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10,000,002 | A motor vehicle remains in the category of unascertained or future goods till its appropriation to the contact of sale by the seller is occasioned by handing over its possession at or near the office of registration authority in a deliverable and registrable state, the Court said.
The Supreme Court, on Friday has observed that though in practical terms sale precedes the event of registration, in normal circumstances and as the law stands, it is co-terminus with registration of a new motor vehicle. Apex Court bench comprising of Justices Dipak Misra and Shiva Kirti Singh dismissed the appeal in Commissioner of Commercial Taxes, Thiruvananthapuram, Kerala vs. M/s K.T.C. Automobiles.
The appeal before Supreme Court was preferred by Commissioner of Commercial Taxes, whose order was set aside by the Kerala High Court. According the Commissioner, who had restored the findings of Intelligence Officer, the sales were concluded by the Dealer at Kozhikode and hence the vehicles should have been registered within the State of Kerala and by showing the sales at Mahe the Dealer had failed to maintain true and complete accounts as an assessee under the KGST Act and had evaded payment of tax to the tune of Rs.86 lakhs and odd during the relevant period.
The Court referring to Article 286(2) of the Constitution of India, Section 4(2) Central Sales Tax Act, 1956 and Sections 4, 19 and 20 of the Sale of Goods Act, 1930, transfer of possession from Dealer to purchaser can take place only when the vehicle reaches the place where the registering authority will be obliged to inspect for the purpose of finding out whether it is a roadworthy and register-able motor vehicle and whether its identification marks tally with those given in the sale invoice and the application for registration.
The Court said that a motor vehicle remains in the category of unascertained or future goods till its appropriation to the contact of sale by the seller is occasioned by handing over its possession at or near the office of registration authority in a deliverable and registrable state. | [
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10,000,003 | Well, dear readers, are we really in the final week of March? I gotta tell you. This month has flown by like a gazelle eating Apple Brown Betty. Say what? Apple Brown Betty? Where did that come from? One doesn’t simply come up with Apple Brown Betty out of nowhere, and yet that’s exactly what just happened. Now, I have to admit that while I obviously had the name Apple Brown Betty somewhere in the deep recesses of the windmills of my mind, I actually had no idea what it was or, for that or any other matter, what it is. So, I just looked it up and I now know what Apple Brown Betty is. More importantly, I now know that know is just now with a “K” stuck on it. How many here have actually had Apple Brown Betty? How many here know or knew what it was? According to my unnamed sources, who wish to have anonymity, Apple Brown Betty-wise, it’s a dessert that dates back to Colonial American Time, which is similar to Daylight Savings Time and yet not. A “Betty” is a baked pudding or meatball made of pudding. Right there you want to vomit on the ground, don’t you? A Meatball Made Of Pudding – that’s the title of my next novel. Where was I? Oh, yes, Apple Brown Betty and What It Means. It’s made with layers of sweetened and spiced fruit and breadcrumbs, and is usually served with lemon sauce or whipped cream. The whipped cream would be a big plus. The most famous Apple Brown Betty is made with sliced apples and brown sugar. Now, I think that one of our adventurous dear readers should just whip up some Apple Brown Betty this very day and tell us how it is. However, I’m having difficulty getting past the meatball made of pudding part. Speaking of a meatball made of pudding, yesterday was Easter. I didn’t do much Eastering – I slept late (which I needed), and then puttered around the home environment until it was time to leave for a production meeting. The drive was free and clear and I got to the theater in forty minutes. The meeting lasted about an hour and that was that, and then I drove home – I took the long route, as there seemed to be endless problems on all the freeways | [
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10,000,004 | . The longer route had no traffic at all and I got home in about forty-five minutes. Well, not home, for I stopped and had another lovely meal at Michael’s Bar and Grill in Burbank. I had the cheesy garlic bread and the fried catfish, both excellent. I then came home and sat on my couch like so much fish.
Yesterday, I watched four more episodes of The Rookies. As I said, it’s not a great show, but I like these old 70s cop shows, and all the episodes directed by Leonard Horn are really good, with lots of LA location shooting. And there are lots of fun guest stars, such as John Kerr (not a guest-star actually, but just a one-scene day player with no special billing, which surprised me), William Windom, Vincent Gardenia, Roddy McDowell, Ken Tobey, Lynne Marta, Leslie Charleson (anyone remember her?), and lots of other interesting folks. And, in a non-speaking one-minute appearance in which she’s offed by James Olson as a sick strangler, Miss Cheryl Stoppelmoor, aka the soon to be rechristened Cheryl Ladd. Some of the transfers look really good, some are a bit muddy-looking and dark. The first seven episodes are all scored by Elmer Bernstein and are terrific. Then others took over – so far, Allyn Fergusen and Jack Elliott, and then Pete Rugolo.
Well, why don’t we all click on the Unseemly Button below because I’m quite tired and the notes are already late because of all this Apple Brown Betty palaver. Not only that, I just checked and see that I’ve already had Apple Brown Betty as the title of the notes. I hate when that happens. Oh, well, one simply can’t have enough Apple Brown Betty, can one?
I am hoping that this week is not quite so pressure-filled as last week, because there is much that needs to be done and it’s really hard when there’s too much pressure and weirdness, and then having to go to rehearsal and be focused. So, we could surely use all the excellent vibes and xylophones you can send in this here direction. And send some Apple Brown Betty, too.
We’ve got | [
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10,000,005 | several really big scenes to block this week, and a few small ones, and then the show will be blocked, although we haven’t run any of the scenes that we did two weeks ago and I have no idea how much the actors involved will remember. We’ll run them this week and see.
Well, dear readers, I must take the day, I must do the things I do, I must, for example, deal with several important things that need dealing with, I must do some errands and whatnot, and then I must hie myself to rehearsal. Today’s topic of discussion: What are your all-time favorite cop shows of any era? And what was the first cop show you ever watched, have you seen any episodes lately, and, if so, did it hold up. My very first cop show was Boston Blackie, and I always remembered the opening to the show vividly. When I finally saw a tape of it some forty years later, it was exactly as I remembered. I loved Dragnet, M-Squad, Highway Patrol, Racket Squad, Mr. District Attorney, and then, later, The Mod Squad, Adam 12, and those types of shows. Your turn. Let’s have loads of lovely postings, shall we, whilst we all contemplate a meatball made of pudding. | [
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10,000,006 | A vaporizer or a vape is an electronic device that is used to vaporize different materials, rather than burn it by smoking. Vaporizing releases the active ingredients of the material into vapor rather than burning it. As we know, burning something then inhaling the smoke can cause a lot of harmful by-products and toxins to be inhaled. Vapor contains almost zero particulate matters, reduces noxious gases that smoke carries and even gives off much less toxins.
The material can consist of dry herbs, e-liquids, oils or concentrates. They can come in different forms and sizes but for the most part they are made of a steel encasement which holds the battery inside. Batteries can come in all sizes (mAh) but are generally cylindrical and vary from 300mAh to 3500mAh which some of them being removable and others just re-chargeable.
A vaping pen can be used by many people whether they want to replace their current form of smoking or by others who want to stay discreet. People looking to quit smoking cigarettes are the main reason behind vapes. They can help cigarette smokers cut down from their current limit and slowly help them lessen the amount of cigarettes smoked until they have ceased to continue smoking. Medical marijuana users are often looking into vaporizers too as it helps their current ailments. Smoke can be harsh on the throat and lungs but vapor is smoother and much thinner.
Vape pen is the most typical and popular type of device you see. Most people carry these as they’re the best starter kits and most discreet. Some of them can literally blend into your cup of pens at the office. Some vape pens are thicker while others are longer. For e-cigs, they’re usually disposables pens. Herbal vape pens are generally convection heating. Some of them are rechargeable while some can’t be re-charged.
Portable vaporizers are handhelds vapes that can be used on-the-go. They are by far the most popular kind of vape because they can easily be hidden or be used in discreet. Portable vapes got a bad name in the beginning but have advanced lately. They hit just as good as desktop units and are just as efficient. On top of that, you can take it anywhere you want. They’re all rechargeable but some come with replaceable batteries while others are in the unit. The heating method for a portable unit can be | [
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10,000,007 | either conduction or convection.
Desktop vaporizers are the bad boy of them all and are used primarily for herbs, sometimes wax. This is the device you use when you have a bunch of friends around. A desktop vape can handle much more than a portable vape can since they get hot too quick. Desktop units are very efficient and the quality is second to none. The vapor is either inhaled through a medical grade whip or a balloon bag that is filled with your herbal vapor. They also are not rechargeable. Using a desktop unit, you must plug it into an outlet so the portability aspect is not there.
A dry herb vape or sometimes referred to as a marijuana vaporizer is specifically used for herbs. The different herbs you can vaporize are basil, cannabis, green tea, tobacco, lavender, eucalyptus and much more. Some people opt out of smoking and decide to vape their herbs because of the smoke irritating their lung or throat. One of the biggest differences between vaping dry herbs versus smoking is the temperature control you have. You can change the temperature at which your herbs can be vaporized to make sure you’re getting the most from your unit. Being able to change the temperature is great because not all herbs vaporize at the same temperature.
Dry herb vaporizers can come in conduction heating, convection heating or a hybrid of the two. Portable dry herb vapes are becoming more hybrid because of the efficiency with it. Convection heating is when the herbs are touching the coil directly. These causes combustion which resembles a very similar effect to smoking. Conduction heating is the real vaporization technique. Instead of touching the coil, the herb is placed in an oven chamber that is heated to your preference.
X Max V2 Pro – One of the newest and best triple use pens is the X Max V2 Pro. It comes with the ability to use it as a 3 in 1 which means you can use herbs, wax or liquid/oil as your material. The cylindrical shape was made with the users comfort and grip in mind. It fits in your palm very comfortably. It also comes with the ability to change temperatures from 356°F to 374°F to 392°F to 410°F to 428°F which comes in handy when you’re switching materials often.
Volcano – The German made Volcano Vaporizer is easily the most known and efficient herbal vape. It is a stationary | [
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10,000,008 | desktop unit which means you plug it in to the electrical outlet to use it. You have the choice of the solid valve set or the easy valve set with the option of the classic or digital Volcano. When you start vaporizing your herbs, a fan blows the vapors inside a balloon bag which then you can detach and take it with you around the house.
A wax vaporizer, wax pen or dab pen is usually a vape pen that has an atomizer for vaping wax. Wax and concentrates are extracted forms of solid herbs. Dab pens are becoming more popular than ever due to the popularity of dabbing. More units are being catered for this and more wax pens are becoming bulkier, escaping the pen style. More atomizers are available for wax. Wax comes in different forms so different atomizer coils work different from each other. Atomizers range from ceramic, titanium, quartz, silica wick and more. Temperature can definitely effect the outcome too so keep the wax pen around 380°F – 420°F.
Linx Hypnos – One of the best portable pens for dabs is the Linx Hypnos Zero. It is one of the nicest units as it has a sleek stainless steel design with a glass mouthpiece. It uses no glue, paint or fiber so you can ensure half the toxins some companies use won’t be on this. The new upgraded Zero coil is a ceramic plate disc where you can dab onto. This does not have any coils, wires, wicks or anything like that. It is a small plate made of a ceramic atomizer which heats up to your desired pre-set temperature.
Glass Globe Vaporizer – Our top selling and biggest bang for your buck wax vape pen is the Glass Globe vape pen. It has been our companies best-selling unit for 4 years. It is very simple as all it consists of is battery, a globe and atomizer along with its base. Simply dab onto the coil, put the globe back on and blow clouds as you see the vapor form while you inhale.
Electronic Cigarettes or e-Cigs are what jump started the craze of vape pens and brought them to the lime light. Even though they had been around since 2004, popularity started rising since 2011. They are mainly used to replace and eventually quit tobacco/nicotine all together but many use it as just a past time hobby like a portable hookah. Personal vaporizers comes in different types | [
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10,000,009 | . Some are pen shaped and resemble a cigarette. These are usually what people start with and are disposable most of the time. They advance all the way to box mods which are larger rectangular shaped boxes that are more powerful than a regular starter kit. They let the user modify the voltage, wattage and even battery. An eCig is generally made up of a battery, atomizer, and e-juice.
E-Cigs are used to vaporize e-Liquids which is a thick liquid oil that usually contains propylene glycol, vegetable glycerin, flavoring, and sometimes nicotine. E-Liquid or e-Juice can be bought with different doses of nicotine, depending on how heavy of a smoker you were. As you get used to it, the point is the slowly drop the nicotine level, helping you ween off cigarettes and nicotine all together. Many people use a personal vaping pen to just blow non-nicotine vapor for the fun of it or even as cloud-chasing or competitive vaping. Those are not the same battery or set up as a regular electronic cigarette. People who have been vaping for a while usually use mods which are much more powerful.
eGo-C Twist – The perfect liquid vape pen for those who are getting started and want to learn more about temperature control or vaping in general. The eGo-C Twist comes with all the necessities to get started minus the e-juice. Just simply open the mouth piece on the Ce5+ Clearomizer it comes with and drip the liquid down the side, not getting into the middle needle. Screw it onto your battery, give it a minute for the oil to soak in then slowly take a hit. Switch the battery voltage to your liking.
Innokin iTaste MVP 2.0 – One of the most well-known portable devices in the vape world is the Innokin iTaste MVP 2.0. It has the ability to be modded so you can use a more powerful atomizer with it, change voltage and change wattage. It is very durable and reliable. There is even a video on YouTube with someone trying to destroy through different means and it lasts through a lot.
Dual use and triple use vaporizers are just like the name sounds. They’re use for more than one purpose. Dual vapes are usually dry herb and wax vaporizers but can include wax/e-liquid like the AirVape OM. | [
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10,000,010 | Triple use vaporizers consist of the whole nine yards. Herbs, concentrates and liquid oils all in one unit. This is done by switching out the atomizers that came with the unit.
Dry herbs refer to different plants and leaves that can be vaporized. Different herbs give different effects from euphoria to a relaxed state. Some are even considered legal stimulants. Some examples of herbs to vaporize are Valerian, St. Johns Wort, Chamomile, Lavender, and more.
Wax concentrates also referred to as dabs or oil are extracted or concentrated form your herbs, generally medical marijuana. They can be extremely potent and come in different forms. Crumble is a dry form that looks like little rocks with sand crumbling off of it. Shatter is a thin layer that almost looks like yellow or clear glass. Full melt is very oily which is why waxes are called oil. They also come in Co2 cartridges that you screw onto your 510 thread battery.
E-juice, also referred to as e-liquid is the liquid oil that is dripped into the e-Cigs atomizer. It can sometimes contain nicotine which is dosed. Nicotine typically comes in 3MG, 6MG, 9MG, 12MG, 18MG, 24MG, and 36MG.
The biggest benefit a vaporizer can give you is the fact that there is no smoke to be inhaled. It’s all vapor. As said above, smoke contains all kinds of toxins and carcinogens. Vapor eliminates most of this. It also eliminates the stink that comes with smoke. Smoking a cigarette will cause your breath and clothes to smell like smoke. Smoke is also the reason many people get turned off by cannabis. A lot of medical marijuana patients have an irritation in their lungs or throat when they smoke.
Vaporizers are known to savor the flavor of your material. Regardless of what it is, you will taste it better with a vape. Your herbs sometimes even taste like they smell.
In the age where smoking is still taboo, vaping offers a discreet and safer alternative. You can indulge without worrying about others finding it. Of course you need to use some discretion but you’re more incognito with a vaporizer.
Being able to have more control of your vape pen is a big advantage than lighting up a cigarette. Not all cigarettes have the same potency. With vapes, you can finally dose | [
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10,000,011 | the amount you want by changing the temperature. You can also pack more or less depending on your mood. The temperature with the amount in your atomizer can give you much more control.
You can also dose out your nicotine levels in your e-liquid. Your e-juice is going vary from 0MG to 36MG. Being able to pick the right level is going to matter a lot. Some people start with a nicotine level that is below what they’re used to, which doesn’t help them quit smoking.
Being able to vape anywhere gives you the convenience that smoking cannot. Smoke bothers most people but vapor is very thin so it can barely be seen. It can release some odor but very minimal.
Depending on what material you are vaporizing, they generally work in the same. The atomizers or chambers will definitely look different and thats fine but the process is generally the same. The way vapes work is when you heat up something up to its boiling point, it does not burn it but heats it up to the right temperature where it doesn’t release smoke but vapor. Whether its liquids or solid herbs, your device should be able to heat it up to its boiling point that it only vaporizes the active ingredients rather than the whole thing. Anything more is combusting or burning the herbs which is why we recommend the option for temperature control settings.
What to Look for When Choosing a Vaporizer?
Heat Up Times: You want to make sure the heat up time isn’t too long. Fast heating up units were only conduction heating methods but with hybrid heating, heating time has sped up.
Temperature Control: This is one of the most important features, if not the most important. You will most likely be vaping herbs that come in different density and moistness. These will require different temperatures to make sure it’s efficient.
Power Source: If you want a portable vape, make sure it works with batteries only. Desktop devices will require you to plug it into the outlet. This makes it hard when you want to use it when you’re not home.
Warranty: Knowing that the manufacturer stands behind their product is a big deal. Some give 5, 10, or lifetime warranty. Keep in mind, warranty is often only on batteries and chargers.
Heating Method: Knowing if your unit is convection or conduction is important. If you have irritation in your throat | [
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10,000,012 | , go with a convection unit as these are true vaporizers.
Type of Coil: Checking what type of coil comes with your wax vape is important. If you are familiar with the different kinds, then pick the one you like. Try to stick with ceramic, titanium or quartz. These will give off the natural flavor.
Battery: The size of the battery will ultimately depend on vapes longevity before you need to recharge. The longer you can go without charging is better. Some units even have replaceable batteries.
Temperature Control: Being able to change the temperature is not the most important aspect on concentrate units but it can still give you some flexibility.
Warranty: Warranty is a big deal as always. The longer the warranty is, the more you can trust that specific vape pen.
Battery: Most electronic cigarettes come with replaceable batteries so you can switch it out anything. This helps with venting too. Older units were small batteries that needed to be charged often. Many box mods even come with the option for dual 18650 batteries.
Power: Box mods usually come with the option to change wattage or voltage. Some are even the temperature controlled. Changing the temperature or electrical output changes the density of the vapor.
Shape and style: The shape and style will matter because you will be holding it often. Some like the box mod type that have a rectangular shape. Other vapes are circular like a cylinder that are more comfortable when your hand wraps around it.
Tips on Using a Vaporizer?
Herbs: When vaping herbs, make sure they tend to be a bit dry. Moist is fine too but if it’s too moist, it will have a hard time heating up. You will likely use a higher temperature for it which will end up burning.
Preheat your Herbs: If you have a temperature controlled vape, you usually don’t just click the button and start there. It takes time to warm up like your oven does. Therefore, when you pack it in, make sure you don’t just start inhaling. Let it heat up and get a nice thorough heat distribution.
Ground Up Herbs: Don’t just throw your herbs in there. Make sure it’s ground up. This helps all of it get a nice even heat distribution. It also helps you not waste any herbs.
Inhale it Slowly: You don’t want to vape like | [
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10,000,013 | you smoke a cigarette. Try to take your time pulling the vapor out. This helps the vapor get denser which is how you get clouds.
Trial and Error the Temperature: Finding out the right temperature can be tricky. You want to try it a few times until you get it right. The same herb might have different characteristics each time you get it.
Maintenance: Even though vapes can be pretty simple, it’s easy for gunk and unnecessary filth to build up. Make sure you’re cleaning it regularly. | [
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10,000,014 | In the summer of 1825 Schubert, on holiday in the mountain town of Steyr, wrote a letter home to his parents in which he regretted his brother Ferdinand's tendency to hypochondria and fear of death: 'If only he could once see these heavenly mountains and lakes, the sight of which threatens to crush or engulf us, he would not be so attached to puny human life, nor regard it as otherwise than good fortune to be consigned to the earth with its indescribable power to create new life.' Although Franz Schubert was at last feeling free of the syphilis that had laid him low in 1823, Ferdinand's fears were all too familiar to him, and the composer's vehemence on this occasion is a transparent indication of his own struggles in previous years. This joyous holiday in Upper Austria was a time of remission rather than cure but, for all that, he was a changed man. From that nightmare period of shame, fear of death and suicidal depression, he had somehow emerged unscathed, strong enough for his music to flow, as it would until the end of his life, with ever richer and more profound meaning. The homily in his letter home sums up the content of Stolberg's poem—and little wonder, for the song dates from 1823 when it was the cathartic power of creation, and writing music to accompany perhaps these very words, which had helped the composer to face the realities of life and death. There is no picturesque suggestion in the poem; but instead of apt illustrative musical effects there is a wonderfully mellow through-composed feeling, as if the piece was a sonata movement for viola, one of the most motherly of instruments, and one, particularly in the field of obbligato instruments with the voice, which reminds us of Brahms. (It is Capell who points out that the piece has a Brahmsian look on the page.) There is a suggestion of the slow swing of a huge cradle, particularly in the rocking movement of the introduction. The protective haven woven by the intertwining embrace of voice and piano in thirds and sixths (one might add Mahler to the list of composers prophesied in this song) makes us forget, and perhaps even accept, that in burying ourselves in the lap of Mother Earth, we bid life farewell. Connoisseurs of Schubert's piano works will recognise in the accompaniment underneath the | [
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10,000,015 | section beginning 'Es scheint der mond, es f„llt der Thau', a strong reminiscence of the Andante of the A major Sonata, Op 120 (D664).
Wie welkes Laub in’s stille Grab.
Uns sammelt alle, klein und gross.
like withered leaves, into the silent grave.
lit by the gleam of gentle hope.
we should not fear her bosom.
Florian Boesch and Roger Vignoles close their recital with a Schubertian rarity: Die Mutter Erde, written in April 1823, when the composer was suffering from the first symptoms of syphilis. It is tempting, perhaps too tempting, to link Schubert’s choice of poem—a contemplation of mortality by the pre-Romantic versifier Count Friedrich Leopold Stolberg—with his own personal crisis. Whatever, this beautiful song, marked Sehr langsam, has a mellow, ritualistic solemnity, with the opposing images of sultry, oppressive day and cool, easeful death painted by Schubert’s beloved contrasts of minor and major.
Florian Boesch et Roger Vignoles terminent leur récital avec une rareté schubertienne: Die Mutter Erde, écrit en avril 1823 par un Schubert souffrant des premiers symptômes de la syphilis. On est tenté (trop, peut-être) de rattacher le choix de ce poème—une méditation sur notre caractère mortel due à un versificateur préromantique, le comte Friedrich Leopold Stolberg—à la crise qu’il traversait alors. Quoi qu’il en soit, ce beau lied, marqué Sehr langsam, arbore une solennité douce, ritualiste, Schubert recourant à ses chers contrastes mineur-majeur pour peindre les images antagonistes du jour étouffant, oppressant, et de la mort rafraîchissante, toute délivrance.
Florian Boesch und Roger Vignoles beenden ihren Vortrag mit | [
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10,000,016 | einer Schubert’schen Rarität: Die Mutter Erde, entstanden im April 1823, als der Komponist an den ersten Syphilis-Symptomen litt. Man ist versucht, vielleicht zu versucht, Schuberts Textwahl—ein Nachsinnen über die Menschlichkeit von dem vorromantischen Dichter Friedrich Leopold Graf zu Stolberg—mit seiner eigenen persönlichen Krise in Verbindung zu bringen. Jedenfalls ist dieses wunderschöne, mit Sehr langsam bezeichnete Lied von einer milden, ritualhaften Feierlichkeit, wobei die gegensätzlichen Bilder des schwülen, bedrückenden Tages und des kühlen, ruhigen Todes durch Schuberts geliebte Gegenüberstellung von Moll und Dur ausgedrückt werden. | [
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10,000,017 | Lochs FC were back in action last night as the stand off between the club and match offficals ended.
Jim O’Donnell scored the only goal of the game as the Maroons edged Stornoway Athletic 1-0 in the Moldova Lewis Cup.
See this wee’s Gazette for the weekly football round-up from the Lewis and Harris league and also the latest on the fall out which saw Lochs’ fixtures grind to a halt.
On sale Thursday, August 2, 2018. | [
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10,000,018 | Vivienne Westwood Petite Orb Earrings in pink gold. Vivienne Westwood's classic Petite Orb Earrings are centred around a clear cabochon. The pink gold plated drop earrings are intricately detailed with coloured Swarovski crystals and elegantly hangs from a pink crystal stud. | [
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10,000,019 | For facts and figures on Portsmouth click on history.
75/6 Blackburn, Hull; 76/7 Gillingham; 77/8 Exeter 55p, Gillingham; 78/9 Wimbledon; 79/80 Bournemouth, Darlington, Hartlepool, Lincoln, Northampton, P Vale; 80/1 Bristol R (LC), Charlton, Chesterfield, Oxford, Reading, Rotherham; 83/4 Swansea; 84/5 Charlton, Wimbledon; 85/6 Wimbledon; 86/7 Barnsley, Grimsby, Hull, Plymouth, Shrewsbury; 87/8 Bradford (FAC), Charlton, Norwich, Southampton; 88/9 Birmingham, Blackburn, Bradford, Hull, Ipswich, Oldham, Plymouth, Shrewsbury, Stoke, Watford; 89/90 Bradford, Hull, Leicester, Liverpool (Youth Cup) £2, Oxford, Plymouth, P Vale, West Ham, Wimbledon (ZDS); 90/1 Blackburn, Bournemouth (FAC), Charlton, Hull, Ipswich, Millwall, Oxford, Plymouth, P Vale, Sheff Wed, Swindon, Wolves; 91/2 Barnsley, Bristol R, L Orient (FAC), Oxford (LC), Plymouth, Southend, Sunderland, Swindon; 92/3 Ipswich (LC), Newcastle, Notts C, Oxford, Peterboro, Southend, Sunderland, Tranmere, Watford, Wolves; 93/4 Barnsley, Bristol C, Bristol C (AIC), Grimsby, Luton, Notts C, Oxford, Peterboro, Peterboro (LC), Watford; 94/5 Barnsley, Bolton, Bolton (FAC), Burnley, Cambridge (LC), Charlton, Derby, Derby (LC), Grimsby, Luton, Middlesbrough, Millwall, P Vale, Southend, Stoke, Tranmere, Watford; 95/6 Barnsley, Tranmere; 96/7 L Orient (LC), P Vale, QPR, Southend; 00/1 Blackburn, Burnley, Crewe, Grimsby, Huddersfield, Norwich, Nottm F, QPR, Sheff Wed; 01/2 Walsall.
EURO COMPS - 93/4 Fiorentina (AIC).
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10,000,020 | FRIENDLIES & TESTIMONIALS (at Home) - 78/9 WBA; 88/9 Tottenham; 89/90 Tottenham; 94/5 Man City.
FA YOUTH CUP SEMI-FINAL - 89/90 v Middlesbrough.
MATCH at PORTSMOUTH - 55/6 England Under 23 v Denmark (score on cover, slcr) £3.
at ALDERSHOT 79/80. BARNSLEY 83/4; 84/5; 86/7; 89/90; 90/1; 91/2; 92/3; 93/4; 94/5; 95/6; 96/7; 00/1; 01/2. BIRMINGHAM 68/9 £1.50; 71/2; 88/9; 97/8. BLACKBURN 86/7; 93/4 (FAC). BLACKPOOL 68/9 £1.50; 71/2; 74/5; 80/1; 92/3 (LC). BOLTON 93/4. BOURNEMOUTH 88/9. BRADFORD CITY 86/7 (LC); 88/9; 89/90; 01/2 £1. BRIGHTON 83/4; 84/5; 88/9; 89/90. BRISTOL CITY 90/1; 91/2. BRISTOL ROVERS 89/90 (LC); 91/2; 92/3. BURNLEY 81/2. CAMBRIDGE 92/3; 00/1 (LC). CARDIFF 84/5. CHARLTON 67/8 £1.50; 70/1; 84/5; 85/6; 87/8; 90/1; 91/2. CHELSEA 83/4; 88/9; 90/1 (LC). COVENTRY 87/8. C PALACE 66/7 £1.50; 84/5; 89/90 (FAC); 93/4. DERBY 92/3; 94/5. DONCASTER 78/9; 81/2. EVERTON 94/5 (LC). FULHAM 68/9 £1.50; 83/4. GILLINGHAM 81/2; 85/6 (LC). GRIMSBY 86/7; 91/2; 94 | [
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10,000,021 | /5; 96/7. HUDDERSFIELD 96/7; 97/8. HULL 71/2; 85/6; 86/7; 88/9; 89/90. IPSWICH 88/9; 89/90; 90/1; 96/7; 02/3. LEEDS 89/90. LEICESTER 70/1; 75/6 (LC); 91/2; 95/6. L ORIENT 70/1; 74/5. LINCOLN 76/7; 77/8; 81/2. LUTON 70/1; 71/2; 87/8, 87/8 (FAC); 93/4; 95/6. MAN CITY 88/9. MAN UNITED 91/2 (LC). MIDDLESBROUGH 88/9 (SC); 89/90; 91/2, 91/2 (FAC). MILLWALL 72/3; 90/1. NEWCASTLE 08/9 £1. NORWICH 87/8; 99/00. NOTTM FOREST 84/5 (LC); 87/8; 97/8; 00/1; 01/2. NOTTS COUNTY 73/4; 90/1; 92/3; 94/5. OLDHAM 80/1; 84/5. OXFORD 85/6 (LC); 87/8; 90/1; 92/3. PETERBORO 67/8 (FAC) £1.50; 92/3; 93/4 (LC); 97/8 (LC). PLYMOUTH 91/2 (ZDS). PORT VALE 78/9; 90/1; 97/8; 99/00. PRESTON 68/9 £1.50; 69/70 £1; 71/2; 77/8. QPR 87/8; 96/7; 97/8. READING 96/7. SHEFF UNITED 85/6; 86/7; 96/7; 01/2. SHEFF WED 87/8; 90/1. SHREWSBURY 83/4; 84/5; 85/6; 86/7. SOUTHEND 81/2 (LC); 91/2; 92/3; 93/4; 94/5. STOKE 88/9. SUNDERLAND 89/90; 91 | [
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10,000,022 | /2. SWINDON 87/8(LC); 88/9 (FAC); 90/1; 96/7. TOTTENHAM 87/8. WALSALL 88/9. WATFORD 69/70 £1; 87/8; 88/9; 89/90; 90/1; 91/2; 92/3; 93/4; 94/5; 95/6; 00/1; 01/2. WEST BROM 90/1; 94/5; 98/9. WEST HAM 89/90; 90/1; 92/3. WIMBLEDON 78/9; 79/80 (FAC); 81/2; 84/5, 84/5 (LC); 85/6; 86/7 (FAC); 87/8; 96/7 (LC); 98/9 (LC). WOLVES 93/4; 94/5. YORK 74/5 £1; 78/9 £1.
FAC SEMI-FINAL - 1992 v Liverpool £2.
FRIENDLIES & TESTIMONIALS (Away) - at Bournemouth 91/2, 92/3; Fulham 91/2; Reading 92/3; Southend 89/90.
v NON LEAGUE (Away) - at Fareham/Gosport 74/5 (Hiron Test) £2; Forest Green Rovers 92/3; St Martins (Guernsey - lights).
NEUTRAL VENUE - v Hull 66/7 (FAC at Coventry £2.50 - also slcr copy 40p). | [
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10,000,023 | Pay TV homes in the Asia-Pacific region rose 5.7 percent to reach 76 percent of all homes in 2017. The number of pay TV homes will continue to rise steadily, from 632 million homes in 2017 to 743 million by the end of 2022.
Mobile messaging apps tracked by IHS Markit achieved a combined user base of 6.1 billion monthly active users by the end of 2017. As the market matures, the overall growth rate is slowing and smaller players are struggling.
The top mobile messaging apps tracked by IHS Markit achieved a combined user base of 6.1 billion monthly active users by the last quarter of 2017, up 5% from the previous quarter and 16% year-over-year. The year-over-year growth rate of total users of OTT messaging app has slowed, down from 36% in 2015 and 19% in 2016 as the market matures and smaller players struggle. | [
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10,000,024 | BOSTON – (September 10, 2014) – George King, M.D., Chief Scientific Officer and Senior Vice President of Joslin Diabetes Center and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Lloyd Paul Aiello, M.D., Ph.D., Director of the Beetham Eye Institute (BEI) and Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, were among seven individuals, including colleagues from Massachusetts Eye and Ear Infirmary, Genentech and UC San Diego, to receive the 2014 Antonio Champalimaud Vision Award for their contributions toward the discovery of treatments inhibiting vascular endothelial growth factor (VEGF) for ocular diseases. Drs. King and Aiello performed pivotal work in this area regarding the retinal diseases of proliferative diabetic retinopathy (PDR) and diabetic macular edema (DME).
George King, M.D., Chief Scientific Officer and Senior Vice President of Joslin Diabetes Center and Professor of Medicine at Harvard Medical School, and Lloyd Paul Aiello, M.D., Ph.D., Director of the Beetham Eye Institute (BEI) and Professor of Ophthalmology at Harvard Medical School, were among seven individuals to receive the 2014 Antonio Champalimaud Vision Award.
As the world’s largest award for vision research, the Champalimaud Award is presented to active researchers involved in basic or clinical research that has led to a major breakthrough in the understanding and preservation of vision. The award was presented to both Joslin researchers and their colleagues during a ceremony at the headquarters of the Champalimaud Foundation in Lisbon, Portugal.
While Drs. King and Aiello’s search for anti-VEGF treatments spanned across almost two decades, the significant risk that eye complications pose to people with diabetes dates back much further to the introduction of insulin, which prolonged the lives of those living with the disease. By the 1960s, with diabetic patients living longer, diabetic eye disease grew to impact a large portion of the diabetes population, eventually threatening more than half of diabetic patients with the possibility of significant irreversible visual loss.
Changes to the retina called diabetic retinopathy will eventually affect nearly all persons with diabetes. The visual threat from this condition arises from two conditions. One is termed diabetic macular edema, which is caused by increased leakage of the small blood vessels in the back of the eye. When these blood vessels leak, the retina in the back | [
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10,000,025 | of the eye swells and makes it difficult for the eye to receive light correctly. After this occurs, a patient’s vision becomes blurry and distorted. Treatments blocking VEGF have become the definitive initial choice for treating people with this condition once it affects their central vision.
As a patient’s diabetic retinopathy worsens, they may develop proliferative diabetic retinopathy where the blood vessels in their eyes grow in a disorganized manner. This can lead to bleeding and scarring of the blood vessels, reduced vision and ultimately destruction of the retina. Within the next year there will be information from clinical trials as to whether VEGF inhibitors can successfully treat this condition as well.
“One of the greatest fears of diabetic patients is to lose their eye sight because that has an immediate impact on everything they do,” said Dr. King.
The first widely effective treatment for diabetic retinopathy, panretinal photocoagulation laser therapy, was pioneered by William P. Beetham, M.D., and Lloyd M. Aiello, M.D. at Joslin in the 1960s. This therapy was immensely helpful in decreasing blindness for diabetic patients, but this success was accompanied by serious side effects. The destructive nature of laser therapy often reduced the ability of patients to see well during periods of limited light, such as at dusk or dawn, and also constricted their peripheral vision.
Prior to the discovery of VEGF, ophthalmologists and researchers hunted for “Factor X,” which they suspected was made within the eye and caused blood vessels to grow and leak in places they were not supposed to, leading to diabetic eye disease.
In the 1990s, Dr. Napoleone Ferrara, of Genentech, cloned the VEGF molecule, which was found to be responsible for triggering blood vessels to grow and leak. Upon learning of Dr. Ferrara’s discovery and subsequent discoveries regarding VEGF in the field of cancer, Drs. King and Aiello hypothesized that VEGF could be the “Factor X” causing high rates of eye disease in patients with diabetes.
It became apparent that VEGF might fulfill the three main criteria expected of “Factor X”: it was made in the eye, the presence of the molecule increased when the eye had lower levels of oxygen due to diabetic eye disease and it affected the cells in the | [
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10,000,026 | retina by making them grow and leak.
These criteria were confirmed by work from both the basic research bench and the clinical research bedside. Studies utilizing eye fluids from patients with varying severities of diabetic and other eye diseases allowed Drs. King and Aiello to demonstrate that high levels of VEGF corresponded with worse eye conditions, and furthermore that it was the VEGF itself within these eye samples that was causing blood vessel growth and leakage. The studies were published in the New England Journal of Medicine in 1994.
Drs. King and Aiello collaborated with Dr. Ferrara, who was at Genentech, and several other groups to examine possible VEGF inhibitors. The effort of many individuals eventually proved the benefit of VEGF blockade and resulted in FDA approval of VEGF inhibitors for several forms of ocular disease.
Drs. King and Aiello are part of a group of seven researchers, including Napoleone Ferrara, M.D., Professor and Senior Deputy Director for Basic Sciences at University of California, San Diego Moores Cancer Center, Joan Miller, M.D., Chief and Chair of Department of Ophthalmology at Massachusetts Eye and Ear, Evangelos S. Gragoudas, M.D., Director of the Retina Service in the Ophthalmology Department at Massachusetts General Hospital, Patricia A. D'Amore, Ph.D., M.B.A., F.A.R.V.O., Director of the Howe Laboratoy at Mass. Eye and Ear as well as the Director of Research, Senior Scientist and the Ankeny Scholar of Retinal Molecular Biology at Schepens and Anthony P. Adamis, M.D., Vice President and Global Head Ophthalmology at Genentech, Inc., who are also receiving this award.
The prize award for the 2014 Antonio Champalimaud Vision Award is 1 million Euros (nearly $1.3 million) and will be distributed evenly among the recipients to further research into the preservation of vision.
“These awards help encourage us to develop new projects that will further our understanding and treatment of diabetes and its complications,” Dr. King added. | [
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10,000,027 | What are the pros and cons of a court typist career? Get training information, career prospects, salary info and real job descriptions to see if becoming a court typist is right for you.
Court typists, better known as court reporters, create verbatim transcripts of legal proceedings. Read the pros and cons of becoming a court typist to see if this career is right for you.
Court reporting can be accomplished through a few different methods, but if you want to become a court typist, you're probably interested in stenography. Stenotype machines feature fewer keys than a traditional keyboard, and the stenographer presses multiple keys at once in order to quickly produce words in real time. These machines, in combination with computer-assisted transcription programs, allow court reporters to transcribe over 200 words per minute.
In addition to stenotype machines, court reporters may use steno masks or digital recording equipment to record the proceedings of a trial. Using a steno mask, a court reporter speaks directly into a covered microphone to describe dialogue and gestures; that verbal account is then transcribed electronically using voice recognition software. Court reporters who use digital recording devices are responsible for maintaining that equipment throughout a trial and may also use the recording to produce a written account. Regardless of the equipment and technology used, court reporters must thoroughly review all documents for grammar, spelling and accuracy.
Despite their job title, court reporters have additional employment options outside the court system. They may work in broadcasting or corporate settings or for government agencies, medical facilities or schools. Court reporters are needed to transcribe professional conferences, meetings and events. They use Communication Access Real-Time Translation (CART) to transcribe speech for those with hearing impairment. Captioning television programs for the hard of hearing is also an area reporters can get into.
According to the U.S. Bureau of Labor Statistics (BLS), the median annual salary for court reporters was about $50,000 as of 2014. The BLS stated that reporters in local, state and federal government positions tended to earn the highest wages in the field, with mean annual salaries between about $57,000 and $58,000 as of 2014. The BLS projected job growth for this occupation of 10% from 2012-2022, which was average compared to other fields.
Employment growth for positions outside of the judicial system was expected to increase. Federal regulations require television and online programs to have close captioning for the hearing impaired | [
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10,000,028 | . Additionally, the large elderly population, who are more prone to hearing loss, will drive the demand for services in medical and public facilities. In the courtroom, digital recording may negatively impact the need for stenographers. However, many court systems continue to prefer a trained professional over using technology alone.
In many states, court reporters must obtain licensure or certification to work in the judicial system. As of 2012, 22 states accepted certification through the National Court Reporters Association (NCRA) for credentialing purposes. Those who pass the certification exam become Registered Professional Reporters (RPRs). RPR candidates must be stenographic reporters who can type at least 225 words per minute. In order to maintain this certification, continuing education is required.
The completion of formal training, as well as any necessary licensure or certification, is typically preferred among employers of court reporters. Take a look at the following May 2012 job postings to get an idea of what real employers were looking for.
A Washington, D.C., business contracting with the federal government needed a temporary, part-time court reporter. The job entailed working in various D.C. courts to create verbatim records of legal proceedings. The reporter also would ensure that transcripts were printed and bound. The employer sought candidates with 2-5 years of experience, proficiency in using equipment and strong English skills. Being detail-oriented and organized was also important. A certified court reporter was preferred to fill the position.
A Kansas district court was searching for an official court reporter. Candidates needed to have completed a formal training program. The candidate also needed to be a Kansas Certified Court Reporter (CCR) or be eligible to apply for the credential.
The Delaware Superior Court sought a court reporter to record conferences and legal proceedings within the courthouse. Previous experience in stenographic reporting was required, and the reporter had to be capable of performing real-time reporting within a year of being hired. Candidates needed to own a CAT system capable of real-time reporting. Being credentialed as an RPR or the equivalent was also required.
Certification through the NCRA can help you demonstrate your competency in the field. As you gain work experience, you can pursue advanced NCRA credentials, such as the registered merit reporter and registered diplomate reporter. The organization also offers specialty certifications, such as CART provider, legal video specialist and reporting instructor.
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10,000,029 | outside the judicial system can also be of benefit. According to the BLS, reporters with the best prospects are those with real-time captioning and CART skills.
If you're looking for an option in the legal field that offers a wider variety of duties, you could consider becoming a paralegal. Paralegals draft documents, write reports, conduct legal research and collect formal statements for evidence in order to assist lawyers. Training for this career typically involves earning an associate degree, although a shorter certificate program may be suitable if you already have a college degree. Keep in mind that the work can involve overtime or irregular hours, especially if there are tight deadlines to meet.
According to the BLS, job growth for paralegals was expected to be about 18% from 2010-2020, which was about average for all occupations. The BLS also stated that paralegals earned a median annual wage of about $47,000 as of 2011.
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10,000,032 | Over the past twenty years or so, I’ve read a fair bit of dystopian fiction, starting with Stephen King’s The Stand (one of my very favorites of his novels.) Authors of dystopias are often doing what King calls “dancing on the grave of the world”: they’ve taken some existing problem — technology, tyranny, the environment, nuclear winter, or, in Station Eleven‘s case, the flu — and brought it to the end of times. But in the best of these novels, like The Stand and Cormac McCarthy’s The Road, apocalypse takes on its original meaning in Greek: revelation. How can the end of the world open our eyes to what it means to be human?
In Station Eleven, Emily St. John Mandel uses a nonlinear narrative to create a vivid picture of life after the Georgia Flu destroys 99.9% of the world’s population, and a strong sense of nostalgia for the world that has been lost. Twenty years after the disaster, the Traveling Symphony (motto: “Survival is Insufficient” from Star Trek: Voyager) goes from settlement to tiny settlement, playing Shakespeare and Beethoven; they break into homes looking for knives and canned food, yes, but also for poetry, musical instruments, tabloid magazines. In an airport, people who were stranded the day the flu began to erase the world’s population create a Museum of Civilization: on the shelves are Amex cards, exotic stiletto shoes, iPhones, iPads, laptops, a Nintendo console, a whole motorcycle.
Mandel plays with the back-and-forth between present and past to talk about what’s important to the human race. Survivors are desperate for stories: in a new era when strangers are suspect at best and lethal at worst, the Traveling Symphony is always welcome to town. A tiny circulating newspaper, telling stories from the flu era, is a prize. One character creates a comic (Station Eleven, in fact) in the pre-flu era that has prescient visions of the post-apocalyptic world, just as Shakespeare’s stories from his plague-ridden time are strangely relevant. But stories can also be dangerous: survivors discuss whether it’s best to tell children about what has been lost, lest it depress and disorient them. And a prophet, the leader of a cult, tells stories that could endanger anyone | [
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10,000,033 | he comes into contact with.
I enjoyed reading this book just fine. It was very pretty: it was nicely written and structurally well put-together, and I liked some of the characters. But I have to confess to you that it bored me almost silly. This is not because I wanted it to be more gritty and violent (I read a complaint in one review that Mandel was naive about what would really happen in a post-apocalyptic world, and while this is probably so, she is welcome to imagine anything she likes.) It’s because of the unbelievably narrow worldview presented in the book.
Go back and look at what’s on the shelves at the Museum of Civilization. All the items are incredibly luxe, high-priced things. All the characters in the book except one are extremely wealthy — film stars and their (multiple) ex-wives, film producers, executives or those who work with them, artists, actors, musicians. The one character who isn’t wealthy is a paparazzo, hovering at the edge of that world. The nostalgia for what the world has lost is all for that rarefied world: air-conditioning, the light of television and computer screens, lights coming on with the flip of a switch, airplanes, concerts, arenas, plays.
What about any other world? There’s not a single character even from Canada or the US who comes from a lower-class background, who didn’t have some of these luxuries and is used to getting along without them, someone who doesn’t give a crap about Twitter. There’s one disabled character, and he commits suicide because it’s not “realistic” for him to survive. Oh, come on! What does that say about survival being insufficient? We have no sense of how the rest of the world is getting along: people who didn’t know when the lights went out because they didn’t have them anyway. These people not only have stories, they tell stories, they have an entire mythology worth listening to. What would be on the shelves of their museum? It’s not civilization if you only take the very top layer.
I agree with the motif of this book that survival is insufficient. I agree that stories are a vital part of this. But more stories, please. More, more, more.
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10,000,034 | (mostly positive) of this book and yours is the first review that mentions the narrow (dare I say, elitist?) focus of the survivors. I’m surprised Mandel’s editor didn’t point it out–or perhaps her editor is also someone who believes that a future without high heels is apocalyptic!
Your review put me in mind of something Jo Walton wrote in WHAT MAKES THIS BOOK SO GREAT? She posits that many middle- and upper-class (chiefly British) sf writers could not abide the social changes of the post-WWII where attention had to be paid to the working- and poorer-classes; the result, according to Walton, was a plethora of sf in the 1950s and 1960s where the lower-classes were dispatched en masse via bombs, plagues, or alien invasions, leaving bold upper-middle-class men (and sometimes plucky boys) to save what remained of the world. Like Mandel, these writers weren’t even aware of their biases.
That’s an interesting idea! Of course we have to work hard to be aware of our own biases if it’s going to happen at all. Being nostalgic for the present (which is what Mandel is pulling off) is all very well, but it isn’t everyone’s present, is it? That book by Walton sounds well worth reading; I’ve liked her work before.
There’s quite a lot of post-apocalyse fiction out there. The Encyclopedia of Science Fiction‘s third (online) edition has a useful entry here. I read one of Mandel’s other novels recently and liked it a fair amount; I’m swithering about Station Eleven lest she might have reinvented the wheel.
I thoroughly enjoyed reading that encyclopedia entry. It made me want to go out and read a lot of post-apocalypse fiction — probably not a good idea for my psyche, but what a project! I don’t think Mandel is reinventing the wheel here, exactly. She uses a lot of familiar tropes, for sure, but her emphasis is on human stories. Her other books are pretty much straight literary fiction, not speculative fiction, right?
The one I read was a sort of mystery — sort of Donna Tarttish.
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10,000,035 | of this genre and was bored to sobs with this book whilst everyomn praised it , so glad you saw it for wat it was a bit try hard .
I don’t know that I would describe it as try-hard. I did think it was well-written. If anything, I thought it didn’t try hard enough!
Oh, my goodness. I loved this book, and never once did I pause to think about the classism and ableism. Thank you so much for making me aware of that. It’s been a very long time since I’ve read a book review that managed to point out a flaw in a book’s composition with such judiciousness.
Wow, that’s a real compliment, Elle. Thanks!
You raise some valid points here that I somehow missed while reading it. I loved it and will likely read it again, so it will be interesting to do so with your criticisms in mind. Thank you for this perspective!
I was thinking, too, that somehow after the flu it’s impossible to be a religious person of any type without being weird and creepy. Maybe an effect of being immune to the virus?
Been a while since I read it. I am not sure I agree with your assessment in some regards.
The items in the museum, are in a museum after all. While the art of Shakespeare lives on. The author seems to be both warning about our over attachment to today’s commercial culture, while at the same time admitting that it brings a lot of ease and comfort.
Since the post apocalyptic portion is set during the calm-down period, when a certain amount of stability has returned, she is able to avoid (except elliptically) a lot of violence and mayhem.
Peter Heller’s much grimmer novel, Dog Star, is an interesting counterpoint. Particularly as both novels cover a pandemic plague.
I heard Dog Star was grim! Good, though. I may put it on my list.
I know the items in the museum are in a museum. The whole notion is that people are nostalgic for them; they’re supposed to be representative of what was lost (and, in some cases, what we’re trying to get back; see the ending.) It’s a pretty small selection, is all I’m saying.
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10,000,036 | book but didn’t love it like so many people did. Your review is most excellent and points out some worldview flaws that I think are present in a lot of post-apocalyptic fiction. Well done!
I think you’re right that those flaws are indeed present in a lot of that genre. Especially the ableism. I’d like to see some answers to that.
I was verrrry bothered by the death of the only disabled character, but I’m afraid I let it be washed aside in favor of all the things I really loved about this book. Bad work, me! I’m sorry this one bored you — and surprised! I loved it, and my sister (who almost never reads fiction) found it so enthralling she stayed up all night finishing it the last time she came to visit me. But your points are super valid.
I wasn’t bored by the plot, I was bored by the worldview. The book itself was well-written and neatly structured — and I always like post-apocalypse; I like thinking about survival. But the tenth time I got to hear about someone’s perfect haircut or wonderful clothes or fabulous restaurant, I began to detect a pattern, is all. | [
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Saatchi & Saatchi Singapore was awarded a Silver Lion for their confronting print campaign ‘Burnt’ for Birdlife International.
Saatchi & Saatchi Canada and Fallon London each walked away with a Bronze Lion for work for The Canadian Centre for Gender and Sexual Diversity and Skoda respectively. | [
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10,000,044 | Home Conscious Consumerism Priced Out: Too Expensive to Buy Healthy?
People often complain – loudly – that they’d love to eat healthier, but that it’s much too expensive. It’s hard to justify purchasing a gang of tomatoes at $2 per pound, when tomato sauce comes in a giant jar for $2.99. It’s hard to justify buying oranges at $3 per pound when a can of mandarin oranges at Walmart runs about $0.85 a can… and you don’t have to peel them!
Now, let’s talk about why this is the way it is. A bagel runs cheaper than a grapefruit because, quite frankly, a bagel can be made anywhere. It doesn’t need to come from a certain climate in particular. It doesn’t need the same level of effort to create. I know some may be saying “Duh!” but do we all really make the connection of why it seems we may have priced ourselves out of eating healthier? I know that I, personally, didn’t realize that I had effectively priced myself out of eating healthier simply because the cost made me uncomfortable.
How do we fight that feeling? Here’s what I do. The next time you go grocery shopping, look at your cart. Is there anything there that you like, but is unnecessary for you to buy THAT brand in particular? Let me tell you a secret. Generic foods/store-brand foods are often just as good as some of the better name brands sold on the same shelf. They’re less expensive because the grocery store wants to make sure that you can still get what you want even though you’re not paying as much as you might for the name brand. This way, they can ensure that you’re not pricing yourself out of owning the product entirely, and they can still squeeze a couple extra dollars out of you.
Having said all that, yes. It is more expensive to infuse your shopping cart with healthier alternatives like fresh produce and minimizing the processed foods. However, now knowing that you can save up to $2 an item in some cases by buying store-brand, you can easily accommodate the cost. It’s up to you to do your own taste testing to see if there’s a difference that you simply cannot live with, but for the most | [
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10,000,045 | part a lot of these things can be accommodated. I buy certain store-brand cereals (because again, not everything can be replaced!), ketchups and mustards, and the like. The money I save (almost $2 per box of cereal) goes toward my ability to buy fresh ingredients. Score one for my wallet, my pantry, and my body.
I know, I know. It’s hard to swallow – giving up our beloved brands for… store brands. Generic. Some of us are cringing right now. Look at it this way – we can’t swap out everything (a friend just notified me that there’s no way in the WORLD he could purchase anything other than ONE brand of apple juice in particular), but we can certainly take it one step at a time. Remember, we shoot for progress over here!
Hmmm. Why are people tripping?
Shop Rite raisins are just as tasty as Sunmaid or DelMonte, and, as you say, Erika, at a considerable discount.
Sometimes we folks do get a tad label-happy. Even in the face of recession, what?
I think it’s important to remember that once upon a time, even Versace was just somebody’s last name.
I get a lot of frozen vegetables for free. Green Giant has coupons in the paper almost every week. If they have a lot I will buy more than one paper. I wait until the small boxes are on sell for $1 and use the 50cent double coupons to get them free. They are frozen so you can stock up. These really come in handy when I am feeling lazy.
I know that store brands are cheaper than name brands and can save money… that is why I already buy them.
What about those of us who are already frugal, making the best of a small income? I can’t switch to a street corner “brand” to save money, and I sure can’t use money that I don’t have to buy food that I can’t afford. It costs me more in the long run both in terms of health and time.
Maybe I just need to go back to filling up on fiber. If I stick fiber in everything, then maybe I will be satisfied with the little that I can afford to buy.
I will have to give a shout out | [
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10,000,046 | to Aldi’s. I don’t know if they are located everywhere, but if you have one in your city, please consider shopping there..no frills, and you have to bag or box your own food, but it’s WELL worth it. It has really helped me on my quest to eat healthier. I can buy a whole big shopping bag of produce for under $20.00! They carry a brand called “Fit and Active” which sells anything from fruit snacks to lite salad dressings, so I am able to buy a lot of staples, along with their brand of ground turkey (85/15). I never spend more than 90.00 to feed my family of three for two weeks! AND I’ve never been disappointed at the taste or quality of the foods/products I’ve bought from this store!
We have an Aldi’s over here but Im reluctant to shop there for some reason…And there is a sprouts right up the street. I don’t know how much sprouts cost but I guess I’ll find out tomorrow when I go grocery shopping.
I find it balances out and keeps me in check. For example, buying pure maple syrup instead of caramelized sugar and chemicals may be more pricey, but knowing that means I don’t drown my pancakes in syrup.
Actually, the reason certain foods are cheaper is because of gub’mint subsidies. Think: Hamburger at a fast food restaurant: $1. Salad at a fast food restaurant: $5. Ultimately, the gub’mint subsidizes the stuff that people eat. Sadly, that ain’t fresh produce.
Here in Kansas City there’s a program at the Farmer’s Market that you can get $2 worth of food for $1 if you are using SNAPS (food stamps). You can get a 1 lb. bag of carrots for $1, strawberries for $2, 13 ears of fresh corn for $5, a 5 lb. bag of potatoes for $2, celery for $1, two containers of cherry tomatoes for $1, a four pack of avocados for $2.50 and the list goes on. If your heart is in it and you truly want to start making a change in your eating habits it can be done and it’s not expensive. Not everything will be | [
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10,000,047 | this cheap but it’s a very easy and friendly place to start. Unfortunately, from the growers that I talk to at the market few people take advantage of the program.
I just wanted to share something that I am using to provide organic food for my family that is costing me zero, zilch, nada! My local CSA normally sells their weekly shares of organic veggies, free range eggs, and other goodies for about $425 per 18wk season… this year I was able to get a “work share” – I signed a contract donating 4 hours per week to tending the crops and animals in exchange for the CSA share. I’m saving money; learning about farming; and getting sunshine and exercise – feels like it’s a real win.
I spend money on food. I buy fresh and local and in season. I buy eggs, turkey and salmon at the Farmer’s market, and my produce at he seasonal Farmer’s Markets. Bread I get freshly made at Whole Foods. Tofu also comes from the Farmer’s Market or from Whole Foods. Everything is organic if I can find it that way. Very little of my food comes packaged. My grocery bills average $125.00 weekly, and that is for my son and me. But… I don’t have cable, or dish or whatever. I don’t keep snacks in the house. And I don’t spend hundreds of dollars on clothes, shoes, and accessories. Healthy food has been my top priority for decades. Everything else is secondary.
if its hard to swallow it’s only b/c advertisers have really gotten to you, they are your puppet master!!! | [
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10,000,049 | Journalist: President Assad, thank you very much for this opportunity to be interviewed by the Associated Press.
Question 1: I will start by talking about the ceasefire in Syria. Russia, the US, and several countries say a ceasefire could be revived despite the recent violence and the recrimination. Do you agree, and are you prepared to try again?
President Assad:We announced that we are ready to be committed to any halt of operations, or if you want to call it ceasefire, but it’s not about Syria or Russia; it’s about the United States and the terrorist groups that have been affiliated to ISIS and al-Nusra and Al Qaeda, and to the United States and to Turkey and to Saudi Arabia. They announced publicly that they are not committed, and this is not the first attempt to have a halt of operations in Syria. The first attempt was in last February, and didn’t work, I think, because of the United States, and I believe that the United States is not genuine regarding having a cessation of violence in Syria.
Question 2: Do you believe there could ever be a joint US-Russian military partnership against the militants, as outlined in the deal?
President Assad:Again, practically, yes, but in reality, no, because the United States doesn’t have the will to work against al-Nusra or even ISIS, because they believe that this is a card they can use for their own agenda. If they attack al-Nusra or ISIS, they will lose a very important card regarding the situation in Syria. So, I don’t believe the United States will be ready to join Russia in fighting terrorists in Syria.
Question 3: This week, the US has said the coalition attack on Syrian troops was an accident. Do you accept that explanation?
President Assad:No, no. It’s not, because it wasn’t an accident by one airplane for once, let’s say. It was four airplanes that kept attacking the position of the Syrian troops for nearly one hour, or a little bit more than one hour. You don’t commit a mistake for more than one hour. This is first. Second, they weren’t attacking a building in a quartier; they were attacking a huge place constituted of many hills, and there was not terrorist adjacent to the Syrian troops there. At the same time, the ISIS troops or the ISIS militants attacked | [
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10,000,050 | right away after the American strike. How could they know that the Americans are going to attack that position in order to gather their militants to attack right away and to capture it one hour after the strike? So it was definitely intentional, not unintentional as they claimed.
Question 4: Did Syria or Russia launch the attack on the Red Crescent convoy this week, and should Moscow be held responsible, as the White House has said?
President Assad:No, first of all, there have been tens, maybe, of convoys from different organizations around the world, coming to different areas in Syria for the last few years. It has never happened before, so why to happen now, either by the Russians or the Syrians? No, it’s a claim. And regarding the claim of the White House yesterday, accusing either the Syrians or the Russians. In that regard, I would say whatever the American officials said about the conflicts in Syria in general has no credibility. Whatever they say, it’s just lies and, let’s say, bubbles, has no foundation on the ground.
Question 5: So what happened to the convoy? Who should be held responsible?
President Assad:Those convoys were in the area of the militants, the area under the control of the terrorists. That’s what they should accuse first: the people or the militants, the terrorists who are responsible for the security of this convoy. So, we don’t have any idea about what happened. The only thing that we saw was a video of a burnt car, destroyed trucks, nothing else.
Question 6: Several eyewitnesses have told AP that 20 missiles were launched against the convoy. There is footage of torn bodies. This does not seem as though it would be anything but an attack from the air. Eyewitnesses are also talking about barrel bombs, and as you are aware, your administration has been accused of using barrel bombs in some circumstances. You still think this was an attack from the ground by rebels?
President Assad:Yeah, first of all, even the United Nations said that there were no airstrikes against that convoy. That was yesterday. Second, at the same time of that event, the terrorists were attacking the Syrian troops by missiles. They launched missile attacks, we didn’t respond. Third, you cannot talk about eyewitnesses for such judgment or accusation. What are the credibility of those eyewitnesses, who are they? We don’ | [
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10,000,051 | t know.
Question 7: We have eyewitnesses that were relatives, we have the White Helmets, we have many people saying that they witnessed helicopters in the air. Now, only the Syrians and the Russians have helicopters. Are you saying this is just invented?
President Assad:Those witnesses only appear when there’s an accusation against the Syrian Army or the Russian, but when the terrorists commit a crime or massacre or anything, you don’t see any witnesses, and you don’t hear about those White Helmets. So, what a coincidence. No, actually, we don’t have any interest in doing so for one reason: because if we attack any convoy that’s going to the civilians, we are working for the interest of the terrorists, that will play into their hands directly, in that regard we are pushing the civilians toward the terrorists, we put them in their laps, and we are providing the terrorists with a good incubator, something we wouldn’t do. This is first. Second, we are, as a government, as officials, we are committed morally toward the Syrian people, morally, constitutionally, and legally, to help them in every aspect to have the basic needs for their livelihood.
Question 8: Your administration has denied the use of chemical weapons, of barrel bombs, despite testimony and video and the results of a UN investigation. We also are hearing similar denials about airstrikes on civilians and medical workers. Can this all be false allegations by your opponents?
President Assad:First of all, the first incident of gas use in Syria was in Aleppo about more than three years ago, and we were the ones who invited the United Nations to send a delegation for investigations about the use of chemical weapons, and the United States objected and opposed that action for one reason; because if there’s investigations, they’re going to discover that the terrorists used gas, not the Syrian Army. In that regard, in that case, the United States won’t be able to accuse Syria. That’s why they were opposing that delegation. In every incident, we asked the United Nations to send a delegation, and we are still insisting on that position, that they have to send delegations to make investigation, but the United States is opposing. So, actually, if we’ve been using that, we wouldn’t ask for investigation.
Question 9: To the international | [
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10,000,052 | community, it seems as though none of the charges or accusations stick, that everything is denied, everything here is ok, by your administration. Do you not feel that that undermines the credibility? In other instances, the Americans for example admitted the attack on the Syrian military was a mistake. Now, you don’t accept that, but from the Syrian administration, all the international community hears is denial.
President Assad: Regarding which issue?
President Assad: Look, if you want to talk about mistakes, every country has mistakes, every government has mistakes, every person has mistakes. When you have a war, you have more mistakes. That’s the natural thing. But the accusations have no foundation regarding Syria. When they talk about barrel bombs, what are barrel bombs?
It’s just a title they use in order to show something which is very evil that could kill people indiscriminately, and as I said, because in the media “when it bleeds, it leads.” They don’t talk about bombs; they call it barrel bombs. A bomb is a bomb, what’s the difference between different kinds of bombs? All bombs are to kill, but it’s about how to use it. When you use an armament, you use it to defend the civilians. You kill terrorists in order to defend civilians. That’s the natural role of any army in the world. When you have terrorists, you don’t throw at them balloons or you don’t use rubber sticks, for example. You have to use armaments. So, it’s not about what the kind of armament, it’s about how to use it, and they want to use it that time to accuse the Syrian Army of killing civilians. We don’t kill civilians, because we don’t have the moral incentive, we don’t have the interest to kill civilians. It’s our people, who support us. If you want to kill the Syrian people, who’s going to support us as a government, as officials? No one. So, in reality, you cannot withstand for five years and more against all those countries, the West, and the Gulf states, the petrodollars, and all this propaganda, the strongest media corporations around the world, if you don’t have the support of your own people. That’ | [
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10,000,053 | s against the reality. So, no, we don’t use it. I wouldn’t say that we don’t have mistakes. Again, that many mistakes that have been committed by individuals, but there’s a difference between a mistake or even a crime that’s been committed by an individual, and between a policy of crime that’s been implemented or adopted by a government. We don’t have such a policy.
Question 11: And yet the hundreds of thousands of Syrians who are fleeing the country, many drowning on the way, many of them say they are fleeing your forces. What exactly are they fleeing if this campaign doesn’t exist, if this campaign of violence, indiscriminate against them…?
President Assad: You have to look at the reality in Syria. Whenever we liberate any city or village from the terrorists, the civilians will go back to the city, while they flee that city when the terrorists attack that area, the opposite. So, they flee, first of all, the war itself; they flee the area under the control of the terrorists, they flee the difficult situation because of the embargo by the West on Syria. So, many people, they flee not the war itself, but the consequences of the war, because they want to live, they want to have the basic needs for their livelihood, they don’t have it. They have to flee these circumstances, not necessarily the security situation itself. So, you have different reasons for the people or the refugees to leave Syria. Many many of them supported the government in the recent elections, the presidential elections, in different countries. So, that’s not true that they left Syria because of the government, and those accusations mean that the government is killing the people, while the terrorists, mainly Al Qaeda and al-Nusra and other Al Qaeda-affiliated organizations or groups protected the civilians. Is that the accusation? No-one can believe it, actually.
Question 12: Let’s turn our attention to the people that can’t flee, the people who are in besieged cities around Syria. For example, Aleppo. To go back to the ceasefire agreement, aid was supposed to get into the city, but you did not hold up your end of the agreement. Why was that, and how can you really justify withholding aid to cities?
President Assad: Again, if we talk about the last few years, | [
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10,000,054 | many aid convoys came to different cities, so why does the Syrian government prevent a convoy from coming to Aleppo for example, while allowing the others to reach other areas? This is contradiction, you cannot explain it, it’s not palatable. This is first. Second, if you look at the others areas under the control of the terrorists, we’re still sending vaccines from the Syrian government’s budget, we’re still sending salaries to the employees from the Syrian government’s budget. So, how can we do this and at the same time push the people toward starvation in other areas? More importantly, the terrorists who left liberated areas under what you call reconciliation or certain agreements in different areas, they left to fight with other terrorists in Syria while they send their families to live under the supervision of the government. Why didn’t we put those families to starvation? So, this is contradicting, I mean what you’re talking about is contradicting the reality, and we don’t contradict ourselves.
Question 13: But the world saw the reality of Aleppo. There were UN convoys of aid that were not allowed into the city. Are you denying that that was the case?
President Assad: The situation has been like this for years now. If there’s really a siege around the city of Aleppo, people would have been dead by now. This is first. Second, more importantly, they’ve been shelling the neighboring areas and the positions of the Syrian Army for years, non-stop shelling of mortars and different kinds of lethal bombs. How could they be starving while at the same time they can have armaments? How can we prevent the food and the medical aid from reaching that area and we cannot stop the armaments form reaching that area, which is not logical?
Question 14: So what is your message to the people to Aleppo, who are saying the opposite, that they are hungry, that they are suffering malnutrition, that there are no doctors, that doctors have been targeted and killed in airstrikes, that they are under siege and they are dying? What is your message to them?
President Assad: You can’t say “the people of Aleppo” because the majority of the people of Aleppo are living in the area under the control of the government, so you cannot talk about the people of Aleppo. If you want to talk about some who allegedly are claiming | [
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10,000,055 | this, we tell them how could you still be alive? Why don’t you have, for example, an epidemic, if you don’t have doctors? How could you say that we attacked, they accuse Syria of attacking hospitals, so you have hospitals and you have doctors and you have everything. How could you have them? How could you have armaments? That’s the question. How can you get armaments to your people, if you claim that you have people and grassroots while you don’t have food? They have to explain; I don’t have to explain. The reality is telling.
Question 15: Yet, they say the opposite. They say they are surviving on whatever they can, on meager means, and they are a city under siege. You do not accept that Aleppo is a city under siege with people starving and hungry?
President Assad: Again, how can I prevent the food, and not prevent the armament? Logically, how? If I can prevent food, I should be able to prevent armaments. If I don’t prevent armaments, that means everything else will pass to Aleppo.
Question 16: Have you been to Aleppo recently? Will you go to Aleppo?
President Assad: Of course I will go.
Question 17: And how does it feel for you to see the devastation in parts of what was known as the jewel of Syria?
President Assad: Devastation is painful, of course, but we can rebuild our country. We’re going to do that. Someday the war will stop. The most painful is the devastation of the society, the killing, the blood-shedding, something we live with every hour and every day. But how would I think? I think when I see those pictures how would Western officials feel when they look at this devastation and these killing pictures and they know that their hands are stained with their blood, that they committed the crime directly in killing those people and destroying our civilization. That’s what I think about.
Question 18: Yet, to the outside world, it feels as though the end justifies any means in your war on terror. Do you accept that?
President Assad: They don’t have morals, of course. This is a Machiavellian principle; the end justifies the means. We don’t accept it, no. Your policy should be a mixture between | [
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10,000,056 | your interests and how you reach your ends, but based on values. It cannot be only the end justifies the means, because for the criminals, ends justify the means, for thieves, for every illegal and immoral action, the end justifies the means. That’s exactly what you mentioned in your question, this is the base, the foundation of the Western policy around the world these days.
Question 19: What is your message to the Syrians who have fled the country? Some of them didn’t make it, others did. Do you call on them to come back, do you expect them to come back?
President Assad: Of course. It’s a loss, it’s a great loss. The worst loss for any country is not the infrastructure or the buildings or the material loss; actually, it’s the human resources loss, something we want to see coming back to Syria, and I’m sure that the majority of those Syrians who left Syria, they will go back when the security and when the life goes back to its normality and the minimal requirements for livelihood will be affordable to them, they will go back. I am not worried about this.
Question 20: Do you have any expectation of when that will happen, when Syria will be pacified to some degree that they can come back?
President Assad: If we look at it according to the internal Syrian factors, I would say it’s very soon, a few months, and I’m sure about that, I’m not exaggerating, but when you talk about it as part of a global conflict and a regional conflict, when you have many external factors that you don’t control, it’s going to drag on and no-one in this world can tell you when but the countries, the governments, the officials who support directly the terrorists. Only they know, because they know when they’re going to stop supporting those terrorists, and this is where the situation in Syria is going to be solved without any real obstacles.
Question 21: So, let’s just dwell on that point for a moment. Do you believe that within a couple of months the situation in Syria will have dramatically changed in your favor to the point that refugees can come back?
President Assad: No, because I don’t believe that in a couple of months Erdogan and the United States regime, and the Western | [
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10,000,057 | regimes in general, and of course Saudi Arabia and Qatar, are going to stop the support of the terrorists. I don’t see it in the next two months.
Question 22: So how can you really incite Syrians to come back in two months as you said?
President Assad: I said if there are no external factors. I said if you look at it as an isolated case, as a Syrian case, which is theoretical, I mean, this is where you can say that in few months you can solve it. But now you’re talking about an arena which is part of the international and regional arena, not isolated. So, this is why I said no-one has the answer when will it end.
Question 23: It’s now one year since Russia got involved in the war. Before the intervention you were losing territory and control. Did you ever feel like you were losing the war?
President Assad: We didn’t look at it that way, to lose the war, because whenever you have Syrians working with the terrorists, it’s a loss. How to lose the war, this is hypothetical question, to be frank. It’s not about your feeling; it’s about the reality. In the war, you lose areas, but you recapture another area. So, it is difficult to tell whether you are losing or gaining or it was a standstill. No-one has this answer. But definitely, after the Russian intervention and supporting the Syrian Army, legally of course, we felt much much better. We captured many main cities, many main positions at the expense of the terrorists’ areas.
Question 24: Even if you were to win the war, what would be left of your country and Syrian society? Will you have to think again about the prospect of a partition in Syria?
President Assad: No, we never thought about it, and the majority in Syria don’t believe in this, and I don’t think the reality, in spite of this savage war, has created the atmosphere for such partition. Actually, in many areas, the social situation is much better, because when you want to talk about partition you need to find these borders between the social communities. You cannot have partition only on political bases or geographic bases. It should be social first of all when the communities do not live with each other. As a result of the war, many | [
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10,000,058 | Syrians understand that the only way to protect your country is to live with each other with integration, not only in coexistence, which is actually more precise to call cohabitation, when people interact and integrate with each other on daily basis in every detail. So, I think in this regard I am more assured that Syria will be more unified. So, the only problem now that we face is not the partition, but terrorism.
Question 25: And yet you are not seen as a unifying force in Syria; people think that the society is torn apart. Just to use one example, on a personal level, you trained as a doctor and yet your administration stands accused of targeting medical and rescue workers as they race to save lives. How do you make peace with this?
And is this a society that, after suffering such consequences, can really just forget the past and move on?
President Assad: I cannot answer that question while it’s filled with misinformation. Let us correct it first. We don’t attack any hospital. Again, as I said, this is against our interests. If you put aside the morals, that we do not do it morally, if I put it aside, I am talking about now, let’s say, the ends justify the means, if I want to use it, we don’t have interest. This is how we can help the terrorists if we attack hospitals, schools, and things like this. Of course, whenever you have a war, the civilians and the innocents will pay the price. That’s in any war, any war is a bad war. There is no good war. In any war, people will pay the price, but I’m talking about the policy of the government, of the army; we don’t attack any hospital. We don’t have any interest in attacking hospitals. So, what is the other part of the question? Sorry, to remind me.
Question 26: That’s ok, that fits into the general question, but I would like to follow up with: others say the opposite, including medical workers and including the Syrian White Helmets. If you value their work, racing to the scene of whatever it may, to try and save lives, does that mean you would support the recent nomination of the White Helmets for a Nobel Peace Prize?
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10,000,059 | whether they are credible or not, because some organizations are politicized, but they use different humanitarian masks and umbrellas just to implement certain agenda. But, generally if you want to talk about the humanitarian support, how can I attack hospitals while I am sending vaccines, for example? Just explain it. You tell me two different things, two contradicting things; one that I am talking about is reality, because everybody knows that we are sending vaccines, the other one is that we are attacking hospitals. They do not match.
Question 27: Would you support them for a Nobel Peace Prize?
Question 28: The White Helmets.
President Assad: What did they achieve in Syria? And how un-politicized is the Nobel Prize? That’s the other question. So, if I get an answer to these two questions, I can answer you. But I would only give a prize to whoever works for the peace in Syria, first of all by stopping the terrorists from flowing towards Syria, only.
Question 29: My last question: The US election is now just a few weeks away. How do you expect that a Clinton or Trump presidency would differ in terms of US policy towards Syria, and specifically towards you?
President Assad: The problem with every American candidate regarding the presidency, I am not talking only about this campaign or elections, but generally, that they say something during the campaign and they do the opposite after the campaign. As we see now the American officials, they say something in the morning and they do the opposite in the evening. So, you cannot judge those people according to what they say. You cannot take them at their words, to be frank. We don’t listen to their statements, we don’t care about it, we don’t believe it. We have to wait till they become presidents, we have to watch their policy and their actions and their behaviors. We do not have a lot of expectations, we never had. We have hopes that we can see rational American presidents; fair, obey the international law, deal with other countries according to mutual respect, parity, etc., but we all know that this is only wishful thinking and fantasy.
Journalist: Thank very much, President Assad.
President Assad's Interview with NBC News, July 14, 2016. | [
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10,000,060 | Inspired by the 1997 harvest.
Aged for more than 20 years in his private cellar and revealed now in 2018, Rare Le Secret is the most unique creation of Régis Camus, Rare Champagne’s Cellar Master.
Unlike other vintages of Rare Champagne, Rare Le Secret has no dosage, leaving it with a distinctive identity, enhanced by a second fermentation of over twenty years.
A secret cuvée from Rare cellar master Régis Camus, decorated by Mellerio, the oldest jeweler in the world.
Rare Champagne now offers to discerning enthusiasts, Rare Le Secret. For this exclusive limited-edition cuvée, Mellerio, the oldest jeweller in the world, has designed two different magnums: Rare Le Secret Fine Jewellery Edition and Rare Le Secret Goldsmith Edition.
Emblematic of the Rare Champagne style, Régis Camus blended Rare Le Secret with an added touch of boldness!
Elegant bubbles rise in a dazzling dance of delicate effervescence.
Rare Le Secret is defined by exceptional depth and complexity: scents of liquorice, candied tropical fruits and bergamot mingle with a fragrance of dried fruit and powdered flowers.
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Following a crisp attack of lemon and citrus fruit, hints of fresh apricot, and verbena exude a soothing minerality. Touches of acacia honey and incense develop a smoky, exotic vinosity with an infinite, structured and forceful finale that is almost ethereal. Due to the absence of sugar and its recent disgorging, Rare Le Secret is expressive, precise, and yet complex. Unforgettable.
As the frigid winter became milder, the vines started to flower early, only to be inundated later by storms. Harsh temperatures were exacerbated by a violent breakout of mildew in late spring devastating the vines. An extremely hot summer with severe thunderstorms gave way to a dry, sunny September and the harvests took place under blue skies.
To be enjoyed through 2021.
Rare Champagne invited Mellerio to create | [
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10,000,061 | a unique design for the bottle, inspired by the muse of both Houses , Marie-Antoinette, Queen of France.
In 1780, the Queen of France is said to have acquired a Mellerio bracelet formed of seven cameos and adorned with garnets. In a similar tale, a few years later, she was presented with what would later become Rare Champagne.
Cellar Master for Rare Champagne, Régis Camus is renowned as one of the most talented of his generation. He listens only to his creative spirit, intuitively defying all traditional rules when declaring a vintage year. Rare Le Secret once more bears witness to his unique vision, free of any convention.
Founded in Paris in 1515, Mellerio has now seen 15 generations succeed one another. The first woman to be named creative director, Laure-Isabelle Mellerio relied on her experience as an interior designer and her love of volume to devise the Rare Le Secret bottles.
For Rare Le Secret, Mellerio designed an exclusive collection of magnums. Between interwoven golden ribbons set with 510 diamonds, a precious stone – a diamond, ruby, sapphire or emerald of at least one carat – each one unique on every magnum, sparkles with dazzling beauty.
Each magnum of the Rare Le Secret Fine Jewellery edition is housed in a solid black glossy monolithic case. This magnificent gift box is reminiscent of the presentation cabinet used by Jean-Baptiste Mellerio to present his jewels to Queen Marie-Antoinette at the court of Versailles.
Inspired by the cuts of precious stones, the case’s mirrored interior beautifully enhances the Rare Le Secret Fine Jewellery magnum from every angle.
The interlaced white and yellow gold threads on the body of the bottle represent the blend of the radiant minerality of Chardonnay grapes with the brilliant intensity of the Pinot Noir.
The muselet cap that seals the magnum in majestic beauty has been designed out of solid 24-carat gold. This is a first in Champagne, and only possible thanks to the latest technical innovations.
In the centre, a one-carat diamond held by 51.30 g of yellow gold and 13.30 g of white gold. Defying time itself, this gem is associated with universal purity and sovereignty while its radiance evokes the shimmer of Rare Le Secret.
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10,000,062 | Representing passion and power, this 1.22 carat ruby is magnified by 51 g of yellow gold and 13.30 g of white gold. Its intense colour, reflecting the gem’s value, recalls the profound flavour of this unique cuvee.
This 1.43 carat sapphire dazzles the eye. This symbol of fidelity is highlighted by 54.62 g of yellow gold and 12.18 g of white gold. Its intense colour expresses the complexity of the Rare Le Secret aromas.
50.90 g of yellow gold and 13.30 g of white gold set off the emerald’s brilliance. The 1.15 emerald represents the radiant minerality of Rare Le Secret. Conveying hope, wisdom and eternal youth, the emerald’s fragility makes it exceedingly difficult to carve.
Given the success of their collaboration, Rare Champagne asked Mellerio to design a limited series of one thousand exclusive, numbered magnums: The Rare Le Secret Goldsmith Edition.
The champagne found inside the bottle remains the same, promising a truly unforgettable sensory experience.
Upon opening the minimalist case in black matte wood, the imposing presence of the Rare Le Secret Goldmsith Edition is multiplied by reflections in the gilded mirrored walls, hinting at the cuvée’s magnetic charisma. | [
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10,000,063 | Fastener testing accessories allow for the performance of proof tests, axial and wedge tensile tests, and cone stripping tests on most standard bolts, screws, studs, and nuts. They are compatible with most universal and tensile testing machines. Available accessories consist of: fastener holders, washers, short bolt adapters, nut proof loading assemblies, and holder reducing assemblies.
Fastener holders are the main component for performing fastener testing. They are used in conjunction with any of the other fastener accessories. Five different fastener holder sets are available, with capacities ranging from 150 to 1500 kN (33,750 to 337,500 lbs).
Fastener holders are threaded on the adapting end to mount easily to either spherically seated tension rods or other adapters. When adapters are ordered (catalogue number W-5118), either separate adapters will be supplied as needed or the fastener holders will be threaded to meet the mounting dimensions specified. Fastener holders can also be ordered with standard Instron attachment styles that are either a pin & clevis or a metric, male threaded interface.
Each fastener holder has a key slot that allows the operator to quickly and correctly load the specimen. A recessed circular area in the bottom of each fastener holder ensures that the washer will fit snugly (sheet metal alignment device is used on Series E holders). This reduces loading time and occurrences of slippage, because a secure, centered seating is ensured for each test.
The most common integral components used with fastener holders are washers. Washers provide the interface between the fastener being tested and the holder. For a typical test, the operator would fit an unthreaded washer under the head of a screw or bolt and a threaded washer onto the threaded section of the fastener (when testing studs, two threaded washers will be used, one on each threaded portion). After fitting the specimen with both washers, the operator would place the fastener into the holder, apply a pre-load to ensure correct seating and adjust the alignment, and begin the test.
Nut proof loading assemblies are designed for testing nuts. They are available for all fastener holder series and consist of a hardened proof loading mandrel and a proof loading plain flat washer. When used to perform cone stripping tests, a conically shaped plain washer must be used.
Short bolt adapters can be used to enable testing of bolts that are too short for standard fixtures | [
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10,000,064 | . There are two varieties: tophat adapters for smaller diameter bolts and dumbbell adapters for larger diameter bolts.
The last fastener testing accessory, holder reducing assemblies, are not used to test fasteners. Rather, they allow a smaller bolt holder or other fixture to be mounted to a bolt holder already in the frame. This assembly minimizes time-consuming fixture changes and additional accessory costs. | [
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10,000,065 | February 15, 2012 By Lisa Sharp 1 Comment As an Amazon Associate I earn from qualifying purchases. This post may contain other affiliate links I earn from as well.Click here for full disclosure.
Marija Jacimovic and Benoit Detalle made this animation based on Michael Pollan’s talk “Food Rules.” It was created for the RSA/Nominet Trust film competition. It’s a great way to visually understand what Pollan is talking about in his speech.
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10,000,066 | Singapore is a great nation, that has been fighting corruption from its conception, and has pushed transparency through it’s entire government. The Ministry of Manpower (hereafter MOM) collects and publishes Statistics about the job market as a whole, and by verticals. They publish every quarter the Labour Market Survey, part of their labor market statistical information.
One can check that the labor conditions in Singapore are great, with almost no employment. The unemployment rate is at 1.9%, already getting an envious glare from most european countries, but there are also more vacancies than unemployed individuals.
Lingo: the average monthly resignation rate captures voluntary employee departure, while redundancy captures involuntary employee departure. You would need to add that “labor re-entry” rates to compute the turn-over rate.
Given the growth of employment in general (visible on the main page of MOM statistics), and the lack of talent in IT specifically (illustrated in previous section), it is not surprising to see that the monthly redundancy rate (0.7%) is but a fraction of the monthly resignation rate (2.0%).
It makes a lot of sense, it is so hard to find talent, and you need to fight so hard to keep them, that you would only let them go if you can’t pay them. The total size of the workforce is thus a great proxy for growth in Singapore.
Actually, if you remove the very isolated cases where the employee was fired for breach of contract, the vast majority of the redundancy cases in Singapore belong to companies that are downsizing. It is thus also important to look at the growth of the company in term of workforce size. This is something that is not captured by the turn over rates.
In the rest of this post, we will focus on resignation and redundancy as means to evaluate the health of a medium size start up in Singapore.
The statistics are only valid for companies of at least 25 employees.
Note that resignations and redundancy events happen in parallel, and are isolated from each other, so the rates are additive.
We’re going to use LinkedIn as a data source. From linkedin, we can only compute the number (and not the rate) of events, so we will eventually compute the rate based on a supposedly constant total workforce.
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10,000,067 | not update their profile (false negative). The real count should thus be higher and worse.
Over a year, in a Singaporean company of 25, you should have 6 voluntary departures, and 2 involuntary ones.
Since there is almost no way to differentiate from Linkedin profiles wether a change of job was voluntary or not, one should compare linkedin statistics against the cumulated maximum of 8 departures.
If you happen to know that a company has very low voluntary departure rate, then you should expect much less departures. It’s thus always better for a company NOT to provide the ratio of voluntary vs involuntary departures. With 6 involuntary departures, you’re 3 times worse than the national average, with 6 undifferentiated departures, you’re better than the national average …. lies, damned lies and statistics.
Unfortunately, the MOM does not provide publicly the distribution so we cannot compute the standard deviation nor the percentile and qualify how bad a given situation is, we can only state wether it’s better or worse than most of the Singaporean companies.
MOM is trying to find a way to publish the distribution, so we can make a full analysis and publish the results in a peer-review international journal or conference, with chosen examples among Singapore companies.
We have found a simple way to check how a medium size (~25) start up company in Singapore is doing. If 8 individuals or more are listed as ex-employee in LinkedIn for a period of a year, you’re doing worse than most of the other companies.
In any case, if the size of your workforce shrank in such highly competitive environment, it is very unlikely that you’re not having a growth problem. | [
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10,000,068 | Join us for the next Theology on Tap on Tuesday, December 11th at Compass Tavern in Worcester! Our speaker will be Fr. Nick Desimone and his topic will be "The Last Things". Join us as we dive deeper into the Church's teachings on the four last things - Death, Judgement, Heaven and Hell. Hope to see you there! | [
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10,000,069 | Planning a wedding can be an amazing, wonderful, fun-filled time. It can also be crazy, hard, frustrating and anxiety inducing.
On a number of occasions I felt like I was drowning in the less than awesome. There is so much to do when planning a wedding. So many things to decide. What theme do you want? What will the colors be? Gold or silver? What venue(s) do you want?
Its so easy to lose track of the all of the good things, for the anxiety to take away from this wonderful time in your life. Don’t let it.
I’ve put together a list of my favorite planning resources that have helped ease some of my stresses, hopefully they will help you too!
The KnotLiterally everything you need to plan your wedding can be found on The Knot. The website has so much inspiration for brides to be from dresses, to decor, to cakes. It also has some really great tools like a planning checklist, budget planner, guest list planner, and free website builder.
EvernoteFor all of you digital gals out there, this app is great for keeping your notes on the go. To do lists, questions to ask vendors, due dates. You can keep it all in the palm of your hand.
NotebookIf you’re old school like me, a coiled notebook is the best place to keep all of your lists, thoughts, dreams and plans. I like to tape inspiration pictures in mine.
PinterestWith an endless supply of inspiration, Pinterest can be a great place to get a lot of ideas. Just try not to get overwhelmed, or try to make everything you see on Pinterest happen. Or your wedding could end up looking like it has multiple personality disorder, or that Pinterest threw up all over it.
Friends and FamilyThis one can be dangerous, I know. Too many opinions can be a huge problem. But if you have someone you trust, who’s been down this road before, who understands your vision, and who isn’t trying to make your wedding their own, use them. My Matron of Honor, Megan, has been a total life saver through this entire process so far. She helps keep me on track, brings me back to earth when I need to be thinking more realistically, and helps me decide what details are important and which ones are not (read: they all are, I | [
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10,000,070 | ’m basically Bridezilla).
What wedding resources are you finding or did you find helpful?
Such a great list!! Friends and family will be there for you like no other when you are planning a wedding, I wouldn't have been able to do it without them! I actually prefer Wedding Wire to The Knot, because their tools are more seamless and the floor plan is amazing. But I still had The Knot app on my phone because the countdown was adorable! Thanks for linking up with us!
Great post! I'm not engaged yet so I have no wedding planning expertise to share but I'm looking forward to it someday!
These are great tips. I had more than a couple breakdowns haha, but it was so overwhelming at times and other people's opinions can get out of control. Once I learned to let things go a little more it was way more enjoyable! | [
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10,000,073 | I've made a campaign: "A Dungeon Keeper - New Game+". It is the original bullfrog campaign, tweaked for for experienced players.
The levels have received minor tweaks to make them interesting again. A slight increase in difficulty, but still below that of "The Deeper Dungeons".
Requires KeeperFX nightly build 1466 or newer. People using the full version should use 0.4.6 or newer. This because it uses the new keeperfx script commands.
• Tutorial levels streamlined for experienced players: Faster, no tutorial messages.
• Additional hero’s added in first few levels. Not to increase difficulty, but to at least include a fight.
• Boosted all rival keepers with the best AI, a dungeon to start out with and a prison. This to compensate for the lack of a brain.
• Transfer creature special is no longer ‘easy mode’. The first 7 levels assume you transfer a creature when available; the other levels have the transfer special removed or only accessible by earning it.
• The two secret levels with the ‘Rogue Imps’ now truly have Rogue imps. It will take a skilled player to get complete them, and the reward is reduced.
• Small tweaks to the levels to prevent the player cheesing through. Starting on level 7, expect to be challenged.
• In level 16 and 18 the player is rewarded for taking the second portal.
To install extract the archive to your KeeperFX installation directory.
I've played through it myself a few times, and I'd love to hear feedback: Not just on what you like or dislike, but also if the levels seem to play out like they should. Keepers act out differently every time, and I can only play-test so much.
I will update the file when people have issues.
Personally I was surprised how enjoyable some of the levels became with some minor modifications. It almost seems like the original map designers where told the keeper AI would improve before release, but it never did. Giving them a head start makes a world of difference.
Going to try it immediately!
Last edited by UnknownMaster21; November 14th, 2014 at 19:00.
You are the devil. I was just dabbling with the idea for a New Game+ and even made a few of the levels for it.
Guess i'll have to name it to something else.
Or we could lay | [
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10,000,074 | them side by side, and integrate the two based on which levels are best.
Wouldn't work at all. You said yourself you made few but significant changes which is probably the opposite of what I intended. As long as it was recognizeable at a glance and the core gameplay played like the original map, it was okay.
Either way, i've only done three maps and one of them is from deeper dungeons so for this conversation, it doesn't count. It's not like I was a map or two away from completion. Why'd you decide to do it? For me, it was because it's so much easier to work when you have a template of sorts to go on. Creating a new map is hard because, even though I know how I want the level to play and I can visualize it to an extent, I can't translate it into something I actually like in the editor. It makes finishing campaigns quite difficult; it's so much easier to open up an already made map and then cut it, chop it, dissect it and stitch new parts on until there is a functioning frankenstein of a map. The issue is, the map that pops out might not necessarily be one that fits into any of the campaigns i'm working on.
Here's my chopped version of Belbata. It's in the finished folder but I don't think i've actually fully finished it so if you get around to playing it and see some misaligned traps or whatever, do tell. Wouldn't be surprised if it still had the reveal map special at the heart.
I'll give your campaign a go tomorrow morning. If what you say is true, I shouldn't be able to blaze through it in a few hours like every man and his dog can do with the default campaign.
So those are the changes I made. It is still the same basic campaign, and I you can still blaze through in a few hours (the first few levels should go even faster then they used to). Like mentioned, I have not tried to increase the difficulty, it is still below deeper dungeons difficulty. For example the party that now spawns in level 2 consists of 7 low level creatures and comes a lot sooner, but can still be defeated no problem with the creatures you have if you claim the portal and train properly.
It is possible to finish the entire campaign without dying once. I did die a few times however, simply by being overconfident and not expecting to be attacked | [
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10,000,075 | by the rival keeper just yet.
I've played Teltaba, and I enjoyed it. It played nothing like Belbata.
Last edited by YourMaster; November 15th, 2014 at 17:57.
I'm working on a revised campaign, and the difficulty is cranked up (stronger heroes, exploits being closed, enemy keepers getting prefabbed bases.
I made a dumb mistake on level 15 and 16. The transfer creature specials are behind a wall and should only become available on a special condition. However, you can research the destroy_walls spell in these levels. I've fixed this. Please redownload the file.
Yes, I assumed I would not be the only one with this idea.
Last edited by YourMaster; November 16th, 2014 at 11:28.
I just finished level 9, but I fail to see how to obtain the Transfer creature special, you've blocked it off with a hero wall and there's no destroy walls spell to be found? Is it the point to play the secret level and transfer a creature from there?
Only just started this Campaign. Managed to do level one and two, and after taking a look at the scripts the AI is set to the hardest difficulty. Something to look forward to. Nice! | [
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10,000,078 | Are Manifestation and Law of Attraction for the Privileged?
The conversation of privilege is on everyone’s lips. So much so that it has infiltrated the spiritual realm and is now being questioned in regard to law of attraction, manifestation, and the laws of the universe. When people are struggling with the concept of privilege in the world and seeing groups of people given certain privileges over others it may be a natural concern that those same principles extend to spirituality as well. I would like to share with you the information I have received on the conversation which includes both spiritual and Biblical context.
The Bible tells us that “In the beginning God created the heaven and the earth” Genesis 1:1, and that he created the sun and moon, night and day, trees, flowers, mountains, fowl, beasts, and every living creature on this earth. On the sixth day God said, “Let us make man in our image, after our likeness: and let them have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over the cattle, and over all the earth, and over every creeping thing that creepeth upon the earth.
So God created man in his own image, in the image of God created he him; male and female created he them. And God blessed them, and God said unto them, Be fruitful, and multiply, and replenish the earth, and subdue it: and have dominion over the fish of the sea, and over the fowl of the air, and over every living thing that moveth upon the earth.
God created Man (and Woman) and gave us dominion over the earth. Take a moment and let this sink in because if you are reading this, the chances are you are either unaware of, or not fully exercising that dominion. From the beginning of life itself, we have had the authority given to us by God Himself, to exercise dominion over the earth and every earthly creation.
The God of this world is not God himself, but the devil or ego. Many people are beguiled by this and believe that God created the world so it must be his world but it is not and that is a critical error to begin with. If you believe this is God’s world and that God is responsible for its happenings than you’re confusing the work of God and the work of the devil.
If God is grace, mercy, love, | [
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10,000,079 | our refuge, strength, wisdom, and so much more, how can he be responsible for sickness, infirmity, death, destruction, pain, and suffering?
God is not causing sickness and suffering, he is the deliverer of them. Out of ignorance people believe otherwise but our ignorance is the enemy’s advantage. If people believe God is responsible for this world and all of the suffering in this world then they will always submit believing it is God’s will that they are sick and in poverty! By differentiating what is God’s work and what is the work of the enemy, we can begin to reclaim our authority.
Is LOA is a Privilege?
LOA is a privilege, to EVERYONE as spiritual beings. It is part of the reclaiming of the dominion God gave us when he created Adam. Everything Jesus did was the practice of manifestation through the understanding of his authority given to him by God. Teachers such as Esther Hicks refer to this as “The Vortex” which means getting into alignment with Source and in Bible talk refers to getting into alignment with God’s will. When we are in that alignment and understand our authority, we create manifestations into a physical reality. When we are in alignment with ego or “The Devil,” we create more of that into our reality in the appearance of sickness, poverty, trauma and hardships.
Do We Attract Our Adversity?
Remember, this is not God’s world, it is an ego-based illusion. We all come into this world willing to overcome this world, just as Jesus did. That doesn’t mean we all choose to overcome the world and become enlightened when we get here, it only means we are willing to. That doesn’t mean starving children in Africa manifested their experience through karma, but it does mean they have the power and authority to overcome it with spiritual solutions.
Somethings are a cause and effect such as speaking negatively about finances will create more negativity in finances. However, sometimes circumstances arise simply because it is an ego-based world and we are given an opportunity to exercise and reclaim our authority.
Is LOA a Privilege of Circumstance?
It may appear as though one human being has more privilege than another but that is only worldly appearances and the world is an ego-based illusion. The truth, meaning the truth of God, Truth of Spirit | [
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10,000,080 | , Source, Universe, whatever you want to call it, is that we are ALL created equally and that while we may have adversity or hardships, we are all privilege to our divine inheritance as spiritual beings.
Does that mean it appears fair in human form? Nope. But the more we focus on separation thoughts such as, “This person had it worse so they are not privileged to the same spiritual gifts” means ego is winning BIG TIME.
The ego lies we are born into are not the determining factor in our destiny or what we are privileged to as divine beings. People who know this in their conscious or unconscious will claim that divine privilege and do more in their lives. Some people will say it can’t be done, that there are exclusions or limitations, but God is not limited to anyone, anything or any circumstances in this world. God can do more than the president, than location, than government officials, laws or whatever seeming appearances present themselves. This is the power of Spirit, and it is a privilege to us all. The ONLY limitation is how much WE allow God/Spirit/Source to do. The more we give power to ego by saying things like, “LOA is a privilege to the rich or white,” we have once again segregated and given the authority back to ego.
Every human being can be victim to the egos tricks, ploys, and tactics, but in God, we are not victims. The greatest gift we can give to ourselves and each other is to stand up against the victim mentality and see ourselves and our brothers and sisters as the divine light we are.
Seeing each other as our adversity means we are seeing each other as the victim ego wants us to believe we are. If we are victims then ego will always rule. By seeing ourselves as victors in God, owning our authority, and proclaiming the truth of God in this world, we regain our dominion and slay the ego completely.
In a world where people are degraded, tortured, or demeaned because of the color of their skin. When we see innocent children being ripped from their parents arms because they have illegally crossed an imaginary line. When we see one race, gender, social ranking, or class appearing to have it all, it can be difficult to digest this. However, I am not asking anyone to spiritually bypass the reality of this world. We cannot ignore the world we live in by keeping our heads in the spiritual sand | [
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10,000,081 | and say, “There are not victims,” when in this world people are being victimized. We are still spiritual beings have a human experience. But we have to remember that victimization is a quality of ego, and in order to overcome that victimization we have to tap into the divine inheritance that we are all privilege to. Meaning we must do our best not to see others as victims or that they are not privileged to the same spiritual laws and rights that we are all heir to. That doesn’t mean they don’t experience victimization, hardship, or adversity, because in a world created in ego those things happen. However, the most spiritual gift we can give to one another is to see the light within each other and hold that truth when they cannot.
If you see your brother struggling with sickness, hold the truth of their health for them. If you see your sister struggling with poverty, hold the truth of abundance, riches, and prosperity. The more we affirm their victimization the more we create that vibration and do attract more of that into the world.
By seeing ourselves all as privilege to God’s blessings, by acknowledging and owning our authority, and by holding that truth for each and everyone, regardless of all seeming appearances, we rob the ego a platform and mouthpiece to victimize anyone and reclaim the dominion God gave us in the beginning. | [
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10,000,084 | Each year in January, we gather for two Sundays of our parish's Annual Meeting. During the annual meeting we hear from the leadership of the parish about the state of our ministries and finances, and about our vision for the future together. Annual Meeting is also crucial because it is when we elect new members for the Vestry.
This year, Annual Meeting will be held on January 14th and January 21st at 10:15am in the Gallery.
On January 14th, Fr. Robert will give a Program and Mission update, and the slate of candidates for vestry will be finalized. Nominations from the floor will be accepted on January 14th only - no nominations from the floor can be made on the 21st. In order to be nominated, the nominee must be a Pledger of Record for 12 consecutive months, communicant in good standing (attends worship and communion at least 3 times a year), and an active participant in ministries of the parish; must have previously agreed to serve, if elected; and must bring 150 copies of a one-sheet biography with picture. There will be no nominations from the floor during Part II of the Annual Meeting (January 21). | [
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With all of the online automation in today's business world, using spreadsheets to collect data is no longer the best or most efficient means available.
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Technology has changed the game in numerous ways, for the public and private sectors alike. Whereas in a previous generation, businesses and private companies both had extensive record-keeping.. | [
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10,000,088 | Aqueous Gold's SCCO2 equipment continuously extract from fresh liquids or solids in a slurry, completely below body temperatures. Or it can continuously purify liquids, and fresh or dried solids in a slurry, to higher levels of purity. These new capabilities are redefining what is possible to extract and purify.
⇒ Biofuels, such as fuel ethanol from any feed material, are separated at higher purity and with far lower energy cost.
⇒ Fresh Juices retaining true fresh-squeezed flavor and nutrition are more pure, for longer refrigerated storage; or even sterilized for room-temperature shipping and storage.
⇒ Nutraceuticals such as antioxidants of unexcelled purity are extracted at lower cost.
⇒ Edible Oils ; soy, canola, corn, etc. have superior flavor, clarity, and virtually unlimited shelf life.
⇒ Botanical Flavors such as rosemary, have the full complexity of the fresh crushed leaves, and lower grade extractables, such as lycopene can be much more concentrated, for ultra-pure sale and reduce shipping costs.
⇒ Florals such as "non-extractable" Plumeria emerge, while common naturals have higher purity.
⇒ Waste Streams such as olive water, and capsaicin contaminated process water, can be rendered pure enough to go back into rivers and municipal treatment systems; and the extracted “contaminant” sold for high-purity use such as food additives and pharmaceutical applications.
⇒ Petroleum pre-refining is our latest development. We are testing our technology for non-thermally separating the oil in sour crude from the sulfur, water, and heavy metals, at a central location near the wellhead. This will greatly upgrade the value of fresh crude to the oil producers.
These new products demonstrate a wide-open field in many large and profitable markets for higher purity and lower cost separations, or longer shelf life of products with authentic fresh taste and full nutrition. In order for these new juices, botanicals, edible oils, biofuels, and many other products to exist, new technologies must be implemented first: the revolutionary processes delivered by Aqueous Gold.
-Continuous SCCO2 Extraction. The efficiency of Aqueous Gold’s continuous operation reduces production costs, and along | [
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10,000,089 | with AG’s lower equipment costs, combine to reduce the total cost of production for all SCCO2 extractables. Now, nearly anything extractable can afford the pristine quality of SCCO2. This cost reduction enables AG extracted products to out-compete existing batch extracted products in the market, and enables new SCCO2-extracted products to emerge in markets that simply did not have the margins to permit batch-SCCO2 extraction as an option.
-Liquid SCCO2 Extraction. The old batch-SCCO2 can only process pre-dried solids. This limitation to pre-dry solids is not just a loss of time, but a cost burden incurred by the drying process. Pre-drying can result in serious degradation of both the quality and quantity of most extracted products, increases cost per pound of the reduced yield, and is a huge barrier to broader implementation of SCCO2 extraction. Aqueous Gold’s liquid processing capability enables extraction water slurries of every type of dried or fresh-harvested solids, and enables extraction from all-liquid feed materials as well. Extracting from fresh materials results in non-degraded quality, and often produces higher yields as well. The ability to extract from either solids or liquids means AG can extract from any material that contains the CO2 soluble product.
-Continuous Liquid Purification by SCCO2. Since Aqueous Gold technology can process both solids and liquids, we can produce a version of our AG-Continuous SCCO2 for pasteurizing and sterilizing all types of slurries and flowable liquids. This includes fruit and vegetable juices, condiments like ketchup and mustard, salad dressings, and many other flowable products. Aqueous Gold continuous purification equipment will deliver the same or better quality as High Pressure Processing (HPP), since AG is completely non-thermal. Continuous SCCO2 purification is unprecedented, but the best part is that AG-Continuous Purification will routinely process between 6-log to 7-log microorganism reduction… or even sterilize, for shelf-stable products, all at below body temperature. Because AG’s high purity capability surpasses HPP, AG enables much longer shelf life than HPP can offer. AG equipment has substantially lower maintenance costs compared to HPP; and AG capital cost and operating costs | [
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10,000,090 | are also lower than HPP.
AG is well positioned to be the low cost / high quality alternative to the expensive HPP process for purification of all flowable liquids. With AG-Continuous equipment for both extraction and purification, can be equipped with a CO2 recycling skid, to provide a carbon neutral footprint.
AG’s transformational, patented and proprietary extraction and purification technologies make Aqueous Gold uniquely positioned as the only technology provider able to offer processors many new market segment opportunities, and the only technology able to satisfy a rapidly growing customer demand for premium quality at a more competitive price.
The AG pilot is used to make production-quality extraction samples directly from customer�s production feedstock. It accurately demonstrates the pristine quality of non-thermal extracts produced by Aqueous Gold�s Continuous Supercritical CO2 technology, which extracts from liquid feeds or from solids in a slurry. The pilot will process up to 1.6 gallons per hour maximum of CO2 or feed liquid. | [
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10,000,091 | Yes. One of the nicest and coziest new little bakery-cafes ever has opened on Glenview Drive, a mile-and-a-half west of North East Mall.
Be warned: It’s getting crowded, and the counter is very busy. At a lunch visit this week, most of the pastries were sold out, and a patron helped by fetching more lettuce and tomatoes.
Roland and Sayda Rapalo, a schoolteacher, are teaming as a barista-and-baker combo to showcase Sayda Rapalo’s pastry-school training in France.
There’s a wide selection of artisan French pastries and breads, and simple turkey or ham sandwiches (with a choice of Gouda or provolone).
Don’t expect too much yet. The menu will be limited as the new business ramps up.
But for now, try it at breakfast or lunch Tuesdays through Saturdays or breakfast Sundays; 7272 Glenview Drive, 682-626-5129.
There’s a new ice cream shop in town, and that seems like almost weekly news.
But there are not many shops like Amorino, the Paris-based gelato shop now open in the Shops at Clearfork.
Fort Worth landed only the eighth Amorino in the U.S. The famous French shop is known for all-natural gelatos and sorbets served on crepes or waffles, and for espressos and coffees.
The new location opens in time for Valentine’s. One of Amorino’s specialties is a gelato cone sculpted in the shape of a rose.
Amorino serves crepes or waffles with a choice of three gelato flavors on top and a syrup or drizzle. That’s meant to share, but you’re forgiven if you don’t.
The Houston location often has a long line, but Fort Worth’s isn’t busy yet.
It opens at 10 a.m. daily and serves into the evening at 5274 Monahans Ave.; 682-312-9115, amorino.com.
Chef Tim Love is offering the burger deal to beat all burger deals.
If you eat a burger at all four of his restaurants in February and post a photo and comment | [
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10,000,092 | on social media tagged #loveyourbURGEr, you get a $100 gift card.
It’s not as easy as it sounds. Queenies Steakhouse in Denton only serves burgers certain days, and Lonesome Dove Western Bistro only serves them at lunch Fridays and Saturdays.
The other two Love restaurants are the Woodshed Smokehouse in Fort Worth and the Love Shack at the White Elephant Saloon in the Fort Worth Stockyards.
The four Love restaurants: Lonesome Dove Western Bistro, open for dinner nightly but serving burgers only at lunch Friday and Saturday, 2406 N. Main St., Fort Worth, 817-740-8810, lonesomedovefortworth.com; the Love Shack, open for lunch and dinner daily, 110 E. Exchange Ave., Fort Worth, 817-740-8812, loveburgershackfortworth; Queenies, open for dinner Tuesday through Saturday and for lunch Friday, 115 E. Hickory St., Denton, 940-442-6834, queeniessteakhouse.com; and Woodshed Smokehouse, open for lunch or brunch and dinner daily, 3201 Riverfront Drive, Fort Worth, 817-877-4545, woodshedsmokehouse.com. | [
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10,000,093 | 0.748 inches tube outside diameter for which designed, 0.796 inches overall diameter, friction design type, plastic acetal material.
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10,000,094 | According to an ET report, Jet Airways’ domestic operations now comprise 12-15 planes, making it the smallest operating pan-Indian carrier.
In addition to grounding a majority of its fleet, Jet defaulted on Indian and overseas loan repayments, vendor dues and salaries, and also laid off people.
NEW DELHI: Falling for the fifth consecutive day, shares of Jet Airways declined over 5 per cent on Wednesday. In last five days, the stock has come off by 8 per cent to Rs 254.55.
The beleaguered airline is fighting for its survival.
According to an ET report, Jet Airways’ domestic operations now comprise 12-15 planes, making it the smallest operating pan-Indian carrier and also, according to industry experts, ineligible to fly on international routes.
In addition to grounding a majority of its fleet, it defaulted on Indian and overseas loan repayments, vendor dues and salaries, and also laid off people.
Banks were to release an immediate additional debt funding of Rs 1,500 crore for Jet to tide through and part-pay its vendors and employees, but the funds have not been released yet, the report added.
Shares of the company closed 5.21 per cent down at Rs 251.10 on BSE. | [
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10,000,095 | Do you need help with something in your apartment? Want to learn more about our maintenance policy? At Omni Property Management, we are committed to making sure that your home feels like a home. We want you and your roommates or family members to feel safe and comfortable at all times. For more information, call (765) 714-8408 or complete the form below.
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10,000,096 | DA8 Training... Destry Abbott can set you up with a good online program. Work at your own pace at the gym or home and check in daily or weekly.
RacerX personal trainer. They have a workout routine for every racer from beginner to pro. I've been doing it for 6 months and it's been good. I've always been an athlete and haveto exercise for my job but like having a set routine. At work we have concept rowers, ski-erg (one of the hardest things I've done) airdyne bikes and Vera's climbers for cardio. I will usually do one of those per day along with some sort of strength routine. Focus on the power muscle workouts like squats, rows, push press, deadlifts. And lots of core to stabilize yourself while riding.
Just remember, when doing cardio, don't just sit on an elliptical or stationary bike and ride at the same pace for an hour. That's no good, vary your intensity and resistance!
I don't race, but for just hard trail riding I've noticed that working on upper body strength helps with manuevering the bike. And of course, cardio. A personal fitness routine is necessary for your overall health anyway.
Btw, this has been discussed at length in the health and fitness forum.
Most of these went to the dump. I got one from my grannies basement. They should have marketed these to riders. You can target every muscle that you use on a bike as well as high reps and cardio. Add sit ups and push ups. I bought a cheap clutch perch and I'm working on a spring to attach to it. | [
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10,000,097 | First of all, in the spirit of the season, I’d like to take this opportunity to wish everyone a Merry Christmas and Happy Holiday season. This is the perfect time to look back on the year and reflect on everything we have to be thankful for.
With the new year, and the new government, we expect to see many changes to financial policies and taxation. Some of these changes that could affect your finances are highlighted on page 6. Also in this edition, Rick examines the cycles of the markets and what performance patterns emerge that we could learn from.
But in the festive spirit, we will keep this edition of our newsletter rather light. We thought we would share some of our team’s favourite Christmas traditions with you, along with how the wealthier (really, wealthiest) people choose to give back to the world.
Some Christmas traditions in the Bell household are quirky, like our traditional Christmas Eve dinner of pizza - a reflection of the years when the kids were little and I would arrive home with only a few hours to finish the prep for ‘Santa Day’. Various attempts at changing this tradition (to a nice seafood chowder or meatpie) have been resisted by the (now grown!) kids. Other traditions are more conventional like attending the Christmas Eve Candlelight service at Bedford United Church, the highlight of the Christmas season for me. I revel in the calm and quiet...the late evening service surrounding us with Hope & Peace... just hours before the craziness of Christmas morning and all the Joy & Love the day brings.
One of my family’s most memorable traditions is our annual get-together, not on Christmas, but on Boxing Day. For as long as I can remember, my aunts, uncles, grandparents, and cousins all gathered at my parents house for a big lunch of my mother’s famed cooking including seafood chowder and, my family’s favourite, rabbit pie. We open our Christmas Crackers, wear our paper crowns and recite the corny Christmas jokes we found inside. Finally, we all open one last present “from Rudolph the Red-nosed Reindeer” that he left in our tiny 2nd stocking.
Tib’s Eve is something my family has been celebrating for as long as I can remember. It’s the eve of Christmas Eve and Newfoundlanders have been celebrating this day since the mid-20th century. It’ | [
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10,000,098 | s often referred to as “Tipsy Eve” as it was the first night during advent that it was appropriate to have a drink as advent was close to an end.
In our house we would have family over, with my aunts dancing and singing and the men playing guitar, fiddle and accordion. Houses were jammed tight but with family, love, laughter and plenty of good things to eat! | [
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10,000,099 | Egypt’s Foreign Ministry has informed its embassies and consulates that expat voting will be extended to Monday, 8pm.
The decision to lengthen the window to vote was made by the Supreme Electoral Commission - expats were originally given until Saturday, 8pm.
I wish all Egyptians are voting for what is right to Egypt. Egypt first before any one. All we need to be honest and to do our jobs right. God save Egypt. | [
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