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Sts. Cyril and Method Parish in Mississauga held their annual sing-a-long event on Saturday, Jan 19, 2013, organized by Dusan Dorich, Stefan Slovak, Jr. and Peter Repka. The turn out was great with around 140 people participating. The music was lead by Miro Letko. The cooks were Peter Repka, I. Vacval and Mark Popik, with support of Zita Belzar, Helen Panov and Katka Baros with family, who prepared a fantastic meal consisting of: ham, hurky, sausage, souerkraut, potatoes and sweets with coffee. The atmosphere was great from the beginniing to the end. Musicians went from table to table, singing the most favourite songs for people at each table. There was plenty of young people too, ranging from age 2 to 91. Dancing was during the singing, which was led by Mr. Mitros and followed by others. The entertainment continued into the long hours of the night. | 2019-04-22T06:30:36 | http://kanadskyslovak.ca/index.php/toronto/events-in-toronto/305-sing-along-at-sts-cyril-and-method | [
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Wrote a post card to Alan and mailed it. Missed breakfast again so Nancy, Mynie, and I had our steward bring us ours to our room! Clayton took a picture of Mynie and I in our deck chairs. We had to pack our suit-cases and they are taking them out at 6:00.
Movie today was Teacher’s Pet, and was it good. Had a farewell dinner, turkey.
Set clocks ahead another hour. At dinner tonight we all had colored paper hats and flags.
Note: The “Alan” to whom Judy B is writing the post card on June 17 is presumably a different young man from the “Alan” with which she plays cards on June 13. It’s unlikely that she would write to someone who is actually on the ship with her!
In Teacher’s Pet, newspaper editor James Gannon (Clark Gable) is a self-taught journalist and has little respect for “taught” experience. Gannon is asked to speak at a college journalism class and responds to the professor, Erica Stone (Doris Day), by declining with a scathing letter. Soon after, he is ordered to attend the lecture by his boss, who discovers his behavior. Upon arriving at the class, Gannon finds Professor Stone reading his letter aloud in mocking.
In retaliation, Gannon enrolls in the class under an assumed name, Jim Gallagher. Stone is impressed with her new student, who quickly rises to the top of the class. Over time, the two become attracted to one another. Things are complicated by Stone’s fiancé, Dr. Hugo Pine (Gig Young) and Gannon’s girlfriend, Peggy DeFore (Mamie Van Doren).
Gannon’s ruse is eventually discovered by Stone. Through unexpected help from Pine, he manages to win Stone back. In addition, the two gain mutual respect for each other’s approach to journalism.
Teacher’s Pet was nominated for two Academy Awards: One for Best Actor in a Supporting Role (Gig Young) and the other for Best Writing, Story and Screenplay – Written Directly for the Screen (Fay Kanin and Michael Kanin). | 2019-04-18T13:16:45 | http://judytravelsabroad.com/2015/06/tuesday-june-17-1958/ | [
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This is the approach to the Sabzak Pass between Herat and Badghis provinces. The road follows the stream bed. The Blair Brainard Peace Corps in Afghanistan Photographic Collection captures the photographers experience as a Peace Corps volunteer in Afghanistan, primarily in the city of Herat, 1965-1968. | 2019-04-19T22:47:41 | https://monk.radford.edu/records/item/8504-3l013-trip-to-the-pistachio-forest | [
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Week 5, Day 5 of 22 Minute Hard Corps and I kicked things off today with Resistance 2. Last night took full advantage of going to bed early, slept in this morning and caught up on some much needed sleep in general, which left my workout to be done at lunchtime at the office. I have to say I'm lucky enough to work in a building that has a small gym we can use, and with Beachbody on Demand I can stream my workouts from my phone with no problem. That kind of convenience is SO key to my busy schedule and I love that I have fewer and fewer excuses to stay on track these days!
I would be dishonest if I said month 1 of 22 Minute Hard Corps had been easy for me. In fact, I think it took me almost 6 weeks to complete the first 4 weeks due to some personal set backs. But heading into Month 2 I made a commitment to myself that I was going to give it my all and really finish this program on a strong note.
I think one of the greatest challenges of dealing with a tremendously busy schedule is we can so easily let our fitness goals be the first things to slip. But what I've noticed when that happens is just how much of an impact it has on other areas of my life! I generally just don't feel good when I'm not taking care of myself well.
Hey....I'm human! My goals are still important, and I'm still pushing to achieve them! With the support of my challenge groups, together we motivate and encourage each other to get going....and we deal with life's curveballs together!
So, with that being said, this is my game plan for this week! Since Easter was yesterday and that meant a few more carbs than usual, I'm compensating this week by cutting back on a few of my "yellow" containers (for those of you who don't follow Beachbody's portion control programs that means cutting back on a few carb portions!).
We're making full use of leftover turkey from easter to make turkey tetrazzini, and this evening I prepped a few pieces of salmon to go with the Fresh Express Chopped Sweet Kale Salad sets with lemon poppyseed dressing. I have a few bags of chili still frozen, as well as leftover frozen frittata and who doesn't love a weekday crockpot meal to make life easy!
Meal plan and prep doesn't have to be terribly complicated. Make leftovers, make meals that freeze well, and keep things uncomplicated, particularly on weeks you are extra busy. Make use of the same breakfasts and snacks and rotate out lunches and dinners to help keep yourself on track and not having to cook 50,000 different things a week!
Interested in joining me for an online health and fitness challenge? Complete the application below and let's talk about my next group starting in May! | 2019-04-23T09:51:21 | http://www.juliane-russell.com/2017/04/22-minute-hard-corps-month-2-update.html | [
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A recent advance in gathering eggs from women will make it much easier for choosey moms to give birth to geniuses. Two British fertility clinics have found a way of safely obtaining thousands of eggs from a woman. Fertility clinics, therefore, will soon be able to give a couple thousands of embryos to pick from. So let’s say that a certain couple’s genes mean that normally they have only a 1% chance of conceiving a child with the genetic potential to reach a genius IQ. With the ability to select among thousands of embryos, however, this couple could now almost guarantee that their offspring has the genetic potential of a genius.
Embryo selection gets even more interesting when we consider how a nation such as China might use it. Imagine that in ten years China forces all its college students to get genetic tests. Students with intelligence genes in the top 1% of the top 1% of humankind are then forced to donate sperm or eggs. China then uses the sperm and eggs to create a billion embryos each year. The genetic intellectual potential of all these embryos is checked. Those in the top 10,000 are implanted into women.
Each of these embryos has the intellectual potential to be in the top one-billionth of humankind. Now because of environmental factors many of these embryos won’t turn into intellectual titans. But let’s say that one in ten does. This means that each year 1,000 people with the scientific ability of Einstein will be born. By 2035 they will become adults and start doing scientific research. I imagine these Einsteins will be rather helpful to China’s economy and military.
James D. Miller, Ph.D., J.D. was the author of this article and is Associate Professor of Economics at Smith College and writes the Game Theorist feature for TechCentralStation.com and the Random Walk Column for Better Investing Magazine. He teaches introductory microeconomics, introductory microeconomics with calculus applications, intermediate microeconomics, law and economics, game theory, and interpreting financial news.
Jim authored Singularity Rising: Surviving and Thriving in a Smarter, Richer, and More Dangerous World, Game Theory at Work: How to Use Game Theory to Outthink and Outmaneuver Your Competition, A Thousand Chinese Einsteins Every Year, Free the Elderly, Feelers vs. Thinkers, The Singular Sensation, An Empire? You Ain’t Seen Nothin’ Yet, Robot Economics, Should We Fear “Cosmetic Neurology”, A Billion for Bin Laden, Don’t Worry About the Future, The Get-Rich-Slow Scheme, Harvard Via eBay, To Nuke, Or Not to Nuke?, Deep Links? No Way!, Blogging: An Economist’s View, and Airport Security. Read the full list of his publications!
Jim earned his B.A. at Wesleyan University in 1988, his M.A. in Economics at Yale University in 1989, his J.D. from Stanford Law School in 1992, and his Ph.D. in Economics at the University of Chicago in 1997. He was a Member of the Stanford Law Review and the Federalist Society.
Read his blog Adventures in Economics. | 2019-04-22T14:19:25 | https://lifeboat.com/ex/bios.james.d.miller | [
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SHANGHAI, Jun. 10 (SMM) -- LME nickel for delivery in three months opened at USD 18,350/mt and closed at USD 19,080/mt, up USD 630/mt from a day earlier, with highest price at USD 19,349/mt and lowest price at USD 18,200/mt. Daily trading volumes were 2,450 lots and positions were 90,170 lots.
LME base metal prices all closed with gains on June 9th, as investors' confidence is highly boosted by Reuters' report that domestic exports in May increased by 50% and from the advances of euro. It still takes time to tell whether the price decline is a real rebound or a retaliatory rebound for previous significant decline. PMI from China and the US suggested that base metals still have strong fundamentals, which will lend certain support for metal prices. However, market is still haunted by concern over the EU sovereign debt crisis and the monetary policy from China, so the possibility for prices to advance significantly is small.
It is expected that LME nickel prices will move between USD 17,800-19,300/mt on June 10th. | 2019-04-21T18:08:46 | https://news.metal.com/newscontent/100009947/smm-morning-review---2010610-nickel-market/ | [
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I am joy, peace, love, hope, serenity, humility, kindness, benevolence, empathy, generosity, truth, compassion and faith.
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Do you want to visually brand your Facebook Stories and profile photos to promote your business, and let your fans and customers in on it, too?
With the Facebook Camera Effects platform and its Frame Studio feature, you can design a custom frame that overlays your Facebook content - videos, photos, and profile photos. Frames are a creative way for people to have fun and show their support for you and your business.
Next, click Upload art or drag and drop one or more .PNG file into the template. Use the handles to change the size and drag the images around into position.
Use an image editor like Photoshop or Canva to create the elements of your frame. Each element must have a transparent background.
Keep it simple. Remember, people will most likely be viewing your frame on a mobile display so intricate designs won't translate as well.
Position your art around the edges to frame the photograph - a frame should compliment a profile photo or Facebook camera photo, not dominate or obscure it.
The examples above show the kind of effect that you can achieve, and how placement is crucial. As you'll notice from my own example from now on, its size and placement could have been improved!
Click Settings in the top right of your Facebook Page.
From General, click Page Location for Frames.
Click next to Page Location for Frames to manage who can create frames at your business' location.
On the next page, you'll get one last chance to look over your Frame before you publish it.
Once you hit Publish you'll have the chance to share it to the followers on your Page immediately if you wish.
You will now also be granted access to a hub to manage your Frames; to toggle them on and off, duplicate,preview on mobile, etc.
From here, you'll be able to choose an existing frame or upload a new one. You should also be able to manage your frames from the Publishing Tools section of your Facebook Page, but this was not yet available when I tried.
And here's how adding the frames look in practice via Facebook Stories. When a user opens Facebook Stories after receiving a notificiation, they can tap the magic wand and select your frame.
If a user is adding a frame to their profile photo on mobile, they'll receive a notification too.
Which is why naming and listing your frame with keywords is so important.
Will you be using Facebook Frames as a way to promote your business and encourage fans to do the same? Let me know your thoughts - and share your results - in the comments below! | 2019-04-19T10:56:42 | http://andrewmacarthy.com/andrew-macarthy-social-media/how-to-create-facebook-stories-frames-promote-business | [
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Act-On is SaaS based marketing automation service for small to enterprise businesses. The Social Publish app allows you to schedule and share contents like landing pages, forms, URL etc. through your social channels. It has a Twitter prospector for better engagement and targeting of Twitter users. Integrated social sharing widgets in Act-On’s email and landing page composers make it easy to drag and drop handy sharing buttons. Its Competitor Insights let you benchmark your web traffic, blogs, Facebook and LinkedIn traffic, tweets, and YouTube views against your competition. The mobile apps are available for iOS and Android along with API access, contact database sync and various important CRM integrations. | 2019-04-20T10:41:50 | https://www.analyzo.com/product-details/269/105 | [
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Join Callahan’s AVP of analytics, Sam Taft, and VP of marketing, Alexandra Gekas, for this 30-minute webinar recapping our 2018 CRM survey findings.
At its core, a CRM (Customer Relationship Management) tool is a way for businesses to manage all consumer interactions in one place and ultimately build loyalty. According to Gartner, CRM software totaled $26.3 billion in 2015 and they predict that that figure will continue to rise through 2018.
To help credit unions understand the current CRM landscape, Callahan conducted a multi-pronged survey. The survey uncovered CRM pain points, main consideration factors, primary use cases and more.
Join Callahan’s AVP of analytics, Sam Taft, and VP of marketing, Alexandra Gekas, for 30-minute webinar recapping the survey findings. Each attendee will also receive a complimentary copy of the survey. | 2019-04-25T12:13:51 | https://www.creditunions.com/videos/videocontent/callahans-2018-crm-survey-results-recap/ | [
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Just ahead of this year’s Gamescom 2015 conference, Microsoft announced that Gears of War Ultimate will come with free access to the rest of the series.
Five Gears for the price of one!
Due to Microsoft’s backwards compatibility program, fans that have played the Gears games on Xbox 360 will have the chance to play them again on the Xbox One. But, only for a limited time between the launch and the end of this year. The “new” games will be able to use all the amenities of the Xbox One (Game DVR, Snap and screenshots). Fans who are in Microsoft’s preview program are also able to play the original Gears today.
The Gears of War series was first introduced in November 2006 and was an instant success. The third-person shooter portrayed a war torn world, Seras, and humanity’s struggle to fight off the encroaching Locust, a hostile species living deep beneath the planet’s surface. In the near decade following, Epic Games has put out two sequels, and a prequel. There have also been numerous novels and graphic novels portraying the events before and in-between the main games. Now, after Microsoft bought the franchise in 2014, a new sequel is in the works to be released sometime in 2016.
Ultimate will be a remaster of the original game bursting at the seams with updated graphics, new multiplayer maps, retooled achievements, more modes and an increased difficulty level. There are also five new missions that weren’t included in the main game on the 360, but were later on in the PC version. It will ship with the beta for Gear of War 4‘s multiplayer.
Gears of War Ultimate will be released August 25, 2015 and Cogs can download the previous games until December 31, 2015. For more news on the happenings of the planet Sera, keep it here at The Nerd Stash! | 2019-04-20T08:45:26 | https://thenerdstash.com/gears-war-franchise-free-ultimate-limited-time/ | [
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The percussion colourist, Duduka Da Fonseca once graced the drum chair of Dom Salvador’s album, simply entitled Transition… or was it so simple? Although the legendary pianist reveals the secrets of his heart in simple, yet breathtakingly lyrical songs, his impulse to adorn melodies gleam with a complex patina, where layer upon layer of colour and texture is twisted and turned in a voluptuous, rhythmic cocktail Brasiliana – where the very earth (every glistening speck of the Ipanema sand) awakens each day to a mistura fina of sertanejo, samba, bossa nova, pagode, tropicália, choro, maracatú, embolada (coco de repente), funk carioca, the glue of which is in the sometimes distant echo of even afoxé, maracatú, capoeira music and repente. Something like that music, refined over years of performance with Jorge Ben, Elza Soares and Elis Regina came to New York and stayed and continues to light up a residency at the River Cafe since 1977.
So the music has been bubbling and brewing and coursing through Duduka Da Fonseca’s veins for thirteen long years and a salubrious summer in Rio, in 2017 seemed as good a time to return the favour. Thus was born this glorious Duduka Da Fonseca trio recording Plays Dom Salvador. There are eleven songs, one more viscerally exciting than the other and each played with nuanced poetry by Duduka Da Fonseca, David Feldman and Guto Wirtti on bass, with the great Jaques Morelenbaum gracing Dom Salvador’s tender ballad (“Para Elis”) dedicated to that Brasilian Goddess, Elis Regina, whose child-like laughter is almost discernable in the echoes of David Feldman’s superb harmolodics – a beautifully rhythmic volta face from the jack-rabbit high jinks with which he helps his leader open the proceedings, on “Farjuto”.
From that beginning to its bookend in “Meu Fraco é Café Forte” it’s one gorgeous performance after another. Few performances of Dom Salvador’s dreamy masterpieces have been encapsulated the overwhelming passion of their musical arguments to the same degree as this brilliant recorded account. Duduka Da Fonseca has a clear and unified vision of the music’s trajectory, his interpretations grabbing you by the heartstrings – in the interminable lyrical languor of “Transition” – or by the scruff of the neck, compelling you to follow Dom Salvador’s spontaneous and characterful account of “Samba do Malandrinho”. The trio’s whirling response to Dom Salvador’s eternal “Gafieira” sail through the song’s technical demands into a warm and not-over-sumptuous tone of expression, which is especially the case with Guto Wirtti’s base lines, something he had given notice of in a short solo on “Mariá” earlier .
Of course, in addition to the masterfully spun purity and spotless intonational poise are all the work of the exceptionally beguiling Duduka Da Fonseca, whose mastery can be heard in every stroke of his hands on the skins of his drums – whether he wields stick, mallet or brushes. It’s no wonder that Dom Salvador declares on the package itself that “Duduka Da Fonseca has done for Brasilian drumming, what Kenny Clarke had done for Jazz drumming in America”, high praise for the bandleader, who returns the compliment in kind – the kind of which is heard on the disc’s crowning glory – “Valsa De Esquina”. | 2019-04-21T12:06:07 | https://latinjazznet.com/reviews/cds/featured-albums/duduka-da-fonseca-trio-plays-dom-salvador/ | [
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The population of Unity, NH in 2019 counting up to 1,621 people. More than 15% of employed adults in New Hampshire apply at least onse a year for a Payday Loans from $100 to $1,000. And as the time shows, more than 122 people, even with bad FICO credit score get approved for small-dollar loan.
We offer short-term Payday Loans up to $1,000 and long-term Personal Loans up to $15,000 in Unity, New Hampshire. | 2019-04-23T14:01:10 | https://paydayloanslowrates.net/new-hampshire/unity | [
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Shaw Friedman writes in his [April 29 Viewpoint] that “tax cuts undermine prosperity” and laments the move to cut business taxes over the past decade of Republican leadership. I suspect that the governmental entities’ prosperity will be undermined but maybe not the entire state’s.
To make the point that the economic cesspool that is Illinois is actually outperforming Indiana, Friedman goes long and refers to Site Selection Magazine to point out that Illinois has 383 projects involving more than $1 million in investment compared to Indiana’s 103.
Friedman did not mention Illinois’ unemployment rate of 8.4 percent compared to Indiana’s 5.9 percent. In 2012, Indiana’s economic growth rate was 3.3 percent to Illinois’ 1.7 percent. In addition, governing.com shows Illinois with per-capita debt at $2,234 compared to Indiana’s $196. So how is that high-tax, high-spending plan working for Illinois? | 2019-04-25T17:51:02 | https://www.ibj.com/articles/718-largest-indiana-based-venture-capital-and-private-equity-firms---pdf | [
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Welcome to the network Octi server. The rules of Octi are below. The commands are the same for all pbmserv games.
To occupy any ONE of your opponent's home octi squares.
The 3-base option is available as a separate game: Octi3base. | 2019-04-24T22:23:39 | http://www.gamerz.net/pbmserv/octi.html | [
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When handling along with your insurance coverage broker, you need to be careful and documentation every little thing. You may possess to can be found in exposure to an insurance company, thus make certain to become on shield when this takes place. Keep in mind that the firm's target is actually to resolve swift and for a limited amount from loan. Before you accept any type of insurance coverage settlement, you might would like to a minimum of talk to a legal representative.
If you obtain hurt, avoid hanging around to start legal proceedings. You might find that there is a set target date where you are permitted to file a meet. Try acquiring a knowledgeable attorney rapidly and also inquiring about the deadlines just before choosing regarding a suit.
Pertain to the preliminary consultation with a general knowledge from how factors go. If the attorney takes your case on emergency, this could be actually vital. The legal professional only may pick your case if the suit is actually substantially in your support, so they could not collaborate with you if you don't offer it properly. Make certain that your documents remains in order as well as you are readied to provide your instance to.
If there are bodily signs of personal injury, document your personal injuries along with photographes, prior to you acquire any type of therapy. This assists make known your traumas if you want to make your instance much stronger. Relying on your injuries, this can have an effect on the dimension and also end result from your instance.
If you are still searching for the right injury attorney, ensure you consider the legislation workplace's area. You need to look for a local attorney that possesses an office near you. When you attorney joins you, it will certainly be actually much easier to communicate. Additionally, if you neighbor, your lawyer will definitely be very likely to react to you rapidly.
Keeping an eye on any type of loan you invest is actually necessary to your case, so maintain those proof of purchases in a refuge! The receipts function as evidence that you were actually paid through a person. Without proper paperwork and also receipts, the court will be unexpected to reimburse you for those expenses.
Calculate who the accountable gathering is actually for your trauma. If your accident happened at the workplace, you ought to have the ability to ask your employer for a settlement deal, yet the scenario is actually different if someone else resulted in the trauma. Discover a really good legal representative and review the accident to calculate which is guilty.
If you are actually harmed, that's crucial that you talk to an attorney right away to assist you. All phone calls you obtain off work ought to be sent to your lawyer.
In some cases, that can be actually quick and easy to map why you are feeling particular sort of pain. You are very likely to experience sizable soreness when you exhaust your injured body part. There is no need to panic unless your ache is actually extremely intense and/or does not decrease within a few times.
Protected relevant information coming from the various other celebration anytime you experience a wreck. You might certainly not initially presume a trauma, yet one thing could surface eventually on. Then, if you wind up having associated health issue in the future, you know that is liable.
Learn all regarding how these style from occasions function. Meet with your legal representative frequently to ask concerns concerning your claim.
Folks experience slight burns continuously, specifically if they operate or even prepare around a warm resource. Do not utilize ice or even very chilly water for burns; rather utilize area temperature level or lukewarm water, and after that secure that skin layer in water for a handful of minutes. That are going to relieve discomfort.
Be actually completely truthful along with your doctor regarding your accidents and how they make you feel. Don't make your accidents seem to be more remarkable than they truly are actually.
You could assume your trauma claim is actually a very easy victory, that is still significant to seek advice from along with a legal representative specializing in this place of the rule. You may be attracted to obtain a simple resolution without undergoing the lawful unit, however frequently, that finds yourself along with you acquiring a smaller sized quantity.
When injured or hurt, you should have compensation for your ache as well as suffering. These factors can be actually difficult to show, which is why you need to take photographes as well as paper whatever. Inflict your legal representative so he or even she can show a good claim.
Emotional issues may be the target of a loss suit also. Actually injuries you experience will frequently recover, and just bear in mind that mental trauma may remain for pretty some opportunity. If you were actually hurt and also you still are emotionally troubled, consult your legal representative and he may do some additional claims for you.
Your legal representative will certainly make an effort to obtain the best funds for you. Having said that, they may additionally take a cut of any sort of damage honor.
Knowing which to count on after an accident may be daunting. You stand up a far better possibility of providing and succeeding your very own case if you are adequately educated regarding private injury cases as well as lawyers. Ideally, this post has actually assisted with your condition.
Lots of folks prefer to choose a collision attorney after they've been associated with an auto accident that causes personal accident and financial losses.
Why Should You Hire a Lawyer?
Technically, you can file a personal accident claim versus an insurance provider by your own self. Some people select this path when they've suffered just mild traumas as well as have the amount of time to research the lawful claims refine themselves. Also, bypassing an attorney will definitely save you some money in legal charges.
Having said that, a crash legal representative-- especially an injury legal representative-- could aid you go up from large automotive insurance policy business and also their team from lawyers. Your lawyer actually recognizes the injury rules as well as step-by-step rules as well as can efficiently manage all the investigation for you. She or he are going to serve as your proponent throughout the whole suit.
Have actually gone through intense traumas.
Are actually dealt with costly health care expenses.
Have actually experienced a notable reduction of incomes as a result of their accidents.
That's certainly not straightforward to think out the procedure which is located ahead of time in a personal injury lawsuit. Comprehending exactly how to discover a personal injury lawyer is vital to winning your case. If there are actually physical signs of trauma, document your injuries along with images, prior to you acquire any type of therapy. If your injury occurred at job, you need to be actually able to ask your company for a settlement deal, but the scenario is other if somebody else triggered the injury. If you are appropriately educated concerning individual injury claims as well as legal representatives, you stand up a better odds of offering and also succeeding your own suit. | 2019-04-23T20:05:36 | http://sampost.weebly.com/a-private-trauma-legal-representative.html | [
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Decipherment of textile-related tablets in the military sector presents a few irritating problems. The first of these is that we are crossing sectors, from the military to the textiles, or if you like the converse. It all amounts to the same thing. The problem here is that supersyllabograms, such as KI on this tablet, do not necessarily mean the same thing from one sector to the next. However, this fortunately does not apply to textiles related to military dress, since the supersyllabograms in both sectors mean the same thing. For instance, in this case, KI means kito or “chiton”, is a common Greek tunic in both sectors. The word “rita” on the first line must be very archaic Mycenaean, as I cannot find it anywhere in any Mycenaean Greek lexicon. So it is untranslatable. Likewise for nitewea or satewea. However, whatever this word is supposed to mean, it conveniently ends with “wea”, which leads me to strongly suspect it is a type of cloth, since almost all known words relating to a type of cloth in Mycenaean Greek end in “wea”. And so I have translated it thus.
The military supersyllabograms KO kowo = “fleece” & WI = (kito) wirineo = “leather (chiton)” with (animal) hide are the last two we can account for in the military sector. Although I have not been able to find either of them on any extant Linear B. Tablet, they are attested according to John Chadwick.
As with the previous post, the supersyllabogram QE on this tablet clearly refers to qeqinomeno, a “woven undergarment” or “woven undergarment”. The rest is self-explanatory.
This particular tablet presents us with a new associative supersyllabogram DA, which is the first syllable of the Linear B word, dameusi = “distribution”, a synonym of the more common Linear B word for “distribution” = apudosi. Dameusi appears nowhere else on any Linear B tablet, not even as the supersyllabogram = DA. But I am satisfied that this is its meaning. The first word on this tablet, Dawano, appears to be the name of the tailor = “Dawanos”. The word okamo on the left side of the tablet appears nowhere else in Linear B, and I cannot determine its meaning. As with the other tablets in this series, the double appearance of the syllabogram WE (WE WE) is a mystery to me. So I have left these 2 syllabograms untranslated. Generally, the appearance of WE WE on a Linear B tablet refers to measurement. But I cannot be sure this is the case with this tablet. It bears further investigation.
This supersyllabogram (KI) is a variant on the one in the previous post (RI = linen). It would appear that the Linear B scribes used one (RI) or the other (KI) on an equal footing. This appears to be substantiated by Linear B tablet KN 594 R r 11, in which the word for cloth or textiles appears on the first line, and both the ideogram for cloth or linen and the ideogram for chiton appear side by side on the second. Nothing could be more explicit. In other words, Linear B tablets which employ the supersyllabogram RI for a linen undergarment or undertunic or chiton and those which make use of the supersyllabogram KI for an undergarment or undertunic or chiton pretty much amount to one and the same thing, in spite of the fact that the word linen is not always explicitly mentioned whenever the supersyllabogram KI is used in lieu of the supersyllabogram RI. Although the word rita does not appear anywhere else on any Linear B tablets, its meaning is clear, as the word is found in ancient Greek, and means arms or limbs of a person. Thus, the chiton or undertunic covered the arms. It is also to be noted that both of these supersyllabograms, KI and RI, apply equally to the military and the textiles sectors of the Minoan/Mycenaean economy. In the military sense, it is understood that the attributive supersyllabogram KI refers to the chiton undertunic which was worn under the “toraka” (Linear B) or “thorax”, i.e. the armoured breastplate. | 2019-04-24T04:54:45 | https://linearbknossosmycenae.com/tag/chiton/ | [
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Home technology is evolving so swiftly, it can feel like more trouble than it’s worth to keep up. But many of the newer devices are easy to use and can save you time, money, and worry.
Check out these smart home technology gadgets that you can install, right now, in your home.
The Amazon Echo, Google Home, and the Apple HomePod are only the first few of what will likely be many smart-voice assistants designed for your home. Compact and powerful, they sit unobtrusively on a counter. Yet these devices, once integrated, can answer trivia queries, play your music, turn on lights in specific rooms, make phone calls, order pizza, and start playing TV shows of your choice, simply by making a verbal request.
Highly programmable thermostats, like those made by Ecobee, not only allow you to lower temperatures when you’re not home, but they can be connected to voice controlled assistants or phone apps so that you can make adjustments on the fly.
Though it looks like a simple plug-in outlet extension, the Belkin WeMo Switch can be turned on and off through an app on your phone, allowing you to switch on your flattening iron ten minutes before you’re ready to use it, or turn the coffeemaker on so that the first cup is pouring just as you enter your kitchen in the morning.
Replace that old wired doorbell with one that has a high-definition camera that streams 24/7. It uses a fish eye type lens so you can see people from head to foot as well as any packages that may be lying on your doormat. You can even program it to send alerts to your phone when certain friends and family arrive.
The iRobot Roomba has been around for a while, but other automatic vacuums, like the Neato BotVac, can be connected to an app to allow remote control. Bonus for cat owners: If they aren’t terrified of it, cats love to chase it.
Ever get to work and realize you left your garage door wide open, displaying your titanium racing bike to the whole world? With certain smart monitors, you can check on your tablet or phone from wherever you are and shut the garage door without having to make the reverse commute home.
These new smart refrigerators aren’t your grandmother’s avocado-colored Frigidaire, that’s for sure. Often installed with built-in touch screens, these refrigerators take pictures of what’s inside, offer creative ways to keep shopping lists, allow coordination of family schedules, and even play music.
If you’re considering a home renovation, make sure to discuss with your designer your thoughts about home technology in order to integrate the best of what’s offered into your plans. | 2019-04-21T06:41:11 | https://kowalske.com/smart-technology-for-your-home/ | [
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There is a world of learning opportunities that comes with today's social media. As soon as your child is using a computer, a cell phone or any mobile device, it’s time to talk to them about online behavior, safety, and security. Below is a guide to help parents and teachers talk with children about being online.
If you are looking for some great resources for your children, be sure to check out the guide to 21st Century Learning below.
Below is a book that shows students how to best protect themselves when socializing online. | 2019-04-19T13:22:25 | https://www.casdonline.org/Page/1893 | [
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Please have your New Student Orientation code ready to confirm your New Student Orientation date. The code is located in your payment confirmation email. If you paid your Enrollment deposit and New Student Orientation deposit and your New Student Orientation code has expired, please call 757-823-9293. | 2019-04-24T04:47:48 | https://webapps.nsu.edu/admissions/rsvp/acknowledgement.php | [
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Extreame Savings! Up to 41% off on Acoustic Guitars at Crossroads Philadelphia, Page 3. Top brands include Shop4Omni, Lykos, ChordBuddy, Noeler, First Act Discovery, Zenison, Bailando, eMedia, Kellards, Goplus, Super buy, Schylling, WINZZ, Directly Cheap, Vangoa, Pyle, Omega, ZENY, & GuitarCoach. Hurry! Limited time offers. Offers valid only while supplies last. | 2019-04-20T10:36:46 | https://www.crossroadsphiladelphia.org/shop/acoustic-guitars-p3/3 | [
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Bayshore Motel. 1685 N. Bayshore Drive, Coos Bay, OR 97420. Phone: 541-267-4138.
BEST WESTERN Holiday Hotel. 411 North Bayshore Drive, Coos Bay, OR 97420. Phone: 541-269-5111; Toll-free: 1-800-228-8655; Fax: 541-269-5381.
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Timber Inn. 1001 North Bayshore Drive, Coos Bay, OR 97420. Phone: 541-267-4622 x300; Toll-free: 1-800-782-7592. | 2019-04-24T20:30:48 | https://www.gonorthwest.com/Oregon/coast/Coos_Bay/hotels.htm | [
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The summer is usually peak vacation season. With the kids out of school, most families are looking to hit the road in search of an adventure. Some families want to see more of the world when going on vacation, which is why they will go on a European Getaway. While these getaways can be a lot of fun, they will have to be planned properly to avoid stressful situations. Finding a professional that is experienced with this part of the world is a great way for a person to get the guidance they need. Below are some things a person will need to consider when planning a European vacation.
The biggest mistake that most people will make when planning a trip like this is getting their itinerary too full. Booking too much stuff can make a family feel overwhelmed and will make them rush through this experience. The best thing to do when trying to have fun on one of these adventures is to stay loose. Leaving a bit of wiggle room in the schedule is important because it will allow a family to explore more and not be held down by the attractions they have booked.
Another issue that most people have when going on a trip like this is waiting until the last minute to book their accommodations. The longer a person waits to do this, the harder it will be for them to get a good deal. Using a travel agent is a great way for a person to find out about the deals available to them. For most travelers, finding great deals on their hotels and flights is important, which is why getting some professional guidance is important. Before hiring a travel agent, a person will need to do their homework.
In order to have a great time on a European Getaway, a lot of research will need to be done. At www.travelworm.com, a person will have no problem getting the guidance they need regarding their travel accommodations. Visit their Facebook page to see what they can provide. | 2019-04-21T04:34:07 | https://www.findhotelsandresortsonline.com/considerations-to-make-when-planning-a-european-getaway | [
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Web content accessibility is an increasingly important topic and if it isn’t already on your radar, it should be. At the heart of accessibility are the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines (WCAG), a central element of a series of web accessibility guidelines published by the Web Accessibility Initiative of the World Wide Web Consortium (W3C), the main international standards organization for the Internet.
You can dig into the nitty-gritty at the organization’s resource website and you should reach out to your web provider and designers to get their take on how they are working toward compliance.
As of now, WCAG compliance is not required on any national level, but that could change. You can prevent getting blindsided by regulations by starting the review and modification process now, so changes can then be rolled out in stages.
This will help you control costs, understand WCAG standards better, and prevent several months of operating in panic-mode.
It’s worth noting that quite a bit of these standards will include items you’ll never see, such as modifications and updates to the code that runs your websites. But there are a few things you can begin doing yourself, regardless of technical skill level. One of the lowest hanging pieces of fruit is making sure the colors you use on your websites have the proper amount of contrast.
A great jumping off point is checking your link and button colors. In the following example, the button background color is red, hex code color #d6382a*, and the button text (foreground color) is white, hex code color #FFFFFF.
In this instance, the hover background color is #58355e and the foreground text color is #FFFFFF.
Those are the color combos we need to verify have enough contrast to comply.
To get started, visit https://contrastchecker.com and add it to your bookmarks. It’s a wonderfully easy to use resource built for designers and developers to test color contrast compliance with the Web Content Accessibility Guidelines but it’s straightforward enough, anyone can use it.
Select a foreground color or enter the hex code.
Select a background color or enter the hex code. Alternatively, you can use the “Get From Image” option to pull colors.
The system automatically updates the results to assign a pass/fail, margin or fail, depending on your selections.
Tip: hover over the results for more info about testing conditions applied.
Select ” Add To History” to add the color combo to a list you can export in a pdf file.
The “See Grayscale” button will let you see how those colors appear to a colorblind user.
In addition to text and button colors, you need to check the color contrast with those elements and the webpage background color.
In the example from the start of this process, the page background color is the same as the text color (#FFFFFF), so you don’t actually need to test since the results will be the same. But let’s say the page background was off-white, like #F5F5F5.
In that instance, the dark purple (#58355e) color would pass all levels but the red (#d6382a) would fail more levels than pass.
Seriously, don’t panic. Odds are, you’ll discover most of the colors in your existing palette won’t pass.
Does that mean you need to change those colors you spent so much time and effort meticulously massaging into the perfect combination?
Deep breaths…don’t panic…it’s going to be okay.
This is a good thing because doing a better job at making your website accessible means you open up your organization to a broader patron base and demonstrate that you care about things like making sure your online presence is able to serve the full spectrum of potential visitors.
Now that you’re starting to discover how accessible your color contrasts are, you have a good idea for how much work is needed to make changes.
An ideal time to begin getting into that good habit is your next design cycle.
You’ll want to ask your designer and/or developer about making sure the work uses color combos that meet WCAG contrast standards. Once you’re comfortable that everyone is one board, you’ll be amazed at how second nature it all becomes.
* Tip: you can use Google Chrome’s Inspector to discover hex codes, here’s a useful tutorial from Google on how to do that. | 2019-04-20T22:28:24 | https://artshacker.com/ease-into-wcag-with-color-contrast/ | [
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Our mission is to help clients maintain financial viability in the present, while taking a proactive approach to achieve future goals. This requires open communication to reach an understanding of our clients' needs through research and sound analysis. Illinois Tax & Accounting, Ltd. is dedicated to meeting these goals with high standards of excellence and professionalism. We have been a staple of the business community for years, and pride ourselves on the level of esteem we have earned.
Our dedication to hard work has earned the respect of the business and financial community in and around the Chicagoland area. We believe this to be a direct derivative of our talent and responsiveness to our client base. Whether you are a current or prospective client, rest assured that individuals and businesses who choose Illinois Tax & Accounting, Ltd. receive competent and timely advice.
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IMANI Ghana has proposed the passage of a law on fiscal responsibility to regulate government spending.
The think-tank, which made the suggestion in its review on the 2015 Budget Statement presented to Parliament by the Minister of Finance recently, noted that government?s fiscal consolidation programme is likely to fail if there is no Fiscal Responsibility Law to regulate government spending.
It also said the 2015 Budget Statement does not contain policies that are entirely different from previous budgets, adding that Government?s focus on taxes was wrong because the incentive effect might outweigh the revenue effect.
Additionally, it noted that the 2015 budget did not focus on transparency and anti-corruption initiatives except a reaffirmation of the constitutionally mandated charge on the Auditor-General to perform his duty.
Commenting on debt sustainability, IMANI emphasised: ?Government is still too confident in the Debt Sustainability Analysis (DSA). Government confidence in the DSA in the last few years cannot be overemphasized.
?In 2012, when many became worried about our debt profile and admonished government to exercise restraint on borrowing, government citing in the Medium Term Debt Management Strategy (MTDS II) the DSA in the Article IV consultation strongly argued that Ghana has ?significant borrowing space and could therefore borrow to fill the financing gap needed to achieve the MDGs. Yet in less than two years, the debt ratio has reached unsustainable level.?
On the energy sector, it said most strategic projects that government promised to complete in 2014 were still incomplete.
?In essence, government failed to add an additional 342MW energy capacity it promised in 2014. Considering that the budget allotted to sector has been slashed by 40.37%, it is hard to have confidence in the proposed generation of 770MW + 33.5MW additional energy in 2015.
?The failure of government to solve the energy crisis since 2007 means that there is a prima facie rationale for private sector participation in the energy sector. For Ghanaians to believe ex ante in government ability to achieve energy targets, we need explicit reports on project timeline, project scope, costs, risks, and planned expenditure and expected variation at the beginning of each project.? | 2019-04-22T08:41:52 | https://www.newsghana.com.gh/ghana-needs-law-on-fiscal-responsibility-imani/ | [
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Colorama 443 Guitars | Fretted Americana Inc.
1858 Hofner Colorama 443 (Selmer, London).
This 13-inch-wide, 1 /14 inch-deep, electric semi-solid guitar weighs just 4.10 lbs. Heavily reinforced laminated plywood top and back over framed sides with a dark red Cellulose finish with twin gold stripes around the edge of the body and on the headstock. On the top of the body (bass side) is the Höfner decal in gold with black trim. Two-piece maple neck with a beech center strip and a nut width of just over 1 11/16 inches, a scale length of 24 1/2 inches and a wonderful thick 'baseball-bat' profile. 'Slab' rosewood fretboard with a three-layer black over white plastic nut, a 'zero' and 22 original medium frets and inlaid pearl dot markers. Headstock face with matching twin gold stripes. Three-in-a-line open-back strip tuners with oval white plastic buttons. Serial number "71" stamped in blind on the back of the headstock. Specific shaped three-layer, black over white plastic pickguard with four screws. Single Höfner "black-bar" single-coil black plastic 'squared corner' pickup in the neck position with an output of 6.00k. One rotary volume control and three two-way tone-selector slider switches mounted on the pickguard. The 'Preh' potentiometer is stamped "429" (October 1959). Hofner 'teacup' control knob with securing grub screw. Höfner metal bar-bridge on height-adjustable metal base and Höfner basic 'trapeze' tailpiece secured to lower edge by two pins and one screw. A few small surface marks (mainly on the edges) are all that prevent this guitar from being mint. Conservatively, this exceptionally rare little guitar is in near mint (9.25) condition and is complete with the two original brown leather strap fasteners. Housed in the original (to the guitar) three-latch, shaped brown and cream softshell case with brown felt lining (9.00). Unlike most of the early Höfner guitars this one has low action and great playability - and also a unique 'rock 'n roll' sound.
This model was the first Colorama imported into the UK by Selmer. It originally started life in Germany as the Hofner Model 160 (single pickup) and Model 162 (twin pickup) which were produced for the European market from 1956 to 1960. The guitar features a "semi-solid" body, i.e it looks like a solid guitar but is really a heavily reinforced plywood box. The very earliest examples had a "tear" shaped pickguard, with the later models (1959-60) having a more stylized shape (like this one). A square cornered version of the standard Hofner "black-bar" pickup was fitted, without the usual rotary height adjustment wheels. The controls were installed in the classic Hofner consul. Metallic finishes were the norm with the first models. The guitar featured here has an original dark red cellulose finish with twin gold stripes around the edge of the body and on the headstock (a full ten years before Fender used 'racing-stripes' on their Mustang). The Selmer list price in 1959 was eighteen guineas. (The Vintage Hofner Website). | 2019-04-19T05:20:49 | https://www.frettedamericana.com/product/1959-hofner-colorama-443 | [
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Judas Priest released British Steel on April 14, 1980, and there are many fans and historians who would swear by their black leather jackets that the legendary band was at the top of its game with that propulsive, iconic album. Sad Wings of Destiny, Screaming for Vengeance, Defenders of the Faith and Painkiller all hold a prominent position in the pantheon of excellent and important metal releases, but when it comes to influence, consistency and accessibility, British Steel is, perhaps, a notch above them all.
Arriving during the very outset of the New Wave of British Heavy Metal movement, 1980's British Steel forged a template and set the bar for countless bands, including Iron Maiden, Saxon, Diamond Head and Grim Reaper.
British Steel isn’t Judas Priest’s most musically complex album. Most of the songs are simple and straightforward, but from the anti-authoritarian charge of “Breaking the Law” (the opening track on the U.S. release) to the flailing guitar leads and rhythmic, pre-thrash barrage of “Rapid Fire” (track one in the U.K.) it’s a complete, satisfying and cohesive release. There’s a bit of musical experimentation (“Metal Gods,” “The Rage”), some chant-along anthems (“United,” “You Don’t Have To Be Old To Be Wise”) and plenty of moments custom-made for fist-in-the-air headbanging.
From the album’s immaculate construction to its natural flow, one might guess Judas Priest spent months perfecting the songs before tracking them over an equal amount of time. In actuality, once they entered the Tittenhurst Park Recording Studios, a live-in estate in the English country of Berkshire, England, that was formerly owned by John Lennon, the band had 28 days to record with producer Tom Allom.
While Judas Priest were recording British Steel, their management was already planning a tour. There was no margin for error when it came to scheduling, but being under the gun provided incentive. Priest had no time to second-guess themselves, so they went with first ideas and first takes, which gave the album a sense of immediacy.
As great as the chemistry was while Judas Priest worked on British Steel, they barely had time to finish the songs let alone sit back and analyze what they were creating. As soon as they finished tracking, they were onto their next career step, rehearsing for a tour that was scheduled to launch March 7, 1980. It would be more than a month before the album came out and even longer before “Living After Midnight” lit the airwaves on fire. Priest didn’t play any songs from British Steel on the UK leg of the tour, which featured opener Iron Maiden. When they arrived in the States that summer of 1980, they had added “Living After Midnight,” “Steeler,” “You Don’t Have to be Old to be Wise” and “Grinder” to their set. | 2019-04-20T13:11:08 | https://z94.com/judas-priest-british-steel-anniversary/ | [
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SEDA seeks to provide a supportive teaching and learning environment that is responsive to individual student needs. Whilst students are encouraged to develop a positive relationship with their Program Facilitator, the Student Services Coordinator is also integral to supporting the student journey.
The Student Services Coordinator is responsible for providing students with appropriate support related to their personal wellbeing and the development of their individual pathways. The Student Services Coordinator supports students to remain engaged with learning by assisting them to access appropriate health and community-based programs and youth services in a timely manner.
The Student Services Coordinator is also responsible for providing access to required further education and employment information, supporting Program Facilitators to assist students when making choices regarding their individual pathways.
Students also have access to comprehensive wellbeing information and resources via SEDA’s learning management system, MySEDA. If you would like to get in touch directly with Student Services, please email lisb@sedagroup.com.au or call us on 1300 777 332. | 2019-04-21T06:10:31 | https://seda.edu.au/pathways/student-wellbeing/ | [
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On Sunday, December 29, Holy Martyrs celebrated St. Stephen’s Day – a day commemorating the life and sacrifice of St. Stephen, the first deacon and Christian martyr. On this day we also celebrated the humble service of our present deacons. At the conclusion of Badarak, with the chanting of a special sharagan, Dns. Frank, Garbis, Hagop, Krikor and Sason donned priestly crowns. Following the service, a beautiful luncheon took place in the auditorium where Fr. Abraham expressed his gratitude towards all the deacons and presented them each with a gift. | 2019-04-22T06:24:52 | http://holy-martyrs.org/newsarticle.asp?article_id=821&ctr=278 | [
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On January 12 (Sat.), we held a tea ceremony class.
We hold tea ceremony lessons from 9:00 AM to 4:00 PM every Saturday, so please feel free to participate whenever you like. | 2019-04-25T06:40:39 | https://murin-an.jp/news/report/report20190112/ | [
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When one is “spiritual”, there is a common misconception that everything is sunshine and rainbows.
That just is not the case, though. As much as we would wish it otherwise, we cannot have rainbows without rain, can we?
This is something that I have to remind myself of from time to time.
The past day or two has been just such a time.
Yesterday, I found myself vacillating between irritation and “weepiness”. Thankfully, both were mild states of being. Still, they can be challenging to get through.
Today, I’ve noticed that I’m quick to feel irritation again.
That just isn’t “It”, though. That is not the case. We don’t reach a point in our spiritual journey where all challenges are wiped from our path, never to be tripped over again. That’s just not a practical point of view.
After all, how many of us actually retreat to a secluded cave or part of the jungle? Not many.
The majority of us remain in the realm of humans, left to deal with human interactions and “garbage”.
What does define the level of progress we’ve made, though, is how long it takes us to “get back to center”.
That, I know from experience can be a hard-fought challenge, in and of itself.
After all, when we’re being challenged, we’re often vibrating at a low vibratory level. While the Universe acts as a mirror and will show that fact to us by bringing more low-leveled stuff our way.
If unaware of this fact, we can quickly sink into a hole of quicksand, seemingly never to emerge again.
The “trick”, I’ve found, is to recognize it early-on and nip it in the bud as quickly as possible before the stuff gets too bad, too heavy and being gentle with ourselves in the process.
Synchronicity, again, is an awesome thing!
As I was looking for an image to use for this post, I happened to come across another blogger’s post, How to Hit the “Reset” Button for Your Day… or Life which was written by Raymond Salas, Energy Healer. In it, he shares some wonderful tips for getting back to center.
I do have a plan for today, though. I’m off to visit with my beautiful soul sisters at our local “Zen Den” and, even, let one stick acupuncture needles in my ear.
What tips or tricks do you have that quickly move you back to center? I would love it if you would share them in the comments below!
Much love and light to you, my friend!
Sonia is such a wonderful teacher and a very gifted writer. I’ve read several books of hers (also the one you refer to) and they are insightful, grounded and sometimes very funny! | 2019-04-25T16:03:50 | https://www.seraphsquill.com/not-every-day-is-a-good-one-when-your-spiritual/ | [
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The October Crisis of 1970 and Bill C-51: When is the government more important than the individual?
The introduction of Bill C-51 has garnered some of the fiercest debates over individual rights and government powers in recent Canadian history. While its supporters point to its purpose in defending Canada from the threat of terrorism, many of its critics reject its necessity as a means of protecting Canadians. Some have alluded to another time in Canadian history when individual rights were compromised in the name of the greater good, the 1970 October Crisis. Today we examine this comparison and consider whether there are any lessons from government reaction to the FLQ that can be applied to the debate over C-51 in 2015.
A series of recent Supreme Court cases have ruled against the Canadian government. The rejection of their chosen appointee to the Court, Marc Nadon, on constitutional grounds has angered the government in Ottawa. Rumours and allegations of interference by the Chief Justice, Beverely McLachlin, have swirled over the last week. Ultimately, the Conservatives do not like that an unelected judiciary can supersede the democratically elected Canadian government. The place of the Supreme Court in Canada gives it constitutional authority and stems directly from the 1982 Constitution Act. Its section 52 gave the Supreme Court power to strike down legislation that did not align with the new Canadian constitution. To better understand the position of today's government, today we briefly examine how judiciary authority became supreme in Canada. | 2019-04-20T00:49:45 | http://clioscurrent.com/blog/tag/Canadian+Charter+of+Rights | [
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Because of the multiplicity of Christian denominations, it is inevitable that their views of the Ten Commandments would be both confusing and contradictory. There is no one specific way for Christians to understand the commandments and, as a consequence, many of the interpretations conflict with each other. Even the lists that Christians use aren't all the same.
Most Christians, Protestants, and Catholics treat the Ten Commandments as the foundation of morality. Despite the fact that the text is explicit in holding only the Jews to them as part of their covenant with God, Christians today tend to regard the commandments as binding on all of humanity. For many of them, all of the commandments, even the obviously religious ones, are expected to serve as the basis for civil and moral laws.
It is also common for Christians today to teach that the Ten Commandments each have a dual nature: half positive and half negative. The actual text of the commandments is negative in almost every case. For example, prohibitions against killing or adultery. Many Christians believe that there is an implicit positive teaching, something not made explicit and manifest until Jesus came to teach the gospel of love.
Contrary to what many might expect, though, none of this remains quite true in the context of evangelical Christianity. Most evangelicals today believe in dispensationalism--a doctrine that teaches that there have been seven dispensations (time periods) through history during which God has made separate covenants with humanity.
One of these dispensations was believe to be during the time of Moses and based upon the Law given to Moses by God. This covenant was superseded by the gospel of Jesus Christ that inaugurated a new dispensation which will last until Jesus' second coming.
The Ten Commandments may have been the foundation of Gods covenant with the Israelites, but that doesn't mean that they are required of people today. Dispensationalism typically teaches the opposite. While the Ten Commandments may contain principles that are important or helpful to Christians today, people aren't expected to obey them as if they are enforced by law. Through this, dispensationalism attempts to take a stand against legalism, or what Christians regard as an inappropriate fixation upon laws and codes at the expense of love and grace.
This de-emphasis of laws like the Ten Commandments is shared by Pentecostal and Charismatic groups, but for a different reason. Rather than focusing upon dispensational teachings, such groups focus upon the continued guidance of Christians today by the Holy Spirit. Because of this, Christians are not in as much need of commandments in order to follow the will of God. In fact, adherence to the will of God might lead a person to act contrary to earlier commandments.
All of this is rather curious in light of the fact that the Christians most likely to insist on government displays of the Ten Commandments are most likely to be evangelical or Pentecostal. Were they to adhere more faithfully to their own traditions, they would likely be among the last to support such actions and might, in fact, be among the most vocal opponents.
What we see instead are that the Christian denominations where the Ten Commandments have traditionally retained a more important religious role. Catholic, Anglican, and Lutheran are the least likely to strongly support government monuments and the most likely to register objections. How it is that dispensationalist Christians who consider the Ten Commandments a facet of an earlier, non-binding covenant can also insist that they are the foundation of American law and must be promoted, remains a mystery.
Should Christmas Be a Secular Holiday? | 2019-04-18T15:34:03 | https://www.learnreligions.com/christian-views-of-the-ten-commandments-250899 | [
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Born in New York City, Bremner grew up in a travelling family, first living in NYC, then the north of Scotland and finally Vancouver, BC. His influences are complex – in Scotland he grew up with the sweet sounds of the UK pop Top Ten - from the Bay City Rollers to David Bowie, and in Vancouver he sang in punk rock bands - all those sneak into his jazz recordings.
He just came off the road touring Japan with an 18-piece Big Band, and performing in a Cabaret show in the UK, and is looking forward to being home in Ontario and doing some intimate acoustic concerts. | 2019-04-20T18:18:15 | https://store.cdbaby.com/cd/bremner2 | [
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This is not our bodies’ fault; most of us do not take care of our bodies.
We do not eat correctly.
We do not sleep correctly.
We do not exercise correctly.
Some form of exercise is critical to maintaining a healthy, energetic life. When we exercise our lungs get stronger, allowing more oxygen to get into our blood. Our heart gets stronger, allowing more blood to flow to our vital organs. Our organs do not have to over work, leaving us with more energy to use throughout the day.
One definition of exercise is: bodily or mental exertion, esp. for the sake of training or improvement of health.
The definition of exertion is: vigorous action or effort.
With these two definitions in mind, to exercise is: to vigorously work the body.
This does not mean that you have to exercise for long periods of time. It is quite the opposite. The best way to maximize your cardio workout is short bursts of vigorous action, followed by short periods of restful action. One example of this would be a 30 sec sprint followed by a 30 sec walk, and repeat as many times as you can to complete your workout regimen.
There are endless ways to exercise, and what works for me, may or may not work for you. The #1 most important thing to remember when deciding what you want to do for exercise is: make sure you can have fun doing it. If you can enjoy the exercise you choose, then you will have better success sticking to it.
Anything that raises your heart rate is considered cardio exercise. If you walk all day at work and then come home and walk for 30 mins, it probably is not going to raise your heart rate, therefore being ineffective. If you come home and walk extra fast or do short sprints, that will definitely be effective. Do you get the idea?
If you are over the age of 45, have not exercised in a long time, or suffer joint pain, you will want to adjust your exercise routine accordingly. Everyone should remember to stretch out thoroughly prior to any exercise and do not forget to cool down after exercising. Always consult a qualified health care practitioner before beginning any new exercise program.
This is just one of many techniques that will allow our bodies to heal itself naturally, without the use of expensive medications.
I say, “Lets help our bodies help themselves”.
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The Society also maintains an online Traditional Building and Conservation Skills register of craftsmen and professionals. Click here to access this register.
The Dept. of Arts, Heritage and the Gaeltacht has published a series of conservation booklets called the Advice Series which address a range of conservation topics including Ironwork, Maintenance, Roofs, Ruins and Windows.
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We’re in week two of me being home Dad. The first week went pretty smoothly. The morning routine was settled into almost immediately with me getting up at 4 and getting at much writing done before jumping out of my skin when the sound of “DADDY!!!!” echoes through the house. That’s the call for morning cuddles and a carry down the stairs. My heart rate has usually returned to normal and my fight or flight response has abated by the time we make it to the play room. I deposit his cuteness into his morning nest, and turn on the morning baby-sitter (aka PBS Kids) and start making “brekies."
I’d feel guilty about using a screen to keep the boy occupied, but have you seen the quality of children’s television these days? Think about it. You can still find Mr. Rogers on, but that’s about it. Sesame street is still around, but almost none of the segments from back then are being recycled. You know why? Because we were fed a lot of schlock. Or in the case of PBS, we were fed a lot of stuff that the experts at the time thought was “good and educational,” before they did real, longitudinal studies.
Have you seen “Martha Speaks,” or “Word Girl?” They’re better written than all but a couple adult sitcoms I can think of.
Anyway, back to the routine. Petie watches some TV while I make him some breakfast. It’s usually just toast, but at least the bread is home made. I also fire up the Keurig and make Mrs. ‘Struction some coffee. Some mornings, she’s down before I’m done, but lately I’ve delivered her coffee and toast to in bed.
Next comes The Making of The Lunch. Summer camp is providing lunch, so it’s just Mrs. ‘Struction who needs her bag packed. I’ve been sending her off with a reusable insulated tiger bag we got from the zoo with a kid’s meal: very professional. She doesn’t seem to mind, and seems to appreciate the notes I sometimes sneak in.
Then it’s helping Peter get dressed. Admittedly, that’s mostly a matter of throwing clothes at him and saying “get dressed,” but some mornings there are challenges. He’s VERY particular about his socks, and some mornings they are inexplicably wrong. Just wrong. There’s no other word for it. There is some fiber, or placement of a seam that he just can’t tolerate. This can be a real problem toward the end of the week, or when I haven’t sorted the laundry enough to ensure readily available backup socks. There are some mornings where it seams like there just is no sock in the world that doesn’t threaten to reduce his feet to bloody stumps within minutes if he didn’t whip them off. That’s what I infer from his reactions anyway. There is apparently some trick that Mrs ‘Struction knows to easing the socks on and “smoothing” them out, but I haven’t learned it yet.
Thanks. A lot. Like I said, things are better now, but it’s still not a pleasant experience. Can I just say that spray on sunscreen is a lifesaver? I mean, possibly literally since it lets us get it on him in sufficient quantities. Ditto with the big sticks. There’s much less struggle getting sunscreen onto his face with those. We’d use the sticks for his whole body if they weren’t so expensive.
Now for the disruption. We heard about Youth Digital from Julia. They have a set of online courses targeted to children, including modding Mincraft, app design, animation, and 3D modeling. We mentioned it to the boy, showed him the videos on their website, and got an enthusiastic response. Later we parents had a bit of a conference and decide that at seven, he was a bit under their recommended age, and given that he still has some anxiety about his reading skills (which are actually better than he gives himself credit for), maybe we should wait a year. Besides, we’re trying to be conservative with money until we have a good idea how this whole one-paycheck-family thing works out.
Later, the the boy came to me with big soulful eyes. “Remember those classes you can take to make Minecraft Mods? I really, really, REALLY want to take it.” We had a talk about being patient because he wasn’t going to be making a mod the first day, and that he couldn’t freak out about having to type in long words (God! Java’s verbose!) or getting errors. He was very insistent that he could be patient and that he’d be good. We also agreed that some of his allowance money would cover part of the course.
So I pretty much completely caved. I caved hard. I signed him up and and set up the login on Mrs ’Struction MacBook Air that he’s pretty much adopted. We showed him the first introductory video just before bed. I think he vibrated himself to sleep.
Which brings us to this morning. It started like usual. I was up at four with my hot, slightly sweet tea doing my best to get my main character from point A to point B without making it too obvious. It wasn’t flowing, but I managed to slog on and started making real progress. At 5:45, there was a soft footfall behind me.
“Hi Daddy.” That was it. Just a matter of fact greeting. No yelling, No racing heart, apart from the brief moment of suddenly realizing that there was an unexpected person RIGHT BEHIND ME!
And that was the rest of my morning. We took the laptop downstairs to his morning nest, and made our way through the videos in lesson one. He still needs a bit of help navigating the menus, so I think I’ll be learning how to Mod as well. Still, in the end, he took the quiz by himself and earned 4 points. I could hear the sound of “YES!” coming from the other room while I hurriedly and belated made breakfast. I managed to get breakfast into him, although I burned the toast bit. He also didn’t leave the house naked, although I think Mrs “Struction deserves more credit for that.
sounds suspiciously like the Super Mario Brothers Underground Theme.
I’ll have a more informed review when I’ve had more time with. All I can say right now is that Youth Digital seems like an amazing resource with a fun instructor and nice bite-sized lessons. | 2019-04-19T06:50:24 | http://dadstruction.com/blog/2014/6/23/youth-digital-there-goes-or-morning-routine | [
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I drink nothing but apple juice.
He lost his arm in a car accident.
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We'll have a barbecue this Friday.
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Prior to The Weather Channel, Kim was a forecaster and weather observer for the United States Air Force where she specialized in severe and tropical weather. Cunningham has been named Airman of the Year, and was the first woman promoted to the Severe Weather section of Global Weather Central at Offutt Air Force Base.
While Kim is building a career in motivational and public speaking, she is also a communication coach for Speechworks, Inc, a co-host on Storm Front Freaks and a free lance meteorologist.
Over those 30 years Kim has faced many challenges, both personal and professional and when people hear her stories they are amazed and inspired. Taking it on the road seemed like the natural next chapter in her career. She wants to share her experiences to help others.
Kim has survived cancer twice and divorce, is mom to three boys and has a step son. She was born and raised in Cincinnati, Ohio, and at around 5 became obsessed with tornadoes after watching The Wizard of Oz. She saw her first actual tornado when she was 11 and knew then she wanted to be a meteorologist.
She has been featured in newspapers and magazines and asked to speak at schools and events including UPS's Women Leadership Development Team meeting, the Long Island Emergency Management conference, The Weather Channel’s WOWnet (women of weather network), Down Syndrome Awareness and The Gigi House fundraiser in Atlanta, GA, The National Science Center during Women's History Month in Augusta, GA, and DeVry’s HerWorld Conference on STEM in Atlanta.
Kim has been active in her community over the years, including work in Special Olympics, Meals on Wheels, and a homeless shelter. She is also a volunteer for her sons' high school Future Shop and Marching Band, and a long time PTSA Exceptional Children board member.
Cunningham has a BS in Atmospheric Science from Creighton University, Nebraska, an Associates of Applied Science in Weather Technology from the Community College of the Air Force, over 1500 hours in Air Force weather schools, and over 200 hours of leadership and supervisory training.
Besides her passion for weather, Kim loves to garden, walk, travel, ride Harleys and watch football with her husband Marty (though it's a house divided, Bengals and Falcons)... She loves music, especially rock and she and Marty are always looking for more vinyl to add to their collection. Some may say Kim is obsessed with decorating for Halloween and Christmas and she recently has found a love for making holiday wreaths and is looking to sell some of her work someday. | 2019-04-21T07:10:08 | https://www.kimcunningham.com/about | [
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"For as long as I can remember, I've wanted to perform like this with my brother and sister. Thank you Jeremy and Erin for joining me on such an incredibly special project that means so much to me on so many different levels. You two give me so much strength and happiness."
"My first class train journey from Constanta to Bucharest, Romania."
"Walking around Bucharest, the capital of Romania in the winter."
"Cambridge Analytica is in the news for its psychographic profiling of the population via Facebook data scrapes. So do you know about the scandal and its background? Well you would if you listened to The Corbett Report. Here's the backstory."
"Get ready for an epic 2,800-mile journey aboard the legendary Canadian, Via Rail's famous transcontinental passenger train.
Join us on this breathtaking voyage that attracts rail fans from all over the world."
LOS ANGELES — "He finally went up — just like the self-taught rocket scientist always pledged he would.
“This thing wants to kill you 10 different ways,” said Hughes, who had an altimeter in his cockpit to measure his altitude. “This thing will kill you in a heartbeat."
That’s his project for down the road. He wants to build a “Rockoon,” a rocket that is carried into the atmosphere by a gas-filled balloon, then separated from the balloon and lit. This rocket would take Hughes about 68 miles up."
"He has a documentary crew following him around to record his ambition, with a planned release in August.
Bizarre footage shows two “UFOs” speeding past a helicopter before hovering over a crash site where survivors were being rescued.
The silver disc-shaped objects were captured on video flying behind the military chopper by a local news crew off the southwestern coast of France.
The startling footage from February 2014 has only just come to light after it was featured in a new book.
The UFOs and helicopter were seen when 12 people were rescued from a cargo ship, named the Luno, after it hit a seawall in Anglet, breaking into two pieces.
The ship was carrying fertilizer when its engine failed in the choppy Atlantic Ocean.
The UFOs flew in formation close to the chopper as if keeping watch on the rescue operation.
Jason Gleave, 46, who has studied the film of the UFOs, believes the objects are not drones or seagulls.
Nick Pope, who ran the UK Ministry of Defense’s “UFO desk” for three years, backed Gleave’s research.
He said: “Jason has been involved in researching and investigating UFOs and other mysteries (like many experts in this field, he uses the phrase ‘high strangeness events’ to describe a lot of this) for many years, but his particular area of expertise is imagery analysis.
Twin UFO's Buzz Air Sea Rescue Helicopter Helping Sinking Spanish Ship off the Coast of France 2014.
And it was not their idea - Read more here: https://www.atlasobscura.com/articles/first-cows-in-antarctica?
itself raised all sorts of questions about the rights of voters, minorities and immigrants."
LONDON — "Julian Assange, the controversial founder of WikiLeaks, has been barred from using the Internet at the Ecuadoran Embassy in London, where he has been holed up for nearly six years, the Ecuadoran government announced.
Assange tweeted in response: “As a political prisoner detained without charge for 8 years, in violation of 2 UN rulings, I suppose I must be ‘miserable’; yet nothing wrong with being a ‘little’ person although I'm rather tall; and better a ‘worm’, a healthy creature that invigorates the soil, than a snake.”"
What explains the marmoset's generosity toward little ones?
"Marmoset monkeys exist on a branch of the evolutionary tree that is distinct from the one that led to humans. But these fellow primates consistently astonish researchers with social behavior that seems, well, pretty highly evolved.
Marmosets engage in rigorously polite patterns of communication and do not talk over or interrupt each other. Though territorial, they are so inquisitive that they will watch videos of marmosets they do not know and learn from them.
Marmosets’ social organization and child-rearing practices could have been the model for the phrase, “it takes a village.” A dominant male and female breed, and their babies are meticulously looked after by extended family members who then aren’t free to breed themselves.
A new study further burnishes the marmoset’s reputation for admirable community values. Researchers report that these caregivers share their food more generously with little ones in private than when they’re surrounded by the watchful eyes of other community members.
Such seemingly selfless behavior makes the common marmoset a particular puzzle for researchers keen to explain the already-perplexing phenomenon of altruism in humans and a few other higher-order primates.
After all, in stark evolutionary terms, kindness, generosity and self-sacrifice make no sense. When an individual’s survival and the propagation of his genes arguably depend on his hoarding every advantage for himself, why on earth would he forfeit anything to benefit a fellow member of his species?
For marmosets, it’s hard enough to explain the willingness of some family members to delay or forgo breeding to help out with a relative’s offspring. But to share food with those babies when no one’s looking? That just defies all expectations.
In complex societies where individuals band together for mutual protection, researchers have come up with a few widely embraced explanations for altruistic behavior.
Boosting the prospects of a relative’s child — kinship selection — does help propagate at least a few of an individual’s genes, and thus seems a good general explanation for self-sacrificing behavior. But specific acts, like sharing a delicious cricket with a begging baby marmoset, seem to need more specific explanation.
One possibility is that an individual practices generosity as a means of enhancing his status among peers. By demonstrating that he is so well-endowed with material goods that he can give some away, this do-gooder enhances his prestige within the group. That, in turn, may appeal to prospective mates.
The other explanation for charitable behavior posits that kindnesses extended to others are simply the dues of group membership, which offers some future promise of a chance to mate. Failure to share would result in expulsion from the group and a loss of prospective partners. Scientists call this the “pay to stay” model.
Importantly, for both of these models to work, acts of kindness must have an audience. That suggests you would see more sharing in group settings — away from judging eyes, a caregiver might be more inclined to keep food for him or herself.
And yet, in 2,581 trials conducted with 31 adult and 14 baby marmosets, the opposite appeared to be true.
Anthropologists from the University of Zurich carefully documented how often, in groups and in conditions that found caregiver and baby separated from the crowd, an adult would share his or her cricket.
When alone with a baby begging for a taste, adult marmosets shared their cricket 85% of the time. When in a group, caregivers offered up their cricket 67% of the time.
What motivated these acts of kindness? The authors offered a human parallel as a possibility.
Whether that pattern fits will require more research, not only in marmosets but with chimpanzees and capuchin monkeys, whose breeding patterns are far less cooperative."
The study was published this week in the journal Biology Letters.
"Factors like population growth, income inequality and climate change have exacerbated water related issues around the world. Abuse and depletion of the natural resource has led to instability and violence in places like Iran, Syria and Bangladesh as well as crises in the U.S. Jay Famiglietti, NASA’s senior water scientist, joins Hari Sreenivasan from Los Angeles to identify global patterns."
as restrictions make daily life a challenge." | 2019-04-19T22:49:42 | http://mistsofavalon.catsboard.com/t9233p800-gio-s-cosmic-emporium | [
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A classic Ashkenazi Jewish recipe, adapted with delicious hazelnuts and plenty of cinnamon. This is the centrepiece you need for any great party!
1 Preheat oven to 190°C. Combine the yeast with 3 Tbsp flour and 2 Tbsp water in the bowl of an electric mixer and set aside for 10 minutes until foamy. Add the remaining flour, 100g caster sugar, lemon zest, eggs and milk and mix with the dough hook on low speed until almost combined.
2 Add 210g butter 1 Tbsp at a time, then beat on low speed for 5 minutes, add the salt, then mix for another 10 minutes, until a very smooth dough forms. Place in an oiled bowl and refrigerate overnight to proof slowly.
3 Melt the remaining butter and mix in the icing sugar, cocoa and chocolate, then set aside to cool slightly.
4 Divide the dough into two equal pieces and roll each to a rectangle 60cm x 30cm using just a little flour. Spread the chocolate paste over the dough, leaving a 2cm margin. Sprinkle the pecans and cinnamon sugar on top, then roll up, starting at the long edges. Slice in half lengthways, then twist each pair into a rough braid with the chocolate facing upwards. Arrange the braids in lined 1L loaf pans, cover and set aide for 3 hours, until doubled in size.
5 Mix the remaining sugar with ¾ cup water and the cinnamon sticks and boil until syrupy, then set aside. Bake the loafs for 35-40 minutes, using a little steam at the start. When baked, brush with the syrup while still hot, then set aside to cool in the tins. | 2019-04-25T18:41:48 | http://www.fast-ed.com.au/recipe/chocolate-cinnamon-babka/ | [
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Looking for Bronx Green Middle School?!?
We are located in between two different 2 train stations.
Take the 2 train to Allerton Avenue or Pelham Parkway, followed by a short walk. Refer to map for more in depth instructions.
There is ample MTA bus service to and from the Bronx Green area. Please refer to the map above and the listed stops below for guidance. Clicking on each stop will provide you with more in-depth information about the MTA bus stops and routes. | 2019-04-21T00:25:30 | http://www.bgms.org/home/directions | [
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Emerson Park at the north end of the lake on Route 38A has swimming, picnic areas, ball fields and boat launch facilities. A shelter and pavilion are available for rent.
Fillmore Glen State Park at the south end of Moravia offers hiking trails, and unique geological formations, including five waterfalls. The park has 60 campsites, a stream-fed swimming pool and fishing in the Owasco Lake inlet.
There is a boat launch at Emerson Park and one at Owasco Flats on Route 38. This is located on the south end of the lake and is a preserve with trails for hiking, fishing.
Visit the Emerson Park Merry-Go-Round Theatre during the summer months or the Ward O’Hara Agricultural Museum on Route 38A across from Emerson Park, a collection of farm equipment in the mid-1900's. | 2019-04-25T10:08:06 | https://www.fingerlakes.org/explore/lakes/owasco | [
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Alison Moore and Castaway Crafts open late once again for Christmas shopping with exclusive discounts, new products, special offers, mulled wine and home baked treats.
Shop the entire new Hilary Grant knitwear collection of hats, mittens, scarves and blankets.
The Pier Arts Centre presents its annual celebration of art and craft by artists and makers who live and work in Orkney. Featuring work from OCA members Elaine Henderson (Scapa Crafts), Andrew Appleby, Ingrid Grieve, Bill McArthur and many more.
11am – 4pm ever day excl. Sunday.
Features works from Elaine Henderson at Scapa Crafts and other Orkney-based artists and designers.
Stromness based ceramicist Elaine Henderson from Scapa Crafts presents a new body of beautiful ceramics and pottery work.
Ingrid Grieve artworks and paintings and Hilary Grant knitwear will be available.
Ingrid Grieve opens her studio to view and buy her stunning paintings, prints and cards. Ingrid's studio is also open by appointment so if you can't make it along please contact Ingrid to arrange another time.
We'll keep you up to date with any more events coming up in the following weeks. Meanwhile feel free to check up on our FB page for more news. | 2019-04-20T13:02:10 | https://www.creative-orkney.com/blog/upcoming-festive-events | [
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A Chapter 7 Bankruptcy is a straight or liquidation insolvency. Your obligation is essentially wiped clean, with a couple of exemptions. You don’t need to pay unsecured advances or charge cards that are recorded in the chapter 11. You may need to pay a few obligations, for example, understudy credits, youngster bolster, criminal compensation and some charges. These special cases are critical and ought to be considered when documenting chapter 11. This is an opportunity to be completely mindful of all elements and we’ll make a point to walk you through every one of them. A Chapter 7 Bankruptcy is a straight or liquidation insolvency. Your obligation is for all intents and purposes wiped clean, with a couple of special cases. You don’t need to pay unsecured advances or charge cards that are recorded in the chapter 11. You may need to pay a few obligations, for example, understudy advances, kid bolster, criminal compensation and some expenses.
These special cases are imperative and ought to be considered when recording chapter 11. This is an opportunity to be completely mindful of all elements and we’ll make a point to walk you through every one of them.
The initial phase in recording Chapter 7 Bankruptcy is to survey a methods test. Despite the fact that the entire equation is more perplexing, the fundamental thought is that your gross pay throughout the previous six months must be beneath North Carolina’s middle wage levels or for another state where you have lived. You should likewise demonstrate that you have insignificant salary left every month in the wake of paying basic bills. A few cases are paying bills, for example, utilities and lease, or costs like purchasing staple goods or paying for transportation to work. You may require critical reports like pay stubs, receipts, and bills.
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JainMatrix Investments has been created to build the Equity culture, to create high quality investment reports and help investors in their decision process.
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Discussion in 'Official News & Announcements' started by MightyZug, Aug 23, 2017.
UPDATE (9/4): 1.4.1 is now LIVE!
UPDATE (8/30): 1.4.0 is currently in QA with LINE. Final release date is TBD, but the most likely release dates (pending LINE then Apple approval) is either Friday (9/1) or Sunday (9/3) PST. Looking forward to releasing it ASAP!
The new 1.4.0 update will be going LIVE within the next couple of weeks. Notes on the changes you can expect below!
Now, every day that you login, you get a free reward!
UP NEXT: Painwheel, Valentine, and many more!
Every other week, one day will feature a 24-hour Medici Event (ex: Medici Heist) that offers the same amount of Canopy Coins as a Medici Shakedown event, but in half the time!
This is NOT intended to be the be-all-end-all solution to BB3 balancing, but rather a short term step in the right direction pending other adjustments. Stay tuned!
After successfully blocking a BB, enemies should block for the remainder of the BB. This was most noticeable versus moves like Argus Agony, where the AI would block the laser, then charge into the “bullets”.
Epic Sax’s Circular Breathing SA can now trigger "Heavy Regen"
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Missions now have their own button on the Main Menu!
Now includes bios of your favorite Skullgirls characters!
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This is the first major "1.x" update without adding a new playable character. But it looks like it will be just as great with all these improvements and fixes to make the game more fun and fair.
Hoping Ms. Fortune is up next!
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Daily logins and the streak preview is a nice add on to the game.
Something I would like to see added is an option to sell a move when you obtain it, instead of having to go into collections. And you've already mention that the next next update may have stat previews for moves when we get them.
Thanks for the update and the game.
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Will the last hit of fracture reaper connect with big band now?
I'm assuming the new Daily Login Rewards replace the daily relics?
If so that's definitely a great improvement to make daily login more worth it, though personally i still don't have much use for bronze moves and silver moves, so i'd like to see some alternatives for players with a higher player level in the future perhaps. Definitely promising.
Daikodugo and Cellsai like this.
With the changes to Merry Go Rilla and Georgie's Day Out: does this mean the moves will deal less damage in 1.4.0 than they do now? Will they be getting a chance to add a debuff as compensation? Right now, every character has a special move that has no chance to apply any debuffs but does medium damage. Is every character going to get those kinds of moves changed? If not, why are Cerebella and Peacock specifically being changed?
Whoo! I took a break from playing while waiting for a bug fix patch, but this goes above what I was hoping for! Can't wait to get back into SGM again!
Edgewheel, BrolaireOfAsstora and moisterrific like this.
As far as that move archetype goes (Med damage moves that deals all its damage in one hit), Painwheel has a similar move (Pinion Dash) which is actually getting a damage boost. Eliza's Throne of Isis is getting no changes. I just am confused as to what it means for the damage tier to go from Med to Low, if that means it will actually change the damage values, and why those two are the only ones getting this particular kind of treatment. Wulf Shoot goes through block, but the notes say it will not be reclassed as a Low damage move (even if it's getting nerfed).
That's why I'm hoping they'll comment on my question.
I doubt the game has some sort of built in tracker on winrate. Maybe they can pull some data from the servers about which fighters are played more often but that would still be inconclusive when deciding balance.
A lot of players complained about the AI being too hard, then they made it easier.
A lot of players complained about Sekhmet Mode being too underwhelming, then they made her better with longer hitstun and unblockable charge attack.
A lot of players complained about Epic Sax being overpowered, and then he was nerfed.
A lot of players wanted more storage space for moves and a way to see streaks in team select. And now we'll be getting that in 1.4.0.
With the changes to Merry Go Rilla and Georgie's Day Out: does this mean the moves will deal less damage in 1.4.0 than they do now?
Both moves got nerfed in the last patch and I think they're just updating the label now, this is mentioned in the notes before the character specific stuff starts. Damage was reduced because they were widely regarded as being too good. Cymbal clash was the other too-good move but it got its stun rate reduced instead of damage.
Sounds like she still has them on startup, changelog only mentions punishing its recovery.
Huh, really? I use Boxcart George, but then I'm not sure I follow conventional wisdom on what moves to use with some characters.
If it's just a label update, I guess I'm ok with that. Honestly if the last patch saw those moves nerfed, I hardly even noticed. I will say, though, that it will bug me that only two characters will no longer have a move of the "Med damage, no debuff" archetype, but I guess for balancing it's good.
Correct, she still has strike invincibility during the startup of MGR.
Zuzuska, Boogiepop and Ryouhi like this.
It's strange they choose to buff really weak skills like Dead Cross by 5% and kinda funny they are calling it a "game changer", i get it.
So is it a new character every 2 months now? | 2019-04-23T02:14:25 | https://forum.skullgirlsmobile.com/threads/official-1-4-0-update-notes-live.759/ | [
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There's not been that much in the world of software that I've as eagerly anticipated as the release of the beta for Disco. Made by the same people that made appZapper disco is a CD/DVD burning app like no other.
The interface is certainly eye-catching, but at the same time it's completely usable. The interface relies on simplicity to provide only the necessary information to get the job done rather than blowing your mind with too many options at once. For example; to start burning a disc (Mac HFS+,PC Joliet, Hybrid, ISO 9660, UDF) or create an image (dmg, iso, cdr) all you need to do is simply drag and drop files onto the app and then start burning or creating your image file.
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The ability to control the opacity of the app window. Personally I'm not the greatest fan of the opacity and for some reason I was expecting the window of the app to be totally black. Some kind of toggle/slider for this would be great.
Multiple sessions are not switched on by default, instead it's down to how you select options in the preferences. This was the least intuitive part of the options and there was no feedback when I put a disc I had burnt a few minutes earlier to show that I wouldn't be able to burn another session. A small point but I think this could be made clearer rather than just asking me if I want to copy the CD etc.
I look forward to seeing the help file too as none was supplied with this early preview release.
It's early days yet but I can see that this app will have no problem becoming the primary CD/DVD burning application for my mac. There plenty of features if you need them but the simple uncluttered interface makes burning CDs a joy, and the smoke effects just add an element of fun into the proceedings and there's nothing wrong with that. I would certainly recommend you head on down to the disco at your earliest opportunity. I give it 4 out of 5.
Please Note: If you have a macbook or mac mini the smoke effect won't be available due to limitations of the graphics hardware. | 2019-04-23T08:10:49 | https://muffinresearch.co.uk/disco-beta-review/ | [
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Place half moon squash pieces on the sheet, flat side down. Add to the squash to the oven and cook for 15-20 minutes. Remove from oven when a knife slips easily through the flesh and the tops of the squash is caramelized. If you want to achieve a more golden surface, broil the squash at the last minute quickly, but keep a eye on it to make sure it doesn’t burn.
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Super fun LO, love the bold colours, great job!!
That background is so very cool!
Love all the different ways you created circles!
Love the way you did the bg paper. Great photos!
Looks like they were acting crazy but having a lot fun!
what a super fun page!
Love the camera paper, so many fun colors!
Very bright and happy fun layout!
FUN page!! LOVE the painted circles and the strips of paper. What a bright, fun, funny page to go with such fun photos!
Lots of fun! The bright colors are great!
Cute photos and your bg work is terrific!
This is so fun!! Awesome background!! Love the stitching too! Thanks for playing in the September Sewing Challenge!
Love how you multiplied the round circles of the original many times on your page. Also love the camera paper. This is a perfect use for it as everyone seems to be hamming for the camera. Nice layout.
Great painted bg, very fun and colorful!
Crazy circles, crazy stitching! Love the brilliant colors, fun layout!!
Love the playfulness of this. Great job with the random circles of paint.
Love what you did with the paint! This is a layout full of fun!
terrific bg detail! Love the stitching and happy feel you created!
Such a fun page....great pics and love the vibrant colors!
colorful and so FUN!! love the stitching and misting. the background you created is awesome.
haha fun page for these fun pics!
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Knowing God (20th Anniversary Ed.), J. I. Packer, 1993, InterVarsity Press, Downers Grove, Ill., ISBN 9780830816507, 286 pages, $20.00, softcover.
Earlier this year, the Christian world received sad news of British-Canadian theologian J.I. Packer's retirement from public ministry due to the advance of macular degeneration that has taken his eyesight from him. He is nearly 90 years old, an elder statesman of a theological resurgence among evangelical believers across denominations. In addition to his tireless work teaching, lecturing, and writing at the collegiate and seminary levels, much of his reputation flows from a series of articles on the character of God and our relationship to Him that were gathered and published as Knowing God in 1972.
Though this work has been driving home deep truths about our Triune Lord since well before I was born, it was to my great detriment that I only just recently picked it up for myself. Every accolade Knowing God has received through the years was just praise-I have seldom read such a clear, emphatic presentation of so much Christian doctrine. To ears ready to hear and hearts ready to obey, Packer's masterpiece is sort of a devotional "jet fuel" to feed the fire of spiritual maturity.
All of the cultural opposition to and "slippage" of the Christian faith that Packer spoke prophetically into in the early 1970s has only accelerated in the years since, giving his theological diagnoses to the ps ychological and social ills he imagines his readers face a very current punch. Of course, because his subject is the eternal God as revealed in His Word, the advice herein would be just as prescient had he written in the 1870s (in fact, he so often quotes Spurgeon, it almost feels like he did).
The content of Knowing God is a three-part layout. The first addresses the Biblical admonition to know God, marveling in the facts that 1) He wants us to know Him, 2) that we are even capable of such, and 3) that we are more known by God than we know Him.
The second segment does much of the philosophical heavy lifting of the book, drawing out the attributes of God to wrestle with our human frailty of belief. He leaves no stone unturned in seeking to confront readers with the God of the Bible in all His glory, immutability, majesty, wisdom, truth, love, grace, judgment, wrath, goodness, and jealousy. In effect he spends this longest section of the book in catechizing us in robust systematic theology, digging for practical application of hard truths.
Finally, Packer focuses in on the Gospel message, dwelling on Christ's atonement and our adoption through Him as God's sons. He calls readers to lean upon their God, to know Him not as an intellectual exercise, but as the source and pillar of all their strength. He writes as someone who has seen God's face, fervently pleading with others to look to Him likewise and live.
This pastoral heart most characterizes Packer's work. It is a systematic theology (and a good one), but it is a systematic theology for pilgrims. Other books have more academic depth, but few achieve the devotional concern for the holiness, peace, and joy of the Christian. If one has any criticism of Packer, it is for his ecumenical efforts (none of which play in at all to this particular work), which have been seen as overbroad by many. Reading Knowing God, however, it is easy to see that any overstepping of acceptable boundaries between Christian traditions on Packer's part was not from faddishness or fame-seeking, but from his deep love for the brethren flowing out of a heart captured by the One True God. | 2019-04-22T14:02:38 | http://www.disciplemagazine.com/www/articles/233.1691 | [
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A brief moment in time and the stroke of a pen are all that is required to create the legal bond of marriage; but it takes a lifetime of love, commitment, and laughter to make a marriage durable and eternal. The process of marriage does not begin or end today; it is a lifelong pursuit.Your relationship already has all of the necessary components for success, but you must maintain that from here forward by remembering what is important in your relationship and why you are making this commitment to one another today. BRIDE and GROOM, as long as you are both respectful of each other, you will make it through the numerous changes and chapters your lives will take. As long as you honor the promises that you will make to each other today, you will creat4e a life of love and happiness. | 2019-04-19T19:24:07 | https://weddingsbyphyllis.net/node/538 | [
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This study exhibits road space prioritisation of three types of public transport systems. The study first goes into a literature review of road space prioritisation and aspects of modelling this. These types of systems were then modelled using a case study of a single corridor in Durban, South Africa. Both a macroscopic modelling and microscopic modelling package were used to model a base year and various public transport scenarios. This was done to illustrate the effects of road space prioritisation along a corridor of the city. The three public transport scenarios performed were: a quality bus scenario, a bus rapid transit system scenario and a mini-bus -taxi scenario. For a certain purpose, a relationship in road capacity could be formed between the macroscopic model and the microscopic model. A costing analysis of these three scenarios was done at the end of the results chapter. It was concluded that the bus rapid transit system was the most feasible public transport system for the corridor based on the demand pattern used in this study for that specific corridor.
Moodley, L. 2017. Modelling road space prioritisation for public transport using AIMSUN: a case study in Durban. University of Cape Town. | 2019-04-24T03:55:57 | https://open.uct.ac.za/handle/11427/25440 | [
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Originating in German soil, today Riesling is Germany’s numero uno grape variety, known for its characteristic “transparency” in flavor and presentation of terroir (the idea of being able to ‘taste the place’), and its balance between fruit and mineral flavors. The emphasis is all about freshness on fruit and a balance between sweetness and acidity. The winemaking is very simple and straightforward emphasizing the flavors of the grape, and downplays the role (read as ego) of the winemaker. The best vineyards are on steep hill sides, the grapes are almost always hand-picked and hurried to the winery for processing with as little damage to the skins as possible: freshness of juice is seen as crucial. The great German Rieslings have exceptional intensity of fruit flavor deriving directly from the vineyard. Riesling wines from Germany cover a vast array of tastes from sweet to off-dry halbtrocken to dry trocken. Late harvest Rieslings can ripen to become very sweet dessert wines of the beerenauslese (BA) and trockenbeerenauslese (TBA) class - trockenbeerenauslese is expensive to buy and difficult to say. I think the unapproachability of these German words has scared away many an American wine drinker.
Winemakers in Alsace try their damndest to make a Riesling as different from that of Germany as the laws of chemistry and bio-chemistry will allow. Rather than thin, delicate little things, these are much richer and higher in alcohol. Rieslings produced in Alsace tend to be mostly very dry with a cleansing acidity. They are thick bodied wines that coat the palate. These wines age exceptionally well with a quality vintage aging up to 20 years. This is beneficial since the flavors in an Alsace wine will often open up after three years, developing softer and fruitier flavors.
Now these are the wines that have inspired the Bright White Riesling of Municipal Winemakers. I learned how to love and how to make Rieslings in this style during my time in Oz. Here’s an interesting factoid. Germany has the most Riesling planted, more than 20,000 hectares or 50,000 acres of Riesling vines, more than 60 per cent of the world’s supply. But guess what? Australia is in second place, ahead of Alsace in France and Austria, both of which are famous for their Rieslings. Perhaps more important than the quantity of Australian Riesling, however, is its quality. With its predominantly dry, full-bodied, very direct and often rather citrus fruited style, and even the best examples are at around $15-$20 a bottle, I would argue it has won more modern wine drinkers over to Riesling than German Riesling. The German equivalent, in similar dry styles, is not widely exported and in fruitier, lighter form seems to be an acquired taste. On the face of it, one might imagine Australian vineyards were a bit too hot for Riesling (seeing how it comes from Germany). But this is the variety, imported by settlers escaping religious persecution in Silesia in the 19th century, that was the dominant Australian white wine grape until Chardonnay wrested that crown not much more than 15 years ago. Today, Riesling vines have been systematically replaced by Chardonnay in the country’s hotter, less suitable areas, such as the sweltering inland irrigated vineyards that supply the ocean of wine labeled South Eastern Australia and the sun-baked floor of the Barossa Valley, which tend to ripen Riesling too fast to develop any flavors of real interest. But at the same time Riesling vines have been planted in many of the country’s more recently developed, cool climate wine regions, which apparently constitute a surprising half of all designated wine appellations in Australia. Jeffery Grosset, perhaps the king of Riesling in Australia has made the move over to stelvin screwcaps. He has virtually single-handedly led first Clare Riesling makers and then more and more Australian winemakers into bottling both whites and reds under screwcap, so we can expect his Rieslings to last even longer to judge from early indications of how wines age under screwcap. If Clare Rieslings when young are steely, sometimes to the point of austerity, they develop a rather lime-like, very refreshing fruit quality with age and can eventually become quite toasty. Eden Valley Rieslings, can be rather more floral and overtly fruity but still with the dry finish that makes these wines so great with food, especially spicy, Asian-inspired salads and stir fries. Eden Valley are my personal fav Rieslings and can continue to develop in bottle for years.
For winemakers in this country, the riesling renaissance has been under way for 30 years, but wine drinkers have become aware of it only during the last decade. Chardonnay, it seems, is a hard act to follow. Much of the renewed interest in the riesling grape has centered on German and Alsatian examples, but contrary to most expectations, Americans have begun to turn out fine versions of our own. There is some question as to who started the riesling renaissance, but there is little doubt what happened to the variety that made this comeback necessary. It was us Californians. We took a perfectly good grape and for a century made really bad wine with it. People forget now, but in its earliest days, the Northern California wine country had a Teutonic air to it. Winemakers with names like Dresel and Schram and Gundlach imported German grape varieties in the 1850's and 60's and made what they called riesling from them. Most were failures. The ''rieslings'' that survived were often blends of a touch of riesling and lots of sylvaner, folle blanche and other California-friendly varieties. By the 1950's, California riesling was little more than jug wine, scorned by anyone who had tasted the real thing. Today, there are some good California rieslings -- by Smith-Madrone in the Napa Valley, by Navarro in Mendocino, and a handful of others. But the grape has never played an important role on the California wine scene. Riesling is a difficult grape to grow and, for a newcomer to wine, can be equally difficult to appreciate. It can be austere and steely, with breathtaking acidity to match its intense fruit. A good riesling hits you right away. Only in the sweeter versions, where the sugar masks the tartness, can it be considered user-friendly. For occasional drinkers, a great riesling can be a turnoff. For its committed fans, however, it is the finest grape in the world. | 2019-04-24T17:04:44 | https://www.municipalwinemakers.com/index.cfm?method=blog.blogdrilldown&blogentryID=3B41E81D-A50E-A916-429F-FF10B7FDAF29 | [
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Independent metal label Battle Kommand may currently only be on the radar of a select few but that's about to change. Formed in 2004 by Nachtmystium vocalist/guitarist Blake Judd, the Chicago-based outfit has released approximately 30 titles ranging from black, doom and death metal to experimental, noise and ambient rock. While its success has been formidable given its size, Battle Kommand is receiving a huge leg-up.
Fellow metal label Candlelight Records, responsible for over 400 titles from acts such as Emperor, Opeth, 1349, Crowbar and Obituary, has extended its operations to include working with Battle Kommand internationally. Kicking off the new merger, Candlelight will re-release Nachtmystium's full catalogue followed by the label's entire four-year output before working towards signing new acts. Where applicable, bonus material will be added.
Thanks to the union, Battle Kommand will see the benefit of Candlelight's massive distribution via Caroline in the U.S., EMI Music in Canada and Plastic Head Music in Europe/U.K. In turn, Candlelight receives rights to work Battle Kommand's discography and gains another ally with a finger on the pulse of underground extreme music.
"With Candlelight's funding behind BKR's new signees," says Judd, "I anticipate that more of our artists will be touring here and abroad. A more major push for all of our artists marks a major step for the label, and we intend to push-forward with full force...it is with much honour that we can announce this collaboration." | 2019-04-19T18:15:41 | http://exclaim.ca/music/article/battle_kommand_merges_with_candlelight | [
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At the beginning of the season, there were a number of candidates looking to be relegated from the Premier League. Promoted sides Reading and Southampton were among these candidates, along with the likes of QPR, Wigan, and even Aston Villa.
Even at this stage of the season, it is yet to be known who the hot favorites for relegation are. With just 9 games remaining, the bottom 6 are separated by just 8 points, meaning no teams are safe. All of the teams threatened with relegation didn’t get their seasons off to the best of starts, with all of them dropping points in the opening few weeks.
QPR’s season probably started the worst, as they fell to a 5-0 home defeat to Swansea on the opening day, which spelled the beginning of a 16 game winless run in the league. They weren’t able to beat the teams around them in the table, nor were they able to get any points off ‘bigger’ teams in the league.
This could quite possibly have come from the fact they made more than 10 signings in the summer window, which didn’t allow the players to gel together and develop understandings before the season began. In the last few months though, they have started to play much better and pick up the important results they need as they were rooted at the bottom of the table.
Then came the 17th game of the season; QPR beat Fulham at home to give them their first win. This is when their fortunes began to change. January signings Jermaine Jenas and Andros Townsend have had a huge impact on the squad and have since started to pick up draws and wins. They have also closed the gap on their nearest rivals, which will have given them more confidence and belief that they can escape the drop zone. Whether this means they have higher chances of surviving is debatable, but one thing is for sure, the Rangers won’t go down without an almighty fight.
Aston Villa are another team who are in the massive scrap for survival. Paul Lambert came in as new manager last summer and rung the changes by bringing in young, British players. Many Villa fans were unhappy with the signings made by Lambert, but it is easy to see what he is trying to do at the club. Most of the players were very inexperienced when it comes to playing at the Premier League level, and that is the main reason why they haven’t managed to pick up results.
But one player who has been a revelation for them this season is Christian Benteke. Brought in from Belgian side Genk, he was very little known, but having scored more than 15 goals this term, he could be the reason Villa stay up this season. Things haven’t really gone their way so far, with vital decisions going against them to deny them a point or even all 3. They have also been rather unlucky in games, as they have seen themselves dominate games yet not get any points for it.
This just shows you that their attacking side of their game just isn’t really up to scratch. Most recently, they lost 1-0 to defending champions Manchester City, and anyone that had watched the game would’ve seen that Villa had the majority of play. But one mistake from Ciaran Clarke cost them the points when he slipped to allow Carlos Tevez to slot home for what was the only goal of the game.
But coming off the back off of two wins against Reading and QPR, you just wonder if the momentum is swinging Villa’s way. Benteke, Gabby Agbonlahor, and Andreas Weimann will certainly be crucial and will need to be influential in the young Villa side if they are to tighten their grip on a place out of the bottom 3.
Despite being in the bottom 3 for more-or-less the whole season, Reading have done really well. There are one of the 3 promoted teams this season and have surprised many people with the football they’ve played and the results they have managed to pick up. This season, they have become the late goal specialists, having scored late on in games against West Brom, Chelsea, and Sunderland. Adam Le Fondre has been the man for the late goals, scoring the majority of them for Reading despite coming off the bench.
They did that well, because in January, Le Fondre won Player of the Month, and then manager Brian McDermott won Manager of the Month. But with the Royals out of form and without a win in the last 5 games, as well as having sacked Brian McDermott, these can be considered as worrying times for Reading, and you wonder if they will recover from this.
With their strikers out of form and with them being unable to find any real consistency, is the Premier League journey for Reading over before it has really started? Some would argue that it is the end, but others would argue that they have seen enough fight and belief from the players have a strong enough feeling that their club will survive. If anything is to happen, it is truly now or never for them with time no longer on their side. | 2019-04-24T10:16:42 | https://futbolpulse.com/2013/03/21/analyzing-the-premier-league-relegation-battle-part-1/ | [
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So this hack may veer on the compulsive obsessive side but trust us, it is the holiday hack from heaven. This one was devised by one of us (we’ll name no names) for last Summers holidays. It was helpfully greeted with eye rolls and snickering. The whole premise behind it was to allow the entire family (and we are talking about adults here too) to take personal responsibility for finding key items. The objective was to rid the phrase ‘where’s the…?’ from the entire holiday. But also to dispel the notion that we somehow magically know where everything is ALL of the time. Even though we mostly do.
Enter the ‘it’s-labelled-you-can’t-blooming-miss-it’ holiday hack. You need to get yourself some transparent (key requirement) zippy bags. The ones pictured were an Ebay purchase but you can find similar in Boots. Decide what the categories you will need to make sure everyone in your family can grasp. i.e. so they can work out each bags contents and you will not need to be disturbed for clarification. Label them (WH Smith sell lots of colourful labels) and then fill to your hearts content.
We chose four categories for demonstration purposes (which is co-incidentally one job of the holiday to do list!) but these can be amended to suit your lifestyle.
Lots of the obvious things you need on en route: passports, cleansing wipes, tissues, ear plugs, twin headphone adapter (plug them into the same movie with two sets of headphones). Hand gel (you can never have enough) and a couple of snacks. In fact last year we had a bag just for ‘snacks’ (maybe a bit OTT).
This includes items such as savlon, paracetamol, allergy tablets, arnica, thermometer, plasters, nail clippers, burn cream.
Totally wish this included shot glasses and a mini bottle of tequila however the contents include playing cards, Rory’s story cubes (amazing for imaginative storytelling), crayons, top trumps, go fish, scissors, paper, pens & pencils, sharpener, figet spinners (aim is accidentally lose these in transit).
Anything you might require during the day. We included mini sun creams, pen, tissues, wipes, sunglasses, antibacterial hand gel, hair bobbins and clips, SPF lip balm, some local currency. Also mossy spray and bite cream are handy.
Although you might scoff at this idea but believe us it won’t be for long. Because whilst lying back on the lounger reading your best holiday read you can observe responsibility been taken in real time! Quite the phenomenon really.
And just in case you wondered the adult cynics were handing over compliments by the end of the holiday! | 2019-04-22T15:04:35 | http://morellolife.com/handy-holiday-hack/ | [
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Celiac disease is a serious genetic autoimmune disorder where the ingestion of gluten leads to damage in the small intestine. Therefore, people with celiac disease must eat a gluten-free diet. The disease affects 1 in 100 people worldwide, and one in 133 people in the United States. Two and one-half million Americans are undiagnosed and are at risk for long-term health complications.
Gluten, the culprit, is a family of dietary proteins found in wheat, barley, rye, oat, and other grains. It is the protein that makes dough elastic and gives bread its chewy texture. It is naturally poorly digested, and therefore more likely to engage the immune system than other proteins, even in people without celiac disease.
In people with celiac disease, it damages the intestinal villi, which are very small finger-like projections found along the wall of the small intestine. When the villi are injured, the small intestine can’t properly absorb nutrients from food. So, again, people with celiac disease must avoid foods that contain gluten. Sometimes, they may feel isolated, as they must eat differently than others.
And…. we have not only a new trend in college dining halls, but also new insight in what actually causes celiac disease. A new study (Reovirus infection triggers inflammatory responses to dietary antigens and development of celiac disease), published last week (April 7, 2017) in the journal Science, shows that Infection with reovirus, a common but otherwise harmless virus, can trigger the immune system to react to gluten, leading to the development of celiac disease. How? Usually, a regulatory immune response blocks inflammation to dietary antigens. However, a reovirus infection at sites where dietary gluten is present results in the induction of danger signals that confuse the immune system and lead it to develop an aggressive inflammatory immune response against gluten—it is this aggressive inflammatory response that may induce celiac disease.
For the study, which was carried out in a mouse model, researchers used two different closely related but genetically different reovirus strains. They showed that genetic differences between viruses can change how they interact with the immune system. Both reovirus strains induced protective immunity and did not cause overt disease. However, one of the reovirus strains triggered an inflammatory immune response and the loss of oral tolerance to gluten, whereas the other strain did not.
The study also found that celiac disease patients produces much higher levels of antibodies against reoviruses than those without the disease. The celiac patients who had high levels of reovirus antibodies also had much higher levels of IRF1 gene expression, a transcriptional regulator that plays a key role in the loss of oral tolerance to gluten. This suggests that infection with a reovirus can leave a permanent mark on the immune system, a mark that sets the stage for a later autoimmune response to gluten.
in the United States, babies are usually weaned from breastfeeding and given their first solid foods—often containing gluten—around six months of age. Children with immature immune systems are more susceptible to viral infections at this stage, and for those genetically predisposed, the combination of an intestinal reovirus infection with the first exposure to gluten could create the right conditions for developing celiac disease.
I think this is a groundbreaking discovery as so many people are affected by celiac disease. Hopefully, this will help foster further research not only to prevent celiac disease but also to possibly cure those who already have it. After doing some research, I found that reoviruses are oncolytic and are being looked at as potential treatments for cancer. In a study done by Kim et al., it was found that an attenuated reovirus targeted cancer cells in severely immunodeficient mice without killing healthy stem cells. The attenuated reovirus also exhibited reduced toxicity compared to a wild-type reovirus . The study also implies that attenuated reoviruses could be used to treat cancer in pregnant women (1). With the recent connection of reoviruses to celiac disease, I cannot help but wonder whether this will influence their potential use for treating cancer. Could reovirus cancer treatments cause an individual to develop celiac disease? If children infected with reovirus are at a higher risk of celiac disease, are reoviruses really safe to use for cancer treatment in pregnant women?
I find all the points you discuss fascinating – thanks for sharing. I didn’t know that reovirus was being used as a treatment for cancer. Going off on your comment, I decided to investigate the specific cancers that use reovirus-based therapy. I found out that reovirus can be employed for the treatment of pancreatic cancer, and is more effective if used in combination with other drugs. (1) Reolysin (the drug name that uses reovirus) works by inducing stress in the endoplasmic reticulum, which eventually leads to apoptosis. Amazingly, Reolysin can selectively attack the cancerous cells due to reovirus’ ability to differentiate cells that express mutations in activated Ras signaling, specifically KRas. These mutations help facilitate viral uncoating and production of viral progeny in the cell. (2) I do share your concerns though about the potential side effects of using reovirus as a treatment – this should be thoroughly studied as the treatment looks quite promising.
Over the past couple of years, scientists are starting the discover the importance of gut microbial and its effects on food digestion and the immune system. In the case of Celiac Disease, a virus or maybe a bacterial infection can affect the intestinal tract leading to developing celiac disease. But what about other autoimmune diseases that deal with food absorption? According to a new study (1) gut, microbial metabolites protect against type 1 diabetes. In this study, they took mice that had type 1 diabetes and fed them a diet that would increase the amounts of acetate and butyrate released by gut microbial. It turns out that if your gut microbial produce increase levels of acetate it decreases the frequency of autoreactive T cells in lymphoid tissues. Acetate effects the B cell preventing them from activating more autoreactive T cells. Increased levels of butyrate increased the number and function of regulatory T cells. It appears that dietary changes for people with T cell-dependent autoimmune diseases may be an effective natural way of treatment. Another study (2) suggested that there might be a connection between an accumulation of autoreactive T cells in the gut-associated lymphatic tissue and other autoimmune diseases such as multiple sclerosis. I think we often overlook our diet and how it affects our overall health and not just our waistline. These emerging studies could also lead to new noninvasive ways of treatment.
Shannon, it is so interesting that autoreactive T cells could do so much damage and contribute do a disease that is widely accepted as a genetic disorder. This post made me want to look up what else autoreactive T cells could do in the human body and I found that they are also a large part of development of Rheumatoid Arthritis (1). The autoreactive T cells actually reduce glycolysis and cause the CD4+T cells to hyperproliferate and attain the inflammatory symptoms we see as symptoms in Rheumatoid Arthritis. This made me wonder what dietary changes could these patients make to reduce their levels of autoreactive T cells? According to a new study (2), by taking a fish oil supplement can reduce the number of autoreactive T cells all together. They also showed in this study that the fish oil also promoted an increase in CD8+ T cells in mice. More supporting evidence was found in another study (3) that showed that fasting in regular intervals also decreases autoreactive T cells that contribute to multiple sclerosis symptoms. Seeing how diet can influence all of these major diseases is eye opening and definitely needs to be explored as alternative or combination treatments for patients.
Researchers are connecting the dots more and more everyday between autoimmune diseases and bacterial infections causing them. In a recent study, a connection was made between gut mycobacteria imbalance and the development of Chron’s disease as well as ulcerative colitis (1). There is a very particular balance of bacteria that are good for us and help digest our foods for us throughout our digestive tract, but when this balance is lost, some of the bacteria can grow exponentially, causing havoc in the gastrointestinal system. The bacteria is kept in check by our bodies by controlling the pH and temperature along the GI tube, when these checks are overridden the bacteria are allowed to have a field day and grow without being controlled by the host body. One study that was found recently, focuses on what happens to your gut microbiome when you starve the body of carbohydrates as in a ketogenic diet (2). As you starve your body from carbohydrates to try and lose weight the Bacteriodes that call your gut home and whose sole purpose is to digest carbs begin to die off. This pruning of the gut microbiota allows for more invasive species to overgrow and populate areas of the GI tract that they usually are not found in. This also promotes the growth of very harmful strains of bacteria to grow that are usually kept in check by the growth of the Bacteriodes, such as Clostridium difficule (2). The research on this topic is now pointing toward the overgrowth of some bacteria getting through the gut walls and into the abdominal cavity to elicit an immune response. After a prolonged period of bacteria entering the gut, the body starts to see the intestines as foreign cells, and it immune system shifts its focus to fighting off the ‘invader,’ that is actually the body’s own cells. This is what is supposedly causing the autoimmune diseases such as Chron’s.
With research coming out on how viruses and bacteria can cause autoimmune diseases it makes you wonder how strong a role genetics play. It seems like gut flora is the missing link for a lot of diseases. In “Does the Gut Microbiota Influence Immunity and Inflammation in Multiple Sclerosis Pathophysiology?” their aim was to determine if gut microflora plays a role in developing MS (1). While it is unclear how exactly gut microflora contributes to the development of MS, there is a relationship. As you mentioned earlier a stable gut flora protects against inflammation. In another study, it was noted how there are gut microbiota-host interactions that play a role in the development of cardiovascular diseases (2). Again, the pathophysiology is unclear but with immerging studies I imagine the relationship will soon be discovered. I think more research so go into the gut-immunity-brain axis.
This article was very interesting to me as it pertains to gluten and how reovirus plays a part in celiac disease. Many people suffer with gluten and have to take great measures to get by day by day. One thing I found interesting was the idea how reovirus, usually considered an inoffensive virus, can “trick” the immune system to believe that gluten is harmful and causes the immune system to have a belligerent response to gluten. This is dangerous not only to adults but the article also pointed out that it can be critical to children and infants. Studies have been done to test rotavirus vaccinations in children with celiac disease as well as type 1 diabetes (1). According to Outi, their studies suggest that this vaccination can be beneficial for children who have a high chance of contracting celiac disease or type 1 diabetes. This research is just the tip of the iceberg in learning more on the relationship of rotavirus and celiac disease.
Offering tastier gluten free foods should be a major matter in the upcoming years. Not only gluten free diet reduces the tragedy of celiac disease; but it also minimizes the symptoms associated with schizophrenia. A study that was published in April 2017 showed that schizophrenic patients who follow a gluten free diet suffer way less than those who have gluten included in their diet (1). Gluten could be associated with more diseases and some more studies on gluten effects on the human body should be done. Therefore, having tastier gluten free foods available in schools, hotels, hospitals, restaurants, ..etc. should be a major concern within the next years.
Your comment on how gluten-free options can reduce symptoms of schizophrenia is interesting. I do not know much about schizophrenia but I know people with this disorder suffer with the symptoms associated as well as the community surrounding them. I believe having a gluten-free diet benefits these individuals in more ways than one. I found an article stating how athletes who adhere to a gluten-free diet had better success in their goals as well as their body systems (1). Little is known on this study but it’s interesting how gluten-free diets can be beneficial for anyone.
Coeliac disease is a serious ailment affecting more and more children every year. Because of the rapid increase in coeliac disease diagnosis, it is important to diagnose exactly what type of gluten-related disease a person has. Depending on the severity of the coeliac disease, doctors can determine a patient’s ideal diet to decrease the negative effects of the disease and better the overall lifestyle of the patient. In a study done recently, it was reported that anti-glutaminase antibodies are specific for the diagnosis of coeliac disease and in determining specific symptoms . There are three specific gluten-related disorders: coeliac disease, wheat allergy, and noncoeliac gluten sensitivity. However, further research must be conducted to better understand noncoeliac gluten sensitivity as not much is known about this disease. It is important to conduct research on, not only coeliac disease but also, the other kinds of gluten-related ailments. These are important especially in relation to the health of young children. It is detrimental to the already fragile immune system of a child to develop coeliac disease. Like this blog post mentioned, this disease can affect all aspects of someone’s life and, as an aspiring pediatrician, I would like to see more emphasis on discovering how to aid children in preventing coeliac disease.
I had heard of celiac disease before but I was unaware that there were other gluten related disorders. After reading your post, I agree that there needs to be more research into these disorders as well. In a study by Unde et al., they attempted to identify markers for systemic immune activation in wheat sensitive individuals who did not have celiac disease. They determined that these individuals had higher levels of CD14 and LPS-binding protein in their serum. They noted that there was systemic immune activation because of antibody reactivity to bacterial LPS and flagellin. They also found levels of fatty acid-binding protein 2 which indicated damage to the intestinal epithelium (1). I think more research like this will bring other gluten sensitive disorders to light. It may also help us determine more distinctions between celiac disease and other gluten related sensitivity disorders.
I have always been interested in studying Celiac disease. I always wanted to learn why and how it affects so many people. I also would not mind trying to find a cure for the disease.
I remember I had a friend during my first year of college who was very strict about avoiding foods containing any gluten at all. At first, I thought that she was avoiding foods containing gluten due to some sort of a diet fad or something of that nature. However, I later discovered that she was allergic to gluten and had suffered complications earlier in her life due to damage in her small intestine. I remember some of our mutual friends would be annoyed whenever we would want to eat certain items but she would always have us change our plans to eat something that was gluten free instead. I can thus relate to the article in that people who are allergic to gluten or have Celiac disease oftentimes feel isolated with limited options and with friends who are not interested in sharing gluten free meals with them. I think there should be a bigger push across college campuses to include more gluten free options that are enjoyable for both those who are unable to eat gluten and for their friends as well.
I also found it fascinating that the Reovirus is involved with Celiac disease induction. Another study has also described an association between Celiac disease and chronic Hepatitis C caused by the HCV virus (1). It will be interesting to see what other pathogens contribute to Celiac disease and what preventative measures (such as vaccines) can be employed to prevent the development of Celiac disease in the first place.
I agree with your comment; the school should have more gluten free options for some people.I didn’t know much about gluten when I was growing up. I used to hear commercials talking about gluten-free products, and I thought it was just that product that had gluten. It turns out most of the stuff we eat have gluten. It must be a real pain to have that allergic reaction. However new studies have alternative ways for Celiac disease treatment without avoiding gluten products. In a study done by Marino and his colleagues shows that modification of gliadin peptides inhibits their ability to induce an immune system response. This is done by using microbial transglutaminase for the change of the gliadin peptide. This is a good alternative, but there are some side effects we know about and some we don’t. Since this is relatively new, we don’t know long-term side effects. Eating gluten free products is the best choice.
I find this article to be very informative since I was not so familiar with celiac disease and how exactly it effects the human body. I have noticed a change in the food diets of our country that now normalizes gluten-free products. Just as the article mentioned, I inferred that gluten was another fad diet that was avoided by the general public to lose weight or become healthier. Though this study initially mentions it is mainly the presence of gluten itself that damages that lining of the small intestine, multiple studies have also included reovirus as being the cause for the immune confusion and eventual self-attacking episodes. The article Celiac Disease: Reovirus, Inflammatory Response, and Dietary Antigens agrees with the correlation between the reovirus and celiac disease and wanted to take studies further with a vaccine. Since there has been a vaccine made for celiac, their job was to test out the vaccine and see if there may have been an increased risk of actually developing the disease in children. However, after testing out a large amount of subjects throughout a five-year study, they did not see an increase in children with the vaccination than children without the vaccine. Though more trials may still need to be done as for the effectiveness of the vaccine against the virus, a negative correlation is currently not found.
I, too, was not aware of celiac disease and how many people it affects. I’m glad i got a chance to read about it, it opened my eye to something I’ve been so unaware about for so long. It’s refreshing ti know our country is making more and more gluten-free diets as this condition affects more and more people each year. It’s never easy living with an autoimmune disease, and it is very informative to know more research are being done about the causes and the possible correlation this disease has with the reovirus virus. Even possibly a vaccine for the disease.
This post talk about how reovirus can trigger celiac disease by inducing the immune system to react to gluten. They also found out that there is higher level of reovirus antibody present in the patient with celiac disease compare with those who without the disease. Not all reovirus strains can trigger the autoimmune reaction. During their study, they found out that the ability of the strain to trigger the inflammatory immune response is depending on their genes since reovirus with different genes interact with the immune system differently. Autoimmune disease, especially inflammation of the digestive track, has been close linked to the viral or bacterial infection by many researches. Under normal condition, the intestinal mucosa is protected by the tight junction which limit the passage of the foreign antigen. Many of the research shows that certain kinds of virus or bacteria can modulate the intercellular tight junction and therefore, the intestinal mucosa permeability is increase. When the permeability is increase some foreign antigen such as gluten and other diary antigen can pass through the gut mucosal barrier and cause inflammation. The mechanism that those antigens trigger autoimmune reaction is called “molecular mimicry” which microbial antigens are postulated to resemble self-antigen (1). I think that the reovirus play an important role in the “molecular mimicry “mechanism of gluten. Once the autoimmune reaction is activated, it becomes independent of continue exposure to the environmental trigger and therefore self-perpetuating and irreversible (2) which means the autoimmune reaction cannot be shuttled off although the triggered antigen is being removed. Many of the inflammation bowel disease such as Crohn’s disease and ulcerative colitis is triggered by the incontrollable immune system. Many people may ask why gluten consumption is very susceptible in triggering autoimmune reaction? The reason for this is that gluten is made up of gliadin and glutenins which contains many toxic epitopes that can exerting cytotoxic and other gut permeating activities. Celiac disease also has close genetic association with HLA genes which is a highly specific humoral autoimmune response against tissue transglutaminase auto-antigen (2). The present of gluten in the GI track also lead to upregulation of the zonulin which is the only physiologic modulator of intercellular tight junctions described so far that is involved in trafficking of macromolecules and, therefore, in tolerance/immune response balance (2) and people with acute celiac disease have higher level of zonulin. Therefore, gluten is very susceptible in triggering the autoimmune disease and I think that future study can be conducted to investigate the relationship between the reovirus infection and the zonulin pathway.
Celiac disease is one of many severe autoimmune diseases known to cause cancer cells. The fact that 2.5 million Americans are undiagnosed and risk complications due to long term exposure, indicates the urgency for intervention and development of vaccination. Human leucocyte antigen (HLA) is a cell surface protein receptor for MHC class II antigen presenting cells. Gluten proteins, in the small intestine mucosa of patients infected with reovirus, readily binds HLA antigen DQ (HLA-DQ2 or -DQ8) with high affinity and activates T cell specific for gluten proteins that cause destruction of intestinal vili (1). Addison’s disease, autoimmune thyroid diseases, and Type 1 diabetes are examples of endocrine disorders that exhibit genes for HLA autoimmune response. Therefore, gluten proteins in reovirus infected patient, will cause celiac disease and may induce other HLA-linked diseases that is detrimental to our health.
Celiac disease is a severe genetic autoimmune disorder in which the gluten digestion leads to the small intestine being damaged. When people with is disease take in food with gluten, the body sees this as a foreign invader and sends a signal to the immune system, which attacks the small intestine. The only treatment available for people with this disease is a strict gluten-free diet. With more awareness being brought forth by this disease, it should also start the discussions about the many other autoimmune disorder relating to food or not. For example, pernicious anemia, the autoimmune condition in which the body absorption of B12 is flipped, resulting in a B12 deficiency (1). Of course, more studies can be done to get to the bottom line of why autoimmune exists in the first place. But in the case of celiac disease, it is an enormous progress that society is more aware and understanding of the importance of a gluten-free diet and making it more available. | 2019-04-23T14:37:31 | http://sciencehealthandmore.com/celiac-disease-reovirus-inflammatory-response-and-dietary-antigens/?replytocom=2477 | [
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A group of mountain lovers from Valsesia, Piedmont, climbed up to an altitude of 5,000 metres, right at the foot of Mount Everest and visited the Pyramid Laboratory of the CNR (National Research Council). And someone, while snooping around inside the Laboratory-Observatory, which is dedicated to scientific research at high altitude, unexpectedly found one of our valves installed on a radiator and sent us a picture of it. If you think of it, being in such an unusual and wonderful place, surrounded by such a powerful, natural scenery, is not bad at all!
As stated on the website of the Ev-K2-CNR Association, the Pyramid is a one-of-a-kind resource, also with regard to energy efficiency, which is the aspect most relevant to our main activity: the laboratory is self-sufficient and is powered by a hybrid system consisting of a small hydroelectric power plant and a solar panel system. | 2019-04-20T22:09:49 | https://www.caleffi.com/international/en-int/news/caleffi-base-everest | [
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AMES, Iowa - Violent crime rates are taking a nosedive across the nation, according to a data from the FBI, and Ames is one city topping the list.
Data from the FBI's Uniform Crime Report analyzed by 24/7 Wall St. shows violent crime fell to 355.5 incidents per 100,000 residents - the lowest it's been in decades. Violent crime peaked in the 1990s, but has steadily declined over the past 20 years. The data analyzed looks at a five-year span, from 2010 to 2014, and ranks Dubuque and Ames as the #1 and #2 cities in the U.S. where crime has plummeted the most.
In Dubuque, the five-year decrease in violent crime is 58 percent; Ames boasts a 56 percent drop in violent crime over that same five-year period. Officials with the Ames Police Department say having a low violent crime rate has helped officers focus energy on proactive measures to keep it that way.
"One of the tenants we have here at the police department is problem solving and relationship building," said Commander Jason Tuttle with Ames PD. "And so, when we can do that, and we have the time to do that, we can get into the neighborhoods, work with some of the community leaders, work with some of the neighborhood association leaders on trying to solve specific problems in our neighborhoods. And when we do that, we're working side by side with them to work through those issues, rather than policing over them and having more of a confrontational relationship with those citizens."
There was only one homicide reported in Ames in the five-year span of the study, with zero homicides from 2012-2014. Police say the study doesn't include 2015 data, where the city had just one homicide - classified as "justifiable" due to self-defense.
"I've lived here for 30 years in the same neighborhood, and generally I would say I've never had the perception that violent crime was ever a problem," said Debbie Lee, leader of the Oak to Riverside Neighborhood Association in Ames.
Lee credits the police department for being proactive, by forming close relationships with the city's neighborhood associations.
"Progress doesn't happen in a vacuum, and I would really credit - Ames has been fortunate to have an exceptional police chief who has been willing to be creative and try different approaches," Lee said.
Those different approaches include training landlords to keep crime out of their apartments, meeting with students every fall at Iowa State University, and providing resource officers to neighborhoods.
"I credit this very much to the leadership in the police department, that has - on the area of violent crime, on the area of mental health, on the area of alcohol abuse, on the areas of racial relations - been working very hard on being a proactive rather than a reactive situation," said Ames Mayor Ann Campbell.
Comm. Tuttle says it's a cycle: if you have a low violent crime rate, you can focus your energy on preventative measures to keep it that way.
"We don't pay a great amount of attention to these reports because we're working daily to build those relationships, and educate people in our community on how to have those safe neighborhoods," he said.
While violent crime is down in Ames - and especially in the category of homicides - it should be noted Ames' sexual assault rate was higher in the study's span than the national average. Ames officials note, however, the rate over the five-year span of the study is lower than it was for the city in the late 2000s. | 2019-04-22T10:19:16 | https://whotv.com/2016/02/28/ames-tops-national-list-for-low-violent-crime/?shared=email&msg=fail | [
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Logistics is the process of planning, implementing, and controlling procedures for the efficient and effective transportation and storage of goods, including services and related information.
The report segments the International Logistic Software Market on the basis of product, end users, and on the basis of topography. The product type segment includes the market’s division into basic, advanced, and professional versions. These sectors are primarily comprised of applications in IT, IoT, managed services, and more. The applications covered by the logistic software include automotive, government & defense, healthcare, telecommunication and it, industrial, engineering and manufacturing, oil & gas and others.
logistic software market is expected to reach approximately USD +16 billion by the end of 2023 with +8 % CAGR during forecast period 2017-2023.
Steady support to the IT & Telecom sector in developed regions is likely to enable their steady dominance in the Global Logistic Software Market in the coming years, but the growing acknowledgment of the high volume of unmet demand in emerging regions has driven the healthcare sector in countries such as North America, Europe, Asia-Pacific, Latin America, and the Middle East & Africa, notwithstanding other dynamic economies in the region such as South East Asia, Japan, and China.
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After breakfast, you will be picked-up by a tour representative for transfer to Incheon Airport according to your flights schedule. Depart Seoul Incheon Airport.
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Google Play had more apps than the Apple iTunes Store at the end of 2014, marking a big change for app community, a new study from appFigures said on Tuesday.
It said Google surpassed Apple for total number of apps with 1.43 million compared to 1.21 million. The apps come from roughly 390,000 Android app developers and 280,000 iOS developers, those of which have to pay $99 a year to be a part of Apple’s Developer Center.
Apple has long bragged about having a larger amount of apps available for its platform than Google, however that seems not to be the case. Developers are taking advantage of both app marketplaces to be able to reach as many downloads as possible.
It’s worth nothing, that developers often release their apps on the App Store before Google Play. Furthermore, Google Play doesn’t have the stringent review process the App Store has, and developers on Google Play can release apps for free.
In its report, appFigures says iOS saw the most growth in the business and food & drink categories on its App Store in 2014.
Apple recently announced that the first week of January set a new record for billings from the App Store, with customers around the world spending nearly half a billion dollars on apps and in-app purchases. It also revealed New Year’s Day 2015 marked the single biggest day ever in App Store sales history, as customers presumably used gift cards and took advantage of App Store sales.
Furthermore, Apple launched a new website on Thursday, showing the jobs created by its ecosystem. It says more than one million jobs have been created to support Apple in the US. | 2019-04-24T13:49:10 | https://www.idownloadblog.com/2015/01/13/study-google-play-overtakes-app-store-in-amount-of-apps/ | [
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DIFFICULT MORAL QUESTIONS : May a woman agree to inducing delivery of her nonviable defective baby?
Question 48: May a woman agree to inducing delivery of her nonviable defective baby?
We were surprised, since we picked this obstetrician partly because he was recommended by prolife friends. He left us alone for a while, and we talked it over. When he returned, we told him we would not have an abortion even to save my life, both because we believe abortion is wrong and because we want our baby to be born alive. We want to have her baptized and give her all the love and care we can, no matter how short her life is. The doctor said he never does abortions, but in cases like mine he does not regard inducing labor early as abortion. He also said the baby almost certainly would be born alive, so that she could be baptized, though she might live only a few minutes. And he told us that it would risk my life to go on with the pregnancy and he would not be responsible for what might happen if I do not follow his advice. We told him we needed more time to think it over.
We talked with our parish priest about it, and he referred us to a Sister Luke, who has studied health care ethics and works in the chaplain’s office at the local Catholic hospital. After listening to our story, she told us to follow the obstetrician’s advice and get the pregnancy over with. That is the right thing to do, she explained, because there is “a proportionate reason.” If we were sure her advice is sound, we would follow it. However, we are not sure, because my husband read that the Pope condemned something called “proportionalism” in his encyclical, Veritatis splendor. We want advice about what to do, and we want to make sure we do not get mixed up in something the Pope condemned.
The question is whether it would be morally acceptable to induce labor at once in this case. Even if a baby never will be viable, it is abortion to induce labor in order to end his or her life, and it is unjust to do anything without a grave reason that will result in shortening an unborn baby’s life. So, if the pregnancy can be continued until near term without grave risk to the questioner, she should not consent to the induction of early labor. If early delivery were necessary to save the mother’s life, her consenting in order to save her own life would not involve the intention to kill the baby or shorten her life. Saving the mother’s life could be called a “proportionate reason” for accepting the baby’s somewhat accelerated death. This use of the expression proportionate reason differs from that of the proportionalists whose opinion John Paul II condemned in Veritatis splendor.
Your letter is deeply moving. So often you speak of we! It is a sign of the love with which you, less than a year married, joyfully welcomed the prospect of your first child and now, with grief but evident faith, face the prospect of losing her so soon. Telling the doctor you would not have an abortion even to save your life also showed courageous and praiseworthy readiness to accept martyrdom. Moreover, you show your Catholic sense of values: you picked an obstetrician recommended by prolife friends; you want your baby to be born alive and baptized; you sought advice from your parish priest and Sister Luke to whom he referred you; and you question the soundness of the advice, which you otherwise would follow, because you fear it might be inconsistent with papal teaching.
Your physician has a more serious reason. Your diabetes could make continuing the pregnancy seriously harmful to you. Your question, therefore, really amounts to asking whether inducing labor now so as to forestall that harm must be regarded as abortion and excluded.
In my judgment, the answer partly depends on whether going on with the pregnancy would be risking your life. Without adequate knowledge of the facts and lacking medical expertise, I cannot say how much basis there is for your obstetrician’s concern. However, it is possible that what he told you is unduly pessimistic, and he may also be taking too dim a view of your baby’s prospects. Therefore, the first thing I think you should do is obtain a second medical opinion. That is your right, and in no way calls into question the competence of the physician you have been seeing. Though he told you he would not be responsible for what might happen if you do not follow his advice—which seems to me to have put you under undue pressure—he should and probably will cooperate with you in obtaining a second opinion by sending your clinical records and test results to the physician you choose to review the situation. That should be an obstetrician who practices in full accord with Catholic teaching. To identify such a person, you might try calling the offices of the obstetricians on the staff of the Catholic hospital and asking: “Does the doctor prescribe contraceptives?” If the answer is yes, ask if he or she knows any obstetrician who refuses to do so. If this approach does not succeed, tell your parish priest about the difficulty and ask him to help you—and, if necessary, to get an appropriate diocesan office to help you—find the right doctor. Do not hesitate to press your parish priest and diocesan officials on this matter; you are prepared to lay down your life, if necessary, in order to do what is right, and you have a special claim to their help. Having identified a suitable obstetrician, tell him or her you need a second opinion, and explain the situation. After obtaining and studying your medical records and the test results, this physician probably will examine you and perhaps order additional tests. Then he or she will give you a fresh, independent evaluation and explain your options.
I hope the second opinion will be that any problems likely to develop probably can be dealt with easily or even forestalled, without significant risk of serious and lasting harm to you. If so, your problem will be solved. Perhaps, however, there will be a serious problem, impossible to forestall and difficult to deal with, that will impose some risk of harm on you. Even so, the second obstetrician may be able to suggest a plan of care and treatment that, without gravely risking your life, will delay inducing labor until the pregnancy reaches the stage at which inducing labor for a good reason is regarded as acceptable by all Catholic moralists. In that case, accept the plan and carefully cooperate in carrying it out, even if it is unlikely to result in your baby being born alive.
Someone might disagree and argue that the point at which a baby normally is viable is irrelevant in your case, because your daughter is so seriously defective that even if you go to term she will die shortly after she is born. Assuming the accuracy of what your obstetrician has told you about your daughter’s prospects, her life after birth will be extremely brief. However, her life remains good and she probably can live within your womb until the end of the normal period of pregnancy. Therefore, inducing labor early would deprive her of what little life she is likely to enjoy, and your responsibility is to bear and nurture her, if possible, until she is ready to be born.
I think it quite unlikely that both obstetricians will agree that you and your baby both probably will die unless labor is induced early. But suppose that is their judgment? Even in that case, unless the danger of death is imminent, you should not agree to proceed at once, but should delay, hoping and praying for a good outcome. In that way, you will prolong your baby’s life and keep open the possibility that, despite the dire predictions, things will work out so that no life-or-death choice becomes necessary. But if the time does come when you must choose between risking your life, which also would cause your baby’s death, and inducing labor early, then, I think, you should choose the latter. That choice plainly will not be to end or shorten the baby’s life, for, though she probably will die sooner outside your womb than within it, your reason for inducing early labor will be to prevent your own death and, if possible, to provide your baby with the benefits of living briefly outside your womb, namely, baptism and a brief period of loving care. Thus, you will not be choosing to shorten your baby’s life, but only accepting that as an unwanted side effect. That will be fair to her, not only because your life also will be preserved but because she, too, will benefit.
Because this motive for accepting the shortening of your baby’s life would be fair to her, one can call it “a proportionate reason.” Perhaps that is what Sister Luke meant—though, it seems to me, her advice was defective insofar as she neglected to suggest that you obtain a second opinion and put off a life-or-death choice. A proportionate reason in this sense, however, differs from what is called “a proportionate reason” by the proportionalists whose theory John Paul II condemned in his encyclical, Veritatis splendor. Since you are anxious to avoid confusing the two, I shall try to explain the distinction.
The Pope’s main purpose was to reaffirm “the universality and immutability of the moral commandments, particularly those which prohibit always and without exception intrinsically evil acts.”167 The relevant commandment, of course, is “You shall not kill,” which always and without exception prohibits killing by private individuals—capital punishment and killing in just wars are a separate problem (see LCL, 469–81, 890–94, 897–911). The prohibited, intrinsically evil act of killing, however, is to be understood, not merely as an outward performance resulting in someone’s death, but as a freely chosen kind of behavior characterized by its “‘object’ rationally chosen by the deliberate will” or, in other words, by “the proximate end of a deliberate decision which determines the act of willing on the part of the acting person.”168 Now, if, in the life-and-death crisis described above, you agree to induce labor early, you will not be rationally choosing by deliberate will to kill your baby or shorten her life; your act of willing will not be a deliberate decision that she die sooner rather than later. That harm, as already explained, will only be accepted as a side effect of what you will be choosing: preventing your own death and bringing about her birth so that she will live, though briefly, outside your womb.
In sum, if Sister Luke meant by proportionate reason what proportionalists mean by it, she thinks you would be justified, not only in accepting the shortening of your baby’s life in inducing labor at once, but even in choosing to kill her, on the theory that her death would be a lesser evil than the harm your obstetrician predicts you will suffer if your pregnancy proceeds. Since goods and bads cannot be rationally commensurated in that way, however, lesser evil here can have no definite meaning. It expresses only a subjective opinion based on feelings. On this basis, a proportionalist may regard an abortion as justified whenever the baby is expected not to live long after birth.
Your minds may be boggled by the preceding explanation of the difference between the proportionalism the Pope condemns and the legitimate use of proportionate reason. If so, do not worry about the details, for I am sure you will grasp the fact that the two are different. Looking at the matter in your clear-eyed way, you were prepared to stake your life on one of the truths proportionalists deny—that abortion is always wrong—but perhaps would have followed Sister Luke’s advice had your husband not read about the Pope’s condemnation of proportionalism. Without articulating the point, you saw correctly that, though choosing to kill a baby always would be a terrible wrong, accepting the baby’s death as a side effect could be right. Still, I hope and pray the crisis will not confront you, so that there will be no need to consent to inducing labor until your pregnancy is near term.
166. Jean deBlois, C.S.J., Patrick Norris, O.P., and Kevin O’Rourke, O.P, A Primer for Health Care Ethics: Essays for a Pluralistic Society (Washington, D.C.: Georgetown University Press, 1994), 235–38, note that pregnancy with an anencephalic fetus can put the mother at a somewhat increased risk and that the emotional trauma to the couple of a diagnosis of anencephaly can be considerable, assert (236) that the “condition uniformly is fatal, death usually occurring hours after birth from cardiorespiratory arrest,” claim (237) that “viability has no meaning as a moral marker in such cases” and that once the defect occurs integrated development is impossible due to absence of the cerebral cortex, and conclude (237): “On the basis of the above analysis it seems that once the diagnosis of anencephaly has been made the pregnancy may be terminated at any time.” This position is rejected—I believe rightly—by the Committee on Doctrine, National Conference of Catholic Bishops, “Moral Principles Concerning Infants with Anencephaly,” Origins, 26:17 (10 Oct. 1996): 276: “Hence, it is clear that before ‘viability’ it is never permitted to terminate the gestation of an anencephalic child as the means of avoiding psychological or physical risks to the mother. Nor is such termination permitted after ‘viability’ if early delivery endangers the child’s life due to complications of prematurity.” Peter J. McCullagh, Brain Dead, Brain Absent, Brain Donors: Human Subjects or Human Objects? (New York: John Wiley and Sons, 1993), 105–42, and a child neurologist, D. Alan Shewmon, “Anencephaly: Selected Medical Aspects,” Hastings Center Report, 18:5 (Oct.–Nov. 1988): 11–15, make it clear that the diagnosis of anencephaly sometimes is mistaken and the extent of the affliction varies; if anencephalic babies are born alive, many live more than a day and a few a month or more; some such infants behave in many ways like normal babies and may be conscious; and the cause of death varies. For infants afflicted with anencephaly who could not possibly survive long after birth, viability is irrelevant as a moral marker, but that irrelevance does not entail that aborting those infants is permissible, since the relevance of viability as a marker is that, what would have been abortion before viability may be a permissible early induction of labor after it. The fact that anencephalic infants develop a more or less perfect body (apart from their brain defect) shows that the cerebral cortex is not essential for integrated development. I conclude that choosing to terminate pregnancy when anencephaly is diagnosed is homicidal if the intended end is to reduce parental emotional trauma and is unfairly discriminatory against the baby if the intended end is to avoid the slightly increased risk of a properly managed pregnancy and natural birth.
167. John Paul II, Veritatis splendor, 115, AAS 85 (1993) 1223, OR, 6 Oct. 1993, xviii.
168. Ibid., 78, AAS 1196, OR, xii.
169. Ibid., 75, AAS 1193, OR, xi.
171. Ibid., 76, AAS 1194, OR, xii.
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For the larger part of the 20th century, housing discrimination in the United States was overt and unambiguous. Racial segregation was largely the norm, and those who worked to preserve it were under little obligation, legal or social, to hide their intentions. At least it was easy to spot.
Help came in 1968 with the federal Fair Housing Act, which prohibited racial discrimination in the sale, rental and financing of homes. The law explicitly barred practices with a discriminatory intent.
The country has progressed since the late '60s, and blatant prejudice is now much less common. Yet housing discrimination persists, often due to bias built into the system. So over the years, the federal courts have expanded the Fair Housing Act to cover practices with a discriminatory outcome. Under this theory, known as "disparate impact," a policy or practice can be illegal if it disproportionately affects minorities, regardless if that was its purpose. Disparate impact claims are crucial to fighting racial inequality today.
But this key weapon could soon be taken away. The Supreme Court will likely rule this summer in a case, Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. The Inclusive Communities Project, that may forbid disparate impact claims under the Fair Housing Act. Such a decision would effectively defang the law. It would also shed a disturbing light on how this court believes the law should react to entrenched discrimination.
The underlying reality of the Texas case is that certain housing policies disadvantage minorities more than whites, whether by hidden design, careless disregard or unfortunate coincidence. It's this type of discrimination -- in housing, but also employment, voting and education -- that today produces some of the biggest barriers to bridging the racial divide. If the Supreme Court acknowledges this truth and believes justice is best served by fostering equality "in fact, and not simply in form" -- to borrow a phrase from Justice Ruth Bader Ginsburg -- its decision should be easy. That it probably won't be helps explain why racial inequality remains such an unrelenting problem for the nation.
In the past, property owners and policymakers openly supported segregation.
During the first half of the 20th century, racially restrictive covenants were commonly used to keep minorities from moving into white neighborhoods. Under these private agreements, property owners would stipulate that their land could not be sold to or occupied by anyone who wasn't white. Sometimes, a group of neighbors would sign a contract prohibiting all current and future owners of their properties from selling or leasing to African-Americans. Violating the contract could lead to forfeiture of the property.
Local authorities also played a role in maintaining segregated neighborhoods. Though the Supreme Court had ruled that explicit racial zoning was unconstitutional in 1917, exclusionary zoning to preserve the character of a community was -- and is -- allowed. Neighborhoods can be zoned to allow only more expensive, low-density housing while prohibiting smaller homes or affordably priced apartment buildings. Because of racial differences in household wealth, many minorities are priced out of the exclusive areas. This practice, which has repeatedly been upheld by courts, is still widely used around the nation.
A big part of the problem was how the federal government limited minority access to mortgages.
Established in 1934, the Federal Housing Administration enforced policies for decades that helped preserve segregation. Chief among these was "redlining," under which it declined to back home loans to people living in certain often-minority neighborhoods. This discouraged mortgage lenders from extending financial services to those areas. The consequences of redlining on home ownership and economic development are still apparent today in many urban areas.
A 1936 map of Philadelphia from another New Deal era federal agency, the Home Owners' Loan Corporation, identifying the neighborhoods in which lenders should and should not offer mortgages. Redlined areas are marked "hazardous."
Housing speculators capitalized on the fact that most African-American homebuyers couldn't access federally insured mortgages. In Chicago, for instance, mostly white speculators bought up cheap properties in black neighborhoods and marked up the prices, sometimes to twice what they had initially paid. These houses were sold under a contract that called for monthly payments until the entire price was paid -- and only then would the buyer receive the deed to or gain any equity in the property. If the buyer managed to pay off the contract in full, he or she owned a house in a minority neighborhood that would likely not appreciate in value. If the buyer didn't fulfill the terms of the contract, eviction with nothing to show for payments made was the usual response.
In the late 1960s, a group of black homeowners in Chicago began to fight this predatory system. A federal class-action lawsuit was filed in 1969 against speculators, contract sellers and financial institutions involved in the scheme. Activists also organized protests and holdouts, in which homeowners refused to make payments to the sellers. There were standoffs with police, arrests, negotiations, and in 1971, thanks to a policy change by regional banks and insurance companies, the homebuyers finally began converting their contracts into mortgages in large numbers.
Yet when the federal case finally went to trial in 1975, the black plaintiffs couldn't convince the mostly white jury that they had been price-gouged because of their race. As one juror reportedly concluded, "It was economics, not civil rights, in play."
Congress passed the Fair Housing Act in 1968.
But as the Chicago case shows, it can be hard to prove that someone was motivated by racial animus. With the aid of the courts, the Fair Housing Act has also been used to target less explicit bias. Over the past 40 years, judges have repeatedly read the statute to forbid many policies and practices with a disparate impact on minorities, even where no racist intent can be shown.
In a rule issued in February 2013, the Department of Housing and Urban Development clarified the formula for deciding disparate-impact housing cases: If the plaintiff can demonstrate that a practice has a discriminatory effect, the burden shifts to the defendant to show that the practice serves a substantial, nondiscriminatory interest that can't be served by a less discriminatory means. If the defendant meets that burden, the plaintiff can still win by showing that, in fact, there is a less discriminatory means that would serve the defendant's needs.
Note this means that a policy with a disparate impact that also has a valid justification and no less-discriminatory alternative is legal. For that reason, there are plenty of legitimate housing restrictions and requirements that disproportionately affect minorities today -- like occupancy limits, credit score standards and income verification.
Housing advocates and federal prosecutors still use the law to fight housing discrimination.
A number of high-profile disparate impact cases have been settled in the past few years alone. Many focused on financial institutions and lenders that were accused of offering less favorable rates and services, on average, to minority customers than to white customers.
In 2011, for example, mortgage giant Countrywide Financial reached a record $335 million settlement with the Department of Justice following allegations that it had charged higher fees and rates to hundreds of thousands of Hispanic and African-American customers than it had to white customers with similar financial standing. The Justice Department investigation also found that Countrywide, which was purchased by Bank of America after the alleged misconduct, had offered subprime mortgages to 10,000 minority borrowers while offering regular loans to white borrowers with similar credit profiles. Using a disparate impact argument, federal prosecutors didn't need evidence that Countrywide's practices were driven by discriminatory intent, only that they had discriminatory outcomes.
The National Fair Housing Alliance reported that 27,352 housing discrimination complaints were made nationwide in 2013. The organization estimates that at least 4 million violations actually occur each year.
It's hard to overstate the ongoing importance of access to fair housing. Decades of segregation have helped to concentrate poverty in minority neighborhoods. Communities with large percentages of black and Hispanic residents tend to have fewer economic and employment opportunities; lower-quality education; less access to medical care, healthy food and public transportation; and lower levels of public safety.
While a number of studies released over the past few years have shown some progress in urban areas, fair housing advocates say the problem is far from solved.
"While recent modest declines in black segregation levels are welcome, the 2010 census shows that the average black resident still lives in a neighborhood that is 45 percent black and 36 percent white," William Frey, chief demographer at the Brookings Institution, told The New York Times. "At the same time, the average white lives in a neighborhood that is 78 percent white and 7 percent black. Black segregation levels are even higher for children."
For more on how ZIP codes correlate with opportunity, check out this tool created by Opportunity Nation and Measure of America.
Even with disparate impact claims, the government has often done a poor job fostering housing equality.
HUD's largest program of grants to states, cities and towns has delivered $137 billion to more than 1,200 communities since 1974. To receive the money, localities are supposed to identify obstacles to fair housing, keep records of their efforts to overcome them, and certify that they do not discriminate.
ProPublica could find only two occasions since [George] Romney's tenure [as HUD secretary, ending in 1972,] in which the department withheld money from communities for violating the Fair Housing Act. In several instances, records show, HUD has sent grants to communities even after they've been found by courts to have promoted segregated housing or been sued by the U.S. Department of Justice. New Orleans, for example, has continued to receive grants after the Justice Department sued it for violating that Fair Housing Act by blocking a low-income housing project in a wealthy historic neighborhood.
The Supreme Court is now debating whether disparate impact claims can even be raised in housing cases.
On Jan. 21, the justices heard oral arguments in Texas Department of Housing and Community Affairs v. The Inclusive Communities Project. The Dallas-area nonprofit, which promotes racially and economically diverse communities, filed suit after finding that for the past few decades, the Texas housing department had allocated almost all affordable-housing tax credits to developments in minority neighborhoods, while denying credits to those in white neighborhoods. This effectively kept low-income residents from moving to white communities. The nonprofit is raising a disparate impact claim under the Fair Housing Act.
The Texas agency, unable to show there was no less-discriminatory alternative to its practice, lost the case in federal district court and in the U.S. Court of Appeals for the 5th Circuit. It petitioned the Supreme Court to rule for the first time on the overall permissibility of disparate impact claims under the Fair Housing Act. Court watchers suggest the decision may come down to Justice Antonin Scalia, who during oral arguments indicated sympathy with both sides.
Opponents argue that disparate impact claims are unfair to policymakers, financial institutions and property owners. If housing policies and practices are instituted for legitimate reasons based on race-neutral criteria, the basic argument goes, then they should be legal despite any unintended discriminatory effects -- and the people who implement those policies and practices should not be blamed.
During oral arguments, Texas Solicitor General Scott Keller suggested another problem: that housing officials and developers wary of possible Fair Housing Act lawsuits might make race-conscious decisions in favor of minorities, creating "the functional equivalent of a quota system." This would raise constitutional issues of its own.
Other critics have expressed concerns that the idea of disparate impact is too fluid -- that just because a practice unevenly affects a minority group doesn't mean that it harms the group or that it doesn't help other minority groups.
Supporters of disparate impact think the law is on their side, if not necessarily the justices.
Since 1974, 11 federal circuit courts have upheld an interpretation of the Fair Housing Act that allows for disparate impact claims. Moreover, in 1988, when Congress amended the statute, it chose not to add language ruling out such claims, but it did include language that implied their use.
Amicus briefs have flooded in -- from lawmakers, public interest advocates and business interests -- seeking to sway the justices. There are 14 supporting the Texas agency and 23 backing the nonprofit. One brief in favor of the Inclusive Communities Project comes from the federal government, 17 states and an assortment of civil rights groups.
"This was really the last legislative victory of the civil rights movement, and it was Dr. King's last victory, too," Philip Tegeler, executive director of the Poverty & Race Research Action Council, told The Washington Post. "This is the message that Dr. King brought to Chicago in 1966, talking about de facto segregation in the North, segregation wherever it exists -- that we need to address it. That's in large part what the Fair Housing Act was trying to do."
Fair housing advocates remain concerned -- in part because this is the third time the Supreme Court has agreed to consider disparate impact claims under the Fair Housing Act in less than four years. The two earlier cases were each settled less than a month before they were heard by the justices. Civil rights groups, which pushed for those settlements, worry that the justices' eagerness to rule on this issue could spell trouble.
"It is unusual for the court to agree to hear a case when the law is clearly settled. It's even more unusual to agree to hear the issue three years in a row," Ian Haney Lopez, a law professor at the University of California, Berkeley, told ProPublica.
This statement in the article defeats the whole point of the article. It clearly shows non-Whites are getting an unfair abundance of the aid.
the Texas housing department had allocated almost all affordable-housing tax credits to developments in minority neighborhoods, while denying credits to those in white neighborhoods.
Another long, pointless Huffington article. Why do you bother posting this foolishness on a site with informed readers who see right thru your agenda??? | 2019-04-24T07:50:03 | http://www.gcnlive.com/forum/index.php/topic,1439.msg1915.html | [
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These white pearl Champion Firebirds made their way into our warehouse just after the Black Pearl. All 17 discs are in the weight range of 165-169g. This particular run of Firebirds will eventually make their way to retailers, which is something everyone can look forward to in the future. | 2019-04-22T21:58:25 | https://proshop.innovadiscs.com/champion-firebird-white-pearl.html | [
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"New York, Marriage Newspaper Extracts, 1801–1880 (Barber Collection)", digital image, Ancestry.com, "Saturday, May 19, 1821. This morning, Grace Church, Rev Mr Wainwright: William Beach Lawrence to Esther Rogers Gracie, dau of Archibald."
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An energetic native-born Québécois but also an Australian citizen, Serge Dansereau grew up in Montréal and spent his formative years surrounded by a family whose food skills and example were to leave a lasting impression.
du Québec in 1974, completing his diploma in Cuisine Professionnelle in 1976.
In 1983, Serge accepted a position to help open the newly built Regent, Sydney. The hotel was lead by the visionary Ted Wright, a forward thinker and great hotellier. The Regent, Sydney was consistently voted in the top 10 hotels in the world.
He was 26. His charter was to metamorphose the Regent’s restaurant Kable’s into a restaurant within a hotel not a hotel restaurant. Excellence was to take precedence over the bottom line; after one year, Dansereau was appointed Executive Chef of the Regent, Sydney and Kable’s quickly became a legend.
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Under his guidance, a new and exciting variety of produce soon surfaced - wild mushrooms, exotic herbs and lettuces, vegetables formerly unheard of, farmhouse cheeses Australians had only read about, unusual seafood, baby lambs, traditional game and a whole new selection of quality of market vegetables.
In 1989, the prestigious Sydney Morning Herald Good Food Guide proclaimed Dansereau Chef of the Year and in 1990, awarded 3 toques, its highest accolade, to Kable’s.
His resignation from The Regent in 1999 was coupled with an announcement that he would join The Bathers’ Pavilion as partner and Chef.
distinctive Islamic fretwork, Bathers’ Pavilion includes three Dansereau designed hi-tech kitchens that service a Restaurant, Cafe, Bar, Private Function Rooms, Terrace and Kiosk.
And so, when the astonishingly beautiful and rejuvenated Bathers’ Pavilion opened in August, 1999 it almost immediately became one of Sydney’s best and Australia’s most acclaimed eating place.
Serge Dansereau is a chef and restaurateur who respects the service tradition and regards quality produce as the optimum ingredient in his cooking.
In a country with a world-wide reputation for restaurant excellence, he continues at the forefront. He is considered one of the trendsetter and leading chefs of Australia.
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This summer roughly a million superhero movies will be released, and one of the most anticipated is Deadpool 2. More than any other actor, Ryan embodies his character, because they're both hideously ugly. Just kidding. Ryan's not grossly disfigured with burn-like scars like Wade Wilson, but he share's the same snarky trickster spirit. On social media, Ryan loves to troll, wishing his wife a happy birthday while posting a photo where she is totally cropped out.
Today Josh Brolin turned 50 years old, and Ryan wished him a happy birthday by posting a hilarious photo on Instagram. In the picture, Cable sits on a stool, posing for a portrait. But instead of painting Josh's grim dystopian warrior, Deadpool paints Josh's fresh-faced character from The Goonies. The flirty caption reads: "Happy Birthday, Bright Eye. You don’t taste a day over 40." So far, it has over a million likes. | 2019-04-21T08:29:41 | http://vt.co/entertainment/celebrity/ryan-reynolds-sends-hilarious-50th-birthday-gift-josh-brolin/ | [
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I am just coming back from Mexico. I had the blessing a few weeks ago to lead our first pilgrimage from the Archdiocese of Los Angeles to the Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
As some of you know, I have a strong devotion to Our Lady of Guadalupe. I learned it from my parents, beginning when I was a young boy growing up in Monterrey, Mexico.
Every summer my mom and dad would take my sisters and I on a 600-mile journey to visit our grandparents in Mexico City. And every time we went, our whole family would make a pilgrimage to the shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe.
My experience was not unique. This is what Catholic families do in Mexico — everyone tries to make a pilgrimage at least once a year to the Basilica.
I think most of us know the Guadalupe story. It takes us back to the “spiritual dawn” of the Church’s mission in the Americas.
It was December 1531 and the Blessed Virgin appeared to a poor Indian convert named Juan Diego on a hilltop outside Mexico City.
The Virgin entrusted Juan Diego with a mission — to go and ask the bishop to build a shrine in her name.
To convince the bishop, Our Lady gave him a sign. She made roses bloom even though it was the dead of winter. Then she used those roses to “imprint” her own image on the cloak — called a “tilma” — that Juan Diego was wearing.
And as we know, that tilma is still hanging today — almost 500 years later — in the Basilica, which is built not far from the site where she first appeared.
I am remembering that history today because I believe that Guadalupe holds the “key” for understanding the times we are living in.
So, that is what I want to talk with you about today. Also, it really makes sense because the Napa Institute, as we know, is entrusted to Our Lady of Guadalupe.
I want to offer my reflections today on the important conversation that has been going on in the Church this year — the question of how we are going to live our Catholic faith and carry out the Church’s mission in a “post-Christian” society. A society that every day is becoming more and more hostile to our values and our beliefs.
I am going to offer my reflections today in three parts.
First, I want to begin by looking at the cultural moment we find ourselves in. The signs of the times.
Second, I am going to suggest that we need to see our present situation in light of the “event” of Guadalupe, I believe that in this event, we can see God’s “vision” — his plans and purposes — for the Church in the Americas.
Third and finally, I want to offer some reflections on some “themes” that we discover in the story of Guadalupe. These themes provide us with a way forward — a way to think about our Christian lives and mission in the years ahead.
So with that introduction — let me begin.
I think all of us here today feel a sense of urgency about where our country is heading.
Back in the first centuries of the Church, St. Jerome was writing about the Arian heresy, which denied that Jesus Christ was truly God.
But there are too many ways our nation has never lived up to Christian values. We could point to the “original sin” of slavery, the tragic mistreatment of native populations; ongoing injustices like racism, and the million or more abortions performed each year.
There is no question that our institutions and national self-identity were meant to be shaped by the vision and values of the Gospel. The promise of America — what still distinguishes this country from all the rest — is our commitment to promoting human dignity and freedom under the Creator. At the heart, this is a Christian commitment.
The point is — all that is changing right now. We face an aggressive, organized agenda by elite groups who want to eliminate the influence of Christianity from our society.
Our beliefs are now labeled as a kind of hatred or intolerance. Our Church institutions face lawsuits — for the “crime” of still believing what Jesus taught. The “crime” of not wanting to cooperate with practices we find immoral or dehumanizing.
My friends, we do not have the luxury to choose the times we live in. These are hard times. There is no denying it.
But the saints remind us that all times in the Church are dangerous times.
This is the challenge that Christians face in every time and every place. Are we going to shape our times? Or will we allow our times to shape us?
What we decide will make all the difference. Not only for ourselves and our families. But also for our times — for our society and culture.
And that brings me back to Guadalupe.
For me, the question is not really — how are we going to shape our times?
The better question is: how does God want us to shape our times? What is the path that Jesus Christ would have us follow in this moment in our nation’s history?
I want to suggest that the path already exists. It began in Guadalupe in 1531.
The apparition at Guadalupe was not a random occurrence. There are no coincidences in the Providence of God.
Our Lady did not appear only for the Mexican people. Her intentions were continental and universal.
At Guadalupe, the Mother of God came to be the Mother of the Americas.
Guadalupe is the true “founding event” in American history. And that means it is the true founding event in the history of our country — and in the history of all the other countries in North and South America. We are all children of Guadalupe.
Guadalupe gives us the “alt-history” of America. In God’s plan, this is one continent. It is meant to begin a new civilization. A new world of faith.
This is what Guadalupe is all about.
Within a few years after this apparition, millions came to be baptized in Mexico and throughout the Americas. A great wave of holiness swept through the continents — raising up saints and heroes of the faith in every country.
Mexico City became the spiritual headquarters — “mission control” for the evangelization of the Americas, Asia and Oceania.
When St. Junípero Serra came to the New World, he set sail aboard a ship called, Nuestra Señora de Guadalupe. He arrived at Veracruz and he immediately started walking — 300 miles to the shrine of Our Lady of Guadalupe in Mexico City.
Friends, we need to follow this example. We need to consecrate our Christian lives and the Church’s mission to the Virgin.
I think this is the answer to the challenges we face right now in our culture. The way forward for our Church — right now, in this moment — is to “return” to Guadalupe.
We need to follow the path that the Virgin sets before us — the path of building a new civilization of love and truth in the Americas.
So in the remainder of our time together, I want to offer a brief reflection, a kind of spiritual interpretation of the Guadalupe story — in light of our moment here in our country.
As I see it, this story points to five themes — vocation, education, life, culture, and family.
These themes suggest certain priorities and directions for the Church.
If we look at them together, they give us a kind of “strategy” for Christian living and for carrying out the Church’s mission in this “post-Christian” moment in our society.
The first theme is vocation. At the heart of the Guadalupe event is a story about personal vocation and mission.
This is a beautiful summary of the mission of the Church and the purpose of our Christian lives.
God is calling us to “build a shrine” with our lives. Through our work and the way we live. God is calling us to bear witness to his salvation, to the difference that Jesus Christ makes in our lives. He is calling us to show his love and compassion to our brothers and sisters.
I think we all feel that way sometimes. That we are not worthy of what God is asking us to do. I know I can feel that way. But vocation is not about perfection. God calls every one of us and God gives each of us a mission. Your particular vocation — what God is calling you to do for him — there is no one else who can do it.
Friends, God is speaking those words to you and to me in this time. God has a message that he wants you to deliver with your lives.
We need to rediscover — the beautiful truth that every one of us has a vocation — to be holy, to be saints. To build a shrine with our lives.
Holiness does not mean separation from the world. Holiness means transforming the world — living totally for the love of God, and sanctifying the world by our love and service.
This is the first lesson of Guadalupe.
The second lesson of Guadalupe: We need to teach the knowledge and love of Jesus Christ.
St. Juan Diego was on his way to church when he met Our Lady. It was his custom, every Saturday and Sunday, to get up before dawn and to walk nine miles from his home to go to Mass and then go to classes to keep deepening his knowledge of the Catholic faith.
For Juan Diego, Jesus Christ came into his life — and there is nothing more beautiful than to know Jesus!
This is a message for the Church in our times.
We are here to share this beautiful treasure of our relationship with the living God — who became a man for us, who gave his life to save us and to make us into a new humanity. Who is living with us now and walking with us as our Friend.
When we teach, we are calling people to conversion — which means a new way of thinking and looking at the world.
Our faith is not a collection of rules and obligations. The Catholic faith is a way of living, a way of seeing the world with “new eyes.” With the eyes of Jesus.
We need to renew in our times the Catholic imagination and our “sacramental” vision.
We need to push back against the scientific and materialist vision of our age. We are living in a culture that tells us there is no reality that “transcends” what we can see and hear and taste and touch.
This is a world without God — without the possibility of God.
But we know that the incarnation of Jesus changes everything! The things of nature and “ordinary” life are transfigured. The visible world is now a “sacrament” of invisible realities and beauty. Everything in this world can now be a sign and a pathway that brings us into the presence of God.
All of this is anticipated in the incarnational and sacramental vision of Guadalupe.
In the presence of the Virgin, Juan Diego wondered whether he was in paradise, whether heaven had come to earth. With her coming, the mountains were filled with songs like wonderful birds. Flowers bloomed in the winter season in soil where there were only stones and cactus and thorns.
This is the beauty that we can see with the eyes of faith. So in our teaching, we need to help people to see that our lives are connected, part of the beautiful mystery of God’s plan of creation. A great adventure that is unfolding under the eyes of our loving Father.
Holy Maria of Guadalupe appeared as an icon of new life, as a woman carrying a child.
Guadalupe is a vision of the world as God wants it to be. The “shrine” that Our Lady wants us to build in the Americas is a new civilization — a culture that celebrates life and welcomes life.
The Christian faith in this new world confronted the brutality of the Aztec rituals of human sacrifice. From the beginning, the saints and missionaries of the Americas proclaimed that every life is precious and an image of the living God.
And we need to continue this mission.
As we see every day in our society, life has become “cheap” and easily discarded. We see it in the crisis of homelessness, in the lives wasted by addiction. We see it in the push to spread euthanasia, in the continuing tragedy of abortion.
This is a task for us, my brothers and sisters.
The saints of the Americas teach us to go to the “peripheries” and margins of our society — to care for those who have no one to care to them. They teach us to meet “others” — as brothers and as sisters — and to serve them. From the heart, at a personal sacrifice. They teach us to defend the weak and vulnerable.
In my reflections at Guadalupe, it struck me that there is a touching family drama in the middle of the story of Juan Diego and the Virgin.
As you recall from the story, Juan Diego’s uncle — Juan Bernardino — is in the final days of an illness that is terminal. And as he is trying to serve the Virgin, Juan is also caring for his uncle — trying to find a priest who can come and anoint him. Also in the story, we see Our Lady’s tender care to heal the sick and to console Juan Diego in his stress and grief.
It is a touching story — that many of us can understand from our own families. Many of us know what it means to be taking care of a loved one who is dying.
And I think that speaks in a special way to our moment right now in our culture — with all the pressures to permit assisted suicide, with a population that is getting older and needing more medical care and attention.
This is an area where the Church can truly make a difference, in the spirit of Guadalupe. Perhaps part of the future of Catholic health care is to find ways to teach and train people in the ways of showing God’s tender mercy to those who are dying and to those who cannot be cured.
We have beautiful examples in the lives of our American saints.
We need to study the witness of people like Venerable Mother Angeline Teresa McCory, the Irish immigrant to New York who was a pioneer in caring for the aged and infirm. As she did, we need to help people today to see the face of Christ in those who are sick and suffering.
When we look at the self-image that Our Lady left imprinted on the tilma — we notice that she is a brown-skinned young woman — a mestizo. A person whose family background includes a mix of descendants from Europe and indigenous peoples.
She came dressed in the garments of the indigenous peoples and she spoke to Juan Diego in his own indigenous language.
And in all this, Our Blessed Mother reveals herself in a powerful way to be an icon of the Church.
Our Lady of Guadalupe reminds us that the Church was established to be the vanguard of a new humanity and a new civilization — one family of God drawn from every race and every nation and every language.
Right now in our country, and even in the Church, we see signs that we still have problems with nativism and racial prejudice. So we need to pray and we need to work harder to overcome our divisions.
The saints of the Americas show us that holiness knows no color. Beyond the color of our skin or the countries where we come from — we are all brothers and sisters. All children of one Father. And the Mother of God is our mother.
This is the message of Guadalupe.
Finally, my friends: the vision of Guadalupe encourages us to strengthen marriage and the family as the foundations of a truly human civilization.
Juan Diego was baptized, together with his wife, María Lucia, in 1524. They were among the first converts in the New World and were one of the first Catholic married couples in the Americas. Sadly she died five years later, two years before his encounter with Our Lady.
Our Lady of Guadalupe, came among us as the Mother of the family of God in the Americas.
Some of the earliest martyrs in this country — were missionaries who were killed for their witness to God’s truth about the meaning of marriage and the family. These include the Hispanic Franciscans martyred in Georgia in 1597 and some of the martyrs of Florida.
We need to ask these martyrs to give us the strength we need to confront the broad cultural crisis of the family today.
We do this first — by living the beauty and fullness of the Church’s teaching ourselves. In our own marriages and families.
We need to be models for a culture that is confused. We need to proclaim — by our example more than our words — the beautiful truth about the human person and God’s loving plan for creation and the family.
Let us hold up the great married saints from the Americas — like the Servants of God Eugenio Balmori Martínez and Marina Francisca Cinta Sarrelangue. They were from Veracruz and the story of their courtship is very moving. They wrote each other beautiful poems and love letters.
There is beauty like this to be found everywhere in our families, in our parishes, in the joy of our children. We need to proclaim this to our culture.
Let me try to draw some conclusions.
We forget this — but Guadalupe was the first place John Paul visited outside of Italy after he became Pope.
St. John Paul understood that the mission and meaning of America is continental, universal.
The nations of the Americas all trace their faith to the coming of the Virgin at Guadalupe. We share a common story of origins. And we are joined in a common destiny.
My simple point today is that each one of us is a part of that story — part of the great mission to America that began with the visitation of the Virgin of Guadalupe.
The Church in this country — and every one of us — has the responsibility to continue the task that the Virgin gave to St. Juan Diego. To “build a shrine” with our lives. To build a society that glorifies God and is worthy of the dignity of the human person.
Let me conclude by sharing an experience I had on my recent pilgrimage.
After all those years of visiting as a child, it is deeply moving for me to now be a priest and to be able to celebrate the Holy Mass at the main altar in the Basilica.
The altar sits directly underneath the miraculous image of the Virgin.
And when you are there, you can feel the warmth of her tender eyes gazing down upon you. It is a powerful feeling, hard to describe. There is a beautiful sense of feeling protected. Of feeling like a child who is loved by the Mother of God.
Friends, Our Mother is speaking these words to the Church today. And to each one of us.
We need to lay our fears and hopes at the feet of the Virgin. We need to contemplate these times we are living in under the gaze of her loving eyes.
We need to go always forward with confidence. Because we go with God and with his Mother.
1. Strangers in a Strange Land: Living the Catholic Faith in a Post-Christian World (Henry Holt, 2017).
2. Dialogue Against the Luciferians, 19.
4. Quotations from The Nican Mopohua are drawn from Paul Badde, María of Guadalupe: Shaper of History, Shaper of Hearts (Igantius, 2009), 26-38.
5. Francisco Palou, Life and Apostolic Labors of the Venerable Junípero Serra (George Wharton James, 1913 ), 19.
6. Vincent O'Malley, Saints of North America (Our Sunday Visitor, 2004), 203-206, 360-362.
7. Homily, Basilica of Our Lady of Guadalupe, (Mexico City, January 23, 1999). | 2019-04-18T13:25:16 | http://archbishopgomez.org/article/877?name=The+Marian+Heart+of+America%3A+Our+Lady+of+Guadalupe+and+our+%22Post-Christian%22+Society | [
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You made a pretty significant jump of logic to say that immigrants come to America because of its culture. American culture is often ridiculed all over the world, and I think you paint an overly rosy picture of how great everyone thinks America is. It would probably be more accurate to say that many immigrants come to America because of economic opportunity. If this is the case, why then should they be expected to assimilate to dominant American culture AKA WHITE culture? Furthermore, why should immigrants, who are already likely to be subject to discrimination, also be expected to somehow “contribute to the welfare of the nation,” more so than people born within US borders? There are a lot of loose ends here.
Thank you very much for your comment! Let me see if I can clarify my position.
America, unlike other nations around the world which are based on ethnicity, is a nation based on a dominant political culture. The main characteristic of that political culture is a value of freedom, which includes economic opportunity. I think that political culture is held in high esteem around the world, and that is the political culture to which I think immigrants should assimilate. I don’t think it’s far-fetched to say that immigrants come here to adopt that culture.
Implicit in that political culture of freedom is the freedom to fail. I don’t think immigrants should have to contribute to the economy–obviously, I think we would all prefer that they do, but I don’t think that should be a criterion for their citizenship. Also, I never claimed that immigrants should contribute more to the welfare of the nation than people born here. | 2019-04-25T00:18:39 | https://commondefence.wordpress.com/2011/05/28/immigration-and-the-multiculturalists-paradox/ | [
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Imagine if every face you saw was a strange one. Try to comprehend how it would feel to be totally unknown, without common words to introduce yourself. Stop a moment to consider the overwhelming fear of having little food, few clothes or uncertain housing. This is how many refugees and recent immigrants in our country feel.
Reflecting on what it would be like to immigrate to a foreign country—or even more harrowing, to flee from your home¬—is a sobering thought. But it can also be an inspiring one. Understanding the experience of recent immigrants and refugees may prompt you to help them. So respond proactively instead of pushing the pain of others from your mind. Here are our ideas for how you can help new members of your community.
Most communities have refugee resettlement programs to help newcomers assimilate and feel at home. Learning to speak and read English is an especially pressing need for most immigrants and refugees. Without English fluency it’s hard or impossible to communicate with neighbors, local businesses and potential employers. Why not volunteer as an English as a New Language (ENL) teacher or conversation partner?
It’s probably not required that you speak your partner’s first language to teach ENL, though it would certainly help your new neighbor feel more at ease. The importance of a shared language is such an essential part acculturation for immigrants and refugees. Teaching them to speak and read English would help them tremendously.
Becoming a citizen is another key part of acculturation for immigrants and refugees, but citizenship preparation is not without its challenges. Many communities host monthly workshops to assist immigrants and refugees in filling out applications for U.S. citizenship. You can also teach citizenship preparation classes to adults who are studying for the USCIS citizenship exam.
Teaching English and helping immigrants and refugees become citizens are natural ways to help them feel welcome. You can also welcome them by including them in the local culture. Think of cultural traditions they might feel excluded from and set out to include them. For example, you can lend your children’s classmates dresses or neckties for school dances. Invite your new neighbors to your family’s July 4th cookout. Host them for their first Thanksgiving meal this fall. Treat holiday traditions and social functions as opportunities to share our culture with immigrants and refugees. And this is especially important—respect their cultural traditions and learn more about them. Show interest in your neighbors’ cultural background to show them they’re welcome and at home in your community.
Another option for helping immigrants and refugees is volunteering for the people who work for them. For instance, you could cut costs for your local naturalization office by answering phones or handling other administrative tasks. Or, apply to be a legal aide at the offices for immigration legal services. Legal aides serve new community members by preparing their immigration-related documents or drafting legal memoranda.
Every community has new members that could use your help. | 2019-04-23T12:08:32 | https://www.capnd.org/news-events/news-articles.html/article/2012/06/25/how-to-serve-refugees-and-recent-immigrants-in-your-community | [
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On June 5th, 2004, at approximately 2 AM, Los Angeles radio station KFI 640 AM aired a report by fill-in traffic reporter Walt Jackson which described eyewitness accounts of "burning fireballs" and a "possible crashed airplane." Jackson also reported that investigators had scoured the scene for the wreckage of a plane, but had concluded that the "fireball" was a likely meteor.
I first learned of this report from an independent witness who heard it live on June 5th.
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I emailed KFI News Director Chris Little, and asked him if he could verify that this report aired on his station, even pasting in the email from the person who initially contacted me. But I did NOT tell him that I had in my possession the audio of the broadcast. He told me that his station did not report it...and that that listener may have confused the alleged news broadcast with the George Noory show.
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I informed Mr. Little that the audio had been posted on several websites, and asked him if he wished "to stand by his assertion that the report never aired." This put him on the defensive, which in turn put ME on the defensive, and the decorum and quality of our email exchanges gradually diminished.
Mr. Little stated that the so-called "fireball" had been investigated by the CHP, and they concluded that it was a LIKELY meteor. Mr. Little did not say whether or not any physical trace had been found of the meteor.
Because I was not SPECIFIC in citing my concern about a possible meteor sighting and/or impact, Mr. Little apparently concluded, not unreasonably, that I was a UFO enthusiast who was looking for a "conspiracy." He offered a couple of sarcastic quips about "glowing spaceships" and "kooky stuff," and like many independent investigators, journalists, and talk show hosts who have covered the "out there" issues for years, I took offense with these comments. I became quite sanctimonious with Mr. Little, and chastised him for not initially doing the legwork to learn if the June 5th broadcast did indeed air on his station.
In his defense, he stated that the report did not ORIGINATE with his NEWS STAFF, but rather a fill-in traffic reporter named Walt Jackson...which made it more difficult for him to verify the existence of the report.
My email exchanges with Chris Little have been posted on numerous websites, and I feel that the personal acrimony between he and I - which, in spite of Mr. Little's initial error in his first message to me, I take full responsibility for - detracts enormously from the real story here, which is yet another in a long string of significant meteor sightings which have been unfortunately ignored by the mainstream media.
If the CHP investigated the Los Angeles fireball, which was reportedly described by eyewitnesses as resembling a "small plane crash," this was worthy of significant coverage in the national media. NASA recently reported a surprise "heavy meteor shower" for the month of June, and as I've written in numerous accounts over the past week, we seem to be experiencing some unusually intense meteoric activity.
I must also take responsibility for the tone of "conspiracy" in many of my articles which have spoken of the virtual media "blackout" on this issue. While the American news media has been unquestionably negligent in its coverage of this month's meteor sightings and/or impacts, the explanation may be more prosaic than "conspiracy."
We live in a country where the greatest "news" stories of the moment are celebrity criminal trials, movie box-office takes, and the latest beheadings and bombings in the "war on terror." Something as "mundane" as repeated meteor impacts is not considered worthy of coverage by the tabloid newscore. While I do not rule out the possibility that the "powers that be," whomever they are, are concerned about media coverage of uncontrollable celestial threats, my personal debacle with KFI is convincing me more and more that a true conspiracy is not at work here.
Let me emphasize once again that the real story here is the METEOR which apparently blazed over Los Angeles, CA, on the morning of June 5th. I have written an email to the Los Angeles Times through their website (www.latimes.com), informing them of this story and inquiring why they have not reported it. I have not received a response. | 2019-04-26T10:44:59 | https://rense.com/general54/fierball.htm | [
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