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Israelis have bombed the Beirut International Airport because it is person used to bring missiles into Lebanon to use against Israel. The runways have been bombed and the airdrome can no long be previously owned. Israelis have as well bombed to minor airports and put them out of administrative unit. Hezbollah has been using the airports to transport in military capability.
The state of affairs occurred due to the rapacious feat of Lebanon to early on the Israeli crossing point and blitz Israeli forces and yield 3 soldiers surety. The Middle East Conflict is escalating and it appears that this will likely draw Iran into the fixing as very well. Syria is too in the mix as they have supplied soldiers and skill to Hamas in the Palestinian constituency of Jordan.
Israel has also advanced on positions in the Palestinian Authority occupation and taken out bridges and a force processing plant in issue to different abducted soldier on that haunch. The President of the United States has declared that Israel has a truthful to fend for herself, same any other country, although wants to see peace in the location.Post ads:
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Peace perchance tougher than hoped-for as Iran is careworn into the affray due to a war-pact near Syria. Meanwhile Iranian President defies philosophy and refuses to die down it manufacturing of nuclear weapons and has told the United Nations to bury any whatsoever compromise on the enrichment of Uranium.
Iran has secure to bash Israel off the map. The Western World may also act opposed to Iran to forbid them from victimisation a atomic bomb to do only that. Things are heated up and WW III must be averted. Consider all this in 2006.Post ads:
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As reported by Amanda Milkovits in the December 30, 2010 edition of the Providence Journal, a Pawtucket man has been charged with domestic simple assault, domestic disorderly conduct and resisting arrest. His most serious charge is felony domestic assault, which is based on the allegations that he held a knife to his wife's throat and threatened to kill her. The man has a history of domestic violence related charges.
Pursuant to Rhode Island General Law 11-5-2, felony assault is defined as:
(a) Every person who shall make an assault or battery, or both, with a dangerous weapon, or with acid or other dangerous substance, or by fire, or an assault or battery which results in serious bodily injury, shall be punished by imprisonment for not more than twenty (20) years.
(b) Where the provisions of "The Domestic Violence Prevention Act", chapter 29 of title 12, are applicable, the penalties for violation of this section shall also include the penalties as provided in § 12-29-5.
(c) "Serious bodily injury" means physical injury that:
(1) Creates a substantial risk of death;
(2) Causes protracted loss or impairment of the function of any bodily part, member or organ; or
(3) Causes serious permanent disfigurement or circumcises, excises or infibulates the whole or any part of the labia majora or labia minora or clitoris of a person.
Because the man is charged with felony domestic assault, if he is convicted, he will face additional penalties under R.I.G.L. 12-29-5, including mandated counseling or batterer's intervention program.
If you or a family member has been charged with domestic simple assault, domestic disorderly conduct, domestic trespass, domestic vandalism and/or a violation of a no contact order, please allow attorney Robert H. Humphrey's reputation, experience and skill to successfully guide you through the legal process. Please contact Robert H. Humphrey, Esq., at 401-816-5862 or e-mail him at [email protected]. | <urn:uuid:13f1db39-31a2-4595-86f4-d3ce75464122> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | http://www.rhumphreylaw.com/rhode-island-attorney-blog/2010/december/pawtucket-domestic-assault/ | 2017-11-24T00:03:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934807044.45/warc/CC-MAIN-20171123233821-20171124013821-00681.warc.gz | en | 0.932031 | 443 | [
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At My Workplace! (Outlook)
The Other Side!
Or The Closing Chapters of The Story!
- The world suffers now not because of evil people– but because of good people who have decided to remain silent – Albert Einstein
- Change before Change changes you! – Anon.
- If you want to stay in this world, be like a lotus flower who stays in the dirty water, who was born in the dirty water, but never gets adopted to dirty water – Prem Rawat – Indian Guru..
It is a fact of life that in some people and places – nothing will change – even if the whole ground below them is crumbling down under their own feet! They will always continue to think and act as if they are more equal to others – have more rights – and are always perfect, right and correct!
Image Albert Einstein
A few days back I met this good friend of mine. He was asking me as to what had happened to me – because he saw me again complaining about issues and topics – and things that I used to complain about after the business collapse in 2003 – over 9 years ago. He was asking me – I thought you had moved on – and left the past behind you? Then he told me about this great book he had read – entitled The Secret.
Book Image – The Secret
According to Wikipedia – The Secret is a best-selling 2006 self-help book written by one Rhonda Byrne, based on the earlier film of the same name. It is based on the Laws of Attraction and claims that Positive Thinking can create life-changing results such as increased wealth, health, and happiness.
The book has sold over 21 million copies and been translated into 44 languages, but has nevertheless attracted a great deal of discussions and controversy, as well as being parodied (misrepresented/distorted) in several TV programs. You can find more information and details of the book by putting any search engine for “The Secret”
He then went on to tell me about this film he had seen titled ‘What’s Love Got To Do With It?’ He persuaded me to see it – as it was being shown free in ShowTime – already subscribed for!
The Film is a biographical sketch of the life of Tina Turner (Actress Angela Bassett), and her disastrous marriage to Singer and Husband Ike Turner (Actor Larry Fishburne) – the man who had created her career while nearly destroying her life. She struggles to escape from under his constant abuse. The film offers a glossy but intense portrait of her rapid rise to stardom – and the jealousies and envies of her own husband – because she had become more popular than him.
Despite Ike’s attempts to woo her back, Tina Turner eventually prevails and finds solo success, accomplishing her dreams without Ike. The film shows of her courage and determination to overcome and succeed – finding within her the inner strength to fight back and overcome. She is shown as taking chances – and refusing to remain under the domination and control of her bullying husband.
Tina Turner Images
There is this part that I really had liked. There is a metaphor drawn about the flower lotus. The lotus is a flower that blooms in the mud. The thicker and deeper the mud, the more beautiful the lotus blooms!
The Lotus Flower
It is a metaphor meaning that in real life there is cause and effect. You can still bloom (blossom) when around you is all mud! Sometimes you are required to change your inner self first – so to cause effect and change. What it means is that the more tests in life the better person you are likely to be more of. That is if you handle yourself well – starting with your inner self first and foremost – to fight back, overcome and to succeed.
Last few days back, I watched this programme The Inner War In Syria in Al Jazeera Television. It was an interview of the famous Syrian Artist, Cartoonist and Activist – Ali Farzat. He is seen to casually comment – Nothing you tell these peoples will have any effect on them! What it meant was that you are just wasting your time, efforts and energies to tell them things which they are not going to hear you first – and secondly by doing so – you are just exposing yourself to outmost dangers and risks – if not your own life even!
Image Ali Farzat
My friend was asking me – One time you yourself had said that you will stop banging your head against brick walls! Because in the process you only hurt your head – getting it swollen – and even bleeding! And as you yourself like to quote him – Napoleon – Do not interfere with someone set in destroying himself!
Image Napoleon on horseback
What is written to happen will just happen! Take a full break and rest now! There is nothing that you can do that can stop anything that can or will happen – or for you to try to change things!
The point is still – if you just leave one alone – do not poke your fingers into his eyes and then expect him to remain silent and not squirm – or expect him to turn the other cheek ! Or if you think you are better than him – and have more rights to say and do what you want! Then simply there should be no problems existing between anyone in the first place!
My friend was saying to me – You had said many things in the 1980s – and they all came true – even more than what you had expected! Yet your own career was tainted and you were marginalized – and you came to suffer the consequences of your own actions – and because of your own sincerity, genuineness and feelings. You always had ended as the Loser! Marked as ‘trouble-maker’ and ‘with chips on his shoulder’! Even if you had not cast the first – or even the second stone!
It is time to for you stop my friend! They are only mocking and teasing you – speaking evil of you behind your back! Take care now of your own health – your own life – and the time left for you on earth – for once be selfish – and just take care of yourself – your own family – your children – and your own grandchildren! The rest are not important. Take your own advice – and use it. You did what you could – and the time is now over!
Thank you my friend – from the bottom of my heart. Only a person who really cares and feels for you will tell you the truth! Thanks again – my good friend!
Majid Al Suleimany – Muscat – Sultanate of Oman.
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Spring has finally sprung over here, and while it is still bouncing into the chillier temps, there are hostas a popping in the front yard, and we are officially at punch list in the basement!
This means that I am spending chunks of my day making a zillion small decisions. Punch list time is a lot like going for an eye exam. "Do you want this here, or a half an inch over?" "Do you want this on the left? Or the right?" "Do you want this higher? Or lower?" Is it better now? Or now?
And I? LOVE EVERY MINUTE OF IT!
Seriously. Every decision checks something off the list.
Toilet roll holder I found and sourced eight months ago? Stage right, please.
The Flor carpet tile in the media and exercise rooms? All the way to the walls, and not area rug style, thank you kindly.
It also means we can begin doing some furnishing, which is my favorite part of all. I'll be taking you through those as we go room by room, but for the moment, I want to talk about the couch.
Or I should say, THE Couch.
Remember our adventure with our designer MaryJo over at Walter E. Smithe? And how we finally pulled the trigger on a fabulous sectional for the media room?
(I'll wait if you want to go re-read those posts and get up to speed)
Well, the big day finally came.
First off, this is how the room ended up when empty: Sherwin-Williams Peppercorn on the walls, and FLOR carpet tiles in Charcoal Fedora. I love this tile, because it is like a very thick felt, no pile at all. It looks like someone took all of Cary Grant's hats and flattened them out on my floor.
This is the steel beam that helps hold up the second floor. All polished up and glowing.
And this is the shelf that will be behind the couch, a great place for the phone, a box of Kleenex, or to rest a drink. I love this shelf.
For those who aren't in Chicago, Edward Hines Lumber is a local company that has been providing building materials since 1892. Our old girl was built in 1907. This was in the ceiling, it was the place the ceiling joists butted up against.
Nothing like being tucked into the ceiling for 108 years to keep your stenciled name looking fresh!
I love how it looks against the steel!
Then, the truck arrived.
This is Truck 86. It is manned by Mario Estrada and Jose Granados. They are, quite simply, the best furniture delivery guys I have ever worked with. Let's watch them maneuver a massive sectional in four pieces into a building that was designed for daintier furnishings, with nary a nick in a wall or a bit of damage. Magicians.
Our contractor Dennis was awed a bit..
The first piece coming in, this was the biggest single piece, 9 feet long, and 3 feet high and over three feet deep. Did I mention the sectional was massive?
In safe and sound!
Here is Jose attaching the feet to the couch.
Unwrapping the pillows.
Here comes the next piece!
The sectional consists of one couch with one arm and a corner, one armless loveseat, one wedge shaped corner and one couch with one arm, which all come together to make a U shape.
Getting the last piece unwrapped. It is at this stage I should tell you that I am having trouble capturing the true color of the fabric, it is a much deeper less blinky red than it appears in these photos, a red with a lot of blue in it. Think classic 1960 lipstick red. If you are a fan of The Women, it is definitely Jungle Red. Frankly I think it is the most perfect red on the planet.
Here is the couch with the other corner.
They get connected by the armless loveseat, there are actual connectors underneath so that the pieces don't come apart when you are flopping on it.
Getting it all hooked up.
MaryJo, helping get it all tricked out with our custom gray and blue pillows and our fun throw blankets.
Walter E. Smithe doesn't forget a thing, even though we got the SmithKote stain protector, they also gave us this little kit with a stain remover spray and two special cloths just in case one of us is a little klutzy and spills something.
We all know this will probably be Jen Lancaster.
I know I was effusive before about the Smithe experience, but let me say this. I undersold it. This is the single most comfortable piece of furniture I have ever perched upon. It is exactly what I had in my minds eye, and the fact that I could walk into their store and meet MaryJo and end up with something that exceeds every expectation? Smooth as silk, with delivery guys who were skilled and funny and sweet and insanely efficient (less than an hour all-in!), and a designer who came to our house three different times to make sure everything was perfect, for no charge? In a process that can be fraught with decisions that go awry, with people who push you to do things that match their aesthetic and not necessarily your own, when things beyond your control can send things quickly into chaos? To have an experience where everything isn't just competent, but exceptional. Where everything is exactly on time, on budget, on schedule, as promised with no changes or excuses? Where you end up with THIS:
That is priceless.
I'll fill you in more on the fabulous tables (yes, those are steel frames that match the beam in the back, and are on casters so we can move them around as we need them) and other bits and pieces as the room finally comes together. But in the meantime, I'm gonna go snuggle up into that there wedge corner with a book, and tuck that throw blanket around me, and make all the pillows squish around me in a nest, with a glass of bubbly from the bottle that MaryJo brought us to congratulate us on the delivery.
And I may start dreaming about the future living room...I know where I'll be shopping!
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Yes, you read that right…my first eBook on the study of 1 John is published!
As if that wasn’t enough, I’m so excited to be leading a group of women through the study beginning next week!Check out my page on Amazon and then click on the link for my eBook “A Journey Through 1 John – See the LIGHT-Feel the LOVE- Live the LIFE!”
I first wrote this study on 1 John about 2 ½ years ago and led a group of almost 20 women through the study and was blessed by giving both my time to studying and praying with these women.God continues to open my eyes and open my heart to His ways and His love; encouraging me to live the abundant life free from the entanglement of abuse and sin that I was accustomed to as a child. My life is not perfect, I am not perfect…but none of us has to be…His love is perfect.
May we know and rely on the love that He has for us girlfriends! (1 John 4:16)Leaving the meeting last night, I chatted with three gals that I have never met before; there are hundreds of leaders at our new church and my family is still six months new to the church. Two of the gals were named Linda, and we made small talk about the name Linda; it’s my mother’s name (please continue to pray for her—I will blog more this week about her and her journey) and then one of the gray-haired Linda’s spoke about a time decades before when she was a naïve teenager a casa-nova type gentleman told her that the name Linda meant beautiful. “It does!” I know that; yet this Linda was sharing how put off and offended she was with this man’s context and attitude as he shared with her this truth.
I chatted with them briefly about how sad that the world may try to bring us down and taint our ‘beautiful’—yet God has named each one of His children after his own beautiful image….
I celebrate today this day that my eBook is published not to boast of what I have done or my own ‘beautiful,’ (truthfully: at times my feelings about ‘beautiful’ have waned)—No, it is God who captivated my heart and has transformed me from the inside out…and I pray that you too will see, feel and embrace your own beautiful!!
Praise the LORD, for the LORD is good. I sing and write anthems to His beautiful name!
(Psalm 135:3 The Message)You are a beautiful princess, grab your tiara and join me on this Princess Path…and if you feel led, grab a copy of my eBook and let’s go down this journey together!
Would love to hear your thoughts about the study; you can comment on Amazon or below on my blog.
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Have you ever thought about what life is? I mean really, really, sat down and took the time to think of all the possibilities for our being? As I was lying in bed, I began thinking about what possible purpose we could have for being alive, and how we really came into being. I put my personal opinions aside and realized why people can truly believe in a god -- a being powerful and wise enough to make everything in this universe fall into just the right places to make life possible.
After those thoughts, my mind began to wander as I started getting drowsy, and I started thinking about the quote, "I think, therefore I am." It dawned on me that you, my family, my friends -- I don't know what you're thinking, and I can't for sure say you even are. I began thinking deeper and came across a theory that I'm the only real thing in this entire world. All other beings were created by my mind to make my world what it is. Every conversation I have, I'm actually having with my own mind, channeled through a separate entity (your physical body). It's hard to explain, but basically what I'm saying is YOU, my friend, are not real. You don't have any thoughts or the capability to think. You don't have any real feelings. You do what my subconscious mind programmed you to do. Prove me wrong.
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Chevy's restaurant shutting down in Salinas
Chevy's Fresh Mex Restaurant in Salinas closed abruptly Tuesday, putting approximately 50 people out of work.
The restaurant on North Davis Road has been in business for 11 years.
Restaurant owner Gary Loesch tells KSBW that he had no choice. He blames the economy, increased competition from new restaurants and new health insurance requirements for 2014 for the decision to close.
"We really wanted to keep it open, but we've been losing business for several years. It's a matter of economics," said Loesch.
"We hope Salinas and all of California can turn around," he added, " \but with Obamacare kicking in next year, we could not have made it even one month".
Loesch says his landlord may already have one or two interested tenants for the space.
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There are zombie movies & then there is Return of the Living Dead….
I owe my entire fascination, love & fear of the dead to this movie & I even recently got the infamous Tarman tattooed on me. I saw this very graphic movie from an early age (my parents rocked!) & it scared the absolute crap out of me. As a kid I didn’t bother over-thinking the fact that long-dead zombies wouldn’t be able to run, that long dead zombies wouldn’t have vocal chords & that skeletons shouldn’t have perfect eyeballs! All the niggly bits come with being an adult but thanks to my early exposure to Return… these niggly bits don’t bother me in the slightest now.
Return of the Living Dead is a spiritual successor to Romero’s Night of the Living Dead. John Russo who worked alongside Romero on Night kept the rights to all movies bearing the ‘Living Dead’ moniker while Romero was free to create his own path (Dawn of the Dead). Director changes & story re-writes meant the eventual Return of the Living Dead film bore little resemblance to Russo’s original idea but he is credited as a story writer.
The film opens with the foreman of a medical supply warehouse (Frank) showing the newest recruit (Freddy) around. He shows him 2 drums filled with a failed army experiment in the basement that he claims inspired the movie, Night of the Living Dead. They then accidently damage a drum releasing the gas inside…they are knocked out by the gas & it escapes through a vent into the dead body storage freezer re-animating it.
Meanwhile a group of young rockers & punks are waiting for Freddy to finish work, the group include his girlfriend. To kill time they decide to hang out in an abandoned cemetery nearby.
When Frank & Freddy wake up they call the warehouse owner Bert over & together they deal with the reanimated corpse. Bert calls in a favour from the local mortician Ernie who agrees to let them use his furnace to burn the bodily remains. The smoke from the burning body is pumped out of the chimney & into the atmosphere causing a heavy acid rain shower which drives the infected smoke into the nearby cemetery.
Can you guess what happens next? Well basically the dead start coming out of the ground terrorising the punks partying & resulting in a zombie siege on the mortuary. Oh & Linnea Quigley is naked for quite a bit of the movie…
Return of the Living Dead’s awkward plot is made 10 times better by the calibre of acting on show. I don’t think I have ever seen better in a zombie movie to date & not a single person can be faulted. Considering the slapstick nature of the movie & silliness on show at times it is even more impressive that the cast act so terrified. Special mention has to be given to Don Calfa as Ernie…my favourite character in the film (except for Linnea Quigley but that’s for another reason).
The build up to the big zombie showdown is excellent…it’s not rushed & I loved that in Bert’s desperation to destroy the evidence of the lone reanimated dead he inadvertently causes the bigger outbreak. All the while Frank & Freddy are getting sicker from the gas from the tank…as a watcher we suspect we know what is going to happen to them. The scene where the paramedics fail to find a heartbeat & declare that, while impossible, they are technically dead is edge of your seat stuff.
The eventual payoff for both characters is both emotional & terrifying with Freddy’s being one of my lasting memories when I was younger.
When the zombies do come in force they come with speed & some degree of brains function, enough to create a zombie cul-de-sac & keep calling in police backup for food. Zombies that run…is there anything scarier? I didn’t think so & even now I shudder a little.
There are genuine moments that I can describe as down-right scary. One such moment sees the paramedics returning to their vehicles to get some equipment & hear moans in the wind. One climbs into the driver’s seat to call it in & hits the headlights switch illuminating a horde of zombies just waiting patiently. So impactful….
Gore is limited but when it happens it packs a punch with close-ups of skulls being bitten into & brains spilling out. The most graphic of all is when one character runs into the zombie that was in the original army drum, the infamous tarman. It’s a great scene & the make-up on tarman is so impressive.
One of the reasons the movie is so adult is the level of nudity in it. Now I have a soft spot for Linnea Quigley as she is an original scream queen (I love her in Night of the Demons) & playing Trash in Return she excels even if she does spend a lot of it nude…
Tell a lie…technically she isn’t fully nude. Ok, one of the most well-known scenes is the bit where in the graveyard Trash begins to describe how she dreams of dying (being eaten by old & dirty men). She makes it all very sexual before stripping off & dancing on a tomb, except for some reason she wears a skin coloured patch over her unmentionables giving her a Barbie doll look. It’s all very confusing especially as she remains that way for the rest of the movie. I mean if they didn’t want her to be fully nude why not have her strip to just her underwear?
I struggle to be too negative about this movie…even flaws such as shoddy make-up & rotting bodies with perfect teeth & a full head of hair just add to its overall charm.
The movie ending is absolutely brilliant & sees the surviving cast separated across different sections of the area. Some are trapped in the attic being terrorized by a zombie Freddy while others are desperately hoping a call to the army can save them. I won’t lie to you…it is as bleak of an ending as you can get & the usage of freeze-frames to show the final moments of the cast including the zombies is amazing.
Lastly I have to mention the excellent soundtrack…its pure rock & roll filth & it is one of my favourite movie soundtracks ever. The songs chosen accompany the scenes perfectly & it is a safe bet that the big moments wouldn’t have been half as impactful without the music.
The zombie movie that I hold all others up against. Sure it breaks all of the conventional zombie rules but it is so entertaining that I can easily forgive it. The cast are hugely impressive throughout & the plot holds together well. From start to finish the movie rarely lets up & manages to combine scary moments with slapstick behaviour. See this movie…
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Are the Audi and Lexus the heaviest, softest cars of TG's Speed Week? Or wolves in sheep's clothing?
On-paper stats only tell half the story. On paper, we have two cars sharing 18 cylinders and 1,072bhp. They couldn’t be any riper for an appearance at Top Gear’s Performance Car of the Year test.
Yet there’s something novel about each of them being here. The Lexus LC500 and Audi R8 Plus Spyder have all the ingredients of cars that could monster this test, but the recipes they follow mark them as outcasts in the pit lane. I’m here to tell you why they’re not.
Words: Stephen Dobie
Bringing a 1.9-ton Lexus coupe to a trackday with a GT3 in its midst very much fulfils the ‘knife to a gunfight’ cliché. Only forget ‘knife’, the LC500 is more like a Hattori Hanzo sword. Same imbalance, just more beguilingly crafted.
It’s just so sculptured. Once everyone’s had their fill of the Ford GT’s bewitching aero, this is the car they all want to pore over. Pick an angle, any angle, and it’s easy to lose unhelpfully large portions of our tightly packed schedule just gawping at the thing. Even Lexus’s own LFA might struggle for attention alongside it.
That’s before you’ve climbed inside, which is another five minutes of the day, gone forever. Lexus has tried lots of quirky cabin features over the years – many of them crap – but the bits that work really work. The LC’s dial references the LFA’s, a TFT display mishmashed with beautiful craftsmanship, while you twiddle between the car’s drive modes (or loosen the ESP) via a knurled dial curiously placed above the instrument cowl.
Enough prodding about, though, time to find out what the car’s actually like. And what it sounds like when you find the red bit of that dial. Because while you can buy a hybrid LC500, you don’t want to. You want this identically priced 5-litre V8 version, the manga-futurist styling draped over an incongruously old-school naturally aspirated engine. One that sounds every bit as atmospheric and soulful as you’d hope.
Which makes the stodgy responses of the paddleshift auto all the more disappointing. Here’s a Hanzo-sharp engine, a nat-asp V8 at the crescendo of its life with the soundtrack to match, lumbered with a gearbox that slushes through changes like, well, a Lexus does.
There are ten ratios (yes, ten) but you’ll barely use half of them on a wet Knockhill. I can only imagine the RSI you’ll get if you’re in manual mode for a dual-carriageway roundabout. The steering has a similar amount of stodge, and for getting a feel for this tricky circuit in the peeing-down rain, the AMG GT R proves a far friendlier, more predictable companion. Seriously.
What the LC500 takes is acclimatisation, and it all but demands you to ratchet everything into its sharpest modes. The shifts and steering improve, and while it doesn’t metaphorically shrug off its weight and transform into a hard-hitting track special, talent does emerge.
The front-engine/rear-drive balance can make it a wild ride in the wet – Chris Harris emerges from it spouting joyful expletives – and it hits so hard up the straights when you’ve built the confidence to wring its neck in the corners. It never quite feels as sharp as it looks – let’s hope and pray an LC F remedies that – but every minute spent in this car buries it a little more under your skin.
Mind, it’s not the only one equipped with a howling nat-asp engine ready to trouble Knockhill’s decibel meter. The Audi R8 has possibly the most theatrical engine of Speed Week 2017, save for the Huracan’s, which is essentially the same 5.2-litre V10. It’s mated to a far cleverer gearbox than the LC500’s, and you could while away hours just snapping up and down through its seven speeds.
The engine is equally intoxicating as it burbles gradually through a high gear or when it’s whapping off the limiter in a low gear. Playing tunes with an R8 V10 could talk round the staunchest of car-hating environmentalists, I’m sure of it. It’s a superstar drivetrain, in a bona fide supercar. Even if the roof is made of fabric.
And it drives all four wheels of probably the most flattering chassis of our whole grid. The R8 is second only to Audi’s own RS3 if you wish to feel skilled beyond your station in these conditions, only its additional 200bhp and more rear-biased attitude mean it’s a far greater entertainer. It has a dizzying array of driving modes, like the Lexus, but it’s sharp and precise in all of them.
The simplest short cut is the chequered flag dial on the steering wheel, standard when you upgrade to the Plus, which costs £13k more than standard and also adds 69bhp, carbon trim and ceramic brakes. You’ve a choice of Snow, Wet or Dry modes, each with the electronics loosened enough to make you feel like you’re having a positive and influential impact on which way the car’s pointing. But there’s still more than enough grip to project you out of a corner like you’ve stumbled into a tensed-up catapult.
Frighteningly quick, bafflingly sharp cornering ability… if it all sounds like the soft, heavy roadster is in danger of outdoing the proper hard-top heroes, then there’s one component that ensures the R8 remains an underdog: the brakes. Lord it’s fast, but shedding even small amounts of that speed ahead of a corner requires strong forward planning. Ceramic they may be, but they struggle with the Spyder’s 1770 kilos. Its heft ultimately stems any chance of a real upset taking place.
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Tonight: Kilt Night with Live Irish Music
Time: 9:00 pm
It’s Kilt Night! Join us for the weekly hoolie, friends, and the live Irish music in the traditional pub style: no mics, no amps. Just some of the Cities’ finest Irish session musicians playing about a table or two in the bar and mingling with the people. Grab a Guinness and celebrate!
SUNDAY, MARCH 1
(Saint David’s Day)
Saint David’s Day has returned! He–Dewi Sant–is the Patron Saint of Wales. Not only is this day important to us as an Isles’ pub, but one of our publicans, John Dingley, hails from Builth Wells, Wales.
We’ll have our Sunday brunch (10:00 am – 2:00 pm), per usual, and our Sunday night pub quiz (8:00 pm) with the the Welshman himself. There may also be something going on in the afternoon–stay tuned for details, please. We encourage all to arm themselves with a leek–a symbol of Wales and Saint David’s Day–and/or a a daffodil (the associated flower). Pick your produce and your poison!
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Rockstar Teases “Much, Much More” on Max Payne, Releases New Screens
Announced back in 2004, Rockstar has been rather silent about Max Payne 3, with the game missing its 2010 release target. Just when everyone started to fear the worst, the developer released a few images of the game and confirmed it was still alive. Now, not only has Rockstar released a few more screens of the game, they have promised that there is much more soon to come.
Over on Rockstar’s website, the developer teased: “Stay tuned for much, much more on Max…” and released the new screens of the game.
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Wikipedia has more on Ophidiophobia
Ophidiophobia or ophiophobia (from Greek ophis, "snake"), also known as snakephobia and serpentophobia (from Latin serpens, "snake") is the fear of snakes. Since snakes are reptiles, ophidiophobia is a branch of herpetophobia, fear of reptiles. This is the most common reported phobia, affecting one third of adult humans. Sufferers would fear that they may get bitten by a snake and poisoned by venom injected from it. Others may dread when seeing snakes on TV or in pictures. Sufferers living in areas when snakes are common would limit outdoor activities, while sufferers living where snakes are seldom may not affect their way of life. | <urn:uuid:c99c4de8-be67-475f-b6cc-5cefdabe0959> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | http://phobia.wikia.com/wiki/Ophidiophobia | 2017-11-19T10:07:59Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934805541.30/warc/CC-MAIN-20171119095916-20171119115916-00081.warc.gz | en | 0.968092 | 163 | [
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This is one of the traditional focuses of an energy audit: determining the most cost effective way reduce the utility bills. No one likes wasting money! We will look at all systems in the house including insulation, windows, heating systems, cooling systems, and sealing up those drafts.
Is your home too hot in the summer or too cold in the winter? Do you find one room of the house is always too cold? Is the upstairs unbearably hot in the summer? Is the basement always cold? Do you consistently find condensation on windows? Do you have mold or mildew problems?
It is not uncommon for one area of a home to be hotter or colder than the rest of the home. We can troubleshoot the home with the thermal imaging camera, blower door, and HVAC diagnostics to determine if this is an insulation problem, a heating and cooling problem, or a combination of the two.
I am interested in energy efficiency.
There are so many products out there with claims of efficiency: furnaces, windows, radiant barriers, etc. Without an in-depth understanding of each individual home, it’s hard to say which option will be the most effective. Our comprehensive energy audit is the best way to diagnose and create a strategic plan for upgrading your home. You will find out what is the best order to address the home projects, what insulation types are the most effective, and if there is incentive money from programs to help pay for your projects.
Our audits help you “cut to the chase” to determine what is the best approach based on our diagnostic tests. As independent energy consultants, our goal is to provide expert guidance on which energy efficiency projects make the most sense for your home. All homes are unique and may not need the same prescriptive measures. While one home may need attic and wall insulation as their top priorities, the next home may need modifications to the heating and cooling systems. Still another may need new windows.
I am remodeling my home (or adding an addition).
When you make changes to the home, you have a golden opportunity to incorporate energy efficiency upgrades into you plans. If you have a wall or ceiling open, this is an ideal time to address air sealing and insulation work. Use the recommendations from your energy audit to make lasting changes to the efficiency and durability of the home.
I’m not sure who to hire or if I can do it myself.
While there are many projects homeowners can handle on their own, there are others that should be left to the professionals especially when the safety and health of the family is involved. Our consultants are able to cut through the energy saving claims from products to target what will work best in your home. We can also direct to you contractors who can perform the recommendations from your scope of work.
I already had a walk-through energy audit from my utility program.
The audits from utility programs are a great start to engage homeowners with energy efficiency, but they do not include the diagnostics available with a more thorough energy audit. We need to ensure the home is safe from carbon monoxide hazards, gas leaks, and prevent mold growth in the future. We can use the blower door WITH the thermal imaging camera at the same time to get the best photos. We can also test the heating and cooling systems for optimum performance assessments.
I heard the EPA says “indoor pollutants may be 2 to 5 times—and occasionally more than 100 times—higher than outdoor pollutant levels.”
There are many contaminants that fall into the category of poor indoor air quality including but not limited to: mold, radon, VOCs, asbestos, carbon monoxide, and gas leaks. Our energy audits are designed to implement steps to prevent mold growth in homes, to make sure systems are not increasing radon infiltration, and to identify gas leaks and carbon monoxide hazards. We can also calculate and propose upgrades to the home’s ventilation strategies to ensure there is enough dilution air overall for good health.
I want to make my home more marketable to sell.
You will differentiate your home on the open market by completing energy upgrades before you sell it. You may even be able to earn an Energy Star silver or gold certificate for your home that is uploaded to your MLS which the appraiser and realtor will see when they assess your home. This means more value to your property! An energy efficient home can be easier to sell, and the evidence can be found on your utility bills. Or if you’ve just recently made energy efficient improvements, use the energy audit results as proof.
I’d like to install solar panels on my roof.
Energy efficient homes need fewer solar panels to offset the home’s energy use, making solar and wind more affordable options. If you’re considering renewable energy, you need to start with an energy audit so you can make your home energy efficient and safe from hazards first. Then start your renewable energy project.
So, Do I Need An Energy Audit?
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Beautiful Photography from Neil Walker
Hi, I shoot relaxed, natural images of your wedding day with the minimum of fuss. Apart from some group shots & a few shots of the two of you, I like to work in the background capturing all those beautiful, emotional moments that go into making your wedding day part of your story.
Check out my website, there are loads of full weddings on there for you to look through, as well as lots of info about me and the way I like to work. Above all, if my work has an emotional response from you, then I might just be the right photographer for you – www.neilwalkerphotography.co.uk
You can get in touch with me by phone or email, feel free to contact me & we can have a chat through your day.
I shoot as I've always done, with feeling & fun. If you pinned me down I'd say I shoot in a documentary style, but really I just shoot to show the couple as they are & how they feel about each other. I love to plan for your day, so that I am thinking about the photographs and not where I should be. I like to be one step ahead. Every wedding I shoot is different, because every couple are different.
The people....what better way to spend your days than photographing happy couples in love celebrating with their friends :-)
As I said above, if you have an emotional response to my work then imagine what you will feel when you are in the photos yourself! All the words in the world won't make any difference, ultimately it's in the photos & how they make you feel :-)
I shoot all over the South East of England, London & elsewhere in the UK. I also do some weddings abroad each year, mostly in Italy
Starting Price: Check out my website for all my prices & packages or contact me direct so I can chat through the options for you.
20% off Spring weddings 2017 - I still have some availability in March, April & May 2017, so if you want beautiful photography from your Spring wedding then contact me about getting a great discount! - Cheers - Neil
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[Source] Cinema Spice
Glitchify is a super featured packed and fully customizable plugin for After Effects that allows you to add digital glitches to your footage.
Glitchify comes packed with different effects like pixel sort, channel scale, RGB split, block shift, transform glitch and many more.
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Emerging Asian countries were the major drivers of the global economic recovery. Not surprisingly, the vast majority of their stock markets provided blossoming returns in 2010. Yet, with the increase in influx of money and inflation pressures, the majority of Asian countries have certain difficulties with tightening their monetary policy. China has just increased the bank reserve requirement ratio to 19.5%, in addition to the three interest rate increases since October of last year. The market expects the Chinese interest rate hikes to accelerate in the near future as these monetary measures in coupe with other administrative actions are failing to tame the inflation and money supply. India increased its interest rates seven times since the beginning of 2010, but managed to cool the industrial production to a mere 1.6% in December with inflation remaining at 9.5% in the same month. Indonesia, Philippines and other Asian developing economies face similar problems of inflation, excess money supply and overheating economy.
These economic issues in Asian countries present a question for an investor: Which countries are capable of implementing a monetary policy to balance out the inflation and economic growth? Oxenuk Management, LLC has reviewed the recent developments and macroeconomic perspectives of the region and come up with the distinctive candidate. Oxenuk Management LLC recommends participating in Asian economic growth by investing in Australia, a choice that will help avoid the majority of inflation and inadequate monetary policy risks.
Australia offers diversification in two dimensions to investors looking to invest in Asia-Pacific region. First, Australia is a developed country and has a sound, and most importantly, consistent recent history and future outlook for growth. Second, its excellent resource base and crucial geopolitical location give the country exposure to the whole emerging Asian region. | <urn:uuid:6e59696e-1685-4234-879a-e22c08d80ad5> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | http://www.newsbalita.com/international-stock-markets-rising-asian-countries.html | 2017-11-20T05:46:55Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934805914.1/warc/CC-MAIN-20171120052322-20171120072322-00081.warc.gz | en | 0.951712 | 340 | [
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@victt0ri: Idea for an app:
it's basically Tinder, but for people that want to fight
@slytherinstef: So I didn't stab the idiot who knocked over my entire coffee-
Does that sainthood thing start like right away or...
@yungsweater: Bro do you even--
Bro I do.
*eyes begin to tear up*
*fist bumping until the sun rises*
@BadaBinge: There are 7 trillion nerves in the human body and some people manage to get on every one.
@fro_vo: Genie: what is your first wish
Joe: i want to be rich
Genie: granted. and what is your second wish
Rich: i want lots of money
@Sean_Burgundy_: Her: Why did you cancel your gym membership?
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The duties of an ESL teacher vary depending upon the setting where the students are taught and the type of learners being taught.
Teachers of English as a Second Language (or teachers of speakers of other languages—ESOL) can work in many different settings.
Such settings include private language schools, non-profit organizations, K-12 schools, adult schools, community colleges, universities, private companies, private tutoring, and other settings.
Of course, an ESL teacher will, by definition, be teaching in a country where the primary language is English. This is as opposed to EFL teachers who work in countries where the primary language is something other than English.
No matter what the setting is, the main duty of an ESL teacher is, essentially, to prepare lesson plans and to teach English Language Learners. This includes teaching English grammar, writing, reading, speaking, and listening skills. It may also include teaching pronunciation and accent reduction.
It's basically teaching all the English language skills that will enable speakers of other languages to effectively communicate in English.
Additionally, ESL teacher responsibilities often include introducing cultural aspects to ESL students, especially to those who are new to the English-speaking country.
In addition to the basic teaching duties, ESL instructors working
in private language schools will have to take attendance and provide
evaluations of student progress. Attendance records are particularly
important because of student Visa requirements. (Students who are
temporarily in English-speaking countries to study English will often be
required to have a student Visa.)
English teachers may have other administrative tasks as requested or required by school administrators. They may also have to attend weekly staff meetings. Duties will vary depending on the particular private school's expectations.
Some non-profit organizations have ESL programs. The purposes of the programs are often related to vocational training and/or job preparation.
In these settings, the duties of an ESL teacher may include developing curriculum to advance the goals of the organization. For example, a non-profit organization may provide training for child care givers, or it may provide computer training.
The teacher's job will be to insure that the students are taught English for a specific purpose as defined by the non-profit organization.
Public schools may include K-12 and adult schools. In addition to the basic duties of ESL teachers (preparing and delivering lessons), teachers may also be requested to participate in departmental staff meetings. The teacher must also keep attendance records, as the funding of the school usually depends on it.
Public schools generally have a particular curriculum that the teacher must follow. Lesson plans that the teacher can use may already be developed, or he or she may be given leeway to develop his/her own lessons. However, public schools often require students to take standardized tests during and at the end of a semester. The students must show sufficient progress or it may reflect back on the teacher, and possibly affect the funding of the school.
These are generally the most sought after ESL jobs. In addition to the basic duties of an ESL teacher, the community college or university instructor may be required to participate in departmental meetings, student advising, and other duties.
The duties included in community college and university ESL jobs are similar to those of K-12 and adult schools. It's the type of students that will be the biggest difference (and the pay!).
Private companies sometimes provide English classes for their non-English speaking staff. The main purpose of such classes is usually to prepare workers to better perform their job responsibilities.
Duties of an ESL teacher working for a private company (usually as an independent contractor) often include developing the curriculum to meet the company's objectives, as well as preparing lesson plans and delivering the lessons.
Private tutors often work with small groups of students or teach one-on-one. Here, it will be the responsibility of the teacher/tutor to do a Needs Assessment of the student(s) to determine student strengths and weaknesses. The tutor will also find out from the student(s) the main objectives that he, she or they may have in studying English.
The tutor then prepares lesson plans to meet specific student needs and delivers the lessons. The tutor may also act as a resource for the student(s), giving information to help the student(s) survive and thrive in the community.
Description of an ESL Teacher What are the characteristics of a good ESL tutor or teacher?
How to Start Teaching ESL Do you want to start teaching ESL? Here are some ideas to get you started.
All material on this website is copyrighted (© 2007-2017).
You are free to use my materials in your classes.
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CELEBRATED UK real estate developer Taylor Wimpey is launching a brand new £10 million project on the Costa del Sol this month.
The La Galera development, in Estepona, will include 36 luxury homes and will be officially launched with an event on April 30.
Taylor Wimpey has built more than 2,500 homes in Spain over the last 15 years, including Los Arqueros Golf, in nearby Benahavis.
“Estepona is a perfect location for further investment,” said Ignacio Oslé, regional director in Andalucia.
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Father’s Day Gifts From Kids
- JUNE 3, 2013
- By Selena Kohng
We mothers get a lot of the glory, and rightfully so what with the whole nine-months-pregnant-and-
For the Softie
If he’s the sentimental one in the family, go for the juggernaut: gifts personalized with a kid’s picture, poem, or handprint. Got a newborn? An artsy canvas portrait of a father’s hands cradling a newborn’s feet gets ‘em. Every. Time. This engraved wood picture frame points out that anyone can be a father, but it takes someone special (ahem, him) to be a dad. Is there a little girl in the house who’s got him wrapped around her finger? This silver frame with a heart opening and “Daddy’s Little Girl” will melt his heart. Or, remind him of his vital role in Junior’s life with this plaque with a poem about how every son needs a father. Finally, every father wants to leave a legacy. This journal contains interview questions as prompts for him to answer to write about his lif and share pearls of wisdom for posterity.
For the Fun Dad
If he’s the fun-loving one, give him something to tickle his funny bone. This cuddly brain cell crowns him World’s Smartest Dad. And who are we to argue with brain cells? And if we’re talking smartest, we might as well talk about all-around best, since he certainly ranks up there with the likes of Cliff Huxtable and Frank Barone.
Ultimately, the stuff he does and the way he loves the kids is nothing short of superhero material. For that, he deserves a special Super Hero Dad t-shirt, complete with a personalized names.
Unusual, Cool Dad-Themed Gifts
This Father’s Day, vow to think outside the tie box. Skip the one-size-fits-all gifts and go for one that’s unique and tailored to his interests. Browse the suggestions below to get a sample of what can be had if you commit to digging a little deeper for one of a kind gifts.
He’s sure to be geeked by this gift, a colorful, modern twist on the periodic table. Instead of elements, he’ll find aspects of childhood such as “dreaming” or “peeking” accompanied by abbreviations to remind him of the true building blocks of life.
New parents always bemoan the fact that babies don’t come with instruction manuals. This magnetic flow chart, however, is as close to one as you can get. Think of it as a crib sheet (pun fully intended) for baby-rearing, rearrangable to show dad or any caretaker what to do in every stressful situation.
A must for any Star Wars fan, this adorable collection of comics shows Luke and Darth Vader in the best years of their relationship, playing together, enjoying some ice cream, engaging in playful light saber fights. You know, the usual father-son stuff.
The next time his laptop is on the fritz thanks to an errant sippy cup, he’ll be able to take a deep breath and laugh about it knowing it could be worse. A lot worse. This collection of OMG moments lays out things kids have ruined. Spun off from the popular blog of the same name, it’s entertainment and catharsis in one.
This prescription bottle-turned coffee mug isn’t necessarily Dad-themed but it’s got new parent written all over it. Or how about your own Daddy dearest, who faithfully took family pictures and filed away every single negative? Give him this instant slide and negative scanner to safeguard all those precious photos in a modern, streamlined digital file.
- Gift Giving Tips
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Saturday will be my third WordCamp and definitely won’t be my last.
Each year I’ve learned a lot about WordPress, a bit more about marketing and met a lot of great people. I’ve also learned what things I need to bring to get the most out of the day.
Here’s my list…
1. Fully-charged smart phone. The presentations are great, but the back channel conversations on Twitter really adds an extra level. It’s where the community really thrives. There’s commentary, links shared and you can see what’s going on in other sessions.
2. Business cards. WordCamp is sold out at 500 people. You’ll meet a lot of people who you’ll want to contact later. It may be be a potential employer or employee, freelancer or someone with a shared interest. Pack your usual business card stash and then a handful more. Oh, sponsors also give away great prizes, and you’d hate to miss out on the draw because you’re out of cards.
3. Pen and paper. I know you’re thinking, “Come on, Bianca. It’s a paperless world.” However, it’s also a world restricted by battery capacities and wifi congestion. I’ve never experienced the latter at a WordCamp, but better to be safe than sorry.
4. Smart phone power cable. Since iOS6 was released, my iPhone struggles to make it through a day of normal usage, let alone a WordCamp. Bring a cable to top up during the day.
5. External smart phone battery. Also since iOS6, I rarely leave the house without my external battery for the same reasons as above. At least if outlets are in short supply, I can still recharge.
6. iPad. I’m a digital girl, and while I’ll have pen and paper as a back-up, this will be my main note-taking device.
7. DSLR camera. Definitely not a mandatory, but very useful. Last year one of my low-res iPhone photos was the only one of taken during a presentation. The presenter reached out to me for permission to use it. You never know who you’ll connect with because you have photos of the event. Plus, all photographers love more opportunities to take more photos.
Others would add in things like an open mind, eagerness to learn, etc., but with how friendly and helpful Seattle’s WordPress community is, it’s hard not to be enthused. Here’s Grant Landram’s post on how to get ready for WordCamp.
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The War on Malaria
Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute Scientists Lead the Fight
Malaria afflicts 212 million people globally, and more than two thirds of malaria deaths are children under the age of five.
In 2001, Bloomberg Philanthropies gave $100 million to the Johns Hopkins Bloomberg School of Public Health in order to fund the establishment of the Johns Hopkins Malaria Research Institute (JHMRI). Since then, JHMRI's state-of-the-art facility has become a hub for a community of multidisciplinary researchers dedicated to the treatment, control and eradication of this deadly disease.
Focused on four major areas of research—entomology, parasitology, epidemiology and immunology—JHMRI boasts experts from around the globe, all working to prevent and cure malaria. In this short film, meet JHMRI director Peter Agre, MD and members of his team in Baltimore, and learn about the exciting impacts their research is having abroad in locations such as Macha, Zambia. | <urn:uuid:ccbb1440-5735-4311-820d-b536829abe87> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | https://www.jhsph.edu/news/stories/2017/the-war-on-malaria.html | 2017-11-22T14:33:45Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806609.33/warc/CC-MAIN-20171122141600-20171122161600-00081.warc.gz | en | 0.93872 | 210 | [
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After putting in lots of effort to build a partner network, you’ll want to be able to measure your success. The easiest metric, the one your CEO will love – revenue, won’t always be the most applicable though. Some companies try and peel this back a little and talk about the volume of new opportunities opened. Both are undeniably important and should always be a focus, but when you’re first establishing your network and leads aren’t forthcoming – how do you know if your channel is growing the right way? Other metrics such as geographic coverage, knowledge, engagement & loyalty can be excellent indicators.
- Size & coverage: Some partners are a good strategic fit because of their geographic coverage. They may not sell much of your product, but they give you the capability to advertise coverage in an area that you would otherwise struggle to service. You might also want to interpret coverage as access to particular market segments. For instance a partner that specialises in hospital & clinics, providing access to a market that most other partners can not easily access.Individual partners aside, an important metric to consider is your overall geographic/market coverage. You could measure this by a metric as simple as countries served (by an active dealer), or be more detailed and consider cities/regions or specific markets within countries.
- Knowledge & capability: Most people are happy proposing systems that they understand, rather than ones they don’t. So the more people that are trained to use your product, the more likely it is that your product is going to be recommended & sold. Keep track of the volume of staff that are trained & certified on your solution. The more people your partner is sending for training, the more likely they’re proposing it.The total number of trained/certified engineers or sales people, per partner, country and overall are good metrics to track by. This will give you an indication of how involved & how important your partners feel it is to keep their teams abreast of your technology.
- Engagement & motivation: This is slightly harder to gauge. It’s possible to use a simple metric such as sales or lead volume, but it’s easy for lead volumes or revenue to be skewed by advertising or one or two big orders. As metrics go, they dont’ really reflect how motivated a partner is to sell your product. Instead I prefer to look for more qualitative factors, how often & how many team members join your webinars, inquire about new products, or actively try to source other materials. If your partners launch their own in-market campaigns, the volume/frequency of their campaigns can be a great metric.
- Loyalty: Are they pitching any other competitive products? How many similar products do they promote? Do they have any dedicated sales people? Have they converted any competitive opportunities to yours? Loyalty is particularly hard to measure and is very much a qualitative metric. All other factors aside, loyal partners are worth their weight in gold. There’s nothing more difficult than having to change a partner (especially when a client is already engaged with your product) and having to restart the education & relationship building process. Even if a partner sells good volumes but flits over to the competition for a few extra percentage points, they’ll likely represent more of a risk to your business than the potential revenue bonus is worth.
There are a few negative indicators you should track too. This is where I like to consider:
- Revenue & leads: If you’re sending business to a partner but not getting anything back in return, I’d start looking closely at the lead pipeline, are there a good volume of leads coming in? Is the lead volume trending upwards? Even if lead conversion is poor, lead volume trends are a good indicator of the sales effort your partner is putting in.
- Communication: How quickly do they respond to you? There are always other priorities, but if the response time to your emails & messages is poor, then you might need to consider trying to re-energize the partnership. Response times and pro-active communication are good indicators of whether your partners are really interested in working with you. Poor response times are also a worrying indication of how your partner is going to be treating any clients that you might send over. | <urn:uuid:93927cb6-736f-4ad3-9df6-36f067d41302> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | http://kameelvohra.com/do-i-have-a-good-channel-partner-network/ | 2017-11-23T09:14:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806768.19/warc/CC-MAIN-20171123085338-20171123105338-00081.warc.gz | en | 0.96275 | 879 | [
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Country K-9 Rescue receives new kennel building
Dec 17, 2015 at 6:58 PM
Country K-9 Rescue has received a new kennel building donated by Deanna Dodd.
Dodd is a Lebanon-area realtor. The new building houses four kennel areas for rescued pets. It has already been put to use to help with some rescues, including a nursing mom dog and 10 pups.
The construction was handled by Don Borcherding, and includes many dog-friendly touches, like doggie doors to outside run areas.
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Today was one of the first times that I've really felt the power of teamwork where I work. We had a very busy lunch today, especially for a Monday. The expo kitchen cook was out sick today, so Ivan, one of our hot line cooks, had to go and work on expo. Then the kitchen got slammed. There were so many tickets hanging I thought our chef was going to have a heart attack. They couldn't keep up. So they pulled Ivan from the expo kitchen and put him on the hot line, while my GM put on an apron and went to work expo. This essentially left the restaurant in the hands of ten servers, one bartender, and a 19-year old hostess. We kicked ass. I froze the door (i.e. told the hostess to stop seating tables and go on a wait), and then we all just pitched in in the kitchen, expediting food, garnishing food, running food, whatever it took to keep the kitchen from crashing (which is a) not a good thing, and b) a real pain in everyone's ass). I don't think we had one unhappy guest, regardless of the fact that the kitchen had so many tickets that they weren't even beginning to cook some of them until 20 minutes after they had received them. An hour later there was one ticket hanging in the kitchen, and as a team, we had kept the restaurant running. It was a really good feeling to know that we could be without any managers and still make it work. I mean really, we did a bang up job, and I made about $45 bucks (good for a lunch anyway, let alone a Monday lunch in which I only actually waited on 4 tables total) and I think everyone else did just as well. Maybe I sound sappy, but I was really proud of us, and I was definitely really proud of and impressed with our chef for not curling up into the fetal position on the floor and bawling like a little girl (which is what I would have done).
Right now its back to work for me, perhaps to be sent home in an hour and a half for hitting 40 hours. I don't really mind either way, its not like I'll actually see a paycheck even when they're paying me overtime.
the rasberry coulis incident
So as of today I have worked 8 days in a row. Tomorrow makes 9. Actually, I don't know if you could really count today, as I only worked two hours before I got sent home because I'm so close to overtime. I have about 4.5 hours to go before I hit 40, and Landry's is really obnoxious about not letting people go into overtime. It's fine with me, I ended up with most of the day off and I may get sent home tomorrow too.
Even though I've been working straight with no days off since last Sunday, I actually had a great time last night. I went to work at 3 which meant that I didn't have any sidework at the end of the night (always a good thing) and I really just worked it the whole night. I walked with about $150, due to a couple of craptastic tips, but I did get a free shirt and apron out of the deal. But that had to do with the rasberry coulis incident.
It all started when one of my tables ordered our New York cheesecake with rasberry coulis for dessert. But they wanted the rasberry coulis on the side. So when they were done with it, I went to put the dishes at the dish station and I tossed the ramekin of rasberry coulis in the ramekin bin. And then somehow, I don't really know how, it all of a sudden all flew back at me. It was all over my face, my nice white shirt and apron, everywhere. There was a buser standing nearby so I grabbed his spray bottle and started spraying myself so the stain wouldn't set (and it worked, I bleached them both when I got home and there's no trace of red anywhere on them, yay). But then I was walking around doused in whatever cleaning fluid they use on our tables and with red spots all over me. My manager had to give me a new shirt and apron (which was nice, b/c I needed another shirt anyway and you can never have too many aprons--and the shirt's cost $15, the aprons $5) so I had to scurry back to the employee bathroom and change while my manager Cheryl took care of my tables. It sucked royally.
Speaking of royalty, I'm reading a really good book, although most might consider it to fall into the category of hideously boring historical nonfiction. It's called The Wives of Henry VIII
and its by Lady Antonia Fraser. I'm surprised at how much I like it. Then again, it was a national bestseller (in 1992, when it was published). I got into the topic when I read The Other Boleyn Girl
, a novel by Philippa Gregory. I'm also very impressed that the book is written by a "Lady" as I'm at the moment a tad bit obsessed with nobility, although for no good reason (other than that I wouldn't mind having a castle of my own). Perhaps I can marry a KBE and then I can be Lady Lauren (hehe). I've also heard that you can buy titles now, something I wouldn't even consider doing since a) I have no money, and b) I'm not British and thus have no need to be considered nobility other than that the thought tickles me pink. Still, I would like a castle.
quote of the day
Once again, a beautifully articulate and completely understandable quote from our (il)literate president:
"I understand politics and I know there's gonna be a lot of verbage."
George W. Bush
January 2, 2003
Referring to the 2004 campaign for the presidency. Speaking to the press at his ranch in Crawford, Texas.
feeling (and looking) hot hot hot
There's something gratifying about walking into a room and knowing that you're the best looking and best dressed. Unfortunately, that gratification loses a little of its luster when everyone else in the room is at the very least 30 years older than you. I mean really, how hard is it for a 23 year old to look better than a room full of 50-somethings? So that was last night for me. My father received a humanitarian award from the American Lung Association and the whole family had to go. I thought maybe there would be cute young doctors there. Not so. Actually, it was pretty fun. They had an open bar, and since its the ALA's 100th anniversary (in NJ I think), the theme was Champagne Century or something like that and there was this giant round table just covered with Champagne cocktails. I had quite a few. Like 10 or so. They were so not strong I didn't even leave the place a little bit buzzed. They did taste good though. And I looked good, although by the end of the night I was having to suck in because I had had so much to drink that it was making me a little bloated. That's okay though, one night of sucking in won't kill me since I generally don't give two shits about what I look like. And speaking of which, I gotta be at work in 35 minutes so I have to go decide if I want to put any makeup on. Probably not.
I have a dog walking rival. My aunt and uncle are staying with us for the weekend, and we all had a couple of glasses of wine with dinner tonight. Then we had some Bailey's with our coffee and dessert. All that drinking makes Lauren want a smoke. So I looked at my dog, who was begging patiently at my mother's feet, and I asked him if he wanted to take a walk, since that's when I sneak out for a smoke. But then my uncle interjected, quite enthusiastically, that he would be happy to take the dog out for me. Damn! I let him do it since I had to go to the mall anyway to get a shawl for the black tie dinner we're all going to tomorrow night. I just hope he doesn't make it into a habit tomorrow. Everyone knows that he smokes. He doesn't need an excuse to take himself on a walk, but I do. And there are only so many excuses I can make for why I have to go out tomorrow. I'm sure I'll live though. Not smoking is certainly something I'd like to strive for, so I guess if my uncle wants to walk the dog once or twice I could probably live through it.
Quote of the Day
Oh my God, Bush has infiltrated my state. I'm shocked and appalled.
"There's going to be some hurdles to cross."
George W. Bush
September 23, 2002
Speaking in Trenton, New Jersey
Bad Religious Right! Bad!
Today I got a piece of mail from an organization called The Interfaith Alliance
. According to their letter, they are rallying against the Religious Right in order to prevent Congress from enacting legislation that would allow houses of worship to:
participate directly in political campaigns
endorse or oppose political candidates
distribute partisan voter guides; and
still maintain their non-profit, tax-exempt status
What I want to know is this: has the Religious Right ever read the Constitution? And for that matter, have those members of Congress who are supporting this ridiculous legislation? Has nobody in this country ever heard of a separation of church and state?
Because I vehemently hate the Religious Right I am definitely going to keep myself abreast of the news concerning this legislation. And if, perhaps you are someone who thinks that they agree with the Religious Right, I am reprinting a small collection of quotes that came with the material from The Interfaith Alliance
. Here is what these so-called moral leaders believe in:
"I really believe that the pagans, and the abortionists, and the feminists, and the gays and lesbians who are actively trying to make that an alternative lifestyle...I point the finger in their face and say 'you helped this happen.'"
, speaking about the September 11 terrorist attacks, The 700 Club
"You say youre supposed to be nice to the Episcopalians and the Presbyterians and the Methodists and this, that, and the other thing. I don't have to be nice to the spirit of the Antichrist."
Pat Robertson, The 700 Club
"(T)he feminist agenda is not about equal rights for women. It is about a socialist, anti-family political movement that encourages women to leave their husbands, kill their children, practice witchcraft, destroy capitalism and become lesbians."
Pat Robertson, The Washington Post
"Our goal is a Christian nation. We have a biblical duty, we are called by God to conquer this country. We don't want equal time. We don't want pluralism."
Randall Terry, Indiana News Sentinel
"Women are less equipped physically to 'stay on course' in the brawling areas of business, commerce, industry, and the professions."
Pat Buchanan, San Francisco Chronicle
I'm telling you, if that shit doesn't make your blood boil, I don't know what will. True, these may be the comments of a few men, but they are powerful men who want to make us all conform to their antiquated religious beliefs which come from a very narrow reading of the Bible. I may not consider myself a person of faith, but these people would take away my personal liberties because I have a vagina instead of a penis. We ARE NOT a Christian nation, but I do believe that we are a nation of faith, and my faith lies in the Constitution. I have faith that rational, modern American people will put these disgusting men, their notions and their legislation down. Think of the Spanish Inquisition, think of the burning of heretics in Queen Mary's England. Think of the Holocaust. These people's ambitions might not bring back mass genocide, but it would definitely be a mass genocide of our civil liberties. I'm making a contribution to The Interfaith Alliance
and I kinda think that everyone who believes in a free America should do the same.
I scrapped the novel. It wasn't going anywhere. Instead, I started writing a different novel. This one is much better, with better characters and plot. I think I started writing it on Thursday or Friday, and I already have over 8,000 words written (almost 30 pages double-spaced and in Courier New font with 10 pt type). I'm pretty happy with it, but I can see that its going to be a long process. I've been frequenting a bunch of writer's advice websites, and I'll probably buy a book on novel writing pretty soon. But all the articles that I've read so far have been very helpful. I'm very excited, and very hopeful, even though I know how hard it is to get anything published. Anyway, hopefully within a couple of years you'll see my name printed on a book cover at your nearest Barnes & Noble. That would be wonderful.
Oooh, I'm so excited. I just got back from my interview to volunteer at the Planned Parenthood in Trenton. I'm going to be a pregnancy options counselor. Although I'd also love to work on the legislative side of things, I'm really excited about this because its more human. There are plenty of people working on laws that effect people, but I'm going to actually be doing something that will impact the individuals that I deal with.
I'm not that thrilled about working in Trenton, just because its not the safest place on earth. While I wasn't surprised that I was the only white person in the waiting room at the clinic (considering the demographics of the area I was in), I was a little surprised that there were so few white people on the streets outside. In fact, the area wasn't really diverse at all. I saw African Americans and Hispanics, but very few Caucasian or Asian people (actually, I don't think I saw ANY Asian people). Still, even though Trenton itself is not known to be a haven of safety, the building is extremely secure and there is even a gated parking lot for staff, which makes me happy (although my mother thinks that I should have someone walk me to my car---in broad daylight---but she's a little on the wacko side).
Now its off to read my new book, called The Queen's Fool
. It takes place in the Royal Court in 1553 and its all about this young Jewish girl named Hannah who is adopted by the son of the Protector of the King (Edward, the boy king) and is commissioned at court to by his "holy fool." There's more to it, and it seems to be very historically accurate, but then again, the author could be blowing smoke out of her ass and I wouldn't know it. Although I remember a fair bit of my European history, its more the order of the Kings and Queens than it is any actual knowledge of the events that led them to the throne. Still, its really well written and the plot is really very intriguing. And thank God its not written in the old English style. I don't think I would have been able to take it if I had had to look every other word up as I do when reading Shakespeare or Jane Austen. Anyway, I hear the book calling me. Tootles.
Yes, yes, its been a while since I've written. But I have a good excuse. It's nothing new or novel, just the usual I've been working too much. Yesterday I opened both shifts, meaning I went in at 10am and worked until about 2:15, then got about a 45 minute break before I had to open dinner at 3pm, then worked straight through until about 10pm. I think my official hours yesterday were somewhere around 11 hours. That's a lot. Then I went out for drinks with some people from work and got fairly tossed. Okay, so I didn't get tossed at all, but I woke up this morning feeling like I'd been on the most severe of benders (a word my English manager Mark uses all the time). Then I worked again this morning.
And now we shall ring the bells of happiness. I have tomorrow AND
Saturday off! I wasn't originally scheduled to have Saturday off, but I gave up my shift to a girl at work who desperately wanted it. And since I made about $150 yesterday (which turns out to be about 13.75/hour, or more accurately, $15.75/hour when you count my hourly wage--usually I don't because that gets eaten up by taxes) I figured I could stand to take a day off.
Tonight I went out and paid a very small price for a whole lot of satisfaction. I went into Princeton and got a scoop of Coffee Heath Bar on a sugar cone from Halo Pub for $1.50. Yum. I finished it faster than I think I've ever finished a scoop of ice cream in my entire life. I could eat that stuff every day.
Tomorrow night its off to Steph's birthday party. My mother has this very strange aversion to me going to a lesbian's birthday party, as if just hanging out with someone who likes girls could make me stop wanting to have sex with men instead of women. Besides, its not like the party is going to be a bunch of lesbians all making out and having sex or something. The party promises to be a lot more tame, at least in the lesbian sex arena. Steph isn't known for her restraint when it comes to drugs, and for that matter, neither are most of my other coworkers. I'm guessing there's gonna be all sorts of stuff there, a detail I left out when telling my mom I was going to a party. She's thinks there's just gonna be booze (and there will be plenty of that). But honestly, I've never done a drug stronger than pot (and only like 3 times at that), so why would I start now? Anyway, I think that my exhaustion might be getting to me so I think I'm gonna lie in bed and catch up on some TV. There probably isn't anything good on.
P.S. I rented the best
DVD last weekend. If you haven't seen it, everyone should definitely rent The Life of David Gale
. It was sooo good.
spring has sprung
It's been really springy the past few days, getting up to like 60 degrees every day since Sunday. I love it! This week has been pretty good to me as well. For all my whining about going to work on Monday, I ended up making $100 for the whole day, and I made another $110 yesterday. I'm only working the night shift tonight (gotta get ready for that soon), but I hope to make at least another $75. Then tomorrow I have work in the morning, after which I'm off until 2pm on Saturday. I really hope that I get two days off next week.
Leah and I decided that when I go up to see her on Friday we're gonna go have lunch at the Rainforest Cafe
since they're a part of Landry's (the company that parents my restaurant's corporation) and I get 50% off if I bring my pay stub. I'm all about the cheap stuff.
Not too much else is going on. I'm continuing to make progress with my novel, although progress at this point has only brought me up to a little bit less than 7 full pages (single spaced). It flows in spurts, but its flowing, and my characters seem to already have definite personalities which definitely have the potential to become much more multi-faceted as the story goes on, which is good because I know that I have a lot more story left in me. Yay. It's actually a fun project, and I'm probably gonna buy a book at some point to help me out with things like chapter organization and character development and other such things. It's nice to have something to work on. When I feel like its close to being done I'll probably get another book with advice on finding a literary agent that will hopefully give me some idea as to whether its worth it to register for a copyright before I start sending it out and stuff like that. The last thing I want is someone stealing my original work and calling it their own (or making money from it without my permission).
Well, its that time again. Time to start getting ready for work. Yuck.
do i have to?
Right now I hate my job. I think the reason is mostly because I have to go to work tomorrow. I hate that. Of course another reason could be that I only have one day off this week. But at least I got the more than pleasant surprise that my best friend is in town this week and I get to see her and her daughter (my "niece") on Friday, my only day off.
Tonight was our employee appreciation party. It was okay, I guess. The only girl that I truly dislike from work won a freakin TV. Okay, not the only girl. The other person that I don't like I think I'm growing to hate. She's just such a bitch. She never smiles, and she never says a word to me. No hello, no goodbye, nothing. To be fair, she did say thanks when I lent her my wine key because she was unprepared for work and didn't have her own. Did I mention that I hate work. I wish I was independently wealthy and didn't have to work. But since I'm not, I think I should go to sleep, seeing as its pretty damn late and I have to be at work at 11:45 (yes, I know its late, but I won't be off until 9 or 10). So, night night.
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Hello all, Ive got a brand new never been used 100 round c-mag drum, I'm in need of a good upper and willing to make a trade for the right deal, I can add cash to the right deal. Id like to find one that's complete with the bolt group. 556-or 223 would suit me, nothing in the 300 blackout please. I'm willing to listen to other trade offers but really need the upper.
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Today the work place can be very volatile even after having worked for the same company for many years of your life. Many people are suddenly finding themselves unemployed because of changes in their employment and the economy. Instead of going to work for a large corporation again, people are considering working from home where there is more flexibility.
The first step is to do something that you deeply enjoy because you will be devoting a lot of time and energy to this business. Apply for a business start up program or find a mentor, all experienced guidance is the best support system to have. This is valuable while you’re starting a business and during for questions and if any problems that might arise.
You must be enthusiastic about your new business and feel it inside and out because it will show. Can you generate excitement for an item not nationally advertised? Do you really believe in this new product and know that the purchaser will discover its worth and believe in it?
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Investigate the entire system of the new business you are looking at. Do you have to work more hours to make the same amount of money than you are making now? Can you invest the same amount in the business and get a better return on investment?
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Officer assaulted with weapon while responding to Esquimalt break-in
A Victoria Police officer is recovering after being assaulted with a weapon early Sunday morning.
Vic-PD says the officer was responding to an unwanted person call at a residence in the 11-hundred block of Lyall Street in Esquimalt at 4:00 a.m. Sunday morning. The resident had reported a man on the back porch trying to get into the home. When the officer arrived, the suspect was approached at the back door, the officer was attacked and a struggle ensued. The officer received non-life-threatening injuries but was able to restrain the suspect and help take the man into custody.
The officer was transported to hospital and treated for his injuries.
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I’ve just read a book. About a family with an autistic son. Who have to go to court to get him a place at a boarding school, as they feel that the local school can’t meet his needs. What the books wants you to read and take away is autism tore that family apart. No, autism didn’t you as parents did.
As a mother of a child with autism, who at 4.5 is still preverbal and in nappies there are not any days that go by without me thinking of Z’s future. When discussing schools I was told don’t look to the future look at now. I couldn’t do that, not for me but for Z. What if I looked at the now and said oh well he’s not that much different from the others, they’ll still have accidents, they can’t read and write let’s send him to preschool. Oh I’d be in a completely different place right now.
As it is I don’t have a crystal ball I don’t know what’s coming next, sometimes I really wish I did but then knowing if he’d never talk or come out of nappies would that be a good thing? Don’t holfing out for hope help?
I do know for one thing I’d never give Z away, ok sometimes the idea of handing him over is well an idea as I’d never do it. My argument is I wanted him, I may have not wanted the autism that comes alongside with it but who does, so he’s mine to look after. Sometimes he’s challenging, and yes it can be embarrassing when out in public, but he’s still mine and I still wouldn’t give him away.
What’s that teaching him? That’s he’s broken? That he’s not worth my attention? That because he’s challenging I don’t want him? That he’s not what society call normal so I’ll send him away?
In this book the kid went to a school with green grass, forrests, a pool and horse riding only about 50 kids and 200 staff, but those staff are not his parents. I’d rather spend that money that went to fight for him to buy a house in the countryside and buy him a horse, and build a pool. Even if it meant employing a few teachers!
I’m lucky at the moment Z doesn’t smear, if he done that well then I don’t know how I’d manage, I still prefer poo over snobs any day! But I’d still like to think that I’d never want to get rid of him.
It’s hard enough that he can’t tell me what’s happening in school, I trust them 100% I suppose you have to trust the person who’s watching the most precious thing to you if you didn’t then there would be no school! I take him I pick him up, some might say well that’s because you’re the bus driver, if I wasn’t I would take him in the car and collect him in the car, I think the parent / teacher rapport is so important, imagine boarding school when you only saw them during holidays. I also understand that for some it’s not possible to be at two schools at the same time. So what may work for me won’t be what works for others.
Not sure where I’m heading with this, it’s late and I’m tired, but that’s what having children does to you, they make you work 24 hours a day 7 days a week, there are no holidays . That’s the choice you make when you decide you want children.
When I decided I wanted children I always said I was going to go places, see places, do things. Yes, I’m not going to lie autism chucked a spanner in that work but we adapt, we have to adapt. It’s hard always looking for things that maybe other parents take for granted. But I do it, because I wanted him,
I’d say autism may cause arguments and it may put the husband in the spare room! But again I’d say that’s just a child thing anyways.
I do know for certain that having a child with autism has taught me much more than I would have ever expected. Now I appreciate those small things that others take for granted, from listening to a simple instruction to copying a movement.
It doesn’t stop me worrying about Z’s future I think all parents do, I can put him in boarding school till 19 then what happens I’m not going to have any idea how to care for a 19 year old. As it is I’ll take each day as it comes and I’ll fight each battle when I have to. | <urn:uuid:02badae4-5d26-4cb9-8e73-37a8b1f7de2c> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | https://firsttimevalleymam.com/2017/06/09/i-didnt-choose-this-way-of-life/ | 2017-11-17T22:53:39Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934804019.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20171117223659-20171118003659-00281.warc.gz | en | 0.973013 | 1,074 | [
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Today I sold Eight Paintings.
A red letter day (sometimes hyphenated as red-letter day or called scarlet day in academia) is any day of special significance. Wikepedia.
I think selling eight paintings in one day is a red letter day. Last one for me was passing my 11 plus. That was actually the first red letter day when I realised, Hey I can do this.
The two above were sold. I am still in shock. And the two below.
Plus four others. My euphoria at this is .....
........Not helped by the fact that I have three exhibitions in September signed up for and therefore some challenge, one such wanting work on Wednesday.
And, just in case HMRC are looking at my blog I have spent far more than sales on paint, paper, mounts and framing. And, so far, I do not think I can be taxed on the feel good factor. (and I have the invoices to prove it.)
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Florida State's Jameis Winston Wins 2013-14 Manning Award park
Jameis Winston, fresh off leading his Florida State team to the BCS National Championship, has been selected as the 2013-14 winner of the Manning Award, presented by the Allstate Sugar Bowl to the top quarterback in the nation. The Manning Award, now in its 10th year, was created by the Allstate Sugar Bowl to honor the college football accomplishments of Archie, Peyton and Eli Manning. It is the only quarterback award that takes into consideration the candidates' bowl performances in its balloting. The award is voted on by a panel of local and national media, as well as each of the Mannings.
"On behalf of the Manning family and my sons Peyton and Eli, we want to thank the Allstate Sugar Bowl for creating this award," said Archie Manning. "We like to think this award is a little unique because we wait until after the bowl games to recognize the best quarterback in the country for the entire year. We are truly honored to present this award to Jameis Winston after an outstanding year as a quarterback at Florida State. He had an undefeated team that climaxed with a great win in Pasadena on Monday night."
"It means a lot to have my name next to ‘Manning,'" Winston said. "With the accolades that Peyton and Eli and Mr. Manning have had in college and in professional football, it makes me so happy to get announced as the winner of this award."
This year's Heisman Trophy winner following the regular season, Winston added to his accomplishments by being named the Offensive Most Valuable Player of the BCS National Championship on Monday evening. With the Seminoles trailing 31-27 with 1:11 to go in the game, Winston took charge from his own 20-yard line, completing 5-of-6 passes to get his team to the two-yard line before finding Kelvin Benjamin for a two-yard touchdown connection to clinch the title with 13 seconds remaining.
Winston is the second freshman to earn the honor, joining last year's honoree, Johnny Manziel from Texas A&M. He is also the second Atlantic Coast Conference player to be selected (joining Boston College's Matt Ryan from 2007-08) and the fifth national champion to win the honor (joining Matt Leinart, 2004-05; Vince Young, 2005-06; Tim Tebow, 2008-09; and Cam Newton, 2010-11).
A product of Bessamer, Ala., Winston set the ACC and FBS freshman record for touchdown passes (40) and the freshman mark for passing yards (4,057), while leading the nation in total quarterback rating (85.8) and pass efficiency rating (184.8). In addition to becoming the first freshman to capture the ACC Player of the Year award in the 61-year history of the Atlantic Coast Conference, he was a consensus All-American, the Walter Camp National Player of the Year and the Davey O'Brien Quarterback of the Year.
Winston opened the 2013 season and his career by completing the first 11 passes he threw in a nationally televised Labor Day evening game at Pittsburgh and never slowed down. He tallied seven 300-yard passing games and threw three touchdowns in a game eight times. A seven-time ACC Rookie of the Week, Winston's signature performance came at No. 3 Clemson where he led FSU to a 51-14 victory over the Tigers by throwing for career-best 444 yards and three touchdowns and added a rushing score.
He vaulted FSU into the National Championship Game by throwing for 330 yards and accounting for four total touchdowns to earn ACC Championship Game MVP honors in a 45-7 win over Duke.
Winston is also the first freshman quarterback ever to lead his team to 13 wins, finishing with 14 including the national championship victory.
The other finalists for this year's Manning Award were: Tajh Boyd (Sr., Clemson), Teddy Bridgewater (Jr., Louisville), Derek Carr (Sr., Fresno State), Jordan Lynch (Sr., Northern Illinois), Johnny Manziel (So., Texas A&M), Marcus Mariota (So., Oregon), AJ McCarron (Sr., Alabama), Aaron Murray (Sr., Georgia) and Bryce Petty (Jr., Baylor).
USC's Matt Leinart was the inaugural winner of the Manning Award in 2005, followed by Texas' Vince Young in 2006. Both went on to be top 10 NFL draft picks. In 2007, LSU's JaMarcus Russell earned the award and was the NFL's No. 1 draft pick. Boston College's Matt Ryan claimed the award in 2008 and was drafted No. 3, quickly becoming the starting quarterback for the Atlanta Falcons. In 2009, Florida star Tim Tebow earned the honor – he also went on to be selected in the first round of the NFL Draft. The 2010 winner was Texas signal-caller Colt McCoy, then the winningest quarterback in college football history, who was selected by the Cleveland Browns in the draft. McCoy was followed by top-two NFL Draft picks – Auburn's Cameron Newton earned the award in 2011, prior to being selected No. 1 overall by the Carolina Panthers and then Robert Griffin, III, from Baylor, was the 2012 winner prior to being the No. 2 overall pick by the Washington Redskins. This past season's winner was Texas A&M star Johnny Manziel, who was the first freshman to earn the honor. | <urn:uuid:fbe4d144-5fa9-4760-be2f-a4500bf6736d> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | https://allstatesugarbowl.org/florida-states-jameis-winston-wins-2013-14-manning-award/ | 2017-11-18T17:42:01Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934805008.39/warc/CC-MAIN-20171118171235-20171118191235-00281.warc.gz | en | 0.968122 | 1,107 | [
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Wineries in Sauvignon / Fume Blanc Wineries in Winfield
We offer free wine tastings and tours of the winery, vineyard and grounds. All of our patrons are welcome to picnic on the grounds, or enjoy their wine on our patio, we’ll provide the glasses.
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I received this book for free from the author in exchange for an honest review. This does not affect my opinion of the book or the content of my review.Children of the Different by S.C. Flynn
Published: September 10th 2016 by The Hive
Genres: Young Adult, Science Fiction
Source: the author
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Children of the Different is a young adult post-apocalyptic novel set in a future Australia. A disease has wiped out most of humanity, and the only people who survived were those who had something different about them mentally–i.e. psychic powers, brain damage, coma, etc. The protagonists are a set of twins who were born after the cataclysm. Arika and Narrah live in a small enclave of survivors. Because of the virus, children who hit puberty go into a trance-like state referred to as the Changeland, and come back from it with some kind of new power or ability. That is, if they don’t come back a zombie.
Arika and Narrah have always had a psychic connection to each other. When Arika enters the Changeland, the connection is weakened, and both characters find themselves alone for the first time in their lives. And at the same time, they are thrust into situations where they need to rely on and trust each other in order to survive, all while feeling alienated from themselves as their minds and bodies change. The Changeland is so insightful into the feelings one has during puberty. We many not have psychic powers, but we all change as we grow up, and often without feeling ready for it.
One of my favorite elements of Children of the Different was looking at how different groups of survivors responded to the apocalypse. Arika and Narrah are part of an enclave that saw technology as the cause of disaster, and so there was a back-to-the-land ethos that permeated every aspect of daily life. In his adventures, Narrah encounters a scientist who has brought together survivors in the hope of using technology to make the world better. And Arika uncovers an ocean-worshiping cult who believe that the secret to survival will come from the oldest forms of life.
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A number of Coe-Brown Northwood Academy students were recently recognized by the National Writing Project in New Hampshire through The Scholastic Art & Writing Awards. This is a remarkable achievement and milestone for young writers at CBNA who were mentored by English department faculty. A panel of writers, teachers, and literary professionals selected these students’ work as being among the best works submitted by New Hampshire teenagers. Students are judged against other entries in the following categories: fiction, flash fiction, poetry, personal memoirs, persuasive essays, humor, science fiction and fantasy. Of the more than 300 submissions to The Scholastic Writing Awards which New Hampshire students sent this year, the following students from CBNA were honored:
- Gold Key: Brian Downer (Strafford)
- Silver Keys: Braelin Ash (Northwood), Christie Clause (Barrington), Sydney Gast (Nottingham), Ben Healey (Nottingham), Ambar Mercedes (Strafford), Rachel Simmons (Barrington), Kennedi Stowell (Strafford)
- Honorable Mentions: Kristina Seavey (Nottingham) (2), Nicholas Allsup (Northwood), Shayla Ashley (Strafford), Orion Clachar (Strafford), Christie Clause (Barrington), Alice Ewing (Nottingham), Sean Hooper (Barrington), Adah Keeney (Nottingham), Caroline Lavoie (Barrington), Katherine Martel (Barrington), Grace Mele (Northwood) Carter Rollins (Northwood)
On May 9, 2016, all award recipients, including those whose work was selected as honorable mention, will be invited to attend the NH regional awards ceremony to be held at Heritage Commons on the campus of Plymouth State University. In addition, every piece of writing which received a gold or silver key will be published in this year’s edition of Middle/High School Voices. Congratulations to this next generation of writers. | <urn:uuid:be146006-5813-46fe-9ccc-23ce483b5c15> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | https://coebrown.org/2016/02/11/coe-brown-students-recognized-for-2016-scholastic-writing-awards/ | 2017-11-21T02:52:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806310.85/warc/CC-MAIN-20171121021058-20171121041058-00281.warc.gz | en | 0.935525 | 401 | [
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Slice at Olympia Tank Limo goes Yellow
We had a call from a promotions company called Slice. Melissa was our contact; she needed Tanklimo spraying yellow and raspberry graphics adding all over, and then it being driven around Olympia all day. Impossible i said, any idea how much that would cost and then putting it back to white and getting all the Tanklimo graphics done again .So guess what happened, Yep we stripped it down and refinished it just for that one day.
Any excuse to get high as a kite on paint fumes, and their was the bit about Danielle Lyode doing a model shoot as well and young Liam begging me on his knees to get involved. So of we sped at 5am for the model shoot on top of Tescos car park next to Olympia Daniela was a sweet girl and Liam rather liked the Promo girls employed to throw their balls about. SAS Colin got weed on by Danielle’s dog which was appropriate really. That part went rather well .Then we rattled of to go around Kensington and past Olympia to promote Ski republic a Ski hire firm !
With a string of shops across Europe It was the big ski show at Olympia and they wanted to make a bit of a splash .Seems it did and the small road in front of Olympia was a private one and it wasn’t long before the Police were called But the Met are a good bunch and we had no problems ended up rattling about all over London probably the highest mileage Tank limo’s ever done in a day, but she went like a train ,Couple of small hiccups when a taxi driver decided to play chicken with a tank and Sas Colin ,Bad Move.
And some old tramp ran out in front of me to give us a can of beer, probably his last can now that was sweet. Even got a picture of an evening standard van after it tried to squeeze past the inside of the low loader and ripped its wing mirror off, will they ever learn. All in all a fun day out of the workshops and another chance for Tanklimo to do the bizz again reckon a million people took its photo with their phone | <urn:uuid:fa2c21aa-1143-427e-9c72-fd04e3a00a90> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | http://limotank.com/galleries/gallery27/ | 2017-11-21T21:15:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806426.72/warc/CC-MAIN-20171121204652-20171121224652-00281.warc.gz | en | 0.981038 | 445 | [
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Passion to ProtecteBook - 2012
"Hotshot wilderness firefighter Jake Whitaker had been lucky to escape a massive blaze with his life. Now, with a body as scarred as his heart, the last thing he needs-much less wants-is to see his first love walk back into his life. With her abusive marriage behind her, Liane Mason brought her children home to Wolf River Lodge in a search for peace...a peace she can maintain only by keeping a cool distance from Jake. But when her children become hostages in a murderous plan, Jake is the only one she can turn to. And while love may never die, a passionate hatred can kill. In a battle of love versus vengeance, which side will win?"--P. of cover.
Publisher: Don Mills, Ont. : Harlequin Books, c2012
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Doodyone has lots of wonderful ideas, and a great eye for detail. The shoot itself was such a laugh, plenty of tea breaks to refresh our minds for the next set, and I was very excited when I saw the images we captured on the back of the camera. Hopefully, you guys will like them too!
I definitely recommend Doodyone to anybody, he’s a total gentleman, a great sense of humour and I will be looking forward to crossing paths with him again.
Here is a bundle of images I love:
Of course, some behind the scenes:
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Environmental Research and Education Foundation
Recognizes excellence in environmental research and education. Must demonstrate clear interest in solid waste management research.
All qualified candidates will be considered for scholarships without regard to race, religion, national or ethnic origin, citizenship, or disability. Applications from students outside the United States or studying abroad will receive equal consideration.
Doctoral and post-doctoral scholarships are awarded up to $12,000 per year, and can be extended for up to 3 years from the initial award date. Master’s scholarships are awarded up to $5,000 per year and can be extended for up to 2 years from the initial award date. | <urn:uuid:afd0a673-e183-4ac5-ae4b-f9c31a327724> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | https://fellowships.dasa.ncsu.edu/environmental-research-and-education-foundation/ | 2017-11-22T16:50:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806615.74/warc/CC-MAIN-20171122160645-20171122180645-00281.warc.gz | en | 0.922469 | 131 | [
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Hey y'all! Just popping in to let y'all know about this amazing book sale going on right now! And they're all Indie books! Amazing, right? Normally I'd try to add a bit more to the post . . . but I'm still rather exhausted from yesterday (whcih was amazing;)) so I'll just be quiet and let you read blow where you can find all the amazing links to books! :D
It’s that time of year. The time for buying presents, making wish lists, and planning New Year’s Resolutions. If any of those activities involve books for you, Indie Christian Books has a perfect event for you.
From Nov 24th through Nov 30th, a huge selection of independently published Christian books are on sale. You can find discounted paperbacks, dozens of books offered with free shipping, $0.99 ebooks, package deals and more. Even if your budget is depleted from Christmas shopping, we have some freebies for you! Need even more of a reason to support indie authors and fill your shelf with good stories? When you purchase a paperback book through indiechristianbooks.com you’ll be eligible to enter an exclusive giveaway including free books and an Amazon gift card!
You can meet our authors by visiting the Author Database on the website. Want to get to know the authors better AND have the chance to win some fun prizes? We’d love to have you join our week long Facebook party which will feature 39 authors over 7 days.
What awesome reads of 2016 are you grateful for? What books are you looking forward to reading in 2017?
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Napoleon's German Allies (4) : Bavaria (Men at Arms Series, 106)
Otto von Pivka
Format: PDF / Kindle (mobi) / ePub
In 1805, Bavaria allied itself with France and Bavarian troops served with Napoleon during the 1809 campaign against Austria, and participated in the Russian campaign of 1812, before eventually abandoning the Emperor's cause in 1813 prior to the battle of Leipzig. They then engaged Napoleon's troops in combat at the battle of Hanua in an unsuccessful attempt to cut off their retreat to France. This book by Otto von Pivka provides an in depth examination of the organisation, equipment, weaponry and uniforms of Napoleon's Bavarian allies. The fascinating text is accompanied by numerous illustrations and eight full page colour plates. | <urn:uuid:3649ac40-0c10-4ae8-8d6f-d603f69807a8> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | http://portal.cenjor.pt/ebooks/napoleons-german-allies-1-westfalia-and-kleve-berg-men-at-arms-volume-44 | 2017-11-25T00:01:34Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934809160.77/warc/CC-MAIN-20171124234011-20171125014011-00281.warc.gz | en | 0.91876 | 163 | [
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Market Probe, a global market research and consulting organization with world headquarters located in Milwaukee, WI, today announced the addition of Jill Rogers as Vice President, Agriculture and Animal Health Practice.
As part of Market Probe’s Global Agriculture and Animal Health practice, Ms. Rogers will oversee the development, execution, and management of strategic marketing research for Agriculture and Animal Health clients in North America.
Ms. Rogers steps into this senior position with 15 years of experience in the Marketing Research field, bringing advanced knowledge in both quantitative and qualitative analytical methods. Her achievements demonstrate forward-thinking in research approaches and a demonstrated strategic orientation in positioning, communications methods, forecasting, market segmentation, pricing, quadrant analysis and customer advocacy.
Prior to joining Market Probe, Jill Rogers managed a full-service custom firm specializing in Agri-business and Animal Health marketing research on both a national and international scale. Additionally, Rogers holds credentials in a broad range of related industries and topic areas, including Human Health Pharmaceuticals, Consumer Packaged Goods, Hospitality, Transportation and Finance. She comes to Market Probe directly from M/A/R/C Research, where she directed custom research for Fortune 500 clients around the world in diverse industries.
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The barbs were subtle, but distinct.
It would appear the Heat has no faith in those in charge of properly conditioning the temperatures inside AT&T Center.
“We anticipate we will play in a very cool gym,” Heat coach Erik Spoelstra said before Saturday’s practice at the Spurs’ practice facility. “We will have to deal with that now. I don’t know if guys will be wearing tights under their shorts and long-sleeved shirts, I don’t know.”
Never miss a local story.
Spoelstra and his team are still angry over the conditions for Game 1 of the NBA Finals. The oppressive heat and humidity inside the arena that caused LeBron James to cramp and miss the final four minutes of the game will be a source of motivation for the defending back-to-back champions entering Game 2 on Sunday. James participated in the Heat’s light practice Saturday and will play in Game 2 after watching the end of Game 1 on the bench.
Spoelstra doesn’t expect any playing restrictions for James, who was carried to the Heat’s bench in the fourth quarter of Game 1 after his legs cramped up violently.
“I’m doing well, doing a lot better,” James said. “The soreness is starting to get out. I’m feeling better than I did [Friday] and with another day, I should feel much better [Sunday].”
The Heat is 12-0 in games after playoff losses dating to the 2012 Eastern Conference finals, and extending that streak Sunday would give the team the required road victory it needs to win this series and its third consecutive NBA championship. The Heat and Spurs traded victories throughout the 2013 Finals until the Heat won Games 6 and 7 at AmericanAirlines Arena.
“I think it’s pretty consistent throughout the playoffs and in the season with this team, especially when it really matters,” said Dwyane Wade, who was limited to two points in the fourth quarter of Game 1. “I think this team has done a good job of — one thing we do is come in, learn from our mistakes, own up to our mistakes, figure out how we can be better coming into the next game and we make those adjustments, and it’s worked out for us.
“I’m not saying that’s automatic and it means we’re going to win the ballgame, but up to this point it’s worked out for us … just being consistent, you know, owning up to what we didn’t do well the first game and trying to come out and right our wrong.”
Turnovers were a problem in Game 1, as excellent defensive pressure by both the Heat and Spurs made for some sloppy play. The teams combined for 41 giveaways, with the Spurs committing 23.
“I’m sure they’re saying the same thing,” Spoelstra said. “It’s a big-time possession series so the miscues that we had offensively, we had some rough possessions particularly in that fourth quarter. We would like to clean that up with our execution and efficiency, and not letting them flatten us out, where we’re still able to get to our game.
“Defensively, although we forced the type of turnovers that we typically would like, we still had more than enough breakdowns where they had great paint opportunities.”
Mario Chalmers played poorly in Game 1, and backup Norris Cole wasn’t much better. The spotlight will be on those players to improve. Chalmers had five fouls and committed five turnovers in just 17 minutes of action. Cole had two points in 29 minutes.
Asked Saturday how to stay out of foul trouble, Chalmers said he was “still trying to figure that out.”
Limiting the Spurs’ chances inside is another necessary adjustment the Heat addressed Saturday. Led by Tim Duncan and Tiago Splitter, the Spurs outscored the Heat 48-36 in the paint.
“We need to do what we do better and harder,” Spoelstra said.
“They make it tough with their passing and, you know, getting into the paint with their roles and spreading you out with three-point shooters.”
Chris Bosh, who had 18 points and nine rebounds in Game 1, was confident Saturday that the Heat would bounce back. Not only did the two days between games give James’ legs time to heal, but they also forced the Heat to focus more closely on its mistakes.
“You know, for some reason it always works out that we always lose the game before a two-day rest and then kind of really just gets us going,” Bosh said. “I guess it’s punishment, you have to wait a little bit longer.
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The Anglican Church insists that gay clergy with partners live a celibate life if they wish to continue working as priests or bishops. This is an unfair burden on gay clergy as well as being discriminatory within the 21st century workplace.
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World Affairs Council of Dallas-Fort Worth presents David Brown
Retired Dallas Police Chief David O. Brown returns to the spotlight when he discusses his life and the challenges of modern law enforcement at a program presented by the World Affairs Council of Dallas/Fort Worth and the AT&T Performing Arts Center. The program is the debut event on Chief Brown’s tour for his biography, Called To Rise: A Life in Faithful Service to the Community That Made Me.
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Two Days at Oxford
by John Goto
Amongst the onlookers as the University of Oxford’s ancient Encaenia processions along Broad Street, is a balding young man who cranes forward in an attempt to spot his new father-in-law, Field Marshal Chetwode. Since he was sent down from the University eight years ago the bystander has made good use of his social contacts to gain a position at England’s leading journal of modernist architecture, The Architectural Review, where he has honed his journalistic skills.
Next to him stands an intense, athletic looking man wearing round spectacles and a distinctive beret. As he frames the procession in the viewfinder of his Leica camera, a white haired Doctor of Divinity carrying a mortarboard and fan notices him and gives a faint smile of recognition.
The annual ceremony is staged on Wednesday of the ninth week of Trinity term, as tradition demands. A summer heat wave has broken a few days earlier, but the weather is still bright enough for the photographer to freeze the strolling dons in motion. Behind them
Chaundy’s antiquarian bookshop is visible. It is the 24th June 1936, and the two men are John Betjeman and László Moholy-Nagy.
Their purpose is to make photographs to illustrate Betjeman’s forthcoming book, An Oxford University Chest. The author later recalled that Moholy ‘rushed about frenziedly photographing everything he saw’, which is understandable given that they only had two days in which to achieve their aim.
Betjeman acts as guide to the refugee photographer who has a poor command of English and has only visited the city briefly before, to attend the opening in mid-February of a group exhibition entitled ‘Abstract and Concrete’. Organised by Nicolette Gray, it included Moholy’s work alongside pieces by Naum Gabo, Wassily Kandinsky, Piet Mondrian, and other prominent modernist artists.
The author has the assured air of an insider as he steers the émigré around his alma mater. They climb to the top of the Radcliffe Camera from where Moholy photographs the remains of the Encaenia procession in All Souls’ Quadrangle below, some panoramic views of the city and a snapshot of a bespectacled female academic.
Their perambulation then takes them north, past the University Museum and Betjeman’s old prep school, to the river Cherwell where Moholy photographs punters basking in the afternoon sunlight. That evening the unlikely pair are guests at an elaborate formal dinner given by the Vice-Chancellor at Balliol College. Returning afterwards to the Randolph hotel, Moholy makes a final night-time photograph of the façade of the Ashmolean Museum across the street.
The grand Victorian hotel is very much to Betjeman’s liking. His youthful flirtation with modernism is coming to an end, and he has recently left the Architectural Review in order to take up more lucrative work editing the Shell Guides. The writer has made a ‘good marriage’ into a higher social class, and seems at last to be overcoming his failure to gain a degree at the University of Oxford.
In contrast to Betjeman’s comfortable appearance, his companion looks tired and agitated. The last few years have been difficult for Moholy-Nagy since he resigned from his professorship at the Bauhaus. A fresh start in Berlin was thwarted by the Nazis’ ever-tightening grip on all forms of creative work. Feeling compelled to leave Germany, he found refuge with his wife Sibyl firstly in Amsterdam, and then London.
To make ends meet Moholy has taken on all the work he can. As well as the Oxford assignment, he has made photographic illustrations for books on Eton College and London’s street markets. Design commissions for Simpsons of Piccadilly, London Underground and Imperial Airways, as well as book jackets, advertisements, documentary films and a special effects sequence, have required him to work exceptionally long hours. Adding further to his weariness is a concern that, as an influential teacher, his aesthetic theories and pedagogic programme have come to nothing in the face of Nazi terror in Germany.
On the morning after Encaenia there is a torrential downpour through which Moholy continues to photograph, eventually taking shelter in Blackwell’s bookshop. As the rain abates the duo walk to the artisan district of Jericho, where Moholy photographs a black dog sitting at the corner of St. Barnabas Street, and on to Folly Bridge to record rowing activities. A taxi is then summoned to take them to the eastern perimeter of the city, where they have an appointment at Morris Motors.
Betjeman loathes cars, despite encouraging their use through the Shell Guides, and thinks the factory an ‘inferno’. Moholy, on the other hand, is in his element. As a proponent of the integration of art and machine technology, the image of endless assembly lines producing identical Morris Eights at the rate of five hundred a day, spurs him on to make the best spread of photographs in the book. Betjeman, who is clearly not enjoying the experience, decides to cut their visit short after little over an hour.
John Miles, London, first published An Oxford University Chest in the summer of 1938. The book cannot be said to be a success, amounting to an unsatisfactory hodgepodge of texts and images by disparate authors. It bears all the signs of a hurried work, although it was nearly two years overdue when the manuscript was finally delivered to an exasperated publisher.
Compared to his earlier work, Moholy’s photographs fail to achieve the same level of invention and formal rigor. They lack the social insights required of documentary photographs, and the technical precision involved in architectural photography. The publisher and author felt it necessary, moreover, to include a number of photographs by other photographers, ‘where certain noble buildings had been omitted’ by the hard-pressed commissionee.
More jarring is the addition of humorous cartoons by Osbert Lancaster depicting university types. Lancaster was a contemporary and friend of Betjeman’s at Oxford, whose conservative views on architecture and politics were more in tune with the author’s own than those of the politically radical avant-gardist Moholy-Nagy. Lancaster also shared Betjeman’s occasionally witty, though often rather leaden sense of humour. In contrast, Moholy was ‘sincere, dedicated and without irony’, according to his wife.
The haste of Betjeman’s contribution is evident in the many overlong quotations used and a general cut-and-paste feel to his script. He describes various districts of Oxford, but only from the perspective of the University looking out. Jericho is viewed through the nostalgic filter of a lost rural idyll, whilst East Oxford is considered solely in terms of its unplanned development by speculative builders. He saves his most critical account for the Morris factory at Cowley, which led the publisher to express concerns that its owner, Lord Nuffield, might sue for libel. No attempt is made by the writer to engage with the communities or individuals living in Oxford’s working-class areas.
The town section takes up a mere twelve pages and the rest of the book is devoted to Betjeman’s revered University. Under separate headings he writes about the undergraduates, dons and college servants, followed by a gazetteer covering college buildings and alumni. The inclusion of a thoughtful essay by a working-class undergraduate on his atypical experience of the University sits awkwardly alongside the author’s conservative trope. When not entirely ignored by Betjeman, women are patronised as ‘embryo school-mistresses’, who are overly studious and only capable of gaining a second-class degree. Socialist students are mocked whenever the opportunity presents itself.
His consideration of Oxford’s buildings is surprisingly brief and lacks the quality of scholarship that his contemporary, Nikolaus Pevsner, brought to the task. The 12th century church of St. Mary at Iffley, for example, he merely notes as so restored that ‘one doubts its authenticity’, whereas in the Oxfordshire volume of The Buildings of England, Pevsner devotes three pages to a detailed account of its historical development.
At the conclusion of their two days at Oxford, John Betjeman returns to his poetry, the Shell Guides and his feisty young wife. László Moholy-Nagy briefly visits Berlin and his native Hungary in a last attempt to reconcile himself to the Europe he had left behind, before his final embarkation from England for America.
In a brief account of the making of the book written in 1977, Betjeman praises Lancaster’s ‘brilliant caricatures’ but only commends Moholy for his ability to pick the right picture for enlargement from his contact sheets. He also informs us that his wife’s name for the artist was ‘Mowli-Wogie’. Of his own contribution he says it was ‘designed to be entertaining reading only, and useless in the examination industry’.
In response to John Betjeman’s book, my pictures present a divergent view of the city and university in the nineteen thirties.
The ’thirties was a time of great social change in the city. Workers from rural and industrially depressed regions migrated to Oxford to find employment in the rapidly expanding car industry. Political activism grew amongst the workforce over the issues of union recognition, housing and social inequality, resulting in the Pressed Steel strike (1934), Florence Park rent strike (1935) and Cutteslowe Walls dispute (1934-59).
The left challenged Fascism as undergraduates and industrial workers disrupted a British Union of Fascists meeting called by Oswald Mosley at the Carfax Assembly Rooms (1936). Later that year the first of twenty-four volunteers left the city to fight on the Republican side in the Spanish Civil War.
Whilst many at the University wished to preserve its traditional practices and interests, especially regarding women’s education and access, others advocated change. The Labour Club in the late ’thirties had more members than any other university society, and Denis Healey, who was then a student at Balliol College, claimed that politics in Oxford were ‘overwhelmingly of the left’.
As war drew closer, refugees from Europe arrived in the city, as Basque children had before them, though the numbers of each were greatly restricted by government policy. A widespread sense of foreboding was felt across Oxford as the decade drew to a close.
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World's Top Golfers at Arnold Palmer Invitational
Presented by MasterCard
A final total of 127 players had made their commitments to play in the Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by MasterCard last night at the deadline for entries. The number equaled the record set in 1995 for the most players in the field since the tournament became an invitational in 1984. The invitation criteria require a minimum of 120 players. The complete list of players is attached.
The Arnold Palmer Invitational is scheduled for the week of March 12-18 at the Bay Hill Club in Orlando, Florida. Activities will begin at 10:00 a.m. on Monday with a shotgun start to the Pro-Am event, followed by the CVS/pharmacy Youth Day and Clinic on the practice range at 4:00 p.m., featuring a PGA Tour player and the Dennis Walters Trick Shot Show.
There will be practice rounds for the professionals on Tuesday, the second Pro-Am day on Wednesday, then the 72-hole PGA Tour event runs from Thursday through Sunday.
There were six late withdrawals, including world No. 2 Jim Furyk, to reduce the field from 133 players. Furyk advised host Arnold Palmer that he was bothered by his left wrist. It is the same wrist on which he had arthroscopic surgery three years ago. The others to withdraw were Fred Funk, Jose Coceres, Angel Cabrera, Matt Kuchar, and Brett Wetterich.
Nevertheless, the Arnold Palmer Invitational will have one of its best fields – if not the best – in the history of the tournament at Bay Hill since 1979. Eight of the top-10 players in the world have entered, starting with Nos. 1 and 3, Tiger Woods and Phil Mickelson, then No. 5 Henrik Stenson, No. 6 Ernie Els, No. 7 Geoff Ogilvy, No. 8 Retief Goosen, No. 9 Vijay Singh and No. 10 Luke Donald.
The final figures will not be known until the next Official World Golf Ranking is released on Monday, but officials have advised that the Arnold Palmer Invitational will probably be close to a par with the Nissan Open, which had the strongest field so far this year. Three of the top-five players in the world are expected at Bay Hill (Nissan had four), 12 of the top-15 (Nissan 11), 22 of the top-30 (Nissan 22), 36 of the top-50 (Nissan 35), and 65 of the top-10 (Nissan 63).
If the figure holds, the 65 players from the top-100 in the world would equal the most at Bay Hill since the methods for determining the World Ranking were revised in 1995. The tournament also had 65 players from the top-100 in 1995 and 1998.
Since 1995, the Bay Hill event has averaged a strength-of-field ranking of No. 9 in the world, behind only the four major championships, three World Golf Championship events, and The Players Championship.
For tickets to the 2007 Arnold Palmer Invitational presented by MasterCard or for more information, log on to the tournament web site, www.arnoldpalmerinvitational.com or call the Bay Hill Club ticket office at 407-876-7774 or toll free at 1-866-764-4843. Tournament proceeds benefit the Arnold Palmer Hospital for Children and the Winnie Palmer Hospital for Women & Babies. | <urn:uuid:e4ef17c3-ce41-4957-a5e6-37e6b4f53d2f> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | http://arnoldpalmerinvitational.com/content/2007-%E2%80%93-bay-hill-has-127-players-committed-final-field | 2017-11-21T04:30:24Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806316.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20171121040104-20171121060104-00481.warc.gz | en | 0.947196 | 710 | [
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Forgiveness - God Doesn't Think Like We Do
"For my thoughts are not your thoughts..." Isaiah 55:8
Isaiah 55 is a widely known and quoted Bible passage. Most often, it is remembered and repeated because it contains a strong affirmation that God never allows His Word to fail. Verse 5 reads "So shall my word be that goes out of my mouth; it shall not return to me empty but it shall accomplish that which I purpose, and shall succeed in the thing for which I sent it."
What makes this a standout passage is not simply that it declares that God's Word will successfully effect whatever purpose that He intends. It is what God intends that makes it glorious. God purposes to extend forgiveness freely, and generously, beyond any of our wildest expectations.
It should be noted that Isaiah 55 is an invitation to wandering and rebellious sinners who are languishing in the emptiness, poverty, slavery, and misery of their sinful choices. It is a lavish call to return to God filled with hope that God will truly forgive, restore, and bless. The chapter begins "Come, everyone who thirsts, come to the waters; and he who has no money, come buy and eat!"
What I would like you to consider are these words in verse 8: "my thoughts are not your thoughts neither are your ways my ways". It cannot be overstated that one of the greatest hindrances to enjoying communion with God is our thinking. It is our thinking that leads us away from God in the first place. We think that we know the path to true joy and self-fulfillment. We think that God is harsh and hard and unhappy. We think He demands too much and offers too little. We think that the grass is greener on the other side of the fence and so off we go.
Then, when we discover much to our dismay that we got it all wrong, our thinking can keep us from returning to God. We left God because we thought God was too hard and harsh and then we look back and fear that He might still be too hard and harsh. We can continue to fail precisely where our tragic journey began: We underestimate the immeasurable generosity and goodness of God toward all who will trust in Him.
Listen to the call of God in verses 5 and 6: "Seek the Lord while he may be found; call upon Him while He is near. Let the wicked forsake his way and the unrighteous man his thoughts; let him return to the Lord that He may have compassion on Him, and to our God, for He will abundantly pardon." If you are struggling with guilt and shame, and like the prodigal son in Jesus' famous parable, you are trying to figure out how you might persuade your heavenly Father to show you a bit of mercy when you know you don't deserve it, stop. Stop thinking your own thoughts. Stop following them. Repentance is stopping that nonsense and taking God at His word.
God says "Come empty handed." You have no money to buy Him off. Listen to Him. Stop listening to that voice in your own head. Listen to God. If you will stop listening to your own thoughts and walking your own way and start listening to God and following what He says, you will see that He is whom He says He is. God is compassionate. God will abundantly pardon you. That is His Word to you. His thoughts are not your thoughts.
That brings me back to the famous passage of Scripture in which God declares that His Word cannot fail but "shall accomplish that which I purpose." This is no generic statement about the efficacy of God's Word. This is a declaration about forgiving repentant sinners. Your thinking might be "God can't forgive me, not if He truly knows what I have done." We think we know our guilt, sin, and shame. What we must realize is that our sin is far more vile and offensive than we comprehend. God's ways really are profoundly different than our ways. Yet, the holy God whose eyes are too pure to look upon evil has offered forgiveness. He has determined to extend forgiveness to those who seek Him. He has declared that He will cleanse, heal, and restore. That is why when He says His Word cannot fail to accomplish that for which He sent it, we must understand what His Word is. It is the decree of the King of heaven who says that He will extend forgiveness and amnesty to all and any who will turn from their sins and return to Him.
That word cannot fail. It was that decree which God made before the foundation of the world that began to move all things towards that moment in time and history when God would guarantee the full forgiveness of every sinner who would trust in Him. The success of the Word of God was realized when His Son cried "It is finished!" while hanging on a Roman cross. God had kept His Word. Jesus had won the victory! God resolved to do it. God accomplished it!
Friend, whatever guilt and shame keeps you from experiencing the joy and peace of returning to God must be addressed. Your thoughts are not God's thoughts. Abandon them. God will abundantly pardon. God determined to do this on your behalf and He followed through by placing all your guilt on the shoulders of His perfect sinless Son.
Here is something else which is God's thought and not yours. If you will abandon your thoughts and ways and return to God, not only will He forgive you, but God declares "... you shall go out with joy and be lead forth in peace; the mountains and the hills before you shall break forth in singing, and all the trees of the field shall clap their hands" (vs.12). It is yours for the taking. Take God at His Word. | <urn:uuid:556d5186-f48b-443d-9323-84ce3cb1f1e4> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | http://www.kevindibbley.com/2014/03/forgiveness-god-doesnt-think-like-we-do.html | 2017-11-21T04:10:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806316.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20171121040104-20171121060104-00481.warc.gz | en | 0.971254 | 1,180 | [
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Experience the best of musical theater in just a single show! Music of Andrew Lloyd Webber, the sensational production that showcases a collection of musical blockbusters from one of the most awarded composers in history, runs at the San Diego Civic Center on June 24 to 29, 2014.
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BEIJING, Sept. 3, 2013 /PRNewswire/ -- The second annual Youku Original Masters' Short Film Project is once again an online smash, with its 25-minute long micro-films racking up 10 million views within first month, and so far more than 15,000 comments. Meanwhile, a breakout hit from last year's Project, the Tsai Ming-Liang-directed "Walker," recently snagged the Best Narrative Short Film Award at the Los Angeles Film Festival and qualified for Oscar competition.
With the masters' project, Youku opens its powerful platform to established voices in the world of film, who transform online microfilm into a true art. Building on the success of last year's project, Youku this year invited directors Lu Yue, Mabel Cheung and Alex Law, Wu Nien-chen, and Kiyoshi Kurosawa, who expertly bring to life different eras, regions, and cultural backgrounds to capture not only life as it is now, but as it exists in people's hopes for tomorrow. The Masters' Project is unique in its innovative content planning, high production standards, and its professional, creative team.
The Youku Masters' Project began in 2012, when Youku Original and the Hong Kong International Film Festival invited leading Asian directors Gu Changwei, Tsai Ming-liang, Ann Hui, and Kim Tae-yong to direct "micro movies" ("wei dianying" in Mandarin) for a year-long Youku Original campaign. The internationally recognized, award-winning directors' creations premiered at the HKIFF before being released exclusively on Youku's online platform over the course of the year. Audiences responded in a big way, so far watching the four films nearly 20 million times, leaving more than 63,000 comments, and forwarding them more than 520,000 times.
"Walker," which examines the past, present, and future of Hong Kong through an elderly monk's silent, slow walk through the city's bustling streets, rose to the top last year, drawing national attention to the Project. It and other Masters' Project micro-films have since been selected by more than 40 prestigious international film festivals, including the Cannes International Film Festival, the Vancouver International Film Festival, the Shanghai Film Festival, and Pusan International Film Festival. Confirmed directors for next year's Masters' Short Films Project include Shunji Iwai of Japan and Mainland Chinese director Zhang Yuan.
"Youku Original's strategic vision has helped micro-film grow beyond its image as a grassroots, amateur outlet and become known as a true art form. The success of last year's Masters' Project proved that audiences turn to our powerful platform for this type of high-quality, highbrow content, and we make it a strategic priority to continue delivering this type of cutting edge content," said Frank Ming Wei, President of Youku.com. "In short, Youku knows what viewers want, and our ability to deliver it is our unparalleled competitive edge."
Youku Original is a key part of Youku's hybrid content strategy, which features licensed professional content, in-house production, and user-generated content. In addition to their excellent reputation among audiences and established film and television talents, Youku Original movies and television serial dramas have attracted sponsorship from major brands, including General Motors, Philips, Hyundai, and Sony.
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Dealing with loss is a mountain everybody must traverse throughout various periods in their life. The peaks offer solace and clarity, the valleys offer discord and turmoil. Although we know this to be true, when tragedy strikes us personally, no amount of encouragement or comforting metaphors can ease the pain. With that being said, I can assure you, we will make it over this mountain. Together.
In 2016, Nebraska and Minnesota collectively lost something very near and dear to them, the 5 Dollar Bits of Broken Chair Trophy. Although this trophy was still in its infancy, it managed to captivate the hearts of two great fan bases. But before we continue, I ask you to please join me in a moment of silence.
Don’t Cry Because It’s Over, SMILE Because It Happened. -Dr. Seuss
Thank you. I know it is hard for everyone to be here and discuss the life of the 5 Dollar Bits of Broken Chair. Although this article is not easy to take in… or write, it wouldn’t be right for us to bottle up our emotions and let something so important to just dissolve into the afterlife. The Chair deserves more than that and we owe it to ourselves to make its legacy eternal.
Now this story is not all sad, it is not all doom and gloom. First, let us reflect on a happier time, a time when two Twitter handles would inadvertently create something that would take on a life of its own.
The year was 2014 when an unassuming little varmint from Minnesota put his little paws to work, tweeting at the notorious Bo Pelini parody account, Fauxpelini. The first correspondence between Goldy Gopher and FauxPelini would be the catalyst for a college football trophy not created by corporate sponsorship or disconnected administrators, but one created by the internet.
Fauxpelini would respond with a fair counteroffer.
There is something to be said about watching two great thought leaders work out a deal right before our eyes.
Established through years of selective breeding, Goldy Gopher used his unparalleled woodworking skills to create this piece. That lovable little gopher stayed true to his word and the battle for the Five Dollar Bits of Broken Chair was born.
In 2014, the Five Dollar Bits of Broken Chair graced the sidelines of Memorial Stadium for the first and only time. It was a sight to behold. There was a buzz in the air as 90,000 plus gathered around the field to see the newest member of the Big Ten Trophy family. There was a football game that day as well, but this is just a mere coincidence. Although the Chair was an unofficial trophy, a black sheep of the Big Ten so to speak, it commanded the respect of all who laid eyes on it.
In the first competition for the right to posses the chair on November 22, 2014, Minnesota upset Nebraska in Lincoln 28-24. It was a devastating loss to the Huskers. Adding insult to injury, the chair had to leave Lincoln for the season.
Minnesota claimed their award and displayed it with great pride. Like a haughty king returning after a victorious battle, Goldy was seen parading the fruits of their labor in front of the student section at a Minnesota basketball game.
This display would resonate throughout the realm of the Big Ten. Within a fortnight, the halls of Memorial Stadium would echo with whispers of Goldy’s boisterous actions. King Riley and his commanders took action, creating a battle plan to ensure the chair would be returned to its rightful place. On October 17, 2015, the Huskers carried out their mission, defeating the gophers in their territory 48-25. Upon his arrival back to the homeland, Riley revealed the chair was safe and sound.
The order was restored, a trophy returned. However, dark times would soon follow.
After the 2016 meeting between Minnesota and Nebraska, with the Huskers winning 24-17, there was a disconcerting feeling working its way throughout the stadium. The chair was missing. Could the trophy’s absence be attributed to both universities trying to protect it from the common folk? Maybe a backroom transition was in place as the chair had gained so much notoriety? Sadly, neither of these speculations of nobility were true.
The trophy had been killed. Wiped from the history books. When questioned about the coveted chair, Minnesota and Nebraska university officials tried to deny the trophy ever existed.
TheDailyGopher- After the Nebraska Cornhuskers’ 24-17 victory over the Minnesota Golden Gophers last week, you may have noticed the absence of the $5 Bits of Broken Chair Trophy — the infamous rivalry trophy created by Goldy Gopher, Faux Pelini, and the Internet.
It’s because the trophy never existed, according to an official at Minnesota.
“It was just a social media thing. There never was a trophy to begin with,” University of Minnesota official said.
93.7 The Ticket in Lincoln is reporting that both athletic departments are disavowing the rivalry trophy altogether, even going so far as to pretend it never existed. The station evidently reached out to officials from both universities and received the same response in regards to status of the Broken Chair: “What trophy?”
Never existed? We have photos, we have twitter threads, players and coaches holding the trophy and posting it on official university accounts and the chair never existed? Right…
It is one thing to kill something we hold so dear, it is another to deny it’s existence. That is something I will not stand for.
It is reasonable to believe the University of Nebraska assassinated the trophy in an attempt completely remove Bo Pelini’s name from anything related to the football program. After all, Fauxpelini was the co-creator of the trophy. But what is Minnesota’s motive? It just doesn’t add up. I have no answers for this mystery, but what I do have is my brain and internet research.
Now I understand that the trophy might be somewhat low-brow for the likes of the Big Ten. A conference that creates trophies out of thin air, a la the Heroes Trophy and the Freedom Trophy. Both were created almost immediately after Nebraska joined the Big Ten.The Heroes Trophy, brought you by Hy-Vee Grocery Stores –where you can find all the freshest produce and goods at a fair low price, a helpful smile in every aisle– is played for by Nebraska and Iowa and the Freedom Trophy is between Nebraska and Wisconsin. Because we all know the key to a great rivalry is faking it. That is not to say that Iowa and Wisconsin are not rivals thus far either, it is just not to the point where winning a fabricated trophy means anything.
The Five Dollar Bits of Broken Chair meant something. It was the first of its kind. A trophy created by the internet, for the internet. I don’t know where the remains of the chair are, but I’d like to think that its spirit rests in the clouds above of Memorial Stadium watching the masses it once captivated.
And so the story must end. We have come to the part of this article that is the most difficult, saying farewell. I know how much this trophy meant to every single one of us and I will not rest until justice is served. I can promise you that. But until then, let us make piece with the reality that is before us.
Five Dollar Bits of Broken Chair,
You were crafted from the finest wood available at the time by the University of Minnesota, but you found a home in Lincoln, Nebraska. Although very tiny and not practical for actual use, you supported the weight of the University of Nebraska in other ways. We will miss you and the box you were displayed on, but we know you are happy and free now.
May we cross paths in another life.
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Fill in the missing letters to make two words out of the following: “_ _RAL” and “E_ _ _ C_ _”.
Did you answer “coral” and “effects”? Or “moral” and “ethical”? If the former, the chances are you’re reading this in the afternoon. If the latter, it’s the morning.
Scientists have found that people’s sense of morality and probity diminishes throughout the day, as the good intentions of the morning are ground down by reality of life.
Psychologists from Harvard University conducted the research after spotting an apparent pattern in other experiments. “As ethics researchers, we had been running experiments examining various unethical behaviours, such as lying, stealing, and cheating,” said Maryam Kouchaki, from Harvard.
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This morning I rode the bus to work because I had left my bicycle there last night.|
My bus was already at the stop by my house when I was running up it.
There were 2 men standing by the door of the bus but looked in no hurry to get on.
"are you guys in line?" I asked.
"go ahead. Ladies first. That's the rule right?" The man rolling a cigarette responded.
"nah, I think we're all equal now." I said, as I hopped up onto the first step of the bus.
"oh snap!" the smoker's friend chimed in.
I started putting $2.25 into the machine that takes money and issues transfer passes.
"shit, I can't find my quarter!" I said out loud to myself while tearing my messenger bag apart.
"don't worry about it lil lady." The bus driver said, and pushed the button to confirm I had already paid full price.
I sat down in the back of the bus where the seats face in as opposed to forward. The man who was rolling a cigarette outside came and sat across from me.
"equal my ass. You got a discount. y'all have is so much easier than us men." he scoffed at me and looked toward the front of the bus. I almost said something, but I hadn't slept the night before and didn't feel like having any sort of discussion with a random on the city bus.
Later, when I got off the bus and was walking through a four way stop, I heard a set of three loud car honks. I looked around and saw some army boys in a older white suv with tires 3 times their normal size. They were honking to let me know they liked my breasts, and holding up traffic in the process. Without even thinking I gave them the finger. They yelled out "FUCK YOU TOO, DYKE!" while speeding off through the intersection and giving me the finger in return. They didn't even stop giving me the finger until about 4 or 5 blocks down. But, by then I couldn't see them, so I don't know if they ever actually stopped. They could still possibly be waving their pasty white middle finger in the air to the thought of my frigidity.
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Frank de Boer has been sacked as Crystal Palace manager after losing all four of his opening Premier League games without scoring a goal.
According to The Mirror, the Dutchman leaves after only 77 days in charge. Roy Hodgson is now favourite to take over the reigns at Selhurst Park with the paper claiming he will sing a two-year deal before Saturday.
During de Boer’s short time as Eagles boss, he saw his side lose 3-0 to newly promoted Huddersfield in their opening game before losing 1-0 to Liverpool the weekend after.
Palace lost at home to Swansea shortly before the international break and the loss to Burnley on Sunday was the last straw for club chairman Steve Parish who has decided to let the former Ajax boss go.
This was the first time in 93 years that a top-flight club has failed to score in their first four league fixtures, per The Mirror.
According to The Sun, only on three occasions out of the eight times a Premier League club have lost their opening four games has a side avoided the drop.
De Boer now becomes the shortest-serving Premier League manager games-wise, beating the previous record held by Les Reed who took charge of Charlton for just seven games in 2006, so say the Telegraph.
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The unquestioned big boss of the running world is so pervading in the society today that its influence is not merely limited to the running world. With more than 100,000 reviews in a span of only several months shows that the ubiquitous Swoosh is here to stay and would stay on to provide the best footwear possible.
Why Nike has the best Neutral shoes in the market?
- Nike neutral shoes run the gamut of almost all activities that involve the feet, which are basically all activities. These shoes are so versatile that it can handle the workload of running, cross training, speed training, tempo runs, high mileage runs, jogging, gym workouts, and cardio build ups at one time or another.
- Not only are they versatile with usage, they are also available for road and trail enthusiasts. Nike has produced some of its popular neutral shoes that are trail specific or hybrids that can work on both trail and track alike without any sweat.
- Trail fans need not worry about protection in the trail as Nike has made sure the outsole of trail specific neutral shoes are thick enough to avoid pain from sharp objects. The outsole is also made of tougher material with aggressive lug pattern to give excellent traction for grass, mud, rocky, and technical parts of trail running.
- Adaptability is another aspect of the best Nike neutral shoes. Some of these shoes have removable insoles that the runner could fit in his customized footbed. Runners in need of orthotics could also use such limb supports inside these shoes without compromising fit and comfort.
- The removable insoles would allow the runner to vary the type of runs he would want to do. He could choose for more support for longer runs and less of it in shorter racing or training. Nike has seen to it that with their neutral shoes, the runner has all his options laid out before him.
- Nike neutral shoes have premium cushioning in the heel and forefoot areas that would be suited best for high mileage runs, cross training, and various workouts. There are also neutral versions that have less cushioning which would make them ideal for racing and up tempo runs.
- For people who are rookies at running and have no idea of the kind of foot mechanics they have, a safe bet would be the best Nike neutral shoes. It would provide them, at the very least; of premium cushioning that would make it easier for them on the foot and the knees after some miles.
What are the essentials in choosing the best Nike neutral shoes?
- Cushioning. Nike utilizes the best midsole cushioning no less. Some of these neutral shoes use either Lunarlon or Cushlon foams. These are both extremely lightweight and resilient. These are the kind that absorbs shock and translates to a smooth toe off.
- Outsole Durability. Environmentally preferred rubber on the forefoot allows these neutral shoes to tackle various surfaces with equal ease. Carbon rubber is utilized in high-wear areas and crash pads on the lateral sides for better shock attenuation and smooth heel to toe transition.
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Hello all!! Well, here in my area of Michigan we had a SNOW DAY!!!! While I don't think we got as much snow as they predicted, enough came to cripple the area for a day! So, I played in my craft room, took a nap and did a little laundry.
I did not make this card today, but I want to show it to you all before I give it to my co-worker. I made this for her to give to her boyfriend for Valentine's Day. I can't get her to try stamping, but she wants me to make her lots of things!!! I don't mind though.
This card was made following one of the Verve sketches on SCS. The finished size is 3 1/2 x 7 and will fit into one of the long open-ended envelopes, now retired. The card base is Going Gray textured with Love Impressions dsp. The dsp is on a layer of Whisper White and sponged with Going Gray and Pink Pirouette.
The birds, from Love You Much, were stamped in Basic Gray and the heart was colored with the Real Red marker. Punched them out with the Decorative Label punch and sponged with the same colors. The layer behind the birds is two of the Decorative Labels cut and layered to create a larger label. A strip of 1 1/4" Pink Pirouette gg layered with Pretty in Pink satin was scrunched up and the main image placed over it. I used the Heart Trio punch with the Red glitter dsp. This one is the middle one and I put the other two inside.
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Today and tomorrow are two of the HIGHEST of High Holy Days Of Obligation in our household – the Bathurst 1000! GO LOWNDESY!!
But this year instead of pigging out on chips and dips, I’ve been cutting out pattern tissue instead. Sometimes I’m just so virtuous…!
But we are having a small crisis: the vegemite is lost!
Now, if you’re not a fan of the black goo, you’ll be saying “So what?”
But in this house, it’s serious stuff. When you want toast and vegemite, ONLY vegemite will do. And somehow, our jar has vanished. I’m currently under suspicion, because I’m the one who keeps moving it off our very limited counter space and back into the pantry – but it’s not there. Not on the counter. Not rolled under the table. NOWHERE!!
It’s a mystery…
And now of course, I’m craving it too….
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Pamela Gilbert, American strategic services company executive. New York and District of Columbia bar associates.
Gilbert, Pamela was born on October 3, 1958 in New Brunswick, New Jersey, United States.
Bachelor, Tufts University, Medford, Master of Arts, 1980. Juris Doctor, New York University, 1984.
Director consumer program United States Public Interest Research Group, Washington. Director Public Citizens Congress Watch. Legislation counsel Malkin & Ross.
Executive director Consumer Product Safety Commission, Bethesda, Maryland, 1996-2001. Chief operating officer M&R Strategic Services, Washington, since 2001.
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Betfred has confirmed its sponsorship of next year’s Cheltenham Gold Cup. The event will be renamed The Betfred Cheltenham Gold Cup for 2012 and there’s hope that they can thrash out a deal for future races. Betfred boss, Fred Done, commented, “Sponsoring The Betfred Cheltenham Gold Cup is one of the proudest moments of my career and we are now looking forward to sitting down to discuss the future, having been very impressed by the professionalism of Edward Gillespie and his team.”
Any new deal may hinge on whether the course decides to sell the races in the lead up to the festival as part of a “road to Cheltenham” series. Check back here on the tablog for any news on the negotiation of a new deal.
Ladbrokes has announced two new supply agreements that will work alongside their deal with Microgaming. eGaming Review reports that the arrangements with both Blueprint Gaming and Ash Gaming will create the “broadest portfolio of games ever offered by the bookmaker.” It will mainly be slot games that the two provide including Alice’s Wonderland, Midas Millions, Viz, Bejeweled 2 and Casper. Sid the Sexist is a welcome addition to any website.
Sportech has become the latest to launch an iGaming affiliate program powered by Income Access. Vernons.com, Littlewoods Gaming and The Football Pools will all benefit from the program. Those promoting the program’s inaugural brand, Vernons, are entitled to 50% commissions on player revenues until 2012. After that the standard commission will decrease back down to 35% on poker and casino business. In the coming months they will launch the Littlewoods Gaming programme with The Football Pools also expected in the near future. | <urn:uuid:825f609e-3aea-4007-91a1-dcb83764d23a> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | https://calvinayre.com/2011/09/16/business/betfred-sponsor-2012-gold-cup-ladbrokes-signs-supplier-deals-sportech-team-up-with-income-access/ | 2017-11-25T02:04:56Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934809229.69/warc/CC-MAIN-20171125013040-20171125033040-00481.warc.gz | en | 0.950452 | 370 | [
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Below is quite an extensive guide on pretty much everything you need to know about vaping, whether you are a newbie or a veteran, hopefully you'll find some of the information useful.
Well, over the last 4 years eCigarettes have become extremely popular, and there's definitely an array to choose from!
It may be controversial, but our advice would be to avoid the disposable eCigs that look like cigarettes, they are very pricey and are substandard to many other eCigarettes.
The most commonly used eCigerette is the eGo, it usually consists of a battery base (many colours) and a detachable clearomizer, most people tend to start with this eCig due to the price, it's by far the most affordable eCigarette on the market, usually priced between £15-£25.
You may be baffled by how many variations of eCigarettes are available on the market however many are based on the same technology that the eGo uses, some have bigger tanks and some have variable power settings available out of the box.
Ofcourse, after you've been vaping for a while you may wonder into the "Rebuildable" "Mech Mod" type of eCigarettes, these are by far the most customisable eCigarettes available on the market but will cost you a lot more to obtain that an eGo would, These are not recommended for beginners.
What are all of those choices when ordering eLiquid? 40/60, 20/80, 50/50?? What does it all mean??
eLiquid is a mixture of varying amounts of about 4 different ingredients. Nicotine, PG (Propylene Glycol), VG (Vegetable Glycerin) and flavoring. Some liquids can have additional ingredients, but for the most part, these are the only ingredients in our eLiquid
The amount of nicotine is dependent on the strength of nicotine in your e-liquid, but let’s say it is around 2% nicotine base. Somewhere around 10% of your eLiquid will be flavoring. That leaves 88% of the liquid in your bottle for fillers, which dilute the flavoring and the nicotine. This is where PG and VG come in, and depending on how you like your vape, that determines the percentage of PG and VG in your e-liquid.
Vegetable Glycerin (VG) is a thick, sweet liquid. VG produces luscious clouds of vapor. VG also imparts a sweeter taste to your liquid.
Propylene Glycol (PG) is a much thinner tasteless liquid. PG produces more of a “throat hit” than VG does, which simulates the feel of smoking better. PG also has a higher rate of sensitivity for some people, meaning that some people just can’t use PG in their vape.
Our recommendation is to start out with a 50/50 mix of PG and VG in your eLiquid. Then after you have tried it, you can make adjustments on your next order. If you aren’t getting enough throat hit to satisfy you, then next time try a 30/70 VG/PG mix. If you want more pillowy clouds of smoke, then maybe a 70/30 VG/PG mix is for you.
Following bad press on eCigarettes, we'd like to assure you that all of the flavouring we use in our eLiquids contains no oil, we spend endless hour's to find PG based flavours.
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As a writer, the only reason I ever got that first computer was because it was far more efficient than a typewriter, and certainly more readable than my own handwriting. The sheer volume of what I've turned out over the years would be impossible for me to manage on paper. Add to that all the stuff written by others that I wanted to save, and it boggles the mind. Even though most of what I've written is read by others online, I still have to produce paper copies from time to time. That means I have to translate my electronic files into readable paper copies. That first computer would have been nearly useless to me without the attached printer.
Open Source printing is one of the most powerful systems, yet remains an ugly kludge in some ways. When multi-user computing was born, printing was either from machines that were merely automated typewriters ("raw" printers) or the work of fancy type-setting printers. These two elements remain the heart of Open Source printing. It is not built into the system, but is an add-on if you need it. I no longer print very much, but when I do, it needs to be clean and readable.
You should have gotten most of the basic packages when you elected to install KDE. It comes with CUPS, which is the main printer control software. With recent improvements in CUPS and how it has been ported to FreeBSD, it's now quite easy to set up. Much depends on your printer. The best place to learn how CUPS will handle your printer is to visit the Free Standards Group database to see if your printer will work with CUPS, and any peculiarities. For example, my HP DeskJet works fine with the standard HP drivers (HPIJS). It might offer more features if I were to install the newest HPLIP driver system from HP, but it's a real boondoggle on FreeBSD, and doesn't always work without breaking something else.
While there at the Free Standards Group site, click on the link for "Printer information" and read up on recommended drivers. Then look for the input boxes which allow you input a request for the best driver for any particular supported printer. They will produce for you the latest version of the driver as a PPD file. Save it, then gzip it:
Copy it to the appropriate directory under /usr/local/share/ppd/. For example, HP DeskJet drivers go in /usr/local/share/ppd/HP/. If you have an oddball driver, simply drop it in the ppd directory. CUPS should still be able to find it.
This assumes the most common types of hardware, which means a printer connected via a USB cable. If you are using an older parallel printer cable, you can skip the "devfs" items in 2, 3 and 4 below. Make sure the printer is plugged in appropriately and turned on.
1. Make sure the original BSD printer commands do
not conflict with those provided by the CUPS package. The built-in BSD
commands are in
/usr/bin, but those for CUPS are in
mv /usr/bin/lp /usr/bin/bak.lp
mv /usr/bin/lpr /usr/bin/bak.lpr
mv /usr/bin/lprm /usr/bin/bak.lprm
mv /usr/bin/lpq /usr/bin/bak.lpq
Should you ever need to undo this, it's a simple matter of renaming these files back by removing the "bak." from the names.
2. In /etc/rc.conf, add
3. Then create
add path 'ulpt*' user root group cups mode 664
4. Run the command
5. Next, run the command
You should see a response indicating it's running.
6. Run this command to use Kongqueror as root:
This should open the CUPS administrative webpage on your system. For the most part, it's a simple matter of reading the instructions and following the steps provided. Basically, five items:
a. You will be asked to give the printer an internal name. Most of the time, "lp" is the best choice.
b. The location is whatever you find useful, but standard choices are "local" or "USB" and so forth.
c. Description is the place to give the proper marketing name. That might be "Brother HL-1440" or "HP DJ-5440" and such.
d. Device is the electronic interface. For USB printers, that's "/dev/upt0" for the first printer. Some older printers can make your FreeBSD system choke, even crash. If that happens, try the parallel cable connection. Using the older parallel printer cables, that would be "/dev/lpt0" -- be aware there may be a slew of error message when using some printers about IRQ 7. You'll have to read up on that; I can't summarize it here. However, I can warn you now you'll need to do a few things summarized here.
e. Driver: In the drop-down search for the driver you installed from the Free Standards Group website. Once you've selected it, the browser page should indicate it's ready to go. Print a test page and see what you get. Users can do some fine tuning under KDE Control Center, under Peripherals > Printers. In the lower left corner, select the CUPS printer queue. Click on the "lp" in the printer device list window, and on the last tab -- "Instances" -- click the "Settings" button and examine the options. For most modern HP inkjets, there's not much you need to do, because the printer will detect the paper and adjust settings automatically. Other brands of printer may do the same.
If it all works more or less as expected, you're done.
Ed Hurst is Associate Editor of Open for Business.
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The book tells on the daily routine in the lives of preschool children, they come to kindergarten playful and cheerful as usual every morning, and turmoil is created in the kindergarten about nothing. How will the teacher return peace and order to the kindergarten?
The book is particularly suitable for preschoolers.
One of the most known classic Hebrew book for kids. Ruthy's mom brought everyone a...
Children book in Hebrew - Hardcover Edition By the author Eric Litwin
Children book in Hebrew - Hardcover Edition By the author Yael Molchadsky
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Hammock Bliss is the only manufacturer of camping hammocks based in Australia. We offer a wide selection of camping hammocks at great prices and provide excellent customer service.
OUR INNOVATIVE HAMMOCK CAMPING PRODUCTS
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cast you under my spell,
send you spinning awfully well,
listen out to take you where,
only fools or evil spirits dare.
but purpose of a happy life,
is what I make to end the strife,
alchemy bright and much to do,
in league with magic over you.
come to me be wild and free,
I'll share the dream yet to see,
cauldron boiling, a broth of wisdom,
in days of old 'tis here my kingdom.
knights and maidens, courtly folk,
I called the jester to share his joke,
and in the banquet hall I see,
no-one dares to back-chat over me.
For I could cast an evil spell....
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Peace & Love to you all,
I am wishing everyone a safe, and A Happy New Year!!!
I'm being very lazy at the moment, but please come back tomorrow, so that you can read my goals for 2011, I have a lot that I would like to accomplish, but I will only be posting a few, for the month of January, as a matter of fact, I think every month, I will be posting new goals, please leave your commits, and suggestions. I'm looking forward to positive feed back, if you will.
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This hair pin tutorial was created by Taryn at Poppy Chic! Thank you Taryn for sharing it with us! 🙂 Read More about her here. I just love the idea of whipping up a bunch of cute hair flowers for my friends for no reason at all, just because it makes them smile! I created this super fun and easy tutorial for the lovely folks over at Craft Ideas Weekly so you can surprise your…Read More
We first found Taryn on Dreamers Into Doers, the Martha Stewart Community and decided we love any girl that wears a big, bright flower in her hair! We also love the cute, funky, and easy tutorials she puts together on her blog, Poppy Chic. We wanted to learn more!
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“You can't buy chemistry. You can't draw it up or chart it.”
“Ideals are like the stars: we never reach them, but like the mariners of the sea, we chart our course by them.”
“The chart looks awful on Intel, ... It may be a great buy but it's too early to see.”
“Every company has two organizational structures: The formal one is written on the charts; the other is the everyday relationship of the men and women in the organization.”
Harold S. Geneen
“Organization charts and fancy titles count for next to nothing.”
“He's a freak, ... totally off the charts.”
“I remember 'Happy Together.' That was a good record. It knocked 'Penny Lane' off the top of the charts.”
Quotes Daddy offers a number of tools for developers and bloggers to integrate quotes into their site including customizable widgets, embeddable quotes and API.
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Farm transfer is a critical issue for thousands of farm families in New England and nationally. Farm transfer is the process of passing a farm business and/or farm property from one generation or owner to the next. At no point is a farm’s future more at risk than during this transition. Farmers need transfer planning information and support, especially when there is no identified successor. Whatever the situation, it’s never too early – or too late – to start planning for this major transition.
We would have never gotten anywhere with our farm succession plan without the help of Land For Good.
– David Freeman and Christine O’Brien, Freeman Farm, MA
Our Farm Legacy Program keeps farms in farming by helping farmers and their families plan. We support farmers to create a meaningful legacy. We enhance farming opportunity and help preserve the landscape and character of our communities. We work directly with farmers and farm families—including farmers without identified successors and the junior generation on the farm—to help them prepare for, plan, and navigate the farm transfer process. We also work with a wide range of educators and advisors to support farm succession and transfer planning.
What we do
We raise awareness and teach by developing and distributing educational and planning tools for farm transfers. We give workshops for farmers and families preparing to transfer their farms.
We advise and “coach” clients through the farm transfer planning process by providing technical support and facilitation, and by building teams of supportive advisors.
We innovate by raising awareness about farm succession. We explore new models and methods for farm transitions, and promote supportive policies. We promote team approaches and strengthen services for assisting transitioning farm families.
- Make good planning decisions and create sound farm transition plans that provide opportunities for next generation and new farmers
- Create meaningful farm legacies and secure retirements
- Successfully transfer their farms
- Keep more local farms in active farming and foster farming opportunity
- Honor their farming heritage and their farmers
- Are better connected and more effective in assisting families with farm transfer planning
- Use new models and methods in their farm transfer toolkit
- Read our FAQ What is farm transfer?
- Learn how we work with farm families.
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Water should be a transport infrastructure concern
Water has for too long been left out of the national conversation around infrastructure, to the point where it has become the ‘hidden’ infrastructure.
in the NewsQ4 2017 Rail/Intermodal Roundtable: Improvements apparent; work remains The State of the DC Voice Market GAO report examines various facets of ways DOT can improve selection of freight and highway projects ShipStation fulfillment program provides parcel shippers with vetted options Behind the Koerber Group/HighJump acquisition More News
In honor of Infrastructure Week 2014, President Obama gave a speech at the Tappan Zee Bridge on funding for transportation infrastructure, highlighting in particular the jobs and economic benefits our nation will reap from this much-needed investment.
Unfortunately, too often water infrastructure gets left out of the national conversation – which is exactly why the Value of Water Coalition released a research paper on that very topic.
“Water has for too long been left out of the national conversation around infrastructure, to the point where it has become the ‘hidden’ infrastructure,” said Ben Grumbles, President of the U.S. Water Alliance and Project Manager for the Value of Water Coalition.
“Working together, we will increase public understanding not only of the systems themselves but also the benefits that come from investment and support. Water is key to nearly every component of our daily lives, including our jobs, our health and the environment that surrounds us.
” The paper compiles new and existing research that underscores not only the needed investment in our nation’s water infrastructure, but also some of the attitudes Americans have toward this infrastructure. Titled From Invisible to Invaluable: Changing the Way We Think About Water Infrastructure, the research details the implications that the health of our water infrastructure holds for homes, businesses and local and national economies.
Each local job created in the water and wastewater industry creates 3.68 jobs in the national economy, while each public dollar spent on water infrastructure adds $6.35 to the national economy. These local investments are an important piece of the solution to our aging infrastructure, yet infrastructure investment on a national level is critical to avoid the deterioration of our water systems.
The investment in these systems nationally holds serious implications for the national economy: by 2020, failing to make the necessary investments would mean American businesses losing $734 billion in sales, the U.S. economy losing 700,000 jobs and each household paying $82 more per year for their water than they do today. The American Society of Civil Engineers puts the needed investment into water infrastructure at $1.3 trillion investment over the next 20 to 25 years.
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Women and Thyroid Cancer
Thyroid cancer is one of the most common forms of endocrine malignancy worldwide. Women are almost three times more likely to get thyroid cancer than men, and usually at an earlier age, but the disease is typically more aggressive in men.1
Over the past four decades, incidence rates have increased, especially in the U.S., Canada, and Europe. However, even as incidence rates have increased, mortality rates have stabilized.2
- Thyroid cancer is the seventh most common cancer in women.1
- In 2009, thyroid cancer resulted in an economic burden of $3.7 billion.3
- By 2020, there will be almost 200,000 new cases of thyroid cancer annually.3
Thyroid cancer forms in the thyroid gland. There are four main types of thyroid cancer: papillary, follicular, medullary, and anaplastic. The majority of thyroid cancers grow very slowly, and can either be cured or treated successfully. Only anaplastic thyroid cancer, which represents 1% of thyroid cancers, grows quickly and is difficult to control.4
1Future Oncol. 2010 November;6(11):1771-1779.
2Annals of Oncology 21 (Supplement 5): v214–v219, 2010.
3Breakaway: The global burden of cancer-challenges and opportunities. Economist Intelligence Unit Limited. 2009.
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NEW DELHI -- A six-year-old girl was allegedly raped in a washroom of a private school in south Delhi's Malviya Nagar by a member of the housekeeping staff, the police said today.
The incident was reported yesterday and the 22-year-old accused, a sweeper, has been arrested, police said.
The minor girl had gone to the washroom and sought help, but instead of a woman staff, a male staffer came and allegedly sexually assaulted her, the police said.
After she reached home, she narrated her ordeal to her parents who informed the school and subsequently, the police were informed.
A case was registered and the accused, a resident of Dakshinpuri here, was arrested.
Last month, a seven-year-old boy was found with his throat slit and lying in a pool of blood in a washroom of Ryan International School in Gurugram. He was allegedly killed by a bus conductor who also tried to sexually abuse the minor, the police had said.
Also last month, a five-year-old girl was allegedly raped by a peon inside the premises of a private school in Shahdara here. The accused was arrested the same day.
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If this is your first 28 Day Weight Loss Challenge, you are no doubt starting to feel better already! But the hard work is not over yet as it’s important for you to keep your hard work up.
Nicola Oates has lost 34kg through the 28 Day Weight Loss Challenges, and she has kindly shared 7 of her top tips for staying on track when you’re half way through the month.
“If you’ve had a slip up (or two) in the first 2 weeks, that’s completely okay but it’s important to let it go and move forward,” she says. “Now is the time to shake that off and refocus on the week ahead, get back on track with this challenge and achieve your goals. Do not dwell on past mistakes, and definitely don’t use them as an excuse to stop.”
Nicola Oates’ 7 TIPS for staying on track!
Let’s keep up the motivation with these tips as we head into week 3:
1. Find your exercise FUN!
You are more likely to stay focused and pursue your goals if you are enjoying what you’re doing. Find a way to work out and exercise that you enjoy and won’t feel like a chore.
Aim for 30 minutes of active time every day. Can you include your family, friends or pets? Or do you enjoy alone time to ‘get it done’? Find your space, dedicate your time and get your body moving.
2. Include energy rich foods
Eating healthy meals without processed foods will naturally lead to having more energy! This week you should aim to include some of the following foods in your weekly meal plan for your body to be at its best.
Foods rich in iron and vital nutrients include beef, barley, cacao nibs (yum), eggplant and spinach.
3. Keep snacks simple
Avoid binging and unhealthy options by having on hand a selection of snacks. Your snacks don’t have to be complicated; keep it simple and you’ll find it easy to maintain.
Why not try including boiled eggs, cheese cubes, apples or bananas… they are all simple, delicious and healthy easy snack options – and will give you a sustainable energy boost.
Avoid anything with processed and refined sugars, the sugar high will quickly wear off.
4. Water is your friend!
If you don’t already have one, grab yourself a good quality drink bottle and carry it with you at all times. Aim for a minimum of 8 glasses of water a day, or 2 litres. During the summer months you should consider increasing your intake. Your skin and body will love you for it.
5. Meal prep!
Whether it’s having a big cook-up day and stocking up your freezer with ready-made dinners; baking some snacks or making smoothie bags for your freezer stash, every little bit of meal prep helps to make your journey easier.
When life gets busy, and you are running short on time it’s better to have options sorted and you can avoid making the wrong food choices because you’re a hangry little binge-eater. Set aside a little time to prepare your snacks, or make smoothie bags for the freezer; or have a big cooking day with the slow cooker, stove top and oven all going to really kick off your week well and truly organised.
6. Smoothies and Super Greens!
Healthy Mummy smoothies are a great start to your day. Breakfast in a glass filled with all those good nutrients your body deserves. For extra energy fuelled goodness, throw in some rolled oats, banana and/or spinach – what a delicious super food right there!
Healthy Mummy Super Greens, either on their own or added to smoothies will also assist in making you feel revitalised. Avoid the 3pm soft drink or coffee pick-me-up and grab a icy cold Super Greens instead! Smoothies on the go are also an excellent option for busy Mums. Pack and go with a shaker and you have a smoothie on the run, or lunch pre-prepared.
7. Measurements and fitness test
Weight loss is a slow journey, don’t be discouraged if you haven’t seen any change on the scales yet. Ditch the scales and focus on your feels. Take your measurements, keep a track with your fitness test and you’ll start to see the differences. Set yourself daily goals, focus on those and you will get results. Make every day count – you can do it!
Nicola’s 34kg weight loss story
“Before joining The Healthy Mummy, both my husband and I were leading an unhealthy lifestyle,” says Nicola.
“We didn’t exercise, we didn’t eat healthy options and we weren’t setting good examples for our children.
“I was tired all the time, when my children had their daytime naps, I would also sleep – every day! Some days, I couldn’t function without having a nap.”
Nicola says because she felt like she had no energy, she’d often make poor meal choices for her and her family.
“I felt lazy and had no energy, dinner time would be something frozen from a box that could be put in the oven,” she admits.
“No fresh vegetables or salad to be seen. Chips and chicken Kievs became a regular occurrence.”
But then Nicola joined the 28 Day Weight Loss Challenge and she says her whole family’s lives completely changed.
Nicola says she does the DanceFit workouts with her kids and rather than spending her evenings laying on the couch. She also spends plenty of time outside with her gorgeous children.
“Our weekends now include taking the children for a bike ride, and the dog for a walk,”she says.
“Our family enjoy spending time together more than ever, the children motivate me to keep going and I have even started jogging to keep up with them – something I never would have done before!”
Nicola says her diet and food choices have also has been hugely beneficial for everyone in her household.
“Thanks to The Healthy Mummy recipe hub, we have so many healthy and simple options,” she adds.
“Our meals now include lots of fresh vegetables and salad, lean meats and carbs in moderation. As a result of the changes to our lifestyle, healthy eating and regular exercise I have lost 34kg and my husband has lost 13kg.
“We are better parents and better role models for our children and we will forever continue to show them what a healthy lifestyle means.”
This is great news, Nicola. We’re glad you’ve got more energy than you did before!
Join Nicola on the 28 Day Weight Loss Challenge
If you are inspired by Nicola’s before and after pics and want to take charge of your own health and weight – then join our 28 Day Weight Loss Challenge TODAY.
With more than 3,500 delicious (and healthy) recipes, 350 exercises & 24/7 support – the 28 Day Weight Loss Challenge is designed (and proven) to help busy mums like you lose weight!
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Godzilla: Final Wars (Gojira: Fainaru uôzu)
godzilla: final wars | godzilla | final wars | Gojira: Fainaru uôzu | remake | sequel | giant monster | Ryûhei Kitamura | isao kiriyama | masahiro matsuoka | rei kikukawa | don frye | action | adventure | sci-fi | sci fi | thriller | fantasy | japan | australia | china
Film: Godzilla: Final Wars (Gojira: Fainaru uôzu)
Director: Ryûhei Kitamura
Writer: Isao Kiriyama and Ryûhei Kitamura
Starring: Masahiro Matsuoka, Rei Kikukawa and Don Frye
This film begins in the past with a submarine like ship is fighting against Godzilla. It looks like the ship is going to fail, but they blow up a mountain of ice in the South Pole and it traps Godzilla.
We are then informed that the world was attacked by monsters, so a global defense group known as Earth Defense Force is created. There are also some humans who are mutated from normal individuals. They are sought out and trained to be an elite fighting force. We see them using the same ship that trapped Godzilla under the water against Manda, a water dragon. They take a lot of damage, but defeat it. The leader of the ship is Don Frye.
The first Japanese UN Secretary General is played by Akira Takarada. We meet two soldiers. One is played by Masahiro Matsuoka and he is fighting Kane Kosugi. Kosugi wins and we learn that they were training. It is pointed out that Matsuoka cares about saving people and that weakness is how he lost this fight.
We learn that Frye is locked up for the battle with Manda. Matsuoka is given an assignment to protect a molecular biologist. She is played by Rei Kikukawa. He finds her to be quite attractive. Together they meet a paleontologist, played by Kenji Sahara. A giant monster was found, but it is encased in rock. The monster is Gigan and has been like this for 12,000 years. Kikukawa learns from it that it has an M-base that normal humans don’t have, but Matsuoka and the other mutants share it.
There is a newscaster, played by Maki Mizuno, who interviews Takarada. Mizuno is also the sister of Kikukawa.
It is at this time that a bunch of monsters start to attack cities all over the world. Rodan, Anguirus, Zilla, King Caesar, Kamacuras, Kumonga and Ebirah are among them. EDF is called into action and they do battle with Ebirah in Paris. As they go to kill it, it disappears. That is when aliens appear, known as Xiliens. Takarada’s ship is also destroyed.
Takarada shows up and he was not killed. He pushes to have a Space Nations council. The leader of the Xiliens, along with his son Kazuki Kitamura, wants this to happen. The Twin Fairies who worship Mothra show Matsuoka, Kikukawa and Sahara that the monster they have found is Gigan and that Mothra will help defeat it.
There is a plot that the Xiliens really want to take over the planet. Matsuoka, Kikukawa, Frye and Mizuno are out to prove this plot. They expose that Takarada and Masakatsu Funaki are imposters. Kitamura kills his father. He is now in charge of the Xiliens and they attack the world.
It is then decided to free the only monster that cannot be controlled by the Xiliens and is also the strongest of them. They have to fight their way, but they free Godzilla. Kitamura sends Gigan, who is now awake to defeat him. Godzilla makes short work of it and then follows the ship, thinking that he is still in the last battle it had with it. I also want to point out that Minilla, the baby Godzilla, is alive and following what the larger one is doing.
Kitamura tries to send the other monsters against Godzilla, but he is constantly frustrated when they are defeated. The EDF members have decided to take the fight to the Xiliens, but will they be strong enough to do so? Can Godzilla take on all of the monsters that come at it? Gigan is not completely defeated and there is a secret weapon that Kitamura has, Monster X. It also has a final form that is a familiar monster as well. He won’t have to fight alone as Mothra arrives to help. Can they save the world?
My favorite part of this film is that it is like a video game, in that Godzilla has a ton of monsters to defeat and goes from city to city to defeat them. I love that this film brings back a lot of the older monsters, even if it is for a short time. I think that the surrounding story isn’t all that bad either. I like that is kind of an updated version of Destroy All Monsters, having Planet X controlling monsters and Godzilla needing to defeat them. The fight scenes by the giant monsters are only a small part of this film. There is a lot more fighting between the humans, mutants and Xiliens, so there is a lot of action.
Now I do have some issues with this film though. I don’t like that there is really along about 35-40 minutes of giant monster fighting. There is a lot of filling in the back-story and fighting between the human actors. I wanted more of the giant monsters, since there is so many of them in this film. I also feel that this film is a little bit corny at times as well.
With that said, I would recommend giving this one a viewing. The big thing about this film is that it brings back the most monsters of any of the films in the series, which I really liked. This one is also the only one to be PG-13, so they went a little bit darker than most films have. There is a lot of action, but most of it is between the human actors and not so much from the giant monsters. I will say that this is one of the better films in the series. It can be watched by itself or this one could be watched to finish the Godzilla line from Japan.
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We all know communication is key to success. Fenway Group's Best Practices provide a solid definition to the right way based on our experience.
No team nor project can be successful without a solid definition of how they will communicate. Teams are nothing more than sets of individuals without structure and agreement. Projects will suffer from many pitfalls without the appropriate levels of communication. Fenway Group Best Practices in communication provide a solid framework for success.
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Tonight's dinner was a variation on a high-raw dinner I often make in the summer: collard wraps stuffed full of tomatoes, cucumber, carrots, bell pepper, hummus, and whatever else is in the fridge. Somehow it always tastes good and manages to fill me up but not sit heavily in my stomach.
It was 52 degrees this morning so my mind was less on a cooling, raw dinner, but an easy, handheld warming something er other.
Picked up collards and a sweet potato at the St. Marks market:
Grand Army Plaza, already cooked sweet potater ($1.50/ lb). I learned this way of roasting them from my mom: just puncture them all over with a fork and roast em in the skin. They cook pretty quickly and taste really sweet. At 400 degrees, it took about 40 minutes to get really soft.
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Water blocks may be disassembled for cleaning purposed on an occasional basis. Your warranty is not voided on dis-assembly of the water block, but the customer loses the EK leak-free guarantee which comes with a factory tested water block.
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Mother's Day is a week away, and if your mom is like mine, she has everything she could possibly want or need. And its challenging to get her something could really make use of. Ever year, I sit and think about what's going on in my mom's life during Mother's Day and what she would be grateful to receive. Think about what's going at her work, what she's doing at home, her passions, and any new projects she's undertaking. I know my mom has been really busy lately so she could use a massage, facial, or pedicure gift certificate. She LOVES chocolate, and never turns down a Godiva bar. She also loves to garden (in my opinion she has the best garden on the block) and Target has miniature grow kits for basil, oregano, and peppers that are only $1. Here are some ideas for your:
Jewels: 50 Phenomenal Black Women over 50 is a great book with photos and essays from 50 black women over 50. The photos were taken by Micheal Cummingham and interviews were conducted by New York Times bestselling author Connie Brisco (love her book P.G. county!). This is a great coffee table book for your mom. Get it at Amazon or Borders
Jewels: 50 Phenomenal Black Women over 50
What mom doesn't love candles? And it seems like every mom's house smells so good. Get her a few scented candles for the kitchen, bedroom, and bathroom
Pier 1 Imports, Hat Box Candles; $12
Comes in blueberry, spiced pear, blue sea, and spring gardenia; the fragrances are wonderful!
A GPS is great for moms that get lost easily (like my mom) when navigating a city. If she's not electronic savvy, take a drive with her the first time to show how a GPS works.
Target, Red TomTom ONE; $146
Get one of her favorite pictures enlarged and put it in a personalized photo frame. If your mom has old pictures in an album, look for one of you and her when you were little, she'll love it. Kodak.com and Shutterfly are also having good Mother's Day specials
Things Remembered, 8 x 10 Symphony Frame, $24.99
Great frames are always on clearance here, so don't let the sales person try to get you to buy their "exclusive" Mother's Day frames
Get her tickets to a Broadway show, dance performance, play, or a concert to see her favorite artist. I've heard rave reviews about The Color Purple and it's on national tour now. Get tickets for the both of you and tell her you're dressing up when you see the show.
The Color Purple
Still need more ideas:
* Treat her to dinner at her favorite restaurant and tell her to get dessert too
* Cook her favorite meal and have a dinner for just you two
* Spend a day at the Spa with her
* Get her something in her wardrobe that needs an update like a new trench coat,
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Approximately 1.2 million Americans filed for bankruptcy in 2012 and more than 1 million more individuals are expected to go bankrupt in 2013.
Continued layoffs, foreclosures, rising healthcare costs and mounting credit-card debts are all still taking a toll on many people.
If you’ve thought about filing for Chapter 7 or Chapter 13 bankruptcy as a last resort for managing your financial problems, make sure you’re aware of all the costs of going through personal bankruptcy.
Court costs and attorney fees can add up, and you’ll need to be financially prepared to manage these costs within a reasonable time after the filing process is complete.
Here’s what you need to know about the costs of bankruptcy:
Typical Costs Associated with Filing Bankruptcy
Many people don’t realize what the total costs of filing for bankruptcy will be when they decide to declare bankruptcy.
But filing for bankruptcy is never free – even if you handle the filing yourself — and going through Chapter 7 or Chapter 13 may involve a significant investment of time and money.
You’ll also need to spend a good amount of time gathering paperwork, finding a reputable attorney, and going through mandatory credit counseling.
Some of the different types of costs involved with filing bankruptcy include:
Credit report orders – if you’ve already obtained your free credit report for the year but need a more updated version to check after your filing, you’ll have to pay for additional copies.
This is a small, but extra expense that many people forget about when they decide to file for bankruptcy.
Total Cost: $10 to $20.
Credit counseling fees – you will need to undergo credit counseling and provide proof of completing the credit-counseling program before you can file for bankruptcy.
Completing the program typically takes 60 to 90 minutes and may require taking some time off work or out of your busy schedule, and you will be responsible for paying all fees associated with the service.
The good news is that you can do credit counseling online, over the phone or in person, so you have some flexibility in arranging this requirement. Also, you may be able to ask for a waiver of the credit-counseling fee if you simply can’t afford it.
Total Cost: About $50.
Bankruptcy attorney fees – attorney fees will vary based on numerous factors, including the type of bankruptcy you choose (chapter 7 or 13), the complexity of your case, the attorney or law firm you work with, and what part of the country you live in and file for bankruptcy.
Legal fees for Chapter 13 cases are often higher than those for Chapter 7 cases. That’s because a Chapter 13 is a reorganization plan that lasts for 3 to 5 years, so presumably these require more work from an attorney. Fortunately, with Chapter 13 filings, a lawyer’s fees can be wrapped into the cost of your overall bankruptcy repayment plan, so you may not have to come up with all the money at once to pay a lawyer.
Another important point: Lawyers in the Midwest and South, for example, are typically cheaper than attorneys in on East and West coasts. Still, when you’re broke and going through bankruptcy, it might feel like any legal feels are costly. But it’s worth it to get professional help.
Total Cost: Anywhere from $750 to $4,000.
Filing fees – when your case is prepared for a bankruptcy court review, you’ll need to pay filing fees that are determined by your local court. This filing fee varies from state to state.
Total Cost: Typically about $200 to $400.
Miscellaneous costs – some other costs that are easy to overlook throughout the bankruptcy filing process include printing, mailing and photocopying of all paperwork needed for your case. Your attorney can do some of this, and include it in their fee, or you can handle it.
Total Cost: Roughly $25 to $50
You would also need to factor in travel time, time off work and any extra fees involved with requesting an extension or when you need to file other documents.
Filing for bankruptcy can take its toll on your finances, and on your well-being.
For many people, going through bankruptcy is a stressful process and does involve a lot of emotional and personal time as an investment too.
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The terminally intransigent darwinists tell us that the Americas were first settled by land from Siberia, across the bering land bridge during the Ice Age, which they say was ongoing twenty thousand years ago, and then the first transoceanic voyages to the Americas by Columbus (or possibly the Vikings four centuries before then), but islands across the Pacific ocean were settled by sea circa 1500 b.c., documented in W. J. Perry’s great book Children of the Sun, those mariners who crossed over ten thousand miles of open ocean all the way to Easter Island, almost to South America, thousands of years ago.
So why would those ancient mariners have stopped at Easter Island, with the huge continent of South America and its riches just a relatively short hop away? And with archaic megalithic step pyramids and lintels found across the Pacific, why should those people not be credited as the builders of the ancient pyramids of the pacific coast of northern South America? When you consider that the egyptian sun god Ra is prominent in the island names of the Pacific, such as Easter Island, which the natives know as Rapanui, the notion that the Americas were anciently settled only on foot down from Alaska looks foolish to the extreme. And see how they confidently navigated in article #2 at http://IceAgeCivilizations.com, also http://genesisveracityfoundation.com. | <urn:uuid:4b3f2e3f-62cc-4b56-a2a8-3c5dc264aa87> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | https://dancingfromgenesis.wordpress.com/2010/05/21/children-of-the-sun-w-j-perry-review-analysis-timeline-chronology-date-settlement-sailing-ancient-voyages-south-pacific-ocean-islands-who-first-colonized-meso-south-america-evidence-egyptian-culture/ | 2017-11-25T04:02:25Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934809392.94/warc/CC-MAIN-20171125032456-20171125052456-00681.warc.gz | en | 0.961754 | 295 | [
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te a new element to RCF… A movement we NEVER do, but hey, it's a great way to see if what we do is using those particular muscles… Can't wait to see our improvements next test time… Anybody have a bench? Yep, that's right, we will be testing a one rep max bench press. But, we currently only have one… If you have one in your garage and don't mind us borrowing it for a couple days, please let me know!
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CNN Radio News Day is an evening news program providing an informative, thoughtful and creative look at the day's events. It's posted Monday through Friday at 4:30 pm ET.
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- The White House and Congress continue to struggle over a deal to avoid the so-called fiscal cliff. Automatic spending cuts and tax hikes that are set to kick in January 1st. It doesn't appear as though compromise is in play on either side. Vanderbilt University Management Professor Bruce Barry has co-authored three books on negotiation. Barry explains why compromise is so hard to come by:
"In these negotiations you often are worried about where the solution comes from – who makes the proposal, who offers the compromise, who takes the credit or blame."
- Doctors often leave medical school with huge loans to pay back, so it's understandable why some might want to go where the big money is. A new study shows fewer medical residents are choosing to become family physicians. Instead, they are going into specialties. That could mean a shortage of primary care physicians just as health care reform begins to go into effect:
"You need between 40 or 50 percent of your doctors to be generalists for your system to work. I mean, that's what the research shows and we're at 32 percent in the country now," says Dr. Patrick Dowling, chairman of the Department of Family Medicine at UCLA.
- Beginning tomorrow a new law in Washington state means adults will be able to smoke marijuana legally. And, in the next few weeks, adults in Colorado will also be able to legally grow and smoke pot. But it will still be against federal law. Sandra Hagen Solin with the Northern Colorado Legislative Alliance says her group wants U.S. Attorney General Eric Holder to enforce that federal law:
"...as states we certainly have the right to determine for ourselves the policies in which we want to move forward. I think, however, there is a supremacy clause which is very applicable in this case."
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'Giveth' in the Bible
and God giveth them in the expanse of the heavens to give light upon the earth,
And the woman seeth that the tree is good for food, and that it is pleasant to the eyes, and the tree is desirable to make one wise, and she taketh of its fruit and eateth, and giveth also to her husband with her, and he doth eat;
and blessed is God Most High, who hath delivered thine adversaries into thy hand;' and he giveth to him a tenth of all.
And Sarai, Abram's wife, taketh Hagar the Egyptian, her handmaid, at the end of the tenth year of Abram's dwelling in the land of Canaan, and giveth her to Abram her husband, to him for a wife,
and Abraham ran unto the herd, and taketh a son of the herd, tender and good, and giveth unto the young man, and he hasteth to prepare it;
And Abimelech taketh sheep and oxen, and servants and handmaids, and giveth to Abraham, and sendeth back to him Sarah his wife;
And Abraham riseth early in the morning, and taketh bread, and a bottle of water, and giveth unto Hagar (placing it on her shoulder), also the lad, and sendeth her out; and she goeth on, and goeth astray in the wilderness of Beer-Sheba;
And Abraham taketh sheep and oxen, and giveth to Abimelech, and they make, both of them, a covenant;
and he giveth to me the cave of Machpelah, which he hath, which is in the extremity of his field; for full money doth he give it to me, in your midst, for a possession of a burying-place.'
and she saith, 'Drink, my lord;' and she hasteth, and letteth down her pitcher upon her hand, and giveth him drink.
And he bringeth in the man into the house, and looseth the camels, and giveth straw and provender for the camels, and water to wash his feet, and the feet of the men who are with him:
and Jehovah hath blessed my lord exceedingly, and he is great; and He giveth to him flock, and herd, and silver, and gold, and men-servants, and maid-servants, and camels, and asses;
and Sarah, my lord's wife, beareth a son to my lord, after she hath been aged, and he giveth to him all that he hath.
and the servant taketh out vessels of silver, and vessels of gold, and garments, and giveth to Rebekah; precious things also he hath given to her brother and to her mother.
And Abraham giveth all that he hath to Isaac;
and she giveth the tasteful things, and the bread which she hath made, into the hand of Jacob her son.
and Laban giveth to her Zilpah, his maid-servant, to Leah his daughter, a maid-servant.
And Jacob doth so, and fulfilleth the week of this one, and he giveth to him Rachel his daughter, to him for a wife;
and Laban giveth to Rachel his daughter Bilhah his maid-servant, for a maid-servant to her.
And she conceiveth again, and beareth a son, and saith, 'Because Jehovah hath heard that I am the hated one, He also giveth to me even this one;' and she calleth his name Simeon.
and she giveth to him Bilhah her maid-servant for a wife, and Jacob goeth in unto her;
and Rachel saith, 'God hath decided for me, and also hath hearkened to my voice, and giveth to me a son;' therefore hath she called his name Dan.
And Leah seeth that she hath ceased from bearing, and she taketh Zilpah her maid-servant, and giveth her to Jacob for a wife;
and he turneth aside during that day the ring-streaked and the spotted he-goats, and all the speckled and the spotted she-goats, every one that hath white in it, and every brown one among the lambs, and he giveth into the hand of his sons,
and he giveth into the hand of his servants, every drove by itself, and saith unto his servants, 'Pass over before me, and a space ye do put between drove and drove.'
and he saith, 'What is the pledge that I give to thee?' and she saith, 'Thy seal, and thy ribbon, and thy staff which is in thy hand;' and he giveth to her, and goeth in unto her, and she conceiveth to him;
and it cometh to pass in her bearing, that one giveth out a hand, and the midwife taketh and bindeth on his hand a scarlet thread, saying, 'This hath come out first.'
and the chief of the round-house giveth into the hand of Joseph all the prisoners who are in the round-house, and of all that they are doing there, he hath been doer;
and giveth them in charge in the house of the chief of the executioners, unto the round-house, the place where Joseph is a prisoner,
and he putteth back the chief of the butlers to his butlership, and he giveth the cup into the hand of Pharaoh;
Pharaoh hath been wroth against his servants, and giveth me into charge in the house of the chief of the executioners, me and the chief of the bakers;
and Pharaoh calleth Joseph's name Zaphnath-Paaneah, and he giveth to him Asenath daughter of Poti-Pherah, priest of On, for a wife, and Joseph goeth out over the land of Egypt.
And the man bringeth in the men into Joseph's house, and giveth water, and they wash their feet; and he giveth provender for their asses,
and he giveth forth his voice in weeping, and the Egyptians hear, and the house of Pharaoh heareth.
And the sons of Israel do so, and Joseph giveth waggons to them by the command of Pharaoh, and he giveth to them provision for the way;
And Joseph settleth his father and his brethren, and giveth to them a possession in the land of Egypt, in the best of the land, in the land of Rameses, as Pharaoh commanded;
And they bring in their cattle unto Joseph, and Joseph giveth to them bread, for the horses, and for the cattle of the flock, and for the cattle of the herd, and for the asses; and he tendeth them with bread, for all their cattle, during that year.
Out of Asher his bread is fat; And he giveth dainties of a king.
Naphtali is a hind let loose: he giveth goodly words.
And Moses is willing to dwell with the man, and he giveth Zipporah his daughter to Moses,
And Jehovah giveth the grace of the people in the eyes of the Egyptians; also the man Moses is very great in the land of Egypt, in the eyes of the servants of Pharaoh, and in the eyes of the people.
and it hath been, when ye come in unto the land which Jehovah giveth to you, as He hath spoken, that ye have kept this service;
See, for that the LORD hath given you the sabbath, therefore he giveth you on the sixth day the bread of two days; abide ye every man in his place, let no man go out of his place on the seventh day.
Honour thy father and thy mother: that thy days may be long upon the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
if he rise, and hath gone up and down without on his staff, then hath the smiter been acquitted; only his cessation he giveth, and he is thoroughly healed.
Speak unto the children of Israel, that they bring me an offering: of every man that giveth it willingly with his heart ye shall take my offering.
And He giveth unto Moses, when He finisheth speaking with him in mount Sinai, two tables of the testimony, tables of stone, written by the finger of God.
or all that concerning which he sweareth falsely, he hath even repaid it in its principal, and its fifth he is adding to it; to him whose it is he giveth it in the day of his guilt-offering.
'Speak unto the sons of Israel, saying, A woman when she giveth seed, and hath born a male, then she hath been unclean seven days, according to the days of separation for her sickness she is unclean;
Again, thou shalt say to the children of Israel, Whosoever he be of the children of Israel, or of the strangers that sojourn in Israel, that giveth any of his seed unto Molech; he shall surely be put to death: the people of the land shall stone him with stones.
And if the people of the land do any ways hide their eyes from the man, when he giveth of his seed unto Molech, and kill him not:
'And a man who giveth his lying with a beast is certainly put to death, and the beast ye do slay.
If yet many years, according to them he giveth back his redemption money, from the money of his purchase.
And if it be a beast, whereof men bring an offering unto the LORD, all that any man giveth of such unto the LORD shall be holy.
and Moses giveth the money of those ransomed to Aaron, and to his sons, according to the command of Jehovah, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses.
And every man's hallowed things shall be his: whatsoever any man giveth the priest, it shall be his.
And Moses taketh the waggons and the oxen, and giveth them unto the Levites.
And Aaron taketh as Moses hath spoken, and runneth unto the midst of the assembly, and lo, the plague hath begun among the people; and he giveth the perfume, and maketh atonement for the people,
and Jehovah hearkeneth to the voice of Israel, and giveth up the Canaanite, and he devoteth them and their cities, and calleth the name of the place Hormah.
And Moses giveth the tribute -- Jehovah's heave-offering -- to Eleazar the priest, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses.
Moses taketh from the sons of Israel's half the one possession from the fifty, of man and of beast, and giveth them to the Levites keeping the charge of the tabernacle of Jehovah, as Jehovah hath commanded Moses.
And Moses giveth to them, to the sons of Gad, and to the sons of Reuben, and to the half of the tribe of Manasseh son of Joseph, the kingdom of Sihon king of the Amorite, and the kingdom of Og king of Bashan, the land by its cities, in the borders, the cities of the land round about.
and Moses giveth Gilead to Machir son of Manasseh, and he dwelleth in it.
And I said unto you, Ye are come unto the mountain of the Amorites, which Jehovah our God giveth us.
And they took of the fruit of the land in their hands, and brought it down unto us, and brought us word again, and said, It is a good land which Jehovah our God giveth unto us.
(As the children of Esau which dwell in Seir, and the Moabites which dwell in Ar, did unto me;) until I shall pass over Jordan into the land which the LORD our God giveth us.
and Jehovah our God giveth him before us, and we smite him, and his sons, and all his people;
'And Jehovah our God giveth into our hands also Og king of Bashan, and all his people, and we smite him till there hath not been left to him a remnant;
until Jehovah give rest to your brethren, as well as to you, and they also take possession of the land that Jehovah your God giveth them beyond the Jordan; then shall ye return, each man to his possession, which I have given you.
Now therefore hearken, O Israel, unto the statutes and unto the judgments, which I teach you, for to do them, that ye may live, and go in and possess the land which the LORD God of your fathers giveth you.
Furthermore the LORD was angry with me for your sakes, and sware that I should not go over Jordan, and that I should not go in unto that good land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance:
Thou shalt keep therefore his statutes, and his commandments, which I command thee this day, that it may go well with thee, and with thy children after thee, and that thou mayest prolong thy days upon the earth, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, for ever.
Honour thy father and thy mother, as the LORD thy God hath commanded thee; that thy days may be prolonged, and that it may go well with thee, in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
These words hath Jehovah spoken unto all your assembly, in the mount out of the midst of the fire, of the cloud, and of the thick darkness -- a great voice; and He hath not added, and He writeth them on two tables of stone, and giveth them unto me.
and Jehovah giveth signs and wonders, great and sad, on Egypt, on Pharaoh, and on all his house, before our eyes;
But thou shalt remember the LORD thy God: for it is he that giveth thee power to get wealth, that he may establish his covenant which he sware unto thy fathers, as it is this day.
Understand therefore, that the LORD thy God giveth thee not this good land to possess it for thy righteousness; for thou art a stiffnecked people.
and Jehovah giveth unto me the two tables of stone written with the finger of God, and on them according to all the words which Jehovah hath spoken with you in the mount, out of the midst of the fire, in the day of the assembly.
'And He writeth on the tables, according to the first writing, the Ten Matters, which Jehovah hath spoken unto you in the mount, out of the midst of the fire, in the day of the assembly, and Jehovah giveth them unto me,
And then the LORD'S wrath be kindled against you, and he shut up the heaven, that there be no rain, and that the land yield not her fruit; and lest ye perish quickly from off the good land which the LORD giveth you.
For ye shall pass over Jordan to go in to possess the land which the LORD your God giveth you, and ye shall possess it, and dwell therein.
These are the statutes and judgments, which ye shall observe to do in the land, which the LORD God of thy fathers giveth thee to possess it, all the days that ye live upon the earth.
For ye are not as yet come to the rest and to the inheritance, which the LORD your God giveth you.
But when ye go over Jordan, and dwell in the land which the LORD your God giveth you to inherit, and when he giveth you rest from all your enemies round about, so that ye dwell in safety;
If there arise among you a prophet, or a dreamer of dreams, and giveth thee a sign or a wonder,
If thou shalt hear tell concerning one of thy cities, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee to dwell there, saying,
Save when there shall be no poor among you; for the LORD shall greatly bless thee in the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance to possess it:
If there be among you a poor man of one of thy brethren within any of thy gates in thy land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not harden thine heart, nor shut thine hand from thy poor brother:
Thou mayest not sacrifice the passover within any of thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee:
Judges and officers shalt thou make thee in all thy gates, which the LORD thy God giveth thee, throughout thy tribes: and they shall judge the people with just judgment.
That which is altogether just shalt thou follow, that thou mayest live, and inherit the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee.
If there be found among you, within any of thy gates which the LORD thy God giveth thee, man or woman, that hath wrought wickedness in the sight of the LORD thy God, in transgressing his covenant,
When thou art come unto the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, and shalt possess it, and shalt dwell therein, and shalt say, I will set a king over me, like as all the nations that are about me;
When thou art come into the land which the LORD thy God giveth thee, thou shalt not learn to do after the abominations of those nations.
When the LORD thy God hath cut off the nations, whose land the LORD thy God giveth thee, and thou succeedest them, and dwellest in their cities, and in their houses;
Thou shalt separate three cities for thee in the midst of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.
Thou shalt prepare thee a way, and divide the coasts of thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee to inherit, into three parts, that every slayer may flee thither.
That innocent blood be not shed in thy land, which the LORD thy God giveth thee for an inheritance, and so blood be upon thee.
Thou shalt not remove thy neighbour's landmark, which they of old time have set in thine inheritance, which thou shalt inherit in the land that the LORD thy God giveth thee to possess it.
only the women, and the little ones, and the cattle, and all that shall be in the city, all the spoil thereof, shalt thou take as booty for thyself; and thou shalt eat the spoil of thine enemies, which Jehovah thy God giveth thee
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On the morning of the live interview, with no advanced scripting or warning, I walked in to the DJ booth and the host, Chris Collins (shown right), immediately “came out” on the air as being an introvert. Love it!
So we chatted about how I might help him and others with their resistance to networking. It was not only fun, we covered many of my secrets in only 8 minutes.
Phew, for an introvert, being interviewed live without any conversation in advance, I was a bit nervous beforehand. And of course I said a few things I’d like to edit now but I bet I’m the only one who noticed that stuff. In the end, it was so fun that I felt like I wanted to go back every week. Hmm, radio ideas brewing.
Enough Stalling. Now You Can Listen…
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You Should Get Interviewed Too!
By the time I walked the two blocks to my office after that interview, I had two email responses related to the interview.
And now I’ve been asked to do two more interviews, one local show and one for a national Internet radio show. (Of course I’ll post those too when ready.)
If you’re a Western Mass business, I highly recommend getting on Chris Collins’s morning show on WHMP. In addition to great interviewing, he made me a copy for my website. He’s smart to do that because now I’m giving his show a plug!
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When you’re creating a brand it’s easy to get buried in it all and forget sometimes that everyone else doesn’t know you inside out, hasn’t pored over every small detail. Someone recently pointed out to us that the meaning of the word Bimble isn’t as widely known as we’d thought. So we thought we’d explain a bit about where our name comes from and what it means.
Walk or travel at a leisurely pace
– Oxford Dictionary
There are many words used to describe little people starting to walk – cruising, toddling, tottering – but we like Bimbling. We like it because for us it captures that magical time in a child’s life when they’re beginning to explore, when every movement is an adventure, when horizons are expanding. And that’s why we call our shoes Bimble, because they give little feet the freedom to explore the world around them, to grow naturally into their next phase as walking feet, jumping feet, dancing feet. We call our shoes Bimbles because early walkers should be Bimbling, not tottering or clomping in restrictive shoes.
Our dream is that one day Bimble will be a household name and it will embody the semi-cute, semi-wild meanderings of little people in the most wonderful years of their lives. We hope that Bimble will be synonymous with freedom for little feet, that more parents than not will see their little ones begin to walk and move freely and unrestricted, rather than tottering, teetering or clomping. | <urn:uuid:45fd0031-663f-45e2-9a48-522fe9b7ecf3> | CC-MAIN-2017-47 | http://bimbleshoes.com/bimble-what-does-it-mean/ | 2017-11-21T09:49:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2017-47/segments/1510934806338.36/warc/CC-MAIN-20171121094039-20171121114039-00081.warc.gz | en | 0.942974 | 336 | [
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Nebraska’s own, Hannah Huston, is returning to her home state for a performance which will feature the songs she sang on “The Voice.”
Huston, a Grand Island native, who became a preschool teacher in Lincoln was a finalist in the recently concluded 10th season of the NBC-TV show.
She will perform with the Lincoln Symphony Orchestra September 18th at the Lied Center in downtown Lincoln.
“So this will be really different. I’m in my hometown, singing in front of all of my friends. Yeah, it will be interesting. It will be kind of emotional, I feel like,” Hannah tells Jack and Dave in the Morning on Nebraska Radio Network affiliate KLIN.
Huston, 25, has been on a whirlwind tour of the state since completing competition on “The Voice.”
Singer Pharrell Williams coached Huston during her long run on the show, at one time irritating a few Nebraskans when he kept repeating where she was from.
“Pharrell came up to me like the next day after he had said ‘Nebraska’ like three times on the show,” Huston says. “And he came up to me and said, ‘Hannah, I didn’t mean to make them angry. I just wanted people to be proud of where you come from. I just kept saying it, because I wanted people to know.’ And I go, I know, they don’t mean any harm, they just don’t think you know where we are.”
Huston will perform many of the songs she sang on the show with the 70-piece Lincoln Symphony Orchestra. Huston will also perform a song with schoolchildren from Arnold Elementary School in Lincoln, where she teaches.
“What’s supper special is we’re going to have students learn a song at the beginning of their school year and then they’ll be able to join me up on stage and we’ll sing a song together,” according to Huston. “So, that’s supper cool; really excited about that.”
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One day Gorten had a revelation: he was meant to be a Warcaster. Having heard tales among men and dwarves about the great honour and glory those who can wield magic in battle, he decided to leave the mining life behind and bring his command of stone and earth to the battlefield. At his call, walls of rock rise from nowhere, molten ore will slag his enemies, and allies become rooted to the ground such that nought but death shall move them.
- 1 Basic Info
- 2 Thoughts on Gorten Grundback
- 3 Other
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- Dual Hand Cannon - 12" range, ROF 2, POW 12 gun.
- Both Barrels (★ Attack) - This model gains +4 to the damage roll for this attack. This model cannot make additional ranged attacks with this weapon during an activation in which it used Both Barrels.
- Forge Father - 0.5" reach, P+S 14 melee weapon.
- Damage Type: Magical - This weapon can damage incorporeal models.
- Critical Smite - On a critical hit, the model hit can be slammed d6" directly away from this model. If the model hit has a larger base than the attacking model, it is moved only half the distance rolled. The POW of collateral damage is equal to the STR of this model.
- Gutter - 0.5" reach, P+S 9 melee weapon.
- Mercenary - In a 2+ caster game, he can work as a Cygnar mercenary or Khador mercenary.
- Warcaster - This model comes with a bunch of special rules, most notably being really awesome at everything.
- Rhulic Warcaster - This warcaster can control only Rhulic warjacks.
- Tough - When this model is disabled, roll a d6. On a 5 or 6, remove 1 damage point from this model; it is no longer disabled and becomes knocked down. While knocked down this model loses Tough.
- Eruption - Cost 3, 8" range, 3" AOE, POW 14
- Causes Fire Damage. Also, the AOE is a cloud effect and a hazard that remains in play for one round. Models entering/ending their activation in the AOE take an unboostable POW 14 fire damage roll.
- Molten Metal - Cost 2, 10" range, Offensive spell with special POW'
- Target warjack suffers 1 point of fire damage to each column on its damage grid.
- Rock Wall - Cost 2, Upkeep
- Place a wall template completely within the caster's CTRL range that isn't contacting anything else. The wall is an obstacle that provides cover.
- Solid Ground - Cost 2, Upkeep
- While within the caster's CTRL range, friendly Faction models gain immunity to being knocked down and blast damage.
- Strength of Granite - Cost 2, 6" range, Upkeep
- Target model in Gorten's battlegroup gains +4 STR.
Feat : Landslide
Pushes all enemy models in Gorten's CTRL range up to 8" to a table edge of your choice. They also suffer -3 to SPD,RAT & DEF and lose the ability to give/receive orders or perform charges, slams, and tramples.
Thoughts on Gorten Grundback
Gorten Grundback in a nutshell
Gorten walks ever so slowly forward upkeeping Solid Ground and casting Rock Walls until it's time for him to feat. Hopefully it wins him the game.
Gorten's feat is the strongest in the game without factoring in the 10" control area. As such, it is critical to him winning or losing and it is super easy to screw it up by moving models in the wrong order, or not being able to see where models will finish.
This feat can be used in a number of different ways:
- Drag the opposing caster to you (or sometimes left or right work), kill them. This tactic is used against the unprepared player. There are plenty of ways to set this up. You could slide the opposing caster to a Earthbreaker or Driller, Alexia and her Risen, Kayazy Assassins, Anastasia Di Bray, use your imagination. Experienced players won't allow you to do this easily, and the odds of the opposing caster starting your turn within 14" of Gorten are quite low.
- Shove everything 8" towards it's own deployment zone. This is awesome for clearing flags and zones. It can also force some casters to killbox themselves, especially warcaster units that won't be able to issue run orders
- Defensively feating to defend the Earthbreaker or Gorten. If your opponent has a colossal or two, they aren't going anywhere, but you can use the feat to buy your Earthbreaker a turn to get into position for the charge and land some more shots.
- Use Rock Wall. Sometimes, you can bunch up a huge number of enemy models by placing a wall in front of them and sliding them into it. Then you blast them. This can also be used to move a warcaster away from its guard, warbeasts and warjacks out of control range, move unit leaders away from their units, the possibilities are limitless.
- Pull your target out from behind cover to set them up for a charge or shooting. Pull them behind obstacles to prevent them from charging.
- Push models into hazards or rough terrain.
- Split up squads. As they can't take orders, this can tie up a particularly hard squad, or prevent squads that rely on orders (like Hammerfall High Shield Gun Corps, for example) from being able to do their orders.
Think carefully about the order models are moved. Slide a shield guard into its caster, then slide the caster 8" away from it. Create bunched up models where it serves your purpose, or spread units out as much as possible.
- Eruption - Rarely gets cast because of Gorten's focus limitations, short range, and questionable use. Usually a desperation play, but the ability to block LOS can come in handy sometimes. Sometimes you might put the cloud out and feat a bunch of infantry into it.
- Molten Metal - Six guaranteed points of damage isn't terrible, especially against high ARM warjacks, and can be very useful when you have just one box left of a system somewhere.
- Rock Wall - It can be used to provide cover, block charge lanes, stop specific models when you are using Landslide, force models to risk a hazard.
- Solid Ground - It is almost always cast on the first round and kept up.
- Strength of Granite - Any melee 'jack (or Gorten himself!) can use this spell. It makes them hit much harder. What else do you want to know about it?
Typical Army & Strategy
Gorten needs to keep as much of his army alive as possible while he gets in position to feat. Unfortunately, he has been stealth nerfed several times since he can't charge friendly models or be slammed or thrown by his own warjacks. The only way to increase the threat of his feat is by pitching him with Bosun Grogspar. This makes it easier for your opponent to position to minimize your feat turn.
Gorten usually brings the following:
- High-Def or Tough troops for his Solid Ground bubble. Nyss, Kayazy, Boomhowlers are all good choices for this.
- Melee 'jacks for his Strength of Granite spell. Once you have a SoG Basher trample through a group of infantry or when you start using your enemies warjacks as ranged weapons, or seen the look of horror when your loaded-up Driller with SoG rips up a colossal... you too will understand the power of SoG. You should bring at least one Driller. Possibly an Earthbreaker, but don't go crazy on the battlegroup. Gorten has 5 focus and a small control area.
- Gunners are always a solid choice. He can put Rock Walls in front of them so they become DEF 16 and can't be knocked down or pushed.
In Hammer Strike, Forge Guard gain the Tough special rule, which coupled with a pair of Siege Crawlers bringing them back plus Rock Walls, and Solid Ground, is about the slowest, stoutest, most resilient, most dwarfish army you're going to get from Warmachine.
Drawbacks & Downsides
Gorten has three major weaknesses:
- Spd 4 and very few ways to make him go faster.
- Limited army support. Rock Wall is a great spell that does more for an army than one might think, and Solid Ground is great with the right models, and the feat makes the other army really easy targets that don't fight back. But the rest of the time, his army is pretty much on its own.
- Limited focus. If he had even one more, he'd be one of the most powerful casters in the game. You'll usually be casting or upkeeping one or two spells each turn, which leaves you next-to-nothing to allocate or cast spells with. Also, a low FOCUS stat makes it harder to hit with offensive spells. Bring focus efficient warjacks and don't expect him to do very much himself besides bring a nasty feat.
Tricks & Tips
- Cast Strength of Granite on your melee 'jack. If your 'jack is gone, then cast it on Gorten.
- Cast Solid Ground first round, upkeep it the whole game. Keep your High-DEF, low-ARM troops in his control area to shield them. Or Tough troops. Or both.
- Advance a squad. Cast Rock Wall in front of it for a quick and easy DEF buff. It can also block charge lanes, fill gaps in existing walls, stop landslide targets, and generally get in the way, especially of huge sized models.
- If Gorten gets into melee combat, try and line up your target so there is a equal-or-larger based model behind it so you can slam them into it. Or cast Rock Wall behind them!
- Remember, as a small model, he's only going to be slamming medium and large based models half the distance rolled.
- Bosun Grogspar can hit Gorten in the back and Pitch him. This is not in any way a reliable extra distance for Gorten's feat (it's d6") - but should make your opponent extremely paranoid about Gorten's threat range.
- Originally released in Warmachine: Escalation (2004)
Warjacks he can take
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|Heavy||Avalancher - Basher - Driller - Rockram|
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Here we are. One day before the big day.
Four years ago, after a shellacking, we Republicans started to lick our wounds. We knew we had been beaten, but we had no idea what that really meant. We knew that Bush was a good man who had faced one of the toughest foreign policy scenarios any President had faced in decades, but we didn't know how much the hatred that had built up against him would impact the election. We also didn't know how many people would look at candidate Obama and vote for him based on the color of his skin and the promise of hope and change. Looking at the choices the Democrats faced at the time, it is hard to believe that someone as tenured as Hillary Clinton did not win the primary. But, looking back, she never really had a chance. More people in this country were interested in seeing a black man become president then seeing a woman. Combine that with the charisma of Obama and his nomination was secured.
Looking at the GOP side, McCain was nominated by default. Everyone knew him to be too moderate for most in the GOP. As for the general election, Obama was building momentum with his smooth-talking speeches and his impressive ground game. He built a bottom-up campaign based on ideals and no specifics, well-spoken platitudes delivered by someone who is very talented at reading a teleprompter, indeed. Obama was the man of the moment. It didn't seem to matter who he actually was, what he actually believed. The media was so caught-up in the "historical" campaign that they failed to do their basic duty - investigate. And Americans, along for the ride, voted a virtually unknown individual into the White House.
It didn't take long for the error of that decision to manifest himself. Newly-minted President Obama traveled around the world telling other countries that America had grown haughty. Even though he walked into office right at the moment of an economic meltdown, he chose not to focus on job creation. Within a few months of being in office, he was pushing the job-killing "Cap and Trade" legislation (which, thank goodness, did not pass) and a government take-over of healthcare (which, to our detriment as a nation, did pass). He started hiring czars to run every aspect of the economy, showing his true belief in top-down decision-making.
And he spent, and he spent, and he spent. Obama gave multiple State of the Union addresses re-hashing his plans to increase government spending as though that is the only solution to our nation's problems. In two years when his party held the majority of both the House and Senate, Obama did not once reach out to Republican leadership. In fact, when the GOP took over the House, Obama didn't even know how to get a hold of Speaker Boehner.
Obama has had a disaster presidency.
And now, here we are four years later, and along comes Mitt Romney again. After a brutal primary season, Romney has emerged a very strong candidate. And, the country has gotten to know him as being a very good man. Obama has run a small campaign. He hasn't talked about anything new, any plans to heal our nation. He has a terrible record (and he knows it) and so he attacks Romney. He claims Romney is a flip-flopper, though we have ample evidence of Obama changing his views on a number of issues including gay marriage, Guantanamo, Constitutional authority granted to the President (he actually said before the last election that the president cannot do whatever he wants, but then has overstepped his authority while in office) and the list goes on. Obama has said that Mitt is a liar, misrepresenting Obama's record. However, time and time again Romney's statements have been supported by fact-checkers while Obama's have not.
Obama has also systematically opposed values that Americans care about. Even putting aside the big-government solutions he offers, look at his record on social issues. He has endorsed same-sex marriage and refused to defend the Defense of Marriage Act, a law that enjoyed the support of both major parties and a Democratic president. Obama has ruled that religious organizations must manage their businesses in conflict with their own beliefs by mandating the coverage of contraceptives. Obama's campaign runs an ad saying, "Vote like your lady parts depend on it, because the kind of do" and another ad where a young girl compares losing her virginity to vote for Obama. Obama's moral-less leadership demeans his office.
So here with such a stark contrast it is stunning how many people still support Obama. I haven't even talked about Fast and Furious, Benghazi, and other whoppers that have been mostly ignored by the media but that should have removed Obama from contention for a second term. The bottom line: Obama has taken this country down a road, the end of which we don't want to arrive at.
So, let's talk about tomorrow. Very obviously, the best choice this country can make is to elect Mitt Romney. We have made the case for Romney time and time again on this blog. He is the man of the moment. Think for a minute about the problems that this country faces. Are we really in crisis due to lack of contraceptive coverage? Not even close. We are in crisis because our government has no limit on how much it spends, our morals are more and more compromised, families are not respected as the central unit of society, people are in need of jobs, and we have two major political parties that won't talk to each other because (despite what the media might have told you) Democrats have taken to an extreme agenda that never included actually fixing our country's true problems in the first place. (I applaud the GOP for the stand-still, by the way. No movement is better than movement off of a cliff).
Romney has the experience as an executive to go after our financial problems. He has the values as a life-long Christian (that's right, folks, Mormons believe in Christ) and a strong advocate for family values (being pro-life and pro-traditional marriage) to help get the national tone back on track for these important issues. He understands the limits of the office of the President and the powers allocated to the states. He will not overstep his office. He is humble, he is hard-working (you will not see him spending day after day on the golf course), he is prayerful (you may not believe in God, but don't you want a President who knows that he is not the king of the universe?), and he loves this country and understands the uniqueness of it. That alone makes him more qualified than Obama who thinks that we are essentially just like every country out there (Obama needs to go back to school and study history. America is unique compared to any nation in the history of the world. The entire world is safer when America leads. This is not boastfulness, this is a commitment to our values.)
Tomorrow, we have the chance to right the wrongs of the past four years. We have the chance to show Obama and all of his liberal MSNBC and Hollywood friends who think they know more about what is best for America then Americans do that we have been paying attention and we will not allow our nation to go down without a fight. We will vote with the conviction that has been building up inside of us for four years as we watched and were embarrassed by the actions of our president. We are proud of our nation, but not of our president. Tomorrow, we can vote someone into office whom we can be proud of, and who is indisputably proud of our nation, too.
Tomorrow, Americans have the choice of our lifetimes. We MUST vote for Mitt Romney. We MUST take our country back.
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In Christ Alone
1 year ago
I'm not sure where the award ceremony for the feature films was held, but the shorts awards were given out a mile from town at a weird '80s dance party with a really bad buffet in a room without seats. I did not see Robert Redford.I didn't actually think the buffet was that bad. In fact, I seem to recall this mushroom bread pizza thing that I may have gone back for thirds on. I don't see Robert Redford either.
They called our name and I thought I was hallucinating. Joy, Michelle, Jared, Brad, and Brett all started screaming but their voices sounded like little chickens to me, and their lips were moving in extra slow motion. I only had about two hours of sleep the night before, so I was feeling pretty weird already, and then the extra stimuli just sent my head spinning. But I managed to stumble through some kind of thank you speech and get off the stage without fainting.You can see part of Destin's speech in this video from the Sundance website. I wish I could embed it, because it's great, but I can't, so I just really encourage you to watch it. Again, here is the link. Watch it. Seriously.
Standing near the stage, rehearsing my speech, I was relieved not to get any of the eight "honorable mentions," which is some kind of Sundancespeak for "loser." But when the actual award was given, they called up a young hipster named Destin Cretton, who not only did not have a speech prepared but also was holding a half-eaten lollipop. Trying to be a gracious runner-up, I walked over to congratulate Cretton.
"I assume yours is about either the Holocaust or a mentally disabled guy," I said.
"You're right," Cretton replied. "I worked for two years at a residential facility for at-risk teenagers." I felt an interesting mix of discomfort and validation. Then Cretton put his arm around me and said, "It's not about winning and losing. We're all at Sundance together." When he offered me his half-eaten lollipop, the discomfort quickly melted away.
I cannot repeat to you often enough, boy, that when one is thirty, one is just beginning. Look at the biographies of artists. Even many who had painted from their earliest years changed only then, found their own personality only then. I only ask you to take those things into consideration.Very encouraging, though I keep asking him not to call me "boy."
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Monday, October 31, 2016
We are naturally spiritual! Do you think like that, or do you have questions about that? Does life feel different to you, sometimes spiritual, sometimes not?
This coming Wednesday, November 2, 2016, Rev Janet Tobin will be speaking at the evening service, and her topic is “The Atmosphere of God’s Presence.” Come to the Center for Spiritual Living, Santa Rosa at 7 pm, and plan of staying a bit after the service for light snacks and conversations with others in our community.
If you are reading along with us in The Science of Mind, Wednesday’s reading is on pages 308 to 309. See you on Wednesday!
Sunday, October 23, 2016
Join Rev. Ruth Barnhart this Wednesday evening. She is speaking about connecting with our true nature so that not only are we filled with the joy and peace of the Divine, but we shine that light and create this heavenly atmosphere for those around us. Our thoughts and attitudes contribute to this experience, but even more is the practicing of the Presence.
The service begins at 7 pm. After service, please plan to stay to enjoy light snacks as well as conversation with others intrigued by this topic.
Sunday, October 9, 2016
|"Our thoughts take us where we want to be." Science of Mind textbook, pg. 340|
What might Ernest Holmes have meant when he wrote these words? How might that be true in your life? Practitioner Melodie Bellagio invites us to explore how our thoughts may be key in navigating intentionally...or not, towards the experience of life we desire.
Wednesday evening services begin at 7 pm, with meditation offered in Grinton Chapel at 6:30 pm. Following the service join in the conversation over light snacks in the social hall.
Sunday, October 2, 2016
Join Dr. Edward this Wednesday evening as he explores a key concept in the Science of Mind teaching: the kingdom of heaven is within. His talk is based on the reading for the day from the Science of Mind textbook by Ernest Holmes, page 336, paragraph 5 through page 337, paragraph 1.
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A misdemeanor: This DUI may be a misdemeanor depending on the timing and disposition of your prior DUIs. If this is your third DUI but not your third DUI in 84 months (seven years), your driver license was in good standing, there was no one under the age of 15 in the car, and you were not required to have an interlock on your vehicle, these facts will make your third DUI a misdemeanor.
A felony: This DUI may be a felony if this is your third DUI within 84 months (seven years); if you are driving on a suspended, restricted, revoked or canceled driver license; there was someone under the age of 15 in the car or you were driving in violation of a court restriction (i.e., without an interlock). These facts will make your third DUI a felony.
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