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I absolutely love my job! I get to spend the day reading to kids, reading with kids and doing everything humanly possible to get them to recognize the importance of reading… and get paid to do it!
Okay… so you know that reading is important. (And in case you missed that memo… check here for my post on the importance of reading.)
But what type of reader do you have in your house?
Over the years of teaching, I’ve learned there are 3 kinds of readers:
- Those who are good at reading and love to read.
- Those who are good at reading, but yet “don’t like” to read.
- Those who struggle with reading and do not like to read.
1) Those who love to read… this is the kid who is easy… shove a book in his hands and let him go. For these kids, reading is a positive experience. (Chances are these are the kids who are doing very well in other areas in school. Yes… reading and doing well in school go hand in hand. Thank you Captain Obvious!)
Your biggest problem is going to be staying current with the newest books. These kids know what’s new and they want to be reading it. (Parents of struggling readers try really hard not to stick your tongue out at this point!)
2) And then there are those kids who are good at reading but “don’t like” it. I’ll be honest… I didn’t realize there was this kind of kid until my son was in my class. He’s this kid. (And yes… they are usually boys.)
Living in a family of readers is tough for him :)… He calls us Book Nerds. (He hasn’t realized yet that we take that as a compliment.)
Although he doesn’t read nearly as much as I would like him to do… I secretly giggle when his Sports Illustrated for Kids magazine comes and he reads it cover to cover. Or when he “had to read” for a class and I put a sports biography in his hand… He reads it beginning-to-end long before it’s due.
This is the type of kid that will read if he has the right material. Pay attention to what they read and what books/magazine that they talk about. Many boys prefer to read non-fiction: informational books, biographies, how-to books or stories that are short.
3) There is the kid who doesn’t like to read… mainly because it’s hard for them. And let’s face it… most of us don’t enjoy doing something that is hard for us (for me…exercise comes to mind… ;)). Parents of this child… stay strong my friend, stay strong!
You know reading is important, but… you have a child in your house who didn’t get that memo, or worse… doesn’t care about the memo… and you are ready to pull out your hair getting this kid to read!
Continue doing everything you’ve been doing, and I know you’ve tried plenty… but here are a few reminders and tips.
7 Tips to help your struggling reader
1) Set aside time to read at least 4-5 times a week. Yes…this will be a struggle since they’re going to buck you. Be consistent… this should be a non-negotiable. These are the types of kids to set page goals with, not minutes. They will know every trick in the book to waste time. By setting a page goal of say… 5-10 pages per day, this gives them some power. When the pages are read, they are done for the day.
2) Use incentives such as…
- Trade time for something they love to do… certain number of pages read translate into minutes to spend watching TV or playing video games.
- Or so many books read= a trip to McDonalds or a park.
- Or just down and out bribe them…(yes I went there…) there are some summers I have paid a buck a book that was read (with guidelines). But some times, desperate times call for desperate measures.
3) Read WITH your child…he reads a page, you read a page. (I know at times this will be painful… just keep reminding yourself… Reading is important, reading is important… and who knows…maybe you’ll really get into the book!)
4) Have “reading parties” where every one brings a book and snuggles in a spot to read their book. Sometimes just snuggling in next to mom or dad is enough motivation to read for a while.
5) If your struggling reader has a younger brother or sister, you have just scored big time! Get them to read to their younger sibling(s).
Have them read a picture book. This means the stories are usually shorter (and less intimidating) and probably at a lower reading level (which will make them feel successful when they read it). They get practice reading and the younger sibling gets the benefit of being read to… also very important!
6) Make sure your struggling reader is reading books that are interesting to them. Kids will read “above their reading level” if they find the book interesting. But also keep in mind not all of their choices will be high quality literature. (Did the book Captain Underpants pop into anyone else’s mind?) At this point, the goal is to get them reading… and the best way to do that is make sure they are interested in what they read.
7) If the book your kid is reading (and enjoying) is part of a series, try sticking to the series. A series gives your reader the same format, the same characters, and often the same setting for several books. These familiar things will help them understand the story more quickly.
What should they read?
Here are two very popular series in my classroom this year… especially with my struggling readers:
- Who Was… series (examples: Who was Babe Ruth?, Who was Abraham Lincoln? Who was Dr. Seuss? These are VERY KID friendly and SHORT biographies of famous people in our history.)
- I Survived… series (fictional stories set in real historical events like the attack on Pearl Harbor, September 11, Battle of Gettysburg, etc)
If you’re still struggling for good reading material here are some authors to check out:
- Judy Blume & Roald Dahl (authors that we grew up on… classic stories!)
- Dan Gutman (author of My Weirder School series…shorter books… stories are silly mysteries that take place at Ella Mentary School)
- Andrew Clements & Patrick Jennings (great stories without overly complicated plots… main characters are usually in upper elementary school)
- Bill Wallace (writes mainly animal stories… many are funny)
- Dave Pilkey (Captain Underpants series) & Jeff Kinney (Diary of a Wimpy Kid series) Don’t judge… remember desperate times…desperate measures! And every single one of my struggling readers will read these.
In fact it is because of the HUGELY popular Diary of a Wimpy Kid series, that book publishers stood up and took notice (and in a hurry) that kids like books with lots of pictures.
Hence… the graphic novel has taken the children’s book scene by storm. There are MANY books and series that now fit into the graphic novel genre. Big Nate, Dork Diaries, Dumb Diaries, Middle School Years, I Funny…are just a few series in this genre. (Doug TenNapel is another popular graphic novel author.)
**Warning for conservative moms like me: There are some graphic novels that are shortened versions of popular fantasy series… and the pictures in these are well… graphic (pun intended!) Sometimes I don’t want to put these images into my kid’s imagination. It’s a good idea to flip through this type of graphic novel before putting it into your kid’s hands.
And I could keep rambling on and on about books and authors, but I want to know some of your book suggestions and tricks to use with the readers in your family…please share below!
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In anticipation of the release of Ghostbusters, in theaters this Friday, Activision, in collaboration with Sony Pictures Consumer Products, is unleashing a pair of exciting new Ghostbusters video games.
Ghostbusters is a third-person action role-playing game featuring single-player and local couch co-op multiplayer for up to four players. Taking place after the events of the film, players command a squad of rookie ghostbusters through Manhattan’s most haunted environments, discovering hidden collectibles and ridding the city of rogue spirits. There are four distinct heroes to choose from, and each character can be upgraded with new gear and abilities throughout the adventure. Ghostbusters is available now on the PlayStation 4, Xbox One, PC via Steam for $49.99.
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Experience the definitive Dishonored collection with the Game of the Year Edition. This complete compilation includes Dishonored, winner of over 100 Game of Year awards, as well as all of its additional content - Dunwall City Trials, The Knife of Dunwall, The Brigmore Witches and Void Walker’s Arsenal.
Developed by Arkane Studios, Edge Online’s 2012 Studio of the Year, Dishonored is an immersive first-person action game that casts you as a supernatural assassin driven by revenge. With Dishonored’s flexible combat system, creatively eliminate your targets as you combine the supernatural abilities, weapons and unusual gadgets at your disposal. Pursue your enemies under the cover of darkness or ruthlessly attack them head on with weapons drawn. The outcome of each mission plays out based on the choices you make.
CONTENT (IN ADDITION TO DISHONORED):
- The Knife of Dunwall
In The Knife of Dunwall, take on the role of Daud, the legendary assassin who killed the Empress. After assassinating the Empress, and forever changing the fate of Dunwall, you embark on a search for redemption. Gain access to Daud’s new weapons, gadgets and supernatural abilities as you traverse through parts of Dunwall yet unseen, including the city’s whaling center, Rothwild Slaughterhouse, and the heavily guarded Legal District.
- The Brigmore Witches
Continue your journey as the legendary assassin, Daud, in The Brigmore Witches. This conclusion to Daud’s story will put you at odds with warring gang factions and the dangerous Brigmore witch coven. Journey through undiscovered locales within Dunwall, including Drapers Ward and the Brigmore Manor, where you will be met with supernatural forces that test the limits of your new weapons and abilities.
- Dunwall City Trials
In Dunwall City Trials, experience Dishonored’s flexible combat system, stealth gameplay, and distinct settings in a whole new way as you make your way through 10 distinct maps that feature a variety of challenges. Put your stealth, combat and mobility skills to the test as you clear demanding objectives, unlock new achievements and secrets, and climb up the global online leaderboards.
- Void Walker’s Arsenal
With the Void Walker’s Arsenal add-on pack, gain access to four content bundles previously available only through pre-ordering Dishonored. These bundles offer unique character bonuses, additional bone charm slots and more.
It would be Dishonor not to play this gameyarkitty123 | Dec. 29, 2014 | See all yarkitty123's reviews »
Dishonored has a beautiful, breathtaking world and very interesting story at its core. It pulls you in to the end and you want to see what happens. The visuals are impressive, the gameplay is fun -- if a bit broken at times; stealth + teleporting -- and the various situations the game puts you in are nothing short of memorable and fun. You'll want to experience them again, like the masquerade ball or having to duel a guy to the death with pistols in the backyard. The good ending to this game is fantastic as well, well worth the effort and dedication it takes to see it. Final verdict: 9/10. A must-play game. It took me by surprise and devoured at least 2 weeks of my time.
Maybe not a must have - but a MUST PLAY!dockzor | Nov. 2, 2014 | See all dockzor's reviews »
Dishonored is a fantastic, original game with a great art style and soundtrack. I enjoyed all the missions, although The Golden Cat was my favorite. Even though the graphics are not superb, the game looks so unique that you will not care. It is fun to use the powers, sneak around, and even have shootouts with the guards, and since the main part of the game is supposed to be stealth, it has some of the best stealth gameplay on the market. The Dunwall City Trials DLC that comes with the Game of the Year edition is worth it if you can get it for $2.50, but it is nothing like The Knife of Dunwall or the Witches of Brigmore, two DLC single-player campaigns that are shorter but are just as high quality as the main game. If you enjoy Skyrim's Dark Brotherhood, Thief, or games like those, then this is the game for you. If you are going to buy Dishonored, make sure to get the Game of the Year edition.
Definetely a must buy!Corden | Nov. 1, 2014 | See all Corden's reviews »
Amazing game, truly amazing. The fantastic artstyle made the atmosphere of the game really amazing. Just the way the city looked and the architecture was really interesting. The story was ok. What I thought was the best though, is the gameplay. The stealth is really well done, there's so much alternate pathways, different gameplay opportunities and secrets. Not to mention the optional quests which were good too. The karma system was a bit annoying though. It made the players who just want to kill stuff really frustrated and bored, not to mention killing stuff gives you a bad ending. But overall, Arkane did a great job on this game. Good atmosphere, good artstyle, good gameplay and good story. Really deserves it's big ratings.
A true value for moneydilosan | Aug. 28, 2014 | See all dilosan's reviews »
The main is pretty awesome. The story is very good in the game you will be given a choice weather you can kill everyone or finish the game without killing a single person. The voice acting and graphics are well done. I killing cut scenes are fascinating. Killing with magic such as we can posses enemies and command rats to kill out enemies. In the GOTY version you will receive sever DLC's. The Knife of Dunwall, this is one great DLC where we play on a different story and a different person. We have some new magic and weapons also to use. The Brigmore Witches,The story of The Knife of Dunwall continues on this DLC. The story is really interesting, in this we have also have some new magic. The Knife of Dunwall, this DLC provides us with a loads of fun, we have challenges,such as assassin a person before that we got to find 4 clues about the person to know who is our assassin and many other more challenges which are really fun. Void Walker’s Arsenal,This DLC provides with some extra content in game. With all these DLC and the main game the GOTY is edition is definitely worth the money.
GET THIS GAME!lvlurat | Aug. 17, 2014 | See all lvlurat's reviews »
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With a market size of more than US$2.4bn, Latin America (LATAM) is a key emerging IVD market and a market that The Economist Intelligence Unit expects to expand by more than 8% each year from 2017-2022.
Keeping up with shifting customer demands as a result of rapidly-evolving hospital and laboratory infrastructure in the region is a key challenge for IVD companies.
LATAM’s US$2.4bn IVD market: Growth trends and headwinds
LATAM’s IVD market is expected to expand by almost 8% each year from 2017 to 2022, even as macroeconomic factors continue to be a concern for test demand. The largest IVD markets in LATAM are Brazil, Mexico and Colombia.
LATAM’s centralised diagnostics (CDx) market is shaped as a wave of laboratory consolidation sweeps across many countries
Preference for point-of-care (POC) testing at central laboratories rather than at POC
Developing local facilities and expertise to support POC testing will be key to driving POC growth in LATAM.
More molecular diagnostics (MDx) laboratories are automating their operations to manage more complex tests.
But some specialised MDx laboratories in countries such as Venezuela mainly work with home-brew tests and manual techniques.
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When the FMLA final regulations were promulgated in January, employers (and their lawyers) around the country got to work. We poured over the two hundred pages of tiny print, deciphering the requirements and determining what had and had not changed. It was a lot to review and it’s a lot to understand. I’ve taught something around 15 seminars on the new regs since they were published and I still need to reference the regulations when presented with unusual questions or factual scenarios.
So I know it can’t be easy for employers to manage the complex ins and outs of the new law. Well, don’t get too comfortable with the regulations–more change may be on its way.
Last month, a new bill was introduced (H.R. 2161), which, according to its sponsor, is intended to “restore the [FMLA] to its original intent and spirit.” The bill, To Nullify Certain Regulations Promulgated Under the Family and Medical Leave Act of 1993 and Restore Prior Regulations and Direct the Secretary of Labor to Revise Certain Regulations Under that Act, would repeal some sections of the regs and modify others. For a comprehensive review of the most important changes, jump over to The FMLA Blog.
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Espa Life at Corinthia to introduce new fitness and nutrition concept
Espa Life at Corinthia is to introduce Body Space, a new health, nutrition and fitness concept, in September.
Body Space is a collaboration between Stephen Price (left), co-founder of wellness company SP&Co, and fitness expert David Higgins.
The Body Space programmes are designed to improve sleep, raise energy levels, reduce stress, enable mindfulness, boost fitness, aid weight loss, build strength, and support rehabilitation – among other features.
The treatments to be offered at Espa Life at Corinthia are separated into four main categories: Technology and Science; Fitness Methods; Nutrition and Gut Health; and Fitness Therapies and Treatments.
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The Fitness Method section will comprise five new Body Space programmes created by Price and Higgins, including the Transformation programme, Reformer strength and conditioning programme, and Kbox flywheel workouts.
Three nutritionists will offer their expertise under the Nutrition and Gut Health heading, including within areas such as gut health and the prevention of chronic illnesses.
The Fitness Therapies and Developments will range from performance optimisation treatments to the Normatec dynamic compression treatments, for reduced injury risk and speedier recovery time.
Espa founder Sue Harmsworth said of the partnership: "This is a wonderful evolution for Espa Life and our philosophy of creating next generation experiences. BodySPace is bringing a new, highly evolved fitness and nutrition offering which fits flawlessly within the existing Espa Life offering."
In June, Body Space also launched into the exclusive Kingwood development of luxury residences in London’s Knightsbridge area – part of the high-end Finchatton group. The launch of the offering at Espa Life at Corinthia in September will mark the first spa collaboration for the company.
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It’s the Easter holidays for me but I still managed to catch up with Mark about the Rock and Roll Hall of Fame induction and the following re-naming antics. It was fantastic to have audio from the event from Ken Fuller and Michel Arsenault and also photographs from Bob Mantin – thanks to all! Mark also reviews a Bill Bruford record!
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Debbie and I just wanted to express our sincere thanks for the fantastic job you did in photographing our wedding.
There were some absolutely beautiful photos in particular the enlarged shots & sepia. Many of our friends can't believe the value for money you gave us and the quality of the album was out of this world. It was worth the wait!
We were impressed by your attention to detail throughout the night. We will certainly be recommending you to any of our friends who decide to marry or would like some special event to be captured.
Best of luck and continued success in your business."
Brian & Debbie
Jeff and I would like to say "Thank You" for your time & work that you put into our wedding. The photos are great and we love the work you have done. We both had a wonderful day and with your professionalism it made our day even better.
Jeff & Cherylee
Thank you for your great photography on our wedding day."
Paul & Julie
We wanted to thank you for the fantastic job you did putting our wedding photo albums together. We are very happy with them and enjoyed watching the slideshow also. We appreciate all the time you put into taking the photos on the day. You captured all the essentials we wanted and many more. Thank you for the time you spent editing the photos to make sure they were perfect for the album.
The discs of photos are great and we look forward to choosing some of our favourites to turn into canvas prints.
David & Melodie
" Dear Michael,
Thanks for your tireless efforts in recording our wedding memories."
Tracey & Ken
Had a look through the photos & once again thank you, they look great! Mum also said thanks for the extra DVDS.
Working with you was an absolute pleasure. You made it extremely comfortable and a lot of fun. We tried all sorts of different shots and had many to pick from for my portfolio at the end. Thanks Michael"
"I will hire mike again. He is a true professional and very good at what he does."
It was certainly great to have you on board!
Thank you for your efforts and commitment throughout the week of the Games.
I was extremely impressed by your photos, you produced an excellent cross section of sports and to a very high quality! "
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"Mike's work was of a high standard and he was great with our family as it was our Grandmothers 90th birthday. Very quick service, very friendly and would very highly recommend Mike Lee for any function. We watched the DVD and brought us to tears such a lovely DVD to keep and he took the best pictures that will last a lifetime - priceless! Would very highly recommend Mike Lee."
"Mike was great to work with, very flexible, professional and organised. Didn't rush, in fact extremely patient, he made sure I got all the shots I wanted and I'm very excited to see the final work (the photos looked amazing on his camera). Highly recommended!"
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They are sexually in tune, so a lot of pleasant games are possible but not a sound union.
Taurus and Capricorn love compatibility Both partners have a mutual understanding of each other's personalities.
The thrift of Taurus, who seldom makes anything spontaneously, will irritate.
Both are passionate and do not need any extraneous help to be pleased with each other. This relationship can and will improve with age and hard work, as these are such different personalities, and in many ways ones strength supports the others weakness.Taurus can get through to aloof, cautious Capricorn and give the encouragement and responsiveness needed.Both have earthy, passionate natures, and sensual Taurus can tap the deep well of romanticism that lies under Capricorn's reserve.Taurus will need to be sensitive to Capricorns tension and be willing to discuss it and ease his burden of guilt he/she may feel because of it.There are perfect prospects for that couple and it can turn out to be a very compatible marriage.The long haul can be hard going, though if they hang on long enough Aries will come to appreciate Taurus's steadiness and dependability. | <urn:uuid:37fa717d-8c8a-4044-a81a-f343c6a7dba2> | CC-MAIN-2020-45 | https://mebel1000.ru/capricorn-dating-sagittarius-522.html | 2020-10-27T06:00:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-45/segments/1603107893402.83/warc/CC-MAIN-20201027052750-20201027082750-00003.warc.gz | en | 0.950794 | 242 |
UNGA Week brings together a community of global citizens and progressive thought leaders around theme #2030Now. The Summit will explore how we can unlock technology’s potential to make the world a better place. Some of the speakers include Kathy Calvin, Padma Lakshmi, Henry Timms, to name a few. The Summit will take place at 92ndStreet Y, a cultural and community centre.
Convened by Agritecture and AgTech X, a curated week exploring agriculture’s role within the Sustainable City movement, bringing together entrepreneurs, architects, city officials and researches to learn more about how agriculture fits into future cities.
Sound decisions can only be made from good information. The data gaps in agriculture are widespread, affecting 800 million, or 78% of the world's poorest. We will not achieve SDG2- end hunger, achieve food security and improved nutrition, and promote sustainable agriculture- or measure its progress without good data. The focus of the event is SDG2- catalysing excitement around ending hunger and undernourishment by bolstering sources of data and statistics.
Global Citizen convenes the best minds in movement building to equip change-makers, marketers and everyday citizens with the tools they need to understand, learn from, and share best practices. Through a series of keynotes, fireside chats and TED style talks, experts from a diversity of fields— ranging across the arts, culture, political, social good, marketing and behavioral science spheres — share their perspectives on how to build movements that can achieve the Global Goals by 2030.
The health impacts from climate change are well documented. From the increased frequency and severity of heatwaves to the spread of tropical diseases, climate change is expected to place increased stress on human health over the coming decades. On its own, climate change will strain healthcare systems and budgets, but many experts now see it as just one of a set of interconnected environmental challenges that threaten human health. Planetary Health consists of an exciting discussion and debate on the interconnections between human health and planetary health.
Transforming Food Systems to Drive Impact on SDG2
A thought leadership panel hosted by Kellogg Company, FReSH and the SDG2 Advocacy Hub focused on Sustainable Development Goal 2 and food system resilience. Convened alongside the UN General Assembly, this event will create integrated discussions to drive transformational change in our food systems for both people and planet. The event consists of two curated panels to drive provocative, disruptive conversations that identify tangible and actionable solutions to achieve SDG2.
Every year, one-third of the world's food is never consumed -- costing the global economy $940 billion and contributing to 8 percent of greenhouse gases. Join Champions 12.3 for an event that will assess global progress toward Sustainable Development Goal Target 12.3 on food loss and waste, explore how it can help meet SDG 2 on hunger, and announce the biggest developments of the year in the worldwide effort to halve food loss and waste by 2030.
Former White House Chef Sam Kass will demonstrate a new recipe and give tips on how to avoid food waste at home. Afterward, stay for a light lunch and a tasting of beer made from otherwise-wasted bread.
Every year, millions of children under-five die from preventable causes such as pneumonia. Urgent action and financing is require to meet the SDGs associated with child survival. Save the Children, UNICEF, GSK, Global Citizen and Global Financing Facility are organising this intimate high-level meeting to discuss how we can end this scandal and sustainably finance child survival. We will hear from global leaders in child health and nutrition, from public and private donors, and from implementing partners and governments. Together, we will agree to a plan of action to ensure our global and domestic health and nutrition financing architecture is equipped to realise the ambition of the SDGs and end preventable child deaths by 2030.
Food System Approaches to the Prevention of NCDs
A side event hosted by EAT in collaboration with the Governments of Norway, Sweden, Finland, Indonesia and the Nordic Council of Ministers. This side event will convene global leaders and experts involved in Noncommunicable Diseases and food system challenges to address the following: Why are actions for sustainable and healthy food systems important for the prevention of the NCDs and how can these actions be implemented? RSVP here.
The SDG2 Advocacy Hub Presents a “Kitchen Connection” Cooking Challenge
Pairing three African chefs with nutrition students from NYU, the Kitchen Connection Cooking Challenge will ask the teams to curate time-sensitive, nutritionally appropriate, inexpensive dishes with a limited number of ingredients. This event aims to raise awareness of diverse cuisines around the world. Please RSVP for this event here.
On 24 May 2018, the Security Council unanimously endorsed resolution 2417, paving the way for the international community to address conflict-induced hunger. Join global leaders committed to a world with Zero Hunger, as we discuss how this sign of political will can contribute to preventing and eradicating conflict-induced hunger. Please RSVP before September 20 here.
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Speakers from around the world will join this two-day event, sharing their stories, ideas, and challenges. We'll be streaming the event live on September 26. The Goalkeepers 2018 report will be released prior to the event on September 18, taking a detailed look at progress being made around the globe. This year, both the event and the report will highlight how the tremendous growth in youth populations will be a turning point for future progress in health, equality and development. 2018 Goalkeepers include: Aranya Johar, Ed Sheehan, Melinda and Bill Gates, King Kaka, Graca Machel, Trisha Shetty, to name a few.
UNSDSN and Barilla’s International Forum on Food and Nutrition will bring together actors from gov’t, civil society, research and the private sector for interdisciplinary discussion on issues of nutrition and sustainability. At the Forum, speakers and participants will discuss evidence, scientific data and best practice to create a model of sustainable food to reach the UN SDGs.
The Forum will take place at Convene. Speakers include Gerda Verburg, Jeffrey Sachs, Mark Watts, to name a few.
Taking place in New York City’s Central Park, gathering headliners the Weeknd, Janet Jackson, John Legend, to name a few.
The musical artists will stand together with activists, music fans, and millions of Global Citizens across the globe to call on world leaders to fulfill their obligation to achieve the United Nations Global Goals for Sustainable Development and end extreme poverty by 2030.
This festival is part of GC’s Be the Generation Campaign- a series of global events honouring the life and legacy of Nelson Mandela in his centenary year. Mandela 100is the crowning event, taking place on Dec 2 in Johannesburg, South Africa, that will gather world leaders to make commitments to deliver Nelson Mandela’s dream of ending extreme poverty.
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Multimedia & Website Ministry
- Members: Jeremy Kim
- Mission Statement: Our Multimedia ministry seeks to serve our GCC Mainline community through technology. We are a group of people who believe we can use technology to bless God’s community! If anyone is interested in serving God through technology, please email email@example.com.
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San Jose, CA—August 9, 2017— Developers of multi-cell, USB Type-C products that need higher current, dual input, and I2C support now have a flexible option with the MAX77756 24V, 500mA, low quiescent current (Iq) buck converter from Maxim Integrated Products, Inc. (NASDAQ: MXIM).
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USB Type-C products must generate an always-on 3.3V rail to detect USB insertions. Products utilizing the Power Delivery (PD) voltage range (5V to 20V) can generate an always-on (1.8V/3.3V/5.0V) digital supply rail for the port controller using the MAX77756 step-down converter. In addition, the MAX77756 has a 20μA quiescent current that extends battery life by reducing idle power consumption. To simplify the system design, the MAX77756 has a dual input ideal diode ORing circuit that allows the chip to power from the external USB source if the battery is empty.
Multi-cell battery-operated devices—such as ultrabooks, laptops, tablets, drones, and home automation appliances—can easily evolve to Type-C with PD using the flexible MAX77756 power supply. The MAX77756 has a unique combination of wide input voltage range, low quiescent current, higher current load, dual input, and I2C for flexibility and programmability. There is also a default power mode if customers do not want to use the I2C bus. The MAX77756 is a robust IC with short-circuit and thermal protection, 8ms internal soft-start to minimize inrush current, proven current-mode control architecture, and up to 26V input voltage standoff.
• Low quiescent current: 1.5μA Buck and 20μA MUX for always-on operation
• High efficiency: Up to 92% with integrated power MUX
• Small solution size: 2.33mm x 1.42mm 15-bump WLP; no external Schottky array needed
• Wide input voltage: Operates on full VBUS range (5V-20V) and VBATT (2S, 3S, 4S Li+)
• “The MAX77756 saves board space and reduces series voltage drop by integrating FETs, eliminating the need to use external Schottky diodes,” said Jia Hu, Executive Business Manager, Mobile Power, Maxim Integrated. “The MAX77756 also helps engineers minimize power consumption and extend battery life for the end application by offering highest efficiency and lowest Iq compared to other products.”
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• MAX77756 is available from stock and priced at $0.65 (10,000-up, FOB USA)
• MAX77756EVKIT# is available from stock and priced at $70
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Maxim Integrated develops innovative analog and mixed-signal products and technologies to make systems smaller and smarter, with enhanced security and increased energy efficiency. We are empowering design innovation for our automotive, industrial, healthcare, mobile consumer, and cloud data center customers to deliver industry-leading solutions that help change the world. Learn more at https://www.maximintegrated.com. | <urn:uuid:d55b7a35-4f14-4b78-abe4-9364c1cfb3ad> | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | http://www.embedded-computing.com/news-releases/extend-battery-life-of-usb-type-c-tm-devices-with-maxims-flexible-buck-converter | 2019-02-24T05:21:17Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550249595829.93/warc/CC-MAIN-20190224044113-20190224070113-00217.warc.gz | en | 0.817394 | 783 |
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Mill Cut (Pea Soup Bayou)Waupaca County, Wisconsin
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Mill Cut (Pea Soup Bayou) is located in Waupaca County, Wisconsin. This lake is 15 acres in size. It is approximately 19 feet deep at its deepest point. Anglers can expect to catch a variety of fish including Bluegill, Largemouth Bass and Northern Pike.
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It had to come, the character assassination of Bill Shorten. The Opposition Leader has been doing too well in the polls for Australia's right-wing hunting pack to leave him untouched.
Listen to any radio shock jock or ranting TV host and the drum beat has started. The hunting pack's star witness is a former Victorian Australian Workers Union official, Bob Kernohan. Earlier this month, he told the trade union royal commission that in the mid-1990s Shorten (then aged 28) urged him to ignore the rorting of union funds. This is precisely what the feral right wants to hear. It's a chance to smear Shorten and practise the politics of personal destruction.
As ever, the Prime Minister's lickspittle, Andrew Bolt, is leading the chase, asking, with mounting frustration: "How come the mud isn't sticking to Bill Shorten?" Bolt's News Corp colleague Jason Morrison has gone a step further, calling on the Labor leader to stand aside. In the way of these things, we can expect to hear a lot more about Kernohan's allegation in the lead up to the next election. Already, 2GB has it on a continuous replay loop. But how credible is Kernohan and his testimony to the royal commission?
A significant part of his evidence was seriously flawed, revealing a delusional figure who has reconstructed the memory of major events in his life. In wanting the mud to stick, Bolt is relying on someone who contradicted himself under oath. The details are set out in the commission's transcripts. A big part of Kernohan's public persona has been to portray himself as a whistleblower, the only honest man in the Victorian AWU 20 years ago.
At the height of attempts to silence him, he claims to have been bashed by union thugs in July 1999. In his sworn statement to the royal commission, Kernohan said that three men had set upon him in the outer Melbourne town of Melton, telling him to keep his "mouth shut" and to "stop talking to the press, you grub". Counsel assisting the commission Jeremy Stoljar seemed sympathetic to Kernohan's plight, complaining of how he had been "marginalised and victimised" as part of "the mistreatment of whistleblowers".
There's just one problem with this account. In an addendum to his witness statement, Kernohan attached his sworn statement to the Victorian Police tendered the day after the Melton bashing. In this version, two men attacked him, screaming out "give us your wallet, you prick" and "where is your money?" According to Kernohan, "they yelled this out several times". There was no mention of union intimidation. The incident was purely a robbery. The statement was signed off as "true and correct", acknowledging that any falsehood was "liable to the penalties of perjury".
Kernohan, in effect, has exposed himself as a fantasist – someone who, years later, has looked back on the Melton robbery and reframed it as a political event. He has converted an act of theft into something that matches his self-image as an AWU martyr. More worryingly, at the royal commission, he admitted to mental breakdowns and bouts of alcoholism – confirmation of how this troubled character was in no fit state to give evidence.
An obvious question needs to be asked: why did the commission allow Kernohan to testify? Stoljar and the royal commissioner, John Dyson Heydon, had an advance copy of his witness statement, from which it was clear he was about to give seriously flawed evidence. Anyone of average IQ would have seen the contradiction between Kernohan's 1999 police statement and his 2014 affidavit.
I believe an element of exploitation was involved. In their determination to fulfil their charter of uncovering problems in the Labor movement, Heydon and Stoljar appear to be willing to hear from anyone brandishing anti-Labor allegations, no matter how disreputable or unstable they might be. The commissioner and his assistant have disgraced themselves, as have the media urgers close to Kernohan (such as Morrison) who have exploited the poor man for political purposes.
Just like the Melton incident, Kernohan's recollections about Shorten have evolved over time. When he signed a statutory declaration in August 2010 alleging AWU rorting, his main target was Julia Gillard (who had recently become prime minister). Shorten was written up as a witness to Kernohan's claims, with no mention of impropriety. This confirms one of the golden rules of hunting pack politics: the intensity of the allegations against Labor MPs is in direct proportion to the threat they pose to the Coalition. Regrettably, the royal commission has become a star chamber. It's as if Stoljar has divided his witness list into friendly and hostile witnesses. The former are given a soft ride, especially if they claim to be whistleblowers.
On the first day of the commission’s hearings, for instance, Stoljar nursed another discredited figure, Ralph Blewitt, through his evidence. Most of Blewitt's statements were unbelievable, but Stoljar had him on life support, at no time excoriating the dozens of inconsistencies and convenient memory lapses presented to the commission. Welcome to Tony Abbott's Australia. A place where extreme legal power has been conferred on a Tory commission airing allegations against Labor leaders, past and present, from witnesses who are all over the shop.
Mark Latham is a former leader of the ALP.
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Caribbean Princess Review, Part 12
Saturday, June 3, Going Home
Well, here we are on the last day, our cruise is over and we are waiting for disembarkation. A certain song keeps playing in my head. Bert sang it a couple times during the week, most recently just last night, and I keep hearing the refrain over and over. To the tune of "Sloop John B" by the Beach Boys, he'd sing "I'm having such a good time, I don't wanna go home..." He had written some pretty clever and funny lyrics to the whole song, but that chorus kept repeating all day, all the way home!
We were really going to miss this guy!
Disembarkation from the Caribbean Princess was much like their embarkation process; quick, efficient, orderly and completely painless. There was a short wait in the comfortable Explorer's Lounge until our colour tags were called, then it was off the ship and through Customs in no time. It was the same with the tendering process to Princess Cays the day before, so incredibly organized and efficient that you hardly noticed you were waiting. Kudos once again to Princess for their efficiency.
Overall, we rated the Caribbean Princess our favourite cruise so far. There were so many pluses they far outweighed any minuses. The minuses were few; some not-so-talented singers and dancers in the main shows, a pool band that wasn't very in tune most of the time, some smoke-filled bars and lounges, but these were all things that could be avoided. We had some noise above our cabin from the busy Lido deck (running footsteps, scraping chairs and tables, etc), but hardly worth losing any sleep over!
On the other hand, the pluses were many; a stellar crew who really knew how to show us a good time, friendly helpful and smiling staff all around, excellent waiters, teriffic room steward, fantastic food both in the dining room and the buffets, an incredibly smooth ride with minimal rocking or noticeable movement, great shore excursions, a clean and beautiful ship, excellent organization and service all around, and last but not least, the World's Greatest Performer, Bert Stratton! The Caribbean Princess is lucky to have him!
While looking for photos to end this review, I found one I forgot to post from Princess Cays that says it all:
Do we look happy? Do we look relaxed? Do we look like we're having a great time? Do we look like we love cruising? Do we look like we LOVE the Caribbean Princess?
"We're having such a good time, we don't wanna go home....!"
I've loved all of your reviews! I knew you'd love Princess. Our Princess cruise was the best! It really had less to do with the ports, the ship, the food, etc., but with the STAFF! They were always upbeat and happy, never made us feel like we were "bothering" them with questions or just saying "Hi". As you can see below, we tried NCL (we like Anytime Dining), but we just didn't get the same "feeling" as we did on Princess.
Come with us on Sun Princess in November !
Love the Princess Cays pic! You and James look so relaxed!
"A truly happy person is one who can enjoy the scenery on a detour."
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Very enjoyable and very informative review. My wife and I will be on the sister ship, Crown Princess, in July for the Western Caribbean Itinerary out of Brooklyn and the info in your review of what we might expect aboard that vessel, albeit the sister ship, is priceless.
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As a person getting ready for my first cruise, let me tell you how much I enjoyed your review. Thank you for taking so much time and effort to make it so complete. I have been reading it over and over again. Whenever i make a big decision, i go through a period where i wonder if i did the right thing. Well, we will be sailing on October 21-28 on the CP, and your review makes me realize that I made the right decision. The only problem now, is the more I come on these boards, the more excited i get. I am taking alot of crap from my friends, because prior to booking my cruise, I spent much of my free time on our AHL Hockey team's web site. I am a rabid fan, and don't miss a game. One of the players that I am friends with e-mailed me and said " I can't believe you are going on a cruise during hockey season"!!
lorriv20, thank you for the thank you! Don't worry about cruising during hockey season, there is a sports bar/cigar bar on board where you can watch games, as well, sometimes sports are shown on the MUTS screen, although I've only actually seen soccer so far..
And you are entitled to get as excited as you want - you're going on a CRUISE!!
On the C.P. there was suppose to be a boxing match on the t.v. in the sports bar where you can smoke cigars called the Churchhill Lounge. The room was packed and everyone was watching another game on t.v. I don't remember what it was. The cigar smoke was a deterrent for me. The guys seemed to have a great time. | <urn:uuid:c1930aec-1046-45c8-9485-c702b2e819c3> | CC-MAIN-2016-07 | http://www.cruisemates.com/forum/princess-cruise-lines/315861-caribbean-princess-review-final-part-12-a.html | 2016-02-06T19:34:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-07/segments/1454701147492.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20160205193907-00024-ip-10-236-182-209.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971432 | 1,210 |
Author of more than 90 publications including books, chapters in edited works, articles in journals and yearbooks, professor emeritus of University of Tehran and legal advisor to the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran, Professor Momtaz holds membership at prominent institutions such as Institut de droit international, Curatorium of the Hague Academy of International Law, Permanent Court of Arbitration and Commission for the Settlement of Disputes related to Confidentiality of the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons (OPCW). He is also among the very few to have been offered Neshan-e Danesh (National Medal of Knowledge) in Iran and Officier de l’Ordre des Palmes Académiques, in France, both in 2005.
Born on 18 June, 1942, in Izmir, Turkey, to a family of diplomats, his father and grandfather having served as Iran’s ambassador and consular agent to different countries including Russia, France, Turkey and Egypt, Professor Momtaz had an early model on mind in his early years; his grandfather was a member of the Iranian delegation during the two landmark conferences held at the Hague in 1899 and 1907, leading the Iranian delegation during the second Conference, what influenced him in later years to choose international law as his academic major and career.
Once on a mission to Egypt with his family at the age of 6, he was sent to a French-speaking school until the third grade. He later continued his high school studies in France. Upon graduation from high school in 1961, highly impressed by the passion running in the family, he had no doubt to choose law as his major. He got admitted into the Faculty of Law and Economics, University of Paris, wherefrom he graduated in 1966 with a degree in Public Law. He then went for a Diploma at the Institut d’études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) in 1968. In 1971, he graduated with a Doctorate (Doctorat d’Etat) in Public Law from the University of Law, Economics and Social Sciences, Paris II.
Starting his career as Assistant Professor in University of Paris X (Nanterre) in 1968 changed the course of his life and made him find the all-time passion of his life: teaching!
Following the completion of his thesis entitled “The Legal Regime of the Seabed and Ocean Floor beyond the Limits of National Jurisdiction” in 1971, he kept teaching at the University of Paris X before returning to Iran to pursue his desire and assist the Iranian delegation at the Third United Nations Conference on the Law of the Sea from second to eleventh sessions (1974 – 1982) and the Preparatory Commission for the International Sea-bed Authority and the International Tribunal for the Law of the Sea from 1984 until 1993 in which he had an active participation.
Meanwhile, he held teaching courses at home and abroad since 1969 onwards at different institutions namely Institut des Hautes Etudes Internationales de Paris, University of Law, Economics and Social Sciences, Paris II, University of Paris X (Paris Ouest Nanterre, La Defense), University of Grenoble II (Mendes-France), University of Paris XI (Jean Monnet), University of Paris XIII (Villetaneuse), University of Caen (Basse-Normandie), University of Paris I (Panthéon-Sorbonne), University of Rouen, University Paul Cézanne, Aix-Marseille III, University of Paris II (Panthéon-Assas), University of Rouen (Haute Normandie), University Aix-Marseille III (Paul Cézanne) and Institut d’études politiques de Paris (Sciences Po) Law School.
Presenting lectures in various forums has spanned three continents and swept Professor Momtaz’s most favorable fields of study namely international humanitarian law, international human rights law, law of the sea and international criminal law. These forums include the Graduate Institute of International and Development Studies, Geneva, Faculty of Law, University of Stockholm, Inter-University of Centre of Postgraduate Studies, Dubrovnik, Yugoslavia, International Institute of Humanitarian Law, San Remo, Italy, Institute of International Public Law and International Relations, Aristotle University, Thessaloniki, Greece, Universidad del Rosario, Bogota, Colombia, Universidad of Nicaragua, Managua, Centre for International Legal Studies School of International Studies, Jawaharlal Nehru University, UNITAR, The Hague, Universidad de Cordoba, Spain, United Regional Courses on International Law, Addis-Ababa, Ethiopia and Institut international des droits de l’homme, Strasbourg, France.
He has also been given the mandate of promoting the study of international law in Iran on different occasions including on election as the director of the Center for International Studies as well as the head of the Human Rights Department of the Faculty of Law and Political Science respectively in 1978 and 2004.
Above all, perhaps the most enlightening part of Professor Momtaz’s teaching career can be singled out as his lessons given at the Hague Academy of International Law once for the specialized course in 2000 on international humanitarian law applicable to non-international armed conflicts and once as the instructor of the general course in 2014 on the topic of ranking of international legal order.
Finally, his membership in scientific societies can be seen as an ever-present quality inherent in his academic activities. These include his past and present membership to the Société française pour le droit international, Committee on Maritime Neutrality of the International Law Association, International Council of Environmental Law, Board of Editors of the Yearbook of International Humanitarian Law at the Asser Institute, Editorial Board of the Asian Journal of International Law, Comité Cientifico, Anuario Colombiano de Diretto Internacional, Advisory Board of the Iranian Journal of International Affairs, International Institute of Humanitarian Law (San Remo), Institute of International Public Law and International Relations (Thessaloniki) and Scientific Council of the Review Collection “Espaces et Ressources maritimes”, published by the Centre d’Etudes et de Recherches sur le droit des activités maritimes, Institut du Droit de la paix et du développement, Université de Nice-Sophia Antipolis, France.
Living a prolific academic life is not all about Professor Djamchid Momtaz since he has always endeavored to bring his knowledge into practice by getting involved in diplomatic mandates assigned to him whether internationally or at the instructions of the Ministry of Foreign Affairs of the Islamic Republic of Iran. These include his active and pivotal participation in prominent expert groups such as the expert group on “Humanitarian Law applicable to Armed Conflicts at Sea” by the International Institute of Humanitarian Law in order to implement the Plan of Action on the Promotion of the Law of Armed Conflicts at Sea in San Remo, Geneva and Livorno in 1993 and 1994 and the Committee of Legal Experts on National Implementation of the Chemical Weapons Convention at De Paul University, College of Law, in Chicago, Illinois and The Hague in 1994. He has also been vigorously involved in the Intergovernmental Group of Experts to study Practical Means of Promoting Full Respect of International Humanitarian Law and Compliance with that Law in Geneva, 1995 and the Process for the Delimitation of Maritime Boundaries at the Division for Ocean Affairs and the Law of the Sea, Office of Legal Affairs of the United Nations in April 1999.
Participation in the expert group on “Humanitarian Protection in Non-International Armed Conflicts” at the International Institute of Humanitarian Law in San Remo, Italy in 1999 and the “Intergovernmental Experts Group to draft the Convention on the Protection of the underwater cultural Heritage” at the UNESCO, in 2000, Paris, and the Joint United Nations Environment Program (UNEP) and Office of the High Commissioner for Human Rights (OHCHR) during the Experts Seminar on Human Rights and the Environment in January 2002, Geneva, are also outstanding in Professor Momtaz’s diplomatic career.
More particularly on international humanitarian law, Professor Momtaz’s expertise has been used by the International Committee of the Red Cross once through his membership in the Group of International Advisors from 2003 to 2007 and also for ICRC’s milestone achievement: Study on International Customary Law, to which Professor Momtaz contributed as the Member of the Steering Committee from 1996 until 2004.
Member of the International Law Commission from 2000 to 2006, and its Chairman in 2005, Professor Momtaz has had the experience of acting as the Counsel and Advocate of the Islamic Republic of Iran before the International Court of Justice (I.C.J.) on the occasion of the Advisory Opinion: Legality of the Threat or Use of Nuclear Weapons in Armed Conflicts in 1995. Similarly and playing the same role, he assisted the Iranian delegation at the Case Concerning Oil Platforms (Islamic Republic of Iran v. United States of America) at the International Court of Justice in 2003. He has also advised the Iranian Ministry of Foreign Affairs on international law issues discussed yearly at the Sixth Committee of the General Assembly, actively participating thereat from the 44th to 67th session.
Likewise, as the member of the Iranian delegation at annual sessions of the Asian-African Legal Consultative Committee, Professor Momtaz has actively participated in sessions held in Tehran, 1974, Cairo 2000, Abuja 2002, Seoul 2003, Bali 2004, Nairobi 2005, New-Delhi 2006, Cap Town 2007, New-Delhi 2008, Kuala-Lumpur 2009, Dar el Salam 2010, Colombo 2011, Abuja 2012, Tehran 2014 and Beijing 2015.
Also noteworthy is professor Momtaz's key role in Iran-Iraq peace talks held in 1988 and 1989, active participation at the International Conference for the Protection of War Victims in Geneva, 1993 and participation in the fourth session of the Preparatory Commission for the Organization for the Prohibition of Chemical Weapons at the Hague, in 1993, the second and sixth sessions of the United Nations Conference on Straddling Fish Stocks and Highly Migratory Fish Stocks held in New-York respectively in 1993 and 1996, United Nations Diplomatic Conference of Plenipotentiaries on the Establishment of an International Criminal Court, Rome, in 1998, the 2010 Review Conference of the Statute of the International Criminal Court in Kampala, Uganda and the Consultation Meeting on the Red Cross and Red Crescent Emblem in 1999, Geneva. | <urn:uuid:7d375d7b-5a2f-4d71-beea-10d79b432600> | CC-MAIN-2023-23 | http://iranil.org/Iranian-Professors/Djamchid-MOMTAZ/ | 2023-05-30T11:03:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2023-23/segments/1685224645595.10/warc/CC-MAIN-20230530095645-20230530125645-00705.warc.gz | en | 0.915649 | 2,201 |
Caritas Srbija – Caritas Serbia
Caritas Serbia was established in 1995 to provide care and support to the vast number of people exiled from their homes and the large number of refugees arriving as a result of the civil war in the Balkan region. Caritas Serbia in these years provided assistance in food, fuel, shelter to thousands of people. Four years later, Caritas Serbia provided help after the NATO bombing destroyed hundreds of homes leaving thousands people without food and shelter. Caritas Serbia responded with a 3 year project known as SAO to distribute family packages, wood-burning stoves and firewood and assisted social centres, hospitals, nursing homes and children’s institutions. Today, they continue their mission of bringing effective help to those most in need through programmes such as humanitarian aid and relief, home care for the sick and elderly, advocating for rights of people in area of mental care, youth drug prevention and peacebuilding programmes.
At home or abroad, Caritas Serbia organises humanitarian aid and emergency relief to those affected by natural disasters or conflict, such as floods, landslides and earthquakes. Such was the case in 2011 when Caritas Serbia immediately responded with supplies when an epic 9.0 magnitude earthquake and tsunami struck the north-east coast of Japan in March, 2011, killing thousands and sweeping away homes leaving 300,000 people homeless without food, clean water and power. For the first time Caritas Serbia organised a fundraising campaign and gathered about 14.000 Euro worth of help which was sent to the affected region. Similar action was taken after an earthquake in Italy when about 5.000 Euro was collected and sent. The last urgent action Caritas undertook was for the help to the families of those that lost their lives in the floods and landslides. The action covered about one thousand of the families in numerous regions of Serbia. The help consisted of basic food, hygienic and construction supplies.
Collaboration with Caritas members and other donors is a hallmark of Caritas Serbia. In early 2000s, the organisation embarked on a partnership with Caritas Italy to establish the first mental health programme to provide psychiatric care to those suffering from mental disorders, depression and schizophrenia; rescuing them from deplorable living conditions, abandoned by their families and institutions.
Caritas Serbia social programmes have been oriented towards refugees and internally displaced persons from Kosovo, Croatia, Bosnia and Herzegovina, as well as the local population that are in social need. Their Home Care programme, supported mainly by Caritas Germany, upgrades the life quality of the elderly that are sick, alone and physically handicapped. Visiting nurses and household assistants travel to their homes to measure blood pressure, change clothes, wash, provide physiotherapy, housekeeping, bring groceries and provide transportation.
Caritas Serbia organises youth workshops in schools to educate children and young people with effective, fact-based drug education to prevent them from experimenting with drugs. In the second phase, workshops are dedicated to creation, promotion and strengthening of peace building initiatives.
Caritas Serbia main office is in Belgrade and serves as the focal point for the 5 Caritas diocesan offices throughout Serbia. In total depending on projects Caritas employs approximately 100 people and has a network of few hundred volunteers.
Caritas Serbia is a member of Caritas Internationalis and Caritas Europe and actively collaborates and receives support from the global Caritas confederation; such as with members Caritas Germany and Caritas Italy.
Caritas Updates from Serbia
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We’re excited to announce the official release of Conditions v1, which provides fine-grained control over how and when your builds happen. Conditions is a mini boolean language that you can use to filter builds, stages, and jobs, and it’s especially helpful for complex setups with matrices.
Conditions was available as an early release feature, and with community feedback and collaboration, we’ve rewritten the language parser. We’ve added new features and made existing ones more consistent and predictable. Thank you to everyone for your input and suggestions!
You can opt-in to Conditions v1 by adding the following line to your
We encourage everyone – especially folks already using Conditions v0 – to try out the new version!
Conditions will also be coming soon to Travis CI Enterprise. Let our enterprise team know if you’re interested in getting a heads-up when you can upgrade your installation to bring in Conditions.
On July 17th, Conditions v1 will become the default version, and we will update you when this happens. If you’d rather keep using the previous version, you can specify it with
conditions: v0. We’ll keep v0 around for at least 6 months in case you want to roll-back and we’ll post an update before deprecating anything completely.
New in v1
In this version, we’ve significantly expanded Conditions to support a much wider variety of expressions, especially for comparisons, function calls, and statements enclosed by parens. We’ve also built out more keywords, operators, and symbols so Conditions will feel more like the programming languages you know:
- Additional Configuration & Commit Attributes - Our changes for v1 have added more support for identifying cases based on the contents of your
.travis.yml. Check the docs for a full list.
falseare typed and keywords for
IS- the values
falsenow function as boolean types in logical expressions. These types also are now predicates that can be used with
fork IS true
- New Aliases for Operators - Commonly-used symbols are now available as a way to reference specific operators, such as
- Line-Continuation - You can now continue a line onto the following using a backslash, similar to Python, Ruby, or Bash.
- Errors for Variables/Strings Starting with
$- Bash code is not evaluated as many users expect, so variables and unquotes strings will now raise a parsing error and the build will be rejected. If you definitely need to start a string with a dollar character, you can quote the string. Quoted strings still can still start with a dollar character.
Since the new parser is significantly more powerful, depending on the situation, it might accept cases that previously were rejected. There is a limited possibility that the logic of your build will evaluate differently, which might change how your jobs are filtered.
Of course, please have a look at the docs for all of the details. The docs include a detailed list of attributes, aliases, and especially, examples about how different expressions are parsed.
Let us know what you think!
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Adolf Hitler wrote his final will on April 29th 1945. On the following day, Hitler committed suicide. Hitlerís will was short and dealt with his marriage to Eva Braun (though she was not actually mentioned by name), what should happen to his art collection and how his body should be disposed of after his death. Martin Bormann, named as Party Minister in Hitlerís Political Testament, was named as the willís executor.
ďAlthough I did not consider that I could take the responsibility during the years of struggle of contracting a marriage, I have now decided, before the end of my life, to take as my wife the woman, who after many years of faithful friendship, of her own free will entered this town, when it was already besieged, in order to share my fate. At her own desire she goes death with me as my wife. This will compensate us for what we have both lost through my work in the service of my people.
What I possess belongs Ė in so far as it has any value Ė to the party, or, if this no longer exists, to the State. Should the State too be destroyed, no further decision on my part is necessary.
My pictures, in the collection which I have bought in the course of years, have never been collected or private purposes, but only for the establishment of a gallery in my hometown of Linz on the Danube.
It is my heartfelt wish that this bequest should be duly executed.
As my executor I nominate my most faithful party comrade, Martin Bormann. He is given the full legal authority to make all decisions. He is permitted to hand to my relatives anything which has a sentimental value or is necessary for the maintenance of a modest standard of life; especially for my wifeís mother and my faithful fellow workers who are well known to him. The chief of these are my former secretaries, Frau Winter etc, who have for many years helped me by their work.
I myself and my wife choose to die in order to escape the disgrace of disposition or capitulation. It is our wish to be burned immediately in the place where I have carried out the greater part of my daily work in the course of my twelve yearsí service to my people.Ē
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For the past few months I’ve been facing random crashes, and I thought it was because my iPhone 6 is just slowing down and couldn’t handle the load of the game sometimes.
However this morning I spent 4 hours renovating my park, adding a high amount of buildings and decorations to my new plots on the new island and instead of having irregular crashes, the crashing is now constant when my game launches, and I can’t get past the news screen.
This make me recall the paddock and structure limit, and how they were increased when the new island update was added. This means more structures, and thus more load on my phone which I have now reached the threshold on my park, and my phone.
I’m still working on ways I can get back into my park to store decorations and buildings to test my theory, but after my renovation my theory seems plausible.
I think Ludia should take a look at the structure limit, the load that the structures have (via animations and the likes), or at least have some sort of work around for older devices like my iPhone 6.
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ANDREW VORCE - Friday, December 10, 2010
Aston Villa, Everton, and Fulham could all take themselves out of misery with weekend wins in a full weekend of English action.
Aston Villa - West Brom
Brad Friedel and Aston Villa will be looking to get back to winning ways at home against West Brom.
Villa's injury concerns are slowly coming to an end, with Nigel Reo-Coker and Emile Heskey expected back soon. Steven Sidwel and Fabian Delph will both return within the next month, while Barry Bannan is out with a groin strain. Stiliyan Petrov and Andreas Weimann are both out until early February.
West Brom have a full squad, which will be needed to get a result at Villa Park. The Baggies heavy-handed win at Newcastle forced the eventual departure of Chris Hughton who left the club days after.
West Brom have won their last two Premier League games by a combined score of 7-2, beating Everton before their 3-1 result over Newcastle.
West Ham - Manchester City
Jonathan Spector will be pushing for more minutes as West Ham welcomes Manchester City to Upton Park.
Valon Behrami and Mark Noble could be declared healthy to make an appearance, while James Collison is out until the New Year with a knee injury. Manuel Da Costa and Thomas Hitzlsperger are both out until February, while Anthony Edgar and Patrick Kurucz are both out until May.
Manchester City could get the influential Kolo Toure back from injury after struggling with a calf muscle strain. Toure has been a standout player this season for the visitors, steadying the field of play. Emmannuel Adebayor is out with a calf injury and will be fighting for a spot on the bench.
Fulham - Sunderland
Clint Dempsey's Fulham will look to get their first win in their last six matches as they welcome Sunderland to Craven Cottage.
Last week Sunderland picked up all three points at West Ham, pushing them to seventh place, behind Stuart Holden's Bolton on goal difference.
If results go against Fulham, they could finish the weekend in the relegation zone. Mark Hughes could have Carlos Salcido and Moussa Dembele back, while Rafik Halliche could also make a return. Phillippe Senderos, Frank Stoor, and Bobby Zamora are all still out.
Sunderland top the Premier League's injury list with eight players out. Asomoah Gyan could miss out with a toe injury, while Craig Gordon is out with a hamstring injury. Trevor Carson and Andy Reid are both out injured. Titus Bramble, Fraizer Campbell, and Michael Turner are all out long term.
Everton - Wigan
Tim Howard and Everton need three points at home against Wigan to ease the pressure on the club.
A Wigan win would see them leapfrog the Liverpool based club, while a win for Everton could see them start making their climb up the ranks.
Everton have a generally healthy squad, with Leon Osman the only big miss who is out with an ankle injury. Everton's draw at Chelsea was a welcomed point, and a win this weekend could kick start Everton's season.
Wigan haven't won since beating West Brom 1-0 at home, but have picked up points against Liverpool and Stoke. Victor Moses is out until February with a dislocated shoulder, while James McCarthy is out until the end of January with an ankle injury.
Bolton - Blackburn
Stuart Holden should return for Bolton who are at home against Blackburn Rovers.
The US international has been sideliend with a thigh muscle strain, but should be the only Wanderer to make a return. Ricardo Gardner is out for another week, while Jlloyd Samuel continues his injury stint with Joey O'Brien. Sean Davis is out until early February with a knee injury.
Blackburn bounced back to beat Wolves 3-0 at home after being trounced by Manchester United at Old Trafford. It could have been a different story against Wolves who hit the woodwork three times in the opening stages. Rovers could have Vince Grella, Steven Nzonzi and Martin Olsson back, with only Keith Andrews out.
Carlisle United – Dagenham & Redbridge
After having their last league game cancelled due to the severe winter weather, Frank Simek and Mike Grella will try and help Carlisle United beat Dagenham & Redbridge this weekend.
Simek is a regular starter and should again play the full ninety minutes for the Cumbrians. Grella has enjoyed plenty of playing time since he arrived on loan and should again feature this Saturday.
The extra week off could help some players rest and get back on the field. Carlisle's Peter Murphy is suffering from a back injury and is questionable, while Danny Livesey has been out long term but is inching close to a comeback.
The Cumbrians are currently ninth in the standings but are in reasonable striking distance from the top and will need a win this weekend to keep up.
The Daggers are currently in the relegation zone and have lost three out of their last four League One games. Dag & Red will need to start maximizing their points if they want to avoid League Two play next season.
Dag & Red, also coming off a suspended game, are came away from their last league game unscathed and should field the same lineup with no new injuries reported.
Milton Keynes Dons – Notts County
Jemal Johnson and Milton Keynes Dons take on Notts County in a League One clash this weekend.
After last weekend's suspended game, MK Dons is hoping to start their climb to the top half of a cluttered standings. A win this weekend could go far for the Dons, especially since they are riding a two game league losing streak.
Johnson has featured regularly for MK Dons, though more often from the bench this season. The American should feature this weekend.
Dons look to be without Angelo Balanta who underwent ankle surgery last week.
Notts County are in the bottom half of the table and need to start winning games to assure League One play next season. They beat Swindon in their last league game and hope to keep that momentum going this Saturday.
The Magpies came off their last game unscathed and should field the same lineup.
Conor Doyle hopes to feature as Derby County take on Bristol City in the Championship.
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The early numbers are in and it looks like Oracle's stewardship of the Sun Microsystems server franchise isn't...
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going as well as claimed. And the figures, from the second quarter this year, reinforce SearchDataCenter.com survey findings showing Dell rebounding big-time in server sales.
For the second quarter of 2010, the first full quarter of Oracle's ownership, Sun server unit revenue fell nearly 11% (10.9%) compared to the year-ago quarter, according to market researcher Gartner. All other server rivals except IBM -- which saw revenue fall 2.7% -- experienced revenue growth in that period. Category leader HP's revenue rose 26.7% and Dell saw a whopping 39.5% rise in server-based revenue.
In terms of server units, Gartner reported a 26% decline in Sun servers shipped compared to 23.3% growth for HP and 35% growth for Dell 35%. Fujitsu -- the other non-Sun purveyor of SPARC-based servers -- saw 24.9% growth in units shipped. Gartner analyst Jeffrey Hewett said the bulk of Fujitsu unit sales growth for the quarter came from X86-based, not RISC-based models.
Vendors in the "other" category grabbed 37.7% growth. The decline in Sun server sales was less pronounced than in the first quarter when its ="target="_blank">server revenue fell almost 40%, according to earlier Gartner numbers
Aggregate server shipments worldwide for the second quarter grew 27% with revenue growing 14% for the second quarter, according to Gartner.
Granted, Oracle's full ownership of Sun started just the month before the period in question, but the acquisition had been in the process for nearly a year.
Oracle has posted a decline for the first half of the year, Hewett noted. Much of this is probably because customers are still waiting to see what Oracle's plans are. "Oracle has just begun to communicate its approach to building from the Sun business and that picture is not complete at this point. Until it is, customers are likely to buy servers from Oracle only when they really need replacements; that will not translate to growth in the short term," Hewett noted.
But, it's clear that many Sun shops are not happy with what they've seen so far. They don't like how Oracle has enforced stringent and more expensive hardware support policies or the confusion around the future of Solaris, OpenSolaris and the SPARC chip. And these latest market share numbers belie Oracle claims that Sun customers are happy with Oracle's ownership.
What's happening at a large HR consulting firm exemplifies what is occurring in some Sun hardware shops. This company is moving its Oracle databases off Sun SPARC-based systems onto HP Intel Nehalem boxes running Linux.
"Nehalem is just changing the game," said a system administrator at the firm. "Everything you put there just runs better. There's no reason to run SPARC anymore from what we've been told." The firm currently has about 250 Sun SPARC boxes, but the maintenance costs are "killing us," he said, and the goal is to reduce that number down to 30-40 systems in the next two years.
An IT manager of a large New England utility told SearchDataCenter.com earlier this summer that price-performance analyses motivated the company's decision to move from legacy Sun SPARC hardware to IBM Power Systems. Irritation over Oracle's handling of OpenSolaris convinced a large West Coast Sun shop to start moving its OpenSolaris/ZFS storage systems over to NetApp. He said future hardware purchases will come from HP -- not Sun.
This is all highly anecdotal, but it is significant that several big Sun shops -- data center customers that stuck with the independent Sun Microsystems through its financial worries of the past several years -- are moving off the platform since Oracle's buyout.
Oracle was a master at buying and integrating software companies. But from the start of its bid for Sun, even Oracle proponents said the company had no understanding of how hardware differs from software. Many Sun shops remain unconvinced that Oracle will, as CEO Larry Ellison has promised, spend more on SPARC and Solaris R&D than the independent Sun Microsystems.
Some said Ellison's vision of data center iPods or appliances, built from the ground up on Sun-labeled hardware (albeit running Linux and Intel chips), and Oracle middleware and databases, makes a lot of sense given the penetration of Oracle's database in large accounts. Others said customers will not lock in with that appliance worldview, especially given the expense of Oracle support and that company's heavy-handed compliance audits.
Alex Barrett contributed to this report.
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SEOUL—The North Koreans are drawing everyone from President Donald Trump to the U.S. military command here into excited expectation Kim Jong Un is about to return the remains of a few U.S. soldiers from among the 5,300 still listed as “missing in action” 65 years after the Korean War. But there’s something lost in the exaltation: talk of “complete denuclearization.”
When Trump told a rally in Duluth, Minnesota, last week that North Korea already had returned the remains of 200 of “our great fallen heroes,” U.S. and South Korean officials were puzzled, to say the least. Nobody here had heard about the return of the remains since Trump had taken credit for getting Kim to agree to a fourth point on the slim statement they signed at the Singapore summit on June 12: “The United States and the DPRK commit to recovering POW/MIA remains, including the immediate repatriation of those already identified.”
Since then, the North Koreans have conducted a dilatory process leading at last to an understanding by the U.S. command that the Kim regime is poised to return maybe 200 remains, maybe more, maybe less.
Clearly something’s up. U.S. Army trucks carrying 100 wooden coffins have moved to the joint security area straddling the line between the two Koreas at the truce village of Panmunjom. The trucks have unloaded trestles on which the coffins are resting, and flags of the United Nations Command, which includes the U.S. and 16 Korean War allies, are flying above them.
That doesn’t mean that anyone knows for sure what’s happening. Even Defense Secretary Jim Mattis seemed uncertain on his way to the region this week. The U.N. Command “is prepared now to receive those remains,” he said. “We are simply standing by for whatever diplomatic activities are done.” He was “optimistic,” he said, since “that was an agreement coming out of Singapore”—a reference, that is, to transfer of the remains, not the nuclear issue. Mattis arrives Thursday in Korea on a swing that’s also taking him to China and Japan.
While the Americans wait for the North Koreans to produce the remains, North Korea’s state media have said nothing about them, much less about denuclearization. Rather, a North Korean website promised to “fulfill our responsibility to address decades-long tensions and hostile relations and open a new era of the North-U.S. cooperation.” The same website called for abolition of South Korea’s “North Korean human rights act,” scolding South Korean officials for ignoring “shifting circumstances and public sentiment.”
For longtime observers of North Korean negotiating techniques, North Korea’s basic strategy is plain.
“The North Koreans are trying to feed unimportant crumbs instead of focusing on weighty issues like denuclearization,” said Shim Jae-hoon, a political analyst who wrote for years for the old Far Eastern Economic Review. “They avoid making concessions on serious matters. To them the remains are nothing. They are using them. The whole North Korean approach is to be protracted.”
In fact, U.S. officials are preparing now for a full-dress ceremony complete with honor guard at the crossing in Panmunjom, and they are gearing up for a still larger show at Osan Air Base 40 miles south of Seoul. They wonder, however, how as many as 200 sets of remains can be handed over at one time—or if they’ll be returned in batches over an extended period.
Consider the history: In an exercise called Operation Glory in 1954, in accordance with the Korean War Armistice signed in July 1953, the North Koreans transferred a total of about 3,000 bodies. Over a four-year period from 1990 to 1994, they handed over 200 boxes of remains. From 1996 to 2005 U.S. experts visited battlefields on 33 “joint field activities” with North Koreans, recovering 220 sets of remains.
But what if the North Koreans were to take those American experts hostage as tensions worsened after the North withdrew from the nuclear non-proliferation agreement in 2003 in the run-up to its first nuclear test three years later? Amid such worries, the U.S. in 2005 suspended searches. The North Koreans have returned no remains since 2007 while nuclear and missile tests fueled fears of a second Korean War—until Kim switched tactics and opened his peace offensive early this year.
Even in the best of times, transfers have generally been one or two at a time. If all 200 sets of remains were returned at once, as Trump said had already happened, he would not be far off in applying some of his favorite adjectives—amazing or terrific or even unprecedented, at least since 1954.
However many are turned over at one time, over how long a period, the remains will be transferred at Osan to aluminum caskets before they’re loaded onto transport planes and flown to Hickam Air Force Base in Hawaii for forensic examination under the U.S. Defense POW-MIA Accounting Agency. The initial challenge will be to determine which remains are those of Americans, which of allied soldiers, and which are Korean—a task made that much more difficult by the fact that the North Koreans are believed to have been holding them in storage for years.
Experts from the Defense POW-MIA Accounting Agency reportedly have been to Korea attempting firm up arrangements even as the North Koreans work the return to maximum propaganda advantage. And even if the prospect of returning remains represents, in Trump’s roseate view, a step toward permanent peace, U.S. experts doubt the North Koreans will permit American search teams to scour battlegrounds as they did before 2005.
“I am concerned that the agreement does not seem to have included the requirement to have U.S. remains recovery experts on the ground inside North Korea,” said Evans Revere, former deputy chief of mission at the U.S. embassy here. “There is no substitute for having American experts in this field directly engaged.”
Even if American teams do enter North Korea accompanied by North Korean forces the results are likely to be very disappointing—and expensive. “The North Koreans will exploit this as they did before and slow-roll it to get guys over there looking through old battlefields and then over-charge on every single little cost,” said Bruce Bechtol, a former U.S. defense intelligence official and author of numerous studies on North Korean military issues. “This is something that could probably be completed in months, but of course the North Koreans will drag it on for years.”
Stephen Tharp, a retired U.S. army officer who attended numerous meetings at the Joint Security Area, including ceremonies for the return of remains, sees the North Koreans as essentially following a familiar routine with no really satisfactory results.
“The way that North Korea can return 200 sets of remains so quickly is that they’ve been stored in warehouses for decades,” said Tharp. “It takes about five seconds for an anthropologist to see the bones have dried out and become cured.”
In one case 25 years ago, Tharp recalls, “They found catalog markings etched on them.”
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December 17, 2009
Pot-laced Food: Denver Delights!
As medical marijuana continues to build up momentum, one outlet in Denver is raising the stakes, and offering gourmet dishes to those seeking pot-laced food for medicinal purposes.
The Ganja Gourmet restaurant sells "Panama Red Pizza", pot lasagna and a marijuana tapenade. It is one of a growing crop of medicinal marijuana outlets innovating better ways to cook pot-laced dishes. Medicinal marijuana continues to gain respect for the many health issues and illnesses it is believed to help with, including glaucoma, nausea, stress, chronic pain and many other conditions. Even though I do not partake of it, I am hoping that this spreads to other states, I see no reason for so many to be prevented from using this drug when the benefits seem pretty clear. And if some great fod can come out of it, maybe I'll have to try it one day!
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My son has is on medicinal Marijuana I like to tell those whome usde to be like me before say NO to medicinal marijuana educate yourself about this wonder drugs one day we all will regret our attitude.
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Was the last person that commented on this story totally high or what? If the result of consuming this cusine is to sound like that moron, I say NO THANKS. I enjoy being able to have a firm grasp on somewhat important things such as, grammar, spelling, cognitive thinking....REALITY! lol Where's your car DUDE?
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I can read the headlines now.
"Man claims to have firm grip on reality. Calls people DUDE"
BTW. whats a "cusine"? your Aunties kid?
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Taking a look back at a game Ohio State played on this date:
Minnesota 35, Ohio State 31
Setup: Before the college football landscape became littered with offenses like the run-and-shoot and the spread and all its variations, 400-yard passing games were rare birds, especially in the Midwestern environs of Big Ten country. In fact, when Mike Hohensee totaled 444 yards through the air against Ohio State 34 years ago, it was the third-highest single-game total in Big Ten history. Not surprisingly, the first two also came against Earle Bruce's beleaguered Buckeyes secondary — 621 to Illinois' David Wilson the previous November and 516 to Purdue's Scott Campbell the previous week. Big games against OSU were no passing fancy.Get the news delivered to your inbox: Sign up for our BuckeyeXtra newsletter
Stars: Hohensee completed 37 of 67 passes and a school-record five touchdowns, Chester Cooper had 12 receptions for 182 yards, and Jay Carroll caught three TD passes. For the Buckeyes, Tim Spencer ran for 135 yards and two scores, and Art Schlichter passed for one touchdown and ran for another.
Turning point: The Buckeyes led 14-0 after the first quarter and 31-21 midway through the fourth before the Golden Gophers rallied for two late touchdowns, the second set up by a poor Ohio State punt that gave Minnesota possession at the OSU 40-yard line. On the winning 28-yard play, Hohensee's pass was tipped by Kelvin Bell but right into Carroll's hands. Ohio State's final drive ended with a Schlichter interception.
Impact: The Buckeyes walloped Northwestern the next week, before a 14-9 victory over Michigan gave them a Big Ten co-championship with Iowa, which went to the Rose Bowl. Ohio State landed in the Liberty Bowl and edged Navy 31-28. The '81 season ended with OSU having allowed 3,278 passing yards in 12 games, a record that stood until the 14-game season of 2002.
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Balamurali Is No More
- The world of Carnatic music loses a great voice
Chennai: The world of Carnatic music has lost its dearest son. Mangalampalli Balamuralikrishna (86), famous Carnatic vocalist, playback singer, music composer and actor breathed his last here at his residence on Tuesday. The multi-instrumentalist was born at Sankaraguptam in East Godavari district on 6th July 1930. He lived in Vijayawada and Hyderabad for a number of years as a music producer for All India Radio before moving to Chennai on a transfer. He worked as principal of Music College at Vijayawada. He has a house at Satyanarayana Puram in Vijayawada where the street has been named after him.
A highly decorated musician in the country, Balamurali was awarded Padmashri, Padmabhushan and Padmavibhushan. He won Film Fare Awards in 1967 and 1987. He created new ragas and kritis. His Pancha Kritis and Swara Raga Sudha are famous for their originality and creativity. The role of Narada he played in the film Bhakta Prahlada made him an actor of repute. He rendered music for about 400 film songs. He was highly accomplished in music and literature on which he left his own indelible mark.
Balamurali started his long and prolific journey in music at the age of 6. He sang in Telugu, Kannada, Tamil, Oriya, Bengali, Hindi and French. He is known for the clarity of his three octave-vocals. He has consistently displayed mastery over the Indian traditional music over the decades. He performed jugalbandi with Pandit Hariprasad Chaurasia, the flutist, and Bhimsen Joshi of Hindustani musical tradition. He gave more than 1800 concerts.
Balamurali boycotted Andhra Pradesh during the tenure of NT Rama Rao as chief minister when he thought he was denied his due. He did not perform on Telugu soil for a number of years as a sign of protest. Later he was persuaded to give concerts in Hyderabad and other cities and towns of Andhra Pradesh. He received the Wisdom Man of the Year award in 1992. He was instrumental in launching several institutes including Academy of Performing Arts and Research in Switzerland. | <urn:uuid:0f95f120-be34-4391-914a-e612d7fe437e> | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | http://www.primepost.in/balamurali-is-no-more/ | 2018-03-22T23:37:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257648103.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20180322225408-20180323005408-00479.warc.gz | en | 0.983638 | 512 |
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That BUSH is trying to corner this market is quite ominous, wouldn't you say? Specially considering his family's ties to Monsanto, IG Farben, etc.
It appears that the Bushes. this family of COMMONERS, are trying to RULE the world , together with the Bilderberg clique, by PRACTICALLY CORNERING THESE VITAL MARKETS. Granted, it could also just be for the purpose of a fantastic INVESTMENT, just like OIL was in the 70's until now.
Luckily, Paraguay is NOT the only source of water or soybean fields in the world. Still, I find this quite disturbing, wouldn't you say? President of the ""GREATEST DEMOCRACY"" IN THE WORLD trying to CONTROL the world for his own family and friends.
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Feminist Valentine's Day Memes To Share On Social Media & Show Where Your Heart Lies
For feminists, Valentine's Day can be one of the most fun but most frustrating holidays of the year. It's a great chance to show the people in your life how much you care about them, but it can also be overrun by misogynistic, heteronormative, and transphobic messaging. Here are seven feminist Valentine's Day memes you can share without perpetuating any of the negative connotations of the event.
Like many holidays, Valentine's Day has a super anti-feminist history. Before it was merged with the patron saint's day of celebration, Feb. 13 through 15 was a pagan ritual called Lupercalia dating back to the early days of the Roman Empire. According to NPR, men would sacrifice a goat and a dog, then beat women with the skins of the animals they had just killed. Not exactly candy hearts and cartoon cards.
Things have gotten a lot better for women since those days (though incidences of domestic violence against women tend to spike around V-Day.) Yet it's still important to closely monitor the holiday through a feminist lens. Reclaiming the spirit of the holiday, the appreciation of love in all its forms, is a step forward in making non-traditional relationships societally valid and respected, so share these seven feminist memes to change perceptions about what Valentine's Day means. | <urn:uuid:0d0f5d39-ff20-42a1-923c-0a93c2a0fb7c> | CC-MAIN-2018-09 | https://www.bustle.com/p/feminist-valentines-day-memes-to-share-on-social-media-show-where-your-heart-lies-38080 | 2018-02-22T19:18:35Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-09/segments/1518891814249.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20180222180516-20180222200516-00491.warc.gz | en | 0.951951 | 290 |
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The $26 million Carter Playground project is a public/private partnership between the City of Boston Parks and Recreation Department and Northeastern University. The design team at Stantec was tasked with implementing Northeastern University’s Institutional Master Plan goal of integrating the campus with the surrounding community by improving public spaces that link to adjacent neighborhoods. Carter Playground is centrally located in the South End neighborhood of Boston, adjacent to Northeastern University’s campus and within ¼ mile of subway, commuter rail, City bus, car rideshare, and bikeshare facilities, as well as sited along the Southwest Corridor regional bikeway.
To further benefit the community, Northeastern University agreed to combine their “Camden Lot” surface parking property with Carter Playground to increase the size of the park by 25 percent, for a total of 6.5 acres. The design emphasizes flexible multifunctional spaces and environmental responsibility. The improved park features two football and soccer fields that can also be used for baseball, softball, lacrosse, and other sports, as well as five tennis courts, open recreational space, and an area with equipment for children with disabilities. Other enhancements to the site include improved infrastructure, such as irrigation and drainage, and field lighting and scoreboards.
The result is a completely new multi-use public park that greatly expands recreation and play opportunities.
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Carter Playground involved a renovation of an existing playground to incorporate a large program on a relatively small site. As a result, space for construction activities was particularly limited. The tight space constraints also presented significant obstacles to salvage and reuse site soils and pavement in disturbed areas.
The site for Carter Playground includes several large trees as well as the adjacent rights-of-way, which were also part of the project scope. The design minimized work below the tree canopies as much as possible, but, given the amount of existing paved walkways that needed to be preserved, particularly in the right-of-way, it was not possible to avoid working over the root zones of several of the site’s trees. The design team collaborated with Northeastern University and the City of Boston’s arborists to develop a rigorous tree protection specification to monitor the health of the trees, minimize disturbance and clearly define a watering and fertilizing program to maintain tree health.
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Landscape Architect/Civil Engineer/Prime Consultant: Stantec
Structural Engineer: LeMessurier; RSE Associates Inc.;
Geotechnical Engineer: Haley & Aldrich
MEP Engineer: RDK
Irrigation Consultant: Irrigation Consulting LLC
Cost Estimator: V.J. Associates
Client/Owner: Northeastern University
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That last post – the drawing of the various ways business can be built or ruined – had me mesmerized. What was the one negative element that really stood out for me ?
Aha ! “Hotel Know-It-All”.
Is there a “know-it-all” in your networking group, or on your team? How can they be recognized? Usually you will know by the 2nd or 3rd encounter.
First of all, they are not “likeable”. They are “annoying”. When you try to convey information, they interrupt, declare they already know that, and proceed to explain how they were personally consulted on the fifth day of creation. Or perhaps you have met the one who goes off “half-cocked” to handle a project and winds up “screwing up the works”.
Secondly, they are unwilling to consider change. Why? Because they already know what works! “Tried that before – it flopped!” “This is the best way to get that done – did it before and it worked like a charm!” Why are WE wasting our time brainstorming??
Thirdly, they seem to have an unlimited storehouse of knowledge on every, yes every, topic !! Many times that knowledge avalanches into an opinion which carries the weight of an edict. Conversation is usually a monologue.
They don’t know the difference between expertise and elitism.
So what next?
Well, if they are a supplier, chances are you will try to find another source. Why? Because, given choices, we opt to deal with people we like and trust. Consequently, you most likely find yourself dealing with the “K-I-A” only if you have no other options.
Fortunately, you’ll find most “Know-It-Alls” to be in a position of authority – but rarely are they the boss. (Thank goodness the “Peter Principle” doesn’t always apply!) They turn out to be the employee that possesses the necessary skill crucial to the business. (How about that !!) However, prudence teaches that they would (or should) have limited or no customer contact unless absolutely necessary. After all, it is your business, and last I checked, customers were the backbone of business stability.
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From the moment of its founding in 1899 until the curtain came down nearly 90 years later, the G.C Murphy Company was first and foremost one thing – an operator of variety stores. Known colloquially as “five-and-tens” or “dime stores”, variety stores were giant forces in American retailing throughout most of the 20th century. Virtually every retail chain that sells general merchandise at “less than full price”, from one end of the spectrum (Walmart) to the other (any chain with the word “dollar” in its name) can trace part of its heritage, either directly or by influence, to the variety stores.
George Clinton Murphy was a native of Indiana County, Pennsylvania, an area located about 60 miles west of Pittsburgh, known best today as the boyhood home of actor James Stewart. Born there in 1868, Murphy would leave the area as a young man to go to work for J.G. McCrorey (the “e” was soon discarded) in McCrory’s Jamestown, New York variety store, some 150 miles north of Murphy’s hometown. Not long after Murphy joined the firm, McCrory sold Sebastian Spering Kresge, a salesman who had called on his store, an interest in the firm. Murphy was put in charge of mentoring Kresge in the business, traveling with him to Memphis to help Kresge open a new McCrory-Kresge store. Obviously, Murphy did a good job of showing him the ropes, as Kresge would later go on to become one the all-time retailing legends. In early 1899, Murphy left the McCrory-Kresge firm to start up his own store in McKeesport, Pennsylvania, a town much closer in to Pittsburgh. (A few short years later, Kresge and McCrory would part ways, running their own namesake firms afterward.)
Within five years, the G.C Murphy Company would have 14 stores in the greater Pittsburgh area, all reporting to the McKeesport home base. Before long, Murphy’s ascendancy came to the attention of the then 76-store strong F.W. Woolworth organization, a company that was expanding rapidly into several major American cities (at that point mostly in the Northeast) through acquisition. In 1911, Woolworth would consolidate those many acquisitions into what would become the modern F.W. Woolworth Company, which, like S.S. Kresge Co. would become a 20th century American retailing titan. In mid-1904, Murphy sold his young chain to Woolworth, who insisted on the proviso that Murphy would not operate a five and ten cents store in their territories.
Note that the agreement said “five and ten cents store.” It did not say “five through twenty-five cents store”, which is exactly what Murphy proceeded to open, just down the block from one of his old stores that was now a Woolworth’s. Soon, Murphy’s new company had ten stores, one in downtown Pittsburgh and the rest in surrounding towns.
Tragically, Murphy would not live to see his company’s greatest successes. In 1909, he passed away suddenly at the age of 41. With no succession plan in place and a failed public offering of the stock, the company floundered for the next couple of years.
At this point, J.G. McCrory reentered the picture, at least briefly. Considering a possible buyout of the Murphy company, McCrory sent his deputy (and cousin) John Sephus “Seph” Mack to look into the possibility. Mack returned with a most enthusiastic recommendation in favor of a buyout. When McCrory balked for no apparent good reason, Mack began to formulate plans to acquire Murphy himself, enlisting the help of friend and fellow McCrory manager Walter Shaw. Of course, this would entail their resignations from McCrory, which took place in short order. In February 1911, the two men closed the deal to acquire the G.C. Murphy Company, and for the next nearly 60 years, either a Mack or a Shaw would be running the show.
Mack and Shaw had "complementary" personalities, with Mack called “the architect” and Shaw “the engineer”, according to the book “For the Love of Murphy’s”, a wonderful history of G. C. Murphy written by Jason Togyer, that serves as the source of most of the information in these Murphy posts. Mack’s hard driving personality and Shaw’s people skills made for a powerful combination that would help facilitate dramatic growth for Murphy in the ensuing years.
Murphy pursued some interesting policies that set them apart from their dime store compañeros, including the implementation of a much higher “price ceiling” in many of its stores, both literally and figuratively. As far back as the early twenties, many Murphy stores had a second floor which featured all manner of goods priced from 25 cents to a dollar, while down below the normal 5-to-10 cent price point was the rule. After some years of back-and-forth on this policy, the company was finally convinced it was a winner with customers and made it permanent, going so far as to move everything down to the main floor. By contrast, Woolworth’s price cap remained at twenty cents until 1935.
Another point that found Murphy at odds with the competition was the company’s store location strategy. Whereas Woolworth sought to establish coverage in such major markets as New York, Philadelphia and Boston, Murphy expanded their geographic base far more slowly, avoiding the “jump and backfill” approach, preferring instead to shore up their base in the industrial towns of Ohio, West Virginia and Pennsylvania, long before the “rust belt” was rusty. Despite the intervention of a major depression and then a world war, these towns came through for Murphy year after year. By the mid-30’s, with nearly 200 stores in the chain, Murphy’s average per store sales and profits were far higher than Woolworth’s.
The 1940’s saw several leadership transitions within the company. Seph Mack passed away in 1940, and the chairmanship passed to his cousin Edgar Mack. Upon his death six years later, the top job went to Walter Shaw, Seph Mack’s original partner in the business. Despite these transitions, Murphy’s continued to grow, with the average store size increasing significantly through the 40’s.
In 1951, G.C. Murphy acquired the Morris 5 & 10 Cent Stores, a Bluffton, Indiana-based chain of 71 variety stores. This proved to be an excellent move for Murphy, giving them a leadership position right out of the box in Indiana, a state that adjoined their existing market area. It was timely as well, as it provided a hedge against some major labor strikes that occurred around this time near their highly manufacturing and mining-based home turf. If there was a downside to Murphy’s store location strategy, it was a particular vulnerability to strikes, which of course affected the purchasing power of their loyal, largely working-class customer base.
Another leadership change took place in 1953, when the second generation took over. Jim Mack, son of Seph Mack, had his father’s hard driving style combined with a Harvard education, but according to the Togyer book had a presence that a number of Murphy employees found intimidating. Also Mack’s philosophy was very conservative in respects that would take their toll on Murphy over time. For example, Murphy was exceedingly slow to convert to self-service. Many of their fellow variety chains (along with most major supermarkets) had already done this, and the practice was met with overwhelming acceptance from consumers. Secondly, Mack was utterly disdainful of discounting, even banning the use of the word in Murphy’s stores. In the early 50’s this wasn’t a big problem. Ten years later, with Mack still in place, resolute and attitude unchanged, it certainly became one, given the 1960’s startlingly different retail climate.
In contrast, Mack spearheaded an interesting development for Murphy – the acquisition of several chains in the Southwest, far outside of the company’s traditional operating areas. The largest was the 1959 buyout of Morgan & Lindsey, a Monroe, Louisiana based chain of 92 variety stores in Louisiana, Texas and Arkansas. Then there were a slew of “junior department store” (along the lines of a medium-sized Penney’s, for lack of a better description) acquisitions in Texas over the next several years - Cobb’s - four stores in west Texas, Bruner’s - 28 stores in San Antonio, Morris Dept. Stores – 13 stores in Dallas, and Terry Farris, with 17 stores in McAllen, Texas, just above the Mexican border.
The latter acquisitions proved to be disastrous, due to Murphy’s lack of understanding of the nuances of the shopping culture in Texas cities, and the very different requirements of operating junior department stores as opposed to variety stores. (Wait, did I just say “nuances” and “Texas” in the same sentence? Ok, we’ll call this one a “draft”. No offense, fellow Texans!) Worse yet, many name brands that had been longtime suppliers of these chains, including such mainstays as Levi Strauss, bailed when they learned of the new ownership by Murphy. They feared that their products would somehow end up in the Murphy dime stores, as Togyer mentions in his book. Murphy elected to supply its own house brands to the stores as a replacement, including their “Big Murph” jeans (I’m really hoping there wasn’t a “Lady Murph” brand, but it takes a lot to surprise me these days!). This practice “more or less ruined (the stores)”, a former executive told Togyer.
The Morgan & Lindsey stores, being true 5-and-10’s, fared better, but there was a fair amount of animosity between longtime M & L local store operators and the McKeesport-based Murphy brass that took some years to quell. Wisely, Murphy opted to keep the Morgan & Lindsey name, probably based on their experience with the smattering of G.C. Murphy stores opened in the Southeastern states, where the company’s poor name recognition put a damper on sales.
By the late 50’s, the standard G.C. Murphy stores were well-oiled machines. Downtown stores in their core Ohio Valley and Mid-Atlantic markets continued to sustain the company. As with other “five and ten” chains, the store cafeterias, without a doubt among the most beloved aspects of the Murphy stores and the subject of some of the fondest anecdotes in the Togyer book, were a major source of profits and an all-important traffic driver for the stores.
This was especially true in the company’s “flagship” stores, a class that included gigantic G.C. Murphy stores on Fifth Avenue in downtown Pittsburgh (“Store #12”, pictured first above) and Washington, D.C. (“Store #166", located at between Twelfth and Thirteenth Streets). The Pittsburgh store, for example, took up an entire block, and was remodeled at least ten times between 1931 and 1950 according to the Togyer book. In the 1960’s, this store was the site of a number of exciting promotions, including live in-store broadcasts by local DJ’s. Also, they leased space to a “full-time” fortune teller and all manner of other sideshows. Murphy even leased out one corner of the store a meat market. By virtue of their great locations in bustling sections of town and their well-earned “ local landmark” status, these stores were excellent performers for the chain well into the 1980’s, years after the company’s other stores began to struggle.
By the early 1960’s, however, it was another story for the rank-and-file small town and suburban G.C. Murphy stores. The discounting trend was in full swing, and the greatest pinch was being felt from their direct competitors – F.W. Woolworth’s Woolco stores, and to a much greater extent, S.S. Kresge’s Kmarts. Sensing an opening wide enough to drive a (hundred-thousand square foot discount store) through, Kresge invaded Murphy’s backyard and “erected Kmarts at all four compass points around Pittsburgh”, as Togyer puts it. Did Murphy defend their turf by opening large discount stores of its own? No. Not yet, at least.
Instead, Murphy sought to redefine the variety store concept, modernizing it to fit the changing lifestyle of the 1960’s consumer. The new stores would be called “A-A” (double-a) stores, featuring upgraded lighting and signage and bolder color schemes, but most importantly would employ a radically different approach to merchandising. Departments would be reorganized into “themed groups” to create a “boutique store” feeling, as described in the Togyer book, which describes a typical department – the “Entertainment Center”, as including “not just records, radios and television sets, but books, magazines craft supplies, musical instruments, and cameras”. The A-A stores would be larger but would actually carry fewer items than the typical Murphy store, and managers were required to ax items that fell below a certain sales threshold. Also, the A-A stores would be allowed to sell at deeper discounts than the standard Murphy stores. The bold new plan caught the attention of Chain Store Age, whose December 1967 issue consisted almost entirely of Murphy coverage. The magazine’s cover photo featured Murphy’s top executives huddled around a set of A-A store concept drawings, a banner headline excitedly proclaiming “G.C. Murphy’s On the Move Again!”
By the time Murphy had converted 10 percent of its 500-plus stores to the A-A format, they realized they had a bomb on their hands. Customers resented the fact that prices were higher at regular Murphy units than at the A-A stores, causing a public relations headache. More than that, they resented the fact that their beloved Murphy store carried far “less variety” than before. Even though the A-A stores carried more stock, they had fewer individual items (in today’s retail terminology, fewer stock keeping units or “SKU’s”). Beyond this, the A-A program offered little in the way of a panacea for the hammering the company was taking at the hands of the discounters.
Sadly, it took the 1968 death of Jim Mack, Murphy’s chairman, before the company embarked on a real solution to that problem. Unbeknownst to Mack or almost anyone else in the company, plans were surreptitiously being drawn up for a Murphy-owned discount concept. The very day after Mack’s passing, according to the Togyer book, the discount store plans came out of the drawer. The battle was about to be joined.
These are vintage G.C. Murphy publicity shots. First up is Store #12, the downtown Pittsburgh flagship, circa Christmastime 1973. Originally opened in 1930, the store was wrapped in the pictured “handsome streamlined façade” sometime in the late 40’s/early 50’s. The second photo, from 1968, shows the Annandale, Virginia store with an arcade-style facade that brings to mind some of the Memco stores that would open not far from there a few years later. Third, also from 1968, is a more conventional store from Beckley, West Virginia. Fourth, from 1973, a beautiful store with a fine colonial look from the quaint western Pennsylvania borough of Ligonier. Fifth, 1973 as well, is the interior entrance of the Monroeville, Pennsylvania store, a very inviting sight indeed. With fresh popcorn and pretzels beckoning, this one would have been hard to pass by. For sure, they knew what they were doing!
Pictured below, in 1968-dated photos, are two interior scenes from Murphy’s new “A-A” stores. The A-A concept may not have flown, but in my opinion, the designs represent a very nice updating of the variety store idea, and I particularly like the abovementioned lighting, bolder colors and modern (for the time) signage font. Immediately below is the wonderful candy department, scales at the ready.
Last is the “Entertainment Center” section, where I would have been guaranteed to waste a great deal of time. Portable record players were obviously a hot item (Sure hope the 45 adapters were built in!), and the white-framed portable television sets bring back memories. These rarely had remote control units, and I don’t believe that my family owned a TV with remote control until I was at least in high school. The silver lining to this was it gave people like me a great “hardship story” to use in the future – the modern-day version of Grandma and Grandpa’s “trudging through the snow for five miles to school every day, in worn-out shoes, uphill both ways” kind of thing. For me, it’s “Whenever we wanted to change the channel, we had to actually get up and go do it! It was horrible! You guys don’t know how lucky you are!” My kids shudder.
Then of course there was the records section, the main attraction for me from about age seven on. I’ve spent a good bit of time squinting at this photo trying to identify the album covers. (My personal area of expertise is covers of the 1970’s and 80’s, but I’m reasonably competent with the few years before and after that range. It’s too bad I couldn’t have minored in this in college – my GPA would have been greatly enhanced!) I’m embarrassed to say I’ve only been to call one so far, but it’s a great one – the 1968 blockbuster “Johnny Cash at Folsom Prison”, fourth album from the far left on the top row. I’ve been a Cash fan for years - he was an artist who refused to ever let himself be bracketed. And much of his best work was done in the last ten years of his career, an enviable feat. If anyone can squint harder than me, let me know if you figure any of the other covers out! | <urn:uuid:c45baa61-db58-49d9-81e4-279e35dbc1af> | CC-MAIN-2014-15 | http://pleasantfamilyshopping.blogspot.com/2009/10/gc-murphy-dime-store-pioneer.html | 2014-04-17T21:23:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-15/segments/1397609532128.44/warc/CC-MAIN-20140416005212-00019-ip-10-147-4-33.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971039 | 3,999 |
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Legacy is not something that happens by accident, it is the accumulated value you consistently lay on the table through your intentional obedience to Christ’s direction today.
I’m a big advocate of the idea that your legacy begins today, and I think that the perfect present that we have been given and granted by God is this present day, this present moment. Sometimes we can get caught in looking back or looking forward and kind of end up floundering in the in between as one year ends and another opens. It’s a natural junction for reflection, looking back how of the last 365 days stacked up, what moves have we made towards fulfilling that creative call in Christ that we have and we feel burning in our heart.
And of course, the closing days also encourage a forthright future view looking forward. But as I say, the danger is sometimes we stand at this junction, maybe even with regrets for what’s gone or pining for what once was, or on the other hand, stretching our view to some future hope with a wistful longing and get lost in the inbetween, really not recognising the amazing opportunity that is right before us.
In this present moment, the past is there to inform the present and the future ultimately is going to be populated with the ideas and the actions that we choose to take. Right now, the present moment is really the best present that Heaven has given you. It’s the gift that you’ve been given. You’re not guaranteed tomorrow. You’re not guaranteed next year, the next five, the next ten.
Sometimes there’s nothing wrong with goal setting, but sometimes if our goals are set way out there in the future and we don’t actually harness and take a hold of the present as if it were our last moment on the planet. Sometimes we can procrastinate for so long that we never actually take the actions that we know we need to take to not just become who we know God has called us to be, but to actually just flat out be that person. It may not be a perfect or mature version, but honestly, you are the best you can possibly be right now, not in some unforeseen future date right now.
Today, this very moment is where you begin to build whatever legacy you plan to leave. What decisions are you going to make today, fueled by the lessons you’ve learned in the last 365 days or spill with growing wisdom, what are you going to spill into tomorrow and the 364 days that follow?
That tomorrow legacy is really not something that happens by accident. It’s the accumulated value that you consistently lay on the table through your intentional obedience to Christ direction today. Let me say that again, legacy is the accumulated value you consistently lay on the table through your intentional obedience to Christ’s direction today. Now, here are some signposts. Maybe you are there at that junction.
Maybe you are there at that crossroads behind you. You’ve got whatever has happened in these past year or past years, whatever lays before you, all of the hopes that you carry the dreams that you have aching in your heart, the desires that are stretching out before you, maybe even some of the things that you’re fearful of. All of that lays before you. It’s uncharted territory in many ways. But you do have this very moment and I want to just throw some sign posts that I’m looking at right here as I stand at the same junction as you.
Romans 8:28 in the Amplified Bible, we are assured and by we I mean you and me. We are assured and know that God being a partner in our Labour. All things work together and are fitting into a plan for good to and for those who love God, that’s you and me and are called according to His design and purpose. My dear creative friend, you are of God’s design. You are living.
You are called according to His design and his purpose, and all things are working together and are fitting into a plan for good for you. And then Ephesians 2:10 amplified Bible again, another incredibly beautiful scripture and one that I cite many, many times. It’s actually the very first scripture I ever committed to memory. This is the amplified version of that scripture, for we are God’s own handiwork, his workmanship recreated in Christ Jesus born anew that we may do those good works which God has predestined and planned beforehand.
Here we go again.
There is a plan, my dear friend, there is a plan, those good works which God is predestined to plan beforehand for us taking paths which he has prepared ahead of time, that we should walk in them, living the good life which he has prearranged and made ready for us to live. Now, let’s be real. This doesn’t mean that the path is going to be easy or that all of your cherished hopes will miraculously fall into painless place. It doesn’t mean that there won’t be challenges, but you are fitted to fight the battle and to overcome.
It means that you’re formed to fill your place and stake your claim.
No devil can stop you. And if God before you, which he is, who can stand against you, God, my dear brother, my sister, my creative friend, is a partner in your Labour and your obedient steps today will plant the seeds that will bless generations to come. Well, thanks. Listening. Hopefully, it’s been an encouragement to you today.
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The aim of this paper is to compare the approaches of Ernst Cassirer and Aurel Kolnai on the idea of the nation state in its most radical form, which consists of identifying national sovereignty with an unrestricted right of the nation to political, external, and internal self-determination. What the comparison attempted here focuses on, is the criticism on the conditions for the possibility of specific German nationalism, presented by Cassirer in his Myth of the State and by Kolnai in his War Against the West. According to the main thesis of this paper, insofar as both Cassirer and Kolnai recognized the role played in politics by emotions and considered political phenomena as being constituted by not only rational or at least calculable mechanisms, but also affective factors, like beliefs, religion, and myth, they tended to consider nationalism in terms of the politics of “regression,” understood, psychoanalytically, as a reversion of mental life, in some respects, to a former, or less developed, psychological state, characteristic of not only individual mental disorders, but also social psychosis. It will be argued, that Cassirer and Kolnai, not unlike the representatives of the Frankfurt School, considered the contemporary preponderance of mythical thought in political philosophy to be an expression of the dialectic, which consisted in “relapsing” of the Enlightenment into mythology. As a main motive for the comparison of their political philosophies, an assumption will be presented in the paper, that, while taking into account the contemporary tendency to oppose national sovereignty to the sovereignty of international law, the approach to the idea of nation state, as presented by Cassirer and Kolnai, seems to be by no means out of date.
political philosophy, psychoanalysis, phenomenology, theory of symbolic forms, neokantianism, conservatism, nation state, myth, communism, Nazism
How to cite:
Gniazdowski, Andrzej. “The Politics of Regression: The Idea of the Nation State in the Thought of Ernst Cassirer and Aurel Kolnai.” Eidos. A Journal for Philosophy of Culture 2, no. 3(5) (2018): 27–41. https://doi.org/10.26319/5813.
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There’s some news going around facebook about a murder today in Belconnen. Does anyone have a source if its legit?
Might explain the lack of police on road patrol.
They found a body on Starke St in Holt, but the radio said it was an older man believed to have died of natural causes
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I’d say the lack of residents in Canberra would be the reason for lack of road patrols, although I’ve seen no shortage of police around this week.
There was a lot of cops at the location for a few hours. It wasn’t murder it was an old dude who had a lot of health issues. Died on the way home from his favourite drinking hole.
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She and Mike had a mortgage on a sprawling four-bedroom detached house in Cornwall. They were paying back the interest of £1,030 a month but struggling and their home was losing value.
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As Pride Month begins, we celebrate the wide range of gender and sexual identities beyond the binary. This month feels especially important as the Trump administration continues to threaten the rights of the LGBTQIA community. During Pride, it's also crucial to honor the past of queer history, remembering the Black trans women who helped make Pride Month what it is and gave us a reason to truly celebrate. Additionally, as Hann Lindahl, a writer for Them, recently pointed out, ending erasure of intersex folks is another vital step the queer community needs to keep in mind, and Pride Month is a great place to discuss how to do better. Ending erasure of any LGBTQIA person, in fact, is important, which is something a viral tweet thread recently highlighted.
AC Dumlao, who runs the Facebook page Call Me They, tweeted about the feelings that may arise when seeing a straight-presenting couple at a Pride event. They asked folks to consider the fact that, despite appearances, one or more of the people in the couple could be bi or queer, pansexual, asexual or aromantic, transgender or nonbinary. Further, they suggested that it's also possible the couple could be attending either as allies, especially to accompany a minor or in support of a newly-out friend or family member. Either way, Dumlao's tweets suggested that we all "check our assumptions" about how people present.
As a queer cisgender woman married to a straight cisgender man, I've sometimes felt as though I might make others feel uncomfortable at Pride events due to how I present, so I've mostly steered clear, but these tweets reminded me that I have a place in the queer community as well. It was heartening to read. I reached out to Dumlao to ask them about their tweets.
First, I asked them what inspired them to write the thread, and they mentioned that every year, memes about Pride Month flood social media, including those about how "straight people don't belong at pride." They said about these memes, "These comments are usually in jest but are rooted in biases that are dangerous to the community and to the purpose of Pride as an inclusive celebration. I realized that these are biases that I once shared and in some ways am still working on." | <urn:uuid:774c96f2-1f81-4346-ad0a-5e415e41f790> | CC-MAIN-2020-05 | https://www.allure.com/story/straight-couples-queer-erasure-pride-month-tweet | 2020-01-29T05:01:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-05/segments/1579251788528.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20200129041149-20200129071149-00199.warc.gz | en | 0.969081 | 463 |
Constantly having to blink, make strange faces or shake your head. Repeatedly making a certain sound, like coughing or sniffing, or saying complete words over and over. Everyone has something that they do frequently from time to time. But if it happens several times a day, you may suffer from tics.
What are tics?
You are said to have a tic when you make a sudden, rapid, repeated, non-rhythmic and recurring movement or vocalisation. You may feel like wanting to constantly blink or shake your head, for example. This is referred to as a tic disorder. A distinction is made between whether one constantly makes a movement or a sound. It also may be that you have both of these problems. If you make both a movement and a sound several times a day and these problems are present for more than a year, you are said to have Tourette syndrome.
Tics can be very frustrating when it comes to doing normal, everyday things, like going to school or meeting friends. It is also a pain to constantly have to explain why you do what you do.
Examples of tics
- Movements: eye blinking, sniffling, shaking your head or body, touching things or making gestures.
- Vocalisations: coughing, sniffing, grunting or repeatedly saying words or phrases. It may also be that you repeatedly say a curse word.
What causes tics?
One is often born with tics, but they're not yet visible. A certain region of your brain causes the tics. And often there are things that everyone gets in the habit of doing a lot for a while, perhaps during a busy or exciting time.
How common are tics?
Tics are common in children, but usually only become noticeable around the age of four. It may be that you will be less bothered by the tics as you grow older and they may even go away entirely. However, it is also possible that you will always suffer from them.
About two out of every 100 children suffer from tics.
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Review for Answers In Genesis Inc, Petersburg, KY, USA
AiG promotes a Biblcial worldview. They bring to life the accounts recorded in the Bible and their relevance to the world in which we live today. They engage our culture and society by exposing opinions that are generally accepted as fact. The Creation Museum is a professional display of world history from a Biblical perspective. I highly recommend spending at least on full day at the museum. Their apologetics resources help Christians defend their faith with a Biblical interpetation of the facts.
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AiG's resources personally benefited me by helping me defend my faith in a more effective manner.
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Timeliness of shipping resources could be improved. Also it would be great to have another special effects presentation other than "Men in White" in the special effects theatre.
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My hands are poised on my keyboard, the little cursor blinking intermittently on the page in front of me, and I am staring out the window in a stupor, wondering what happened to all my creative thinking. I’ve hit what will be at least the third obstacle to productivity in my day: writer’s block.
It doesn’t matter how many words, sentences, or articles I’ve written in my life—writer’s block still throws me off on a regular basis. The worst part is that as my frustration grows, the block thickens. The more I try to force my way through, the more entrenched I become and the more time I lose as a result. I am constantly trying to figure out how to be more creative in shorter periods of time.
And it turns out, I’m not the only one.
As workplaces become increasingly fast-paced production environments, the need to be creative on demand has become a very real one for the millions of people whose jobs rely on a robust pipeline of creative thinking and output. This is the case now more than ever with the rise of new concepts such as brand storytelling—one of the only successful routes to connect with a fiercely cynical audience of consumers who are sick of being subjected to advertisements day in and day out. Authenticity is paramount, and it’s hard earned. Organizations are demanding ever-greater levels of creativity and more sophisticated storytelling techniques to even make a dent. The pressure is enormous. Marketing managers are tasked with finding and hiring those special creative unicorns who seem to skate effortlessly above the chaos with innovative ideas coming out their ears. How do you build and shepherd an agile creative team through fields of stress, a cacophony of oversaturated communication channels, and looming deadlines, without getting totally derailed and burnt out?
Many Fortune 500 companies (like Procter & Gamble, General Mills, Comcast, and Google) have launched or are launching employee meditation programs to combat the stress that’s mounting within their organizations. According to science, those same programs may actually be great ways for marketing and communications teams to spur creativity—all while ensuring employees’ long-term health and success.
I think, therefore I create.
A great deal has been made of the benefits of meditation, and so far the science behind this practice seems to bear out these claims.
In a study published in Mindfulness, researchers found that certain meditation techniques can foster creative thinking, even if you have never tried meditating before. The best results came after a meditation practice known as open monitoring, which emphasizes being open and nonjudgmental toward any and all thoughts and emotions that arise during meditation, as opposed to trying to block them out or clear your mind.
In another study published in Learning and Individual Differences, researchers found differences in the level of creative improvement after meditation depending on certain individual personality traits. The study used a similar form of meditation technique known as integrated mind–body training (IBMT), which emphasizes not trying to control your thoughts but just letting them happen; a state of restful alertness. Previous studies have found that this technique, which was adapted from traditional Chinese medicine in the 1990s, improves attention and self-regulation. In the recent study researchers discovered that the effect of short-term IBMT training on creativity was greater for those with lower depression and fatigue. Those with more emotional stability and higher levels of vigor also saw the most benefit.
In light of other studies that suggest sustained meditation practices can lessen emotional exhaustion and increase job satisfaction, it may be the case that the long-term effects of a sustained IBMT practice may lead to improvements in negative emotions, which could in turn improve the benefits for creativity, even for those who have become completely bogged down by the stresses of work.
These studies point to a potentially transformative avenue for marketing managers and creative professionals to take in fostering greater creativity in the workplace. Encouraging the integration of meditation practices such as IBMT and sustaining them over time may enable employees to continue producing creative work through the most stressful periods in an organization and learn how to be more creative when the going gets tough. Such practices could help teams inject fresh insight into problems and projects and enable individuals to tap into new ideas that keep everyone’s creative juices flowing.
1. Start by understanding and communicating the importance of meditation to your team. For some, the idea of meditating can feel a bit daunting or uncomfortable—especially if they don’t understand the reasons behind it. And it can be unimaginably difficult to convince stressed-out marketers (for whom every working second counts) to stop for a minute and do literally nothing. So, once you have a firm grasp on what meditation means to you, and the benefits of doing it on a regular basis, talk with your team members about the success you’re having. Your best bet here might be to share the scientific findings that point to meditation’s benefits on a more quantitative level.
2. Keep it short and manageable. There’s no question that time is an issue for your team. Fortunately, meditation doesn’t have to be a complicated or time-consuming process. Even just 15 minutes every other day can begin to make a noticeable difference. And if your colleagues prefer not to break during the work day, they can choose to meditate anywhere at any time—the train ride home, for example, or for a few minutes in the shower each morning.
3. Make it as much a priority as any other business meeting. During especially stressful days, some people forget to do even the most basic of things—eating lunch, for example. Just like there are apps reminding busy professionals to stand up or breathe, sometimes all it takes to integrate meditation into your workday is a reminder. Try adding a brief meditation suggestion to your teammates’ calendars. Whether you meditate as a group or individually in your workspaces, this can be an easy way to get everyone on the same page. Consider it like a Monday morning check-in session that gets everyone on track for the week ahead.
4. Consider bringing in a meditation coach to help people maximize the benefits of the practice. If your team seems receptive to the idea of meditation but feels uninformed, a quick talk with a meditation coach can be a great motivator. This can be a lunch and learn held during a regular work day, or part of a team bonding activity or retreat. Hearing tips for different ways to meditate can help people figure out what works for them.
5. Have fun with it! If a teammate finds it difficult to hold herself accountable to 10 minutes of meditation a day, suggest that she pair up with a friend and meditate together. If the act feels purposeless, try making a game out of it, challenging yourself to a longer (or more deeply relaxed) session each time. There’s no wrong way to meditate. Everyone can establish an approach they find most enjoyable and that works best for them.
As marketers, the constant pressure to be original—and energetic and authentic and compassionate and funny and create more content and reach more audiences and track analytics continuously to make next month even better—adds up. Couple that with the million distractions we’re faced with on a daily basis—all those text notifications and Facebook messages—and the seemingly endless pool of ideas that you dredge up late at night when you’re trying to fall asleep, and it’s no wonder we’re all so burned out. Meditation is a great way to remind yourself of the passion and creativity that brought you here in the first place.
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Are you running low on cash and need a short-term loan? Many people find the financial help they need through installment loan products. Here’s what you need to know about how online installment loans in Ohio work.
Is an Installment Loan a Payday Loan?
No, an installment loan isn’t a payday loan because repayment isn’t based on your next pay date. Installment loans are paid back over weeks or months, like car or personal loans.
Does It Cost Money to Apply for an Installment Loan?
Applying for an installment loan is free. However, if you apply and are approved for a loan, the lender might charge origination fees, prepayment fees, etc. You want to review the terms of the loan you’re offered to understand how much it will cost.
How Fast Is Money Deposited?
Depending on the time of day you apply and how you plan to have the money sent to you (debit card, direct deposit, paper check), it can take anywhere from a few hours to several days. If you need money quickly, check the funding options before applying.
How Do You Repay Installment Loans?
Most installment loans can be repaid automatically using your debit card or bank account. If you don’t want to pay your account as an ACH transaction and prefer to mail in your payment, that’s an option too.
For more information about applying for online installment loans in Ohio, check out Short Term Loans, L.L.C.
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Cabot Ridge produces high quality Grand Champion bred Golden Retrievers in LA County. Our dogs are bred to conform to the AKC breed standard and have OFA, and Cerf Clearances (Hip, Elbow, Eye, Heart). Our litters are carefully planned and aim to achieve betterment of the breed. Adhering to the AKC / GRCA breed standard, health, temperament, type and color are the main objectives for our breeding program.
We are active members of the Golden Retriever Club of America , Golden Retriever Club of Greater Los Angeles and the Golden Retriever Club San Diego County.
In 2006, "Oliver" - AKC Champion, Best in Specialty Show, Sungates Some Like It Hot, was ranked #18 in the country. He has won multiple Best of Breed and group placements, attended Westminster 2007 in NYC as well as Eukanuba's Tournament of Champions in Long Beach , CA. Oliver has been featured on calendars, t-shirts and coffee mugs and has won numerous accolades for his conformation, temperament and fun loving Golden attitude.
Cabot Ridge is also the home of "Diesel" - AKC Champion Sungates Fast NFurius Cabot Ridge, multiple Best of Breed winner as well as Group Placements.
As we are an active dog show family we sell puppies to loving, secure homes that are seeking a lifetime companion. Our puppies are raised with utmost care and have certificates of health before arriving in their new homes. Please contact us if you would like more information about Cabot Ridge Golden Retrievers.
We do take deposits for future litters as well as place names on waiting lists.
Please be in contact for more information and be sure to visit our website at www.robertscottdogs.com for information regarding training, handling and care by Robert Scott.
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Incident Date:Sunday, January 24th, 2016The next Ingleside Community meeting will be held at the Ingleside Police Station Community room on Tuesday, February 16, 2016 at 7p.m. There will be light refreshments available to those who come to the meeting. All are welcome to attend. Thank you.
San Francisco Police DepartmentCareer OpportunityStarting Salary: $81,380 (Top Step Officer Salary: $120,094*)*after 5 years of service and possession of a POST Advanced CertificateChief Greg Suhr personally invites you to join a highly respected police department and serve the citizens of one of the most beautiful cities in the country. San Francisco Police Officers perform a wide variety of duties to promote public safety and security, prevent crime and enforce the law. Police Officers perform a number of essential functions. For example, they patrol districts to prevent and detect crime; respond to calls for assistance; conduct criminal investigations; interact with the community to build cooperation and support; pursue and arrest suspects; enforce traffic and parking laws; write reports and maintain records; work with superiors, peers, and others as a team; prepare for and participate in planned events; prepare for court and give testimony; and fulfill other administrative duties when required.Minimum Qualifications: Be at least 20 years of age. You will need to be 21 years old before starting the academy. There is no maximum age limit. Have not been convicted of a felony crime. Have not been convicted of an offense involving domestic violence. Have not been convicted of any misdemeanor, which carries a penalty of prohibiting ownership, possession or control of a firearm. Be a U.S. citizen or a permanent resident alien and become a U.S. citizen within two years. Have a U.S. High School Diploma, have passed a G.E.D. or the California High School Proficiency, or have an AA or higher degree from an accredited college or university. Have a valid driver license to operate an automobile. If you wish to claim Veteran’s Preference, please bring a copy of your DD214 to the written test.The Police Officer Testing Components: A multiple choice written examination that measures basic reading and writing abilities. A physical ability examination that measures strength, endurance, equilibrium and flexibility. An oral interview that tests oral communication, problem solving and interpersonal skills. Candidates who pass the three part Police Officer examination process move on to the background investigation process. The background investigation process consists of:- Personal History Questionnaire- Employment-character-background investigation- Psychological evaluation- Polygraph examination- Medical examination that includes a vision test, a hearing test and height/weight measurements.Apply at SFPDCAREERS.COM Email: Joinsfpd@sfgov.org“The San Francisco Police Department is an Equal Opportunity Employer. Discrimination of any kind is prohibited in all areas of employment, including recruitment, hiring, training, promotion, compensation and benefits.”San Francisco Police Department Recruitment & Retention UnitFor more information visit: www.sanfranciscopolice.org or call (415) 734-3331/32Arrests:8:13am 500 Blk Miramar TheftTwo alert neighbors helped police nab an auto burglary suspect. The two victims told Ingleside Officers Curry, Morgante, and Morrow that they spotted the suspect sitting in their car, which was parked in front of their home. They ran out and confronted the woman suspect who claimed to be visiting a friend in the neighborhood. The suspect got out of the car and walked toward Ocean Avenue where she was arrested by police. The suspect was booked for theft and other crimes and was in possession of several expensive items possibly stolen from other vehicles. She also had an extensive record of vehicle burglaries and other crimes. Report number: 160067889:07pm 100 Blk Blythedale Illegal Possession of a FirearmIngleside Officers Padilla, Seavey, and Lustenberger were on routine patrol when they noticed a man standing outside a building. The man, upon seeing the officers, yelled a warning to other men all of whom started running. The officers exited their patrol car and yelled for the suspect to stop but he ignored their command. The officers chased the suspect for several hundred yards before capturing him. During the chase the suspect threw a firearm into the weeds. The firearm was recovered and the suspect was taken to Ingleside Station. There, the officers determined the man was on probation after being convicted of assault with a semi-automatic weapon. The weapon he discarded was reported stolen last November from a vehicle parked at the Sun Valley Mall in Concord. The suspect was booked for illegal possession of a firearm and other crimes. Report number: 160069734
No Incidents to Report.Vehicle and Other Incidents:02:00am Mission/Onondaga Vandalism to Vehicle04:00pm 300 Blk Peru Burglary05:02pm Mission/Oliver Traffic Collision05:20pm Banks/Tompkins Warrant Arrest06:10pm 100 Blk Saint Marys Trespassing08:00pm Ocean/Harold Hit and Run10:00pm Alemany/Justin Traffic Collision10:43pm Monterey/Baden Traffic Violation Arrest | <urn:uuid:28844273-2b96-4a9e-90db-8458fdf910f4> | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | http://inglesidepolicestation.blogspot.com/2016_01_01_archive.html | 2017-04-23T13:57:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917118707.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031158-00312-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945751 | 1,075 |
Opinion: ‘We the Corporation’ or ‘We the People’ … ???
Nothing like the dog days of summer (and a couple of cracked ribs) to stir one into stitching some ideas together about the state of our fledgling Obama presidency, the mood of the country, and some policy points.
First off, the cracked ribs.
Lesson learned: never turn your back on your lawn mower as you are pulling it out of some thick weeds you are chopping through. You might miss the fact that you have just dropped the blade into the dirt where some enterprising yellow jackets have set up shop, and, you know, they might not appreciate their home being mulched.
If there had been some YouTubes around, I’d probably be on top of the list of whacky sights. Needless to say, I was swarmed, ran off with hat and arms flailing helplessly–hopelessly–at the cloud of angry beasts, and promptly tripped and fell. Just like the protagonist in a ‘B’ movie does as he is chased by evil-doers, and we all groan because it is so predictable.
Except I knocked the wind out of myself as I hit the ground and broke a few ribs, and was rendered into a pincushion for hot, burning needles of pain as the yellow jackets drove their message home. But the YouTube spectacle didn’t end there.
My survival instinct pushed me to get up and I staggered–unable to breathe, mind you, making the motions like a fish out of water–another 150 feet to what I believed to be the safety of my hovel, arms a-flailing wildly at the growing entourage of opportunist and vindictive Vespula
I slammed the door shut behind me, gasped for air, and cringed at the pain in my ribs, and the dozens of burning stings, and found that I had brought another dozen vipers in with me, buzzing about, and clinging to my clothes and crawling under my shirt and pants. So I continued swatting at the flying ones as i tore my clothes off to kill the ones stinging me on my legs, arms and torso.
Yes, the YouTubes and their YouTubers would have been hugely amused at the speed with which I ripped off my clothes and killed the remaining yellow jackets. I was not.
Needless to say, I’m not allergic to bee stings, or I would have perished on the spot, and not have lived to recount this story (some of you may wish otherwise). As it was, that may have been preferable to trying to figure out what was worse: wasp stings or broken ribs. The next day the stings had subdued to burning lumps, and were healing up, but the ribs were just beginning to throb and had piercing stabs every time I moved.
I thought about going to see a doctor, but they were just broken ribs, and what would a doctor do but laugh at my story and send me on my way. Just like the time earlier this year I sprained my ankle (tripping on a pine cone no less–another vision worthy of the YouTubers). Or when I bruised my tailbone slipping on an icy curb with a big box of presents in my arm at Christmas. Yes, I have entered the middle-aged klutz time of my life.
But I have no insurance. I have been denied insurance by the major carriers in this state. The business I work for has no employee plan. So I have to pick and choose which of my injuries are worthy enough to scrape together the out-of-pocket money needed to get checked out.
Does that ache, or that pain need a trip to the doc? Is that stiffness due to middle age, or do I have something else going on? I’m great at self-diagnosis when it comes to saving money. But is that really a good long term plan for financial and personal health?
I get to play my own doctor until something serious shows up–like a blinding and disabling eye condition. Or my heartbeat starts sounding like my car did when it started running on only 5 cylinders. And then I get to beg for forgiveness–and a payment plan that will probably outlive me–for being “one of those” who need health care, but aren’t rich enough to pay for it out of my savings, or 401k, or HSA, or some other middle class luxury that I don’t understand or have any access to.
Or I get to limp along, hoping that tomorrow brings a better day. Maybe that spark plug will start firing again for a while until I can afford to get the old clunker in for a tuneup.
So what does all of this have to do with “We the Corporation?” As others have retreated to their end-of-summer vacations, I sit and think about how the health care battle has descended to a simple theme: those who advocate a pubic option in providing health care vs. those who are as adamant in their opposition to a government run plan. We the People vs. We the Corporation.
And of course, our politicians are caught in the middle, trying to figure out which way the breeze is blowing the strongest–all the while igniting brush fires for their supporters to fan, and the media to exaggerate, all just to gauge the smoke drift.
The politicians on the other hand, are caught not only between constituents fighting ideologic policy battles, they are caught between deep-pocketed corporations and lobbyists, and the federal government–both of which can perform the same basic function: collect premiums (or taxes) and pay health care expenses. Except one can do it for cheaper and better than the other. Which one? There’s your battle.
Corporatists say that with a mandate, they can do it. Progressives say corporations have tried and failed–which is why we have Medicare and Medicaid. And that the public plans have succeeded, failing only where the corporatists have inserted their interests into the system–like with the Medicare reforms of 2003.
I have been abused by the private insurance. I have been denied coverage for preexisting conditions. I collect more preexistings everytime I do stupid things like mow up yellow jackets, trip on pine cones, or fall on the ice.
But if I don’t go to the doctor, then it never becomes part of my “permanent record” and I don’t have to mention it the next time I apply for insurance (if I ever get the opportunity to). I pray that the 5-year “statute of limitations” that I seem to come across for the various proscribed conditions to which I qualify passes before I have to subject myself to medical care for them again.
So I have, let’s simply say, a bad attitude towards the insurance industry, and zero determination to see them thrive at the public trough. Much like abused spouses feel towards their ex. When I had insurance, many moons ago, I was still abused by a system that was more invested in finding a loophole or some fine print to keep me on the profit side of their equation. And when they finally realized that I was contributing more to their medical loss column than their profit column, I was jettisoned. Rescinded.
I have had to deal with government-provided health care for my kid and my parents. Medicare and Medicaid. Care provided by “we the people.” And it worked. The bills were paid. I didn’t have to fight anybody for anything. I never left a doctors office feeling like a shmuck after groveling for a payment arrangement, or a break in the fees. I didn’t have to leave the pharmacist empty handed because I couldn’t afford to feed a pharmaceutical company’s hugely inflated profits.
In short, those who are fighting health reformers’ attempts to allow “we the people” to take care of our own have been duped into doing the work of “we the corporation.” And many legislators and pundits seem to believe that it is ok for our country to mandate that people be forced into entering into a life-long (or at least until Medicare kicks in) contract with a private corporation. Even if that industry has abused us. It is no better than for the government to tell battered spouses that they need to go back home and just suck it up.
Ever since I read Senator Baucus’ White Paper last fall, I felt a sense of dread, as he laid the framework for how the mandate for “we the corporation” would be constructed. The IRS would be turned into a health insurance overseer–doling out credits to the poor, but worthy (not to you with the tax offset, mind you), and penalizing those without the proper corporate insurance contracts.
What Baucus laid out, and where the debate seems to be heading, is health reform that attempts to cover more people by forcing them, at the threat of IRS penalties, to enter into a contract with a private corporation. And I, being a classic sort of independent Montanan–libertarian and progressive–think that is rather fascist of our politicians to do so.
Which is why I have always stated that when our government advocates a mandate without a public option–one that all of those mandated can choose from–that we are solidifying a health care system paid to, built for, and demanded by “we the corporation.” And that is a fascist health care system. It is not a free market, capitalistic and democratic system. It is coercion forced upon us by legislators paid by corporations to create a system that is of, for and by the corporation. Not one that is built by, for and of “we the people.”
PS. I’d like to thank the yellow jackets for the opportunity to spend this sunday sitting in my easy chair nursing my broken ribs and thinking about the intersection of politics, health care reform, and fascist corporate takeovers of our health security, instead of going back out to beat back the knapweed some more. | <urn:uuid:eb900ee2-1f85-49ae-896d-95213c0730f8> | CC-MAIN-2016-07 | https://4and20blackbirds.wordpress.com/2009/08/23/opinion-we-the-corporation-or-we-the-people/ | 2016-02-11T00:19:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2016-07/segments/1454701160918.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20160205193920-00131-ip-10-236-182-209.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.974095 | 2,129 |
Mark Simmonds may have complained about house prices in London, but there is another spot in the UK where the rise in house prices overshadows even that of the UK capital. Yes, over the past seven years, property values in Cambridge have increased about 32.5 percent, as opposed to the 29 percent rise London has seen. The average property value in Cambridge is now over £345,000.
Factors that could have contributed to this rise in values are the fact that Cambridge University is one of the most famous of its kind, how well connected it is to other parts of the UK via train and the employment it offers.
Cambridge’s rise in housing prices was uncovered by Hometrack, in its UK Cities House Price Index, which shows how average house prices have changed since their pre-crisis 2007 peak. Other cities that have seen a rise in housing value include Bristol, Bournemouth and Oxford, the latter also boasting a prestigious university. Cities like Manchester, Liverpool and Leeds, however, have yet to re-reach the values they had back in 2007, with Glasgow being the city with the most notable drop. Average house prices for the country as a whole have increased by nine percent in the last year, leaving the average at over £180,000.
Not only has Cambridge managed to reach higher property values than London, London’s rise in house prices may even be slowing down. It has also been noted by Foxtons estate agent that there is a noticeable decrease in London property sales.
Cambridge may have seen a substantial increase in house prices, but it still has a fine university, good connectivity and a pleasant town. Would you live there, or are planning to?
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What a lovely Bank Holiday weekend we had in Chesterfield. The weather was great, sunny and warm with lovely blue skies. I was fortunate in being able to escape out into the countryside and go for a lovely long walk with my dogs along the Monsal Trail.
It was while I was out walking that I remembered a time a few years ago when I had a very similar experience of peacefulness, contentment and joy. Again I was out with my dogs for a walk, probably at a similar time of year and in similar weather. That time the walk was at Calke Abbey down near Derby. I have a very clear recollection of sitting on a wall by the reservoir, sharing an ice cream with my dogs and feeling sense of peacefulness and hope for the first time for months.
Relationship Break Up.
At that time this experience was hugely significant as I had recently separated from my first husband. I was engaged in a some personal therapy to help me deal with the break up and in fact, probably more importantly, help me understand myself better. I had been feeling pretty low for a number of months, I was finding the break up difficult, relationships with family were strained at best and I did not know how to make things different for myself, or what to do to help myself deal with the feelings I was experiencing. However, I remember very clearly sitting on the wall on that day and having what was probably one of the first experiences of hope after months of difficulty. In that moment I felt at peace, I felt happiness and I had a sense that things could be different. I knew I had a long journey ahead of me, but I also had a sense of potential and possibilities and that how I approached my life could change. I did not have to continue to think, feel and act in the way I had in the past.
These days, as a therapist I think that one important aspect of my role is to hold that sense of potential and hope for people when they cannot see it for themselves. Often when someone I am seeing is in the depths of their distress it is very difficult for them to see beyond what they are experiencing in the moment. To think that they can create a different life for themselves. That’s where I think a therapist has a hugely important task to hold that hope for them. To use a metaphor, it is almost like we are with them in a dark tunnel where they cannot see the light and we can. We need to let them know that the light is there and to help them find it for themselves.
I suppose this is, in part, what I am doing in writing this post. You may recognise some of what I am describing, have been in a place of despair yourself and recognise how difficult it was to believe that things could change. You may be there now – I hope you are not. What I do know from my own experience and from the people I have worked with over the years is that people are capable of making significant personal and emotional developments in ways that enable them to live more with more peace and satisfaction in their lives. | <urn:uuid:7aa117c0-ce2a-4064-91cd-32af28900d0c> | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | https://lincheung.com/2013/05/28/the-importance-of-hope/ | 2020-07-06T21:53:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593655890181.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20200706191400-20200706221400-00041.warc.gz | en | 0.989931 | 627 |
BEYOND RENT: Beat the Market
Is your portfolio optimized to beat the market—regardless of the economic cycle? Is it even possible to consistently beat the market whether up, down or flatlined? With revenue management it is.
Join Amy Dreyfuss, Senior Vice President, RealPage Revenue Management, and Rich Hughes, RealPage’s Head of Data Science as they go beyond rent to discuss how revenue management can help you beat the market by:
- Understanding the different cycles
- Using data science and not emotion for precise pricing
- Focusing on rent growth (not occupancy)
- Playing the “first mover” advantage
- Fortifying rent roll against coming storms
Rich Hughes first entered the data revolution with apartment owner/operators AMLI and Archstone for over a decade, and is now head data scientist with RealPage. Hughes believes that today’s winners in complex, asset-intensive, service-based industries—from Amazon to apartments—have discovered the operational trifecta: over-delivering on promises while keeping the operation streamlined and affordable. He spends his days creating centralized command and control capacity for apartment operators, mainly regional managers, to streamline their operations through better and faster decision-making. He does this by analyzing data to predict outcomes, giving apartment operators prescriptive recommendations that are mathematically solvent and intelligence that is continually learning.
Amy DreyfussSVP Revenue Management, RealPage, Inc.
Amy Dreyfuss is Senior Vice President of RealPage Revenue Management overseeing both LRO and YieldStar. Amy has over 20 years of experience in multifamily operations and revenue management. Prior to joining YieldStar in 2009, she oversaw operations and revenue management for a Dallas-based firm. Amy began her career with RealPage as a YieldStar Consultant responsible for the implementation of a diverse portfolio of clients ranging from private owner/operators to fee managers to REITs and institutional owners before becoming a part of the leadership team in 2010. In addition to growing the YieldStar client base in the U.S., Amy is responsible for expansion into Canada and the United Kingdom. | <urn:uuid:0cde1fab-3014-4adf-a645-e204cb2dc958> | CC-MAIN-2021-17 | https://www.realpage.com/webcasts/beyond-rent-beat-the-market/ | 2021-04-17T20:08:38Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2021-17/segments/1618038464045.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20210417192821-20210417222821-00189.warc.gz | en | 0.927841 | 445 |
The country is mourning, we are still in shock at the bombs that exploded near the finish line of the Boston Marathon. We now know it was an act of “terrorism” yet no one has claimed responsibility, or taking the “credit” for once again setting everyone on edge and taking lives, maiming the innocent and creating carnage on a beautiful day in Boston. No one has bragged nor made other threats or claimed this as a coup against the most powerful country in the world as of yet.
We know and have witnessed the horror either up close and personal, or in the repeated scenes on the news. We’ve seen the blood, the shocked faces, the stories of death and of limbs that were blown off on a day of excitement, preparations and joy filled times that is an annual ritual there in Boston.
We’ve heard that whoever did this heinous act will be found and brought to justice, and we still feel vulnerable, still wonder why, when. We’ve now been told the “how” of it.
I have to wonder if we as regular folks have and are being told too much; given too much information on the “how of it”; given too much on the details of it. There are a lot of “wannabes” in the world who now know how to do the same things, to try to “copycat” devastation, horror, and settle a grudge if you will. We hear that this bomb is one that instructions can be found on internet sites and I have to wonder, “why”.
Many are saying this has brought back images of 9/11… a beautiful day, people out and about living their lives and doing their thing; when all of a sudden our world stood still, but in a smaller scale. We have become too complacent since 9/11. We have become less than the kind and caring people since the days and months after 9/11. We have now seen more violence, more hatred, more tolerance for decreased respect since the year after 9/11.
Many events are happening now, the MS150 in Texas is under way, where riders will mount their bikes and ride for the cure of MS 170 miles in two days. Many will be standing at the finish lines and yet there is fear there now… Many across our country are preparing and attending huge events, where there will be large crowds gathering, where fellowship and togetherness should be able to be held with no thought of terror or madness or meanness. Yet Boston has changed that for all of us. Our children and adults are waking from nightmares now, with one question; “why”.
Perhaps it is time that we as people were not privvy to the many and complex details of how to construct bombs, and the intricicies of what is being done to such degree, although many are so filled with doubt, with hate that they already have their theories their desire to cast blame. Perhaps we should do as we are hopefully suggesting to our children;
FOCUS ON THE HELPERS and those who continued on after the race, running to the hospitals to donate blood. Those who walked or ran through their personal fear and picked up the injured and offered assistance or a hand to soothe or to calm another.
Let us focus on each other, while honoring the fallen, the dead, the families and loved ones and those who were witnesses to the act of terrorism that occurred on our streets of Main Street America. Let us focus on healing our Nation and our people from within.
While giving thanks to those who responded and who snapped into action in the face of chaos. Let us focus on those brave men and women who were there, who did not falter and did not fail to take action in seconds to save lives and to care for their fellow human being on a day that each felt their own personal 9/11.
Let us pray for them, for each other and for our priorites to return to that of the greatest Nation in the world.
Whoever did this has a special place in hell reserved just for them or their group, may it be swift and felt hard as our military and our justice folks look beneath each rock, through each photo and video that is being provided to them to find the one(s) responsible.
May we find the strength to put our judgments and bias and (expert knowledge from our chairs in our homes) aside as we let the forensic experts do their jobs and those with the skills to find what they need to be successful.
Let us hold on to faith, to hope, to the strong belief that we are a country who work best, live best, when we stand united. This is a call to stand united. To erase the party lines that create and sustain more hate and division while coming together to strengthen and get things done for the greater good of each of us in our lives while making safe all of us.
Thank goodness I got me that new flag pole today, I have to raise my flag once again, as these colors do not run, and I want to be sure that mine is up and flying. Hope yours is as well. WE are America, we must stand united arm in arm not only in crisis but in each and every day.
While we do not know who, we do not know the motives YET… we will and they will find out. But even when that is done, it will not take away the pain, the trauma, the harm that was done. It will not take away the fact that precious lives were taken in a heart beat, that many more lost the very limbs that they had been running with to compete, to be their personal best on a sunny day. It will not erase the images, the photos the memories that are now seared in the brain and nervous system of millions now.
BUT we all want justice and we want it to be quick, we want the person(s) held responsible yet we do not want their actions or them to get a lot of press once they are found.
WE do need to be mindful and God knows we need to change our ways of how we treat each other with each breath.
It will not help the families, friends, and those of us who find this absolutely horrific.
It will not eradicate the reality that we in this country need more kindness to our brothers and sisters and must find a way to END THE VIOLENCE that is happening daily in our communities for no reason. WE must look for the helpers as we process this day, we must look for ways to get back to the days of waving at our neighbors, of reaching out to others and of teaching our children respect, of commanding respect … we must be and do better as Americans and as living beings in a world that we call home.
Our prayers for those who were murdered and their families. Prayers for those who lost their limbs, who were harmed and those who are fighting now for their precious lives in Boston and those who love them.
Prayers for each of you and our country to heal.
We are all connected and what we say or do to another we do to ourselves. Our hearts may be broken, but never our spirit when we Unite…
Walk in Beauty
- Watch: Honoring Boston Marathon Victims (abcnews.go.com)
- We Are All Boston: Social Media, Sports Teams Pay Tribute – ABC News (abcnews.go.com)
- All my love to Boston (stephrunning.wordpress.com)
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Attitude is at least half of a comic's act. Attitude, in the comedy circles I ran in, was more often called "persona". A comic is giving a little play to the audience he's performing for, so he assumes the mantle of a character. As all writers and actors know, the best characters are consistent. A stand-up act should be the same way: as a comic, when you're on stage, you should have material that seems to come from one person's vision. Of course, the trick is that all of your jokes really do come from one person's vision: yours.
But you'll find, if you write stand-up, that sometimes you'll write a joke that just doesn't seem quite right, doesn't fit in with the other jokes you do, the way you like to perform, the way you use words on stage and so on. An extreme example would be Andrew Dice Clay going on an extended bit about how much he loves his wife. His whole act is misogyny, misogyny, misogyny so if he plugs in a five minute bit where he's Mr. Sensitive, it simply isn't going to work. So his attitude, the persona of misogyny that he has crafted, definitely steers his act...
Think of just about any comic and their persona is in perfect accord with their material:
-Carlin does jokes about oddities and stupidities and his persona is exasperated (if you're the only one who sees the stupidity, you'd naturally be exasperated by it).
-Brian Regan does slice of life, very clean material, so he seems like a normal everyday, very personable guy.
-Bill Hicks is confrontational and seeks to destroy preconceptions so he's very emotional in his delivery and uses cursing and expressive body movements, like a crazy prophet.
-Steven Wright looks at everything very literally, so he has what appears to be an absence of persona/attitude - he simply says "this is the way the world is" and engages in no hyperbole or "extras" because his vision is so stark and bare.
Ya constantly hear comics talk about finding their voice. Lately I've been thinking how a big part of that is what you say no to. How the jokes you don't tell are just as important to your voice as the ones you do tell. Telling a joke that gets fewer laughs but fits your persona can be a smarter move than telling one that hits hard but seems out of character. Or maybe you have two different "styles" you can work in (one-liners vs. longer bits, angry guy vs. crowd pleasing guy, high status character vs. low status) but you're better off dropping one so your whole act feels more consistent.
Tangent: I recall hearing Birbigs in an interview talk about the challenges he faced moving to theater shows. One of the things he said was toughest was throwing out jokes that he knows will get a laugh. His director made him get rid of anything that didn't move the story foward. The narrative was more important than laughs per minute.
Tangent++: This review of John Mulaney's album includes this take on Mulaney's "comedic persona" — or lack thereof.
What I like about the album -- and about Mulaney in general -- is that he doesn't have an obvious "hook." He hasn't gone to great lengths to create some comedic persona or be known as the "fill-in-the-blank" guy. That doesn't mean he doesn't have a voice (something I've harped on other comics for in the past). He sees the world with a bit of amused detachment, and is simply funny in an unassuming way. Sometimes, funny is enough.
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Melco Resorts & Entertainment has sponsored a public service video to reinforce responsible gaming culture to be shown on Macau television.
The televised public service video will be aired onTeledifusão de Macau (TDM) in the coming months as part of the company’s dedication to promoting responsible gaming culture in Macau. The film, titled “Our Wishes”, explores the relationship between a father, his wife and young daughter; and the significance of the family to help one stay in control.
“Responsible gaming has been and continues to be a top priority for Melco,” Chairman and CEO Lawrence Ho said. “The healthy expansion of the industry is of utmost importance to the sustained development of Macau, and Melco is fully supportive of government policies encouraging responsible gaming.”
The initiative comes from Melco’s Responsible Gaming Steering Committee, which was set up in 2007 and led by Ho. Melco says it remains the only company in Macau to provide compulsory responsible gaming training to all staff, including from both gaming and non-gaming departments.
It was also Macau’s first gaming operator to set up facial recognition systems preventing banned personnel, including problem gamblers, from entering gaming areas across all its integrated resorts. | <urn:uuid:ffac3f0e-8964-45c6-acf1-fa06c5391306> | CC-MAIN-2020-10 | https://agbrief.azurewebsites.net/headline/melco-sponsors-responsible-gaming-video/ | 2020-02-17T07:51:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-10/segments/1581875141749.3/warc/CC-MAIN-20200217055517-20200217085517-00092.warc.gz | en | 0.961547 | 267 |
|Elena with her sled |
|Ok, it sucks but it is pretty|
|Walking home in a winter wonderland|
Elena walked me through the steps to make hot chocolate on our way home. She suggested almond milk, cocoa powder and vegan sugar. I suggested letting a candy cane melt in it and she later thought to sprinkle cinnamon in the pot as well. The result was one of the best mugs of hot chocolate that I have ever tasted.
|All dry and ready to enjoy|
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On Monday, the National Network for Arab American Communities (NNAAC) launched their long-awaited Take On Hate campaign, which is aimed at addressing the pervasive prejudice and discrimination faced by Arab and Muslim Americans. Numerous organizations, including SAALT, supported the campaign’s official launch at the National Press Club in DC.
After opening remarks from Nadia Tonova, Executive Director of NNAAC, civil rights allies spoke about the patterns of discrimination across communities and the importance of this campaign’s goal to create real, long-term change. Mee Moua, Executive Director of Asian Americans Advancing Justice (AAJC), reminded the audience of the importance of changing the narrative for all communities. “We need to change the conversation around Arab Americans from villains to everyday heroes,” she said, recalling the common theme that all communities of color have faced at some point in time. Hilary Shelton, Washington Bureau Director and Senior Vice President for Advocacy of the NAACP, connected this campaign to the civil rights movements in the 1960s and the need for collaboration between all communities of color. Deepa Iyer, current Strategic Advisor and former Executive Director of SAALT, described the South Asian and Arab communities as sister communities based on their similar experiences with post‑9/11 backlash and discrimination. Iyer asserted that the current hate committed against both groups has developed into a way of life that allows for such actions and instills fear in our communities. She continued the thoughts of Moua and Shelton with an emphasis on coalition-building and collaboration: “We can use Take On Hate to help us talk about hate in all forms. The power of change is driven by us.”
Take on Hate is a much needed reminder that we do have the power to instill change. In the constant and overwhelming face of prejudice and discrimination against people of color, it is crucial that our voices are heard and uplifted to drive forward change. Whether it was Fred Korematsu with the support of the Japanese American Citizens League (JACL) in challenging the US government’s policy of internment during World War II, or Jose Antonio Vargas speaking out on behalf of undocumented immigrants throughout the US, we must play an active role in changing the dialogue and reactions of our society around those that are “othered,” so that society may finally begin to understand that we are Americans, we are human, and we all deserve dignity and respect. Skin color, religion, race, ethnicity, national origin, class, immigration status, gender, gender identity, sexual orientation, or any other “identifiers” do not define us as worthy of anything less.
This nationwide campaign will begin in four cities this year – Chicago, Detroit, New York, and San Francisco, and will gradually grow as it is mobilizes support in different areas of the country. Through public education, social media, and coalition building, Arab and Muslim Americans will ensure their voices are heard in order to confront discrimination and advocate for policy change that benefits numerous communities. Once we all commit to “Take On Hate,” maybe we can begin to move towards a country where all people are treated equally.
In support of the Take On Hate campaign, SAALT and NNAAC hosted a briefing this morning at the Capitol on racial and religious profiling as it impacts Arab and South Asian communities. Join the Take On Hate campaign today!
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The Alban stands away now, rocking and dark,
Sandy alone aboard, in the wheel-house, keeping
The engine slow but a constant strain on the tow-rope
Between boat and boat, and so on the net, lest, slack,
The herring escape it. And he watches, across on the lighted Amy,
His four sons hauling at the net; Colin and Dick and Bob and Alec:
A share each for the house and a heart-lift for a father.
Men and engines grunting and hauling,
The nets dripping, the folds falling;
The spring-ropes jerking to the winches’ creaking
Wind in by fathoms from their sea-deep seeking,
Steady and long like a preacher speaking.
But the flow of the net we must all lay hold on,
The cork-strung back-rope our hands are cold on.
As we thrash at the net the dead fish falling
Gleam and break from the tight mesh mauling,
Show what we’ll get from the bag of the net!
And fierce and straining and shoulders paining
We drag it out from the sea’s wild sprawling,
From the lit wet hummocks’ twist and spin;
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Dream Theater Turn to Fans to Help Create Translated News Pages
As a global band, Dream Theater want fans all over the world to be able to read the latest news about the group in their own languages. To help accomplish that, they are asking for help creating translated versions of the Dream Theater news page.
While on tour recently in South America, guitarist John Petrucci says he heard from a number of fans about the need for an official Dream Theater connection. “Our efforts to further unite our online international community have only just begun,” Petrucci says. “We are very fortunate to have so much incredible support and devotion from fans in many different countries around the world, and we hope that more and more fan communities will participate in this ongoing endeavor. We look forward to hearing from fans interested in having the news page translated for their countries.”
The effort is already under way with local news pages being created for Argentina, Israel, Italy and Venezuela. Keyboardist Jordan Rudess says, “We are excited to be working with these first four fan sites, and can’t wait for others from around the world to reach out to us on Facebook.”
As the band continues to work on the follow-up to 2011′s ‘A Dramatic Turn Of Events,’ a live Dream Theater CD/DVD/Blu-ray is slated for release in May. ‘Live At Luna Park’ was filmed in South America.
“This is without a doubt the closest a viewer at home will come to experiencing a live Dream Theater concert,” states Petrucci. “Between the hi-def and 3D video, the huge audio mix and the documentary style behind the scenes footage, you are truly transported to the arena and completely immersed in the entire live experience.”
The concert will be released in a variety of formats, including 2 DVDs, Blu-ray, Digital Video, 2 DVDs / 3 CDs, Blu-ray / 3 CDs and a deluxe edition with 2 DVDs, 3 CDs and Blu-ray.
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If anyone is looking for a great music application that is feature rich, check out n7player. This player has a really cool multi-touch feature that allows you to zoom in on all of your album covers from just the names and looks darn good while doing it. You have an in-depth equalizer and many more features. Before anyone asks, there is no Google Music support, but you won’t find that in any other3rd-party player.
To get a good sense of how the app truly works, check out the video down below. Does anyone here use anything besides the official Play Music application? | <urn:uuid:a590d60e-8b88-44ae-a8fe-8e2dc203bb20> | CC-MAIN-2015-14 | http://www.droid-life.com/2012/03/22/n7player-music-player-creates-a-rich-music-experience-on-your-android-device/ | 2015-03-29T23:53:52Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-14/segments/1427131298819.92/warc/CC-MAIN-20150323172138-00234-ip-10-168-14-71.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.956095 | 127 |
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Timbaktu Collective in Andhra Pradesh is one of the projects supported by WAH this year. With it’s holistic approach to education and community development it is one of those model projects that we all love to talk about.
Ex-Asha Austin volunteer Anita just got back from a site visit at the project. She has documented her experiences on her blog smallisbeautiful
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Montreal’s Cinema du Parc to close
Montreal’s last English-language repertory cinema, Cinema du Parc, will close Aug. 3 because attendance has declined significantly in the past year, its owner says.
A spokesperson for the Daniel Langlois Group, which owns the theatre, said Wednesday that it had faced stiffer competition recently because other theatres started screening similar films.
The spokesperson said the company hopes to sell it to a group that would be interested in reopening the facility.
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Kansas Secretary of State Kris Kobach’s (R) office said Tuesday that he filed his first criminal voter fraud charges since being granted the authority to prosecute such cases earlier this year.
Kobach’s office on Friday filed complaints in Johnson County that accused Betty M. Gaedtke and Steven K. Gaedtke of “voting without being qualified,” a misdemeanor, during the 2010 election. A third complaint filed in Sherman County accused Lincoln L. Wilson of election perjury, a felony, as well as voting without being qualified in three elections between 2010 and 2014.
An attorney for the Gaedtkes did not immediately respond for a request for comment. Wilson did not immediately respond to a request for comment.
Kobach has been a lightning rod in the Sunflower State when it comes to voting rights. His critics say he greatly exaggerates the prevalence of voter fraud in the state and pushes new laws that restrict access to voting, particularly for people who tend to vote for Democrats.
Gov. Sam Brownback (R) in June signed legislation that granted Kobach the authority to pursue criminal charges in voter fraud cases even if local prosecutors opted against advancing those cases. Prior to that expansion of his authority, Kobach was compelled to refer voter fraudcases to local prosecutors.
Kobach previously said his office already identified 100 cases of potential voter fraud.
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Theorybuilding with LEGO: A Material Digital Media - Chris Ingraham and Nick Taylor
As palpable as the screens we touch and keyboards we tap may feel, most of us still have a hard time conceptualizing, except in the abstract, what digital technologies actually involve behind the screens. The common usage of such ethereal terms as “the virtual” or “the cloud” attests to the difficulty of thinking materially about procedures and processes that, while organizing so much of social, political, economic, and cultural affairs, nevertheless seem fleeting, mysterious, and untouchable at heart. Whether in reference to digital media, digital culture, digital rhetoric, digital doxa, or anything else to which the epithet “digital” gets applied, how can we understand digitality as something material?
In our recent book, LEGOfied: Building Blocks as Media (Bloomsbury, 2020), we argue that one good place to start is with LEGO.
Founded humbly in 1934 when a Danish carpenter’s wartime austerity led to a profitable but unexpected venture—turning his leftover furniture scraps into wooden toys—the LEGO company is now a global transmedia juggernaut. Movies, television shows, video games, amusement parks, novelty gifts, coffee table books, clothing, accessories, school equipment, not to mention the ubiquitous toy bricks and builder sets themselves: LEGO is having a moment. More than just a cultural phenomenon, though, the interoperable and modular affordances of its bricks are material instantiations of how digital media work. As Kate Maddelena puts it, a LEGO brick is a “palpable pixel” (2020). And that palpability matters. As anyone who has ever played with LEGO knows, the satisfying click of pressing two bricks together, the sharp edges of a brick underfoot, the distinct clatter of loose LEGO in a box—the sensory tactility of it all couldn’t be more palpable. But how, then, is it digital?
In our book, when Maddalena lays out the argument for LEGO as palpable pixels, she identifies three fundamental characteristics of the digital that make LEGO a material incarnation of digital media. The digital, she suggests, is discrete, non-semantic, and intended for making and remaking. Think of a single LEGO brick. One brick is a discrete, autonomous thing; it’s non-semantic, that is, without any symbolic significance or meaning unless attached to other bricks, which also, on their own, share the characteristics of being discrete and non-semantic. Only by combining them together in certain ways—by making and remaking things—do they attain some meaning and consequence. Though Maddalena’s full argument is worth pursuing directly (ahem, in our biased opinion), another way to make sense of the fundamental characteristics of “the digital” is through the word’s etymology.
This is something Benjamin Peters does in his own edited collection, where he treats “digital” as a keyword. The Latin digitalis, Peters observes, from digitus, meaning “finger” or “toe,” suggests that the original material habitation of digital media could be found at the end of a wrist: in the digits on one’s fingers. Peters, in turn, argues that we should “see digital media as those media that, like our fingers, count the symbolic, point to the real, and manipulate the social imaginary” (2016, 98). It’s a lovely irony that the so-called digital aspects of media so often experienced as intangible today initially referred to the very medium (hands) associated with touch itself. LEGO, however, both performs the counting, pointing, and manipulating that is constitutive of digitality as we now know it, and does so in a quintessentially tangible form associated with the term’s original meaning.
Figure 1: LEGO Set # 10220, “Volkswagon T1 Camper Van”
LEGO bricks certainly count the symbolic, the way a LEGO Volkswagon T1 Camper Van (set #10220) has 1334 pieces, rendering that van reducible to its symbolic quantification. LEGO bricks also point to the real: once assembled, the camper van set isn’t just a boxful of countable bricks; it looks an awful lot like a smaller version of a real VW camper van. In doing so, LEGO bricks also manipulate the social imaginary; the red and white van can be modified endlessly to resemble something else, maybe a VW camper spaceship, or a box of candy canes. These affordances of old school LEGO bricks are not fundamentally different from the logics of newer digital media technologies, the way, for instance, the discrete pixels in a digital photograph can add up to a photo of a camper van; represent that camper van visually, and be manipulated through editing techniques (think filters or Photoshop) that rearrange pixels or give them different colors to make the photo resemble something else. LEGO bricks really are palpable pixels.
“LEGOfication” is the term we’ve developed—drawing on interviews of AFOLS at LEGO conventions and online—to describe the process of translating material (a photograph, a sentiment, an architectural diagram, a cultural icon, an idea, and so on) into LEGO form. In the same way that digital media, including their affordances and logics, have become almost elementally widespread, the spread of the LEGO Group’s global influence has meant that LEGOfication can be seen just about everywhere. Consider a couple of examples.
In February 2020, a new reality TV show called LEGO Masters aired on Fox. LEGO Masters is hosted by Will Arnett, the comic actor probably best known for playing the role of Job in the TV series Arrested Development, but more appositely has also played the voice of LEGO Batman across several LEGO movies and shows. Becoming part of the LEGOverse in this way is sort of akin to being cast in a Star Wars film; like Daisy Ridley or Adam Driver, Arnett has entered a fan community almost too vast to quantify. As he’s quick to point out on the show, LEGO fandom involves a motley brethren of grown-ups known as AFOLs, “Adult Fans of LEGO.” Geeks, artists, hobbyists, DIYers, collectors, history buffs, builders, crafters, computer programmers, architects, environmental designers, educators, parents. LEGO Masters is, on one register, marketed toward such fans and, on another, toward the LEGO curious who are fond of the toys but may be uninitiated to the wider world of LEGO fandom.
Figure 2: A LEGOfied advertisement for the LEGO Masters television show.
The program pits an eclectic assortment of two-person teams against one another in LEGO-building competitions that differ from episode to episode, but can each take well over 15 hours of real time to complete. In one episode, teams are asked to build bridges that can support hundreds of pounds in weight. In another, they’re presented with common objects that have been cut in half along a vertical plane: a bike frame, a cuckoo clock, a laptop, a fire hydrant, a globe, and so on. Their challenge is to build-out the other half with LEGO. Not only did this require building horizontally (imagine building a LEGO set out from a wall instead of up from a table), it also required that contestants manipulate a “real” object in such a way that reimagined it as something LEGOfied. The fire hydrant could then become a sculptural fairy tale, the guitar a paean to rock and roll.
The show goes meta regularly, with Arnett playing the narcissistic goof whose commentary on the conventions of reality TV—“I keep trying to go to commercial but they won’t let me!”—helps to keep things fresh. The show, in other words, both LEGOfies different things—a skyscraper, a bike, a bridge—and it LEGOfies its viewers by indoctrinating them into the vocabulary, affects, and idiosyncrasies of LEGO fandom. It teaches people, that is, not just key terms in the LEGO lexicon (with instructional cutaways explaining that a “SNOT,” for instance, is a kind of brick with its “Studs Not On Top”). It also teaches people how to watch reality TV as itself subject to LEGOfication: a genre that can be rebuilt, taken down, modified until its conventions are turned upon themselves.
Another example is in the ways that LEGO can be used to reconstruct race, particularly in the hands (and digits) of talented artists. Scholars such as Ruha Benjamin, Andre Brock, Sufiya Noble, and Armond Towns have considered the ways that media technologies construct, amplify, and/or transform racial difference. The temptation, as we have seen in other considerations of LEGO’s social and political significance, is to offer LEGO as a site of metaphorical richness for understanding these relations – as in, “race, like LEGO, is constructed.” But if we take LEGOfication seriously, we can begin to understand the ways LEGO is involved in constructions of race; it is a medium through and by which racialized meanings, practices, bodies, and logics can be built, reconfigured, and perhaps disassembled.
As a race-building technology, The LEGO Group invests heavily in the perniciously racist logic of post-racial color-blindness, repeatedly emphasizing that its yellow-hued minifig is a stand-in for all races and ethnicities, even while its product lines either default to white, Western themes or dabble in domains that are either explicitly orientalist (Ninjago, Orient Adventure) and/or colonialist (Lone Ranger, Western, Pirates, Islanders). It makes exceptions to this colorblind logic (“we are all yellow”) with minifigs based on movie, television, sports, or video game franchises, in which case Black characters and actors are “LEGOfied” as uniformly dark brown minifigs. In similar fashion, White, Hispanic, Latino/a, and East Asian characters get pale pink-colored minifigs, and Southeast Asian and Pacific Islander minifigs are a uniform lighter brown. Even within these concessions towards multiracial representation, LEGO recreates the notion that race and ethnicity are akin to skin color–the number of which we can count “digitally,” that is, on one hand. Not surprisingly, calls for greater racial representation often get met with racist reprisals: on the Adult Fans of LEGO (AFOL) social media groups we became involved in over the course of writing LEGOfied, a frequent response some members had to others’ critique or questioning of LEGO’s colorblind logic was ‘why do you have to bring your own personal politics into LEGO’s racially harmonious utopia?’
The work of Ekow Nimako, a Ghanaian-Canadian artist operating in Toronto, inverts LEGO’s post-racial (and racist) worldbuilding. Nimako’s work LEGOfies West African and African-diasporic architecture, mythologies, and histories; and he does so, most often, through monochromatic black bricks. Many of his works are entirely black; and they are also, accordingly, undeniably and powerfully Black in their celebration of West African cultures. In doing so, his pieces offer a stunning rebuke and reconstruction of LEGO’s own material-discursive configurings of race.
Figure 3: Ekow Nimako. Detail of A Sacred Place. Photograph taken by Nick Taylor.
“Building Black: Civilizations,” Nimako’s exhibit at Toronto’s Aga Khan Museum (from September 2019 to February 2020) exemplifies this approach. Fantastical warrior-deities, almost 2’ tall, stand in martial poses atop shelves lining the wall of the exhibition space (“Beware the Bandit Queen of Walatah”), flanking a row of camels atop of which perch miniature towers (“World on a Camel’s Back [Triptych]”). Imposing fortresses, temples, and mountainous landscapes rest on top of pedestals. All are constructed out of black bricks and employ an array of building techniques to capture elements of West African mythologies and architectures and re-arrange them into LEGOfied Afrofuturism. One element found in each work is a small minaret, formed of columns, a 2x2 plate, and a 2x2 semi-sphere, on top of which is perched LEGO item number 64567, initially used as lightsaber hilts for minifig Jedis. Here, a piece normally employed in the paradigmatic weapon of the Eurocentric space opera is repurposed as an Afrofuturist architectural motif: such are the possibilities for reconstructing race, however minutely, with this “materially digital” medium.
These are just two examples of what we believe to be a fruitful tool for theorybuilding: one that understands LEGO as emblematic of the ways digital media operate, while insisting that LEGO itself participates in and transforms our world.
Maddalena, Kate. 2020. “Palpable Pixels.” In LEGOfied: Building Blocks as Media, Nicholas Taylor and Chris Ingraham (eds.): 23-39. New York: Bloomsbury
Peters, Benjamin. 2016. “Digital.” In Digital Keywords: A Vocabulary of Information Society and Culture, Benjamin Peters (ed.): 93-108. Princeton: Princeton University Press.
Taylor, Nicholas, and Chris Ingraham (eds.) 2020. LEGOfied: Building Blocks as Media. New York: Bloomsbury.
Chris Ingraham is an Assistant Professor of Communication at the University of Utah. He performs scholarship that engages rhetorical theory, media studies, and ecological thought to explore the material and affective aspects of cultural politics in everyday life. His book, Gestures of Concern, is forthcoming from Duke University Press in August 2020.
Nick Taylor is an Associate Professor of Communication at NC State University. His work applies critical, feminist and posthumanist perspectives to experimental and mixed methods research with digital gaming communities. In particular, he is interested in the intersections of subjectivity, communicative practice, technologies and games, as enacted through both game production and play across a variety of contexts. | <urn:uuid:588bb4cf-076c-4688-ac44-ca5866f94f60> | CC-MAIN-2020-24 | https://www.digitaldoxa.org/post/theorybuilding-with-lego-a-material-digital-media-chris-ingraham-and-nick-taylor | 2020-06-03T13:41:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-24/segments/1590347434137.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20200603112831-20200603142831-00269.warc.gz | en | 0.925644 | 3,040 |
Democratic presidential candidate Bernie Sanders will hold a campaign rally in Fort Worth next week.
Sanders’ campaign announced on Friday that the rally will take place on Thursday, April 25 at Burnett Park. The event is set to start at noon and is free and open to the public.
Sanders will be making his first swing through Texas next week since announcing his 2020 presidential bid. He will be in Houston on Wednesday for a candidate forum at Texas Southern University and will also hold a rally in the city.
Sanders is the second 2020 contender to rally in Fort Worth this year. California U.S. Sen. Kamala Harris held an event in March.
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Our roulette tips are about how to play roulette as efficiently as possible and with a chance of winning. Online roulette casino tips will help you make the most of your budget and chances. First of all, if you decide to play roulette, try to find either twisted roulette where the ball falls more often in one sector or poorly programmed online roulette. Some online casinos publish winning lists and if you find a casino where a large amount of money is spent on roulette, you can try your luck there.
Look for casinos and tables where the rules give the casino a lower advantage over you. The 2 best types of games and rules are roulette casino game, where there is only 1 zero, and a rule called prison where bets are not lost if zero comes out. Otherwise you have to find some insight into what the results are like on roulette in a regular casino. Remember our roulette tips as well as the online roulette tips listed below so you do not miss the desired chance. The most effective way to check a curled roulette is to check the infrared with a computer, but no one in the casino will do that.
The game of roulette is known for one interesting phenomenon called dealer signature . Many dealers in casinos have been working on roulette for years. The body easily gets used to repeating the same movement. Some dealers have noticed that each shot is performed with absolutely the same speed and technique, which allows you to easily calculate the sector where the ball will fall. For example you can look at the point where the dealer puts the ball in his hand and compare it to the final drop point, which can give you a specific consistent result.
If you are lucky and find the dealer’s signature then do not hesitate and use this chance. In most cases, when people offer a roulette system and pay for it, you can assume that the system does not work. However, when it comes to budget and bet management, you can look into it, because in this case the conversation is about a strategy that can increase your chances. Sometimes different people use system and strategy in the form of interchangeable words. If the same number or sector often appears on the roulette wheel, it is possible that you have discovered a twisted roulette wheel, and in this case it is very profitable to use this fact. | <urn:uuid:d8fca053-4a8a-43db-be00-2ae0139ce8e1> | CC-MAIN-2020-50 | http://blackjackonlineplay8.com/roulette-tips-and-roulette-game/ | 2020-12-01T15:20:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-50/segments/1606141674594.59/warc/CC-MAIN-20201201135627-20201201165627-00654.warc.gz | en | 0.94958 | 474 |
By Antoine Fourrière
Bifocal Chess is kind of the opposite of V.R. Parton's Neutral King, where both teams try to mate the same King. Here, most pieces threaten both Kings. Another characteristic is that it satisfies Roberto Lavieri's idea of a game without capture or promotion.
Board and Setup
The King, Mann, Firz and Wazir move as usual but, like anyone else, never capture. (The Mann comes from Courier Chess and moves either as a Firz or a Wazir.)
The Rook and the Knight move as they do in International Chess.
The Bishop is a Promoted-Bishop from Shogi: it moves like a regular Bishop or a Wazir.
The Falcon is George Duke's Falcon in Falcon Chess: it moves as a Camel or a Zebra, but there must be a broken line between its starting square and its arrival square inside the rectangle defined by these two squares. It is a (not very) lame 16-square leaper.
The Kan(n)on is a convergent, Korean-like, version of my Can(n)on: it moves as a jumping Rook or a jumping Bishop, and may change orientation at each move. It cannot change orientation without jumping.
The Immobilizer is like Robert Abbott's Ultima piece, but it doesn't affect the Kings: it moves as a Queen, and freezes any other adjacent piece.
The goal is to checkmate your opponent's King with a neutral piece.
A player moves either one of his pieces, or a neutral piece which his opponent has not just moved.
The Shields - the Mann, the Wazirs and the Firzes - aren't restricted to empty squares. They can swap with any adjacent - and friendly - Shield. (Thus the Firzes are not colorbound.)
- The Kings move more or less by igui, that is, they are allowed a double step in any direction, but they cannot pass through a square which is threatened by a neutral piece. (Like castling, or Fergus Duniho's royal Queen in British Chess.)
- You cannot move the Immobilizer twice in a row.
These rules don't seem necessary, but they are certainly playable.
They are more difficult for Zillions, who anyway plays badly, so I've removed them from the main variant.
Written by Antoine Fourrière.
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Students get caught in a top Thailand’s medical college. The medical college students were using spy cameras linked to smartwatches during exams, The news got viral and social media users compared the scene with the movie mission impossible. Arthit Ourairat, the in-charge of Rangsit University, decided to post the pictures on social media.
The students used technology in a very wrong way and what could be the outcome? Yes, we would have uneducated doctors said by people on social media. The students used wireless spycams in eyeglasses, And by doing this they can capture the question paper and send to the team instantly. The whole thing was in Realtime, After the transfer of images they would get answers in the smartwatches.
Looks like they didn’t succeed because the exam was canceled after the plan got exposed. And it doesn’t end there the in-charge Arthit Ourairat decided to post images on social media for awareness in order to prevent these tricks get worked in future.
You can see the images below as they were posted on facebook. It’s been a decade they have increasing economic growth but Thailand’s education system is not going well. The cheating was compared to Hollywood spy films on social media which clearly explains how technology is being used now. These electronic devices should be banned in the market and should not be available to get easily on the web and in low price purchase. The future generations will make the most use of it in a very wrong way and there will be Doctors, Engineer’s who are uneducated but certified.
In the previous year, world bank stated that education system should be improved and this factor should be considered as one of the most crucial steps for the kingdom to improve the future. Thailand’s is left behind in basic reading skills which are a problem for people to manage their lives in the modern world. | <urn:uuid:db55fce5-eae8-4f9b-afd2-3dc8a128b937> | CC-MAIN-2019-09 | https://gadgetsay.com/thai-students-mission-impossible-style-plan-cheat-medical-exam/ | 2019-02-22T14:08:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-09/segments/1550247518425.87/warc/CC-MAIN-20190222135147-20190222161147-00280.warc.gz | en | 0.968082 | 399 |
What was once called the "California slide" when only California had a "Right on Red" law rapidly expanded beyond state lines. "After a full stop" became a feeble effort at slowing down with a momentary tap on the brakes. "Stop" signs were next. What's not to understand about S-T-O-P? I was taught to stop at any intersection without a sign or light if approaching from a smaller road or a parking lot. Guess they don't teach that anymore.
It has gotten worse. The Washington, DC area has always had aggressive drivers, which I've always attributed to the power seekers it attracts and it's horrible commutes, but nonchalant drivers in our suburban neighborhoods? They obviously feel no guilt when mentally transforming a stop sign into a yield sign but don't they know how ill-mannered and ignorant they look? Did they forget we share the same houses, stores, schools, and workplaces? | <urn:uuid:ff70df24-09e7-417b-98a5-c7f0dfdbd8be> | CC-MAIN-2017-17 | http://drivingisdangerous.blogspot.com/2010/07/stop-before-right-on-red.html | 2017-04-30T03:01:27Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-17/segments/1492917124297.82/warc/CC-MAIN-20170423031204-00448-ip-10-145-167-34.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.984577 | 192 |
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And we are confident that he hears whenever we ask for anything that pleases him. And since we know he hears us when we make our requests, we also know that he will give us what we ask for. 1 John 5:14-15
I have this routine right before I put my “game” face on at work. Before the kids roll in the door, and a moment of peace is no more. Originally, this routine consisted of administrative tasks. See, my “day” job doesn’t involve simply talking to children about making better choices, teaching them to think before they act, and cope with their big emotions. I have the pleasure of documenting all of this for proof that all of it actually occurred to insurance companies.
Those administrative tasks are important. But, I quickly began to abandon them each morning to begin my school day with my Father. That’s right. Because this better choice giving, think before you act speaking, and emotion coping can’t happen on my own.
I need someone to work through me to give these children what they need. Because on most days, I make poor choices, think before I speak, and handle some tough emotions, too. And, I need the help of my Father on the days I am barely hanging on.
Lately, I’ve had these doubts if He has even heard me. Has He heard my prayers and pleas in the morning? My cries at night?
God, are you even listening to me? Don’t you hear me down here?
On this particular morning as I sat at my desk like any other, frantically praying over each student, each situation they and I would face, I heard the chorus of the song I was playing in the background:
I believe you are listening. I believe you move at the sound of my voice. -Tasha Cobbs Leonard, Dove’s Eyes
I stopped….and I wept.
How could I doubt that he heard my call? Had he let me down before? Most certainly not!
Maybe I can’t see it now. But, He is listening. The boulders. The mountains. In my life. In every life of those for whom I am praying. He hears my calls. My pleas. My strangled sobs to him.
God. He is still there. He hears this voice. And, He is listening to this willing servant.
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Letter: Bradley qualified for Supreme Court
We are in spring campaign season again and the news media are doing their routine character assassination to Justice Rebecca Bradley. It seems that anytime a woman or black person, who is perceived not to be a progressive/liberal, attempts to gain an important government position, the vicious attacks rise to a level beyond the normal.
Indeed, the news media go out of their way to ignore the qualifications and backgrounds of candidates they oppose and use their position not to provide information but for personal attacks. Unfortunately, there are many who cannot or will not distinguish between the ruthless assault going on against Bradley and the truth.
It’s time for the media and their ilk get over the partisan witch hunt and report on the candidate and what she has done professionally. In the case of Bradley there is a track record. After receiving a Doctor of Jurisprudence degree from the University of Wisconsin, she spent 16 years as an attorney in private practice. In 2012 Bradley was recognized as one of the leading lawyers in litigation, business law and Internet law. Recently she served on Wisconsin Court of Appeals and the Milwaukee County Circuit Court. She is eminently qualified for the Wisconsin Supreme Court, a position that she now holds.
Bradley also served as president of the Milwaukee Lawyers Chapter of the Federalist Society, an organization founded on the principle that it is emphatically the province and duty of the judiciary to say what the law is, not what it should be. This is the kind of judge we want. What we don’t want is a judge that would ignore the law in favor of her personal ideology and whims. There are too many of those already. | <urn:uuid:b6043507-55eb-4727-a7d2-90169b8f3826> | CC-MAIN-2018-47 | https://www.fdlreporter.com/story/opinion/2016/04/01/letter-bradley-qualified-supreme-court/82520568/?from=new-cookie | 2018-11-14T19:20:23Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-47/segments/1542039742263.28/warc/CC-MAIN-20181114191308-20181114213308-00426.warc.gz | en | 0.966949 | 358 |
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Thanks for submitting your picture. From the picture you appear to be a small B cup. You gave us lots of information but omitted the most important information which is the chest circumference measurement and your breasts size goal. If your desire is to be a 34 full C , 350 cc will probably do it. For a 34 D you will need 425 cc implants. Do not worrie about the width of the implants. I have used moderate profile saline implants for over 27 years and operated on over 2,000 patients. My patients are very happy ( check reviews ) . If you like the before and after pictures of your surgeon and they are numerous and consistent, than follow his or her's recommendation. Always, consult with experienced board certified plastic surgeons.
Best of luck,
Thanks for your question and pic. I don't use the HP usually because it does look too round. You appear to have enough breast tissue that you shouldn't need that extra projection. The MP has a much more natural look. I think the 350 or 375MPP is your best bet looking at your pictures and reading your expectations. It is however important to assess the characteristics of the envelope with regard to its elasticity to factor this into the decision making. Best of Luck!
If you are 32 or 34 each 100 cc’s of implant corresponds to
1 cup size change.If you are 36 or 38
each 200 cc’s of implant corresponds to 1 cup size change.From this, you can compute the volume
required to achieve your desired goal.I
always recommend small round textured silicone gel implants placed
retro-pectoral since they look and feel more natural, are more stable, less
likely to ripple or have complications needing revision.Implant profile is irrelevant in the
retro-pectoral position since the muscle compresses it.
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Thank you for allowing me to answer your question. I think that your surgeon has a good plan in mind in bringing several implants to the OR and using a sizer during the surgery to determine the optimal size implant for you. It is important to communicate with your surgeon before surgery as to the look you are trying to achieve (cleavage, how much fullness in upper breasts, natural look, etc..) I think either of those implants will give you a nice result but the 400 may be too tight. Good luck with your surgery!
You seem to be a petite person from your measurements. If you are worried about a "side-boob", you would want to consider the high profile which is more narrow to better fit your breasts. Multiple
measurements need to be taken to fit an implant to your exact anatomy.
Have your surgeon's office show you the charts of the implant dimensions for
the various profiles of silicone and saline from the manufacturer. Then
you and your surgeon can piece together the puzzle by matching your
measurements, with you wishes, versus your tissue cover and the available
implants to arrive at a surgical plan. Keep in mind upsizing your implants
can cause more problems in the future. All the best, "Dr.
Thank you for your question.Despite good intentions,
online consultants will not be able to provide you (in any responsible
fashion) with specific enough advise to be truly helpful. Given your
concerns, you'll be best off seeking follow-up with your plastic surgeon,
earlier that already scheduled if necessary, for in person evaluation.
Thank you for your pictures. First I would start reading the Internet and trust your surgeons judgment. Implant diameter can be +/- 1 cm from your breast with. Your surgeon will choose to help you choose the right implant to meet your desired goals.
Earl Stephenson, Jr, MD, DDS, FACS
I agree that it sounds like you have an excellent plastic surgeon. The size range is that you have chosen are all very similar. I rarely uses high profile breast implants because they tend to project but have a narrow base.
In my experience the moderate profile plus shape is more natural looking. Your breast base width is certainly adequate to accept a 350 or 375 cc moderate profile plus implant. Please revisit your plastic surgeon and discuss your concerns in detail. For more information on choosing breast implant size please read the following link:
It sounds like you have a very good doctor who will do the final sizing during surgery. Just be sure and tell her you don't want to go too big. Probably the moderate profile is going to look better on you. Go on the Internet and print off pictures of breast augmentation patients before and after that are similar to your size and with a result you like. Show these to your doctor and you will do fine.
You should also consider the measurement of your nipple to inframmary fold distance. If the radius of the implant is shorter than your nipple to fold distance then there is a chance your nipple will appear too high on your breast. This measurement is one additional factor I use to decide between a high or moderate plus implant.
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Plans are underway for the 21st Annual Kohler Performing Arts Organization dinner and auction on Saturday, April 21 at the Pine Hills Country Club.
This year’s theme is “Solid Gold” and will include performances by the Kohler high school music students, silent auction, three-course dinner and a live auction.
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Tallinn’s largest recruitment fair “Key to the future” has been organized already 27 times. The event gathered a large number of students who were interested in their career. The event took place in Tallinn University of Technology.
This year’s theme was Career. Numerous lecturers, start-up companies and nearly 70 employer representatives gathered together to introduce the recruitment and career opportunities the company provides.
– This was Comatec Estonia’s third time at the fair. The event gave us an excellent opportunity to present our business to potential new employees and network with other companies. Students visiting the stand were very interested in Comatec and our possible internship places. Comatec’s internationalization plans raised interest as well. Notable was also the increased number of foreign students visiting the fair, says Engineering Manager Esko Aura.
– In Estonia, and in Finland too, the employer brand is a relevant issue for new graduates, when they are looking for companies to apply to. Recruitment fairs give us new ideas to further develop our recruitment activities and employer brand, says Department Manager Tõnis Tiedemann who represented Comatec at the fair.
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By Scott Erickson | Saturday, August 16, 2014
Marilyn. Audrey. Elizabeth. Cher. Ringo. Leo. Last names aren’t required when you rattle off the people who’ve sat before Douglas Kirkland’s lens.
With a career spanning almost 60 years, he has photographed some of the most iconic figures of popular culture.
On today, his 80th birthday, I can’t help but think of the day Douglas sat in front of my camera, and of the simple panic-inducing question I asked myself:
How do you photograph one of your photographic heroes?
The answer is simple: Do as he does.
By Jim Heid | Friday, February 24, 2012
This year, the Academy of Motion Picture Arts and Sciences decided to commission portraits of each of the 20 2012 Oscar-nominated actors and actresses.
Who did they call? Renowned photographer (and lynda.com author) Douglas Kirkland, who has photographed hundreds of actors and performers in his storied career. The resulting portraits form an exhibit called Out of Character, which is on display at the Academy’s Beverly Hills headquarters until March 18.
Last Friday, Douglas gave a few of us an exhibit tour, during which he talked about the portraits and his process. We’re pleased to be able to share it with you. Check it out, then check out his Douglas Kirkland on Photography series.
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By Jim Heid | Thursday, June 30, 2011
Photojournalist Gerd Ludwig at his home in Los Angeles (Jim Heid photo).
Successful photographers must combine their creative passion with the ability to evolve along with the industry—and the economy. That’s just one of the messages in our new course, Douglas Kirkland on Photography: A Conversation with Gerd Ludwig.
In this latest installment of his series, Douglas visits his friend Gerd Ludwig, a photojournalist best known for his work in National Geographic magazine. Ludwig has taken a special interest in Russia and the former Soviet Union—in particular, the people and stories surrounding the Chernobyl nuclear power plant.
Ludwig has photographed Chernobyl several times over the years. He wanted to return to document the conditions there today, but support from the traditional publishing industry wasn’t there. So he turned to the crowd—specifically, to Kickstarter.com, the crowdfunding website. He created a project proposal containing text and video descriptions of his project. He raised more than $23,000 from 435 backers and in March, he departed for Chernobyl.
Douglas visited with Ludwig in his home on the day before he left, and the course includes a tour of his gear and a look at how he packs for an expedition. When he returned, he and Douglas met in our studio to look at Ludwig’s photos and talk about Chernobyl today.
Capturing the conversation between Douglas Kirkland and Gerd Ludwig (Jim Heid photo).
On his latest trip, Ludwig also shot video in the depths of the poisoned reactor using a tiny video camera strapped to his protective helmet. As he says after he and Douglas watch the footage, video is “the new work of a photojournalist or documentary photographer.”
And Ludwig’s photos? They’re powerful and moving visual essays on the nightmare of Chernobyl and on how the area is being changed by residents who have moved back, and, incredibly, by tourists who visit to take photos.
Douglas Kirkland on Photography: A Conversation with Gerd Ludwig is a bit of a departure for us, a combination of instruction and inspiration. We hope you’ll watch and let us know what you think.
By Jim Heid | Wednesday, March 16, 2011
Douglas Kirkland. Photo by Jim Heid.
Douglas Kirkland’s passion for photography began in his youth and launched a six-decade journey that shows no signs of slowing down. His biography is the stuff of dreams for a photographer. As a staffer at Look and Life magazines, he traveled the world on assignment during the golden age of American photojournalism. He has also worked on the sets of over 100 films, photographing stars ranging from Marilyn Monroe to Michael Jackson. He has photographed astronomical observatories in Chile and railroads in Siberia. He’s published several books, and his photos have been showcased in exhibits worldwide.
It’s as impressive a résumé as you’ll find in the photographic world.
But when I met Douglas Kirkland, what impressed me most was his warmth and his generous spirit. He loves connecting with people. He loves what he does and he loves sharing his photographic passion and knowledge.
These traits are immediately obvious in Douglas Kirkland on Photography, a new monthly series in the Online Training Library®. Each month, Douglas explores a variety of real-world photographic scenarios. Follow along on a photo shoot as Douglas describes his technical and creative processes. After each shoot, Douglas reviews the results and points out the differences that can separate a good photograph from a better one.
Douglas’s tools are as diverse as his subjects. He might shoot with a digital SLR one day, a medium-format film camera the next day, and an 8×10 Deardorff view camera on the day after that. He’ll use strobes for one shoot and natural light for another. The subject is what matters, and Douglas chooses his tools accordingly.
You’ll see each of these tools in action in our new series. And because sustaining a six-decade career means being able to adapt to changing business conditions, you’ll also hear insights into the business of photography.
In the first installment of the series, Douglas shows how he works with natural light to create beautiful portraits. Next month, we’ll head into his studio for a look at shooting under the lights.
It’s a thrill for all of us to work with Douglas and his wife and business partner, Francoise, on this series. We’re eager to hear what you think of it—and what you’d like to learn from Douglas in future installments.
For an introduction to Douglas and his work, see our Creative Inspirations documentary that features him.
By Crystal McCullough | Tuesday, November 02, 2010
On Thursday, November 4, all are welcome to Celebrity Vault in Beverly Hills for the book signing of Michael Jackson: The Making of Thriller by photographer Douglas Kirkland. The book signing and reception is from 6:00 p.m. to 9:00 p.m.
In four days in 1983, Douglas Kirkland was the only photographer allowed on the set of Thriller. Kirkland took photos for Life magazine, but the photos were never published until now.
Kirkland is the focus of one of our lynda.com Creative Inspirations documentaries, Douglas Kirkland, Photographer.
The book is available on Amazon and on Barnes and Noble.
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This recipe was submitted by a reader and has not been tested in our kitchen.
A classic Norwegian Christmas cookie. Easy and fun to make with a Krumkake Express iron.
Total Time: 55 min
Prep Time: 10 min
Cook Time: 45 min
- 1/2 cup(s) softened butter
- 3 whole(s) eggs
- 1 cup(s) flour
- 1/2 teaspoon(s) vanilla
- 1/4 cup(s) water, Adding slowly.
- 1/2 teaspoon(s) cardamom
- Cream together the butter and sugar.
- Stir in the eggs, one at a time.
- Add vanilla and ground cardamom.
- Stir in flour, mixing well.
- Add water until batter is the consistency of a thick cream sauce.
- Lightly grease the two sides of a krumkake iron with cooking spray or melted butter (Alternative: if using an electric krumkake baker, follow the directions provided by the manufacturer). Heat iron over medium to medium-high burner just until a drop of water sizzles on the surface; to prevent damage to the iron and to keep the cookies from scorching, do not heat over the highest setting. Spoon a heaping tablespoon of batter onto the center of the iron. Close iron, squeezing handles together lightly to spread the batter (but not so tightly that the batter leaks down the sides of the iron. Note: Because of the batter's butter content, leaks that hit the burner cause some interesting flame action. Keep a damp towel on hand to swiftly wipe up any leaks and to prevent baking krumkake flambÃÂÃÂÃÂé!). Bake for 30 seconds, flip iron over, and bake an additional 30 seconds. Flip iron back to initial position, open, and immediately roll cookie around a krumkake cone or the handle of a wood spoon. Slip off cone and allow to cool on rack.
- Store in tightly sealed container in order to retain crispness.
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Norwegian newspaper VG reported that police will not file any new indictments in the case, something Oslo Police is expected to confirm at a 1pm press conference.
Earlier this year, retired Danish ship inspector Flemming Thue Jensen stepped forward to say that the fatal fire aboard the Scandinavian Star was sabotage.
Jensen said that crew members were responsible for the fires that broke out when the ship sailed from Oslo to Frederikshavn in Denmark on April 7th, 1990. The flames claimed the lives of 159 people.
In the new investigation, fire experts Kjell Schmidt Pedersen and Øystein Jæger Meland, who were also consulted in 1990, said that subsequent fires aboard the ship were sparked by the original and not deliberately set by crew members as Jensen alleges.
Jensen said the fire pattern was not random but was “a conscious and planned action” that involved rupturing a hydraulic line. The Danish ship inspector said Norwegian police failed to “follow the money”, insinuating that the fire was set as an insurance scam.
According to Norwegian news agency NTB, the owners of Scandinavian Star received $14 million in compensation following the fires.
But Oslo Police said that the new investigation concluded that the initial fire on the ship led to an intense heat spread in the steel structure of the ship, which ignited combustible materials and gases.
In the aftermath of the fatal 1990 fire, several deficiencies were found amongst the ship’s rescue equipment and the Norwegian captain and two Danish ship owners were put on trial and given short sentences.
Norwegian police initially claimed that the fire was set by Danish truck driver who died in the flames, but charges against him were dropped in 2014 when a police report stated that there was not sufficient evidence of his guilt.
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Relatives of some of the 159 people who died campaigned for the case to be reopened, arguing that there is evidence to suggest that the fire was a deliberate arson carried out by the ship's crew.
The fatal fire broke out as the Scandinavian Star sailed from Oslo to Frederikshavn on Friday, April 6th, 1990. Initial reports were that everyone on board was rescued but a few hours later it became clear that a large number of people had not survived.
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2015 was a fascinating year. There were some dramatic developments, both positive and negative.
The Supreme Court ruling on same sex-marriage surely qualifies as a truly historic moment. The opening to Cuba with the assistance of Pope Francis has been a hopeful development. The nuclear agreement with Iran, forged with the cooperation of major world powers, offers an opportunity for peaceful progress in the Middle East. The climate change agreement in Paris represents another example of the countries of the world seeking to work together for a common goal. Finally, Francis’ visit to the United States as well as the Synod of Bishops on the family has brought a sense of excitement for the future of the church.
On the negative side, the tragic war in Syria continues. The plight of refugees goes on unabated. President Vladimir Putin of Russia has been aggressive in Crimea and Ukraine and unhelpful in Syria. The cacophony from political candidates has coarsened our political discourse. Tragic violence continues on our city streets and even includes police tactics and actions that become more and more questionable. The threat of terrorism remains a reality for all.
What can we expect and hope for in 2016? First of all, politics and the presidential election are front and center in our country. I have twice predicted the demise of Donald Trump’s candidacy and he continues to sit atop the polls.
With great trepidation, I plunge once more into the political pundit role. Ted Cruz seems poised to win the Iowa caucuses. If a candidate other than Trump can win in New Hampshire, like Chris Christie or Marco Rubio, we may yet burst the Trump bubble.
So many things can happen between now and November that it is impossible to predict the outcome of the 2016 election. As things stand now, however, it appears that Hillary Clinton could well become the next president of the United States. I believe we will see a toning down of rhetoric in the campaigns, especially as we move to the general election, and the public will move away from the more extreme positions of anti-Muslim and anti-immigration politics.
I also believe there is the possibility of some very gradual progress on the war in Syria. Although current tensions between Saudi Arabia and Iran are problematic, they can perhaps be resolved within a reasonable length of time. Despite the crisis, it is still in the interest of both countries to bring an end to the fighting in Syria.
Negotiations underway could produce a cease-fire over the next few months and maybe even more. As interests in both Europe and the Middle East coincide, pressure will mount to find a solution. Progress in Syria will certainly be necessary if there is to be a resolution to the continuing flow of refugees to European and Middle Eastern countries.
Even though Russia continues to be more interested in keeping Bashar Assad in power than fighting the Islamic State group, they also recognize that the crisis needs to end. My suspicion is that there will be little talk of the future of Assad at this time, and his fate will be determined well down the road in the search for a solution to this crisis. Progress will be slow and there will be setbacks, but I think we will see the world community come together to exert pressure needed to end this crisis.
I have more questions than answers when it comes to what will happen in the church in 2016. What we have learned unequivocally in 2015 is that any changes that occur will happen ever so slowly. We have also learned that it takes time for even changes in attitude to seep through the universal church. Even as Francis has spoken eloquently about the need to change the way we respond to issues in the church, bishops in local dioceses have been speaking and acting in exactly the opposite way.
One thing to look for will be whether Francis embraces the internal forum as a way of effecting the kind of changes he envisions. Will he issue a statement on the synod that clarifies and perhaps expands on what local dioceses and even pastors can do in ministering to their flocks?
Will we see specific changes to the Curia and the episcopacy that indicate Francis’ intent to change the church? It goes without saying that much depends on the health of the pope in the coming year. It also seems that this may be a year in which Francis’ vision for the church will be advanced through personnel assignments.
What I would really like to see this year is an effort by Francis to make clear that certain actions of bishops are not in keeping with the direction he wants to lead the church. Without resorting to greater centralization of power, he needs to find a way to let bishops know that he expects something different.
When school-based personnel are fired because of something they say or because their marital situation or sexual orientation may be considered irregular, there needs to be a way to say that this is not how we do business anymore. When students are expelled because of some action of their parents, it should be said that this is not the Francis way. We have seen too much of this kind of behavior in 2015. We need to see less of it in 2016.
It will be exciting to watch events unfold in both politics and the church. In this Year of Mercy, we can hope that the gentleness of Francis will prevail in both politics and the church.
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Not visited as much as it should be.
Rating: * * * *
The back of Cierva Cove is a massive glacial face, which regularly calves ice into the bay. This spot is one of the best Zodiac cruising locations along the Northern part of the Antarctic peninsula, specifically for the glacial face and icebergs and brash ice that collects in the bay. Cierva Cove has some of the densest grass, moss and lichen cover of any site on the peninsula, and if you can get past the ice near to the north facing cliffs, it can be quite spectacular.
Where is it?
Located at the far Northern end of Hughes Bay, Cierva Cove is open to the northern end of the Gerlache Strait.
A straight forward Zodiac cruise, there are usually very few challenges beyond too much ice.
Seals are regularly found on the ice floes within Cierva Cove, and Crabeater, Weddell and Leopard seals are usually found by those willing to look. Fur seals will be common later in the season, when Humpback whales may also be found in the area. The cove is almost all icecliffs, and no penguins make the cove itself home. Areas to the South and West that do house breeding penguins are largely off limits in an Antarctic Specially Protected Area.
The Argentine base Primavera is located within the Antarctic Specially Protected Area. This small station was built in 1977, and is only occupied for part of the year.
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MAC Dark Desires is a very cool-toned, very dark plum with a matte finish. It is a limited edition eyeshadow that retails for $20.00 and contains 0.08 oz.
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MAC Dark Desires Into the Well Eyeshadow ($20.00 for 0.08 oz.) is described as a "blackened eggplant." It's a blackened plum with subtle, warm undertones and a matte finish. The texture was very soft, but it ran powdery, so use less than you think you need and build-up the color in layers to avoid a lot of fall out. It applied decently as an eyeshadow, but it was somewhat uneven in places. It applied well both dry and wet as an eyeliner, but the wear was longer with wet application (nine hours). Marc Jacobs Beauty The Free Spirit No. 17 (LE, ) is more shimmery (90% similar). Anastasia Rowdy (DC, $12.00) is lighter, warmer (90% similar). theBalm Matt Batali (LE, $16.00) is warmer (90% similar). Urban Decay Blackheart (PiP, $19.00) is more shimmery, lighter, warmer (85% similar). Bobbi Brown Rich Chocolate (LE, $22.00) is warmer (85% similar). theBalm #27 (P, $6.50) is lighter (80% similar). bareMinerals Ensemble (LE, ) is lighter, warmer (85% similar). See comparison swatches / view dupes side-by-side.
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Pet Express has been organizing the Dog and Cat Expo for years now, but it was my first time to attend this year. Boy have I been missing out! I decided to leave all my 8 dogs and 8 cats at home and do all the shopping by myself. Surrounded by hundreds of dogs, cats, and their happy humans, I had a woof-tastic time. Check out some of the snapshots I took and the goodies I splurged on. I’m also mastering doggo speak through the captions.
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This just might have been one of the best episodes of The Walking Dead of this entire season. From top to bottom, front to back, in all aspects, this was probably the best constructed episode since the first season, maybe the best since the pilot itself. Part of this is the return of a long-awaited character, and part of this is simply because the show turns back in on itself and revisits the locations from the original pilot. What could easily be a bad idea - reminding us of the show at its highest point - turns out to be one of the better ideas The Walking Dead has come up with during its run.
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Low on guns, low on ammo, low on food, and low on ideas, Rick decided to go on a supply run and thought that it might be nice to pay a visit to his old home town, where there's a gun locker with his name on it. However, revisiting the olden days is rarely a good idea, and when significant blocks of downtown have been turned into barricades, booby traps, and various other manglers with spray-painted words of warning on them, all of which imply bad things for those too stupid to turn back, well... Rick has to proceed anyway, while Carl and Michonne get a little bonding time.
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With Glen Mazzara stepping down at the end of the season, I've been worried about the show. Mazzara has nearly turned the show completely around from a very disappointing second season (and started the turn near the end of season two when he took on the role officially), and has done some great work with plotting and structure as the show runner. However, his replacement is going to be Scott Gimple, the guy who wrote tonight's brilliant episode. Given the way Gimple effectively split up the already-small group, gave all four characters plenty of time to breathe, and resisted the urge to do any check-ins back at the prison or Woodbury, it gives me hope that the show's future might be more focused.
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When determining CBD oil dosage it's important to understand the dosage depends on your physiology, symptoms and your desired effects. Each person is unique and will experience different effects.
A person with a good endocannabinoid tone won't need as much oil and will also experience the most subtle effects. While an individual with more pressing health matters may need to up the CBD oil dosage to help tone the endocannabinoid system into balance.
We can experiment with proper CBD dosage based on a few things: your weight and how you want to take CBD oil.
CBD Dosage based on weight
CBD users with an average weight between 150lbs and 240lbs find that a dose between 15mg and 20 mg once or twice a day is enough to provide effective relief from a variety of ailments. Check our CBD oil dosage chart below, as even mild dosages of 12mg per day can provide real noticeable relief.
While you might not notice an immediate effect while taking CBD oil, over time you should begin to detect more balance, calm, and peace of mind in your life.
Some people may notice a more extreme difference than others. Imagine someone who is deficient in vitamin C. Taking a vitamin C supplement would result in a radical change in their health.
CBD oil is similar to a vitamin in that it helps to support and maintain overall health. If your endocannabinoid system is depleted or imbalanced, taking CBD could produce tremendous changes more quickly than someone who has a healthy endocannabinoid tone.
If you’re already healthy, you may not notice an immediate effect. While your friends or family may start taking high doses of CBD oil and notice instant changes, you may not need the same amount.
General CBD Oil Dosage Guidelines
This chart can help you determine the proper amount of CBD to take. Start with the mild range for a week and notice the effect. Take the amount recommended for your weight. If you aren’t feeling the effects, move up to the medium range. Try the high strength range if the medium range does not produce the desired s results.
The proper dosage all depends on your health and your body. Experiment to find out what works best for you.
As Dr. Dustin Sulak, director of Integr8 Health, says “Some patients effectively use tiny amounts of cannabis while others use incredibly high doses. I’ve seen adult patients achieve therapeutic effects at 1 mg of total cannabinoids daily, while others consume over 2000 mg daily without adverse effects.”1
Schedules of CBD Consumptions
There are three main CBD oil dosage schedules that people use to take CBD:
- Once or Twice Per Day
- Every 2-3 Hours
- Hourly Microdosing
When finding your ideal dose of CBD oil, we recommend starting with one-quarter dropper 1-2 times per day during the first week, moving up to one half a dropper during the second week, three-quarters of a dropper during the third week, and a full dropper on the fourth week.
In a paper published in the European Journal of Internal Medicine, Dr. Caroline MacCallum and Dr. Ethan Russo shared a good tip for figuring out a proper dosage of CBD, “Start Low and Go Slow!”2
CBD BALM DOSING: Depending on the strength of CBD Balm, you may have to apply a little or a lot. Hempure CBD Balm is concentrated (750mg and 1400mg), so a little bit is very effective. Apply a small amount to the area where you are experiencing soreness, dryness, or stiffness every six hours.
CBD VAPE DOSING: Vapers usually microdose throughout the day. Mix it into your regular eliquid or vape CBD straight. When starting off, take 3 inhales, then wait 30 minutes. We recommend starting with 250mg CBD Vape oil.
CBD EDIBLES DOSING: Gummies and capsules produce the longest effect. Take one 10-25mg gummy or capsule every 6-12 hours and then increase if you’d like a more pronounced result. Like all Hempure CBD products, our gummies do not contain THC, so you don’t need to worry about any psychoactive effects. Capsules can be used on a similar schedule (every 6-12 hours).
CBD Oil Dosing Guide
Remember, that dosing CBD oil depends on the product. Most companies provide CBD dosing guidelines on the bottle, but those guidelines are specific to the potency of the product. What this means is, the dosing chart on a 1000mg CBD drops would not be ideal for someone who is highly sensitive to CBD and could do better with the potency of 250mg CBD drops. That's why it's important to experiment with the lowest strength first! The below CBD oil dosing chart can help you decide how much of a specific CBD product to use to get the most desired results.
When consuming CBD, it could be useful to use a notebook or an app to chart any changes you find in your mood, sleep, and general wellbeing. You could use this as a guide to determine the best CBD dose and best CBD dosage schedule for yourself. It can be your very own diary of dosing CBD!
How Much CBD Should I Take for My Specific Concern?
If you're looking for therapeutic benefits from CBD, it's best to consult with your physician first to help you decide how much CBD oil to take. Make sure to take a look at the dosing guidelines on the bottle as well. If you're on medication, speak to your doctor about any possible interactions.
Figuring Out How Much CBD Oil To Buy
When you're just starting out with CBD oil, it can be tempting to go for a concentrated strength because it seems cost-effective. In reality, starting out with potent CBD is counterproductive in the long term. Most CBD users, particularly those that use it as a wellness supplement, find that a little goes a long way. You might find that just a couple of drops a day of 250mg CBD oil does the trick for you. On the other hand, if you flood your system with CBD, you could end up building a tolerance (even though it's pretty unlikely) or not feeling anything at all. To reiterate, start low and go slow! More importantly, don't stock up on a product you haven't tried - buy just one bottle when you start out. That way, if you feel the need to increase your dosage, you have the option to level up on your next purchase.
The Primary Factor In How Much CBD You Consume
Like with everything else, quality matters more than quantity with CBD. Here are some guidelines to follow to make sure your CBD dosing process is as accurate as possible:
Make sure you’re purchasing CBD oil.
There are tons of oils on the market that consumers commonly mistake for CBD oil. Let’s explore the most common ones:
- Hemp oil: A common misconception people have is that hemp oil is synonymous with CBD since CBD comes from hemp. This is not true. Hemp oil, while very nutritious comes from hemp seeds, while CBD comes from the plant. Hemp oil may contain traces of CBD, but not enough to have any significant effect. To circumvent legal scrutiny, some companies may even market their CBD oil like hemp oil, even providing a hemp oil dosage at the back. This is misleading for a consumer, especially a new one. It’s best to go with a company that uses the term CBD oil.
- Cannabis oil: Cannabis is a plant species that includes both hemp and marijuana. People consume marijuana recreationally because of the THC in it that has psychoactive properties. Hemp, on the other hand, is very low in THC (less than 0.3%). So when a product is labeled cannabis oil, the spectrum of things it could be is very large. Cannabis oil could be THC dominant, CBD dominant, or some blend of the two. Once again, if you’re looking for CBD oil, choose a product that markets itself as CBD oil.
Make sure your CBD oil label is honest.
Unfortunately, several CBD companies intentionally mislabel their products, putting in less CBD or none at all in some cases. When you're starting out with CBD, check a company’s website for third-party lab test results. These should be readily available for your perusal. If you've confirmed that the amount of CBD on the label matches the amount in the bottle, you're good to go. If you're taking unverified CBD oil that happens to be mislabelled, it would defeat the purpose of spending time figuring out how much CBD to take. You can find Hempure's lab test results here.
Key Points To Remember When Dosing CBD
There are a few key points to remember when determining the proper amount of CBD to take:
- Start slow and work your way up. CBD oil works at the root level of health to balance out the entire body.
- There is not one “right amount” to take. Each person will react differently to different dosages depending on their current endocannabinoid tone.
- Use the chart as a starting guide until you figure out which amount works best for you.
Enjoy the process and the wonderful calm, peace of mind and relief that CBD oil can bring into your life. If you'd like to find out more about CBD, be sure to read our CBD guide.
- Dr. Dustin Sulak, A Physician’s Perspective on Optimal Cannabis Dosing, Leafly, 2018 Feb, https://www.leafly.com/news/health/a-physicians-perspective-on-optimal-cannabis-dosing
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Clear skies and warm – no, make that hot! – weather greeted the crowds at the Silverstone Classic on both Saturday and Sunday (21 and 22 July 2012), but only after drenching all and sundry on the Friday afternoon and leaving puddles and standing water, it seemed that in most areas where the photographers liked to stand for their favourite shots. But the weekend races were a feast for the fans with great weather, and it proved a popular outing for the whole family.
Without doubt one of the main race events of the weekend was the Group C races that was run on Saturday as a ‘night’ race in the spirit of the original series from the 1980s, while the Sunday race took place in the late afternoon. Replacing the outgoing Group 6 series, Group C was introduced in 1982 and the phenomenal performance of the cars was matched only by the enthusiasm of the spectators, and which continued to grow in the years that followed. Only one manufacturer was really prepared for Group C at the start of the 1982 series, namely Porsche, as the 956 swept all before it, rewriting the record books in the process. In celebration of the series’ thirtieth anniversary, no fewer than 24 Group C cars took to the grid at Silverstone this weekend for both races, just like it used to be thirty years ago.
Another favourite was the Royal Automobile Club Tourist Trophy for Historic Cars, which included such machinery as a Ferrari 250 SWB, Aston Martin (DP212, DB4, GT Zagato, and a DB2 Lightweight LM), as well as a host of E-type Jaguars, Porsche Abarth and 356s, Austin Healey, Lotus, and many other favourites. There was no quarter given as the cars raced with great enthusiasm, much to the delight of the large crowds.
Other very popular races included the RAC Woodcote Trophy for pre-56 sportscars, and the Fujifilm Touring Car Trophy 1970-2000 which proved a favourite with the spectators as many of the cars racing in this event would have been familiar even to the younger racegoers.
Then there were the HGPCA pre-61 front engined GP cars, the HGPCA pre-66 rear engined GP cars, the Masters ‘Gentleman Drivers’ pre-66 GT cars, the Daily Express International Trophy for GP Masters, the Stirling Moss Trophy for pre-61 Sportscars, the Silverstone Classic Celebrity Challenge, Jaguar E-type Challenge, the Alan Mann Trophy for under 2-litre Touring cars, the Peter Gethin Trophy for F2 and F5000 cars, the Historic Formula Junior race, and not forgetting the World Sports Car Masters.
This was a really full programme of races, and there was certainly something there for all tastes. There were bumps, spins and off-track excursions aplenty, as all drivers put on a superb display of driving but with more than a 1,000 race entries, this year’s Silverstone Classic will once again be the biggest race meeting staged anywhere in the world during 2012.
Occupying the infield area were no fewer than 73 car clubs where 7000-plus classic cars were on display, and the public made the most of wandering around this area and feasting their eyes on all the delicious machinery. A large area was dedicated to specialist traders and booksellers and for those very young ones for whom motor racing was not yet a priority (but soon will be), there was a fun fair with many different rides and slides. Despite the recent rains, the event drew a record crowd of 83,500 according to the organizers.
Having arrived at the track early on Saturday morning, I took the opportunity of wandering around the paddock with a fellow-photographer and chatting with race car owners and engineers before the crowds arrived. The Group C Peugeot 905 that had been driven by Nicholas Minassian on the Friday had its engine and gearbox split for inspection where it was found that a gearbox problem that occurred during practice on Friday had ended its chances of any further racing on the weekend, and so the Frenchman raced the Lancia LC2 instead on Sunday.
In the garages under the new Wing complex most cars were receiving some kind of attention from fluid top-ups to gearbox rebuilds, it was a fascinating place to be and to get up close with such significant machinery. There was machinery from the Formula 1 ex-Ronnie Peterson JPS Lotus 76/1 to the evocative BMW M3 and M6 touring cars and pretty much everything else that you could reasonably shake a stick at that had turned a wheel on the circuits of yesteryear – it was all there!
In closing, just in case you were wondering why there was such a shortfall in the number of security guards turning up for duty at that big sporting event in London (can’t mention the name, you see), well they had all snuck off to work at Silverstone, and they were wearing those corporate high-vis jackets emblazoned with the name of the security firm that has been prominent in the news lately. Well, it certainly appeared that a large contingent of the missing guards had indeed turned up at the Northampton circuit, as every few hundred yards there seemed to be a group of three or four of them stopping cars and pedestrians, and ushering them in another direction, and most of them were big enough so as to make any resistance futile. Never before have I seen such security, not at the Le Mans 24-Hours, not at Goodwood or even at other Silverstone events in the past. As a working journalist and trackside photographer, I was stopped all too frequently and told that I could not walk down a certain road – I have been a journalist/photographer for many years but this was a first for me, it was most puzzling indeed, a feeling also shared by many of my journalist colleagues. It seemed odd that such a high level of security was needed at a race meeting where one might have thought that the idea of a family day out was all that most folk had come to enjoy.
Podium results, Silverstone Classic, Sunday 22 July
Historic Formula Juniors (9 laps)
1. David Methley, Brabham BT6
2. Sam Wilson, Cooper T59
3. Andrew Hibberd, Lotus 22
Peter Gethin Trophy for F2 & F5000 (11 laps)
1. Simon Hadfield, Trojan 101
2. Martin Stretton, March 742
3. Neil Fowler, March 752
Woodcote Trophy for Pre-56 Sportscars (12 laps)
1. John Young/Andrew Smith, Cooper Jaguar T33
2. John Pearson/Gary Pearson, Jaguar D-type
3. Nigel Webb/Anthony Reid, Jaguar C-type
Royal Automobile Club Tourist Trophy for Historic Cars Pre-63 GT (19 laps)
1. Nick Naismith/John Young, Aston Martin DB4
2. Ben Adams, Turner Mk2
3. Wolfgang Friedrichs/David Clark, Aston Martin DP212
HGPCA pre-61 Front Engine Grand Prix Cars (9 laps)
1. Roger Wills, Lotus 16
2. Philip Walker, Lotus 16
3. Eddie McGuire, Lotus 16
Fujifilm Touring Car Trophy 1970-2000 (9 laps)
1. Rick Pearson, Nissan Primera
2. Frank Wrathall, Vauxhall Cavalier
3. Richard Hawken, Nissan Primera
Daily Express International Trophy for Grand Prix Masters (11 laps)
1. Bill Coombs, Tyrrell 009
2. Steve Hartley, Arrows A4
3. Michael Lyons, Hesketh 308E
Group C Endurance Race Cars (15 laps)
1. Gareth Evans, Mercedes C9
2. Nicolas Minassian, Lancia LC2
3. Herve Regout, Porsche 962
World Sports Car Masters (23 laps)
1. Andrew Smith/Oliver Bryant, Lola T70
2. Paul Knapfield/Martin Stretton, Ferrari 512M
3. Steve Tandy, Lola T70 Mk3b
HGPCA Pre-66 Rear Engine Grand Prix Cars (9 laps)
1. Jason Minshaw, Brabham BT4
2. John Harper, Brabham BT4
3. Rod Jolley, Cooper T45/51
Jaguar E-type Challenge (9 laps)
1. Alex Buncombe
2. Gregor Fisken
3. John Pearson
Silverstone Classic Celebrity Challenge (8 laps)
1. Kelvin Fletcher
2. Brian Johnson
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“In relationships, the primary motivator for manipulation is emotional insecurity. If I can get you to feel guilty, you will stay where I want you and do what I like. You will have sex with me, give me money, keep a roof over my head, or drive the kids where I tell you. If you feel bad enough about yourself, I will hold the power to make choices for you that serve me. We call this “love.” Or “marriage.” Yet love and marriage have nothing to do with keeping each other small; their purpose is to bestow richer life, not imprisonment. It’s not love if it hurts.”
Alan Cohen, in “Why Your Life Sucks…And What You Can Do About It
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Jose Bautista capped an inspiring month of June with another outstanding player award.
The Blue Jays slugger was named American League Player of the Month for June, and it followed on the heels of his being named Honda Player of the Month winner by the Toronto Chapter of the Baseball Writers Association of America.
Bautista, who started slowly this season, returned in June to the form that has seen him claim the major league home run crown the past two seasons, and earn three straight all-star berths, including being voted to the AL starting lineup for next week's game in Kansas City.
In an electric month of June, Bautista put up a .271 average with 14 home runs, 30 RBIs and 24 runs scored in 27 games. It was his fifth career monthly award.
The 14 homer mark set a Blue Jays' franchise record for most hit in any single month.
Bautista now leads the majors with 26 homers, is second with 63 RBIs, and is tied for fourth with 56 runs scored.
Two days ago, he also noticed a man struggling in the stands behind home plate, just above the Blue Jays dugout. Bautista was standing several hundred feet away in right field, and called time out, and ran up to an umpire in the infield to point out the disturbance.
It turned out the man was suffering a heart attack, and collapsed out of his seat. He had lost his vital signs, but a team of stadium security, medical officers, and then paramedics and firefighters, restored the man's heart beat and saved his life.
HOME RUN DERBY: Yankees second baseman Robinson Cano has asked Jose Bautista, Prince Fielder and Mark Trumbo to join him on the AL side for the All-Star home run derby.
Cano announced the invitations Monday, a day after rosters were announced for the All-Star game July 10 in Kansas City.
Dodgers outfielder Matt Kemp said Sunday he invited Carlos Beltran, Carlos Gonzalez and Giancarlo Stanton to join him on the NL side. Kemp is on the disabled list because of a strained left hamstring. He is unlikely to play in the game, but is the NL captain for the derby and wants to take part. | <urn:uuid:022be776-f80b-46fa-8ff9-626db708fb3d> | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | https://www.thestar.com/sports/baseball/2012/07/02/blue_jays_slugger_jose_bautista_named_player_of_month_joins_al_team_for_home_run_derby.html | 2017-03-27T17:13:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218189490.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212949-00413-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.977637 | 459 |
As the weather heats up and Spring/Summer time officially rolls in, it is unfortunately accompanied by an influx of new scam artists just ready to take advantage of our customers. These con artists are eager to have people open up their doors and homes to them. Now is usually when customers start reporting people posing as A-com Employees. We have already had several reports of competitors trying to gain your trust by implying they are apart of the A-Com family of businesses.
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*Our employees will always be dressed in logoed apparel.
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Be cautious of a strong breeze around you while you drink this cocktail by the pool.
- 40 ml (1 1/3 oz) gold rum
- 40 ml (1 1/3 oz) light rum
- 25 ml (7/8 oz) gin
- 10 ml (1/3 oz) amaretto
- 150 ml (5 cups) orange juice (or juice from 2 oranges)
- 1 dash of grenadine
1Fill your cocktail shaker halfway with ice cubes.Ad
2Measure and pour the gold & light rums, gin, amaretto, orange juice, and grenadine into the cocktail shaker.
3Add a few ice cubes to a highball glass.
4Place a lid on the cocktail shaker and shake well.
5Strain the contents in the highball glass.
6Use an orange slice and cut a slit into the flesh. Wedge it on the side of the glass as a garnish.Ad
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Things You'll Need
- Chopping board
- Cocktail shaker
- Short straw
Sources and Citations
- VideoJug - Original source of information, shared with permission
Categories: Rum Based Cocktails
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Español: Cómo preparar un cóctel huracán, Português: Como Fazer o Coquetel Chamado Furacão, Italiano: Come Preparare un Hurricane, Deutsch: Einen Hurricane Cocktail mixen, Français: Comment faire un cocktail Ouragan, 中文: 制作飓风鸡尾酒, Русский: приготовить коктейль Ураган
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"Those who cast the votes decide nothing. Those who count the votes decide everything." Communist Tyrant Josef Stalin
Hope from Canada
March 21, 2000 NA (Network America) e-wire
Hope from Canada
I just finished an almost three hour conversation with Brent Beleskey of Barrie, Ontario, Canada. He is waging a formidable battle on behalf of all citizens of Canada - and the United States.
His city, Barrie, Ontario - was used as the test case for unverifiable computer voting in Canada. Basically, it was the same system now in use in Columbus, Ohio --- no ballots, you just walk up to the computer screen, press your choices, and the screen says "Thank you" and goes blank. No paper trail - we're just supposed to trust that all the bleeps of energy were transmitted A-OK.
Mr. Beleskey identifies four types of unverifiable voting methods - that must never be used: 1) Internet Voting; 2) Mail in voting; 3) phone voting; 4) Computer voting.
Mr. Beleskey has informed many of the Election officials in Canada - and they agree with him. In fact, Canada still uses paper ballots counted by local citizens for provincial elections - virtually the exact opposite of the United States. In fact, Brent told me that one Election officials says that he will spend no more money investigating phone voting, internet voting, mail in voting, and computer voting. In fact, he says that investigating these methods of voting is like investigating whether or not the earth is flat - there's no need to further investigate things which have been dis-proven.
He also made the interesting point that there have never been demands from the people for computer voting - no demonstrations, no marching, no petitions. Computer voting was imposed on the people in stealth campaigns, which campaigns were given "cover" by the determined silence of the Big Media at both the local and national levels.
Mr. Beleskey has also developed powerful research showing that the site www.vote.org - which pushes phone voting and internet voting - is a gathering place for Marxist-Leninist and other Permanent Revolution movements which are the vanguard of the Revolution to impose these unverifiable voting methods on the world.
Why do they want unverifiable methods of voting? For the reason that every power-grabbing group wants it: so that they can give the people the illusion of voting, rig the result, and then tell the people that they are imposing their own agenda because "the people demanded it."
It's old fashion for tyrants and oligarchies (like the one behind Clinton) to say, "Do This or Else! We Demand it!" No.
The new, gentler way of regimenting mankind is to hold the illusion of an election, wax apoplectic over voter turn-out (the more voters who participate the more cover for your scam), and then say, "We (your leaders) are doing this because YOU, THE PEOPLE demanded it at the last election. hee, hee, hee, hee, hee, hee . . ."
Here are some words from Mr. Beleskey's International Voters Coalition Website (website and other address information near the end of the e-wire).
INTERNATIONAL VOTERS COALITION
Defence >>> Family <<< Freedom
"Standing on Guard for the Rights of Voters to Defend Their Family and Freedom by a Free and Private Vote !"
Please help us help you form the International Voters Coalition. The Coalition needs your input and your support for your own Coalition Forum!
INTERNATIONAL VOTERS COALITION (IVC) CONSTITUTION
(1) The International Voters Coalition is non-partisan, designed to be a stage for an international public forum for the integrity, transparency, audit-abilty, accountability and privacy of the vote and election process in order to maintain a free and democratic society. Liberty and justice must prevail for all.
(2) IVC maintains the paper ballot, sealed ballot box and the voters right to clearly scrutinize and witness their election process, through a hand count, must be paramount and consistent with the principals of law and the rule of law. If the banks can count billions of dollars daily, we can count paper ballots at election time. Right? Right!
(3) IVC maintains the right to a private vote . . . is a keystone to a free democratic vote. It must not be eroded in the mere name of "convenience sake". All the pain, suffering, and lives that were sacrificed for our private vote, were not for "convience sake". No one should ever feel repercussion, retaliation or intimidation, on the exposure of one's private vote. The right to a private vote means exactly that, a proven, private vote.
(4) IVC maintains the vote is paid for by the taxpayer. The voting process must be accountable and audit-able to that taxpayer and citizen, at all times.
(5) IVC maintains the legislation, rules, authorizations and regulations of the election process, must have strict clarification for fair play, in a free democratic voting process. The process, fines and penalties are to be acknowledged to the public . . . Education of the electorate to the "law of the vote" must be constantly maintained.
(6) IVC maintains the enforcement of the "law of the vote" should lay under the Criminal Code, in order for a proper deterrent, for any breach of the publics trust. The protection of the authority of the public vote and paper ballot, must be vigilantly guarded at all times.
(7) IVC maintains a challenge to anyone . . . , with the above premises in mind, to come forth to the forum of voters and announce their reasoning for a better way. Until that point in time comes, IVC stands by the above, to help maintain and promote, a true, strong and free . . . democratic vote.
(8) IVC maintains the right to vote with a paper ballot, sealed ballot box and the right to scrutineer and witness the election process, was not inherited. The right to vote exists only through the sacrifice of millions of lives, that have gone forth and continue to go forth, to preserve our rights and freedoms . . . the right to have our say in our own life and communities.
Explanation of the International Voters Coalition
It was the Eve of Remembrance Day, November 10th 1997, Barrie, Ontario,Canada, was the birthplace of the International Voters Coalition. The city of Barrie was the alleged test market, for a computerized, ballot-less election.
The right for recounts and scrutineering in the voting process were not allowed.
The Coalition was born out of the need to clarify, what some of us have taken for granted: the true rules of a fair vote, a vote that Canadians
and other freedom seeking Citizens throughout the world have fought to maintain, "Lest We Forget."
Brent M.P. Beleskey, an Investigative Researcher and Director of International Voters Coalition, was born in Barrie, Ontario, Canada.
Since November 10th 1997, Brent Beleskey has been fighting in the Ontario Courts and now throughout the world for and honest and true voting process.
Through the use of the world wide communication powers of the internet, Mr. Beleskey is attempting to obtain a universal census, on what all reasonable voters would constitute to be a free and rational, democratic election process.
One of the main objectives is to strengthen the laws of the election process, as well as have the election process guarded, and the laws enforced.
Your comments in writing are welcome, to maintain the status, of this growing public forum. Please email your concerns to firstname.lastname@example.org - website: http://www.planeteer.ca/~beleskey/
With your permission, Letters to the Public Forum will be posted on your IVC Web Site.
If you wish to be a member of the International Voters Coalition there are no fees for registering. Help the IVC grow, we need your input!
International Voters Coalitio -- c/o Brent M.P. Beleskey,
177 Bayview Drive, Unit 27
Barrie, Ontario, Canada, L4N 4Y6
Home: (705) 730-1507
Mobile: (705) 770-2384
FAX: (705) 730-1501
End of information about International Voters Coalition. End of this e-wire.
Jim Condit Jr.
Director, Citizens for a Fair Vote Count
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Let fellow citizens, opinion molders, pastors, public officials, internet news outlets, and major newsmedia outlets know -- that we will not believe the published results of elections until transparent, verifiable, honest vote counting methods are restored, i.e., paper ballots with citizen checks and balances, with the ballot counting under the control of the neighborhood registered voters in each precinct. | <urn:uuid:6ec8241b-382a-4a6b-ae50-363526e47420> | CC-MAIN-2022-05 | http://www.votefraud.org/News/2000/3/032100.html | 2022-01-25T12:04:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-05/segments/1642320304810.95/warc/CC-MAIN-20220125100035-20220125130035-00511.warc.gz | en | 0.929667 | 2,235 |
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