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Creating yarn pictures is a simple exploration of abstract art and a fine motor exercise. It is also good practice using glue! Included is a book recommendation that fits perfectly with the creative art project.
Yarn pictrures can be completed indoors or out. If you have a beautiful day outside, take your supplies outdoors. Sit in the driveway or on the grass to create!
The directions are simple, your child creates on their paper by drawing with the glue then placing yarn along the glue lines.
When the kids said they were finished, I asked them to tell me about what they created. When I was teaching I always asked children to tell me about their art so I could write their description on their paper. This extends any art activity to include literacy and print awareness.
My kindergartner told me his yarn picture was “the tops of the trees”. My toddler did not have an answer. That is ok! It was fun watching them create. Don’t be afraid to make your own yarn picture along with the kids!
A young girl’s imagination makes her create fun pictures in her mind all with one small red squiggle. It looks just like a piece of yarn. This is a great book to read if your child is having trouble thinking of something to create with their yarn. They will get some ideas of what they can create with their own squiggle of glue and yarn.
I am glad you stopped by. Give these yarn pictures a try whether you have a 2 year old or a 10 year old. Scroll down to view all the blogs participating in this 100 Days of Play series. You will have a lot of fun kids activity inspiration.
I love this idea for the bigger kids! We have tons of colorful yarn in the house – I feel a challenge of who can make the most interesting picture coming on… thanks for the idea!
Ooh!! That sounds like a plan! I hope it goes (or went) well. Have fun!
Thanks so much, Natasha. Share away-the more moms (and dads) we reach the better! Take care!
I remember doing this when I was little! What a fun way to create! I am sure most people would have all of the supplies on hand, which makes it even better! Thanks for sharing in our 100 Days of Play! I have linked and shared your post in our blog hop!
Thank you, Rachel for all of your organization on this blog hop. I am happy to have had the opportunity to participate and have the idea shared! I am so glad that it will reach many moms. Thanks for all you do!
We did this on Tuesday by accident. I was pulling out paper and stickers when I saw the wool. The kids loved it and everyone thats seen them on the fridge has commented. lol. Thanks for sharing your great ideas.
Thank you for sharing your thoughts! I am glad to hear that it was a great activity in your home. All the best! | 2019-04-25T05:56:13Z | https://thestay-at-home-momsurvivalguide.com/100-days-of-play-yarn-pictures/ |
CAIRO (AFP) - Arab League foreign ministers adopted a resolution Tuesday against any attempt to move diplomatic missions to Jerusalem , following Donald Trump s presidential campaign pledge to move the American embassy in Israel.
The status of Jerusalem is one of the thorniest issues in the decades-long Israeli-Palestinian conflict.
Israel occupied the West Bank and east Jerusalem in 1967, later annexing east Jerusalem in a move never recognised by the international community.
The League "considers setting up any diplomatic mission in Jerusalem or moving it to the city an explicit attack on the rights of the Palestinian people and all Muslims and Christians", Tuesday s resolution read.
The resolution, which did not explicitly mention Trump or the United States which has its Israel embassy in Tel Aviv, was adopted unanimously adopted by the 22-member bloc.
Moving diplomatic missions to Jerusalem would be "a serious violation of international law and the Fourth Geneva Convention, and relevant Security Council resolutions," it said.
The Palestinians regard east Jerusalem as the capital of their future state, while Israel proclaims the entire city as its capital.
Departing from Washington s long-standing position, Trump promised while campaigning to recognise Jerusalem as Israel s capital and relocate the American mission there, drawing a fierce rebuke from Palestinian officials and concern from the European Union.
Last month Trump said he would "love to see that happen", and on January 29, Israeli Prime Minister Benjamin Netanyahu urged Trump to keep his promise.
On Sunday, US Congressman Ron DeSantis, chairman of the Subcommittee on National Security, met Israeli leaders to examine the possibility of moving the American embassy to Jerusalem , Israeli officials said.
Israel s deputy foreign minister Tzipi Hotovely, who met DeSantis, said she was "optimistic" it would happen.
The League resolution asked states and Arab League missions to "monitor and follow up on any move to breach the Security Council resolutions and international law regarding moving diplomatic missions to Jerusalem ."
The foreign ministers also tasked the Arab Group of States in New York "to study effective measures to counter any such move through the United Nations, including the security council". | 2019-04-22T22:53:26Z | https://timesofislamabad.com/08-Mar-2017/arab-league-rises-against-us-israel-nefarious-designs |
Mental and emotional health is something that touches all our lives. In the past I’ve received counselling but it wasn’t until my GP referred me for CBT that I understood more about my thoughts and the changes I could make. A family member is currently on this healing journey and previous therapy didn’t have the impact that his current CBT sessions are having. Last year at school I worked with our link trainee Educational Psychologist to create and deliver a CBT programme for KS2 children.
CBT is a valuable tool for all ages and my guest today, Leigh Adley of Set Your Mind Free, is highlighting how this can help the elderly.
If you’ve always wondered what CBT is or the process that the therapy takes you through, you will be much clearer after reading Leigh’s article.
As we grow old, our bodies begin to weaken. This makes the elderly especially vulnerable to serious physical diseases and conditions including arthritis, diabetes, cancer, dementia and cardiovascular problems. Often, any prescribed medicines merely relieve the pain and don’t offer a cure. On top of that patients may also suffer from psychological disorders or depression. These factors combined can also make a person feel suspicious or even hostile to others.
Fortunately, there are effective holistic approaches that Long-term Care (LTC) facilities can use to help their elderly patients. One of them is Cognitive Behavioural Therapy (CBT).
It’s a type of psychotherapy that helps patients deal with their problems by tackling their mental, emotional and behavioural issues. CBT is effective because it allows patients to see how their negative thoughts affect their actions.
In CBT, patients will realise the event itself is not the cause of their emotions but how they interpret that event. Take, for example, a patient’s son or daughter who doesn’t call or visit for several days making them sad or depressed. Instead of harbouring negative thoughts, CBT can help them consider other reasons like their child probably has a busy schedule at the moment.
CBT can change a patient’s view about pain. The therapy can make them realise that less pain means improved quality of life. This method can also change how the patient’s brain responds to chronic pain. Doctors can also combine CBT with other remedies like medications or physical therapy.
However, some medical studies show that CBT, compared to medications or surgery, is more effective for controlling pain because it has fewer risks and side effects. Furthermore, CBT helps patients to develop a positive problem-solving attitude and useful life skills in dealing with pain and other issues in their lives.
Because depression has a serious effect on the elderly, LTC doctors and nurses need to address it immediately.
CBT deals with depression through talk therapy, which can work better than medication. For severe cases, however, a combination of CBT and drug treatment can also work effectively.
The patient can meet and talk with a therapist for at least 30 to 60 minutes with CBT sessions often held once a week or twice a month. In the initial meeting, the therapist will determine if the patient is comfortable with the session and if CBT is suitable.
Patients should also expect the therapist to delve into their past and background. Such information is needed by the therapist to understand the patient’s current situation. In every step of the session, however, the patient has full control throughout and can refuse to discuss anything they might feel uncomfortable talking about.
The patients will divide each problem into different sections. Also, they may need a diary to identify their emotions, thoughts or actions.
With the therapist’s help, the patients can examine their behaviour, thoughts and feelings (and how this affects them personally as well as others). Also, if it’s unrealistic or unhelpful, both therapist and patient can find out ways to change that negative behaviour.
The therapist will assign homework that can make patients ‘forget’ their bad behaviour and reinforce positive ones. These simple assignments give patients the chance to apply the changes to their daily lives.
If a task isn’t working the patient can discuss it with their therapist in the next session.
Another advantage of CBT is that it allows patients to continue applying what they learned even after the sessions.
What makes CBT different from other depression treatments?
Focuses on changing present thoughts and behaviours.
Sets goals during every session, including long term ones.
Lets patients monitor their feelings and thoughts. Afterwards, the therapist helps them deal with them by teaching valuable coping and problem-solving skills.
As LTC professionals we should always strive to look for the best ways to deal with whatever mental, emotional and behavioural issues our residents face. CBT is the right step towards achieving that goal.
Leigh Adley is a qualified clinical hypnotherapist/psychotherapist based in Milton Keynes. Her site, Set Your Mind Free aims to help people get rid of their unwanted habits or addictions.
Emotional Health on Jera’s Jamboree. | 2019-04-26T13:37:05Z | https://www.jerasjamboree.co.uk/2019/02/how-cognitive-behaviour-therapy-cbt-improves-quality-of-life.html |
The Road To Hana on Maui is considered one of the most unique and beautiful roads in Hawaii, and it is a popular Hawaiian adventure. While many people are familiar with the beaches, waterfalls, and scenic outlooks along the way, not everyone knows of the route’s hidden food gems.
There are a variety of shops, trucks, and stands that sell delicious, fresh meals and snacks. Whether you are driving on your own or taking a Skyline Hawaii guided tour, here are some food stops you will not want to miss on the Road To Hana.
If you are looking for a refreshing and sweet treat, you need to experience Coconut Glen’s. Coconut Glen’s is considered one of the best ice cream shops in the world. The ice cream is made from local, fresh coconuts and is completely vegan. There are a variety of flavors available including Hawaiian passion fruit, chocolate chipotle, and original coconut. The stand can be found at the 27.5-mile marker on Hana Highway.
Make sure to bring some cash during your tour because credit cards are not accepted here. If you miss the stand during the drive, you can also try catching Coconut Glen’s food truck that stops in Hana.
Banana bread is one of the specialties in Hawaii and Aunty Sandy’s is one of the best places to find it. The bread is always prepared fresh and given to you while it is warm. This is a popular snack stop, so bread runs out quickly and you might have to wait for fresh batches to be baked. Yum!
This food stand is located on Keanae Road, which is close to the 16.5-mile marker on Hana Highway. There is a wonderful view of the peninsula on Keanae Road. It’s a great place to take a break, enjoy the view, and enjoy delicious banana bread.
Grandma’s Coffee House offers not only coffee, but also bakery items, breakfast food, and lunch food options. This is a great place to stop towards the end of your Road To Hana trip.
There is indoor and outdoor seating available so you can check out the very scenic location with open valley views. Grandma’s Coffee House is popular among locals and tourists. It is located at 9232 Kula Highway in Upcountry Maui.
The Road to Hana has a lot of winding, bumpy stretches that may make people prone to motion sickness not enjoy the trip very much. A popular solution to this problem is Hana Tonic.
Hana Tonic is an all natural anti-nausea shot made locally in Maui. Hana Tonic is available in stores all throughout Hawaii as well as online on Amazon. The tonic is packaged in a small container that is easy to carry and does not need to be refrigerated. So it’s easy to bring with you on the Road to Hana Tour.
At the first sign of nausea, take a shot of Hana Tonic and ensure your Road to Hana adventure is enjoyable the whole way through. | 2019-04-25T14:17:04Z | https://www.skylinehawaii.com/blog/food-stops-on-the-road-to-hana |
Welcome to the Tor.com eBook Club! November’s pick is Spin, the first book in a sci-fi trilogy from Robert Charles Wilson. You have until Monday, November 7th to get your FREE ebook copy—but first, here’s what makes this Hugo award-winning novel stand out from the pack!
In the first Superman film, our hero flies around the Earth with such speed that it alters the rotation of the planet and begins to turn back time. This scene wouldn’t leave me alone as I read Robert Charles Wilson’s Spin for the second time. The book begins when three children witness the stars disappearing from the sky. The Earth, now encased inside a bubble, is thrust out of time, slowed to the point that for every year on Earth, millions pass outside the bubble or, as they call it, the Spin.
Wilson grounds his phenomenon in scientific terms, but I could not help but think of the Spin as Superman, flying along the equator, slowing down time to a crawl. I can’t imagine that’s what the author had in mind, but such is the beauty of reading. We bring what we will to the text.
Although the science fictional conceit is central to the plot, which follows the unraveling of who put the Spin in place around the Earth and why, Spin is actually more a family drama than science fictional adventure. Tyler Dupree and Diane and Jason Lawton watch the stars go out from the sky together. Through Jason’s father, E.D. Lawton, the trio find themselves at ground zero of humanity’s response to the Spin and our climb to free ourselves from its clutches.
Spin is a tremendous novel that won the Hugo Award for Best Novel in 2006. I love it and here’s five reasons you will too.
The Spin shows up one day and the world ends, or at least it will. As time flows more slowly on Earth, the rest of the solar system races toward a dying sun. This is when the Earth, long since passed beyond the ‘goldilocks zone’, will no longer support human life. But that fact is a few generations off. How many no one knows for sure, but distant enough that the Earth ends not with a bang, but with a whimper, edging toward self-destruction in fits and starts. We elect continually more extreme politicians. We pursue continually more hedonistic choices. We don’t care who we hurt because it will all be over soon. Or will it? The humans in Spin know they will die, either when time ends or the Spin disappears and unleashes the sun to scour the Earth’s surface. And so, Wilson offers us a car crash in slow motion—the slow descent into anarchy. It is eerie and haunting and all together too real for comfort.
Robert Charles Wilson has a knack for causation. The barrier comes down, decoupling Earth from the flow of time. What happens next? The entire novel is in many ways an answer to this question. How do we communicate without satellites? How would this change the economy? What kind of people would we elect? What sort of weapons would we bring to bear against the Spin? And, ultimately, how would we react to the rapid extinction of our species? Wilson finds the internal logic of his world and never deviates, fully immersing the reader in his carefully constructed reality with an unmatched verisimilitude.
As far as space colonies go, the one in Spin is extraordinary. Why? It all comes down to time. Interplanetary space travel is impractical, not necessarily because we lack the technology to make it happen, but because of the travel time involved. How do we support human life for such an extended period of time in the harshness of space and still have resources left at the other end to start a new life? Now consider that the Earth is moving at a fraction of a faction of the temporal speed as Mars. How does that change the timetable? I won’t spoil it here by spelling it out, but suffice it to say Wilson’s solution is clever, and the implications of a human planet with a few extra millions years of evolution even more so.
I opened this article with the idea that Spin is more family drama than anything else and boy, is it: the relationship between the twins—Jason and Diane—and Tyler Dupree, their dearest friend caught in the middle, offers a fascinating triangle. Jason, a once-in-a-generation kind of young mind, wants nothing more than to please his father. Diane wants nothing more than to distance herself from everything. Tyler wants nothing more than Diane. In addition to these three young people growing up beneath the starless sky, we also meet their parents, whose desires flit on the sidelines, charting the course for their children’s lives. Even as the world ends, the connectiveness of family never ceases to reign supreme.
If there’s a central argument in Spin, it is this: the only faith humanity should indulge in is faith in each other. Naturally, as the world ends, people turn to religion. End-of-days cults are scattered across the landscape. Through Diane we become privy to some of their machinations, and get a sense of the depths to which we might sink to bring about some misguided sense of closure. Jason places his faith in technology, in ingenuity, in the unseen hand that created the Spin. And what does Tyler believe in? He believes in Jason and Diane, keeping the faith of their friendship above all else. He is their confessor and, often, their redeemer.
These are my five reasons you’ll love Spin, and I suspect you all have your own. I’d love to hear them. | 2019-04-22T16:38:24Z | https://www.tor.com/2016/11/03/five-reasons-robert-charles-wilsons-spin-is-an-sf-classic/ |
Modern slots nowadays are quite different from those mechanical machines invented in prior century. The old slots usually made use of the tension and springs for the determination of the stop point of the reels. The new up-to-date electronic machines dispose much more sophisticated electronic methods of the spin outcome determination.
The heart of the slot machine is considered to be the random number generator. It is known to start working once the slots are turned on and is spitting out random numbers. Usually between 0 and several million numbers are spat out due to RNG at the rate from 300 to 500 numbers per second. RNG never stops generating and is not influenced by outer factors that's why the numbers are completely random.
It is essential to know that the way slots work offline and online is approximately the same. When the player places his bets and pushes the spin button, the slot machine is going to take the few next values from the RNG and pass over through the complicated computer program in order to determine the values the slot machine reels are going to have. Though the computation doesn't last long, the games are considered not to be preprogrammed to repay at any set time. It means that every single spin has the same equal chance for winnings.
In order to understand better the way slots work, it is possible to review the following case of 5 reel slots functioning.
Thus, after the player pushes the spin button, the slots will probably grab the next five numbers from the random number generator in order to store them in the memory. In such a way the slots use the first very number for the first reel determining, the position of the second for the second reel, etc.
In order to work out the position, the computer will divide the generated random number by the set value. It is traditionally the standard value of 64, 32, 16, etc. It works due to the fact that computers usually work in powers of two. It makes much easier to for the computer to work out the value.
For instance, let's take the number 3 486 421, and the computer division by 128. If divide the number by 128, the reminder of 81 emerges. As far as the machine has already set the values of where to stop for the reels for every value from 0 to 127, because these numbers are left after the division of RNG by 128. This very indicates that the machine should stop the reel at that very particular position. | 2019-04-18T13:02:07Z | https://slotshistory.net/slot-machines-work.htm |
Produced by Phil Lord and Christopher Miller (The Lego Movie), and written by Julius “Goldy” Sharpe (Family Guy), Making History follows three friends from two different centuries as they try to balance the thrill of time travel with the mundane concerns of their present-day lives. It’s described as a rollicking historical adventure and a contemporary comedy about love, friendship and trying to fit in to an increasingly complex and impersonal world.
Vereen will play Dr. Theodore Anthony Cobell, n eminent professor in the college History Department and the vaunted mentor of Chris(Lester). Dr. Cobell tries to guide Chris down the path to tenure, and does not take it lightly when Chris starts neglecting his career in favor of Dan (Pally) and his time machine.
Vereen will next be seen as Dr. Everett von Scott in Fox’s TV remake of The Rocky Horror Picture Show, and was recently cast in a co-starring role oppostie Giovanni Ribisi in Amazon’s Sneaky Pete. Vereen won a Tony award for his role in Pippin. He’ll be back on Broadway this fall in a new musical From Brooklyn to Broadway. Vereen is managed by Pamela Cooper at The Cooper Company. | 2019-04-25T14:43:01Z | https://deadline.com/2016/09/ben-vereen-cast-fox-comedy-series-making-history-1201820735/ |
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The CONIA 47” Full HD LCD TV supports analogue video, digital video and PC signals from the HDMI, VGA and RGB inputs. It also provides convenient methods for you to project your media files from your computer directly to your LCD television. CONIA offers PC Input for the convenient connection to personal computers in order to utilise the large LCD screen for presentations or simply as a computer screen. This means that the CONIA 47” Full HD LCD television can be connected to just about anything including DVD and Blu-ray players, High Definition set-top boxes, PlayStation/Xbox Consoles and PCs.
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Content pages allow you to copy and paste web content, or create it from scratch.
Upload your images, embed YouTube videos and create limitless pages of content within your App.
In the Manage Tabs section, under "Basics", you will find the Content Tab. You can add as many of these as you like.
Our simple editor lets you easily create rich content pages without any technical skills.
An advanced option is also provided if you want to write your own HTML.
Use the tools available to edit the font, text size and colours.
Add images by clicking on the Image icon on the toolbar and selecting it from the Available Photos or uploading one from your desktop.
To add YouTube videos, select the YouTube icon and search for the video or enter the YouTube Video ID.
Add audio files by clicking on the Insert Audio button and uploading an audio file from your desktop. Audio files must be mp3.
Create a Social Share button with a Message for emails, Facebook and Twitter. This will only work if you have the Facebook and Twitter Tabs active in your App.
And add Tab Link buttons to link to specific pages in your App. Click on the "Tab Link" button, choose the Tab you want to link to from the dropdown menu and click "Done".
Add a background image from your Image Library or just choose a background colour.
You can write your own HTML for this page, just choose the HTML button from the editor toolbar. | 2019-04-22T08:08:39Z | https://support.appinstitute.com/hc/en-us/articles/115002815729-Content |
Created two illustrations for the magazine Current Affairs. This was a special post election issue that highlighted the fear and uncertainty with the new incoming Trump presidency. The work had to evoke both a sense anxiety but communicate a resistence and a massive upheaval with the hope of fighting back. Additional assitence provided by art director Tyler Rosebush. | 2019-04-26T07:51:36Z | http://hello-david.com/what-looms-ahead-a-postelection-analysis |
"These cookies are really chewy and addictive."
These cookies are a hit! But....I did change the size to just spoondrops and changed the baking time to approx. 9 mins. They came out great! The whole family loved them!
These cookies are very chewy and moist if you are not a crispy cookie person. My husband and kids all loved them and gave rave reviews on taste and how chewy they were. | 2019-04-19T19:21:01Z | https://www.allrecipes.com/recipe/9996/chewy-peanut-butter-chocolate-chip-cookies/ |
The essays in this volume confront stereotypical images of merchants as men, and sometimes women, who stood outside their cultures, beyond history. Ranging across eras, from medieval business practices to modern hucksterism of autobiographical morality tales, the authors of this volume find that merchants cannot be separated from their times. From the (Ottoman) Middle East to the (American) Midwest, the contributors to Trading Cultures emphasize the embeddedness of merchants in geographically and culturally specific contexts. The trading careers reconstructed in this book dwell on mercantile concerns with honor as much as profit, trust as much as truck, and, above all, familial connections as much as individuated enterprise. | 2019-04-23T04:21:44Z | http://www.brepols.net/Pages/ShowProduct.aspx?prod_id=IS-9782503508764-1 |
In Spanish, Tertulia means gathering, especially a gathering of people interested in arts and culture. People of all ages and backgrounds are gathering at Ellarslie to appreciate the art and culture of Latino-Americans.
Visitors to the exhibit can expect to see work by well-known artists like hyper-realist and long-time Ellarslie exhibitor, David Rivera, Jose Anico showing striking modern landscapes, painting and sculpture by Dominican-born artist Julia Santos Solomon, and pieces by regional artists like Alvin Quinones whose figurative expressionistic work is being shown at Ellarslie for the first time.
Read Janet Purcell’s excellent review here. | 2019-04-26T12:48:55Z | http://ellarslie.org/tertulia/ |
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Also can use “Mulligans Irish Pub” in GPS, Some GPS may show this as a Tampa address.
Take I-275 N. Merge onto I-75 N. After .9 miles, Exit FL-56 E via EXIT 275. Bear to Right (going East) off the Exit Ramp. Go 2.3 miles and Turn RIGHT onto CR-581 S / BRUCE B DOWNS BLVD. Go 2.1 miles and Turn LEFT onto REGENTS PARK DR (at the light across from Wal-Mart). You will see a ground level sign on Bruce B. Downs Blvd. that says “PEBBLE CREEK GOLF CLUB”. After turning on to Regents Park Drive, the Golf Course is just .1 mile on the right.
From Downtown Tampa, Take I-4 East. Take the I-75 exit 9 toward OCALA/NAPLES. Keep LEFT at the fork in the ramp. Merge onto I-75 N and go 9.4 miles. Take the CR-581/BRUCE B DOWNS BLVD exit 270. Keep RIGHT at the fork in the ramp. Merge onto BRUCE B DOWNS BLVD and go 3 miles (past Hunters Green and Cross Creek Blvd.). Turn RIGHT onto REGENTS PARK DR (not the first Pebble Creek light, but the second one across from Wal-Mart). You will see a ground level sign on Bruce B. Downs Blvd. that says “PEBBLE CREEK GOLF CLUB”. After turning on to Regents Park Drive, the Golf Course is just .1 mile on the right.
Take I-275 N across bridge to Tampa. Continue past downtown and I-275 turns to the North. Continue for about 20 minutes. Merge onto I-75 N. After .9 miles, Exit FL-56 E via EXIT 275. Bear to Right (going East) off the Exit Ramp. Go 2.3 miles and Turn RIGHT onto CR-581 S / BRUCE B DOWNS BLVD. Go 2.1 miles and Turn LEFT onto REGENTS PARK DR (at the light across from Wal-Mart). You will see a ground level sign on Bruce B. Downs Blvd. that says “PEBBLE CREEK GOLF CLUB”. After turning on to Regents Park Drive, the Golf Course is just .1 mile on the right.
Take I-4 W toward TAMPA. Merge on to I-75 via exit 9 toward OCALA and go 9.4 miles. Merge onto BRUCE B DOWNS BLVD and go 3 miles (past Hunters Green and Cross Creek Blvd.). Turn RIGHT onto REGENTS PARK DR (not the first Pebble Creek light, but the second one across from Wal-Mart). You will see a ground level sign on Bruce B. Downs Blvd. that says “PEBBLE CREEK GOLF CLUB”. After turning on to Regents Park Drive, the Golf Course is just .1 mile on the right.
Walmart Supercenter and a Pizza Hut are on Bruce B Downs Blvd. Pebble Creek Drive is about halfway between the two.
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Recent polls suggest that Republicans and Democrats have slightly different tastes that have nothing to do with politics. If you like cats, The Beatles, and Starbucks, you tend to vote Democrat. If you’re into Toby Keith, Budweiser, and Dunkin’ Donuts, you tend to vote Republican. But an interesting new quiz claims to be 98 percent effective at determining people’s political affiliations by asking questions that have zero to do with politics.
According to ChartsMe, recent studies have found that people who were more prone to disgust are more conservative. This leads them to more closely align with the Republican Party. Some scientists believe it’s ancestral and that the adverse reactions to conditions we’d label “disgusting” were used to protect primitive ancestors from contamination and disease. This way a person wouldn’t confuse drinking water with dirty pond scum. But if the test told you that you’re a Republican, you probably won’t accept that explanation because studies show you probably don’t believe in evolution.
Update: This article originally appeared on August 08, 2016. | 2019-04-25T18:41:07Z | https://www.good.is/articles/what-political-party-is-your-brain |
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A cassette deck is a type of tape machine for playing and recording audio compact cassettes. Consumer electronics formerly used the term deck to distinguish them from a tape recorder, the "deck" being part of a stereo component system, while a "tape recorder" was more portable and usually had a self-contained power amplifier (and often speakers).
Although the two terms became interchangeable, a recorder is typically thought of as a low-fidelity portable device, while a deck is considered a high fidelity component.
The first consumer tape recorder to employ a tape reel permanently housed in a small removable cartridge was the RCA tape cartridge, which appeared in 1958 as a predecessor to the cassette format. At that time, reel to reel recorders and players were commonly used by enthusiasts, but required large individual reels and tapes which had to be threaded by hand, making them less-accessible to the casual consumer. Both RCA and Bell Sound attempted to commercialize the cartridge format, but a few factors stalled adoption, including lower-than-advertised availability of selections in the prerecorded media catalog, delays in production setup, and a stand-alone design that was not considered by audiophiles to be truly hi-fi.
The "compact cassette" (a Philips trademark) was introduced by the Philips Corporation at the Internationale Funkausstellung Berlin in 1963 and marketed as a device purely intended for portable speech-only dictation machines.[citation needed] The tape width was 1⁄8 inch (actually 0.15 inch, 3.81 mm) and tape speed was 1.875 inches (4.8 cm) per second, giving a decidedly non Hi-Fi frequency response and quite high noise levels.
Early recorders were intended for dictation and journalists, and were typically hand-held battery-powered devices with built-in microphones and automatic gain control on recording. Tape recorder audio-quality had improved by the mid-1970s, and a cassette deck with manual level controls and VU meters became a standard component of home high-fidelity systems. Eventually the reel-to-reel recorder was completely displaced, in part because of the usage constraints presented by their large size, expense, and the inconvenience of threading and rewinding the tape reels - cassettes are more portable and can be stopped and immediately removed in the middle of playback without rewinding. Cassettes became extremely popular for automotive and other portable music applications. Although pre-recorded cassettes were widely available, many users would combine (dub) songs from their vinyl records or cassettes to make a new custom mixtape cassette.
In 1970, the Advent Corporation combined Dolby B noise reduction system with chromium dioxide (CrO2) tape to create the Advent Model 200, the first high-fidelity cassette deck. Dolby B uses volume companding of high frequencies to boost low-level treble information by up to 9 dB, reducing them (and the hiss) on playback. CrO2 used different bias and equalization settings to reduce the overall noise level and extend the high frequency response. Together these allowed a usefully flat frequency response beyond 15 kHz for the first time. This deck was based on a top-loading mechanism by Nakamichi, then soon replaced by the Model 201 based on a more reliable transport made by Wollensak, a division of 3M, which was commonly used in audio/visual applications. Both featured an unusual single VU meter which could be switched between or for both channels. The Model 200 featured piano key style transport controls, with the Model 201 using the distinctive combination of a separate lever for rewind/fast forward and the large play and stop button as found on their commercial reel to reel machines of the era.
Most manufacturers adopted a standard top-loading format with piano key controls, dual VU meters, and slider level controls. There was a variety of configurations leading to the next standard format in the late 1970s, which settled on front-loading (see main picture) with cassette well on one side, dual VU meters on the other, and later dual-cassette decks with meters in the middle. Mechanical controls were replaced with electronic push buttons controlling solenoid mechanical actuators, though low cost models would retain mechanical controls. Some models could search and count gaps between songs.
Cassette decks soon came into widespread use and were designed variously for professional applications, home audio systems, and for mobile use in cars, as well as portable recorders. From the mid-1970s to the late 1990s the cassette deck was the preferred music source for the automobile. Like an 8-track cartridge, it was relatively insensitive to vehicle motion, but it had reduced tape flutter, as well as the obvious advantages of smaller physical size and fast forward/rewind capability. A major boost to the cassette's popularity came with the release of the Sony Walkman "personal" cassette player in 1979, designed specifically as a headphone-only ultra-compact "wearable" music source. Although the vast majority of such players eventually sold were not Sony products, the name "Walkman" has become synonymous with this type of device.
Cassette decks reached their pinnacle of performance and complexity by the mid-1980s.[citation needed] Cassette decks from companies such as Nakamichi, Revox, and Tandberg incorporated advanced features such as multiple tape heads and dual capstan drive with separate reel motors. Auto-reversing decks became popular and were standard on most factory installed automobile decks.
As a part of the Digital Revolution, the ongoing development of electronics technology decreased the cost of digital circuitry to the point that the technology could be applied to consumer electronics. The application of such digital electronics to cassette decks provides an early example of mechatronic design, which aims to enhance mechanical systems with electronic components in order to improve performance, increase system flexibility, or reduce cost. The inclusion of logic circuitry and solenoids into the transport and control mechanisms of cassette decks, often referred to "logic control," contrasts with earlier "piano-key" transport controls and mechanical linkages. One goal of using logic circuitry in cassette decks or recorders was to minimize equipment damage upon incorrect user input by including fail-safes into the transport and control mechanism. Such fail-safe behavior was described in a review by Julian Hirsch of a particular cassette deck featuring logic control. Some examples of fail-safe mechanisms incorporated into logic control decks include: a mechanism designed to protect internal components from damage when the tape or motor is locked, a mechanism designed to prevent the tape from being wound improperly, among others. Some logic control decks were designed to incorporate light-touch buttons or remote control, among other features marketed as being convenient. In the car stereo industry, full logic control was developed with the aim of miniaturization, so that the cassette deck would take up less dashboard space.
The Dolby B noise reduction system was key to realizing low noise performance on slow, narrow, cassette tapes. It works by boosting the high frequencies on recording, especially low-level high-frequency sounds, with corresponding high frequency reduction on playback. This lowers the high frequency noise (hiss) by approximately 9 dB. Enhanced versions included Dolby C (in 1980) and Dolby S types. Of the three, however, only Dolby B became common on automobile decks.
Bang & Olufsen developed the HX Pro headroom extension system in conjunction with Dolby Laboratories in 1982. This was used in many higher-end decks. HX Pro reduces the high-frequency bias during recording when the signal being recorded has a high level of high frequency content. Such a signal is self-biasing. Reducing the level of the bias signal permits the desired signal to be recorded at a higher level without saturating the tape, thus increasing "headroom" or maximum recording level.
New tape formulations were introduced. Chromium dioxide (referred to as CrO2 or Type II) was the first tape designed for extended high frequency response, but it required higher bias. Later, as the IEC Type II standard was defined, a different equalization settings was also mandated to reduce hiss, thus giving up some extension at the high end of the audio spectrum. Better-quality cassette recorders soon appeared with a switch for the tape type. Later decks incorporated coded holes in the shell to autodetect the tape type. Chromium dioxide tape was thought to cause increased wear on the heads, so TDK and Maxell adapted cobalt-doped ferric formulations to mimic CrO2. Sony briefly tried FerriChrome (Type III) which claimed to combine the best of both; some people, however, stated that the reverse was true because the Cr top layer seemed to wear off quickly, reducing this type to Fe in practice. Most recent decks produce the best response and dynamic headroom with metal tapes (IEC Type IV) which require still higher bias for recording, though they will play back correctly at the II setting since the equalization is the same.
A variety of noise reduction and other schemes are used to increase fidelity, with Dolby B being almost universal for both prerecorded tapes and home recording. Dolby B was designed to address the high-frequency noise inherent in cassette tapes, and along with improvements in tape formulation it helped the cassette win acceptances as a high-fidelity medium. At the same time, Dolby B provided acceptable performance when played back on decks that lacked Dolby circuitry, meaning there was little reason not to use it if it was available.
The main alternative to Dolby was the dbx noise reduction system, which achieved a high signal-to-noise ratio, but was essentially unlistenable when played back on decks that lacked the dbx decoding circuitry.
Philips developed an alternative noise reduction system known as Dynamic Noise Limiter (DNL) which did not require the tapes to be processed during recording; this was also the basis of the later DNR noise reduction.
Dolby later introduced Dolby C and Dolby S noise reduction, which achieved higher levels of noise reduction; Dolby C became common on high-fidelity decks, but Dolby S, released when cassette sales had begun to decline, never achieved widespread use. It was only licensed for use on higher end tape decks that included dual motors, triple heads, and other refinements.
Dolby HX Pro headroom extension provided better high-frequency response by adjusting the inaudible tape bias during the recording of strong high-frequency sounds, which had a bias effect of their own. Developed by Bang & Olufsen, it did not require a decoder to play back. Since B&O held patent rights and required paying license fees, many other manufacturers refrained from using it too.
Other refinements to improve cassette performance included Tandberg's DYNEQ, Toshiba's adres [ja] and Telefunken's High Com, and on some high-end decks, automatic recording bias, fine pitch adjustment and (sometimes) head azimuth adjustment such as the Tandberg TCD-330 and TCD-340A.
By the late 1980s, thanks to such improvements in the electronics, the tape material and manufacturing techniques, as well as dramatic improvements to the precision of the cassette shell, tape heads and transport mechanics, sound fidelity on equipment from the top manufacturers far surpassed the levels originally expected of the medium. On suitable audio equipment, cassettes could produce a very pleasant listening experience. High-end cassette decks could achieve 15 Hz-22 kHz±3 dB frequency response with wow and flutter below 0.022%, and a signal-to-noise ratio of up to 61 dB (for Type IV tape, without noise-reduction)[citation needed] . With noise reduction typical signal-to-noise figures of 70-76 dB with Dolby C, 80-86 dB with Dolby S, and 85 - 90 dB with dbx could be achieved. Many casual listeners could not tell the difference between compact cassette and compact disc.
Some companies, such as Mobile Fidelity, produced audiophile cassettes in the 1980s, which were recorded on high-grade tape and duplicated on premium equipment in real time from a digital master. Unlike audiophile LPs, which continue to attract a following, these became moot after the Compact Disc became widespread.
Almost all cassette decks have an MPX filter to improve the sound quality and the tracking of the noise reduction system when recording from a FM stereo broadcast. However, in many especially cheaper decks, this filter cannot be disabled, and because of that record/playback frequency response in those decks typically is limited to 16 kHz. In other decks, the MPX filter can be switched off or on independently from the Dolby switch. On yet other decks, the filter is off by default, and an option to switch it on or off is only provided when Dolby is activated; this prevents the MPX filter from being used when it's not required.
A key element of the cassette's success was its use in in-car entertainment systems, where the small size of the tape was significantly more convenient than the competing 8-track cartridge system. Cassette players in cars and for home use were often integrated with a radio receiver, and the term "casseiver" was occasionally used for combination units for home use. In-car cassette players were the first to adopt automatic reverse ("auto-reverse") of the tape direction at each end, allowing a cassette to be played endlessly without manual intervention. Home cassette decks soon added the feature. In-car cassette players are preferred by some particularly for their cheaper cost and serviceability.
Cassette tape adaptors have been developed which allow newer media players to be played through existing cassette decks, in particular those in cars which generally do not have input jacks. These units do not suffer from reception problems from FM transmitter based system to play back media players through the FM radio, though supported frequencies for FM transmitters that aren't used on commercial broadcasters in a given region (e.g. any frequency below 88.1 in the US) somewhat eliminates that problem.
Cassette equipment needs regular maintenance, as cassette tape is a magnetic medium which is in physical contact with the tape head and other metallic parts of the recorder/player mechanism. Without such maintenance, the high frequency response of the cassette equipment will suffer.
The heads and other metallic components in the tape path (such as spindles and capstans) may become magnetized with use, and require demagnetizing (see Cassette demagnetizer).
Isopropyl alcohol and Denatured alcohol are both suitable head-cleaning fluids. (Rubbing alcohol may contain oil which is not suitable.) Head cleaning fluid is a relatively expensive way to buy isopropyl alcohol.
Analog cassette deck sales were expected to decline rapidly with the advent of the compact disc and other digital recording technologies such as digital audio tape (DAT), MiniDisc, and the CD-R recorder drives. Philips responded with the digital compact cassette, a system which was backward-compatible with existing analog cassette recordings for playback, but it failed to garner a significant market share and was withdrawn. One reason proposed for the lack of acceptance of digital recording formats such as DAT was a fear by content providers that the ability to make very high quality copies would hurt sales of copyrighted recordings.
The rapid transition was not realized and CDs and cassettes successfully co-existed for nearly 20 years. A contributing factor may have been the inability of early CD players to reliably read discs with surface damage and offer anti-skipping features for applications where external vibration would be present, such as automotive and recreation environments. Early CD playback equipment also tended to be expensive compared to cassette equipment of similar quality and did not offer recording capability. Many home and portable entertainment systems supported both formats and commonly allowed the CD playback to be recorded on cassette tape. The rise of inexpensive all-solid-state portable digital music systems based on MP3, AAC and similar formats finally saw the eventual decline of the domestic cassette deck. Tascam, Marantz, Yamaha, Teac, Denon, Sony, and JVC are among the companies still manufacturing cassette decks in relatively small quantities for professional and niche market use. By the late 1990s, automobiles were offered with entertainment systems that played both cassettes and CDs. By the end of the late 2000s, very few cars were offered with cassette decks. The last vehicle that played cassettes is the 2010 Lexus SC 430. As radios became tightly integrated into dashboards, many cars lacked even standard openings that would accept aftermarket cassette player installations.
Despite the decline in the production of cassette decks, these products are still valued by some. Many blind and elderly people find the newest digital technologies very difficult to use compared to the cassette format. Cassette tapes are not vulnerable to scratching from handling (though the exposed magnetic tape is vulnerable to stretching from poking), and play from where they were last stopped (though some modern MP3 players offer savestating electronically). Cassette tapes can also be recorded multiple times (though some solid-state digital recorders are now offering that function).
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"Why are Christians so mean?"
It's a frequently asked question, sadly.
Let me begin by saying if you feel you've been mistreated by a Christian or you've witnessed someone else mistreated by one, I am sincerely sorry.
People—and especially Christians—should love one another.
Unfortunately, the reality is it does happen.
I think there are essentially three reasons why Christians are sometimes perceived as mean.
Reason #1: Many "Christians" aren't really disciples of Jesus.
Have you ever known someone who claimed to be something they weren't?
Today, a lot of people claim the label, "Christian." It's still relatively popular in many places in the world to claim to be a Christian.
And there are a lot of people who like the idea of going to heaven when they die.
Many of these people have been taught and have bought into what I call the False Gospel of Easy Believism™.
Pray a prayer asking Him to forgive their sins.
Do this and... presto! You are instantly forgiven of your sins and can do nothing whatsoever to lose this salvation.
No commitment required. No change necessary. It's... easy!
GOD loves us that much. He sent Jesus to suffer on the cross to become our magic genie so we can live however we want, as long as we believe in Him.
So why change? What incentive is there to grow? To become more like Jesus? To exhibit Christ-like character and love of our neighbor?
And so many of these people adopt the name "Christian" and they keep living just like they did before they professed faith in Jesus.
The False Gospel of Easy Believism is a lie.
The only person who is truly a Christian is the one who gives every ounce of their being toward becoming like Jesus, exhibiting His character in their life.
In order to save a person, they must come to Jesus and make Him their Lord—their master—which means that they give up their perceived right to choose how they live (see Matt. 11:28-30; 7:21; Gal. 2:20; 1 John 2:6).
Jesus will never accept those who fake commitment to Him or try to serve both GOD and the pleasures of this world (see Luke 16:13; Rev. 3:14-20).
Just because someone claims to be a Christian does not make them one (see Acts 11:26; 1 Pet. 4:12-16). I can claim to be a neurosurgeon, but that doesn't make me one.
While nobody is perfect and all people (including Christians) sin, hypocritical Christians do more to damage the cause of Jesus and keep souls out of His kingdom than anything else (see Rom. 2:17-24).
Let us exercise extreme care as to how we walk.
Our example is extremely important.
We never know who is looking up to or watching us.
Recognize that the "Christian(s)" you perceive as mean may not be a Christian at all. Look at the "fruit" of their life. Does it look like Jesus?
Know that there are genuine Jesus followers in the world who aren't mean.
Avoid the temptation to stereotype all Christians based on some bad experiences.
Consider reading what the Scriptures teach regarding how Jesus followers should live.
Reason #2: Christians sometimes fail to demonstrate compassionate love in our zeal for biblical principles.
Now that we've dealt with the hypocrites, let's put them aside and focus on genuine authentic Christians.
Christians believe we have the best news ever: that Jesus offers free payment for sin.
There is a GOD in heaven who created and judges each of us (see Gen. 1:27; 5:2; 18:25; Psalm 10:13; 75:7).
He is holy and can't coexist with sin (see Hab. 1:13).
We are each guilty sinners (see Rom. 3:23) and the payment GOD demands for our sins is human blood because life is contained in the blood (see Lev. 17:11).
GOD says if we die in our sins, we'll go to hell for eternity (Matt. 25:41, 46; Rev. 20:11-15; 21:8).
Authentic Christians believe the Bible is GOD's inspired and infallible message to humans.
The Bible says that Jesus is the only way to be saved (see John 14:6; Acts 4:12).
There is only one path to GOD (and therefore, to heaven).
We must obey the teachings of the Bible and the New Testament, in particular.
Sin must be avoided and confronted.
Love GOD with all of our being.
Authentic Christians are convinced that non-Christians (and unrepentant Christians living in sin) are in the gravest of danger because of life's uncertainty.
Because we believe this, our love for others motivates us to warn people. To us, it's a matter of life and death.
We fear hell and we don't want anyone to experience that. Eternity is a long time.
Besides this, we've found true life filled with abundant blessings, and we want to share that with as many people as will listen.
Sometimes, in our zeal to please GOD and love others, we can come across the wrong way—as pushy or mean.
I've made this mistake before (more than once).
Once, I had a Christian friend who told me he and his Christian wife were getting a divorce. I wasn't surprised because I had observed that their marriage didn't appear healthy as I had rarely seen them together in the weeks preceding this information.
When he broke this news to me over the phone, my thoughts immediately went to how I could get them to change their minds and save their marriage. I was most concerned for their long-term well-being and spiritual condition. And so my response was something like, "Have you told the elders [of the church] yet?"
Although my heart was in the right place, I later learned that this came across to my friend as cold, insensitive and unloving. It hurt him deeply.
And I've regretted it since.
Remember Jesus' example of compassion to others.
Seek to imitate His love that was obviously felt by sinners.
Pray that GOD would give us hearts of compassion and the words to communicate truth in a spirit of love.
Be patient with others. Love them where they are, regardless of where they are.
Try to see the world from a Christian's perspective when they come across as cold or mean. Sometimes people really are jerks, and sometimes people are motivated by love but their human imperfection gets in the way.
Help Christians understand your perspective, in a kind manner, so they can realize where they're hurting or offending you. Focus on profitable dialog and not a grenade tossing contest.
Reason #3: Like unbelievers, authentic Christians sin occasionally.
The third reason why a Christian(s) may come across as mean is simply that they're imperfect too.
This isn't a valid excuse.
I'm not always pleasant to be around.
I have bad days sometimes. And so does every person I've ever known.
But bad days and meanness should not characterize a Christian. They should be the exception—the temporary behavior, not the norm.
Have you ever known Christians who were unpleasant people to be around?
A Christian that is regularly unpleasant or mean is a Christian who doesn't understand Jesus and lacks joy.
I've known miserable Christians, but if I'm honest, I tend to lump them into the hypocritical category discussed in point 1.
The truth is that an authentic Christian possesses and should exhibit greater joy than anyone.
Take inventory. Do people see you as a joyful person? If not, why?
Be patient with us. Christians have problems too and sometimes our focus shifts to the near-term rather than the big picture and we allow the worries of life to weigh us down.
Help us see when we're not living as we ought. Your cautions matter to us.
Bonus Reason: Sometimes people confuse disapproval of sin with hatred.
Lastly, a popular narrative today is that if a person doesn't accept my behavior, then they are a "hater." To many, love equates to acceptance of behavior.
As I've already explained, authentic Christians cannot accept, condone, ignore or embrace sin.
That does not mean, however, that Christians should ever fail to love a person—any person, even an enemy.
But what is love in this sense?
The highest form of love—that love Jesus commands us to exhibit towards GOD and our neighbor—is the Greek word agapé. (The majority of the New Testament was written in Greek.) This love means that you pursue the loved one's best interests. It's not an emotional connection but an intentional choice to do what's best for them.
Often, agapé means doing what you'd rather not do—that which is more difficult or uncomfortable.
Often, agapé means saying what the other person doesn't want to hear but needs to hear.
That's the call of Christians, to love people enough to say what needs to be said.
Many times, what needs to be said is offensive to the hearer, because we don't like to be told we're wrong or that we're in sin.
Instead, we like it when people tell us we're okay or when we can make some excuse that we're not responsible. "It's just how I am."
In conclusion, I'm a fan of object lessons. Here's an object lesson for agapé.
This "kiss" is driven not by lust or even emotional feelings but by what is best for this man's coworker—to save his life.
Be careful not to confuse agapé with hatred. It may just save your life. | 2019-04-21T04:20:20Z | https://chasingalion.com/a/1336-mean-christians |
New Delhi: The ongoing rift with the government is set to play out at the RBI’s crucial board meeting Monday, with the Finance Ministry nominees and some independent directors expected to take on Governor Urjit Patel and his team over issues ranging from MSME credit to the central bank’s reserves, though both sides are in favour of reaching a common ground.
While there have been reports and demands from some quarters for the Governor to step down, sources said Patel is unlikely to yield under pressure and will rather mount a strong defence of the central bank’s policies regarding stringent NPA recognition norms as well as measures taken to ease credit supply to MSMEs.
expected to support the central bank’s mission to clean up bank balance sheets, sources said.
The central board, headed by the RBI Governor, is expected to discuss issues mentioned in the agenda circulated to the board members in advance.
Off-agenda items can also be raised in the meeting, with the chair’s permission.
The RBI’s central board currently has 18 members, though the provision is that it can go up to 21.
The members include Governor Urjit Patel and his four deputies as ‘full-time official directors’, while the rest 13 have been nominated by the government, including two Finance Ministry officials — Economic Affairs Secretary and Financial Services Secretary.
Sources said the government and Reserve Bank of India (RBI) are looking to reach at an agreeable solution with respect to relaxation of the Prompt Corrective Action (PCA) framework and easing of lending norms for the MSME sector.
If not in this board meeting, the issue of relaxation of PCA framework would reach a resolution in the next few weeks, they added.
As a result of the relaxation, some banks may come out of the PCA framework by the end of this fiscal.
Of the 21 state-owned banks, 11 are under the PCA framework, which imposes lending and other restrictions on weak lenders.
The PCA framework kicks in when banks breach any of the three key regulatory trigger points — namely capital to risk weighted assets ratio, net non-performing assets (NPA) and return on assets (RoA).
Globally, PCA kicks in only when banks slip on a single parameter of capital adequacy ratio, and the government is in favour of this practice being adopted for the domestic banking sector as well.
The RBI is also expected to consider a special dispensation for micro, small and medium enterprises (MSMEs) and non-banking financial companies (NBFCs) which have been facing liquidity issues.
The government feels that the MSME sector — which employs about 12 crore people and plays a critical role in the economy — needs some support after being impacted by demonetisation and implementation of the Goods and Services Tax (GST).
However, the central bank has been averse to the government’s demand as it considers the sectors to be vulnerable.
Meanwhile, Finance Minister Arun Jaitley on Saturday said that growth must not be throttled by limiting credit availability and liquidity.
It is necessary that the growth process does not suffer due to the cleaning up of the banking system from the “collectively committed sins” during 2008-14 when the regulatory mechanisms also overlooked high debt accumulation, he said.
Amid growing tensions with the central bank, the Finance Ministry had sought discussions under the never-used-before Section 7 of the RBI Act which empowers the government to issue directions to the RBI Governor.
In his first public comments since the spat between the RBI and the Finance Ministry came out in the open, Swadeshi ideologue S Gurumurthy had last week said the stand-off “is not a happy thing at all”.
Gurumurthy, who was appointed to the board of RBI a few months back, had said the capital adequacy ratio prescribed in India is 1 per cent higher than the global Basel norms. He also pitched for easing lending norms for small and medium enterprises, which account for 50 per cent of the country’s GDP.
Last month, RSS-affiliated Swadeshi Jagran Manch said the RBI Governor should work in sync with the government or resign. | 2019-04-24T21:52:49Z | http://vixc.com/rbi-board-meeting-tomorrow-likely-to-reach-common-ground-on-some-key-issues/ |
Inflation based on wholesale prices eased to a four-month low of 4.53 per cent in August on softening of prices of food articles, especially vegetables. The Wholesale Price Index (WPI) based inflation stood at 5.09 per cent in July and 3.24 per cent in August last year. According to the government data released Friday, food articles registered deflation at 4.04 per cent in August 2018. Last month, deflation in this category was 2.16 per cent.
While inflation in liquefied petroleum gas (LPG) was 46.08 per cent, in diesel and petrol it was 19.90 per cent and 16.30 per cent, respectively, during August. Among food articles, potato inflation continued to rule high at 71.89 per cent in August, while onion and fruits witnessed deflation of 26.80 per cent and 16.40 per cent, respectively. Deflation continued in pulses at 14.23 per cent in August. The 4.53 per cent inflation is the lowest in four months, and a lower inflation than this level was last seen in April at 3.62 per cent.
As per the data, the WPI inflation for June was revised downwards to 5.68 per cent from the provisional estimate of 5.77 per cent. Brent crude oil price is hovering at around USD 79 a barrel. This, along with a depreciating rupee has increased the oil import bill, thereby making petrol and diesel costlier. Petrol price Thursday climbed to an all-time high of Rs 81 per litre in Delhi, while in Mumbai it inched up to Rs 88.39. A litre of diesel in the national capital was priced at Rs 73.08 and Rs 77.58 in Mumbai. | 2019-04-25T12:15:50Z | https://m.businesstoday.in/story/wholesale-price-inflation-drops-to-fourmonth-low-august/1/282385.html |
Leather briefcase by Pielle. Made in Italy.
Condition: New old stock, never used. May show light shelf wear. | 2019-04-20T19:02:14Z | https://leotjames.com/collections/bags-briefcases/products/pielle-leather-briefcase-document-holder-tan |
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JAMES PETIT – The size is absolutely perfect: 13 X 10.5 X 5. The first thing that struck me is the color. It’s very rich and has the signature vintage look and feel, but with the telltale new leather smell. It is a VERY comfortable carry and I can see myself easily carrying this little beauty everywhere. I would have no qualms about taking it out and about for long periods.
JAMES ORIGINAL – One look at this bag and there is absolutely no doubt why this bag is a best seller. Unapologetically 16 X 12 X 5, this bag stands out. I LOVE LOVE LOVE the hand tag that lets you know the year made and the unit of production. There are no more than 100 handmade units of this color produced for the 2018 season. To say that I am thrilled to receive the first one of the season is an understatement. Since every piece is handmade right at their showroom, each piece is unique, but when you know there are only 100 per season, it makes the product that much more so.
I am still smiling just thinking about these bags. I will be back with my classic bag battle and an individual review for both. If there are any questions you’d like me to answer in the bag battle, please let me know! | 2019-04-24T09:48:09Z | http://www.justalittlereview.com/2018/03/26/sandast-james-petit-a-surprise-unboxing/ |
Sup everyone. This is just a small project I'm running.
SO YEAH EVERYONE DROP YOUR PANTS AND POST PICTURES OF YOURSELF NEKKED. Just kidding(though I wouldn't mind at all).
There are some rules though, which you must abide.
1. DO NOT post sigs from other sites, only those you've seen on gfxvoid.
Moved this over to the sigs forum. Try not to spam it too much please guys. Good work Kotora.
this one certainly belongs in this thread!!
one off the finest sigs i've seen on this site.
Come on guys! Lets see some more suggestions!
A nice tone of colours and contrast as well as some flow. The only thing that brings it down is the text. | 2019-04-22T12:31:46Z | http://www.gfxvoid.com/forums/showthread.php?60313-All-your-sigs-are-belong-to-us-(Inspiring-Art)&s=5c2b7e5d5e9e3c962797ee158e33fa9e |
Im just waiting for blitz to meltdown when he fluffs a kick at training.
Kid should get a bit less hype than usual from the media which is good for him.
I know it’s not a reason to have picked him, but now that it’s done, I kind of do like that our prize recruit should be ready to go round one. In a position we really need someone.
It’s kind of like being able to plug the new Nintendo into the telly on Christmas Day. Instant gratification!
Player type screaming, “pick me!” What a talent with immense drive. He will fit in with the boys beautifully and he’s raring to go round 1 2017. Assuming Essendons prospects don’t head south for any unexplained reason (hopefully the clubs old “friend” injury doesn’t come a knocking anytime soon) there is some genuinely exciting times ahead. Absolutely rapt McGrath is in the red and black!
Andrew McGrath started the season as a relatively unknown player, not selected for Vic Metro U18 as a bottom ager along with not making the AFL Academy after winning the Vic Metro Under 16 MVP. McGrath is an exciting prospect that looked at his best showing his dash across the half back flank throughout the Under 18 championships, where he won All Australian honours and won the Vic Metro U18 MVP.
McGrath however isn’t just a flashy type across half back, he can work through the midfield and win his own ball. His match against Gippsland Power in the TAC Cup where he collected 44 disposals, 19 tackles and 14 clearances earlier in the season shows he has the toughness to play on the inside. At school level, he’s played in a multitude of rooms even pushing forward and hitting the scoreboard in the latter half of the season for Brighton Grammar. His two goals in the wet against Haileybury in a low scoring game were vital to the Brighton’s success.
What makes McGrath even more accomplished is his leadership skills. McGrath was co-captain of the Vic Metro side as well as being school captain at Brighton Grammar School. With clubs looking for allround footballers, there is no doubt McGrath will appeal to clubs throughout the interview process. With Essendon holding pick one, McGrath along with Hugh McCluggage are the two players believed to be in the mix for their first selection.
His performance in Vic Metro’s opening game of the carnival saw him shut down the dangerous Ben Ainsworth, keeping him to two handballs – after he had booted four goals in the third term. A moment of brilliance saw McGrath play on from full back and run & carry the ball forward, setting up Dylan Clarke to mark and goal from the goalsquare. McGrath played a similar role on taller Eastern Ranges young gun Jaidyn Stephenson also keeping him goalless after moving onto him in the third quarter.
There is a lot to like about McGrath and his athletic background, stemming from him being an Australian junior hurdler means he can create an electric highlights package. McGrath has had a big year and tested well at the combine, as one of the players who have played the most games in 2016. McGrath too is likely to compete in the APS school athletics final, where his athletic display will be on show for those clubs who will be sitting in the stands.
If you have not seen the video of McGrath’s superb run out of defence in the Vic Metro’s opening Under 18 championships game it is a must watch (in the tweet below). McGrath changes direction at the touch of a button, with strong agility and being quick footed means he moves quickly. McGrath is no11t a renowned straight line runner, as indicated by his over 3 second 20m sprint time at the National Combine.
McGrath did have knocks in the TAC Cup at times for not winning enough ball, but a real strength of his was his ball winning ability. McGrath averaged 32 disposals and had four games where he had 36 or more disposals – including his huge 38 disposals in the TAC Cup Grand Final (28 of which were in the 2nd half) seeing him win Best on Ground honours.
McGrath’s movement to a more of an inside role after returning to the Sandringham Dragons full time after school football season, saw him win more of the ball and resulted in a great clearance result. McGrath’s clearance numbers were outstanding and he had the fourth most clearances out of any of the TAC Cup players invited to the combine.
McGrath was able to match offence with defence at plenty of times throughout the year. He had to match up on Ben Ainsworth and Jaidyn Stephenson on the last line of defence, but still had to rebound the football forward for his team – as both were trailing at the two points of the year when he was the crucial defender.
There is no question McGrath can play any position on the ground. He has played on the last line of defence for Vic Metro (on Ainsworth) and Sandringham Dragons (on Stephenson). He’s had dashing moments across half back and on the wing, as well as winning his own football in the centre of the ground. McGrath was pivotal up forward for Brighton Grammar at times, including his crucial two goals in the wet (including a snap from the pocket) that ensured they would get over a strong Haileybury team.
McGrath does a few knocks with his kicking. McGrath doesn’t have a long boot and does struggle to kick the ball 50 metres. This often seems his look for a shorter target rather than going long down the line. What McGrath at stages does, is he runs 10m and kicks the ball 40m taking the ball 50m (the same distance as kicking the ball 50m).
Whilst his kicking can be hot and cold, he can attempt to pull off a game opening kick rather than playing the safe option. His kicking efficiency at times were down in the Under 18 championships, with him using his non-preferred left boot at stages.
At times in stoppages in McGrath’s defensive 50 his defensive positioning can be incorrect. In a few instances at stoppages in the National Under 18 Championships, McGrath wasn’t in the correct positioning and it allowed his opponent to get goalside and in one case resulted in a goal. McGrath is still learning his craft deep in defence and it did seem to improve throughout the champs with more exposure.
In the latter half of the season at TAC Cup level, McGrath mostly played further up the ground rather than being deep in defence at times in the champs are he was better manning his opponent.
Andy McGrath has come on in leaps and bounds this year and if 2016 is anything to go by, McGrath could well run out with his new teammates in Round One 2017.
A superb leader and speaker, McGrath is well liked and a figure that some clubs have referred to him as ‘the person you want your daughter to marry’.
The talented athlete showed that despite missing the AFL academy, you certainly will come under the eye of scouts right across the country and he is another success story for those who have missed the academy programs.
A steller season has seen McGrath jump from a relatively unknown to a player some see as the most likely to go number one in November’s AFL draft.
How you nerds could not be excited after watching those highlights is beyond me. Looks a legit gun. Cross between Scott West (evasiveness) and Judd (strength and explosive pace). Like.
They rather see Jerrett like plays with Cluggie!
Let’s hope mc luggage wants to come home in a couple of years.
Yep, great pick but Luggage was the more daring option. Who dares, I’ve heard, often wins.
But who dares, I think you’ll find, more often loses.
Suns having 4 picks in the top 10. Re-build or the start of fark up No 2?
Doesn’t seem that short comparatively.
Setterfield however is going to be a beast.
We always play sides that have a player we can’t ever seem to lay a hand on to tackle.
Now we have our own. Will create so much play with his line breaking ability & sideways zigzagging to get out of trouble.
The Wanganeen movement comparisons are spot on.
Pumped to have McGrath & Colyer in midfield, and Raz & TIPPA at half forward, all in same side next year. And maybe even the Green machine too.
We will be so exciting to watch.
THE MORE I WATCH THE MORE I SEE A BABY GAJ, SORRY CLUGG IM IN LOVE!!
At least they’ll have each other.
He can compare notes with McClug, what a ■■■■■ sandwich that kid is going to walk into, hopefully we are working on the exit strategy for him already !!!
I still think our list lacks pace, and we only partially addressed it today with the McGrath selection...so for that reason at least, he was a very important selection.
IIRC, that makes Jay Neagle faster than both of them!
Yep- but he could only do one.
It would be literally a half step more stupid than me emailing him asking him to play a WA boy at Subi cos he's my favourite player and I wanna see him live.
Have you stopped doing that now?
Haha, yeah I was going to say after Cory played that one time peeto was happy and didn’t need to do it anymore. | 2019-04-26T08:25:54Z | https://discourse.bomberblitz.com/t/1-andy-mcgrath-hates-chocolate/3760 |
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"IN A WORLD WITHOUT WHITE PEOPLE, SEMITIC AND OTHER NON-WHITE POPULATIONS WOULD STILL HAVE BEEN ENSLAVING AFRICANS ON A VAST SCALE..."
SAY NO TO WHITE GENOCIDE!
The recent Christmas wish for 'white genocide' by Prof. George Ciccariello-Maher of Drexel University was made with impunity. This degenerate has not lost his job and much of what I've read in the mainstream has defended him. It seems the only ones ready to stand against him are the alt-light and the alt-right. I'm not even 30, but the West is an alien world compared to the one I grew up in. In my view, we whites need to protect ourselves and, moreover, we need a sense of ethno-nationalism, pride in our civilizations and to encourage whites to breed with each other and to start breeding to replacement levels. The state isn't going to do it for you, white man!
First, we need to overcome this delusion that white people are the worst thing to happen to this planet, prompting morons like the above professor to wish whites never existed. Some are even deliberately breeding with someone of another race, to have no part in furthering our existence. I'm, therefore, going to act as the angel, Clarence, from It's A Wonderful Life by taking you on a journey through a world without white people in the hope that you will not only want whites to live but even to flourish, taking pride in the greatest civilizations ever to grace this planet.
Let's start with the big one – slavery. In a world without white people, Semitic and other non-white populations would still have been enslaving Africans on a vast scale, which in some ways was not as harsh as the slavery of kidnapped children from the shores of Europe, committed by the Ottomans. Right the way up to England, these children were seized to become the brains of the operation – military and administrative leaders, without which the war economy of the Ottoman Empire would have been a shorter and even bloodier endeavour. At least, in the case of the slaves sold to Americans, there are some African descendants who have the luxury of living in one of the greatest countries in the world.
Let's be frank, if you could live as a black man in the US or pretty much any African country, which would you pick? No, let's take it one further, if you could live as a black man in a majority white or non-white country, which would you pick? Of course, blacks are in no rush to leave Western countries. If you are smart, you will pick the countries produced by European populations because we produce the most welcoming, generous and libertarian nations there are. When it comes to slavery, we ended it! And only until very recently have other nations been following our example. A world without white people is a world full of suffering for the weak.
What else are we blamed for? Well, the reason fellow-whites see us as an obstacle to the cultural Marxist agenda is because we invented modern capitalism. Well, let's imagine a world without the vast majority of the technology we enjoy today, the industrial revolution and the unmatched innovation of the West never having occurred. In a word – death. The only other contenders would be the Persians (don't insult them by attributing their achievements to 'Islam') and the Chinese, yet these civilizations were declining tremendously in terms of innovation.
Even when they were on a high, they didn't have the type of society which readily mobilized and utilized new technologies so that they were in use by the populace at large in a relatively short space of time with the market driving prices down (See Huff's The Rise of Early Modern Science: Islam, China and the West). So, if you like the thought of humans being a cold, miserable, fraction of what it is today, thanks in large part to vulnerability to many illnesses, then you'd love a world without white people. Never mind a world without polyphonic music!
But, let's get down to the biggest loss to a world without whites. Whites created the rule of law. There is no doubting this. Even before the concept had been rationalized, Europeans were continuing the libertarian spirit of the Indo-Europeans whose aristocracies valued competition from one another, the kind being a first among equals who could be taken to the court of another lord for interfering with the property of another free man. No other advanced societies did this; everywhere practised oriental despotism. Our unusually individualistic cultures introduced the concept of the sovereignty and sanctity of the individual to the world, which is full of collectivist societies, typically produced by the other races. Make no mistake, the world without whites isn't simply one where mortality and slavery are strong, but these would be omnipresent! So, white man, do you want to live?
When a university professor or anyone else who should know better says that they want white people to be exterminated, they are promoting not just acts of war against an entire race, they are expressing a hatred for all of mankind and the quality of life the world now increasingly enjoys. If they are joking, it's just not funny; a world without white people is one of the darkest things you could imagine. If you think it's a joke to share on twitter, you need therapy, not a job as a professor at a university in a majority white country. | 2019-04-21T03:12:45Z | http://www.libertymachinenews.com/say-no-to-white-genocide.html |
Need ideas on what to gift your fella this Valentine's Day? Forget the boxes of indeterminate chocolates and other clichéd drugstore finds. From cashmere sweaters to multi-month Amazon prime subscriptions, these are the items we're treating our guys to this go around.
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In 1837, Charles Babbage designed a general purpose computer, the Analytical Engine, but never built it.
Between 1934 and 1937, Church, Turing et al. defined the general purpose computer, but didn’t design one.
In 1941, Konrad Zuse built the first general purpose computer, the Z3, but didn’t know it was general purpose and didn’t use it that way.
From 1943 to 1946, Mauchly and Eckert finally built a computer, ENIAC, that was designed to be general-purpose.
This entry was posted in archeology, trivia on April 20, 2010 by Michael Steil.
If you type “WAIT6502,1” into a Commodore PET with BASIC V2 (1979), it will show the string “MICROSOFT!” at the top left corner of the screen. Legend has it Bill Gates himself inserted this easter egg “after he had had an argument with Commodore founder Jack Tramiel”, “just in case Commodore ever tried to claim that the code wasn’t from Microsoft”.
In this episode of “Computer Archeology“, we will not only examine this story, but also track down the history of Microsoft BASIC on various computers, and see see how Microsoft added a second easter egg to the TSR-80 Color Computer – because they had forgotten about the first one.
This whole story sounds similar to Apple embedding a “Stolen From Apple” icon into the Macintosh firmware in 1983, so that in case a cloner copies the ROM, in court, Steve Jobs could hit a few keys on the clone, revealing the icon and proving that not just a “functional mechanism” was copied but instead the whole software was copied verbatim.
Let’s dig into the history of Microsoft’s BASIC interpreters. In 1975, Microsoft (back then still spelled “Micro-soft”) released Altair BASIC, a 4 KB BASIC interpreter for the Intel 8080-based MITS Altair 8800, which, despite all its other limitations, included a 32 bit floating point library.
An extended version (BASIC-80) that consisted of 8 KB of code contained extra instructions and functions, and, most importantly, support for strings.
In 1976, MOS Technology launched the KIM-1, an evaluation board based around the new 6502 CPU from the same company. Microsoft converted their BASIC for the Intel 8080 to run on the 6502, keeping both the architecture of the interpreter and its data structures the same, and created two versions: an 8 KB version with a 32 bit floating point library (6 digits), and a 9 KB system with 40 bit floating point support (9 digits).
Some sources claim that, while BASIC for the 8080 was 8 KB in size, Microsoft just couldn’t fit BASIC 6502 into 8 KB, while other sources claim there was an 8KB version for the 6502. The truth is somewhere in the middle. The BASIC ROMs of the Ohio Scientific Model 500/600 (KIM-like microcomputer kits from 1977/1978) and the Compukit UK101 were indeed 8 KB in size, but unlike the 8080 version, it didn’t leave enough room for the machine-specific I/O code that had to be added by the OEM, so these machines required an extra ROM chip containing this I/O code.
In 1977, Microsoft changed the 6 digit floating point code to support 9 digits and included actual error stings instead of two-character codes, while leaving everything else unchanged. A 6502 machine with BASIC in ROM needed more than 8 KB anyway, why not make it a little bigger to add extra features. The 6 digit math code was still an assembly time option; the 1981 Atari Microsoft BASIC used that code.
The 1976 Apple I was the first system besides the KIM to use the MOS 6502 CPU, but Steve Wozniak wrote his own 4KB BASIC interpreter instead of licensing Microsoft’s. An enhanced version of Woz’ “Integer BASIC” came in the ROM of the Apple II in 1977; Microsoft BASIC (called “AppleSoft”) was available as an option on tape. On the Apple II Plus (1978), AppleSoft II replaced Integer BASIC.
Commodore had bought MOS in October 1976 and worked on converting the KIM platform into a complete computer system. They licensed Microsoft BASIC for 6502 (also October 1976), renamed it to Commodore BASIC, replaced the “OK” prompt with “READY.”, stripped out the copyright string and shipped it in the ROMs of the first Commodore PET in 1977.
In 1979, Commodore started shipping update ROMs with a version 2 of Commodore BASIC for existing PETs. Apart from updates in array handling, it also contained the WAIT 6502 easter egg.
Commodore engineers are known for putting easter eggs into ROM, but there would be no reason for them to encode the string “MICROSOFT!” and hide it so well. The “WAIT 6502” easter egg did not show up in Commodore BASIC until version 2, which is in contrast to almost all sources claiming Commodore licensed Microsoft BASIC for a flat fee and never returned to Microsoft for updates, but continued improving BASIC internally.
Commodore paid Microsoft an additional fee to write a revision to the original BASIC that they had bought. Among other things, spaces-in-keywords were changed, zero page shifted around, and (unknown to Commodore) the WAIT 6502,x joke was inserted.
While all of Microsoft BASIC only depends on the CPU, makes no other assumptions on the hardware it runs on (be it Commodore, Apple, Atari, …), and does all its input and output by calling into ROM functions external to BASIC, the easter egg writes directly to screen RAM at a fixed address of $8000, and uses the PET character encoding for it: The easter egg has clearly been written specifically for the PET.
We can only speculate on the reasons why Microsoft and possibly Bill Gates himself added the easter egg. A possible reason is that Microsoft wanted to make sure Commodore cannot take credit for “Commodore BASIC” – similar to the “Stolen From Apple” case.
Or it was only about showing the world who really wrote it. Jim Butterfield: As an afterthought, Microsoft would have liked to see their name come up on the screen. But it wasn’t in the contract.
The easter egg only exists in BASIC version 2 on the PET. All later Commodore computers didn’t contain it: The branch was restored and the extra code as well as the 10 bytes hidden after the SIN() coefficients were removed.
Commodore employee Andy Finkel states that the “Gates” (!) easter egg had to be removed for space reasons. It had occupied 51 extra bytes.
According to Jim Butterfield, this is probably due to negotiations concerning Microsoft BASIC for the Amiga.
.;3FC9 A6 D3 C1 C8 D4 "!TFOS"
.;3FCE C8 D5 C4 CE CA "ORCIM"
The version of Microsoft BASIC for the 6502-based Apple II, called “AppleSoft“, contains the same 10 bytes after the coefficients in all tape and ROM versions. On AppleSoft II, for example, they are located at address $F075.
KIM-1 BASIC was released in 1977, AppleSoft II in spring 1978, and the V2 ROM of the PET in spring 1979. So Microsoft didn’t “target” Commodore with this at first, but probably put the data in for all their customers – possibly right after they had shipped the easteregg free V1 to Commodore. And when Commodore came back to them, they changed their codebase to encode string differently and added the easter egg code to show the string.
0000fd8: 0f da a2 a1 54 46 8f 13 ....TF..
The ROM of the Ohio Scientific Superboard II (and its clone, the Compukit UK101) as well as the Atari Microsoft BASIC tape are based on the 32 bit floating point version and don’t contain the easter egg data.
BFC8 84 E6 1A 2D 1B LBFC8 FCB $84,$E6,$1A,$2D,$1B * -((2*PI)**11)/11!
BFCD 86 28 07 FB F8 LBFC8 FCB $86,$28,$07,$FB,$F8 * ((2*PI)**9)/9!
BFD2 87 99 68 89 01 LBFD2 FCB $87,$99,$68,$89,$01 * -((2*PI)**7)/7!
BFD7 87 23 35 DF E1 LBFD7 FCB $87,$23,$35,$DF,$E1 * ((2*PI)**5)/5!
BFDC 86 A5 5D E7 28 LBFDC FCB $86,$A5,$5D,$E7,$28 * -((2*PI)**3)/3!
You can tell that Microsoft didn’t reimplement BASIC for the remaining 8 bit architectures, but practically converted the 6502 code, copying all constants verbatim, even the ones they did not understand, since these are still the obfuscated bytes in PET-encoding.
The TSR-80 Color Computer (1980) also has an easter egg in BASIC: If you type “CLS9” (or any higher number), it will clear the screen and print “MICROSOFT”.
A918 C1 08 CMPB #8 VALID ARGUMENT?
That’s right, Microsoft added a different easter egg, and included the string “MICROSOFT” again, this time in cleartext. They seem to have forgotten about the obfuscated 10 bytes intended for the PET that had been copied from the 6502 version to the 6800 during conversion, and had still been present in the Color Computer ROM.
FBC4 C1 08 CMPB #$08 ; easter egg?
FBEA 7E E7 A8 JMP $E7A8 ; print "MICROSOFT"
F834 4D 49 43 52 4F FCC "MICROSOFT"
F724 A1 54 46 8F 13 FCB $A1,$54,$46,$8F,$13 ; "!TFOS"
F729 8F 52 43 89 CD FCB $8F,$52,$43,$89,$CD ; "ORCIM"
Version 1.0 (in the 6 digit version) is used on the Ohio Scientific, and contains a major bug in the garbage collection code.
Version 1.0 (in the 9 digit version) is also used in the first Commodore PET as Commodore BASIC V1. It is the oldest known Microsoft BASIC to support 9 digit floating point.
Version 1.1, which contained bug fixes, is used on the KIM-1. It is the oldest version to contain the “MICROSOFT!” string (in ASCII).
AppleSoft BASIC I is forked from Microsoft BASIC 1.1. It contains the ASCII string.
Microsoft BASIC version 2 changes the ASCII string to PET screencode, adds the easter egg code, and is given to Commodore.
The code is removed again after the source drop to Commodore. The Tangerine Microtan is based on this.
Apple, Commodore and Tangerine continue development of their respective forks without the involvement of Microsoft.
The BASIC V2 used on the VIC-20 and the C64 is actually a stripped-down version of PET BASIC 4.0 and not a ported version of PET BASIC V2.
So did Bill Gates write it himself?
00560 PAUL ALLEN WROTE THE NON-RUNTIME STUFF.
00580 BILL GATES WROTE THE RUNTIME STUFF.
00600 MONTE DAVIDOFF WROTE THE MATH PACKAGE.
Bill Gates wrote “the runtime stuff” (which probably means the implementation of the instructions), as opposed to “the non-runtime stuff” (probably meaning tokenization, memory management) and “the math package”. Consequently, the implementation of the WAIT command would have been his work – on the 8080, at least.
Now who wrote the 6502 version? The KIM-1 BASIC manual credits Gates, Allen and Davidoff, the original authors of the 8080 version, but it might only be left over from the manual for the 8080 version. Davidoff, who worked for Microsoft in the summers of 1975 and 1977, had not been there when BASIC 6502 was written in the summer of 1976, but he probably changed the 6 digit floating point code into the 9 digit version that is first found in BASIC 6502 1.1 (KIM-1, 1977).
The ROM of the 1977/1978 Ohio Superboard II Model 500/600 (6 digit BASIC 1.0) credits RICHARD W. WEILAND, and the 1977 9 digit KIM-1 BASIC 1.1 as well as the 1981 Atari Microsoft BASIC 2.7 credit “WEILAND & GATES”. Ric Weiland was the second Microsoft employee. These credits, again, were easter eggs: While they were clearly visible when looking at the ROM dump, they were only printed when the user entered “A” when BASIC asked for the memory size.
According to apple2history.org, Marc McDonald (employee number 1) wrote the 6502 version, but it is more likely that McDonald wrote the 6800 simulator and Weiland ported 8080 BASIC to the 6800 and then McDonald adapted the 6800 simulator to the 6502 and Weiland wrote the 6502 BASIC.
This and the hidden credits in version 1.0 of 6502 BASIC suggest that Weiland was the main author of 6502 BASIC. Gates is added to the hidden credits in the 1.1 version, so Gates probably contributed to the 1.1 update..
So it is very possible that Gates wrote the easter egg code himself, given that he was responsible for the implementation of WAIT on the 8080, he is credited in BASIC 6502 1.1+, Finkel and Butterfield refer to WAIT6502 as “Gates'” easter egg – and after all, he can write code.
What was Atari’s version based on? What versions were there? Atari Microsoft BASIC images are very hard to find.
Why did Atari use the 6 digit version, if they extended it with lots of commands (so size couldn’t have been an issue)?
This entry was posted in 6502, archeology, trivia on September 30, 2008 by Michael Steil.
Itâs easy to read the mirrored text âMICROPROCESSORâ, and if you pay close attention, you can read â6502âł – a classic 8 bit CPU which has been featured in pop culture before.
The schematic was shown in the background video in Los Angeles (10 Dec 2007) and San Francisco (11 Dec 2007), but IIRC not in Frankfurt (28 Aug 2007; I think I would have noticed), so it seems to be new in Toolâs Fall 2007 Tour.
This entry was posted in 6502, trivia on December 12, 2007 by Michael Steil. | 2019-04-21T08:56:41Z | https://www.pagetable.com/?cat=12&paged=2 |
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Keith Urban is headed to Austin's famed South by Southwest 2018 music conference, where on March 16 he'll present a speaking engagement and then later in the evening rock the house with a performance at Stubb’s Waller Creek Amphitheater outdoor stage.
Urban's talk, which was announced last October, is titled “Creation and Connection: A Conversation with Keith Urban,” and will be held at the Austin Convention Center at 12:30 PM. It will feature the superstar's thoughts on his creative process and various career moves. It was not clarified at that time if Urban would be performing, but now fans know he will definitely be doing so!
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Urban's forthcoming 10th studio album, Graffiti U, is on tap for 2018—which he announced during a popup show in Nashville Jan. 17. Urban debuted several songs from the upcoming recrod at that show: "Parallel Line," "Steal My Thunder," "Same Heart" and "Texas Time." There's no official release date yet, but Urban is slated to launch a tour on June 15 in St. Louis, Mo. The tour will run for 58 shows in the U.S. and Canada before wrapping up in November, and Kelsea Ballerini is joining Urban on the road as his support act. | 2019-04-23T22:08:28Z | https://kkyr.com/keith-urban-performing-2018-sxsw/ |
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It’s been a while. How’s it going?
I’ll make this brief. There’s only a week left to donate to Movember. My moustache is a weapon against prostate and testicular cancer.
I grow facial hair like a 14-year-old, AND now I have acne.
Also, I’ve gotten a little behind on my writing. i missed a few days, and now I’m playing catch up. I CAN STILL FINISH IT ON TIME. And so can you, Yvonne. Jessica, I thik you’re out of luck.
He said, “It sounds like its just sitting there, listening to the radio. Hold on…” honed in on the music that seemed to have lulled, or at least distracted, the demon.. “Something like ‘Waiting for the front door to splinter/ waiting all winter.’ Kind of nasal. Sounds alright.” If he survived this, he’s have to look up that line on the Internet.
“Yeah…I can hear him breathing. It doesn’t sound natural. It’s all wheezy.” Fear began to take hold of him. His hands shook, his heart began to pound, and he became even more unsure of himself.
“OK…go open the door.” Melissa said.
Almost as a reflex, as if her authority made it better, he reached for the door. A few things ran though his mind, very quickly. Firs, he wondered if she had pushed him once again. Hequickly decided that this was not the case. The second thing was that Herman was in serious trouble; he had no way to defend himself, and if this all went pear-shaped, there was a good chance Herm wasn’t getting out alive.
The third thing, as his hand touched the door knob, was that the demon was rushing at the door.
Ben did not have time to warn anyone. He jumped back, levitating a foot off the ground as he did so. He knocked into Melissa, who also flew back from his momentum. Then, the door splintered and Simon stood there.
He looked to be in bad shape. A large, blood caked gash showed on his throat, no doubt a remnant of his battle with Joe Milton. His skin had a grey pallor, as if he were dead. And he probably was, Ben realized. Which of course meant it would be harder to “kill” him.
He quickly glanced over at Herman, who was just standing there by the check out counter, completely dumbfounded. That was not a good thing. He then glanced at Melissa, who seemed to also notice Herman. She looked back at Ben and nodded, getting up and readying her weapon. Finally, Ben looked back at Simon.
Simon’s eyes were cloudy, and they did not seem to look at anything in particular. Ben though for a moment that perhaps this fight would be over sooner than expected, as it seemed that the host body was not much use to the demon. The bookshelf flying through the air told him otherwise.
“Fu…look out!” Ben shouted, swinging his am out instinctively at the shelf. His arm connected, and the particle board and vinyl display shattered around him. He looked at his arm, surprised that it did not hurt him and that he, for once, seemed to have done something right besides his job. He looked at Simon, who did not look back.
Ben decided that now was the time to step up. Lotepnatep was inside the host, so it stood to reason that hurting the body might hurt the demon.
“Oh, that’s right! You heard the lady! We know who you are!” He said, diverting the demons attention. Then, he ran at it.
Running towards the demon, he realized just how frail Simon Morrison looked, and suddenly, he felt sorry for the young man. He may have brought this on himself, but he surely did not deserve to be splattered all over the bookstore. He pulled his arm back, then plunged it forward, almost , but not quite, at full strength.
His arm stopped short of the young man’s face. Simon had put his arms up, and though he did not actually touch Ben, Ben felt large, callous hands around his arm. Then, with a tug, Ben was pulled into the air.
“Lleh ot uoy dnes llahs I! Em tseb ot epoh tonnac namuh latrom erem a! Q’alalth fo tnavres devoleb tsom eht ma I! Lotepnatep ma I!” Simon shouted, in his alien tongue. Then, he started punching the air in front of Ben, though Ben felt every explosive punch.
“Ahhh! Help!” Ben cried out at no one, finally panicking. He was being beaten by the demon. Every invisible blow send shock waves of white hot pain though his entire body. He had never, in his entire life, felt pain like this.
He looked down as his body began to fall lime. He looked into Simon’s eyes, which were now bright and full of unholy life. The young man was even smiling now. Tried to concentrate on the smiling face of young Morrison, focusing his head vision into a single point and pointing it at Simon’s face.
To his surprise, the red dot that originated in his eyes ended short of the boy’s skull. Instead, the single laser dot hung in the air a foot away from Simon, who reacted by swinging his arms out and howling. He dropped Ben, who collapsed, trembling.
He rolled and looked at Simon, right in his face, in hopes of channeling another red hot beam of energy at the man, but before he could muster the power to do so, something surprising happened.
Ben turned his head and saw that Melissa had discharged the small canon she had been carrying. He had blown the host body’s head almost completely off. Blood and brain matter decorated the back wall of the bookstore. Ben scooted away from the gore.
He heard Melissa shout “Take that, Fucker!” Unfortunately, it appeared that the demon was prepared to do just that. The host body, now headless, began to walk forwards, and Ben was hoisted into the air again, this time without warning from Simon’s limbs.
Ben was ready this time, regardless of his ability to see the demon;s actions. He focused his heat vision again, this time straight down where he thought he demon’s arm would be. Before the demon could punch him, Ben made the creature drop him to the ground.
He didn;t wast any time, From the ground, he jumped up and swung, this time connecting with Simon’s chest. He sis not pull his punch, and he felt the man’s ribcage splinter as his fist made contact. The man’s body flew into and through the back wall, into the storage area. Ben followed it, actually flying though the hole. He landed next to Simon and continued punching him, actually punching through him with a couple of blows. His final blow was to the student’s chest; Ben actually made contact with his heart, causing it to explode.
There was no time to mourn, nor to celebrate. The air in the back room began to smell of sulfur and smoke. Ben backed up ad Melissa and Herman came though the wall to inspect the damage. The air became heavy, yet charged, as if there were a small electrical storm rolling through. In the corner, a shape began to manifest. Ben told the others to step back.
The shape became solid. It stood in the dark, but Ben could see that it was the shape of a man, about six feet tall. He took another step back. The shape moved forward into the light.
Ben wasn’t sure what the man was saying, but he was sure it wasn’t good. He flew at the man in an attempt to punch a hole though him as he had done to the host body. Before he could make it to him, however, his body became frozen in the air.
The man spoke again. “Ai! Ai! Q’alalth liah! Q’alalth fo gnimoc eht ta elbmert llahs dlrow siht, noos dna, sworg rewop ym; siht wonk tub. Latrom erem a naht erom era uoy rof, uoy yortsed ot kaew oot ma I.” With that, the man vanished in a flash of fire.
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Sorry for the silence over the last month. When I quit my job earlier this year, I made a promise to visit my mom more often. Suddenly, I realized the year was almost coming to an end and I was yet to make the trip. So, I made the choice to jump on a plane and go to India and spend some time with her. She is nearing her 82nd birthday and dealing with Alzheimer’s disease.
I am sharing this to provide some context for you to appreciate the reality that surrounds Alzheimer’s disease and choices that I made which has not only provided me with joy, but also the continued peace that it will generate in my life.
My previous two trips to visit her had ended poorly, so I made a conscious commitment that this trip would not turn out that way. We had a wonderful visit!!! And this was the first time it has ever worked. If I recall accurately, I remember Eckhart Tolle saying something like, “If you think you are awakened or enlightened, try visiting your mother.” I had repeatedly failed this Litmus test and I really wanted to see if it was remotely possible for me to be at peace with her. And, I now know that it is possible.
When someone asks you the same question over and over, it can get irritating. While attributing this to Alzheimer’s disease can help, it gets exacerbated when the same individual can be present in the moment and argue extremely coherently. In that instance, you tend to forget their condition and treat them as usual and engage in the argument. The sad part is that they will forget and move on, while you stay stuck in the argument and the resentment that follows.
This time around, I chose to stay very present and was able to calmly answer the same question, in some instances, over 15 times without any frustration. I must say that I was impressed.
I was also advised by a wise healer before my recent trip to hold my mom’s hand. She was very particular that I held it on this trip. My mom and I had not been very close since I spent my first five years with my grandma as my mom had developed hepatitis when I was born and then I left home at fifteen to go to boarding school, college and the United States. So this was a difficult exercise, but I wanted to do it. While I was able to stay calm and interact well with her, I was unable to sit peacefully with her and hold her hand.
Then, on the last day, about 15 minutes before I left her place to head back home, it just happened magically. It was beautiful and this picture will help me cherish it for the rest of my life.
Be thankful for the little things that happen in your life and stop chasing the big things your mind tricks you into believing will bring you the promise of joy and fulfillment.
Up Next: Did you Win or Did you Learn?
It seems you were not only fully present, but also fully in your heart. What a gift to you and your mother.
Be well and know that not following tradition (or rules) is the stuff of dreams and creative manifestation.
Thank you for sharing and I wish you and your loved ones a beautiful and joyfilled Thanksgiving holiday.
Thank you Michelle for your thoughts on dreams and creative manifestation.
So you were the reckless one, Krishna. My sister didn’t follow the rules either. But I think there ALWAYS was a very special place in my mother’s heart for “the reckless one”. Happy Turkey!!
Hope all is well with her. Thank you Al. Happy Thanksgiving!
Beautifully captured. Following the heart does not necessarily provide the answers. I would term it as immigrants nightmare. You chase your dream and find out its too late to be of any immediate use to family. It is the tug of (heart)war of both sides. One wanting to pursue the dream(and not awakening when the time comes) and the other having no part in their own disruption of a generation.
I am indeed glad for the recognition of you by your mother. This will forever remain etched in your mind.
Thank you Gopi Uncle. It was great seeing you in Chennai.
Very nice. Thanks for sharing and peace be with you.
Krishna, thanks for sharing your story. Hard to think of you as reckless, perhaps adventuresome would describe you better. The picture is wonderful.
That’s very kind of you, Lesa. Happy Thanksgiving!
I am in a moment of self-questioning and doubting myself because of I hard an unconventional choice I made earlier this year to quit my job and pursue other endeavors.
Your last phrase resonated very much with me.
Thank you so much for the kind words, Gustavo.
Thank you so much Terri for sharing your situation with your mother. I truly hope she finds safety and peace.
Krishna – very beautiful and touching story. Very happy that you made the connection you were looking for.
Did you Win or Did you Learn? | 2019-04-24T00:20:19Z | https://krishnapendyala.com/mindful-choices-that-i-will-cherish/ |
JACKSON, MI - Halloween is at the end of October, but there are plenty of events in the Jackson County area throughout the month to keep you in the fall spirit.
Whether it's walking through some of the scariest haunted houses, enjoying apple cider and doughnuts, taking a hayride or navigating through a corn maze, there's a full slate of activities to enjoy.
Here Come the Mummies is coming to Jackson.
The eight-piece funk rock band is performing at 9 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 6, at the Jackson County Fairgrounds, 200 W. Ganson St. The band is joined by special guest White Lightning.
Tickets are $28 in advance and $33 the day of the show. There is also a $3 convenience fee. Doors open at 7 p.m.
The band of mummies has opened for P-Funk, Al Green, KC and the Sunshine Band and Cheap Trick. It also appeared at the Super Bowl Village 2012 and became a regular on the Bob and Tom Show.
In addition to the concert, the Haunted Barn haunted house takes place at the fairgrounds. Food trucks and adult beverages are included at the event.
"A Walk Through Jackson's Past" gives guests a tour of Mount Evergreen Cemetery to visit the grave sites of famous people in Jackson's history, including banker Peter B. Loomis, former Michigan Gov. Austin Blair and Silence Blackman, the city's first schoolteacher.
The free hour-long tours take place on the hour from 3 to 7 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 6, at Mount Evergreen Cemetery, 1047 Greenwood Ave.
Reservations are required. Call the Jackson District Library's Carnegie Branch at 517-788-4087.
The Hanover-Horton Area Historical Society is hosting events in Heritage Park on Saturdays and Sundays throughout October.
Starting Saturday, Oct. 6, a corn maze is available in the park from noon to 6 p.m. The cost is $4 and children ages 5 and younger are admitted free. It also includes a wagon ride around the 80-acre park. There's also food, drinks and a bonfire.
There are special activities on each Saturday in October.
Oct. 27: Halloween party from 1 to 3 p.m. with games, cider and doughnuts. There's also a Friday night corn maze from 7:30 to 10 p.m. The cost is $5.
Proceeds from the events go toward Heritage Park and the Conklin Organ Museum, which is open from 1 to 5 p.m. Sundays.
"Zombie Walk Jackson Revived" takes place at 2 p.m. Saturday, Oct. 13, at the Commonwealth Commerce Center, 209 E. Washington Ave., in Jackson.
Walk registration, vendors and a petting zoo take place from 2 to 5 p.m. A costume contest begins at 5 p.m., with the walk starting at 6 p.m.
An after party with a zombie pin-up contest, brain eating contest, silent auction, DJ and dancing begins at 7 p.m.
All proceeds go to Aware Inc., a domestic abuse treatment program in Jackson. | 2019-04-20T00:58:37Z | https://expo.mlive.com/news/erry-2018/10/3b597159496224/fall-fun-awaits-at-events-haun.html |
I'll be going down to the track league next week, will have a spare seat if anyone else is going.
how are you getting on at the track league? any reports/news? its good to hear any club news. Pete.
Wednesday was the first time I'd been down at the Glasgow track league.
Didn't have a successful time spent to much time at the back of the bunch in the first race two races and didn't respond quickly enough to changes in pace and lost contact with bunch. 3rd and last race I managed to pull my wheel over at the start and that was game over.
Given me plenty to work on though, need to work on leg speed and changes in rhythm.
Keep up the training and give it your all when you're down next time. It WILL happen with training. | 2019-04-26T00:42:43Z | http://forrescc.forumotion.com/t1655-track-league-11th-december |
In the past couple of years, Oceana’s selection of sports for students to participate has grown significantly, with a boy’s soccer team being added to the winter season, and boy’s and girl’s swimming added to the spring season. One longstanding sport in Oceana’s lineup had been, and remains the most popular though – track and field. Oceana’s High school track and field is a sport made up of various athletic contests, split into three main categories: running, throwing, and jumping. In the running category, there are sprints and relay races. Throwing consists of shot put and discus. Lastly, jumping includes things like hurdling and pole vaulting.
Oceana’s track team started practices a few weeks ago, and will continue further into the spring. They practice everyday after school and prepare for meets with members in all of the categories. I talked to two runners of track team, Samuel Lund, a freshman, and Connor Chan, a junior, to get to know the team, find out what it’s like to be a track athlete, and learn a little more about track.
Connor enjoys track because he gets to meet new people and improve on their running. He has also participated in cross country, a similar sport in the fall season, focused on the long distance running. He recommends track and field to anyone who wants to be a part of a competitive sport, stay in shape or make new friends. | 2019-04-25T04:57:27Z | https://sharkstribune.com/2019/03/21/oceanas-track-team/ |
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that appointment with the head-shrink all the sooner will need booking.
Why fellow actors, do we put ourselves through this?
Bearing souls in public, surely we could give a miss!
that those same feelings we have now, existed long ago.
If some decide to act it out in Wimborne’s New Town Square.
The ups and downs of all our lives, emotions we have known.
Can we put this into words and make a play alone?
Of course there is great guidance here of people trained in art.
How lucky I should find this group and, more than that, take part.
To put emotions into words and act it out with feeling.
When the audience is with you, ah, that means such a lot.
‘Tis the fellowship, the action, and the great camaraderie. | 2019-04-21T14:24:43Z | http://www.wimbornecommunitytheatre.co.uk/biographies/jean-austreng/ |
Asiasoft Online Pte Ltd (“Asiasoft”) today announces the official launch of Monster Forest, a free-to-play 3D MMORPG that combines wildly popular gameplay concepts such as turn-based skill card battles, pet breeding and mini land farming into one game. The Monster Forest game server will officially reopen at 1600hrs (GMT+8) today.
Monster Forest enjoyed a very successful Closed Beta Testing phase from 4 to 11 May 2010, which saw mass participation from over 8,000 players across the globe. Beta codes for the testing phase were snapped up from partner sites such as OnRPG.com, who reported full redemption of codes within 12 hours of their online release.
Valuable feedback was garnered from the gamers during the Monster Forest Closed Beta Testing phase, and Asiasoft has worked closely with game developer 9you Information Technology Co Ltd (“9you”) to implement vast improvements to the gameplay in preparations for the game’s official Open Beta launch. Some of these enhancements include an increase in experience points for quicker leveling, as well as an increase in pet catching rates, enabling players to tame more critters as their companions!
Monster Forest encompasses the most entertaining gaming elements for a holistic gameplay experience, earning it an average rating of 7 upon 10 among Closed Beta testers. The game’s mini land feature saw many enterprising casual gamers cultivating crops and livestock, sharing harvests and running their own cafés, just like they typically do in similar online, browser-based games. Pet lovers also took a shine to Monster Forest, with its range of over 500 exotic pets available for taming!
To further convey the fun, lively spirit of Monster Forest to the mass public, Asiasoft has also signed on Singaporean host and actress Kanny Theng as the game’s ambassador. Kanny is represented by Wawa Artistes Network and presently co-hosts Wonder Chef? ??????alongside veteran artiste Mark Lee on Channel U. She has also appeared in Channel 8 dramas such as Nanny Daddy???????and Your Hand in Mine ???????.
A casual gamer herself, Kanny has cosplayed for past Asiasoft published titles such as Yulgang Online and RayCity, and she will now delight young gamers in Monster Forest as the publisher’s first ever celebrity Game Master (GM)! In this new role, Kanny will assist Asiasoft’s existing team of GMs to police the in-game environment and to interact with players through in-game events and activities.
Kanny has also been a strong driving force within the Monster Forest gamer community, which has grown by leaps and bounds since the game’s introduction last year. Thanks to her constant posts and exchanges with players on the Monster Forest Facebook Fan Page, Asiasoft has seen a steady growth of over 7,000 fans since the page went live in November 2009. Kanny frequently shares about her Monster Forest gaming experiences through her personal blog and Twitter tweets, and has shot a four-part tutorial video series called “Monster Forest Watch & Learn”.
With the official launch of Monster Forest, more players will get to rub virtual shoulders with Kanny’s in-game avatar GMKanny, and even meet her in person when she makes her special appearance during the offline Monster Forest launch event at the Asiasoft Games Festival 2010 on 5th June 2010!
New players can get a headstart by visiting Follow Kanny, where GMKanny will show you the ropes in the world of Monster Forest! | 2019-04-25T03:56:22Z | http://www.onrpg.com/news/articles/monster-forest-with-starlet-kanny-theng-as-first-ever-celebrity-gm/ |
Untold workforce hours are spent tediously entering data, searching for information, manually emailing documents, and then re-archiving. This not only grinds entire processes to a halt, but introduces significant opportunities for errors, exceptions and headaches.
Invoice approval: Capture paper or digital invoices, index their data with zero manual entry. Route them through a defined, digital queue based on cost centers, amounts, PO numbers and other variables. Post data back to applications like SAP, Sage, Microsoft Dynamics or Quickbooks. | 2019-04-20T16:45:39Z | http://copysystemsinc.com/filesmart/digital-transformation/automate-common-processes/ |
P.S.: Thank you all for joining my VMV Hypoallergenics giveaway! Really appreciate it! :D I have contacted the winners for the previous giveaway. (: Please reply as soon as possible. Also, please note that the holiday kits and the vouchers are separate and not a set (I made a mistake! Sorry!). | 2019-04-22T08:42:44Z | http://www.charlenejudith.com/2013/01/ramblings-my-curly-hair-and-me.html |
I am Mer from the Philippines.
I had a very positive vibes on this site.
I am looking forward for a very fruitful years to come for all of us.
You are right, there are a buch of great folks here with positive attitudes, great ideas and lots to offer - with experiences from many countries, cultures and age ranges. The things we have in common is that we are all going the same direction - up!
And, we like to share our experiences on the way.
I look forward to seeing you around lots in the future! | 2019-04-19T08:22:49Z | http://selfmadevip.com/mabuhay-from-philippines-t3541.html |
China doesn’t think we’ll do anything. That is the primary reason for their aggressive behavior. Just one more place where things are spiraling out of control as a result of this administration’s abdication of responsibilities.
Did you know the Fed is the largest hedge fund in the world?
It holds more than $3 trillion in debt. Run by academics and bureaucrats who have never actually taken real risk with real dollars before. Ever thought what would happen if they lose control of the long end of the yield curve?
Okay, wait a second, does he actually believe this?
The more realistic and cynical mercenaries in Obama’s camp no doubt understand that Ambassador Susan Rice’s continued insistence that the rampaging violence and murder by the Libyan Muslim group was purely a spontaneous act brought about by hurt feelings at the YouTube trailer on Mohammed is, as the Libyan President calls it, preposterous.
Then something perhaps even scarier dawned on me. Maybe Obama actually believes his own propaganda. I wonder if he is constitutionally incapable of recognizing that his sophomoric thesis that his election would bring about a new age of warmth and conciliation between the United States and the Muslim world was, well, preposterous.
This goes way beyond Obama and the November election. Now our universities and schools are closing because Muslims are threatening violence?
It’s 68 degrees and raining. I cannot bear any more climate change! We’re all going to die.
But I suspect Romney won’t do so well in the debates for the same reason that he didn’t do so well on Meet the Press. It’s hard to be effective when you’re biting your tongue and swallowing your pride at the same time. Romney has dumbed himself down to fit a Republican Party that has become anachronistic, hateful and foolish.
Is the reporting ironic? Yes but not intentionally. It’s also anachronistic, hateful and foolish. But I digress. Think there’s a battle going on?
Here’s a great piece from PowerLine. The left is trying to cast the Ryan VP pick as a “panic” pick. But for those of us who pay attention we all know this is no hail Mary. Instead, Romney is saying bring it on.
I’ll be back right after Labor Day (maybe with some exceptions prior to), when this election will kick into high gear. And I am hopeful that I’ll be able to take this site down that first Wednesday in November.
In the meantime, as a friend of mine texted me this morning, I agree that while the selection of Paul Ryan may make it harder for Romney to win the election, it’ll make it a lot more worthwhile if he does.
Maybe Romney is the one speaking truth to power?
Much has been written on the Chick-fil-A controversy and I don’t think I have too much to add at this point. For a couple must read pieces I offer this one by Steyn and this one by Morrissey. For those of you who don’t care or don’t see the relevance of this issue to your life, please, stop reading this post immediately and click on one or both of the above referenced articles. In my opinion, this episode has been one of the most offensive assaults on our understanding of liberty I’ve ever witnessed. Worse still, it shows an ignorance of and utter disregard for basic freedoms on the part of men who hold positions of high authority in this land. Remember Rahm was only a step away from the President until a year ago. In short, the sneering contempt that the mayors of great cities like Boston and Chicago (San Francisco has become too farcical to even complain) and the senior government official in New York City can openly exhibit towards a man whose crime seems to be that he’s a hard working decent charitable man who dared to run his company as he saw fit–and always in accordance with applicable laws–and who answered a politically charged question honestly based on his own personal belief and moral conviction (an answer which happens to coincide with the President’s views on the topic up until a couple months ago).
Of course the issue is gay marriage, but I can only imagine the ridicule Mr. Cathy (Chick-fil-A’s owner) receives behind the closed doors of Chicago’s city hall for his gall in keeping his stores closed on Sunday. How quaint. What’s remarkable to me is that a mere 20 years ago not only would the term gay marriage have been oxymoronic but for most Americans (I’m thinking of my grandparents) it would have been an undefinable and nonsensical term. For that matter, 20 years ago shopping centers were usually closed on Sunday and you couldn’t buy liquor either.
Now you have Sheriff Rahm and the town elders warning Mr. Cathy he’d better not even think of stepping foot in their town. You see, they don’t like his kind ’round these parts. The speaker of New York City’s city council took it one step farther and wrote to the President of private New York University and advised him that he should kick to the curb New York City’s lone Chick-fil-A, which happens to be a tenant of the university (and I imagine a very popular one among cash strapped and its hungry students). Of course it’s simply coincidence I’m sure that the speaker is a recent beneficiary of the gay marriage wave herself. And oh yeah, isn’t there probably some kind of contractual arrangement between the University and Chick-fil-A the terms of which a city official shouldn’t be encouraging one of the parties to break?
So many issues are raised by this lightly seasoned thought tyranny but I’d like to raise a couple: consider Steyn’s mention of the radical Muslims who openly advocate death to homosexuals yet have no problem getting city permits to do business in Boston and New York; or what about the baba ghanoush street vendors across the city–did you hear what they said at the dinner table last night? And then there’s Rahm and his recent cozy relationship with Louis Farrakhan, who not only openly opposes gay marriage but also advocates (loudly) against Jews for…well, for being born Jews.
So in one fell swoop you have the mob-like trampling on basic first amendment rights, the malevolent sneering at by all accounts a good man and law-abiding citizen and a heavy dose of puke-inducing hypocrisy. To call it outrageous is an understatement.
But it’s even worse than that.
We have a friend who is an institutional money manager for a large firm in a big city. He has an undergraduate degree from an Ivy League school and an MBA from a top 5 business school (also Ivy League). He is married (to a woman) and has a child. As I understand it, he works hard evaluating companies and buying and selling shares in large blocks for his firm’s customers. Knowing what I know about his business he is narrowly focused on companies’ prospects and earnings and the viability of the companies he covers going forward. Somehow the Chick-fil-A topic came up in conversation and without hesitation he called Mr. Cathy a “bigot,” he liked and supported that Rahm & Co stuck it to him and he declared that he didn’t want his money to go to bigoted fools like that and he wouldn’t be eating at Chick-fil-A. When confronted with the idea that Mr. Cathy had every right under the 1st Amendment to express his views on the subject of gay marriage and that mayors, while also entitled to their own 1st Amendment rights, should not be using the levers of the state to intimidate a private citizen and his or her right to conduct business as long as that person is doing so within the laws of the relevant jurisdiction. Our friend conceded partially but then he bowed up again and blindly said these mayors were speaking purely as private individuals expressing their opinions (not true) and then he reiterated that Mr. Cathy is a “bigot” and that if he’s done one thing to violate any kind of equal opportunity law they should crush him.
And by the way, in the next breath he talked about how excited he was to go see a well known (and old) heavy metal band. I’m not sure if he’s aware that the stars of this band include one who’s been in and out of trouble for illegal drug use and another who went to prison for assaulting a woman. Guess he’s got no trouble giving his money to them.
This is America in 2012.
PS. I received a text from a friend this morning encouraging me to go eat at Chick-fil-A today to show my support. Here’s my deal on that. I eat a lot of Chick-fil-A and I will continue to do so. But I don’t want to go eat a chicken sandwich as a political statement. I simply want to eat it because it’s good. While I fully support those who want to eat Chick-fil-A today, I think in some ways supporters of Mr. Cathy are doing a disservice to him, and our country’s principles of liberty, by being drawn in to this battle on Rahm’s terms. The tragedy is that the left has so politicized a chicken joint that it makes it hard to “eat mor chikin” without thinking of the shrill voices denouncing it. It is insanity pure and simple.
By the same token, I still love The Bourne Identity.
Neither Al Gore, nor the government, invented the internet?
It’s an urban legend that the government launched the Internet. The myth is that the Pentagon created the Internet to keep its communications lines up even in a nuclear strike. The truth is a more interesting story about how innovation happens—and about how hard it is to build successful technology companies even once the government gets out of the way.
Michael is in charge of one of the largest military units in the world–the New York Police Department. He says cops should go on strike if civilians don’t hand over their guns. Is he suggesting that his police officers go on strike without gun control? I don’t think so. It’s really unbelievable.
Government is the answer. Yes we can borrow more. | 2019-04-18T15:25:17Z | http://obamanada.com/ |
Plasti Dip® protective coating has a satin finish. If you are experiencing a cloudy or hazy finish, it’s likely caused by high humidity. Avoid these conditions or add approximately 5-10% naphtha to reduce the problem. | 2019-04-26T08:06:57Z | https://en.plastidip.eu/faq/prod/why-is-the-finish-dull/ |
Boasting stunning views overlooking the picturesque Cromwell Lake, Casa has a reputation for being a lively bar, restaurant, wedding venue and more. Casa is situated in Brighouse, West Yorkshire and has a 150-seater restaurant, large bar and 10 en-suite rooms.
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Overlooking Cromwell Lake, Casa is the perfect venue for your big day. | 2019-04-21T09:19:05Z | https://www.casabrighouse.com/ |
I'm back with another card and video and I've been having some more fun with my Alcohol Pearls - they are addictive!
I hope you have some lovely plans for the Easter weekend.
So, one more card today - I hope you don't mind lol. | 2019-04-20T19:25:21Z | https://ahappyscramper.typepad.com/a_happy_scramperscrapbook/ink-blending/ |
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FnF.fm is an Online Radio Station that can be used as either a widget or Short code.
– FnF.fm Radio is a Simple Radio Player that plays Popular Songs 24/7.
– You can use This Radio Player in any Posts or Pages of Your website using Short code.
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Vancouver, British Columbia, Canada, July 18, 2018 – Global Cannabis Applications Corp. (“Global Cannabis” or the “Company”) (CSE: APP, FSE: 2FA, OTCQB: FUAPF), a leading developer of innovative data technologies for the cannabis industry, announces it has closed its non-brokered private placement (the “Private Placement”) with the issuance of 7,742,267 units at a price of $0.21 per unit (the “Units”) for gross proceeds of $1,625,876.
The securities offered have not been, and will not be, registered under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended (the “U.S. Securities Act“), or any U.S. state securities laws, and may not be offered or sold in the United States or to, or for the account or benefit of, a U.S. Person (as defined in Regulation S under the U.S. Securities Act) absent registration or an applicable exemption from the registration requirements of the U.S. Securities Act and applicable U.S. state securities laws. This news release shall not constitute an offer to sell or the solicitation of an offer to buy securities in the United States or to, or for the account or benefit of, any U.S. Person, nor shall there be any sale of these securities in any jurisdiction in which such offer, solicitation or sale would be unlawful. | 2019-04-25T19:52:30Z | http://cannappscorp.com/2018/07/24/global-cannabis-closes-private-placement/ |
Hartford Hospital’s 26-bed Inpatient Rehabilitation Unit provides specialized physical, occupational and speech therapy to those who have suffered a major illness or injury.
Our goal is to help our patients improve their day-to-day functioning so they can enjoy the best possible quality of life when they return to their home.
Patients on our unit benefit not only from focused rehabilitation therapies, but also from a team of doctors that manage their ongoing care and treatment.
And because we know a patient’s needs go beyond medical care, our case management and social work teams offer support to address the social, recreational and spiritual aspects of healing. | 2019-04-22T12:07:14Z | https://hartfordhealthcarerehabnetwork.org/services/inpatient-rehabilitation |
The spirit of Christmas was shared by all in Whitehall during an event-filled weekend with carolers, crafters, kids and the Clauses.
On Friday night, despite the cold weather a small group of carolers led by Kristen Miner brought songs and Christmas cheer to several stops around town.
“When we sang at Joe’s Pizza, everyone joined in,” said Miner.
The group visited Freakopolis Geekery on Main Street where they were rewarded with candy canes.
“It was a small effort this year, but we hope it will grow into something bigger next year,” said Miner.
On Saturday, locals and visitors spent the whole day enjoying family-friendly events and getting their holiday shopping done.
The day kicked off at 9 a.m. for shoppers with the Annual Christmas Bazaar at the Methodist Church and the Whitehall Chamber of Commerce Annual Holiday Craft Fair and Mini-Mall at the Whitehall Athletic Club.
Mini-Mall organizers were impressed with this year’s quality offerings from the vendors – 46 in all – who filled the 9,000-square-foot stadium at the Athletic Club with everything a shopper could want, from holiday décor to superhero items to LuLaRoe.
Stacy Jones of Sweet Emma’s Cupcakes featured gourmet cupcakes with a decidedly creative flair. One of her biggest sellers is a French Toast and Bacon Cupcake, drizzled with maple syrup.
“I started my business selling cupcakes from a dirt driveway,” said Jones, whose business has since grown to include contracts from individuals and businesses that keep her very busy.
Cub scouts James and Noah Persons were beaming with enthusiasm from behind the Whitehall Cub Scout Pack 49 table. “All of our cookies and dog treats sold,” they said.
In addition to the vendors, Fire Chief Bryan Brooks and Deputy Chief Brian Brooks of the Whitehall Volunteer Fire Company, along with students from the Junior Fire Academy, were on hand to present fire prevention techniques and encourage new members.
Sixteen-year-old Stephen Herrmann, who’s working on his Firefighter 1 Certification, is one of the fire company’s newest volunteers. “It’s a lot of studying, but it’s very rewarding,” he said.
Santa and Mrs. Claus paid a morning visit to the Mini-Mall before heading up the mountain for Christmas at Skene Manor.
Fourteen-year-old Jess Tupper was among the volunteers who greeted everyone at the door to Skene Manor. She helps out wherever she can, as a waitress in the Tea Room, or in the Gift Shop, and even as a docent. “I’ve been doing this for four years,” she said.
Inside, the “castle on the hill” was decked out in Christmas splendor and bustling with kids and parents waiting in line to see Santa. Even visitors without little ones could get a photo with Santa, who welcomed children of all ages.
Organizers said that more than 200 kids visited Santa.
“I always talk to the older kids, too,” said Santa between visits. Mrs. Claus made sure each child left with a special gift from Santa: homemade cookies and candy canes.
The Tea Room was filled with diners enjoying a hot soup and other lunch offerings and new visitors were in awe as they followed docents on an historical tour of the manor.
Down the hill from Skene Manor, the Whitehall Recreation Center created their own “Christmas Magic” by taking kids and their families out for an afternoon of caroling down Williams Street and throughout the neighborhoods, including a stop at Skenesborough Harbor.
They returned to the Rec Center for a spaghetti dinner followed by games and prizes and, of course, a visit with Santa.
The entire afternoon, including dinner, was free for everyone.
Those who came out to one or several of the events saw Whitehall at its best, with plenty of Christmas spirit to share with everyone. | 2019-04-24T03:53:03Z | http://manchesternewspapers.com/2016/12/14/christmas-magic-touches-whitehall/ |
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For those who are unable to use a quarantine tank (Don't worry - I don't judge ^_^), safety stop is superior to a freshwater dip. To provide further proof of safety stop's incredible potency, Melev's Reef, a master reefer who has spoken at MACNA used Safety stop to stock all his fish in his 400 gallon display tank.
*Note* - Safety Stop is not recommended for fish with visible active infections and will not treat internal parasites. For internal parasites - we recommend General Cure + Focus + Pellets/Frozen Food + Carbon for a complete reef safe solution.
Take fish from fish store directly home without delay. Acclimate fish to the same temperature and pH of the aquarium before performing the Safety Stop bath.
Observe fish after introduction to tank to make sure tank mates are not disturbing fish. It is good idea to feed the tank simultaneously while introducing the new fish to keep the resident fish occupied. Keep light levels low for 24 hours after introduction. Bath should be discarded after several hours but can be used on multiple fish within a few hours or at the same time.
This dip protocol is intended for ornamental fish only.
Do not use on scale-less freshwater fishes.
Do not use on fish that show obvious signs of sickness.
Do not injest or breathe vapors. | 2019-04-22T02:04:35Z | https://aquariumstoredepot.com/products/safety-stop |
Here at Scrap Car Meeting Green we collect vehicles free of charge throughout Meeting Green, Suffolk. If you have an old car that you are not using you will still be expected to keep it taxed whilst it is on the road. You don't have to pay to get your old vehicle taken away. Scrap Car Meeting Green will take away your scrap vehicle free of charge in Suffolk!
As well as offering a completely free collection, we are also currently able to offer cash for scrap cars in Meeting Green depending upon the weight of the vehicle!
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The iMCO CoWatch is the �world�s first� Alexa voice-assistant enabled smartwatch. Alexa is the same voice assistant from Amazon�s Echo devices including the Dot and Tap. That means, wearers can control the device using voice commands, and have the assistant read back content. The CoWatch can receive smart notifications, control music, check heart-rate, and track health stats. It comes in a variety of colors and style, with varying band types, as well. | 2019-04-22T05:11:41Z | https://smartwatches.org/models/imco/cowatch/271/ |
While this assignment is used in EDU 1020--Essentials of College Study, you might want to modify and use it in your course as well. Best to have this assignment in the first 3 weeks of a semester.
Step 1: If you haven't already, create an ePortfolio. See ePortfolio Information for Students and the ePortfolio Checklist on the next page for help in setting up your own ePortfolio.
Step 2: Edit, based on feedback from the SMART Goals assignment, specifically educational and career goals. Choose one other category of goals that would be appropriate for your ePortfolio to include as well. For this third goal, choose one that shows perseverance or dedication, for example one that speaks to a sport, hobby or community involvement you pursue. An example of an appropriate physical goal might be to run and finish your first race, The Utah Valley Marathon on June 15, 2014. Or another example that deals with a hobby or interest might be to perform comfortably at your Piano recital on December 4, 2013. A community involvement goal may be to participate in raising funds or collected canned food for the Utah Food Bank, 1,000 pounds or $1,000 by Halloween 2013.
Step 3: Break your goals down into some short term intermediate goals, goals you can achieve in the next year or so, but that relate directly to your one, long term goal, a goal you can achieve in about the next 5 years. Do this for each long term goal: one in Education, one in Career and one other of your choice. (Please make this one other goal something appropriate for a semi-public space like this ePortfolio.
Step 4: Copy and Paste SLCC's Learning Outcomes after your Goals (on your Goals Page). Please see SLCC's Learning Outcomes Page for more information.
• Include tabs for Welcome, Goals, Coursework, Learning Outside the Classroom and Resume.
• Write your Welcome Page and include a photo (doesn't have to be of you).
• Write your Goal Page using your SMART goals as a basis. Write your Reflection of your goals and paste in SLCC's Learning Outcomes. Note: At the end of the semester you'll upload a signature assignment (Chapter 12) from this class under your Interdisciplinary tab under General Education, under Coursework. A reflection will also be included with your signature assignment. | 2019-04-19T04:59:28Z | https://facultyeportfolioresource.weebly.com/prep-edu-1020.html |
This paint and hobby business was run by Ray Taylor and his son-in-law Maynard Seiler. They sold paints, wallpaper, and tools in one part of the store and toys and hobby materials in another. The store was in operation from the 1940s to the 1980s and was a popular spot for its wares. Taylor died in 1975; Seiler in 1986.
Description This paint and hobby business was run by Ray Taylor and his son-in-law Maynard Seiler. They sold paints, wallpaper, and tools in one part of the store and toys and hobby materials in another. The store was in operation from the 1940s to the 1980s and was a popular spot for its wares. Taylor died in 1975; Seiler in 1986. | 2019-04-22T04:44:07Z | http://www.idaillinois.org/cdm/ref/collection/cookmemo11/id/2059/ |
Given that Melancholia was released this past weekend, we are reposting the video review.
In the video portion that is part two of yesterday’s piece, there was so much to say about Lars von Trier’s Melancholia that didn’t make it into the review, sadly, or it would have been half an hour long. No doubt we could have waxed even more poetic about Kirsten Dunst’s breasts, too, but we seem to have given that enough air time as it is.
What didn’t make the cut is that Melancholia isn’t just a great film, it is the anti-Tree of Life, which in the footage now lying on the editing room floor, James called “pseudo-spiritual cack.” This is the film that should have won the Palme D’Or, not TOL. Robert De Niro, the head of the jury this year, is clearly becoming something of a sentimental old buffoon if he couldn’t see it.
But wait: those Hitler/Nazi statements of von Trier’s at the press conference. Forgot about those. Bad taste trumps great art every time, for a time. We take that back, Mr. De Niro. Carry on.
Oh, and James doesn’t really have jet-black eyebrows and beard, and beady, creepy eyes. We had to increase the contrast on the video to see Chris’ face properly. | 2019-04-19T16:16:25Z | https://www.purefilmcreative.com/reviews/total-annihilation-is-the-new-black-repost.html |
The number 27 verona mt prospect bus are always running behind schedule! This has caused a lot of the residents to be late for work and children to be late for school! Something needs to be done about this situation.
Good afternoon. My name is Dr. Nancy Shaw. I represent the Newark Community Healthy Pet Clinic. We have been providing no cost preventive veterinary services in Newark and are looking for a new space to hold our clinics. I recently visited the Vince Lombardi Community Center and think it would be a great place to hold our once monthly Sunday clinics. It takes us about a month and a half to get things up and running again. We were looking at March 3rd, but understand the site might not be available. Could you let me know if you would be interested in our providing these services to qualified members of your community?
On Wednesday evening, October 10th, we invite to come and greet the community as we host the fourth of five of our Ward based community feedback forums as we continue to build support for our Civilian Complaint Review Board.
Our meeting for the North Ward will take place at the Lombardi Center, 201 Bloomfield Avenue. from 6 to 8pm.
We want you to remind the community that we, the people of the City of Newark, created our new Board through an ordinance that was unanimously passed by our City Council in 2016, and that our continued unity is important as the fight for the Board continues in the Courts.
Hello, my husband and I have called your office on numerous occasions asking to please be called back to discuss an urgent matter, and we have been told the message would be passed along and we could expect to hear from you in the next few days; maybe this is a better route. I live next to an abandoned house which, to our understanding was bought and supposedly going to be fixed/ torn down and now it has been 1 year 1/2 & these these people have not only done ABSOLUTELY NOTHING, they don’t even keep up with the maintenance. The grass is so high & spills into the street. You can’t even walk on the sidewalk or SEE oncoming traffic or pedestrians. The worst part is the traffic of drug addicts & prostitutes that hop over the gate & do their business in there, DAILY…EVERY FEW MINUTES. I can’t enjoy taking my kids to my own backyard because on too many occasions I’ll be met with someone shooting up drugs, taking a piss or engaging in sexual activities . This house has caught on fire more than once in the past and I’m very afraid of it happening again and we end up losing OUR home since it is so close and the amount of garbage and forage is hazardous. We have called city hall, code regulation people, your office…no one knows anything. Supposedly their was a notice on the door saying they had a certain time frame to do something with the house or the city would tear it down…that was months ago and the house is still there..GETTING WORSE. I don’t know if this is in your power to be able to help or get something done but this needs to be fixed. The new owners need to be held responsible asap. This house should have been torn down YEARS AGO. It is putting a lot of people in danger. Anyone can get dragged in there, beaten, robbed, raped and you can’t see if someone IS hiding waiting to jump out at you. And I don’t want to hear "call the cops when you see activity " Newark cops don’t give a damn about these kinds of problems. My street is riddled with prostitutes/dealers/users and EVERYONE knows it and cops will come up and down broadway worrying about double parked cars rather than actual crime. Someone needs to TAKE CARE OF THIS. Many people on this block have called different places trying to get this situation fixed. Don’t wait until this ends up on the news because of a tragedy.
I would like to meet with you in regards to the Newark Fire Department and the next academy.
When are they building the New Police Precinct by Newark Stadium on Bloomfield Ave, they really need to be around there as my daughter works in CVS which was just robbed and there are alot of criminals in that area lately???
Mr. Ramos, I would like to bring to your attention to the situation with the collection of recyclables in Heller Parkway between Mt. Prospect and Woodside and adjacent streets. The collection has not happened in the last two weeks. I did call the Sanitation Dept. and their answer was that they are working on new contracts but it does not make sense. I do not see other streets with this problem, especially in Forests Hills. Please address this issue as this makes our neighborhood unsightly and attracts vermin.
There are major potholes on Christopher Lane in Newark DE. They just made Margaret street one way, so they are forcing more people to use Christopher Lane to exit from the Creek View Road area and these potholes are very large in size. These have been there for over 7 months and are getting bigger. We need these fixed as more traffic will be using this road.
Wow. The potholes in front of 61 Victoria (6th) avenue are making buildings shake when trucks or buses roll into them. THey are 3 inches and more deep in places. You can see the bricks that once were the avenue. SOMETHING has to be done.
It sounds like an explosion everytime even a car goes into and out of these series of potholes.
Someone on a motorcycle or a bike in the dark can get SERIOUSLY INJURED. At this point it is a public health issue.
I recently moved from Manchester pl to Summer Ave. And I noticed the streets are filthy because we don’t get no street cleaning. Why? It’s a shame that only the streets from Mt Prospect n up are the only ones that gets street cleaning, the rest are forgotten.
There hasn’t been no street cleaning on Summer Ave n other streets nearby. Why?
My name is Gabrielle Vera, I’m 18 years old and a student at Rutgers University Newark. I grew up in Newark and live in our city’s North ward. I am the former secretary of the Newark Student union, an organization that worked tirelessly for the return of local control in our city.
Throughout my high school career I dedicated countless hours to engaging, supporting, and empowering my community. I have done work with Sadie Nash to support young woman of color and was recently selected as an Aspen young leaders fellow in Newark.
I began my college career early after dropping out of high school at 16 years old and returning to a non-traditional program known as gateway to college , located at Essex County College. After returning to school, I graduated at 17 with a high school diploma and 40 college credits, and immediately began Rutgers University in the Fall of 2017. All of my experiences combined led me to decide to become a political science major and legal studies minor at Rutgers.
As a political science major, I have been given a once in a lifetime opportunity to intern at our nation’s capital with the Washington Center. Unfortunately the costs of the program total to approximately $14,700. I have already earned a residential scholarship through the Honors Living Learning Community at Rutgers Newark to help minimize costs, however I am still in need.
Is there any way that you, Councilman, can assist me with scholarship funds? I have and still am an active member in my community and see this as a great opportunity for my community to help me. As we all know, it takes a village.
Please keep in touch and read part of my story through my GoFundMe account.
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Several non-residents park on Mount Prospect between Heller Parkway and Graftin Ave leaving with residents with no choice but to park on the bike lane and subsequently receiving $54 fines. This is unacceptable and something must be done that favor the residents living on the avenue.
There is a huge pothole that is causing damage to vehicles on North 8th St in front of 628 North 8th St, it needs to be repaired ASAP.
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Not sure what your initiatives are in this area, but is this something that’s on your radar? | 2019-04-25T20:24:16Z | http://www.anibalramosjr.com/contact?recruiter_id=158702 |
For updates on training & courses why not load the ‘app’ for the club available for both Apple and Andriod.
West Berkshire Gundog Club (WBGC) run club training days which are open to all throughout the year on the first Sunday of every month come rain or shine.
We also provide specialist training days and Working Tests (click for photos) over the year, details can be found under the Club Events page.
Please note: West Berkshire Gundog Club is not associated or has any affiliation with any other regional gundog club. If you would like to benefit from the experience that Allan & Sue have accumulated over their combined years in the field, testing and trialing please contact them directly. | 2019-04-22T04:54:47Z | http://www.westberksgundogclub.com/ |
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The Douglas Lake Bar & Steakhouse is located in Pellston, near Petoskey. It is known to locals as the “DLB”, has a rich history of providing great food and service in a rustic log building overlooking Douglas Lake.
Open seasonally — 5pm to 10pm. | 2019-04-22T12:23:49Z | https://mynorth.com/place/douglas-lake-bar-steakhouse/ |
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When we first met Sally, she was exhausted. She was also very depressed. “It’s important to have a day off, to have time to make friends because it can be very lonely when you are overseas and away from your family,” she told HOME.
In January 2013, the Singapore government passed a legislation that mandates a weekly rest day for MDWs or compensation of a day’s wages in lieu. Despite this, a large percentage of MDWs work without any rest days. A study conducted by TWC2 in late 2013, early 2014 revealed that about 59% of the 192 domestic surveyed did not have a weekly day off and 40% who did have a weekly day off did not receive compensation in lieu. Another study conducted by HOME found that 40% of 670 domestic workers did not have a weekly day off.
While the legislation mandates that workers are given rest days, it is difficult for them to exercise this right because it doesn’t take into account the differences in negotiating power of both parties. Many women are pressured into accepting contracts with no rest days, particularly the new arrivals.
Those who arrive on such contracts tell us there is no negotiation: agents simply present them with “no rest day contracts” and their only “choice” is to either accept these terms or not get the job. As a result such workers arrive in Singapore “locked into” contracts with no rests days, or only one or two rest days a month. These contracts factor in very small amounts of financial compensation in lieu of rest days as a part of the total monthly wage amount. As Singapore does not set minimum wage guidelines for domestic workers, they are often pressured to accept this monetary trade-off for having no/few rest days, without which their monthly wages would be even lower.
At other times, even after signing a contract with rest days allocated, workers may find themselves being coerced by their employers into foregoing them, with or without additional compensation. For instance, a domestic worker whom we assisted had signed a contract guaranteeing one rest day week. Once she started work, her employer told her that she wouldn’t be receiving any. She did not object at the time for fear of being terminated. Her fears were came true four months later when, tired and lonely, she asked her employers for a weekly rest day: her employers responded by cancelling her work permit and attempted to repatriate her.
The current rest day legislation is also problematic because it does not specify the duration of their rest day. This omission leaves domestic workers vulnerable to the demands of their employers. A focus group conducted by HOME in April this year revealed that among those MDWs who were given rest days, all had to perform a range of household chores before they left the home and after they returned. For one worker, this left only six hours of time off between 11am–5pm (this also included time traveling to and from the home).
The provision of rest days is a basic human right that should be accorded to every worker. Having a full rest day allows them to catch up on sleep, de-stress, take time for themselves and/or socialize with others outside their workplace. As many workers told us during the focus group, it also gives them a chance to experience Singapore, to take in new sights and taste new foods.
In HOME and TWC2’s recently submitted shadow report to the UN’s Convention on the Elimination of all Forms of Discrimination Against Women (CEDAW) Committee, we called for the Singapore government to uphold its CEDAW obligations by passing legislation to better safeguard the right of domestic workers to a rest day. The government should disallow the practice of agents/employers pressuring domestic workers into contracts that trade off their right to a rest day. Rather, they should be able to negotiate with their employer whether or not to forego their rest day during the term of their employment. This should be an ongoing process and not predetermined at a point where workers are particularly vulnerable to being pressured to sign contracts with exploitative conditions. Additionally, domestic workers who are terminated by their employers for asserting their right to a weekly day off should be allowed to change employers. We also suggested that a provision should be inserted into the Employment of Foreign Manpower Act to ensure domestic workers receive at least eight continuous hours of rest per night and weekly rest days should be 24 hours. | 2019-04-26T11:02:46Z | https://www.home.org.sg/our-stories/2017/11/30/a-worker-not-a-slave-domestic-workers-still-denied-weekly-rest-days |
Students will explore the concept of culture and demonstrate an understanding of its role in their lives inclusive of Acadians, African Nova Scotians, Gaels, Mi’Kmaq and additional cultures.
Students will examine how traditions relate to culture in a region, inclusive of Acadians, African Nova Scotians, Gaels, Mi’Kmaq and additional cultures.
Students will explore diverse cultures and communities, including Acadians, African Nova Scotians, Gaels, and Mi’Kmaq, with respect and sensitivity through music.
To hold a classroom céilidh which demonstrates the values of a Gaelic céilidh; i.e. interaction among generations so as to transmit a culture.
Understand that a céilidh is an integral means of passing down Gaelic culture.
Either as a group, pair or solo effort present either a story, song, dance or information piece relating to a Gaelic community.
Use a Gaelic phrase or word in the proper social context.
Appreciate that transmission of culture happens over time through many generations.
Review what we know about céilidhs. Make sure students are aware of the impromptu nature of most céilidhs but we are doing a reenactment.
How can we make the classroom more like a kitchen or living room?
What are some behaviours to avoid and things they should remember to do? i.e. remember to give all a chance to speak and to be good listeners.
Discuss who we will invite. Try to invite some older folk or individuals with Gaelic.
As a group, draw up an invitation.
Social skills and behaviours as discussed in the planning session.
Recall what they learned from visitors following the visit.
Discussion of differences in "oral" versus "literary" ways of learning.
Why do we think céilidhing or "visiting" is so important to the Gaels?
Talk about intergenerational transmission of knowledge. How have the students experienced this in their own lives? | 2019-04-18T15:00:28Z | https://museum.novascotia.ca/resources/gaels/lesson-plan-ceilidh |
Once a person or group no longer believes in the state of future rewards and punishments, that individual or crowd are likely not to seek salvation through Christ Jesus, and most probably will determine that they have no sin for which to repent.
It seems much of the modern Church has left off the preaching of repentance and salvation, with a new approach adopted, where there is no need for repentance, but only good deeds are required and a nominal acclimation to the teachings of Christ.
An immoral-majority of America has forsaken tried and true moral deportment for self-seeking, self-gratifying indulgence. Without concern for the general welfare of our nation, these are blown to and fro by the winds of change, and lead astray multitudes on an ever-shifting landscape of moral turpitude, offering little to no hope for our posterity. This immoral-majority wishes to silence the moral-minority, constituted, as far as the former is concerned, by hatemongers, the politically insensitive, bigots, and the self-righteous.
I believe there is no doubt that what once was considered wholesome, venerable and worthy of great effort by most Americans, is now thought of as plebeian and contemptible. The Bible which was respected as containing the Righteousness of God, has been ridiculed, derided and diluted to make sinners (sinners in and outside the Church) comfortable in their practiced transgressions.
Yet, nonetheless, the Bible instructs us to repent. But if sin has been done away with then there is nothing to repent for, at least that is the slippery slope taken by the teachings of the immoralists of today. | 2019-04-24T16:06:16Z | http://missionpossible.klptv.org/when-the-church-omits-preaching-repentance-anything-goes-by-rev-steve-williams/ |
New website design, frostandco-uk.co.uk has been released today.
Frost & Co Estate Agents (est.1992) in Bournemouth and Poole is today one of the premier independent estate agents.
Their services cover all aspects of property sale, purchase, lettings and management , together with new homes and development consultancy.
Troy Stanley, Technical Director at Resource Techniques, considers the striking imagery and animation in the website design as one of the best to welcome new customers to the website. | 2019-04-25T22:13:42Z | https://www.resourcetechniques.co.uk/news/web-design/new-website-design-for-frost-and-co-estate-agents-in-bournemouth-and-poole-100218 |
Set to “The Silent Dove in the Distance”.
aren’t they already recorded in your book?
Distracted by the superscription— musing over what a tune called “The Silent Dove in the Distance” might sound like.
8 Then Aharon is to cast lots for the two goats, one lot for Adonai and the other for ‘Az’azel. 9 Aharon is to present the goat whose lot fell to Adonai and offer it as a sin offering. 10 But the goat whose lot fell to ‘Az’azel is to be presented alive to Adonai to be used for making atonement over it by sending it away into the desert for ‘Az’azel.
13……. when you heard the Word of God from us, you received it not merely as a human word, but as it truly is, God’s Word, which is at work in you believers.
I got to thinking, “Well, just exactly how does a shepherd use a staff and a rod?” The staff is used to guide the sheep and to catch them. Traditional staffs used in the UK have horn crooks with a sharp curled tip, which I suspect is designed to catch in the fleece. The rod was essentially a club used to defend against predators, but also as a goad to correct the sheep.
18 (21) So the people stood at a distance, but Moshe approached the thick darkness where God was.
5…...the disciplined and resolute firmness of your trust in the Messiah.
12 However, Moshe’s hands grew heavy; so they took a stone and put it under him, and he sat on it. Aharon and Hur held up his hands, the one on the one side and the other on the other; so that his hands stayed steady until sunset.
19 So let those who are suffering according to God’s will entrust themselves to a faithful Creator by continuing to do what is good.
Bake what you want to bake; boil what you want to boil; and whatever is left over, set aside and keep for the morning.
4 1-2 Since Jesus went through everything you’re going through and more, learn to think like him. Think of your sufferings as a weaning from that old sinful habit of always expecting to get your own way. Then you’ll be able to live out your days free to pursue what God wants instead of being tyrannized by what you want.
2 Every branch which is part of me but fails to bear fruit, he cuts off; and every branch that does bear fruit, he prunes, so that it may bear more fruit. 3 Right now, because of the word which I have spoken to you, you are pruned.
27 “What I am leaving with you is shalom — I am giving you my shalom. I don’t give the way the world gives.
Peace I bequeath to you, my peace I entrust to you. The way I give is not the way the material world gives.
and threw stones on me.
from the bottom of the pit.
at my sighs, at my cries.
15Now, brothers, I must remind you of the Good News which I proclaimed to you, and which you received, and on which you have taken your stand, 2 and by which you are being saved — provided you keep holding fast to the message I proclaimed to you. For if you don’t, your trust will have been in vain.
15Also, you know perfectly well, brothers, the happy history which I declared to you; which you acknowledged, and in which you stand fast; through which you are also being set free— as long as you keep holding on to the message I told to you—unless your trust was without purpose. | 2019-04-20T18:23:12Z | https://leahsan.blogspot.com/2018/04/ |
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GLAMS’s concert. at the Japan Touch was one of the highlights of Saturday’s day.
Mikaru is a Japanese singer and songwriter, known for having been the leader and singer of the DIO band – Distraught Overlord and Black Line. since 2013, he has begun a new adventure with G.L.A.M.S.
Mikaru, along with Syu, Yudai and Tetsuto, shook the stage of the Japan Touch!
The 4 members wore for the occasion a rather casual look (because of Mikaru’s lost suitcase). They climbed one after the other on stage with Mikaru (vocals) going on stage last and warming the audience at the microphone before starting the concert. During the concert, he also took the floor saying the group was delighted to be back in Lyon.
A delirious crowd, screams, guitars resonating in the speakers and in all the space … What an explosion of sensation!
The band was able to play 10 songs, most of them from their new album. For instance, it was the first time that their new songs “The Beginning of the End“, “Dragonfly & RosyLife” and “Man in Underworld” could be heard on stage, the latter being different from what they usually do, with very jazzy notes. Mikaru has also introduced it to the public as “a very special song”.
After that, the band and the audience could snap their fingers in rhythm on the beginning of the song.
At around the middle of the concert, Mikaru introduced the band members one by one. Syu on the drums, Yudai on guitar and Tetsuto on bass. Everyone then took the time to play a small solo for the occasion.
The audience was very responsive and did not hesitate to follow Mikaru’s instructions when he asked them to sing in unison (“Hey everybody, oh come together”) or to move with him (jump from the left to the right (of the scene), then from right to left …).
At the end of the show, the public had the right to see the traditional pick throw (of Tetsuto) and chopsticks throw (of Syu) which have made some happy fans who then went to meet the group and had them sign their precious album. This signing session also went very well: loads of fans came to buy albums, posters and other photosets/there were a lot of fans who came to buy albums, posters and other photosets!
After this crazy concert, it was with great pleasure that we were able to interview the band thanks to AA experience (I know, I’m AA experience, so it’s easier…)! You can check this out!
VIXX in Paris (France) in September! | 2019-04-23T22:35:47Z | http://asiandreamers.org/en/live-report-glams-japan-touch-lyon-2/ |
Kylie Jenner might be the most influential member in the Kardashian/Jenner household, but she’s not immune to getting into trouble with the law.
If you remember, in August 2013, the youngest member of the Keeping Up With the Kardashians family caused a three-car pileup in Calabasas, California — and now she is being held accountable for her actions.
According to TMZ, “Kylie was driving a Mercedes G-Wagon when a witness says she slammed into the back of a car stopped in traffic.” The incident caused a chain reaction as Jenner hit a Toyota, which then hit a Subaru, and now the driver of the latter is suing the television personality for negligent driving.
The woman who was driving the Subaru is also going after Jenner’s mother, Kris, because she believes the car was in the momager’s name.
At the time of the incident, which took place just 18 days after Jenner’s 16th birthday, no injuries were reported, and it was believed everyone was cordial to each other. However, in the lawsuit obtained by TMZ, the woman driver now claims her neck and back were injured during the crash, which makes the lawsuit sound a little bit fishy!
And it seems Miss Jenner may, in fact, be unlucky behind the wheel because she has since been involved in another accident. Earlier this year, Jenner was involved in a crash while behind the wheel of her new Range Rover, although according to TMZ, it wasn’t clear whether she caused that one.
We’ll update you on how the lawsuit pans out.
Tell us what you think: Does the Subaru driver have the right to sue Kylie Jenner? | 2019-04-22T12:39:18Z | https://www.sheknows.com/entertainment/articles/1056609/kylie-jenner-sued-over-car-accident/ |
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As part of our School Holiday Program we are proud to announce our Junior Camp is back for another year. If your little punk needs to make to make some noise (and you need some time for the ringing in your ears to stop), then sign them up for our Rock and Roll Junior Camp!
With two full days of musical fun, activities and educational play, this event is a great introduction to music in a warm and supportive environment.
BRING: lunch for the day, an instrument if you have one, and your best rockin' duds!
~ 2 full days of fun with like-minded friends!
plus a team of dedicated Tribe members running activities and supervising backstage.
INVESTMENT: $150 (plus gst) for 2 days or $90 for 1 day! | 2019-04-26T08:19:41Z | https://mellanieshaylor.com/new-events/2019/4/11/april-school-holiday-program-for-juniors-3-7 |
SK Slovan Varnsdorf is ranked #22 in Czech Republic and #1157 in Europe.
Teams of same strength are Falkirk FC (1651.64) and UMF Grindavik (1651.34).
SK Slovan Varnsdorf (1618.60) is underdog against Zelezarny Trinec (1673.22) according to ratings from last round.
Bet on (1) Zelezarny Trinec (Stake 3/10) with odds 2.45.
Fair Odds seem to be Zelezarny Trinec (2.44) and SK Slovan Varnsdorf (3.34).
SK Slovan Varnsdorf is overrated by bookmakers. | 2019-04-20T05:18:38Z | http://www.soccer-rating.com/SK-Slovan-Varnsdorf/2022/ |
Google has long had a testy relationship with China, with the search giant largely pulling out of the Chinese market after alleging that state-backed hackers had targeted the company's systems and employees.
Chairman Eric Schmidt's forthcoming book, "The New Digital Age," will not smooth things over, judging by a description of the work by the Wall Street Journal, which has reviewed galleys of the unreleased title.
"... in this all-Internet world, China, the book says again and again, is a dangerous and menacing superpower," Tom Gara writes.
Schmidt cowrote the book with Jared Cohen, a former State Department official who now runs a Google think tank.
It is willing to commit cybercrimes in pursuit of state goals, which the United States is not willing to do because of "the American sense of fair play."
Schmidt and Cohen predict, however, that the Chinese government's attempt to keep its citizenry under tight control will lead to "widespread instability" and "some kind of revolution" down the road. | 2019-04-21T01:06:31Z | https://www.businessinsider.com/google-eric-schmidt-china-book-2013-2 |
Do you agree with Ann Treneman’s four-star review of A Very Very Very Dark Matter?
I knew the world premiere from Martin McDonagh (Hangmen, Three Billboards Outside Ebbing, Missouri) of his new play A Very Very Very Dark Matter at The Bridge Theatre in London would be a Marmite production but even I was surprised by the vitriol on this one. Frankly, it makes the Brexit debate look mild mannered. | 2019-04-24T06:03:20Z | https://www.thetimes.co.uk/article/4b40e80c-e352-11e8-9ca5-2dc8c6b25903 |
2v. . ill.. (maps, ports.., tables) . 23cm. Shelflist entry – state unknown. | 2019-04-23T22:08:18Z | http://www.nationaltrustcollections.org.uk/object/3158596 |
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Actually, there has been long awaiting demand to define new forms of controlling measures after AC Milan midfielder Kevin-Prince Boateng walked off the field along with his team when stadium crowd kept throwing racial chanting on his team. Later, it was widely criticized; however, many also supported him in the wake of prevailing conditions on the field. Besides this incident, there have been other cases on individual levels where some big players in the business got either a ban or monetary fine on proving guilty of racial abuses. Moreover, FIFA has also indicated on several occasions that it is not going to tolerate any case related to racial chanting.
Some of the biggies found guilty include John Terry, who found guilty of racially abusing QPR defender Anton Ferdinand back on 23 October 2011. He got four matches ban along with a £220,000 fine. Uruguay striker Suarez was similarly banned for eight matches along with a £40000 fine after he clashed with Manchester United's Patrice Evra back in October 2011.
On these recommendations, Uefa executive committee will vote in London in May, and if it is passed by the majority of members there, these measures will be applicable on all UEFA matches from July. | 2019-04-22T06:23:54Z | http://www.myhorsematters.com/index.php/topic,12.msg12.html |
For the obsolete units of area and length, see Rood (unit). For the surname and other uses, see Rood (disambiguation).
Rood is an archaic word for pole, from Old English rōd "pole", specifically "cross", from Proto-Germanic *rodo, cognate to Old Saxon rōda, Old High German ruoda "rod".
Rood was originally the only Old English word for the instrument of Jesus Christ's death. The words crúc and in the North cros (from either Old Irish or Old Norse) appeared by late Old English; "crucifix" is first recorded in English in the Ancrene Wisse of about 1225. More precisely, the Rood or Holyrood was the True Cross, the specific wooden cross used in Christ's crucifixion. The word remains in use in some names, such as Holyrood Palace and the Old English poem The Dream of the Rood. The phrase "by the rood" was used in swearing, e.g. "No, by the rood, not so" in Shakespeare's Hamlet (Act 3, Scene 4).
The alternative term triumphal cross (Latin: crux triumphalis, German: Triumphkreuz), which is more usual in Europe, signifies the triumph that the resurrected Jesus Christ (Christus triumphans) won over death.
In church architecture the rood, or rood cross, is a life-sized crucifix displayed on the central axis of a church, normally at the chancel arch. The earliest roods hung from the top of the chancel arch (rood arch), or rested on a plain "rood beam" across it, usually at the level of the capitals of the columns. This original arrangement is still found in many churches in Germany and Scandinavia, although many other surviving crosses now hang on walls.
If the choir is separated from the church interior by a rood screen, the rood cross is placed on, or more rarely in front of, the screen. Under the rood is usually the altar of the Holy Cross.
Numerous near life-size crucifixes survive from the Romanesque period or earlier, with the Gero Cross in Cologne Cathedral (AD 965–970) and the Volto Santo of Lucca the best known. The prototype may have been one known to have been set up in Charlemagne's Palatine Chapel in Aachen, apparently in gold foil worked over a wooden core in the manner of the Golden Madonna of Essen, though figureless jeweled gold crosses are recorded in similar positions in Hagia Sophia in Constantinople in the 5th century. Many figures in precious metal are recorded in Anglo-Saxon monastic records, though none now survive. Notables sometimes gave their crowns (Cnut the Great at Winchester Cathedral), necklaces (Lady Godiva to the Virgin accompanying the rood at Evesham Abbey), or swords (Tovi the Proud, Waltham Abbey) to decorate them. The original location and support for the surviving figures is often unclear but a number of northern European churches preserve the original setting in full — they are known as a Triumphkreuz in German, from the "triumphal arch" (or "chancel arch") of Early Christian architecture. As in later examples the Virgin and Saint John often flank the cross, and cherubim and other figures are sometimes seen. A gilt rood in the 10th-century Mainz Cathedral was only placed on a beam on special feast days.
In the Romanesque era the crucified Christ was presented as ruler and judge. Instead of a crown of thorns he wears a crown or a halo, on his feet he wears "shoes" as a sign of the ruler. He is victorious over death. His feet are parallel to each other on the wooden support ("Four nail type") and not one on top of the other. The perizoma (loincloth) is highly stylized and falls in vertical folds.
In the transition to the Gothic style, the triumphant Christ becomes suffering Christ, the pitiful Man of Sorrows. Instead of the ruler's crown, he wears the crown of thorns, his feet are placed one above the other and are pierced with a single nail. His facial expression and posture express his pain. The wounds of the body are often dramatically portrayed. The loincloth is no longer so clearly stylized. The attendant figures Mary and John show signs of grief.
A triumphal cross may be surrounded by a group of people. These people may include Mary and John, the "beloved disciple" (based on John's Gospel (John 19:25-27, Matthew 27:25f, Mark 15;40f and Luke 23:49)), but also apostles, angels and the benefactor.
The triumphal cross of Öja Church in Öja on Gotland stands on a transverse beam beneath the triumphal arch and is flanked by two people: Mary and John.
The triumphal cross in the abbey church of Wechselburg stands in an elevated position on the rood screen and also has the same pair of attendant figures.
The triumphal cross in Schwerin Cathedral is also flanked by Mary and John. At the end of the cross' beam the Evangelist's symbols may be seen.
In St. Mary's Church in Osnabrück there are only the empty stone pedestals of the attendant figures.
The triumphal cross above the screen in Halberstadt Cathedral is not flanked by Mary and John, but by two angels.
On the supporting beam of the triumphal cross in Lübeck Cathedral there is also a bishop, presumably the benefactor of the cross.
Rood screens developed in the 13th century as wooden or stone screens, usually separating the chancel or choir from the nave, upon which the rood now stood. The screen may be elaborately carved and was often richly painted and gilded. Rood screens were found in Christian churches in most parts of Europe by the end of the Middle Ages, though in Catholic countries the great majority were gradually removed after the Council of Trent, and most were removed or drastically cut down in areas controlled by Calvinists and Anglicans. The best medieval examples are now mostly in the Lutheran countries such as Germany and Scandinavia, where they were often left undisturbed in country churches.
Rood screens are the Western equivalent of the Byzantine templon beam, which developed into the Eastern Orthodox iconostasis. Some rood screens incorporate a rood loft, a narrow gallery or just flat walkway which could be used to clean or decorate the rood or cover it up in Lent, or in larger examples by singers or musicians. An alternative type of screen is the Pulpitum, as seen in Exeter Cathedral, which is near the main altar of the church.
The rood provided a focus for worship, most especially in Holy Week, when worship was highly elaborate. During Lent the rood was veiled; on Palm Sunday it was revealed before the procession of palms and the congregation knelt before it. The whole Passion story would then be read from the rood loft, at the foot of the crucifix, by three ministers.
No original medieval rood has survived in a church in the United Kingdom. Most were deliberately destroyed as acts of iconoclasm during the English Reformation and the English Civil War, when many rood screens were also removed. Today, in many British churches, the "rood stair" that gave access to the gallery is often the only remaining sign of the former rood screen and rood loft.
In the 19th century, under the influence of the Oxford Movement, roods and screens were again added to many Anglican churches.
Cross from Linde Church on Gotland (today in the Swedish History Museum) also displays the symbol of a ruler, demonstrating the origin of the name.
On Gotland in several of the medieval churches, including Alskog, Alva, Bro, Fide, Fröjel, Grötlingbo, Hamra, Hemse, Klinte, Lye, Öja, Rute, Stenkumla and Stenkyrka. The one at Öja is particularly lavish.
Two corn-dolly-like garlands formerly stood in the rood loft, as illustrated in 1823.
The single garland in the rood loft at Charlton-on-Otmoor, illustrated by J.H. Parker in 1840.
A unique rood exists at St Mary's parish church, Charlton-on-Otmoor, near Oxford, England, where a large wooden cross, solidly covered in greenery stands on the early 16th-century rood screen (said by Sherwood and Pevsner to be the finest in Oxfordshire). The cross is redecorated twice a year, on 1 May and 19 September (the patronal festival, calculated according to the Julian Calendar), when children from the local primary school, carrying small crosses decorated with flowers, bring a long, flower-decorated, rope-like garland. The cross is dressed or redecorated with locally obtained box foliage. The rope-like garland is hung across the rood screen during the "May Garland Service".
An engraving from 1823 shows the dressed rood cross as a more open, foliage-covered framework, similar to certain types of corn dolly, with a smaller attendant figure of similar appearance. Folklorists have commented on the garland crosses' resemblance to human figures, and noted that they replaced statues of St Mary and Saint James the Great which had stood on the rood screen until they were destroyed during the Reformation. Until the 1850s, the larger garland cross was carried in a May Day procession, accompanied by morris dancers, to the former Benedictine Studley priory (as the statue of St Mary had been, until the Reformation). Meanwhile, the women of the village used to carry the smaller garland cross through Charlton, though it seems that this ceased some time between 1823 and 1840, when an illustration in J.H. Parker's A Glossary of Terms Used in Grecian, Roman, Italian, and Gothic Architecture shows only one garland cross, centrally positioned on the rood screen.
^ Gothic Sculpture, 1140-1300 by Paul Williamson (1998). Retrieved 26 Oct 2014.
^ Curl, James Stevens (2006). Oxford Dictionary of Architecture and Landscape Architecture, 2nd ed., OUP, p. 658. ISBN 978-0-19-860678-9.
^ Oxford English Dictionary, "Rood"
^ Oxford English Dictionary, "Cross", and "Crucifix"
^ In England the name "rood screen" indicates that there is a (monumental) cross, even if the original cross has not survived.
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Der Erlöser am Kreuz: Das Kruzifix ("The Saviour on the Cross: the Crucifix"), rescissions in the portrayal of the Crucifix or Rood Cross.
Wikimedia Commons has media related to Rood cross.
Archbishops' Council. "St. Mary's, Charlton-on-Otmoor". A Church Near You. Church of England. Archived from the original on 18 December 2007. Retrieved 4 November 2007.
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I ran the suggest scans several times thru removing loads of rubbish.
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After entering password, XP proceeds to log on, however I see the screensaver for a few moments then XP logs me out. I can log in with the same user account in safe mode.
and i have tried repairing xp installation but i still cant log in.
Can i still use Hijack this in safe mode?
OK...Ive run all the scans..cleared a couple of grebblies out, should I post my HijackThis log here or in the malware forums?
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Finn usually wears socks in public. He has silly feet. But today we left the house barefoot. It’s too hot for socks!
I entered Target with Finn strapped sock-less against my chest, and I became immediately conscious that people may stare at his feet swinging beside my hip. God was sweet to show me not one, but four handicapped children shopping with their parents in the short hour I was zooming around the store. I whispered, “Thank you, Lord,” in the peanut butter aisle. He reminded me that we’re not alone, and it gave me confidence to show off this incredible, beautiful child…feet, shunt and all. Finn was literally staring up at me smiling the entire time. I think he was reminding me to focus on him, not his Spina Bifida.
We met an intelligent, inspiring woman named Kendall last weekend who also has Spina Bifida. She and her sweet parents have done an incredible job embracing life and identity apart from this sometimes terrifying, unpredictable birth defect. It’s been a tough year for Kendall but she continues to live gratefully–giving love, inspiration and remarkable faith. And she also gave Finn this bear.
My friend, Taylor, has such a unique perspective on things: from the invention of the mattress to living out your faith. Her wisdom has challenged me for over ten years. She said (or texted, can’t remember) something so profound once: my perspective on Finn’s disability will become his perspective. If I think his feet are awesome (AND THEY ARE), then he might think they’re awesome. If I focus on what he can do, maybe he won’t focus too much on what he can’t. If we help him find identity apart from his disability, he may not identify with it quite so much. He just may go barefoot.
I know we can all be very self conscience about appearances but the reminder you received today was a good one. We’re not to concern ourselves with what others think. Only the miracles He gives us and what He thinks, and that we’re never alone.
Finn is truly adorable… You are an awesome mom and I know Joey is the greatest dad! Remember that all parents have no idea what they are doing – if it is the right thing or not… We all do the best we can, we pray allot, and you know we just keep doing it. We make mistakes and you will too…but Finn will be okay even so. He will forgive you. Thanks for sharing your thoughts- they are challenging and I need that.
Can I just cut and paste everything that Jane said??! You guys have some great friends don’t you, wise beyond years. Finn sure has some great encouragers.
Yes he does have cute feet. I wish I could have seen him smiling up at you during your Target trip. Nothing sweeter than that loving smile that babies give their Mommy.
Love your heart and the things you’re learning sweet friend, thank you for sharing your insight! And I have NO doubt Finn has the absolute BEST feet – I vote BAREFOOT EVERYDAY!!
My sweet child, while I stayed with you taking off Finn’s socks and squishing his feet was something I looked forward to each day. Do you know I always thought I had cute feet, probably because my parents told me I did? Until one day a doctor told me my feet were less than perfect? Although I was taken back who do you think I thought was wrong, not my parents? Finn will look to you and Joey for affirmation and all of us will be cheering you on as you parent this precious child.
I think Finn’s feet are beautiful, seriously. I look forward to getting to see them for myself very soon.
What a precious mother you are, Ashley.
sweet Ashley, your openness and beautiful articulation of your heart so blesses me. I have tears in my eyes for the way you love and fight for your Finn! he is such a powerful blessing to all! thank you for sharing!
Go barefoot because it feels good. Laugh and smile because that feels good too. And, I wish Taylor was my friend.
Hope to see you and Finn bare footing it this weekend!
wise words from Taylor…and a wise woman you are to not let them escape.
I vote for no socks too!! Way to teach all of us mr. Finn….we all have “stuff” we should look beyond…. being more thankful instead! I love my family!! | 2019-04-23T03:14:33Z | https://ourinvinciblesummers.wordpress.com/2012/07/18/socks/ |
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Argonne National Laboratory researchers, including Alex Hoffman, experimented with spintronics powered by magnetism for a low-heat methodology.
A new scientific field is toying with a new method of transferring data that could revolutionize tiny tech. How could this replace the small-scale circuitry we all know and love?
In a bizarre twist on horseshoe theory, thinking small might change the world as much as thinking the other way around.
The Internet of Things is slowly incorporating every object in our lives.
This modern miracle requires the transfer of data, which requires circuitry and electricity, which causes heat. And we don’t like heat in our computers. Heat is bad since it limits what we can accomplish in a lot of ways, and can potentially damage systems and those who use them.
Circuits may be tiny, but their reliance on electrical charges means that they will always produce some degree of heat.
Luckily for us, scientists have theorized that we can increase energy efficiency by relying on a method that needs no charge, and the Argonne National Laboratory with the U.S. Department of Energy (DOE) is hard at work putting that idea to the test. The name they have for it is wonderful, by the way.
Spintronics, which sounds like an 80’s exercise routine, has nothing to do with fidget spinners.
With spintronics, data is carried around using the magnetic properties of electrons, giving us a low-power way to process information.
It even sounds kind of natural until you realize that the whole process still requires rare-earth materials like yttrium iron garnet (YIG), which has found use in radar and microwave technologies but might find new uses due to properties that make it a good magnetic insulator.
So instead of powering the movement of the data, researchers want to push the data using magnetism, making a sort of miniature Hyperloop for data rather than traditional circuitry.
Researchers used the YIG sample to measure small-scale spin dynamics.
The measurements were gathered using electric beam lithography on a structure made from the YIG and platinum nanowires. When the researchers sent an electrical current through the platinum, the researchers could measure the spin dynamics of the excited YIG.
The ability to measure spin dynamics is a first in the scientific community, according to Benjamin Jungfleisch, and Hoffman was even able to project that there aren’t any roadblocks preventing them from using a smaller sample of YIG in the future.
And the smaller they can get it, the easier it will be to put tiny, sophisticated computers in anything we want.
With the race to find alternative energy sources, many people around the world have found the need to make their energy usage stretch.
Alternative energy sources are more environmentally friendly, renewable, and for all their glory, they pack less of a punch than many are used to.
Part of improving the future of renewable energy is to improve the yield of the energy, but another part is improving how much of it we can conserve.
If spintronics can make smaller devices use less power, then we may find ways to modernize just about anything without requiring a lot more power. In a world that needs to catch up to its own energy usage, moving forward without consuming more energy sounds like a good idea.
But it’s not all in the name of effective progress. Let’s talk practicality.
Ever hear of the Michigan Micro Mote? The Micro Mote is a computer that can fit on the edge of a nickel, and it can take pictures and read temperatures and pressure readings. It doesn’t sound like much, but consider that most of the size of the computer is the battery that powers it. If you didn’t need that battery, then the micro mote could get even smaller.
It’s not just the micro mote that needs to get smaller, either. With this new method, someone may finally figure out how to make scalable contacts with digital displays, giving us the AR overlook that we dreamed of before the Google Glass dropped off the face of the earth.
Less need for power should take care of the space issues on a lot of little tech, and with spintronics, we may be getting that and a little more safety to boot.
As always, we’ll be keeping our eye on this one. | 2019-04-23T05:01:34Z | https://edgy.app/using-spintronics-high-speed-low-power-electronics |
The Senate reached a deal to fund the government for two years. The vote is scheduled for later today. The deal includes an increase in the debt ceiling through March 2019 and boosts both defense and non-defense spending. The deal would effectively solidify long-term funding and remove the week to week crisis funding through continuing resolutions every few weeks.
The senate bill removed language that essentially sheltered illegal aliens through the DACA program. Democrats have refused to discuss border security or reach a different deal on the DACA program. This point was the primary cause for the last government shutdown.
House conservatives were outraged against the raising of the debt ceiling and surpassing spending caps. Members of the tea-party backed freedom caucus have expressed outraged over aspects of the senate bill. Some have quipped that the GOP can no longer claim to be the fiscally conservative party and support a deal that increases spending and the national debt. This was the war cry for Republicans against the Democrats in the previous president’s administration.
The senate deal specifically would increase spending for defense by $80 billion this year and $85 billion in 2019.
Senate Majority Leader McConnell boasted that the increase in defense spending was an accomplishment. The bill further provides an overall $700 billion for defense spending in 2018. It provides a cap on non-defense spending at $131 billion, over double the amount set in the 2011 Budget Control Act. It would be $117 billion higher than the President’s budget request for 2018.
The senate bill also includes funding to continue the CHIP program, Children’s Health Insurance Program, for an additional four years, $7 billion in community health center funding, with $6 billion ear-marked to fight opioid addiction.
Hailed a bi-partisan deal, not all Republicans will vote for the bill, assuming the House passes the same bill.
Earlier this week the house reached and passed a continuing resolution. The CR passed 245-182 and like the senate bill, increases the government funding through March 23, funds the Defense spending through the balance of fiscal year 2018 and funds community health centers for two years. If the CR is agreed upon by the senate it will be the fifth CR passed since September.
House conservatives have expressed concerns and opposition to the Senate Bill. The opposition will require over a dozen democrat votes to pass. Either deal may be attractive to democrats due to the support of democrat priorities such as community health center funding and other domestic programs. The House’s CR is unlikely to gain a majority of support in the Senate.
The primary leverage the democrats are using is DACA support and immigration reform. The democrats have refused to have a debate and reach a separate deal to address those issues following their commitment to do so and end the last shutdown weeks ago. This stubbornness is in response to the democrat’s base in anger for not taking a stand in previous CRs and budget discussions. The democrats are using the legislative session to solidify votes to have a sweep during the upcoming mid-term elections.
Nancy Pelosi (D-C.A) set a record February 7th for the longest house speech in history. The speech, eight-hours and seven-minutes in length was a brilliant display of endurance by Pelosi, 77-years old. Her speech included bible passages and focused on the sanctity of life to secure protections for illegal aliens brought to the US, some decades ago, by their parents.
The show goes on as both chambers debate and work to avoid another government shutdown, later today. | 2019-04-23T16:35:07Z | http://netnewsnetwork.net/government-shutdown-house-reaches-deal-senate-reaches-deal-senate-to-vote-today/ |
At the forefront of Barcelona’s street art scene is Sixe Paredes, whose self-proclaimed style of ‘primitive futurism’ uses its own language and symbols to explore the primordial: exemplified through animal life, ancestors and adolescents.
Learning and perfecting his craft on the streets, Sixe’s surreal, vivid and playful works demonstrate a warped and uninhibited aesthetic which draws inspiration directly from the natural world and the architecture of the city. Whilst his early works focussed on the darker side of modern day culture, Sixe has recently developed an interest in ancient cultures and primitive art, in particular the ways in which they can be related to graffiti and street art. In conjunction with this has been an engagement with geometric and textual elements, what Sixe calls ‘circuits’. The blending of these different styles and elements provides Sixe Paredes with a unique aesthetic which seems to provide perfect sanctuary to simplicity and complexity, harmony and tension. Sixe was one of the six artists who painted the facade of the Tate Modern in 2008 for the groundbreaking Street Art exhibition. He regularly shows at Alice Gallery in Brussels as well as other high profile galleries around the world. | 2019-04-21T12:53:50Z | http://www.a-by-p.com/artist/sixe-paredes/ |
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