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In the Yoga Sutras, Patanjali teaches us about the powers that the yogic obtains while pursuing the realization of god, or enlightenment. Of course there are eight, symbolic of the infinite. Patanjali absolutely teaches that when we strive mightily along our path, rewards, and results will incidentally come our way, but that we must not mistake these accidental rewards for the goal itself. Being steadfast in the pursuit of the divine will yield the following powers:
- anima – to become as small as the smallest divisible form of matter
- mahima – to wax in the magnitude of the heavens
- laghima – to become light
- garima – to become heavy
- prapti – the power to dominate and obtain what one wants
- prakamya – the freedom of will and attainment of wishes
- isatva – supremacy over all
- vasitva – the power to subjugate anyone or anything.
Patanjali warns that these powers are indications that the yogi is on the right path, but they should not replace steadfast contemplation of the divine. The ultimate goal of yoga is freedom and in the end, these powers have great ability to take away from that.
I take these ideas to be largely in discussion of the unconscious mind. Patanjali is almost always talking about the mind in a metaphorical psychology, this is no different. The more time that humans spend cultivating the focus, relaxation, and freedom of the mind, the more psychic/cognitive efficacy that person will have.
Really these are obstacles to the ultimate goal because they are mere distractions.
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Your sweetheart can be found not only among compatriots but also by choosing from foreigners. If you dream of moving abroad and getting married, you have first to get acquainted with the candidate for a spouse. You can do that through a real meeting or the Internet. Most men from other countries themselves are looking for mail order brides from Ukraine dating and CIS countries. Dating sites with foreigners are the most common, safe, cheap, and convenient way. There are specialized sites where you can find an overseas lover. Here are the most popular and reliable of them:
Best 5 Ukrainian Mail Order Brides Websites in 2021
- SweetyDate.com — a dating site with an elaborate design and good functionality
- DreamMarriage — a resource with high user activity
- AnastasiaDate — dating site is great for people who are looking for love
- LadaDate.com — a site where more than a thousand foreigners sign up every day
- ElenasModels — popular dating portal with guys who want to marry Slavic beauties
- Members: over 3 thousand users.
- Main features: chats, sending email, gifts, flowers and meeting requests, uploading images and videos in the profile.
- Prices: from $9.98 for 20 credits.
SweetyDate is a young dating service, but it has a lot of future. The main users are serious guys and beautiful girls. You have a better chance of finding a worthy candidate here, not only from your country but also from abroad. This service also provides users with free registration, although you will have to pay for premium services. Thus, you can send virtual gifts, upload video clips and photos to your profile, and share them with your partner. The site’s simple navigation and design appeal even to those who have never looked for love online. Unfortunately, there is no mobile app, but the site can adapt to any mobile device, so you can always stay in touch with your interlocutors. Not to lose the most interesting ones, you can save them in “Favorites.” Handy filters for finding a potential partner help save you time on your search. All fakes are filtered out at once, no matter if free or paid conditions are picked up.
- Members: over 50K
- Main features: live video chats, voice chats, and advanced searching filters
- Prices: from $9.99 a month
If you are looking for a long-term and serious relationship where both parties realize that a happy marriage requires a number of qualities and the ability to ensure your partner’s happiness, this service is for you. DreamMarriage is a website with a wide range of candidates of different age categories and European quality standards. It has been functioning since 2003.
Thousands of Ukrainian mail order brides are looking for potential husbands here. Signing up is free, but the minimum monthly fee for men starts from $9.99. You don’t have to look through a huge number of profiles and get unnecessary dating. A unique algorithm of compatible partners will do everything for you. After filling in an unbureaucratic questionnaire, the service will offer you the most suitable variants for dating. The site includes live video chats, voice chats, and advanced searching filters: fast user registration and thousands of verified profiles. You can add the users you like to your “Favorites” section to avoid losing them out of sight among numerous other persons. The best recommendation of this site is reviews of real couples who found each other here.
- Members: a few millions
- Main features: text and video chats, sharing photos, matching
- Prices: from $12 for 20 credits
LadaDate.com promises exclusively solvent men with serious intentions and gorgeous girls who dream of finding a life partner and making them happy. All photos are 100% reliable and verified. Thanks to the enhanced moderation of user profiles, you won’t come across fake profiles. The site was founded in 2012 and has already registered several million people who want to get to know each other, and every day there are more and more. Advantages of the site are its large audience, thorough check of profiles, user-friendly interface, quick profile filling, and free functionality for Ukrainian brides. There are so many ladies here, so each male will immediately receive a flurry of female attention. Besides, there is a section with real stories of couples who met on the site.
- Members: over 4 million
- Main features: chatting, sending emails, sharing photos
- Prices: from $19.99 for a month
On AnastasiaDate, you’ll find only those who are looking for a serious relationship: intelligent women, successful men, and no secrets and omissions. AnastasiaDate is an international dating site that was launched in 1993. It’s oriented first of all on searching for men from North America and women from Eastern Europe. Its primary users are wealthy American men between the ages of 35 to 60. Men pay for any communication with women on the site. The site’s main features include chatting, sending emails, sharing photos, and sending various virtual surprises. The interface is easy to use on your PC and smartphone app. Every user is a real person. Spam and scams are blocked. The platform allows you to customize your search for a future partner, so you don’t have to look through all the profiles in a row as there are too many of them. You can set the purpose of dating, physical parameters, education, religion, etc.
- Members: over 2 million
- Main features: text and video chats, online translator, advanced searching filters
- Prices: from $19 a month
Since 1999, more than 2 million profiles have been published on ElenasModels. Serious candidates from over 50 countries have chosen this trustworthy service to meet the girl of their dreams. Thousands of guys have created families with brides from Ukraine. It takes less than 5 minutes to sign up. After that, you have to complete the sections about your interests and character traits. For quick approval, it’s important to indicate your phone number and email address correctly. The website benefits are video chats, communication via online messenger and internal mail, built-in translator, support service, and hundreds of new women every week. For women, membership on the site is entirely free, but men will need to pay for membership. The price may vary. For example, the so-called Gold plan starts from $19 per month, and Platinum costs $58.
These days if a girl dreams of marrying a foreigner, there is no need to go on a world tour searching for an overseas prince. It is enough to register on one of the popular dating sites.
Men and women have several times more chances of finding a soul mate. International dating sites really allow you to eliminate the borders between countries. Thus, ladies can very quickly realize the desire to meet a foreigner for marriage. Modern dating platforms will help you find your Ukraine mail order wives, even if she lives thousands of miles away from you.
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- "We sing with the dancers," said Alexis Conrad. "We sing with the Swiss Army Band. It's an amazing experience."
- The men and women who work at NATO's Allied Command Transformation in Norfolk spend months building floats for the annual NATO Festival Parade of Nations. Each float is a point of national pride for the personnel stationed here.
- The last time French pilots trained aboard a U.S. aircraft carrier was about a decade ago, and that only consisted of six jets.
- The French Air Force's elite Patrouille de France is often compared to the Thunderbirds and the Blue Angels. It's completing its first U.S. tour since 1986 in Norfolk this weekend.
- The dolls were on display at the Norfolk Botanical Garden for years. “But they disappeared and we have no idea where they went,” said Eddie Woodward, head archivist at the Slover Library’s Sargeant Memorial Collection. “It’s hard to imagine anyone throwing them away, so maybe they’re in somebody’s attic. They would really help complete the collection.”
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Monday, December 15, 2008
“Seeing my face on buses - it’s like being in 1984,” says Pattinson, from under a mass of hair. “It’s not good for someone who suffers from extreme paranoia.
"I'd like to do an album, but there is such a stigma attached to actors who release music maybe I should do it anonymously, or just wait until I am unemployable."
Read full article [here]
Postado por monica às 8:35 PM
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Danny shows up in the bar, wearing a sombrero and drinking hard liquor straight from the bottle, when it looks like eight guys are going to pound on Falco. Taking a cue from Falco, Danny full-on tackles Martel, picks him up off of the ground, and starts repeatedly slamming his face into the bar yelling 'who's the man?!' before throwing him into a glass display case. This all happens in about ten seconds and is just as good as it sounds.
It's even better once you remember that Martel is a spoiled pro player, who'd rather slide out two yards short of the goal, than risk getting tackled going for a touchdown. While Danny... Danny is a Gulf War vet with a Purple Heart, and a SWAT officer by day normally. Awesome.
We must also give thanks for Nigel's Bad Ass moment during the brawl when he taunts one pro player in the most awesome manner ever:
Nigel: C'mon! C'mon—STOP! (He kicks the guy in the nuts with his kicking leg)Let's play football, bitch! (He then lays the guy out with another kick to the forehead)
Shane's first play upon his return to the field in time for the final game of the movie.
Shane Falco: "Kick Ass on one."
When Shane comes back for the final game in the second half, Martel threatens to bring in the team owner. The replacement players then grab him and stuff him in something so he won't go anywhere until the game is over. Better still, he is dispatched with a single awesome quote from Orlando Jones:
Martel: You'll never be anything more than a replacement player!
Shane: Yeah. Yeah, I can live with that.
Clifford: My brothers, will somebody please, please get this asshole outta here? (Cue the entire team bodily removing Martel from the locker room)
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All power tubes are tested and burned in prior to shipping to ensure quality and reliability.
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Seniors For Kids Society - 18 years in Cochrane, Alberta
Seniors for Kids Society is a not-for-profit organization that promotes intergenerational relationships.
- Seniors become mentors or “school grandparents” to young students by giving of themselves in a non-judgmental way, providing unconditional attention with a desire to encourage young people to reach their full potential.
- Sharing: seniors and students are given the opportunity to enjoy sharing their experiences, talents and skills, and fun with each other.
- Students get to share their thoughts and feelings with an older adult if they wish, which often helps them learn how to cope with their youthful day-to-day happenings.
- Everyone benefits: the seniors, the youth, their families and the community.
2014 Volunteer Group of the Year
"Grandparents and Grandchildren are joined by the heart."
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Adjustable shoulder straps
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curriculum vitae name : Jutta Gabriel artist sign: Ga born : August 1957...on a Sunday!
address : Nassauerstr.58 65597 Huenfelden-Dauborn, Hessen, Germany
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Art and design have been part of my life for a long time. I call it *eyecare*!
I grew up in a little village as a daughter of an old farmers dynasty. I love nature and antique stuff
that I collect from everywhere and turn it into something new, something unique.
After designing clothes and restoring old furniture I started with an own birthday calendar in 1986.
A refrigerator-birthday-calendar. At this time I ran a movie-theatre with a cafe and the calendar was a
Christmas present for all guests. Two years later I became friends with an old lady and she invited me to her
aquarelle classes. Since then I have been painting: preferring aquarelle and oil.
And every year on the 22nd of November , my sons Birthday, I choose one of my artworks, and present the
calendar for the upcoming year in a exhibition in my studio and at my online gallery as a gift for my friends.
No artwork without sounds. My colors needs music. Since 2009 I work together with a lot of great artist
friends, feat there fantastic sounds with my colors...*healingcolors*...! Just remember the day as a wonderful
friend said: ...lets go - your colors heal me...! We put our talents together and started with the first
video. Now we are a great family...the healingcolors team...art and sounds...eyecare and earcare.
I love making art inspired by my own way of life.
Jutta Gabriel Dauborn, 24. February 2013
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Professional family advocacy
Since 2003 we have pioneered an independent professional advocacy service for families involved with child protection services nationally; this has included service provision at child protection conferences in four London Boroughs. We have advocated for families who find it difficult to engage with statutory services, including those who have previously had children removed from their care and are mistrustful of statutory intervention; asylum seeking families; and young care leavers. We have supported families at different stages of their involvement with Children’s Services including children in need; advocating for parents from the stage when child protection enquiries were initiated until the first review conference; and within the complaints process.
What we offer
We offer a service to London Children’s Services Departments, who can spot purchase (buy in) a professional advocate to work with a parent or family member or enter into a partnership arrangement with us.
We offer training courses to suit workers who may advocate for parents and families involved with child welfare services, such as mental health adult support workers, or domestic violence workers, to enable them to have a more detailed understanding of child welfare law and child protection procedures and the suitable skills to advocate in child protection processes.
What is the impact of professional advocacy?
The latest evaluation found:
• 97% of parents and family members felt that our advocacy service had been helpful and
• 46% felt it had made a difference to the outcome of their case.
(Fraser C and Featherstone B, Evaluation of Family Rights Group’s professional advocacy service (2011)
The evaluators spoke to parents, social workers, case conference chairs, and heads of service.
How we work
The service was initially developed and piloted using the Protocol on Advice and Advocacy for Parents in Child Protection Cases (developed by the University of Cambridge with funding from the Department of Health) as a model. We continue to base our service on this Protocol – our advocates are highly qualified lawyers, social workers or advocates with comparable experience.
Our Protection of Children and Confidentiality Policy describes what information we keep confidential and what information we can’t keep confidential. So that we avoid any conflict of interests when working with families our advocates will not represent a family member if another family member is already a client of the team in connection with the same problem/issue. For details see our Conflict of Interest Policy.
Codes and Standards
In 2009 we published national family advocacy standards with other stakeholders. Service users and key stakeholders were involved in drafting the Code of conduct for professional advocates and Professional Advocacy services, principles and standards.
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Oh, yes! That’s our favorite Tintin in a blue cap. If you are confident that you can name each of the 24 titles of The Adventures of Tintin, then check out the fantastic video to spot the clues that lie within.
Unofficial title sequence for ‘The Adventures of Tintin’ has been created by James Curran of SlimJim Studios. The video was one of the finalists of Vimeo Awards 2012 in the category of Motion Graphics.
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Some people really know how to have fun with food. I came across these adorable sandwiches on Little Food Junction by Smita whose blog is filled to the brim with cute foods. Her edible creations have been published in several magazines and featured on BBC news, Disney Family Fun, Metro, Canadian Family and many more.
These fun animal sandwiches are not only healthy but will take just a few minutes to assemble. The tiger, panda, and owl are sure to be enjoyed by both kids and the kids-at-heart.
Is it just me or this week has flown by fast? It was cold and wet for the past few weeks here. And finally, the weatherman predicts sunny days ahead. I'm looking forward to spend sometime in the sun, sipping on iced teas! What are your plans? Whatever you do, I wish you a joyous weekend. See you back on Monday.
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Across the United States, the ongoing drought, which has affected some regions for two years or more, is in all likelihood about to get much, much worse.
This past summer, the Department of Agriculture deemed most of the southwest, the midwest and the southeast in a state of natural disaster. The drought sapped groundwater stores, triggered gridlock on the mighty Mississippi, and threatened to reverse the flow of the Chicago River. The drought has already affected international food prices, and a shortage of water could upset energy infrastructure.
Now, says Climate Central, the countdown is on: “Without repeated, significant bouts of heavy snow and rain in the remaining days of winter, a large part of the country will face serious water supply shortages this spring and summer.”
The National Oceanic and Atmospheric Administration released their seasonal drought forecast yesterday, and the outlook is dire.
Federal forecasters predict that drought will persist in the Rocky Mountain and Plains states, expand throughout northern and southern California and return to most of Texas, a state that has been mired in drought since 2011.
With the on-going lack of water, the worries about irrigation shortages and rising prices are giving way to concerns over the availability of fresh water.
With drought extending into its second or even third year in some areas, the main concerns are shifting from agriculture and recreation to water supplies as rivers run dry and reservoirs shrink.
… “We’ve got the same trend we had last year,” Strobel said. “But prior to last year, we had very good snowpack, so there was a lot of moisture in reservoirs and soil” when drought conditions hit. This year, reservoirs are running low and soils are dry, which could magnify the impact of a winter without much snow buildup.
A continued drought could see a recap of the issues faced last summer, says Climate Central, including crop shortfalls, low rivers, and, possibly, a stage set for wildfires.
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Atoms and molecules are electrically neutral in that the number of negatively charged electrons is exactly equal to the number of positively charged protons. Much of the "normal matter" that we find around us is in this form. However, particularly when there are energy sources available, atoms or molecules can gain or lose electrons and acquire a net electrical charge. This process is called ionization.
There is a standard notation in astrophysics for various levels of ionization of an atom. As illustrated in the following table, this notation uses increasing Roman numerals to indicate higher levels of ionization.
|Notation for Degrees of Ionization|
|I||Not ionized (neutral)||H I, He I||H, He|
|II||Singly ionized||H II, He II||H+, He+|
|III||Doubly ionized||He III, O III||He++, O++|
We also show the standard chemist's notation for such ions, which consists of placing a right superscript on the element symbol indicating the net electrical charge on the ion (in the neutral case the superscript "0" is usually omitted). Thus, for example, we shall speak later of "H II regions", meaning volumes of space in which the radiation from nearby hot stars has completely ionized the hydrogen.
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How to keep track of what goes on in a class? Does taking notes help? Would a bi-sensory approach work best? How best to help hearing impaired students? or students for whom notetaking is difficult? or students for whom the physical act of writing - or even typing - is all-consuming ("if I concentrate on my writing I no longer hear the instructor well...")?
We could design individual solutions, from personal notetaking assistants to sign-language interpretors to attempts to simplify keyboards via quick-key-combinations or "chords," or, we can look for Universal Design solutions.
Three technologies offer great possibilities:
1. Live Captioning of the class for everyone via "echo-captioners."
2. The IBM Liberated Learning concept, using instructor voice training.
3. The classroom notetaker utilizing Microsoft's OneNote software.
You might want to start by looking at The Case for Real-Time Captioning in the Classroom by Carnegie-Mellon's Aaron Steinfield... "However, one finding from my first experiment (Steinfeld, 1998) provided clear reinforcement... A 9.8 percent increase in recall accuracy was seen from a traditional presentation (the speaker's face and voice only) to the RTC [Real Time Captioning] conditions for the hearing subjects. The decrease in perception difficulty was clearly beneficial to the students who were deaf, with a 149.6 percent accuracy increase from the traditional condition to the RTC conditions. The real world impact of these results is that providing captions will clearly help deaf students. Furthermore, captions will also assist their hearing classmates. This is especially true for rooms with poor acoustics where hearing students have perception difficulties similar to their deaf and hard-of-hearing counterparts due to the environment."
Liberated Learning is a brilliant idea with some key difficulties. The promise is all-time, automatic access to captioned course content via instructors who were wireless microphones feeding into a high-end version of ViaVoice that adds grammar content. The text is then fed to a projector which both puts the text up on a wall behind the lecturer and makes a digital transcript available to all students immediately after class. I have actually utilized wireless mics and ViaVoice Pro-USB 10 feeding directly to the laptop computers of hearing impaired students, but without the addition of grammar (periods, commas, etc) this is difficult and only appropriate for the most committed students. The system also fails in highly interactive classrooms where many voices are heard. There is also the issue of lecturer willingness to properly train their voice, which, lacking an overall institutional commitment, is "uneven." Still Liberated Learning is "the future," and those of us on "the technology" side need to keep pursuing this goal.
Echo Captioning is an easier to apply strategy. With this method a "voice captioner" sits in the classroom linked by a mask microphone to a Voice-to-Text equipped computer. The captioner repeats everything that is said, by both instructor and students, with appropriate grammatical marks. The resulting text can then be either directed to individual laptops, or can be projected as above, and again, made available as a digital transcript after class. Ultech displayed a simple, relatively inexpensive system for this at CSUN, called Caption Mic Classroom. Though the voice captioners need training and need to train the software, this system does away with the need for lecturer voice training and complex classroom mic set-ups.
OneNote Notetaking is another choice. I tend to call OneNote, Word Liberated, because like it is Microsoft Word freed from its origins in typewriting. OneNote has many advantages over both hand-written notes and notes typed into MS Word. It can provide accuracy not typical of handwriting, it can be re-arranged later, based on increased understandings, it can be combined with digital text and read back by text-to-speech software. It can also accept handwriting, sound clips, diagrams, etc. A classroom notetaker provided for hearing impaired, physically impaired, or learning difficulty students should not be quipped with antiquated technology like carbonless duplication paper or even asked to copy his or her notes. They should be equipped with OneNote on a tablet PC. And if the notes exist for any students, why shouldn't they be made available after class to all students? After all, are we teaching content or the art of notetaking?
Reinforcing lecture and discussion content is an essential part of education. Captioning, Class Notetaking, and transcript/notes availability can all be an effective part of this, and technology makes it all much easier.
Waiting for spring in North America's Midwest -Ira Socol
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Uncooperative Radio Show Notes: Sunday 12/9/12
A Hanukkah story
In 168 B.C.E. the Jewish Temple was seized by Syrian-Greek soldiers and dedicated to the worship of the god Zeus. This upset the Jewish people, but many were afraid to fight back for fear of reprisals.
Columbus Police sprayed Mace on several people in a crowd that had gathered to sign up for a list to get subsidized housing at a northwest Columbus apartment complex.
Two killed at alleged Washington pot house on first day of legal weed
Two suspected robbers believed to be targeting an alleged home-based marijuana growing operation were killed in a shootout on the first day of legal marijuana in Washington state, authorities said.
Add This Group To Obama's Winning Coalition: 'Religiously Unaffiliated'
The big demographic story out of the 2012 presidential election may have been President Obama's domination of the Hispanic vote, and rightfully so.
What is Interventionism? Part Three
Or, the government imposes minimum-wage and prounion legislation, thereby compulsorily pricing workers out of the market and into unemployment
Why Impatience May Hurt Your Heart
Now that the holiday season is here, nearly everyone's patience will be tested at one time or another. Long lines, crowded malls and unbearable travel delays are among the reasons why some people will lose their cool.
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Ohio showdown--More blame Bush than Obama for bad economy--Rubio to raise for Allen--NRSC hits Donnelly--Heller wears No Labels lapel--Citizens United backs Weldon
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NEW ROMNEY TV SPOT HIGLIGHTS “DOING FINE”: The tagline at the end of a new 30-second spot built around last Friday’s gaffe is “How can President Obama fix our economy if he doesn’t understand it’s broken?” This is Boston’s first negative ad of the general election: http://bit.ly/OGKBOl.
OHIO SPLITSCREEN – DUELING ECONOMIC SPEECHES: At 1:45 p.m., Obama will try to reframe the economic debate in Cleveland. Five minutes later, Romney will bracket him with a speech in Cincinnati.
SNEAK PEEK – BOSTON TO HIT OBAMA FOR BROKEN PROMISES: Today isn’t Obama’s first visit to Cuyahoga Community College. In 2007, as a candidate, he said in a speech there that it would be “Un-American” to pass down to “our children and grandchildren” an “America that’s a little poorer and a littler leaner.” In 2010, he said the economy is growing again there and promised to cut the deficit. Here’s a forthcoming two-page research hit: http://bit.ly/K4yyXw.
FLASHBACK: Two years ago, in the same spot where Obama will deliver his speech today, Bill Clinton told a political rally that Democrats deserved two more years to fix the economy. "The Democrats are saying something like this: 'We found a big hole that we did not dig. We didn't get it filled in 21 months, but at least we quit digging,'" Clinton said at the time. "Give us two more years. If it doesn't work, vote us out." USA Today: http://usat.ly/KDOvFn.
WHITE HOUSE PREVIEWS THE SPEECH: “One aide said the crux of Mr. Obama's argument will be that the steps [Romney] wants to take aren't the types of actions that have made America great,” The Wall Street Journal’s Carol Lee reports. http://on.wsj.com/LaPFMK
RECALIBRATION – HOW IT’S PLAYING IN THE PLAIN DEALER: “When he launched his re-election bid in Columbus last month, President Barack Obama introduced a one-word, bumper sticker sales pitch for a second term: ‘Forward.’ But when he returns to Ohio this afternoon for a campaign rally at Cuyahoga Community College in Cleveland, Obama is expected to sound like an incumbent who has one eye firmly fixed on 2008 in the rearview mirror…He has struggled recently to articulate an economic message that resonates with voters … So rather than offer specific new proposals for four more years, Obama today is likely to dwell on the recession he inherited from his predecessor, Republican George W. Bush.” Henry Gomez’s story: http://bit.ly/LGqGhI.
GALLUP OUT THIS MORNING—MORE STILL BLAME BUSH THAN OBAMA FOR BAD ECONOMY: “The relative economic blame given to Bush versus Obama today is virtually the same as it was last September,” write pollster Frank Newport. “Gallup first asked this ‘blame assessment’ question in July 2009, six months after Obama became president. At that point, 80% of Americans gave Bush a great deal or a moderate amount of blame, compared with 32% who ascribed the same level of blame for the bad economy to Obama. The percentage blaming Bush dropped to about 70% in August 2010, and has stayed roughly in that range since. Meanwhile, about half of Americans have blamed Obama since March 2010, with little substantive change from then to the present.” 83% of Republicans blame Obama a great deal or moderate amount and 49% ascribe the same level of blame to Bush. http://bit.ly/M6oDmd
OHIO IS A TOSS-UP, the AP’s Chuck Babington says in a great read on the state of play: “As every campaign strategist knows, no Republican has won the presidency without carrying Ohio…In the most recent weekly tally of campaign broadcast spending, Romney's forces nearly matched Obama's dollar for dollar in Ohio. Romney and the super Pac that backs him focused mainly on urban areas. They heavily outspent their rivals in GOP-leaning Cincinnati, and slightly outspent them in Columbus and Democratic-leaning Cleveland. Obama's campaign bought air time in smaller markets that Romney skipped: Zanesville, Steubenville and two West Virginia towns whose TV broadcasts reach southeast Ohio. Strategists say Romney hopes to run up big margins in rural areas and the Cincinnati suburbs. Obama's campaign will need big turnouts from Cleveland's black and liberal voters, and it hopes union households in the struggling coal and steel regions won't abandon Democrats.” http://bit.ly/LWhrIL
SNEAK PEEK – RNC VIDEO HITS OBAMA ON GOLF: The Republican National Committee is out with a 30-second web video built around a clip of Obama missing a putt, which plays over and over again. The tagline: “Sorry President Obama, president’s don’t get mulligans.” Reince Priebus’ line: “He keeps hooking left, and it isn't working for the American economy. We've seen this game before and Americans can't afford to give President Obama another shot.” Watch: http://bit.ly/Nk04qW
INDIANA EXCLUSIVE – NRSC HITS DONNELLY ON PELOSI SUPPORT: Ahead of the Indiana Democratic State Convention, the National Republican Senatorial Committee will push a web video today that ties Democratic Senate candidate Joe Donnelly to Nancy Pelosi. Donnelly recently told a local reporter that he did not vote for her to be speaker. In fact, the congressman voted for Pelosi in 2007 and 2009. In 2011, he supported Heath Shuler. The NRSC has audio both of Donnelly saying he didn’t support Pelosi and audio from the 2009 roll call vote in which he supported Pelosi. Watch: http://bit.ly/LmiZg4.
FLORIDA EXCLUSIVE – CITIZENS UNITED BACKS WELDON FOR SENATE: Connie Mack is acting like the GOP Senate primary is over, and he’s been rounding up establishment support – including Attorney General Pam Bondi yesterday – but conservatives are not coalescing. Citizens United Political Victory Fund will endorse former Congressman Dave Weldon today and announce they are contributing $10,000. “Connie Mack is a puppet of the establishment who does not have the high moral caliber that Dr. Weldon displays every day,” says Citizens United President David Bossie.
VIRGINIA SENATE FIRST LOOK – RUBIO FUNDRAISING FOR ALLEN: As George Allen and Marco Rubio campaign together today in Arlington, Rubio will send a mass fundraising email to boost the Virginian’s bid. Directed at small-dollar donors, it emphasizes Allen’s record in Richmond and Washington: “Several years ago, he was one of only fifteen Senators to vote against the infamous Bridge to Nowhere. He’s long advocated for a true Balanced Budget Amendment to our Constitution that will finally force Washington to live within its means. As Governor he worked to reform welfare, build Virginia’s Rainy Day Fund, freeze college tuition, cut taxes and grow the state’s economy, creating more than 300,000 net new private sector jobs. We need George’s leadership with us in the Senate.” He describes Tim Kaine as “Obama’s hand-picked party Chairman.”
As Portman gets a new press secretary, the Obama campaign promises the biggest rural ground game ever in Iowa and Larry Sabato’s team pours cold water on Democratic hopes of retaking the House, here’s POLITICO’s Morning Score: your daily guide to the permanent campaign.
WHAT OBAMA IS UP TO: After the 1:45 speech in Cleveland, he’ll fly at 3:25 from Ohio to NYC. 5:15 briefing on One World Trade Center construction progress. The visit will be a preview of the topping-off ceremony, which will symbolize the near-completion of the iconic building's framework. 6:45 fundraiser at the Greenwich Village home of Sara Jessica Parker. 9:55 remarks, with Michelle, at The Plaza Hotel. 11:35 flight from JFK to Andrews. Back in the White House at 12:45. Carney will gaggle on Air Force One. Jeremy Peters previews tonight’s fashion industry fundraiser: http://nyti.ms/K4EeAy.
WHAT BIDEN IS UP TO: 1 p.m. commencement address to Tallwood High School graduates in Virginia Beach. 6:30 event for his son Beau, Delaware’s attorney general, in Wilmington.
WHAT ROMNEY IS UP TO: His only public event is the 1:50 speech at Selikop Industries in Cincinnati, which the AFL-CIO Super PAC Workers Voice says they will have local families protesting outside of. They’ll tell reporters that Romney wants to ship jobs overseas and has flip-flopped on China.
ABC/WAPO—NEITHER CANDIDATE’S ECONOMIC AGENDA IS POPULAR: 43% favorably view Obama’s economic agenda and 40% percent say the same of Romney. “Among electorally critical independent voters, nearly three times as many have intensely negative impressions of Obama’s plan than positive ones. The news isn’t great for Romney either, though; independents break exactly 2-to-1 strongly against his economic plan.” http://wapo.st/LDIknG
PPP of NEVADA: Obama, 48; Romney, 42. http://bit.ly/KIv8ZX
HE’S GOING ON FACE THE NATION SUNDAY: Bob Schieffer will interview him on the road during his bus tour. It’s his first non-Fox Sunday show this year: http://wapo.st/LmsQTj.
SHELDON ADELSON GIVES $10 MILLION TO RESTORE OUR FUTURE: The Wall Street Journal confirmed the donation yesterday. http://on.wsj.com/KIrWO0
ATTACKS OBAMA ON RUSSIA OVER SYRIA: “President Obama's 'reset' policy toward Russia has clearly failed. Russia has openly armed and protected a murderous regime in Syria, frustrated international sanctions on Iran, and opposed American efforts on a range of issues. This is an unfortunate failure of President Obama's foreign policy.”
MITT HAS A SURROGATE PROBLEM TOO: “When Jeb Bush, Mitch Daniels and Scott Walker all lobbed rhetorical explosive devices of varying sizes in Romney’s direction, Democrats were gleeful that Republicans now had their own version of a Bain family feud,” Maggie Haberman writes this morning. “But unlike Bill Clinton…those close to these Republican heavyweights say that they are simply telling the truth about what they see as weaknesses in the modern-day GOP and with its standard-bearer’s message…and have the stature to do so.” http://politi.co/KpBYIY
FOUR STRAINS OF SECOND-GUESSING OBAMA ON THE LEFT: “There are several prevailing themes of criticism that fall into distinct categories, reflecting strategic disagreements and ideological fault lines within Democratic circles that in some cases stretch back for years,” Alex Burns and John Harris write in the story leading our site this morning. The sections of the story: Obama needs to stop saying the economy is getting better. Obama should stop demonizing Mitt Romney. Obama’s at risk of losing his unique, hopey-changey brand. The president needs a clearer agenda for his second term. http://politi.co/NAeZMz
CATHOLIC BISHOPS DEFEND FIGHT WITH OBAMA: “Stung by criticism that they are engaging in partisan attacks in a presidential campaign, the nation's Roman Catholic bishops insisted Wednesday that their fight with President Obama has nothing to do with party politics or contraception, and everything to do with what they see as a fundamental assault on religious liberty,” the Los Angeles Times’ Mitch Landsberg reports from Atlanta. “The bishops did not shrink from attacking the administration in a dispute that has become their signature issue, one involving what Bishop Stephen Blaire of Stockton called ‘the most serious intrusion of government that we have ever experienced.’ One speaker at the annual spring meeting of the U.S. Conference of Catholic Bishops went so far as to compare the situation confronting the American church to the one that faced Thomas More, the Catholic saint who was beheaded in the 16th century for refusing to accept the supremacy of the English king over the pope.” http://lat.ms/MInTmf
EMERGENCY COMMITTEE FOR ISRAEL GOES NUCLEAR IN NEW AD: “The Emergency Committee for Israel, the hawkishly pro-Israel conservative group, has released a new ad targeting the Obama administration's Iran policies, calling for immediate action to put an end to the country's nuclear program,” Zeke Miller scoops. “The ‘significant’ ad buy will air in New York and Washington DC beginning today, on Sunday political shows, and during weekend sporting events, with additional markets to follow next week, according to the group.” A male narrator: "President Obama has spent four years talking, Iran has spent four years building. Obama is still talking, and Iran has enough fuel for five nuclear bombs...Talking isn’t working. It’s time to act — before it’s too late.” Watch: http://bit.ly/KIygoN.
KARL ROVE SAYS SCOTUS STRIKING DOWN HEALTH CARE COULD HELP OBAMA: But only if he responds to it the right way, which Rove – who does not necessarily have the president’s best interests at heart – expects he will not do. His Wall Street Journal column today: “The president could pivot to the center and regain some of the high ground he occupied in his 2008 campaign. He could say that while he disagreed with the court's decision, the justices had the responsibility under our system to decide whether the law was constitutional…He could then add that a big problem remains: Tens of millions of our fellow citizens lack affordable health insurance…Voters would then see Mr. Obama more as he appeared in 2008—reasonable and practical, open to dialogue and discussion, committed to bipartisan answers. But Mr. Obama appears unlikely to take this measured approach.” http://on.wsj.com/M6O07c
BATTLEGROUND BRIEFING—THE PATH TO 270:
OBAMA CAMP PROMISES LARGEST RURAL GROUND GAME IN IOWA HISTORY: That’s the headline in the Des Moines Register. Jennifer Jacobs: “The Obama campaign said today it will have the largest ground game in rural Iowa that any presidential candidate has ever had in Iowa. The campaign has a new group called the Rural Iowans for Obama Steering Committee, which aides said is ‘a groundbreaking organizing operation in rural communities.’” http://dmreg.co/Kw2xxr
ARIZONA GOP SPOKESMAN EXPLAINS “BITCH SESSION” COMMENT: From Phoenix’s KTVK, “The top spokesman for the Arizona Republican Party didn't like a column published recently in the state's largest newspaper. So on Monday he slammed the female reporter and another woman quoted in the piece for having what he called a, ‘bitch session.’ Shane Wikfors, the communications director for the state GOP, said there's nothing wrong with using the derogatory term when referring to women. ‘It's a colloquialism,’ Wikfors said during a telephone interview. ‘It's universally used. Go to any corporate boardroom and you'll hear that reference.’” http://bit.ly/MQr0Mz
MAINE SENATE – MURRAY SILENT ON KING: “Cynthia Dill may be the Democratic Senate nominee in Maine, but she has yet to win an endorsement from the leader of the Democratic Senatorial Campaign Committee,” Manu Raju writes. “Sen. Patty Murray (D-Wash.), chairwoman of the DSCC, wouldn't say Wednesday whether she would back Dill, a state senator who won her party's nomination Tuesday night. ‘We are talking to a lot of people up in Maine and are making a determination on what we’re going to do,’ Murray told POLITICO. ‘It’s going to be a great state.’ … Of course, the real reason why the DSCC is publicly mum on the race is that the heavy front-runner is former Gov. Angus King, an independent whom Democrats hope would formally caucus with their party if he wins in November.” http://politi.co/KDSdPp
MASSACHUSETTS SENATE – BROWN POSITIONING HIMSELF AS A MODERATE:
CALLS ON HOUSE GOP TO SUPPORT ABORTION FOR SERVICEWOMEN: “Scott Brown (R-Mass.) called on House GOP leaders Wednesday to accept Senate language in the National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA) that would give women in the Armed Forces the same access to abortion that civilian federal employees have, such as in cases involving rape or incest,” The Hill reports. “Brown sent a letter to House Speaker John Boehner (R-Ohio) … which said … that it is critical to provide these women with abortion services similar to those granted to civilian employees.” http://bit.ly/MI96bk
CALLS ON JP MORGAN TO REVOKE BONUSES: Facing attacks from Elizabeth Warren for weakening the bank bill, Scott Brown’s office put out a statement yesterday during the Senate Banking Committee hearing: “The way for Jamie Dimon to demonstrate his seriousness about the mistakes that led to JPMorgan’s $2 billion trading loss is to take back the bonuses and incentive compensation from those who were involved in the failed London trades, including himself as CEO.” The left responded by demanding that Brown return his campaign donations from JP Morgan employees. http://bo.st/KpsP3p
INDIANA SENATE – STATE DEMS TO RUN AD BOOSTING DONNELLY: “The Indiana Democratic Party will begin airing a round of general-election TV ads Friday boosting Rep. Joe Donnelly’s campaign for Senate,” Alex Burns reports. “The commercials are set to run from June 15 to June 26 with about a quarter-million dollars behind them.” No ad to watch yet: http://politi.co/NjDq1K.
NEVADA SENATE – DEAN HELLER POSITIONING HIMSELF AS INDEPENDENT POPULIST: “The race is on to define the Nevada freshman — who has concluded that his path to victory will rely heavily on casting himself as a dogged outsider unbeholden to his party,” Manu Raju writes in a smart story on the race. “Heller’s election-year image is evident in subtle and obvious ways. He periodically sports a ‘No Labels’ pin on his suit coat, a reference to the outside group critical of both parties. He’s aggressively touting populist-tinged proposals, including one that would force members of Congress to go without pay until they pass a budget. And Heller is talking openly about the need to compromise with Democrats: He has entertained the possibility of backing additional tax revenues and defense cuts as part of a deficit-reduction deal and hinted he’s open to a bipartisan deal on illegal immigration.” http://politi.co/KDUSbQ
JON RALSTON, Nevada’s top political reporter, offers five factors to watch in his column for the Las Vegas Sun: Atmospherics, Washoe, Hispanics, Independents and Ethics. http://bit.ly/LGsx6e
THE HOUSE – SABATO TEAM SEES NO INDICATION DEMS CAN TAKE IT BACK: Larry Sabato’s University of Virginia Center for Politics looks at the House map in the wake of the Arizona special. “In total, the Crystal Ball rates 235 seats safe, likely or leaning for the Republicans, and rates 186 safe, likely or leaning for the Democrats,” House editor Kyle Kondik writes in his analysis. “Split the 14 toss-ups seven to seven, and one is left with 242 Republicans and 193 Democrats in the House: exactly the margin Republicans had to start this Congress. Needless to say, there is no indication at this point that the Democrats can net the 25 seats that would give them a House majority; in fact, if Mitt Romney wins the presidency, Republicans could actually add seats to their already substantial caucus.” http://bit.ly/OGE1rh
SOUTH CAROLINA HOUSE – BAUER NAILS RICE AS “MODERATE”: It took no time at all for the attacks to fly in the seventh district runoff. Andre Bauer went on TV and radio by yesterday afternoon with an ad built around a clip of GOP opponent Tom Rice saying, “I would say I’m more moderate.” A female narrator attacks him for his time on the Horry County Council. With the runoff on June 26th, there’s little time for both sides to make their case and it’s expected to be a slugfest. It will be an incredibly low turnout race, so high-intensity conservative primary voters will likely decide the winner. The spots are on a new microsite called RicesModerateRecord: http://bit.ly/L704b0.
MORE – STATE DEM CHAIR CALLS IT A CLUSTER…: “‘Clusterf—,’ South Carolina Democratic Party Chairman Dick Harpootlian told Roll Call’s Josh Miller. “We’ve got more in common with a third-world, South American country than we do with the rest of the other 49 states…Venezuelan leader Hugo “Chávez would conduct a fairer, better election than the Republican South Carolina [State] Election Commission.” He was pissed about Tuesday’s Democratic primary election results in the state’s new 7th district: “At first, the results appeared to indicate a Democratic primary runoff between long-shot candidate Gloria Bromell Tinubu…and establishment-backed attorney Preston Brittain…But then…the South Carolina State Election Commission disqualified the votes received by state Rep. Ted Vick (D) on the grounds that he had withdrawn from the race before primary day. That gave Tinubu more than 50 percent of the vote and the victory.” http://bit.ly/KXoXYs
COLORADO HOUSE – DEMS TARGET COFFMAN ON BIRTHER COMMENTS: “The Colorado Democratic Party [yesterday] launched a new endeavor it says is an effort to remind voters when Republicans don’t ‘live up to the standards set out for them as Coloradans,’” per the Denver Post. “So they’ve launched NotColoardo.com. The first target is U.S. Rep. Mike Coffman of Aurora over the now much ballyhooed birther controversy and his handling of it.” http://bit.ly/OH8ghR
WEST VIRGINIA GOVERNOR – GOP PUSHES TOMBLIN ON OBAMA: It’s going to be impossible for Earl Ray Tomblin to dodge whether or not he supports Obama’s reelection. He’s an automatic superdelegate to the Democratic National Convention as governor. “On June 19th, the West Virginia Democratic Party Chair must certify the presidential preference of the state's unpledged delegates in writing to the national party,” his Republican opponent Bill Maloney’s campaign notes in a press release. Maloney: "Even as Obama's policies destroy West Virginia jobs, Earl Ray refuses to say if he'll be voting for Obama. Now he has to decide: Obama or West Virginia."
ROB PORTMAN sides with conservatives in a battle over miscellaneous tariff provisions while teaming up with Claire McCaskill to introduce a bill on the matter: http://bit.ly/MQZXRg.
PORTMAN, according to Mike Allen’s Playbook, is bringing on CAITLIN DUNN as his Senate office press secretary. She comes from Richard Burr’s office and previously worked in communications for the presidential campaigns of both Tim Pawlenty and John McCain.
JOHN THUNE downplayed VP talk in an interview with USA Today’s Jackie Kucinich: “’Dark horse' usually means you are way back in the pack somewhere. I'm not sure that's a good thing. Very few dark horses actually win the race.” http://usat.ly/Kw1fm6
BOB MCDONNELL says Virginia will give $150 million for the Silver Line Metro expansion if a union-friendly deal for contractors is dropped: http://wapo.st/LEduer.
LIGHTER CLICKS –
JON STEWART, keying off the Sheldon Adelson donation, joked last night that Obama should sell advertising space and agree to promote cereal or CDs to raise money for his campaign: http://bit.ly/KXnu4h. He also circled back to the Obama kill list: http://gaw.kr/K4E0JR.
STEPHEN COLBERT joked about Niagara Falls: http://gaw.kr/MQW5zE.
JAMIE DIMON wore presidential cufflinks during his Senate testimony yesterday: http://bit.ly/L79N0W.
BETTY WHITE taped a 90-second video promoting Obama’s summer jobs initiative during his visit to the White House Monday: http://politi.co/KDJe0J.
DAVID AXELROD warned against happy talk on the economy during this 1994 appearance on C-SPAN: http://bit.ly/MsZhR4.
KURT BILLS, Amy Klobuchar’s Republican challenger in Minnesota, sponsored and appeared in a bizarre short film for the Minneapolis 48 Hours Film Project contest. Trailer: http://bit.ly/KXr7XX.
HBO premieres the Bush 41 documentary at 9 p.m. tonight. Trailer: http://bit.ly/KpH5sO.
“OBAMA BOY,” inspired by Obama Girl’s 2008 “I’ve got a crush” hit, is up with a viral video that focuses on the president’s support for gay marriage: http://politi.co/MsYHTt.
THE GUARDIAN named the top 50 political tweeters: http://bit.ly/M6PDzQ.
CODA – QUOTE OF THE DAY: “Big sigh of relief. Ready to move forward with life” – Cate Edwards tweets about the Justice Department’s announcement that they will not re-try her dad. http://politi.co/MI5buR.
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I had a really horrible 2 nights in a row...but the subject at hand is endorsing to the next shift..how much is too much?
This post is part vent/part question. I work nights 7p-7a and who says nights are NOT busy? We admit, we discharge, less family and doctors to deal with but there is still 24 hour chart checks, making sure all the correct meds and the frequency and amount are given (there have been a number of times I've found errors) in the MARs.
Last night I had a DC and an admission, blood transfusion, bowel prep, picc line dressing change, f/u with consents bc a pt had no emergency contact listed (confused and a nsg home pt) for a colonoscopy/egd, etc. It wasn't until giving report to the AM nurse I realized that my pt was scheduled to have aa liver aspiration biopsy and I was such a dummy I forgot to get consent from the pt!! The pt was Spanish speaking only and the spanish speaking nurses were already giving report ( so too busy) or they already left. I also had to endorse that the IV site is due for a change on the same pt (the site was patent but it's our hospital policy to change q3days. And the other pt w/no emergency contact I notified the PMD but not the Ordering MD re:the consent. I informed my supervisor but they stated I didn't have to call the ordering md that night, that it was ok to wait until the procedure and inform the OR nurse...in hindsight I should have called the ordering MD anyway...
So I felt terrible endorsing all this. The AM nurse said I needed to get the consent and start the new iv site, but I said no I couldn't bc I don't speak spanish and it was already 25 min OT.
Anyway, I wish I could tell her sorry, especially if I sounded like such a b*. I have to work on my time management. 12hours I felt wasn't enough! I feel like a failure and the AM nurse must think I'm an idiot!
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The Saints’ home away from home is more than 4,000 miles from the Superdome. It sports a gigantic crowning arch rather than a roof, and the playing surface is grass rather than synthetic FieldTurf.
Teddy Kider of The Times-Picayune writes, the one-weekend move for the Saints can be considered an honor, since their new home usually is reserved for the identity of an entire nation.
Wembley is the national stadium of England, typically used for home games of England’s national soccer team. There are no local teams that have home games at Wembley — perhaps the characteristic that separates it most from U.S. venues. Even compared with new luxurious American venues, the history of places such as Yankee Stadium and the seating capacity of collegiate facilities, there is no equivalent of Wembley Stadium in the United States. MORE
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Mass Training For Hardgainers!
When I was younger I remember coming across the word "hardgainer" in most bodybuilding magazines. I would often wonder what exactly was meant by this word. Soon I discovered that it was a term that referred to those unfortunate souls that could not put on any mass, no matter how hard they tried. This explanation made me confused. I mean most people in the gym that I worked out in never seemed to make any progress did that mean that they were all hardgainers?
The answer is obviously no! Most people fail to use proper scientific training and rarely work hard, thus never making any progress. This term hardgainer is often used by most of the lazy trainees to mask their lack of motivation. Always remember one thing; you cannot call yourself a hardgainer before you begin to work out. You must have trained regularly for at least 6 months without any results before you can call yourself a hardgainer. Having said that I do agree that there are a few real unfortunate souls who are truly hardgainers. These guys train month after month and rarely see any muscular growth.
If you are unfortunate to be such an individual, then I can understand how frustrated and lonely you might feel. Why lonely? It is so because there is very little concern for such souls. All over the world billions of dollars are spent on research to find out how to tackle the obesity crisis, but very little is spent on helping hardgainers. The little research or help that is available is provided by dedicated websites like bodybuilding.com, a few supplement companies and some magazines. It is truly a lonely world for hardgainers in terms of getting help.
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Types Of Hardgainers
I personally believe that there are two types of hardgainers. One is the self proclaimed type and the other is the real hardgainer. To ensure that you are not an imaginary hardgainer check your training log and lifestyle carefully. Are you:
If you have answered no to any of the previous questions then you just imagine yourself to be a hardgainer. On the other hand if you have answered yes to all the above questions then you need help! You can then truly be classified as a hardgainer and will have to work very hard to see any mass gain.
The Top 3 Incorrect Tips For Hardgainers
Now, if you have been reading about how to add mass for a hardgainer, I am sure you must have come across a lot of advice from different individuals. Some of the advice given is correct, but a lot of advice that is given is rubbish. Let me share some popular advice that is given to hardgainers that I believe is wrong.
Often I read "experts" advising hardgainers to train infrequently to gain mass. Sometimes it is recommended that anything more than 2 sessions a week will be counterproductive. The reasoning for this advice is that hardgainers get overtrained very easily and thus find it hard to put on any mass if they train more than 2 days a week. I am sure that you must have heard this advice often.
Let me assure you that training less and less frequently is not the solution to your problem. You see, when you train it is the hormonal change in your body that creates physical changes. Thus when you engage in an intense weight training session your body's testosterone and growth hormone levels will increase and create an environment for growth. This rise of hormones is not a permanent effect. It will be there for a short time and then go back to normal if you do not train again. Now as a hardgainer your body's anabolic hormonal profile cannot be great. Thus if you train infrequently your hormonal profile will not be elevated often enough to facilitate growth. Anything less than 3 sessions a week is too little to cause any significant muscle growth for a hardgainer.
In fact, I will even say that it might be a better idea for an easy gainer to train infrequently than a hardgainer. An easygainer is supposed to add mass with very little effort, right? Thus it might be more suitable for easygainers than hardgainers.
This is another very popular piece of advice that is given. What is basically told is that hardgainers should not do anything that is even the least bit strenuous outside the gym. If they do so then their body will not be able to recover from the gym workout to add any mass. Now I do understand that adding marathon runs in the morning to your intense weight training sessions in the evening is not conducive for muscle growth, however being a couch potato is another thing altogether.
A little bit of activity outside the gym will actually help the muscles recover faster and better. This will help you work harder in your next session, which obviously means faster results. A good way to recover between sessions is to actually work out. No, not heavy all out sessions, but some light sessions to improve the circulation between muscles for a faster recovery. Read this excellent article by Mike Mahler on how to use workouts to recover faster- Enhance Recovery By Working Out.
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This is one of the most overrated principles in bodybuilding. Training to failure is a great principle, but only if done infrequently. Training to failure on all your working sets is a surefire way to burn yourself out soon and be overtrained enough to forget about any muscle growth. Use training to failure occasionally to get best results. On most occasions stop 1-2 reps short of failure to improve your strength and physical appearance.
7 Ways To Break The Curse
So now that you know what you should not do, how about what you should do? Well keep these points in mind and blast through the hardgainer curse:
First of all you need to stop telling yourself that you are a hardgainer. I know that it is hard to do with the frustration due to your lack of progress. However you must realize that unless you believe in yourself you will not make the best effort possible to bring about changes in your body.
Train ideally 3-5 times a week to get the best results in mass gain. Keep 1-2 sessions light for recovery. Remember that anything less than 3 sessions a week is not ideal and will not help much in gaining mass.
Using the same weight for months is not going to cause a change in your muscle size. This rule applies to all whether they are easy or hardgainers. The weight that you lift needs to be increased with time.
This is another principle that applies to everyone and especially to hardgainers. Training with improper form will not only increase the risk of an injury but will also fail to work the intended muscle groups properly to add mass to your body.
This is a critical factor if you find it hard to put on mass. Partying till 4 in the morning and barely getting 4 hours of sleep every night is not going to help your cause. Skipping sleep for late night TV is also not a good idea. Good quality sleep is essential to help your body recover and build muscle size.
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If you are failing to put on mass then learning to overfeed your body becomes crucial. You should eat more than what you burn to add mass. Never believe anyone who tells you that you can add mass even if you consume less than what you burn. If that were true then I guess we could study such cases to solve the food shortage problems of the third world countries.
I generally do not recommend supplements at first to any client. However if you have been failing to add mass for awhile then you need all the help that you can get. In this case using supplements is a good idea to promote growth in your body. Of course using supplements does not give you the permission to follow a poor diet. A good diet is a must even with the consumption of supplements.
Sample Hardgainer Routine
Now it is time for a sample routine that you can follow to break through the dreaded hardgainer curse. Try the routine mentioned below:
Monday, Wednesday, Friday.
Do the two workouts alternately.
You will need to experiment and find out for yourself if you are responding better to 2 or 3 sets for an exercise. So try this routine to grow big and do not forget to follow the important points like progression in weight being lifted, etc, to get the best out of the routine. Forget about telling yourself that you are a hardgainer, it is time to tap into your muscle building potential.
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Hardgainer here -ok no more saying that- just started this routine. Got two questions:
1) What about working out two days in a row like mon wednesday thursday? 'Cause I usually don't have free time on friday, saturday or sundays. Does this interrupt my gain?
2) What about abs?
You have to stick with the program, when you train two days in a row it will interrupt the recovery of your muscles, so exactly it will interrupt your gains.
Besides that, you will improve the risk of getting injuries when you train 2 times in a row full body.
This program contains a lot of compound excersises. These excercises already stimulate the growth of your ABS.
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Conscious Web Design - Ashland, Oregon
Located in Ashland, Oregon, Conscious Web Design offers the most professional, beautiful, unique and precise web design in the business. With over 20 years of graphic design experience and 16 years of web developing experience, Conscious Web Design is grateful and willing to discuss your next step in revamping an old website, adding SEO, or creating a new website that will help you manifest your dreams in this world! We invite you to review our design portfolio.
- Web Design and Development
- Graphic Design
- Hand Coded xHTML / CSS
- SEO: Search Engine Optimization
- Ruby on Rails
- Shopping Carts
- Flash Animation
- Micrososft SQL Server
- VPS Web Hosting
- Wordpress - Drupal - Joomla!
- PHP (frameworks: Codeigniter, LAMP, PEAR, PRADO, CakePHP)
- PSD to xHTML
- Objective-C / C++ / C#
- Newsletter and Development
- Business Cards
- Posters / Flyers
Graphic, Web Design and Development
We use Adobe Illustrator, Photoshop, Fireworks, and Flash to create the most leading edge web design for you and your business. The design is hand coded into valid W3C xHTML / CSS coding and can be put into a CMS such as Wordpress, Drupal, or Joomla!. Mikael spends ample time connecting with you, the client, in preperation for the website design, discovering your needs, wants, expectations and preferences.
Mikael takes the design to a new level by going within and meditating with the design in mind and allowing the graphic layout and web design to be shown to him. This creates a one of a kind website design, whether you are seeking a professional website for the business world or a highly creative web design for the artistic and spiritual world. Take your website to the next level!
Spiritual Website Design
Allowing spirit and energy to guide the divine design. I have worked with many spiritual authors including: James Twyman, Philip Burley, Leela Foundation for Eli Jaxon-Bear & Gangaji, Karen Coffey, Hans Christian King, Debra Gano, Christine Savory and Gary Zukav.
Would you like to have a better ranking in a search engine? Would you like new clients, contacts and potential business to easily find you when they search the internet for what you have to offer? Of course, right?! To have more traffic, to have more and more people finding, visiting and using your site, it's important to have a high search engine ranking. We help you achieve that.
A Website is like a book and every web page is like a page in a book. A search engine helps look for the most relevant information regarding a specific page in a book. Having a site that search engines find begins with writing very clear, concise content using keywords that are specific to your website. Mikael will go through each page and put together a list of options that will help your website be more functional for web search engines.
Mikael believes in building websites that are easily findable by using organic search terms in major search engines. In other words, rather than using paid advertising to gain web traffic, write your site in a way that it is naturally found by search engines. In today's marketplace, everyone is using the internet to share and market their ideas, services and products. And yet, you can still be seen if you know how to use the internet correctly and with the most up-to-date SEO information.
Mikael keeps current on search engine standards and the most effective, optimal SEO practices. When Mikael builds a site, he shares his vast knowledge and experience to help your site rank well among the competition!
Committed to Successful Partnership
Conscious Web Design does more than just build you a website. We are committed to doing everything possible to make your website everything you could possibly imagine! We are only an email or phone call away!
Conscious Web Design will always offer affordable prices to our clients.
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Thursday, November 15, 2012
The Summerville Police Department is scheduled for an on-site assessment during the week of November 27-28, 2012; as part of a program to achieve state accreditation by verifying it meets professional standards.
Administered by the South Carolina Law Enforcement Accreditation, Inc., the accreditation program requires agencies to comply with state-of-the-art standards in four basic areas: policy and procedures, administration, operations, and support services.
As part of the on-site assessment, agency employees and members of the community are invited to give comments and / or suggestions to:
Chief Bruce E. Owens or Lt James M Bateman
Summerville Police Department
300 West 2nd North Street
Summerville, SC 29483-6538
Anyone wishing to submit written comments about the Summerville Police Department’s ability to comply with the standards for accreditation may send them to:
South Carolina Law Enforcement Accreditation, Inc.
c/o South Carolina Sheriff’s Association
ATTN: SCLEA Program Administrator
112 Westpark Boulevard
Columbia, SC 29210
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Las Vegas, NV (PRWEB) February 04, 2014
This week as thousands of builders converge for the 2014 IBS Builder’s Show, AxisPointe announces its release of InSite Query™, a powerful data interface which provides unprecedented remote visibility to any jobsite.
The web-based software solution links AxisPointe’s InSite Mobile® field application which provides real-time quality assurance, job site safety, and other business process management capabilities.
AxisPointe’s CEO Stan Luhr said InSite Query allows managers and QA professionals to observe jobsite conditions without physically visiting the jobsite, greatly reducing travel costs and construction delays. Digital photos accurately depict construction best practices, record milestones, and instantly alert trade contractors via email when an NCR (non-compliance report) is issued.
“Builders can now respond to the job site events in real time, which saves significant time and money and can rapidly speed up the construction process,” Luhr said. “For small builders who lack a full-time onsite project manager, this tool will be a lifesaver.”
Users can view digital photos, see the GPS location of where information was gathered, identify root causes of defects and make immediate corrective action—all without having to travel to the job. Information gathered by the builder, trade contractors and AxisPointe’s QA auditors is shared on the same platform with automated notification if a deviation is discovered.
Luhr said AxisPointe’s mobile technologies are enabling builders with limited man power to gain more control over their job site activities and react to the ever-changing construction in much less time than ever before. Builders also rely on AxisPointe’s integrated suite of document management, homeowner maintenance production and customer service and warranty tracking tools as a cost-saving alternative to performing these services in-house.
“Until now, technology has been slow to adapt to the building industry, mainly because the products were too complicated and took too long to ramp up,” Luhr said. He added that builders can be online and using the program in minutes by using the company’s standard templates, which can be customized at any time.
AxisPointe’s InSite Query™ Key Features Include:
Since 2002 AxisPointe has provided home builders and contractors with technology solutions to eliminate construction risk and improve efficiency. AxisPointe’s HomeProfile® document management solution has been employed on thousands of homes by leading builders. Contractor and Builder support services include risk management services, quality assurance and job schedule management, project quality assurance and control systems, project document storage and archiving, customer service management, work order ticket assignment, insurance certificate management, and post-warranty claims support. AxisPointe’s InSite Mobile® iPhone app empowers builders to eliminate defects and document the construction quality to avoid claims. AxisPointe SaaS services are completely hosted, eliminating storage and backup overhead for builders of all sizes.
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While there are many ethical and moral questions to be answered when one considers their consumption of milk, there are numerous health concerns to take into account as well. This piece will explore some of the reasons, related both to health and ethics, to quit that nasty habit of drinking cow’s milk.
1. Pathogens, Bacteria & Antibiotics – Oh My!
The first glaring problem is the state of the milk cows themselves. Dairy cows are fed high-protein, soy-based feed instead of their natural feed of green grass. This practice produces grown cows with abnormally enlarged pituitary glands, giving them the ability to produce milk more rapidly. The downside to humans: the process leaves the cow weak and unhealthy, forcing the milk industry to pump the animals full of a variety of antibiotics to keep them well enough to continue to produce. These antibiotics are commonly found in the finished product that many of us consume on a very regular basis.
Problem number two: the pasteurization process. Pasteurization is the act of heating the raw product up to extreme temperatures in order to destroy the native pathogens and bacteria that cow’s milk contains. Unfortunately, this process also destroys the natural enzymes found in the milk, enzymes that the human body requires in order to properly break it down when it is consumed. Because the human pancreas was not designed to break down the mother’s milk of animal species, it is often lacking when it attempts to deliver the enzymes necessary to break down the milk; people whose pancreas is unable to produce sufficient enzymes are called lactose intolerant. Continued consumption of cow’s milk can cause your pancreas to become overworked to the point that you develop lactose intolerance at any point in your life.
The butterfat found naturally in cow’s milk is forced through a commercial process called homogenization. This process forces the butterfat to the point of rancidity, allowing it to be easily removed for the sake of “low fat” cow’s milk. Removing the butterfat altogether produces skim milk, a product marketed to us as a health food; what is ironic is that the removal of the butterfat keeps the human body from properly digesting the milk, leaving behind the many vitamins, minerals and short chain fatty acids that are naturally found in milk.
4. Bovine Growth Hormone (BGH)
The American FDA has recently approved the use of Bovine Growth Hormones by dairy farmers with the intention of allowing for increased milk production. So how does BGH affect humans? Well, it causes a drastic increase in insulin-like growth factors (IGF-1) in the milk of commercial dairy cows, forcing the people who consume the finished product to consume it directly. IGF-1 has been found to promote the transformation of human breast cells to cancerous forms among other negative health effects.
5. Cows Are People Too!
Okay, so maybe cows aren’t people. They are, however, sentient beings that deserve nothing less than a free, natural and happy life that doesn’t involve being chained up in a small stall, being biologically made to believe that it is pregnant nine months of the year in order to increase milk production or being deliberately made sick and pained for selfish human consumption. There is no spiritual standpoint on Earth that advocates or allows for the torture of animals and the commercial dairy process is nothing less than absolute torture.
6. It’s Absolutely Disgusting
We are the only species on Earth that regularly and happily consumes the breast milk of another species. At the same time, sitcoms and humorous books make light of many people’s “gross factor” when it comes to the breast milk of human women; it just doesn’t make any sense.
My final decision to quit cow’s milk once and for all came only recently relative to my lifespan and I can still easily reflect on the ease with which I was drawn into the commercialism of it all. I was fed cow’s milk as a child and it quickly became a daily part of my diet. I fell for the commercials and commercial propaganda that continuously told me how healthy milk is. Education and insight are the foundations of most positive change and I hope that this piece will encourage you to get up from your computer chair, walk to your fridge and immediately pour what milk you have in the fridge down the drain. At the very least, please research the subject further in order to make up your own mind!
See also: 6 Reasons to Stop Eating Meat Today
Aw, isn’t she cute? Note the ID tag stapled into her ear.
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The Ceiling Janus: A Spinning Double Horn Speaker
Engineer Ian Schneller--the owner of Chicago-based boutique audio shop Specimen--
details the internal structures and functionality of his upside down spinning double horn speaker. Horn speakers have a distinct acoustic profile, and are suited for amplify the sounds of instruments like the violin and banjo. The Ceiling Janus built by Schneller takes on a life of its own in Specimen's workshop, with music spiraling out in a very visible way.
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In the process of digging the huge Diamond Valley Lake Reservoir in Southern California, some significant fossils were discovered. The fossils have been sitting around for several years waiting for a super-modern museum to call home, so The Center for Water Education Foundation and the Western Center Community Foundation commissioned Lehrer Architects to design such a place. The result is the Water + Life Museums, a complex that just so happens to claim a right to being the world’s first LEED Platinum certified museum.
The award-winning museum complex has received attention for its sustainable design features. For instance, the various structures are topped with a massive, 540-watt, 3000 panel photovoltaic installation that provides roughly half the museum’s energy needs.
The $40 M building also incorporates several other green elements, such as heat-blocking glass, natural light emitting windows, smart interior lighting, radiant floor heating and cooling, drought tolerant landscaping, and a drip irrigation system that uses reclaimed water.
Speaking about the design, Michael B. Lehrer, FAIA and principal, said, "We are gratified to receive the Platinum rating, but even more proud that the Water + Life Museums will effectively conserve water and electricity for generations to come … the museum’s exhibits are about local resources, so the building itself is ‘living’ example of sustainability and conservation." The complex was built with the expertise of the Lehrer + Gangi Design + Build team and various consultants. It’s quite incredible, I think …
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Saturday, 25th August, 2012
Besiktas are pushing ahead to sign free agent Royston Drenthe.
The Dutch winger’s contract with Real Madrid came to an end this summer and he is looking for pastures new.
Drenthe spent last season on loan at English Premier League outfit Everton and has been mooted as a target for AC Milan.
But now Drenthe looks close to joining Besiktas after the Turkish giants upped their efforts to sign the 25-year-old.
The Black Eagles recently lost Portuguese winger Simao Sabrosa to Espanyol and Drenthe could fit the bill as a replacement.
The speedy player started his career at Dutch side Feyenoord, before being scooped up by Real Madrid in 2007.
He never quite made the grade at the Bernabeu and was first loaned out in 2010 to Hercules before joining Everton last year.
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Et si l'on rendait la Grèce à la Turquie...
Should we save Greece ? So far, the Europe has done everything to get out of the water. By bailing out the shots to hundreds of billions of euros.
But most of Europe with over Greece wants him: she bites even the hand that feeds, as evidenced by the breakthrough in the elections of May 6 of the radical left and anti-European (Syriza), poised to become the leading political force at the next election, June 17
Never mind that the economic solutions of Syriza are weak and ridiculous with debt amounted, last year, 165% of GDP, the Greeks do not want to hear about rigor. It is therefore legitimate to ask if they want to save themselves.
If Europe refuses to continue to subsidize the loss to Greece, Syriza mean, it seems, arrange a reconciliation between his country and Russia . But why not with China , the Venezuela and Qatar, for that matter? Unless Turkey , heir to the Ottoman Empire, not "dedicated", once again.
Until its independence in 1832, Greece has lived for four centuries under Ottoman rule. Leaves to be absurd, incredible economic performance of Turkey, with a growth of 8% and increased exports by 18%, do not they give the legimacy necessary to ensure recovery of Greece?
At the point where we are, we can laugh at anything.
PS : In this issue, Jerome Cordelier, his biographer, pays tribute to Ceyrac father, who was living proof that one could simultaneously be a great man and a poor unknown. A lesson on its own.
It seems to me the founders of Greece won't support their little ally more. _______________________________________________________________________________
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Some months ago we were offered some books and records. We collected the donations and discovered a few very old and interesting books amongst them...
We always check through donations to see if anything is particularly collectable or valuable and were thrilled to find some books that dated back to 1821. On checking the internet, the titles did not seem hugely collectable, however, we were intrigued to notice that some of the earlier books had the former owner’s name inscribed “Augusta Leigh, St. James’ Palace”. We realised there must be a royal connection so began a little online research.
We learned that Augusta Leigh was the poet Lord Byron’s half-sister and that she was part of one of the most sensational scandals to hit Georgian England. She married Colonel George Leigh who as equerry to the Prince of Wales had cheated the Prince over the sale of a horse and fiddled his regimental expenses. He was subsequently dismissed and poor Augusta went on to endure a life of poverty. She later had an affair with her own half brother which was largely responsible for Byron’s separation from his wife before he departed British shores in 1816, never to return.
Augusta had seven children and one of the donated books ‘Trimmer’s Fabulous Histories’ is inscribed by Augusta to “Henry Francis Leigh from his dear Mamma on his birthday, January 28th 1828”
Henry Francis Leigh went on to marry Mary Maria Edgar with whom he had one daughter, Geraldine Amelia, born in 1845. Sadly, Henry died aged just 33, but Mary Maria remarried an Indian cotton merchant, James Landon in 1856 and had two more children, Letitia in 1857 and Herman in 1859.
The then ‘Mrs Landon’ inscribed her own books which include a very early ‘Beeton’s All About Cookery’, together with her own recipe for fruit buns!
We visited the donor and explained our findings. She had come by the books when she purchased a house where items of furniture including a large bookcase remained. She was delighted and gave us a further two tiny ‘Liliputian Library’ books which had been inscribed by all three of the children, dating back to1864.
Herman went on to become a Major-General in the British Army and married Christian Sharp in 1903.
It has been a thrilling exercise to learn so much about this family through their treasured books.
We consulted an expert seller who advised that the Lilliputian Library books are rare in such good condition. We eventually intend to put the collection as a whole up for sale but have decided to display them for the time being in the bookshop for everyone to enjoy.
We are always in need of books of every type – do please think of us if you are clearing any out – we would love to have them!
The Bookshop is open every day 11.00am to 3.00pm, whatever the weather, and our Book Club meets monthly, so please do pop in on your next visit!
Find out more about our Bookshop on our webpages...
Wednesday, 12 September 2012
Wednesday, 15 August 2012
|Simon in the guise of John Jewell|
'The addition of the ghost was wonderfully atmospheric'
'We were lucky to see a Stag appear as if on cue too - it was brilliant!'
Some of the comments following artist Simon Warner's latest Theatrical Tour as part of on-going Medieval Harewood events this Summer...
Medieval Harewood Theatrical ToursSimon Warner is a Yorkshire based photographer and performance artist. Simon will be conducting unique walking tours of Harewood’s medieval history enhanced with an audio experience, a real experience of Medieval Harewood!
Theatrical Tour dates: 17th July, 1st August, 14th August & 3rd September.
There's still time to book for Simon's last Theatrical Tour on 3rd September, book now to avoid disappointment!
This summer, explore Medieval Harewood with us...
Wednesday, 1 August 2012
We are introducing the new rose called 'Yorkshire Princess', dedicated to HRH the Princess Mary, Princess Royal, who lived here at Harewood for more than 30 years, to coincide with our Royal Harewood exhibition in this Diamond Jubilee year, .
Resembling an old-fashioned rose, this beautiful, but modest groundcover or patio rose, has a slight sweet scent, and is white with a delicate Orient Pink centre. Flowering throughout the summer, it is suitable for planting in rockeries, at the front of borders or alongside paths in cottage gardens, and will shortly be planted here at Harewood to commemorate the Princess's contribution to the Gardens.
Trevor Nicholson, Head Gardener at Harewood House, said: “Princess Mary was a very keen gardener and plantswoman who made a significant impact on the gardens here, introducing many elements of the gardens which our visitors still enjoy today. She was particularly fond of roses and so, to mark this year’s special ‘Royal Harewood’ exhibition, a rose was the ideal way to create a lasting tribute. The pure white petal, soft blush centre and sweet scent give a traditional feel, in-keeping with old-style roses and perfect for a Yorkshire Princess.”
A limited number of Rosa ‘Yorkshire Princess’ will be available to purchase as a containerised shrub from the Harewood plant stall this summer, with new stock arriving in November 2013. You can register your interest by emailing us your contact details, and we'll send you an update when further stock becomes available.
Bred in Northern Ireland by Dickson Nurseries, it is currently available to pre-order online as a root for potting from their website for delivery in November 2012.
We'll be officially launching our new rose at the Harrogate Autumn Flower Show, staged at the Great Yorkshire Showground from 14-16 September, you can call the Ticket hotline on 01423 546157 or visit their website for more details of the show.
Our exhibition, Royal Harewood, celebrating the life of the Princess continues until the end of September.
Explore the gardens for yourself, from the breath-taking Terrace overlooking majestic 'Capability' Brown landscape, to the exotic plant hunters' paradise of the Himalayan Garden and the delightful lakeside and woodland paths to the Walled Garden...
The details:Rosa ‘Yorkshire Princess’ – parentage Nice ‘n’ Easy x Regensberg; breeder Colin Dickson, Dickson Nurseries, Co Down; patio/groundcover; hybridised in 2005; blooms in clusters, white with hint of Orient pink; slight sweet scent; height 66cm, spread 65cm; flowers continuously throughout the summer.
Friday, 20 July 2012
Harewood's new exhibition season launches with a Private View and Summer Party in Harewood Church, House and Grounds
The evening began with a tour of the Castle, followed by a Pimms reception in the Church to celebrate the completeion of the development project funded by the Heritage Lottery Fund and the Churches Conservation Trust.
New works by artists Susan Collins and Eleanor Moreton were on display.
The Church is a hub for Medieval Harewood with the new 'Medieval Harewood Information Point' located in the Church Vestry, and guests were keen to explore inside this hidden gem of a building!
Find out about the Church on our webpages...
Guests were then able to view the exhibitions in the House, with the Terrace Gallery playing host to an exhibition of finds from the recent Gawthorpe Hall excavation, as well as new works by artist Diane Howse.
The Gawthorpe excavation itself was open to view, and guests were treated to a hog roast and medieval-style entertainments on the Terrace overlooking the Gawthorpe Dig Site.
You can explore Medieval Harewood this Summer... Find out more on our Medieval Harewood webpages...
This season’s exhibitions can be found in the church, throughout the grounds and in the Terrace Gallery.
Artists Simon Warner, Susan Collins, Eleanor Moreton and Diane Howse have created artistic responses to medieval Harewood; performance tours, moving image, paintings and photography bring stories alive to evoke Harewood's fascinating medieval past. In the Terrace Gallery you can also learn more about the newly excavated Gawthorpe Hall.
The Artists...Diane Howse has responded to Medieval Harewood by photographing and digitally reconstructing the alabaster tombs of Harewood Church. The tombs would have originally been painted in full colour, and if you look closely at the effigies in the church, traces of original pigment can still be seen today. Diane has digitally recreated the colours that may have been used and her photographs give us a visual impression of the human beings that lived at Harewood.
Places must be pre-booked by phone, visit our event pages for details....
Eleanor Moreton has been inspired by the history of sisters Elizabeth and Sibyl de Aldeburgh who became joint heiresses of Harewood Castle in 1388. Her paintings respond to the relationships and power structures between families at Harewood in the medieval period as well as the illuminated prayer books, the Books of Hours, people owned at that time.
Images courtesy of the artists, and Ceri Hand Gallery for Eleanor Moreton.
Medieval Harewood is an on-going project to explore Harewood's medieval history before the present Harewood House was built. Join us on this journey of discovery as we peel back the layers of history, where a few short miles can cover several hundred years.
Harewood Medieval Faire 2013 set to take place Late May Bank Holiday Weekend
Look out for details of next year's Harewood Medieval Faire which is scheduled for late May Bank Holiday 2013!
Thursday, 19 July 2012
The Courtyard shop is under the successful and experienced direction of shop manager, Lynne Melton-Long, who specialises in high-end retail. Lynne has succeeded in giving the shop a new lease of life. “Our vision is one of excellence; we’re really excited to stock some of the country’s best homewares and confectionaries supporting local farmers and designers. We want the shopping experience at Harewood to be good on the eye as well as the tummy. I’ve worked hard to source designer brands from all over the UK, including renowned purveyors of cheese and chutney to Her Majesty Paxton & Whitfield (incidentally the only suppliers of UK made pickled onions), wines from Latitude Wines and gift items from master cutler David Mellor. Local designer items include paperware from The Wit Shop from Hyde Park in Leeds, Catherine Lascelles’s meats from Gray Montagne and breads from Bondgate Bakery in Otley. If we can support emerging designers and sell their wares alongside the big boys, then our customers can set their own style and really enjoy the shopping experience.”
Lynne has a schedule of shopping events in the planning, with the first on 6th September with the Summer Night Market at the Courtyard, which includes live music, barbeque, wine and beer tastings, vintage clothing and loads more retail heaven.
The refreshed and re-stocked Courtyard Shop is open 10am to 5.30pm 7 days a week and sells designer house and food items, much sourced locally for the freshest and the very best, and table and giftware items from the UK’s favourite designers and manufacturers, some of whom rarely supply outside of London. Call in on your next visit!
Harewood House and The Box Tree Join Forces for Michelin Star Fine DiningMike Schafer, Chief Executive of Harewood House, announced today that The Box Tree Restaurant will head up Harewood's 'Fine Dining in the House'.
Rena and Simon Gueller, who own and manage Box Tree Events were welcomed by David Lascelles, the Earl of Harewood and Mike Schafer, on the State Floor of Harewood House where they will provide a variety of fine dining options for private and corporate clients.
Mike Schafer, CEO said: ‘Our corporate hospitality is a major element within our offer and we only want to work with the best. We have some of the finest architecture and interiors in the country and our hospitality needs to compliment our environment. We are delighted to appoint Rena and Simon to manage our fine dining, and as a multi-award winning and Michelin Starred Restaurant, The Box Tree is held in the highest regard in the culinary world - their service, menus and wines are revered, not just regionally but also nationally. Working with The Box Tree team means we are confident that every event at Harewood will be of the highest standard and we look forward to welcoming existing and new clients to Harewood for hospitality beyond all expectations.’
Menus for Harewood will be created by Simon Gueller of The Box Tree Restaurant, one of the country’s leading chefs and a Michelin Star winner for an unprecedented 8 consecutive years.
Simon’s menus for Harewood will combine French classics with modern English served within the grandeur of the State Floor, the unique Below Stairs and on the Terrace overlooking some of the finest views in Yorkshire.
Simon Gueller added: ‘Harewood and The Box Tree will be one of the UK’s premier destinations for superior hospitality. Harewood hosts a variety of guests, from Monarchs to Heads of State and we will ensure that every client is treated as such. Corporate clients expect the best at Harewood and we will work hard to ensure that every event, small or large, formal or informal, sets a benchmark in fine dining.’
Tuesday, 10 July 2012
In the UK our wonderful tree heritage is recorded within the Tree Register, a Registered Charity with a unique database of over 150,000 of our most notable Trees.
|Recording a veteran oak tree in the grounds of Harewood House|
We have a Grand Fir growing in the Lakeside Gardens (SE of the Cascade beside the path towards the Walled Garden) which has been recorded as the tallest in Yorkshire. It is the best the Tree Inspector has ever seen and looks as if it wants to grow a bit taller too!
We also have a rare Japanese oak (planted by Her Majesty Queen Alexandra on 8th July 1908) in the grounds; it is certainly a champion tree for Yorkshire and maybe a Champion Tree for the whole of the British Isles, we'll wait for final confirmation and update the post here!
Several other trees become County Champions for Yorkshire including:
- Grecian Fir in the West Garden
- Purple Bean Tree south of the Cascade, by the Stupa
- Katsura Tree in the Himalayan Garden
- Leylandii south of the Lake, near the large Sessile Oak
- Eucryphia in the Archery Border which is remarkably large for Yorkshire!
- Japanese Big-leaved Magnolia in the Himalayan Garden
- London Plane in the Bird Garden
- Japanese Cherry beside the path to the Church
- Scarlet Oak on the North Front opposite the House
- Daimyo Oak on the North Front opposite the House
|Estimating the age of a large conifer|
|Gathering data for the tree register of two ancient oaks four to five centuries old|
|Measuring the girth of an old ash tree|
|Recording details of a veteran oak tree at Harewood|
|Using a hypsometer to measure the height of a tree|
The Scarlet Oak on the North Front is exceeded only by a few in southern England, and the Dawn Redwood south of the lake is a particularly beautiful tree and almost the tallest this far north.
One of our Rhododendrons to the south of the lake is the largest hardy hybrid of any kind the Tree Register Inspector had ever seen!
Harewood is a wonderful place to explore the landscape and spot some of these wonderful trees... A new walks booklet is available from the Harewood Information Centre which will take you on 4 walks of discovery in the Grounds at Harewood...and we hope to produce something similar focussing on the trees at Harewood...watch this space for details!
You can collect a guide to some of the wonderful trees in the West Garden at Harewood during Autumn Glory week (October Half Term) - the trees are at their most colourful and vivid at this time of year...
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Coaxial Adapter KitCT 2701 635002
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|Features||50 Ohm Impedance|
|For Use With||Mfr. No. 2650, 2652, 2658, 2650A, 2652A, 2658A|
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- Lightweight, powerful portable instruments measure channel and adjacent channel power, and occupied bandwidth, with optional electrical and magnetic field strength test11ing. Test wireless communication frequencies for LANs, radio, mobile telephony, and TV and broadcasting (including CDMA, Bluetooth , W-CDMA, PDC, PHS, and GSM). Feature Min./Max. hold, avg., overwrite mode, marker measurement, peak search, autotuning, auto-range, Save/Load results, and switchable 50/75O input impedance. External trigger and SCPI-like remote control commands. Powered by Li-ion battery (included) or included AC adapter. Also include soft carrying case and accessory pouch.
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WEST COVINA >> City officials have selected a long-time Fontana police captain and El Monte police reserve helicopter pilot to lead West Covina’s police department.
David Faulkner started with the Fontana Police Department in 1986, three years after his first law enforcement job in Chino. He has also flown as a reserve pilot in El Monte for more than six years.
Faulkner, currently a Field Services Commander in Fontana, could take over as West Covina’s police chief by the end of January, if the city council approves the terms of his agreement at its next public meeting.
Council members were optimistic about the search process, which City Manager Chris Chung largely conducted starting in October. Chung could not release the employment agreement with Faulkner as it has not finalized, but he said the top of the position’s salary range is $190,500.
“Mr. Faulkner was offered the position based on his many years of experience and expertise in law enforcement,” Chung wrote in an email. “I believe that Mr. Faulkner would be an excellent Police Chief for the Department and the City of West Covina and I look forward to working with him.”
For the council, Faulkner’s extensive background makes him an ideal candidate, members said.
“I’m excited to have someone hopefully come in with his kind of experience,” Councilman James Toma said. “He seems very qualified.”
Councilman Fred Sykes said Faulkner will come in during a tough time for the city’s police force, where officer counts have dwindled from a high of more than 120 to roughly 92.
“I think he is fully aware that he is stepping into a fairly difficult position,” Sykes said. “You have to a master of efficiency, there is just no way around it. You have to get more done with less money.”
Faulkner hopes to strengthen the department, but acknowledged it needs to be a slow process.
“I know they’re trying to rebuild that number up to where it needs to be, but you have to take it slow and easy to make sure you stay within your budget,” he said.
New businesses and increased revenues seem to signify the city has turned a corner, he said.
“I think it is only a matter of time before the organization is grown back up to where the council sees that it needs to be,” he said.
Faulkner’s LinkedIn lists several accolades including a “Spirit of Courage Award” for his part in a 2012 rescue of a KFI traffic reporter who crashed a Cessna 182 airplane in Corona. While training a West Covina Police Officer in an El Monte Police Department helicopter, Faulkner heard the may-day broadcast from the plane and moved behind it to try to guide it to a landing. He landed nearby once it crashed.
The trainee, West Covina Officer Mike Weathermon, pulled the plane’s occupants out, shortly before the plane erupted in flames.
Faulkner’s years as a reserve pilot have led to many interactions with the West Covina Police Department, he said.
“Their agency impressed me a great deal and I thought it would be a good fit for me and a natural transition because I was already familiar with the area out there,” Faulkner said.
The former Marine lives in Rancho Cucamonga with his wife Lori, a kindergarten teacher with the Etiwanda School District.
“I’m honored to be selected as their chief,” he said. “I’m going to do my best over the next several years to lead the organization as best as possible.”
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They always make an extra effort to make me feel respected and attended to. They always listen to every question or concern I may have. Their primary concern is my safety and comfort, and they always take the time to address every concern of mine immediately. One of the first things I noticed about this business was the level of detail and attention to make the building handicap-accessible. Even the bathrooms were designed to be accessible with doors wide enough to accommodate wheelchairs and grab bars in the stalls. You could tell they really made an effort to accommodate people with all different needs. They were one of the kindest, most caring staff I've ever dealt with. It didn't matter how many times I called with a question or concern, they were always happy to help me. I couldn't believe how patient they were with first-time mothers. It didn't matter how basic the first-time mother's question was, they were always happy to spend time explaining everything to them.
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Even though she might be dating one of the world’s most recognized names (Justin Bieber) and she’s probably experienced more in her life than most senior citizens, Selena Gomez reminds us just how fun it is to be a teenager in her latest video, “Hit The Lights.”
After a few colorful video previews, today brings us the premiere, where we see Selena and her friends just being rich, famous, and good-looking regular kids. They hang out and party in various places — in a field, at a house party, on the local football field and in the city — and they look really good while doing it (obviously). Selena sings, “It’s a mad, mad world, gotta make an escape/It’s a perfect world when you go all the way/Hit the lights, let the music move you.”
Selena’s so adorable that we’d probably nod in approval after watching a video of her read recipes for rice cakes, but “Hit The Lights” is much more exciting! The song is all about living in the moment and doing what you want, and if that something includes running around with your friends at all hours of the night, then so be it. Enjoy your youth while you can, people, because it’s all giant containers of Tums and expensive wrinkle cream from here on out.
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- ISBN: 9780842313193
- Description: xiii, 233 p. ; 24 cm.
- Publisher: Wheaton, Ill. : Tyndale House, c1991.
- 1 copy at NOBLE (All Libraries). (Show all copies)
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|Contents Note:|| Pt. 1. What I believe about heaven / W. A. Criswell. What I believe about heaven : the place ; What I believe about heaven : the people ; What I believe about heaven : the pageantry ; What I believe about heaven : its inexpressible preciousness ; My personal thoughts about heaven : an interview with W. A. Criswell by Dorothy Patterson -- Pt. 2. What the Bible says about heaven / Paige Patterson. Heaven in the Old Testament ; The kingdom of heaven ; The worship and work of heaven ; The concept of the Sabbath rest ; The inhabitants of heaven ; The splendors of heaven ; The rewards of heaven ; Heaven and hope -- Pt. 3. Great hymns and poems about heaven.
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Alumni Trip to Wooster
Bluffton alumni, staff and friends are boarding the Bluffton mini bus on Thursday, July 24, for a trip to Wooster to see Bluffton alumna Sarah Diller `11 perform in The Pirates of Penzance with the Ohio Light Opera company.
Wooster-area Bluffton alumni are invited to join us for the matinee performance (2 p.m.) and/or an early dinner at the South Market Bistro.
A block of tickets for the show have been reserved and a dinner reservation at the South Market Bistro made for our combined group.
Cost for the show ticket is $45. Those riding the bus are asked to contribute $10 per person for gas.
Dinner is provided for your enjoyment by Bluffton University.
Contact Julia Szabo no later than July 10 to reserve your show ticket, dinner reservation and seat on the bus!
Julia Szabo, director of alumni relations
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Amit and Amita know very well that their marriage of convenience is not going to last – but what happens if they fall in love?
Sony TV’s not so popular show Amita Ka Amit is currently going through a rough patch, but the makers hope to pick up numbers with a happy twist. And we know you are going to like this one. The story is that Amit and Amita are preparing to go to the beautiful locales of Kashmir for their honeymoon. Even though they racked their brains to find a way out of the situation, fate had something very different planned for them. And instead of getting to know each other and becoming at least friends, Amita and Amit continue their bickering and squabbles even on their honeymoon. But that’s exactly what makes them cute and draws them closer.
While we always knew that Amita had secretly developed feelings for Amit, we never expected the saddoo man to fall in love so soon. It so happens that when Amit realises that he is falling for Amita, he confesses his feelings to her, but Amita doesn’t respond nor acknowledge it – odd, no? We thought so too. Considering she is trying to make the marriage work, shouldn’t she say the three magical words back almost instantly?
According to rumours, it seems that Amita doesn’t believe Amit and, to be on the safer side, chooses to ignore his confessions… how dumb! So will Amit try again, or will the story now be a one-sided affair? That remains to be seen.
The makers believe that this new track will raise TRPs – at 0.7 this week. Tch tch! Let’s hope the new development works in favour of the show, no?
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What will the rap of the future sound like? Although speculation may be rampant of it, we can actually consider such a subject empirically. By examining how the handling of different layers of accent has changed over rap’s history, we can then make more informed decisions about what will happen next. Interestingly enough, a strong metaphor can be found in the development of classical music.
What we know as Western music today, from its earliest existence, has been marked by its extensive development of the treatment and handling of many voices singing at once, whether those of a human or instrument. This practice of polyphony gives rise to the very Western conception of the tonic key, what could be called for the musical lay person a type of musical “home” for a certain piece of music. For instance, in most pop music the song begins in the tonic key, moves away from it, and then ends in the tonic key again by the end of the piece. Interestingly enough, much of the development of Western classical music since the beginning of its modern period has not been marked by new discoveries into previously uncharted areas of this system, but rather a continual refinement of how this system itself is handled.
The handling of all of these different musical voices played at once is the musical science/art of “counterpoint.” Counterpoint describes the rules for how the composer is to handle musical dissonance, which can be considered deviations from the underlying chordal structure of a piece of music at a certain time. For instance, if a C major chord (C-E-G) is played on a piano, but a violin at the same time plays a D note, which is not part of the underlying C major triadic harmony, the rules of counterpoint will prescribe how that D is to be dealt with. It could be handled as a suspension, meaning that it would have to resolve down by step to a C, which is part of the underlying harmonic structure and thus resolves the dissonance. Or it could be a passing note, moving in the violin from the note C, to D, to E, which has the D dissonance handled correctly because it is surrounded by 2 notes that are part of the underlying structure.
These guidelines were crystallized by J.S. Bach in the early 18th century, with works of his such as the 2 books of the “Well Tempered-Clavier” and “The Art of Fugue.” Counterpoint had never before reached such complexity, and no work before or after would ever uncover so well the innate, natural structure of the handling of dissonance in music. That is an important part of the matter here: the rules Bach uncovered work not because they acted only in an internally consistent system, but because they describe how music actually works.
Thus, with the writing of his compositions there remained nothing new to be discovered (20th century dodecaphonic composers notwithstanding.) He described every possible kind of dissonance, and then handled it correctly. And so the only thing that would develop as far as counterpoint was concerned for the next 300 years or so would be how the counterpoint system itself that Bach had codified was handled. Basically, the rules which governed the handling of dissonance were gradually loosened over time. Bach prescribed the strictest handling of these procedures, and slowly, as our ears became used to more and more dissonance, more and more dissonance could be used. This can be gleaned for one’s self from the following survey of pieces across centuries:
Perotin - Sederunt Principes
Bach - Jesu Meine Freude
Ravel - Soupir
Even the non-formally music educated can detect that with each work, from one to the next, the amount of dissonance increases. This increase in musical dissonance can be described quantitatively in terms of the musical intervals that are considered “okay” to leave unresolved. (A musical interval is the distance between 2 notes, such as from a C note to a D note, which is known as a second, or a C to a B, which is a 7th.)
This can be organized as follows, where above is the musical interval that has become consonant and below is the period in which this happens:
What has changed, therefore, is not the system used to write music, but the handling of the rules described by that system. Bach set out very strict rules for how dissonant 9ths were to be handled: that 9th had to descend down to the 8th, in order to abide by the harmonic structure. By the time we get to Debussy, however, he simply skips from one 9th chord to the next, with no contrapuntal dissonance handling, such as passing notes, in between them. The same goes for the other dissonances. This development is seen by some to correspond to the ascending overtone series:
One can see that the intervals that are described by the overtone series are, in order, an octave, a 5th, a 4th, 3rds and 6ths, 7ths, 9ths, 11ths, and 12ths, which corresponds exactly to the order of the intervals in the graph describing how the handling of that interval’s dissonance changed overtime.
This innate, natural, inherent development on a system that has not changed but simply treated differently is the metaphor I’d like to draw when discussing the handling of accent in rap music. It is my belief that a similar change in the handling of accent, based on English’s natural rhythms of speaking (analogue to the harmonic overtone series), can explain rap’s most recent developments.
In rap, there are 3 different areas of accent that are important. There is metric accent, verbal accent, and poetic accent. How can we define each?
Metric accent is the emphases given to a piece of music in its structural units. Almost all rap is in a 4/4 meter. This means that the quarter note gets the beat and so is accented(bottom number of the fraction-looking number), and that there are 4 beats per measure (top number.) A measure is also called a bar. A measure thus has 4 beats: beat 1, beat 2, beat 3, and beat 4. The beats of the measure receive their accent as follows: beats 1 and 3 are strong beats, and beats 2 and 4 are the weak beats. These are reflected in rap by the fact that bass kicks generally fall on beats 1 and 3, and the snare usually falls on beats 2 and 4. When a rapper raps, these are the musical realities that he interacts with.
Verbal accent is something we are all quite familiar with: it is how, and what part of, the words we say are emphasized. For instance, when I say, “emphasis”, I pronounce it as, “EM-pha-sis”, where the first beat is heavily accented. Or in the word “solemnity,” I pronounce it, “so-LEM-ni-ty”, where the 2nd syllable is accented. It is important that we constrict our discussion here to English rap, because the patterns of accent in other languages are generally more restrictive. In French, for instance, the final syllable of a phrase is generally the one that gets accented. This is another level of accent that the rapper interacts with.
Finally, there are poetic accents. These are accents that are created through the use of poetic techniques by the rapper, most generally rhymes, assonance, and consonance. These words naturally stand out in the ear of their listener by virtue of their echoes in other words: for instance, when Eminem rhymes “DRUG SICKNESS got me doing some BUG TWITCHES”, the capitalized words stand out as rhymes because they echo each others vowel sounds. This is also supported by a host of other phenomena, but is too much to go into right now.
Thus, the rapper has 3 levels of accent. And the natural, universal system that rappers must interact with is the realities of the cadence of English American speech patterns.
The most important elements of this system and how they relate to rap is, first, that accent can vary not just from sentence to sentence, but from word to word. That is, different parts of the sentence are emphasized depending on the speaker. Furthermore, there is a certain natural rhythm to spoken language. Although the rhythms vary greatly, one general comment we can make is that there are not long pauses in sentences, at least when communication is constant and working well.
If we were to pick songs roughly analogous to the 3 we listened to before in our survey of classical music, where would they fall in terms of time period?
First, we have to think of where the modern era of rap begins. That is because, as many rappers say, rapping has been going on forever – some say Allah was rapping to Muhammad when he passed on His word. Our first song will then be Afrika Bambaataa’s 1982 hit “Planet Rock,” where we will begin our examination of how these different levels of accent are handled. Our 2nd song will look at Busta’s verse from the Tribe Called Quest’s “Scenario”, released in 1992, continuing to examine the treatment of metric, verbal, and poetic accent. Finally, our 3rd song, as an instance of contemporary developments of rap, will be Nas’ verse on 2006’s “Don’t Get Carried Away”. Throughout all 3 we will consider how these 3 levels of accent are handled, as well as how they relate to the natural rhythms of American English speakers. I will then finish with some comparison to some raps that have just come out, like those of Kendrick Lamar. Finally, there will be some summarizing remarks, as well as speculation as to where these 3 songs might fit in the history of rap as paralleled to the history of classical music, and some speculation as to where rap will go next.
Afrika Bambaataa’s “Planet Rock” (which you can hear at this link here) sets the format against which the rest of our case studies will be examined. As an early example of rap, it follows rather closely the so-called rules prescribed by the system of each of these accents. That is, the rhythms that occur are governed largely by the beat and the bar, and there is not much syncopation. Verbal accent always lines up with poetic accent, and poetic accent is handled very carefully – there is not an abundance of rhyme, and they generally fall at the end of lines.
For instance, let’s consider the first 8 bars where the rap really begins. The rhymes fall largely at the end of bars: “Up out your seats, make your body SWAY / socialize, get down let your soul lead the WAY,” where the capitalized words rhyme and the slash indicates the start and end of poetic lines. And even when rhymes don’t fall at the end of the bar, they occur at the end of the poetic line: “Just start to chase your DREAMS / Up out your SEATS…”, where “seats” does not come at the end of a bar but the start of it. Furthermore, the rappers here abide largely by the dictates of metric accent: there is not much syncopation, and almost every metric beat has a note on it. “it’s (time) to (chase) your (dreams) / up out your (seats) / (make) your (bo)dy (sway)” where the words inside parentheses are all accents falling on the beat, and the musical beat that the word “up” lines up with is the only one that isn’t accented. Furthermore, the rappers abide by the verbal accent of the word, and the sentence, as you would say them in normal conversation: they say, “BO-dy”, not “bo-DY”, which is done to a greater degree in later rap. Furthermore, they rap, “it’s (time) to (chase) your (dreams),” which is how one would say it in normal conversation.
The same general remarks can be made about the rest of the rap. Consider: “(so)cialize ( ) / get (down), let (your) soul (lead) the(way)”, where, again, the syllables or words inside parentheses fall on the beat. There is slightly more syncopation as indicated by the skipped beat at the empty parentheses, but the rhyme (on the word “way”, with the previous word “sway”) again comes at the end of the phrase, as well as the end of the bar. The verbal accent of the sentence is, however, twisted slightly, as they say, “let (your) soul”, not “(let) your(soul)”, where the parenthesized words line up with the metrical accent. So while there is some variation here, the rappers follow largely the innate rules of verbal, metric, and poetic accent. They follow the stress patterns of conversational speech, follow the metric patterns of the music, and keep poetic accents, in terms of their placement, number, and nature, formally simple.
This trend grows slightly more complicated in our next example. In Busta’s verse on the Tribe Called Quest song “Scenario” from 1992 (which you can hear here) he starts out rapping in a manner strikingly similar to that which we saw on Bambaataa’s record. He places words on many of the metric beats, keeps rhymes to the end of lines and the end of bars, and guides the pronunciation of his words largely by normal verbal stress. “I heard you (rushed) and rushed ( ) and a(ttacked) / (then) they re(buked) then (you) had to (smack).” This is notated as follows:
By the time Q-Tip has finished introducing Busta to the listener, however, the future member of Dre’s Aftermath record label immediately gets into why this verse is regarded as one of the greatest of all time by the rap cognoscenti.
Watch where the capitalized rhymes fall: “watch as I comBINE all the juice from the MIND / HEEL up / REEL up / bring it back come, reWIND.”
Here, the poetic accents happen at a much greater rate than what we saw before. Before, they came at about a rate of .5 per bar; here, and for the rest of the verse, it is more like 2 accents (again, rhymes, assonances, or consonances) per bar. Furthermore, these poetic accents occur inside the poetic line, as indicated by the slashes in the typographical transcription and the slurs in the musical notation. That is, they do not come at the end of the bar. Although there are many notes placed on the metrical beat, they are offset by the syncopation that occurs on the 16th note immediately after the striking of the beat. “watch as I com(bine), all the juice from the (mind) HEEL Up, WHEEL (UP), bring it back come re(wind).” The parenthesized syllables are where the metric and verbal accent line up; that means that on the words like “juice”, up”, and “back”, a note falls on the beat but it is not accented. The rapper thus is here is liberating his verbal accent from the dictates of metric accent. Additionally, Busta does not rely on exact rhymes, as Bambaataa did; he is content to simply repeat vowel sounds, such as with the rhyme, “no BRAGGING / try to read my mind, just iMAGINE”, where the capitalized words rhyme.
Furthermore, in what is probably one of the most important developments in rap up until now and moving forward, as we shall see in Kendrick Lamar’s "good kid, m.A.A.d. city", Busta separates verbal accent from perfect alignment with the metrical accent, while preserving the word’s natural pronunciation. He rhymes, “(heel) up, wheel (up)”. The word “wheel”, although it doesn’t fall on the metrical accent of the beat, receives the verbal accent. In previous times, one gets the feeling that rappers like that from Bambaataa’s Zulu Nation clique would have adjusted the verbal accent of the line to match up with the metrical accent. Thus, where the parentheses represent the metrical beat but the capitalized syllables represented the verbal accent, they would have said, “(HEEL) up, wheel (UP)”, not, as Busta rhymes, “(HEEL) up, WHEEL (up)”, with the same typographical symbol key as before. Indeed, this adjustment is exactly what Busta does later in the verse:
Busta changes the normal verbal accent pattern of the word “buttcheek” from “BUTTcheek” to “buttCHEEK” so that the syllable “cheek” lines up with the metrical accent of the word. He does the same for the word “Horatio” and “Observe:”
It seems that this transition has not been completed in the collective conscious of rapperdom.
In our other areas of accent, however, Busta continues to evolve from what came before.
Here, the difference between Busta’s flow and that from the Bambaataa track are clear: there is much more syncopation, many more notes happening completely off the beat. What’s more is that Busta feels completely comfortable altering the nature of his poetic line. Before, the line generally consisted of a full sentence, with both a verb and a noun, that abided by the start and end of a bar line. Here, Busta has no problem making his poetic line only fragments (“Oh my gosh / oh my gosh”) and fitting more than one of them inside a bar, giving him much more freedom in his flows since he does not have to abide as greatly by the rules of natural speech. (The argument for why this is would need another long article, and so won’t be fully addressed here.)
So, Bambaataa largely lined up his verbal accents with the metric accents of the music. Furthermore, he abided largely by the dictates of the metric accent when placing his notes in the bar, meaning there is not much syncopation. Furthermore, his poetic accents were rather simple, coming at the end of poetic lines that followed the musical barline.
Busta, meanwhile, liberated verbal accent from metric accent by preserving natural verbal accent in some places in defiance of the prevailing metrical accent. In other places, he adjusts the verbal accent in order to align it with the metrical accent. His poetic accents, furthermore, come inside the line, at a rate of about 1.5 per bar. Also, they are of a more obtuse nature, not always being completely clearly connected, such as through exact rhymes, to what came before.
In a 3rd case study, then, we’d expect to find a continuation of all these trends. That is, verbal accent would be divorced from the metrical accent to a much greater degree, going so far as not only to be an aberration in the flow but to give the flow its defining, asymmetric rhythm. Furthermore, poetic accents could come anywhere in the poetic line, at a much greater rate, and could be of greatly different, even obtuse, natures. Finally, we’d expect to find poetic lines of greatly different natures as well – some short, some long, some fragments, some sentences, some abiding by the bar line, some not, and so on.
And that is exactly what we find in Nas’ verse on the Busta Rhymes song, “Don’t Get Carried Away”, from 2006. You can hear it here, and see the full notation at the end of this article.
Nas, in short, blows all of our previous conceptions away. Most prominently, and what informs the rhythm of the whole verse from its first bar to the last, is that the verbal accents of the words, while preserved intact in their normal pronunciation, are completely divorced from the metrical accent over and over, happening no less than 12 times. They are indicated in the complete sheet music below by the capitalized words in the lyrics, first happening on the “smar-“ of the word “smarter.”
It happens again on the 2nd syllable of “interest,” and so on. This is a great example of a rap that would not make much musical sense without a backing beat behind it. You can hear it for yourself at this video below:
That is because, as Adam Bradley asserts in his book “Book of Rhymes: The Poetics of Hip-Hop”, the backing beat is repetitive not because rapmakers don’t know how to make it anymore musically interesting, but because it must be so in order that the rapper can be more venturesome musically. If you listen to the computer rendering of just Nas’ rhythms below, you are not entirely sure as to where the beats are coming. That’s because of Nas’ frequent divorcing of the verbal accent from the metric accent of the beat. Again, this is a freer handling of accent: now, verbal accents do not have to at all line up with the metric accent of the music. The power dynamic of the 2, so to speak, can even go in the opposite direction, as we shall see.
Poetically, there is not a greater rate of accents, at least not much more than Busta’s amount and certainly not as many as Eminem has at times (and even Nas himself for that matter.) However, they are much more obtuse in relation to one another. They are not necessarily exact rhymes but merely vowel and consonant sound echoes, such as between “short” and “dwarf” in bar 7. Sometimes they rely only on the repetition of certain accented sounds, such as the “n” of “enigma” and the “is none” that follows, or the “par” from “departure” carried across the barline into the “pardon Dre…” line.
What is most genius about this verse, however, is how Nas eventually makes all 3 levels of accent – poetic, metric, and verbal – manipulate each other simultaneously to give rise to a new, never-heard-before rhythmic structure. This is seen most clearly in bars 14-19, where the time signature changes from 4/4 to a group of 2/8, 3/8, and 6/16 time signatures repeated twice. One will notice that Nas has changed the metric accent of the rap, previously 4/4, to be changed into these new complex and compound time signatures. Observe them in isolation:
We can see these trends manifest themselves today in someone like Kendrick Lamar as well, especially in his song “good kid, m.A.A.d. city”, from the album of the same name (you can hear the song here.) That’s because although in rap’s 4/4 time signature the beat is usually divided into 4 16th notes, they can also be divided into even 5 – quintuplets or 6 – sextuplets. That’s exactly what Kendrick does in this song: he switches his rhythms flawless between quintuplets and sextuplets, as you can see below.
He then places poetic accents anywhere inside of these new beat divisions, a complexity of positioning that has rarely been matched before. Furthermore, he varies the nature of his poetic lines as well.
So, in short, rappers today now handle verbal, poetic, and metric accent much more freely than they have in the past. It would then be logical to predict that this trend will continue, until, paradoxically rapping becomes even more similar to spoken language.
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It would appear that Seagate is furthering its interest in solid-state drives, or at least that's what a posting on LinkedIn would suggest. Seagate is looking for a Hardware and Firmware Test Manager. Curiously enough, they are preferably looking for someone with SSD, SATA, and PCIe experience.
As you can see in the picture above, the position appears to be fairly high up. We know that Seagate already has SSDs for enterprise applications. These devices are known as Pulsar and Pulsar 2. At CeBIT, Seagate demonstrated SAS 12Gbps. It now looks like they may be working on another solid-state drive that will make use of PICe or SATA protocols.
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That’s how the New York Times described author Maurice Sendak in its obituary: “Author of Splendid Nightmares.” In the meantime, did you know that the University of Virginia Press published two of his books? Ten Little Rabbits (1970) and Fantasy Sketches (1981) are now out of print, but the press’s blog offers up a few pages. Now, how about reprints?
Author of Splendid Nightmares
May 17th, 2012 by Brendan Wolfe · No Comments
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Watch - One man doing his best to track
clergy sexual abuse.
your guide to the gods!
home of the Church of the Flying Spaghetti
In Bullshit - Providing a comprehensive
guide to christian fundamentalism.
Sandwalk - Strolling with a skeptical biochemist
Girl - Theism, Faith, Culture & Theology
Pat Condell's Godless Comedy
- OM imaginary G! You have to hear this guy!
Wade, the Friendly Atheist
Ways to Get Yorrself Saved - And counting.
the band - Let's give them a big hand!
Bible Companion - A VERY comprehensive
guide to Christian Bible contradictions.
Church of the Flying spaghetti Monster
RichardDawkins.net - You have to ask?
|7. Skepticsannotatedbible.com - The King James Version of the Bible presented
from a skeptic's point of view.
Atheists.org - The official site of the American Atheists,
an organization that defends the civil rights
Daylightatheism.com - A blog on atheism, science, philosophy,
current events and the hypocrisy of the religious
/r/atheism - Join those jolly blasphemous rascals at reddit.com.
|3. Pharyngula - Biologist P.Z. Myers one-man fight against rampant religious lunacy.
Evilbible.com - Fighting Against Immorality in Religion
|1. Dannielmeissler.com - The Bible: Fiction Based on Fiction
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Until I could find an advertising vehicle that valued my audience as much as I do, blogging would just be a loss leader for me—a hub for everything else I was doing and a way to solidify myself as a thought leader. After all, isn’t a decade of industry experience and contacts worth more than pennies a click? BusinessWeek, Yahoo, or any organization that pays me to speak certainly thinks so. Why should I value myself any less?
That term “loss leader” is interesting. It sounds like an oxymoron, of sorts.
I agree with Lacy that blogging’s real value (for most) is not found in ad revenue, but rather in reputation building. Yet, I’m not sold that AdPulp is a “loss leader” for my personal brand. I’m looking for more of a win-win from this site. I’d like to increase revenue and find exciting speaking, writing and consulting gigs.
Interestingly, the other day, Fred Wilson mentioned Technorati’s “State of the Blogosphere” report and how it suggests bloggers are pulling in $75K+ in revenue when their sites have 100,000 or more unique visitors per month.
Wilson balked at that analysis, as do I. AdPulp makes but a fraction of that figure. For sure, we need to court more sponsors, but even then I see us gradually raising revenue. Gradual or not, we do want to raise revenue. So, if you’d like to speak intelligently to the influencers gathered here, let me or Shawn know. We’ll get you a good rate and even better exposure.
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NEC USB 3 Controller
NEC claimed a minor record on Monday by becoming the first company to produce a hardware controller that supports the new USB 3.0 standard. The µPD720200 will let computers and other devices talk to USB 3.0 peripherals and theoretically allows for the peak 5Gbps transfers of the format, or roughly 10 times the speed of USB 2.0. The Japanese chipset nonetheless remains backwards compatible with both the 2.0 spec as well as 1.1 devices, although USB 3.0 ports themselves won't support 1.x.
In launching the technology, NEC says its hardware should be particularly useful for external hard drives and particularly solid-state drives, many of whom can transfer data at speeds far faster than USB 2.0 can handle and need the extra speed. These would also typically overwhelm FireWire 800 connections.
Test versions of the NEC chips will be made available to companies building USB 3.0-aware devices next month and should cost those companies $15 per part. When the first products will carry the chipset aren't mentioned, but hipments should climb to 1 million per month in September and will see the largest wave of companies start using USB 3.0 by the later half of 2010. [via Everything USB]
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Blood donors between 18 and 40 years-old are now in high demand, after donations rapidly declined by 50 per cent in 12 months.
Michelle Morris, a young donor from Leicestershire, told ITV Central that she Gives Blood because she knows that she's saving lives.
NHS Blood and Transplant Services are appealing for young people to donate blood, after seeing a 50 per cent donation decline in the last 12 months.
Over 100 people attended a Give Blood event at Broughton Astley Village Hall in Leicestershire today.
Holly Mason, Lead Donor Manager in Leicestershire, says that blood donations from young adults have rapidly declined in the last decade.
Nicola Grantham from Nuneaton lost a lot of blood after giving birth to her daughter. She says "I might not have been here if it wasn't for that blood."
NHS Blood and Transplant service says more people are needed to donate blood which could help save lives.
Holly Mason from the NHS Blood and Transplant service says there are concerns that fewer people will donate blood this year because of major events like the Olympics.
Latest ITV News reports
The NHS is warning that the unusually high number of public events in the UK during 2012 could prevent people from donating blood.
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- Scholarly Resources
- Current Postings
|Inquiry about Indian Films of/on Shakespeare|
The Shakespeare Conference: SHK 22.0265 Thursday, 6 October 2011
Date: October 5, 2011 5:56:06 PM EDT
Subject: Re: Inquiry about Indian Films of/on Shakespeare
>An inquiry most "passing strange" -- Does anyone know of an
>Indian film on, or about, Shakespeare that has a jazzy trailer
>or two-plus minute film segment?
>We're looking for an eye-popping -- at least, dramatic -- way to
>open a talk on Shakespeare before a large audience in India.
Feel free to use the videos on Global Shakespeares:
it is an open-access online video archive I co-founded with Peter Donaldson. Search for "India." We've got quite a collection for you to use.
[Editor’s Note: In addition, you may wish to consider the following:
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Day 1 of 5: The Great Brian Experiment
I am commencing my experiment tonight. As a recap: Win $300-$400 in a cheapo MTT, use that for a little 30/60 hit-and-run action. Quit if I triple up. The MTTs I have chosen are the 3K for $10, that one is a rebuy, and the 25K Qualifier for $5. The 25K is a goal I have. I want to win an entry!
No huge expectations for Day 1. Either I make my goal or do not. Either way is fine. If I bust out of the 3K I might try something else. I may have to pass on the 25K qualifier IF I am doing well in the 3K.
I know I have lost patience in doing things the “right” way.. who knows, maybe I will go back to being a real grinder sometime.. I just feel like I should explore other avenues of thinking sometimes.. Who can say what way is the right way?
I once had a theory that if I could play blackjack every day I could win. All I needed to do was wait for the deck to take the inevitable swing in my direction and cash out after those few hands where I made money. Every day. The way casinos make money is keeping you there long enough for the odds to average out in their favor as they always will. Now I know this thinking is flawed, since some days it will never swing upward, and potentially the days you make money will be far fewer than the days you lose..
BUT why not take a few shots. Try something new. Change the parameters a little. Who is to say the established thinking, the safe, solid, reliable, way is the only way, or the best way? The basis of the safe, solid, grinder type play seems to be this: Risk little, Gain little, over time. Winning a buyin to a higher level and playing it for a short period of time seems in essence the same idea. Risk very little EXCEPT take a shot at winning a lot.
One other thing that makes me think this is a good idea. Half the people I have seen playing 30/60 on Titan have been low-bankroll people trying to score a hit. Not SHARKS. Not GOOD PLAYERS. Just people sitting down with the minimum and trying to make a few bucks. If I saw tables full of sharks then I would be more concerned. Playing people like me does not scare me at all.
Alright, so scream and rant, and tell me I am stupid. It is fine. All I ask is that you back it up with some solid reasoning. Instead of just saying it is wrong, tell me why. Where are the flaws in logic? Do not just fall back on the old “Play within your bankroll” adage. Back it up. Be intelligent. Articulate the real problems with doing this.
** DISCLAIMER: I am special and I do not recommend anyone else trying this. You are not me. You probably will do better grinding out a living. I take no responsibility for your doom.
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For Release: January 11, 2011
Dave Finley, Public Information Officer
Dr. Scott Ransom, an astronomer at the National Radio Astronomy Observatory (NRAO), received the American Astronomical Society's (AAS) Helen B. Warner Prize on January 11, at the society's meeting in Seattle, Washington. The prize is awarded annually for "a significant contribution to observational or theoretical astronomy during the five years preceding the award."
Dr. Scott Ransom and Dr. Debra Elmegreen, AAS President.
Presented by AAS President Debra Elmegreen, the prize recognized Ransom "for his astrophysical insight and innovative technical leadership enabling the discovery of exotic, millisecond and young pulsars and their application for tests of fundamental physics."
"Scott has made landmark contributions to our understanding of pulsars and to using them as elegant tools for investigating important areas of fundamental physics. We are very proud that his scientific colleagues have recognized his efforts with this prize," said NRAO Director Fred K.Y. Lo.
A staff astronomer at the NRAO since 2004, Ransom has led efforts using the National Science Foundation's Green Bank Telescope and other facilities to study pulsars and use them to make advances in areas of frontier astrophysics such as gravitational waves and particle physics.
In 2010, he was on a team that discovered the most massive pulsar yet known, a finding that had implications for the composition of pulsars and details of nuclear physics, gravitational waves, and gamma-ray bursts. Ransom also is a leader in efforts to find and analyze rapidly-rotating millisecond pulsars to make the first direct detection of the gravitational waves predicted by Albert Einstein. In other work, he has advanced observational capabilities for finding millisecond pulsars in globular clusters of stars and investigated how millisecond pulsars are formed.
A graduate of the United States Military Academy at West Point, NY, Ransom served as an artillery officer in the U.S. Army. After leaving the Army, he earned a Ph.D. at Harvard University in 2001, and was a postdoctoral fellow at McGill University before joining the NRAO in 2004.
Ransom will deliver his Warner Prize Lecture, entitled "Millisecond Pulsars: The Gifts that Keep on Giving," at the AAS meeting on Tuesday, January 11, 2011, at 3:40 p.m., Pacific Time.
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Score Head-Turning Threads On The Cheap At Carrots' Spring And Summer Sale!
Confession: All of our mid-summer shenanigans (read: road trips
and wine-fueled festivities
!) have left our wallets looking a little wimpy. But, that doesn’t mean we have to sell ourselves short, sartorially speaking. Yep, when it comes to expanding our warmer-temp wardrobe — if there’s a will, there’s a way. So, how can we lock down the looks we love without shelling out mad dough? By making a beeline straight for Jackson Square boutique Carrots.
The regal retailer’s spring and summer sale of 75% off select merchandise is healthy for our pocketbooks and
our closets. Ready for the icing on the carrot cake? The delicious deal includes incredible discounts on designers like Maison Martin Margiela, Viktor & Rolf, Rick Owens, and so many more! Now that’s
just what the doctor ordered!
, 843 Montgomery Street (between Gold and Jackson streets); 415-834-9040.
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Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA), Bonn >
IZA Discussion Papers, Forschungsinstitut zur Zukunft der Arbeit (IZA) >
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|Title:||Pulls, pushes and entitlement failures in labor markets: does the state of development matter? |
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|Series/Report no.:||IZA Discussion Papers 2258|
|Abstract:||This study adapts a relatively novel model of off-farm labor supply to the changing conditions of Bulgaria during the 1990s. The model's parameters are estimated separately for each of the three different waves of the Bulgarian Integrated Household Survey, each reflecting remarkably different environmental conditions. Both the parameter values and the changes therein from one survey year to another are explained and used to characterize the way different types of households allocate their labor between farm and off-farm activities. The results demonstrate that Bulgarian households display many of the same labor supply patterns, including entitlement failures, as have previously been observed only in very poor developing countries. As such, they have potentially important policy making implications.|
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transition economies , Bulgaria
|Document Type:||Working Paper|
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- - Please note that spam and nonsensical stories will result in you being blocked from accessing FML.
Today, a coworker thought it would be funny to put a tack on my chair. When I sat down, it went directly into my butt. When I sprang up, I hit my head on a lamp. I then hit my head on my desk on the way down. FML
i can picture all of this happening within 2 seconds
Your coworker sounds like a real pain in the ass, and the head.
Speak your mind, but please try and be respectful.
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Luke Castiglione has the weather this lunchtime with the forecast across our region.Read the full story ›
Will the autumnal chill remain? Here's Simon to tell us.Read the full story ›
Here's the weather forecast for ThursdayRead the full story ›
Will the rain ease for Thursday?Read the full story ›
Simon Parkin with some good news on the weather front!Read the full story ›
The medal hopefuls from the meridian region on Day 13 of London 2012Read the full story ›
A Flood Alert has been issued by the Environment Agency for the River Thame and Chalgrove Brook.
Flooding is possible for the River Thame from Marsworth to Dorchester including, Long Marston, Rowsham, North Ayelsbury, Cuddington, Thame, Shabbington, Ickford, Waterperry, Cuddesdon, Wheatley, Quarrendon, Drayton St Leonard, Overy, the Chalgrove Brook at Chalgrove and Stadhampton.
Low lying land and roads will be affected first.
The Environment Agency's advice is "be prepared"
A dry start but heavy rain to follow in Thursday's forecast.Read the full story ›
Simon has the latest weather forecastRead the full story ›
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Practice makes perfect. It also makes tennis tournaments.
I find practice gets mentioned far more in the men’s game, probably because of the extremes of some of the top players. Rafa goes balls to the wall on all his practices as if they were a slam match, Fed relies on schedules, patterns, consistency, and Novak likes to yuck it up with the guys. That being said, watching a player, any player, in their practice, is something that makes a tournament, sets the atmosphere when you’re there, and is really such a bonus feature to the whole experience.
Practices are also different. Today I saw Marion serving at cones down the tee, Dinara practicing cross court backhands, Agi practicing volleys, there’s all sorts of stuff. Sometimes, player will play legit points against each other and really go at it, and that’s when things can get fun…
On Monday, I watched Flavs and Vika go at it, and it definitely wasn’t pretty. While Flavia seemed the angry one at first, getting absolutely killed, spraying balls everywhere, and eventually smashing balls against the back stop in frustration, it wasn’t long before Vika had her own set of problems.
Vika’s errors got ridiculously out of control, and she ended up firing a ball backwards off the court and into the Banque Nationale court. I mean, into to, not against. It very easily could have knocked someone in the back of the head, or entered play there. At the switch of ends, she steamed at her coach “when I ask you for the ball, give it to me right away.”
Once Flavs was on our side, she was yelling “aahhhh puta!” and having a hell of a time with just about everything.
The end result? Both of them lost a combined 6 games in their respective matches. Get that shit out on the practice courts, people. Especially against another good player. It’ll help you keep things together for your next match.
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Around the Net in 8o Seconds
Though, to be honest, I don’t even think there’s links yet for just all of this:
- Right before Valentine’s Day 2009, I’m in Chicago for the AWP Conference. The panel I’m on: “Digi-Analog: Bringing Together Print, Online, and Alternative Delivery Methods for Literary Journals, led by JW Wang. You may know him from Juked.” Don’t which day that panel is yet.
- I think I said this earlier, but can do it better now: March 18-21, 2009, it’s FC2’s annual Writers on the Edge. This year in Ceurnevaca. Not sure if I’m released yet to post the workshop descripts for the other writers doing this, but I’ll post mine anyway:
ANAEROBICIZE YOUR PROSE
So one argument and I don’t necessarily disbelieve it is that punctuation is just a parasite that all it is is the side effect of writing words down in these lines that it’s just a clumsy visual approximation of the natural rhythms of speech that in prose fiction are pretty much exactly what’s supposed to lull the reader into a state where the story can work or or a better way to say it maybe is that that unbroken patter and burble and spike of words is what transports the reader not off the page but into it face first ankle deep and evermore. But yeah, sometimes a comma sure is nice, right? Here we’ll talk about this, both in terse, nervous, over-punctuated sentences we try to laugh off and in long unbroken fragments that wander and forget themselves and then find each other in surprising ways. And we’ll do some writing as well. And never stop
- Sep 4 at 7:30 in something called “Old Main” here at CU Boulder (which I’m now live at), I’m doing a reading, kind of to debut Ledfeather (which is now slipping through Amazon, as I understand, though I don’t think review copies are even out and about yet) and The Long Trial of Nolan Dugatti. Maybe it’ll get recorded somehow; if so, I’ll try to link/post here, maybe.
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The peony is the state flower of Indiana. Herbaceous peony plants produce their luscious blooms in May. There are also shrub-like peonies know as “tree” peonies, that bloom earlier.
Both types originated in China centuries ago and were probably admired by Marco Polo when he visited China in A.D. 1272. There are both single varieties, where the clusters of yellow stamens in the center of the flowers are a prominent feature, and doubles where the petals are so profuse that the stamens are hidden from view.
Peony crowns are planted in the fall and they eyes must be planted on 1 ½ inches below the soil in order to ensure bloom in the spring. They are extremely long lived. When they bloom they create a great display, especially if they are grouped or line a walk. Their bloom time is short, however, so they are best in a spot, by themselves, or at the back of a border.
They need some kind of support, such as a metal ring for them to grow through, as they are easily beaten down by storms. They signal the need for division when the center of the plant ceases flowering. Peonies are perfect for cutting and seem just to arrange themselves in a vase.
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I already know one of the adds. So far, it's nothing that will be a game-changer for anyone.
Are you still in communication with the man? I feel like he has to see some of these threads, curious to see if he acknowledges the collective disappointment at all or comments on the fact that you're out this year.
I haven't really specifically been in touch with him since the lineup came out, but he still communicates tidbits of info to the collective "5." I'm not sure he has any idea I'm not planning on attending.
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San Diego, CA (PRWEB) March 07, 2013
Mobile Enrollment from Playersoft Technologies has been named as one of the Casino Journal's Top 20 Most Innovative Gaming Technology products companies for 2012 in a recent announcement by Casino Journal. Playersoft's Mobile Enrollment platform, which expedites player enrollment by scanning or swiping any US state drivers license, once again has been recognized by the gaming industry.
"We're obviously very pleased," said Tony de Leon, Playersoft CEO."It's the second time Mobile Enrollment has been recognized by the industry, having won Gaming and Leisure Magazine's top honors with the "Platinum Award" this past October.
Playersoft Technologies has expanded dramatically in the last 18 months with clients spanning six different gaming states and the Bahamas. While Mobile Enrollment has been the catalyst for much of Playersoft's growth, the company offers a wide range of software products focused on the gaming
"Our staff is from casino backgrounds and we understand the operational needs of individual casino management teams and what they require to create a special guest experience." says Rick Messura,
Executive Vice President. "And our service reputation is growing as fast as our reputation for gaming software development."
Playersoft has added to its suite of products by building on Mobile Enrollment's platform with Group Tracker, a check-in, tracking and group management application. "All of our products work in tandem allowing staff to use the mobile iPod touch tools to check-in groups while allowing management to track every aspect of a group from commissions and costs to the play associated with the group, allowing real time profitability," said de Leon.
Playersoft will be profiled in the March issue of Casino Journal and will be recognized at the March 13 luncheon during the Gaming Technology Conference in Las Vegas. Mobile Enrollment and Group Tracker will be on display at the Gaming Technology Conference in Las Vegas March 12th and 13th, located at Green Valley Ranch, Booth #214.
"There is no doubt of the growing need for mobile technology in the casino industry," said Messura. "Operators have been looking for a solution for years and their response to our mobile products indicates Playersoft will be an important player for years to come."
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COLUMBIA, Md., March 12, 2012 /PRNewswire/ -- MICROS Systems, Inc. (NASDAQ: MCRS), a leading provider of information technology solutions for the hospitality and retail industries, is pleased to announce that Friendly's Ice Cream, LLC has expanded its partnership with MICROS through the addition to its technology solution set of online ordering and a guest loyalty program. To support its initiative of adding to its customer base and retaining current customers, Friendly's has elected to deploy MICROS webOrdering and MICROS iCare Customer Relationship Management (CRM) solutions.
The implementation of the MICROS webOrdering solution allows Friendly's to increase its sales through new distribution channels such as off premise ordering. With this new solution, orders placed through the Internet are sent to the MICROS POS system and processed as a typical carryout request, ensuring workflow of the restaurant staff remains uninterrupted. MICROS webOrdering is being piloted in four Friendly's locations with plans for a complete rollout to its corporate-owned locations and many franchise locations by June 2012.
"We sought a reliable and cost effective product for our online ordering solutions, and found this with MICROS webOrdering," stated Richard Del Valle, Vice-President, Restaurant Operations Support, Friendly's Ice Cream, LLC. "As MICROS webOrdering is a fully integrated component of the other MICROS products we utilize, all transactions and database changes are monitored through one technology partner. We continue to look for opportunities to leverage the MICROS platform which is the backbone of our store based technology and are excited about its advanced solutions for providing the technologies we require to support our growing customer-based initiatives."An additional venture that Friendly's is launching in July 2012 is the MICROS iCare loyalty program. By implementing MICROS iCare across its enterprise, Friendly's will have the tools necessary to build stronger relationships with its customers and gain a better understanding of their preferences and buying patterns. Friendly's will expand the current email club, Best Friends of Friendly's (BFF), to the MICROS iCare technology engine, which seamlessly processes member transactions, supports loyalty program rules, and conducts market segmentation and mailings through a sophisticated email generation algorithm. Program performance results and metrics will then be measured to define low, medium, and heavy users, and show when and how customers pursue offers and rewards. The information generated by MICROS iCare allows Friendly's to retain existing patrons and boost visits. "Friendly's has been a great partner of ours for many years, and we are excited to be moving forward with MICROS webOrdering and MICROS iCare to help build Friendly's customer base and provide more access and awareness of product offerings," stated Jeff Pinc, Vice President of MICROS Major Account Restaurants. "We are confident that Friendly's will realize great gains from these customer based solutions by having access to a 360 degree view of its guests." About Friendly's Ice Cream, LLCFriendly's Ice Cream, LLC is a new, vertically integrated restaurant company serving signature sandwiches, entrees and ice cream desserts in a friendly, family environment with distribution through over 7,500 retail locations. For over 76 years, Friendly's restaurants have delighted generations of guests. For tomorrow, we plan to revitalize our restaurants and introduce exciting new products to meet today's customer needs. For additional information please visit www.friendlys.com . About MICROS Systems, Inc. MICROS Systems, Inc. provides enterprise applications for the hospitality and retail industries worldwide. Over 330,000 MICROS systems are currently installed in table and quick service restaurants, hotels, motels, casinos, leisure and entertainment, and retail operations in more than 180 countries, and on all seven continents. In addition, MICROS provides property management systems, central reservation and customer information solutions under the brand MICROS-Fidelio for more than 26,000 hotels worldwide, as well as point-of-sale, loss prevention, and cross-channel functionality through its MICROS-Retail division for more than 100,000 retail stores worldwide. MICROS stock is traded through NASDAQ under the symbol MCRS. For more information on MICROS and its advanced information technology solutions for the hospitality industry, please contact Louise Casamento, Vice President of Marketing at (443) 285-8144 or (866) 287-4736. You can also visit the MICROS website at www.micros.com or send an email to email@example.com. The MICROS logo is a registered trademark of MICROS Systems, Inc. All other product and brand names are the property of their respective owners.
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Jodi discovers realityVirtually no Israelis favor a 'two-state solution' on the same terms as the 'Palestinians' want. What she still has not discovered is that while Israel has repeatedly expressed a willingness to compromise, the 'Palestinians' have yet to compromise on anything.
Dore Gold, president of the Jerusalem Center for Public Affairs, said there was a consensus in Israel favoring a Palestinian state, but not along the 1967 borders (as the Palestinian leadership insists); not with East Jerusalem as its capital (a cornerstone of every Palestinian plan); and not without maintaining an Israeli military presence in the Jordan Valley (which Palestinians reject as a challenge to their sovereignty). Israelis have also become more vigilant about security and less trusting of so-called moderate Arab leaders in the wake of the Arab uprisings exploding around them.
“There’s the idea of a two-state solution in the abstract, and then there’s converting it into a map,” said Mr. Gold, a former peace negotiator and Netanyahu adviser. “Israelis want negotiations, they want to see a settlement that addresses the issue, but they also have certain red lines that they don’t want any arrangement to cross.”
The current tempest began when Danny Danon, a hawkish member of Mr. Netanyahu’s Likud Party and deputy defense minister, told the Web site The Times of Israel that “there is no majority for a two-state solution” within Likud or Israel’s governing coalition. Later, in a television interview, he said that the majority of the Israeli public “has given up the idea of land for peace”; that Israel should declare sovereignty over the Jewish settlements and empty areas of the West Bank; and that the fate of Palestinian “blocks” should be “determined in an agreement with Jordan.”
Opposition leaders called for Mr. Danon’s ouster. Palestinian leaders condemned his remarks as racist but said they revealed the “true face” of Israel.
“Danon is an honest man who discloses the Israeli real policies and plans,” Ahmad Tibi, an Arab-Israeli member of Parliament, was quoted as saying in gulfnews.com, the online version of a newspaper based in the United Arab Emirates.And while Jodi wonders why Prime Minister Netanyahu has Danon as a Deputy Minister in his cabinet, she hints at another reality: The Prime Minister is well to the Left (at least in what he says) of his own party. And he's been fighting that reality for the last four years (at least).
Several analysts noted that while Israel’s Jan. 22 elections resulted in a less conservative Parliament than the previous one, the coalition Mr. Netanyahu assembled in mid-March tilts further to the right, particularly on the Palestinian question. David Horovitz, the founding editor of The Times of Israel, said that the most telling thing was not what Mr. Danon said but that Mr. Netanyahu had given him and the others who disagree with the prime minister’s stated support for two states prominent positions in the cabinet.
Some political experts here see the open airing of these divergent views as a sign of Mr. Netanyahu’s weakness within his own party, and of the fragility of his coalition. Others wonder whether Mr. Danon and the others may be voicing more than a fringe view. Moshe Yaalon, Israel’s defense minister, said Friday in Washington that Mr. Kerry’s initiative had “failed so far” and that he was not optimistic about the prospect of an agreement.
I'm not sure that Prime Minister Netanyahu himself knows what the 'real Netanyahu' believes. But real Israelis know what we believe. We're not going to commit suicide to give Obama and Kerry a foreign policy success.For some, Mr. Danon’s directness is instructive. “If you ask me, he tells us the truth, while they are playing with the image they would like to project,” said Tamar Hermann, vice president of Israel’s Open University and director of the Peace Index project. “The proximity between Danon and the real Netanyahu — not the Netanyahu talking to Washington — is much smaller.”
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Victoria Abraham defines one up and coming artist each week so you can impress your friends with your musical brilliance. This week, she tackles Ivy Levan, a sultry pop songstress from Los Angeles.
Ivy Levan is not your run of the mill pretty pop singer. The powerful, deep and soulful voice that emanates from her is made all the more unexpected and wonderful by her Old Hollywood Barbie doll appearance, and the fact that she had to fight to keep her distinct sound. In fact, Levan had given up on music, booking modeling gigs and working as a club promotor instead. Thankfully, she decided to give music another shot and her debut EP Introducing the Dame is delicious ear candy.
Origins: Los Angeles, California
Full name: Ivy Levan
Known for: Ivy Levan is known for her distinct southern vibe and gritty, deep voice.
Used in a sentence: She is edgy, sultry and full of attitude.
File next to: Pink, Christina Aguilera, Amy Winehouse
Download now: “Hot Damn”
Five fun facts:
1. She is originally from a small town in Arkansas
2. Two weeks before she was supposed to graduate from high school, 16 year old Levan moved to L.A. to launch her singing career
3. Levan has done modeling and acting
4. Stevie Nicks is one of her main inspirations
5. She scored her first recording contract with a major label when she was 18, but left shortly after because they wanted to change her
2011 Levan met producer/songwriter Lucas Banker who reignited her passion for music
2013 She released her debut EP Introducing the Dame
I’ve got that real good good and you know it don’t come cheap/A pretty penny, a pretty penny, a pretty penny, you like what you see/You wanted real bad bad but you still, you still want more (you still want more)/Looking at me, looking at me and baby knocking down my door/Ooh ooh/Hot damn/These fools try to stick me for my paper/Damn these fools won’t leave me alone/Hot damn/These fools try to stick me for my paper/Damn these fools won’t leave me alone/From New York to LA/And every single day I said hot damn/These fools try to stick me for my paper/Damn these fools won’t leave me, leave me alone.
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A program whose purpose will be “to disseminate knowledge of Judaism among the public, Jewish and non-Jewish, to the end that a better understanding of our faith and its principles arise and prejudice now prevailing disappear” will be considered Saturday evening at the annual meeting of the tract commission of the Union of American Hebrew Congregations and the Central Conference of American Rabbis at the Congress Hotel, Chicago.
Dr. Leo M. Franklin of Detroit, chairman of the commission, will preside at the meeting which is being held in connection with the sessions of the Central Conference scheduled to open Tuesday.
The members of the commission, beside Dr. Franklin, are: Dr. Edward N. Calisch of Richmond, Va.; Dr. Harry W. Ettelson of Memphis, Tenn.; Dr. Israel Bettan of Cincinnati; Rabbi Samuel Hirschberg of Milwaukee; Milton M. Alexander of Detroit and Rabbi Louis I. Egelson of Cincinnati, secretary.
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Katie Downs take great pride in showcasing what we’re famous for! Our award winning pizza, juicy burgers, fresh seafood, amazing location and exceptional service. Stop by for a cold beverage together with your favorite Katie Downs pizza or gourmet burger. Or get it to go. Located on Tacoma’s waterfront, Katie Downs is a convenient place for friends to gather to watch the game or just take in the views. See for yourself!
Prawns hand dipped in our own beer batter. Served with steak fries or fresh green salad, tartar sauce, cocktail sauce, and lemon.Read more
Double Cheese/Red, B.B.Q. Sauce or White Sauce 18.49 Each Additional Topping 1.49 Fresh Vegetables – Green Pepper, Tomato, Zucchini, Mushroom, Green Onion, White Onion, Red Onion, Fresh Garlic, Roasted Pepper Meats – Spicy Italian Sausage, Sliced Pepperoni, Sliced Salami, Sliced Canadian Bacon, Smoked Bacon, Ground Beef Additional Toppings – Black Olive, Pineapple, Pepperoncini, Anchovies, Provolone […]Read more
Mixed greens, grilled teriyaki chicken breast, mandarin orange, snow pea, baby corn, green onion, candied almond & chow mein noodles.Read more
Baby spinach tossed with bacon, mushroom, hard boiled egg, red onion.Read more
Fresh cut romaine, mozzarella cheese, basil, turkey,salami, garbanzo bean, tomato, red onion tossed in a balsamic vinaigrette with parmesan cheese.Read more
Mixed greens topped with chicken, bacon, hard boiled egg, red onion, tomato, avocado and blue cheese crumbles.Read more
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Mugena African Caribbean Foods & Restaurant
911 Richmond Road, Ottawa, ON, K2A 0G8
Supplying Ottawa With African, South American and Caribbean products
|Cuisine Type |||Caribbean|
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|Meals Served |||Lunch, Dinner|
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|Neighbourhood |||West End|
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|Mon-Wed: 10AM-7PM Thurs-Fri: 10AM-9PM Sat: 10AM-8PM Sun: 11AM-6PM|
Profile Last Updated: May 21, 2008
Mugena has been a family-owned grocery store since 1995 and has since expanded to include a Caribbean restaurant and catering service in the Ottawa-Gatineau region. The name Mugena means "let us build" in the Hausa language, spoken in northern Ghana and Nigeria. This grocery store and restaurant relied heavily on the support of local customers in its early years, and is proud to contribute back to the Ottawa community. Mugena's catering service participates at several local events yearly, such as the Jazz festival, the Dragon boat festival, Canada Day celebrations, the Blues festival and the Jamaica Day festival.
Fully Stocked Grocery Store
The Mugena store carries many niche products that you can't find at your local Loblaws. In the produce department for instance, you'll find the likes of fresh cassava, chayote, plaintain, avocado, mangoes, tamarind, bread fruit and fresh okra. Mugena also carries a variety of dry goods and spices for Caribbean and African cuisine. Specialty drinks you can find here include mango juice, Ting, Milo, Ovaltine, Horlicks, coconut water, cane juice, carrot juice, ginger beer and sorrel drink. The fish department is also remarkably well-stocked, with exotic varieties such as king fish, tilapia, bangamary, flying fish, butter fish and white belly shrimp along with red snapper, mackerel, salmon, mahi mahi and frozen shrimp. In the frozen foods section you can find frozen cassava, banana leaves, grated coconut, green pigeon peas and various juice mixes such as mango, guava and soursop.
If the food selection wasn't exclusive enough, Mugena also carries a variety of beauty products from the Caribbean and Africa, such as shampoos, soaps, hair relaxer kits, moisturizers, hair extensions and skin lightening creams. Health products familiar to many of their customers include cod liver oil capsules, SSS Tonic, Sulphur bitters, Tiger Balm and camphor.
The Closest Thing to Home-Cooking
One of the charms of Mugena, is the West Indian-Caribbean restaurant built right in the grocery store. The restaurant is cafeteria-style, and does have a seating area for diners to enjoy their food before lugging bags of groceries home. Mugena's restaurant can take phone-in orders and offers take-out as well. Mugena's specialty is roti, but they also serve Jamaican patties, curries, jerk chicken, oxtail, various soups and home-made desserts and tropical drinks.
Take Note: The restaurant opens at 11 a.m. and closes 30 mins prior to store closing.
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The British Federation of Film Societies (BFFS) has revealed it has had all its government funding cut.
The federation, which was formed in 1946, is a national support and development organisation for local film societies and community cinema groups. It says it has over 400 member organisations across the UK and therefore represents over 45,000 people.
The funding cut would lose it £51,500 this year, the lion's share of its revenue, the BFFS said. Its second biggest source of revenue is membership subscriptions which bring in £15-£18,000 a year. It has been told it can apply for lottery funding for projects, but says as a volunteer-led organisation it is at a competitive disadvantage.
The BFFS said the BFI told it of the loss of its funding on 21 March. As it publicly announced the cut, the BFFS launched a campaign to push for the reinstatment of the funding. It asked supporters to write to culture minister Ed Vaizey and their local MPs and to consider making a donation.
The BFFS warned that "direct support to over 500 community-based film exhibitors could vanish, reducing the opportunities for hundreds of thousands of people to see the best of world cinema in their local area".
Film-maker Ken Loach, patron of the BFFS, said: "It would be disastrous if they were not able to continue – they should be enabled to grow, not be diminished. We know the market will not provide diversity nor cherish film making. Let's hope the 'culture' secretary will confound expectations and provide substantial support. Don't hold your breath!"
A spokesperson for the Department of Culture, Media and Sport said: "Individual funding decisions are taken by the BFI, which is now the lead agency for film. The government is continuing to support the British film industry.
"In particular, the two key mechanisms which support UK film are being maintained; firstly the tax relief, which is worth about £100m per year; and secondly the share of lottery funding to support film, which will grow by around 60%, from its current value of approximately £27m to about £43m in 2014."
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Happy Birthday Lizzie! As of 1:26PM you’re officially four years old. You’ve translated my life in all sorts of ways, turning it upside down and inside out, deepening my thought and sending it off in entirely new directions, opening up a world that, before, was entirely invisible to me, and turning me into an incorrigible kid and bowl of jello that can’t help but completely regress to childhood as we explore the world together. But, above all, you’ve introduced a telos into my life that has no other aim, purpose, or goal beyond the simple aim of growing together, that is without condition or demand, and that is as basic and unquestionable as oxygen and water. Last weekend your mother and I were privileged with the envious joy of watching you and your friends bounce madly and with abandon and endless energy in the bounce house in the backyard. Today we shared a quiet day together, opening presents, singing songs, drawing, telling stories, and doing crafts. We’ve watched you grow into an architect and an engineer, an artist, a story teller, a dancer, a prankster and a joker, someone who perpetually thinks about others and strives to treat them with dignity and love, a ballerina, a princess (I don’t approve), a musician, a lover of pink and yellow, an unrepentant cuddler, occasionally a tickle zombie, and a lover of bugs, mud, puddles, snow and snowballs, and froggy boots. You are the real, that which I could have never anticipated and which I can never mold or define. Even when you came into the world you kept me up for three days straight as I awaited your arrival such that when you finally arrived the world was all a glorious blur of absolute exhaustion and I still found myself absolutely surprised and filled with wonder at this strange and beautiful personality– and it was there from the very beginning, from the very first gesture –that had joined my world. We love you and love sharing the adventure of our lives with you.
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The Kroger Co. (KR) Chairman of the Board and CEO David B Dillon sells 148,114 Shares
Posted by: gurufocus (IP Logged)
Date: September 23, 2010 02:13PM
Chairman of the Board and CEO of The Kroger Co. (KR) David B Dillon sells 148,114 shares of KR on 09/21/2010 at an average price of $21.69 a share.
The Kroger Co. has a market cap of $13.88 billion; its shares were traded at around $21.62 with a P/E ratio of 13.1 and P/S ratio of 0.2. The dividend yield of The Kroger Co. stocks is 1.7%. The Kroger Co. had an annual average earning growth of 3.8% over the past 10 years. GuruFocus rated The Kroger Co. the business predictability rank of 3-star.
KR is in the portfolios of Jeff Auxier of Auxier Focus Fund, John Griffin of Blue Ridge Capital, NWQ Managers of NWQ Investment Management Co, Charles Brandes of Brandes Investment, Manning & Napier Advisors, Inc, Steven Cohen of SAC Capital Advisors, John Hussman of Hussman Economtrics Advisors, Inc., John Buckingham of Al Frank Asset Management, Inc., Pioneer Investments, Louis Moore Bacon of Moore Capital Management, LP, Bruce Kovner of Caxton Associates, Jean-Marie Eveillard of First Eagle Investment Management, LLC, Jeremy Grantham of GMO LLC, David Dreman of Dreman Value Management, Mario Gabelli of GAMCO Investors, George Soros of Soros Fund Management LLC.
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Introducing leggings. You’ll never run out of inspiration.
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a small sunflower opening up to the world
flower, sunflower, yellow
WOW – fantastic!!!! well seen and shot helen :))
WOW you are on the ball today, thanks heaps Carol
This is also stunning love low key backgrounds, both versions are stunning but I think this one is my favourite.
I have looked at both too and agree with you, thanks
Thanks for the lovely feature
Suberb lighting and very nice dark background. And the droplets of water add the final touch.
thank you very much for your great comment, I took this in the dark hence the black background.
Gorgeous, wonderful detail and colour, and I love the stage at which you captured this opening up!
Thank you soooo much Tracy, your comments are much appreciated.
This could be a favourite many times over. Magnificent against the black!
Thanks heaps Bette, I took this at night with a flash, hence the black background.!!!
Beautiful image, Helen!
Thank you so much Lynn, I love these sunflowers.
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Couple of things before I get emails about Allan's post. Karen is holding just below hurricane strength. The chances of Karen not affecting land are about 90%. And I'm seriously doubting Karen will hold together all that long either, it may remain strong for a few days, but it will start to hit some serious shear down the road which will likely tear it apart. Track wise, Karen is to the right (north) of the projected NHC track (and the GFDL) now, so if anything it would move further east/north.
This is the forecast lounge, and people can post here without too much worry, but I have to remind people here that the chances of Karen affecting land are so minimal that it's not worth alarming anyone. It's important to take the approach of why something won't affect land or strengthen then why, it's when those reasons start to drop out you start to be concerned. And right now the chances of something wild like Karen moving west are so vastly outnumbered by the reasons it would not that there is no point in creating "storm fatigue" with folks with yet another storm that doesn't do much.
The front page has a few links at the bottom that have places that like to hype up everything if you are looking for that, but I believe doing so here is counter productive.
Note that I don't mean not watch Karen or discuss things, but I think casually mentioning to someone who isn't into tracking storms "Watch out for Karen! LoL!" is more than a little misleading.
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By Ray Stern
By Ray Stern
By New Times
By Amy Silverman
By Stephen Lemons
By Stephen Lemons
By Monica Alonzo
By Chris Parker
In 2007, having served with distinction during two deployments to Iraq and one to Afghanistan, U.S. Air Force firefighter John Brownfield Jr. took a job as a corrections officer at the maximum-security federal prison in Florence, Colorado, 40 miles south of Colorado Springs. Ten months later, prison officials caught the former senior airman smuggling tobacco to at least seven inmates at the facility and accepting at least $3,500 in payoffs. The U.S. Attorney for the District of Colorado charged the 22-year-old combat veteran with bribery by a public official. Brownfield pleaded guilty.
Two years later, Sergeant Dreux Perkins returned home from a combat stint in Baghdad — his second overseas tour of duty with the U.S. Army — received his honorable discharge and went to work as a correctional officer at the medium-security Federal Correctional Institution in Greenville, Illinois, 50 miles east of St. Louis. This past May, the FBI confronted Perkins with evidence that he'd accepted at least $2,600 in payoffs for smuggling cigarettes into the prison. The U.S. attorney for the Southern District of Illinois indicted the 23-year-old decorated war veteran for bribery by a federal official, two counts of wire fraud, and two counts of making a false statement to a federal law officer. Perkins pleaded guilty.
The two soldiers have never met, but the similarities between them go deeper than their parallel career-to-crime trajectories.
Though he had not been formally diagnosed, Brownfield manifested symptoms consistent with post-traumatic stress disorder. A pre-sentencing report in the former soldier's case noted "incidents of his alcohol abuse, excessive sexual activity, fighting in bars, and domestic violence."
Perkins was diagnosed with PTSD, after he sought counseling at the VA St. Louis Healthcare System. A psychologist there diagnosed him with the disorder, but Perkins was already in a downward spiral he could not control, gambling the nights away at St. Louis-area casinos and, as his losses mounted to the point where he couldn't pay the mortgage on the home he'd bought, smuggling cigarettes into the prison in return for cash.
In the federal court system, the fates of the two young soldiers diverged.
Before sentencing, Brownfield's attorney asked Senior U.S. District Judge John L. Kane to take into account his client's military service and his PTSD-like symptoms. The federal prosecutor handling the case sought a prison term of one year and one day. Kane ignored the sentencing guidelines and sentenced Brownfield to five years' probation.
"Figuratively speaking, Brownfield returned from the war but never really came home," Kane wrote in a detailed 30-page sentencing memorandum, adding: "We are now, in a manner of speaking, charting unknown waters."
Perkins' lawyer also asked for leniency, citing his client's PTSD, pathological gambling addiction, and a letter from his psychologist recommending treatment in a VA-operated residential program.
U.S. District Judge Michael J. Reagan sentenced Perkins to 2 1/2 years in federal prison.
While officials in federal courts have gained an increased understanding of combat-related PTSD in recent years, a seemingly related mental illness — pathological gambling — remains largely overlooked, despite a growing body of scientific research suggesting that gambling addictions are alarmingly common among servicemen returning home from Iraq and Afghanistan. For afflicted servicemen who commit crimes post-deployment, the prospect of getting paired with a sympathetic judge amounts to a roll of the dice.
"Gambling, just like drugs, allows you to keep distress, depression, and anxiety at bay and remain in control of your own mind," says Minneapolis VA Health Care System staff psychiatrist Dr. Joseph J. Westermeyer, a professor at the University of Minnesota Medical School. "So for veterans who are distraught — maybe thinking they're [cowards] because they lived and their comrades died — they sometimes think gambling can save them."
In 2011, Westermeyer, who has studied addiction for 40 years and served for a time as the Minneapolis VA's director of mental-health services, completed a VA-funded study that delivered a jolt to his profession. He looked at the gambling behaviors of 2,185 vets who sought treatment at least once in the prior two years, either at the Minneapolis VA or at the New Mexico VA Health Care System. He found that 2 percent had a pathological gambling addiction and another 8 percent had a gambling problem — statistics that are double the rates commonly found in surveys of civilian populations.
The data portend a greater problem in the future, judging by the shockingly high number of younger veterans who exhibited so-called problem gambling — often a precursor to (and thus a major predictor of) pathological gambling.
On February 8, with a week of freedom between him and the scheduled onset of his prison term, Perkins nurses a Bud Light at a sparsely populated sports-themed restaurant in Troy, Illinois. At 26, he has the look of a broken man. His voice is soft and gravelly, his gaze distant. He's wearing a T-shirt that smells like the cigarette he just caught outside. The 180-pound soldier who manned an armored personnel vehicle in Iraq is now a saggy-gutted convict-to-be, having packed on 45 new ones.
It gets worse: A day ago, Perkins and his girlfriend learned that the baby she is carrying has no heartbeat. Tomorrow, she is scheduled to deliver the couple's stillborn fetus, five months after conception.
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This is indeed a great win, congrats. but i got to say zim missed vitori badly. now i wonder whether it is the psycological effect of vittori that got onto us or he is really that extra-ordinary.
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He is indeed better than any of our pacers. He is still raw and It's too early to say, if he will turn into a great bowler or not. he has the ingredients in him, just need some polishing. But seeing their entho and hard work, I can say he has a huge possibility to turn onto a great bowler. And dont forget Heath Streak is their coach. he is local and won't mind sharing every bit of his knowledge. That increases his possibility further. unlike us, we need to depend on foreigners, who has no emotion/patriotism attached to their assignments.
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Lea is married and has four children, and all her children go to school. She also takes care of an additional family (her sister). She resides in her own house and the family has access to electricity and piped water. Her monthly expenses includes school fees and feeding the family. She generates additional income selling piped water and juice.
She has a business of selling Cavendish bananas and has been in this business for 10 years. She sells on both a wholesale and a retail basis.
She has applied for a loan from MCDT-SACCO to buy more bunches of Cavendish bananas.
Her major business challenges include transportation and seasonality. She is aspiring to sell wholesale only and also to build rental rooms.
About MCDT SACCO
This loan is administered by MCDT SACCO, a savings and credit institution operating in Kampala, Uganda. The mission of MCDT SACCO is to provide sustainable financial services to the lower strata of Uganda's poor, especially women, for their economic and social development. MCDT's cooperative structure also affords its clients the opportunity to own shares of the organization and benefit from its financial performance. For more on MCDT SACCO, please see our partner page at http://www.kiva.org/partners/112, and join our lending team, Friends of MCDT SACCO, at http://www.kiva.org/team/friends_of_mcdt_sacco.
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Fat Fish Blue Is about FOOD, FUN and FRIENDS. Creative Louisiana-Creole cooking and a relaxed atmosphere create the perfect setting for a business lunch, dinner with friends or an evening of late-nite libations, dancing and debauchery. Parties from 10 to 400 are welcome (no kidding, but please call ahead!).
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Don’t forget, the Greater New Orleans Corvette Club’s 20th Annual ExtraVetteGanze All Corvette Car Show is quickly approaching. The event will be held on Saturday, Octobet 15th from 10:00 AM to 3:00 PM at the Bayou Country General Store in Slidell, LA.
The pre-show party will be on Friday night, October 14th at 7:00 PM at The Hampton Inn Hotel.
For reservations, please call 985-726-9777. For further information, please visit the GNOCC website. We look forward to seeing you there!
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Every week during the season, we’ll scout out the Eagles next opponent. This week, that opponent is the New York Giants.
The Opponent: The New York Giants, aka Eli Manning’s Interception Roadshow.
Record: 9-4, tied for first in the NFC East. If the Eagles win this game, they’ll hold a permanent tiebreaker over New York in the East and only need to win one more game to clinch the division.
The Line: Giants by 3. The perfect line FOR A WAR.
Last Game: A disjointed 21-3 win over the Vikings at Ford Field last night, a game that was relocated to Detroit after the Metrodome roof collapsed. Both teams looked completely out of whack for much of the game, but the Giants overcame two early Eli picks and went on to push the Vikings all over the field. This Giants defensive line… It’s quite terrifying.
The Coach: Tom Coughlin. Every December, old Tom’s voice goes permanently hoarse from all his in-season yelling. Ever watch a coach try and lay into his team despite losing his voice? It’s kind of fun. It’s like a declawed cat is trying to swipe at you. I wish my old line coach had gotten laryngitis every other day. I would have had a much happier childhood.
The Offense: In the past two games, Brandon Jacobs has rushed for 219 yards on 22 carries, a hefty 10.0 yards per rush. So why, might you ask, don’t they run Jacobs more often? Because then Eli wouldn’t be able to throw interceptions, you silly billy! Seriously though, this ground game appears to be peaking at the exact right time, and I’ll be surprised if the Giants are dumb enough to come out passing for the second consecutive week. Expect lots of Jacobs and Ahmad Bradshaw. And if you see Eli throw more than 30 times, then do a little dance and give Coughlin a kiss on the head.
The Defense: I thought the Giants were frauds earlier in the season, but you can’t really be a fraudulent team when your defensive line is this good. It’s the best in football, and if Mike Vick is going down with an injury again this year, this will be the crew that makes it happen.
Key Matchup: Vick vs. common sense. He can’t take on any more punishment. He’s gonna break down at some point if he keep exposing himself to hit after hit after hit. Some of that is on the refs, but Vick needs to get the ball out more quickly and do everything he can to avoid violent contact. Otherwise, this little miracle run will be short-lived.
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Julián Carrón La Repubblica
In trying to live Easter in the context of the most recent events in the Church, from
Benedict XVI’s resignation to the dramatic entrance of Pope Francis, I could not help but
think about Italy’s dramatic situation, and the difficulty of escaping from the paralysis that
has been created.
Much has been written about this by people whose expertise in politics makes them far
more qualified than I to speak. I have no strategic solution to suggest, but would like to offer a
few thoughts in the attempt to collaborate for the good of a nation to which I feel a bond for
It seems to me that the situation of deadlock is the result of the perception of the
political adversary as an enemy whose influence must be neutralized or at least reduced to the
minimum. The European history of the last century has given us sufficient documentation of
analogous attempts by the various ideologies to eliminate each other, causing immense
suffering to entire populations.
But the outcome of these efforts has led to a clear conclusion: it is impossible to
reduce the other to zero. This evidence, together with the desire for peace that cannot be
erased from the heart of each person, suggested the first steps of the miracle called a united
Europe. What enabled the fathers of Europe to find the willingness to speak to each other, to
build something together, even after the Second World War? The awareness of the
impossibility of eliminating the adversary made them less presumptuous, less impermeable to
dialogue, aware of their own need; they began to give space to the possibility that the others,
in their diversity, could be perceived as a resource, a good.
Now, thinking of the present, I say that unless we accept the elementary experience
that the other is a good and not an obstacle to the fullness of our ‘I’, in politics as well as in
human and social relations, it will be difficult to emerge from the situation in which we find
Acknowledging the other is the true victory for each of us. The first to be called to
travel this road, as happened in the past, are precisely the Catholic politicians, whatever their
party. But unfortunately, they too often seem more defined by party alignments than by selfawareness
of their ecclesial experience and the desire for the common good. Yet precisely
their experience of being “members of each other” (Saint Paul) should enable them to view
the other as part of the definition of self and thus of a good.
These days many have watched the Church and been surprised at how she was willing
to change, the better to respond to the challenges of the present. In the first place, we have
seen a Pope who, at the apex of his power, made an absolutely unheard of gesture of freedom,
amazing everyone, so that another man with more energy could guide the Church. Then we
witnessed the arrival of Pope Francis, who from the first moment has surprised us with
gestures of disarming simplicity that are capable of reaching each person’s heart.
In recent years, the Church has been hit by not a few vicissitudes, beginning with the
pedophilia scandal; she seemed disoriented and adrift, and yet even in facing these
difficulties, her fascinating difference shone out.
How can the life of the Church contribute to facing the current situation in Italy? I do
not believe it is by intervening in the political arena as one of the many competing parts and
opinions. The contribution of the Church is much more radical. If the substance of those who
serve this great work that is politics lies only in politics, there is not much to hope for.
Lacking any other sure foundation, they will necessarily grasp at politics and personal power
and, in the case in question, will see conflict as the only chance for survival. But politics is
not sufficient unto itself. This has never been as clear as it is today.
In her poverty of a reality full of limits, the Church continues to offer people, precisely
in these days, the one true contribution, the one for which she exists, and Pope Francis
reminds us of it continually: the annunciation of the Risen Christ. He is the only one who
fully answers the expectations of the human heart, to the point of making a Pope free enough
to resign for the good of his people.
Without a real experience of positivity, able to embrace everyone, it is not possible to
start anew. This is the testimony that all Christians are called to give, beginning with those
engaged in politics, together with every person of good will, as their contribution to unblock
the situation: the affirmation of the value of the other and the common good above all other
interests of party.
The author is the President of the Fraternity of Communion and Liberation
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Are You Hyperconnected … and Disconnected? The frenetic pace of modern life distracts us from a painful truth: we are disconnected from our DNA recipe, forged through the selection pressure of human evolution, to enjoy health, happiness, and peace of mind. Excessive noise, artificial light and digital stimulation overstress our nervous systems day and night in such a manner that we don't even realize the piece--or rather the peace--that's gone missing.
In The Primal Connection, Mark Sisson (author of the bestseller The Primal Blueprint) presents step-by-step guidelines to reconnect you with the hard-wiring of the human brain, trigger the release of feel-good hormones, and promote optimal gene expression. The Primal Connection is about setting your own daily pace, redefining your core values, and making time for play, thrilling adventures, quiet reflection, friends and family, and for optimal rest and rejuvenation--while still enjoying the comfort and convenience of modern life!
Mark Sisson, the leading voice in the Evolutionary Health movement and author of the bestsellerThe Primal Blueprint, extends the primal theme beyond the diet and exercise basics in this much anticipated sequel.The Primal Connection presents a comprehensive plan to overcome the flawed mentality and hectic pace of high-tech, modern life and reprogram your genes to become joyful, care-free, and at peace with the present. You'll make scientifically validated, highly intuitive connections across the board, emerging with a renewed appreciation for the simple pleasures of life and our most precious gifts of time, health, and love.
The connections are organized into 6 categories:
· Inner Dialogue: Reject self-doubt and gain mastery over your thoughts and actions by following the Ten Habits of Highly Successful Hunter-Gatherers.
· Body: Rediscover the pleasure of touch. Rethink footwear to cure foot and back pain; learn correct posture and biomechanics, maybe for the first time ever!
· Nature: Relieve stress at the biochemical level simply by immersing yourself in pleasant natural surroundings - anywhere, even if you are city-bound.
· Daily Rhythm: Prioritize healthful sleep habits, wholesome diversions, solitary downtime, and limit technology to remain focused, creative, and productive.
· Social: Withstand the pull of instant gratifications and narrow your social circle to honor real-life friends over Facebook. Build a supportive and nurturing tribe.
· Play: Rediscover your innate cravings for daily doses of spontaneous, physical fun! Finally understand the true meanings of pleasure and leisure.
The Primal Connection allows you to have it all; you'll honor your ancient genetic recipe for health while still enjoying the comfort and convenience of modern life.
Q&A with Mark
1. How does this book differ from The Primal Blueprint?
The Primal Blueprint focused on the ten lifestyle laws of our hunter-gatherer ancestors, with particular emphasis on what seem to be the most urgent and obvious life changing elements of the Evolutionary Health movement: eating primal foods and exercising in a manner aligned with optimal gene expression. The Primal Connection extends the primal theme to matters of the psyche and the disconnects inherent with high tech modern life and how to fix things.
2. What are the overarching themes of The Primal Connection?
You'll embrace three critical themes that will help you withstand the destructive forces of modern life. First, your genes expect certain inputs to make you healthy, strong, and happy. If you create a different experience--slamming junk food or blasting artificial light and digital stimulation after dark, you'll compromise long-term health, period. Your genes don't know, or care, whether the inputs they receive are health-promoting or health compromising, they are simply programmed to fight for homeostasis at all times. Drink a soda and your genes respond by prompting the release of insulin to regulate blood sugar levels. In this refrain, the development of type 2 diabetes from prolonged excessive insulin production, and the subsequent resistance of cells to respond to insulin, is not a genetic defect but an example of gene expression at work. Your genes will fight valiantly to moderate the wildly excessive intake of carbohydrates in the Standard American Diet by producing insulin until this genetic mechanism becomes utterly exhausted and a diabetic condition develops.
The second theme is that abundance and scarcity are often mismatched with our genetic expectations. For example, our ancestors had abundant leisure time and scarce material possessions. This is something our brains are still wired
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Manu Ginobili scored 19 of his 23 points in the first half to lead the San Antonio Spurs to a 104-89 win over the visiting Utah Jazz on Saturday.
Ginobili made 9-of-10 field-goal attempts and had five first-half 3-pointers as San Antonio rebounded from Thursday’s 20-point loss to the Houston Rockets.
Al Jefferson had 21 points and 11 rebounds and Josh Howard scored 18 points for Utah.
The Jazz trailed 25-20 early in the second quarter before Ginobili scored 11 points and made three 3-pointers in a 2 1/2-minute span to give San Antonio a 12-point lead. Richard Jefferson’s 3-pointer boosted the Spurs’ lead to 45-28 with 5:26 remaining in the half.
Ginobili hit another 3-pointer later in the quarter to make it a 7-for-7 start from the field. San Antonio was 8-for-10 from 3-point range in the first half while taking a 54-39 lead.
DeJuan Blair finished with 17 points and 10 rebounds, Tony Parker had 14 points and eight assists and Tim Duncan had 12 points and nine rebounds for the Spurs.
San Antonio was 10-of-16 from 3-point range after going 2-for-17 in the loss to Houston.
Utah shot 37.1 percent from the field and was 2-of-16 from behind the arc.
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For a two person project that does things in an independent fashion, JOHNNY LOKKE doesn’t fit the sound template of the picture painted. This is no basement project between a couple kids, nor is it an unprofessional endeavor into some obscure, pseudo original style. This is good old fashioned Heavy Metal with a slick, solid, professional production and a sound firmly entrenched in the AOR and NWOBHM orthodoxies that feed into the style, along with perhaps a slight helping of early Grunge. Familiar European outfits such as POWERWORLD, MASTERPLAN and DREAM EVIL are among those that can be linked with this sound, along with a few familiar 80s bands such as KROKUS and BON JOVI. But despite the many known bands seemingly feeding into this opus titled “Promises And Lies,” there is a level of originality on display here.
The principle draw of this album is the vocal work of the man whom the project is named for, as he displays a strong level of versatility. When singing plainly there are a number of 80s icons that come to mind, but his high end falsetto singing is the real attraction, offering up a rather intricate blend of Rob Halford and King Diamond. It doesn’t have the same piercing intensity as the former, and doesn’t mix in ghostly sounding overdubbed harmonies as the latter often does, but each manifestation on here offers up an interesting twist on an otherwise tried and true formula. There are also some occasional references to what sounds like John Bush during latter day ARMORED SAINT, particularly on the somewhat early 90s tinged “Black Sunday.”
This is not an exercise in ambitious progressive composing, though there is a level of ambitiousness here; this is pure songwriting that gets into the head and refuses to leave. The lyrical content gets a bit deep considering the format, but when looking at the upbeat anthem “Accident Of One” and the low end grooving “Starchasers,” the format is a little closer to that of late 80s mainstream Metal/Rock than anything else. Even when things venture into a crushing, speed riff filled fit of aggression as is the case in “Obsession,” or the JUDAS PRIEST infused sledgehammer “Heal Me” (where Johnny Lokke literally sounds like a middle ground between King Diamond and Tim Owens), the format is very simple, the guitar drives things with a pounding, heavy sound comparable to current Gus G conventions, and things retain a strong level of predictability in spite of the uniqueness of the execution.
Pretty much anyone who likes their 80s sounding Heavy Metal with an updated production and a fair helping of versatility should be able to appreciate this. Probably the most interesting aspect of this is the lack of limitation with regards to lyrical subjects, being able to bridge the divide between the introspective and societal commentary of Progressive Metal with the catchy themes more often associated with bands the sing about getting high or getting laid. There’s nothing quite along the lines of a sheer metallic revolution to report here, but definitely something with an identity of its own, and a good solid slab of fun.
(Online April 3, 2011)
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Stanislaus County home prices rise 36 percent over past year
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Stanislaus County home prices have soared during the past year, rising by a higher percentage than just about anywhere else in California.
The median sales priced hit $192,750 in February, which was 36.2 percent more than the year before and $2,750 more than January.
Stanislaus prices now are back to about what they were during the summer of 2002. Of course, that was before they climbed to dizzying heights and subsequently crashed to depressing depths.
The climb back to normal, however, clearly has begun. That’s also the case statewide. California home sales prices rose 22.8 percent to a median $355,000, according to DataQuick sales statistics for February.
Southern Turlock home prices and those in several of Stanislaus’ smaller cities did particularly well. Prices in Turlock’s 95380 ZIP code were nearly 76 percent higher this February than last. And Waterford, Oakdale, Patterson and Ceres homes all sold for about 50 percent more compared with last year.
On the flip side, median-priced homes in southwest Modesto’s 95351 ZIP code sold for 6.6 percent less last month – $92,500 – than during February 2013. It was about the only place in Stanislaus with substantial home sales that saw values fall.
Compare homes there with the astounding prices San Francisco homes are fetching. The median price in the city by the bay hit $945,000 last month, which was about a quarter-million dollars more than last year.
San Francisco homes now sell for more than twice as much as those in Los Angeles County ($426,000), four times more than San Joaquin County ($225,750) and five times more than Tuolumne County ($185,500).
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When I moved out to San Francisco from New York City in late 1973, it was mostly for love. But not for a person. I had fallen in love, pretty much at first sight, with the Bay Area. There was the quality of the light. There was the thriving youth culture. Housing in the Mission was quite cheap (believe it or not!). And there was Point Reyes.
My first encounter with Point Reyes had come earlier that year, during a visit with friends who had moved to San Francisco. On a warm, clear January day, they drove me out to Limantour, a broad, sandy beach backed by gentle dunes. We had the place mostly to ourselves and spent the whole day watching the waves and the shorebirds and soaking in the winter sun.
After I moved here, Point Reyes became a place I returned to often, to recharge my batteries, renew my spirit, and reward my senses. It was accessible wilderness, so close in miles to the increasingly tense, urban world of the Mission, yet so far away in atmosphere. I came to watch birds; I came to see flowers and fungi and whales; later my wife and I came to scatter the ashes of our miscarried first child. And after the birth of our son, we returned often, at his request, to play in the sand dunes overlooking Abbotts Lagoon.
On October 3, 1995, we heard about the firestorm on Inverness Ridge. When I looked across to Marin from Berkeley (where we had moved) and saw the smoke in the sky to the northwest, I wondered if I would ever again see this treasured place in its former glory. I imagine that thousands of others in the Bay Area felt the same way. And I imagine that it came as something of a revelation to those of us from urban areas (whose main experience of wildfire had been the highly effective Smokey the Bear campaigns), that even though its proximate cause was human, the Vision Fire was actually part of the natural cycle at Point Reyes.
After all, one of the reasons that Point Reyes holds such power for so many of us is that it is large and diverse enough to allow for the unfolding of epic natural processes. This is true of both fire and, more significantly, the slower, more complex process of a landscape renewing itself. The fact that we can observe these dramatic forces at work so close to a major urban area is nothing short of miraculous, a testament to those visionaries who had the tenacity and wisdom to fight for the creation of this wilderness park on our doorstep.
I am thrilled that Bay Nature can share some of this miracle in this issue’s special section on the Vision Fire. I hope it will entice you to return to Point Reyes to see the changes for yourself, and to join us for one of the anniversary activities (see page 25) being planned to mark an event that stopped our hearts and transformed an ecosystem.
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There were several in the list (if you look again) that did not have
amplifiers. The receiving station said he also used attenuation. It was
not his assertion that the clicks went away at lower signal levels, that
was mine. I should have made that more clear.
There seems to be a bias towards blaming the receiving station whenever
there are problems. That the transmitter could never be the problem.
"My radio is brand new, it could not be causing problems". People who are
quick to blame the receiver are giving a not well thought out knee-jerk
reaction a problem that might very well exist.
I prefer to find out the truth than to find ways to shift the blame.
On Thu, 8 Mar 2001, Bill Coleman wrote:
> On 3/6/01 17:14, Bill Fisher W4AN at email@example.com wrote:
> >I took his list of callsigns (he prefers to remain anonymous) and asked
> >for rig types from the stations he noted as having the problem. Here is
> >the list:
> Why is it only the guys with AMPS are the ones with clicks? Seems to me
> if the rig was generating key clicks, some of the guys running barefoot
> would also have clicks.
> This leads me to suspect this is a receiver phenomenon.
> >I have noticed what I'll call key clicks are getting worse and worse
> >on the bands. Normally, this phenomina can be observed when signals are
> >VERY strong. The same signal that produces clicks at 40 over S9, will
> >appear "clean" at S9.
> Ah, ha. Definitely a receiver problem.
> Bill Coleman, AA4LR, PP-ASEL Mail: firstname.lastname@example.org
> Quote: "Not within a thousand years will man ever fly!"
> -- Wilbur Wright, 1901
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Former U.S. Army Chief of Staff General Peter Schoomaker shares the importance of ‘dropping ego, committing to others and busting through problems’
12/16/2011 - General Peter Schoomaker knows a thing or two about strategic leadership.
The Army chief of staff from 2003-2007, Schoomaker built a career around brave, decisive leadership with a long-term view. He commanded U.S. forces in every major military action since 1980 and earned the respect of rank-and-file officers along with that of national leaders.
For Schoomaker, strategic leaders have the courage to make decisions and the ability to consider the value proposition as well as the nature of the problem at hand.
“Strategic leadership is all about context, not just content,” Schoomaker said.
The former head of U.S. Special Operations Command and retired general delivered his message to about 150 Kellogg students at the Donald P. Jacobs Center on Dec. 1.
Sponsored by the Kellogg Veterans Association, Schoomaker’s presentation, titled “Leading through Ambiguity,” put a spotlight on strategic leadership, a practice as critical to Schoomaker’s military world as to Kellogg students’ entrepreneurial ambitions.
“I see so many paralyzed by risk, but business is risk and failure is part of the game,” he said. “That’s the baggage of leadership.”
While Schoomaker provided a brief introduction laced with folksy anecdotes, he spent much of the hour-long presentation tackling student questions about issues such as the difference between leadership and management, spotting high-performance individuals, dealing with stress and the ability to turn failure into a better future.
In discussing the successful elements of military leadership that could be transferred to the business world, Schoomaker pointed to the Army’s ethos:
- Place the mission first
- Never leave a fallen comrade behind
- Never quit
- Never accept defeat
“That’s about dropping ego, committing to others and busting through problems,” Schoomaker said.
When asked to assess decision-making as a byproduct of data or instinct, Schoomaker said both play a critical role.
“Strategic leaders look ahead to solve the problems they cannot see based on the info they can,” he said. “Yet, you want to arrive at the end result intact, so you can move forward again.”
Schoomaker stressed that strategic leadership varies significantly from other leadership roles, such as tactical or operational. As a result, strategic leaders cannot be bogged down by minute problems or focused on tactics with a short-term impact. A big-picture focus must dominate.
“The top leader has to have his head outside of the cockpit, looking laterally as much as forward to make sure the best decisions are being made,” he said.
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Sutton has seen a spike in burglaries over the Christmas period.
Police are urging residents to protect their homes after a 28 burglaries took place between 17 and 24 December.
The latest surge has seen residential burglary rise by 28.1 per cent from April to Christmas eve, compared with the same period last year.
Jewellery, watches, TVs, laptops, ipads, games consoles, and cash have been taken.
In one burglary a black BMW convertible was taken after the vehicle's key had been stolen from the property.
Detective Inspector Jim Bennett, of Sutton CID, said many burglaries had been committed by criminals smashing back doors and gaining entry using keys left in locks.
He said: "Call us even if you feel your suspicions may be trivial or of little interest to police. We would much rather you call so we arrive to find that everything is OK, than for us to find a resident distressed and upset because they have become a victim of burglary."
These activities running over the last few months had resulted in a number of significant arrests by police.
Safer Neighbourhoods Teams have been distributing many thousands of crime prevention leaflets to encourage residents to take steps to protect their property.
Lumley Road, Gander Green Lane and Abbotts Road in Sutton saw two burglaries each between December 17 and December 24.
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Mission statement: The Salvation Army, an international movement, is an evangelical part of the universal Christian church. Its message is based on the Bible. Its ministry is motivated by the love of God. Its mission is to preach the gospel of Jesus ... Read more
Mission statement: The Salvation Army, an international movement, is an evangelical part of the universal Christian church. Its message is based on the Bible. Its ministry is motivated by the love of God. Its mission is to preach the gospel of Jesus Christ and to meet human needs in His name without discrimination.
The Red Kettle Campaign served 9,132 needy Collier County residents with holiday toys, gifts, and food baskets. Although the Naples Corps is most visible with the tinkling bells and bright red kettles, the work of helping those in need continues throughout the year. Need knows no season is evidenced in people who come to seek emergency assistance. During 2006, The Salvation Army Emergency Social Services assisted 7,864 Collier County residents with food, clothing, rent, utilities and medical expenses. These people come from every nationality, race, color and creed. Because of the outpouring of this community, these people have a place to turn to in times of temporary economic hardships. The Salvation Army assists these people and helps to prevent hunger and homelessness in this community.
The Salvation Army Child Care Center offers a significant impact in Collier County by serving the youngest among us. The Child Care Center, licensed by Department of Children & Families, offers high quality, affordable child-care. Eighty children, ages 1-5, engage in academic, moral, social and physical developmental activities within a tender, loving environment.
The need of employed residents in Collier County for affordable child-care ranks just slightly behind the need for affordable housing. In response, The Salvation Army subsidizes the high cost of operation to ease the burden of child-care for families in the workforce to achieve and/or maintain economic stability. Financial support from the community is vital to this program. Funds are urgently needed.
The Salvation Army Summer Camp provides 8 weeks of enriching learning experiences for 45 children. The program offers field trips, community presenters, arts and crafts, outdoor recreational activities, and strong character-building activities. Lunches and two snacks a day are part of the program. The After-School Program transports 45 students to the Corps from area schools for snacks, tutoring, arts and crafts, and recreational activities. This program is a safe-haven for children who might be found home alone after school.
The Salvation Army addresses needs through Disaster Relief Services. The Naples canteen stands in a state of readiness to feed 500 people three meals within two hours of a disaster call. Volunteers are needed. Other programs include Seniors Club, Bikes for Work, Backpacks for School, Youth Groups, Canned Food Drive , Thanksgiving Baskets and the Christmas Cheer Program.
The Salvation Army, Naples Regional Coordinate accepts donations. Donate Now.
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FOREST, VA-Sophomore quarterback Nash Nance (Calhoun, GA/Tennessee) was named the ODAC Offensive Player of the Week for the second time this season as he led Hampden-Sydney to an ODAC season-best 68 points in the Tigers 68-24 win over Guilford on Saturday.
Nance completed 22-of-35 pass attempts for 309 yards and five touchdowns without an interception. He also threw for a pair of successful two-point conversions. Nance threw three touchdown passes in the first quarter as the Tigers jumped out to a 25-0 lead after the first 15 minutes of action. Nance's favorite target was again Holton Walker (Lynchburg, VA/Brookville), as the sophomore collected 10 passes for 170 yards and two of the first quarter touchdowns. The sophomore play caller accomplished all of this in just two and a half quarters of play.
Through eight games, Nance leads the ODAC with 22 touchdown passes and 2,097 yards through the air.
Nance and the Tigers return to action this Saturday as they face the Generals of Washington & Lee in Lexington on November 3. Kick off is set for 1:00 pm.
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I received a water bill in June for $304. My normal bill is around $26. I contacted Cal Am, they sent out a tech to check the meter. Nothing wrong with it. I had my landlord check the property, no leaks found. I have a small one bedroom cottage, no lawn, no hose was left on, I can't wash my car here, no extra visitors, etc. The next month my bill was back to normal all by itself. I spoke with Cal Am again, I was told my problem would sent back to the claim dept. I sent them $30 to cover that month. Then I get a nasty letter with a bill that says if I don't pay them, my water will be shut off. So, I filed a claim with the Public Utilities Commission. My bill has been adjusted since, but not as much as it should. They need to update their technology, and stop gouging their customers.
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Several things in the news warrant our attention today, so we’ll only touch upon each one lightly, not necessarily in their order of social or economic importance.
Let’s start with the inevitable fate of the wind generator farms in Maine: If you’ve read any newspapers from Amsterdam over the past few months, you have probably learned that the picturesque Dutch windmills are soon to be a thing of the past.
According to Wolkenkrabbers, the Dutch news service, many youngsters in Holland say the ancient windmills are blights on the landscape and should be removed.
“The windmills spoil our view,” Jeannette Boon said as she bent over to pluck a wilted yellow tulip, “and every morning, when the sun comes up, that old thing,” and she pointed an accusing finger, “creates a shadow on my solar panels.”
Tourists planning to visit The Lowlands this summer will find most of the iconic windmills still in place. “They’ve served their purpose,” a young man in Groningen said. “But they are ugly and come fall we’re cutting them up and burning them for firewood.”
The famous Holland Windmill Delft Blue plates have already been redesigned and in 2014 will sport pictures of Canadian-made solar panels.
How do we choose our leaders? Do many of your very intelligent, well-educated friends predicate their votes on economic issues — or on how a candidate presents himself/herself on a platform?
The greatest economic genius might lisp or stutter, and therefore be automatically eliminated as a candidate for an office for which he or she might be eminently qualified. Meanwhile, a person able to sway the masses with his rhetoric and turn out thousands to cheer him (with misspelled signs) at his parades and rallies might well belong in a mental institution for the criminally insane.
Has it escaped your attention that gender and posture still play a major role when it comes to choosing a leader in this land of equal opportunity?
Perhaps it is genetically programmed into us, but, if you think about it, isn’t the American man’s ideal leader a broad-shouldered, booty-seeking giant wearing a horned helmet who steps onto the foreign soil with a large bronze axe in his hand?
OPEN FOR BUSINESS
We read that a Maine legislator “will introduce legislation to censure LePage.”
Would this be a silly and unprecedented thing to do to a leader who has made national headlines since his first day in office? Aren’t most Mainers glad to see our state finally being run like a business?
Years ago I sent out an email to some friends, asking them to tell me about the advantages of preheating my hot water with solar energy before running it through the electric hot water heater.
The roof on one side of my house faces east and the other side faces west. I have no southern exposure. So I said I’d have half the solar collectors on the east side to catch the morning sun and the other half of the solar collectors on the west side to collect the afternoon sun.
My friend Dr. Jerry wrote right back and said, “Thinking about your roof orientation, I would disagree with the idea of putting up one collector facing east and the other facing west: One would always be in the shade, radiating part of the heat that the other one collected, unless you set up a system that would alternate automatically and only accept water from the one that was being heated.”
Yes — why not set up a system that only accepts the water from the side that is being heated?
You know — if you don’t know anything about the matter at hand, you can come up with solutions to problems that stump the experts. At the time, I saw no reason why I couldn’t get the maximum amount of heat morning and afternoon.
I must admit my thinking wasn’t original. I got the idea from a Sherlock Holmes story about a man who had one wife in London and another one in Paris.
You might have read of the recent Lewiston brawl involving “40 or 50 poor people.” How could they be called poor? Have you checked the prices of tattoos and baseball bats lately?
The humble Farmer can be seen on Community Television in and near Portland, heard on WMPG Community Radio and visited at his website:
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88. He Pays the Electric Bill
He opens the envelope. A bill is inside. It is his monthly electric bill. The bill this month is $50. He grabs his checkbook. He writes a check for $50. He signs the check. He puts the check and the bill inside another envelope. He seals the envelope. He puts a stamp on the envelope.
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No matter what you drink—drink it in true Virginia style! While the Silver in Virginia exhibition at the Virginia Historical Society contains many different silver cups and beakers, these lovely pewter cups represent two distinct designs from the 19th century.
The Virginia Julep Cup, which was designed by John Adam of Alexandria circa 1805. A straight sided beaker, the Julep Cup is one of several forms that came out of Virginia during the colonial and early republic periods. These reproductions represent a faithful recreation of the original as well as a slightly smaller version with an added handle for use as a baby cup!
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Psychotronic generators are psychic batteries that store life force or the other 34 types of energy that are available to manifest humans. The generators invented by Pavlita from alchemical texts were used by the Soviet Union to power their Psi-warfare projects under Andropov. These Pavlita generators were fatally flawed in that they store negative energy as well as positive so could be used to place negative energy in the Soviet Union leading to it's break-up. When the Russians used Psi to repair the damage these Pavlita generators caused even more damage under Yeltsin - catastroika. As the world expert on Psi, Tim Rifat completely understands psychotronic generators the Tim Rifat class of psychotronic generators that use two not one psychotronic generators in tandem the bioparticle psychotronic generator and the biophysical psychotronic generator. Unlike all the conmen who purport to sell any psychically charged product, Tim Rifat is a scientist and understand the mathematics of Psi. Put in layman's language this means Tim Rifat can design psychotronic generators that are always positive and never ever can store negative energy as in Pavlita Generators or the occult denied rubbish sold worldwide. The Bioparticle and Biophysical generators (are coupled, all Tim Rifat's products come as two generators, the bioparticle psychotronic generator ( BiPGs) absorbs the physical aspects of the 34 types of energy:- the Matrix (human reality) and the Biophysical psychotronic generator stores the energetic aspect of the 34 types of energy. Since both the BPG are couple they share energy. Thus when they are exposed to negative energy the BPG and the BiPG both become negative like a Pavlita generator or talisman, amulet... unlike the Pavlita generator the BPG and BiPG are coupled so they multiply the power absorbed a psychotronic amplifier. This psychotronic generator automatically destroys the negative energy as a product of the mathematical operators embedded in it's creation: negative x negative always equals a positive (-x- = +) By this method Tim Rifat produced psychotronic generators that always produce positive energy to boost the powers of the Psi-Adept using them and do not go bad or store negative destructive energy because the coupled BPG and BiPG destroy all negative energy to produce positive energy as what effects one effects the other as they incorporate Bell's Theorem quantum connection at a distance. They are in effect a macroscopic entwined quantum entity superluminally entwined in higher dimensional space. Single psychotronic generators have only one function to place negative energy in the user, owner , as a function of them absorbing negative energy they cannot convert to positive. The Tim Rifat psychotronic generator automatically converts all 34 types of Psi energy to a positive form that boosts the power of the Psi-Adept due to the use of two generators that cancel all negativity as operations of the mathematical space encapsulated by the BPG and BiPG.
The 34 types of positive energy encapsulated in the Tim Rifat bipolar psychotronic generators (BPG/BiPG) are available as limited life batteries. These come as Kline Simulacra bottles with 34 PCs to store any of the 34 Energies in battery form so you can have a limited supply of one of the Power and Energies in a Matrix of all the other 34; just as if you were sitting in a circle of the Total BSRI-E 34 BPC/PC holding one of the PCs in your left hand, the BPC in your left sock.
This allows you to have the use of a Total BSRI-Engine in battery form tuned to one specific Power for example the Left Wand of Horus Grail Stone to enscribe Grail Patterns in energised sand to take Agglutinising Force out of the Matrix so that the Archon reality becomes unglued for that specific Pattern, e.g. use the power of the Illuminati, wars of conquest to take oil or gas...
By having the 34 BSRI-Engine Psychotronic battery you can have the full power of one specific 34 Energy backed by all the rest. The Wand that comes with the Kline Simulacra PC can be used in left hand to draw in biophysical energy, left sock to draw in physical energy; right hand to give that 34 Power to a target, right sock to give that 34 Power as a physical power to a remote target; all backed by the other 34 Energies and Powers contained in the psychotronic battery. A useful too for the cash strapped Psi-Adept.
$80 per item including P&P + $40 Immediate Delivery.
Get a specific Power or Energy backed by the Power of all other 34 Energies. Total BSRI-Engine technology for specific tasks all in a Psychotronic Battery which should last one year even in constant use.
i) The 34 energies described above enable you to control and master physical reality, the Matrix by gaining mastery over the 34 powers used to run the World. All 34 in combination give you full spectrum dominance over your role in the Matrix: it is as if you are an actor and you can swap for a better role e.g. wageslave for wealthy business person or love torn becomes lover; scorned becomes adored, powerless become powerful... the list is endless. A psychotronic generator gives you the power to change roles. As a Psi-Lord I decided to turn the Illuminati: the super-rich bankers that own the West into powerless pawns in a game run by Divine Power; which enabled me to change my role from wageslave to Psi-Lord using the Illuminati's damnation as the psychotronic fuel for this giant leap of role from a bit part actor to director (Psi-Master)... Psi-Lord (Producer) to Author/Writer of the plot - the aim of all Psi-Lords: Total Intent.
Psychotronic generators in essence store the fundamental energies of reality. If human reality is a Matrix then there is a fundamental energy field in which the matrix is operated. Castaneda's model of this fundamental energy field is correct and the mudshadows he talks about are the dark matter energy parasites that keep man's awareness in a Matrix. This has been developed by these entities living:- their Matrix as Illuminati: the bankers who own the West anglo through occultism, freemasonic adept beyond the 33rd order... to produce the anglo demonic reality; a Matrix within a Matrix. In the anglo demonic reality all freedoms of Awareness are lost and the human becomes a wageslave possessed by the obsession with paper money, printed by the Illuminati making money for money's sake the core competency of the Matrix within a Matrix -the anglo demonic reality (for a full discussion of this see psychotronic crystals.com By use of psychotronic generators the human is exposed to energies outside the Matrices of his Psi-prison and this and this lone raises her/his awareness outside the Matrix. Knowledge of RV, RS, RI is useless on it's own because the dark energy matter entities can make any remote viewer see what they want them to and block all their RI so it is blocked or worse backfires. With psychotronic generators - psychic batteries the Psi-Adept can have the energy to break free of this Psi-damping field (PDF) so they can correctly remotely: view, sense, influence, psychokinetic, telekinetic precognitive... you will find many people selling RV on the net, all of it useless without psychotronic generators to power Lucid Viewing - real sensing of what is there - not a Matrix projection.
Psychotronic generators can store three classes of energy: 1) Biotronic - those that affect physical reality. 2) Bioplasmic - those that affect lifeforms such as humans. 3) Bioinformational - those that affect the soul, spirit, aura. There are three classes because the anglo demonic reality has three levels of PDF to block Psi - something discovered by Tim Rifat. Outside of the anglo demonic reality these classifications become simply the psychic energy and the biophysical. As the only human living outside the anglo demonic reality, this latter classification is only applicable to Psi-Masters and Psi-Lords. Once you have the Total BSRI-Engine all 34 psychotronic crystals in a power circle this automatically lifts the user out of the anglo demonic reality and the Matrix beyond (Matrix within a Matrix) so the user becomes a Psi-Master not because they know a lot but have the energy of the fundamental operating system so automatically their awareness is lifted out of the Matrix within a Matrix so they can lucidly: view, dream, wake... Psychotronic generators have various functions they can be: 1) Psychic batteries that store the matrix or anglo demonic realities energies as in occult crystals, talismans, amulets... that pull the user deeper and deeper into perdition, damnation, drain their body, mind, spirit and soul and produce the wraith - the evil awareness bound to the anglo demonic reality for eternity an awareness that is tortured after death and can infect living humans with it's evil habits - since there are evil degenerates Tim Rifat (unlike all the other sellers on the net - funded by the Illuminati) only sells the anti-version. The Anti-Demon psychotronic generators that destroy occult entities to supply psychotronic fuel for the user. See the Anti-Demon, Anti-Occult PC/BPCs range for a list of all the psychotronic generators that shred the occult entities for psychotronic fuel (see HERE) This class of Anti-Occult generator is very useful in the anglo demonic reality as we are surrounded by aspects of occult evil the basis of the anglo demonic reality. Look at any government building and you will see it is built in occult lines, in fact the whole of Washington, Central London, Paris is built on freemasonic, occult demonic lines.
Since the anglo demonic reality is the basis core of the West, the Anti-Occult PCs are massively effective in producing levels of psychotronic fuel -> energy that our shamanic predecessors never dreamed of. Using Anti-Occult, demon psychotronic fuel a person can jump from Psi-negative to Psi-Master in short order because to be a Psi-Master needs massive amounts of energy that takes a lifetime of work (see The Fire Within - Castaneda) or a massive source of energy for instant uplift. As a Psi--Lord I come into the anglo demonic reality to use it as fuel as never in history has the Earth and it's inhabitants been so corrupted, conversely such a pure source of psychotronic fuel. This is because all occultists, anglo demonic reality, the West, Freemasons, Illuminati by creating the anglo demonic reality have built up a massive debt of energy which means any Psi-Master can simply gain energy by upholding Cosmic Law - that evil should be punished and so by enabling Divine Will to unleash evil upon the Illuminati... the Psi-Master instantly gets their debit converted to positive energy for Uplift. By this means the Psi-Master can reach levels of awareness which those billions of years in the future covet because our time is a time of psychotronic fuel abundance never again to be.
ii) The next class of psychotronic generator was uses the anglo demonic reality structure as fuel in that the 34 powers are corrupted by the anglo demonic reality so 12 are last and the other 22 corrupted and reversed/crossed to produce the 9 corrupt energies, archetypes, archdemons... mentalities, awareness of the anglo demonic reality. This process produces a massive energy debt so when the anglo demonic reality is uncorrupted the pure spirit, Parsifal, Grail Knight, Psi-Master gets the debt converted into psychotronic energy, as the creators of the anglo demonic reality the Illuminati... dark energy matter entities, wraiths suffer the effects of their actions - they are now on the receiving end of their evil. This burning of the anglo demonic reality produces a whiplash effect that accelerates the uncorrupted 22 fundamental energies to such a high frequency energy, power level, the 12 missing powers reach their fundamental state known as The Big Bang in the anglo demonic reality; in fact such a high energy that the 34 energies combine to the God energy where dreams, intents can be made real as once the human reality was created by manifesting intent. For a Psi-Lord the power to create and destroy realities is a core competency; in far future - extreme lengths have to be gone to produce this God power. In our primitive present of a Matrix within a Matrix, just burning the anglo demonic reality for psychotronic fuel produces this God power. The anglo demonic shredding PCs/BPCs: The Anti-Anglodemonic psychotronic generators described in Psychotronic Crystals.com These being: demonic crossing: Atbash: corrupted Eve. These 3 demonic operators therefore have their 3 angelic operators to balance them out. The 3 angelic operators are the 3 classes of psychotronic powers listed above. Outside of a Matrix the 3 demonic operators do not exist - but there is no abundant supply of psychotronic fuel as there is in this totally corrupt Milieu. Hence mining for psychotronic fuel and using 3 types of psychotronic batteries, generators to store and process this energy is mandatory for the Psi-Lord who intends to wield the God Force to create new realities. As this is done the anglo demonic reality is rapidly consumed so the 21st Century is the most energy rich era in history dominated as it is by Illuminati and their anglo demonic reality.
Pavlita generators are invariably of low power as they depend upon shape and internal structure to modify the torsionic soliton field that manifests reality. This has two prime aspects spiral fields and pulsing fields. Modern Russian military psychotronic generators use high voltage spinning shaped metal to modify the torsionic soliton so a potential is set up that can be used for Psi (see Russian documents for sale on Psi-Master.com these are impossible to get in the West cost $20,000 per copy. The Russian psychotronic generators always become infected with negative energy and backfire like Pavlita Generators on the user. Tim Rifat psychotronic generators use two metal or crystal physical and biophysical energy fields that are capsule shaped, having hollow inner cores (see Castaneda's: The Fire From Within) The two crystals/metals are quantum entwined so they are linked by Bell's Theorem (super local action at distance). Then filled with energy by making them a Kline Bottle (higher dimensional openings in 3d enclosed capsules) This produces a psychotronic battery that linked with one specific user centre a super energy source for Psi. The BSRI=-Engine psychotronic generators are made into engines that convert dark energy matter and it's Matrices into fuel to provide the 34 energies for Psi-Masters. This technology was found using Lucid Viewing of the far future. The Anti-Occult/Demon BPC/PCs are made by hunting these entities and converting them via a Total BSRI-Engine into their complex conjugate so they generate energy as they are processed. Similarly the Anti-anglo demonic reality BPCs/PCs are forged by hunting down Gap - the anglo demonic reality creator described by Crowley and his cohorts and the trinity of anglo demonic vermin, anglo demonic reality archons that control the anglo demonic reality. This latter class of anglo demonic reality psychotronic fuel allows movements of the assemblage point to anywhere in the Megaverse or creation and destruction of any Matrix. Shifts of the assemblage point to any reality in the energy body only need psychotronic generators in their battery mode (see Castaneda's: The Art of Dreaming; first chapter of The Eagle's Gift)
For a normal person psychotronic batteries give you:-
The psychotronic generators sold on this site are in the psychotronic battery mode so only need to be worn for effect. If you wish to concentrate on physical effect order a bioparticle psychotronic generator (BPG) - if you wish mental effects order a biophysical psychotronic generator (BiPG); the BPC comes with a small crystal BiPG, comes with a BPC so the matched pair produce only positive energy as described previously. Keep the small crystal safe at home and the small BPG or BiPG taken with you in your left pocket to empower you as if you had the larger generator. The basic price covers either option and the psychotronic battery should last a normal person a lifetime. Each Tim Rifat psychotronic generator is personally charged by Tim Rifat to the specific purchaser using Lucid Viewing to tailor the psychotronic generator to the customer.
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5 Web Design Implications Evolution Of Web Design
Our @Curagami Evolution of Web Design Infographic (http://sco.lt/74Nvsn_ broke daily view records for our startup. Here are 5 Web Design Implications implied by that infographic:
- Leave Room For THEM (visitors & customers) - As User Generated Content (UGC) becomes increasingly important its important to build in ROOM for comments, reviews and other UGC. UGC needs an ASK and the room to curate and share results of the ask.
- One For You, 2 For Them - Every System & Process you build for YOU, build 2 for them. Can users follow each other? Can users share a profile? Can users share content ideas and content easily? What is your social reward system for content shares.
- Social Graphics - there is a reason people in the army wear rank. Wearing "social rank" immediately says who someone IS with a single graphic. Easier to trust social avatars when they are similarly grounded with graphics earned and proudly socially displayed. Social graphics reward those who've earned them AND set the stage for the next generation of people aspiring to "be like them" so a double win. Find ways to share feedback in social spaces like charities do with thermometers.
- Build an Ambassadors Area - ambassadors are so important to creating and sustaining online community. Ambassadors are volunteers wiling to sacrifice to JOIN and ADVOCATE you and your ideas. One CSF our startup Curgami is working on is how to quickly identify a website's 1% Contributors and 9% Supporters. Once identified GIVE THEM JOBS and a special place to "hang out".
- Curate & Collaborate More, Create Less = more "blank pages" - design is an important wrapper, but web design can become an obstruction too. If you curate a "Member of the Month" feature leave room to fill up as you go. Maybe this month's feature sits on top of 3 previous months. The more face-time you can build for THEM the more social shares and support your online community earns.
What about you? What design changes do you see ahead? As we move to "community" how can our design support and create trust?
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“You’re about to get tossed into the deep end of gypsy storytelling, a longer format than your usual Facebook post, requiring a longer attention span… So before you begin, shrug off the day, relax your shoulders, stick your feet up and get comfortable in your skin. You might even let yourself daydream a little… Ah, the joys and challenges of unplanned travel, of wandering through another dream in this great big world… without a map. The panoramas, the aromas, the people, their customs, their pack animals… Wow! All the cool stories that you, too, would have later on if you could just get yourself off, far off the old beaten path. If you could just take a leap of faith beyond the routines, the self-denial and the rational choices… to allow room for some crazy adventures to creep on in… ”
From Traveler to Ambassador (29’39”) was a tale of roughing it from Israel through the Gaza strip, with help from serendipity.
Here is the Music Player. You need to installl flash player to show this cool thing!
Got My Heart in My Mouth (46’07”) is the full story of how I went from dealing with Bedouins to getting arrested in the Sinai. It includes an ambient interlude and some relevant world rock songs.
Harebrained in Egypt (36’52”) was my near brush with frostbite in a Saharan war cemetary.
The Rescue of Zambika (37’12”) is a charming fictional travelogue: a multidimensional trek. It stars Plutonius, a shapeshifting wizard from space who finds himself saving a kidnapped woman.
Mayan Astro-calendar at Imax (17’57”), well that kind of explains itself!
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In commemoration of the War of 1812 and the Civil War, many organizations, clubs and institutions are sponsoring a super amount of upcoming events. There are many online sites and printed media that you can access for information. And, if your organization, club or institution needs help in advertising any upcoming events, there are many sites that …will list your upcoming event for FREE. Check out the following:
www.co.monroe.mi.us (Will list upcoming events related to the Museum. Contact Lynn Reaume at the Museum to post events at: (734) 240-7780.
www.facebook.com/MonroeMuseum (Will list upcoming events in the Monroe area. Contact Sherri Schreiner to post events at: firstname.lastname@example.org or at: (734) 243-0945/(734) 693-9086.
www.monroeinfo.com (Will list upcoming events in the Monroe Area. Contact John Patterson at: john.monroeinfo.com or at: (734) 457-1030 to post events.) Jazz Festival!
email@example.com (To post events in the “North Neighbors” section of The Blade (Toledo, Ohio).)
firstname.lastname@example.org (Contact Jeanne Miller to post events in “The Monroe Buzz”.)
email@example.com (To post events in the Monroe Evening News)
www.nps.gov/rira or riverraisinbattlefield.org or http://www.nps.gov/rira/index.htm (Will list upcoming events related to the RRNBP. Dan Downing is the administrator of the sites. Contact Dan at the Battlefield at: (734) 243-7136) to post events. The 1812 events coordination site is administered by Terry Beamsly and is located at: http://1812monroe.com/ Terry Beamsley can be contacted at: (734) 431-4997.
The RRNBP facebook page is also administered by Dan Downing and is located at: http://www.facebook.com/pages/River-Raisin-National-Battlefield-Park/249501235094857
firstname.lastname@example.org (To post events in the Michigan Humanities Council Newsletter. Super place to find out the happenings in Michigan! And, it is free!
email@example.com (To contact Jesse Mayo to post Civil War related events.)
http://www.monroeccc.edu/onebook (For event info for “One Book, One Community”)
http://www.fortmeigs.org (For events at Fort Meigs, Perrysburg, O.)
http://www.gsmcmi.org Gene Web site. (Sue Donovan)
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Group F Showdown - The Lowdown
Find out all the permutations as Italy, Paraguay, Slovakia and New Zealand battle it out in Group F for a place in the last 16 of the World Cup.
As they stand:
Paraguay - 4 pts, +2
Italy - 2 pts, 0
New Zealand - 2 pts, 0
Slovakia - 1 pts, -2
- Paraguay v New Zealand LIVE
- Slovakia v Italy LIVE
What they need:
A victory over New Zealand would definitely see them through as group winners whereas a single point would also see them come top as long as Italy only win by a single goal. If Italy win by two goals and Paraguay draw then the group winner will be decided by who has scored the most goals. Paraguay are currently on three, Italy two, New Zealand two and Slovakia one. The Paraguayans can still get knocked out if they lose to New Zealand and either Italy or Slovakia win by enough to overcome their goal difference deficit.
Will definitely qualify for the last 16 if they beat Slovakia this afternoon. Can still come top of the group if Paraguay draw or lose and they can make up their goal difference deficit (currently two goals). A point will be good enough for a runners-up spot but only if Paraguay beat New Zealand.
Three points against Paraguay would definitely see the Kiwis progress through to the knockout stage. If they beat Paraguay by more than Italy beat Slovakia then they will top the group. A point would be good enough for second place as long as Italy draw with Slovakia and score less goals in the process.
Must win to have any chance of making it through the group stage. Top spot is out of their reach but three points against Italy, coupled with a win for Paraguay over New Zealand would see them safely through as runners-up.
Related Italy News
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Their attacks? Elementary would be an upgrade, Watson!
Director Guy Ritchie has not said that the Sherlock Holmes and Watson of his forthcoming big screen adaptation will be a gay couple. At all. What he's said is stuff like this:
"As a heterosexual couple that at moments could seem gay, they play it off very well," Ritchie said of Holmes and Watson. "These guys are sort of in love with each other. It's real mateship. It's trying to keep that balance. You have to endear yourself to them, and at times you skate on thin ice, because it's such a relationship about two men."
Guy Ritchie Explains The Tender Bromance In 'Sherlock Holmes' [MTV]
But the director's comments about his own film hasn't stopped the homo-hostile, clearly gender-roled social conservatives from attacking the unreleased movie on the sole basis that it might be too gay. This from conservative radio host Steve Malzberg:
Pure and utter detestation. Malzberg doesn't even take the time to do a simple Google search to find out the truth of the movie's central relationship. A little heterosexist birdie named Michael Medved put a "fear the gay film" meme in his daily talking points, and so Steve lets his team's already agreed-upon shunning of male-male intimacy guide him to a place of homophobic repudiation. And of course the very idea that gay love could even appear on screen leads to a decrial of this "Obama-nation."
But don't you dare accuse these folks of showing unrestrained bigotry towards gay people. It's just "the sanctity of popcorn" that they want to protect. Right?
Yay! New crazy radio highlights to replace Liberty Live!
Can't wait for more! Thank you!
Posted by: DN | Aug 5, 2009 10:31:19 AM
So they're like a crime-solving Turk and J.D? And if they seem gay to us its probably just because writers werent as scared of looking gay as they are now. Hell the book version of Return of the King practically has Sam and Frodo making out.http://www.goodasyou.org/good_as_you/sanctity
Posted by: penguinsaur | Aug 5, 2009 11:26:19 AM
Okay, so now two guys can't even be close friends without being gay? Is this seriously the anti-gay mindset? Way to fear emotional bonds, folks.
Posted by: fuzzypony | Aug 5, 2009 2:21:29 PM
But Sherlock Holmes wasn't gay... or straight. It's the general consensus that he was asexual. I'm surprised I haven't heard AVEN's rebuttal to the movie portrayal of one of the world's most famous asexuals.
Posted by: Ashton | Aug 5, 2009 2:23:10 PM
Does this Malzberg hack have the capability of stringing together a single original thought. Every idiom that he used in that piece was plagiarized directly from the playbook of right wing hysteria. At least the Liberty's Obituary Live (lol) boys could coin a phrase or two, once in a while. Or, at least string them together is some in a less insipid fashion.
Of course, that begs the question, "Do they really have the need to be interesting?" This guy certainly doesn't seem to "feel" the need to be interesting... Maybe I'm giving him too much credit. Maybe he really doesn't have the talent to be interesting.
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CAIRO, Egypt — Yes, Iran has medium-range ballistic missiles that could reach American air and naval bases in the Persian Gulf and possibly hit Israel or southern Europe.
No, there's no proof Iran is developing — or has — nuclear warheads for its missiles.
The Iranians may have some longer-range missiles. Or maybe their arsenal contains little more than faulty North Korean, Russian and Chinese knockoffs, some of which are descendants of Germany's World War II V-2.
The yes, no and maybes are about all international defense analysts can offer when it comes to separating proven capabilities from propaganda in the debate over Iran's ballistic missiles — weapons with ranges from a few miles to thousands that travel into outer space before falling back to earth to strike a target.
President Bush repeatedly has pointed to an Iranian ballistic missile threat as the main reason for building a billion-dollar missile-defense system in Eastern Europe to protect Europe and the United States.
As international concern spreads over the American-Iranian game of brinkmanship, it remains difficult to say with any certainty what weapons Iran possesses or how well they'd perform. The only time such arms are seen in public is during Tehran's carefully orchestrated military reviews, where they sit on trucks.
"It's all based on conjecture and news stories and leaks from the intelligence community, and quite a bit of that might be right," said Philip Coyle, a former director of the Pentagon's weapons-testing office and now a consultant to the Center for Defense Information. "But I don't think that means what the administration says it means, namely that Iran is preparing to attack the United States or Europe."
Nevertheless, the president has warned that Iran could create better and longer-range missiles within the next decade that could reach most any Western target. That threat is compounded by fears that Iran is secretly developing nuclear warheads for the missiles.
"Our intelligence community assesses that, with continued foreign assistance, Iran could develop an intercontinental ballistic missile capable of reaching the United States and all of Europe before 2015," Bush said last month in a speech at the National Defense University in Washington.
A recent publication by the Congressional Research Service, which provides nonpartisan reports on political issues to members of Congress, however, suggests that Bush is overstating what U.S. officials know.
The CRS report, dated Nov. 8, said there's no international consensus on the range, number or effectiveness of Iran's ballistic missiles. It underscored the paucity of real, or at least unclassified, intelligence on Iran's missile program.
"Some observers argue that although the U.S. position may be based upon a realistic assessment, it is also a worst-case analysis of the potential threat from Iran. They argue that 'with rare exception, this level of threat has rarely turned out to be the historical reality,'" the report said.
Iran's ballistic missile program began in the late 1970s, just after the U.S.-backed shah was deposed and Iran became a Shiite Muslim theocracy. The CRS report said that the program was in full force by the mid-1980s, when Iran reportedly launched more than 600 missiles in its eight-year war with Iraq.
But Tehran's secrecy about the program, coupled with the fact that most U.S. intelligence on the program is classified, means that experts can make only educated guesses about what Iran's ballistic arsenal looks like today.
"There is little disagreement among most experts that Iran has acquired some number of ballistic missiles from other countries and has developed other ballistic missile indigenously or in cooperation with others," the report stated. "...At the same time, however, there has been considerable public disagreement over precisely what kinds of ballistic missile systems Iran has or is developing."
For example, the report notes, on the issue of short-range ballistic missiles — those that travel 600 miles or less — there's wide disagreement on how many missiles Iran has, what their capabilities are and even what they're called.
Similar disputes also surround Iran's medium-range missile, the Shahab-3, a derivative of a North Korean missile, the No-Dong 1. A medium-range missile travels between 600 and 1,500 miles.
Few experts think that Iran now has long-range or intercontinental ballistic missiles capable of striking most of Europe or the United States, and U.S. analysts disagree over how long it might take Iran to develop such a capability, the CRS reported. "Some argue that an Iranian ICBM test is likely before 2010 and very likely before 2015," the report said. "Other U.S. officials believe, however, that there is 'less than an even chance' for such a test before 2015."
Critics of the U.S. proposal to build a ballistic missile shield in Poland and the Czech Republic describe the project as, in Coyle's words, "a system that doesn't work for a threat that doesn't exist." They say the shield would stop only an "unsophisticated threat," meaning one or two missiles that were launched without decoys.
"Do you think Iran would attack Europe or the United States with just one missile and sit back and see what happens?" Coyle said.
Making matters more confusing, analysts say, are Iranian officials' statements that they've developed missile systems that could strike U.S. facilities in Iraq, Afghanistan and throughout the Gulf region. Military analysts think many of Iran's claims are exaggerated and that much of Tehran's hardware is unreliable and ineffective.
This week, the Iranian defense minister announced the creation of a ballistic missile with a range of 1,200 miles, according to Iranian news reports. No photos of the weapon were made available, however.
"The Iranians overstate their current capabilities, but we all know this is done for internal propaganda more than for telling the people outside," said Wael al Assad, the senior disarmament specialist at the Arab League in Cairo. "But, at the same time, this kind of language they are using is being used in turn by the American administration to overblow the necessity of a preemptive strike on the Iranians. It's extremism feeding extremism."
The Bush administration's fixation on Iran also worries Western officials eager to avoid the embarrassment of another Iraq-style preemptive strike based on incomplete or bogus intelligence, some of it from exile groups with obvious agendas.
Iran is four times larger than Iraq and has three times the population of its war-torn neighbor. It has close relations with armed groups sprinkled throughout the Middle East and enjoys the support of large Shiite communities in Sunni-ruled Gulf states such as Bahrain and Saudi Arabia. Those countries in particular are worried about the fallout from a potential U.S. strike on Iran.
Both Western and Arab officials fear a U.S. strike on Iran — based on little hard intelligence and without broad international support — could plunge the region into chaos and send oil prices, already nearing $100 a barrel, through the roof. Any overt Israeli involvement in such an operation could unleash what one senior Egyptian official called "the Armageddon scenario, when Iran would arm Hamas to the sky and suicide bombings would become hourly events."
"Nobody is going to believe that hogwash about WMDs, not anymore, not after Iraq," the senior Egyptian diplomat continued, speaking on condition of anonymity because he wasn't authorized to discuss Iran publicly. "The U.S. would be alone on this one. Nobody can afford another such dangerous adventure."
IRAN'S POSSIBLE BALLISTIC MISSILE ARSENAL
Short-range missiles (600 miles or less):
- CSS-8, Chinese design, 90-mile range
- Fateh A-110, believed to have been developed in Iran with Chinese, Syrian and North Korean involvement, 120-mile range
- M-11/CSS-7, based on a Chinese model, about 170-mile range
- SCUD-B/Shahab 1, among a number of missiles Iran is believed to have received from Libya or North Korea, 120-190-mile range
- SCUD-C and Shahab-2, developed with help of China and North Korea, 300-420-mile range
- M-9 variant/DF-15/CSS-6, reportedly from China, 480 mile range
Medium-range missiles (between 600 miles and 1,500 miles)
- Shahab-3/Zalzal, based on a North Korean design, 600-900-mile range
- Shahab-3 variants, 900-1,500-mile range
- Fajr-3, radar-evading missile Iran claims it tested successfully last year, though Western defense officials are skeptical, unknown range
Long-range or intercontinental (greater than 1,500 miles):
- Most defense analysts agree it's highly doubtful that Iran has built or acquired longer-range ballistic missiles, though many believe that is Iran's long-term goal.
Source: Congressional Research Service, Defense Intelligence Agency Missile and Space Intelligence Center, CIA report, various government and media reports.
(Jonathan S. Landay contributed to this report from Washington.)
McClatchy Newspapers 2007
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Ajax captain Seim de Jong is open to a move away in the summer.
The midfielder, 24, has been linked with Newcastle United and Aston Villa.
"This summer I'll decide what I'll do," said De Jong to NUsport. "If a club comes in for me, then I'll think seriously about it."
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Disc golf singles tournament
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$50 added to the ace pool/run off.
2 rounds of 18 at Firefighters. Low entry fees and plenty of time to get home for dinner or play some doubles afterwards. less
John Minicuci April 30, 2010 at 9:04pm
Nik, switched your dad's division. Thx for the heads up.
Jeff, what division shall I put you in and can I have the name of the am woman you are bringing?
Nik LEhr April 30, 2010 at 5:42pm
It prlly dosnt matter about what division hes pre-regd ..but my father .. larry lehr #39892 will be playing Advanced Masters...Tnx u Dan ..
Paul DISC-OR-DIE Holstein April 30, 2010 at 8:20am
Paul and Joe Holstein, from the Flint Town Flyers. Either both in Am Masters, or AM3. Will try to arrive early....
Nik LEhr April 30, 2010 at 1:16am
Well ME and my father are commin from flint /davison area ....Hope that we wont get capped out if we dont show up so earley ...
Dan James April 28, 2010 at 8:53pm
No pre-reg per say, but feel free to post up here if you intend to play.
Nik LEhr April 24, 2010 at 2:23am
( Nik Lehr #39893-Am2 ) & ( Larry Lehr #39892-Advanced Masters ) TNx!
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Thanks for the input. I was going on what I had read and the conclusions I made from them. Good to know. Now I'm totally confused. I may pick up a '12 Cartel Re:Flex then. but I also read that some folks had issues with that high back due to the zero lean, which was new a year or so before.
@tygrannas: Let us know what binding you pick up...
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#1- Lay the sweater body tube flat, with the *seam* (the beginning of the round) to one side. Measure the sleeve width at the top of the sleeve, and then measure that length from the top of the sweater body tube and mark with a pin. Repeat on the other side.
#2- Sew along the cutting line with highly contrasting waste yarn, stopping about 2-3 sts from the pin.
#3- Zig-Zag stitch along either side of the waste thread (or reinforce the new steek in your preferred manner)
#4- Zig-Zag across bottom of the cutting line, 2-3 sts above the pin
#5- Cut armhole open between the zig-zag stitching, to within 1 stitch of the end zig-zag stitches
#6- Both armholes cut open
#7- If you know how wide you want your shoulder seams to be, sew them now. Otherwise, just sew a couple of inches in from the armhole opening. (You can figure out your shoulder width when you do the neck shaping).
#8- Fold the new steek edge in 3-4 stitches, and whip stitch in place.
#9- Pin the sleeve in place and sew the sleeve in the armhole
#10- Sleeve sewn in place. Ease the sleeve around the lower opening edge.
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