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Our distracted lives often make us miss signs. If you are focusing your energy to align with your thoughts, opportunities will show themselves.
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They may have always been there, but through the manifestation process, you will start to notice them.
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Having a list of ‘wants’ will also serve as a guide for actions. Each ‘want’ will have associated activities to stop or start.
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An example: if you determined community involvement would give you a sense of purpose, you might stop spending your Saturday mornings watching TV and start volunteering at a local not for profit, which will increase opportunities to pursue that life path.
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Meditation takes a lot of patience and practice. However, if you are at this stage, there's a great guided meditation for manifestation by Dr. Joe Dispenza on Apple Tunes called Morning Meditation.
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It is 23:53 minutes long. I do this meditation two of three times a week. If you enjoy it, I also highly recommend his books.
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That leaves us with the ‘what.’ What can happen through manifestation?
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Your world will get rocked. You will be faced with tough choices as the opportunities you manifested are presented to you. You might feel overwhelmed.
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Know that you are strong enough to handle it. You willed it and opened yourself to the possibilities.
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All you must do is say ‘Yes,’ have gratitude and follow your heart.
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A week after the teacher strike concluded in Los Angeles, the city's board of education has unanimously approved the contract deal with the union.
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That's despite regulators from the county who oversee the district warning that the agreement is not financially "sustainable on an ongoing basis."
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Meanwhile, the board also voted 5-1 to pass a resolution calling for a charter school moratorium that the union had pushed for in negotiations. That could not be officially part of the labor agreement, but the district agreed to put the resolution in front of the board for a vote. The resolution calls on the state to stop the growth of charter schools in the city for eight to 10 months while state officials study the issue.
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The contract deal that ended the six-day strike included a 6 percent pay raise for teachers, guarantees of class-size reductions, a pledge from the district to hire more librarians, nurses, and counselors, and a slew of other social-justice commitments.
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"This contract is not the end, it's the beginning," said Superintendent Austin Beutner in his opening remarks to the board Tuesday.
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With this contract, the district is putting "every nickel" it has into the classrooms, he said, but more sources of funding are needed. Beutner said the contract cannot make up for "40 years of underfunding of public education," and pointed to the need for more state funding. The contract deal was based on Gov. Gavin Newsom's budget proposal, which increases school funding, as well as money from the county to hire more school nurses.
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"This contract is far from perfect," Beutner said, adding that he has gotten complaints from many stakeholders. "I guess if everyone is a bit unhappy, we might have found the right compromise."
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Still, the Los Angeles County Office of Education, which oversees the district, said the district will need to develop a "fiscal stabilization plan" showing how it will cover the costs associated with the agreement.
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Board member Nick Melvoin addressed the county's concerns before the vote, saying, "It's up to us, collectively, to make [the contract] sustainable. It's up to us to not renege on the promises we made to teachers."
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He said the district would need to make hard decisions for cutting expenditures and work with the larger community to "grow the pie."
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Many parents delivered emotional pleas to the board not to ask the state for a pause on charter school growth, saying that charter schools have offered more opportunities for their students. Fewer people spoke in favor of the resolution, but some educators and parents asked the board to invest in traditional public schools instead.
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Los Angeles has more charter schools than anywhere else in the country. There are 224 independent charter schools, that are publicly funded but privately run.
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Board member Richard Vladovic, who sponsored the resolution, stressed that the resolution is not anti-choice, but rather a chance to step back and look at the effects of charter schools in the district.
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The teachers' union has claimed that unregulated charter growth "drains $600 million" from district schools each year. Teachers have pointed to the per-pupil funding that follows students to charters as a reason for the poor conditions in traditional schools.
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Beutner had supported the resolution, saying that it had helped the union and district end the strike, and that it "makes sense to me to pause while experts, not advocates, study all of the issues and propose what adjustments, if any, might be appropriate to the law to provide a path for the next 20 years."
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Vice Chairman & Vice President, Intrusion, Inc.
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Mr. T. J. Head is Vice Chairman & Vice President at Intrusion, Inc. He is on the Board of Directors at Intrusion, Inc.
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Mr. Head was previously employed as a Manager-Product Marketing & Marketing Engineer by Honeywell Optoelectronics.
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He received his undergraduate degree from Texas A&M University.
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Jenna Bollard of UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital, with Eldy Fajardo, 16, who designed and painted the ukulele and learned to play it during her music therapy sessions.
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UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital has received a $100,000 grant from The Music Man Foundation to expand its music therapy program.
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The grant will enable the creation of two new music therapy fellowship positions to help serve the needs of pediatric patients in the hospital. The funding will also be used to support research on the clinical benefits of music therapy for premature infants in the neonatal intensive care unit. Sandra Cheah and Kristina Casale, who graduated from the Berklee College of Music, have completed their clinical internship with UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital and will serve as the two part-time fellows beginning in June.
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UCLA Mattel Children’s Hospital was one of five organizations to receive a grant from the foundation, which provides funding to both core-curriculum music education and music therapy programs, this past year.
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The grant from The Music Man Foundation follows an earlier donation from the Peterson Family Foundation in June 2016 that funded creation of the music therapy program. The Peterson Family Foundation’s gift made it possible for the hospital to hire its first full-time music therapist, and its ongoing support ensures the sustainability of the program in providing comprehensive music therapy services to patients.
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Netflix is killing the patches feature. In a statement to BuzzFeed News, they said: "We've concluded the test for patches and have decided not to move forward with the feature for kids. We test lots of things at Netflix in order to learn what works well - and what doesn't work well - for our members."
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Netflix is testing out a new feature called "Patches" on certain kids shows. It lets you collect patches by...watching episodes of the show.
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You don't get rewarded with extra special content or anything. It's simply a "patch" that you earn for completing an episode.
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The patches appear only on certain Netflix original kids shows, like Fuller House, Trolls, and A Series of Unfortunate Events.
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Some parents think Netflix is encouraging their kids with a reward system to watch more TV, and they are not happy about it.
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@netflix hi. i have been a netflix subscriber for over ten years. i will cancel my subscription if patches stick around. i don't need you actively encouraging my child to waste time in front of the television.
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People worry that any encouragement to watch MORE TV is not great for kids' development.
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So @netflix is offering kids "patches" for binge watching shows. The only "patch" a kid needs is one made of grass instead of sitting in front of the TV for hours on end. Such a dumb idea.
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In general, people are...not thrilled.
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@netflix Netflix Patches are an emotionally manipulative marketing tool that is being used to sell Netflix's partners' toys to kids. Why are we doing this instead of incentivizing watching educational material???
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Netflix told BuzzFeed News it did not have any comment on whether the reaction on social media has made it reconsider the test.
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Right now they're only testing the feature, which means they may not keep it.
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Mainly, a lot people were very confused about why the patches exist in the first place (their confusion over the existence of Fuller House Season 2 notwithstanding).
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Y’all. What is Netflix patch collecting?
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ST. LOUIS - On Tuesday, Senator Roy Blunt stopped by the Family Care Health Center in Carondelet to talk about his plans to help expand access to mental health and behavioral health patients.
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Blunt and fellow Senator Debbie Stabenow helped pass the Excellence in Mental Health Act in 2014 to help community health centers recruit doctors and treat more patients with all types of health issues. Missouri was one of eight states selected for the original test group.
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Last week, Blunt announced that the Excellence in Mental Health Act had been expanded to 11 more states.
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The bout lasted for less than two minutes. Fedor avoided all Ishii invitations to start wrestling, keeping in mind that the home athlete is a 2008 Olympic champion in Judo.
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The Russian exploited gaps in Ishii’s stand-up defense, instead, delivering three powerful punches to his opponent’s head with 2 minutes 27 seconds remaining in the first round.
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Ishii collapsed in the ring, with the referee having no hesitation in stopping the bout. The Japanese fighter than needed the help of doctors to get up on his feet.
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It’s was Fedor’s second win a row after a three-match losing streak, which he finished by beating Jeff Monson of the US in a unanimous decision over the weekend in Moscow.
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The Last Emperor’s record in the ring has now reached 33 wins, four losses and one no contest.
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A man was arrested Monday in the case of an Arkansas real estate agent who disappeared last week, police said, while authorities were still searching for the woman.
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Lewis was being interviewed by sheriff's investigators Monday afternoon, according to Lt. Carl Minden.
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"He's talking, but we haven't located her yet," Minden said.
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"Until we know for sure one way or the other we're holding out hope," he said. "Right now our spirits are still high ... that we will have a successful outcome."
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The 45-year-old Kaul was talking to his son while crossing the intersection when he was hit by the car.
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Melbourne: An Indian was among 19 people injured Thursday when a speeding SUV ran down pedestrians at a busy intersection in downtown Melbourne in what the Australian police said a “deliberate act”.
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A white Suzuki Grand Vitara with two men inside drove into the crowd at the intersection just after 4.30 pm local time (0530 GMT), injuring 19 people including Rohit Kaul, who hails from Jammu and Kashmir.
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Quoting eyewitnesses, the local media said that people were thrown through the air after being hit by the vehicle.
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The attack was an “act of evil and an act of cowardice,” Victoria Premier Daniel Andrews told reporters in Melbourne.
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He said the condition of four people hit was critical. Fifteen others were stable.
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“My husband was talking to my son Avi and crossing the intersection. Suddenly, my husband’s phone fell down and we could hear loud noises and people screaming on the other side before the line went dead,” Kaul’s wife told PTI.
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“We tried to call him on his mobile but there was no response. We soon got a call from a fellow Indian who said my husband was injured and was being taken to a hospital,” she added.
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Her husband suffered leg injuries and will undergo a surgery this evening. “He is stable,” she said.
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“The driver was waiting for the red light and when people started crossing the road, he jumped the red light and crashed into them,” she said, adding that it was a “deliberate act”.
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A pre-school child who suffered a head injury is not in a critical condition.
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Acting commissioner Shane Patton said that the police do not believe what happened is terror related but will continue to investigate.
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He said police will allege the man “intentionally drove into the pedestrians”.
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The driver of the car has been arrested and is receiving hospital treatment, Patton said.
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The driver, identified as a 32-year-old of Afghan descent, was known to police in relation to minor traffic offences and a minor assault in 2010.
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“We believe he’s driven down the tram tracks and he crashed into a tram-stop on the other side,” Patton said.
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A 24-year-old man was also detained at the scene after he was seen filming the incident on a phone. He was also carrying a bag that contained knives but police said it was probable that he had no links to the incident and say the driver was alone in the car, the Age reported.
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Victoria police appealed to people to upload any images they might have of the incident to a cloud address to help assist with their probe.
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LAKE TEXOMA--More water may be pumped out of Lake Texoma to serve the Sherman and North Texas region. The Greater Texoma Utility Authority and the North Texas Municipal Water District approved earlier this week the financing and expansion of a pump station.
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The two new pumps will get more water out of the lake.
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Plans started a year ago to expand the pump station's capacity. Currently the city of Sherman receives one-fifth of the station's output.
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"The lake was built for flood control and hydro power, and if we were to operate that pump station at full capacity 365 days a year, it would remove from the lake about the same amount of water that goes thorough the generators in three days," Jerry Chapman said, Greater Texoma Utility Authority Manager.
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The two new pumps both have 6,000 horsepower and will increase the capacity of water that can be pumped from 95 million gallons a day to 125 million gallons a day.
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The Beatalls - Paul's great, the guy at the top is rubbish.
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Rubber Soul - We're loving Ringo's ginger goatie in this one.
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The Fab 5 - there's five of them - but good work on the suitably psychedelic suits.
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The Rigbys - OK, there's five of them. The Beatles definitely didn't have five members or wear Libertines jackets.
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The snappily monikered Beatlemania Now.
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Liverpool Legends - They seem to be recreating the Shea Stadium gig, but with no one watching. Bless.
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Lennon's birthday. The Parrots supported Arctic Monkeys at Old Trafford."
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The Rain - an early incarnation of Oasis were in fact called Rain. We can't confirm rumours that this is the same group. Ahem.
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British Export - Is Paul just standing further forward than the others or is he a giant?
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The Future of Powdered Alcohol Rests With ... the Treasury Department?
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Agriculture Secretary Ann Veneman said Wednesday the Bush administration is considering asking Congress for several new powers to "modernize food safety authorities."
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Veneman said the Bush administration is considering asking for authority to require mandatory notification to USDA when a federal establishment has reason to believe that meat or poultry has been adulterated or misbranded, authority to impose civil penalties after notice in writing and continued lack of compliance, in addition to the authority to issue cease-and-desist orders and stop companies earlier from committing violations of safety practices.
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Senate Agriculture Committee ranking member Tom Harkin, D-Iowa, Sen. Richard Durbin, D-Ill., and Rep. Rosa DeLauro, D-Conn., all have encouraged the executive branch to ask for more authority in meat and poultry inspection. But the industry has generally opposed them, and Bush administration officials have said previously they did not need more authority.
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“If it wasn’t for Arnold, golf wouldn’t be as popular as it is now,” Tiger Woods said in 2004 when Palmer played in his last Masters. “He’s the one who basically brought it to the forefront on TV. If it wasn’t for him and his excitement, his flair, the way he played, golf probably would not have had that type of excitement.
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“When he hits the ball, the earth shakes,” Gene Littler once said.
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He left behind a gallery known as “Arnie’s Army,” which began at Augusta National with a small group of soldiers from nearby Fort Gordon, and grew to include a legion of fans from every corner of the globe.
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