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We are pleased to announce the promotion of Kimberly Van Winkle to Chief Compliance Officer and Director of Operations, effective January 4, 2016. In her new role, Kimberly is responsible for monitoring and directing daily operations and regulatory compliance for all Twelve Points entities, including Twelve Points Wealth Management, Twelve Points Retirement Advisers and Twelve Points Capital.
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One of the best ways to adopt a Munchkin cat is through reputable rescue sites. Among the best-known rescue sites are Petfinder.com, AdoptaPet.com, PureBredCatRescue.org and AllPaws.comContinue Reading
Munchkin cats, which are short-legged, are not as readily available as the longer-legged, short-haired domestic cats. Since this is the case, your local animal shelter may only have a small number, if any, of this fairly new breed. By using the national websites, you can see photos online of Munchkin cats that are available for adoption in your local area, as well as nationally, of different age groups and both genders.
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Last month my kid’s cousins visited us from Italy. There was happiness all around – lots of smiles, gestures and hugging and unfortunately, blank stares. No one could understand each other! The only one in our family who speaks Italian is my husband and the cousins spoke only 5 words of English. My husband wound up translating for everyone until the conversation dwindled to just him and the cousins.
Ironically, during their visit, I was invited to learn more about Rosetta Stone language instruction and was given my choice of languages to try out. I chose Italian of course. My 11 year old swiped it as soon as I got home and has been having fun with it. He tried out his new words on his cousins and although it wasn’t a fluid conversation, it was whole lot better than nothing!
The Rosetta Stone method is immersion. There are no translation books. Instead, they use images and audio and opportunities to speak with native speakers. I was amazed at how fast it works. I learned how to say boy and girl in Swedish in less than 30 seconds.
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If I were a struggling rap artist (Big Marv) trying to sell my mixtape ("Ready to Fry: The Burnt Lumpia Chronicles") out of the trunk of my rusted-out car (it really is starting to rust, it's awesome), I'd probably try and peddle my mixtape to you like this:
Wait, where you going? OK, I know those are oldies, but they're still goodies! Wait! Hold on, don't walk away yet. I got some newer ish and its burnin' up the streets! Sick beats! Sick beats!
Not only did homedude David Lebovitz stop by the studio to give me some input on my Ube Ice Cream track, he hipped his own peeps on me over at his place. His pastry chef skillz are world-wide son! DL is a cookbook author extraordinaire! He's legit son!
OK, wait, wait, wait! Hold up a second speedy! Give one more listen. Even the Epicurious gang is up on me kid! That shorty Amy Sherman dropped some jewels about my entire mixtape! She's hip to the game homie! You should be too!
Ready to Fry: The Burnt Lumpia Chronicles is only $9.99! And I'll even throw in a free bag of frozen lumpia! It's a rap! Or should I say, it's SARAP! Turn my headphones up!
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2 Corinthians 2:14-3:5
October 10, 2015
Beginning with verse 14, I want to just begin by saying thank you to everyone who was praying for me on my trip to Africa. I had a wonderful trip and I know that you were praying for me and I really, really appreciate that.
Life is hard in Africa, particularly in that area. We were in the Congo, so if you kind of think of the map of Africa and go right to the center and then go a little bit south and towards the Atlantic Ocean, we were in Kinshasa, which is the capital of DRC, the Democratic Republic of Congo, and it's a huge city of 10 or 12 million people, and we started ministry there in 2002, with just a small beginning of a church, and today there are 19 churches there. So I was doing a Pastors Counseling Team. We were raising up another eight or so leaders to plan more churches over the next couple of years, and so it is just wonderful and encouraging to see the church doing well there, and I'll tell you what, they are growing in their faith.
There's a depth to their faith because the pastors are teaching verse by verse and chapter by chapter. Many of the people don't have Bibles, so for them, this is such a huge opportunity to be having the word of God ministry into their lives, and I'll tell you what, church for them is the highlight of the week. I mean, services are three hours long, and I’ll have no more complaints about the length of my sermons, I'll tell you that. They are three hours long, and when they come to worship, I mean, they come to worship, and it is just awesome, and also their volume, I'll tell you, you think our music is loud? Whooo! I mean, I'm behind the speakers and it is so loud that I have the interpreter next to me and I'm like cupping my hands trying to yell into his ear, and he's struggling to hear me.
But they love worship and they love it loud and they love to just enter into the presence of the Lord and I brought your greetings to them, and they sent their greetings to us, and so I have a little video. When I was teaching at the church, I said, "I want to bring your greetings home," so I took my little iPad and kind of did a video, and I had—actually I had to do a 360 because I had people sitting behind me as well. So here's a little video of them greeting us.
It's wonderful to have, and I committed to them that we are going to send them 800 French Bibles. Amen. We're going to send them 800 French Bibles, and 25 study Bibles for their pastors, and so we'll be figuring out how we're going to do that, but we're going to do it, and so I'm excited, glad that I went, and, of course, we'll have more stories as we go a bit, but very, very wonderful trip and looking forward to just seeing what God is doing there in the future. It's just amazing what he's done so far.
Let's open our Bibles to Second Corinthians, Chapter 2. We're going to begin with verse 14. The title of our message this morning is Triumphant Believers. What God would have for us. Let's pray.
All right, this is Second Corinthians. Actually, it's his third letter. We don't have the first one. We just finished studying First Corinthians, and this is a follow-up to it written maybe a year or a year and a half afterward. If you remember as we were going through First Corinthians that it's a book of correction, and that is because there was a lot of spiritual immaturity in that church, and so he brings one chapter after the other, words of correction to encourage them to receive this and to be transformed to bring about a spiritual maturity into their lives.
Now, some, when they got that letter, some responded by receiving that word of correction and taking those words to heart and to bring about those changes that he said that needed to be brought. Others, however, did not receive it so well and, in fact, essentially threw Paul under the bus questioning his authority as an apostle of Christ, essentially saying, "Who do you think you are?" You know, it takes a certain degree of maturity to receive a word of correction, but that word of correction is the very thing that we need to bring more maturity.
If you can receive a word of correction, if you're teachable of heart, you can become more mature, but it's the one who cannot receive correction at all who will always remain immature. They refuse to receive a word of correction. Now this is good for us to really consider, because frankly, the word of God is filled with corrections for all of us. We all need that word of God to change our lives and to bring that word of correction.
How do you respond to it? I think there are some who respond to God's word of correction, you know, and adjusting our course. We respond with an open heart. God, your word is wonderful. Your wisdom is high. Your heart is to bless my life, and when you bring a word of correction, even a word of discipline, I know that you're doing it out of love for me. I walk in it, God. Speak into my life. Now that's going to bring greater and greater maturity into your life.
But other people are absolutely unteachable. “Now I'll just figure this thing out. Don't tell me what to do,” and those are the ones that never, never change. So it's important for us that we look at our own lives and make it personal. Here’s a great Scripture in Proverbs 27:6. "Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but deceitful are the kisses of an enemy." You know today, when we—well, of course, we don't really send letters, per se, we send emails. When we send an email, we can pretty much get a response pretty quickly to that. We know right away how they responded. When Paul sent that First Corinthians letter that we just finished studying, he had it hand delivered, probably by Titus, but he had to wait many months before he knew how they responded. He knew that he wrote a strong letter. He knew it was the very thing they needed, but he was very anxious to know how they would receive it.
Now, finally after many months, Paul got news that there were some who received it well. He rejoiced about that, but then he heard others were responding by questioning his authority as an apostle, so he writes this letter. This is Second Corinthians, and this letter, he explains the Gospel with great power and great clarity. So we're going to see an insight into the Gospel here that's very wonderful.
He establishes his authority and his calling with great power. He refutes them strongly, but he also gets very personal with them. This is one of the most personal, intimate letters. Paul opens his heart. He bears his heart to them, because he loves them, and in fact, you get a sense of that in verse 4, so Second Corinthians 2, verse 4, we get a sense of the personal heart of Paul for them. He says, "It was out of much affliction and anguish of heart that I wrote to you" that First Corinthians letter. "It was with many tears, not that you should be made sorrowful, but that you should know the love that I have especially for you. Hey, when I wrote that letter, I knew it was strong, but I wrote it out of anguish of soul and tears in my eyes because I love you so much. It's kind of like your mom saying this hurts me more than it hurts you, sort of thing. But he means it. "My heart is for you."
Now the contexts of the verses that we're going to look at today is this. Paul was anxious to hear word. What did they say? How did they respond to it? So he had arranged for Titus to meet him in Trelas, the city on the western seaport of the area we call Turkey, but he wasn’t there. And so he's eager to hear the news, so he moves on to Macedonia. He finally does meet up with him there, but while he’s waiting, he's reflecting on his life, his ministry and on his faith, and that’s where we get great insight.
I. God Always Leads Us in His Triumph
So let's begin. Second Corinthians, Chapter 2. let's actually begin in verse 13. Kind of runs into it better. I had no rest for my spirit not finding Titus, my brother, but taking my leave of them, I went on to Macedonia, but thanks be to God, and here's his great insight into his own heart and his own faith. But thanks be to God who always leads us in his triumph in Christ, and manifests through us the sweet aroma of the knowledge of him in every place for we are a fragrance of Christ, through God, among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing. To the one, an aroma from death to death. To the other, an aroma from life to life. And who's adequate for these things? We are not like many peddling the word of God, but as from sincerity, as from God, we're speaking Christ in the sight of God.
Chapter 3, verse 1. Are we beginning to commend ourselves again, or do we need, as some, letters of commendation to you or from you? Hey, you are our letter written in our hearts, known and read by all men. Being manifested—now listen to this phrase. I really like this phrase. Being manifested, that you are a letter of Christ, cared for by us, written not with ink, but with the spirit of the living God. Not on tablets of stone, but on tablets of human hearts, and such confidence we have through Christ before God. Not that we are adequate in ourselves. To consider anything else coming from ourselves, our adequacy, our sufficiency is from God. These are great verses. Really helpful. Insight into faith, and it strengthens us when we consider it.
One of the things we need to grasp right away is in verse 14. “God always leads us in his triumph,” he said. This is his faith. This is the insight that's helpful to build our faith. What does it mean to always be led in God's triumph? Notice he says it's God's triumph. It's his victory. It' s his triumph. In other words, he's not suggesting here that the Christian is filled with personal triumph so that he can boast of his personal accomplishments. He's not saying that the Christian always has such wonderful things happening in his life that his football team always wins. We know that's not the case. We know that's not the case.
Or, you know, the Christian, he always gets that promotion. Everything, everything always goes his way. That's not the case. That's not what he means by this, and it also doesn’t mean that the Christian's free from trouble or difficulty. Oh, Paul encountered more difficulty and trouble than just about anybody I know.
A. God is the One who is leading
In fact, we're going to have insight into that in the chapters to come. What we need to understand what this means, so what is he saying? First of all, he's saying, "God is the one who's leading." Notice this. This is the work that God does. "I thank my God," he says, "because he always leads in the triumph of Christ."
Now notice there’s three parts. First, that God leads. Second, that He leads in his triumph. Now this is important. There's an aspect of God's sovereign hand which is at work in our lives in such a way that He orders our steps. Do you believe that God orders the steps of your life? See, this is faith. This is the substance of real faith. Not theoretical faith, faith that's walked out in the daily aspect of life. Do you believe that God orders the steps of your life?
Let me give a verse. Psalm 37, verses 23 and 24. "The steps of a righteous man are ordered by the Lord, and he delights in [00:13:43] though he fall, he will not be utterly cast down for the Lord upholds him with his hand." Great verse. It's substance of faith. Paul absolutely believed and understood that God ordered him. See, mature faith believes that God does order our steps and that that faith and looks—he looks for that divine appointment—those arrangements that God makes, because this is trusting that God orders our way.
You know, this last trip to Africa, I really sensed that God was ordering my steps, arranging divine appointments. It just seemed like every leg, every part of the journey, you could just see God making his arrangement. I left, it was super early on that Thursday morning, and we got up at whatever, 3:30 in the morning, and got to the airport and I'm having breakfast at the airport, and I hear this voice behind me. I recognize that voice, and I turned around and hey, it's Jeremy, one of our drummers. "What are you doing?" 'Oh, I'm going on a mission’s trip, blah, blah, blah. Fine, good connection.
Then in Washington, D.C., and I'm sitting there. I found a little station where people can plug in their laptops, and so I plugged in, trying to charge up and this guy comes over with his little girl. A little six-year-old girl, and he puts the girl literally in the seat right next to me, even though there were other seats. He put her literally right next to me, and then said to his little girl, "Now don't you move," and he walked away, and I thought, "Did he just leave a six-year-old girl in an airport?" And immediately, you have to sense God's doing something here. This is a God arrangement.
And off he walked. So I said to her, “What’s your name?” She didn’t speak to me, which was good. “How old are you?” She didn’t speak to me. “I notice you have a guitar, an electric guitar,” and I said, “Do you play the guitar?” She handed me the guitar and now we have something. So I said, “Let me see if I can tune it for you,” and it was terrible. Then she said to me, “Can you teach me how to play that?”
Now we have a friend. I said, “Well, I don’t know. Let me try.” So I tuned it up and I kind of showed her a few things and—here’s a picture of her right here. Finally, I said, “What is your name?” “Faith.” “Humm,’ I said. So I’m playing a little bit and she starts singing with me, and I said, “You making that up?” She said, “Yeah, I can make up songs.” I said, “Well, make up a song. Just sing. Sing whatever you want and I’ll just figure out what you’re doing and I’ll play with you.” So she started singing this song, and then finally I said, “You know what?” He handed me my phone. "You hold that and record this." I have this beautiful recording of her singing this song, and the last words she said as she was singing, was, "Thank you for letting me do this with you." Oh, you just won my heart. Her dad finally came back. She said, '"Dad, meet my friend." I gave him my email address and actually, she was on her way to Liberia where her mother lives, and she was going to be with her mother, so they were on the same flight with me to Brussels, so I got to talk with her on the flight, and then I said, "Let's all—I’ll buy you breakfast. Let's have breakfast." And I really sensed that God just put her there, either to protect her, to encourage her, but to show me also that he orders my way.
B. God gives His triumph
Then in Africa, on and on. We saw these different ways that God was moving and it was beautiful to see because there it's very easy to see. On the way back, I was in Washington, D.C. on the way back, and I was looking for a place to charge my laptop so I'm kind of looking around, and someone says, "Oh, there's a charging thing over here." "Oh, okay." I came over there and a guy says, 'Hi, Pastor." I said, "How do you know me?" He said, 'Well, whenever I go to Portland to visit my daughter, I go to your church. I said, "Well, that's amazing. Wonderful.” I said, “What do you do? Where do you come from?" "Africa." That is just amazing. God has just knitted us together in a beautiful way, over and over you see the hand of God leads us. He orders our way. The one who believes that will look for it. Now, he also says that God leads us in his triumph. God gives us his triumph. It doesn't mean that he leads in such a way that we never encounter trouble—as I said, Paul encountered more troubles than most people could imagine.
In fact, Jesus himself said that we'd have trouble. Jesus said, "In this world you will have tribulation, but take courage. I will overcome the world. He's acknowledging—listen, this is a dark and evil and broken world, and you live in it. Take courage, though, because I have overcome the world.” See, have faith in the midst of your troubles. Have faith in the midst of your troubles. Faith is your victory. When your eyes are always looking to him because he orders your steps, and He brings you through the trouble into his victory. Faith is victory because you are looking unto him who is your favor, who is your help, who is the one who loves your soul.
You know, so many people get beaten down in life, and you really see that in Africa. It's almost just a natural state of being because there's so much difficulty. Everything is hard. Just the basic, element things of just getting through your day is always a struggle, and it's easy to just see it in their eyes and in their spirit. They're just beaten down, and many people have this in life. They're just beaten down. So many discouragements, so many things, so many things that just happen that they're just beaten down, and they're discouraged, depressed and in despair. Jesus said, "Now listen, I know this is the condition of the world. I'm saying to you to take courage. I've overcome the world. Look unto me. Fix your eyes unto me. Faith is your victory. When your countenance is lifted up, when your heart is lifted up, when your faith is strengthened, when you look unto him and know that he orders your way, faith is your victory. Let me give you a verse. First John, Chapter 5, verse 4. "Whatever is born of God overcomes the world," and this is the victory that has overcome the world. Our faith. This is the victory that has overcome the world. Our faith.
Let's turn in our Bibles to Hebrews, Chapter 11. I wonder—as we turn there, this is the famous chapter which we would call the hall of faith because of the ones that he highlights here in this chapter. Men and women who have demonstrated tremendous faith. But I want you to see something with me. We're going to begin in verse 32. Let's just read through these verses and see something interesting.
What more shall I say? Time would fail me if I tell of Gideon, Barak, Samson, Jephthah, David, Samuel and the prophets who by faith conquered kingdoms, performed acts of righteousness, obtained promises, shut the mouths of lions, quenched the power of fires, escaped the edge of the sword, for weakness were made strong, became mighty in war, put foreign armies to flight, women received back their dead by resurrection, others were tortured, not accepting their release in order that they might obtain a better resurrection. Others, though, would experience mockings, scourges, arrests, chains, imprisonment, stoned, they were sawed in two, they were tempted, they were put to death with the sword, they went about in sheepskin, goatskins, destitute, afflicted, ill-treated, men of whom the world is not worthy, wandering about in deserts, mountains and caves and holes in the ground.
All of these. All of these gained approval through their faith, but did not receive what was promised. Not yet. Why? Because we also will obtain it and we will obtain it together in a beautiful way. “God has provided something better for us,” he says.
But apart from us, they should not be made perfect. They will enter into this glorious aspect of the new Heaven and the new earth together. Beautiful picture. But notice something about this hall of faith. They all lived in their faith. Some of them died in their faith. Some of them suffered in their faith. But they were all victorious in their faith. We are victorious when we understand by faith that God is for us and that nothing can separate us from the love of God. No tribulations. No difficulty. Not even death can separate us from the love of God.
Romans 8:31. What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us? How about Romans 8, verses 37 to 39? Very famous verses. In all of these things, we overwhelmingly conquer. Victorious, in other words. Victorious overwhelmingly, through Him who loved us, for I am convinced, I am persuaded, this I know. Nothing shall be able to separate us from the love of God which is found in Christ Jesus, our Lord. Now this is key. Because the question in many people's minds is this. Why is it, then, that God in his great love does not keep us from troubles?
For many this seems inconsistent. It's difficult for them to compute in their minds. "You say you love me, and yet I go through troubles. I go through trials, I go through difficulties, and yet you say you love me.” In their minds, you see, they equate the two together, and they evaluate whether or not God loves them according to whether or not they have difficulties. The judgment in their minds of God's love is whether or not they have trials, and whether they have troubles. "If you loved me God, I would not have troubles. If you loved me, I would not have trials." And so they use this. They're convinced that a God that's good should not allow evil to exist. There is a place where evil does not exist. It's called Heaven. This is not Heaven, this is earth.
This is the place where God has made man. He's made man with the words of truth to freely receive him or to freely reject him. And if man rejects God, what are they left with? They're left with the nature of man, and all the evil thereof. This world is filled with those who have rejected him, and thus this world is dark and troublesome, and filled with many whose hearts are hard.
All the corruption that is in this world. You go to a place like this, and you see it, it's a tragedy, all the suffering because of corruption. That's really what it is. Many, many parts of the world, many suffer because of those who are above them who are corrupt. Jesus gave a parable to explain with this parable very well. He said, "The kingdom of Heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field. But while his men were sleeping, the enemy came and sowed taro amongst the seed, this poisonous seed of weeds, sown amongst the wheat, and as they began to grow up, his workers came to him and said, "Sir, did you not plant good seed in the earth? An enemy has come and now there's taro growing up amongst the wheat. Shall we go and pluck them out? He said, "No. No, otherwise you might damage the wheat. Leave them be. The wheat and the taro will grow up together until the harvest, and then they will be separated, and He's giving us this picture.
Now, the good and the evil will grow up together in this world, but they will be separated at the end of the age. In other words, God did not promise to keep us from troubles, but He did promise to be with us in those troubles. I will walk with you. I will never forsake you. See, in Hebrews 13, verses 5 to 6, He himself has said, "I will never leave you, I will never forsake you." Get this here. So that we confidently say, "The Lord is my helper, I will not be afraid. What can man do to me? What can man do to me?” We say this confidently. What does it mean confidently? It means faith, strong faith, keep courage, Jesus said, "I have overcome the world." This we said confidently, "The Lord is my helper. I will not be afraid." I love David, "Though a war rise up against me, in spite of this, I will be confident. There's a strength of faith in it.
II. We are the Fragrance of Christ
Now, let's go back to Second Corinthians, Chapter 2. Notice the next thing he says, "We are in the fragrance of Christ. In the midst of all of this, God manifests through us the sweet aroma of the knowledge of him in every place. In other words, people should smell something in your character that's sweet and pleasant. He's using the sense of smell here to describe the nature of a person's character. That's good because that's a good analogy.
A. How you smell matters
You know, when you smell something you don't see, you're just smelling. Same with character. You can't see what's inside. You know, I can only see the outside of you. You can only see the outside of me. The rest of it we have to smell, you might say. Does character have smell? Oh, yes, yes. Character has smell. Using an analogy, of course, but there's an old Southern expression. My family's from the South so I like to take hold of Southern expressions. You know, if there's somebody that doesn't have something—there’s something wrong in their character, you can just sense that there's something wrong about that person. What do you say? You say, "There's a skunk in the woodpile. Somewhere there's a skunk in the woodpile [00:29:23]. You would say, "Well, I can't put my finger on it, but I know there's something wrong with that person's character."
By the way, the opposite should be true in the Christian's life. Wouldn't it be a tragedy, wouldn't it be an absolute tragedy if someone said in regards to a believer, "I don't know what's going on with that person, but there's a skunk in the woodpile." That should not be. That should not be because knowing we are manifesting the sweet aroma of Christ. You know what should be said about the believer? "There's something about you. I don't know. I can't exactly put my finger on it, but there's something about you that is very pleasant. Whatever you have, I want it, because there's something that's very pleasant about you. I like being with you." This should be a character that smells sweet and pleasant. In other words, we can say it this way. How you smell matters. You know, smell—it is a very powerful sense. We often associate memories to important events to smells that were part of them.
For example, for many, many years when I smelled cigarette smoke, it would remind me of my father, and, you know, early, early—early, early morning we’d get up to go pick berries, and my dad would smoke a cigarette in the car as we’re driving to go pick berries, and listening to country western music. So I associate that with my dad. I smell smoke, my dad. Listening to country western music, and then I really think of my dad. You see, what happens is.
You know, for example, for many, many years, when I smelled cigarette smoke, I thought immediately of my father, and early, early--early, early morning, we would get up to go pick berries and, you know, my dad would smoke a cigarette in the car as we're driving to go pick berries, and this is in the county listening to country western music, so I associate that with my dad. I smell smoke--my dad, listening to country western music, then I really think of my dad.
You see, what happens is you smell like what you are around. You start to take on the smells of what you are around. For example, if you are outside in the fresh air and then you come inside, someone can easily say to you, "Oh, you've been outside. You smell like fresh air." Fresh air has a smell. Cut grass, it has a smell, or "You were just mowing the grass." It has a distinct smell. When I was in the restaurant business, I would come home from work every day, and I had a smell on me which is not a great way to come home. But you pick up the smells from what you are around. When I was in Africa, there was a smell. Africa smells. Africa smelled like smoke. The smoke of cooking fires. You know, with troubles, they move. Many people have to cook on a cooking fire, and so I came home and a couple of days later, a neighbor was burning leaves, and it was kind of coming through our ventilation system here, and I was going around like, sniff, sniff, sniff--that's Africa. That smells like Africa. We pick up the smells. Now, here's the point. The aroma of Christ comes from the transformation of character, because of his presence in your life. He transforms you. When you are drawing near to him, when you're with him, his character becomes yours. He begins to smell on you.
Here's a great verse for it. Acts 4, verse 13. He says, "Now, they observed the confidence of Peter and John, and understood that they were uneducated and untrained men. They were amazed at this. And then they began to recognize them as having been with Jesus." See, I love this verse. But these are uneducated and untrained men, but look at their confidence. Look at their mood. In other words, look at the Holy Spirit on them. Ah, they were with Jesus. They were with Jesus. They begin to take on the aroma because they were with Jesus.
This is the key, the aroma of the character comes from what happens in the inner man. In the inner man. I can't see your inner man, but I can smell it. We can't see the inner man, but we can smell it. We have the sense of it. He is using it as an analogy. We do have a sense of it. It comes from Christ transforming us, in the inner man. You welcome him into the inner man. He begins to work. He changes death into life.
See, when you open the door of your heart, he is using the analogy of a house. Jesus said, "Behold I stand at the door and knock," and the idea is, it's like your house. You open the door. "If anyone hears my voice and opens the door, I will come in, and we will eat together." It's a great analogy because actually, all houses—your house, my house, all houses have a smell. You may not like it, but it has a smell, and those smells are caused by, of course, whatever is going on in the house.
It reminds me of—a number of years ago when we were living in Aloha, and I came home one day and I thought, I smell something in the house, and I said to Deb, 'Do you smell something?" "No, not really." I'm sure I smell something. I get up the next morning and it's like—sniff, sniff, sniff—I smell something. "No, I don't think so." It's hard to smell it when you're living in it. You know what I'm saying? When you're living in it, it's hard to smell it. And then when I came home that night from work and, you know, coming from the outside, sniff, sniff, sniff. There's something in this house.
Now the problem is that we had some guests that were coming over for dinner, like the next night, and so I get up the next morning and I thought, okay, there's got to be something going on. So finally I decided I'm going to call our neighbor and ask him to come over here and smell our house. So I called him, so I called Dean and said, "Hey, Dean, can you come over, being my neighbor, and smell my house because I think there's a smell but I can't tell, but you've got a fresh nose. He said, "Sure. What are neighbors for?" So he comes over, he walks in the door, and he goes—sniff, sniff, sniff—oh, yeah. Oh yeah. I said, "Well, what do you think it is?" "Something’s dead." What? And so, I—you know what that is? That is what it is. Something's dead. We've got guests coming for dinner. That kind of thing makes you lose your appetite.
Here's the thing that's interesting. You can't add air freshener to the smell of death. Can you imagine? What would it smell like? You've got the smell of death and then you add air freshener to it. You know what? It doesn't help it at all. But isn't that a picture of something? We open the door. We let him in. There's death here. He's the resurrection. He's the life. He is going to fix that. He transforms it.
So, of course, I had to get rid of the smell. I figured that something crawled underneath the house and died. So I went outside and I opened the vent. Sure enough, I've got to go in there. Someone is going to have to go in there. So I got my hazmat suit on, got my gloves, got my mask and the whole thing, and I had to—and sure enough, it was a possum. You know, they go away from everything to go and find a place privately to die. Well, they went to the farthest reaches of the end of our house and I had to climb and crawl all the way back there to pick it up and put it in this bag and drag it all the way back out. But death was and it takes no time at all before the house smelled fresh again with life.
See, when you open the door of your heart and say, "Lord, come into my life," there has to be a trust. There has to be a trust that says, "God, if you see anything here that's dead, touch it, transform it." He'll make your character fresh, new, alive again. There's a lot of things in our lives that don't smell so good. See, this is what I'm saying. Back to Corinthians Chapter 2, "We are an aroma." He says, "But be a fragrance unto God." God is the ideal, the sense of that character is unto God. It's glory to him. We are the fragrance of Christ through God. Now, in the Old Testament, they had fragrant offerings that were given to the Lord, and these were to represent something. It represented the heart of love, the heart of worship, the heart of prayers, like incense of praise, and then you say, "Well, Jesus is that sweet aroma." That's how we receive it.
B. Be a fragrance to God
Notice in Ephesians 5, verses 1 to 2. Walk in love just as Christ also loved you and gave himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma. Now he points out here in this chapter that not everybody appreciates the aroma of Christ. For some, it's the smell from death to death. In other words, it's a reminder of their death. It's something they would prefer to ignore. People—this may be shocking for you to hear it. Not everybody appreciates the Gospel of Jesus Christ. Some people are offended at it.
I remember when I was going through Bible School and working at the restaurant business in the day-to-day world, and people, as soon as they found out who I was, you know, a Christian going to school to become a pastor, they would take offense at it. What did I do to you? I did nothing. I'm just me, and you're offended by me? What did I do to you? I reminded them. They don't want to be reminded of God. They don't want to be reminded of who they are. But others, when they see your life, they recognize, ahh, there's something that smells good. That gives glory unto God.
Matthew 5:16. Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works and that glorifies your Father which is in Heaven. Ahh, there’s something right and good. Now notice what he says in verse 5. “See, our sufficiency is from God. Not that we are adequate in ourselves, to consider anything that’s coming from ourselves. Our adequacy is from God. Our sufficiency. Notice what he says in verse 4. And such confidence we have in this, such confidence we have. You know the pride of the American culture is self-sufficient. Self-sufficiency. I am an American. I am self-sufficient. I am a self-made American man. The person who is self-sufficient, I suggest, has cut themselves off from the help that God provides. The one who is self-sufficient has limited himself.
Paul has learned that there’s no value in self-sufficient. He needs God. Our adequacy is not in ourselves. I need God. I need God to order my life. I need God to surround me with his help. I need God’s favor. He has learned that he needs God. We need God. What’s our part, then? What’s our part? I like what he says in verse 17. As for sincerity, that’s our heart. That’s our part. It’s sincerity. You know what made David a powerful leader and a great warrior? What made David a powerful leader and a great warrior? He was a worshipper. His heart was after God. He was a worshipper. He was a young man, David, watching the sheep, playing his harp. Worshipping. Sincerely. Sincerely. Writing Psalms. Why was he writing Psalms? Did he have in his mind, you know, these are good. Someday I should get a publisher. No, no, no. God, I want you to have my heart. The Lord is my shepherd, I shall not want. He maketh me to lie down in green pastures. He leadeth me by still waters. He restores my soul. God, let me sing out. Let me sing out to your heart. There’s something right about that heart. Psalm 71, verse 5. You are my hope, oh, Lord God. You are my confidence from my youth. I know that my God is for me, and I want to honor you. I want to worship you. I want your life to be mine. Let’s pray.
- Sermon Notes
2 Corinthians 2:14-3:5
This letter which we call 2 Corinthians is actually Paul’s third letter to the church in Corinth. We do not have the first. This letter we are now studying was written only about a year after 1 Corinthians.
The letter that Paul had just written was a letter of correction. There was a lot of spiritual immaturity in that church and he brought correction in one point after another. Some received that correction very well, but others took offense and essentially “threw Paul under the bus,” questioning his authority as an apostle of Christ.
It takes a certain degree of maturity to receive a word of correction, but that word of correction is the very thing that brings even more maturity. The one who is immature can’t receive correction at all – which means they will always stay immature.
“Faithful are the wounds of a friend, but deceitful are the kisses of an enemy.” Proverbs 27:6
Today, we don’t really send a letter as much as simply sending an email; and we usually get a response fairly quickly. When Paul sent 1 Corinthians, it was hand delivered, probably by Titus, and Paul had to wait many months to know how they responded. He knew he wrote a strong letter, the very thing they needed, but was anxious to hear how they received it.
When Paul heard the news that there were many who received it well, he rejoiced; but he also heard that others responded by questioning his authority as an apostle. So he writes another letter. In this letter he explains the gospel with great power and clarity. He establishes the authority of his calling with great power, but he also becomes very personal with them. In fact, this is one of the most personal of all of Paul’s letters.
You get a sense of that in verse 4; “For out of much affliction and anguish of heart I wrote to you with many tears… that you might know the love which I have especially for you.” In other words, Paul is saying that his letter of correction was painful for him to write.
The context of our verses today is that Paul came to Troas, hoping to find Titus and receive some news from the church at Corinth. But Titus wasn’t there and so Paul, “finding no rest for his spirit,” went on to Macedonia which is on the way to Corinth.
It’s here that Paul, reflecting on his life and ministry, gives us an insight into his faith. Paul shows us a faith that is victorious. It’s here we understand how Paul thinks; how he processes life. It’s a great opportunity for our faith to be strengthened as well.
I. God Always Leads Us in His Triumph
- What does it mean to always be led in God’s triumph? Notice that he says, “God’s triumph.” In other words, Paul is not suggesting that the Christian is filled with personal triumphs so that he can boast in his personal accomplishments.
- It also doesn’t mean that the Christian is free from trouble or difficulty. Paul encountered more difficulty and trouble than just about anyone I know.
- We need to understand this because it has everything to do with how we live out our faith.
A. God is the One who is leading
- This is a work that God does. Give thanks to God because He always leads us in His triumph in Christ.
- There are two parts to this. First, that God leads; and secondly, God leads in His triumph.
- There is an aspect of God’s sovereign hand at work as He orders the steps of our lives.
Psalm 37:23-24, The steps of a righteous man are ordered by the Lord, and He delights in his way. Though he fall, he will not be utterly cast down; for the Lord upholds him with His hand.
- Mature faith believes that God orders our steps and looks for those divine appointments that He arranges for us.
Illus – On this trip to Africa I sensed that God was ordering my steps and arranging divine appointments. I was having a quick bite at the Portland airport and heard the familiar voice of Jeramy, one of our drummers. Then, in Washington DC a father set his six-year-old daughter right next to me and walked away. And on and on. Coming back through DC I was looking for an outlet to charge my computer and someone said, “Hi Pastor.” “How do you know me?” I asked. “Whenever we’re in Portland we come to your church.” What a blessed conversation we had.
B. God gives His triumph
- He leads us in His triumph. This does not mean that He leads us in such a way that we never encounter trouble. Paul encountered many troubles, more than most people could imagine.
- Jesus said, “In the world you will have tribulation, but take courage; I have overcome the world.”
- “Take courage,” Jesus said. In other words, have faith in the midst of your troubles. Faith is your victory because your eyes are always looking to Him to order your steps and bring you through the trouble into His victory.
1 John 5:4, Whatever is born of God overcomes the world; and this is the victory that is overcome the world – our faith.
Hebrews 11:32-40 The Hall of faith; not all lived, but all were victorious.
- We are victorious when we understand by faith that God is for us and that nothing can separate us from the love of God.
Romans 8:31, What then shall we say to these things? If God is for us, who can be against us?
Romans 8:37-39, In all these things we overwhelmingly conquer through Him who loved us. For I am convinced… that nothing shall be able to separate us from the love of God, which is in Christ Jesus our Lord.
- The question in many people’s minds, however, is why God, in His great love, doesn’t keep us from troubles. For many, it seems inconsistent, “You say you love me, and yet I go through troubles and trials and difficulties.”
- They are convinced that a God that is good should not allow evil to exist. There is such a place and it’s called heaven, but this is earth where God has made man with a will to freely choose to follow Him or reject Him.
Illus – Jesus gave a parable that the kingdom of heaven may be compared to a man who sowed good seed in his field, but while his men were sleeping, his enemy came and sowed tares among the wheat… the wheat and the tares will grow up together until the harvest…
- God did not promise to keep us from troubles, but He did promise to be with us in them.
Hebrews 13:5-6, He Himself has said, “I will never leave you, nor will I ever forsake you.” So that we confidently say, “The Lord is my helper, I will not be afraid. What can man do to me?”
II. We are the Fragrance of Christ
- God manifests through us the sweet aroma of the knowledge of Him in every place, Paul said.
- In other words, people should smell something in our character that is sweet and pleasant.
- Does character have a smell? Sure. There’s an old southern expression that captures the opposite of this; “There’s a skunk in the wood pile somewhere.” In other words, you may not be able to put your finger on it, but you just know there’s something wrong about that person’s character.
- The opposite should be true in our lives. There should be something that people can smell in our character that’s good and right. “There’s something very pleasant about your character, I like being with you,” should be what people think about you.
A. How you smell matters
- Smell is a very powerful sense. We often associate memories and important events to those smells that were part of them.
- For many years, I associated the smell of cigarettes to my dad; especially early mornings on our way to pick berries.
Illus – You smell like what you are around. Fresh air has a distinct smell; cut grass certainly does. When I worked in the restaurant I always came home with a distinct smell on my clothes. Africa had the steady smell of smoke from cooking fires. When I came home, a neighbor was burning leaves and I was immediately reminded of being in Africa.
- Having the aroma of Christ comes from the transformation of character that comes from His presence in your life.
Acts 4:13, Now as they observed the confidence of Peter and John and understood that they were uneducated and untrained men, they were amazed, and began to recognize them as having been with Jesus.
- That is the key. The aroma of your character comes from what happens in the inner man. That’s where Christ transforms death into life.
Illus – When you open the door of your heart, you’re inviting Christ into the most personal part of your life. That’s where the smell of your character comes from. Will you let the Lord do something about that?
When we were living in Aloha I thought I smelled something strange in the house, but couldn’t be sure. Day after day I kept wondering if there was something there. We had guests coming for dinner and I had to know…
- You can’t just add air freshener to the smell of death. Trust Him; He is the resurrection and the life. He transforms that which is dead into life.
B. Be a fragrance to God
- We are the fragrance of Christ to God, Paul said. In the Old Testament fragrant offerings were given to the Lord to represent the love, the worship, and the prayers of the people.
Ephesians 5:1-2, Walk in love, just as Christ also loved you and gave Himself up for us, an offering and a sacrifice to God as a fragrant aroma.
- Paul also points out, however, that not everyone appreciates the aroma of Christ. To them it’s a reminder of their death which they would prefer to ignore.
- To others, when they see your life, they recognize that God is doing something in you…
Matthew 5:16, “Let your light shine before men in such a way that they may see your good works and glorify your Father who is in heaven.”
C. Our sufficiency is from God
- Verse 16 – who is adequate for these things?
- Paul goes on to say that his confidence is in Christ. The pride of the American culture is to be self-sufficient, but the person who is self-sufficient has cut themselves off from the help God provides.
- Paul has learned that there is no value in being self-sufficient, he needs God and so do we.
- Our part is sincerity. You know what made David a powerful leader and a great warrior?
- He was a worshiper. As a young man David worshiped as he watched the sheep. He played his harp, he wrote Psalms and he did it because of his heart after God.
Psalm 71:5, For You are my hope; O Lord God, You are my confidence from my youth.
2 Corinthians 2:14-3:5 NASB
14 But thanks be to God, who always leads us in triumph in Christ, and manifests through us the sweet aroma of the knowledge of Him in every place. 15 For we are a fragrance of Christ to God among those who are being saved and among those who are perishing; 16 to the one an aroma from death to death, to the other an aroma from life to life. And who is adequate for these things? 17 For we are not like many, peddling the word of God, but as from sincerity, but as from God, we speak in Christ in the sight of God.
1 Are we beginning to commend ourselves again? Or do we need, as some, letters of commendation to you or from you? 2 You are our letter, written in our hearts, known and read by all men; 3 being manifested that you are a letter of Christ, cared for by us, written not with ink but with the Spirit of the living God, not on tablets of stone but on tablets of human hearts. 4 Such confidence we have through Christ toward God. 5 Not that we are adequate in ourselves to consider anything as coming from ourselves, but our adequacy is from God,
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“In fact, Facebook, Twitter, Microsoft and Google all agreed to collaborate this past December on a new initiative to use digital fingerprinting to automatically delete previously flagged terroristic propaganda”, Forbes writes.
“Under this program, once a human reviewer has identified a particular image or video as banned terrorism content, its digital signature will be added to this shared database and all future reposts to any of the four platforms will automatically be flagged and deleted”.
Now it is questioned whether this technology could be applied to prevent harassment and offensive videos/comments on social media sites, such as Facebook and Twitter. However, it is difficult for a machine to learn from previously used offensive language, as the human language is so diverse, which would risk that a large part would “slip through the cracks”.
“This is where deep learning offers such immense potential in the war against hate speech. In fact, Alphabet’s Jigsaw (formerly Google Ideas) has already been working on this very issue, collaborating with the New York Times to acquire more than 17 million reader comments that it screened using human reviewers and used as the input to a TensorFlow model”, Forbes writes.
This meas that in theory, we now have many tools out there that could work towards preventing cyber abuse, the question is when social media companies will start implementing it in the fight against online discrimination.
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Norm Urmy, suffering from a bad case of work-a-holism, was baited into starting guitar lessons at age 52 to “get a life”!
After becoming modestly competent a few years later, he decided to start a rock ‘n roll band, and Soul Incision was born! Recruiting the band’s members became a divinely controlled process as one member after another mysteriously appeared and agreed to join the group.
Soul Incision is Norm’s only musical experience (not counting Tuba in 5th grade) and has been one of his joys in life. Alas, arthritis in his hands has recently forced him to retire as “lead guitarist”; but, not willing to give up active participation in the band, he’s taken on the role of band manager. Before Soul Incision became the center of his working life, for 25 years, Norm was CEO of the Vanderbilt Hospitals & Clinics and later Executive Vice President for Clinical Affairs at Vanderbilt University Medical Center.
Deb earned her diploma as a registered nurse in 1973 from Kentucky Baptist Hospital
School of Nursing in Louisville, KY. She later pursued various undergraduate interests
including writing, music and business at the University of Louisville and Belmont
University in Nashville.
In the years between completing school and her move to Nashville in 1984 Deb toured with a number of regional bands including groups such as Gold Rush, Relayer and The Dark Horse Band.
A self professed adrenalin junkie, she has jumped from airplanes, worked as a trauma nurse with Emergency Medical Service teams training paramedics at the University of Louisville and Metro Nashville Emergency Medical Services, and has been a flight nurse with Vanderbilt LifeFlight. She goes to sleep at night with the same thought playing in her head, “I LOVE MY LIFE”!
Carol has studied and performed a wide variety of styles including classical, gospel, country, rock, and
jazz. Although her performance opportunities began at age 6, she received her formal training through
private instructors and high school ensembles including band (flute and French horn) and chorus. She
continued her musical studies at the university level while acquiring her Bachelor of Music Education
Carol has enjoyed organizing and instructing in areas of children’s music education for many
years, but her new love is working with students with exceptionalities in a public school setting. She has
just acquired her master’s degree in education in the area of special education. Carol enjoys “rocking
out” with Soul Incision and creating opportunities for others to do the same.
Ed (“the Groove”) Shultz began giggin’ at the age of 12 in Washington, DC and surrounds, then subsequently the Cleveland area over the next decade. He eventually performed in Viet Nam for fellow GIs. He studied classical guitar with world renowned virtuoso Elliot Fisk, and supported himself teaching guitar in the DC area. He currently composes and produces recordings (non-professionally) in his Tennessee based home studio, picked up the bass and moved to the lower octave in his live performances 13 years ago.
His daytime gig leverages his MD degree from Yale, and mathematical modeling MS from the University of Minnesota. He uses this background while acting as the Chief Technology Officer for the Vanderbilt Informatics Center, where he actively creates software for use by physicians and nurses, as well as designing “smarter” systems based on math modeling.
Steve Smartt is a Nashville native who studied at the Blair School of Music and earned undergrad and graduate music degrees from Peabody College. He got his ”real” music education playing rock and roll gigs fro
m the time he was 13. He was a member of several of Nashville’s established rock bands in the ’60s and ’70s, including The Knights, Crystals, Sounds of Time, Exotics and Spidels, Canned Soul, and the Chessmen. More recently, Steve has been a regular member and sideman with Sound Therapy big band, Soul Source, 12th Avenue South Band, Altered Egos jazz sextet, Jim Gibson Band, The Sons of the Beach, Cerrito, the Beaker Street Blues Band, and his own group – “Among Friends” – for weddings and reception events. He also gets a few calls for studio horn tracks and arrangements. Steve’s touring experience includes stints with Delbert McClinton and Percy Sledge.”
Jeff Byrd has performed with a variety of musical groups throughout the years, on various musical instruments including: saxophone, flute, clarinet, bassoon, tuba, banjo, piano, and guitar. Of particular note, Jeff has been a guest performer with Denver and the Mile High Orchestra, Little Anthony and the Imperials, and The Paul Ross Orchestra. He also played with Rory Partin Band, formally known as Bo Thorpe and his Orchestra. In the summer of 1988, he moved from the Cincinnati area to Nashville, TN to perform at the Opryland Theme Park. Later that year, he put his college degree to work as a computer programmer for Vanderbilt University Medical Center. Jeff’s Soul Incision band-mates like to say that Jeff sets the musical standard that has lifted the group to its current fame and fortune.
When he was 13, Robert Early went to the American Legion Hall in Brinkley, Arkansas to hear his best friend’s older brother play in a rock and roll band, “The Ramblers.” That evening, Robert heard the “sirens’ call’”of rock and roll. He began playing in garage bands when he was 14, and in 1969 he joined the Exotics Combo of Nashville which still plays a dozen or so gigs a year. In addition to playing with Soul Incision, Robert has played with the Boulevard Brass Quintet for 25 years. He studied trumpet in high school at the Blair Academy of Music , graduated from Peabody College and the Vanderbilt Divinity School. He is a Presbyterian minister who for the past 28 years has been a senior development officer at Vanderbilt University.
Ralph LaNeve, MD grew up in the heart of Steeler Country in Pittsburgh Pa. Interest in music began in the mid 60s at age 10. Throughout the 70s, he played in several garage bands like Bedlam (appropriately named), Paraphernalia, Joker, Moffat, and The Out of Hand Band.
He graduated from the University of Pittsburgh with a degree in chemistry. During the next ten years his musical interests was put on hold. He moved to Philadelphia and earned an MD degree in 1985 from Jefferson Medical College.
In July 2000, he was stationed at Fort Riley Kansas and 5 months later was deployed to Saudi Arabia with the 44th Evac Hospital in support for Desert Storm. After returning from the Middle East, he joined 2 local bands in Manhattan Kansas playing “top country” hits. In 1994 Major LaNeve left the Army Medical Corps and moved to Nashville to begin a career in surgery and also to pursue his musical avocation. Dr. LaNeve joined Vanderbilt in 2004 and became a member of Soul Incision in 2007.
C. W. played with a number of groups in Washington, D. C. and Dayton, Ohio in the 1960’s,
including chance opportunities for recording and great opening gigs, one such gig opening for Jimi Hendrix and the Band of Gypsies. There was a long pause after high school and college.
He attended Miami University and the University of Colorado. He worked as an engineer
for IBM and completed an MBA before graduating from Vanderbilt Medical School in 1980.
He is boarded in surgery and in critical care; He completed three fellowships- cardiovascular
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Chief Medical Officer, and now Deputy Vice-Chancellor for Health Affairs and CEO of the
Health System at Vanderbilt. He co-founded the Masters in Management in Health Care program
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the Senior Associate Dean for Clinical Affairs in the School of Medicine. He has authored more
than 250 publications, given more than 500 scientific presentations and lectures, and serves on a
number of boards and editorial boards.
He was surprised and grateful when Soul Incision formed up in 1998, as an old hobby came back
to life. “I enjoy the music as well as seeing a crowd having fun as much as ever.”
“Bryan Brand grew up in Charlottesville, Virginia, earning his undergraduate degree at VCU, and graduate at MCV. He learned to play piano by ear at a young age, and kept it up over the years, mainly for self-amusement. Soul Incision is his first band experience. A hospital administrator by training, his day job is serving as Vice President for Medical Center Business Development, working with forming and operating joint venture companies.” | <urn:uuid:f38b7401-772c-4c03-9349-8b4ebaf1f4cb> | CC-MAIN-2015-32 | http://soulincision.com/?page_id=81 | 2015-08-04T03:17:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-32/segments/1438042990217.27/warc/CC-MAIN-20150728002310-00172-ip-10-236-191-2.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.979009 | 1,921 |
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Books for Adults
The Wilder Life
I’m Not the New Me
Other Books and Anthologies
Books for Kids
A Garden to Save the Birds
It’s a Pumpkin!
The Princess and the Peanut Allergy
Wanderville 2: On Track for Treasure
Wanderville 3: Escape to the World’s Fair
Media and Publications
Book Clubs and School Visits
May 9, 2003
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Recent Press and Links
Essay: A Little House Adulthood
For the American Masters documentary on Laura Ingalls Wilder, I contributed a piece to the PBS website about revisiting the Little House books.
Essay: The Christmas Tape
(At Longreads.com) How an old audio tape of holiday music became a record of family history, unspoken rituals, and grief.
Q & A With Wendy McClure
Publishers Weekly interview about editing, Wanderville and more.
Connect with me
Where else to find Wendy
Home of the Weight Watcher recipe cards
Site (in progress) about my great-grandfather, a Golden Age sci-fi writer.
That Side of the Family
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By Jill Serjeant
LOS ANGELES (Reuters) - Sharon Osbourne made a name for herself as the tough, plain-speaking manager who revived the career of her rocker husband Ozzy, and put the crazy life of her family on view in reality series "The Osbournes."
Now the British celebrity, a judge on "America's Got Talent" and member of morning female chat show "The Talk", has taken on a rare character role, lending her voice to four episodes of the pre-school Disney Junior series "Jake and the Neverland Pirates," starting on Saturday.
Osbourne, 59, talked with Reuters about playing Mama Hook, her views on motherhood and becoming a grandmother for the first time.
Q: We don't normally associate you with the Disney pre-school set. What kind of mom is your "Jake and the Neverland Pirates" character Mama Hook?
A: "She reminds me of myself. She is very strong, she wants her son to be honest and reliable and she gives him very good standards and priorities. He does naughty things and when he does naughty things she is there to tell him the way it should be done, especially when he is stealing treasures. She is there to put him back on the right road."
Q: You have made your name by being yourself rather than acting. How did this part come along?
A: "Somebody at Disney thought I would be right for it. They have English accents (like me). I loved it! It's nice to do a project that is nice. I get a kick out of it that it is little five-year boys that absolutely love this show, and I think it is adorable."
Q: You have a reputation for being controversial, and as being a tigress when it comes to protecting your own family.
A: "I like to say, not controversial but truthful. But I still consider myself to be a good mom and a good role model because I like my children to be honest and have a good work ethic. I have taught all my children not to have a sense of entitlement and that whatever you do, you do on your own."
Q: Congratulations on the birth of your first grandchild last month. What kind of grandmother are you going to be to Jack's daughter Pearl?
A: "It's my job to be doting, that comes with being a grandmother. This is what I am entitled to and I want to spoil her. I am really going to be my son's nightmare as a grandmother because I am going to say yes to everything."
Q: Becoming a mother for the first time changes your life and your outlook. Is it the same being a grandmother?
A: "It's just one of the gifts that you get when you are older. It is such a great gift. It's a blessing. You lose your children, but you have gained your grandchildren."
Q: Is it also a chance for a do-over of how you raised your own children?
A: "No. I think that there is a responsibility to be a good role model to your grandchild. But I don't look at is as doing over again. It's just a gift. I just want to savor every day."
Q: How do you mange to fit in everything these days, with "The Talk" and "America's Got Talent", and the new Disney show?.
A: "I enjoy what I do. I didn't do this earlier on in my life. I was a mother. For me it happened at the right time because my kids were teenagers - they were 15, 16, 17 -- and that was the right time for me. I had done all the ground work with my kids and they didn't need me at home every single day at that age, so it worked perfectly that way. I don't think if you have got babies it's the right thing to do, but I didn't and I don't so I can do what makes me happy."
Q: And what does make you happiest these days?.
A: "I love to do what I do. I work with amazing people. It's a great way to earn a living but I don't really call it work. I look at it as a pleasure. I talk in the mornings to four other great women ('The Talk'), and then my other job ('America's Got Talent') I am there with two great guys, Howe (Mandel) and Howard (Stern), and I judge. So it's hardly work."
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I've sailed on both ships. I've sailed on the Victory twice. I believe you would have a good time on either ship. Carnival and Royal Caribbean are very similar cruise lines. The food and service and most entertainment are similar. The exception is, that the Adventure has an ice rink and they have wonderful ice shows on the ship. You can also go ice skating. It also has a large inside Royal Promenade where a couple times during the cruise they will hold a Mardi Gras type parade. The Adventure has mini-golf and a basket ball court,and Johnny Rockets Cafe. The Victory also has mini-golf, the water slide, and Water Wars Water Balloon Attraction, and a Seaside Theatre screen by the pool. Both ships have teen clubs. The Adventure is the larger of the two, but that also means more people. Unless you are getting a family room or suite on Adventure, the traditional cabins of inside/outside/balcony are larger on the Victory. I think you would have a good time on either. | <urn:uuid:b0622116-743b-42a6-8aa3-f93210a49000> | CC-MAIN-2013-20 | http://www.cruisereviews.com/forum/32298-post4.html | 2013-06-20T09:04:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2013-20/segments/1368711005985/warc/CC-MAIN-20130516133005-00068-ip-10-60-113-184.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.969455 | 215 |
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I’d rather have a bowl of Coco Pops! Kellogg's Coco Pops Smaller Size is a fab way to start the day.
Kids will love the chocolaty flavour and they’ll be amazed watching the milk turn a rich brown.
Parents will love the fact they’re packed full of vitamins and iron – there’s no wonder they’re a firm family favourite.
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Contains Barley, May Contain Milk.
Rice, Glucose Syrup, Sugar, Fat Reduced Cocoa Powder, Cocoa Mass, Salt, Barley Malt Extract, Flavourings, Vitamins & Minerals: Niacin, Iron, Vitamin B6, Vitamin B2 (Riboflavin), Vitamin B1 (Thiamin), Folic Acid, Vitamin D, Vitamin B12.
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As a child, Kelloggs Coco Pops was my staple breakfast most days. I always looked forward to waking up and being served a sweet, crunchy, chocolaty breakfast. I eagerly waited for the milk to turn from plain into chocolate milk so I could drink it right out of the bowl. You can either eat the cereal dry as a snack or enjoy it with some fresh, cold milk.
Great start to the day! Other than the fact that it's nutritious and packed with vitamins, it tastes great too. I still love them 30 years on and the kids love them too. Personally, I consider them to be one of the best from the Kelloggs portfolio. Would definitely recommend to anyone.
I remember having these in the variety packs as a child, there was always a fight for them, while the cornflakes would be left until last. These days, I satisfy my craving with a large box, but they still don't last very long! They are nice added to flavoured or natural yoghurt, as give it a lovely sweet crunch.
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The best souvenirs are those that are specific to the place you visited and, ideally, made by local people. You’ll not only be buying something special but you’ll also be supporting the local economy. If you’re traveling to Hungary and are hoping to bring back a memorable gift, here is a list of ideas for souvenirs that embrace the culture and heritage of Hungary.
The perfect souvenir for anyone that loves to cook, paprika is the national spice of Hungary and used extensively in Hungarian cuisine. There are several versions of paprika in Hungary ranging from édes (sweet) to eros (hot) as well as everything in between. You can buy paprika in almost any market or food shop and most are fairly inexpensive. Alternatively, there are many products containing paprika as an ingredient such as paprika pastes.
Hungary is famous for its excellent wines. There are 22 distinct wine regions across the country which produce the full spectrum of wine styles including reds, whites, roses, and sparkling wines. That being said, there’s no shortage of quality wines that are available at wine shops and liquor stores.
A ubiquitous specialty known throughout Hungary, pálinka is the generic name for a fiery fruit brandy. There are many flavors to choose from including plum, apricot, and apple, so even if you find the drink overwhelming, you can still have fun trying to find a flavor that suits your palate. Pálinka also comes in various sizes and shapes, making it an ideal gift.
Of the most cherished aspects of Hungarian culture, is its rich heritage in needlework. Bold colors, floral patterns, and rich textures all characterize embroidery from Hungary. You can find all kinds of handmade items including tablecloths, linens, serving towels, and even garments at markets and festivals across the country.
Anyone with an interest in porcelain, we’ll certainly be able to appreciate Hungary’s legendary history in porcelain-making being of the world’s most sought-after. Among the most famous manufacturers are Herend and Zsolnay, both of which have been producing fine porcelain for decades. You can visit these manufacturers directly and purchase products at their gift shops.
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Should only need a few things
1. a wireless router
2. a wireless adapter for the Xbox
3. The security setting from your router to input into the Xbox if you set up a secure network (which you should)
TKIP or AES
Encryption type (WEP, WPA, WPA2 and so on)
and Passphrase if one was set up.
Other than inputing that into the connection settings on the xbox there should be nothing else needed. | <urn:uuid:80b98c83-6c7e-499e-b2f8-96650cb27953> | CC-MAIN-2014-42 | http://www.tomshardware.com/forum/113422-13-what-xbox-wont-connect-internet | 2014-10-22T09:55:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-42/segments/1413507446525.24/warc/CC-MAIN-20141017005726-00294-ip-10-16-133-185.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.875348 | 102 |
Customer satisfaction is extremely important to me and a large part of my business is made up of repeat customers and recommendations.
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The apartment complex on The CW’s remake of Melrose Place is starting to get new residents.
First up? Actress Katie Cassidy, who is also a cast member on CBS’s buzzed-about upcoming murder mystery series, Harper’s Island. The two project’s won’t conflict because Harper‘s will have a new cast next season if the series is renewed.
Cassidy, 22, who is the daughter of The Partridge Family‘s David Cassidy, will play a sexy, sassy up-and-coming publicist on the remake.
And rumor has it that Mischa Barton has also auditioned for a role on the series’ pilot, but her rep says there’s no official news to share at this time. | <urn:uuid:79d3acb4-e5c6-4d73-872d-a964ba14cf5a> | CC-MAIN-2017-39 | http://people.com/tv/melrose-place-remake-has-its-first-tenant/ | 2017-09-25T17:07:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-39/segments/1505818692236.58/warc/CC-MAIN-20170925164022-20170925184022-00053.warc.gz | en | 0.946181 | 163 |
has been going straight up, and the bulls are piling in.
OptionMonster’s tracking systems detected the purchase of about 7,700 January 20 calls in the commercial-mortgage lender for $1.35. Volume was more than triple open interest in the strike.
Those contracts lock in the price investors must pay to buy shares, providing exposure to a rally at limited cost. That can translate into significant leverage if the stock climbs, but the options will expire worthless if no rally occurs.
Ocwen shares have been climbing for 1 1/2 years. It spent the last two weeks breaking resistance at its 2006 highs and is now back to levels last seen in 1998. It closed yesterday down 0.06 percent to $18.10 after being up for most the session.
The stock has been more active since the last quarterly report on May 3, when earnings beat expectations and delinquencies fell. Management also said the company has developed a new way to modify loans that dissuades borrowers from defaulting.
Overall option volume was 11 times greater than average in the session, with callsoutnumbering putsby more than 300 to 1.
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|Date of birth||June 29, 1989|
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Patrick Sonntag (born June 29, 1989) is a German footballer who plays for VfB Auerbach.
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iSonic D3800A Digital Ultrasonic for Jewelry, Eyeglass, and Dentures Cleaner, 110V
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- Stainless Steel container Dimensions: 5.4"L x 3.6" W x 2.1" H
- Digital display with 5 Preset Cleaning Modes for easy and precise control
- Weight: 2.2 Pounds easy to carry for any household
- Light weight with Dimensions: 8.2"L x 5.8" W x 5.4" H
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This professional ultrasonic cleaner (Model CD3800) will work really well for a wide range of products including jewelry, eyeglasses, toothbrushes and dental tools. This powerful 42,000 Hz ultrasonic frequency wave provides an efficient cleaning solution without adding chemical detergent. The extra safety will be guaranteed by enclosed and water proof container design. This cleaner provides a stainless steel tank with a 1 pint (600ml) liquid capacity to accommodate a wide range of item such as jewelry, eyeglasses and dental items. This cleaner provides 5 preset digital cleaning cycles for easy and precise cleaning time control. This digital timer display will show you cleaning progress under any circumstance even at night time environment. Ultrasonic Cleaning will take place with an assistance of ultrahigh frequency sound waves (Hz) which is generated by ultrasonic plate underneath of cleaning machine. This ultrasonic source plate will generate a lot of ultrasonic bubbles which will create a high energy cleaning effect to remove debris and dirt completely from the surface of jewelry and eyeglasses items. With the assistance of ultrasonic wave, the whole surface of your precious item will be deeply cleaned.
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January 16, 2012 Update: The unit stopped working entirely a few weeks ago. Luckily, the warranty had about a month left on it, so I contacted the company. To their credit, they offered to send me a new unit once I returned the original one to them (at their expense). I'll post an update after I get the new unit and use it.
Enough of eyeglass cleaning - my daughter uses the unit regularly for all her jewelry. She has commented that all her jewelry, from diamonds to gold and silver sparkle beautifully. Especially her Swarivosky crystal necklaces, they look fantastic.
The directions that came with the unit are clear and easy to follow - there are five automatic settings, which have handled everything we have used it on. Occasionally we have added a drop dish washing liquid, but I don't think it was necessary. I don't use anything but plain water it's all that is needed.
The only caution I offer is to be sure that any jewelry you use the Ultrasonic cleaner on, if there are any stones, be sure they are securely fastened - especially if the jewelry is antique. I have used the Trent Ultrasonic Jewelry Cleaner quite successfully on several pieces of very old
jewelry that have been in my family for many years. None suffered any loosening in the settings.
Hey guys, women love these as a casual gift (e.g. not a primary Valentines gift), and they're great at "gift exchanges" and "white elephant exchanges" (note to all elephants, please don't write to complain, it's just an expression).
Great for cleaning eye glasses, and maybe even small carburetor parts, and for those spray paint nozzles that always get clogged (just be sure to clean out any paint residue before cleaning her wedding ring).
Cheaply made machine with incomplete instructions on settings, cleaning times, etc. I tried it on the simplest item to clean and it took repeated attempts to partially clean just a watch band. The tank size is very small and you have to wedge things like glasses and watches in there. When I tried glasses - I am not exaggerating when I say they came out worse than when they went in. Each time they had a film on them which took a separate and longer than normal cleaning by hand.
The item comes from a company named New Trent but you will find that when you go onto their website there is not even a mention of this product. Moreover there is absolutely no customer service or support.
I am returning and buying an item from a company truly in this business.
For the dentures it sucks about the only way to get them really clean is using bleach and running about 6-8 full cycles, for my jewelery (bracelet, chain and ring) it works great a few drops of soap and warm water and in 1-2 full cycles they come out shinny.
After reading previous reviewers trouble with water on the bottom damaging the electronics I took care not to pour the water out in the first few uses and I was able to use it about 3 times with no issues, as I got more comfortable I pour the water out twice and it stopped working after the second time !@$%, while loosening the first screw in the bottom to check it out water staring pouring out, I'm guessing about a third of a cup, once I finish taking it a part I found the whole bottom of the electronics board corroded and wet I tried blow drying it and cleaning it with a brush but nothing to it it would not turn on. The unit is not sealed and the water leaks into the bottom of the unit when you tilt it to pour liquids out. Did I said !@$% already.
Like a reviewer wrote previously you get what you pay for.
About the only way that I see using this for a while is emptying the water from the bowl with a small container and finishing cleaning it with a sponge or paper towels, drilling a few small holes on the bottom and also staying a bit under the water mark to avoid accidental spillage. | <urn:uuid:b40b593f-80cb-47fa-8f07-bcaa5d07eed3> | CC-MAIN-2018-13 | https://www.amazon.com/Digital-Ultrasonic-Jewelry-Eyeglass-Dentures/dp/B000SOQ6KQ | 2018-03-20T21:15:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-13/segments/1521257647545.54/warc/CC-MAIN-20180320205242-20180320225242-00435.warc.gz | en | 0.954886 | 1,358 |
These breaches affect businesses of all kinds, from retailers like Target and Neiman Marcus to Ďsocialí companies like Twitter and LinkedIn. The best way to prevent these disastrous events from happening is to learn from past mistakes and create proactive guidelines for both business and customers to follow.
Two previous data breaches that opened the eyes of companies and consumers are TJ Maxx and Target. TJ Maxxís data breach, one of the largest hacks in history, 94 million customers credit card numbers and 455,000 customers who returned merchandise, personal information were compromised.
Although the FTC put standards in place for TJ Maxx to follow, little was done to prevent the situation from happening in the future with other businesses. The companyís subsidiary store Winners in Canada prompted a thorough investigation by the Canadian Privacy Commissioner. The Commissioner came to a resounding conclusion Ė the companies collected too much personal data from their consumers, and they didnít take necessary steps to protect them. The Commissioner put guidelines in place that included details like what information could be collected and how long a company may hold that information.
Furthermore, the office of the Privacy Commissioner put a set of guidance tools in place to help businesses and consumers learn how to protect personal data. The guidance includes:
- Collecting only personal information necessary for the particular purpose
- Create several layers security around risk management, security policies, human resources security, physical security and technical security.
There is one practice called data minimization that both businesses and customers can engage in. Data minimization means collecting the least amount of data needed to perform a function. From a patrons perspective this means being choosy with what personal information they provide, whether itís full name, email address, telephone number or home address; just because they ask you doesnít mean you need to provide it. Users can think about the value of their data before making this exchange for sales and services. For businesses it means only asking for the data that is essential to complete the given task. | <urn:uuid:a930dc3a-1135-46a7-b33f-20222e53aa51> | CC-MAIN-2014-23 | http://www.net-security.org/article.php?id=1978 | 2014-07-24T21:29:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-23/segments/1405997891953.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20140722025811-00055-ip-10-33-131-23.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.939869 | 402 |
It Doesn't Look Like Bungie's Next Epic Is Coming To Wii U
Posted by Damien McFerran
Halo creator keeps silent on Nintendo version
Former Halo studio Bungie has revealed more information about its next project — including hints about the platforms it is coming to — but sadly it would appear that the Wii U won't be getting any action.
Destiny is being billed as a "shared-world" shooter, and has a strong focus on co-operative play. It also showcases a persistent world and support for lots of players — elements which have led many to brand it a "next gen" Massively Multiplayer Online (MMO) experience.
Speaking to Eurogamer, Bungie COO Pete Parsons and Activision Publishing boss Eric Hirshberg gave some indication of which platforms the game will be released on:
"You'll definitely be playing on Xbox and you'll definitely be playing on PlayStation," Parsons said.
Activision Publishing boss Eric Hirshberg added: "Until there are official announcements from the first parties obviously we can't comment on any platforms that might be forthcoming, but what we can say is we are building Destiny to be wherever gamers are." He later insisted Activision's approach is "platform agnostic".
On the possibility of a PC version, Parsons said: "We would absolutely love to be on the PC. If you talk to the people upstairs, we play it on all platforms. So, stay tuned." No mention was made of a Wii U version.
You can read more about the game over at Eurogamer.
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In Grade Two, children study animal fables that characterize (often in extreme ways) individual human qualities – such as Anansi the Trickster - and legends of great people who sacrificed for the greater good. Second graders continue to familiarize themselves with the fundamentals of arithmetic and literacy, further developing a repertoire of skills that were initially introduced in Grade One. Teachers continue to use movement, rhythm, and rhyme as a key instructional tool.
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Sophia Szombathy grew up in Atlanta, GA and received her B.A in Psychology with a minor in Spanish. During her time at UGA, she was able to fulfill her love of music and travel by living in Spain and spending time in a town known for its music. Upon graduation, she moved to New York City to join her sister. While living there, Sophia worked at a raw and vegan restaurant, where she met, what became her New York family. During this time, she stumbled upon the New York Center for Anthroposophy. She volunteered at this small Waldorf initiative and after leaving New York, worked at the Waldorf School of Atlanta where she substituted and worked in the office for several months. Her time at WSA inspired her to enroll in the teacher training program at the Rudolf Steiner College in Fair Oaks, CA. Sophia began her training in 2010,loving the full immersion experience, the beautiful garden, and her work at the bookstore and library. In August of 2012, she moved to Berkeley, CA and was a kindergarten assistant and
lead aftercare teacher at the East Bay WaldorfSchool, before joining the faculty at WSA in 2013. Sophia loves to spend time with her family, sit on her porch, and enjoy live music.
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For many years, I have been a fairly active VHF/UHFer and particularly enjoy operating in VHF/UHF Contests and like to encourage others to do the same. Knowing that many local area hams have been licensed for just a short period of time or have never participated in a VHF/UHF contesting event, I traditionally clog local ham radio chat rooms with announcements for these operating opportunities.
Local topography (i.e. a mountain range or multiple mountain ranges) and varied population densities in various parts of the US and Canada make for a huge variation of scores in any VHF/UHF event. The ARRL does its part to stimulate VHF/UHF contesting by having many specialized entry categories such as FM-only, QRP, 3-Band, as well as the more traditional Rover, Multi-Operator, and High Power categories.
For the ARRL September 2018 VHF Contest, I had limited operating time available and was unable to rove to mountaintops as I frequently do, so I decided to enter as K1FJM/6 in the FM Only Low Power Category. Operation in this category is limited to the use of the 50 MHz, 144 MHz, 233 MHz, & 446 MHz bands only. I operated from a hilltop in the middle of the City of Thousand Oaks and used a Yaesu FT857D & Kenwood TM231A to make 38 FM contacts on the four permitted bands. Power at all times was less than 50 watts and I used only small mag-mount whip antennas. For distance, I did manage to communicate with the DM12 – San Diego area on both 144 MHz & 446 MHz.
K1FJM/6 achieved the highest submitted score of all contest entrants from the Santa Barbara Section and had the second highest FM Only score from all of California. Nationally, K1FJM/6 placed fourth in a field of 24 FM Only entrants.
Because I also wanted to operate on the 33 CM band (902 MHz), I also activated as N6ZE/QRP to try out another eclectic Category. I succeeded in making 2 QSOs with an ALINCO 902 MHz FM 5 watt handheld and an 11 element yagi. I talked with N7WLC in Thousand Oaks and another station 50.5 miles away in Palos Verdes. My 12 point score placed me as number two in the Southwest Division QRP grouping.
A large, complex station just is not required to place well among other local and area competitors!
Click here for the full 19 page article documenting the results of 2018 ARRL September VHF Contest.
Don’t forget to participate in the ARRL January 2019 VHF Contest!
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Probably more a victim of an algo change interspersed with some major expenditure by some big companies, who you may think know nothing about site optimization, but when your site is that big, what exactly do they need to know -> spending money counts alot
In my experience it seems when i pay for inclusion a good serp is given, then dropped a few pages down a couple of weeks later. Then you pay again and up you go...
Although it's not a primary traffic source for us (or anyone from what I can garner), the nfp site I'm responsible for has sat well in the serps with the butler and his sister (teoma) for near on 18 months without a paid listing. As its a labor of love with no PFI budget, we're more than happy and hope that continues for some time.
I just did a search for a term I normally track and Ask Jeeves returned 10 "Sponsored Listings" before the real web results. I don't know...Desperate for cash? Search engines should figure IT out. Google is popular because they are delivering what the people want. These engines should be trying to figure out how to do that if they want people to search them. If you ask me, 10 sponsored listing in front of the real listings is overboard. Who wants to see all those. Get a clue Jeeves.
They have more than a clue. Those sponsored listings are Google AdWords.
However, the topic here is not about sponsored listings but about Paid Inclusion and whether or not there's an advantage.
Paul Gardi, SVP of Search for Ask Jeeves has consistently stated that there is no algorithmic advantage for PFI sites. The benefit of PFI is freshness. The advantage to freshness is that it allows you to fine tune your on-page data to see if it helps your ranking. :)
On the downside, Ask Jeeves' algo takes into account what link neighborhoods you are in, so PFI won't help you there. :(
|Irrelevant links can hurt your rankings. On topic links, both inbound and out should help. |
Another thing that may account for your slip in the rankings is that Ask Jeeves has dramatically increased the size of it's database from 350 million pages to 1.5 billion pages.
Please review this disucussion [webmasterworld.com] about Paul Gardi's assertion that their English language index is roughly equal to Google's.
Ask Jeeves has an important demographic that cannot be ignored by certain industries.
>Ask Jeeves has an important demographic that cannot be ignored by certain industries.
What is that demographic?
|What is that demographic? |
Women, 30 and up.
>Women, 30 and up.
How is ask.com targeting them? Only way I can see doing so effectively would be to advertise in media that this demographic is attracted to.
Good question. To my knowledge, they aren't really targeting women. A few months back they hyped their renewed $10 million advertising campaign, but where did that go? Did they really spend the money? (yes, 10 million won't get you far) Or did they hitch a ride on the press release bandwagon?
But then, I don't read women's media.
Women are the demographic often cited in regard to Ask Jeeves, a fact which probably originated with them. I have heard Paul Gardi repeat this statistic on three different occasions. I have to say that traffic from Jeeves to one of my more female oriented sites is pretty decent. But it's a new site and I'm looking forward to seeing if their demographic responds. | <urn:uuid:74700d67-12e2-44ed-ae82-d3e9c4408df0> | CC-MAIN-2015-18 | http://www.webmasterworld.com/forum2/318.htm | 2015-04-21T10:03:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-18/segments/1429246641266.56/warc/CC-MAIN-20150417045721-00171-ip-10-235-10-82.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.966604 | 762 |
Henry MacVane sets up his gear along a stream bank at midnight just outside the town of Freeport, Maine. He dunks his dip net in and out of the water for hours, and occasionally stops to inspect his catch—a writhing pile of tiny, translucent glass eels.
Maine fishermen have been catching glass eels, or “elvers,” and selling them at modest market prices for years. Recently, however, steep demand from Asia has caused prices to skyrocket. They climbed from under an average of $200 a pound in 2010 up to $2,600 a pound in 2012. “During the peak of elver fishing last year fishermen commonly made $3,000 or $4,000 a night,” says MacVane, a 23-year-old, third-generation lobsterman. “The big guys made $10,000 a night.” Last season he caught a little over 10 pounds of glass eels in several weeks’ time and made $23,000.
Glass eels measure no bigger than a pinkie and look more like vitreous earthworms than fishes. They are the juvenile life stage of Anguilla rostrata, the American eel, which can grow up over a meter long. They’re nocturnal creatures, so MacVane fishes for them while others sleep. “I forgot how exhausting it is,” he says.
The sky-high prices have also attracted attention from government, media, poachers—and scientists. Fisheries biologists are worried about the American eel’s survival because surveys show a dangerous decline in population size. They recommend taking measures to protect the species. “We’re supposed to manage fisheries on the precautionary principle,” says eel biologist James McCleave of the University of Maine, “If the trend is down, we don’t say it’s okay.” This year a regional management board tightened eel fishing regulations and it may decide on August 7 to shut down Maine’s glass eel fishery altogether.
Unsurprisingly, fishermen argue against the proposal to close the fishery—their livelihoods, after all, are at stake. They say that the eel fisheries in Maine are healthy and that there is no reliable evidence that their fishing significantly harms the species. In fact, they point to other factors, such as the thousands of dams that clog east coast watersheds, as far more problematic for eel populations than fishing.
Although scientists are confident that the American eel desperately needs protection, they do not have definite answers to counter fishermen’s arguments against closing the fisheries because eels are a data-poor species. The situation has set up an awkward moment in the politics of conservation. Are the proposed regulations on eel fishing a good idea? And how should political leaders make such decisions in the absence of firm scientific answers?
The American eel is an enigma. It has such a complex life cycle that biologists do not possess some basic information about the species. It ranges from Brazil to Greenland, yet despite this wide geographic range, genetic evidence indicates that every American eel somehow belongs to one gigantic interbreeding population. The eels hatch in the warm, blue brine of the Sargasso Sea south of Bermuda and then disperse to estuarine and freshwater habitats where they spend most of their lives before migrating back to their birthplace to spawn and die. The spawning is something of a mystery, however, because scientists have yet to witness it—despite investing many hours and funds trying—because the eel’s breeding ground is remote and difficult to sample.
Eels once flooded the U.S. east coast’s rivers, streams and estuaries. “Historically, they were one of the most abundant fish in our freshwater ecosystems,” McCleave says. They served as a critical food source for Native Americans and colonists, and the Passamaquoddy tribe in Maine still harvests eels today. But most Americans have paid little attention to eels because the fish typically had little market value.
Then, a few years ago, two events transpired to spark a virtual gold rush for glass eels in small-town Maine. First, the European Union banned exports of the European eel in 2010 due to its dangerously depleted population. Then the 2011 earthquake and tsunami ravaged Japan, decimating its eel farms.
This confluence of events created a massive shortage for Asian aquaculture farms, which raise the tiny eels to adult size and then sell them, mostly within Asia. Japan, the biggest eel consumer, eats 100,000 tons of unagi per year—more than two thirds of the worldwide eel catch. Its government has invested significant money into finding ways to breed and raise eels in captivity but scientists have yet to hit on a commercially viable method. The Japanese and everyone else who eats freshwater eels thus rely on wild-born fish.
Without their regular supply from Asia and Europe, dealers turned to what they consider a less desirable species: the American eel. Maine and South Carolina are currently the only two states with legal elver fisheries, and only the former has a substantial catch, so Maine became a big eel supplier and the price for these fish began to skyrocket, increasing 13 times over between 2010 and 2012 and peaking at $2,600 a pound. Without any state limitations on catch fishermen netted more than 20,000 pounds of eels and earned nearly $38 million dollars in 2012. They fared almost as well in 2013, with almost 20,000 pounds worth $33 million dollars. Elver fisherman Darrel Young says he made over a $100,000 in a season last year.
Although Maine allowed fishermen an unlimited catch, it also required they have a glass eel fishing license. The state authorizes only a few hundred licenses every year, so inevitably the tantalizing prices and restricted entry attracted poachers. In Maine as well as in nearby states, poachers blocked off entire streams with nets and even stole other fishermen’s catch. Authorities arrested one man who did not have a commercial license and swam upriver in a wet suit to capture eels at a fish ladder, an off-limits fishing zone. “When you catch people poaching, they tell you, ‘Hey, you can’t blame me for trying. I’ve got bills to pay and I made $8,000 last week,’” says Rene Cloutier, a lieutenant with the Maine Marine Patrol. Robbers have also struck; a Maine dealer recently had 50 pounds of elvers, worth over $140,000, stolen from her home, according to a PBS documentary.
The high value of glass eels has brought a load of trouble to Maine but it’s also a godsend for licensed fishermen and their communities. Until recently many elver fishermen scraped together a living with multiple jobs: They fished for other species like lobster, worked construction, harvested periwinkles, gathered seaweed. Some of them supplemented their income with welfare and food stamps.
Now, fishermen can support their families, pay off taxes, help put their kids through college and buy new cars or tractors for their farms. “Elver fishing dumped millions of dollars into a poor state,” says fisherman Jeff Pierce, head of the Maine Elver Fisherman Association, “It’s a huge success story. It’s given people pride.”
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In the late 20th century, years before elvers attracted local and international attention, fisheries biologists began to take a closer look at the American eel. They knew the species faced a multitude of threats: pollution, fishing, hydropower dam turbines and major habitat loss from deforestation and dams.
Biologists realized these combined pressures did not bode well for the species. “When you look at the whole eel population over multiple decades, there’s been an obvious decline over time,” says Genny Nesslage, senior stock assessment scientist at the Atlantic States Marine Fisheries Commission (ASMFC). In the 1990s the commission, which manages fisheries for the U.S. Atlantic coast, made the American eel one of its priorities. It gathered available population data (chiefly, fish surveys collected by state or federal biologists) and published a stock assessment in 2012, which evaluates the state of the eel population today compared with past decades.
The ASMFC acknowledged the difficulty of evaluating this species, given the sparse population data and elusive life history details. It does not even have enough information to determine whether the species is overfished or if fishermen remove eels at a sustainable rate. “Because it’s a data-poor species, we’re unable to come up with benchmark reference points that you typically see in fisheries management,” says Kate Taylor, senior fishery management plan coordinator at the ASMFC.
Both the commission and outside fisheries biologists agree, however, that the evidence overwhelmingly indicates the American eel is depleted compared with historic levels, and something needs to be done to protect it. “Eels are a keystone species,” McCleave says, “because they’re so abundant—if you remove them, a whole bunch of predator–prey relationships fall apart.”
Even with the stock assessment, biologists still do not know how much each threat—dams, pollution, fishing and others—harms the fish. They just do not have enough data. “It’s at the point where we recognize what the threats are,” says Jeff Kipp, an ASMFC stock assessment scientist, “But we don’t know their impact yet.”
Elver fishermen take issue with this discrepancy because they think factors other than fishing, such as dams, pose a bigger problem for eels, especially in Maine. “There are literally tens of thousands of dams up and down the east coast—large ones, small ones—and most of them are in the Northeast,” says U.S. Geological Survey (USGS) research ecologist Alex Haro, “Few have passage structures for eels, because eels have just recently come on the radar screen in terms of a species of interest.”
U. Maine’s McCleave believes that habitat loss from these dams presents a major threat to eels. “There’s impairment or complete blockage of fish passage in something like 80 percent of the American eels’ range, and that’s just incredible,” he observes.
Studies have hinted indirectly at the heavy toll dams take on eels. In 2004 USGS researchers studied the impact of a dam removal in Virginia and found a significant increase in the numbers of eels in the watershed just two years later. “Our study shows that the benefits of dam removal can extend far upstream,” Nathaniel Hitt, a USGS biologist told National Geographic, “American eels have been in decline for decades and so we’re delighted to see them begin to return in abundance to their native streams.”
Hydropower dams create a more gruesome problem: on their return to the Sargasso Sea, adult eels follow the path of dominant flow downstream through the dam’s intake system and get chopped up in turbines. Hundreds, if not thousands, of eels die every year because of turbines, according to Haro. “There are even several hydropower dams that have 100 percent mortality because they weren’t designed to pass fish at all, and yet the eels try to go through them and it’s disastrous,” he says.
In spite of the impact of dams and other threats, Maine fishermen say that the state’s eel population appears healthy to them and they are not overfishing the species. “Last two years were the best fishing I’ve ever seen,” says Darrell Young, a seasoned elver fisherman, “If there were no eels, the elver fishermen would be first people bitching about it.”
The problem, according to fishermen, is that managers see them as low-hanging fruit—it’s easier to deal with fishermen who have little monetary and political power rather than confronting formidable multinational dam owners. “The comment from the [ASMFC’s] technical committee is that it would be easier to manage this fishery if it were closed. Well, no shit!” Pierce says, “This fishery has done a lot for people and it’s really sad they want to take this away from people.”
This past winter the various stakeholders—the ASMFC, the State of Maine, commercial elver fishermen and Native Americans from the Passamaquoddy tribe—fought bitterly over elver regulations. The state ultimately worked out a deal with the commission this spring to keep the fishery open with a quota: an approximately 35 percent cut in last year’s total catch, to be divvied up among elver fishermen. Elver fishermen were not pleased about the decision. “They were heavy-handed,” Henry MacVane says.
On August 7 the ASMFC will vote on further regulations, including the question of whether to impose an even stricter quota on Maine’s elver fishery or even to completely shut it down. Pierce and other fishermen are working to develop a statewide glass eel management plan to prove to the commission they can run a sustainable fishery. Their efforts could be in vain, however, because the U.S. Fish and Wildlife Service may list the American eel under the Endangered Species Act, which could potentially prohibit eel fishing in all states. The agency will decide whether to list the eel in 2015.
The ASMFC faces a difficult decision this month, especially because it is under political pressure from other states that want to open up their own elver fisheries. “Managers have to consider not just biological objectives but also social and economic objectives,” says Yong Chen, fisheries biologist at U. Maine. “You can’t just say, ‘Let’s shut down the fishery,’ because too many people depend on that fish.” | <urn:uuid:7ede91eb-71be-4930-a259-b3b57ce7baaa> | CC-MAIN-2015-27 | http://www.scientificamerican.com/article/glass-eel-gold-rush-casts-maine-fishermen-against-scientists/?mobileFormat=true | 2015-07-01T15:34:13Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2015-27/segments/1435375094957.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20150627031814-00089-ip-10-179-60-89.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.952319 | 2,979 |
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burst water pipes
our water pipe burst under the bathroom sink and flooded our bathroom!
had to lay out all of our bits and bobs (deoderants, hair clippers, nail polish, jewellery, first aid kit) on towels to dry out.
what a disaster......
(i found this bow amongst all of the sodden debris.....can't remember where i got this from)
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A Glasgow lawyer has prepared some advice for people seeking ticket refunds from Pride Glasgow.
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THE top US securities regulator last night took its first stab at policing the $615 trillion (£387 trillion) over-the-counter derivatives market with a plan to mitigate conflicts of interests at venues that will handle the swaps.
The Securities and Exchange Commission voted 5-0 to propose ownership limits on the swaps trading venues and clearinghouses, which will assume the risk if one party defaults.
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|Dr. King Candlelight Celebration to be held Jan. 17|
Fort Hays State University will host its third annual Martin Luther King Jr. Day of Service and the Dr. Martin Luther King Jr. Candlelight Celebration, both on Monday, Jan. 17. Each year, the National Day of Service honors King's legacy by asking Americans to help their neighbors and communities.
Volunteers may sign up through Friday, Jan. 14, by going to the Office of Diversity Affairs website at http://www.fhsu.edu/diversity/. Each participant will receive a free T-shirt for participating.
Two shifts will be available on Monday, Jan. 17: 10 a.m. to 12 p.m. and 1 p.m. to 3 p.m. Volunteers will meet in the Sunset Lounge of the Memorial Union.
The candlelight celebration will be from 7 to 8:30 p.m. in the Beach/Schmidt Performing Arts Center and will commemorate King's life. This year's theme is "Be the One," showing the connectedness between King, Rosa Parks and Malcolm X for their work and commitment to the Civil Rights Movement of the 1960s.
Entertainers will be Mike Ferguson, Jessica Maguire and Jamison Green. The main production of the evening will be "The 60s, Oh What a Time It Was," produced, co-written and directed by George Jackson, III, coordinator of the Office of Diversity Affairs.
"We have had a very good response so far," Jackson said. "We started out with 35 students our first year and last year we had 85 student volunteers. This event has been met with glowing remarks from the community as well as FHSU students and faculty."
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Other people had stopped at the Blue Canoe restaurant and posted pictures of their dogs so I decided we would do the same. At the Blue Canoe, we used the air pump at the gas station, now we could hear hissing from the tire. We took our pictures quickly and hit the road again for Sussex hoping that the tire would hold out.
|Beckett and Keltic at the Blue Canoe |
We got to the trial site and registered. We also got the keys for our rooms at the local university. We set up our space near friends from the Ottawa area.
|Our set up for Nationals|
The next morning saw the start of the Nationals events. We had Gamblers and then Standard to run the first day. Beckett was spinning a lot in the Gambler so we didn't get through the opening I planned and we didn't get the main gamble either. That was fine it was just the first event. Our Standard went well except for taking down the double jump; I was happy with how he ran, a 5 fault run is pretty good. We also had our second Steepechase run. It had been pouring rain and the ground was muddy. Beckett was nearly the 100th dog in the ring. Even though we ran a cautious but clean run both of us slipped a little. Beckett's time was just over 40 seconds and we only had a standard course time of 42 seconds. That was his 24th Q, now only one to go for his title.
The next day we would run Jumpers and Gamblers. We had a decent jumpers run but I ran to close to the jump he was supposed to serp and he pushed to the back of the jump for an off course. The rest of the run was nice but 20 faults put us way down in the standings for that event. The next event Gamblers was a tough one. I didn't even think Beckett would go out the distance obstacle in the main Gamble. Our opening was good, he almost did the first mini and did the second mini gamble twice. He surprised me and did get out to the jump of the main gamble but then took the jump on the line rather than getting out the dog walk.
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I have to say that I was somewhat disappointed in our Nationals performance, while I didn't really expect to place I had hoped to better our Regionals score where we had a score of 465 points; at Nationals we ended up with only 364 points.Trying to focus on the positive, most of the errors were mine and Beckett actually ran well. I am considering moving him to Specials though so he doesn't have to jump as high and will no longer see the double jump. There are indications he's slowing down some so maybe the lower jump height would help. Next year, Nationals will be out in Burnaby BC, too far for us to travel so by the time they are back out east Beckett could be nearly a veteran dog so another reason to think about letting him jump the lower height.
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Guide to sethallia in raid: Shadow legends on pcplay in browser. The second bar is the turn meter.
Heals A Target Ally By 75% Of Their Max Hp And Places A [Block Debuffs] Buff For 2 Turns.
Sethalia is a magic affinity legendary from the banner lords faction. Raid shadow legends game guides and promo codes for new players Removes all debuffs from a target ally, then places a [block debuffs] buff for 2 turns and heals that ally by 75% of their max hp.
Getting The Right Equipment For Sethallia Is Crucial To Winning Battles In Raid:
Sethallia is amazing champion with her abilities to remove enemy buffs and to decrease turn meter. Decreases the turn meters of all enemies by 20% and fills the turn meters of all allies by 20% if 5 or more buffs were removed. Has a 30% chance of placing a [hp burn] debuff for 2 turns.
Early On In The Campaign, You’ll Receive Warpriest, A 3* Rare Character That Is A Good Support For This Part Of The Game.
They are magic, spirit, force, and void. Seeing a hulking orс chief fell a dozen of her men in that battle, sethallia cut her way through to the beast and mocked him brazenly. Like a lot of mobile games incorporating teams, raid:
Sethallia | Raid Shadow Legends.
Appearing above every enemy and friendly champion on the battlefield, you’ll see two bars. Find out more on this raid shadow legends codex. Sethallia is a legendary support magic champion from banner lords faction in raid: | <urn:uuid:8c886d4d-1a1b-4f57-9a52-63a5f677a7ad> | CC-MAIN-2022-49 | https://www.dbff.us/guide-to-sethallia-in-raid-shadow-legends-gl/ | 2022-11-27T13:02:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2022-49/segments/1669446710237.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20221127105736-20221127135736-00724.warc.gz | en | 0.904727 | 481 |
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Practical hands-on experience with globally recognized information technology systems dating from the hysteria of the Y2K era to the software as a service (SaaS) platforms of the modern era, we have seen it all. Having an integrated information technology platform allowed us to achieve $125MM of growth in the early 2000s. It facilitated our core recovery program, taking volumes from one-million units to 15 million units over a two-year period. And it enabled us to reduced working capital from $40MM+ to $24MM over a six-month period. Leveraging the internet, SaaS, and utilizing business intelligence for business development is the new path to success.
What does IT mean for a small business?
It means the deployment of an integrated suite of applications that enable a business to run its operations, financials, communications, marketing, customer service, and e-commerce activities while simultaneously enhancing the customer experience and improving decision-making capabilities and efficiency.
Large companies with access to significant human and financial resources have deployed fully integrated systems that accomplish these goals. They spent millions of dollars to achieve these objectives and have taken the better part of a decade to do so. Because of the costs incurred and the complexity involved, accomplishing these objectives used to be the exclusive realm of these large companies. These investments enabled them to extend already significant competitive advantages over small to medium-sized businesses.
Smaller office products and equipment dealers generally have inadequate technology platforms and insufficient resources to seek out and qualify alternatives that may meet their requirements.
IT and Business Transformation
In order to compete in the 21st-century business environment, it is necessary to implement and deploy information technology. This must be in the form of an integrated suite of software applications that simultaneously improves the customer experience and the decision-making capability and efficiency of the business.
Fortunately, achieving this task is no longer outside the scope of small to medium size businesses. World-class software solutions are available at a modest cost that can be deployed and integrated into a matter of weeks as compared to the years it took for large companies to implement their SAP, Oracle, and other large-scale Enterprise systems. Not only can the new era software be deployed quickly, but it can also be done within an architecture that permits flexibility not usually available to the large competitors now tied to their legacy systems.
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The key is not so much which individual software solutions are chosen. Instead, it is that a complete integrated suite of software applications is deployed. This can be achieved with different individual software applications so long as they “speak” to each other. A large organization may deploy SAP as its enterprise system. A small organization may deploy QuickBooks for financials, PayPal for online payment processing, a GoDaddy hosted managed website built on WordPress, HubSpot CRM, HubSpot Digital Marketing and Power E-commerce for the shopping cart and product catalog management. These six individual software applications, when integrated, are more than a match for an unwieldy SAP or Oracle based enterprise system.
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We are in a period of information overload with the volume of information continuing to increase at an exponential rate. It’s simply not possible to make any sense of all this information without the use of information technology and business intelligence tools. Once business intelligence is layered on top of the massive amounts of information, then a competitive advantage can start to be developed. The availability of sophisticated software at low cost is transforming the playing field and eliminating barriers to entering new sales channels for small and medium size business enterprises. | <urn:uuid:88186e52-1606-4e8f-b694-6197af4caae7> | CC-MAIN-2020-05 | https://eandssolutions.com/technology/it-systems/ | 2020-01-25T03:35:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-05/segments/1579250628549.43/warc/CC-MAIN-20200125011232-20200125040232-00221.warc.gz | en | 0.933722 | 752 |
07 Jun, 2012
Posted by: turbomammoth In: General
My boyfriend finally got back from his 3-days conference yesterday. It was a conference about nutrition in health & science and he had a blast enjoying the super warm and wonderful weather in Winnipeg (unskinnygirl, it was so fun watching his puzzled face when he told me ”the weather was so nice and so hot” [...]
A quick post this morning, I have 10 000 things to do in the lab this morning before our meeting with the boss this afternoon.
I had my weekly weigh in this morning and I ended up at 136.0 lbs (+0.4 lbs since last friday).
You know what? I’m not even disapointed.
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Written by: A.M. Yates
Print Length: 301 pages
Publication Date: July 8, 2016
Genre: Scifi Fantasy Teen
Home alone over spring break, Dee looks forward to a week free from worries about her sliding grades, her lack of friends, and her mom’s overbearing boyfriend. But when she chases a thief out of her house, she ends up with a whole new set of troubles . . . in a whole new world. The Crescent. Where everyday objects possess extraordinary power. Where countless other worlds are mere steps away. And where the High Minister has a plan for a greater future . . . that Dee really didn’t mean to screw up. Really.
Pursued by masked hunters, all Dee wants is to get back home again. Yet her every move only entangles her deeper in the fantastic and dangerous new world of the Crescent.
Stealer was a highly original story with amazing world building.
Dee is an unusual girl who doesn’t quite fit in. She is drawn to every day broken objects which she collects. This immediately brought to mind the collector in Labyrinth . We discover the reason that Dee’s need to collect these items when they are stolen and she is pulled into another world by a talking worm. It seems these items are magical and Dee is drawn to them by her genetics.
There is a very powerful creature in this new world that is hunting those with Dee’s abilities and it all comes down to survival.
The world building amazing and extremely imaginative but the story’s pace was just off with lulls that diminished my interest. There was just enough to make me want to know the outcome but nothing that invested me into the character’s plight.
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Three imperatives of good project manager:
Eric Knight in this HBR blog shared experiences of senior executive and experienced project leaders to ensure projects are managed effectively. Three tips are highlighted by experienced project managers interviewed by Eric.
Shortage of skilled project managers is disadvantageous to businesses:
A recent survey & study on project manager salary and development by ESI international as narrated at CIO.com states that there has been increase in complexity and size of projects but organizations are finding themselves understaffed and lesser-trained project management professionals.
Survey claims that of the reported understaffed project management professionals position in organizations it surveyed, more than 40 % positions are for senior-level project managers, and almost half of the respondents have said that it is really difficult to find experienced, senior project management professionals.
Project management needs essential tools
In this article author points out essential features of project management tool to effectively management projects. Here is a quick list
Though author has suggested few options like MS Project, Basecamp, Sharepoint etc. Let me also suggest our own tool here : ZIlicusPM - project management software.
Recognising risk in project management
In this article, the author points out the typical way in which project managers handles project risks. He rightly noted that project managers miss key point in lifecycle of risks - The Trigger Point and he goes further to list out three points in the lifecycle of a risk where PMs can manage risks.
Though author mentions that there is no clear demarcation where one can say this is 'Trigger point' in future, but the best strategy is to tackle risk is at point number one (i.e. before it can happen). The next best time is when it is happening. However once it has happened, project team is left with limited options like Contingency or Mitigate route.
Risk highlighting and risk management can not be solely be done by project manager. It is a team effort and has to be considered in a holistic way of managing projects.
In this interesting article at PMHut, author has emphasized the importance of defining success criterion and measuring success for project management. Let me list out few major points here | <urn:uuid:7eef3285-2ed1-4b6d-8627-0815e7907d59> | CC-MAIN-2017-39 | http://zilicus.com/Resources/blog-2014/The-Week-That-Was-In-Project-Management-16-23-March-2014.html | 2017-09-24T19:23:03Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-39/segments/1505818690203.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20170924190521-20170924210521-00298.warc.gz | en | 0.949059 | 447 |
Mediation Of Ecstatic Energy
, September 20th, 2013 11:23
It's misleading to think of Dustin Wong as an explorer. Too often he's been dubbed as such, 'expanding' or 'exploring' the sonic possibilities of his chosen instrument and a handful of pedals, yet he's doing nothing as scientific, methodical or tangible as mere exploration. John Fahey famously explained how he “heard an orchestra in [his] head” while playing, but Wong's guitar is not so much a baton as it is a paintbrush. He's a painter and a poet, and it's in the discrepancy between the image in his head and the sound in your ears that his indelible sonic personality comes to life. From the opening fuzzed out bassy guitar punches and jittering spring reverb stabs of album overture, 'The Big She', it's clear that Wong's gingerly treading new and unfamiliar ground. Tonally the piece marches on with unsettling dissonance, evading the root notes and piling uneasy chords and interlocking lines that, though similar in size and shape to Wong's previous work, imply a wholly different atmosphere to any predecessors. A distant vocal and off-kilter metronomic drum machine further muddy the rising confusion before Wong unexpectedly slices the loop sending the beat from tick-tock wandering into motorik overdrive, ushering in a closing coda of percussive Faustian jamming.
The debased and alien 'Big She' may not come to define the record, but its adventurous approach to composition and Wong's varied and increasingly adept ability to craft near-unrecognisable sounds from his arsenal of pedals does. Much of the first half of the album following 'Big She' adheres to the Wong's time-tested cascades of bouncy guitar melodies and arpeggios. The two-part suite of 'Emerald Atmosphere' and 'Imaginelectric' may indeed be the archetypal Dustin Wong compositions. Jittering lines of impossibly staccato guitar notes (pushed beyond the realms of human ability through looping and overdubbing) slowly build into bedrock grooves for psychedelic noodling. Like a game of Jenga, Wong removes and replaces elements of each track, morphing them into teetering melodic towers that ultimately and inevitably topple, only to subsequently rebuild them in one of the infinite number of new permutations. 'Imaginelectric' sees themes from 'Emerald Atmosphere' exhumed, reborn, and reshaped by Wong into another chapter in the journey. It's as episodic an experience as it is holistic, and while Dreams Say, View, Create, Shadow Leads was similarly structured, Mediation Of Ecstatic Energy wins out in close-up, filled with beguiling and beautiful moments, and constantly colourful loop-pedal sleight of hand.
Wong's chameleonic guitar vocabulary is now at its most expansive and dynamic, reminiscent of a banjo one moment and a Casiotone the next. On 'Speeding Feathers Staring' we're met with delay pedal spacescapes akin to Inventions For Electric Guitar-era Manuel Göttsching or the intergalactic Echo heyday of Achim Reichel, while 'Japan' deadens and reduces the guitar to the point where it replicates the mesmerising bamboo abuse of an indonesian gamelan. Dustin Wong's ability to evoke both the outer space of the former and the inner space of the latter is remarkable. The man's no longer simply experimenting with the infinite number of sonic possibilities at his disposal, he's composing with them - albeit in a very stream-of-consciousness way.
As is almost evident from the album titles alone, the maturation and increased focus since Dreams Say, View, Create, Shadow Leads has been substantial. Album highpoint, 'Japan', is undoubtedly Wong's single best composition yet, relying not on simply playing with aesthetics and half-complete tunes (which has still produced memorable results - just listen to 'Toe Tore Oh' from Dreams Say) but on a masterful marriage of imagery and melody. The track's way more uplifting than it should be, and paints a perfect picture of the cityscapes, mountains and many contradictions of the titular island and Wong's adopted home. 'Tall Call Cold Sun' closes the album, calling upon the ghostly whispered vocals of Takako Minekawa. It's a fittingly meditative and contemplative climax, repeating the chiming echo chamber beauty the pair trailblazed together on 'Windy Prism Room' earlier this year on Toropical Circle.
The album's artwork includes a short story, apparently written with the same spontaneity as Wong's compositional process for music. It's fittingly abstract and bizarre, and the song titles across the album are in fact made up of select words extracted chronologically from the story, suggesting a narrative that may or may not be present in the music. This is all an exercise with interconnectedness, indeterminacy and mind-mapping, a representation of Wong's own passive subconscious; the colours of the Tokyo skyline, the beaches of Waikiki and the ephemerality of time are all blurred and moulded into one incomprehensible whole by Wong's vision. Or, perhaps not. Maybe the threads of imagery and meaning are a mirage of mine, and this is little more than an aesthetic work. Whatever it means, Mediation Of Ecstatic Energy is undoubtedly Wong's most fully realised, varied and intriguing set of compositions to date. | <urn:uuid:def01c44-2099-44e7-a0e0-9ef5cb5455d2> | CC-MAIN-2014-52 | http://thequietus.com/articles/13401-dustin-wong-mediation-of-ecstatic-energy-review | 2014-12-21T13:30:50Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-52/segments/1418802771253.22/warc/CC-MAIN-20141217075251-00165-ip-10-231-17-201.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.945332 | 1,151 |
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Chinstrap penguins primarily eat krill, or Euphasia superba, small crustaceans that live in the ocean. The diet of a chinstrap penguin might also include other crustaceans and small shoaling fish, but these do not contribute significantly to the penguin's total caloric intake.Continue Reading
Chinstrap penguins mostly obtain food close to shore, so their diets are limited to sea creatures found along the shoreline of Antarctica, the South Sandwich Islands and other small islands in the Antarctic Ocean where they live.
To obtain food, a chinstrap penguin typically dives into the water just offshore, where it quickly captures and eats its prey without leaving the water. Dives generally last less than one minute, and chinstrap penguins usually limit dives to less than 200 feet below the surface. A single chinstrap penguin makes multiple dives into the same patch of prey during a given feeding.
Chinstrap penguins hunt and eat both during daylight hours and throughout the night. Both the frequency of dives and depth of dives are greatest during the midday hours when the sunlight penetrates more deeply into the ocean and krill are more visible. Unlike most penguin species, chinstrap penguins can feed even in extremely low-light conditions with light levels as low as 1 lux. During the breeding season, each member of a mated pair of chinstrap penguins takes turns feeding and incubating the egg throughout the day and night.Learn more about Penguins | <urn:uuid:4b941065-dd8c-43ea-822d-47830dca2bdc> | CC-MAIN-2017-04 | https://www.reference.com/pets-animals/chinstrap-penguins-eat-7670d48ac8f2d599 | 2017-01-23T20:08:19Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-04/segments/1484560282937.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20170116095122-00434-ip-10-171-10-70.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.936957 | 307 |
'˜No room at the inn' for ex-soldier who carried cross from Rotherham to London
A former soldier who carried a crucifix weighing 100lbs from Rotherham to London says he is '˜overwhelmed' by public support '“ but claims there was '˜no room at the inn' from churches en route.
Wayne Hayhurst has the cuts, bruises, blisters – and broken toe – to prove he truly has bore the weight of the cross on his pilgrimage to raise cash for a children’s hospice.
But, oddly, Wayne claims churches he encountered on the nine-day journey would not offer a place to rest – meaning the hero was forced to sleep rough for some nights.
Wayne, aged 49, said: “A lot of people say they bear the weight of the cross – but I’ve got the cuts, bruises and blisters to prove I actually have.
“There were times on my journey that I wanted to give up, walking along country roads in the pitch black, in the middle of the night, when it was raining.
“But if you have faith – anything is possible. I can’t save the lives of these poorly children, but I can make a sacrifice, raise some money and do what I can.”
Despite Wayne’s saintly intentions, the former Royal Corps of Transport soldier said churches en route abandoned him in his time of need.
Wayne, of Whiston, Rotherham, said: “The churches I encountered were not helpful at all, they turned me away and forced me to sleep rough. Talk about no room at the inn – I could not believe it.
“I was carrying a wooden and copper cross, which was 13 foot in length and six foot in diameter, to help dying children and they would let me stay the night in their church.” He added: “I was overwhelmed by the support from the public. A lot of people said how much they had been inspired by what I was doing. Quite a few did think I was a looney, though.”
Wayne, who made the pilgrimage with his trusty dog Pip, said he was forced to abandon his journey at Magna Park, South of Leicester – after walking for more than 100 miles.
He said: “I could hardly walk due to a broken toe and this guy pulled up in a car and said ‘I’ve seen you on Facebook and you’ve really inspired me. I want to take you the rest of the way’.
“At that stage, I couldn’t refuse. I’d walked way over 100 miles.”
Wayne said he arrived in London yesterday and will be having a celebration in Hyde Park tomorrow.
The body-breaking journey was to raise funds for Bluebell Wood Children’s Hospice, in North Anston, which cares for more than 200 children in South Yorkshire and further afield.
Wayne is also raising cash for PDSA, the UK’s leading veterinary charity.
But despite his incredible feat, the current total has not broken the £300 mark yet.
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Chrissy Teigen spent Valentine's Day showing love to herself as she shared an unfiltered photo of her body on Instagram.
The 35-year-old shared clips from her celebrations with husband John Legend on her stories, where she chronicled their night out. But she also posted some photos from their hotel room when the night ended, including a photo of her stomach and breasts that revealed her scars from recent surgeries.
"Happy Valentine's Day. Love yourself!!" she wrote on the photo. "B**** has been throuuugh it."
Teigen also added a band-aid emoji alongside the bruising and marks left behind from an endometriosis procedure she had over a week prior. Although she was able to make it out to celebrate Valentine's Day with Legend, Teigen had previously shared that the recovery from the surgery meant to alleviate pain from her endometriosis — a disorder in which uterine lining tissue incorrectly grows outside of the uterus — was rough.
The recent photo even showed scars on Teigen's breasts, resulting from a surgery in May when she got her breast implants removed.
This wouldn't be the first time that Teigen got candid about her appearance, even recently speaking out about her frustration over having a pregnancy belly even after her miscarriage with baby Jack. The mother-of-two also chronicled a case of swollen lips over the weekend, which she suggests was a result of biting into an orange that might have had pesticides on it.
"I look like a juicy blow up doll, freshly unpacked," she wrote on Instagram.
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Wednesday, May 27, 2009
Thursday, May 14, 2009
..Just in case you missed it, Chelsea the blue shirts gwan bye bye.. haha YESSS Barça! (the video above (don't mind the glitches) displays the highlights/goals 1-1, Barça came back in the end BEAUTIFULLY to dominate Chelsea and go through to the final!)
Now lets take down MAN U!!!
May 27th Champions League final
BARCELONA -vs- Manchester United
Sunday, May 3, 2009
(not the best video.. but you'll see it well enough)
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Friday December 06, 2013
Remembering Nelson Mandela’s Extraordinary Legacy
“All of us need to do more in supporting the struggle of the people of Palestine for self-determination; in supporting the quest for peace, security and friendship in this region” – Nelson Mandela
As we remember our hero Nelson Mandela who passed away yesterday at the age of 95, we too are reflecting on his extraordinary legacy. Having suffered under the wrath of oppression as a political prisoner for 27 years, he emerged with unwavering conviction and extraordinarily, with genuine reconciliation. In his historic speech as President of South Africa at the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People in 1997, he reminded us that “the temptation in our situation is to speak in muffled tones about an issue such as the right of the people of Palestine to a state of their own…yet we would be less than human if we did so.” Having defeated the abhorrent system of apartheid in South Africa, he chose to lead his country, but also continue the struggle for human rights worldwide. Like the rest of the world, we mourn the loss of this great man.
The above picture of Nelson Mandela and Yasser Arafat hangs at AAI and is signed by both men. The Nelson Mandela quote from 1990 reads: "There are many similarities between our struggle and that of the PLO. We live under a unique form of colonialism in South Africa, as well as in Israel..."
Read the full address by President Nelson Mandela at the International Day of Solidarity with the Palestinian People here.
Below, in an article for Huffington Post, AAI President Jim Zogby gives the backstory on the photo:
Mandela and Arafat
In late February of 1990, just two weeks after being released from prison, Nelson Mandela met with Palestine Liberation Organization Chairman Yasir Arafat. Afterwards Mandela spoke publicly of his affinity with the Palestinian people and his support for their struggle. He described the parallels between the two peoples' struggles for justice, saying in part.
"There are many similarities between our struggle and that of the PLO. We live under a unique form of colonialism in South Africa, as well as in Israel..."
That was 1990, when it was taboo in the U.S. to have any contact with the PLO. Because Americans had a double standard when it came to addressing Palestinian rights and/or had been cowed into silence about Israeli behavior, many were shocked that Mandela would not only praise the PLO but would also compare the Palestinian struggle against colonization and occupation with the campaign against apartheid. But Mandela would not be silenced. The man stood firm reminding those who questioned him that the PLO had always been an ally of his African National Congress (ANC), while Israel had been an ally and arms' supplier to the South African apartheid regime. At one point he said "Our freedom is incomplete without the freedom of the Palestinians." For supporters of Palestinian rights, all of this was exhilarating and validating.
I was so moved by Mandela's courage and his commitment to speak the truth about Palestinians that I made a poster commemorating the Mandela-Arafat embrace including an excerpt of his words.
I met Nelson Mandela a few times. On one occasion, he told me how thankful he continued to be for the early support Algeria and Egypt had provided to the ANC and to him personally. On another, in 1991, I remembered to bring a copy of the poster and asked him to sign it. He looked at it, smiled and said about Arafat "he is a friend and a good man."
Four years later I remembered to bring the poster to Arafat asking him to sign it.
That poster has hung in my office for more than two decades as a reminder of the real Mandela -- the brave and always honest fighter for justice and of his strong support for the Palestinian people.
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The 24-year-old was one of three players called up by Roy Hodgson following a spate of withdrawals from his squad to face Ukraine in a World Cup qualifier at Wembley on Tuesday. Chelsea duo John Terry and Ashley Cole were ruled out over the weekend, and on Monday Theo Walcott went back to Arsenal after contracting a virus.
Daniel Sturridge was also unable to train due to illness and, although Hodgson expects the striker to be fit, he was quick to draft in replacements. Lallana was one following an encouraging start to the season, except he did not quite believe it. He told www.saintsfc.co.uk: "I didn't think the gaffer was being serious when he called to tell me this morning."
He continued: "I was at home about to head into the training ground when he called - I must have asked if he was having me on a dozen times! I'm totally shocked to be honest."
Named Saints' skipper this summer on their return to the Premier League, Lallana has represented England at Under-18, Under-19 and Under-21 levels. And whilst he realises it is a long shot that he will make his debut tomorrow, he is delighted with the recognition.
"It's such a proud accomplishment to be called up to play for your country at any level, but to be called into the senior side is probably the proudest moment of my career so far," he said.
"It is every player's dream to represent your country at the top level. I'm realistic in accepting I might not be that heavily involved, but the fact that I will be around such experienced international players is something I am really excited about."
Lallana will link up with former team-mate Alex Oxlade-Chamberlain, who featured in Friday's 5-0 defeat of Moldova in Chisinau. And as Walcott is another Southampton old-boy, clearly the south coast outfit are doing something right.
"It reflects really well on the club," Lallana said. "It shows just how far Southampton has come to have an English player represented at national level.
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THINGS and also STUFF
Oh cripes, I've been neglecting this thing a bit. Don't forget, people, if you see some nifty reference material or a good deal on something that looks useful, post it with abandon.
Thought I should put this up somewhere: the current crew roster! Currently taking applications. Enlistment in the Flying U 53rd includes no health benefits or meals, must supply own uniform. :D
First Mate: Tina
Gentleman Adventurer: Sean
Plus a few nifty links for visual inspiration:Civil-War Era sorta-soldier ladies
(I'm going to be drawing heavily on this design)Zouave uniform
(mostly period)Nifty military surplus overcoats
(not period at all, but customizable as hell)Nifty European military surplus overcoats and like a million other things
And of course one must punk it up properly.GEARS AND LENSES AND STUFF AND THANGS.
It's getting to be time to start thinking about actual construction! The plan is for the Flying U 53rd to conduct maneuvers
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A bloke came to my door today with a gun. 'This is for you', he said. 'Oh, blimey!' I said, 'thank you very much indeed!'
The bloke - my upstairs neighbour - has just sold his flat and was having a bit of a clear out. 'It's been sitting in the back of my wardrobe for years and years,' he said, 'I thought you might like it?' I do like it,' I said, 'In fact I'm chuffed to bits!'
I spent a good while thanking him - and vowing to help shift his wardrobe & sofa next week - then threw myself into the Net to research this wonderful gift.
Turns out it's a Mark 4 BSA Super Meteor in .22. It was made - so I soon discovered - in Birmingham between 1974 and '78. New, it put out pellets - possibly quite-tricky-to-find 5.6mm pellets - at about 8ftlb. Cracking the barrel revealed that the breech seal had totally disintegrated so I hot-footed it over to T.W Chambers' site and bought a new one for a modest £3.24.
Then I cleaned out the remains of the old seal, fettled a few marks and scratches off the stock and applied a wee bit of gun oil. The mechanism felt smooth and everything seemed to work just fine (though of course I can't fire it till I get the seal in the post). That done, I just marveled at it.
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The Senators dipped into the unrestricted free agent pool Friday when they signed center David Legwand to a two-year, $6-million deal. There’s no question Legwand will make the Sens better – indeed, after captain Jason Spezza was dealt to Dallas earlier this week, Ottawa needs all the help it can get – but if you’re expecting him to remain in Canada’s capital for the duration of his new contract, you might want to reconsider. Because it may well turn out that, like many veterans changing teams at this time of year, Legwand only sticks around for a season – or less.
Legwand isn’t the player he once was – the quiet-but-effective cornerstone in Nashville for 14-and-a-half of his 15 NHL seasons – but he showed he still had something left in the tank after he was dealt to Detroit at the trade deadline last season (four goals and 11 points in 21 games as a Wing). That said, he’s no Spezza and if he produces at above a .5 points-per-game pace, Sens management will be overjoyed. Not because his contributions are going to turn Ottawa into a playoff team, but because it will make him more attractive as a trade chip either at the next deadline or next summer.
He’s not alone in that regard. If the Panthers’ latest rebuild goes into the crapper, it’s extremely unlikely veteran blueliner Willie Mitchell will finish his new two-year contract in Florida. New Flames goalie Jonas Hiller and Devils winger Martin Havlat, both of who are on short-term deals and playing for teams with modest expectations, are in similar situations. And even though defenseman Josh Gorges has four years remaining on his contract, when you see the measly price (a second round pick) the Sabres paid to acquire him, you have to think the 29-year-old would be available under the right circumstances.
This isn’t a brand new occurrence: The ink on Jaromir Jagr’s one-year contract with the Stars had barely dried in the lockout-shortened 2012-13 campaign when Dallas dealt him to Boston after just 34 games. Steve Downie signed a two-year deal with Colorado that same year, but was moved to Philadelphia only 11 games into last season. The Oilers signed goalie Devan Dubnyk to a two-year extension in July of 2012 and less than 18 months later was shipped out to Nashville. The Flyers signed Vincent Lecavalier to a mammoth five-year contract they’re currently trying to extricate themselves from via a trade. The list goes on and on.
In the salary-capped NHL, there are only two types of players: (1) young stars, usually in their 20s, who will never be traded even after disappointing seasons (hello, Eric Staal!); and (2) everybody else. That’s why it’s amusing to see fans get worked up over the final years of extravagant free agent deals; they envision their favorite team being weighed down by management’s largesse, never taking into account how unlikely it is that will actually happen. Franchises like the Maple Leafs and Devils have made a habit out of buyouts – that, granted, still affect their salary cap bottom line – but as often as not, GMs are usually able to find new homes for contracts that didn’t work out as planned.
That’s not to say Legwand will be a disaster with the Sens. He’s still just 33 years old and could sign another NHL deal (with Ottawa or another team) after his new one expires. But he no longer has the career cachet to expect he can just stick around any city for the duration of the deal he’s agreed to.
Legwand has entered the twilight of his NHL days – and whether you’re him, Lecavalier, Jagr, the increasingly well-traveled Brad Richards or even the still-seeking-employment Martin Brodeur, you have to come to grips with the fact that, when that happens and regardless of your past accomplishments, you no longer get to set down roots as one of the game’s fading flowers. | <urn:uuid:7f61c0f8-e71f-45f3-90f0-15fb546629c8> | CC-MAIN-2014-23 | http://www.thehockeynews.com/blog/david-legwand-signs-with-senators-but-he-could-be-traded-in-short-order/ | 2014-07-29T10:43:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2014-23/segments/1406510267075.55/warc/CC-MAIN-20140728011747-00333-ip-10-146-231-18.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.971031 | 890 |
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WE will rise from the ashes stronger than ever.
That’s the message from Ayrshire restaurant chain Buzzworks following a devastating fire at Lido in Troon on Sunday.
West Portland Street remained closed for most of Monday following the blaze as the fire investigation team inspected the premises looking for a cause.
At the time of going to press the root of the fire had not been revealed.
But inspectors have assured Buzzworks owners that Sunday’s fire was completely unrelated to a minor fire alert at Lido a few weeks ago.
Despite the raging inferno inside the restaurant, it’s believed other businesses on the street escaped without damage, and all were open for trading as normal on Tuesday when the fire brigade removed the cordons.
Michael Mancini said: “I open at noon on Sunday and when I arrived at work the fire was already well underway.
“The street was already closed so it made no sense for me to open.
“My store wasn’t damaged at all, although I have a fan in the back of the shop so the smell of burning is still quite strong.
“But it’s just one of these things.”
Businesses and officials have joined forces in praising the skill of the firefighters for keeping the blaze contained.
At the height of the fire there were five fire engines and over 30 firemen battling the blaze.
A spokesman for Buzzworks said: “We are relieved that everyone who was in the venue at the time is safe and well.
“Strathclyde Fire and Rescue were quickly in attendance and our thanks go to the attending fire crews for their efforts.”
Troon councillor Peter Convery added: “It was remarkable the skill of the fire service in containing a fire of that size.
“They should all be congratulated.
“The main thing is you can replace a building not people and everyone got out safely, the company clearly has good evacuation procedures in place.”
Buzzworks continued: “We are extremely saddened by this incident and would like to thank the many customers who have been in touch to offer their support and good wishes.
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Baron & Budd Attorney and Shareholder Burton LeBlanc to Speak on Opioid Epidemic at American Association for Justice
BATON ROUGE, La. – November 17, 2017 – The national law firm of Baron & Budd is pleased to announce Louisiana-based shareholder, Burton LeBlanc, will speak about the opioid epidemic at a seminar hosted by the American Association for Justice on November 28-29, 2017 in St. Louis, Mo. The American Association for Justice (AAJ) is the largest trial lawyer non-profit organization in the United States. LeBlanc is the co-chair of the AAJ’s Opioids Litigation section.
The seminar will feature a question and answer period with Jim Geldhof, a 40-year DEA veteran who was responsible for pharmaceutical investigations from the DEA’s Detroit field office. Geldhof was prominently featured in recent exposes from The Washington Post and 60 Minutes on the opioid epidemic, and how the DEA’s efforts to crack down on distributors were derailed.
“It is always an honor to talk to my fellow AAJ members and colleagues,” said Burton LeBlanc, Shareholder and Attorney for Baron & Budd. “The AAJ offers trial attorneys a platform to share our experiences and stay up-to-date on the latest strategies and tactics in litigation. After spending the last several months meeting with cities and states throughout the country that have been devastated by these dangerous drugs, I genuinely believe that our cases against the drug distributors that caused the opioid crisis are some of the most important pieces of active litigation in the United States. I’m looking forward to bringing this issue to the forefront of the AAJ’s upcoming seminar.”
Baron & Budd is actively pursuing litigation against three Fortune 500 pharmaceutical distributors – Cardinal Health, AmerisourceBergen, and McKesson Corp. – alleging that each played a role in creating a public nuisance by failing to regulate orders of prescription opiates. Baron & Budd represents 100 different governmental entities in 10 different states and one sovereign nation in litigation against the manufacturers and distributors of prescription opiates.
An active member of the AAJ for many years, LeBlanc was appointed as the organization’s President in 2013 following a long history of involvement with the AAJ on both the local and national level. He previously served as president – elect, vice president, treasurer and parliamentarian of AAJ.
The AAJ strives to provide individuals a fair chance to receive justice through the legal system when they are harmed by negligence or misconduct. Protecting the rights of these victims can sometimes result in taking on the most powerful corporations. The attorneys who are AAJ members are advocates who are aggressively working to preserve the rights of people who seek justice in the courts.
LeBlanc oversees Baron & Budd’s Baton Rouge office and focuses his current practice in the areas of pharmaceutical, environmental, securities and asbestos litigation. Currently, he serves as a lead attorney in more than 70 lawsuits filed on behalf of municipalities against the largest pharmaceutical distributors in the United States for their role in creating the opioid crisis. In addition to his work representing individuals, LeBlanc has successfully represented many governmental entities, including the States of Hawaii, Mississippi, Louisiana, and West Virginia.
ABOUT THE AMERICAN ASSOCIATION FOR JUSTICE
The American Association for Justice, formerly the Association of Trial Lawyers of America (ATLA®), provides trial attorneys with information, professional support and a nationwide network that enables them to most effectively and expertly represent clients. The mission of the American Association for Justice is to promote a fair and effective justice system—and to support the work of attorneys in their efforts to ensure that any person who is injured by the misconduct or negligence of others can obtain justice in America’s courtrooms, even when taking on the most powerful interests.
ABOUT BARON & BUDD, P.C.
The law firm of Baron & Budd, P.C., with offices in Dallas, Baton Rouge, New Orleans, Austin, Los Angeles and San Diego, is a nationally recognized law firm with a nearly 40-year history of “Protecting What’s Right” for people, communities and businesses harmed by negligence. Baron & Budd’s size and resources enable the firm to take on large and complex cases. The firm represents individuals and government and business entities in areas as diverse as dangerous pharmaceuticals and medical devices, environmental contamination, the Gulf oil spill, financial fraud, overtime violations, deceptive advertising, automotive defects, trucking accidents, nursing home abuse, and asbestos-related illnesses such as mesothelioma. | <urn:uuid:a6ea408c-512a-43f8-82df-23ee9c29dd43> | CC-MAIN-2017-51 | https://baronandbudd.com/news/burton-leblanc-opioid-epidemic-aaj/ | 2017-12-11T11:23:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-51/segments/1512948513478.11/warc/CC-MAIN-20171211105804-20171211125804-00746.warc.gz | en | 0.949588 | 977 |
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Imagine taking the family to a nature preserve to spend the day communing with nature. You decide to visit a marsh in the Gulf of Morbihan in the country of France. You are walking along the raised pathway when you see a figure in the distance. It looks human-like but something is just a little off…
Then you start noticing more of them. Strange distorted figures that seem part of the marsh. Like the marsh has swallowed them up and made them part of it.
These are the works of sculptor Sophie Prestigiacomo. She started with two mysterious figures but the collection has grown to eight.
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Mum liked to play.
That is with my dick. But now its mutual.
This started way back and has matured over the years. As a start to this tale,I'll format slightly. We lived on a very desolate moor,me and mum that is. I'm not sure even if I officially existed. But this has no relevance in this tale. Any teaching needed I received from mum,hence this is one such subject she taught me.
Mum was everything to me and I to her. From as far back as I can remember,I enjoyed what this is about. Way,Way back mum had,when giving me a bath,paid special attention to my little dicky. Always she would tell me as she pulled my foreskin back from my little knob,how important it was to wash under this skin. Everytime the tightness of my skin would stiffen my little penis. She'd giggle at this and playfully pull it to and fro as her eyes glittered with excitement at my little dick quickly hardening.
Each time in mocked shock she'd jump back as it made my little stiffy piss over her wrist or up her arm,depending on how she was holding it. All very kiddish. Then as I reached puberty,I didn't question it as she still got me hard in the bath and pulled at my foreskin each time. But,now a new sensation followed her playing,I felt tingling in my penis and a sensation in the sinews on the insides of my thigh's. She'd rub at me with my hardened cock laying in her palm with the underpart gently rubbing along her wrist. The cord at this point made my cock tingle with the friction as it slid backwards and forward until her wrist had a slippery sheen covering of love juice along it.
This slipperyness lessened the friction,but as I started to unintentionally fuck at her hand,she'd tighten her fingers and thumb on my penis and gripping tightly go faster and faster making me unintentionally dry fuck at her hand until I had the most exciting sensation in my lower body and especially along the length of my penis. "Not ready yet then" I wasn't sure what or why whatever it was wasn't ready as she'd observed. I just looked forward to this a couple of times a week. But now I also looked forward to watching mum bath. At first I wasn't sure why as I'd never took any notice in all the years before puberty. I especially liked watching my mum's normally curly pussy pubes,hang free or sticking to her skin all straight when soaking wet. Yeah,I had pubes by this time but I assumed because there were less of them,they quickly became curly again as I stood up in the bath. But mum's didn't until she towelled them dry.
Another change had happened,up until now mum had had her clothes on when doing what I've just relayed here. But over the last couple of weeks I observed less clothes,that is all she wore was a very revealing bra' and a less revealing pair of knicker's. I commented about this,but she just answered, "You're bigger now and make bigger splashes" These past couple of weeks remained the same until at a weekend moment,mum started her usual playing. Then as she stiffened my much larger penis, "This time young man,I've got a feeling about this one" She looking at my cock,kissed it on the tip. She's never done that before! "Yeah,something tells me this is the day for it"
By now I was already getting worked up with her wanking at my cock. I'd spent much of my time at night wanking myself as well as mum's playing but it,while giving me immense orgasm's left me with just a sticky ended cock. I knew from the various animals around,that something was missing,I hadn't shot off sperm like they did,especially the rams and our dog. He never seemed to stop shooting off. Mum seen to that as well.
So I got excited and as my ass started dry fucking at mum's hand,I found my mind and eyes focused on mum's tits wobbling around like two jellies. On glancing up she realising I was studying her tit's,increased the speed of the tossing she was giving my hardon. "Go on son,make it cum,cum on then,go on,cum over my tits you little fucker,go on,do it" This talking had me trying to keep pace with the speed of mum's hand. Then she stopped for a second to change hand's. 'No mum,don't stop now,use your normal hand,you're going to slow with this one' She in a second changed hands and with it,her stance.
Now with her body sat on one calf and her other leg spread to balance her, my eyes were looking at her cunt showing from one knicker leg. She doubled her effort,unaware I was thinking the most filthy thought about my cock and her cunt. With a fearful force my orgasm shot my first shot of spunk past my mothers face to land somewhere beyound her shoulder. "Yes,I knew you would" In that instant she stopped and fiercely jerked at my cock somemore. Now kneeling she wanked my cock with fury. I thrust at her hand and saw shot after shot splat onto her trembling breasts.
She eventually stopped the wanking as I stood feeling totally elated but with my legs all wobbly. I had a sensation now as mum squeezed my cock pressing the last of my first spunking up the tube. With her face only inches from my penis,her eyes met mine. "Shall I? can I? lick that is" I nodded an affirmative. Another sensation,tingled through me as her tongue,at first licked over the end,then gripped around me with her mouth and sucked just enough to gather all my residue. On swallowing this, "That was fucking salty,worse than the mutts" Her wanking hand now wiped my offering on her tits across the jelly like mamary's and with no further ado she licked at all that remained on her hand's. "Yes,much more salty"
It had never occured to me,that mum would try licking the mutt as she called him. I knew she wanked him and knew he licked her,but that was all. That same mutt now barking and scratching at the back door. "Stupid dog! he knows something's going on" - "Go away,I'm busy,you stupid dog" The scratching continued. On stepping out of the bath,mum squeezed my ass a bit. "I'm real pleased,you've got there. When you've wiped,come in to me,I've been waiting along time for this" I looked at her, 'You're going to,you're going to let me,aren't you?' "Hurry and wipe,before you catch your death of cold"
Death of cold,my eye. Mum's going to let me fuck her,just like mutt wants too. As she entered the bedroom I saw her pull her knicker's down and pop her bra' Hardly bothering to wipe I was into her room in a flash. She had already got on the bed. "I know you want to do this,don't you? - 'Yes' - well,seeing you've arrived,I mean you're a man now,how would you be with sleeping in here from now on?" 'What about mutt?' "Don't worry about him,I'm sure I can manage you and him being in here"
Many times I'd seen mutt doing mum with his tongue and her to him,what mum had just done to me. Mutt's tongue had finished mum,always in the same way. "Get off and get out of here,no you can't,not until he has" This had always been lost on me,I'd been much more interested in watching mum nearly fall off the bed with her orgasm,then quietly shoo mutt out. While I unobtrusively dragged him by his collar when with a lot of purple cock available mum had rejected his offer to give her it. Mum knew I watched her,but no comment between us was ever made. Later she'd go down and flip him till his cum shot everywhere,commenting. "Not yet,like me you'll have to wait till he's ready"
I realised I was ready now. I looked at mum. "Should we let him in?or do we do it alone" 'Alone,its my first time' "Watch what I do,I'll let you try,later,but when I say now,get on me and do what you do to my hand when I've been wanking you off" Mum started to masterbate herself and I watched intensely. Yeah I'd watched before but always at a distance,I'd many times watched mutt lick her but never this close up. Her pussy looked very big to me,but also very beautiful as it wriggled and wobbled to mum's tormenting fingers. Being so close I could see the hard bit mum had peeled her hoodlike skin from,just like she peeled my foreskin back. Now with finger and thumb,she tormented this hard clitoris while it dropped back under its hood,until she went crazy. Now,just like she'd done to my prick,she worked at her quim in excited spasms.
All sorts of little noises emmited from her as she started to orgasm. "NOW! NOW! Get on me,quick now,do mee!" I clambered across my mum's body and as she fumbled for my cock she kept up her remoreless masterbating. "Push it in me,AAAGH! Hard, FUCK ME HAAARD! THAT'S IT,HARDER,HARRRDDDER!" Caught up in the moment,I fucked her brains out as she told me after we both calmed down from our orgasm. 'And again mum! Do you want me some more' "Yeah,I felt you cum in me,I'm Oh! So proud of you,you can cum now,lovely salty,Oh so salty new cum" She gripped round me,hugging me so tight I could hardly breath. I brought us back to another orgasm with even more cum shot up my mum's quim. Another lot of hugging.
I lay listening to mutt scratching furiously at the back door. Mum lay on her back as I felt just how wet her quim now was. 'Shall I? Let him in mum,we'll have no door left in a minute' after a while, "Must we? I'm completely satisfied really. Go on then if you must" I realised that she knew she'd indicated earlier,she would do so,to let me to see it. I was gone,I felt so elated,I just wanted sex,any kind of sex. By the time Mutt beat me too her bedroom,mum had moved herself,now letting her ass hanging at the edge of the mattress,with her legs dangling to the floor.
Mutt was straight at her,his nose hit her pussy,mum jerked, "fuck,go steady,your nose is freezing" Mutt now settled into a routine he obviously knew well. I looked as he licked at mum's quim,the soft tissue flicking around as his tongue persued each bit of flavour and I watched as each time some of my brand new cum seeped from mum,he dug his tongue deep into her for more. I loved the way her ass jerked at these time's and she was forced to hide her clitoris with the flat of her hand while panting, "He's getting me near again"
Pulling herself open wide now,he brought her to a staggering orgasm. Mutt in turn tried to get up on her. "Drag him out,I'll see to him later,GET HIM AWAY, let him out again quick,I don't want to look at him right now" I done as she asked. I felt disappointed though,his red cock done a strange thing for me,I wanted mum to fuck him. 'Mum,he wanted to fuck you like I did' Quietly, "I know,I was near to letting him,now I got you here while I do it" 'You haven't before then?' "No,I'll show you why sometime,but no,I haven't you got me bloody close just then though,that's why I said get him out,I was weakening like hell"
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„I really dont want to.“,John claimed and tried to break from Elenas clutch,unsuccessfully.
„No,there is no way you are going home.You will party to forget him.“
„Uhu.“,he growled and let Elena guide himself to the next club.
Inside,he hoped the bodyguard would sent them away.
But no way.With a pleasing smile,he winked them in.
„Great,its working out.“,Elena said.
They passed a dark corridor and approached another man who opened up the door for them.
„Do you really think,we are right here?“
„Yes we are.“
She smiled at the portier and he held out the door.
John took a surprised look at the room,which was blurred with icy blue light.
Elena pulled him to the bar with her and they placed themselves on the bar seats.
„Two times,as usual.“,Elena ordered and John corrected. „Only a Radler for me.“
„Hey,loose up.“,she said and drank something blue in a shot glass.
John doubtfully drank from his beer can and hoped he wouldnt have to carry her home like he did the last time they wandered through the clubs.
He looked around,the dance floor was mainly filled up,in den cozy corners there were three couples,
that made out and looked like they would be stripping themselves down soon.
Yeah,great!Universe is demonstrating to me,that I am single.
The music changed and the light rushed to a flamy red.
A tall blond guy with nerdy glasses approached.
„What do you want,Aiden?“
„I wanted to ask you for a dance.“,the shaking boy responded.
„Okay.“,she claimed surprisedly and took him to the dance floor.
Not very much latr she layed in his arms,cheek to cheek,hips to hips.
John didnt even want to see it,he felt like her elder brother and considered her protection his responsibility.
So he stood up and walked over to them.
„Hey El.I want to go home.You coming?“
„Oh man,no.“,she slurred as if he would be annoying her.
Despite all obviousness,John wondered how these small drinks could have gotten her drunk.
He warned the nerd,shot him a „If-you-do-something-to-her-i -will-kill-her“-look and left the club.
When he was outside he deeply inhaled and exhaled,the air in the club had been surpressing and sticky.He crossed the promenade,in each corner he encountered drunks,people that made out and some that were obviously „high“.
He had never ever understood how people could have fun while destroying their bodies.
Sighing,he sat down on a bench,stripped off his trainers and his socks.
He walked through the sand a little bit,his foodcloth in his hand.
The sand mostly was cooled off again,a small piece of warmth was still sleeping in these small corns.It already was dark night and so he didnt even notice where he put his steps.
But he knew the sea good enough already so that he knew he didnt need to be scared.
The waves were crashing the shore peacefully,it was hardly anything else to be heard.
He sank into the sand relaxedly and put his shoes to his side.
And as he sat there,all these thoughts came back to him.
Thoughts of his break-up.
How they had screamed at each other,how he went.
The love of his life had just left him.After two happy years.
From somewhere he heard someone screaming.
„Leave me alone.“,it shattered through the silence and John already considered himself crazy.
Then he painfully realized that those screams were real.No picture of his fantasy.
Momentarily,he jumped up and ran,always following the scream.
„Leave me alone.“,it echoed in his head.
Directionless,he ran straight away,hoping he could help someone.
But he ran and ran and didnt find anyone.
When he finally came to a stand to take a deep breath,he saw a flash of light behind one of the beach cafés.
He fastly began to move again and when he reached the light,rage and hate rose up in him.
There was a man that weighed at least a hundred kilos,lying on an adolescent that was totally at the man`s mercy.And the boy was also half-naked.
His trousers were pulled down and he didnt wear his shirt anymore.
Before John could make any more thoughts,he stormed into the bright lighted place.
„Stop immediately.“,he cried as if he had a megafone with himself.
Surprisedly,the man escaped and while he did that,he dropped the candle which burnt out.
John fastly made his decision because he didnt know,if that person would come back,
but took the exhausted body at back and knee and brought him to his hotel.
When he breathlessly arrived at his hotel room and had brought the boy into the bed,he locked the front door. He didnt know how to estimate this paedophilie.
Eventually,he turned on a dimmed light.
With true pity,he pulled up the poor guy`s jeans up and covered up his chest.
„You poor thing.“,he sighed but as he looked into the face of the guy,it struck him like lightning.
„Wake up Ben!Ben!Please!“,he called out to the boy but he made no move.
Suddenly his started to cry.
Tears stung his eyes,rolled over his cheeks and landed on the bedcloth,then he bended over him.
Another teardrop tenderly touched Ben`s cheek,who slowly opened his eyes.
„It`s you.“,he reckoned reliedly.
„What happened?“,Ben asked him,confused.
„I heard somebody screaming and wanted to help the person.Then I found you with some guy lying
„Oh no.I dont know anything at all anymore.“
„A small dose of knockout drops,I guess.“
„What did he....“
„I dont know.I am just happy I found you.Take a little sleep now.“,John supposed and stood up.
When he wanted to close the bedroom door,Ben called out.
„Thank you.I dont know what he might have done to me if you wont have been there.“
„I dont know that,too.“
„I dont want to be without you anymore.“
„You broke up with me.“
„I know.And I was stupid.I thought I could live without you.But I was wrong.I rushed through the
clubs and searched for you.Because Elena always says partying is the best medication for heart
break.“,he reckoned,smiling exhaustedly.
„I went to Blue Cave.“
„Oh.I hadnt looked there.But thank you for your help.“
„I would have never beared it if he had done something to you.“
„Could you please do me a favour?“
„Would you please stay with me in the room?“
„Yes,okay.I will just pick up the telephone and watch the door.“
Then he closed the door and Ben sank into the pillows of the king-size bed.
John checked on the door and window locks and then quietly slipped into the room.
As softly as he could,he closed the bedroom door and placed himself next to Ben.
Ben turned towards him. „Thanks.“
For a moment John just looked at him.
Ben`s eyes had an exhausted and sad look,but he was as beautiful as ever.
His slightly tanned skin shone and his hair was tousled as if he just woke up.
John nodded and reached out his hand while he turned to the side.
When he short touched Ben`s throat,he winced away from him.
Lovefully,his hand wandered into Ben`s raven-hued hair and stroke the strand that were messed.
Then he fondled his shoulder and slided onto his arm.
„Calm down.I just wanna hold your hand.“
Carefully he reached his wrist and grabbed Ben`s shaking hand.
„I am not doing anything to you.I love you.“
Their palms touched and John`s fingers tenderly enclosed Ben`s hand.
Ben relaxed himself again and affectionately looked into John`s eyes.
Eventually he bend over to John and aspirated a kiss to his mouth.
In John`s belly the butterflies began to dance,a quiver walked through their hands and lips.
And so they fell asleep,reunited in beautiful Sicily,that was already coming out of its sheets.
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Paint by number units arrive in an extensive variety of subjects, enable you to analyze and learn new styles, and build up your creative ability and inventive aptitudes. Learning and acing any craftsmanship involves rehearsing. To broaden the area, you have to attempt distinctive subjects that will show you something new and add to your fundamental range of abilities. It resembles figuring out how to play diverse tunes on a guitar and keeping in mind that doing as such, you learn new melodies as well as you continue showing signs of improvement at the base expertise of strumming harmonies and picking strings. A couple of subject precedents are recorded beneath.
IDEAL TO MASTER COLOR TONING
Regardless of whether you are a novice or a propelled level painter, you should realize that all the amusement in the canvas is about shading conditioning. Two distinctive shading tones of a similar shading can have a significant effect in breathing life into a photo. In the event that you know shading conditioning, trust me, you are most of the way there. A paint numbers unit will enable you to learn in a hurry, how shading tones work and how they help draw diverse highlights of a picture. Shading conditioning characterizes how striking a picture can be and has the effect between a two dimensional and three-dimensional introduction. An incredible case of clear shading paint by numbers pack will be the craftsmanship of Mother Nature Tree of Life
GREAT FOR CHILDREN’S EMOTIONAL DEVELOPMENT
Well beginning on an artwork is as large a test for a child as it is for a grown-up, or possibly greater test. Every one of the difficulties that we have recorded above are as similarly material to kids. What about making it less demanding for them to begin. Get them paint by numbers packs and make them go. You will see your children feeling candidly solid with a feeling of accomplishment once the photo springs up. The procedure will learn for them and they will get the opportunity to associate with their feeling of imagination en route without getting baffled. When they are sufficiently sure with the brush they can go and investigate their own space.
A MEMENTO OF SELF-ACHIEVEMENT
Last yet not simply the minimum, accomplishment will be your definitive cost. Regardless of on the off chance that it will be a duplicate of a current fine art, you will do the diligent work, you will experience long periods of brushwork, focus, association before the photo becomes animated and when you hand it on a divider it won’t be only a bit of workmanship however a memory hanging there.
So go on and begin with a Kit today. You will love it and continue following the blog for more data on various styles of painting.
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BETTER THAN FIDGET SPINNERS
Well painting is utilized as a recuperating treatment and stress buster however as I as of now said above start to paint and getting set available can be a genuine test. So in the event that you are searching for the pressure busting advantages of painting, there is nothing superior to anything a Paint by numbers Kit to kick you off.
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You may know your canvas, you know your brushes and you may know your paint, yet without a controlled consistent hand that does not slip at the edges, you can never exceed expectations at the craft of painting. Painting is a compelling artwork and each stroke of the brush characterizes the last picture that will wake up. Along these lines, training your hand and building up your engine aptitudes is of prime significance. Paint by numbers canvas is stamped like a plan with characterized limits and you have to fill in a numbered shading to the particular area, which can be of differed shapes. Filling in given characterized regions gives you a chance to hone and create engine aptitudes and brushwork. | <urn:uuid:b1ee5b00-aba7-4234-b7f8-b13fd4ba8950> | CC-MAIN-2018-51 | http://c33canada.com/category/business/ | 2018-12-18T18:20:48Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-51/segments/1544376829542.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20181218164121-20181218190121-00218.warc.gz | en | 0.957656 | 1,791 |
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About a month ago, ForeFlight introduced support for the SiriusXM Aviation Receiver, also called the SXAR1. It’s the first widely-available product that delivers satellite weather to a popular electronic flight bag (EFB) app. We’ve had the chance to fly with it on numerous trips now, and overall we’ve found the SXAR1 to be reliable and useful. Here are some notes from a recent cross country flight in a Pilatus PC-12.
First, we intentionally ignored the instructions and played “dumb pilot,” simply placing the small white box on the dash and going flying. The SXAR1 was easy to pair with our iPad using the Settings app, and it automatically reconnected each time after that without any hassle. There is only one button on the box, so the learning curve is almost non-existent.
Right away, we noticed one of the nice features of SiriusXM Weather. Since it’s delivered via satellite, it can be received on the ground. So by the time we reached the end of the runway, we already had weather on ForeFlight.
Of note, the SXAR1 worked just fine under the dual pane, heated windshield in the Pilatus – without the use of an external antenna or a suction cup mount (both good options for improving reception if needed). Every airplane is different, but we were pleased with the satellite reception throughout the flight.
Our flight took us from Denver to Cincinnati, a 1000 nm trip, so having full resolution radar and PIREPs for the entire country immediately after takeoff was a nice feature. We had some weather to contend with, and being able to watch the radar image develop over time (including animating the radar) was helpful for watching the trend. Here’s the weather picture right after takeoff:
As always, the ruler tool in ForeFlight was a tremendous help, and when combined with the long-range/hi res radar imagery from SiriusXM, we had a complete plan well before we got to the area of weather.
As we approached the largest section of weather, we faced the eternal debate with datalink weather: is that weather we can fly through or do we need to go around? The most important information is to know the type of air mass you’re flying in, specifically whether it’s convective or not. Because of our solid pre-flight weather briefing, we knew that this area was mostly just rain, without embedded thunderstorms.
That was helpful, but the SiriusXM radar image showed enough yellow and orange to make us think. Part of the issue here is that ForeFlight displays two radar layers: composite and lowest tilt (sometimes called base reflectivity). Both of these products have their pluses and minuses, but generally pilots watch composite because it presents a sort of worst case scenario. Here’s the composite radar image:
And here is the lowest tilt image, which shows a much less colorful line:
For comparison, here is the ground-based NEXRAD radar image from the same time:
Another valuable tool in evaluating weather is the SiriusXM storm cell information, which shows tops and movement. Tapping on a storm presents a pop-up like this:
In the end, by combining the two radar images with the storm cell data (and of course the view out the window) we had a smooth flight through the rain. Overall, though, we found the composite radar overstated the intensity of the rain just slightly. That’s OK, since we’d rather take a conservative approach, but it’s worth understanding why. Notice the levels at which ForeFlight shows yellow returns – it’s different for internet radar, ADS-B radar and SiriusXM radar:
We tested one final option on this flight: using multiple devices connected to the same iPad. In fact, at one point we were using an SXAR1 (weather), a Stratus 2S (ADS-B traffic, pressure altitude and flight data recorder), and a panel-mounted Garmin FlightStream 210 (AHRS, GPS and flight plan transfer). It’s pretty much overkill, but it worked well and offered all the information we could want at our fingertips.
For more details on running a Stratus and ForeFlight at the same time, read this in depth article.
After a long day of flying, we can also affirm that the SXAR1’s battery life is excellent – the quoted 6 hours seems conservative, in fact.
Of course no product is perfect. We found ourselves wishing we could connect more than just one iPad to the SXAR1 at once, and we missed having XM Radio to listen to on a 4+ hour trip (neither one is an option at this time). We also wished there were a few additional weather products, like satellite imagery and echo tops. Hopefully all of these shortcomings will be addressed in time, although it’s worth pointing out that none of them are show stoppers for us.
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So the sun has finally been shining and getting a little longer. The warmer weather means I am outside more and basically ignoring any house work. Wandering around means finally more pictures!
We had a little more excitement at 7th Heaven Acres! While everyone was at school, Sister called and wondered if I would mind going out and checking on Phoenix. She had been home over the lunch hour and was sure she was in labor, but just wanted someone to check. Since I was just out driving around getting feed and a few supplies at the vet’s, of course I would go!
When I arrived Phoenix was in labor just like she said. I sat and watched for about 20 minutes before she actually started pawing the ground and acting uncomfortable. I wanted to leave her alone as much as possible since it was her first kidding.
Then things went crazy. She laid down to push, and push she did. Hard. Nothing moved or changed. Then she rolled out flat and pushed again. Hard. And screamed. By now I am in the pen with her. Nothing happened or changed. I could see feet but no head. I tried to reach in and make sure the head was coming forward. I couldn’t get my hand on to check. There was no room for my hand, let alone for that baby to come out. I immediately call the vet. We have a problem.
She is now laid out flat screaming and flailing. I am alone and starting to panic. This is Niece#3’s goat and you might not know this about me, but I really, REALLY love my Nieces! I was so afraid something would happen on my watch to her goat and that really had me worried. I hurried back into the pen after getting the vet headed my way. She was still pushing really hard with little movement, BUT! great news, I could see a nose. Which was a relief and worry at the same time. the sack around the baby had broken so now it needed to start breathing or suffocate. The good news was I could start pulling because I know which way the head is facing. Each time Phoenix hunched to pull, I pulled.
With all my might. Literally, I was dragging her around the pen pulling as hard as I could on these tiny legs. She now is acting like she is really in distress and you know I am in distress! After about 6 hard pulls the baby finally made it out. I had grabbed a towel out of my truck and quickly cleared the airway and nose and let mom do the rest of the cleaning. She seemed fairly interested in it and I stepped back to let them be. Baby seemed to be ok but my relief was extremely short lived as she started pushing fairly hard right away again.
Where was the vet?! Well one hard push and she went down again. This time I could get my hand past baby and feel a head so I grabbed the legs and head and after 2 pushes, we had another baby on the ground!
The vet arrived as I was wiping the second kids mouth and nose. She checked mom and babies and decided that there were no more kids and everyone was fine. Sister arrived a few minutes later and I was so relieved that all was ok. They were both fairly big kids who have thankfully gotten the hang of life and taken off!
I headed home to unload feed and do chores and what do I find?
Seriously Ransom? This is about the fourth time this week I have found him like this. He is getting to big and too strong for me to keep getting him unstuck.
Oh well, I was going to have to catch him for worming and a pedicure, so I guess today will do. After I completed those tasks, I had Landon come out and put a halter on him. I then proceeded to get him out of the fence.
Yup. The Horns Of Shame. Get stuck in the fence now. Surprisingly he still has them on after a week. I don’t think Blaze and Piper who live in the pen with him love them, but it is affective. I will have to take them off in May when I put him in with the does. | <urn:uuid:1bdd5b29-a4c0-42e0-89fc-7c1386d716ae> | CC-MAIN-2018-47 | https://brokenbarnfarm.org/2017/04/19/days-you-can-finally-be-outside/ | 2018-11-12T20:22:41Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2018-47/segments/1542039741087.23/warc/CC-MAIN-20181112193627-20181112215627-00013.warc.gz | en | 0.993397 | 867 |
Type of Document Dissertation Author Ferreira, Gustavo Filipe Canle Author's Email Address email@example.com URN etd-08122009-154515 Title The Expansion and Diversification of the Export Sector and Economic Growth: The Costa Rican Experience Degree Doctor of Philosophy (Ph.D.) Department Agricultural Economics & Agribusiness Advisory Committee
Advisor Name Title Harrison, R. Wes Committee Chair Kennedy, P. Lynn Committee Member McMillin, W. Douglas Committee Member Salassi, Michael E. Committee Member Mascagni, Henry J. Jr. Dean's Representative Keywords
- Costa Rica
- economic growth
- export diversification
- export growth
Date of Defense 2009-06-30 Availability unrestricted AbstractA large body of empirical literature has investigated the linkages between exports and output. Nevertheless, empirical evidence remains inconclusive and the topic remains open to discussion. Additionally, a number of studies have examined the positive effects that export diversification may have on economic growth. Within the Latin America region, Costa Rica has been lauded for its long democratic tradition, relative economic stability, and for evolving from being a small economy heavily reliant on exports of coffee and bananas, to become the largest software exporter per capita in Latin America. This study examined the impact that the expansion and diversification of Costa Rican export supply had on economic growth.
The first study provides a historical analysis of the export diversification experience in Costa Rica from the 1965 until the present. For that, a chronological assessment of the main policies and events leading to the transformation of Costa Rican export supply was presented. This paper concludes that Costa Rica was able to move its economy away from commodity dependence because of important amounts of foreign direct investment over the last two decades. Furthermore, export diversification in Costa Rica is characterized by weak linkages between multinational corporations, operating in the free trade zones, and the rest of the economy.
The second paper tests the hypothesis of a long-run relationship between export diversification and economic growth in Costa Rica via externalities of learning-by-exporting and learning-by-doing. The period of analysis was from 1965 to 2006, and two types of statistical methodologies were used: the bounds test for cointegration within a distributed lag (ARDL) framework and a dynamic OLS (DOLS) model. Overall, results concluded that export diversification had no long-run effect on economic growth during the study period.
The third paper tests the export-led growth (ELG) hypothesis in Costa Rica using a modified version of the Wald test for three different models for the period of 1960 to 2007 and 1965 to 2006. The ELG hypothesis was confirmed only when imports were included in the estimation. Granger-causality was also found running from imports to exports likely due to large amounts of imported inputs for multinational firms.
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Takeaway.com has apparently won the bidding war with Prosus for Just Eat. Will the price prove right in the long term?
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This is Gelish “Up in the Air-heart” from the Sweetheart Squadron fall collection. I topped it with a marble design of Snow Bunny, Black Shadow, and Chain Reaction, then cured.
After applying one coat of Top It off, I also added Glow in the Dark from the Gelish Trends line, then added another coat of Top It Off. Here’s the final product:
The Glow in the Dark polish worked wonderfully! For the purposes of the photo I had to “charge” the nails (hold them under a light bulb for a minute or so) but, beyond that, they glowed every night with no charging. Sometimes I would wake up in the middle of the night and be a little startled by my glowing nails! And, I had this set of nails for about two weeks with no chipping, as usual.
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What is a Rolling 13 Month Cash Flow Report?
Rolling Cash Flow Reports are considered financial trend reports and are often used by CFOs and Treasurers to analyze liquidity and related cash inflows and outflows. Key functionality in this type of report automatically displays the cash flow for the current month, as well as, the prior 12 months. This feature is driven by the period parameter the user enters to run the report. You will find an example of this type of report below.
Purpose of Cash Flow Rolling Trend Reports
Companies and organizations use Cash Flow Rolling Trend Reports to analyze how historical trends in cash inflows and outflows are affecting their liquidity. When used as part of good business practices in a Finance & Accounting Department, a company can improve its cash flow situation, as well as, reduce the chance that liquidity issues occur in the months ahead.
Cash Flow Rolling Trend Report Example
Here is an example of a 13 Month Rolling Cash Flow Trend Report.
You can find hundreds of additional examples here.
Who Uses This Type of Report?
The typical users of this type of report are: CFOs, Treasurers and Analysts.
Other Reports Often Used in Conjunction with Cash Flow Rolling Trend Reports
Progressive Finance & Accounting Departments sometimes use several different Cash Flow Rolling Trend Reports, along with trending profit & loss reports, balance sheets, cash flow forecasting and simulation models and other management and control tools.
Where Does the Data for Analysis Originate From?
The Actual (historical transactions) data typically comes from enterprise resource planning (ERP) systems like: Microsoft Dynamics 365 (D365) Finance, Microsoft Dynamics 365 Business Central (D365 BC), Microsoft Dynamics AX, Microsoft Dynamics NAV, Microsoft Dynamics GP, Microsoft Dynamics SL, Sage Intacct, Sage 100, Sage 300, Sage 500, Sage X3, SAP Business One, SAP ByDesign, Acumatica, Netsuite and others.
In analyses where budgets or forecasts are used, the planning data most often originates from in-house Excel spreadsheet models or from professional corporate performance management (CPM/EPM) solutions.
What Tools are Typically used for Reporting, Planning and Dashboards?
Examples of business software used with the data and ERPs mentioned above are:
- Native ERP report writers and query tools
- Spreadsheets (for example Microsoft Excel)
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A Hudson County jury is once again deciding the fate of a Jersey City man accused in a horrific double homicide that left a couple dead after returning home from their engagement party three years ago.
Shiquan Bellamy, 22, faces life in prison if convicted of murder, felony murder, armed robbery, carjacking and weapons offenses. Bellamy is accused of killing Nia Haqq and Michael Muchioki execution-style during a carjacking on April 4, 2010.
Bellamy’s earlier trial on the same charges ended in March in a mistrial when jurors deadlocked.
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Out of the many long-gap sequels that we’ve seen over the past few years and are currently in the works right now, one of the most interesting projects that’s been long stuck in development and just recently became a reality is Trainspotting 2, the upcoming sequel directed by Danny Boyle to his hit 1990s film.
Based on the follow-up novel by Irvine Welsh, titled Porno, the second story picked up with the same group of characters years later, this time against the backdrop of the pornography industry rather than the heroin world.
It’s unclear how close to the sequel novel the new film is going to be, but the first official footage from the film has been revealed, which reunites Renton (Ewan McGregor), Spud (Ewan Bremner), Sick Boy (Jonny Lee Miller), and Begbie (Robert Carlyle).
Check out the teaser below:
Obviously this doesn’t show all that much, and is more like an announcement trailer than anything else, to let fans of the original know that the sequel is indeed happening, in case they weren’t already aware.
Nonetheless, there is a certain nostalgic sweetness to seeing the characters back together again here, even if the question of how much they’ve changed since we last saw them is still in the air. If Boyle’s previous comments about the film are any indication, it’s probably safe to say that the answer is – not that much.
Trainspotting 2 is set to hit theatres in the U.K. on January 27th, 2017.
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OOH'S and AH-HAH'S...
That's what we're after.
Our youngest Trojans are always searching for more. That's why we have a wide array of opportunities to keep our students engaged and learning. Here at Carrollton Elementary, there is truly something for everyone. Below is a list of the clubs we offer and the contact information of the club sponsor. Thank you for supporting us and our students as they continue to grow into successful learners in and out of the classroom.
- Art Club
- Coding Club
- Culinary Club
- Lego Club
- Math Team
- Science Olympiad
- The PAC
- Running Club
- Sign Language Club
- Trojans on the Trail
Description: Students will create more in depth projects that include painting on canvas, advanced watercolor techniques, printmaking, and working with clay.
Meetings: Tuesday (biweekly)
Sponsor: Candace Winkles/ Amy Boehms
Description: Learning to code with Scratch, an online programming language used to create interactive stories, games, and animations.
Sponsor: Katie Hamilton
Description: Hands-on cooking lessons in preparing healthy foods.
Sponsor: Jill Horsley
Description: Students explore and research, engage in hands-on construction, learn teamwork, use their imagination, and have fun with LEGO elements.
Meetings:Monday & Tuesday(bi-weekly)
Sponsor: Katie Hamilton
Description: Students develop math skills, knowledge, and teamwork through games, activities, and competitions.
Sponsor: Elizabeth Gable, Stephanie McDowell
Description: Students increase their knowledge of science and technology through teamwork, problem solving, collaboration, and competitions.
Sponsor: Joseph Benefield, Annette Perkins
Description: The CES Trojan PAC is a performing arts club, directed by Tracey Morris, for 3rd grade CES students. Students will learn how to be a successful chorus and cast member and a confident performer. Students will learn proper breathing and singing techniques, appropriate performance etiquette, theatrical directions and staging, character building techniques, blocking, and choreography.
Sponsor: Tracey Morris
Description: Students will build stamina and learn how to take care of their bodies by developing healthy habits.
Sponsor: Barbie Simmons
Descripion: Students will learn sign language and increase their awareness of the Deaf Community and Culture.
Sponsor: Chaleen Sceals
Description: Students are introduced to trail programs such as bike/helmet safety, walk/bike to school program, environmental awareness, native plant discovery and much more.
Meetings: Thursday (9/6, 10/4, 11/29, 12/6, 1/10, 2/7, 3/7, 4/18)
Sponsor: Laurie Fleck
Description: CES Strings, directed by Devonne Cooper, began in the 2000 school year and continues to inspire children to meet goals, teach one another, and perform with a team spirit. Based on Suzuki Violin styled instruction, classes meet after school in small groups for Beginning, Intermediate, and Advanced students.
Meetings: Mon, Tues. Wed. (weekly)
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While not all Florida couples decide to discuss what should happen to their personal assets prior to getting married, others make the point to have a prenuptial agreement drafted and signed. Prenuptial agreements can keep certain assets safe in the event that the couple later decides to get a divorce. However, certain things can render a prenuptial agreement invalid.
Broward County couples who are looking for a divorce may be interested in how alimony payments may affect their taxes. The answer generally depends on some specific qualities of the payments themselves.
Floridians who are preparing to divorce may need to learn about proposed legislation that could greatly impact alimony orders. The bill, which was unanimously approved by the Florida Senate Judiciary Committee, would make several important changes.
For couples over the age of 50, the beginning of the calendar year is a prime time to file for divorce. Between 1990 and 2013, the divorce rate has doubled for couples over the age of 50, and those who remain single after divorce may encounter financial difficulties. Research shows that 30 percent of divorced single women over the age of 62 are living at or below the federal poverty line. | <urn:uuid:32eb9546-b969-4ff4-9a6b-72c9bfeeae39> | CC-MAIN-2017-13 | http://www.forrestesq.com/blog/2015/04/ | 2017-03-30T08:45:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-13/segments/1490218193288.61/warc/CC-MAIN-20170322212953-00618-ip-10-233-31-227.ec2.internal.warc.gz | en | 0.95973 | 232 |
Chase Me for PRINT readers
PRINT readers! Link is available to order CHASE ME in print and receive it Tuesday April 5 (if you have AMZ prime) or at least later next week if not.
It will take longer to go live for those of you who prefer other vendors or are overseas and using Book Depository. That’s just the way it works, and we haven’t been able to find a solution to that.
We did try our best to time it so that all kinds of readers (print, ebook) had equal access to the new release, and didn’t have to wait longer than ebook readers.
Here’s your link, print lovers! Please share with your other print loving friends.
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A dad from Hull has recalled the last moments he spent with his IVF twins opening presents on Christmas Day before they were drowned in the bath by his estranged wife.
Steven Ford handed over his 23-month-old children – Chloe and Jake to their depressed mother, Samantha, on December 25 last year. It was the last time he would see them alive.
Hours later on Boxing Day, the twins were killed by Samantha at her home in Margate, Kent, before she attempted to end her own life driving her car into the back of a lorry, reports the Mirror .
Speaking for the first time, the devastated Mr Ford has lambasted the sentence handed to the killer - saying he feels like she has got away with murder – and told of the precious last moments spent with his twins before their tragic deaths.
He revealed his last moments with the pair, saying that when he last saw them on Christmas Day, Jake excitedly opened a new toy dinosaur as his tired sister Chloe slept in a bouncer next to the Christmas tree.
They spent the holiday together surrounded by love and joy until it was time for the children to go with their mum.
Before she was jailed, a court heard she was "controlling and aggressive" towards her husband, a narcissist and obsessed with making Mr Ford suffer.
Hours after Mr Ford last saw his twins, Samantha, 38, drowned the toddlers out of "anger" at her estranged husband following their split just months earlier, and then attempted to kill herself.
There had been 76 communications between Ford and mental health services in the weeks before the killings, and by Christmas her family decided that her mental health was so poor that Mr Ford should take the twins and bring them back on Boxing Day.
A psychiatrist told the Old Bailey last month that Samantha “wanted revenge” when she killed their children.
Mr Ford, 36, hit out at the 10-year sentence handed to his ex-partner, saying justice has not been served and he faces a lifetime of anguish.
However, he said he does not hate her despite the loss and pain she has caused.
Mr Ford, who is in the process of divorcing his wife of 10 years, told KentOnline: “I can’t believe what I’m having to go through when I’m just trying to mourn my children.
“She wants me to suffer. She has no remorse. I don’t hate her because to hate someone you have to feel something towards them in the first place and I feel nothing towards her, absolutely nothing.”
Mr Ford struggles knowing that his twins' killer could be free in five years.
He said he cannot comprehend what Samantha did to their children and he is haunted thinking about their final moments alive.
He added: “I’ve known her better than anyone on this planet has ever known her, but I didn’t see this coming."
After killing the children, Samantha drove her Ford Galaxy at about 100mph into the back of a lorry, without a seatbelt on, in the early hours of December 27.
When police managed to open the doors of her vehicle, she told them: “I’ve killed my babies. Please let me die.
“I put them in the bath. We were meant to be together. I was going to jump off a cliff but it’s too dark.”
Police found the 23-month-old children, who were conceived by IVF, dead in their bedroom at her rented home.
After drowning them in the bath, Samantha had dressed them and put them in bed.
Ford denied murder but admitted two counts of manslaughter on the grounds of diminished responsibility. She was sentenced to 10 years to be served in a psychiatric unit until she is well enough to be transferred to prison.
Mr Ford is now pushing for a change in the "flawed" laws surrounding diminished responsibility.
He recently tweeted: "My tank is empty, I'm running on fumes but I will get to where I need to be.
"I'm experiencing flawed British legal system.
"When I have a moment to gather my thoughts, I'll stand up and fight this.
"Time for change @BorisJohnson I'm not giving up #idemandjustice."
The couple had lived in Qatar for the first 10 years of their marriage, but their relationship soured after they left their affluent lifestyle in the Middle East and moved to Charing in Kent in 2018.
Before their split, Ford had told her husband: “You have ripped my world apart, now we are nothing but a miserable, broken family growing up in a s*** hole.”
Relatives said Ford’s mental health declined rapidly following the separation, and she sent multiple text messages to her estranged husband trying to persuade him to return to her, the court heard.
She and the children moved to an address in Margate, while Mr Ford remained in Charing.
During the sentencing hearing, the judge told Samantha: “Your anger with your husband was a significant contributory factor.
“In deciding to kill your children and yourself, I am sure that you had thoughts of the effect this would have on Steven Ford, with whom all the psychiatrists say you were preoccupied.
“You knew it would devastate him and I’m sure that is a reason why you did it.”
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Engadget has stumbled upon one of the best wiimote modifications ever created. That is, if you're a student.
you know what would be even cooler? Someone who's really short on cash engineering a cheap rumble pack for a sixaxis using a couple of duracells and some cornflakes! :O)
LOL.. your a funny one but so true. I feel bad for all those people that dished out the money for the SIXAXIS because sony said that rumble is LAST GEN and now they gatta dish out more cash for the DUALSHOCK3. but this is pretty cool in your like the whole ZAPPER thing, personally i'm more into the whole NO ZAPPER thing. i mean i am not crazy about having to move my whole body to aim, i like my pinpoint accuracy with my wrists.
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The Confrontation: Winning the War against Future Jihad
Author: Walid Phares
“The Confrontation: Winning the War against Future Jihad” is the third book by Walid Phares in a trilogy beginning with “Future Jihad: Terrorist Strategies against the West” (2005-2006) and “The War of Ideas” (2007).
In the first book, the author uncovers the historical evolution of the jihadi movements and strategies against America and the West. In the second book, Phares explains how the jihadists delayed the Western counter offensive for decades until 9/11.
In the third book, he proposes strategies and policies to win the confrontation.
Redefining the War
In his first chapter, Phares puts the finger on the wound: We must define the war. In fact, he calls for a "re-definition" of the eight-year-old confrontation that began officially on Sept. 11, 2001, but has started historically decades earlier.
The classical definition used by the United States government, “war on terror" has served its purpose even if it wasn't intellectually accurate. The foes of America and other democracies, namely the jihadists, aren’t confining themselves to military activities and acts of terror. Rather, they have a global agenda they seek to attain which would lead to collapse of international law.
[Editor's Note: Get Phares' book. Go here now.]
As many have doubted the ability of democracies to eventually win the confrontation with the jihadi forces, the author maintains that the free world can still win. But to win, he argues “you must define the threat and the enemy.”
At a time when the United States and Great Britain’s governments are gradually dropping the term “war” from the lexicon of foreign policy, the author reviews the pillar-arguments of the debate and suggests identifying the actual enemy by referring to its ideology and goals, not to cater to our public relations needs. It is neither a war “on terror” nor is it just an overseas effort against individuals and particular organizations.
It is a confrontation with an ideological movement which uses terror as one of its means, Phares correctly argues.
Chapter 1 sets the agenda of the debate about identifying the conflict: framing past and present campaigns and localized wars as one global confrontation is inescapable. Otherwise it will be a unilateral war waged by the jihadists against democracies while the latter would become unable to respond globally, systematically and methodically. This war, initially waged by the jihadists, won’t be won if we fail to define it strategically, warns Phares. Unfortunately, a fundamental lack of understanding grips many in the policy world both around the globe and in the United States.
Interestingly, the Bush administration had used some of the author’s descriptions of the foe, such as caliphate–seeking-jihadists, as presented in his first post 9/11 book, “Future Jihad” of 2005. But the Bush administration never went to the end of this logic in its strategic communications.
Nowadays, the Obama administration is borrowing an idea advanced in “The Confrontation” — the conflict in Afghanistan wasn’t initiated by the U.S. but by al-Qaida. However, the present administration fails to reach the minimal level of definition, the ideology behind the movement.
In order to engage in a strategic “redefinition of the war,” Phares thoughtfully argues there must be a “Western Rethinking” of the conflict. He asserts that “the dominant elite in Western academia, the one dispensing teaching and researching in Middle East studies, international relations and history, have failed their classroom, their people and their government.
By ignoring the rise and advances made by the jihadi forces worldwide over decades, most of those who were trusted to educate and advise the decision-making institutions have intentionally or non-intentionally subverted the debate about the mounting threat, particularly in the post Soviet era and specifically after the 2001 strikes.
The 9/11 Commission asked questions that were never answered: Why is it that America wasn’t educated about the jihadi threat? Amazingly, today some are still asking whether there is a jihadi threat.
Phares wonders how it is possible that eight years into the conflict that basic questions are still haunting the national debate. Instead of discussing how to defeat the jihadi menace over the forthcoming decade, most of our mainstream intellectuals and specialists have been reversing the direction of the public awareness. Hence, the global counter strategies in defense and counterterrorism are still at square one, argues Phares.
Cultural Revolution in the West
A global Western rethinking, according to the author, must generate a “cultural revolution in the West” first. The war of ideas must be won within liberal democracies, argue Phares.
As stated by Tony Blair when he was prime minister, the real battle is within our societies, to win hearts and minds of peoples, so that they in turn can support this hard and long global campaign. Phares calls for an overhaul of the way we teach, research, and understand the threat and thus most of our international relations, defense, security and historical studies should be reformed.
And for major rethinking and for a cultural change to occur, the free world needs to undertake another “economic revolution,” that is energy independence. Phares has been raising the issue of what he has coined as “oil economic imperialism” for years.
A Petro dollar influence over U.S. and Western security can be removed only with strategic shifts towards energy independence. These moves are likely to cause a greater confrontation as the producers — who happen to fund jihadism — won’t let go of their influence easily.
A new diplomacy should be able to create alliances, binding together all countries and societies targeted by the jihadists. Observing how the trans Atlantic West was divided on how to confront the threat for years, and how it has never reached out historically to other like-targeted regions and countries to produce a world joint strategy, Phares proposes a patient reconstruction of alliances with one overarching goal: creating the widest possible coalition against the threat.
Americans and Europeans must mend their own bridges and base their trans-Atlantic alliance on a common vision of the rapidly spreading stealth jihadi menace from within. The West must move energetically to reach out to Russia, despite the numerous points of contentions between the two world powers. Russians are threatened to their core by jihadists forces inside the federation and on its outskirts.
With these strategic changes achieved or being implemented, the free world can seriously help backing a “revolution in the Arab and Muslim world,” in the same way it supported dissidents in the former Soviet Union, brought down the Apartheid regime and backed changes in Latin America. While maintaining basic stability in international relations, extending hands to democracy and human rights movements and figures across the Greater Middle East and beyond is the second most important key to provoke strategic change leading to defeating the threat.
The author, who has called for a serious, coordinated effort internationally to empower democracy forces in the region in his previous book “The War of Ideas,” considers this a maker or a breaker of the global new direction needed to win the confrontation.
Without the forces of change in the Muslim world, the jihadists will continue to grow. Who to support becomes a matter of sheer logic, argues Phares.
Comparing the strength of the jihadi ideological and propaganda machine and the first wave of Western produced strategic communications, the author concludes that the war of ideas is not being won simply because it is not being fought as such.
Phares believe we need to intensify the war of ideas but within a clear and strategic agenda. Effective and truthful education at all levels, from schools, to universities, to U.S. government civilian and military counterterrorism professionals to community groups is an essential strategy and must be won.
The State of the Confrontation
In his last chapter, Phares describes the “State of the Confrontation” worldwide and projects the trends in the years to come as he disconnects the national questions from the ideological jihadi linkages. Understanding where we are in the evolving multidimensional conflict is a condition sine qua non of planning and winning understandably, argues Phares.
Realizing where Western and international efforts are in the confrontation is unavoidable if we are to resume the campaign successfully. Our national and international debate shows little progress has been made since 9/11 on the most central question of the confrontation’s analysis.
Engaging al-Qaida and the Taliban in confrontation in Afghanistan but not ideologically has had consequences on the length of the conflict. Removing a totalitarian regime from Iraq but not resuming the pressures on similar regimes also led to the current geopolitical bind.
On an optimistic note, Walid Phares concludes that the United States, other democracies, and their potential allies across the world and within the Muslim world can win the confrontation.
[Editor's Note: Get Phares' book. Go here now.]
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David G. Major is president of The Centre for Counterintelligence and Security Studies.
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CHICO — The same week it was announced that Bidwell Mansion was one of the state parks that might be closed to balance the state budget, a new store opened in the visitor center.
In a tribute to Chico”s first shopowner — John Bidwell — the facility is dubbed the General”s Store.
The General”s Store is stocked with items such as Bidwell Mansion T-shirts, books about Chico and Butte County and artwork generated by Chico artists.
The new store features maple display cabinetry and a wall mural painted by Chico artist Scott Teeple. Lighting the merchandise is state-of-the-art, energy-saving LED lights, provided by the Public Interest Energy Research demonstrations team.
Proceeds from the General”s Store will go to Bidwell Mansion Association, the fundraising group for Bidwell Mansion State Historic Park.
Board member Keith Johnson said Thursday that plans for the store began last year. The store will be staffed by state park employees, he said.
What will happen if the mansion is in fact closed is unclear. It and Bidwell-Sacramento River State Park were on the list of 220 state parks that would be shut under the governor”s proposal to strip $213 million in General Fund money from state parks over the next two years.
Lake Oroville and the Clay Pit off-highway vehicle area west of Oroville were on the list of 59 parks that would stay open, as they have funding from different sources.
If the General”s Store does open, its profits will help the association with its restoration and interpretive projects at the mansion, including the finishing of the maids” quarters.
A grand opening is set 5-6:15 p.m. Tuesday inside the visitor center. Association Board member Cap Porterfield will emcee a ribbon-cutting and refreshments will be served.
During the opening, there will be discounts given on purchases from the new store.
Bidwell Mansion was built in the mid-1860s by John Bidwell, a California pioneer who founded Chico. Bidwell came west in 1841 and discovered gold on the Feather River prior to becoming a farmer, merchant and statesman. He took part in the Bear Flag Revolt and obtained the title of general in the California Militia during the Civil War.
He married Annie Ellicott Kennedy in 1868 in Washington, D.C. and brought her to Chico. Annie was the daughter of a prominent Washington official, and carried with her a refinement that influenced her surroundings in the north state up until her death in Chico in 1918. John Bidwell died in 1900.
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Every week, you hear about another hack or Internet scam. Often, hackers have been able to force a user password. This article will help you understand what a strong password is, and what it means. You will then be able to pick a strong password that is easy to remember for you, but hard for others (or machines) to guess.
How to create a strong password?
Length, Length, Length
If you’re not in the mood for reading the whole article, I want you to take two things away:
1. Long passwords/passphrases are great
2. Avoid well-known passwords/passphrases
We’ll get into the details later, but one of the most popular types of attack is called “brute force attacks”, which means that attackers start with a list of common passwords, or all possible combinations of passwords. The longer your password/passphrase is, and the more time it will take attackers to crack it.
Consider the examples below. Using the ZXCVBN password strength estimator, we get an estimate of how long it would take to crack passwords of various length:
- 9agcZ: 16 mn
- 9agcZE: 5 hrs (~18X previous)
- 9agcZEM : 3 days (~14X previous)
- 9agcZEM7 : 4 months (~40X previous)
- 9agcZEM7H : 26 years (~78X previous)
- 9agcZEM7Hq : “centuries”
As you can see, simply adding one character makes it much more difficult to guess a password. Hackers will not be able to justify the cost of cracking strong passwords and will move onto a better target. Yes, hacker have return-on-investment objectives too.
A Password like the one above is not easy to remember, so there’s a better way…
Create something easy to remember, but hard to guess
In practical terms, the easiest way to pick a long passphrase that is very hard to guess, but easy to remember is to opt for a phrase that makes sense to YOU and no-one else. For example, what about this one?
“on February 11 2011, I was walking with my dog Jimmy at 11 am near the lake!”
I made this slightly overkill to make a point, but it would be fairly easy for someone to remember a personal phrase like this because it makes sense to them. It would be extremely hard for a machine to guess by simply trying all possible combinations.
With today’s computer technology, it could take “centuries” to crack something like this. (Note that it’s fine to use spaces, commas, numbers and special characters).
That said, DO NOT go for well-known quotes/citations/phrases because they may easily be added into a database and used by machines. For example, if your password is “may the force be with you”, it may seem like a good idea, but it’s likely that this famous phrase would be found in a quotes database and used as a shortcut to crack your password.
Do not create something hard to remember, but easy to guess!
A common misperception that many people have is that if it’s hard for them to remember, it must be hard for someone else to guess. That’s not always true, especially if your adversary is a computer that can easily break simple ciphers that humans often use, such as replacing ‘L’ with ‘1’ and ‘o’ with ‘0’. “P4ssw0rd”, really? I love this XKCD drawing that pretty much nails it:
Managing hundreds of passwords isn’t hard, with the proper tools
It’s also important to recognize that it’s impossible to remember dozens, if not hundreds (I have a ~150 online accounts) of “strong” passwords. The strategy would then be to create a very strong master password that unlocks a password manager such as Lastpass or 1Password.
You can add security to that manager by using a 2-factor authentication system, and you can even set things up, so a second person has access to your passwords in the event of your death or incapacity.
Using a password manager, you can generate random passwords such as 9agcZEM7HqLcXX29ldQI which are rather hard to guess but are also hard to remember.
Since passwords are securely stored in the password manager, you don’t have to remember them, and if it comes down to it, you could reset the password with the usual processes that are email-based.
Password managers are a critical component of online security. They will not only offer the option to use strong unique passwords but are designed to be (more) easily secured with a single master password, strong encryption and 2-factor authentication.
They will make your life much better, and a lot more secure at the same time. Reusing the same password in many places is understandable, but is a very bad security practice because, at some point, one of them may be cracked, potentially from the inside.
What is a weak password?
A weak password is one that can be easily guessed by an attacker/hacker, whether that is a person, or a computer (or a whole network of computers).
There are common attack vectors, ranging from brute-force guessing to social-engineering, here are the common ones:
- Brute-force attack: try all possible combination of characters (including numbers and punctuation) to form words
- Dictionary-based attack: use common passwords, such as password123 or 123456. There are lists of worst passwords compiled every year, and you would be surprised that tens of thousands, if not more, use those.
- Phishing attack: Phishing means trying to get the user to reveal information through deception. It is often in the form of a fake email or web page pretending to be from a legitimate service and asking you to login to an account. The user is willingly giving the password information to the wrong person
- Avoid this by never following an email link that asks for your login/password. Go directly to the site, or Google it and follow the Google link.
- Social engineering: this is a less-common form of hacking that consists in using Spycraft like making friends with someone to make them reveal something, or access their computer/network. It is typically used for industrial espionage.
Don’t forget inside jobs/weaknesses
Poor security practices within companies can account for a major part of mass-hacking in which millions of emails and passwords are stolen. Never doubt that even large companies can do extremely dumb things, such as storing email and passwords WITHOUT encryption, or using the same encryption key for ALL their login credentials.
When this happens, there’s little you can do to prevent the hacking of this specific login and password. You should plan that any of your passwords can be cracked due to an internal security lapse. You just need to browse around our Hacking related news to see the extent of the problem.
This is why it is CRITICAL to use a different login/password combination for every service, so that you avoid a cascade hacking of all of your accounts, across multiple services.
Email security is a weak spot
Hacking into your email is also a preferred way to get to more of your information, so make sure that your email is secured with a strong password AND a 2-factor authentication. I recommend opting for an email provider that offers this level of protection.
If an attacker can have access to your email, it is likely that this person can then “reset” your passwords at various online services like Facebook etc… All it takes is a “reset link” sent over email.
Most of the personal information used as “security” gatekeepers (mother maiden name etc…) can be found by someone who is motivated, or via a simple social-engineering phone call, masquerading as someone legitimate.
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Here is a straight forward list of how to handle Bugsy. He has improved A LOT but he will always have some aggressive traits. It’s just how he is. He has bad days. You have to train yourself how to handle him. I can tell you what has worked for us and you should use our tips. But you may find other things that work better for you. Use this as the base of your training and go from there.
Bugsy will become a devil dog sometimes. As in growling and showing teeth.
When he gets like this, do not challenge him. Do not yell at him to stop or make contact with him. He will retaliate and you won’t be happy.
He gets this way in his bed. A lot worse in a crate so I gave up on the crate. Try to put his bed in the living room in a space without direct traffic. You will see the worst of it in the beginning as he needs to get used to a new environment and learn that he is safe. This behavior will decrease as he learns to trust you. He stops growling as soon as he feels safe again.
Make his bed a happy and safe place. When you walk by his bed, throw treats in there. But don’t make eye contact or say anything. You just want him to associate you and the bed with things he likes (treats).
When he is in devil mode, shaking his treat box. It snaps him out of it sometimes. When he snaps out of it, tell him to come to you. Make him do commands (come, up, sit, spin, etc). If he does this, give him a treat. If he doesn’t, don’t treat him.
When he is acting up, grab his leash and start walking away. I would leave his leash on at all times. This will especially be helpful if he tries to lay on the sofa. If you try to push him off of it, he might bite you.
We have let Bugsy be on the sofa a few times. Usually when he has been so good. We have stopped this completely since Bugsy does snap at the end if he get startled.
Don’t let Bugsy hide under things or he will become the devil dog. When he is scared, he will try to hide in a room or under furniture. He will do this specially if it’s raining/thundering outside. He hates bad weather. It makes him scared. Best option is to tie him to something so that he cannot hide.
Until you have him in check that he will not go on your sofa or try to hide somewhere, tie him by his bed when you are gone. It will work like a crate without having to put in one.
Handling Bugsy at first will be challenging and maybe even overwhelming. But as long as you are willing to train to handle him, you will be fine. After you have learned this, rest is easy. Bugsy is low maintenance dog with many fun, quirky sides to him. It’s easy to take care of him and he is non-destructive. He knows lots of tricks and he walks on the leash well.
My days with Bugsy now are pretty uneventful. We go for walks. He flips over for belly rubs. He attempts to communicate with me. I think it’s about either he has to poop or he wants to play. He runs and taps on the door if he needs to pee sometimes. I know he will go into devil mode from time to time but I have the situation under control as long as I follow my own tips.
The rewards of having Bugsy far outweigh the downsides! He is an adorable, playful, terrier mix that loves to do tricks. The only thing you need to do is learn to handle his fear related quirks. Just remember not to challenge him when he goes into devil mode – he is in a scared, defensive mode but will quickly snap out of it if you let him know that everything will be OK.
It’s been nearly 10 months since fostering Bugsy. We have had our ups and downs but he is now so much better, manageable, and quiet cute. Bugsy is still looking for his own human to love who can be patient with him.
Here are couple of things you should be aware of to prevent a grumpy Bugsy (photo to the left) which are totally manageable.
Restrict his space. Bugsy needs to be really restricted on where he is allowed because once he gets into a confined space (under furniture) or on sofa/bed, he exhibits similar behavior as when he is in a crate.. very growly.
No small children. Bugsy should not go to a home with small children. He can be unpredictable at times.
He wants to be solo. Bugsy would do best if he is the only dog in the house but he is ok with other dogs …eventually. It will take time under a watchful eye.
He is protective of his sleeping area and will growl if he feels his space is being invaded. You can eliminate this behavior by taking the actions below.
1. Give him a doggy bed only to sleep/rest in outside of your room. I placed his doggy bed in the living room.
2. Do not crate him. I’ve taken away his crate. He has issues with the crate that I don’t think he will ever get over. (I tried)
3. Do not allow him on the bed or sofa.
Bugsy is not allowed on the bed or sofa because he will show space protective behavior. Sometimes he seems ok.. and wants to cuddle with you on the sofa and I do give in sometimes but eventually he will get growly and I have to scold him.
Bugsy needs a patient person who will keep up with the rules above. Other than that, when you adopt Bugsy, you will see that he is a very good companion. Bugsy is a low maintenance dog and non destructive. I’ve had him since January and he has not chewed on anything other than his food and snacks. He is affectionate enough to the point of walking over to you and flip over for a belly rub but he is no snuggle bunny or a kisser. He has been socialized with people and warms up to other humans pretty fast. He acts as a good watch dog though as he dislikes foreign noises in the house such as door knocking or unfamiliar car sounds.
Bugsy is super potty trained. If he has to go he will let you know by tapping the front door with his paws. You just have to make sure he goes on set schedule. Currently he goes in the morning, afternoon, evening, and before bedtime. He will be ok without going out during lunch time if you can’t make it.
Bugsy is happiest and best behaved when he gets his exercise. He loves walks and staring at things from the car or a kayak.
Bugsy doesn’t like to swim but he will dip his feet in the water. He is also ok with bath time.
This is Bugsy (on the right), our first foster dog of 2012 and 21st foster to date. I picked him up last Wednesday so he has been with us for a week now. Previously he was with another foster parent for a month who was a foreign exchange student, but he went back to his home country.
Bugsy (previously known as Baby) is a male chihuahua/terrier mix that was surrendered to Town Lake Animal Center (now Austin Animal Center). As you can see in the picture, he is about the size of a cat and he has a slight (cute) underbite. Bugsy is about 5 years old and you can read his full bio here.
Bugsy is sweet and smart. He is house broken and non destructive. He has no problem with being crated, but once he is in there, he becomes aggressive and growls because (we are guessing) he has fear issues. At first it was disheartening to see him become like this, but with some dog training help from Jennie Chen (@misohungry on Twitter), Peter and I learned to better take control and reduce the aggressive behavior.
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By RICK SMITH
FOR THE PRESS DEMOCRAT
SAN BERNARDINO — Petaluma National defeated North Las Vegas, Nev, 10-6, Tuesday night and will be the No. 1 seed in the finals of the West Regional Little League championship tournament here beginning Friday.
Friday's semifinal games and Saturday's championship game will be nationally televised on ESPN and ESPN2, with Petaluma's next game airing at 6 p.m. Friday on ESPN. The winner of Saturday's championship game will head to the Little League World Series in South Williamsport, Pa.
The Nationals struck first with four runs in the first inning. Petaluma coach Eric Smith, in what could be described as a stroke of genius, sent Kempton Brandis up to pinch hit for Dylan Moore. Brandis hit a three-run homer.
“Feel free to write stroke of genius,” Smith said, laughing, “but it’s part of our general pattern when we have people on base, to get Kempton in there. We look for spots like that.”
With a 4-0 record, the Nationals now will rest until Friday, when they enter the single-elimination portion of the tournament against one of the four teams they have already beaten.
“Before today’s game I was looking forward to some time off if we won,” said Smith. “After the game you feel like you want to keep playing. We’ll give them tomorrow off and then have a long practice Thursday,” Smith said.
“All of our pitchers are available. We’re ready.”
Petaluma took a 1-0 on Bradley Smith’s single that scored Logan Douglas. With Smith and Dan Marzo on base, Brandis drove Jesse Fonteboa’s pitch over the left field fence. Fonteboa had just replaced starter Jimmy Gamboa.
The 4-0 lead didn’t last long. Nevada’s Ryan Merino hit a three-run homer in the bottom of the first off Marzo. “When I delivered, I said to myself, ‘Dang! I left it over the plate,’” Marzo said.
Petaluma began building its lead again. Bradley Smith scored for a 5-3 advantage in the third inning when Quinton Gago’s soft tap to shortstop was bobbled.
Smith had reached safely when his grounder to third was mishandled and advanced to third when Hance Smith dumped a Texas League blooper down the right field line.
Blake Buhrer singled, went to second on a passed ball and came in on Porter Slate’s double to the gap in right center. Slate scored on Logan Douglas’ poorly fielded single to center, and Douglas scored on Bradley Smith’s ground out to make it 8-3 after four innings.
Andrew White replaced Marzo on the mound with two outs in the third and kept Nevada in check until the fifth, when Merino bombed another three-run homer to make the score 8-6.
Back came Petaluma in its last at-bat. Douglas singled. Marzo then drove a pitch from Layton Walls well beyond the fence in right center.
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Ideal weddings are frequently worked together with viable arranging. At the point when we talk about wedding festivity, it likewise goes that you should bargain on various arrangements beginning on what to wear, what menus are to be served, what topic is to be utilized, and some more to go. One of the significant worries of couples in their wedding readiness is the choice on where wedding setting would be. Settings for wedding are in various varieties. They are picked by the prerequisites and inclinations of the couple.
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My husband’s legs are smaller than mine.
I remember when I first realized this during our dating days.
I walked right up next to him, put my thigh next to his thigh and exclaimed, “My legs are bigger than yours!”
My ego wanted him to say, “No, they’re not.”
Even though I knew they were.
But instead, he said, “Yea, so?”
I stared at him a few seconds not knowing what to say.
I felt hurt and frustrated at the same time. But, I knew these feelings weren’t logical.
He could see how weird I felt and quickly said, “I love your legs.”
I remember muttering thanks and moving on from the conversation. It was pretty clear that it was my stuff coming up, not his.
A couple years later, here’s what I can tell you.
The size of your thighs don’t matter (even if they’re bigger than your partners).
What matters is if you’re taking care of yourself.
At the time this “thigh incident” occurred, I was working a job that had me clocking in 13-hour days.
I wasn’t sleeping enough, making time for exercise, or eating food I enjoyed. I was in a constant state of anxiety and exhaustion.
I didn’t feel good in my body.
Not because my thighs were (and still are) bigger than my husband’s. But because I wasn’t taking care of myself on a holistic level – from rest to exercise to food.
And this is the part we’re missing when it comes to feeling healthy and happy in our bodies.
The part where we just take care of ourselves.
You see, it’s not about shrinking ourselves to worthiness. It’s about caring for ourselves into health and happiness.
And the only way to do that is to make time for it.
Here’s one of my favorite sayings: Take your time, but don’t forget to make the time.
Because there’s a huge difference between the two.
So – here I am – with a simple reminder for you to make the time.
To laugh. To move. To make dinner. To journal. To sit for just 2-minutes and be. To allow yourself to feel. To do something that will make you a better, healthier, happier you.
I promise you’ll feel better.
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