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Actually, at Point Reyes Station and Point Reyes National Seashore, but that's one of my favorite songs--as sung by the great Judy Garland.
Matty and I went to Point Reyes today -- what an amazing place. Sadly, we were socked in by some very thick fog, but I managed to get some decent pics... and two lifers! (possibly three, but I'll need your verdict on that--see later in the post.)
First, the lifers! I have been hoping to see what I call the Elvis of the bird world for some time, and I was not disappointed; check out the stylin' hairdo on this California Quail:Here he is with his little family (most of them--he has another young one farther ahead of him on the path but he was too blurry to make out, so I cropped him out):I like how he's the only one who's hitting the hair product; Mommy and Baby have far to go to get a bouffant like Daddy's. I had to pull a Mary when I saw Daddy posing on the post; I hit the brakes, whipped the car around, drove back at a creeping pace, and snapped his pic. He then fluttered to the ground and called his family together, and they hot-footed it into the thicket of plants there at the roadside, peeping all the while.
Here's lifer #2, which incidentally also merited a hit-the-brakes-and-turn-around maneuver, a Western Grebe!
This was in Tomales Bay, not the ocean. After (ahem) kinda-sorta stopping traffic while executing a U-turn to get us back on our way after getting the pic, Matty informed me that there would be no more Lifer Quick-stops. Good thing we were on the way home at that point!
I also saw this White-crowned Sparrow way up at the top of the cliffs near the lighthouse:And hey--isn't that an egg to his/her left? And a baby to his/her right?! Let me get more of the picture:Wow! I got a lot more there than I thought! Cool! But do you think that the egg will hatch? I mean, that baby looks pretty far along for him to be from the same clutch as the egg, unless the egg is part of a new clutch. We can hope, right? Still very cool!
Oh, and to clean up some old business regarding lifers: I'd been seeing what I had presumed were female Western Scrub Jays all over the place around here until I found out that the females of that species look much like the males. The birds I was seeing were robin-sized and -shaped, with a buffy-rufous patch on their heads and their undertail coverts. I finally figured out that I was seeing California Thrashers when I noticed that sharp metallic "CHEEK!" I keep hearing everywhere was coming from these same brown and buffy birds. So that was Lifer #210, and the California Quail and Western Grebe take the official ABA count up to 212! Woo hoo! I will try to get a pic of the Cali Thrasher because they're actually kinda pretty, if a little plain. The one I last saw had his head feathers fluffed up almost like a crest; he must've been pissed off at something (but not me; I kept a respectful distance from him!). I have been focusing so much on the markings and the body that I have completely missed the long decurved bill, but I'll check that out next time (I know just where to go on campus to see lots of them) when I get a photo.
So--we drove along Sir Francis Drake Road, along the peninsula that juts out (and has the lighthouse at its tip), and went all the way to the tip. I wish it hadn't been foggy or it would've looked like this:instead of like this:Can you see the waves hitting the beach down there? Maybe a little? Now imagine it's really windy and the fog is thick like Texas drizzle AND you're only wearing shorts and a t-shirt. Now it's really like you were there with us!
In addition to the above postcard, I also got this cool guide to California coastal birds, which is kinda cartoon-y but very handy and helpful. Here's their Western Grebe:and here's another picture of my Western Grebe:See the similarities? : )
Here are a few photos of what it looks like going out to the tip of the coast and up to the lighthouse, complete with young Tule Elks (I think--or else they're very woolly deer) and dairy cows wandering around all over the place:
Do you see the big brown furry Sea Lions in that last pic? Life mammal! Also saw a couple of gray Harbor Seals too, another life mammal!
Now--here's where I'm wondering if I'm seeing plain old Double-crested Cormorants or Brandt's Cormorants:
Brandt's Cormorants would be lifers, but gees--can YOU tell whether they have that head bump or not? I can't. What do you think?
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By the look of Godzilla's suit it looks like it's from the movie Godzilla Raids Again.
Yes. It very well could be Godzilla Raids Again. I don't know my Godzilla suits as well as I would like. I just found this image in a batch of King Kong vs. Godzilla pictures, so I assumed. :)
Yep. That is definitely from "Godzilla Raids Again". My boyfriend and I have the entire Godzilla film collection on DVD, and we both know our Godzilla suits and scenes.
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Man pleads not guilty for charge stemming from woman's injuries
A man who is being charged with felony criminal vehicular homicide or operation for a 2010 incident that left a woman with massive head injuries pleaded not guilty last month.
James Robert Brown, 26, of Red Lake, pleaded not guilty Feb. 21. His next hearing is set for April 3.
According to the criminal complaint:
A Minnesota State Trooper responded to a report of a white Chevrolet Lumina striking a pedestrian on the side of Highway 89 near County Road 32 at around 11:20 p.m. March 5, 2010.
The trooper arrived to find the pedestrian lying face down in the road, with her head several feet from the center line. The complaint states the victim suffered "extreme head injuries and had lost a massive amount of blood on the roadway."
The caller who reported the incident told the trooper she was driving to Red Lake when she saw the Lumina, which was traveling northbound, make a U-turn and head southbound. She then reported seeing the Lumina make another U-turn and proceed northbound when it struck a pedestrian who was standing on the side of the road.
The state trooper was contacted by Red Lake law enforcement, which reported they arrested the driver of the white Lumina. The driver was later identified as Brown.
Court papers also state:
Brown told officials he was with the victim March 5 and they had been consuming shots of alcohol at nearby bar.
Brown said at around 11 p.m. he drove the Lumina to Red Lake with the victim riding as a passenger in the vehicle. He said he believed the victim exited the car at some point prior to entering the Red Lake Reservation so the victim could go to the bathroom.
Brown said he made a U-turn and picked the victim up and the two drove back to the reservation.
The complaint says Brown did not recall striking the victim with the front of his vehicle after he made the U-turn.
Brown consented to a blood test, which was sent to the Bureau of Criminal Apprehension for analysis. Forensic scientists concluded Brown's alcohol concentration was .20 at the time the blood was collected.
The victim was transported to North County Regional Hospital and immediately transferred to North Memorial Medical Center in Robbinsdale, Minn.
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February 1, 2013
FOR IMMEDIATE RELEASE
Renny Fagan, President & CEO
Colorado Nonprofit Association
(303) 813-4201 office
Joanne Kelley, Executive Director
Colorado Association of Funders
Colorado Funders Offer $50,000 Prize for Outstanding Nonprofit Collaboration
February 1, 2013 (Denver, CO) – Applications are currently being accepted for the 2013 Colorado Collaboration Award, a prize offered by members of Colorado’s foundation and business communities to recognize innovation and success in a nonprofit-led partnership.
In addition to recognizing and supporting one outstanding collaboration each year, the award program also seeks to encourage and support collaboration throughout Colorado. “The goal is to foster dialogue around the best practices, challenges, and opportunities of working collaboratively,” said Renny Fagan, president and CEO of Colorado Nonprofit Association. “The Collaboration Award gets people thinking about how they can partner with other organizations and it aims to reward those who do it best.”
“While foundations each have their own approach to giving, they increasingly work together to address the challenges facing our state,” said Joanne Kelley, executive director of the Colorado Association of Funders. “The nonprofit organizations that foundations support are also recognizing the value of working together to strengthen our communities.”
Now in its third year, the prize has previously been awarded to the Northwest Colorado Community Health Partnership, a healthcare network for the uninsured in northwestern Colorado, and to Boulder County IMPACT, a coalition which works to help high-risk youth get back on track without juvenile detention or other out-of-home placement.
The deadline for applications is March 15, 2013. More information is available at www.ColoradoCollaboration.org.
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Prosecuting the powerless is easy.
The real test is when you are asked to investigate the powerful.
Mark A. Sacha
5406 Broadway St.
PO Box 288
United States of America
Mark A. Sacha Esq. | 5406 Broadway St. PO Box 288 | Lancaster NY 14086 USA
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K&N East Heading Back To Clearfield
CLEARFIELD, Pa. – At the midway point of the 2012 season, the championship race in the NASCAR K&N Pro Series East couldn’t get much closer.
The series’ return to CNB Bank Raceway Park could perhaps set the tone for the home stretch in the Samuel 150 Saturday evening.
Chase Elliott will take just a one-point lead to Clearfield on Corey LaJoie after LaJoie earned his second win of the season last time out at Langley Speedway on June 23 in Hampton, Va.
With seven races down and seven to go, it’s the closest that the competition has been since the 2012 season took the green flag in mid-March.
While Elliott and LaJoie – two sons of past NASCAR champions – may have positioned themselves as the frontrunners, they’re far from the only title contenders as the second half of the campaign gets underway in Clearfield.
Kyle Larson sits in third, just eight points back of Elliott, while Brett Moffitt ranks fourth, two tallies behind Larson.
The top four contenders have shown little signs of blinking under pressure through the first half either. All four have at least five top-10 finishes through the first seven races and all four have reached Victory Lane.
This week’s Samuel 150 will provide a new set of challenges for the championship contenders as well as the rest of those in attendance.
CNB Bank Raceway Park is one of three tracks new to the series schedule this year, but the .625-mile oval presents the most unknowns of any race with no previous NASCAR races at the reconfigured facility.
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On-line Web Applications, Application Descriptions, Vendors, Freeware, Organizations, Publications
On-line Web Applications
EXSYS from Multilogic Corporation (Web Runtime Engine) - http://www.multilogic.com/software/exsysproductline.cfm
Numerous working examples of running expert systems over the internet. Includes Permit Spaces Advisor from OSHA, Determining Your PCS Entitlements from the US Air Force and Instructor Duty Advisory Module from the US Navy. A must see.
Graduate Admissions Screening - http://www.aiinc.ca/demos/demos.html
An application form consisting of 29 questions organized into three sections. Provides advice on whether you should attend graduate school. From Acquired Intelligence Software.
Network Circuit Card Diagnosis - http://knowledgebase.3com.com/ - from 3Com Corporation, an entire set of diagnostic expert systems for their products
Whale Watcher - interesting whale identification system. You provide the animal characteristics - it tells you the whale type, eating and migration habits. Also from Acquired Intelligence Software.
Spacecraft Environmental Anomalies Expert System - From a web page at NASA, "SEAES is an advanced rule-based software tool that will complement the operational expert systems now in existence by adding a capability for diagnosing those anomalies that are induced by the interactions of the space environment such as high-energy proton events and geomagnetic storms."
Biography Assistant- http://www.familytreemaker.com/bio/index.html Guides you through the process of writing a paper or book on family members.
Stocks, Taxes, Loans, Derivatives, ETC - http://www.intrepid.com/~robertl/
Series of small but complex applications oriented toward pricing loans, stocks, etc. On a scale of 1 to 10, how much expertise is involved? How much if-then type branching?
Taxcut from Kiplinger http://www.taxcut.com/taxtips/cut_taxes/index.html - has about 30 expert systems built into the software
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From Acquired Intelligence - A wide variety of systems such as Laboratory Advisory, System Radio Inspector's Assistant, Plant Operation and Maintenance, Radio Interference Advisor, The SoyTrader, Child Neuropsychology, Haematological Screening - Prenatal/Presurgery
From Gensym - dozens of examples where their product G2 has been applied at MCI, McDonnell Douglas, Mobil Oil, Irridium , Xerox, DuPont, etc. http://www.gensym.com/customerstories/index.html
From Multilogic - dozens of examples from Accounting to Zoology. Includes section on Military,Government and Space.
From Carnegie Group - some good solid applications including a whole government section. Click on the Government pyramid. You will need to enter the Username govt and the password g0v+D0D! (8 characters long - the 0 is a zero, not a capital letter, it is all case sensitive).
From Neuron Data - examples of expert systems at DISA for C2 systems integration, Army for personnel tracking, Air Force in Avionics, Naval Undersea Warfare for Computer Engineering.
From SRI - the AALPS aircraft loading knowledge base.
From Naval Research Lab
Air Force Rome Labs
From Army AI Center - Army proponent for bringing expert systems & other AI technology to life.
From Knowledge Garden - a small vendor, but an interesting variety of applications.
From Teknowledge - a minimal list.
From Goldhill - some short generic descriptions on where the software has been applied.
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Exsys - Expert System Shell software oriented toward the PC
Knowledge Garden - shell for PC's.
Neuron Data - upscale network and workstation oriented company.
Goldhill - focus on "language" oriented vendor. Originally a major LISP vendor.
CLIPS - http://www.jsc.nasa.gov/~clips/CLIPS.html - available from NASA for doing E.S. development. A powerful tool, but also difficult to learn for the novice. Much closer to a programming language than a tool such as EXSYS.
INFORMS - subgroup in Institute for Operations Research and Management Science specializing in AI.
AI Magazine - Journal of the AAAI, pseudo- technical in nature
Data and Knowledge Engineering - very technical journal published by the IEEE.
The New Review of Applied Expert Systems -
The Journal of Artificial Intelligence Research
SIGART - the ACM Special Interest Group on Artificial Intelligence
Artificial Intelligence Repository - Carnegie Mellon University
AI Expert - ceased publishing in 1997, but good source of examples where AI has been applied.
Last updated by John H. Saunders 21 July 1999
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In this digital camera era and the great quality build in camera phone nowadays, we often snap our precious moments and store them in the harddisk, memory stick or sometimes will print them out and make into albums. Most of the time, these are always left forgettable and might as well being stored under the bed and thicken with dust. I believe this happens to everyone and not just me. Printed photos or albums are being stored in the storage box to keep away from dust. Your art pieces will never get viewed by everyone who visited your house.
Not anymore now because EzyPoster is here. We can actually have the precious art pieces printed out, hang them up on the wall and make them into a great art piece. Most importantly, it’s really affordable! Bear in mind, those special precious moments with the loved ones are meant to be shared, and not to be kept under the bed.
Transform your timeless memories into art pieces
I had an amazing trip to the Northern Thailand, Chiang Mai with the bff kampungboycitygal couple last year. We spent a 4 days trip over there. It was a fantastic one. However, we didn’t get to explore every corner due to some time-wasting on getting down the roads/places and we couldn’t understand their language/direction (as not many can speak fluent English) which made us lost. LOL. Contunue Reading
Legends are shaped over time…
The tale of Hennessy V.S.O.P. began on 7 October 1817, when the future King George IV of England asked the great French cognac House to supply him a very special cognac that described as “Very Superior Old Pale”…
This cognac’s personality has gone unchanged for nearly two centuries. Under the stewardship of Hennessy’s cellar master, the Tasting Committee hands down the secrets of selection, ageing and blending, as can be seen in the use, for maturation, of oak barrels that have lost part of their tannin, so as to avoid giving the eau de vie excessively woody notes while providing an elegant expression. Contunue Reading
I missed out the first party and I am not going to miss the second one. There I was, dressed up, with my hair laid down … and party… !!!
After the long hour working day or during the rainy day, I love taking a sip or two on my favourite single malt whisky from the crystal whisky glass, relaxing my soul along the jazzy music …
“Unnecessarily Well Made” Glenmorangie – the complex single malt whisky; layered with multi layers of flavours that stimulate the senses and tempt the palate.
Thanks to models KC and TF =]
Model: Cute Danbo is available from ShutterZen. Isn’t it adorable?!
Happy Valentine’s Day
Love is like playing piano.
First you learn to play by the rules,
then you must forget the rules and play from your heart.
How chocolate evolved.
Chocolate, as we know it today, first appeared in the form of “bitter water” known as xocoatl during the Mayan civilization as early as the sixth century. The word “chocolate” is derived from this very Mayan word. Cocoa trees are said to have originated in the Amazon some 4000 years ago and the Mayans were the first to cultivate them. The Aztecs, however, believed cocoa plants were brought down from heaven by their god Quetzalcoatl in 1200 A. D.
In the Mayan and Aztec cultures, cocoa was the basic for xocoatl- a thick, unsweetened drink believed to be a health elixir. Spices such as hot chilli pepper and corn meal were used to add flavour to the drink, as sugar was unknown to the Mayans and Aztecs. Aztec emperor, Montezuma, used to drink 50 goblets of thick chocolate everyday for its nourishing and aphrodisiac qualities.
In 1528, Hernando de Oviedo y Valdez inspired the making of chocolate in its current sweet form when he presented Spanish King Charles V with cocoa beans and the necessary tools for its preparation. The Spaniards mixed the beans with sugar, vanilla, nutmeg, cloves, allspice and cinnamon to create tantalizing, fashionable chocolates. These chocolates were reserved for the nobility only.
It was in 1643 that chocolate took on a new role; Spanish Princess Maria Theresa gave her fiancé, Louis XIV of France an engagement gift of chocolate. Ever since, chocolate was the preferred girt for it was a luxury as well as an aphrodisiac.
this article taken from a booklet. however, i forgot where i ‘ve taken from.
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Touchscreen-technology company Synaptics raised its fourth-quarter sales guidance, citing higher-than-expected revenue from mobile products. Shares climbed 13% to $40.51 premarket.
Mistras cut its earnings outlook for the full fiscal year amid weaker-than-expected demand. Shares of the infrastructure-testing company fell 13% to $17.69 in premarket trading.
Ambit Biosciences said based on positive data from the Phase 2 ACE study of quizartinib for patients with relapsed or refractory acute myeloid leukemia, as well as ongoing discussions with the Food and Drug Administration, the company is planning to initiate a Phase 3 clinical trial in early 2014. Shares rose 10% to $7.50 in light premarket trading.
AeroVironment swung to a fiscal fourth-quarter loss as the company reported much lower revenue from drones. However, its per-share loss of four cents beat analysts’ expectations.
Apogee Enterprises fiscal first-quarter earnings surged as the industrial-glass manufacturer continues to benefit from a recovery in the U.S. commercial-construction market.
Apollo Group fiscal third-quarter profit shrank 40% as the for-profit education company faced weaker enrollment and restructuring costs. But shares rose 2.6% after hours to $19.88 as the company boosted its full-year income expectations.
BlueLinx Holdings has begun exploring strategic options for five of its distribution centers that includes possible sales or closures, as part of a restructuring plan that also will involve a realignment of its headquarters resources.
Cinedigm Digital Cinema said it plans to offer shares of its Class A stock. The digital-content distributor didn’t say how many shares it plans to sell. The company had 48.4 million shares outstanding as of June 11.
Pawn-store operator First Cash Financial Services cut its full-year outlook and also offered second-quarter guidance below analyst expectations, pointing to continued negative volatility in the price of gold and the Mexican peso.
Home BancShares and Liberty Bancshares Inc. have agreed to merge in a $280 million cash and stock deal, a move that significantly increases Home BancShares’s deposit-market share in Arkansas.
Las Vegas Sands said Chief Financial Officer Kenneth J. Kay will be stepping down effective July 31, but will continue to aid the company in a six-month transition.
Moody’s Investors Service lifted the ratings outlook for Mattress Firm Holding to positive from stable, on the expectation that the bedding retailer’s operating performance will likely continue to improve despite macroeconomic uncertainty.
Standard & Poor’s Ratings Services lowered its rating on Quicksilver Resources further into junk territory, saying it doesn’t believe the oil-and-gas explorer will be able to remedy its unsustainable leverage.
Parexel International offered revenue guidance for fiscal 2014 that was below analysts’ estimates, while affirming its prior view for the current quarter and current fiscal year.
SandRidge Energy has appointed Eddie LeBlanc as its new chief financial officer, succeeding James Bennett, who was recently named the oil-and-gas producer’s chief executive.
Smith & Wesson Holding fiscal fourth-quarter earnings more than doubled amid continued strong demand that resulted in double digit sales growth and higher margins.
Synnex fiscal second-quarter earnings fell 10% as higher costs and expenses masked increased revenue at the information-technology distributor.
Moody’s Investors Service raised its outlook on United Rentals, as it expects the equipment-rental company’s operating performance to continue to improve.
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Monsoon Covering India in Record Time May Boost Rice, Sugar
Monsoon, which accounts for 70 percent of India’s annual rainfall, covered the entire country in a record time, accelerating plantings of crops from rice to soybeans and cotton.
Rains covered the whole of India yesterday, the earliest ever and ahead of the normal date of July 15, said D.S. Pai, head of the long-range forecasting division at the India Meteorological Department. Monsoon showers have been 48 percent above a 50-year average since they arrived on June 1, the forecaster said on its website.
The early arrival of rainfall has helped ease a drinking water shortage and relieved crops threatened by the worst drought in four decades in India’s western region. A bumper harvest may help Asia’s third-biggest economy curb food prices and revive economic growth from the lowest level in a decade. Agriculture accounts for about a fifth of the economy, while 55 percent of the farm land does not have access to irrigation.
“Early rainfall augurs well for all rainfed crops including soybean, cotton, sugar cane, rice, corn,” P. Chengal Reddy, secretary general of the Consortium of Indian Farmers Association, said by phone from the southern state of Andhra Pradesh. “Early and more than normal rains will recharge the groundwater and help farmers who are dependent on irrigation.”
Rainfall will be 98 percent of the 50-year average of 89 centimeters (35 inches) in the four months through September, the weather bureau said on June 14. It defines normal precipitation as 96 percent to 104 percent of the average received between 1951 and 2000. Showers in July, the wettest month of the season, will be 101 percent of the average and more than the 87 percent last year, it said.
“The spatial and temporal distribution of rainfall over the next three months will be crucial in determining the performance of agriculture,” the bank said.
The sowing of the soybean crop, the main oilseed sown in the monsoon season, has commenced in the central Indian state of Madhya Pradesh with the earlier-than-normal arrival of rains, Rajesh Agrawal, spokesman of the Soybeans Processors Association of India, said by phone from Indore. The state grows more than 50 percent of the nation’s crop.
“The entire planting will be completed in a week’s time, which has probably never happened in the past,” he said. “Normally, the rains arrive by June end and the sowing extends until middle or late July. This is a good beginning and will have good results if we have good follow up rains. The early rains will boost yields.”
More than 235 million farmers in India, the world’s second-largest producer of cotton, rice and sugar cane, depend on rain for irrigating crops. The monsoon reached the southern state of Kerala on June 1, two days ahead of the onset date forecast by the weather body.
“Early signs of a plentiful monsoon also suggest still elevated vegetable prices should pull back, further increasing the central bank’s room for manoeuvre,” Richard Iley, the chief economist for Asia at BNP Paribas SA, said in an e-mailed report. “Rains and the rupee will determine whether RBI will move at its policy review but rates should slowly fall by up to 100 basis points over the next year or so.”
Governor Duvvuri Subbarao kept the repurchase rate at 7.25 percent after a plunge in the rupee to a record low threatened to stoke inflation. The rupee’s fall of about 6 percent versus the dollar this quarter is the steepest in Asia and may fan import costs in a country with the second-highest consumer inflation in the Group of 20 nations. The wholesale-price index increased 4.7 percent in May from a year earlier, a 43-month low. At the same time, a separate consumer inflation gauge climbed 9.31 percent.
Rice has been planted in 794,000 hectares (1.96 million acres) as of June 14 while oilseeds have been sown in 157,000 hectares, the farm ministry said. Sugar cane was planted in 4.21 million hectares and cotton in 1.58 million hectares, it said.
Rainfall in August will be 96 percent of the average, compared with 101 percent last year, the bureau said on June 14. Northwest India, the main wheat, rice and sugar cane region may get 94 percent of average rainfall this year, while the central region, the biggest soybean grower, may see precipitation of as much as 98 percent of the average, the bureau said.
To contact the editor responsible for this story: James Poole at firstname.lastname@example.org
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France host Israel having won all three previous meetings with the visitors having managed just two rubbers in total across the ties. The most recent of these came in 1998 when Cedric Pioline and Guillaume Raoux scored victories over Amir Hadad and Harel Levy to set up victory in Ramat Hasharon.
The French side will begin life under Arnault Clement in 2013 after Guy Forget stepped down after losing to USA in the World Group quarterfinals last year. Forget led the team to one title and they made the Final on a further three occasions and Clement becomes the latest player to turn Captain having won the competition on the court.
Israel return to the World Group after a two year absence. Amir Weintraub was the hero in Japan during the play-offs as he scored upsets against Tatsuma Ito and Go Soeda to lead them to a 3-2 victory.
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Michelle Alexander: Book Signing and Discussion of her new book "The New Jim Crow"
by Geoff Ramsey-Ray on Tuesday, February 16, 2010
Friday, February 26:
Eso Won Bookstore 7PM
Blvd., Los Angeles 90008
Community Rights Campaign
Thursday, February 25:
WLCAC Freedom Hall 4:30
10950 South Central Ave., L.A. 90059
New Way of Life
All of Us or None
“The mass incarceration of poor people of color in the United States is the most pressing racial justice issue of our time—The New Jim Crow.”
Civil rights lawyer, activist, professor, and national news commentator, Michelle Alexander has written a powerful new book arguing that the mass imprisonment of poor black and brown men and women is the most dramatic form of racial injustice in the United States today. She places this mass incarceration within 400 years of racist government policies and discusses what must be done to eliminate it.
See map: Google Maps
Eso Won Bookstore
4331 Degnan BlvdLos Angeles, 90008
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Red Winter – Boardgame Review
Red Winter: The Soviet Attack at Tolvajarvi, Finland, December 8–12, 1939. Boardgame review. Publisher, GMT Games. Designer, Mark Mokszycki. $50.00
Passed Muster: Very well-balanced game, simulates a little-known but interesting campaign, phenomenal level of research
Failed Basic: Heavy on gaming jargon
In late 1939, winter was fast coming to Europe in more ways than one. Spain, Czechoslovakia, and Poland had already been torn apart by war; France would soon fall and Britain chased from the continent in the new year. In the interim, on November 30, Finland suffered a massive invasion by the Soviet Union and fought a David-versus-Goliath battle for four months before signing a treaty of pro-Soviet "neutrality." Red Winter simulates one of the more interesting campaigns of this Winter War, the Finnish counter-attack at Tolvajarvi that began December 8.
The packaging and components are the high standard GMT usually meets. You get a rulesbook, playbook (scenarios and design notes), and a quick-start reference card. Two well-organized player aid cards contains the charts and tables needed (one per player), and the turn record card lists notes on replacements and reinforcements, ammunition depletion, sub-zero losses, etc.; the turn card is a great reference that will serve you well during the game. Four six-sided dice and a set of plastic bags for counter storage are also included. The zip-loc storage bags should be mandatory for all wargame publishers, as should the full-color reproduction of unit countersheets (front and back) included in the back of the rulesbook. Thanks for making storing and replacing counters easier, GMT!
Speaking of counters, there are 160 full-color counters representing the units and various markers such as Digging In, Suppressed, and so on. Red Winter is a company-level game with mostly infantry (including bicycle troops!) supported by mortar and machine gun units; the Soviets have some armor they can commit, while the Finns have engineers and their all-important leader Pajari. Players maneuver these counters across a 22×34-inch map of the frozen lake area of Tolvajarvi and the surrounding terrain, which includes forests, roads, and small villages.
Begin by choosing which scenario you wish to play. Shorter scenarios represent a single day or two of the battle, from the initial Soviet advance and Finnish guerilla-like counterstrokes to the final day of fighting, or you can play the (very) long campaign game and re-enact all five days of the battle. The counters have set-up codes in the upper right corners with either hex numbers, turn numbers for reinforcements, asterisks and colored circles indicating special entry requirements or alternate "what-if" units, blank hexes indicate a unit that stacks with any friendly unit, hex with a number in it … okay, so there are a lot of set-up codes, though most of the units have either hex numbers or turn numbers. Once you set up the game two or three times the different counter codes are second nature, and the scenario instructions and turn record card help as well with set-up.
Game play follows the standard wargame formatting. The first player (usually the Soviets, but in the campaign game the Finns can gain momentum and become the first player) starts with a Reset phase during which artillery is readied and ammo is checked. After that, the first player has a Unit Action phase that provides him several options for each of his units: moving, digging in, or attempting to recover/rally. After that comes the first player’s combat phase. Following this, the second player does his Reset, Unit Actions, and Combat. Check for Victory and, if no one has enough Victory Points, go on to the next turn.
Stacking and movement rules are easy to game. Up to five units (no more than three infantry) of one side can stack in a single hex. Movement is hex to hex, paying the terrain costs of the hex entered. Zones of control extend into all six adjacent hexes no matter the terrain and affect enemy units in a variety of ways, e.g., units must pay an extra movement point to exit an enemy ZOC, units are restricted as to what actions they can take while in an enemy ZOC (may not undergo Recovery or Dig In, Soviet units may not build bonfires in an enemy ZOC, etc.). There is one important rule that is somewhat buried in the rulesbook but vital to the game: Soviet armored units ignore all ZOCs of Finnish units except AT (anti-tank) units.
There are three forms of combat:
• Assault occurs during movement and is basically an attempted overrun of enemy units. Pay two extra movement points and resolve the combat by comparing the attacker’s Close Combat strength to the defender’s Close Combat strength and come up with a ratio, then roll 2d6 on the combat results chart. Losses are expressed as attacker/defender, with the number being step losses suffered.
• During the combat phase regular attacks occur between adjacent enemy units; the process is similar to assaults, but a different combat table is used and different modifiers apply to the combat.
• Ranged attacks can be made against non-adjacent enemy units, rolling 2d6 and adding the unit’s Ranged Attack Strength (along with any other modifiers) and checking the Ranged Table to determine effect (anything under 13 is pointless fire, 14 to 16 defender is suppressed, 17 or 18 is suppression plus one step loss, and a result of 19 or higher inflicts two step losses on the defenders as well as suppressing them). Off-map artillery strikes are handled using the Ranged Attack Table.
Most combat modifiers are in the form of column shifts on the combat results table, so attacking a defender in a frozen lake hex shifts the odds three columns to the right in favor of the attacker (four columns if Finns are attacking). Modifiers to the Ranged Attack Table are in the form of die roll modifiers, which means firing on dug-in defenders is –2 to the 2d6 roll.
The game is well-balanced. The Soviets have an advantage in combat strength and off-map artillery, but they actually lose Victory Points for calling in their armored units. The Finnish troops enjoy much greater mobility and gain certain combat modifiers based on terrain. Little modifiers throughout the game—Finns get +1 to the roll to avoid suffering losses due to the cold at night, Soviet machine guns can be captured and used, and so on—provide the Finnish player small advantages that can be of immense benefit as the battle wears on.
The game provides special rules for night turns, during which the Finns can perform guerilla raids on a Soviet position with up to three full-strength units; the Finnish movement rates on a night raid are tripled; they generally get a beneficial column shift; and they return to their original hex all as one action—night raids can be lethal when executed properly. Both sides must stay in supply, though it’s more difficult for the Soviet forces as their supply line must follow roads, while the Finnish supply lines can wend their way through any terrain. In the campaign game and a few scenarios the Soviets could suffer a Morale Collapse, an irreversible condition triggered when the number of full-strength units falls below twelve. The game is pretty much over once that occurs.
The rulesbook is well-organized (except for the aforementioned easily overlooked rule on Soviet armor ignoring most ZOCs), and the player aid cards are great references during the game, making the game flow well. The Playbook is a virtual "how to design a wargame" handbook loaded with designer’s notes, historical background, and even translations of various Finnish terms and names!
On the downside, the game is heavy on jargon— +1 drm to SZLT, anyone? —which is fine for us grognards, but players unaccustomed to ’70s-style rules might be a little put off. For the components you get, this game suffers from the same problem as most modern wargames: reverse Bob Barker. The Price Is Not Right (especially when for the same price I can get games with 300 plastic miniatures). And a minor peeve—couldn’t GMT find any color photos to use in the rulesbook and playbook?
The Winter War invasion of Finland has been gamed before but usually as a strategic simulation. Red Winter is a well-designed look at one of the key campaigns of the Second World War, the beating back of the Soviets by an ably led and coordinated Finnish force using their knowledge of the terrain to best advantage. I had never heard of this series of battles before and found it to be a refreshing change of pace from the usual tank-charge tactics of other Second World War simulations. Another solid entry for GMT games and a recommended gaming experience for vets looking to try out some different tactics.
Armchair General Rating: 83%
Solitaire Suitability (1 low, 5 high): 4 out of 5 (nothing hidden, and the game is well-balanced so both sides have a fighting chance)
About the Author
Sean Stevenson started wargaming with SPI and has spent the past 35 years as a freelance game designer and playtester. When not playing any of the 1000+ games in his personal collection, he can be found reading a book on Colonial America.
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I arrived at this park late in the day and my only friend was a Rock Wallabie who wanted to steal my food. The next day I proceeded down the steep track to the actual gorge, this is a great place to visit so much to see from rock pools to Persistent plants trying to grow in the rocks that surrounded the river bead. This small plant caught my eye and I though of just what a hard life it had and will have. Growing in rock was hard enough but growing in a rock wall which every year would be washed clean by the annual floods was a pretty hard gig for a little plant. That is why I titled this photograph “Persistence”.
The one thing I love about travel is you can plan a trip in outline form but never really know exactly where you will end up. Porcupine Gorge is just one of those places the morning of me arriving in Porcupine Gorge I had no idea where I would end up. It was only at about 3pm did I have a rough idea where I would be camping that night. As I cooked dinner at my campsite I was greeted by a very tenacious rock wallaby who wanted food (something you should never do is feed wildlife). The next day I discovered Persistence.
Porcupine Gorge National Park is in North West Queensland, approximately, 1,200 km northwest of Brisbane.
Lloyd Howlett’s Australian landscape limited edition photographs are printed on archival quality canvas (designed to last well in to the next century and beyond) individually numbered and signed. Making each print completely individual.
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This was fantastically helpful advice! We just realized that trick-or-treaters were likely to wipe out on the algae-ridden landing of our front steps. After reading your instructable I grabbed a scrub brush and a bottle of hydrogen peroxide, and five minutes later, our landing is safe for ghouls, witches and any other variety of Halloween visitor! Thank you!
How To Make A Tiny Owl!
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Publication Acceptance Date: 3/9/2006
Publication Date: 3/18/2006
Citation: Yang, L., Lin, H., Fritschi, F.B., Walker, A. 2006. Profiling proteomic expression of grapes in response to Pierce's disease [Abstract] AgBiotech 2006 Conference, The Central California Agricultural Biotechnology Symposium. p.39. Interpretive Summary:
Technical Abstract: We developed a comparative proteomic analysis approach to characterize differentially expressed protein profiles from grapevines infected with the bacterial causal agent of PD, Xylella fastidiosa. Highly susceptible (9621-94) and highly resistant (9621-67) genotypes, sibling plants from a segregating Vitis rupestris x V. arizonica population were used for protein expression analysis. Proteins were isolated from stem, leaf and xylem sap of control and X. fastidiosa-infected grapes post-inoculation after 1, 6 and 10 weeks. Proteins were separated by a 2D-PAGE system and gels were stained with SYPRO Ruby. Spots representing differential expression were identified with PDQuest software and excised with the ProteomeWorks Spot Cutter (BioRad). Proteins were then digested with trypsin and analyzed with an oMALDI-TOF-MS/MS Mass Spectrometry. Results of expression patterns from resistant and susceptible plants in response to X. fastidiosa infection will be presented. The expression profiles derived from the xylem sap, stem and leaf tissues at various stages of disease development will provide details of the molecular events involved in the mechanisms of pathogenesis and PD resistance. Changes in gene expression at the transcriptional level do not always correspond to changes in protein expression and function due to post-transcriptional and post-translational modification. To better identify and clarify genes and metabolic pathways that are involved in PD resistance and susceptibility, we will compare the results of this project with a companion microarray gene expression project.
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ABHMS executive director, government personnel to participate in panel at ministers’ conference
VALLEY FORGE, PA (ABNS 6/3/16)—American Baptist Home Mission Societies (ABHMS) Executive Director Dr. Jeffrey Haggray will participate in a panel discussion featuring a number of U.S. government personnel from the Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships on Wednesday at the 102nd Hampton (Va.) University Ministers’ Conference and 7th Annual Church Development and Leadership Academy.
Haggray will join five other panelists in discussing “Relevant Relationships and Resources for Ministry” from 4 to 5:30 p.m. Presiding over the panel will be the Rev. Brenda Girton-Mitchell, director of the Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships, U.S. Department of Education. Greetings will be brought by Melissa Rogers, special assistant to the president and executive director, White House Office of Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships.
Preceding that discussion, from 2 to 3:30 p.m., a “Moving Forward as Partners in Faith” panel will include Acacia Salatti, director of the Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships, Department of Health and Human Services, and Eddie Martin, director of the Center for Faith-based and Neighborhood Partnerships, Department of Justice.
Both discussions will take place in the Scripps Howard School of Journalism and Communications Auditorium at Hampton University, 100 E. Queen St., Hampton, Va.
American Baptist Home Mission Societies ministers as the caring heart and serving hands of Jesus Christ across the United States and Puerto Rico through a multitude of initiatives that focus on leadership, discipleship and healing communities.
American Baptist Churches is one of the most diverse Christian denominations today, with over 5,200 local congregations comprised of 1.3 million members, across the United States and Puerto Rico, all engaged in God’s mission around the world.
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I have been a fan of Ladies and Gentlemen Studio since I discovered their Perimeter tray some time ago. Their devotion to clean lines and simple modern geometric shapes make their work strikingly simple, yet still fresh and modern at the same time. Their new lighting series, Shape Up quite literally uses fundamental geometric shapes in a way that is fresh and playful. A great reminder too on how many endless possibilities can be deduced from the most basic geometric shapes. Here are just a few of the beautiful pieces in their collection.
The Shape Up lighting series
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General Motors CEO Mary Barra continued to make changes Tuesday, which she said would help lead the embattled company out of a crisis caused by deadly defects in some of its vehicles.
Barra announced that she's creating another group within the company that will monitor new products for safety issues.
On the eve of the New York Auto Show, Barra announced that she's creating another group within the company, the "global product integrity organization," that will monitor new products for safety issues. Mark Reuss, the company's vice president of global product development, will head the new group.
"This is a group that, may parts of it, will be dedicated to reviewing products going through the pipeline now, and in the future," said Barra who was making her first public appearance since testifying before Congress two weeks ago.
The group will work in tandem with Jeff Boyer, who was appointed last month to the newly created position of vice president of global vehicle safety. Barra touted several internal initiatives she's made at General Motors in the wake of the widening recall crisis – which has affected more than 2.5 million cars and caused at least 31 car accidents – including Boyer's appointment.
But much like she did in her testimony before two Congressional committees, Barra wouldn't answer questions on whether the company would create a fund to compensate victims. Nor would she answer whether GM would support new laws that required automakers to report more information to federal regulators, saying she needed to wait for an internal investigation to be completed.
One day earlier, Barra ousted two high-ranking executives from their positions, including Selim Bingol, the former senior vice president of communication. The moderator at an automotive forum, hosted by the National Auto Dealers Association and J.D. Power, poked at Barra's initial explanation of the move: "There's a PR crisis, you replace the PR chief. But that has nothing to do with the crisis. Really?"
"He's moving on to pursue other interests," she said, "but beyond that, that's an issue between employee and company."
Barra ousted two high-ranking executives from their positions, including Selim Bingol.
Among other updates provided Tuesday, Barra said the company's work with Kenneth Feinberg, a lawyer renowned for working as a mediator between victims and companies, remains on track for some sort of conclusion by the end of May.
On suspending two engineers last week whose work was with the heart of the ignition-switch defect, Barra said, "Let me be really clear, these are real people with real careers, and I'm personally dedicated to making sure we have true facts of what happened ... We agonized over that decision, but we thought that was the right thing for the individuals and right thing for the company at this time."
Four days after an email released by the House Energy & Commerce Committee showed that a chief investigator at the National Highway Traffic Safety Administration had described GM as "slow to act" on at least six safety-related issues between 2011 and 2013, Barra said the company had improved its efforts to comply with regulators.
"I'm getting very good feedback on receptiveness with what they're seeing now," Barra said. "Jeff Boyer is having regular sessions with NHTSA, and they've made some suggestions on how we can improve, and we'll implement them immediately."
The company did not answer all questions posed by NHTSA investigators by an April 3 deadline.
Yet General Motors still has not complied with a special order issued by NHTSA. The company did not answer all questions posed by investigators by an April 3 deadline, and continues to accrue a $7,000 per day fine.
NHTSA is one of several federal entities conducting an investigation of the company, which knew of problems with the flawed parts as early as 2001 but did not announce a recall until this February. A House Oversight and Investigations subcommittee, and the Senate Commerce Committee held hearings in early April, and the Department of Justice has indicated it will probe potential criminal wrongdoing.
On Tuesday, Barra said she had no knowledge of whether the DOJ had requested documents from the automaker, nor knowledge of whether any had been turned over.
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Today Intellectual Ventures (IV) filed a patent infringement complaint against AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile in the U.S. District Court of Delaware.
The privately held patent holding company co-founded by a former Microsoft Corp executive, accused AT&T, Sprint Nextel (S.N) and T-Mobile USA of fifteen counts of infringements of patents related to their wireless network services.
IV said that the operators had infringed on its patents either alone or in conjunction with each other through their interoperability agreements including those involving swapping of multi-media messages between their customers.
"The wireless communications networks of AT&T, Sprint and T-Mobile use a variety of important technologies covered by Intellectual Ventures' patents. We previously attempted to discuss licensing options with each of these companies, but none were responsive. We filed a complaint for infringement today in the U.S. District Court of Delaware to get these three companies on a course toward compensating IV for the value of the inventions they use in delivering their wireless services," said IV?s chief litigation counsel Melissa Finocchio.
In October, Intellectual Ventures also sued Motorola Mobility over several patents."
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Favour is deceitful, and beauty is vain: but a woman that feareth the Lord, she shall be praised. Proverbs 31:30.
In the character of Abigail, the wife of Nabal, we have an illustration of womanhood after the order of Christ; while her husband illustrates what a man may become who yields himself to the control of Satan.
When David was a fugitive from the face of Saul, he had camped near the possessions of Nabal, and had protected the flocks and the shepherds of this man…. In a time of need, David sent messengers to Nabal with a courteous message, asking for food for himself and his men, and Nabal answered with insolence, returning evil for good, and refusing to share his abundance with his neighbors. No message could have been more respectful than that which David sent to this man, but Nabal accused David and his men falsely in order to justify himself in his selfishness, and represented David and his followers as runaway slaves. When the messenger returned with this insolent taunt, David’s indignation was aroused, and he determined to have speedy revenge. One of the young men in the employ of Nabal, fearing that evil results would follow Nabal’s insolence, came and stated the case to Nabal’s wife, knowing that she had a different spirit from her husband, and was a woman of great discretion….
Abigail saw that something must be done to avert the result of Nabal’s fault, and that she must take the responsibility of acting immediately without the counsel of her husband. She knew that it would be useless to speak to him, for he would only receive her proposition with abuse and contempt. He would remind her that he was the lord of his household, that she was his wife, and therefore in subjection to him, and must do as he should dictate….
Without his consent, she gathered together such stores as she thought best to conciliate the wrath of David; for she knew he was determined to avenge himself for the insult he had received …. Abigail’s course in this matter was one that God approved, and the circumstance revealed in her a noble spirit and character.
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—–We need your prayers and this was the fastest way we could think of to get the word out. At her well child appointment Friday Addy’s doctor was concerned when he saw her because of her recent unsteadiness. He immediately started making phone calls and got us into _____ children’s hospital in _____ Friday night. She had an MRI Saturday morning and the neurologist has come to see us a few times now. There’s no way to say this or to lessen the impact so I’ll just get it out. There is a mass near her brain stem. We don’t know if it’s actually in the stem or not, but there aren’t any more masses in the spine which is good. The neurology team here will be meeting tomorrow to make a game plan for getting a biopsy. Once we get the biopsy (possibly on Tuesday) we will hopefully be able to make a plan for treatment. Please keep us all in your prayers, but especially Addy. Matt
One year when the children were little, we spent the summer camping in a small, private campground. We had done this because we had hoped to save enough money to have a large down payment for buying a mobile home. Unfortunately, even though we did save the money, we could not find a good place to put a trailer, so gave up on the idea. We had a happy summer none-the-less and many memories were made through that experience.
The owner of the campground where we stayed babysat her grandson while his parents worked. Lindon was about Ronnie Jay’s age , and as soon as we arrived, the two boys became instant friends. The campground had woods surrounding it. A path through the woods took us down the hill to the river. Ronnie Jay always wanted to go to the river, but I would not allow him to unless I was along. The river flowed fast and there were poisonous snakes. He was forbidden to leave the campground or to go into those woods.
One day, the boys found part of a map that had been dropped by some utility workers a few days before. Ron, playing with them a little, told them it was a pirate’s treasure map. He went to work and thought no more about it. Those little boys’ minds, however, thought a lot about it. Ronnie Jay and Lindon talked about their find for hours. “Pirates! Wow! Their treasure must be down by the river!” I knew nothing of the topic of their conversation. I only knew that the two boys were playing quietly. This was a rare occasion as normally what one boy didn’t think of the other one did.
As I was doing the little duties that must be done around the campsite, I suddenly realized that I had not heard or seen the boys in quite awhile. I walked toward the owner’s house to see if they were there and met her on the path. She was looking for Lindon. We were really worried when we realized that neither of us had heard from our boys for a very long time. We called and called, but there was no answer. Finally, a very tall man, who was camping there overnight, noticed our frantic searching and asked if we happened to be looking for two little boys. In unison, we said, “Yes!” Pointing, he said, “I see two heads bobbing along through the tall grass in that field over there.”
We were relieved and with that relief came anger for their having disobeyed our instructions. We were waiting for them at the end of the path that led to Lindon’s house, which was about 1/4 mile away. Lindon was forbidden to go there while his parents were at work. There were too many things a little boy could get into while unsupervised. The parents had two huge dogs that had no sense of loyalty toward them or their son. The two boys had disobeyed and they were in big trouble with us.
When they saw us standing there, their happy laughter turned to solemn looks. They knew that they had disobeyed. Upon questioning them, we discovered the reason for their disobedience. Lindon’s father had a large sword hanging over the fireplace. He had it there for decoration, but it was real and it was sharp. He had cautioned his son never to touch it. Lindon had decided that they would need that sword to fight the pirates who would be guarding their treasure! Thankfully they were too short, even when standing upon a chair, to reach it.
How careful we must be when we tell children anything. They have perfect trust, perfect confidence in us. They are not filled with doubts. They believe everything that we tell them. Jesus used a little child to illustrate what our belief and trust in Him must be. “And Jesus called a little child unto him, and set him in the midst of them, Verily I say unto you, Except ye be converted, and become as little children, ye shall not enter into the kingdom of heaven. Whosoever therefore shall humble himself as this little child, the same is greatest in the kingdom of heaven.” ” Whosoever shall not receive the kingdom of God as a little child, he shall not enter therein.” Matt18:2-4, Mark 10:15
May we come to our loving Heavenly Father with all of the faith, all of the trust, all of the confidence of an unspoiled child. May we believe His Holy Word. May we place our hand in His strong and mighty Hand and allow Him to lead us wherever He deems best is my prayer.
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Yee-hah! Mom brought Mimi back from the hospital today! She's doing fine, bouncing around and wagging like crazy. I, on the other hand, have been a wreck. Although I got to sleep in the Big Bed last night, I was very stressed out today, alone in the cage. I was so upset when Mom and Dad went to work that I tried pulling the blanket on top of the cage through the cage itself. Plus, I must've barked and cried all day - so much that I'm hoarse and wheezey. Anyway, I'm just glad my sister's back and OK (but don't tell her that). Mom & Dad were saying something about Mimi getting Keno, but I don't know - she's not really into gambling. In any event, I'm glad things are getting back to normal here. I'll keep you posted.
Good night, and good treats!
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Learn how to quickly and efficiently download the Snap Conference 2017 schedule mobile download to your phone.
Have you checked out this year’s Conference Schedule? I know! The classes are great. We’re particularly excited to be adding some great hands on classes from our friends at Adobe to the business track this year. If you don’t already own the Adobe suite of products and would like to take the classes, be sure to download the FREE TRIAL version of Photoshop Elements and Premiere Elements. Those who complete related classes will receive a download code for the full program to use following the conference.
While the business classes are top notch, we’re also continuing our tradition of a few creative hands-on classes each hour. I love these classes. Some of the best relationships have been built between brands and attendees in our smaller sessions. Plus, the giveaways!!!This year Darice, Ryobi and Wilton will all sponsor classes, as well as Nancy’s Notions who will be hosting our sewing room. Additional workshops and small group interaction will take place in sponsor suites.
Snap Conference 2017 Schedule Mobile Download Instructions
In an effort to keep everyone up-to-date we will once again be offering an online schedule. The Snap Conference schedule is available online and for download on your phone.
With the mobile version, you can stay organized with up-to-the-minute exhibitor, speaker and event information. It will allow you to:
- Review the conference schedule
- View individual sessions and session descriptions
- View speaker information and bios
- Search by event type (i.e. meals, sponsor hours, or classes) and speaker
Downloading the mobile edition of the Snap Conference schedule is easy.
Step one. Open the Snap Conference 2017 schedule in the web browser on your phone and select the “mobile” version.
A pop up box will hit your page and show you where to click to add the “app” to your phone.
Add to your phone’s “home page.”
Step three. Locate the “app” on your phone and launch for use.
This is what the mobile screen will look like…
Click in the upper left to login to set up your personal schedule and search for specifics.
Review class descriptions and speaker bios…
And add them to your personal schedule…
Even if you end up attending other classes, it’s helpful to set a schedule when you have a moment to pause and think about things…
This app is so easy to use!
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The Texas Historical Shootist’s Society held their annual “gathering” at the Brune Ranch, right next to the campground. So. . . we went with friends, Ed & Debi, to check it out. They were dressed in period costumes and were shooting black powder guns from the mid to late 1800’s. Here are some pics:
They had a line you couldn’t pass unless you had protective eyeware and ear plugs. When we first got there, walking near the line, Debi and I both felt something hit us – little pieces of shrapnel??? Anyway, we decided we didn’t need to get that close! All in all, a fun way to spend a couple of hours.
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To produce organic crops using biodynamic and organic farming methods and to accelerate the transition to a locally based economic model of agriculture and food distribution.
Cloughjordan Community Farm is a member-owned farm on the Tipperary Offaly border using biodynamic and organic farming methods, we aim to produce the highest quality, nutritionally dense vegetables. Since we started in 2008, we’ve been supplying fresh produce daily to over 70 households in the area. The money gathered from members is used to pay our farmers a salary, to purchase seeds and equipment and to lease the land we farm. Everything that comes off the land then belongs to the members. Members also have free or low cost access to all of our training and educational events. Cloughjordan Community Farm have been awarded a Leader Grant from NTLP to develop and improve access to a site to be used for outdoor education and learning festivals with basic facilities for camping. The grant also allows the Community Farm to construct a number of temporary elements to enhance our capacity to host such events including covered seating, mobile solar collectors and LED lighting as well as recycling and composting facilities. We receive support from:
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It occurs to me that, from time to time, police officers make mistakes.
It also occurs to me that we live in a world that is increasingly unforgiving of them when they do.
There are, of course, any number of reasons why police officers might get it wrong:
(1) Because they are human
Though my wife comes close, I’ve yet to encounter an entirely perfect human being.
I’ve certainly never met a perfect police officer.
But I have known officers who make mistakes. I look at one in the mirror every morning before I go to work.
They make mistakes because they are tired; because they are stretched; because they are under pressure; because they aren’t in possession of all the facts; because their instincts have let them down on this occasion; because hindsight is a wonderful thing.
Because they are human.
(2) Because they operate in the hurting places
As I have observed before, police officers go where most wouldn’t and do what most couldn’t. It is a big part of what makes them so extraordinary.
And the places where they so often find themselves are characterised by hatred and harm, by trouble and trauma, by violence and sorrow and grief. In those places, they are compelled to make life and death decisions, within fractions of seconds, without anything approaching a full understanding of the circumstances they’re confronted with.
They face incredible personal risks in doing so.
Sometimes they make the wrong call.
(3) Because everything can’t be a priority
These days, there is more police work to be done than there are police officers to do it. And the job is becoming more complex and more demanding all the time.
But everything can’t be a priority.
While we concentrate our efforts and attention on protecting the most vulnerable and pursuing the most dangerous, it is just possible that other, less important things, will have to wait.
But someone, somewhere will always believe we’ve got it wrong – that there are other things that ought to have been higher up our list. Sometimes, they will be right.
(4) Because policing doesn’t happen in isolation
The police service will always be the agency of first and last resort. I wouldn’t have it any other way.
But we are just one part of an endlessly complex statutory (and non-statutory) jigsaw. The young man we arrested this morning is the same one that Social Services are concerned about. He already has a Drugs Worker and needs to see his CAMHS counsellor in between appointments at the Youth Offending Service.
Cuts to the services provided by a number of those partner agencies have widened the gaps that he can fall through.
And, between us, we don’t always get it as right as we should.
(5) Because of organisational failings
Sometimes, police officers make a mistake as a consequence of failings on the part of the wider service.
Perhaps we haven’t provided them with the right leadership and direction.
Perhaps we have focused so much on hitting targets that we have failed to appreciate the importance of things that can’t necessarily be measured.
Perhaps we have provided kit or training that isn’t up to scratch. Or we haven’t provided it at all.
Perhaps it’s us who have let them down.
Sometimes police officers make mistakes.
When we do, we need to say sorry.
We also need to acknowledge that the consequences of those mistakes – for victims, for witnesses, for suspects, for wider society – can be disproportionately damaging. That is perhaps an inevitable consequence of the place that policing occupies in the world.
But the way in which the rest of us respond to the making of those mistakes is critical – not least in determining whether we stand any chance getting it right next time.
And I’m just not comfortable with the way things are at the moment.
We live in times when the ferocious combination of media hostility, political demand, one-eyed external scrutiny and the baying of social media hounds leaves little room for consideration, balance or perspective.
In the headlong rush to apportion blame, how can any of us be expected to learn from the things we get wrong?
Because mistakes and misconduct are not the same thing. Not remotely the same.
Misconduct is the preserve of:
And police officers who display any of those characteristics have nothing in common with the vast majority of good coppers I’ve worked alongside for the best part of 25 years.
The lazy and the unprofessional need to get their act together. If they can’t or won’t, they need to go. This job matters far too much to be done by people who don’t care.
When it comes to the corrupt and the criminal, the message is clear: They have no place among us.
Actually, they belong in jail.
At the same time, every good Copper (and there are thousands of them) needs our support as never before. And they deserve far better than to be hung out to dry for doing their jobs. When they make an honest mistake – having acted honourably and with the best of intentions – they should be supported by us and allowed to learn from the experience, without being damned in the court of ill-informed opinion.
They do a job that is beyond the experience and understanding of most of us. They do it with courage and decency and patience and good humour.
And, as they venture into the hurting places, they need to know that we have their backs.
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I never blog on here anymore. Life is very busy and let's face it, I just really liked JS. Oh well. I must move on! lol The owner of the house that we're in has decided to sell because it's in foreclosure. They called and said that I could probably stay maybe 2-3 months and I instantly went into panic mode. All I could see, was me and the kids back at the shelter. I freaked out. I cried, and then I went into survival mode. The very next day, I found a nice, newer house for the kids and I. The new owner is more hands on and seems like a more honorable man to tell you the truth. My current landlord is already giving me a hard time about my deposit. It's okay. I will find the records. I let myself stay in fear for a little while before my sponsor brought me back to reality and made me realize that it's God's will and not mine. Everything falls into place just like it should when I stop fighting and being a control freak.
In other news...Lauren will be a junior this year and Phoenix is starting kindergarten. Orion just started pre-school. It's amazing just how fast they grow. Neither Lauren's father or the boy's father has shown any interest in knowing their children. It's really too bad. They don't know what they are missing. Lauren actually called her dad's house yesterday and her great-grandmother answered and hung up on her! I was furious, but in the end...she's probably better off. She doesn't need people in her life that aren't healthy. I just made sure that she was ok and understood that it wasn't anything that she was lacking. She's a great kid. Beautiful, smart, everyting you could ask for in a daughter. The boys are growing up to be awesome as well.
Once again, I'm going to leave it up to God's will. I'm just so grateful to have the privelage of having these wonderful children.
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The Truth? You Can’t Handle the Truth!
“Hey! Look! What is that? “A worker on the drilling rig exclaims. “Geez, it moves like a bat out of hell!” Shouts another. “It’s coming this way! Whoa!” He calls out when it seems that the craft is about to collide with the rig. The lander sets down just short of the tower on the drilling rig. “Get Matt Woodford to the helipad!” Bellows a voice on a speaker. When nothing happens a plume of water shoots hundreds of meters into the air next to the tower. “If you do not move quickly we will remove the legs from under this rig and you will be swimming with the sharks! Get a move on!” The voice barks again. There is a scramble, and a surprised Matt Woodford is hurriedly accompanied to the helicopter landing site. The lander moves right up to them and the hatch opens. “Get on board, Matt! This is your dad!”
A stunned Matt Woodford scurries into the craft and the hatch closes. Brato shows him to a vacant seat and moments later the vessel takes off at a staggering speed. It’s all over before anyone on the rig realizes what had just happened.
Back on the ship everything is explained to Matt. He is not sure if he’s having a psychological breakdown or just a dream, but gradually his panic subsides and he realizes what his father is telling him is true.
Eddie’s getting impatient: “Now it is your turn, General. We now want the names of everyone you know of that are involved, and especially who their controllers are. Do not leave anyone out. Every detail is important.”
General Woodford is starting to enjoy the game: “I have longed for an opportunity to get back at those scumbags. It will be my pleasure to rat out each and every one of them.”
For more than two hours General Woodford tells everything he knows about the criminals who control his life and how they forced him to act against his better judgment. The interview is also video taped and Woodford is now fully part of the team. After having recovered from his ordeal, Matt Woodford joins them again and his father explains to him what has happened and the danger he himself unwittingly found himself in.
Eddie warns: “We will probably need you to testify before the UN, General.”
General Woodford gets a determined look on his face: “Whichever way it goes, my military career is probably over anyhow. I will testify.”
“Count me in.” Matt said.
But General Woodford is concerned: “The UN building is situated in New York City. The UN is an organization itself created by the establishment, and its senior staff, including the Secretary General, are probably all on their payroll or forced to dance to their tune. They will probably try to eliminate any witnesses before the meeting. “
“We are aware of all that.” Said Eddie, “We’re not going to actually meet in New York.”
On the US Defense System’s radar screen a group of very dim and fast moving images appear. This causes an alarmed stir in the control center.
“Get hold of the President immediately!” Commands the General in charge. When the red phone in the White House rings, the President picks up immediately: “Yes, what is it?”
“Mr. President, a number of fast flying objects are approaching us from space, what are your orders?”
The President sounds tired. He has seen the writing on the wall: “I was expecting something like this. So far there hasn’t been any loss of life and I don’t think they’re going to hurt anyone. We don’t need another demonstration. Leave them alone. Let’s see what they want first before we all start acting like idiots.”
“They are approaching New York City, sir.”
One of the craft lands at the back of the UN building near the East River as the other craft form a circle in the air providing cover. A loudspeaker bellows: “The presence of the Secretary General is required on the helipad… Immediately!”
In the buildings around many faces appear in the windows, a few cameras start flashing and in the streets people curiously start to congregate. The vessel rises to the roof to await the Secretary General. In the Council of Foreign Relations Headquarters opposite the UN building chaos reigns. The President is immediately called: “What are you doing about this invasion?!”
The President has already decided: “Nothing. You and I have relinquished control over world affairs!”
“You have to stop this immediately!”
“We have no effective deterrent and there is no way I am going to risk any more lives for your benefit!”
“That will be the end of your career, your reputation and your life you foolish old Goyim!”
“So be it. I have seen this coming and made my peace with it.” Replies the President as he gently hangs up the phone. A smile flickers across his face… who could’ve known that today would be the end of his Presidential mockery. He was never in control and feared for his life and the lives of his family every single day. Not from some mad man roaming the streets, but from his Kehillah puppet masters. They show no mercy and the relief he felt was making him lightheaded. The oligarchs within the Kehillah have met their match at last.
An uncertain Secretary General appears on the helipad area on the UN building. The lander approaches and the hatch opens.
“We will not keep you for long, sir. Please come aboard immediately.”
The Secretary General comes closer and hesitantly gets on board. The hatch closes behind him with a hiss and a clang.
He recognizes General Woodford immediately and hurries over to him: “General Woodford…?” he utters hoarsely.
“Don’t worry; nothing’s going to happen to you. Please sit down. We need to meet with the Heads of State of all UN member countries. You must contact them and provide us with a list of locations where we can pick them and their translators up, three days from now around noon. We will transport them to a safe place where we can meet. Anyone who does not comply will suffer dire consequences. Contact us at this email address.”
General Woodford hands him a note with the address. “Go now, and tell them not to try anything foolish. They are to come unarmed. This is not a game and we want to ensure everyone returns unscathed.”
Woodford takes him by the arm and escorts him to the hatch.
Without uttering a word, the Secretary General gets off the lander, the hatch closes, and together the vessels take off, straight up into the sky. The news spreads like a wildfire. Nobody in a position of authority at this time is unaware of the newcomers’ display of power and within a day the list of attending members is completed.
An insider meeting of authoritative members is hastily called and assembled. Oil tycoon Dave Roth, accompanied by his brother Chuck, has the floor: “We have to act quickly or we will lose control. We have lost the President already. We must find a way to neutralize these invaders.”
Jane Heller of the Federal Reserve Bank suggests: “We will have to think long term Dave, as always. The military has effectively been neutralized, so immediate violence is out of the question. We need to get hold of their technology before we can be on an equal footing and that dictates infiltration.”
Roth agrees: “You are right, Jane, but we must act quickly. We must use subtle disinformation in the media to generate distrust, get the public suspicious of any agreement they might conclude and also generate sympathy for ourselves and the world.”
Joseph Greenberg is concerned: “We will not be safe once everything is revealed, Dave. We have to circumvent any action that might be taken against us and put our plans into action at the same time. We will have to introduce those of our sons who are not yet implicated and can not be prosecuted. I am fairly certain all of us will. We must transfer as much money as possible to their accounts and disguise the transfers while we still have control of the banks and computers involved.”
Roth and others agree wholeheartedly with this. In the next few days large amounts of money find new homes. Special instructions and advice was also given to their children.
On the third day, as arranged, landers appear at all the places indicated, and the world’s heads of state are all, to their surprise and sometimes dismay, taken straight to the ship’s meeting room where all sit down meekly with their interpreters.
Eddie, standing on the central stage welcomes everyone and starts talking in a jovial tone: “I get to speak first since I was the first rookie astronaut from Earth to visit, long before you.” Here and there a nervous laugh can be heard: “First of all, we want to ensure that everyone is properly informed before we proceed to the next stage. We are going to show you some information from the ship’s archives dating back many millennia, in case you missed Don Hoffman’s broadcast. Since the soundtrack is in its original language, we will fill in where necessary. The video material should speak for itself, however.”
For the next few hours the foreign audience sits quietly, spellbound by the story that unfolds before them. When it ends a lively discussion erupts. Eddie gives them some time alone and after an hour calls them to order: “Gentlemen, I want to introduce you to General Woodford. He is the previous military Chief of Staff of the USA. We apprehended him in self defense some time ago because he planned an aggressive act against this ship and its crew.”
General Woodford takes place next to Eddie and clears his throat. His weightlessness does not make him any more comfortable: “Gentlemen, I have come to the conclusion that my assessment of these people and their intentions had been totally wrong, as you probably realize at this time. I bear no grudge towards them for my some what disturbing reception. I’m sure I’ve earned it.” A few gloating smiles can be seen in the audience. “I have an embarrassing confession to make in this regard, something I’m not proud of. When I was a young officer, I was tempted to commit what I thought was a somewhat unimportant indiscretion. I found out later that it was orchestrated by criminals in the financial and oil connected establishments. This was used to force me to commit even more indiscretions with some reward for my career afterwards. I convinced myself that my actions must have been for the good of my country since these are men with immense power at their disposal who are associated with most of the more powerful politicians behind the scenes. Eventually however, I discovered that their actions were completely criminal and aimed towards gaining even more wealth and power for themselves… a kind of game played in total disregard for human life. I protested against some of the schemes I was told to support, but by that time I was completely entangled through my previous transgressions, evidence of which they held to black mail me to comply with their wishes. After the death of my wife, my career became less important to me and I became more inclined to oppose their instructions. In the mean time however, one of their oil companies had offered my son a lucrative salary which he found impossible to refuse. He was then sent to supervise one of their deep-sea drilling operations, and once he arrived there, I was told that if I did not dance to their tune, he would have an unfortunate ‘accident’.” He turned to Eddie. “Thanks to this gentlemen and the crew of this spaceship, I am off the hook as far as he is concerned. Everything is up to you now. You were brought here because we must have everyone’s cooperation to make things right. I am not going to name anyone, but I know many of you are being pressured by the very same establishment. With the possible exception of a few, I think most of you will agree that it is illogical, if not downright irresponsible, to belong to an organization with the power to make decisions contrary to your own country’s interests whilst some members are immune from similar decisions taken for similar reasons. We propose to change to a system that makes it possible for all nations to allow their folk to make informed and just decisions to the advantage of their own nation and folk.”
Here and there sounds of agreement can be heard.
The US President has thoughtfully been listening to General Woodford. At this stage he indicates that he too has something to say: “Gentlemen, I fully concur with my General. I have been under the same kind of Damocles Sword as he was. I am ashamed to have to admit that many of my government’s important actions in the past century, which influenced world affairs and the decisions made in the General Assembly, have been tainted by decisions aimed at forwarding the purposes of the establishment my General referred to. At least two of my predecessors have even been insiders of this establishment.”
He turns to the British Prime Minister: “You know what I am talking about. The two of us have had to co-operate in controlling the oil supply, oil prices, and associated dollar based floating exchange rates. We have both benefited handsomely, especially due to our shareholding in military industries and the wars we had to authorize to maintain control. In fact, since even before the first World War, since 1912, every President in my country was put in place by this establishment controlled by criminal Jew gangsters, forming public opinion through their control of their media and by misuse of their monetary powers and government backed covert operations. As you must know, our reserve banks are all privately owned and are interconnected. They are orchestrated to increase the wealth and power of the world’s true enemy, a secret organization the establishment is a large part of, called the Kehillah. It is run by an unknown, self proclaimed King who gives orders to his two Princes, one of the eastern hemisphere and one of the western hemisphere. The Princes then pass the King’s orders down the rank of command to others lower in the organization, until it reaches the establishment, which consists of International Jews who control the monetary system, energy industries, the media and every other industry used to control and enslave the masses. It’s a very sophisticated organization that controls the entire world. These banks are first based in the City of London, the independent financial and monetary establishment based in Britain and, since the First World War, affiliated with ours on Wall Street in New York City. In my country and in many others, due to their control of the media and the cost involved in presidential campaigns, no one can hope to become or remain President without their backing. The crux of their power is control of the monetary system, control of the media, and control of the energy resources used to manipulate the monetary system, exchange rates, and economic development of countries. We must put a monetary system in place that is honest and fair, based on a nationally agreed fixed value immune from any manipulation by these criminals. Gentlemen, this is an opportunity that must not be wasted. We need your input and cooperation to put these criminals in their place.”
Everyone is surprised by the President’s brutal honesty. There is a moment of stunned silence before the dam wall breaks. One after another each one comes forward with similar stories and finally it seems that almost all the countries in the world are in one way or the other totally under the control of the Kehillah. The oil-rich countries more so than others as their rulers are always under International Jewry’s influence and only came into power with the help of their stoking unrest, leaving the door open for a take over.
Eddie has to raise his voice to be heard: “It seems that almost everyone here has in some way been directly or indirectly controlled by this merciless, criminal establishment. The undeveloped and developing countries especially have suffered by being prevented from developing their industries and infrastructure, having their populations impoverished and reduced through wars and adverse health conditions, and their governments replaced in the cruelest ways. At present your respective infrastructures are still controlled by these criminals. They will do their utmost to prevent you from taking control. As far as energy is concerned, they have prevented the universal implementation of the super flywheel, fuel cells, large scale solar and wind power development, viable nuclear energy systems development… any alternative energy solutions for general use, especially the erection and development of nuclear power plants in developing countries. The spectre of nuclear war was used to create an excuse for meddling in nuclear programs in developing countries, whilst the countries with veto rights in the General Assembly were those who in reality constitute this very same danger. ‘Green Peace’ was created for this specific purpose, financed by a Canadian oil company to propagate and exaggerate the danger of pollution by radio-active substances from nuclear power stations and prevent the establishment of an alternative to oil for the generation of energy. Ironically, the main contributor to pollution today is oil and coal, together with pollutants like dioxins from the related chemical industry in developed countries like my own. At present oil is the main leverage for all these violations. Our visitors from space are prepared to supply you cost effective, unlimited, non-polluting power, totally independent of oil. On the one hand, plans are available for extremely efficient solar power and energy storage systems, suitable for remote locations. On the other, this ship is powered by a hydrogen nuclear fusion process that does not contribute to pollution. If we provide every country with similar power plants, that on its own will remove the must important component of their power base. Our problem is how to implement it without undue interference and loss of life. These criminals will not relinquish power peacefully if they can help it.”
It sets a lively debate going and the teachers have a busy time. General Woodford now sees himself as part of the team: “Gentlemen, if you will allow me… I have a suggestion. Our main problem is the chasm between truth and disinformation. If we can teach the truth to the peoples of the world, we will have won, for our peoples themselves will demand retribution. The majority of the main media bosses are under the same kind of pressure as most of you. I suggest that when we take you back you use your powers as Heads of States and summon these people to your offices. We will then pick them up for an excursion similar to this one and see to it that the peoples of the world are informed. Those media directors who are insider members of the establishment and have not yet been identified as such, will be obliged to conform to the majority decision. If they do not, they will expose themselves to the wrath of their people. Before you do this however, you will have to take control of law enforcement. The establishment’s power over people must be immobilized before they can act effectively and without threat to themselves and their families. The known members of the establishment must be detained as soon as you are returned, before the media comes into play.”
After further discussion, there is general agreement with this proposal. Eddie has one more thing on his mind: “Gentlemen … in the past months the Captain here has been keenly interested in our financial history, among other things. Drawing on the experience of their original civilization, which was very successful until the unfortunate event that terminated it, he suggests that we decide on a common exchange currency based on true value, banish financial speculation, and use a similar system internally as was used very successfully in a few states in the USA before their Revolutionary War. Also other examples like Swanenkirchen’s Wara notes in Southern Germany, Worgl’s Notgeld in Austria, and similar experiments in Geunsey in England and Alberta in Canada, where governments and other organizations printed their own internal currency and the regulated amount circulation according to demand until halted by the establishment’s minions. Even Hitler did that successfully until he was nearly brought down, not realizing that his financiers were his true mortal enemies, using him to forward their own designs. Proper analysis of the events that led to the Second World War, reveals that it was Britain and France who instigated the war. The purpose was to involve most countries in the world in a lengthy war, to be able to convince a war weary world that they need an organization to enforce world peace… a prelude to a world government which they intended to control themselves, initially by means of their control over the countries with veto rights. Incidentally control of the monetary system as well as the true cause of the American Revolutionary War, at first compelling all Americans to return to the use of the British pound, and then by trying to punish them for trying to circumvent it by submitting them to severe taxation, compulsory Imports, and Military force.”
The British Prime Minister has a serious objection: “Pardon the interruption, Sir, but a system like that will restrict free trade between countries. Britain is dependent upon trade to a very large extent as we have little internal resources.”
Eddie feels he should correct the Briton: “Your people and your manufacturing industries are your resources, sir. You will now be obliged to pay honest prices for the raw materials. Jews who’ve been controlling your British Government and also America after the First World War, have been abusing the world’s monetary system and the economies of other countries to finance wars to extend and reinforce their rule for far too long. The so-called free trade principle, together with recall or support for internal agriculture and reduction of support for the poor, was introduced in Britain in the 1840’s with the specific purpose to enrich the rich by importing goods from cheap labor sources, impoverishing the British Folk and causing famine in Ireland, though in reality was a planned genocide, making them immigrate to America in droves. Others tried to follow this example, but failed, as planned, because of Britain’s Jew financiers’ control of maritime foreign trade due to Britain’s superior military fleet and its support or privateers who plundered any ship that was not insured in Britain, using their controlled government’s extensive secret service network in all the countries they exchanged with. In the 1870’s a German economist, Friedrich List, convinced his government to use a contrary approach. They restricted financial and foreign stock speculation and concentrated on developing their own industries, agriculture and other sectors. They did this with such success that the Jews who controlled Britain felt compelled to declare war in 1914 to maintain their trade and maritime dominance. Incidentally, this was at a stage when the British government was, to all intents and purposes, totally bankrupt. The war was waged with cash and supplies supplied by the American Jews, who controlled the financial and manufacturing establishment, that eventually resulted in the so-called Anglo-American alliance between the Jew establishments of both countries. Free trade is a parasitic design to enrich the rich and oppress the poor by importing goods from cheap labor sources in undeveloped and developing countries who are continuously prevented from developing an efficient infrastructure or their own that will improve the well being of their own people, keeping them poor and their labor cheap.”
The Prime Minister is not satisfied: “You also propose to corrupt the entire monetary system? That will have profound repercussions all over the world!”
“You’re telling me, an honest system will have a profound effect all over the world? May I remind you sir, that it was because of British and American Jews that the monetary system was corrupted in the first place! First by under evaluating gold as a currency in foreign trade, and then in 1971 to save America’s economy and artificially boost the value of the dollar and the British pound, by sucking other countries dry through America’s unilateral abandonment of the gold standard, replacing it with a dollar standard and making it an unstable, stock market controlled device for manipulating the fortunes of other countries and their economies. The seven biggest oil companies are closely connected to this process. By means of an agreement with the Jewish Saudis, and through them with all other Arab countries, every country is obliged to pay for oil in dollars, which opened the way to print, many times over, more dollars than the Federal Reserve could ever back. Raising the oil price by 400% the first time destroyed the economy of the fastest developing country in the world, Mexico, and put them in debt to such an extent that they could not even pay the interest on their national debt. In addition, keep in mind that the Bank of England, the Federal Reserve, the World Bank, the International Monetary Fund, and most, if not all, other reserve banks, are private institutions, intimately interconnected and created to serve the Jew establishment and finance the Kehillah. The UN and it’s immune members are in place to enforce any decision against countries who try to resist their draconian measures, using the World Bank, military means, the secret services, assassinations, sanctions, and support of terrorists and agitators to replace current legitimately elected governments, all of which we have experienced in my own country. Not even the Communist block and developed European countries like Germany, France, Austria, Yugoslavia, Sweden and Italy, have escaped their closest attention. My nation and my folk in particular have suffered and lost their country twice in one century due to their greed. The free trade principle is a sacred cow we must get rid of and replace it with a system that has the internal welfare of the peoples of individual countries in mind.”
The other heads of state who up to now sat listening in silence, started clapping one after the other, until a general applause could be heard. The British Prime Minister throws his hands in helplessly in the air.
“Gentlemen, that is not half the story, but we are not here to sling mud at each other. I can understand the British Prime Minister’s concerns and his country’s economic vulnerability. His government’s intimate and shameful involvement in the Jewish establishment’s atrocities are not the fault of the British people. However, we must come to an agreement and develop a satisfactory and mutually beneficial solution. Can we have a show of hands for an improved monetary system based on the principles I have outlined, please?”
The proposal was adopted overwhelmingly, and Eddie notices that the US President had raised his hand. He concludes: “Very well, we will take you back in a while, but because of the numbers involved now we will have to schedule a series of visits on consecutive dates, starting with the most influential countries in different sectors of the world, allowing time for the necessary steps we have agreed upon. We also require a list of all known members of the establishment you can think of.”
For the next few hours lists and schedules are drawn up, covering all the different cultures on Earth in a balanced way.
“The first group will probably be enough to spread the news,” said Brato.
Eddie agrees: “Yes, and the knowledge that others will follow will at the same time prevent any resistance from the criminal establishment. We must not allow anybody to feel left out. That could cause major problems, so we need to do this right, we only get one chance. But before anything else, Brato, your people have to take out the Kehillah…”
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Kevin Nealon was born on November 18, 1953 in St. Louis, Missouri, but grew up in Bridgeport, Connecticut. A marketing graduate from Sacred Heart University, he worked in many part-time jobs while performing stand-up comedy. He was first introduced to the national stage when he did a stand-up routine on The Tonight Show with Johnny Carson in 1984, and joined the cast of Saturday Night Live in 1986, as a featured performer. He became a full-time performer in 1987.
Nealon is known for his many characters, performed with a characteristic deadpan delivery. He was anchor of the show’s “Weekend Update” segment, where he was known for his catchphrase, “that’s news to me!” He also played other notable characters such as Mr. Subliminal, a former advertising executive who imbues his editorials with subliminal messages; and Franz, an Austrian jock who, along with his partner Hans (Dana Harvey), spoofed Arnold Schwarzenegger’s muscular body and accent. He was part of the show’s cast for nine seasons.
Nealon has also appeared in several comedy films, including Happy Gilmore, Anger Management, Little Nicky, The Wedding Singer, Daddy Day Care, Good Boy! and Grandma’s Boy. He also made guest appearances on 3rd Rock from the Sun, Dharma & Greg, The Norm Show and Three Sisters.
Some of his more notable recent roles include a recurring role on the sitcom Still Standing as Ted Halverson, the competitive and religious neighbor of the Millers, on an episode of Curb Your Enthusiasm, where he played himself, as a patient in a mental institution on the first season of Monk and as Doug Wilson on the Showtime series Weeds. Aside from recent films such as Get Smart and Don’t Mess with the Zohan, he has a supporting role on Weeds, playing councilman Doug Wilson.
Nealon has also written a book about his wife’s pregnancy, Yes, You’re Pregnant, But What About Me?, which was published in 2008.
- Daddy Day Care (2003) as Bruce
- Anger Management (2003) as Sam, Dave's Lawyer
- Grandma's Boy (2006) as Mr. Cheezle
- Get Smart (2008) as CIA Agent #2
- You Don't Mess with the Zohan (2008) as Kevin
- Remarkable Power (2008) as Jack West
- Glenn Martin, DDS (2009) as Glenn Martin
- Aliens in the Attic (2009) as Stuart Pearson
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Over at The Review Review, Josh Magill gives an overview of Booth in “A Midwestern Journal Goes Beyond Our Failings to Bring Amazement.“
My story “Libration” gets a paragraph, and the review gives a good sense of the experience of reading the issue.
Running across the review in the weekly newsletter was a nice bump to get me through Wednesday. And hey, if you sub to literary magazines and haven’t subscribed to their newsletter yet, you’re missing out on a really lovely, funny missive full of lit mag news. Go! Sign-up!
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Diverse, provocative, eerie, and twisted, this collection of Jeffery Deaver's best crime stories exhibits amazing range and the signature plot twists that have made him a perennial best seller. With nods to O. Henry and Edgar Allen Poe, these beautifully crafted pieces are suspenseful spoonfuls of Deaver at his best. Listeners will be surprised by the subtlety of some of these stories and, as always, by the plot suprises. Jeffery Deaver's stories are widely published and acclaimed in such venues as Ellery Queen's Mystery Magazine and Alfred Hitchcock's Mystery Magazine.More
"Clever and concise thrillers." (Publishers Weekly)
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Great short stories
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This type of castle soon replaced the Motte and Bailey castles as it offered a better form of defence. A stone keep was the central feature, with thick walls and few windows. Entrance to the keep was by stone steps leading to the first floor. The kitchens were situated on the ground floor while living quarters were on the upper floors. The first keeps were rectangular in shape but later ones were often circular. The Stone Keep would be surrounded by a thick stone wall containing turrets for lookouts.
The Bailey was now the area outside the keep but within the outer walls and shelter for animals or craft workshops might be built against the walls. The entire castle might be surrounded by a ditch or moat and entrance to the castle was by drawbridge.
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Retired teachers and others in the community rallied Tuesday to protest a proposed JCPS pay freeze and other issues facing the school board.
It's been a tumultuous couple weeks in Jefferson County Public Schools, with massive protests from teachers and other employees, revelations about a "code of silence" and questions about the district's leadership from some of its board members.
Superintendent Donna Hargens and other district officials have moved to try to allay concerns - reiterating a commitment to competitive teacher salaries, for instance, and noting that recommendations from a code of conduct committee are simply suggestions.
But so far, little has been fully ironed out and settled - meaning the coming weeks are also not likely to be restful for the superintendent of the state's largest school district.
"It probably won't be as intense as the past two weeks, but the school safety and competitive salary issues have not been resolved, so our membership will definitely remain engaged," teachers union President Brent McKim said Friday.
Teachers and other district employees have rallied in recent weeks - with as many as 1,000 showing up to protest outside Tuesday's JCPS board meeting - over concerns about the idea of possible pay freezes for many employees and a district committee's suggested changes to the code of conduct.
At a board meeting on April 26, JCPS Chief Business Officer Tom Hudson presented the idea from a community and district group of freezing step raises next school year for all district employees making more than $14 an hour. The idea, raised as part of a discussion of a comprehensive salary review that found that the district was paying a "premium" for some employees' salaries compared to other districts, garnered immediate blowback from the teachers union and other employee groups.
JCPS later clarified that all salary changes were subject to union negotiation and that no recommendation of a pay freeze was imminently forthcoming. But many employees said they remained concerned and insulted.
Hargens announced Tuesday that the company that conducted the salary review would be coming to Louisville at 3 p.m. on May 23 to answer further questions about the study, saying that any recommendation to change salary structures "will be a result of a thorough process that involves all stakeholders."
Meanwhile, a separate work session also on April 26 gave JCPS board members a first look at recommendations from the district's code of conduct committee that included eliminating suspensions as a possible disciplinary measure for certain infractions, such as for middle and high schoolers' profanity, dress code violations or use of tobacco products.
Those suggestions also sparked opposition from many in the community.
The district has announced that the code of conduct committee will reconvene again beginning May 20 to review responses to its initial suggestions and talk further about code of conduct revisions.
Meanwhile, Hargens said she is inviting "key stakeholders" to a May 23 summit to discuss how to create more coherence in the district, particularly around student behavior. A JCPS spokeswoman said invites have not yet been sent out for that summit.
Those two issues, as well as revelations from an internal auditor that JCPS has a "code of silence" when it comes to reporting accurate restraint and seclusion data, have some questioning the leadership of the school district.
Board member Steph Horne on Tuesday apologized to the JCPS community for them feeling disrespected and not supported, and said she questioned whether the district was headed in a strong direction.
"I'm questioning the superintendent's leadership," Horne said. "It's unclear to me what direction we're going. It's just really unclear."
Board member Linda Duncan said Wednesday that she was "distressed" by the turmoil of recent weeks and said she wasn't sure if Hargens was fully aware of the ramifications of some things her administration has done recently.
Duncan said she will likely keep the turmoil of the last few weeks in mind when Hargens' evaluation comes up over the summer. She pointed out that she'd been against giving Hargens a four-year contract back in 2015, saying she doesn't think superintendents should get a second four-year contract automatically.
"You don't give someone a four-year contract. You give one or two years at a time so you have options," Duncan said.
Duncan said she is concerned that the superintendent's summit and the meeting on the salary study are not until a day before the next board meeting. "That doesn't give much time for reflection or sharing with stakeholders," she said.
Hargens said Friday that she takes "the feedback seriously, and I remain focused on developing strategies to move our district forward."
"I am committed to continue working collaboratively with the board, members of my leadership team, our teaching professionals and the community to ensure we have the policies and resources necessary for the absolute best learning environment for our students," Hargens said in a statement. "Every decision I make is with this in mind."
Reporter Allison Ross can be reached at 502-582-4241. Follow the Courier-Journal's education team at Facebook.com/SchooledCJ.
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A Thank You Event…The ways you choose to be Jacob’s Well help bust through some of the toughest stuff of life. Together, we are bustin’ awesome. Let’s celebrate each other!
When: Sunday, June 4, 11:30 AM—1:00 PM
Where: Field parking lot (or the gym if it rains)
Festivities: Bounce House, Nerf Gun battles, Slime, Photo Booth, & Refreshments
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2011 – New Brunswick
Dr Michel Landry is nominated by his colleagues and medical residents for his outstanding commitment to family medicine and unwavering dedication to teaching family medicine.
A graduate of the University of Sherbrooke, Dr Landry received his Certification in family medicine from the College of Family Physicians of Canada in 1987 and was awarded Fellowship in 2002.
Currently, Dr Landry maintains his own family practice as part of the Unité de médecine familiale teaching clinic in Dieppe, New Brunswick, and is involved in the care of nursing home patients at the Villa du Repos in Moncton.
Since 1998, Dr Landry has directed the New Brunswick Francophone Family Medicine Training Program and the University of Sherbrooke Family Medicine Unit. During his tenure he has worked to see many rotations achieve accreditation from the University of Sherbrooke and the Collége des médecins du Québec in all francophone regions of New Brunswick. His efforts have enabled students and residents to complete their entire two‐year family medicine residency training in New Brunswick.
Dr Landry has served many years with the New Brunswick Medical Society. Recently, he undertook a research project on the relationship between the training, recruitment, and retention of physicians, and established a methadone program for a First Nations Health Clinic, where he continues to work with patients with addictions.
In his spare time, Dr Landry enjoys playing both golf and tennis and watching movies. He and his wife, Judy (a registered nurse who works part‐time at his clinic), enjoy travelling to visit their daughters Kerri and Crystal.
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Snow alters Virginia Tech's travel plans
So far, snow has been the story of 2010 for the mid-Atlantic region. And the threat of another storm is affecting Virginia Tech's travel plans for its game at North Carolina State on Wednesday.
The Hokies were set to leave from Blacksburg early Tuesday afternoon, earlier than the coaches would have liked, after having a practice here. Coach Seth Greenberg was asked if he wanted the team to leave on Monday night in case the conditions were poor, but he declined.
"I don’t want to be there for three days," Greenberg said Monday of leaving early for Raleigh, N.C., which is about a 3 1/2-hour drive. "The kids get cabin fever. We’re leaving tomorrow earlier than we want to because of the weather."
Like some other coaches in the ACC, Greenberg has had to learn to manage his travel schedule. There is a delicate balance, it seems, between leaving before the snow piles up, while to maximize team performance.
Before playing in Blacksburg on Saturday, Clemson had to deal with adjusted travel plans. It was initially scheduled to fly to Virginia Tech last Friday at 4 p.m., but instead left on Thursday at 7 p.m. because of the impending snowstorm. The Tigers, who stayed at a hotel on campus, tried to maintain a normal practice schedule, but fell to the Hokies on Saturday.
The latest news about the weather's affect on the conference basketball schedule came on Tuesday, when the Virginia-Maryland basketball game was rescheduled for Feb. 15 because of the winter conditions in the mid-Atlantic region. The game was scheduled to be played on Wednesday, but both universities and the ACC agreed that the "rare postponement is in the best interest of all involved," according to a news release.
February 9, 2010; 2:00 PM ET
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Actavis and Sagent Pharmaceuticals have agreed to develop and market a group of injectable drugs in the United States, Actavis announced.
Under the agreement, Actavis will develop the drugs, seek Food and Drug Administration approval for them and supply them, while Sagent will market them. Financial terms of the deal were not disclosed.
“Actavis’ impressive injectable pipeline, substantial development and supply capabilities and excellent record of execution make Actavis an outstanding partner for Sagent,” Sagent CEO and board chairman Jeffrey Yordon said. “This collaboration complements Sagent’s strategy by quickly adding products to our marketed portfolio, and we look forward to working with Actavis to expand our collective portfolio.”
The Food and Drug Administration has approved a new oral contraceptive made by Bayer HealthCare Pharmaceuticals, the agency announced.
The FDA approved Bayer’s Natazia (estradiol valerate and dienogest), which combines an estrogen and a progestin into what the agency called the first four-phasic contraceptive marketed in the United States. “Four-phasic” means that the doses of the two hormones vary four times throughout each treatment cycle.
“Nearly 12 million women in the United States and more than 100 million women worldwide currently use oral contraceptives,” FDA Division of Reproductive and Urologic Products director Scott Monroe said. “The approval of Natazia provides another option for women who choose to use an oral contraceptive as their method of contraception.”
The Food and Drug Administration has declined to approve a biotech drug for organ transplant patients made by Bristol-Myers Squibb, Bristol said.
The FDA issued a complete response letter for Bristol’s September 2009 regulatory approval application for belatacept, designed to prevent rejection of transplanted kidneys. The agency issues a complete response letter when it has finished reviewing an application, but questions remain that preclude final approval. Specifically, the letter requested from Bristol three-year data from a late-stage clinical trial to further evaluate the drug’s long-term effect.
“Bristol-Myers Squibb is committed to belatacept as a potential new therapeutic option for kidney transplant patients,” Bristol SVP global development and medical affairs Brian Daniels said. “We will continue to work closely with the FDA to address their questions.”
A Forest Labs drug used to treat mild to moderate hypertension “significantly” reduced blood pressure in Hispanic patients when used alone, according to post-marketing study data recently presented at the American Society of Hypertension’s annual scientific meeting.
In a 277-patient phase-4 study, the drug Bystolic (nebivolol) reduced sitting systolic and diastolic blood pressure. The study included 113 Hispanic women and 164 men. According to Forest, Hispanics have higher rates of diabetes and obesity than Caucasians, and a study by the National Center for Health Statistics showed that more than 20% of adult Hispanics have hypertension.
“Bystolic is one of the only anti-hypertensives to have been prospectively evaluated for efficacy and safety in Hispanic patients, which is important given the lack of awareness, poor control and risk factors in this growing population,” University of Texas Southwestern Medical Center clinical assistant professor and study investigator Henry Punzi said. “These positive results show Bystolic is an effective treatment option with good tolerability for Hispanic patients with hypertension and add to the growing body of evidence in support of the clinical profile of the drug.”
Following last year’s efforts to support bipolar depression awareness and education, AstraZeneca is relaunching The Bipolar Journey: Living With Bipolar Depression interactive exhibit in a second tour designed for patients and caregivers.
The national 10-city tour kicked off at the Depression and Bipolar Support Alliance 2010 National Conference on April 29 in Itasca, Ill. This year, the exhibit will be extended to patients and caregivers in additional cities across America through a scaled, tabletop version of the exhibit that incorporates all of its assets in a smaller, compact version.
In its second run, The Bipolar Journey will continue to feature much of the same imagery, multimedia activities and interactive tools that helped patients last year connect with experts and other patients and caregivers who have dealt with the impact of bipolar depression in their own lives. This year, the exhibit also includes a podcast listening station, a short video, several educational materials people can take home and the opportunity to explore
Sandoz has launched a generic antibiotic for pneumonia and acute sinus infections, the generics arm of Swiss drug maker Novartis said.
Sandoz said it launched amoxicillin and clavulanate potassium extended-release tablets, a generic version of GlaxoSmithKline’s Augmentin XR, in the 1,000-mg/62.5-mg strengths. The tablets are used to treat community-acquired pneumonia and acute bacterial sinusitis. Sandoz said it was the first company to file a regulatory approval application for the drug with the Food and Drug Administration, entitling it to six months’ market exclusivity.
Augmentin XR had sales of $53 million during the 12-month period that ended in January, according to IMS Health.
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If that Voltron USB we featured several days ago was a little too boyish for your tastes, feast your eyes on the new line of Hello Kitty USBs from Mimoco. To think this is the second time they’ve commemorated the creatures of Sanrio’s cute kingdom in as many months.
For ultimate consumer satisfaction you’re given the choice of Hello Kitty, Badtz-Maru (our personal favorite) and Hangyodon Mimobots. Individual specs are enumerated below.
All three are available in 2GB, 4GB, 8GB and 16GB. The head of each Mimobot forms the USB cap plus there are preloaded content specific to each character like wallpapers and avatars.
For your additional reading pleasure, here’s a short bio of each Mimobot we have the privilege of sharing.
Badtz-Maru: A “mischievous little penguin” who lives with his parents in Gorgeoustown.
Hangyodon: A “sensitive and lonely little guy” who has big dreams of heroic proportions. He’s onstantly frustrated, a state clearly expressed by that bewildered look of his.
Hello Kitty; The reigning sovereign of cuteness. Shares a London pad with her friend, whom she has “many adventures” with. Amazing.
If you’re hot for one of these darlings, head over to Mimoco and buy one (or all three) now.
Via EngadgetFiled Under: USB Gadgets
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“Our mission is to transform the way golf is managed, taught, experienced and enjoyed”
We are based out of Bangalore and have been in operation since October, 2009.
We own and operate the Touché Golf School which has taught over 3000 golfers in less than 2 years. It’s the first golf instruction school with a 360 degree holistic approach to golf instruction covering technology, skill, fitness, nutrition & mind coaching. Play Golf India’ initiative broke the myth that golf is inaccessible and expensive, taught over 3000 people to play golf.
Top professional, amateur and junior golfers were students of the school. Anirban Lahiri, Chikkarangappa, Karan Taunk, Abhishek Jha, Udayan Mane, Anisha Padukone, to name a few, were Junior Golf student winners in zonal events.
A team of professional teaching pros led by Bamby Randhawa one of the best teaching professionals in India, Touché Golf School also boasts the first Motion Golf 3-D Swing Analysis Studio outside of Europe & USA and fifth in the world.
We are the exclusive distributors for HONMA Golf products in India, the world’s most premium golf equipment manufacturer. Differentiation for HONMA is driven through equipment customization with the most advanced club fitting center in India. We also operate a golf retail outlet at Touché Golf School and supply to many other retail stores in South India.
We have also successfully conducted more than 100 golf tournaments and corporate clinics for both large corporate MNCs and Indian-based organizations and own of the largest Amateur Team Championship golf tournament in Asia – Touché Golf League.
Board of Directors:
Rathan Kumar — Managing Director: Rathan, a Chartered Accountant and a successful entrepreneur with over 33 years of business leadership. As a serial enterprenuer, Rathan has in his current business portfolio Touché Golf Sports Pvt Ltd and Excelsior Innovations, apart from his successful exits from Federal Technologies and Online Share Management. Having sold his technology business to Flextronics in 2005, he ran a $1.4 billion digital multimedia products business for Flextronics as its Managing Director India and Vice President - Consumer Electronics worldwide.
He is an avid golfer and a philanthropist in his own respect.
Dr. Rohith Shetty — Executive Director: Dr. Rohith Shetty is a medical practitioner who has worked in Ireland, UK & India. A keen golfer for the past 20 years, he is a former President of the Karnataka Golf Association. Rohith's passion is to identify and cultivate golfing talent in India. As a promoter Director of Touché, his dream is to produce golfers from the Golf School who would go on to play on the PGA circuit.
Harish Shetty — Executive Director: Harish Shetty is a Chartered Accountant and a successful entrepreneur in IT solutions & services for the past three decades. His passion for golf is evident, having won several tournaments over 15 years. He is currently a Managing Committee member of Karnataka Golf Association. As a promoter Director of Touché Golf , he is committed to expanding the golfing infrastructure in India and across the world through the introduction of latest technologies and streamlined operations.
Bamby Randhawa — Director Golf School: With over 3 decades of golfing experience, he has been rated among the most sought after golf trainers and mentors in India. His first notable win as a Pro, was the Sher-e-kashmir open in 1983 with a record 17 stoke lead. Bamby is a USGTE & NGAI certified teaching Professional.
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A Sports Water Bottle Must Be Carefully Chosen For Your Marketing CampaignYour sports water bottle is one of your most important pieces of equipment if you are planning on participating in any sports or if you wish to get in shape at the gym. While it is common knowledge that you need to drink a surprising amount of water in order to function properly, it is not so common a knowledge of just how important hydration is during exercise. When you play in sports or work out at the gym, your body consumes calories and moisture to keep all parts of your body functioning properly. Because of the fast rate which your body consumes water, you need to replenish the moisture as you use it. If you do not, you may find your body not performing nearly as well as you hoped. However, picking the right type of bottle for your needs can be tricky. While many people settle for whatever sports water bottle they happen to come across, picking a bottle that fits your needs is important. If you are at the gym or play a sport where you can
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Apartment in the bohemian district of Barcelona with a project of architecture and exclusive design. The apartments are located next to the Picasso Museum, the cathedral. 3 patio, large terrace.
General features: Apartment, near the beach, in the city center, good condition, fitted kitchen, fitted wardrobes in the bedrooms, living room, air conditioning, heating, close to shops, restaurants, good infrastructure and a terrace.
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A blog reader has kindly sent me the maps above from BrilliantMaps.com. They highlight the dramatic collapse in fertility rates since 1970, which have nearly halved from a global average of 4.85 babies/woman to just 2.5 babies per woman today:
- Dark blue covers countries where rates are 1 – 2 babies/woman
- Light blue is 2 – 3 babies/woman
- Green is 3 – 4 babies/woman
- Yellow is 4 – 5 babies/woman
- Red is 5 – 6 babies/woman
- Pink is 6 – 7 babies/woman
They highlight how 72 countries now have fertility rates below replacement levels of 2.1 babies/woman, compared to just 2 countries in 1970 (Finland and Sweden). As BrilliantMaps note:
“You can see that many countries in the world (all in dark blue) are now below replacement level including 3 of the 4 BRIC countries (China, Russia and Brazil), all of Europe (except France, Ireland and Turkey) along with Japan, Canada and Australia, among others….The world’s two most populous countries have both seen their rates drop significantly between 1970 and 2014. India’s dropped from 5.5 to 2.4 a 56% decrease, while China’s dropped from 5.5 to 1.6 – a 71% decrease and well below replacement. ”
In turn, this collapse in fertility rates has led to a major reduction in the size of the key Wealth Creator 25 – 54 generation, which drives spending and economic growth. Today’s slowdown in global economic growth will therefore inevitably continue for decades – for the simple reason that even if fertility rates were to suddenly increase tomorrow, it would still take 25 years for the new babies to join the Wealth Creator generation.
The positive news, of course, is that life expectancy at the age of 65 has increased to 20 years in the developed world, and to 10 years in the developing world. So a whole new generation of people is alive today for the first time in history.
Companies and investors who want to build sustainable businesses for the future therefore need to start developing products and services to meet the needs of this fast-growing generation of over-55s.
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First post, long time Pd user. Using Max for some teaching. I created an abstraction based on the [pitch] object available in Pd by Olaf Matthes, which organises incoming MIDI note numbers into pitch-class, pitch-class distance and register. So, I thought I'd share:
Rather than using the two [if] statements, I would like to know how to program this function in one [expr]-based statement.
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The Russian Federation has taken the decisive step in becoming a full Member of the European Synchrotron Radiation Facility (ESRF) in Grenoble (France). On 17 December, the Russian Prime Minister, Dmitry Medvedev, signed a governmental act authorizing the accession of the Russian Federation as a new Contracting Party of the ESRF Inter-governmental Convention. The Ministries of Science and Education and of Foreign Affairs of the Russian Federation - with the support of the National Research Center Kurchatov Institute - will now finalize the Protocol of Accession with the current ESRF Contracting Parties to complete the accession process in early 2014. The envisaged participation in the ESRF of the Russian Federation is 6%.
"This is wonderful news which underlines more then ever the long-standing scientific and technical collaboration existing among scientists and engineers from Russia and from the 20 ESRF Partner Countries", said ESRF Director General Francesco Sette. "Exactly 25 years after the signature of the ESRF Convention, the reach of the ESRF expands on a global scale, with profound positive effects in ensuring a successful continuation of its leadership in synchrotron science and applications for many years to come."
"This announcement is very good news for the future of the ESRF, for France and for the Europe of science and innovation. We need more than ever to strengthen large research infrastructures such as the ESRF", says Geneviève Fioraso, French Minister of Research and Universities, in a statement.
"Russia's accession to the ESRF Convention will provide guaranteed access for Russian scientists to a unique scientific infrastructure, it will increase the effectiveness of their participation in topical research and help organize a modern platform for training of students and scientists", the Russian government said in a statement to the news agency ITER-TASS.
Russian scientists have from the early days of the ESRF, more than 20 years ago, made important contributions to the development of the ESRF. Negotiations on the accession of the Russian Federation to the ESRF started in 2011 with discussions between the National Research Center Kurchatov Institute and the ESRF - upon the initiative of their respective Directors, Mikhail Kovalchuk and Francesco Sette. Since 2012 Russian scientists access the ESRF peer review research programme under the same conditions of those from the Partner Countries. Today, they contribute some 3% to scientific research at the ESRF, a figure that is bound to grow rapidly over the coming years.
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Trip at a Glance
Barcelona, Catalonia, Spain
Adventure, Hiking Trekking
€195 EUR per trip
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Comfortable walking shoes are recommeded
- Millenary Benectine Abbey
- Panoramic views over Catalonia
- Mediterranean Forest at Montserrat Natural Park
From our meeting point we will go to the foot of Montserrat. From the monastery we will start our tour on foot along a road that will present us with stunning aerial views. Soon after, the road becomes a path leading to the beautiful chapel of Sant Benet. We will resume our walk to Sant Salvador’s pathway, where we will enjoy invaluable views of the mountain, something absolutely unthinkable when watched from a distance. Along the road, we are likely to find wild goats over the steep crags. We will follow the route to Sant Jeroni, which, with its 1.224m high, it is Montserrat’s highest point and will grant us a 360º view of the whole massif. We will return to the monastery, that can be visited inside and see the famous image of the virgin.
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The J4T Multitrack Recorder v4.51 Apk is a compact 4-track recorder, designed to record your song ideas, demos and sound-sketches easy and anywhere. This mini studio offers a lot of basic audio features to explore: jam to your imported or recorded loops, edit your audioclips, add effects like Delay and Chorus, share your session to Soundcloud and other platforms. In other words: a great tool for songwriters and other creative musicians! You can also download….TSF Launcher 3D Shell v3.4.2 Apk
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When it comes to remodeling a basement it can be tough making the right decisions. Most basements only have a few windows that let in refreshing natural light, but what do you do if you have no windows in your basement? You might feel at a loss for inspiration if your basement is windowless, but these basement remodeling and decorating tips will help you see the light!
If your basement is large enough to be broken up into rooms this is a great way to separate basement activities and break up a wide open dark space. Each zone can serve a different purpose and ultimately more use of the space. Basements are perfect for a child’s playroom, man cave, kitchen, guest bedroom, workout room, office space, lounge, movie theater, or game area to name a few. Remodeling your basement into rooms or zones can give it multifunctional purpose. Professional home improvements will make you comfortable in your new space and confidant enough to start utilizing your basement for entertaining.
In rooms, glass window frames can be installed to give the illusion of light. The glass should be textured to maintain the privacy of the room, but still let in light from the “outside” room or zone. Doors with textured glass are a good idea too. White textured glass is best, as lighter colors brighten up a room more naturally. Try white frosted windows or textured glacier glass for your basement remodeling.
Building a room offers the great opportunity to install frosted windows and add dimension, but you don’t need a room for each function of your basement. For instance, the lounge and game room can be in the same area. When you have different purposes going on in the same room you’ll need to do some zoning to separate the activities – this is done through decorating cues.
After basement remodeling, decorating is key in brightening up your basement. Mirrors allow light to be reflected around the room and lighten up the space. Choose decorative mirrors with a strong frame complimenting your basements style and color scheme. You can also try arranging smaller mirrors into a structured or creative design. If you’re installing a workout room be sure to add mirrors for not only decoration, but functionality as well. This will also help if your basement is small, as it gives the illusion of more space.
Choose lighter color paints. Darker colors may absorb light and you aren’t in a position to give any up in a windowless basement. Another way of adding the illusion of space is with floor to ceiling drapes. Again you’ll want to choose light colors, but it’s okay and recommended to add pops of color, just make sure it’s not too harsh. The drapes shouldn’t overpower the walls. Strategically choose what you will accent, whether it’s a fireplace, picture frame, TV, or couch. But only accent one or two things maximum to not overdo it in your basement remodeling and decorating.
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2 301 Legends of the Legal Academy Harry Kalven, Jr. Vincent Blasi The first week of law school is for most students an intimidating experience. Everyone is so serious. My first week was leavened considerably by Harry Kalven. A group of students and Kalven were watching the seventh game of the 1964 World Series in the student lounge of the University of Chicago Law School. The broadcast was interrupted by a news bulletin: Nikita Khrushchev had just been deposed. Viewers were treated to several minutes of political and diplomatic analysis, with correspondents around the globe speculating on what this might mean for East-West relations. One of my classmates, an amateur Kremlinologist no doubt, expressed surprise: I can t understand why they would do this now. Kalven agreed: Yeah, in the seventh inning. Though well liked and greatly respected, Harry Kalven was not the most popular teacher in the law school during my time as a student. Some classmates thought his classes moved too slowly, that he belabored and repeated points. Everyone warmed to his wit, his imagination, and his generous spirit, but not everyone found in Kalven s classes the crackling intellectual tension, the rigor, the sense of analytic closure that some other teachers provided. By any measure Kalven was a good, effective teacher. But was he a great one? For me, he was more than a great teacher. He was a unique force in my education. He remains a continuing force. Other former students practicing lawyers, law teachers, law school graduates who have made careers outside of law tell me the same thing. His ideas stick in the mind; his personal example continues to lead. His teaching has stood the test. He seems an even better teacher now than he did at the time. All the more remarkable is Kalven s staying power when one considers that he was quintessentially a man of his times, an observer, a writer and teacher who was at his best when responding. He wrote mostly about recent cases and issues of current public controversy. His thought seemed always in progress, constantly on the lookout for more facts and better formulations. Kalven was interested in theories and produced a number of theoretical insights, but neither in the classroom nor in his writings did he offer anything like a systematic, well-elaborated personal perspective. He was the most creative legal thinker I have known, but his scholarship was patently, proudly, derivative. He was not, Vincent Blasi is Corliss Lamont Professor of Civil Liberties, Columbia Law School. Journal of Legal Education, Volume 61, Number 2 (November 2011)
3 302 Journal of Legal Education and did not try to be, a definitive thinker. Nor was he a forceful personality. He was the antithesis of a self-promoter. And yet he left his mark on his field and on his students in a way that few professors ever do. The word that best describes Harry Kalven is inquisitive. To him learning was a joyous, almost playful activity not a chore, not a source of power or distinction, more an experience than a quest. His inquisitive mind observed no boundaries; he never became a prisoner of his own expertise. His work as a scholar was unforced. Kalven s love of exploration is one reason, I think, why his closest professional companions were other teachers at heart, most notably Walter Blum, Charles Gregory, and Alexander Meiklejohn. What other lifelong liberal could have written the book Kalven co-authored with Blum, The Uneasy Case for Progressive Taxation? 1 It says much about their character that two colleagues with such divergent political convictions could have collaborated so successfully on an inquiry that touches a major nerve of the liberal-conservative divide. That Blum and Kalven were able to bridge their differences and jointly advance a bold critique on a sensitive subject probably traces to the fact that, for all their scholarly accomplishments, these virtuosos of the classroom were first and foremost teachers. The book s insouciant, unscripted analysis suggests that both authors brought to the project a pedagogic agenda: to learn, to test, to provoke, to embarrass dogma. In Kalven s work with Gregory, the creative synergy that spawned a remarkably user-friendly yet insidiously demanding torts casebook 2 was enriched by a shared sense of humor. Gregory s account of a Kalven prank well captures the fun they had as torts teachers: Harry visited me in Charlottesville when I was recovering from an illness. Our lawn needed cutting badly, and Harry volunteered. He got the power mower going (mirabile dictum) and went at it industriously, for we had a big lawn. After some time I looked out from an upstairs window and saw that right in the middle of the lawn Harry had cut, in huge letters, the word CARDOZO. How could I help adoring a guy who would do that to make me feel better? 3 Kalven always considered himself a student of Meiklejohn, though he never took a course from the legendary teacher and philosopher of education. The special quality of their relationship comes across in remarks each made about the other. Meiklejohn introduced his most important law review article by explaining: 1. Published initially as a law review article. See Walter Blum & Harry Kalven, Jr., The Uneasy Case for Progressive Taxation, 19 U. Chi. L. Rev. 417 (1952) reprinted as University of Chicago Law School Reprint and Pamphlet Series No Charles O. Gregory & Harry Kalven, Jr., Cases and Materials on Torts (1st ed. Little, Brown 1959). 3. Charles O. Gregory, Harry Kalven: Scholar and Friend, 43 U. Chi. L. Rev. 8 (1975).
4 Legends of the Legal Academy: Harry Kalven, Jr. 303 The writing of this paper is largely due to the friendly insistence of Professor Harry Kalven, Jr. of the Law School of the University of Chicago. He and I have had, in recent years, a continuing exchange of ideas. Professor Kalven tells me that he is not sure that my interpretation of the First Amendment can stand the test of lawyer-like application to the many specific situations which the courts must handle. 4 In turn, Kalven ended his most important law review article, asserting the historic importance of New York Times v. Sullivan, by reporting that he had discussed the case with the 92-year-old Meiklejohn shortly after it was decided: It is perhaps a fitting postscript to say that I had occasion this summer to discuss the Times case with Mr. Meiklejohn. Before I had disclosed my own views, I asked him for his judgment of the Times case. It is, he said, an occasion for dancing in the streets. As always, I am inclined to think he is right. 5 In his memorial tribute to Meiklejohn, Kalven emphasized his mentor s gift for making learning enjoyable: I have always suspected that Socrates, however wise and admirable, would have made a trying and difficult companion. Alec was a Socrates who wore well, a Socrates it was fun to be with, a Socrates for all seasons. 6 Not only Kalven s collaborators but also his intellectual adversaries appreciated the love of give and take that he brought to his work. Here is Guido Calabresi (another born teacher) describing what it was like to begin his career by matching wits with Kalven: In 1960 I walked into an office at The University of Chicago Law School. There I found Walter Blum and Harry Kalven. They had just read a draft of what was to become my first article. Harry greeted me with: it s all wrong... but I wish I had written an article like that when I was your age! This began the debate. Blum and Kalven delivered the Shulman Lectures at Yale, Public Law Perspectives on a Private Law Problem Auto Compensation Plans. I struck 4. Alexander Meiklejohn, The First Amendment Is an Absolute, 1961 Sup. Ct. Rev. 245, 246 n Harry Kalven, Jr., The New York Times Case: A Note on The Central Meaning of the First Amendment, 1964 Sup. Ct. Rev.191, 221 n.225 [hereinafter Kalven, Jr., The New York Times Case]. 6. Adam R. Nelson, Education and Democracy: The Meaning of Alexander Meiklejohn, (Univ. of Wis. Press, 2001).
5 304 Journal of Legal Education back in Fault, Accidents, and the Wonderful World of Blum and Kalven; but they had the last laugh in The Empty Cabinet of Dr. Calabresi. I believe that the law of torts benefitted from that hard fought polemic. I know that I, as a young scholar, could not have had a tougher, or more loving, initiation to scholarship. 7 Kalven wrote and taught on a diverse range of legal subjects. His first major scholarly achievement was in the field of civil procedure, a 1941 article that was ahead of its time in appreciating the potential significance of the class action lawsuit. 8 In addition to their book on progressive taxation and their running debate with Calabresi, Blum and Kalven produced critiques of many of the modern no-fault reform proposals for compensating victims of automobile accidents. 9 Kalven published articles on a number of other tort topics, 10 even as the casebook he co-edited with Charles Gregory remained the preferred forum for presenting his ideas about torts. With Hans Zeisel and others he conducted an ambitious empirical study of jury behavior. 11 A valuable by-product of the jury study was a series of reflections by Kalven on the use of social science methods in the study of legal problems and institutions. 12 Toward the end of his life, he taught a seminar on slavery. He was never superficial and he was frequently penetrating. But he liked to move on, to explore fresh terrain. One legal subject, however, engaged him more completely and more continuously than any other. Harry Kalven never tired of thinking about the freedom of speech and he never ran out of fresh, important things to say about the subject. Thirty-seven years after his death, in some cases more than fifty years after initial publication, his writings on obscenity, 13 legislative 7. Guido Calabresi, Concerning Cause and the Law of Torts: An Essay for Harry Kalven, Jr., 43 U. Chi. L. Rev. 69 (1975). 8. Harry Kalven, Jr. & Maurice Rosenfield, The Contemporary Function of the Class Suit, 8 U. Chi. L. Rev. 684 (1941). 9. See Walter Blum & Harry Kalven, Jr., Ceilings, Cost, and Compulsions in Auto Compensation Legislation, 1973 Utah L. Rev. 341 (1973); Walter Blum & Harry Kalven, Jr., A Stopgap Plan for Compensating Auto Accident Victims, 1968 Ins. L. J. 661 (1968); Harry Kalven, Jr., A Schema of Alternatives to the Present Auto Accident Tort System, 1 Conn. L. Rev. 33 (1968). 10. See, e.g., Harry Kalven, Jr., Comparative v. Contributory Negligence: Should the Court or the Legislature Decide?, in Symposium on Maki v. Frelk, 21 Vand. L. Rev. 897 (1968); Harry Kalven, Jr., Privacy in Tort Law Were Warren and Brandeis Wrong?, 31 Law & Contemp. Probs. 326 (1966); Harry Kalven, Jr., Torts: The Quest for Appropriate Standards, 53 Calif. L. Rev. 189 (1965); Harry Kalven, Jr., Mr. Justice Holmes: Some Modern Views Torts, 31 U. Chi. L. Rev. 263 (1964); Harry Kalven, Jr., Strict Liability, 9 Loy. L. Rev. 31 (1958); Harry Kalven, Jr., The Jury, the Law, and the Personal Injury Damage Award, 19 Ohio St. L.J. 158 (1958). 11. See Harry Kalven, Jr. & Hans Zeisel, The American Jury (Little, Brown 1966); Hans Zeisel, Harry Kalven, Jr., and Bernard Buchholz, Delay in the Court (Little, Brown 1959). 12. See Harry Kalven, Jr., Toward a Science of Impartial Judicial Behavior, 42 U. Cin. L. Rev. (1973); Harry Kalven, Jr., Some Comments on the Law and Behavioral Science Project at the University of Pennsylvania, 11 J. Legal Educ. 94 (1958). 13. Harry Kalven, Jr., The Metaphysics of the Law of Obscenity, 1960 Sup. Ct. Rev. 1.
6 Legends of the Legal Academy: Harry Kalven, Jr. 305 investigations into political beliefs, 14 street demonstrations, 15 and libel 16 remain the classic texts from which almost all subsequent work takes off. Two entries on the short list of important concepts in the modern law of free speech, the public forum and the heckler s veto, were first identified (and memorably named) in Kalven writings. 17 His article on New York Times v. Sullivan greatly shaped the way that case has been understood ever since. Kalven transformed the Times precedent into much more than a holding about libel law simply by spotlighting and celebrating three features of Justice Brennan s majority opinion: its analogizing of a libel suit by a public official to the infamous criminal prosecutions under the Sedition Act of 1798, 18 its assertion that the First Amendment has a central meaning, 19 and its discovery of a profound national commitment to the principle that debate on public issues should be uninhibited, robust, and wide-open. 20 It is a fitting tribute to the devotion Kalven could inspire that his major book on the First Amendment, A Worthy Tradition, left unfinished at his death in 1974, was painstakingly and perceptively brought to completion by his son Jamie. This editing project, assisted by Kalven s former colleague Owen Fiss, extended over fourteen years. Jamie, like his father a gifted writer but as a journalist rather than a lawyer or scholar, achieved an expert s command of the intricate law of the First Amendment, consulted student notes from his father s classes (a nationwide call for old notebooks went out), then tested and sharpened his editorial judgments in several workshops before major law faculties. Astonishingly, the book suffers hardly at all from the circumstances of its authorship. It is a contemporary book, one that challenges and inspires today s students of the First Amendment. What explains Harry Kalven s striking capacity to live on in the minds of his students and readers? I believe he remains influential because he had an uncanny ability to engender creativity in others in his students, in his readers, even I would guess in his collaborators. Driven by a genuine curiosity, he tried to enlist those around him in the search. To sit in a Kalven classroom was to be a participant, not an auditor. I was called on to recite only a handful 14. Harry Kalven, Jr. & Roscoe Steffen, The Bar Admission Cases: An Unfinished Debate Between Justice Harlan and Justice Black, 21 Law in Transition 155 (1961); Harry Kalven, Jr., Mr. Alexander Meiklejohn and the Barenblatt Opinion, 27 U. Chi. L. Rev. 315 (1960). 15. Harry Kalven, Jr., The Concept of the Public Forum: Cox v. Louisiana, 1965 Sup. Ct. Rev Harry Kalven, Jr., The Reasonable Man and the First Amendment: Hill, Butts, and Walker, 1967 Sup. Ct. Rev. 267; Kalven, Jr., The New York Times Case, supra note See Kalven, Jr., supra note 15, at (public forum); Harry Kalven, Jr., The Negro and the First Amendment (1965) (heckler s veto); Harry Kalven, Jr., A Worthy Tradition (1988) (heckler s veto). 18. Kalven, Jr., The New York Times Case, supra note 5, at Id. at Id. at 212; see also Harry Kalven, Jr., Uninhibited, Robust, and Wide-Open A Note on Free Speech and the Warren Court, 67 Mich. L. Rev. 289 (1968).
7 306 Journal of Legal Education of times, but in my mind I formulated hundreds of answers and hundreds of questions as well as I observed him conversing with other students. Similarly, reading a Kalven article or book is a participatory experience. One is constantly revising the analysis, adding new applications or refinements, imagining objections and responding to them. I suppose most teachers and authors seek this effect; few actually aspire to have the last word. But Kalven was extraordinary in his capacity to converse about law productively with persons far less knowledgeable and insightful than himself, and in the process raise them toward his level. Exactly how does an inspiring teacher induce his students to probe and create on their own? Is it simply by force of personal example? Or are there techniques? Can someone not blessed with a mind so fertile as Kalven s nonetheless have the pedagogic impact that he had? As a teacher who would love to do for my students what he did for me, I have pondered these questions for years. Certainly one secret to Kalven s success was his utter lack of intellectual pretense or arrogance. He wore his considerable erudition lightly. In matters of the mind he did not seek to separate himself from others. Just the reverse. He was intellectually gregarious and serendipitous. He did not believe that all ideas or traditions or minds were equal he had high standards, deep commitments, and heroes but he did believe that persons with no special expertise or ability pertinent to the topic at hand could contribute to his understanding, and not just to his understanding of them. In his writing and teaching he lavished attention on the reasoning of judges whose talents were modest and whose opinions he could easily have savaged. I doubt whether any modern legal scholar has been so generous as he was in discussing judicial opinions. And I do not think his intellectual generosity was a product of personal kindness, deference to authority, or an aversion to confrontation. He was generous with the thought of others because he believed he could learn best by appreciating and building upon the ideas that moved ordinary people. In fact, Harry Kalven s distinctive understanding of the First Amendment may be traced to his unusual respect for the thought processes not only of ordinary persons but also of persons at the margins of society. Kalven did not argue that dissenters ought to be tolerated, he argued that they ought to be heard. He fought tirelessly in the law journals against those who would require that acts of expression satisfy minimum standards of rationality and civility in order to qualify for First Amendment protection. He believed that the freedom of speech belongs to the inarticulate and the angry as well as to the loyal and respectful opposition. His writings abound with sympathetic translations distilling messages of social and cultural protest from expressive endeavors that others would dismiss as self-indulgent or coercive rantings. He did not think that crackpots and subversives and extremists deserve First Amendment protection because they are harmless. He thought they deserve protection because they have something to say that ought to be heard
8 Legends of the Legal Academy: Harry Kalven, Jr. 307 in a democratic society. Kalven s passion for free speech was a product of his curiosity and his humility, not any sense of noblesse oblige. Strong proponents of free speech are often somewhat disengaged from the struggles of their time, or sympathetic to the messages the dominant forces seek to suppress, or so rigid in their embrace of principle that they become more or less heedless of consequences. Kalven was none of the above. He wanted to hear the voices of protesters, even the voices of fanatics, precisely because he was an engaged, moderate, perceptive, and practical participant in the controversies of his day. He thought that vigorous, fundamental challenge contributes to understanding and effective adaptation. He conducted his classroom in accordance with this belief. I have never seen a teacher work so hard to elicit the counter-argument to whatever idea he was proposing. He wanted the counter-arguments stated persuasively and developed with imagination and respect. Seldom have I heard the arguments for censorship presented so well as they were in his class. His unfeigned interest in uncongenial ideas, his openness to challenge at the most elementary level, proved to be a pedagogic boon. Because he brought to the classroom a desire to learn as well as teach, he could introduce a subject more sincerely, and more energetically, than any teacher I have known. One classmate said of his teaching: He begins each hour doing algebra and ends each hour doing calculus. The key point here, however, is that he found the algebra fascinating. Unlike most legal scholars who have reshaped their fields, Kalven employed the individual case as the essential unit of his creative thought. Probably the finest article written about his contributions to First Amendment scholarship, by Kenneth Karst, is aptly entitled An Appreciative Comment on the Advantages of Thinking Small. 21 In his famous article on New York Times v. Sullivan, Kalven writes as a torts teacher grappling with the dizzying consequence of a landmark Supreme Court case transmuting a part of his domain one that he traditionally does not reach until the last day of the semester into constitutional law, the Valhalla of the law school curriculum. 22 He told our class that the First Amendment will never lack for brilliant philosophers, that what it will always need most is courageous, well-trained lawyers. He greatly admired the legal foot soldiers who devise and defend the procedures, presumptions, and burdens of proof that turn noble ideals into potent operational constraints. 21. Kenneth L. Karst, The First Amendment and Harry Kalven: An Appreciative Comment on the Advantages of Thinking Small, 13 UCLA L. Rev. 1 (1965). 22. Kalven, Jr., The New York Times Case, supra note 5, at 192.
9 308 Journal of Legal Education I took detailed notes in his torts class and uncharacteristically managed not to lose the notebook. Twenty years later I found myself teaching torts. On rereading the notes a few years after I started teaching the subject, I was struck by how simple and straightforward were Kalven s initial questions for each class period. My teaching of the subject had been more elliptical. I had truncated the introductions and jumped quickly to the hard questions and elaborate theories. One year I attempted to do it Kalven s way. I started each hour with simple, basic questions, sometimes taken straight from his notes. It didn t work. In my hands the technique was artificial. I learned that I can only teach spontaneously by moving as quickly as possible to the levels of analysis that most excite me. To my students detriment, I did not have the patience, the fascination with basic formulations, or the curiosity about the legal culture that he possessed. The experience made me realize that Kalven s ability to think freshly and excitedly about some of the most familiar features of the legal landscape was one of his greatest attributes, both as a teacher and a scholar. His calculus was so sophisticated, so subtle, so original in large part because he loved his algebra so much. One expression of his fascination with basics was his penchant for schematic exposition. A Kalven blackboard was certain to be covered with diagrams, matrices, even hand-drawn maps and pictures illustrating how an accident occurred. The practice was contagious. It became a game among my classmates to concoct new, ever more elaborate matrices, sometimes to the point of silliness. But he had the last laugh. In our lighthearted efforts to caricature Kalven s teaching style we wound up noticing relationships and making connections on our own. I had assumed that his ability to induce us to think originally through graphic emulation was an unintended by-product of his schematizing impulse. But when he sent me off to begin my own teaching career, his parting advice was: Use visual aids. From this conversation I learned that he was, after all, a self-aware and calculating pedagogue. He employed visual aids to challenge students, not to comfort them. He simplified in order to investigate complexities and he wanted his students to do the same. This commerce between the simple and the complex, between the beginning student and the scholar at the forefront of his specialty, was central to Harry Kalven s view of knowledge and the process of discovery. He allocated his time accordingly. One day he appeared in our First Amendment class seeming exasperated and exhausted: Don t ever, he said try to teach proximate cause and obscenity in the same week. An accident of scheduling had caused him to be covering the most philosophically challenging and doctrinally confusing topic in the torts course at the same time he was tackling perhaps the most perplexing segment of the First Amendment course. But he had been teaching those subjects and writing renowned articles on them for years. The comment revealed how hard he prepared for class each time he taught a subject, not just by considering strategies of presentation but by rethinking his views on the merits seriously enough to be tired and frustrated and confused. He may have spent his time this way out of a sense of responsibility to his students,
10 Legends of the Legal Academy: Harry Kalven, Jr. 309 but I think more was involved. I am convinced that to an unusual degree his writing grew out of his teaching, that he knew of no better way to grapple with a subject than to think about it with a group of students and to do so without holding back. People often behave in a manner that reflects the expectations others have of them. Kalven treated his students as fellow explorers. His classes were open-ended conversations. That is why some students found the class sessions insufficiently structured, the points that emerged insufficiently conclusive. But open-ended conversations have a way of continuing. And students who are treated like original thinkers tend to keep thinking for themselves. And so, Harry Kalven s teaching endures.
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David Haslam chairs Kaleidoscope's Advisory Board.
David Haslam is Chair of the National Institute for Health and Care Excellence (NICE). He is also past-President of the British Medical Association, past-President of the Royal College of General Practitioners, visiting Professor in Primary Health Care at de Montfort University, Leicester. and Professor of General Practice at the University of Nicosia, Cyprus. He was a family physician in Ramsey, Cambridgeshire, for many years and has been chair of the NHS Evidence Advisory Committee, co-chair of the NHS Future Forum Information subgroup, an expert member of the NHS National Quality Board, chair of the NQB Quality Information Committee, and National Clinical Adviser to both the Care Quality Commission and the Healthcare Commission.
He is a Fellow of the Royal College of GPs, a Fellow of the Faculty of Public Health, a Fellow of the Academy of Medical Educators, a Fellow of the Royal Society of Medicine, and a Fellow of the Royal College of Physicians. David was Chairman of Council of the Royal College of GPs from 2001 to 2004, and was also vice chairman of the Academy of Medical Royal Colleges.
He has written 13 books, mainly on health topics for the lay public and translated into 13 languages, and well over a thousand articles for the medical and lay press. In 2014 he was named by Debretts and the Sunday Times as one of the 500 most influential and inspirational people in the United Kingdom, and he was awarded CBE in 2004 for services to Medicine and Health Care.
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I am an insurance agent and financial advisor who has spent over 30 years providing valuable services to and looking out for the interests of my clients. I am writing to express the significant concerns I have regarding certain aspects of FINRA's proposal to revise Forms U4 and U5.
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Erin McKean says her professional goal is to make every word in the English language “lookupable.”
It’s unlikely your bag of books for summer reading includes a dictionary, but word lovers –and Scrabble players – can certainly spend plenty of time curled up with one.
Dictionaries have stood in the vanguard of publishing ever since the first English dictionary appeared in 1604, according to Erin McKean, the founder of Wordnik.com, the world’s biggest online dictionary. McKean says her professional goal is to make every word in the English language “lookupable” – including the more than half of all unique English words that aren’t currently in any dictionary.
“It turns out that most of the words you’ve learned in your lifetime you’ve never looked up in a dictionary,” McKean said last winter in a keynote speech at the PubWest 2017 Conference in Portland, Oregon. “Most people get a general idea of what a word means largely from context. The dictionary is usually the last resort when you can’t figure out what a word means or when you want to win an argument.”
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In 2007, when Russia won its bid to host the 2014 Winter Olympics, the country estimated the games would cost $12 billion. Seven years later, with the opening ceremony just three weeks away, the cost of the games has exploded to an estimated $50 billion, CNN reports, which is believed to be the most expensive Olympics in history.
Even Russia’s bid for the games showed a staggering inflation over the cost of previous Olympics. When Vancouver hosted the 2010 Winter Games, the total cost of preparations was $8.7 billion. But as Russian began building new roads, hotels and sporting venues, the cost of the Sochi games kept climbing, surpassing China’s 2008 summer games, which are believed to have cost $40 billion.
Even the Beijing Olympics–before Sochi the most expensive in history–seems like a bargain compared to this year’s games. According to data compiled by Bloomberg, the 302 events in Beijing cost roughly $132 million per event, while Sochi’s 98 events will average out to $520 million a pop. New infrastructure and security are believed to be the most expensive parts of the Sochi games. But Russia’s former deputy prime minister and fierce critic of President Vladimir Putin published a report last year alleging widespread corruption, calling the Olympics one of the most “outrageous swindles” in recent Russian history.
Russia plans to use much of the new infrastructure when the country hosts the World Cup in 2018.
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The Mad River Valley (MRV) of Vermont, consisting primarily of the towns of Moretown, Fayston, Warren and Waitsfield, is situated in and around the majestic Green Mountain National Forest, Camel's Hump State Forest, and the privately owned Northfield Mountain Range. The geographic location and forested resources of the MRV makes it abundant in recreational opportunities, ecological and forestry resources, and critical linkages for wildlife.
With a shared goal to facilitate the continued existence of large expanses of forested lands, interested parties have entered into a collaborative initiative called the Forests, Wildlife & Communities Project. The goal of the Forests, Wildlife & Communities Project is to implement a regional and landscape level campaign for conservation by advocating with local officials, landowners, and realtors and engineers to implement community land use and landowner based strategies for forest land and wildlife habitat conservation.
The specific objectives of the Forests, Wildlife & Communities Project are to:
- Prioritize key wildlife, forest and natural resource areas in the Mad River Valley;
- Engage local citizens and landowners in the Mad River Valley to create grassroots support for conservation through diverse non-regulatory strategies and policies.
- Advocate land acquisition of key conservation areas and develop local funding options to achieve conservation in the Mad River Valley;
- Promote sound local land use development through creative land use and zoning mechanisms to conserve key forest resources and habitat areas.
- Positively influence local land use development by promoting smart growth principles with realtors, engineers and local decision makers in the Mad River Valley.
In order to coordinate conservation education and advocacy in the MRV, the Forests, Wildlife, Communities Project is governed by a diverse Steering Committee, which consists of members of local conservation commissions, planning commissions, development review boards, Select Boards, the Mad River Valley Planning District, local business owners, realtors, local and statewide conservation organizations, the Vermont Fish and Wildlife Department, Vermont Department of Forests, Parks, and Recreation, and the United States Forest Service. Vermont Natural Resources Council acts as the fiscal agent for the project and provides staff to coordinate the Steering Committee, which meets on a bi-monthly basis.
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Eight Santa Claus clad in varying outfits waited patiently on the kitchen island while I had coffee. Another six were in the plastic buckets that held more Christmas decorations than I have room for. Garland meandered across the kitchen floor. Spools of ribbon begs an answer of how it will be used this year.
Yet, my little red calendar said nothing about decorating for Christmas, catching up on the laundry, freezing the leftovers, going to the grocery store or going Christmas shopping. Today, my little red calendar said cross train.
After a week of birthday truffles and a Thanksgiving feast, I’m beginning to worry there aren’t enough fat clothes in my closet to make it through the holidays. This is the worst time of year to stick with a program: a diet, exercise, whatever. There’s simply too many other things calling our name. Take heart, we all live in this boat.
It’s not a totally impossible task. It is simply one that takes a little effort….adaptation.
December has 31 days and fortunately the bulk of the mishaps will occur at the end of the month. This gives us almost three weeks to ease into a strategy, to adapt.
5. Prioritize. This month when it comes to food, pick your battles. If you don’t love it, just say no thank you. Save the calories for something you may find you can’t live without. I can resist a monstrous red velvet cake but life may end as we all know it if I have to give up my grandmother’s butterfinger recipe.
4. Strategize. Sometimes when the house is full of guests my husband and I will hatch a plan so that both of us can work out. He takes everybody out for breakfast while I exercise, then I take them shopping while he exercises. Find a buddy that will help you stay on track.
3. Compromise. You’re going to eat something you wish you hadn’t or something you knew you shouldn’t have. It’s ok to splurge – go back to number five.
2. Offense. My best defense is a good offense. Set a Goal. I’ve been setting up next year’s race calendar. While other runners are making excuses that the month is too busy to exercise, I’ll be a whole month ahead of schedule. Having a goal keeps you motivated, focused. The goal could also be fitting into that pretty, little party dress by New Year’s Eve. It all works here.
1. Be Merry! Relax and have fun. Everything counts this month – even if you’re not as good as you’d hoped to be. It’s a crazy time. Exercise as often as you can, eat consciously….but, you may as well have fun and not take anything too serious.
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The Frozen Code will make chilly calculations all winter at Gelato Fiasco’s stores in Brunswick and Portland, Maine. (This is our absurd way of poking fun at the absurd fact that we sell frozen treats in Maine 12 hours a day, all winter long.)
On each day that the temperature falls below freezing, we automatically use The Frozen Code to calculate a discount on your order of gelato dishes. While the traditional Frozen Code is rumored to hold a complex series of calculations that the very first gelateri used to create perfect gelato, our senior assistant visiting archaeologist has derived fragments of the legendary code into a single calculation that can be used only in winter when the temperature is below 32 degrees: Total = Price – [Price * ((32 – current temperature) / 100)].
Or, in layman’s terms: You save one percent for each degree below freezing outside at the time of purchase.
This means that when it’s 22 degrees outside, you’ll receive 10 percent off your gelato dish. If it’s 2 degrees outside on a chilly night, you’ll receive 30 percent off. The Frozen Code applies to gelato dishes (and the gelato portion of a waffle cone) only.
TIP: Our stores are open from 11 a.m. to 11 p.m. every day. Peak discounts generally come during visits close to opening or closing time.
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- Seafood Seasoning
Seafood Seasoning is also called Chesapeake Bay Seasoning and Chesapeake Bay Seasoning. It contains approximately 20% fewer salt than normal seafood seasonings and is fairly pleasant on almost any sort of fish or seafood. Its density of ingredients, similarly mergers well in seafood blend or barbeque sauce.
Taste and Aroma: Complex, rich, warm and powerful.
Uses: Seafood, shrimp, eggs, steak, crab cakes, popcorn, fried chicken, salad, crab and fish.
Fact: This traditional Seafood Seasoning was made popular in Baltimore during the mid 1900s, because crabs were so abundant they were given away for free.
- Gluten free
- Sugar free
Ingredients: Garlic, Black Pepper, Mustard, Marjoram, Dill, Parsley, Cilantro, Bay Leaves, Salt.
- 3.5 OZ (99 Grams)
- 7 OZ (198 Grams)
- 14 OZ (397 Grams)
Country of Origin: Product of USA
Storage Instructions: Keep in Dry and Cool Place.
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Taylor, Richard 1805-1873 :Waiaua from Mr P. King's house [19 October 1841]
Reference Number: E-296-q-073-1
Part of Philip King's front garden with a picket fence, looking past bare trees towards low hills and the Bay of Island, with small islands and water. The trees may be fruit trees or dead native trees. Waiaua Bay is near Kerikeri
Taylor, Richard, 1805-1873 :Sketchbook. 1835-1860., Reference Number E-296-q (137 digitised items)
Extent: 1 drawing(s) in sketchbook.Pencil, ink and wash, 85 x 150 mm. Horizontal imageSingle art work
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Researchers at Hebrew University of Jerusalem have announced a chemical derived from the brain may reduce the impact of a mild traumatic brain injury (MTBI). Many patients with MTBI continue with symptoms long after the injury. According to Professor Daphne Atlas at Hebrew University, “It is widely known that external or internal injury strongly activate inflammatory response and leads to cell death… . Therefore for reducing the effects of MTBI it is essential to calm the inflammatory pathways.”
There is no effective treatment currently for MTBI. However, Professor Atlas has synthesized amino acid from existing brain chemicals which has been shown to protect brain cells from inflammation and early cellular death from inflammation.
In two independent tests a dose of the amino acid compound was given sixty minutes following an induced brain trauma In mice. The results showed an improvement related to the loss of cognitive function at seven and thirty days after the injury. Professor Atlas reported significant reduction in cognitive impairment but noted further studies will need to be done to determine if this treatment will be effective in humans.
The article from Hebrew University points out an advantage to using amino acid compounds is the use of natural materials already found in the brain which may reduce the potential for side effects. The article related to this can be found below:
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Previously on the vintage Best and Worst of WWF Monday Night Raw: WWF followed up one of the most important Raws ever, Thursday Raw Thursday, with the debut of Chyna, the Raw debut of the Hardy Boyz and Paul Heyman calling in on the phone to accept a challenge to bring ECW talent to Raw. Also, the Head Bangers have to be a thing now.
If you haven’t seen this also-kinda-monumental episode of Raw, you can watch it on WWE Network here. Check out all the episodes you may have missed at the Best and Worst of WWF Monday Night Raw tag page. Follow along with the competition here.
If you want us to keep doing retro reports, share them around! And be sure to drop down into our comments section to let us know what you think about the show.
And now, the Best and Worst of WWE Hardcore TV … sorry, Monday Night Raw, for February 24, 1997.
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Coming up on RoundAbout, a very special episode recapping the 2011 Frankfurt Motor Show. We cover a whopping 60 vehicles in just 90 minutes. If you need a Frankfurt fix this is your one-stop shop!
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In patients at low-to-intermediate risk of coronary artery disease (CAD), CCTA is a viable alternative to functional stress tests and may facilitate triage decisions, as well as reduce the risk of missed myocardial infarctions and length of hospital stay (1,2). Although compared to conventional coronary angiography CCTA has lower specificity (64-90%), it has consistently been shown to have high sensitivity (>95%) and negative predictive values (>95%) for obstructive coronary stenosis, supporting its potential role in “ruling out” significant CAD in low-to-intermediate risk patients (1-2).
A coronary artery calcification (CAC) score is also commonly measured when CCTA is performed; a very high CAC score can interfere with proper interpretation of CCTA. A negative CCTA combined with a CAC score of zero makes CAD-related chest pain extremely unlikely. The additional prognostic value of CAC score other than zero to CCTA is unclear (2).
- Budoff MJ, Dowe D, Jollis JG, et al. Diagnostic performance of 64-multidetector row coronary computed tomographic angiography for evaluation of coronary artery stenosis in individuals without known coronary artery disease: results from the prospective multicenter ACCURACY (Assessment by Coronary Computed Tomographic Angiography of Individuals Undergoing Invasive Coronary Angiography) trial. J Am Coll Cardiol. 2008;52(21):1724.
- Villines TC, Hullen EA, Shaw LJ, et al. Prevalence and severity of coronary artery disease and adverse events among symptomatic patients with coronary artery calcification scores of zero undergoing coronary computed tomography angiography results from the CONFIRM (Coronary CT Angiography Evaluation for Clinical Outcomes: an International Multicenter) registry. J Am Coll Cardiol 2011;58:2533-2540.
Contributed by Stephanie Meller, MD, Boston, MA.
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Defenses to theft
(1) In a prosecution for theft it is a defense that the defendant acted under an honest claim of right, in that:
(a) The defendant was unaware that the property was that of another; or
(b) The defendant reasonably believed that the defendant was entitled to the property involved or had a right to acquire or dispose of it as the defendant did.
(2) In a prosecution for theft by extortion committed by instilling in the victim a fear that the victim or another person would be charged with a crime, it is a defense that the defendant reasonably believed the threatened charge to be true and that the sole purpose of the defendant was to compel or induce the victim to take reasonable action to make good the wrong which was the subject of the threatened charge.
(3) In a prosecution for theft by receiving, it is a defense that the defendant received, retained, concealed or disposed of the property with the intent of restoring it to the owner.
(4) It is a defense that the property involved was that of the defendant’s spouse, unless the parties were not living together as spouses in a marriage and were living in separate abodes at the time of the alleged theft. [1971 c.743 §132; 2001 c.104 §53; 2015 c.629 §31]
3 OregonLaws.org assembles these lists by analyzing references between Sections. Each listed item refers back to the current Section in its own text. The result reveals relationships in the code that may not have otherwise been apparent.
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Central European markets of Poland, Czech, Slovakia, Hungary and Romania saw €1.3 bln in investments in Q1, almost identical to the transaction volume in Q1 2014. However, investors’ appetite and strong activity highlight growing investment volumes for the year ahead exceeding 2014 levels.
Retail was the leading sector in Central Europe with €762 mln traded in Q1 2015 (a 66% increase year-on-year), followed by the industrial sector continuing its impressive growth with €382 mln (a 200% increase year-on-year). Offices attracted only €147 mln investment capital (an 80% fall year-on-year).
The Czech Republic delivered an exceptional Q1 performance with €800 mln transacted (a 228% increase year-on-year) primarily in the retail and industrial sectors. The Czech Republic recorded the largest ever property transaction – Union Investment’s acquisition of a majority share in the Palladium shopping center in Prague for circa €570 mln. The investment volume in Hungary was at €44 mln in Q1 2015. Investor interest is returning to Budapest, and an upswing in buying activity across all commercial sectors is forecast in 2015. Romania saw €29 mln transacted.
With 12 transactions recorded in Q1 Poland saw the highest investment activity in the region, but due to a moderate average deal size the volume was at €430 mln, down by 52% year-on-year. However, this excludes the acquisition of a majority stake in the multi-sector ECHO Investment’s platform. The largest single asset transaction was Griffin Real Estate’s acquisition of Green Horizon in Lodz for ca. €65 mln.
There is a major trend in Europe of capital moving east from the UK, France and Germany to the notable benefit of Central Europe. This is a combination of push factors: extreme pricing, limited availability of quality stock and in some cases, weaker occupational markets; but also strong pull factors: exceptional GDP and consumer spending growth, record occupational take-up figures and the opportunity to acquire best-in-class assets at a discount to western Europe. There are also new occupational demand drivers such as the emergence of CE as a tech-hub.
There is more money focusing on Central Europe than at any time in the past 7 years. We are seeing new key sources of core capital from across Europe starting to replace the recent dominance of North American capital. This is maintaining the downward pressure on yields in Warsaw, Prague and Polish regional cities. Value-add and opportunistic capital is now reaching into development opportunities and standing investments in Hungary and Romania in search of returns. This trend is expected to continue throughout 2015 and 2016.
Source: Cushman & Wakefield
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Brussels, 22 April 2009
Today, the European Commission adopted a Green Paper on the future of the EU's Common Fisheries Policy. The paper analyses the shortcomings of the current Policy and launches a broad public consultation on how these shortcomings should be tackled. Fishermen and other interested parties from the sector, but also scientists, civil society and interested citizens, are invited to respond and have their say until 31 December 2009 on the future face of European fisheries. The consultation is the first step of the process which should bring about a radical reform of the Common Fisheries Policy.
Commissioner for Maritime Affairs and Fisheries Joe Borg said: "We are asking questions even on the fundamentals of the current policy and should leave no stone unturned. We are not looking for just another reform. It is time to design a modern, simple and sustainable system for managing fisheries in the EU, which is able to last well into the 21st century."
The purpose of the Green Paper adopted today is twofold: raise awareness of the challenges faced by the sector in recent years; and elicit a public response which can grow into a new, innovative and more consensual approach to fisheries regulation. It raises questions such as: How can we ensure the long-term sustainability and the viability of fisheries? How can overall fleet capacity be adapted while addressing the social concerns faced by coastal communities? How can a culture of compliance be further developed? How best can the CFP contribute to fisheries sustainability beyond EU waters?
The Paper analyses all the facets of fisheries policy today and explains why some problems persist despite the progress made since the reform of 2002. One of the main problems is the depleted state of European fish stocks: 88% of stocks are overfished (against a global average of 25%) and 30% are "outside safe biological limits", i.e. they cannot reproduce at normal rate because the parenting population is too depleted. Yet in many fisheries we keep fishing 2 or 3 times more than what fish stocks can sustain. This is mostly as a result of fleet overcapacity. Such overcapacity is in fact economically inefficient because not only does it deplete stocks but it also constantly drives the industry's profits down. Solutions need to be found to restore the worst-off stocks and at the same time guarantee that fish can continue to be a reliable source of revenue for fishermen.
Above and beyond overcapacity, the Paper identifies four other structural shortcomings of the present approach:
These issues have to be considered in a context where Europe imports two-thirds of its demand in fisheries products.
The Commission is concerned that if a better environmental sustainability of fishing is not achieved in the coming years, the consequence will be impoverished seas and an economically unviable fishing industry. If however the next reform projects the Common Fisheries Policy into the 21st century, the benefits will not just be limited to fishermen or coastal communities, but will also be shared by Europe's citizens.
Although the Commission is only legally bound to review some parts of the CFP by 2012, the prevailing situation, particularly as regards stocks and fleet overcapacity, has convinced it of the need to launch the reform process already now. The consultation launched today will close on 31 December 2009 and the Commission will sum up its results in the first half of 2010. After further consultation with stakeholders, the Commission will then prepare an impact assessment report and develop a proposal for a new basic regulation. This could then be presented to the European Parliament and Council early in 2011, with a view for adoption in 2012.
Further information and documents can be found at:
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Robert E. Harrington Named President-Elect of Mecklenburg County BarPDF
Robert E. Harrington, an attorney with Robinson Bradshaw & Hinson, P.A., has been installed as president-elect of the Mecklenburg County Bar for the organization’s 2011-12 term that begins July 1. Harrington will serve as president in 2012-13.
Harrington’s practice includes a range of commercial litigation matters, with focuses on the representation of consumer lenders, financial institutions in their capacity as fiduciaries, and the defense of employment actions. He is a member of the North Carolina, Louisiana and District of Columbia bars.
He has been an active member of the Mecklenburg County Bar, having served as its treasurer and as a member of its board of directors and executive committee. He has been a member of the Bar’s Special Committee on Diversity since its creation in 2004 and has served as the committee’s co-chair. Harrington has also co-chaired the board of directors of the National Lawyers Committee for Civil Rights Under Law.
Harrington earned his bachelor’s degree from Duke University, where he graduated magna cum laude and was an Angier B. Duke Memorial Scholar. He also attended Duke University Law School, where he graduated with high honors.
Harrington was recently named a fellow of the American Bar Foundation, and he has been an elected member of the American Law Institute since 1995. He is included in Woodward/White, Inc.’s The Best Lawyers in America in commercial litigation and among North Carolina Super Lawyers in business litigation. He also holds an AV® Preeminent™ Peer Review rating from Martindale-Hubbell. Harrington received the Citizen Lawyer Award in 2009 from the North Carolina Bar Association and was honored by the Charlotte Business Journal as a Diversity in Business Catalyst in 2004.
He is an active member of the Charlotte cultural community, serving as a member of the board of directors of the Greater Charlotte Cultural Trust and the board of directors of the Levine Museum of the New South, which he has chaired. He also served as chair of the Equity Committee of the Board of Education of Charlotte-Mecklenburg Schools.
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Why won't my iPhone 5s power up?
So about a day before my problem, I was using my phone and it was down to 1% battery and I was on my phone for a least 1 and half hour and it was still on 1% battery (my phone was on airplane mode) after that it died out. so then I waited till morning to charge it, but after about a hour or so it wouldn't turn on.
This has happened before, but after pressing the lock button for a really long time it powered up again. (but this time it didn't work)
Things I've tried:
- I tried unplugging it and switching from different power sockets.
- I tried charging it from my laptop.
- I tried pressing home + lock button.
I would appreciate any suggestions.
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As part of the giveaway, JeanzBookReadNReview is featuring an interview and review of Forever Sunshine. Read what she called a 'brilliant book that I read in only two sittings' here:
And there are 23 other great books too! Check below:
Huge ebook Giveaway - 24 Titles - See Blog For Details
24 ebooks means 48 winners! .... See details below to be in the draw.
All you have to do is check out Patti's post. Some of the details are below:
You can enter on one of these two blogs:
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Rules: You can only enter one blog - either After The Book or JeanzBookReadNReview. Not both.
As soon as each Blogger reaches 100 followers - the first winners on that blog will be drawn. 1st winner drawn gets 1st pick of the ebooks on the list.
The eBooks: click on the links to learn more. Support the Author by clicking "liked" on their book on Amazon. Either Amazon US or UK or both.
1. Paradox - The Angels Are Here - Patti Roberts Twitter
2. A Job From Hell - Jayde Scott Twitter
3. Black Wood - Jayde Scott
4. Raven - Suzy Turner Twitter
5. Paranormal Doorway to the Triquetra - Lenore Wolfe Twitter
6. Dark Warrior - Lenore Wolfe
7. The Bringer - Samantha Towle Twitter
8. HIDDEN - Marchwood Vampire Series - Shalini Boland Twitter
9. Ruby and the Mix Games (Hue Series -Volume 1) - Joseph Seegitz Twitter
10. Salt Bowl Death – Cypher Lx Twitter
11. Darkest Before Dawn – Cypher Lx
12. Coexist (Keegan’s Chronicles) – Julia Crane Twitter
13. Beautiful Evil – Robbi Sommers Bryant Twitter
14. Caged In Darkness - J.D. Stroube Twitter
15. Crossroads - Mary Ting Twitter
16. Forever Sunshine - Collette Scott Twitter
17. Piercing Through the Darkness - Emerald Barnes Twitter
18. Nalia and the Potion Maker (Nalia, Book 1) - Queenbe Monyei Twitter
19. Scorpio Rising (The Scorpio Series) - Monique Domovitch Twitter
20. Legacies of Talimura: War of the Witch - Angel Haze Twitter
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Federal defense agencies can now use FlexNet Manager Suite to help implement new Software License Optimization provision in National Defense Authorization Act
Schaumburg, IL - Feb 14, 2013 - Flexera Software, the leading provider of Application Usage Management solutions for application producers, enterprises and governments, announced today that the Department of Defense (DOD) has added Flexera Software to its list of approved providers for IT Asset Management. FlexNet Manager Suite is the only solution on ESI's approved-vendor list that provides Software License Optimization capabilities.
ESI is a joint initiative sponsored by the DoD Chief Information Officer and is designed to save time and money on commercial software, IT hardware, and services by lowering procurement costs and gaining greater visibility into IT assets. Flexera Software partners DLT and Immix Group were awarded rights to sell FlexNet Manager Suite under the ESI contract.
As a result of this award, federal military agencies have access to the leading solution that will enable implementation of Section 937 - the Software License Optimization provision - of the recently passed National Defense Authorization Act (NDAA). The law mandates the DOD's CIO to conduct a department-wide software asset inventory - an examination of current license utilization rates, and an assessment of the means by which the DOD can achieve the greatest possible economies of scale and cost savings in the procurement, use, and optimization of selected software licenses.
"Section 937 reflects bi-partisan congressional recognition of the tremendous savings the DOD can enjoy by implementing industry-recognized best practices around software license management and optimization," said Jim Ryan, Flexera Software's Chief Operating Officer. "The ESI contract awarded to FlexNet Manager Suite now makes it possible for the government to leverage the most trusted solution on the market to help it comply with the law and significantly reduce waste in software spend."
Overspend on software occurs when the government buys more software than it actually uses - shelfware; when it doesn't fully utilize the software it has a right to use based on its license entitlements; and when the government uses more software than it is entitled to, throwing it out of compliance with its contract and subjecting it to financial penalties from software vendors. According to the 2012 Key Trends in Software Licensing and Pricing Survey Report prepared by Flexera Software with assistance from IDC, 38% of organizations surveyed indicated that 11% or more of their application spend is associated with applications that are overused, and therefore out of compliance. Moreover, 56% of respondents said that 11% or more of their application spend is associated with shelfware.
"The federal government spends about $9 billion annually on software," added Ryan. "By implementing Software License Optimization through FlexNet Manager Suite, it could avoid billions in unnecessary waste by ensuring it only buys the software it needs, and uses what it has."
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http://gty.im/672214872 This week's pic is of a piece of street art by French artist and photographer, Philippe Echaroux. This piece is in Val d'Isère, France. Echaroux works by projecting imagery and light on various structures, often using portraits as his projections.
http://gty.im/96345748 This week's pic, is of the sunken village of Fabbriche di Careggine in Tuscany, Italy. A water dam called Lake Vagli has submerged the village, however every decade the basin must be drained, exposing the eerie lost village.
http://gty.im/464732811 This week's pic is of the largest ice festival in the world! The annual Harbin International Ice and Snow Sculpture Festival held in Heilongjiang, China. With temperatures in this area sometimes reaching as low as -35, the festival usually lasts up to a month. We received a [...]
http://gty.im/503571142 An Emirati falconer prepares to train his birds on January 6, 2016, during the Liwa 2016 Moreeb Dune Festival in the Liwa desert, some 250 kilometres southwest of Abu Dhabi. The festival, which attracts participants from around the Gulf region, includes a variety of races (cars, bikes, falcons, camels and horses) or other activities [...]
http://gty.im/sb10068586ex-001 2007: During the eruption of Volcano Pinatubo the ashes produced made it very problamatic for the local population who had to evacuate some of the zones that were particularly affected. Philippines, Volcano Pinatubo, boy riding ox in ash Credit: Philippe Bourseiller
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Life Insurance Corporation of India has released a vacancy notification as LIC Recruitment. Organization intends to recruit proficient candidates to fill up 1151vacant positions of Insurance Agent, Insurance Adviser and others. Job seekers who are willing to build their career in government sector can apply for LIC Recruitment 2017 through online mode.
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Eligible candidates who are searching government sector jobs, they can grab this opportunity by applying for the Life Insurance Corporation of India Recruitment. For more information regarding Life Insurance Corporation of India Jobs, you need to go through this page which is well prepared by the team of recruitmentresult.com.
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- After that hit “apply online” link visible against “LIC OF INDIA” link by selecting your location and choose appropriate link as per the post you wish to apply for and the required application form will appear on your digital screen.
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The summer Milky Way over the swathed canola field next to my rural house, on Sept 4, 2013. The Summer Triangle stars are at upper centre. A very clear night but with dust reflecting urban sky glow and airglow adding green bands to the sky. A stack of 5 x 5 minute exposures with the 14mm lens at f/2.8 and Canon 5D MkII at ISO 1600. The ground is from one exposure.
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K: Tip number one: Do not let age catch up with you. Run faster. Oh wait, with age the knees start to go so running might not be too comfy. And F and F LOVE comfy fitness. And dark chocolate. Tip number two: Retire super early from your full time desk job and do something that requires loads of outdoor activity. We do have our fitness priorities after all! Then I woke up….
A: You may not like this, but you might have to run faster just to stay in place. TAKE YOUR FINGERS OUT OF YOUR EARS. I KNOW YOU CAN HEAR ME! At 54, the rate at which you burn calories has slowed down, especially if you sit on your Bartleby the Buttolomus (lost Latin term meaning “butt”) most of the day. So, you are not burning the kcals quite as quickly — fat goes up, muscle mass goes down — the roller coaster of your BMR and metabolism goes zooming along. Good news, you don’t have to be the high bidder for a leftover “Gone With the Wind” corset. You do have to lift those weights a bit more. If you are currently doing strength training, you need to either do it more often or with heavier weights. Increase the cardio — either go longer or harder. And eat less! Shazaam 1, 2, 3.
K: Good news: cut back on the 200 sit ups. Remember, you cannot spot reduce. All the ab crunches in the world are not going to nuke any mid-section fat. You do need to expend calories to prevent fat and weight gain, so Alexandra is right to recommend the combo of cardio and weight training. Oooh, admitting her rightliness did not hurt as much as I thought. Or as much as 200 ab crunches per day with minimal results.
The short version of our advice is boiled down to three plain potatoes: eat fewer calories, or burn more through increased activity, or do both. Full disclaimer: Fun and Fit fully believe that movement is the Fountain of Youth, yet we must acknowledge that the Fountain is fed by “spring-in-the step pure exercise well waters” that require more pumping (iron) as we age.
The super short version of our advice is to say, “the heck with it. I needed a new wardrobe anyway.” But probably better to pump the Fountain Well.
A: The final words from me: Forget about Mr. (Eating) Right. Go with Mr. (Eating) Less. But marry Mr. (Exercising) Good Enough.
Readers: Were you aware that weight training is part of a good weight-loss program? Have you ever visited the Fountain of Youth?
Alexandra: Who cares? Water is boring. The only people who should be drinking water are kids in highly chlorinated pools – big gulps – just to make their parents crazy. —beep beep beep important interruption—– I myself drink water. But after 20-some years of teaching exercise, I have not found that the temperature perks up the flavor any, now does it? But since I am a consummate professional (I think that means I am a French clear soup), I definitely recommend water. It’s so much cheaper than flavored water. Fewer calories too. And you pee or sweat it out anyway, so why invest your hard-earned money and “individual plastic bottle” guilt? Me, I care more about the non-plastic, recyclable water bottle that your water comes in than the temp.
Kymberly: Yes, drinking water is super deluxe important for all people, especially active ones. Read our post on water’s benefits and how it acts to help keep you youthful. No, the temp does not matter, unless it matters to you. My work here is done. Oh, except to say that it’s also good to avoid sugary water drinks whether hot, cold, or in between.
Alexandra: If you are working out hard enough to want water, you won’t care about the water temperature anyway. You’ll be happy to grab whatever is closest and easiest. Am I right or what? However, do you prefer cold water? If so, then you will drink more, get rehydrated sooner and be an all-around healthier, good, popular person.
Okay, technically speaking, cold water is absorbed by the body faster than room temp water, according to some research. However in a 2007 position statement by the American College of Sports Medicine (ACSM) on water temperature, ACSM mostly just wants you to drink enough water to stay hydrated and avoid renal failure, dehydration, mental & cognitive performance decreases, exercise-induced hyponatremia, rhabdomyolysis or other grave illnesses, such as death. I only said all that stuff to distract you and make you think I read the research, but all I managed to do was scare myself. Gotta go. A jug of cold water is calling me, followed by a jug of room temp water. Maybe then I’ll be able to pronounce “rabbit – my – old – sis” or whatever that last illness is.
Dear waterlogged and dehydrated readers alike: Do you like water? Do you have a preferred temperature? Can you pronounce “rhabdomyolysis”?
ACTION: Subscribe to our site but only if you want your fitness questions answered by longtime pros.
Kymberly Williams-Evans, MA and Alexandra Williams, MA
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By Rabbi Eliyahu Safran
Not long ago, a prominent matchmaker replied to a request for shidduchim by writing that she has many, many wonderful young ladies looking for a successful match. What she was lacking, she went on to say, was some young gentlementches.
I was surprised to learn about this. The community was not lacking for young men just as much in need of a match as the young women. More, there were so many prominent yeshivas in the community filled with bright, committed young scholars. Certainly, I thought, that would make matchmaking fairly simple.
“Oh, scholars we have plenty of,” the matchmaker conceded with a sigh. “They are fine students of Gemara. What we don’t have are enough young men who match their scholarship with mentschlichkeit. How can I, in good conscience, make a match that seems good on the outside, but on the inside I know it will not bring joy to the home?”
R’ Bachaya writes that the very name of the Ark, Aron, is derived from ora, light. It not only stands as the repository for that which lights the world, but it should exude that powerful and holy light itself. In the same way, a talmid chochom must not only take in the light of Torah but he must give off that sacred light as well. He must shine as bright as the source of his wisdom and learning.
Bezalel, builder of the Mishkan, questioned whether the Ark should be made before its “home”, the Mishkan. In answer and throughout Parshat Teruma, Moshe speaks not simply as an architect of structures but as a teacher, a teacher of values. He speaks first of the Ark and its composition and then of the building. By extension, he speaks of our own institutions, shuls, yeshivas, and schools. In other words, the schools exist for the Torah and its students, not the other way around. If we focus on the edifice before the value of what it houses, then the building is nothing but bricks, a façade. Likewise, if the talmid chochom is not humble, sensitive, and caring, if he lacks derech eretz, then his scholarship too is a façade.
In fact, though we praise our best students as talmidim chochomim when they have demonstrated their grasp of their studies, it is impossible to speak of a genuine talmid chochom if he is not a mentsch. Lacking mentschlichkeit, the student – even the student whose grasp of texts is impressive – is vulgar, one who uses the power of his learning and intelligence to elevate himself, not the Torah, and certainly not others.
No wonder the matchmaker was so disheartened.
Talmidim, be learners, but do not hold up your learning above your decency!
Chazal teach us [Yoma 21a] that the physics of space did not apply to the Aron, that the Aron did not occupy any space in this world even though it was a physical vessel constructed by human hands. “Aron eino min hamiddah” – the Aron was not included in the measurements of the Kodesh HaKadoshim. Moreinu Rav Belsky goes even further, “Just as it is not part of space, neither is it part of time; the Aron will endure for eternity.”
This insight teaches us that if a talmid wants to be like an Aron – emitting the light of Torah – then he needs to rise above the metrics, and limits, society uses to measure “worth.” Those who are consumed with social and political measurements of worth get bogged down in their own thinking and consequently cannot make room for others. Their implicit and explicit message is, “You are not good enough. You are not observant enough. You can’t be part of our school, our community…”
It is not how genuine talmidim chochomim think and behave! Genuine talmidim chochomim emphasize that they are talmidim and do not ever presume for themselves chochomim.
When the Satmar Rebbe, zt”l, came to America after World War II, Rav Shraga Feivel Medelovitz, the Principal of Yeshiva Torah VoDaath invited him to come to the yeshiva to present a Torah lecture for the students. The Satmar Rebbe gave a well-received shiur and afterwards the students surrounded him to engage in a vigorous Torah discussion.
After the boys left, Rav Medelovitz went to the Rebbe and asked, “Nu, what did you think of that? Wasn’t it beautiful?”
The Satmar Rebbe conceded that it had indeed been an impressive experience but, inverting the classic Talmudic teaching on being a talmid chochom, he hoped that the students would be “on the outside like they were on the inside.”
In his reply, the Satmar Rebbe not only turned our conventional understanding on its head, he also called attention to the need to be in balance on the inside and out – for our scholarship to be an expression not just of our intellect but our spirituality as well.
In our communities, there is often too much emphasis on appearances, on the color of suits and kapotes , shapes and colors of hats and shtreimels we wear. Such emphasis blinds us to the inner qualities that make a person truly pious, qualities that are essential to a Torah scholar. This is not to suggest that our outward appearance isn’t important. It is by our external selves that we shine the light of the Torah to the world and so we should not be oblivious to “outer beauty” either.
Act like a mensch. Look like a mensch. Be a mensch!
The inner self and outer self must be in balance.
Because being a Torah chochom is, by definition, a humbling experience – never one that is achieved, only striven toward – we understand that being a Torah scholar should not be goal oriented. That is, the reward is not overt, or external. Unlike in worldly matters, where reward is meted out based on completed tasks, on results rather than effort, in Torah study the opposite is true. Reward is granted for effort, even more than for achievement. The Torah student who wrestles with a tractate of Talmud but does not comprehend every line and nuance of the discussion and analysis extols God at a siyum celebration: Heim amelim veinam mekablim sechar, anu amelim umekablim sechar – “They exert effort and receive no reward; we exert effort and receive rewards.”
We seek to understand that which cannot be fully understood. Therefore, our reward must be for our efforts. We are always “striving for” but never achieving full knowledge and understanding.
Beneath the Aron’s gold covering inside and out, its construction is acacia wood. What does this teach us? Why would the receptacle of our Torah, our greatest gift, not be fashioned exclusively from the most precious metals? The wood teaches us that Jewish knowledge and scholarship should not – cannot – be not be associated only with wealth, riches, or exclusivity. Our inner and outer selves must be equally “gilded with gold” but we must remember that that inner and outer gold cover plain wood, which one day will rot and return to dust.
Knowing where we come from and whence we go – dust – teaches that the heart of the talmid chochom must be filled with overwhelming love, compassion, and humility.
Sometimes it seems that some well-meaning contemporary Jews, who strive earnestly to become talmidei chochomim, forget the purpose of their pursuit. They think it has an end result – an award, recognition, the applause of peers. They think it elevates them. They indeed become chochomim but somehow forget to remain talmidim.
Balance. On the one hand, the essence of Jewish learning and knowledge is unpretentious. It is simple wood, available to all. On the other hand, we cover that wood in gold because the repository of the Torah, the Aron, should reflect the value we place upon the treasure it holds, the Torah.
The talmid chochom must know it is not enough to acquire learning. He must demonstrate respect, reverence, and derech eretz to the Torah. Chazal teach that derech eretz kadmah l’torah, derech eretz must precede actual learning. We Jews must appreciate not only the contents of Torah, but also embrace an approach and attitude toward learning, one that bespeaks the path of learning, and not just the destination.
The Aron was built to be beautiful inside and out but its physical beauty was only external representations of an inner reality. The true scholar knows from whence he comes and to whence he goes. Along the path of that journey, he seeks balance in his inner and outer self. In this way, he remains respectful, normal and humble, he is a mensch.
He would be a most wonderful match indeed!
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Elav Feen was a male Twi'lek who owned the popular spacer bar The Swirling Vortex.
He had a number of Corellian associates, who were being plagued by a group of pirates led by Jizal Taphan.
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In this unpublished fragment, Dana Unknown's pal, Jack Christian, meets Mary Jane Gallows:
"And Professor Moriarty," Vionna went on. "What happened to him, do you think?"
"I don't know. And then there's the Clay Man. I know he gives most people the creeps, but he's very useful, as you know from experience. Not to mention the fact that he cost Dana's dad 3.4 million dollars, and that was back in 1950. It would run you about thirty-three million today. Doc Unknown commissioned some freaky Kabbalist wizard with tax problems and a coke habit of biblical proportions to create the thing and imbue it with whatever it was imbued with."
"I wish I could afford expensive stuff like that," Vionna said wistfully.
"You're fine with what you have," said Mary Kelly.
At exactly three o'clock there was a knock at the door. The new client. Vionna went and answered the door, then escorted the client into the office. It was a woman-- very young, late teens, probably.
She looked familiar, but I couldn't place her. I knew she wasn't anybody I had ever met in any ordinary, everyday context. If I had seen that face before, it would have been in a photograph. And I had the impression that it must have been a very old one, in spite of the fact that she looked like a teenager. In my minds eye, I removed the color from her face, leaving only shades of black, white and gray. Yes, that looked better. I was on the right track. I tweaked my imaginary portrait further, adding a film grain effect and a bit of sepia tone. Better still. I almost had it now.
"I need help," she said, after Vionna had shown her to a chair, "much as it pains me to admit it. I am absolutely perplexed and I have heard a great many good things about your agency. This is exactly the sort of case where your talents will shine most brightly. Also, you have a sort of connection to this affair. That's why I requested that Mr. Christian be present."
"I know you," said Mary Kelly. "Forgive my impertinence, but I find it difficult to believe that your name is really Veronika QuiBono. The name is utterly absurd. And I have seen you before. A very long time ago."
"Yes," said the visitor, " that is true. We have brushed up against one another, so to speak, on two occasions; once in 1892, and again in 1933. This, however, is our first face-to-face meeting in the real word. I'm very sorry about what my father did to you. Though I disavowed him decades ago, I still feel a certain amount of responsibility. So I am pleased to find you doing so well."
"Okay, wait a second," I said. "Before this goes any further, let's clarify a couple of things that are bothering me." I made eye contact with our guest. "First off, 1892? Did I hear that right? And 1933 as well?"
She nodded. "That's right."
This gave me more fodder for my mental Photoshop. I deleted the clothes she was wearing and replaced them with something from the early 20th Century. Yes, I was getting there. The memory swam closer to the surface of my mind.
"You don't look like you're more than 18 years old," I went on. "How is it that you were in a position to be brushing up against people a hundred and twenty years ago? Are you some kind of time traveler or something?"
"Yes, I am. But I only travel forward, and it takes me approximately 365 days to advance one year into the future."
"That's cute," I said. "So, you're more than a hundred and twenty years old? You're very well preserved." I wasn't as skeptical as you might think, but I was wary, of course.
"Thank you," she said. "Yes, I just turned 121 last month."
"Okay, I've seen stranger things. Now, what's this about your father?
"Jack," Vionna piped up, "she came here to hire me and Mary, not you. Quit monotonizing her."
"Monopolizing, dear," Mary corrected her.
"Actually," said the prospective client, "I believe Miss Valis was correct. This young man is incredibly monotonous, and it's beginning to try my patience. Over the years I have managed to develop enough self-restraint to suffer fools like him without resorting to violence, but only up to a point. In fact, that's part of why I'm here."
"Now, look, Miss Whoever," I said with some indignation, "I don't know who you think..."
"Jack!" Mary Kelly interrupted me. "You have no idea who you're talking to, do you?"
"That's what I'm trying to find out," I said irritably.
"No," said the visitor, "you're just fumbling. You wanted to know who my
father was. Even I do not know his real name, but he called himself
Jack the Ripper. It might also interest you to know that my mother was
Lizzie Borden. Quite a pedigree, is it not? So. Knowing what you now
know about my antecedents-- even if you know nothing at all of me-- you
might naturally assume that I am one of the very last people on earth
that you would want to screw with in any way, shape or form. Have you
indeed made that assumption, young sir?"
I just nodded. She was
extremely convincing. Her eyes were boring into mine, and I felt
light-headed-- almost giddy-- and seemed to have momentarily forgotten
how to communicate verbally. I have gazed into many an abyss in my day--
both literal and figurative-- and had never really understood
Nietzsche's old saw about the abyss gazing also into you. It just didn't
seem like anything to be alarmed about. I mean, who cares? Be my guest!
Gaze all you want, even take a few Polaroids if you feel inclined. It
seemed pretty passive.
But this woman's eyes were an abyss unlike
any other. What I saw in them was just a hint of deep strangeness and
great danger. I knew there were things in there that I could never
fathom. I also knew at that moment that she did not have the same
trouble with me. To her, I wasn't an abyss-- I was a shallow wading
pool, barely worth the handful of seconds it took her to compile a
complete inventory of my soul. And, somehow, I got the impression that
she was unimpressed with what she found.
She stood up and moved
toward me, extending her hand. I rose from my chair, and we shook. Her
hand was cool and dry, while my own had generated some unpleasant
perspiration. I knew who she was. She was practically a clone of Lizzie
Borden, whose likeness I had seen countless times. But there were no
surviving photographs of Lizzie as a teenager. That was what had thrown
the monkey wrench into my supposedly-eidetic memory. Our visitor was an
anachronism in more ways than one.
"My name," she said, "is Mary Jane Gallows, and I have come to hire your sister and Miss Kelly to do a job for me. And I also have business with you, which I will explain in detail later on."
You can meet her too, if you're feeling brave. Just go here and plunk down 99 cents:
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This charming city hotel has been a landmark in the area since 1991 and welcomes business travellers, their national and international clients, colleagues and executives. In short, this hotel is a must for those looking for outstanding quality in terms of service, hospitality, courtesy and above all professionalism. Renovated in 2005, this family-friendly hotel comprises a total of 43 rooms spread over 4 floors in a main building and 3 floors in an annexe. Facilities on offer to guests at this air-conditioned establishment include a lobby area with a 24-hour reception and 24-hour check-in/check-out service, a hotel safe, a lift, a café, a bar, a TV lounge, a breakfast room, conference facilities and Internet access (charges apply). For an additional fee, guests may also take advantage of the room and laundry services and there is parking and a garage for those arriving by car (charges apply to both).In the immediate vicinity (100 meters) are the Train Station where frequent trains, approximately 50 per day, provide a service directly to the heart of Venice and Treviso in only 15 minutes, eliminating the problem of finding parking lots and dealing with traffic, and saving time. Ticket costs euro 1,7 one wayAll rooms come with a private en suite bathroom with a shower, as well as a hairdryer, a direct dial telephone, satellite/ cable TV, a radio, Internet access and a minibar. Furthermore, individually adjustable air conditioning and heating and a safe are provided in all accommodation as standard. All rooms feature either a balcony or a terrace.
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For those of you who, like me, have acne prone skin will know that a good skin care routine is essential to controlling those pesky pimples! I have been using these products in my routine for over a month now and so far they have been working great! Ps apologies for my bare face in the photo above.
I made the decision a couple of months ago to switch makeup wipes to micellar water, this is because I find removing my makeup with micellar water instead of wipes removes more makeup and has improved the overall appearance of my skin. As I have sensitive skin I use the Nivea Daily Essentials Micellar Water.
To wash my face I will alternate between two products, these being the T-ZONE Blackhead Fighting Facial Scrub and the Charcoal deep cleansing face wash. The T-ZONE facial scrub is great at exfoliating the skin, leaving it nice and soft and since using it, it has definitely prevented blackheads. I have previously written a post reviewing the Charcoal face wash which can be viewed through the link below if you wish to see my opinion of the product. Both these products leave my face feeling soft and clean with a glowing complexion.
After cleansing my face I use two toners. One of which is the Tea Tree Cleanser and Toner from Superdrug to further cleanse the skin; tea tree is also a great product for acne prevention. I then use the Simple Kind To Skin Facial Toner as it has multi-vitamin ingredients in the product leaving my skin feeling/looking nice and healthy.
My current daily moisturiser is the Simple Kind To Skin Hydrating Light Moisturiser. This product leaves my skin feeling extremely soft and moisturised. A product I use for individual spots is Sudocrem, I find it is an effective product for reducing redness and the size of any spots I may have.
For my under eye area, I use multiple products; Pure Cucumber Eye Roll-On, the Balance Snake Venom Eye Cream and the Balance Active Formula Wrinkle-Freezer Serum. I also use the latter product as a preventative on areas of my face where I am likely to get wrinkles when I’m older.
I have also increased my water intake A LOT and I have genuinely noticed the difference in the appearance of my skin; I have less break outs, my skin appears much clearer and in general looks nicer than it has for some time.
Thank you for reading!
Lots Of Love x
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Thursday, October 11, 2012
The team living it large in the lounge/garage of the hotel in Chaiya
The last couple of days have seen Wally gradually winning the war with the gps - it trying to drag us back to the highway, Wal persuading it to join us on little winding village roads through groves of coconut trees. Last night's stop sounded promising - the Mukda Resort near Chumphon turned out to be less of a resort and more of a motel. In fact it was not in the least a resort and entirely a motel, but a comfy enough one for all that. It was bang on the busy highway, and lacked a restaurant, so going out for dinner involved being escorted along the hard shoulder of the tumultuous road for several hundred metres in the dark by the little Thai lady proprietor, past a couple of food stalls that she didn't approve of ("NO, NO!" - about a quarter of her English vocabulary), to a row of stalls with quite a few young diners and their cars - one with both doors open and music thumping out. We had fun discussing the menu with the waitress, each in our own language, until a lot of pointing and kitchen visiting produced, in an instalment-plan kind of way, an agreeable repast, and one almost, but not entirely, free of karaoke. Sadly a large machine, half TV half jukebox, was put through its paces by some of the young blokes.
The day before the ATMs had been grumpy and refused us money. Walter reassured us he had plenty so we didn't waste too long on it. It transpired that his well-known sunny optimism extended to the contents of his wallet and we didn't have enough between us to pay the motel and a taxi for the bags. Mark came to the rescue by riding off in the early morning to the next town to find a more friendly machine. It gave him a chance to ride at a speed and in an air temperature much more to his liking than the rigours he goes through hanging out with the team….
A good day's ride brought us to the dusty but rather nice little town of Chaiya, which had the most fabulous night time market where we fed ourselves dinner walking from stall to stall trying things out, including some yummy big nuts nobody had seen before - shiny brown, thin shells, about 40mm long, flesh yellowish white and soft, for a nut, tasting a bit almondy. Two different English-speakers, in different towns, said exactly the same - they only come from the south of Thailand, they don't know what they are called and they don't know what sort of tree they grow on. I've had no luck googling them - does anybody know?
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After just completing the game, I am in total shock. So stunned that I
couldn't even skip the credits. Without spoiling anything, you will be
completely amazed of how they decided to end it off.
Anyways it's a great game and a cool change from a city at the bottom of the ocean to a city in the sky. The scene where you are lifted to Columbia is just as breathtaking as seeing Rapture for the first time. As soon as this scene happens, you know you're playing a Bioshock game.
People have been also wondering how Elizabeth's AI is. Absolutely flawless, this is in no way a co-op game like Resident Evil 5. You don't have to revive her or give her any ammo or anything of that sort.
Their are some horror elements to this game similar to Rapture, but it's more focused on Action and sci-fi. There is one part that did scare the hell out of me though.
Kudos to Irrational for another masterpiece. If you thought the story telling in Bioshock 1 was incredibly done, just wait till you get a load of this!
I give it a solid 10/10.
I have played many games in the past to completion and Bioshock
infinite is one of the few that has completely mind fudged me with its
It's character driven story mixed with its clever and well constructed writing not only creates a masterpiece of a story but emotionally attaches you to the lovable characters Elizabeth and Booker. These along with other awesome characters have amazing voice acting, dialogue and personalities - it sometimes feel as if these characters, especially Elizabeth, are real humans - The connection that grows between the player and these game characters is truly wonderful and emotional.
The game play is true to its predecessors in maintaining the addictive fun you experience while shooting up enemy's and using Vigor, which is the equivalent to the originals 'plasmids', to your advantage. Elizabeth doesn't annoy you during combat as she can take care of herself and is not a burden when you play, but is a joy to have by your side. Her gameplay mechanic of creating 'tears' to help you take down your enemy's is implemented well in the game along with the skyline and it's melee executions and ability's, which also fit in well with the game's structure.
The sound effects in the game have a nice and crisp quality and the mission design plus the set pieces are just great. The atmosphere of the city of Columbia, a floating city with a old school American theme, makes this game unique and different from the other Bioshocks, which take place in the underwater city of Rapture, but it still has this familiar sense about it which is nostalgic and amazing.
The game does not have a multiplayer nor does it need one as it truly delivers a cinematic and breath taking experience that you alone can, in fact you must have and I urge you to buy this game, as it is no doubly my game of this year and could possibly be my game of the decade!
10/10 - love doesn't come close to what I feel towards this game!
Just to let you guys know, this is my first ever review on IMDb!! Thanks for reading :)
I have been playing this game for eight hours now and love it. I may be
biased because the first two are amongst my favorite games, but I think
the reviews from around the web support my feelings towards the game.
The graphics are beautiful, and my computer handles them well with no lag or bug issues so far.
The story is complex for a game, and the characters, especially the main two are deeper than the usual game characters without getting in the way of the action. It is also much longer than the last games.
The fighting is similar to the other Bio-Shock games, but still has its own unique weapons, like the sky-hook, and different power ups and upgrades, so we have the familiarity of the old games, but still something new and fresh.
I can't wait to play this a few more times at least. Its so good. I give it an easy 10 out of 10!
Going in, I was expecting great things: the first Bioshock was one of
the best games I'd ever played, including the best heel-turn I'd ever
seen. And with all of the hype, I was expecting to be let down.
Luckily, I was not. Bioshock Infinite manages to deliver on every
single level, often simultaneously, to produce a truly remarkable
The graphics, art, and animations are incredibly well-thought out and defined, often capturing your interest and making the fantastical world of Columbia seem real.
The game-play is very fluid and very fun. The combat is similar to the first two games, but with a few new mechanics that keep things fresh and exciting. Also, Elizabeth is a companion. But it doesn't end up being an escort mission, where she is in constant need of rescue, and sits by while you are attacked. Elizabeth ends up being a useful and resourceful addition to the player, almost an extension.
The writing and voice-acting are spot on, the actors who play DeWitt (Troy Baker) and Elizabeth (Courtnee Draper) especially. You feel the strong chemistry between then, and the relationship organically and believably grows.
The story. Oh man, the story. Like I said, I was blown away the first time I played Bioshock 1. It was so creative, so smart, and so complete. But Infinite manages to irk out its predecessor in all of these departments, leaving me audibly remarking at many of the plot turns. Even the banter, which there is a fair amount of, feels necessary and important. Also, it does not reel you in and then simply let you go after a couple hours of play, like so many games nowadays. It keeps you engaged for well over 12 hours, as long as you take your time.
All in all, this is one of the best games I've ever played. It looks absolutely incredible. The combat and game-play is fluid, enticing, and always fresh. The story is fleshed out, entertaining, thought-provoking. The environment is incredibly deep, leaving the player room and time to explore all of the little things that are put in.
HOW TO PLAY THIS GAME: -Go through it slowly. Take your time to explore and soak in the environment and story. -Expect to play multiple times. Don't try and use all of the Vigors and weapons at once. Focus on what you like, and what works for you. Also, there are collectibles like in the first two games. Find the ones you can, but going on a treasure hunt isn't necessary.
10/10, 5/5, *****, A+
This is by far the best game that i have ever played. I have never
played any other Bioshock game then Infinite, but now things changed.
After years of having my brother talking about how good the original
Bioshock was i felt extremely tempted to try Infinite. I bought the
game and i would never in the world imagine that i would be left
willing to easily pay 500$ for it instead of the 60$. Much like a
painting on the wall this is a classic and it is so extremely good that
i could hang the physical game up on the wall just to get reminded of
the wonderful story this game has to offer. To get these feelings from
playing a game is very rare and extremely beautiful. You will be in
despair sometimes, you might get slightly depressed, you will fall in
love, you will be scared. You will build up an emotional bond between
Elisabeth that just makes you want her to be OK and safe.
I am very unfamiliar with FPS games and i don't play very much. However, this game catches your attention within minutes and you just can stop playing until its finished. I can almost guarantee you that you will be left with questions and a kind of enlightenment after this finishing the game. However as many other have agreed on. It will take more then one run to truly understand everything. It's not very different from movies such as Inception (even if this is not a movie), which you might wanna see 2 times to fully understand the story.
I am left as a Ken Levine fan and i am also left almost crying. These games are so rare and i have never seen anything like it in my entire life and i really, truly hope that i will see more creations of Ken Levine. He said in an interview that after the release he would go on a long vacation. 6 years in making the game, well... He truly deserves it.
There is no words that can describe how much i recommend this game. It is a masterpiece and i have never seen anything like it. I finished the game 4 days ago and that rush you get after finishing it is still here.
Ken Levine and everyone involved in this game. I hope they earned a lot of money because they totally deserved it! Love to them!
I'm not a big fan of first person shooters, but the first BioShock
caught my attention last year with it's unique story and atmosphere, so
I decided to buy Infinite last week to give that one also a try
(BioShock 2 is yet to be conquered). I did expect a great game like the
original BioShock, but I never expected to run into a masterpiece of
modern gaming in it's own genre.
BioShock Infinite delivers superbly from every possible angle: the entertainment value, the world, the atmosphere, the characters/character development, the pacing, the dialogue, and most of all, the story. Every aspect of this game is perfectly unique and masterful, and Infinite accomplishes something that not many games can accomplish; it is very emotional, mature and deep, but also extremely fun to play.
If I compared BioShock Infinite to something in other forms of art, it would probably be the joining of David Lynch's Mullholland Drive and Stephen Kings The Dark Tower. But of course with thoroughly unique style that makes BioShock Infintite a game like no other. Can't but love that satirical, bleak, sadistic, mentally disturbed world that this game (and the whole game series for that matter) represents.
Not many games deserve a 10/10, because there usually is always something that doesn't fit, but BioShock Infinite is as perfect as it gets. Future classic, or maybe a classic already.
It's very hard to review this game even partially, not to mention I
don't often review anything beyond I like or dislike something.
If you play games for the story, then you should stop reading this. Go out and buy it already. The story in this game is above and beyond what any movie can offer. Though, with a game time of at least 8 hours, that's to be expected. It has been written in a way that throughout the game it gives subtle hints to what's happening and has happened before, however, you probably won't recognize them for what they are until the ending (I didn't). WATCH PAST THE CREDITS!
Graphics wise; I'm lucky enough to be running dual And HD7970s, so I never had a single bit of lag in the game. In fact, I doubt it dropped below 100 fps. However, even a single card below mine should provide enough power to show the spectacle that is Columbia in all its DX11 goodness. Side note, it's better to play this on a PC if you want it to look incredible, xbox and PS3 (or the up and coming consoles) can't compete with even a low level gaming rig, My opinion.
This is a first person shooter, and as another reviewer said, it plays out a lot like the two previous titles. Firearm in one hand, plasmid/vigor in the other. Some of the vigors can be quite graphic and shocking to the player, probably the worst of them is a vigor that shoots crows out of the players hands and tears the flesh from your enemies. This game is not suited for young viewers. The skylines, I believe they are called - I'm still reeling from the end of the story, didn't play as big a part in the fighting as I would of liked. I think the game play video hyped it up a little too much. There just wasn't all that much of it, sure you can use it for some cool kills, but I found it a lot simpler and flowing to fight from the ground.
Audio is very simple; music suits the time period, sound effects are incredible. Play it with surround sound and you will not be disappointed.
Overall: An easy 10/10 for this game, good fun and engaging story line will give any player hours of fun, and some scares as well! Play the game, there's hours of content, and multiple play throughs needed to get 100% and learn about Columbia and its history.
I have played the first two Bioshocks. The first one I enjoyed although I thought somethings were frustrating and it dragged on. The second Bioshock I did not enjoy. It was too short and too much like the first one. Well this game takes a completely different turn on the series and it becomes an absolutely incredible game. You play as Booker, a troubled man sent to the floating city of Columbia to "bring us the girl and wipe away the debt". What seems like a simple rescue mission turns into an extremely complex story, as you learn more about Booker, Elizabeth (the girl who you go to Columbia to get) and Comstock, the prophet of Columbia. Overall, the story is fantastic, it keeps you on your toes and has a huge plot twist ending that will leave your jaw dropped. The game play is what you should expect from Bioshock, with guns and vigors, blasting away enemies. This game is a lot more fast paced with tons of more combat than the first two Bioshocks. Some people may not enjoy that, but I loved it. The guns and vigors are all super fun to use. The musical score is great, the characters are great. Everything about this game is great, so go purchase it now, because it's better than the first two Bioshocks.
I had high exceptions for this wonderful game because I knew this
infinite wouldn't disappoint me. Once you strap yourself and head on to
Columbia prepare to get blown away by the beautiful scenery once you
step foot in it. Its clearly one of the best games of 2013 by far, that
it may be game of year.
The combat feels so different giving you a rush options on how to tackle down your enemies whether, you fight on the ground, skyline, or both to mix it up. I was surprise how violent it when Booker slams down the police's head on to the sky-hook cutting his face in half. But, the new thing it gives you are the executions you can do with the sky-hook and their so fun to watch. The girl who is named Elizabeth, is very likable that you always want to keep her safe, even though you don't have to really protect her. She is one of the best AI so far, giving you ammo,salts, health, she is the perfect one in helping you in bad situations. That's a huge bonus during battles.
The level designs are incredible just like how the 1st Bioshock was. Grabbing you again with insane amounts of detail and creativity throughout. Still, even though Infinite isn't scary as the first one was ,yet it still has its OMG moments.
Booker and Elizabeth by far have the best chemistry than any other games that's out there. Their adventures will keep you wanting to play this game. And I already beat three times because amount of detail you can miss and the style can change when playing. I have to say the ending... I have no words for it.
This game is absolutely amazing. You can tell that there was an
enormous amount of thought put into every detail, down to the very last
corner. Bioshock Infinite is my favorite game to date, no question
To start, the art direction is very good. Everything is arranged to be very appealing, and the colors are very balanced. I loved just walking around the city and soaking it all up. There are 1912 style shops to go into, and they are all populated. In one area, there is even a good, three-minute quartet that you can just sit and listen to. I was very impressed with the magnitude of everything. Seldom are you placed in a small, dark room or hallway. Most of the game is set in colorful areas with large statues and airy buildings.
I liked that it did not actually put you in the dark, but gave a dark feeling when it was appropriate. As per the Bioshock games, some of the events are quite dark, and I liked the uneasy feeling without the dark corridors of Rapture.
Combat is a step up from other games in the genre. The introduction of "skylines" allows you to jump quickly from place to place, making everything very fast paced. I didn't quite like the inventory management as much as in the original Bioshock, however. I found it much harder to deal with my Vigors, mainly because you couldn't just scroll through them like in the other game. Still, you get used to it - that's a fairly minor gripe.
I can not say much about the story. If I told you what was so great about it, I would spoil it for you. I can say that it puzzled me, and it was a few hours after finishing the game that I worked everything out. I felt like some of the points were repeated too much though. I get that they try to help everyone understand it well, but I would rather just have it all thrown at me - that way it's more fun to work out on my own.
Overall, Irrational Games has gone above and beyond what anyone expected. The only way you would find this game worse than the original is if you are somewhat nostalgic. Even if you did not like the first or second game, I highly recommend that you still give Bioshock Infinite a try. As a side note, there are a few things that you will not quite understand if you skip the first game. They are little details, but in a game like Bioshock Infinite, it is the little details that really count.
This game is worth every cent. If you can not afford it, you can wait until the next sale. The trilogy tends to go for $15~.
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The Planning And Serving Of Meals
( Originally Published 1918 )
Experience has shown that some foods are more acceptable at one time of day than other foods, and that certain combinations are more pleasing than others. The choice of foods will also depend upon the season of the year. For example, breakfast is, as a rule, made up of simple foods that are not highly seasoned nor subjected to elaborate methods of cooking. A fruit, a cereal, and bread, with, possibly, eggs or meat, are served at breakfast. A hot beverage is added by most people to this meal.
Fundamentally, dinner consists of a hot meat or other protein dish, with one or two vegetables. Soup, salad, and a sweet dessert are often served. The soul) is served before the meat course, and the salad and dessert follow it. The dessert may be a fruit, a cookie or other pastry, a pudding, or a frozen dish.
Lunch or supper may be a very simple meal, consisting of a soup with crackers, one protein dish (eggs, milk, or meat) with bread and stewed fruit, or a salad, with a simple dessert.
The table should always he neatly set, with individual places arranged for each one who is to partake of the meal. Each place should he wide enough for a plate, with a knife and spoon at the right and a fork at the left side. A tumbler should he placed at. the point, of the knife and a napkin at. the left of the fork. Everything on the table should be perfectly clean, the napkin should be neatly folded. and all the articles should be uniformly arranged, in order to give a neat appearance to the table. A flower or plant in the centre will add to its attractiveness. Salt, pepper, sugar, vinegar, and anything of the kind that may be needed with the meal should be arranged where it can be easily reached. Fresh water should be poured into the tumblers just before the meal is served. The bread, butter, and so on, may he put on the table several minutes before the meal is announced but the hot diches should be placed immediately before the family is seated.
If Lesson V I, entitled " Setting and Clearing the Table " as outlined in the course on the Care of the IIome lias been given, this lesson may be devoted to what to serve and how to serve it. or it may precede the lesson on `' Waiting on Table "_ The manner of serving may be demonstrated in the next lesson, in connection with the course on the Care of the Home.
Simple equipment for family service will be required, if the form of serving is to be taken up. For class practice, a table for four may be arranged. This will necessitate a table-cover, four dinner plates, four bread-and-butter plates, four tumblers, four cups and saucers, four knives, four forks, four teaspoons, four napkins, a platter, one serving spoon, and one serving fork.
METHOD OF WORK
Discuss meal service from the standpoint both of choice and combination of foods and of the method of service. Let the class plan a meal, then go through the form of serving that meal at table. In the absence of a table, the top of a desk may be used. Later in the course, the teacher should plan to combine this lesson with one on cooking and have the food served. In each cooking lesson, suggestions for serving the food should lie made, and each dish cooked should be carefully served.' Interest in this lesson may be increased by allowing the pupils to make original menus, and, if they are having some lessons in drawing, simple menu cards may be planned arid executed.
Household Science in Rural Schools:
The Value Of Carbohydrates In The Diet
Fruits And Vegetables
The Planning And Serving Of Meals
Eggs And Egg Preparation
Simple Desserts - Custards
Batters And Doughs
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I’m very much looking forward to joining Conservative Progress on Saturday July 15th.
The focus of the event is to look at how we engage with people even more in future, especially in London.
It’s going to be a really positive event, looking at where we are what we need to do to get the Conservative message across in future.
– Party reform: Revitalising the grassroots party
– Reviving our campaign machine
– Appealing to the future: Winning young voters
– Winning in London
– Effective digital campaigning
– Communicating our message beyond our traditional base
For tickets… click the link below.
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di Rosa Art Alive Tour
Located in the Carneros Region of the Napa Valley, di Rosa's over 200 acres of landscaped grounds and open space offer the visitor refuge to view a broad range of the art of Northern California in a singularly unique setting. The property includes a 35-acre lake and wildlife preserve. Protected in perpetuity under the Napa County Land Trust, di Rosa is rich in flora and fauna, with open space that is home to a fascinating array of wildlife, native plant species, and di Rosa's own peacocks.
The Gatehouse Gallery features rotating exhibits and selections from the permanent di Rosa collection. Stop by often to see group and one-person shows of Bay Area artists working in a variety of media.
The Main Gallery: The heart of the di Rosa collection includes modern and contemporary paintings, drawings, sculpture, and photographs by well known Bay Area artists.
Historic Residence: Once the home of Rene and Veronica di Rosa, this 125-year-old winery-turned residence houses hundreds of works of art. A Napa County Landmark, the Residence is open for tours only.
Courtyard: The large courtyard adjacent to the Historic Residence features numerous sculptures along with views of Winery Lake and neighboring vineyards.
North Lawn: Overlooking the Sculpture Meadow, the North Lawn is home to two dozen large-scale works of art surrounded by vineyards and open space, including the Glass Chapel by Veronica di Rosa.
Sculpture Meadow: A 1/3 mile trail winds its way past large-scale outdoor sculptures by such artists as Mark di Suvero, Viola Frey, Gordon Heuther, and Ray Beldner.
Guests are invited to bring a picnic to the tour to enjoy onsite in the specially reserved picnic site after the guilded tour. Wine and beer are acceptable on the premises.
di Rosa Property
5200 Sonoma Highway
Napa, CA 94559
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In the winds we tested not one of the riders could ride the Infinity upwind. I'm sure it was probably something with our board riding skills though.
Yikes! I really liked your review, and thought the format was pretty good, and I have assumed by your location (having ridden there myself) that you guys know your light wind kiting.
That being said, while I might understand not liking the V3 compared to the other kites, I find it extremely hard to believe that none of you could stay upwind on that kite. Granted, I have a V2 so I assume the V3 is better. I am a VERY AVERAGE kiter although I do spend a lot of time working light winds, and I have no trouble at all staying upwind on my V2. As a matter of fact, most of the time that I kite around other lightwind kites, I am often the only one holding my ground, and some of the kites you reviewed are having to walk back upwind. Sure, that is all about kiter ability and what board you are on, but I just can't believe you guys had that much trouble.
If you are looking for a lightwind kite, I would say to take all this "can't get upwind on the Infinity" talk with a grain of salt. I do know and believe it flies differently, but I have hours of really boring video that proves you can stay upwind on this kite in very light wind.
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I'm 19. I've been on the depo provera shot for at least 2 years. I've gotten my shot every 12 weeks on the exact date that I'm supposed to. I'm due for another one in a couple of days. I always spot a few days before I'm due for the injection, but it's only a small amount and lasts about a day or sometimes 2. Oddly, I've been bleeding for 2 weeks now. My boyfriend and I always have unprotected sex, as we are not worried about getting pregnant because of my injections. We had unprotected sex on August 24th, and I started bleeding on the 28th, just out of nowhere and it was somewhat heavy, definitely not just spotting. I've never bled this much while on this shot so I'm kind of worried. My breasts have also grown which is pretty weird for me because I have small breasts and they never really seem to grow, but we have both noticed a change in them. However, they are not very tender. I have a few food allergies so when my stomach hurts I don't see a problem. Lately, I've been feeling nauseous in the mornings (which is another reason why we're worried) but I've never vomited. I've also been wanting foods that I've never really liked. Like beef, salad, okra, etc. I've just been feeling odd about the whole situation. Could someone please tell me if I'm just being a stressed out worry wart for no reason?
I was on Depo for quite a few years. The light bleeding you referred to is obviously normal, as well it is possible to have break through bleeding that might be heavier at times. The growth in your breast, well that can be a cause from many different things! I've had very few experiences of hearing ppl get pregnant while on DEPO, However it has happend, It's been quite a few years ago and this women was... well for lack of better words pretty large! She went to the hospital w/ major stomach pain only to discover she was in full blown labor, So yes it can happen!! But dont jump to conclusions so quiclky, your mind is a powerful thing, and you can be stresing yourself to the point that the symptoms you are having could be part real and some Physcological. My best advice is do the right thing... Go get a couple pregnancy test, and yes I remember those days, you are going to be nervous as can be, and once you use the test that 1 minute is gonna seem like an eternity!! Good luck, Any more thoughts or questions please contact me, Especially w/ the good/or bad news!
With Depo-Provera, you are not likely to be pregnant. If you are on time and regular with getting your injections, you have less than a 1% chance of pregnancy. Bleeding doesnt signal pregnancy anyway unless something is horribly wrong! I think a lot of your symptoms are psychological and since you are stressed and worried, you are hypervigilant on everything going on with your body and you are seeing symptoms everywhere. It is likely your mind playing tricks on you. If you are worried, take a pregnancy test but if you are bleeding, especially heavier bleeding, it is VERY unlikely to be pregnant. It could just be shifts in your hormones. If it doesnt stop soon or gets really bothersome, speak to your gynecologist.
No you won't be pregnant if you've had all of your shots on time.
Depo tricks your body into thinking it's pregnant, so that you don't produce an egg. It therefore can give other pregnancy symptoms.
Speak to your doctor about bringing your shots forward to 9 0r 10 weeks for the next few times. Worked for me :)
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I have added 10 links to the library, but didn't recieve CPs. I have reported to the webmaster, and posted a letter to the e-mail in the "Add links". What should I expect? That my links are not worthy or the CPs are lost in the transaction?
FYI, the number of CPs awarded for these have been reduced recently, but if you both post the names of the links you submit to the library, I'll award the CPs :) (Sorry, I'm not the Links Library guy, and the LL guy can't award CPs on his own...so sometimes there's confusion)
Edit: Here are the links I added to the library:
I sent descriptions to email@example.com on like 10 of the capital ships that were missing descriptions but didnt get a reply in any way, nor were they implemented. Im just wondering, is that a way to earn CPs or not?
Keir gets a lot of descriptions and doesn't have the time to reply to each and every one with what is wrong with it. He's adopetd a policy of only replying if the description is accepted or if only one or two things need to be tweaked on it.
If you want to join the descriptions team you can mail him with the subject 'Joining Descriptions Team'.
I've sent Jaxom a mail pointing to this thread.
Hm... how long does it takes for the links to be added, and then the CPs to be awarded? Because I have added (again) 10 links, 10 days ago, and sent a letter, but with no reply if the links are accepted.
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Prince Zeid Ra’ad Zeid al-Hussein of Jordan will replace Navi Pillay of South Africa, whose term lasts until the end of August, as the new High Commissioner for Human Rights. Prince Zeid was nominated by Secretary-General Ban Ki-moon earlier this month and recently the United Nations General Assembly unanimously approved his appointment for a four-year mandate.
The Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) is “mandated to promote and protect the enjoyment and full realization, by all people, of all rights established in the UN Charter and in international human rights laws and treaties and it’s headquartered in Geneva.”
“I am going to be the first High Commissioner from the Asian continent and from the Muslim and Arab worlds,” Prince Zeid said after his appointment was approved by consensus. “Needless to say this reflects the commitment of the international community towards this important dossier and its commitment to push it forward in this continent as well as in other regions of the world,” he added.
According to the UN, Prince Zeid’s nomination comes following an extensive selection process, including consultations with Member States and human rights non-governmental organizations. Prince Zeid enjoys a high popularity and has a solid reputation as human rights advocate.
Prince Zeid is currently Jordan’s Permanent Representative to the UN in New York, position he holds since 2010 and previously between 2000 and 2007. He was also Jordan’s Ambassador to the United States and Mexico from 2007 to 2010 and Deputy Permanent Representative to the United Nations from 1996 to 2000. He played a central role in the establishment of the International Criminal Court, “notably as the first President of its governing body, chairing complex, often pioneering, negotiations on elements of individual offenses falling under the crimes of genocide, crimes against humanity and war crimes,” the UN mentioned. Prince Zeid was President of the Assembly of State Parties to the Rome Statute of the International Criminal Court from 2002 to 2005.
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Societal Impact of Violent Video Games Examined
Wednesday, October 25, 2006
One of the most controversial violent video games in recent memory was created by a 25-year-old Colorado man named Danny Ledonne. His game is called Super Columbine Massacre RPG! You may have guessed that it is based on the murder of 13 people at Columbine High School in 1999.
In the game, the player assumes the identity of one of the killers, Eric Harris and Dylan Klebold. The player goes on to overcome certain obstacles to commit the crime. He then dies and battles demons in hell.
, creator of
Super Columbine Massacre RPG!
- Dr. Karen Dill, associate professor of psychology at Lenoir-Rhyne College and member of the Committee on Violence in Video Games and Interactive Media of the American Psychological Association.
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Posted: February 23, 2009
Workshop 'Trends in nanomechanics and nanoengineering'
(Nanowerk News) The main purpose of the Workshop "Trends in Nanomechanics and Nanoengineering", which will take place on August, 24-28, 2009, in Krasnoyarsk, Siberia, is to highlight the latest scientific advances within the broad field of nanomechanics in academia and industry.
This symposium will provide the opportunity for researchers coming from corners of the world to be on a single platform for discussion, exchanging ideas and developing collaborations. We plan to bring together the word’s leading practitioners in the field of nanostructure growth, investigation of their properties and development of nanodevices.
Topics will include aspects of nanotechnology such as (but are not limited to):
Advances of developing of nanodevices
Novel nanostructural materials and their electronic, magnetic, and chemical properties;
Theoretical methods for calculation of the properties of nanostructures;
Modern experimental techniques for obtaining data on nanomaterials.
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Write, then critique with like-minded group
Writers age 18 and up can attend the Writing Critique Group at the Benbrook Public Library.
The group will meet from 6:30 to 7:30 p.m. Tuesday at the library. All genres of writing are welcome.
For more information, contact the library at 817-249-6632.
First responders honored at police awards banquet
Six lifesaving awards, almost a dozen commendations and four awards for meritorious conduct were presented at the Police Department’s annual awards banquet recently.
The top yearly awards went to officer Chaz Garrett, rookie officer Andrew Prieskorn, supervisor Bob Sherman and civilian employee Katlyn Martin. Community policing honors went to officers Jonathan Gomez and Mark Pate. Citizens on Patrol assistant coordinator Vicki McElroy won the Ofelia Blair Character Award.
Several officers, investigators and other personnel were honored with lifesaving awards.
Burleson one of top 20 Texas cities for homeownership
What are the best cities for homeownership in Texas, according to NerdWallet, a consumer advocacy site? Count Burleson among the top 20.
NerdWallet’s criteria included home availability, cost of living and the city’s growth.
Burleson, population 39,010, ranked No. 17 out of 20 in the study. The top city was Little Elm, a suburb of Dallas. Other cities in the rankings included Mansfield (No. 9), Allen (10), McKinney (12), Keller (13), Flower Mound (14) and Southlake (18).
“The homeownership rate in Burleson is 75.1 percent, well over the state average of 63.9 percent,” said Justin Bond, Burleson’s economic development manager.
“The median household income in Burleson is $68,528, nearly 25 percent higher than the state average of $51,563,” Bond said. “At the same time, the median value of an owner-occupied housing unit is more affordable than the state average — $122,800 compared to $128,000.”
Marsh Middle School students stage a one-act play
Nine students from Irma Marsh Middle School have put together a production of A Point of View, a one-act play by David Campton. The young actors from Castleberry school district will compete in the 2014 Middle School One-Act Play competition Friday at Azle High School.
The play is about a woman who outmaneuvers her nieces’ best efforts to remove her from the spare room above their beauty shop, where she has a great view of everything happening in the neighborhood.
The five actors and four technicians will present a public performance of their play in the school auditorium, 415 Hagg Drive in Fort Worth, on Thursday at 7 p.m.
School schedules family science festival
Students at A.V. Cato Elementary, part of Castleberry school district in west Fort Worth, will attend a planetarium show at the Fort Worth Museum of Science and History during the school’s Family Science Night on Feb. 25.
The evening’s events begin at 6, and the last planetarium show begins at 7:45. Shows will be presented on a first-come first-served basis, and a hands-on activity station will also be available for students to explore.
Each family that attends will receive a coupon good for two adults and two children to go to the museum.
Ranch gathering has sessions on horse care, roping
Chow down and learn not only how to take care of a horse, but also how to rope at a ranch gathering Monday hosted by the National Roper’s Supply Training Center in Decatur.
A free session on horse care and roping at 2 p.m. precedes the gathering, which starts with registration at 5:30 p.m. at the center, at 309 County Road 4228.
Arn Anderson will update ranchers on how the area is preparing for animal emergencies.
Members of the Texas and Southwestern Cattle Raisers Association will get a metal gate sign from Bayer Animal Health, and all attendees will get a $20 gift certificate from National Roper’s Supply.
To save a spot, call 800-242-7820, ext. 192, or email firstname.lastname@example.org.
Historical group, seniors to meet on Thursday
Members of the Everman Area Historical Society will meet at 6 p.m. Thursday in the conference room of Everman Public Library, 100 N. Race St.
The society’s mission is to preserve the history of Everman. Members are attempting to find and catalog information about early Everman families, and update the Cemetery Book. They also work to identify and preserve early landmarks.
Everman Senior Citizens
Everman Senior Citizens will meet at 11 a.m. Thursday at the City Annex building, 213 N. Race St.
Attendees are requested to bring a covered dish for a potluck lunch. After a short meeting, there will games for all.
Golden Gloves weigh-in on Saturday
Fort Worth Golden Gloves will have its regional weigh-in Saturday at 7:30 a.m. at Northside High School’s Pete Campbell Gym, 2211 McKinley Ave.
All boxers wanting to compete in the Fort Worth Regional Golden Gloves must attend. The event will be Tuesday through Feb. 22 at the Watt Arena in the Will Rogers Complex.
Competition will begin every night at 7. For more information call the Golden Gloves office at 817-336-1313.
Peter Max exhibits, receptions set
A newly curated retrospective collection by legendary pop-art icon Peter Max will be on exhibition and available for acquisition in a dual presentation next month in Fort Worth.
Max will make special appearances from 7 to 9 p.m. at the Milan Gallery of Fort Worth, 505 Houston St. on March 7. Admission for all registered guests is complimentary.
Exhibit previews begin Feb. 28 at both Milan Gallery in Fort Worth and Road Show Co. in Dallas, and the exhibition extends through March 8.
Max has painted for five U.S. presidents, and his art is on display in presidential libraries and in U.S. embassies across the globe. He has been the official artist of five Super Bowls, the 2006 Olympics, World Cup USA, the World Series, the U.S. Open, the Indy 500, and the Kentucky Derby.
RSVP for the Fort Worth appearance to 817-338-4278. For more information about this event, contact the gallery at www.milangallery.com.
For more information about Max, go to www.petermax.com.
City waives collection fees during warrant roundup
During an upcoming warrant roundup by the Fort Worth Municipal Court Services Department, collection fees will be waived assuming the tickets are in collection, paid in person and paid in full.
The roundup, in conjunction with a statewide warrant roundup, will be from March 1 to 9, according to a city news release.
An online database of outstanding warrants updated daily can be found at www.fortworthgov.org/applications/warrantsonline.
Payments are accepted at A.D. Marshall Public Safety and Courts Building, 1000 Throckmorton St.; Southwest Municipal Court, 3741 SW Loop 820; and Satellite Customer Service Center at Carnival Food Store, 102 NW 28th St.
Residents can call 817-392-6700 with questions.
Several events at Arlington Museum of Art
The Arlington Museum of Art’s current exhibit, “Artists in Motion,” ends Sunday.
The exhibit includes artwork by Texas artist Donray and costumes from designers Ric Leal, Masako Parshall, and Judana Lynn.
Meanwhile, the deadline for the museum’s photo contest, which has a theme of “The Image as Art,” has been extended to Feb. 28. The contest is being held in conjunction with an Ansel Adams exhibit coming this summer.
Those wishing to participate or wanting more information may visit the museum website, www.arlingtonmuseum.org
Timeless Concerts will perform a Valentine’s Day concert at the museum on Saturday. Tickets are still available.
For more information and to purchase tickets, visit www.timelessconcerts.com.
Fun run to honor veterans, benefit cancer research
Two sisters are honoring their late father, Army veteran Erron Papillion, with the first annual Run With Our Vets & Beat RCC 5K on March 29 at the University of Texas at Arlington.
“Our dad was a decorated Army veteran who served our country in the Vietnam War. Among his many medals of honor were four Purple Hearts, the Silver Star and the Distinguished Service Cross,” said race organizer Trishonna Papillion-Winston. “This is our way of keeping his legacy alive while at the same time helping those that have served our country just as he had.”
Her sister is Nikesha Papillion-Hall. They both live in Arlington. Papillion died in March 2011 from a rare form of renal cancer.
Run With Our Vets & Beat RCC is a nonprofit organization dedicated to providing financial, moral and community support to disabled veterans and to help raise awareness for renal cell carcinoma. The event will feature a 1-mile walk/run and 5K race beginning at the Maverick Activities Center and continuing through nearby neighborhoods.
A medals and awards ceremony will follow the races, which are open to both children and adults.
For more information, go to www.runwithourvetsandbeatrcc.com.
A helping of murder, followed by dessert
In murder-mystery dinner theater, you can pretty much count on someone getting whacked. The question is who will die in Murder Overboard, performed and served Saturday at Old Bedford School, 2400 School Lane.
Will it be Capt. X. Ron Valdez, who’s getting his Circus Cruise Lines ship in shape to get underway? Or does the ship’s doctor, C. Alice Hardin, busily stocking the pharmacy, have a date with the Grim Reaper? Magician Davey Copafield is excited about entertaining the women among the passengers. Is one of them his femme fatale?
What’s certain is that guests will dine on 6-ounce sirloins, green beans and loaded mashed potatoes, followed by chocolate cake.
Dinner’s at 7 p.m. and the show begins at 8.
Get tickets at www.oldbedfordschool.com/performances/mystery.htm.
3 Redneck Tenors return to their roots
The 3 Redneck Tenors will perform as the headline act for the OhLook Performing Arts Center Gala at the Concourse in Grapevine on March 1.
Matthew Lord, Blake Davidson and Jonathan Frugé are in Texas to sing for their supper and benefit the nonprofit theater, OhLook Performing Arts Center. “We just love all the folks at OhLook and are looking forward to singing for them right back where we started,” said Lord, the group’s founder.
This will be the only performance for the 3 Redneck Tenors in the Dallas-Fort Worth area this year. They will be introducing material from their new show along with favorite classics.
Their resident venue is the Andy Williams Moon River Theatre in Branson, Mo.
The event is one night only. Tickets are $75 per person and include dinner, entertainment and a live and silent auction. Dress is cowboy chic, and there will be a cash bar.
Those reserving a table for eight will receive complimentary champagne and glasses. Tickets are available at www.ohlookperform.com.
To find out more on the group, go to www.3rednecktenors.com.
Pecan trees star in Arbor Day celebration
Find out what makes trees important and what keeps them happy in North Texas at the Haltom City Arbor Day Celebration.
Beginning at 10 a.m. March 8, the program at Haltom City Northeast Center, 3201 Friendly Lane, focuses on Texas’ official state tree: pecans.
Officials also will dedicate memorial trees to Richard Garcia, a councilman who died in office, Travis Royal, a community volunteer and former Library Board member, and Evelyn Haws, a charter member of the Haltom City Garden Club.
Free and open to the public, the event is hosted by the garden club and Keep Haltom City Beautiful.
Call 817-222-7767 or go to www.haltomcitytx.com for information.
Baby-sitting class set for Saturday
Registration is open at Keller Pointe for the next babysitting class, from 1 to 7 p.m. on Saturday.
The course includes planning for baby-sitting jobs, different child personality types, preventing accidents, supervising children, selecting toys and games, changing diapers, basic first aid and feeding.
For more information, call The Pointe at 817-743-4386 or email email@example.com.
Community Band to play favorites
Southlake Community Band members will kick back and perform their own favorite pieces on March 6 at a 7 p.m. concert in the White’s Chapel United Methodist Church sanctuary at 185 S. White Chapel Blvd.
Music will include Procession of the Nobles by Nikolai Rimsky-Korsakov, Variations on Scarborough Fair by Calvin Custer, Fantasia in G by Timothy Mahr, Festive Overture by Dmitri Shostakovich, Ye Banks and Braes O’ Bonnie Doon by Percy Aldridge Grainger and Where Never Lark or Eagle Flew by James Curnow. Music selections are subject to change.
Installment tax payments still an option for some
For those who qualify for the disabled homestead exemption or an over-65 homestead exemption, there is still a chance to pay your property taxes in four quarterly installments.
Property owners who qualify can still make their first quarterly payment by Feb. 28 to keep the right to pay in four installments.
But property owners will incur a penalty and a 7 percent interest charge for not making their first payment by Jan. 31. The remaining three payments will not incur any penalty and interest if they are made on or before March 31, May 31 and July 31.
For more information, go to the Tarrant County tax office website at www.tarrantcounty.com or call 817-884-1100.
Navy Band to perform in Fort Worth on Tuesday
Fort Worth is one of 22 cities in six states selected to host a performance by the Navy Concert Band during its 2014 national tour.
The band’s performance is scheduled for Tuesday at 7:30 p.m. at Paschal High School, 3001 Forest Park Blvd.
Music will include marches, patriotic selections, orchestral transcriptions and modern wind ensemble repertoire.
These national tours return after a year in which sequestration and its impact on outreach spending forced several of them to be suspended. Pentagon officials announced a plan last fall that enables the military services to resume conducting public outreach activities in 2014, at a reduced capacity.
The band will travel more than 5,300 miles, traveling by bus and truck an average of more than four hours each day.
All Navy band performances are free and open to the public. For ticket information, check the band’s website at www.navyband.navy.mil/tour_concert_band.shtml.
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