because someone says they are a Democrat. What we're allowed to do is have a greater imagination.”A [spans 12] her. For too long, she told them, their district had been missing an opportunity. “We don't have to be scared of losing our seat to a Republican,” Ocasio-Cortez said, using the easy, careful cadence of a teacher explaining something important. “And [spans 13] changes. This seat can lead the whole nation on health care, education, housing, climate change. This seat can take those risks. This seat can say, ‘We can go to the moon, we can turn back the tide. ' With this seat, we can do that.”For Ocasio-Cortez, “the moon” is a set of policies that separated her from her mainstream Democratic primary opponent — a list she often recited, in order, in speeches. They are the sole focus of her first ad in the Democratic primary, from May, where she says, “What the Bronx and Queens needs is Medicare [spans 14] list. “It doesn't take 100 years to do this,” she says in the ad. “It takes political courage.”The ideas, which were pipe dreams of the far left just five years ago, are no longer on the political fringe. Since the 2016 election, when Sen. Bernie Sanders proposed the single-payer health care plan, Medicare for All has been a rallying cry of many of the country's most prominent Democrats, from Sens. Elizabeth Warren to Kamala Harris and Cory Booker. Sanders and Booker have proposed guaranteed jobs bills. Sanders has been calling for tuition-free college since 2015. The Democratic establishment was still reeling from the ousting of one of their colleagues when New York Sen. Kirsten Gillibrand called to “reimagine ICE” on June 29. Harris said she wanted to “think about starting from scratch” on the agency. Sanders said that he wanted to “restructure” it. Ocasio-Cortez and other progressives have been making the case that left-wing policies can win not just in districts like New York's 14th, which is almost entirely Democratic, but in places like Eastern Iowa, where Ocasio-Cortez thinks voters [spans 15] left. The Democrats have done this before, Ocasio-Cortez argues: in the 1930s, with Franklin Delano Roosevelt's New Deal programs. “We are picking up where we last left off — when we were at our last most powerful, when we were at our last greatest.”So far, though, in conservative districts, the Democrats [spans 16] ideas. Finkenauer talked about expanding apprenticeships and job training programs, not free college tuition; she touted refinancing student loans at lower interest rates, not forgiving them altogether, something Ocasio-Cortez has said she wants to expand. In fact, Finkenauer [spans 17] ad. “Heck, I'm still paying off my student loans.”Finkenauer didn't campaigned on Medicare for All or abolishing ICE, either. But you wouldn't know that from watching television in Eastern Iowa. “Finkenauer wants a $32 trillion government takeover of health care that will destroy Medicare [spans 18] wall. Across the country, Republicans have begun to use the policies of progressive figures like Ocasio-Cortez as political weapons against moderate Democrats in places like Iowa's 1st District — even when those Democrats don't back the policies. Republican [spans 19] Finkenauer. But they did illuminate a potentially bigger concern for Democrats in the coming years: that some of the party's central policies may prove to be unpopular, even radioactive, in the parts of the country they need to win back from Trump in 2020. There's perhaps no better example of that than Medicare for All. Many Democrats have embraced it nationally as an easy-to-understand solution to a broken health care system: Simply put everyone on a single, government-run health care plan, like the system in many other countries. The phrase “Medicare for All” polls well among many voters, but Republicans [spans 20] it. They think that the more that moderate and conservative voters learn about Medicare for All, the more they'll dislike it — and they've been working hard to define the issue before Democrats do, warning of its price tag and governmental overreach. On health care, Finkenauer says she supports repairing the Affordable Care Act with a “public option,” a compromise of sorts that would allow people to buy into Medicare before they turn 65. Asked about whether she backed Medicare for All, Finkenauer didn't offer a direct answer. She told BuzzFeed News, “I think we need to fix the ACA. That's something we can work across the aisle on, given that we're going to have a Republican administration.”That Finkenauer hasn't explicitly denounced Medicare for All is a sign of the tightrope she and other Democrats are walking — hesitant to say they oppose an idea that has become so central to their party's platform across the country. But the lack of direct rejection also leaves a door open for Finkenauer — and others like her — to embrace a bolder single-payer system if the political winds seem to change. When she spoke at fundraisers and union [spans 21] Congress. There's a video of what happened first: a grainy shot of Finkenauer, a state representative, on the floor of the Iowa legislature, just before a vote on a Republican plan to strip the state's public-sector workers of many of their collective bargaining rights. In the video, Finkenauer's voice cracked with emotion as she denounced the plan. Of the public-sector union workers, she said, “They are my friends. They are my neighbors. And they are my family.”The moment she decided, Finkenauer told voters, was after, when she looked up into the balcony as the bill passed the Republican legislature, she saw tears in the eyes of union members watching. She tells people that she cried too. In the wake of their losses in 2016, Democrats across the political spectrum have struggled to define themselves as a party of the working class. In their vastly different districts, Ocasio-Cortez and Finkenauer are both trying to offer the party a way. If [spans 22] train. “Every day gets harder for working families like mine to get by.”On the campaign trail, Finkenauer said it almost constantly too: “I have spent my life fighting for working families like mine.”In their campaigns against older, wealthier men, both Finkenauer and Ocasio-Cortez leaned heavily on their working-class identities. Finkenauer's opponent, Rod Blum, is a self-made millionaire, a business executive whose personal wealth she often cites as evidence of the odds against her. For Ocasio-Cortez, it was what separated her from Crowley, the influential Democrat, as much as policies like Medicare for All. The daughter of a Puerto Rican–born mother, Ocasio-Cortez likes to call [spans 23] origin. “It's time to acknowledge that not all Democrats are the same,” Ocasio-Cortez said in her campaign video. “That a Democrat who doesn't live here, doesn't send his kids to our schools, doesn't drink our water or breathe our air cannot possibly represent us.”Finkenauer's working-class family is one of [spans 24] News. “The fact that it's my friends and family and neighbors who are getting screwed, for lack of a better way to say it,” Finkenauer said. She also thinks her background helps voters understand something else: “I am willing to do more than be a vote — I'm willing to have the tough conversations and work across the aisle if I have to.”In AFSCME Local 2994's tiny square building on the edge of Anamosa, Finkenauer lingered long after her stump speech finished to talk with union members over plates of burgers and someone's wife's homemade pumpkin bars. The Democrats' lieutenant governor candidate, Rita Hart, stopped into the union office, then ducked quickly out again after her speech. Finkenauer, in a plaid shirt and quilted vest, stayed. Two Department of Transportation workers came to tell her they had been in the state capital with Finkenauer during the vote over bargaining rights. Finkenauer listens with her hands in her vest pockets. “So you were there, too. There was no reason for that other than going after working families,” she said. “That's what [spans 25] her. “Seems to me like she actually knows who some of us are. <|assistant|> spans 1: prioritized those with a lot of engagement from people you spans 2: it spans 3: in reverse chronological spans 4: Twitter announced the new option, a workaround that let you set up a reverse chronological timeline using the Mute feature went spans 5: minds out of the way: She made a joke about her spans 6: so dang personal.”They listened as Finkenauer spoke of her father, a union pipefitter welder, and her mother, a retired school district secretary, worried about her state pension; about the $20,000 in student loans she's still paying spans 7: Americans have never elected a woman in her twenties to spans 8: moderate, comes from a mostly white, mostly rural part of Iowa — raised in Sherrill, a town, she likes to say, where there are more cows than spans 9: pursue left-wing priorities like the single-payer health care plan known as Medicare for All, or stick with smaller, more moderate steps that might appeal to independent voters, like fixing the Affordable Care Act; whether to fight Trump and appease frustrated, angry Democratic voters or try to work with the president on goals like rebuilding infrastructure to win over independent spans 10: were key to helping the party win back seats from Republicans — in many cases, by denouncing some of the policies that Ocasio-Cortez has been spans 11: Brett Kavanaugh in Boston, spans 12: few weeks before her stunning primary upset in June, Ocasio-Cortez spoke to a tiny group of voters on a rooftop in Jackson Heights, Queens, the roar of traffic behind spans 13: because we don't have to be scared of that, this seat can lead the country in progressive spans 14: for All, tuition-free college, a federal jobs guarantee, and criminal justice reform.”To Ocasio-Cortez, it's not a far-fetched wish spans 15: will be drawn by big-idea social programs that distinguish the right from the spans 16: who have been winning primaries look more like Finkenauer than Ocasio-Cortez — moderates with establishment ties and a focus on smaller-picture spans 17: wears her own loans as a badge of honor: “Iowans don't want handouts,” she says in one spans 18: for our seniors,” said one Republican ad, which branded Finkenauer “too liberal for Iowa.” Others claimed she supports “open borders,” citing a tweet where she said she wanted to build a flood wall in Iowa instead of Trump's border spans 19: attacks weren't enough to sink spans 20: have pounced on spans 21: hall picnics, Finkenauer cited a single moment as the one where she decided, definitively, to run for spans 22: there is something that clearly connects the two women besides the word “Democrat” next to their name, it's that single, short phrase: “Working families like mine.”Ocasio-Cortez says the phrase in the video that introduced her campaign, alongside images of her waking in a cramped Bronx apartment, changing her shoes on the raised platform of a subway spans 23: her part of the Bronx and Queens a “first-generation district” — a place where people are connected by their experiences coming to New York City, if not their places of spans 24: the single biggest things that she thinks will set her apart from the rest of Congress, she told BuzzFeed spans 25: kills me.”Waiting near the door for their turn to talk to Finkenauer, a woman turned to the man next to

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Gain actionable tips that eliminate errors due to manual consolidations, and drive better collaboration with stakeholders in higher education institutions... Human: More. Assistant: Barry University in Miami, FL, transformed its budgeting with Adaptive Insights software and achieved greater speed, accuracy, and control in its processes. As the amount of data created continues to grow, finance leaders are well-positioned to stop data debates by aligning their organizations around a single source of truth. Survey insights from 435 global CFOs show how CFOs are driving toward the finish line... Human: Continue. Assistant: Learn how to reimagine the budgeting process with these real-world examples of finance managing data with greater speed, more flexibility, and better control. Tips and techniques to tighten collaboration with other business... Human: More. Assistant: units and gain more accuracy are also on tap. 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CPM software consists of two primary branches: finance CPM and strategic CPM. Find out how Adaptive Insights maximizes its own technology to accomplish business performance goals. Founder and Chairman Rob Hull shares the overall architecture of Adaptive's business model and how each department is using Adaptive to manage processes and performance. ## Explore how report and dashboard automation reduces workload, generates insightful data, and accelerates decision-making with greater confidence. Steve Player, director of the Beyond Budgeting Round Table, and an Adaptive demo illustrate how to spend less time on reports and more time on analytics that drive decision-making. Get access to budgeting and forecasting best practices that... Human: Next. Assistant: draw out key insights and drive decision-making. An Adaptive software demonstration shows how to automate sophisticated dashboards, integrate reports in real time, and enable budget collaborators with self-service reporting capabilities without relying on IT support. ## Discover innovations in finance technology that supercharge productivity. Demos from real-world successes make a strong case for automating reporting tasks to attain greater data integrity and realize significant time savings. Learn why it's never too late for higher education institutions to improve and change budget processes, even when wrapping up the fiscal year. Dynamic reporting capabilities—such as detailed analysis by funds, programs, and more—deliver an immediate return on investment and continue the savings for years. Learn about the causes of the most common budget “games” that prevent value-added reporting and apply proven... Human: Next. Assistant: best practices to avoid them. Actionable tips to take back to your organization include ways to spot and resolve common budgeting “games,” reduce the... Human: Continue. Assistant: budget cycle time by 75%, and improve the quality of the budget. Learn the key performance indicators that provide insights, improve utilization, and drive profitability for professional services companies. Operational insights and... Human: Continue. Assistant: a system that integrates multiple data sources helps drive more agile budgets... Human: More. Assistant: and plans, which ultimately help to make better business decisions. Hull, veteran CFO and founder of Adaptive Insights, as he shares the quintessential rules of modern FP&A in this interactive webinar. ## You'll leave with an actionable roadmap to increase business engagement, deliver trustworthy results, and increase profitability. Discover how companies create a robust link between their enterprise resource planning (ERP) system and planning processes. 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Assistant: shares how the company replaced their spreadsheet process with Adaptive Planning, which improved margins, reduced manufacturing costs, and boosted collaboration across the globe. Get an overview of Adaptive Planning in a presentation conducted at the 2015 Adaptive Live conference. Learn how software companies streamline planning and analysis with Adaptive Insights. ## Many software companies are moving away from the traditional software-vendor business model and are becoming business service providers. Adaptive integrates multiple data sources for improved forecasting in a changing industry. Know what to look for when it comes to evaluating an analytics and performance management solution, and understand the top trends and challenges facing finance professionals. A cloud-based platform and the ability to connect across systems are among the features of a high-performing management solution. Know the... Human: Next. 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Human: Can you tell me how to fill in the missing spans: General Impression: One of the nicest minor league parks we've ever been to, and probably the best in AA ... person). Our third attempt at seeing at game here is the one that finally took, as the Curve weren't home on two previous passes through Altoona. The stadium is a double decker, something you don't usually see in AA ball. A main concourse, that looks onto the field, runs behind the lower level of seating. Upstairs, another enclosed concourse leads to the upper deck of seating. It's not a ‘walkaround' concourse – a feature I'm very much in favor of – but I'll give them a break here in Altoona. The one thing that prevents it from being a circumferential concourse is the roller coaster in right field – a unique touch that adds to the character ... place. Food and Libations: The usual here, save for a couple of differences. One was the large beer – domestic, imported, and craft – down the third base line. Lots of taps, so if you can't find a beer you like here you're probably just a beer snob. The other was the ‘curverogi' – a ... bread. I had one, and I have to say – it was pretty good! Parking: An adjoining parking ramp is available for the general public, and at $2.00 it's reasonably priced. Programs/Scorecards: Another team that gets it and gets it right – free when you walk in. (I still don't understand, nor approve of, teams that sell advertising to put in a book, and then charge more for said book. More and more teams are going to the ‘free' option, just wish they all would). ## Complaints/Gripes: None really. If you don't like ballparks with lots of mascots and stuff to distract the kids, then this probably isn't the place for you. A large play area and arcade are present down the right field line, and it's clear the Curve cater to the younger (kid) crowd. Ya know what though? Get the kids hooked, and they'll bring their parents. And what parent wouldn't want or need ... League. Good on ya! Yes/No/Maybe: We would go back for sure. Off the beaten path for us, so we may not go out of the way to get there, but if we happened to be ‘that way' and the Curve were home, we'd hit up another game. General Impression: Upon writing this blog entry, this will ... previously. This is one of our favorite MLB parks. Smaller than most, but the perfect size for the Pirates current fan base. It has one of the best views in all of baseball with the skyline of downtown Pittsburgh in the not to far distance, and the Roberto ... foreground. It is (now) well kept, with employees walking the concourse and cleaning even during the game. The downtown locale is a perfect spot if you ... P-Burgh. Due to the size, the upper deck isn't really all that ‘upper', but most of the time there are seats to be had in the lower bowl so why trek up there? Food and Libations: As with many of the other modern parks, there is a wide variety of food options at PNC. In the left field corner, on the main concourse, is an area known as ‘Pops Plaza', named in honor of Pirate great Willie Stargell. There you can find Nakama, Chicken-on the-Hill, Pub 475, Familee BBQ and Chickie's & Pete's. On the opposite end of the main concourse is ‘Smorgasburgh', and there you can find P-Burgh famous Primanti Brothers as well as Quaker Steak and Lube! In between the two areas are stands with the usual ballpark fare, so if a hot dog or nachos are what you're looking for you're sure to find it. Beer was of the Budweiser variety at most stands, but IC Light was on tap at Primanti's and one other stand along the main ... well. There is a ‘Beers of the Burgh' stand, featuring craft beers from the Pittsburgh area, in the Smorgasburgh section as well. Parking: As PNC is situated in the stadiums section of Pittsburgh, its sister stadium Heinz Field right up ... stadium. That being said, the one that I did see was $20 to park your car for the afternoon, a bit pricey but you're a captive audience if you drive to the game. For our three games at PNC, we've always stayed at an area hotel and walked. Complaints/Gripes: ... around. This is a very nice ballpark, one of the nicest, and there was a point a couple of seasons back where it wasn't being taken care of like it should. It was dirty, unkempt, and unfriendly, and if not for the Pittsburgh Half Marathon in 2012 we may not have gone back after our experience there in 2010. We did go back though, ... now. With that, I have no complaints about PNC. Yes/No/Maybe: Geographically, Pittsburgh is a little difficult for us to get to. A six hour drive from home, and a long drive at that, may make this answer be an automatic ‘no'. The ballpark being what it is though (one of the nicest) will change this to a very strong maybe; a place that we would, in fact, go out of our way to get back to. General Impression: Okay, so, let me get one thing out of the way before I go any further. Growing up, I was a huge Binghamton hockey fan. Our number one rival? The team that we loved to hate? The team that ALWAYS seemed to have our number? Yeah, the Rochester Americans. There it is, I've laid it out – so if my opinion seems a bit jaded, that's the basis for it. A few years back, the Blue Cross Arena got a face lift. Problem is, that's all it seemed to get, a face lift. The entryway is spacious and nice, but the concourses ... play. There is one spot down each concourse where it ‘juts out' and an open area with concessions on both sides is present, but it does little to unclog the congestion leading up to it. Even the seats seem close together, with little leg room even for the shortest of us. Overall, the place just seems cramped. I would have thought after spending however much they spent to gussy the place up, this claustrophobia would have been addressed just a little. Food and Libations: The usual, hot dogs, pretzels, soda and beer. Nothing here (at least not on the night we were there) to make it stand out food or drink wise. Hit up the Dino over the bridge before or after if you're looking for a culinary treat – you won't find it at the Blue Cross. Parking: A large lot sits adjacent to the arena, and has been there for, well, a long time. When I went to college in Rochester in '88 this is where I used to park. Our latest trip we stayed close by, so we didn't need to park for the game. Beyond the surface lot behind the arena, the lots and parking ramps around the Blue Cross are plentiful in the middle of downtown Rochester. Programs/Scorecards: The Knighthawks had them in wire racks at multiple points as you came in the large entry way – no charge. (bonus! )Complaints/Gripes: I think I pretty much aired these out in my first section, save one. Please, if you are going to sell cotton candy in the stands, don't do it by walking up and down the stairs carrying a LARGE cardboard holder. Innevitably, as we found on this night, one kid will stop you, then another, then another, and on and on. In the meantime, everyone above you can't see the action on the ice/field. ## Thumbs down on this Knighthawks, thumbs down. Yes/No/Maybe: This is my first ‘maybe' in a long time. We would really like to go to the RIT game at the Blue Cross, held once every season, but beyond that there isn't much here that we would go out of our way to go ... to. General Impression: Shea Stadium had run its course, especially in the new age of Major League Baseball where everyone expects ... such. So, in that, Citi Field is a great replacement for Shea. The Mets have gradually tried to make Citi feel ‘Mets' like and not just a generic ballpark (which is what it looked like in its first season). There are three separate levels, the main concourse being the busiest by far with the most varied food options. Most enter through the Jackie Robinson Rotunda, a great entry point and part of the architecture at Citi. Most would say, with the Rotunda being part of the overall stadium structure, that Citi looks a lot like Ebbets Field – and they would be right. But, what's wrong with copying a bit of that old classic? Food and Libations:Lots to choose from here! Usual ballpark fare of course at the main stands, but make your way to the area in center field behind the big scoreboard. Shake Shack, Blue Smoke, and others add a great variety to the usual stuff you would find at the ballpark, and this is an area we always head to pre-game to grab some eats. El Verano Taqueria is top notch with their ... stands. Parking:There's a large lot adjacent to the stadium – and it will ... there. A bit steep, maybe, but somedays its nice to have the car a short walk away. An alternative to driving to the stadium and parking there (and dealing with the traffic jam afterwards) is to, sing it with me now, “take the train to the game”. The 7 ... game. Programs/Scorecards: For sale by vendors as you walk through the gate in the Jackie Robinson Rotunda. (didn't buy one last game so I'm not sure how much they are now). Complaints/Gripes: None with the stadium itself really. Seating ... ballgame). My biggest problem with the ‘stadium' is the parking lot and the traffic after the game. Hit up McFadden's for a post game brew and ... though. Other biggest complaint – the team on the field ... team. General Impression: Elmira and the First Arena have always impressed me with their support of hockey. Upstate New York is ... U. for hockey, with many differing levels existing within a few hours drive of each other. Elmira was a suprise and welcome edition to that landscape. Originally housing a team in the United Hockey League, with geographic rivals in Binghamton to the east, the ECHL Jackals still draw very well in an area that at first glance wouldn't seem as though they could. The arena itself is of appropriate size for the area, with a practice rink attached off the back end (which is utilized by the local youth hockey organization regularly). The only concourse only goes around 3/4 of the way, creating an interesting access point for the sections on the end near the locker rooms. To get to this area of seating, make sure you time it right – they actually close off access just before and just after the periods begin/end, ... room. Food and Libations: Four concession stands dot the concourse – two at the ‘red line' on either side, and two in the corners. Usual rink fare here (hot dogs, pizza, popcorn, pretzels), as well as draft beer and soda. Two portable beer stands are also present at similar spots down each side concourse as well, and these both offer a ‘larger' selection of libations than the concession stands do. Parking: There is a parking ramp about a block north of the rink, as well as at least one surface lot a block west of the rink, both charging $5.00 for a spot. Last game we went to there (4/12) we were actually able to find a spot on the street at a meter. Programs/Scorecards: Programs were for sale in the gift shop for $2. If you don't want all of those ads, and just want the lineups, there were roster sheets on wire racks just inside of all of the entrances. Complaints/Gripes: To tell you ... catagory. What more could you want? Yes/No/Maybe: This one stays a ‘yes' for us. Its close enough to home, and a nice change of scenery, that if the timing was right we'd make the drive. So, as the temps start to drop, and the leaves on the trees here in the northeast begin to vary in shades of green, it's time to look back over the 2011 baseball season and see where we've been. This year, it started out pretty early for us – February 28th to be exact! In what seems like a lifetime ago, (reality being it was only seven short months ago) we added a ‘new' stadium to the list by attending the New York Mets spring training game at Digital Domain Park in St. A perfect day for baseball if I remember correctly, ... temp. Digital Domain reminded us of our ‘home' ballpark in Binghamton, and with the Mets on the field it had a very familiar feel to it for sure. Digital Domain Park would prove to be one of only four new stadiums for us this year. Situations and schedules be what they may, our ballpark travel schedule wasn't as kind to us in 2011 as it had been the previous two years. ... Binghamton. Coolray Field, home of the Gwinnett Braves, was stadium number two of 2011. An adequate facility for baseball (always love the wrap around concourses! ), ... fan. Number three on the ‘new' list was a pleasant surprise for us – U. Cellular Field in Chicago, Illinois. After all of the ‘negative' we had read about the replacement for venerable Comisky Park, what we found on the ‘South Side' was not what we expected. Lots of concessions, wide concourse (and wrap around! ), fans that were into the game – someplace we will love to get back to. Our fourth, and final, new stadium of 2011 was Metro Bank Park in Harrisburg, PA, which over the last couple of ... lift. What they have now is a real gem, and was worth the drive for us to watch a game. Wrap around concourse (see a theme here? ), lots of concessions (and a great beer selection! ), great scoreboard, and a packed house all contributed to an enjoyable night for us. Unfortunately, the one thing that ruined it was our Binghamton Mets losing the game, but a good trip none the less. We were able to visit MLB's two remaining ‘classic' parks this year as well, both a revisit for us, with a trip to the Friendly Confines in July, and Fenway Pahk a few weeks later. We made our (now) traditional trip to CitiField in May ... season. The Mets haven't been productive enough on the field for us ... lose. In all, only three MLB games found their way onto our itinerary this year, hopefully a number that will increase a bit in 2012. In AAA ball, a return trip to Alliance Bank Stadium in Syracuse, coupled with the game at Coolray Field, would encompass the two senior circuit games in 2011. With nine games attended at NYSEG Stadium, it seems as though our baseball ‘time' was spent at home this year, which isn't such a bad thing as old Binghamton Municipal is still one of our favorite ballparks. The trip to Harrisburg was the only other AA game we saw. Two games in Brooklyn, and one in Auburn, round out the NY-Penn League games we attended this year. No Indy ball for us in 2011, but hopefully we'll get to Rockland County early in 2012 to see the stadium they opened there this season. General Impression: With as harsh as the winters can be in Upstate New York, the ‘Dome' is a welcome venue for us. Bot: spans 1: (again, from those we've seen in spans 2: of the spans 3: concoction that put ham, pierogie, onions, and cheese between two pieces of white spans 4: a libation or two when trying to survive at the ballpark with their little one? The Curve are doing it right, and doing it well, and surviving in the smallest market in the Eastern spans 5: have been our third game, and fourth trip overall (I toured PNC Park as well), and after out latest trip it will read much different than spans 6: Clemente bridge in the spans 7: want to find a hotel room, walk to the game, and enjoy a couple of days in spans 8: concourse had Miller Lite as spans 9: the road, there are many surface lots around the spans 10: Before our last trip to PNC I would have filled this section up with lots of negative, but they turned my opinion spans 11: and are happy to report that the upkeep is there spans 12: (hallways? ) that run the length of either side of the arena are small and cramped, especially when the Roch-cha-cha fans come out in droves to see their teams spans 13: back spans 14: a flashy stadium with lots of clubs and suites and spans 15: chicken pipian tacos in my book! A craft beer stand is in this area as well with leaps and bounds more selection than the three drafts available at most spans 16: cost you $20.00 to park spans 17: train comes from the 42nd Street station in Manhattan – and you can get there from pretty much anywhere in the world – and provides a good alternative as far as transporting yourself to the spans 18: is all pretty good, food is top notch (for a spans 19: bite and you won't have to worry about this spans 20: of course! But, I'm a Mets fan since birth – I've earned the right to complain about the spans 21: one of the hotbeds in the spans 22: since the referees and visiting team has to walk across this part of the concourse to get to their locker spans 23: the truth, I gots nuttin' for this spans 24: good bit of sun, perfect game time spans 25: The next park checked off the list is one I went to somewhat on my own, as the other half of the ‘arenas and stadiums' crew was home in spans 26: I'm just not a Braves spans 27: years went through a multi-million dollar face spans 28: for the Mets Mothers Day game, but this would be our only trip to Flushing this spans 29: to want to make a day of it to watch them Human: More of this please: Great atmosphere for the basketball games we've been to over the years, as well as the football game we went to this past weekend. Two concourses service both the upper and lower decks, with fans being able to walk all the way around on either concourse. For football, really not a bad seat in the house as far as sightlines go. The upper deck for basketball is ‘upper', but you're still able to see the game below (and again, the atmosphere just helps get you swept up in all of it no matter where you're sitting). Food and Libations: The usual sporting venue fare here, dogs, popcorn, nachos, sodas. Beer is the usual suspects as well, and being this close to the Canadian border Labatt's products are available ... Bot: Completed pargraph(s): as well – always a plus in our book! Parking: So, yikes! A bit on the pricey side here. We've paid $10.00 for a lacrosse game, and $20.00 for both football and basketball at the ramps surrounding the campus and dome. Not sure how much to park at Manley and shuttle to the Dome, mostly because that isn't our thing and I'd rather pay the extra to not have to ‘shuttle'. Programs/Scorecards: Paid $5.00 for the one at the football game, not sure how much for the other sports at this point. The program at the football game included a coupon book for local eateries that would save you more than the $5.00 you paid for the program. Complaints/Gripes: Minor, if any. The upper deck are metal benches,... Human: Continue. Bot: no backs, so if you're used to leaning on something sit downstairs, or rent/purchase a stadium seat. In spite of its age, the Dome... Human: Continue. Bot: is well cared for, clean, and a no frills venue – which is just fine by us. Yes/No/Maybe: This one is a yes, for sure. Closest Division 1 venue to us (unless... Human: Next. Bot: you count BU, but last I checked their basketball team wasn't playing the Big East teams Syracuse does), this will always be on the radar for us. General Impression: I'll start this entry by saying I don't really like the Red Sox, never have. Being from New York, it's kind of ingrained into our psyche I guess; and it's not that I'm a Yankees... Human: More. Bot: fan either, because goodness knows I'm not. That being said, Jill said... Human: Continue. Bot: it best – Fenway Park is a great place to watch a ballgame, it's just too bad the Red Sox play there! The oldest stadium still in use in the major leagues,... Human: More. Bot: this place certainly does not show it's age. Sure, the sight lines aren't what those new fangled ballparks offer, and the ‘amenities' that corporate fans are used to having aren't there, but this is Boston, and much like it's compatriot in Chicago (Wrigley Field that is), this is a place where a blue collar baseball fan can come on a Sunday afternoon, get himself/herself a bleacher seat, have a Fenway Frank and Sam Adams, and enjoy America's game. Of course, with the recent success by the Red Sox, the blue collar fan has been priced out of Fenway. That's why the only games we've ever been to here were of the ‘Futures at Fenway' variety. Twenty bucks a seat, and both times we were within ten rows of... Human: Continue. Bot: the field. The concourses are clean and well maintained, with nooks and crannies abounding. On a ‘quick' jaunt to snap some pictures during out latest visit, I took one ramp, then the... Human: Continue. Bot: next, and next thing I knew I was at the top of the stadium – literally! Fenway is quintessential baseball, no different than Wrigley, and an afternoon or evening here is as... Human: More. Bot: American as it has been for the past 100 years. Food and Libations: Numerous stands throughout the lower concourse serve up the usual ballpark... Human: Next. Bot: fares, including Fenway franks, seafood (this is New England of course), and pizza, as well as chicken fingers, sushi, and the old baseball staple peanuts and popcorn. In the right field ‘corner' is a larger food stand(s) area as well. Beer can be found throughout, and I'm pretty sure it was a cup of Sam Adams suds I had on our most recent trip. Prices are MLB reasonable. Parking: Not sure, because as with other MLB stadiums we've been to – we took the ‘T'.00 fare and quick jaunt around the corner from the Kenmore station and there she sat right in front of us. There appeared to be various lots around the ballpark in the neighborhood, but one of the signs I saw said “Parking $40.00”. Yeah,... Human: More. Bot: I don't think so. Take the train folks. Programs/Scorecards: Paid $2.00 for one at the main gate, only gave us the lineup for the ‘home' teams, and we ended up throwing it... Human: Continue. Bot: away on our way out. Complaints/Gripes: I don't really have any, save but one which I'll get to. The only games we've seen here... Human: Continue. Bot: are ‘minor' league games, so I'd be interested to see what this place is like when the Sawx are playing. The aisles are tight, as are the seats, but if you go realizing this then there really isn't anything to complain about. One complaint I do have though is in regards to ‘information' that is on the ‘net as well as displayed at Fenway... Human: Next. Bot: On the ‘net, it says gates open two hours prior to gametime;... Human: Continue. Bot: at Fenway, on the fences at the gates, it says 90 minutes; during our latest visit, they opened the gates one hour prior to gametime. Not acceptable to put one form of information out there, and not stick to it – we would have wasted more time doing something else had we known we wouldn't be able to get into the park until an... Human: Continue. Bot: hour before gametime (not two hours like the Red Sox website states). ## Yes/No/Maybe: Sure, it's Fenway, it's classic, and it's baseball. Would we go when they were playing say the Yankees or Rays? Probably not (Yanks tix are too much, and we're Rays fans so I would hate to go there and cheer against them). Any other team(s) though, yeah we'd go back... Human: Continue. Bot: General Impression: So, the ballpark on City Island went through a massive overhaul over the past couple of years. Previous, only going by pictures... Human: More. Bot: and other descriptions I've seen, it wasn't a place we would have gone out of our way to go to a game at. Now, though, it's quickly become somewhere we would go... Human: More. Bot: back to. Number one on my favorite things about this stadium list – a wrap around concourse. Any ballpark that creates or has a 360 degree concourse is tops in my book... Human: Next. Bot: Luckily, it seems to be the trend nowadays. This always lends an area with a different and unique view, and also (in minor league parks) feels more ‘open aired', so if sitting in the seating bowl is cramped or stuffy, just take a walk around. As for the rest of MetroBank Park, the seats were comfortable, good sight lines, concessions throughout with good selections... Human: Continue. Bot: (kind of – see below). A ‘keeper' in our book. Food and Libations: There are numerous stands throughout the ballpark, with the usual ballpark... Human: Next. Bot: fare of hot dogs and popcorn being offered, as well as one of the best hamburgers I've ever had at a ballpark, purchased from ‘The Spot' in the left field corner. Troegs has a beer stand in left center field, and is sold at stands throughout the park. There was even a guy pushing a cart around and making ice cream sundaes! Between permanent stands and portable ones, you won't go hungry here! Parking: It's $3.00 to park on City Island, with three lots and a parking ramp adjacent to the ballpark. Complaints/Gripes: Couple things the Senators can improve on, one big thing they can't. Start with what they can. Day before the game, I received an e-mail about our upcoming visit to Metro Bank Park, similar to... Human: Next. Bot: ones MLB teams have been sending out. Here's the problem – it's our first time to the park, there is a link that says ‘Parking Information', but when you click on it all that comes up is a map to the stadium. Nothing about cost, or number of spaces, or alternatives if the ballpark lots are full. Good idea in theory, poor result in execution. Another pretty simple fix, have enough food. Most ballparks assume that everyone that comes to their games will eat the ‘usual' fare (hot dogs, deep fried crap, unhealthy stuff), so when we find a park where that isn't the case – bonus! Almost bonus in Harrisburg that is. In about the third inning, we went to a stand that touted a pulled chicken... Human: More. Bot: sandwich (healthier than many of the other ballpark offerings – bonus! ). When we got there, we found that they were in fact out... Human: Next. Bot: of the chicken. Big thumbs down Senators – no excuse whatsoever for being out of anything at a game, let alone in the third inning. The last item, and there isn't anything they can do about this I would imagine – the ‘river bugs'. You know, those white bugs that like to fly around near the stadium lights and then start dropping down on... Human: Next. Bot: the fans below? Yeah, they show up, we're outta there. It happens at home in Binghamton, we leave, same holds true anywhere else. Considering the ballpark is in the middle of the... Human: More. Bot: river on an island, there probably isn't anything they can do about this one. Yes/No/Maybe: In all, we had a good time at Metro Bank Park and liked the facility very much... Human: More. Bot: Complaints aside, we'd go back again for a game for sure. So, let it be known, on August 4th, 2011 our little corner of the WWW has entered the social media realm. With the creation of a Facebook page for ‘tim and jill's arenas and stadiums' we have officially entered (as a website) the social media craze that has permeated society. Mind you, we've... Human: More. Bot: been pretty active on a personal level on both Facebook and Twitter pretty much since their inception, but this is the first foray into those mediums with one of our travel websites. Hopefully it proves to be a wise decision, as I've learned in the past when you throw your ‘opinions' out there for all to scrutinize, sometimes it doesn't work out as you... Human: More. Bot: would have hoped.

<|prompter|> how to fill in the missing spans: I've made a fortune as a result of not listening to the Words, “That will never work! ” Most people in the Matrix are so in love with these Words that their entire existence is constrained by them. You should love the Words as well, but for a different reason. Every major achievement I've had in the past 20 years started with people saying the Words. Conversely, if most people agreed with my vision on a particular opportunity, I knew I had [spans 1] approach. If you run with the pack, you get pack returns. I believe all game changers hear the Words. Early on, how many people thought Steve Jobs' ideas or devices would change the world? Even in the last year or two of his life, most people still greeted him with the Words. An Apple phone? That will never work! The inability to see around corners explains why so few “A” students ever become successful business owners or visionaries. By definition an “A” student is a conformist. He/she successfully conforms to the requirements of the teacher and system. That type of behavior translates nicely into working for the dropped-out visionary. Consider lawyers, CPAs and other highly paid professionals . nearly all them were “A” students. And they sing the Words like an opera. I now use crowds of people – mainly MidasNation – as a litmus test. I throw ideas out there, and if the vast majority can understand and agree with them, then I know my idea is not insightful. Sure, the majority-approved idea might make money, [spans 2] change. Remember what Thomas Kuhn said about paradigm shifts: they always come about because someone gets way in front of the argument and shows the way. Of course that person usually has a fair amount of arrows in the back, as I can painfully attest. Here's the insight for today: when people say the Words, what they are really saying is they CAN'T do that thing. Aha! This makes all the difference, because if everybody could do it, it wouldn't be special. The foregoing explains why I never look for inspiration from the $250 per hour crowd of professionals. Yes, they can help execute some tactical issues, like preparing contracts or financial statements. But their real value is that they provide the compass setting. When it comes to anything visionary or strategic, I ask them what they think . then I immediately head in the opposite direction. Copyright © 2015 TimeReallyisMoney.com | PRIVACY POLICY | SITE MAP | design by Magic Graphics | Footage by Clinton Photography ​A German research alliance has taken the next step in car front lighting with a 1,024 pixel LED for matrix headlights. Matrix headlights are effectively projectors, capable of sending individual beams of light in front of the vehicle an, in conjunction with cameras and algorithms, allowing the parts of the beam that would dazzle on-coming drivers to be turned off dynamically. In this case, both headlights contain three LED light sources, each with 1,024 individually controllable pixels – 3,072 pixels per headlight. “This means that the headlight can be adapted very precisely to suit the respective traffic situation to ensure optimum light conditions at all times without dazzling other drivers,” said Osram. “The light can be adapted to take account of every conceivable bend in the road so that there are no dark peripheral areas.”Surroundings can be analysed in order to illuminate on-coming traffic so the driver sees it more clearly, without light being shone on the heads of the drivers in [spans 3] vehicles. “As a result, such shifting headlights no longer have to be dimmed (dipped) on country roads,” said Osram. The project, funded by the German Federal [spans 4] years. The LED chip used includes led switching via a bonded die (see below), and [spans 5] vehicle. “We now want to develop this new type of high-resolution LED light sources so that it's ready for serial production and we see enormous potential for its use in headlights,” said Osram CTO Stefan Kampmann. Infineon developed the intelligent driver circuitry to connected directly to the LED array above it. <|assistant|> spans 1: to immediately change my spans 2: but it won't cause a sea spans 3: those spans 4: Ministry of Education and Research (BMBF) lasted three and a half spans 5: this chip is included in a module created by Osram Specialty Lighting that has electrical and thermal interfaces for the <|prompter|> Complete this text: Headlight maker Hella specified the main technical requirements for the light source based on the functional requirements from Daimler – A Daimler vehicle was used for road trials. Already, some Mercedes-Benz E-Class have 84 LED multi-beam headlights, made by Hella with Osram LEDs. Fraunhofer IMZ contributed techniques and materials for the fine-grain connection technology between LED and switching IC. “With extremely good cooling, the chips were assembled to enable micrometer-sized height differences to be balanced out,” said Osram. Both worked, with high yield, claimed Osram. “One of the technological challenges of the high-resolution LED headlight is the comparatively large chip with 1,024 individually controllable pixels.” – as die size increases, it raises the risk of dead or dim pixels in the matrix during the production. To overcome this Fraunhofer IAF developed a technique based on ultraviolet laser micromachining to repair LED defects during the production process. Defects are identified and removed with a UV laser through careful material removal, or are electrically isolated without the laser causing additional leakage paths. When they have been repaired, apparently the pixels regain their full luminosity. “The economic benefits of laser micromachining from the Fraunhofer IAF are not only in reducing defects during production, the process can also increase the average life of the LEDs,” said OsramThe older I get, the harder it is for me to keep up with all the new music that comes out. Both parts of that sentence are hard for me to admit. Fortunately, I'm practiced at denial. So, with that caveat, here's a look back at my year in music listening. My favourite album of 2017 was The War on Drug's A Deeper Understanding. Although it's not as good as the band's Lost in the Dream, my top record of 2014 and likely my album of the decade, it features “Thinking of a Place,” a brilliant 11-minute, 14-second masterpiece that I played so often that I'm afraid to look at my iTunes play count. And that's not the only great number on the record either (check out “Holding On“). Once again, Adam Granduciel has managed to create such a moody and powerful atmosphere. I loved that album from the first time I heard it, but that wasn't the case with Sleep Well Beast by The National. I've been a fan since 2005's Alligator and saw the band in a far-from-full Horseshoe Tavern that year. But for the first time, I was disappointed in a National release. Fortunately, my friend Biff suggested I spend a bit more time with it. I did and slowly fell in love with the album (check out “Carin at the Liquor Store” or “Guilty Party“). Several other old favourites served up fine new records. These included Aimee Mann's Mental Illness, Goths by The Mountain Goats, Jason Isbell's The Nashville Sound and Soul of a Woman, the posthumous release from Sharon Jones and the Dap-Kings. And while I am a huge fan of The Hold Steady, I've found Craig Finn's sole efforts underwhelming — until this year's We All Want the Same Things. All that might suggest I was afraid to stray from artists I already knew, but that wasn't the case. New discoveries included the self-titled debut from Cigarettes After Sex, Molly Burch's debut Please Be Mine, Jay Som's Everybody Works, Hurray for the Riff Raff's The Navigator and Alison Crutchfield's debut Tourist in This Town. (Meanwhile, Crutchfield's sister Katie, better known as Waxahatchee, put out yet another great album this year. It's called Out in the Storm. Finally, falling between the old faves and the new finds, there were three sophomore efforts that were among the year's absolute best: Big Thief's Capacity was an truly impressive follow-up to last year's promising Masterpiece; Antisocialites showed that Alvvays ain't going to be a one-hit wonder; and Valerie June, whose Pushin' Against a Stone made my 2013 list, returned with the compelling The Order of Time. Definitely no sophomore slumps for these three women. I recently managed to find another excuse to visit the Yukon. I did events to promote Bad Singer in Whitehorse and Dawson City, saw friends and enjoyed the scenery, the skies and the light, but the main reason for my trip was research. I want to write a historical non-fiction book about Dawson City's 1905 Stanley Cup challenge. In those days, before the NHL, the Stanley Cup signalled amateur supremacy in Canada. And once a team won the Cup, it had to defend the title. So an all-star team from Dawson City issued a challenge to the Ottawa Hockey Club. Often known as the Silver Seven, the Ottawas hockey's first dynasty and featured “One-Eyed” Frank McGee, the sport's first superstar. The problem was, the Dawson team had to get from the far northwestern corner of the country to the nation's capital, a distance of more than 7,000 kilometres. Just to reach Vancouver and the transcontinental train required travelling by foot, bicycle, train and steamer. The players thought the whole trip would take them eighteen days, giving them a week to practice in Ottawa before the best two-out-of-three series began. But just about everything that could go wrong did and they arrived forty-eight hours before the first game. There's so much I love about this story, including the sheer audaciousness of the journey, of course, and that it takes place just when Canadians are falling in love with hockey. I certainly have research challenges ahead — no journals or letters from the players survived (if they ever existed) — so I don't know how this will all turn out. But, for the moment, I'm not letting that stop me. Posted in books, hockey, writing, Yukon | Tagged 1905, Dawson City, hockey, Ottawa Silver Seven, Stanley Cup, YukonSince I devoted most of the year to promoting my new book, Bad Singer, perhaps I could be forgiven for thinking I spent more time talking about music than actually listening to it. But it only felt that way. In fact, when I look back, I listened to a lot of great music this year. I also burned a mix CD for the first time in a while. I regularly made them for my friends Rick and Nini, but while we were on a canoe trip in the Yukon this summer, Rick reminded me that I hadn't given him one in a few years. Recently, I asked him what he thought of Taylor's Mix 2016 and he said, “There are a lot of women on it.”Yes, I suppose there were and I am not sure if that says more about my musical tastes these days or who's making the best music. One artist who wasn't on that mix CD, because she snuck up on me later, was Mitski. I have a Recent Additions playlist on my computer that I typically listen to on shuffle. Again and again, I'd hear a song, like it and when I checked, it would be something from Puberty 2. “Your Best American Girl” ended up being one of my favourite songs of the year. Like that album, Angel Olsen's My Woman deservedly made a lot of best-of lists — here's “Sister” — but several other records were unfairly overlooked, including Laura Gibson's Empire Builder and Esmé Patterson's We Were Wild. And Thao Nguyen of Thao and the Get Down Stay Down never gets the credit she deserves. She always makes my year-end picks when she releases an album and this year's A Man Alive is no exception. Produced by Merrill Garbus (aka tUnE-yArDs), it features songs such as “Nobody Dies.”Of course, nobody who follows music missed case/lang/veirs. I guess you could put that much talent together and screw it up, but Neko Case, k. lang and Laura Veirs delivered a lovely album, including the opening track, “Atomic Number.”I also enjoyed No Burden by Lucy Dacus; Emotions and Math from Margaret Glasby; Good Advice from Basia Bulat, who blew me away with her performance on a sunny Sunday afternoon in Banff; Strange Little Birds, a fine return to form from Shirley Manson and Garbage; and Tanya Tagaq's fascinating Retribution. And while it's a little too polished and produced to be the type of music I'd listen to a lot, Beyoncé's visual album, Lemonade, is certainly impressive and probably deserves all the accolades it's receiving. Guys didn't disappear from my listening, though a couple of great men recorded their last albums. Both You Want it Darker by Leonard Cohen and Blackstar by David Bowie are stunning self-delivered eulogies, as the two legends showed us how to make an exit. Death also loomed large in Skeleton Tree by Nick Cave and the Bad Seeds. Cave had already started working on the album when his 15-year-old son died after falling off a cliff. The result, including “I Need You,” is powerful and moving. Meanwhile, Wilco put out Schmilco, a much gentler album that last year's Star Wars and one that demanded a few careful listens before it revealed all its charms. ... <|assistant|> The completion of this text could be: By contrast, “Hey, Lucinda” from The Waiting Room by the Tindersticks grabbed me the first time I heard it. I also liked Hamilton Leithauser +Rostram's I Had a Dream that You Were Mine, Kevin Morby's Singing Saw and, after initially being turned off by the auto-tuned vocals, Bon Iver's 22, A Million. Finally, my favourite discovery of the year was Car Seat Headrest. I started with Teens of Style, an album I'd missed when it came out in 2015. Then I moved on to this year's Teens of Denial. (Check out “Drunk Drivers/Killer Whales” or “Vincent.”) Both albums are fabulous, though the latter is denser and more complex and probably more brilliant. “A music fan who can't carry a tune to save his life, Falconer digs into the science of singing, offering himself up as a guinea pig along the way. He might be a terrible singer, but he's a great writer.”“Falconer's naive layperson narrator functions especially well as a bridge; we do not feel intimidated by the scope and depth of the various academic fields he dives into, as Falconer himself takes the plunge and asks the questions, silly or otherwise, for us.”— “Blue Notes: In true tone deafness, an answer to why we sing” by Emma Hooper (Literary Review of Canada; September, 2016)“A spirited, even adventurous look at the mysteries of how the human brain perceives and processes sound—and even, on occasion, manages to make beautiful music.”— Bad Singer officially comes out in the United States on February 14, 2017 and Kirkus Reviews is the first American publication to review it (December 15, 2016)The BRAMS Lab at the Université of Montréal and Ryerson University's SMART Lab, two of the places that studied me as I wrote Bad Singer, combined their research to write a paper on me called “Effects of vocal training in a musicophile with congenital amusia” for Neurocase (December 21, 2016)I appeared in a TV doc called “I Got Rhythm: The Science of Song,” which aired on CBC's The Nature of Things. Warning: contains embarrassing clip of me singing. (December 1, 2016)I was also interviewed for “Why Do We Love Bad Singing? ” by Carl Wilson. His Slate essay is a smart take on Florence Foster Jenkins and our fascination with bad singing (August 12, 2016)Posted in Bad Singer, books, music | Tagged amusia, bad singer, books, how we hear music, music, music and the brain, music science, tone deafnessWilco's Yankee Hotel Foxtrot is one of my favourite albums. But this sonic masterpiece was also one that said a lot about the state of the recording industry, predicted the future of how we'd listen to music and was the band's departure that marked the end of the beginning for alt-country. I'll be giving a lecture on the influence of Yankee Hotel Foxtrot on November 17 as part of a series called Sounds of the Times: Albums that Change How We Listen sponsored by Ryerson University's Philosophy department. • “It's a remarkable story of dogged determination to prove his own body wrong and, as such, is one of the more illuminating cultural studies of modern times.”— “Tim Falconer's Bad Singer is a treatise on understanding our bodies and their true limitations” by Vish Khanna (The Globe and Mail; July 16, 2016) • “Written in an engaging, self-aware and often self-deprecating voice, Bad Singer is an odyessy musicians and amusics alike can appreciate.” • “As a reader you can't help but empathize with Falconer as he struggles through his singing lessons, learning to control his voice even though he can't always hit the pitches. And you cheer him on when, at the end of his quest, not exactly cured of amusia, he finally faces his audience-and the music.” • “It is a fascinating book and one comes to really root for Falconer who is so determined to understand his weakness and to become a more proficient singer and ultimately, to sing on stage for an audience. I won't ruin the ending for you but I will highly recommend this informative and highly entertaining book which can lead one to a better understanding of why some can sing arias on the stage and others can sing their hearts out (but perhaps only should when they are in the shower.” • “The Science of Tone Deafness” featuring Frank Russo of Ryerson University's SMART Lab with Tim Falconer (TVO's The Agenda in the Summer; July 27, 2016) • “Bad Singer” featuring musician and singing coach Micah Barnes with Tim Falconer (TVO's The Agenda in the Summer; July 28, 2016) • “A witty autobiographical story, intertwined with fascinating nuggets of music history and science.” • “How Tim Falconer Fought Tone Deafness and Neurology One Butchered Song at a Time” by Yasmin Tayag (Inverse; June 6, 2016)I've been fortunate to receive a lot of attention for Bad Singer. And the above illustration, from this Quill & Quire profile, makes me look far better and younger than I deserve. • “Over the last decade there have been a number of books published about the science of music—such as Daniel Levitan's This Is Your Brain on Music, Oliver Sacks's Musicophilia, and David Byrne's How Music Works—and Bad Singer is a doubly successful effort because it doesn't retread the same ground of these books, with Falconer couching his subject in a personal journey that's enjoyable to follow.”— “Is it possible for those who are tone-deaf to appreciate music or become better singers? ” by Jay Hosking (National Post; May 17, 2016) • “While he may be a bad singer, he's a thorough researcher and gifted raconteur. What Falconer lacks in pitch he makes up for in curiosity and passion.” • “Falconer eventually has the courage to stand in front of a group of friends and some strangers, tell everyone he's tone deaf, and belt out ‘Blackbird' once again. It wasn't good, but the journey was great.” • “Falconer . tells an engaging tale overall, blending the history and science with his own, often-frustrating attempts to learn how to sing.”— “From learning to sing to playing jazz, listening is key” by Chris Smith (Winnipeg Free Press; May 21, 2016) • “Falconer's self-deprecating humour keeps Bad Singer's tone lighthearted and as entertaining as the photos of him hamming it up as a singer on the book cover. Lines like “I'm a bad singer. And deep down, it matters” produce an undercurrent of sorrow, but far more pronounced are his curiosity, vulnerability, and perseverance. It's a deeply human book, and his most personal.”— “Profile: Tim Falconer uses his own tone deafness to explore how we respond to music in Bad Singer” by Carla Gillis (Quill & Quire; June 2016) • “Bad Singer is equal parts a scientific exploration and a love letter to music. In the infographic below, we've summarized four of the theories Tim discusses about why early humans may have invented music.”—”Why did humans start making music? Four theories explored in Tim Falconer's Bad Singer” (CBC Books; May 19, 2016) • “Can anyone learn to sing? Bad Singer delves into the science behind how the brain processes music” by Wency Leung (The Globe and Mail; May 23, 2016) • “What does it really mean to be tone deaf? In the fascinating new Bad Singer, Tim Falconer explores amusia — the neurological inability to perceive pitch” by Michael Rancic (Chart Attack; May 17, 2016) • With Dave White, host of Airplay on CBC Radio in Whitehorse, Yukon: “Tim Falconer finds his voice”“Writing about music,” Martin Mull quipped, “is like dancing about architecture.” Part of the problem, of course, is that the reader wants to hear what the writer is going on about. And, inevitably, I refer to many, many songs in Bad Singer: The Surprising Science of Tone Deafness and How We Hear Music. So here's your chance to hear nine of them. Books and music are the only two things I truly enjoy shopping for so the revival of independent booksellers and vinyl record shops has made me happier (though, admittedly, poorer). That's why I am thrilled to be taking part in this year's Authors for Indies, a great annual event in support of Canada's beloved independent book stores. The idea is that book lovers come in and meet writers and find out what they're reading. On Saturday, April 30, I'll be recommending good reads at Book City's Yonge and St. Clair store from 12:30 to 1:30. If you're in the area, drop by and say hi — and maybe buy a book or two. Timbre — the terroir of sound — is crucial to how we hear music. But we don't talk about it much because, unlike pitch, it has so far proven to be immune to measurement. The fine folks at Hazlitt, the excellent digital publication, have posted a Bad Singer excerpt that explains timbre's role in music. Posted in Bad Singer, music | Tagged bad singer, how we hear music, music, music cognition, music science, terroir of sound, timbre.

Human: The rest of this: "Vimeo attracts a high-art, film-buff set-the kind of people who, when making movies for the Web, pause to consider such virtues as cinematography, framing, music, and composition. "So Doug is putting together some offline meet-ups for the New York Dance/Tech community. I think the name "DanceTech" is confusing because of its similarity to Dance + Tech which I don't think is related. The topics sound good, it could be interesting if you can actually get people offline and away from their computers. Some of the suggested topics really annoy me though, such as "How dancers can create professional websites without any technical training or background, and do this very inexpensively. "That's one of the most insulting things to read as a designer and web developer. 'Hey, dancers with no training or technical knowledge could do your job. 'I think I'm going to start my own workshop called "How over-weight web designers with no training can create professional ballets and do it inexpensively. "It's just the hight of conceit to believe that you can create professional results in my field without training. I respect your work, please respect mine. "Hubbard Street Dance Chicago currently seeks an Artistic Director to continue to lead and inspire. ""Hubbard Street Dance Chicago currently seeks an Artistic Director to continue to lead and inspire the company as it enters its 33rd year. The company's board of directors has convened a selection committee and welcomes interest from qualified candidates through April 30, 2009. For more information, click here. "I find it really hard to believe that there is no plan of succession for Jim Vincent. You don't just put out an open call for an Artistic Director. (I didn't check to see if they posted an ad on Craigslist. This is something that you need to plan for and train someone for. Even at a repertory company like Hubbard Street, the Artistic Director provides the artistic mainstay of the organization and curates the work. You can't just pull someone off the street to do that. The person needs to be familiar with the work and the company. I'm not sure whether to be in awe or laugh at this new web video project from Jon M. It's like a cross between Heros and America's Best Dance Crew. I want to laugh because the premise is so far-fetched but the production values kind of win me over. I'm a still a little lost with the ballerina/ninja character. The shots are spectacular. Apparently they actually performed all of this without digital effects or wires. So part one of the project is a web video series which spawns into a franchise that intertwines the best dancers in the world with comic-book style characters, a cinematic narrative, groundbreaking live performances, and multiple product lines in video, merchandise and even electronic dance products. Check out the trailer, I think it stands on it's own pretty well. I wouldn't watch the interview with Jon though, it kind of ruins the illusion. Take for instance his quote below:"Have you ever wondered what it would be like if super heros really existed? Well, they do. And they're called dancers. "Chase is one of the few Artistic Directors that I would actually read an interview from. It does sort of surprise me that he doesn't read any dance blogs though. I mean, we reviewed his show last year and and it's even in the press section of the site. Don't let us down Chase. So if you've got a valid college student ID, email info@jacobspillow.org with "STUDENT RUSH PROGRAM" in the subject line and include their name, address, phone number, email address and the name of their college. They will email you every Monday of the festival and tell you what performances are eligible each week. Jacob's Pillow is not an impulse buy. You can't just run up there on short notice because you need a car and it's a long way from New York City. Rush tickets are designed to lure people who make easy, last minute choices. You can't do that at the Pillow. Again, I'm not really a fan of Constant Contact but it's light-years above PatronMail. Personally I'm a huge fan of Mailchimp and Campaign Monitor but Bronto and Mailer Mailer are also very nice. All four of those support very advanced users and are created for companies who are really serious about creating great campaigns. They aren't very template based becuase they assume that you will want to create unique mailers instead of adding information to a template. I think this leads to much better results but you do need to be a pretty advanced user. "So maybe instead of getting your company on twitter, paying marketers to mention you are on twitter,. ""So maybe instead of getting your company on twitter, paying marketers to mention you are on twitter, and paying people to blog about your company, forget all that and just make awesome stuff that gets people excited about your products . (or performances)"That's a really good point. Great marketing only sells a bad production once. Forget Viral Marketing, how about a performance that people want to spead? Wow, I didn't get that memo. Can't say I'm too sorry to hear it though. I always felt that the awards were very inbred. Maybe after some time off we'll get some new blood. That is a huge improvement. Nice video integration, (but some horrible interlacing problems . much cleaner layout and got rid of a lot of the nasty green color . a lot of it but not all. Much better user interface though with clear buttons. Doug has a very thorough write up of what's going down tomorrow on the OSU "Synchronous Objects" site. And speaking of Gallim, you can see them at Jacob's Pillow this summer, week 3, July 8-12. You can also see them on the Jacob's Pillow Twitter feed. I'm not totally clear if this is the official JP Twitter account or just their PR manager's though . We've entered into a new phase with My ocean is never blue as we're getting ready for our semi-site specific performance on June 22 at the Bladensburg Waterfront Park, right along the Anacostia River. For this performance we've pulled the work completely apart and are restructuring it from the ground up. Two Fridays ago we went to the park to see what we could structure specifically for this space. We ended up working on a dock that goes about half way into the river. I had one idea that we tried (doing the Drench section) and then asked for suggestions from the dancers. We ended up creating a nice 10 minute section there on the dock that will serve as the beginning section of our performance. One of the challenges with this project is bringing in material that is specific to the site - we already have alot of material from this project that we want to include, but I don't want to ignore where we are. We also want to not make it only about the river, but still keep the multi-faceted aspect of the work intact. So, bringing in more specifics about the Anacostia River and keep the larger, more general observations about water present. I'm not too worried about this, but it is an interesting balance to explore and, hopefully, find. Still struggling with our internet connection. but, here are the totals for the week that I was trying to only use 50 liters a day (they are the actual amounts, honestly). round that up to 350, divide by 7 and you get an even 50 liters per day. So, its possible, but certainly difficult. Well, I survived my days of a 50 liters limit pretty well. On Saturday, my last day of the water week, I took what was the most satisfying 4 minute shower of my life. After spending all week taking a 2 liter "bath", having water run down my body was so pleasing. As the week went on the most interesting aspect of the experiment was not figuring out how to use less water - that was interesting at first - but, it was the development of my awareness of water use. Each time I went to wash my hands, take a drink, or wash a dish, I would pause and make sure I really needed to do that action right then. Each time I began to ask, "can I wait alittle while before I use this water? ". It became an interesting meditation of sorts. I'm still not exactly sure how I will incorporate this experience into the final work, but it will be interesting to continue to reflect and see how it effects my day-to-day life. So, I was planning on making a real push to write about every day this week as I try and use only 50 liters of water each day. Then, of course, my DSL line goes down. Now it's Day 3 and I'm finally able to get out to pick up a wireless connection. The first 2 days have gone fairly well - on Day 1 I used 42 liters of water and on Day 2 I used 51.75 (drat! ). Today, Day 3, will be alittle higher because my wife and I did a load of laundry, but I'm trying to reduce the rest of my use to compensate. Here's the brake down of my use:The first question when I look at these number is "how do you bathe with 2 liters of water? " Well, it is not as bad as it sounds. Because the average shower uses 6-10 liters per minute that seems out of the question (you have to also count the time it takes the shower to warm up). So, in the morning when I'm heating water for my tea I heat up an extra amount. I pour this extra hot water into a bowl add some colder water from the faucet until I have 2 liters. I take this into the tub and use a washcloth to get wet, then soap up and then use a very wet washcloth to rinse. And, I actually feel pretty clean. Now, I don't have long hair and I can see how that would be a challenge, but otherwise it works well. : )The World Health Organization says that every person needs to have access to at least 50 liters at a minimum each day. As part of our ongoing research for My ocean is never blue, next week the company is going to try and only use 50 liters per day. One recent statistic I saw stated that the average American uses 300+ liters per day - now, I'm pretty sure I use less than that, but never the less it will be a challenge to get my use down to 50 liters. Here are some averages for water use:Clearly I won't be taking a shower each day, nor washing many clothes. I will be posting my daily water use on the blog and reflecting on some of the challenges each day. I will also be posting some ways I've found to reduce my water use. If anyone has further info about water use please post it as a comment. I'm not exactly sure how this will translate into our performance work at this point. I think of this as more like background research that informs our overall understanding of the issues as creators and performers than something that is directly carried into performance. But, maybe as we go through this process some movement, text or image ideas will emerge. I have been keeping a blog for a year and a half or so (now here, first here) that has mostly focused on the development of My ocean is never blue. I've tried to show the development of the work through description, ... Assistant: Completed pargraph(s): video and reflecting on the creative process. Lately I've found it difficult to focus on the process part. As I've mentioned recently I am a father - my daughter, Adelais, is almost 10 months old. And while I expected that my time would be less, well, mine, I did not expect that mainly the time I lost was time to reflect and process. I am responsible for her, by myself, about 25 hours a week - this is in addition to my normal teaching, Feldenkrais-ing, lighting design work and rehearsing. Plus the time that my wife, Andrea, and I just spend together with her. What time I have lost is two-fold, I have less times to write grants and pursue gigs as these don't pull in immediate money, which is obviously more important now. And, even more so, time to just sit and think about the work I'm creating. More than once I've thought, "oh shit, I have rehearsal in 2 hours - what the hell am I going to do today? " It is really frustrating, and I don't always feel at my height of creativity. I'm certainly not complaining because there is nothing, and I mean nothing, better than playing with Adelais, or having her fall asleep on my shoulder. But, it is making it more difficult to keep this blog up to date with the development of the work. I'm assuming this will get easier as she gets older. or at least I'm hoping it will. Right now, as I write this Andrea is off at rehearsal, Adelais is sleeping and should be waking up any minute. I have rehearsal today at 1:30 and I think I'm prepared. "All I know is I'm losing my mind," Franny said. "I'm just sick of ego, ego, ego. My own and everyone else's. I'm sick of everybody that want to get somewhere, do something distinguished and all, be somebody interesting. It's disgusting - it is, it is. I don't care what anybody says. I'm not afraid to compete. It's just the opposite. Don't you see that? I'm afraid I will compete - that's what scares me. Just because I'm so horribly conditioned to accept everybody else's values, and just because I like applause and people to rave about me, doesn't make it right. I'm sick of not having the courage to be an absolute nobody. I'm sick of myself and everybody else that wants to make some kind of a splash. Salinger, Franny and ZooeyThis photo is of my company, The PlayGround, performing our pre-performance section of My ocean is never blue in the lobby of the Clarice Smith Center for the Performing Arts at the University of Maryland College Park as part of the annual Choreographers' Showcase. In the foreground you can see Adelais, my 9-month old daughter . Later, during the show, we performed another section on stage. On the Tuesday following the concert we got a review in The Washington Post which was negative in regards to my work and mixed over-all. I have received many good and bad reviews over the years, so while it is always unfortunate to receive negative reviews it doesn't upset me too much. But, what was problematic about this review was that the writer, Rebecca J. Ritzel, doesn't seem to have much understanding of dance. In looking at her bio on her website it appears that she doesn't have any training or education in dance - this to me seems like a huge problem. How does The Washington Post, and media in general, decide who is qualified to review dance or pass judgment? I find it unacceptable that Ms. Ritzel was given this and further assignments to critic dance as she seems unqualified for the job. One the of dancers in my work, Amanda Abrams, wrote into The Post and had her letter published in the Op-Ed section. I think she did a good, succinct job at getting to these points. Of course, this debate about reviews - who gets to do it, what are their purpose and how much weight do we give them - is ongoing. Just recently there was a gathering of dancers and dance critics to discuss this issue here in DC - unfortunately I was not able to attend, but Rob Bettman did transcribe a bunch of the meeting (I can't find it though, Rob is it online? ). As an artist I have to be prepared to except both positive and negative reactions to my work, but when that reaction is going to be published and presented as authoritative it seems like I should get the respect of having it reviewed by someone with an understanding and knowledge of the art form. This is an excerpt from a recent rehearsal. We're working on a section titled "under/over" - each section (trio, duet, solo) is working with this image/concept. This is a rough draft, but it is a good beginning. Also, I've sped up the video some since often when watching dance on video it is perceived as much slower than when watching live. I especially like when the other dancers run in and out - kind of Benny Hill like. I haven't posted much lately, but I do have some longer posts I want to get out. just need to find the time. But, I ran across this stuff today and I can't contain myself. I have never really liked shows like So You Think You Can Dance or Dancing With The Stars because the few times I've seen these shows I always thought the dancing and choreography were weak - very superficial dancing with choreography-by-the-numbers. But other people have tried to point out to me that they aren't that bad, at least people are watching dance, it is an entry point for people to appreciate dance, etc. Well, unfortunately I think it is working in the reverse affect - dance companies are forming that seem to be taking their cues from these shows. Case in point, Rasta Thomas, one of the "stars" in the ballet/dance world has his own company The Bad Boys of Dance - watch their demo video - it is like a bunch of out takes from one of these shows. And this company premiered at Jacob's Pillow last summer, a venue/opportunity that lots of deserving artists never get. And just so the "girls" aren't left out, Rasta's wife has now started The Pretty Girls of Dance. Joe Goode is one of my long time dance favorites - since the early 90s when I did tech for his company at Dance Place in Wash. He has a blog that he rarely posts to, but just added a good, short interview with Jess Curtis - another wonderful artist who I met at Dance Place in the 90s. Both are connected to the San Fransisco scene, though Jess now splits his time in Berlin. Follow this link and enjoy their conversation. During the fall some of the dancers in The PlayGround went up to Baltimore to perform at the Maryland Art Place as part of their annual gala. One the dancers, Christine Stone Martin, has written a short bit about the experience:Recently we were invited to perform at MAP (Maryland Art Place) in Baltimore during their annual gala. It is quite a different experience performing in a gallery, verses performing in a theater. Last year we performed at Transformer and (so far) was my favorite showing of My ocean is never blue. Because Transformer was a good experience our expectations were high as we drove to the MAP event. This time however, because of the venue, we were not the main attraction, but rather part of the art or entertainment. Along side the art work displayed for the silent auction and a film projected on the wall we danced among the people, around the tables and next to a towering stack of martini glasses. For some viewers we were just a snap shot, others paused to watch when we caught their eye. One group even socialized in what we had defined as the dance space. The lines between audience and dancer are quickly blurred since there was no stage to determine dancer and viewer. So perhaps we had invaded what they had determined was their chatting before dinner space. It was a challenging evening behind the scenes too. Our dressing room was a closet, we shared a sandwich for dinner, we could not hear the music over the chatter, there were long periods of time we had to wait between performances and most people did not stand around to watch us. Well, we were rock stars and kept dancing! Looking back, I do not think it was our best performance, but we rose to the occasion. We added texture to the evening and the director of MAP told us someone from the Hirshhorn was present that evening and liked our performance. Perhaps we caught the right eye. This video is from a rehearsal in which we were working on a new section - Night Beach - for My ocean is never blue. This section was inspired by a quote from The Edge of the Sea by Rachel Carson:"The shore at night is a different world, in which the very darkness that hides the distractions of daylight brings into sharper focus the elemental realities. "It began as a solo section, but as we worked on it I liked the multiple solos all happening at the same time - with Stephanie coming forward alittle after the other dancers. Each dancer has a slightly different set of directions (or score) than the others, but they are all working with the idea of "hiding and revealing", as well as some specific focus (eyes) choices. Also, image a single source of light coming from the right side of the space (or stage left). Toward the end of the improv class I was teaching at the university we were working to integrate many of the skills we'd worked on over the semester. Solo, duet, and group scores, as well as authentic movement and contact improvisation were all part of the mix. I wanted them to work on entering the space and performing with no or very little predetermined structures - or what is sometimes called an open score. The challenge of the open score is to have everyone stay on the same page as the dance progresses and develops. One way to do this is for each dancer to have the intention of the group, at any one moment, to just be doing one thing. Often in open scores I see, for example, a duet on one part of the stage and a trio somewhere else with little awareness of one another - as if there were two separate dances being performed at the same time. But, if everyone is focused on doing one thing they cultivate an awareness of the group as a whole and work towards a kind of group unity and clarity. This idea is sometimes presented as agreeing - so as to hold the idea of adding to what is happening and not breaking it or countering it. I like that idea as well, but sometimes it is too abstract for beginning improvisers who don't have experience with framing while creating. Doing one thing, in a way, is simple to grasp. After they get the basic idea you can start questioning what one thing is and add juxtaposition, foreground/background, naming, initiator/supporter, The 3 Rs, and an array of other concepts/approaches. Obviously, doing one thing could also be more complicated with different people contributing different elements to make a complete whole. With the class this idea seemed to give them a handle to keep coming back to as they tried to create a coherent work - even though they have very little direction to begin (in a way).

Human: Fill in spans: Why go: The excellence of the cooking here lies in the details: Salads get extra crunch from super-fresh cabbage, fritters sport a greaseless crust, the paper-thin wrappers on the [spans 1] touch. The refinement is matched by elegant decor and doting service. What to get: Split-pea fritters with a smoky, salsa-like condiment; samosas filled with curried potatoes, carrots, and peas; salad of grilled beef with lime dressing; fermented-tea-leaf salad, a mélange of crispy, soft, and crunchy textures; coconutty Gold Mountain noodles with hard-boiled egg and chicken; goat curry with ginger and garlic (it has a cult-like following); shweji, a soft cake made with Cream of Wheat. Insider tip: Ask if any dishes haven't been listed [spans 2] serve. Washington doesn't exactly have the best track record with reality shows. DC Cupcakes has a singularly intense following (well, intense enough to get them a second season, anyway), but our versions of Real Housewives and Real World both aired with dismal ratings. That's why we're rooting for the pilot local boutique Sassanova filmed last week at its Georgetown and Bethesda locations. Co-owner Sassy Jacobs tells us she, partner Sarah Cannova, and their employees worked with producer Colby Gaines (co-producer of the History Channel's Pawn Stars) and a crew from Back Roads Entertainment on three days of filming. The initial concept is similar to TLC's Say Yes to the Dress. Customers come in with “emergency” shoe and [spans 3] them. Considering this casting call was posted to Hitched bridal salon's blog earlier this month, we've got a feeling these “emergencies” are about as real as Kim Kardashian's love for Kris Humphries, but we're pretty okay with that. After all, what's a reality show without a little prefabricated drama? As with DC [spans 4] lives. “It's definitely not like Real Housewives,” says Jacobs. “It's more about women [spans 5] hit. Now that the initial sizzle reel has been shot, the producers have to edit down the footage and start shopping the concept around to major networks. There's no guarantee anyone will bite, but Jacobs says she has confidence in the producer's Emmy-winning track record. “It's not like this is a done deal by any stretch,” the shop owner says. “But it'd bring amazing business to the store.”The victims: Your prize J. Crew cashmere sweater, taken out in the prime of its life by red wine. Your husband's best suit, an innocent bystander felled by oyster sauce. And, of course, your [spans 6] pasta. You look and feel great in your favorite clothes, but spills, stains and just plain stinkiness can keep you from wearing them. You need a dry cleaner you can trust. Nonprofit consumer group Washington Consumers' Checkbook's ratings of hundreds of area dry cleaners can help you identify shops that will do a great job cleaning your wardrobe without also cleaning out your wallet. For the next month, Checkbook is offering free access to its ratings of area dry cleaners to Washington Post readers at this link: checkbook.org/washingtonpost/drycleaners. In surveys of area consumers, [spans 7] customers. •Were the clothes pressed properly? One of the most common complaints that Checkbook receives from dry-cleaning customers is that shops sloppily press garments, leaving “double creases” and crushing or losing buttons. Checkbook's evaluations of local shops also include price, which was calculated based on prices quoted to its undercover shoppers who checked costs to clean 12 items. Fortunately, you don't have to pay a high price to get high-quality work. Checkbook found no correlation between price and customer satisfaction. Shops that charge low prices are just as likely to do great work as shops that charge high prices. In addition to using a low-cost company, you can save money by cleaning many garments yourself. If you learn a few tricks, you can DIY some of your dry cleaning. Start by closely reading the care label. Most clothing manufacturers aren't required to list more than one way to clean a garment. If the tag reads “dry-clean only,” respect that. If it merely says “dry-clean,” that's the recommended [spans 8] yourself. But don't try to wash materials that spot or shrink in water. That includes silk, acetate, velvet, taffeta and many wool items. On the other hand, you usually can hand-wash or machine-wash cashmere, linen, cotton and polyester. If a garment has a lining or trim, pay special attention to care instructions. Although a tweed exterior is probably good to go for hand-washing, its nylon lining might not be. Before taking your clothes to be cleaned, check them for stains and empty all the pockets. If there are stains, point them out to the clerk and provide as much information about them as you can. The more the spotter knows about what caused a stain, how long it's been there and what, if anything, you have used to treat it, the better the chances of removing it. Also indicate any hidden spots — particularly sugary spills (soft drinks, white wine, fruit juice). Pin a tag or have a staffer put tape on each stain to ensure that it is given attention. If there's a problem [spans 9] free. If the shop admits an error that resulted in permanent damage to your garment, the shop should give you the price of the garment and waive cleaning charges. Unfortunately, you can't count on getting the replacement cost for your favorite jacket. According to the Fair Claims Guide published by the Drycleaning & Laundry Institute and widely used by dry cleaners, consumers and mediators, a dry cleaner is obliged to cover the replacement cost of the garment only after adjustment for its condition and based on the unused portion of its life expectancy — for example, two years for a tie or three years for a blouse. It's tempting to blot, dab, rub or scrub that wine/ketchup/mystery substance you just spilled on your favorite silk dress. But DIY stain removal risks shrinking that expensive sport coat or making the dye bleed on your cashmere sweater. Although it's probably always safer to entrust your best garments to a pro, here are some ways you can try to banish stains yourself. Be quick: Act immediately to remove as much of the spot as possible. Blot, don't rub, with a white cloth or paper towel. Read up: Check the garment label; if it says “dry-clean only,” get thee to a pro. But if it reads “hand-wash, gentle cycle,” do [spans 10] first. When you hand-wash, dissolve a small amount of liquid soap in water, then gently push out the water (no wringing or twisting! ) and lay the garment out flat on a white towel to air-dry. Test it first: Before applying commercial stain remover to clothing, test it out on a small, out-of-the-way spot to see whether it works, makes a new stain, etc. Watch out for fussy fabrics: Some materials — including most silks, velvets and taffetas — spot or shrink when washed in water, so leave them to the dry cleaner. Others, including cashmere, linen, cotton and polyester, can usually be hand- or machine-washed (just check that label). Still, test for colorfastness first. Tailor the solution to the stain: For non-greaseball stains (ink, soda, wine), soak stained garments in cool water for 30 minutes before washing; for dry-clean-only items, sponge the stain with cool water and, if that fails, work stain remover into the spot and rinse. And if you spilled oil, margarine or wax on a garment, try working detergent into the mess. But you'll often have to resort to a grease solvent. And if the greased-up garment is dry-clean only, let the pros handle it. Dealing with blood? First, treat blood like an ordinary stain; if that fails, try a diluted ammonia solution followed by detergent and water, then rinse with more water. Try an at-home dry-cleaning kit: Products such as Dryel and Woolite use a stain-removing agent to attack spots and then fabric-freshening sheets that you toss into the dryer with your garments. They do a pretty good job cleaning lightly soiled clothes, but seriously stained things should still go to the cleaner. Know when to leave it to the pros: Anything lined — your Hugo Boss sport coat, that silk skirt — belongs at the dry cleaner because the exterior fabric and the lining can shrink and pucker strangely if you wash it. Leave leather- or bead-trimmed stuff to the pros, too. Washington Consumers' Checkbook magazine [spans 11] prices. It is supported by consumers and takes no money from the service providers it evaluates. See ratings of area dry cleaners free of charge at checkbook. Those are the latest words from Deadpool (Ryan Reynolds — who else? ), as he's being beaten with vicious fists and insults by Cable (Josh Brolin) — and they're perhaps the best meta-punchline ever delivered across the superhero cinematic universes. The final “Deadpool 2” trailer was released Thursday, and the Merc With a Mouth is in rapid-fire form as he and Weasel (T. Miller) hold tryouts for Deadpool's “super duper” new team. Deadpool also drops a meta-reference to the Marvel Cinematic Universe and Brolin's double-duty as superhero-franchise villains, saying, “Pump the hate brakes, Thanos” (Brolin will be seen as Thanos in [spans 12] War”). The trailer opens with Deadpool's directive to the freshly formed squad — “Intercept the convoy. Watch out for Cable.” — as a rig wends its way through snowy mountains worthy of “Captain America.”Soon we see how this team was assembled, as potential members simply answer an ad and state their qualifications, including Shatterstar (Lewis Tan) and Domino (Zazie Beetz). “Time to get back on LinkedIn,” says Weasel (though Miller is arguably the last actor you want right now in a trailer featuring transportation attacks). The trailer also introduces such new team members as Bedlam (Terry Crews) and non-superpowered newcomer Peter W. (Rob Delaney), a [spans 13] @HelloKitty). House Speaker Paul D. 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Assistant: Here you go: that would be best addressed with a flexible, sector-by-sector approach that empowers... Human: Continue. Assistant: the agents on the ground with the resources they need.”His comment on Trump's border wall came amid several days of planned actions on immigration... Human: Next. Assistant: by the new president. Trump signed orders aimed at cracking down on illegal immigration by creating more detention centers, increasing the number of federal border agents and withholding federal funds from cities that do not comply with federal immigration law. Trump said construction of a wall will take place “as soon as we can physically do it. I would say in months.”Hurd, who campaigned... Human: Next. Assistant: on a promise of standing up to Trump and this week called on the new president to release his tax returns, said it is... Human: More. Assistant: “impossible” to build a physical wall in the rough terrain of his district. President Trump has repeatedly asserted that "Mexico will pay" for his proposed southern border wall – but he's also said the U. will be reimbursed by Mexico after building it with taxpayer funds. (Peter Stevenson/The Washington Post)“Big Bend National Park and many areas in my district are perfect examples of where... Human: Continue. Assistant: a wall is unnecessary and would negatively impact the environment, private property rights and economy,” Hurd said, advocating for an “intelligence-led approach” to border security. No member of Texas's congressional delegation had offered full-throated support of a complete border wall as of Dec.20, according to a survey by the Texas Tribune. said Wednesday night that Congress would appropriate money for the project and explore... Human: Next. Assistant: “different ways of getting Mexico to contribute.”OKLAHOMA CITY (AP) - An Oklahoma woman was charged Friday in the 1992 deaths of her grandson's mother, another woman and a 6-year-old girl whose bodies... Human: Next. Assistant: were found buried last year in a hole that had been dug for a septic tank. Beverly Noe was ordered held without bond after being charged with three counts of first-degree murder... Human: Next. Assistant: in the deaths of 23-year-old Wendy Camp, Camp's 6-year-old daughter Cynthia Britto and Camp's 22-year-old sister-in-law Lisa Kregear. “Beverly had always wanted, and tried to get, custody of Jonathon,” special agent Marty Wilson of the Oklahoma State Bureau of Investigation wrote in the affidavit. He added that Noe had told her ex-husband that she thought Camp would interfere. Camp had been married to Noe's... Human: Next. Assistant: son, Chad Noe. She, her daughter and sister-in-law had traveled from her home in Oklahoma City on May 29, 1992, to visit young Jonathon who was with his dad in Shamrock. Beverly Noe was to give Camp and the others a ride home. Then last spring, investigators received a tip from Beverly Noe's brother, Grover Prewitt, which led them to the bodies of the... Human: More. Assistant: women and girl. The three had been buried in a hole on land Prewitt used to own near the small town of Terlton. Beverly Noe later told The Associated Press she didn't... Human: Next. Assistant: know how the three could have been found on the property 21 years after their disappearance. “I figure somebody picked them up, but I don't have a clue who,” Noe said then. “I don't know how they got back to his property. I would wonder how they got there. I really don't know how they got there. I'd agree to that.”“Grover asked her why,... Human: Continue. Assistant: to which Ida responded, ‘Because there's a couple of dead bodies in there,'” Wilson, the special agent, wrote. Grover Prewitt said he didn't ask questions and had a backhoe operator close the hole. He told investigators he later sprinkled the ground with black pepper at his mother's request to cover up any odor. Ida Prewitt died in 2011. Besides leading authorities to the hole,... Human: More. Assistant: he also gave them a sawed-off 12-gauge shotgun, which family members called... Human: Continue. Assistant: “Baby,” according to the affidavit. Autopsies showed Camp and her sister-in-law were shot. Camp also was stabbed. The 6-year-old girl died of “unspecified means.”A week later, Noe approached her brother at a... Human: Continue. Assistant: casino in Bristow and asked where “Baby” was, according to the affidavit. “Beverly told him she was not sure whether the shotgun was used... Human: Continue. Assistant: or not, but she thought it might have been used one time,” Wilson wrote in the affidavit. He added: “Beverly told him, ‘You don't have to worry about the .357 because I used (someone else's) .357, and they cannot tie it to me. ' Grover was certain Beverly said, ‘I'm the one that used the.

Human: Finish this: The guitars were viewed 1595595 times. The slave-trade is, however, still carried on to a lamentable extent on the east coast of Africa, to supply the Arabian and Persian markets, and has been the chief cause of all the depopulating wars which have taken place on that side of Africa, reducing whole districts inhabited by an industrious people into howling deserts. A squadron, consisting entirely of steamers, has now for some years been stationed on that coast for its suppression. The service on this coast, though less unhealthy, provided the crews do not sleep on shore, is often severe in the extreme, the boats being sent away for considerable periods to watch for slaving-dhows as they sail along the coast. These dhows are large, swift-sailing craft, commanded and manned by Arabs, savage fellows, who frequently fight desperately when attacked by the boats. With a strong breeze they often manage to elude even steamers. When hard-pressed, with a full cargo of slaves on board, they will run their vessels through the surf on shore in the hopes of carrying off some of their unfortunate captives who may escape from the wreck, being very indifferent about those who may be drowned. The Arabs themselves generally manage to get on shore, though sometimes the whole of their black cargo is sacrificed. From the following account by an eye-witness some of the lesser horrors of the slave-trade on the east coast may be conceived. It exhibits, also, the spirit in which our gallant officers and seamen carry on the duty imposed on them. Her Majesty's steamer Vulture, Commander Cay, was, in 1874, cruising off Madagascar, when, it being almost calm, a dhow was seen standing for the port of Majunga. Although she had every appearance of an honest trader, a boat was sent to board her, carrying one of the officers and an interpreter, with directions to hail the Vulture should any slaves be found. All was suspense till the cry came from the dhow of “She's a slaver, sir! ” Three hearty cheers were given by the Vulture's crew. “How many has she on board? ” asked the captain. “Two hundred, sir,” was the answer. A hawser was soon passed on board the slaver, and she was hauled alongside. Then began the sickening task of transferring the poor captives from the dhow to the ship. The British seamen behaved nobly; even the regular grumblers forgot their complaints and came forward to assist in transporting the weak and helpless creatures from their prison. So cramped and emaciated were they that many had to be carried in the arms of the men. Tenderly and carefully did these strong, rough fellows bear their helpless burdens, notwithstanding the filth which had accumulated on them during their long imprisonment in the pestilential hold. Now and then a baby appeared, and was eagerly lifted on board by the men. There were seven, and as the little ones were borne along they opened their eyes with wonderment. One baby had been born on board the dhow, and another had lost its mother during the fatal voyage. Those who had suffered most were children whose ages ranged from three to seven years. They had been evidently unable to hold their own against the stronger ones in the scramble for food which had taken place at feeding time; the stronger thrived, while the weaker starved. Of the hapless cargo thirty were at death's door, and thirty others little more than skeletons. Many of the unhappy beings had scarcely tasted food during their imprisonment in the dhow. In they poured, a living stream, until the ship's decks were covered with a black mass of human beings of all ages, including women so old that it was difficult to understand what object those dealers in human flesh could have had in shipping such worthless articles for the slave-market. At last the stream stopped. “They're all out of the dhow, sir,” exclaimed the seamen who remained on board the vessel. “Have another look and make quite sure,” answered the commander. Well it was that they did so, for in a dark corner of the hold, buried all but the head in the sand which the dhow carried for ballast, lay a poor old woman. She was dug out and borne on board. In the meantime the Arabs came on board the Vulture, but these, having suffered no privations, were able to walk, and as they came over the side the ship's corporal and corporal of marines stripped them to search for arms or money. Nothing being found, they had their clothes returned, and were marched on to the poop and placed under a sentry's charge to wait till they could be turned over to the tender mercies of the Sultan of Zanzibar—a fate they dread very much. There were two women on board who seemed past hope of recovery; the one who was dug out of the sand, and another with an infant at her back, in which way these people carry their children. The greater portion were suffering dreadfully. Forty-one men, 59 women, and 137 children were taken out of the dhow from between her decks, where they had been packed, unable to move during the whole voyage. The young and good-looking women, who were the most profitable portion of the cargo, appeared to have been well fed, while the men and boys had been starved. The first care was to remove the filth with which they were covered. Those able to bear it were passed under the steam hose, the few rags they had on being taken away as they entered the stream, and as they passed out dry coverings were wrapped round them, contributed by the officers and seamen, such as shirts, towels, sheets, flannels, etcetera. The weaker ones were washed in warm water with soap. Nothing could exceed the gentleness with which the hardy tars handled these poor creatures. By the time they had all been washed the food was ready, and they were made to sit down in circles of from twelve to twenty. Large bowls of boiled rice and beans were placed in the centre of each group; this was the signal for the most dreadful din; each fearing his or her neighbour would get a larger share, crammed the food into their mouths, fighting, squalling, crying, and shouting being carried on all the time until the dishes were empty. It showed what must have been the state of things in the dhow, where there was no room to portion them ... Bot: Rest of text: off, neither would the lazy Arab disturb himself to see justice done to each. The sick were cared for by the doctor and his attentive sick-bay man, assisted by all the officers. Preserved milk, port wine, brandy and water, and preserved fowl were pressed upon these suffering ones, who were almost too far gone to care for anything, except to be allowed to die in peace. The difficulty was to berth them; it was impossible to let them go below, their filthy habits making it necessary that they should remain on the upper-deck, where plenty of water could be used for washing down. They were accordingly made to lie close to each other, when sails were covered over them and screens were hung round, while the awning was stretched over the top of all. Sleep was out of the question, even for the weary seamen; the groans and cries were most heartrending. The doctor and his assistant were up all night attending to the poor captives. At Majunga calico was purchased to clothe them. In the morning they went through the same cleansing process as the night before, when the warm sun, and decks washed down, made things look more cheerful. The dhow having been burnt, the Vulture stood away for the Seychelles. Cold nights told upon the exhausted frames of the poor captives, fifteen of whom passed away in spite of every care before the ship had completed half her voyage to the Seychelles. Happily the weather remained remarkably fine. Altogether seventeen deaths occurred among the slaves during the twelve days they were on board before the ship reached her destination. Six of these were children. The two women most despaired of were landed in a much improved state. Frequently the slaving-dhows captured are in a far more horrible state than in the instance above given. The Arabs have been known to murder and throw into the sea every slave on board, in the hopes of preserving their vessel when they have seen no chance of escape. Very often half the slaves die on the voyage between the coast of Africa and the Persian Gulf. Probably, for every slave captured ten human lives have been lost, either in the attack on their native villages or on the journey to the coast, or by the attempts made to land them through the surf when chased by men-of-war, or by starvation and sickness on board. Still, as long as the Arabs have any hopes of making the voyage profitable, they will pursue the traffic, and the only way to put a stop to the horrible system is by making the chances of capture so great that they will be compelled to abandon it in despair. This can most effectually be done by keeping a large squadron of fast steamers, well supplied with boats, under zealous and active officers, with orders to board and thoroughly examine every dhow they can fall in with, and not to allow one to pass which has the slightest indication of being destined for the slave-trade. British ships of war, mostly steamers, now traverse the whole of the Pacific, one of the chief services in which they are engaged being the prevention of the kidnapping system which has been carried on to a great extent to supply the Fiji Islands and Queensland with labourers. Nothing could be more abominable than the system which has been pursued. Small-armed vessels have been fitted out, and have, by fraud or violence, got the natives of different islands to come on board, when, shutting them down under hatches, they have carried them off and disposed of them, though nominally as free labourers, yet in reality as slaves. By the efforts of the naval officers engaged in the service, the practice has nearly, if not entirely, been suppressed. These satisfactory results have not been produced without the sacrifice of the lives of many gallant officers and seamen, the destruction of the health of many more, and by a large expenditure of money. The question to be asked is, “Will England be content, when contemplating all that she has done, that slavery and the accursed slave-trade shall exist in any part of the world where she by means of her navy has the power to put it down? ” We are confident that from every part of the British dominions the answer will be, “No! at every cost we will continue the noble work we have commenced, and not rest while a single nation dares to assert her right to enslave our fellow-men.”We hold it as one of the most glorious privileges which England possesses that a slave once setting foot on British soil or reaching the deck of a British man-of-war is a slave no longer, and must not be delivered up to the man who calls himself his owner while an English soldier or sailor remains alive to defend him, or a plank of the ship in which he has sought refuge still floats above the surface. More, we would say that should the fugitive slave place his hand on the gunwale of the smallest boat above which the flag of England flies, protection should be afforded him, even though his pursuers were at his heels. Let other nations know that England denies that one man can justly enslave his fellow—acknowledges not the right of ownership in slaves, but is resolved to strike off the fetters from the captive wherever he can be reached, whether on shore or afloat. But her task is only yet partly accomplished—she has still a great and glorious work before her, and to enable the officers of our ships to perform their duty as they would wish to do it, they must be hampered by no vexatious restrictions, or be allowed to feel that they are liable to heavy fines or censure should they overstep the strict line of their orders. Let them rather be assured that the nation fully understands the difficulties with which they have to contend, and will afford them support should they err in exhibiting their zeal in the repression of the evil traffic. The west coast still requires watching; each harbour on the east coast from which slaves are shipped must be blockaded, till every Arab dhow manned by a slave-trading crew is captured and destroyed. Our fleet of gunboats could not be more usefully employed than in such an undertaking, and in a few years, or months even, under active officers, they would render slave-trading too precarious a pursuit to be followed.

Input: What could be the completion of this text: A lot of people discard the idea of Oriental restaurants in, well, oriental countries. The notion of leaving behind your mother's delicious home-cooked meals to get the same food in a restaurant seems ridiculous. Why would I pay good money for something I get at home for free? Well, the winners of the Oriental Cuisine Category in this year's Cairo 360 Editor's Choice Award ... Output: The completion of this text could be: have an answer for that question. The restaurants on this list have managed to create something unique, they've managed to add their own twist the traditional local dishes we love so much. So without further ado, here are this year's winners! InterContinental Citystars offers something different with Al Khal restaurant. It has the class of a hotel restaurant, and the flavors of an Egyptian... Input: Next. Output: home. Authenticity is something they take very seriously, and it shows in their food. So what will it be? Mama or Al Khal? Their quirky setting in Korba is home to a large array of classic Egyptian-home meals. Their food and atmosphere will exceed your expectations. Among the huge list of interesting Maadi restaurants comes Kazouza with its own twist on Egyptian cuisine. Kazouza's... Input: More. Output: delicious food and warm atmosphere create something unique that keeps people coming back, and makes it one of the most popular restaurants in town. Speaking of something unique, Bab El Sharq went... Input: Next. Output: down the risky path and did something creative, or even experimental with... Input: More. Output: our traditional dishes. How experimental, you ask, well, you can get a pigeon stuffed with lobster. The Nile Ritz-Carlton's flagship restaurant is all about crafting classic dishes, but with its own unique... Input: More. Output: twist. A lot of local restaurants focus their efforts on tourists, and has succeeded in establishing itself as a go-to for oriental-craving tourists. Located in Sofitel Cairo El Gezirah, El Kebabgy's unique style has helped it to remain one of the best Oriental restaurants in Cairo. ## Tapping into the under-represented Moroccan cuisine, La Palmeraie captures the essence. Their dishes are delicious and refined, and the atmosphere is something out of a 1001 Nights story. Le Pacha 1901, the hot spot for some time now, is still maintaining some of its glamour with restaurants like Le Tarbouche. The hearty Middle Eastern dishes they offer is something very difficult to find elsewhere. When it comes to oriental dining, you can't go wrong at Le Tarbouche. After creating Tamara Lebanese... Input: Continue. Output: Restaurant, the folks at Mori Co. thought they could do better, so they went on to create a restaurant with a different take on Lebanese cuisine. Its creative atmosphere and unique dishes rejuvenated Cairo's love for Lebanese cuisine. A new addition to this year's awards thanks to its premium ingredients and excellent flavours. While lacking in menu variety, Enab Beirut makes up for quantity with sheer quality. The dishes are flavourful and well-executed, and its atmosphere is cosy with cheerful vibes. Another new addition and another Lebanese restaurant, but one with quite a twist. It puts a contemporary approach to Lebanese cuisine, and succeeds thanks to the 50 years of experience that the consultant and head chef share. Their quirky setting matches their quirky cuisine, and results in... Input: Continue. Output: quite a quirky but delicious experience. PLEASE READ THE TERMS AND CONDITIONS OF USE AGREEMENT (this "Agreement") CAREFULLY BEFORE USING THIS SITE (the "Site"). This Site is provided by Calamar ("Calamar") and... Input: More. Output: is free to use by our visitors ("you"). And by using this Site, you the user are agreeing to comply with and be bound... Input: Continue. Output: by the following terms of use. 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Input: Next. Output: that of a family member. ​​​​Have the employee's health care provider complete this medical certification as needed. ​​​An employee may use this notice to have his/her health care provider certify that he/she may return to work. Have the employee's health care provider complete this medical certification as needed. This form is used for employee's seeking reasonable accommodation, transfer or Pregnancy Disability Leave for pregnancy, childbirth or a related medical condition. ​​Use this form when an employee requests leave due to a qualifying exigency relating to a family member's military service. Give this notice to your selected provider when requesting an credit report on an applicant or employee. Give this notice to your selected provider when requesting an investigative consumer report on an applicant or employee. Use this checklist... Input: More. 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CHIPRA added new notice and disclosure obligations for employers that provide... Input: Continue. Output: group health plans in states that offer Medicaid or state CHIP assistance in the form of premium assistance subsidies. CHIPRA also created additional HIPAA special enrollment rights that permit eligible employees and... Input: Next. Output: their dependents to enroll in an employer's group health plan in two situations: (1) when Medicaid or CHIP coverage is terminated due to loss of eligibility; and (2) upon eligibility for a... Input: Continue. Output: premium assistance subsidy under Medicaid or CHIP. The Employer CHIP Notice must be provided annually, on an automatic basis and free of charge. It must inform each employee (regardless of enrollment status) of potential opportunities for premium assistance in the state in which the employee resides. ​Begin using this COBRA Administration Guide when an employee is hired and refer back to it when a... Input: Next. 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Output: employ the highest standard in business valuation and can estimate the value of a business for litigation, in preparation for a merger, or for insurance purposes. Many opportunities for fellowship are available at Calvary-for all ages. The church's organized groups are listed below. A women's organization has always been a mainstay of Calvary Presbyterian Church. In the 1970s Calvary's Women's Fellowship became part of... Input: More. Output: the national organization, Presbyterian Women of the USA. Its purpose is to dedicate its work to mission opportunities and to encourage the spiritual growth of women. Each year the Women's Fellowship dedicates... Input: More. Output: the money it raises through pledges and fundraisers to support the national mission fund. Through activities like the Christmas Boutique, CWS Blanket Drive, and Book Cart sales, it supports international projects as... Input: More. Output: well as local organizations, including Presbyterian Children's Village, Laurel House and Interfaith Housing. When a woman joins our church, she automatically becomes a member of the Women's Fellowship, and is welcome to join groups called circles. Calvary currently has three circles, which usually meet monthly on the third Monday (September through May). Every woman can benefit from becoming involved with this strong group of dedicated women. For more information, call the church office. Men, if you are available during the week, consider joining the men's breakfast group, which meets monthly (September through May) at an area restaurant for food and fellowship. Contact Ken Benner for details. This is a group of seniors who meet monthly (September through June) for lunch and fellowship at various locations. Ken Bailey and... Input: Continue. Output: Margie Rowe are the coordinators.

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In an effort to help shorten the learning curve for those who are ... below is a list of the top six things you should know. Just because your loved one goes AWOL for a few hours doesn't necessarily mean that ... them. The reality is that there are ... why someone might not answer the phone. Your ... out of the house, they could be napping, or ... have forgotten to charge or turn on their ... phone. Before you allow a missed call to let your imagination run wild, ... plan in place. For example, have your care ... every day at the same time, no matter where he or she might be. That way, if you don't get the call, you have a logical reason to worry. If memory issues make that approach too much of a challenge for ... enlisting a neighbor, friend, volunteer or paid companion to stop by ... quick text or email that all ... well. Be sure to gather contact information for a few of your loved one's neighbors in case ... emergency. Consider purchasing a wearable emergency medical alert ... peace of mind. You probably don't want to call your ... day to check up on them, and it's likely they aren't keen on you phoning nonstop to make sure they're okay either. Wearing ... medical alert device means that they have the ability ... the push of a button no matter where they are. Long-distance caregivers are familiar with hearing that everything is fine (or ... all awful! ). But, you can't always take what a senior ... value. There is no substitute for in-person visits while caregiving. This holds true whether your loved ones live across town or across the country. You must make a point of regularly checking things out for yourself. Countless adult children ... is well until they come home for a visit ... flags. On visits, be sure to keep an eye out for common warning signs that a senior needs help ... home. Open the refrigerator and pantry to check for wholesome, unexpired food. Check for piles of unopened mail ... unpaid. See if the home or yard needs any repairs, maintenance or modifications to ... safety. Strike up a conversation with the neighbors to get their take on how your loved one is faring. If you can't make this visit ... trustworthy person to check in and report back to you. Another family member or friend might be able to step up, or you may want to hire a geriatric care manager or an in-home ... fill you in on any changes or concerns. Just because ... the fridge is stocked with healthy food doesn't mean it always looks like this! Very often, older family members don't want to worry their caregivers ... burden. So, they ensure they are on their best behavior before and during visits. They work ... least on the surface. (Be aware that seniors tend to put on this ... doctor's appointments, too! ) If you suspect this might be the case, ... visit. In any event, it's wise to open drawers and ... cabinet, and at least take a ... basement, attic or garage. Snooping is never ... case, it's done with the best of intentions: keeping your loved one safe. You might find that they have quite literally swept the true state of affairs ... for our cars and major household appliances, so why ... for ourselves? If you are a caregiver, especially a long-distance one, the single most important resource you can have ... one's life. You may want to create two copies. Keep one at your home and leave one at your loved one's home in case someone ... it in the event of an emergency. Yours should be the master copy and ... your loved one's complete health history, legal documents and financial information. The guide you leave with ... can be a “light” version that contains emergency contacts, general medical information, and a do-not-resuscitate order if applicable. However, do not include sensitive financial or ... numbers or their social security number. This ... information in one place so you don't have to search high and low when you need something. Leaving an emergency file with your loved one also makes it easy for a neighbor or first responder ... and act quickly in difficult situations. Equally as important, the process ... and your care recipient (and any other caregivers) to form a partnership and really talk ... healthcare decisions, legal preparations and financial matters before they become crises. Whether you and your loved one are living under ... or you're caregiving from afar, it's natural to become overwhelmed ... point. While a hands-on caregiver can be directly ... finding reinforcements and “showing” exactly how things should ... caregiver usually has to rely solely on “telling” what's needed. Because of this, clarity and ... paramount. Many long-distance caregivers make the mistake of simply requesting that ... on Mom,” but then become frustrated when this person cannot answer questions about the state of the refrigerator or whether Mom's ... organized. Vague requests for help often go ignored or don't wind up being beneficial. Instead, make a list of possible issues or problem areas that your loved one has, then request help with monitoring those specific things. For instance, rather than ... to pop in and say “hi” to Mom, specify that you ... check that the kitchen is stocked, dispose of any ... at Mom's medication organizer during each visit. This ... their efforts are actually benefitting Mom and giving you peace of mind. Just be ... your loved one ample notice so that they aren't unnerved ... what they may assume to be an ... neighbor or friend. The most important lesson ... is that healthy communication solves many issues. Caregivers must keep channels of communication open with their loved ones at all times so that no one makes assumptions. All ... care team must communicate with one another to avoid duplication of effort and oversights. Caregivers must let their ... going on with them. When a caregiver encounters a particularly ... share it and receive constructive advice. When putting together a comprehensive care plan, or even preparing to take your loved one to a doctor's ... ready. Caring for a senior will keep you on the ... toes. The best way roll with the punches is to plan for the unexpected, try to remain calm and put forth your best effort. While ... points are intended for long-distance caregivers, they ... for anyone who is looking after an elderly loved one. The goals are still the same, regardless of ... safe and as independent as possible, ... balance your own life and self-care. I'm in a situation that is getting progressively worse. In late 2007 my three children and I ... was widowed in 2005 and found it hard to financially support three children and a house. My parents were in their late 70s at the time, and although my mother has neuropathy ... in fairly good shape. I am the oldest of three children. My brother is married ... sister is married with no children. They each live about 45 minutes away. Since the ... in, my father had a major stroke and died in 2010. My ... and was just discharged from the rehabilitative facility. She seems to be ... better. She is constantly complianing about Meals on Wheels ... that I have delivered, and in general refuses to help herself. She won't eat any of the meals even though she knows I am at school in ... cannot cook for her on those days. There are a few issues here. In 2010 I lost my job ... the reasons was because I had to take too much time off to help out my parents. When my father ... everything. My brother and sister did not help. The financial arrangement I had with my parents prior to my losing my job was that ... the bills 50/50. I also helped with making some repairs on the house. Unfortunately, ... this. Since my father died, I have handled everything ... mother. She has become totally dependent on me. Again, my brother and sister do not help. Financially, it has been devastating for me. I have ... all of my personal savings since I've lost my ... attorney and was on my mother's accounts, I have had to use money in those ... well. I am terrified because the house is in my ... when she passes, it goes to all three of us children. I am nervous that my brother and sister will try and force me out of the house. I am worried as my brother and sister have the ... there, I am solely responsible for everything having to do with my mother. It's like having another child. I still have not found a job and ... licensed esthetician in New York State. I ... to look for a job in ... field. When I try and bring up the subject to my mother that soon I hope to be working ... and cannot afford to stay home and take care of her, she refuses to discuss it. When I mention that my sister and brother are well off financially and can afford to come down every once in awhile to do something for her, she refuses to discuss it. There are times I feel as if I am being punished for having to live there, but she cannot live alone. She is very nasty to me at times and has told me that I'm not supposed to have a life because my "time is over" (meaning me and any opportunity I could have). She has even said I should "kiss her feet" because if it weren't for her, I would be out in the street. A part of me feels she deliberately doesn't help herself in order to force me to quit school and have to stay and take care of her. I am very angry at my siblings for not helping and for not even calling. My brother calls once a month, my sister calls once every two weeks and visits once a month. Her husband told my oldest daughter that my sister doesn't like to come here because it gets her anxious. I am at the point where I cannot stand it anymore. I also feel that since my brother and sister are not involved by choice, they shouldn't be entitled to a portion of the house. We live in Connecticut, very close to New York State. I am truly at my wits end with this situation. I am so afraid that if my mother dies, I'll be out of a place to live. I'm afraid if she gets worse, I will be the one bearing the burden of full time care of her. All I want to do is go back to work and get on with my life. Suhara, thanks so much for returning to provide an update, albeit an unsettling and nightmarish one for you. I think sometimes the people who work for APS or monitoring agencies are what my father refers to as educated idiots. They may know the law, as they interpret it, as to providing care, but they haven't been down in the trenches to know what caregiving is really all about. But armed with their degrees, they freely make judgments on others. We encountered one PT director who had that approach - a really arrogant alpha male. The next time we went to that facility, I spoke with the Admissions Director before and shared my concern, stating that I wouldn't feel comfortable bringing my father there again if that man was involved in any manner whatsoever with my father's treatment. I was assured he wouldn't be, and he wasn't. It's really sad to read about the way you've been treated by both the social service network as well as your family. I think you can just write your brother off and don't expect anything from him - he seems to have wanted a payoff after your mother's death and didn't get it, so he blames you. If he holds a grudge for the rest of his life, it will be stress on him, not you. Good luck with your new career, and remember that you don't have to justify yourself to any of your relatives! suhara, it is so good to hear from you. You had a rough year. I wondered what the home health nurse expected from someone who was bedridden and close to death. We all know that many stop eating very much and bedsores can form on people who are carefully cared for. Some of our members here have talked about fighting bedsores, so I know they are a big problem for delicate skin. The nurse was probably just covering her own hiney by putting yours in the fire. I am so glad that the house came to you. I don't know how much more your brother wanted you to give. Some family members have the idea that we get free rent and are living the life of Riley. If only they realized that we are spending our own retirement savings and have a job that few people would want! Maybe everyone should be a caregiver for at least one month of their lives so they would understand that it is a demanding, tedious job. Talking about the job. I better get off the computer and get busy. I've been goofing off all morning. It feels good to do nothing this week before Christmas before all the cooking starts. I hope you have a great Christmas with the people you care about. So much has happened since I began this discussion! My mother has since passed away on October 28, 2015. In November 2014, she was placed on home hospice care for failure to thrive, but began to come around, so she was discharged in January (2015). My mother began to realize that I was the one giving her care all this time with very little help. She titled the house in both of our names as joint tenants with right of survivorship. By that time she was completely bedridden, and I became her sole caregiver. My brother hardly visited (just twice this year), and my sister would come about once a month or so. My mother thrived for awhile, but around the end of the summer began to steadily decline as was expected by her doctor. This was no surprise. She developed a bedsore at the end of September requiring home health care, and that is when my nightmare began. The home health nurse reported me to State of Connecticut Social Services. The caseworker arrived unannounced on a Monday morning when I was at work. My 21-year old daughter was at home and very frightened to let him in. He threatened to call the police, so of course she let him in. He stated I did not take good care of her (mind you, she got the bedsore after I provided eight months of care on my own, the only bedsore she ever got), that she wasn't eating (she wouldn't eat) and that I was neglectful. He called my brother and sister for a "family conference". He started to force my mother into Medicaid proceedings , with the full backing of my brother and sister. I believe they saw it as an opportunity to jump on board because the caseworker wanted to go to court to reverse the title of the house back to my mother. After two weeks of harassment, unscheduled visits, and threatening phone calls from the caseworker, I contacted an attorney who was a lifesaver. Three weeks after this all started, my mother passed peacefully. My youngest daughter and I were with her. My sister came by the day before, my brother never came. My brother would not talk to me or my daughter at the wake or burial. He has called me once since then to find out if there is "anything" that he is entitled to. I calmly explained there are no assets except the house, which passed to me by right of survivorship. I explained that both of our parents had devastating illnesses which depleted their assets. I also explained that I cared for them which limited the hours I could work and had a loss of income. As of this date, I am getting back into living again. I have gone back to my community involvement, I am looking for another part time job to supplement my hours, and I'm trying to decide if I want to stay in this house or sell it and relocate. The positive side to that is the house is mortgage free. The negatives are the hurtful behaviors of my brother and sister. But even if I do relocate, those feelings will still be there. I have a lot to think about. I do talk to my sister and even spent Thanksgiving with her and her husband and in-laws, but I really feel that my brother is very bitter and wants nothing to do with me. This Christmas will be a very quiet one. My two older children live in Seattle and I'll spend it with my youngest daughter, our two dogs, and a longtime friend. I'm good with that-it will be peaceful. suhara, I understand. I just added a discussion on feeling invalidated as a caregiver. It is so hard to be unappreciated by the person you are caring for. Your mother should be saying thank you and thinking of what you need. Instead, you have worries. You sound like you are taking your life into your hands by going into a new field. That is so good to read. From the sound of what you wrote, your mother may live for many more years. I hope that it will give you time to get your life settled and your finances growing again. Have you discussed having the house come to you when your mother dies? That seems to me to be the easiest thing to do. Since you have been there several years as a caregiver, it may be that the house would be exempt from recovery if your mother should need to go on Medicaid. That is not given, however, since you will have to work outside the home to support yourself. States can decide that if a person could work full-time outside the home that their service as a caregiver was not mandatory to prevent a parent from going into a NH. It can certainly be a difficult stipulation to put on a cg - give life totally or lose the house. For now, keep your head high and guard those finances. That is a hard thing to do where you live. Things will turn around soon. I wish you had a lot of money, but when you don't, you just have to think about what is best for you and your children. You are contributing a lot, and your mother just needs to put you below her for some reason. I go through it a lot, so know how you feel. The last thing we need is this self-esteem leaching that can go on when we're serving others. 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I am so sorry [spans 1] situation. Have you contacted a home nursing company or ask her doctor to request one visit for an evaluation? It may be that your Mom can no longer be cared for at home. It isn't easy but sometimes the child has to be the adult and make the right decision even if Mom doesn't agree and gets upset. You first of all of have to take care of you and your family! Best of luck! I love my boyfriend but after everything that has happened in the past thirteen years with his parents and the past three years with his grandma I just want to run away. I love my boyfriend but I'm so tired of dealing with his drug addicted parents and taking care of his lazy grandma. She has copd and she smokes but blames it on everything else. Three years ago she got really sick with pneumonia and had to be put on a ventilator to save her life. When the pneumonia was gone she started rehab and was doing so good. Her son was forcing his wife to take care of her. His wife got tired of her doing nothing to take care of herself [spans 2] helping. Her son started an argument where he was telling her she was going to have to start doing things for herself. Some things were reasonable like making her own lunch and others [spans 3] dishes. There's six people living together and that's a lot of dishes every day. Well that started a fist fight between her son and her grandson(my bf) well her son and his wife moved out a week later and his grandma quit rehab and when the cancer was cleared up she starting smoking again all most immediately. And now she won't do anything hardly for herself. She won't take three steps from the kitchen table to get a spoon from the drawer. She won't dress or undress herself. She won't exercise or anything. Everyone treats her like she's going to drop dead at any time but I know better. If she would just get off her butt and move around she would be able to do things for herself. Why should I give up my life to take care of someone who has given up on livingYOu shouldn't. so you have a decision to make. And a caregiver contract to get if you choose to stay. or you will be in even worse shape down the road. If you are waiting on her hand and foot, you better [spans 4] family. My mom lives in my home and she thinks one of the caregivers steals. This girl is my stepdaughter and definitely DOES NOT steal. My mom has some dementia (undiagnosed, but I have seen the decline), and she misplaces things. Then she thinks that my stepdaughter has stolen them. My mom has two more caregivers-companions for her-she only needs moderate care-and she never accuses them of stealing. When I try to defend my stepdaughter, the exchange goes VERY BADLY. I do not feel I can agree with her, even though that would probably be easiest. I feel agreeing will just validate her and she will accuse my stepdaughter even more. There is definitely no stealing going on-it is all in her head. My mom is relatively normal with [spans 5] matter. I do not know how to diffuse this situation when it comes up without having a major confrontation. I am becoming majorly burned out by this never ending point of contention. Any ideas from anyone out there? My mom has Alzheimer. At the time, we didn't know this. Mom had all these hiding places. Then she would accuse all of us of stealing her money. She would frantically search for it. The key is to "find" the item with her there with you. From past experience, if you find it, and she's not there to see you find it, she will accuse you of putting it back and trying to make her go crazy. Whereas, if she finds it with you, she will just say that someone is trying to make her go crazy but she will not accuse you of it. (The somebody is that invisible person who is playing tricks on her. It's best to read as much as you can about Alz. Different people react when they have Alz. There are also medications that can help her delay the Alz or to control her anger issues. I hope SD is able to let your mom's words go in one ear and out the other. At the same time, you both need to be alert of her actions. Take care! "I'm sorry that your bracelet is missing. Would you like to have a glass of milk and some cookies now? "And I'd like to point out that it [spans 6] behavior. There are certainly people who live to be a hundred and who have never accused someone of stealing in their lives. What you describe is typical of certain kinds of dementia. I want to be clear about this, because I think it will help you cope with your mother if you are clear about what is going on. If she were simply older than you, trying to reason with her makes sense. If she has dementia she is losing her ability to reason, and that is no longer a viable approach. I hope that you can find ways to not let it push your buttons and to increased stress levels for you. Ive never thought of the association aspect. It could be that you have something there. My stepdaughter is gracious about this and she does understand the aging process to some extent. We just use SDs help for a couple of hours in afternoon until we can get home from work. S She will not accuse SD directly, nor will she tell my husband. She just insists on calling me aside to tell me what SD has stolen, and it really pushes my buttons because I know it is not true. Again, I don't feel I can validate the behavior, but when I disagree with my mom and I can't find the missing item, my mother triumphantly declares "See I told you she steals". It just becomes [spans 7] accusations. I agree: you can't pretend to agree that SD is stealing. You can validate your mom's feelings, though. "Oh [spans 8] there. I am going to help you search for that braclet because I [spans 9] misplaced. " Once you discover your mother's favorite hiding spots this will not be as hard as it sounds. (Often it not that the item was "misplaced" - it was deliberately hidden, to protect it from thieves. How is your SD taking these accusations? Does she understand the nature of [spans 10] . like SD reminds Mom of a girl in her 4th grade class who did steal something of Mom's. Who knows? But it [spans 11]. Output: spans 1: you are in such a spans 2: and then telling her son that she wasn't spans 3: were not like washing the spans 4: make sure you get paid! And are not spending your own money on her and this spans 5: most issues, except for this spans 6: isn't the "aging process" behind this spans 7: a confrontation, and intellectually I know I "buy In", but I don't know how to not "buy in" and how to avoid validating my mother's spans 8: Mom! It really is dreadful to have your nice things go missing, isn't it? I suppose that somebody could have taken your charm braclet, but it doesn't seem likely to me, when the cash I have in my desk drawer is still spans 9: think it might have been spans 10: dementia and not to take this personally? Are you aware of any reasons Mom might pick on SD especially? Do they get along most of the time? There could be a reason that you'll never figure out spans 11: is important to assure your stepdaughter that this is not her fault and she shouldn't take it personally

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<prompter> Fill in words: The last six months have been interesting. And the reason I haven't blogged at all is because, well . Or rather I wrote about killing a lot of people. From poison, to [words 1] arrows. The first murder began with my second book in The Winnebago Chronicles. Not so much that any [words 2] it, as much as I made [words 3] to cease all work on that [words 4] later). With that fresh kill I moved [words 5] wanted to write about, The Superstition Mountains. Flashback: When my Aunt Kris used to babysit me while my teacher parents were working, she would tell me and my cousin, Nick, old legends about the mysterious mountain range on the [words 6] the Phoenix Valley. And they have always fascinated me. My blog absence [words 7] about seven months ago when my ANWA critique group challenged me to write a middle grade (Chapter book for kids about 9-12). I worked really hard and after a month of it going from middle grade to [words 8] remembered something kind of important: I don't even like kids. I mean, I like them, but . Now that [words 9] for my character. I had fleshed out a world for my story that I didn't want to give up on. I was thinking a type of Harry Potter [words 10] without magic) and already started building a mystery for the kids to solve. But since I didn't want [words 11] write for kids, it got stuck in a world with out a hero. [words 12] everything changed. I had always loved [words 13] Longmire. I knew there were books, but I hadn't ever even thought of reading them. Truth be told, I don't even like the mystery genre. But I heard one of Craig Johnson's audiobooks read by George Guidall and everything came together. The voice, the age, the je ne sais quois was what I was missing. Things didn't flow [words 14] for The Fattest Mormon. But almost every night from when I got home [words 15] forced words out. I acompanied my writing time with hours worth of Dark Country [words 16] reach my daily word count goal. By the beginning of September I had a mystery. For the last couple of months I've been editing (the gaggiest part of writing). The story is out to beta readers, and I've started my own line editing process. That [words 17] with. I've recently lost interest in a few genre's altogether. I blame really bad movies. Like really bad, poorly [words 18] movies that I may have anticipated a [words 19] much. I hadn't really thought of this until recently. Because, yes, [words 20] Wars geek. And, yes, I am one of those people that absolutely despised The [words 21] Jedi. I'm not going to go into it because [words 22] has voiced the same feeling about how much I hated it. But I will say that immediately following [words 23] film I invested half of my 401(k) in a defense based mutual fund just to spite Rose and Finn's excellent adventure. And that has paid off. To me though, Star Wars [words 24] me. I had to examine what it was [words 25] movie and the realize what an absolute loser I was for getting so excited about it. All the speculation and expanded [words 26] came crashing down on me forcing me to wake up and realize what a waste [words 27] was. And then I realized it has happened before. [words 28] are the movies that ruined entire [words 29] me. True, I may have posted recently about Thor and Black Panther. But going into a comic book movie hasn't been the same since Suicide Squad/Justice League. I had all the hope [words 30] . I now set a low [words 31] book movies and then hope to be impressed. Finally, this is what a Genre [words 32] does. SciFi/Fantasy doesn't taste good anymore. A month after [words 33] watched the most recent Star Trek. I couldn't look at Capt Kirk the same way. Because Star Wars had already shown me [words 34] pathetic waste of time it all was. Thank you Warner [words 35] Lucas Films. I've been a man for [words 36] time. But you have now matured my taste in entertainment. I've been [words 37] the invasion of Iraq. One thing in particular stood out now that I'm a story teller. The fact that I'm a really bad story teller. I was waiting [words 38] buddies. I don't remember what story I told but they looked at me like [words 39] a complete idiot. That's when one turned to me and said, "Aba, you're on story probation. "That didn't [words 40] good. It was a terrible story, but I had to earn permission again if I was going to share with the group again. And now here I am, years later with a story that I'm trying to sell. This one is a little better. You can thank a good editor for that. [words 41] afraid to find an Amazon review placing me back on story probation. February 9, 2003 will be [words 42] forget. That was the date I pulled out my new gas mask filter [words 43] Camp Coyote in Kuwait. I'll remember that date because that was what I wrote on a piece of green duct tape. From there we waited to invade Iraq. We did some training, some classes, and [words 44] prep. But for the most part there was a lot of down time. So at [words 45] that maybe I should write a book. It was dark and I had my red lens "moon beam" pointed down on a notebook. Fire watch in our great big "Haji" [words 46] fire. Maybe we prevented anyone from coming in and stealing some gear, but it was primarily to wake everyone up and get them out in case the tent caught on fire. [words 47] military thriller about the U. and Israel taking [words 48] world. The main character was a Recon Marine. An invincible Mary Sue type that was going to change the course of the world. Eventually, I lost some of the momentum when the actual war got in [words 49] and I had to sit in the back of a dump truck for a few days [words 50] turn to lay down a hose line. I don't actually like the [words 51] Mormon. In a perfect world I would have named the title of my book. The Last [words 52] Carroll. It sounds pretty epic rolling off the tongue. [words 53] people do judge books by their cover I went with the more provocative title. The Fattest Mormon [words 54] bait more or less. But with sales where they are I'm starting to think The Last Hustle Of Phil Carroll would have been fine. But as always, The Fattest Mormon is still available in paperback and kindle. There are websites that can [words 55] a writing prompt for you. This one here, has a [words 56] generator. And then there is this one that can [words 57] story for you. Many writers look for prompts to make their story, novel, TV show, etc. But some of the [words 58] are right in front of us. Now, it will take a wild imagination to find a Dragon Fantasy while walking with your grandmother through her rest home. But [words 59] invented Middle Earth in the carnage and chaos of World War I. So anything is possible. Websites are the least effective place to find writing prompts, [words 60] everywhere. Have you ever wondered what [words 61] in the corner hat shop thinks of the Israeli woman at the hand lotion kiosk right [words 62] his store? What about they guy driving the huge truck next to you on [words 63] highway. Does he really know what's in his cargo? How about that hill that you always drive past? Ever wonder what's ten feet below [words 64] What about twenty or fifty feet? Some one bought a USB battery charger and then immediately bought [words 65] Cage Trap. WHY! ? ! That's a story I want to know. It just proves that there are writing prompts everywhere. You just have to be creative enough, or ADHD enough to find them. Here is what I got from the movies. Harry Potter sucks as a character. Ron, Hermione, Ron's Family, all the professors, even Draco and his dad are all really strong characters. Rowling [words 66] building worlds and characters. I'm positive that all of that translated to the films. The [words 67] movies is because we're excited to see what else might be introduce. Rowling introduces new magic every time that still [words 68] her original world, except for that stupid time travel thing that Hermione [words 69] save that one creature. Using that might [words 70] them a few different times in other books. But I keep coming back [words 71] Harry. He doesn't really do anything. When I think about it, most of [words 72] to. Yes, his friends lives are in danger about 90% of the time. But really, his own life is in danger even more. All [words 73] never in as much danger as he is, so they [words 74] when they choose to face evil. Harry just faces evil because no matter what he does, evil is coming for him. I believe that the [words 75] I'm talking about. Though this is supposed to [words 76] film and his character arc in this movie. It's really just him making a last desperate attempt because he HAS to. Though [words 77] clear defining choice. Stay home in peace and comfort, or follow a [words 78] disgusting little people. His choice is [words 79] induced. And that is what makes him a stronger character. [words 80] why Indie Publishing is great for control freaks. This is why it's terrible. [words 81] no one buys it? Your Fault. So yeah it's terrifying once that book goes live because there is no [words 82] back. And when that final rejection appeared, there was at least some relief. After that [words 83] but no thanks" email I was hurt, but also relieved. I could [words 84] way. Final editing? My Call. And that was one of my fears [words 85] by a publisher. I was affraid that my character would be changed. That my voice would be restricted. [words 86] Arc would be "improved. "So yes, from the standpoint of a [words 87] freak. Indie Publishing is FANTASTIC. But it's also terrifying. More on that [words 88] time. I finally realized that I've always been an old man. 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Human: Find the missing spans: The current White House staff is one that openly attacks the free press. Bronco journalists weigh in. After the most destructive fires in California history, how do you grapple with all that's lost? And how do you help others ... strip. But inside studio two of the Bad Dog Theatre – a three-year-old, hole-in-the-wall comedy joint – the heat is making the audience flush harder than an off-colour Andrew Dice Clay routine. The ratcheting temperature can be blamed on the tiny quarters: the 400-square-foot windowless studio holds 25 spectators and four maniacal comedians, who are performing improv for the pay-what-you-can crowd. A comedic version of rapier sword-fighting, improv is an intellectual sport in which each strike of an ad lib helps build a scene. The troupe members play off one-liners (or “offers”) that they throw each other, parrying and jostling their way to laughter or careening downward to a thud of silence. Perhaps the most boisterous troupe member is U of T statistics professor Jeffrey Rosenthal – a six-foot-three, scruffy fellow with broad shoulders, a head of curly brown hair and a thunderous voice. (“He is Little John from Robin Hood,” says improv buddy Mike Ranieri. “A big, burly, lovable guy.”) Rosenthal ricochets from playing a son yearning for the acceptance of his housepainter father to a jilted housewife. Then – channeling a bellowing, frenzied version of Mel Gibson in Braveheart and adding the most diabolical Scottish accent outside Glasgow's Barlinnie prison – he turns to a familiar role. He roars: “Alright then little boys and girls. It's me first day teaching so I don't want anybody giving me a hard time. That includes yew.” (looking at a cast member in a chair)Rosenthal: “Now look – I was ... class. So here's what I want you to do. I want you to just cower in fear and repeat after me: “I'm a miserable NOBODY.”Two weeks earlier, in his U of T office, Rosenthal wisecracks about what I will write if the performance flops: “He said he did improv but I went to the show and he's actually an idiot. All his other work must be fraudulent, too. ## '” And comedy is a crapshoot, requiring a steely self-confidence and high-spirited sociability. Rosenthal, 38, started improv classes in 1995 at Theatresports in Toronto and began performing gigs after almost three years of training. “There's a lot of randomness in how it goes, but when it goes well, and I actually make people laugh and enjoy themselves it's exciting. And it also made me start thinking about other things differently .” He speaks of learning to “go with the moment” both on the stage and in the classroom. “Improv applies pretty much to your whole life – you're always being confronted by things that you didn't expect, or you couldn't anticipate. And are you going to let it throw you off? ... specialty. His latest book, Struck by Lightning: The Curious World of Probabilities (HarperCollins Canada 2005), shows readers how to use simple mathematical concepts – most notably, probability theory – to assess the odds of random events happening to them. In other words, how likely are you to actually get walloped by one of those rare occurrences that obsess you on a sleepless Sunday night? If, for example, you worry excessively about being the victim of a homicide, there is a chapter on how to assess crime statistics correctly. (According to Rosenthal, if we look at the difference between counts (total number of homicides) and rates (homicides per 100,000 people), we can see that the risk of being murdered in Canada has ... rise. And during those raging late-summer electrical storms, it might be useful to know that only three Canadians died after being struck by lightning (as compared to, say, 74,824 ... 2001. If, on the other hand, you hanker to beat the house at craps or 21 or blackjack, Struck by Lightning might help you calculate your odds. (Hint: rein in your inner Ben Affleck, and step away from the table – you're not going to get rich quick. Casinos guarantee that games are weighted in their favour by employing probability theorists to calculate the average net payouts. The book also includes chapters on understanding the margin of error in ... treatment. The book has clearly hit a public nerve: last year, it reached number seven on the Maclean's bestseller list, and is now slated for release in the U. Germany, Australia, New Zealand, Japan and Italy. Struck by Lightning is an example of a publishing industry trend: books that merge an academic specialty with the concerns of a general audience. “The book shows how we can understand and interpret the events of our lives using simple math. If nothing else, it makes probability and statistics interesting and accessible for the layman,” says Radu Craiu, an assistant professor of statistics at U of T. Rosenthal's academic field is an exclusive one: he studies Monte Carlo algorithms (his specialty within this branch is an even bigger mouthful: Markov chain Monte Carlo randomized computer algorithms). In simplest terms, Monte Carlo algorithms are a way of using randomness to gauge quantities that are too difficult to compute directly. As Rosenthal explains in his book, they were first used at the Manhattan Project in New Mexico – birthplace of the atomic bomb – during the Second World War. Scientists needed to ensure the bomb contained the correct amount of uranium: too ... project. This allowed them to deduce how the neutrons would ... escape. Monte Carlo algorithms are now used in almost every sphere where randomness exists: from managing investment portfolios to gauging which medicines work during trials. “One neat thing about probability, as opposed to many branches of mathematics, is that it is connected to so many things on a personal level and a professional one,” says Rosenthal. In an early chapter of Struck ... one. A Hollywood variation of the pastime, Six Degrees of Kevin Bacon, is now ubiquitous in the pop-culture landscape. And, given the number of U of T family connections Rosenthal has, anyone who has stepped on U of T soil might be able to play a new version of the game: Six Degrees of Jeffrey Rosenthal. His father, Peter, is a professor of mathematics at the university who specializes in operator theory. (For a decade, Rosenthal and his dad worked two floors apart in Sidney Smith Hall. His mother, Helen, recently retired as a math lecturer at U of T Scarborough. Brother Alan is a computer science lecturer on the St. George campus, while brother Michael is an instructional technology analyst at OISE/UT. Jeffrey's wife, Margaret Fulford, is the faculty librarian at the Faculty of Dentistry. While Rosenthal was growing up in Scarborough, Ont. his numerically minded parents introduced him to mathematical concepts at an early age: by the time he was eight, he could prove the classic math idea that the number of prime numbers is infinite. He also had a working knowledge of probability theory, which he used to increase his chances of vanquishing his two brothers at Monopoly: he would compute the probabilities of his brothers rolling certain numbers on the dice and landing on certain squares, to decide whether to buy more real estate on his property. (Unfortunately, they employed the same tactics, making for some cutthroat Monopoly games. And when he was a teenager studying math, physics and computer science at U of T in the late 1980s, he could envision “mathematician” as a profession in a way other undergraduate students didn't seem to grasp. “For me, it seemed the natural career choice to work in mathematical sciences,” he says. After graduating with a bachelor of science from U of T in 1988, Rosenthal attended Harvard University, earning a PhD in mathematics at the tender age of 24. It was at Harvard that he first began applying probability theory to everyday situations. In his second year, Rosenthal was slated to fly to the John F. Kennedy International Airport in New York to visit relatives – but a week before his departure, a plane crashed near the airport, killing 73 people. Rosenthal was skittish about getting on his flight, but found solace in the currency of cold hard numbers: he determined there were about 5,000 flights a week to the airport – and that the chances were probably less than one in 5,000 that, in the following week, there would be another disaster. The odds were low enough to convince him to board the plane. “At first I thought, ‘Oh my God there's been a plane crash at JFK. It was only upon calming myself I thought wait a minute – I should stop and think about this more,” he says. “When you're doing research work it tends to be so specialized that it's easy to forget the connections to things around you. You're working on your subtleties and you don't look around so much. It was a case of trying to blend what I'm working on with the everyday. '”Translating difficult concepts for a general audience, and playing to a crowd, are roles that come naturally to Rosenthal. Improv friend Ranieri explains how, a few years back, Rosenthal bought a video ... him. (One of their most recent pieces is the “Night of the Living Dead Christmas Special,” in which Rosenthal sings about “slay rides” and chomps on gifts of “brains” made of cauliflower. The friends decided to create a movie trailer for Rosenthal's first academic textbook, A First Look at Rigorous Probability Theory. “At first I thought, ‘What a stupid thing to do a movie on' – a preview movie for this boring stats book. But we thought ‘That's why it's funny, right? ' so we did Rigorous Probability: The Movie,” says Ranieri. Rosenthal now shows the video to his graduate classes. In the first episode of the hit TV show “My Name is Earl,” a two-bit thief finds a winning scratch ticket worth $100,000. In sheer revelatory joy, he punches the air, whoops with glee and dances his way out onto the road – where a senior citizen in a Buick slams into him, and sends his ticket casting off into the wind. While Earl is in hospital, his wife visits to hand him divorce papers, inform him she is having an affair with the local bar owner, and that her two children aren't his. Stunned, drugged and imprisoned in a cast, Earl turns on the TV, and watches an interview with MTV personality Carson Daly – who is talking about how karma changed his life. “Karmaaaa,” says a gobsmacked Earl, who undergoes a spiritual epiphany. Convinced he is being paid back for a lifetime of bad deeds, Earl makes a list of all his wrongdoings – ... universe. The result? While crossing number 136 (“been a litterbug”) off his list by cleaning up a motel parking lot, he finds the lost winning ticket in the detritus. Is there karma? Is someone above taking notes and keeping score? When you're a probability theorist, the idea of fate or the existence of the karma gods of Earl's universe appear, well, highly improbable. In fact, Rosenthal is a member of the Humanist Association of Canada, a non-theistic group that believes life choices should not be guided by a belief in supernatural deities, but by human reason and compassion. Rosenthal speaks on the discord between fate and probability. “Often people will point to certain statistic examples: Here's a good guy who almost died and then he didn't and there must have been some divine intervention or master plan, but that's what we the probabilitists would call a selection bias . You can just as easily find examples where the opposite happened: the bad guy got away and the good guy got killed. I say, well that's perfectly consistent with the idea that these things happened randomly and that there is no all-powerful force controlling them,” he says. “To me it seems more useful to understand and deal with the world that we have and try to take actions that will improve the world based on what it is – rather than to ascribe things to it that there's not evidence of.”In October 1999, Rosenthal married Margaret Fulford in a humanist ceremony at Hart House: the service took place in the Debates Room, and the reception in the Great Hall. Rosenthal, an amateur musician (he plays everything from the trumpet and keyboard to the saxophone and bongo drums), sang and played guitar for his new bride. “The really romantic part was he sang a song that he had written for me when we had just been dating for six weeks, which was called ‘Margaret, Won't You Fly to P. with Me? ” says Fulford. “He also sang a Paul Simon song called ‘Kathy's Song,' which was the first song that he sung for me when we were first dating.”It's a Wednesday afternoon, week 17 of the first-year seminar class “Probability and Uncertainty” in Sidney Smith Hall on the St. The room, with its austere windowless surroundings, is oddly reminiscent of the Bad ... studio. The crowd is slightly smaller, and the laid-back atmosphere has a Sunday morning sleepiness, with students – in oversized sweatshirts, baggy jeans and caps – slouched low in their seats. Hardcover editions of Struck by Lightning sit on the maroon tabletops. Rosenthal enters in a green sweater, khakis and beige sneakers. He begins talking at the hotfoot pace that he uses when he is enthused about something – which seems to be most of the time. Today the group is studying the “p-value” (the probability that an observed ... studies. Five per cent is the standard p-value, but Rosenthal wants the students ... means. He wants them to understand that it raises the possibility that one medical study in 20 might be wrong. “If we see something through observation, we always have to wonder if they just got lucky – whether shooting hoops or conducting medical studies,” he says. He whips out a deck of cards, and his p-value performance begins. He tosses one club, one diamond and one heart to the student next to him and asks him to ... down. “Question: do I have psychic powers? ” Rosenthal looks at the back of the card, thinks hard, and guesses “clubs” – it's a diamond. He misses on all three. “That seems to indicate I don't have psychic powers.”The mission extends to the students. With the enthusiasm of entering a game of Texas Hold 'em, they gather in groups of two and three to try it for themselves. They do a series of telepathic “tests” – from staring at a facedown card, to inhaling over it, to running their fingers across it – to see if they can determine the card's suit. (They must guess right three times in a row – 1/3 times 1/3 times 1/3 – to reach a statistically significant p-value of 3. The jokers in the crowd make loud snorting noises during the inhaling segment. There are yells of “cheater.”At the end of the trials, Rosenthal asks, “Who, according to current scientific standards, has psychic powers? ” Three of the 17 students raise their hands. The talk parlays into what further experiments could be done to clarify results, and what tricks pharmaceutical companies could employ if they were desperate to get a new drug approved. “There is a flip side,” says one astute student. “Maybe a drug that could have saved lives was lost because there was too rigid a standard.” The students start thinking discriminately. Before they leave Rosenthal runs over next week's assignment: publication bias. It's a loaded topic dealing with the medical-study controversy surrounding Dr. Nancy Olivieri and the pharmaceutical company Apotex. But he also asks them to read anecdotes in the book with names such as “Jumping Frog,” “Happiness Hat” and “Meditation Medical Miracles.” Because even in the curious world of probabilities, there's always room for a little improvised entertainment. If you're considering taking the ... back. 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January 2, 2019 – this is the deadline to change your test date, your location, or cancel your registration without forfeiting your entire registration fee. January 25, 2019– this is the deadline to withdraw. You will not be able to receive a refund at this point or use the fee towards another test date. If you decide to change your test date, or your test center, you will have to pay an additional $125. And even if you cancel by January 2nd, you are only going to get part of your registration fee back. Be sure to keep in mind that a lot of your studying time will fall over the holidays. If you're a student that could work in your favor, but think realistically about all of your engagements during this time. You only want to take the LSAT once! Everyone gets their scores back in the mail, and it ... month. While that's not very long, at least compared to the bar exam, the wait can be pretty brutal. Luckily, you can also opt in and receive your LSAT score via email. While it's not the “official” score letter, you'll get your score a full week earlier. For the January 2019 LSAT, here are the release dates for email. You will get an email of your score if you create an online account with LSAC, so I'd recommend setting up an online account. And as an added bonus, you can also use this account to send your scores to law schools. Purchase a copy of 10 Actual, Official LSAT PrepTests Volume VI and take a real LSAT exam from a recent year. Find a quiet place, like a library, to take the practice test and do the whole thing in one sitting (including the writing sample). Use the answer keys and conversion tables at the back of each test in your book to figure out what you scored. More importantly, look at how many questions you missed in each section and to determine your strengths and weaknesses. Knowing these will allow you to structure your preparation accordingly. If you haven't already, start researching schools and determine the score you'll need to be competitive. If you're considering top 100 schools, you'll want to have a very solid application in addition to a great LSAT score. The final step is to estimate how long it will take you to get from your current score to your goal score. For most people, that's somewhere in the range of 2-6 months. That means taking the January 2019 LSAT is going to put you on a tight schedule. If you need to increase your score by less than 10 points, you're in great shape. However, if you're trying to improve by more than 10 points in two months, you have a real challenge ahead of you. Consider postponing to the March or June LSAT and giving yourself a few more months to prepare. Here are three of our favorite pointers, whether you are just getting started or are polishing up those LSAT skills:Establishing how much time you need, and how much time you actually have, to dedicate to LSAT prep. Keep in mind that studying for the January LSAT will fall over the holidays. Once you go through these steps, you'll feel confident making your decision on which LSAT test date is right for you. Whenever you decide to take the LSAT, remember the key to getting your best score on the LSAT is making sure you have sufficient time to prepare. Proteins act as macromolecular machinery that mediate many diverse biological processes - the molecular mechanisms of this machinery has fascinated biologists for decades. Analysis of the kinetic and thermodynamic features of these mechanisms could reveal unprecedented aspects of how the machinery function and will eventually lead to a ... . A series of quantitative experiments reveal that the highly ordered and coordinated conformational states of the machinery are the key to their regulatory function. 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' he departed from his prepared text and launched into the passionate words that are now so well remembered. I do encourage you to read them again, as he... <|prompter|> More. <|assistant|> speaks of the self-evident truth that everyone is created equal, of the call to sit together at one table of fellowship, of freedom – God's freedom – ringing loud and clear. Many churches, in the USA and around the world, commemorated the day with peals of bells. Martin Luther King stirred the crowds as he said, ‘Let us not wallow in the valley of... <|prompter|> Continue. <|assistant|> despair. I say to you today, my friends, that in spite of the difficulties and frustrations of the moment, I still have a dream... <|prompter|> More. <|assistant|> 'These words are an inspiration for all of us, when we look... <|prompter|> Next. <|assistant|> at all the challenges and problems that face our societies and our churches. They are also inspiring words to direct us towards Provincial Synod, in the first week of October. Every three years, the full representative body of the Anglican Church of Southern Africa meets – and this year, now with 28 Dioceses, will be our largest Synod ever, with some 180 episcopal, clerical and lay delegates, as well as representatives of the Youth and various Provincial organisations, invited guests and staff. Our theme is ‘A Vision for Education – Education for a Vision'. When we met three years ago, we affirmed and celebrated our new Vision and Mission Statement – that Anglicans ACT, Anchored in the love of Christ, Committed to God's Mission, and Transformed by the... <|prompter|> Next. <|assistant|> Holy Spirit'. Our work now to take forward our Vision, including through the priority areas for action at Provincial level, inevitably must include an educative element, in order to ensure that all we do is communicated across our Province, so it can be accessed as ‘user friendly resources' for dioceses, parishes and people. Anyone who has been reading my recent letters will know that we have been prioritising Theological Education this year, as we establish an endowment fund for the College of the Transfiguration. Ensuring we can produce, and keep producing, well-trained ordained and lay leaders, is an essential foundation stone for the church's future. I want to say a huge ‘thank you' to everyone who has made donations, including on Theological Education Sunday. We have received some... <|prompter|> Continue. <|assistant|> remarkably generous gifts – though, as I write, the money is still coming in so I cannot tell you yet how much we have raised. At Synod, we will hear a keynote address from Revd Canon Professor Barney Pityana, Rector of COTT. Education is also a vital part of moving forward in all other areas. Therefore, looking at what needs to be done from this perspective will be a major task of our group discussions around our Vision and how we support the whole life of ACSA. This is part of the leadership that we, as Synod members, are called upon to offer to the rest of our Province. Another of our keynote speakers, Revd Professor Bev Haddad, will address us about leadership – both within the church,... <|prompter|> More. <|assistant|> and in how we encourage and equip Anglicans to be good and confident leaders in whatever walks of life God calls each one to serve. Education should be a life-long task. None of us ever reach a point where we can stop learning! That said, education is especially rooted in how we bring up our children, nurturing them in mind, heart, soul, and body... <|prompter|> More. <|assistant|> Professor Mary Metcalfe will be our third keynote speaker, helping us get to grips better with this vital theme. Since we last met, we... <|prompter|> Continue. <|assistant|> have made great strides in taking forward the Archbishop's Initiative in Education, including through the registration of the Anglican Board of Education in Southern Africa as an NPO, thanks particularly to the... <|prompter|> More. <|assistant|> hard work of Bishop Peter Lee and his team – and, as I have written about in previous letters, there are many other exciting... <|prompter|> More. <|assistant|> initiatives developing across the Province. Another important area of our work relates to the rejuvenation of the Canon Law Society, and the work we are doing particularly to update our disciplinary canons. Though at first glance this might appear to indicate that we are becoming more ‘legalistic', in fact the reverse is our true aim! We live in a world where increasingly people rush... <|prompter|> Next. <|assistant|> to litigation as the first solution in any disagreement – whereas we want to show that our rules and regulations, properly understood, can provide far more effective frameworks for handling differences and disagreements among us. This is the same approach that underlay our Pastoral Standards: having clear, well-understood, guidelines actually gives us greater freedom in living as the people of God in this area... <|prompter|> Next. <|assistant|> Without such education in how canon law can be such a good servant, but poor master, we risk going further down the road of spending far too much of our parishioners' generous giving on legal action over issues that should have been handled in far more godly, Christian, ways. Alongside this, we shall conduct our usual business, from looking at the place of the... <|prompter|> More. <|assistant|> church in the wider world, through to the details of our own administration and finances. If you can, I encourage you to find out... <|prompter|> More. <|assistant|> who your Diocesan representatives are, and to engage with them on these issues. And whatever else, please pray for them, and for all of... <|prompter|> Next. <|assistant|> us as we prepare to meet in Kopanong in October. Below you will find the Collect, written to guide us. Meanwhile, I am sure you are keeping the traumas of the world in your prayers – especially Syria and Egypt. At home we continue to hold Madiba before the throne of grace. May God's peace flow like a mighty river, wherever it is needed... <|prompter|> Continue. <|assistant|> Last week, Nelson Mandela celebrated his 95th birthday – to the great relief of so very many of us. We thank God for the continuing life of South Africa's former President, and pray that in his frailty he may know God's strength and comfort, in body, mind, heart and soul. And we also dare to ask, in the ancient words of those prayers used... <|prompter|> More. <|assistant|> as evening falls, that God will grant dear Madiba ‘a peaceful night and a perfect end', in God's own perfect timing. At the end of this long life of faithful service, we... <|prompter|> More. <|assistant|> pray that he may know the assurance of God's compassionate presence, and know that Jesus Christ, who is the Resurrection and the Life, has opened the gates of paradise to all who hear his voice and follow his call. We pray also that Me Graça, Madiba's children and grandchildren, and all who love him, may know God's strengthening in this long time of watching and waiting – that his peace may enfold them, and help them to find a good and holy way forward, through all the struggles with which they have battled in recent weeks. This year, more than most, as Madiba's birthday approached, I found myself giving thought to how best to celebrate this remarkable man and most appropriately honour his legacy. How should I spend... <|prompter|> Next. <|assistant|> 67 minutes serving others, in order to honour the 67 years of service of his life? What I did was to join in a ‘human chain' stretching along the Klipfontein Road, through... <|prompter|> Next. <|assistant|> the Rondebosch, Athlone and Gugulethu areas of Cape Town – several thousand of us waving flags and singing joyfully, despite drizzle! Yet I must... <|prompter|> Continue. <|assistant|> admit that when I first heard the idea, I thought twice. Was this just ‘gesture politics' and an easy way out of doing something more tangible with my 67 minutes? But when... <|prompter|> Next. <|assistant|> I thought about it, I reached a different conclusion. For on Mandela Day we are asked to spend some time taking action that will... <|prompter|> Next. <|assistant|> help change the world, in ways that honour Nelson Mandela's own example, in his life of service for the good of South Africa and its people. And Madiba's example is that of a man with a servant heart, whose words and actions were driven by his dream – the dream of a united, democratic, non-racial, South Africa. It struck me that if we do... <|prompter|> Continue. <|assistant|> not make this dream our own vision, if this is not the foundation stone on which we base our lives and build our future,... <|prompter|> More. <|assistant|> then all our other 67 minutes of service risk being undermined or diminished. For we need to tackle not only the symptoms of our wounded society, but their causes. And the persistence... <|prompter|> Continue. <|assistant|> of past divisions – exacerbated now by growing new economic fault-lines –... <|prompter|> Next. <|assistant|> are amongst our most fundamental problems. The Klipfontein Road in many ways... <|prompter|> Next. <|assistant|> illustrates the core issue: three distinct, separate communities were positioned at a... <|prompter|> More. <|assistant|> distance from each other along its length. In contrast, our Human Chain was a living demonstration of our commitment to breaking down past divisions and building up a new reality in which... <|prompter|> Next. <|assistant|> we are all connected, all belonging to one another, and joined in the common life of our city and in the shared future which... <|prompter|> More. <|assistant|> we create together in Cape Town and South Africa. All this is ‘gospel-shaped work'. For, St Paul wrote, ‘God . has reconciled us to himself through Christ, and given us the ministry... <|prompter|> Next. <|assistant|> of reconciliation' (2 Cor 5:18). And through Christ ‘God was pleased to reconcile to himself all things, whether on earth or in heaven, by making peace through the blood of his cross' (Col 1:20). Wherever there is division, mistrust and suspicion, evil can find a foothold. The spiritual cracks between us become fertile soil for other divisions to flourish, bearing destructive fruit in every part of life. When we dare to step into these breaches with prayer, God will pour in his healing compassion, reaching out and drawing others closer to himself in redeeming love. We are called to be channels of this love, so others may come to know God in Jesus Christ by his Spirit, for themselves. Sometimes people ask me if I think Madiba is... <|prompter|> Next. <|assistant|> a saint. Well, it depends on what you mean by saint! I don't agree, if it means we consider his life so miraculous that it is impossible for anyone to follow his example. But the New Testament calls all God's people ‘saints', with some translations clearly reflecting this Greek word, as St Paul's begins his letters with ‘greetings to the saints' or ‘to those called to be saints', in Rome, Corinth, Ephesus, Philippi, Colossae . Indeed, God calls each one of us – Nelson Mandela, you, me, whoever we are – to let ourselves be used by him, for his purposes in his world. This is the true meaning of being a saint. And while he may not use us in spectacular ways, he will certainly use us... <|prompter|> More. <|assistant|> in ways that are significant for the building of his kingdom. So then, let us honour Madiba, not only for 67 minutes once a year, but throughout our lives, by following God's... <|prompter|> Next. <|assistant|> call, to be his ministers of reconciliation, his channels of love, his saints in his world. We can make every day a Mandela day!... <|prompter|> Continue. <|assistant|> We are now looking at whether we can form human chains on some other specific day of the year – perhaps on Heritage Day, with the chain marking our links with the past and our determination to forge a better future, in the way we commit ourselves to breaking down old divisions and building new relationships, which uphold Madiba's vision of a united, non-racial, equal society. Human chains can be used as a powerful sign and symbol of commitment to transcend any divisions, past or present. And those who come together can sing, pray, and even dance a little! Then you might do as we did – pray specifically for Madiba, with thanksgiving for all he has achieved, and all he has challenged us to become, as well... <|prompter|> Next. <|assistant|> as praying for his comfort now. Then, after a little silent reflection, we said the pledge together. You will find the text at the end of this letter – please do use... <|prompter|> Next. <|assistant|> it wherever it can help us go forward in reconciliation, hope, and commitment to the shared good, that echoes all that God desires for... <|prompter|> Next. <|assistant|> people everywhere. Then we sang the national anthem. And please do send... <|prompter|> Continue. <|assistant|> in photos of your chains – or post them on Facebook (you... <|prompter|> More. <|assistant|> can see many photos of what we did on the Klipfontein Road, on the ‘Human Chain - Mandela Day' FB page). I hope that we might be able to gather some of these pictures together, and send them through to MadibaIn my last letter, I wrote at length about ensuring firm foundations for future training and formation of ordained and lay leaders, including through the Theological Endowment Fund for supporting the College of the Transfiguration. As part of this, I am asking every member of ACSA to make a special donation, on Theological Education Sunday, 18 August, of R10, or R100, or whatever you can manage. You will be glad to know that I believe that Bishops should offer leadership in this as in all other matters –... <|prompter|> Next. <|assistant|> and therefore I have pledged R1000 out of my own pocket, for the Fund, and am challenging all the other ACSA bishops to match me, or even do better! This month we congratulate Revd Canon Cynthia Botha, who heads the Publications Committee, on achieving 30 years on the staff of the Province. She started out as secretary to the Provincial Liaison Officer, who was then the future Archbishop, Njongonkulu Ndungane, and then to his successor Bishop John Carter. When he retired, she became secretary part time to both Emma Mashinini, who headed the CPSA's Department of Justice and Reconciliation and to Publishing, taking on Publishing full time when the departments closed down. We thank you, Cynthia, and we thank God, for your long years of dedicated service! This... <|prompter|> Next. <|assistant|> month was also the tenth anniversary of the consecrations of Bishops André Soares of Angola and Mark van Koevering of Niassa. There were rather more celebrations in Niassa, where they held their once-every-three-years Diocesan Synod. At the end of this they held a Diocesan Family Day, inaugurated a church dedicated to the first ever Mozambican priest, Yohannah Abdallah, and, as if that were not enough, compounded the joyful celebrations with the ordination of the first two Mozambican women to the diaconate, alongside four other deacons! We thank God for them all, with particular prayers for Reverends Claudina Cabral and Albertina Mucona as they begin this new ministry.

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<human>: Fill in the missing spans: Reports coming in from scrutineers and candidates indicates that the Victorian Electoral Commission is once again proposing to use a computerised counting system for the Mooney Valley City Council By-election scheduled to be counted this weekend. Under dispute is the need to conduct a computerised count for the election of a single member when a manual count would be quicker and require less resources and more important would be more open and transparent. The use of a computerised count in a single member constituency can not be justified. The time and resources required to undertake a computerised count is much more then it would be if the election was manually counted. Any time saved is only at the expense the public scrutiny by cutting corners reducing the overall quality of the count. Computerised counting was not used to count the results of the Victorian Legislative Assembly (Lower-house) election in November. Information obtained under FOI indicates that the software used by the Victorian Electoral Commission has not been fully certified and that there is insufficient checks and balances in the system to ensure that the results of the computerised count are accurate and correct. The Victorian Local Government Act Schedule 3, Part 3 subclause 10 (c) (ii) requires that the VEC undertake a preliminary sort of ballot papers into parcels based on the allocated first preference vote. The VEC claim that they are exempt from this provision of the act where the election is conducted by post and a computerised counting system is used. The election is expected to take 24 data-entry operators two hours to count. A manual count would take four people approximately 4-5 hours to count a net savings of 28 man hours. So where is the benefit of a computerised count, and at what costs,. A computerised count is virtually impossible to effectively scrutinise. The tally of the 2006 Victorian Legislative Council also required that the Victorian Electoral Commission presort ballot papers into parcels based on the first preference allocation. This is an important part of the scrutiny of the ballot. Without this provision scrutineers are limited in their ability to undertake a proper scrutiny of the counting of the election. Ballot paper preferences are keyed in a random fashion and scrutineers are unable to focus on a particular candidates preferences. There is further concern that the Electoral Commission refuses to provide copies of the recorded preference data file for independent analysis and review, further denying the opportunities and ability to undertake a proper scrutiny of the count. This is akin to the con-mans game of three shells and a pea where the returning officer declares the results of the game by lifting up one shell showing that the pea is not there but refuses to show what's underneath the other two shells. Given the experience of recent past events the VEC management of the electronic count can not be trusted. The fact that the VEC is prepared to misrepresent the facts in respect to the legislative requirements in order to cut corners is further evidence for a major review of the functions and operation of the Victorian Electoral Commission. In reading the Victorian Local Government Election regulations clause 110 (4) states “Before calculating the [spans 1] received”. A complete lack of due diligence on behalf of the Victorian Electoral CommissionThe total number of ballot papers recorded in the final Western Metropolitan [spans 2] count. There is little to wonder as to why the VEC does not want to publish the polling place details of the 2006 Legislative Council results as it prevents public review and independent analysis of the dodgy electronic election count. Hopefully these errors in administration will not occur in the NSW State Election count and that copies of preference data-files and polling place results are readily available prior to the declaration of the poll. For spacious reason unknown the Victorian Electoral Commission has refused to make this information available. With the introduction of electronic computer based counting systems access to this information is vital to maintaining an honest, open and transparent electoral system. The City of Melbourne in 1999 and 2001 tried unsuccessfully to prevent the release of this information. This matter was the subject of a successful appeal to the Victorian Civil Appeals Tribunal in 1999 (van der Craats v City fo Melbourne (2000) VCAT 447 (29 January 2000) VICTORIAN CIVIL AND ADMINISTRATIVE TRIBUNAL General List No. The VEC's argument has no legal or administrative basis. Copies of the ballot prefence data file should be readily aviailable to the public and should form part of the declartion of the results of the election. This issue has been back and forth with the Victorian Electoral Commission on a number of occasions. Clearly the Victorian Electoral Commission in refusing to provide Mr Quick the information requested raises serious questions pertaining the conduct of Elections. The need to provide open and transparent electoral procedures is important if public confidence in our electoral system is to be maintained. With the introduction of proportional representation in the election of the Legislative Council this issue needs to be resolved well before November State Election. Melbourne City Council's Deputy Lord Mayor, Garry Singer, is again in the media spotlight following revelations that he and a company he works for breached local planning laws and commenced building without a planning permit. More and more information comes to light that indicates that John So had made a serious error of judgment when he selected Gary Singer to be his no 2. Most people close to the City Council are of the belief that Gary Singer should resign and Catherine NG take over as John So's Deputy. The problem is if Singer does resign, under the rules established by the State Government, the Melbourne City Council would have to hold a City wide by-election to replace Singer if he stood down. Costing the City 100's of thousands of dollars. Garry Singer effectively is holding the City Council to ransom. Clearly something has to be done. The State Government against all advice opted for a direct election system but in doing so failed to properly consider issues related to filling any casual vacancies. Under the current rules if Singer resigns within 6 months of the next election the City Council can elect a a fellow councilor to fill any vacancy in the Deputy Lord Mayor's position but if the position is made vacant before 6 month then a by-elections has to be held. The system of filling casual vacancies need review and changing. It is incumbent on Local Government Minister, Candy Broad, to change the City of [spans 3] replacement. Failing that the Direct election system should be abandoned. He admitted to withholding 116 cheques totaling $154,000, some [spans 4] years. The money should have been paid to barrister and professional witnesses. The Legal Profession Tribunal [spans 5]. <assistant>: spans 1: result, the returning officer must reconcile the electronic record of ballot papers with the total number of ballot-papers spans 2: count had up to 470 ballot papers missing from the previous spans 3: Melbourne Act to permit the City Council to appoint a spans 4: for up to five spans 5: fined Cr Singer $10,000 with $8000 costs <human>: Fill in the missing spans: In 1999, he was found guilty of professional misconduct for “grossly excessive” overcharging of a client involved in a personal injuries case. So what's upCatherine Ng and John So in disagreement with support growing for Catherine Ng to take over the role of DeputyInformation from our elves in the Council's Governance department tell us that there is a serious split in the So team with Catherine Ng of the view that Garry Singer should go and that she should become John So‘s Deputy Lord Mayor. Catherine Ng is so [spans 1] present. Whilst we have some reservations about Catherine Ng, her policies and actions, we recognise that Catherine Ng would make a better Deputy then Garry Singer. Catherine Ng was elected as John So‘s Lead Candidate on his teams ticket. Garry Singer who was recently found guilty of professional negligence and fined by the Law Institute continues to bring the City Council into disrepute with an overal loss of confidence in his role [spans 2] Mayor. He has failed to live up to expectations and is often criticized by the other Councillors of not pulling his weight around the chamber. We understand if a vote of confidence was put before the City Council, Garry Singer would lose the vote. The problem is if Gary Singer resigns the City of Melbourne will be required to hold a by-election to replace him, costing the City Council up to One Million Dollars. This is a [spans 3] legislation. If you have a dud elected for Lord Mayor or Deputy Lord Mayor, and for what ever reason Tweedle Dum or Tweedle Dee resign, under the current legislation the City Council has to hold a City wide election at great expense to the ratepayers. We believe this is the reason why John So (as reported in the Herald-Sun) wants to restructure Councillor portfolio's so that Garry Singer will effectively become Deputy In Name Only (or DINO as he has now become to be known) Other Councillors are not so sure or supportive of John's idea. Under John So‘s plan Cr Singer will have no responsibilities other then what he wants to do so long as he does not cause further trouble he can continue working the cocktail circuit and cashing on the City Council's invitations to Arts, Sporting events and the occasional delegation and trip interstate and overseas. Clearly the Government must do something. Victoria's Local Government Minister,Candy Broad, must review the City of Melbourne Act and change it [spans 4] position. This was the procedure before but now only applies to vacancies that occure within the last six months of the Council's term of office. Gary Singer, following revelations of professional misconduct and the appointment of the Deputy Lord Mayor's personal partner to a Council funded Arts position. Under current legislation if Melbourne's Lord Mayor or Deputy Lord Mayor resigns more then six months before the next scheduled general election (due in November 2008) then the City of Melbourne must conduct a by-election costing ratepayers up to a Million dollars. This must bear heavily on the minds of the State Government and our City Councillors who have failed to pass a vote of confidence in the Deputy Lord Mayor, Gary Singer. Our City Councillors are faced with [spans 5] dilemma. If they express a vote of no-confidence in the Deputy Lord Mayor and he resigns then the City Council will have to foot the bill of a new election. It would be cheaper for the Lord Mayor and Councillors to allow the Deputy Lord Mayor to retain his position, in name alone, and do nothing. This would explain a lot of what's possibly going on with the proposed restructure recently reported in the Herald-Sun. (In the case of a vacancy the in the office of Lord Mayor the Deputy [spans 6] simultaneously). There is no reason why these rules can not and should not apply to all casual vacancies and not just vacancies that occur within six months. (It should be noted that the count-back provisions are rather convoluted as there are two different options that can be chosen and each option can and will produce a different outcome – [spans 7] responsibilities. What happens if the elected Council pass a vote of no-confidence in the Lord Mayor or Deputy Lord Mayor? The cost of holding a by-election weighs heavily on the deliberations of the City Council which is being held to ransom. It would be cheaper and more convenient to allow the person to remain in the position without any responsibility. They would continue in remain there in name alone, eligible to receive payment of allowance and other benefits. The City Council should not be held to ransom by a person who has lost the confidence of the elected Council or be burdened by the costs involved in the conduct of a by-election should that person resign. The responsibility for this situation lies with the State Government who must now review the Local Government Act in respect to casual vacancies. The State Government must act and review the whole system of filling casual vacancies as well as the model of direct election of Lord Mayor and Deputy Lord Mayor. The Lord Mayor and Deputy Lord Mayor must at all times maintain the confidence of the elected Council. State [spans 8] Mayor. The alternative method of filling casual vacancies via a count-back system, as currently exists in legislation related to casual vacancies that fall within six months of an general [spans 9] Council. Posted in Deputy Lord Mayor, Election, Gary Singer, Governance, Legislation, Lord Mayor | Leave a replyBeing interested in electoral reform we thought it would be of some general interest and value to do an analysis of the 2004 Victorian Senate vote as it would apply to the new Legislative Council boundaries. We chose the Senate because it provides an opportunity to access the relative strength of all the main political parties who nominated candidates [spans 10] Party). This analysis is not 100% accurate as the preference negotiations and registered party allocations would be significantly different under the new eight electorate model but never the less we consider it worth reflecting on. In our analysis we allocated and distributed the vote according to the registered “above-the-line” preferences for the 2004 Senate elections. No assessment has been made at this stage to consider the impact of below the line voting (This may effect the outcomes of the last position elected. We are waiting on further information from the [spans 11] undertaken. Based on the 2004 Senate result our analysis indicates that the Liberal/National Party coalition would have obtained an absolute [spans 12] Council. Please Note: The Liberal/National Party stood on a single ticket with the National Party listed at second place. For the purpose of the analysis the Liberal Party and National Party are considered one. In the case of non rural seats it is the Liberal Party support that contributes most to the outcome of the analysis. ## The recent defection of Julian McGauran from the National Party to the Liberal Party would reduced the National support to two-three seats. Previously seats that would have been won by the Liberal Party were allocated to the National Party as they held the number two position on the coalition ticket. I have now reallocated those seats back to the Liberal party. Some readers have not understood this fact. I thought that it was pretty obvious in the analysis listed above. If the Liberal/National Party continue to run a joint ticket with the National Party second on their ticket then the National Party would win the second spot as indicated assuming all else is equal. 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Input: Find the missing words: There is no point in asking Donald Trump about his economists. It hasn't been that [words 1] campaign. In May the businessman reached out to Stephen Moore, of the Heritage Foundation, and CNBC television host Lawrence Kudlow, to help cut the $10 trillion cost of [words 2] cuts that he had proposed. Last week Moore and lawyer-turned-restaurateur Andy Puzder gave Trump a qualified endorsement in The Wall Street Journal: “A Trump Economy Beats Clinton's.” Mark Skousen made the [words 3] against Trump here last spring. If [words 4] Trump himself whose spirit will inhabit the hall in Cleveland, at least metaphorically, it is Robert L. [words 5] himself approved of Trump – who [words 6] but because, as editor of the editorial page of The Wall [words 7] of the say-anything, stop-at-nothing rules that ultimately led to Trump's success in gaining the Republican Party's nomination. [words 8] 2003. After taking over the editorial page in 1972, he became [words 9] of the rules of American public debate in the last third of the [words 10] Century. In that position, Bartley began [words 11] its apotheosis in Trump. Most influential journalistic umpire of an age? How do you back a claim like that? Mainly by comparison, naturally - in this case to the career of the most influential journalist of the middle [words 12] Lippmann. As it happens, thanks to Craufurd Goodwin, of Duke University, dean of U. historians of [words 13] have a first-rate biography of Lippmann that concentrates on his role as a defender of market economics (Walter Lippmann, Public [words 14] opposed to Ronald Steel's Walter Lippmann and the American Century (1980). Lippmann was the child of well-to-do German-Jewish parents, attended Harvard College, worked [words 15] World War I, was on friendly terms from then on with Franklin Roosevelt, [words 16] and Felix Frankfurter. Bartley was the son [words 17] medicine, attended Iowa State University, and, as editor of the WSJ (as the editorial page editor was and still is called), [words 18] Robert Mundell, of Columbia University; Albert Wohlstetter, [words 19] Corp. ; Edward Teller, of the University of California, at Berkeley; and President Ronald Reagan. Bartley was 34 when he was appointed to the job. He [words 20] Lyndon Johnson over Barry Goldwater in 1964, [words 21] that he spent a year in Washington, in 1971, he had become conservative, and, according to former [words 22] then a syndicated columnist, he was ostracized by liberal reporters there as [words 23] editor he built a staff that eventually totaled fifty writers and editors, creating a universe of conservative opinion parallel to the news side of [words 24] paper. Among those he hired was Jude Wanniski, a flamboyant reporter for [words 25] Observer, a weekly newspaper published in those [words 26] Jones. In a level-headed appreciation in Slate, in 2003, Jack Shafer described an experience [words 27] shared during the 1970s:“(W)hat attracted me to the page when I [words 28] it in 1973, fishing it out of a trash can [words 29] building, was Bartley's allegiance to the classical liberal values of free markets and free speech. Back then, Bartley was a minority of one among editorial-page editors in [words 30] tilting against the neo-Swedish worldview of The Washington Post, New York Times, and Los Angeles Times editorial pages. So if Bartley overstated his case from time to time by shouting until his vocal [words 31] well, that was OK by me. “As a small-government libertarian, I never subscribed to the Journal edit page's supply-side orthodoxy as formulated by Jude Wanniski, which didn't [words 32] the growth of government as long as taxes got cut. Today, nearly everybody recognizes that the marginal tax rate of 70 percent [words 33] took office was at least twice as high as it should be. Cutting it down to 28 percent proved to be both [words 34] individual boon. As economist Bruce Bartlett notes, the world took notice of the American tax revolution, and many [words 35] effect. But back in the '70s, when [words 36] and his scriveners were the true intellectual radicals. Wanniski introduced Bartley to a pair of [words 37] Arthur Laffer and Mundell. By 1975, [words 38] Columbia. Wanniski described a “Mundell-Laffer hypothesis,” as revolutionary and mysterious as the prescriptions of Keynes 40 [words 39] being confided in a series of restaurant lunches instead of conveyed as formal models in technical papers. The ideas eventually [words 40] and dubbed ‘supply-side' economics: massive tax cuts that would pay for themselves by spurring growth. ''Reagan won the presidency in 1980, and Bartley won a Pulitzer [words 41] writing. The editorial page had become immensely powerful, and [words 42] so. Bartley told an interviewer in 1981, about the time Wanniski was fired for train-station-electioneering for a supply-side insurgent candidate, “Jude had a [words 43] influence over the tone and direction of the page. He taught me the power of the outrageous.” Wanniski struck out on his [words 44] but remained close to the page. By 1982, Vermont Royster, Bartley's [words 45] critics. Novak later quoted him: “‘When I was [words 46] was always a little bit conscious of the possibility that I might be wrong. is not conscious of [words 47] that he is wrong. ' Yet Bartley's page “exerted more influence than Royster's ever attempted,” wrote Novak. By the end [words 48] 1980s, Bartley had won. Bush had succeeded Reagan as president, but the WSJ editorial page refused to take [words 49] answer. Bartley vigorously opposed Bush's decision to [words 50] pay for war in the Persian Gulf to expel [words 51] Kuwait. And when Bill Clinton defeated Bush, in [words 52] the editorial page began a series of [words 53] on Clinton and his wife that ultimately sought to overturn election results with an impeachment trial. I can pinpoint the day the page lost me altogether. It was [words 54] famous editorial, whose title, “No Guardrails,” has since become a [words 55] cry. A physician who performed abortions in [words 56] and killed by a protester in Florida. The editorialist, [words 57] Henninger, wrote:“(T)here really was a time in the United States when life seemed more [words 58] both private and public, didn't seem to run so continuously at breakneck speed, splattering one ungodly tragedy after another across the evening news. How did this happen to the United States? How, in T. Eliot's phrase, did so many become undone? “We think it is possible to identify the date when the U. or more [words 59] people within it, began to tip off the emotional tracks. A lot [words 60] because it makes their political culture culpable for what [words 61] happened. The date is August 1968, when the Democratic National Convention found itself [words 62] with the street fighters of the anti-Vietnam War movement. “The real blame [words 63] not lie with the mobs who fought bloody battles with the hysterical [words 64] police. The larger responsibility falls on the intellectuals –university [words 65] politicians and journalistic commentators – who said then that the acts committed by the protesters were justified or explainable. That was [words 66] beginning. After Chicago, the justifications never really stopped. America had a new culture, for political action and personal living. [words 67] that editorial – like the moment in [words 68] when a leering Jack Nicholson, peering [words 69] to his wife, who has just discovered that his manuscript, on [words 70] working obsessively, is repetitive nonsense, “How do you like it so far? ” [words 71] who lived through the 1970s, '80s, and '90s knew the [words 72] had involved a calming down from the '60s, of the restoration of rules of civility in the political [words 73] equilibration. The one sphere in which pressure had continued from the Left was expansion of civil rights — of women, minorities, immigrants, gays, [words 74] abortions. Which was, of course, exactly what the writer had in mind. “As many of Bartley's ideas gained ascendancy, his page became shriller, unable to give Clinton proper credit for [words 75] spending. ## There's a thin line [words 76] character assassination, a line that Bartley frequently erased. Instead of serving as a sophisticated and [words 77] The Economist—his page descended all too often into the dishonesty and hackery one associates with politicians. ''By 2001, Bartley was ill. He stepped down and [words 78] occasional column. The 9/11 destruction of the World Trade Center temporarily forced the WSJ from its offices around the corner. The editorial page soon began a relentless campaign for the invasion of Afghanistan and Iraq. Bartley died in December 2003, a [words 79] of Freedom. I hope that Bartley will find [words 80] good-natured a biographer as did Lippmann in Goodwin. The [words 81] the subject of at least one good book, George Nash's The Conservative Intellectual Movement in [words 82] and is soon to have another, a long-awaited biography of William F. Buckley, by Sam Tanenhaus. Populist conservatives were the subject [words 83] Sense and Nonsense in the Age of Diminished Expectations (1994), by Paul Krugman. If paleo-con Buckley's National Review provided the starting place [words 84] careers of George Will and Garry Wills; if neo-con [words 85] extended to Allan Bloom, Francis Fukuyama, and Dinesh d'Souza (and influenced the views of broadcast journalists such as [words 86] Rush Limbaugh, and Glen Beck); then Bartley can be said [words 87] careers of Wanniski, Michael Novak, George Gilder and [words 88] Shlaes. There's plenty of material to work with there. Is [words 89] chaos surrounding this year's Republican nomination on Bob Bartley? Clearly I think so. No one in my lifetime systematically removed more of [words 90] the norms governing good-faith political and economic discourse, [words 91] he. Trump is the downside of [words 92] comment too often just like his: outrageous, sulfurous, [words 93] often, half-baked. Bartley is dead; long live Bartley: in his absence, the page was [words 94] nomination toward a more viable candidate this year. The best [words 95] be said is that its editorialists helped keep it away from Sen. Paul Gigot, who succeeded Bartley in 2001, [words 96] diverse opinion to its op-ed pages, coping with increasing disunity among the -cons mainly by proliferating columnists. Lee Lescaze, whom the WSJ hired from The Washington Post in 1989 and who founded its [words 97] a humane and sophisticated new wing of the paper before he died, in 1996. Rupert Murdoch bought the paper from Dow Jones heirs in 2007. His sons, James and Lachlan, have their work cut out for them. Sometime in the next few years they must replace Gigot, 61, with an editor capable of restoring credible focus to a page that has [words 98] alternately ideological and diffuse. The decision of The New [words 99] to replace Andrew Rosenthal with James Bennett, hired back from The Atlantic, can only increase the pressure. Two great heroes of the Republican Party in living memory were Dwight Eisenhower and Ronald Reagan. To lionize Reagan is not enough. Until the similarities of roles of both are understood, the Republican Party is not going to regain the White House. ## David Warsh is proprietor of economicprincipals.com and a longtime financial journalist and economic historian. He, like the overseer of New England Diary, Robert Whitcomb, worked for The Wall Street Journal in the 1970s. Spring Haven (GNIS FID: 870106) is a populated place located within the Town of Alton, a minor civil division (MCD) of Belknap County. The elevation of Spring Haven is 561 feet. Spring Haven appears on the West Alton U. Geological Survey Map. Belknap County is in the Eastern Time Zone (UTC -5 hours). Patrons can scan documents and photos for free to their flash drive. Patrons can also print out documents from flash drives at the color copiers. The library sells flash drives (2GB) for the public for $7. Printing costs are 15 cents per page for black and white prints and 50 cents per page for color prints. 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<human>: What are the missing words: When a French and Indian marries, the wedding is different as well. For Céline & Vinod, an Indian wedding wasn't enough, they had to have a French one as well. Set in a castle in Auvergne, this wedding merges two very different families into one, creating a big amalgam of laughter and celebration. Thanks Muratet Photographie for the submission of work. The family of Vinod came from all around the earth for this wonderful wedding. It took place in the Château de Miremont, a village of Miremont, with a ... castle. With a simple hairdo, Céline was getting her makeup done in the powder room. The best men were in another room getting ready as well. The wedding dress was seen hanging by the lights, casting a beautiful image against the walls. For Céline, Vinod was always a fun one. She always remembers the first time she met Vinod. They had just come into business school as young students, and during the integration weekend, she came across this guy who can not stop charging her in a bumper car with a big happy smile. It must have been a seduction technique back then. Fortunately, he matured a bit since and here ... union together. Although a marriage spanning 3 days was risky, but they don't regret it. They really enjoyed their parents and friends and took time to see them and talk to them. They were delighted enough to have tried unusual activities: from games and hot dogs on Thursday evening, a rock concert with Vinod's group, a Thursday evening meditation session, Friday morning Gospel Concert in the Church to a Bal folk Saturday night etc. Saturday was the strongest day emotionally, since it is the day they tie their knots. Thankfully, the marriage proposal was much more romantic than the first meeting. They were on holiday from Dijon to Auxerre by bike. At the end of the first day, they found themselves in this small village completely lost. Braving the storm, they search for accommodation despite no prior booking. Luckily, the only ... to accommodate them and make them dinner although last minute reservation was usually not allowed. After a good shower, ... outside and under the sun, greets her spontaneously with a proposal, causing trails of tears. They walked in the streets with style, passing through cafes and shophouses a block away. In the church itself, choir began and everyone witnessed the beautiful moment when they exchanged their rings and was pronounced as husband and wife. After ... time allocated some freedom to the ... taken. This spiral shot of them just below the staircase brims with passion and love for each other. With its soothing hues, it directs our eye to the couple within. Céline & Vinod are definitely strung to each other! Night settles and the atmosphere of celebration begun. A spotlight ... these two as they made entrance ... area. Family and friends gathered here to join in the celebration, bringing blessings and hugs of assurance. A father-daughter dance pathed the way to more cheerful dances ahead. Céline & Vinod had a ... stage with dances of their own. It was a lovely night where everyone threw aside their differences and came together as a larger family. You've been redirected to Love Rocks! Wedding ... main Vendor Guide to leave a review. Your finished review will show up both here as well as from the specialized directory you came from! (The song of praise) is not only performed in the presence of the Triune God but also involves the three persons of the holy Trinity. It is an alien, counter-cultural activity, ... in no particular cultural setting here on earth. Rather, it ... for it involves our participation with the angels in the heavenly liturgy. John Kleinig, ... in our Hearts" Teach Me Thy Way, O Lord, pp. O my Lord Jesus, how can ... apostles, since You made such a show of them in the Old Testament so long ago? The twelve wells of Elim (Ex.15:27) also depict Your twelve holy apostles, for their teaching refreshes me in fever and tribulation. Just as Aaron wore twelve precious stones on his ministerial breastpiece (Ex.28:21), so You equipped the twelve apostles for the ministry of the ... them on Your heart like a precious treasure. Their teaching is the most precious treasure of my heart. Just as the footstep of the high priest was perceived ... his garment (Ex.28:35), so Your certain presence is ... the Christian Church whenever the teaching of the holy twelve apostles is sounded. - Blessed Valerius Herberger, The Great Works of God III/IV, p. Jesus then really suffered for all men; the cross was no illusion, for otherwise our redemption is an illusion also. Cyril of Jerusalem, Catechetical Lectures 13,3. a downloadable responsive version of the Athanasian Creed, your quest is ... end. Have a great Feast of the Holy Trinity! Like worship itself, the performance of the Lord's song is a super-natural, supra-cultural activity. It is without analogy in any culture. John Kleinig, Singing with Grace in Our Hearts, Teach Me Thy Way, O Lord, p. You came into this world to shed Your blood that Your innocence might be passed on to us. So likewise have we been taught that the food that is blessed by the prayer of His Word, and from which our flood and flesh by transmutation are nourished, is the flesh and blood of that Jesus who was made flesh. - Justin Martyr, Apology 66. that means time for VBS in parishes across the Synod. We remembered at our IC Chapel (and at CPH) the work of our VBS volunteers and the children who attend in our prayers last week:on the Vigil of Pentecost: "The Holy Spirit turns to joy whatever He touches. Seraphim of SarovI've been thinking about the disciples being mistaken for drunks. Whence such a supposition on the part of the crowd? I think may be more than the flood of odd words (which, of course, ... in their own languages), it was rather the overflowing joy that filled them. All that the Lord Jesus did ... for us all was for this end: that the Holy Spirit might fill and overflow our lives, He who is (as Blessed Martin Chemnitz called him) the Personal Joy and Love between the Father and the Son. Joy as a Person, Love as a Person. How can we not then rejoice to join with the Church in crying out in these days: Veni, Sancte Spiritus! Come, Holy Spirit, fill the hearts of Your faithful and kindle in them the ... joy itself. I had a day with ZERO meetings, and so took advantage of that to get a handle on ... work spaces. At last both offices are beginning to depart from Tohu w' Bohu. I spent much of today tidying up, going through old ... such. Earlier the good folks in General Services had installed my standing work station in the Director of Worship office, and today removed a part of my desk that ... need. I left both offices today for the first time thinking what a joy it will be to arrive to their clean spaces tomorrow! Home is almost completely organized; and work is not too far behind. Yeah! For a neat-freak, things are looking up! In Col. Paul) says that through His Word, Christ actually moves and prompts us to teach each other with Spirit-inspired, Spirit-filled psalms and hymns and songs and to give thanks to God the Father together with Him. Thus, the word of Christ which dwells in the congregation, produces its song, even as it is the content of that song. John Kleinig, Singing with Grace in our Hearts, Teach Me Thy Way, O Lord, p. Great joy is commonly followed by ... misfortune. All who love Jesus Christ in this world must get used to this. Prosperity and adversity are always mingled together. "God leads His saints in a wondrous way. " - Blessed Valerius Herberger, The Great Works of God III/IV, p. The church has, as St. Paul declares in Eph.1:12, been given its allotted place in the heavenly realm and its allotted task as the choir that exists for the praise of God's glory. In Christ it stands together with the angels in ... and praises the Father together with them. Outside of this Church there is no salvation. Don't you know how good our Master is? The tax collector went up full of ten thousand wickednesses, said only, "Be merciful to me," and went down justified. What is there to equal this loving-kindness? To the sorrowful so God speaks: "I forgive him his sins. John Chrysostom, Homilies on 1 Cor, 8:8. ... getting back from Arkansas on Tuesday evening, the remaining week days flew by. Thursday was Meaghan's graduation, which I missed. But she is now a ... AND she is gainfully employed. Thanks be to God! Friday was Dean's graduation. I went to work early and came home early. Cindi had started the grass and ... it up. We showered, ate a quick dinner, and headed back into St. Louis to see Dean walk the dais. It was a great moment. I got to chat briefly with Pr. Martin Schulz, whose son John, was also in Dean's class. That makes FOUR generations of pastors for that family. What a beautiful heritage. I remember Martin's dad and thought the world of him (and also of Martin). John's parish will be blessed with him, as I'm certain beyond all doubt that St. Paul's in Norlina, NC will be blessed with Dean and Lauren. Dean will be ordained at Holy Cross in Collinsville on July 15 and he'll be installed in the weekend after Labor Day in Norlina. Anywho, we got back home late and enjoyed our favorite BBC drink and then tumbled to bed, completely wiped. This morning bright ... the yard sale. Cindi and the girls (and Jo) have been working on this for the longest time. I was skeptical, but it turned out to be a smashing success. They ended up getting rid of every heavy piece of furniture or appliance we were trying to sell and tons of the littler stuff. We loaded up the left overs into the van, ran them down to Good Will (and waited in a long line of folks doing the same thing! ), and then returned the tables we'd borrowed from St. Home for a bite of dinner and then we went separate ways for Church. Cindi served as cantor at St. Paul's, and yours truly attended Zion in Staunton, where Pr. Fritsche delivered yet another fine homily - masterfully weaving together the appointed pericopes for Exaudi. His joy in the Lord is ... to behind - his face beams ... preaches. Tomorrow promises to be another run, run day. David and Meaghan hope to move much stuff over to the apartment in ... will live following the wedding - which is, what, two weeks from today? ? ? YIKES. We'll be helping them and I sure hope also finding a wee bit of down time before Monday arrives. I told Cindi I hope we don't have ANY plans for Memorial ... nothing sounds downright heavenly. Cindi and I were figuring that MAYBE by October things would actually settle down? Maybe? ? ? We can but hope. And we try not ... it will be like to have Pr. Herberts and family so far away. Now He was going home. In seven words the years of labor and sorrow end: "While they beheld, He was taken up. " There were ... earth, but surely all the trumpets on the other side sounded as they never sounded before. Surely the chiming golden bells of heaven sang their welcome, and angel choirs intoned the song of the throne: "Worthy is the Lamb that was slain to receive power and riches and wisdomand strength. " On the anvils of God the nails had been forged into the scepter of a king. The angel hosts sweep to either side, leaving the way clear to the Eternal Light that no longer blinds ... of us who stand gazing after Him. He leads a procession which comes from the ends of time and space, all the harvest of all the white fields the world has ever known, the pilgrims of the night who come at last to the dawn of an everlasting day. " The Child of the manger, the praying heart on the starlit lanes of Galilee, the hunger in the wilderness, the weariness of the Sychar Well, the tears of the Garden and the Hill, the thirst of the Cross - all over now. The robes of the Transfiguration once momentary, now clothe Him forever, and angels and archangels sound the great doxology of the Waiting Church: "Thine is the kingdom and the power and the glory forever and ever. " The Ascension did not take Jesus away. It brought heaven near. In the realm in which He now reigns time and space have no meaning. There is no up and down, no near and far, no darkness, and no ... faith. He is as near as yesterday's prayer, today's joy, tomorrow's sorrow. His homecoming has made heaven a home for us who still walk far from home. Wherefore stand we gazing into heaven? . Our momentary task is here, but through the slow dimming ... we see the evening lamps of home tended by the pierced hands of Him who has gone to prepare a place for us. Is there a better way to live - or die? . All that we have to do now is believe ... of faith and salvation, the devil, his apostles and henchmen, are fighting with ... might. They distort this doctrine with there heretical marginal notes and maintain, Here is how you must understand this article: He that believes and does good works shall be saved. That's why it is doubly important to be fully equipped to analyze their deception and reply, I know very well that genuine faith is active in good works, and that if there are no good works, then true faith does not exist; but opening the gates of heaven and being saved are things that only ... works cannot do that. I must first have the all-important gift of salvation. But when, ... Christ, my sins have been forgiven and the gates of heaven opened to me, so that I am saved, then I, too, can say: fiat justitia (become just), "You must live a godly life and do what ... right. " - preached in the afternoon of Ascension Day at the parish Church, 1533. The key to understanding any liturgical enactment in public worship is to ask what is meant to be accomplished by it there by those people in that location in that order of service. So, for example, even though the Lord's Prayer always has the same meaning wherever it is used liturgically, it functions differently and so has different ... if it is used at the end of the Prayer of the Church or in the rite of baptism, or in the communion liturgy before ... Institution. John Kleinig, Singing Grace in our Hearts, Teach Me Thy Way, O Lord, p. But what does it mean to sit at God's right hand? We will not make a judgment on this on the basis of our own discretion. Instead, we will get it out of Holy Scripture. What the evangelist Mark states here ... Christ ascending up to heaven and seating Himself at God's right hand, St. Paul explains in Ephesians 4:10 this way: He who ascended is far above all heavens so that He fills all things. - Blessed Johann Gerhard, Sermon for Ascension, Postilla I:421The indescribable grace of Christ, which we lost through the ill will of the devil, prepared us more fully for that glory. Incorporated within Himself, the Son of God placed those whom the violent enemy threw down from the happiness of our first dwelling at the right hand of the Father. The Son of God lives and reigns with God the Father almighty and with the Holy Spirit forever and ever. - Pope St. Leo the Great, Sermon 73 on the AscensionThe natural rhythm of light and dark, of creation and re-creation in the liturgy of the hours continually reminds us of our re-creation in Christ in the waters of holy Baptism. This pattern of nature provides the framework for our praise and prayer. Arthur Just, The Devotional Life of the Pastor, Teach Me Thy Way, O Lord, p. ... provided for before all else. From a well-ordered church flows every blessing. The Father stands and awaits your return from your error. Turn back to Him, and while you are still far off, He will run and fall on your neck. ... embraces He will enfold you, cleansed by repentance. He says, 'There is more joy in heaven over one sinner who repents. ' If anyone of those who seem to stand by will bring a charge that you have ... answer for you. He will say, 'It is fitting to celebrate and be glad, for this your brother was dead and is alive, he was lost and is found. Basil the Great, Letter 46. A whirlwind trip, but what a blessing. Sunday after lunch, I hit the road and traveled down to the Beethe's in Little Rock - they had graciously offered to let me spend the night there. Visiting with the whole family was such a blessing - and the primal breakfast was an added treat that I hadn't expected. Unfortunately on the trip down to Little Rock my iPhone died. So, first thing Monday a. (AFTER the primal breakfast - with some ... bacon and pancakes), off to the AT&T store to replace the phone. Funny how panicky I get without that tether - as I was driving all those miles without any phone at all (and with only the iPad for a navigating devise to get me to the Beethe's - and that only worked at wi-fi joints), I kept reminding myself of what David wisely says: "You never had a phone when you were driving around ... fine. Little Rock was really a surprise. What a beautiful city! After getting the phone up and running, though, I had to leave the city and head into even more beautiful country: Lake DeGray State Park. Led the brothers of that region of Midsouth through some joys in Colossians, joined them to celebrate ... III, heard many outstanding devotions around the theme "At Table with Jesus" and thoroughly enjoyed the visiting. A special treat was getting outside on Tuesday morning at 6 and running with Mark and Emil as the sun rose, the woodpeckers pecked away, and the day slowly stretched and woke up. Emil and I ran ... almost all the way - fascinating to learn a bit more of his story. after wrapping up Colossians, I sadly had to hit the road back home - I would have loved to sit at the feet of Dr. But what a beautiful day for a drive! I had the roof open all the way home, the windows down, the radio blaring oldies and the miles flying by. The way down I'd been stuck on Highway 40 between Memphis and Little Rock for an hour due to an accident, but the way home was without incident. It ended up being over 1000 miles round trip, but as I love driving (at least on open highways on Spring days when the sun is ... good. Got in about 5:30 and crashed for the evening. Cindi revived my weary spirit with a ... an after-dinner BBC (which is our favorite tropical drink by far). Thanks to Mark and the brothers in Midsouth for the invite. It was a blessing indeed to be with you all! . we couldn't get everyone together today to observe mother's day. Sometime ... weeks maybe? So Cindi and I had a quiet mother's day breakfast after church. While she stayed to play bells at late service, I came home and whipped up the brunch. How's ... (apple, carrot, banana, spinach, blackberries, raspberries, kale, coconut milk, ice)It was rather tasty if I do say so myself. A happy Mother's Day to the wonderful mother of my children - thank you, Cindi, ... been and continuing to be such a fabulous mom! The liturgy of the hours arose early in the Christian church as a way for Christians to rehearse and tell the story of the world, to praise ... his mighty, saving acts, and to petition the Father through the Son in its common prayer. - Arthur Just, The Devotional Life of the Pastor, Teach Me Thy Way, O Lord, p. Oh Lord Jesus, my heart also follows You constantly: ... hear Your Word; to the confession to receive Your consolation; to the Holy Supper to take the pledge of Your love; and in heaven to ... You. The incarnation of the Word and His assumption of human nature took place for the overthrow of death. Cyril of Alexandria, Commentary on Luke ... reversed by Luther who restored the liturgy of the hours back to its proper place as the prayer services of the whole church, laity ... alike. He returned the reading of Scripture back to its original place as the major part of the liturgy from which flowed the psalms, hymns, and prayers of the daily office. And the canticles of the liturgy of the hours ... simpler so that the people could sing them. Luther used ... office as the foundation for his devotional life and his prayers. We would be in good company if our private devotional life as pastors found its place within the context of the church's common prayer. To do this, all we need ... return to using the daily offices as the foundation for our devotional life. Arthur Just, The Devotional Life of the Pastor in Teach Me Thy Way, O Lord, p. The faithful walk soberly with a quiet spirit, but the self-righteous walk loudly with the presumption of their works in God's laws. Let our light shine ... glow in such a way as to lead us from the night of this world to the daylight of eternal brightness. Cyprian of Carthage, On the Unity of the ... 25. today was such a joy. What a glorious Matins! From Mark Bender on organ to Phil Magness on piano, from Mary Weber's amazing trumpet work ... Weedon belting out Händel, from the Choir under direction of Jon Vieker to Phil Magness' psalm setting - wow, oh, wow. And President Harrison's preaching was a delight as usual - unpacking the three meanings of "confession" - of sin, of faith, of praise. Thanks to all the friends who joined in the celebration, to Annette for putting together the reception, to all the kind well-wishes from my fellow workers. "Blessed be God the Father, the Son and the Holy Spirit! Oh, come, let us worship Him! "P. ... sweet to have two of my godchildren present, ... to hear in chapel the sound of little ones making their unique "joyful ... the sound of children! that St. Paul didn't write: It is required of stewards that they maintain good relationships with their congregations; but it is required of stewards that they be found faithful? What would happen if we turned from an obsession with managing relationships in the pastoral office and focused instead on just being faithful in delivering the Lord's gifts to His beloved Bride? Crazy idea, I know. If our pastors are humble, remembering that they are but beggars living off the same divine mercy they invite their people to, they will seek to deliver the gifts with joy - even when they suffer for it. Nor will they be surprised at the obstinacy and sin in their people - they'll have looked into their own hearts and recognized the evil that constantly springs up there. And they'll know they're in a life and death battle with the spiritual powers to deliver the life that is true life, and that that ... the fight. So that's my proposal: lose the social science fixation with relationships and discover again the joy of faithfulness as we encourage each other more and more to be true to Christ and His Gospel no matter how much that might irritate people. after my first week of life at the Synod's International Center. I ... I LOVED IT. Don't get me wrong: I'm still totally lost and over my head. I figure that will take a while to sort out. I left Rachel out because mostly it's not conversations at this point: she's the instructor and I'm her very learning challenged pupil. But she is a woman ... tact. Getting a glimpse of the Synod's wide reach and work has also been an eye-opener. I've encountered a number of ... Hmm, I didn't know we DID that and I wish I had known it when I was a parish pastor. What surprised me most? All the laughter. There was a great deal of joy in that place. I don't think I expected that, but I should have. Of course, I think that our National ... joy. Let's just say I was delighted at our first ONM meeting - our jovial ... tone. But Bill C runs him a close second. What frustrated me most? How ... day flew! I'd look up and think: "Goodness! It can't be that late already! ! ! " I've got a pile of things to attend to already on Monday morning, but they'll have to wait till AFTER the official Installation Service. Anywho, the first week under the belt - and slowly, ever so slowly, starting to acclimate. Now, for some cards and to beat Jo in liverpool - first things first, after all. Already in the third century, the hours of the day form the structure of prayer in the life of the believer. This is ... that the faithful are encouraged to ... of their daily devotion to the creator and redeemer of all things. Jacob called the name of the place Peniel, that he might not forget his struggle and victory. The place where Jacob had suffered his great adversity was called "God's Face. " Surely God is nowhere better seen and discerned than from beneath the blessed cross. Let us knock at the very fair garden of the Scriptures, so fragrant and sweet and blooming, with its varied sounds of spiritual and ... ears, laying hold of our hearts, comforting the mourner, pacifying the angry and filling him ... everlasting. Scripture sets our mind on the gold-gleaming, brilliant back of the divine dove (Psalm 68:13), whose bright pinions bear us up to the only-begotten Son and heir of the master of the house (Matt.21:37) of that spiritual vineyard and bring us through Him to the Father of lights (James 1:17). John of Damascus, An Exact Exposition of the Orthodox Faith, 4. about the morning commute into St. Louis is that at 7 a. ... (850 AM) returns to the airwaves, and I get to pray Matins with my dear friend, Pastor Randy Asburry. This ... the NT reading in Treasury (from Luke 10), I heard something I'd always missed before. You see, one of the dangers of using a lectionary is that stories take on a life of their own and you forget that they nestle right next to OTHER stories. So I certainly know very well the pericopes dealing with the Good Samaritan, and Jesus' visit to the home of Martha and Mary. But I plum forgot that thy literally are next-door neighbors! So, think of it: the Good Samaritan ... wringing from the lawyer the very word that is at the heart of Torah: mercy. And he tells him: ... likewise. Go, be of service and use to another. And THEN, we see Martha being all good Samaritanish, serving and working in the kitchen, fixing a meal for our Lord and his followers. And yet when she dares to criticize Mary and urge the Lord to tell her to get busy with the serving, Jesus stops her dead ... tracks. The result of Martha's busyness was that she was fretting and worked up about lots of stuff. Mary, on the other hand, has chosen the better part, the better portion, the chief goodie. Jesus refuses to let anyone take it from her. The life of action or the contemplative life? Well, our Lord desires for us both. But he's utterly ... priority. His Word and the hearing ... preaching. That's the best, and we must never allow anyone to deprive us of it ... busy. For we can ONLY "go ... first sat at the Feet of the Good Samaritan and let Him through His Word spoken and sacramentally ... up our wounds, anoint us, and heal us. Anywho, kudos ... us to kick off each day with the joys of hearing the Word together, singing God's praises together, and asking His blessing upon the new day He has ... give us. "O Lord, open my lips and my mouth will declare Your praise! "The cross of Jesus reveals to us that the only life worth living is a life which is given through death - the death of Jesus. There is no getting around the cross of CHrist; the Christian life is always a life under the cross. - Pr. Harold Senkbeil, Sanctification: Christ in Action, p. When Jacob thought that God was farthest away, He was closer than He had ever been before in his life. When Jacob imagined himself forsaken by God, he was lying in God's embrace. He was a perfect Victim offered for us, both in name and ... incorruption. And He was a perfect Victim not only on account of ... more perfect; but also on account of that which He assumed, having been anointed with deity, and having become one with that which anointed Him, and I am bold to say, was made equal ... God. Gregory of Nazianzus, Orations 45.13The Lord Jesus braced Himself with the staff of His most holy cross. He passed over the Jordan of our misery and won for Himself a twofold people which worships Him forever. O Lord Jesus, You are the mighty Crushing Heel. You kept Your bones unbroken on the cross because You wished with strong legs and heels to crush the skull of the devil. Oh, what a heavy step You took! The serpent pierced Your heel. It cost You Your most holy blood, even life and limb. Thus You crushed the foes of my salvation underfoot and claimed the victory. We deserved death, for we had fallen under the divine curse because of sin. When the Savior of all undertook the responsibility, He transferred to Himself what was due to us and laid down His life, so that we might be sent away from death and destruction. Cyril of Alexandria, Homilies on Luke, 53. and please note that bashing bloggers for breaking the 8th commandment is itself a breaking of the 8th commandment. Tonight my son-in-law received a call into my home district, the SED, to serve at Ridgeway/Norlina, St. Paul's (good name, that! ). Congratulations to Pastor-elect Dean Herberts, wife Lauren, and little Abednego! ! ! 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<human>: The rest of this: I've been off leading a Sunday service about “Why Be a Congregation? ” and watching my nephew graduate from law school. (Yay, Mike! )Well, the whole Korea negotiation saga, the fizzling of the US/China trade war, a long string of scoops detailing the corruption of the Trump regime, more aggressive attempts to derail the Mueller investigation, some primaries that set up interesting races for the fall, another school shooting, and maybe a few other things. I'll get to those in the weekly summary, which I'm aiming to have come out between noon and 1, EDT. But there are also two featured posts. Part of what I've been doing while traveling is a bunch of background reading about class and inequality. Eventually I suspect that's going to lead to a long article where I try to reach some deeper insight, but for now I'll just outline what I'm reading in case you want to read along. That will be “Outlines of a Reading Project on Class”, and it should come out between 9 and 10. The other news event that happened these last three weeks was an opening ceremony for the new US embassy in Jerusalem. That pageantry happened simultaneously with the lethal Israeli response to protesters trying to cross the Gaza border. To me, the whole tableau symbolized that the assumptions underlying US policy towards Israel are obsolete now. Many were never realistic, but were based on a variety of positive and negative mythic roles that Americans have assigned to Israel and/or the Jews. So whatever your position on Israel, I suggest it's time to go back to first principles and rethink, as if Israel were just a nation with no more mythic significance than any other nation has. That article is “It's time to let Israel be a country”, and I aim to get it out before 11. Forgive me if this is obvious already, but: the Kakistocracy has a population of Dominionists (Pence, DeVos, I don't remember who else) shaping policy towards Israel, and that influence should not be overlooked. Thanks for what you do! I've been away, but to see you're digging into inequality, you might find these two of interest – they tell parts of the story the mainstream media largely skims over – possibly for lack of desire to examine too closely. Today we introduced our first-ever Wee Tee, featuring Ruth (who has a purple tooth). To celebrate, we created this free activity sheet. Prostate cancer is estimated to claim the lives of almost 30,000 men this year. That's 30,000 husbands, fathers, brothers and friends. One of our best defenses against this disease is education and awareness, granting men and their families the knowledge and power to take the appropriate steps toward optimal health and longevity. To support this goal, some of New York City's most prestigious prostate cancer treatment centers are joining forces to host a symposium on Saturday, September 22, 2018. This inaugural NYC Prostate Cancer Summit: An Advocacy, Awareness and Educational Event to Empower Patients and Loved Ones will be led by experts from Weill Cornell Medicine, NewYork-Presbyterian Hospital, Columbia University Irving Medical Center, and Memorial Sloan Kettering Cancer Center. In addition to having exclusive access to these discussions, patients and loved ones will also be able to connect with fellow attendees and obtain resources related to prostate cancer treatment options and quality of life. The Summit will run from 8AM – 1PM at the New York Academy of Medicine (on 5th Avenue and 103rd Street). It is completely free and open to all those impacted by prostate cancer. Breakfast and lunch will be provided. Earlier this month, Dr. Himisha Beltran presented exciting new research results for those with metastatic prostate cancer at the European Society of Medical Oncology (ESMO)'s annual meeting in Copenhagen, Denmark. Cancer experts and patients from around the world came to the 2016 ESMO Congress to discuss the latest research and cutting-edge treatment options for people with cancer. Beltran's research presentation highlighted promising results from a clinical trial for men with aggressive prostate cancer. Beltran and the Weill Cornell Medicine (WCM) Genitourinary (GU) Oncology team led this multicenter, phase 2 clinical trial, which was based upon prior WCM work which identified aurora kinase A as a key target in NEPC. The trial enrolled sixty patients from across the United States. It was the first clinical trial to study a new, targeted treatment for men with NEPC. The drug used in this study, Alisertib, is an oral medication that is an Aurora Kinase A Inhibitor. This clinical trial confirmed our hypothesis that different men's tumors genetically expressed different levels of the targets for the drug, and as a result their response rates to this treatment varied. Those with the most optimal responses had cancers that genetically appeared to be most like NEPC in both biopsies and whole exome genomic sequencing of the tumor. As part of our Institute for Precision Medicine, we use the Exact-1 whole exome sequencing test to categorize more than 21,000 genes within the tumor. This is the most comprehensive way to determine where mutations and mechanisms for treatment resistance may exist in patients with advanced stage cancer and allows us to narrowly target different patient's treatment regimens on the molecular level. In addition, some of the tumor biopsies were analyzed for gene expression (RNA) and organoids, which are tumor models that we are able to grow from the biopsy tissue, were developed. In this clinical trial, we were able to learn a lot on the molecular level from the patients who had the most exceptional responses to Alisertib. Based on these results and establishing biomarkers to predict Alisertib response rates, future clinical trials could be much more targeted to include only the men whose tumors indicate that they are likely to respond to this therapy. Additionally, there is great potential to learn much more about the tumor evolution and the biology of resistance. This clinical trial underscores the need to more narrowly focus on the sub-set of prostate cancer patients with NEPC, as there are few standard treatment options and ... <assistant>: limited clinical trials available for these men. Thank you to all the men who enrolled in this clinical trial and helped further the field of research in the search for new cures for prostate cancer. We're always working to increase access to new promising treatments for NEPC and other aggressive forms of prostate cancer through clinical trials. To learn more about our open studies and to make an appointment with the Weill Cornell Genitourinary (GU) Oncology Program, call 646-962-2072. To kick off the series, we sat down with Dr. Jim Hu, one of our internationally-renowned urologists, to determine some of the factors that should go into the decision to pursue active surveillance as a prostate cancer treatment approach. A cancer diagnosis typically involves much more than just detecting the presence of cancer in the body. Additional information about the nature of the cancer and where it started and may have spread helps physicians recommend the best course of treatment, especially since depending on cancer type (very low, low, intermediate or high risk), there can be a wide ranging degree of aggressiveness. For most types of cancers, there are different standards used to “grade” or assess this aggressiveness on a common scale. Usually this information is then used in conjunction with information about whether the cancer has already spread or metastasized to other parts of the body. It can also be used alongside other genetic and molecular information about the cancer that tells us whether this specific cancer is likely to respond to a certain treatment and the rate at which the cancer is likely to spread. For a long time, prostate cancer has been known as an “indolent” or slow-growing cancer relative to other cancers such as pancreatic or lung cancers. The aggressiveness or rate at which it is likely to grow is measured by studying the appearance of the cancer cells under a microscope to determine the grade. For prostate cancers, we refer to this as the Gleason score. The lowest prostate cancer grade is currently Gleason 3+3=6. Grade 6 prostate cancer is thought to be non-aggressive and unlikely to spread to other places in the body. However, there are cases when more aggressive cancer may have been hidden and then subsequently discovered. The challenge is that in 75% of cases, prostate cancer is multi-focal, meaning that it grows within several areas of the prostate. This makes it difficult to accurately stage the tumor entirely, as only one section of the cancer is being analyzed to determine its aggressiveness. As a result, the decision to pursue active surveillance or careful monitoring and watching in patients with low-grade tumors on the Gleason scale depends on several factors. These factors include a man's overall health, life expectancy, the age of diagnosis, and personality type. The rationale for this approach is that low-risk prostate cancer grows very slowly and some question whether it ever spreads. Therefore the majority of these cancers may not be life threatening within a 10 year time frame, so men can avoid prostate cancer therapies that may affect quality of life. For this group, active surveillance is an alternative to the over-treatment of prostate cancer and potential side effects that can come along with it For example, in men who have numerous medical conditions and a shorter life expectancy, active surveillance is a reasonable treatment option, even with Gleason 3+4=7 prostate cancer, or intermediate risk disease. With active surveillance, it is important to be monitored regularly by a urologist who will test your PSA levels and perform digital rectal examinations of the prostate. Imaging with Magnetic Resonance Imaging (MRI) and targeted biopsy of suspicious areas should also be part of the routine to accurately assess prostate cancer severity. Targeted biopsies use ultrasound fused to the MRI to guide the procedure, greatly increasing the accuracy and likelihood that the tissue sample is of the most suspicious section of the prostate. A guided biopsy takes approximately 10 minutes and carries a small risk of infection or bleeding (like a standard biopsy). Additionally, there is a learning curve to the procedure, so the experience of the urologist is critical. There are also biomarkers that have recently been developed to evaluate the need for a prostate biopsy. These include the 4K test and Prostate Health Index (PHI), which are blood tests that assess the likelihood that prostate cancer may be contributing to a rise in PSA level. Additionally, for men diagnosed with low risk prostate cancer, there are new tests that assess the genetics of the tissue to determine whether more aggressive disease may have been missed on the biopsy, and present in other parts of the prostate. These assays are called Oncotype Dx, Decipher and Polaris. We offer all of these tests at Weill Cornell and NewYork-Presbyterian, and together they paint a much more complete picture of the prostate cancer and whether it is progressing. This comprehensive, big picture is what we use to make recommendations for your overall course of prostate cancer treatment, including whether it would be a good idea to pursue active surveillance.6lack(pronounced “Black”) is an up-and-coming hip-hop artist hailing from Atlanta, Georgia. His debut studio album, Free 6lack, known for its iconic album cover shown above, peaked at number 73 on the Billboard Hot 100 chart and was certified platinum. Beyond making great music, 6lack's social media awareness and humility make him one of the more interesting artists to study when it comes to branding. His second studio album, named East Atlanta Loved Letter, is slated for a September 14 release. 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<human>: Complete this text: Yeah, just replace the part of the script (CameraFollow), you'll find it, I'm sure. (Stan figured this out, by the way)Is it usual for Greg not to check/reply on the forum for ... <bot>: Completed pargraph(s): over a week? I left a question (several of of have), and no reply. I may be spoiled by JohnnyA who is very active in his 2D Platformer thread. I also thought... <human>: Continue. <bot>: the same thing, I wouldn't mind some opinions on my suggestions, just to see if they're realistic to put in or not. That said though, its only a week, people have holidays illness, and even lives outside of game development (or so I hear. honestly I'm hoping that last one turns out to be a rumour trying to hinder my game dev time). Another... <human>: More. <bot>: option is that he could be coming up to some of his own deadlines, eg. university or whatever. I'm sure he'll respond when he... <human>: Continue. <bot>: can. I tried this, it seems to kill my camera's offset values. its really close now. should they still work? I would love to have the direction work like this. YES, the easily adjustable movement controls means you'd have that running instantly. Though the player does not currently rotate to the angle of the ground. There's some code which stops slight slope sliding inside... <human>: Continue. <bot>: the 'Player Move' script, you should easily see it (its commented) and remove that part if you want sliding on subtle slopes. Send a... <human>: More. <bot>: message to the support email (in the guidebook) if you have any trouble setting it up, and i'll be happy to help you through it. The most requested features are added first, both of these are fairly high on the list. I don't like to give a definite eta as this can interfere with my ability to produce the best quality product. Any chance... <human>: More. <bot>: of making another "goal" script - to change a scene but without... <human>: Next. <bot>: losing collected score restarting life meterIco is one of my favorite games! Perhaps this could help you: http://wiki. php? title=Spline_ControllerThe camera script is completely commented, so you can see how each part works, you'd want to change how the 'follow' functions, to keep it on the spline. Outtoplay - my sincere apologies for not being quick on the replies this week, one of the great things about this community is how closely i can work with PPK developers and i'm going to honour that relationship. The community growing around this kit is staggering already, with so many helpful people appearing on this board, so thankyou! Dan_Tsukasa - Thankyou for your suggestions! Things like iOS controls, added artist workflow, video tutorials and extra camera control are top priority right... <human>: More. <bot>: now because they are the most frequently suggested. After that i'll begin on adding the next most requested features which looks to be wall jumping. HeadTrip - 'followTarget. position' is where the... <human>: Continue. <bot>: camera will move to and 'target. position' is the current position of the player. So your camera will move to inside the player! You'll probably want to change this to: target. position... <human>: Next. <bot>: + offset, where offset is the vector3 offset. Hope that helps! A... <human>: More. <bot>: more flexible, official update for this is coming very soon. The camera script is completely commented, so you can see how each part works, you'd want to change how the 'follow' functions,... <human>: Next. <bot>: to keep it on the spline. I found it, for anyone else... <human>: Next. <bot>: looking for a path based camera (follow transform mode). works great and... <human>: Continue. <bot>: is super simple to set up, it includes a demo scene. I've been using it for months, but didn't see the recent update that... <human>: Continue. <bot>: added this. the author was helpful. example games are Knack, God of war. works well with this kit. I'd like to ask if anyone has worked out a way to get this... <human>: Next. <bot>: kit working with sprites and other animations that don't use mechanim, I don't use mechanim at all in my game, slowly trying to edit the code but. its very very slow, if anyone else has done so and would be willing to share their experiences It'd be hugely appreciated. If you download Unity 4.3 which uses mechanim for sprite animations, everything will be set... <human>: More. <bot>: up for you already. Mechanim doesn't work with spritesheets sadly though, all my sprites are via spritesheets and fully animated, this was more what I meant, as opposed to the unity method... <human>: Next. <bot>: which is similar to the Rayman Origins type method of animating a sum of parts. You'll be happy to know that it does, the explosion in the demo scene uses sprites. Watch this video for more info: http://www.com/watch? v=B1F6fi04qw8Your entire animation setup for 2D is complete and ready for you to plug in your sprite animations, enemy animations are also coming in the new... <human>: Next. <bot>: update! Have you ever had that moment where you're so 100% Sure about something, and then feel like a moron afterwards? I had that yesterday, I posted that comment, and then shortly... <human>: More. <bot>: after I decided to checkout the 2d features, then I realized how wrong I was. Currently I'm still using your animator to test things with and once I'm sold on everything I'll move over to my own animator, Unitys animator view confuses me a little since I'm so used to simply using 2D Toolkit for everything until now. My character, since its a sprite,... <human>: Next. <bot>: only has a different animation for Push/pull, as opposed to an new 'arm' layer like yours does, However I've deleted the 'Arms layer' from your Animator and copied only the Push (Since... <human>: More. <bot>: I don't have grab, only push and pull) to the Base Layer. In your code there's an animation that doesn't change for push or pull, would it be possible to provide an example that has a different animation for Pull, as I can't think how to attempt this myself at all, I imagine its based on facing direction and key input direction but I... <human>: Next. <bot>: wouldn't have a clue where to start in coding this myself at... <human>: Next. <bot>: all. If you could provide a code snippet I should be able to work out the Animation based on that, hopefully. Additionally, are there any plans for a 2D Physics example at all (with push and pull would be awesome! )In your code there's an animation that doesn't change for push or pull, would it be possible to provide an example that has a... <human>: Next. <bot>: different animation for Pull. What you would do is get the direction... <human>: Next. <bot>: of the held object (object. <human>: Fill in the missing spans: position), get the movementDirection from inside the Player Move script, then get the angle between them (Vector3. Send that angle to mechanim, and if it is smaller than say.90, do push animation, if its larger than 90 do a pull animation. Sorry i can't code this for you, these kind of general requests are better put on UnityAnswers - i have a lot of customers to supportThere probably won't be plans for a 2D specific version, as the 2D included works just the same whilst giving you a lot more flexibility on gameplay and lighting, its also already highly optimized already and compatible with sprites so [spans 1] upside. Thankyou ^___^, and no worries, I'll give that a shot later today and see if I get anywhere with it, I'm sure you've a lot of others stuff to be doing anyways. The 2D Physics in unity is a lot more powerful than the 3D, since Box2D is so widely used, it means you could port a lot of stuff from other engines over technically speaking, with a lot more ease than having to convert all that to 3D Physics, Ropes are a good example of this, Unitys 3D Physics require either a lot of coding to make them work [spans 2] Unity. I'm sure I'm not the only one who'd be interested in it as a full 2D Physics sample, however I [spans 3] Physics. I was looking for a way to orient picked-up [spans 4] placed. I tried setting up a Box Collider as trigger and made [spans 5] TriggerParent. cs on the Box Collider Trigger. It still starts looping through the waypoints right away though. Fully set up enemy animators are arriving in the new update, as well as a patrol tool to assign enemies patrol routes via land, sea or air! I'm certain you have your "ground check" objects outside the bounds of the players collision box - these raycast downwards to check the player is on the ground; having one outside your collision box means it would be inside that wall, hitting your wall block, thus telling the script that the player is on the ground. Simply move them so they are within the players collision box on [spans 6] axis. For your first issue, send me a demo/some more information to: greganims1@gmail.com, and we'll solve it right away. about Sight Bounds it's possible to use other method because at this time i got when punch [spans 7] going. edd - looks fantastic, and reminds me of Toy Story 2 on playstation a little bit. just goes to show the console quality of platformer you can quickly accomplish with this kit, and some nice artwork. I'm looking forward to the progress you make, i really like the cheese puzzle. kilik 128 - again, this look really great, absolutely amazing for a first game. I noticed the player does not walk whilst pulling, are you using the 'arms' layer for pulling animations? You can also lock the rotation on that box to only Z axis, if you want some more predictable rotations on it. Regarding punching, you could check which collider is being hit, just like you checked the transform of the collider. To be honest if i were to do a punching attack, i'd keep things simple and modular by creating a hitbox with the 'Hazard' and 'Destroy' scripts attached. Make the hazard script only effect enemy/breakable crate tags, and set the destroy delay to 0. then simply spawn this invisible hitbox in front of the player when the punch key is pressed. Alternatively to save memory, you could simply activate/deactivate this box when punch is pressed, and have it always parented to the player. I have played the demo and it's very impressive, really smooth and precise. If you convert this asset to support 4.3 I'll definitively buy it. My goal [spans 8] out. The kit moves the player object with key-presses and that movement informs the animations to play. The advantage of this is that if the player gets moved by another object for example pushed into the air by a trampoline (on the demo), even though the player isn't pressing jump the jump animation will play, so it is very flexible. If you want to use root motion you'd simply comment out the usual movement code, and set your animations to use root motion. However, i would not use root motion as it changes the position of the object each frame, according to position changes in the root bone. What this means is that it is not using real forces (as the kit does), so it will not interact as reliably with other physics objects. Root motion is usually only used for AI characters in 'realistic' games such as FPS. Can I ask why you are using rays to check for the isGrounded status, and don't just check for a collision with a trigger you could place at the bottom of the main character? If I introduce additional animations, such as a slide, then the floor checker positions will be wrong for this smaller animation, not sure how to deal with that. Also, I want to do a wall jump - and can either use rays out horizontally, or use a trigger attached to the front - so would like to understand the benefit of rays over the trigger method. Thanks i'm glad you're enjoying it! RAYCASTS CONTAIN THE FUNCTIONALITY to return the first object hit, and nothing else. They can also immediately be checked as a bool (true/false statement) to see if anything WAS hit (ie: are we standing on anything), they also contain the functionality [spans 9] together. SIMPLY PUT, THEY'RE THE RIGHT TOOL FOR THE JOB - it's good you're considering other ways to do this as a good programmer always considers the different tools and which will be best for the task (simple/flexible/most compatible with future additions). Most games KEEP THE COLLISION OF THE PLAYER IDENTICAL FOR EVERY ANIMATION because otherwise you can run into bugs where the collision shape changes and it intersects with geometry or an enemy (in FPS games where they NEED to change the collider for crouching, they do checks - in unity i'd use a capsule cast - to always see if the head is clear before getting back up, to avoid these clipping bugs). This is always a trade off between functionality and art, as you try to fit animations as closely to the collision shape as you can, so personally i wouldn't touch the collision/ground checks. If you really want to you can simply create two sets of ground checks and enable/disable them with each animation change. I'm going to add wall jumping in a future update if you can wait (after iOS controls) - i just submitted a new update with extra camera/enemy AI features yesterdayThanks Greg, gong to try to pick it all apart and recreate as a Playmaker state machine next. Good to hear wall jumps are happening soon, would be good if when clinging to a wall you can choose to stick fast or slide down at an editor defined rate, or even only cling for a time before losing grip and falling. Good if you could [spans 10] editor). Have you noticed this? Usually after sliding, or jumping on platforms. just bought the this kit and realy looking forward to test it out. When do you think the iOS controller will be ready? Hello everyone, just saw this tool in the assest store, looks really neat. I have 2 questions before i buy. I'm still having a problem with my change level. I have two scenes in my game test (World1_1 and World2_1). [spans 11] 0. So I get then "turn by turn" in my thinking (two levels after each other repeatedly). I'm building the game with settings, so that World1_1 has index [spans 12] scene). Still when I reach the goal in first level (World1_1) it just restarts that level and does not load the next one. Another great game created using the PPK kit, thankyou for sharing this i love seeing the fantastic work people are doing with this! I haven't experienced this, but i'll look into it. If you [spans 13] out. They're mostly programmed in but i need to test them [spans 14] needs. I'd estimate a couple of weeks. A number of people have already made iOS games with it and it is highly optimised for mobile use. "Out the box" touch controls will be intergrated soon. In fact i answered a question for another developer on how to do [spans 15] changed). So i'll include it in the documentation. Pheidian - this is fixed in 1.4 which will be released as soon as Unity approves it, likely a few days. Hi all, just wanted to share a game I made using the physics platformer kit for the 2013/2014 New Year Game Jam! I put it all together in 3 days! Can't wait to see what I can do if I actually had more time! My entry [spans 16] bracket. This will load the next level after the current level that is in the build settings. However if you had reached the goal in level 2, but there was no level 3, you'll get an error about how there is no level 2 (if level 1 = 0 in build settings, level 2 = 1 in build settings)-A 3D open-world, 4 player co-op, platformer game. Set to be 15+ hours long, full of content, Oculus Rift support, and even other game modes! Set to be completed sometime in 2014-2015. Will have a 4 player battlemode/deathmatch, and tons of minigames. Currently being worked on by just me. Punching, or some attack (want to get new player models eventually that can use weapons like a sword)- Swimming, and this is mainly [spans 17] verison. Some script that allows the game to end once all players/player has died. Or load a new level once all players have died. (instead of respawns)-Sprinting, I have Cube Knights currently running with keyboard, and Xbox 360 gamepad support! When I was playing with [spans 18] button. Add ladders! We need em! I can't stress out enough how needy its becoming for me for one player to drop a ladder for another as a puzzle, or a way to help the other to advance! -Double Jump, this is reallllly needed right now. Need I say more? Being able to double jump via a second jump in midair. Updates restart my tags, and changes iv made to the prefabs, (through which is understandable I guess) [spans 19] controller. When having multiple players for co-op, when player 2 jumps on an enemy, player 1 will rise in the air without stopping until player 2 gets off an enemy. Still an amazing kit through! Really looking forward to what updates will bring, as I move forward in the games development. This post will also be constantly updated as development moves forward! Fantastic kit really easy to use, but i have a problem i need assistance with. I can't seem to find a way to change what the GUItext says like health/coins and the color of the text. I'm bit new at scripting and I've been looking over the scripts for a while now, any ideas? I have one question though. When I move a sphere really quick into another sphere (both with the Throwing script attached to them) it barely moves it. In other words when the sphere is moving really fast into the second one, it goes through the [spans 20] it. Very great asset! This is great for a jump start on any platformer or sidescroller. Makes it so you don't have to do the [spans 21]. <bot>: spans 1: i can't see much spans 2: or faking it with a lot of parenting or hinge joints, whereas in the 2D Physics (Box2D) There's a rope joint option available to easily be plugged in, which is more or less what this asset has done http://forum.com/threads/210361-Physics-2D-Extensions take things from Box2D and port them seamlessly into spans 3: also really have no idea just how difficult it would be to port something over to 2D spans 4: objects to a forward position or to where the mouth of my character is spans 5: it a child of the Platform object (which has 2 waypoints childed to it), and dropped a spans 6: the X spans 7: to big zone arenaHere something I came up with while tinkering with your kit, am still working on traps and obstacles everything is a bit rough I just wanted to jot down ideas as I was spans 8: is to make a pure platform 2D game, I hope this assert help me spans 9: to only check certain layers/ignore collision with triggers and if i want to check say certain positions under each foot i can easily do that without having to create a new trigger mesh or pool the collisions of multiple triggers spans 10: add crouch and slide tooWhile I loved the kit, for some reason my character would go back and forth in Z in my builds (never in the spans 11: I have goal in World1_1 that "next level index" is 1 and in World2_1 goal's "next level index" is spans 12: number of 0 (first scene) and World2_1 is indexed as 1 (second spans 13: could send any extra details to the support email, it would help spans 14: thoroughl and make sure they are flexible for everyone's spans 15: this, (one line of code spans 16: can be found here:There is a +1 added before the end of the spans 17: due to how currently gravity is just effected in water, but swimming with an animation or something along with it could be way better! Also that somehow the music is different when entering the water so we can play the levels same song, but an underwater spans 18: the gamepad, I really felt like there was times where I wanted to have my character get into a 2nd running mode, via sprinting or something when I hold down the X spans 19: It also creates the issue of every single update to PPK makes me have to re-do the support of the Xbox 360 spans 20: geometry of the second one, barely moving spans 21: tedious basics