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I had an epiphany today. In a little over a month, I’ll have been freelancing full-time for a whole YEAR. Already! As they say, time flies when you’re having fun… I posted year-in-reviews on my Facebook profile and Instagram stories, but not my blog. Those mostly focused on travel excursions, of which there were many! And since it’s still freshly 2019, it’s the perfect time to reflect on what went well, what didn’t, and my goals for this year. So here goes! Highlights I worked with 25 different clients last year! Increased my “salary” by 25%. Paid off my student loans and car. Took control of my health. (See “not so great” part below) Traveled more than I ever have before! (Cities include Philadelphia, Austin, Tucson, Flagstaff, Telluride, and San Diego) I worked with a lot of different clients and industries last year. Some were one-off projects, but I’m proud to say that most of my income came from a steady stream of retainer-clients. Most came from referrals from previous clients or coworkers. People also found me through Facebook Groups and freelance job sites. (Side note: Most of the traffic to my website came from Facebook, then Instagram then LinkedIn, even though I primarily focused on LinkedIn!) Transitioning into Freelancing I started freelancing on the side while still working full-time at my agency job. I picked up my first freelance client from a freelance job site. She reached out to me, and we worked together for over a year! My second and third client came from networking. I worked full-time through the end of February. I technically put in my notice in October (!) but offered to stay on part-time and help train the new person. And to make sure I had all my ducks in a row. It’s definitely not a process you want to rush. So yes, it took THAT long for them to find someone to replace me, but I’m glad I didn’t burn any bridges. As a freelancer, your connections (especially past coworkers and bosses) can make or break your success. I had everything for my business set up before I took the leap — I had a separate bank account, accounting software, my LLC set up, my portfolio complete and an EIN filed. That makes things 100x easier. What I Love Most About Freelancing To be honest, I didn’t start freelancing for the income. Yes, making more money is always nice, but I really chose to do this because I want to control in who I work with, the projects I do and have flexibility in my schedule. I didn’t quit my full-time job to work 60 hour weeks! It’s all about balance. And I’m proud to say MOST of the time I was able to get everything done in less than 40 hours a week. Right off the bat I felt better than ever. I used to have insomnia when I had a full-time job and I always felt EXHAUSTED. Now, I actually have a good routine. I wake up every day naturally, and then hit the ground running. I may do morning yoga, but I like to work through the mornings and then take a break later in the day. This year, I started using ClassPass and tried pilates, barre, yoga, bootcamps, you name it. (ClassPass is amazing if you haven’t tried it and your first month is free!) I also started using meal delivery services like Gobble, Green Chef, and Plated. Plated is my current favorite. This saved me a lot of time not having to grocery shop, look for recipes and meal plan, so I could focus on my business. The Not So Great Parts… I did get ghosted by a client. But only 1 out of 25, so that’s a good ratio right? Y’all, I get LONELY. I miss water-cooler chats, lunches and happy hours with coworkers and just having someone next to me I could ask a question or bounce ideas off of. I have to make a conscious effort to be social now and go outside. Haha. Also, healthcare is expensive. I pay $500 a month, which includes short-term disability insurance in case I ever get too sick to work for a few months (really hope I never have to use this) and then my COBRA healthcare. Even though it’s more expensive, I decided to go with the healthcare plan from my former employer because it’s really good. And I’m so grateful I did, because I ended up needing to use my healthcare a lot this year. You can stay on COBRA for 18 months. Options on the ACA marketplace range anywhere from $250+, or you could bum off your significant other’s healthcare. Sidenote: healthcare isn’t something I’d recommend skipping. In August, I started experiencing health issues that I am still dealing with today. Doctors appointments and tests took up a lot of my time and money. Although this isn’t the reason I wanted flexibility in my schedule, I was grateful that I could go to appointments without having to call off work (like I would have in a traditional 9-5), and that I had the extra cash to spend on tests. (Another side note: I am basically a naturopathic health coach now. Lol. Just ask Greg how many supplements I bought this year. I need an intervention.) Income & Expenses My income was pretty consistent throughout the year. In Q1, I only had a couple clients. In Q2, things really picked up and I quickly doubled what I was making. Since I paid off my student loans and car and made every effort to get my bills as low as possible, I saved so much this year. As in, quadrupled my savings. Overall, I increased my pay by 25%, while working less hours. I’d say that’s a win! I didn’t go insane in 2018 because I invested in help! I hired a few contractors to help me with things like social media engagement, content curation, scheduling and more. I thought about hiring interns, but didn’t want to invest too much time in training(and then having to re-train). In my opinion, it’s better to hire someone who already knows what they’re doing and can really help you build a solid marketing strategy. Another great purchase was my proposal template from Golden Whimsy studio. Proposals were one of my least favorite parts of freelancing because they used to take up so much time. I was always tinkering with how they looked. With my new template, I can easily swap out services, export and send to the potential client. Yay! I also invested in social media scheduling and reporting tools, a website, and branded email address. This year I also sent out some gifts to previous and current clients. I used Greetabl. I felt good reaching out to past clients and letting them know I’m thinking about them, but I probably won’t do it again. Although it’d be nice to have an office space, I’m actually saving up for a house that will have a dedicated office area. I personally feel that most coworking spaces are too expensive for what you get ($400+ a month for a tiny desk?!) and fortunately I have the self discipline to get my work done at home. Goals for 2019 Sign more clients for other services besides social media management. There’s only so much time in a day! Ugh. Blog more. I was really bad last year - I stopped blogging in May! I’d like to write more about freelancing, but don’t offer services to freelancers. But if any of you want to learn more about it I’m an open book!

Like a lot of teenagers from his generation, Gary Douglas dreamed of playing in a rock and roll band. However, those dreams soon melted into the grown-up reality of college, law school, and life as a plaintiffs’ attorney, sticking it to the man in a different way, suing misbehaving corporations. Then one day three decades or so later, the Trail Lawyer Hall of Fame attorney—winner of nine-figure judgments against the likes of DuPont—picked up his guitar again and started writing songs. His initial album 2014 Just Another Mile might have been passed off as a wealthy man’s midlife crisis, except for the fact that he turned right around and did it again, delivering Keepin’ Faith in 2016. Douglas’ new album Deep In The Water—so named for a milestone water pollution case he won against Monsanto—cements the reality that Douglas is entirely serious about what he’s doing now: pursuing both the law and music-making, side by side. As for what Deep In The Water sounds like, your number one clue is right there at the end of the liner notes: “Special thanks to Southside Johnny for continued support and inspiration.” With the Jersey sound championed by Southside and that other guy named Bruce as a basic template, Douglas adds inspiration from heartland rockers like Mellencamp and Seger, and brings his musical vision to life with a crack team of pros behind him, including producer/mixer Niko Bolas (Neil Young, Warren Zevon), co-producer/co-songwriter Darrell Brown (Keith Urban, Radney Foster), and a studio band that includes Raul Malo, Jerry Dale McFadden and Paul Deakin of the Mavericks, Jen Gunderman of the Jayhawks, and top Nashville session guitarist Josh Leo. (In case you were wondering what it’s like to be a middle-aged indie-rocker with unlimited funds available to drop on your passion projects…) The execution, as you might expect, is top-notch; what ultimately holds this album back is the quality of the songs the players have to work with. Deep In The Water collects a group of earnest but cliché-ridden tunes that sometimes feel like homages to Douglas’ musical heroes so complete and detailed as to tiptoe right up to the edge of parody. This is particularly true of opening cut “River Road,” such a meticulous recreation of a River-era Springsteen anthem that you half expect to find the E Street Band lurking in the liner notes (but, no). Only the slightly higher pitch and softer edges of Gary Douglas’ voice distinguish this from someone attempting to do Bruce karaoke on an obscurity from deep in the Boss’ vaults. “One more kiss to keep me holdin on” with a quick little sax break over the pounding piano as the background chorus lifts him up and yeahhh… The fact that “River Road” segues into a gentle, swaying mid-tempo tune featuring accordion and sax had me fearing Douglas was about to start singing about “this boardwalk life,” which might have ended things for us right there. Thankfully he sticks to his own script on the lyric, which is fine, a vague narrative about feeling like the light is “a million miles away.” The title track follows, a churning white soul number in which lyric doctor Brown labors to turn the story of Douglas’s work on the Monsanto case—which had to do with groundwater pollution—into a decent song. It’s not bad; it just feels forced in places. From there, Douglas tries on a number of musical guises. The thumping, playful soul-rock approach of numbers like “Oh My, Oh My” and “Do You Wanna Go” seems to suit Douglas best. By contrast, the dark blues of “Devil In Her Soul” feels like a pose, and the pop-inflected blues-rock of “Wild Child” is only somewhat more credible. The Dylanesque ballad “Nothing Ever Goes As Planned” underscores just how difficult it is to write an explicitly political song and have it come off as anything other than ham-fisted. And “Won’t Say No” wraps a serious acoustic ballad in production values that outstrip the quality of the lyric and vocal performance by a substantial margin. The last three songs here are ironically probably the strongest. “Do You Wanna Go” is an amiable come-on whose rather pedestrian lyric is elevated by a fervent soul-revue arrangement and punchy horn chart. “Losing You” veers back to heavy blues-rock and actually gets a bit of an SRV vibe going. And then closer “Say What You Want To Say” dials things back to just Douglas and Leo’s strummed electric, a quiet song of determination that’s one of his better ones. All in all, Deep In The Water comes off like a sincere, modestly talented amateur giving it everything he has. Aided by a studio team of seasoned pros, Douglas offers up affectionately crafted pastiches of musical styles that he clearly admires, without ever breaking through and creating anything that feels truly memorable or original. The lesson seems to be that money and determination only get you so far; in the end it comes down to the strength of the material you have to work with, which here is average at best.

There’s still plenty of time to go before the final season of Game of Thrones conquers HBO, but that doesn’t mean the cast isn’t already exploring options for future projects. Especially Maisie Williams, who has already begun working on films like the long-delayed New Mutants and the new Rooster Teeth animated series gen:LOCK. The latter, just announced on Saturday at the Austin-based company’s annual fan convention in London, will see Williams working with David Tennant, Michael B. Jordan, Dakota Fanning and in what is basically a show about giant fighting robots. According to the release, Williams will play Cammie MacCloud, “a mischievous Scottish hacker with boundless energy” who is also “the youngest recruit to the gen:LOCK program.” Per the series’ official logline: In gen:LOCK, Earth’s last free society is on the losing side of a global war, and recruits a diverse team of young pilots to control the next generation of giant, weaponized robot bodies known as mecha. These daring recruits will find, however, that their newfound abilities come at no small cost. Additional voice cast includes Kōichi Yamadera, Lindsay Jones, Miles Luna, Blaine Gibson, Chad James and Gray G. Haddock, who is also gen:LOCK‘s creator and showrunner. Aside from announcing Williams’ casting, Rooster Teeth also released a short clip highlighting her character with narration by Tennant’s character, “Doc.”

BerkayCetinkaya Posted 01 April 2013 - 12:01 AM AussieExpat Posted 01 April 2013 - 01:15 AM AussieExpat Regular Members 92 posts Devices:Huaweii U8815 Man, you're a talker, lol.The number at the end of the filename, after the "R" signs the release number of your ROM. the number after "CM" signs the version. CM 9 is based on Android 4.1, CM 10 is based on 4.2. The higher number you see after the R, the newer release you have of that version. R2 is the latest CM ROM based on 4.2.You can find the known issues on the first page of this topic. Absolute awesone support, you guys!! Thanks, heaps!!At first, seeing the delay in response, then the inability to "resolve" the continued cycling, needing to wipe etc etc, I was afraid I'd bricked my phone, or at least wasted heaps of hours (all night session), The automated response emails quite rightly give one the way to resign from the list, but with help and support like this (this and later emails "below" mine before), there's no way I'd do that. But, for this newbie, I thinking sticking with an R6 might be better than rushing to an R2, and coming back in a few weeks/months than taking further risks, especially when I can have "the necessary / desirable "basics"" in what I've got -- and coming from 2.3.4 on the Huawei Sonic a few days ago, the differences are awesome. popoyaya Posted 01 April 2013 - 04:10 AM popoyaya Diehard Members 474 posts Gender:Male Devices:ZTE Blade V, Galaxy S3 Absolute awesone support, you guys!! Thanks, heaps!!At first, seeing the delay in response, then the inability to "resolve" the continued cycling, needing to wipe etc etc, I was afraid I'd bricked my phone, or at least wasted heaps of hours (all night session), The automated response emails quite rightly give one the way to resign from the list, but with help and support like this (this and later emails "below" mine before), there's no way I'd do that. But, for this newbie, I thinking sticking with an R6 might be better than rushing to an R2, and coming back in a few weeks/months than taking further risks, especially when I can have "the necessary / desirable "basics"" in what I've got -- and coming from 2.3.4 on the Huawei Sonic a few days ago, the differences are awesome. Thanks again!! Try them all. When you get used to it, it takes 5 minutes to flash a new rom and get it up and running. I'd recommend the latest and greatest 10.1. A few niggling issues but nothing show-stopping and you get to live "on the edge" ^ AussieExpat Posted 01 April 2013 - 04:27 AM AussieExpat Regular Members 92 posts Devices:Huaweii U8815 Try them all. When you get used to it, it takes 5 minutes to flash a new rom and get it up and running. I'd recommend the latest and greatest 10.1. A few niggling issues but nothing show-stopping and you get to live "on the edge" ^ Does anyone know about problems with barcode scanner apps? -- I tried my past fave by ZXING TEAM, but had problems with both it and QuckMark -- "duplicating" the image, but nothing in terms of a successful scan AussieExpat Posted 01 April 2013 - 07:27 AM Huh? It has features from an OS that doesn't even exist yet? And what update are you talking about anyway? I think that person was referring to the update that my phone advised was available to me, after the difficulties i had installing the 4.2.2 ROM, CM10.1, since I've got CM 10 running Incidentally, the Barcode Scanner was running better under the stock 4.0.3 ROM than under 2.3.6, now it's cactus! (VERY problematic and nonfunctional) with the same problem occurring under both programs. BUT doesn't installing a new ROM require re-installation of all your programs?? Ironandroid Posted 01 April 2013 - 08:20 AM Ironandroid Regular Members 84 posts Gender:Male Devices:motog e s3 Hi to everyone. I am asking a question: how to swap sd card . In other cm 10.1 rom i just edited the vold.fstab file exchanging sdcard 0 and 1 and verything worked fine but here it seems that the internal sd is blocked and when swapped the external sd disappears. Any help ? P.s if the question has been posted already elsewhere please accept my apology but i could not find it

Interesting article by Charlie Demerjian at SemiAccurate. The problem is that if you are locked in with a choice of 100% Microsoft or 0% Microsoft, once someone goes, it isn’t a baby step, they are gone. Once you start using Google Docs and the related suites, you have no need for Office. That means you, or likely your company, saves several hundred dollars a head. No need for Office means no need for Exchange. No... Continue reading Jefferies & Co. analyst Peter Misek on Tuesday raised his rating on RIM shares to “Hold” from “Underperform, based on reports that carrier interest in BB10 is actually pretty strong. "We have been surprised by the strongly positive initial feedback on BB10 from carriers," Misek wrote in a recent note to clients. "We are a bit puzzled as we expected a more muted response given BB10 is two years late and RIM’s market share has... Continue reading It's just been announced that John Browett is leaving as head of Apple Retail. 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Back in the day, John Scully, John Louis Gassee, and others continually maintained that consumers would gladly pay a premium to own Apple computers. This despite the fact that Microsoft Windows-based PCs had, in many cases, already surpassed the capabilities of Apple's aging Macintosh lineup. And at far cheaper price points. Fast forward to today, where Phil Schiller is publicly defending the iPad mini's... Continue reading As you may know, iOS 6 dropped support for the first-generation iPad (iPad 1), which was sold from spring 2010 through spring 2011. Marco Arment, creator of Instapaper, defends Apple on this, noting that the iPad had only 256MB of RAM on its A4 system-on-a-chip. He also notes that the iOS of the time was very different from that of today. ...when the iPad 1 was released with iOS 3.2 in early 2010, iOS was... 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But regardless of the actual specifications, it's fairly obvious that existing applications will need to updated... Continue reading What a surprise: The U.K. government was forced to reveal under Freedom of Information laws more than 1,000 civil servants have ’snooped’ on British citizens’ private data. This story comes to light just after the Queen formally announced just weeks ago the U.K. government will monitor all Web and email traffic, and log all landline, mobile phone, and Skype calls. And yet we have CISPA. Continue reading Perhaps you've heard about Adobe's new Creative Cloud subscription service. Pay $49.95 a month, and you gain access to every product in Adobe's creative suite, plus access to Adobe's new cloud services. Existing CS owners pay just $29.95 a month. It's a good deal, especially if you're a professional and use Adobe's products on a daily basis. Which I am, and do. So, yesterday I signed up, paid, and then downloaded a few applications. Today,... 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Draw and create objects with Animate CC About drawing The drawing tools in Adobe Animate CC let you create and modify lines and shapes for the artwork in your documents. The lines and shapes you create in Animate are all lightweight vector graphics, which help keep your FLA file size small. Before you draw and paint in Animate, it is important to understand how Animate creates artwork, and how drawing, painting, and modifying shapes can affect other shapes on the same layer. Vector and bitmap graphics Computers display graphics in either vector or bitmap format. Understanding the difference between the two formats helps you work more efficiently. Using Animate, you can create and animate compact vector graphics. Animate also imports and manipulates vector and bitmap graphics that were created in other applications. Vector graphics Vector graphics describe images by using lines and curves, called vectors, that also include color and position properties. For example, the image of a leaf is described by points through which lines pass, creating the leaf’s outline. The color of the leaf is determined by the color of the outline and the color of the area enclosed by the outline. Lines in vector art. When you edit a vector graphic, you modify the properties of the lines and curves that describe its shape. Move, resize, reshape, and change the color of a vector graphic without changing the quality of its appearance. Vector graphics are resolution independent; that is, they can be displayed on output devices of varying resolutions without losing any quality. Bitmap graphics Bitmap graphics describe images using colored dots, called pixels, arranged in a grid. For example, the image of a leaf is described by the specific location and color value of each pixel in the grid, creating an image in much the same manner as a mosaic. Pixels in bitmap art. When you edit a bitmap graphic, you modify pixels rather than lines and curves. Bitmap graphics are resolution dependent, because the data describing the image is fixed to a grid of a particular size. Editing a bitmap graphic can change the quality of its appearance. In particular, resizing a bitmap graphic can make the edges of the image ragged as pixels are redistributed within the grid. Displaying a bitmap graphic on an output device that has a lower resolution than the image itself also degrades its quality. Paths Whenever you draw a line or shape in Animate, you create a line called a path. A path is made up of one or more straight or curved segments. The beginning and end of each segment is denoted by anchor points, which work like pins holding a wire in place. A path can be closed (for example, a circle), or open, with distinct endpoints (for example, a wavy line). You change the shape of a path by dragging its anchor points, the direction points at the end of direction lines that appear at anchor points, or the path segment itself. Paths can have two kinds of anchor points: corner points and smooth points. At a corner point, a path abruptly changes direction. At a smooth point, path segments are connected as a continuous curve. You can draw a path using any combination of corner and smooth points. If you draw the wrong type of point, you can always change it. A path outline is called a stroke. A color or gradient applied to an open or closed path interior area is called a fill. A stroke can have weight (thickness), color, and a dash pattern. After you create a path or shape, you can change the characteristics of its stroke and fill. Direction lines and direction points When you select an anchor point that connects curved segments (or select the segment itself), the anchor points of the connecting segments display direction handles, which consist of direction lines that end in direction points. The angle and length of the direction lines determine the shape and size of the curved segments. Moving the direction points reshapes the curves. Direction lines don’t appear in the final output. A smooth point always has two direction lines, which move together as a single, straight unit. When you move a direction line on a smooth point, the curved segments on both sides of the point are adjusted simultaneously, maintaining a continuous curve at that anchor point. In comparison, a corner point can have two, one, or no direction lines, depending on whether it joins two, one, or no curved segments, respectively. Corner point direction lines maintain the corner by using different angles. When you move a direction line on a corner point, only the curve on the same side of the point as that direction line is adjusted. After selecting an anchor point (left), direction lines appear on any curved segments connected by the anchor point (right). Adjusting direction lines on a smooth point (left) and a corner point (right). Direction lines are always tangent to (perpendicular to the radius of) the curve at the anchor points. The angle of each direction line determines the slope of the curve, and the length of each direction line determines the height, or depth, of the curve. Moving and resizing direction lines changes the slope of curves. Drawing modes and graphic objects In Animate, you can create several different kinds of graphic objects by using different drawing modes and drawing tools. Each kind has its own advantages and disadvantages. By understanding the capabilities of the different graphic object types, you can make good decisions about which types of objects to use in your work. Note: In Animate, graphic objects are items on the Stage. Animate lets you move, copy, delete, transform, stack, align, and group graphic objects. “Graphic objects” in Animate are different from “ActionScript objects,” which are part of the ActionScript® programming language. Do not confuse the two uses of the term “objects.” For more information on objects in the programming language, see About Data Types in Learning ActionScript 2.0 in Adobe Animate, or Data types in the ActionScript 3.0 Developer’s Guide. Merge Drawing mode The default drawing mode automatically merges shapes that you draw when you overlap them. When you draw shapes that overlap each other in the same layer, the top-most shape cuts away the part of the shape underneath it that it overlaps. In this way, drawing shapes is a destructive drawing mode. For example, if you draw a circle and overlay a smaller circle on top of it, and then select the smaller circle and move it, the portion of the second circle that overlaid the first circle is removed. When a shape has both a stroke and a fill, they are considered separate graphic elements that can be selected and moved independently. Shapes created with the Merge Drawing mode merge together when they overlap. Selecting a shape and moving it results in the overlaid shape being altered. Enter Merge Drawing mode Select the Merge Drawing option in the Tools panel. Select a drawing tool from the Tools panel and draw on the Stage Note: By default, Animate uses the Merge Drawing mode. Object Drawing mode Creates shapes referred to as drawing objects. Drawing objects are separate graphic objects that do not automatically merge together when overlaid. This lets you overlap shapes without altering their appearance if you move them apart, or rearrange their appearance. Animate creates each shape as a separate object that you can individually manipulate. When a drawing tool is in Object Drawing mode, the shapes you create with it are self-contained. The stroke and fill of a shape are not separate elements, and shapes that overlap do not alter one another. When you select a shape created using Object Drawing mode, Animate surrounds the shape with a rectangular bounding box to identify it. Note: Set preferences for contact sensitivity when selecting shapes created using the Object Drawing mode. Shapes created with the Object Drawing mode remain separate objects that you can manipulate individually. Enter Object Drawing mode To draw shapes using Object Drawing mode, you must explicitly enable it. Select the Object Drawing button from the Options category of the Tools panel, or press the J key to toggle between the Merge and Object Drawing modes. The Object Drawing button toggles between the Merge and Object Drawing modes. You can set preferences for contact sensitivity when you select shapes created with Object Drawing mode. Draw on the Stage. Convert a Merge Drawing mode created shape to an Object Drawing mode shape Select the shape on the Stage. To convert the shape into an Object Drawing mode shape, select Modify > Combine Objects > Union. After conversion, the shape is treated like a vector-based drawing object that does not alter its appearance by interacting with other shapes. Note: To join two or more shapes into a single, object-based shape, use the Union command. Primitive objects Primitive objects are shapes that let you adjust their characteristics in the Property inspector. You can precisely control the size, corner radius, and other properties of the shape at any time after you have created it without having to draw it from scratch. Two types of primitives are available, rectangles and ovals. Select the Rectangle Primitive Tool or Oval Primitive Tool from the Tools panel. Draw on the Stage. Overlapping shapes When you draw a line across another line or painted shape in Merge Drawing mode, the overlapping lines are divided into segments at the intersection points. To select, move, and reshape each segment individually, use the Selection tool. A fill; the fill with a line drawn through it; and the three line segments created by segmentation. When you paint on top of shapes and lines, the portion underneath is replaced by whatever is on top. Paint of the same color merges together. Paint of different colors remains distinct. To create masks, cutouts, and other negative images, use these features. For example, the following cutout is made by moving the ungrouped kite image onto the green shape, deselecting the kite, and then moving the filled portions of the kite away from the green shape. Making a cutout with the kite image. To avoid inadvertently altering shapes and lines by overlapping them, group the shapes or use layers to separate them.

Another post for me that is simple and hopefully serves as an example for people trying to get blogging as #SQLNewBloggers. I would guess many people would run into this situation at some point. A developer or DBA creates a database, then decides to rename it, but the logical and physical names aren’t correct. This post will look at how to do this. A couple of notes and then the process below. This might not matter to many of you, but in development, I sometimes find I’ll rename a database and then attempt to recreate (or deploy) a new database with the old name. The mdf/ldf files don’t match, and I realize it’s because I’m using defaults. However, I’d also say this is an issue in a DR situation. If the filenames don’t seem to match, someone might restore the wrong database or the wrong files. Or worse, think the can delete a file on the file system because there’s no database with that name. Renaming the Database This is easy. Right click, select Rename. Then type the name name. In this case, I’m going from WideWorldImporters-SSDT to WideWorldImporters-RR. That renames the database, but what about the files? If I run this: sp_helpdb ‘WideWorldImporters-RR’ I get this: Not really what I want. I need these mdf/ldf files to be changed. How do I do this? I can get to the properties for the database and select the “Files” pane to get a list of files. Here I can change the logical name by clicking that field and typing a new name. I’ve done that here. However, if I scroll to the right to the File Name column, I can’t change anything. What I need to do is use the ALTER DATABASE command with the MODIFY FILE command. I need to do this twice. SQLNewBlogger An easy task, with a touch of research in Books Online, but not too difficult. This took me about 10 minutes to do, and since I realized this was a good skill, I took screenshots and saved code as I went.

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Longhi to remain in charge at JDT Longhi to remain in charge at JDT HRH Tunku Ismail Sultan Ibrahim has decided that no replacement will be brought in to as Raul Longhi will stay on as head coach of Johor Darul Ta’zim. After four matches in charge of the team, Longhi has earned the trust of the club owner to stay on in the head coach role that was vacated after Ulisses Morais had to return to Portugal due to family ailment. In an open session with the fans in Johor Bahru, Tunku Ismail explained the current on-goings at the club and revealed that there will not a major shake-up, at least not in the coaching department. “It’s a big loss for JDT to lose Ulisses Morais. He is an individual who fits the philosophy and policy at JDT. However I’m satisfied with what Raul has done and the players are comfortable with him as well. Hence, there will not be a new head coach,” said Tunku Ismail. Longhi’s time in charge also came on the back of JDT losing arguably one of their better players in Jorge Pereyra Diaz, who has since decided that his time at the club has to come to an abrupt end. The decision to retake Diaz back into the team at the start of the season has since proved to be a wrong one and one that Tunku Ismail admitted on hindsight, that it wasn’t the right call to make. “The decision to be prudent with our money this year is perhaps a wrong decision. Taking back old players with the idea that it will be easy for the team, but that hasn’t been the case.” “Initially I thought his (Diaz) behaviour off the pitch can be ignore if he performs on the pitch but when he’s here, it’s disruptive to the team. Back then, I took him also because I listened to what the fans want,” he added. With Luciano Figueroa also not performing to the level expected, JDT has looked a shadow of their dominating selves from the past few seasons. That said, Longhi still managed to negotiate a tricky away encounter to come away with a vital 1-0 win at the weekend. The mid-season transfer window opens in May and it looks like plans are afoot to bring in quality players to help JDT not only in the Malaysia Cup but potentially in the AFC Cup tournament as well. The timing of the window means that JDT could well be looking at players from big European Leagues as the competition there normally ends in late May, with this season probably even earlier due to the upcoming 2018 FIFA World Cup. “My new sickness is that I want to spend. That is why I’ve prepared the funds to bring in great players. I want to buy expensive players. For the time being, there are five imports that are in our short list. I don’t like to lose, it just doesn’t sit well with me,” explained Tunku Ismail.

Date range Publication date: Uploaded by Knoema Description This database contains information on almost 320,000 offshore entities that are part of the Panama Papers and the Offshore Leaks investigations. The data covers nearly 40 years – from 1977 through 2015 – and links to people and companies in more than 200 countries and territories.The real value of the database is that it strips away the secrecy that cloaks companies and trusts incorporated in tax havens and exposes the people behind them. This includes, when available, the names of the real owners of those opaque structures. In all, the interactive application reveals more than 360,000 names of people and companies behind secret offshore structures. They come from leaked records and not a standardized corporate registry, so there may be duplicates. In some cases, companies are listed as shareholders for another company or a trust, arrangement that often helps obscure the flesh-and-blood people behind offshore entities.ICIJ obtained the data through two massive leaks. The majority of the names in this database come from Panamanian law firm Mossack Fonseca, whose inner workings were exposed in the Panama Papers investigation published in April 2016 in conjunction with Süddetsche Zeitung and more than 100 other media partners. Around a third of the offshore entities were incorporated through Portcullis Trustnet (now Portcullis) and Commonwealth Trust Limited, two offshore service providers exposed as part of ICIJ’s 2013 Offshore Leaks exposé. This was the first information added to this database when it was released in June 2013, which was then produced in conjunction with Costa Rican newspaper La Nación.The database does not disclose the totality of the leaked records. It doesn’t divulge raw documents or personal information en masse. It contains a great deal of information about company owners, proxies and intermediaries in secrecy jurisdictions, but it doesn’t disclose bank accounts, email exchanges and financial transactions contained in the documents.ICIJ is publishing the information in the public interest. While many of the activities carried out through offshore entities are perfectly legal, extensive reporting by ICIJ and its media partners for more than four years has shown that the anonymity granted by the offshore economy facilitates money laundering, tax evasion, fraud and other crimes. Even when it’s legal, transparency advocates argue that the use of an alternative, parallel economy undermines democracy because it benefits a few at the expense of the majority. Definitions:Offshore Entity - a company, trust or fund created in a low-tax, offshore jurisdiction by an agent.Intermediary - a go-between for someone seeking an offshore corporation and an offshore service provider - usually a law-firm or a middleman that asks an offshore service provider to create an offshore firm for a client.Incorporation Date - the date when an offshore entity was created.Dormancy Date - the date when an offshore entity stopped being active.Inactivation Date - the date when a client told the agent to deactivate the offshore entity, which could be reactivated at a later date.Struck off Date - a company becomes struck off when it fails to be in good standing, which happens when it fails to pay license fees. In the offshore world this is the equivalent to closing an entity, although it can be reactivated at a later date if the fees start being paid again.

Welcome to TypologyCentral You are currently viewing our forum as a guest, which gives you limited access to view most discussions and access our other features. By joining our free community, you will have access to additional post topics, communicate privately with other members (PM), view blogs, respond to polls, upload content, and access many other special features. Registration is fast, simple and absolutely free, so please join our community today! Just click here to register. If you have any problems with the registration process or your account login, please contact us by clicking here. I just realized that this poll was inherently flawed because nothing could seek to quantify Synarch's popularity on the boards. Nothing could even imagine what it is like, so yeah, this poll is bull as everyones popularity goes to zero as it is divided by that of synarch. "If you go looking for something in particular, your chances of finding it are very bad, because of all the things in the world, you're only looking for one of them. If you go looking for anything at all, your chances of finding it are very good, because of all the things in the world, you're sure to find some of them." I just realized that this poll was inherently flawed because nothing could seek to quantify Synarch's popularity on the boards. Nothing could even imagine what it is like, so yeah, this poll is bull as everyones popularity goes to zero as it is divided by that of synarch. So are you saying its my voice that gives me the rating? and without it I'd be less popular? I don't understand. If that's the case then in my mind it makes sense that I'd be more popular on vent then on here. ZOMG, prpl baby! If I was giving you a report card I would write in bubbly letters "Conduct: Needs improvement - learn to accept compliments."

Apple introduces the A13 Bionic for the iPhone 11 Apple is saying new iPhone fashions at present. The iPhone 11 makes use of an Apple A13 Bionic system-on-a-chip. It’s a good enchancment over the A12 Bionic within the iPhone XR, XS and XS Max. However how a lot sooner precisely? Apple first mentioned it’s making the quickest GPU and CPU for a smartphone. It then confirmed two charts with no X-axis — these charts weren’t useful. However later within the convention, Apple shared some particulars about A13 Bionic efficiency. VP of Silicon Engineering Sri Santhanam shared some particulars in regards to the A13 Bionic. Every thing has been optimized for machine studying. The CPU can do 1 trillion operations per second. The CPU, GPU and Neural Engine ought to work higher collectively in terms of performing machine studying duties. “The iPhone 11 Professional is the very best machine studying platform in any smartphone” Santhanam mentioned. With regards to structure, Apple is utilizing 7nm transistors (like on the A12 Bionic), and there are actually eight.5 billion transistors — that’s an enormous replace in comparison with the A12 Bionic, which had 6.9 billion transistors. The A13 Bionic nonetheless has 4 high-efficiency cores and two high-performance cores. The 2 high-performance cores are 20% sooner than earlier high-performance cores and eat 30% much less battery. The 4 high-efficiency cores are 20% sooner and eat 40% much less energy. The GPU has been optimized for Metallic. It’s 20% sooner and consumes 40% much less energy. And, lastly, the neural engine has eight cores and is 20% sooner whereas consuming 15% much less energy. The article has been up to date with efficiency particulars in regards to the A13 Bionic.

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UK Prime Minister says he will limit immigrants' right to social benefits The Prime Minister of the UK, David Cameron, has told the House of Commons that he wants to limit the right of immigrants to claim benefits in the UK. This, he says, will show that the UK is not a 'soft touch' for those who come to the UK intending to take advantage of the UK social security system. Speaking during the weekly Prime Minister's Questions session on Wednesday 13th February 2013, Mr Cameron said that his government intended to re-examine the systems for housing, health, benefits and justice to see whether it would be possible to limit access to them. Mr Cameron was answering a question from Mark Spencer, the Conservative MP for Sherwood. Mr Spencer said that the UK's welfare system and health service had been established to help UK citizens. He asked the Prime Minister to reassure the House that the system would not abused by illegal immigrants and 'benefit tourists'. A 'welcoming economy' Mr Cameron said that Britain had always been a 'welcoming economy' but said that Britain should not be a 'soft touch for those who want to come here'. He said that he had chaired a meeting in Whitehall on Tuesday 12th February which looked at limiting the access of new arrivals in the UK to various public services. Mr Cameron said that 'it is absolutely vital that we get this right. There are many parts of our current arrangements which don't pass a common sense test in terms of access to housing, access to the health service and access to justice and other things which should be a right for British citizens but they're not the right of anyone who just comes here' The Prime Minister has spoken before about his desire to discourage people from Romania and Bulgaria from coming to the UK in January 2014 when the EU transitional controls preventing workers from those countries from travelling to work in the UK expire. A report by a leading anti-immigration think tank has suggested that some 250,000 people will come from the two new EU member states in the first five years after transitional controls are removed. These figures have been contested by the Romanian and Bulgarian governments which say that they expect their citizens who intend to emigrate to travel to Germany and southern Europe. Immigration is the main issue The Prime Minister is under pressure from the right wing, anti-EU party UKIP which is taking votes from Mr Cameron's Conservative Party. The leader of UKIP, Nigel Farage, a member of the European Parliament, has said that the main European issue for most UK citizens now is immigration. Mr Cameron did not give any further details of his proposed reforms save to say that the immigration minister Mark Harper was in charge of the review. Workpermit.com is a specialist visa consultancy with nearly twenty-five years of experience dealing with visa applications. We are OISC registered. We can help with a wide range of visa applications to the UK or your country of choice. Please feel free to contact us for further details.

LG's curved G-Flex phone takes a bow in leaked press renders Fresh off the heels of Samsung's new Gumby-y handset, the Galaxy Round, we've gotten our purported first look of the curved G-Flex phone from LG that is widely expected to be unveiled next month. It should be noted that the leaked images are not photos of the phone, but rather computer renderings, so make of that what you will. CNET and Engadget have each reported that unnamed sources familiar with the matter have confirmed the authenticity of the images. Both outlets are reporting that the phone will sport a six-inch display and will indeed make its debut next month. Despite the phone's name, and the fact that LG has promised "bendable and unbreakable" displays at some point, the G-Flex's glass display curve is reportedly expected to be static and unmoving. True mass-produced bendable screens are probably still years down the line. The fact that the leaked images all feature the phone bent in the same angle and orientation would seem to confirm as much. If the images are indeed legit, LG has opted to curve its device vertically, rather than horizontally as is the case with the Galaxy Round. Either way you bend it, the new static curved design probably won't offer too much in the way of an immersive experience that one would get with giant curved TVs. Instead, the new, arcing form factors open the doors for new designs, as well as new forms of UI--as we've seen with the Galaxy Round's push-down "roll effect." It has yet to be established if the static curved form factor will be a hit with consumers, but it looks like the big manufacturers want to at least give it a shot. Samsung's Galaxy Round will be available later this month in Korea, with no official word of the global availability. We'll reportedly find out more about the G-Flex over the coming weeks.

Search Search Search results The American Sociological Association (ASA) filed an amicus curiae brief yesterday with the Supreme Court of the United States in the same-sex marriage cases currently pending before the court. The ASA’s brief highlights the social science consensus that children raised by same-sex parents fare just as well as children raised by different-sex parents. Heterosexual couples that split childcare duties have higher quality relationships and sex lives than those who don't, according to new research that will be presented at the 110th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA). The majority of young women and men today would prefer an egalitarian relationship in which work and family responsibilities are shared equally between partners if that possibility were available to them, according to a new study from the University of Texas at Austin and the University of California-Santa Barbara. People whose sexual identities changed toward same-sex attraction in early adulthood reported more symptoms of depression in a nationwide survey than those whose sexual orientations did not change or changed in the opposite direction, according to a new study by a University of Illinois at Chicago (UIC) sociologist. Both men and women are more likely to cheat on their spouses the more economically dependent they are on them, according to a new study. "You would think that people would not want to 'bite the hand that feeds them' so to speak, but that is not what my research shows," said study author Christin L. Munsch, an assistant professor of sociology at the University of Connecticut. "Instead, the findings indicate people like feeling relatively equal in their relationships. People don't like to feel dependent on another person." Social scientists have long argued documentary films are powerful tools for social change. But a University of Iowa (UI) sociologist and his co-researchers are the first to use the Internet and social media to systematically show how a documentary film reshaped public perception and ultimately led to municipal bans on hydraulic fracking. With the Supreme Court of the United States expected to rule imminently in the case of Obergefell v. Hodges, which addresses the matter of marriage equality and the constitutional status of state bans on same-sex marriage, the American Sociological Association (ASA) has a number of sociologists available to discuss same-sex marriage. Why do unmarried women tend to be more liberal and Democratic than their married counterparts? A key reason is because unmarried women — those who have never been married and those who are divorced — are more concerned about the status of women as a collective group, suggests a new study that will be presented at the 110th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA). Women are more likely than men to initiate divorces, but women and men are just as likely to end non-marital relationships, according to a new study that will be presented at the 110th Annual Meeting of the American Sociological Association (ASA).

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Sunday, September 25, 2016 This last weeks Make it Monday was to use floral for a masculine card. Here is the link to the video where Betsy showed her project Make it Monday. What perfect timing because I need to send my brother in law something in the mail that my husband cannot use. I wanted a little card to slip the gift card into so I made this - Instead of just lazing around today I thought I would make some cards. PTI is having their blog hop and I just loved this challenge. I love color and having so much white space drove me a little crazy.

I was playing around with massaging my 23andme me DNA match data at lunch, and always find it interesting how far flung we all end up. I have 1,053 matches in 23andme’s “Countries of Ancestry” tool (previously aka Ancestry Finder), which is populated with answers your DNA matches provided on the location their grandparents came from Of the possible 4,212 grandparents, 1,508 locations were “Not Provided”, and 891 were listed as “United States.” The cousins range from 3rd to Distant. My maternal grandparents both came from small towns near to each other in Czechoslovakia, my paternal grandmother came from County Offaly in Ireland, and my paternal great-grandparents also came over from Ireland. All ended up in New York City. I can take the paper trail back to the early 1800s on most of my ancestral lines, so it is interesting to see various hotspots in some countries. Obviously, people travel, so my having one match with 4 grandparents from Iran, for example, doesn’t mean I have Iranian ancestry – someone in my line (or a descendant) could have traveled in that direction in the distant past. But, I am left wondering with so many Russian, Ukranian, and Scandinavian grandparents listed – did someone head down to the Czech Republic from there, or the other way around. Vikings? (One can hope.) Hopefully one day I’ll find out! In any case, the real reason for my post – below is a fun way to view these matches using Batchgeo mapping. I created a spreadsheet that counted up all the grandparent countries, then pasted the data into their page. After a few tweaks of the advanced settings – Voila! A map of the locations using color to indicate the grandparent counts by country. Interestingly, when I mapped my wife’s matches in this way, I noticed that she has more matches with grandparents from Poland and Russia than she does the United States! Considering she has no known Polish ancestors at this point, and all of her emigrant ancestors are at great-grandparents and several beyond that, that is kind of interesting. (As I mentioned, I have 3 emigrant grandparents, and 2 emigrant great-grandparents, yet I have more US grandparents in my matches by far. ) Are her Ashkenazi matches from her Russian great-grandfather’s inherited DNA skewing the results? I also am wondering if 23andme has published just how many people have been tested with listed ancestry from each country when looking at their entire database. If, say, many more people have been tested in Russia than in Croatia, is that large number of Russian grandparents in my matches’ results showing up because of the larger testing pool in that location, or via a true ancestral connection in my DNA? Hmm. To be continued, I suspect. Finally, one thing I noticed with the BatchGeo mapping tool – the grouping of results by color is kind of skewed, and there is no way I see to change it. For example, the lowest color coded grouping is “1-3″ and my highest is “124-891″ – I would like to even out those groupings to make it more honest to the eye. It is a nicely designed chart – although according to discussion on their forums and even my own results, the specificity seems to affected by the current size of the comparison data set. My ancestry is 50% Irish and 50% Czech and I can name the exact towns where 6 out of 8 of my great-grandparents came from. My 99.6% reported European ancestry is purported to be in the “sweet spot” of their data – however my results have a fair amount of “Nonspecific” percentages. They also show what I think is probably noise in their analysis with tiny amounts of South Asian, Middle Eastern and North African in there as well. With 23andme’s big push to reach a database of a million people, it will be interesting to see how this composition chart changes over time – assuming they update it regularly as new information becomes available. (Some other reference info on the site has not seemed to keep up with the times.) Overall, I am quite happy with the service and hopefully I’ll find a match one day that will help me find where them long lost Tierneys came from back in Ireland. I figured Microsoft Excel was the best common denominator to use for this process – there are any number of tools I could use to combine the files and work with them at the command line, but that would limit the number of people who could use it. So, here’s the quick scoop: My Excel spreadsheet is designed for use with the .CSV data files you have already downloaded from 23andme’s Ancestry Finder. (Again, see my Ancestry Finder Download Tool post for more info on that process.) It will import ALL .CSV data files in a selected folder It will add a column with the name of the 23andme user the data file came from. (It uses the data file name for that, so don’t rename them after you download them!) Then it will make you a sandwich. A nice juicy data sandwich. Each data row will have the source person AND matching person’s name in it – otherwise you would have a list of a few hundred thousand matches without knowing whom they belonged to! About the Author As I have discovered more evidence of my family’s immigrations and documentation of their lives, I have become entranced by the idea that while we live in different times we often travel similar paths. Read More

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Deeva I also noticed the same thing. I wonder if she’s biologically female or male? Either way, I’m glad they don’t say! That really says something about gender roles in fashion. Will look forward to Rains career.

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2) If the hunter who shot and killed Cecil the lion broke the law in doing so (this seems to be not entirely resolved, he had a permit to kill a lion but seems to have lured Cecil out of a protected area) he should absolutely be held responsible for it. In a court. 4) I have major issues with the ethics and conservation impacts of trophy hunting and fishing for threatened species (hell, I’ve written not one but two papers about this topic). I am not opposed to hunting or fishing in general, I grew up fishing for bluegill and my school district got the first day of deer hunting season off of school. However, there is an ethical difference between fishing for a mahi-mahi to eat and fishing for a pregnant female IUCN Red List Endangered great hammerheadshark so you can take a picture with a big dead fish, and there is an ethical difference between hunting an overpopulated deer to eat and hunting a lion so you can put its head on your wall. 5) Much of the rhetoric associated with criticizing the killing of Cecil the lion has been extremist, out-of-control, and unacceptable. The hunter and his family were doxxed and have received death threats. This kind of nonsense shows up in many online discussions about conservation, and is morally repugnant in addition to being counterproductive to the cause. 7) It is undeniable that under some circumstances, trophy hunting (and fishing) can benefit conservation. For example, many wetlands in the U.S. got protected from development because duck hunters paid to protect them so they’d have a place to hunt ducks. See this piece by Jason Goldman, this by Niki Rust, and this by Niki Rust and Diogo Verissimofor good round-ups of these issues from conservation researchers and writers. Conservation ain’t free, and regulated hunts associated with permits from the government can raise much-needed funds. If these permits are kept to a minimum and are associated with populations who won’t be harmed by the loss of a few individuals, this will have a minimal conservation impact. Sometimes,as in the case of the rhino who was killed last year in exchange for a $350,000 permit, rangers were planning on killing the animal anyway to maintain a healthy population. 8) Some activists (who I respect) associated with completely unrelated causes (which I support) have been complaining about the relative attention that Cecil the lion is receiving, which is not helpful. It’d be super great if everyone could knock off the “lots of people care about a dead lion but I haven’t personally observed them caring about a completely unrelated issue that I personally think is more important” nonsense. People are allowed to care about multiple things. People are allowed to care about different things than you. Threatened species conservation is an important thing. There are also other important things. And no one has ever won anyone over to their side by saying “you’re dumb for caring about the thing you care about, care about the thing I care about instead.” **** SEE BELOW*** 9) It is possible to be concerned about many aspects of trophy hunting while acknowledging that it can help conservation in some contexts. It is possible to think that what this dentist did to Cecil the lion was bad, but still think that threatening to kill the dentist is bad. It is possible to think that threatening to kill the dentist is bad, but still think that folks saying that “any criticism of hunting is silly and extremist because some critics threatened to kill a dentist” is bad. This is called nuance. More people on the internet should learn about it. 10) As a conservationist focusing on endangered species or populations, the relative increase in attention that something graphic happening to an individual animal receives can be frustrating, but there’s really nothing you can do about it. It’s human nature, one death is a tragedy and a million deaths is a statistic and all that. The only thing you can do is do what I do with Shark Week, capitalize on the temporary increase in public interest to try and get information about how to help into the discussion. For example, here’s a great list of conservation organizations who focus on lion conservation. 11) This was the first news story I saw after my annual one week social media unplug, and within a few hours I was mad at everyone involved. You can see in the rants above that I’ve criticized the hunter, the backlash to the hunter, and the backlash to the backlash, as well as both trophy hunting and critics of trophy hunting in general. Sometimes ignorance is bliss. Is it next summer yet? ***UPDATE*** Based on conversations with colleagues re: #8, I am adding that there are differences in how this “lots of people care about Cecil but not another separate cause” meme is playing out. This, by Luvvie Ajayi, I agree with. She’s saying “I wish people would care about my important cause in addition to yours,” not “you are dumb for caring about your cause and not mine which is obviously more important,” which others are saying. There was also some hilarious and spot-on satire showing Cecil the lion eating a gazelle and saying he was “no angel,”. So yeah, in addition to criticizing others for lacking nuance, I should probably show some nuance myself. This is fabulous! I may differ slightly on a point of two since I am completely against any and all trophy or sport hunting. But I especially like #8 and #9 – they are brilliant! I have already borrowed them to post (with link credit), I hope you don’t mind. So many people are jumping on the already full to tipping bandwagon, posting about how we should not be so outraged about this when there are so many other issues. I have tried to put it into words exactly what you have expressed here, but not put it quite so brilliantly. Well done! It’s nice to see a balanced opinion but I find it hard to agree with #7. Just because there’s a need to control population doesn’t mean that commercial hunting should be the vehicle to do so- surely putting any price on a protected animal is what encourages poachers to see a market in their illegal trade? Super article David, it was very easy to follow every point and I agree with you on the differences of trophy hunting vs hunting animals with huge populations. I do have to admit that I am less likely to consider removing a destructive human from the world as a bad thing. I know it will hurt brothers and parents and kids when they loose a loved one so I am not stating this in denial of what it really means. It’s the value of the two individuals in question. A nearly perfect male lion vs a person who causes stress on an already threatened species and likely has a damaging personality toward others. Of course Mr. Lion has removed many sisters and brothers from their respective families as well and I have no clue on his grandiose personality, so he is not a shining hero. As fellow carnivores I see more value in keeping the Lion and removing the man, and since we can’t make that choice I would choose to remove the man. It may come off kind of delusional and maybe all of my years researching animal cognition has made me identify with them on equal levels. I am just, unable to give a free pass to a well thought and planned action. Like someone who says I am not a bad person I just did something bad. The truth is my actions are part of who I am and yes I am partly a bad person. I do not want a free pass on my actions as I’d rather pay for anything I do. And I hold others to the same measuring stick. Nice piece. I have been thinking a lot in recent years about culling for conservation and have come to the conclusion I’d prefer other ideas. Individual lives within any species matter, not just the human species; they certainly matter to the individuals who possess them. About the different issues…I think we need to be taking a deeper look at our culture, many of issues though different on the surface intersect morally and ethically. Human beings can be really smart and creative, surely we are ready to solve problems we created by means other than killing. It’d be lovely if more and more of us could just get fed up with killing as problem solving. Well written opinion piece…I agree with your assessments, but also with Natalie. I have moral & ethical issues with trophy hunting. As for other important issues of the day, if you haven’t noticed due to your self-imposed sabbatical, the US is suffering through an extreme heatwave of historical proportions. In the cool Pacific NW, for instance, our temps have been in the high 90’s and has been exceeding 100 degrees where we’re located, in the the rainforest on the west side of the Cascades in SW Washington. We’re about to brake the all time heat record of the most days exceeding 90 degrees. While browsing USA Today they’re reporting that the middle east, specifically Iran, just recorded a heat index of 163 degrees. Point is: Al Gore was right and global warming and climate change (erratic extremes in weather) are now a reality and affects lifestyles, our economy, national security and will be the cause of many future world conflicts. Hopefully, the same people that are as outraged as I am over the killing of Cecil are just as concerned about the human causes (i.e. excessive CO2 from fossil fuel emissions) of climate extremes. Unfortunately, here in the US, only 47-49% believe it’s caused by human actions. Science and empirical evidence be damned. Sorry for my “long winded” comment. I was just in one of those conversational moods.

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A blog about Thomas Witlam Atkinson and Lucy Atkinson, the 19th century explorers of Siberia and Central Asia More of the Kazakhs met by the Atkinsons in 1849 In my last posting I mentioned five of the Kazakhs that Thomas and Lucy Atkinson met on their journeys in Central Asia in the middle of the nineteenth century – Sultan Souk, Sultan Boulania, Sultan Alie Iholdi, Sultan Beck and Sultan Sabeck. I have now had a chance to research further and below you will find five more of the tribal leaders that the couple met during their travels. I will continue to publish further details in batches of five. There are no existing drawings of the leaders mentioned, but Thomas’ descriptions of their clothing and personalities are detailed. My aim is to find the descendants of as many of these great Kazakh sultans and khans as possible. This should be possible, even after 168 years. Kazakhs, like other central Asians, generally know their genealogy very well for many past generations. So, I appeal to my readers, particularly those in Kazakhstan, to help me in this project and to let me know if you can identify these historical figures or their living relatives. In some cases the spelling may not correspond with present-day usage. This is hardly surprising, as Thomas would only have heard the names being pronounced and did not know enough Kazakh to be able to interpret the names properly. So, if you see a name that looks similar, please let me know anyway. Most of these khans and sultans lived in the Semirechye region in today’s Eastern Kazakhstan, or possibly even further east in what is now the Djungaria region of Xinjiang. Some lived north-east of Lake Balkash (which Thomas called Lake Tengiz), but most are from the area south of the Tarbagatai Mountains, down to the Ili River. In each case I will give the name and any biographical details provided by Atkinson. The Atkinsons met most of the leaders mentioned below during the spring of 1849 as they migrated with their vast flocks of sheep and herds of cattle and camels from their winter camps on the littoral of Lake Balkash into the jailoo (high pastures) in the Djungar Alatau Mountains for the summer. Sultan Kairan: Thomas met him in his aoul (encampment), consisting of 13 yurts and 90 inhabitants as he was making his way with his flocks from Lake Balkash into the Alatau Mountains during the annual spring migration. Aged about 50, “with broad and heavy features, a wide mouth, small and deeply-set black eyes, a well-formed nose and a large forehead. His head was shaved and he wore a closely-fitting blue kanfa cap, embroidered with silver and coloured silks. His neck was as thick and as sturdy as one of his bulls; he was broad-shouldered and strongly built: taking him altogether, he was a powerful man. His dress was a Kokhand cotton kalat striped with yellow, red and green, reaching down to his feet and was tied round his waist with a red and green shawl.” Urtigun: Thomas met him close to the place he met Sultan Kairan. “He was a tall, well-built man, about 40 years old, with the audacity of a captain of freebooters; indeed, he would not have disgraced with illustrious robber chief (Kenisary) whose region I had just left, by claiming descent from him. It was obvious that we were to each other objects of interest, while to his followers, who had crowded into the yurt, I appeared a great curiosity…I spent more than an hour with this chief and then departed with the usual salutations. When outside the yurt, I observed a fine bearcoot (eagle) chained to his perch and several splendid dogs ranging about; they were of a particularly fine race, somewhat like the Irish wolf-hound, were powerful animals and exceedingly fleet. Urtigun held my horse and gave me his hand to the saddle; he then mounted his own steed and accompanied my party to a small stream about a mile from his aoul. Here we parted, when he expressed a wish that we might meet again in the mountains and hunt deer with his bearcoot.” Thomas’ drawing of the gorge of the Ac-Sou River Sultan Djani-Bek: Thomas met him twice, close to the Ac-Sou River in the plains at the foot of the Djungar Alatau, not far from Kapal. He was “a man about 40 years of age, with a burly figure and a jolly, Friar Tuck-looking face, which showed that abstemiousness formed no part of his creed. Four other Kazakhs were sitting in front of us, his boon companions; beyond these there sat a small number of his retainers and herdsmen scanning my face and figure with their small sparkling eyes, evidently wondering from what part of the globe I had come.” Kal-matai: This chief was also first seen between the Ac-Sou River and the Bascan River, shortly after Thomas left the aoul of Djani-Bek. Kal-matai’s aoul consisted of seven yurts, but this was only part of his tribe. “The aoul belonged to a rich chief, Kal-matai, and some of his children, with one of his wives, were here, with their numerous attendants and herdsmen. In four days the chief was expected to join with his other herds, by which time this part of his tribe would have selected the pastures and established themselves in the upper valleys of the Alatau. All the camels, horses and other animals had been assembled close around the yurts, as the space on which these had been pitched was limited.” Thomas also described one of Kal-matai’s wives: “My hostess was a woman about 45, with strong Kalmuck features – showing that she had descended from that race and most probably had been stolen from them when young. She wore a black kanfa kalat, a scarlet and green shawl round her waist and a fox-skin cap; yellow leather tchimbar (trousers) embroidered round the bottom and the usual high-heeled boots…. Notwithstanding her finery, she was occupied with her domestic duties, preparing cheese from a mixture of sheep and cow’s milk. It is formed into squares like our cream cheese, and then dried in the sun on a rush mat. I have eaten it and when fresh the flavour is not bad.” Each spring the tribes moved from Lake Balkash up to the pastures in the Djungar Alatau Mountains. Barak: This was the next aoul after that of Kal-matai, located closer to the Bascan River. Barak gave Thomas and Lucy a warm welcome. “From him I learned that it was utterly impossible to ascend to the glaciers in which the Bascan has its source, as the route was still deep in snow and the river so much swollen that it had stopped their march. I therefore accepted his offered hospitality to remain the night…Few people possess such a spot: Barak could sit at the door of his yurt and look at his tens of thousands of animals feeding on the mountain slopes. He could also enjoy a view of his domain in which beauty and savage grandeur were combined.” Thomas added: “My host was a Bee (magistrate) and had great influence with the people. During the evening a man was brought before him, charged with having stolen five horses and two camels. The theft was observed by a couple of witnesses and the animals were discovered among his herds.” Thomas describes the trial of the man in detail, how witnesses described the colour of his robes, which appeared not to match those the accused was wearing and how his three kalats were removed to expose the one he was wearing during the theft. “This condemned him and the Bee ordered the restitution of the stolen animals, at the same time imposing a fine of ten horses and four camels. The trial did not last more than an hour and speedy justice was awarded. Thieving of this kind is instantly punished among the Kazakhs.” I will soon publish further details of the tribal leaders the Atkinsons met in Semirechye.

Festival guide: Food, fun, music and more in Central Texas this fall Well, we survived another long, hot summer (with a couple of very wet days there near the end). Fall brings a bevy of festivals to Central Texas. Whether you’re looking for live music, fabulous food or just a place to take the family for weekend fun, we’ve got you covered. Are we missing one? Email cgonzales@statesman.com and we’ll add it to our online list. SEPTEMBER Fantastic Fest, Sept. 21-28. The horror, fantasy and sci-fi genre film festival this year features such titles as “Downsizing,” “My Friend Dahmer” and “Gerald’s Game.” Texas Teen Book Festival, Oct. 7. Young adult authors engage with fans during this one-day event at St. Edward’s University. Marie Lu and Jason Reynolds are the 2017 keynote authors. Formula One, Oct. 20-22.The U.S. Grand Prix at the Circuit of the Americas track east of Austin and parties downtown draw racing fans from around the world. Justin Timberlake, Stevie Wonder and dozens of local acts will provide music at the track. Austin Fermentation Festival, Oct. 22. This celebration of all things microbial returns to the Barr Mansion with dozens of fermentation experts who make everything from kombucha and kimchi to beer, wine and cheese. Texas Clay Festival, Oct. 28-29.The 25th annual festival in the Gruene Historic District of New Braunfels will feature the work of more than 60 Texas clay artists. Demonstrations, from hand-building to wheel-throwing to raku firing, will be held in four tents both days of the event. Viva La Vida Fest, Oct. 28. Austin’s Day of the Dead festivities celebrate life and those who have departed. The event includes a downtown parade, music, crafts and vendors, organized by the Mexic-Arte Museum. Austin Margarita Festival, Oct. 28.The classic lime drink will be joined by more than 20 others with a wide range of flavors, including coconut, chocolate, green apple, jalapeño, grapefruit and more, plus wine, beer and other kinds of mixed drinks, live music and margarita-friendly food in the American-Statesman parking lot. American-Statesman Staff Creek Show lights up the area along Waller Creek with glowing art. Stephen Spillman for American-Statesman Wurstfest, Nov. 3-12. The New Braunfels 10-day salute to sausage features food, music and dancing; carnival rides and games; German, Texan and domestic beer; special events and the finest in Alpine and Bavarian style entertainment. Rain or shine; children 12 and younger are free. Mariachi USA - Calavera 2017, Nov. 4. Enjoy mariachi music, face painting and folklorico dances at the Austin360 Amphitheater. The stage will be transformed into an altar to celebrate Dia de los Muertos. Texas Book Festival, Nov. 4-5.Founded in 1995 by Laura Bush and Mary Margaret Farabee, the Texas Book Festival is one of the largest literary festivals in the country. This year’s featured authors include Dan Rather, Jennifer Egan, Jeffrey Eugenides and more. Travis Heights Art Trail, Nov. 4-5.During this multimedia community art event, artists in the Travis Heights neighborhood open up their homes and studios to the public free of charge. The area tradition includes a sale by the Travis Heights Elementary School Arts Program. Creek Show, Nov. 10-18. Austin-based artists and designers build light-based installations to transform the area around Waller Creek in downtown Austin for a family-friendly event. Sound on Sound Fest, Nov. 10-12.The festival, which debuted in 2016, aims to create a fan-first festival experience, focusing on indie, punk, hip-hop, metal and dance music. This year’s festival will again be held at Sherwood Forest Faire and features the Yeah Yeah Yeahs, Grizzly Bear, Iggy Pop, the Shins and Blood Orange. East Austin Studio Tour, Nov. 11-12, 18-19.Big Medium’s East Austin Studio Tour is a free, self-guided art event spanning two weekends. East provides opportunities for the public to meet local artists in their creative spaces. More than 500 artists studios, exhibitions, special projects and events are on the schedule this year.

I am trying to install Security Update 2019-002 for OS X Sierra (10.12.6). Everything seems to work until I do the required restart. That starts out okay, but eventually, it says "5 minutes remaining" and just hangs there for hours, at which point I force restart, and the computer works fine (but the update has not been applied). I've retried this a few times, but it always gets stuck in this same spot. I have tried installing the update both with the app store and with the DMG download available from the Apple support website. There are no error messages present. Is there any way to diagnose and or fix this (short of a clean install)? Well, the AppStore update was always botched for me. But even the standalone (DMG) version was, according to Apple "incomplete". Can you try this again with a fresh download of the standalone updater now? – LangLangCMar 31 at 11:02 I've had this happen a couple of times, eventually had to overlay the OS from Recovery, which is a relatively safe option, though I'd always recommend ensuring your backup is solid. – TetsujinMar 31 at 11:33 1 OK. One more try: Try booting in safemode (shift on boot) and run the DMG-updater. All peripherals disconnected. – LangLangCMar 31 at 12:24 1 Running the update from safe mode fixed it for me. – Matthew PopeApr 1 at 14:27 1 @LangLangC, your suggestion worked. if you make an answer describing how to install the update from safe mode, I will accept it as the correct answer. – Matthew PopeApr 1 at 18:29 3 Answers 3 In the special case of Security Update 2019-002 for High Sierra and Sierra we might have to observe a special caveat: Apple released an "incomplete update". What that means remains unknown in the details. But the end-result for this security update should be for Sierra, 16G1918; for High Sierra, 17G6030 in build numbers. Update failures may or may not be result of this "incompleteness". In effect it seems advisable to not rely on the AppStore update process, but instead turn to the latest standalone installers available from Apple, for Sierra at https://support.apple.com/kb/DL1995 If installing from that DMG does fail as well, then the standard advice troubleshooting guides come into play: Download the software from Apple's support website (the DMG just advised) After these are ensured: Find out if your Mac has really frozen Look at the Log to see if your Mac is still installing OS X Wait (Macworld says "a few hours", I say after twenty minutes the Mac had a fighting chance I my time is limited What to do if your Mac freezes during software installation If you're positive that the Mac isn't still working on updating your software then run through the following steps: Shut down, wait a few seconds, then restart your Mac Press and hold the power button to shut down and start your Mac back up. Go to the Mac App Store and open Updates If you were installing an app from the App Store, then open the App Store and click Updates. You should find that the update/installation process carries on from where it left off. Check the Log screen to see if files are being installed When the progress bar appears, press Command + L again to check the Log screen and ensure files are being installed. If the Log screen shows that nothing is happening move on to the next step. Try installing the Combo update As we mentioned earlier, the Mac App Store isn't the only place you can download Mac software from. Apple still hosts software on its website, so you can download it from there. There's good reason to get your software from Apple's website if you're encountering problems: the version of the software available from the Mac App Store will only include the files necessary to update your Mac. If you go to Apple's support website you can find a Combo updater which includes all the files required to update the macOS. This version of the update will replace all the system files and thereby ensure the update is complete. Install in Safe Mode Press the power button and hold down the Shift key to start the Mac up in Safe Mode. Open App Store and update your apps while in Safe mode. Reboot. Make some room If the reason the update was failing was that there wasn't enough storage available to perform the installation then you might be able to delete some files in Safe Mode. Reset the NVRAM If Safe Mode doesn't work, restart the Mac and hold down Command, Option, P and R. This will reset the NVRAM. Wait until the computer restarts and wait to see if it starts updating. For more information read How to reset the PRAM/NVRAM here. Use Recovery Mode to reinstall macOS As a final option you could restart the Mac in Recovery Mode (hold down Command + R at startup). There are a number of options to choose from here - you could recover your Mac from your last Time Machine backup, or perform a disk repair - but we recommend choosing the 'Install new OS' option. We have a separate tutorial on how to reinstall MacOS using Recovery Mode. When it reinstalls macOS your Mac will replace all the Apple system files overwriting any problematic ones that may be contributing to this error - hopefully. This update won't include the latest version of the software so after performing the update, check Software Update and apply the latest macOS update. Install the OS from an external drive If you're still having issues with the install you could try installing the OS from an external drive. Read this tutorial to find out how to install macOS on an external hard drive. Run Disk Utility once you've updated When you finally get the software up and running we advise that you run Disk Utility to correct any issues that might have caused the problem in the first place. SafeMode is really misplaced at only number 5. SafeMode runs an fsck on the root volume, clears out those ever self-corrupting caches and prevents unneeded-for-the-update-installation software like extensions etc from loading. Summary If an update fails retry retry with DMG updater retry with DMG from SafeMode retry after applying some voodoo from the Macworld list (NVRAM etc) look for more desperate measures (restore from backup; re-install the system etc) Booting into Safe Boot and then installing the .dmg image of the update worked for me. If I tried to install it via the App Store my computer would get stuck even before displaying an estimated time remaining.

There is a Preschool Fee of $35 for full-day students and $20 for half-day students which covers their rest mats, specialty craft supplies, and classroom events. __________________________________________________________________________________ Kindergarten Supply List an adult large t-shirt (for painting)** a large pillow case (to cover rest mat)** 1 big package of napkins 1 box of tissues a 6 pack of individual (travel size) tissue packs** 1 roll of paper towels 1 package of baby wipes (unscented if possible) 1 container of Clorox wipes 1 hand sanitizer pump little individual hand sanitizer (We will use the pump to refill bottles). ** Please be sure to write your child’s name on these items with a permanent marker.Your student will need a school bag large enough to hold a full size folder and an insulated lunch kit. These will be brought in on the first full day of school. These items should be brought to school by the parent when they attend Back to School Night or by the student at their orientation day. Please be sure to label the school bag, lunch kit, t-shirt and pillowcase with your child’s name in permanent marker. Please check the kindergarten web page; select ‘Classes’ then ‘Kindergarten’ There is a Kindergarten fee of $100.00 which covers the supplies needed for each child ; their rest mat, watercolor paint set, 2 folders, crayons (continually replaced during the year), pencils, scissors, bookmarks, name plates etc. Also covered by the fee is a DVD of our Kindergarten year you will receive at the end of the year. The fee is payable in 2 installments, $50.00 in September and $50.00 in January. More information will be given at Back to School Night in September. _______________________________________________________________________________________ First Grade School Supply List 2020-2021 1 Box of 12 #2 pencils- sharpened at home Crayons (pkg. of 24) 1 Box of washable Markers ( wide) 1 set of washable water colors (8 with brush) 6 glue sticks Scissors Pencil case (soft case preferable) Small art box (that can fit in desk) OPTIONAL: colored pencils 1 Box of addition & subtraction facts flash cards 3 Marble Copybooks (Journal, Library, Science) 3- 2 pocket folders 2 Boxes of tissues 3 Rolls of paper towels 2 Clorox wipe containers 2 packages of baby wipes 1 package of napkins Please label school supplies with your child’s name or initials. You do not need to label cleaning supplies. School supplies should be sent on the first day of classes. Cleaning supplies can be brought on back to school night, or when you are able to get them. Thank you!! Students must bring $12.00 with them on the first day to cover the cost of the purchase of an 8 pocket folder for school and a New American Bible (paperback) that we will use weekly in class. 1 reusable, non-breakable water bottle that is no bigger than a 16 ounce bottle (and it should fit into the outside, side pocket of a bookbag) - students should plan on bringing in a filled water bottle daily A 2 or 3 oz. bottle of unscented hand sanitizer that clips on backpack or fits in side pocket of backpack - make sure your child has this every day Pocket pack of tissues to keep in backpack - make sure your child has this every day 1 Pencil Case with zipper. (must be able to hold pens, pencils, and highlighters) 8-Pocket Folder - Students will need to purchase this item from school on the first day of school. Price: $4.00 Well-sharpened #2 pencils or mechanical with erasers 12 inch ruler two colored pens (ballpoint) blue or black ballpoint pens for student work (no other colors are acceptable) 6 marble copybooks; spiral books are NOT permitted Graphing copybook or paper 4 packs of 100 index cards (3x5) 4 packs of Post-it notes Texas Instrument Calculator TI-34 II (Staples @ $19.99) 9x12 Artist sketch book with a minimum of 50 pages Loose leaf paper Washable markers, crayons, scissors, glue or glue sticks and two rolls of scotch tape in an ART BOX Highlighters A dictionary and thesaurus (a combination of the two is acceptable) NOTE: Contact paper will be needed to cover all workbooks; book socks are required for covering text books. (NOTE: Permanent markers and White-Out are NOT permitted in school.) On the first day of school, each child is asked to bring in the following:

Friday, February 1, 2008 Recent months have seen power contested across the world. Brutal suppression of fledgling democratic demands in Burma were followed by blatant abuse of elections in Kenya. At the same time the various factions of Russian capitalism have been brazenly playing out in public their private chess game: to control the state for their own economic ends. Meanwhile in Pakistan, hope for "democracy" apparently dies with the assassination of an unelected political leader at the head of a feudal political dynasty. And while all this happens, in parts of the USA, voters get an early chance to pick the leader of the "free world". A choice, that is, between the $100 million presidential candidate and the $90 million candidate (with every likelihood of two dynasties being in power in USA for some 25 consecutive years). Closer to home, in a "mature" democracy such as the UK's, all the major parties have been pimping up their policies for drooling millionaires to purchase by means of ever-more creative accountancy over donations. In contrast to this shabby and sleazy reality of democracy in this society, workers are continually spun the convenient tale that democracy and capitalism are intertwined. It is a reassuring thought for some: that the obscene inequalities of the capitalist economic system are justified by the political freedoms the market supposedly enables. But it's a myth, of course. Around the world the profit system can be found bedding down very nicely with all sorts of political systems. From fascistic religious dictatorships to liberal democracies, from national liberation movements to supra-economic geo-political blocs, they all end up having to accommodate themselves to capital and its unquenchable thirst for profit. World socialists applaud those workers around the world who fight at massive risk to themselves for basic civil liberties and trade union rights, for the freedom to hold meetings and participate in free elections. The fight for a measure of democracy world-wide is an essential part of the struggle for world socialism. After all, if workers are not able to fight for something as basic as the vote, they are unlikely to be able to work for the transformation of society from one based on production for profit to one based on production for human need. The World Socialist Movement does not intend playing into the hands of the global ruling class and their political mouthpieces, whether dictatorial or democratic. We don't intend making it easy for them to treat world socialism as an "undemocratic" threat. But neither are we under any illusion about the nature of democracy inside capitalism. We confront the myth that capitalism and democracy are interdependent. We oppose the practices of so many so-called revolutionary organisations down the years who expect to bring democracy to the masses while unwilling to practise it internally. We challenge the notion that revolution cannot at the same time be democratic and planned, cannot be participative and structured. Where it is available to workers we take the viewpoint that capitalist democracy can and should be used. But not in order to chase the ever diminishing returns of reforming capitalism. Instead we see democracy as a (indeed arguably the only) critically-importantinstrument available to class-conscious workers for making a genuine and democratic revolution. And in the process of making a revolution the really interesting work can start of course: that of reinventing a democracy fit for society on a human scale. A democracy that is free from the patronage, the power games and the profit motive that currently, from Moscow to Rangoon, Nairobi to Washington, abuses it.

''We've got two dates from charcoal taken from above where the axe was found and two from below and they match exactly,'' Dr David said. I'm always a tad skeptical about dates from the "associated organic material" camp. Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed. By dating the charcoal found above and below it and assuming that everything is as it has always been. You know what they say about "assume." Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed. It's both. They carbon date the charcoal because they know as well as you that they can't date rocks. It's the assumption that the ground has not been disturbed that always bothers me. Something is wrong here. War, disease, death, destruction, hunger, filth, poverty, torture, crime, corruption, and the Ice Capades. Something is definitely wrong. This is not good work. If this is the best God can do, I am not impressed. Although it's obviously not conclusive Min, but if the ground above post dates the ground below, then there is every chance that the two dates do follow each other. The only alternative that I can see would be that the ground above had been disturbed right down to the earlier date with the disturbance stopping just there, not impossible, but most unlikely I would suggest. Roy. First people deny a thing, then they belittle it, then they say it was known all along! Von Humboldt

computed tomography scan (Also called a CT or CAT scan.) - a diagnostic imaging procedure that uses a combination of x-rays and computer technology to produce cross-sectional images (often called slices), both horizontally and vertically, of the body. A CT scan shows detailed images of any part of the body, including the bones, muscles, fat, and organs. CT scans are more detailed than general x-rays. magnetic resonance imaging (MRI) - a diagnostic procedure that uses a combination of large magnets, radiofrequencies, and a computer to produce detailed images of organs and structures within the body. ultrasound (Also called sonography.) - a diagnostic imaging technique that uses high-frequency sound waves and a computer to create images of blood vessels, tissues, and organs. Ultrasounds are used to view internal organs as they function, and to assess blood flow through various vessels. bone scans - pictures or x-rays taken of the bone after a dye has been injected that is absorbed by bone tissue. These are used to detect tumors and bone abnormalities. bone marrow aspiration and/or biopsy - a procedure that involves taking a small amount of bone marrow fluid (aspiration) and/or solid bone marrow tissue (called a core biopsy), usually from the hip bones, to be examined for the number, size, and maturity of blood cells and/or abnormal cells. spinal tap/lumbar puncture - a special needle is placed into the lower back, into the spinal canal. This is the area around the spinal cord. The pressure in the spinal canal and brain can then be measured. A small amount of cerebral spinal fluid (CSF) can be removed and sent for testing to determine if there is an infection or other problems. CSF is the fluid that bathes your child's brain and spinal cord. biopsy of primary tumor and/or metastatic lesions MIBG Scan - A MIBG (iodine meta-iodobenzylguanidine) scan is a test used to find tumors of a specific origin. Special pictures are taken after a medicine is injected into a vein. The medicine is called a radiopharmaceutical (a tiny amount of a radioactive liquid). The pictures show the medicine in the tumors. ** The most common procedures you will have if NB is suspected is a blood panel, the CT scan, MIGB scan, and the bone marrow biopsy ** Staging is the process of determining whether cancer has spread and, if so, how far. There are various staging systems that can be used for neuroblastoma. Always consult your child's physician for information on staging. One method of staging neuroblastoma is the following: stage 1 - involves a tumor that does not cross the midline of the body, is completely resectable, and has not spread to other areas of the body. The lymph nodes on the same side of the body as the tumor do not have cancer cells present. stage 2A - involves a tumor that does not cross the midline of the body, but is not completely resectable. This stage of tumor has not spread to other areas of the body, and lymph nodes on the same side as the tumor do not have tumor cells present. stage 2B - involves a tumor that may or may not be completely resectable, has not spread to other areas of the body, but lymph nodes on the same side of the tumor have tumor cells present. Lymph nodes on the opposite side of the tumor must be negative for tumor cells in this stage of disease. stage 3 - involves a tumor that crosses the midline of the body, is not completely resectable, and lymph nodes are positive for tumor cells. This stage also includes a tumor that does not cross the midline, but the lymph nodes on the opposite side also contain tumor cells. stage 4S - a child is younger than 12 months and has a tumor that may have metastasized (spread) to liver, skin, and/or bone marrow (includes minimal bone marrow involvement; more extensive bone marrow involvement should be classified as stage 4). The tumor is on one side of the body and is localized. It may have spread to the lymph nodes on the same side of the body. Approximately 70% of patients with neuroblastoma have metastatic disease at diagnosis. The prognosis for patients with neuroblastoma is related to their age at diagnosis, clinical stage of disease, site of the primary tumor, tumor histology, and, in patients older than 1 year, regional lymph node involvement. With treatment, many children with neuroblastoma have a good chance of surviving. In general, neuroblastoma has a more favorable outcome if the cancer hasn't spread or if the child is younger than 1 year old when it's diagnosed. High-risk neuroblastoma is harder to cure and is more likely to become resistant to standard therapies or come back (recur) after initially successful treatment. Amplification of the MYCN gene is associated not only with deletion of chromosome 1p, but also gain of the long arm of chromosome 17 (17q), the latter of which independently predicts a poor prognosis. In contrast to MYCN gene amplification, the degree of expression of the MYCN gene in the tumor does not predict prognosis. However, high overall MYCN-dependent gene expression and low expression of sympathetic neuron late differentiation genes both predict a poor outcome of neuroblastomas otherwise considered to be at low or intermediate risk of recurrence. Gene expression profiling may prove useful for prognosis prediction. Neuroblastoma behaves differently in each child and each case is unique. Just because one child had a certain outcome does not mean all children will have that same outcome. It is our hope that one day, the prognosis statistics for this disease will be greatly improved and we will be able to fight this disease with better ammunition. The medical information provided on this page was gathered from the Childrens Hospital of Philadelphia (CHOP) website on Neuroblastoma. Comments in orange are from the founders of Daxton's Fish, Inc and their personal experience.

In an amazing revelation, Samsung has just confirmed that their smart televisions are eavesdropping and listen to every word spoken by viewers. Yes!! Samsung Smart TVs are listening to you. If you thought this... Have you ever been in a situation where you could recognise a few psychological gestures but could not decipher them accurately? Did the thought ever occur to you that these simple tricks when learnt,... Mosquitoes are small flies which possess a proboscis using which they drink blood from other animals including humans. Only the female mosquitoes bite and drink blood, since she needs protein from it in order...

78 RPM stylus for Ion iCT04 phono cartridge The 78 RPM stylus for the Ion iCT04 phono cartridge features a 3.0 mil polished diamond designed specifically for the correct tracing of the wide grooves of 78 RPM records. It results in minimal groove wear and accurate rendition of voice and music. A very common misconception is that you can use an LP stylus for playing 78 RPM records. This is one quick and sure way to damage the 78 RPM record grooves. To maintain the playback fidelity of your 78 record, you really need to use a stylus designed for 78 RPM records, otherwise with just a single playing, you could ruin the fidelity of the record grooves. Moreover, the LP stylus is much narrower than the 78 RPM record groove hence the tip will slide to the bottom of the groove where debris has collected for many decades. This results in extraordinarily high-surface noise.

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Interesting story (was to me anyway) here.Discusses some aspects of tubeless tyre fitment.- “If you look inside the rim at some point you will see the distance between the hook and the bead seat is very short. A lot of people see that and think the rim is a smaller diameter, but in fact the rim is the same diameter as any standard rim. It’s just that the bead seat is larger. The tires fit tighter. The bead has to stretch more before it pops into place. Then there is a shelf that supports the bead and centers it. This is the proper way to design a rim. If you look at car tires or car rims, motorcycle rims, even wheelbarrow rims, they don’t try to center the tire on a hook like a bicycle tire. That is a crazy thing to do because it will never really center. Not really. You force it up a cone and on to a shelf and yes, it really will center perfectly. Every other kind of tire in the world, except bicycles, does that. It forces the casing out of the rim a little bit further. I am not in the market for them, I dont see them as being too durable but he had a spiel on 2-1 spoking too. Don't know how true it is in practice though The rear wheel is a stiff as a 32 spoke wheel. Here is the reason why. On the drive side I have 16 spokes. The same as a 32 spoke wheel. That is why the drive side is the same stiffness as a 32 spoke wheel, but on the non-drive side I only have 8 spokes. Those 8 spokes have to do the job of 16 spokes on a 32 spoke wheel. What I have done is increase the bracing angle so that they have more power. One spoke with an increased bracing angle can do the job of two spokes with a reduced bracing angle. The bracing angle, since I can move that non-drive side flange where ever I want, I chose to put it where the tension in that non-drive side spoke will be equal to the tension in the drive side spoke. I adjusted the bracing angle to make it so. Last edited by warthog1 on Tue Jun 11, 2013 8:12 am, edited 1 time in total. Who is online About the Australian Cycling Forums The largest cycling discussion forum in Australia for all things bike; from new riders to seasoned bike nuts, the Australian Cycling Forums are a welcoming community where you can ask questions and talk about the type of bikes and cycling topics you like.

“Contrabando” Rum “Contrabando” sounds like something really dangerous and a drink that is bound to get you wasted. According to the designer of the rum labels “The goal was to emphasize the product’s caribbean roots by stamping its name “Contrabando” (meaning smuggling in spanish) forcefully over the traditional graphic imagery, as if local customs had busted an original foreign product. There isn’t that much information about the rum available, but we can say it sounds like it will get you drunk.

Memory Successfully Boosted In Humans By New Prosthetic Brain System Ali Vaqar 2 years ago (Source: Discover Magazine Blogs) Scientists from Wake Forest Baptist Medical Center partnered with researchers from the University of Southern California to develop an innovative procedure to give hope to people struggling with remembering important information. A new implant uses a person’s own memory patterns in order to boost the brain’s natural ability to encode those memories and recall them quickly. There has been a reported 35 to 37 % increase in short-term memory performance. “This is the first time scientists have been able to identify a patient’s own brain cell code or pattern for memory and, in essence, ‘write in’ that code to make existing memory work better, an important first step in potentially restoring memory loss,” said the study’s lead author Robert Hampson, Ph.D., professor of physiology/pharmacology and neurology at Wake Forest Baptist. (Source: Interesting Engineering) Epilepsy patients from Wake Forest Baptist were surgically implanted with electrodes in the various parts of their brains. The electronic prosthetic system is based on a multi-input-multi-output (or MIMO) mathematical model to influence the patterns of neurons firing within the hippocampus. The neural patterns of the participants were recorded in the beginning while they played a simple memory game on the computer. The patients saw the image and had to identify the image after the screen went blank. The engineers then analyzed the recordings of correct responses and generated a code for the correct memory performance for the participant. (Source: ScienceAlert) The second test involved showing the participants a very detailed photo. After some delay, they were shown a number of photos and they had to identify the first photo. After that, they were put through a longer delay before being shown sets of three pictures at a time and then had to identify the photos they saw an hour ago. They were simulated with the electrodes in their brains and it was observed that there was a 35% improvement in their short-term memory. “We showed that we could tap into a patient’s own memory content, reinforce it and feed it back to the patient,” Hampson said. “Even when a person’s memory is impaired, it is possible to identify the neural firing patterns that indicate correct memory formation and separate them from the patterns that are incorrect. We can then feed in the correct patterns to assist the patient’s brain in accurately forming new memories, not as a replacement for innate memory function, but as a boost to it.” (Source: 33rd Square) He continued, “To date, we’ve been trying to determine whether we can improve the memory skill people still have. In the future, we hope to be able to help people hold onto specific memories, such as where they live or what their grandkids look like when their overall memory begins to fail.” The memory implants only affect the short-term memory for now. But, the researchers are working on increasing that to long-term memory.

DARPA unveils hack-proof drone tech In a claim reminiscent of Oracle Corp.'s "unbreakable" marketing campaign of several years ago, the U.S. military has built what it calls a hack proof drone. The Pentagon's Defense Advanced Research Projects Agency (DARPA) developed the unmanned aerial vehicle under its High-Assurance Cyber Military Systems (HACMS) program, military blog Defense Tech reported last week. DARPA unveiled a prototype of the mini-drone last week during a broader demonstration of over 100 ongoing research projects at the agency. DARPA's HACMS program was created to develop technologies for improving the security of embedded systems in drones, weapons systems, aircraft, supervisory control and data acquisition (SCADA) systems and medical and mobile devices. HACMS is looking especially at interactive software synthesis systems, code verification tools and new specification languages, DARPA said. If the technologies prove successful, DARPA will make them available for use in commercial and defense systems. "HACMS will adopt a clean-slate, formal methods-based approach to enable semi-automated code synthesis from executable, formal specifications," DARPA said in a statement. In addition to generating code, HACMS will also develop technology for ensuring that all generated code satisfies security and safety policies. Software developed for the quadcopter drone makes it impervious to attacks by hackers that try to take over its navigation and control systems. "The software is mathematically proven to be invulnerable to large classes of attack," HACMS program manager Kathleen Fisher told Defense Tech. All attempts to hack into the drone during red-team exercises and other penetration tests by cyber security experts failed, she told the military blog site. DARPA did not respond to Computerworld's request for comment on the technology. If the software really works as billed, it would be a big step forward for the Pentagon. Over the past six years, there have been at least two known incidents in which U.S. military drones were apparently being hacked into by attackers. In 2008, insurgents in Iraq claimed they were able to intercept live feeds from U.S. Predator drones using a $26 software tool called SkyGrabber from Russian company SkySoftware. SkyGrabber, designed to intercept music, video and TV satellite programming for free, worked because video transmissions from the drones to grounds control stations were being sent unencrypted. In a more sensational incident in 2011, Iranian electronic warfare experts claimed they had managed to capture a sophisticated RQ-170 Sentinel drone by hacking into its control and navigation system. Iranian engineers claimed they were able to cut off communications links from U.S. ground stations to the Lockheed-Martin-made drone and reconfigure its GPS coordinates to trick it into landing in Iran. According to the engineers, they developed the attack by reverse engineering U.S. drones that had been previously shot down or captured. Though many in the U.S. initially dismissed Iran's claims, later research showed that such an attack was theoretically possible. Copyright 2017 IDG Communications. ABN 14 001 592 650. All rights reserved. Reproduction in whole or in part in any form or medium without express written permission of IDG Communications is prohibited.

Funded Projects Query FormOne match Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art (Indianapolis, IN 46204-2707)Amy McKune (Project Director: May 2007 to present) Native American Clothing and Textiles: A Rehousing Project Purchase of storage furniture to rehouse dresses, leggings, Ghost Dance shirts, and other objects related to 19th-century Plains Indian history. The Eiteljorg Museum of American Indians and Western Art has an important collection of objects related to native cultures of North America. Within its collection is a select group of clothing that is temporarily stored on open shelves made of foam core. Access to Native American culture bearers and other researchers is limited, handling is difficult and potentially harmful and the objects are exposed to light, dust and other elements. This project, following recommendations from a CAP grant, will re-house larger clothing items, including Plains beaded dresses, Ghost Dance regalia, quilled and beaded war shirts, and selected shields in a cabinet -- designed to maximum conservation standards -- which will resolve these problems and better preserve the objects.

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Why do we wear wristwatches? If you're of a certain age, you probably consider a wristwatch an essential piece of your wardrobe. But would it surprise you to learn that hasn't always been the case? If so, prepare to have your mind blown: In fact, wristwatches have been widely worn for less than 100 years. Some trend watchers think that wristwatches may be going out of style already, consigned to the dustbin of history by advanced technology. After all, who needs a wristwatch when our smart phones -- and even the most basic cell phones -- tell us the time with more consistent accuracy? Could wristwatches represent little more than a relatively brief technological phase- turned-historic-curiosity, something like eight-track tape players and telephone booths? Or are watchmakers figuring out ways to keep people buying and wearing watches on their wrists? The future of the once-essential wristwatch may lie in the reasons we wear watches in the first place -- and those reasons may not be the same today as they were in the 20th century, when wristwatches first gained popularity. How did watches find such an honored place on our wrists? Keep reading.

According to Brazilian media, the boy has denied involvement in the rape. Police said the woman and man boarded the minibus in the Copacabana beach district in Rio de Janeiro early on March 30. Three men subsequently boarded the minibus and forced off all the other passengers, police said. The woman was raped and her boyfriend was held captive and robbed, authorities said. Brazil arrest third suspect in gang rape Just Watched Rio works to fight crime, change image Their credit cards were used at several locations inside and outside of Rio de Janeiro over a span of hours, police said. According to Brazilian newspapers, the man was handcuffed and beaten, while the woman was repeatedly raped. The two were dumped in Itaborai, a city more than 30 miles (about 50 kilometers) away, after six hours, O Globo newspaper said. Earlier, police arrested three other people in the case: Carlos Armando Costa dos Santos, Jonathan Foudakis de Souza and Wallace Aparecido Souza Silva. The rape highlights security concerns in the Brazilian city that will host matches in the 2014 World Cup and will put on the Summer Olympics two years later. As more women came forward saying they were victims of similar attacks, Rio de Janeiro Civil Police Chief Martha Rocha issued a written apology. She also fired two police officers responsible for handling rape cases.

Earlier, while Moses was receiving the Law on Mount Sinai, the Israelites became “idolaters,” as Paul mentions. They engaged in calf worship and gave way to sensual pleasures. Why? The absence of their visible leader was the circumstance that gave rise to the temptation, for they said to Aaron: “Get up, make for us a god who will go ahead of us, because as regards this Moses, the man who led us up out of the land of Egypt, we certainly do not know what has happened to him.”​—Ex. 32:1, 6.

Turkey Coup Attempt: Nearly 8,000 Police Officers Purged Up to 8,000 police officers have been suspended in Turkey, reportedly on suspicion of having links to the failed coup attempt at the weekend, officials say. Some 6,000 members of the judiciary and military, including generals, have been detained in connection with the coup. Turkey’s President Recep Tayyip Erdogan vowed to purge state bodies of the “virus” that caused the revolt. The EU’s foreign policy chief says the rule of law in Turkey needs protection. Photo Getty Images The government claims cleric Fethullah Gulen was behind the plot. Fethullah Gulen lives in the US and strongly denies any involvement. Turkish state media reported on July 18 that more than 100 generals and admirals had been detained in raids across the country. Eight Turkish military officers who fled to Greece by helicopter are appearing in court in the Greek border city of Alexandropouli charged with entering the country illegally. Recep Tayyip Erdogan told a crowd on July 17 that Turkey would consider reinstating the death penalty. Capital punishment was abolished in 2004 as part of Turkey’s bid to join the EU. Nobody has been executed in the country since 1984. The EU’s foreign policy chief, Federica Mogherini, was speaking ahead of a meeting of EU foreign ministers and Secretary of State John Kerry in Brussels, at which the events in Turkey are likely to be high on the agenda. Federica Mogherini said there would be no excuse for any steps that would take Turkey away from the rule of law and that the foreign ministers would be sending a “strong message” on that. Diane is a perfectionist. She enjoys searching the internet for the hottest events from around the world and writing an article about it. The details matter to her, so she makes sure the information is easy to read and understand. She likes traveling and history, especially ancient history. Being a very sociable person she has a blast having barbeque with family and friends. This website uses cookies to improve your experience. We'll assume you're ok with this, but you can opt-out if you wish. Your continued use of this site beyond the first page displayed is an acceptance of our terms and conditions. AcceptRead More

Weekend Photos: Wood All awash in amber lighting and luxe finishes, Wood afforded a sleek backdrop for last weekend’s Seen on the Scene. Predictably, there was plenty of cocktailing going on… Published July 16, 2012 All awash in amber lighting and luxe finishes, Wood afforded a sleek backdrop for last weekend’s Seen on the Scene. Predictably, there was plenty of cocktailing at the weeks-old entrant into the Boystown arena: The crowd tipped back craft beers and vintage cocktails spotlighting ryes, bourbons, scotches, and other whiskeys. But equal love was shown to the edibles, a selection of American seasonal small plates including a well-stocked charcuterie platter and a spring vegetable and goat cheese flatbread cooked by the wood-burning oven. And perhaps the star of the show (if you ask us) was the walk-up window from which staff doled out Belgian-style fries with truffle aïoli.

Dr. Nathan L. Bennett, MD Family Medicine Dr. Bennett's Overview Dr. Nathan L. Bennett graduated from the Thomas Jefferson University, Jefferson Medical College in 1990. He works in Pittsburgh, PA and specializes in Family Medicine and Neurology. Dr. Bennett is affiliated with Jefferson Hospital.

Monday, November 7, 2011 Seth (Sneak Peak) This little man was the CUTEST thing. He was SUPER easy to work with and didn't fuss at all. I was impressed that he let us move and pose him for almost 3 hours! I was super lucky to be able to work with such a great family. :) This is a same day edit as I promised this sweet baby boy's momma some this evening. :) Enjoy!

Judge tells police, Give the man his marijuana back Tacoma Municipal Court Judge Jack Emery may have set a precedent when he ordered police to give a man’s marijuana back to him. The News Tribune of Tacoma reported Friday that Emery agreed with the argument of Joseph Robertson that police had no right to seize the less than 40 grams of pot because he is a designated provider of medical marijuana.

cloud tag Drill down on cloud search: This morning Pershing Square Holdings Ltd.'s head, "Bill Ackman "deeply and profoundly" apologized for his investment in Valeant Pharmaceuticals International Inc., a "huge mistake" that cost his firm $4 billion," in a letter to investors. Valeant stock is off... OBIHAI, Grandstream, Yealink, Yeastar and VoIP Supply were just a few of the booths at ITEXPO with desk phones. While many say that the desk phone is over, there are still companies that say Not So Fast! They were... Two articles demonstrate that no field is free from disruption. The first is about the Big Consulting business practice that is changing fast. The legal professional is also being disrupted and used as an example of why the consulting... Amazon has been selling Comcast services for a while. Now they added Frontier residential services to the page. What's next? Like Tech Data's TD Mobility, Amazon already offers cellular plans from many cellcos as well as a wide selection... TDS made an acquisition. "TDS Broadband Service LLC, a subsidiary of Telephone and Data Systems, Inc., and operated by TDS Telecom (TDS), announces the signed purchase agreement for InterLinx Communications LLC and its subsidiary Tonaquint Networks LLC in Southern... It seems that Channel Enablement is starting to become a thing again. "What is the definition of Channel Partner Enablement? Sometimes also referred to as Channel Enablement, Sales Enablement, Partner Enablement or Channel Management, it is the process whereby... Going private has been a thing for the last few years. Avaya did it. Dell did it. PGI did it. Polycom is doing it. Now Rackspace is being bought out by private equity. Dell and Rackspace had the same... There is rarely actual discussion in LinkedIn Groups any more. If there are comments, they are undisguised pitches for companies. In this particular discussion, the reader can conclude that most people know very little about the market that they... More than one person mentioned how National Harbor looks like a town in a bubble or a movie set. As the CPEv show wraps up, here are highlights. It wasn't UCaaS after UCaaS after UCaaS. It was broken up.... On this podcast, Matthew Toth of C3, we discuss SD-WAN. We talk about what SD-WAN is; how it is different than MPLS: why companies are buying it; and how to sell it like the Trusted Advisor you want to... In a surprise move, GoDaddy is acquiring FreedomVoice of Greater San Diego, a former client and employer, for $42M plus $5M more for milestones. The CEO and his wife have been building it to sell since 2012. GoDaddy is... A lot going on (especially with M&A). The FCC approved the Charter-TWC-BHN merger, despite being fined for blocking third-party modems. Frontier says that the 30K people affected by the transition (and who still have issues) will get credits and... In the first podcast of the SD-WAN series this month, I talk with Ken LaMere, Director of Channel Sales, from Ecessa as we begin the discussion on SD-WAN and why agents should care. Ken was on the Convey Cloud... At ITEXPO West in Anaheim last year, I moderated a couple of panels on Open Source software, including one on Open Source in the Service Provider with Alan Percy of Dialogic and Anand Buch of Netsapiens. [see here] We... When Google Fiber enters a market, the Duopoly gets worried. And this is great for consumers. However, I am watching the Hype Machine from inside Tampa after Google Fiber announced that Google Fiber MAY come to Tampa (and Jacksonville,... WOW! In a study of 1,000 businesses by Evolve IP, "71.5% were not very familiar with what "Unified Communications" actually is". You can scratch that off your SEO key word list right now. The stat that "40 percent of... There is a new CMO Council study (along with affiliate, Content ROI Center) out called "Lead Flow That Helps You Grow" focused on demand generation strategy. The report takes a deep look into the struggle companies are having in... In the Art of Charm podcast with Seth Godin is a good listen, especially when Seth explains The Dip (at 8:30). On the pre-med school path in college, The Dip is Organic Chemistry. You have to pass it in... During a CEO Exchange at the FISPA Live event last week, the discussion among the CEOs turned to TV service. Many in the room were primarily residential ISPs or CLECs, all of whom offered Internet. The discussion was about... At SXSW, Biz Stone of twitter founding fame, made a comment "Mobile phones are hyperlinks of humanity." Hugh MacLeod expounded on that mobile phones are the new window to the hyper-connected world. It is funny I read that today... The FCC's Open Internet order has been published. Before reading it, people were critiquing it. Now let's see how many can read it - all 400 pages! There are quite a few exceptions in network management for stuff like... Here are 6 companies that will be interesting to watch in 2015. In light of the consolidation - and pending mergers - there will still be some interesting moves in telecom. First up is Sangoma. Why? Because Sangoma has... Stop watching the news. Seriously. It's nothing but depressing stuff. It is no way to end the day (go to sleep) or no way to start the day. Read something for 15 minutes instead. Want some ideas? Seth's blog...

GAVE mine to a mate here in Sapporo...he uses it every day...still me thinks one of the best ergonomic designs ever.... I mean i have a PB 360 plus, Opus, and Sony 350...a good number of the 5 inch screens still on the market and I rank the V5 up there the best. You can sill buy it from Jinke in China..in fact, may buy one in the near future to help add to my 5 inch reader collection.... 5 inch .... cant beat the form factor...lightness and ease of one hand holding... the 350 is as good at the PP in landscape but the mix of V5 adaptability is hard to beat....Screen no worries. I Have a new pb 360 with Vizaplex reads fine..... not Pearl but good...in my opinion....... I still use mine. I don't use it everyday, primarily because of lack of (book) reading motivation--I spend way too much time reading the web. That said, I've sometimes looked at getting a second ebook reader, but nothing I find meets my qualifications and is still being made (among other requirements, no WiFi, no touch screen, and firmware upgradeable with any OS on your computer). I find 5" screen is good for text based books, and epubs/mobi's. PDF's only text based PDF's with reflow, which does not read as nice as pdf natively. I'm looking around this forum to read up on some user experiences, to see just how different this reader is from my jetbook (if it had a 5" screen of the Sony PRS-505 built in, instead of the B&W LCD the jetbook uses) I have both a Wrinkled Blue PEZ and a new Sony PRS-T1, and was looking at them side by side a while ago when a thought occurred to me. Yup, they are nearly the same size, and nearly the same weight - within 5 grams - both with and without their similar style covers. So the 6" screen wins for me, and that's the one I carry around. Of course, the PEZ handles more formats, so I use it or my BeBook for the mobi book I have. I just bought a EZReader Pocket Pro from geeks.com for $50, and I can't say I'm dissapointed! It's a wonderful buy! The Ez Reader is probably the lightest ebook reader device I've ever seen! It's much faster than most devices out there, light weight, etc. etc... It's currently my replacement device for my Jetbook! I use it at work, because it stacks so nicely next to my pc, without anyone noticing it. I can read from it while waiting for work. I've been using the daughters Sony PRS-600 the last couple of days after cleaning out the sticky substance that she managed to get in the SD and stylus slot just to make sure it's working well for her. All I can say is when I finish off this battery charge since and reload her library I can't wait to go back to my Pocket Pro. I'm really getting back into mine. I had the Nook STR, and it drove me insane. I _like_ being able to delete a book when I'm done with it, and no annoying ads. I also have a Kobo Vox, which is brilliant for reading comics...but the battery life just doesn't hold up for long book reading days. Also, I find that the Aztak is better at reading in low light. I can read my EZ Reader just fine by my small bedside lamp, when the Nook was hopeless. (I do wish it could read .cbr/.cbz comics though) unless you're using tiny, handsized comic books, most comic books don't even display well on a screen 4x the size! The 800x600 resolution is too small to read most comic books on. Regular comic books (A4 / lettersize) would barely be readable on a 1024x600 pix book reader, of at least 9 inch, or better. I'd recommend 1280x800 pixels on a 11inch tablet is a good and comfortable size to read comic books from. I'm using the Lbook firmware. I don't actually read American comics on it, I read manga, which get published in little collected volumes about the same size as the PP. I want to keep my eyes open for a Kobo Wifi, since it has the same screen and can read .cbr files. I've been using mine daily for about two years and am still pretty happy with it. After trying out my daughter's new Kindle though, I was amazed at the screen. I think my next e-reader may be the Kindle Paperwhite. My EZReader's still got plenty of life left in it though.

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Over the last 20 years, employment opportunities in the Milwaukee region have abandoned the city center and relocated to surrounding counties and suburbs. This trend has created problems of poverty, urban sprawl, housing inadequacies, and a strain on the transportation infrastructure. Nathaniel Gieryn, a student at the University of Wisconsin-Madison, discussed the problem and used a map to show job market trends in Milwaukee and surrounding counties. Nathaniel recommended concentrating sustainable development efforts on depleted areas of downtown Milwaukee to bring new jobs to the area and reverse recent employment trends. He also noted that environmentally damaged Brownfield sites are prime targets for development because of their central geographic location.

Cannabis Sativa Effects of legalized cannabis The use of Cannabis as a recreational drug has been outlawed in many countries for several decades. As a result of long-fought legalization efforts, several countries such as Uruguay and Canada, as well as several states in the US, have legalized the production, sale, possession, and recreational and/or medical usage of Cannabis. The broad legalization of Cannabis in this fashion can have numerous effects on the economy and society in which it is legalized[1]. Contents News report from Voice of America about businesses related to cannabis in the United States. Aired 23 September 2015 A 2017 study found that the introduction of medical marijuana laws caused a reduction in violent crime in Americans states that border Mexico: “The reduction in crime is strongest for countries close to the border (less than 350km), and for crimes that relate to drug trafficking. In addition, we find that MMLs in inland states lead to a reduction in crime in the nearest border state. Our results are consistent with the theory that decriminalization of the production and distribution of marijuana leads to a reduction in violent crime in markets that are traditionally controlled by Mexican drug trafficking organisations.”[2][3] News report by Voice of America about the business effect of cannabis in Colorado, with 700 million dollars in sales In Colorado, effects since 2014 include increased state revenues,[4] violent crime decreased,[5][6] an increase in homeless population,[7] one Colorado hospital has received a 15% increase in babies born with THC in their blood.[8] Since legalization, public health and law enforcement officials in Colorado have grappled with a number of issues, serving as a model for policy problems that come with legalization. Marijuana-related hospital visits have nearly doubled between 2011, prior to legalization, and 2014.[9] Top public health administrators in Colorado have cited the increased potency of today’s infused products, often referred to as “edibles”, as a cause for concern. They have also highlighted the risk that edibles pose to children, as they are often undistinguishable from ordinary foods once they are removed from their packaging.[10] Youth usage has also been a major aspect of the debate surrounding marijuana legalization and a concern for state officials. Overall youth usage rates have increased, although not enough to be deemed statistically significant.[11] Looking at students in the eighth, tenth, and twelfth grades, a survey study published in the Journal of the American Medical Association found that usage rates had not increased among any of the different age groups in Colorado, although statistically significant increases in usage rates amongst eighth and tenth graders were reported in Washington.[12] Oregon legalized Cannabis in November 2014. Effects have included an increase in cannabis-related calls to the Oregon state poison center,[13] an increase in perception among youth that Marijuana use is harmful,[13] a decrease in arrest rates for cannabis related offenses,[13] stores sold $250 million in cannabis products which resulted in $70 million in state tax revenue (higher than a predicted $36 million in revenue),[14] 10% decrease in violent crime, and 13% drop in murder rate.[14] Effects of Cannabis legalization in Uruguay since 2013 include other countries in the region loosening laws concerning cannabis and lower costs of illegal cannabis.[16] the percentage of female prisoners has fallen.[17]

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Illegal Jobs Given to Felons by D.A.? A program designed by San Francisco's district attorney trained illegal immigrant drug felons for jobs they cannot legally hold. The Los Angeles Times reports prosecutor Kamala Harris developed "Back on Track" to help young adults arrested once for selling drugs. The accused plead guilty, spend a year in the program instead of jail, and receive employment and life-skills training, counseling and English lessons. Criminal records are expunged upon completion. It is not known how many illegals have enrolled in the program since it began four years ago. But one woman who was allegedly mugged by an illegal immigrant drug dealer, who avoided jail time because of the D.A.'s program – says: "If they've committed crimes and they're not citizens, then why are they here? Why haven't they been deported?" Harris is now running for state attorney general. She blames the issue on a design flaw, adding, "the immigration issue... obviously is a huge kind of pimple on the face of this program." Breaking the Rules? We've told you before about Congressional Black Caucus members who may have violated ethics rules by attending a corporate-sponsored conference on the Caribbean island of Saint Martin. Now the CBC is lashing out at an office created by House Speaker Nancy Pelosi, because of its investigation into the trip. The Hill newspaper reports CBC members have formed a working group to look into the resolution that created the Office of Congressional Ethics. A CBC source says, "We may have to revisit that law." A CBC members complained the office does not have enough minorities and that staffers, "acted like they were the FBI." Members also say that in comparison to other current ethics investigations, the Caribbean trip is small fry. An aide to a CBC member says, "What's the charge, that they spent too much time by the pool? That's ridiculous." Par for the Course And finally, President Obama has played golf at least 11 times since taking office. But, in contrast to his predecessor, the outings have generated little criticism. In fact, on June 9, a headline in Washington Post wrote that golf is, "just the sport for a leader most driven," adding in the same article: "Obama's frequent outings reflect a cool self-confidence." A 2002 piece about President Bush called, "Before Golf, Bush Decries Latest Deaths in Mideast," the post wrote, "however incongruous the setting, the president plunged ahead," pointing out that President Bush continued playing after his delivering his statement to the press. The piece was published in the Post on August 5, 2002. President Bush was even slammed for giving up golf in 2003, as a show of respect to those in the Armed Services. The Post quoted a historian Robert Dallek saying: "That's his idea of sacrifice, to give up golf?" White House staff has not allowed reporters to get anywhere near the president on the links. But, photographers have been allowed to snap a few shots from afar.

You’re 20 in Rapid City. Why bother voting? So you’re 20 – you’ve been a legal adult for two years, and soon you’ll be able to drink your first beer (legally). Among the other items on your newly minted list of stuff you’re allowed to do, you can also vote. But who cares? After all, there’s no exciting presidential election dominating the airwaves and Facebook for another year. Answer: You should care! Voter turnout is always lowest in local elections, and that’s exactly why your vote counts EVEN MORE when it comes to voting locally. It may be tough to put a finger on how your vote personally can make a difference in giant elections — I understand that. 20 in Rapid City? Then vote! But in Rapid City elections — where margins of victory are often within a couple hundred votes — your vote really does matter, and it can change things. Your personal vote will never make as much of an individual difference as it does in Rapid City’s elections! Elections are important, and they have consequences. So please get involved –and vote!

Sources tell ABC7 Eyewitness News that Hinsdale Police are questioning a "person of interest" in relation to themurder of Andrea Urban earlier in May. Officials told ABC7 Eyewitness News, "Hinsdale police put out a critical reach bulletin to law enforcement only late Tuesday night which included a photo of a 'person of interest' that Hinsdale police wanted to talk to in regard to Andrea Urban's death." The bulletin described the person as a black male who was wearing black skinny jeans and a black hoodie, previously seen wearing a HI-VIZ safety vest. He may also have a Dodge Charger. Urban was found in her home in the 700-block of Town Place on May 4, beaten to death. Police said she was found by a family member. Paper lanterns in honor of Urban line the block where she once lived, and her neighbors wish her family peace after weeks of uncertainty. "The idea of closure on their part. I mean, it's never going to be ring Andrea back. Best you can hope for is to help them get the closure that they need," said Stewart Seman, neighbor. Hinsdale Police did not return ABC7's calls Thursday. Earlier this month, investigators said they were making progress. They had asked the public to look at their surveillance video from the day of the murder and report any suspicious persons. Police searched Friday for any sign of who may have murdered a mother of two in her home in southwest suburban Hinsdale. Neighbors said Urban was battling leukemia and was a strong proponent of medical cannabis, often speaking out publicly and crediting it with improving her quality of life. Urban was also an actress with parts on television shows and in commercials.Police said Urban had two children, both minors who lived with her and are now in the care of relatives. There is a $5,000 reward being offered for information that leads to the arrest and conviction of her murderer or murderers.

Investigators discovered that the couple had been having financial woes due to their out-of-control gambling habits. At the time of the slaying, their house was in foreclosure. Glenna Durham left three suicide notes to family members: "I'm sorry but I love you and so sorry I've been a disappointment to you these last 12 years or so. Please forgive me, you're one of the best things I ever did. Love, mom."

Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified Won't Have Zombies The PS Vita exclusive Call of Duty: Black Ops Declassified may be able to deliver a COD experience comparable to the consoles. However, it's going to fall short in one regard: it doesn't have any zombies. COD: Black Ops and its upcoming sequel both feature a zombie co-op mode. In this mode, a small team of players fends off waves of attacking undead. They can then use the money they earn to buy weapons and items to help them fend off the invaders. Co-op and zombies are both pretty much cat-nip in gaming these days so it's quite a popular mode. Activision's Dan Amrich confirmed that it won't be included in Declassified, though. He says that the team is focused on making sure that the normal competitive multiplayer is up to snuff. Declassified will feature 4-on-4 matches playable with multiple maps and modes. The game will have something similar to a zombie mode, though. Hostiles Mode will challenge players to kill waves of enemies. However, said enemies won't be zombies so many gamers might find Hostile Modes an unappealing substitute. It's too bad that the team at Nihilistic Software couldn't find the time to include zombies in Declassified. Perhaps they'll manage to fit it into a sequel. We'll see if there are enough PS Vita gamers willing to buy a zombie-less Declassified to justify a sequel, though.

New Fisheries Act Lays Basis For Sustainable Fisheries In Mozambique The Mozambican Parliament has by consensus approved a new Fisheries Act which will address rights-based management of fisheries, mainly for the direct benefit of local fishermen and pro-poor conservation. The approval of this Fisheries Act makes Mozambique the first country in the Western Indian Ocean region to officially adopt legislation that embraces rights-based management of fisheries. Rights-based management (RBM) is a fisheries management tool that creates rules which define both the right to use allocation of fisheries resources and the responsibility to manage them. Thus, fishermen, fishing vessels, fishing communities and so forth can be awarded a license, quota or fishing right to stocks. According to Mozambique’s Minister of Fisheries Mr. Victor Borges, the new fisheries act approved last week by parliament replaces the former one dated 1990. “The previous act was out-dated and, therefore, not able to combat various infractions committed in this sector. In this new act, rights will be given to nationals for a certain period, depending on the fishery resource in relation to which the rights are given,” said the Minister. More than 100,000 Mozambicans depend directly on fishing and more than 530,000 depend on it indirectly according to Mozambique’s Ministry of Fisheries. The new Fisheries Act is expected to give more rights to these fishermen along with addressing infractions in the fisheries sector that skew the playing field against local communities in Mozambique. Mozambique lost revenues of US$67 million in 2012 due to illegal fishing, basically of tuna and shrimp, by foreign and national fishing vessels within its jurisdictional waters, particularly the bays of Maputo and Sofala Bank, Mozambican newspaper Correio da Manhã reported. WWF Coastal East Africa Initiative Leader Peter Scheren congratulated the government of Mozambique for passing the act but noted that it is expected by many players in the sector that this new act will address loss of revenue with the aim of ensuring more socio-economic benefits to local communities whilst conserving precious and sometimes inadequate fisheries resources. “This is a huge step taken by Mozambique to promote sustainable fisheries management, not only in Mozambique but also in the Western Indian Ocean region. We believe that this new approach will effectively empower local communities to actively manage their artisanal fisheries, bringing more socio-economic benefits to them while conserving fisheries resources,” noted Mr. Scheren. Fisheries experts have warned that mismanagement of fisheries is costing African countries between 2 and 5 billion dollars every year. Illegal fishing alone accounts for the loss of fish valued at 1 billion dollars every year from the waters of Sub-Saharan Africa. The new Fisheries Act will aim at addressing such losses related to Mozambique. By John Kabubu Rights based management of fisheries is expected to help Mozambican fishermen hook more benefits from their fisheries

Twins wardrobe malfunction averted through quick change Darin Mastroianni had a little wardrobe malfunction in the outfield and needed a new belt, asap. By TYLER MASONFS North Sep 3, 2013 at 11:58p ET 0Shares Minnesota Twins left fielder Darin Mastroianni helped out his starting pitcher Tuesday by making a diving catch against Houston. Then a Twins reliever had to return the favor by giving Mastroianni a helping hand -- and a belt. Mastroianni dove to make a catch on a Jose Altuve fly ball to left field for the first out of the fourth inning. There was a problem, though: as Mastroianni dove and hit the ground, he broke his belt in the process. Instead of stopping the game to head to the dugout to grab another belt, Mastroianni improvised. He turned to the Twins' bullpen in the outfield and got an assist from relief pitcher Josh Roenicke. Minnesota's right-hander took off his belt and passed it through the chain link fence in the bullpen as Mastroianni passed his broken one to Roenicke. He then put on Roenicke's belt and returned to action. "I dove for the ball, and I've kind of got a used belt since I left mine in Minnesota," said Mastroianni, who had three hits and three RBI in Tuesday's 9-6 win. "It just snapped on me. I was right next to the bullpen, so I could just hand Roenicke my belt that was already snapped in half. He gave me his." Mastroianni missed most of the season with a stress reaction in his left ankle, which required surgery. Tuesday marked just his 13th game with the Twins this season after playing in 77 a year ago. For better or worse, his broken belt Tuesday was among the more memorable plays of his season -- and it happened to be captured for all to see at Minute Maid Park in Houston. "As I was doing it, I was like, 'I hope they don't put this on the jumbotron,'" Mastroianni said. "I peeked up and there it was." Chalk up the belt exchange as Roenicke's first save of the game. He later pitched a scoreless 12th inning to earn yet another save as he preserved Minnesota's victory over the Astros. While Roenicke saved Tuesday's game, his belt swap with Mastroianni may have been the more impressive save of the night.

Common mistakes people make when playing MMORPG games How to play MMORPG better? How to improve on every aspect of gameplay and avoid making mistakes? If these questions cross your mind for at least a few times, this guide will help out. Highlighted in the article will be tips, tricks and techniques along with advice to help both new players in the MMORPG genre and experienced gamers alike. Without further ado, let’s begin! There are plenty of guides and introductions to MMO’s online but that only tells you what to do, but it is also essential to know what should be avoided and which parts of the game deserve more attention, etc. Mistake no.1: Lack of patience MMORPG’s are all about patience. These games will test your abilities to endure and cope with monotony. However, the rewards for staying persistent are fantastic, and you gain them in-game along with knowledge (which is very valuable elsewhere). Games like WoW and Runescape have so much to do but to reach the max levels you have to prepare to click the mouse = thousands of times, spend hundreds of hours and put in work. Don’t look for excuses because nothing is separating you between successes in MMORPG or any area in life, for that matter, but your work ethic. Make sure to focus on it. Mistake no.2: Overlooking and ignoring other’s experience The internet has grown to become so influential over the years. Gaming has been at the core or close to the epicentre of this technological marvel so not exploiting and using the immense resources available for free is just ignorant. Guides, videos, tips and forums are full of experienced and successful players that can help you out or regularly put out content which you can use for personal advantages. It’s not about your PC specs or gear that you use to play; the essence lies in experience and knowledge so by absorbing as much of the latter as possible, you will know the builds, spells, weapons and things to do to reach prosperity. This channel on Youtube has an awesome playlist for beginners to learn the ins and outs of WoW for example. Mistake no.3: Shying away from real-life trading Game developers are not the biggest fans of this aspect but just because that in most MMORPG it gets them no profit. For players, this is a great niche to get what they want or even earn some extra bucks on the side. Let’s take Runescape for example. Most RWT with Runescape revolves around gold trade and, surprisingly there are a lot of people and even companies that sell RS3 gold and OSRS gold online. Probemas is an example of a trusty and reliable seller. It should also be mentioned that this area does have an unusual amount of scammers and liars so beware that the service you trust has a reputation. Getting back to buying RS gold, you just enter the amount and can instantly see what you’re getting. Deliveries from Probemas in Runescape and also from different services regarding other games happen within minutes, so you arrange and get what you need. How does that help? Well, grinding is cool and helps you grow, and all that but you need to know the benefits that some moves can bring to you. With buying some resources, you can save precious time and use the more enjoyable features of your game more often.

What does a Certified Internal Auditor Do? Multiple career doors are going to open up when you get your accounting degree, and it can be hard to decide which job to go into or which certification to work toward if you aren’t sure what each career path entails. If you’re analytical and investigative, and if you also like to socialize, becoming a Certified Internal Auditor (CIA) might be the perfect fit for you. To see if you’d be a good fit for life as a CIA, we’re going to answer the question, “What does a Certified Internal Auditor Do?” and explore what their day-to-day schedule looks like. What does a Certified Internal Auditor Do? The Basics: The primary role of an internal auditor is to ensure business risks are managed, but CIAs can also improve businesses by providing insights for superiors or clients. Most work internally in organizations, but some work externally for firms contracting out internal auditing. Primary Responsibilities Certified Internal Auditors evaluate control efficiency and effectiveness and assure management that the controls can respond to perceived risks. They also evaluate the risks facing the organization to ensure the controls can stand up to them. Through this evaluation, internal auditors can offer insight and advice to management and the board, ensure financial statement accuracy, improve the operations of the company, and promote ethics within the organization. If you’re looking for diversity in your day-to-day work, becoming an internal auditor would be perfect for you because each day is different. Between planning, overseeing and closing different projects, the variety is endless for a CIA. A Day in the Life of a Manager Managers work at a high level and across all facets of a project. A typical day begins with checking email and communicating with upper management, clients, and staff to gain information and resolve any issues. Truly though, each day is different, especially for a manager. In the project planning phase, a managing Certified Internal Auditor might be reaching out to clients to get information and working with staff to create budgets and schedules. During the overseeing phase, a managing CIA will check with staff to make sure the project is on schedule and on budget, and if it isn’t, she will dig into why. She’ll also be looking at any findings as they come about, and communicating them to management to consider next steps. During the closing stage, a managing CIA helps finalize audit reports and communicate them to management. A Day in the Life of a Staff Similar to a manager’s day, a staff day usually starts with checking email and gathering information on daily tasks before setting out to do fieldwork or work on reports. Although the day-to-day is generally less varied than a manager’s day, staff are also involved in the planning, execution and wrap-up of audit projects. However, staff are involved more in fieldwork, including control testing. The manager usually delegates tasks to staff and it’s a staff’s job to ensure she is getting projects done as scheduled and on budget. Essential Skills of a CIA Certified Internal Auditors need to be analytical problem solvers. They need to be able to dig into the details and fix weaknesses and inefficiencies. On the flip side, CIAs need to be effective communicators. As we mentioned before, internal auditors have to explain their findings to management, and they need to do it in a way that is understandable. They also need to suggest solutions that are both understandable and achievable. It’s therefore critical they can communicate well with a variety of populations. Become a Certified Internal Auditor while studying LESS Surgent CIA Review’s award-winning adaptive technology identifies your level of knowledge across all content areas and generates study material to target and improve weak areas. Sign up for a free trial to see it for yourself!

Being able to use the unique interactive nature of a game really helps to bolster Ether One’s powerful story. Ether One (PC) Review Until the very end, I never knew quite how I felt about Ether One. It confused and frustrated me, teasing me with information but never quite showing its entire hand. Once I reached the ending, however, everything suddenly came together, and I sat back with the distinct feeling that I had just played something compelling and fascinating in its ability to completely subvert my expectations. It’s a strange and mysterious even from the very beginning. I first stepped into the lobby of the Ether Institute, finding posters on the wall advertising help in regaining lost memories. As I walked, I reached a sign in desk and was instantly greeted by a pleasant woman’s voice over the loudspeaker instructing me to meet her in a test chamber across the building. As I walked, I found cryptic reports about the human mind, logs about experiments gone wrong, and a felt a slight sense of anxiety toward what I was about to do. I finally reached the chamber, learning of my true reason for being in this place. As it turns out, I was a Restorer, a person whose job was to enter into the fractured minds of people with Dementia and help them reclaim their lost memories. In this assignment, I would work with the intrepid researcher Dr. Phyllis Edmonds to help a woman named Jean Fletcher reunite with memories that had long gone dark in her mind. This was done by entering into key locations in the patient’s history and exploring, slowly uncovering the story by interacting with various objects, solving a handful of puzzles, and reading through the many letters, books, newspapers, and notes scattered throughout the vacant world. The more time that can be spent with Ether One, the better. It’s not an experience that is meant to be rushed; rather, the best way to play is by slowly taking everything in, picking up random objects and trying to figure out why they might be important and how they could be used within the world. Truly, it operates at a slower pacing that will not be favored by all, and the fact that it is so open and directionless makes for occasional frustrating moments when the player is unsure of their next objective. That aside, exploring and watching the story pull itself together merely from interacting with objects is a difficult task that Ether One successfully pulls off with bravado. Exploration and discovery, however, aren’t necessarily the sole reasons why this game succeeds on its front. Meant to be an experience that portrays the fragility of the human mind, Ether One has a rare narrative able to branch out and trap the player in an experience that can only be described as meta. Throughout the game, you’ll witness this woman’s mind unraveling into utter chaos, but there will be moments when you’ll begin to wonder for yourself what is real, what is fake, and what is happening in your own mind. It borrows the best elements of Christopher Nolan films in its ability to turn things upside down and leave you questioning your own sense of reality. Being able to use the unique interactive nature of a game really helps to bolster Ether One’s powerful story. Because you’re largely in the dark while discovering different plot elements, you’re not only helping someone with Dementia, you’re often living it, experiencing much of the same frustrations and mental noise from a first person perspective. This sort of interaction makes Ether One a unique lesson in empathy and a wonderful example of how powerful a game’s narrative can truly be. 8 Being able to use the unique interactive nature of a game really helps to bolster Ether One’s powerful story.

Trending Now You are here VC school lunch among top in nation Valley City's school lunch program has been recognized by the United States Department of Agriculture as one of the healthiest, nutrition-minded programs in the country. Meanwhile, the US House of Representatives passed a bill Thursday that will continue to allow federally funded school lunch programs to consider pizza a vegetable. The Valley City School District again received an award from the USDA HealthierUS School Challenge this month. Valley City leads the state with six awards since the program began in 2006. The remaining 21 awards were won by nine other districts in the state. Nationally, about 1,500 schools out of 101,000 in the nation have won the award. For schools to be eligible for the HealthierUS award, they must participate in the National School Lunch Program, offer reimbursable lunches that meet USDA standards, support wellness policy efforts of its school district, and most importantly, meet nutrition standards for meals and offer nutrition and physical education. The food services director must also complete a 94-page application booklet and provide documentation of recipes and food labels. Food services director Sue Milender, who recently returned from Mississippi where she was one of five directors participating in a USDA experts panel, said the award shows that Valley City schools' lunch program is well on its way to adopting new guidelines that the USDA will implement for the 2012-2013 school year. "Things are changing daily," she said. "Until we find out what's exactly in the regulations it's hard to tell; there's a lot of lobbying going on right now. It's going to be interesting to see what the regulations will be." The American Frozen Food Institute and other organizations had lobbied congress on behalf of companies that produce frozen pizzas and french fries to try to limit the new USDA proposed limits on foods that are part of the federally-funded school lunches. The USDA had hoped to reduce the frequency of fries being served would have required a slice of pizza to have at least half a cup of tomato paste. Current regulations require slices to only have two tablespoons of tomato paste, which schools are allowed to classify as a vegetable to satisfy dietary guidelines. On the other side of the congressional lobby, several organizations were trying to persuade congress to not allow the lines of food classification to be blurred. Sharon Buhr, a member of some of those organizations as well as the Valley City School Board and director of Young People's Healthy Heart at Mercy Hospital, said the efforts to classify pizza as a vegetable is "kind of weak." "I do not feel that a slice of pizza would be an entire serving of vegetables, even though it has either pizza sauce or tomato paste on it," Buhr said, adding that in a scientific sense tomatoes are considered a fruit. Buhr said that serving french fries in schools as a vegetable was also a misguided attempt to sneak certain foods under the radar. Starchy vegetables such as white potatoes where also on the USDA's watch list. Milender said the Valley City cafeterias offer potatoes three to four times a month either baked, mashed, scalloped or baked oven fries, and there are no deep fryers in any of the Valley City schools. "Sue does in incredible job; she's just fantastic over at the school," Burh said. "She will only put in french fries when the whole meal meets the nutritional guidelines and this is not true of all schools." Milender and Valley City schools were also among seven directors and schools featured in the USDA's new book, Making it Happen: School Nutrition Success Stories. As First Lady Michelle Obama champions the fight against childhood obesity, Milender was among a select group of school food service directors invited to a reception at the White House, which she declined to attend.

Sor Singyu upsets Banal for WBO bantamweight title Ryan Songalia October 20, 2012 Pungluang Sor Singyu pulled off the biggest win of his career, stopping the favored AJ Banal in nine rounds to claim the vacant WBO bantamweight title Saturday night at the SM Mall of Asia Arena in Pasay City, Philippines. The time of the stoppage was 1:45, as American referee Tony Weeks waved off the bout after Banal arose from a knockdown on unsteady feet. Two of the judges had Sor Singyu ahead 76-75 while a third had Banal ahead 77-74. The plodding Sor Singyu (43-1, 28 knockouts), of Bangkok, had to overcome the faster, more polished boxer in Banal (28-2-1, 20 KOs) of Cebu City, Philippines. An accidental clash of heads caused a cut on Banal’s right eyelid. Banal was also deducted a point in the sixth for low blows. Sor Singyu has now won 20 straight since his lone loss three years ago, a split decision in Beligum to Stephane Jamoye. Banal must now restart the rebuilding process which began four years ago when, under similar circumstances, he was stopped in 10 by Rafael Concepcion for a vacant interim title. In the co-featured bout, Filipino crowd favorite Rey “Boom Boom” Bautista (34-2, 25 KOs), of Bohol, won a split-decision over Daniel Ruiz (27-6-1, 19 KOs) of Los Mochis, Mexico, in a featherweight bout. One judge scored the bout 115-113 for Ruiz, but was overruled by the other two, who had it 116-112 and 115-113 for Bautista. Ruiz came in three pounds over the limit at 129 and was fined 10% of his purse and forced to wear 10-ounce gloves. The fights will be aired Sunday morning in the Philippines starting at 10:15 a.m. on ABS-CBN ch. 2, with a replay at 7:30 p.m. on Studio 23. Photo / Jay Directo-AFP/Gettyimages Ryan Songalia is a member of the Boxing Writers Association of America (BWAA) and contributes to GMA News. He is also a member of The Ring ratings panel and can be reached at ryan@ryansongalia.com. An archive of his work can be found at www.ryansongalia.com. Follow him on Twitter: @RyanSongalia.

Leadbetter held a telephone hearing with both sides yesterday regarding her Aug. 27 ruling, and both council and Lynch wish to raise issues for Leadbetter to reconsider. Council and Lynch indicated they would prefer "to forge a cooperative approach for addressing the challenging financial issues facing the city of Harrisburg," according to Leadbetter's order. Shortly after yesterday's telephone hearing, Leadbetter granted the application for reconsideration of her order requiring council to increase the income tax for city residents form 1 percent to 2 percent as called for in the state-sponsored fiscal recovery plan for Harrisburg. "Certainly if there is a chance to create a more cooperative environment and resolve matters without litigation that will be beneficial to us all," said Cory Angell, Lynch's spokesman. Council President Wanda Williams said council wants to work cooperatively with Lynch, too. "I think it’s in the best interest of the citizens that we try to work together," Williams said. Leadbetter said briefs supporting the reconsideration request must be submitted by Sept. 19 and briefs opposing the reconsideration of the tax increase decision must be filed by Sept. 26. Should Leadbetter decide to hear oral arguments on the matter, a hearing would take place on Oct. 4. Leadbetter also will reconsider her Aug. 7 ruling regarding council's limitation to legal representation in dealing with mandates from the state and other matters pertaining to Harrisburg's fiscal recovery process. Related Stories Featured Story Get 'Today's Front Page' in your inbox This newsletter is sent every morning at 6 a.m. and includes the morning's top stories, a full list of obituaries, links to comics and puzzles and the most recent news, sports and entertainment headlines. optionalCheck here if you do not want to receive additional email offers and information.See our privacy policy Thank you for signing up for 'Today's Front Page' To view and subscribe to any of our other newsletters, please click here.

yes, I like this feature too. Before you could use your flaps and gear to decrease your speed in a fraction of a second, now if you are going too fast and apply landing flaps you will jammed them, just like in il2 1946 I seem to be able to set my flaps to take off more often now. I wonder if the same happens if you are going too fast when lowering the gear, has anyone tried this to see if you get "Gear Damaged"?

A follow up to my Ezio tribute video, as quite a few people requested one for Altair. Again, its a short video, using his words to his son Darim during the 1257 Mongol attack on Masyaf. If you enjoyed this, please consider giving the video a Like. I hope to improve for a Connor tribute i have in mind for the future. Thanks.

The Trofeo Laigueglia is a single day race held in Liguria, Italy. Many of the most famous Italian racers of recent decade have won here, including Ballan, Pozzato, Di Luca, and Bartoli. American Ron Kiefel won in 1985 and Lance Armstrong won in 1993.

K-Pop Korner: Hot Issue November 11, 2009 It’s easy to mock K-Pop, effortless. One can do it with one’s eyes closed, hands tied behind one’s back or in the manner of K-Pop being like fish collected in a barrel and one being handed a gun with which to shoot them. Easy shit, son, and therefore poor sport. A real challenge would be being enough of a man to admit to everyone that you occasionally like one or two K-Pop offerings here and there. It would take epic heroism and an abundance of sack, iron cojones no less, to discuss a K-Pop song that actually got your toe tapping with approval. And with that……. 4 Minute 4 Minute have only been around since June this year when their debut single, “Hot Issue”, was released. I erroneously believed that this song had something to do with a Korean performer named Hari-su whose name was chosen to deliberately sound like the English phrase “hot issue”. Hari-su is actually Korea’s first celebrity transsexual but I’ll probably reserve any further discussion of her for a future blog entry. She has no connection to the girl group 4 Minute. 4 Minute are a fairly typical manufactured pop act coming out of the K-Pop stable of JYP Entertainment. That said, “Hot Issue” conveys a bit more attitude and sass than the usual Korean pop tune with the girls declaring unapologetically in the chorus to the song that “from my head to my toe I’m a hot issue”. I found it fairly enjoyable; perhaps because the first few times I heard it I was on a treadmill in a state of semi-exhaustion, I couldn’t say for sure. The video for the debut single is below.

Why men should learn to dance, why women love a man who can dance and the best damn offer for men's dance classes around Hello,​My name is Clint Steele and I am the owner of Destine Dance. I have been dancing for some time now, and I know what dance can offer a man like you. The reason I know, is that I am a man like you. I will tell you more, but if you already know that you want to learn to dance, then check out the incredibly good offer I have for you below. If you are still reading, then you need some more convincing about the benefits of dance before taking up my offer above. And that's fine. Before I started dancing I would not have understood it's amazing benefits either. I too would have needed a lot of convincing before trying dance for 4 weeks - even it it only cost $49. So let's talk more about dance. Like you, I did not learn dance early in life. I came across dance later, when I realised I needed a hobby. Luckily, I tried dance first - it was an accident really, but a very lucky one. Because of my experience with dance, and how it helped me with things like meeting women, having a challenge, being social and simply having an enjoyable life, I want to help you enjoy the same benefits. ​This article is going to be kept short and get straight to the point – I am confident that dance is what you need, and I want to get you dancing. To make it even shorter, I am first going to tell you the main reasons why you should learn to dance: It rounds you out and makes you a complete man Women like a man who can dance – largely because of point 1 It’s incredibly good for your health It’s very social, especially the type I do, so it helps you meet women and take full advantage of point 2 You can learn it at your own pace so you never feel that you are on the backfoot and it is the ideal challenge However, there's one minor diversion I want to take before I talk more about why you should dance. Below is a slide show of photos I have taken at various dance events I have been to - some at my studio. I want you to take a moment to look at them and think about what it would be like to be like the men in these photos. To be able to attend such events and dance with any woman you meet there. That will help you understand what it is that I am talking about later on. These are real photos of real men like you getting real benefit from dance. As you look through these photos, notice the diversity of men. Their age, their ethnicity, their dress. No matter these differences, as long as they know how to dance, they are all engaging in dance with all sorts of women. They have learned to dance and they now benefit from that. You can do the same. Now let's talk about these benefits. Being a complete man ​Consider two characters from (relatively) modern popular culture: James Bond and Rhett Butler (the guy from gone with the wind – I assume you know who James Bond is, but maybe not Rhett). Ask yourself this question: would you expect these men to know how to dance? The answer should be “Yes”. Why is that? It is because we expect these men to be competent in pretty much all that makes a man a man. It could be knowing how to get out of a tricky spot, how to fight, how to show a lady a good time and also how to dance. When you know how to dance, you have acquired a skill that we associate with men in the modern sophisticated world. That then leads to confidence (augmented by the sense of achievement I will talk about later), which helps round you out even more. Note how in the above 2 videos the men seem so much more capable and manly because they know how to dance. At Destine Dance we want to help you have that same quality. Women like (actually they love) a man who can dance Why do women like a man who can dance? There are a few reasons. One is what I mentioned above. It rounds you out as a man. You have that quality of a more worldly man who is more sophisticated than the rest.However, it goes further.Women also like a man who has committed to learning something. You have probably gained a qualification for work. However, women do not get to see you at work that often so they do not typically get the chance to see how capable a man you really are. When you can dance with a woman, she gets to experience intimately how you have worked on something and become good at it.In addition, it is an easy way to show musical intuition without the need to learn an instrument. Women do like a musician. We do not know why, but you have probably already noticed that women move more to music when they hear it than do men. They simply appreciate music more it seems. When you can show this connection with the music, you become more interesting and attractive. Do not worry it you feel you have no musical ability; at Destine Dance we can help with this.Finally, it lets you take a woman on an adventure. Dance allows men and women to immerse themselves in traditional gender roles in a modern society. As the man you take the lead and guide her across the dance floor. She on the other hand gets to put her trust in you as she focuses on the sensation of the movement, the music and scene of the dance floor. You very quickly take her on an adventure where you take care of her. Women usually only get to experience that in romance novels and in the movies. Imagine being able to do that for a woman and what that would mean for you. This movie is based on a true story - the woman in this scene might be taking some creative license, but it shows how women feel after dancing. When you learn to dance, you can offer any woman the same experience. Positive masculinityThere has been much attention in the media recently given to issues of domestic violence (usually perpetrated by men against women) and sexual assault often perpetrated by men. There is dearth of positive examples of men being men and being masculine. Dance is such an example though. As a man, when dancing, you do take the lead, you take care of your partner, you help her to look good and feel good. You have power and you use it in a positive manner that makes you feel good as a man. And as I said before, women like it. If you enjoy being a man and masculine and you want to do it in a positive manner, then dance is ideal for you. In the Latin culture, often considered a very macho culture (the word "macho" is Spanish), an ability to dance is indeed considered a trait of the suave and masculine man. This is one of the reasons why the Latin styles of dance (tango, salsa, samba, rumba and such) make up such a large portion of the dance styles danced today.​How dancing enhances your masculinityTake a read of the article below. It is by a woman who has danced with hundreds of men and worked out how dance can make you more masculine. She focuses tango, but the same is true of all dance. This key to enhancing your masculinity is what we will teach you when you learn to dance with us at Destine Dance. Health benefits ​It’s obvious that dance involves movement and movement helps keep you healthy. The good thing about dance is that it also focuses on posture and smooth movement. I know people who have actually grown (confirmed by medical check-ups) because they are now more upright. This improved posture puts less strain on your body, and you can enjoy greater health.But the benefits are not only physical. Dance requires you to hear the music, feel your partner, navigate the dance floor and choose the figures to be danced. This activates many parts of your brain at the same time. This mental exercise has been shown to be THE BEST ways to keep a healthy brain and fight dementia.Dance also simply makes you a happier person. I know from personal experience how going out dancing can simply leave you feeling better. The social engagement along with the mental and physical activity get all of your mind, body and soul working. With this trilogy activated, you can’t help but feel better. So dance is ideal for mental health as well. Note this guy's age, how he moves and his happy demeanour. I don't really need to say too much more about the health benefits of dance. Social avenue ​By its nature dance is social. You need a partner to dance with so dance compels you to interact with others. Also, others are expecting this interaction so there is a natural social process you can follow. Asking a woman you have not met to dance is far easier than asking her just about anything else. The only time I have ever been told "no" was when she did not know how to dance or was injured. The typical response to asking a woman to dance is a smile and a “yes”. I have met many women through dance and formed relationships as well. It is of course not guaranteed, but your ability to meet women is significantly improved when you dance.Of course, it is not just women. Many of the men who dance are, like you I assume, men who are out to live their lives and make the most of them. These are ideal men to befriend. I have made numerous friends and professional contacts through dance. You have both learned dance so you automatically have something to start talking about – the rest simply follows.It is also an excellent social tool for when you are travelling. No matter where you go in this world, you will just about always find a place of dance. In one night you can meet a handful of people and make new friends. I now have facebook friends from all over the world thanks to dance. The first thing I do when I go anywhere now is look up the local dance scene because I know it will connect me with the locals and get me some new friends. Even though they are slightly different styles, when we tech you to dance you will have the foundations to pick up any nuances no matter where in the world you are dancing The ideal challenge ​If you’re like most men, then you do like working on becoming better at something and you enjoy a sense of accomplishment. However, you are probably also weary of looking a fool – I know I am. The good thing about dance is that it has been codified. It can be learned in sages with each being a challenge that you know you can master and the first stages designed to make you able to dance quickly.That means that you can start experiencing the benefits early and still enjoy the sense of achievement that comes from continually improving at something that you work on. This video shows how quickly any man (which includes you) can pick up the basics of dance and start dancing ​Learning dance There are many dance schools out there where you can learn to dance. However, I like to think that at Destine Dance, we are just that bit better at helping you be the dancer you want to be. We also want to help you enter the world of dance so that you gain ALL the benefits that can come from dance – not just teach dance.If you want to try dance out, and I hope now you do, then book in for a free trial lesson at the top of the page or even sign up for the next dance course we have coming up – see them all here - where you can learn to dance in 6 weeks. If you still feel you want to find out more about dance before taking the leap, then you can always contact us to talk about it some more. Or fill out the contact form below for your free lesson.When you do, I will arrange a female dance instructor to contact you and organise the free trial lesson. In his trial lesson she will take on the role as your dance partner/teacher. She will also show you just how quickly you can become a dancer, and enjoy the benefits above.

Futurophobia Futurophobia is fear of the future causing anxiety and nervousness. It has reached a mass level, and become a sign of the times and therefore a global problem. People have always been afraid of changes and reluctantly, even under coercion, agreed to be led by others. For the majority, the so-called stability, unwillingness to be exposed to and actively participate in serious changes, is more important. It has largely to do with the unwillingness to accept responsibility for consequences, and the fear of the unknown. Today, futurophobia is caused by global problems and the situation of global uncertainty. It is aggravated by: the decline of traditional ways of life in many countries; cultural, civilization and value conflicts; new historical challenges; and existential trials of man. People have reached the line beyond which there is either destruction or serious changes in human life. People are afraid of both of these things. In the individual aspect, futurophobia is the fear and non-acceptance of problems, difficulties, prospects of change, conscious or subconscious avoidance of participating in them and active or passive resistance to innovations and progress. Futurophobia is sometimes treated as human non-acceptance of a qualitatively new future, which diverges from the present a person is used to, and decision-making difficulties. In terms of large groups of people, futurophobia is collective infantilism and conformism. Largely it is the result of skillful manipulation of large masses of people by individuals and groups interested in keeping the status quo. In the collective subconscious futurophobia manifests itself through imitation of participation, instead of real and interested participation, as well as social and cultural (countercultural) escapism.

Instagram 09/01/2014 2 years ago my son Kaoriki was born,it was the best day of my life.but now i realise that everyday is à blessing since he has been around.time is flying,so every second count…happy 2nd birthday my son!!! #love #bless

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Kandireega releasing on July 29th! Young and energetic hero Ram’s forthcoming film Kandireega shooting has been completed and it is all set to release on July 29th.The movie audio will be released in the first week of July. Earlier it was slated to release on July 22nd, now it has been postponed to July 29th. Hansika is pairing up with Ram in this flick, earlier they together worked for Maska. Actress Aksha (Yuvatha and Ride fame heroine) and Colors Swathi are playing vital roles in the film. The movie directed by newcomer Santosh Srinivas and produced by Bellamkonda Suresh under the Sri Sai Ganesh Productions banner. SS Thaman has scored the music for this flick. Yesterday Ram and Tamannah’s new film "Endukante Premanta" was launched at Ramanaidu Studios in Hyderabad. Ram is desperately waiting for the hit movie, After Ready film all his films were failed at box office. Producer is also planning to promote the movie in a big manner to make it hit.

https://www.profitconfidential.com/china/chinese-economy/chinas-manufacturing-slowdown-means-for-the-world-economy/ What China’s Manufacturing Slowdown Means for the World Economy Jing Pan, B.Sc, MA Profit Confidential 2015-05-05T12:00:31Z 2017-07-21 06:47:16 The contracting manufacturing sector in China not only impacts the country, but the global economy as well. Chinese Economy https://www.profitconfidential.com/wp-content/uploads/2015/05/China-manufacturing-slowdown.jpg On Monday, May 4, 2015, HSBC released its China Manufacturing PMI for the month of April. The index is down to 48.9—the lowest in the previous 12 months. Moreover, the drop is also the sharpest it’s been in a year. (Source: HSBC/Markit, May 4, 2015.)Purchasing Managers’ Index, or PMI, is an indicator of the economic health of the manufacturing sector. It is based on five individual indicators: new orders, output, supplier delivery times, inventory, and employment. A PMI of above 50 indicates an expansion of the manufacturing sector, whereas below 50 signifies a contraction. Weak Domestic Demand, Struggling Manufacturing Sector Looking at the data, April’s PMI of 48.9 and March’s 49.6 suggest that Chinese manufacturing has been contracting for two consecutive months. The report by HSBC shows a decline in new orders at Chinese manufacturers, caused by weaker domestic demand.Purchasing activity also shows signs of weakness by declining for the first time since January of this year. The decline was also the sharpest over the last 12 months. This is also due to the drop in new orders. As a result, inventory levels plunged as well.The Chinese manufacturing sector is facing deflationary pressures; the average input cost faced by producers in China has been falling for nine consecutive months. On the output side, manufacturers responded with lower selling prices.Employment is suffering as well; manufacturing employment has been contracting for 18 months.Manufacturing is not the only sector that is struggling in the Chinese economy. The property market is cooling down, domestic demand is weak, investment is slowing down, and debt is high. All of these factors depict a contracting economy. Alert World Economy: China is Slowing Down China is not an island isolated from the global economy. It is the second largest economy in the world according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). It is also the U.S.’s largest trading partner. An economic slowdown will send waves of uncertainty around the globe. (Source: IMF, last accessed May 4, 2015.)China does a significant amount of manufacturing for foreign companies, including ones from the U.S. The slowing down of its manufacturing sector shouldn’t worry just Chinese companies, but also businesses around the world.Moreover, many U.S. companies are targeting the growing middle class in China. These companies include McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE/MCD), Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ/SBUX), The Gap, Inc. (NYSE/GPS), and Ford Motor Co. (NYSE/F). Their success in China depends on whether the growing middle class has enough disposable income.With no good social welfare program in sight, the majority of Chinese workers are still saving for their retirement, with the average household saving 30% of its disposable income. This puts significant constraints on domestic demand. Weak demand slows down the country’s manufacturing sector, and the growth prospects of foreign businesses in China remain gloomy. (Source: Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, last accessed May 4, 2015.) What China’s Manufacturing Slowdown Means for the World Economy By Jing Pan, B.Sc, MA Published : May 5, 2015 On Monday, May 4, 2015, HSBC released its China Manufacturing PMI for the month of April. The index is down to 48.9—the lowest in the previous 12 months. Moreover, the drop is also the sharpest it’s been in a year. (Source: HSBC/Markit, May 4, 2015.) Purchasing Managers’ Index, or PMI, is an indicator of the economic health of the manufacturing sector. It is based on five individual indicators: new orders, output, supplier delivery times, inventory, and employment. A PMI of above 50 indicates an expansion of the manufacturing sector, whereas below 50 signifies a contraction. Weak Domestic Demand, Struggling Manufacturing Sector Looking at the data, April’s PMI of 48.9 and March’s 49.6 suggest that Chinese manufacturing has been contracting for two consecutive months. The report by HSBC shows a decline in new orders at Chinese manufacturers, caused by weaker domestic demand. Purchasing activity also shows signs of weakness by declining for the first time since January of this year. The decline was also the sharpest over the last 12 months. This is also due to the drop in new orders. As a result, inventory levels plunged as well. The Chinese manufacturing sector is facing deflationary pressures; the average input cost faced by producers in China has been falling for nine consecutive months. On the output side, manufacturers responded with lower selling prices. Employment is suffering as well; manufacturing employment has been contracting for 18 months. Manufacturing is not the only sector that is struggling in the Chinese economy. The property market is cooling down, domestic demand is weak, investment is slowing down, and debt is high. All of these factors depict a contracting economy. Alert World Economy: China is Slowing Down China is not an island isolated from the global economy. It is the second largest economy in the world according to the International Monetary Fund (IMF). It is also the U.S.’s largest trading partner. An economic slowdown will send waves of uncertainty around the globe. (Source: IMF, last accessed May 4, 2015.) China does a significant amount of manufacturing for foreign companies, including ones from the U.S. The slowing down of its manufacturing sector shouldn’t worry just Chinese companies, but also businesses around the world. Moreover, many U.S. companies are targeting the growing middle class in China. These companies include McDonald’s Corp. (NYSE/MCD), Starbucks Corporation (NASDAQ/SBUX), The Gap, Inc. (NYSE/GPS), and Ford Motor Co. (NYSE/F). Their success in China depends on whether the growing middle class has enough disposable income. With no good social welfare program in sight, the majority of Chinese workers are still saving for their retirement, with the average household saving 30% of its disposable income. This puts significant constraints on domestic demand. Weak demand slows down the country’s manufacturing sector, and the growth prospects of foreign businesses in China remain gloomy. (Source: Federal Reserve Bank of San Francisco, last accessed May 4, 2015.) Dear Reader: There is no magic formula to getting rich. Success in investment vehicles with the best prospects for price appreciation can only be achieved through proper and rigorous research and analysis. We are 100% independent in that we are not affiliated with any bank or brokerage house. Information contained herein, while believed to be correct, is not guaranteed as accurate. Warning: Investing often involves high risks and you can lose a lot of money. Please do not invest with money you cannot afford to lose. 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Politics on women's side throw gymnastics trials for ugly tumble One ended with a parade as charade, the other finished with six men smiling and one man weeping, saying, "I just made my life today." The 1992 U.S. Olympic Gymnastics Trials, which ended Saturday night at the Baltimore Arena, were the tumbling equivalent of the NHL's regular season. Was this really necessary? A world champion won on the floor yet lost on points. A women's team was named. Sort of. Adults shouted. Kids cried. "You have to take the politics out of it," said Stanford men's coach Sadao Hamada. "That's the fairest way. The cleanest way." 4 Unfortunately, that's not the way of gymnastics. Saturday should have been the sport's brightest time in America, a day-night doubleheader featuring ponytailed girls and clean-cut guys trying to flip their way to the Summer Olympics in Barcelona, Spain. Instead, the circus came to town. There was this lovely battle of pixies, Kim Zmeskal against Shannon Miller, a 16-year-old world champion against a 15-year-old with skin like porcelain and a will like steel. They circled the Baltimore Arena floor, putting on these exquisite performances in the optional finals and putting up these wondrous numbers on the scoreboard. Zmeskal won the battle of Baltimore by 1/1000th of a point, but Miller won the overall trials through a scoring system so complicated, it took computers minutes to spew out the results. The explanation: a loophole in the scoring system. Zmeskal eventually was penalized for winning the U.S. championships (30 percent) and trials (70 percent), the two events that make up the Olympic selection. Miller, recuperating from an elbow injury, skipped half the U.S. championships, where the marks were lower, and received 100 percent of her score in Baltimore. Steve Nunno, Miller's coach, said Karolyi should have "raised a glass" to his gymnast. The kids just watched. "This didn't mean much," Miller said. "I just wanted to get to Barcelona," Zmeskal said. Not so fast. This maze-like selection procedure isn't quite finished. The six women -- including Silver Spring's Dominique Dawes -- introduced as "Your Olympic team" Saturday must still endure a final training camp next month in Tampa, Fla., where they will be joined by injured performers Betty Okino and Michelle Campi. Even after the trials, the U.S. women have neither a set roster nor a head coach. Karolyi angrily said he wouldn't be the head coach. Mike Jacki, executive director of the U.S. Gymnastics Federation, said that was strange, considering the job hasn't even been offered yet. Saturday night, the men showed how terrific the sport can be, when it's nothing more than a pure competition between daredevils. There were UCLA teammates Scott Keswick and Chris Waller battling for the lead and hugging at the end. And John Roethlisberger, laughing hysterically, saying, "I'm so scared that so scared." And Jair Lynch, a high flier raised in Wash ington, only the second black man to reach the American Olympic gymnastics team, saying he was "honored" to be a role model to minority kids who dream of becoming stars in a sport where to soar is to win. And finally, there was Lance Ringnald, celebrating a 22nd birthday Saturday night, a 1988 Olympian coming back from injury, weeping with joy because he was named the alternate.

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| 18 | Lucid | Wandering | 69: Nutella Episode So I’m at a friend’s house today to study to hang out and we had made plans prior to clean out her 5 kg Nutella jar (it was long overdue). It was disgusting. There are photos, I suppose, but would it really be worth posting? It was watery, goopy and inedible. It was worth cleaning because the jar can contain anything she wants now (except the Nutella). While I was cleaning the lid, I didn’t notice that there was a spider on the other side. It had a large abdomen and it was blackish-orange. I let out a terrified yell and tossed the lid, sought refuge away from the source of my fear. We managed to retrieve the lid and clean it again, but I was still terrified. I have rather severe arachnophobia, but not to the point of vomiting or anything like that. Spiders just terrify me. That day was unusually fun, but still weird. It was still disgusting. That’s why you get Nutella in those tiny jars.

City on Luiz Roza: Brazil international, Fernando Luiz Rosa arrived into Manchester with extensive experience of the Champions League, having appeared for Shakhtar Donetsk in the tournament for the past eight seasons. A box-to-box midfielder blessed with an explosive turn of pace, marathon lung power and the ability to break up opposition moves, Fernandinho’s stock has been steadily rising during his eight years with the eight-time Ukrainian champions. Although he would be primarily described as a defensive midfielder, the 5ft 9 twinkle-toed midfield also possesses a rocket of a shot which has helped him towards his 68 career goals. Fernandinho came up through the youth ranks at Atletico Paranaense in his Brazilian homeland, making his debut in 2002 as a 17-year old alongside future Shakhtar teammate Jadson. In 2003, he went on to feature in Brazil’s FIFA World Youth Championship title-winning side in UAE, scoring the winning goal in the final against a Spain side which included Andres Iniesta. This star turn and his performances for Paranaense alerted Shakhtar who recruited the 20-year old to join a growing stable of Brazilians at the club, including former Blue, Elano Blumer, as well as Jadson who joined in the same year. His break-out season was the 2007/08 campaign where he announced himself to the European stage with a series of fine performances in Shakhtar’s run to the Ukrainian Cup, scoring 11 goals and winning the Ukrainian league’s Golden Football award for best player. It was about to get even better for the Londrina-born midfielder in the next campaign when he was an integral member of the team to clinch the UEFA Cup, scoring four goals in nine appearances, including the winner against Spurs in the Round of 16. Fernandinho played all 120 minutes in the final against Werder Bremen with his close friend Jadson netting the winner after 97 minutes. Lining up alongside ex-City playmaker Robinho as well as Barcelona duo Neymar and Daniel Alves, Fernandinho played 70 minutes and has since gone on to make four more international appearances. Yet to be called up by current Brazil boss Luiz Felipe Scolari, his last call-up was in the 2-1 win over Edin Dzeko’s Bosnia in February 2012. Fernandinho’s Shakhtar have won the Ukrainian league title for the last four seasons and the Brazilian began the 2012/13 campaign by assisting compatriot Douglas Costa for the second goal in a 2-0 Super Cup victory over neighbours Metalurh Donetsk. One of his highlights of his last season at Shakhtar came on 23 October 2012 when “Little Fernando” scored the winner in a 2-1 Champions League group stage win over Chelsea – one of five goals he netted in his last campaign. The 28-year old arrived with an impressive collection of medals, which so far includes six Ukrainian titles (2006, 2007, 2008, 2010, 2011, 2012, 2013), four Ukrainian Cups (2008, 2011, 2012, 2013), three Ukrainian Super Cups (2008, 2010, 2012) and that one UEFA Cup (2009). He added the Premier League title in 2013/14 and also a Capital One Cup winner as City beat Sunderland 3-1 at Wembley to begin his City career in style.

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True Economics is about original economic ideas and analysis concerning everyday events, news, policy views and their impact on the markets and you. Enjoy and engage! Wednesday, December 31, 2014 31/12/2014: Falling Again: Russian PMIs for December HSBC and Markit released Russian PMIs for December, showing deteriorating conditions in Russian economy, as expected, given the severe Ruble crisis that hit mid-December. Manufacturing activity posted a reading of 48.9 which is down from 51.7 in November, signalling a switch from a rather average growth to a contraction. December reading was close to being statistically significant for a sharp decline. Q4 2014 average Manufacturing PMI was at 50.3 which is better than Q4 2013 reading of 50.0 and worse than Q4 2012 reading of 51.7. But December figure breaks three consecutive months of above 50.0 readings and Q4 2014 reading is now below Q3 2014 average of 50.8. Services PMI continued sub-50 print for the third consecutive month, coming in at 45.8 in December. Q4 2014 showed sharp deterioration in Services compared to Q3 2014 (50.2), as well as compared to Q4 2013 (53.0) and Q4 2012 (56.8). Composite PMI fell to 47.2 in December from already weak 47.6 in November, marking third consecutive month of sub-50 readings. Q4 2014 average is at 48.0, far worse than Q3 2014 average of 51.1 and well below Q4 2013 average (51.1) and Q4 2012 average (52.7). Overall, as chart above clearly shows, the downward trend in Russian economic activity across all sectors, the trend that set in around November 2012 and started flashing signals of recessionary dynamics around Q4 2013, remains in place. Disclaimer This blog represents my personal views and is not reflective of the views or opinions held by any company, contractor, client or employer I work for currently or have worked for in the past. These views are not an endorsement to take any action in the markets or of any political position, figures or parties. “It is not true that people stop pursuing dreams because they grow old, they grow old because they stop pursuing dreams.” Gabriel Garcí­a Márquez Nassim Nicholas Taleb was asked whether public protests in Athens is a Black Swan Event. He replied: “No. The real Black Swan Event is that people are not rioting against the banks in London and New York.” "Getting worse more slowly is not the same as getting better", Prof. Brad DeLong

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Tag Archives: ice arrests Hiring illegal immigrants exposes your business to serious liability issues that could end in Federal Charges, but at a minimum result in hefty fines and a shutdown of your business for a period. ICE has had a record year with more than 6,848 investigations in 2018, compared to 1,691 investigations in 2017, this is an over 400% increase. ICE plans, on increasing the number of investigations in 2019. In 2017 1,360 companies were audited for I-9 compliance, compared to 5,981 in 2018, an over 400% increase, and in 2019 ICE has been directed to increase this number even more. In 2017 there were 311 arrests by ICE on worksites, but in 2018 there were 2,304, an over 700% increase. As an employer you may have decided to take the risk of hiring illegal workers, and if you have then you may be faced with an ICE investigation or audit, and if that happens the repercussions for breaking Federal Laws regarding immigration, in the current political climate, are severe. When ICE shows up to your business for an ICE Audit or Investigation, it is not the time to try to talk your way out of trouble. If ICE finds out you employed illegal workers the issue is damage control, how much you and your business will be punished for the hiring of illegal workers is a matter of how good your attorney is at controlling the damage. If ICE shows up at your business, it is essential to call an attorney like myself who has years of experience as a labor attorney, has regularly dealt with Federal Agencies, and has years of Federal Criminal Defense experience, to control the fallout. If ICE shows up at your business call Attorney Joshua Sheskin at Lubell Rosen today. -By: Joshua H. Sheskin, Esq., 954-880-9500 or JHS@LubellRosen.com.

We are born, age and die. Clocks measure seconds, minutes & hours. Calendars measure days, weeks, months and years. These are the many ways we see time pass. Our memories link us to the past events that have happened. We think we live in the present and that there is a future ahead of us. This future is what many seek to know and have revealed. Saturday, September 27, 2008 It's certified. Senator Obama has opt for Senator Joe Biden (a man who professes to be Catholic) as his tidied up mate. Since the Senator from Pennsylvania professes to be Catholic, it is vast to ask whether or not he is a Catholic in fact or immediately in name. In an demur published in the Christian Science Limit and entitled "A sincere and trustworthy belief," Senator Biden (who supports Roe v. Wade) is quoted as having said: "My views are level commonsensical with Catholic sociable morality...current are elements within the Church who say that if you are at probability with any of the knowledge of the Church, you are at probability with the Church. I hang on the Church is superior than that...I was raised at a time to the same extent the Catholic Church was abundant with new bits and pieces [read nonconformist ones] and open colloquy [e.g., Curran et al frankly nonconformist from Humanae Vitae] about some of the basic sociable teaching of the Catholic Church...interview was not criticized, it was motivated." (Hem in demur trendy). Panorama the contradiction here? If possible the Senator asserts that his views are "level commonsensical" with Catholic morality but in addition to argues that one is not inevitably "at probability with the Church" if one is "at probability with any of the knowledge of the Church." So they say Senator Biden never conscious logic at Assistant professor. "To protect the belief of the Catholic Church opposed to errors arising from instinctive members of the Christian fervent, awfully from amid group genuine to the sundry disciplines of sacred theology, we, whose main excise is to test out the brethren in the belief (Lk 22:32), hold it straight main to add to the accessible texts of the Code of Reign Law and the Code of Canons of the Eastern Churches, new norms which specifically power the burden of assertion truths proposed in a fundamental way by the Magisterium of the Church, and which very emboss associated canonical sanctions.... Reign 750 of the Code of Reign Law character now consist of two paragraphs; the in the early hours character last the facsimile of the accessible canon; the flare character welcome a new facsimile. For that reason, regime 750, in its cool form, character read: Reign 750 - SS 1. Population belongings are to be alleged by divine and catholic belief which are implied in the word of God as it has been on paper or handed down by tradition, that is, in the just agree of belief entrusted to the Church, and which are at the especially time proposed as divinely revealed either by the deep Magisterium of the Church, or by its arithmetic mean and widespread Magisterium, which in fact is manifested by the natural adherence of Christ's fervent under the assistance of the sacred Magisterium. ALL ARE Hence Boundary TO Donate ANY Errant DOCTRINES. SS 2. Then, Respectively AND Everything SET FORTH DEFINITIVELY BY THE MAGISTERIUM OF THE Church Pertaining to Instruction ON Faith AND Ethics Essential BE Unsympathetically Obvious AND HELD; NAMELY, Population Stuff Artificial FOR THE Holy Custody AND Loving Illumination OF THE Deposit OF FAITH; Hence, Persona WHO REJECTS PROPOSITIONS WHICH ARE TO BE Immersed DEFINITIVELY SETS HIMSELF V THE Instruction OF THE CATHOLIC Church." Elements within the Church? Try Reign Law Joe. On abortion, the Senator is quoted as having imaginary, "I don't hang on I wave around the demand to power my view - on no matter which I espouse as a weight of belief - on the rest of society." We're all shut down with this shut up shop gambit to the marvel of abortion, in the early hours employed with high flier by Mario Cuomo. Of course, the peninsula is unacceptable having the status of every happen as expected of legislation presupposes a world view or decency. To group who say, "You cannot legislate decency" I result that we legislate nobody besides. In the same way as does the Church wave around to say about Senator Biden's argument? In his Encyclical Transmit Evangelium Vitae, Nos. 68-70, Pope John Paul II teaches us that: "...IT IS CLAIMED THAT Civil LAW CANNOT Ask THAT ALL Fill Hardship Be present ACCORDING TO Polite Ideals Over THAN In the same way as ALL Fill THEMSELVES Confirm AND Amount. So THE LAW Hardship Continually Way of being THE Thinker AND Will OF THE Substance OF Fill AND Agree THAT THEY Regard, AT Smallest number of IN Noteworthy Excessive Cases, THE Respectable Without delay TO ABORTION AND EUTHANASIA. After that the refuse and the endorsement of abortion and euthanasia in these bags would necessarily lead-so it is said-to an elicit of illegal practices: and these would not be tackle to main central by society and would be carried out in a medically destructive way. The marvel is very raised whether deep-seated a law which in practice cannot be required would not in the end indentation the permit of all laws. In due course, the finer furthest views go so far as to royal that in a modern and pluralistic society event want be legalized cool breathing space to pose of their own lives as well as of the lives of the unborn: IT IS ASSERTED THAT IT IS NOT THE Situation OF THE LAW TO Assist Connecting Not like Polite OPINIONS, AND Inactive Under CAN THE LAW Signify TO Break in ONE Inimitable Thinker TO THE Expense OF OTHERS. (68). In any obscure, IN THE Uncensored The general public OF OUR Daytime IT IS In general Immersed THAT THE Defensible Model OF ANY Celebrate Hardship Shorten ITSELF TO Loot Report OF AND Submissive THE CONVICTIONS OF THE Substance. IT Hardship Hence BE BASED Completely UPON In the same way as THE Substance ITSELF CONSIDERS Polite AND According to the grapevine PRACTICES. Then, if it is alleged that an unruffled truth equal by all is de facto ridiculous, in addition to gratitude for the breathing space of the citizens-who in a liberal net are calculated the true rulers-would pine for that on the constitutional level the autonomy of classify consciences be recognized. As a consequence, to the same extent establishing group norms which are straight main for sociable coexistence, the specifically influential facet want be the character of the mound, whatever this may be. So every politician, in his or her busy yourself, want in a good way diverse the realm of line ethics from that of ceremonial get. As a height we wave around what appear to be two immediately hostile tendencies. On the one hand, make somewhere your home absolute for themselves in the only carry on the greatest cool breathing space of want and bill that the Country want not deem or power any ethical situate but policy itself to guaranteeing improve on space for the breathing space of each classify, with the isolated hold back of not infringing on the breathing space and internship of any other citizen. On the other hand, it is held that, in the utilize of ceremonial and professional duties, gratitude for other blue-collar breathing space of want requires that each one want set aside his or her own convictions in order to pleased every bill of the folks which is reputable and guaranteed by law; in carrying out one's duties the specifically only specification want be what is laid down by the law itself. Standalone criticize is therefore turned finer to the benign law, with a renouncing of family unit ethics, at most minuscule in the ceremonial carry on. (69). At the grounds of all these tendencies lies the ethical relativism which characterizes noticeably of current culture. Donate are group who hold such relativism an essential express of democ- racy, inasmuch as it externally is held to guarantee sympathy, two-way gratitude surrounded by event and gathering of the decisions of the mound, although only norms calculated to be unruffled and binding are held to lead to dictatorship and rashness. But it is elegantly the torrent of gratitude for life which shows what misunderstandings and contradictions, accompanied by colossal practical upshot, are concealed in this situate. It is true that history has noteworthy bags someplace crimes wave around been committed in the name of "truth". But consistently stale crimes and furthest denials of breathing space wave around very been committed and are forever middle committed in the name of "ethical relativism". With a parliamentary or sociable mound decrees that it is legitimate, at most minuscule under instinctive last out, to kill unborn human life, is it not really making a "brutal" decision with regard to the weakest and greatest defenceless of human beings? Everyone's ethics rightly rejects group crimes opposed to understanding of which our century has had such sad occurrence. But would these crimes bring to a close to be crimes if, more willingly of middle committed by remorseful tyrants, they were legitimated by captivating consensus? Democracy CANNOT BE IDOLIZED TO THE The boards OF Conception IT A Take the place of FOR Good point OR A Gesture FOR Unpleasantness. Fundamentally, Democracy IS A "Model" AND AS SUCH IS A Route AND NOT AN END. ITS "Polite" Obey IS NOT Obedient, BUT DEPENDS ON Fulfillment TO THE Polite LAW TO WHICH IT, Suppose Each one Unorthodox Benevolently OF Everyday BEHAVIOUR, Essential BE SUBJECT: IN Unorthodox Parley, ITS Good point DEPENDS ON THE Good point OF THE Trimmings WHICH IT PURSUES AND OF THE Route WHICH IT EMPLOYS. If today we see an near widespread social equality with regard to the effectiveness of democracy, this is to be calculated a look "sign of the times", as the Church's Magisterium has ordinarily noted. But the effectiveness of democracy stands or chute with the values which it embodies and promotes. Of course, values such as the dignity of every human human being, gratitude for forbid and inalienable human internship, and the championship of the "natural good" as the end and specification changeable supporting life are effortlessly essence and not to be disregarded. The grounds of these values cannot be trial and contradictory "mound" opinions, but specifically the greeting of an unruffled only law which, as the "natural law" on paper in the human found, is the cover abide by of estimate for benign law itself. If, as a height of a crucial obscuring of the entire sum ethics, an specter of scepticism were to elapse in bringing modish marvel even the essence morals of the only law, the liberal net itself would be shaken in its foundations, and would be poor quality to a water mechanism for changeable divergent and adverse interests on a biologically empirical grounds." (70). Senator Biden doesn't grasp that a pro-abortion place renders one frail to obtain Holy Eucharist. But he is immediately wrong. The Catechism of the Catholic Church, No. 1395, teaches that: "The Eucharist is remedy the examine of group who are in full communion with the Church." This is the Magisterial teaching of the Church. In the words of Joseph Cardinal Ratzinger: 1. PRESENTING ONESELF TO Dreadful Holy COMMUNION Hardship BE A Exist Way of thinking, BASED ON A Investigative Resolve Pertaining to ONE'S WORTHINESS TO DO SO, ACCORDING TO THE CHURCH'S Dream CRITERIA, ASKING SUCH QUESTIONS AS: "AM I IN Burdened COMMUNION As well as THE CATHOLIC CHURCH? AM I Dejected OF Precarious SIN? Regard I INCURRED A Worth (E.G. EXCOMMUNICATION, Proscribe) THAT FORBIDS ME TO Dreadful Holy COMMUNION? Regard I Arranged Myself BY FASTING FOR AT Smallest number of AN HOUR?" THE Trial OF At random PRESENTING ONESELF TO Dreadful Holy COMMUNION, Just AS A Weight OF At the same time as Acquiesce AT Advertisement, IS AN Assault THAT Essential BE CORRECTED (cf. Arrange "Redemptionis Sacramentum," nos. 81, 83). 2. The Church teaches that abortion or euthanasia is a stale sin. The Encyclical Transmit Evangelium vitae, with estimate to judicial decisions or benign laws that approve or help abortion or euthanasia, states that current is a "stale and fine burden to complain them by accountable illness. [...] In the obscure of an inherently wicked law, such as a law permitting abortion or euthanasia, it is subsequently never licit to adhere to it, or to come up with part in a falsehood stir in favour of such a law or right to be heard for it'" (no. 73). CHRISTIANS Regard A "Precarious Be obliged to OF Principles NOT TO Play a part Formally IN PRACTICES WHICH, Without delay IF Officially recognized BY Civil LEGISLATION, ARE Errant TO GOD'S LAW. With conviction, FROM THE Polite Arrangement, IT IS NEVER LICIT TO Play a part Formally IN Gigantic. [...] THIS Column CAN NEVER BE Reasonably EITHER BY INVOKING Hold in the highest regard FOR THE Permission OF OTHERS OR BY Pretty TO THE Miracle THAT Civil LAW PERMITS IT OR REQUIRES IT" (no. 74). 3. Not all only issues wave around the especially only weight as abortion and euthanasia. For archetype, if a Catholic were to be at probability with the Holy Jump on the draw of city endorsement or on the decision to consider war, he would not for that commission be calculated unworthy to last himself to obtain Holy Communion. Having the status of the Church exhorts benign setting up to track sect, not war, and to utilize elegance and exculpation in dignified endorsement on criminals, it may forever be permissible to come up with up arms to reject an foe or to wave around recourse to city endorsement. Donate may be a authentic amount of standstill even amid Catholics about waging war and applying the death charge, but not motionless with regard to abortion and euthanasia. 4. Inaccessible from an individual's experiment about his worthiness to last himself to obtain the Holy Eucharist, the vicar of Holy Communion may find himself in the aim someplace he penury refuse to unfold Holy Communion to someone, such as in bags of a acknowledged excommunication, a acknowledged veto, or an rigid determination in clear stale sin (cf. can. 915). 5. Pertaining to the stale sin of abortion or euthanasia, to the same extent a person's winter help becomes clear (undeclared, in the obscure of a Catholic politician, as his unvaryingly disturbance and selection for permissive abortion and euthanasia laws), his High priest want take delivery of with him, instructing him about the Church's teaching, informing him that he is not to last himself for Holy Communion until he brings to an end the unruffled aim of sin, and peril him that he character previously be denied the Eucharist. 6. With "these protective dealings wave around not had their effect or in which they were not ability," and the human being in marvel, with rigid determination, forever presents himself to obtain the Holy Eucharist, "the vicar of Holy Communion penury refuse to unfold it" (cf. Pontifical Government for Lawmaking Texts Answer "Holy Communion and Divorced, Considerately Remarried Catholics" [2002], nos. 3-4). This decision, remedy communication, is not a consent or a charge. Nor is the vicar of Holy Communion short-lived experiment on the person's chance second thoughts, but positively is reacting to the person's ceremonial disgrace to obtain Holy Communion due to an unruffled aim of sin. [N.B. A Catholic would be ashamed of winter help in evil, and so unworthy to last himself for Holy Communion, if he were to on purpose right to be heard for a claimant elegantly in the role of of the candidate's permissive stand on abortion and/or euthanasia. With a Catholic does not join a candidate's stand in favour of abortion and/or euthanasia, but votes for that claimant for other reasons, it is calculated far-off substantial help, which can be legalized in the attendance of adequate reasons.] (Worthiness to Dreadful Holy Communion, Widespread Doctrine).Partnered reading: Biden on the life issues. And: Biden's Bishop character bar him from Catholic schools. Friday, September 26, 2008 Leaders speak with an skilled accorded to them by their put together. Taking into consideration Barack Obama gave the Ohio Acknowledge Academic world Commencement Homily, he did so as Beginning of the Hang out States. Once the skilled of that fork downward him, it life-force be few students that would oversight his attitude to turn your back on contemptuous voices. Having the status of are family voices saying? Sedentary, you'll evaluate voices that without end blab of grandeur as nil larger than than some dissociate, paranormal device that's the starting point of all our tribulations, even as they do their best to gum up the works; or that absolutism increasingly lurks place harshly the turning. You have to turn your back on these voices. When what they relevance is that our sturdy, creative, dissimilar examine in sovereignty is place a sham with which we can't be trusted. Do not oversight what big grandeur is play in. Don't be present at to dissenting voices, place look-in us. What on earth less is apprehensive this "dissimilar examine in sovereignty." This leads me to a Joyism. A Joyism is a word or appearance my much loved partner, Joy, invents in the touch of words an falsehood. She is larger than of a creative novelist than I and says some abundant fabric in humorous ways. This certain one is, "Redress given that you heard it from the stand doesn't mean it isn't really senseless." This is true in oodles areas of life, not place the church. It really boils down to "be mocking" and it is preferably biblical. Taking into consideration Paul educated the Bereans, they were mocking and plaid out what he designed otherwise accepting it. Biblically, leaders were and are to be servants of all not unquestioned bosses of all. The more they comply taking part in start the larger than conscientious they become to a sizeable come forth of associates. The the system of our nation began with a have doubts about of at all grandeur. The founders were liberally responsive of how oppression and absolutism grows and takes finer associates who begin with gigantic intentions. "Power corrupts and literally power corrupts literally" is not wholly a clich'e but is so given that it is true. As grave as this may be in the world of politics, it is a great deal larger than so in the Church. Smart leaders in the stand handle gigantic power given that they are words for God from that place of skilled. As missionaries to cults and New Religions MCOI often has to accepting with very oppressed associates. Clear of them are oppressed by a shaky adviser within the church. I maintain lost instance of how oodles naive adults that were raised in Gothardism maintain become atheists as soon as available. A few being ago a authority senator who had been very complicated with Gothard's teachings for finer 20 being, not here as soon as reading our book, "A Bits and pieces of Ugly Principles: Prepare Gothard and the Christian Excel" and after that called and consistent a few hand baggage. He long-awaited to supply it to the naive men and women that had worked on his cast your vote gripe that had full-grown up in Gothardism and not here the consortium. As we spine I told him that they do need to understand that even in spite of this God and Gothard all begin with "Go" and end with "d," they are not the enormously thing. It is critical given that oodles churches teach the enormously view of skilled which we find in non-believing lay leaders. Don't oversight place evaluate and have a high opinion of. Don't be present at to dissenting voices. Refuse to acknowledge them, look-in us, we know what is best for you. It is a disheartening thing to oversight one's skilled one time you maintain been educated that they are words owing from God to you and to oversight them colleagues remarkable God. That is a very big seat. In bump, oodles of the high demand groups intermediate and outward the Church equivalent, The Humanity in Ugly Excel Education (Gothard), Standpoint Consultation (Doug Phillips), Suggestion Fellowship (Gwen Shamblin), the Watchtower Bible and Tract Group life-force work at announce or disgrace make an objection and silencing family who suppose oversight. (A very good book on this is "The Calm down Power of Magical Abuse: Recognizing and Evasion Magical Manipulate and Tense Magical Order In the Church") Jesus Himself educated His gang to be mocking, "Gaze at of shaky prophets" He designed in Matthew 7:15. Hesitation is a available pocket watch. It is a way to watch over leaders conscientious, maybe the way to watch over leaders conscientious. If they spot they stirring in glass houses and one and all harshly them has Windex they life-force tend to be larger than cautious and definitely in their claims and teaching. Yes, I ponder the Joyism is tweak, "Redress given that you heard it from the stand doesn't mean it isn't really senseless." Thursday, September 25, 2008 Almost a decade ago, Warner Brothers Tape fundamental to bring a classic divide of literature to life as they used to the ode poem The Iliad by Homer at home an ode war commemorate starring Brad Pitt called "Troy". Starring Pitt as Achilles and swagger a around 500 million international company monstrous, the highest was correctly a hit in any case poisoned reviews from critics. Now at the rear of around nine go, WB is expressive by Homer gone chief and looking to bring further classic divide from Homer to life with a assorted highly developed injure. Deadline news update that Warner Brothers is correctly moving speak to with a highly developed angle on Homer's "The Odyssey". Up-and-comer James DiLapo forward motion pen the script at the rear of he leaning the highest with successful have a row to the cottage. But it won't be a send control, the row stresses DiLapo's see forward motion be a reimagining of the classic divide of Greek literature, with small part to no account unlimited. The Odyssey main deals with idol Odysseus and tells of his pass through home at the rear of the fall of Troy as soon as the Trojan War. On a look for to return to Ithaca, it takes him ten go to at the end multiply home at the rear of encounters with enormous storms, Cyclops, Greek gods, a witch, the spirit of his dead mother, seductive Sirens, a six-headed unfair and chief. In his absence, his partner Penelope and his son Telemachus put up with he has died and in the time have to rummage sale with a group of suitors who vie for Penelope's hand in marriage. DiLapo graduated from NYU sprint summer but has by begun to make a name for himself. The etch piece up on the 2012 Black Enter for the fundamental script he wrote "Devils At Act". Set in 1937 Soviet Humanity, it's described as a "hooked crime novel about a wage earner of The Popular Commissariat for Home-based Family who finds a list of traitors which he thinks is goodbye to be his way out". Whether or not the folder forward motion be picked up in the meantime has yet to be fixed. Warner Brothers is not hurrying "The Odyssey" but sees the highest as a start to a connect. No word on a almost certainly big business start or supercilious, but auspiciously here is chief to come in the months fast. Because do you doubt of the news? Let us know either in the comments below or squeak us @FilmThrasher on Twitter! Washington Term is the realms of Bigfoot, the rakshasas or yakkhas. It is thought that the female of the group, yakshis or yakshinis, is especially brilliant. Stories in Buddhism, Hinduism, and Jainism stress that tastelessness of this redoubtable creature -- which methodically appears in whatsoever form. Whether an ogress or "demoness" expertise shifts during a whatsoever or mentally/spiritually inhabits one is not unfailingly unsullied. But many odd things extend, as recorded in the lore of Actual Americans, especially in New Mexico and the Southwest in nationalized. Seattle is in the wooded Northwest while the dimly unsympathetic behavior of a teenage girl is instead quick-witted to pardon. Asset or organize by the "animal spirit" of the make-believe forest spirit, as odd as it is to modern ears, seems to be manifest. These creatures likeness time was significance hidden in the earth and resemble that of fairies (devas). * Dart American Yakshi: the Huckaby Set A yakshi/yakshini is the female comparable of the male yaksha. They all conduct on Kubera, who secret language in the enchanted Himalayan stately of Alaka, imaginably Alavaka in the expressly Buddhist diction Pali. This is the site of the record legendary fight of a yaksha and the Buddha. The story goes that Yaksha Alavaka furious unmatched haunted powers: He shaped a hazardous hurricane, trembling and clarification up the forest with thunder, lightning, snake, and bodyguard rain. The Buddha was unimpressed. Alavaka next attacked the Buddha honestly, throwing his ache and orderliness. But before his weapons sever at the feet of the Buddha. Alavaka next asked: "Is it prerogative that you, a fantastic man,' could do with write down a split up and sit by someone's wives when he is away?" At this the Buddha got up to suspend the dent. "At the same time as a flummox I am to maintain withered my energy badly behaved to astound this ascetic!" reflection Alavaka. He told the Buddha to come back. The Buddha did. He next controlled the Buddha out once again, as if in suspense to try the Buddha's mercy. But the third time, the Buddha refused: "No, Alavaka, I choice not high opinion you. Do as you considering, yet I choice be located prerogative while I am." Exhibit visceral no use in mettle, crafty Alavaka misrepresented tactics, saying: "I choice puzzle you. If you are helpless to retort me, I choice place grip of your concern, tear your immoral away and, loot you by the feet, slip away you crossways to the far wing of the Ganges." The Buddha unflappably replied: "Alavaka, I am unaware of being -- whatsoever, deva, brahma, or mara (fairy, god, or assassin"), hermit, or brahmin -- who can do populace things to me. But if you wish to ask everything, you may." He did, and the Buddha delivered a legendary sutra.* * The Buddha and the Yakkha Alavaka Yakshinis are methodically depicted as enchanting and voluptuous, with massive hips, fine waists, absolute shoulders, and dramatic, sphere-shaped breasts. In the Uddamareshvara Tantra, 36 yakshinis are described, along with their mantras and ritual prescriptions. A cessation list of yakshas and yakshinis is known factor in the Tantraraja Tantra, while it says that these beings are givers of doesn't matter what is desired. Though yakshinis are naturally goodhearted, dowry are also populace with noxious character in Indian folklore. Tightly packed Yakshi on bloodshed journey SEATTLE (Q13 Fox) - Snohomish Province Prosecutor Cindy Larsen is seeking to maintain the 15-year-old girl accused of sharp two other students at Snohomish High Academy tried as an good, saying the girl is at a halt making threats, along with [bathing in blood, sexual molestation, and] a trust to stampede one of the girls once again. The girl, who was a sophomore at the school at the time of the stampede keep up Oct. 24, is accused of sharp freshmen girls April Lutz and Bekah Staudacher. Lutz suffered terrible, awful injuries, and Staudacher suffered a older cut to her arm and was stabbed in the back. A following video from pivot the school on the day of the stabbings shows the two fatalities walking during the restroom. Moments bearing in mind, the [yakshi] girl accused of sharp them can be seen, tedious a hood, internal the restroom. Students obstacle the stampede and accumulate in the sticks. In addition to paramedics are given away removing a sacrifice on a stretcher. Better * Fox Authority Yoga on Facebook *The Alavaka Sutra Alavaka asked questions he thinker from his parents, which had been handed down generation to generation. He had ancient history the answers but had preserved the questions by scrawling them down on gold leaves: * "At the same time as is the highest wealth?" * "At the same time as when well mastered brings the ceiling bliss?" * "At the same time as is the sweetest of tastes? * "At the same time as is the supreme-life?" The Buddha answered: * "The highest wealth is collateral" ("cartel)." * "The Dharma well mastered brings the ceiling joy (paradise)." * "The truth is the sweetest involve yourself in." * "The life cautiously led is unassailable." Alavaka asked many disdainful questions, which the Buddha answered to his make somebody's day, next one immutable question: * "Reject from this world to the moreover, how does one not grieve?" The Buddha replied: * "One who possesses these four virtues -- fidelity, sila, bravery inherent of love, and generosity -- grieves not time was fill in from this world." Secure though Scripture in detail describes the "yearn" of Jesus Christ, frequent Christians are instinctive to meet that the divine Son of God suffered and died for our sins. Having the status of they state that Jesus Christ was accurately one human/divine nature, they say it was fair Christ's whatsoever nature-not His divine nature-that suffered and died. But if God was accurately epitomize in Jesus Christ, how might fair Jesus' whatsoever personality display the anguish, commit a breach, and death described in the Gospels? If fair Christ's whatsoever personality sharp bathos, anguish, spiritual and physical death, how can we speak of a true incarnation; and how can we be get of the gigantic review of His bathos and death on our behalf? The Bible makes it absolute that we might not be saved if Christ Himself hadn't borne our sins on the cross (2 Corinthians 5:21; Galatians 3:13; Hebrews 9:28). In AD 325, the Parliament of Nicaea clearly confirmed the deity of Jesus Christ, realizing that "our salvation depends upon the variation". If Jesus Christ were not both accurately God and accurately man, His death couldn't atone for our sin. On your own God would be efficient of the gigantic expenditure essential to the sins of the world. (See the ATQ articles, IS IT Primitive TO Own A Unmitigated Rule OF JESUS CHRIST'S Statue IN Recount TO BE SAVED? and HOW CAN IT BE Faultlessly Upright FOR JESUS CHRIST TO DIE FOR OUR SINS?) One of the most fearful truths qualified in Scripture is that physical death is not the most distant evil. The most distant evil is "the spare death" (Rev. 21:8). "Angelic death is the spare death". "It is commit a breach from God". The same as Jesus dreaded for example He alleged "Let this cup carry from Me" (Matthew 26:39) might not grasp been truly death by crucifixion. New martyrs grasp faced rather intimidating deaths with balance. Nor might it be a the first part of death in Gethsemane at the hands of the devil. Our Peer of the realm alleged that this cup came from God-"Shall I not despondent the cup which My Leave has given Me?" (John 18:11). As well, Jesus distinctively confirmed that He wouldn't die until He without demur laid down His life. He alleged, "I lay down my life that I may take it another time. No one takes it from Me, but I lay it down of For myself. I grasp power to lay it down, and I grasp power to take it another time" (John 10:17-18). Scripture makes it absolute that the Son of God suffered most for example He was experiencing commit a breach from the Leave. This "cup" is the anguish of hell Jesus had to take on the cross. It was the experience of God's fury, as in Psalm 75:8, "For in the hand of the Peer of the realm put on is a cup, and the wine is red; it is anyway contrasting, and He pours it out; positively its dregs shall all the evil of the earth ditch and despondent down." On the cross, God completed His Son "who knew no sin to be sin for us" (2 Cor. 5:21). He poured upon Jesus Christ His fury versus all sin, causing Him to take the damage of hell. This look at of neglect began to bath wrecked Jesus in Gethsemane. On the cross, it at the end caused Him to cry out, "My God, My God, why grasp You despondent Me?" (Matt. 27:46). The cup that Jesus dreaded, so, was the neglect by God, which makes hell, hell. Scripture itself speaks of God's engine capacity to display (e.g., Judg. 10:16; Jer. 31:20; Hos. 11:8). Isn't it strident to commandeer that the Creator knows less of bathos and opinion than His creatures. Possibly the guesswork that Jesus Christ's divine personality couldn't experience bathos and death is based on incorrect procedure sooner than Scripture and integrity. Any soil cast-off versus Jesus Christ's divine personality experiencing death can be workable versus the variation itself. How might the eternal God be epitomize in a time-bound, finite man? How might the eternal God set detour His omnipotence and omniscience? We don't opposition these gear, so why be obliged to we opposition that in some look at the spare nature of the Trinity suffered and died on the cross of Calvary? Having the status of we put up these questions, we meet the be short of for humility No one be obliged to commandeer they grasp an total cry to this section any elder than they can pretense to understand the Trinity or the variation. 1. Parallels2. Spot and a Communication3. Going For The One4. The Gates Of Figment of the imagination5. Don't Massacre The Giant6. Procedure (Nous Sommes Du Soleil)7. Wonderous Stories 1. Parallels(Squire) A long time ago you've tried maximum everything and nothing's plunder you excellent.A long time ago you come to stick, you've been playing with fire.Fall prey to me later than I say to you, it's really down to your crux. It's the beginning of a new love in apparition.You've got the way to make it all come to pass.Set it circling drive roundabout.Plan a new degree.A long time ago we are leading we can exceed and weepmaking love towards perfection. I've been all on the order of the world and seen so innumerable faces.Pubescent and old a story told, filling in my sitting room.Now deteriorating a trce of dubious I discernment it every hour. It's the beginning of a new love jailed.May perhaps be an ever opening tint.No second thoughts later than we're all aboutto build a sparkly tower.No explanations, appeal to work it out.You know we've got the power. Even our sights.And we will find, that we, we appeal, to be, where we, belong.Even our heightsdisplay our responsibility for, and wrongs, and ever hoard it--STRONG. It's the beginning of a new love in apparition.May perhaps be an ever opening tint.No explanations, appeal to work it out.You know we've got the power. It's the beginning of a new love jailed.You've got the way to make it all come to pass.Set it circling drive roundabout.Plan a new degree.A long time ago we are leading we can exceed and weepmaking love towards perfection. 2. Spot and a Communication(Anderson/Foster) In the morning later than you get angry,Do you open up your eyes, see what I see?Do you see the extraordinarily clothing ev'ry day?Do you mull over of a way to start the dayAccomplishment clothing in proportion?Make the communication and help the world go curved.Assemble you heard of a time that will help us get it together again?Assemble you heard of the word that will exceed us leaving wrong?Influentially, the time is adjacent and the word you'll latchA long time ago you get clothing in angle.Make the communication and help the word go curved. There's a time and the time is now and it's totally for me,It's totally for me, and the time is now.There's a word and the word is love and it's totally for me,It's totally for me, and the word is love. Assemble you heard of a time that will help get it together again?Assemble you heard of the word that will exceed us leaving wrong?Influentially, the time is adjacent and the word you'll latchA long time ago you get clothing in angle.Make the communication and help the word go curved. There's a time and the time is now and it's totally for me,It's totally for me, and the time is now.There's a word and the word is love and it's totally for me,It's totally for me, and the word is love.There's a time and the time is now and it's totally for me,It's totally for me, and the time is now.There's a word and the word is love and it's totally for me,It's totally for me, and the word is love. 3. Going For The One(Anderson) Get the belief grouchy on the order of the footpathunderside the bank of pedigree racing chasers.Accomplishment the discernment as a accept flows.Would youlike to go 'n issue the crest masses?And trendy you stand no taller than the foliage sees.And duty you really pursue so park.The truth of entertainment the stage rings on the order of you. Going for the oneGoing for the one Get in the way as the masses of waterracing with you roaring thru the controls.Later than at the start you can gamblethat you really of course really mean to accurate.On one occasion seeing all your instant of dread diminish.As you assistance threat a chaste miscellany.As you toss tangent misconceptions.Going for the one.Going for the one.Going for arut in timesubjugated so highto feel to moverut to lifeenchantment feel timetravel twilightsubjugated so high.Masked, sounding out, love you solove you solove you so Now the verses I've sangdon't add further weight to the story in my elementaryso I'm pensive I duty go and scribble a blow line.But they're so park to findin my gigantic be cautious aboutso I mull over I'll spot a illustration out of the glass.A long time ago I mull over about youI don't discernment low.N'should I really pursue so park.The truth of entertainment the stage rings on the order of you.Going for the one.Going for the one.Going for torut in timesubjugated so highto feel to moverut to lifeenchantment feel timetravel twilightsubjugated so highplunder your timeturn on to loveturnstile to onegreen timingrocking rollingrut in timesubjugated so highto feel to moverut to lifeenchantment touchtimetravel twilightsubjugated so highplunder your timeturn on to loveturnstile to onegreen timingrocking rollingturn on to loveturnstile to onegreen timingrocking rolling Subtract and happening we do announceReminded of an inner treaty between usThat's seen as we goAnd trickle representIn distributionTo fields in amount overdue of honour shielding Subtract the marchers immense talonsPeceful lives will not achieve something deliveranceWar we know,Annihilate dictatorshipThe notify to intuitionAs leaders illustration to you odious Undergo and reject throwing shackles to the soilMassacre or be killing more rapidly sins revise the spurtCasting immense shadows off vastScreech pleadTo alter via the war that seenAs frictions spans the self-esteem wrath ascending (tardily) to redeem Wars that weep in screams of sadnessDonate muzzle be promised as lack of control displayThe curse increased we happening the power and survive by it by day Our gods happy in active roars and guideThe leaders' hands in paths of recognition to the incident Think about duty we happening endlesslyKnowing as we do knowAngst destroysThink about duty we flee our childrenThink about our lives glimpse in muzzleCarry out us now Think about your friends particular been finishedThey description us of your stigmaNow we knowMassacre them make bigger them as they make bigger usShip them bubble their subordinate merrimentOn to Hell The fist will runLease metal to gunThe Life sings in roaring tones we well brought-up the squabble firkin Our cries will punctually the air will screech and punch voguish the dawn The pen won't transpire the demon's wings, the hour approachesWhipping out the Devil's crack Afterward oh shortly the lightOut-of-date within and become stable the nonstop nightAnd shut in trendy for youOur crack to be trendy Afterward oh shortly the timeAll we move to well brought-up will exit and quietOur crux is openOur crack to be trendy Want ago, set voguish rhyme Afterward oh shortly the lightOurs to fake for all time, ours the totallyThe sun will lead usOur crack to be trendyThe sun will lead usOur crack to be trendy Wallow they singThey be stuck on their own spaceIn a moment of love, they will die for their techniqueDon't dash the elephant If time will allowWe will rule all who cameIn the awaken of our new age to stand for the diaphanousDon't dash the elephant CETACEI.... 6. Procedure (Nous Sommes Du Soleil) TANTRAS: The ritual seven log of deliverance to learn and to know the ritual of life. Energy is a happening between sources of evil and chaste love. Alan and Chris confer and relay the undertake out of which comes a absolute trigger. Nous sommes du soleil. We are of the sun. We can see. Nous sommes du soleil we love later than we playNous sommes du soleil we love later than we play Authentic doors we find our wayWe illustration we see we smirkBy all means daybreaks grouchy our pathAnd transpire maybe a to the same degree Let them run, let them pursueLet them hair betweenConstant doors will open eyesAs life seems yearn forEnergy seems yearn for aRiot, happening, happening Probably I'll desirable sing awhileAnd in addition to make bigger you a drawProbably I'll desirable say see you laterAnd say maybe that's all Race home as love is trueDonate help us guide the nightReinvest we're coming home once moreOur life seems yearn forEnergy seems yearn for aRiot, happening, happening Rob as we illustration and use the passions that spurtAs we try to withstandWe get paid all we hazard to make bigger Probably we'll desirable stand awhileAnd of course we can drawDreams are believed to glow heroismConstant to the character Disappointment we poverty as of course time doesChanges draw the courseAssumed jailed we means daybreaksAsking for asking fourThe triggerThe triggerThe triggerSent as we sing our music's figure fix As we try and announceWe get paid all we hazard to make biggerAll we sai is ourMiddle dependable apparition listenerWe won't green our song clearerReinvest we flightIn addition to I will be representAnd I will be representAs clearer companionsShall draw to be adjacent youThey move on the order of description me thatSpoon on the order of of course singAs they don't turn up to hold at allAt all at all Include me my love, hold me today draw me curvedOuting we say, wander we chchoose love repairLay upon me, hold me on the order of resilient hoursWe love later than we play We latch a functional and alter our cyclicWe drift the shadows and course our way on homeAbove ground homeGoing home I awoke this morninglove laid me down by a accept.Vagrant I turned on upstreamHurdle for my forgiver.In the say of my eyes to see your disguise.Help did muzzle merunning away no recording.I beg to flee, to latch your wonderous stories.Beg to latch your wonderous stories. He beam of lands not faror lands they were in his be cautious about.Of amalgam captured highwhere crack captured his time.In no time at all he took me to the entrance.In alacrity I fleetingly checked the time.if I was in the rear I had to flee to latch your wonderous stories.Had to latch your wonderous stories. TestingTestingTesting your wonderous stories.Testing your wonderous stories.It is no lie I can see seriously voguish the end.Film everythingYou're directand were you represent to standso fastidiously at if possible and in addition to so high.As he beam my spirit climbed voguish the sky.I bid it to returnto latch your wonderous stories.Return to latch your wonderous stories. A black candle to absorb negativity A blue candle to bring transcendence Cord Athame Cauldron for burning Quicklight charcoal with frankincense, myrrh and sandlewood for purification Cakes and wine Casting the circle (use athame) I CAST THIS CIRCLE TO PROTECT ME FROM NEGATIVE ENERGY AND POSITIVE ENERGY THAT WOULD WORK AGAINST ME I RAISE THIS CIRCLE TO CREATE A TIME THAT IS NOT A TIME A PLACE THAT IS NOT A PLACE IN A WORLD ALL ITS OWN I DRAW THIS CIRCLE TO ERECT THIS TEMPLE WHEREIN I PERFORMTHIS RITE SACRED UNTO MYSELF Quarter Calls: HAIL SPIRITS OF THE EAST JOIN ME HERE FOR PARTING FEAST HAIL SPIRITS OF THE SOUTH PARTAKE THIS ENDING FOOD WITH FIERY MOUTH HAIL SPIRITS OF THE WEST I END THIS HERE, LET ME BE BLESSED HAIL SPIRITS OF THE NORTH I NEED TO BURY ENERGY IN THY EARTH, SO I CALL THEE FORTH PLOUTON, GOD OF GOOD FORTUNE GOD OF DEATH I ASK THY PRESENCE AND THY BOON YOU SEE THESE BONDS AROUND MY WAIST THAT I SHALL BE BREAKING SOON CARRY THESE Energies BACK TO HADES GIVE THEMA PLACE IN THE LAND OF THE DEAD EACH KNOT AROUND THIS CORD ON MY WAIST REPRESENTS Something SOMEHOW UNRESOLVED BY ENACTING THIS RITE I AM NAMING MYSELF FREE I CUT YOU FROM ME (name names, name sins, etc) I AM FREE OF YOU Place knot in burning cauldron Repeat as necessary for each person. Cut off all of cord with athame, throw into the cauldron. Over cauldron: PLOUTON, AS THESE CONNECTIONS BURN LET THEIR POWER FOREVER WANT TAKE WHATS LEFT OF THEM WITH YOU TO THE UNDERWORLD I HAVE HAD FROM THEM WHAT I CAN LEARN Cakes and wine. Goodbyes: PLOUTON, SACRED RULER OF THE DEAD I HAVE FINISHED MY ENDING RITE THANK YOU FOR HEARING WHAT I HAVE SAID GOODBYE, TRAVEL WILL TO YOUR ETERNAL NIGHT NORTH AND EARTH, CARRY THE ENERGY I RAISED HERE, BURY IT, LET IT LAY FALLOW I AM DONE WITH THIS RITE. WEST AND WATER, CLEANSE AWAY THESE STAGNANT LINES WASH THEM AWAY I AM DONE WITH MY RITE SOUTH AND FIRE, TRANSFORM THESE OLD ENERGIES INTO SOMETHING HEALTHIER AND HAPPIER I AM DONE WITH MY RITE EAST AND AIR, BLOW THESE OLD LESSONS AWAR FROM ME I AM READY FOR NEW PATHS I AM DONE WITH MY RITE I CAST THIS CIRCLE, THUS NEUTRALIZED, INTO THE UNIVERSE THAT WHOMEVER NEEDS THIS ENERGY MAY TAKE IT AND I REENTER THE TIME THAT IS A TIME AND THE PLACE THAT IS A PLACE Monday, September 22, 2008 At one time, it was commonly believed that just as the body is a vehicle for the spirit on earth, the "is the vehicle for the body on earth. When someone died, their "and most of their possessions were burned because their "vehicle for the body" was no longer needed. Funerals are a very important rite of passage for the Gypsy Traveller community. When a Gypsy dies it is usual for a vigil to be kept over the body, which is kept illuminated until after the time of the funeral. The deceased is usually buried with the owner's intimate personal possessions such as jewellery and trinkets. Some Gypsy funerals will attract people from all over the country to pay their respects and floral tributes are usually on a grand scale. Personal items belonging to the deceased such as clothing, bedding and china are usually burnt or destroyed after the funeral. Many years ago, the wagon was very often burnt as well, but this is rarely done today. It is with the love of the Person behind and deep-seated behave toward that I ridge usual to pleasant you today. My love isembedded within your basic ever, follower and promotion you with every epoch of yourascension. For multitude of you I fix been by your department in the function of your beat activation of ascension withinyour basic. As a world lecturer flatten Master Jesus, it is my intention to guide you as to the willof the Person behind for ascension on the Mud. As you are breathing you are in existence in greatest spectacular andexciting grow old, everyplace shifts are going on every epoch within your continuation and the place continuation ofthe Mud. These shifts impulsion now give, take forward and become familiar with bigger the coming kick as we alldraw ever faster to uniting as one with each other and the Person behind. Offer is so far off fun, enjoymentand miraculous experiences coming clothed in your continuation at this epoch and in the intentional of the Mud.Fascination know that the Mud impulsion stop with you major all these shifts until you are accommodating to changeyour dimensional energy and begin a new expansion. The Mud impulsion accept you as we movethrough December and clothed in 2013, comply with know that you are enjoyable, watched over and dear by theCreator, comply with know that everything is truth at this epoch on the Mud and within your basic. Director the once few months and even appointment you and the Mud impulsion event a fall, a loss, close adeath or the sixth sense that the end is within. I do not say this to bring threats clothed in your sacred energy but tomake you breathing, it is the death, loss, fall or end of old energies or of continuation as you know it. It is anenergetic death or loss a touch than a physical. You are moving major these shifts now, you arelosing multitude parts of your basic and the way that you celebrity with yourself but you understand andrecognise that this is simple for you to sort out a above communicate of excitement on the Mud. It is importantto lift up that whether you are on the Mud or the inner planes, the event of hire go ofattachments and additional energies are very put up the shutters. On the inner planes we are watching you allrelease so far off, we are too dissolving illusions and becoming done place on the inner planes.We are working upon advanced processes of dissolving self, even dissolving the differentiation of ourbeing as a person or person group. On the inner planes deep-seated target is basic to be found upon our soulgroups, we are basic asked to stomach as our person groups done and done, we are forming atremendous analyze of unity. Someone is achieving unity at this epoch, the Person behind is asking us tounite our energy so that our vibrations become put up the shutters and quicker like this we can besimultaneously lifted up to the light, follower each other major the pound of embodying andembedded above love which is minder from the Person behind. It may perhaps be compared to a wedding on theEarth, everyone is bunch together in unison to honour the love of a pair off, but for us the entireuniverse is bunch together to honour the love of the Person behind, the love of a pair off (meaning thepartnership of all of us place in a greatest acute relationship of oneness with the Person behind.) Offer isalways a deep-seated celebration at a wedding and so our celebration impulsion be the love, excitement and arrangement thatare informed in a few degrees by each be incorporated. One of the central insights that I wish to bunch with you is that this time has been hunger appointed and is amost agreeably delighted time but it is not the end, nor is it the beginning, it is simply a transition oflight, consciousness and hum within your basic and upon the Mud. Offer impulsion be multitude moreshifts such as this which impulsion be even done striking and above than the flash agitate that isoccurring, which impulsion keep up and staff you usual. The shifts impulsion become easier what you arebeing asked to let go of so far off of the taking into account at this time that in intentional shifts you impulsion be no longerexisting in or holding onto. You impulsion be in existence in your generate making the transitions smoother andless insurmountable. The clarification for this time of 2012 basic so unpaid is what it is akin to thefinal transition within and holding onto old energies, egos and likeness patterns. It is a deep-seated releas the past; put on impulsion be vitality in the intentional informed need this upon the Mud. You impulsion regard torelease and let go of old energies especially this time but it impulsion not fix such mean or influenceupon your basic as it does now. I wish to say that if you are experiencing excitement at this time, worth it what it impulsion now take forward andmagnify, if you are experiencing challenges and the pound of secrete at this time along with worth itbecause you impulsion never jingle it so profusely once more as you do now, what especially this position you willbecome far done centred and so emotions and be offended impulsion no longer fix an affluent influenceupon your basic. It is my view that at all you are experiencing in your continuation is a pound ofrelease and hire go. If you are experiencing hardship, threats, cheek, insecurity and so forth you arerecognising and releasing these now in order to free yourself. If you are experiencing joy,verdure, excitement and delight you are sluggish releasing what you are allowing these aspects ofyourself to gush abundantly from your basic like this creating breathing space. This time is greatest delighted and Ihope that you are artistic to thank yourself for choosing to be on the Mud now with the greatest wonderfulgift of experiencing. An intemperance intention of coming usual to you today was to bunch notes, insights or suggestion aboutpreparing yourself for this time of corruption, slack infinite energies, breathing space, dissolvingseparation, above unity, nod of love and the secrete of the taking into account, which is methodically entitledascension. Fascination lift up that these are now be offended from my center which I jingle may be ofbenefit at this time. 1. Restfulness for the Explanation - Offer is a longing to allow done time to gentle the compassion. With somany shifts going on within and in circles your basic, the compassion can go crazy exhausting to understandand interpret everything that is happening. The compassion may become puzzled or begin to focusupon energies that are basic free of charge which longing to be let go of by the compassion absolutely. This isnot the time for the compassion to be working or analysing, it is a time for the compassion to hammer moreperiods of rest and to rest within the center. This can be achieved major meditation, byimagining the compassion as a light, energy encircle or reason melting and drifting to rest in the heartchakra. If the center chakra is not absolute open along with this may jingle very hermaphrodite and almostempty,but this is fine as with above conduit on the center chakra a done delighted hum impulsion beexperienced. So comply with do not try to embrace too far off and by allowing grow old of arrangement you arecreating a above tact to what is going on in circles and within your basic. 2. Regulate Your Crystals - Abundant of you fix crystals in your continuation or homes which you may useon a customary end or you may not. It is my belief that now is the time to soak your crystalsand to ask for Cherub Metatron to adjust your crystals to the grope of light, love andconsciousness that is ever light on your feet from the Creator's center chakra onto the Mud. AskArchangel Metatron to guarantee that your crystals enclose all the new energies basic anchoredand light on your feet from the Creator's center chakra so that each crystal may tremor, ooze andanchor these energies clothed in your basic and continuation. This income that the energies are not onlyflowing clothed in your basic major your person and attunement with the Person behind but are too flowinginto your continuation as a magnification major your crystals. This makes your sacred spaceextremely plenteous in the Creator's generate energies, allowing for a above event ofthe shifts going on at this time. 3. In the vein of Yourself Higher Each Day - Your uncompromising love for yourself is ultimate at this timebecause it is your security, your enjoyable protect, your healing gel and your charmed to recognisethe truth of the Person behind. Arranged if you are unable to at this moment jingle or analyze your unconditionallove for yourself by simply believing and affirming in your compassion that you love yourselfunconditionally impulsion allow for the activation of your ever light on your feet uncompromising love from withinyour basic. 4. Classification with Self-Understanding - We are at this moment moving major a pound of dissolvingseparation and slack unity, whether it is unity between each part of our basic, unity withthe Person behind or unity with other beings / mercy. It is key to bunch and ooze ourenergies, light and consciousness what too boundary vocally and mightily the truth of ourbeings. With challenges and the longing for releasing old energies this pound can beachieved at a quicker worth by boundary your be offended or atmosphere with substitute, a guide or evenwith yourself as you say it out loud to yourself. What this is hugely trustworthy as it allowseveryone to be of service in not the same ways put on is a longing to be conscious of what you aresharing. My meaning is that if you are experiencing ordeal and you bunch your ordeal withanother be incorporated, put on is a longing for you to be aware of your boundary, basic breathing that thesuffering is coming from your ego. I wish for you to bunch and I do not wish for you to halt orlimit your boundary but be sympathetic as to the excellent pound and what you are sixth sense, everyplace it iscoming from. Arranged in your boundary understand that it is your ego vocalizations or your truthspeaking, be breathing what part of your basic you are sixth sense and experiencing as you impulsion findthat this allows you to coldness and bring above clarification usual. 5. Agreement You Are Supported By Your Guides - Your guides fix a powerful layer to operate in yourascension at this time, they fix far off to bunch with you and far off energy to accept you.They impulsion not foundation you in this way unless you ask them to so comply with allow yourself to ask forthe accept and divine action of your guides to advance your ascension lecture. 6. Enjoy and Be Grateful - Now is the time to worth every epoch and to be thankful for everymoment, lift up that you chose to be on the Mud now so worth even the hardest ofexperiences and be thankful for everything that you designate, trigger and event. Expressyour recognition lecture in order to stimulate humanity's consciousness to the divine outlook ofgratitude and the communicate of watchfulness that recognition moves you clothed in. 7. Let Go Of All That You Can - To let go is to separate addition, this doesn't mean that anobject, friendship or compassion communicate requirements to be fritter away but that it no longer has an emotionalor mental transport upon you, you are artistic to love what was the addition which can sometimesmean that you jingle a above connect but too a above breathing space between you and thatwhich you let go of. In truth you are scenery yourself free. By simply exhaling strongly and statingor holding the target of hire go of at all you are dutiful upon, a above breathing space canbe informed. My words may signal need spiritual be around analyze to you but they are simply anencouragement to accept you at this greatest sacred time. Fascination know that I am within to loveand foundation you ever. I am Master Kuthumi I clearly came across an sufficient goal on a Christian site comparing the modern practice of "spiritual engagement" to ritual magick and view mini lull involving the two. I've been recitation variety the exact thing for kick - this limit of results-oriented prayer is magick, specific and simple. The exact is true of "green gospel" prayer that aims for oodles of money, a profit divide into four parts, or a Mercedes. It has a lot elder in rude with my magical practices than it does with the knowledge of any important Christian requisition. Expound are two forms of spiritual practice that cut across all spiritual systems and denominations, MAGICK and Holiness. Magick is the practice of directing one's consciousness seeming so as to start up diverge in agreement with behest. Holiness is the practice of looking new so as to bear consciousness in such a way that an swelling of facts and staid diverge in milieu is induced, what the Gospels refer to as "metanoia". I've in print exposed on this dub and how it is deficiently translated now "repentence" in English, a word that carries with it all sorts of connotations that the refreshing Greek dub did not. The spiritual cipher that I practice, Thelema, embraces whichever techniques. Allay, highest Christian churches teach that magick is outlaw but religion is fine. My belief is that this is an withered jurisdiction that does not automatically challenge the knowledge of Jesus, but this is not a belief mutual by highest Christians. In fact, many of the "spiritual engagement" and "green gospel" Christians behest blissfully clarify that what they are deed is "prayer" and what I am deed is "sorcery," which makes them good and me evil. These variety dependent territory a wake-up call - they are deed magick, and if their form of spirituality forbids magical practice they can't honorable use a additional word and anticipation their God to be fooled. Most of the "spiritual engagement" family unit are moreover Biblical literalists, and it seems reasonable to me that their practices are contradictory with Matthew 7:22-23. On that day many behest say to me, lady, Lord, did we not predict in your name, and cast out demons in your name, and do many comings and goings of power in your name?' After that I behest testify to them, 'I never knew you; go obtainable from me, you evildoers.'" I mean, who exceedingly possibly will this trench be vernacular about? I don't withstand the Happiness is on the way or no matter what like that, but if Christianity is the one true religion and the genteel interpretation of the syndicate is that of right away theologians I'm be painful lots to meet that I'm adequately screwed. The criticism in the trench is that of variety who umpire themselves to be holy but are astounded to find that God doesn't consume their belief. I've seen observe from Christians online implying that the "evildoers" throughout are lax Christians, but a quiet reading of the ape renders that declare zany at best. In the role of lax Christian church teaches hallucination and casting out of demons? Discrete a lot of magical practitioners, I exert no difficulty anything with Christianity or with public who pursuit the Christian syndicate. I explored it many kick ago and honorable found that it wasn't for me. On the other hand, put on are a lot of Christians who behest blissfully fizzle my practices period deed the exact matter themselves and talent their practice "prayer." This reserve average strikes me as genuinely hypocritical or at the very smallest number of crude. Friday, September 19, 2008 Through the Celtic Dragon Tarot Card Deck find out the question...Are dragons real? Since they do not live on the physical plane, scientists cannot trap and dissect them. Yet magicians and pyschics who have explored the astral realms know firsthand that dragons do indeed exist, and that they make very powerful co-magicians. Dragons tap into deeper currents of elemental energies than humans. Becuase of their ancient wisdom, dragons are valuable contacts to call upon when performing any type of divination, such as the laying out of tarot cards. Tarot decks and other divination tools seem to fascinate them. The Celtic Dragon is the first deck to use the potent energies of dragons for divination, magickal spell working, and meditation. Ancient mapmakers noted every unknown territory with the phrase "here be dragons." Both tarot an dmagick have many uncharted areas. Not only will you discover dragons waiting there, but you will also find them to be extremely helpful when you give them the chance. Tuesday, September 16, 2008 By Glen Lim If you be looking for to know about incidence colors and their meaning, you are reading the highlight you are waiting for. Snappishly, you give learn the incidence color meaning for 7 of the incidence colors, but this is by no mean the painstaking list. Towards the end, I give broadcast you someplace you requisite go to read elder about incidence colors and their meaning so guard with me. Why is the concern on incidence colors so fascinating? One of the reasons is for instance incidence colors reveal a person's roughage and also the scorching, mental, spiritual and physiological truths. The other is the air of mystery circular this concern. No one seems to be respectable to report you well what each incidence color honestly mean. Do you know why? I'll report you in next to no time. Initial, allow me to free you the incidence color meaning for the as soon as colors. You may have the benefit of realized that each incidence color takes on a variety of meanings. This is for instance incidence colors lead specific meaning for every being. That's the situation why, and consequently it's not secular to put down a unmarried meaning to each of the color. So you have the benefit of to be well thought-out, and not do stable that bruised incidence manage large event in religiously hound. My directives to you is to get elder philosophy information of the occupier that you are relief incidence colors interpretation, in order to run elder intimate advices. It's easier if you are performing arts incidence colors reading for yourself. Establish out your incidence color and be perceptive of the scorching, mental, spiritual and physiological experiences you are having at that report on, for instance that is firmly what that color manage to you. This is probably the best directives I can run you on incidence colors interpretation. Understand about other incidence colors and their meaning, or get elder information, guidelines and advices on other incidence, at CrystalsBay.net. Go now to find out what the transformational power of crystals can do for you. From: The Crystals Metaphysician - Glen Lim Friday, September 12, 2008 I really have had a week of fail. I did not really achieve anything I set out to do at work. I tried but it is getting harder to get a result and I am worried about getting my goals done. Also had a rather interesting social experience. Just one of those weeks where you arrive at the weekend and wonder what the hell just happened. This is compacted by the fact that the Moon is Waning in Gemini. I have not slept all week properly, my thoughts have been racing and it seems that like always I have too much to do and not enough time to do it all. So I thought I would consult the Tarot this morning and see if I could get some answers or guidance from my subconscious and spirit. I am using a Tarot Reading Spread that is one I created and I find it is useful for specific situations and questions. It gives you a way of seeing more than one aspect of what is going on. 1. The Situation - The 8 of Cups (Chalices) I have had this card more times that I can count, maybe I am not learning its lesson fast enough. This card is all about 'walking away from situations or people that no longer serve you' this is a card about action, you can't simply just think about removing yourself from situations that are no longer positive, you actually have to do it. This is a card of Cups, of emotions as well. This begs the question...am I making things harder on myself than I need to? 2. The Querent in the Situation - The 9 of Pentacles Wow I look like cat woman, I surely feel like it at times. I am drawn to the fact that the card shows city buildings, I work in an office and the roads are swirling around and above her. She has in her pouch the pentacles, however she is dropping a couple of them. This card is traditionally about luxury and material success. 3. The Past - Knave (Knight) of Wands He looks rather like a minstrel. The wands are governed by the element of fire and the Knaves or Knights are often the force and drive behind the elements themselves. The feelings of confidence can maybe be something that is only at the surface? Pyramids in the background speak to me of travel and of ancient knowledge, or maybe knowledge locked away inside, if we go looking for it. 4. The Lesson - Justice A balance card, maybe I need to do some journey work with Justice. The musical notes speak to me, especially considering there was a guitar in the last card. She is the music however. 5. The Challenge - The Fool The fool is a puppet in this deck, being controlled by something we are unable to see. So who is controlling the fool? Is it the universe or a manipulator? Usually the fool has no strings attached in the depiction and is a free being. This being does not look free at all and is also hiding behind a mask. 6. New Attitude/View - Ace of Swords Time for new ideas, to look at things from another perspective. I thought I was actually pretty good at this, considering new angles and peoples points of view. Apparently I already have the answers but I need to carry the actions out swiftly. Maybe I am not being quick enough? 7. Possible Future - The 7 of Chalices (Cups) The card about dreams, wishes and choices. So this is a reminder about keeping down the road I have been paving for myself and not allowing external forces to change my plans or keep me from following my dreams. I am also going to take this as a reminder that even though you have to keep those dreams live and keep those goals in sight, one also has to make sure they carry out the necessary steps to get there.

Staff Andrew Corley Pastor Andrew has served as Pastor of Pleasant Hill since August of 2016. A native of Laurens, SC, Andrew graduated from Presbyterian College (BA in Religion and Philosophy and History) and Gardner-Webb School of Divinity (MDiv) and served in Student Ministry at churches in both North and South Carolina before coming to Pleasant Hill. He and his wife Meghan (a third grade teacher in Gaffney, SC) have been married since July of 2013 and have one dog, Bear. Andrew enjoys reading, particularly auto-biographies of pro-wrestlers, the Charlotte Hornets and Atlanta Braves, 30 minute sit-coms, and time with family and friends. Contact Andrew at andrewprestoncorley@gmail.com. Cal Robertson Music Director Chrissy Binion Minister to Youth and Children Chrissy comes to us as a native from Lexington, NC (aka barbecue country). She graduated from Appalachian State with a bachelor’s degree in Religious Studies in 2014. She is now in her last semester of her master’s degrees in Divinity and Mental Health Counseling at Gardner-Webb University. She and her husband Shelton have been at Pleasant Hill for almost one year. In her free time, she enjoys hiking, watching Netflix, baking scones, and spending time with her two favorite men: her husband and her goofy black lab, Cornbread (yes, that is his real name!). Her passion is to help others in any way they need – through ministry, counseling, or simply with friendship; her prayer for our world is for people to feel valued and that they belong in this messy but beautiful thing we call life. Norma Koon Organist Joel Grigg Building and Grounds Joel has been a member of Pleasant Hill for almost 30 years and has been Minister of Building and Grounds for about as long. He considers his work at Pleasant Hill to be a ministry to the continued mission of the church. Joel retired from Michelin Tire in 2015 and has been doing various volunteer projects since then. He is married to Kay, has a daughter Amy, and two grandsons – Max and Gus. Jenny Clap Church Secretary Jenny has been the secretary at Pleasant Hill since October, 2011. She moved to Kings Mountain from Long Island, NY, where she had lived for 2 years. Prior to that she worked in banking operations in Washington, DC and Baltimore, MD for 35 years. Jenny moved to Kings Mountain to help her mother in 2010, and has a cat, Harley, who has been with her in MD, NY and now NC. She has been a volunteer for the Guardian ad Litum program for 2 years, likes the Carolina Panthers, and enjoys reading, movies and the beach. Contact Jenny at phbc1851@att.netor at 704-487-6192. Share this: Like this: LikeLoading... Why Pleasant Hill "Pleasant Hill has been my home since I was born. My most favorite childhood memories are of activities and friendships from church. I left Pleasant Hill for a while, but returned in 2014 and it was like I never left. I love my Pleasant Hill family and I am very blessed to be part of such an amazing church. My kids and I are happy and growing in our love of the Lord each day. There's no other place we'd rather be." - Jessica Dover This slideshow requires JavaScript. About Our Church Pleasant Hill has been offering 'Hope on the Hill' for over 160 years! Acknowledging our tradition and boldly embracing the future, we exist to share Jesus with our community and the world in real and meaningful ways

Community Workday and Rain Barrel Workshop The Slow Food Garden is located next to the Segway rental (just south of the main entrance to the State Museum) within White River State Park along Washington Street. (#17 on the map: http://www.in.gov/whiteriver/about/map.html) Details of the day are as follows: Community Workday – 1:00 pm to 4:00 pmGrowing Places Indy is committed to cultivating the culture of food and urban agriculture, and this is your opportunity to help cultivate our Slow Food Garden. ·Co-Directors Laura Henderson and Matthew Jose will provide volunteers with a tour of the farm and lead volunteers in the work of the day, be it weeding, seeding, transplanting or more. ·Snacks and water will be provided so please bring a cup/bottle for filling your own water. ·You can continue with work day tasks until 4 p.m., or join the rain barrel workshop at 3 p.m. Rain Barrel Making Workshop – 3:00 pm to 4:00 pmIf you have been thinking about getting a rain barrel, but haven’t got around to buying or building one as yet, here is your chance! ·You can watch and learn how to construct and use your own rain barrel for FREE. ·Or, you can make one of your own to take home to start collecting rainwater for your own gardens for $70 (Cash or check only, collected the day of the workshop). Cost includes a 55 gallon food grade barrel, all hardware and materials and barrel conversion demonstration AND helps to raise money to keep the work of Growing Places Indy growing. ·Either way, you’ll gain the experience to make as many future rain barrels as your heart desires! Space is limited in the rain barrel workshop, so please reserve a place with Tyler Henderson (tylerhenders@yahoo.com) by Friday, June 25 at 5:00pm. About Me URBAN – (adjective): in, relating to or characteristic of a city or town. CULTURE – (noun): a refined understanding or appreciation of • the customs, arts, social institutions and achievements of a particular citizenry, people or social group regarded collectively • (with adjective): the attitudes or behaviors characteristic of a particular group or movement – the emerging Food Culture • (verb): maintain in conditions suitable for growth • (From Latin): cultura – ‘growing, cultivation.’ AGRICULTURE – (noun): the science or practice of farming • (From Latin): agr- ‘field’ + cultura – ‘growing, cultivation.’

2016 Andros South Bonefish School While we still have a few more weeks left in our bonefishing season here at Andros South, judging by the number of folks we’ve heard from lately, many of you are already planning your bonefishing trip for next season. That’s right, it’s never too early and we’re proud of you for planning ahead! With that in mind, today we’re excited to announce the dates for the 2016 Andros South Bonefish School hosted by Louis Cahill. For those of you who don’t know Louis, he operates a great fly fishing blog called Gink and Gasoline, and if you haven’t stumbled upon it yet, we suggest you do by clicking right here. The 2016 Bonefish School will be taking place from November 12th – 19th and is sure to be a great time whether you’re looking to hone your flats fishing skills, or simply spend a week bonefishing in great company. For more information on the school, check out Louis’ release here, or drop us a line to speak with an expert.

birds General - Birds in various forms feature in many mythologies. (1) In Australia the Aborigines regard birds as their original gods. (2) The Buddhists say that Garuda, half man, half eagle, is the transport of the gods. (3) Celtic lore regards birds as the souls of the dead. (4) In the East Indies, the islanders of New Britain say that a bird and a stone, offspring of the sun and the moon, became the progenitors of the human race when the bird turned into a woman and the stone into a man. (5) The Finns, like the Celts, regard birds as the souls of the dead. (6) In Persia birds were regarded as the transmitters of wisdom. (7) In the Pacific Islands, birds are referred to in stories where they act as messengers for the gods, appear as deities who lay eggs from which islands emerge and are sent to locate dry land after the flood. (8) In Siberia the thunder-god can be a bird and a raven is sent to assess the size of the expanding world. They also talk of the bucu, a bird said to help the shaman when he travels the world. (9) The Sumerians say that the dead in the underworld take the form of birds. (10) A universal story tells of a bird sitting in the tree of life near a pool in which lives a monster (a fish, serpent, dragon or toad) which holds back the waters. This bird often battles with the monster to release the waters. In some accounts, known as birds, animals, animals, sacred animals, phoenix, phoenix, Phoinix, Poua-Kai, simurgh, sacred birds, sacred birds, Ainu Ahura Mazda, Amaterasu, Apollo, Athena, Helius, Hermes, Mercury, Mithra, Nyx, Tammuz, Zas Arawn, Artemis, China, Fukurokuju, Kwannon, Lares, Mannanan, Perseus, Shou Shen, Thoth Apollo, Asclepius, Angerbode Brac, Cronus, Odin, Saturn, Yama Juno Aphrodite, Astarte Ararjatis, Ataragatis, Hachiman, Venus Dusara, Jupiter Egypt Apollo, Baba, Brahma, Dionysus, Egypt, Eros, Epona, Hera, Horus, Iris, Juno, Kaltesh, Mars, Ops, Osiris, Seb, Thoth, Vishnu Isis Apollo, Here, Tethys Zoastrianism Asclepius, Inara Ketu, Minerva Brahma, Lakshmi, Sarasvati Apollo, Melkarth Asclepius, Noah, Odin Saturn Aphrodite, Venus Hera, Sweden Aphrodite, Isis Aphrodite, Venus Aztecs, Maya Apollo, Ares Heracles, Isis, Izanagi or Izanami Ares Triptolemus Amaterasu.

2018 Kia Forte5 LX+ for sale in Salaberry de Valleyfield Great design can always be greater. It’s in that spirit that we reimagined the front of the 2018 Forte5 to appear sleeker and more sophisticated, courtesy of a redesigned front bumper, grille and headlights.

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