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LADIES WALKING CANES- A MUST HAVE FOR EVERY FEMALE
Women love socializing and therefore they dress up accordingly. However, the most important part of their dressing is the accessories like hand bags, stoles and of course the walking canes. Fashionable canes are much required to meet your lifestyle. From women canes for formal events all the way to a casual, everyday cane, one can find the largest selection of the most stylish walking canes anywhere in the world online.There are wickers that can look more stylish yet they are still practical. If a woman has a need to use a cane she can find a ladies walking cane to help support her wounded leg, hip, or ankle.
There are canes for ladies are in pink or lavender which makes them a more womanlike option than plain brown or black canes. There are some that have chick outlines on them, as an alternative of being a simple color, comprising of flowers, pink and blue leaf arrangement or a heavenly pattern.The use of a cane may be indispensable for someone but being able to fold it for storing when not in use is also cooperative. A person can find a portable walking cane that is just as robust to use as non-folding sticks. When not in usage they fold up and can be deposited in a pliable case or cover. A folding walking cane is great for travel when someone is on the go.
Many canes are made with an aluminium tube, making them frivolous and easy to grip. Some have wooden handles while others have foam or gel handles. The handles are all comfortable to hold and provide a good grip when being used. Lightweight canes are made to be sturdy and supportive as well as easy to carry.Its just that one has to understand which ladies walking canes one simply requires for her own outing or ladies of a same house can own these ultra-classic canes at a less cost online. One thing is for sure whether the cane is for use or for any other purpose acquiring it today’s time is a must.
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Bestival organisers have released the stage breakdown and two new arenas for the event to be held at Robin Hill Country Park on the Isle of Wight this weekend (7-9 September).
As previously announced The Chemical Brothers, The Beastie Boys and Primal Scream fill the Main Stage headline spots over the weekend.
A Surprise Guest is also scheduled for 6.15pm on Saturday night’s Main Stage. The slot is traditionally the performance that greets the annual fancy dress march.
Curator Rob Da Bank has moved from his usual festival closing slot in the Bollywood Bar to the penultimate Sunday set on the Main Stage. The vacant spot is to be filled by another Surprise Guest.
The Bollywood Bar can also expect sets from Radio 1’s Annie Mac, Mixmaster Morris, Dexy’s Midnight Runners’ Kevin Rowland and a Balearic selection from Yousef.
The Specials' Terry Hall will be joined onstage by ex-band member Lynval Golding to play together for the first time since the group split in the 80s. The pair are set to perform with The Dub Pistols in the Big Top on Sunday night.
The Big Top will also have live sets from Simian Mobile Disco and recent chart-topper Robyn, as well as a DJ set from the Trojan Sound System.
The festival has also announced the Jestival arena. The new tent will be showcasing comedic talent from the likes of Phill Jupitus, Marcus Brigstocke and acts fresh from this year's Edinburgh Festival.
Another inaugural arena appearing at this year’s event is the House of Bamboo. The tent, named after a film noir from the 1950’s, will host the likes of Alice Russell, The Egg, Kid Carpet and Max Sedgley.
Organisers have left a little space for quirkiness though with the world’s smallest club, Miniscule of Sound, set to hold their own fetish night. Dominatrix doormen will be on the entrance to check attire, but fetish gear, whips and dress up will be available.
To check out the full stage breakdown click HERE.
Look out for tomorrow's Bestival preview to see who to watch over the weekend.
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It was one weekend of August when our group went to a different kind of staycation by going to the south of the metro. It is seldom that we go to this part of metropolis and having an opportunity to go to the south and spend a weekend staycation had truly excites us.
Crimson Hotel Filinvest City features excellent guestrooms that are well furnished and tastefully designed. Our room was a Deluxe Room. It has twin beds. It was air-conditioned and has a private bathroom. Our room was equipped with a flat screen TV, DVD player, phone and coffee and tea making facilities. Our room was also furnished with a work desk.
I liked how my room was. It was a perfect space to have a peaceful weekend. The interior was classy. The ambiance was soothing. It was beautifully appointed offering a cozy and homey feeling.More
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Give a man a fish, feed him for a day;
Teach a man to fish, feed him for a lifetime.
One might say this is Lawrence’s mantra for life, and it sets the tone for the kind of dad and father-figure he is to many, at home and abroad. You might have seen his face or name in academic publications, or have been under his watch as a student of Sheares Hall (previously Dunearn Road Hostel), or at Anglo-Chinese School (ACS) over the last 40 years or so.
For someone who thrives on change and activity, even though he is semi-retired, Lawrence’s many accomplishments and accolades speak of an incredible zest for life and boundless energy, while a twinkle in his eye bears testament to his inclination to always push the envelope and reach a little higher.
As a people-person at heart, he bears a strong conviction about providing the right environment for nurturing growth, serving as a coach and role model to his colleagues, subordinates and students alike, with a good-natured charm, gentle manner and a kind heart.
Lawrence credits his family for their unwavering support. He and his wife, Pek Choo, have been happily married for 48 years. They have two daughters, Marion and Ruth, and three precious grandchildren, aged 13, 12 and 11.
Here he shares with Dads for Life some insights on how he sets the stage for others to bloom where they are planted.
Always listen first
For Lawrence, the most important skills in life are to listen and ask good questions – whether as a father, husband, boss, colleague or friend. These are also the prerequisites of a good coach.
When his girls were young, friends would ask if he employed any special techniques in teaching them because they seemed wise beyond their years. His frequent reply: “I don’t really teach them anything. I listen to them and try to answer the questions that they ask. Everything that is relevant to that young mind is important.” According to his experience, children and young people are already naturally curious and ready to discover. All too often, it is us adults who are too inhibitive or myopic.
He often employs a listen-and-ask method with his staff and students, and even his own children. First, he listens to the issue at hand. Then, instead of doling out an answer to their problem, he asks them bite-sized questions to help them think through their own solution to that problem. This allows them to truly own their process of learning and growth. In this sense, he seeks to be a coach-mentor in their journey, instead of a teacher or boss who “knows it all”.
Those who have come under his care during his term as the principal of ACS fondly remember him as one who was always seeking to bring out the best in people. His firm belief is that no one is beyond hope, as long as they are willing to face the truth and commit to change. After all, “nobody is perfect,” he says. To this man, failure is really just a stepping stone to success, provided you learn from the experience.
Start at home
Lawrence readily agrees that today’s families face different sorts of pressures from his time, with most parents being in the workforce. Still, fathers need to own their role as protector, and not just be a provider. Men need to step up to lead their family, and to realize their importance in coming alongside their children to coach them and instill values that will last.
Most of the values we hope our children will pick up also start from home. Lawrence shared how he felt a deep sense of fulfillment when he learnt, a few years ago, that one of his daughters had quietly donated a sum of money to a school for intellectually disabled children, to build a resource room. Somehow, the years of modeling a generous outlook and spirit of giving had caught on.
Precious memories like these continue to remind him that whatever sacrifice he has made as a father is all worth it.
Spend time together
Lawrence cites busyness as a key issue for many Singaporean families. Time is an essential component of the coaching process.
“It’s a constant struggle to manage career, ministry, community service, with family time. I’ve come to realize that the material things we give our children are not that important – it’s negligible. Most of us just don’t give enough time to our children, myself included.”
Though he intentionally carved out time to spend with his children daily during their growing up years, Lawrence has some regret not giving his children even more of his time during their childhood.
These days, he loves spending time with his grandchildren and playing with them. In some ways, they are his way of making up for lost time, but this time as a grandparent.
About the Author: The Dads for Life Resource Team comprises local content writers and experts, including psychologists, counsellors, educators and social service professionals, dedicated to developing useful resources for dads.
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Emaar Properties is renowned for building master-planned communities such as the $20 Billion Downtown Burj Dubai development, which comprises Burj Dubai (stated to be the world’s tallest tower when completed in 2009); The Dubai Mall, the world’s largest entertainment and shopping mall; Burj Dubai Boulevard with retail shops and restaurants; Burj Dubai Square; The Lofts; the Old Town and Old Town Island; man-made lakes and landscaped parks and gardens. Emaar Hospitality Group hired Igor to help it create the name for a new 5-star luxury hotel brand, with hotels to be located throughout the Middle East and in key feeder markets in Europe and Asia.
The new hotels cater to intra-regional leisure travelers throughout the Middle East. However, the brand needed to accommodate business travelers and long-haul international travelers to the region, primarily from Europe, Asia and India. The chosen name, The Address, captures the sense of spectacular location advantage, that this is where it's happening, this is the place to be. From The Address website:
The Address Hotels + Resorts is the new definition of global luxe life. Where cool meets warmth. Style meets luxury and discerning travellers choose to stay and meet time and time again. The Address is vibrant and real. It's business and pleasure. It's a simple and sophisticated environment that comes to life with the presence of the people it attracts.
Positioned as a premium hospitality brand with a focus on service excellence, quality product and contemporary design, The Address is set apart not only by the location of its hotels, but also in the total character and service standards, where a 'one size fits one' approach is adopted.
The first The Address hotel has launched in Dubai: The Address, Downtown Burj Dubai. The next two hotels under the brand will open in Dubai in 2009: The Address, Dubai Mall; and The Address, Dubai Marina. Over the next ten years, "the hotel company plans to unveil more properties in key cities and tourist destinations in the Middle East and North Africa region, the Indian Subcontinent, Asia, Europe and America."
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A story has to start some where and this one starts in early March when Kevin Crowe and I arrived at the Penland School of Crafts to meet the 17 students and assistants who had enlisted in our kiln building boot camp. I'm not sure if any of us understood what a challenge lay before us! Kevin and I had come to Penland 10 years before to do a similar thing and, while we worked hard then, it was still a reasonable task. This time we had several additional challenges...a different (and bigger) kiln and crazy bad weather and a deadline to meet as Kevin could't stay for the entire session.
We worked morning, afternoon and night for most of 8 weeks and by the time we left we had built the kiln and filled it and fired it twice. I'll be posting plenty of photos as the days go by.
|The old metal frame from the last kiln was still standing when we arrived.|
There has been a two chamber, wood burning kiln at Penland for at least 20 years. Those kilns were intended for relatively short firings (24 hours). This new model has the same 2 chambers with a small anagama chamber on the front. We fired for close to 3 days for each firing. The first time we used the local poplar edgings that are commonly used in the area. Not the ideal fuel for ash build up. Still, that first firing was excellent and the second time, with better fuel (a mixture of pine and hardwood chunks), was even better.
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Toshiba has taken the wraps off its next-generation Chromebook, which comes with a slimmer design and an option for a full HD 1080p screen.
Toshiba's $249 Chromebook 2 maintains nearly exactly the same build as its predecessor, which debuted in early 2014. Like the company's original Chromebook, the new device features a textured design that makes it feel a bit more rugged and sturdier than many other laptops of its size.
However, the second-gen Chromebook is noticeably thinner with a wedge-shaped base that faintly echoes the MacBook Air. The Chromebook's all-silver body and black keys add to this resemblance.
Chromebooks are much different than your average laptop. They're designed for those who don't use their computers for much other than browsing the Web, and therefore a Chromebook's functionality is severely limited without an internet connection. Google, however, has been doing its part to change this by adding more apps to its Chrome OS store that work offline.
Toshiba has also improved the screen quality of its new Chromebook, offering a new higher-end model with a full HD at 1,920x1,080 pixels. A less expensive version with a 1,366x768-pixel resolution display will be available, too. The company is flaunting the Chromebook 2's built-in Skull Candy speakers as one of its standout features.
Starting at $249, the Toshiba Chromebook 2 is right on par with what your average midrange Chromebook would cost. Acer's standard C720 Chromebook, for example, is priced exactly the same but comes with a smaller 11.6-inch screen. It does come with more storage space than Toshiba's, however, (32GB vs. 16GB), but Google also bundles 100GB worth of free storage space with all Chromebooks.
The Toshiba Chromebook 2 launches on Oct. 5, and from what we can tell it seems like a solid choice for those seeking a larger-sized, yet affordable, Chromebook.
Get the latest Google stock price here.
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393 U.S. 802
Bradish G. MORSE et al. v. BOSWELL et al.
Jeffrey S. BERKE et al. v. MacLAUGHLIN.
Phillip A. MIAZGA et al. v. MacLAUGHLIN.
Joel FELBERBAUM et al. v. MacLAUGHLIN.
Joe Don LOONEY et al. v. MacLAUGHLIN.
Supreme Court of the United States October 7, 1968
For opinions of the Court see 393 U.S. 802 and 42, 21 L. ed.2d 86.
Mr. Justice DOUGLAS, dissenting.
On April 10, 1968, the President deligated to the Secretary of Defense power to activate units of the Ready Reserve. 1 On the following day, after receiving [393 U.S. 802 , 803] a similar delegation of authority to activate such units from the Secretary of Defense,2 the Secretary of the Army called several units of the Ready Reserves and their members to active duty. 3 Applicants, who are members of those units, are challenging that call to active duty on the ground that it exceeds the authority of the Secretary of the Army, and is a violation of their enlistment contracts. After unsuccessfully seeking release from active duty by writ of habeas corpus, and before being able to petition this Court for certiorari, applicants were prepared for immediate shipment to Vietnam. To preserve their avenues of review they sought and I granted interim stays pending submission of the stay applications to the full Court. 4 The question now before the Court, therefore, is whether these stays should continue pending our consideration of their petitions for certiorari.
Questions underlying the merits, which have already produced some judicial disagreement,5 are twofold:6 first, an alleged usurpation by the Secretary of the [393 U.S. 802 , 804] Army of the limited authority delegated him; second, a purported conflict between the conditions of enlistment under which applicants entered the reserves and the subsequent Act of Congress calling them to active duty.
First, Applicants argue that the Secretary of the Army improperly called them to active duty for a full period of 24 months, without giving them credit for time already served on active duty. They claim that, in doing so, he exceeded the power granted him. To substantiate their claim, applicants rely on the specific language of delegation, on the treatment of other reservists similarly situated, and on the original intent of Congress.
The language of delegation is in 101(e) of Pub.L. 89-687, Title I, October 15, 1966, 80 Stat. 981, under which applicants were called. Congress authorized the President to activate 'any unit of the Ready Reserve of an armed force for a period not to exceed twenty-four months.' The President in turn, delegated his authority under subsection (e) to the Secretary of Defense to activate 'any unit in the Ready Reserve ... for a period not to exceed twenty-four months.'7 The Secretary of Defense then delegated his authority by that same language to the Secretary of the Army. 8 The Secretary of the Army, however, called 'the above units and individual members thereof ... to active duty for twenty-four consecutive months ....'9 Thus, instead of calling the above units to active duty and granting their individual members credit for time already served on active duty, he ordered the individuals themselves to active duty for 24 consecutive months, irrespective of any time [393 U.S. 802 , 805] they may have already served on active duty. In doing so, he seems to have gone beyond the above language of delegation which referred exclusively to units. Moreover, he seems to have violated the organic language of Pub.L. 89-687, Title I, 101(c), October 15, 1966, 80 Stat. 981, which provides that:
To uphold the Secretary's order would seem to discriminate against these applicants called to active duty as part of units under 101(e) in favor of those reservists called to active duty as individuals under 101( a) and (b), by withholding from the former credit which is concededly accorded the latter. 10
Congress authorized the President to recall the Ready Reserve for two stated purposes: First, to free the President to mobilize those men without forcing him to declare a national emergency;11 second, and more relevant to [393 U.S. 802 , 806] this inquiry, to make the active duty obligation of those who enlist in the reserves commensurate with that of those who are drafted. It was felt that young men were enlisting in the reserves 'to escape active military service in South Vietnam';12 that Congress had allowed 'the 6-month [ reserve] training program to become 'an umbrella' for avoiding active service at a time when we are daily inducting large numbers of men into the active forces to fight in Vietnam';13 and, therefore, that 'it was only fair that these reservists be put on the same basis for service in Vietnam as new enlistees and draftees.'14 Thus, it seems that Congress intended to subject reservists to the same obligation for two-year active duty as is borne by draftees. To do so, it allowed the President to call them for the balance between the time they had already served on active duty and the outer time limit of 24 months.
The President and the Secretary of Defense apparently read the Act of October 15, 1966, as I do; for each of them activated only units of the reserve for 24 months. And a unit, of course, can serve 24 months even though its original members, having already served some time, are sooner discharged. The Secretary of the Army, on the other hand, has subjected these reservists to an additional obligation of 24 months over and above time already served.
Second. The question just discussed covers, so far as we can tell from the fragmentary pleadings and findings, all of the appellants. The second question reaches [393 U.S. 802 , 807] some of the appellants, but just how many we do not know. The record is not very revealing. But on oral argument, various attorneys stated that the contracts of enlistment very. According to these informants, some provide for the rendering of active duty 'in the event of a mobilization or emergency.' Others provide for active duty in 'time of war or of national emergency declared by Congress' as provided in 10 U.S.C. 672. It should not lightly be concluded that a contract has been unilaterally changed by one party,15 or that the United States as a party will breach its contract. Cf. Smyth v. United States, 302 U.S. 329 .
Where the enlistment contract provides for service in the event of 'a mobilization or emergency,' I would assume that a wide variety of events might encompass each term. Indeed the very summoning of reserves to active duty might itself be sufficient to constitute the condition subsequent. But where he enlistment contract contains a provision that active duty is only required in 'time of war or of national emergency declared by Congress,' I would, if possible, read the Act of October 15, 1966, to preserve that promise solemnly made to the reservists and not to cover those who were specifically required by contract to serve only 'in time of war or national emergency declared by Congress.'
I assume that it is within the power of Congress to change existing law and no type of estoppel interferes with its law-making power. See Stone, J., concurring, Perry v. United States, 294 U.S. 330, 359 , 438. The disappointment realized by those who relied only on general law but did not have that explicit promise from their government in contract form is disappointment of the kind shared by all citizens in a society of shifting law. [393 U.S. 802 , 808] Where a reservist, however, has counted on a declaration of war or of an emergency before he is called up and has a contract calling for reserve duty on those precise terms, I would, if possible, readsubsequent legislation so as to preserve the promise made in that enlistment contract. Cf. Woods v. Stone, 333 U.S. 472, 481 , 628 ( dissenting opinion). 10 U.S.C. 673 subjects reservists to call '[i]n time of national emergency declared by the President after January 1, 1953, or when otherwise authorized by law.' The Congress has not yet declared either war or national emergency within the meaning of 672; nor has the President declared a national emergency within the meaning of 673. As stated by Senator Russell:16
Thus, the only other provision which 672-673 include as a 'condition prescribed by law' for activating the reserves under the second type of enlistment contract described above lies in the phrase 'or when otherwise authorized by law.'
The phrase in 673 'when otherwise authorized by law' is not without meaning. It plainly refers to those additional conditions-other than war or national emer- [393 U.S. 802 , 809] gency-upon which members of the reserve can be called to active duty. 17
One more issue remains. It has been suggested that 10 U.S.C. 263 gives Congress the power to recall the reserves not just in time of war or national emergency, but 'whenever needed for the national security.' No one, however, disputes that power. For the issue is not the plenary power of Congress under the Constitution, but how legislation shall be read in order, if possible, to avoid creating a 'credibility gap' between the people and their government.
I would continue the stays until the merits of this important controversy can be resolved.
[ Footnote 1 ] Exec.Order No. 11,406, 33 Fed.Reg. 5735 (1968).
[ Footnote 2 ] Memorandum for Secretaries of the Military epartments, April 11, 1968, as cited in Brief for Appellees at 5, Morse et al. v. Boswell et al., 401 F.2d 544 (4th Cir., August 26, 1968).
[ Footnote 3 ] Joint Message form DA 859314, April 11, 1968, as cited in Brief for Appellees, id.
[ Footnote 4 ] Applicant in the Winters case, Winters v. United States, 390 U.S. 993 had been called to duty as an individual rather than as part of a unit; and unlike applicants in these cases, apparently did not challenge the authority of the Secretary of the Army to call him for a full 24 months of active duty irrespective of time already served on active
[ Footnote 5 ] Compare Winters v. United States, 281 F.Supp, 289 (E.D.N.Y.), aff'd per curiam, 390 F.2d 879 (2d Cir. 1968), with Gion v. McNamara, Civ. No. 67-1563 (C.D. Calif., January 9, 1968).
[ Footnote 6 ] Applicants have also raised other questions which I consider too unsubstantial to discuss.
[ Footnote 7 ] Supra, n. 1 (emphasis added).
[ Footnote 8 ] Supra, n. 2 (emphasis added).
[ Footnote 9 ] Supra, n. 3 (emphasis added).
[ Footnote 10 ] In enacting Pub.L. 89-687, 101, Congress made a distinction between reservists called as individuals and reservists called as units. That distinction however related only to its desire to keep reserve units as much intact as possible; consequently, it only authorized the call of those individual reservists who were not attached to such units, who had not been participating atisfactorily in their present units, or who had had less than 120 days of active duty experience. The distinction between individuals and units would seem to have nothing to do with the question whether reservists called as part of units should be credited for time already served on active duty. In making permanent the President's temporary authority to activate for 24 months those individuals not participating satisfactorily in their reserve units, Congress reaffirmed its intention to credit them for time already
[ Footnote 11 ] 112 Cong.Rec. 19718 (1966) (remarks of Senator Richard Russell, Chairman of Senate Armed Services Committee, and co-sponsor of the amendment).
[ Footnote 12 ] 112 Cong.Rec. 19724 (1966) (remarks of Senator Lausche).
[ Footnote 13 ] 112 Cong.Rec. 19720 (1966) (remarks of Senator Stuart Symington, member of Senate Armed Services Committee).
[ Footnote 14 ] 112 Cong.Rec. 19500 (1966) (remarks of Senator Saltonstall, ranking minority member of the Senate Armed Services Committee and co- sponsor of the amendment) (emphasis added).
[ Footnote 16 ] 112 Cong.Rec. 19726 (1966) (Chairman of Senate Armed Services
[ Footnote 17 ] Under 10 U.S.C. 672(b), a reservist may be called to active duty at any time for a period of 15 days. Pursuant to 10 U.S.C. 679 a reservist may sign an active agreement by which he obligates himself to serve at any time on active duty that he is called; furthermore, that obligation may be extended beyond the expiration date of the agreement in times of war or national emergency. 10 U.S.C. 672(d).
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Move Background Image on Mouse-Over Using jQuery
Let’s start off by creating the HTML markup. Define an empty div element with an ID attribute. We’ll be using the CSS ID selector to create a background image for the page.
The jQuery solution is pretty simple and straightforward. Breaking it down, we want to attach a mousemove event on the div element, calculate the new X and Y position based on the current mouse pointer X and Y position, and assign the calculated values as the new background position to the div element.
The following is the outline of the jQuery solution:
- First, define a variable named “pixelToMove” which holds the value for number of pixels to move on mouse movement.
- Attach a mousemove event to div element via jQuery ID selector. In the event, first get the screen width and height and store them in variables. These values will be used to calculate the background movement on X and Y axes. The two variables newValueX and newValueY are used to calculate the movement of the mouse cursor. To calculate, use the current mouse pointer position and then divide by the containers width and height before multiplying them with pixelToMove's variable value. These 2 variables will give us the new top and left position of the background image.
- Finally, set the background position property to the value of these variables using jQuery CSS method.
Here is the complete jQuery code:
var pixelToMove = 50;
var width = $(this).innerWidth();
var height = $(this).innerHeight();
var newValueX = (e.pageX / width) *
var newValueY = (e.pageY / height) *
newValueX + '%' + ' ' + newValueY + '%');
You can modify the value of the pixelToMove variable if you want the image to move a greater or lesser number of pixels.
You can check out a working demo here.
We’ve just learned how to move the background image with the mouse cursor movement. Our jQuery solution makes use of the mousemove event on the background wrapper element to calculate the new top and left position for background image and set its background position accordingly. You can modify the jQuery code as per your requirements to increase or decrease the degree of pixel movement. Have fun!
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Of all of our virtual office services, a virtual address is one of the most misunderstood. So what is a virtual address?
A virtual address with Intelligent Office is a permanent brick-and-mortar home for your developing business. A professional address through Intelligent Office provides these services and benefits.
Prestigious Business Address
A virtual address is a real, physical business address – a formal notice of the location of your business operations. But a virtual address is more than just a practical tool. It’s a strategy for boosting your business image.
A virtual address from Intelligent Office gives you access to a Class A building – the highest classification in your market – without the costs and commitment of a long-term lease. Not only does this boost your professional image, but it also establishes credibility with the financial institutions that provide business loans and other assistance.
A virtual address comes with the use of a private mailbox. Intelligent Office provides different sizes of mailboxes, depending on your shipping and receiving needs. Each private mailbox comes with its own key, and optional 24/7 access allows you to pick up your mail on your own schedule.
Every Intelligent Office location is staffed with professional receptionists who handle incoming and outgoing mail and packages. These professionals ensure the security of your deliveries, and also solidify relationships with existing customers who are dropping off or picking up items.
A virtual address can allow a business to claim a Google My Business listing, which isn’t possible when using a home address. This is important as consumers increasingly turn to Google properties to get information about a business. When a local consumer searches for a service, a properly formatted Google My Business profile increases the chances that your business is the first presented by Google to the consumer.
Extend Business Presence
When it’s time to expand your business operations into new territories, a virtual business address gets your foot in the door. An address allows you to claim territory while avoiding the high costs and long-term commitments of commercial real estate. As your business presence grows in your new area of business, the level of your virtual office services can increase as needed.
Sending and receiving mail requires a certain level of discretion from participating parties. For these reasons, our staff at Intelligent Office is highly vetted and trained. Business owners are in direct contact with our virtual assistants, who are familiarized with clients through an extensive orientation. From scanning and forwarding mail to notifying business owners of important deliveries, you can be sure that your mail is properly handled.
What is a virtual address? It’s a versatile solution for businesses of all kinds. For more information on how a virtual address can help your business, contact an Intelligent Office location near you!
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Strong upward trends and increased variability in global food prices over the past two years have led to concern that hunger and poverty will increase across the world. At the same time, rising food prices provide an incentive and opportunity for many developing countries to strengthen the contribution their farmers make to national economic growth and poverty reduction. Policymakers and opinion leaders in developing countries, however, often lack sufficient information to gauge the likely effects of global food crises on their country and to identify, design, and implement policy actions that can best avoid risks and take advantage of opportunities.The deficiencies in information and analysis can lead to over- and underreactions, resulting in policy and market failures. Experiences across countries in 2007 and 2008 show ample evidence of such outcomes. This report seeks to support national decisionmakers, as well as their international development partners, in acquiring information and applying methods for understanding the likely effects of a global food crisis on their country and acting to alleviate the risks and exploit the opportunities brought about by such crises. It describes data and methods and suggests how to facilitate their collection and use. The report then outlines the design and implementation of an open Internet-based portal for sharing reliable, appropriate information and decision-support tools for national policymakers so they can respond quickly to changes in world food markets in an informed manner.
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Valley of Boulders and Peaks- Sunderdhunga Glacier Trek
Today in day to day life everyone is very busy, we are not having time for any enjoyment or relaxation. So I thought of giving me some time for experiencing adventure. A great thanks to online trekking companies who have made task very easy to get online registered and can enjoy great time. I searched online many trekking sites then I came to know about Trek the Himalayas who are the leader in this field.
There were many packages but I decide to visit Sunderdhunga Trek and viewed some photos of this area the lovely snowy peaks, pines tree and the town nestled with greenery atmosphere will make surely a wonderful drive, all around plants will enthrall my journey. I just packed my bags and next day I was ready with my luggage and waiting for my team. Then we just started and reach within 7 hours to our destined location. There I stayed in camp and after relaxing just started for trek. This way was approximately 8 kms far away from Jatoli village upto Dhungia Dhaun, which was a tough trek.
Sunderdhunga glacier is located in the Bageshwar district one of the most hunted places for trekkers. The Sunderdhunga glacier is a attractive glacier situated in the alpine region. Along with other glaciers like Sukhram and Maiktoli, the trek to Sunderdhunga makes a splendid trek. It is surrounded by gigantic peaks like Tharkot in the west. This track was full of hefty stones, enormous rocks and popularly known as Valley of stones. Sunderdhunga glacier is filled with innate exquisiteness and well attracted my persona. Trekking in Almora was very beguiled experience and unforgettable trip. It was an alluring and beautiful place surrounded by greenery and I clicked some good punches for capturing good moments. The trek pungent view was giving me anonymously good feeling to enjoy and manifestation was breathtaking when I just view snowy clad mountains touching the sky. The route was very bumpy and tough but when there are professional trainers on every step to guide me. Thanks to team of Trek the Himalayas they were very helpful and guided me as a mentor to trail the path very easily. This trail was an unforgettable experience which will always be in my thoughts.
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In the former Soviet republic of Georgia, religious minorities are under physical attack as the Orthodox Church seeks to shore up its influence. In Australia, ecumenical aid agency Force Ten is closing its doors after forty years of service; and in Dresden, sixty years after the city was bombed at the end of World War II, an 18th-century baroque cathedral has been restored to its former glory.
David Rutledge: Welcome to the program.
The former Soviet Republic of Georgia is a very bad place in which to be a member of a religious minority right now. Most Georgians, that's around 70% of the population, associate themselves with the Georgian Orthodox Church. But Georgia is also home to minority communities of Catholics, Jews and Muslims, and since the collapse of the Soviet Union, smaller Protestant denominations have also established themselves. And none of them is officially permitted to exist. Only the Georgian Orthodox Church is allowed to operate as a registered religion, under a Concordat signed with the government in 2002.
But that's not the worst of it. Since 1999, hundreds of attacks have been carried out against religious minorities, in a wave of violence that appears to have been orchestrated by members of the Orthodox Church. Baptists, Pentecostals and Jehovah's Witnesses have had their places of worship destroyed, and mob attacks on congregations have put hundreds of people in hospital.
The most conspicuous ringleader of the violence has been Father Basil Mklavishvili, a defrocked Orthodox priest who for five years was able to operate with complete impunity, recording and distributing videos of the attacks that he led. The police made little effort to stop the violence; in some cases they're said to have joined in.
Earlier this month, after a lengthy trial, Mklavishvili was sentenced to six years in prison, and his chief associate, Petre Ivanidze got four years, but dozens of other perpetrators remain free, and sectarian hostilities continue.
Felix Corley is Editor of Forum 18, an Oslo-based news service that promotes religious freedom in Eastern Europe. He says it's ridiculous to imagine that throwing one or two people into jail is going to make any significant difference. And this is because the ideology driving the violence comes from head office: the Patriarchate of the Georgian Orthodox Church, a centre of religious and political power that's very keen to maintain its position of dominance.
Felix Corley: Anything within the State has to involve the Patriarchate in some way. There's religious education classes in schools, although it varies how strongly Orthodox they are, children are forcibly taken from school to Orthodox churches where they're taught to pray, regardless of what denomination or faith even that their families are from. There's agreements now being signed between the Patriarchate and all manner of government agencies and institutions and ministries which very much follow the Russian sort of model. And the Patriarchate really has been handed the kind of role of being the government's legitimiser and ideologist and no important events take place without the Patriarch being present or senior clergy being present. The government signed a Concordat with the Orthodox Patriarchate a couple of years back, granting it exclusive rights to build churches, and giving it power of supremacy over all other faiths, saying that other faiths need the permission of the Patriarchate before they can build places of worship. Imagine that you're living in Sydney, and the Jews want to build a synagogue, or the Catholics want to build a new church and they have to ask the Anglican Archbishop of Sydney for permission. This is the type of situation that we're in, in Georgia today.
David Rutledge: Do you think it could be the case, though, that the Orthodox Church, in spite of the power that it obviously wields, that it's determined to maintain its primacy, partly because it fears that its influence might actually be on the wane?
Felix Corley: That is very true. I think in many of the former Soviet Republics - and Georgia has been following many of the same trends as the other ones - the traditional faith, if you like to call it that, of the country really after 1989-1990, when the Soviet Union opened up and then collapsed, they've really been desperate to keep out the resurgence of any other faith, and new faiths coming in from abroad to shore up their positions. They believe that because they suffered so badly during the Soviet persecutions - a lot of their property was taken away, many of their priests were killed or exiled - they believe that it's now their right to regain supremacy throughout the country, and they find it very, very difficult to cope with a sort of free market in religion. Because they know that this is really a window of opportunity, but it's gradually going to close, as societies open up to the rest of the world, and inevitably to a more pluralistic kind of religious free market. And really they're trying to just get in there, grab as much as they can, and restore what they believe should be their rightful place in society.
David Rutledge: It's been suggested that a thorough investigation into the violence would end up at the Georgian Orthodox Patriarchate. How high do you think the responsibility would go?
Felix Corley: This is very, very difficult to tell. Most people who really know are too scared to say. They probably fear for their lives, and probably rightly. In the Patriarchate, many people believe it isn't necessarily the Patriarch himself, Patriarch Ilia, but that he was really the victim of a kind of takeover of the Patriarchate by very nationalistic forces who were prepared to use violence against religious minorities. So it's really the kind of circle around the Patriarchate who became very powerful, and who were perhaps dictating this policy.
Some people reckon it was an experiment which was sort of instigated by the Moscow Patriarchate. They were trying to crack down on the opposing religious faiths, or rival religious faiths. And in Byleorusse they tried a legal method - they passed a very harsh law on religion - and at the same time in Georgia, they were using physical violence and intimidation against minority faiths, and these were kind of experiments on behalf of the Moscow Patriarchate. Well, anyone who's spent time in the Caucasus is pretty used to conspiracy theories, and I think that probably falls into that category. I do not believe myself that it has been stoked by the Russian Orthodox Church. I believe there are plenty of people in Georgia who are quite happy to support this kind of thing, and instigate it without the need for any Russian involvement. But I think it does go pretty high up in the Patriarchate.
David Rutledge: What about the government? Where does President Saakashvili stand on all this - has he been making noises in support of religious freedom?
Felix Corley: He has, to a certain extent, but it hasn't really amounted to much in practice. But don't forget, because of this severe climate in Georgia of ultra-religious nationalism, many people have been switched off from religious minorities. They fear having any kind of connection with them, and religious minorities are unpopular among the majority Georgian Orthodox population; people don't like them.
David Rutledge: Because they're seen as a foreign import?
Felix Corley: Partly. In the case, say ,of the Jehovah's Witnesses, who suddenly became very, very active and gained several dozen thousands of supporters in the last decade or so, they are really seen as very unpopular. They go round knocking on doors, giving out literature in the streets, despite the fact that people often come up and beat them up for this, and that's continuing even now. Others - say, like the Catholics, the Jews, the Muslim population, there's a very large Muslim minority, the Armenian minority in the south of the country, they've been there for centuries - and these minorities are viewed as more traditional, and don't usually suffer the same problems.
But because of the anti-Catholic hysteria that was generated - you know, there was a very famous visit by one of the senior Vatican officials a couple of years ago, to sign their own Concordat with the Georgian State. And that was kyboshed by Orthodox protesters from the Patriarchate, who just thronged the streets of Central Tblisi, a very embarrassing episode for the government, and they had to call off signing this Concordat with the Vatican, which is an inter-state agreement. So there's been such hostility generated towards Catholics, Jehovah's Witnesses, Baptists and other Protestants, and the national effort is to try to portray them as foreign faiths.
David Rutledge: How much pressure is being put on the situation from outside Georgia, by Washington - or by Britain, for that matter?
Felix Corley: I think many countries around the world have been highly concerned about this. The Council of Europe, Georgia is a member of the Council of Europe, it's a member of the Organisation for Security and Co-operation in Europe; both of those organisations have been constantly complaining to Tblisi. The European Union, they have asked Tblisi about this. The United States has been very strong on this issue. But many people have been inclined to give the new government the benefit of the doubt, which so far hasn't really justified it. It's made the initial steps, but it's really so early, this is only the beginning, and they've got a long way to go before those who are responsible will be brought to justice. I mean, we've had nine people sentenced for nearly two hundred attacks, and of those nine, seven of them received suspended sentences of maybe one or two years. And only two have received prison terms. But many people in Georgia, among the religious minorities, fear that this trial will be the end of any such trials, not the beginning of them.
David Rutledge: Are those fears of what may happen in the future justified? How do you see this whole thing playing out over the next few months?
Felix Corley: Well, I mean, we've had meetings attacked fairly recently, you know, the Jehovah's Witnesses constantly get attacks on their meetings. There was one back in November, there was a mob attack on the Baptists in a small village, where they were building a house they were planning to use as a small church. And there was also another village where a different Baptist congregation was trying to rebuild their church, which had been burnt out by these vigilantes a year or two back. And they still haven't got permission to rebuild this church. So these sorts of incidents are happening now.
David Rutledge: And meanwhile, I read that Mklavishvili and his principal cohort have appealed against their sentences; is that likely to be successful, do you think?
Felix Corley: Well, there was the precedent of a very nasty group called Jvari, which means 'cross', and that was led by Paata Bluashvili , and they were the first people to be sentenced for religious violence. They appealed, and their sentences were halved on appeal. So I mean there is a precedent for this. We've already seen that the prosecutor was demanding seven years for Mklavishvili, and he only got six years. It's very possible that will be reduced again. But I believe there'll be such an outcry really, because people around the world really have identified Mklavishvili as the symbol of all this religious violence. So in many senses, this case is a test case, other people are watching very, very closely. So I believe that the authorities will be very reluctant to actually reduce his sentence, and they'd be very reluctant to free him. But by the same token, he is likely to escape prosecution for the many other attacks he's involved. This charge, where he received the prison term, only concerns three of the many attacks that he himself and his group were involved in, so he's likely to remain unpunished for the vast majority of his violence attacks.
David Rutledge: Felix Corley, Editor of the Forum 18 news service.
This week we're marking the imminent passing of a venerable ecumenical institution. Back in 1967, the Australian Council of Churches went into partnership with the Catholic Church to establish Force Ten, a donor-based service providing overseas aid and development. This week, it was announced that after nearly four decades in the business, Force Ten will be closing its doors at the end of the year, which means that Force Ten's constituent partners, the National Council of Churches' Christian World Service, and the Catholic organisation Caritas Australia, will be parting company.
The reasons for Force Ten's demise are largely financial ones. Aid agencies have mushroomed over the past forty years, and Force Ten has found itself struggling in what's become a highly competitive marketplace.
John Thomas is the Chairman of Force Ten.
John Thomas: Forty years is a long time, David, and in that time there have been a lot of denominational agencies set up. As you're aware, most churches have their own denominational aid agency, and of course there are more agencies such as World Vision and Care Australia. And I guess it becomes hard to compete for that donor dollar. And so it was felt that it was better to allow Caritas and CWS, who were the two main partners, to continue on in the strength that they'd established themselves. But if I can say: recognising that whilst Force Ten as it was constituted will no longer be in existence in 2005, it will continue - although not under that name - with what was called the Simply Sharing Week, where both Caritas and CWS will still be involved jointly with some specific overseas aid projects.
David Rutledge: You say that the environment became more and more competitive and Force Ten wasn't able to compete. Why do you think that was the case?
John Thomas: Look, I guess I'm expressing a personal view - and before I do that, I think Force Ten and the people who have gone over that time, did a marvellous job in what they did with the funds - but in later years, perhaps with the benefit of hindsight, Force Ten could have been more active in how it marketed and promoted itself, because obviously without a good donor base then you can't continue on. And it's fair to say that its donor base is very ageing, and some of those people are now passing on, and so it's very hard to play catch-up. And that's why the view was formed that rather than putting in a lot of extra marketing effort and money, it was better to allow CWS and Caritas to continue on that good work under their own banners.
David Rutledge: John Thomas, Chairman of Force Ten.
In an era when aid and development is increasingly becoming the province of denominational agencies, does the closing down of Force Ten signal a decline in ecumenical spirit?
I put the question to Jack de Groot, who's Director of Caritas Australia.
Jack de Groot: I don't think that's an act of anti-ecumenism, I think it's an act of "where does one express one's Christian identity?", and we each do it usually through a traditional church structure. And thus in the case of Caritas, each time we've gone through a time of growth, it's commenced out of a tragedy such as in East Timor; people become alert to the realities of the crisis in a country. I think Force Ten struggled, really, to get above the watermark. Each time a crisis happened, and people got interested in aid, they'd first go off to their own agency, or church agency - and later, I think, they would think about the ecumenical action.
That expression of ecumenism doesn't seem to have a future going for it, but there are other expressions of ecumenism that we see in the international aid field, that are very critical, very creative: say, the work of the churches together in the Sudan, through the church's ecumenical action in Sudan, in the south; and perhaps the most telling one - and most significant at the moment - is in Dafur in the north-west of Sudan, where action by the churches together, and the joint response, they're new expressions of ecumenism rather than the end of ecumenism.
David Rutledge: Tell me a bit about how the decision was made, because it took some two years, I understand, for the final decision to be taken. Was it the Christian World Services or Caritas who initiated the decision to part company?
Jack de Groot: It's not a case of either/or. Actually in May last year, both parties had communicated to each other the decision on each of their parts to wind up, so it's a joint decision. Preceding that, as I said, there'd been times of review. I think in 2001, we had an independent consultant come over and have a look on behalf of Force Ten, at the future of the agency, what could be possible? We tried a few things there, a little bit more assertive in the marketing, I suppose - to use the commercial term, "aggressive" in the marketing - to see how we could get more people interested. We looked at perhaps other churches coming on board, or church agencies, whether it was possible for the Anglicans, the Lutherans, Uniting Church etc to join it, and what people did want to join was the joint work for education about poverty and development, not the joint fund-raising activity.
So that was clear, and we said "look, our ability to attract new donors is not great, and we're not seeing new donors come on". Many of our donors at Force Ten had been for many, many years, but they're an ageing group, loyal but ageing. Some of them are having to drop off, either because of retirement or lack of disposable income, and obviously an ageing database is also one that's not renewing itself, getting new people in.
David Rutledge: You've mentioned that some of the donors go back forty years, they're obviously very committed to the ethos of Force Ten. What sort of response have you had from those donors to what's happening?
Jack de Groot: Well, I think it's varied. The unfortunate thing is that we had planned to write - and still do plan to write - to each of the donors on 21st February. So the fact that this issue came to the media's attention before we had the time to get to the donors is a bit disappointing. But those who have contacted Force Ten have been disappointed that something they committed to is winding up - but also wanting to know what's the future, and what's possible. And I think the fundamental thing is their commitment to issues of aid and development, then their commitment to an ecumenical expression of that, and they'll look for ways to continue both of those commitments.
David Rutledge: There's been talk of Caritas having been bought out by Christian World Services; how much truth is in that?
Jack de Groot: None. This was an amicable separation, there was no buy-out. In fact the wind-up of Force Ten sees, on 31st December, a complete close-down of the organisation, not an exchange of any cash to any of the parent bodies, Christian World Service or Caritas Australia.
David Rutledge: Was payment discussed at any stage over the two years while negotiations were under way?
Jack de Groot: No. What was discussed was, we've identified that Force Ten is not viable. Obviously there is a supporter group, and if one of the agencies did want to continue Force Ten by itself and earn income from that, that would raise the question of "well, if Caritas wanted to do that, or CWS wanted to do that, there'd need to be some compensation". But that was as much as was discussed at that level.
David Rutledge: Jack de Groot, Director of Caritas Australia.
David Rutledge: Richard Wagner's 'Agape of the Apostles', a choral work written specifically for performance in Der Frauenkirche, or Our Lady's Church, in the German city of Dresden, which premiered in 1843 with over a thousand male voices.
This week marks sixty years since the destruction of Dresden by Allied forces at the end of World War II. The incendiary bombing was so intense that the city burned for a week, with the loss of up to 200,000 lives. Dresden's skyline before the bombing had been dominated by the enormous stone dome of Our Lady's Church, the Frauenkirche. But by the end of St Valentine's Day 1945, this baroque masterpiece had collapsed into a pile of charred rubble.
Well now, as the bombing's 60th anniversary passes, the church is being rebuilt, and the project is almost finished, thanks to the combined efforts of the German government and international donors.
One such donor is the British-based Dresden Trust. Alan Russell is Chairman of the Dresden Trust, and Noel Debien asked him why the British had gotten so involved in restoring the Frauenkirche.
Alan Russell: The British became involved along with other people in America and also in France in fact, because after the wall came down, a group of Dresdeners launched an appeal to Germany and to the international community to help with the rebuilding of the Frauenkirche. The rubble pile had for about ten years, been the site on which every year they placed candles to remember the victims of the raid, and even in the GDR time, people dreamed of rebuilding this essential symbol of their city. It lay in ruins throughout the GDR time, but many people protected the ruins in the hope that one day the church would stand again.
And when the call was heard in Britain, we decided that as the people who had been most responsible for the destruction of the town, we should join in the action and make a contribution.
Noel Debien: Well this has been quite a complex rebuild, hasn't it. About ten years ago when I stood on that site, I just saw a pile of rubble everywhere, with numbers on it. What's happened in that ten years since I saw it?
Alan Russell: The first thing that the Dresden people did was to clear that rubble pile. They did this by setting up enormously long racks on which they placed all of the stones which could be reused in the rebuilding, and these were the ones with numbers on. And all of this preparatory work was completed by about 1996. And in 1996 the rebuilding of the church above ground level began, and it has taken between 8 and 9 years to complete at a cost of, in pounds sterling, somewhere over 100-million. I think the unsuspecting Australian would find his breath being taken away. He would see a rebuilt Frauenkirche which soars high into the sky over 90 metres, probably the most beautiful baroque building - among the Protestant churches - in Europe, rising up through an elegant dome to the great 9-metre orb and cross which British friends have made and contributed.
Noel Debien: And I believe that in that final building, around 8,000 of the original some millions of stones, around 8,000 of the original pieces have actually been inserted back into the structure, but it is possible to see the difference between the two, the new and the old.
Alan Russell: They have been re-used, they have as far as possible been re-used in the places in which they were in the original church, and you can see them because of course they had been blackened by time and they appear much darker than the new stone.
Noel Debien: The destruction of Dresden itself is looked upon by some as one of the great tragedies of World War II. The incendiary bombing was so intense that the Frauenkirche actually collapsed the next day largely as a result of the heat that was generated by the fires. Some Germans have called this tantamount to a war crime; how have you dealt with those sorts of feelings among some Germans?
Alan Russell: Well these are sorts of feelings which are not unique to German people. There is a very mixed opinion also in the United Kingdom and I'm sure elsewhere about this. I think a lot of people in the United Kingdom, including a number of pilots and their widows who have become members of our Trust, have had the feeling ever since that the raid was disproportionate, that it did not target the essentially war-connected parts of the city, like the military area on the other side of the Elbe, and that the destruction of what was undoubtedly one of Europe's most beautiful cities, together with we don't how many people, but it could be anything between 40,000 and 200,000 people in one night was to say the least, regrettable, and in the view of some people, somewhat worse. But the key thing is that the British and the Germans and others involved, now want to turn this tragedy - and it was a tragedy - into a symbol of reconciliation and into something which is going to promote reconciliation and new friendship. A very symbolic building in Germany, in Europe and indeed throughout the world. I may add that the British Dresden Trust has had some contributions coming from as far I'm pleased to say, as Australia. Thank you, Australia.
Noel Debien: And I believe there's a further story there about the building of the orb and the cross which the Dresden Trust has donated, there is another connection to the actual bombing.
Alan Russell: Indeed. It happened by chance that the Goldsmiths and Silversmiths whom we retained in Blackfriars in London to do the work, have as their principal craftsman, one Alan Smith, whose father was a pilot on the raid, and for him, that is to say for Alan Smith, his work on the orb and cross became not merely a matter of very skilled craftsmanship, but also something which he did with his heart and soul. And it's worth mentioning to an Australian audience here, that one of the crew members who flew with Alan Smith's father, in February, 1945, is still alive, now lives in Perth, Australia, but was, we're very happy to report, in Dresden on 22nd June last year when the orb and cross were finally placed on the top of the Frauenkirche.
Noel Debien: That's Harry Ricketts.
Alan Russell: Harry Ricketts, indeed.
Noel Debien: On the one hand the rebuilding of Dresden and the Frauenkirche in particular is part of the rebuilding of European culture, the beauty of European culture. But on another level it has significant religious overtones. How does the Dresden Trust respond to those religious overtones of what's happening here?
Alan Russell: Well the Dresden Trust has over 2,000 donors and members. We of course have had people of all faiths contributing money, and our Trust as such has not only made gifts to the Frauenkirche, but it did actually make a small contribution to the rebuilding of the synagogue, although that was of course destroyed by the Nazis in 1938. For myself I would say that it does have a very important religious symbolism right down the middle of the project. The Baumeister, the engineer in charge in Germany is a man of great and deep belief, and this is shared by many people, many of us in the Trust, in the sense that there is no greater symbol of understanding and forgiveness, than the cross of Our Lord, and that the request to British people to make this the centre of their action has a great significance for them in terms of their religious belief and life. And we hope that this will strengthen these already strong links between the churches in Germany, and the churches in the united Kingdom. And we want these faith links to become as strong as they possibly can.
Noel Debien: Alan Russell, Chairman of the Dresden Trust, thanks for joining The Religion Report.
Alan Russell: I've been delighted to talk to listeners in Australia, where like so many people in the United Kingdom, I have many, many friends.
David Rutledge: Alan Russell, Chairman of the Dresden Trust, on the line there from Chichester in the UK, speaking with Noel Debien.
And that's it from us this week. Thanks this week to Noel Debien and Michelle Goldsworthy. I'm David Rutledge and I look forward to your company again next week.
- Felix Corley
- Editor, Forum 18 news service
- John Thomas
- Chairman, Force Ten
- Jack de Groot
- National Director, Caritas Australia
- Alan Russell
- Chairman, Dresden Trust
- David Rutledge
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Today is my last day at Beliefnet (which I co-founded in 1999). The swirling emotions: sadness, relief, love, humility, pride, anxiety.
But mostly deep, deep gratitude.
How many people get to come up with an idea and have rich people invest money to make it a reality? How many people get to create their fantasy workplace, stocked with people they like and respect, people of integrity, creativity and humor? How many people have the chance to build a business that could feed one’s ego (TV appearances galore!), and yet still give one the satisfaction of doing worthwhile work?
Beliefnet is a business but I also view it as a trust. Some folks visit the site or read the newsletters to be entertained, some to learn, but some come for serious support during very difficult times. I know the staff is very committed to remembering that.
In a way, it feels like just as much of an accomplishment to leave Beliefnet as to create it. It’s now crystal clear that the company is well beyond one person, or group of people — it’s something durable. In that sense, the staff and you the readers have given me the most extraordinary gift possible: the ability to depart while having confidence that Beliefnet will not only live on but thrive.
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The best camera is the one you always have with you, and if that camera happens to be a recent iPhone, ShiftCam 2.0 unlocks a ton of new shooting options.
ShiftCam 2.0 comprises a wide-ranging ecosystem of lenses, but they’re all designed to work with a custom iPhone case that holds them in place over your phone’s camera(s) when you want them, and lets you slide them out of the way when you don’t.
By default, you get what ShiftCam calls the Travel Set, which is an array of six lenses for the iPhone X and iPhone 7/8+, or four for the standard iPhone 7 or 8. Depending on which lenses you snap in front of your camera, you’ll be able to get fisheye, wide angle, macro, and even telephoto shots. The effect is similar to what you’d get from affordable snap-on lenses that have been around forever, but I found SnapLens’s quality to be higher, and the sliding mechanism is much easier to use than fiddly clips.
The Travel Set definitely adds a bit of bulk to your phone, but I’d have no reservations about using it during a vacation or any other time where I expect to take lots of photos. SnapLens’s Pro lenses though, are another story.
These optional add-ons slide into the same case as the Travel Set (which you have to remove and store...somewhere?), and are significantly larger and heavier. They offer slightly clearer photos with less distortion than the tiny Travel Set lenses, but you definitely won’t be sliding your phone into your pocket while one is attached, which sort of defeats what’s so great about smartphone photography to begin with.
I was most excited to try the Pro telephoto lens, but it’s inexplicably designed to sit over the iPhone X’s 1x camera, meaning it basically just replicates the 2x camera already built into the phone. The macro and wide angle lenses produced nice shots, but the quality difference compared to the Travel Set wasn’t noticeable enough to justify the added expense and bulk.
That said, for iPhone photography obsessives, the ShiftCam 2's case and travel lenses are very slick, and well worth the current $49 preorder price on Kickstarter.
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The two oldest, biggest chemical companies in the country can now live happily ever after together (minus a few products), as federal antitrust regulators have given the green light to this $130 billion mega-merger.
The Department of Justice announced Thursday the approval of the DuPont and Dow merger under the condition the companies divest multiple crop protection and two petrochemical products.
According to a civil antitrust lawsuit and settlement [PDF] filed Thursday by the DOJ’s Antitrust Division, along with the state attorneys general from Iowa, Mississippi, and Montana, the proposed divestitures would prevent price hikes and lost innovation.
Although neither business distributes goods directly to consumers under their main brand names, between them the two have their hands in, well, pretty much everything. In short, these are the companies that make all the things that make all the other things possible.
For instance, Dow makes plastics of every type and a wide range of chemicals, used for everything from pesticides to paint, while DuPont dabbles in inventing materials like Lycra and Tyvek, and focusing on agriculture, including genetically modified crops; biofuels and increased-efficiency products; and continuing their “advanced materials” research.
Dow and DuPont, of course, spun their significant overlap in business, particularly in the agricultural sphere, as “synergy,” while regulators were more keen to think of that duplication as “competition.”
The regulators say that without making divestitures, the proposed merger likely would reduce competition between two of only a handful of chemical companies that manufacture certain types of crop protection chemicals and the only two U.S. producers of acid copolymers and ionomers, potentially harming U.S. farmers and consumers.
Under the settlement, DuPont will sell its Finesse herbicide and Rynaxypyr insecticides. The DOJ claims that these two products alone have U.S. sales of over $100 million, and their sale would preserve competition in U.S. markets for broadleaf herbicides for winter wheat and insecticides for chewing pests.
Additionally, Dow will be required to sell its U.S. acid copolymers and ionomers business, used to make food packaging and other goods.
Reuters reports that the U.S. antitrust settlement mirrors one European regulators proposed in March, paving the way for the Dow-DuPont merger across the Atlantic.
“The remedies obtained by today’s settlement… will preserve vigorous competition in the sale of these products and benefit American farmers and consumers alike,” Acting Assistant Attorney General Andrew Finch of the Justice Department’s Antitrust Division said in a statement.
DuPont and Dow first revealed their romantic relationship back in Dec. 2015.
The companies said at the time that they would take what was once two companies, make it one, and then split it up again into three separate, publicly-traded entities. One DowDuPont business would focus entirely on agriculture, another on materials science (which includes infrastructure, consumer goods, and inventing stuff like Teflon), and the last (and smallest) on “specialty products,” which is basically everything that doesn’t fit in one of the other two.
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Happy Veteran's Day to all in the military, all who served and those who are in the service now! I have had family members who served in the military most of my life - my grandfather (Army) and grandmother (Navy), uncle (Navy), dad (Army), and of course brother in the Army, and now a nephew currently in the Navy, and a cousin in the Army National Guard, preparing to go to Afghanistan in February.
While I was never in the military, I respect those who have chosen to serve.
It's funny, when I was a kid, talking with Dad about it, he said, "Eh, you'd never even make it in! You're asthmatic, nearsighted, and flat-footed!" "But," I said, "I inherited all those traits from you, and you served!!!!" He grinned, and said, "It was 1947 - they'd take anyone who was upright and breathing, pretty much!"
Others - do/did you get the day off for Veteran's Day? Just curious, I never have, when I worked for other people.
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@talentEgal visits high-school classes to speak to the college students of tomorrow. At its heart, the association works to stop people putting themselves down and to convince high-school students that further studies, the studies they want to apply for, are indeed possible. Despite an increase in the number of students with disabilities enrolled in college after recent legislation, these students are concentrated at an undergraduate level, and become fewer and farther between as we progress through the college system. Higher education establishments, universities and colleges are responsible for providing all the support and help necessary for students with disabilities to successfully complete their studies: support, teaching help, tutoring, technical aids, making changes to the syllabus and making arrangements for sitting exams.
So @talentEgal help schools and universities think about possible changes they can make in terms of teaching and understanding different disabilities with speeches and workshops designed to raise awareness.
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In The Hoop Eyemask
Minimum Hoop size 5x7 (130x180mm)
formats included DST, EMD, EXP, JEF, PES, VIP, VP3, XXX
7 different eyemasks, all made in the hoop, 4 with quilting detail, and 3 with pre-set lettering. Use these masks to make your own style of design quickly and easily. These designs are perfect for craft stalls or gifts.
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Heat oil in frying pan, and cook potatoes until soft.
Remove from pan and set aside.
Brown bacon in pan, then remove and dice.
Wipe naan bread with oil from pan.
Layer potatoes, bacon, hard-boiled egg and cheese on naan bread to assemble pizza.
Place pizza in a grill pan and cook on low to medium heat, or bake on a cookie sheet at 400 degrees for about 20 minutes.
Remove from heat, sprinkle with fresh basil, cut and serve.
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The Final Challenge read:
THE REIMAGINING (aka THE RECKONING): For this final duel between Master and Challenger, we're going to combine a little bit of all the previous challenges. For this ultimate show of skill, adaptability, and personality, you will be given a preexisting song. Your task is to completely reimagine that song with your own lyrics and music - while retaining the same basic story and at least some sonic "cue" or "quote" from the original tune (a short phrase or series of chord changes; the key word here is "brief"). THIS IS NOT A COVER - you are crafting something more akin to an homage, but with your own creative voice. Here is the song you’ll be reimagining:
DAVID BOWIE: "SPACE ODDITY"
You will be judged on how closely your reimagining hits the basic "story points" - spaceman goes up, spaceman talks with control, spaceman goes for a walk, spaceman disappears - but beyond that, anything goes.
The song must be at least 1min 45sec, and must be an original creation.
Jonathan had this to say when announcing the song on his blog:
Yes you're right, I almost went with the first monkey in space, but I didn't want to be accused of going overboard with the monkeys. So I went with the first dog in space instead.
Her name was Laika and she went up in Sputnik 2. In doing my "research" I discovered that Russian scientists recently released the truth about what happened to her during the launch, which is that she died just a few hours into it, and not after a week as they originally claimed. She died from stress and overheating (the cooling system malfunctioned and it was 104F in there) but mostly she died from being LAUNCHED INTO SPACE IN A FUCKING ROCKET.
Live Performance
"Space Doggity" made its concert premiere at the Boston, MA: 2008-11-21 show, and was played again the following evening at the Nyack, NY: 2008-11-22 show. It has since remained a semi-regular presence on the concert setlist.
- In his blog entry, Jonathan indicates that he uses another musical thematic reference after the guitar solo. Several people guessed that it was Paul McCartney's "Venus and Mars", but it was later confirmed by an email with Jonathan that it is Pink Floyd's "Dogs".
- Jonathan is not the only artist to record a song about Laika: Canadian folk rock group Moxy Früvous released "Laika" on their first studio album, 1993's Bargainville.
|Masters of Song Fu|
|1. Octopus - 2. Re: Vos Cerveaux - 3. My Beige Bear - 4. Lady Aberlin's Muumuu - 5. Washy Ad Jeffy - 6. Monkey Shines - 7. Big Dick Farts a Polka - 8. Space Doggity - 9. Always the Moon - 10. Blue Sunny Day|
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Friday March 18, 2016
The case for a robot president
more stories from this episode
- Why are so many Canadian veterans turning to pot?
- Underwater soldiers: The history of military dolphins, from the Cold War to now
- The case for a robot president
- The 'other' tax: Societal privilege and the cost of being different
- HIV/AIDS shame culture from Gaëtan Dugas to Truvada
- Riffed from the headlines 18/03/2016
- Full Episode
American presidential candidate and futurist Zoltan Istvan says in 10 to 15 years artificial intelligence (A.I.) will be advanced enough to be president of the United States of America.
With the help of human programmers, Istvan envisions a future in which an A.I. entity — a robot — would make decisions altruistically, and for the greatest good of all Americans.
Earlier this week Google's artificial intelligence program AlphaGo beat a world "Go" champion Lee Sedol four games to one in what's being seen a landmark moment for A.I. Go is a game that requires a high level of intuition rather than brute calculating force, which is why computers have had a hard time playing it.
Istvan says AlphaGo's win is just the latest example that artificially intelligent machines are capable of making human-like decisions.
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Michael Grant Terry is an American actor, known for his recurring role as Wendell Bray on the Fox series Bones....
Connect any celebrity with Michael Grant Terry to see how closely they are linked... romantically!
He is 31 born aug 30 I want to know if he is married or has a girlfriend I also think he is really hot
i can't believe no one knows he's birthdate! i want to know his age!! D:
he is soooo freaking hot! like OMG. i watch Bones and he's just soo amazing! D:
i looked everywhere! i can't find out when he was born!
How old is he??
anyone know when he was born!
He`s so hot<3 rofl does anybody know how old he is?
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Calling all creative companies, apply to the CreativeGuild today! Post jobs, showcase your work, and get noticed!
Caoimhe M Smyth
To stay up to date on upcoming SG events, sign up for the local newsletter!
Dorothy Dorothy J. Hwee
Senior Concept Artist at Bandai Namco
Co-Founder and CEO of billon Bricks (bB)
CreativeMornings/Singapore just turned TWO this March! To celebrate the big 0-2, they pulled together some highlights from the past year. Stunning. You can watch some of their talks here. →
Welcome to the CreativeMornings/Singapore city page! Check back here for upcoming events, new videos, and photos.
Image courtesy of Shutterstock.
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I was talking recently to a woman who took the grueling California Bar examination. Waiting is the worst part. Dread mixes equally with anxiety even for the most confident law students. I’m sure Manuel and Daniel can attest to the emotional churning a person goes through in that awful interim between the bar exam and getting your results. Here's a glimpse into the future of this woman, and of all such former law students sweating out the bar.
It was time.
The woman pressed the enter key and sat down. Her computer screen woke from black into the familiar blue desktop. A single icon occupied center screen. CABAR, she had named it.
Pulsing the link would fill her screen with the white oval against a striped blue field. The California Bar Exam. The woman would type in her examinee’s serial number and press enter. One of two messages would populate the oval text hole. Every bar exam, more than half the applicants got the dreaded message: “Your name not found.” You failed. All those years. All that studying. All the money. Shot to Hell.
On the other hand, the taste of joyous exultation when the screen filled with the reader’s name. I passed. It’s all been worth it!
Last May, the woman had rented the robe and walked with her class. Juris Doctor she was now. “No, I’m not a lawyer yet, Ma,” she explained for the hundredth time. “I still have to pass the bar.”
The day after graduation she started studying for the bar exam. Every available hour, day in, day out. She read. She outlined. She briefed and practiced essays. Somewhere out there, people had paid thousands of dollars for bar prep classes. Money narrowed the odds but there are no guarantees. Answer the questions. Write the essays. Hold your breath. The best preparation was to review everything twice. In three years of law school she’d mastered the art of drudgery, so the work was effortless, second nature. It was what she did. And then she studied some more.
The week of the Bar Exam, the woman rose at 4:00 a.m. to meditate on the day’s challenges. The bus ride to the exam center gave her a chance to glance through the daily paper, sit among her fellow riders, eavesdrop on the chisme, but mostly stare out the window for the hour long ride to the convention center. A hotel room would have been a ridiculous extravagance. Day after day she rode that bus, wrote the exam, then rode that bus home.
She would have no results for months. Months and months of waiting, job hunting, and more waiting until the hour when the results would be available on the internet.
It was time.
The processor talked to the modem which talked to the internet which found the state bar’s website, navigated to the file the woman’s icon had linked. The colored ball spun for two seconds. In the first second, the woman felt the pangs of buyer’s remorse. The Macintosh had cost twenty five hundred dollars. She added the cost into her student loan and held her breath against tonight’s moment. In the last second, reason took over. With a JD and a bar number, she knew, she’d have the Mac paid off within about five years. Maybe more, but five years against a lawyer’s salary would be just about right. And if she could stomach it, a position in a firm, with a six figure salary, pay it off in one month. Unthinkable. But still, the bar number would be, could be, should be a . . . magic key?
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I received the following announcement of something that sounds worthwhile. It’s good to see Chusma sustaining its efforts.
Title: Provocaciones, Letters from the Prettiest Girl in Arvin
Author: Rafaela G. Castro
Publisher: Chusma House Publications
P.O. Box 467
San Jose, CA 95103
Available: November, 2006
A collection of sensitive essays that depict the lives of a close knit Mexican family living first in Arvin, in the San Joaquin Valley, and later in the San Francisco Bay Area. These insightful, loving, guilt ridden, and at times very sad narratives, reveal the religious, moral, cultural, and ethical values of a young girl raised in the 1950s and 1960s in a Mexican Catholic working class home. We are told stories about a special Mexican mother-daughter relationship; about loving one’s family but needing to leave it; about living in another country and loving it; and about the role of the Peace Corps in the lives of young Americans of the 1960s. The essays cover the years from the late 1930s, when the author’s parents married and came to California from New Mexico, to the 1990s when their lives ended. In between those years their special marriage experienced intense love and intense tragedy.
Rafaela Castro was born in Bakersfield, California, but has lived most of her life in the San Francisco Bay Area. She spent two years in Brazil with the Peace Corps before receiving degrees in English Literature, Library Science, and Folklore from the University of California, Berkeley. She has lectured in Ethnic Bibliography and Chicano Studies at UC Berkeley, and recently retired from the Humanities/Social Sciences department of Shields Library at the University of California, Davis. She is the author of Dictionary of Chicano Folklore.
For all you law students out there, your time will come. Keep your chin up! See you next week!
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Our flat top knives are manufactured from superior tool steels. These knives are made from a variety of metallurgies providing our customers the ideal balance between cost and knife life. With 100 years of experience, DIENES has expertise in heat treating and grinding to produce the very best flat top Knives on the market.
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As the amount of data in the world continues to explode, the ability to maintain business-critical assets requires a complex mix of professional attributes our team holds.
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There has been near-nationwide harmonisation on payroll tax administration since 2009, experts say, casting doubt on the significance of a key result of the tax forum.
On Tuesday, Queensland Treasurer
Yet all states and territories have had essentially identical laws, excluding rates and thresholds, since mid-2009 under an initiative driven by the revenue commissioners. “There is significant harmony but it’s not complete," said KPMG partner Fiona Giuseppi on Friday.
NSW and Victoria have had virtually identical legislation since July 1, 2007. All states now have largely similar laws, using a “template" – except for Queensland and Western Australia. Queensland has adopted the eight key principles of harmonisation including lodgment timing, motor vehicle and accommodation allowances and fringe benefits, while WA has adopted seven.
Ms Giuseppi said the states were looking at the next steps towards administrative harmony. NSW and Victoria have published more than 30 agreed revenue rulings and states had conducted joint audits.
“They’ve made excellent steps but they could go a lot further," said Ms Giuseppi. The forum initiative would apply pressure to continue the process, further cutting red tape for business, she said.
Beyond payroll, states had done nothing, she said, but other areas such as stamp duty and land tax were less burdensome. Payroll is paid each month and affects any business breaching the threshold.
Ms Giuseppi said she was hopeful states would move to entirely identical legislation – a “missed opportunity" and not waver. “They have a history of going off and doing their own thing," she said. Nearly half of the 103,000 businesses that pay payroll tax do so in more than one jurisdiction.
At a recent conference, NSW revenue commissioner Anthony Johnston said just one in 20 businesses would benefit from harmonisation. He said, to date, it had resulted in better outcomes for revenue offices.
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A combing party comprising forest and armed reserve personnel caught five red sander smugglers after an exchange of fire with them in interior Guvvalacheruvu in Rayachoti forest range in Kadapa district on Sunday.
Forty forest personnel and 35 armed reserve personnel, equipped with sophisticated weapons, spotted a group of over 40 red sander smugglers, who opened fire at the combing party. The latter returned the fire resulting in the arrest of five smugglers belonging to Tamil Nadu, Kadapa DFO B.N.N. Murthy told The Hindu on Sunday. The five men were being interrogated and shoot-at-sight orders had been given against the smugglers, he said.
The area has been cordoned off and intensive combing operations were on to apprehend all the smugglers, he added.
A large number of red sander smugglers from Tamil Nadu ventured into the Guvvalacheruvu, Saraswathipalle, Palakonda and Yanumamulacheruvu forest areas in Rayachoti constituency, for the first time, Mr. Murthy stated.
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CASH ONLY...NO EARLY BIRDS PLEASE...ALL SALES ARE FINAL NO REFUNDS. There will be no porters available at this sale, so be sure to bring your own help if intending to purchase furniture. Also, delivery is available at an additional cost. Everything sold AS IS. All sales are final and must be removed by end of sale. Please do not park in or block driveways. Please be courteous to the neighborhood and the client's home. By attending this event, you hold us harmless from any or all claims, liability, damages, without limitations. Numbers will be left out BY 3:00 the day before 1st day of sale.
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During the Covid19 challenging time, many customers trusted in the Bruker LabScape remote monitoring to help secure their magnet and reduce costs, when access to instruments was quite difficult or even not possible.
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A refreshing Caribbean tropical fruit drink with an icy kick
The molecular composition of the original free base nicotine is changed when we add organic acids. The proton of hydrogen cancels the irritating sensations and improve the absorption rates of nicotine. It is the neutral PH balance that specifically allows for faster absorption.
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General Hospital (GH) spoilers update for Thursday, May 24, tease that Sonny (Maurice Benard) will fret about Carly’s (Laura Wright) fate. She’s stuck in legal drama thanks to Nelle (Chloe Lanier), so Sonny’s just trying to prepare for what’s ahead. He’s been forced to accept that possibility that Nelle’s telling the truth.
Diane (Carolyn Hennesy) can tell that Carly’s not herself these days, so she’ll warn Sonny. She’ll think Carly indeed spiraled out of control at that baby shower. Diane won’t know for sure if Carly pushed Nelle, but she wouldn’t be surprised.
Regardless, Diane realizes she might lose in court. She’ll have to walk Carly through some tough options soon. In the meantime, Carly will finally have a chance to face Michael (Chad Duell). She’ll be crushed by the look on his face. Carly can see the doubt all over pretty much everyone besides Jason (Steve Burton).
Nevertheless, Michael will give Carly a shot at explaining. He understands that Nelle doesn’t have a great track record, so he’ll let Carly share her side of the story. She’ll spill her version of events, but Michael may question why there’s no blanket. You can bet he’ll at least wonder why they fought at the top of the stairs. There were far safer places to face off.
While Carly tries to convince Michael of her innocence, Nelle will be quite pleased with herself. She’s lying about Carly’s shove, but she’s getting away with it so far. In fact, Nelle will think the situation has helped her bond with Michael. She’ll fill Josslyn (Eden McCoy) in on how close they’re getting and Michael’s sis will be incredibly supportive.
Other General Hospital spoilers say Griffin (Matt Cohen) and Kiki (Haley Erin) will get a shock. They’ll be jolted awake by the sound of Ava’s (Maura West) knocking. She’ll be desperate to get in Griffin’s room and apologize for the night before. Ava won’t realize her man’s already been sleeping with her daughter!
Kiki and Griffin will scramble to cover up their actions. Whether Griffin tells Ava to leave or Kiki runs and hides, they’ll have to handle this mess. Griffin will hope he can sweep this incident under the rug, but GH fans know he’ll get busted sooner or later. Secrets have a way of getting out in Port Charles, so Kiki and Griffin had better be prepared.
Across town, Julian (William deVry) will pay Alexis (Nancy Lee Grahn) a visit. He’ll offer her beautiful flowers as well as some comfort. Alexis had a difficult evening recently, so Julian will just want to check in. General Hospital spoilers say they’ll eventually lock lips, but Julian will be tossed out soon after. These two are always facing a romantic dilemma!
Over with Kim (Tamara Braun), she’ll try to help Drew (Billy Miller) see the light. He could lose so much if this memory mission goes wrong. Kim will want Drew to think about the consequences first. This procedure could cost Drew his life and leave his children fatherless, so he has to take that into consideration.
However, Drew seems awfully determined at this point. Will he continue to ignore all the worrywarts? We’ll give you updates as other GH news comes in. Stick with the ABC soap and don’t forget to check CDL often for the latest General Hospital spoilers, updates and news.
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allocable is a valid word in this word list. For a definition, see the external dictionary links below.
The word "allocable" uses 9 letters: A A B C E L L L O.
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REVIEW Uninhibited emotion of the cast is highlight of 'The Miracle Worker'
Two strong-willed females collide in a wordless yet powerful scene.
By DEBORA SHAULIS
WARREN -- If there's anything to admire about Summer Stock 27's production of "The Miracle Worker" at Kent State University Trumbull Campus, it's the beauty of being uninhibited.
That word certainly describes Annie Sullivan, the young, partially blind woman who moved from progressive Boston to chivalrous Alabama in the late 19th century to teach language to deaf, blind and mute Helen Keller. Robbed of her sight and hearing after a bout with meningitis, Keller was a 6-year-old wild child whose family was ready to institutionalize her until Sullivan came along. They had nearly given up on Helen. Headstrong, outspoken Annie Sullivan didn't, although this play implies that she, too, had her doubts.
Because of Sullivan, Helen Keller became a college graduate, author, world traveler, advocate of the disabled and a famous example of someone who overcame obstacles.
Uninhibited also describes the best performances of the show by some of the youngest members of the cast on Friday, which was opening night. The community-wide Summer Stock program, of which Kent Trumbull is fiscal agent, has been training young actors for 27 years.
Hilary Hapgood, a seventh-grader from Warren, looks younger than she is, which is to her benefit in her role as Helen. Hers is an essentially nonspeaking part but hardly easy, since she must rely on body language to convey Helen's needs.
Hapgood, as directed by Heather Fenstermaker, seems to understand Helen's predicament as a smart girl who cannot communicate and whose family has indulged her instead of disciplining her. The tantrums she throws as Helen are convincing, as are the grunts and squeaks that were Helen's form of expression before Annie Sullivan taught her sign language. The best part is watching Hapgood's face light up when Helen experiences moments of pleasure, such as when she clutches a beloved doll.
Danielle Marie Lloyd's passionate portrayal of Sullivan peaks in a scene during the first act, when she clears the Kellers' dining room to teach Helen a lesson in table manners. Not a word is spoken for several minutes as Helen flings food in Sullivan's face and Sullivan persists in making the unruly child eat with a fork.
Scenes in which Sullivan has flashbacks to her years in an institution are confusing and detract from the story.
Jack Eilber as Captain Keller, Helen's father, and Brent Whetstone as James, her older half brother, are at times merely delivering their lines. During those moments when their characters' emotions boil over, however, Eilber and Whetstone become uninhibited and make their disagreements sound real.
Brianne Kochunas remains on even keel as Kate Keller, Helen's loving mother. Micky Burnsworth is a good role model for aspiring character actors, as she gives Aunt Ev a refined, intelligent air. Jessica Black affects the most convincing Southern accent of everyone as Viney, the housekeeper.
The Kent Trumbull tradition of constructing good-looking, functional sets continues, with the crew setting scenes inside the Keller's two-story house, garden house, yard and more.
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Tuesday, April 23, 2013
Fasten your seat belts, dear readers, Sorcerer DEFINES “unsung!”
Director William Friedkin appeared at the Chicago Critics Film Festival screening of Sorcerer. He is currently on a book tour, and it was fortuitous that the stars aligned and he was able to fit this screening into his itinerary – Chicago is the city of his birth. (In fact, one of Sorcerer‘s few champions at the time of its release was Roger Ebert.) After the requisite book signing in the lobby, Friedkin introduced the film and then ran out (to have some Giordano’s pizza, he explained). He returned after the screening for a lively Q & A.
The Plot In Brief: Four desperate men in four far-flung locations all commit crimes that set them on the lam. Nilo (Francisco Rabal) is some sort of hitman, Kassem (Amidou) is an international terrorist, Jackie Scanlon (Roy Scheider) is the wheelman in a stick-up gone bad, and Victor Manzon (Bruno Cremer) is cooking the books of his father-in-law’s brokerage firm and indirectly causes his brother-in-law’s suicide. Got it? They all end up in Manaqua, Nicaragua, which (from the evidence presented in the film) is the armpit of the universe. All four men long to escape, but that requires more money and political juice than any of them possess.
Luckily, there is a tragic accident – an oil derrick explodes at a nearby refinery, causing a gusher of flame that kills many and cannot be extinguished. The refinery men locate an old arsenal of dynamite only a few hours’ drive away; they hope to blow up the errant derrick and finally put out the fire. Of course, there is a catch. The dynamite is old and unstable—it cannot be transported to the fire. What if, the oil men ask, some desperate men could be coerced into making the suicide run, driving six boxes of nitroglycerin over 200 torturous miles of rugged jungle terrain? Where could they ever find four such desperate men?
I do not think that is true. At the time I had not yet seen The Exorcist; my parents would not allow me to see it at eleven years old, so I read the book instead. (What can I say? I was a good Catholic boy. I listened to my parents.) Could I have been better able to approach Sorcerer objectively because I did not have Friedkin’s Exorcist as an opening act? Perhaps. This goes back to something I touched on last week and the subject of Adam’s recent column on spoilers. We wage constant battle in our heads between what we want from a film, what we expect from a film, and what the film is able to give us. I am glad that on that summer day in 1977 at the now-defunct Arlington Theater, I walked in with no expectations and no preconceived notions. I certainly was not expecting an existential film about four guys driving unstable dynamite over a rickety bridge. What I got was a terrific existential film about four guys driving unstable dynamite over a rickety bridge. And popcorn!
I have always thought that what turned audiences against Sorcerer was the nihilistic world view permeating every frame. The film suggests that not only does no bad deed go unpunished, but also that no good deed goes unpunished. “You are fucked. No matter what you do, you are fucked” is not the message that the average American is looking for in a movie. (With the possible exception of Fight Club and the works of one Darren Aronovsky). Looking back, I think that is one thing I liked best about the film: it transported me from my safe suburban environment of happy endings to a dangerous, unfamiliar world – what Friedkin called “beautiful squalor.”
At the screening Sunday night, William Friedkin regaled the audience for well over an hour with sometimes profane but always funny stories about his career, and he shared another theory about the film’s original box office failure. He originally sent the Sorcerer script to Steve McQueen, who pronounced it the best script he had ever read. With McQueen interested, Marcello Mastroianni and Lino Venturi, both big stars in Europe, also signed on to the film. When Friedkin was unable to make the accommodations McQueen requested (shooting in the United States, a part for then-wife Ali MacGraw) McQueen dropped out. Then Mastroianni and Venturi dropped out as well. Friedkin is convinced that if he had been able to cast bigger stars in the leading roles, the film’s fate would have been much different.
Obviously, Sorcerer was made before the scourge of CGI, but this works in the film’s favor. The showpiece of the film is the twenty minute bridge sequence, which looks so perilous on film – so dangerous and so obviously real – that audiences wonder just how the hell the filmmakers pulled it off. There is “real real” and then there is “movie real,” and the bridge sequence is real real. Like the best sequences in Buster Keaton’s films (Friedkin name-checked Keaton during his post screening Q & A) the answer to “how they did it” is “they really did it.”
During the harrowing bridge sequence, we are seeing a real truck on a real bridge over a real river. I am afraid that my students have sometimes lost their sense of the wonder of motion pictures because every time they are moved to ask, “How the hell did they do that?” the answer is invariably, “They did it in a computer.”
Going into the screening last Sunday, I was interested in whether the film held up. I was silently pitting the 14-year-old me against the 51-year-old me throughout the entire screening, fearful of experiencing the dreaded Goonies Derivation. Turns out I had pretty sophisticated taste as a youngster (or I just got this one right). In both its themes and its realization, Sorcerer is a masterpiece. It demands to be seen (or re-seen) and appreciated.
Sorcerer’s user rating on IMDb? 7.4.
William Friedkin mentioned at the screening that he would be supervising the restoration of Sorcerer this May. The restored 4K digital print will reportedly premier at the Venice Film Festival and later find its way to Blu-ray.
YOUR ASSIGNMENT: I also discovered at the screening that I had actually misremembered Sorcerer’s ending. A single shot has been lodged in my head for three decades; it was one of my most vivid memories of the film. As it turns out, that shot is not in the film! Here is the scene: Closeup of Roy Scheider in a bar; a gun barrel appears in the frame and rests on his shoulder. Scheider turns. Fade out.
Is this a shot from some other film? Could I have dreamt it? Help me before I go insane.
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The book is already up on Amazon for pre-sale and is available by clicking HERE
I'm really pleased with White Lies, it's more action-packed than previous books, with Shepherd heading off to the badlands of Pakistan to rescue a former protege who has been kidnapped by al-Qaeda.
The tagline at the bottom - The Truth Can Get You Killed - is mine.
I also had a hand in the writing of the blurb - the copy that goes on the cover and which is a vital marketing tool. Most people do indeed judge a book by its cover, and once they've looked at the picture they go on to read the blurb (hopefully). Blurbing is an art - that and the cover are often the two main selling points of a book. A good blurb can sell a book, and a bad one can condemn it to oblivion.
I learned about blurbs many years ago watching my then editor Bill Massey. Bill handled my breakthrough book The Chinaman and his blurb was as close to perfection as you can get.
These days I often have a lot of input into my blurbs. Blurb writing is a totally different skill to writing a book. The trick is to sell the book to the potential buyer without giving away too much of the plot. Punchy, active sentences work best and you need to keep punctuation to a minimum.
Somewhere around 120 words works best.
Here's a suggested blurb I was given for my new Hodder and Stoughton book, White Lies, which will be published in August.
When Osama Bin Laden was killed in Operation Neptune Spear in May 2011 there was a British observer on the US-led mission. Dan ‘Spider’ Shepherd along with Raz Chaudry was at the heart of a high-risk MI5 intelligence probe which uncovered Bin Laden’s hiding place. Shepherd’s place on the raid was his reward for favours rendered.
Now Raz has been sent back to Pakistan on a near-suicidal mission to infiltrate an al-Qaeda terrorist cell. He’s soon falls under suspicion and tortured for information. Spider will do anything to save Raz’s life even at the risk of his own. But unknown to Spider and the Pakistani Forces tasked with recovering Raz from a remote desert fort, their mission has been betrayed. A bloody fire fight follows and now it’s Spiders turn to fall in the hands of the vicious extremists. It’s only a matter of time before he or Raz crack and admit their part in Bin Laden’s death.
There’s one chance left to extract them – working behind the scenes, Spider’s MI5 controller, Charlotte Button, pulls strings to bring in America’s finest -- the elite SEALs who carried out Operation Neptune Spear – in a do-or-die operation to rescue the captives.
White Lies is vintage Stephen Leather: fast paced, beautifully characterised, a seat-of-your-pants thriller which will have you hooked from first page until last.
And here's the blurb I wrote, using the above words as a starting point:
Dan ‘Spider’ Shepherd is used to putting his life on the line – for his friends and for his job with MI5. So when one of his former apprentices is kidnapped in the badlands of Pakistan, Shepherd doesn’t hesitate to join a rescue mission.
But when the rescue plan goes horribly wrong, Shepherd ends up in the hands of al-Qaeda terrorists. His SAS training is of little help as his captors beat and torture him.
Shepherd’s MI5 controller Charlotte Button is determined to get her man out of harm’s way, but to do that she’s going to have to break all the rules. Her only hope is so bring in America’s finest - the elite SEALs who carried out Operation Neptune Spear - in a do-or-die operation to rescue the captives.
White Lies is a fast paced, seat-of-your-pants thriller which will have you hooked from the first page until the last.
My blurb is shorter, and I do believe that shorter blurbs work best.
My blurb concentrates on the hero - Spider Shepherd - because it's the hero that you're trying to sell. And it spells out the danger the hero's facing.
It's less cluttered and I think it's easier to read. Will it sell the book? We'll have to wait and see!
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Automatic Labeling Machine Working Principle:
Put the bottle on the conveyor belt, the sensor detects that the bottle passes, and sends back a signal to the labeling control system. At the appropriate position, the control system controls the corresponding motor to send out the label and attach it to the bottle to be labeled.
Features of Labeling Machine for Bottles:
- Good labeling quality: Adopting the tape circumvention and deviation correction technology, the label head and tail have a high degree of coincidence; the labeling is flat, without wrinkles, and no bubbles, which improves the packaging quality.
- High stability: The advanced electronic control system composed of PLC+touch screen+needle-shaped electric eye, etc., supports 7×24 hours high-speed operation of the equipment.
- Intelligent control: Automatic photoelectric tracking, no bottle no labeling, no label automatic correction and label automatic detection functions to prevent missing labels and label waste.
- Strong and hygienic: the automatic labeling machine is mainly made of stainless steel and high-grade aluminum alloy, conforms to GMP production specifications, and has a firm structure.
Scope of Application for Round Bottle Labeling Machine:
- Applicable label: Self-adhesive labels, self-adhesive films, etc.
- Applicable products: Round bottle. If you need other bottle types, you need to choose other models.
- Application industry: It is widely used in medicine, cosmetics, electronics, plastics and other industries.
In addition, the labeling machine for bottles can also be used in conjunction with capping machine, heat shrink wrapping machine, cartoning machine, etc. to form a complete packaging line and improve packaging speed.
This lebeling machine for bottles is suitable for pasting self-adhesive label on round bottles, transparent label does not apply to this machine. we can be customized according to the user’s bottle shape and label. Please contact us if necessary: firstname.lastname@example.org
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Pokémon Go has been a massive success – both financially and in terms of popularity – but that hasn't stopped Niantic from thinking forwards.
Even if the original game is still a bit broken.
According to John Hanke, CEO of Pokémon Go developer Niantic, the future could see you wearing Pokémon Go contact lenses.
Related: Pokémon Go tips and tricks
Smart contact lenses would let you see Pokémon in the real world without having to even touch your phone. Goodness knows how you would catch them though, because we're not swiping our contact lenses. Ouch.
It would certainly blur the lines between augmented reality and reality, as we'd suddenly see Pokémon, PokéStops and Gyms as if they were really in our world.
"[It is] going to be created within our lifetime," said Hanke to the LA Times.
Hanke's already worked with the Google Glass team on augmented reality and has said he's "very excited" to invest in start-ups and help popularise such technology using Pokémon Go as a big selling point.
It's already done that with augmented reality start-up Magic Leap, another company that has Google as a shareholder. Pokémon Go will be a flagship app for the augmented reality headset.
We wonder whether we'll ever see congregations in the park all wearing augmented-reality headsets instead of wandering around with their phones held aloft?
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Refrigerated Transport A Solution To Preserve Perishable Items
Many items lose their tackiness over time, so refrigeration services are the right way. The use of a refrigerator is what many companies have been looking for years. It has many advantages for those items that must be sent at a controlled temperature. These services are urgently needed for companies that serve perishable food or food throughout the market. In addition, such refrigerator services are also required by many pharmaceutical companies. Such services help them transport their products around the world without causing any damage.
Some more items that were assigned to the same area where such refrigerated couriers services are required, such as:
- Dairy products
- Pharmaceutical products
- Chemical products and other dangerous products
Temperature controlled services are mainly used to ensure that these products are always fresh and ready to use. These services are an ideal option for those looking for an alternative to preserve their assets. Not only to preserve the necessary conditions, but also to serve our customers with the best products. Transport services can be used to transport large quantities of goods from one place to another, without sacrificing things. Maintaining a controlled temperature is the most important element of such services, which really attracts many companies to rent these trucks. These vehicles are well equipped with control systems, adequate ventilation, humidity control and a cooling system, as well as a temperature control provider.
These vehicles are served by well-trained personnel who have experience with controlled access to temperature. Team members are well trained and have experience in accessing such systems to provide controlled cooling of the products. Depending on the nature of the load, the temperature was maintained so that the products were kept fresh throughout the trip. When you rent a refrigerated vehicle, you will be provided with many additional services, such as tracking the details of orders, etc. You can follow the details of the orders at anytime and anywhere. This means that such services are very flexible and can be contracted by everyone, be it a pharmaceutical company or a vaccine manufacturer.
By hiring such services, you can be sure that your products will be delivered new,
The uniqueness of the refrigeration transport services does not depend on the type of merchandise transported. It takes a lot of effort to satisfy customers with first class services. These services are very effective and safe, since only licensed companies can operate in this domain. Therefore, there is no need to worry about hiring such suppliers.
Why run when you have internet live these days? The internet is full of options; choose the one that best suits your needs.
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Quality, Variety and Peace of Mind
Benefits at the University of Michigan
In addition to a career filled with purpose and opportunity, The University of Michigan offers a comprehensive benefits package including:
- generous time-off
- a retirement plan that provides matching contributions with immediate vesting
- many choices for comprehensive medical insurance
- life insurance
- a long-term disability option
- as well as several other features that contribute to peace of mind.
(Full-time employees and part-time employees appointed to work at least 20 hours/week in a regular non-temporary position qualify for our benefits program. For comprehensive information about benefits for prospective employees, click here.)
Time Away from Work
Staff and faculty on the university’s three campuses receive a combination of a generous vacation package and sick time that generally is available for use immediately as it is accrued. Depending on the position and your length of service, 1, 1.5 or 2 paid vacation days are accrued each month. Staff in The University of Michigan Health System acquire more than 3 weeks paid time-off per year. Over time, the annual accrual grows to more than 6 weeks of paid time-off. (Terms may vary for staff covered by collective bargaining agreements.) Regular staff members also receive generous time off when absent due to extended illness or injury.
University Observed Holidays: New Year's Day, Memorial Day, Fourth of July, Labor Day, Thanksgiving Day and the day after Thanksgiving, as well as Christmas Day. We also offer the flexibility to substitute holidays when needed or when the nature of your job requires work on a designated holiday.
The university offers Fidelity and TIAA-CREF retirement savings options. Employees can choose to use either or both for their 403(b) Basic Retirement Plan investments. Features of the U-M retirement savings plan include:
- Self-managed — You can meet with Fidelity Investments or TIAA-CREF financial advisors to manage your 403(b), or manage your account(s) online.
- 2-for-1 Matching — With an employee contribution (limited to a percent of salary) in the Basic Plan, after 12 months of eligible service the university automatically contributes double that amount. For example, an employee designates $2,000 annually to the 403(b); the university would contribute $4,000 annually after the 12-month waiting period
- Immediate Vesting — The entirety of the university’s contribution is added to the 403(b) immediately and is the property of the employee.
- Supplemental Retirement Account — If you would like to invest more than is allowed in the Basic Plan, you have the option of setting up a supplemental account for additional contributions (employer match doesn’t apply to supplemental accounts).
As an employee, you have immediate access to medical insurance and prescription drug coverage beginning on your first day of employment with no exclusions for pre-existing conditions. The university regularly reviews all plans to ensure quality and value.
Medical Insurance Options
The University of Michigan offers a choice among several plans and plan types including:
- Preferred Provider Organization (PPO)
- Health Maintenance Organizations (HMOs)
- Comprehensive Major Medical traditional plan
Coverage also is available for dependents who meet age and other guidelines.
The University of Michigan Dental Plan is administered through the Delta Dental PPO (Point of Service Plan). The Plan offers a choice of three coverage levels.
Vision coverage is offered to eligible staff through Davis Vision, a preferred provider organization (PPO). As a plan participant, you receive one eye examination and one pair of eyeglasses every year.
Prescription Drug Plan
All eligible participants in university medical insurance plans are automatically enrolled in the U-M Prescription Drug Plan, which covers most prescription drugs with a minimal co-pay and no deductible.
- Long-Term Disability
- Group Term Life Insurance
- Dependent Group Term Life Insurance
- Flexible Spending Accounts
- Group Legal Services
- Travel Accident Insurance
For comprehensive information about benefits, click here.
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We spent many hours on research to finding bose bluetooth home, reading product features, product specifications for this guide. For those of you who wish to the best bose bluetooth home, you should not miss this article. bose bluetooth home coming in a variety of types but also different price range. The following is the top 10 bose bluetooth home by our suggestions
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1. Bose Speaker Alexa Control Built
What We Like
- Fill any room with impressive wall to wall stereo sound from a single speaker
- Built in voice assistants, like Alexa and the Google Assistant, with superior voice pickup from a noise rejecting eight microphone Array
- With Wi Fi, Bluetooth, and Apple airplay 2 compatibility, you can wirelessly stream whatever you want, however you want
- Play integrated Wi Fi services like Spotify, music and audible or connect over Bluetooth to play anything from your phone or tablet
- Experience superior voice pickup from a custom designed eight microphone Array that hears you over loud music or across the room
- Control comes easy, with three different ways to manage what you hear: voice, tap the top controls, or the Bose music app
- Alexa speaks English and Spanish
Value for money is the ultimate aim of every person out there. You want the best you can (Or better) for the bucks you pay. In terms of Bose Bluetooth Home, Bose Speaker Alexa Control Built would be your best bet for getting a value for money. Launched Quite time Ago Bose Speaker Alexa Control Built was the best-sold product and even today, the sales number speak.
Having such amazing features, all this is bundled up at a cost, which may seem high for few, but is actually very good if you compare its features. Our bet is Bose Speaker Alexa Control Built would be the Best Bose Bluetooth Home for Money.
2. Bose Soundlink Color Bluetooth Speaker
What We Like
- Innovative Bose technology packs bold sound into a small, water-resistant speaker
- Rugged, with a soft-touch silicone exterior that makes it easy to pick up and go.Bluetooth 4.2 Wireless. 3.5mm Auxiliary Port
- Voice prompts talk you through Bluetooth pairing so it’s easier than ever—or even quick-pair with NFC devices
- Lithium-ion battery lets you enjoy up to 8 hours of play time, rechargeable with USB power sources
- Built-in mic for speakerphone or accessing digital assistants like Siri or Google Now. The mobile devices must be within range
If you are the sort of a person who doesn’t compromise on quality and is ready to shell a little extra then Bose Soundlink Color Bluetooth Speaker is your choice. They say you either buy a quality product once or buy cheap products every day, the cost comes to same.
The new Bose Soundlink Color Bluetooth Speaker comes with best Price. It is industry’s most trusted, most preferred and quality Bose Bluetooth Home and it considered as Gold Standard by many users as well as non-users.
If you are looking for a long-time investment with a quality Bose Bluetooth Home then don’t look beyond Bose Soundlink Color Bluetooth Speaker. The product is featured, highlighted and appreciated in Reviews of Bose Bluetooth Home in 2020 and this has been backed by many users.
3. Bose Speaker Amazon Alexa Built
What We Like
- Room rocking bass and 360 degree, lifelike sound in a compact size
- Built in voice assistants, like Alexa and the Google Assistant, with superior voice pickup from a noise rejecting six microphone Array
- With Wi Fi, Bluetooth, and Apple airplay 2 compatibility, play your favorite music services or anything from your phone or tablet
- Control comes easy with three different ways to manage what you hear: your voice, the Bose music app, or 6 one-touch presets on top of the speaker
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The Two Towers, p.2Part #2 of The Lord of the Rings series by J. R. R. Tolkien
The dale ran like a stony trough between the ridged hills, and a trickling stream flowed among the boulders at the bottom. A cliff frowned upon their right; to their left rose grey slopes, dim and shadowy in the late night. They went on for a mile or more northwards. Aragorn was searching, bent towards the ground, among the folds and gullies leading up into the western ridge. Legolas was some way ahead. Suddenly the Elf gave a cry and the others came running towards him.
'We have already overtaken some of those that we are hunting,' he said. 'Look!' He pointed, and they saw that what they had at first taken to be boulders lying at the foot of the slope were huddled bodies. Five dead Orcs lay there. They had been hewn with many cruel strokes, and two had been beheaded. The ground was wet with their dark blood.
'Here is another riddle!' said Gimli. 'But it needs the light of day and for that we cannot wait.'
'Yet however you read it, it seems not unhopeful,' said Legolas. 'Enemies of the Orcs are likely to be our friends. Do any folk dwell in these hills?'
'No,' said Aragorn. 'The Rohirrim seldom come here, and it is far from Minas Tirith. It might be that some company of Men were hunting here for reasons that we do not know. Yet I think not.'
'What do you think?' said Gimli.
'I think that the enemy brought his own enemy with him,' answered Aragorn. 'These are Northern Orcs from far away. Among the slain are none of the great Orcs with the strange badges. There was a quarrel, I guess: it is no uncommon thing with these foul folk. Maybe there was some dispute about the road.'
'Or about the captives,' said Gimli. 'Let us hope that they, too, did not meet their end here.'
Aragorn searched the ground in a wide circle, but no other traces of the fight could be found. They went on. Already the eastward sky was turning pale; the stars were fading, and a grey light was slowly growing. A little further north they came to a fold in which a tiny stream, falling and winding, had cut a stony path down into the valley. In it some bushes grew, and there were patches of grass upon its sides.
'At last!' said Aragorn. 'Here are the tracks that we seek! Up this water-channel: this is the way that the Orcs went after their debate.'
Swiftly now the pursuers turned and followed the new path. As if fresh from a night's rest they sprang from stone to stone. At last they reached the crest of the grey hill, and a sudden breeze blew in their hair and stirred their cloaks: the chill wind of dawn.
Turning back they saw across the River the far hills kindled. Day leaped into the sky. The red rim of the sun rose over the shoulders of the dark land. Before them in the West the world lay still, formless and grey; but even as they looked, the shadows of night melted, the colours of the waking earth returned: green flowed over the wide meads of Rohan; the white mists shimmered in the watervales; and far off to the left, thirty leagues or more, blue and purple stood the White Mountains, rising into peaks of jet, tipped with glimmering snows, flushed with the rose of morning.
'Gondor! Gondor!' cried Aragorn. 'Would that I looked on you again in happier hour! Not yet does my road lie southward to your bright streams.
Gondor! Gondor, between the Mountains and the Sea!
West Wind blew there; the light upon the Silver Tree
Fell like bright rain in gardens of the Kings of old.
O proud walls! White towers! O winged crown and throne of gold!
O Gondor, Gondor! Shall Men behold the Silver Tree,
Or West Wind blow again between the Mountains and the Sea?
'Now let us go!' he said, drawing his eyes away from the South, and looking out west and north to the way that he must tread.
The ridge upon which the companions stood went down steeply before their feet. Below it twenty fathoms or more, there was a wide and rugged shelf which ended suddenly in the brink of a sheer cliff: the East Wall of Rohan. So ended the Emyn Muil, and the green plains of the Rohirrim stretched away before them to the edge of sight.
'Look!' cried Legolas, pointing up into the pale sky above them. 'There is the eagle again! He is very high. He seems to be flying now away, from this land back to the North. He is going with great speed. Look!'
'No, not even my eyes can see him, my good Legolas,' said Aragorn. 'He must be far aloft indeed. I wonder what is his errand, if he is the same bird that I have seen before. But look! I can see something nearer at hand and more urgent; there is something moving over the plain!'
'Many things,' said Legolas. 'It is a great company on foot; but I cannot say more, nor see what kind of folk they may be. They are many leagues away: twelve, I guess; but the flatness of the plain is hard to measure.'
'I think, nonetheless, that we no longer need any trail to tell us which way to go,' said Gimli. 'Let us find a path down to the fields as quick as may be.'
'I doubt if you will find a path quicker than the one that the Orcs chose,' said Aragorn.
They followed their enemies now by the clear light of day. It seemed that the Orcs had pressed on with all possible speed. Every now and again the pursuers found things that had been dropped or cast away: food-bags, the rinds and crusts of hard grey bread, a torn black cloak, a heavy iron-nailed shoe broken on the stones. The trail led them north along the top of the escarpment, and at length they came to a deep cleft carved in the rock by a stream that splashed noisily down. In the narrow ravine a rough path descended like a steep stair into the plain.
At the bottom they came with a strange suddenness on the grass of Rohan. It swelled like a green sea up to the very foot of the Emyn Muil. The falling stream vanished into a deep growth of cresses and water-plants, and they could hear it tinkling away in green tunnels, down long gentle slopes towards the fens of Entwash Vale far away. They seemed to have left winter clinging to the hills behind. Here the air was softer and warmer, and faintly scented, as if spring was already stirring and the sap was flowing again in herb and leaf. Legolas took a deep breath, like one that drinks a great draught after long thirst in barren places.
'Ah! the green smell!' he said. 'It is better than much sleep. Let us run!'
'Light feet may run swiftly here,' said Aragorn. 'More swiftly, maybe, than iron-shod Orcs. Now we have a chance to lessen their lead!'
They went in single file, running like hounds on a strong scent, and an eager light was in their eyes. Nearly due west the broad swath of the marching Orcs tramped its ugly slot; the sweet grass of Rohan had been bruised and blackened as they passed. Presently Aragorn gave a cry and turned aside. 'Stay!' he shouted. 'Do not follow me yet!' He ran quickly to the right, away from the main trail; for he had seen footprints that went that way, branching off from the others, the marks of small unshod feet. These, however, did not go far before they were crossed by orc-prints, also coming out from the main trail behind and in front, and then they curved sharply back again and were lost in the trampling. At the furthest point Aragorn stooped and picked up something from the grass; then he ran back.
'Yes,' he said, 'they are quite plain: a hobbit's footprints. Pippin's I think. He is smaller than the other. And look at this! He held up a thing that glittered in the sunlight. It looked like the new-opened leaf of a beech-tree, fair and strange in that treeless plain.
'The brooch of an elven-cloak!' cried Legolas and Gimli together.
'Not idly do the leaves of Lorien fall,' said Aragorn. 'This did not drop by chance: it was cast away as a token to any that might follow. I think Pippin ran away from the trail for that purpose.'
'Then he at least was alive,' said Gimli. 'And he had the use of his wits, and of his legs too. That is heartening. We do not pursue in vain.'
'Let us hope that he did not pay too dearly for his boldness,' said Legolas. 'Come! Let us go on! The thought of those merry young folk driven like cattle burns my heart.'
The sun climbed to the noon and then rode slowly down the sky. Light clouds came up out of the sea in the distant South and were blown away upon the breeze. The sun sank. Shadows rose behind and reached out long arms from the East. Still the hunte
As nightshade was closing about them Aragorn halted. Only twice in the day's march had they rested for a brief while, and twelve leagues now lay between them and the eastern wall where they had stood at dawn.
'We have come at last to a hard choice,' he said. 'Shall we rest by night, or shall we go on while our will and strength hold?'
'Unless our enemies rest also, they will leave us far behind, if we stay to sleep.' said Legolas.
'Surely even Orcs must pause on the march?' said Gimli.
'Seldom will Orcs journey in the open under the sun, yet these have done so,' said Legolas. 'Certainly they will not rest by night.'
'But if we walk by night, we cannot follow their trail,' said Gimli.
'The trail is straight, and turns neither right nor left, as far as my eyes can see,' said Legolas.
'Maybe, I could lead you at guess in the darkness and hold to the line,' said Aragorn, 'but if we strayed, or they turned aside, then when light came there might be long delay before the trail was found again.'
'And there is this also,' said Gimli, 'only by day can we see if any tracks lead away. If a prisoner should escape, or if one should be carried off, eastward, say, to the Great River, towards Mordor, we might pass the signs and never know it.'
'That is true,' said Aragorn. 'But if I read the signs back yonder rightly, the Orcs of the White Hand prevailed, and the whole company is now bound for Isengard. Their present course bears me out.'
'Yet it would be rash to be sure of their counsels,' said Gimli. 'And what of escape? In the dark we should have passed the signs that led you to the brooch.'
'The Orcs will be doubly on their guard since then, and the prisoners even wearier,' said Legolas. 'There will be no escape again, if we do not contrive it. How that is to be done cannot be guessed, but first we must overtake them.'
'And yet even I, Dwarf of many journeys, and not the least hardy of my folk, cannot run all the way to Isengard without any pause,' said Gimli. 'My heart burns me too, and I would have started sooner but now I must rest a little to run the better. And if we rest, then the blind night is the time to do so.'
'I said that it was a hard choice,' said Aragorn. 'How shall we end this debate?'
'You are our guide,' said Gimli, 'and you are skilled in the chase. You shall choose.'
'My heart bids me go on,' said Legolas. 'But we must hold together. I will follow your counsel.'
'You give the choice to an ill chooser,' said Aragorn. 'Since we passed through the Argonath my choices have gone amiss.' He fell silent gazing north and west into the gathering night for a long while.
'We will not walk in the dark,' he said at length. 'The peril of missing the trail or signs of other coming and going seems to me the greater. If the Moon gave enough light, we would use it, but alas! he sets early and is yet young and pale.'
'And tonight he is shrouded anyway,' Gimli murmured. 'Would that the Lady had given us a light, such a gift as she gave to Frodo!'
'It will be more needed where it is bestowed,' said Aragorn. 'With him lies the true Quest. Ours is but a small matter in the great deeds of this time. A vain pursuit from its beginning, maybe, which no choice of mine can mar or mend. Well, I have chosen. So let us use the time as best we may!'
He cast himself on the ground and fell at once into sleep, for he had not slept since their night under the shadow of Tol Brandir. Before dawn was in the sky he woke and rose. Gimli was still deep in slumber, but Legolas was standing, gazing northwards into the darkness, thoughtful and silent as a young tree in a windless night.
'They are far far away,' he said sadly, turning to Aragorn. 'I know in my heart that they have not rested this night. Only an eagle could overtake them now.'
'Nonetheless we will still follow as we may,' said Aragorn. Stooping he roused the Dwarf. 'Come! We must go,' he said. 'The scent is growing cold.'
'But it is still dark,' said Gimli. 'Even Legolas on a hill-top could not see them till the Sun is up.'
'I fear they have passed beyond my sight from hill or plain, under moon or sun,' said Legolas.
'Where sight fails the earth may bring us rumour,' said Aragorn. 'The land must groan under their hated feet.' He stretched himself upon the ground with his ear pressed against the turf. He lay there motionless, for so long a time that Gimli wondered if he had swooned or fallen asleep again. Dawn came glimmering, and slowly a grey light grew about them. At last he rose, and now his friends could see his face: it was pale and drawn, and his look was troubled.
'The rumour of the earth is dim and confused,' he said. 'Nothing walks upon it for many miles about us. Faint and far are the feet of our enemies. But loud are the hoofs of the horses. It comes to my mind that I heard them, even as I lay on the ground in sleep, and they troubled my dreams: horses galloping, passing in the West. But now they are drawing ever further from us, riding northward. I wonder what is happening in this land!'
'Let us go!' said Legolas.
So the third day of their pursuit began. During all its long hours of cloud and fitful sun they hardly paused, now striding, now running, as if no weariness could quench the fire that burned them. They seldom spoke. Over the wide solitude they passed and their elven-cloaks faded against the background of the grey-green fields; even in the cool sunlight of mid-day few but elvish eyes would have marked them, until they were close at hand. Often in their hearts they thanked the Lady of Lorien for the gift of lembas, for they could eat of it and find new strength even as they ran.
All day the track of their enemies led straight on, going north-west without a break or turn. As once again the day wore to its end they came to long treeless slopes, where the land rose, swelling up towards a line of low humpbacked downs ahead. The orc-trail grew fainter as it bent north towards them, for the ground became harder and the grass shorter. Far away to the left the river Entwash wound, a silver thread in a green floor. No moving thing could be seen. Often Aragorn wondered that they saw no sign of beast or man. The dwellings of the Rohirrim were for the most part many leagues away to the South, under the wooded eaves of the White Mountains, now hidden in mist and cloud; yet the Horse-lords had formerly kept many herds and studs in the Eastemnet, this easterly region of their realm, and there the herdsmen had wandered much, living in camp and tent, even in winter-time. But now all the land was empty, and there was silence that did not seem to be the quiet of peace.
At dusk they halted again. Now twice twelve leagues they had passed over the plains of Rohan and the wall of the Emyn Muil was lost in the shadows of the East. The young moon was glimmering in a misty sky, but it gave small light, and the stars were veiled.
'Now do I most grudge a time of rest or any halt in our chase,' said Legolas. 'The Orcs have run before us, as if the very whips of Sauron were behind them. I fear they have already reached the forest and the dark hills, and even now are passing into the shadows of the trees.'
Gimli ground his teeth. 'This is a bitter end to our hope and to all our toil!' he said.
'To hope, maybe, but not to toil,' said Aragorn. 'We shall not turn back here. Yet I am weary.' He gazed back along the way that they had come towards the night gathering in the East. 'There is something strange at work in this land. I distrust the silence. I distrust even the pale Moon. The stars are faint; and I am weary as I have seldom been before, weary as no Ranger should be with a clear trail to follow. There is some will that lends speed to our foes and sets an unseen barrier before us: a weariness that is in the heart more than in the limb.'
'Truly!' said Legolas. 'That I have known since first we came down from the Emyn Muil. For the will is not behind us but before us.' He pointed away over the land of Rohan into the darkling West under the sickle moon.
'Saruman!' muttered Aragorn. 'But he shall not turn us back! Halt we must once more; for, see! even the Moon is falling into gathering cloud.
As before Legolas was first afoot, if indeed he had ever slept. 'Awake! Awake!' he cried. 'It is a red dawn. Strange things await us by the eaves of the forest. Good or evil, I do not know; but we are called. Awake!'
The others sprang up, and almost at once they set off again. Slowly the downs drew near. It was still an hour before noon when they reached them: green slopes rising to bare ridges that ran in a line straight towards the North. At their feet the ground was dry and the turf short, but a long strip of sunken land, some ten miles wide, lay between them and the river wandering deep in dim thickets of reed and rush. Just to the West of the southernmost slope there was a great ring, where the turf had been torn and beaten by many trampling feet. From it the orc-trail ran out again, turning north along the dry skirts of the hills. Aragorn halted and examined the tracks closely.
'They rested here a while,' he said, 'but even the outward trail is already old. I fear that your heart spoke truly, Legolas: it is thrice twelve hours, I guess, since the Orcs stood where we now stand. If they held to their pace, then at sundown yesterday they would reach the borders of Fangorn.'
'I can see nothing away north or west but grass dwindling into mist,' said Gimli. 'Could we see the forest, if we climbed the hills?'
'It is still far away,' said Aragorn. 'If I remember rightly, these downs run eight leagues or more to the north, and then north-west to the issuing of the Entwash there lies still a wide land, another fifteen leagues it may be.'
'Well, let us go on,' said Gimli. 'My legs must forget the miles. They would be more willing, if my heart were less heavy.'
The sun was sinking when at last they drew near to the end of the line of downs. For many hours they had marched without rest. They were going slowly now, and Gimli's back was bent. Stone-hard are the Dwarves in labour or journey, but this endless chase began to tell on him, as all hope failed in his heart. Aragorn walked behind him, grim and silent, stooping now and again to scan some print or mark upon the ground. Only Legolas still stepped as lightly as ever, his feet hardly seeming to press the grass, leaving no footprints as he passed; but in the waybread of the Elves he found all the sustenance that he needed, and he could sleep, if sleep it could be called by Men, resting his mind in the strange paths of elvish dreams, even as he walked open-eyed in the light of this world.
'Let us go up on to this green hill!' he said. Wearily they followed him, climbing the long slope, until they came out upon the top. It was a round hill smooth and bare, standing by itself, the most northerly of the downs. The sun sank and the shadows of evening fell like a curtain. They were alone in a grey formless world without mark or measure. Only far away north-west there was a deeper darkness against the dying light: the Mountains of Mist and the forest at their feet.
'Nothing can we see to guide us here,' said Gimli. 'Well, now we must halt again and wear the night away. It is growing cold!'
'The wind is north from the snows,' said Aragorn.
'And ere morning it will be in the East,' said Legolas. 'But rest if you must. Yet do not cast all hope away. Tomorrow is unknown. Rede oft is found at the rising of the Sun.'
'Three suns already have risen on our chase and brought no counsel,' said Gimli.
The night grew ever colder. Aragorn and Gimli slept fitfully, and whenever they awoke they saw Legolas standing beside them, or walking to and fro, singing softly to himself in his own tongue, and as he sang the white stars opened in the hard black vault above. So the night passed. Together they watched the dawn grow slowly in the sky, now bare and cloudless, until at last the sunrise came. It was pale and clear. The wind was in the East and all the mists had rolled away; wide lands lay bleak about them in the bitter light.
Ahead and eastward they saw the windy uplands of the Wold of Rohan that they had already glimpsed many days ago from the Great River. North-westward stalked the dark forest of Fangorn; still ten leagues away stood its shadowy eaves, and its further slopes faded into the distant blue. Beyond there glimmered far away, as if floating on a grey cloud, the white head of tall Methedras, the last peak of the Misty Mountains. Out of the forest the Entwash flowed to meet them, its stream now swift and narrow, and its banks deep-cloven. The orc-trail turned from the downs towards it.
Following with his keen eyes the trail to the river, and then the river back towards the forest, Aragorn saw a shadow on the distant green, a dark swift-moving blur. He cast himself upon the ground and listened again intently. But Legolas stood beside him, shading his bright elven-eyes with his long slender hand, and he saw not a shadow, nor a blur, but the small figures of horsemen, many horsemen, and the glint of morning on the tips of their spears was like the twinkle of minute stars beyond the edge of mortal sight. Far behind them a dark smoke rose in thin curling threads.
There was a silence in the empty fields, arid Gimli could hear the air moving in the grass.
'Riders!' cried Aragorn, springing to his feet. 'Many riders on swift steeds are coming towards us!'
'Yes,' said Legolas, 'there are one hundred and five. Yellow is their hair, and bright are their spears. Their leader is very tall.'
Aragorn smiled. 'Keen are the eyes of the Elves,' he said.
'Nay! The riders are little more than five leagues distant,' said Legolas.
'Five leagues or one,' said Gimli; 'we cannot escape them in this bare land. Shall we wait for them here or go on our way?'
'We will wait,' said Aragorn. 'I am weary, and our hunt has failed. Or at least others were before us; for these horsemen are riding back down the orc-trail. We may get news from them.'
'Or spears,' said Gimli.
'There are three empty saddles, but I see no hobbits,' said Legolas.
'I did not say that we should hear good news,' said Aragorn. 'But evil or good we will await it here.'
The three companions now left the hill-top, where they might be an easy mark against the pale sky, and they walked slowly down the northward slope. A little above the hill's foot they halted, and wrapping their cloaks about them, they sat huddled together upon the faded grass. The time passed slowly and heavily. The wind was thin and searching. Gimli was uneasy.
'What do you know of these horsemen, Aragorn?' he said. 'Do we sit here waiting for sudden death?'
'I have been among them,' answered Aragorn. 'They are proud and wilful, but they are true-hearted, generous in thought and deed; bold but not cruel; wise but unlearned, writing no books but singing many songs, after the manner of the children of Men before the Dark Years. But I do not know what has happened here
The Two Towers by J. R. R. Tolkien / Fantasy / Actions & Adventure have rating 5.2 out of 5 / Based on88 votes
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I don’t drink cocktails often, but when I do it’s a Tom Collins. There are different ways to prepare it, but the main, best way is: gin, soda water, sugar and lime juice. Usually served with a maraschino cherry. It’s a gentleman’s drink. If I’m in a scenario where I frequent the same cocktail lounge enough to be recognized by the bartender, I’ll usually just show up and say, in a Kennedy-esque accent, “Fix me a Tom Collins, just the way i like it.”
I got into it after watching an episode of the now defunct Adult Swim cartoon Sealab 2021, which was basically a comedy sequel to the classic 1972 Hanna-Barbera cartoon Sealab 2020. In this version, it’s all the same characters, except they’ve all gone slightly insane after spending too much time in their laboratory at the bottom of the sea, isolated from the real world.
Sealab 2021 pretty much repurposed images and scenes from the original, straight-forward “adventure” series that was Sealab 2020. It was basically a re-mix of the original, characteristically stilted 70’s style animation, with crazy new plotlines inserted a la What’s Up, Tiger Lily? The writers placed new wacky dialogue in the old characters’ mouths, based on what the characters seemed to be doing in the original scene. The freshness, the randomness of the humor owed in large part to the “writing prompts” that were those select 70’s Hanna-Barbera scenes. They forced themselves to work within that framework, and it paid off.
Well, at least that’s how it started. Eventually the animators started taking more liberties and creating their own material from scratch. New characters showed up. The training wheels were cast aside. From that point on, the show got progressively weirder and weirder. I always preferred the more “writing prompty” Hanna-Barbera based material, but the weirder original stuff had its own charm too.
Do you remember it? This show came out at the same time as the Aqua Teen Hunger Force. This was in Adult Swim’s infancy, when they were still broadcasting micro-shows that were only about 10 minutes long. These cartoons would sometimes play back-to-back, filling up the better part of a full 30 minute time slot. Aqua Teen, of course, went on to have a very long and successful run. Even a feature film. It’s still on the air, I believe.
Sealab 2021 could have easily held its own with Aqua Teen, could still be on the air to this date, except tragedy struck fairly early on. It was a great cartoon right up until its vocally charismatic star Harry Goz, who played the even unpredictable Captain Murphy, tragically died. They tried to replace him with another character (voiced by his real-life brother), but it never really worked, as Captain Murphy was the reason to watch in the first place.
Anyway, there was an episode, “Red Dawn,” that spoofed the cold war movies of the 60’s, mainly Dr. Strangelove and Failsafe. This was right around the time the show started really branching away from the 1970’s source material. In this episode, the characters interacted with a version of John F. Kennedy, who was trying to help prevent a weird communist alternative version of Sealab from initiating a nuclear holocaust.
I’ve always been a major fan of John F. Kennedy’s charisma, and I found the Sealab version of him so entertaining. With his stuttering, high-pitched New England accent he kept ordering Tom Collinses for himself and his brother, regardless of the grim scenario unfolding around him. I tried and failed to find a convenient video clip on Youtube. Or even a photo of Sealab JFK. But trust me. If you’re a fan of Adult Swim’s brand of comedy, or Aqua Teen Hunger Force or the great Space Ghost Coast to Coast (another gone but not forgotten classic), Sealab 2021 is definitely worth a look.
It’s an interesting alternative to the irreverent, often insensitive adult cartoons of the present. Sealab 2021 didn’t rely on the inappropriate or the sensational. It was funny for weird, completely random reasons. It was unique.
So whenever I order a Tom Collins, I always think of Sealab 2021 as I take my first sip. It takes me right back to the early 2000’s. Rest in peace, Sealab.
Kinda hard to sum the show up in just one quick clip, but here’s a taste of Sealab 2021’s random, wacky vibe:
This post was based on the following Daily Post writing prompt: Captain Picard was into Earl Grey tea; mention the Dude and we think: White Russians. What’s your signature beverage — and how did it achieve that status?
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The Belfast Banking Company opened their branch in Warrenpoint in 1914. In 1970 the branch was rebranded as Northern Bank (Belfast Bank Branch). Danske Bank trading as Northern Bank closed the branch in 2013. Following a few years of redevelopment, the building is soon to go on the market as retail space and 2 apartments upstairs. This article presents the history of the building through historical maps, newspaper clippings, ledgers and photographs.
Gavin Bamford and Nigel Henderson, from History Hub Ulster, together with friend John McCormick recently visited Cregagh Methodist Church to view their Great War ‘War Memorial’. Rev. Ken Connor facilitated our visit.
As we were discussing and photographing the memorial, Rev. Ken Connor appeared with the nicely framed Castlereagh Road Methodist Church ‘Roll of Honour’ in his hands.
This Great War ‘Roll of Honour’ had been out of the public eye for many years. The dates on the hand-written parchment roll (pictured above) are from 1914 to 1917. The year 1917 is unusual but may simply mean that no more men from that congregation volunteered after 1917.
A quick reconciliation of the names on both plaque & parchment showed that many names were duplicated. Later research showed that a temporary Methodist Church was built in 1894 on ground at the junction of Castlereagh Road with Clara Street. In 1912 the congregation took the decision to move to another site. The war intervened with their plans. In 1923 an option on a site on the Castlereagh Road was agreed and a new church was opened in 1927.
Robert Allison Haldane was born on 10th May 1874 at Milton in Lanarkshire to Thomas Haldane and Margaret Haldane (nee Allison). He married Jessie Horn on 17th June 1898 at Blythswood Congregational Church in Glasgow. Their first two children were born in Scotland but they were living at Kingscourt Street in the Ormeau Ward when their third child was born in January 1903.
In 1911, Robert, Jessie and their six children were living at Glenvarnock Street off the Cregagh Road and Robert was employed as a moulder in an iron works. Robert Haldane enlisted with the 8th Battalion Royal Irish Rifles and his is the fifth name on the Roll of Honour for Castlereagh Road Methodist. Robert Allison Haldane, the last child of Robert and Jessie, was born at 162 Templemore Street on 8th April 1915, two months before his father left Ireland with the 36th (Ulster) Division.
Robert Allison Haldane was Killed in Action on 2nd July 1916, aged 42, and has no known grave and is commemorated on the Thiepval Memorial to the Missing in France. Jessie Haldane received a War Gratuity of £8 in November 1919 and a weekly pension of twenty-seven shillings from March 1917 for herself and five children under the age of 16. On 10th November 1929, Master Robert Allison Haldane laid a wreath on behalf of the Boys’ Brigade at the unveiling of the Cregagh War Memorial in the colony of house built for veterans of the Great War. He was wearing the three service medals awarded to his father.
On the war memorial tablet, there are several sets of brothers, including the Cesar brothers. Three sons of Robert Cesar, a lithographic printer, and Mary Callwell of Tildarg Street served in the Great War and the family was recorded as “Presbyterian” in the 1901 Census and the 1911 Census.
Norman Cesar was born on 30th May 1896 at Portallo Street and was a labourer when he enlisted in Belfast with 4th (Reserve) Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers on 7th August 1914. His religious denomination was recorded as “Presbyterian”. He joined the 1st Battalion on the Gallipoli Peninsula on 18th July 1915. The battalion was withdrawn from Gallipoli in January 1916 and transferred to the Western Front in March 1916. He sustained gunshot wounds to the side on 1st July 1916 and to the right leg on 27th January 1917. The latter necessitated evacuation to the UK and, when fully recovered, he was posted to the 7th Battalion in May 1917. He sustained gunshot wounds to the head on 11th August 1917 which necessitated evacuation to UK. He was subsequently posted to the 6th Battalion in November 1917. Norman Cesar was transferred to the Class Z Army Reserve on 12th March 1919.
John Ernest Cesar was born on 3rd July 1894 at McClure Street and was a labourer when he enlisted with 4th Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in Belfast on 20th March 1911, his denomination being recorded as “Presbyterian”. He transferred to the Regular Army on 29th August 1912. He was stationed at Dover with 2nd Battalion at the outbreak of the war and was deployed to the Western Front on 23rd August 1914. He remained in the same battalion throughout the war and held the rank of Lance-Corporal when he was discharged due to wounds on 12th May 1919, with Silver War Badge Number B197457. Ernest Cesar received a 40% Disablement Pension in respect of gunshot wounds to the chest at the rate of sixteen shillings per week from April 1920.
Robert Cesar was born on 15th December 1889 at McClure Street in Cromac Ward. He was stationed in the Far East with the 1st Battalion Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in 1911 and in India on the outbreak of the war. His battalion was recalled from India, arriving in England in January 1915 and being incorporated into the newly-formed 29th Division. The division departed England for the Eastern Mediterranean in Marc 1915 and Robert Cesar landed on the Gallipoli Peninsula with on 25th April 1915. He was killed in action on 22nd May 1915, aged 25, and is buried in the Twelve Tree Copse Cemetery on the Gallipoli Peninsula. Mary Cesar received a War Gratuity of £5 in July 1919.
Soldiers research undertaken by Nigel Henderson
Missing War Memorials in Ulster – Where are they?
History Hub Ulster researcher Nigel Henderson has identified the following war memorials as ‘missing or lost’ in Ulster.
History Hub Ulster has set up this Facebook page to maintain a record of these memorials.
On 2nd November 1919, Albert Street Presbyterian Church was formally re-opened after an extensive scheme of renovation. The re-opening service was also the occasion when a brass war memorial plaque, made by David Mairs of Great Victoria Street, was dedicated. A total of 208 men from the congregation enlisted for service in the Great War, of whom 34 died. The names of the fatalities were engraved on the plaque. In 1919, plans were already underway to install a new organ as part of the congregation’s war memorial. The war memorial organ was dedicated on 3rd April 1921. The Rev. Dr. Henry Montgomery of the Shankill Road Mission, and formerly Minister of the Albert Street Church, conducted the service and dedicated the memorial.
The local newspapers reported that “Rev. Montgomery said many of the men whose names were on the memorial plaque had been baptised by him. All of them had gallantly responded to the call of duty, and that was one of the noblest testimonies that could be offered to their patriotism as well as their Christianity. In that respect they were unlike the young men of England. Scotland, and Wales, who in the middle stages of the war were obliged to serve in His Majesty’s forces whether they liked to do so or not. The young men of that congregation, and of Ulster generally, answered the call from within when they knew the motherland was in peril, and indeed not they alone, but Ulstermen all over the world—in Canada, the United States of America, and Australia. The same blood flowed in all their hearts, and there was the same desire on the part of all to stand for their country and their Empire.” (Northern Whig, 3rd November 1919).
The Presbyterian congregation was first launched in Conway Street National School in 1852 to meet the spiritual need of people living on the lower portion of the Falls Road and the district between the Falls and Shankill roads. The original building was opened in 1854 but the rapid growth of the congregation necessitated the erection of larger premises thirty years later, on the same site on the corner with Raglan Street. The congregation later established the Shankill Road Mission.
In 1970, due to demographic changes (partially due to the “troubles”) resulting in a fall in the size of the congregation, and the redevelopment plans for the Lower Falls area, the decision was taken to merge with the nearby congregation at Argyll Place Presbyterian Church on the Shankill Road. The final services in the Albert Street church were held on Sunday 31st January 1971 and led by the Reverend Brian Moore. On 7th February 1971, the first services were held in the Shankill Road premises of the newly named West Kirk Presbyterian Church. When the congregation moved, the war memorial plaque was not transferred to West Kirk.
History Hub Ulster’s researcher, Nigel Henderson, takes up the story. “I have been researching Belfast Presbyterians in the Great War and had been advised that this memorial had been lost in a fire at the old premises in the 1970s”, he said, “however, on 28th July, a militaria collector called Mark Ramsey asked to meet me as he had “unearthed something”. I was intrigued but when he opened the boot of his car and showed me the brass memorial plaque, I was astounded.” Nigel continued, “Many memorials and rolls of honour for the Great War were lost during the German air raids of 1941. Others were lost in fires. However, there are numerous memorial plaques and parchment rolls of honour whose current locations are not known to me. Many of these were in church buildings whose congregations have folded or merged with other congregations. Some that spring to mind are the memorials for College Square Presbyterian Church, Balmoral Methodist Church and Donegall Square Methodist Church. There are also memorials that are “missing” for commercial concerns, for example Dunville the whiskey manufacturers and Gallaher’s of York Street. I would love to have the opportunity to photograph these memorials.”
Five sons of William Nugent and Sarah Nugent (nee McFerran) of Percy Street enlisted for military service in the Great War. Three were to survive but two lost their lives and are commemorated on this memorial plaque.
James Nugent was born on 19th May 1897 at Westmoreland Street and enlisted with the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers. He was posted to the 2nd Battalion, which had been deployed to France in August 1914, and joined the battalion in the field on 19th December 1914. He was killed in action on 16th May 1915 during the Battle of Festubert in the Artois region in France. He died just three days before his 18th birthday and has no known grave. Private James Nugent is commemorated on the Le Touret Memorial in France.
Robert McFerran Nugent was born on 4th October 1892 at Westmoreland Street and enlisted with the Royal Inniskilling Fusiliers in 1909 and served in China. In 1911, he was stationed at Mandora Barracks in Aldershot in 1911. He was a shipyard worker at Queen’s Island when he was recalled from the army reserve. He was posted to the 1st Battalion, which had been stationed in India in August 1914, and participated in the landings at Y Beach on the Gallipoli Peninsula on 25th April 1915. His battalion was transferred to the Western Front with the 29th Division and was positioned on the Ulster Division’s left flank in the attack on 1st July 1916. Robert Nugent was wounded at the Somme in 1916 and was seriously wounded at Carnoy on 29th January 1917. Private Robert Nugent died of his wounds at No 9 General Hospital Rouen on 15th February 1917. He was 24 years old and is buried in the St. Sever Cemetery in Rouen and is commemorated on the Harland and Wolff memorial for the Queen’s Island shipyard. In his army will, Robert Nugent designated his mother as his next-of-kin.
Sarah Nugent received a dependant’s pension of ten shillings per week for the loss of two of her sons. In current terms that would equate to £25 per week. Sarah also received war gratuities totalling fifteen pounds and ten shillings in late 1919, the equivalent of approximately £1,000 in current terms. By a quirk of fate, a son-in-law of William and Sarah Nugent died at Percy Street during the German air raids of 1941. Samuel Stewart McComb Elliott (21) married Sarah Nugent (23) on 23rd October 1929 at St Johns Church of Ireland, Laganbank. He was 32 years old when he died and was buried in a marked coffin in the Reserved Ground at Belfast City Cemetery on 21st April 1941.
In 2015, Michael James Nugent, a great nephew of James and Robert Nugent and an Associate Member of History Hub Ulster, published a book about the Battle of Festubert entitled, “It was an awful Sunday”. In expressing his thoughts about the discovery of the memorial plaque, Michael said, “This means a lot to me. I hope the plaque regains a prominent position so that the sacrifice of my Great Uncles is always remembered.” Nigel Henderson stated that he hopes that the memorial plaque for the Albert Street Presbyterian congregation can find a new home in West Kirk Presbyterian Church.
Gavin Bamford, Chair of History Hub Ulster, commented, “The Ulster War Memorials book that History Hub Ulster published in 2018 included a chapter on lost or missing war memorials. As a research-based group, we are interested in locating these memorials and photographing them for posterity. Some of them might be in museum storage areas and some, like the Albert Street Presbyterian Church plaque, might be lying in a loft or tucked away in a cupboard on church premises.”
A list of memorials and rolls of honour that we know existed but whose whereabouts are not known can be found here. This is not an exhaustive list and will be amended as further information comes to light. If anyone knows of a war memorial plaque or a parchment Roll of Honour that is not in the public domain, we would be interested in knowing the details. Please contact us via email or on facebook.
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This week's e-Communication includes inforamtion on the new Medically Underserved Areas/Populations (MUA/P) Advisory Group, revised Milestones, Clinical Learning Environment Review (CLER) Program blackout dates, and more.
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Insider Dealmakers Awards reward the efforts of people in the corporate finance field who are at the very top of their game. The annual dinner is a celebration of the North West deals community.
Politicians have spoken about the need for a ‘Northern Powerhouse’ but the region’s deals sector has long been a powerhouse of the UK’s deals market.
A rigorous and robust judging process by Insider canvassed the views of many of last year’s winners and other senior figures to make sure the voices of industry are listened to and acted upon. The winners for 2015 where chosen by an independent panel of judges.
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Clients provide content right to us with the questions they ask us. #vatip Gotta Tweet!
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Hi! You’re listening to episode number 75. By the time this particular episode comes out, it will be my birthday week. I’m so excited. I don’t know. I just get geeked up when my birthday gets here. I know once my birthday comes the year will fly by like lightening because my birthday is on the 24th, then it’ll be Thanksgiving before we know it, and then Christmas before we know it, and then New Years and we’re off into 2017.
This is a fun weekend for me. I was trying to really think of some poignant things to say and it just wasn’t coming. I’m like I don’t know. Let’s just have a chit chat. I’ve got my coffee. Maybe you’ve got tea or water or whatever in front of you. It may not be a big note taking day, but just know that we’re in this together in our virtual assistant businesses.
If you plan on offering a special for Black Friday, I am going to direct you to episode number 35. I gave some ideas on Black Friday. That’s been a while ago, but that information still applies. It’s a great opportunity to listen to it now, because when I look at the dates, I think I started looking at the November dates on the calendar. So you want to go back and listen to episode number 35.
Make it your goal this week to decide what you’re going to do for Black Friday.
Start getting your promotional emails and social media posts and things like that ready to go so you can start promoting Black Friday early. Whether you plan to offer your promotion actually on Black Friday or sooner than Black Friday, and I talk about that on that particular episode. So be sure and check out episode number 35 and we’ll link that in the show notes for you. Take some time out. Listen to that. I think it’s like a half hour episode. I’m not 100% sure.
But take time to listen to that while you’re working or cleaning or however you like to do when listening to your podcast. When I’m listening to training or podcast, I’m not usually sitting still listening. I’m usually doing something else and listening to it, and then something will stand out and then I’ll take quick note and continue from there.
The other thing I want to start doing is I’ve been reading different books and every time I’m reading something I’ll usually mention it on the podcast, but I want to almost do kind of like not really a full book club, but where I go into more detail and discussion on the book and maybe some things that came to mind while I was reading the book. This may stir up conversation between us where you could post on Facebook or Twitter, whichever one is your better one, where we can, you know, talk about the book.
What I’m going back to reread is the book called Book Yourself Solid. It’s been a while since I’ve read this book and I want to go back to it. It’s called Book Yourself Solid by Michael Port. It is an excellent book. I can remember when I was first introduced to it, I was reading and could not put the book down. It’s one of those books that you want to go back to later as a refresher.
Book Yourself Solid by Michael Port – that’s going to be the first book that I dive a little deeper into, other than just telling you I’m reading this book and giving a little brief summary about it. I’m sure I’ve mentioned this book previously on the podcast. But I’m going to start this book and read it again. I want to read it from beginning to end. It’s one of those kind of books. I want to go back and read it from beginning to end, and I’m sharing it on the podcast. This is how I am kept accountable, by telling you on the podcast.
I’ll start sharing little tidbits and takeaways that I got, for us as virtual assistant business owners, from the book and I want to hear what you get as well because some things may stand out to you that don’t stand out to me and vice versa. You can read it or get the audio version, you know, whatever you like to do for your books. Just because you’re listening to a book doesn’t count as reading it. Count that as reading it too.
So that’s what we’re going to do and I will be starting that this week, starting into the book this week and hopefully it won’t take me too long to read it. I’m going to give myself two weeks to finish the book, and again, I’m sharing all that with you to be held accountable for it, because I know I’ll read several things at one time, which is fine, but this book I really need to go back and read it from beginning to end. He dives into why you need to pick a special group, why you need to be very selective in your client selection. There’s a thing he calls “a velvet rope.”
If you’ve been doing your same thing for a while, this is a perfect reset book to get you back on track. Maybe there are some things you need to change. Maybe you’ve been accepting every single person that comes through your door and it’s time to refine and maybe refuse in working with some people if you’ve allowed the standard to dip some or maybe it just needs to change. Maybe it needs to go higher. We start out at a certain point and then we want to go higher. So maybe time to go higher in that regard.
Those are two action steps. One is going back to episode number 35, listening to that for Black Friday, and then diving into this book. However you want to do it. Buy it on Amazon, get if from the library, whatever. You don’t want to not read this book. It’s geared towards service providers too. That’s another cool thing about the book, that it’s geared towards service providers.
Let me see. Okay, last week’s episode I talked about the secrets of being a virtual assistant business owner. It’s so funny, some of those same things came up again this week about people not being curious enough or searching enough. If you did not listen to that episode, go back and check that one out as well, and be ready to stand out from the rest.
This week I participated in a training call for direct sales business, and it was a great call about selling, excellent call. The lady was excellent. Trainer was fantastic. I wanted more, so I did what I do. I researched her, looked her up. She gave us every way to contact her, even her personal phone number, which I was a little taken back by. But I was hoping that she had a book, a blog, an article, a podcast, a workshop, you know, something online, something more, and it was not available. There was a website, but it was like a really pretty brochure, but there was no blog, no more.
It was a great lesson for all of us is that when people meet us and when we share about what we do, what our interests are, people want more. They may not be ready for your service, but they may want more. Like what else do you have to share? What else do you know? Your more is your blog. Your more is what you post on your Facebook page, not just motivational stuff.
I do a lot of quotes on Instagram. That’s like my place to post motivational quotes and pictures and stuff because I look at Instagram like it’s a nice magazine so I post things like that there. Then Facebook I go to for things that are everyday thought provoking conversational type things, but not always what I call rah-rah motivational.
The person that wants more doesn’t necessarily want more motivation. They want more information.
Some days it’s encouragement. Some days it is motivation. But it may be those tips, may be that information that you know because you’ve worked with authors, you’ve worked as a bookkeeper, you’ve worked as a travel agent, and you provide those services in your VA business. So there are some things that you know that other people don’t know. It’s not common knowledge. But it’s like those things, if your client knew, it would make them an even better client for you, but they don’t know it. So the place for you to share that is on social media, is on your website.
A client asked me this week – we’re working on a website project and are going to set up her Facebook and Twitter, you know, get that set up for her along with her timeline cover. I told her to add me as an admin on her Facebook page, not realizing that she may not know how to do that. She said it took a long time. She was trying to figure it out. I just told her, “Don’t worry about it. Just send me your logins and we’ll go from there.”
Light bulb moment for me was this will be a great episode for Tips & Tech with Tiffany is to show people how to add an admin to their Facebook page. Their Facebook gives, I think, three different options. I think it’s like admin, moderator, and editor. Three different options for when you’re adding somebody as an admin to your page, giving them access to update and do things.
I thought, okay, perfect, this is going to be a Tips & Tech with Tiffany episode to show people how to do this because it’s one of those things you assume because it’s there, Facebook may even have it in their help section, it’s all there, that people know. But people don’t, and you wouldn’t send your client to Facebook help if they’ve already taken so much time to try and figure it out. You just would go ahead and do it for them.
But I’m going to take that opportunity and that question and use that for an episode for Tips & Tech with Tiffany, because the next project that we have like that where someone needs to add me as an admin to their Facebook page, I’m going to automatically include a link to that episode to let them know to “Add me to your Facebook page. If you aren’t sure how, here’s a video that’ll show you exactly how to do it.” I may have it already transcribed on the blog, and if so, I would send them to the blog. That way they can read or watch it, either way.
But, that’s an example of how you take the information that you know, based on questions clients have given you, and you use that as content. People don’t always know how to do things. We live in it, so we know it well and don’t realize what people don’t know.
That’s why our clients’ questions are rich for our content online. They provide it right to us with the questions that they ask us.
That was a perfect lead-in. I was like, oh, great, I don’t even have to think about this week’s episode. That’s exactly what I’m going to do. Since I’m on birthday mode, I won’t do a whole lot of, you know, diving deep into techie stuff this week. I just want to keep it light. Keep it light.
Anyway, that is that. I want to thank you so much for listening. I’ve given you two big action steps. Wish you all the best on your Black Friday, and I’ve got a couple to work on as well. So get going, get started, and dive into the book.
Thanks so much for tuning in. If you like what you heard, stay tuned. We’ll be back. Tell me what’s going on with you. Come on over the Facebook page: facebook.com/tiffanyparsonbiz, or if you prefer a little shorter message, come on over to Twitter: @tiffanydparson.
See you next time!
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Sometimes it takes the great Dustbuster of fate to clear the room of bullies and bad habits. Freak cyclones helped destroy Kublai Khan's brutal Mongolian empire, for example, while the Black Death of the 14th century capsized the medieval theocracy and gave the Renaissance a chance to shine.
Among a troop of savanna baboons in Kenya, a terrible outbreak of tuberculosis 20 years ago selectively killed off the biggest, nastiest and most despotic males, setting the stage for a social and behavioral transformation unlike any seen in this notoriously truculent primate.
In a study appearing today in the journal PloS Biology (online at www.plosbiology.org), researchers describe the drastic temperamental and tonal shift that occurred in a troop of 62 baboons when its most belligerent members vanished from the scene. The victims were all dominant adult males that had been strong and snarly enough to fight with a neighboring baboon troop over the spoils at a tourist lodge garbage dump, and were exposed there to meat tainted with bovine tuberculosis, which soon killed them. Left behind in the troop, designated the Forest Troop, were the 50 percent of males that had been too subordinate to try dump brawling, as well as all the females and their young. With that change in demographics came a cultural swing toward pacifism, a relaxing of the usually parlous baboon hierarchy, and a willingness to use affection and mutual grooming rather than threats, swipes and bites to foster a patriotic spirit.
Remarkably, the Forest Troop has maintained its genial style over two decades, even though the male survivors of the epidemic have since died or disappeared and been replaced by males from the outside. (As is the case for most primates, baboon females spend their lives in their natal home, while the males leave at puberty to seek their fortunes elsewhere.) The persistence of communal comity suggests that the resident baboons must somehow be instructing the immigrants in the unusual customs of the tribe.
''We don't yet understand the mechanism of transmittal,'' said Dr. Robert M. Sapolsky, a professor of biology and neurology at Stanford, ''but the jerky new guys are obviously learning, 'We don't do things like that around here.' '' Dr. Sapolsky wrote the report with his colleague and wife, Dr. Lisa J. Share.
Dr. Sapolsky, who is renowned for his study of the physiology of stress, said that the Forest Troop baboons probably felt as good as they acted. Hormone samples from the monkeys showed far less evidence of stress in even the lowest-ranking individuals, when contrasted with baboons living in more rancorous societies.
The researchers were able to compare the behavior and physiology of the contemporary Forest Troop primates to two control groups: a similar-size baboon congregation living nearby, called the Talek Troop, and the Forest Troop itself from 1979 through 1982, the era that might be called Before Alpha Die-off, or B.A.D.
''It's a really fine, thorough piece of work, with the sort of methodology and lucky data sets that you can only get from doing long-term field research,'' said Dr. Duane Quiatt, a primatologist at the University of Colorado at Denver and a co-author with Vernon Reynolds of the 1993 book ''Primate Behaviour: Information, Social Knowledge and the Evolution of Culture.''
The new work vividly demonstrates that, Putumayo records notwithstanding, humans hold no patent on multiculturalism. As a growing body of research indicates, many social animals learn from one another and cultivate regional variants in skills, conventions and fashions. Some chimpanzees crack open their nuts with a stone hammer on a stone anvil; others prefer wood hammers on wood anvils. The chimpanzees of the Tai forest rain-dance; those of the Gombe tickle themselves. Dr. Jane Goodall reported a fad in one chimpanzee group: a young female started wiggling her hands, and before long, every teen chimp was doing likewise.
But in the baboon study, the culture being conveyed is less a specific behavior or skill than a global code of conduct. ''You can more accurately describe it as the social ethos of group,'' said Dr. Andrew Whiten, a professor of evolutionary and developmental psychology at the University of St. Andrews in Scotland who has studied chimpanzee culture. ''It's an attitude that's being transmitted.''
The report also offers real-world proof of a principle first demonstrated in captive populations of monkeys: that with the right upbringing, diplomacy is infectious. Dr. Frans B. M. de Waal, the director of the Living Links Center at the Yerkes National Primate Research Center of Emory University in Atlanta, has shown that if the normally pugilistic rhesus monkeys are reared with the more conciliatory stumptailed monkeys, the rhesus monkeys learn the value of tolerance, peacemaking and mutual hip-hugging.
Dr. de Waal, who wrote an essay to accompany the new baboon study, said in a telephone interview, ''The good news for humans is that it looks like peaceful conditions, once established, can be maintained,'' he said.
''And if baboons can do it,'' he said, ''why not us? The bad news is that you might have to first knock out all the most aggressive males to get there.''
Jerkiness or worse certainly seems to be a job description for ordinary male baboons. The average young male, after wheedling his way into a new troop at around age 7, spends his prime years seeking to fang his way up the hierarchy; and once he's gained some status, he devotes many a leisure hour to whimsical displays of power at scant personal cost. He harasses and attacks females, which weigh half his hundred pounds and lack his thumb-thick canines, or he terrorizes the low-ranking males he knows cannot retaliate.
Dr. Barbara Smuts, a primatologist at the University of Michigan who wrote the 1985 book ''Sex and Friendship in Baboons,'' said that the females in the troop she studied received a serious bite from a male annually, maybe losing a strip of flesh or part of an ear in the process. As they age and lose their strength, however, males may calm down and adopt a new approach to group living, affiliating with females so devotedly that they keep their reproductive opportunities going even as their ranking in the male hierarchy plunges.
For their part, female baboons, which live up to 25 years -- compared with the male's 18 -- inherit their rank in the gynocracy from their mothers and so spend less time fighting for dominance. They do, however, readily battle females from outside the fold, for they, not the males, are the keepers of turf and dynasty.
The new-fashioned Forest Troop is no United Nations, or even the average frat house. Its citizens remain highly aggressive and argumentative, and the males still obsess over hierarchy. ''We're talking about baboons here,'' said Dr. Sapolsky.
What most distinguishes this congregation from others is that the males resist taking out their bad moods on females and underlings. When a dominant male wants to pick a fight, he finds someone his own size and rank. As a result, a greater percentage of male-male conflicts in the Forest Troop occur between closely ranked individuals than is seen in the control populations, where the bullies seek easier pickings. Moreover, Forest Troop males of all ranks spend more time grooming and being groomed, and just generally huddling close to troop mates, than do their counterpart males in the study.
Interestingly, the male faces in the Forest Troop may have changed over time, but the relative numbers have not. Ever since the tuberculosis epidemic killed half the adult males, the ratio has remained skewed, with twice as many females as males. Yet the researchers have demonstrated that the troop's sexual complexion alone cannot explain its character. Examining other troops with a similar preponderance of females, the Stanford scientists saw no evidence of the Forest Troop's relative amity.
Dr. Sapolsky has no idea how long the good times will last. ''I confess I'm rooting for the troop to stay like this forever, but I worry about how vulnerable they may be,'' he said. ''All it would take is two or three jerky adolescent males entering at the same time to tilt the balance and destroy the culture.''
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Many Oklahoma residents were displaced by the drought of 1936. Hoping for work in the cotton fields, families fled to California and camped on the roadside while they looked for employment.
In this photo, a mother of seven is breastfeeding her child on their roadside campsite in Blythe, California.This photo and many other high resolution vintage images can be purchased at shorpy.com… Keep Reading!!!
by Rachel Garlinghouse
While I was waiting to adopt my first child, I spent a lot of time imagining what I thought would be the high points: the day we would get THE call stating we had been chosen, meeting our baby for the first time, our first family photo session, the child’s first birthday…
Each of these moments would be monumental if not divine. Cloud 9, the “Halleluiah” chorus, slow motion movements. Smiles, laughter, hugs. Perfect. Straight out of … Keep Reading!!!
“He didn’t tell me how to live; he lived, and let me watch him do it.” — Clarence Budington Kelland
Happy Father’s Day, Bri!… Keep Reading!!!
Brian and I were on a major apartment/house hunt with the boys. After all of that, we realized we really aren’t ready to move out of our apartment just yet.
It’s hard to move when you actually like where you live. Our building has yielded very few complaints from us over the past two years.
The only issue was that we really wanted to get the boys a real pet. Our mystery pet shrimp are fun, but not necessarily the … Keep Reading!!!
Having a 30 before 30 bucket list has been fun.
I have never mentioned this before, but I have reserved the right to change my bucket list as I see fit.
I’ve decided to use that right today.
THIS. MAY. SHOCK. YOU.
(Or maybe it won’t…)
I am taking off number 1: “Go to Disney World and Harry Potter Land.”
A couple of days ago, Brian suggested we take this long awaited trip…and I didn’t want to go.
I … Keep Reading!!!
Kraft has been using this “zesty” man to sell salad dressing.
A naked man (or an implied naked man) isn’t offensive. I think where my comfort level begins to waiver a little is when, to me, there is little doubt that this ad is sexually suggestive and objectifies the man in the photo. Although I’m tired of nakedness in ads always being equated to sexuality and I find that constantly being bombarded with that idea alone is not healthy, the … Keep Reading!!!
During a call with my sister today, somehow the topic of Gloria Steinem came up.
Sister: You know mom called up KGO when Gloria Steinem was on, right?
Me: Really? What was the topic?
Sister: Well, I don’t totally know. Mom said she was listening and Gloria Steinem made a comment referring to how Stay-at-Home mothers are useless or not productive members of society, so she called in.
Me: What did mom say to her?
Sister: She got scared and … Keep Reading!!!
The Mursi tribe of Ethiopia’s Omo Valley is one of the oldest and most easily identifiable tribal cultures of Africa.
Most Mursi children nurse past toddler-hood, and clothing for women commonly leaves breasts exposed.
The breast area for the Mursi tribe is viewed as nourishment for children and signals to men peak nubility of the woman, based on shape and texture.
The Mursi people are at risk for displacement.
From Mursi Online:
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Since the 1960s, the extension of government
Have you heard about The Geography of Hate project created by Humboldt State University undergraduate students?
They sifted through a year of geocoded conversations from twitter to find hate words used in a negative context (which is important to note, since many people now use these words in a positive or neutral manner). The words were then applied to a color gradient map.
The map shows certain areas I was surprised to find concentrated with hate speech. (Especially in the … Keep Reading!!!
“Am I my brother’s keeper?” (Gen 4:9)
Most people know that the Platypus is an egg-laying mammal and a member of the order Monotremata.
Interesting fact about these creatures is that they do not have teats/nipples. The platypus nurses its young from its mammary patches that secrete milk.… Keep Reading!!!
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University isn’t all research papers and study groups; it’s a time to explore, have fun and get out of your comfort zone. This is especially true for international students studying abroad at Manhattanville College, just 20 minutes by train from legendary New York City. While there’s no shortage of fun things to do in “the city that never sleeps,” is it possible to entertain yourself in NYC on a student’s budget? You bet! We’ll show you how.
Check out these fun and free things to do in New York City.
- Visit Central Park – You’ve seen it in movies and TV shows and now you can step foot in the park yourself. More than a sprawling, green nature escape in the heart of the city, Central Park hosts free events and shows, not to mention good old-fashioned people watching.
- Browse Chelsea galleries – The Chelsea neighborhood is known for its galleries, but you may not have known that they’re all free! Get your culture fix in this trendy area without spending a cent.
- Take the ferry to Governor’s Island – This 172-acre island is just a free ferry ride away from Lower Manhattan. Ride bikes, play mini-golf or have a picnic on this scenic island escape.
- Walk the “High Line” – Get 30 feet above the city when you walk the elevated garden paths of this unique and free urban park. Once a stretch of railroad line, the track is now a beautifully designed public space that runs from the Meatpacking District to Chelsea.
- Spend an afternoon in the New York Public Library – The over 100 year-old Stephen A. Schwarzman Building is the stately and historic flagship building of the New York Library system. Built in the Beaux-Arts architectural style (think ornate and Parisian), the space is nothing short of majestic.
- Kayak from the Downtown Boathouse – A non-profit organization dedicated to “Promoting public access to the water for all” the Boathouse offers free access to the harbor of New York during warm months. This is the perfect free activity for outdoor lovers.
- Take a brewery tour – Many breweries, such as the Brooklyn Brewery, offer free tours on weekend. You can enjoy beer samples, and some breweries even allow you to bring in outside food!
- Stroll The Museum of Modern Art – Shouldn’t amazing art be accessible to everyone? Well it is on Friday nights, when the MoMA offers free admission from 4:00 to 8:00 p.m.
- Ride the Staten Island Ferry – This ferry is meant to be purely functional, used to transport commuters from Staten Island to Manhattan and back. Yet, the 25-minute ride is also the perfect way to get a free boat ride across New York Harbor, complete with breathtaking city views, for free.
- Visit the Bronx Zoo – You’ll pay admission every day here except Wednesdays, when admission is “pay what you wish.” Visit the African Plains, the Aquatic Bird House, the Himalayan Highlands, the Butterfly Garden and more, all without leaving NYC.
Make the most of your time in the U.S. while studying abroad with Bridge in New York. You’ll be a short train ride away from one of the greatest cities on earth, where it’s possible to spend the day at museums, parks, zoos and more without spending a dime!
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Other services include circular openings for parking lot lighting or drainage projects in asphalt of up to 60" in diameter. Removal of the asphalt and cutting debris can be taken care of by the experienced team at Michigan Concrete.
As an asphalt cutting contractor, we have several different saw sizes to make your project easy to execute. Our fleet of saws is process of converting to Tier 4 diesel compliant. Call today and get our competitive asphalt cutting prices.
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One of the UK's leading clothing and fashion stores for men, Burton in Longton offers something to suit every style and every occasion.
27/29 Market Street
Telephone: 01782 331165
Vouchers, Deals & Discounts
Offers to your inbox
Subscribe for store deals and offers
We won't give your email address to anyone else
The information listed here is for guidance only. Stores may change their details from time to time at short notice and we recommend contacting the Burton, Longton store before visiting to confirm their details. If you do know of any information that may have recently changed, please let us know via the update details link.
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- Lead off with the facts. You need to state the facts, not the myth. Otherwise, the myth gets reinforced.
- If you have to explain the myth, precede it with a warning. State the myth. Then, provide an alternate explanation.
- Three facts are better than twelve.
- Use simple, clear language. The power of myths is that they are usually simplistic. Your facts need to be able to replace the myth. Shoot for an explanation simple enough that they can repeat it.
- Focus on the undecided; there will always be an unswayable minority especially if it runs contrary to their core beliefs.
- Use graphics.
Here's an example of myth-busting done right:
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Energy and performance
Tackle everyday life with strength and energy
Who hasn’t experienced this situation… Your diary is nice and full. The daily juggle between work, household tasks, family, friends and hobbies takes a lot of energy. Rest and recovery phases are often neglected. We feel tired and exhausted. Lots of people also do not think about ensuring they have a balanced diet in this situation, which can exacerbate the stress symptoms.
This can be a problem, especially for people who have increased nutritional requirements for specific reasons. This may include, for example, athletes, people under high stress or smokers.
Exhaustion, fatigue and reduced performance can be signs that something is missing from the body. Besides a lack of sleep, fluids or exercise, an insufficient supply of nutrients is a possible cause. However, the supply of essential vitamins, minerals and amino acids is essential for normal energy metabolism and nerve function. It also provides building blocks for important messenger substances in the human body and can help reduce tiredness and fatigue.
In order to promote energy metabolism, physical and mental performance and well-being, depending on the patient’s individual circumstances and in a suitable dosage and form of administration, sanotact® develops nutrient profiles from vitamins, minerals, amino acids and plant extracts.
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Tracy came by my office to meet me up for lunch. She misses the laksa so much ever since the previous lunch we had there. (Around 1 month ago). Therefore she suggested to have the same laksa for lunch. I second the idea too. *smiles*
Restoran Asia, is quite famous in Seremban. Popularity came from its laksa! There are 2 Restoran Asia in Seremban (both are related). One is located at Rahang, while the main one is located at Senawang. At times, people do debate on which is nicer. However the Senawang branch has more varieties other than laksa, they do have ‘yong tau fu’ and nasi lemak. Unlike the Rahang branch which solely on laksa.
I do not fancy laksa with too thick gravy. Means too rich in coconut milk. But this is different. The curry gravy is rich in flavor even though not just depending on coconut milk itself. The chili paste that they use is good. If you wish to purchase the chili paste, its for sale at RM5.50 per container.
Price may vary depending on what additional items you add on. Example; minced pork, char siew, curry chicken, egg. Besides that, you may also choose your choice of noodle. Selection of mee hoon, lou shu fun(my fav!), egg noodle and kuey teow.
Restoran Asia is at 364, Jalan Tok Ungku, Seremban, opposite the Rahang post office.
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March 4, 2008
Lipscomb's Jenna Bartsokas, from Franklin, Tenn., has been named to the Atlantic Sun All-Freshman Team for 2008
The announcement was made by the conference office Tuesday afternoon.
Bartsokas has started the last 13 games for the Lady Bisons as the No. 2 guard. The Lady Bisons are 6-7 during that stretch. She has scored in double figures in 11 games this season, third best on the team.
She has led the Lady Bisons in scoring in six games and tied for the lead once. She has scored in double figures in the last three games and in five of her last six.
She has twice scored a season-high 16 points this season and scored 15 points in her second collegiate game at Arkansas Nov. 11.
She grabbed a season-high 8 rebounds against Campbell March 1.
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Neil Simon operated in a space few writers could, successfully navigating the formidable gaps that separate the worlds of theater, movies and TV in a manner that established him as one of the most influential comedy writers of the 20th century.
Although the stage was his preferred medium, almost everything Simon wrote – from “The Odd Couple” to the semi-autobiographical “Brighton Beach Memoirs” trilogy, from “Barefoot in the Park” to “The Sunshine Boys” – found its way to the screen. And his gift with words, his rat-a-tat patter and comic rhythms, also left an indelible mark on television, the venue in which he cut his professional teeth alongside a host of other creative titans, writing for Sid Caesar in the 1950s.
Tributes poured out from those in the comedy field in response to the news of Simon’s death at the age of 91. Bill Prady, co-creator of the sitcom “The Big Bang Theory,” wrote on Twitter, “There is no American comedy writer whose work isn’t influenced by the rhythm and music of Neil Simon’s words.” Quinn Cummings, the child star of “The Goodbye Girl” and now a writer herself, said simply, “No one ever looks funnier than when Neil Simon’s words are coming out of their mouths.”
Simon straddled those not-always-compatible disciplines with an ease that eluded many other playwrights. At one point in the mid-1960s, he had four plays running simultaneously in New York – an unheard-of feat that prompted the New York Times’ Charles Isherwood to observe, “Mr. Simon ruled Broadway when Broadway was still worth ruling.”
The unique knack that Simon possessed was an ability to write lines, characters and situations that transcended the intimate setting of theater – that still delivered comedically when blown up to meet the demands of movies and television.
Notably, the process didn’t always take, and Simon expressed his own frustrations with it. His original screenplays included the memorable romantic comedies “The Heartbreak Kid” and “The Goodbye Girl” – for which Richard Dreyfuss won an Oscar – but also the detective spoof “Murder By Death” and “The Marrying Man,” the latter a conspicuous flop that paired Alec Baldwin and Kim Basinger.
Although he won a Pulitzer Prize in 1991 for “Lost in Yonkers” – one of innumerable accolades amassed over his career – the box-office hits, by then, were few and far between.
It nevertheless serves as a testament to the durability of Simon’s work that his writing has not only survived across decades but allowed for multiple versions and new takes. “The Odd Couple,” for example, spawned the hit movie starring Jack Lemmon and Walter Matthau and later the long-running 1970s sitcom, with Jack Klugman and Tony Randall. Simon later rewrote a female version of the play, which also inspired a more recent sitcom revival, albeit a pallid one, on CBS.
As noted, Caesar’s “Your Show of Shows” produced an inordinately successful roster of alumni, including Simon, Mel Brooks, Larry Gelbart, Carl Reiner, and Woody Allen.
None, however, cast a bigger or wider cultural shadow – over theater, movies and TV – than Simon, a sunshine boy who left behind a body of work whose light will continue to shine for ages.
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Suddenly Prickly Porky pricked up his funny little short ears. He heard the deep voice of Bowser the Hound, and it was coming nearer and nearer. Prickly Porky chuckled again.
“I guess Mr. Bowser is going to have a surprise; I certainly think he is,” said Prickly Porky as he made all the thousand little spears stand out from his long coat till he looked like a funny great chestnut burr.
Bowser the Hound did have a surprise. He was hunting Reddy Fox, and he almost ran into Prickly Porky before he saw him. The very sight of those thousand little spears sent little cold chills chasing each other down Bowser’s backbone clear to the tip of his tail, for he remembered how he had gotten some of them in his lips and mouth once upon a time, and how it had hurt to have them pulled out. Ever since then he had had the greatest respect for Prickly Porky.
“Wow!” yelped Bowser the Hound, stopping short. “I beg your pardon, Prickly Porky, I beg your pardon, I didn’t know you were taking a nap here.”
All the time Bowser the Hound was backing away as fast as he could. Then he turned around, put his tail between his legs and actually ran away.
Slowly Prickly Porky unrolled, and his little eyes twinkled as he watched Bowser the Hound run away.
“Bowser’s very big and strong;
His voice is deep; his legs are long;
His bark scares some almost to death.
But as for me he wastes his breath;
I just roll up and shake my spears
And Bowser is the one who fears.”
So said Prickly Porky, and laughed aloud. Just then he heard a light footstep and turned to see who was coming. It was old Granny Fox. She had seen Bowser run away, and now she was anxious to find out if Reddy Fox were safe.
“Good morning,” said Granny Fox, taking care not to come too near.
“Good morning,” replied Prickly Porky, hiding a smile.
“I’m very tired and would like to go inside my house; had you just as soon move?” asked Granny Fox.
“Oh!” exclaimed Prickly Porky, “is this your house? I thought you lived over on the Green Meadows.”
“I did, but I’ve moved. Please let me in,” replied Granny Fox.
“Certainly, certainly. Don’t mind me, Granny Fox. Step right over me,” said Prickly Porky, and smiled once more, and at the same time rattled his little spears.
Instead of stepping over him, Granny Fox backed away.
CHAPTER XXIX: The New Home In The Old Pasture
Who keeps a watch upon his toes
Need never fear he’ll bump his nose.
— Old Granny Fox.
Now there is nothing like being shut in alone in the dark to make one think. A voice inside of Reddy began to whisper to him. “If you hadn’t tried to be smart and show off you wouldn’t have brought all this trouble on yourself and Old Granny Fox,” said the voice.
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ALBANY, N.Y. (WIVB) — Starting Monday, various types of businesses, including theaters, gyms and casinos, can once again be open past 11 p.m.
Bowling alleys and billiard halls are also included on this list.
The North Park Theatre is one of the entertainment venues planning to reopen its doors later this month. You can find out more about that here.
For now, bars and restaurants still must close at 11 p.m. State Senate Minority Leader Rob Ortt has been a critic of this limit, recently calling for its end.
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There is a new theater that just opened not far from my house. I received some free passes as well as 2 for 1 passes. This means my movie watching days are a go. For the last two weekends, I've been at the Grand Theater to see two new movies. First up was "Think Like A Man Too." I loved the first one. The cast was incredible and had great chemistry. This was also the case in the sequel. It's not very often that a sequel is better than the original. This is one of those very unique cases. I loved TLAMT more than the original. I laughed the entire time. Kevin Hart was ridiculous as usual. I loved the plot of the movie. It is a must see in my opinion. I cannot wait to see it again. Great romantic comedy .
The second movie was "Transformers: Age of Extinction." Now, let me preface this by saying that I am a super fan of the previous films. Loved all of them. I wasn't too happy when I learned that the the series was being rebooted. No Shia, no silly parents, no Tyrese. I do like Mark Wahlberg so I was open to it. The movie was good but not great. The plot was interesting. The action scenes were amazing. The actress who plays Mark's daughter is gorgeous but her acting skills left much to be desired. I was just expecting more from the movie. I mean Michael Bay and Steven Spielberg were involved in it. Something was just off with it. I don't know exactly what it was though. I'm glad that I saw it though. Loved the Autobots as usual. Good movie. I think a person who isn't a diehard fan of the first three would love it more. Either way, I would recommend both movies to all. Get into these new releases. Happy movie watching!!
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I'm entering soon into a master of computer security. But I'd like to train myself for a while. So, I'd would like you fellows to help me in giving me websites or tips about computer security and tips also. For instance, I'm in a library and there are some thigns I find interesting: no right click is allowed, when you type something in Google search bar and then you go and type the same thing, you have to type it again, it ius not stored in the search bar, you can't create new windows from the File menu. So I'd like to know how these things are done and how it works. Please help.
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WCIA Quarterly newsletter features pool administration issues and activities.
Cyber liability coverage now available for the membership
Training and assistance still available regarding cyber liability
Let's do lunch in Yakima
Possible liability exposure of beer and wine vendors at farmers markets
WCIA offers Risk Reduction Grants
Support available for new public records training requirement
Membership News in Brief
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An ancient story tells of a poor peasant named Gordius arriving in his ox-cart in the city of Phrygia. Legend had it that an oracle had predicted the future king would come into town riding in a wagon. So upon seeing Gordius, the people made him their king. In gratitude to the gods, Gordius dedicated his ox-cart to Zeus and tied it up in the temple with a highly elaborate knot.
A later oracle predicted that whoever could untie this "Gordian Knot" would rule over all of Asia. None mastered this feat until Alexander the Great visited Phrygia in 333 B.C. Alexander, upon seeing the knot, drew his sword and simply cut it in half.
Was this cheating? Given that the ends of the rope had been spliced back together, there was actually no way to untie the knot. Alexander's solution was the best available.
Complex moral issues these days often feel as unsolvable as Gordius' famed knot. People line up on opposite sides of issues, futilely tugging at the tangled cords, demonizing those who disagree with them and end up feeling discouraged as the knot remains tightly bound year after year. There are times, though, when Alexander's solution is the only way forward. Cutting through the confusion with a clear moral position allows everyone to move forward -- toward our shared goals of liberty, equality and justice for all.
The issue of torture is a case in point. It is time to state our opposition without equivocation -- to cut through the political rhetoric and condemn all use of torture as immoral and antithetical to the values we espouse as individuals and a nation.
The bipartisan Task Force on Detainee Treatment, convened by the Constitution Project two years ago, recently released a 500-page investigation into the U.S. government's treatment of 9/11 detainees. The distinguished panel concluded indisputably that we engaged in acts of illegal torture, including several cases where individuals were literally tortured to death.
This document reports how the United States used interrogation techniques on detainees that had been previously condemned by the United States as illegal when used by others. It tells how prisoners were mistreated in capriciously cruel ways and how government lawyers turned the law on its head in order to claim as legal what everyone knew was illegal.
Individuals in our armed forces and civilian agencies repeatedly tried to stand up for U.S. law and common standards of morality, but political leaders and their handpicked lawyers consistently found ways to circumvent their whistle-blowing efforts. The task force went on to conclude that there was "no firm or persuasive evidence that the [use of torture] produced significant information of value."
Unfortunately, a larger investigation recently concluded by the Senate Intelligence Committee remains classified, thereby withholding its findings from the public. It is important that this second report be released as well, so that we can cut through the knot of existing policies and practices related to torture and adopt a clear, moral position: Torture is always wrong in all circumstances.
I join the diverse members of the National Religious Campaign Against Torture who have been working through an interfaith effort to encourage the release of the Senate report. The American people have the right to know the facts about the CIA torture program so they will not be misled by fictional accounts, such as conveyed in the recent film "Zero Dark Thirty" or mistaken in considering acts of torture ever to be justified or effective.
Torture is illegal without exception. In 1994, the United States signed the U.N. Convention Against Torture, which binds our country to the following stipulation: "No exceptional circumstances whatsoever, whether a state of war or a threat of war, internal political instability or any other public emergency, may be invoked as a justification of torture."
Allowing ourselves to get tied up in moral knots trying to avoid such clear directives weakens us as a democracy and undermines our efforts to encourage democratic legal and constitutional change in emerging nation-states.
The immorality of torture is a shared tenet of all faith traditions. In our desire to seek vengeance on others, including those who have done us harm, global religious beliefs speak with one voice that it is important to curtail all impulses that would lower ourselves to the level of those who would do indiscriminate harm to others. There is no honor when the deeds of the accused and the accuser are equally dark and violent.
It is time to speak clearly against torture. It is important that the findings of both the Task Force on Detainee Treatment and the Senate Intelligence Committee be fully available to the American public. It is time to cut through the Gordian knot and unbind ourselves from torture once and for all.opinion_commentary
Rev. Randall Bush, senior pastor for East Liberty Presbyterian Church since 2006, has served congregations in both the United States and Zimbabwe.
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This post may contain affiliate links, you can read my affiliate disclosure here.
A few weeks ago I bought a couple of new composition notebooks and decided to personalize them a bit. Raeca had a couple of primary composition notebooks and wanted to join me so I thought we’d video our process and share it here with you!
The primary composition notebooks are nice because they have lines for writing on the bottom but the top half of the page is blank, the perfect space to draw a picture.
How do you like to customize your homeschool supplies?
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Whitbread has announced an overall 4.3% rise in first quarter underlying group sales, aided by an increased demand in the Costa Coffee business.
The company‘s CEO Andy Harrison, who has helped increase Whitbread‘s stock market value from £2.5bn to £10bn in his five year tenure, will handover his position to Lloyds Banking Group Exec Alison Brittain in December, a month earlier than originally planned.
Costa, which is poised to open an additional 250 stores this year, saw sales grow 15.9% to £375.2m. The coffee chain has put up a strong front against US rival Starbucks, increasing its market share in the UK while the American giant struggles with its corporation tax payments.
Harrison said: “Costa had an excellent quarter. We are on track to deliver ambitious growth milestones.”
The company has announced today that rather than starting her new role in January 2016, Brittain will be joining the company as Chief Executive “designate” in September and will take over from Harrison when he retires in December.
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Just the other night was my first time tripping on mushrooms or any psychedelic drug for that matter.
Just the other night was my first time tripping on mushrooms or any psychedelic drug for that matter. What I experienced was quite titlilating. When I first ate the mushrooms the only thing I could really notice was that it was very hard to stay interested in something such as the TV show I was watching and I found myself frequently spacing off. After a while I subconsciously just started to write on a pad of paper different things I was feeling. I had so many thoughts going through my head that I seldomn finished a statement without starting a new one right in the middle. It was a very cold night outside considering it was winter in Iowa but me and my friend thought it would be fun to go on a "journey" through the woods. I was very familiar with these woods considering me and my friends often used them as a "pot-smoking hangout" but it felt as if I had never been in them before because they were so different. It was like the ground was totally level. After a while of walking and talking with my friend we decided we had better go inside because the dead silence and feeling like everyone could hear us talking started to be kind of spooky. By this time it was into the early morining hours and we decided we would just lay on the couches and observe the effects of the psilocybin. So as we laid there watching Jay Leno I couldn't help but judge people as to whether they seemed genuine or not. It was quite entertaining watching the images on the TV breathe and wave. It seemed as if everything that could be thought about was and as if it all made sense..but after a while I came to another conclusion that there is no such thing as sense and nothing makes it. On this trip so many incredible things happened but there is no way to explain why they were so incredible. Before I knew it it was 5:30 in the morning but it seemed like I had just lived a whole new life and couldn't picture myself not under the inluence of magic mushrooms. I think there is no way you can actually describe what it's like eating mushrooms and it is definitely something that people should give a chance.
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PRIMAL SCREED/James McCarty Yeager
If the incompetence of the Republican Congressional majority were not being
demonstrated on a daily basis, it could hardly be imagined. But such divorces
between reality and ideology as are so harshly decreed by the Republicans
are central to their policy.
Caution ruled Lord John Russell, Prime Minister during the American Civil
War, when he remarked that "The South have made a rebellion; let us
see if they can make a government." A similar caution, expressed over
a similar period of time, would now conclude that the Republicans, also
known as the Confederate Party, are as uninterested in government as they
are incapable of it.
As predicted in these pages as long ago as last summer, the Confederates,
dominated by a squint-minded illiberal superstitious grasping conservatism
as far from measured, true conservatism as hysteria is from virtue, are
pursuing an impeachment strategy. One of the many ironies is that this ultimate
constitutional weapon is being leveled, somewhat unconstitutionally, against
the only Liberal Republican President in this century -- Teddy Roosevelt
being disqualified by the vices of jingoism and racism.
The Confederate addiction to style over substance is visible at all times.
Preferring xenophobia to inclusiveness (whether the matter is campaign contributions
by Asians or Haitian immigration,) under the guise of tradition the Confederates
primly insist on a white, Anglo-Protestant vision of America which will
ultimately cost them Texas, California and Florida. On economics they resist
the amelioration of wage slavery, much less its replacement, by gleefully
tearing holes in the already-inadequate safety net for the manifestly un-elderly.
And on foreign policy they imagine a fortress Amerika dictating its whims
everywhere there is gold or oil, neglecting as much of Africa, South America
and Asia as remains unbought by multinational corporations.
But the larger indictment of the Confederates has hardly changed since R.
Nixon's precedents were established for R. Reagan and G. Bush to follow.
What has changed now is the legislative inability of Speaker N. Gingrich
and Senate Majority Leader T. Lott to respond to that trust with which they
have been burdened by the American people. Now in a Congressional majority,
the Confederates continually cry up meaningless issues while deliberately
choosing the destructive side of real questions.
On two issues as disparate as the Year 2000 Census and the making of economic
projections at the Congressional Budget Office, the Confederates have aimed
at obfuscation with a success that must portend divine retribution. It is
in minutia such as these that government actively consists; not the Roman
roads made the empire, but the system of organization that led to those
stones being cut and placed similarly in Calabria as in Essex.
The Confederates oppose an accurate Census count ostensibly on the grounds
that statistical sampling techniques, invented as long ago as the 18th century
and therefore doubtless smacking of French revolutionary fervor, might have
to be employed to produce a believable number of Americans in the year 2000.
Instead, they prefer the more costly, less accurate method of a complete
enumeration, shown to be inadequate throughout American history and admitted
to be so since 1960. Refusing to pay the additional millions necessary to
obtain greater accuracy, the Confederates console themselves (though not
out loud) with the thought that those omitted to be counted will mostly
be of another color than white, and another class than middle.
In a parallel, widely ignorant maneuver, the Confederate Congress has just
fired the director of the Congressional Budget Office for the ideological
sin of estimating that tax cuts, so dear to the hearts of Lott and Gingrich
that they have no other economic program, might just possibly cause the
federal deficit to go up. The Congressional majority apparently demands
a figure-fabricator who can, with a straight face, spout the trickle-down
nonsense even Reagan's people didn't believe in. Majorities being what they
are, eventually they will find a sufficiently complaisant cipherer who will
accept their ideological assumptions and grind out economic forecasts based
upon them, to the shame of his or her professional colleagues.
Lest it be thought that the Democrats are any less resistant to reality,
it should be observed, and even emphasized, that the Democrats are the party
that let the middle class slip away into the seductive Confederate embrace.
The Democrats did so by the simple expedient of becoming so much in hock
to the large corporate interests that no one can distinguish many Congressional
Democrats from Republicans.
This is hardly an earnest of good faith, or a predictor of reform. Yet the
Democrats' roots as the party of the people are not yet wholly obliterated.
Activist labor and farmers as well as feminists, civil rights believers,
environmentalists, and peace people have been disinvited from the Democrats
by everybody from bagman Bob Strauss to baggee Dick Gephardt. Refusing to
abandon their traditions, these homeland Democrats have instead abandoned
Strauss and Gephardt to that Congressional minority position in which they
To take back the Congress for the Democrats will require more than a dubious
victory in Iraq (which would be no more than finishing Bush's incompetent
war, anyway) and a rising stock market. It will require organization around
the issues of campaign finance reform, restructuring of the basic economy,
and health insurance reform. But these are issues on which homeland Democrats
ought to be able to defeat both business Democrats and the Confederates.
Even if the homelanders are outspent and outgunned.
James McCarty Yeager is a Texas native who perches upon a Maryland headland
thrust into the Potomac River at Little Falls.
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Known Relatives: Meloni Thawne (daughter), Bart Allen (grandson)
Occupation: President of Earth
Base of Operations: 30th Century Earth
First Appearance: Impulse #25, May 1997
See Also: The Cobalt Blue Legacy, Inertia
For a thousand years the Thawnes and Allens had been bitter enemies. Allen super-speed battled the magic of the Thawnes’ Cobalt Blue gem, until a truce was declared in the 30th century. Then a pair of star-crossed lovers stepped into the picture: Meloni Thawne, daughter of Earthgov’s current President, and Don Allen, son of the legendary Flash, Barry Allen.
President Thawne was enraged. He used his allies among the alien Dominators to arrange the deaths of Don and his sister Dawn, but not before the birth of the next generation of Allens. Even so, Dawn’s daughter Jenni appeared to be a normal infant, and Don’s son Bart was half-Thawne—and securely in Earthgov custody. President Thawne reconstituted the Cobalt Blue gem, planning to amplify its powers with the aid of sorcerers from Zerox and make it possible for the Thawnes to rule the galaxy. What he didn’t count on was being overheard by the Flash... or Thawne’s own ancestor Professor Zoom. The ensuing super-speed struggle destroyed the gem, much to the consternation of the sorcerers.
Thawne managed to hold onto his life and his office, and set in motion another plan. If he could not harness the power of the gem, he could still have revenge on the Allens by subverting the last of their line. Bart remained in the custody of Earthgov’s scientists until Don’s mother Iris broke him out and took him to the 20th Century in which she had grown up. When Meloni discovered what had happened, she brought back the now-teenaged Bart to help save Iris’ parents and Jenni from her father’s wrath, but eventually had to settle for staying with him in exchange for Bart’s safety.
Undaunted, Thawne had another backup plan: he took a sample of Bart’s DNA, spliced in more from the Thawne side, and began to grow a clone. It would take centuries to develop, but it would be perfect. Inertia, as he became called, would be trained to supplant Bart Allen and complete the subversion of the Allen line by the Thawnes.
One possible future involved Thawne destorying the planet. Had Max Mercury died at the dawn of the 21st century, Bart and his girlfriend Carol would have traveled to their future and settled there. Thawne would have remained in office for the next 15 years, stealing Carol’s Speed Force research to create hyperspeed guards, then to irradiate the entire planet, killing most of the population and leaving the survivors with the benefits of superspeed. However, Max’s death was prevented, and Carol never arrived in the 30th century. 15 years later, when the Legion of Super-Heroes was formed, Thawne was no longer in office.Text by Kelson Vibber. Do not copy without permission.
- “You and Me Against the World” - Impulse #25 (May 1997), Mark Waid
- “Chain Lightning” Part 4 - The Flash (second series) #148 (May 1999), Mark Waid and Brian Augustyn
- Flash (second series) #148 (April 1999) - Paul Pelletier and Vince Russell
- Impulse #25 (May 1997): “You and Me Against the World,” Mark Waid
- Flash Secret Files #1 (November 1997): “A Run of Luck,” Mark Waid and Brian Augustyn
- Flash #147–148 (April–May 1999): Chain Lightning parts 3–4, Mark Waid and Brian Augustyn
- Impulse #53 (October 1999): “Threats,” Todd Dezago (flashback)
- Impulse #73–75 (June–August 2001): “Dark Tomorrow,” Todd Dezago
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As the exclusive dealer of Solatube in Skagit and Whatcom County, we are excited to offer you their revolutionary residential and commercial daylighting systems.
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Backed by Long Live the Local – a campaign celebrating pubs’ vital social, cultural and economic role while recognising the financial pressures they face – 2016 Bake-off winner Brown took to Westminster’s streets urging the Government to cut beer duty in its 11 March Budget.
She did so on a day in which Brewers of Europe – representative of 9,500 beer makers across 29 countries – estimated the amount of beer duty already paid by British drinkers so far in 2020 exceeded the sum German drinkers are expected to pay all year, despite the latter supping nearly twice as much their British counterparts annually.
“Pubs are the beating heart of cities, towns and villages up and down Britain – they not only provide jobs but a place where everyone and anyone can meet and socialise,” Brown said. “If the Chancellor does not act now, he is set to damage not only businesses but communities as well”.
It’s hoped that this year’s petition, which currently boasts 252,428 signatures – with close to 120,000 of whom having written to their MP – will implore Boris Johnson’s new Chancellor Rishi Sunak to do the same.
In October 2019, Brown – who runs the Green Man in Eversholt, Bedfordshire – and a group of fellow publicans delivered the petition of more a quarter of a million signatures to 10 Downing Street imploring the Chancellor to cut beer duty.
Asking for a ‘modest’ cut
Beer duty raises £3.4bn per year for the UK Treasury – four times more than in any other European nation. Despite Spain brewing almost as much beer as the UK, for example, it pays 11 times less beer duty. While Brits pay 54p duty for every pint of 5% ABV beer, their Spanish counterparts only pay 5p.
According to Long Live the Local, financial pressures from a swathe of taxes, including beer duty, put local pubs at risk of closure with one in three pounds spent in the pub winding up in the taxman’s pocket.
What’s more, with beer accounting for seven of every 10 alcoholic drinks served in pubs, campaigners estimate that an increase in beer duty will disproportionately affect Britain’s pubs.
“Pubs employ almost 600,000 people,” David Cunningham, programme director of Long Live The Local added. “On average, a pub contributes over £100,000 to its local economy.
“Despite this, pubs are overtaxed, with each pub paying an average of £140,000 every year through a range of taxes, one of which is beer duty.
“Beer duty in the UK is 11 times higher than in Germany and Spain, which is why we’re asking for a modest cut in beer duty to save thousands of jobs and help protect the future of local pubs.”
YouGov research from 2019 highlights that three quarters of Brits (75%) think that the current beer duty rates are unfair while almost half (47%) believe the Government should be doing more to support pubs.
To sign the Long Live the Local petition, email your MP, or for more information on the campaign, please visit longlivethelocal.pub.
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12.1. Now the LORD* had said to Abram, “Get yourself out of here! From your country and from your kindred and from your father’s house to a land that I shall show you. (Acts 7:3) 2. And I shall make a great nation of you, and I shall bless you and make your name great and you will be a blessing. 3. And I shall bless those who bless you and curse the one who curses you: and in you will all families of the earth be blessed.” (Num. 24:9, Gal. 3:8) 4. So Abram departed, as the LORD* had spoken to him and Lot went with him, and Abram was seventy-five years old when he left Haran. 5. And Abram took Sarai his wife and Lot his brother’s son and all their possessions that they had gathered, and the souls that they had made in Haran: and they left to go into the land of Canaan, and they came into the land of Canaan. (Heb. 11:8) 6. And Abram passed through the land to the place of Shechem, to the oak of Moreh. And the Canaanites were then in the land. (Heb. 11:12)
12:7. And the LORD* appeared to Abram and said, “I shall give this land to your seed.” (Acts 7:5) And he built an altar there to the LORD*, Who appeared to him. 8. And he went from there to a mountain on the east of Beit-El and pitched his tent, having Beit-El on the west and Ai on the east, and there he built an altar to the LORD* and called upon the name of the LORD*. 9. And Abram journeyed, still going on toward the south.
12:10. Then there was a famine in the land and Abram went down into Egypt to sojourn there, for the famine was grievous in the land. 11. And it happened when he came near to enter Egypt that he said to Sarai his wife, “Behold now, I know that you are a fair woman to look upon. 12. Therefore it will be, when the Egyptians will see you that they will say, ‘This is his wife.’ And they will kill me, but they will save you alive. 13. Say, I pray you, that you are my sister so it may be well with me for your sake and my soul will live because of you.”
12:14. And it was that when Abram had come into Egypt, the Egyptians beheld the woman that she was very fair. 15. The princes of Pharaoh also saw her, and commended her before Pharaoh and the woman was taken into Pharaoh’s house. 16. And he treated Abram well for her sake and he had sheep, oxen, he-donkeys, men servants, maid servants, she-donkeys, and camels. 17. And the LORD* plagued Pharaoh and his house with great plagues because of Sarai, Abram’s wife. 18. And Pharaoh called Abram and said, “What is this that you have done to me? Why did you not tell me that she was your wife? 19. Why did you say, ‘She is my sister?’ so that I took her to be my wife. Now therefore behold your wife, take her and go your way.” 20. And Pharaoh commanded his men concerning him. And they sent him away, and his wife, and all that he had.
Return to Promised Land
13.1. And Abram went up out of Egypt, he, his wife, and all that he had, and Lot traveled with him to the south, Negev of Israel. 2. And Abram was very rich in cattle, in silver, and in gold. 3. And he went on his journeys from the south as far as Beit-El, to the place where his tent had been at the beginning, between Beit-El and Ai, 4. to the place of the altar, which he had made there at the first. And there Abram called on the name of the LORD*.
13:5. And Lot also, who went with Abram, had flocks, herds, and tents. 6. And the land was not able to bear them, so they could dwell together, for their possessions were great, so that they could not dwell together. 7. And there was strife between the herdsmen of Abram’s cattle and the herdsmen of Lot’s cattle. And the Canaanites and the Perizzites then dwelled in the land.
13:8. And Abram said to Lot, “There must be no strife, I pray you, between me and you, and between my herdsmen and your herdsmen, for we are brothers. 9. Is not the whole land before you? Separate yourself from me, I pray you, if you will take the left hand, then I shall go to the right, or if you go to the right hand, then I shall go to the left.
13:10. And Lot lifted up his eyes, and looked at the whole plain of Jordan, that it was well watered everywhere before the LORD* destroyed Sodom and Gomorrah, even like the garden of the LORD*, like the land of Egypt, as you come to Zoar.
11. Then Lot chose for himself all the plain of the Jordan and Lot journeyed east, and they separated themselves the one from the other.
13:12. Abram lived in the land of Canaan and Lot lived in the cities of the plain and pitched his tent toward Sodom. 13. But the people of Sodom were exceedingly bad and sinners before the LORD*.
13:14. And the LORD* said to Abram, after Lot was separated from him, “Now lift up your eyes and look northward from the place where you are, then southward and eastward and westward, 15. for I shall give to you and to your seed forever all the land that you see. (Acts 13:15) 16. And I shall make your seed as the dust of the earth, so that if a man can number the dust of the earth, then your seed will also be numbered. 17. Arise, walk through the land in the length of it and in the breadth of it, for I shall give it to you.” 18. Then Abram removed his tent and came and lived in the plain of Mamre, which is in Hebron, and there he built an altar to the LORD*.
Abram’s Army of Disciples
14.1. And it happened in the days of Amrafel king of Shinar, Arioch king of Ellasar, Chedorlaomer king of Elam, and Tidal king of Goiim 2. made war with Bera king of Sodom, Birsha king of Gomorrah, Shinab king of Admah, Shemeber king of Zeboim, and the king of Bela, which is Zoar. 3. All these were joined together in the Valley of Siddim, which is the Salt Sea. 4. They served Chedorlaomer for twelve years, then, in the thirteenth year they rebelled. 5. And in the fourteenth year Chedorlaomer and the kings with him came and struck the Rephaim in Ashtoreth Karnaim and the Zuzim in Ham, and the Emim in Shaveh-Kiriathaim. 6. And the Horites in their Mount Seir, to El-Paran, which is by the wilderness. 7. And they returned and came to En-Mishpat, which is Kadesh, and struck all the country of the Amalekites and also the Amorites who dwelled in Hazezon-tamar.
14:8. And the king of Sodom, the king of Gomorrah, the king of Admah, the king of Zeboiim, and the king of Bela (the same is Zoar) went out and they joined battle with them in the Valley of Siddim, 9. with Chedorlaomer the king of Elam, Tidal king of Goiim, Amrafel king of Shinar, and Arioch king of Ellasar, four kings with five.
14:10. And the Valley of Siddim was full of asphalt pits and the kings of Sodom and Gomorrah fled, and fell there, and those who remained fled to the mountain.
11. And they took all the goods of Sodom and Gomorrah and all their food, and went their way. 12. And they took Lot, Abram’s brother’s son, who dwelled in Sodom, and his goods, and departed.
14:13. And one who had escaped came and told Abram the Hebrew, for he dwelled in the plain of Mamre the Amorite, brother of Eshkol and brother of Aner: and these were allies with Abram. 14. And when Abram heard that his brother was taken captive, he armed his disciples, born in his own house, three hundred eighteen, and pursued them to Dan. 15. And he divided himself against them, he and his servants, by night, and struck them and pursued them to Hobah, which is on the left hand, north, of Damascus. 16. And he brought back all the goods, and also again brought his brother Lot and his goods and also the women and the people.
14:17. And the king of Sodom went out to meet him after his return from the slaughter of Chedorlaomer and of the kings that were with him, at the Valley of Shaveh, which is the King’s Valley. 18. And Melchizedek king of Salem brought forth bread and wine and he was the priest of the Most High God. 19. And he blessed him and said, “Blessed be Abram of the Most High God, Possessor of Heaven and Earth. 20. And blessed be the Most High God, Who has delivered your enemies into your hand.” And he gave him tithes of all. (Heb. 7:2)
14:21. And the king of Sodom said to Abram, “Give me the people and take the goods for yourself.”
14:22. And Abram said to the king of Sodom, I have lifted up my hand to the LORD*, the Most High God, the Possessor of Heaven and Earth, 23. that I shall not take even from a thread to a shoe-strap, and that I will not take anything that is yours, lest you should say, I have made Abram rich. 24. Far be it from me! Only that which the young men have eaten, and the portion of the men who went with me; Aner, Eshkol, and Mamre. Let them take their portion.”
15.1. After these things the word of the LORD* came to Abram in a vision, saying, “Do not be in awe, Abram! I AM your Shield! Your reward will be exceedingly great.” 2. And Abram said, “Lord God, what will You give me, seeing I go childless and the steward of my house is this Eliezer of Damascus?” 3. And Abram said, “Behold, to me You have given no seed, and one born in my house is my heir.” 4. And, behold, the word of the LORD* came to him saying, “This one will not be your heir, but he that will come out of your own being will be your heir.” 5. And He brought him outside, and said, “Look now toward the heavens and count the stars, if you are able to number them.” And He said to him, “So will your seed be.” (Rom. 4:18) 6. And he believed in the LORD*, and He counted it to him for acts of loving kindness. (Rom. 4:3, Gal. 3:6, Jcb. 2:24) 7. And He said to him, “I AM the LORD* Who brought you out of Ur of the Chaldees, to give you this land to inherit it. 8. And he said, “Adonai, LORD*, how will I know that I shall inherit it?”
Covenant Between the Parts
15:9. And He said to him, “Take a heifer for Me, three years old, and a three year old she-goat, and a three year old ram, a turtle-dove, and a young pigeon.” 10. And he took all these to Him, and divided them down the middle, and laid each piece one opposite another, but he did not divide the bird.
15:11. And when the birds of prey came down upon the carcasses, Abram drove them away. 12. And when the sun was going down, a deep sleep fell upon Abram, and behold, a horror of great darkness fell upon him. 13. And He said to Abram, “Know of a surety that your seed will be a stranger in a land that is not theirs and will serve them and they will afflict them four hundred years. 14. And also that I AM will judge that nation whom they will serve, and afterward they will come out with great possessions. (Exod. 11:2, Acts 7:6,7) 15. And you will go to your fathers in peace: you will be buried in a good old age. 16. But in the fourth generation they will return here again, for the iniquity of the Amorite is not yet full.”
15:17. And it was that when the sun went down and it was dark, there was a smoking furnace and a burning flame that passed between those pieces. 18. On the same day the LORD* cut a covenant with Abram saying, “To your seed I have given this land, from the river of Egypt to the great river, the river Euphrates: 19. the Kenite, the Kenizite, the Kadmonite, 20. the Hittite, the Perizzite, the Rephaim,
21. the Amorite, the Canaanite, the Gergashite, and the Jebusite.”
Hagar & Ishmael
16.1. Now Sarai, Abram’s wife, bore him no children, but she had a handmaid, an Egyptian, whose name was Hagar. 2. And Sarai said to Abram, “Look now, the LORD* has restrained me from bearing. Please, go in to my maid. It may be that I may obtain children by her.” And Abram heeded the voice of Sarai. 3. And Abram’s wife Sarai took Hagar her Egyptian maid, after Abram had dwelled ten years in the land of Canaan and gave her to her husband Abram to be his wife. 4. And he went in to Hagar and she conceived and when she saw that she had conceived, her mistress was despised in her eyes. 5. And Sarai said to Abram, “My wrong is upon you, It’s your fault! I have given my maid into your bosom, and when she saw that she had conceived, I was despised in her eyes. The LORD* judge between me and you.”
6. But Abram said to Sarai, “Behold your maid is in your hand. Do to her as it pleases you.” And when Sarai dealt harshly with her, she fled from her face.
16:7. And the angel of the LORD* found her by a fountain of water in the wilderness, by the fountain on the way to Shur. 8. And he said, “Hagar, Sarai’s maid, where did you come from? And where will you go?” And she said, “I am fleeing from the face of my mistress Sarai.” 9. And the angel of the LORD* said to her, “Return to your mistress and submit yourself to her.” 10. And the angel of the LORD* said to her, “I shall multiply your seed exceedingly, that it will not be numbered for multitude.” 11. And the angel of the LORD* said to her, “Behold, you are with child and will bear a son, and will call his name Ishmael because the LORD* has heard your affliction 12. And Ishmael will be a wild man. His hand will be against every man and every man’s hand against him, and he will dwell in the presence of all his brothers.” 13. And she called the name of the LORD* that spoke to her, “You are El-Ro’i,” for she said, “Have I also here looked after Him Who sees me? 14. Therefore the well was called “Beer-Lakhai-Ro’i.” Behold, it is between Kadesh and Bered. 15. And Hagar bore Abram a son, and Abram called his son’s name that Hagar bore, Ishmael.
16. And Abram was eighty-six years old when Hagar bore Ishmael to Abram.
The LORD* Gives a Covenant
17.1. And when Abram was ninety-nine years old, the LORD* appeared to Abram, and said to him, “I AM the Almighty God! Walk before Me and be perfect. 2. And I will give My covenant between Me and you and will multiply you exceedingly.”
3. And Abram fell on his face and God talked with him saying, 4. “As for Me, behold, My covenant is with you, and you will be a father of many nations.
Name Changed to Abraham
17:5. “Neither shall your name any more be called Avram, but your name shall be Avraham; for I have made you a father of many nations. 6. And I will make you exceeding fruitful, and I will make nations of you, and kings shall come out of you. 7. And I will establish My covenant between Me and you and your seed after you in their generations for an everlasting covenant, to be a God to you, and to your seed after you. 8. And I will give to you, and to your seed after you, the land in which you are a stranger, all the land of Canaan, for an everlasting possession; and I will be their God.”
17:9. And God said to Avraham, “Therefore you shall keep My covenant, you, and your seed after you in their generations. 10. This is My covenant, which you will keep, between Me and you and your seed after you. Every man child among you will be circumcised. (Acts 7:8) 11. And you will circumcise the flesh of your foreskin and it will be a token of the covenant between Me and you. 12. And he that is eight days old will be circumcised among you, every male in your generations, he that is born in the house or bought with money from any stranger who is not of your seed. 13. He that is born in your house and he that is bought with your money must definitely be circumcised. And My covenant will be in your flesh for an everlasting covenant. 14. And the uncircumcised male whose flesh of his foreskin is not circumcised, that soul will be cut off from his people; he has broken My covenant.”
17:15. And God said to Abraham, “As for Sarai your wife, you will not call her name Sarai, but her name will be Sarah. 16. And I shall bless her and give you a son also from her. Yes, I will bless her and she will be a mother of nations; kings of peoples will be of her.”
17:17. Then Abraham fell upon his face and laughed, and said in his heart, “Will a child be born to him that is a hundred years old? And will Sarah, who is ninety years old, bear a child?” 18. And Abraham said to God, “Oh! That Ishmael might live before you!” 19. And God said, “Sarah your wife will indeed bear a son for you; and you will call his name Isaac. And I shall establish My covenant with him for an everlasting covenant, and with his seed after him. (Heb. 11:11) 20. And as for Ishmael, I have heard you. Behold, I have blessed him and will make him fruitful and will multiply him exceedingly. He will beget twelve princes and I shall make him a great nation. 21. But I shall ratify My covenant with Isaac, whom Sarah will bear to you at this set time in the next year.”
17:22. And He left off talking with him and God went up from Abraham.
17:23. And Abraham took Ishmael his son and all that were born in his house and all that were bought with his money, every male among the men of Abraham’s house, and circumcised the flesh of their foreskin on the same day that God told him. 24. And Abraham was ninety-nine years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. 25. And Ishmael his son was thirteen years old when he was circumcised in the flesh of his foreskin. 26. Abraham and Ishmael his son were circumcised on the same day. 27. And all the men of his house, born in the house and bought with money from the foreigner were circumcised with him.
Next week’s Torah readings: Vayeira
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I have a 6 week old who exclusively breast feeds. She feeds seemingly constantly. She usually takes one longer nap (up to 3 hours) a day. But other than that she's at the breast. Slow eater? Comfort? Anyway, I feel like I'm glued to the couch all the time, even at night. I'd be ok with this except I have a two year old who I feel like is getting neglected. His sleeping schedule is out the window, he's been watching tv a large portion of the day and doing things that I'd never let him do before simply because I cannot get up and play/entertain him/discipline him effectively while glued to the couch. Not to mention that I have trouble going to the grocery store without baby needing to feed in the middle of it...I really wanted to make breastfeeding work for at least a year but I feel like I literally cannot get anything done ever. Including being a parent to my toddler. What the heck do other moms do? How do you handle this? I'm going crazy. Please please, some advice?
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(CNN) -- In three days, Ashley Alexandra Dupre went from being an unknown 22-year-old aspiring musician to the fifth most-searched subject on Google because of her alleged sexual encounters with New York Gov. Eliot Spitzer.
In her MySpace profile, Dupre said she moved to Manhattan to pursue her music career.
After she was identified by The New York Times, throngs of journalists staked out her home.
At the same time, she appeared to have jumped on her MySpace page, which was identified by the Times, and a Facebook profile with the same name and photos.
It seemed she was trying to stay one step ahead of journalists, attempting to limit what information they could access.
She was seemingly aware that the press would have access to her friends and every word, photo and comment on her profiles, so she began by deleting connections between her friends on Facebook.
Facebook and MySpace have become one of the go-to background tools for journalists in the past couple of years, allowing members of the press to put a face to the subject of their story and find out more about them. Watch what friends and family say about Dupre »
As more people make profiles on these Web sites, the information they make available is more frequently becoming public fodder.
Pictures from her apparent MySpace and Facebook profile were splashed across media Web sites -- and Dupre appeared to take notice. Time stamps and activity on what appears to be her Facebook profile shows she was staying up all night cleaning up her profile and responding to critics on the Internet.
American University Professor Chris Simpson, an expert in Internet and privacy law, said there is no expectation of privacy when it comes to social networking Web sites.
If you post photos or comments, there is a chance your information can end up on the front page of The New York Times, although in most cases it won't.
"A week ago, only [Dupre's] friends cared," he said. "But once you put it up for the world to see, you can't control which fraction of the world will see it."
Simpson also said while Dupre may have originally left her profiles open hoping someone would discover her music, it also left her susceptible to media scrutiny after the Spitzer scandal.
"Unfortunately, you can't say, 'Oh well, I didn't want that kind of publicity, I only wanted positive publicity,'" he said.
While most people may understand their profiles are subject to public viewing, Amanda Lenhart, senior research specialist for the Pew Internet and American Life Project, said focus groups have shown they generally can't think of a scenario where their information would become so public.
Early Thursday morning, it appears Dupre realized she needed to make some changes to alter what the public would be able to know about her.
At 3 a.m., there was an entry that she had completed a "thorough profile scrub," leaving only a couple of photos of herself on Facebook.
At the same time, the self-described aspiring musician left a clip of one of her songs on MySpace and frequently linked to a page where users could download it.
So does Dupre want the attention that comes along with this scandal or not? Watch former pimp, escort recall Dupre's start in the industry »
"Maybe promoting herself and her music on the Internet means she does want to make it available to everyone in a very public way," Lenhart said.
Some of her close friends made sure their feelings were known to the press, too. Some posted on her MySpace page telling her to ignore the media, that they would be there for her and reminding her to stay strong.
But even those who weren't close with her seemed to want in on the action. Some identifying themselves as her high school classmates created a group on Facebook devoted to those who had classes with her.
The early morning hours slipped by and Internet activity on Facebook continued until 5 a.m., when she apparently confronted the high school classmates on the group page. It seemed she believed they were trying to exploit her situation.
"Do me a favor and don't try to cash out... thanks," she wrote on the Facebook group page.
Thursday morning, the Dupre Facebook status gave the impression she wanted no part of the attention.
"Sneaking out the back door," she wrote under her "current status."
But as the day went on, it seemed Dupre's feelings were changing and she might have been embracing the newfound spotlight.
The page had received more than 1,100 friend requests on Facebook. Initially, she ignored them.
By the afternoon she apparently gave in, but the feelings were short-lived.
By 2:30 p.m. Thursday the Facebook and MySpace profiles were gone, but they reappeared Friday. E-mail to a friend
All About Eliot Spitzer
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Marketing a drug and alcohol treatment center is a delicate issue. You don’t want to be too aggressive or intrusive in your advertising methods, but you still need to reach a wide audience of potential clients in need of your rehab services. There are many strategies you can use to generate leads for your treatment center without appearing overly aggressive including social media marketing, SEO, PPC, Reputation Management, and email marketing just to mention a few.
However, we believe that the right combination of search engine optimization for your website and paid search or PPC (Pay Per Click) will provide the most cost-effective and natural way of generating quality leads. With organic traffic, you’ll reach more people who are actively seeking for assistance to overcome alcohol and substance addiction for themselves or their loved ones.
A large majority of individuals seeking help for their addictions prefer to do it discreetly for obvious reasons. Most addicts will look for treatment through search engines such as Google and Bing. A recent survey showed that 49% of searches for alcohol and drug rehab facilities on Google are done on mobile devices. Over 33% of patients searching for addiction treatment via mobile devices will schedule an appointment. This makes Pay Per Call an effective option.
SEO: Why Your Treatment Center Needs It
Conventional marketing and advertising methods such as TV and newspaper ads are no longer as effective as they used to be. They are not only more expensive, but they’re gradually losing popularity as the world becomes more digital, especially in the mobile sector.
It makes no sense for a rehab facility to spend thousands of dollars on advertising when that money could have been used for more useful purposes such as improving the facility and treating patients. Digital marketing techniques such as SEO and Pay Per Call provide a more cost-effective way of generating rehab leads than traditional advertising.
Google and Compete did a comprehensive study on September 2012 titled Treatment Center Study to determine what influences people suffering from addiction to seek treatment and how they choose a rehab facility.
Some of the key findings of the report showed that:
- 86% of individuals seeking drug or alcohol treatment used Google search before scheduling their appointment.
- 76% of these patients checked websites of treatment centers while researching for the best facility.
- 53% of them had visited more than two treatment centers before they made up their minds.
- Leads generated from online search are two times more likely to convert.
- Online research matters a lot to potential leads. So does Reputation.
The numbers mentioned above show how effective SEO is in marketing your treatment center. If you don’t have a performing SEO strategy in your marketing efforts, you could be losing as much as 80% of potential leads actively searching for rehab services. Not all SEO’s can be effective in the recovery industry, it’s extremely competitive, and most sites ranking aren’t even treatment centers, but rather portals that sell leads only after they fill their beds.
Benefits of SEO to Treatment and Rehab Centers
The goal of SEO for your treatment center’s marketing is to increase website traffic, reach a wider audience of people in need of help, have more people filling your contact forms and calling your center for assistance. Instead of spending a fortune on untargeted advertising, or PPC for reputable recovery centers, you can rely on SEO to rank high on search engine results for keywords that are relevant to your services so you can reach a highly targeted audience.
Here are a few more benefits of SEO for drug treatment and rehab centers:
• Better rankings and increased visibility
One of the key benefits of SEO is increased visibility of your website. With better rankings, you’ll benefit from increased organic traffic, leads, and more conversions. Many in-house SEO’s hired by recovery centers cannot perform at the same level as an experienced agency.
• Higher authority through link building
Your site’s authority is one of the key ranking factors. Authority is determined by the number and quality of backlinks pointing to your site from other authority sites on the Internet. For instance, if your website has links from news and other high authority websites, Google considers your site as another authoritative source and will reward you with better rankings. However, in the face of recent Google updates, the quality of backlinks that you have matters more than quantity. For instance, 10 high-quality links have a higher backlink value than 100 links from low-quality websites.
• SEO helps to improve your site’s user experience.
Improving your website’s content is a key SEO factor in your marketing plan. Your content strategy should include relevant graphics and a high-quality design with faster and more efficient page loads. Great content benefits you in two ways. It gives your visitors a better user experience with faster page loads and valuable, relevant information, and secondly, it makes search engines rank your website higher in SERPs.
Popular search engines such as Google have complex algorithms that can detect the visitor’s behavior on your addiction treatment and rehab site. If potential clients are leaving immediately after they land on your site, Google will drop your ranking on search results, but if your site is delivering valuable content and better user experience, you’ll be rewarded with higher rankings. When you improve your website’s content, you’ll make it rank higher in search results and generate more leads from organic traffic.
Generating Leads from Pay Per Click and Pay Per Call Ads
The fastest way to generate leads for your alcohol and drug treatment center is through paid search or paid calls. With paid search, your site will appear at the top of SERPs for relevant keywords in just a few days. PPC ads are very effective for most industries but using them to drive rehab center leads presents a few challenges. For instance, Google Adwords prohibits advertisements for drugs or alcohol which means, even though you are not promoting the use of drugs or alcohol, you’ll have to be very careful on how you use the two terms in your ads.
With Pay Per Call, you get instant calls from our ads, so assuring you’re targeting good, relative terms is important, especially if you only take PPO insurance or out-of-pocket payments. This make it a harder target as it requires that your addict has one of the better insurance plans, or that he or his family will cover the costs out of pocket, and not all addicts are wealthy.
The sensitive nature of addiction treatment services means that you cannot use remarketing strategies to follow people who’d previously visited your site as you would in other industries. Understandably, potential clients would not want to see your rehab ads everywhere they go online. Another key challenge you expect to encounter with rehab PPC ads are the high cost of ads in this category. Drug abuse treatment and rehab terms are in one of the most competitive industries with high bids for the best keywords. It’s common to pay $30 to $80 per click for most keywords. However, high competition proves that PPC not only works but delivers qualified leads as well. Using Pay Per Call can help turn these clicks to instant calls to your admissions or help center.
Here are a few ways to ensure that your clicks convert to leads for the best return on investment (ROI):
Build a mobile friendly site
Research shows that 49% of drug and alcohol rehab center searches are done via mobile devices. 33% of mobile searches result in an appointment. So make sure you give them the ability to click to call from your mobile site.
These statistics go to show how important it’s to make your website mobile friendly. Due to the sensitive nature of drug and alcohol abuse treatment, most patients find it easier to schedule an appointment on their mobile devices than desktop platforms. This means that mobile ads convert better but does your website provide good mobile experience? Is it easy for potential clients to click and call your facility straight from their smartphones or tablets?
Ensure that prospects can click to call straight from the mobile advertisement. More importantly, keep track of your mobile PPC stats and analytics to determine your ads performance.
Create relevant and compelling ads
Ad relevancy is critical in PPC, especially with Google Adwords. You need to pay special attention to the keywords you use and ensure that they are both relevant and compelling to the visitors. Have the keywords in your ad’s title and body. If you analyze most rehab ads, you’ll notice that they include words like “rehab” and “drugs” in the ad copy to ensure relevancy. Strive to look for better keywords than the rest to reach an even wider audience at a lower rate.
It is often difficult to create compelling ads with the tight character limit allowed by Adwords and other PPC companies. The trick is to be as concise as possible. You can also use Google Ad Extensions to get more online real estate to promote your treatment center. Take advantage of other options such as Call Extensions, Sitelink Extensions, and Location Extensions to get the most out of your PPC campaigns. All these elements can help to give you lower costs for each click and higher click through rates.
Create Direct Landing Pages
Attention spans are naturally short, and people easily get distracted. If an internet user searches for a specific topic and lands on a page that is too generalized or is not related to the keyword they searched for, then they’ll naturally disconnect, click the back button and probably go to your competitor’s page. Ensure that your landing page has information relevant to what the user is searching for. If your ad is targeting people seeking for alcohol addiction treatment, create a landing page specifically for alcohol abuse treatment rather than a page with generalized substance abuse treatment. Create specific pages for specific groups such as teenagers, men or women. Create relevant landing pages to avoid disconnects which could potentially hurt your ROI.
Ensure that your ads are geo-targeted. People will always want to check into a rehab facility in their locality. Your ad copy should be designed to reach out to your local traffic for the best results. You can include the location in your ad copy or use location extensions. Geotargeting improves your ads relevancy and visibility to potential clients searching for treatment services with a local keyword. The more people who’ll see your ad, the more leads you are likely to generate.
When done properly, Pay Per Call, SEO and PPC will provide effective ways of reaching out to potential clients seeking for drug and alcohol treatment services. However, to ensure that you are generating qualified leads instead of throwing money down the drain, you need to work on your landing pages. If considering Pay Per Call, then you will get instant calls to your center.
Pay close attention to your Call to Actions (CTAs). Put your contact phone numbers in multiple locations and ensure that you have contact forms on each page. Include Live Chat in your pages with active staff ready to handle any question that the potential clients may have. All these lead generation elements can be monitored and tracked to determine how good or poorly your campaign is doing.
With the help of a good digital marketing agency, you can monitor the ROI of each campaign and make the necessary adjustments to drive more leads to your treatment facility.
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As the White House deals a devastating blow to one Obama conspiracy theory, leave it to leftists to dig up another one to browbeat allegedly-bigoted conservatives with. At the Daily Beast, pseudo-feminist Michelle Goldberg “traces the far-right history of the claim” that something funny’s going on with Barack Obama’s academic background:
Claims about Obama’s educational history date back to September 2008, when The Wall Street Journal attacked him for not releasing his school records, writing in an editorial, “Some think his transcript, if released, would reveal Mr. Obama as a mediocre student who benefited from racial preference.” Since then, Orly Taitz, queen of the birthers, has developed elaborate theories about Obama’s college years. As Taitz argues, Obama himself acknowledged that he was directionless when he started college. How, then, did he get himself accepted into the Ivy League?
Despite purporting to refute the right-wing “fever swamps,” Goldberg won’t actually reference the WSJ piece again, so it’s worth mentioning that it makes substantive points, among them that the ambiguity of Obama’s college days doesn’t square with the prominence of his personal story in his claim to fame. And as Andy McCarthy points out, Obama has a habit of modifying details of his biography for different audiences. (Ace has more solid analysis of Obama’s college days here.)
But not a peep about any of this from Goldberg. Instead of addressing what serious Obama critics have said, she spends the next couple paragraphs shooting down the theories of Orly Taitz, an especially destructive Birther attorney, who speculates that Obama attended Columbia as a foreign exchange student, attended for a mere nine months instead of two years, and even that he got into Harvard Law thanks to the machinations of a Saudi prince.
Whatever the fact-to-crap ratio of Taitz’s allegations may be (the Saudi connection seems outlandish, but the explanation of the National Student Clearinghouse rep, who says Taitz got bad results from submitting queries to NSC’s database incorrectly, doesn’t seem adequate either), it’s ultimately a sideshow. The point is, Goldberg is making clowns like Orly Taitz the face of the opposition rather than McCarthy or the Wall Street Journal editorial board because she wants to delegitimize their argument without addressing it. Why? Why else—race-baiting:
It’s easy enough to see why this particular narrative has endured. Not only does it position the president as a Muslim Manchurian candidate with longtime ties to agents of the caliphate, but it also assures resentful whites that this seemingly brilliant black man isn’t so smart after all. In that sense, it’s of a piece with the right-wing obsession with Obama’s use of a teleprompter, and with the widespread suspicion that he didn’t really write the eloquent Dreams From My Father, a claim Trump recently made at a Tea Party rally. Obama, in this view, is both sinister and stupid, canny enough to perpetrate one of the biggest frauds in American history but still the ultimate affirmative-action baby.
Trump is clearly not as intelligent as Obama, but he’s not an idiot, either. When he blows this particular dog whistle, he knows exactly what the Republican base is hearing.
No, the Right’s desire to knock Obama’s brain down a peg is a reaction to the endless mainstream media narrative that conservatives and Republicans are morons, while Obama is a genius (indeed, look no further than Goldberg’s own unsupported claim that Donald Trump’s intellect “clearly” pales in comparison to The One’s). To demonstrate the absurdity of claiming this is about Obama’s race, let’s perform a little thought experiment.
Imagine for a moment that instead of black Democrat President Barack Obama, we currently have white Democrat President Barry Osborn, who, aside from his racial and ethnic background, is identical to Obama in every way—same handling of the economy, same healthcare plan, same treatment of Israel, and the same positions on abortion, guns, etc. Then take any of the claims listed above—the president isn’t that bright, he didn’t write his book, he’s helpless without a teleprompter. Regardless of their particular merits, simply ask yourself: do you really think we’d be treating Osborn any more favorably than Obama? Do you think we’d pull these punches against a white ideological opponent, or be more open to left-wing ideas just because they came from a white leftist?
Of course not. Leftists understood from the start that Obama’s skin color would make a potent weapon for smearing opponents instead of engaging their ideas, which is exactly what Michelle Goldberg has done here.
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Class Struggle is a board game designed by Professor Bertell Ollman. The box for the game features Karl Marx arm-wrestling Nelson Rockefeller. Inside the box, a pile of Chance Cards includes messages such as “You are treating your class allies very badly” and “Your son has become a follower of Reverend Moon.” The ultimate goal of the game is to avoid nuclear war and win the revolution.
When the game was released in 1978, the U.S.A. and U.S.S.R. were locked in the Cold War and the specter of communism was still scary to the average American. Even then, Class Struggle sold around 230,000 copies. Before it went out of print, it was translated into Italian, German, French and Spanish.
Just how did this game become so popular? The story begins with a quirky Marxist professor trying to change jobs and ends with him getting sucked into the very system he was trying to subvert.
Professor Bertell Ollman had been teaching at New York University for a decade when he was offered the opportunity to chair the University of Maryland’s political science department, pending approval from the provost. The possibility of a noted Marxist scholar heading up a university department was not one to be ignored by the D.C. press, and they hopped on the story with a quickness today’s political bloggers would appreciate. Maryland’s governor and state senators started weighing in, and the approval process slowed way, way down.
Around the same time, Ollman was researching board games, in search of a socialist alternative to Monopoly. As he discusses in his 1983 memoir, Class Struggle Is the Name of the Game, Ollman learned Monopoly was actually based on The Landlord Game, which was invented in 1903 by a Quaker named Elizabeth Magie.
The original version had a different message, however, and as late as 1925 the game included the following instructions: “Monopoly is designed to show the evil resulting from the institution of private property. At the start of the game, every player is provided with the same chance of success as every other player. The game ends with one person in possession of all the money.”
Of course the Parker Brothers version that inflames family arguments today has flipped the script, which left Ollman pondering just how he could make a game that gives players equal chances yet still teaches them about the inequalities of capitalism. Then came his breakthrough. “What if the players are not individuals, but classes?” he writes. “One could make capitalists and workers roughly equal in power, though of course the sources of their power are very different. The game could even explore these different sources of power, and when and how they are used. The game could deal with the class struggle.”
Ollman had his game, whose rules involve two to six players taking on the roles of capitalists, workers, farmers, small business-people, professionals, and students. They move around the board while dealing with elections, strikes, wars, and whatever the Chance Cards throw their way, including, “Yesterday you shook hands with Republicrat Senator Kennewater, and you believed him when he said he is the workingman’s candidate. Lose 1 asset for being so gullible.”
What Ollman didn’t have was any practical knowledge of small business, and the first run of the game was destined for dusty storage until a New York Post article picked up the story and attached it to the University of Maryland controversy. Articles soon followed in the Chicago Sun-Times, The New York Times, The Washington Post and The Baltimore Sun.
The Village Voice called the game a “shade prim” for saying marijuana and alcohol were opiates of the people.The game was a hit, and Class Struggle started appearing on shelves alongside Monopoly. But Ollman soon learned getting orders was not the same thing as getting paid, and the Marxist scholar quickly became an expert in how small business-people get squeezed. Many radical bookstores never paid him for the games, and relations became strained with his initial investors, who also happened to be his good friends. Bad publicity followed when a small group of striking workers at Brentano’s Bookstore asked him to pull the game and then used his refusal to promote their own fight.
“Even my political commitment was beginning to fray at the edges,” he writes in his memoir. “I had always been delighted by each downturn of sales reported in the marketplace — ‘People buying less junk,’ I thought. Now, the same news appeared somehow threatening. I caught myself thinking, ‘If the collapse of capitalism could wait just a little longer, until we got our business on its feet.’”
Success was always right around the corner, but the costs kept rising. When Ollman and his cohorts did not have enough money for the second run of the game, they seized upon a small difference in quality to refuse payment to the manufacturer. Lawsuits ensued. (A word of advice: Never go into business with a Marxist.) The University of Maryland’s provost punted the decision about the political science department to his successor, who denied Ollman’s appointment. More lawsuits. Ollman’s game was still selling, but the enterprise was sinking further into debt.
“Being broke is bad enough,” he writes. “Being broke and mistaken for a millionaire—by everyone but the bank, that is—is about as funny as coughing up blood.” Ollman was grinding his teeth so badly that four of them cracked, and after three years of struggle, the professor and his partners sold the game to Avalon Hill, a company that specialized in war games. The game disappeared in 1994. As for Ollman, he is still a professor at New York University, and when asked about the game’s legacy, he says:
“As long as there is a class struggle (and there certainly is in the U.S., where it may have gotten more intense, especially during the current economic crisis), there is a great need to help young people understand what it is, how it works, and where they fit into it. They are certainly not going to learn any of this from the mainstream media or in most of their formal education. The game could still contribute to this important work.”
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Maxbhi.com, a result of Elcotek India Private Limited., is a master in Mobile telephone spare parts, repairing apparatuses and embellishments which was set up in Ghaziabad, India in 2004. Today they aim at providing a one-stop answer for all your versatile extras, programming repairing adornments and other cell telephone frills.
They are aiming to be one of the biggest online arrangement suppliers for all your electronic great's extras and giving them under one rooftop. The current products they have to offer are LCD, Flex Cable, Touch Screen, IC, LED, Speakers, Mics, Keypads, Repairing devices, Tool Kits and different parts for your electronic items
Maxbhi Coupons and coupon codes help you to save time & money through online shopping. Get the latest Maxbhi coupons to save money. Get the latest Maxbhi offers and coupons at CouponRani.
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“The Right Light” indeed. Even from a middle distance, coming from Third Avenue on East 34th Street, I thought for a second that this bronze sculpture by J. Seward Johnson, Jr. was a real man. It turned out to be Johnson paying tribute to another artist, as the latter stands with his easel, paintbrush, and canvas, waiting for the right moment.
JFK’s Russian Conspiracy
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Top Ten Scenic Byways
A good road trip combines colorful history, awe-inspiring scenery and a sense of adventure. Here are some of our top ten best drives.
L`Auberge de Sedona Arizona
In the heart of Sedona’s spectacular Red Rock country lies a romantic Inn – L’Auberge de Sedona. Nestled along the banks of Oak Creek Canyon and surrounded by towering cliffs of magenta, L’Auberge offers traditional comforts in a country French setting. Walkways meander through L’Auberge, from the European styled Lodge past cottages with wisteria twining in the balconies to the award winning L’Auberge Restaurant. Lilacs perfume the air in the spring.
Winter Getaways From Golfing to Shopping in Arizona
Got an itch to travel this winter, but not sure where to go? How about a place where you can find great hiking, golfing, skiing, shopping, and ruins to explore? And, all within a few hours drive of one another? Of course that place is Arizona, a state that offers travelers an endless array of things to do in the winter.
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Pods are the plastic tubes that you use to refill your hopper during your games. Pods are normally stored in a pack, or a vest. There are many different sizes and styles of pods, from 10 rounds up to 165 rounds. Pods also come in many different colors. Loaders are used to refill all of your pods before and after your games. They are designed to fill your pods without dropping any of them on the ground, which tends to happen if you hand load pods. We break down the differences in the different styles of pods at the bottom of this page!
These pods are designed for the player who prefers to outsmart and out maneuver his opponent, instead of just overpowering him with paint.
100 Round Pods
One hundred round pods are the same diameter as the standard (140 Round) pods, just shorter. These pods are intended for players who don't want the weight of the 140 round pods, but still have a standard pod pack.
140 Round Pods
These are the standard pods that packs are made to fit. These pods are for the players who like to shoot a lot of paint. They come in a wide variety of brands and colors.
Virute PF Pods
Virtue PF pods come in two different sizes the PF135 is twenty percent shorter than a standard (140 Round) pod, while only holding five less paintballs. The Virtue PF165 is the same size as a standard (140 Round) pod, but carries twenty percent more paint due to its diameter remaining constant, instead of tapering at the bottom. The PF pods have a unique lid release system, instead of prying off the lid with your thumb, the PF pods have a push button you simply press and the hindge swings open.
Dye locklids are 160 round pods, their extra capacity is due to their bubbly design. They too feature an easy release lid, you simly slide a release to the side and the hindge swings open.
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Spain is incredibly diverse. From the weather, to the foods, to the languages, to the terroir. There’s even a wealth of diversity within regions. Recently, I tried my first wine from Priorat DOQ – a sub-region in Catalunya. I was blow away by the concentration of flavours.
The key, I found out, is in the soil.
Llicorella is a Catalonian term for the soil found in Priorat. A mix of slate and quartz, llicorella can barely be classified as a soil. It doesn’t make for a particularly stable foundation. This, coupled with the fact that Priorat is characterized by steep slopes, makes wine growing in this region particularly challenging. When you do, however, the results can be magical.
Here’s a couple reasons why:
- Llicorella is stoney, flakey, fragile, and nutrient-poor. It is deep, which means vines are put under great stress to borough their roots deeper down into the more fertile layers of soil, where they can suck up water and nutrients. This stress keeps yields low, and is said to increase the quality of the grape.
- Llicorella stones contain flakes of mica in them. Mica acts like mini-mirrors, making llicorella appear like a sea of glass when the sun beams down. This reflected light adds additional units of heat to the vineyard, aiding the ripening process of the grape, which in turn, produces sugar, and generally speaking, higher alcohol wines.
Check out my post, which profiles a delicious Priorat DOQ from Buil & Giné: https://wordpress.com/block-editor/post/a-tremblay.ca/724
Toujours un plaisir de te lire! Merci de partager tes connaissances et de nous permettre de belles découvertes!
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Caregivers can feel guilty that their family member or friend can’t golf 18 holes, or garden the back 40 anymore.
Don’t let guilt stop the creativity.
Go to the restaurant at the club and tell the best golfing stories you have. Bring a bowl of tomatoes onto the screened-in porch, or the dining room table. Notice, adjust, and explore.
Once a group of men who played golf together for years noticed one friend fading energetically. Eventually he received the diagnosis of Alzheimer’s. His friends adjusted. They played 10 holes, then 5, and ended up on the bench, swinging clubs, describing the holes-in-one stories. Beautiful.
A friend of mine brought her mother into the kitchen while she prepared supper, bringing in fresh vegetables from the garden. She sometimes put on The Cooking Channel. By the time they served up at the table, her mom believed she had made supper herself. Let her believe.
Let your creativity get the better of you. Give yourself the widest possibilities for delight today. If you need to, pop over to the grocer’s and buy some tomatoes to go with the gardening stories. They’ll taste just as good, and the story from long ago will come to life today.
Take care, and stay in touch,
Tryn Rose Seley,Author, 15 Minutes of Fame: One Photo Does Wonders To Bring You Both Back to Solid Ground at www.caregiverheart.com
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Request printed copies at firstname.lastname@example.org
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QUESTIONS & CONSIDERATIONS FOR DROPPING A COURSE
1. What is the reason(s) for dropping the class?
• Course load (number of units for the semester / time demands from work and other activities)
• Success in the course
• Questioning or changing major / university elective
• Personal / health / family reasons
2. What point of the semester is it?
• Can the course be dropped with no record? With a withdraw (“W”) notation on the student’s transcript?
3. Is it possible to improve their grade in the course?
• Upon what criteria (tests / papers / assignments…) is the final grade based?
• What is the earned grade in the course so far?
• What graded assignments or exams are remaining?
• Will staying in the course impact the achievement in other classes for the semester?
4. What discussions have occurred with the instructor ?
5. What academic requirements and policies need to be considered?
• Is the course meeting a requirement for the Liberal Arts Core? Major? Minor/certificate? University elective?
• Are there specific grade requirements for the course with the major / minor / certificate?
• Is the course required (a pre-requisite) for a future class?
• When is the course offered next (“fall only” or a “spring only” course)?
• Is the course required for admissions into a major?
• What is the academic standing (academic alert or probation) of the student?
• Was this class taken previously (is it being repeated)?
• Will the Financial Aid Academic Progress policy (Satisfactory Academic Progress) be an issue?
6. Does minimum load requirements need to be met for…
• Health / auto insurance
• Athletic Eligibility
• Visa – International student
• Vocational Rehabilitation
• Veterans Benefits
7. What are the alternatives (if any) after dropping the course?
• Adding a 2nd half semester course?
• Change from graded to credit / no credit option?
• Guided Independent Study course (separate fee applies / does not count towards financial aid)?
• Completing a summer course at UNI or another institution?
• Ask the instructor for an “incomplete” if applicable?
• Complete a Student Request for appropriate reason(s)?
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We want YOU…to become a member for FREE!
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- FREE download copy of Success Journal – a Daily Companion to Living NOW, Abundantly, and Transformed in Ways Beyond What You Can Even Imagine
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- Access to our Facebook group that is growing daily
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- Plus Much More!
About the Global Association for Women in Transformation
The Global Association for Women in Transformation™ exists to help women with practical and progressive solutions to navigate through life’s transitions. Our free membership is open to anyone who would like support to thrive and be fully equipped to handle the many transitions one goes through during their lifetime. Whether its health, financial, divorce recovery, career transitions, caring for or loss of a loved one, and so many other transitions, we are here to provide tools, resources and assistance to embrace the transition and truly transform in the process. Women of any age are encouraged to become a member. Let us walk with you through these times and support you every step of the way.
Bio of CEO – Michele Modellas
Michele Modellas is a Businesswoman, International Speaker and Author. She is the CEO of MicheleModellas.com and the Global Association for Women in Transformation™
She loves to speak and inspire people of all ages. Some of her favorite speaking opportunities were to students at the University of London, and for the Smart Women Institute’s empowerment series.
Living life to the fullest, she aims to experience ALL that is within her reach, and lives out her own purpose in a life of passion, health and happiness! She possesses the ability to thrive in the midst of what some would consider devastating life events and transitions. She maintains high energy, seeks a positive view and has discovered success on her own terms. She is fast becoming a Woman of Influence and Inspiration in the U.S. and abroad, encouraging and motivating others to be fully transformed into the best they can be and to live a rich and full life beyond what they can imagine!
She loves to travel internationally, loves people and the beach. Another passion is endurance training and events and has completed several Ironman 70.3 mile triathlons, multiple marathons and multiple 100+ mile cycling events.
She is a mother of 3 (and also has 2 grandchildren). She is determined, strong, faithful, loyal and very dedicated.
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Does this ring true?
You just mention change, and first the students, and
then the faculty go through the ceiling. Actually it is the
alums who go first. It's very comical, but I think it's also a
microcosm of higher education, where, despite
everybody's rhetoric about being open to change, people
are pathologically nervous about it. Sky-is-falling talk can
come along really fast if you just sort of float the
question, 'Why do we do it this way rather than that
Immerwahr, J., Johnson, J., and Gasbarra, P. (2008).
The iron triangle: College presidents talk
about costs, access, and quality,
national center report# 08-2. Technical report, National
Center for Public Policy and Higher Education. Retrieved December 10, 2012 from
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Troop A (Panama City)
The Florida Department of Transportation’s Office of Motor Carrier Compliance merged into the Florida Highway Patrol in July 2011.
After the extended sickness and death of the records clerk at the Pensacola FHP station, Amy Tifft, who previously worked for Motor Carrier Compliance, began to work part-time in the Pensacola District FHP office to assist with the workload. Tifft works at the FHP station three days a week and works the other two days at the Commercial Vehicle Enforcement office in Milton. Since she began to assist with records, she has been eager to learn the position. Her performance has been exemplary. Tifft greets all customers with a cheerful disposition and demonstrates genuine caring for their situations, assisting in every way possible. She has developed a great working relationship with the district’s members and has quickly adapted to all aspects of her new responsibilities.
Tifft continuously serves above and beyond the demands of her duties and makes Troop A run more efficient. Congratulations to Amy Tifft for being named the Civilian Employee of the Quarter!
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When was the last time you tried to capture that picture perfect moment, but were left with something less than desirable staring back at you from your camera screen?
Photography is hard. It’s why we pay professionals so much money to capture and preserve major life events such as weddings, anniversaries and milestone birthdays. But for those moments when it’s just up to you and your smartphone, here are three simple ways you can capture stunning photos — without a professional.
When it comes to photography, lighting is everything.
If you break out your DSLR on manual mode, you’ve got ISO, shutter speed, and aperture to worry about. But when it comes to capturing those great photos on your phone at an event, you can keep your lighting fairly simple.
First off, you’re going to want to stay away from backlighting, unless you’re going for that cool silhouette shot. Secondly, natural is best. Fluorescents and tungsten lights can cast unflattering hues on your subjects. If you can take your photos outside or near a window, you’re going to drastically improve your image quality. And finally, I encourage you to use your flash very sparingly. Not only does it tend to wash out your subjects, but unless you’ve got an external slave/master flash system, you’re probably flooding the field with too much light, giving your subjects that startled appearance.
- Front Facing Camera
In this selfie-filled world, it can be tempting to use your front facing camera when taking photos of yourself. But if you can master taking a selfie with your rear facing camera, you’re going to see an instant improvement in quality, texture and lighting. On most phones, rear facing cameras pack a punch with nearly double the megapixels (e.g. the iPhone 8 rear-facing camera has 12-megapixels, while the front facing camera has 7). And if you’ve opted for any of the higher end smartphones, you may even see f/1.8 aperture, giving your phone’s camera portrait capabilities. This value (the f/stop) indicates the amount of light allowed to pass through the camera. The lower the value, the more light and background blur you’re going to see in your images. To put that in perspective, some of the highest quality portrait lenses for a DSLR have an f/1.2.
While megapixels can’t solve everything, given that phone photography doesn’t easily allow you to use different lenses, the more megapixels you have, the better the photos you will take. And though it may take you a while to get the hang of position and angels, if you can take those event selfies using your rear facing camera, you’ll be able to save and share a higher quality image.
- Watch your filters.
Instagram, VSCO, and built-in photo editors have made it increasingly easy to add that fun summer wash to your favourite snaps. And with the right place, right time and right platform, a filter can make your image pop or enhance your personal brand.
However, we can easily fall into the rut of using a filter as a “save all” with poor quality photos. Poor quality photos mixed with filters can results in even worse images. So if you’re watching your lighting and opting for your front facing camera, you’re going to be snapping higher quality photos that are worthy of a share before a filter even hits them.
Together, these three techniques can change the way you share photos on social media. So grab your phone, find some natural light, and get snapping!
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Regular club meetings are on Thursday 12:15 PM at the National Hotel in downtown Nevada City each week except for the first Thursday of the month. Join us at noon for pre-meeting social. Noon meetings are 1 hour and include lunch.
On the first Thursday each month, we host our 1st Thursday Merchant Social at 5:30pm. A local merchant is highlighted and presents a short history and stories about their visit. A very relaxed "mixer" style event, appetizers are served with a no-host bar.
The lunch meeting is sometimes substiuted by a special event or evening gathering.
Please consult the club calendar for the most current meeting venues and times.
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Antihypertensive Drug Use and New-Onset Diabetes in Female Patients with Coronary Artery Disease: A Population-based Longitudinal Cohort Study.Medicine (Baltimore) 2015; 94(36):e1495M
Antihypertensives have been linked to new-onset diabetes (NOD) and different classes of antihypertensives may alter the risk for the development of NOD; however, the effect of different antihypertensives on the development of NOD in women with hypertension and coronary artery disease (CAD) has not been well studied. The purpose of this study is to investigate the association between usage of different antihypertensive drugs and the development of NOD in female patients with hypertension and CAD.Data in this retrospective cohort study were obtained from claim forms submitted to the Taiwan Bureau of National Health Insurance in central Taiwan during the period 2006-2011. We estimated the odds ratios (OR) to approximate the relative risk of NOD development associated with antihypertensive drug use.Of the 20,108 female patients with CAD at baseline, 2288 patients developed NOD during the 6-year follow-up. Subjects treated with angiotensin-converting enzyme (ACE) inhibitors (OR, 0.92; 95% confidence interval [CI], 0.84-1.00), angiotensin receptor blockers (OR, 0.92; 95% CI, 0.82-0.99), and alpha-blockers (OR, 0.88; 95% CI, 0.79-0.98) in the adjusted analyses had greater reductions of the risk than among nonusers. Patients who took diuretics (OR, 1.10; 95% CI, 1.01-1.20), beta-blockers (OR, 1.12; 95% CI, 1.04-1.21), and calcium channel blockers (OR, 1.10; 95% CI, 1.02-1.18) were at high risk of developing NOD than nonusers. Vasodilators were not associated with risk of NOD.We conclude that women with hypertension who take ACE inhibitors, angiotensin receptor blockers, and alpha-blockers are at lower risk of NOD and that use of diuretics, beta-blockers, and calcium channel blockers was associated with a significantly increased risk of developing NOD during the 6-year follow-up.
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Nosimo Balindela who was recalled by the ANC from his position as a premier of Eastern Cape following a defeat of former president Thabo Mbeki by the current ANC leader president Jacob Zuma post Polokwane conference in 2007.
This has lead to the former premier to join the then promising opposition party called COPE. And now she decided to defect to Democratic Alliance.
This can be viewed as a blow to the ANC that is under fire in the EC because its members are spirally declining while they (ANC) are paving their way to Mangaung conference.
On the other hand the DA regards this moves as important victory for them because they (DA) have being struggling to win and attract black voters particular in the Eastern Cape Province where it is a strong hold of the ANC and a home to Nelson Mandela and the defect of former premier might be the answer to the movement.
The perverse utterance by Madam Hellen Zille for labeled pupil refugee as they seek better education from Eastern Cape Province to Western Cape Province will go down with history but will never be forgotten. The arrival of Nosimo Balinda to DA wills some how easy the mind shift of those pupil because such utterance are too deep to heel, even if Madam Hellen Zille has made an attempt to lick those wounds in a form of withdrawing her statement and apologizing.
The ANC spokesperson Jackson Mthembu will never cease to dismay us when he under play the floor crossing of the former premier when he said “The furthest that she rose in leadership terms was being a regional chairperson of the ANC” yes it is true but to continue and saying “the DA had nothing to celebrate" It is naïve of him to say that because giving a blind eye to such inference it might have a denting effect prior or post Mangaung if not in a long run. Surely DA will take advantage of Jackson Mthembu’s utterance by taping in that province while using Nosimo Belindela as their key to make a building block of black supporters for DA in the next elections. It is highly and likely to see more prominent people particularly former senior ANC or COPE members joining the DA as their alternative movement in a never future. It will be interesting to see how everything will unfold when that happens.
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