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"Reaching the last house on the road" has been MATE's theme since its founding in 1954. It is a cooperative parish of nine, small, rural churches in West Central Maine and five shared ministries. Several of the churches are Presbyterian, and MATE's Coordinator has been a Presbyterian pastor since the beginning. It is also one of the ministries of our Synod of the Northeast. By sharing resources, the smallest (and we do mean small) congregations are able to proclaim the Gospel of Jesus Christ through ministry and outreach.
PCiS has sent work groups there for many years, focusing on its housing ministry---mostly making urgent improvements on rural, sub-standard homes. Rev. Spierling started the PCiS connection in 1979, with our first work group headed by Stacy and Mary Ann Angle. The eye-opening experiences and hard labor of that first venture never discouraged future plans to return again and again. The memory seems to be that work groups were sent almost every year since that first summer. Lew and Carol Collins, Alan, Jane and Adam Dossett, Aline Rober, Tom Pye, and Doug Nicholls might set the record for the most times returning. Outweighing the blisters and sore backs are the sharing in Christian fellowship, learning new skills, and honoring Christ by serving the sometimes "least" of our brothers and sisters.
Alan Dossett recently told of the 2010 work group building a ramp to the house of a wheel-chair bound owner, and his overwhelming joy on seeing that man's first ride to the outside yard of his house. "What hath God wrought?"
Download PDF Guide and Checklist for MATE participants here. | 2019-04-23T06:44:59Z | http://pcsudbury.org/mate |
17 April 2019, 20:01 Died on level 253 by a floating savant.
17 April 2019, 14:08 Died on level 252 by Gorren and a undead dragon.
17 April 2019, 12:50 Died on level 252 by a draken abomination.
16 April 2019, 17:56 Died on level 253 by a undead dragon.
16 April 2019, 13:01 Died on level 252 by a draken abomination.
16 April 2019, 12:27 Died on level 254 by a undead dragon.
16 April 2019, 11:21 Died on level 254 by Relaxa Que Curo, Kuksugar Andre, King Rechard, Baba and a falcon paladin.
16 April 2019, 10:35 Died on level 256 by a falcon knight.
15 April 2019, 18:08 Died on level 257 by a dark torturer.
15 April 2019, 17:51 Died on level 258 by a hellfire fighter.
14 April 2019, 14:43 Died on level 258 by Fire Maverick and Wilus.
13 April 2019, 15:03 Died on level 258 by a undead dragon.
13 April 2019, 13:44 Died on level 259 by a ghastly dragon.
11 April 2019, 22:53 Died on level 254 by Gorren and a ghastly dragon.
11 April 2019, 21:19 Died on level 255 by a draken abomination.
11 April 2019, 21:03 Died on level 257 by a ghastly dragon.
8 April 2019, 16:05 Died on level 255 by Rzut Oszczepem and a ghastly dragon.
6 April 2019, 21:14 Died on level 253 by a ghastly dragon.
4 April 2019, 22:26 Died on level 239 by a brimstone bug.
3 April 2019, 19:49 Died on level 232 by a ghastly dragon.
1 April 2019, 21:20 Died on level 215 by a mutated bat.
1 April 2019, 15:18 Died on level 209 by a souleater.
30 March 2019, 16:48 Died on level 200 by Vidfamne.
29 March 2019, 19:19 Died on level 201 by Vidfamne .
28 March 2019, 23:19 Died on level 190 by Tiki Taki, Benyh, Lubie Owoce, Zydaczov and The Enraged Thorn Knight.
26 March 2019, 22:32 Died on level 181 by Husarius Potpielony, Mathiu, Diglu Kurwica, Zwidek Alkoholik, Zielson Here, Grobys Emes, Texx, Death, Taydo, Seuu Cu, Ten Od Zabijania, Tengri, Azazel, Paweleq and Maydel.
26 March 2019, 18:18 Died on level 174 by a hellflayer.
25 March 2019, 13:44 Died on level 175 by a vexclaw.
23 March 2019, 23:37 Died on level 168 by a ghastly dragon.
22 March 2019, 15:34 Died on level 163 by Gringo, Gianis Antetokounmpo and a hellflayer. | 2019-04-23T02:47:05Z | https://www.gunzodus.net/character/show/Ke'bs |
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Chemists at The University of Texas at Austin have developed a material that holds the key to cheap, fast and portable new sensors for a wide range of chemicals that right now cost government and industries large sums to detect. The innovation could lead to major public health gains, as it holds the potential to drastically reduce the costs associated with cleaning-up accidental chemical spills, remediating old industrial sites, detecting radioactive contamination in drinking water, and operating medical and research imaging devices.
"A company with an abandoned chemical plant that has barrels of unlabeled solvents or a public utility concerned its water supply has been contaminated today face a cumbersome process of identifying the chemicals before they can start clean-up," said Simon Humphrey, associate professor of chemistry who led the research. "It's costly and can take two or three days. We can now do that with a rapid, on-site method -- and that difference could improve people's health and reduce pollution a lot more efficiently."
Humphrey envisions disposable paper dipsticks coated with the new material. A user would dip one into an uncharacterized substance and stick it into an ultraviolet (UV) reader. Based on the colors of light emitted, the device would indicate what components, such as organic solvents, fluoride, mercury and heavy metals, are in the substance.
The material, called PCM-22 and described in a paper published today in the journal Chem, is a crystal made of lanthanide ions and triphenylphosphine. When a chemical bonds to the material and a UV light shines on it, the material emits specific colors of visible light. Each chemical produces a unique eight-factor signature of color and brightness that can be used to identify and quantify it in an uncharacterized sample.
Once scientists calibrate the sensor on known samples to create a catalog of fingerprints that can be used to identify the components of uncharacterized samples, the dipstick-type sensors would be relatively simple to produce, Humphrey said. He and UT Austin share joint patents on the sensor material and on the process of analyzing results, and UT Austin's Office of Technology Commercialization has already begun work to license the technology to companies.
Another beneficial feature of PCM-22 is that it can distinguish between two types of water --the ordinary water (H2O) that we experience in everyday life and so-called heavy water (D2O), used in the operation of medical and research imaging.
With D2O, hydrogen atoms are replaced by deuterium atoms, but the two types of water are notoriously hard to tell apart because they look and, in most cases, behave the same chemically. It normally requires a costly test with a sophisticated piece of laboratory equipment called a laser spectrometer to tell the two apart.
Because the new material makes distinguishing between the two types of water simpler, it could become much easier for government agencies to detect the presence of radioactive contamination in drinking water or other bodies of water such as lakes and rivers. When ordinary water interacts with radioactive material, such as uranium, some of it is converted to heavy water, so elevated levels of heavy water give an early warning of contamination with radioactive material.
The ability to detect and quantify the two forms of water quickly, cheaply and at the point of need also would pave the way for more affordable and reliable medical and research imaging, such as nuclear magnetic resonance spectroscopy (NMR), which requires heavy water to operate. For NMR to function properly, this heavy water has to be very pure, but it is easily contaminated with ordinary water from moisture in the atmosphere.
"When you buy heavy water from a manufacturer it starts out ultrapure," Humphrey said. "But as soon as you unscrew the bottle, hydrogen atoms from the air start swapping with deuterium atoms. A week later, all of the H's have become scrambled with the D's and it effectively ruins the heavy water. It's an exchange that you can't stop."
The new material, which is sensitive enough to detect concentrations of ordinary water as low as 10 parts per million in a solution of heavy water, could make it cheaper and faster to verify the purity of this important reagent.
Other authors on the paper are Samuel Dunning, Ana Nuñez, Matthew Moore, Vincent Lynch and Jonathan Sessler at UT Austin, and Alexander Steiner at the University of Liverpool.
Funding for this research was provided by the National Science Foundation and the Welch Foundation.
The University of Texas at Austin is committed to transparency and disclosure of all potential conflicts of interest. The investigator who led this research, Simon Humphrey, shares joint patents with the university on the sensor material described in this release and he has submitted required financial disclosure forms with the university. | 2019-04-22T05:19:25Z | https://www.eurekalert.org/pub_releases/2017-04/uota-nmc041217.php |
Exile is whatever you make it. It's a mod of a game that you can add other mods on top of to create any gaming experience you want.
No, its not. Exile has a clear theme and in no way includes zombies, adding zombies to it makes it something else entirely.
But that's not the point. the point of this meme was to highlight that your average player thinks of Exile to be a zombie survival mod due to the obvious fame its gathered via Frankie/Sada.
lighten up Cen... lighten up.
Cen likes to take thinga a little too serious!
Center likes to take thinga a little too serious!
That's my opinion as well. Thanks to Arma 3's open nature you can add any mod to any mod and change the look and feel of nearly anything. BUT....just because you CAN doesn't mean that you SHOULD. I'm all for someone making a DayZ-ish mod clone in A3 (Breaking Point doesn't count), but doing it on the back of Exile isn't the proper way.
I was just using said stick for poking too.
Stop poking me, it hurts!
Honestly, you can blame Maca/Frankie for that thinking.
All it took was one video, and the mentality of players has shifted. | 2019-04-21T04:27:19Z | https://www.exilemod.com/topic/7957-just-stahp/ |
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After initial reluctance, House Republicans have finally reached an agreement to move forward on a bipartisan bank deregulation bill that the Senate passed in March. Its stated aim — to help rural community banks thrive against growing Wall Street power — appears to have been enough to power it across the finish line.
But banking industry analysts say the bill is already having the opposite effect, and its loosening of regulations on medium-sized banks is encouraging a rush of consolidation — all of which ends with an increasing number of community banks being swallowed up and closed down.
“We absolutely expect bank consolidation to accelerate,” Wells Fargo’s Mike Mayo told CNBC the day after the Senate passed the deregulation bill in March. The reason? Banks no longer face the prospect of stricter and more costly regulatory scrutiny as they grow. And regional banks in Virginia, Ohio, Mississippi, and Wisconsin have already taken note before the bill has even passed into law, announcing buyouts of smaller rivals.
The expected consolidation simply furthers an existing trend. Community banks have been struggling for decades against an epidemic of consolidation; the number of banks in America has fallen by nearly two-thirds in the past 30 years. Ironically, the one state that has seemingly figured out how to arrest this systemic abandonment of smaller communities is North Dakota, the home state of the bill’s co-author, Democratic Sen. Heidi Heitkamp.
That’s because North Dakota has a public bank.
Yet nothing in the new measure, sometimes called the “Crapo bill,” after its main Republican co-author, Sen. Mike Crapo of Idaho, builds upon this proven method to revitalize community banks; it only bolsters the ability of larger regionals to scoop them up.
As The Intercept has reported, S.2155 carries something for financial institutions of any size, by hammering away at capital and leverage requirements, mandatory stress tests, mortgage disclosure and ability-to-repay rules, data to detect lending discrimination, and the Federal Reserve’s ability to apply special regulations to individual banks. Combined with efforts inside the agencies that regulate banks to weaken rules, it represents a pendulum shift away from safety and toward what critics claim will be another financial crisis.
Thanks to filibuster rules, Senate Democrats were necessary to provide the margin of victory, and 17 of them obliged, justifying their votes as necessary to maintaining the existence of small community banks and credit unions, which would otherwise disappear amid relentless industry consolidation.
Implicit in this argument is that the Crapo bill represents the only hope for small community banks to survive without being swallowed up by bigger competitors. By lowering the cost of regulatory compliance, smaller banks would be given a fighting chance, the story goes. But that theory is at odds with the analysis of virtually every industry observer who has spoken about the Crapo bill.
Brown pinpointed a critical provision in the Crapo bill, which raises the threshold for banks that are subject to enhanced regulatory standards from $ 50 billion to $ 250 billion. This obviously benefits the “stadium banks” — banks with over $ 50 billion in assets, big enough to have a stadium named after them — who get freed from stricter regulations, which include extra capital and liquidity requirements, stress tests, and souped-up risk management.
This month, investment manager FJ Capital Management released a white paper noting that only two banks, CIT Group and New York Community Bancorp, have dared to break above $ 50 billion in assets since the passage of Dodd-Frank in 2010. “Raising these hurdles releases a new pool of acquirers, namely large regional banks that will benefit from mergers,” FJ Capital writes.
A separate Crapo bill provision should also spur merger activity. Section 207 increases the Federal Reserve’s “small bank holding company” threshold from $ 1 billion to $ 3 billion. Banks that are eligible for this designation can operate with higher levels of debt than would otherwise be permitted. That, again, broadens headspace for hundreds of banks at the smaller end to combine without losing this significant benefit, which enables them to juice returns by using other people’s money. Half of all buyers and nearly all of the sellers in bank M&A deals since 2010 were below $ 1 billion in assets, according to the investment firm FJ Capital Management.
The increased pool of cash-flush buyers should blunt the mild regulatory relief in the Crapo bill for smaller banks. “It’ll be less expensive to operate a community bank,” said Brown, who is an M&A lawyer. “But the fact is, they have an aging shareholder base, an aging management and board, and a lot of them want out.” And more buyers chasing deals means higher prices, making selling out even more attractive. It’s like a Silicon Valley startup exit strategy, applied to community banks.
So, Tester’s concern — that a more concentrated banking sector will pull out of rural America, leaving large chunks of the country behind — is made, if anything, worse by the bill he supports.
The impacts of this could be severe. In 2017, small business lending in rural America was half of what it was in 2004, according to the Wall Street Journal. Disappearing banks play a huge role, eliminating the kinds of community relationships that kept rural small business loans flowing. Venture capital in rural communities is scarce, making the bank the only place to get a loan. And, increasingly, the banks are leaving.
It’s unlikely that banks trying to merge their way to rapid growth will stick around. “One of the things we do a lot of these days is help investor groups buy a bank in a small town and move it to a larger metro area, where there’s a higher growth opportunity, and a quicker way to build assets,” said Brown.
In anticipation of the Crapo bill’s passage, the rush to deal has already begun. First Virginia Community Bank, which is around the $ 1 billion threshold, announced a merger with Colombo Bank earlier this month. In March, Civista, an Ohio-based firm, bought United Community Bank of Indiana, creating a $ 2.1 billion combined institution. At the higher end of the asset scale, BancorpSouth, with $ 17 billion in assets, purchased the $ 794 million Icon Bank in April. Associated Banc-Corp of Green Bay, Wisconsin, with $ 30 billion in assets, made plans to buy Diversified Insurance in February, along with Bank Mutual Corp.
In its report, FJ Capital Management estimated that the total number of chartered banks would decline by 50 percent over the next 10 to 15 years. That’s precisely the opposite of what the ringleaders of the Crapo bill on the Democratic side — Heitkamp, Tester, and Joe Donnelly of Indiana, all from predominantly rural states — hoped the bill would provoke. But they may have known who really wanted this legislation, if they looked into their own campaign finance filings.
According to data from the Center for Responsive Politics, Heitkamp, Donnelly, and Tester shot to the top of the list of senators receiving money from the financial industry in 2017, gathering $ 408,176. And prominent on that list are banks just under the $ 50 billion threshold. Employees of Signature Bank, a $ 41 billion bank based in New York, have given $ 112,000 to Democratic senators in the 2017-2018 election cycle, eight times as much as the 2015-2016 cycle with six month to go. Campaign finance data shows 45 Signature Bank donors for Donnelly and 38 for Heitkamp.
Among sub-$ 50 billion banks, Hancock Holding Company in Gulfport, Mississippi ($ 27 billion), Texas Capital Bancshares in Dallas ($ 25 billion), and the aforementioned Associated Banc-Corp have also increased donations in 2017 and 2018.
In an email to The Intercept, Compass Point’s Boltansky said that the impact on M&A may not be immediate. For example, the increase in the enhanced regulatory standards threshold is phased, raising only to $ 100 billion immediately, and then to $ 250 billion in 18 months. He added that bank M&A also carries political risk, since it usually leads to layoffs.
Top photo: Sen. Mike Crapo, R-Idaho, chairman of the Senate Banking Committee, joined by, Sen. John Thune, R-S.D., left, and Senate Majority Leader Mitch McConnell, R-Ky., right, talks to reporters as the Senate moves closer to passing legislation to roll back some of the safeguards Congress put in place to prevent a repeat of the 2008 financial crisis on March 6, 2018.
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Deep ocean expeditions require specially trained submarine pilots. It is their job to take the science and communications teams safely into the underwater world. Crushing pressure, unpredictable current systems, entanglement in ghost nets, catastrophic equipment failure, or of course pilot error, are just some of the risks of entering the hostile environment of the deep ocean.
New submarine pilots often have difficulty steering the submarine because of how the plastic pressure hull and the water distort their vision. Over time, they get used to this, but we can’t have a new submarine pilot crash a submersible. Your challenge is to teach your brain how to adjust for this distortion.
Fill the glass two thirds full with water. The glass should be clear and without patterns as you will need to look through it.
Place it on a table and position the two pens or pencils and yourself as shown in the diagram.
Now pick up one pen(cil) in each hand, and looking through the glass, try to get the ends to meet.
How did you get on? Look over the glass to see how close you got.
Do you need some more practice? Keep on trying to get the ends of the pen(cil)s to meet.
As you keep on trying, your brain will adapt to your new way of seeing the world and the task should get easier.
Once you think you have got the hang of this, you will need to pass your 'test'.
In one minute, touch the ends of the pen(cil)s together five times.
If you found this activity too easy, try moving the pencils further away from the glass. Say about 20cm away.
This will mean that the direction of the pen(cil)s reverse, which may pose an even greater challenge!
You can use any cylindrical glass, bottle or jug. Be careful of knocking over the glass, bottle, etc when you are trying to get the ends of the pen(cil)s to meet.
This challenge involves the principle of refraction. Refraction is the science name for the bending of light. This happens when the light from the pen(cil) to your eye passes through different types of matter, eg the water, the glass and the air.
You can see how the direction of the light travelling between the pencil and your eye changes in the diagram opposite.
The top diagram shows how the refraction of the light confuses your view of the ends of the pen(cil)s. The dark arrows represent what you see, whilst the lighter arrows show where the ends of the pen(cil)s actually are.
If you move the pen(cil)s further away, you can see how the path the light travels will actually reverse the direction of the pen(cil)s as you view them, shown in the bottom diagram.
This bending of the light also occurs when you are looking out of the clear pressure hull in the submersible. We thought this might be tricky to set up in your kitchen and so we came up with the glass idea, just to give you a sense of how difficult it must be to operate the submersible safely. | 2019-04-20T17:08:55Z | https://encounteredu.com/discover/activities/submarine-pilot |
A national campaign to find Britain’s most loved local businesses has discovered that four of Taunton's businesses are the most loved in the country! The competitor’s hard work throughout the campaign has definitely paid off for these four businesses that in total had an impressive 373 testimonials!
Thousands of local people from Taunton and the surrounding areas put forward their nominations for their favourite local business during the 14 Days of Love Campaign and the results speak for themselves! It is fantastic to have so much support for businesses in the area during these difficult economic times - a big thank you to everyone who took part or shared the love for a local business!
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The 14 Days of Love Campaign had some fantastic prizes up for grabs and anybody who had "shared the love" for a local business was in with a chance of winning! Prizes included a spa day at Champneys, a meal for two at a Michelin star restaurant, a Ferrari experience at Silverstone and even a trip on the Orient Express, to name but a few! | 2019-04-19T18:23:41Z | https://www.thebestof.co.uk/local/taunton-and-bridgwater/community-hub/blog/view/14-days-of-love-winners-1348605174.8288/ |
Its really strange how 'cases' can present themselves. I saw Martins face leap out at me from a blog I clicked on by accident. Martin has been missing for a few years now. I really know that when anyone gets a bit of information from esoteric sources they do want it all to be 'gospel' and truth. Thats what I want as well, but I am not a psychic medium I am a tarologist and I truly do have to trust the tarot to tell me things. It can never be 100 per cent accurate but gives me quite a bit of information as a rule which has to be placed in the past present and the future. Because of that, I cant get a good timeline of when things might have occurred. I always ask people to seek a second opinion because the information I have even though it does seem to touch certain areas of the case does not always hit that 100 per cent mark. I write below my 'impressions'.
The first card I had for Martin was the card of the Three of Pentacles but this was Reversed - I realised that this man was not happy entirely with his work. He really had a lot of good ideas and thoughts and wanted to talk about them and show what he felt but it was as though it was,nt really interesting to anyone. I think he was very disatisfied with the chosen work that he had at the time. I dont think somehow that his heart was in it. I think he tried to show enthusiasm but sometimes if a type of work does not really suit your inner impulses you can really lose interest in it. I think somehow that is what was within Martin.
I dont know where he worked whether he worked in buildings, this building is upside down and whenever I see that Im afraid I typically say that perhaps this man was connected to a basement or the foundation of a building. This is a money card and work card and we cant always look at it and say YES thats his location but at the same time we just have to take everything into account. I do somehow link him to the underneath of a building that he might have been working on or in because when the three of pentacles is reversed it shows that someone needs 'more exercise' in health matters. When you need more exercise it rather implies someone is not working or they are static does,nt it? So looking at this card I seem to get those kind of notions, one that he was not that keen on the work he was doing and secondly that if he said something about a job perhaps even said something that he did,nt think was right, he might not have been listened to and obviously whatever it was he was trying to say could have happened.
There perhaps should have been two other people with him and there is a younger person there so perhaps he was in a group of three and though I cant be certain perhaps two of the people left the situation??? leaving himself. We can also consider it that he might have been working with a couple of other people who were more skilled then himself but that he did,nt feel that it was his kind of work.
That is the impression I get when first looking at the three of pentacles reversed. Im not sure actually whether he was earning that much money either so there is just another thought that he just could,nt be bothered because it was,nt really catching his interest or really giving him much impetus so could have been a case of boredom with his work .
Normally the Three of Pentacles pictorially is thought of as a cathedral when it comes to buildings so I suppose we are looking at large structures here. In the picture is a defined arch so that could be a pictorial reference. In this card it suggests someone wants to work in a team environment but as it is reversed you can see that the team are not there which is why I have made all the previous suggestions. He would not have been the most skilled worker at the time. I dont think he had the skill for some jobs and at the moment I need to look at other cards to find out if he is actually on a job work site or whether the cards are just telling me about his attitude towards his work.
I seem to see that there is unfinnished work, has anyone asked about his work and what happened on his last day of work whether there was a job he had to do which was left uncompleted? For example was there a job that was all but finnished except from a last bit of input from Martin but he did not have the skill to finnish it?
Maybe Im off the beaten track with that but these are all the kind of signs Im getting from tarot. It might just be about his general feelings about work and wanting to meet up with people who shared his enthusiams about what he really enjoyed to do but I think whatever job he was doing at the time of 'disappearance' really was not something that was fulfilling him for some reason.
If we expanded this, it could also still be a place of work - where that is I am not sure but this card gives us a few descriptions. Firstly that 'underground' feeling and the fact that the card is a 3 - not sure if that number is useful or not but I have to mention it. The timing seems correct on this card though as its Dates & Timing: December 31 to January 9 and also its Mars in Capricorn so I wonder if he had an accident or problem at work? This card does,nt show an accident but Mars in Capricorn? Capricorn is a work card and Mars can be a bit of an angry sign. The questions I would ask is would Martin suppress anger if workmates took a 'kidding view' of the way he was a workaholic, because he seems to be someone who wanted to work hard and learn and be the best at what he does, but at the same time there is an oppression here and three and other people on this card could suggest other males perhaps who might have been competative or took the mickey perhaps. I dont really see Martin as a violent type but I would imagine he was a very proud type because this card shows people who really want to work hard and do their best. So these are all the things I can get from the three of pentacles now I am looking at all the astrological connections.
I have Saturn Black Year End and also on this card we have North Winter and Midnight. Now somehow these elements do fit. The only difference that I make to this is that when the card is reversed these trends may reverse also so we have the beginning of the year which is January and the time Martin went missing, Black well again that can seem ominous I know but it can suggest the night time or somewhere dark and Saturn is the Thinking card but also not the best planet to have around because Saturn is a taskmaster and delivers really hard lessons, it comes in from nowhere and really changes things and challenges. North Winter and Midnight , well we can look South here the Summer and Midday which might somehow fit into the equation as the beginnings perhaps of the problems.
Going back to the building in the card it can show that not enough detail was applied and something was 'falling apart' - I dont want to play any guessing games here but all these things could possibly be taken into account either about a building he was working in, or ribbing from friends/mates which he might not have taken kindly to. Did he go back to a building that he was working on, OR perhaps he just felt that it was all just something he wanted to walk away from and were these 'workmates' or friends or people who were around him apprehending in any way or not? We mus,nt point fingers in that way, but only produce all the information possible here for those who might know a bit more and be able to see through the puzzles tarot is giving us as some answers could be within the script of this card intially.
If there was situation where Martin was provoked at all it seems that it would not have been in public that this would have occurred because Mars in Capricorn shows that anything to do with Anger is not in the public domain so thats what makes me feel that if anything it would be in a building?
If we were to actually look at this card (and it all depends on the question) but I was to speak about a building that was reversed here I think of a job where people cut corners and therefore the building is not left safe but thats just another way of looking at the card. People who get this card sometimes ( and Im not referring exactly to Martin) but there is always that feeling that there are people who dont believe in 'political bullcrap' and instead of following the guidelines they do things their own way because its either quicker and easier, or companies that put up buildings dont put in the proper safety because it costs too much money to do that.
Hopefully I have covered the ideas that come through here with this card that comes up for Martin immediately as I see it.
The most annoying thing is knowing there is a building here and not being able to precisely say what that building is, but I think of the basement and I repeat that as this building is on its head. North Winter Midnight was given, and I have also mentioned South, I know that is so paltry for direction but I really dont have more to give for location on this card. If Martin was working in a building particularly a large building with a basement or cellars it is always worth checking out as foundations are very very strong in this card as are the foundations of ANY building that he may have been in. There are definately other people attached to that building at least another two and I get the impression that they were working on it. There would have been the main architect meaning the team leader and another one and likely Martin but when thats reversed it might make it appear that the others were not there or that none of them were yet the building still seems important. I hope that does,nt sound too vague.
This card can also mean paid employment and when it is reversed it can simply mean the opposite. That means Martin could also have been volunterring for work too as there does,nt seem to be any money attached when its reversed and it would be a non commercial transaction.
So it makes you wonder whether Martin volunteered to do something in a building - please remember that these are all the impressions I am given and all I can do is write them down to hope that they might strike a chord somewhere.
This card above seems to tell us about someone dropping out of work its the card of the apprentice as is the three of pentacles when reversed. The three of pentacles reversed is unskilled as beforementioned in work, and this card the eight of pentacles shows someone who works really really hard to get to the end of an apprenticeship and be master of their work, but as you can see this is reversed. So despite it all, it seems to me that Martin somehow has walked away from his work - did he want to earn money or more money but felt he could,nt or that it was too much of a long haul ? maybe money did,nt matter to him perhaps it was just doing something that he wanted rather than something that had too many rules and regulations attached to it...there is definately something not right about his working relationships and his emotions about this but perhaps he was not a conformer in that respect. The eight of pentacles is actually also a music card, you can easily see someones musical interest when you see this card, but its reversed and it makes me feel its someone who is not interested in something to do with work but does,nt want to face the music so to speak.
So we are getting a bit of a picture here but not all these details are going to be correct that might just 'resonate' more than anything else with certain aspects of Martin.
The problem is that my location for him is in a building or there was a problem connected to buildings/work because the next card is the four of pentacles and the four of pentacles is someone who likes their money and material possessions and when you reverse that they let go of them, either that or they could get fleeced. The four of pentacles also seems to make me think someone has lost their keys or lost their way. The upright of this card could show a BANK which could be an area or street where there is the name BANK or figuratively a BANK which would be on the edge of town, but if you reverse it they are either closer to it or not sure of 'the way'. Reading back the information and the building which is often described as a cathedral with an arch ( take a look a look at the three of pentacles again) it is a structure made of concrete hence 'building' it could be a bridge, but I can only show you what tarot gives to me.
If we run through the minor arcana the main two cards already are pentacles which is money/material matters. The three has given us information relating to a building - the four gives us a possible name - BANK - and reversed money is released - the five would show a church and poverty, and even a possible injury maybe to the leg and the six would show money being given to someone who does,nt really need it, or someone wanting money from someone who does,nt have it - the seven would show not being able to reap it and the eight which came up for us reversed shows someone inside the town not being able to earn money then the nine if reversed aspects shows thievery.
I would imagine this man was robbed or apprehended for money whether he had it or not, the five of pentacles shows he might have not been heard as this appears to be in a building out of sight of the public as aforementioned. The fact that the church comes up makes me wonder whether this in an area of a church/cathedral which is the first card that appeared for us. The three of Pentacles does show water in the second version of the card but that water is not near our man - the water is some distance from the window and therefore it makes me feel that Martin is in the foundation of a building not far from water but not next to it.
Again please take this all figuratively and seek second opinions as I am not 100 per cent accurate here and cannot guarantee this. | 2019-04-18T12:58:37Z | http://empathysinsights.blogspot.com/2010/09/martin-kelly.html |
From 9th January we will be in our new salon at 164 Balgreen Road. Cannot wait to see everyone there.
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Sen. Cory Booker’s (D-NJ) campaign said on Sunday afternoon that he had raised more than $5 million since announcing his 2020 presidential bid on Feb. 1. Additionally, it will report having more than $6.1 million cash on hand. While the campaign did not provide details on the number of contributors or contributions, it said that its average online donation was $34 and that 82 percent of those who contributed had never given to a one of the New Jersey Democrat’s prior campaigns. His fundraising haul puts him behind prior announced totals from South Bend Mayor Pete Buttigieg, Sen. Kamala Harris (D-CA), Sen. Bernie Sanders (I-VT) and former Texas Rep. Beto O’Rourke (D-TX). Other candidates have yet to reveal what their totals look like in advance of the April 15 deadline for full fundraising reports. | 2019-04-24T14:07:15Z | https://www.thedailybeast.com/cory-booker-raised-more-than-dollar5-million-in-first-quarter |
Sona Ghose is an editor and author, actively engaged with English language publications and lifestyle magazines in China, which has been her second home for years.
With 10 years of expatriate experience, bridging cultures has become a way of life for her.Observing people from different backgrounds and cultures, picking those special moments and putting them in to meaningful stories is her forte. She is based in Kuala Lumpur as of now, exploring varied art topics and writing styles. | 2019-04-24T14:23:34Z | https://www.readfingers.com/team/sona-ghose/ |
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Hesketh Bank Christian Centre is currently led by a team of Elders and Trustees who support various aspects of the Church.
We have a wider group of leaders that manage various aspects of the church life.
We are church who believes in enabling, empowering and delegation.
We seek to put people in places of involvement and responsibility.
We believe in the 'Parable of the Net' and seek to have lots of diverse activities that will reach out to as many different people as possible.
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Come and be a part of Hesketh Bank Christian Centre. | 2019-04-21T00:46:38Z | https://hbcconline.co.uk/Groups/203803/Hesketh_Bank_Christian/About_Us/Leadership/Leadership.aspx |
Emerging from Philly’s college music scene, Wild Rompit followed their 2011 EP Brotherhood with the release of Spirit Moves, a record that captures careful precision in production quality, songwriting and overall cohesiveness from start to finish. Riding on their gritty indie rock sound, Spirit Moves exhibits influences of smooth blues, folk and soul, and Blair Ollendorf’s vocals shine with the right amount of rustic vitality. “Right Coast Blues” depicts their inspiration with blues-style guitar riffs, solos and thumping lyrics that demand attention. Fans of Little Hurricane’s Homewrecker and River City Extension’s Don’t Let The Sun Go Down On Your Anger will appreciate this album and its ability to produce an honest and deeply personal connection.
Produced by guitarist Brandon Bost, two years of meticulous attention to aesthetic detail can be clearly heard in all 10 tracks. From soft vocal harmonies echoing in the background to the subtle piano notes, the carefully timed breaks and how the song slowly builds in just under five minutes, “Lost” is a prime example of how multiple characteristics elegantly tie together to create a multifaceted number. “We’ll Be Okay” brings a nice finish to the record by opening with gentle yet powerful acoustics, moving swiftly into a larger and more complex sound and then eventually transitioning into a calm close. Between the smooth introduction of each instrument and how they intertwine to create the overall sound quality, Wild Rompit establish with Spirit Moves that they’ve achieved a new level of dynamic value and growth within their music. | 2019-04-23T22:43:07Z | http://www.theaquarian.com/2013/09/13/wild-rompit-spirit-moves/ |
Roche Harbor Marina is located in northern Puget Sound on the northwest shore of San Juan Island in Roche Harbor in San Juan County. The marina is accessible by boat or Washington State ferry from Anacortes. From Friday Harbor, take Roche Harbor Road to the resort.
Roche Harbor Resort is a popular destination resort with full over night accommodations. RV or tent camping is not available. | 2019-04-26T16:23:37Z | https://parks.state.wa.us/732/Roche-Harbor-Resort |
Not too long ago, I thought watches were pointless. These days, that is no longer the case (hence this post). I used to think of watches only in terms of their function, telling time, and thought, “Why would I need a device to tell time? I have a phone for that.” Well, my friends, I turned over a new leaf once my perspective shifted: yes, a watch is a device that serves an nearly obsolete need, but it’s also an accessory. A watch can convey a person’s style just as a bag or a pair of funky socks can. Watches can be playful, powerful, and everything in between. Here’s a curated list of timepieces that are, well, timeless.
I’m a fan of the retro vibe this watch gives off. Since it’s a mini, it’s retro looking without the bulkiness. The chrome finish is especially sleek and will match everything.
I love black and white prints and this abstract one is so fun looking! This watch definitely gives off a more casual/street style vibe. The print is definitely eye catching; pair it against a solid shirt/dress and it’s sure to catch attention.
I received a black and white polka dot TKO slap watch as a birthday gift one year and it’s adorable. These rubber watches have a super charming nostalgia factor- they’re slap bracelets (hence the name “slap watch”). The faces and bands are also interchangeable, giving them high customizability. This watch packs a punch at a reasonable price point.
If you’re not into the corporate or playful vibes, consider the whimsical wood watches from JORD. The most affordable style is still pricey for a college student, but a worthwhile investment. A wood watch will be a style staple years down the road. My favorite one is the maple, but they’re also available in sandalwood and zebrawood.
This watch will add a touch of spring cheer to any look. This design just came out this month, so you’d be among the first to own it! The hot pink face adds a wonderful contrast to the white band.
Like the rest of the fashion world, I can’t get enough of Adidas right now. This watch is both sporty and trendy. I’d wear the royal blue one with a groutfit for maximum contrast.
Love this watches? Considering adding a watch to your accessory collection? Leave your thoughts in the comments below. | 2019-04-20T05:05:30Z | https://norepeatsorhesitations.com/2016/03/03/watch-this/ |
1. We got more information about my sister-in-law's passing this week. It appears that as she got weaker, she started refusing more and more medical intervention including just basic oxygen support. Eventually her oxygen saturation fell and her heart just stopped.
This reminded me of my mother's death from cancer. As Mom got sicker and sicker she basically quit fighting too, despite my best efforts to encourage her to eat and to get out of bed and move.
I understands that there are certain situations you simply can't understands until you in them, so I wonder if the dying somehow innately know when they have crossed the line between living and dying, and if so, is just being quiet and peaceful, learning to accept and prepare for the inevitable the best thing to do? And if it is, do we do a disservice to the dead when we keep encouraging them to try to get better?
When mom was dying, an elderly lady came into her room and told her to go into the light and meet Jesus. After she left, I whispered to my mom, "Stay away from the light!! I'm not ready to lose you yet!" That was when I still had a little hope. And now I wonder if that was the wrong thing to do. Maybe the best thing to do for the dying is to just be there with them, and let them die.
2. My sister-in-law is going to be cremated,and buried with her parents this spring. I mentioned to Mr. Pete that a blogger friend that died a few years ago, was buried with her parents, and her name engraved on their stone. Mr. Pete and his siblings liked the idea and I think that is what might happen for my sister-in-law - either that or a separate marker somewhere on the grave site.
3. I am filling out my first FAFSA form and I gotta say, it's a little intrusive! Saw this on Twitter and it cracked me up!
FAFSA be like "I see your parents usually get two toppings on their pizza...you must not need any aid"
4. Noah has three scholarship applications that he needs to work on. If he gets the aid I think he will, plus these scholarships, I think he'll be doing well financially. He just needs to keep his grades up, but if he works as hard next year as he is this year, I think he'll be fine. He's very self motivated.
5. Our newest Neflix treat this week- Making of a Murderer. If you like crime shows and documentaries, this one is very compelling.
6. I've blogged before the importance of having pictures of yourself. That has become even more evident to me as I have scoured my photos to find one of Irene! Irene didn't hide from being photographed, but she didn't pose for single pictures either. Note to self - at the family reunions, don't just take pictures of the kids, make sure to get some of the adults as well!
This was a nice one I blew up from a group photo taken at Calvin's wedding.
7. I also found this one of me and Mr. Pete from the wedding and I really love it. I like that my smile isn't forced but I also like the way Mr. Pete is holding me. It just feels like "us."
I always think about being in pictures when Facebook or Instagram wants to summarize my year. There's a picture of that random seed-free lemon, every week of mirror selfies from What I Wore Sunday, and a lot of stamps because I like stamps. Not exactly representative of my actual life!
Well at least you're making an effort Lindsay and that's a good start!
You might find some comfort on the book, On Death and Dying by Kubler-Ross. Although Kubler Ross went a bit too far later in life, I found this book made a profound impact on my life and work with the elderly.
Lovely pictures! Keep it going!
Yes, I read her years ago, but could probably use a review. I think her stages are spot on! I think I'm still in the denial stage as far as losing Irene goes. | 2019-04-24T09:00:06Z | http://www.mydomesticchurch.com/2016/01/7-quick-takes_16.html |
Close your eyes and think about downtown Missoula. What one word best describes this area? What makes it so applicable? | 2019-04-24T06:31:28Z | http://missoulasdowntownmasterplan.mindmixer.com/describe-downtown-missoula-in-one-word-today/archived |
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"Luteolin exerted less inhibitory effect on macrophage activation induc" by Zhi-Peng Li, Quan-Wei Zhang et al.
As a kind of food supplementary, polysaccharide-rich tonic herbs become more and more popular. However, little is known regarding the interaction between known active molecules with these polysaccharides. This study aims to investigate effects of luteolin on RAW264.7 cells induced by Astragalus polysaccharide RAP in comparison with lipopolysaccharide (LPS). The results showed that luteolin suppressed inflammatory meditors in LPS-induced RAW264.7 cells. While in the RAP-induced RAW264.7 cells, luteolin only decreased the NO production and iNOS gene expression, but only inhibit IL-6 at high concentration, and was ineffective in term of TNF-α. The results of western blot analysis suggested that luteolin only inhibited the phosphorylation of NF-κB p65 and Akt, but not MAPKs and IRF3 in RAP-induced RAW264.7 cells. Taken together, lutelion exerted less inhibitory effect on macrophage induced by RAP than by LPS. This study demonstrated the luteolin-containing foods may not strongly interfere the immunoregulation effect of polysaccharide RAP.
This study was supported by HKSAR Innovation and Technology Fund (ITF), Tier 3, ITS/311/09, General Research Fund (12100615, 22100014), Health Medical Research Fund (11122531, 14150521), National Natural Sciences Foundation in China (81473341), and Hong Kong Baptist University (RC-start up grant, MPCF-001-2014/2015, RC-IRMS/14-15/06, FRG1/16-17/032 and FRG2/16-17/002). | 2019-04-20T20:09:18Z | https://repository.hkbu.edu.hk/hkbu_staff_publication/6350/ |
For some time, Totum has seen more women making headway at leadership levels in business services functions in law. But we are delighted to now be able to put some figures behind what we know from our experience of working with talented business women in the legal sector. These show that more women are being shortlisted and placed at law firms, and in more senior roles.
At Totum, we focus on business services teams in law. This includes roles across all levels of seniority in BD & marketing, HR, IT and finance functions, as well as other cross-functional roles in areas like project and process management, innovation and change. A fair bit of our work and time is spent on ‘retained’ projects – this is where a law firm exclusively selects Totum to work on a particular role or roles. These projects are conducted on a retained basis, because they tend to be more complex and difficult to source – they are generally, therefore, more senior.
We conducted research into the retained projects we’ve worked on over the past three years – since 2015. In this time, our retained work distribution split across roles as follows: Director (45%), Head of (28%), COO/CEO/CFO type roles (20%), Manager (5%) and Executive (2%). As you can see, retained projects tend to favour more leadership roles.
But what is really interesting is how many women are now getting shortlisted and placed in these jobs. We already knew from our diversity statistics that we enjoy an equal gender balance among our candidates, if not slightly weighted towards women, with 56% female and 44% male candidates in 2017. But this research has found the numbers of women rising in our retained work too. So, while in 2015/16, only 23% of shortlisted candidates for retained roles were women, in 2016/17 this figure rose to 44% and for 2017/18, it was up again by three percentage points to 47%. Nearly even-stevens with men.
Not only that but more women are also being placed in these roles. Back in 2015/16, we had a 70:30 ratio of men getting placed in these positions compared to women; this flipped to a 43:57 ratio in favour of women in 2016/7, and we now have a perfect 50:50 balance in 2017/18. This is fantastic news and something to be celebrated.
A great example of women getting ahead in law is Sadia Baron, Chief Marketing Officer at Reed Smith, who is also featured as a case study on our leadership microsite (www.totumleadership.com). She joined Reed Smith in 2013 as Director of Marketing, EMEA, but before long she had taken on a second job as well – as Director of the BD function for the firm’s Business and Finance function. When she became CMO in September 2016, it was the logical culmination of her huge input over the past three years. But it was also an example of how doors are increasingly opening to talented women who want to make an impact at the highest levels of this fast-changing profession.
Yes, we know we have some way to go yet. Women lawyers still lag behind men in achieving partnership in the legal profession. And law firms still need to work on delivering the kind of workplace flexibility that women often need to stay within the profession, and to advance and work at the highest levels – and that goes for business services professionals and lawyers.
But things are changing – and in business services functions, particularly fast. We are delighted to have been able to work with so many talented women who are taking the lead and changing the legal sector from within.
If you would like more information on Totum please visit our website where you will also find a number of roles at all levels.
Why are women are exiting your organisation.
The exit interview is a dying breed at a time when so many questions are being asked about how to retain the best talent, how to increase diversity at all levels in organisations and how to engage the younger generations just entering the job market with a different set of expectations and approaches.
So much of the people management in organisations is now being delivered electronically which takes out a crucial opportunity to really understand what makes people stay in your organisation – and why do they leave.
When this is applied to women, it is particularly important, as during their tenure many women fear calling out any potential discriminatory practices or behaviours for fear of staining their reputation in their industry. This leads organisations down a slippery path – your women leave the organisation and you may never find out why, yet you can almost guarantee that those reasons will come out eventually and if they contain any kind of misogyny or sexism, the reputation of your organisation can get tarnished before you even know it is happening.
The power of movements such as #TimesUp originate from women’s frustration at not having a supportive platform to communicate the behaviour and treatment that they have been exposed to. When given that opportunity, it is clear that there are deep seated and embedded discriminatory practices that go unchallenged and these only come to light by providing a safe supportive environment where women feel that what they say will be used positively and most critically – acted upon.
If you are leaving an organisation, leaving the industry entirely, or maybe stopping any economic activity, it is still vital that you feel heard about your experiences there, and that may not happen through the standard leaver processes followed by so many businesses.
If your business no longer uses exit interviews, maybe believing that there was nothing of value in them, then your process wasn’t asking the right questions, or interpreting the answers correctly. Instead there is a missed opportunity in the lack of analysis of valuable data that may contain the secret to attracting and retaining a talented pool of women critical to your business’ future success.
Stay engaged until the very last minute with each employee and learn how to get better at making them not want to leave. | 2019-04-22T23:54:25Z | http://citywomen.co.uk/project-diamond/category/recruitment/ |
More companies — in a variety of industries — are acquiring digital agencies, reflecting the marriage of technology and marketing.
During the last several years, more and more companies have been steadily honing their offerings to take advantage of the continued intertwining of marketing and technology. And that requires the kind of creative chops that have historically been the province of advertising agencies alone. Coty, the cosmetics company, bought the content agency Beamly late last year, reportedly to bolster its marketing in the wake of its acquisition of a number of Procter & Gamble’s cosmetics brands, including Cover Girl and Clairol. Meredith Corporation, best known as the publisher of magazines such as Better Homes and Gardens, has been snapping up digital agencies and other marketing services for years. The agency made from those components, Meredith Xcelerated Marketing, leverages its strength in content and customer relationship management, among other disciplines, to service clients including Kia, Nivea, and Samsung. There are even a few private equity firms in the mix, rolling up companies across a number of marketing- and technology-related disciplines.
Professional consulting firms are also entering the fray. Many have set up their own digital agencies to help execute marketing for their clients, or have brought in outside ad agencies — with a better creative pedigree — to enhance their efforts. Over the last few years, Accenture has bought London-based design consultancy Fjord and Australia’s Reactive. PwC (which publishes strategy+business) has acquired a number of digital shops, including the BGT agency (now called the PwC Experience Center) and Stamford Interactive in Melbourne. In early 2016, IBM, a consultancy with a particularly technological bent, announced it would buy the Columbus, Ohio-based ad agency Resource/Ammirati along with two German agencies, Aperto and ecx.io. And in late February 2016, Deloitte Digital announced its acquisition of the San Francisco-based ad agency Heat.
This trend is in sharp contrast to how the advertising industry has been structured for roughly 50 years. Going back at least as far as the Mad Men era of the 1960s, the only kinds of companies that routinely bought advertising agencies were marketing communications holding companies, such as Interpublic Group — the originator of the model — Omnicom Group, WPP Group, or Publicis Groupe. Over the years, they each have bought not only ad agencies, but also other types of marketing services companies, such as promotional shops, public relations firms, and digital agencies.
Advertising is no longer just about the glossy external trappings of ad campaigns.
What has changed? Why do so many companies now consider advertising expertise a must-have? Because advertising is no longer just about the glossy external trappings of ad campaigns, but also includes everything that underpins marketing — from data to user experience — in a digitally driven world. Virtually all marketing today at some point merges into the digital realm, whether it’s as an app, an e-commerce experience, a banner ad, or the back-end targeting data that serves certain ads to certain people. And that requires a broader set of capabilities.
A marketer’s next campaign could come out of a tech consultancy, their next app from an ad agency.
When such disciplines as data, user experience, e-commerce, and marketing intersect, it becomes nearly impossible to make firm judgments about what the structure of the contemporary marketing services company should look like. Companies are scrambling to combine all of those disciplines under one roof — their own — by embracing the structural fluidity that has been breaking down over the years.
Of course, despite how easy it is to tick off examples of how marketing and technology companies are collapsing into one another, the real takeaway isn’t about tracking who’s buying whom. For the major marketers of the world, it’s to realize that they, too, need to abandon rigid thinking about what kind of company provides marketing services. Their next campaign could come out of a technology consultancy, and their next app from an ad agency. Indeed, one of the most prominent companies at the Cannes Lions International Festival of Creativity, the premier global awards event for the fields of advertising and communications, has been Google, which is behind an industry-wide initiative called Art, Copy & Code. That name is as fitting a sign as any of the changes shaping the advertising industry. Few distinctions are left between marketing and the technology used to power it. | 2019-04-26T16:26:01Z | https://www.strategy-business.com/blog/Were-All-in-Advertising-Now?gko=4aeaf |
BOSTON -- Two weeks from today, the Massachusetts Senate will have its third president in the span of eight months, capping off a tumultuous session for the chamber during which senators grappled with instability in the top ranks of its leadership.
Senate Ways and Means Chairwoman Karen Spilka, an Ashland Democrat who is currently enmeshed in protracted negotiations with the House over a late fiscal 2019 budget, is expected to be elected Senate president by her colleagues on Thursday, July 26.
According to people familiar with the transition planning, the vote will take place at 1 p.m. when the Senate will pause what is normally a busy period of lawmaking in the waning days of the two-year session to inaugurate a new president.
Senate Democrats were informed of the transition plan on Wednesday during a private caucus. Spilka has invited friends, family and supporters from her district for the vote and ceremony where she will also deliver remarks, according to an advisor.
Spilka will take over from Chandler with just five days left on the formal legislating calendar. As chairwoman of the Ways and Means committee, she is intimately involved in almost all legislation moving through the Senate at the hectic end of session.
Currently serving on two conference committees - - one for the 12-day late state budget and the other a negotiation over short-term rental regulations - Spilka is not expected to relinquish those duties if both conferences are still active when she becomes president, according an advisor.
She is also not planning to assign new chairmanships or reshuffle the leadership chart in any way before the next session begins in January, an aide told the News Service.
Sen. Joan, Lovely, a Salem Democrat and the vice chair of the Ways and Means Committee, is expected to be the point person for the Senate on any legislation moving through the committee during informal sessions after July 31, but it is not expected that she will not take on the chairmanship title this year.
Spilka has also said that Chandler will remain "a valued member of my leadership team," but what that means for this year and beyond is still unknown.
"The Senate has been a leader in the state in progressive values and progressive ideas and this will not change as the year goes forward under the leadership of all of us here working together," Spilka said in March, listing social justice, economic justice, income inequality, education, civil rights, transportation, global climate change and net neutrality as issues she was interested in addressing.
She also pledged to continue a style that has come to be known in the Senate as "shared leadership," a less top-down approach that empowers individual senators to help steer the policy direction of the branch.
"I think it's important that we continue to build on the foundation, the groundwork that was laid. Out of that I believe the Senate and Massachusetts can continue to be a leader not only on policy in Massachusetts but on the nation and I think that's very exciting for all of us to be a part of here," she said.
The timing of the transition comes at an unusual point in the session, and will add another chapter to the unusual circumstances that the Senate has had to navigate over the past year.
Former Sen. Stanley Rosenberg resigned the presidency last December after just three years wielding the gavel amid allegations of sexual misconduct against his husband Bryon Hefner and an Ethics Committee investigation into whether he had enabled his husband's alleged behavior.
The Senate turned to Harriette Chandler, a veteran Worcester Democrat and majority leader, to steady the ship, first making her interim president and then removing interim from her title altogether.
Chandler, however, made clear from the beginning that she had no intention of seeking the post full-time, sparking a competition for votes among at least a handful of Senate members to lead the body for years to come.
By March, Spilka had sewn up the race and announced that she had the support of her colleagues to become the next Senate president. After an awkward period of negotiations between Chandler and Spilka, the two women agreed that the handoff would take place during the last full week of formal sessions. | 2019-04-23T00:20:14Z | http://www.lowellsun.com/breakingnews/ci_32004299/spilka-poised-take-senate-presidency-two-weeks |
> What specifically is wrong ("doesn't match at all") with the latter two?
no such serious (@f) related bug. I've indeed put "}" in wrong place. | 2019-04-23T09:12:50Z | http://www.zsh.org/mla/workers/2016/msg01898.html |
Just a short one to get me going.
The other day I was watching on youtube an old debate between Richard Dawkins and John Lennox. Lennox made the point that evolution does not disprove God. Pointing to a mechanism does not dispense of the possibility of an agency directing that mechansim. Richard Dawkins agreed that it did not rule out God but asked, "Why bother when there is a perfectly reasonable explanation that does not need him." Leaving aside, for the moment, the rationality of believing that chance, even if ever so gradual, really came up with intelligence and music and so on, I would want to ask, "Why not, Mr Dawkins?" If science cannot disprove God and indeed is compatible with his existence, then why would you want to dismiss him? If the alternatives are a godless universe spinning aimlessly towards some unknown end, and a life on this earth that terminates at death and is often nasty, brutish and short, why would we want to be so quick to dismiss a God who, because of Jesus, can offer us eternal life, and one that makes sense of this nasty, brutish and short life of ours? | 2019-04-21T11:00:08Z | http://www.avenueevangelicalchurch.org.uk/about-us/pastor-paul-witter/blog/?blog=35 |
Despite this win,ONGC failed to garner the required points to qualify for the quarterfinals.
Riding high on Prashant Bhandari’s unbeaten 136-ball knock of 130 runs,ONGC recorded a fine 94-run win over MRF team in a match decided through D/L Method during the ongoing 20th Edition of All India JP Atray Memorial cricket tournament played at St John’s School,Sector 26,Chandigarh on Wednesday. Despite this win,ONGC failed to garner the required points to qualify for the quarterfinals.
Batting first,ONGC posted a mammoth total of 308 runs for the loss of nine wickets in 50 overs. Prashant Bhandari (130 no) was the main architect of the ONGC innings. He was involved in 66-run stand for third wicket with Mayank Tehlan who made 33 runs. Bhandari’s knock included nine fours and two sixes. For MRF, Gnaneswar Rao (3 for 54) was the most effective bowler. During MRF’s reply,heavy downpour restricted the game. They were 151 runs for the loss of seven wickets in 27.5 overs when the result was declared in ONGC’s favour according to D/L Method. MRF Innings was embellished by a sizzling 76-ball century by Jaskaran Singh Sohi. Waqar Ahmed (4 for 50) was the most successful bowler for ONGC.
In the second match of the day played at Ropar,CAG beat Air India by seven wickets.Winning the toss CAG opted to field and bundled out Air India for 158 in 39.5 overs.Left-arm spinner,Bipul Sharma (3 for 29) bowled well and caused the most damage. Abhimanyu (29),Ishan Ganda (30) and Shafiq Khan (27) were the principal run getters for Air India. Replying CAG knocked off the required runs in 23 overs. Their chase was led by a hard hitting century (100) off 80 balls from Bhavesh Shetty,who was involved in a 104 runs stand for the third-wicket with Punit Bisht (21 no).
After the league stage of the tournament has been completed,eight teams have qualified for the quarter finals. The teams that have qualified are: Reliance-I,Canara Bank,Baroda C.A,State Bank of Mysore,PCC Mohali,MPCA,CAG Delhi and Air India.
Air India: 158 for all 39.5 overs (Abhimanyu 29,Ishan Ganda 30,Shafiq Khan 27,Bipul Sharma 3 for 29,Vikas Chohan 2 for 37) lost to CAG: 163 For 3 in 23 overs (Bhavesh Shetty 100,Punit Bisht 21 not out,Hitin Dalal 1 for 12,Pradeep Prashar 1 for 22 ,Faruk 1 for 12). | 2019-04-18T19:02:32Z | https://indianexpress.com/article/cities/chandigarh/quarterfinalists-spotted-in-jp-atray-tourney/ |
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I am not trying to convince you or anyone to not to do any practice in mantra or recitation, but what is the fruit, the fruit will be an insight, where we gain inner knowledge into ego or jealously and hatred but also something more something greater, less bound by conditions. So Kleshas will be reduced automatically, i dont see it requires a separate of concentrated effort when doing Mantra or devotion, the mantras raise the vibration, that raised vibration should aid settled and steady mind for meditation, in that stage of meditation insight arises, then the mantra has more depth and we see not only does it resolves the tedious condition of kleshas but also it radiates more knowledge, new light, something deeper, if that support is found, then where can ego, jealousy and ignorance stand, they wont have a place to stand so it is resolved through insight and higher consciousness and the stotras and mantras aid this.
My other point which was a question too, is why so many, why would Hanuman Chalisa not be enough, why need another one, If I chant Narasingha Kavacha or Narayana Kavacha, would I need some more, would it not have the right power to solve the tedious mini crisis of Kelisha.
Even though the power of the mantra is there, and it is Absolute there would be a quality of consciousness that we need to be aware of for elevation, some can chant and recite for billions of years like a parrot and get no benefit, while others can hear one or two syllable and get the highest rewards, why is that.
And I see these stotras as which practices are revelations of conscious energy in states of Samadhi, where the Lord by His conscious energy we become very aware of the Him through Sabda, that is what is destroying the Kleshas with His light higher consciousness. Mostly what happens with Mantra is that it suppressing the mind for a short while to prepare for meditation.
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Everything in the discussion sounds valid.
For chanting to be effective, the devotee has to be receptive. In this case however, Viraja has an undying faith in the Divine and is spiritually a cut above the common people. So, she is already very receptive to Divine vibrations emanating from chanting. Our esteemed members have given general comments and not tailored their responses to Viraja. Long, wordy, generic posts become incomrehensive and lose their ability to convey what the poster is trying to say.
Just want to share this verse from Kulasekara Alwar‘s Mukunda Mala with you.
Mantra which cures the snake bite of worldly worries is the name of Sri Krishna.
And so tongue, always chant it and get deliverance from life.
Thanks for everyone who participated in this thread!
Even if not clarificatory, it arises pertinent questions we may want to check with the learned.
@Believer ji: Thank you so much! I take it as a compliment that you mentioned about my faith in such a positive note! I feel very happy.
1. Why do people pray to mother Lakshmi for wealth? Is Narayana incapable of giving wealth? Why should we pray to Hanuman for courage, strength and valor? Why cannot Narayana alone give them all?
The way I see it, yes, Narayana can give them all. But, once we know there are 'specialists', we can check with them, atleast casually, if we have the means to, is it not? Maybe it can give us quicker results, maybe this is the reason why they chose to manifest themselves as 'specialists' in the first place!!
2. Why cannot I recite Narayana mantra and take to devotion to him, and get rid of my personality flaws?
By no means I said anywhere, that I am not praying to Narayana for these benefits currently. I am doing that, quite infact, for a very long time... It just so happens that I am in search of a specialist and a special remedial mantra 'in addition' to what I am currently doing, because ultimately it gives me satisfaction, that I am taking all possible measures and having overlooked that if there is some stothra and a prayers attuned to my needs, I am also doing that subsequently. To an onlooker, this step might be like a placebo, but in spirituality, nothing is a placebo. If Narayaneeyam can cure stomach ailment, there is nothing wrong with a sick man inflicted with pain, to look out for it and procure it!
@IndiaLover: I am not saying your point is incorrect, but to my belief, that I have read from many sources, certain mantras and stothras can act very beneficial for certain purposes. You might have heard that siksha gurus give out "particular" mantra, individually tailored to each aspirant! Why should he give special mantra, that is to be kept sacred in the first place? Is not one "Hare Krishna" or "one Narayana mantra" be effective by itself, when chanted numerous times with faith and devotion? My answer to this question is that, maybe there is something special indeed about that siksha mantra, that the guru is capable of redeeming the aspirant faster with it than not. And my search is similar to this.
So, you can see, such a search gives me satisfaction at many levels - that I am doing the right thing, and that I am doing it in addition to what can be done without it.
Your being one of faith and believing in God, may I suggest praying to Guru for guidance and delivery? Quite honestly, He has all power and your faith in Him is the answer to all that ills.
Perhaps you are not graced with Guru?
By Guru, do you mean Medha Dakshinamoorthy? No, I haven't tried that. But, I pray everyday to Shri Hanuman whom I reckon as a form of a Guru.
They say that as per Ramayana, Shri Hanuman is the bringer of the 'token' of ring to Sita (troubled soul) from Rama (paramatman) and many equate this event with the 'mantra' a guru would give to a disciple. Therefore my prayers to Shri Hanuman.
Your kind reply is appreciated and totally accept your assessment of Sri Hanuman.
Was however speaking more specifically to a living/embodied Guru in which you have taken diksha. If you have taken this path, you may understand my suggestion. If not, perhaps not. Either way, forgive if off target as can only give what is true for me and those that surround.
No, I have not had the blessing so far to meet with a guru.
I am currently looking into this: http://vedicastrologer.org/fire/index.htm. Supposedly fire worship brings about internal transformation quicker than other means!
although having no experience in Mantras I would be happy if you find what you are searching for.
May be this astrologer can recommend a mantra.
What a great find! I'll surely look into that mantra. | 2019-04-25T18:53:00Z | http://hindudharmaforums.com/showthread.php?14728-Need-spiritual-help/page2&s=1864e573bd67a3c1662d28b6b1154916 |
Add support for read/write offsets.
It would be nice if read/write/send/recv/etc methods could accept an offset argument.
The same for write, e.g.
Could also include "size:" so that we can selectively write parts of the buffer.
I can imagine it is useful for TCPSocket#write to accept only a part of a buffer crafted by somebody else. But I cannot think of any actual use case when #read is useful with that extension. Do you have one?
It is useful for read when user wants to read some data, and it wasn't enough (e.g. implementing gets) so you need to read some more at the end of what you already have.
Also, rather than using a keyword argument, it could be a 3rd argument after buffer, since buffer must be supplied in order for this to work. | 2019-04-26T04:29:39Z | https://bugs.ruby-lang.org/issues/15560 |
Plans to a root cellar from Summer 1976, No. 68, North Dakota State University Extension Service.
The ability to both produce and store food is a central component to the sustainability of any society. I got to thinking about this while reading a Grand Forks Herald article earlier this morning on root cellars, and this in turn got me thinking about depressions archaeologists come across during pedestrian surveys. At first, a depression in the landscape simply looks like that: a depression. But this is why it is important to look to the written and oral history of a place, lest a former root cellar or a cache pit continue to go unnoticed.
Before the Second World War, and prior to the post-WWII shift of artificially conditioning the air to our homes and refrigeration devices within the homes (this is all connected with the cultural inertia that today has us searching and exploiting the world for petroleum), our grandparents and great grandparents kept food and drink cool with root cellars and cache pits. Using a subsurface pit (or a cave, which is how Europeans refined and perfected the wine and beer processes) for storage takes just a bit of planning, thought, and foresight. It can be done, though. Some call them root cellars while others call them cache pits (those bell-shaped subterranean pits used by Mandan and Hidatsa cultures).
After reading the Herald piece this morning, I shot an e-mail to a North Dakota State University extension agent to see if I could get a digitized copy of a 1976 plan for a root cellar. Within the hour the extension agent responded with “Electric Farm Power: Vegetable Storage” (Summer, 1976, No. 68), this prepared by the NDSU Agricultural Engineering Department, Cooperative Extension Service, and North Dakota Power Use Council Cooperating (yes, note the keyword “cooperative,” as cooperatives and cooperation are central to getting things done).
The illustration here is the design of a root cellar, and these also dub for tornado shelters in the summer. This is something to increasingly think about considering how Oklahoma has taken on serious tornados already this year, and also how a tornado came close to hitting the Denver International Airport not but a week ago. Anyhow, here above and to the left are the unadulterated plans to a root cellar.
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If you have to travel at Christmas, you’ll already know that the travel companies will be rubbing their hands together in glee at the thought of the extra money they can make from your Christmas travel plans.
There are ways to beat them and get around the hikes in prices that occur as seasonally as furniture store adverts and bad Christmas television. Much of the savings relate to the dates you travel and how early you can book in advance.
If you’re trying to avoid huge mark ups for your flights, definitely avoid all of these Christmas travel dates like the plague if you can. It’s cheaper to buy flights before October if you’re flying – the airlines put the prices up as demand gets higher.
The recession fear in 2008 may have scared some airlines into offering seats at sale prices just to get the flights filled, but they aren’t going to be doing that again this year so if you haven’t bought your tickets yet, you need to do it now to avoid being ripped off. Demand is said to be higher in 2009 and the airlines are expected to make the most of this.
Watch out for extra charges too - most US carriers are adding a high-season surcharge on some of the most popular travel dates. Pack light too, as airlines are also reportedly being strict with baggage allowances.
Don’t even think about travelling on one of the busy days above without first booking your ticket. Although the basic fares generally stay the same on all train services over Christmas and New Year, and don’t rise just because of the season, booking your Christmas travel tickets in advance could save you an average of 43% compared to buying last minute tickets at the station on the day. You can buy Christmas (or all year around) travel tickets up to 12 weeks in advance and with a saving like that it’s hard to find a reason not to.
Heathrow Express is running a half-hourly train service between London Paddington and Heathrow Airport from 05:30 until 14:00. After 14:00 a half-hourly bus service will run.
On Boxing Day, there are only limited train services in parts of Scotland and South East England.
According to a 2008 survey by the AA, almost a third (29 per cent) of drivers are prepared to drive up to 100 miles just to avoid staying with family and friends over Christmas. 11 per cent of people surveyed were so keen to get away from the in laws that they would drive more than 100 miles on Christmas or Boxing Day. However, 45 per cent preferred to stay where they were than drive back over the Christmas period. So, if your main aim is a quieter drive home, it would seem that a Christmas or Boxing Day drive home might be a good move. But where’s the fun in that? | 2019-04-18T19:02:18Z | http://www.wintertraveller.co.uk/best-dates-for-cheap-travel-christmas.html |
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The ability to sell one investment property and buy another without having to pay often times some rather steep federal and state taxes is probably one of the most useful and important aspects to owning commercial investment real estate. I have assisted multiple property owners through the process of completing property exchanges to avoid capital gains taxes, preserve capital, upgrade their property investments and increase cash flow. I have also accomplished several exchanges for my own account so I have personal first-hand knowledge of the process and importantly can put myself in the shoes of the investor. Additionally I had the unfortunate situation where I sold a property and really could not find any appealing exchange property investments and therefore I had to write a very painful capital gains check…it was tough so I intimately understand the process and the potential financial consequences. It is not too complicated of a process but your really have to plan and be meticulous about the process so definitely having a good financial advisor, commercial real estate broker and most importantly a experienced exchange company is important to meet the rules and regulations of this important real estate tool.
Property exchanges are especially productive for those people who have owned their properties for long periods of times and have seen their tax basis in the property go down while the market price goes up. A quick example would be if you owned a property for many years where the basis (in building/improvements) because of depreciation has diminished to $500,000 and you sell that asset for $2,500,000 where that gain of $2,000,000 can easily have a tax liability in the range of $700,000 with federal, state and depreciation recapture taxes. Ouch! An exchange often referred to as a 1031 or Starker Exchange (will explain this terminology) will allow you to buy another investment property (like-kind) of the same or equal value and not pay the tax. Many times if you are diligent and well-guided and find the right property, most likely you can substantially increase your rental income cash flow while avoiding taxes while giving you a new depreciation schedule in which to help reduce taxes on your income from the replacement property.
Like Kind property exchanges have a bit of a complicated history and the went through several iterations from when it was first federally authorized in 1921 to the modern day process which was formalized and more specifically addressed in 1954 in the 1031 section of the tax code. Certain court cases ensued (like the famous Starker Case which has served as a description of the exchange process) along with occasional dictums by the IRS since has further delineated specific rules and processes of how exchanges could occur and almost more importantly cannot occur. The Tax Reform Act of 1986 really accelerated the number of tax-deferred like-kind exchanges because it curtailed certain very liberal tax benefits of owning and selling real estate so 1031 exchanges came into the lime light as being one of the best and remaining tax benefits for property owners.
Terminology: A commercial property exchange goes by several monikers 1031 (the IRS section code) Exchange/Tax Free Exchange/Like-Kind/Starker Exchange.
Relinquished or Sold Property is referred to as the Down Leg or Relinquished and the property being purchased is referred to as the Replacement or Up Leg Property.
The Property Owner can never take ownership of any money or cash therefore a third party or Accommodator or Qualified Intermediary serves as a holder and conduit for the proceeds from the sale and then that money is used to buy the replacement property. This role is often assumed by an experienced and skilled Exchange Company many of which are affiliated with title companies and also are excellent resources for advice in addition to handling all the paperwork and making sure all the rules are followed. Getting this entity involved early in the process is very important as they can be instrumental is avoiding pitfalls, stress and making exchanges much smoother.
Knowing the Cost Basis of Your Property/Depreciation. When you purchase or if you receive a property in an inheritance there is an established basis price. When you purchase a property the basis is what you paid for the property and some selected transaction costs you can add into the value. But more importantly you need to separate the value of the land from the improvements because you can only depreciate improvements as the IRS considers the land component as an asset does not get “used up” or has a finite life like a building. This is always somewhat squishy as most buyers will want as much of the price of the asset to be vested in the improvements which gives you more liberal depreciation benefits while always being aware that this allocation is able to “pass mustard” with the IRS. A good way to establish this ratio is to look to the assessed tax value by the taxing government entity usually the county as they separate the value of the property into a value for the land and another value for the improvements. An appraisal can also suffice. Since almost every investor almost always pays a different price than the what the property is listed on the tax roles you can use the ratio of land to building values for property taxes and apply that ratio to your actual purchase price to get the value for the improvements you can now depreciate.
Depreciation: It is good to review and get a good understanding of depreciation. Because commercial real estate is considered an asset rather than an expense, the Internal Revenue Service allows property owners to decrease the value of the buildings over time to take into account the deteriorating economic life of the asset. Commercial land as mentioned in the IRS’s view does not depreciate therefore that value cannot be depreciated from a tax standpoint. So again as covered above, is important to get a good justifiable allocation of the value you attach to land and to the buildings when the asset is acquired or as often stated is “placed into sevice: The IRS allows the investor to depreciate commercial buildings (warehouses, retail center, office buildings etc.) over a 39 period and allows a more accelerated schedule for residential investments (apartment buildings, rental houses, senior living etc.) over 27.5 years. You can depreciate certain improvements you make to your property over a shorter time frames such as 15 years or even less depending on the type of improvement and explanation (often referred to as Cost Segregation) can get a bit nerdy so that is for a more detailed analysis than here. So if when you acquire an investment property like a warehouse and the buildings are allocated a value of $1,000,000, you can depreciate the building based on the 39 year schedule by $25,657.00.
Depreciation offsets income from your income property on a dollar for dollar basis. For example, if you have $100,000 of income and $30,000 in depreciation, your taxable income becomes $70,000 and if you are paying a 33% tax marginal tax rate that would result in your tax liability being reduced by $10,000 which is big deal! However if you sell your building for more than the cost minus all the depreciation you claimed, the IRS will see that the building didn’t really lose value like it was suppose to based on the deprecation. In that instance, the agency would charge you a depreciation Recapture Tax, of 25% when you sell that property. Taking the above example, if you claimed $30,000 in depreciation and building you bought for $1 million sold for a $1 million, the IRS would charge $7500.00 in depreciation recapture tax when you sell. Even more reason to look at a 1030 exchange.
Timelines: The Seller/Exchanger must identify up to three properties within 45 days of when the sale of the property closes. The Exchanger may identify more than three properties if the total fair market value of everything on the list does not exceed twice the gross sales price of the Relinquished Property. The Exchanger then has to purchase the property 180 days from when they sell their original investment. There are not options for extensions on any of these timelines.
Like Kind: The Seller/Exchanger in an exchange has to buy a like kind property which is broadly defined as “properties to be used for business or as an investment” but the code gives broad leeway for types of property that can be exchanged. For instance an Exchanger can sell an apartment building and then buy a warehouse, retail center, farm property, office building, etc. An exchanger can also buy a percentage interest in an investment property too but the all important aspect is that the property or interest being acquired has to equal or be greater in value than the Relinquished property that the Exchanger is selling. Since there is such a broad range of property exchange options it is good to get advice and input from a financial advisor or exchange company to know that the property to be acquired will be considered Like Kind.
Rules of Reinvestment: The Exchanger has to use all the cash they obtain from the Relinquished Property to purchase the Replacement Property. Exchangers can take some of the cash out of the transaction for their own use but would need to pay all the appropriate taxes on these dollars which are referred to as “boot”. The Exchanger will still need to adhere to all the other rules such as the Replacement Property being of equal or greater value etc. Another important rule is that if there is debt or a mortgage on the Relinquished property, there must be equal or greater debt on the Replacement Property.
Is your head spinning a bit? Believe it or not these are the basics and there additional variations within the 1031 process such as Reverse Exchanges where a Replacement Property is purchased before the Relinquished Property is sold; Improvement Exchanges and more, but these types of exchanges are a small percentage and needless to say more complicated portion of all 1031 Exchanges.
I hope this helps and gives a good overview and answer some standard questions about this important commercial property investment benefit. While I am not an expert I have experience in the 1031 process and can assist with laying out the basics and guiding commercial property owners through the process by directing and working closely with skilled people and firms in Exchange and Title Companies and Financing entities so that timelines are met and rules are adhered to. But more importantly, I believe I can help with understanding the investors history, motivations, financial goals, and tolerance for risk, management and property types and put the right “team” in place in order to both achieve the best possible sale of the Relinquished Property and obtain an equally or better Replacement Property Investment to help avoid often times so very stiff tax consequences and then to hopefully increase cash flow and potential property appreciation. | 2019-04-18T11:01:55Z | https://cascadecommercialnw.com/the-basics-of-1031-property-exchanges/ |
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Steven Will Take Care Of The Logo and He'll be replacing the Christmas Page with a Resident Evil Page about Tips on Resident Evil 5 and Umbrella Chronicles. | 2019-04-21T10:48:50Z | https://gamerstorm.ucoz.net/news/2008-01-06-68 |
It took a long time, but it’s 2019, and we’re starting to get used to the concept of talking to a computer to make it control things around the house. It’s not quite as cool as it seemed when we saw it in films way back when, but that’s just real life. The problem is, there’s a multitude of different systems and standards and they don’t all necessarily work together. In [Blake]’s case, the problem is that Woods brand hardware only works with Amazon Alexa, which simply won’t do.
[Blake] went through the hassle of getting an Amazon Alexa compatible WiFi outlet to work with Google Assistant. It’s a bit of a roundabout way of doing things, but it works. A TP-Link HS-105 WiFi plug is used, which can be controlled through Google Assistant voice commands. The part consists of two PCBs – a control board that speaks WiFi, and a switching board with relays. [Blake] used the control board and hooked it up to a Raspberry Pi. When switched on by a command from Google, the HS-105 sets a pin high, which is detected by the Raspberry Pi. The Raspberry Pi then runs a software implementation of the KAB protocol used by the Woods hardware, triggering it when it receives the signal from the TP-Link hardware.
If we understand correctly, [Blake] had to go to this trouble in order to make his special outdoor-rated outlets work with his Google Home setup. Hopefully interoperability improves in years to come, but we won’t hold our breath.
We’ve seen some pretty convoluted projects in this space before, often using IFTTT — like this ESP8266 voice controlled tank.
Here’s a Big Mouth Billy Bass with extra lip thanks to Alexa. If you’re not already familiar, Big Mouth Billy Bass is the shockingly popular singing animatronic fish designed to look like a trophy fish mounted to hang on your wall. In its stock condition, Billy uses a motion sensor to break into song whenever someone walks by. It’s limited to a few songs, unless you like to hack things — in which case it’s a bunch of usable parts wrapped in a humorous fish! Hackaday’s own [Bob Baddeley] combined the fish with an Amazon Echo Dot, connecting the two with an ATtiny84, and having Billy speak for Alexa.
[Bob] had a few problems to solve, including making Billy’s mouth move when there was audio playing, detecting when the Echo was on, moving the motors and playing the audio. After a bit of research and a lot of tweaking, a Fast Fourier Transform algorithm designed for the ATtiny was used was used to get the mouth moving. The mouth didn’t move a lot because of the design of the fish, and [Bob] modified it a bit, but there was only so much he could do.
It’s all well and good for the fish to lie there and sing, but [Bob] wanted Billy to move when Alexa was listening, and in order the detect this, the best bet was to watch for the Dot’s light to turn on. He tried a couple of things but decided that the simplest method was probably the best and ended up just taping a photo-resistor over the LED. Now Billy turns to look at you when you ask Alexa a question.
With a few modifications to the Dot’s enclosure, everything now fits inside the original mounting plaque and, after some holes were drilled so the Dot could hear, working. Billy has gone from just a few songs to an enormous entire library of songs to sing!
We’ve seen Alexa combined with Big Mouth Billy Bass before, but just demos and never an excellent guide like [Bob’s]. The nice thing about this guide is that once you’ve hacked the hardware, it’s a breeze to add new functionality using Alexa skills.
Sometimes a gadget like Alexa or Google Home is a solution looking for a problem. Then the problem you’ve been looking for hits you square in the face. I’ve confessed before that I have an oscilloscope problem. I also have a microcontroller development board habit. It appears now I have too many 3D printers. I recently finished building my latest one, an Anet A8 I picked up on Black Friday. While calibrating it, I found myself juggling a screwdriver, a pair of pliers, and trying to operate the thing all at one time. I realized I had to come up with a better way.
I don’t know if it qualifies as an addiction yet, but I also have an Alexa in every room (although I call it “Computer” because I’m a Star Trek fan) and a Google Home device almost everywhere. Why can’t I get one of these assistants to operate my printer for me? What are assistants for, after all, other than telling Dad jokes?
You’d think adding voice control to a 3D printer would a bit difficult. With the right tools, it is actually pretty easy. Luckily those tools aren’t anything special… if you want a set up like mine, where Alexa controls your 3D printer, read on.
[Zach Levine] wrote in to share a project just completed: a classic Furby packing a Raspberry Pi running Alexa: he calls it Furlexa.
The original Furby product wowed consumers of the 90s. In addition to animatronic movements, it also packed simulated voice learning technology that seemed to allow the Furby to learn to speak. It wasn’t like anything else on the market, and even got the toy banned from NSA’s facilities in case it could spy on them. Elegantly, the robot uses only one motor to move all of its parts, using a variety of plastic gears, levers, and cams to control all of the robot’s body parts and to make it dance.
Over the past twenty years the Furby has earned the reputation as one of the most hackable toys ever — despite its mystery microcontroller, which was sealed in plastic to keep the manufacturer’s IP secret. [Zach] replaced the control board with a Pi Zero. He also replaced the crappy mic and pizeo speaker that came with toy with a Pimoroni Speaker pHat and a better mic.
So, your smart mirror has been running for a while, but Halloween is coming up and you want to come up with some cool Halloween stuff to display on the mirror. If you’re looking for ideas, check out [Ben Eagan]’s cool Haunted Smart Mirror which connects the mirror via a Raspberry Pi with Amazon Alexa and Phillips Hue lighting.
[Ben] points to another of his blog pages for those readers interested in the nuances of setting up Alexa with a smart mirror, while concentrating on communication with the Hue bridge and creating the setup for a new Alexa command in this post. Dealing with the Phillips Hue API seems fairly straightforward: Get the IP address of your Hue bridge from your router and the ID of your lights from the Hue app and you’re set to send commands via HTTP. [Ben] includes a Python script to make the lights flicker, which you can modify for your own lights as you wish. Once that’s done, you’ll need to set up the intent that Alexa listens for, and then modify the AWS lambda function that sends commands to the Pi. When the command shows up in the queue on the Pi, any commands [Ben] wants to play are fired off – in this case, a video is played and the Hue lights start to flicker.
There’s no mention of security in the article, so that may be worth a little attention with Alexa and the Hue, but with Halloween coming up fast even if you haven’t built a magic mirror yet, if you’ve got Hue lights, this would be a great, quick, Halloween idea. Especially if you could combine it with your outside lights so that Trick-or-Treaters can join in on the fun. Maybe you’d prefer looking up passing planes using Alexa? Or how about getting your fish to talk?
If you are looking around for a Halloween project, you might consider The Yorick Project from [ViennaMike]. As you can see in the video below, it marries a Raspberry Pi acting as an Amazon Alexa with an animatronic skull.
This isn’t the most technically demanding project, but it has a lot of potential for further hacking. The project includes a USB microphone, a servo controller, and an audio servo driver board. It looks like the audio servo board is controlling the jaw movement and based on the video, we wondered if you might do better running it completely in software. | 2019-04-25T08:40:57Z | https://hackaday.com/tag/amazon-alexa/ |
Rowan Class are champions of Shepway!
On Tuesday 21st November, two representatives from Rowan Class travelled to Leeds castle in order to receive a certificate for being the best reading class in the whole of Shepway! All the children in Rowan Class have been given free ice-skating tickets in recognition of all their hard work! Well done Rowan Class! | 2019-04-22T07:09:01Z | https://www.harcourt.kent.sch.uk/news/?pid=33&nid=2&storyid=32 |
5. OLX, Jumia, PayPal are just but a few examples of successful online business demonstrating the need for increased digital skills to bridge the unemployment gap among the youth.
6. Through this partnership with Google, the County Government of Siaya hopes to equip young Siaya residents with digital skills and tools to help them build an online presence, create content, understand web design and user experience, social media and app development for economic gain.
7. Siaya County is proud to be part of Google’s commitment to train one million young people in Africa on digital skills in the next one year, as part of Googles contribution to growing Africa’s digital economy.
8. It is notable that, through partnerships with trainers and local organization, Google has trained six hundred thousand youths in Kenya through offline face-to-face trainings. This makes them a credible partner with experience to undertake this training.
skills that they will acquire through this training.
11. The County Government of Siaya website will mention and provide a link to the Google Digital Skills Programme, referencing it as a training resource under the relevant categories of training content as a result of this partnership.
I now declare the DIGITAL SKILLS TRAINING PROGRAM targeting 5,000 youths from Siaya County officially launched. | 2019-04-24T16:13:17Z | http://siaya.go.ke/official-opening-of-a-mutual-collaboration-on-digital-skills-training-between-google-group-and-the-county-government-of-siaya/ |
If a new comic book wants a better chance in a crowded market, showcasing the star in existing titles is a good way to go. The Inhumans, the Silver Surfer, Moon Knight … all bounced around the Marvel Universe for a while before getting their own books. Over at DC, the likes of Deathstroke and Lobo did the same. Their titles may not have survived long-term, but there was at least some recognition among fans when they got their shot at the big leagues.
… I fear we should leave them there.
Because sometimes, exposure to new characters destined for their own book is enough to make you think: No thanks.
Which is why I almost didn’t give this DC New 52 second wave title a try. The Ravagers – abused metahuman teens trained to kill – haven’t exactly had the aura of breakout stars. The likes of Thunder, Lightning and Ridge should be wearing tee-shirts emblazoned with the words ‘crossover cannon fodder’, so generic are they. We’re talking an angry man monster and angst-ridden super-siblings.
As for Fairchild, Terra and Beast Boy, revisions of old DC/Wildstorm characters, it’s tough to see how they deserve to front a new team book, when they could easily fit into the Teen Titans.
Still, I thought, give ’em a chance, maybe they have a unique selling point that wasn’t evident in recent crossover The Culling. The concept is handily blurbed across the cover – ‘trained to be killers – can they become heroes?’ To which anyone who’s been reading comics more than a couple of minutes would reply, ‘yep’. Sure, we may get the odd Ravager so emotionally twisted by rubbish supervillain Harvest that they’ll go fully to the bad and pay the price. Exactly that happens this issue with one of the other teen metas who escapes from evil organisation NOWHERE’s freezing facility. But most will be just fine, and assimilate into the superhero community in time for this book’s inevitable cancellation.
Because if a comic as shamelessly Nineties as Hawk & Dove can’t survive in the current market, this has no chance. It’s competent so far as outlining the plot is concerned, but there’s nothing fresh here. The teens Harvest hoped to turn into Ravagers are on the run from his existing, all-evil Ravagers, led by Rose Wilson and Warblade. Some are killed in patented New 52 grisly manner, while our protaganists bicker and snark.
There’s some interest in that Fairchild, having worked undercover at NOWHERE, knows the backgrounds of the kids where they themselves have forgotten. And I’m interested to see how Beast Boy, traditionally green and now red, links up with the Animal Man/Swamp Thing Rot/Red storyline.
But the focus needs to shift away from NOWHERE pretty darn quickly, as we’ve had months of the terrible Culling storyline. Let Rose and co fade into the background, and let’s spend time with the book’s headliners, get to know them as they face new challenges.
Number one should be getting Thunder to the hairdressers to get rid of the two-hairstyles-in-one thing she has going on. It’s certainly distinctive, but unless it’s a tragic side effect of mutant powers, there’s no way a kid on the run would be able to maintain it. Perhaps it’s a sign of insanity.
That aside, this is solid superhero work from Churchill and inker Norm Rapmund, with clear storytelling and dynamic figurework. And the colour work by Alex Sollazzo is first class.
Howard Mackie’s script, meanwhile, hits all the necessary beats, recapping details from The Culling and beginning to introduce the featured Ravagers in terms of powers and personalities. He emphasises the horrors suffered by the kids enough that their extreme actions here are understandable, if not excusable. While the dialogue’s not awful, it’s mostly interchangeable, with only the supposedly British Ridge showing any personality (‘Bloody hell’ he says. Twice). As I said though, so far, so generic – there’s no obvious slot this book fills in the New 52 ‘offer’.
It must be said, though, that this is better than any individual chapter of The Culling – it’s readable, whereas what came before was the comic book equivalent of a bad migraine.
Churchill’s cover gets points for namechecking the characters. Then loses them for the blatant cheesecake of Fairchild, who is, happily, covered up inside.
I’ll likely check back in with this series next month, to see if there are signs of a unique direction emerging. But The Ravagers is on a very short leash – if it continues to draw out the dregs of The Culling, I’m out.
I look forward to your reviews every week, Mart.
Oh, is that Beast Boy? What, is he supposed to look like the werewolf from Twilight? Does he take his shirt off a lot?
This has been sounding quite generic to me, and now that it has its own book, sounds even more so. Think I'll pass, thanks.
I'll take a look, ta – I've not read it since the first issue … I loved the old Jaime and his cast, so didn't like the tweaks. Plus, I wasn't keen on seeing the origin done again so soon.
I think passing is fair enough, so far there's nothing much to see here. Apart from an oddly coloured Beast Boy!
RE: Blue Beetle – If you liked the old series (especially John Rodgers' run), I would actually suggest you avoid the current one. I dropped it because of the “tweaks” – the biggest one for me is the shift with Paco, who was absolutely lovable in the old series. Also, besides not needing the origin again, we also get Jaime versus a dark mirror villain again. If you're new to it & enjoying it, great, but the “young hero facing insurmountable odds” angle was done with much more humor & humanity in the Rodgers run, and I'd recommend trades of that before the current series.
As for the Ravagers… I'll give it the usual four-issue tryout I do for books I'm not sure about. Those words “Written by Howard Mackie” aren't filling me with much hope, even if this review did ease some fears.
I dont understand the point of this book. Is it trying for an Outsiders vibe, or a kind of anti-Teen Titans? And the whole 'heroes/villains sticking together although they dont like each other' wore thin with the Secret Six; it will be difficult to care about disparate characters wiht this premise. Fairchild – I presume shes the one from Gen 13 – is out of place here [but then they all are] and so is Beast Boy, who looks totally different from his Titans days.
Really cant get worked up about this at all, as it feels as if we've seen it all before. Plus point; good to see UK artist Ian Churchill back on regular books. He was an up and coming artist in the 90s until he went to the US, then went all 'Americanized' and his unique style was lost to a generic Image look. His work here is about the only thing Im infused about.
Thanks Mela, the change in Paco was a huge sticking point to me. It seemed the New 52 was bringing us a less enjoyable take on a story I'd already spent two years and lots of money following. I'll likely take another look at some point, but it's low priority.
I can't recall ever reading any Howard Mackie, other than some Spidey stories, so he's pretty new to me.
I believe Fairchild is from Gen 13, Karl – I never read any of that book, it just looked like another X-Titans-alike. If it was like this, Gen may have stood for Generic.
Ive only read one Gen 13 book, Mart – the one-off crossover they did with the FF some years back. All I can say is it felt like they were DCs answer to the New Mutants. Didnt think much of it. | 2019-04-22T19:56:05Z | https://dangermart.blog/2012/05/30/the-ravagers-1-review/ |
The word “philotimo” (Lover of honor), which is purely a Greek word, is very difficult to be found in an English dictionary, as the definition of this word has been infused and inherited in the collective unconscious of the Greek culture.
Eventually the more I get in search for the meaning of the word “philotimo” , the more I consider that its significance is deeper and extending beyond historical, philosophical, psychological and social horizons.
Existence of which I had never anticipated before.
Also according to the website of the Encyclopaedia of Orthodoxy (3) : http://orthodoxwiki.org/Orthodox_Living philotimos is someone who lives, thinks and works with an honest and full of virtue way in any situation.
He who acts with love, kindness, responsibility, pain and compassion for others.
Someone who is generous in a few words.
I would like to add to the above mentioned statements that Philotimos (similar word: generous) acts by heart, because he thinks that is really good (anc. greek : «αγαθόν») for someone to help his fellows, even though they do not recognize or overlook it many a time.... (My personal opinion).
Ancient Greeks believed that someone should be “philotimos” , as the opposition «AFILOTIMIA» ( the lack of value/honor ) was a shame.
Of course, Ancient Greeks had developed an amazing system of values, so that someone in order to gain understanding must have depth to the very etymology of words and their interpretation, and the fact itself they had comprehended in order for a society being functional should rely consciously on - not imposed by humans - Laws, but Universal Laws (Divine).
Aside to that implication , Laws and Values are related to Harmony and Order in conjunction with the cooperation (Synergy) –(4).
By this way they suppressed their fear of betrayal and the possibility of someone putting his merit over the merit of all.
Even nowadays modern Greeks state that someone has to appeal on someone’s philotimo, to touch his willing to offer help and assistance .
Philotimia’s or generosity’s true meaning and application has been circumvented and remains on risk of being diminished not only from dictionaries, but from our society we live in.
Instead of that ,something that prevails in our age is the reciprocation to someone’s good intention to help «filotima» (honourably) with ungratefulness.
The arc of philotimo is too small to stop the lack of values, selfishness, the little and large merits, and fears of people.
In front of philotimo a detrimental selfish tendency of people to think and act by mind ( and not by soul ) is heightened .
«Why should I help someone, if not having benefit?», is an intimate question posed by someone who thinks selfishly.
Or in the worst case to use the phrase : «The end justifies the means» -(5), which is more tragic, because it is used in many ways even for supposed spiritual and holy purposes, such as spreading Spiritual / Universal Laws!
Of course now we are getting to the abuse of the very good intention for offering and love.
Then, someone who is philotimos/generous risks to become a victim in the “ altar ” of individual plans and aspirations or of the insatiable foresight for control and supremacy.
(This is an issue that I will possibly explain in a later newsletter of mine ).
All this occur in a society that constantly refuses to cut grasps with Matrix, where the co-operators or associates (of the society ) are afraid to allow themselves risk by following a brighter and less materialistic way .
Maybe that is the reason for philotimos / generous people being paid in the currency of ungratefulness, due to their accordance to laws and values rooted in their subconscious and for transcending the shackles of conventional reality.
The soul of a philotimos/generous man /woman is full of experiences, ideals, virtues, knowledge and wisdom.
All these co- exist to create an integrated man, for Knowledge without Wisdom can not exist as well as without implementation.
Knowledge itself without the «Synergy» of Wisdom, Virtue, Justice, Valour Prudence can not exist.
The ideas and goods are born and implemented by people who are carrying the legacy of our Creator’s values, because they allowed themselves to listen to the voice of their heart and overcome their “ego”.
Creator cultivates the image, literally « embroiders » on a transcendental canvas, what is transferred from the human soul, known as “creations”.
Creator not only has spoken within, but was heard too!
Those who work by philotimia (Love of honour) and truly act according to this value, definitely flee away to Light, because they risk their aid for good deeds towards their fellows, even though they do not expect anything in return.
*All rights of the above text are reserved. You may republish this article as long as it bears enough the full details of the author (name, occupation – websites - e mail address). | 2019-04-21T10:56:12Z | http://endlesslifejourney.blogspot.com/2009/09/philotimolove-of-honor-and.html |
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ATutor translation is a community effort. If you would like to help translate ATutor you should create a MyATutor account and then sign-in to request a translator account, though registration is optional. Be sure to read through Things You Should Know Before Translating before you begin translating. For older language packs, see the Language Packs Archive.
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Saga Wendotte is a photographer based in Stockholm, Sweden.
Her work has been exhibited at galleries such as Liljevalchs and Bukowskis as well as the Nobel NightCap.
She describes her photos as “beauty with a twist” and she has a weakness for flower prints, bunnies, cake, dark forests and knives. | 2019-04-25T12:15:42Z | https://www.odalisquemagazine.com/people/saga-wendotte |
My fever broke today. It only took 7 weeks.
A half a tab of Xanax and a glass of water by my bed, just waiting for the alarm to go off and my anxious heart to start thudding.
But today, I got out of bed without it.
And I made it to work without it.
And I made it through work without it.
For all my prayer and meditation and hinting and begging and writing and crying… all I got in return was Silence.
So I wrote to you, perhaps the last handwritten letter.
You never gave any indication that you read any of them and it hurts me to think that you might have let them stack up, like an obligation or a homework assignment that you kept putting off.
I hoped to never regret you. I had hoped I meant as much to you as you did to me.
And I told you I love you. I didnt say it to make a play for you. It doesn’t matter that you’re married and live 1,000 miles away. It doesn’t matter if you’ve changed your mind, or forgotten what you loved about me, or that I was just a crutch to lean on, a means to an end, to be used and be discarded as soon as I was out of sight. It doesnt matter that/if you found a new crutch as soon as I was gone. I fell in love and I’m not ashamed of that. I don’t think it is ever a bad thing to love someone or to tell that person that they are loved.
I also re-joined online dating sites; I didnt tell you that in some sad attempt to make you jealous. I told you that to alleviate any concerns you may have that I could potentially turn into a ‘stalker’ and cause problems for you. Even I have a little more pride than to chase a man who doesn’t want me. I know even if you do slay your dragons, you have no intention of ever coming for me. So I’m just trying to press on, pray for you, pray for me, pray that we both find what we need, not just what we want.
I want you. I expect I always will. Because you were a lightning strike and that hasn’t happened to me in many years. But I won’t wait for the Never.
I hope that I still cross your mind sometimes and you think to drop me an email to let me know you’re alive and well. You said you would. But that was weeks—an eternity ago, when you promised that.
I’ll never look at a full moon the same. | 2019-04-25T17:09:18Z | https://gypsypritzeh.wordpress.com/2014/09/ |
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After you select your location for this date idea, gather the items you need to build your hideaway. Using chairs and tables, you can create a sturdy base to structure your masterpiece around. For the cover of your fort, use sheets and blankets. Grab some chip clips from the kitchen to keep them secured to the chairs and tables. You may even need weights to hold them in place. Now, take a step back and admire your handy work!
To continue following this dating advice, fill the inside with blankets and pillows. If there’s enough room, add a blow-up mattress too. To give your secret spot a romantic feel, you can spray your favorite perfume and add some rose petals as a finishing touch. Stay away from candles, though, since your sheets could potentially fall at any time.
Finally, you need to grab the essentials to keep you entertained throughout the day: snacks, your iPad, a deck of cards, your favorite book, magazines, etc. Leave your phone in another room and just focus on your relationship. Enjoy bonding with your partner and relaxing in your new spot.
Have you ever made a secret hideaway with your love? Share your relationship advice below! | 2019-04-25T07:47:38Z | http://cupidspulse.com/128677/date-idea-build-fort/ |
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German startup ConfGames is using NFC tags to add game mechanics to conferences with the aim of encouraging networking and interaction between visitors and sponsors.
“The game is based on an Android app,” ConfGames’ Stefan Queisser explains. “All conference visitors get an NFC tag and a little how-to guide attached to their badge when they register.
The visitor taps their tag to the sponsor’s tablet when they have answered all questions, with a record of their activity being linked to their NFC tag’s ID.
Queisser says that so far interactions have seen a remarkable increase, especially when conference organisers promote the game from within the conference sessions. | 2019-04-19T07:08:40Z | https://www.nfcworld.com/2013/11/21/327008/confgames-uses-nfc-gamify-conferences/ |
BREVARD, N.C. – Senior stars Ashley Hughes, Caroline David, and Megan Shina left their mark on the Brevard College record books for perhaps the final time in their illustrious Tornado careers as the BC Tornados Women's Soccer team (11-7) ended its regular season slate with a 5-0 decision over the Piedmont International Bruins (4-10).
Hughes tallied three goals for her third hat trick of 2018. Shina added two goals and an assist, and David dished out two assists on the afternoon. Freshman Chloe Proffitt also added an assist to the BC effort.
Much like its last game against Regent, BC came out of the gate firing on all cylinders. The Tornados outshot the Bruins by a dominant 25-7 margin, including an 18-3 shot-on-goal advantage.
Hughes got things going for the Tornados, as she placed a David through pass up and past the Bruin's goalkeeper in the seventh minute of action.
Just a mere one minute later, Hughes and David connected once again to give Brevard a 2-0 advantage in the eighth minute. Hughes played another through pass and beat two Bruin defenders and the goalkeeper for the score.
In the 17th minute, freshman Proffitt played a gorgeous ball into the right side of the box to Shina. Shina then fired a blazing strike from the lower right corner of the box into the left upper 90 to extend BC's lead to 3-0.
Head Coach Juan Mascaro utilized his bench early in the contest, inserting Samantha Foster, Sydney Capan, Alyssa Hetherington, and Hannah Weatherall into the field, and Rebeccah Rojas into the goal for the remainder of the first half. The Tornados held a 3-0 advantage going into the second period.
Brevard's seniors were not done making their impact on the match. Elise Youmans was inserted back into goal late in the contest, and Lane Berchtold held down the defensive back.
Hughes connected for her 19th goal of 2018 in the 48th minute, as she played a ball from Shina and scored, giving her a hat trick. This marks Hughes' third hat trick of 2018, a BC NCAA-era record.
The Tornados' final score came by way of a penalty kick. Shina was fouled deep inside the box, setting up a chance for her to earn her 14th goal of 2018. Shina capitalized, giving BC a 5-0 advantage that it wouldn't relinquish.
Hughes wraps up her 2018 regular season at the top of many statistical records at Brevard. Her 19 goals in 2018 are a BC NCAA-era school record for single-season goals, passing teammate Shina's mark of 11 goals in 2017. Hughes finished 2018 with 41 points, also a BC NCAA-era single-season record.
Both Hughes and Shina, pending postseason play, finish tied atop the BC record books for NCAA-era career goals scored. Both BC seniors have scored 25 goals apiece in their illustrious BC careers.
Shina and Hughes finish one and two respectively atop the BC NCAA-era career points leaderboard. Shina has recorded 56 career points, while Hughes holds 55 points. Shina and Hughes both passed former BC forward Bailey Varley (2008-11) in this category.
David sits alone atop both the single-season and career BC NCAA-era assist totals. David finished the 2018 regular season with 13 assists, which gives her both records by a landslide. David's 38 career points place her fourth all-time in BC NCAA-era history, trailing Shina, Hughes, and Varley (2008-11).
Coach Mascaro's 2018 edition of BC Women's Soccer finished the regular season with 11 wins, matching a program-best set last season. Brevard's 11-7 record is second best in BC NCAA-era history, trailing only the 2017 Tornados who finished 11-6-1.
BC Women's Soccer turns its attention to the ECAC postseason. The ECAC will announce its 16-team postseason field on Monday, Nov. 5. | 2019-04-25T14:57:08Z | http://bctornados.com/sports/wsoc/2018-19/releases/20181029scohfs |
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I'm an INFJ...protector, stubborn, believe I'm right, perfectionist, private, concerned about people's feelings....pretty much sums it up! | 2019-04-25T06:41:03Z | http://www.blogandiamo.com/2013/09/personality-type.html |
Rirratjingu Aboriginal Corporation’s Bunuwal Fuel has sealed a new deal with Rio Tinto extending its existing relationship by at least another three years.
The Rirratjingu will supply diesel to Rio’s operations in Northeast Arnhem Land.
The new agreement has a two year option at the end of the three year period.
Bunuwal Fuel imports the diesel from Singapore and then works closely with another Arnhem Land-based firm, YBE, to have it transported from Gove Peninsula to mining operations, ancillary projects and for power generation on the peninsula. | 2019-04-23T02:46:26Z | http://www.goveonline.com.au/rirratjingu-score-gove-diesel-deal/ |
Sophomore Keith Otto drives down the baseline.
Sophomore Shon Wilson looks to shoot.
Senior Nicholas Casazza fires up a three-pointer.
Sophomore Matt O'Connor pulls up for a jumper.
Junior Addis Ralph shoots a three-pointer.
Junior Mike Martino dribbles into the lane.
Junior C.J. Barnes cuts towards the basket.
Senior Oneil Holder pulls up for a jumper.
Junior C.J. Barnes shoots a three-pointer from the corner.
Senior Will Brazukas passes out to the corner.
Junior Elijah Davis drives towards the lane. | 2019-04-21T22:29:38Z | https://www.moraviansports.com/sports/mbkb/2018-19/photos/0012/index |
The wait is finally over for Adelaide United FC Coach Michael Valkanis and his squad as they come up against Brisbane Roar in a cutthroat clash at Hindmarsh Stadium tomorrow afternoon.
The wait is finally over for Adelaide United FC Coach Michael Valkanis and his squad as they prime themselves for the club-s first Hyundai A-League final in over two years as they come up against Brisbane Roar in a cutthroat clash at Hindmarsh Stadium tomorrow afternoon.
Valkanis today reemphasised that the past two months have been about building up to this game, and with the luxury of being able to put his best team out on the park, he is confident the Reds can send the reigning champions packing.
“We-re looking forward to it,” Valkanis said after the squad-s final training session.
Recent records suggest the Reds are up against it if they are to book a date with the Western Sydney Wanderers at Parramatta Stadium next Friday night.
The Roar registered 1-0 wins in their two visits to Adelaide this season, while the Reds have only beaten Brisbane once in their past six games against Mike Mulvey-s men at Hindmarsh.
But heading into the biggest game of United-s season so far, Valkanis is rightly taking no interest out of what has taken place previously and says him and the players are only focused on what happens once they cross the white line.
“I keep saying it - we-ve got to live in the now,” Valkanis said in response to the two results at home against the Roar.
After watching the tension of last night-s other Elimination Final between Melbourne Victory and Perth Glory, Valkanis said it reinforced the lift in intensity that finals bring and the importance of not these letting opportunities slip.
“For a game like this, it-s not like you need so much external motivation, it-s a final, I was watching the game last night and you get excited watching it and you can-t wait until you are playing,” Valkanis said.
For the do-or-die showdown, Valkanis appears likely to recall Marcelo Carrusca, Nigel Boogaard and Cassio to the side after the trio all missed the draw with Perth Glory last Saturday.
Cassio, who is no stranger to this time of the season having been part of the Reds- 2008/09 and 2010/11 finals tilts, also shares Valkanis- opinion that the past is now forgotten.
“It-s finals, everyone is pumped up to play. It-s 90 minutes, we have to do everything we can to win the game,” Cassio said.
A favourite among the United faithful, the Reds- pocket rocket said boisterous home support and a huge pro South Australian contingent at Hindmarsh would go a long way to influencing the result.
“We need the fans- help. They-re a very important part, so even for them, forget what happened (during the season), it-s about this game, 90 minutes and their support will help us to go through,” Cassio said.
While past records may count for little come kick-off, Valkanis will be aware that Brisbane are yet to win this season after conceding the opening goal of the game, thus he will be hoping his charges can storm out of the blocks, strike first and improve on their starts from recent weeks. | 2019-04-22T18:53:08Z | https://www.adelaideunited.com.au/news/full-strength-reds-ready-roar |
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Angelina Jolie candidly opened up about her ex-husband, Brad Pitt, admitting that her decision to make a film with him in 2015 – less than a year before their split – was a mistake. The Maleficent star wrote and directed By the Sea, in which she co-starred with her husband, and during an interview on the Hollywood Reporter's Awards Chatter podcast this week, she concluded it "may not have been a good idea". She explained: "I wanted us to do some serious work together, and I wanted to see him do that kind of work. So I thought that it could be a good way for us to communicate. And I think in some ways it was. And in some ways we learned some things. But there was a heaviness during that situation that carried on."
Alluding to their relationship, she added: "Things happen for different reasons. You know, why did I write that exact piece? Why did we feel the way about it we did when we made it? I'm not sure." The star also opened up about her early life, and admitted that the "one odd negative" of having actor parents and growing up in Hollywood was the expectation that she would become an actress. She explained: "A lot people in this town think that being an actor is the greatest thing in the world and the best thing to be, so you're pushed to be that before you really are able to consider other ways of life, and that somehow is this natural thing that everyone should want."
Brad, meanwhile, has previously spoken about the couple's split in a frank interview with GQ, saying: "If you love someone, set them free. Now I know what it means, by feeling it. It means to love without ownership. It means expecting nothing in return. It doesn't mean [expletive] all to me until, you know. Until you live it." He later told Press Association that the pair were "figuring out the new configuration of our family" as co-parents of their children, Maddox, 15, Pax, 13, Zahara, 12, Shiloh, 10, and eight-year-old twins Vivienne and Knox. | 2019-04-26T10:47:23Z | https://ca.hellomagazine.com/celebrities/02017120840752/brad-pitt-angelina-jolie-film-not-good-idea |
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A British tour in UK scheduled for June 2019. Tour supporting new album release "FIND MY WAY HOME" on UBAS London area based label. | 2019-04-24T02:36:54Z | https://jimkahr.com/tour-dates |
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Toshiba's chief executive and president Hisao Tanaka is to resign after the company said it had overstated its profits for the past six years.
He will be succeeded by chairman Masashi Muromachi, with vice-chairman Norio Sasaki also stepping down.
On Monday, an independent panel appointed by Toshiba said the firm had overstated its operating profit by a total of 151.8bn yen ($NZ1.8bn).
The overstatement was roughly triple an initial Toshiba estimate.
The finance minister, Taro Aso, said the case could undermine confidence in corporate governance in Japan.
He added the accounting irregularities at Toshiba were "very regrettable".
Japan's government has been trying to regain global investors' confidence with better corporate governance after Olympus was found to have covered up $US1.7bn ($NZ2.6bn) in losses in late 2011, in what was until now Japan's worst corporate governance scandal.
The report's findings are expected to lead to the restatement of earnings, a board overhaul and potentially hefty fines for Toshiba.
The inquiry found that the misreporting of profits began after the financial crash seven years ago, when senior managers began imposing unrealistic performance targets.
"Within Toshiba, there was a corporate culture in which one could not go against the wishes of superiors," the report said.
Mr Tanaka and his predecessor Mr Sasaki are among eight high-level executives who have now resigned after the independent report found senior management complicit in a scheme to inflate profits over several years.
Regulators are believed to be starting their own review of Toshiba's book-keeping, based on Monday's report.
Shares in Toshiba rose 6 percent on the Nikkei stock exchange in Japan on relief that the report had few nasty surprises. But they are still down around 23 percent since Toshiba first disclosed cases of accounting irregularities in early April. | 2019-04-23T04:52:06Z | https://www.radionz.co.nz/news/world/279336/toshiba-ceo-to-resign-over-scandal |
1114 Fishertown Ave. is a $290,608, 2,054 square foot, 4 bedroom, 2.5 bath home on a 0.17 acre lot located in Caldwell, ID.
The Tatom 2054 is a great sized home for those seeking a little room to move. This home features a large kitchen with large island, pantry and half bath! The kitchen opens into the dining room and family room. Formal living room makes great office or play room. Upstairs, you'll find a utility room, master suite with a large walk-in closet, bathroom and the kid's rooms! Enjoy quick access to HWY 20/26/Chinden as well as close freeway access. Garage door opener not included. RCE-923.
I am interested in 1114 Fishertown Ave., Caldwell, ID 83605. | 2019-04-23T08:49:09Z | https://www.jonnaweber.com/homes/1114-fishertown-ave-caldwell-id-83605/34259077 |
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Will Will deVry Stay or Go on GH?
Yes, GH fans, it’s that time again. A fan fave’s contract is nearing its end, and she/he and the network are dancing the Contract Negotiation Two-Step. This time it’s “General Hospital’s” (GH) Will deVry.
DeVry (Julian Jerome) still has five months on his current GH contract, he told Soaps In Depth (SID) in its latest print issue.
When the magazine asked him if he’d be renewing, deVry played it cagey and waxed philosophical, in almost spiritual language.
deVry is a fave here at Soap Cities. He is admired by fans and lauded by critics. So, we’re hoping the show will keep him around. But contract negotiations often come down to a show making allowances for an actor’s personal life, and an actor making allowances for a show’s demands. It’s all kept top-secret until an official decision is made, so we’ll have to wait and see.
But we can still speculate based on evidence. Julian is involved in a couple key, frontrunner storylines, such as Alexis’ (Nancy Lee Grahn’s) out-of-control life. Fan and industry tongues are wagging about Tonja Walker’s return to Port Charles, speculating that she will reprise the role of Olivia Jerome, Julian’s other sociopath sister. All this would point to GH likely bending over backwards to keep deVry around.
deVry has other projects going on, so he wouldn’t be unemployed, waiting around for his next gig, should his contract not be renewed.
He will host an upcoming winemaking reality show, “Best Bottle,” and he has begun work on an independent film with his beau Rebecca Staab (Elizabeth, “Port Charles”).
Let’s just keep our fingers crossed that this fabulous actor–who is also easy on the eyes–sticks around in Port Charles for a long time to come!
i honestly hope gh keeps julian he is awesome! | 2019-04-25T20:03:48Z | http://soapcities.com/2017/01/will-will-devry-stay-go-gh/ |
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The newspaper O Estado de Sao Paulo published some amazing photos of Sao Paulo a few weeks ago to celebrate 457 years of the city (why they are celebrating 457 years is anyone’s guess!) You should check out the article to view all of them, but I thought I would just share those of Vila Mariana, where I am currently staying. Somehow the photographer has managed to make the city look a replica of itself, with the people simply little Lego men that have been placed in position, and the lighting seemingly coming from a strategically placed light bulb, illuminating each still.
I’m based just around the corner from this main street. It’s funny how Vila Mariana doesn’t really look anything like this on a daily basis. Somehow the smell, noise and heat completely changes its appearance. | 2019-04-26T07:42:28Z | http://ontheroadtofindout.com/2011/02/photos-of-vila-mariana-in-sao-paulo/ |
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With Gozo you can book a one way cab from Lawan to Mahendragarh, Akoda, Baghot, Bairawas, Dongra Ahir . Gozo provides well maintained air-conditioned (AC) cars, courteous drivers and our services are available 24x7x365. Gozo uses local taxi operators in Lawan who maintain highest level of service quality and have a very good knowledge of the local roads and highway driving. We also provide local sightseeing trips and tours in or around the city. Our cars and drivers serve tourists, large event groups and business people for outstation trips and also for local taxi requirements in Lawan. | 2019-04-26T03:43:40Z | https://www.gozocabs.com/tempo-traveller-rental/lawan |
Welcome to Horizon Inn & Ocean View Lodge where guests find affordable Carmel luxury. We take pride in offering an exceptional experience at a reasonable price. Our success is demonstrated by our great repeat guest rate. So, come and enjoy!
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A little piece of Texas here in DC? You can pretend, anyway. Don't forget to try a bottle of Shiner.
As a Texan living in DC this makes me happy!
Eat the brisket. There are other tasty things here, but the brisket is tops..
Great BBQ! Some of the best brisket I have had and the Pork ribs are also great.
Get there early on Wednesday nights to get a table downstairs for live band karaoke!
Pretend you're in Texas. Eat brisket. Drink Lone Star. Do NOT root for the Cowboys.
The menu says the red velvet cake feeds two. Really it's so big you could feed four people with a slice. So get it to share. It's delicious.
Essentially a tourist trap, but if you MUST go here, stick to the brisket. The ribs are chain restaurant bad, and the rest is sort of "meh".
The chicken is the best and the bbq sauce is finger licking good!
Don't dine here if the word "moist" makes you uncomfortable.
Mondays are All You Can Eat brisket, pork spare ribs, market chicken & sides. I recommend the mac & cheese, sweet potato bourbon mash & corn pudding. Make sure to go there hungry, it's a lot of food!
Not the place to impress clients. WORST. EXPERIENCE. EVER!
Had the brisket tonight at an event.... very moist and delicious. | 2019-04-24T08:32:24Z | https://www.thedailymeal.com/hill-country-barbecue-market-0 |
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Pete Nemerovski joined the UNC Law faculty in 2017 after teaching at the University of Miami School of Law for the previous seven years. He teaches Research, Reasoning, Writing, and Advocacy I and II.
During his time at Miami, Professor Nemerovski primarily taught Legal Communication and Research Skills, a required writing course for first-year students. He also developed and taught an advanced legal writing course for upper-level students and a writing course focusing on products liability law. He served as the faculty advisor to the Asian Pacific American Law Students Association and was an affiliated faculty member for the law school’s Social Justice Concentration.
Professor Nemerovski has published articles in the Arizona Law Review Syllabus, Perspectives: Teaching Legal Research and Writing, and The National Jurist. His conference presentations have focused on the feedback and revision process, teaching professionalism, and an annual nationwide survey of legal writing programs.
After graduating from law school, Professor Nemerovski was a law clerk to Judge Damon J. Keith of the U.S. Court of Appeals for the Sixth Circuit. From 2003 to 2010, he practiced commercial litigation with large firms in Los Angeles and Miami. | 2019-04-24T14:00:36Z | http://www.law.unc.edu/faculty/directory/nemerovskipeter/ |
An economics and business graduate, Elaine began her career in marketing in the energy and mail-order wine sectors. She then became a Marketing Analyst, before moving to Time-Life as European telemarketing director. In 2005 she co-founded marketing consultancy firm ReynoldsBusbyLee, which works with commercial and charity clients to improve customer experience.
Elaine is an Adviser at direct marketing trade association DMA and co-chairs its Vulnerable Taskforce. She is a Telephone Preference Service board member, and a member of the Institute of Fundraising.
Anna is Director of Institutional Funding at Sightsavers, leading the development and implementation of Sightsavers institutional funding strategy. Anna works across the organisation to ensure external donor obligations are met and is a member of Sightsavers Management Team. Prior to joining Sightsavers in 2010 she worked for the International HIV/AIDS Alliance and Save the Children.
Tove leads a global project ‘collaboration for sustainable innovations in international crisis and disaster’ with actors from civil society, authorities, academia and companies. She had previously been as a Brand and CSR Director at AstraZeneca, Communications Director at KRAV and the Swan. Tove has extensive experience as a manager and leader and is used to developing activities within sustainability, innovation and development assistance, often in complicated contexts.
Becki has been a fundraiser for 15 years across a number of charities, both large and small. She is currently Director of Individual Giving at Sightsavers and is responsible for raising £30 million across a range of activities, from events to legacies, in a number of countries.
Before Sightsavers, Becki spent several years managing the supporter recruitment programme at WWF-UK, and moved on to set up its Innovation function. She has also worked with the Alzheimer’s Society and The Princes Trust.
Maria has been a lawyer in Sweden for 15 years, providing advice to Swedish and international non-profit organisations, and has worked with Frivilligorganisationernas Insamlingsråd (FRII), a lobby organisation for Swedish NGOs. She has been a member of Insamlingsstiftelsen Sightsavers International Sverige since the organisation was founded.
Maria specialises in company and IT/IP law and is a member or deputy of the board in several Swedish companies and organisations.
Thérèse is Head of Digital Marketing Strategies at AIAR AB, which aims to improve education around the world. Thérèse has worked as global marketing manager at Oriflame and Glitter and Country Manager for Louis Vuitton and Benetton in Sweden. She started and built fashion chains such as Tessie and Boutique One. She is a board member of EC-GO and has been a member of the ActionAid Sweden Advisory Board.
Mike is the Director of Major Giving at Sightsavers. Mike leads an international team who build and steward relationships with major individual donors, trusts and corporate partners, and manage Sightsavers’ events portfolio. Mike works across a number of fundraising markets, with a focus on the UK, the US and the Middle East. He plays a role in organisational management as a member of the Management Team.
Prior to joining Sightsavers in 2013, Mike worked for Breast Cancer Campaign and Marie Curie. | 2019-04-20T18:31:02Z | https://www.sightsavers.org/how-were-run/sweden-board/ |
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Spanish for “lie” (Mentira) comes from the Latin mandacium for the same, which in turn, comes from the earlier Latin menda for “defect; fault”. But the Latin Menda comes from the Proto-Indo-European root *mend- meaning the same, fault or defect.
Thus we see an interesting transition over time: defect turned into lie. The word took on more and more agency: the problem didn’t just happen; it was an explicit lie!
The same PIE root *mend-, in English, took a different route: via French, it turned into the modern English amend and amendment. Thus, in English, “defect” turned into the more accidental, less bad, “lets make a change!”.
We can see the parallels easily: the m-n-t of mentira map to the (a)-m-n-d of amend. The d- and t- transformation is very common and the sounds often interchangeable.
We also have the English mendacious that is a direct parallel to mentira… but everyone seems to have forgotten that word.
Torcer, Spanish for “to twist”, as well as retorcer (meaning the same) both come from the Latin root torquere.
From the Latin torquere, we also get the English… torture. You can see the t-r-k sound mapping to the English t-r-t, since the “k” sounds are very similar to the “t” sounds.
Torture, after all, is just an extreme form of being twisted: mentally, physically, in all ways.
From the same root, we also get the English… to thwart. Funnily enough, to thwart is–in a sense–the exact opposite of torture.
Tractor: What is a tractor if not a machine that brings or drags machinery around the plot of farmland?
Traction: What is traction if not something moving so quick that it drags everyone else up along with it?
Note that the -h- vanished when the Latin turned into Spanish but became a -ct- when the Latin became English. Thus the t-r-[nothing] of traer maps to the t-r-ct of the English words.
The English for azure — which is really just a shade of blue! — comes from the same root, although azure still retains a luxury connotation that was lost with the simple blue implication of azul in Spanish.
Many languages, including Spanish, have an -l- and -r- shift, where, over time, the -l- and -r- sounds are swapped. We see this here, as the a-z-l root of azul maps to the a-z-r root of azure. | 2019-04-20T22:23:02Z | https://spanishetymology.com/spanish/page/2/ |
• This updated paper explains the basic differences between Microsoft® Office 97 and the Microsoft Office System at a cursory level. It describes some changes a user might see in the menu bar user interface that relate to common functions, and what a user might experience as a possible bug, depending on how advanced they are in using Office 2003 Edition applications. Amy Winehouse Back Black 320 Rare. Nagra 3 Crack 2015 1099.
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Ryan Malmsten and Andy Alexander, licensed real estate brokers in the Santa Barbara, California, market, have joined the prestigious Haute Residence Real Estate Network.
The Haute Residence Real Estate Network of Hauteresidence.com, affiliated with luxury lifestyle publication Haute Living, is proud to recognize Ryan Malmsten and Andy Alexander as prominent real estate professionals and the network’s newest partner.
Ryan Malmsten, broker and co-owner of Santa Barbara Brokers luxury real estate, grew up in Denver, Colorado, and graduated from Westmont College––located in beautiful Montecito, California––in 1989. While attending Westmont, Malmsten played soccer and studied economics and business. After graduation, he lived in Montecito and enjoyed getting to know the Santa Barbara lifestyle to its fullest. He then moved to the Vail and Breckenridge resort areas of Colorado to start his real estate career. Malmsten attained the number one top producer position for one of the premier mountain real estate companies with more than 80 agents. He has been in the high-end luxury real estate market for more than 20 years and has successfully closed more than 350 transactions, totaling more than $164,000,000 in sales. In the summer of 2010, Malmsten started Santa Barbara Brokers, Inc with his good friend, Andy Alexander. Malmsten continues to maintain an incredible network of buyers and sellers in Santa Barbara, Vail, and Aspen and uses his resources to maximize the best opportunities for his clients. He diligently represents these clients in the purchases of first and second homes. Malmsten enjoy skiing, golfing, surfing, and playing polo, but mostly enjoys spending time with his wife Holly and his four daughters Maddie, Riley, Jayna, and Sage. The Malmsten family lives in Montecito and loves every aspect of the California lifestyle.
Andy Alexander, broker and co-owner of Santa Barbara Brokers luxury real estate, grew up in Colorado and attended the USAF Academy, graduating in 1993. After college, he moved to Southern California and went to graduate school at the University of Southern California. After graduating and serving in the military, Alexander took a job at an investment firm and acquired his Series 7 license. After three years at the investment firm, he decided to pursue real estate full time. Buying real estate investments started as a personal hobby in 1996 and turned into a full-time job by 2000. Alexander applies his personal experiences with making money in real estate and investments toward helping clients buy and sell their property. He lives in the San Roque neighborhood in Santa Barbara with his wife Amber and his two daughters Ailey and Aeryn. | 2019-04-19T19:20:34Z | http://www.prweb.com/releases/2016/02/prweb13230846.htm |
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I’m unpacking ALL the info on TURMERIC. Not TUM-ERIC, TURMERIC! The anti-inflammatory super spice is taking over the world and you’ve probably even put it into your golden milk lattes. Yum!
In the video, I provide the inside scoop on the benefits of turmeric — from how it can actually help with inflammation, to how to actually use turmeric (hint: curcumin, turmeric's key compound, needs a special friend in order to absorb properly). Plus, you better believe that I’m giving you a SPICE GIRL JOKE in this video. Duh!! | 2019-04-24T03:57:28Z | https://tracynutrition.com/blog/tag/holistic |
Aura Global School is a specialized initiative of Aura Academic Institutions Pvt. Ltd – a group desirous of making a cutting edge in the field of education. Founded with a vision to provide world class quality education based on the CBSE curriculum, we endeavor to be known for our excellence in teaching, by providing students with highest quality instruction within a state-of-the-art infrastructure and resources required for comprehensive learning and overall development, bringing out the latent talents of the students. Aura Global School, Perinthalmanna is the first one of over a dozen schools planned to be established in Kerala and Middle East Countries, as part of a massive initiative. A special feature of this school is its salubrious campus spread over an area of seven and half acres, enchantingly set in an amphitheatre relief surrounded by lofty hills in a sylvan milieu. Close to the town, but tucked away from the hustle and bustle, the school is located in a refreshingly tranquil and verdant ambiance, idyllic for learning. The emphasis is on attention to the learning, social and personal needs of individual students and the requirement is that students learn to think for themselves. Considerable emphasis is placed throughout the school on the development of personal qualities and virtues, including responsibility, accountability, self discipline, honesty, care and respect for others. Students are encouraged to participate fully and actively in the wide range of opportunities provided to suit their learning styles. Students are expected to be active participants in their own learning and are given opportunities and assistance to do so.
To foster a society of individuals capable of progressive thinking, creating and initiating positive change in the social, economic and cultural fabric and to impact the global community through knowledge, understanding and attitude.
To nurture individual talents and abilities by empowering all children and helping them develop into creative, disciplined and dynamic leaders of the future, who will be active global citizens contributing richly to our nation and the world and to raise them as independent, responsible, resourceful and successful individuals with high self-esteem and confidence.
As a step forward towards providing international education to the citizens of tomorrow, Aura Academic Institutions Pvt. Ltd. decided to assay into setting up a chain of schools in Kerala under the brand name of Aura Global School. The school was founded with a vision to provide world class quality education based on the CBSE curriculum. Both Aura Academic Institutions and Aura Global School, marked the beginning of a journey with the launching event on 23rd January, 2012 at the Taj Gateway Hotel, Calicut. The honours was done by Padmashree M. A. Yousufali, Managing Director, EMKE Group. Aura group opened its flagship school in Perintalmanna in June 2012. The second school opened in Kodungallur in June 2013.
Aura Global School is located in Panambi, Thazhekkod village, 4 km away from Perinthalmanna city. Perinthalmanna is an emerging city in Malappuram district of Kerala. It is a vibrant city with strong historical and cultural heritage and has many places of attraction for pilgrimage and tourism. Whilst Tirumandhamkunnu Temple and Thali Temple are the major places of pilgrimage, Kodikuthimala, Eravimangalam, Pathaikkara Mana, Olingara, and Kulirmala are places of tourist attraction. Perinthalmanna is known as city of hospitals. It has 4 super specialty hospitals including a Medical college and a number of small and midsized hospitals and clinics. As a result, a good part of the population consists of migrants from medicine-related fields.
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Continuous and comprehensive evaluation is a system by Central Board of Secondary Education in India to evaluate every aspect of the child during their presence at the school. This is believed to help reduce the pressure on the child during/before examinations as the student will have to sit for multiple tests throughout the year, of which no test or the syllabus covered will be repeated at the end of the year, whatsoever. The CCE method is claimed to bring enormous changes from the traditional chalk and talk method of teaching, provided it is implemented accurately. | 2019-04-23T00:13:16Z | http://www.auraschoolpmna.com/about-us |
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Interesting story. Thoroughly enjoyed reading this book.
The Secrets of Hawthorne House is the first book I’ve read by Donald Firesmith, and I have to admit I really enjoyed it. My sister has reviewed his Hell Holes series, so I figured it was time I discovered his writing as well.
This story has a middle-grade vibe to it but is also something that will appeal to young adult readers, and even adult readers. I may be 34, but I consider myself a kid at heart, and I love reading MG/YA stories more than anything else, I think.
The Secrets of Hawthorne House is, at its core, a story about family. The main character, Matt, has lost his mom, and now his dad is uprooting them all (Matt, his sister, his father) and moving them back to the small town his dad grew up in. And to make matters worse, the house next door is supposedly inhabited by a mean, evil witch (or so the rumors say). Needless to say, Matt has a lot he has to deal with.
But, as Matt soon discovers, not all rumors are to be believed, and some secrets are worth uncovering. Especially when the “witch’s” niece and her three kids move in next door as well. There’s more than meets the eye when it comes to Gerralt, and Matt finds himself befriending the strange boy.
I don’t want to spoil anything about the book and what’s really going on, nor do I want to give away the secret. I will, however, say that this was a really fun book. It’s got a lot of heart. I liked that Matt didn’t let the rumors about his neighbor keep him from interacting with her. I also liked how Gerralt was willing to jump to the aid of a boy he barely knew because of bullies. With how rampant bullying seems to be nowadays, seeing a victim with a friend who’s willing to stand up for them was nice.
The characters are all really well-written. I thought Matt’s dad, while a bit…off in his own world (understandable, though), he was a good, decent person who just wanted to do whatever he could to take care of his family. I also liked pretty much everyone else in the story, save for the bullies and the principal of the school (and a couple of the teachers too). They were the ones you just couldn’t help but dislike. Some more than others.
The book has an exciting plot, full of adventure and thrills. It was interesting to see how everything played out, and the pacing was good too. It didn’t lag, nor was it too quickly paced. I found myself intrigued and curious to know what the secret was, and what would happen after it was discovered.
And that ending… Well, I won’t spoil that, but it did make me even more interested in reading more by Mr. Firesmith.
Overall, The Secrets of Hawthorne House was a great book, and I’d recommend it to fans of mysteries, YA readers, and people who enjoy stories with paranormal elements. There’s a lot going on, but it’s well worth the read. Definitely check it out!
Fifteen-year-old Matt Mitchell lost his mother in an accident caused by a drunk driver. His devastated father moved him and his twin sister, Tina, from the Oregon coast to the small town of Hawthorne in rural Indiana. As he is the new kid in school, three bullies are determined to make Matt’s life miserable from day one. He also learns that the old recluse who lives in the dilapidated Victorian mansion next door is Lady Vivianne Hawthorne, the town’s infamous witch and murderer. Things become more strange and interesting when Lady Hawthorne’s niece, Gwendolyn Hawthorne, and her three children come to live with her. Matt forms an unlikely friendship with Gerallt, Gwendolyn’s teenage son, and discovers their secret culture and belief, magic, and eventually gets involved in the search for the Hawthornes’ lost treasure.
Rudy Parfaite’s cover art is the first attractive feature of Donald Firesmith’s The Secrets of Hawthorne House. It’s beautifully done and complements the story well. Engaging readers from the start, Firesmith doesn’t rush the story development, making the narrative flow deftly. It was easy for me to immerse myself in this coming-of-age urban fantasy combined with Celtic mythology. I was invested in the characters, their successes, and predicaments. The Hawthornes’ peculiarities are instantly intriguing, especially when Matt gets to know more about them through his friendship with Gerallt. The plot is well thought out, substantiated with imperative messages to the targeted readers on dealing with life’s hardships, the loss of a parent, bullying, and financial stress. There’s also the matter of dealing with discrimination and respecting others’ beliefs. As an adult, I found The Secrets of Hawthorne House truly enjoyable even though it’s for teen readers. A commendable work from Donald Firesmith, and I look forward to the sequel.
A really great book that I got from BookFunnel. Immensely enjoyable! I hope more are forthcoming!
Matt and Tina Mitchell are twins who just lost their mother in an accident. Their father takes them far away from the seaside they love to the small town of Hawthorne. There they find themselves next door to the famous haunted house of the ghost of the gray lady. Matt needs some money and starts to clean the yard of the haunted house for Mrs. Hawthorn, getting to know her and her timid ways.
One day, her niece comes to live with her along with her three children. Matt becomes Geralt Hawthorne’s best friend and soon discovers that his family is not the common family he is adjusted to. Their secrets, their corky ways, no electricity, no games or computers make for an interesting friendship. Not only that, but the bullies at school are after them…they will have to pull together or be defeated.
This is a great, clean, and entertaining story for middle grade and young adult kids who like mystery, treasure hunts, and magic. It is nicely done by Donald Firesmith. I would keep my eyes out for the next book in this series.
I quite enjoyed this book, teenagers dealing with school, the bullies and different backgrounds.
The different accents used took a bit to get used to (with the spellings ) but once I got used to it I found it fun.
The description was detailed enough to give a good picture of things but not too much so that it distracted from the storyline.
A bit of everything, sadness, stress, magic, joy and love amongst others. Well worth a go.
A great book for readers of all ages. Middle school and high school students will enjoy the humiliation of the school bullies. Adults will connect with the families trying to cope after death strikes. Two families from opposite sides of the country join to fight what seemed to be insurmountable obstacles. But one group is hiding a secret that threatens to end the friendship. Donald Firesmith created a story that has humor, sadness, love and realistic characters. All this combines for a spectacular reading experience.I voluntarily reviewed a free copy of this book.
Firstly I am a big Harry Potter fan so this book was an excellent book for me! That is where the similarities stop!!!
After Sam’s wife died in an accident he uprooted himself and his children Matt and Tina to back to his home town. Their new home was next door to Hawthorne house, which was very run down. The rumors were that it was haunted and the old lady was a witch. Sam did not believe this and encouraged his young son to go there and offer his services to clean the yard for her.
Old Mrs. Hawthorne’s niece and three children moved in with her when the niece Gwendolyn lost her husband in an accident.
Matt soon makes friends with Gerallt and after being bullied at school, strange things kept happening. This is when the fun began.
There is a lot packed into this well written excellent book, there is so much more to this book and of course a happy ending.
Matt Mitchell lost his mother a year ago in an accident. Matt his twin sister Tina and their father move back to his father’s hometown so they can all get away from the memories that their mother Mary left behind in their cottage by the ocean.
After the move and without their mother’s income the family’s finances start to dwindle. Matt’s father is having a hard time keeping up with all the bills and things Matt and Tina want.
They move next door to the famous Hawthorne house. Old Lady Hawthorne a recluse known as the town’s witch and murderer. When Matt wants money for new games and CDs and other things, his Dad suggests that he go next door and speak with Lady Hawthorne about taking care of her lawn as it is in dire need of some repair. Matt takes him up on his idea and does just that. He asks Lady Hawthorne for a job and she abides.
Lady Hawthorne’s niece and her three children move in next door. Matt and the oldest son Gerallt become best friends in no time. Gerallt lost his father last year as well. The three Hawthorne children start school with Matt and Tina at Hawthorne High. Matt and Gerallt have a run of bad luck with three bullies at the school. Before long the bullies frame Gerallt and Matt for attacking them and other children which results in Matt and Gerallt getting in school suspension as well as grounded at home.
Matt and Gerallt are both very strong boys and are determined to set things right with the bullies and set out to prove their innocents and to prove to everyone including their parents that they didn’t do what they were accused of. Someone has to do something before someone gets hurt big time by one of the three bullies. How are Matt and Gerallt going to stop the three bullies? Can they stop them? Will their parents ever believe them again?
The Secrets of Hawthorne House is very intriguing and interesting with the history of the Hawthorne house. The stories of how the house came to be and who built it and how it got its name and the stories of all the Gods and Goddess were very interesting as well. The Secrets of Hawthorne House is full of history, mystery, magic and great characters.
When I was reading The Secrets of Hawthorne House it reminded me of the kids in Stephen King’s It and the kids in Stranger Things of how they stuck by each other no matter what they always had each other’s back and kept each other’s secrets. I can’t wait to see what the Mitchell’s and the Hawthorne’s have in store for us in the next book.
The Secrets of Hawthorne House is for anyone who loves a good story with lots of magic. If you like It and Stranger Things then I believe you will like The Secrets of Hawthorne House as well.
For Matt Mitchell, life had thrown him lemons and turned those lemons even more sour. He had lost his mother in a horrific accident and then his dad decided to uproot the family from his home in Oregon to Hawthorn, Indiana…a “nowheresville” sleepy town. Here was Matt, with no friends, just getting ready to start his first day in High School. As seems to be the norm in schools everywhere, Matt was excluded and tormented for no greater reason than being the new kid. The stories about the “crazy” next door neighbor and the killings in her house are almost more than Matt can handle. That is until he starts to help the neighbor with yard work. When the neighbor’s niece and kids move in, Matt meets others who are outsiders and he finally makes some friends. Only thing is, the kids are definitely different.
I received an ARC of this ebook. It was such a great story that I wanted to review it, And I hope that the author continues the saga.
I’m extremely impressed with The Secrets of Hawthorne House, which was gifted to me. But unlike other books I’ve won or been given for an honest review, I genuinely loved this book! It begins quickly, draws you in, but never slows, so that once you finish one chapter, you’re on to the next. It’s the story of fifteen-year-old Matt Mitchell, who after losing his mother in a tragic accident and is forced to move far from his former home and life, finds a new life and a strong interest that begins next door. He’s intrigued by the”haunted” Hawthorne House next to his own, a house who’s inhabitant is said to be an old witch. Once he hears the true story of the mansion from his teacher, however, he’s compelled to meet the owner himself. What follows is his delightful relationship with the white-haired Lady Hawthorne or Mrs. Carter (ex) and when her extended family comes to stay…with Geralt. The rest is a mixture of magic and interesting experiences that allow him to get over his nightmares of his mother’s death and the sadness that had threatened to send him spiraling into a depression. I couldn’t wait to reach the end and find out the mysteries of the old house and its inhabitants! It’s such a delightful story and the first one I’ve read by this author but if this is any indication of his other works or if he continues to write more great books; he has found a fan in me!
This is the first book that I have read by this author and I am glad I did! Well-written and a great story.
This is my first book by Donald Firesmith but it definitely won’t be my last. The Secrets of Hawthorne House is not just one adventure but many and I didn’t want the book to end. The characters are defined and complex and it draws you in so subtly that I found myself talking to the characters! I would love to see these characters again. (hint, hint Mr. Firesmith).
The unlikely encounter of two families: one very normal, the other with mysterious origins and powers. I loved it. To read urgently. Thank you Donald for allowing us these delicious moments of reading.
Wonderful book and a wonderful story. Kept me guessing what would happen next as you get drawn into the two families and their building friendships. Recommend for all readers!
For the first couple of paragraphs, I dove in with delight and then slowed. Firesmith was way too descriptive. Incredibly wordy! And then I slid all the way in, enjoying The Secrets of Hawthorne House with its focus on faith. And I did like Gerallt’s explanation of magic!
I loved that the boys stood up to the bullies and the loyalty of each of them to the other. The costuming and lifestyle of the Hawthornes were fascinating. I did have to wonder why it was still necessary for the candles and all, but it was a pip. And I certainly got hungry reading of Vivianne’s and Gwendolyn’s cooking!
It’s not just the bullying, but the nasty gossip that destroys people, which runs with a subtheme about ignorance and bigotry. Then there’s that contrast between Matt’s and Gerallt’s lifestyles that provides yet more interest, and with Firesmith using third person point-of-view, we get an impersonal perspective from all sides.
A few niggles. Why would Sam think he’d actually be able to cut it as a computer programmer? I’m not too keen on Matt’s self-entitlement. The “accent” was annoying, and yet I do understand why Firesmith made use of it. Then there’s Matt taking everyone out to dinner when he claims they’re so broke.
What’s with the bullies? How can teachers not know who the bullies are? It is unacceptable that these creeps are allowed to get away with it! As for their parents!?! WTF?? This is part of the problem with parents, that they refuse to listen to their children’s side of things. That they simply believe whatever the other side, the teachers, tell them without understanding that there are always two sides to any issue. What an incredible disservice to their own children! Oh, sure, I can believe that a parent who truly knows their child is bad would believe the teacher over their child, but these parents??? When they’ve never had trouble with them before?? No.
There’s plenty of conflicts: the bullies, the familial losses, the money issues of all three, religious and cultural differences, fears about witches and their craft, science versus faith, and those idiotic school employees who believe they can diagnose psychological issues.
Nor is the action lacking. I’ve already mentioned the bullies, and there’s also the assault, the treasure hunt, and Matt’s arrogance.
Life is forever changed when Matt’s mother is killed, and their father uproots them from everything they know.
But Matt’s life will change forever when a family of druids moves into the dilapidated Victorian mansion next door.
Fifteen-year-old Matt Mitchell is more nerd than his popular twin sister, Tina. Their dad, Sam, taught intro to programming back at Port Orford High School. Midnight is the family cat. Their artist mother was killed by a drunk driver back in Port Orford, Oregon. Uncle James.
Vivianne Hawthorne Carter, a.k.a., Old Lady Hawthorne, has been a recluse for decades. She’s the daughter of Henry and Rhiannon. Vivianne had married John Carter who ran off with Mary Collins, Vivianne’s best friend. Gwendolyn Hawthorne is Vivianne’s niece whose fisherman husband, Medwyn, died. Her children — Gwyneth, Gerallt, and Gareth — and her accepted Vivianne’s invitation. Nightshade and Belladonna are the family cats. Nightwing is Gerallt’s crow. Shadow is Gareth’s squirrel.
Ezekiel Hawthorne founded the town of Hawthorne in 1826. Harold was his son who worked hard to increase the family fortune and founded the Northern Indiana Railroad Company. Henry Hubertus Hawthorne was Harold’s son who married Rhiannon Llewellyn from Deer Isle. Their children were Morgan and Vivianne.
Fellow students include the much picked-upon Sarah Duffy who runs the A/V; Harper, and Paul Stephens who had also lost his mother to a car accident. Clayton Cartwright, Dylan Jones, and Colin O’Connell are bullies. Brad O’Connell is one of Colin’s cousins, and his nastiness seems to run int he family.
Marcus Thompson is the American History teacher interested in the why, Tanner is the principal, Mrs. Fletcher is at the principal’s front desk, Mrs. McKinney teaches English, and Mr. Armstrong is the gym teacher.
Modron is the great mother goddess the Hawthornes worship. The High Coven is the ruling body of all druids. George Smith is a scumbag of a handyman. Peter Henderson of Peter’s Pawn Shop isn’t too picky.
The cover is DARK with a cloudy yet bright deep blue sky and a full moon. The background is a dilapidated Victorian mansion with turrets on either end and a light burning in an upper window. A bare tree is to the house’s left. A broken down fence separates the house from a young boy, carrying a backpack, trudging past the house on a broken sidewalk. The author’s name is at the top in white. The title is in a fun gothic font in shades of yellow and orange.
The title is what it’s all about, The Secrets of Hawthorne House.
The book did creep me out at times because who mentions a scary murder story to a stranger on a school bus? But then again, I let many instances skip because middle school kids and their curiosities are something I am familiar with.
I really liked Matt’s character because he is like any other average kid that does not have any biases and is not easily influenced by rumors. I appreciate these kinds of characters because they really teach good values. But that won’t change the fact that his life was really hellish. Losing his mother, being bullied and then on the constant verge of confusion regarding the secret of the Hawthorne house? Poor kid. Moving to a place to forget the memories, father’s dwindling finances, being the new kid and the only friend being a strange boy whose friendship gets you bullied more? Poor kid.
The worse I felt for Matt, the more I enjoyed the story though. Because the writing is just that good and meant to keep a reader engaged. That is something I love about most middle-grade books. Kids don’t usually have a good attention span so unless the writing is alluring, the attention wavers off. That didn’t happen with this book. I read half the book in one go, flipping pages, enjoying the contradictory behaviors of Matt and his twin Tina, seeing Matt develop a sort of friendship with the mystery kid next door Gerralt. The plot of the book is also exciting if not unique. But I enjoyed the added mysticism of Wiccan beliefs and magic.
The Secrets of Hawthorne House by Donald Firesmith is a charming ‘found family’ story that deftly illustrates how people of different cultures/spiritual backgrounds can get along just fine. For decades, Vivianne Hawthorne has kept to herself and not interacted with the residents of the town her grandfather gave name to. That changes when the Mitchell family moves next door. Matt, looking for odd jobs to earn money, approaches Mrs. Hawthorne about working in her overgrown yard. The elderly lady reluctantly agrees, thinking he’s just there to trick her like several bully kids like to do. Matt proves his worth though, and every weekend works to tame the yard. Then Vivianne’s great-niece and her kids move in, and Matt finds a best friend in Gerralt, a boy his age. But there’s more to Gerralt and the Hawthornes than ever Matt might guess.
Over the course of the story, the boys confront bullies (in hysterical ways!), learn to trust that difference isn’t bad, and the strange and unusual need not be feared, and even find treasure! This story engaged me right from the start. At first, I wasn’t so certain ‘druid’ was the correct term for the Hawthornes, but that gets resolved later in the story. I enjoyed learning about their ancestors’ past. I’m doubly grateful that Matt, and later his family, learned to at least accept the Hawthornes’ faith, even if they cannot share it, and believe there must be a different explanation. I adored that the author wrote the Hawthornes as they spoke, accents and all. It immediately reminded me of how my Welsh friend speaks, and it’s later revealed that the Hawthornes’ ancestry is Welsh, and that they tend to live in isolated colonies which may serve to preserve parts of the accent. At any rate, I loved it! Also, most of their names reflect Welsh ancestry. Slow me took a bit to recall that Gerralt is nothing more exotic than Gerald.
Several characters have to step out of their comfort zones. Matt must learn to accept Gerralt’s faith, the younger Hawthornes have to have far greater interaction with technology than they’re used to. On Deer Isle, where a colony exists, electricity is not used. They are living experimental archaeology. Vivianne, I think, took the bravest step by going out to supper with everyone despite being terrified of ridicule and persecution by the townsfolk, many of whom believe she killed her husband and best friend over an affair. I just can’t imagine her doing such a thing. She seems so sweet. I’m definitely looking forward to reading the next in the series!
I enjoyed reading The Secrets of Hawthorne House and learning all the mysteries that surround it. I was drawn in from the beginning and enjoyed Matt and his outsider status. I love that his circle of friends stuck by him with the bullies. There is humor, sorrow, adventure, mystery, love and realistic, relatable characters in this book. It’s a middle school YA read, but I think just about anyone would enjoy reading it!
Matt is new in town, and everyone seems to be obsessed with the spooky house next door. Matt just isn’t seeing it. It’s old, creepy and run-down, but he doesn’t believe the lady who lives there is a witch. The secret of Hawthorne house is a hot topic around this town. It’s the stuff of legends and spooky stories. This is the story of friendship and mystery. Every house has a story, every town has a history, and every new kid needs to experience what the town has to offer.
I don’t read many middle school books, but this one had an interesting plot, and I enjoyed the change of scenery. I joined up to the book tour and received a free copy of this book in exchange for an honest review.
I really enjoyed this fun magical read! The characters and the story was engaging. There was a bit of romance. The fact that the main character was only 15 added to the story, I believe. I received an ARC and this is my honest opinion. Now going to purchase the book, I enjoyed it so much.
First up, I don’t give 5★ reviews easily, so a 4★ one is high praise from me. I am waiting to read the second book, as although this one is not really a cliffhanger, there is a lot of story left to tell. The meeting of two families, one seemingly normal, and the other immersed in magic, is quite good. Both the kids and adults are open to the changes in their lives, which I find very refreshing.
For me, this was a fun, easy read about middle school kids doing mostly middle school stuff. And magic. Magic the users of which are to never tell anyone else! But what do you do when you say and do a little too much in front of your best and only friend because of some bullies? For Gerallt, someone who’s never had electricity; therefore no TV, computers, cellphones; and learns about their wonders from his only friend, that becomes his dilemma. So he breaks his ‘code of silence’ so as not to lose his friend. What happens after he reveals his secret not only puts him in jeopardy of losing his gifts, but his whole family could as well. Of course, the story has a happy ending.
This story seems to be targeted toward middle schoolers, but it’s a fun read for any age, which keeps moving throughout. Another nicety for me is the story has a conclusion, not a cliffhanger (I am Not a fan of cliffhangers), though it ends with the ability to continue their adventures.
I gave it 4 stars because of a few grammar errors, mainly missing words that one can figure out after re-reading those sentences. But other than that, I found it a fun read. I almost titled it: What if you, an ‘outsidah’, learned you can perform magic?
Not sure if kids book or young adult perhaps. Just enough romance to not be icky for young’uns. I was grabbed early, not wanting to put it down, eager to see what adventure next came for the boys. Now I’m eager for the next book!
What an interesting read. Follow Matt through his many trials and tribulations never quite knowing where the next twist and turn will lead especially when things are not always as they appear. A well written thoroughly enjoyable read.
I received this book as an ARC from the Author this is my honest voluntary review.
It was a drunk driver that crashed into his mother and killed her. It was something that 15-year-old Matt has never been able to get over. Now, he, along with his father and twin sister, has moved to Hawthorne, IN, as far away from the ocean as possible.
New house, new town, new people.
The first day of school, Matt meets Sarah, who tells him about Lady Hawthorne next door. She was supposedly a witch who murdered her husband. So then why was she running free if she was a killer?
Eventually, Matt starts doing household chores for Lady Hawthorne and soon befriends one of her relatives. Suddenly, life in a strange town gets even stranger.
Story goes into a brief history of the Hawthorne Haunted House and how it came to be. It was interesting but lags considerably with endless monologue that seems irrelevant. The Hawthornes certainly have incomprehensible dialogue with their weird accent (it was Southern or Eastern or something,) making it harder to follow and understand them.
Ultimately, the question was: What were the secrets of Hawthorne House? Although the answer wasn’t too clear, the bond and friendship between Matt and Gerallt was admirable.
This strange tale of Wiccan folklore was punctuated by childhood mayhem, dark secrets, and a touch of magic. Of course, judging by the cover, I expected more spookiness, like a haunting impression really, but it just sort of remained stagnant at a mild and mediocre level. It’s a decent read for YA audiences, but I would’ve liked it better had it been shortened and less complicated. | 2019-04-21T21:01:54Z | http://donaldfiresmith.com/hawthorne-house-reviews/ |
To support the gem5 project, we've made the full version of Streamline available to project members. Get in-depth visibility into software execution and PMU on gem5 system models. Install Arm DS-5 Community Edition to get started with Streamline.
How does it benefit gem5 users?
Included in DS-5, Streamline presents a graphical view of system execution.
Streamline gives gem5 users a way of visualizing Linux and Android process information, along with charts which are built using counters.
Typically, Streamline is used for performance optimization, allowing you to spot problems such as excessive cache accesses and other issues which impact the performance of Arm-based systems. This general "dashboard" of system performance can be very useful throughout your experimentation or software development process, especially when used regularly.
The gem5 project is a simulator for research into computer system architecture. Its key features include pervasive object orientation, multiple interchangeable CPU models, an event-driven memory system, co-simulation with SystemC, power and energy modelling, and multiprocessor capability.
Streamline is included in the complete DS-5 package, which you can download at the link below.
Install DS-5 by following the simple on-screen installation instructions.
Finally, download and extract the license file below. It should be named "license.dat". Open the license manager in DS-5 by clicking Help > Arm License Manager... > Add License and browse to the location of your license file.
How do I view my gem5 session in Streamline?
In order to use Streamline with gem5, you will need to follow the instructions provided on the gem5.org/streamline page.
How can I continue to use Streamline for gem5 after my license expires?
Near to the end of your license period, DS-5 should inform you that your license is due to expire. If you want to continue to use Streamline for gem5, you can register with the Arm University Program as a gem5 project member. | 2019-04-26T09:38:13Z | https://developer.arm.com/tools-and-software/embedded/legacy-tools/ds-5-development-studio/streamline/streamline-for-gem5 |
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The Shared Death Experience (SDE). Most people know of or know someone who has experienced a Near Death Experience (NDE), but very few have heard of the SDE. The SDE is similar to the NDE except that it occurs not to the person who is dying, but to their loved one who is physically well. That person could be sitting right next to their loved one, or sitting across the room, or even across the globe unaware of the impending death of someone they love. Location or activity level is of no consequence to the SDE. That person, the loved one, is “invited along” to witness the aftermath of physical death. The invitation extended has no RSVP--the person accompanying the dying individual can neither accept nor refuse--they are just “taken” or “given” the experience by powers outside of their control.
Becoming Starlight is one of those stories. It is a story filled with the type of pitfalls that accompany much of mankind on the journey through existence. Deeply embedded in Starlight is an ongoing war with death, faith, and hope- and with God--a war most of us have experienced or will experience in our lifetimes.
Becoming Starlight is a story that has been written, in one way or another, since the beginning of time. The war between life and death--who lives and who dies and why they die--is at the heart of this deeply personal experience. It’s a life-and-death struggle with spiritual darkness and loss of faith. It is a story not unlike the stories of anyone who has loved and lost, grieved and sorrowed, felt anguish and rage, fallen from Grace and questioned the very existence of God. The specifics are different, but the humanity splattered on the human soul and on every page is the same as that of any life lived fully. Some find redemption more easily than I. It took a complete fall from grace for me to be awakened from the trauma and darkness that had found its way into my life, and it took an unexpected encounter – an SDE -- to bring me into the arms of God, where I finally found the solace and understanding that I had yearned for. “Becoming Starlight” is the “Lifting of the Veil” that led to a peek into foreverness and to the compassion of a loving God.
"Dr. Prentice’s book is a thought-provoking advance that can help bring about progress toward rational enlightenment on the afterlife question. What you will read here opens many new avenues for thinking about humankind’s deepest mystery. Hold onto your hat when you read this book. Becoming Starlight is truly sensational; everybody who is seriously interested in the question of life after death should read it." —Raymond Moody, M.D., Ph.D., author of Life After Life, Reunions, and Glimpses of Eternity. | 2019-04-23T20:33:23Z | https://frequencyriser.com/collections/consciousness/products/becoming-starlight-a-shared-death-journey-from-darkness-to-light |
Alcohol saturates our culture and impacts our choices, often without us knowing. Advertising, books, movies, music videos, television, radio, traditions and cultural norms fill our lives with images and ideas about what kind of relationship we should have with alcohol.
Think about our alcohol-thirsty culture. Pause for a moment, look around you, and notice the messages that may influence your thoughts and behaviour. Reflect on what you are being told and what you are being sold.
Some of the most dynamic forces in the world of alcohol are the radio, internet, television and print advertisements used to sell it. Marketing firms work very hard to convince you to buy a product. This normalizes alcohol – desensitizing us to its presence and making it seem ‘cool’ by adding positive associations such as sexuality, fun, power, humour or prestige.
Take a look at the music videos below to see what they're saying about alcohol and how it is being portrayed.
Below are a number of books, each addressing alcohol and its prevalence in our society. While some books portray alcohol with humour and satire, others portray alcohol use in a painful way, recounting emotional and social consequences.
What are your favourite alcohol-related quotes, literature, pop culture, scenes from movies, or what-have-you? | 2019-04-18T21:05:50Z | http://www.simcoemuskokahealth.org/Topics/Alcohol/Thirst/LookingThroughTheGlass/Overflowing.aspx |
Winston is en route to his first research conference with the possibly fatal mission of presenting the culmination of four years of research to the grant-makers. The grant-grubbing, pretentious attitude of Winston’s rival research group is a caricature of an unfortunately true situation in science.
Cecilia is faced with writing and defending her thesis in a matter of months, since her professor spontaneously decided to go on sabbatical. In the wake of all her stress, she resorts to various stashes of chocolate for nearly every situation. Her wonderfully rendered collection ranges from “emergency chocolate” to “mom is calling chocolate.” Cecilia’s frantic fits of cleaning in an attempt to delay working on her thesis are all too familiar.
The struggles of the characters are extremely relatable for anyone who has been a student — even as undergraduates, we were still cringing and laughing during the showing because the things we were laughing at were the same things we encounter in life--all those little inner struggles that occur at 2 a.m. in the morning when your essay is due but all you really want to do is read more random articles about things unrelated to that essay and, wow, did you go through a whole bag of chips?
Although the film takes a slightly cynical look at the difficulties of being a PhD student and the world of research, as a whole it treats graduate student life positively. For Cecilia and Winston, their sacrifices and difficulties are worth doing what they love in research and serve to enrich the their experiences. In a slightly sappy inspirational sequence, the esteemed researchers in the film serve as advisors to Cecilia and Winston, telling them that research is ultimately about discovery and bettering the world.
The jokes woven into the narrative are largely successful, but a few fall flat and veer into the domain of awkwardness. The one-liners at the beginning of the movie are especially theatrical — the long pauses between lines and undue emphasis and diction detracted from the intended jokes. However, the puns did pan out further on. Statistical and scientific literacy help with some of the smaller jokes presented in the film, but a vast majority of the jokes are accessible to students outside of science as well.
The PhD Movie 2 is also stereotype-heavy, but we would argue that its use of stereotypes adds to the humor because it emphasizes the everyday ridiculousness of graduate student life. No PhD Movie would be complete without Prof. Smith’s non-answers and his all-consuming concern for funding as well as Prof. Chu’s (Prof. Jones in the comics) technological helplessness. The film builds on the stereotypes in order to fully flesh out the main characters — once their identities as scientists and researchers are laid out, the film proceeds to challenge the preconceived notions that accompany these professions.
Our major criticism was the out-of-place, surprise romantic twist. Although it was cute and happy, the buildup toward the romance was disjointed, weak, and very much seemed like a subplot of a subplot.
The PhD Movie 2 is full of over-the-top humor and celebrates the trials of graduate school life. To fully appreciate the film, we would recommend reading the comics before watching. The film market for academia is woefully scarce, but add it to your list if you want an hour of laughing at your own expense (if you want or are in the process of getting a PhD, that is). By the way, we are still all for getting a PhD, but don’t forget your emergency chocolate. | 2019-04-19T10:15:46Z | https://thetech.com/2015/10/22/phdmovie-v135-n28 |
A significant player in the $39 billion scrap metal recycling industry, Liberty traces its roots to Erie, Pennsylvania, where it began in 1932 as a family-owned scrap yard. Thirty-five years later, the company purchased the first automobile shredder to be used east of the Mississippi and followed that advancement with a series of acquisitions that expanded their reach into Ohio, New York, Arizona, and Northern Mexico.
Liberty entered the global market in 2007, a result of their acquisition by German metal recycler Scholz Group. One of the largest recycling firms in the world, Scholz is a wholly owned subsidiary of the Chiho Environmental Group (CEG), one of China’s foremost recycling companies.
In addition to reaping the rewards of a growing domestic market for both recycled ferrous and non-ferrous material, Liberty provides recycled non-ferrous metals specifically to the Asian markets through its trading office located in Pleasanton, California.
“Our markets tend to be somewhat local in the sense that you have to consider local market specifics in your decision making,” Diamond noted. “There are certain global trends and macroeconomic factors that impact supply and demand but being able to operate locally is a really important advantage that we have. While we have a corporate structure where Scholz and CEG are shareholders, we still have strong local decision-making capabilities at Liberty. Our management team is composed of senior operators and personnel who’ve been in the industry for decades, and we are able to make fast local decisions.
Liberty defines its customer base in two ways: consumers that transform the recycled scrap supplied by Liberty to create new products, predominantly steel and pure non-ferrous raw materials like copper, and the suppliers who generate or trade scrap itself. That supplier base runs the gamut from small local companies such as construction subcontractors and plumbing companies, to large enterprises for whom metal scrap is a byproduct of their manufacturing activities.
This year, Liberty Iron & Metal has been nominated by steel industry pub American Metals Market for achievements as a finalist in Environmental Responsibility/Stewardship and Scrap Company of the Year. “That shows our commitment, and also how publications in the industry see us as working in this area,” Howard added. Liberty also recently implemented additional environmental management standards like ISO14001.
“All that we collect, sort, and bring back into the economic cycle will not go to a landfill. There we have reduction essentially of what is incinerated, lower emissions, reduction of the use of landfills, and also an economic and ecological opportunity to use already used scrap from various sources and bring it back into the economy,” he said.
As Liberty Iron & Metal continues to fortify their market presence, they are moving on a steady growth track. “How do we do it? How do we want to get there? To make investments in people, because having the right people who have a passion for what they're doing, who have knowledge is first and foremost,” he said.
“We invest in our existing yards and in areas that enhance productivity, whether it's the effective use of IT, streamlining of processes and procedures, or through investing in technology and new equipment,” Esser said. The recent purchase of an automobile shredder modification for their Erie, PA facility will enable Liberty to shred not only vehicles, but also electric motors, which, in addition to increasing their service portfolio, eliminates the need to ship E-motors overseas for processing.
Liberty Iron & Metal, with its network of affiliated companies, is among the leading processors and brokers of ferrous and non-ferrous metals in North America.
Their network spreads from the Northeast to the Southwest of the United States and Northern Mexico. Over the course of eight decades, Liberty Iron & Metal grew from a small family business to an innovative, technologically advanced and well experienced group of recycling companies. They provide holistic solutions and services to customers of all shapes and sizes, from big industrials, to midsize dealers, to small producers and collectors.
Liberty prides itself on maintaining strong relationships with their clients and on their ability to support local communities with easy-to-access locations while preserving the environment and boosting local economy. | 2019-04-24T10:22:42Z | https://thebossmagazine.com/liberty-iron-metal/ |
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