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Wildlife. - davidarmitage
Wildlife pictures taken during walks in Kent and further afield. Occasional words can be found here:
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Little Owl in the Favourite Field
A Little Owl perched on a tree at sunset.
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Valley’s Gold Prepares for Fourth Season
February 11, 2016
Valley's Gold Prepares for Fourth Season
By Charmayne Hefley, Associate Editor
Currently in the midst of season three, Valley’s Gold, a weekly television series focusing on agriculture in the Central Valley, is scheduled to continue for a fourth season.
Ryan Jacobsen, the series' host and Fresno County Farm Bureau CEO, is surprised but pleased by the show’s success. “I guess, just by the blessings of being able to do what we do and show this incredible industry, it’s resonating with folks,” Jacobsen said. “They love the show and the opportunities this show has given us to be able to show how our food is produced—not the romanticized view—but the view of truly how it’s done and the people who come together to make this industry drive. It’s just been a phenomenal opportunity to share Ag’s story.”
Jacobsen said California’s diversity has allowed the show, brought to viewers by Fresno County Farm Bureau and ValleyPBS, to continue with consistent, original content. “You would think after that many seasons we would run out of crops,” Jacobsen said, “but because of this phenomenal Valley and this phenomenal state, we’re finding more and more stories. The more we dig, the more we find and the more we’re able to share the wealth of what we produce here.”
Sponsored by GAR Tootelian, BRANDT and Meyers Water Bank, the show airs on Wednesdays at 7pm PST and is re-broadcasted on the weekends, Saturday at 6:30pm and Sunday at 10:30am.
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https://californiaagtoday.com/valleys-gold-prepares-for-fourth-season/
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Concerns raised over psychiatric unit admissions
Some people are being "inappropriately" admitted to Scotland's secure psychiatric units, a study has found.
An NHS audit found some Intensive Psychiatric Care Units (IPCUs) had admitted unsuitable groups, such as dementia sufferers.
The report said units provided a lack of activities and access to fresh air, and some patients even claimed prison was less restrictive.
But the study also highlighted "well-structured and compassionate care".
Scotland's 14 Intensive Psychiatric Care Units (IPCUs) usually treat patients with acute mental health problems who have been detained under the Mental Health Act.
But the actual make-up of the units was a problem highlighted in the study by NHS Quality Improvement Scotland.
The report said in some cases violent criminals and sex offenders had been mixed with vulnerable adults, such as under-18s and people with learning difficulties.
It said this could compromise patient care and feelings of safety and called for a review into every instance where this has occurred.
Scotland also has no women-only units and some female patients said mixed gender groups had made them feel intimidated and uncomfortable.
This is the first major report into provision across Scotland, which included testimony from current and former patients.
It found that the country's 147 beds were "adequate".
However, it said getting access to a place was still problematic for some people, especially in Dumfries and Galloway and Lanarkshire - the two areas with no local provision and no agreements in place with neighbouring health boards.
Although there were enough beds, the report stated: "We have good evidence of a range of unmet needs."
This was partly because only one unit in the country had dedicated input from a clinical psychologist. Other patients have to use generic psychology services, which are subject to limited availability and waiting lists.
As well as a shortage of "talking therapies", patients also complained about a lack of access to fresh air and outdoor activities.
One said: "When you come into an IPCU you are really unwell. You need time to heal and the environment is not a healing environment.
"You also need something to stimulate and exercise your brain.
"Some educational input would be really helpful. Some of the patients in this ward have been here for over a year."
Patients who took part in the focus groups and filled in questionnaires complained about a perceived "one-size-fits-all" approach in the units.
People who wanted to explore non-pharmacological options felt their wishes were not respected and others claimed restraint was sometimes forced on patients who did not need it.
Others complained that restrictive measures which were put in place for safety reasons - such as patients not being able to make a hot drink and having to ask staff for access to certain personal items - did not take account of individual needs.
The report said: "A number of service users compared IPCUs to their experience of prison and felt that prison was a less restrictive environment."
Wendy McAuslan, development co-ordinator for Vox Scotland, which took part in the study, said, "The individuals we talked to who had experience of IPCUs said that they needed psychological therapies, a range of activities and opportunities to be outside, without this they felt that improvement in their mental health would be difficult.
"This report highlights the ways in which we can move towards making the IPCU environment more recovery-focused."
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https://www.bbc.co.uk/news/10384033
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Lookout Hill is one of Cape Town’s hidden treasures in the heart of the historical township of Khayelitsha (which means ‘new home’).
Located on the West Coast Way Cape Way Route
Lookout Hill Khayelitsha is located on the West Coast Way Cape Route. Lookout Hill provides the best vantage point to realise the actual size of Khayelitsha, and overlook the varoius parts of the township and spectacular views up to the ocean. Constructed in 2004, Lookout Hill is a tourism facility that houses a function hall, restaurant, and arts and crafts stalls – attracting a number of tourists.
Lookout hill boasts great panaramic views of the Cape Peninsula. The hill is a large sand dune that is being protected from ruin. Lookout hill is on the Cape Flats and can be found in Khayalitsha. Take your kids along to view the False bay and the Table bay as well as the Hottentot mountains and durbanville hills. Entrance to the hill is free, but it is advisable to enjoy this attraction with a guide.
The easy walk to the top of the lookout hill takes you to one of Cape Town’s famous yellow frames, which is installed on the 164-step high viewing deck, providing 360-degree views across the Cape Flats.
Visiting Lookout Hill means you can gain first-hand insight into the realities (good and bad) faced by many South Africans. Get to actively interact with the locals as they go about their daily business – from formal and informal traders to the average Joe (in this case Bra Shakes) on the street.
The Malibongwe Restaurant and Coffee Shop is the place to visit after your walk – sit back in this social setting.
Also worth a visit is the Khayelitsha Craft Market at the St Michael’s and All Angels Anglican Church, which aims to alleviate poverty in the area. Crafts produced by the local community include handmade curios, pottery, beadwork, baskets and fabric paintings.
Find Lookout Hill on the corner of Mew Way and Spine Road, Ilitha Park, Khayelitsha.
Lookout Hill Khayelitsha is located on the West Coast Way Cape Route
Open 7 Days a week
Distance from Cape Town: 29.7km
Where: cnr Mew Way/M44 & Spine Rd/M32
Contact: +27 (0)21 387-6189
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https://www.westcoastway.co.za/lookout-hill-khayelitsha/
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The lone Republican "yes" vote was cast by Rep. Chris Ward of Brighton. Because he voted against the Republican tide, he temporarily stepped down from his leadership position as House minority floor leader.
"Our state is on the brink of a constitutional crisis, and the time has come for all of us, regardless of party, region and philosophy to pull together to show that our state government can work," Ward said. "The institutions of our government are bigger than any one person."(emphasis mine)
Rep. Ward's comment epitomizes the problem with government at every level. Those who are in government think it is their job to perpetuate and increase it. That it is their job to take money away from people who can't afford to have it taken away, and turn around and give it away to people or entities who either don't deserve it or who shouldn't be getting government money anyway.
Rep. Ward, not only should you resign from your Minority Floor Leader position, you should resign from your House seat. You are a disgraceful example of the worst things in government.
Here's a news flash for ya Rep. Ward, straight from a real Republican - Ronald Reagan: "Government isn't the solution to our problems, Government is the problem." Learn it, live it.
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NEWS RELEASE REGULATED INFORMATION
ANNUAL FINANCIAL REPORT
MDxHealth Reports Financial Year 2017 Results
Product revenue of $28 million up 13% and total revenue of $40 million up 35%
with continued strong volume growth
Conference call for analysts and investors today at 15:00 CET / 09:00 EST, details below
IRVINE, CA, and HERSTAL, BELGIUM - 07:00 CEST, February 22, 2018 - MDxHealth SA ("MDxHealth, or the "Company"), (Euronext: MDXH.BR), today announced financial results for the financial year ended December 31, 2017 and provided an update on its strategic outlook.
2017 was an important year for the continuing development of MDxHealth into the world's leading urological molecular diagnostic company. While the Company encountered some challenges in the latter part of the year relating to short term revenue, revenue and patient test volumes continued to grow. The Company made good operational progress in 2017, aligning its commercial organization and management structure. The Board believes that MDxHealth is well placed to continue driving its innovative urological franchise, increasing market share and realising the market potential of its commercial stage tests across global markets.
The Company has a clear focus for MDxHealth's growth in 2018 and beyond. This is centred around four key pillars:
- Driving adoption of the Company's commercial tests with urologists and payors in the US and Europe
- Expanding the clinical indications for SelectMDx
- Expanding usability of MDxHealth tests by porting them onto IVD sample-to-answer platforms
- Working with pharmaceutical partners to create precision diagnostics
"We remain confident in the potential of ConfirmMDx, which we expect to continue driving momentum in the mid-term and for which we have a renewed approach aimed at capturing additional market share. In the longer term, we expect SelectMDx to continue driving growth with numerous value driving inflection points in the coming years. We are positive about the outlook for the current year," said Dr. Jan Groen, Chief Executive Officer of MDxHealth. "We believe MDxHealth can achieve a higher level of Product and Services revenue growth than in 2017. It is too early in the financial year to predict the exact level of growth, but we will provide an update in due course."
- Product and services revenue of $28.2 million, up 13% from $24.9 million in 2016
- Total revenue of $40.5 million up 35% from $30.0 million in 2016, driven in part by $12.1 million net revenue from the one-time payment by Exact Sciences for MDxHealth patents for the Cologuard testOperating loss of $12.3 million compared to an operating loss of $12.8 million in 2016
- EBITDA of $-10.4 million compared to $-11.1 million in 2016
- Cash collections on products and services of $23.1 million, up 17% from $19.7 million in 2016
- Cash and cash equivalents of $16.8 million as of December 31, 2017
Good progress in test volume, with over 33,100 patients tested with SelectMDx and ConfirmMDx products worldwide in 2017, up 39% from nearly 24,000 patients tested in 2016. US-based testing represented 91% of total volume at 30,000, with total volume for Europe at 3,100. Further highlights include:
- Total US test volume grew to 21,400 in 2017 from 20,400 in 2016
- Q4 total test volume grew 14% to 6,400 in 2017 from 5,600 in 2016, reflecting the initial momentum from an increase in the sales team from 33 to 50
- Action taken in Q4 to optimize the Company's commercial structure towards a more targeted sales approach
- 20 new US payor contracts for ConfirmMDx including US General Services Administration allowing ConfirmMDx to be available to federal, state and local government buyers, Kaiser Southern California Permanent Medical Group which serves 4.4 million members, 10 out of 36 Blue Cross Blue Shield Association® affiliated plans, Medicaid programs and commercial payors, bringing the total number of contracted payors to 62
- Four new US positive coverage policies for ConfirmMDx
- Strong growth for SelectMDx with total global test volume of 11,700 in 2017 versus 4,000 in 2016
- EU SelectMDx test volume up more than 300% to over 3,100 patients tested compared to 800 in 2016
- SelectMDx IVD PCR Kit launch* and adoption by the first large medical laboratory, MVZ Dr. Stein & Kollegen, a subsidiary of the Limbach Gruppe SE in Germany
- Four new US payor contracts for SelectMDx, now totalling 15 payors
- Nine SelectMDx distribution agreements signed in 2017 in seven countries across Europe
- Initial commercial rollout of MDxHealth's third commercial test in the US, AssureMDx(TM) for Bladder Cancer, a liquid biopsy laboratory developed test (LDT) to assess the risk of bladder cancer for patients diagnosed with haematuria
- Strengthening data set for AssureMDx to support its data package for future reimbursement coverage with a prospective multi-center validation study of AssureMDx for Bladder cancer in over 1,000 patients with haematuria (Published in Urologic Oncology)
- Expansion of executive functions with the appointments of Jean-Marc Roelandt as Chief Financial Officer, Michael K. Brawer, MD as Chief Medical Officer, and Paul Marr as Executive Vice President of Sales for North America
- Lieve Verplancke MD was nominated as an Independent Non-Executive Director at the Company's Annual General Shareholders Meeting held on 26 May 2017. On October 27, 2017, the Board of Directors elected Mrs. Hilde Windels as an Independent Executive Director. On October 19, 2017, Mark Shaffar, Chairman of the Board of Directors (represented by Shaffar LLC), retired from the Board. The Board of Directors has elected Mr. Wally Narajowski to be the new Chairman
Post period highlights
- In January 2018, MDxHealth announced promising research results published in peer-reviewed journal The Prostate, with a new liquid biopsy test in development to help guide personalized treatment of castration-resistant prostate cancer (CRPC) patients
- Data from this study is indicative of MDxHealth's strategy to bring new high precision liquid biopsy tests to market and to support pharmaceutical companies in the development of personalized therapeutics based on significant clinical data
2017 Business Review
MDxHealth's world leading uro-oncology focused molecular diagnostic platform is positioned to capitalize on two critical global trends in healthcare currently: the ever growing incidence of cancer and the demand for fast, actionable, cost-effective cancer diagnosis and patient monitoring. MDxHealth's suite of commercial products and its innovative liquid biopsy pipeline seek to meet these needs in a market which is estimated to be worth $ 4.2 billion and to grow by 7% to 4.6 billion in 2022.
Our lead product ConfirmMDx for prostate cancer helps urologists identify low-risk men who may forego an unnecessary repeat biopsy and high-risk men who may benefit from intervention. ConfirmMDx is the first epigenetic tissue-based test in the NCCN Guidelines for early detection of prostate cancer and that addresses false negative biopsy concerns. ConfirmMDx has qualified for Medicare reimbursement and covered by numerous private health insurance plans.
During 2017, MDxHealth has been focused on increasing adoption and acceptance of ConfirmMDx in the US with a focus on private payors. Throughout 2017 an additional 20 new US payor contracts for ConfirmMDx were signed. Payors reimbursing the tests now include the US Government Services Administration, 10 of 36 Blue Cross Blue Shield Association® affiliated plans, Medicaid programs and commercial payors, bringing the total number of contracted payors to 62.
The Company increased its sales force in the US from 33 to 50 and in the fourth quarter reorganized it to tailor commercial efforts to key customer channels. 42 sales reps and 8 strategic account managers will cover redesigned geographies and strategic accounts incorporating over 12,000 urologists, 80% of whom are involved in the diagnosis of prostate cancer including those within the following customer groups:
- Large Urology Group Practices (LUGPA) with 152 centers responsible for approximately 30% of all the biopsy procedures
- Integrated Health Networks including to Kaiser Permanente and the VA
- Community based urologists
ConfirmMDx patient volumes continued to grow in the year despite some challenges. Initial revenue expectations included initial volumes from a healthcare services contract with Kaiser Permanente Southern California and volumes from a large multi-center study aimed at supporting on-going Medicare coverage for ConfirmMDx. These programs are central to securing ongoing Medicare coverage by providing required on-going clinical utility data, extensive education and training and supporting the consistent use of ConfirmMDx in the every-day workflow of urologists, both during and after the completion of the studies.
Delivery of the projected number of billable cases failed to materialize due to unforeseen operating issues. The Company expects a portion of the cases to roll over into 2018.
ConfirmMDx currently occupies an estimated 8% market share and the Company believes that there is a substantial opportunity for this to continue to grow in the mid-term.
MDxHealth's focus during 2017 was to drive further market penetration, both in the US and Europe, as a result of the on-going roll out of SelectMDx. SelectMDx is MDxHealth's first liquid biopsy test which helps to identify men at increased risk of harboring aggressive, potentially lethal, prostate cancer who may benefit most from a prostate biopsy and earlier detection.
MDxHealth has signed nine new contracts with European and Middle-East distributors, which combined with the international launch of the CE-marked SelectMDx IVD-kit, enabled the Company to leverage the commercial infrastructure built over the last several years and make rapid and meaningful progress in the expansion of this product.
In October, the Company added to its commercial and R&D infrastructure through the opening of a new service and research laboratory at the Novio Tech Campus in Nijmegen, the Netherlands. This state-of-the-art laboratory has expanded the Company's capacity to perform SelectMDx tests in Europe and support on-going research, development and commercial activities.
SelectMDx is currently indicated in the US and Europe for use in testing men with elevated PSA levels of 3-10 ng/ml before biopsy. However, the Company sees significant opportunity for SelectMDx to extend its use beyond the current validated pre-biopsy indication through active monitoring of 300,000 patients annually in the US and through use by general practitioners in the primary care setting for patients with lower levels of elevated PSA. The Company believes that these initiatives can quadruple the market opportunity for SelectMDx to more than 2 million patients annually in the US and a similar number for Europe.
In 2017, the Company initiated and completed two US clinical validation studies for SelectMDx in an active surveillance population with the John Hopkins University and the Canary Foundation. Data from these studies is expected in 2018.
In addition, 2017 saw the publication of cost-effectiveness studies conducted in the the Netherlands and published in the British Journal of Urology. In addition, five cost-effectiveness studies were completed in Spain, Italy, Germany, France and the US. These studies demonstrated that SelectMDx improves patient outcomes while significantly reducing healthcare costs by foregoing unnecessary invasive procedures, including biopsies and multiparametric MRI (mpMRi). In April, publication of an analytical validation study in Translational Medicine Communications, demonstrated the robustness, reproducibility and interlaboratory performance of the SelectMDx test.
In addition, SelectMDx was evaluated in the following studies:
- Data from a retrospective study, conducted by the Radboud Medical Center and published in The Prostate, demonstrated that SelectMDx correlated with multipara metric MRI (mpMRI) and outperformed the PCA3 test
- SelectMDx adopted by the Michigan Medicine Prostate Cancer Risk Clinic at US University of Michigan hospital as a pre-biopsy diagnostic tool to monitor men with previously diagnosed genetic mutations
- A US and European cost-effectiveness studies demonstrated that SelectMDx improved patient outcomes while significantly reducing healthcare costs by preventing over-diagnosis and overtreatment of men with clinically insignificant prostate cancer
- AssureMDx for Bladder Cancer is a proprietary urine-based, molecular diagnostic test that offers a non-invasive 'liquid biopsy' method to improve the identification of patients at increased risk for bladder cancer who will benefit from further clinical evaluation. The test delivers a negative predictive value (NPV) of 99% for bladder cancer, helping to reduce the need for unnecessary invasive cystoscopy procedures by up to 77%, thereby reducing healthcare costs
- Initial commercial rollout of AssureMDx for Bladder Cancer commenced in 2017 in the US
2017 Financial Review
Key unaudited consolidated figures for the financial year ended December 31, 2017 (thousands of US dollars, except per share data):
|As of or for the year ended December 31||2017||2016||Change|| Change|
as a %
|Operating expenses||(42,579)||(32,713)||(9,866)||(30.2) %|
|Operating profit/(loss) (EBIT)||(12,274)||(12,846)||572||4.5%|
|Earnings per share, basic ($)||(0.25)||(0.26)||0.01||6.9%|
Revenue and income
Total revenue for the year ended December 31, 2017, increased by 35% to $40.5 million, compared to $30 million a year earlier. Revenue included the sale of the Company's patents directed towards colorectal cancer to Exact Sciences. Excluding revenue from Exact Sciences for both periods, total products and services revenue increased by approximately 13% to $28.2 million during 2017. While its growth was hampered by delays encountered during the fourth quarter in obtaining billable cases from contracted customers and from a large post-marketing study, ConfirmMDx remained the lead product and accounted for 91% of product and services revenue. The reduction of ConfirmMDx's contribution from 97% in 2017 to 91% in 2017, also results from continued strong growth of SelectMDx, both in the US and in Europe. Test volumes for SelectMDx grew by more than 250%, and accounted for 35% of total volumes. The lower price point of SelectMDx compared to ConfirmMDx and the early stage of payor adoption however limited the revenue for SelectMDx to approximately $1.8 million, an increase of 257% year-on-year.
Revenue recognized on the sales of ConfirmMDx and SelectMDx represented just over 51% of total gross billings, a slight increase compared to 2016 and to the first half of 2017, with a marginal improvement in the revenue recognition rate for ConfirmMDx being offset by the lower rate applicable to the fast-growing test volumes of SelectMDx.
The gross profit margin on products and services improved from 60% in 2016 to 64% as a result of continued efficiency improvements and increasing volumes for SelectMDx.
Operating expenses for 2017 of $42.6 million increased by $9.9 million compared to 2016, mainly as a result of the accelerated expansion of the sales force and the management team in the US to address the mounting market opportunity for its robust portfolio of molecular diagnostic tests for urology. Also reflected in the increase is the full year impact of investments made during 2016, such as the build-out of the European operations including commercial and laboratory staff. Total headcount stood at 232 at the end of 2017 compared to 162 a year earlier, an increase designed to expand our US footprint and to accommodate the resulting increase in testing volumes.
Cash and cash equivalents stood at $16.8 million at December 31, 2017, compared to $30.8 million at December 31, 2016. The gross proceeds from the sale of patents to Exact Sciences of $15.0 million, net new financing of $0.6 million and $1.9 million of favorable foreign exchange translation effects were offset by an operational cash burn of $25.5 million, the non-recurring payment of royalties and milestones of $1.1 million and investments in tangible and intangible assets of $4.9 million. Cash collections from ConfirmMDx and SelectMDx amounted to $23.1 million, 17% more than a year earlier. The unique ConfirmMDx CPT code, effective January 2018, is expected to further streamline the Company's reimbursement efforts and significantly reduce collection periods.
Strategic Update and Outlook
The Company's strategy to grow the business is focused on four key pillars: 1) driving adoption and acceptance of our commercial tests with urologists and payors in the significant markets of the US and Europe; 2) increasing the clinical utility of our SelectMDx tests to encompass both primary care and the active and recurrence monitoring of patients; 3) expanding usability and access to our tests by porting them onto IVD sample-to-answer platforms; and 4) working with pharmaceutical partners to create precision diagnostics.
The Company remains confident in the potential of ConfirmMDx, which it expects to continue driving momentum in the mid-term and increasing market share. In the longer term, the Company expects SelectMDx to continue driving growth with numerous value driving inflection points in the coming years. The Company is positive about the outlook for the current year and believes it can achieve a higher level of Product and Services revenue growth than in 2017.
Growth in 2018 and beyond will be driven by:
- Increase in private payor coverage in the US for ConfirmMDx and SelectMDx
- Formal application expected in 2018 for Medicare coverage through a Local Coverage Determination (LCD) for SelectMDx. Clinical utility studies and budget impact studies will also drive the Company's effort to secure contracts with an increasing number of private payors for SelectMDx
- The results of the prospective 4M study, using SelectMDx with mpMRI and histopathology, are expected to be released in the course of H1 2018. These data are key to inclusion in the respective clinical guidelines in the US and in Europe
- Expanded market opportunity for SelectMDx in active monitoring and primary care settings expected to quadruple the market opportunity for SelectMDx in the mid-term to more than 2 million patients annually in the US and a similar number for Europe. Data validating this approach from two large scale studies conducted alongside John Hopkins University and the Canary Foundation are expected in 2018
- In addition, MDxHealth plans to expand its IVD strategy by porting some of its products onto commercially established IVD platforms tuned towards sample to answer technology, an increasingly important capability in the field of molecular diagnostics
- MDxHealth will continue to leverage its biomarker portfolio and expand its capabilities towards the pharmaceutical industry. The Company will further develop its new diagnostic companion blood test to guide the personalized treatment of castration resistant prostate cancer patients, building on the very encouraging results of the study published in The Prostate on January 12, 2018
2018 Reporting Calender
- First interim trading update: April 24, 2018
- Annual General Meeting of Shareholders: May 31, 2018
- H1 results: August 30, 2018
- Second interim trading update: October 23, 2018
Financial statements and auditor review
The Company's statutory auditor, BDO Bedrijfsrevisoren Burg. Ven. CBVA, has confirmed that its audit procedures with respect to the Company's consolidated financial statements, prepared in accordance with the International Financial Reporting Standards as adopted in the European Union, have been substantially completed. These procedures have not revealed any material adjustments that would have to be made to the accounting information derived from the Company's consolidated financial information that is included in this press release, and that it intends to issue an unqualified opinion.
The condensed Consolidated Statement of Comprehensive Income may be found on the Company's website at www.mdxhealth.com. The full Annual Report is expected to be made available to the public via the Company's website in April 2018.
Conference Call Details
Dr. Jan Groen, Chief Executive Officer and Jean-Marc Roelandt, Chief Financial Officer, will host a conference call on the day of the results at 15:00 CET / 14:00 GMT / 06:00 PT. The call will be conducted in English and a replay will be available for 30 days.
To access the conference call, please dial one of the appropriate numbers below quoting the conference ID 9294798.
The Netherlands: 0207143545
The presentation will be made available on the Investors section of the MDxHealth website shortly before the call and can be accessed at: http://mdxhealth.com/investors.
To ensure a timely connection, it is recommended that users register at least 10 minutes prior to the scheduled start timing.
MDxHealth is a multinational healthcare company that provides actionable molecular diagnostic information to personalize the diagnosis and treatment of cancer. The company's tests are based on proprietary genetic, epigenetic (methylation) and other molecular technologies and assist physicians with the diagnosis of urologic cancers, prognosis of recurrence risk, and prediction of response to a specific therapy. The Company's European headquarters are in Herstal, Belgium, with laboratory operations in Nijmegen, The Netherlands, and US headquarters and laboratory operations based in Irvine, California. For more information, visit mdxhealth.com and follow us on social media at: twitter.com/mdxhealth, facebook.com/mdxhealth and linkedin.com/company/mdxhealth.
For more information:
| MDxHealth |
Dr. Jan Groen, CEO
US: +1 949 812 6979
BE: +32 4 364 20 70
Jean-Marc Roelandt, CFO
BE: +32 (0) 4 364 20 70
NL: +31 (0) 88 327 2727
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Amber Fennell, Chris Welsh & Hendrik Thys
UK: +44 20 3709 5701
| LifeSpring Life Sciences Communication Amsterdam, The Netherlands|
+31 6 538 16 427
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*The SelectMDx IVD PCR kit is not available in all geographies and/or may not be approved for all uses discussed in this press release. It is currently not available for use in the United States.
This press release contains forward-looking statements and estimates with respect to the anticipated future performance of MDxHealth and the market in which it operates. Such statements and estimates are based on assumptions and assessments of known and unknown risks, uncertainties and other factors, which were deemed reasonable but may not prove to be correct. Actual events are difficult to predict, may depend upon factors that are beyond the company's control, and may turn out to be materially different. MDxHealth expressly disclaims any obligation to update any such forward-looking statements in this release to reflect any change in its expectations with regard thereto or any change in events, conditions or circumstances on which any such statement is based unless required by law or regulation. This press release does not constitute an offer or invitation for the sale or purchase of securities or assets of MDxHealth in any jurisdiction. No securities of MDxHealth may be offered or sold within the United States without registration under the U.S. Securities Act of 1933, as amended, or in compliance with an exemption therefrom, and in accordance with any applicable U.S. securities laws.
NOTE: The MDxHealth logo, MDxHealth, ConfirmMDx, SelectMDx, AssureMDx, PredictMDx and UrNCollect are trademarks or registered trademarks of MDxHealth SA. Blue Cross Blue Shield Association® is a registered trademark of Blue Cross Blue Shield Associaiton. All other trademarks and service marks are the property of their respective owners. The foregoing information on Kaiser Permanente and the General Service Administration contract awards is not intended to serve as an endorsement of MDxHealth or ConfirmMDx by Kaiser Permanente or the US Government.
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https://www.cnbc.com/2018/02/22/globe-newswire-mdxhealthfyresults-en.html
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Known as the cultural capital of Kerala, the Thrissur district embodies the state’s varied traditional art forms and beliefs –a city of temples, elephants, velichapads (oracles) and festivals. It even boasts of a small rural village of Peringottukara where Kuttichaathan (little demon or imp) is worshipped as god.
Anyone passing through the village is sure to come across several luxury cars like the Audi, BMW, Mercedes racing through the small by-lanes, making one wonder why they were there.
Enquire at a nearby shop and prompt comes the reply: “They come to meet Kuttichaathan. He has devotees from all across the state as well as from across the state-border.”
Peringottukara has a number of kuttichaathan temples most of them attached to a tharavadu (ancestral home), all boasting of a heritage not less than a couple of decades at least.
These are not your regular Hindu temples. These are ‘special’ places where peculiar poojas and guruthi (hen sacrifice) are performed. The godmen here claim to be able to look into your past as well as the future and also help you overcome all the hurdles in your life.
So how does kuttichaathan actually execute his powers?
Anyone who approaches any Kuttichaathan Mutt for a solution to all the problems in their lives have to first pay some money and then launch into an explanation of their woes.
They are then taken inside a shrine where the deity is installed. Wait for a while and a man clad in a white dhoti with some accoutrements around his waist makes his grand entrance. He is shaking violently as if in a trance and makes sounds with some sort of an instrument in his hands almost in the manner of a velichapad (temple oracle) who comes out of the sreekovil (inner sanctum), pouting words in a language unknown to the devotees.
Another pujari (temple priest) standing near him will translate the same into Malayalam which apparently is the solution to all the problems that the devotee placed at the deity’s feet.
The velichapad is believed to be endowed with godly powers when the chaathan enters his body during which time he comes up with answers to a devotee’s problems.
Most of the times, the chaathan suggests conduct of poojas costing thousands of rupees.
“We went there, as we were childless. He suggested two or three poojas which cost us around Rs.7500. Somehow it did not work out,” says Swathi Ratan, a Kochi housewife.
A swami from the Kannadi Mutt -one of the biggest kuttichaathan temples in the area- says the expense depends on the magnitude of a devotee’s problems.
“It depends on your problems. Sometimes you will have to do three to four poojas to get away from all the negativity energy around you, most probably the result of black magic. Only chaathan swami (kuttichaathan) can tell you the root cause,” the swami elaborated.
Many kuttichaathan mutts in a single village
Probably no other village in Kerala has so many Chaathan temples and mutts.
Apparently the ‘Avanangattil Kalari’ mutt and temple which worship kuttichaathan was the first one to operate in the village.
They also claim to be the first chaathan swami temple in India. Centuries ago, a Panicker family (traditional astrologers) started it as an institution attached to their tharavadu to impart kalari (Kerala martial art) lessons.
As per the legend, the twin brothers born in the family were endowed with magical powers by a brahmin guru. They subsequently brought home the chaathan deity.
“In Kottarathil Shankunni’s Aithihyamala (a book compiling different legends of Kerala) our tharavadu history is mentioned. We have centuries of tradition and are known for the divine powers acquired from chaathan swami,” says Avanangattil Kalari’s present head Advocate AU Raghuraman Panicker.
Another magnificent chaathan swami temple and mutt run by the Kanadi Matam tharavadu also claim a centuries’ old tradition.
Panicker however was quick to point out that all other chaathan temples in Peringattukara were started by people earlier employed by the Avanangattil Kalari.
The Kannadi Mutt has three branches in the village and they have a huge devasthaanam (main temple). It is owned by a trust which belongs to the same family.
“Ours is the most renowned and prominent mutt with a tradition of many centuries. Thousands come here, get cured and go back with solutions to their problems,” avers a swami of the Kanadi mutt.
Other than these two biggies, there are numerous small kuttichaathan temples in the village.
The Peringottukara Communist Party of India (CPI) local committee secretary C Raghavan brands all of them as purely money-making ventures.
“The Avanangattil Kalari was the first one. Later when the numbers of devotees increased, some others ventured into the arena smelling huge profits. Now it is the main source of income for Peringottukara. Avanangattil may be around 500 years old, the Kanadi main mutt around 100 and all others came up just 30 to 40 years ago,” he said.
Another social activist from Thrissur VK Venkitachalam says that the business runs into crores of rupees with hundreds of people flowing to the village on a daily basis in search of a solution to life’s woes.
“Even the by-lanes of Peringottukara are rubberized because of the sheer traffic of luxury cars here. These were financed by the temple authorities to literally ensure a smooth ride for their customers,” he points out.
Venkitachlam continues: “People here were quick to grasp the huge business potential in setting up chaathan temples on the lines of the Avanangattil. Since Avanangattil was always flooded with devotees, many people started visiting nearby temples to avoid the rush. None of the temples here lack devotees.”
Venkitachalam says these temples -mainly the Avanangattil and Kanadi mutts- conduct huge musical fests every year in which almost all celebrity singers participate.
“Singers, actors, ministers…the devotee list is long,” he said. Unlike other temples, these kuttichaathan temples have chicken and liquor as prasadam (holy offerings) and poojas are mainly done by different lower caste Hindus, not brahmins.
The main attraction of these temples is that people of all religions are welcome here.
Who is Kuttichaathan?
There are different legends associated with the chaathan swami. In North Kerala, it is believed that Chaathan was born to Lord Shiva by a Pulaya woman (lower caste) whom the lord met in a forest. Story says that Chaathan was later adopted by a brahmin family which later killed him as he indulged in mischievous acts like beheading cows and drinking the blood. After his demise, his spirit became synonymous with magical powers and temples were built for him.
But in Peringottukara, the legend differs slightly. Siva was attracted to a Pulaya woman, who was hesitant to consummate the relationship that she asked Parvathy Devi for help. Parvathy then disguised herself as the Pulaya woman and after obtaining Siva’s semen poured it into a wild fruit and gifted it to the Pulaya woman. The fruit later turned into the child Chaathan and took the Avatar of Lord Vishnu to visit his father at Mount Kailasam.
“There are hundreds of stories related to Chaathan’s birth. How do people fall for such stuff even in this era? I once harboured the false hope that after two or three generations, all these beliefs will change. On the contrary, we have become more superstitious,” rues 70-year old Raghavan.
Call it superstition or blind faith; the Peringottukara Chaathans sure has many takers.
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Tuesday, August 13, 2013
Faux Isle - Free Pattern
This has to be one of my favorite techniques. It's the EASY way to do colorwork. Here's the basics....combine a Self-striping yarn (or variegated) with a contrasting solid color yarn.
To make it easy on yourself, choose a chart that uses 2 colors.
Something similar to this chart I designed using the color chart maker at Tricksyknitter. Let me warn you, the chart maker is addictive......you can spend HOURS making charts! Then again, you can spend HOURS just cruising around her site.....patterns, knitting tips, stitches, chart maker....just sayin'.
If you've never used charts, this post from Lionbrand can walk you through the basics. It's really not as hard as it sounds. Especially if you're knitting in the round. If you're knitting from the bottom up, start at row 1, from the RIGHT, knit the stitches in that row (above chart is a multiple of 4) around until you're back to the beginning. Now, just hop on up to the next row and repeat. Make sure to keep the yarn on the wrong side (floats) loose enough so the front stitches don't pucker.
Maybe the best way to get started is to just knit something easy. So, I've put together a free pattern to download for this mug/jar cozy.
Fair warning.....first pattern. Ever. It seems good to me. Of course, I've knit several of these and I hope I didn't leave out anything crucial. Also, this is the first time I've linked to this site, too. Well, only one way to tell......here goes.....publishing!
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First of all, I do not judge you at all. I just had to reply, though, because I had a vivid episode, concerning my son. During this episide, I truly felt my kid was the reincarnation of Jeffery Dahmer. Omg please do not laugh at me, and please do not think I am trying to disregard your post at all or make fun of it. This really, truly happened. I am so embarrassed now, though, I do admit, in the back of my mind, it still creeps up on me. This is what happened. I am a sucker for Ranker. I get on their lists and always find myself on the Graveyard Shift. Anyway, one night, I ended up on a list about Jeffery Dahmer. Being the idiot I am, I get curioser and curioser, so end up reading more about him on Wikipedia and other sites. Well, I see a childhood pic of him. He looks exactly like my kid at thst age! I am like, omg! I take a closer look at his adult pic. My kid is 17 at this point. They look very similar. I check the birthday. It coincides with my reincarnation theory that you are always born around the same time. In this case, he was born three days before my son's birthday, exactly forty years apart. I have anxiety disorder and started panicking. Lol I pull myself together and go to my son's room. I just want to see him, to verify it is not him. I swear to God, my son is smiling and laughing when I walk in and holds up his phone. He is on Google. In the search bar is 'How to eat people'. I freaked out. I really, truly freaked. I swear to God this happened. I am not making it up. He literally had that in the Google search bar as I walked in there to verify he was not Jeffery Dahmer. >_< It took me a while to calm down and get over it. I was literally at the point of calling his father and telling him our son was the reincarnation of Jeffery Dahmer. He would have laughed at me and called me crazy and might have even took custody of our son, that is how upset I was. However. My son is truly the sweetest most gentle soul I have ever known, though he does like to pull pranks and google crazy things for fun. He loves animals so much and gets mad if even you step on an insect. I can only conclude that it was a crazy, horrible coincedence that night. But, really. Please do not hate me for this, but I hope you are him because that would mean my son definitely isn't. Again, while I have dismissed it mostly, there is still a little nagging feeling and I feel so guilty for having it. Edited to add: I again want to stress that I was in no way trying to invalidate your claim at all. Nor was I making fun of you at all. I do sometimes come across as immature in how I express myself but the above honestly, truly happened. My son and I joke about it now, but at the time, it was more scary to me than when I first 'felt' my own past life. So I apologize profusely if my reply sounds like I am trolling you or something. I promise I am not. I just tend to write like that when I get excited.
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First THE BABY BARGAIN written Jennifer Apodaca is here! All pretty and released! More on that in a minute
I had a great time at the meeting on Saturday. Doing Ask An Author is always fun, I always love chatting about writing and reading Kate (Carlisle) and I went to lunch and tried to get all caught up. Why is it we just don’t see our friends enough?
And speaking of friends, a huge shout to Susan Mallery for giving me the cover quote for THE BABY BARGAIN! We were all hanging out at RWA Conference this summer and she offered to do it. I was stunned and very grateful. Susan is like that though, very generous to everyone around her. She truly tires to help other writers succeed. Here is the cover with Susan’s quote:
And the blurb:
Seeing Adam Waters is the last thing veterinarian Megan Young expects. Ex-Marine. Ex-boyfriend. And still extremely dangerous territory. But Adam doesn’t know the secret Megan has been keeping from him. The secret that was created three years ago, after their last night together…
Adam returns to Raven’s Cove to sell his home in a final break with the town and memories that haunt him. The problem is that his attraction to Megan is as blazing hot as it ever was. But when a vicious smear campaign against Megan turns ugly, Adam learns the truth he never knew—he has a son. Now the only way Megan can protect her child is to strike a bargain with Adam.
And it’s a bargain that looks a lot like blackmail…
So how was your weekend?
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The Dominican Republic lies on the east of the island of Hispaniola in the Greater Antilles archipelago. The western part of Hispaniola is occupied by Haiti.
The Taíno Arawaks had inhabited Hispaniola since the 7th century when Columbus landed in 1492 and Santo Domingo, its capital, became the first permanent European settlement in America.
After over 300 years of colonial rule, mostly Spanish with short French and Haitian periods, it gained independence from Spain in 1821 as Spanish Haiti. The new country was absorbed into Haiti where slavery had been abolished. However, in 1844 dissidents in Santo Domingo declared unilateral independence from Haiti.
Owing to repeated invasions from Haiti the country reverted to colonial status in 1861 but, under protest from Haiti and the USA, Spain left again in 1865. Independence was finally recognized by Haiti in 1874. Subsequently the USA occupied it between 1916–1924. A civil war in 1965 ended after a brief US occupation which had feared another Cuban-style revolution.
The Republic has the second largest economy in Central America. Though associated with agriculture and mining it is now dominated by services. Mass illegal Haitian immigration is a major issue.
Hispaniola is part of the Caribbean island arc. It is volcanically inactive but subject to continued faulting. There are 4 mountain ranges running through the island divided by fertile valleys containing Tertiary sediments. The Caribbean Coastal Plain stretches north and east of Santo Domingo whilst the Azua Coastal Plain is an arid region in Azua Province west of Santo Domingo.
The country produced very small amounts of oil from the Azua Tertiary Basin in 1904, for two years from 1920, and then again in 1940 and 1941. The Enriquillo basin in the southwest of the country, and the site of gas seeps, has also been explored but without success. Other areas have seen the occasional well and have also been reported as yielding oil and gas seeps.
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The Dominican Republic is a representative democracy. The President heads the executive branch and executes laws passed by the Congress, appoints the Cabinet, and is commander in chief of the armed forces. The national legislature is bicameral, composed of a 32-member Senate and 178-member Chamber of Deputies.
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Are people poor in the United States for the most part based upon their bad life choices?
Not addressing those who are challenged emotionally, intellectually, & physically. Nor is addressing those who have fallen on TEMPORARY hard times. This question is addressing those who are emotionally, intellectually, & physically healthy.
Think of a person living in poverty. They were born into the US, with all the rights and privileges of any other person. Surely, they have the same opportunities, right?
But, they're born into a family that's poor. Maybe they have a single mother raising them. Maybe she's working two jobs, or three, because that's what it takes to make it at minimum wages. So, the new child spends formative years being watched by whoever is available, because there's no extra money for formal day care. Who is teaching this child their ABCs? Who is teaching them to read before they go to school? There's no preschool, because funding for those types of programs doesn't allow every child in the neighborhood to attend, and Mom was at work the day she could apply. There's no socialization, either, because kids in this poor neighborhood aren't allowed to play outside. It's not safe.
There's also no grocery store in walking distance, and no money for a car, or taking the bus when it's not absolutely necessary. The child isn't fed fresh fruits and vegetables as often as they should be, and eats whatever is available, and affordable: processed foods, filled with sugar, salt and additives. Bring on the health issues associated with this type of diet.
So, the kid is finally old enough to go to school. Have you been to an elementary school in a poor neighborhood? They're old, in need of repair, and understaffed. There are way too many kids in each class for the teacher to notice that this child doesn't know their ABCs yet, and can't read. Maybe the kid is dyslexic, or autistic, but that is never diagnosed. The child is simply passed along, or failed, and forced to repeat the grade, until they're finally graduated, or drop out. Poor neighborhoods have a higher dropout rate than average in every state.
Our kid has now dropped out of high school, because their dyslexia has gone undiagnosed. They also can't read very well. They have, mercifully, avoided being killed, joining a gang, or falling prey to a drug addition. All of those things are statistically higher in teens in poor neighborhoods than the national average, but our kid has a Mom who managed to keep them on the straight and narrow.
Where does a 16 year old without the ability to read well, and no high school education, go?
I'm running out of space to write, but I could keep going all day, because I used to work in an outreach program in this neighborhood. Poverty is a snowball, rolling downhill.
That's is what I am saying, the parents made stupid choices. They know that they couldn't afford children but elect to have them nevertheless. Such actions are selfish, thoughtless, & uncaring bordering on stupid.
So, having children is yet another privilege reserved for the rich? How 'bout not defunding Planned Parenthood, so poor people have access to affordable birth control, instead of just telling them not to have kids, like it's that simple?
Yes I generally do and I know this to be the case in my own life and those close to me.
Now emotional health may be difficult to assess and often effects poor decisions, so I do have some sympathy for issues people face that are not right out in the open. But for the most part its better for people to have the pressure to work through issues rather than using them as a crutch.
In the majority of cases, people are poor to impoverished in the United States because of their unintelligent life choices. Poor to impoverished people have a vastly different culture, mindset, philosophy, & psychology than those who are middle & upper classes. Yes, culture, mindset, philosophy, & psychology are instrumental to the poor &/or impoverished person's relation to his/her attitude & view of society.
Poor to impoverished people constantly make unintelligent life choices. They also are impulsive, even instinctual. They oftentimes act first & think later. They have no concept of the future ramifications of their actions. They do what feels good to them even if the consequences to themselves & to their families are negative. They live for present & believe that thinking about & planning for the future are exercises in utter futility. They have a philosophy of immediacy- that is having instant gratification.
The idea of instant gratification permeates the consciousness of lower income people. They feel that their life is so bleak, they intend to grab as much pleasure as they can, forget about the consequences. In relation to poor to impoverished people not being concerned about the future, they feel that the future is so far off that it is totally irrelevant in their lives.
Poor people's search for immediacy oftentimes lead to them disregarding & denigrating beliefs & concepts which have no instant results. That is why poor to impoverished people are suspicious of education & achievement. They see these things as irrelevant. They want things.....& results....NOW, not later.
Poor people are constant seekers of pleasure. They want to feel good as their lives are continuous uphill struggles. They also have very little avenues for constructive activities so they mindlessly engage in the most primitive pleasures. Poor people have an inverse mindset & psychology in which good is considered to be bad & bad is considered to be good. For the average poor to impoverished person, being poor is quite normative & there is nothing that can be done about it. They have an extremely limited mindset as a result of their lower socioeconomic condition, viewing anything outside it as totally fantastical & not realistic.
There are lifestyles which are endemic to poor to impoverished people. They date & marry unintelligently. They marry FAR TOO YOUNG. They also have children before they are educationally, emotionally, & psychologically ready.
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middle, upper middle, and upper class parents wouldn't think of doing to their children in terms of their children's socioeconomic success, education, and future achievement?
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Is poverty hampering the talent of youth?
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Securus has offered free calls to Louisiana jails to help during the flooding there because they know it is hard for the people in the state to check on the people they love. That has been a problem because of how bad the flooding has been, but I have been able to call a few times to be sure that the people I knew were alright.
Learn more at wikipedia.org about Securus.
I knew someone who wanted to call just to be sure that everything down there seemed alright, and I think that it really helped them to know that they had a chance to just call with no worry. Securus is really doing a good thing, and it even has helped people who have gotten arrested in the aftermath of this whole thing. It is helping the families know what is going on, and it is helping these very same people learn that they can check on loved ones if they have to.
Securus is something that I am really thankful for because I know that they are helping a lot of people. It has been so great for them to do this that I think they need to keep up the good work. I am not saying that they should make all calls free to everyone, but I think this shows that they are a good company that is committed to helping people. They are showing some love in a time when it is very hard for people in Louisiana to get by, and they are proving to all of us that there is a heart in the prison system.
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Article written by Gerrin
The Neidar (knoll dwellers) are the name given to those dwarves who at the time of the creation of Thorbardin chose to live outside. All hill dwarves are grouped into this thanedom. Many of these dwarves could trace their ancestry back to one of the other clans. The role of the Neidar prior to the Cataclysm was scouting and tending to the flocks outside of Thorbardin. Led by Cale Greeneye, this group was indispensable during the war against the wizards and the fight against Rage.
The original Neidar were represented on the council of thanes. They were able to make contacts with the other cultures. It was the Neidar Cale Greeneye who established the permanent boundary with Qualinost. The two cultures (mountain and hill dwarf) had warm relations prior to the Cataclysm.
Once the Cataclysm occurred the Neidar suffered from a lack of communication with their mountain dwarf cousins. The Neidar believing that they had been left to die in the outside world raised an army against their mountain cousins. Led by Reghar Fireforge and backed by plainsmen and knights this army fought in the Dwarfgate War. The dwarves fought against their mountain cousins and were defeated on the Plains of Dergoth by the treachery of the Dewar.
Following the Dwarfgate War the Neidar suffered terribly. Many of the Neidar voices were destroyed in revenge for the war. The result of this led to a dark century for the Neidar who fought starvation, disease and the chaos that resulted from the cataclysm.
During the War of the Lance relations improved with their mountain dwarf cousins but still remained tense. The Neidar did prevent arms sales to the Dragon Army by preventing the Theiwar from taking over their village of Hillhome. The defense of Hillhome, was led by the Fireforge family, began a period of open communications with the dwarves of Thorbardin.
Following the Chaos War the Neidar faired better then most of the other races. They helped the Hylar and Klar exiles survive through the first few years until the exiles could return to Thorbardin. Prior to the War of Souls, Tarn Bellowsgranite had married the Neidar Crystal Heathstone and relations had steadily improved.
Habitat and Society
Neidar clans form small villages that consist of modest houses of thatch, wood, and stone. Because of their dwarven roots they are excellent miners metalsmiths, and woodworkers. The eldest male serves as clan leader, but most major decisions are made by consensus. Unmarried Neidar often set out on their own, returning to their original clan only occasionally. The Neidar clan system predates the Cataclysm by hundreds of years and, true to tradition, different clans seldom associate with each other. This attitude has not only bred suspicion and a lack of cooperation among the clans; it has also hindered trade and economic development, keeping most clans in relative poverty.
Once part of the society of subterranean dwarves, the Neidar were cast from their homes in the wake of the cataclysm that preceded the Age of Darkness. Forbidden to return to their former homes, the Neidar were forced to live permanently above ground. Neidar have been reasonably successful at integrating themselves into Krynn society and are as likely to be found in urban taverns as in their own modest villages.
Neidar get along well with Humans and Kender. Some have established cordial relationships with Elves. However, most other dwarven races shun the Neidar, particularly the mountain dwarves. Fond of animals, they keep kittens, sparrows, and ponies as pets. They produce few items of value, but sometimes they create metal tools and honey candies to sell in human towns. Neidar have voracious appetites, favorite dishes include cornbread, mushroom soup, and roast kingfisher.
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Hi guys! Frettchen established a WOA-Multiclan where all of us can fight together as we party together! Since we're a new clan we need new members and the idea was only to recruit new lads out of the metal community. Games available at the moment: CABAL Online Flyff Star Wars Battlefront If anyone wants to sign in with a new game (therefor you need at least 7 teammembers) or just join available games we'd be proud to have you by our side! And now - hold up your horns and fill 'em - PROST!
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Gil had an early meeting yesterday, so he wasn’t able to take the boys to school. Typically he drops them off on his way to work, and then I pick them up in the afternoon, and so far this system has worked smashingly.
Or so I thought…..
Well, yesterday, the boys and I left the house at 7:30, thinking that we were doing well and had time to spare. They have to be in their classrooms by 7:50 or they are tardy, and we only live a couple of miles from their school.
In fact, Gil and I had a long, exhausting conversation at the beginning of the school year about what time we needed to leave in the morning, and we agreed that 7:30 was ideal. We hadn’t discussed it further, and I assumed this was working.
I took the boys to school several times during the first week of school, but that was when we were all getting acclimated to the new routine, and I walked them to their classrooms. I like that throughout their school, there are big digital LED clocks so you know how close you are to being late.
I struggle with getting places on time. So do my children. So does Gil.
We’re big in-the-moment people, and we easily get wrapped up in whatever activity currently has our attention.
We need LOTS of visual reminders, so the gigantic, florescent clocks are helpful.
Gil and I are the same in that we both have a poor concept of time, but we deal with our challenges very differently.
I stress. He dilly-dallies. I overcompensate and often end up arriving ridiculously early and then I check my watch, cellphone, car clock, etc. obsessively.
Then I obsess some more. It’s not pretty.
Gil just lives in denial, and blames his tardiness on random things. “I lost track of time, Vivi. Geez, don’t you ever do that?” Hell no I don’t ever do that. I know that drill and it does not work, so now I obsess about it.
Or, he blames being late on his crazy schedule or the utmost importance of his job. “It’s crunch time, Honey. I’m trying to get this building turned over, and the owners are on my ass.”
All I hear is, “My shit is more important than you, and you need to chill out and lighten up.”
And yes, chilling out and lightening up is sometimes difficult for me, BUT he’s almost FORTY YEARS OLD. It’s time to take some responsibility and get your ass to places on time!!!! Find a system that works and quit blaming other people and certainly stop expecting me to manage your schedule. I have a hard enough time managing my own.
My theory is that he is a man, and he grew up in a family where men don’t do anything that pertains to schedules — that’s the female’s job. In other words, his mother was an excellent scheduler/house runner. Therefore, all Gil had to do was whatever he wanted to do, and his mom took care of all the details.
It’s tempting for me to get angry at his mother for not training him properly, but the reality is that if scheduling and keeping a home were something I excelled at, it would certainly make sense that I would take care of those details, too — merely for the sake of keeping the peace.
Unfortunately for him, he did not marry his mother.
The bottom line is:
Neither Gil nor I are good at getting places on time, but we need to work together and come up with a solution that works FOR OUR FAMILY. Frankly, we need someone to manage all the tedious details of our home.
So back to yesterday. The boys and I hit more morning traffic than I anticipated and by the time they were exiting the vehicle in front of the school, my clock said 7:45.
I was practically pushing them out of the car — backpack throwing and all.
And naturally, they were moving at tortoise speed. I watched the nice gentleman who was working the car drop-off line help them through the main door, and then I was on my way.
By the time I pulled back onto the main highway, my clock said 7:50. Both boys’ classrooms are at the end of the hall — NOT a short walk, and my kids are anything BUT brisk walkers in the morning.
Seriously, the rest of the day, all I could think about was whether or not they made it to the classroom by 7:50. I just did not see how that could be possible.
But WHY had this not occurred to Gil?
I tried to gather information. He and I spoke briefly on the phone a couple of times during the day about different things and each time I asked a question or two about morning drop-off.
“What time is it when you are typically AT the curb in front of the school?”
“Do you think it’s actually possible that they can make it to their classrooms by 7:50, based on the time they get out of the vehicle?”
I tried my damnedest to not be accusatory. I tried to be kind and casual. Again, I was ONLY gathering information.
So last night the four of us were having dinner, and the drop-off subject came up again. I learn by asking questions, so I posed a few more — this time not just to Gil but also to Piers and Wallace.
“So, Piers, what usually happens after Dad drops you off at school in the morning?”
Of course, it’s like extracting an impacted wisdom tooth.
“We go to our class.”
I continued, still calm at this point. Gil was eyeing me suspiciously.
“So, I’m curious, your classrooms are pretty far from the where we drop you off. Does the bell ever ring while you’re walking to your class?”
Silence. I wait as he chews his macaroni while pondering my question. Nothing from Wallace either.
You know, it’s hard existing as the lone wordy female in a house full of males. How the hell will I ever make it through the teenage years?
Piers finally spoke up, “Uh huh.”
I cut my eyes at Gil, who was not saying a word.
“So, if the bell rings while you guys are walking to your class, do you continue on to your class or do you have to go back to the office and sign in?”
Here’s the thing. I had pretty much already figured out that they had to go to the office because I saw it in the handouts that we got from the teachers at Open House. It said something generic like if students were not in class by the 7:50 bell, they had to check in through the front office.
I take that pretty literally, maybe because my mother was a teacher and I grew up expected to follow school rules. I knew as a kid that not only were there no exceptions for me, but that I needed to be overly compliant because as a teacher’s kid, I had to set an example.
Gil on the other hand grew up with parents who never arrived anywhere on time, and in their eyes, it really wasn’t that big of a deal.
I’m doing everything in my power to provide a balanced approach for my kids. I don’t want them all anxious and in a panic that the world might collapse if they arrive late occasionally, but I most certainly DO NOT want them to be so damn lackadaisical that they think it’s perfectly acceptable to stroll in any old time they please.
I get very frustrated these days when I see people with the attitude of “it’s my world, work around me.”
I do not want my kids growing up thinking that rules don’t apply to them.
Being punctual is a good life skill, and it’s one that I want my kids to learn. We are NOT getting off to a very good start if we aren’t even aware that they’ve been arriving late to school.
Forgive me, Gil, for “obsessing,” but since you’ve agreed to the morning shift, it would be nice to know that I can trust you to at least make sure that they are getting to their classrooms BY 7:50.
FOR THE LOVE OF GOD!!!! How about for one second, try to think past the tip of your FREAKING NOSE!!!
Yes!! I have a little rage!!!!
Back to the dinner table. Inside I was boiling but doing my best to remain calm on the outside. The little heart was pounding, and I could feel my armpits starting to sweat.
I really need to take it down a notch. Moments like these are when I question whether or not marriage is good for my health.
“So, about how many times have y’all had to go to the office before going to your class?”
Deep breaths, I’m silently saying to myself.
“Pretty much most days.” Wallace says matter-of-factly.
MOTHER FUCK!!!!! — again, this is in my head, because, ya know, I try to be all chill like that.
Gil pipes up, “Seriously, Wallace, that CAN NOT be true. There’s NO way.”
Of course Gil really doesn’t know and now he has that look on his face that he gets when he realizes that I’ve flat busted him. It’s that look that pretty much says, “Oh shit. I never considered until this very moment that they were tardy. I figured they got out of the car and then someone else was gonna take care of it, and I’m off to thinking about my oh-so-important job. How the hell does Viv figure this stuff out. I mean, she’s exhausting. Her flippin head never stops.”
At the same time, I know Gil well enough to know how very important getting the kids places on time actually is to him. He spent his entire childhood being late for one thing after the next, and he just had to accept that that was the way it was. He didn’t like it, and it took a toll on his self-esteem. This is a big one for him.
I really did my best to just shut my mouth.
After Wallace announced that they had to check in “pretty much every day” I asked Piers again and he gave me an answer that reduced my boiling blood to a simple simmer, “Maybe only about five times. It’s not every day but it’s a lot of days.”
I dropped the subject, but walked away frustrated and put out with Gil. He knew it. This has been a pattern with us since we had children. He screws up; I can be obsessive and over the top about things. He feels like nothing he does is right, and I feel like every time I trust him to do something that involves the kids he doesn’t do it correctly. Then he uses this as an excuse to just let me handle everything, and then we’re back to to square one because I feel overburdened and under-appreciated. Then I panic inside because I know that if I go back to work, I’ll be responsible for everything that involves the kids PLUS my job. I’ll fly around on stress and anxiety, lose too much weight, yell at everyone and our home life will feel like a war-zone.
I wish I could tie up this post with a tidy, happy-ever-after ending, but I can’t. The kids went to bed. Gil and I were both drained from our argument but there was not enough time nor did we have the energy to hash it all out. I went to our room to read and collapse. Gil vegged out in front of the television. I refused to address anything else because I didn’t have the emotional energy and I didn’t want to hear what I already know — he thinks I’m an obsessive, uptight control-freak.
His body language said it all. He felt like a failure and he’s assuming that I’m in my room silently thinking that nothing he does is right.
The truth is I don’t think that. I was mad in the moment, but I’ve had enough therapy to recognize our sick pattern. Was I upset? Yes! But the reality is that school has only been in for a few weeks. We’re doing the best we can. We now know that we need to leave earlier. We need to call the school to find out how many tardies each kid has, and then we can move forward.
We were still short and pissy with each other this morning. I rushed everyone more than usual, and the result was that they left for school earlier and got there on time. I wish I could call this a success. Unfortunately, I feel like a bad mother and a bad wife. Gil feels like a failure and I have a long weekend to look forward to.
He called me after dropping the kids off and we ended up screaming at each other on the telephone.
I refused to continue and hung up.
And what, exactly, is it that’s enjoyable about family life and long-term relationships? Right now, I really have no answer. When Gil and I separated, things were hard. I had the burden of taking care of everything in the morning and at night. But honestly, at least it was predictable. If I screwed up, I had no one to be angry with other than myself.
I just need something to be easy.
As good old Forrest Gump would say, “Some days, there just aren’t enough rocks.”
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https://griefhappens.wordpress.com/2013/08/30/some-days-there-just-arent-enough-rocks/
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New version of HDC platform was released.
Most interesting new features include HDC Agent sample application, enhancements in filtering tools, possibility to choose between strict and relaxed versioning modes.
HDC 0.2.19. includes the following new features:
- HDC Agent – sample application for importing data packages
- Filter selection should disable other values so that its easier to see the selected one
- Server and client side support for uploading very large files
- Respect type security scheme – require Edit right to create object of given type.
- Strict and relaxed versioning modes
- HDC context help buttons link to manual in specific language.
- Dokumentnavet import type: Matching of object during import based on Object mapping field instead of Label field only
Some additional bug fixes and improvements.
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https://tessel.com/2016/01/21/hdc-v0-5-1-release-notes/
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Have mercy on me, O God,
according to your steadfast love;
according to your abundant mercy
blot out my transgressions.
Wash me thoroughly from my iniquity,
and cleanse me from my sin!
For I know my transgressions,
and my sin is ever before me.
Against you, you only, have I sinned
and done what is evil in your sight,
so that you may be justified in your words
and blameless in your judgment.
Behold, I was brought forth in iniquity,
and in sin did my mother conceive me.
Behold, you delight in truth in the inward being,
and you teach me wisdom in the secret heart.
Purge me with hyssop, and I shall be clean;
wash me, and I shall be whiter than snow.
Let me hear joy and gladness;
let the bones that you have broken rejoice.
Hide your face from my sins,
and blot out all my iniquities.
Create in me a clean heart, O God,
and renew a right spirit within me.
Cast me not away from your presence,
and take not your Holy Spirit from me.
Restore to me the joy of your salvation,
and uphold me with a willing spirit.
Then I will teach transgressors your ways,
and sinners will return to you.
Deliver me from bloodguiltiness, O God,
O God of my salvation,
and my tongue will sing aloud of your righteousness.
O Lord, open my lips,
and my mouth will declare your praise.
For you will not delight in sacrifice, or I would give it;
you will not be pleased with a burnt offering.
The sacrifices of God are a broken spirit;
a broken and contrite heart, O God, you will not despise.
Do good to Zion in your good pleasure;
build up the walls of Jerusalem;
then will you delight in right sacrifices,
in burnt offerings and whole burnt offerings;
then bulls will be offered on your altar.
Psalms 51 (ESV)
King David wrote this after Nathan had confronted him with his sin. He had committed adultery with Uriah the Hittite's wife. He then orchestrated Uriah's death to cover up his sin. David was a liar, adulterer and murderer. Yet God chose him and filled him with His Holy Spirit.
David knew he could not stand on his own. His iniquity was too great. While his sins affected many people around him, he knew that it was God who he had really sinned against. When he lied, he lied to God. When he committed adultery, he cheated on God. When he murdered, his violence was directed at God.
This is the way it is with all sin. All our transgressions are against our Creator God. We take His good and right ways and throw them into the trash. We then spit in His face and walk away from Him. Yet God is patient towards us. He will create for us a path of salvation.
He does this through Jesus. Jesus cleanses us with His blood that was shed on the cross. He was the offering that fulfilled God's justice. This is God's gift to us. Only through faith in this can your sins be blotted out. Only by trusting in Jesus will God create in you a clean heart.
God desires a broken and contrite heart. This comes by recognizing our sins and confessing them to God. This comes by understanding how helpless you are and relying on the salvation that God has provided through the cross. Jesus is your only hope for forgiveness. He is your only hope for reconciliation with your Creator. Trust in Him today and be delivered from your bloodguilt.
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http://www.reformationmissions.com/2013/09/sunday-scripture-psalms-51.html
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These easy caramel and chocolate layered cracker toffee bars are a twist on a traditional cracker toffee. Might try with graham crackers.
Smoking temps and timings
Free PDF Meat Smoking Cheat Sheet - Everything you need to know about smoking meat in one handy image. There's the best meats to smoke, charcoal and wood guides and even a complete smoking times and temperatures section.
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https://www.pinterest.ca/lbeiko/
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A married couple's romantic weekend is turned upside down when the husband's ex-girlfriend, a woman he's secretly obsessed with, turns out to be running the ski lodge where they're staying.
Canadian Connection: Filmed in Quebec. Several cast members are Canadian.
Studio: Pacific Northwest Pictures
Producer(s): Pat Kiely, Robert Vroom
Screenplay: Pat Kiely
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https://www.tribute.ca/movies/three-night-stand/98210/
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By Daniel Trotta
HAVANA (Reuters) - The New York Cosmos dominated Cuba 4-1 on Tuesday in a soccer friendly meant to promote better relations between the United States and Cuba and demonstrate that baseball-mad Cuba is also becoming a soccer nation.
International goodwill was on display as the U.S. flag was unfurled on the pitch and the U.S. national anthem played before the match, both rarities in Communist-governed Cuba.
But the Cuban national team disappointed against a club from the second-tier North American Soccer League, falling behind 4-0 in the first half on two goals by Lucky Mkosana and one each from Sebastian Guenzatti and Hagop Chirishian.
Cuba, which has not appeared in a World Cup since 1938, scored five minutes into the second half on a strike by Andy Baquero.
Raul, the former Real Madrid striker and Spain captain who is now the face of the Cosmos, went scoreless.
The Cosmos became the first U.S. professional sports team to visit Cuba since detente in December, when U.S. President Barack Obama and Cuban President Raul Castro announced they would seek to restore diplomatic relations that were severed in 1961.
A daylong rain dissuaded many fans who left empty the uncovered sections of the 28,000-seat Pedro Marrero Stadium.
Those who showed were in a festive mood, starting with chants for Brazilian football great Pele when he appeared from a balcony before the match. Pele, 74, a star from the Cosmos teams of the 1970s, was on his first visit to Cuba.
Fans even cheered the prematch warm-ups, blowing horns and waving flags while cramped under a leaky corrugated metal roof on one side of stadium.
Baseball remains Cuba's national sport but soccer has gained in popularity, as evidenced by multiplying contests on dusty pitches and a proliferation of Real Madrid and Barcelona jerseys.
"I want Cuba to win but I came to follow Raul, the mythical No. 7 from Madrid," said Raydel Aguirre, a 23-year-old graphic designer who paid one peso ($0.05) for his ticket and was wearing the jersey of Real Madrid's current No. 7, Cristiano Ronaldo.
Seated at midfield, Lionel Hernandez, 47, waved both Cuban and U.S. flags from the same staff. He considered the match, and the new U.S.-Cuban relations, to be momentous.
"Everything is advancing and this is part of it," Hernandez said. "I'm not referring to the people because there were never any differences between us, but politically, yes, this is progress."
(Reporting by Daniel Trotta and Nelson Acosta; Editing by Toni Reinhold)
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https://townhall.com/news/politics-elections/2015/06/02/new-york-cosmos-defeat-cuba-in-diplomatic-soccer-friendly-n2007305
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Flight Path Studies
Two separate studies will soon be underway looking at the impact of planes taking off more steeply from Heathrow. Heathrow will soon commission work. In parallel, the Civil Aviation Authority will look at the climb rats at other UK and international airports and make recommendations in a report expected out in early 2018.
Night Flights – No Change
Transport Secretary Chris Grayling announced on 13th July that the night flight regime at Heathrow would remain substantially unchanged for the next five years: Hope you’re well… Not sure if you’re around or if you could pass this on to a colleague but wondered how significant this was, and your reaction?
Vote on Third Runway Next Year
Graying also announced that, while the Government was still committed to a third runway, there would now not be a vote in Parliament on it until the first half of next year. The delay is because the General Election put things back by several months:
End of Cranford Agreement Postponed
The Government abolished the Cranford Agreement in 2009. This was the 50 year old understanding that planes did not take off from the northern runway over Cranford, at the Hounslow end of the runway. It meant that, when an east wind blows, all planes must land over Windsor on the northern runway so that they can take off from the southern runway. This has denied Windsor the half day’s break from the noise which West London enjoys.
Heathrow needed to do work on its taxiways to allow planes to take off from the northern runway. It got permission to this at a public inquiry but now wants to do further work on the taxiways so they fit in with any third runway. It is therefore planning to roll this further work into its more general detailed work on a third runway. If things go according to plan, it will not get planning permission for this until 2020/2021 after which the Cranford Agreement could become operational.
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http://hacan.org.uk/latest-news-on-flight-paths-night-flights-3rd-runway-vote-and-cranford-agreement/
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So I'm on for a new adventure, starting in October. I'll be cooperating on a part of a larger series of handbooks about Dutch military history. Personally, it looks like I will mostly be writing on the 1813-1870 period.
Of course there'll be several themes discussed in this book, but I have taken a special interest in the development of technology and how it's integrated into military practice. It's become an interesting field in this century, since the military revolutions / revolutions in military affairs discussion blossomed up. Mostly this is a discussion about how you can foster innovation and draw the right lessons from the past to guide technological development towards succes while avoiding the pitfalls.
Part of that discussion focusses on where in the military organisation this innovation takes place? Is it top down (reforms of Prince Maurice or Gustavus Adolphus), is it bottom up (battlefield adaptation in WWI)? Or is it perhaps a complex interaction of military entrepreneurs in the military hierarchy that may or may not succeed in catching the ear of those with decision making power. And perhaps, I add as an historian, this changes based on social structures over time and space?
So I'm diving into some old and new literature...
Mostly on the 19th century, but if a valid theoretical point seems to be made, I'm happy to look beyond.
Let's say I'm pretty psyched about this project
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http://jurrga.blogspot.com/2018/03/some-of-my-recent-reading-military.html
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Our best international dating websites encourage singles to broaden their horizons and provide them with the resources to do so. These have the massive user bases, the impressive features, and the success rates, so you really can’t go wrong no matter which one you choose.Not only is available in more than 25 countries and eight languages — but it also has more than 30 million members, sees more than 13.5 million visitors a month, and is responsible for more romantic connections than any other dating site.Movies and TV shows tend to make the girl- or boy-next-door scenario seem like the ideal way to find love, but what if your soul mate happens to live across the world?
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Keynote Speakers and Guests
The Pop Culture Conference has hosted some amazing Keynote speakers over the years!
Robert Shearman has worked as writer for television, radio and the stage.Rob was one of the writers for the BAFTA award winning first series of the revived Doctor Who series starring Christopher Eccleston. His episode, ‘Dalek’, was runner-up for a Hugo Award, and his award winning contributions to the audio range of Doctor Who released by Big Finish have been broadcast on BBC Radio. He also contributed to the second series of BBC1’s Born and Bred. His many plays for
Cheryl Cain is a television screenwriter. Her work includes the episode "War Stories" for the cult television series Firefly, and episodes of Roswell and Threat Matrix. She also wrote an additional script for Firefly, "Dead or Alive," which was not filmed due to the show's cancellation.
I spent most of my, what could termed, 'early career' at the BBC. I briefly worked first in the Photographic 'Stills' Library for Television News, then moved to the Visual Effects Department, where I stayed for around 23 years, making an overall total of a couple of months short of 25 years. (So no gold watch...)
I'm the TV critic for The Huffington Post and a juror for the Peabody Awards.
Robbie Thompson is co-executive producer of Supernatural and the author of some of the most thrilling episodes of the show, including the 200th anniversary episode, "Fan Fiction.” He has previously worked on the series Jericho, Human Target, and The Cape, and is currently working on a Marvel comic series, Silk.
Known colloquially as Mark Does Stuff, Mark has been running a series of review websites that chronicle his journey through various fictional universes... while completely unspoiled.
Lisa Klink started her career writing for Deep Space Nine and Voyager before coming back to Earth for shows like Martial Law and Missing She’s also written two issues of Batman for DC Comics and contributed a short story to the anthology Empower: Fight Like A Girl. Lisa now writes novels, including three books in the Dead Man series and All In, co-authored with Joel Goldman. She’s also a five-time champion on Jeopardy!
Dr. Lincoln Geraghty is Reader in Popular Media Cultures in the School of Media and Performing Arts at the University of Portsmouth. He is author of Living with Star Trek (2007), American Science Fiction Film and Television (2009) and Cult Collectors (2014). He has edited The Influence of Star Trek on Television, Film and Culture (2008), Channeling the Future (2009), and The Smallville Chronicles (2011).
Emmy-nominated Brannon Braga is currently Writer, Executive Producer, and Co-Creator of the drama series Salem. Braga was a key force as a Creator, Writer and Executive Producer of more than 300 episodes of the Star Trek series. For over 13 years collectively, he worked on The Next Generation, Voyager, and Enterprise. His film credits include Mission: Impossible II, Star Trek: Generations and Star Trek: First Contact. Braga also served as Executive Producer and Director on FOX’s re-launch of COSMOS, as Executive Producer and Writer on Terra Nova, Executive Producer and Writer on 24, Creator and Executive Producer of Flashforward, and Writer and Executive Producer on Threshold.
Maria Jose and John Tenuto
Maria Jose Tenuto has been a sociology teacher for 18 years at the College of Lake County. John Tenuto has been a sociology professor for 21 years, 18 of those at the College of Lake County. John and Maria Jose have conducted research on Star Trek fan subcultures and history, and their findings have been featured on BBC Radio, WGN News, the USA Today, and the Chicago Tribune.
Alanna Bennett is a Film and TV Writer for Buzzfeed. She is perhaps best known for her writings on Harry Potter and racebending Hermione Grainger. She has written previously for The Mary Sue, Bustle, and The Harry Potter Alliance. She writes entertaining content about entertainment, has interviewed talent, appeared on camera, covered live events, and worked in innovative formats. She tweets at @AlannaBennett
Dr. Christopher Bell is an Assistant Professor of Media Studies and the Director of Graduate Studies in the Department of Communication at the University of Colorado–Colorado Springs (UCCS). His academic books include Hermione Granger Saves the World! (McFarland 2012), Legilimens! Perspectives in Harry Potter Studies (Cambridge Scholars 2013), From Here to Hogwarts (McFarland 2015) and Wizards vs. Muggles (McFarland 2016). Dr. Bell serves as the chair of the Southwest Popular/American Culture Association’s Harry Potter Studies division.
Rachel Talalay is a celebrated and successful writer, producer, and director who made her film directoral debut in 1991 with Nightmare on Elm Street 6: Freddy’s Dead: The Final Nightmare. In addition to directing films such as Tank Girl and Ghost in the Machine, Rachel has become a prolific television director as well, including becoming Doctor Who’s first female director in four years, helming multiple episodes. She has also directed such television series as The Flash, Supernatural, Sherlock, Reign, and Riverdale, among many others.
Dr. Wickham Clayton is a lecturer in Film History and Theory at the University for the Creative Arts in Farnham, UK. He is editor of Style and Form in the Hollywood Slasher Film (2015, Palgrave Macmillan) and co-editor of Screening Twilight: Critical Approaches to a Cinematic Phenomenon (2014, I. B. Tauris). Wickham’s work focuses on film form and aesthetics, film genre (with some specialisation in horror), cult, adaptation, and the Biblical Epic.
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https://popcultureconference.com/keynote-speakers-and-guests
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Technology & Combat Characteristics
The Hashmal is one of the countless Mobile Armors that took the lives of a quarter of the world's population during the Calamity War . Mobile Armors are independent, unmanned weapons controlled by their own Artificial Intelligence (A.I.) . Meant for slaughtering humans, they will move towards areas with high human populations for that purpose . Like the Mobile Suits that were developed to counter them, Mobile Armors use Ahab Reactors as their main power source, have a frame made of high hardness, rare alloy, and are covered with nanolaminate armor, making them difficult to destroy .
The Hashmal is designed for ground use; its limbs are actually arms and can be stored in the shoulders . Despite being larger than a Mobile Suit, it is much more agile, appearing similar to a bird of prey during attacks . It is armed with a head-mounted beam cannon, a superhard wire blade attached to the back of its head, and a pair of claw-mounted kinetic energy shot launchers. It is usually accompanied by multiple small, unmanned units known as Pluma . Plumas are produced by the Hashmal itself, and they operate based on its orders . Besides serving as attack units, Plumas are also capable of repairing the mobile armor and play various support roles . The Hashmal’s core control unit is exposed on the underside of the head, but landing a direct hit is difficult; not only due to the nanolaminate armor on the rest of the machine, but also because of the accompanying Plumas protecting it .
- Beam Weapon
- Essentially a beam cannon, it is mounted in the head which will open up when the weapon is in use . Has high destructive power and effective range, but could not be fired instantly. It is not used in battles against Mobile Suits or other Mobile Armors, as nanolaminate armor are capable of diffusing beam weapons and minimizing their damage . Instead, the beam weapons are used by Mobile Armors for attacking humans .
- Kinetic Energy Shot Launcher
- Mounted in each claw, the launcher fires projectiles that are essentially rocket-powered spears . These projectiles with their high thrust propulsion system are capable of penetrating enemy's armor .
- Superhard Wire Blade
- A blade with high hardness attached to a wire made of a special alloy, it is mounted at the back of the head and cannot be reproduced with current Post Disaster-era technology . At room temperature, the wire's special alloy is viscous and can bend flexibly when charged with a trace amount of electrical current . The weapon can move easily in any direction, and can be used to launch surprise attacks from blind spots .
- Energy Supply System
- Built into the shoulders and located behind the large red panels, the system supplies power to the Plumas via microwaves . Although the system is not directly related to combat, it is proof that the Mobile Armor is an autonomous unmanned weapon, and hence an important function .
At some point during the Calamity War, Hashmal was trapped and buried in a large field of half-metal on Mars by its foes. Unable to detect Ahab Waves due to the half-metal, it entered a state of dormancy. However, the half-metal also made it impossible for Hashmal's foes to detect it. As the Calamity War ended, the Hashmal remained trapped and hidden, becoming one of the few Mobile Armors to survive the conflict.
In PD 325, Tekkadan uncovered the Hashmal while excavating the half-metal. McGillis Fareed quickly assembled a group to investigate, explaining the Mobile Armor's history and abilities to his Tekkadan entourage as they travelled to the site. While observing the half-buried Hashmal, they were suddenly confronted by a team of Mobile Suits led by Iok Kujan, who accused McGillis of plotting to earn an Order of the Seven Stars by destroying the Mobile Armor. Despite McGillis's warnings, Iok accidentally awakened the Hashmal when his Reginlaze moved too close to the pit, allowing the Mobile Armor to sense the Mobile Suit's Ahab Waves. After breaking free of the half-metal by firing its beam cannon, it deployed a swarm of Plumas and annihilated Iok's team. Tekkadan took the opportunity to flee and prepare a counterattack; on the other hand, Iok narrowly escaped with a badly damaged Reginlaze thanks to the sacrifices of his men.
With all immediate threats to itself removed, the Hashmal directed its Plumas to forage for fuel and materials. Afterwards, it set its sights on Chryse to resume its destruction of humanity. Tekkadan tried to ambush it in a canyon, but a failed attack by the vengeful Iok redirected the Mobile Armor towards the Agricultural Center. Ride used his Shiden as a shield against the Hashmal's beam cannon, but the beam diffused against the Shiden's nanolaminate armor, causing heavy damage to the complex and killing the civilians. Ride was then overwhelmed by the Plumas' sheer numbers, but was saved by the arrival of Mikazuki and his Gundam Barbatos Lupus. After disengaging the safety limiter on the Barbatos Lupus' Alaya-Vijnana system, Mikazuki heavily damaged the Hashmal and destroyed its core control unit, incurring significant damage to the Gundam and himself in the process. Following its destruction, the tail of the Hashmal was salvaged and transplanted onto the Gundam Barbatos Lupus Rex, Gundam Barbatos Lupus' upgraded form.
Notes & Trivia
- Hashmal appears to be named after the Hashmallim (or "Glowing Ones"/"Amber Ones"), one of the ten classes of angels in Judaism. As a result, following with the themes set by the Gundam and Valkyrja lines, it is theorized there are ten mobile armor classes (or at least ten mobile armor units) in the Post Disaster timeline.
- Hashmal bears a slight resemblance to Metal Gear RAY from Konami's Metal Gear Solid series. Both are bipedal, dinosaur-like mecha with enlarged "shoulder" appendages, long whip-like tails and narrow heads that contain powerful cannons (one variation of RAY was even armed with a particle weapon similar to Hashmal's beam cannon). Additionally, while the original RAY prototype was piloted, the various production models were all AI-driven.
- Concept-wise, Hashmal bears several resemblances to the Mobile Armor Sid from Mobile Suit Gundam AGE. Both are huge, dangerous automated weapons from a previous era of devastating war, have a generally avian build (including massive wings), and possess dangerous beam weaponry not used by modern mobile weapons.
- ↑ 1.00 1.01 1.02 1.03 1.04 1.05 1.06 1.07 1.08 1.09 1.10 1.11 High Grade Hashmal model kit manual
- ↑ Mobile Suit Gundam IRON-BLOODED ORPHANS Episode 35, Awakening Calamity
- ↑ 3.0 3.1 3.2 Mobile Suit Gundam IRON-BLOODED ORPHANS Episode 36, Stained Wings
- ↑ 4.0 4.1 4.2 4.3 4.4 4.5 4.6 'Mobile Suit Gundam Iron-Blooded Orphans Mechanics & World 2' Book
- ↑ 5.0 5.1 5.2 5.3 5.4 5.5 5.6 5.7 'Mobile Suit Gundam Iron-Blooded Orphans Mechanical Works' Book
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Japan is making progress towards the full regulation and legalization of ICOs, with a government-backed study from Tama University detailing how to approach the new fundraising technology.
The study from the Centre for Rule-Making Strategies at the university identifies that the ICO market is still well within its infancy, but acknowledges that the fundraising method’s ability to generate investment capital has garnered international attention and could be utilized effectively should the proper legal or regulatory frameworks be in place.
How to regulate an ICO
The research group that conducted the study was comprised of experts and advisors who worked across various industries and specialist fields; they sought to identify potential ICO use cases, and then frame a set of rules around them. The study reads:
“For the permeation and development of ICO, it would be desirable to set rules on “issuance of tokens” and “trading of tokens in the issue market.” As for the purchase and sale of tokens in the trading market, there are certain rules set force in the Payment Services Act. However, there are no laws or regulations stipulating explicit rules for issue markets, which leads to cases of misunderstanding between parties and cases of investors being left without protection.”
The report, which could be a catalyst for future laws surrounding ICOs, has a set of ‘issuance principles’ which are designed to keep ICOs transparent and accountable. One of which is that issuers should “define and disclose” how funds, profits and residual assets are to be distributed amongst investors, shareholders and debt holders.
Furthermore, the study goes into some details on how to track the progress of whitepapers, often the go-to document for any potential ICO investor; investors identify the development of all plans within the whitepaper and are able to view the history of updates and revisions within it.
Japan has been a notably volatile country in regards to ICO practices and Bitcoin operators; in late 2017, multiple media outlets reported that Japan was readying to ban ICOs entirely.
However, Japanese lawmakers and regulators have proven themselves time and time again to be extremely forward thinking when it comes to the adoption of cryptocurrencies. In 2015, in the wake of the Mt. Gox scandal, Japanese financial regulators began working out how to regulate domestic cryptocurrency exchanges, and in 2017 those visions were realized when Japan approved the registrations of 11 cryptocurrency exchanges, allowing them to operate legally in the country.
Despite Japan’s efforts to create a regulatory framework for exchanges, ICOs are the favored method of fundraising for blockchain startups and this report could finalize the legitimacy of cryptocurrency and all related technologies in the country, providing blockchain startups with the ability to raise funds through the previously controversial method.
Japan is part of the growing global movement to regulate and integrate cryptocurrency into respective societies; South Korea has been at the centre stage for a myriad of controversies and is now, similarly to Japan, making incredibly positive steps toward a secure crypto future that works for the public and the government.
The post Japan Establishes New ICO Regulation Guidelines in Government-Backed Report appeared first on BitcoinNews.com.
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The screams still echoed from the walls of the courtyard as the Empress - the Conqueror - She Whom the Known World Fears - passed through the carven door to her most private quarters. As she walked, she shed her gorgeous brocaded robes, each rustling to lie in her wake, in sure expectation that they would be immediately snatched up and carefully folded away. At the very door of her most inner sanctum, her heavy golden diadem was gently set upon the floor. Clad only in a simple silken smock, her dark hair humble and unadorned, she entered the chamber that was forbidden to all but her - and her god.
He was *there*.
She could feel His presence instantly, as the heavy doors swung silently shut behind her.
Sunlight streamed through the precious glass windows, and He was silhouetted against it, black against the golden light.
The words fell upon her ears in a light, amused tone. "A fine day's work".
"You saw?" She did not dare to look Him in the face - not yet.
Was He pleased with her? She could not tell. She licked lips that had suddenly gone dry. "It was necessary."
What WAS His mood? She had to know.
"The terror must be kept". (DAMN the quiver in her voice!)
"And you keep it so well".
Was He mocking her? Did He DARE to mock her, after all that she had done - all for His sake?
Finally, the fatal question.Let His wrath fall, if it would.
"Are you pleased?"
The leather which did not so much clothe His body as caress it, creaked softly as He moved toward her, in that arrogant stride that she loved so well. She sank to her knees at His approach, and sensed, rather than felt, His fingers trailing lightly over her hair. Their touch sent burst of fiery longing coursing through her...
She dared to ask again, "Have I pleased you?" - no longer caring for the desperation that was loud in her voice.
"And what have you done, that I should be pleased? " His tone was now clearly dismissive.
She was suddenly sparked to a suicidal anger.
"What have I done? You can ask that of me? What HAVEN'T I done? I've slaughtered thousands - for you! I have conquered entire continents - for you! I have faced armies ten times larger than my own and triumphed - for you! Every plan you have ever devised, I have carried out! I have waded through rivers of blood as high as my breast, ALL FOR YOU!!! And YOU would dare to ask me, what have I done?!!! The world kneels trembling at my feet - and it is all for you! For YOU!"
The words shattered against the stone of the walls.
Furious beyond thought, she moved as if to spring to her feet, but He was the faster. One strong, sinewy hand caught her shoulder in a punishing grip and pushed her back to her knees before Him, while the other grasped her hair, bending her head back, almost to the point of pain, forcing her to look Him in the face...
"Say it again! Who was it all for?" The words hissed out from behind a smile of poisoned sweetness.
For several heartbeats she stared her god in the face ... hating Him, loving Him, desiring Him, worshipping Him ... The breath crawled out from between her lips as she took Him in - the blue-grey eyes that seemed to glow in the dim light, the golden hair that haloed his head in a manifestation of what was surely his godhood....
"It was for you! All for you! For you! You are my love ... my master ... my god ... my Iolaus!"
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Long-standing conflicts blight swathes of Myanmar – from Kachin state in the northeast right the way across to Rakhine state in the west, where violence erupted again in 2017, pushing some 700,000 Rohingya people to flee across the border to Bangladesh.
In these conflict-affected areas, most people rely on the land, and in particular the natural forests, for food, shelter, fuel and medicines. Indeed, forests are estimated to contribute to the livelihoods of around 80% of Myanmar’s population.
Yet, since 1990 the country has lost more than a quarter of its forests – by some estimates the third-highest rate of deforestation in the world.
This has been fuelled by illegal logging, the unsustainable extraction of high-value timber such as teak, and the ever-growing trend of land being cleared for large-scale commercial agriculture, such as palm oil or rubber plantations.
Despite their close relationship to the local environment, communities have historically been marginalised from decision-making about land and natural resources, further fuelling their political, economic and social grievances against the central government.
Myanmar is currently in the middle of a lengthy process to negotiate a ‘voluntary partnership agreement’ with the European Union, which aims to help countries stop illegal logging by improving regulation and governance.
Together with our partners, we are advising communities, civil society groups, businesses and government officials on how to bring about the changes necessary to reach this agreement without exacerbating existing grievances.
We have supported 20 villages to set up forest committees, trained 346 women and 649 men on how to engage with the government, and facilitated nine dialogue sessions between communities, forest officials and government ministers.
In the Southern Shan and Kayah states, villages set up forest committees so they can “talk about their issues” and “solve the issues together”, explains Khun Thant Htun Oo, from our local partner Karuna Mission Social Solidarity.
We trained community members in the two states, and in the Magway region, on how to engage with the government – from forest officials to ministers – on improving forest governance and reducing illegal logging in their areas.
This has meant that local people can have a greater say over how the land and forests on which they so depend are managed.
“Now, the new checkpoint to check and stop illegal logging has been set up by the government after the dialogue,” says Salai Yan Naung Tun, a community leader from the Magway region.
“The dialogue gave me the space to talk about local issues,” says Salai Tone (pictured above), from the Magway region. “I connected with a network of people who are protecting the environment.”
Salai Zayar Laung, from a neighbouring village, “shared the knowledge” he gained at our training with his community, which is now working together to apply for a ‘community forestry certificate’ – a government scheme to encourage the protection and joint management of local forests by local people and authorities.
This project is run in partnership with Karuna Mission Social Solidarity and the Green Network – Sustainable Environment Group, and funded by the UK government.
It is part of our broader efforts in Myanmar to help ensure the country’s natural resource wealth can be managed in ways that support long-term peace and stability.
Photos: © U Aung Naing Oo/International Alert
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Saturday, September 8, 2012
Choose to Be Awesome regardless physical age
Most people give up their dreams when it doesn't manifest at the time they assumed it should. Often we give our dreams an expiry date before which we expect it to show up tangibly. Is this mature?
There is NO Biological clock at which you are no longer ''potent'' to dream! ;)
There is no AGE-LIMIT to dream and continue CREATING our Realities!
Every single age has it's AWESOME possibilities! Haven't we come across amazing individuals (who we unquestionably label as role models) who are OUTSTANDINGLY AWESOME at diverse ages?
Why do we consider them as EXCEPTIONS to rules of our Humanity?
Weren't/ Aren't they Beings of Energy/ Souls in Human bodies too? Imagine if they gave up on their dreams after a certain NUMBER of revolutions around the Sun? ;)
Be the BEST 30, 40, 50, 60, 70, 80 and 90 year old you CAN be! Each step has it's share of unique fun, contentment, Joy, and excitement!
We've been conditioned to believe Life's FUN should stops in our 20's. How silly?
Life begins when we DECIDE to LIVE it FULLY regardless our chronological age recorded on a piece of paper aka the birth certificate.
Our bodies are continuously renewing itself. Every cell of every organ with no exceptions! We only begin to age when we RETIRE from youthfulness.
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Just got some height/width/depth specifications of a new mobile phone and are unable to compare it visually yourself? sizeasy does an excellent job at this and only requires you to enter the dimensions.
3D view comparison between an iPod nano and a pack of playing cards:
Didn’t grab the screenshots for the other views, so if you want to check out the other views, just try it out yourself. ;)
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You Shall Go to the Ball…
Cinderella, the most magical pantomime of them, is wowing audiences at Southport Theatre this festive season, with happy families leaving five star reviews on the venue’s social media.
The show is packed full of everything you could want in a panto – hilarious slapstick comedy, a beautiful love story, magical effects, songs to sing along to, and costumes.
TV and theatre favourite Sam Kane stars as Buttons and, along with Jason Marc-Williams and Alistair Barron as Cinderella’s Ugly Sisters, he keeps the fun factor turned up to 10! With Toni Howard as Cinderella, Justine E Bailey doubling up as Fairy Godmother and the Wicked Stepmother, Jack Kane as Dandini and The Voice’s Tom Milner as the Prince, it’s a real family treat!
This fabulously festive show runs at Southport Theatre until Saturday January 6, check the website at atgtickets.com/southport for more details.
The Visiter has three family tickets to be won for the 2.30pm show on Wednesday, January 3. To be in with a chance of winning one of these prizes, just answer the following question…
Q: Who plays Buttons in Cinderella at Southport Theatre this year?
A: Sam Kane
B: Michael Caine
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Please email your entries, with Cinderella Comp in the catchline, to:
along with your name, address and contact phone number.
Closing date is 4pm on Friday, December 29. Usual competition rules apply.
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Dr. Anthony R. Scarpello, D.C. strives to provide a hands-on, drug free approach which will include an examination and comprehensive diagnosis. For over 40 years, Dr. Scarpello has been providing the individualized care plan for each patient in Secaucus and all surrounding counties.
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Dr. Scarpello is a member of the American Chiropractic Association.
He is a certified physician to perform Manipulation Under Anesthesia (MUA).
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The other day , I was surprised to get a 'hyper' critical comment about my matchbox tale and at first I was very upset. I thought about it and decided not to publish it. Yes, I know I should accept both good and bad criticism, but the more I read it the more I realised that who ever (they where 'anonymous') it was that posted the comment had wanted to hurt me rather than give constructive criticism (which I welcome)they obviously hadn't read my blog properly as they got a couple of significant facts wrong. Why do people do this ?
Anyway whoever you are you got your way in that you upset me but I think I'm over it now and will continue to write in my way as I choose. If you don't like it look elsewhere.
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Thomas Coville sets his sights on Joyon's record
Following news that Francis Joyon is to challenge one of his records , Thomas Coville has announced that his 105 foot maxi trimaran Sodeb’O is currently moored at Brooklyn’s Gateway Marina in New York, ready to set off on the North Atlantic record attempt – currently held by Joyon.
Sodeb’O has already covered nearly 40,000 miles around the world. Last winter, Thomas attempted to beat the solo round the world record and, twenty days after the start, the skipper broke the 24 hour speed record with an average of 25.8 knots, sailing 619.3 miles in the space of 24 hours.
A few minutes later, Sodeb’O lost one of its bows and the skipper was forced to retire from his round the world record attempt. Disappointed but never tiring of the adventure, Thomas headed back to South Africa. After over a month of repairs in Cape Town at the America’s Cup base of Shosholoza, Thomas Coville and his crew left the South African coast bound for New York.
Coville aims to complete the route from New York to Lizard Point, Cornwall, single-handed in less than 6 days, 4 hours, 1 minute and 37 seconds, a time set by arch-rival Francis Joyon aboard his trimaran IDEC in 2005.
“It’s true that the bar has been set high. Francis’ route is exceptional once again. However, maintaining the maxi Sodeb’O at an average of over 19.75 knots over 2,980 miles for 6 days remains an achievable performance” confides the skipper of Sodeb’O. Crossing the Atlantic on a 105 foot multihull single-handed is an extreme challenge. “You react like a metronome in your manoeuvres, eating, slaloming. the most important thing is to keep up a good pace. I’m expecting to be at 200% for 6 days!”
Keep up with his attempt here
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Monthly Archives: July 2014
credit: KBS World TV
Gagman Kim Byeong Man shed tears and took the blame for the injuries incurred by After School‘s Uee.
Byeong Man tearfully claims it was his fault when he saw Uee got hurt. “It’s my fault for being too unmindful of nature.”
On the July 18 episode of the show Laws of the Jungle, Kim Byeong Man together with Kim Seung Soo, Park Hwi Soon, Kang Ji Seob, Uee, Niel and James were filming in the Indian Ocean.
Kim Byeong Man saw the picturesque view by the rocks getting hit by the waves and went up the slopes to pose for some photos. The effect of the waves made it more inviting to have the memorable shots and the rest of the cast members followed him to the slippery rocks.
When they were forming a line and striking their poses, they were met by a big wave which made Uee fall on the rocks, her head getting a “Z” cut and a shoulder injury.
The doctors, who were with the crew, immediately checked what happened to Uee and decided that stitches were needed for her cuts on the head, while taping will do for the minor injury on the shoulders.
While all this happened, Uee managed to keep a smile on her face and felt bad for making the others worry.
Byeong Man couldn’t keep his tears from falling during the interview, as he recalls what happened at the location. He thinks that if it wasn’t for his actions, the unfortunate event may not have occurred and caused hurt to his fellow cast member.
The experienced athletic gagman, also a champion in the sports variety show Let’s Go Dream Team, felt even more sorry for having “the most gentle” member of the show be the victim of the accident.
He further added, “I only thought about my abilities. That is my fault.”
[NEWS] Uee Feels Sorry for Causing Others to Worry Over Her Injury on “Law of the Jungle: Indian Ocean”
After School‘s Uee has left a lasting impression on the viewers of “Law of the Jungle: Indian Ocean” with her courageous and considerate nature.
As previously reported, Uee was searching for food with the cast when she was hit by a large wave, causing her to fall down and hit her head against a rock. She suffered a head injury, and an open wound in her scalp begun bleeding heavily. Although she received first aid immediately after the accident, the deep cut caused others to constantly worry over Uee and her health.
Although the cast was surprised and worried over the sudden injury, Uee continued to smile and stayed strong even while receiving a shot to treat her wound. Feeling sorry for causing others to worry, Uee shed a few tears after returning to the base camp.
We wish Uee a speedy recovery!
Read more: http://www.soompi.com/2014/07/19/uee-feels-sorry-for-causing-others-to-worry-over-her-injury-on-law-of-the-jungle-indian-ocean/?utm_source=rss&utm_medium=rss&utm_campaign=uee-feels-sorry-for-causing-others-to-worry-over-her-injury-on-law-of-the-jungle-indian-ocean&utm_source=twitterfeed&utm_medium=twitter
After School member Uee has been hurt while filming the latest episode of SBS reality show “Law of the Jungle: Indian Ocean.”
The star has been taking part in the show, whereby celebrities are sent to remote islands in the Indian Ocean and divided into “tribes.” These tribes are then asked to complete challenges and fend for themselves in often hostile surroundings.
During the filming of the most recent episode of the show, however, there was a frightening moment for Uee, which followed a day of drama for the star. The tribe was beset with problems during the entire day of shooting, as their plastic shelter seemed in danger of being washed away by the tide. They were also running low on food.
After a foraging trip, the tribe managed to find some fruit growing on trees, and were enjoying their find when a huge wave swept through their camp, knocking the After School member off her feet. Although Uee received first aid, she appeared to recover quickly from her injuries, and even made inquiries as to the well-being of the rest of her tribe.
Fellow tribe member and popular comedian Kim Byung Man has praised Uee for her survival skills, and has even made a nickname for her, referring to her as a “pretty version of [TV survivalist] Bear Grylls.”
The episode will make up part of the broadcast set to be aired on July 18 at 10pm.
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On July 18, SBS’s variety program ‘Laws of the Jungle’ (Indian Ocean) revealed that there had been an accident during filming that ended with a bleeding head and shoulder injury for UEE.
Kim Byung Man narrated, explaining that he thought it was so picturesque where the ocean waves crashed into the rocks and sprayed upwards that he wanted to film over there. Gradually, each of the other members came over as well to enjoy the view. He explained that he had not expected the waves to reach them at all, except that he had been wrong.
At one point, a huge wave went crashing onto the rocks, covering the entire cast members until it disappeared, leaving all but one standing. The others were shocked to find UEE lying on the rocks somewhat unconscious, so filming halted at that point.
Later, she was shown sitting in a chair with the team doctor looking at the wound in her head. UEE had also sustained an injury on her shoulder, which the doctor assured would be fine after taping. However, the doctor revealed that the head injury would need stitches.
UEE said in an interview with the production crew later on, “I do not remember what happened exactly… I felt my body scoop up in the water… The moment I hit the rock, things went blank, but I did feel relief when I could hear the others.” She also said she felt sorry towards the other members for causing concern.
Park Hee Soon expressed some guilt as he said he had been standing right next to UEE, wondering with a heavy heart if he had not been able to grab her. Kim Byung Man, however, expressed even more guilt to the point of tears, saying that he was most at fault.
Hopefully, all cast members from now on will be extra careful to avoid any more injuries, big or small.
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Overlooking the Sea of Galilee
Based on extensive archaeological work, the 2008 Zeder paper on early domestication (see previous post) gives some estimates of where and when domestication of goats, sheep, cattle and pigs occurred as well as dates for the arrival in other Fertile Crescent areas. A map in the paper illustrates the location of domestication as being on the Taurus-Zagros Arc:
From the points of domestication, domesticated goats, sheep, cattle and pigs were brought southward into the Southern Levant.
Of particular interest are the dates for the introduction of domesticated goats. Travelling from the westernmost tip of goat domestication on the upper Tigris River 11,000 years ago, it takes 1,400 years to reach the northern tip of the Levantine Corridor. However, goat domestication then travels simultaneously from the area of the Natufian site Abu Hureira to the Southern Levant.
From the archaeological record, we know that the Late Natufian culture, with their distinctive exposed semi-subterranean houses, moved northward into the Syro-Arabian desert, reaching Abu Hureira, starting approximately 14,500 years before present: "The climatic improvement after 14,500 B.P. seems to have been responsible for the presence of more stable occupations in the steppic and desertic belts. Groups moved into areas that were previously uninhabited, from the Mediterranean steppe into the margins of the Syro-Arabian desert. Others came from the Nile valley, creating an interesting social mosaic."(link, p. 161) The "Syro-Arabian desert in the east accommodated only small Natufian occupations due to both their lower carrying capacity and the presence of other groups of foragers who exploited this vast region." (Ibid. p. 162).
Abu Hureira at the northern end of the Levantine Corridor
One possible explanation for the rapid transmission of goats from the area of Abu Hureira to the Southern Levant is that the Natufian culture adopted goat domestication from others in Abu Hureira and then immediately carried it southward.
For the domestication of sheep, cattle and pigs, the Zeder 2008 paper describes dates for the region of origin and destination in the southern Levant. From these, it is possible to estimate speeds for the dispersal of these livestock breeds. Since there are only two points for sheep, cattle and pigs, it isn't possible to know if the dispersal sped up or slowed down during the trip.
From the Isern and Fort paper, we have a rough idea of the speed of advance of European Neolithic farmers as a function of the population density in the area of advance.
This raises the question as to whether there was a similar slowdown with the Neolithic expansion southward into the southern Levant. We know that today the ADMIXTURE population components "West Asian", "Southern European" and "Southwest Asian" are distributed in an approximate normal distribution, indicating the phenomena of absolute density regulation and space competition. (link) However, a lot can happen in 10,000 years, so we cannot directly infer that Neolithic Fertile Crescent populations experienced space competition.
It is not difficult to plot the speed of the advance for goats, sheep, pigs and cattle from the point of domestication to the southern Levant. In the case of goats, the distance used is from the westernmost point of domestication in the Zagros to Abu Hureira. The other distances are calculated from the point of domestication to Jericho. These speeds (horizontal lines) are plotted with the c(m1) and c(m4) functions derived for the European Neolithic advance (Isern and For), to obtain c/cmax and c:
Note that values for cmax, D, a and T are replicated from Isern and Fort.
Goats and sheep seem to be the slowest travelers at about 0.3 km/year Pigs are a little faster and cattle are veritable race horses, travelling at 0.4 km/year.
Considering that Levant shepherds traversed mostly open woodland and steppe, these speeds seem very slow indeed. What's more, we know that since sheep and goats were the first to reach the Levantine Corridor, they were on the leading edge of the Neolithic advance. If there was already a population in the Levant such as Natufian hunters, it would be the leading edge of the front that would be the slowest. That appears to be the case for sheep. Pigs and cattle, who arrive 500 to 1000 years after sheep, are faster.
It is also notable that the Levant livestock speeds intersect the European m4 test function at approximately the distance actually travelled by Fertile Crescent shepherds and farmers from the point of domestication to Jericho: about 700 kilometers.
The goat data lend to the idea that Natufian Hunter-Gatherers adopted goat shepherding in the area of Abu Hureira 9600 years ago and very quickly introduced it in the Southern Levant.
Because we don't have a midpoint date and position for domestication of sheep, pigs and cattle, it is more difficult to infer whether it was Natufians or Northern Fertile Crescent farmers who brought sheep, pigs and cattle southward. It does seem that the southward advance was slow going, especially for the first wave of sheep herders, suggesting some kind of resistance.
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- December 8, 2016
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Breast Cancer: Expectations vs. Reality by Dr. Hajarat Ololu-Zubair
Breast cancer is the most common cancer in females, 99% occurring in females while 1% occurs in males. It is of higher rate in the developed countries compared with developing ones; possibly due to higher life-expectancy in the former, as it more common in the elderly women.
The mature human female’s breast is made up of fat, connective tissues and numerous lobules which produce the milk. During lactation, this milk get to the nipple through tiny ducts. Cancer that begins in the milk ducts is known as ductal carcinoma, which is the most common type, while the one that begins in the lobules, called lobular carcinoma is much less common.
Several risk factors have been associated with breast cancer. They include: old age, early onset of menstruation before age 12, late menopause after 55 years, not having children or having first childbirth after age 35, taking birth control pills, obesity, using hormone replacement therapy, drinking alcohol, the presence of BRCA1 and BRCA2 genes, and having a dense breast (that is, a higher proportion of lobules and connective tissues than fat) which can only be detected on mammograms or ultrasound scan.
Seeing a doctor
Symptoms of breast cancer may include painless breast lump, change in size or shape, nipple discharge, lump in the armpits, sunken or inverted nipple, pitting or redness of the skin over the breast, like an orange peel.
Early detection (figure below) is key through self and clinical breast examinations, and annual screening mammography in women who are 40 years and above and in younger women who have a high risk of the disease.
Breast cancer can be prevented through regular physical exercise, avoiding alcohol consumption, breast-feeding, consumption of healthy and well balanced diet and limiting the use of hormone replacement therapy.
Breast cancer is most treatable when detected early. Possible treatment includes surgery (removal of the lump or the entire breast), radiotherapy, chemotherapy and hormone therapy.
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It’s high time to separate the hype from the reality when it comes to blockchain. Is it going to save the world? Is it useful for creating new business solutions or only for cryptocurrency? Let’s find out from experts in the field.
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Norio Matsui was born on April 15, 1951 in Tokyo, Japan. He is an actor, known for Ran (1985), ...
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DAY 1 On the way to South Africa
DAY 2 Johannesburg overnight and orientation
Upon arrival in Johannesburg, we’ll be met and escorted to O.R. Tambo Airport’s InterContenental Hotel for an overnight stay. After a relaxing dinner, we’ll have a trip briefing.
DAYS 3 TO 5 Richard Branson’s beautiful Sabi Sand Game Reserve
“At Ulusaba, we have set out to create the most beautiful game reserve in Africa,” says Sir Richard Branson. This website brims with beautiful safari lodges, camps, and game reserves, and we have our own favorites, but there’s no doubt that Branson & Co are giving Ulusaba their best effort, which—as you know—entails a lot of creative, sumptuous, high-spirited best.
We fly to Ulusaba Private Game Reserve—in the vast Sabi Sand Reserve, adjacent to Kruger National Park—on a short scheduled charter flight and immediately begin to savour its distinctive mix of down-home hospitality and thoughtful luxury. Our rooms in Ulusaba’s Safari Lodge are designed to give us an intimate feel for life in the bush (some are built tree-house style); we watch from our private verandah as animals stroll by on their way to the nearby watering hole, we swim in the lodge’s pool, dine al fresco (or restaurant style, or in our room), pay visits to Ulusaba Reserve’s well-populated animal troupes and solo stars by four-wheel drive vehicle or on guided walks, and maybe amble over to the the Lodge’s Aroma Boma Spa, which specializes in “Africology,” using time-honored local materials like rooibos, aloe, marula and African potato.
DAYS 6 & 7 The supercalifragilistic Cape Winelands
We fly from Ulusaba’s private airstrip to Cape Town via Johannesburg and drive due west into the Winelands and our hotel, Mont Rochelle, another picture-pretty Branson gem, luxuriously well wrought, serene and welcoming, with the promise of “…a soft and golden morning, alert with the praise of birds,” as the great Elspeth Huxley wrote about a different, but wonderfully similar African place.
We spend the next couple of days exploring the Winelands, South Africa’s scenic treasure, graced with bang-up views that—with all due respect— out-drama Napa and Sonoma. We wander in the sparklingly kempt Dutch colonial towns of Stellenbosch, Paarl, and Franschhoek, dropping in on family-owned cheese farms and vineyards, lunching at the renowned Delaire Graff Estate (where, one guest wrote, “luxury meets stunning surrounds”). We’ll ramble in Paarl’s Spice Route, a brilliantly curated series of shops and attractions and artisan showcases, indulging in chocolate and wine pairings and innovative craft beer, and we’ll watch Liz Lacey and David Jackson blow decorative glass like John Coltrane blew the sax. And we’ll spend an afternoon at the fourth-generation Kanonkop Wine Estate, sampling its wares and roaming its collection of paintings, sculptures, and ceramics by some of South Africa’s most revered and excitingly upcoming artists.
DAYS 8 TO 10 Cape Town’s natural and urban delights
Cape Town has proudly vaulted to the top tier of the world’s favourite cities. In 2014 it was ranked the world’s number one Place to Go in the New York Times’ annual list (we contribute our Capetonian praise elsewhere on this site). Cape Town is graced with a theatrical setting in a natural amphitheatre giving way to Table Bay, ringed with Devil’s Peak, Signal Hill, Lion’s Head, and the monarchical, ever-enchanting Table Mountain. The Cape Floristic region, a unique bit of natural magic, is home to more than 6,000 plants found nowhere else in the world. Cape Town’s cultural, artistic, and culinary life is perhaps Africa’s most bubbly. And our hotel, the magnificent One&Only, right on the fizzy Victoria & Alfred Waterfront, is stage centre on one of the continent’s greatest shows.
We’ll head over to the Cape Floristic Region, a scenery- and nature-lover’s nirvana, pay our respects to the penguins at Boulders Bay, and enjoy lunch at Harbor House, on the shores of False (but nonetheless very comely) Bay, looking up an impressive 6,500 feet at Du Toits Peak. We’ll take the aerial cableway to Table Mountain’s once-glaciated summit and delve into urban Cape Town and its environs, spending some time with Rosie at her stalwart Rosie’s Kitchen in Khayelitsha Township, where she feeds locals and children in need, and visit with Golden as he and his crew transform old cans into unforgettably gorgeous flowers. And throughout our Cape Town stay, our Micato Safari Director will be close by, introducing us to the city’s iconic and lesser-visited sights, proudly showcasing a city and region that, as the Times says, “takes your breath away.”
DAYS 11 & 12 Morning in Cape Town, then heading home
After a great O&O breakfast, we’ll have ample time to pack and freshen up at leisure before we’re escorted to Cape Town International for our flights homeward, arriving on Day 12.
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After losing his family in a tragic terrorist attack when he was but a child, the main protagonist of Kure-nai, Shinkurou Kurenai, made a pact to stay strong no matter what. Now a high school student, he works with Benika as a mediator and lives with the Houzuki family, training and gradually mastering the family martial arts. Together with other members of the team, Shinkurou aims to aid those who seek his help. One day, Benika brings a beautiful 7-year-old girl from a wealthy family, Murasaki Kuhouin, to the Houzuki house. When Shinkurou asks for a more challenging mission, he is left with the task of guarding this young lady. At first, he takes these orders for granted. However, when he comes home to find that Murasaki is gone, he panics, frantically running around to search for her. Thankfully, he soon finds her, and from that moment on, a bond between Murasaki and Shinkurou is formed that is sure to evolve into something more. Will Murasaki be able to help Shinkurou get past his tragic past? Or is it the other way around? How will these two face the challenges sure to come their way?
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I am a great believer in flexibility and mobility. I don't preach to be the best, but I frequently practice stretching and am a regular yoga attendee [addict]. My number one motivation to stay flexible and mobile is because I know that it's an investment for my future active self. To employ a cliché often 'stretched' to its limit: I must use it or lose it!
So, what are some of the benefits of being flexible and mobile?
First of all, and I think primarily, freedom of movement. Like anything else we can do at the time, I believe we take our movement for granted. To be able to pick something off the ground without the hamstrings feeling tight, or without the fear your back will hurt. A few years ago, I had surgery on my knee. It's frustrating, as an active person, to go from doing so much to then then having to stop so much of what you loved doing. Knowing what the recovery process felt like, this gave me enough reason to not allow myself to deteriorate in my mobility in such a way that it should ever impact on my active lifestyle.
When we're exercising, and particularly resistance training, alongside correct technique, we also want to move with as much range of motion as safely as possible in order to get the most benefit from our exercises. Repeated movements of muscles under tension can over time create tight muscles, shortening our range of motion (ROM). For example, running and even weight lifting, etc… Repeatedly being stationary can also decrease ROM. Effectively stretching can combat this so you can continue to get the most out of your exercise and continue to move with effective and safe ROM.
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Static stretching before exercising does not decreases risk of injury. It can in fact increase the risk of injury. Stretching a muscle helps to relax the muscle and then when loaded, the join can become unstable due to the relaxed muscle around it.
Static stretching before exercising does not increase muscular performance. It actually has the potential to decrease performance due to the fact that the muscles have been relieved of a bit of tension and the muscle being more relaxed.
Stretching for the purpose of reducing Delayed Onset Muscle Soreness (DOMS) is ineffectual.
So then, what should you be doing with your stretches in accordance with exercise and what types of stretches should you be doing in order to get the most out of your exercise?
To make the most out of your exercise, the best thing(s) you should be doing is warming up. Great ways to warm up are doing low intensity movements of what you're about to do. These would include 'dynamic stretches', say - if you were about to go for a run. Typically, dynamic stretches will incorporate your hips, legs and core. Movements such as legs kicks 'cat & cow' (if you're familiar with yoga), gentle supine twists are all examples of dynamic stretches. If you wanted to warm up for a weights session, incorporating some dynamic stretches and 'warm up sets' where you would perform the weights exercise at a lighter weight than what would challenge you, in order to warm up the muscles and the joints that are about to be loaded.
Static stretches are best done post exercise and while your muscles are warm. When your muscles are cold, you are at a greater risk of harming the muscle being stretched. With the ambition of gaining greater flexibility, static stretches should be performed frequently, after every exercise session. (Ideally somewhere around 4 times or more each week) When stretching statically, the goal is not to take to be in pain, but you do want to take the stretch to the edge of discomfort. Like we stress and put tension under a muscle with weight training in order to make it stronger, we must also stress a muscle and joint, with stretching, in order to gain further flexibility. I'll repeat though, that we take it to the edge of discomfort and not pain.
There are differing ways to perform static stretches. The most conventional and practiced way is to hold the stretch for approx. 20-30 seconds, release and then repeat at least 3 times. The other common way static stretches are performed is to hold the stretch at a lesser intensity but for 3-5 minutes and is a more relaxing way to stretch. In both types of stretches, breathing should always be slow, deep and deliberate.
So, to summarise, if you're wanting to increase your flexibility and mobility, make sure you spend no less than 10 minutes on stretching after every workout, so that you incorporate at least 4 stretches in your week. Make sure that prior to your workout, you spend time warming up and performing dynamic stretches instead of static stretches. You may also want to create for yourself a regular stretching routine, come along to a Vision 'Revive' group training session or maybe even try some yoga.
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Atletico Madrid right-back Juanfran insists he is not afraid of taking a penalty against Marseille, despite hitting the post from the spot in their 2016 Champions League final defeat against Real Madrid.
The Spain international was the only player that failed to convert in the penalty shoot-out after a 1-1 draw, as Atleti failed to beat their rivals in the showpiece for the second time in three seasons.
But the 33-year-old is adamant there will be no mental scars should he need to step up in Wednesday’s Europa League final against Marseille in Lyon.
“If the coach tells me to take one, I will take it. I have no fear.” Juanfran said to Marca.
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Juanfran also asserted that his star team-mate Antoine Griezmann is unfazed by the persistent speculation over his future, and is fully concentrated on the task at hand in his native France.
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Generating "without skin" seems to eliminate "continual refresh"....however TOC vertical sizing issue remains.
When run from USB Thumb Drive:
Contents Tab: does not size Vertically and there is NO Horizontal Scroll Bar.
Index, Search & Glossary Tabs show both Vertical and Horizontal Scroll Bars when selected.
So the issue is that the window covers a certain depth but the TOC only goes down a small proportion of that and does not continue and display the rest of the TOC?
If I am on the right track, see the last post in this thread.
Also search on Firefox with your history set way back. You will get quite a lot of hits but I am sure I have seen this somewhere before.
In a generated project the TOC displays within the navigation pane as expected...but the navigation pane is somehow "limited" to the initial TOC display with none of the 4 books open. (Firefox/UNIX)
When same project is viewed on Windows Browser the TOC is capable of expanding the full height of the navigation pane on the left side (with all 4 books open and easilly viewed)
It seems to have something to do with the "generated" scripts (?DHTML?) If I manually edit and add an entry to the TOC the topic is just out of view at the bottom "limit" of the navigation pane. The navigation pane appears to be full height on the left side.....however the TOC will only display within the original height with all Books closed? It is however nice enough to provide a vertical scroll-bar on the right-hand side of the navigation pane...so I can scroll down to look at opened books.....:)
So the difference is between Firefox and Windows?
Does FF have the Firebug add-on installed? If it does, disable it and try again.
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Doing Scrum, Being Agile › Story writing and getting ready for implementation
The purpose of a User Story is to help the Product Owner explain why the feature is needed and whether it should be implemented. Assuming the answer is yes, the team to understand who needs it, why they need it, and how to tell whether they have a good implementation. And stories going in the Sprint need to be small, so the team can get them finished quickly.
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Journal of Law, Culture, and the Humanities
Online; print edition forthcoming
By treating spatial conflict as one way communities wrestle with the memory and legacy of slavery, this article unites critical landscape analysis, a tool of legal geography, with legal and cultural analysis and recent scholarship on African American reparations. A slave cemetery lay beneath a parking lot in Shockoe Bottom, a neighborhood of downtown Richmond that was once a major slave-trading hub. In recent years, controversy arose over the site’s use, generating racially charged local debate and two failed lawsuits seeking to preserve the site. This article examines the significance of the African Burial Ground controversy by analyzing its symbolic, discursive, spatial, and legal dimensions. Although the law ostensibly protects ancestral graves from desecration, it demands that a plaintiff demonstrate biological descent from the interred in order to make a claim; as this case demonstrates, standing is denied to those whose family histories were obliterated by slavery. I argue that the plaintiff’s lack of standing before the law, which is rooted in slavery, cannot be separated from other, social and political forms of illegitimacy historically inscribed upon African Americans. Here, claims of desecration were relegated to the political arena, where redress was possible but subject to the vagaries of local, state, and national racial politics. Community activists, unable to protect the Burial Ground through the force of the law, instead mobilized the spectacle of the law, and achieved a surprising out-of-court resolution to the conflict.
Hong, Mai-Linh. "''Get Your Asphalt Off My Ancestors!'': Reclaiming Richmond's African Burial Ground." Journal of Law, Culture, and the Humanities Online; print edition forthcoming, (2013) : 1-23.
African American Studies Commons, American Art and Architecture Commons, American Studies Commons, Cultural Heritage Law Commons, Ethnic Studies Commons, Historic Preservation and Conservation Commons, Law and Race Commons, Property Law and Real Estate Commons, Social History Commons, Urban, Community and Regional Planning Commons
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What do I get when I book Full Circle for my function?
When you make a booking with Full Circle, we quote for the industry standard 5 hour time block. This can obviously be extended at an additional cost (see Optional Extras). We recommend 4 x 45 minute sets, and require a minimum 15 minute break between these long sets. Sets can obviously be broken up into smaller segments to meet the particular requirements of your event however we find this arrangement works well for most functions. Typically we will work our sets around the particulars of your event, such as speeches, cutting of the cake, bridal waltz etc. We prefer to work to a running sheet, however sets may be rearranged on the fly if things fall behind schedule or situations change. We will do our best to accommodate your needs and are quite flexible within reasonable limits. Talk to us about your wishes and we are sure we can come up with suitable set-times. The quoted 6 hour block starts from the first note played. We do not charge any extra to set up, sound check or pack up after your function. These elements are not counted towards the 6 hour time period and are included at no cost.
Do we need to provide each band member with a meal?
Yes. The band will generally be spending upwards of six hours at your function, not including travel time. We therefore require and do appreciate a meal in order to keep us going throughout your function. You will find most venues include meals for musicians/entertainers as part of their packages. If you use private catering please make sure they are aware we are to be part of their catering arrangements.
Are there any hidden costs?
No. We pride ourselves on a transparent booking process and respect and understand your need for an unambiguous fee-structure when using our services. Our quoted fees are all inclusive, with no hidden costs or extras, unless you explicitly request one of our optional extras. Prices include GST and there are no additional agent’s fees (as we are self-managed).
When are additional fees charged?
The only time you will be asked to pay above our regular listed prices for a standard function, is for large corporate functions (and only at certain venues) in December. This is an extremely busy time of year and often the venues hosting these functions require extended load-in times, exacerbated by complex security arrangements (e.g. Etihad Stadium, Crown Casino, Melbourne Convention Centre). Weddings and regular functions in smaller venues are not affected and remain at the regular listed prices. Please email us at http://www.fullcircleband.com.au/ to discuss exact pricing for functions and corporate events in these larger venues throughout December.
Extra fees are charged when travel requirements extend beyond 50km, as calculated from the Melbourne CBD:
50-100kms Extra $50 per musician
100-150kms Extra $100 per musician
150-200kms Extra $150 per musician
200kms plus Please contact us to obtain an accurate quote
Extra fees are charged when you explicitly ask for any of the following optional extras:
Additional musicians: Our augmented line-ups make use of only the best musicians Melbourne has to offer and are charged at an additional rate of $350 above the regular band rate. These musicians can be any additional combination of trumpet, trombone, saxophone and our amazing Latin percussionist.
Stage lighting: A lighting rig can be hired at extra expense for larger evening functions. The production size will be tailored to accommodate the size of the room and the number of guests.
MC function: Full Circle can provide you with the use of our experienced MC to help your event run smoothly. This function is usually undertaken by the lead singer of the group, for an additional fee of $150.
What happens during the band breaks between sets?
All Full Circle functions include the free use of our full-size Public Address (PA) system, something many bands charge $200 or more for. As well as amplifying the band, the PA is also used to keep the atmosphere buzzing during set breaks, when the band is not playing. We always carry a selection of appropriate background music and dance-floor music to be used at appropriate points throughout the night. This set-break music is provided on our iPod.
Can I use the band PA and organize my own backing music?
You are more than welcome to use the band PA for speeches and you can also provide your own background music if you prefer. This may be a collection of your favourite tracks that can be used to personalize key moments throughout your function, or you may simply want to use the one special pre-recorded track for your bridal waltz. We strongly suggest the use an iPod or similar music player, as CDs are notoriously troublesome, particularly those burnt on a computer, as they do not play on all CD players equally well.
Can the band play for my bridal waltz?
Most people prefer to use the pre-recorded original version as this is the exact version they know and love, however we can learn and play a song of your choice for your bridal dance if you prefer. Feel free to talk to us if you are having difficulty selecting something appropriate for this part of the evening. Please bear in mind that immediately following the bridal waltz, the full bridal party is usually invited to join the happy couple on the dance floor. The remaining guests usually follow after that, so it is important to set the right tone with this first dance tune. If you have choreographed a particular dance sequence then we highly recommend the use of the original recording, as it will be the same speed, length and form as what you have rehearsed.
How do I choose what music the band will play over the course of my function?
Full Circle specializes in contemporary and classic pop and funk tunes, in addition to a healthy dose of jazz, blues and lighter rock material. We pride ourselves on knowing what songs to play when. We tailor our selections to the mood of the room, reading and guiding the energy of your guests via a careful selection of appropriate music. We also pay attention to your needs in getting through any necessary formalities and moving between these requirements seamlessly and fluidly. Please refer to our song-list PDF, and also our example set-list PDF, for a representative sample of our repertoire. If there are particular tracks amongst these that your really love or are a pet-hate, please let us know and we will adjust our sets accordingly. We will try our best to accommodate specific song requests whenever possible, but these requests should be made with plenty of advance warning and be in the ballpark of the styles of music we play. We are not a heavy rock band, nor are we a classical orchestra, so please keep this in mind when booking us and making song requests.
Will you play past the set time frame if we need you to?
We will organize the playing time period at the time of booking. If however, you have reached the end of the scheduled time and feel that the night is still going strong and you would like the band to continue we can accommodate this at an additional fee of $100 per musician per extra hour time block. For example, for the 5 piece band to play an extra hour = $500 in addition to the agreed fee. This time extension however, must be cleared with the venue, and bear in mind that some venues will charge a large premium for this, as their staff will need to be paid overtime. We need express permission from the venue function manager to keep on playing after the scheduled time.
What are the steps required to make a booking?
Decide on what band size and configuration you prefer.
Give as much detail about your event as you can so that we can give you an accurate quote. Our quotes include the GST, include all standard sound equipment and have no additional costs unless you specifically request any optional extras.
We will send you a formal individualized quote if and when you decide to lock in a date and have decided on a band size and configuration.
If you agree to accept our formal quote, we will then ask that you provide us with the contact details of your MC and your venue’s function manager and a detailed running sheet as soon as this has been decided upon. Formalities during the night such as toasts, speeches, cutting of the cake and dances should be clearly listed. We understand that things can and do change, however just do your best in giving us at least a basic outline. It is always ok to make changes, but please keep us in the loop, giving us as much notice as possible and talking any major changes through with us.
Significant changes to your booking may require a revised quote. These changes can generally be accommodated if we are given ample notice. Examples of major changes include:
Changing the venue to one drastically different or much further away.
Changing the date, starting time or significantly extending the running time of the function.
Changing the band set-up time to significantly earlier.
Deciding later that you would like the band or a duo to play for your ceremony before the reception.
Specific song requests and selections for bridal waltz music should be forwarded to us as early as possible so we can learn the material.
Confirmation of all details should occur no later than one week prior to the function date.
How do we pay you?
Payment by cash or cheque on the night is fine, however if you prefer to have one less thing to organize on the night, you can make a payment by direct deposit. Please contact us at firstname.lastname@example.org for our bank details.
What happens on the function date?
Before the function, the band will generally arrive before your guests in order to set up and sound-check if required. The arrival time will depend on the size of the band and their set-up needs. Please check to make sure that the venue is aware of the band arrival time and please keep the venue function manager informed of your and the band’s requirements.
During the function, the band will continuously liaise with the MC or function manager to ensure that the event runs smoothly. We understand that the best plans often go astray or change on the night, so we will work with them to keep things running on time. In general we will take orders from the function manager regarding stopping or starting playing if things have strayed markedly from the running sheet. When they request us to do something, we will assume that it is ok with you, as they have been entrusted to take on this role.
How much space do you need and what are your power requirements?
Our standard 5 piece band is quite compact, so unless the venue has a stage, we can just as easily fit into most room corners. Be aware though that with a PA system (and light show if applicable) you won’t want to set us up directly next to tables of guests, particularly in a large room where our sound needs to fill the room. Usually we are set up next to the dance floor, but we are flexible! We will provide our own extension leads and power boards, but we will need access to a minimum of 1 standard 10 amp GPO.
Will the band play outdoors?
If required, the band can play outdoors, however this is conditional on adequate shelter, sufficient and stable power, a solid and level floor, and no water or gale-force winds directly affecting the performance area. Our equipment is sensitive to the elements so please make sure you have us under a solid and weatherproof shelter. If playing outdoors, you will need to organize a suitable marquee with adequate power.
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Sunday, October 03, 2010
THE JESSE GREENE BAND @ LE PETIT CHICAGO (GATINEAU) - WED., OCT. 6
A First Show on the Quebec Side for “The Greene Machine” at the 12th edition of Virées Blues Boréale.
Discovered by Virées Blues Boréale during the finals of the “On The Road to Memphis” competition, sponsored by the Ottawa Blues Society, in 2009 where we were judging, this young group from the Ottawa region came out a solid first in this competition; that sent them as the region’s selection at the 26th edition of the famous “Memphis International Blues Competition” in the “Group” category. They defeated 111 other groups and were selected at the Hard Rock Cafe. They were the only Canadian group to reach the finals at the legendary Orpheum Theatre.
Always on the look-out for Blues sensations, Virée Blues Boréale presents, for the first time in Quebec, the Jesse Greene Band. Probably one of the youngest veterans of the Blues scene in this region, Jessamyn, alias Jesse Greene, at only 26, has a killer-technique on the guitar and an impressive experience list with her former much acclaimed group, an afro-world beat-jokko style, as well as with the legendary canadian Bluesman, Tony D. She travelled the region to spot the best Blues, Jazz and Rock musicians and made them into the Jesse Greene Band, starring Luke Donovan on guitar, Marc Seguin on harmonica, Dan Grewal on bass, Jason Coté on drums and, for sure, the guitarist-composer with a Soul voice that Lynn Saxberg from the Ottawa Citizen proclaimed the new Blues sensation, Jessamyn Greene.
Right back from their highly succesful trip to Memphis, the Jesse Greene Band began producing their first album. The result is a new sound, but familiar at the same time, enriched with a powerful mix of contemporary, R&B, Rock and Jazz shots in out-of-time original compositions, in the purest Blues tradition. This album, launched last January, has already earned some very positive reviews from famous art critics, like the Ottawa Citizen’s Lynn Saxberg, D.D. Rocker of CKCU and the CBC’s Amanda Putz. Now YOU can come and discover this new group already at the top of the Blues charts.
The Jesse Greene Band invites you to Virée Blues Boréale, Wed., October 6/10, 8 pm, at Le Petit Chicago, 50 Promenade du Portage, in the Old Hull sector.
For inquiries or interviews, please contact Alexandre Petit at: email@example.com. You can find further information on our guest artist at:
www.thejessegreeneband.com or at:
You should also visit our own site, which always offers you links to all our guests’ sites and lots of other highly interesting information at:
www.vireeblues.ca or on myspace at:
and also on our facebook page under “viree blues boreale”.
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Snugpak - Jungle bag
The Jungle Bag is the perfect solution to an undisturbed night’s sleep when you’re out in the tropics.
- Weight: 900g weight includes everything.
- Antibacterial: Discourages the growth of bacteria which also results in a reduction of odours.
- Comfort: 7º use this as your main temperature guide.
- Mosquito Net: Roll away mosquito net included.
- Low: 2º experienced users who are used to severe conditions.
- Zip Together: Buy a left and a right hand to make a double (please check when ordering).
- Temperature Rating: Comfort: 7°c, Extreme: 2°c
- Pack size: 15 x 18cm (fully compressed)
- Weight: 950g including compression stuff sack.
- Roll away mosquito net
- Useful integrated pocket
- Antibacterial fabrics
- Can be folded out as a quilt
- Left or right handed zip
- Supplied with compression stuff sack for easy carrying
Micro diamond provides a lightweight, water repellent casing, produced to Snugpak’s exact specification. The mini diamond weave and the lustre of the yarn give a unique look and handle to this bag.
The latest breakthrough in antibacterial technology this specialist antibacterial and antimicrobial treatment on the outer and linings of all the Travelpak® range acts to discourage the growth of bacteria.
Travelsoft insulation is tailored to Snugpak's exact brief. Ultra lightweight high loft fine fibres are used which have excellent compressibility.
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A SITWOL is a
Summary In Twenty Words Or Less.
I have coined this term because I hate reviews with paragraph-long summaries explaining the plot. A bad reviewer, in my opinion, uses long portions of their review to explain the plot for the sole purpose of explaining the plot.
A reviewer does not need to explain the plot; that is what trailers and the actual movie is for. A reviewer needs to explain why they think a film is good or bad or neither.
So, whenever I think a summary is necessary, I condense it into twenty words or less. This challenges me to think of creative ways to explain the plot briefly. I ONLY explain the plot more in-depth if it is relevant to my criticism of the movie.
If you are a reviewer who finds the need to explain the plot in your review, please keep in mind that you usually don’t need to. It is oftentimes boring and unnecessary. Most people who read or listen to your reviews already know what the movie is about. Usually, if I see a review with a massive summary in it, I usually stop reading the review.
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There will be no meeting in December 2010.
Instead our first meeting of the new year will be Sunday January 23, 2011 at Common Grounds Coffee House in Lexington. The second meeting will be Sunday February 13th, also at Common Grounds. For March it would be good to get out of Lexington and hold a meeting elsewhere; city and location to be determined.
The January meeting will involve readings of members' plays in progress. If you have either a one act or full-length play that is ready (or will be ready) for reading please send a note to firstname.lastname@example.org so that your play reading can be scheduled. If you have a 10-minute or shorter play that you would like to have read, simply bring it to a meeting and it will be read as time allows.
In either February or March of 2011 we will schedule a public (music stand) reading of members' works at the Lexington Public Library Theatre. Watch the blog for more details.
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There are quite a few words that I could choose for this week’s word: holiday springs to mind (actually I meant to blog that one last week but I was too busy writing other blog posts of things we were getting up to on holiday whenever I was sitting at my laptop), and also chocolate (having given it up for Lent, it’s been on my mind quite a bit this week as the day that I can eat it again has drawn near). But I’ve gone for….
Although with 2 young boys to run around after I do often find myself getting cross, that’s not the sense of the word that I’ve been thinking about in the lead up to Easter Sunday. I’ve been thinking about a certain Roman cross, the tool of torture and execution upon which Jesus died. Not a particularly pleasant thing to think about, but I believe (along with other Christians) that it was His death that took the place of all the wrong things that I do. These wrong things (for example, getting cross at my kids, or being jealous of what others have) are what separate me from being close to God. But God loves everyone — yes, even me, even social outcasts, even criminals, even those who believe in other gods — and wants us to know Him, which we can do by believing in Jesus and what He did for us, if we choose (there’s no obligation).
The particularly amazing thing about what we celebrate at Easter is that death isn’t the end of the story. I believe that three days after He was crucified, Jesus rose from the dead. He beat death, he has the ultimate victory over all wrongs. And the key point in this for me is that anyone who believes that Jesus is alive again, can have a personal relationship with Him, with God, and that includes an everlasting life with Him in heaven after our short life on Earth. That’s what I’m celebrating this and every Easter, because I think it’s the greatest day in history in terms of how I live my life.
A few weeks ago in church, we heard about WaterAid jars of change for Lent. The idea is that you give something up for Lent, and every time you would have/do whatever it is you’ve given up, you put some change in the jar roughly equal to what you would have spent on it. You can decorate the jar for fun too. At the end of Lent, the money you’ve raised goes to WaterAid, who will use the money to help provide safe drinking water in countries that desperately need it.
We thought that this sounded like a good idea. I’d been thinking about what to give up for Lent anyway, and it was a good excuse to have some fun decorating a jar with Andrew – we used an empty marmalade jar. Andrew had been given a ‘paint your own mug’ gift for his birthday, so first of all we did that, and then used the paint to start our decoration on the jar.
I found some stencils in our craft box, and (surprise, surprise) Andrew chose the rocket stencil! Of course he insisted that we use red paint (the colour of Thunderbird 3), and I suggested we add some yellow detail at the bottom for the fire from when it blasts off. He also likes the colour pink, so we painted a pink band around the top. That was enough painting for one span of Andrew’s attention, so another day we finished off the jar by sticking on some small squares of paper with PVA glue in a kind of mosaic style – lots of fun and messy! Again, just about enough for his attention span, and finished off my me. Some red tape around the rim of the lid and ta da – it was finished.
Then we had to actually decide what to give up. When I say ‘we’, I mean Tom and I – I don’t think trying to explain to Andrew about giving something up would go down too well, and besides, he’s a bit young yet. But he can start to understand by watching us, as with so many things in a toddler’s life. My abstinence had to be chocolate, as that is something I will really miss and eat quite a lot of as treats to keep me sane on our busy days (which is most days with my boys). Tom decided on bananas, as he eats at least one a day and loves them. I know, bananas are much more healthy than chocolate anyway, but he’s not so fussed about that – if you can believe it.
Tom may be unusual in giving up bananas, but both of us are not unusual in the act of giving something up for Lent. This tradition has been going on for centuries. The 40 days before Easter, which starts on Ash Wednesday, the day after Shrove Tuesday or Pancake day, is a time of reflection for Christians. It’s a time to think about what Jesus did for us by dying on the cross and rising again – to make up for all the bad things we do that keep us distant from God – in the lead up to Easter when we celebrate this. Traditionally Christians used to fast, so give up all kinds of food, in this period, because this was a way to focus their minds on contemplating Jesus. Some do still fast, and others give up just one or two things, whether a food like we’re doing or something else, and spend the time that would otherwise be spent on this activity praying or reading the Bible – in other words, spending time with God.
So that’s what I intend to do this Lent. Whenever I think about eating some chocolate, whether as a bar or in something, instead I will pop some money in our jar of change, and spend some time in quiet reflection of what Jesus means to me. It’s handy that most of the time that I eat chocolate is when the boys are in bed or quietly amusing themselves, so I should have no excuse to not spend that time quietly. It may mean spending less time doing the things I like, like sewing, blogging, social media-ing (don’t think that’s really a word but it sounded good to me), but I know that I will benefit from it, I always do when I spend time with God.
Are you giving up something for Lent? What are your reasons behind it? Maybe you too could think about doing a jar of change? I’d love to hear if you do 🙂
No this post is nothing to do with the song by Queen! The title refers to the lullaby that Andrew and his friends sang in the nativity play at church on Sunday. This is the second year that the 18 months to 3 years group in Children’s Church has taken part in the annual spectacular that is the HT nativity play (HT = Holy Trinity, Cambridge). They were stable animals, who came on stage just after baby Jesus was born, and sang him a gentle song, the traditional lullaby of Little Jesus Sweetly sleep…
Little Jesus, sweetly sleep, do not stir
We will lend a coat of fur
We will rock you, rock you, rock you
We will rock you, rock you, rock you
See the fur to keep you warm
Snugly round your tiny form.
They’d been practising it in their Sunday morning sessions, and also at the Wednesday afternoon group that we go to at church. Most of them were a little stage struck, but it was very cute to see them all dressed as animals gathered around the manger whilst the music was playing. Andrew did do the rocking action with his arms, and uttered the odd word. I have a video, but as I don’t know whether all parents want their children online, I won’t post it here, nor photos with more than just my boys in.
As parents, we’d simply been told that they would be stable animals, so it was up to us to choose their costume. It was funny how most ended up being a sheep – all those white/cream knitted wooly jumpers and fleece jackets came out, with various items of headgear to represent the sheepish ears and facial features! My attempt at a sheep head was to take a white knitted wooly bobble hat that we already had, and hand stitch some black ears on. These were made out of an old pair of tights – I cut the two feet off and stuffed them with the rest of the length of the leg on each side. So a bargain and simple to make sheep costume.
After the play, there was a short talk given by one of the pastors, Diana, explaining more about the meaning of Christmas. She gave an illustration that I thought was very clever, so I thought I’d share it here. Jesus was born into the world as a gift to us from God, and there are three ways that we as humans tend to respond to this gift, which Diana illustrated by offering a beautifully wrapped-up gift to one of the other pastors, Matt…
1. We ignore Jesus (the gift) and get on with life without Him – this is like when Diana offered Matt the gift but he just stood there, silent and with arms crossed, and didn’t reply to any of her “here you go, here’s a present for you” offers.
2. We learn about who Jesus is and what he did when he was alive, but don’t go any further than this superficial understanding – this is like when Diana offered Matt the gift, and he acknowledged it, but was happy just to look at the wrapping paper, say how lovely and shiny it was, how pretty all the different colours were, and thank her for this nice wrapping paper.
3. We get to know Jesus as a personal Saviour, and believe that through His death and rising again we can draw near to God – this is like when Diana offered Matt the gift, he acknowledged it, and ripped open the wrapping paper, thanked her so much for the amazing gift, tried it on straight away (an adult-sized reindeer onesie!!), and showed much joy and appreciation of this kind present.
This Christmas, as we’re opening presents, I will remember this illustration, which reminds us why we give presents at this time of year – to celebrate the biggest gift that we have ever been given. How will you respond – 1, 2 or 3?
On Sunday, the boys looked inside the first stocking on their Advent calendar line of ‘socks’ (as Andrew refers to it); they got a chocolate treat, and we decided that they can take it in turns to consume the contents of the day’s sock – odds for Andrew and evens for Joel. This is our way of counting down the days until Christmas, which will soon be here. I’ve always enjoyed Christmas, and since having children it has become exciting seeing it from a child’s perspective again. The boys love spending time with their grandparents, uncles and aunts, and they get to do a lot of this over Christmas. Of course presents feature quite a lot over the days that we spend with family, and it is lovely to see the genuine joy expressed as a toddler rips the paper off and excitedly looks to see what’s inside.
Although all the celebrations are exciting in themselves, I also hope that my boys will come to understand the reason why we celebrate Christmas. Advent (from the Latin ‘adventus’ meaning ‘coming’) is a time when we as Christians often reflect on how Jesus, God’s son, came into this world as a baby. It was a very low-key event in earthly terms – his teenage mum from Nazereth (a small unassuming village back then) travelled heavily pregnant to Bethlehem to comply with the ruling Roman orders, and gave birth there in a shed of animals; only a few shepherds (who were fairly low in social status back then) heard about the birth immediately and visited soon after. Yet the reason why Jesus came meant that his birth was extraordinary, and certainly something that deserves a huge celebration over 2000 years later.
So why did Jesus come to Earth? The short answer is: because God loves us. Every week at our church, the kids all gather at the front before they go to their groups and we sing an action song together. This Sunday, the first in Advent, the song was a fantastic reminder of God’s love for everyone He’s made – here are the lyrics, and, if you can stand the slight cheesiness, a video of the tune and actions…
Some of us are big and tall
Some of us are very small
Some of us like pink and some like blue
Some of us like reading books
Some of us like feeding ducks
That’s because we’re different, me and you
But God loves everyone he’s made
God loves each of us, in a special way…
That’s you and you and you and you
And you and you and you and you
God loves you! God loves you!
That’s you and you and you and you
And you and you and you and you
We’re part of the big family of God!
Some of us have curly hair
Some of us have specs to wear
All of us have different families
Some of us are very loud
Some of us don’t make a sound
That’s because we’re different, you and me
But God loves everyone he’s made
God loves each of us, in a special way…
…One of the points of this song is a very important one for children to pick up – to know they are loved no matter what they look like or what they enjoy doing, because in a world of bullying and peer pressure to conform to what is socially desirable, it’s easy to feel different and left out. And the point in this song that GOD loves everyone no matter who they are is the link back to the reason why Jesus came that first Christmas.
All the bad things, big or little, that we do, think and say in our lives separate us from God who is perfect. But God is not at all happy with that situation, because He loves us so much, and wants us to know Him as our loving Father. So God sent His only son Jesus into this world as a baby, who grew up and showed the people living in the Middle East at the time some signs of what God and Heaven are like, and then was crucified in order to take the punishment for all those bad things WE do on HIMself. But because God is greater than death, Jesus came back to life and beat death. It is through His death and rising again that anyone and everyone who believes in Jesus can know God in a close relationship and ultimately have everlasting life with Him in Heaven. It is through God’s love for us, the fact that He doesn’t want to be separated from us by bad things, that Jesus came.
I have to admit that I’d like to spend more time this Advent reflecting on what Christmas means to me, because with two active boys to look after (one of whom doesn’t sleep beyond 4.30am most days or nap for long at a time), going out and doing all sorts of other stuff, and being somewhere on a continuum of tired to exhausted most of the time recently, I have found it hard to take any opportunity I have each day to sit quietly and pray (and not fall asleep!) So the fact that I have an Advent calendar right in front of me when I sit on the sofa will hopefully serve as a reminder to share my thoughts with Jesus daily, because it really is amazing when I do 🙂
This week, as well as Joel’s first birthday, has included the 31st October. Now to lots of people that means Halloween, but we’re not into celebrating something that originated in dark things, even though these days it’s just a vastly over commercialised festival that most people take part in without any intention of deliberately celebrating evil. Instead we like to join in with the annual ‘Light Party’ that’s put on at our Church, celebrating all things light, including Jesus who we believe is the ‘Light of the World’. We still have lots of fun dressing up, eating treats and spending time with friends, we just do it in a way that doesn’t remember anything like witches, ghost and the devil.
This year’s theme was ‘superheroes’, and children who went were encouraged to dress up as a superhero if they wanted to. I knew that Andrew would want to join in, and thought it would be cute if Joel did too. I also knew that I didn’t have much time to make costumes (a couple of hours last Saturday morning), but I did a quick search on Pinterest and got a few ideas for quick and easy superhero costumes.
I decided that the superhero kit would include: a cape with letter design, a belt, wrist cuffs with lightening bolt design, and a mask. They then wore ordinary clothes with these accessories – for Joel that was a nappy, leg warmers and a plain top; for Andrew that was trousers and a top that I painted a star on last Christmas for the Nativity Play, with pants on the outside. Andrew’s colour theme was yellow (mainly influenced by the star), and Joel’s was green (mainly influenced by his green star leg warmers).
The capes were made from an old black t-shirt of Daddy’s. I hemmed the edges quickly, and folded over the top, sewed it down and passed a length of elastic through to make a simple cape. I also appliquéd a letter in the centre for each of them: A for Andrew and J for Joel.
The belts and wrist cuffs were made from duck tape stuck onto paper, and then coloured card stuck on with double sided tape to make the ‘buckles’ and lightening bolt details. I was inspired by Martha Stewart’s blog to use duck tape for these. I then used snaps (which I use for nappy making) to secure them around the waist/wrist.
For the masks I simply cut out a mask shape, cut eye holes in, and fastened some elastic to go around the head using tape. I was amazed that Joel actually kept his on his forehead for the whole party, and Andrew wore his on his eyes for a while before it broke after some rather enthusiastic bouncing on the bouncy castle.
It was really hard to get good photos of them in the costumes at the party, most of mine are really blurry because they wouldn’t stay still! But I think you get the idea from the photo I took of the costumes before the superheroes got into them 😉 We had a lot of fun at the party; the boys (and I, and Grandma and Pop who came too) were all exhausted afterwards because they were constantly on the go exploring all the different games and activities that there were on offer, just like little superheroes who can never really rest with all the important work they have to do!
For a few years now we’ve been joining in with Operation Christmas Child – the world’s largest children’s Christmas project, run by the Christian charity Samaritan’s Purse. The mission of the project is to demonstrate God’s love in a tangible way to needy children around the world, and together with the local church worldwide, to share the Good News of Jesus Christ.
Since having children of our own, we have really appreciated how blessed we are to have enough money to feed and clothe them, as well as buy them other nice things, and to have family and friends who give us so many gifts for them that they are never in want of anything. For many children around the world, this is not what life is like.
The idea behind OCC is for people in the UK to send shoeboxes packed with gifts that children in less well-off countries would like to receive. These gifts can include various items from toys and stationary to toiletries and woolies. The shoe boxes should be wrapped up in bright and cheerful wrapping paper, and a sticker stuck on indicating if the gifts inside are for a boy or a girl and which age range they are suitable for.
In previous years we’ve always done one for a boy, just because I happen to have seen gifts that are more suitable for boys, and since having boys myself, I guess my eye is drawn towards these items in shops anyway. This year, however, when we popped into a few shops, I mainly saw things suitable for girls (or gender neutral) so we went for that. Andrew helped me choose what to buy, and I explained that we were getting these things as presents for a little girl who lives far away from us but who would love to have some nice presents this Christmas, just like he will. I’m not sure he gets the concept of someone living far away from us, but he seemed to understand that we were buying the gifts and putting them in the box for another child.
OCC like the gifts in the box to include items from all four categories: toys, stationary and school supplies, toiletries and other (sweets/hat/gloves/jewellery etc.) Our gifts included a bumper pack of wax crayons, a ‘Hello Kitty’ notepad/pencil/rubber/sharpener set, a beany teddy, a slinky spring, toothbrushes, soap, flannel, necklace, hair clips. All together these cost us around £10. In order to help with shipping costs, OCC also suggest a £3 donation, which can be done online by credit card.
We decorated our shoebox with red wrapping paper on the bottom, silver wrapping paper on the lid, and a ribbon stuck on the lid (you’re not supposed to wrap the whole box up or seal it by tying ribbon around the box, because sometimes they need to look in it for customs or other reasons), and finished off with a reindeer tag on the lid. We hope that the little girl who receives it will enjoy opening it and finding out what’s inside.
If you’d like to find out more about Operation Christmas Child, and even get involved yourself by packing a shoebox (or two, or three), visit the OCC website.
One of the groups we go to regularly is called Little Sheep, which takes place at our church, Holy Trinity Cambridge, on Wednesday afternoons. There is an activity for all the parents to do (recent ones that spring to mind were making fresh pasta, making a magnetic fishing game for toddlers, coming up with and sharing present ideas for children of various ages, a clothes swap), and the children have fun playing with toys and are looked after by volunteers from the church. Anyone with children under 4 is welcome to go. Every week there is a ‘thought for the day’, which has been described as ‘a bit like the ones on radio 4 but less intellectual’! A few of the leaders and other mums who go to the church take it in turns to give the thought each week, and we are usually given a broad topic to talk on however we’d like. This week it was my turn, and my topic was Father’s day. So this is what I said…..
As it’s Fathers’ I’ve been asked to do a thought for the day on God being our Heavenly Father. A couple of weeks ago, the daily Bible reading and short study that I get sent by email was from the book of Romans (which is Paul’s letter to the early church in Rome), chapter 8. You can read the whole passage and notes here. Verse 15 in the passage says that ‘the Spirit [that’s the Holy Spirit] you received brought about your adoption to sonship. And by him we cry, ‘Abba Father.’
Now I’d read and heard this verse read many times before, it’s quite a well known one, often used to illustrate that God is not a distant Father but one who we can run to like a small child and he will be there for us – ‘Abba’ is the Aramaic (or Hebrew) word for ‘Daddy’ rather than the more formal ‘Father’. I love thinking of God like this, someone I can turn to for a hug if things aren’t going well, and someone who genuinely cares, just like a good father here on Earth cares for his children. I think this hits home to me even more now that I see Andrew running to his Daddy when he comes home from work, shouting excitedly “Daddy, Daddy!”, and his Daddy picks him up and gives him a big hug. That’s how God wants to be to us, and I imagine myself running to him shouting “Daddy” and him giving me a big hug.
Going back to the verse from Romans, the first part of it talks about our adoption to sonship through the Holy Spirit. I understood this on quite a superficial level before, and it always reminds me of a rather cheesy 80s worship song that has the line “Now I am your child, I am adopted in your family, and I will never be alone, cos Father God you’re there beside me”. But my study notes email a couple of weeks ago gave some background on what this meant in the context of the Roman Empire at the time that the events of the book took place and therefore what it would have meant to the original readers.
In first-century Rome, wealthy people would often adopt a young boy (who was often one of their slaves) to become their son. This adoption was a public act, and the boy received a new status and security, a new family and inheritance; an adopted son, unlike a biological son, could never be disowned or abandoned, and he could go to his adoptive father whenever he wanted. So when Paul, the writer of this letter to the church in Rome, uses the word ‘adopted’ when talking about these early Christians’ relationship with God, the same is true, and the same is also true for anyone who believes in Jesus today: God is our Heavenly Father who has adopted us into His family – we have a new security in God rather than worldly things, a new family including all the other Christians in the world, and our new inheritance is a new life in Jesus that lasts beyond our life on this earth.
This analogy with Roman adoption isn’t something I knew about until the Bible study recently. And now that I do know this context, the meaning of the verse is even clearer to me. I know that God will never abandon me. I know that I am blessed with a good relationship with my parents, but if that wasn’t the case, I imagine that it would be a great comfort to know that God my Heavenly Father would be someone to turn to.
Whatever your relationship with your own dad is this Fathers’ day – maybe it’s good, maybe it’s not, maybe your Dad isn’t around any more – wouldn’t it be amazing if you had someone even bigger and even better to run to calling ‘Daddy’ just like a child?
Every Thursday morning, the boys and I go to a group at church – it’s for women of any age, most of us have children of various ages, and there is a lovely student who looks after the toddlers (who love her!) whilst we read a passage from the Bible, discuss what we’ve read, and pray with each other. This term we’ve been looking at the book of Acts (short for Acts of the Apostles – they were Jesus’ first followers), which was written as an account of what happened to Jesus and his followers after He had died and risen from the dead.
The first chapter of the book describes how Jesus stayed with his followers for 40 days after he rose from the dead, then, as they were all eating a meal together, Jesus went back up into heaven. We were discussing in our group how the followers might have felt at this moment; I think I would have felt like a complete emotional wreck – I’d have been through the grief of seeing Him killed, the joy and amazement of seeing him alive again, and now he goes and leaves again by disappearing up into the clouds – what’s that all about?! The followers’ response was to pray together, which is probably the only response that could make any sense of their situation.
However, Jesus had promised them something which would appear after he had left them, and we see what this was in chapter 2 of Acts. The followers had gathered for the traditional Jewish festival of Pentecost as they would every year. During this celebration, God sent the Holy Spirit to them, which is described as being like a violent wind that whooshed among them and like flames of fire that came between them and fell upon them. As Christians in the present day, it is this sending of the Holy Spirit into the world that we celebrate and remember today (and every year) on Pentecost Sunday. So it is very apt that our group has been looking at Acts leading up to today.
We can read an account of how the Holy Spirit was sent to Jesus’ followers back in the first century AD, but what relevance is this to our lives today? God’s plan was that the Holy Spirit would stay with anyone on Earth who believes in Jesus and what He did for us, throughout the centuries until Jesus comes again. As the Holy Spirit stays with us and we are filled with Him, His role is a ‘helper’ – there are several ways in which He helps me in my life. Here are a few examples, along with Bible verses that refer to these too:
How to live my life….
He leads us and guides us (John 16:13; Romans 8:14; Galatians 5:18;)
He teaches us (John 14:26; 1 Corinthians 2:13), and specifically to pray (Romans 8:26-27; Jude 1:20)
He speaks to us (Acts 8:29, 10:19, 11:12; 1 Corinthians 12:3; Hebrews 3:7; 1 Timothy 4:1; Revelation 2:11)
How I’m feeling….
He puts God’s love into our hearts (Romans 5:5)
He gives us deep down joy even in suffering (1 Thessalonians 1:6)
He encourages us in good and hard times (Acts 9:31)
How I interact with others….
He speaks through us to others (Matthew 10:20; Acts 2:4)
He gives us the power to do what God wants us to do in helping others (Luke 4:14; Acts 1:8; Romans 15:19).
He unites us with each other in peace (Ephesians 2:14-18, 4:3)
The big and deep bits….
He shows us who Jesus is, that Jesus is present in our lives (John 16:14-15, 1 John 3:24; 4:13), and He transforms us to be more like Jesus (2 Corinthians 3:18).
He lets us draw near to God the Father, and shows us the profound and amazing things He has done for us and given us through Jesus’ death and resurrection (1 Corinthians 2:10-12, Ephesians 2:18)
For me, the Holy Spirit is key in how I became a Christian and how I continue to live for Jesus. As a child and a teenager, I felt like I knew a lot of the theory about God and Jesus as I read about them, but it wasn’t until I experienced the Holy Spirit that I really knew what it was like to live a life for Jesus – it’s difficult to describe this because it’s an experience rather than something tangible like a book to read. Life isn’t always easy, Jesus never promised that it would be, in fact He told us it would be hard at times, but He also promised that the Holy Spirit would be there to help, and I’m so glad that He is!
Here is a song that I have in my head for today – it is a song asking God to please ‘send the fire’, and the fire it refers to is the Holy Spirit, just like it was first experienced by Jesus’ followers as described in the book of Acts.
I can’t quite believe that Joel turned 6 months old this week. It only seems like yesterday that he was a newborn, all squishy, little and quiet (most of the time – honestly, he really didn’t cry much at all). Now he’s much bigger and heavier, can roll across the room faster than the time it takes for me to put a load of washing on, and is starting to make some syllabic sounds as he babbles away. I know I experienced these big changes in the first 6 months of Andrew’s life too, but it still never ceases to amaze me just how much my boys are changing all the time. It’s only when I stop and reflect like this that I am totally wowed by the growth and development of the human body – for me this is a real physical reminder of the amazing creator God who I believe in.
On the whole I am loving my role in life of looking after two little boys. I can’t deny that there have been some hard times – I am human myself after all, and despite my best efforts to be ‘super-mum’, I do have limitations like the possession of only two hands and two eyes (neither in the back of my head) and no super power to avoid the effects of sleep deprivation. But given that there is only a 21 month age gap, so I had two kids under two in my care for 3 months of Joel’s life, I think it’s not bad going that there’s so far only been one occasion when all three of us were in tears at one time (there have been other combinations of one or two of us in tears, mainly the boys).
I can’t claim that this is all my own doing though. I am very blessed to have such a supportive husband who helps out so much with the boys, and it’s a real blessing to both of us that his job is only a 15 minute cycle away so he gets home not long after he finishes at 5pm; things would be a lot harder for me if I didn’t have this help. We also have very supportive parents, and although they don’t live in Cambridge, they come as often as possible to help us; my mum is the most regular visitor every couple of weeks or so for a day, and Tom’s mum usually comes at half-term holidays for several days in a row; our dads have been more weekend visitors with our mums. And looking back over these past 6 months, I can see that Jesus has been with us too, helping me get through some difficult days, even those in which I had little time or space (with the demands of two children being my priority) to talk to him properly in prayer. I don’t think I would have got to where I am now in one piece without Him answering our prayers and the prayers of others on our behalf.
For about the first 3 months, I would say that the hardest part of my role wasn’t looking after a newborn – he slept, fed, slept, fed, and not much else, plus I’d looked after a newborn before – no, the hardest part was looking after a newborn AND a 1year old toddler at the same time – I’d not done that before, and was still learning how best to meet Andrew’s needs that were evolving all the time.
There are not many ways in which these past 6 months have been similar to the first 6 months of Andrew’s life – the only big one that I can think of is the similar amount of sleep that I’ve had. In many ways having my first baby and my second have been very different experiences. It could partly be to do with their different personalities, but I think the main difference has been that I know more about what I’m doing and therefore feel less stressed about what I ‘should’ be doing according to society’s parenting wisdom. I always felt I was fairly laid back with how things went with Andrew, and took a mainly baby-led approach with the various aspects of parenting in the early months, but I have noticed that I’ve been even less worried about how things are going this time, I guess because I’ve seen the positive outcomes of the baby-led approach with Andrew.
One particular aspect of these first 6 months that I’ve been reflecting on, and how different it’s been the second time around is breastfeeding (I already blogged some of these thoughts here). Overall it’s been a much more enjoyable experience this time. In Andrew’s first 6 months I kept on breastfeeding more out of determination than anything else (I am a very determined person!) and my goal was just to get to 6 months; but when I got there, breastfeeding fairly soon became something I enjoyed rather than something I thought was my duty to my baby, and that’s why we carried on (that baby turned toddler still doesn’t think he’s too big for mummy milk!) At 6 months feeding became less about calorific intake and more about the non-nutritional aspects, so I felt less stressed when I (with the help of formula in the SNS) wasn’t the only source of food as he started to eat solids.
This time I have been able to enjoy this longer term perspective right from the start, knowing that even in the difficult times of constant feeding as a baby, it would get better and would all be worth it in the end. Although there was a bit of an issue with his weight (in the GP/health visitor’s eyes) around 2 months, this soon righted itself, and I’ve just realised that I haven’t had him weighed for a couple of months, which has helped, I’m sure, in me feeling less stressed about feeding – he is clearly growing and getting heavier. In fact I think the better experience of breastfeeding, and also having learned how the health system sees breastfeeding compared to my own natural instincts as a mum, have together made the biggest difference to how I’ve felt as a mum of a baby in these past 6 months compared to how I felt last time. And as I said above, I’m sure my prayers, even exhausted and fed up at 2am, have helped.
So there we go: I survived the first 6 months of life with 2 kids, and, more to the point, so did they – hooray! Now to carry on with life – looking after a growing baby who’s looking more and more like a little boy rather than a little baby and a toddler whose ability to communicate with me is getting more and more sophisticated.
Although Andrew is now experiencing his third Easter in life, this is the first year that I have really thought about how to start explaining to him what happened at the very first Easter, because 2 years ago he was just a couple of months old and last year he still wasn’t understanding things we said half as much as he does now. To get some inspiration for how to tell the Easter story in language that a toddler will grasp, I’ve turned to the various children’s Bibles that we have.
Both boys were given some Bibles for their dedications (Joel’s was last week), but despite the number we have, we’ve only ended up with a couple of duplicates between both boys. Some are board books aimed at babies and young toddlers, some have paper pages but lots of pictures and simple text for age 2 years plus, and some have more text aimed at early-school-age children. This is good because as they grow up we have a nice progression of Bibles to read with them.
There is something very refreshing about reading the Bible in a version that is meant for children. It brings me back to basics and reminds me of some of the most important points there are to know about God.That’s not to say that I don’t want to explore the more detailed and challenging points of what we are taught through the Bible using a version meant for adults, but sometimes in studying the more complicated bits, it’s easy to lose sight of the simple truths. So this Easter I have been reminded, through the simplicity of children’s books, of the enormity of what Jesus did for me by dying on the cross and rising again.
The two board book Bibles that Joel was recently given, which are aimed at babies and young toddlers, don’t actually say that Jesus died, but put it more figuratively: ‘Some people did not like Jesus. They took him away….Then Mary saw Jesus. Jesus had come back to life again!’ (The Baby Bible); ‘The people hurt Jesus and then put him on a cross, and soon Jesus was gone. Jesus’ friends took his body down from the cross and carried him to a tomb with a big stone door.’ (Baby’s First Bible).
For about the past year or so, we have been reading a Bible story to Andrew each night before he goes to bed. We’ve been using the two Bibles for toddlers that he was given, and although he doesn’t understand everything, he enjoys looking at the pictures and talking about what’s in them as we read (I say ‘we’, but since Joel’s been born it’s mainly been Daddy reading). As we’ve worked our way through the Bible, we have of course got to the Easter story; he has heard it, but he doesn’t yet understand what it means when they say ‘they left him to die’ (Candle Bible for Toddlers) and ‘Jesus died on the cross’ (The Beginner’s Bible).
However, he does understand that some of the people in the story were very sad about what happened, as he sees the sad faces on the pictures and we explain that they were sad. But the great thing about the Easter story is that although Jesus died, he also rose again, so it’s a happy ending and we can explain to a toddler that the people who were sad became happy again, shown by their expressions in the pictures in the books.
These emotions of sadness and joy are at the heart of how I feel when thinking about what happened to Jesus and why we celebrate Easter. It is so very sad to remember that Jesus died, and in particular that he suffered a horrific death, tortured and killed on a Roman cross, even though he had done nothing wrong – in fact He went through this to make up for all the wrong things that I do which separate me from God. This is such a massive thing to fully appreciate, and it’s quite easy to forget throughout the rest of the year just how hard that must have been for Him, so in the days leading up to Easter Sunday, particularly on Good Friday, I think it’s the least I can do to reflect on this with feelings of sadness and thankfulness.
But in the sadness there is always hope! Death was not the end of Jesus’ life, death did not beat Him. Having been through all that suffering, He rose again back to life from the dead. Now that is definitely a reason to be so very happy. What’s more, Jesus promised that whoever believes in Him and that He died for them to make up for everything they do wrong, they will have everlasting life with Him in heaven after their life in this world. That’s even more reason to be happy, and that’s what I am celebrating today. I have this song in my head and will no doubt be heard humming/singing it several times today 🙂 Happy Easter everyone!
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How To Use Polyvine Oil Based Scumble
Apply acrylic eggshell or alkyd undercoat in a colour suitable to create the desired effect and allow to dry for a minimum of 24 hours.
It is recommended that the scumble is thinned with white spirit to ensure it’s applied in a relatively thin film.
The appropriate viscosity will depend on the technique to be used.
Colour your Scumble with Polyvine Woodgrain Oil Colourant, most oil based paints, or universal stainers.
The use of a little white paint will stabilise delicate colours.
Brush the coloured Scumble over the base coat.
Create the desired decorative effect by breaking the surface with a crumpled rag, bag, sponge or a Polyvine tool or brush.
When the glaze is completely dry, seal with a coat of Polyvine Extra Pale Varnish.
Always test adhesion and the application of the effect on a trial area before starting.
Low temperature, poor ventilation and high film thickness will cause delayed final drying.
Avoid applying in cold damp conditions as this will also delay final drying.
Scumble is prone to fading when exposed to strong sunlight for long periods.
Scumble will turn dark if starved of light eg behind pictures etc. and is susceptible to severe yellowing in high temperatures.
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SUMMIT, NJ - Summit Youth Football opened it's season by winning three out of the five games it played, with the 4th, 5th, and 7th Grade teams notching wins.
The 4th Grade traveled to Springfield and won 26-0, while the 5th Grade team traveled to Chatham and won a hard fought battle against the Cougars by posting a 6-0 win.
Both 4th and 5th Grade games were played at the instructional level, with coaches on the field guiding the players.
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The 6th Grade squad came out strong against the Cougars, moving the ball down the field, before being plagued by a series of turnovers, and they could not seem to get on track after that, ultimately falling 28-0.
The 7th Grade team came out on fire, jumping out to a 16-0 lead in their first two series. Chatham came back to cut the lead in half at 16-8, and it looked like it was going to be a back and forth battle. Summit's high-powered offense was not to be stopped, however, posting 41 points en route to a convincing 41-8 victory.
The 8th Grade lost a hard fought battle to Chatham 32-31, with Summit scoring easily on its first possession, only to see Chatham come right back and tie the game.
Next week the Hilltoppers Youth Football teams travel to Morristown.
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Successful Franchises – Green Bay Packers and the St Louis Cardinals.
As of last night (October 28, 2011), the St Louis Cardinals are the World Series winners for the 2011 Major League Baseball season. Congratulations! Eight months earlier, the Green Bay Packers won Super Bowl XLV.
During their last seasons, both teams have remained competitive even though they were impacted with injuries. The Packers had over 15 players on injured reserve during their playoff run and still found a way to win the ultimate trophy. The Cardinals lost their ace, Adam Wainwright, for the entire season and also battled other player injuries but found a way to eventually hoist this year's World Series trophy.
Both teams have many solid players but only one superstar – Albert Pujols of the Cardinals and Aaron and Rodgers of the Packers. Regardless, both teams had many times during their championship run where other players stepped up and made a difference. James Starks of the Packers and David Freese of the Cardinals are just two players who come to mind.
One could argue both the Cards and Pack began to peak during the last 6 weeks of the regular season. Playing well in the post season is key, you may be peaking againist teams with better records and often enjoy more success. Often, one's record gets thrown out the window.
One could argue there are two key ingredients for gauging playoff success: How well a team is playing during the playoffs and how well do they match up aganist their opponent? Both of these teams this past season appeared to match up with each of their playoff opponents and again, were playing their best at the most critical time.
They both have a storied history in their respective sports. The Packers have been around for around 90 years and the Cardinals first began as the St. Louis Browns in 1880.
Both teams have won at least 11 championships in their history and have played in many more championships – illustrating in their sport a successful winning brand. It’s clear to those who follow both these teams that many numbers could have been retired throughout their history with all those great players who came before these current players.
The Cardinals and Packers come from States where the other sports franchises have not done well over the years. Take the Bucks and Brewers in Wisconsin, they have one championship between them in over 80 years of combined competition and some say that was due to Oscar Robertson and Kareem Abdul-Jabbar (formerly Lew Alcindor) teaming up in the early 1970s. Take Missouri, St. Louis used to also house the Cardinals of the NFL who never won a championship while in St. Louis. The most recent football championship came when the St. Louis Rams won Super Bowl XXXIV in 1999. The Hawks of the NBA played in St. Louis played from 1955-1968 before leaving for Atlanta. Their franchise has one championship to their credit, where the St. Louis Hawks defeated the Celtics in 1958.
Both these franchises have a loyal base and this fan base extends far beyond the contiguous states. Part of this can be attributed to their long and successful history. It may also be due to the fact that people love baseball in the St. Louis area and football throughout Wisconsin.
Obviously the draft systems are not the same between professional football and baseball but both organizations are effective at finding and signing strong talent year after year. This doesn’t guarantee a championship but helps put these teams in the position to make a run for a championship more often than not.
One could also argue that neither the Cardinals nor the Packers have the luxury of having the highest payroll in their respective sports. As sports’ fans know, teams with the highest payroll don’t always win the title. It’s about how and where you spend your money and smaller market teams need to be more prudent with their money.
Each team historically had at least one team within their division that seldom won more than 50 percent of their games. The Cardinals can thank the Cubs and Pirates for not being very competitive over the last 20 years and the Packers have the Lions of Detroit to thank. Of course things are changing as the Lions are much more competitive and have turned the corner in the Central Division of the NFL. Regarding the Cubs and Pirates, perhaps changes to their ball clubs will improve the competitiveness of this division moving forward.
There are high expectations for both franchises. Green Bay expects to win these days…Cardinal fans along the meandering Mississippi don't expect a World Series appearance every year but do expect to be competitive each and every year. I think this mentality may apply to the fans as well as the entire organization.
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A Collection of Quotations on Photography
Photography is incredibly difficult as I’m sure you know. The complexities within a single picture can be enormous at times. The composition, the content, the lighting, there’s so many elements that have to be brought in to one picture. From that point of view, I’m still learning a lot about photography. It’s a very narrow discipline in that way and even to think about doing something else would be a distraction.
The thing that interests me about photography and why it’s different from all other media, is that it’s the only medium in which there is even the possibility of an accidental masterpiece. You cannot make an accidental masterpiece if you’re a painter or a sculptor. It’s just not going to happen. Something will be wrong.
This is simultaneously photography’s great advantage and its Achilles’ heel: it is the easiest medium in which to be competent. Anybody can be a marginally capable photographer, but it takes a lot of work to learn to become even a competent painter. Now, having said that, I think while photography is the easiest medium in which to be competent, it is probably the hardest one in which to develop an idiosyncratic personal vision. It’s the hardest medium in which to separate yourself from all those other people who are doing reasonably good stuff and to find a personal voice, your own vision, and to make something that is truly, memorably yours and not someone else’s.A recognized signature style of photography is an incredibly difficult thing to achieve.
It always amazes me that just when I think that there’s nothing left to do in photography and that all permutations and possibilities have been exhausted, someone comes along and puts the medium to a new use, and makes it his or her own, yanks it out of this kind of amateur status, and makes it as profound and moving and as formally interesting as any other medium. It’s like pushing something heavy uphill. Photography’s not an easy medium. It is, finally, perhaps the hardest of them all.
For the last forty years [William Eggleston has] been “at war with the obvious,” working in a “democratic forest” where everything visible is equally viable as subject matter. Trees, dirt, signs, houses, carpet, red ceilings, naked men, old men with guns, tricycles, etc. Working in this manner, he inspired many photographers to look no further than their immediate surroundings for inspiration. Then came digital cameras, and then the internet, and then Flickr. Eggleston may have won the war with the obvious, but now the obvious is getting its revenge in the form of the millions of banal, boring, dull photographs that are being uploaded to the web everyday. We don’t need to go far to find the ‘democratic forest,’ in fact, we may never be able to escape it.
It’s so easy it’s ridiculous. It’s so easy that I can’t even begin — I just don’t know where to start. After all, it’s just looking at things. We all do that. It’s simply a way of recording what you see — point the camera at it, and press a button. How hard is that? And what’s more, in this digital age, its free — doesn’t even cost you the price of film. It’s so simple and basic, it’s laughable.
It’s so difficult because it’s everywhere, every place, all the time, even right now. It’s the view of this pen in my hand as I write this, it’s an image of your hands holding this book, drift your consciousness up and out of this text and see: it’s right there, across the room - there… and there. Then it’s gone. You didn’t photograph it, because you didn’t think it was worth it. And now it’s too late, that moment has evaporated. But another one has arrived, instantly. Now. Because life is flowing through and around us, rushing onwards and outwards, in every direction.
You don’t need all this stuff to make pictures. You don’t need the latest and greatest most megapixel camera … You just need simple equipment. Cameras don’t make pictures. And film doesn’t make pictures. People make pictures. I think it’s important to figure out what you like and what materials you like to use and what cameras and what lenses you like. And then after that period of figuring it out, you just sort of focus on your creativity and not your equipment. I think that’s an important lesson for people to learn who are trying to figure out photography.
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From that day I realized that you can take simple, ordinary, everyday things and make something out of them. You can make a statement by using what is right in front of you. It was a powerful lesson that stayed with me: you can use your room, your home, your neighborhood, your family to make art.
I get hung up on the technology, too, and many come to me for help in understanding it. Technology will keep marching on and on and on. But we can’t lose sight of what we use that technology for … You’ve got to get past all that technology and into the aesthetics if you want to create great images.
There is a connectedness or a web that runs like electricity underneath the landscape of photography. The connections are like wires that tether one photographer to another… a shared blood line if you will. If you examine an individual who has made a mark, an imprint on the craft, you will find the ‘underneath,’ the complex layers of history and relationships, of influence and extensions, of imprints on the psyche and the connections from others to the ‘self.’
For a person to see a scene with as much detail as this [8x10” view] camera can record might take several minutes but you can have the experience of taking it all in within a few seconds in the picture … and so there’s a a sense of time being compressed in it. In a simple, physical way, the camera is recording with extraordinary detail. And that allows me to see things of interest, but not make them the whole point of the picture. I discovered that this camera was the technical means in photography of communicating what the world looks like in a state of heightened awareness and it’s that awareness of really looking at the everyday world with clear and focussed attention that I’m interested in.
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First of all, forgetting a major question, “what to photograph?” let’s say that I’m photographing this intersection and I see it as almost a three-dimensional problem that I have to then resolve in some way. Where am I going to stand in this? Where am I going to cut it off? How much am I going to show? Am I going to wait for a person to stand in or for a car to stop?
I was also interested in the fact that as I walk down the street, really paying attention to what I’m seeing, I see a constant change in relationships in space. It’s seeing things in the background relating to things in the foreground. As I move, a telephone pole bears an ever changing relationship to a building next to it or behind it, this mailbox changes its relationship to the telephone pole. These changes occur all the time as one simply takes a walk and looks with conscious attention at what’s there while one is walking. I wanted somehow to record that experience in a still photograph.
That’s a real problem. We all do that, we photograph things because they look like photographs. I do that all the time. Everyone starts, you photograph a barn, for example, because that’s an idea of beautiful. I think that keeps changing with time, from Walker Evans to Eggleston, there’s a new idea of what the cliché beautiful thing is, even if it’s an empty parking lot. That’s okay, I have no problem with that. What I do have a problem is, is the nature of the medium itself. In a world where the 2 billionth photograph has been uploaded to Flickr, which looks like an Eggleston picture! How do you deal with making photographs with the tens of thousands of photographs being uploaded to Facebook every second, how do you manage that? How do you contribute to that? What’s the point? It’s a real struggle.
It always fascinates me - it bolloxes my mind, I mean, when people talk about photographs in depth, and what not, you know, when all a photograph does is describe light on surface. That’s all there is. And that’s all we ever know about anybody. You know, what we see. I mean, I think we are our faces and whatever, you know? That’s all there is, is light on surface
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This was one of a series of children's games The Learning Company
made in the 80's
for the Apple //
that were all based on the same basic game engine
. All of them are available on the internet as emulator
-ready disk image
s if you know where to look. The engine in question consisted of a bunch of screen-sized rooms
. Each room was basically just a grid of icons
, most of which were empty and black and represented floor
, most of the rest of which were full of a single color and represented wall
, and which all together made this kind of orthographic
world you could move around freely in any direction in. You had a little man icon
(it was always the same man..) walking around that you controlled with the keyboard
, and you could make him pick up the other icons
them wherever you wanted.
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The Learning Company later released a game which used the same ideas but in a much more intricate, interesting way; see Robot Odyssey.
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Rugelach, recipe courtesy of Gourmet.com
This is a sweet, decadent treat that will be savored by your recipient.
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11. Roll dough tightly into log. Place in pan, seam side down. Pinch ends and tuck underneath.
12. Repeat with remaining dough.
13. Brush with milk and sprinkle with granulated sugar.
14. Make ¾-inch cuts cross-wise, not going all the way through. Chill if not firm enough.
15. Bake until golden, 45 to 50 minutes. Cool on rack and then transfer logs to cutting board and slice all the way through.
Arrange cookies in your basket, in a container, or wrapped in plastic. Add some coffee or tea packets for a perfect afternoon treat.
Chocolate Peppermint Patties, from Easy-Cookies
This delectable cookie features a favorite combination: chocolate and mint.
Chai Spiced Cookies, from theKitchn
Give these in a pretty basket, or set up as a woman cookie bouquet. Give the special ladies in your life a treat that they will always remember!
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Duhok, Kurdistan Region of Iraq – May 16, 2018 – The American University of Kurdistan announces the appointment of Dr. John K Menzies as the new president of AUK.
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He holds B.A. in History and German, and his M.A. is in German. He completed his Ph.D. at the University of California, Berkeley, and then joined the U.S. Foreign Service.
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Honors include the Department of State Superior Honor Award, an American Bar Association Award for dedication and service toward advancing the rule of law, several honorary degrees, and the Bulgarian Order of the Madarsky Konnik. He also received the Community of Christ International Human Rights Award for the year 2000. In 2014, he was awarded the Presidential Medal by the Republic of Kosova.
After his Foreign Service career, he was named the President of Graceland University, Lamoni, Iowa, where he served for four years. Then he moved on to be Dean of the John C. Whitehead School of Diplomacy and International Relations at Seton Hall University in South Orange, New Jersey, a position he held through 2013.
‘’I am delighted to be coming to AUK, Duhok, a region which is new to me. Throughout my academic studies and government service, I have remained engaged with universities. I have sent a large number of students to the U.S. from the countries where I have served. I established a university in Blagoevgrad, Bulgaria, which has become an important educational institution in the region. Education is vital to every country, and the American model, is very adaptive and has proven effective in many other nations. I am deeply honored to have the opportunity of working at AUK, and with students, staff, and faculty. The challenges of a new institution are exciting. Together, we will meet every challenge, and contribute to the wellbeing of the people of the region.’’ Said Dr. Menzeis.
The vision of The American University of Kurdistan is to be recognized as a premier institution of higher education in the Middle East and beyond by cultivating academic excellence, fostering creativity, and engaging in the highest caliber of applied research.
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A girl can never have too many bags! I'm so pleased that my new tote bag has turned out well, i.e. symmetrical and has not fallen apart! I bought the cross stitch kit from Spotlight, a bargain find for just $3! I used beige cotton/linen fabric for the outer bag, and blue stripe cotton/linen fabric for the lining. We had discussed the importance of interfacing at one of my Sewing Meet Up groups so I used iron-on interfacing for each piece of fabric so hopefully it will be super sturdy.
I made the following Japanese shashiko tote last year from a kit which I bought from the Quilt and Craft fair 2010. The bag already had the handles sewn to it so all I had to do when I finished the embroidery was sew the sides.
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Funny how the Infanta is exactly the same pose now as she was yesterday when I posted. Yes, Amy, complete with thumb in mouth - she's a real thumb sucker, for which her father and I are profoundly grateful. My in-laws may make remarks about how hard it will be to break her of that habit later, but I don't care. First off, I figure she'll stop when she's ready, much as I stopped sucking my two fingers when I was ready.
Second, Josh and I MUCH prefer a kid sucking their thumb to a kid who walks and talks and has a pacifier clipped to her clothes! Or worse yet, talks through her pacifier!
Third, it's not like she's always got her thumb in her mouth; she uses it as a boob substitute, mainly. If she's awake and sucking her thumb, usually it's because she wants to nurse, and is a good signal to me. If she's asleep and I'm done being a milk machine, I'll detach and she'll often promptly replace nipple with thumb. She just needs to suck, and it doesn't always need to be nutritive. Witness now - she's deeply enough asleep that she lacks the muscle tone to keep her hand up, but her mouth is still moving in a sucking rhythm.
I don't mean this for an indictment of moms whose kids use pacis for extended periods - or not much, anyway - me, I never intended to use them at all! I do well know, and learn better every day, that in parenting, as in the rest of life, theory ad reality often bear little resemblance to each other.
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TGA of Morris and Essex Counties has created a unique event to help raise funds for Roots & Wings while bringing the community together for a fun, active day outside. It’s a perfect event for kids and their families. Pledge to raise money for Roots & Wings, a New Jersey non-profit organization that provides safe housing and support to youth who have aged out of the child welfare system, then join us for a super-fun day of golf for kids ages 18 and under!
Unlike most tournaments, there is no entry fee or mandatory cost to the golfer, making this a perfect event for kids and their families. Where you would normally play 18 holes, you play 100! Read on though, because it’s easier than it sounds!
Create or Join a Fundraising Team
Support a Fundraising Team
Golfers play in threesomes. Each golfer commits to raising, along with his or her team, a minimum of $1000 in pledges. We have everything that you’ll need to make this happen, including pre-printed pledge letters to send out to friends and family. Each player can recruit a caddie that can help them find balls, rake sand traps, and maybe even play a few holes for the golfer. Cool prizes are awarded to the top three fundraisers, and everyone who raises at least $500 gets free stuff!
Every golfer plays a minimum of three balls per hole in a mini-scramble. You tee off three balls, go to your own personal best ball, and hit three more. You continue this and before you know it you’ve played 100 holes while only physically walking 36.
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"This family cemetery was located east of Morgan Road and south of Tommeheton Creek (Training Area 12) in what was Tract C-344 owned by Joseph R. Crowder et al. in 1944 (see Table 1 and Figure 1). The cemetery is overgrown, but easily identifiable with an iron fence (Plate 15). This cemetery is marked as "relocated" on the 1944 map and
recorded on Godburn's list of graves moved to Butterwood Church where 3 individuals are listed: Martha Davis, A.D. Davis, and D. Woodland Davis (Godburn 1977: G-6). The exact location of this cemetery is known although a detailed field survey has not been conducted at the time of this report."
Fort Pickett Historic Cemeteries
Brunswick, Dinwiddie & Nottoway Counties, Virginia
Fort Pickett Cultural Resource Management Project 2005.06
Conservation Management Institute
Virginia Polytechnic Institute & State University
Cultural Resources Program
200 W 10th St, Pickett Park, Blackstone, VA 23824
Author: James G. Parker - February 2007
Works referenced by:
Beverly A. Boyko, Wayne C.J. Boyko & Katherine E. Sutton; Terry Clouthier; Doug Colebum; Pamela Hurak; Clifton A. Huston, Charles M. Downing & Anne S. Beckett; Mary Cecilia Godburn; Matthew Laird; Michelle MacCarthy; Carol D. Tyrer, Jen Green & Matthew Laird; Len Winter, Brad Botwick & Debra A. McClane; Wayne Stith; Isham E. Hargrave.
***AVAILABLE at the Brunswick, Dinwiddie & Nottoway County Public Libraries
- Added: 30 Aug 2010
- Find A Grave Cemetery: #2368139
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Directed by: Mike Flanagan – Starring: Elizabeth Reaser, Annalise Basso, Lulu Wilson, Henry Thomas, Kate Siegel, Alexis G. Zall
This follow up to the 2014 hit horror-flick, Ouija, is actually a prequel to the events of that movie. That’s not to say that this doesn’t put its own stamp on the franchise, and the fact that it is set almost 50 years before Ouija gives it its own definite identity.
Set in Los Angeles in 1967, we meet Alice Zander (Reaser) and her daughters. Following the death of her husband, she runs fake séances in order to make a living. Looking for a new gimmick that might give her readings a bit of an edge, she picks up a Ouija board. But her youngest daughter, Doris (Wilson) starts playing with it in an attempt to reach her father. It soon becomes obvious that she is managing to contact spirits through the board, and Alice begins to use her in her readings. But her sister, Lina (Basso) feels something isn’t right, and asks school principle Fr Tom (Henry – and, yes, he was the cute kid Elliot in ET) for help, little knowing just how grave the situation actually is.
Although not portrayed by the actors cast here, all the main characters were referenced in the first movie, although you don’t need to have seen that in order to make sense of this. It borrows heavily from many classic horrors – in particular there are many scenes that seem to be influenced by The Exorcist. They rely a lot on old school scares – a quick glimpse of a shadowy figure, the bang of a door – initially, but as the story develops, the movie does become more effects-heavy, but not to a distracting extent.
Young Wilson does a great job as Doris. She manages to be both creepy and sweet simultaneously. This is a tricky subject matter to get any young actor to portray, and she really handles herself well. Ditto Basso, who is also great here. This is in spite of a rather overblown script. It jars in places, and doesn’t sound organic at times. Things also move along at a rather strange pace, and when the reveal of what the evil is comes (as it always does in these movies) the back-story is somewhat contrived and complex. That aside, there is some lovely cinematography, and they do a great job of transporting the audience to the late 60s.
There is nothing groundbreaking in this movie, and whether you enjoy it will depend on if you are a fan of scary films. Its sole ambition is to make you jump out of your seat and leave your heart in your mouth, and it does indeed manage that. It’s not the greatest horror-movie ever made, nor is the story especially original (a possessed child – please! We’ve seen that hundreds of times) but it is entertaining, does what it says on the tin, and is perfect film fare for the season that’s in it.
It won’t convert non-horror fans, but those who like a spine-tingler that doesn’t require too much analysis will like this.
In Cinemas October 21st!
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Yes, some of the quilts have started to arrive!
And another one from Toowoomba this time refering to a quilt made by Tess (Vic)
I received my quilt in the mail yesterday, thank you very much. It's great as soon as I opened it I put in on my bed and used it straight away. Please pass on my regards to my quilter for me. Its great getting parcels from home especially from others that aren't family, it reminds me that there are still people thinking of us back home. When ever I go to sea I'll be sure to bring it with me. Once again thank you very much for the opportunity to receive one.
Just wanted to let you know that the I received the quilt and laundry bag today. Thankyou for your organising this for myself and other deployed personnel. I will write to the ladies that made the items in the near future.
I do feel extremely privileged to have received something with so much history behind it.
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Popular forward enjoyed career year for Orlando last season
ORLANDO, Fla. – The Orlando Solar Bears have agreed to terms with fan-favorite forward Austin Block for the 2017-18 season.
“Austin is a real competitor who brings a ton of energy to the ice every night,” Solar Bears head coach Drake Berehowsky said. “Outside the rink, he has been a pillar for us in the community and represents the organization well.”
Block, 27, scored a career-high 35 points (12g-23a) and added 34 penalty minutes in 51 regular season games in his first full season with Orlando. He did not appear in any playoff games for the Solar Bears due to injury. Block was also the recipient of the team’s Dan Snyder Memorial Award for his hard work and perseverance throughout the season.
In 74 career games with the Solar Bears, Block has posted totals of 42 points (14g-28a) and 44 penalty minutes since being acquired in a trade with the Manchester Monarchs on Feb 12, 2016.
“I couldn’t be more anxious and excited to be returning to Orlando,” Block said. “I have high hopes for the upcoming season and I can’t wait to once again play in front of the best fans in the league.”
The 5-foot-11, 185-pound forward has skated in 181 career pro games, and has accumulated 87 points (28g-59a) and 75 penalty minutes. He has played at the ECHL level with Orlando, Manchester and Bakersfield, and has also spent time overseas playing for teams in Finland, Slovakia and Sweden.
Prior to turning pro, the native of Denver, Colo. played collegiate hockey at the University of New Hampshire, where he posted 50 points (25g-25a) and 94 penalty minutes in 136 games for the Wildcats. Block also played two seasons of junior hockey with the Fairbanks Ice Dogs of the North American Hockey League, where he racked up 100 points (42g-58a) and 134 penalty minutes in 110 games and led the league in points with 76 in the 2008-09 campaign while being named the league’s top forward.
The Orlando Solar Bears are the proud ECHL affiliate of the NHL’s Toronto Maple Leafs and AHL’s Toronto Marlies, and play all of their home games at the ARS.com Rink at Amway Center, the 2012 Street and Smith’s Sports Business Journal Sports Facility of the Year.
Full Season Ticket Memberships for the 2017-18 season are on sale now. Purchase an Orlando Solar Bears Full Season Ticket Membership for as little as $440 today! Click here or call (407) 951-8200 for more information.
Officially licensed Orlando Solar Bears replica team jerseys, apparel, and headwear can be purchased online at orlandosolarbearshockey.com/shop.
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- Tuesday, 15 November 2011 23:00
On 14 November the US Catholic bishops established a permanent Subcommittee on Health Care Issues to deal with the highly contentious subject. The subcommittee will be under the supervision of the Bishops’ Committee on Doctrine which is now chaired by Donald William Cardinal Wuerl, Archbishop of Washington, DC. Wuerl will appoint members of this new subcommittee. The bishops have followed through on their own recommendation from the June 2011 meeting to make this project a reality.
Hartford Archbishop Henry J. Mansell strongly supported the new subcommittee of the relation of health care to “the Gospel mission of the Church” and because the bishops need to have a handle on the “billions and billions of dollars in funding.” Mansell also said, “We run the risk of losing a major ministry of the Church if we don’t keep a close eye on health care issues.”
Cardinal Donald Wuerl will be succeeded by the Archbishop of St Paul and Minneapolis John C. Nienstedt.
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Many companies provide their employees with a quarterly or annual benefit statement. The document is a comprehensive view of the various benefits for which each employee is enrolled. Benefit plans can be complicated and your employees may not understand the statement, or the details of the various perks and provisions. Including a cover letter that explains the contents of the document, along with where employees can go for more information, may help your workers to gain a clear picture of their benefits.
Write the cover letter in a business format with a professional tone. Use simple wording when discussing the benefit statements so that everyone is able to understand the purpose. Keep in mind that the same cover letter will be going to all employees, many of whom have varying degrees of responsibility and education levels.
Explain the contents of the benefits statement. The document likely contains information such as the plans the employee is enrolled in, level of coverage and quarterly or annual costs paid by both the employee and the organization. Informing the staff of the contents of the statement in the cover letter may pique their interest and cause them to peruse the document with more interest.
Note if there are any changes to the existing benefit plans, such as if the health plan has changed the services or types of prescriptions it offers. If changes are extensive then tell the staff that there are alterations to some of the plans and they can visit the company intranet for more information.
Detail any new benefits that the employees will be receiving. For example, possibly the company has worked out a 50 percent off membership arrangement with a nearby health club. Explain the perks of the club and the arrangement. Let the staff know when the new benefits start and how they can find more information.
Provide a name and contact information for the staff should they want further information on any of the benefit plans for which they are enrolled. The benefit statement may cause some employees to realize that their coverage should be different, or that they are unsure of what is available to them. Staff members may also realize that they have benefits available to them that they do not use and would like more information on how to take advantage of the offerings.
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Aside from the goal of bringing Ka'iulani's life story to the stage and screen, the goal of the project has been to bring Princess Ka'iulani back into the minds of young people today. In 2002, we started by contacting the Hawaiian organizations in Oahu to aid in our research. These include Daughters of Hawaii, The Hawaiian Historical Society, Hawaii State Archives at Iolani Palace, and The Hawaiian Collection at UH Manoa Library, among others. The Maui Academy of Performing Arts was part of the plans from an early date in 2003.
The reason we shelved three years of work on a film script, was because we felt it was important that Hawaii and Hawaiians be part of bringing this production to fruition. The only way to ensure that, was to write a stage production that would be cast and premiered in Hawaii. After years of informal dialogues teaching friends the importance of this young Hawaiian, many joined us in the formal presentation of the script to the Island of Maui.
The film project will be resumed after the premiere of the stage production.
We would like to see Ka'iulani's name and inspirational life aid those whom she cared for and was trying to protect. The young people of Hawaii.
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These harness covers measure 22cm long and are fully reversible with a complimentary colour on the reverse side. A perfect match for our car seat cover, capsule insert or pram liner.
Protect your baby's face from rough textured harnesses
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Earlier this month, I blogged about how my Maddie became so upset when her balloon animal popped in the car. You can imagine my dismay, then, when we took the girls to a St. Patrick’s Day party this weekend and Maddie got another balloon puppy. “My first Balloon Puppy died,” she reminded us. Yes, Maddie, we certainly remember.
It was no surprise yesterday when the air went out of the new Yellow Balloon Puppy’s backside. His front half remained inflated, but his back half was a limp balloon. Maddie continued to take good care of Yellow Balloon Puppy, and she loved him in spite of his deflated backside. I was not surprised to find Yellow Balloon Puppy resting on my pillow when I walked into my bedroom last night. He had a trying day.
Today, I got this text from my mom:
Yellow Balloon Puppy had officially died. And my sweet, sensitive Maddie was walking around the house holding on to his deflated remains. Why must this child be so sensitive? Why must she take everything to heart? I felt so sad for Maddie.
Instantly, I was reminded of a comment left on one of my posts the other day. (That particular post was about how Maddie cried when we flew a kite.) Hopesm80 said this:
…know that we worry not because we can’t see the beauty in the world, but instead because we can.
I smiled. My sweet, sensitive Maddie cries because she sees all the beauty this world has to offer. Where one child might see a deflated balloon, Maddie sees beauty. And there is no sadness in that.
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American cultural history offers many images of walking through difficult times: “Going down the road feeling bad,” “You got to walk that lonesome valley,” and Psalm 23, “Though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.” At the moment, Donald Trump is marching us “through the valley of the shadow.”
To say the least, it’s a nerve-wracking journey. Thanks to Twitter and the mainstream media, daily we’re subjected to Trump’s tantrums. For many of us this is profoundly disturbing.
On September 15th, Washington Post columnist Dana Milbank (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/help-president-trump-is-killing-me/2017/09/15/ ) wrote that Trump had caused an alarming rise in Milbank’s blood pressure. Milbank quipped that he was now afflicted with “Trump Hypertensive Unexplained Disorder” (THUD). In a followup column (https://www.washingtonpost.com/opinions/president-trump-actually-is-making-us-crazy/2017/09/22/ ) Milbank reported that his readers reported a number of THUD-related symptoms: “Disturbed sleep. Anger. Dread. Weight loss. Overeating. Headaches. Fainting. Irregular heartbeat. Chronic neck pain. Depression. Irritable bowel syndrome. Tightness in the chest. Shortness of breath. Teeth grinding. Stomach ulcer. Indigestion. Shingles. Eye twitching. Nausea. Irritability. High blood sugar. Tinnitus. Reduced immunity. Racing pulse. Shaking limbs. Hair loss. Acid reflux. Deteriorating vision. Stroke. Heart attack.” These comments came from those who disapprove of Trump. From Trump supporters, Milbank received vitriol: “Hurry up and die already! . . . just see a dr. You know, Dr Kevorkian.” Milbank concluded, “Trump is causing, or at least aggravating, mental-health problems on both sides.”
Milbank is not alone in this observation. Health professionals tell me that, since the election, they have seen a dramatic increase in client ailments triggered by the behavior of Donald Trump. Several factors contribute to this “THUD epidemic”:
1. Trump is omnipresent in the news. (He’s far and away the most commonly searched for Google topic.) Nine months after Trump entered the White House, it’s clear that he wants to dominate the news every day. To say the least, Donald has an enormous need for attention.
2. A common response to Trump overload is to turn off the news. But, in the long term, that’s not a satisfactory answer because, whether we like it or not, Trump is President of the United States and has enormous power. He can affect our lives in many different ways: starting a nuclear war, ignoring the threat of global climate change, mishandling a natural disaster, shutting down a critical governmental service, and on and on.
Trump is marching us “through the valley of the shadow.” We’ve been thrust into an abusive relationship.
3. Trump is moody and volatile. From one day to the next, we don’t know what Donald will do. Occasionally he seems presidential, as when he went to Las Vegas and comforted victims of the terrible shooting. On many other occasions, Trump acts like a petulant child and lashes out at whomever he believes is disrespecting him.
For many Americans, Donald Trump is a difficult person whom we cannot get away from. In effect, we’re trapped in an abusive relationship. It’s not surprising that so many of us experience THUD.
What should we do about this?
When a healthcare professional is confronted with evidence of an abusive relationship, they advise the victim, “get out.” A doctor or therapist will tell the abuse victim to leave the abuser and go somewhere safe. Indeed, many of us know people who, because of THUD, have left the country. However, for most of us leaving the US is not an option.
Three options remain. One is to check out. Many Americans have absented themselves from all political discussions. In effect, they are pretending that Trump doesn’t exist or that he cannot affect them.
Another option — popular in Washington — is to pray for intervention. After Trump was elected, rumors circulated that his family — particularly his daughter, Ivanka — would keep him check. When this hope proved to be foolhardy, some suggested that the Republican Party “elders” would keep Donald in check — somehow Mitch McConnell and Paul Ryan would limit Trump’s damage. Recent months have proved this hope also to be foolhardy.
At the moment, the dominant intervention fantasy involves “the good generals”: Secretary of Defense James Mattis and Chief of Staff John Kelly (both retired Marine Corps generals). The notion is that Mattis or Kelly will stop Trump from a catastrophic action caused by a fit of pique; for example, they will keep him from bombing North Korea because Donald feels disrespected by Kim Jong Un. Nonetheless, it’s obvious Mattis and Kelly have no influence on domestic policy: they haven’t intervened to stop Trump from repealing DACA or rolling back environmental protections.
If direct intervention with Trump seems inconceivable, there remains the possibility of blocking him in Congress. That is, the notion that in 2018 Democrats will regain control of the House or Senate and use congressional power to check Trump; for example by passing legislation to defend “Dreamers”or to strengthen environmental protections. This is the most viable remedy for all of us who suffer from “Trump Hypertensive Unexplained Disorder;” work to ensure that Democrats win in 2018.
“Yea, though I walk through the valley of the shadow of death, I will fear no evil.” To walk without fear we must take action to block Donald Trump.
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