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The Knicks aren't ready to change their starting
lineup, but in an effort to match the Pacers' size in tonight's Game 2, Kenyon
Martin will likely see some time at power forward in between Carmelo Anthony
and Tyson Chandler.
"We put some things in," Knicks coach Mike
Woodson said of the offense prior to the game. "When that unit is in, they'll
have some go-to things that they can run and hopefully can feel comfortable
running and then hopefully score off it. So that's the main thing. It doesn't
matter what you put in there, you still got to put the ball in the hole."
The Knicks didn't do that in Sunday's Game 1
loss.
The Knicks attempted only 19 3-pointers (which is
low for this team) and made only 15 of 37 shots in the paint, which is how the
Pacers limited them to just 43.2 percent shooting from the field. The Pacers also won the battle on the boards, 44-30, which underscored the Knicks' need for size and toughness.
"I thought we came out ready to play," Woodson
said. "We just didn't sustain it over a 48-minute ballgame."
The Knicks do have options, though.
In addition to using a bigger lineup, Woodson is
happy with what he's been getting out of point guard Raymond Felton and with
the team's three-pick-and-roll set.
"If everybody runs it right and separates
correctly then somebody's gonna be open," Woodson said of the play. "When you
come over the last screen, if the ball is not stopped, that guy has an
opportunity to play and be a playmaker and either score or pass it.
"We're not the only team that runs it. There's a
number of teams in our league that run it, but it has been a successful play
for us throughout the season"
The Knicks' advantage with Felton is that the
Pacers are adept at limiting scoring opportunities on the perimeter and in the
paint, but the veteran point guard has a mid-range game. Felton had 18 points
in Game 1, most of which came in between the arc and the lane.
"He's gonna have those looks, but again, we've
got to put in some multiple things where it's not just two guys playing,"
Woodson said. "And I'm trying to come up with some things, I put in some things
today, we'll see how it works tonight. We'll see what happens."
In other Knicks news:
• Amar'e Stoudemire (knee) is still on track for a
Game 3 return on Saturday in Indianapolis.
"He didn't have any setbacks today after going
3-on-3 yesterday," Woodson said. "It's been a rest day for him and kind of
(inaudible) and then tomorrow he'll go back at it again and then we'll weight
it out again on Thursday and see where he is. And then Friday we'll try and get
him in a 5-on-5 setting." | {
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Aug 2, 2013
Man Arrested For Threatening Ann Arbor Office
Federal
investigators say Daniel Norton is a dangerous man who may have been
planning a mass murder and escape into the wilderness.
The
Ypsilanti man was out on bond for making violent threats against
workers at an Ann Arbor Social Security office. Then, on Wednesday,
Homeland Protective Services looked in the trunk of his car and found an
arsenal of weapons similar to an AR-15 assault rifle, body armor,
ammunition, a generator and meals ready to eat like the ones used by the
military....
Norton allegedly called into the Ann Arbor office saying if he did not
receive benefits for heart medicine he would have a tactical response.
He faxed the office an extensive litany of alleged expert certificates
in weaponry and combat. ...
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conversely, his ability to plan out an attack and subsequent escape indicate an ability that is significantly higher than what would be expected of a "disabled" individual that could not perform ANY job.
Are we really joking about this situation? Would this same jokes or comments be made if the law enforcement agency hadn't stopped this gentleman and 20+ employees and many other members of the public been injured or killed?
Well it's a good thing our office has security measures in place to deal with...oh, wait, that's right, we don't have anything in place regarding security except the guard at the desk doing the daily crossword. No metal detectors, bullet proof glass - nothing.
Once somebody with a plan like this guy actually executes it, then we'll get those security measures. Too bad it going to take someone losing their life to address a potential problem. | {
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Wednesday, July 9, 2008
As you should be able to tell from the slideshow, Jessica is loving the pool. It's a good thing, because Kenny keeps reminding me that this is our vacation...this year, last year, next year-and so on, and so on...you get the picture! Usually Jess is in the pool for several hours a day, any way! At least an hour or so during the morning or early afternoon and then again after dinner with her Daddy. That seems to be her favorite time, but I have to say, she likes swimming with Mom, too!
Kenny's Mom and Dad returned safely from Alaska Monday afternoon and Laurie touched-down in the USA yesterday! I haven't heard from her since she was sitting on the runway in Chicago last night at 10:00. I am assuming she and Jamie made it to Montgomery and are sound asleep right now.
I'll try to get some pictures besides of us in the pool but since that is where we are spending the summer, you may be out of luck. And speaking of the summer, where has it gone. School supplies are out in Wal-Mart, Halloween things are out in Michael's--why can't we just enjoy one season without rushing the next!!!
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Amen to that!! Glad you all are enjoying the pool. We enjoyed our neighbors while they were out of town(with permission of coourse) and the boys really enjoyed the pool at the Jacksons. I start school in 3 weeks (25th of July!!!!)
HEAVEN'S VERY SPECIAL CHILD
A meeting was held quite far from earth, It was time again for another birth. Said the angels to the Lord above- "This child needs much love, her accomplishments she may not show. And she'll require extra care from the folks she meets down there. She may not run or laugh or play.Her thoughts may seem quite far away. So many times she will be labeled "different", "helpless", and "disabled". So let's be careful where she's sent. We want her life to be content. Please Lord; find parents who will do a special job for you. They will not realize right away the leading role they are asked to play. But with this child sent from above comes stronger faith and richer love.And soon they'll know their privilege given in caring for their gift from heaven. Their precious charge so meek and mild is Heaven's Very Special Child." | {
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The Democratic nominee in Georgia’s gubernatorial election had to walk back comments that suggested the agriculture and hospitality industries weren’t worth working in.
The controversy began when Stacey Abrams was giving a speech at Georgia Southern University as part of her “We Are Georgia” bus tour.
“I want to create a lot of different jobs because people shouldn’t have to go into agriculture or hospitality to make a living in Georgia. Why not create renewable energy jobs because — I’m going to tell ya’ll a secret — climate change is real,” Abrams said Tuesday at the campaign rally.
Throughout the campaign, Abrams has been a big proponent of solar and wind energy, and has made fighting climate change a part of her campaign platform. The Democratic candidate went on to claim in her Tuesday speech that the state could create 25,000 to 45,000 “good paying” jobs if renewable energy industry is recognized as “not only the future,” but also as “the now.”
The insinuation that agriculture wasn’t worth working in drew backlash from her critics. Georgia Secretary of State Brian Kemp, who is the Republican nominee in the election, suggested her comments were “hurtful” and an indication that she was spending too much time with her “socialist backers in San Francisco.”
Political pundits believe an insult against agriculture — which is the biggest industry in the Peach State — could badly hurt Abrams’ prospects in rural communities.
“The Kemp strategy is very obvious that they want to build up their base of support outside of Atlanta and most of that is agriculture communities. So for her to insult the agriculture community just sounds very weird and tone deaf,” Erick Erickson, a radio talk show host in Georgia and editor of The Resurgent, said to The Daily Caller News Foundation.
Stacey Abrams, running for the Democratic primary for Georgia’s 2018 governor’s race, speaks at a Young Democrats of Cobb County meeting as she campaigns in Cobb County, Georgia, U.S. on Nov. 16, 2017. REUTERS/Chris Aluka Berry
“The whole idea that she thinks the governor should have the power to create new industries is really what people — I think — should focus on,” Erickson continued. “Georgia has been one for the fastest growing states because government has gotten out of to way and let the private sector operate, and she clearly wants to undermine what has made Georgia as successful as it has been. Let alone, the agriculture industry is the biggest sector of the economy in Georgia.” (RELATED: Democratic Gubernatorial Candidate Has Accumulated Over $200,000 In Personal Debt)
Abrams has since walked back her comments, stating that she wants to diversify the state’s economy and raise wages across the board, calling agriculture a vital sector of the economy. Her campaign on Thursday flipped the issue back on Kemp, calling his attacks “assuredly misleading.”
“It is clear that Brian Kemp’s go-to tactic has become lying about Stacey Abrams’ bold plans and detailed policy proposals in order to cover up the fact that he has none of his own,” Abrams spokeswoman Abigail Collazo said in a statement.
This isn’t the first time the Georgia Democrat has made eyebrow-raising comments while on the campaign trail. Abrams said on Oct. 9 that the Democratic “blue wave” would be made up of documented and undocumented people, a sentence that suggests illegal aliens would be voting on Election Day.
Abrams said Sunday on “Meet the Press” that areas such as Albany, southwest Georgia and “Glasgow County” have been hit hard by Hurricane Michael. However, there is no Glasgow County in the state of Georgia.
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Mass Effect 3 Leviathan DLC Confirmed
It has been confirmed that Mass Effect 3 will be getting a big piece of appreciated single-player downlaodable content called Leviathan.
EA has revealed that it's coming to the PlayStation 3, Xbox 360 and PC, but we don't have a price or a date. That being said, we're always behind any extra content that expands upon the single-player experience, just because the vast majority of available DLC is only for multiplayer. It'll also be interesting to see how (or if) Leviathan somehow ties into the recently released Extended Cut, which was released to pacify those who complained about the game's endings.
We'll let you know when Leviathan for ME3 is set to become available. Chances are, the fans are lying in wait for more info concerning BioWare's new Dragon Age but hey, if gamers can get more ME3 love, they probably won't turn it down.
FINALLY!hope this is the first of many!this is EXACTLY why people were so pissed off when bioware announced the game would have MP!they knew that MP would take precedence and we wouldent see any SP DLC for a while, well, 5 months to be exact!
oh bull sh*t!you seriously should get a job as their PR team, your very good at piss poor excuses!they have released multiple MP packs before a single bit of SP DLC simply because their in the BS mindset that this is COD, and because that is most popular with the MP crowd every game will be!developers fail to understand that just because 1 game is mostly successful in a particular area, it does not mean their title will be the same. | {
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Movie News: First Look at ‘Max Steel’ Movie; Real-Life ‘Unbroken’ Hero Dies; First ‘Jimi: All Is by My Side’ Trailer
Max Steel: Based on both a toy line and a television series, Max Steel stars Ben Winchell as Max, a teenager who becomes a superpowered hero when he teams up with an alien friend named Steel. The first photos give us an idea of what to expect when the movie is released sometime in 2015. [Moviefone]
Unbroken: Louis Zamperini, whose life story serves as inspiration for Angelina Jolie’s upcoming Unbroken, has died at the age of 97. Zamperini competed in the 1936 Olympics, and later served in World War II, during which he was shot down over the Pacific Ocean, survived 47 days in a life raft, and then endured a harsh imprisonment by the Japanese military for two years. Jack O’Connell will play him in Jolie’s movie, which will open in theaters on December 25. [New York Times]
Frozen: Disney’s Frozen has become a worldwide phenomenom, not only at the box office but also in film tourism, and Norway is the happy beneficiary. The country has been busy promoting itself as the real-life inspiration for the movie’s fictional Arendelle, and visitors are reportedly flocking there as a result, joining the likes of New Zealand (The Lord of the Rings trilogy) and Northern Ireland (TV’s Game of Thrones) as new destinations for film-obsessed tourists. [Yahoo Travel]
Jimi: All Is by My Side Trailer: Musician-turned-actor André Benjamin (aka André 3000) takes on the challenge of playing the legendary Jimi Hendrix in Jimi: All Is by My Side, which opens in theaters on September 26. Written and directed by John Ridley, who won an Oscar for his 12 Years a Slave screenplay, the movie focus on the early days of Hendrix’s career, as captured in the first trailer. Imogen Poots and Hayley Atwell also star. [The Playlist] | {
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Dundalk to face ex-Arsenal striker Bendtner in Champions League qualifier
Dundalk have been drawn against Norwegian giants Rosenborg in the Champions League second qualifying round, writes Stephen Barry.
Former Arsenal striker Nicklas Bendtner will be among the ranks of the visitors to the Irish champions on July 11 or 12. The return leg will be played on July 18 or 19.
The Trondheim-based club are a point clear at the top of the Eliteserien after 13 games this season, while Dundalk’s four-in-a-row bid is on the rocks as they trail Cork City by 18 points after 18 games.
Meanwhile, Celtic are likely to face a trip to the North to open their European campaign.
The unbeaten Scottish champions will expect to face Linfield, if the NIFL Premiership table-toppers overcome San Marino minnows La Fiorita in the first qualifying round.
With Celtic drawn away for the first leg, the possibility of them playing in Belfast on July 12, a key date in the marching calendar, is potentially problematic for security services given past sectarian tensions.
Brendan Rogers’ side will need to repeat last year’s feat of winning three rounds of qualifiers to earn a group-stage berth.
Glenstal Abbey created Munster Schools Cup history when they won the trophy for the first time in a welter of excitement with a well-deserved victory over Christian Brothers College Cork at Musgrave Park today. | {
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Given the lack of consistent evidence of the relationship between Mediterranean dietary patterns and body fat, we assessed the cross-sectional association between adherence to a modified Mediterranean diet, BMI, and waist circumference (WC). A total of 497,308 individuals (70.7% women) aged 25-70 y from 10 European countries participated in this study. Diet was assessed at baseline using detailed validated country-specific questionnaires, and anthropometrical measurements were collected using standardized procedures. The association between the degree of adherence to the modified-Mediterranean Diet Score (mMDS) (including high consumption of vegetables, legumes, fruits and nuts, cereals, fish and seafood, and unsaturated: saturated fatty... (More)
Given the lack of consistent evidence of the relationship between Mediterranean dietary patterns and body fat, we assessed the cross-sectional association between adherence to a modified Mediterranean diet, BMI, and waist circumference (WC). A total of 497,308 individuals (70.7% women) aged 25-70 y from 10 European countries participated in this study. Diet was assessed at baseline using detailed validated country-specific questionnaires, and anthropometrical measurements were collected using standardized procedures. The association between the degree of adherence to the modified-Mediterranean Diet Score (mMDS) (including high consumption of vegetables, legumes, fruits and nuts, cereals, fish and seafood, and unsaturated: saturated fatty acids ratio; moderate alcohol intake; and low consumption of meat and meat products and dairy products) and BMI (kg.m(-2)) or WC (cm was modeled through mixed-effects linear regression, controlling for potential confounders. Overall, the mMDS was not significantly associated with BMI. Higher adherence to the Mediterranean diet was significantly associated with lower WC, for a given BMI, in both men (-0.09; 95% CI -0.14 to -0.04) and women (-0.06; 95% CI -0.10 to -0.01). The association was stronger in men (-0.20; 95% CI -0.23 to -0.17) and women (-0.17; 95% CI -0.21 to -0.13) from Northern European countries. Despite the observed heterogeneity among regions, results of this study suggest that adherence to a modified Mediterranean diet, high in foods of vegetable origin and unsaturated fatty acids, is associated with lower abdominal adiposity measured by WC in European men and women. J. Nutr. 139: 1728-1737, 2009. (Less)
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Bid To Block Fox Hunting Changes
The SNP have decided to vote against plans to change the law on fox hunting in England and Wales.
Bid To Block Fox Hunting Changes
The SNP have decided to vote against plans to change the law on fox hunting in England and Wales.
The nationalists are to ditch their traditional abstention from non-Scottish issues to join forces with Labour tomorrow in a move that is almost certain to outweigh support for the controversial move among Tory MPs.
The SNP's Westminster leader Angus Robertson said the party hoped to send a clear message to the "arrogant'' Government amid continued disputes over proposals to hand MPs south of the border a veto over English-only law.
Campaigners are angry about proposed changes to the Hunting Act to bring England and Wales into line with Scotland on using dogs to flush out foxes to be shot.
Traditional fox hunting with dogs is illegal across Britain, but in England and Wales just two dogs can be used to flush out a fox so that a farmer or landowner can shoot it, while in Scotland an unlimited number of dogs can be used.
Tory MPs have been given a free vote on the issue but hunting supporters appear unlikely to muster sufficient numbers to win the vote now that the SNP has thrown its new-found muscle behind the No camp.
High-profile animal welfare activists including Queen guitarist Brian May will take part in a rally outside Parliament by the "Team Fox'' coalition of animal welfare groups, including Animal Defenders International, urging MPs to keep the ban intact.
The decision comes amid ongoing controversy over the Government's plans to introduce English Votes for English Laws (Evel) - which are due to be debated immediately afterwards, adding spice to the showdown.
SNP leader Nicola Sturgeon, who attended the meeting of the party's SNP MPs in Westminster where the decision was made, had in February specifically identified fox hunting as the sort of English-only issue on which they would not exercise their Commons voting rights.
"The SNP have a long-standing position of not voting on matters that purely affect England - such as foxhunting south of the border, for example - and we stand by that,'' she wrote in The Guardian.
"Where any issue is genuinely 'English-only', with no impact on Scotland, the case for Evel can be made.''
But Mr Robertson issued a strongly-worded justification of the decision.
"We totally oppose fox hunting, and when there are moves in the Scottish Parliament to review whether the existing Scottish ban is strong enough, it is in the Scottish interest to maintain the existing ban in England and Wales for Holyrood to consider,'' he said.
"We are in a situation where the Tory government are refusing to agree to any amendments to improve the Scotland Bill - which are supported by 58 of Scotland's 59 MPs - and imposing English Votes for English Laws to make Scotland's representation at Westminster second class.
"In these circumstances, it is right and proper on fox hunting by voting with Labour against the Tories' proposals to relax the ban - in the process, reminding an arrogant UK government of just how slender their majority is - just as we will vote against the Tory welfare cuts next week, and appeal to Labour to join us.''
Celebrities including Ricky Gervais, Morrissey, Sadie Frost and Stella McCartney have joined the campaign against the proposed change, which has prompted accusations the Government is trying to sneak fox hunting in through the back door, knowing it would not win a free vote to repeal the Hunting Act in Parliament.
Actors Colin Baker and Julia McKenzie, comedian Alexei Sayle, TV presenters Chris Packham and Victoria Stilwell, naturalist Dame Jane Goodall and former Conservative MP Ann Widdecombe are among more than 20 high profile people who have signed a letter to MPs.
The letter warns that the Government is attempting to "weaken the Hunting Act though the back door, knowing full well that a free vote would maintain this effective, compassionate law''.
But hunting supporters are backing the move, saying traditional hunting would remain illegal and it would make it easier to manage fox populations.
A Conservative source said: "This is a technical change to bring the law in England and Wales more closely into line with Scotland.
"Hunting is a devolved issue. The SNP's decision to vote on a draft law that does not affect Scotland at all shows exactly why Conservatives committed in our manifesto to ensure laws that only affect England can only be passed with the consent of English MPs.''
Robbie Marsland, director of League Against Cruel Sports Scotland, said: "We applaud the decision of the SNP to oppose repeal of the Hunting Act through the back door. They have rightly taken a stand against animal cruelty and we look forward to working with them to strengthen the ban in Scotland to ensure no one is able to encourage a pack of hounds to chase and rip apart a wild animal.
"We hope that MPs from all parties will join with the SNP on Wednesday to vote against the weakening of the Hunting Act, recognising that supporting this repeal in disguise would be a step backwards for animal welfare and democracy''. | {
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Vegan Lentil, Kale, and Red Onion Pasta
"A simple, delicious, and versatile dish that is naturally vegan, but can be easily altered to accommodate both vegan and omnivorous eaters--excellent for family dinners and gathering where there will be people with a variety of food preferences."
Directions
Bring the vegetable broth, lentils, 1/2 teaspoon of salt, and bay leaf to a boil in a saucepan over high heat. Reduce heat to medium-low, cover, and cook until the lentils are tender, about 20 minutes. Add additional broth if needed to keep the lentils moist. Discard the bay leaf once done.
As the lentils simmer, heat the olive oil in a skillet over medium-high heat. Stir in the onion, thyme, oregano, 1/2 teaspoon of salt, and pepper. Cook and stir for 1 minute, then add the sausage. Reduce the heat to medium-low, and cook until the onion has softened, about 10 minutes.
Meanwhile, bring a large pot of lightly salted water to a boil over high heat. Add the kale and rotini pasta. Cook until the rotini is al dente, about 8 minutes. Remove some of the cooking water, and set aside. Drain the pasta, then return to the pot, and stir in the lentils, and onion mixture. Use the reserved cooking liquid to adjust the moistness of the dish to your liking. Sprinkle with nutritional yeast to serve. | {
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Kelana Jaya Line LRT Train Fare & Journey Duration
The Kelana Jaya Line LRT runs from Putra Heights through Kelana Jaya to Gombak, serving the Subang Jaya and Petaling Jaya regions to the south, southwest and central Kuala Lumpur, and Kuala Lumpur City Centre to low-density residential areas further north.
Here is a summary table that shows you how long it takes to reach each station from KL Sentral LRT Station and how much is the LRT train fare (one-way). | {
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The Google Glass wearable computer is finally available to selected developers - but can it takes on Apple's rumoured iWatch?
Google Glass is the first wearable computer to hit the streets, and, if rumours are to be believed, will battle the Apple iWatch when it finally goes on sale to the public next year.
The first, and ultimately most important thing you need to know about Google Glass is that yes, you'll look an idiot. Not just a bit daft, but full-on people giving you pitying looks in the street silly. That aside, and it is without doubt Glass's biggest issue, the technological side of Glass is fascinating.
Google Glass: Size and build
Putting it on for the first time is an odd experience. It's really light at 42g, and feels light on your face - much more so than many badly fitted pairs of glasses, in fact.
The build quality of Glass is superb, and while the screen is obviously fragile, we managed to drop the unit a couple of times with no damage, and the adjustable frame bends (a surprising amount) to fit almost any face shape.
Different sized nosepads are supplied along with a sun shield (just in case you want to look even more absurd) and a carrying case.
There's no disguising the fact you're wearing Glass, but aesthetically it could have looked a lot worse (as pictures of earlier prototypes show).
The battery is behind the ear to balance the device - which feels incredibly light when being worn. You can just about get a full day's use out of the battery, assuming you don't record too many videos or take part in Google hangouts.
Google Glass: Display
Once it's on, you simply swivel the tiny prism that projects the screen into view, and hey presto, you're a glasshole (as wearers have cruelly been dubbed in San Francisco).
The display 'hovers' in the top right of your vision, and at first feels very, very strange and intrusive. However, after a few hours, that subsides, and we found that we forgot we were wearing it a lot of the time (unless you question why people are looking at you strangely, anyway).
The design means that when the screen is off, you can see through it and act and see like a normal, non-cyborg. The high resolution display is the equivalent of a 25-inch high definition screen from eight feet away.
Google Glass: Controls
The touch-sensitive frame, on the right of the glass, is very simple to use and responsive, with left to right scrolling, tapping to move down a menu layer and swiping down to move up.
The menu system is a series of cards, which you scroll through. Some of the cards have folded edges, which means they contain more information - for instance, clicking on an email lets you see past conversations.
It works reasonably well, but if you subscribe to several apps and are getting email, news headlines and updates from social network Path, for instance, it can all become a little laboured scrolling through.
Google Glass: Features
The first thing you'll do with Glass is, without doubt, take a picture. The 5MP unit is good, but not great - although Google has already improved it dramatically in its monthly software updates. It's also capable of recording 720p video.
The bone conduction speaker means you get 'private' audio, and it works well, although it does give you an odd buzzing sensation at times. The microphone also works well, even when you're about and about - but can be humiliating if you need to shout 'ok, glass'
Glass also features a Micro USB Connector - used for charging the device, with a full charge taking only about an hour.
The headset also packs Wi-Fi (802.11b/g) and Bluetooth connectivity along with 12 GB of usable memory, synced with Google cloud storage.
Google Glass: Apps
The current apps are very limited, and are really little more than a proof of concept for the technology, but that is set to change quickly now developers have them.
Most of the apps available are Google's own, with email and text support, along with Google's search and Google+ and Google Hangouts. There are also Twitter, Path, New York Times, CNN, Evernote and Tumblr apps, although all are very basic, but do allow you to easily share information.
Unsurprisingly, you'll need an Android phone to get the most out of Glass, and setup is easy - just download the MyGlass app, and tell it what your Wi-Fi network is and what apps you want to use from a (currently very small) list.
Google Glass: Directions
There's a lot of debate over whether using Glass in a car will be safe, but directions show Glass at its best, with unobtrusive information that's just there when you need it. There are driving, walking and cycling directions built in.
Google Glass: Google Now
Google Now is the key to Glass from Google's point of view, Now integration brings information you've searched for elsewhere to Glass - for instance, look up a restaurant on your PC before you leave, and it'll be in Glass as you leave, complete with traffic delays and the option to get directions.
Google Glass: Text messaging
Seeing texts pop up is a bit of a shock at first, but soon becomes incredibly useful, particularly as Google's speech recognition is so good.
Google Glass: Search
Unsurprisingly, the integration of Google's search engine is superb, with voice recognition and smart handling of results, which can show you weather forecasts, directions or standard Google results- although at the moment you can't actually go and visit sites.
Google Glass: Performance
Leaving the house for the first time is the biggest leap of faith, and it's slightly terrifying watching people clock you wearing Glass. Perhaps it's the British reserve coming into play, but it really is rather embarrassing, even on the streets of San Francisco - and that feeling doesn't go away after a few days.
However, what does change is how useful they become. The key to Glass is that it's always there, ready to go - and always keeping you up to date. Playing with it around the house is all well and good, but its after you wear it around for a day it actually starts becoming useful.
Walking directions are superb, and incredibly well implemented, and taking video and pictures is very neatly implemented - just tap the touchpad or lift your head to wake up Glass, and say 'take a picture'.
However, it's the alerts that really began to grow on us in a way we weren't expecting after a few days. Getting your email or a tweet mentioning you popping up becomes part of life, and being able to reply by voice instantly really means you're never out of touch, and means you communicate in an entirely new, and fascinating way.
Google Glass: Privacy
There are obvious privacy concerns, and in Europe these are yet to be addressed, and people do seem to be uncomfortable when they realise you're wearing Glass. However, many people, ourselves included, believe the usefulness (or potential usefulness, at least) does outweigh the issues. Besides, Google Glass doesn't really infringe on privacy more than the average smartphone.
One of the slightly annoying things about the design, however, is that you really do have to wear Glass all the time if you decide to go out with it - there's no way to fold it up and store it. There is a carrying bag which protects it, but it's not small.
In terms of rival products, Glass really is the trailblazer in the wearables market, and while there are a few adventure sports goggles that offer augmented reality displays, there really is no competition for Glass at the moment.
Google Glass: Software updates
Google stresses that Glass is still an early version, and the consumer hardware and software that goes on sale next year will, and should, be very different to the 'Explorer Edition' available to developers today.
It also plans to update the software every month, so by the time it goes on sale to the public in 2014, it may have changed radically. We also don't know how much Glass will cost, with analysts estimating £500-700. At this price, given the current features at least, it simply isn't worth it for the average consumer, although if Google were to surprise the industry and sell Glass for £300, it could have an instant hit.
The overwhelming feeling is that the first version at least is likely to fail as an expensive novelty that makes you look stupid, particularly given the privacy worries.
But having worn Glass for just a few days, there is something wonderful about this technology as well. If Google can make it as unobtrusive as possible (and there are researchers around the globe working on contact lenses that could replace the headset), and make the software simpler and more useful, then this really could be the next big thing in technology - we just aren't there yet.
Google Glass: Verdict
Google Glass is very much an early version, and as such has a few problems, and does crash now and again. However, its core functions, such as directions, speech recognition and camera work extremely well. You're crippled by the small selection of apps currently available, but by the time it goes on sale to the public in 2014, that will almost certainly have changed.
Once the full consumer version is out (along with a broader range of apps), we'll take another look and re-assess the product.
For now, it's safe to say that Google Glass is a unique, and potentially great, product at a very early stage of development- but for now, it really is only for developers, and it will make you look a glasshole. | {
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Have We Lost the War on Drugs?
After more than four decades of a failed experiment, the human cost has become too high. It is time to consider the decriminalization of drug use and the drug market.
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The American "war on drugs" began in 1971.
Stephen Webster
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Gary S. Becker and
Kevin M. Murphy
Jan. 4, 2013 8:39 p.m. ET
President Richard Nixon declared a "war on drugs" in 1971. The expectation then was that drug trafficking in the United States could be greatly reduced in a short time through federal policing—and yet the war on drugs continues to this day. The cost has been large in terms of lives, money and the well-being of many Americans, especially the poor and less educated. By most accounts, the gains from the war have been modest at best.
The direct monetary cost to American taxpayers of the war on drugs includes spending on police, the court personnel used to try drug users and traffickers, and the guards and other resources spent on imprisoning and punishing those convicted of drug offenses. Total current spending is estimated at over $40 billion a year.
These costs don't include many other harmful effects of the war on drugs that are difficult to quantify. For example, over the past 40 years the fraction of students who have dropped out of American high schools has remained large, at about 25%. Dropout rates are not high for middle-class white children, but they are very high for black and Hispanic children living in poor neighborhoods. Many factors explain the high dropout rates, especially bad schools and weak family support. But another important factor in inner-city neighborhoods is the temptation to drop out of school in order to profit from the drug trade.
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The total number of persons incarcerated in state and federal prisons in the U.S. has grown from 330,000 in 1980 to about 1.6 million today. Much of the increase in this population is directly due to the war on drugs and the severe punishment for persons convicted of drug trafficking. About 50% of the inmates in federal prisons and 20% of those in state prisons have been convicted of either selling or using drugs. The many minor drug traffickers and drug users who spend time in jail find fewer opportunities for legal employment after they get out of prison, and they develop better skills at criminal activities.
Prices of illegal drugs are pushed up whenever many drug traffickers are caught and punished harshly. The higher prices they get for drugs help compensate traffickers for the risks of being apprehended. Higher prices can discourage the demand for drugs, but they also enable some traffickers to make a lot of money if they avoid being caught, if they operate on a large enough scale, and if they can reduce competition from other traffickers. This explains why large-scale drug gangs and cartels are so profitable in the U.S., Mexico, Colombia, Brazil and other countries.
The paradox of the war on drugs is that the harder governments push the fight, the higher drug prices become to compensate for the greater risks. That leads to larger profits for traffickers who avoid being punished. This is why larger drug gangs often benefit from a tougher war on drugs, especially if the war mainly targets small-fry dealers and not the major drug gangs. Moreover, to the extent that a more aggressive war on drugs leads dealers to respond with higher levels of violence and corruption, an increase in enforcement can exacerbate the costs imposed on society.
The large profits for drug dealers who avoid being caught and punished encourage them to try to bribe and intimidate police, politicians, the military and anyone else involved in the war against drugs. If police and officials resist bribes and try to enforce antidrug laws, they are threatened with violence and often begin to fear for their lives and those of their families.
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Mexico offers a well-documented example of some of the costs involved in drug wars. Probably more than 50,000 people have died since Mexico's antidrug campaign started in 2006. For perspective, about 150,000 deaths would result if the same fraction of Americans were killed. This number of deaths is many magnitudes greater than American losses in the Iraq and Afghanistan wars combined, and is about three times the number of American deaths in the Vietnam War. Many of those killed were innocent civilians and the army personnel, police officers and local government officials involved in the antidrug effort.
There is also considerable bitterness in Mexico over the war because the great majority of the drugs go to the U.S. drug cartels in Mexico and several other Latin American countries would be far weaker if they were only selling drugs to domestic consumers (Brazilian and Mexican drug gangs also export a lot to Europe).
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In Seattle, a man smokes marijuana from a water pipe shortly after a state law legalizing recreational marijuana use took effect on Dec. 6.
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The main gain from the war on drugs claimed by advocates of continuing the war is a lower incidence of drug use and drug addiction. Basic economics does imply that, under given conditions, higher prices for a good leads to reduced demand for that good. The magnitude of the response depends on the availability of substitutes for the higher priced good. For example, many drug users might find alcohol a good substitute for drugs as drugs become more expensive.
The conclusion that higher prices reduce demand only "under given conditions" is especially important in considering the effects of higher drug prices due to the war on drugs. Making the selling and consumption of drugs illegal not only raises drug prices but also has other important effects. For example, while some consumers are reluctant to buy illegal goods, drugs may be an exception because drug use usually starts while people are teenagers or young adults. A rebellious streak may lead them to use and sell drugs precisely because those activities are illegal.
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More important, some drugs, such as crack or heroin, are highly addictive. Many people addicted to smoking and to drinking alcohol manage to break their addictions when they get married or find good jobs, or as a result of other life-cycle events. They also often get help from groups like Alcoholics Anonymous, or by using patches and "fake" cigarettes that gradually wean them from their addiction to nicotine.
It is generally harder to break an addiction to illegal goods, like drugs. Drug addicts may be leery of going to clinics or to nonprofit "drugs anonymous" groups for help. They fear they will be reported for consuming illegal substances. Since the consumption of illegal drugs must be hidden to avoid arrest and conviction, many drug consumers must alter their lives in order to avoid detection.
Usually overlooked in discussions of the effects of the war on drugs is that the illegality of drugs stunts the development of ways to help drug addicts, such as the drug equivalent of nicotine patches. Thus, though the war on drugs may well have induced lower drug use through higher prices, it has likely also increased the rate of addiction. The illegality of drugs makes it harder for addicts to get help in breaking their addictions. It leads them to associate more with other addicts and less with people who might help them quit.
Most parents who support the war on drugs are mainly concerned about their children becoming addicted to drugs rather than simply becoming occasional or modest drug users. Yet the war on drugs may increase addiction rates, and it may even increase the total number of addicts.
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One moderate alternative to the war on drugs is to follow Portugal's lead and decriminalize all drug use while maintaining the illegality of drug trafficking. Decriminalizing drugs implies that persons cannot be criminally punished when they are found to be in possession of small quantities of drugs that could be used for their own consumption. Decriminalization would reduce the bloated U.S. prison population since drug users could no longer be sent to jail. Decriminalization would make it easier for drug addicts to openly seek help from clinics and self-help groups, and it would make companies more likely to develop products and methods that address addiction.
Some evidence is available on the effects of Portugal's decriminalization of drugs, which began in 2001. A study published in 2010 in the British Journal of Criminology found that in Portugal since decriminalization, imprisonment on drug-related charges has gone down; drug use among young persons appears to have increased only modestly, if at all; visits to clinics that help with drug addictions and diseases from drug use have increased; and opiate-related deaths have fallen.
Decriminalization of all drugs by the U.S. would be a major positive step away from the war on drugs. In recent years, states have begun to decriminalize marijuana, one of the least addictive and less damaging drugs. Marijuana is now decriminalized in some form in about 20 states, and it is de facto decriminalized in some others as well. If decriminalization of marijuana proves successful, the next step would be to decriminalize other drugs, perhaps starting with amphetamines. Gradually, this might lead to the full decriminalization of all drugs.
Though the decriminalization of drug use would have many benefits, it would not, by itself, reduce many of the costs of the war on drugs, since those involve actions against traffickers. These costs would not be greatly reduced unless selling drugs was also decriminalized. Full decriminalization on both sides of the drug market would lower drug prices, reduce the role of criminals in producing and selling drugs, improve many inner-city neighborhoods, encourage more minority students in the U.S. to finish high school, substantially lessen the drug problems of Mexico and other countries involved in supplying drugs, greatly reduce the number of state and federal prisoners and the harmful effects on drug offenders of spending years in prison, and save the financial resources of government.
The lower drug prices that would result from full decriminalization may well encourage greater consumption of drugs, but it would also lead to lower addiction rates and perhaps even to fewer drug addicts, since heavy drug users would find it easier to quit. Excise taxes on the sale of drugs, similar to those on cigarettes and alcohol, could be used to moderate some, if not most, of any increased drug use caused by the lower prices.
Taxing legal production would eliminate the advantage that violent criminals have in the current marketplace. Just as gangsters were largely driven out of the alcohol market after the end of prohibition, violent drug gangs would be driven out of a decriminalized drug market. Since the major costs of the drug war are the costs of the crime associated with drug trafficking, the costs to society would be greatly reduced even if overall drug consumption increased somewhat.
The decriminalization of both drug use and the drug market won't be attained easily, as there is powerful opposition to each of them. The disastrous effects of the American war on drugs are becoming more apparent, however, not only in the U.S. but beyond its borders. Former Mexican President Felipe Calderon has suggested "market solutions" as one alternative to the problem. Perhaps the combined efforts of leaders in different countries can succeed in making a big enough push toward finally ending this long, enormously destructive policy experiment.
—Mr. Becker is a professor of economics and sociology at the University of Chicago. He won the Nobel Prize in economics in 1992. Mr. Murphy is a professor of economics at the University of Chicago Booth School of Business. Both are senior fellows of the Hoover Institution at Stanford University.
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Imaging Shows Value of Statins in Lupus
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CT coronary artery calcium scoring showed a slight regression in plaque after one year of treatment with atorvastatin (Lipitor) in cardiovascular symptom-free patients with systemic lupus erythematosus, a Polish study found. | {
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Classic style at its finest! This attractive mirror features a timeless, square design with a dark wood and antique brass frame and two small face dials labelled London and Hong Kong. The perfect way to keep time at home and for loved ones abroad.
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Classic style at its finest! This attractive mirror features a timeless, square design with a dark wood and antique brass frame and two small face dials labelled London and Hong Kong. The perfect way to keep time at home and for loved ones abroad. | {
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Not to boast, but I’m older, balder, and uglier thanthis kind gent… and probably twice as mean. I also have a suit about like that…and a ginham shirt.Think I’ll come visit some of you in yer dreams and scare thep*ss outta you.
You seem about as knowledgable about menswear as anyone possible. My boyfriend is having a hard time finding a contemporary coat, something not so stuffy, a peacoat with a modern flair I guess. We have looked everywhere and everything seems to be sold out already: J. Lindeberg, Michael Bastian coat we found on Bergdorf site… | {
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Wantomake. Yes I remember you. Not much to report. Havent worked on this for a while. I have a bigger armature to try put a couple of windings on as Mbrownn specified. Im thinking along the lines of the charge coils being the same as the motor run coils . this puts more amperage into the system on the tri-coil and capacitor. the tricoil and the capacitor make the phase change. Just a thought. Do some more posting on Imotep. Least we can get a conversation going. Kicking around ideas. Thanks Hiwater | {
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A clock for the true geek
Sure having a clock that shows your the time as a short sentence might be a little on the cool side but it is compared to a true geek’s clock it doesn’t even come close to being cool.
You want to be a proud geek and show off how cool stuff always shows up a one of our gadgets we love to show off? Then this Progressbar Clock is right up your alley.
The only thing that really sucks about this great clock is that right now it is only a concept but I’d bet dollars to donuts that if this came on the market geeks the world round would line up like Apple fans to get one.
Of course if clocks aren’t your thing you could always go for the steampunk mouse. | {
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any way we could get the option to only show only regular players or members when viewing the player stats graph.
It can be hard to tell how many members you have in comparison to regulars if the numbers get highhttp://www.angelfire.com/hero/straygames/ByondBugs/ PlayerStats.png
or maybe just a little line sticking off that shows what the count is on each day
EDIT: plus it causes the span of the graph to majorly space out when both are showin in a case like this
I don't know about showing only "regular" (that will end up being a term nobody can agree a requirement for) but it would be useful to be able to download a list of the exact numbers or something (Wikispaces has something like this which can open in spreadsheet programs).
I've noticed that in games of my own, it is impossible to tell how many BYOND Members and Subscribers there are because the regular player number set the graph so high it looks like 0. | {
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Fall colors decorate top of canyon
Leaves have begun to turn color in the high country. This view near the top of Huntington Canyon shows the view that awaits drivers who want to cruise the Energy Loop, which runs from Huntington to Skyline Drive and back down the hill through Scofield. Visitors are advised to be careful with fire because the moisture levels in the wooded areas have been low for the past month. | {
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After ten days of frolicking around Ireland, I’ve come back to share my adventures with all of you. More importantly, I’m going to tell you all about the food I ate and where I ate it, and all of the fun things I did. That way you have something to go off of when you’re planning your own trip to the Emerald Isle (which I highly recommend you do).
I was traveling on my own, so I booked a bed at the Generator Hostel in Dublin, and I’m glad I didn’t spring for a hotel – I felt totally at home at the hostel. It was far enough away from the touristy area of town, but close enough to walk to pretty much everything worth seeing. The Jameson Distillery, which was right next door to the hostel, was on the top of my list of things to do – unfortunately, it was undergoing some changes and won’t reopen for tours until March 2017. | {
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At IFA in Berlin, Sony took the wraps off the Xperia XZ1 and XZ1 Compact smartphones. One of the most unique features on these devices is the 3D Creator app, which allows you to map a 3D image of pretty much anything and use it as a custom wallpaper, an AR effect, gaming, 3D printing, and more. Check out the video below to learn more about how it works:
If you’re interested in checking out this feature for yourself and currently own the Xperia XZ Premium, we have some good news — Sony has confirmed on Twitter that the high-end smartphone will receive the 3D Creator app with the Android 8.0 Oreo update. When exactly will that happen is anyone’s guess right now, as the company did not specify a time frame yet.
Along with the 3D Creator app, the update will also bring quite a few camera improvements to the device. These may include Autofocus burst, which tracks and captures sequences of moving objects in sharp focus to avoid blurred action shots, and Predictive Capture that attempts to capture unexpected motion such as your child’s smile. Just like the 3D Creator app, these two features are already available on the Xperia XZ1 and XZ1 Compact.
Do you see yourself using the 3D Creator app? Share your thoughts with us down below. | {
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Chef-to-Table Restaurant Opens in Hillcrest
San Diego A new Italian restaurant, Maestoso, will offer a unique dining experience: chefs will both cook and serve guests their meals—a concept called “chef-to-table.”
Roman chef Marco Maestoso founded this new restaurant alongside his partner, Dalila Ercolani, friends Christopher Antinucci and Giulia Colmignoli of NaPizza restaurant group, and Antinucci’s brother and professional race car driver Richard Antinucci. Maestoso is known for the now closed Casa Maestoso in Rome and highly regarded pop-up diners in New York City.
Maestoso is located at The Hub Hillcrest Market at 1040 University Ave. The 2,000 plus square foot space eatery is located in what was formerly a NaPizza outlet. A soft opening occurred March 8 with a grand opening set for March 15.
The restaurant’s menu is a mix of Roman dishes and novel concepts. Some items served are pinsa, the Roman ancestor of pizza, build your own pasta options, beef tartare, cherry pork tenderloin, Italian wines, and San Diego beers.
The chef-to-table concept aims to create more interaction between guests and chefs. Maestoso says this encourages customers to have a stronger bond with the food they are eating.
“On the business side, it legally allows the restaurateur to utilize tips (which normally go exclusively to front of house staff) to beef up back of house wages,” says Maestoso. “Labor cost will be lower for the restaurateur and chefs’ wages will be higher.” | {
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Tag Archives: Age of Jesus
This past year, it’s true, I turned 30. And for the 3 or 4 of you that actually read this blog, I know my secret is safe with you. Turning 30 is pretty important. It’s not because you get your driver’s license, or you can get in any movie you want, or you can rent a car (which I believe is 25, kind of a weird rule). It’s something much more spiritual, monumental, and reflective…
30 years old. Wow. Some may call it young. Some may call it old (Like my students. One of which asked me about the 70’s…he was serious, and I was serious when I told him I was born in 1982). Nevertheless, turning 30 is significant if you are a student of Scripture. You see, according to Luke 3:23, Jesus was 30 when he began his public, earthly ministry. It was the year the Messiah started his ministry career, gathered 11 young men and Peter for discipleship, and began teaching, healing, and doing miracles. The Christ was about to make His name known, all the while knowing, that in 3 years’ time, He would willingly give His life, and completely transform the world.
Now you see why it is signficant? Now, I certainly have very few things in common with the perfect Savior. But turning 30 is something we both have in common. Sure, it’s a small straw to hold on to, but it does cause one to reflect how much my life resembles the Savior’s at 30. Here are some things that come to mind:
Follow Me? Christ began to assemble 12 disciples that he mentored, challenged, and developed spiritually. These were the men (sans Judas) that would eventually establish the early church. Am I taking the time to disciple the younger generation? Do I realize these are the young men that will be the next generation of the Church?
An Ounce of Teaching. Never could I ever approach the skill, the duality of simplicity and depth, the sensitivity, and the insight of the master teacher. However, that doesn’t mean I can’t try to improve my craft of teaching and preaching. Some goals I have is to read books like Excellence in Preaching, Speaking to Teenagers, and Hearing God’s Word: Expositional Preaching. Eventually, I’d like to take some homiletic courses. In the meantime, I make it a point to glean knowledge from veteran preachers like my senior pastor, and listen to other skilled communicators at least once a week.
More Public. My risk is nowhere near the risk of Jesus’ public ministry. Jesus was claiming to be the Messiah, the anointed one that the Jewish nation had been waiting on for hundreds of years. However, it’s still time my ministry becomes more public. That means being a witness more often, recognizing needs of my neighbors and community, and not shying away from gospel sharing opportunities.
Sure, I’ll never perform miracles at weddings this year, raise someone from the dead, and probably won’t be preaching from a boat anytime soon…but I can still make my earthly ministry significant, and after turning 30, there’s no better time. | {
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Slowly lowly, dearly calmly, i walk the path
Briskly quickly, feisty fiercely, I dare the odds
In a moment all is bliss, in another all is filth
I long for days unwritten, I fear for days forgotten
Though speedily to my rescue comes the time keeper, gradually to my dismay goes the piper
Life is but a journey; a movie as that on the broadway giving happy endings to lovers but broken dreams to thinkers
Right after we shut the doors and our dark-coffee brown colored curtains are pulled together; when darkness forms like a shield to the outside; the peering or seeing eyes.
When the walls are sound proof, some kind of vacuum in the bricks to keep away eavesdropping servants, maidens, neighbors, friends and family. Just in some sort of solitary but within a space of our chosen muse and companions, soon to be cohorts.
When only the few selected or persmissible are witnesses except that all the same it’s still the same aloneness because those within are chosen consciously or unconsciously, this very kinds of closet and all the other kinds of closet simply become the definitions of who we truly are.
In this closet, just when we think others aren’t watching or the immediate “enemy” is far away, and right judgements are distant, perhaps delayed because surely they come.
In this closet, at those times, in this cycles, this web and darkness we become the acceptable or dispensable monsters, the devils or the mirrors of faith and light; because it’s always a black or white, a sweet or bitter, a bad or good affair!
We are truly who we are alone. We show only who’s we are or belong. We are naked to ourselves and fulfill our own desires, we show to whom we are spellbound and enslaved. We are conceited in our capacity to please our very privacy and selected space without the notion to be just who and what we reflect in the public’s eye. We discover our own strengths and weaknesses within and without the walls of our very own thoughts of freedom or bondage. We are chained to this disease, so viral enough to pervade soul and spirit.
Slaves in the closet; zombies in a world of our own definition! We bless or curse to become, gnashing or joying in remorse or victories won. We can only be sure who’s we are in the closet because we all think the battle without isn’t piety or leaves us in contempt by the unapproved eyes of the our unchosen world.
As I looked at the man in the mirrors of my closet, I saw my wretchedness, a waywardness and cowardice of only the Pharisees! A denial of faith and denouncement of belief and life itself. I groped in cycles of shame and vainities so mundane.
Today I write to fellow slaves of the closet, chained to cycles of failure and contempt, broken within and darkened. Ashamed and abashed for need to truly live like Sunday daily! Churched within But charred within! There is a hope that comes with just seeing the chains and ropes tied around our hearts, eyes and ears. There is a hope to be truly free and be slaves to life and love for Him. | {
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I saw one of the other threads had a good bit of info on rod building. I didn't want to hijack, so I'll make a new one.
I'm in college and fairly poor (those of you who have been here long can remember a similar thread in which i ask the same questions about fly tying. I'm happy to report that its one of my favorite hobbies now.)
Basically, I was wondering how much money I could save by building rods. I initially started tying flies out of thrift (although I don't think I saved much yet... but I will eventually) and it has become a very rewarding hobby. Is it something that I would want to try for these reasons? I'd hope that I enjoy it and can make a hobby/build rods for friends at wholesale, but if not, will it at least be cheaper than buying a new one?
I'm not great with my hands but I tend to get deeply immersed in things which I put my mind to (i'm a computer programmer).
If its worth a shot, and if I can afford it, let me know where to start. Tips/lessons learned would be great.
Yes, you can save money. What is your time worth? I save money cutting my own lawn, too, but some Saturday in June when flies are hatching, I think if I didn't also need the exercise, I'd be wise to pay the neighborhood teenager $25 and go fishing instead.
Anyone can learn to build a rod and if perfection in appearance isn't top priority for you, I would say to go for it. I have built and rebuilt several. They seem to work as good as any I've purchased. You can spend as little as 30-40 bucks for a generic blank and you can choose inexpensive reelseat components. Pay for good cork (I use pre-made handles) and good guides, though, as they take a lot of the strain of use. I was fortunate to get a good book at the local library, but I think I found some instructional information on-line by searching as well. Take your time on the first one and "measure" twice or three times before epoxy is applied because once it starts to harden, there is no time to recalculate. With wrapping guides, you can alway unwrap and rewrap if you aren't happy-- inspect them well before using the color preserver or coating. I don't sweat minor imperfections if the rod still functions.
There are quite a few on board here that have built rods, so ask questions as you tackle your first project. There is no reason it can't be built over a period of days so you can make sure you are progressing correctly.
Good luck.
Posted on: 2007/1/2 16:50
_________________ "Only nature is good, only the natural is human,..."
Here, however, we are experiencing the consequences of the doctrine, lately preached from all the rooftops, that the state is the highest goal of mankind....
If you want to build your own rods to simply save money, then I would say don't start. In my opinion, the only good reason for getting started in this is because you want to. Don't expect to save much for awhile. If you are building just one, you probably will not save any money because of the initial investments. even 2 rods, it would still be questionable whether you would save any money (call this an educated guess). You have to buy materials, Epoxy, winding thread, etc. Some people buy or build a winder (I didn't. I use a cardboard box with grooves cut out of it). You might need a drying motor setup. They aren't extremely cheap either. Much of this is guesswork, because I've never built any plastic ... errr ... I mean graphite rods. The point is, there will be an initial investment outside of blank and component costs. Like I said, if you are only doing it to save money, and you will only be doing 1 or 2 rods, I'd say don't bother. If you are doing it for enjoyment, then go for it. If you are doing it to build a few for other people as well, that's even better.
Jay, I tend to disagree with Farmer Dave as you can see, but he is correct in the assessment that if it will be a mere chore, as opposed to a joy for the sake of fishing with something you crafted, it probably isn't worth the investment of time and effort. On the other hand, it would definitely save money over manufactured rods of similar functionality. I built all my rods without wrapping equipment-- my wrapper was my lap and the recliner arms and a thick book, my rod turning implement was a cardboard box and my two hands, turning the rod sections 180 degrees every 10 minutes for an hour, then every 30 minutes for the next two hours, then every hour until I was no longer seeing movement of the clear coat.
The kit from Cabelas may be a good start, since it comes with instructions and all the materials you need. It will let you get the needed experience on all the essential steps in the process so the next rod or rods can be tailor-made to your preferences.
Like I said, read up on it first and take your time with the first one. Ask questions here or on other rod-building forums you can locate on the web. Let us know how it goes.
Posted on: 2007/1/3 9:29
_________________ "Only nature is good, only the natural is human,..."
Here, however, we are experiencing the consequences of the doctrine, lately preached from all the rooftops, that the state is the highest goal of mankind....
I'm not really doing it JUST to save money. Fishing is what I do. I'm constantly looking for ways to further immerse myself in it.
Unfortunately, I'm at a point in my life where saving money is a must (because i don't have it). It really sucks, but I'll make it.
I am really curious about trying it. If it works well, i can just imagine how proud my dad would be if I could make him one for his birthday next year.
My main concerns were whether I would end up spending the $500 a rod to make them when I could just buy them for that price. I also want to make sure that its something that I can do correctly, without screwing it up too bad.
I think i'm going to get one of the cabela's kits just to give it a try. If I like it, i'll stick with it and use my new found experience.... that's basically what I did with fly tying.
Lets see....
I've been looking at 5 weights for nymphing bigger water (my 4 weight just doesn't cut it sometimes). That sounds like a good start. Maybe I'll be able to build a 9 weight in time for next fall's cohos in pulaski! Then my dad's birthday. If I like it, I'll at least build those three.... hopefully that will disperse some of the initial cost.
I respect Jack’s opinion He is the only guy at this site who is cheaper than me. You can probably learn a lot from him when it comes to saving money.
Based on Cabela's kits, I stand corrected (sorta). You can save some money. For example: A PT805 costs $165. The basic kit to build the same rod costs $90. If you don't plan on buying any of the other gadgets you will save money. Personally, I couldn't imagine doing one without a drying motor and stand but I tend to be impatient and don’t have the time. I also tend to be a perfectionist, and the last thing I would want is for a sag in the epoxy. It would bug the crap out of me every time I looked at it. It can be done obviously, but the amount of time spent turning it could be spent doing something else, and too much risk for a screw-up. One screw-up, and all you have is a very expensive tomato stake. Of course it would last a long time though.
Like I said, this was/is an educated guess, so take it for what it is worth. An educated guess is still just a guess. I don’t need a drying stand and motor for the cane rods. Just a place to hang them.
I started rod building for the same reasons you did (poor college student, looking for a new hobbie and to save a buck). Out of the dozen or so rods I've build, many have come from Cabelas kits. Check the prices again- many are less than if you piece the rod and components together, plus they come with epoxy, finish, thread, instructions, and brushes. I took a class at E Hille's in Williamsport for $75, and my blank and components cost about $125 = total $200. That rod i built in the class retailed for $200; fair trade. Also, Bass Pro in Harrisburg offers free fly tying and rod building classes. I aggree with Jack. Take your time, build it over a couple of days. I am currently building 3 rods (2 for Hille's and one for me) and they will take me a couple of weeks to complete).
Remember, the first one doesn't always turn out. matter of fack I just refinish my first rod 10 minutes ago.
I think that would work great. I bought the wrapper (shown in the picture) for $40 and purchased a motor for $25 for Hille's. But if that set was availible to me, I would have jumped on it. I love my rod wrapper, and there is no need to spend $400 when $100 will do. I started to build a rod once with thebook method-- didn't care for it much.
Jay, if you are planning to build three rods to start, that set up will add about 33 bucks to the cost of each. It will definitely make things easier to wrap and dry and it won't tie up a saturday to supervise the drying process. In addition, the cork reamers are something that will save time and trouble-- have you ever tried to size the cork inside diameter with sandpaper wrapped around a phillips screwdriver? I built my two graphite rods for under $100 each. They still catch fish and no one has tried to rob me of them streamside and I fish Dunbar Creek a dozen times a year.
Posted on: 2007/1/3 11:59
_________________ "Only nature is good, only the natural is human,..."
Here, however, we are experiencing the consequences of the doctrine, lately preached from all the rooftops, that the state is the highest goal of mankind....
I'd say go for it. I use Cabela's blanks, and the last time I built myself some rods, four of them, two years ago. I figured it cost me about $110 per rod. Considering the mark-up on factory built rods is close to 50%, a similar rod if I could find one would run me a couple hundred dollars. The deal was on the blanks, something like buy 4 pay for 3. I spent extra on getting good reel seats, the single foot guides I use, and the better quality preformed grips. I don't think you need that rod building set unless you plan on building several rods. As mentioned you can build your own rod wrapper/support from 3 pieces of wood or thick cardboard with tension for wrapping thread supplied by a thick book, and a round cup serving as the thread holder. The turning motor can be made from an electric motor used to turn a spit on a grill, or any low RPM motor you can pick up cheap. Just make sure the wrapping/turning stand are at height to be able to use the motor Reamers can be made by gluing various grits of sand papers around a wood dowel, or if you have access to loose grit you can coat various diameter dowels with 5 minute epoxy and roll it in the grit and let dry. You can use your thumb or a teaspoon for a wrap tightening tool. You won't need a tip top sizer, if you're buying a kit, the one you get with the kit should fit the rod. Tip Top adhesive- Super glue if you're fast, 5 minute epoxy if you're not or whatever they give you in the kit to glue the reel seat and grip to the blank if it cures in 5 minutes. Why would you need a gold lettering pen? If you really need to write something on the blank, you can pick up what's basically a gold permanent marker with a fine tip at the local craft store. Check some of the rod building boards for other suggestions. Good Luck!
By all means give it a try. If you really like it you can get motors and other stuff later. A fly tying bobbin works fine for wrapping thread. I build all my rods (working on a 10WT today) and don't worry about detail or perfection as I fish 'em hard. If you decide that rod building isn't worth it you won't have a great loss. I agree that Cabelas has good components at very reasonable prices. The Stowaway blank is a real bargain - it's a five piece blank that retails for about $35. I have built many rods on this blank and it performs well. | {
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Interview with James Lynch
Interview with James Lynch
James J. Lynch, Ph.D., a psychologist, researcher, and author, is a pioneer in the field of the health implications of human loneliness and social isolation.
James J.
Lynch, Ph.D., a psychologist, researcher, and author, is a pioneer in the field
of the health implications of human loneliness and social isolation. His three
books on the topic include The Broken Heart: The Medical Consequences of
Loneliness (1976), The Language of the Heart: The Human Body in Dialogue (1985)
and A Cry Unheard: New Insights into the Medical Consequences of Loneliness
(2000). He has also authored fifteen chapters in medical textbooks and over 100
articles in peer reviewed medical journals, and maintains a Web presence at www.lifecarehealth.com[5].
Can you briefly describe your area of expertise and
background?
Lynch: I started working in this field in 1965 as a post-doc
student at Johns Hopkins Medical School under W. Horsley Gantt, M.D., who was
the last American student of Ivan Pavlov. We were essentially trying to create
hypertension in animals to develop drugs to control high blood pressure (in
humans). By accident, we started to notice the powerful effect humans had on
these animals' cardiovascular system. We began to observe if you pet a dog, its
blood pressure will drop fifty percent. And we began to see this effect
throughout the animal kingdom, and we published a number of studies on it. But
no one paid any attention to this, because it was the 1960s, when Dr. Christian
Barnard performed the first heart transplant in South Africa. Which was, in
essence, the culmination of the mechanistic model. It was the absolute pump as a
heart!
From there, I eventually became a professor at the Maryland
Medical School, where we asked this question: If human beings can affect the
hearts of animals, can we affect other human being's hearts in similar ways? We
began to monitor patients and watch them around the clock. What happened if a
wife sat by the patient's bedside? What happened when a nurse took a patient's
pulse? We began to see that even the most transient human contact had marked
effects on heart rate and blood pressure. And we began to study patients in the
trauma units who were in comas and couldn't move a muscle. We began to see that
when you held a patient's hand, even in this acute state, there was an immediate
heart rate reaction to the human touch.
That led to the next question: If
transient contact between human beings has such an effect on the cardiovascular
system, what does the long-term absence of human contact do to our hearts? Does
human loneliness have an effect on our hearts?
How did you go about exploring this previously-ignored relationship
between human feelings and health outcomes?
Lynch: 1970 was the first
census year that marital status was taken into account on health surveys; prior
to that it wasn't even considered an important variable. And when I looked at
this data, I was shocked to see that single people in the United States, whether
never married or widowed or divorced, had a 2-10 times higher death rate than
married people. This was true of all ages, races, and both sexes, across the
country.
The effects were very pronounced with heart disease[2]. That's when
I wrote and published my first book, The Broken Heart: The Medical Consequences
of Loneliness, documenting this.
That book had quite a powerful effect on
the national psyche back in the seventies. People kind of intuitively knew that
loneliness had something to do with their health, but how do you go from
loneliness to hypertension or stroke or cancer[3]? What are the mechanisms?
It was then that we got the first automated blood pressure machine,
which allowed us to talk to patients while studying their cardiovascular
systems. We started to notice that talking had profound effects on blood
pressure across the board. And at first it looked like a paradox that loneliness
kills, but when you talk your blood pressure goes way up! And we began to see
later on that it was the very people who had the largest pressure rises when
they spoke that tended to withdraw from contact with people because of this
unfelt stress[6].
Except for people with schizophrenia, everybody's blood
pressure goes up when they speak. We began to look at babies crying, who double
their blood pressure when they cry. We looked at children in schools, whose
blood pressure goes up when they read. There's a linear equation across time
that the older you are, the more your blood pressure goes up when you speak.
Even people with hypertension experience this rise in blood pressure when they
speak, and no medications block these effects.
So I spent the decade of
the eighties observing the epidemiological extent of the phenomenon. We began to
see that communication has a lot to do with the regulation of the cardiovascular
system. We saw huge surges of blood pressure in heart patients when they would
try to talk about emotionally[7] provocative topics. And we began to understand
over time that emotional catharsis - sort of "vomiting up" your feelings-can
actually cause damage.
So how can we help these patients?
Lynch: We looked for
treatment options for these patients. And we discovered there were two
physiologies: a hydraulic machine physiology, and a communicative physiology,
and we had to pay special attention to the specific communicative needs of
patients if we were going to restore health. People can talk their way into
heart disease[2], and we can help them talk their way out of it. We think that
talking is mental, but when we speak to others, we're touching their hearts. So
we need to pay attention to this.
If you look at the American Heart
Association[8], they mandate in phase II cardiac rehabilitation that you pay
attention to three things: exercise[9], diet[10] and stress[6]. But they never say what
stress is. And the main stress is communicative stress… When you speak, your
blood pressure rises, and when you listen, it falls.
What's the best thing people can do to improve or maintain their
health?
Lynch: It's the separation from self, from the living world, that
brings disease. We are our brother's keeper, so the best thing you can do is try
to love. And the word is the only place that love resides.
What are some of the interesting things happening in this area of
social isolation and loneliness research today?
Lynch: The most
interesting thing is the development of a whole clinical model that is based on
this information, and is used to help and treat coronary heart disease patients,
and to look at how what we call the "hidden dialogue" can be used.
An
example of this "hidden dialogue" is blushing. If I am chatting with you and I
blush, you see it, and you may sense my discomfort and change the subject to one
that is more comfortable, because you don't want to see me suffer, and you don't
want to feel uncomfortable! My vascular change (in my face) is a message to you.
But if I blush inside due to elevated blood pressure and you don't see it and I
don't feel it, conversations quickly become murderous! I feel misunderstood and
you feel misunderstood.
The body is a dialogic instrument; it's not a
machine. The essential thesis we now have is that there is a communal body. The
body isn't separate from the mind. We have a whole model now of using this
research to help patients grasp why insight alone is never sufficient to help
with diseases. We've shifted the whole notion of what it means to interact. The
whole notion of catharsis puts people at great risk.
I am so excited
about the spiritual implications (of communication). We're reversing the
historical Darwinian/Cartesian/ Freudian ethic, which involves removing speech
from the body. The whole notion of the word made flesh is what we're trying to
drive toward, the incarnation. It's irrespective of what your religious
perspective is. If you use the Christian model, the only word for God in the New
Testament is "the word made flesh." Speaking with another person is really a
dance with divinity.
Another spiritual implication is that in the 20th
century, for the first time in history, we electronically removed the voice from
the body (through technology). We're speaking from no place to nobody, and there
are no feelings left.
Can you talk more about this modern technological "disembodiment" of
the human voice, and the implications it has on our health?
Lynch: Here's a
story. When my mother died, she was 94. She was a Gaelic-speaking woman from
Ireland, in a very rural area. In her lifetime, her village lost its language.
Her village existed for 5,000 years, and it was essentially Gaelic-speaking.
When she was a child, every voice you heard had to be face to face. All music
had to be sung. People in her town lived together and died together. It was by
no means paradise, but there was strength in the tribe, and it eliminated
loneliness. Her village had withstood famine, the Vikings, English persecution,
and still retained its language. But when the (telephone) wires came to that
village, it died. The wires lifted the voice from the flesh, so words lost their
home.
That happens all the time now with technology. People speak from
outside their bodies, so the words lack meaning. It becomes murderous! You have
to bring people into their flesh to have any hope of a real relationship, and
that's a spiritual journey.
How did you get interested in integrative medicine?
Lynch: I
think I was dragged into it kicking and screaming, because I was a major
mechanist! Even when I wrote The Broken Heart, showing that loneliness was a
major contributor to heart disease[2], I still was looking at loneliness as "one
more thing:" one pound of cholesterol, two pounds of salt, another pound of
loneliness, and you get disease.
It took me a long time to move off of
that Cartesian model, because I had no idea how deeply I had breathed it in and
how it affected my thinking. The model is just there and it took a long time to
totally change my view. Only now, later in life, am I really beginning to
understand what the body is.
What's a common health-related mistake you
see your patients or clients making, and how can they avoid it?
Lynch: The most
common mistakes people make is to take their relationships[11] for granted, and to
accept the mechanistic model of disease. Every (heart) patient I see has just
had stents put in, has just had surgery, and the whole model is hydraulic. When
they first see me, they're angry at the cardiologist. Why do they have to see a
shrink? Then when I show them how their blood pressure changes more when they
talk than it did when they were on a treadmill, and how their blood pressure
changes when they listen, they see the logic in it.
So the most common
mistakes are to trivialize communication and to trivialize relationships. And
especially to trivialize our relationship to the rest of the living
world-animals, trees, and so on. I go nuts when I hear people say they've got to
save nature, as if all humans aren't part of nature! We have to save ourselves.
So there are very profound spiritual implications (of not communicating). I
won't dance around the issue of spirituality. I think that's really the most
important thing.
What is your next professional endeavor?
Lynch: I still see
patients, and I am also writing a book called Speaking of Love. What does it
mean to say "I love you?" Who is the I? What is love; what does that verb mean?
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Kingdom Hearts Fan Event at Japan’s D23 2015 Expo
While no guests or information was given at this time, more will be provided on Disney’s website in April. Japan’s D23 Expo will run from November 6-8, 2015 with the Kingdom Hearts fan event on November 3, 2015.
An excerpt regarding the fan event:
To celebrate D23 Expo 2015 Japan, a Kingdom Hearts fan event will be held on November 3 at Cinema Ikspiari, Tokyo Disney Resort. Program information for the event, Kingdom Hearts―The Theater (working title), will be posted on the official Disney website starting in late April.
Two years ago at the first Japan D23 Expo, is where we had the first look at the Attraction Flow system, what could we be seeing this time? | {
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LOS ANGELES -- When the street artist and guerrilla marketer Shepard Fairey got word from the Obama people that they would welcome his contribution to the campaign, he knew what he wanted to create: a phenomenon.
All political art is propaganda (that is the point), but most political posters are bland, forgettable, wallpaper, like Fred Thompson on an off day. Fairey wanted something more iconic -- aspirational, inspirational -- and cool. In other words, he wanted to make posters that the cool cats would want. The 2008 Democratic primary season equivalent of the Che poster (with all that implies). More Mao, more right now. The kind of poster that might make its way onto dorm room walls of fanboys. The kind of poster that might sell on eBay, as a signed Fairey Obama recently did, for $5,900. He wanted his posters to go viral.
"I wanted strong. I wanted wise, but not intimidating," Fairey says of the look for his Obamas. The agitprop pop art has become a must-have accessory among a certain subset of the candidate's supporters, who have gobbled up more than 80,000 of Fairey's posters and 150,000 postcard-size stickers since Super Tuesday.
Who is this Shepard Fairey? He is a skate punk -- with a secretary. A CEO in Puma sneakers. The rebel who did Pepsi ads. If you live in a big city, including Washington, you have probably seen his handiwork. Since 1989, during his student days at the Rhode Island School of Design, Fairey has been slapping stickers and pasting posters depicting the face of the Andre the Giant, the deceased French actor and professional wrestler, on every available surface, legal and not. Fairey has spent two decades shimmying up lampposts and over chain-link fences in a tenacious public art enterprise, irony performed on a landscape scale. Thousands of his Andre stickers include the word "OBEY" in bold lettering. What are we dealing with here? Obey what? Obey whom? A giant from France? Aha. You have cracked the code. It is reverse psychology. ( Pssst! Don't obey.)
You see, in his 1990 manifesto, Fairey wrote that "the Giant sticker campaign can be explained as an experiment in Phenomenology. Heidegger describes Phenomenology as 'the process of letting things manifest themselves.' Phenomenology attempts to enable people to see clearly something that is right before their eyes but obscured; things that are so taken for granted that they become muted by abstract observation."
We're talking German philosopher and author of "Being and Time" Martin Heidegger? The very same. "The sticker has no meaning but exists only to cause people to react, to contemplate and search for meaning in the sticker," wrote Fairey. Unless that person is what Fairey describes as "the paranoid or conservative viewer," who becomes confused and annoyed, "considering them eyesores and acts of petty vandalism, which is ironic considering the number of commercial graphic images everyone in American society is assaulted with daily."
His pro bono Obey Giant campaign created a niche market for Fairey's graphic designs -- for movie ads ("Walk the Line"), album covers (Led Zeppelin's "Mothership" compilation) and the brown spirits (Dewars Scotch). At his new, plywood-floored offices at Studio One last week, in the shabby chic corner of L.A.'s Echo Park neighborhood, Fairey appears in jeans, T-shirt, sneakers. He's 38, boyishly handsome. He confesses he suffers from a Peter Pan complex. He has just flown in from New York, where he DJ'd at the Guggenheim Museum, which is a kind of art school/street cred double axel that is almost impossible to pull off without appearing like a character from "Zoolander." While in Gotham, he erected two large Obama posters, one at the downtown intersection of Houston and Bowery, which is a super hive of Obama support rivaled only by, say, the Trader Joe's parking lot in Silver Lake in Los Angeles or the Busboys and Poets cafe/bookstore/performance space in Washington.
Fairey has done his share of political art in the past. He did posters for Ralph Nader in 2000. In 2004, he did George W. Bush, depicting the president as a grinning vampire. In the weeks before Super Tuesday 2008, "I put out the word I wanted to do something for Obama," explains Fairey, through Yosi Sergant, a plugged-in "early adopter" publicist in Los Angeles who knew prominent Democrats in the Obama circle. "I didn't want to be an unwelcome distraction," Fairey explains. "I've been arrested," he says, referring to his graffiti work in public places. "I really want him to win, so I didn't want to do anything that would cause him problems." The Obama people, somewhat to his surprise, said go ahead. Who said, exactly? "You can assume this came from the highest levels," Fairey says. Indeed, the Obama campaign liked the posters so much it now sells them via the official campaign Web site store (for $70, and the supply is currently all sold out -- again).
To create his Obama poster (which he did in less than a week), Fairey grabbed a news photograph of the candidate off the Internet. He sought an Obama that looked presidential. "He is gazing off into the future, saying, 'I can guide you,' " is how Fairey reads the image. The artist then simplified the lines and geometry, employing a red, white and blue patriotic palette (which he plays with by making the white a beige and the blue a pastel shade). He uses a lot of red along with boldface words: PROGRESS or HOPE or CHANGE.
"I wanted the poster to be recognizable as my work, and to be appealing to a younger, apathetic audience, yet tame enough not to be seen as radical or offensive to the more mainstream political participants," Fairey explains. "You want to create the most flattering shapes. Strong in the face of adversity. How the light falls beautifully. It's idealized."
Fairey's artwork follows the style of his predecessors. His Obama posters (and lots of his commercial and fine art work) are reworkings of the techniques of revolutionary propagandists -- the bright colors, bold lettering, geometric simplicity, heroic poses -- the "art with a purpose" created by constructivists in the early Soviet Union, like Alexander Rodchenko and the Stenberg brothers, and by America's own Depression-era Works Projects Administration.
Not only has Fairey done Obama, but works on the walls of his studio and on his Web site include depictions of Sid Vicious, Bobby Seale, Chairman Mao, Noam Chomsky, Emiliano Zapata, Patty Hearst, Vladimir Lenin and Richard Nixon. Though Fairey is quoting revolutionary forms (meaning he is playing with Mao, not endorsing Mao), some observers see his Obama poster and think: reds.
Writers for the Clout column in the Philadelphia Daily News said "the Soviet-style heroic Obama, the use of a single word HOPE" reminded them of George Orwell's "1984" and Big Brother.
"There's an unequivocal sense of idol worship about the image," wrote op-ed columnist Meghan Daum in the Los Angeles Times, "a half-artsy, half-creepy genuflection that suggests the subject is (a) a Third World dictator whose rule is enmeshed in a seductive cult of personality; (b) a controversial American figure who's been assassinated; or (c) one of those people from a Warhol silkscreen that you don't recognize but assume to be important in an abstruse way."
Fairey rummages around on his desk and produces a letter from Obama himself. "Dear Shepard," the candidate writes. "I would like to thank you for using your talent in support of my campaign. The political messages involved in your work have encouraged Americans to believe they can help change the status quo. Your images have a profound effect on people, whether seen in a gallery or on a stop sign."
Who knows how many do-it-yourself reproductions of Fairey's Obama have been scanned off the Internet. "I have no idea. I think a lot," says the artist, who put the image on the Web in a downloadable file. "I've seen it on stencils, fliers, shirts, Web sites, places we had nothing to do with." Copyright infringement? No, no, no. "This is exactly what I wanted to happen." This isn't a limited-edition print. It's unlimited. He charged $25 to $45 for the first runs of 950 posters, to pay for the printing of the all the rest, which were free. Fairey says he hasn't made a dime off Obama nor does he think he has unfairly glommed onto the candidate.
He has more Obama art in the works. Coming up next? Ten thousand bicycle spoke cards. | {
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I saw Ramallah protest
News from Ramallah which has plunged me into cynicism repeatedly over the years has transformed my mood into one of unqualified optimism for the first time. Over the past few days, Ramallah has restored my faith in the untiring free spirit of the people of Palestine. It has given me hope. Ramallah, by its own initiative, may have finally secured its place in Palestinian history as something that is, for the first time, not notoriously PA-dependant but rather astoundingly and heroically PA-opposed.
“They’ve occupied your land; don’t let them occupy your minds,” one friend advised me after listening to me speak so despairingly about the current situation in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank. I knew this was a precious piece of advice since one of the reasons I have always thought the status quo looked so unprepossessing is the level of manipulation and ‘mind-control’ deemed necessary not just by the Israeli occupiers but by the various political agencies across the political landscape in Palestine, particularly the Palestinian Authority (PA) which, until very recently, has had quite a sure hold over the minds of Palestinian people, particularly the youth, continuously and falsely feeding them a crudely self-contradictory narrative of an independent Palestinian state soon to be realised in the Gaza Strip and the West Bank while at the same time firmly holding onto the inalienable rights of the Palestinian people, all this of course being conditional, we were told, on keeping the faith with our wise and experienced leadership.
Various incentives were deployed in order to keep the Palestinians in check, primarily the vision of economic prosperity, security (possibly the most incomprehensible word for a Palestinian) and development, all fulfilled through the building of the infrastructure of a future Palestinian state. What comes under the ‘infrastructure’ heading can, for the sake of simplicity, be understood as, on the one hand, security-related, though for the word security to have any meaning in this context it has to be attached to Israel, i.e. it has to be understood solely as Israel’s security, and translates as the sudden delivery of the collaborationist, western-backed PA’s Dayton-well-trained security apparatus (including police, intelligence and even riot-control forces), sufficiently equipped and excellently trained to deal with any stability-threatening situations as well as individuals or organisations who might be seen as posing a threat to Israel’s security — hence the large numbers of political prisoners inside PA prisons. On the other hand, there is the non-security-related infrastructure, i.e. infrastructure which is designed for the benefit of, not necessarily in the interest of, Palestinians in the occupied territories, and somehow this is bizarrely reduced and is in reality seen only in reference to the building of restaurants (including one KFC), cafes, hotels, streets (preposterously named after Russian presidents and to their embarrassment!), hospitals, sometimes schools and so on and so forth. All of this is meant to mirror the level of progress and, it is counterfactually claimed, independence, which Palestinians have come to achieve thanks to the commendable efforts of the Palestinian Authority.
Meanwhile, fear, intimidation, and detention are used as a part of a strategy to stifle any criticism and silence whoever dares openly question the supposed wisdom of the PA’s leadership, let alone take action against it.
Israel on the other hand has dreadfully stepped up its policy of colonial expansion as it continues unabatedly to occupy more Palestinian land and build more settlements (or more precisely colonies), forcing Palestinians out of their homes only to demolish them; the scenes of women and elderly people humiliated at checkpoints which have patently dotted the geographic scene in the West Bank has become an everyday reality, schoolchildren are constantly stopped, searched and kicked by helmeted Israeli soldiers during the day and traumatized by the same soldiers storming their way into their homes in the middle of the night and pointing their guns at them while in bed; arbitrary arrests have increased; the separation wall, and most significantly the graffiti and drawings all over it encapsulate several actual levels of misery, extreme vulnerability and despondent incapacity on the part of Palestinian people living under military occupation.
Gaza, meanwhile, has become, not only as is often mentioned, the largest open-air prison on earth, but more accurately described as the largest twenty-first-century concentration camp, where a population of over one million and a half, mostly poverty-stricken people, totally dependent on humanitarian aid and relief agencies for their daily subsistence, is sealed off from the rest of the world, its youth unemployed, its children uncared for running bare-foot down the streets, drinking extremely contaminated water from pipes lying across the camp’s narrow alleyways, and callously subjected to up-to-10 hour daily power cuts while thousands of power generators are regularly enlisted as a power alternative, resulting in several unfortunate deaths and an extremely unnerving clamour damaging to normal mental functioning, in addition to uncontainable pollution, prices skyrocketing, freedom of movement and crossing the Rafah border having become out of the question, while Israeli unmanned drones buzz ceaselessly above in the sky and rarely does a day go by without a series of targeted shelling or assassinations…
Over the past few months, there have been a few incidents which commentators from within the Palestinian spectrum thought might constitute the spark that would finally bestir the Palestinians into their long-awaited third Palestinian intifada. Dozens of analyses with different theses have regularly appeared in several newspapers and online publications all coming to the same pleasant conclusion of the impending collapse of the western-backed Palestinian Authority and the increasing prospects for a third Palestinian intifada which has now become closer than it has ever been. We read, cheered, circulated the post, awfully cursed the PA at the top of our lungs, and sat in anticipation. That one opportunity never came good, or in fact it has arisen quite a few times, every time more intensely and with more force than the time before, but nothing happened. Things continued to simmer beneath the surface, and the spark seemed too weak to rouse the Palestinians into any form of collective action that might shake off their infinite apathy.
As around 2000 Palestinian prisoners embarked on a mass hunger strike inside Israeli jails, a state of anticipation reigned amongst Palestinians, and it was said time and again that this would be the last straw that broke the camel’s back and that it is about time Palestinians joined the Arab awakening and took action— most likely in the form of, mass mobilization, large-scale demonstrations, and civil disobedience against not only the Israeli occupation but also the PA as the power enabling and facilitating this occupation through their despicable silence and shameless collaboration with the Israeli authorities.
Behind the Palestinian prisoners’ hunger strikes, some commented, was a message very much indicative of their lack of faith in the power of the masses on the ground as prisoners took things into their own hands and won the battle all by themselves – this tone was even largely present in several of the letters written by many of them in which they appeared to be desperately pleading with their people to take action for them…
I became dangerously cynical and hopeless, and lost the pride once deeply-rooted in me as a Palestinian brought up with the heroic images, scenes, anecdotes, and music of the first and second Palestinian intifadas as the point when the Palestinian struggle against the Israeli occupation had reached its heights. I lost that pride. For a moment, I felt ashamed of myself being a Palestinian, completely powerless and apathetic in the face of this oppression. “Where are the Palestinians,” gnashing my teeth, I asked myself time and again.
I was recently discussing the situation in the West Bank with a Palestinian from Ramallah who is currently conducting PhD research at the LSE . Although we both were down-spirited at the end of the discussion, having left one another with a bleak image of the status quo, he still thought change is somehow looming and the status quo is no longer sustainable. “Don’t despair, and keep up the hard work!” he cheered me up before we departed company.
Only a few days later on July 1, protests took place in Ramallah against a scheduled meeting between PA president Mahmoud Abbas and Israeli vice prime minister Shaul Mofaz. Although there has been a growing level of discontent amongst the Palestinians, none would have expected a protest of this kind to take place in Ramallah. That by itself is a huge achievement for everyone who is full of rage at the current situation. One has to acknowledge though the folly of the PA president’s decision to meet with an Israeli official as notorious as Mofaz. This created a situation in which Palestinians from various political backgrounds and affiliations united — only at the very early stages and before it was officially postponed — in staging protests against the meeting.
The brutal crackdown by PA security and intelligence forces has proved a widening, deplorable disconnect between the PA president and the youth on the ground. Instead of listening to the youth’s demands, Abbas completely isolates himself in his presidential palace while the people chant against him and the PA’s collaboration with Israel. He needs to know he is loathed by an increasingly huge number of the Palestinian youth before it is too late for him. Abbas in the eyes in an ever-growing number of Palestinians has proved that he is not different from his Arab predecessors as he continues to follow their steps even in the way they tried to quash protests and silence dissent. As a matter of fact, both Ben Ali and Mubarak were his closest allies. The parallels between the Arab western-backed dictatorships and the PA are striking and unmistakable. However, the PA has become a fully-fledged western-backed dictatorship now, before the state it is meant to rule over has even come into existence.
As the first protest was quelled, another protest, this time against police brutality, was planned; but, completely ironically, it was met with even more police brutality. During a third protest, the youth marched to the PA compounds known as al-Muqata’a and sharply and unequivocally chanted against the PA’s collaborationist policy and against Saeb Erekat as the head of the Palestinian negotiating team and, most significantly, against the Oslo Accords. It does not matter for how long the protests persisted. The fact that the turnout was not particularly massive is not relevant also. What matters is that the people — a considerable number of them — have finally spoken up, nowhere but in Ramallah, and not only against the Israeli occupation, but most significantly against the Palestinian Authority and its collaborationist policy. The first barrier of fear has been shattered for good, and that is what truly matters. Standing up against the PA is no longer an improbable scenario. Things will never be the same for the PA establishment.
“Where are the Palestinians?” – Picture from Eye on Palestine by Ahmed Mesleh
Remembering Edward Said
“I have been unable to live an uncommitted or suspended life. I have not hesitated to declare my affiliation with an extremely unpopular cause.”
“Remember the solidarity shown to Palestine here and everywhere... and remember also that there is a cause to which many people have committed themselves, difficulties and terrible obstacles notwithstanding. Why? Because it is a just cause, a noble ideal, a moral quest for equality and human rights.” | {
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What Guys Said 1
Most of my funniest moments have been with friends who make it funny. And kinda inside jokes.
Like when we pretended that orange Tic Tacs were drugs, and my friend and I were both acting twitchy and shit, and he told me to give him some and as I shakily gave him some a few spilled, and I was like, "FFFFFFUCK" and we desperately hit the floor and tried to pick them up and we were both just like, "shit, shit, fuck, shit". And we were being watched by his Mormon crush the whole time. It was fucking hilarious for us, and we had to run away cause we were laughing so hard. | {
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Wednesday, December 19, 2018
Wait for it on DVD or Blu-Ray.What a disappointment. Watch the trailer below. It has more excitement than the actual movie. Eastwood did his best to play a gross, horny, mumbling, old man. He did this pretty well. It was a slow, drawn out story with little if any unpredictable plots. Little excitement, little drama, ending in a "Is that it?" ending. At the end of the movie many were still in their seats hopefully waiting for after credits or something that said "Clint Eastwood spent the last days of his lonely life in prison. He grew flowers." or something like that. The entire movie needed closure. The lady sitting next to me said what I was thinking "Is that it?' Others left the theatre saying the same thing. This was truly a wasted effort by Eastwood. He should consider retiring.The Mule is The Dud even at the discount price of $5.00 Tuesday rate. Grab a hand full of popcorn and a shot glass of Coke and watch the trailer: | {
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The Ethics of Taking Assault Rifles
For years, the Republicans have warned voters
that Democrats intended to take their guns. For years, Democrats did no such thing,
and a stock talking point was that although they wanted gun control, they did
not plan to take guns away. In a passionate moment calculated to draw media
attention Beto O’Rourke spoke the words long prophesized by the Republicans: “Hell,
yes, we’re going to take your AR-15, your AK-47.” While this certainly angered
and frightened many gun owners, it was surely sweet music to the Republicans—if
the Democrats put that on their platform, then Trump will probably get a second
term. But, if they stay tepid on guns, then the Democrats stand a good chance
of losing a key part of their base—which might cost them the election. I
suspect the Republican money folks are looking hard for an anti-gun third party
candidate to bankroll, just in case the Democrats decide that “Beto 2020: He’ll
Take Your Guns!” is not a winning option. These are, of course, all matters of
political calculation.
There are obviously legal
concerns about Beto’s proposal. While presidents can issue executive orders and
congress has been focused on getting re-elected by not governing, a
president probably cannot confiscate assault weapons this way. While some
will point to the Second Amendment, the laws governing automatic weapons,
silencers and sawed-off shotguns show that certain classes of weapons can be
tightly controlled, and past bans show that this approach can sometimes pass
muster. So while Beto would not be able to take away assault weapons by
himself, he could do so with the aid of congress. Such efforts would no doubt
reach the supreme court—and the current makeup is such that the court would
probably rule against them. But if Brett Kavanaugh happened to die from boofing
the Devil’s Triangle then President Beto might be able to get his way. While the
legal aspects of this matter are critical, there are also moral concerns about
such an action.
Since this is a matter
of large-scale ethics, it is reasonable to take a utilitarian approach to the
matter: would taking away assault weapons create more moral good than moral
bad?
On the positive side, proponents
of taking away such guns point out that they are the favored weapon for mass
shootings. The high capacity magazines of such weapons make them ideal for rapidly
killing large numbers people—hardly shocking since they were designed to do
just that. As such, if most assault weapons were successfully taken away from
the public, mass shootings would be less deadly—killers would need to rely on
shotguns, handguns, and non-assault rifles (I do wonder if battle rifles would
be counted as assault rifles here). While one could work out rate-of-fire
calculations for various weapons to determine the likely impact of an absence
of assault weapons, it does make sense that the body count would be lower. This
is, obviously enough, the strongest moral argument in favor of taking guns: it
would reduce the number of people killed each year. What must be noted is that
while assault weapons grab the headlines, handguns are the weapons that are
used the most in killings—so an assault weapon ban would not impact the leading
types of gun deaths.
While it might seem
cold, it must be said that we (collectively) do tolerate a certain number of
deaths that could be easily prevented by banning dangerous things. The obvious
example would be the ban of private vehicles—that would save thousands of lives.
Banning swimming pools and would also save lives. We do not ban such things
because we weigh the benefits (fewer dead people) against the benefits (and the
harms of the ban). So, we tolerate thousands of deaths for economic reasons, convenience
and enjoyment. As such, the same consideration must be given to assault weapons.
On the positive side,
assault weapons do have economic value—they must be manufactured and sold.
People enjoy owning, modifying and using them. They do have some use as hunting
and defense weapons. On the face of it, saying these outweigh the deaths that
would be prevented by taking them away would seem heartless. But as noted
above, this same reasoning is applied to so many other dangerous things—so moral
consistency would require people who back taking away assault weapons to apply
the same principles to all dangerous things—which would seem to morally require
us to go on a banning and confiscation streak.
The negatives of such a
confiscation must also be considered. On the extreme end, some people are in
the “cold dead fingers” camp and say they will fight to the death for their
guns. As such, efforts to confiscate guns could result in deaths and these would
need to be part of the calculation. On the pragmatic side, there is also the
cost to confiscate weapons. Even if the state steals them from their owners,
there will still be a cost to do this. If the state compensates the owners,
there will be a significant financial cost—but one easily managed by a government
that can pay for presidential golf trips. There are also political concerns
that are morally relevant. As noted above, if the Democrats run on the assault
weapon confiscation plan, then Trump will probably get a second term. While this
would be seen as great by those who support Trump, it would be terrible for most
people—so the utilitarian argument would favor not backing the confiscation.
Reader Interactions
Comments
For example, while I had heard that TDS was a thing, I realised that the mind-virus has mutated a KDS variant when I read the entirely gratuitous and irrelevant “But if Brett Kavanaugh happened to die from boofing the Devil’s Triangle” sneer.
I also learned that I don’t understand the legal theory of the Second Amendment. I thought I understood the general principles of it, but then I read Scalia’s majority opinion in Heller, and the two dissents. While I appreciate that Heller was carefully focused on quite a specific issue, and that the majority opinion expressly stated that it was not a complete legal framework for the Second Amendment, I am now left without a coherent view on the legal issues.
I also learned that serious, learned, well-meaning, and highly intelligent people can manage to make any subject, even the apparently clearest, entirely muddled, and arrive at contradictory final conclusions with great confidence – as long as they argue only with words rather than empirical evidence. Well, no, I didn’t learn that, because I already knew it, but I did receive an impressive confirming data point.
On the question of a consequentialist argument, I can’t find anything convincing. A utilitarian would have to quantify the expectations for good and harm from effects and side-effects, and the evidence for believing all of that. I don’t see that O’Rourke has produced any, and it’s far too big a job for me even to attempt to map out.
Personally, given the few numbers I do know, it seems to me unlikely that such a specific confiscation could be empirircally justified, except perhaps as one element in a much larger plan.
Heh. Good job. Especially the bit about empirical evidence. Where the rubber meets the road. As to the Second Amendment…here’s my Alexander-and-the-Gordian-knot approach, as applies to the ONE predominant, underlying theme of the US Constitution, and in tandem good government in general…Leave people alone. This isn’t just a libertarian construct. It’s much more an understanding that as government, or any entity for that matter, grows and creates more and more rules, it becomes less and less effective at enforcing them fairly, broadly, and thus in a manner that works for the greater good. To some degree I think the Founders screwed up by even mentioning this right in the context of a material good such as “arms”, however defined. The underlying fundamental right is the most basic right of existence, human or otherwise, the right of self defense. | {
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The National Capital Planning Commission gave final approval Monday to a new security configuration for a memorial to Martin Luther King Jr., clearing the way for construction of the long-awaited monument.
There were tears in the audience when the capital's federal planning agency voiced its unanimous approval at a specially arranged meeting. "Very big day," said Trudy D. Byrd, memorial project public relations manager, as she wiped away tears. ""It's been a long time coming."
Ed Jackson Jr., the memorial project's chief architect, said: "This is 12 years, personally, of my involvement. . . . The light has turned green. All we're looking at now is that building permit from the Park Service."
The memorial is planned for a four-acre crescent-shaped site amid the cherry blossoms on the northwest shore of the Tidal Basin. The centerpiece is to be a 2 1/2 -story granite sculpture of the slain civil rights leader. Called the Stone of Hope, it depicts King standing with his arms folded as if emerging from the stone.
At 28 feet, it will be eight feet taller than the statue of Abraham Lincoln in the memorial to the 16th president and will rest on pilings driven as far as 50 feet down to bedrock.
The project has weathered several storms. It was criticized when organizers picked a sculptor in China to execute the design. Then the original sculpture of King was assailed as too "confrontational" by the Federal Commission of Fine Arts and had to be reworked slightly. The project later stalled amid debate over how much security is needed at the site.
The National Park Service, concerned about car bombs, wanted a series of stout bollards, or security pillars, at the main entrance and elsewhere. Critics said that ran counter to King's sense of openness.
The compromise calls for a low-walled island containing two large elm trees as the main vehicle barrier to the site's entrance. There will be security bollards, but they will be less apparent, and the trees will frame and insulate the site from the street, officials said.
"I'm appreciative, and I look forward to the next step as we go forward," said Harry E. Johnson Sr., president and chief executive of the memorial's foundation.
Monday's action came at a special commission meeting requested by the Interior Department. It "was of particularly high priority to Secretary (Ken) Salazar because of Dr. King's legacy and the importance of the proposed memorial in his honor," a department spokeswoman said in an e-mail. The Interior Department will oversee the site.
The sculpture of King and other parts of the memorial are being crafted in 144 blocks by Chinese master sculptor Lei Yixin. The pieces must be transported to the United States by sea, officials have said.
Peter May, an associate regional director with the Park Service, said the construction permit likely will be issued in a matter of days, after a final review of the building plans. The project also must contribute to the long-term preservation of the $120 million memorial and its site, he said. The project has raised $107 million so far.
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All options open for Euro 2020 - UEFAs Platini
07 Dec 2012 17:16:50
UEFA president Michel Platini on Friday said that he was open to all options for the European championships in 2020, a day after the ruling body said that the tournament would be held across the continent.
"It's a blank page at the moment," said the former France captain. "I can't tell you where we're going to go. We haven't yet gone into the details. It's a one-off decision."
Platini first mooted the idea of holding the 60th anniversary of European football's premier competition in a number of countries before the final of this year's edition in Poland and Ukraine, which was won by defending champions Spain.
On Thursday, UEFA's executive committee was virtually unanimous in supporting the idea, which Platini said had been circulating for a number of years and had been the subject of numerous meetings and discussions with national associations.
Many fans suggested that the decision, opposed only by Turkey which had previously submitted a bid to host the tournament in eight years' time, would lead to increased costs and could destroy the atmosphere of the competition.
But Platini, who has argued that a Europe-wide competition would relieve pressures on one or two host nations given the current parlous financial climate in many countries, said more work was required to thrash out the detail.
"There are political decisions and geographic decisions," he told reporters in Nyon, Switzerland, where UEFA is based. "It's not a case of a fan watching his team in Cardiff (Britain) then in Astana (Kazakhstan) and then in Sweden.
"Nothing is decided at the moment. I put forward the idea, the associations voted. I propose things and the executive committee decides."
UEFA secretary-general Gianni Infantino said that the project would be re-examined in January or March next year and that host cities would be chosen in early 2014.
"We're looking at something bigger and more united," Platini said. "Countries that would never have had the chance to host the Euros will be able to participate in this festival of football.
"The situation is difficult in Europe. It's hard to ask one country to invest in 10 stadiums like in Ukraine. There's also the idea of belonging to a European country. It's a great idea to mark the anniversary.
"The Euros will go to the fans. It'll meet supporters. In previous years, they had to go to the Euros. Everything will be done so that the fans are able to get to games."
Asked about the personal misgivings expressed by FIFA secretary-general Jerome Valcke, who said last week that a Europe-wide Euro would "kill the spirit of the competition", Platini said not everyone at the world governing body had doubts.
"I've received congratulations from the president of FIFA (Sepp Blatter), who said it was an great idea," said Platini.
England's Football Association (FA), meanwhile, registered their interest early in staging the semi-finals and finals at London's Wembley stadium, while the Scottish FA also said they would be keen to participate.
"Clearly Wembley is incredibly highly thought of by UEFA and it is something we will push for," said FA chairman David Bernstein.
"UEFA want to hold the semi-finals and the final on the same ground, or in the same city and I think we would be on their shortlist -- but there would be some strong competition.
"The public want it and we'd want it and it would be wonderful to have it here."
The host cities bidding process will begin in March, with decisions on venues set to be made in early 2014.
The next European championships in 2016 are to be held in France, with an increase in the number of teams from the current 16 to 24. | {
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A 20 Minute Gentle Yoga For Beginners
For those of us who have trouble meditating, yoga can be a good way to begin feeling what it’s like to be in a meditative state without the sometimes daunting task of simply sitting and trying to quiet the mind. Some of us have an easier time doing something while we are working towards quieting the mind, and yoga is perfect for that.
Yoga puts you in touch with your breath, your body and slowly gets you relaxed and quiet in your mind. Aside from the inner well-being benefits, Yoga is also a great physical activity for both men and women in not only gaining flexibility, but also balance and strength.
Below is a 20 minute routine involving some very simple poses for beginning so you can try out Yoga for yourself. The routine ends with relaxation and stillness as the body rests from the prior movements. This portion of each yoga routine is my favorite as you feel absolutely amazing. Try it for yourself!
Yoga Benefits
Build strength and flexibility
Relieves stress
Builds muscle and increases endurance
Improves posture
Increase focus, mental clarity and sharpness
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Tag Archives: *Tea Time*
HELLO!!!! My loves, oh how I’ve missed you all!. I hope everyone had a wonderful holiday! I amSO sorry for being gone. Lots of RL things popped up along with the holiday season ANDDDD I have a brand new computer ^.^. So I will be posting and doing a lot more! I hope you enjoy and be prepared to see way more of me :D
[►] I admit it, I’m in love with the new coldLogic releases. This dress/jacket combo is just one of my favs. I doubt anybody is any more ready for Autumn than I am, so this little dress couldn’t come at a better time. Luckily, thanks to The Summer Harvest Hunt and some group gift items, I was able to put together a cute look that I doubt I’ll be changing much of any time soon! <3
The Summer Harvest Hunt started today and I’m sure by now you have all at least started the hunt right? Well even if you have I still have some cute things to show you. If you haven’t taken a look at list of stores or need to know the starting point you can check out The Ego Co.’s Website.
The super cute mesh Patched Cords I am wearing are from evolve for the SHH. You can also pick them up in a few other really pretty colors at the mainstore just in time for Autumn. I paired them with the Kate Pumps from Elate, that are a very pretty Emerald green color! They actually match the cords really well and would also look amazing with a cute little dress!
I love this cute and simple Aqueous necklace in Cat’s Eye. It’s just one of the cute hunt gifts you will find in the ellabella hunt box! I love how simple it is, and also how beautifully it would go with anything! The bag I have is another SHH item and is from *Tea Time*. It’s perfectly named Cute Tree Bag, because well it has a cute picture of a tree on it!
You all know I am always wearing Synthetique‘s Mesh nails, so I was thrilled that one of the hunt gifts is the oh so stunning Gold Leaf Mini Collection. There are 3 nail colors, that come on a nifty HUD. You just wear the HUD with your nails (if you already had them) and turn it on to change the color!
You’ll also notice I am wearing a new skin which is not part of the hunt but definitely needs to be mentioned. It’s new from Glam Affair called Lilith (the sister to Leah which I also love). It comes in 6 beautiful skin tones (frica, America, Artic, Europa, India and Jamaica) each with 12 make-ups and 3 brow shades (Blonde, Dark and Red). There is also a clean version of the skin as well as 6 extra tattoo layer lipsticks.
This Demeter Pavilion which is the hunt gift from *Kukuvaya* which comes in two versions, one with lights and one without. It’s really perfect for entertaining and a must have for everyone for Autumn. I am also loving this Crate Stack decor which happens to be Baffle!‘s amazing hunt item! It really looks good no matter where you put it, and you most definitely need this as well!
It’s September 1, 2012 at 12pm SLT! You know what that means? That’s right, The Summer Harvest Hunt has officially begun! Your hint list and a picture gallery of many hunt gifts are below! Happy Hunting!
.evolve.
I’m feeling lazy today.
[Haste]
Racked up with Lace
Posies
Allison and Ashley are the best of friends
NiNight Creations
Sometimes acorns fall off of the tree on giraffe’s nose
Duh!
Think I’ll take a break from hunting and read for a bit.
Little House of Curios
If this window bar wasn’t blocking it, I could see the waterfall.
* Rivendell *
The bunny holds your gift.
(Elate!)
Look Up…
[ SAKIDE ]
Look for a pretty mannequin.
PRIME
The little guy down there got the swing of things…
Organica Specialty Trees
Oh Hay Der!
Mayfly
Things are looking up this early autumn.
Trompe Loeil
Acorns come from trees, of course, and Trompe Loeil has a colorful mesh arbor with acorns scattered across the ground…find the special one next to our exclusive Stone Slab Bench on display!
BUID
Where the green fern grows.
(flaunt)
We can all use a lil help sometimes.
Nani Poses
Summer is almost over, but you can still party til you pass out.
SWEET LEONARD
free like a bird
Egoxentrikax
I want a new tattoo
Poptart
Don’t fall off.
Jamman Jewels
Between the dots the red arow shows you the way.
AMERICAN BAZAAR
I’m blue.
Vespertine
Where the squirrels play…
Cleo Design
Hiding in the rafters.
Fly Lily! Poses
I love to land on your nose or flower petals.
The Plastik
Between the birds, Between the wings, hidden, what you seek.
Doolally
Look out for dust bunnies under here.
Eclat
I am Holy; The Mighty. Powerful, wise and non-violent.
Happy Undead
There is dust on these unused boards.
::NEEDFUL THINGS::
xoxo :)
[trs]
Heading south, on the wings of a bird.
Sugar & Cyanide
Look..an acorn in mid-fall.
Anymore
I think I dropped something back here…
Amour Fashion
It’s not quite a tree, but it will do!
22769 ~ casual couture
Slap the ORANGE hintgiver at the landing point!
Intrepid
Birds of a feather.
[-iPoke-]
Up, up, and away!
Pirate Arts
Like my hat?
B&T Mesh Studio
Look at all these goodies!
BENT.
Best not sit on me.
[HT] Hometown
Careful not to squish me!
*RoTtEn DeFiAnCe*
Well, that’s one way to roast acorns…
#Ziau#
Cash, Money, Quid, Dosh, Yen, Koku.
Asteria Creations
I love my denim overalls.
Has Been
Oh, look..a whole room full of mesh!
Prism Furniture
Lay back and relax by the candlelight…
Shipwrecked
Fruit Harvest.
e! Eclectic Apparel
Just around the corner…
Baffle!
A flower dances in the wind…
LE FORME
I’m heated by candles.
Pixel Snobs
Empire waist dresses are so in this season.
Vero Modero
the most beautiful harvest of all is having a child
Valentina E.
I can’t reach, even on my tiptoes.
Wall Candy
John Lennon holds your hunt gift.
Shabby Shack
Quick! The mole is trying to bury it!
[Sleeping Koala]
That’ll be 0L, please!
Sway’s
…enjoy a picnic.
The :Madness: Within
Hold onto the railing.
-Gitchee-
That acorn fell right into my cleavage.
FOCUS POSES
I’m wet…someone threw water on me!
[Insatiable Fashions]
Look between the branches!
Sparrowtree Studios Poses
Sticks and stones may break my bones, but whips and chains excite me.
Alice Project
ALL THE COLORS!
*Perception*
That acorn seems to have rolled right into a meshy corner. Did you peek behind the gold top?
The Summer Harvest Hunt is about to kick off, and wow is it packed full of goodies! You’re looking for a nut. And over the next few days I’ll be sharing some of my favorite hunt items with you all. To see the official store list check out The Ego Co.
My favorite part of Autumn begins when the leaves start to change color and fall from their branches. The Summer Harvest Hunt continues to get me excited for those cool breezes and blissful nights. I can tell you for sure this hunt is one worth doing, not only are you going to find some fabulous seasonal clothing and accessories but also lovely and very detailed decor, perfect for your SL home. The Hunt begins September 1st at Noon SLT. If you’d like to see more of what this hunt has to offer, you should also take a peek at The Ego Co.blog. | {
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This mural was photographed in Calcutta, (Kolkata)
India during their yearly (1994) Kali Puja (festival) and was originally captured on Kodachrome 25 ISO slide film, using a Nikon F4 film based camera and Nikon's 500 mm telephoto lens. During the mural's construction stage, 1400 individual Kodachrome slides were scanned, doing them one image at a time, then all were printed out half scale 3"x4.5" to be careful
taped onto my studio wall. In the process creating the mural one tiny image at a time. This act slowly brought the image to life, ultimately leading to the creation of a work that vaguely resembled the reality that had been originally photographed.
The file numbers were written in pencil on the backs of each proof print, became a kind of "map" of the imagery for me to follow during the final computer construction stage. After this computer assembly was complete, I then somewhat laboriously began removing all of those hard edge lines from each of the 864 image frames.
This unique print has been printed on 60X102 inch satin canvas with a UV protective satin overcoat , the image size is 56x96 inches, with a printing resolution of 300 DPI. | {
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eMove360° 2018 - Mobility 4.0
It presents the complete range of next generation and sustainable mobility solutions, from Urban & Mobile Design, materials and processing solutions, connected and autonomous driving to electronics and infotainment. Target audience of the exhibition are developers and designers, IT professionals, professional industrial buyers such as fleet managers, decision-makers in cities and communities, touristic regions and service providers.
You are invited to visit Chargepoint Europe at the shared booth of the Dutch eMobility partners at this event.
Tickets to the event are available at request. Please send your contact details to and mention eMove360. | {
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Prep softball: Canoes get first win of the season
Bass Lake High School’s softball team notched its first win of the 2017 season on Friday, thumping the Prairie Depths Female Housecats, 10-9, in the first game of a Moonshine Conference doubleheader.
Kristilla Jankney, senior first basegirl for the Young Lady Canoes, cracked a triple in the final inning to drive in the winning run, scored by a fellow teammate, whose name the Beacon was unable to verify.
Within a minute after the triumph, Bass Lake head coach “Ed” McGomery smiled out loud.
“You don’t know how good this feels,” McGomery said to someone in the bleachers. “Seriously, you don’t.”
Both teams hit the ball well, but Prairie Depths did not help its cause in the field, committing six errors. Afterward, Housecats coach Ed Grimpton was asked to elaborate.
“You call ’em errors, I call it making too damn many mistakes, simple as that, if you know what I mean, for goodness sake,” Grimpton said. “Cryin’ out loud.”
In the second game of the twin bill, Tri-County edged the Canoes, 19-0.
Bass Lake’s record is now 1-9. Next up: a game next Tuesday at Countryfarm, where BLSH hasn’t won in almost 11 months. | {
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Location:Zorbak Orange Drellie - Book of LorePrice: 0 ACSellback: 0 ACRarity: Collector's Rare RarityDescription: All your guildmates will be jelly when you're batting with a Drellie! (This pet does damage when you equip with a Battle Pet Class.)Notes: | {
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Project Almanac centers on David (Jonny Weston), a kid who finds his late father’s unfulfilled plans to build a time machine and takes it upon himself to put the thing together. However, he can’t do it alone and that’s where …
A key component of any shaky cam, point-of-view style film is that it’s grounded in reality and Allen Evangelista’s Adam is vital to making that happen in Project Almanac. The film hones in on a group of friends that manage …
Jonny Weston leads Project Almanac as David. He’s a smart kid with a very bright future who manages to build a working time machine with his friends, but he’s not particularly confident when it comes to striking up a simple …
Project Almanac is facing quite the uphill battle. One, found footage now comes with a negative connotation, two, it isn’t easy to convincingly sell time travel and three, the movie’s release date was pushed back a year. If you’re …
I had the pleasure of catching a screening of Dean Israelite’s feature directorial debut, Project Almanac, back at San Diego Comic Con and while the entire film is a blast, one of the most impressive components of it is the …
Thanks to the overabundance of found footage films, the moment Project Almanac was announced, first-time feature writer Andrew Stark was hit with one serious uphill battle. When you’re one shaky cam movie of many, you’ve got a lot to prove, …
After two title changes and two release date delays, Project Almanac, formerly Almanac and Welcome to Yesterday, is finally making its way into theaters. The film stars Jonny Weston as David, a kid who comes across his late father’s plans …
The Michael Bay-produced sci-fi thriller Welcome to Yesterday (previously titled Almanac) was set to open in just a few weeks, but will now be postponed indefinitely. Directed by Dean Israelite, written by first-time writers Andrew Stark and Jason Pagan, and starring Jonny Weston and Sofia Black-D’Elia, the film centers …
Moviemaking is hard work, but when Collider visited the set of Welcome to Yesterday (formerly known as Almanac) on a hot July day in Atlanta, the cast was busy indulging in a treat that had the inner child in me …
Here are today’s latest release dates: Lone Survivor – Though Peter Berg’s Navy SEAL thriller will open wide on January 10, 2014, Lone Survivor, starring Mark Wahlberg and Taylor Kitsch, will open in an awards-qualifying limited release run on December 27th. (Via …
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[Reuters] Paul Allen gives $300 million to expand brain research
(Reuters) - Microsoft Corp co-founder Paul Allen has donated an additional $300 million to a foundation aimed at expanding research into how the brain works and how best to treat brain-related disorders. | {
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EU artists will require a visa to tour the UK following the Brexit transition period, it has been confirmed.
The UK triggered its exit from the European Union last month, entering a transition period that will end in January 2021.
Music industry bodies had asked for two year visas to be granted to musicians, making the touring process a little easier.
However a new policy paper from the Home Office has dismissed hopes for a reciprocal arrangement, confirming that EU musicians and sports players will need to apply for visas once Brexit is completed.
The move would mean that EU and non-EU countries are treated in the same way - but, as anyone involved with live music can testify, the process for gaining such a visa can often be complex.
Deborah Annetts, chief executive of the Incorporated Society of Musicians, has issued a statement saying the body is “deeply disappointed” that free movement for artists from the EU has been ruled out.
She said: “We would ask the U.K. government to reconsider our call for a two-year, multi-entry visa. Any future immigration system does not exist in isolation and has huge implications for the negotiation of EU and U.S. trade deals and reciprocal arrangements. It is vital that any immigration system supports musicians who will need to tour in the EU post-Brexit.”
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Information Assurance Cyber Security Lead
Information Assurance Cyber Security LeadPosition Description:Do you love new challenges in cyber security? Do you thrive in environments where you are a key contributor to ensuring mission success? Parsons Cyber is seeking an Information Assurance Cyber Security Lead to join our Defensive Cyber Ope
Mar 15,2020
USA-TX-San Antonio
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PARSONS\nTechnical DirectorPosition Description:Parsons Cyber is seeking a Technical Director to join a large, complex cyber program.The Technical Director is responsible for codifying the vision and roadmap for technology on a DoD Defensive Cyber Operations and Analysis program. The program include
Mar 15,2020
USA-TX-San Antonio
Product Support Manager
PARSONS\nProduct Support ManagerPosition Description:Parsons Cyber is seeking a Product Support Manager to join a large, complex cyber program.The Product Support Manager is responsible for operation, sustainment and maintenance of Computer Servers, Computer Workstations, Storage Arrays, Operating s
Apr 28,2020
USA-TX-San Antonio
Information Assurance Cyber Security Lead
Information Assurance Cyber Security LeadPosition Description:Do you love new challenges in cyber security? Do you thrive in environments where you are a key contributor to ensuring mission success? Parsons Cyber is seeking an Information Assurance Cyber Security Lead to join our Defensive Cyber Ope
Apr 28,2020
USA-TX-San Antonio
Technical Director
Technical DirectorPosition Description:Parsons Cyber is seeking a Technical Director to join a large, complex cyber program.The Technical Director is responsible for codifying the vision and roadmap for technology on a DoD Defensive Cyber Operations and Analysis program. The program includes develop | {
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Wednesday, May 12, 2010
Out of Words
desert tree overlooking Iquique
Every night I come to this keyboard with a lack of words.
It's not for a lack of excitement or busyness in our lives. We have plenty of that.
It's not for a lack of cute kids stories to tell. Like, did I mention that Owen thinks he is Chilean now? If anyone asks, he is "from here." Not from the States, or Sudan, but "from here." I guess since he has now officially spent more of his life on Chilean soil than anywhere else, that's fair! (It was also funny when his classmate visited the other day and said, "Owen, why do they speak to you in English. You speak Spanish!" as if confirming Owen's perception of his "Chilenismo.")
It's not for a lack of ministry updates to share. Last week we entertained classmates, a teacher, and several parents from the girls' and Owen's school on multiple occasions. It was great because all of these were people who do not profess to know Christ and with whom God is allowing us to build redemptive relationships here in Chile.
These days I picture myself as this tree. It is planted in the middle of the driest desert in the world (as am I.) It looks leafless and tired (as I feel many days.) But it is stubbornly growing (as I attempt to be, by God's grace.)Lord, help me withstand the harshness of the climate and the challenges of ministry and the garbage that so quickly collects in this arid place and in my heart. Help me like this tree to be an encouraging sight in the midst of barrenness!
About Me
I am a wife to my wonderful husband Pedro, a mom to my {five} gorgeous kids through the miracle of adoption and {one} brand-new baby boy through the surprise of our lives, an MK from the beautiful country of Chile, and a missionary to the same. I blog to record the adventures of this amazing life GOD has given us. You are welcome to follow along! | {
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I always earn Columbia, and Carneggie Melon?¿, Hardvard obviusly and Stanford, I watch a Mgazine on TV and cost in this last Uniersity 15 million Pesetas for year.... Here I think we go with in the same direction , I think the free Education will be killed in the next years...
Best brazilian universities are public and cost zero. They are hard to impossible to get in though.I´m not sure this model is much good either.
I would like to do an MFa at Uni Wisconsin, cinema, game or art related. Their current estimated price in total including living there is about 80k dollars I mean, who has this kind of money lying around? We could earn this but since I´m an international student I would have to prove I already have it in my pocket.
So scholarships are the better way to go I guess, also hard to impossible to get in though. But we keep trying, mimimi won´t get me anywhere.
My brother did PHD and post PHD in genetics at Stanford, all scholarship stuff. It is from him and the international academic community that I get the info about the high quality of UWm. We don´t get much international propaganda or info about that here in brazil, we just get info on those universities you stated.
Either way, I really like the prospect of the course you just posted.I will try research it a bit more. Thanks again Mental!
80k dollars it's money but I think will be a lot of more... this it's about 14 millones de pesetas (I think I don't see this quantity in all my live else I go to Bingo and I win well EuroBingo the prize it's huge )
It's a great quantity but for a complete career I thinked in Usa will be very very expensive... But I rebenmber a guy here in the forum I don't know who is, he comment the people in Usa have the debt for all his lifes for the studi and perhaps they don't works in what they want...
80k dollars = ~200k reais... Enough to raise a business and live of it should you know your ways around commerce(I don´t) While I lived in the US, I knew many families that were saving money to afford higher education. They were saving it even before the kid was born.
It´s a tough call, many of my american friends didn´t go for university. Some are doing fine, others are not...and some that did are working on different areas.
Yes about the people in usa save money for a lot of years I know, the problem will be waste the money and after can't works of this, I think this it's equal here or in another part of the world, I listen some moths ago, the complex task like computing science, and this kind of studies complex, the people don't do, they prefer History or another things more easy, seem this it's the cause of the enginners gain alot of money in America too. | {
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ByJohn HughesOctober 6, 2010
Cuba's tacit admission that its communist economy is failing marks the end of an era.
It follows the eclipse of similarly stultified economies in three other lands of lingering communist persuasion – China, Vietnam, and North Korea. All have either moved, or appear to be moving, to free, market-based economies while retaining a communist structure to continue harsh political control.
So while some international critics, like the delusional Iranian President Mahmoud Ahmadinejad, continue to rant against capitalism and America, aging communist regimes seek the fruits of capitalism’s prospering systems while retaining power with communism’s political infrastructure. It is an intriguing period in history.
Signs of reform
During Fidel’s long absence for health reasons, his empowered brother Raúl has hinted at modest reforms. He has ordered the release of a number of political prisoners. He has expressed impatience with the inefficiency of the labor market and sent Cuban delegations to Russia, China, and Vietnam to study their departure from communist economic models.
In August he declared in public: “We have to erase forever the notion that Cuba is the only country in the world where one can live without working.” This was a reference to the fact that most of the population is employed by the state, and with the low wages they are paid – on average $20 a month – many people do not work very hard. There is large-scale moonlighting, dabbling in the black market, and reliance on money sent from abroad by Cuban exiles. Now Raúl is setting free about 10 percent of the state’s workforce, encouraged to launch small businesses or otherwise fend for themselves.
Looking to Russia, China, and Vietnam
What the brothers Castro learned from studying Russia, China, and Vietnam is that all have supplanted the old communist economic systems with consumerism, free markets, and privatization in varying degrees, while China and Vietnam have kept the state in firm control. Even North Korea, whose communist-run economy has left many of its citizens hungry and despairing, has rehabilitated a former prime minister who was fired three years ago for promoting market-oriented reforms. Pak Pong-ju re-surfaced from obscurity in August, with restored party status, stirring speculation that economic reforms and pragmatism are in store. This suggested policy shift comes at a time when Kim Jong-il, the North Korean leader, is engineering the political succession from himself to one of his sons, the 20-something Kim Jong-un.
Vietnam, while under strict Communist Party political control, has been steadily transforming from a centrally planned economy to a market-oriented one, with rapid growth stimulated by the traditional entrepreneurship of its people.
All this freeing up of centralized economies that have proved inept is of course a step on the road to the inevitable: namely, the political freedoms that the respective regimes fear, and – ultimately – democracy. We must hope that such progress will come sooner, rather than later.
John Hughes, a former editor of the Monitor, writes a biweekly column. | {
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Willits City Council agenda for March 13, 2013
The public portion of the council meeting starts at 6:30 p.m. at Willits City Hall where the official agenda is posted. The full meeting is televised live on Willits Community Television. A copy of the agenda and the supplemental information distributed to the council members are posted on the City of Willits web site at thecityofwillits.com/ by selecting the council agenda tab.
1. Conduct a public hearing to review and possibly adopt a planning study updating the city's 2009 to 2014 housing policy and declaring it will have no significant environmental effect.
2. Consent calendar covering three city council meeting minutes, monthly warrants and building inspection report and purchase of three police vehicles from asset forfeiture funds for total of $91,463. .
3. Also in the consent calendar is a resolution accepting the completion of the new Willits sewer plant and the filing of a notice of completion of the C. Overaa and Company contract to build it. Final Overaa contract costs were $13.873 million on an original bid of $11.096 million.
4. Consent: Denial of claim filed against the city by Harold W. Hall for $10,000 for flood damage to his Poplar Avenue residence due to the rise in the creek along Walnut Street during the December storm. City denied the claim due to the flood waters being an act of nature.
5. Consent: Denial of two claims filed for an unstated amount against the city associated with a crash at the intersection of Highway 20 and Blosser Lane. Police reports did not indicate any fault on the city's part and CalTrans is responsible for maintenance and control of Highway 20.
Netha Hill and passenger Gwendolyn Knause filed separate claims for the accident which occurred when another vehicle proceeded into the intersection directly into the path of their vehicle causing a rollover.
6. Consent: Denial of a claim filed by the Kate Black Acupuncture practice for $2,000 in lost revenues due to the loss of a treatment room caused by Central Street project delays and abnormal construction noise.
7. Consent: Denial of a claim filed by Kate Black, Paula Murphy and Diane Smalley about damage to their business during the Central Street project. Staff recommends denial due to lack of proof damages were caused by the project.
8. Introduction of an amended ordinance increasing the city manager's purchasing authority from $10,000 up to $45,000 without requiring city council approval.
9. Adoption of two modified ordinances changing the municipal code for awarding city construction project contracts and eliminating the special demolition fee for demolition recycling
10. Closed session to confer with legal counsel on the Brooktrails lawsuit and discussions associated with the recruitment and selection of a city manager. | {
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But you are clueless on how to store jicama. Should you keep them in the pantry, just like what you did to the potatoes? Or is it better stored in the freezer? Continue reading as I will discuss jicama and the different ways of storing it.
What is jicama?
Jicama and slices of Jicama on the table
Let’s focus first on the root vegetable. Jicama is traditionally grown in Mexico and other parts of South America. It can be eaten raw or cooked. The fleshy root of jicama has a mild flavor that is very similar to turnips. It’s pretty crunchy, too.
When cooked, jicama lends a sweet and nutty flavor to any dish where it is incorporated. However, the flavor is so mild that it will never alter the flavor of any dish. The crispiness of the vegetable is also retained even when it is cooked.
How healthy is jicama?
slices of Jicama on the bowl and a spoon
You should be thanking your aunt or whoever gives you a bunch of jicama because this vegetable is very nutritious. It is composed of up to 90 percent water, so it is very low in calories, sugar, and starch. It is also rich in vitamin C, fiber, potassium, and magnesium.
What makes jicama different from other root vegetables like potatoes and beets is that it is very low in starch, carbs, and sugar. As such, it is considered a good food for weight loss.
It is also packed with fiber. In fact, a one cup serving of jimaca will provide you with 25 percent of your daily fiber requirement.
How to store jicama?
Jicama in the basket
If you are to use jicama in a few days, you can leave the veggie in the pantry. Jicama can retain its freshness for up to 3 weeks when left in a cool, dry place. Don’t expose it to water or moisture because it will easily decay.
If you have cut or sliced jicama, you should refrigerate it. You can submerge the jicama slices in a bowl filled with water. You can also add a few drops of lemon juice on the jicama slices before refrigerating it.
When left in the fridge, sliced or cut jicama can be used up to two weeks. You can simply put them in a plastic container with a cover.
Can you freeze jicama?
Slices of Jicama on the plate and Jicama
Yes, jicama freezes well. You can extend the freshness of jicama for up to six months when you freeze it.
But before you freeze jicama, remember to keep it as dry as possible. You can freeze whole jicamas by wrapping them in aluminum foil before putting in the freezer. The aluminum foil will protect the vegetables from moisture loss.
In case you want to freeze cut or sliced jicamas, you’ll need an airtight plastic container. Pat the vegetables with paper towels so that you can remove as much moisture as possible. Once the vegetables are dry, transfer them to the container and seal the lid. You should not overfill the container.
Get a marker and label the container with the date before putting it in the freezer.
Defrosting jicama is easy, too. Simply transfer the container to the fridge and leave it overnight. However, you should consume or use the thawed jicamas right away as temperature changes will make the vegetable soggy.
You can use jicama in salads and barbecues. You can even make jicama chips.
Jicama chips recipe
This is a delicious and healthy snack that you can prepare in half an hour. It makes four servings.
Ingredients
jicamas, peeled, olive oil, limes, chili powder and salt
2 jicamas, peeled
Two teaspoons of olive oil
Juice of two limes
One teaspoon of chili powder
Quarter teaspoon of salt
Step by step guide
Slices of jicama on the table
Preheat the oven to 390 degrees Fahrenheit. Then place parchment paper on two baking sheets.
Slice the jicamas. Try to slice them very thinly using a kitchen knife.
fried Slices of jicama
Mix the lime juice, olive oil, salt and powder in a large bowl. Add the jicamas and mix them, so all slices will be fully coated.
Put the jicama slices in a single layer on the baking sheets. Bake the jicamas for 30 minutes. Turn them halfway or until the veggies start to turn brown.
Serve and enjoy with your favorite dip.
Conclusion
After reading this post, I believe you now know how to store jicamas. The good thing about this veggie is that it does last long especially when frozen.
So the next time you buy a bunch of jicamas, or someone sends you more than what you need, freeze jicamas instead. This is the best way to extend its storage life.
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Protruding through beautiful oak trees, an almost suspended architecture is slightly seen occupying a hillside in Beverly Hills, California. The Oakpass Residence by Heusch Architecture was imagined resting on 10 very narrow columns, gathering views of the surroundings through its almost fully glazed facade. The uplifted ground floor under the residential structure forested by the columns shaping the 12 feet high support system was designed to be part carport, part Zen garden. Architects found an innovative solution to eliminating the need for a retaining wall, making the home more interesting and the surrounding space more compact and leading to minimal impact on the forested landscape. Even the pool was elevated above ground, creating a continuation of the column-defined space under the house. Captured in between two large concrete slabs, interior spaces showcase a comfortable design and seem to merge with the outdoors thanks to frameless floor to ceiling glass and the continuity of materials from the inside out: “The choice of the natural materials such as Brazilian walnut floors inside and out, Portuguese limestone and Spanish marble define the interior spaces. The restrictive palette throughout the house and the custom designed furniture and cabinets characterize the minimalist environment.” | {
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General News of Wednesday, 19 February 2020Source: GNAMinority rejects Platinum’s $23.9 million tax waiver requestplay videoSpeaker of Parliament, Aaron Michael OquayeThe Minority in Parliament Tuesday rejected the adoption of the Finance Committee’s report to approve US$23,983,033, being tax waiver on materials, plant, machinery and equipment by Platinum Properties Limited.
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Remove ports 1e:0 and 16e:0 from port group 'PG_1_2_15_16_E0_Group'.The '-unmap' option also unmap(from 1e:0 and 16:e0) the devices on all related Storage Groups associated with port group 'PG_1_2_15_16_E0_Group'.
Delete/Remove an empty initiator group.The "-force" must be used if the initiator group(IG) is not empty.We can't delete IG if it is part of a Masking View.
symaccess -sid 1234 delete -name MyPortGroup -type port
Delete/Remove an empty port group.The "-force" must be used if the port group(PG) is not empty.We can't delete PG if it is part of any Masking View.
symaccess -sid 1234 delete -name MyStorageGroup -type storage
Delete/Remove an empty storage group.The "-force" must be used if the storage group(SG) is not empty.We can't delete SG if it is part of a Masking View.
symaccess -sid 1234 delete view -name Host1_Allocation
Delete view Host1_Allocation.
symaccess -sid 1234 delete view -name Host1_Allocation -unmap
Delete view Host1_Allocation and also unmap all the device in associated storage group.
symaccess -sid 1234 list
List all Initiator, Port and Storage Groups Created for Array 1234
symaccess -sid 1234 list -name MyGroup
List all groups named MyGroup
symaccess -sid 1234 list -name MyGroup -v
List all groups named MyGroup and also shows the related Masking Views
symaccess -sid 1234 list -type init -name MyIG
Find the number of child initiators in IG MyIG and number of associated Masking Views.
symaccess -sid 1234 list -type init -name MyIG -v
Find the number of child Initiator Groups in IG MyIG and also shows the associated Masking View.
symaccess -sid 1234 list -type initiator
List all Initiator Groups Created for Array 1234
symaccess -sid 1234 list -type initiator -wwn xxxx
Check whether the HBA WWN xxxx is a member of any Initiator Group.
symaccess -sid 1234 list -type port
List all Port Groups Created for Array 1234
symaccess -sid 1234 list -type port -name MyPG
Find the number of ports in Port Group MyPG and numbers of associated Masking views.
symaccess -sid 1234 list -type port -name MyPG -v
Find the number of ports in Port Group MyPG and also shows the associated Masking Views.
symaccess -sid 1234 list -type storage
List all Storage Groups Created for Array 1234
symaccess -sid 1234 list -type storage -dev AAA
Check whether the device AAA is part of of any Storage Groups.
symaccess -sid 1234 list -type storage -name MySg
Find the number of devices in storage Group MySg and number of associated Masking Views.
symaccess -sid 1234 list -type storage -name MySg -v
Find the number of devices in storage group MySg and also shows the associated Masking View
symaccess -sid 1234 list -v
List all Initiator,Port and Storage Groups Created for Array 1234 along with related Masking Views
symaccess -sid 1234 list assignment -dev 9A0:9AF
Shows the masking details of devices from 9A0 to 9AF
symaccess -sid 1234 list devinfo -ig MyInitiator
List the details of devices assigned to the initiatorgroup MyInitiator
symaccess -sid 1234 list logins -dirport 12f:1
List WWPNs logged in to FA port 12f:1
symaccess -sid 1234 list logins -wwn xxxx
Check whether wwn xxx logged in to any of the FAs on array 1234.
symaccess -sid 1234 list logins -wwn xxxx -v
Check whether wwn xxx logged in to any of the FAs on array 1234."-v" options also provides the time of login change. This is helpful if the wwpn not logged in now on the FAs , but want to know when its got disconnected.
symaccess -sid 1234 list no_assignments -dirport 12f:1
Shows the devices are mapped to 12f:1 but not part of any masking view.
symaccess -sid 1234 list view
List masking views Created for Array 1234 with related groups details
symaccess -sid 1234 list view -name Host1_Allocation -detail
Provides detailed infomation about the masking view .This output is same as 'symmaccess show view'.
symaccess -sid 1234 list view -name Host1_Allocation -v
This command shows more readable information about the associated Storage Group,Initiator Groups and Port Groups.
symaccess -sid 1234 remove -login -wwn 1000000000000001
Completely remove the wwn 1000000000000001 from the login history table of vmax 1234
Remove ports 1e:0 and 16e:0 from port group 'PG_1_2_15_16_E0_Group'.The '-unmap' option also unmap(from 1e:0 and 16:e0) the devices on all related Storage Groups associated with port group 'PG_1_2_15_16_E0_Group'.
Delete/Remove an empty initiator group.The "-force" must be used if the initiator group(IG) is not empty.We can't delete IG if it is part of a Masking View.
symaccess -sid 1234 delete -name MyPortGroup -type port
Delete/Remove an empty port group.The "-force" must be used if the port group(PG) is not empty.We can't delete PG if it is part of any Masking View.
symaccess -sid 1234 delete -name MyStorageGroup -type storage
Delete/Remove an empty storage group.The "-force" must be used if the storage group(SG) is not empty.We can't delete SG if it is part of a Masking View.
symaccess -sid 1234 delete view -name Host1_Allocation
Delete view Host1_Allocation.
symaccess -sid 1234 delete view -name Host1_Allocation -unmap
Delete view Host1_Allocation and also unmap all the device in associated storage group.
symaccess -sid 1234 list
List all Initiator, Port and Storage Groups Created for Array 1234
symaccess -sid 1234 list -name MyGroup
List all groups named MyGroup
symaccess -sid 1234 list -name MyGroup -v
List all groups named MyGroup and also shows the related Masking Views
symaccess -sid 1234 list -type init -name MyIG
Find the number of child initiators in IG MyIG and number of associated Masking Views.
symaccess -sid 1234 list -type init -name MyIG -v
Find the number of child Initiator Groups in IG MyIG and also shows the associated Masking View.
symaccess -sid 1234 list -type initiator
List all Initiator Groups Created for Array 1234
symaccess -sid 1234 list -type initiator -wwn xxxx
Check whether the HBA WWN xxxx is a member of any Initiator Group.
symaccess -sid 1234 list -type port
List all Port Groups Created for Array 1234
symaccess -sid 1234 list -type port -name MyPG
Find the number of ports in Port Group MyPG and numbers of associated Masking views.
symaccess -sid 1234 list -type port -name MyPG -v
Find the number of ports in Port Group MyPG and also shows the associated Masking Views.
symaccess -sid 1234 list -type storage
List all Storage Groups Created for Array 1234
symaccess -sid 1234 list -type storage -dev AAA
Check whether the device AAA is part of of any Storage Groups.
symaccess -sid 1234 list -type storage -name MySg
Find the number of devices in storage Group MySg and number of associated Masking Views.
symaccess -sid 1234 list -type storage -name MySg -v
Find the number of devices in storage group MySg and also shows the associated Masking View
symaccess -sid 1234 list -v
List all Initiator,Port and Storage Groups Created for Array 1234 along with related Masking Views
symaccess -sid 1234 list assignment -dev 9A0:9AF
Shows the masking details of devices from 9A0 to 9AF
symaccess -sid 1234 list devinfo -ig MyInitiator
List the details of devices assigned to the initiatorgroup MyInitiator
symaccess -sid 1234 list logins -dirport 12f:1
List WWPNs logged in to FA port 12f:1
symaccess -sid 1234 list logins -wwn xxxx
Check whether wwn xxx logged in to any of the FAs on array 1234.
symaccess -sid 1234 list logins -wwn xxxx -v
Check whether wwn xxx logged in to any of the FAs on array 1234."-v" options also provides the time of login change. This is helpful if the wwpn not logged in now on the FAs , but want to know when its got disconnected.
symaccess -sid 1234 list no_assignments -dirport 12f:1
Shows the devices are mapped to 12f:1 but not part of any masking view.
symaccess -sid 1234 list view
List masking views Created for Array 1234 with related groups details
symaccess -sid 1234 list view -name Host1_Allocation -detail
Provides detailed infomation about the masking view .This output is same as 'symmaccess show view'.
symaccess -sid 1234 list view -name Host1_Allocation -v
This command shows more readable information about the associated Storage Group,Initiator Groups and Port Groups.
symaccess -sid 1234 remove -login -wwn 1000000000000001
Completely remove the wwn 1000000000000001 from the login history table of vmax 1234 | {
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Inter Milan’s average supremacy in six league away matches is exactly two and Atalanta can be considered to be below average in terms of ability. That would suggest that Inter Milan can maintain or improve that average by winning this match by at least two goals. Atalanta have scored just five goals at home this season but are yet to play a side as good as Inter. That means Inter to win to nil is an interesting bet and a handicap bet conceding one goal makes some appeal which on current form they should cover.
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On this day in 1959, on New York City’s Fifth Avenue, thousands of people line up outside a bizarrely shaped white concrete building that resembled a giant upside-down cupcake. It was opening day at the new Guggenheim Museum, home to one of the world’s top collections of contemporary art.Mining tycoon Solomon R. Guggenheim began collecting art seriously when he retired in the 1930s. With the help of Hilla Rebay, a German baroness and artist, Guggenheim displayed his purchases for the first time in 1939 in a former car showroom in New York. Within a few years, the collection—including works by Vasily Kandinsky, Paul Klee and Marc Chagall—had outgrown the small space. In 1943, Rebay contacted architect Frank Lloyd Wright and asked him to take on the work of designing not just a museum, but a “temple of spirit,” where people would learn to see art in a new way.
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The goal of this document is to give you some simple rules of thumb and creative thought- provoking ideas on how to safely hide and protect one’s bullion coins and bars. With safety in mind, the following are some general guidelines everyone should consider when storing silver and gold first-hand in an apartment or home, on a farm, or even with a trusted third party.
Please note, we do not endorse any of the specific suggestions we are about to make. This document is written with entertainment in mind. Each and every bullion buyer must remain solely responsible for the safekeeping of their very own holdings.
When one decides to buy and take possession of physical silver and gold bullion (coins, bars, and/or rounds), the question arises of where to take delivery and how to safely hold the items for the long term.
In a historic context, there is likely no greater protection against theft than owning one’s valuables close at hand while also simultaneously having the items well hidden, out of sight and mind from any threats which may attempt to seize said precious property.
Rule #1 ➜ Shut Up
It is very important to maintain discretion by keeping one’s holdings as private as possible. This means to either never acknowledge and/or only disclose hidden valuables to the most trusted loved one(s). The more people who know about a stash of valuables, the more risk there is that someone will take advantage of that intimate information.
Rule #2 ➜ Limit Knowledge
Historically, the biggest threat to your bullion stash is not some rogue government or military.
Diversifying your physical storage locations may make sense, depending on the size of your bullion stack. If one has a substantial amount of bullion holdings, it may make sense to mix up locations of where and how the metals are held, whether that be multiple hidden locations within the same domicile or spread internationally amongst various countries and geopolitical arenas.
Rule #4 ➜ Never Underestimate
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The use of multiple diversion stashes may be very handy to bullion stackers. For example, the use of a cheap obvious safe stacked with clad bullion copies and/or a small stack of bullion you’d be willing to lose in the case of home invasion may come in handy.
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As reported in The Guardian, Facebook are asking those who may have shared explicit photos through Messenger them to share the snaps with them so Facebook can identify any attempts to share it further online.
While it may seem a bit contradictory that people who are worried about their nude photos being shared are online are now being asked to share these photos with an anonymous tech giant, Facebook have insisted that the images will only be stored for a short period of time before being deleted.
Facebook’s Head of Global Safety, Antigone Davis
The trial programme began in Australia and has since been phased out to operate in the United States, Canada and the United Kingdom.
Speaking about the programme, Facebook’s Head of Global Safety, Antigone Davis stated that it would greatly help Facebook’s ongoing efforts to combat the sharing of explicit images online.
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“This pilot has the potential to disable the control and power perpetrators hold over victims, particularly in cases of ex-partner retribution and sextortion, and the subsequent harm that could come to them.”
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The ninth annual Zurich film festival kicked off on Thursday with the screening of Rush, American director Ron Howard’s new film about Formula One motor racing.
Two of the film’s stars, Daniel Brühl and Alexandra Maria Lara, were in attendance, among a clutch of Hollywood names dropping by for the festival opened by federal Home Affairs Minister Alain Berset, responsible for culture.
Celebrities on hand for the opening included Swiss alpine ski champion Didier Cuche, former Brazilian football star Ronaldo and former Swiss president Moritz Leuenberger.
The 11-day festival in Switzerland’s largest city features 16 premieres among the 122 films to be shown.
Other stars scheduled to make appearances include American actor Harrison Ford, who is to receive the festival’s Golden Eye award for lifetime achievement on October 4th.
Ford is set to attend a tribute in his honour at the Corso cinema.
Hugh Jackman is slated to be honoured with the festival’s Golden Icon award on Saturday (September 28th), when the Australian actor and producer will present his latest film, the thriller Prisoners.
US film producer Harvey Weinstein, co-founder of Miramax Films, will give a talk on Sunday ahead of an evening screening of his latest project, One Chance, the story of a singer who became famous overnight after performing arias on “Britain’s Got Talent”.
Premieres include Canadian director Atom Egoyan’s latest film Devil’s Knot, the biopic Diana, starring Naomi Watts and directed by German director Oliver Hirschbiegel and All is Lost, featuring Robert Redford as a solo sailor in the Indian Ocean, directed by American J. C. Chandor.
Le Week-End, a comedy from English director Roger Michell, is also on the list, telling the story of how a long-married British couple try to rekindle their love life with a visit to Paris.
This year’s festival is spotlighting films from Brazil and expanding its film music competition.
Nadja Schildknecht, co-director of the festival with Karl Spoerri, said organizers want the event to grow at a moderate pace.
“A higher budget of 6.1 million francs made it possible to optimize our corporate structure, as well as further develop the contents of the programme,” she said in a news release.
“A large part of the the event’s infrastructure is located around the Sechseläutenplatz — the rest at Sihlcity, ensuring the ZFF remains a festival of short distances, which is highly appreciated by our guests.” | {
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[Quote No.44208] Need Area: Friends > Friends "I meet far too many people who respond to a new idea or suggestion with, 'Let me tell you how I do it,' or, 'I disagree.' Their immediate response is to protect their own thinking patterns or try to prove they know more. These are people with sclerosis of the mind. Too many people don't change because they're afraid to admit they're wrong or inefficient or ineffective. Strong people change all the time because they know that's how they continue to improve. With whom are you associating daily? Are you with those who build moated castles to defend against intellect, or those who sally forth daily to find better ways? Only you can decide with whom you'll ride. But even horses have the sense to follow those who move on to new pastures where food is more plentiful and the view changes." - Dr. Alan WeissAuthor's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this AuthorStart Searching Amazon for GiftsSend as Free eCard with optional Google Image
[Quote No.47000] Need Area: Friends > Friends "QUESTION: What do these great achievers have in common: Isaac Newton (physicist), Fredrick Nietzche (philosopher), Rene Descarte (philosopher), Immanuel Kant (philosopher), and Blaise Pascal (mathematician and physicist)? ANSWER: They all made immense contributions to society. None of them married and most of them lived alone. All of them craved solitude." - Stephen PletkoTop 1000 Amazon reviewer. Quote from his review of 'Solitude: A Return to the Self', by British psychotherapist Anthony Storr, who in the book examines the solitude sought by many other imaginative and creative individuals including Kafka, Kipling, Beatrix Potter, Beethoven and Wittgenstein.Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this AuthorStart Searching Amazon for GiftsSend as Free eCard with optional Google Image
[Quote No.49447] Need Area: Friends > Friends "[Connection, intimacy, isolation, loneliness, aloneness and individualism, even solipsism:] We live together, we act on, and react to, one another; but always and in all circumstances we are by ourselves. The martyrs go hand in hand into the arena; they are crucified alone. By its very nature every embodied spirit is doomed to suffer and enjoy in solitude. Sensations, feelings, insights, fancies - all these are private and, except through symbols and at second hand, incommunicable. We can pool information about experiences, but never the experiences themselves. From family to nation, every human group is a society of island universes." - Aldous HuxleyFrom his book, 'The Doors of Perception'.Author's Info on Wikipedia - Author on ebay - Author on Amazon - More Quotes by this AuthorStart Searching Amazon for GiftsSend as Free eCard with optional Google Image | {
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I hate tight clothes. Baggy is the way to go for me. Plus, the Aero shirts are kinda weird in their fit because it seems they're made for slender guys. I wear a large t-shirt, but with them, they're really narrow so I wear a XL or 2XL depending on the shirt and because of that they're really long, and I'm not gonna tuck in the shirt.
It was fun, the Muay Thai was pretty cool learning how to throw punches and kicks, and we did 2 armbar variations from full guard.
Price is a little steep around $6000 for the 36-month program, but by the end of it, I should have several black belts, I think 3 of them
2k a year
167.00 a month
42 buck a week
Not that bad when you do the math (I'm sure you have)
Please keep us posted on how it;s going. how'd the wife like it?
I can't get my wife to join the fun. I really think she'd be good and hitting people
__________________"Courage is resistance to fear, mastery of fear - not absence of fear."
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Mistmare
Join Isador, the inquisitor monk, on an epic journey through Europe ravaged by years of conflict. The fate of the world lands squarely on your shoulders, as you visit great European cities isolated from each other for hundreds of years, trying to find the person who escalated a personal conflict into a quickly unfolding drama that encompasses the known world.
The year is 1996 and the world is different, there was no industrial revolution, there are no cars or mobile phones, there is only the feeble existence of people who have to fight the land, that decided it would fight back. The world is in turmoil and large parts of the continent are covered in thick mist with magical properties that forbids the passage through central Europe. Join Isador as he explores the world, searching for the man, deemed by the Church to be a murderer and an antichrist. The once great cities will pass you by: Rome, Avignon, Paris and others; on your quest to stop this man.
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Touring Venerable Temples of Soto Zen Buddhism in Japan Plan
The Soto Zen School has two head temples. One is the Soujiji in Tsurumi, Yokohama. The other is the Eiheiji in Fukui Prefecture. In 1244, Dogen Zenji, the founder of Soto Zen, opened a temple called the Sanshoho Daibutsuji, the name of which was later changed to Kichijozan Eiheiji. This was the beginning of the Eiheiji as we know it now.
The Soto Zen School has two head temples. One is the Eiheiji; the other the Sojiji. Keizan Zenji (1227–1325) was head of the temple Morookaji, in modern Ishikawa Prefecture. In 1321, he renamed the temple the Shogaku-zan Sojiji. When this Sojiji burned down during the Meiji period (1867–1912), it was relocated in Yokohama, where it is today. | {
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Finds from 1859
Some finds from the GRO Birth Records for England and Wales in 1859. All are first names and middle names — the surnames are not included unless indicated by 'sn' — and have been checked against other records for accuracy.
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Finds from 1859
Some finds from the GRO Birth Records for England and Wales in 1859. All are first names and middle names — the surnames are not included unless indicated by 'sn' — and have been checked against other records for accuracy. | {
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Splitcoaststampers Guest Tutorial: No Line Watercoloring
Hello Everyone! I am so excited to have a tutorial for you today. Splitcoaststampers contacted me and asked if I would like to be a guest tutorial author and I said “heck yes!” I have been enjoying watercoloring so much, like seriously SO much. I love the way it looks and I find it really relaxing to color in images. I have been primarily using Distress Inks to watercolor but this technique will work with any watercolor medium. Today I am sharing with you how to do a no-line watercoloring. This gives a more “painterly” look to your images and almost looks like you drew the images yourself!
After you read through this tutorial or watch the video- if you are inspired to try this technique out and are part of Splitcoaststampers- then please upload your card here so I can see it. If you aren’t part of Splitcoaststampers then definitely leave me a comment and share with me where you uploaded your watercoloring creation!
Your no line watercoloring tutorial is so helpful. I learned a lot ….. you’re an excellent teacher …. just taking your time and explaining each step so clearly! A warm THANK YOU for sharing your talents and beautiful cards!
I just want to say, I have seen the no line watercoloring done many many time Jenn and usually people have it far to watered out to look right to my eye. You have done this so well. I love when it looks like old children’s illustrations…that look but I do want it to look like it has dimension and some color too and you have achieved what I would call the perfect results girl! TFS 😀
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Creating Marketing Homepages That Drive Results
1 on 1 / small group Web Site & Marketing Class
Design websites that drive results! In this 60-minute class, join Sam — a developer and digital marketer from a leading media agency — as he shares how to refine your creative process, capitalize on feedback, and use best practices to design a marketing site that leads to conversions for your company.
This class is perfect for freelancers, SME owners, real estate / insurance agents and everyone who wants to increase the effectiveness of their web design.
Lessons include:
Defining the goals of the webpage Sketching with consideration for hierarchy and user patternsAdvanced usage of digital marketing to collect leadsBusiness funnel to increase your sales by 3x
It’s one thing to create designs that look amazing. It’s also your job to make sure those designs produce results –– and this class will teach you how to do just that!
*Side Note*Primary School Tutors will cost you over 50 dollars per hour just to teach your kids PSLE.
Imagine PSLE level tutors can command 50 dollars per hour, what's more for a class that can actually improve your income.
I sincerely believe this training can be far more valuable than any academic qualifications - this coming from a former teacher. It has the potential to be the best investment in education you have ever made, if you take action to apply what will be taught.
This daily event is more like a small discussion of 2 to 3 person over a coffee place to discuss about their website and how to bring it to the next level
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the recent technological development of intelligent mining
remote control robots can be used to install mining machines to assist in intelligent mining management and maintenance by adding suitable light, vision, auditory, and vibration sensing capabilities. this is supplementary to intelligent mining, and permits robots to do dangerous jobs at the work face rather than having humans do them. | {
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My book club recently had an engaging and lively discussion about the fiction novel, All My Puny Sorrows. The novel’s plot revolves around a family confronting the potential loss of a beloved member through suicide. Elfrieda (Elf), despite her fame as a world-renowned pianist and a loving husband at home, has suffered from depression and a “weariness of life” for many years. Her suicide attempts take a toll on her loving sister, Yolandi (Yoli), and their Mennonite mother. This plot line may not seem enticing because of its unsettling nature, but this character-driven book is actually a joy to read as the dialogue is realistic and funny, the characters (particularly Yoli, and her mother) are unique, witty and compassionate.
Yoli is relentlessly self-deprecating. Her funny and loving letters to Elf are filled with delightful accounts of her not-so-perfect life as a struggling writer of children’s books, an imperfect parent and a poor judge of men: “Seriously, who wants a mother who buys flavoured condoms from the machine at the Rivoli.” Yoli and Elf’s mother is a delightful, forward-thinking, optimistic and cheerful Mennonite woman who is “comfortable in her XXL pink cotton shorts and the T-shirt she won at a Scrabble tournament in Rhode Island.” She is a survivor who makes friends easily, has no trouble talking to strangers, and rarely worries about what people think about her. Her optimism is a bright light that shines for the reader and is an example of a life that is well-lived and appreciated.
An article in the Vancouver Sun reveals that this fiction book is the author’s most autobiographical and personal book. Miriam Toews (pronounced “Taves”) was grappling with the psychological effects of her own sister’s suicide in 2010. When her sister lay in the hospital prior to her death, she had asked Miriam to help end her life…a request that is thoughtfully recreated in All My Puny Sorrows. We feel the author’s anger, confusion, and sadness through the character of Yoli. As reader, I was forced to confront my own attitude and that of society towards individuals who chose to take their own life (to kill yourself does not mean you are crazy) and to determine whether assisted suicide should be considered for those who suffer from mental anguish, not just unbearable physical pain.
All My Puny Sorrows was the winner of the 2014 Rogers Writers’ Trust Fiction Prize and a finalist for the Scotiabank Giller Prize. Despite the awards, I did not expect to like the book All My Puny Sorrows, as I was definitely not a fan of Toews’s previous dark and convoluted book, Irma Voth. Fortunately, I have returned to the cheering section for Miriam Toews. Ultimately, this story is a reminder of the incredible intimacy of family, the importance of compassion, and that there is humour in even the darkest of situations.
Members of my book club recommended some extra reading/viewing on a similar theme:
A gargantuan, mind-altering comedy about the Pursuit of Happiness in America set in an addicts’ halfway house and a tennis academy, and featuring the most endearingly screwed-up family to come along in recent fiction, Infinite Jest explores essential questions about what entertainment is and why it has come to so dominate our lives; about how our desire for entertainment affects our need to connect with other people; and about what the pleasures we choose say about who we are. Equal parts philosophical quest and screwball comedy, Infinite Jest bends every rule of fiction without sacrificing for a moment its own entertainment value. It is an exuberant, uniquely American exploration of the passions that make us human – and one of those rare books that renew the idea of what a novel can do. Publisher’s Summary
A work of great personal courage and a literary tour de force, this bestseller is Styron‘s true account of his descent into a crippling and almost suicidal depression. Styron is perhaps the first writer to convey the full terror of depression’s psychic landscape, as well as the illuminating path to recovery. Publisher’s Summary
Sometimes what’s in your head isn’t as crazy as you think … that’s certainly true for Craig, a stressed-out teenager who checks himself into a mental health clinic for some time out. What he finds instead is an unlikely mentor, a potential new romance and an opportunity to begin anew. Charming, witty and smart, it‘sa coming-of-age story that’skindofafunnystory.
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Friday, July 31, 2009
I was actually feeling like I was getting caught up on reading blogs and getting ready to post another...then the technical difficulties take over your life...I'm sure you've never experienced that before...ever...HA!!!
My satellite internet modem just quit working...done...kapute! So, I've been without internet/email since Monday 7/27...OK, I know that's only 5 days...but it's a dang long 5 days when my only other source of outside communication/information is by phone or to drive there. No TV here (by choice)...just Sirius radio...I can't even get the local radio stations in the house. I really wanted to hear the weather reports!!
But, Wildblue came through and my new modem arrived today...considering it was in Lexington Kentucky yesterday, I'm actually shocked it was at my door just after Noon. So, I've been working my butt off today to get my ads and articles to the publisher of Horsefly. We're going to make the deadline!!
OK...one thing I've got to tell you...I may not get the buckle from Colt's spectacular performance in the reining classes last weekend. My error. I forgot that they DO use a point system, and it's a possibility, that without making the last show, I would loose the championship. It's OK...I'm so totally pleased with Colt's try and performance last Saturday I don't care...well, I care, but winning a buckle is really not the most important thing...it's the outcome of learning and practice. My goal really is to have a well adjusted, happy, mentally and physically sound horse...that's the most important thing to me. So, we'll just see where the chips fall at the September show (during which I will be thoroughly enjoying our Pendleton Roundup vacation...heehee!!!).
OK...on to other stuff...second cutting is on the ground!!!
It's not quite as tall as 1st cutting, but that's normal.
It only had 21 days of growth, but it was blooming out!
Time to lay it down!! He should be baling by Monday.
Lil' Cindy Sue says "Cut it Mom...I can't see a thing!!"
I must say that we're going to get better tonnage than
last year though...better than others in the area too!
It's been pretty warm here too...but not in the triple digits like the west side of Oregon...so, I won't complain!! The boys were standing around the water trough talking about a way to keep cool...
Sunday, July 26, 2009
Have you ever won a belt buckle showing your horse? Well, in all my 51 years I have not, and since I bought Colt 2 years ago it's been my "goal in life" to win a buckle...hopefully with him!
Today is the day that I reached my goal...
I have no photos to share with you of this memorable day, so I dug some out of my archives to share with you. My Man the official photographer stayed home to get some of his stuff caught up.
Did I do something special today?
Yes, Colt, you did do something very special. We have a small, local saddle club here in Harney County called the Great Basin Saddle Club. They mainly focus on rail classes, but they include a reining class in their summer buckle series.
Their first show was last month when the rain was so bad and it was moved from the outdoor arena to the tiny indoor arena at our fairgrounds. So, they had to cancel the reining class. At today's show, they gave us the opportunity to ride the pattern twice and be scored by two different judges.
Now, mind you this is really just a small local club...there were no fancy reining horses here...just nice folks (adults and kids) that enjoy their horses. There were 8 horses in the class. Colt and I took 1st in both classes!! I was totally amazed.
I knew he felt good; he was smooth in all his transitions, the circles were correct, the big fast circle was nicely extended out, and he came right back to my hands for the small slow circle, and lead changes were right on. As usual, his stops need lots more work, but his spins were decent. I was proud of what Colt did...no matter where we placed.
Colt says "I love when mom gives me hugs & kisses.
I really tried my hardest."
There's one more show in the series, but we will be at the Pendleton Roundup. But, with 2 1st places, I've got the buckle!!!
I will wear that buckle proudly...Colt works hard and is honest in what he does...I love this horse.
Friday, July 24, 2009
My friend and fellow cutting horse/cowhorse enthusiast sent me her latest piece of artwork, and I've got to share it with you all...it's just so cool...
"A Horse with No Name"
by Michelle Severe
I want to share what Michelle wrote in her email:
A Horse with No Name! I think fits this! Besides the fact I always liked the song by America! This is an American desert horse with no name, just a number freeze brand on his neck! This is Corinne Elser, works with alot of wild horses, and winner of the 2008 Mustang Challenge, and a horse she was gentling for a customer that adopted him 3 months ago. I was impressed how nice looking he was, he is out of the Kiger unit.
Here is the photo that she did the work from...
Michelle is doing a series of pieces titled "Working Ranch Women." I encourage you to visit her web site at: www.michellesevere.com and take a look at some of her other work; especially the Ranch Women series. She's not finished with the series yet...so there will be more! Go to the "Gallery" and click on the thumbnails. It will bring up a brief description and some background of the piece.
Ratcatcher's Day commemorates the Pied Piper of Hamelin, the most infamous of Ratcatchers.
One of the most well known German folklores is the story of the Pied Piper of Hamelin. The town of Hamelin, Germany was infested by rats. The mayor promised to handsomely pay the Pied Piper, if he rid the town of rats. The Pied Piper played his flute. Lured by the magical music, all of the rats left town, and followed him. He played his music all the way down to the river. He waded into the river. The rats followed him and drowned. The mayor refused to pay him. So, one night when the townspeople were asleep, the Pied Piper played his music again. This time, the children of the town followed him all the way into a cave. Some versions for the legend vary here. In one version, th e Pied Piper kept them there until he was paid by the town for his services. In most versions, the children were never to be seen again.
How many Rats were lured to the River? Estimates are upwards of a million!
If you see a Ratcatcher today, wish them Happy Ratcatcher's Day!
The Origin of Ratcatcher's Day:
We have yet to discover why July 22 was selected as the date for Ratcatcher's Day.
According to the legend, the Pied Piper rid the town of Hamelin, Germany of rats on or around June 26, 1284. After the town mayor refused to make payment as promised, the Pied Piper returned to lure the children to a cave. In some versions of the legend, this occurred the next night. In others, he returned several weeks later. We speculate that "several weeks later" was July 22and.
Ratcatcher's Day
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Ratcatcher's Day, Rat-catcher's Day or Rat Catcher's Day is celebrated on 26 June or 22 July, commemorating the myth of the Pied Piper of Hamelin. The confusion of dates is because the Brothers Grimm cite 26 June 1284 as the date the Pied Piper led the children out of the town of Hamelin in Germany, while the poem by Robert Browning gives it as 22 July 1376.
Well, it doesn't matter any lil' bit about all them dates...and OK...I don't play a flute...I just like the idea that they named a day for us Ratcatcher's!!! BOL!!!
OK...I gotta tell y'all 'bout this one...mom puts a live trap out in the Mustang Barn 'cause it's over-run wiff pack rats. Them dang vermints hide under the floor 'n I can't get at 'um very good. But, yesterday there was a rat in the trap 'n before mom could let it out of the trap fer me to git...Cowboy 'n me gots it out ourselves...BOL...ya shoulda seen us flippin' that cage upside down 'n evfury which way...it was SO MUCH FUN!!! Cowboy's a big helpin' brudder...but I gots the rat in the end!! BOL!!!
Tuesday, July 21, 2009
Well...it's the last cutting at Roaring Springs for this year anyhow. We had three cuttings there this year and I always love going there. This one was a hot one...100 degrees when we finished at 2:00!
The morning sure started beautifully!
My Man and Whiskey...always there
to lend a helping hand...he's my
personal photographer you know ;~)
Colt and I've been going to Bob Kerby's once a week for a lesson/practice and it's really showing. Colt is really trying to take ahold of the cow. He's still got his head a bit high, shaking it, bracing, and not coming back to my hands when I ask. But I see lots of improvement from two weeks ago.
We entered the 150 and 125 classes again. The video is from my first run in the 150. He started off really strong when we were seperating the cow out and got to jumping around a bit and I thought I should have warmed him up a lil' bit more, but he started working the cow as soon as we got it out. We scored a 65 even though we lost a cow and got the 5 point penelty. To me it means we would have scored a 70 if we hadn't lost the cow...our all time best in my opinion. I was thrilled with him!! Then we scored a 67 in the 125 class.
Photo credit to Andi Harmon.
Photo credit to Gene Harris.
Colt gets lots of hugs and kisses after a job well done.
Only one more cutting for the High Desert Cutters...August 1. But, we've got our local saddle club reining class this next weekend, stock horse shows in Grant County and Lake County (both in August) then the big Harney County Reined Cow Horse Futurity in September.
Tuesday, July 14, 2009
It was a perfect day yesterday to move cows and calves; cool with a breeze. Ty came by and picked Colt and me up and we were at our starting spot by 8 AM. We rode out to the far SE corner of the allotment and started gathering and pushing them north.
Sorry about the photos...scanning just isn't my expertise! Sure glad we have digital cameras now!!
Saturday, July 10, 1999...something had to make this wedding special. I'd had a church wedding before, and we wanted this wedding to reflect us. And "us" at that time was Carina (who we lost 2 winters ago), Toby, Cowboy, Abby, My Man and me. So, what would be more fitting than a wedding on horseback!
Abby was the ring bearer, the best man was Jon Brown and my matron of honor was my best trail ridin' buddy Kris Spencer. The Circuit Preacher was a friend of My Man's from year's ago. The beautiful buckskin he rode was 30 years old. He carried a rifle on the saddle and a pearl handled pistol on his hip, which he showed the audience as he pulled back his coat and drummed his fingers on it as he asked "Is there anyone here who doesn't think that these two people should marry?" That got quite the laugh!
The exchanging of rings. It was a hot day and
my fingers were swollen and My Man could
hardly get the ring on my finger!
The Kiss
And another kiss.
This is one of my favorite photos of all time.
Carina and Toby were soul mates just like us...they
had to show their love that day too.
Then a lil' celebrating with libation and food.
My Man with his infamous Hamms beer...me and my wine!
Of course the cake...white champage cake
with raspberry filling.
Real flowers decorated the cake.
My wonderful, long time, drill team ridin', trail ridin' friend Nancy made my riding skirt. She is an excellent seamstress. I still get beautiful Christmas gifts sewn by her every year!
Potluck was the menu. Cheap beer and boxed wine the libation of the day. Well, there was a bottle of Crown Royle being passed around too ;~)
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Thai Leader Promises to Lift Martial Law
BANGKOK, Thailand – Thailand's interim prime minister said Tuesday his government will lift martial law "as soon as we can," adding that repairing the country's image was a priority after last month's coup drew widespread international condemnation.
"We will lift martial law as soon as we can and when the situation is suitable," said Prime Minister Surayud Chulanont, who was appointed by the military after the Sept. 19 coup that ousted Thaksin Shinawatra.
"I stress it will not be long."
Surayud made the comments to reporters during a break from his first Cabinet meeting, a day after the team was sworn in by King Bhumibol Adulyadej.
The country's revered monarch urged the Cabinet Monday to work with honesty as the country tries to move beyond a political crisis that led to the overthrow of ex-Prime Minister Thaksin Shinawatra, and to help restore Thailand's international reputation.
During the Cabinet meeting, ministers agreed to consult the Council for National Security, as the coup leaders call themselves, about lifting martial law, Surayud said.
"We value the freedom of people and civil liberties," he said.
Western nations and human rights groups denounced the coup as a setback to democracy and have urged the current government to quickly lift restrictions imposed by the military, including curbs on press freedoms and limits on public gatherings and political assembly. Martial law was imposed immediately after the coup.
The king acknowledged the criticism for the first time as he swore in the Cabinet Monday.
"Many people are saying bad things about Thai people," the king said. "Foreigners say that Thailand is not good. So we have to correct that. If we don't correct it, the reputation of our country will be bad."
The king also noted that many Thais were suffering from flooding that started with the rainy season in August and intensified recently in the aftermath of Typhoon Xangsane. At least 39 people have died from flood-related causes since August and 138,000 others have been sickened by waterborne diseases.
Surayud said the Cabinet will focus on both matters.
"The ministers will take the king's advice on correcting the image of the country in the eyes of foreigners," Surayud said, without elaborating.
He has a busy schedule of foreign visits planned for the coming months to attend regional summit meetings in China, Vietnam and the Philippines.
Surayud also said he was dispatching his new interior minister, Aree Wong-araya, to one of the hardest-hit areas by the flooding.
"The most urgent task is to help people suffering from flooding," he said, noting the provinces of Ang Thong and Singburi in central Thailand, where streets remained submerged under water.
Surayud's government is expected to stay in place for about a year until a new constitution is written and elections can be held.
The military ousted Thaksin while he was on an official trip to attend the U.N. General Assembly in New York. Thaksin was widely accused of corruption and abuse of power, and the military council that ousted him is investigating the allegations. He has not returned to Thailand since the coup, opting instead to stay at an apartment he owns in London. | {
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· In Nielsen's 56 metered markets, household results were: "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon," a 2.7 rating, delayed by an NFL overrun; "Late Show with Stephen Colbert," 1.9/5 with an encore; and ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live," 1.3/4 with an encore.
· In the 25 markets with Local People Meters, adult 18-49 results were: "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon," 1.3, delayed by an NFL overrun; "Late Show," 0.4/2 with an encore; and "Jimmy Kimmel Live," 0.4/2 with an encore.
· From 12:35-1:05 a.m. ET, ABC's "Nightline" averaged a 0.9/3 in metered-market households and a 0.3/2 in 18-49 in the Local People Meters.
· From 12:35-1:35 a.m. ET, ratings were: "Late Night with Seth Meyers," a 1.5 rating in metered-market households, delayed by an NFL overrun; CBS's "Late Late Show," 1.0/3 with an encore. In the 25 markets with Local People Meters, averages were: "Late Night," 0.7 in 18-49, delayed by an NFL overrun; "Late Late Show," 0.3/2 with an encore.
· At 1:35 a.m., "Last Call with Carson Daly," delayed by an NFL overrun, averaged a 0.9 rating in metered-market households and a 0.4 in adults 18-49 in the 25 markets with local people meters.
Here are the highlights of the 16 ad-sustained programs that aired in primetime on the broadcast networks one year ago (11/24/16):
And finally, a marathon of "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" (0.962 million viewers, #15; adults 18-49: 0.3, #T13), another "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" (1.072 million viewers, #13; adults 18-49: 0.3, #T13), yet another "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" (0.969 million viewers, #14; adults 18-49: 0.3, #T13) and even more "Whose Line Is It Anyway?" (0.930 million viewers, #16; adults 18-49: 0.3, #T13) on The CW (0.983 million viewers, #5; adults 18-49: 0.3, #5) closed out the night.
· In Nielsen's 56 metered markets, household results were: "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon," a 2.9 rating, delayed by an NFL overrun; "Late Show with Stephen Colbert," 1.6/4 with an encore; and ABC's "Jimmy Kimmel Live," 1.3/4 with an encore.
· In the 25 markets with Local People Meters, adult 18-49 results were: "The Tonight Show Starring Jimmy Fallon," 1.5, delayed by an NFL overrun; "Late Show," 0.3/1 with an encore; and "Jimmy Kimmel Live," 0.4/2 with an encore.
· From 12:35-1:05 a.m. ET, ABC's "Nightline" averaged a 0.9/3 in metered-market households and a 0.3/2 in 18-49 in the Local People Meters.
· From 12:35-1:35 a.m. ET, ratings were: "Late Night with Seth Meyers," a 1.5 rating in metered-market households, delayed by an NFL overrun; CBS's "Late Late Show," 0.9/3 with an encore. In the 25 markets with Local People Meters, averages were: "Late Night," 0.7 in 18-49, delayed by an NFL overrun; "Late Late Show," 0.2/1 with an encore.
· At 1:35 a.m., "Last Call with Carson Daly," delayed by an NFL overrun, averaged a 1.0 rating in metered-market households and a 0.5 in adults 18-49 in the 25 markets with local people meters. | {
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I want to make room for new projects so I'm selling my BI WOTR Army which rarely sees action in lack of opponents.The figures are not painted in an awardwinning way but the army is ready to play and looks decent on the table. Figures are mostly Perry (metal and plastic) with some Renegade in between.I give it away for € 200.- plus p&p | {
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History
In This Section
Local 520 History
The early history of Local 520 begins in the U.A. Journal reports of Organizer Dickson. In the February 1914 issue, Organizer Dickson speaks of being in Harrisburg in December of 1913 to speak with several prior members about reorganizing a local.
In the March issue of the Journal, Organizer Dickson mentions that he was in Harrisburg and held a meeting on January 27th. A number of men attended that meeting and on February 5, 1914, a new local was founded in Harrisburg with a very good membership.
Officers were elected and installed and Organizer Dickson felt sure the Local would rise because of the proper spirit displayed and also because of its location in the Capital City.
The initiation fee in 1914 was $1.00 and monthly dues were $1.30. Our current fee is $200 and monthly dues are $31.
Our Local has seen many places for holding our Union meetings. Our first meeting place was at 310 Market Street and meetings were held every week, or as needed. In the years that followed, our meetings were held at various locations throughout Harrisburg, which included 211 Locust Street, 25 S. Second Street, 109 S. Second Street, 221 Market Street, 1219 N. Third Street and 2163 Berryhill Street. Our meetings from 1971 to the present day have been held at 7193 Jonestown Road. This building was built and paid for by the membership of Local 520. This building currently houses the administrative offices, our training facility and the meeting hall. We meet in the hall the second Friday of every month.
During 2003-2004, there was a complete renovation to the HVAC system. We also installed a new sprinkler system and our computer laboratory was completed during this same time frame.
Throughout the history of Local 520, some type of health care has been provided for the membership. However, a formal health and welfare program began in 1958, with a contribution rate of $.10 per hour. Our present day contribution rate for health and welfare is $9.05 per hour. Our Credit Union formed in 1961 and payroll deductions for the Credit Union began on November 1, 1996, at the rate of $.10 per hour. The current credit union contribution rate is $1.50 per hour for our journeymen and $1.25 per hour for our apprentices. A pension program started in May 1963, with a contribution rate of $.05 per hour. Our current contribution rate is $10.00 per hour. An annuity program was started in Local 520 in May 1984, at a rate of $.25 per hour. The current rate is $3.60 per hour.
The growth of Local 520 has seen several mergers. Lebanon (#633) was an early merger but no formal date is on record. Bellefonte and State College (#680) merged on October 31, 1969. Lancaster (#341) merged on January 1, 1970. This merger was followed by York (#555) on August 9, 1972, Shamokin (#559) on October 1, 1973, and Williamsport (*810) on January 1, 1991. | {
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Dropping Off Property
The Benton County Jail does not accept deliveries for inmates except as follows:
One set of court clothes (and only during jury trials).
Prescription eye glasses
Necessary medical equipment, as evaluated by Jail medical staff.
Prescription drugs with current prescription and in original containers
Picking Up Property
Inmates are able to sign release forms while in custody that allow us to release all of their property with the exception of clothing to a third party.We must have a signed release form on file in order to release property, even if the inmate has already been transferred to prison.
To pick up property that has been released to you, bring photo identification to the after hours jail entrance between 8 and 9 AM or 8 and 9 PM.Property releases are done during these two hours only.The after hours entrance to the jail is located to the left of the main Jail lobby entrance (tall building to the left). | {
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Thursday, January 24, 2013
Stories
I did an interview recently with Daniel Parkinson for the Gay Mormon Stories podcast. The interview has recently been published in four parts:
Part 1 covers my upbringing, my mission, my experience at BYU, and the depression I experienced after my mission as a result of struggles in relation to my sexuality;
Part 2 covers how I was saved from near suicide, my departure from the Church, and my search for deeper understanding of my relationship with God and of my sexuality;
Part 3 covers the challenges of finding a husband, and -- once I'd found Göran -- building a home and family with him; my early exploration of the connections between spirituality and sexuality; and my coming out to and reconciliation with my parents; and
Part 4 covers my return to the LDS Church, becoming the father of a gay son, and what my journey with the Church has meant to me and my family, ending with my testimony.
Part of what I love about the "Mormon Stories" format is its extravagance. Participants are allowed to just tell their stories without worrying about time or other constraints, and then the raw story is published in podcast format with minimal editing. The result is a sometimes very long interview (mine is about 5 1/2 hours in total, when you put parts 1 - 4 all together).
That's perhaps much longer than most people are willing to listen. But it's also more conversational and real, and allows you to immerse yourself in the grit of people's real stories in all of their grandiose complexity.
Daniel was a good interviewer. He's a professional psychologist, and he managed to get my guard down and get me talking about stuff that, in retrospect, surprised me a bit. I shared some stuff I've never shared in any other context.
Daniel and I, though contemporaries at BYU and in the Mormon mission field (he also served in a French-speaking mission), come from fairly different perspectives (his much more secular than mine). Those differences made for a much more interesting interview. I was sometimes startled by the thoughts and memories his questions provoked. The end result felt strangely satisfying.
Gay Mormon Stories is part of a much larger enterprise of documenting
and disseminating stories of LGBT Mormons that is taking place in many
different places and formats: through blogs, published memoirs (just search on "gay Mormon" on Amazon.com), documentaries
and dramas. Increasingly, the national media are tapping into the gay
Mormon experience as well. The quantity of data is increasingly overwhelming. Extravagant. But there seems to be a hunger for it -- both inside and out of the Church.
The historian in me wonders what future historians will make of the mass of
data we are in the process of accumulating and archiving. I wouldn't dare to predict which direction history is moving (as some do). I've studied enough history to know that there are always surprises.
But in the meantime I'm awed by the power of asking simple questions, and seeking answers from the storehouse of our lives. | {
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Rambert: A Linha Curva
Sadler's Wells
Winner of the 2010 Laurence Olivier Award for Outstanding Achievement in Dance, Rambert Dance Company is Britain's national company for contemporary dance.
This triple bill includes a brand new work by UK choreographer Aletta Collins. Inspired by Dr Oliver Sacks' book, made famous by the 1990 Hollywood film, Awakenings is the first dance interpretation of these remarkable stories. This energetic and emotional work features a specially-commissioned score, both passionate and lyrical, by celebrated American composer Tobias Picker.
Rambert also presents the return of the popular and critically acclaimed Hush, winner of the Critics' Circle National Dance Award 2009 for Best Choreography, by icon of British choreography Christopher Bruce.
For the third work, German choreographer Henrietta Horn, previously Co-Artistic Director (with Pina Bausch) at the Folkwang Tanzstudio, makes her Rambert choreographic debut with Cardoon Club.
Awakenings and Cardoon Club contain live music played by the Rambert Orchestra.
Book
Book tickets to Rambert: A Linha Curva
1. Number of tickets2. Date3. When
Info
Sadler's Wells
Rosebery AvenueLondonEC1R 4TN
Evening performances
Tuesday to Saturday 7.30pm
Matinee performances
Saturday 2.30pm
Duration:
Directions
Directions
(5mins) Take Upper St towards the City Road crossroads. Continue straight and turn right into Rosebery Avenue, where the theatre is 100m down on the right. | {
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Though I have travel to San Francisco several times in my life, this was the first time that we spend the whole day in the park exploring everything we could. There is so much to see and by no means did we see everything that we there is. We visited the park the weekend of Hardly Strictly Music Festival, which is a free music festival. We saw that Randy Newman was playing and just had to go! We spend the morning walking around the lake checking out the de Young Museum, Japanese Tea Garden, and Conservatory of Flowers. All of which are worth checking out. There are also Buffalos in the park ,which we didn’t get a chance to see. However, next time we find ourselves in Golden Gate Park we will be locating them! There are always all kind of events going on as well, I know that every Sunday they host Swing Dancing in the Park among other events.
After walking around a bit we headed back to the music festival site so we could watch Randy. Which was one of the highlights of both Josh and I’s weekend! Hardly Strictly is a free bluegrass music festival that happens every year in Golden Gate Park. It’s a free concert too!! This was a great way to end the weekend because we had been walking around and explore the city so much. The weather was perfect and didn’t get to cold until the end of the night. The only thing I wish we knew was that you could bring beer and wine to the park with you and they didn’t sell any in the park. Oh well, we still enjoyed ourselves, saw some great shows and caught up with friends. PS, we ended the night with these popsicles, holy moly, they are so good and if you ever see Pop Nation you should check them out! | {
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Delmar is really lucky Bargnani is such a lightning rod for the fans, because his defense is pretty piss poor too. I would wait this season out, but in the summer, I think both him and Bargnani should be shipped out if there isn't some serious improvement. He's just not that blood offensively to compensate for his poor defense. | {
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We've been watching this in Cygnus (Northern Cross) and the "Coathanger Nebula" for the past month now and I'm still waiting for my 2 films to come back from processing! (Long story not yet concluded! )
Have you managed to capture this without the H-Alpha filter and with any colour? | {
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The golden & shiny sustain pedal of my Estonia was becoming dull only after few months of playing. The dealer cosmetic technician came and fixed it yesterday, and mentioned that the problem was caused by playing the pedal bare foot. He suggested that we wear socks to prevent this problem, as the oil of our skin was causing the problem.
Has anybody has such issue? Any other solution besides wearing socks? Thanks!
The golden & shiny sustain pedal of my Estonia was becoming dull only after few months of playing. The dealer cosmetic technician came and fixed it yesterday, and mentioned that the problem was caused by playing the pedal bare foot. He suggested that we wear socks to prevent this problem, as the oil of our skin was causing the problem.
Has anybody has such issue? Any other solution besides wearing socks? Thanks!
Skin is covered with all sorts of icky stuff. Acids, oils, in the case of feet, stuff that grows in damp places. I don't really want to think about it.
Wash your feet before playing? Might help forestall the dull.
Take a bit of brasso to it every month or so if it really bothers you and you can't give up playing 'au natural'.
Ok maybe someone can explain this... Normally I play the piano with shoes on (typical not-so-expensive tennis shoes or whatever, for example). About a year and a few months ago I got a mid 1950s studio upright, and the pedals were dull looking. Now, the sustain pedal looks quite shiny, at least on the front half.
It was the same deal with my old (1913) upright I had previously for several years. When I first got it, the pedals were very dull. Over time, though, somehow my shoe must have buffed off the "dullness", and when I got rid of the piano, the sustain pedal almost looked like new.
Your theory is exactly right. Your shoe buffed the top of the pedal. The other pedals, since they are rarely used, didn't get the same buffing action. I was in a furniture store recently that had a particular display of a four poster bed. One corner of the bed kind of stuck out in the aisle where the aisle turned the corner. It was natural for me to put my hand on the top post to kind of "swing" me into the new direction the aisle went. I looked at that post and the one next to the aisle was much, much shinier than the other three posts. The store sales clerk said everyone touches that post on the way by and the oils from the skin put a high gloss on the top of that one post. Wierd?? | {
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(By Morton H. Halperin, Nautilus Institute, January 3, 2011) If the international community is seen to accept North Korea as even a de facto permanent nuclear power there would be a very serious deterioration of the security situation in East Asia and globally. Notwithstanding the current consensus in both Japan and South Korea against developing nuclear weapons, I believe that a nuclear North Korea would eventually compel South Korea and Japan to acquire nuclear weapons and the danger of an armed conflict in which nuclear weapons might be used would significantly increase. This would pose a serious threat to the global nuclear non-proliferation regime.
Until and unless it becomes absolutely clear that reversing North Korea’s nuclear program is not possible, Western security policy in the region must be directed at persuading the North to give up its nuclear weapons and commit to a verifiable regime to insure its permanent compliance.
There is no prospect of that happening unless the United States also pledges not to threaten the North with nuclear weapons. An agreement would be more likely if Japan were included in a treaty creating a nuclear weapons-free zone (NWF zone) for Northeast Asia. The prospects for such an agreement would be increased if it were embodied in a more comprehensive agreement on peace and security in the region.
Therefore, in order to break the current impasse that has prevented any real negotiations for several years, the parties to the Six-Party talks should seek to negotiate, initially through bilateral channels, the text of a comprehensive treaty that would end the state of belligerency from the Korean War, establish a security organization for the region, commit all parties to normalization of relations with no hostile intent, and establish an NWF zone. Once an agreement on the text was reached, the parties could negotiate the process for bringing it into force…
The elements of the comprehensive Treaty on Peace and Security in Northeast Asia would include:
1. Termination of the state of war This is clearly a major objective of North Korea. This section of the treaty should be adhered to by the armistice nations and by South Korea. It should provide for the normalization of relations while providing support for the eventual unification of the Peninsula. The agreement should provide for opening the border between the North and South and the pulling back of military forces in the demilitarized zone. The territorial disputes between the North and South, including at sea, should either be settled or the two parties should commit to a peaceful resolution of the disputes.
2. Creation of a permanent council on security The treaty should transform the Six-Party talks into a permanent council and support organization to monitor the provisions of the treaty and to provide a forum to deal with future security problems in the region. In addition to the six parties to the treaty, other states from the region could be invited to join as full participants or observers.
3. Mutual declaration of no hostile intent This is a key objective of North Korea, which put great stock in getting such a statement from US President Bill Clinton’s administration. It was flummoxed when the administration of President George W. Bush simply withdrew it and when President Barrack Obama’s administration continued this policy. To be credible, this commitment must be embodied in the treaty and affect all the parties’ relations with each other.
4. Provisions of assistance for nuclear and other energy The right of all parties to the treaty to have access to necessary sources of energy including nuclear power will need to be affirmed. Any limitations on North Korea will need to apply equally to the other non-nuclear parties to the treaty. A new multilateral framework might be appropriate to deal with the fuel cycle. North Korea will also want assurances that its energy needs will be subsidized. Beyond a general commitment this will probably need to be negotiated as a separate agreement.
5. Termination of sanctions/response to violations of the treaty The parties to the treaty will need to commit to refrain from the use of sanctions on any other party to the treaty and to remove them from its list of state sponsors of terrorism. The parties would reserve the right to collectively impose sanctions on any state that violates its commitments under the treaty.
6. A nuclear weapons-free zone Finally, the treaty would contain a chapter that would create a nuclear weapons-free zone in Northeast Asia…
… De-nuclearizing the Korean Peninsula must remain a high priority of the international community. Failure to dismantle North Korea’s nuclear capabilities will lead to further proliferation and to a more dangerous world. The outline proposed here, with a flexible NWF zone, is a way forward that deserves careful consideration.
*Morton H. Halperin served four US presidents and is currently a Senior Adviser at the Open Society Foundation. Halperin notes that, as the Six-Party talks aimed at eliminating North Korea’s nuclear program remain stalled, a fresh approach incorporating the concept of a nuclear weapons-free zone in Northeast Asia should be considered as a way of ensuring peace and security in the region.
(by Lee Chi-dong, WASHINGTON, Dec. 18, 2011 Yonhap) A senior U.S. congressman expressed support for the shipment of food aid to hunger-stricken North Korean people and also stressed the need for continued dialogue with the communist regime. Rep. Donald Manzullo, a Republican from Illinois who leads the Foreign Affairs Subcommittee on Asia and the Pacific, questioned the effectiveness of further sanctions on Pyongyang.
“We have to continue talking, but also I don’t know how many more sanctions we can have on North Korea than we have now, aside from a blockade,” he said in a recent interview with Yonhap News Agency at his office. It was the 10-term lawmaker’s first interview with Korean media. He is known for his efforts to bolster the alliance between Seoul and Washington. He said that after decades of fierce debates, the North Korea issue has drawn bipartisan solidarity.
“It’s nonpolitical in Washington, our attitude and the actions we take toward North Korea, which is sort of interesting because in Washington almost everything is political. But when it comes to this, nobody is criticizing the president for not doing more or taking another approach on it,” he said.
He said there is basically no difference between the Bush administration’s policy on Pyongyang and that of the Obama government. “There is a time to negotiate and a time to stand back,” he said. That is why, he said, North Korea is not a topic in television debates among the Republican Party’s presidential hopefuls. “The reason they don’t talk about it as an issue is that everybody sort of agrees on the same strategy,” he said.
Manzullo, who has a very conservative voting record, said he backs food aid for North Korea as long as the transparency of distributions is guaranteed. “We just want to make sure that if American food goes there or dollars to buy food, that it gets into the hands of the people who need it. That’s always been a problem,” he said.
His comments came as the U.S. and North Korea had working-level talks in Beijing last week to discuss the terms of possible food aid, which the U.S. government formally calls “nutritional assistance.” The North hopes for rice but the U.S., worried that it may be diverted into the military, wants to send more perishable items such as formula, biscuits and instant noodles, according to diplomatic sources. The representative said it is a matter that has to be determined by the governments of the two sides.
On Iran, he strongly called for South Korea to cut trade with the Middle Eastern country to join the U.S. move to toughen sanctions on it. South Korea imports about 9 percent of its crude oil from Iran. Announcing a set of new sanctions against Iran on Friday, Seoul did not touch on oil imports. “Get the oil from somewhere else. And whatever South Korea can do they should do,” he said, adding it’s “ironic” that South Korea, seeking to resolve the North Korean nuclear crisis, would not take the same tack with Iran.
He said he does not expect a major change in the U.S. military presence on the peninsula despite defense budget cuts. The U.S. has around 28,000 troops in South Korea. “I hear no talk at all in Washington that with the defense cutback that there is going to be any change in our present troop levels in South Korea,” he said. “I don’t see that happening.” | {
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The Menagerie: Getting All The Encounters Triumph
Destiny 2 Menagerie: The Ultimate Guide
Menagerie is the latest 6 man activity that was released during the Season of Opulence. It is part of the DLC’s new content and this activity is going to take place back in the leviathan. As you progress in the activity, the power level for the enemies will slowly scales up to 740 so try to get close to 740 to beat this activity with ease. What makes this activity unique is that every time you go into the menagerie, there is going to be different type of encounters. Every encounter has its own objective. Thus, being able to clear the encounter with time left will rewards you a triumph.
For every related menagerie triumph you get, you will be rewarded 500 imperials. Imperials is the currency that you need to upgrade your chalice. You can earn imperials through activities such as strikes, gambit, crucible and the chest on menagerie. The chalice of opulence is an item that you can upgrade as you get more imperials. You can use it forge weapons or armors by slotting different combination of runes. The more upgrade you have, the more runes you can obtain. Hence, more choices you will have. Lastly, there are 3 different bosses in the menagerie and it will be on weekly rotation basis and heroic mode will be release later on. Here’s the encounters that is on menagerie:
The Crystals
The Arkborn
The Gauntlets
The Hunted
The Mockery
The Riposte
The Crystals
This encounter requires players to kill the harpies to get the cranium. After that use the cranium to destroy the crystals that spawn in either side of the room. You will need to repeat this for 3 times until the boss comes out. Successfully killing the boss with time left will unlock the “time manipulation” triumph. If you still need imperials to upgrade your chalice, getting all these triumphs done will help speed up the process for.
The Arkborn
The arkborn is a pretty simple encounter, in fact this could probably be one of the easiest encounter among all in the menagerie. There will be “haven” that spawn in either red room, middle lane or green room. Haven is a statue that let players to dunk soul carrier into it. 2 haven will spawn at the first two waves until 3 haven spawn at the final encounter. When there’s 2 haven, the fireteam can be split into 2 groups and split into 3 groups when there’s 3 haven spawn. All you got to do is run around the map and collect the soul carrier, you can collect up to 3 souls and you will have to dunk into the haven. You got 15 seconds to dunk before you run out of time and die. Finally, successfully completing this encounter with time left will unlock the “faster than lightning” triumph.
The Gauntlets
Gauntlets encounter requires all 6 players to successfully reach the finishing line for 3 times. For this encounter there are 2 separate triumphs which are “chariots of fire” and “going the distance”. If you and your team complete a run in the gauntlet where all six players complete any lap together will unlock “chariots of fire”. As for “going the distance” triumph it requires all six players to complete all laps with perfect score. Which is difficult if your teammate is bad at jumping. And that’s the legit way for getting the triumphs for this encounter. However, currently there’s a cheese to get this triumph whereby you only need 1 person to make it to the finishing line and kill himself/herself with grenade launcher. That will be counted towards the triumph. Kills the enemies and boss and repeat this for two more times and you shall get both triumphs complete.
The Hunted
The hunted encounter is all about capturing zones while killing the treasured knight fast. Sometimes it can be only a capture point or 2. If it’s two zone to capture, it’s best to split the team into two groups. That way you can save time and use it to kill the knights. Upon successfully complete this triumph, you will get the “The Hunted Becomes The…” triumph.
The Mockery
This encounter is pretty similar to arkborn encounter. Instead of collecting soul carrier, this time you will need to kill the hive wizards to grab an orb and dunk into the haven. The haven will have a certain time limit on it before it’s destroy completely and as such you won’t be able to get the triumphs anymore. You need to keep on dunk the orb into the haven the expand the radius of the haven which will prevent you from losing health. The faster you dunk, the faster you will fill up the haven. Keep repeating until you see the message saying that the haven has been filled. As a result, orges and wizards are going to spawn. Those are the bosses for this encounter and you will have to kill it quick. Lastly, successfully complete this encounter with time limit on and you will get the “safe haven” triumph.
The Riposte
Riposte encounter is mainly about killing the hive knights and get the sword. You will need the sword to break the knights and orges shield. If you die while holding the sword, you will lose it forever. Break the shield and kill three hive knights and three orges. Finally, a giant orge will spawn and that’s the boss for the encounter. As long as you’re able to kill it with time left, you will get the triumph. Lastly, the triumph for this encounter is “parry,strike,parry”.
Here’s the showcase of all the encounters that you can find in the menagerie
Menagerie Bosses
For the menagerie activities there are only 3 bosses and they are on rotation basis. The bosses are Pagouri, Hasapiko and Arunak. The rotation will start from hasapiko, arunak then finally pagouri. In case, you’re still in need of imperial seals then completing the triumphs on these bosses will give you 500 each.
First of all, the “Divided We Conquer” triumph from Hasapiko requires only a person to break the shield. You will not get the triumph if you have more than a person breaking hasapiko’s shield. Next, “Eyes Only for You” triumph is from Arunak which requires you to kill it without killing any of the hive knights that spawn. The safest way to do this triumph is to 1 phase the boss and with proper group set up you can definitely get it.
Finally, “Come Out and Play” triumph from Pagouri requires you to teleport the boss once at least to left, middle and right side before killing it. If you happen to summon it onto the same side twice then you will fail to get the triumph.
Heroic Menagerie
Heroic Menagerie was released after the three boss rotation on the normal menagerie. This activity is set at 770 power level and extinguish modifier is always active. Extinguish is the modifier that send your entire team back to orbit if everyone dies. Thus, making this activity a challenging yet rewarding activity to do.
Similar to normal menagerie, there are three triumphs which requires your entire team to be flawless to achieve it. It is also part of the requirement to get the shadow seal complete. So, for those who are going after the seal it is recommended that you get it before the boss changes on next reset. You will have to wait for next rotation if that happens.
Lastly, upon a first successful heroic menagerie run, you will get an emblem. Not only that, the boss has a chance to drop the ship as well as character based sword.
“Break A Leg” triumph
This is the flawless triumph from Hasapiko which requires you and your entire fireteam to be flawless. Our group decided to use the sword start as to block the lethal walls. We find it to be pretty good especially when you have well of radiance on. While other groups may prefer to use titan bubble, shooting the hand to make the wall non-lethal or even jumping around to dodge the wall. Use whichever strat that you’re comfortable with.
Below will be the showcase of video on how our group did it:
“Uncontrolled Rage” triumph
Uncontrolled Rage triumph is only obtainable through the second boss in the heroic menagerie. It requires a flawless run which means no one in the fireteam can die. Otherwise you will fail the run indirectly. Among the three bosses in the menagerie, Arunak probably considered the hardest among all. Firstly, it’s 770 power level activity and the orge blast melts you instantly if you don’t take cover.
Here’s the breakdown of our team setup:
3 banner shield titan and 3 warlock with well of radiance. Lunafaction boots is a must for this.
As for the weapon grenade launcher is highly recommended such as mountaintop, outrageous fortune and swarm of raven. Energy weapon doesn’t matter for this run.
Warlocks and titans will assigned a number for themselves to use their super accordingly. Well of radiance will be setup behind the big pillar which gives a cover from the orge.
Banner shield titan with ursa furiosa will take turn to use their super. The main purpose is to tank the orge blast and cursed thralls. Other people can grab the relic and throw it at the boss to break its shield.
Give a call out once the shield is down to one last hit. Assigned a person to throw the relic at the boss.
Once everyone is ready, have a sentinel titan lead the group up and get ready for dps.
This is more likely a 2 phase boss fight. Thus, rinse and repeat until you beat him
Click the video below, and see how our group do it:
“Lambs to the Slaughter” triumph
The third and final flawless triumph that you need in order to get the shadow title. This triumph can only be acquired from the third menagerie boss, Pagouri in heroic mode. In terms of difficultly, this boss is similar to Hasapiko (the first boss). The only things that you have to watch out is the cyclops, minotaur and self destruct harpies (only spawns during boss dps phase). They are all 770 power level which means they can easily kill you if you don’t engage them smartly.
Here’s the breakdown of our team setup:
For Pagouri, our team goes with 4 banner shield titan and 2 well of radiance warlock. Ursa furiosa is highly recommend for the titans and lunafaction boots for the warlock.
The weapon recommendation for this boss is mountaintop and prospector. Prospector is recommend because it’s an arc singe.
Besides that, the match game modifier will be active in this boss fight. Try to split between arc and void weapons for energy slot. Arc weapons for harpies and void weapons for minotaur.
Prior to the boss fight save up your heavy during the arkborn encounter. And at the beginning of the boss fight, plant a flag but don’t rally it yet.
At the starting area, pop a well of radiance, start the encounter and have everyone empty their prospector ammo. Then quickly rally the flag to replenish the ammo.
Titans and warlock will pop their banner shield accordingly. Watch out for the cyclops, minotaur and self destruct harpies (spawn during DPS phase).
Always use the banner shield to lead the group just like previous boss fight. This is going to be a two phase boss fight.
Click the video below and see how our group beat it:
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65263 as http://kmuw.orgThu, 24 Mar 2016 13:22:10 +0000Score Composers: Unsung Heroes in the Gaming WorldSamuel McConnell The ColecoVision console, Nintendo’s Game Boy, the Sega Genesis and several arcade games - Frogger, Galaga, and even Street Fighter 2 have one very important thing in common: They all use the Zilog Z80 processor. The Z80 processor was designed in 1976 to compete with Intel’s classic 8080 chip, the predecessor to the chips that most people have in their computers today. The Z80 was easy to program for, compared to other processors of the day, but more importantly, it was cheap and relatively powerful. This made it a very popular choice if you needed an 8-bit processor. Many early arcade games used one, two, or three Z80s as their main processors for the game, and in fact all Namco arcade games throughout the early 80s used Z80s. When the Game Boy was released in 1989, the Z80 processor was practically ancient, and the monochrome display seemed almost archaic, but it was important in the success of the system. Even though Sega’s competing Game Gear system had a backlit color screen, itZ80: The Most Prolific CPU of All Timehttp://kmuw.org/post/z80-most-prolific-cpu-all-time
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