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Operation Blimey (6-24 April 1945) was the final SAS operation in the north-west of Italy, and was an attempt to repeat the success of Operation Galia, but the area was overrun by the advancing Allies before it could achieve much.
Operation Galia (27 December 1944-20 February 1945) had seen a party from 2 SAS drop into the Rossano valley, where they joined up with a group of partisans under Major Gordon Lett and carried out a series of attacks on German convoy, road links and bases. They survived a sweep through the Rossano valley, and successfully distracted thousands of Axis troops before being recalled.
Operation Blimey was to take place in the same area. Lett had now been extracted from the Rossano valley and replaced by John Henderson of SOE. The SAS party was to be led by Captain Alan P. Scott, who would command one stick, with two others to be led by Lt. John Wilmers and Lt Pepper. A total of 24 men were dropped on 6 April in another successful drop. However after that the mission went rather quiet. Henderson spent much of his time organising the construction of a mountain top airstrip which was incomplete when the fighting ended. Scott’s men attacked the La Spezia-Aulla road, to the south of Rossano, on the night of 14-15 April. A joint attack on Pontremoli on the night of 15-16 April ended in failure, and the SAS stick supporting the attack had to abandon all of its heavy weapons in somewhat confusing circumstances.
By now there was some discontent with the lack of activity, and on 20 April Walker-Brown, the commander of Operation Galia, was ordered to parachute in to replace Scott, but this never took place. By now the Fifth Army offensive, Operation Craftsman, was well under way and the Americans had reached the northern edge of the mountains around Bologna. On the coast the US 92nd Division was able to advance, and on 20 April Lett was actually able to drive into La Spezia from the south. On 25 April US troops advanced up the coast fro La Spezia, and liberated the Blimey operational area.
Scott’s performance didn’t impress his superiors, and soon after the end of the operation he was ‘Returned to Unit’, the fate for any member of the SAS who hadn’t lived up to expectations. However Henderson has to take some of the blame, as he appears to have been unwilling to try and win over the locals, an essential element of any successful operation in the area. In addition the success of the final Allied offensive meant that the operation came to a rapid end, denying Scott the time to find his feet. | <urn:uuid:5146388f-bdc1-4155-98de-5a3ae21a68d5> | CC-MAIN-2023-50 | https://www.historyofwar.org/articles/operation_blimey.html | 2023-12-09T17:20:26Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-50/segments/1700679100942.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20231209170619-20231209200619-00514.warc.gz | en | 0.985214 | 565 |
Email to Najib asking for meeting before Wednesday’s Cabinet on five important measures to deal with worst floods in recent decades, including the formation of a Barisan Nasional-Pakatan Rakyat Floods Catastrophe Joint Action Council
Before 9 pm last night, I sent an email to the Prime Minister, Datuk Seri Najib Razak asking for a meeting before Wednesday’s Cabinet on five important measures to deal with the worst floods in recent decades, including the formation of a Barisan Nasional-Pakatan Rakyat Floods Catastrophe Joint Action Council.
The floods catastrophe in the past fortnight – which the Prime Minister only realized was a major catastrophe and that Gua Musang and Kuala Krai were among the two worst-hit areas on the fourth day of his return from Hawaii – is a major national disaster and saw the best quality of all Malaysians.
This was the ability of Malaysians, regardless of race, religion, region, politics, gender or age to unite and come to the aid of the flood victims – with a quarter of a million people evacuated to the relief centres and easily a million of the total number of people affected by the floods catastrophe.
The costs of the floods catastrophe has been estimated at RM1 billion, and still counting – with the Meteorological Department warning that although the worst of the second wave of the floods catastrophe seemed to be over, a third wave of the monsoon surge is expected to begin on Jan 7 or 8, with possible continuous heavy rainfall up to three days over certain states, especially in Johor, Sabah and Sarawak.
The formation of a Barisan Nasional-Pakatan Rakyat Floods Catastrophe Joint Action Council will formalize what is already happening on the ground in the various flood-stricken states with regard to the flood relief efforts being rendered by Barisan Nasional and Pakatan Rakyat parties and members to the flood victims, regardless of race, religion or state in the past fortnight.
The National Security Council (NSC) has officially said that the massive flood that hit Kelantan was the worst in the history of the state.
The NSC secretary Datuk Mohamed Thajudeen Abdul Wahab in a statement said water levels of the recent floods superseded the floods of 1967.
According to the council’s report, the water level of Sungai Kelantan at Tambatan DiRaja, which has a danger level of 25 metres, reached 34.17 metres last month compared to 29.70 metres in 2004 and 33.61 metres in 1967.
The levels at Tangga Krai, which has a danger level of 5 metres, reached 7.03 metres compared to 6.70 metres in 2004 and 6.22 metres in 1967.
Thajuddin had already previously claimed that the current Kelantan floods were abnormal, describing it as “a one in 1,000 years event”.
However, the Deputy Mentri Besar of Kelantan Datuk Mohd Amar Nik Abdullah is on public record as saying that the current floods in was not as bad as in 1967.
Be that as it may, though claiming that the current floods are the worst in Kelantan history, Thajuddeen conspicuously omitted reference to the “red flood” (bah merah) in Kelantan in January 1926, which is regarded as the worst-ever floods to hit Kelantan, which inundated all parts of the state with flood waters which were reddish in colour, a departure from the usual milk tea or brown-coloured water caused by the many landslides following 10 days of non-stop heavy rain.
Thajudeen should clarify, but the priority issue at present is not to point fingers of blame or make claims, which should be left to a Royal Commission of Inquiry into the floods catastrophe.
The immediate task and top priority is to ensure effective Floods Disaster Mitigation and Relief Management Plans to be carried out for the worst possible scenario under the third wave of the monsoon surges expected on Jan. 7 or 8 and to ensure that all victims of the floods catastrophe especially in Kelantan, Terengganu and Pahang are able to start life anew and return to normalcy in the shortest possible time – in a period of two months and not “at least six months”.
For this reason, I have emailed the Prime Minister for a meeting before Wednesday’s Cabinet meeting to present a five-point proposal, viz:
* the declaration of a state of emergency for the flood-stricken states;
* the formation of a BN-PR Joint Action Council on Floods Catastrophe;
* Convening of a Special Parliament this month on the Floods Catastrophe which can also discuss the deferment of the implementation of GST so as not to add further burdens on the flood victims;
* Doubling of the RM500 million allocation for relief of flood victims to RM1 billion to enable every flood victim whose livelihood/business had been wiped out by the floods catastrophe to apply for interest free loans, ranging from RM1,000 to RM250,l000 to start life and business anew, and
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There's an article in today's The Star Online about a young man who has the ability to screen other people to see if they are under the influence of or being disturbed by djinns. You can read the full article -> here. But let's steer away from any more `cerita seram' for the moment.
Here's something lighthearted. I am copying here, my response to a Facebook tag that I received from my friend Zarinah Salleh early this month.
Paste the sentences into a note of your own, change to your answers, then tag me and ten other people.
1. My ex..... girlfriend was so HOT that she could melt butter just by looking at it. I’m kidding… there never was an ex-girlfriend.
2. Maybe I should... stop thinking of my procrastination problems and get off my butt and do something about it. Hmm… maybe after solve my other problems first.
3. I love... to read and relax.
4. People would say that I'm...... snobbish. Yeah, that’s the first impression that I give to most people.
5. I don't understand... calculus, the periodic table, electromagnetism, finite element analysis, deoxyribonucleic acid… and a host of other things. But I do understand women, though ;-)
6. When I wake up in the morning... I thank God that I’m still alive.
7. I lost... my virginity when I was … (crap, I can’t remember my wedding night. The wife is gonna be pissed!)
8. Life is full of... challenges. Some people have it easy while others are made to grind. For me, I’m about par for the course.
9. My past is... colourful. I’m putting the bits and pieces in written form. Hopefully, it will be an interesting read. Otherwise, who cares?
10. I get annoyed when... people jump queue. Impatient people are real jerks.
11. Parties are... those group or association of people who stand for election, who think they are the best person to lead, who claim to have the solutions to all the problems, who think that they are the only ones that are RIGHT and anybody else who are not in their party are WRONG. Ooops! I’m not answering this part correctly, am I?
12. I wish... can play the piano. Or at least, any other musical instrument. Luckily, I can sing not too badly, heheheh.
13. Dogs... are a man’s best friend. At least, that’s what I learnt in school. But now for me, a man’s best friend is a WOMAN.
14. Cats... are now straying into my compound and are becoming a bloody nuisance. They crap all over the place! I’ve tried chasing them out but they keep coming back.
15. Tomorrow... is a period in time when things that should’ve been done today, would maybe (I repeat, maybe) be carried out. I just love tomorrow! It’s a mystery!
16. I have a low tolerance... for stubbornly ignorant people.
17. If I had a million dollars… then I won’t tell you.
18. I'm totally terrified... (sorry, can’t think of a good one to answer this. Yes, I’m terrified of certain things, but I can’t think of something that I’m TOTALLY terrified of.)
So there you go, Zarinah. A bit more info about me that you wish to know :-) And I'm not tagging anybody. Tapi kalau ada sesiapa yg sudi... silakan. | <urn:uuid:88c143ee-30b9-40a5-bc1f-5dd804d9f3ba> | CC-MAIN-2017-43 | http://oldstock.blogspot.com/2009/03/something-to-ponder.html | 2017-10-23T18:41:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-43/segments/1508187826283.88/warc/CC-MAIN-20171023183146-20171023203146-00098.warc.gz | en | 0.944866 | 808 |
The researcher-led workstream focuses on research into the quality, appropriateness, effectiveness, equity and patient experience of health services.
Under the researcher-led workstream, the HS&DR Programme will fund both primary research and evidence syntheses, depending on the existing research and the most appropriate way of responding to important knowledge gaps. The aim is to fund research that will lead to improvements in health services that will be of greatest benefit to the NHS and to patients.
The HS&DR researcher-led workstream will support:
- Research into any aspect of health service quality, accessibility and effectiveness, as long as its importance to the NHS can be clearly demonstrated.
- Any methodology as long as it is appropriate, proportionate and likely to deliver the desired outcomes – which must relate to health service issues.
- This includes trials, pilot and feasibility studies on relevant topics, with the involvement of a Clinical Trials Unit if required. In the case of a trial, adequate preparatory work must be completed in order to justify need and feasibility.
The HS&DR researcher-led workstream will not support:
- Research for which there is not a strong and well demonstrated case for importance to the NHS.
- Research in a single site which is not likely to be generalizable to other settings or patient groups.
- Basic scientific or epidemiological research on the causes of disease.
- The testing of new health technologies or diagnostic techniques – these may fall within the remit of the HTA programme, www.hta.ac.uk.
- The establishment of a database, as an end in itself. All studies must include specific research questions, and all data collection must directly contribute to answering these questions.
- Proposals which are solely or mainly service developments, audits or needs assessments
- PhD studentships.
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The NIHR Health Services and Delivery Research (HS&DR) Programme is managed by the NIHR Evaluation, Trials and Studies Coordinating Centre (NETSCC). NETSCC is part of the University of Southampton funded by the NIHR, with specific contributions from the CSO in Scotland and NISCHR in Wales and the HSC R&D Division, Public Health Agency in Northern Ireland. | <urn:uuid:ec67abc9-1b9c-4da0-84d9-93dc0c4e0353> | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | http://www.netscc.ac.uk/hsdr/researcherled.html | 2019-03-23T10:58:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912202781.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20190323101107-20190323123107-00063.warc.gz | en | 0.920463 | 462 |
Hideki Naganuma (長沼 英樹 Naganuma Hideki?, born May 16, 1972 in Hokkaido prefecture, Japan) is a composer who formerly worked at Sega. He is well known for composing the music of Jet Set Radio and Sonic Rush.
Naganuma joined SEGA in 1998. Examples of games he has composed music for include Super Monkey Ball: Banana Blitz for Wii, Ollie King for arcades, Jet Set Radio for Dreamcast, and Jet Set Radio Future for the Xbox. In 2008 he left SEGA, but has since contributed some music to a few more SEGA games, such as Super Monkey Ball 3D.
He has also written music under the psuedonym skankfunk; works under this alias include supervision and two songs for the anime Air Gear and Super Monkey Ball 3D.
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My new eBook “101 Ways to Earn Money From Home” has been doing very well. It’s been selling copies every day and I’m currently in the top 20 bestselling personal finance eBooks on Amazon Kindle.
In case you’re wondering whether to write an eBook (whether you have a blog or not), I’d really recommend it. Once you’ve found an idea and have written between 5,000-10,000 words on the subject, it’s very straightforward (and free) to publish it on Amazon.
You could be making money from that eBook you’ve been thinking about doing in no time at all. If you’re worried about investing your time in something that you don’t know whether will work or not, that’s not surprising. But… if you don’t try, you’ll never know. 🙂
So I’ve written another eBook…
Just after I launched “101 Ways to Earn Money From Home”, I was enjoying the whole experience so much that I decided to write another eBook straight away! It didn’t take me long at all, because most of the information was in my head.
I’ve since published it on Amazon – it’s called How to Start a Bridal Makeup Business. Here’s the pic below. I’ve haven’t done a big launch for this book as it’s on a very specific subject and not related to debt in any way (although it is on the topic of making money).
So why did I decide to write an eBook on this subject? Well, some of you may know that I used to be a Bridal Makeup Artist on the side in addition to my day job. I ran a successful bridal makeup business for seven years.
The only reason I stopped doing this is because my hubby has been working away a lot over the last couple of years with his business, which meant I was having to pay for a babysitter most of time. It was eating into my profit, so I decided to focus on other ways of making money instead.
Anyway, I wrote a post about this around a year ago and for a long time now, I’ve been getting a good number of visitors to this post every day, it appears to be one of my most popular posts! I often get asked questions from people who are interested in this business so I decided to make the most of this opportunity by writing a more in depth eBook on how to start a bridal makeup business.
Within the book, I’ve gone into detail about how to build a portfolio, how to set up a kit, what products to buy and where from, how to advertise and even how to get a website ranking well in Google for local searches. I’ve just added this eBook to that particular post…. so we’ll see how it goes, I’ll keep you updated.
Blogger Reviews: 101 Ways to Earn Money From Home
My eBook “101 Ways to Earn Money From Home” has been reviewed recently by the following bloggers. If you were in two minds whether to buy the book or not, hopefully these reviews will help you to decide. Grayson, Lyle and Brandy, thank you so much for taking the time to read and review my book!
- Sproutwealth – Here Are 101 Ways to Earn Money From Home (5 stars!)
- The Joy of Simple – 101 Ways to Earn Money From Home: A Book Review!
- Busted Budget – A Review: 101 Ways to Earn Money from Home
A few more thank yous
Thanks very much to the following bloggers who mentioned Disease Called Debt recently on their sites:
- Debt Debs – Deb’s Devotions #4 (and Happy Birthday Debs for last week.)
- Busted Budget – Weekly Recap and Friday Faves
- The Heavy Purse – Blog Round-up – Week of October 13, 2014
- Cash Cow Couple – Woman Crush Wednesday – Personal Finance Style (If you haven’t checked this out yet, please do – some very talented and inspiring female bloggers share what they do for a living and how they are crushing it.)
If anyone else has mentioned Disease Called Debt recently, please let me know so that I can thank you. I don’t always get ping backs.
I’ve been guest posting!
This week, I guest posted over at VOSA with my post on How to Turn Your Craft Hobby into a Profitable Business and also over at Shoeaholicnomore with my post on Accelerate Your Debt Repayment with Multiple Side Hustles. Please head on over to check them out.
My favourite blog reads this week
I’ve just finished watching Breaking Bad on Netflix so this post by DC over at Young Adult Money caught my eye called You Won’t Believe What the Show Breaking Bad is Actually About. If you thought Breaking Bad was about drug kingpins and cooking in the desert, check out DC’s theory and see if you agree.
Sara at Debt Camel wrote a really helpful post recently called Too Many Calls From Creditors? Getting several phone calls a day from creditors chasing you for payment can be incredibly stressful if you’re struggling with debt. Sara explains your rights in cases where you’re being harassed by your creditors and what you can do to get them to stop.
I wanted to highlight a new blog I’ve been following called Bunny on a Budget, owned by Abi. Not only is she a fellow UK personal finance blogger and has a beautifully designed blog, she also has some excellent money saving tips and helpful articles to keep things tidy and orderly at home such as Great Storage Ideas for Your Kid’s Bedroom. Please check out Abi’s blog if you haven’t already.
Cat over at Frugal Rules posted How Being a Work at Home Mom Can Save You Money. I read this and thought – yep! This is so true. I’ve saved a fortune on all the things that Cat mentioned in her post just by working from home around my daughter.
This next post is from last week but I’ve only just had chance to read it and I’m glad I did! How a Guy Selling Hot Dogs Retired Early is an interview post with “Hot Doug” over at Even Steven Money. If you ever needed inspiration to work hard, live below your means and use your money wisely, read this post. You too could be retiring early.
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As I said before, "bipolar" doesn't work because you're using it as a pun on "Insane". But you're using a different definition. Insane is supposed to imply the map is "Insanely difficulty" not that it "has a mental illness".I dont see what is wrong with those diff names, care to elaborate more?
Imagine a spread like this: Amicable > Conforming > Impenetrable > Schizophrenic > Supernumary.
Amicable is a pun on "Easy" as in an "Easy-going / friendly person"
Conforming is a pun on "Normal" as in a "Normal person".
Impenetrable is a pun on "Hard" as in "Very difficult to break through"
Schizophrenic is a pun on "Insane" as in "psychotic, having a mental ailment".
Supernumary is a pun on "Extra" as in "extraneous, additional".
Clearly, this won't work.
@Natsu: Yet it can also be interpreted as insanely easy, and that is my point, they are semantically flawed, yet they are accepted as the default ones. You guys, in the same way as I am, are using the definition that best favours our arguments.. I am only bringing this up because you guys decided to apply semantics
and Monstrata and Sinnoh dont really count because they dont understand the theme of the song.
So, from what I understand, diff names cannot be themed to fit into the song then?
Does this means that the dreaded diff name of Lunatic become unrankable now?
And then Natsu has stated that any difficulty above Insane gets to be named more leniently, yet Bipolar seems to be the biggest issue?
And as for Bipolar being used as a pun, I am claiming I am not and that I am still following the song's theme, you claim I am using as pun, this discussion will never end.
There are several questions that I have posted previously, which as I stated before, if answered, could help convince me easier. For some reason, they are still left unanswered. | <urn:uuid:4c2f1bff-9075-42b1-aa2c-902c3bf2f7d8> | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | https://osu.ppy.sh/community/forums/topics/580092?start=6327964 | 2019-05-24T16:05:32Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232257660.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20190524144504-20190524170504-00051.warc.gz | en | 0.973047 | 451 |
Christopher Street West Announces Dates for LA Pride Festival and #ResistMarch
West Hollywood, CA – Christopher Street West (CSW), in collaboration with the City of West Hollywood, the City of Los Angeles, and its community partners, is thrilled to continue its storied history of celebrating LGBTQ+ activism and empowering the LGBTQ+ community across Southern California.
Now in its 47th year, the organization will continue to host the inclusive LA Pride Festival on Saturday, June 10 and Sunday, June 11 – a weekend-long event with live music, activations, and food and drink from local eateries. Past performances have included Ke$ha, Jennifer Hudson, Krewella, Fifth Harmony, Charlie XCX, Tinashe, Daya, Danity Kane, Carly Rae Jepsen, and Ciara.
Early-bird weekend passes are now available for $30 – a significant discount from 2016 and only $10 more than a single-day ticket. Prices will go up when the talent line-up is officially announced in late April. To secure early-bird pricing tickets, go here.
The most noticeable change to this year’s programming is the #ResistMarch on Sunday, June 11. For this year only, in place of the annual LA Pride Parade, CSW will lead a human rights march starting in Hollywood – where CSW organized the world’s first permitted gay rights march in 1970 – and ending in West Hollywood. This is a free event being held in solidarity with the National Equality March for Unity and Pride in Washington, DC on the same day. To participate, donate, or get updates, visit resistmarch.org.
Additionally, in the lead up to the LA Pride Festival and #ResistMarch, CSW plans to host a number of events throughout “Pride Week,” helping to amplify the City of West Hollywood’s “One City, One Pride” community initiative. Visit lapride.org regularly to see the latest updates to our calendar of events.
To learn more about this years 2-day festival, go here.
Key LA Pride Dates
- LA Pride Festival
Saturday, June 10 and Sunday, June 11
Sunday, June 11
About Christopher Street West (CSW) & LA Pride
Christopher Street West (CSW), a 501(c)3 non-profit, organized the world’s first permitted parade advocating for gay rights on June 28, 1970, as a response to and in commemoration of the Stonewall Rebellion on Christopher Street in New York City the year prior. Since then, we have built a rich history as an active voice for the LGBTQ+ community across the Greater Los Angeles metropolitan area. Today, we continue to produce the globally-recognized LA Pride Parade and Festival every June in the City of West Hollywood. We also organize a number of events throughout the year with our non-profit, philanthropic, community, and corporate partners. Visit lapride.org for more information.
The #Resist March includes people of every race, religion, philosophical belief, immigration status, gender and sexual orientation. Our human rights march is a peaceful declaration of resistance against forces that intend take away hard-won basic human rights. We resist forces that would divide us. We resist those who would take our liberty. We resist homophobia, xenophobia, sexism and racism. Join us at 8am in Los Angeles, on June 11 at the intersection of Hollywood and Highland prepared to march 3.2 miles peacefully. Bring your signs, your enthusiasm, your authentic selves and show up ready to march! We encourage larger groups to meet at a designated area of their choice and walk together. For updated information please visit resistmarch.org.
CSW engages with event production firm JJ|LA in the production and management of the LA Pride Festival & Parade and, in 2017, for the #ResistMarch.
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Woven tie dye Printed Lightweight All Season Shawl for Women's Winter Summer Formal Evening Party
Super soft and comfortable fabric. Lightweight and protect you from the sun in summer and also keep your neck warm in cold. The scarf is a gorgeous accessory for spring, summer, winter and fall from day to night. Digitally printed on imported machine using custom design subtle floral designs.
Can be used around the neck as a scarf, as a wrap around your shoulders for the evening and a fun bag accessory in different ways. Features luxury designed, vivid, floral print pattern. Perfect for matching with solid everyday outfits, as an evening accessory, for parties, weddings and a light weight travel accessory.
Fabric: 80% Wool x 20% Silk
60 X 180 Centimeters
Dry Clean preferable. Hand Wash in cold water and mild detergent with like colors. Dry flat in shade. Do not iron or bleach | <urn:uuid:afafdb40-cd03-4a2d-ab1d-f0abea5d3edd> | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | https://www.indigopaisley.com/fr/products/100-wool-or-silk-wool-scarf-soft-woven-floral-printed-lightweight-all-season-shawl-for-womens-winter-summer-formal-evening-party | 2022-12-09T02:13:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446711376.47/warc/CC-MAIN-20221209011720-20221209041720-00049.warc.gz | en | 0.90022 | 197 |
It was less than a year ago, May 2008 when it happened. Seeing is believing, they say. So, I’ll let you see how to find happiness through my storytelling.
My husband, Brian, and I were in Canandaigua, New York visiting his relatives. One evening six of us were sitting in the living room of Peter and Josephine having a grand time laughing and enjoying ourselves.
I noticed that their cat, Bootsie, a Maine coon cat, was prominently positioned by the dining room table. I’d say he was about 15-20 feet away from where I sat. And what was most interesting was that he sat clearly visible to us with his back towards us.
What did that mean? That was definitely cat body language, wouldn’t you agree?
Bootsie could have gone into another room for peace and quiet, if he so desired.
Bootsie seated himself where all of us could see his back and not his face!
So, anyway, as I said, we were enjoying ourselves. Then Mike and Gloria and Peter and Josephine wanted to hear me sing some of the songs I had written…..and I happily obliged.
When I started singing the song I had just written a week or two earlier, guess what happened next….Did you like this post? Then show your appreciation when you click & tip. Thank you! | <urn:uuid:99a2f204-40d4-44c2-963b-1fca896beb31> | CC-MAIN-2016-22 | http://www.lessonsfromlyrics.com/2009/03/ | 2016-05-30T06:44:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-22/segments/1464050919950.49/warc/CC-MAIN-20160524004839-00151-ip-10-185-217-139.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.990229 | 287 |
It turns out that eyeballing the exact floorplan and sections needed for a faithful reproduction of Harry Weese’s home is nigh impossible. Not to mention not very interesting.
Thus, I’ve decided to incorporate some ideas from his house in a building of my own design. A combination of my proposals #1 and #2.
Here are my first quick brainstorming sketches:
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Six staff members are now on administrative leave from Southwest Early College Campus as the Kansas City school district continues to seek out security failures in a student rape investigation.
“It is increasingly clear that the facility changes and security equipment were functional and that the issue is how the equipment was being used,” district spokesman Ray Weikal said.
Superintendent Steve Green “will be taking more actions that will impact staff,” Weikal said.
Prosecutors have charged a 14-year-old boy and a 13-year-old girl with one count of rape and one count of sodomy in an attack on a 14-year-old girl who police said has autism.
According to statements reported by the police, the victim was attacked by the boy repeatedly over the past month in an area out of view of security cameras, and the girl charged in the crime was a lookout.
On Thursday, Green put the school’s principal, Ed Richardson, and two staff members on leave. Three more were put on leave Friday.
The district had made several changes in Southwest since August, when a 17-year-old girl was allegedly dragged into a small, second-floor room and attacked by two boys who were charged as juveniles with rape.
The district put new security measures into place at that time, including upgrading security cameras, reviewing locks and doors, reinforcing adult supervision, increasing safety awareness training and conducting weekly safety reviews.
The district is continuing those measures and adding more, including installing alarms on doors in specific areas of the building.
The district is particularly concerned with how the earlier measures failed in this situation, Weikal said.
“The next decisions are about the people who were supposed to be following those procedures,” he said. “Everything is on the table at this point.”
The district learned of the allegations Wednesday and began cooperating with police immediately, Green said. The district informed Southwest families of the concern by telephone Thursday and sent a letter home Friday.
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Sohrab Jam, 45, graduated of performing arts. He began his activities by violin training and after a while he was entered in theater based on personal interest and demonstrates his skills in acting in different performances. His last performance that named "a written on coffin" was well received by viewers and stayed on stage for several months. After several performances, Jam quickly became a well-known figure and gradually some enemies appeared. A conflict occurred between him and some unidentified persons in the city's main theater. During this attack, his face and part of the scene had been damaged due to firing but he could identify and eliminate all enemies with serious follow-up. After this attack and damage to his face, Jam suffered from some form of mental illness and was hospitalized in a mental institution for a long time. But he has a history of mental illness dating back to age of 24, when he suffered from schizophrenia. He could control it with medication. Jam was becoming a more dangerous man and his high motivation for revenge demonstrated many hazards. But in the last adventure, he decided to fight…
Pejman Radmanesh, 35, is a police officer and teacher in criminology at universities. After hiring in the police force, he was seriously active in the crime scene investigation circle. His valuable experience in the field of crime scene identification is known and famous. But a different and strange case changed everything and…
Faramarz Shafiq, 58, is a law graduate. At the age of 32, he used his influence in mafia gangs and association with drug dealers to do legal activities and circumvent legal barriers in these groups. Criminals increasingly paid attention to him due to his quite different character and eclectic attitude in dealing with people. His numerous cases regarding money laundering, bribery and smuggling made him a subject known to police…
Dr. Dariush Mehregan, 68, holds a PhD degree in psychiatry and also holds a PhD degree in Philosophy. With his valuable experience in medicine and philosophy, he developed a new method for treatment. By relying on philosophical themes and an in-depth attitude towards the world around and inside humans, he developed a certain kind of intellectual and philosophical paradigm to the world. But facing with a strange man different from what he had seen before challenged his several years of experience and knowledge…
Farhad Ariafar, 45, completed his academic studies in the Police University and entered into the police force at the age of 27. Ariafar quickly improved his position and has been appointed as the colonel of destruction of drug trafficking and mafia gangs. His serious personality in identifying and destructing drug trafficking gangs and forming detection groups make him famous among the public. But this seriousness and determination to eliminate mafia gangs made Ariafar subject to threats from drug gangs. He was repeatedly attacked by criminals and he survived from the last attack then…
After a strange accident, he lost his memory and became a wandering man. Many factors and events wiped out his memory. His skin tissue was damaged and part of it was destroyed in firing. His exposure to sunlight led to much suffering for him, so he has took refuge into the darkness of night. He is suffering from depression due to irreparable damage to his psyche. Shabgard has nothing to lose. No one can help him. He has no choice but to surrender to fate…
The only information available for this person is the title of "Metroman" which is labeled to him by people.
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The game offers a compelling dark story with several unique Antagonists in a fictional modern city full of criminals and villains. The dark tone of the game is enhanced by the dark and comic style art and spectacular and special effects achieved by UDK engine.
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Since we’ve been out of town so much in the past several weeks, we hadn’t been able to find the time to make any progress on our guest bathroom. Perhaps you remember how it looked when we last left off, but if not, you can click here to read all about it or here for the post on deciding it was time for a reno. Here’s the last photo:
I’d gotten the vanity painted and new hardware really spruced it up, but the bathroom was still rocking a lot of torn up wallpaper and nasty carpet.
Well, unfortunately this isn’t a final reveal, so the nasty carpet is still here (that has to be one of the last things to go so we don’t ruin the new floors with any other projects going on in there), but the wallpaper is no more and we have a shiny new coat of paint to show off!
It took me and my dad several hours on both Friday and Saturday to see real progress, but we finally got there.
First though, the process. We started Friday with removing the storage cabinet, which we saved to be re purposed in our master bathroom at some point. It was too big and bulky for this bathroom, but we desperately need storage in our bathroom, so it should help a lot in there.
After that, we tackled the remaining wallpaper and Brett helped with those high places that we short people couldn’t quite reach. Did I mention this room has vaulted ceilings? Nice for light. Sucky for painting. We got everything torn down except for the highest and farthest back corner above the tub. There’s a fun little ledge there (where the vents run maybe?) More on that later though.
Once all the paper was removed, we filled in holes all over the place and sanded everything smooth. Then we wiped down all the walls with a water/Lysol mix to get rid of any dust from sanding and any leftover glue from the wallpaper.
Finally it was time for paint. I picked a light gray called Gravity by Valspar. It has a cool tint that almost makes it look blue, but it is still very neutral and bright. I debated a fun bold color, but with such high walls, it would be A LOT of color. Plus this way if I ever change the color scheme (I’ve been known to change my mind on occasion.), we won’t have to repaint the entire room.
Back to painting- this was a three stage process. To make a long story short, (first) I cut in the edges while my dad rolled for as high as we both could reach.
Then (second) we got out the ladder and did the same thing one ‘level’ up.
This still was not even close to as high as the ceiling, so we finished up by (third) getting out an extension pole to paint up top.
We used an edger (like this one) to paint around the ceiling, and then added the pole to the roller to get the rest of the high walls coated. And the final result? Looks like this:
I know what you’re thinking. What about that other high corner I mentioned earlier? Well, I guess there will really be four stages to this paint job, because this will involve me climbing up to stand on that tiny ledge to finish it off. (I’m the only one who can fit. Unless Vera learns to wield a paintbrush sometime this week.) I can hardly wait to see how dirty it is up there. Currently it looks like this:
Not ideal obviously. But gives you an idea of why that area is so hard to reach. That’s ok, though, because we definitely still need to get the paint back out for some touch ups/second coat. Once that is finished, we can finally start the fun stuff. Like hanging a new shower curtain, painting the counter tops, installing a new faucet and light fixture, getting the floor installed, and decorating the heck out of this bathroom! Yippee!
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So...forgive the horrid picture quality. I did it myself (again!)
And I know the challenge specifies "head to toe" but I'm barefoot and would have had to zoom out too far just for you to see my paint chipped toes!
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A few days ago, we received a number of Fujifilm products for testing including the two pro zoom lenses. Luckily for us, on Sunday there was the perfect event to put them through their paces: a bicycle race divided into three different paths with the longest one being 104 miles. The Gran Fondo Conwy is a non-competitive cycling race that takes place in North Wales. It starts and finishes at the promenade near Conwy Castle. The cyclists travel through some of the most stunning scenery in the Conwy and Denbighshire counties.
Since it was our first time in the area, we followed the advice of the online guide and made our first stop at the Llyn Brenig (Lake Brenig) in the early morning. Only the riders participating in the longest of the three races (called Mawr) would pass through here.
The first group of cyclists were supposed to arrive at around 9:30 but they turned up 20 minutes later. Perched at the side of the main road, I started to capture them with the XF 50-140mm lens first. I used its fastest aperture of 2.8 to isolate the subject as much as possible from the background. Then I also tried different angles and heights to create some interesting compositions with both foreground and background elements. The 50-140mm has a very fast and silent autofocus system and it is very pleasant to use. Combined with the Fujifilm X-T1, the results are good in AF-C. There are occasional errors where the AF doesn’t lock onto the subject right away or stops following it at certain point. I also found the occasional slightly out-of-focus image in the various series of bursts I took when reviewing them on my computer. But overall the performance is really good. The sun wasn’t in a favourable position and because of the trees lining the road there were lots of shadows on the route. I shot a mix of Raw + JPG and just JPG so that I could play with the Raw files for the pictures that had a dark subject and bright background.
One of the nicest things about photographing this race was that you could tell from the participants’ smiles that they were mainly racing for pleasure and to enjoy the scenery. Some of them were pleased to see us taking pictures and waved at the camera. Heather got one of the nicest shots with the X-A2 and its kit lens below. We both used the Classic Chrome profile for our shots.
I then changed my lens and used the 16-55mm f/2.8 to do some panning and wide shots to show the scenery with the lake in the background. The riders stopped at the lake to get some refreshments before continuing on their journey.
Our second stop was at a very iconic location in North Wales: the stone bridge in Llanrwst. It was a nice change from the first set of pictures. The “pointy” shape of the bridge allowed me to take interesting pictures with the telephoto lens once again. Heather took some wide shots on the bridge with the Fujifilm X-A2 and its kit lens.
I also used the XF 16-55mm to take the classic picture of the bridge and the ivy-clad Tu Hwnt i’r Bont tearoom (on the right). I waited for one cyclist to ride over the bridge so that the image would remain connected to the theme of cycling.
Our third and last stop was in Conwy where the race starts and finishes. The town is on the north cost and its main characteristic is its gorgeous medieval castle in the middle. I noticed that the last turn the riders had to take before reaching the finish line was right in front of the castle so I used the XF 16-55mm to take some low-angle shots at 16mm. I also tried some panning, once again to give more dynamism to the images. It’s at moments like this that you thank the camera for having a tilting LCD screen.
Then I walked near the finish line to get some pictures of some of the athletes arriving and the events backstage. Some of the cyclists had massages to relax their muscles after so much effort.
Before heading back, Heather and I made the most of the gorgeous day by visiting the town and walking along its medieval wall which offers a nice view of the house and castle.
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American Companies Have Always Been More Anti-Union Than International Ones. Here’s Why
April 22, 2022 // But when unions are functioning well, Devault says, they aren’t just about pay—but about making sure that workers have more overall power in the workplace. “The pandemic has really changed the way people look at their work,” she says. “We’re starting to see now [that one of those changes is that] I want some say in what goes on in my workplace.” And when workers have more say, they can be more invested in their company’s future, too.
Jerry Dias, resigned president of Canadian autoworkers union Unifor, under investigation
March 17, 2022 // In that time, Dias acted as a consultant to the Canadian government and its negotiating team on the U.S.-Mexico-Canada trade agreement; launched a campaign to save General Motors Co.'s plant in Oshawa, Ontario; and helped workers navigate through the COVID-19 pandemic. | <urn:uuid:464a6ff9-8351-4cde-82fa-cd88c756ebd3> | CC-MAIN-2023-14 | https://i4aw.org/tag/cornell-universitys-industrial-and-labor-relations-school/ | 2023-03-21T14:57:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-14/segments/1679296943698.79/warc/CC-MAIN-20230321131205-20230321161205-00691.warc.gz | en | 0.958152 | 233 |
You would think I am feeling calm. I’m done all the shopping. The gifts are wrapped and under the tree. I even have the white elephant gifts for that game my mom always has at the family party.
Yes, I’m ready for Christmas.
What I’m not ready for is to leave my work behind. So I’m scrambling to have everything done in the next 3 days…well, 2 days cause Sunday doesn’t count. There may be a little screaming going on in my head.
Also, the movie theater in town is showing It’s a Wonderful Life and Polar Express tomorrow. So if I want to go to those – and I promised Ryan I’d take him to Polar Express – I need to get my butt in gear.
Do you think I can make it?
I could see It’s a Wonderful Life tonight at 7 and then Polar Express with Ryan tomorrow at 2. That a
ctually might take a little pressure off because, let’s face it, I lose all momentum around 4 PM and never get much work done after dinner.
Here’s my list for today which will probably spill into tomorrow.
- Blog Post
- Breakfast with a friend
- update the fleeces spreadsheet so I can plan what to wash the first week of January
- check the loom threading for the next skirt fabric. (Corriedale)
- spin all samples (at least 4) for the Ply Bulky Issue article
- Sew the skirt and get it in the mail for Amy to dye.
If I can get those 6 things done before the end of Saturday I will feel ok.
Send me good vibes. Because, also, we’re out of Nog!
Because of some experienced sock knitters I did throw the skein through the wheel again for a tiny bit more twist.
I’ll keep you posted. Send me good vibes.
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Global investment-banking revenue
Pity those bankers. In the first quarter of this year global revenues from investment banking were $14 billion, down by 30% from the same period last year, according to Dealogic, a financial-data provider. Revenues in the quarter were the worst since 2009, when the financial crisis was still raging. Although fees fell in all areas, earnings from equity markets dropped especially sharply—by 52% year on year. This is largely because nervous investors shunned riskier assets. Equity markets only accounted for 18% of total investment-banking revenue in the first quarter, compared with a figure of 26% a year ago. There were only 173 initial public offerings over the period, the fifth-lowest first-quarter total on record.
This article appeared in the Economic & financial indicators section of the print edition under the headline "Global investment-banking revenue"
From the April 2nd 2016 edition
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Is Better Than Sex really better than sex? I suppose it depends on what kind of sex we're talking about, but before this review degrades into a Dan Savage column, let me just say that any advice offered here will focus solely on the intimate details of the après-dinner boudoir of dessert debauchery in Ivanhoe Village.
Yes, food porn is taken quite literally at Better Than Sex. Its walls are accoutered with erotic photographs, and every meal begins with a happy ending. Flirtatious servers slink about selling you on such sweet indulgences as the "Tongue Bath Truffle," "Cookie Nookie" and "Money Shot" – so, yeah, not the place to hold your kid's birthday party. The barbs of innuendo add a jovial spice to this dessert-only restaurant, which seems to be just as popular a spot for sucking face as it is for scarfing desserts. Extremely dim lighting sets the tone, and the French bordello design motif plays right into it, though the occasional flash (of phone cameras, unfortunately) can render an amorous moment impotent.
But there's plenty here to put you back in the mood. A glass of Freakshow cabernet rimmed with dark chocolate is like libationary foreplay ($10), as is a little cream (house-made Irish cream, that is) in your coffee ($9). After the beverages, make a menu selection from the iPad – no matter the choice, it's likely to leave you satisfied, and that includes a very orthodox "Missionary Crisp" ($10.69), with skin-on Red Delicious apples and buttery cake topping. Caramelized sugar "flirts" and "balls" of vanilla bean ice cream, while theme-appropriate, aren't exactly deviant additions. If you're looking to walk on the wild side, consider the "Morning After" ($11.69) – a sandwich of grilled Danish brie and Belgian dark chocolate dusted in cinnamon and powdered sugar, with a side of strawberry champagne soup for dipping.
The "Twist & Stout" ($12.69) might sound intimidating, but don't let the name scare you. The girth of chocolate cake, the tart chocolate center, the glaze of dark chocolate stout – it's all quite easy to swallow, even with a sugar-shard-encased pretzel penetrating the top of the dessert. A chaser of Irish cream ice cream was a bit too sweet, but calling something "too sweet" here is like calling a steak at Ruth's Chris "too beefy." The "Cookie Nookie Pie" ($9.69) features a warm chocolate chip cookie with pecans wrapped in flaky pie crust and, no surprise here, but: They definitely don't skimp on the nuts.
You'll notice the cost of the desserts all end in "69," and if you're wondering why, well ... you're probably in the wrong restaurant.
Now to the unpleasantries: Our arms and elbows stuck to the tables. At first we thought it an intentional, if perverse, gimmick, but then I was assured by the staff it wasn't, and that it's just one of the unfortunate results of rimming glasses with chocolate, caramel and honey. In fact, servers spend an extra hour after closing wiping down tables even before the professional cleaners come in.
It might be a good idea to get tested after eating at Better Than Sex ... your blood sugar levels, that is. Why, what did you think we meant?
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Job Title: Payroll Administrator
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An exciting opportunity has arisen to join an outsourced payroll provider to join a blended payroll and accounts department. Working on a number of varied clients payroll the client is looking for someone who is able to bring their existing payroll knowledge but want to expand upon it within a proactive environment.
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Prepare and process the daily and monthly payroll, to ensure all UK staff are paid accurately and on time in accordance with UK legislation and their terms and conditions.
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MARICOPA, Ariz. - Homeward Bound the movie came to life in Maricopa this month as a 19-day search for a puppy lost in the desert came to an end.
Sweet year-old Labradoodle Winnie has been through a lot.
Babette and Curtis Beaupre moved to Maricopa in October and wanted a puppy. They found Winnie in Tempe.
"She was awfully matted and needed a bath and groom," Babette said.
On the way home from adopting her, they stopped for a haircut along Highway 347. That's when the ordeal began.
"She slips out of her collar because I think her hair was conditioned and smooth, and she got out and ran like the wind," Babette said.
"We got in the car and tried to follow her. She was in full panic mode, as fast as she could go," Curtis said.
The search began. Lost dog flyers were posted. Social media pleas were made for the year-old girl whose new owners are strangers to her.
Then, something magical happened. The community rallied.
First, she was spotted at McDonald's. Then, Walmart. A few days later at Auto Zone.
Every time she’d run off again.
"We just couldn’t get her. Tried lassoing her, but she'd slip out. Get in a foot or two, but she didn’t know us and she’d take off again," Curtis said.
HARTT (Humane Animal Rescue & Trapping Team Arizona) got involved in trying to trap her once she was spotted 10 miles away in a mountain – the groomer's ribbon was still in her hair.
"It was outrageous. A hundred degrees for 10 days straight. There are vultures circling around. We think we’re seeing her and couldn’t find her. Foxes, coyotes. First day we put a trap out there was a rattle snack next to the trap, so we moved the trap. No luck still," Curtis said.
So, they called Bob Coester, a pilot.
"I’m going to go flying looking for a dog," he said.
The veteran pilot is a friend of a friend of a volunteer.
He took his light-sport aircraft up with his co-pilot Charlie and searched.
"Absolutely. I’d be glad to do that. Nothing worse than a lost pet," Coester said.
"Just like, wow. Nobody is giving up on this girl. No one," Babette said.
After 19 days, they found her. Thin. Matted. Scared. But home.
"It was just a crazy moment of she’s finally captured," Babette said.
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Nearly 12 years ago, Crocs Inc. revolutionized the casual footwear world with the introduction of its now-iconic clogs made with its unique Croslite material. The soft, comfortable nature of these clogs made them an overnight hit, and today Crocs has expanded from that one original product into multiple product lines from sandals to boots to high heels. According to Senior Director of Global Licensing Matt Lafone, the Crocs brand today encompasses more than 300 distinct styles of footwear, sold in more than 90 countries, but the company still has opportunity to grow.
As one of the most recognizable brands in footwear, Crocs has a strong presence in the casual footwear market. However, Lafone says the company sees exciting opportunities to take the Crocs brand even further in the near future. Through a carefully managed licensing program that includes working with some of the biggest names in the fashion world, Crocs is expanding its core values to become something bigger.
“We’re taking the DNA of our brand: comfort, color, fun and innovation and are applying these elements into other product categories that are natural extensions for Crocs,” Lafone says.
Crocs already has found success through this approach, as evidenced by its recent launch of a new line of products designed by “Project Runway All-Stars Season 1” winner Mondo Guerra. Lafone says the new line, introduced at Crocs’ new flagship store in New York City, experienced 90 percent sell-through in its first two weeks. Along with the company’s expanded international offerings, the Mondo Guerra line is a glimpse into the future for Crocs, one in which the brand extends to apparel, accessories and other areas.
A major component of the success Crocs has had so far with its licensing efforts is the company’s hands-on approach, Lafone explains. Rather than simply give licensees a style guide and leave them to develop products on their own, Crocs works hand-in-hand with licensees to develop robust style guides and then translate those styles into products.
Crocs works with its licensees to choose materials, develop fabrications and create distribution plans. “You don’t get that type of service and direct partnerships with huge companies,” Lafone says. “At the end of the day, we really see that as a value-add to our partners.”
Lafone says the company is reaching out to a different kind of licensee now, one that is connected to the fashion world and will help Crocs find fashion-minded consumers around the world. Inspired by the success of the Mondo Guerra line, Crocs has started working with designers such as U.K. artist Jon Burgerman and Patricia Field, an Emmy winner for her costume design work on “Sex and the City” and an Academy Award nominee for “The Devil Wears Prada.” Lafone says working with Field is a major turning point for Crocs. “She’s a fashion icon in the industry,” he says.
Crocs is working to change the perception of the brand in the United States, but the company already has achieved success with a diversified line of products in international markets. Lafone says Crocs has received great response from consumers in Japan for a line of children’s apparel, and Crocs already has beaten its guaranteed sales numbers for 2015 in Latin America.
In those and other international markets, Crocs carries its core values of comfort and quality to higher-tiered department stores, and Lafone says these elevated products are doing a lot to build brand equity in those markets. In Asia and Europe especially, the Crocs brand can be found at a number of premier urban footwear stores. Lafone says this is a testament to the strength of the brand.
“Crocs is an amazing place,” Lafone says. “Most people don’t know this, but we do about half of our business internationally.”
The licensing Crocs is engaged in now is a new strategy for the company, and Lafone says it is focused on developing the right partnerships. “Crocs would happily walk away from multimillion-dollar deals if the partnership wasn’t right for the brand, the consumers and the shareholders,” he says.
“We’re excited about what’s on the horizon for Crocs,” Lafone continues. “Hopefully, we look back and realize that we’ve made something extremely special.”
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Bluffing games are a pretty popular genre in the board game industry, but I personally wouldn’t say that it is one of my favorites. This is probably partially because I wouldn’t say that I am a good liar and I am not particularly good at detecting lies. There is also the fact that many games in the genre feel like they are basically the same game as there is only so much you can do with the genre as it basically comes down to telling strategic lies and catching other players in lies. Despite not being a huge fan of bluffing games, when I picked up OutLawed! in a clearance sale I was intrigued as it kind of reminded me of Love Letter. Basically all of the players are competing to become the next deputy which involves trying to capture the most valuable criminals while the other players are trying to sabotage you to help themselves. OutLawed! doesn’t drastically differ from your typical bluffing game, but it does a good job streamlining the best elements of the genre into a fun and quick little game that fans of the genre should enjoy.
How to Play OutLawed!
- Choose whether you are going to play the normal or beginner game. If you are playing the beginner game remove any Outlaw Cards that do not have the badge icon in the bottom left corner.
- If you are playing the two player game remove any Outlaw Cards that don’t feature the bullets icon in the bottom right corner.
- Sort the Outlaw Cards by the back of the cards. Each player takes one of the decks of cards.
- Each player shuffles their deck of cards and randomly discards one card. The card that is discarded should be kept secret from the other players.
- Choose a player to be the starting player. This player will be given the Deputy Badge card.
Playing the Game
OutLawed! is played over a number of rounds. Each round consists of three phases:
Starting with the first player for the round (the player with the Deputy Badge) each player will choose one of the Outlaw Cards from their hand and place it face down on the table. This card is referred to as the “Played Outlaw”. The player will then tell the other players the name of the outlaw that they played. The player can either tell the truth or lie about the card’s identity. The identity that the player claims is the “Claimed Outlaw”.
The next player clockwise will then choose a card and repeat the same process. This continues until all of the players have played a card.
After everyone has played their card all of the cards will be revealed. Each player will then look at the Outlaw Card they played to see if they met the “Apprehend If” condition.
If a player successfully met their outlaw’s condition and another card didn’t prevent them from apprehending their outlaw, the player will place the card they played face down in their jail pile. Players should place their jailed cards in a way that each player can see how many cards each player has in their jail.
If the player did not meet the condition or another card prevented them from apprehending their outlaw, they will add the card back into their hand. The player can use this card again in a future round.
The player who has the Deputy Badge will pass it to the next player clockwise who will become the first player in the next round.
Here are the cards of OutLawed! along with their conditions to be apprehended.
“Bandito” Pandito – One of the other players told the truth with their claim.
“Bluffalo” Bill Bison – “Bluffalo” Bill Bison will be apprehended if another player played the card that the player who played this card claimed it to be.
“Bulletproof” Betty – Nobody played the same card this round.
Croc Holliday – Anyone else who lied during their claim cannot apprehend their outlaw. If the player caught one or more players lying they will “apprehend” Croc Holliday.
“Dirty” Duke Tigre – “Dirty” Duke Tigre blocks any other player from apprehending “Noble” Lionel Manesworth in the round. If another player played Lionel, “Dirty” Duke Tigre will be apprehended.
“Eagle Eye” Hawkins – One of more other players lied about their claim during the round.
“Lone” Wolfgang McClane – Only one player played “Lone” Wolfgang McClane during the round.
“Noble” Lionel Manesworth – When a player plays “Noble” Lionel Manesworth they claimed the card to be “Noble” Lionel Manesworth.
“Stretch” Tannen – Everyone’s claim during the round (including your own) was a lie.
The Vixen Twins – If two or more players played the same card this round, the Vixen Twins will be apprehended.
The Wild Bunch – Two or more players played “The Wild Bunch” during the round.
End of Game
The game ends when one player gets seven Outlaw Cards in their jail (four for the beginner game). Players will then turn over all of the cards from their jail and count up the reward value on each card. Stretch’s value is worth $150 per player in the game. The player who collected the largest reward value from their jailed cards wins the game. If there is a tie the tied player who discarded the lowest valued card at the beginning of the game will win. If there is still a tie the player closest to the player with the Deputy Badge (in turn order) wins.
Instead of counting up reward value players can also choose to have the player who jailed the most cards win the game. If there is a tie the player closest to the player with the Deputy Badge (in turn order) wins.
My Thoughts on OutLawed!
In a lot of ways OutLawed! feels like your typical game from the bluffing genre. In each round every player will play one card and either tell the other players the truth or lie about its identity. All of the players have access to the same cards (outside of the card each player has to discard at the beginning of the game) so the key is to find the best time to play each card. Each card has a special condition that has to be met for the player to apprehend the outlaw. Some of these cards rely on other players telling the truth or lying. Others rely on another card being played/not played by another player. To figure out what card to play each round you need to try to read the other players to predict what they will play as well as read whether the other players are lying about the identity of their card.
While the comparison is not perfect, I was actually a little surprised by how much OutLawed! reminded me of Love Letter. While Love Letter relies on more deduction a lot of the elements in OutLawed! are similar. In both games the key is figuring out what card to play at any given time. Each card has its own strengths and weaknesses where there are certain times that it would be best to play each card. This relies on reading the other players and doing a good job lying when you have to. You also have to take advantage of turn order when you can as some cards are much better to play at the end of the Claim phase versus the beginning.
OutLawed! is not the most original game, but I had quite a bit of fun playing it. The game succeeds because the interaction between the different cards seems to work really well. Pretty much each card has situations where it should be played and others where you should avoid playing it. The gameplay is pretty simple as you only have to choose one of ten cards and then determine whether you are going to tell the truth or lie. Despite this you can actually put a decent amount of strategy into the game. Which card you choose to play in each round has a pretty big impact on your success. The game will always rely on some luck (unless you can read the other players’ minds), but it feels like you have quite a bit of impact on your own fate.
I think this is because the cards are well designed. The apprehend conditions on the cards are really straightforward as you should have no trouble comprehending what you need to have happen in order to apprehend each outlaw. Accomplishing that task is quite a bit more difficult though. This comes from all of the cards requiring different conditions to be met. Some of the conditions are quite easy while others are quite difficult. This is balanced out by the fact that each card is worth a different value. For example Croc Holliday is pretty easy to “apprehend” as you only have to catch one player lying. Croc Holliday has no reward value though so he won’t help you with your final score. This tradeoff leads to some interesting decisions that you have to make. The easiest cards to claim are also worth the least so you can’t rely solely on playing the easiest cards as another player will likely earn more reward money than you. The more valuable cards are harder to apprehend though so if you try too many of the hard cards you might end up not apprehending that many outlaws. In order to do well in the game you need to really balance these two extremes to get a good mixture of outlaws to maximize your score.
I am guessing that the randomly discard one card at the beginning of each round rule was added in to add some variety to the game as players couldn’t know for certain what cards the other players have in their hands. I am not a fan of the rule though. While most of the cards are pretty well balanced between how easy they are to apprehend versus their reward value, I think the card that a player discards at the beginning of the game could have an impact on who ultimately wins. I honestly think the game would have been better off ditching the rule and allowing players to use all of their cards from the start.
For the most part I would say that OutLawed! is surprisingly easy to play. The basic gameplay boils down to choosing a card to play, either telling the truth or lying about the identity of the card, and then checking each card’s apprehend conditions to see which cards are apprehended. Due to its simplicity you could teach the game to new players within minutes. The most difficult part of the game is reading and understanding the various apprehend conditions. The game has a recommended age of 10+, but I think kids younger than that could play the game as long as you don’t care about the lying aspect of the game. OutLawed! also plays quite quickly. Unless players take way too long analyzing what card to play I think most games could be finished within 15-20 minutes. This makes the game a great filler game or you could easily play a couple games back to back.
While OutLawed! is really easy to play, it is the type of game that you have to play a couple of times in order to get a good grasp on what you are trying to do. This is because to do well in the game you need to be familiar with what you need to accomplish to apprehend each of the criminals. None of these tasks are difficult to understand as they are really straightforward. The problem is that it is hard to keep track of what each of the cards do. Unless you have a really good memory in your first game or two you are going to have a hard time remembering what each card’s apprehend condition is. Therefore you are regularly going to have to reference your cards to see what each one does. You will have to do this when choosing your card especially if you choose to lie and claim you played a different card, but you will also likely have to when you hear the cards that the other players claim. After a couple games you should be familiar enough with all of the cards that you will only have to occasionally reference them. This does lead to a learning curve for the game though as you won’t remember what each card does for your first couple of games. This could impact your strategy as well since when you are more familiar with the cards you can better think of how you want to utilize your cards.
For this reason I really think the game should have included cheat sheets that each player could reference throughout the game. The game gives players reference cards that list all of the different characters which is helpful especially when you try to bluff. The problem is that these cards give you no indication of what the apprehend conditions are for each character. The game should have included a small sheet for each player which gave you a brief explanation of each character’s apprehension conditions. This would have made it much easier on new players that weren’t as familiar with the game.
Other than the lack of reference sheets I thought OutLawed!’s components were pretty good. The components in the game are basically what you would expect as the game only comes with cards. I would say that the cardstock is pretty good as the cards should last if you take care of them. For the most part I liked the game’s artwork. While the theme is pretty light and doesn’t really connect too much with the gameplay, I think the designer and artist did a good job giving the game character. On top of all of this the game comes in a really small box which is about as small as it could of been. Even if space is not a big issue for you, I always appreciate a game that doesn’t waste more space than it needs to.
Should You Buy OutLawed!?
OutLawed! doesn’t revolutionize the bluffing genre, but it does a really good job at focusing on what is enjoyable about the genre. The game is quite simple as players just take turns playing cards, telling the truth or lying about the card, and then checking to see what cards met their apprehend conditions. The game can be taught in minutes and can be easily played by people that rarely play card games. Despite being simple to play the game has a decent amount of strategy as you need to figure out what card to play each round by analyzing what cards the other players claimed to have played as well as figuring out what conditions you think will be met in the round. This is pretty fun and actually reminds me quite a bit of Love Letter. To fully appreciate the game though you may have to play it a couple times to familiarize yourself with what each character does.
My recommendation for OutLawed! comes down to your opinion of bluffing games and games like Love Letter. If you don’t really care for either OutLawed! probably won’t be for you. Those that like a quick simple bluffing game with some hidden depth though should enjoy and consider picking up OutLawed!. | <urn:uuid:d52e8f9a-4e4b-467f-8211-d1648613dd46> | CC-MAIN-2021-10 | https://www.geekyhobbies.com/outlawed-card-game-review-and-rules/ | 2021-03-02T04:35:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-10/segments/1614178363217.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20210302034236-20210302064236-00549.warc.gz | en | 0.980649 | 3,104 |
Future of work relies on talent networks and continuous learning
In addition to Singapore’s local-foreign workforce composition, a bigger challenge in work today is the “depth and wideness of talent network a company or country can command, which determines the speed at which it will evolve to outrun the competition,” said Chan Chun Sing, Singapore’s Minister of Education.
Speaking at a Singapore Institute of Management event, he explained that the nature of work is no longer localised, particularly for high value-added work.
“The real matrix of success for Singapore is…how many good opportunities we can create for Singaporeans in Singapore and beyond through our ability to combine our talents with those from around the world,” he said.
To remain competitive, Singapore must be able to “refresh the entire workforce at scale and speed, which will require a stretch goal of having 20% to 30% of our people learning something new every year”.
He continued, “If we only depend on the flow of 30,000 to 40,000 graduates from our education system, we are only renewing our workforce at a rate of 1% to 2% per year.”
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John Falco, Vice-Chair of the Medford School Committee, spoke at a rally at the Massachusetts State House on Tuesday, April 1st advocating the need for continued support for the Children’s Trust, a state agency dedicated to the prevention of child abuse and promotion of healthy families. For the past 15 years the Medford Family Network of the Medford Public Schools has received a majority of their funding from the Children’s Trust. The funding that the Children’s Trust provides has been vital to the Medford Family Network (MFN) and has allowed the MFN to provide family support and parenting education programs to the Medford community. John has a long history of advocating for the Medford Family Network and currently is a member of the MFN’s Legislative Action Committee. In addition he served as Chair of the Parent Advisory Board, a parent led collaboration, dedicated to enhancing program offerings and creating a diverse and welcoming resource for Medford’s families. Falco is pictured (far left) with MFN Director Marie Cassidy, State Representative Paul Donato, and Children’s Trust Executive Director Suzin Bartley.
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PLANNING AHEAD MAKES “CENTS”
Step 1: Identify a Coin Counting Plan
Select the method that’s best for your school. Consider the amount of time you can dedicate to the counting process, and your school’s policies on money handling. If you need further assistance deciding what will work best for your school, contact LLS.
Security Service Federal Credit Union:SSFCU is no longer allowing use of their coin machines, please read below for additional options.
- Local Bank or Credit Union Co-Op: Call your local bank or credit union to see if they will partner with your school by counting your change for free. Many Credit Unions and Banks have coin counting machines in their lobbies and may agree to waive any user fees. Arrange to bring your change to the bank several times throughout the campaign.
- CoinStar*: CoinStar machines are found in most Wal-Mart & HEB supermarket lobbies. They offer an alternative to counting coins. To use the machine, select the “donate” option, then select “The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society” or enter the LLS ID# 3333. Coins can be poured in by classroom and a receipt is provided for the total to assist you in tracking.
*Visit www.coinstar.com or call (800) 928-CASH to find the nearest CoinStar location with a donation feature.
*LLS will pay a service fee of 7.5% of the total amount when you use CoinStar.
*Do a trial run to ensure the CoinStar machine is operating.
*DO NOT mail receipts to the White Plains, New York address found printed on the receipt.
Step 2: Form a Coin Counting Committee
Consider asking teachers, students (NHS, student council or service groups) or parents (parent classroom helpers or PTA members).
Step 3: Deposit Coins at Least Once a Week
Depending on your coin volume, you may need to make daily or weekly trips to the bank or credit union. Also, be aware that coins can weigh a bit, so plan accordingly.
Step 4: Keep a Tally of Classroom Totals
Make a tally sheet to keep track of classroom totals. Ask teachers to have their classroom coins counted daily to make the task more manageable and to help calculate daily classroom standings.
Step 5: Checks & Paper Money
Please do not deposit checks into the SSFCU account.
There are two ways to turn in paper money.
- Paper money can be deposited in the SSFCU account
- Convert Cash into a check or money order payable to The Leukemia & Lymphoma Society, then mail to the LLS office.
Step 6: Submit all Bank and/or CoinStar receipts via email or online form for school credit.
*If receipts are not submitted school may not receive credit for donations or be eligible for incentives* Mail receipts to:
LLS South Central Texas Chapter
Attn: Carissa Hocevar
Student Series, Senior Campaign Manager
1218 Arion Pkwy, Suite 102
San Antonio, Texas 78216
Tips & Ideas
- If you don’t want to count coins, try paper blood drop icons. Students can donate $1 for a paper icon that can then be displayed. (Paper pennies are free from LLS upon request)
- Use the Dear Parent letter to encourage students to collect funds online through their very own Student Webpage.
Donation boxes are a way for students to bring the program home but they are not meant for door-to-door collection.
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A Japanese Maritime Self-Defense Force (MSDF) officer who made a big effort to make sure that all the information related to a seaman’s suicide while serving in the MSDF is now facing the possibility of military punishment for his troubles. The 46-year-old lieutenant commander in Japan’s MSDF had campaigned at length to show that there were instances of bullying against the MSDF seaman who took his own life in 2004.
The MSDF had repeatedly said in the hearing of the case that the results of a post-suicide survey of the MSDF member’s shipmates on bullying had been “discarded”. After the whistleblower intimated to the trying court that the MSDF might have hidden the data, the MSDF had allegedly “found” the survey again. A 21-year-old seaman of the MSDF destroyer Tachikaze committed suicide in Tokyo in October 2004. The suicide note he left behind revealed that he had suffered violence from one of his senior crewmates. The following month, the MSDF conducted a survey covering all 190 crew members of the Tachikaze to see if bullying was a factor in his suicide. It found that the seaman was shot with an air gun and grabbed by the collar by the senior crew member aboard the destroyer. In 2005, the victim’s family filed a freedom-of-information request for the survey, but the MSDF said it had been discarded.
In 2008, the lieutenant commander learned that the results of the survey still existed and went to a Defense Ministry office for whistle-blowers, but the still MSDF denied the existence of the data. The lieutenant commander also sought to obtain the survey through freedom of information procedures, but the MSDF said it had been discarded. In 2012, he submitted a statement to the Tokyo High Court, saying the MSDF was hiding the survey. The MSDF finally said it found the survey after a reinvestigation and apologized. The long-running case is a very specific example of government organizations’ tendency to conceal information, a primary concern about the state secrets protection law enacted on Dec. 6. | <urn:uuid:55d65ed7-bfbd-4c77-8819-412667f8bf33> | CC-MAIN-2014-10 | http://japandailypress.com/japans-marine-sdf-to-punish-whistleblower-in-seamans-suicide-case-1140775/ | 2014-03-11T06:54:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-10/segments/1394011149514/warc/CC-MAIN-20140305091909-00021-ip-10-183-142-35.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.978399 | 442 |
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American cyclist Tyler Farrar got into trouble during stage three of the Tour Down Under near Adelaide. He crashed during a sprint and ended up in a ditch, and his bike was wrecked. But a kindhearted spectator came to the rescue, handing over his own bike and shoes so Farrar could finish the race.
Farrar was travelling at speeds of over 40mph when he came off the road during the 139km stage in south Australia, and was left bloodied and bruised. He was assessed by medical staff, and looked set to continue, but a few miles down the road realised his bike was in no fit state to continue. The support team had driven off, and it looked as though Farrar was finished – but for the intervention of Anthony Tooman, who was following the race roadside.
Tooman, 42, told the Adelaide Advertiser: “We could see him on the side of the road, and asked: ‘Do you need a wheel?’ He said: ‘No, the wheel is not going to cut it.’
“Then it went to: ‘Well, what pedals are you running?’ He was on Speedplay and I was on Shimano, and as soon as that was decided it was just: ‘Well, you might as well just take everything.’
“Then the next question was: ‘What size shoe are you?’ He was a size 43 and I’m a 44, so we swapped shoes, he jumped on my bike, we gave him some water and … see you later.”
Farrar crossed the finish line 13min 7sec behind stage winner Simon Gerrans, and would ordinarily have been disqualified from the tour. Normal race rules ban outside assistance.
But the chief commissaire considered it an exceptional circumstance and took into account that Farrar was not in contention to win the stage or the race. Farrar, 31, will be allowed to start stage four.
A statement read: “Race officials have confirmed Farrar will be allowed to continue the race as an exception to the rule because a bad crash with several other riders involved created a hectic situation which meant neither his team car nor the event’s neutral service vehicle was in a position to provide assistance.”
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This post was originally published for Mother’s Day 2014. It is as relevant now as it ever was, so I am reposting it this year in honor of my sweet Mama. To those of you who never knew her, you missed a real lady.
On Mother’s Day, at least in the South, when you went to church you wore a carnation on your lapel or dress – a red one if your mother was alive, a white one if she had died. (Do you remember this?)
I really don’t know what was behind the labeling of ourselves that way; frankly, it seemed a little cruel to the white carnation people. I’ve since read that it was an idea promoted by the florists, which totally makes sense.
My sister and brother and I, along with my Dad, all wore red carnations; my mother wore white. Her own mother had died just days before I was born, an experience I now know had to have flattened her at that time. It takes my breath away just to think about.
I remember I would look around the church and notice all the people wearing white carnations and even as a child, I was gripped with profound dread. If it could happen to all these people – people I knew, even my own mother! – it could happen to me. I, too, could lose my mother.
I did. On July 17, 1997.
No, I didn’t really “lose” her. I know where she is. As a Christian who trusted in Christ to save her from sin and death, she is now alive in heaven with Him; she and I are only temporarily separated by the veil of death. I miss her deeply but I trust there will come a day when we will be together again. That comforts me.
Her presence is still a daily part of my life. I have boxes and albums full of pictures of her. When I look in the mirror, I am reminded of her – I have her eyes, her smile, her hands. I even have her tendency to worry about just about everything. But most important, I have a deep faith of my own because of the faith she taught and modeled through her life, and even her death.
I haven’t seen that Mother’s Day carnation tradition carried out for many years now, at least not in the churches I’ve been a part of here in the North. But I can tell you this: My mother is very much alive this Mother’s Day, she lives on in my heart, my mind, and my memories.
This Sunday, if I had to choose which carnation to wear, I’d take the red one.
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Workday Releases the Workday Prism Analytics Platform
Workday, Inc., a provider of enterprise cloud applications for finance and human resources, is releasing Workday Prism Analytics, allowing customers to bring together any type of data for enriched analytics.
Expanding on the breadth and depth of existing analytics, this new solution is seamlessly unified across Workday products, including Workday Financial Management, Workday Human Capital Management (HCM), Workday Planning, and Workday Benchmarking, empowering customers with the only cloud system to plan, execute, and analyze their business through one secure environment.
Workday Prism Analytics was designed in partnership with customers including Christiana Care, Hitachi, Shelter Mutual Insurance, Thomson Reuters, and United Technologies Corporation.
Workday Prism Analytics enables organizations to access and analyze all the data they need to answer finance and HR business questions, right in context of the Workday applications they already use to take action.
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Back when the Upland Equations Blog was first started back in 2008, I wrote a post entitled: “A Call to Arms (Pens) for Western Authors,” (Here is the LINK) in which I lamented the lack of great literature on upland bird hunting in the West. In that post, I shared some of the few good books I had found on the subject and pled for other western writers to step up and enrich the field (pun intended).
I recently had the opportunity to review Paul F. Vang's (“Paul”) book, Sweeter than Candy: A Hunter’s Journal, which was published in 2011. I am truly glad I had the opportunity. Now, by no means, do I attribute this new great book to my plea to western writers in Upland Equations years back. Nonetheless, this book sure fits the bill of what I had in mind when I wrote that post.
By way of background information, Paul retired from working for the Social Security Administration and now hails from Butte, Montana, where he is a freelance writer writing a weekly outdoor newspaper column. In addition, Paul writes regularly for his blog, Writing Outdoors. Here is the link: http://writingoutdoors.com/. Be sure and check it out!
With Paul being a regular outdoor writer, Paul’s book covers everything from fly fishing, to bird hunting, to deer hunting, but the major focus is on hunting with his bird dogs. The bulk of the stories take place in North Dakota and Montana. For the most part, Paul’s adventures (and yes, despite his disclaimer in the introduction, he’s had plenty) span from 1970 to the present. Paul shares numerous excellent stories of hunting with his Labrador Retrievers, Sam, Alix, Candy (from whom the book gets its name) and Flicka. Together they hunted ruffed grouse, blue grouse, sharptails, pheasants, Huns, and they also did some jump shooting for ducks. I’m not a waterfowl hunter, but still thoroughly enjoyed Paul’s description of this form of hunting as it seemed more like the rough shooting I prefer as an upland hunter.
Before you pointing dog lovers turn your noses up at the use of Labs for upland game, please note that for the variety of hunting that the west provides, the Lab is the quintessential Jack-Of-All-Trades and gets the job done just fine. Paul’s Lab Candy did it all and pointed birds too! While I do not personally own a Lab, I am a big fan of the breed. Paul’s book reminded me of a statement made by Worth Mathewson in Best Birds: Upland & Shore: “Gene Hill got it right when he wrote something along the lines of when are people going to admit that the Lab is the best breed of all.” Paul’s book is tribute to the versatility of this great breed.
This is my good friend Matt's Lab, Darby, who like Candy, does it all, including pointing. She learned that from the pointers she's hunted with.
As I read Sweeter than Candy, I was continually struck by how much I related personally to Paul’s stories. For example, like me, Paul shoots a Ruger Red Label 20 Gauge Over and Under which he could not shoot worth a darn at first, but later learned to love. Like me, Paul writes of his love of camping, forest grouse hunting in the morning, and fly fishing in the afternoons in sweet September, my favorite month of the year. Like my dog Dusty, Paul writes of his dog Candy blowing out her ACL, getting it repaired, only to have the other ACL go out on her other leg. Like me, Paul struggles with shooting those little gray speedsters the Hungarian Partridge. Like me, Paul has streaks of phenomenal shooting and bouts when he can’t hit the broad side of a barn. In the chapter, “The Slump,” Paul nailed it when he wrote: “Hunting is such a psychological sport. If things are going well, I’m bursting with confidence and self-esteem and can do no wrong. But, when in a slump, nothing seems to work.” Boy, that is the story of my schizophrenic wingshooting career. My point is not to focus so much on myself as to show you that anyone who has spent days afield with bird dogs should be able to find numerous experiences in the book that resonate with them. Paul has definitely been there and done that. The way Paul writes makes you feel like you are in the uplands with an old friend. For me, that is the ultimate goal for an outdoor writer: To transport your reader to the field or stream. Mission accomplished Paul!
To sum it up, my honest opinion is that Paul’s book is great. It’s a celebration of everything that I love about the great outdoors and hunting with bird dogs in the West. It belongs right up there at the top of the list of literature on upland bird hunting in the west. I highly recommend it.
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Outfielder Michael Morse, who finished the season hitless in his last 10 games with the Orioles, will undergo surgery Wednesday to fix a bone outgrowth in his left wrist, according to an industry source.
Dr. Richard Berger of the Mayo Clinic in Minnesota will perform the arthroscopic surgery, which will shave the bone. The source said Morse should be able to begin using the wrist again in four weeks and should be back to baseball activities in six to eight weeks, so the pending free agent should be a full go by the start of spring training.
Doctors estimated that the outgrowth of the capitate bone that runs down through the hand was caused by trauma and probably occurred sometime in May, which likely affected his power and extension during his swing.
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Morse, 31, had hit 11 homers and had 21 RBIs through May, but he hit just two more home runs and compiled a .165 average after June 1.
Acquired from the Seattle Mariners for minor leaguer Xavier Avery at the end of August, Morse began his Orioles career 3-for-7 in his first two games in September. He didn’t pick up a hit again for the rest of the season, going 0-for-22.
A career .281 hitter, he batted a combined .215 with 13 homers and 27 RBIs this season with the Mariners and Orioles. He didn’t have an RBI or homer for the Orioles. | <urn:uuid:2b615678-97be-4a61-b5aa-ceff372e04a7> | CC-MAIN-2013-48 | http://www.ctnow.com/topic/bal-michael-morse-will-have-surgery-on-left-wrist-wednesday-20131015,0,758520.story | 2013-12-13T15:45:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-48/segments/1386164954485/warc/CC-MAIN-20131204134914-00026-ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.967144 | 392 |
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Pitcher Garrett Mock admitted it was a little weird.
Here he was, after nine years in the Washington Nationals organization, including parts of three seasons with Syracuse, on the mound at Alliance Bank Stadium in an opposing uniform with the game on the line.
“It was a little different,’’ said Mock, who signed with the Boston Red Sox organization as a minor-league free agent this winter. “I played a lot with all the guys I faced tonight. It was definitely a first for me.’’
Mock relieved Pawtucket starter Ross Ohlendorf with the bases loaded and no outs in the seventh inning, and the Red Sox leading by two runs. The first batter he faced, Corey Brown, singled to get the Chiefs within a run, but Mock then struck out Seth Bynum, Jason Michaels and Tyler Moore – the Nos. 2, 3 and 4 hitters in Syracuse’s line-up – to escape further trouble.
The score stood up as Pawtucket completed the 4-3 International League victory before an announced crowd of 3,213.
“The seventh was the biggest thing for us,’’ Chiefs manager Tony Beasley said, “because we had the bases loaded with no outs in a 4-3 ballgame, and we had the right guys up. You think you’re at least going to get one run. I thought we chased some pitches out of the zone. Maybe we tried to do a little too much, I really don’t know. The bottom line is we didn’t get it done. It was a big opportunity that we allowed to slip away.’’
Beasley did give Mock some credit.
“He has really, really good stuff,’’ Beasley said. “He’s definitely not easy to hit against. He went out there and attack hitters and he induced swings.’’
Pawtucket manager Arnie Beyeler said Mock’s stuff is good enough that he uses him at the end of games. Mock, 28, already has two saves this season. He earned a hold Monday. Andrew Miller and Junichi Tazawa each followed him with a scoreless inning.
“Garrett’s got the kind of stuff that he can strike guys out,’’ Beyeler said. “It worked out perfect from that standpoint. It would have been nice to get the first guy, but the bottom line is to minimize that inning and he came in and did a great job to throw strikes and keep us ahead.’’
Mock said he finished the 2011 season healthy after an injury-plagued 2010 season. He credited the Nationals for helping him rehabilitate the right cervical disk injury. But the Nats didn’t make an offer for 2012.
“After the season ended, I just felt it was about time for me to see if there was an opportunity elsewhere,’’ Mock said. “To have a fresh start with a new organization is something I’ve been grateful for, and I’m trying to make the best of it.’’
All four Pawtucket runs came on home runs against Chiefs starter and loser Tanner Roark, 0-3. Tony Thomas hit a solo homer with two outs in the second inning and followed that with a two-run shot with two outs in the fifth. Ryan Lavarnway hit a solo homer to lead off the sixth.
The Chiefs scored all their runs in the seventh. Bryce Harper hustled his way to a double to lead off the inning. Mark Teahen singled to score Harper. Jhonatan Solano was hit by a pitch. Carlos Rivero was safe at first on a sacrifice bunt and throwing error by Ohlendorf that loaded the bases. Josh Johnson grounded to Lars Anderson at first, whose throw home off the mark for an error that scored Teahen to make the score 4-2.
That’s when Mock replaced Ohlendorf. Brown single scored Solano, but then it was light’s out. Not only did Mock strike out three consecutive hitters, Miller fanned three in a row in the eighth.
The Chiefs appeared to have a chance to tie the game in the ninth when Josh Johnson, appearing in his first game since a promotion from Double-A Harrisburg, doubled with one out. Brown was at the plate when a pitch bounced away from Lavarnway, the Red Sox catcher. Johnson tried to advance to third and was thrown out easily. Brown grounded out to end the game.
“I think he just got a bad read,’’ Beasley said of Johnson. “He was just being too aggressive, trying to do much in a situation when you’re already in scoring position. It was a base running mistake.’’
Syracuse made its first roster moves of the season, switching shortstops with Double-AA Harrisburg. Johnson, a 26-year-old switch-hitter, joins the Chiefs after hitting .395 with seven extra-base hits in 11 games for the Senators. McConnell batted .250 in five games for the Chiefs.
In another move, outfielder Xavier Paul has left the team and was put on the restricted list due to a family issue. He’s welcome to return, according to Doug Harris, Washington’s director of player development.
Tyler Moore, who normally plays first base, played his first game in left field Tuesday as the parent Nationals want to expose him to other positions. Moore, who leads the IL with five home runs, said he’s fine with the move. “Whatever I can do to help the organization,’’ he said. “I played it (outfield) a little bit in Instructional (League) last year. It was good. I hope I don’t make a fool of myself out there.’’
Johnson only had one chance in left field, catching a fly ball.
How the runs scored
Red Sox 3rd: Tanner Roark pitching. With two outs, Tony Thomas homered. Pawtucket 1, Syracuse 0.
Red Sox 5th: With two outs, Alex Hassan singled. Thomas homered to center. Pawtucket 3, Syracuse 0.
Red Sox 6th: Ryan Lavarnway homered. Pawtucket 4, Syracuse 0.
Chiefs 7th: Ross Ohlendorf: Bryce Harper doubled. Mark Teahen singled to score Harper. Jhonatan Solano was hit by a pitch. Carlos Rivero was safe at first on a sacrifice bunt and throwing error by Ohlendorf to load the bases. Josh Johnson grounded to Lars Anderson at first, whose throw home off the mark for an error that scored Teahen. Garrett Mock replaced Ohlendorf. Corey Brown singled to score Solano. Mock then struck out three consecutive batters. Pawtucket 4, Syracuse 3.
Tuesday: Pawtucket vs. Syracuse
Where: Alliance Bank Stadium, 6 p.m.
Probable starting pitchers: Pawtucket RH Justin Germano (0-0, 0.00) vs. Syracuse RH Yunesky Maya (1-1, 4.50)
Radio: The Score 1260
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Hangzhou is situated near the West Lake and the coast in southern China. In 605 Emperor Yangdi (Yang-ti) of the Sui dynasty had the Grand Canal extended from Yangzhou (Yangchou) on the Yangzi (Yangtze) River to Hangzhou. As a result an already fast-developing area of the lower Yangzi and the southeastern coast grew by leaps and bounds. Hangzhou became the capital of a prefecture of the same name.
In 1126 Kaifeng (K’ai-feng), the capital of the Song (Sung) dynasty, fell to the Jurchen nomads who had been ruling northeastern China through the Jin (Chin) dynasty. The Jurchen captured the Song emperor and more than 3,000 members of his court, deporting them to the wastes of northern Manchuria.
A Song prince escaped capture and rallied resistance from several temporary capitals, then settled on Hangzhou because of its location south of the Yangzi, and in the midst of numerous lakes, where the nomadic cavalry could not be effectively deployed. Peace was made around 1136 with northern China under the Jin and land south of the Huai and the Yangzi valley under the Song, now called the Southern Song (1126–1379).
Hangzhou was capital city for a century and half; it also became a great commercial center and the most populous metropolis in the world. The existing city wall was expanded, new palaces and public buildings were built, and with the population increase (to over a million by 1275 from under 200,000 before 1126), large suburbs extended beyond the city limits.
As a contemporary writer noted: “The city of Hangzhou is large, extensive and overpopulated. The houses are high and built close to each other. Their beams touch and their porches are continuous. There is not an inch of unoccupied ground anywhere.”
Marco Polo wrote about Hangzhou (which he called Quinsai) after the fall of the Southern Song, when the city was past its prime, thus: “This city is greater than any in the world.... [It] has twelve principal gates; and at each of these gates at about eight miles are cities larger than Venice or Padua might be, so that one will go about one of those suburbs for six or eight days and yet will seem to have traveled but a little way.” Other descriptions paint a gay life with lamps lighting up places of entertainment such as restaurants, shops, taverns, and teahouses until late in the night. Pleasure boats, some 180 feet long, plied the West Lake.
Numerous canals intersected the city and environs, making transportation of people, merchandise, and provisions easy. Fleets of barges also carried away the waste of the city. Major roads also linked the city and beyond to many scenic spots, where rich men rode on horseback and ladies were carried in sedan chairs.
Hangzhou was also noted as a center of the silk industry, of fine ceramic kilns whose output supplied the court, and of the best teas grown and processed in its environs. The growing economy of the region also began to support the best academies. Many of the activities of this multiple-function city survived the demise of the Southern Song; however Hangzhou never became a national capital again.
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NORRISTOWN — Norristown-based film company Cinevore Studios was commissioned last summer to create a short work of fiction for Los Angeles-based Red 5 Studios. The film, called “Dialogue Tree,” was filmed entirely in Norristown in January, and was released on Red 5’s YouTubechannel, Stage 5 TV, on April 2. It accrued over 50,000 views in just over a week — one of the channel’s biggest successes to date, and was immediately reposted on large gaming sites Kotaku.com, Cheezburger.com, and Dorkly.com, among others.
The story of the film is simple.A man wakes up one day with a dilemma straight out of a video game: He has three options in how he wants to respond to any question posed of him. The choices offered, however, are less than ideal, and things go downhill quickly.
Cinevore Studios, comprising the Norristown filmmaking duo Matt Conant and Stephanie Yuhas, used talent and crew from around the greater Philadelphia area and worked with the Norristown Police Department to bring the film to life. The company spent spent two days shooting in various locations around Norristown, and more than a month editing and working on the special effects to bring the film to life.
According to director Matt Conant, “Norristown has many assets available to filmmakers. Rather than complain about how there’s no film in town anymore, we thought we’d just start making films here. It seems to be working.”
Reading-based actor Robb Stech plays the lead, and Elizabeth Panos of Drexel Hill plays his girlfriend. Cinevore also called in Get-Kinetic productions, which brought a tech-savvy crew and a grip truck full of goodies, and friends at Idryonis Studios, who edited and scored the film, as well as creating the titular “dialogue tree” itself.
Officer Chris Narkin of the Norristown PD also has a small role in the film.
“The Norristown PD was very accommodating, considering we were in their hair for a good portion of the day,” the producers said. “They said they were just happy to see smiling faces for a change.”
Red 5 Studios is the company behind sci-fi-themed MMO (massively multiplayer online game) Firefall, set to launch this summer. As part of a unique marketing initiative, it launched its YouTube channel in October 2012. Along with many Firefall-specific and geek-targeted shows, the channel showcases original short works of sci-fi and fantasy.
When Cindi Rice from Stage 5 contacted Cinevore Studios last summer, Rice said they liked what they saw of Cinevore’s work, and were taking pitches that would appeal to their core demographic of gamers. Cinevore pitched 15 ideas before one was selected.
“The trick is not to be dissuaded by a no,” Conant says. “Red 5 was very polite and responsive through the process.”
In Yuhas’s words: “It is remarkably refreshing to see a company out there supporting the creation of independent films, and to see the value in building an audience through original fiction content, as opposed to just buying ads on Facebook.”
Conant and Yuhas also own the commercial videography company Crystalline Studios, which last year built a video with the Municipality of Norristown to encourage small businesses to move to town. | <urn:uuid:741aa79e-5627-4fc4-90f5-b8f2c6addfba> | CC-MAIN-2017-30 | http://www.timesherald.com/article/JR/20130430/FINANCE01/130439958&template=printart | 2017-07-24T05:16:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-30/segments/1500549424721.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20170724042246-20170724062246-00085.warc.gz | en | 0.975982 | 757 |
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Kenny Barron, "the most lyrical piano player of our time" (Jazz Weekly), honed his faultless touch with Dizzy Gillespie in the '60s and Stan Getz in the '80s. Dave Holland, a double bassist who defined fusion with Miles Davis and free jazz with Sam Rivers, "[expresses] his point of view with gracious clarity, drawing out the best from his partners" (NY Times). *** Now two of the most gifted, transformative musicians in jazz over the last half-century follow in the footsteps of revered piano and bass duos such as Hank Jones and Charlie Haden. At Reynolds Theater, witness two undisputed masters engage in an elegant and rare exchange of well-tempered ideas. | <urn:uuid:5d5a783a-7389-4afb-b95e-14a77b63aa45> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://calendar.duke.edu/events/show?fq=id%3ACAL-8a08708a-3991c2d8-0139-92c5cd40-00000b83demobedework@mysite.edu | 2015-07-02T19:40:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375095668.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031815-00157-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.930635 | 165 |
The pair came through the system at Real.
"He has a great responsibility and is doing very well. He is learning a lot with Mourinho and will be one of the best," Pavon told Marca.
"He was a person who always helped me, although we played in the same position. He is serious when he needs to be serious and fun when he gets the chance." | <urn:uuid:9766c79c-c3fa-4ff0-98eb-5c55a13ca0e0> | CC-MAIN-2017-51 | http://www.tribalfootball.com/articles/ex-real-madrid-defender-pavon-delighted-karanka-over-coaching-success-3144441 | 2017-12-17T04:47:51Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-51/segments/1512948592972.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20171217035328-20171217061328-00721.warc.gz | en | 0.992512 | 79 |
Understanding that the solution is in the journey, and not just in the end result makes the process and the outcome better. Whether we’re making a fabricated or stamped metal part, finished component or an assembly, Jireh Metal’s experienced team delivers. Our can-do attitude cultivates lasting customer relationships, and is one of the reasons why manufacturers and tier one suppliers in the furniture, automotive and hardware industries confidently turn to us for help with new products, existing business and VA/VE work. Once the business is secured, they never have to worry. Our innovative systems schedule and track customer orders, and control all raw material needs for seamless processing, start to finish.
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If it’s important to you, it’s very important to us. Which is why we’ve developed a robust, home-grown ERP system to cover all the bases. The Jireh Performance System (JPS) delivers continuous improvement throughout the process. We measure and track all critical elements to our business, and learn how to keep getting better. Whether we’re measuring our production, safety, tooling maintenance, or set-up times, we track our performance and keep raising the bar. What does that mean for you? Error-free, on-time outcomes and a more efficient process altogether. | <urn:uuid:c11b32fb-be3b-409d-bad4-768daad694be> | CC-MAIN-2019-51 | https://jirehmetal.com/what-we-do/ | 2019-12-14T11:50:09Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-51/segments/1575540586560.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20191214094407-20191214122407-00147.warc.gz | en | 0.933002 | 369 |
Dicks gives an extra bonus
Norm Dicks gives an extra bonus to Air force and the aircraft industry
By Larry Killion, Tea Party Patriot Citizen Journalist 7/21/11
In an article from The Hill Congressman Norm Dicks, (D-WA, 70) said that He Wants to fund more money for stealth bombers. In a time of great debate over the need to cut spending Dicks said, “We don’t have enough Bombers.” He is talking about the planes that sneak into enemy airspace undetected by enemy radar and ground to air missile systems. The Air Force asked for $197 million dollars to increase the production of stealth bombers. Appropriations Committee ranking member Norm Dicks (D-WA, 70) after meeting with Aircraft industry executives and Air Force leaders, added $100 million to the request because industry leaders convinced him that they might be able to accelerate the production of the bombers with the added funds.
Military experts say their present tool, the B-1 bomber, is not stealthy enough and can be detected by the enemy and placed in jeopardy. They say the extra funds are needed for research and development of the next generation of stealth bombers. So, the Appropriations Committee and its ranking member Norm Dicks, (D-WA, 70) decided to increase the funds by 33% in order to remedy this issue. These funds are trivial according to Richard Aboulafia, an aviation analyst at the Teal Group. He said the money would only help with requirements and technology roadmap definition rather than actual developmental work. The project will ultimately cost tens of billions of dollars but they have the go ahead finally now to get started.
It seems like only last week we were reading story after story about how Dicks and his Democratic cohorts in Congress are pressuring Obama to cut back on the cost of defense by scaling back on the war in Afghanistan. Where do we draw the line? Is it a waste to continue in the war? Or would defense spending add more and better security to our nation and help beef up our economy with more jobs? In a 328-92 vote last week, the House defeated an amendment offered by Rep. Peter Welch (D-Vt.) that would have zeroed funding for the new bomber.
Readers might wonder if Dicks is having a problem getting settled on his hawk or dove identity crisis. Readers of the article in The Hill commented that this is only a Corporate Welfare give away by Republicans to big business defense contractors and that Dicks only went along with it because of his connection to the Military bases in Washington State and Boeing Aircraft Company which is one of the companies that will be bidding on the construction of the new airplanes.
Boeing did not comment on helping Dicks make his decision on the extra funds. The Senate Appropriations Committee has not yet put together its version of this bill. The bomber program office will make the final decision on how and where the extra funds will be spent. Contact Norm Dicks. | <urn:uuid:59a6f1f2-d64e-4cbc-9ea5-ecbaeb8ccec2> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.teapartypatriots.org/2011/11/dicks-gives-an-extra-bonus/ | 2013-06-19T10:23:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368708690512/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516125130-00014-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.965999 | 606 |
LONG BEACH, Calif. (AP) - Casper Ware scored 23 points Wednesday night to lead Long Beach State to an 85-71 victory over Cal State Northridge.
Ware had all five of the 49ers' 3-pointers. Larry Anderson added 19 points, Eugene Phelps had 18 points and nine rebounds and T.J. Robinson contributed 15 points and eight rebounds for Long Beach State (8-8, 3-0 Big West).
Ware was 5 for 9 from long range while the rest of the 49ers were 0 for 6. Ware also had six assists, Anderson produced five steals and Phelps blocked three shots for the 49ers, who led 45-35 at halftime.
Rashaun McLemore led Cal State Northridge (4-10, 1-2) with 20 points while Lenny Daniel had 18 points and 11 rebounds for the Matadors.
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Peavy to Chicago?
The San Diego Union-Tribune reports a Chicago team is interested in Jake Peavy but it’s not the Cubs. It’s the White Sox. According to the report, Peavy met with Padres manager Bud Black late Wednesday to discuss a possible trade to the White Sox. The 2007 Cy Young award winner has a no-trade clause, and would have to give his consent.
The Cubs and Padres discussed a deal for Peavy in December, but Cubs GM Jim Hendry decided to end talks when he determined the price, in terms of personnel, was too high. Peavy’s contract will pay him $11 million this year, and he’s owed $15 million in 2010, $16 million in 2011, and $17 million in 2012. There is a $22 million option for 2013, with a $4 million buyout.
Peavy is 3-5 with a 3.82 ERA this year for the Padres. Starting pitching hasn’t been the Cubs problem; it’s been inconsistent hitting.
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It was so durty at all
dirty unconfortable beds rude staff no lounge room small showers no kitchen
Very kind staff and excellent place...
The room was a total nightmare:the bed was not confortable at all!!!!the mattress was cheap quality,and the bathroom is so small that not even one person could fit in it.The staff was unfriendly,cold and rude. We paid 129 pounds and there wasn't even a table or a chair in our room nor even soap(!??!!?). Everything is considered as extra: 3 pounds for a towel, 3 pounds per luggage if you want them to keep it for a while. It's the worst and the more expensive hostel I have been in London.
dirty rude staff unconfortable facilities small showers no kitchen no lounge area
Close to the metro station, 30 minutes from the centrum.
Comfortable bed Good location for central London
I booked for a 6 beds room and got a 10 beds room instead. Not a welcoming sign or good bye. Showers are very tight that you can't move and the water was too hot.
the room is very small, even a hole on the wall. very humid and make me feel stress
Bathroom and toilet were dirty.
some rooms are large than others location is amazing
rude staff bad bathrooms awfull cafeteria breakfast nothing like american breakfast 1 hour wifi per day only
Location and rooms
Not confortable place Bad staff nowhere to chill
Better than I expected after reading the reviews prior to arrival. Bathroom cleaned twice daily. Table and chairs and a sink in the room. Laundry facilities in the building.
No kitchen! Just a microwave and a jug is a real struggle.
big room powerful shower
feet's stink throughout the building bed very uncomfortable old appearence
Cheap Hot shower available at 10:30am
Being thrown out of bed at 4am by some guy trying their luck at getting their friend a bed (reception found me another).
comfortable bed location
transparent curtain, it was not dark enough at night
It's near the underground, about three mintutes walk from earls court station
Room difficult to find and get to, no lifts. Staff unfriendly and not helpful. Lack of facilities, facilities existing are in extremely bad condition.
Availability at the last minute
Squeaky beds very small pillows
The only good thing about this place was the location. Close to earl's court with the Picadilly line to Heathrow and the city centre. This is probably the only good thing about this hostel
When I first entered into the Londonears hostel It felt like I was in a prison and when I got into my room assigned the beds were messy. I could not make out which bed was available. This was probably the 10th hostel in my 1 month trip and it was the worst and most expensive. After going for dinner I came back to a full room and had to go out to ask to be assigned to another room. There's too many stairs in this hostel, sometimes just two steps but going up to my reassigned room there was two flights of stairs 3 hallways and 4 doors. The showers had mold on the walls and there was no where to hang my towel and clothing to shower. I had gotten a top bunk which lacked power outlets and the bed was saggy and you can feel the springs coming through.
Super rude staff, window can't be closed + no heating!! Nothing alike the picture on booking.com
Other guess don't have any respect for people who is already sleeping.
Excellent location. Clean recent bathroom.
Extremely bad/old mattresses to the extent you end sleeping on the floor... Apart from the bed, no furniture in the room, not even a chair or a hook! Staff just polite (less would be rude). No 'hostel' ambiance, no kitchen available (one micro-wave on self service, no cups, no plates, no glasses, no kitchenware...). Disappointing accommodation!
Most of the staff's members were kind and polite. They gave to us all the instructions and the information we need. The hostel is in an amazing location, near Earl's Court (very close indeed to the tube station), and the street is full of hotels and hostel and is nice and quiet all the time. The 24h reception was fantastic. Find someone at the door all the time gives you a boost of security. The room was clean (the trash bin has been emptied all the days and I suppose that someone took good care of the dust too...) and with the parquet. No moquette in the room! (pretty amazing).
Even if I must underline that this is a budget place in which you can stay (and mostly worth the price) there are things that you cannot like: there are a lot of poor people that ask for stay for the night because they are homeless. That was very sad. Or stupid angry italians that cannot speak in english at all and pretend that the staff understand them as well as english. Most of the staff's members doesn't mean ALL (about kindness). One of them was very unpleasant person. She was talking at the phone and she seemed quite disturbed when she saw me waiting to ask her where are the showers. I didn't want to disturb. But I needed a shower and that wasn't a work call. Some of WC are really short in size (but, you know... this is a hostel... you pay less... you must adapt to something) and the Showers didn't have all the time the place in which you can leave your dress while you are inside the shower.
Close to Earl's Court underground, so you can reach anywhere in minutes. Safe BUT dont leave your stuff outside room , you gonna lose something like me
Beds makes noise when squeezing,Bathroom always smell dirt even after they clean it, some stuff are little tough,you dont feel they are friendly,they do not have firm restrictions about those who drink,you smell wine always in bathrooms
Value for money
Too hot room . Can't sleep
The only good thing was a confortable bed
I booked a room because I was thinking it will be as in pictures,with new simple furniture and beds.in reallity it wasn't like this and one bath on 2floors. Wifi is for free 60minutes and then you have to pay for it
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An old mariner once shared with me, a curious piece of vernacular about a crew’s relationship with their vessel.
He said “nowadays, people say that they ‘serve on a ship’. But in ancient times no one served on a ship – they served the ship.”
This was presented not as small talk, but as a kernel of wisdom.
I respected the man greatly and so listened intently, trying to extract the wisdom of it.
Boats have names, and are often identified as feminine, but these days most folks regard vessels as things.
In past generations though, they were held in much higher regard.
A boat was not a what, but a who.
She had been built by hand, with care and concern not only for those who would sail her, but for the legacy she would carry. You see those who built the ship hoped that if they built her well, and fate was on her side, that the ship would outlive them.
To a shipbuilder, each vessel was like a daughter.
Ancient mariners would step aboard a ship with reverence, knowing that the vessel they stood on could carry them across the sea, and more importantly – bring them back home again.
The ship was their lifeline, she was a floating oasis of safety in a harsh and shifting abyss.
Not surprisingly, seafarers developed strong beliefs about their vessels.
Some may have given way to superstition (who among us isn’t the slightest bit superstitious about Something now and then?), but in many cases, at the heart of a superstitious maritime compulsion, you’ll find some maintenance or preservation ritual that helps keep the vessel afloat.
The captain of a great schooner once told me, that “a wooden boat is the closest thing to a living thing that man can build”.
Sure, the world is now full of assembly line built boats, popped out of moulds and given numbers instead of names, but to those of us who have had the good fortune to get acquainted with a wooden vessel - a boat is deserving of so much more.
The old mariner told me once again: “back in the old days, you didn’t serve on a ship. You served the ship”.
“You put your life in her hands each and every time you went out into the big blue beneath her sails and between her rails.”
“The wind and the waves could be gentle, or they might have a whim to treat you otherwise, but the ship was your sanctuary.”
“If treated right, she would deliver you from the call of the deep and bring you home safely.”
It’s a kind of give and take – a psychoanalyst might use the word “symbiosis”.
We take care of the ship, and she takes care of us.
Within all maritime cultures of merit, there is always a strong emphasis on stewardship.
We take care of the ship, not only because it’s our job, or because at the moment we are floating on her, but because she, like us, has a soul and will live on from here.
Many wooden boat owners care for their vessels in the same way one might treat a horse – knowing that while the horse may be theirs at the moment, one day the horse will be in another stable.
They don’t own the horse, but rather are entrusted… with the horse’s safety and care.
In the case of the horse, it is noble to care for the animal, keeping in mind it’s future well being.
I would submit that it is equally so for a boat.
So as you look at your gondolas, I encourage you all to consider that they are not just things. Each gondola is, in the words of that schooner captain “the closest thing to a living thing that man can build”.
Serve her well and she will, if she finds you worthy, return the favor.
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PL: Martha, this is your first issue as editor of the magazine. How did you approach selecting poems for the issue?
MS: A combination of things, for this first go. I launched myself into the submissions pile, for one, gathering a little stack of ‘possibles’ as the weeks went on. I also asked the Poetry Society to encourage their past Foyle Young Poets to submit things for me to read; and I emailed a handful of other poets whose work I really admire, in the hope that they might send something I could add to my reading pile. I wanted this issue to showcase my taste – I hope it does – to give people an idea of the kind of thing I’d like to find myself reading. Right at the end of the process, when were about to typeset the issue, we opened to online submissions for the first time, and one of the very first things I read through the Submittable portal was superb – I took it straight away.
PL: A number of clear themes emerge in the issue, some of which you discuss in your editorial. Did you set out to choose poems with a focus on environmental issues, or did this just emerge as a shared concern?
MS: I didn’t set out to make the issue themed, no – though I knew that I wanted to commission Karen Solie to explore the topic in her essay. I can’t help but feel that the themes that I did start to see come through naturally – climate catastrophe, dreams and nightmares, parenthood and responsibility, strange weather, illnesses and uncertainty – caught my eye and ear because those are exactly the things with which I feel preoccupied (what the world feels preoccupied with at the moment, perhaps). I know it’s been said elsewhere, and in greater depth, but climate catastrophe is the issue at hand, our primary concern, our greatest threat – so it’s no surprise that I find myself reading through that same lens.
I think I’m interested in poems about dreams, as a corollary of that; in dreaming, we can play out the possibilities – in nightmares, we see the world burn; in other, more playful sorts of dreaming, we can imagine a world of averted catastrophe. It could be deterrent, warning, incentive, a source of ideas. It’s not enough to dream, of course.
PL: The issue contains a number of poems in translation, and you have chosen to include the poems in their original languages too. Why do you feel that this is important?
MS: Well, we are an international magazine. I think of the number of poets, and readers of poetry, who might think and speak and write in another language, or more than one. This issue has poems in Galician, Bulgarian, Russian and Romanian – none are languages I speak, exactly, though the Galician I could make out, but I find great enjoyment in seeing the facing-page original versions, of comparing the shape of the page, the lines, patterns in punctuation. We should suppose that a portion of our readership does read poems in these languages, and in others we’ll represent in future issues, and I like to imagine their pleasure at finding this additional interest in our pages.
I like to hear from a plurality of voices. I think work in translation is very important, bringing poems in other languages to those who can only read in English, but I also think it can be important to hear the original, to show the working, almost, rather than assume the authority of the English. The poem has two lives, now, and I’m interested in both of them.
PL: Can you tell us about some of the poets published in Poetry London for the first time in this issue?
I’m particularly glad to have Mukahang Limbu’s ‘Golden Shovel’ – I’d been watching and admiring Mukahang’s work over the past year, as I saw his poems emerging from his work with Kate Clanchy. He won the Out-Spoken Prize this year, and is clearly a wonderful poet already, questions of his age aside! | <urn:uuid:ada1e730-baf3-439a-b666-c972bb137dcc> | CC-MAIN-2020-05 | https://poetrylondon.co.uk/interview-with-poetry-editor-martha-sprackland/ | 2020-01-29T11:09:22Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-05/segments/1579251796127.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20200129102701-20200129132701-00205.warc.gz | en | 0.971706 | 869 |
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) announced today the appointment of Dr Sabrina M Y Lin as the University’s next Vice-President for Institutional Advancement (VPIA), starting 1 November, 2017.
Dr Lin, currently Corporate Vice President, Commercial Business for Greater China at Cisco Systems Inc., is a senior executive with a track record spanning across global technology companies, universities and entrepreneurial businesses, as well as an international background with extensive work experience in the North and South America, Asia Pacific and Greater China. She is one of the few Asian women leaders at Cisco and is among the 2017 Forbes China’s Top 50 Business Women. Her appointment is the result of a rigorous global search.
Mr. Andrew Liao Cheung-sing, Chairman of HKUST Council, was elated by Dr Lin’s new appointment. “Dr Lin is well-placed to lead HKUST’s endeavors in forging wider and deeper collaborations with corporations and academic institutions worldwide, leveraging her demonstrated success in business development, higher education and entrepreneurship, as well as her global vision in a fast-paced world. I am confident that she will take the University’s global presence to greater prominence, while fostering closer ties with alumni and stakeholders of HKUST to support the University’s vibrant development.”
Prof Tony F Chan, President of the HKUST, also extended his warm welcome to Dr Lin. “It is our honor to have an accomplished and home grown woman leader like her, who is passionate about education and a role model herself dedicated to diversity, joining the senior leadership team. I must also take this opportunity to thank Dr Eden Y Woon for his seven years of dedicated service and remarkable contributions, especially his leadership in enhancing the University’s brand globally, advancing strategic mainland and international partnerships, fund-raising, enhancing alumni relations through various initiatives such as the establishment of alumni endowment fund and alumni chapters worldwide, as well as making the celebratory programs for the 25th anniversary a great success.”
Dr Lin is a native of Hong Kong and an alumna of Diocesan Girls' School before further education in the United States. Dr Lin began her career in research and teaching at Stanford University. Passionate about nurturing the next generation, Dr Lin is not only an active volunteer and mentor to girls and women in technology initiatives across Greater China, but also active in passing on her knowledge and experience to students. Dr Lin was an Adjunct Associate Professor at HKUST between 2010 and 2016 and has been an Adjunct Professor at Nanjing University Business School since 2015. Dr Lin co-founded two start-up companies in Silicon Valley, one of which focused on the commercialization of education research.
Dr Lin graduated from Stanford University with a BA, MS, and PhD, Phi Beta Kappa, Summa Cum Laude in Statistics and Cognitive Science/Social Psychology.
About The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology
The Hong Kong University of Science and Technology (HKUST) (www.ust.hk) is a world-class research university that focuses on science, technology and business as well as humanities and social science. HKUST offers an international campus, and a holistic and interdisciplinary pedagogy to nurture well-rounded graduates with global vision, a strong entrepreneurial spirit and innovative thinking. HKUST attained the highest proportion of internationally excellent research work in the Research Assessment Exercise 2014 of Hong Kong’s University Grants Committee, and is the world’s second in the latest QS’ Top 50 under 50 ranking. Its graduates were ranked 13th worldwide and top in Greater China in Global Employability University Survey 2016.
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Anthony Ferrara has a new post to his blog today looking at true random number generation as it relates to predictability and bias. He also talks about a method/tool you can use (based on RFC 4086) to generate truly random numbers - PHP-CryptLib.
When we talk about "random" numbers, we generally talk about two fundamental properties: Predictability and Bias. Both are closely related, but are subtly different. Predictability in reference to random numbers is the statistical problem of predicting the next value when knowing any number of previous values. Bias on the other hand is the statistical problem of predicting the next value when knowing the distribution of previous values.
He looks at how predictability can effect true random number generation and a common mistake in generation related to bias in the calculation method. He talks about some of the functions PHP includes to work with randomness, but notes that they all have their flaws. He points to the PHP-CryptLib package as a solution (adhering to the guidelines in RFC 4086 for randomness). He includes some sample code of how to use it to generate random numbers, tokens and sets of bytes. You can find the full source over on github. | <urn:uuid:c13e5268-9976-46d5-ab06-87d7fe31f73a> | CC-MAIN-2017-26 | http://www.phpdeveloper.org/news/16617 | 2017-06-22T18:31:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-26/segments/1498128319688.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20170622181155-20170622201155-00186.warc.gz | en | 0.923454 | 245 |
Somewhere in a bustling little store sits that unique, last-minute item that would perfectly round out your holiday shopping list. Small Business Saturday – the day after Black Friday – is a perfect time to stop in and support your local independent business retailers that sell specialized, unexpected pieces.
Local economies and small businesses thrive because of the revenue made during Small Business Saturday. 48 percent of the of the cost of those unique, handmade pieces bought during this event come back to the community through taxes, payroll, and expenditures. Last year, 112 million people spent an estimated $15.4 billion at small retail establishments, according to a Small Business Saturday (SBS) Consumer Insights Survey, effectively supplying much-needed income for their neighborhoods.
Small Business Saturday was started by BBB Accredited business American Express, and BBB supports this event for a variety of reasons. As an advocate of the retail marketplace, BBB encourages shoppers to consider shopping locally. There are 23 million small businesses in the United States that have created 8 million jobs since 1990. They make up approximately 40 percent of all American retail jobs.
The holiday season traditionally provides a boost for small businesses, and many participate in this event in an effort to create relationships with new shoppers. They hope that the sales they make during this time of year translate into returning customers and repeat sales.
BBB has contributed to the foundation of small businesses since 1912 by setting standards for business ethics and building trust between buyers and sellers. BBB partners with businesses to help them grow, expand their network, and become leaders in the community.
Before going out on Small Business Saturday, use bbb.org to find trustworthy businesses in your area. Read reviews to see what past customers have to say, and research any sales before you set out. Additional tips to help with your seasonal spending are available on BBB’s Holiday Helper page.
Whether you’re searching for the last thing on your list or are simply supporting your local retailers, BBB encourages shoppers to get involved. Share your shopping experience on social media or on the business’ profile on bbb.org and tell the world why you love your community’s stores.
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Science won’t be putting its back issues on JSTOR anymore, Yale has stopped supporting BioMed Central, and now the American Anthropological Association (AAA)will be moving their publications from the University of California Press to Wiley-Blackwell. All in all, it’s been a bad month for open access, more access, or cheaper access. It seems that Yale is pulling out of BioMed and the AAA is moving to Wiley-Blackwell for the same reason – money. Yale doesn’t want to pay to publish their scholars’ research, or at least not so directly, since they’ll be paying for it one way or another. The AAA makes its money from its publications, and they can make more of it through Wiley than through UC.
The AAA decision may be the right one for them. They probably will make more money. In the case of that decision, the only people likely to suffer are scholars, not the association itself. I think Yale’s decision has more potential to backfire for them. If publishing, especially STM publishing, continues to be dominated by commercial publishers, prices will continue to go up. I’ve heard librarians complain that commercial vendors don’t seem to be good citizens, or something like that. The problem isn’t that they aren’t good citizens. And the problem isn’t that they don’t provide good content. The problem is that commercial vendors and scholarly institutions have two different goals. Scholars want to disseminate their research and libraries want to provide access to that research if they can. Commercial vendors want to make money. I don’t see a problem with making money, and I’d certainly like to make more of it myself, but there’s bound to be conflicts of interest. And as costs go up and libraries get strapped for cash, some research will be less available.
A commenter on the IHE AAA article notes that he doesn’t understand the negative reaction, because increasingly even commercial journal publishers are allowing authors to place their articles in institutional repositories and the like. He notes that the UC Press and Wiley are “both are “Green” on author Open Access self-archiving, meaning they have both endorsed immediate self-archiving of the author’s final, accepted draft (postprint) in the author’s Institutional Repository, providing immediate Open Access to the article.” It’s a thoughtful comment with many supporting links, but I still think librarians and scholars should have a problem. First, not every institution has an institutional repository. Second, libraries are still going to have to subscribe to the journals as long as they can afford to, at least at research libraries. The commenter argues that the “62% of deposits that are immediately made OA will soon draw the 38% that are Closed Access deposits over to their ranks under the natural pressure of research usage and impact alone.” Possibly. But if “green” commercial publishers aren’t making enough profit, how likely is it that they will stay green? If no one subscribes to the journals because pre- or post prints are available in repositories, will the journal continue to exist? And if it doesn’t, how will universities adapt?
I once heard an anecdote that I hope is mythical, but perhaps not. A consortium of 10 libraries were paying $10K/year for some science journal. They told the publisher that 9 of them were going to cancel their subscriptions and split the last subscription, and maintain access through ILL. The publisher said fine. The remaining subscription would now be $100K/year. It may or may not have happened, but it could happen. | <urn:uuid:fa31ab8e-ce5a-4fde-bf27-7d6c1a2febcf> | CC-MAIN-2014-42 | http://blogs.princeton.edu/librarian/2007/08/open_access_trouble/ | 2014-10-22T13:51:07Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-42/segments/1413507447020.15/warc/CC-MAIN-20141017005727-00217-ip-10-16-133-185.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.962801 | 775 |
Our New AR Program is leading edge library technology
St. Albert has recently upgraded our Accelerated Reader program, and it now has some amazing features! AR is produced by a software company called Renaissance Place. This will allow your child to have online access to thousands of titles – you will no longer search for titles owned by St. Albert! Just go online tohttp://www.arbookfind.com/UserType.aspx to search by author, title, etc. This will open up so many more opportunities for our students. This program also has a special feature called Renaissance Home Connect, which your child and you can access outside of school from any computer with an Internet connection. Renaissance Home Connect is fun and easy to use. It allows the teacher, you, and your child to share information about progress in Accelerated Reader.
If you check out the website and add it to your favorites, you will be able to check it at any time to find out how your child is progressing in AR. You will be able to see his or her goal, progress towards that goal, and much more. You can view Renaissance Home Connect from any computer with an Internet connection using these browsers:
- Internet Explorer® 6.02 or later
- Firefox® 2.x or later
- Safari™ 2.0.3 or later
To log on to Renaissance Home Connect, go to the following website:
Your child’s user name is the first letter of his or her first name and the first four letters of his or her last name (For example: JSMIT) for Jane Smith
Your child’s password is his or her lunch number.
Also, if you’d like to receive emails showing your student’s quiz or test results, click the Email Setup link in Renaissance Home Connect and follow the directions. To be sure these emails reach your inbox, add email@example.com to your address book. | <urn:uuid:6c4bd37a-13f1-4bc0-8820-37fdf0b249cc> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | https://school.stalbert.org/new-accelerated-reader-program/ | 2017-11-22T03:40:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806455.2/warc/CC-MAIN-20171122031440-20171122051440-00708.warc.gz | en | 0.939719 | 403 |
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NEWPORT CITY – Trish Sears, CEO of the Newport City Renaissance Corporation (NCRC), is full of energy and always looking for ways to make her beloved city even better. That’s why the staff at the Newport Daily Express named her Citizen of the Year.
“I’m really humbled,” said Sears, upon hearing of her award.
Sears was born in Atlanta, Ga., but her family moved to Long Island. She attended St. Francis College. After college she lived in Manhattan and worked in the garment industry. Later, she sold fine art on the East Coast. Then she moved to Wyoming where she worked for the Special Olympics. That's where she met and married her husband, Steve Mason, who was working for Special Olympics in Washington, D.C.
Sears eventually relocated to the nation’s capital and started working in international development.
Sears’s husband, who is originally from the Northeast Kingdom, has a strong attachment to Newport. Mason’s father, Mayland Mason, owned Mason Auto Body on the East Side. Steve Mason’s grandfather, Leo Camirand, owned the former Camirand Auto, which was located in Railroad Square for over 50 years.
When she first moved to the region in 2001, Sears worked as a consultant on international development. Her duties included women’s issues and sustainable development in places like Africa and Asia. After moving to Lowell, her colleagues joked that they had to break up their emailed attachments because her Internet connection wouldn’t handle the entire file. Sears and Mason started writing grants that helped bring high speed wireless Internet to Lowell and surrounding areas.
As a consultant, Sears worked with Save the Children and traveled to places like Banda Aceh, Indonesia. She worked there for three months in 2005. Sears is also consulted for Vermont Public Television and Grounds for Health, a Waterbury-based organization that works on women’s issues.
The Lowell Historical Society is one of the organizations Sears joined after moving to Vermont. The organization obtained money from the town, installed a “Welcome to Lowell Sign” and produced a cookbook from residents who live or used to live in Lowell. Sears also did substitute teaching at the Lowell Graded School, where the principal asked her to start the organization “Friends of Lowell Kids.” The organization did such things as write grants to help purchase playground equipment. Sears also joined the Northeast Kingdom Collaborative and served as president for three years.
Sears became involved with NCRC after Newport City received a community development block grant. The council hired Sears in 2006 so the city could secure the Vermont Downtown Designation. NCRC had a year and a half to complete the task, which was accomplished in about a year. A downtown designation allows for grants and tax credits for different projects.
Sears, upon being hired, contacted Newport native and Burlington developer Tony Pomerleau. During that conversation, they discussed the Waterfront Plaza, which is one of Pomerleau’s properties. The next morning Pomerleau called Sears to say something needed to be done with the property. It wasn’t long until Pomerleau started talking about tearing down the shopping center and building a new hotel, conference center and retail space.
NCRC was the first in the state to get a grant from the American Institute of Architects, which brought in the Rural/Urban Design Assistance Team (R/UDAT). That visit resulted in numerous suggestions for the city. Way-finding signs and Form Based Zoning were the first tasks completed. Newport is the only municipality in the state to adopt Form Based Zoning, and now other places like Shelburne and South Burlington are working on it.
Because of Sears’ work in partnership with citizen experts, NCRC has been recognized nationally and internationally.
More recently, NCRC has been working in partnership with NVDA on a foreign trade zone in Newport. Sears expects the zone will become a reality in the next several months. Meanwhile, NCRC continues work to develop downtown Newport City into a center for entrepreneurship. Over the next several years, NCRC will continue to work as a catalyst forging partnerships for Newport's economic growth and community engagement. NCRC recently received a grant from the Orton Family Foundation for a Community Matters project. A representative of the foundation plans to visit the city in February 2013. | <urn:uuid:22ea112e-b265-4fd0-8830-fd0296ae8f67> | CC-MAIN-2013-48 | http://www.newportvermontdailyexpress.com/print/7329 | 2013-12-13T16:19:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-48/segments/1386164960531/warc/CC-MAIN-20131204134920-00088-ip-10-33-133-15.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.972595 | 904 |
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So, I’ve been doing a lot of thinking lately, certain songs will make an idea already on my mind become more persistent. And I think A LOT because I have A LOT of time to think.
Before we went on our family vacation to Destin in November 2017 (a real luxury for us), my mind set was different. I was intent on really participating, no matter what, I was going to be present in the activities my children & husband wanted me to do, I was going to have that moonlight walk on the beach this year, because when I got home, I was going to have a myelogram and they were finally going to SEE what was wrong with me and then they were going to fix it and THEN!! my life could be “normal” again…. WRONG!!!
I did PUSH through that vacation and I did more than I had done in about 2 1/2 years. And I paid the penance of pain for it! I was stiff, sore, my head hurt a little bit more each day! The nerve pain got a little worse each day. I had prayed to God, please just let me get thru this vacation and enjoy this rare time with my family. By the last night of vacation, I was not well! I had a headache that I tried to tell myself was a migraine, I was so nauseous and I just couldn’t push anymore. This *migraine* was like no other, I had severe pressure in my head, like it would explode, I thought it was because there were storms rolling about & the barometric pressure was high. This was like every kind of headache you can imagine in one. It took me nearly 6 weeks of doing pretty much nothing and taking pain pills & muscle relaxers to get to my new normal (of still doing pretty much nothing), but not in a full on kicking my ass flare! At least I wasn’t drugged up & could think somewhat clearly again! I could be there “mentally” for my kids & husband!
I digress, when I got home, I had my myelogram a few days later. Then, I saw my Dr.’s PA a week or so later. This is where I got my diagnosis of Arachnoiditis, the diagnosis that had (little to my knowledge) already changed my life forever, but now I had to accept that this was not something fixable! No cure, no nothing! Pain management for life. My Neurologist doesn’t give a shit anymore because he can’t make anymore money off of me. There will be no scar removal, there is no “fixing” this. This is really bad!
So, the other day I heard the song “Unanswered prayers”. It got me thinking, does God really “answer” or “unanswer” our prayers? Or, is He just carrying out the plan He had for us all along. All the time we spend praying & hoping… I know we are not supposed to worry, God has already worked it all out for us. Duh, but how could THIS be the plan. I’ve always said, God has a plan for me, I just have to LET it happen – we all know this is easier said than done! But I had no experience or had never thought a plan like this would be for me! I was always so careful!!
So, is all this praying & begging to God for this outcome or that really “necessary”? I picture him answering “be patient my child”, “do not fear my child”, “do not wonder my child”, “take comfort in Me, my child”! But is he really ANSWERING, or for that matter UNANSWERING!!! HE had this planned out all along!
All the while, I have prayed for certain outcomes, while being thankful for all of my Earthly blessings as well! Always, I am so thankful for the life, the opportunities, the LOVE that has been so abundant in my life!
So, dare I walk further down this road… “WHY?? WHY would THIS be His plan for me? Why would He PLAN like this for me & others like me (and for those in far worse situations than me) our lives the way He has? Where does free will come into play? How could I have altered HIS plan? Could I? I don’t believe I am that powerful! Why didn’t this happen to a child molesterer, a rapist, a murderer, a pedophile? I am trying to wrap my head around all this thinking that sometimes drives me crazy!
My thinking, my ideas… my “unanswered”??? Prayers!!! I have felt close and had a deep belief in God since I was a child. I honestly don’t think it is possible for a human to fully wrap their minds around all of this! I have so many questions & I still believe only He has the answers.
I’ve thought about Eve eating the apple, why did she let herself be persuaded to eat that damn apple? I’ve thought about Jesus & His sufferings. His resurrection, His faithfulness, His unearthly understanding! Why, in the world we live in – I can’t make any sense of this way. I KNOW it is beyond my HUMAN understanding! I MUST accept something beyond my own understanding!
Now, HOW can I get to a point of ACCEPTANCE?
I pray I will be OK enough to be here for my daughters for long enough! I don’t know what His plan is! I’m tired of thinking about this, wondering. I know I need to lay it in His hands. I feel comfort and at the same time a gnawing in my gut that He knows/He knew all along! What did I do wrong, or was it nothing?
How can I better walk alongside Him in the rest of this journey? He is my only hope, my only salvation, my savior. I feel less hopeful, so helpless at a time when I have reached out to Him probably more than I have any other time in my life!
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TV broadcaster Adrian Chiles has revealed that he was diagnosed with anxiety after he was axed from ITV’s breakfast show Daybreak.
Chiles, 51, who was poached by ITV from BBC1’s The One Show along with his co-presenter Christine Bleakley in 2010, said in an interview with Radio Times that he “felt terrible” after they were both dropped just over a year later.
“Daybreak was unbelievably stressful because whatever we did, we couldn’t seem to get anyone to acknowledge it was working,” he said.
Chiles, who remained the face of ITV’s football coverage before he was let go mid-contract in 2015, admitted that after first leaving Daybreak he was “self-medicating with alcohol” before being formally diagnosed with anxiety.
“Once I was freed from Daybreak I thought, ‘This will be an easy life now,’ as I was being paid lots of money to present a football match every two weeks. But I felt terrible,” Chiles told the new issue of Radio Times, “and felt guilty for feeling terrible.”
“I spent a lot of time thinking, ‘What is wrong with me?’ I didn’t have enough to do and was over-thinking everything,” he said.
“I knew if I had a pint or two everything would be fine, so I was self-medicating with alcohol. I was already seeing my GP for high blood pressure and reflux, and on one of those visits I was diagnosed with anxiety.”
Chiles began taking the antidepressant citalopram every day, and admits that his anxiety began to affect his presenting before he was “booted off” ITV Sport in 2015 – a move he says he saw coming.
“[ITV] just didn’t want me to do the football anymore,” he said. “They fell out of love with me. You’d have to ask them why, but I knew it was coming. Anxiety had begun to affect my work.”
Chiles said that he began to find ad-libbing live on air “difficult”: “One night at Wembley, I looked at the autocue and I could hardly get the words out.”
Adrian Chiles and Christine Bleakley on BBC1’s The One Show
However, the broadcaster criticised the way ITV had handled his 2015 departure. “I wish the contract had run its course and it had ended on a handshake, instead of, ‘Right, we want you off-air now’,” he said.
“The way it was done made me look like I’d had my hand in the till,” he added. Chiles now presents on Radio 5 Live, but says he misses television: “I’d love to do more telly again.”
His “dependance” on alcohol is explored in his upcoming BBC2 documentary, Drinkers like Me: Adrian Chiles, which airs on Monday 27th August.
“It’s a stigma for a male in male company to drink moderately,” Chiles said, admitting that alcohol once held a “quiet, vice-like grip” on his life.
He also admitted that has previously broadcast with a hangover: “I’ve turned up at work affected by alcohol like everyone and got away with it. The morning after the night before, where I’m fine on air for three hours and then absolutely wasted afterwards. But not pissed on air, unless you can still be drunk at seven in the morning from the night before which I wasn’t… Well, if I blew into a breathalyser I probably was, but I didn’t feel like I was.”
Chiles regards himself as a typical product of the British drinking culture, something he hopes to highlight in the BBC2 film: “Alcohol is the only drug you have to apologise for not taking.”
The new edition of Radio Times is available in shops and on the newsstand from Tuesday 21st August
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Motorists across Lincolnshire look set to benefit from a supermarket price war that will see the cost of fuel significantly reduced.
Sainsbury’s which operates filling stations across the county was the first to announce it would be dropping the price of diesel and unleaded petrol by 2p per litre.
The decision comes after the RAC criticised supermarket bosses for failing to reflect a drop in the cost in the prices in which they sold fuel.
A spokesperson for Sainsbury’s, told The Mirror: “We hope this will bring a little bit of sunshine to millions of motorists braving the rain over the next few days.”
Keen not to be outdone by their rivals, Morrisons, Tesco and Asda have all responded by performing similar cuts in the hope of persuading shoppers to stay with them.
When contacted by the national website, Peter Cattell, Tesco’s fuel director said: “We know customers will be making plans to enjoy the British summer, so we’re delighted to be dropping the price of petrol and diesel by up to 2p per litre at all of our 500 petrol filing stations.”
“We’ll always make sure we have the cheapest fuel prices in the area," added a spokesperson for Morrisons.
Speaking about their decision to lower their prices, Dave Tyrer, Asda’s senior buying manager for petrol, said: “Asda is well known for having the lowest fuel prices around and we’ve cut our already market leading price further – by up to 2p - to mean our customers won’t pay more than 110.7p per litre for petrol or diesel at any of our 307 petrol stations nationwide.”
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A weather pattern trend?
On the 10 p.m. news last night, the meteorologist noted that the all-time record low for the date was set in 1974 at 1 degree above zero. That comment set in motion my thinking about weather extremes that I have experienced in my lifetime. Spring, in 1974, was cold and wet. If my memory serves me correctly, the last rain was on June 14. The following six weeks were the hottest comparable period in my years of farming. I think that the hottest day during that time was 114 degrees. Most of the other days were over 100. Even the blast-furnace conditions of 2012 were not as hot for as long as that spell in 1974.
Other times of extreme heat were 1954 through 1956 and 1975 through 1977. I remember well the drought in the 1950s. I was in high school. By the time I graduated in 1957, many of us thought that the heat and dry conditions were the start of the trend toward global warming. Maybe they were, but adequate rain fell that summer. The following years, until 1974, were close to normal, and crop yields were much better.
Flash forward to conditions this year. There is no question in my mind that global warming is a fact. There are reams of data showing that the temperatures around the world, as they are now recorded, are the highest in human history. I question what is causing this anomaly. Is it the beginning of a trend? Is it a series of unusual years that accidentally came together? Or is it a sampling error resulting from taking temperature readings in urban locations, as opposed to rural areas, which was common in the last century. If it is the beginning of a trend, as many claim, is it caused by human activity? Or possibly, could it be caused by something natural that is impossible to control?
The drought of 2012 is fresh in farmers’ minds as we prepare for another growing season. With the weather today much cooler than a year ago, a little localized warming seems like a good idea. The simple fact is that last year's summer heat or this spring's coolness are not good indicators of the kind of summer growing season that is ahead. Even the lack of subsoil moisture, such as farmers in my area are currently experiencing, does not necessarily mean the summer will be dry or hot. The good growing season of 2000 followed one of the driest spells in history. The drought just happened to occur that year between November and May. Precipitation came just in time to bring a good crop.
Predicting weather in some ways parallels predicting prices. The key to success is in guessing correctly, whether volatility is a change in trends or just a short-term event. Personally, I could use a little warm weather for the next month or so. However, I do not want a return to the conditions of 1974 or the 1950s. Making management decisions to take advantage of good growing conditions or good prices without suffering from weather or price risk will be the key. It will not be easy! | <urn:uuid:ac62ef5e-cf28-4a8e-94f8-35ac125d7a37> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://www.agriculture.com/markets/analysis/corn/a-wear-pattern-trend_9-ar30651 | 2014-04-23T09:44:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1398223202457.0/warc/CC-MAIN-20140423032002-00214-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979858 | 621 |
HIV transmission risk behavior among HIV-infected adults in Uganda: results of a nationally representative survey.
ABSTRACT Evaluate factors associated with HIV transmission risk behavior among HIV-infected adults in Uganda.
Cross-sectional and nationally representative study (2004-2005 Uganda HIV/AIDS Sero-Behavioral Survey) tested 18,525 adults (15-59 years old) for HIV and herpes simplex virus type 2 (HSV-2).
Data were weighted to obtain nationally representative results. Sexual-risk behavior by HIV-infected individuals was defined as unprotected sex at last encounter. Using multivariate analysis, we identified factors associated with being sexually active, knowing HIV status, and using contraception and condoms.
Of 1092 HIV-infected respondents, 64% were female (median age was 33 years), 84% had HSV-2, and 13% reported one lifetime partner (1% of men and 23% of women). Twenty-one percent of adults knew their HIV status and 9% knew their partners'. Seventy-seven percent were sexually active, of whom 27% reported condom use at last sex. Of last unprotected sexual encounters, 84% were with spouses and 13% with steady partners. Of cohabitating persons, 40% had an HIV-negative spouse. Those who knew their HIV status were three times more likely to use a condom at last sex encounter [adjusted odds ratio (AOR), 3.0; 95% confidence intervals (CI), 1.9-4.7] and those who knew their partners' HIV status were 2.3 times more likely to use condoms (AOR, 2.3; 95% CI, 1.2-4.3).
A minority of HIV-infected adults in Uganda knew they had HIV infection; nearly half were in an HIV-discordant relationship, and few used condoms. Knowledge of HIV status, both one's own and one's partner's, was associated with increased condom use. Interventions to support HIV-infected persons and their partners to be tested are urgently needed.
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ABSTRACT: Margaret Kyakuwa onderzocht de rol van hiv-positieve verpleegsters in twee behandelcentra voor hiv/aids in Uganda. Ze bekeek wat er gebeurt met de identiteit van de verpleegsters wanneer hun persoonlijke leven en sociale omgeving verandert als gevolg van de aidsepidemie en behandeling met antiretrovirale therapie (ART). Ook onderzocht Kyakuwa hoe de ziekte de zorgrelaties van de verpleegsters beïnvloedt. Uit haar onderzoek blijkt dat verpleegsters die werkzaam zijn in de publieke kliniek vaak kiezen voor een leven van geheimzinnigheid en verschuiling. Kyakuwa concludeert daarnaast dat hiv-positieve verpleegsters betere zorgverleners zijn, door de toegevoegde waarde van hun persoonlijke ervaring. Zulke verpleegsters blijken pragmatischer en flexibeler te zijn. In plaats van zich strikt te houden aan medisch-ethische codes van objectiviteit en afstandelijkheid, hechten zij meer waarde aan relaties die gebaseerd zijn op vertrouwen, onderlinge afhankelijkheid, creativiteit en samenwerking. Dit moeten de verpleegsters zien te bereiken binnen beperkte kaders, wat een constante herziening van keuzes vereist.
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ABSTRACT: This study uses data from the Demographic and Health Surveys (DHS) and AIDS Indicator Surveys (AIS) in eight high HIV prevalence countries in sub-Saharan Africa (Kenya, Lesotho, Malawi, Swaziland, Tanzania, Uganda, Zambia and Zimbabwe) to assess HIV-related knowledge and behaviors among people living with HIV (PLHIV). HIV/AIDS has become the leading cause of death in sub-Saharan Africa. UNAIDS has recommended that comprehensive HIV-prevention programs should include a focus on PLHIV as a primary source of HIV infection. In order to design effective prevention strategies focusing on PLHIV, it is essential to understand their HIV-related knowledge and behaviors. Knowledge about HIV/AIDS The study results show that among three areas of knowledge of HIV/AIDS—comprehensive knowledge about AIDS, knowledge of preventing mother-to-child transmission (PMTCT) and knowledge of HIV prevention methods—the largest percentage of HIV-positive men and women are aware of HIV prevention methods, particularly “abstinence” and “being faithful.” The lowest percentage by far is for comprehensive knowledge about AIDS. There has been significant improvement, however, in comprehensive knowledge about AIDS and knowledge of PMTCT in countries studied with recent trend data. Prior HIV testing is positively associated with comprehensive knowledge about HIV/AIDS in only half the countries, for both men and women. A positive association between prior HIV testing and knowledge of PMTCT is observed among HIV-positive women in most countries, and among men in a handful of countries, possibly because of widespread government and donor efforts toward universal access to PMTCT services, including HIV testing and counseling during pregnancy. Overall, there is a strong association between educational attainment and comprehensive knowledge about AIDS among HIV-positive men and women. Women’s education is also positively associated with their knowledge of PMTCT in most countries studied, but not so for men. Sexual Risk Behaviors Among HIV-positive men and women a greater percentage of men than women report having multiple sexual partners. Also, a higher percentage of men than women report higher-risk sex (sex with nonspousal or non-cohabiting partners) in the past 12 months, and condom use at last sex. Lesotho and Swaziland, where HIV prevalence rates are particularly high, have the highest levels of condom use, for both women and men. However, in four countries (Malawi, Tanzania, Uganda and Zambia) more than 75 percent of men report that their most recent sex was unprotected. Over time, prevalence of multiple partnership and higher-risk sex has remained about the same in all five countries studied with data from two surveys. While condom use at at last sex has more than doubled in most cases, a large proportion of PLHIV are sexually active and have unprotected sex. The results also show that being married or in a cohabitating relationship is significantly associated with lower levels of condom use for both women and men, as within marriage condom use is more for protection from pregnancy than for protection against sexually transmitted infections. Increasing people’s awareness of their own HIV status as well as their partner’s status could increase condom use within marriage or cohabitation. Prior HIV Testing Experience Prior HIV testing is common in all countries studied with data from the last five years. Testing rates are higher for women than men, probably because of testing during antenatal care. However, not all PLHIV who tested for HIV received results. Rates of testing and receiving results have increased substantially for both women and men, possibly reflecting recent policy and program efforts. In Swaziland, however, only half of HIV-infected women and one-third of HIV-infected men have ever tested for HIV. Contrary to expectations, the study found that engaging in sexual risk behaviors, such as having multiple sexual partners, is not associated with HIV testing uptake. The study found a positive association between receiving STI care and testing for HIV in the last 12 months, although only for women and only in three of the eight countries examined. Integrating HIV testing into STI clinics could be an effective approach for scaling up HIV testing, as many people are reluctant to go for testing to a health facility serving HIV patients. Overall, the findings from this analysis can help inform policies and programs in sub-Saharan Africa to develop comprehensive HIV-prevention strategies that include a stronger focus on HIV prevention among men and women living with HIV.
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ABSTRACT: Background:With transmission of HIV occurring mainly through heterosexual contact, it is paramount to identify serodiscordant couples and implement preventive strategies that will protect the negative partner. The burden of serodiscordance and its predictors in Ethiopia is not clearly understood due to the dearth of data.Objective: To assess the prevalence and predictors of HIV serodiscordance among couples tested in Jimma University Specialized Hospital (JUSH) Voluntary Counseling and Testing (VCT) center.Methods:The study employed a case-control study design conducted at VCT center of JUSH in all registered serodiscordant couples and seroconcordant couples that were selected from the registered clients in the period from 2003 to 2010. A pretested structured questionnaire was used for data collection using medical chart abstraction. Data were entered, cleaned, and coded using Statistical Package of Social Sciences (SPSS) version 16.Results:The prevalence of serodiscordance in the study population was found to be 8.4%. Male and female discordants accounted for 5.8% (137) and 2.6% (62), respectively. Rare use of condom (adjusted odds ratio [AOR] = 7.2; 95% confidence interval [CI] = 1.59-32.54) and active tuberculosis (TB) at enrollment (AOR= 17.7; 95% CI = 2.3-139.2) were significantly found to be the predictors of serodiscordance. Conclusion:The prevalence of serodiscordance in the study area was found to be low, but it contributes to a clinically significant population that mandates implementation of preventive strategy. Sero-positive individuals who use condoms rarely should be encouraged to have their partners tested, and the association between active TB and serodiscordance underscores the need for further study.05/2013; 14(3). DOI:10.1177/2325957413488177 | <urn:uuid:dd8684ab-3c0b-4910-985e-781ad00c9233> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://www.researchgate.net/publication/5535250_HIV_transmission_risk_behavior_among_HIV-infected_adults_in_Uganda_results_of_a_nationally_representative_survey | 2015-07-06T13:51:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375098464.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031818-00297-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.888185 | 2,190 |
Well, it's Lent, so of course it's all Jesus Christ Superstar all the time around here.
J is listening to Bread, Steely Dan and Chicago. "It's like you're five years old again, and it all comes back. The wood paneling, those fuzzy foot stickers and that feeling of expansiveness, and how big the world is when you're five, you know?"
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Early life adversity programs changes in central 5-HT neuronal function in adulthood
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Dr Sasha Gartside
Dr Daniel Johnson
Dr Claire Troakes
Professor Colin Ingram
Gartside SE, Johnson DA, Leitch MM, Troakes C, Ingram CD
European Journal of Neuroscience
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Early life adversity is associated with an increased incidence of psychiatric illness in adulthood. Although the mechanisms underlying this association are unclear, one possible substrate is brain 5-hydroxytryptamine neurotransmission, which is reportedly abnormal in several psychiatric disorders. This study examined the effect of a rat model of early life adversity, early maternal separation, on 5-hydroxytryptamine neurotransmission in adulthood. In vitro electrophysiological experiments revealed that, in early maternal separation rats compared with controls, the sensitivity of alpha1-adrenoceptors on 5-hydroxytryptamine neurons in the dorsal raphe nucleus was significantly reduced, whilst the sensitivity of 5-hydroxytryptamine1A receptors showed a nonsignificant trend to reduction. In in vivo microdialysis experiments, the 5-hydroxytryptamine1A receptor agonist-induced suppression of 5-hydroxytryptamine release in the frontal cortex was reduced in early maternal separation animals, suggesting desensitization of 5-hydroxytryptamine1A autoreceptors. There was no increase in basal 5-hydroxytryptamine in the frontal cortex as measured by microdialysis and a nonsignificant trend towards increased basal firing activity of classical (non-bursting) 5-hydroxytryptamine neurons in the dorsal raphe nucleus measured by in vivo electrophysiology. Finally, early maternal separation failed to alter expression of messenger ribonucleic acids coding for 5-hydroxytryptamine1A or alpha1B receptors in the dorsal raphe nucleus as measured by in situ hybridization histochemistry, suggesting that functional changes in receptor sensitivity observed are not due to changes in receptor gene transcription. The findings demonstrate that early life adversity programs changes in sensitivity of the two principal regulators of 5-hydroxytryptamine neuronal activity. Similar effects in humans may contribute to the increased incidence of psychiatric illness in individuals exposed to early life adversity.
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HOUSTON — Bellator MMA is re-entering the kickboxing game, and this time it is taking matters into its own hands. Bellator president Scott Coker announced Thursday the launch of Bellator Kickboxing, a kickboxing entity that will work hand-in-hand with Spike TV and Viacom, essentially filling the role GLORY once held at the network.
Bellator Kickboxing debuts April 16 in Torino, Italy, with an event that sees MMA and kickboxing veteran Melvin Manhoef take on Alexandru Negrea in the main event. Mustapha Haida challenges Karim Ghajii in a five-round 75kg (165 pounds) title fight in the co-headlining bout.
Veteran kickboxers Raymond Daniels, Kevin Ross, and Denise Kielholtz are also expected to compete on the card, which airs on Spike TV following the conclusion of Bellator 152.
Coker said he jumped at the opportunity to start his own promotion once the relationship between Spike TV and GLORY disbanded in 2015. The entry of Bellator Kickboxing will allow fighters under the Bellator umbrella the choice to compete in both sports moving forward, and Coker said he wanted Bellator to be an “open book” for fighters looking to explore their options.
“We know how to do this as good or better than anybody,” Coker said. “Because this kickboxing business is something I’ve been doing for a long time. It’s something that I felt like, we could do it properly. Let’s get our fighters that want to fight in kickboxing, who are fighting MMA right now, and let them fight on both sides of the ledger.”
Among those who plan to take advantage of the opportunity is Joe Schilling, a top-ranked kickboxer who has competed under both the GLORY and Bellator banners. Schilling currently has two fights remaining on his GLORY contract, including a scheduled bout against Mike Lemaire on Feb. 26, after which he plans to ….View full article
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In January 2020, Jakk Fynn released his debut EP. The insightful and thought-provoking project “Cancelled,” has allowed the transmasculine Latinx pop artist to share his personal journey, while also being committed to redefining masculinity. Going into the EP release, it was the poignant track “Fire” which immediately grabbed my attention. The electronic-pop track has a beguiling intensity. And, the music video’s, memorable imagery hit-home, hard. Opening up a discussion about authenticity, identity and acceptance. The power in Jakks courageous and emotional collection of songs prompts that we to examine our true selves and celebrate our individuality. “Heal” offers a moment of quieter reflection on the EP. It is the story of Jakk rebuilding himself as his own person after an emotionally stifling relationship came to an end.
Jakk says of “Heal:” “The more I tried to change myself to be who I thought my partner wanted, the more we both lost ourselves. Not being true to yourself in a relationship can feel like suffocation, like death. “Heal” is a chance to do just that—heal—by embracing the vulnerabilities that make me who I am.”
Under the direction of Tina Vaden & Maddy Talias, the track once again receives an evocatively leaning visual. The clip strikes out with a gripping, allure. The imagery of two passengers sitting in a car, while both still and silent as though processing and collecting their thoughts actually feels disquieting. Uneasy. Gut-wrenching. Foreboding. The footage doesn’t hold back, and neither do the intimate lyrics of the song. Acerbic, yet solemn words puncture the soft electronic grooves of “Heal” in much the same way a knife pierces the flesh of any soft fruit when just the right amount of pressure is applied. The upfront use of compositional imagery in this music video delivers a sense of confinement. Of being boxed-in. As the track, approaches it’s climatic ending, it makes our eyes search the remote and barren landscape for a glimmer of light. As if to illustrate a change in mood and mindset.
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Noted troubadour, cultural icon and Minnesota native Bob Dylan will be the subject of a two day conference at Fordham University School of Law next month.
The event will focus on the legal issues discussed in Dylan’s music and lyrics and the influence his art has had on society and legal practitioners today. It’s a heckuva good idea if you ask me.
The Hibbing native and former University of Minnesota student is the most frequently cited musician by legal writers. His cannon abounds with themes of social justice, racism, intolerance and war. Dylan croons of hanging judges, innocent men sentenced to jail and civil rights with a poet’s ear for language.
Among the discussion topics on the schedule: “Dylan’s Judgment on Judges: Are Power, Greed and Corruptible Seed All That There Is?” and “Dylan as the Complete Trial Lawyer: Using Hurricane Carter to Teach Trial Skills.”
In 2005, Widener University School of Law hosted a conference on the law and Bruce Springsteen.
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In A Perfect World is celebrating today’s (Jan. 9) opening of a school in Malawi, built in honor of Prince — the first erected with seed money donated by the late legend’s fans.
The Chisumbu School, located in the village of Chimbwinda, welcomed 174 students during the first day of classes. It’s actually the second Malawi school established in Prince’s honor in the southeast Africa country. After In A Perfect World founder and Prince’s ex-wife Manuela Testolini announced plans to build the Phaso School in the village of Ng’ozo — which broke ground last July — fans reached out to help.
“After we announced the Phaso School, I received an email from Prince fans — NPG UK and the Purple Army — who wanted to contribute and be part of something that was tangible,” says Testolini. “So I asked if they’d like to work toward a second school. To me, this is their baby.”
Dedicated to breaking the cycle of poverty and illiteracy in economically impoverished regions, In A Perfect World has built 24 primary schools in seven countries through its REACH (Rural Education and Community Harmony) program in partnership with buildOn. In addition to Malawi and Nepal, where another new school and educational centers are being planned, In A Perfect World has established schools in Mali, Senegal, Burkina Faso, Haiti and Nicaragua to benefit more than 3800 students.
Watch In A Perfect World’s video thank-you to Prince fans:
Launched by Testolini in December 2005, In A Perfect World grew out of her work with Prince’s Love 4 One Another charity through which she first met the singer. “Anybody who knew Prince knows that he encouraged people to follow their passion,” says Testolini. “He asked me, ‘In your perfect world, what do you want to do?’ He was always about empowering communities, whether here or abroad. And he expected us to do the same.”
Of the foundation’s work since its inception, Testolini adds, “It’s one thing to talk about it. And it’s another to be there. But to actually watch the kids in the classrooms in communities where up to 90% of the people can’t read or write is completely overwhelming and beautiful.”
This past weekend, Testolini was honored by the Boys and Girls Club in Washington, D.C. on behalf of its Fearless Girls mentoring program. Concurrently, she announced that In A Perfect World is partnering with the Boys and Girls Club to expand her foundation’s youth ambassador program into the D.C. area. The program, which also operates in Minneapolis, will be relaunched in Los Angeles as well.
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My friend has taken me on the trip. Normally, we’d just be going to the park, the same ball and a fine walkies through the park and such. But today, we had some extra stuffs, like a baggy, like a doggy baggy full of some cool toys and other things. I had no idea what we were doing, but as long as I’m tagging along, that will be just fine.
So being packed in a car for what feels like forever is totally boring. All I can do is sit down in the back and watch some of the stuff fly by outside. No sniffing, no stopping to check things out, and very little on the snack side of things. But my pal does like to make the singing, but when I sing along, he stops.
When we finally arrived at wherever it was that we were going, I realized that it was all worth the wait. The sand, all the sand! And so much of it to run through. I had to make a mess out of it all. I did the digging and made the piles. Awesome stuff everywhere, and all the peoples too. Many peoples were all playing their own games already, some with balls, others doing the digging, while some just ran around chasing one another.
So much excite! One of the toys my friend brought for us to play with was a big bouncy ball. I couldn’t really nab it with my teeth, but bopping it around was so much more fun. All I had to do was smack it with my nose and it would go flying! Totally way cooler than my regular ball. And it would float in the air too, especially when the chilly wind blew a refreshing blast.
I didn’t really want to go near the water though. It was the big water, all splashy and splooshing at the edge of the sand. I couldn’t even see the other edge it was so big, and that scared me. While we played, I made sure to give the splashing waves plenty of room to do their thing far away from me.
So when my friend threw the ball and it flew into the splashing waters, I froze. I looked at my friend and he looked at me. The standoff lasted for a few moments before my pal told me to go get it. I was mortified! All that water was sure to lap me up and leave me in the world’s biggest bath.
My pal finally caved when I refused to budge on this issue and he went and got the ball. It floated on the water, bouncing back and forth, sort of taunting me. But I wasn’t about to go rescue it. No way.
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The New York City Police Department is seeking the public’s assistance in locating the person in the attached photo who resides within the confines of the 62nd Precinct in Brooklyn.
The details are as follows.
1788 W. 5 Street
Brooklyn, NY 11223
It was reported to police that Apostolos Kousoulas was last seen leaving his residence on Wednesday, June 17, 2020, at approximately 1230 hours.
The missing is described as an 88-year-old male, White, approximately 5’6″, weighing 180 lbs., with brown eyes and gray hair.
He was last seen wearing a blue and white striped shirt, green khakis and blue slippers.
A photograph of the missing is attached and available at DCPI.
Anyone with information related to this incident is asked to call the NYPD‘s Crime Stoppers hotline at 1–800–577–TIPS (8477) or for Spanish, 1–888–57–PISTA (74782). The public can also submit their tips by logging onto the Crime Stoppers‘ website or by texting their tips to 274637 (CRIMES) then enter TIP577.
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Google+ is an interesting and growing social media channel to keep in mind, also if you want to improve your SEO efforts it is fundamentally for your brand to have presence in Google+.
Pinterest is one of the most used and growing social media channels, more used by women, 70% of pinners are female. Pinterest has a highly engaged audience — a reported 3.3 million users logging and more than 421 million pageviews .
Pinterest is very visual, excellent to promote products and engage with audience via pictures, images and other kind of visual content.
Instagram is the preferred social network by young people, teenagers and millennials. It’s very visual and only used to share pictures and short videos. Instagram is very fun to use and is growing, they hit 150 million monthly active users on 9/8/13. An article on Forbes reports that it’s 50 million more than just seven months ago. The numbers speak by themselves, right?
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Date of Award
Master of Arts
Dr. E. J. Asher
Dr. Frank Fatzinger
Dr. R. H. Schmidt
Masters Thesis-Open Access
Industrial managers are showing an increasing interest in employee attitudes, opinions and morale. This conclusion is reflected in the fact that many companies conduct attitude and opinion surveys, train their supervisors in human relations and provide other functions designed to create favorable attitudes.
Management concern for the promotion of favorable employee attitudes may be attributed to two main factors. Part of the concern may be attributed to a general trend toward greater social responsibilities of industry. The other, and perhaps greater part can be attributed to an assumption that employees with favorable attitudes are more productive than those with generally unfavorable attitudes. Management interest in a relationship such as this is quite understandable in the modern competitive economic system, where productivity is emphasized to such a great extent.
Brayfield and Crockett (1955) suggested, however, that it is time to question the strategic and ethical merits of selling to industry an assumed relationship between employee attitudes and employee performance. They emphasized that, although productivity or performance has economic value to industry, it does not mean that productivity is the only or even the most important aspect of organizational behavior.
At any rate it is apparent that the economic motives of management (and ultimately the society) have influenced the methodology of investigations of the relationship between employee attitudes and employee performance. This influence manifests itself particularly in the selection of performance criteria, a point which will be discussed in detail following a survey of pertinent research into the area of employee attitudes and employee performance.
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Q: I'm biting my nails watching mortgage rates rise while I'm saving for my down payment. I'm close enough that I've begun looking at houses, and I expect to be ready to buy in a couple months. What can I do to mitigate the impact of rising interest rates?
A: The good news is that since mortgage rates leveled off after surging in May and June. 30-year mortgage rates may be about 1 percent higher now, but they are still relatively low on a historical basis. Still, it's natural that you should want to pay the lowest rate possible, so here are some things you can do to at least partially offset the rise in mortgage rates:
- Consider a shorter-term mortgage. Under most circumstances, a 15-year mortgage will have a lower interest rate than a 30-year mortgage, but what's interesting about the recent environment is that this gap is getting wider. At the start of the year, 30-year rates were 70 basis points higher than 15-year rates, but by mid-August that gap was up to 96 basis points. A shorter mortgage will mean higher monthly payments; but with 15-year rates rising more slowly than 30-year rates, that shorter loan will also help you turn back the clock on rising rates.
- Be sure to get competing mortgage quotes. Mortgage lenders are all raising their rates -- but at different paces. A changing rate environment can make it especially important to shop around before you commit.
- Check your credit report before you apply. Anything less than excellent credit can cost you in the form of higher mortgage rates. So, while you are still working on that down payment, take the opportunity to check your credit score. Make sure there are no mistakes to be corrected or legitimate issues that you can fix before they cost you.
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First off I want to say thank you so much Amazon/ goodreads giveaways for sending me this book!
This entire trilogy was amazing and Chaos was the perfect end. My heart was hammering the entire time I read this thing. It was just so amazing.
I loved all the twists and turns. I loved how Ana was with Lela and then they found Takeshi and rescued Malachi. And then, of course, they're real ally was the Smith (not the Tanner). Predictable but I enjoyed it nonetheless.
I was very sad when Henry died. Then I remembered: he's just gonna end up in country side or wherever he came from on guard duty so he'll be okay. I love how Malachi and Lela get to be happy together and alive. One thing I wish was explained though was about Jim. I said he died but Chaos never talked about him at all.
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Rain, sun and lack of sleep
After the festivities of day two it was no surprise that the third and final day of the festival would be a little more hung over and slower than the rest, which makes it all the more surprising that the organisers opted to go with the line-up they did, consisting of difficult on-stage personas, slow-burning song writers and radio-friendly folk pop.
Farewell Dear Ghost kicked off the main stage to a very decent turn out as they played their way through their set packed full of solid songs without ever really taking it up a notch. They’re a great band, but somehow too clean for their own good.
As the rain came crashing down around the trees Cigarettes After Sex took to the stage in front of a full crowd more interested in keeping dry than listening to the music, and this isn’t music to stand around to in the rain. Their songs are great, but man are they boring live. Time to stock up on electrolytes at the bio pommes stand.
It was time to explore and leave the comfort of the main stage for the sticky confines of the 2nd stage for Lea Santee and her mix of electro-pop beats and impressive voice. It was a welcome change of pace after Cigs and if she can speed up the – at times painfully – long breaks between songs without talking to the crowd then she’s definitely one to watch out for.
Some bands are very upbeat and positive on stage, and there is The Strumbellas friendly. The Canadian band brought some sunshine and smiles to the main stage in front of a considerable crowd as they belted through their repertoire of radio-friendly hits, while a wave of people on the grass went: ‘Ah, they’re the ones who wrote that song!’ It’s hard to not like these guys, even if you try, those damn songs will stay in your head for hours.
Benjamin Clementine was next up on the main stage, a man who has been much hyped and who’s reputation is slowly taking a persona of its own. Benjamin can at times be a little misunderstood, he lives for the music and doesn’t really enjoy playing in front of a crowd, despite the theatrics on video. And it was his attempts at opening up to the crowd and communicating that unfortunately overshadowed the music as he told the people chilling on the grass to either stand up and watch the music or ‘fuck off’. He then proceeded to teach us all the last line of London to force a sing-a-long before apologizing and continuing with his impressive show. He’s a wonderful artist and a humble man to talk to, but he has a bit of work to do on his on-stage persona.
Austria’s favourite adopted SOHN took to the stage for the penultimate show of the evening, not much to say about this one – it was pretty much what we’ve come to expect from him as he combined his outstanding voice to hypnotizing beats and a light show to be proud of.
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The routes listed below lead to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park, for Clingmans Dome directions turn off Newfound Gap Road 0.1 mile south of Newfound Gap and follow the 7-mile-long Clingmans Dome Road to the large parking area at the end. Clingmans Dome directions are also available from any National Park Service visitor center, such as Sugarlands or Oconaluftee.
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The following Clingmans Dome directions provide routes with access to the Great Smoky Mountains National Park’s three main entrances:
Clingmans Dome directions from Gatlinburg, TN entrance – From interstate highway I-40 take Exit 407 (Sevierville) to TN-66 South. At the Sevierville intersection, continue straight onto US-441 South. Follow US-441 through Sevierville and Pigeon Forge into park.
Clingmans Dome directions from Townsend, TN entrance – From the north: From interstate highway I-40 in Knoxville take Exit 386B to US-129 South to Alcoa/Maryville. At Maryville proceed on US-321 North/TN -73 East through Townsend. Continue straight on TN-73 into the park. From the south: From interstate highway I-75 take Exit 376 to I-140 E towards Oak Ridge/Maryville. Merge onto I-140 E via Exit 376B towards Maryville. Turn onto US-129 South (Alcoa Highway) at Exit 11A and travel towards Alcoa. Turn onto TN-35 and follow it to US-321 North. Follow US-321 North/TN -73 East through Townsend. Continue straight on TN-73 into the park.
Clingmans Dome directions from Cherokee, NC entrance– From the north: From interstate highway I-40, take Exit 27 to US-74 West towards Waynesville. Turn onto US-19 and proceed through Maggie Valley to Cherokee. Turn onto US-441 North at Cherokee and follow the road into the park. From the south: Follow US-441/US-23 North. At Dillsboro merge on US-74 West/US-441 North. At Exit 74 merge onto US-441. Follow US-441 through Cherokee and into the park.
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Regional Airports – The nearest major airport in Tennessee is the McGhee-Tyson Airport (TYS) located just south of Knoxville in Alcoa. This airport is approximately 45 miles west of the Gatlinburg entrance to the park. In North Carolina, the Asheville Regional Airport is located approximately 60 miles east of the Cherokee entrance to the park.
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Bitcoin has been in the news the last number of weeks, but a lot of individuals are still uninformed of them. Could Bitcoin be the future of on-line currency? This is simply one of the concerns, often inquired about Bitcoin
How Does Bitcoin Work?
Bitcoin is a kind of digital currency (CryptoCurrency) that is self-governing from standard banking as well as entered blood circulation in 2009. According to a few of the leading online investors, Bitcoin is taken into consideration as the best understood digital currency that relies on local area network to fix complicated mathematical problems, in order to validate and also record the details of each deal made.
The Bitcoin currency exchange rate does not rely on the reserve bank and also there is no single authority that governs the supply of CryptoCurrency. Nevertheless, the Bitcoin cost depends upon the degree of confidence its users have, as the a lot more significant companies accept Bitcoin as a method of settlement, the more successful Bitcoin will certainly end up being.
Advantages as well as Risks of Bitcoin
One of the advantages of Bitcoin is its reduced inflation threat. Standard currencies struggle with inflation and they have a tendency to lose their purchasing power each year, as governments continue to make use of quantative reducing to boost the economic situation.
Bitcoin doesn’t experience reduced rising cost of living, since Bitcoin mining is restricted to simply 21 million systems. That implies the launch of new Bitcoins is slowing down and also the sum total will certainly be mined out within the following number of decades. Experts have actually predicted that the last Bitcoin will be extracted by 2050.
Bitcoin has a low threat of collapse unlike conventional currencies that count on governments. When money collapse, it leads to devaluation or the wipeout of one’s cost savings in an split second.
Bitcoin exchange rate is not regulated by any type of government and also is a digital money readily available globally.
Bitcoin is easy to lug. A billion dollars in the Bitcoin can be saved on a memory stick and positioned in one’s pocket. It is that easy to deliver Bitcoins compared to paper currency.
One downside of Bitcoin is its untraceable nature, as Governments and other organisations can not map the source of your funds and as such can bring in some deceitful individuals.
Exactly How to Generate Income with Bitcoin
Unlike other currencies, there are three ways to generate income with Bitcoin, saving, trading and mining. Bitcoin can be traded on competitive markets, which means you can acquire Bitcoin low and also market them high.
Volatility of Bitcoin
The worth of Bitcoin decreased in recent weeks as a result of the sudden deduction of trading in Mt. Gox, which is the largest Bitcoin exchange worldwide. According to unverified sources, trading was stopped due to malleability-related theft that was said to be worth greater than 744,000. The occurrence has actually impacted the confidence of the investors to the virtual money.
According to Bitcoin chart, the Bitcoin exchange rate went up to greater than $1,100 last December. That was when even more individuals realised regarding the digital currency, then the event with Mt. Gox took place as well as it went down to around $530.
In 2014, We expect rapid development in the appeal of bitcoin around the world with both sellers as well as consumers, Stephen Pair, BitPay’s co-founder and CTO, â $ and prepare for seeing the greatest development in China, India, Russia and South America.
India has currently been pointed out as the next likely preferred market that Bitcoin might relocate right into. Africa can likewise benefit widely from utilizing BTC as a currency-of-exchange to get around not having a functioning central bank system or any other country that counts greatly on mobile payments. Bitcoin’s development in 2014 will certainly be led by Bitcoin Atm machines, mobile apps and also tools.
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Even more people have actually accepted using Bitcoin and also advocates hope that day, the electronic money will certainly be used by consumers for their online purchasing as well as other electronic offers. Significant companies have already approved repayments utilizing the online money. A few of the huge companies consist of Fiverr, TigerDirect as well as Zynga, to name a few.
The Future of Bitcoin.
Bitcoin functions, but doubters have actually said that the electronic currency is not ready to be made use of by the mainstream as a result of its volatility. They additionally point to the hacking of the Bitcoin exchange in the past that has caused the loss of several countless dollars.
Fans of electronic currencies have actually said that there are more recent exchanges that are supervised by financial experts as well as venture capitalists. Experts included that there is still expect the digital money system and the anticipated development is huge.
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Your bed is a wondrous space that guards your dreams and offers relaxation on a weary day. As such, there is an entire section of furnishing dedicated to making this space more personalized and comfortable. This is defined as Bed Linen. This is an expansive category comprising everything from bed sheets, pillows, comforters, dohars and duvet covers.
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A fresh, pretty bedsheet and a cozy blanket are among the simple joys of life. Therefore, it is imperative to choose well when buying blankets and bedsheets online. Finding a single place, however, where you can get all of your bed furnishing products, which are suited to your needs, can be a challenge. SPACES.in offers a wide range of premium bed linen based on an understanding of the different tastes and preferences of people. So, you can find your favourite colours, designs that appeal to you or the kind of bed linen that makes you feel the most comfortable.
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Things to Consider Before Buying Bedsheets
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One of the most important elements of a good rest, pillows have been acting as a support system for the body for centuries. Over time, with the innovations in sleep technology, pillows have become more customized to correspond with our unique needs. There are many types of pillows available today. These include memory foam pillow, pregnancy pillow, throw pillow, body pillow and more. Each of them serve a specific function, but the end goal for all pillows remains the same - to provide utmost comfort to the user. You can pick a pillow according to your sleeping style. Whether you sleep on your back, on your side, or need extra padding for your back; there are multiple options for you to choose from. You can even choose your pillow according to the material used - memory foam, polyester, feathers and others.
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KUUSAMO, Finland (AP) -- World champion Eric Frenzel of Germany won the season-opening Nordic Combined World Cup event on Saturday, beating Joergen Graabak of Norway by 3.5 seconds.
Frenzel won the overall World Cup last season and seems to have maintained his form going into the new campaign, showing right away why he is one of the big favorites ahead of the Sochi Olympics. The German was fourth after the ski jump competition and finished the 10-kilometer cross-country race in 28 minutes 34.9 seconds. Graabak was second and Magnus Krog of Norway was third, 6.9 seconds behind.
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If you are the sort that is really into action sports, you will probably really like the Recon Instruments goggles. These goggles have a little display integrated so you can get all sorts of detail on the ski or snowboard skills you have at any given time.
The Android based electronics has an app that lets you see how fast you are going, what your jump hang time is, and your altitude among other things. The company has announced that it has now updated the goggles to support the Contour+ and ContourGPS cameras that are out there.
Both of those cameras have Bluetooth and with the update to the Recon goggles you can now use the little screen on the goggles as the viewfinder of the camera. That means you can check to be sure you have the camera aligned properly and shooting what you want to see.Filed Under: Camera News, Gadgets News | <urn:uuid:03227a58-816f-4a7c-8d69-b0126bad2726> | CC-MAIN-2017-34 | http://www.geeky-gadgets.com/recon-instruments-supports-contour-cameras-2012-01-26/ | 2017-08-16T22:04:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-34/segments/1502886102663.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20170816212248-20170816232248-00230.warc.gz | en | 0.958861 | 176 |
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Mount Bachelor (is a broad shield volcano capped by a steep-sided summit cone. It is part of the 25-km-long Mount Bachelor volcanic chain, which contains numerous scoria cones with related lava flows and two other shield volcanoes. The chain covers about 250 km2 and constitutes a total magma volume of 30-50 km3.
Most eruptions in the Mount Bachelor volcanic chain were effusive but minor explosive activity built cones of agglutinated spatter, bombs, and scoria. Eruptions began about 18,000-15,000 years ago and constructed a shield volcano capped by Sheridan Mountain. Kwolh Butte, the shield that underlies Mount Bachelor, and most of the summit cone of Mount Bachelor were formed by about 12,000 years ago. The most recent eruption was about 8,000 to 10,000 years ago on the lower north flank of Mount Bachelor. It produced a scoria cone and lava flows. Ash from the climatic eruption of Mount Mazama blankets all volcanic deposits of the Mount Bachelor volcanic chain, indicating activity had ceased by 6,845 years ago.
Photograph of Mount Bachelor by Kyle Jones, August 1986.
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I love this time of year. I cherish the time spent with family and the time spent reflecting the birth of our greatest gift, our Savior. This year I have begun to see the Christmas season in a slightly different light. While we are sitting in our warm homes, feasting on delicious foods and surrounded by gifts and family, there are children sitting in orphanages cold, starving, with no one to hug them and tell them how much they are loved.
When we received our unexpected, very low number in November my prayers began to change. For the past year, my prayers have mostly centered around decisions and sadly timelines. Josh and I prayed that God would lead our adoption journey, which He has. Josh and I prayed that WE would not have to wait long for our son. I did pray for our son but not in the way I do now. In my heart I still felt like we had years ahead of us, so our son possibly was not born yet. When we received November's number, I knew he was born. He is alive and possibly a toddler. Not a baby that doesn't know much of what is going on around him. This breaks my heart. I now pray that God has His arms wrapped so tightly around Townes. That our son is being protected from a broken world. I pray that my son will be fed today. That he is clothed today. That he is warm today. I pray that he felt love today. That he was not harmed today. That he is healthy today. I pray he knows that he is not just another child, left fighting alone, without anyone to love him. I pray that in his sweet little heart that he knows we are coming for him. That we are fighting as hard as we can for him.
A mother shouldn't have to pray this. This is what keeps me up at night. Will you join me in my prayer?
I have Faith that God will heal our son's heart. While adoption is a beautiful picture of how God adopted us, please remember it comes from broken place. In this season of thanks, Josh and I are so thankful God opened our eyes and broke our hearts close to a year ago.
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1972 Cutlass Supreme Convertible
1972 Oldsmobile Cutlass Supreme convertible. Blue, 350 4V and Turbo 350.
2.73 open rear. White bucket seat interior with dual gate and Rallye Pack. SSII wheels. PS, PDB,
AC. Project car.. some body damage- needs LF fender and grilles. Parts are in-stock! Ran a
dissappointing 17.0 with L60-15 tires. It did run 16.28 with shorter back tires for the previous owner.
Not tagged. (That's the 70 Cutlass S W31 in the
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I continue to be a fan of Bob Bennett, but there is one error of commission in his recent column ("The health hazards of unemployment," Nov. 21) regarding President Obama's objection to the new Canadian-U.S. pipeline.
Obama didn't just object to the pipeline on environmental grounds. He reflected on local and state objections that the pipeline, as routed, puts a major water supply in jeopardy.
That is a much more compelling argument to those in the affected area, and we need to be sensitive to their concerns. Here in the Wasatch, too, all of our federal legislators (except Rep. Jim Matheson) have agreed to turn over critical Salt Lake Valley watershed to private developers without considering how vital water is to almost half of Utah's population.
There is a difference between debating unemployment vs. commerce and favoring commerce over our very survival. When safe water is at stake, it must be protected, or the economic consequences are immeasurable. | <urn:uuid:0b5f4ff0-ce6a-4f36-a718-4ac9096409c4> | CC-MAIN-2016-44 | http://www.deseretnews.com/article/700201903/Protect-valuable-water.html | 2016-10-22T10:19:46Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-44/segments/1476988718866.34/warc/CC-MAIN-20161020183838-00008-ip-10-171-6-4.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.943097 | 198 |
The theatre project has not been without its challenges. Mostly, having to stop rehearsal when there is a down pour because we rehearse on a covered terrace; however, with the strong winds the musical equipment stands the chance of getting wet. Our musicians, John and Ashok, both of whom are blind won’t take any chances and start packing up things straight away! Other times, it might be a temporary power outage or a key member of the cast wandering off because they have gotten bored…at the end of the day, though, Kusum & I generally have a good laugh about it.
Compassion. What is it really? Is it showing kindness in the face of adversity? Is it being open to all situations with a open heart? Or is it simply giving up our ego maniacal demands for some time allowing us to be open to the world around us? I don’t have the answer, but through this organization, I have experienced a different kind a dose of it. Perhaps true compassion is patience. And through patience, real patience, we simply: let go and trust. And with this trust, comes an openness that pretty much knocks fear on its butt. Fear is not a bad thing unless it starts to destroy relationships; the kind of fear that tramples patience, patience that supports self-compassion. I now recognize that if one does not practice true self compassion, they will never be able to be truly compassionate of others.
Why are we so afraid of compassion?
I raise the question because my ego wants a “perfect” show, but my heart tells me, “these are the circumstances and this is the true gift.” Embrace it. Humor it. Accept. Have a little self-compassion. You are giving your best. And trust that all good things are on your side, even if the weather just doesn’t want to cooperate. | <urn:uuid:4fdc26b7-2e49-4279-9221-7f47d0cfb496> | CC-MAIN-2019-13 | http://maureenpaynehahner.com/day-11-the-samarthanam-project/ | 2019-03-25T13:47:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-13/segments/1552912203991.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20190325133117-20190325155117-00417.warc.gz | en | 0.951199 | 391 |
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