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Galatians 5:7-8 “You were running a good race. Who cut in on you and kept you from obeying the truth? That kind of persuasion does not come from the one who calls you.”
I can remember running in track races when I was young. I had to stay in my lane, or I would be disqualified from the race. Even with knowing these rules, if I wasn’t paying close attention, I would occasionally step into another runner’s lane. But had I not known the rules to begin with, most likely, I would have been disqualified in every race. In the Christian life, the only lane that gets us across the finish line of eternal life is belief in Jesus Christ, the son of God, who died for our sins, was resurrected and now sits at the right hand of our Father in Heaven. “I am the way and the truth and the life. No one comes to the Father except through me.” (John 14:6). Are you running in this lane?
Satan knows God’s Word and knows he can’t win the race in any lane. So he has nothing to lose by cutting in your lane where he can slow you down and block your view of the finish line. And for people who don’t even know what lane their supposed to be in, Satan can easily disqualify them from the prize which the Apostle Paul refers to in 2 Timothy 4:7-8, “I have fought the good fight, I have finished the race, I have kept the faith. Now there is in store for me the crown of righteousness which the Lord, the righteous Judge, will award me on that day…”
When Satan gets us to question or go against God’s truth, or has us so busy we don’t have time for His Word, then we can easily slow down or even get out of the Christian lane. Hebrews 12:1 tells us how to avoid this: “…let us throw off everything that hinders and the sin that so easily entangles, and let us run with perseverance the race marked out for us.” Hebrews 12:2 additionally tells us to “fix our eyes on Jesus.” In other words, secure our eyes and attention on Jesus who has finished the race. Implant His life and character in our minds. Jesus is our example, and we fix our eyes on Him when we study the Bible.
Who or what is hindering your Christian race?
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Dai-Nippon Teikoku Kaigun Koukuu-tai
Imperial Japanese Navy Air Service
Aircraft Code Names & Designations
1912 - 1945
1912 - 1922: The Early Years
The first aircraft used by the Imperial Japanese Navy were imported from France and America in 1912. As the Imperial
Japanese Army had already imported similar aircraft, the IJN used the same designations, which consisted of a Type
designation based on the phonetic pronounciation of the first Japanese character of the manufacturer's name.
Example: Navy Type Ka Seaplane (Curtiss 1912 Seaplane).
In 1915 the Imperial Japanese Navy created a new designation system and existing aircraft were re-designated. From 1915
to 1922, the Imperial Japanese Navy used a series of consecutive katakana characters (I, Ro, Ha, Ni, Ho) (from the
Iroha) along with the suffix "go" ("type") to designate aircraft. Modified aircraft added
Ko, Otsu, Hei, Tei, Bo, Ki, Ko, Shin, Jin, Ki (from the 10 Stems of the Japanese zodiac)
with "gata" or "kata" ("sub-type" or "model").
Example: I-go Otsu-gata Seaplane (Curtiss 1912 Seaplane).
Listing of early IJN aircraft.
1922 - 1931: The Interwar Years
In 1922, this system was replaced by a Type number based on the last two digits of the
Japanese calendar year in which the aircraft was accepted for service, along with a description
of the aircraft's role. Initially, the Taisho calendar year was used, then changing to the Showa year until Showa 3 (1928),
at which point the National calendar year was used.
Example: Navy Type 10 Carrier Fighter.
Listing of interwar IJN aircraft.
1931 - 1945: The War Years
In 1931, Imperial Japanese Navy aircraft designations were expanded and revised further to include an experimental designation and a project
designation, along with the official Type designation:
- Experimental designation: Starting in 1931, experimental aircraft were given a Shisaku Seizo
(trial manufacture) designation, consisting of the Showa-era calendar year and Shi;
for example, Experimental 10-Shi Carrier Attack Bomber (Showa 10, 1935). If the aircraft was accepted for service, it
was given an offical designation (see below).
- Project Designation: Starting in the 1930s, aircraft were given a short title (Ki Go, symbols; and
Ryaku Go, codes; or "project designation"); this was similar to the US Navy aircraft designation
scheme, and consisted of four or five designators:
- Aircraft role
- Numerical sequence in role
- Manufacturer or designer
- Numerical modification of basic design
- If a particular aircraft was further modified to perform a different role than the original, a dash
followed by a role suffix was added.
- A = Carrier-borne fighter
- 6 = Sixth carrier fighter procured
- M = Mitsubishi
- 2 = Second variant of basic A6M design
- -N = Floatplane fighter modification of A6M design
- Official Designation: Aircraft which entered service were given an official designation (Seishiki
Meisho, official or accepted designation). This consisted of a Type number made up of (usually) the last two
digits of the Japanese calendar year in which the aircraft was accepted. Aircraft accepted
after the Japanese year 2,599 (1939) were designated using only the last (single) digit of the year (i.e., Type 0
for 2,600 , Type 1 for 2,601 ). This type designation was then followed by a description of the plane's
role. If several different aircraft with the same role were accepted in the same year, the Type number was suffixed
with an additional number, depending on order of acceptance (i.e., Type 97-1 Fighter, Type 97-2 Fighter, etc.). If
one of these aircraft was further modifed, it was given an additional model number (i.e., Type 97-2-2 Fighter).
However, starting in 1942-43, this was replaced with a two-digit Model number; for example, the Type 0 Carrier
Fighter Model 32 (three-two; third airframe change from original aircraft and second engine change from original
aircraft). Additional minor modifications were signified with one of the following suffixes: Ko, Otsu, Hei, Tei, Bo,
Ki, Ko, Shin, Jin, Ki (from the 10 Stems of the Japanese zodiac, or as
a, b, c, d, e, f, etc. Examples include A6M3 Type 0 Carrier Fighter Model 32a and A6M5c Type 0 Carrier Fighter
Model 52 Hei. This was again further modified in 1943, the Type number being dropped and only the popular name
(see below) and Model number being used.
- Popular Name: Some aircraft were assigned popular names, which made it easier to refer to them in public
without indicating their designation(s) (as this could give away how many and what type(s) of aircraft had been built;
the popular name was never associated with any of the designations during the war; most factory workers, aircrew,
etc., did not know the designations of their aircraft, other than perhaps the "Type" number). Names were
chosen according to the following categories:
- Special attack: Blossoms
- Bombers: Mountains
- Night fighters: Light
- Fighters: Winds
Listing of World War II-era IJN aircraft, engine and other designations.
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Seven Jazz have a busy weekend ahead with not one but two gigs by award-winning groups.
On Saturday 19th October, Seven Jazz welcomes back audience favourites The Impossible Gentlemen.
...[they]were recently voted “Best jazz group 2013” in the
Parliamentary Jazz awards. Inspirational, dazzling, melodically
enthralling music from two of the UK’s finest musicians with two great
stars of the US jazz scene. Multi award winning pianist Gwilym Simcock
has been named checked as a "genius" by no less Chick Corea. Mike
Walker is one of Europe's most exciting guitarists and a big favourite
of the Leeds audience. Steve Rodby has been the bassist with the Pat
Metheny Group for the past 30 years. Drummer Adam Nussbaum’s work with
Michael Brecker won him a Grammy in 1988.
This gig will take place at Seven Arts, Harrogate Road, Chapel Allerton
On Sunday 20th October, Seven teams up with Leeds University in a joint promotion at Clothworkers Hall in Leeds featuring pianist Zoe Rahman.
Zoe is one of the brightest stars on the contemporary
jazz scene -a vibrant and highly individual pianist/composer with a
style deeply rooted in jazz yet reflecting her classical background, her
British/Bengali heritage and her very broad musical taste. Having
played sell-out shows this year with her Kindred Spirits album, pianist
Zoe Rahman has just won Best Jazz Act in the prestigious 2012 MOBO
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We are excited to announce that WIDE ANGLE’s online series of short documentary films, called FOCAL POINT, is nominated for a 2010 Webby Award!
Like WIDE ANGLE, the FOCAL POINT series offers a deeper understanding into the forces shaping the world today through compelling human stories, with FOCAL POINT providing a venue for shorter, less formal pieces.
“We had ten broadcast hours per season, and yet we were seeing countless proposals for films with important stories to tell,” said WIDE ANGLE Senior Producer, Nina Chaudry, who created the series. “We thought, why not develop them to be showcased online?”
Recent episodes followed a North Korean defector who is now a high school student in South Korea, and two workers at the Waterford Crystal Factory in Ireland as they fight to save their jobs and a bit of Irish heritage. Earlier episodes featured stories from Pakistan and Zimbabwe. (See the full FOCAL POINT series here.)
FOCAL POINT episodes are produced in collaboration with independent filmmakers, including both veteran Wide Angle producers and emerging filmmakers from around the globe.
As one of only five nominees for Online Film & Video – News & Politic Series, we are eligible for two of the Internet industry’s most sought-after prizes. In addition to the Webby Award, we have a chance to win the Webby People’s Voice Award – and for this we need your vote! You can vote online. Voting is underway, and ends on April 29th. Winners will be announced on May 4th.
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Masdar has invited me to visit the United Arab Emirates to attend the fourth annual Abu Dhabi Sustainability Week. It’s a week-long global forum that brings together thought-leaders, policymakers and investors to address the challenges of renewable energy and sustainable development.
On my first day here, I took a tour of the Shams 1 Plant, the largest solar energy power plant in the Middle East. It’s located approximately 75 miles southwest of Abu Dhabi’s city centre, hours deep into the desert, stretching across 1.5 miles of sandy, arid land.
Though not inherently obvious during my tour, it later dawned on me that Shams 1 implements many CSR-related initiatives.
Below I’ve compiled a list of 10 takeaways which echo many best practices from the corporate social responsibility (CSR) community:
1. They’re a living testament to the importance and benefits of business diversification and innovation.
Though best known for its wealth in natural resources (i.e. oil), Abu Dhabi (and its renewable energy company, Masdar) have made significant strides to diversify its sectors of revenue by supporting projects such as Shams 1. To do this requires a lot of forward-thinking, innovative planning and calculated risk-taking.
Breaking the status quo certainly has its perks.
2. They value the health and safety of their employees.
The plant takes pride in their health and safety track records, beating their own rigorously set objectives by a landslide. 11,000,000 work hours have accumulated without major incident.
Safety signs seem to be displayed at every next turn—reinforcing their commitment to safety whilst reinforcing the importance of precautionary measures to staff. Employees are also prohibited from working outside during periods of extreme heat–lessening their chances of dehydration and heat stroke.
3. They break all of the employee engagement rates you’ve ever read or heard about.
Shams 1 boasts a 99 percent employee retention rate. Employees just “get it” and enjoy being part of something that’s cutting edge and sustainable.
4. They’re virtually spearheading a movement to help drive down industry costs, creating more competition and accessibility.
Arguably, massive projects such as Shams 1 give a lot of attention to the renewable energy sector, further legitimatizing the industry and accelerating growth within the renewable energy manufacturing sector. It’s quite conceivable that projects such as this one have helped increase competition and drive down costs over time.
5. They’re a living example of the statement “green sells.”
At the time, Shams 1 was named the largest financing transaction for any solar power project, bringing in a colossal US$600 million.
Who says green doesn’t sell?
6. They’ve helped — albeit symbolically — prove the success of impact investing.
Shams 1 brought in 103 percent of its targeted energy goals and continues to optimize its operations to gain efficiencies and growth.
7. They illustrate the importance of incremental change on a mass scale.
Though the plant does not power the entire country (it provides power for about 20,000 households), it is a significant step in the right direction. The hope is that the success from this project will help support similar sustainably-driven initiatives in the future.
8. They’re a model example of alternative waster management.
Improvising solutions for optimization and efficiency, Shams 1 demonstrates how innovative thinking can help us find ways to mitigate waste. Fans are used instead of water to condense steam, no chemicals or soaps are used to clean solar mirrors, water is continuously reused and when all options are exhausted, they partner with waste management companies to properly dispose of leftovers.
9. They walk the talk of information sharing.
It’s obvious from the moment you enter the plant that you’re there to do more than take pretty photos. You’re treated as a student with the sole purpose to learn as much as possible.
As our tour guides so rightfully put it, the plant doubles as a museum with countless visitors receiving tours from the Shams 1 staff on an ongoing basis.
They’re all about sharing the wealth of knowledge.
10. They demonstrate that there’s always room for scaling impact. In this case, that includes making room to give back.
Though the plant is doing incredible purpose-driven work already, it still makes time to give back in many of the more conventional CSR ways. Shams 1 provides meaningful internship opportunities to students and gives sponsorship funding to local events and activities that relate to education, health and environmental initiatives.
The Shams 1 Solar Plant not only helps the world shift to a sustainable economy, but it also draws many parallels with CSR themes and best practices. Initiatives such as this one are crucial if we hope to meet our commitments from COP21 and advance our purpose-driven business sector.
Melissa Schweyer is a writer, people-person and change-maker with nearly five years of progressive work experience in the not-for-profit sector. Most recently, she’s teamed up with Habitat for Humanity Hamilton, utilizing many of her past experiences to help break the cycle of poverty in Hamilton, Canada. A CSR enthusiast at heart, Melissa also manages a blog, www.csrtist.com, where she shares her thoughts, ideas and new ways of thinking about corporations and how they can make a positive impact on our world. In her spare time, you’ll most likely find her writing, practicing yoga, enjoying cheese or spending time with family and friends.
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I am a native of Dublin, and have been an incorrigible addict of Big Books since I learned to read. I took my undergraduate degree in German and Russian at Trinity College Dublin, spending a year as a DAAD undergraduate scholar at the Humboldt university in Berlin in the decadent 1990s. After I graduated from TCD, I spent a stint working as a technical writer in the dot.com industry in Dublin, San Francisco and then for a year in Jena. While in the idyllic Romantic town of Jena, I found myself spending my free time, between writing user manuals and poring over software architecture diagrams, in retracing the steps of Goethe and Schiller in Weimar and Jena, reading Foucault and Kafka and Jelinek, and generally yearning for the world of German literature and philosophy.
The lure of books proved so strong that I returned to academia and pursued a master’s degree in Modern German Thought at the University of Glasgow, completed in 2001. After this, I returned to Trinity College, Dublin, where I was awarded an IRCHSS fellowship to write a PhD comparing W. G. Sebald’s novels with works by his contemporaries Botho Strauß and Peter Handke, completed in 2007.
As well as teaching in Trinity as a postgraduate tutor, I have lectured at the Universities of Ulster (2007) and Liverpool (2008-9), teaching everything from ab initio German language to post-Holocaust German film, with plenty of German translation and literature in between. I took up my current post at the University of Leeds in 2009, where I am an Associate Professor, dividing my time between teaching, research and my role as Director of Student Education for the School of Languages, Cultures and Societies.
In 2013-4, I was an AHRC Early Career Fellow, pursuing research on ‘ Holocaust Literature in German: Canon, Witness, Remediation’. This examines the ‘cultural field’ of Holocaust testimony in German-language literature, which uses the theories of Pierre Bourdieu to examine the mechanisms that have excluded many literary witnesses to the Holocaust from the German cultural sphere on grounds of their exile status, gender, political affiliation or poetic practice.
In connection with this project, I have published a volume in collaboration with Dr. Lynn Wolff of the University of Stuttgart, entitled Witnessing, Memory, Poetics: H. G. Adler and W. G. Sebald (Rochester: Camden House, 2014).
I am a co-investigator on a major AHRC Care for the Future grant, ‘Performing the Jewish Archive‘, a project aiming to recover and re-engage with lost or neglected Jewish artworks, and to stimulate the creation of new works to re-animate existing archival repositories. I am also also a co-investigator on a British Academy-funded project, ‘Contemporary Literature from Germany and South Africa: Critiquing the Narrativization of Trauma as Nation-building‘, linking academics from South Africa and Leeds. It builds on a previousBritish Academy-funded International Networking project, led by Prof. Bill Niven of Nottingham Trent University and also including Prof. Stuart Taberner of Leeds, linking researchers in the UK and South Africa working on trauma, reconciliation and reparation in the aftermath of German Nazism and Afrikaner nationalism. We also collaborate with the South African Holocaust and Genocide foundation, and hold regular public evens there.
My monograph, Sebald’s Bachelors: Queer Resistance and the Unconforming Life, appeared with Legenda in June 2013. This monograph is the first book to look at the overarching theme of sexuality in Sebald’s work, and to analyse the key complex of masculine identity. I mobilise contemporary queer theory (Ahmed, Edelman, Snedicker) to read Sebald ‘against the grain’, demonstrating the importance of queer sexuality as a site of resistance. The book demonstrates that Sebald’s literature draws on Deleuze and Guattari’s theories of the centrality of the bachelor figure in minor literatures to link queer bachelorhood to literary resistance and erotic redemption. It further shows that, while Sebald configures queer sexuality as political resistance to colonialism, his literature also becomes embroiled in clichés of the sexualised Orient. | <urn:uuid:893220c7-d6f8-4e3c-9974-038ed1510471> | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | https://helenfinch.wordpress.com/about-me/ | 2019-05-20T23:03:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232256163.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20190520222102-20190521004102-00558.warc.gz | en | 0.940409 | 914 | [
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Thank you to our corporate volunteer groups for Serving Hope in our breakfast and pantry programs last week!
We couldn’t do the work that we do without our wonderful volunteers!
We are in need of volunteers!
– Wednesday, October 10: Pantry (9:30am-12:30pm, 9 volunteers)
– Thursday, October 11: Breakfast (7:00am-9:30am, 7 volunteers)
– Friday, October 12: Breakfast (7:00-9:30am, 10 volunteers)
If you are interested in Serving Hope, contact Danielle, [email protected] or 213.747.5347 x 111. | <urn:uuid:17693350-5ddd-475f-b94b-53723e8c59bd> | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | https://www.stfranciscenterla.org/sfc-volunteer-spotlight/ | 2019-05-20T22:38:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232256163.40/warc/CC-MAIN-20190520222102-20190521004102-00558.warc.gz | en | 0.882519 | 140 | [
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In Episode 217, Tucker is joined by Justin Silverio to talk about the latest High-End Coaching Program they’re partnering up on. The REI Deal Generator Mastery Program is going to be a full service coaching program that walks investors through every facet of the business. From starting your business, to market analysis, to helping design and execute your marketing, even helping you negotiate and analyze deals, this program does it all. Tucker and Justin want to take 5 investors and personally ensure that those investors exponentially increase their success through this program. We hope you enjoy this episode and be sure to leave us feedback and reviews!
Episode 217 Segment Notes:
- Intro/Summary: Tuckers News, Announcements and Episode Overview
- Main Topic: Tucker and Justin Silverio introduce and discuss the REI Deal Generator Mastery Program
- End Music: Diplo, French Montana, & Lil Pump Feat. Zhavia – Welcome to the Party
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Thank you for listening to our Podcast and please give us a review on iTunes and feel free to leave a comment below. Additionally, if you have any questions or would like Tucker to cover a specific Topic, please let us know and we can cover it in a future episode! Thanks again! | <urn:uuid:c22a91ab-051f-45cc-8dfa-b404a199e616> | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | http://therealdealzpodcast.com/real-dealz-217-the-rei-deal-generator-mastery-program/ | 2019-05-22T05:37:12Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232256763.42/warc/CC-MAIN-20190522043027-20190522065027-00158.warc.gz | en | 0.919214 | 278 | [
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THE DEADLINE FOR SUBMISSION OF APPLICATIONS HAS PASSED
The EducationUSA Academy is a two-to-four-week pre-college academic enrichment program for 15- to 17-year-old students who are intermediate or advanced English speakers. It prepares high school students to submit strong applications to U.S. universities if they ultimately choose to study in the United States. Participating students will explore the process of preparing successful college applications as they build college-level academic skills. They will also have the opportunity to experience student life and gain a better understanding of the U.S higher education system. The program also includes customized visits to a diverse range of college and university campuses close to the host institution in order for students to gain an understanding of the wide range of institutions available to them. Programs include exposure to large state institutions, smaller private colleges, minority-serving institutions, and community colleges.
The following U.S. university campuses will host EducationUSA Academy sessions in 2019:
- Boston University (Boston, MA)
- Diablo Valley College (Pleasant Hill, CA)
- Embry-Riddle Aeronautical University (Daytona Beach, FL)
- Johns Hopkins University (Baltimore, MD)
- Montana State University (Bozeman, MT)
- Northwestern University (Evanston, IL)
- Cloud State University (St. Cloud, MN)
- John’s University (Queens, NY)
- Syracuse University (Syracuse, NY)
- Temple University (Philadelphia, PA)
- University of Alabama in Huntsville (Huntsville, AL)
- University of Colorado Boulder (Boulder, CO)
- University of Massachusetts Amherst (Amherst, MA)
- University of North Georgia (Dahlonega, GA)
- University of Tennessee-Knoxville (Knoxville, TN)
- University of Wisconsin-Madison (Madison, WI)
All participant costs will be covered by the program. This includes visa and travel fees, housing and food, and incidental allowances. All participants will receive medical insurance for the duration of the program.
Candidate Description and Qualifications
Candidates applying for the EducationUSA Academy Program should:
- be a citizen of Uzbekistan;
- be between 15 and 17 years of age;
- be a high school student;
- be proficient in English;
- be interested in applying to the U.S. universities and colleges;
- be mature and self-disciplined students with a commitment to active participation in the Academy and its programming;
- have a sustained high level of academic achievement, as indicated by grades, awards, and teacher recommendations;
- have little or no prior study or travel experience in the United States or elsewhere outside of their home country;
- be mature, responsible, independent, confident, open-minded, tolerant, thoughtful, and inquisitive;
- be comfortable with campus life, prepared to share living accommodations, and able to make adjustments to cultural and social practices different from those of their home country.
Candidates will be considered without respect to race, color, religion, or national origin.
Application package should include the following:
- Completed application form
- Official transcript in English (Please enclose your school grades for the most recent quarter.)
- Scanned copy of national passport’s ID page
Incomplete applications will be disqualified and will not be reviewed by the EducationUSA Academy Selection Panel.
How to Apply
Application package must be in English and must be submitted via e-mail to [email protected] by 18:00 (local time in Uzbekistan) on February 28, 2019, with “EducationUSA Academy” in the subject line.
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Hybrid Backup Recovery (HBR) is a simple and cost-effective Backup as a Service (BaaS) solution. It protects customer data in a number of scenarios: enterprise level data centers, remote centers, branch offices, or on the cloud. HBR supports data encryption, compression, and deduplication, and helps you back up your data to the cloud securely and efficiently.
- Secure and Reliable
Provides end-to-end data encryption and validation and protects data during the backup process.
- Quick and Efficient
Data deduplication and compression are provided to achieve quick and efficient data backup to the cloud.
Scale the backup vault to store massive amounts of data.
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The lead up to this new moon had my dreams riddled with uncomfortable confrontations with people whom I love. The pace of life is increasing and with the ages of my children, now 5 and almost 9, it is the phase of life we are in. My time is much more limited, I no longer have the reserves to orchestrate things beyond the simple and easy. Sleep, reading, and general self-care is my top priority right now. Being selfish has been so necessary and so healing. After years of sleep deprivation, crippling PTSD, anxiety, and raising young kids, I am finally able to tend to my own needs. Not only has it been necessary it is now non-negotiable.
During a particularly potent dream, I was confronted by someone's intense anger towards me. Underneath the anger, I knew this person felt hurt and abandoned. I had compassion for them but I was also innately aware of my own limits. I was able to honor them to the best of my capabilities, while also maintaining my own the boundaries, which I believe was the source of their anger. I was able to clearly communicate my capacity and despite it not being received after numerous attempts, I felt at peace. I understood my limits, I knew what led up to this confrontation, and I also knew that I was done sacrificing myself to uphold their vision of me.
This dream has been a powerful reminder of how I have grown. Until more recently I tended to negate my own needs and limits to uphold an illusion for others. To allow someone else to get what they think they want by sacrificing myself. It is much easier to be realistic about what we can do and communicate that in the beginning than trying to renegotiate later on. When other's are used to us bending over backwards to accommodate them, they get upset when it becomes unsustainable. I now know that while I do play a part in cultivating the expectations that other's have of me, I am not solely responsible. And while we can have compassion for other's, it is equally important for us to have compassion for ourselves.
As someone who has extremely high expectations for life in general, I know disappointment on an intimate level, sometimes with others but much more deeply with myself. It is time for me to stop internalizing other's disappointment of me; all this does is perpetuate an unhealthy cycle. As my friend Cara told me last month; "we can love someone unconditionally while simultaneously feeling incredibly burdened by them."
If someone lashes out at us for not conforming to how they want to be loved, they are mirroring their deepest wounds and showing us areas that are needing love and acceptance. The difficult part is understanding that no amount of self-sacrifice on our part could ever be sufficient. We need to learn to love ourselves first, rather than shifting that onto someone else.
Hearing this has allowed me to release how other people expect me to love them. I love them how I love them, not how often I talk to them or do things for them or show up how they expect me to.
Loving other's doesn't look like manipulation, or obligation, or resentment, or bending to someone's expectation of us, or upholding another's vision. It is simply loving someone, including ourselves, as best we can and knowing in our hearts that our love is enough.
Here's the mantra for this new moon:
Noticing how other's mirror their disappointment to me,
Is a powerful reminder of the love and compassion I am worthy of receiving.
This permits me to reflect on my own limits, boundaries, and capabilities.
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My Bauhaus: 100 Architects on the 100th Anniversary of a Myth
Sandra Hofmeister (ed.)
Edition Detail, 2019
Architects the world over are familiar with the name Bauhaus. A century after it was founded, the principles, philosophies and memories of this avant-garde school are still very much alive. Bauhaus is a legend, and its legacy continues to shape our world in many different ways. To mark its centenary, Detail has produced an autograph book in which 100 architects from all over the world wish the school a happy birthday. Their short texts, photos and sketches reveal what Bauhaus means to them. The result is a colourful album of anecdotes, experiences and personal stories that will raise a smile or make you think. Rather than defining what Bauhaus is, the short statements show the extent to which Bauhaus is still relevant today. | <urn:uuid:a2bd208d-9768-4a12-855c-c6d0003e2c7c> | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | https://www.copyrightbookshop.be/shop/my-bauhaus-100-architects-on-the-100th-anniversary-of-a-myth/ | 2019-05-24T13:47:57Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232257624.9/warc/CC-MAIN-20190524124534-20190524150534-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.936108 | 186 | [
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The first text in Greek devoted entirely to India was written by Ctesias in the fourth century BCE. Only fragments of it survive. Yet he was probably the most widely quoted author on India, although Aristotle treated him with contempt. However, soon after Aristotle drew upon Ctesias’ writings, as did Plato, Xenophon and Plutarch. From all these account India became a happy land, a kind of utopia. Pliny (24-79 CE) put forth the age-old notion that India covered one-third of the surface of the earth. Indian kings from Father Tiber to Alexander had reigned 6451 years and three months.
Anaximander of Miletus, born in 610 BCE, was the first Greek to draw a map of the earth. It was shown there that the earth was shaped like two half moons of land. The one on the north was Europe and the southern one consisted of Asia and Africa. Together these two half moons enclosed an inland sea – the Mediterranean, truly meaning the middle (medi) of the land (terra). Herodotus drew upon such an authority of the past and put forth his idea of the inhabited world – oikoumene. His notion of the earth was an oblong one, running from west to east. This was divided into three continents – Europe, Asia and Libya. He inform in one place in his writings that the boundaries of Europe were unknown and there was not a man who could say whether any sea girdled it round either to the north or to the east. He thought the farthest settled land in this world reached out to the Persian province of Punjab. Aristotle added that between the Pillars of Hercules (modern Gibraltar) and India there was nothing but ocean.
This was the sum of knowledge when Alexander began his conquests from Macedon, the tiny kingdom in distant Greece. With all the details given by the advanced parties through marches before the great expedition began across Europe, Alexander believed India to be a peninsula of no great depth, which just jutted eastward to the sea, and which on its northern flank was bordered by the chain of mountains. North of this, at no great distance beyond the River Jaxartes was the ocean. To Alexander India meant the land of the Indus River. Whether that mighty river was the source of the Nile or whether it flowed into the ocean was beyond his interest. He must have questioned the local interpreters on arrival with his vast army on the other side of the Indus. Most of the local people did not even know the meaning of the term ocean.
Ptolemy (90–168 CE) was a Roman citizen of Egypt who wrote in Greek. He was a mathematician, astronomer, geographer, astrologer, and poet. His second book is the Geography, which is a thorough discussion of the geographic knowledge of the Greco-Roman world. In it he says that the true shape of India, the most striking feature of the land, is the acute angle formed by the meeting of the two coasts of the peninsula in a single coastline running almost straight from the mouth of the Indus to the mouth of the Ganga River.
Xuanzang (Hsüan-tsang 602 – 664 CE) was a famous Chinese Buddhist monk, scholar, traveller, and translator who described the interaction between China and India in the early Tang period. The same division of five provinces – Five Indies – continue in his description of the land he travelled. He packs together the shape of India to a half moon with the diameter or broad side to the north and the narrow end to the south. This is not unlike the configuration of India in Ptolemy’s Geography; yet much more accurate. In fact the Chinese pilgrim author brings in a touch of humour when he says rather wryly that the people’s faces are the same shape as the country – narrow downward and broad on the top. | <urn:uuid:6f079e6a-dd1f-412b-9b74-7a6b0b8ed9a6> | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | https://www.ancient.eu/article/198/ancient-geography-of-india/ | 2019-05-25T19:17:40Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232258439.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20190525184948-20190525210948-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.973426 | 814 | [
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Justin Trudeau spotted jogging shirtless at Cherry Beach
Web Staff, CP24.com
Published Thursday, July 5, 2018 7:32PM EDT
Prime Minister Justin Trudeau apparently had some steam to blow off after a meeting with newly-minted Ontario Premier Doug Ford in Toronto, to discuss some contentious issues.
The two met at Queen’s Park Thursday afternoon to discuss a variety of topics, just as the new premier announced he would cease cooperation with the federal government on providing support for asylum seekers.
Trudeau spoke to media after the meeting, saying the premier was “very receptive” to his message of collaboration.
In a tweet, Ford described the meeting as “productive.”
Cameras later spotted Trudeau jogging at Cherry Beach in nothing but a hat and black shorts. While he was followed by several members of what appeared to be a security detail, passersby were apparently oblivious to the VIP jogger nearby.
It’s not uncommon for Trudeau to be spotted out for a jog, though he usually runs with slightly more attire.
He has, however, been seen shirtless in public before. He infamously photobombed a bride who was walking down the aisle, while surfing on a beach in Tofino, B.C., in August 2016.
Trudeau’s run inToronto comes on the tail-end of a heat wave that saw a humidex of 36 Thursday, and just aftera severe thunderstorm watch was issuedfor the city. It should be noted that he was followed closelyby a convoy of black SUVs that could have provided shelter in case of a storm.
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Well folks, there is a lot more lessons coming your way today but I’m not sure which order to submit them in. I started with Trollface and then moved onto Ninjago, but now I think I’m going to take a step nto Japenese culture and submit a tutorial on "how to draw Lucky Cat", step by step. If you are familiar with the name, than you know that this cat has been around since the 1600’s. The Japanese name for this ceramic cat is actually Maneki Neko, and it is a Japanese sculpture that is said to bring good luck to the owner that has one. These ceramic sculptures are made in the image of a cat with a very simple expressive face. These figures come with one hand raised either the right or left, or you can also find them with both paws raised. You will often see these cats on display in various places in Japan like restaurants, stores, and other establishments. The Maneki Neko can also be found for purchase in the form of a piggy bank, key-chain, and other various objects. I have even seen this sculpture a few times in Asian style restaurants and I always wondered what they were. Along with the cat, they almost always have a tag attached to the collar with Japanese writing on it. Remember when I said that you can find these ceramic cats with either the right or left paw raised? Well, there is actually a meaning for the different paw poses. If the right paw is up, this means that it is protecting your money or money, but if the left paw is up this is a gesture that is supposed to attract money. I think this is a neat creation, and I wouldn't mind owning one of these figures. Even though I don’t have one now, I can still have one on paper and so can you because I am going to show you how you can "draw a Lucky Cat" or Maneki Neko too. When you’re done be sure to post the drawing on your wall so it too can bring you money, or protect your money. Have fun guys and thanks for joining me once again. | <urn:uuid:1cfe833a-1cd4-4e84-b8e9-78c5f2b12138> | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | https://www.dragoart.com/tuts/8904/1/1/how-to-draw-lucky-cat,-maneki-neko,-lucky-cat.htm | 2019-05-25T19:58:20Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232258439.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20190525184948-20190525210948-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.974854 | 441 | [
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We’ve recently explored the transition process from internal billing and collections to outsourced revenue cycle management services. If your center is having issues impacting its financial health, you’re experiencing negative KPIs such as increased AR days and decreased revenue and you don’t have the time and resources to address these pain points, then it might be time to consider working with an external RCM provider. Understanding you most likely have concerns about this transition, it’s important to ask questions in order to get a better understanding of how the transition process works.
What are your areas of expertise?
First and foremost, seek to understand in what areas the external provider excels. Often, it’s a good idea to let an external provider handle all of the back end business office needs from managing payer care contracts to improving AR days, so you want to make sure they are an expert in all parts of billing and collections. You’ll also want to ask detailed follow up questions to ensure the organization’s knowledge and experience align with your needs to optimize the revenue cycle.
Can you describe and demonstrate the technology that you use?
These days it seems like technology advances at the speed of light, so it’s important that your external service provider have a solid understanding of the software and platforms they use. Being tech savvy is now a requirement for successful revenue cycle specialists, and it’s highly recommended that the billing and collections staff undergo regular training to ensure they are up to date on the latest technologies.
What is your hiring process?
To add to the previous question, it’s useful to learn about the outsourced RCM providers hiring process for their billing and collections staff. Regent RCM, for example, takes a well-rounded approach to hiring new employees. Candidates are required to complete a skills assessment in addition to undergoing an interview with the hiring team. Knowing that candidates are fully vetted to ensure they have the necessary experience, knowledge and personality will make any transition process significantly smoother.
Do you leverage reporting and analytics?
In order to measure progress, reporting and analytics tools are essential. Even more effective is a provider with real time management console capabilities that allows them to monitor KPIs against both industry standards and their own benchmarks. Because such a dashboard operates in real time, the revenue cycle specialist can instantly see when a problem arises and begin taking the necessary steps to find a solution. | <urn:uuid:98fcb314-ab89-49e5-8110-5990a7c079d9> | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | https://www.regentrcm.com/questions-to-ask-if-youre-considering-outsourcing-rcm | 2019-05-25T18:52:47Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232258439.57/warc/CC-MAIN-20190525184948-20190525210948-00078.warc.gz | en | 0.939731 | 495 | [
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Thanksgiving Community Dinner
No family in town? Don’t feel like cooking Thanksgiving Dinner yourself? Join us Thanksgiving Day for a free Thanksgiving Dinner! We’ll have all your favorites!
Thursday, November 22, 2018
Central Christian Church (Disciples of Christ) Kettering
1200 Forrer Blvd
Kettering, OH 45420
Would you like to volunteer? We’ll need help preparing in the week leading up to Thanksgiving. Please let us know if you can help!
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Digital (eBook) Conversion Services ($279)
With our eBook conversion service, we can reformat your book into electronic format, and redesign or convert your cover as needed.
Digital publishing is becoming an increasingly more attractive option for many authors – with eBook sales growing faster than traditional print formats in many markets. Aalvent Media offers support for authors wanting to convert their physical books into digital format. With our eBook conversion service, we can reformat your book into electronic format, and redesign or convert your cover as needed. We will format your ebook in all the standard formats so that it is accessible on the widest number of e-readers, including the Amazon Kindle, iPad, Kobo, Nook, and Sony Reader.
As part of our ebook conversion package, we will even handle the distribution of your book to the major eBook vendors – Amazon, Barnes & Noble, and Apple.
Our eBook conversion service – including formatting and distribution costs just $279, when bought separately. For every eBook sale, most ebook retailers take between 30 and 35 percent of the eBook retail price, Aalvent Media takes a 15 percent cut as your publisher, and you the author keeps 50 to 55 percent. | <urn:uuid:99ecfdc0-a27d-4718-8b1d-ddc3fcf09b6c> | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | https://aalventmedia.com/shop/digital-ebook-conversion-services/ | 2019-05-26T23:12:43Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232260161.91/warc/CC-MAIN-20190526225545-20190527011545-00238.warc.gz | en | 0.911025 | 243 | [
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The Cargo Facility that Gaptek delivered to Turkish Airlines has been put into operation
The 32,000 sqm cargo facility that Gaptek delivered to Turkish Airlines has carried out the first air cargo transportations from Istanbul New Airport.
Turkish Airlines has carried out two first cargo transportations. The domestic operation flew from Istanbul New Airport to Ankara, and the international operation to the Turkish Republic of Northern Cyprus.
On one hand, the first ever commercial domestic air cargo transportation from Istanbul Airport was performed with an A 321 Airbus. The aircraft landed in Ankara on February 4.
Turkish Airline’s cargo facility was designed in order that one side of the building is intended to receive or unload cargo via landside transport, and the opposite side, via airside transport.
On the other hand, the first international transportation from the cargo facility was carried out to Lefkoşa (Nicosia) on the same day. The flight was executed with a Boeing 737 aircraft that left the Istanbul Airport.
To conclude, the new cargo operations from the Istanbul New Airport will bring major opportunities for the country. It will transform Turkey into the world’s logistics hub with a cargo capacity of 6 million tons.
Gaptek will present its construction system and its innovations at the International Defense and Security Fair (FEINDEF), which will be held for the first time in Madrid from May 29th to 31st. In our large exhibition space we will show our products on a real scale,...
Gaptek is awarded the Leading Company Award for Permanent and Demountable Buildings at the La Razón Construction Awards 2019
We would like to share the article that the Spanish newspaper La Razón has published about the award that Gaptek received for being the Leading Company in Permanent and Demountable Buildings in the Construction Awards 2019 "Gaptek has been creating buildings for eight...
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Only a few hours left of 2014. It’s a quiet one at our house. The littles and I made pizza and had fun party drinks, and as Reid gets some much needed sleep, Hayden and I are catching up on our favorite episodes of FRIENDS.
All day today my Instagram feed has been filled with New Years Eve wishes and my favorite blogs have reminisced and written about their hopes for the new year. Which leads me to mine. I think most of us have a lot of the same resolutions. Eat better, work out more, don’t spend so much money on useless things, and probably learn a new language or something. My actual focus though is about self reflection and evolving as a person. Sure I have baby weight to lose, and I really didn’t need to eat half of a pizza tonight along with a couple no bake cookies. I haven’t made it to the gym in months and I’m positive that Target will survive if I take a break from shopping there.
What I’m truly struggling with is soaking in all the moments that matter. Having two kids is hard. Having one kid is hard, and more than two… I won’t even go there. I find myself tired and stressed most days and not a very friendly person to be around on more occasions than I care to mention. But instead of appreciating the challenges and rewards of raising a family, I worry about all the little things. The dishes that aren’t done. The laundry that’s gone unfolded for a week. The spare bedroom that is so jammed with junk you can barely open the door. I have countless projects unfinished and motivation for most things is zilch. What should really matter to me? Hayden’s creativity and ability to make me laugh. She starts school next year and soon my little sidekick won’t be around as much and I know it will be a hard adjustment. Reid is almost 5 months old and changing daily. While we don’t have any solid plans for the future, there is the strong possibility that our family of 4 will suite us just perfectly. I need to be gobbling up all his baby moments because they could be my last ones. I have a loving and caring husband who is so understanding and patient with this sleep deprived woman. He deserves so much more than barely 5 minutes of my undivided attention and more praise than I could ever give him.
I started this blog as a way to share with my family and as a creative outlet for myself. Thank you to all you wonderful readers that have read and commented. Your feedback and input is always appreciated and I have so many great ideas for this blog in the upcoming year!
With none of my shows airing current episodes, I’ve been binge watching Netflix movies. I’ve seen Eat Pray Love numerous times but for some reason a quote stood out to me the other day. Julia Roberts is eating pizza, and her friend is concerned that she’s put on so much weight since they’ve been there, and doesn’t want to eat. Julia responds:
“I’m so tired of saying no and waking up in the morning and recalling every single calorie I consumed so I know exactly how much self-loathing to taking into the shower. I’m going for it. I have no interest in being obese, I’m just through with the guilt. So this is what I’m going to do, I’m going to finish this pizza and then we’re going to go watch the soccer game and tomorrow we’re going to go on a little date and buy ourselves some bigger pants.”
Now while I’m not using the comparison to myself and losing weight, it’s a metaphor that I need. Be done with the guilt. Look beyond what I feel is so worthy of my stressing, and just breathe and move on. “Buy some bigger pants” per se. Housework can wait another day. No cares but me that my shirt is wrinkled and my hair is in a bun for the third day in a row. My friends are understanding that I’m wore out and I’m content to be in sweatpants and watch ridiculous shows with them, like People’s Couch. My children aren’t going to remember that the bathrooms were always clean. They will remember when we go swimming at the indoor water park, the one with the pirate ship and giant mushroom. When we make cookies and decorate them with so much frosting they are barely edible. That daddy was always there at the bottom of the sledding hill with the four wheeler so they didn’t have to trek all the way back up time and time again. That bedtimes came and went because we were to busy giggling and telling jokes under the covers. And my husband still welcomes my affection even when I’m covered in baby puke and could really REALLY use a shower.
I’m looking forward to having another amazing year to experience with my family and wishing all of you the very same. Hope you all have a safe and joyous start to the new year. And just maybe tomorrow you go out and buy yourself a bigger pair of pants. >insert smiley face< | <urn:uuid:0ce4359c-e27f-4113-9a64-2e4d877f9ad0> | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | https://thearcticpanda.com/2015/01/01/reflection/ | 2019-05-19T23:32:15Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232255182.37/warc/CC-MAIN-20190519221616-20190520003616-00278.warc.gz | en | 0.96864 | 1,106 | [
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Author: Peter Travis
- 4 complete practice tests with answer keys
- A clear guide to how the Cambridge English: First exam works
- A full guide to the different sections of the test, along with tips and practical advice on how to revise and prepare for the test
- CD + audioscript for the Speaking and Listening papers
- Answer key + model answers for the Speaking and Writing papers
- Mini-dictionary with definitions based on COBUILD content.
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I’m a huge believer in the secret ingredient. You know, the glaze based on a 200-year-old family recipe or the frosting that makes eating cupcakes a religious experience. My little secret comes in the form of a 2.64-ounce tin of smoked paprika. It’s made by a brand called Chiquilin, and there is no piece of food I won’t cover in this stuff. Scrambled eggs, chicken thighs, seafood stew… heck, I even pinched a dusting of this stuff on my chocolate ice cream to see if it would fly and baby it took off at a thousand miles-per-hour. It is, as the kids say, next-level.
This particular variety of paprika originally comes from Spain and is part of Luis Penalva, SL, a family business that has specialized in herbs and seasonings since 1909. What separates it from the basic paprika you’d find in a run-of-the-mill grocery store is the method by which it’s prepared. The peppers are dried over a fire containing oak, allowing a deeply smoky flavor to come through without any preservatives or unnatural flavors.
I’ve always been a proponent for heavy paprika use and this innocuous little tin has helped me convert non-believers into paprika evangelists. It’s bold without being overpowering and memorable without leaving a lasting taste in your mouth. When you bite into a piece of chicken spiced to the heavens with the deep red seasoning, you see your meal in a totally different light. Flavors you didn’t know existed come out to party. It’s the smokiness that really gets me though, making it a barbecue must-have.
My shining achievement with Chiquilin happened just the other night when I made chicken marsala. Most recipes have you dredging your chicken in flour with a little bit of salt and pepper. I loaded my flour with two tablespoons of this paprika and dredged my chicken until it looked like an abandoned car after a blizzard. After frying up the meat and making the sauce, I began to worry about the smoky taste overpowering the sweetness of the marsala flavor. I was wrong. Dead wrong. What followed was one of the most delicious meals I have ever made in my life. I’m not one for hyperboles, but this meal almost put me in a coma. And to think, I only bought this paprika because I like the way the tin looks.
Forget everything you ever knew about spices and toss out your mild paprika in lieu of Chiquilin, or I will personally come to your house and raid your spice cabinet. My one constructive criticism is that the tin is hard to open, but I don’t have any fingernails, so that may be why.
Speaking of chicken, here’s a recipe that works every time:
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Emily has this wonderful ability to sculpt, shape, rework and finely tune beautifully articulate updates of our journey with Ned’s cancer. While deeply personal she always captures so clearly, and expresses so eloquently what I often fumble to express myself.
It is in another format that I have found myself naturally shaping and forming an expression of what I have been feeling and wrestling with over the last few months. This sculpture is a work I felt I needed to create, one that shares with you ideas of strength, loss and how we hold it all together.
For a long time, and especially in the last couple of months I (as well as Emily) have felt quite fragile, and that each day we are just holding ourselves together for Ned, for Lucy, Eleanor and Gilbert. A fragility borne of days, weeks, months, years of battling this cancer and all the implications of that for our family.
I recently came across Kintsugi; I’d seen it before, but it captured my attention again as I saw in it ideas that resonated with my own thinking on strength, resilience and redemption.
Kintsugi is a form of pottery where old broken ceramic works are repaired with gold dust, lacquer and resin, thus creating a restored or redeemed version of the old piece. The philosophy behind this is the idea of embracing imperfection, that the cracks and repairs are events in life and help shape who we are.
Alongside this concept consider the Apostle Paul’s letter to the Romans where he talks about suffering:
“ …but we also glory in our sufferings, because we know that suffering produces perseverance; 4 perseverance, character; and character, hope. 5 And hope does not put us to shame, because God’s love has been poured out into our hearts through the Holy Spirit, who has been given to us” (Romans 5:3b-5)
I would hope that the suffering we have endured as we have all traveled with Ned, all the pain, loss, upheaval, isolation, sadness, and immense sickness would build something into the character of all of us. And would draw out that strength that God has written into our DNA.
The gaps in the sculpture, the missing pieces in the sculpted face: these represent the things we’ve lost in this difficult journey. The dreams and goals that have been abandoned, the careers put on hold, the school life for our children interrupted, their friendships and milestones missed, the sense of home stalled, the skill building hours lost, important events missed, and so on.
Kintsugi pottery it’s about restoration, the gold and resin patches the cracks, puts the fragmented pieces back together. The cracks, the suffering, become lines of gold; redeeming us into something new. And this is the work of God in us, putting us back together, holding us together through those cracks. Just as the Apostle Paul says it’s about shaping our character. And this is what my piece is about. God gluing me back together, the great Kintsugi master of us all.
God rebuilds me through the inspiration of my amazing wife. A woman of gumption who motivates me to be a better husband, better father and better man every day.
The prayers of many and the friends who diligently call or text; these refresh me.
The excited embrace of my daughters and their laughter at my jokes, or full body smile from baby son, or the whispered ‘I love you Daddy’ from Ned as I carry him to the bathroom; these repair me.
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Another photograph of two male northern elephant seal (Mirounga angustirostris) “bulls” fighting on a central California beach. These two started their battle on the sand and eventually took it into the surf. Note how scarred their chests, necks and proboscis (noses) are, the result of years of fighting and biting and the consequent, almost continuous, series of wounds they bear during the winter mating season.
Male elephant seals (bulls) rear up on their foreflippers and fight in the surf for access for mating females that are in estrous. Such fighting among elephant seals can take place on the beach or in the water. They bite and tear at each other on the neck and shoulders, drawing blood and creating scars on the tough hides.
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Species: Elephant seal, Mirounga angustirostris
Location: Piedras Blancas, San Simeon, California, USA
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This simple logo tells a much larger story. The company specialized in masonry techniques, so the rectangles are a nod to bricks. Two of the owners were way over 6 feet tall and the third owner was barely over 5 feet, which is shown through the configuration of the “bricks”. The color came from HGH Construction’s use of environmentally friendly, or green, practices, as well as the fact that one of the owners was from Ireland. The owners loved explaining the deeper meaning behind their logo.
Categories: Print Design, Brand Development
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Role: Lead Designer
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One more sandwich of sliced tomatoes laid on home-made bread and topped with cheddar cheese, warmed until melted, and I’ll close the garden gate on fresh tomatoes for the year. Tomato season used to end more dramatically: The four years that I gardened in Wisconsin, a heavy frost would descend on the garden some night about the third week in September. Morning would present a scene of blackened, dead tomato, cucumber, and pepper plants. The same thing used to happen here, only a little later in autumn.
For many years now, killing frosts have arrived late, so much so that cool weather and short days sap the vitality from summer vegetables before frost arrives. The plants peter out so I have no qualms about clearing them out of the garden before they are dead. As a matter of fact, they look so forlorn that I’m anxious to clear them away and neaten up the garden.
Cleanup is especially important with tomatoes because a few diseases, such as early blight and leaf spot diseases, wait out winter on plant residues to infect next year’s plants. I clean up every bit of stem, leaf, and fruit possible, hand picking to begin with and then finally giving each bed a light raking to gather up remaining debris. With a garden knife, I cut into the ground around the base of each plant to make it easy to remove the stem and largest roots. Small roots stay in the soil, decomposing to become humus and to leave behind large and small channels for air and water movement. All that spent tomato stuff goes into the compost pile where time and temperature do their job defusing pathogens and creating rich compost.
Just to make sure that pest problems are minimized next year, and to enrich and protect the ground, I cover each bed with an inch depth of finished compost from piles built last year. Disease spores can’t get up through the compost blanket. And then, to further limit pest problems, next year’s tomatoes go in a different bed than this year’s tomatoes.
Even with the declining tomatoes and other summer vegetables, the garden generally doesn’t look forlorn. Beds of late green beans, sweet corn, and squash that were cleared, cleaned, and composted over the past few weeks look neat and weed-free. To me, something like the zen gardens at Ryōan-ji, except with compost and straight lines instead of neatly raked gravel. Grassy blades of oats are sprouting with all the youthful exuberance of spring in beds that were readied before the end of September. And long before summer vegetables started to wane, I snuck autumn vegetables into the garden, so some beds are now lush with radishes, arugula, lettuce, cabbage, and other greenery that thoroughly enjoys this cool, wet weather.
Butterscotch on a tree, that’s what Chojuro pear tastes like. Juicy butterscotch, because an explosion of juice fills your mouth with each bite,
Chojuro is one of a few Asian pears, also called nashi, that I grow; it’s my favorite as far as productivity and flavor, my others being Yoinashi, Yakumo, and Seuri-Li. Because they are generally round and crunchy, Asian pears are also sometimes called apple pears or salad pears. They have a long history in Asia, and over a thousand varieties exist.
My pears were planted 10 years ago, actually not planted but grafted on existing rootstocks to replace other, less satisfactory varieties. The rootstocks are dwarfing and the plan was to train them as a row of espaliers en arcure, that is with successive tiers of branches gently arching in curves to meet those of neighboring pear plants, all sitting in a row atop a low wall. But deer soon discovered the plants, which became a smorgasbord for which the deer didn’t even have to bend down to enjoy.
The deer problem was eventually solved but the plants were not en arcure anymore. I could have lopped everything back to just above the grafts and started again but lacked the heart to do it because the trees were, by then, bearing fruits. So now I have an arcure-esque espaliers laden with fruit. And especially laden is the Chojuro tree, every year.
Asian pears differ from the more common European pears in a number of ways. They are generally easier to grow. With large, healthy leaves, they tend to be more decorative. They bear more heavily and at a younger age, so much so that you have to be careful not to let plants on dwarfing rootstocks bear too much too young and runt out. And while European pears must be harvested before they are ripe, then ripened off the trees, Asian pears don’t taste at their best until they are dead ripe on the tree.
Even then, they don’t taste at their very best if the trees overbear, which they are wont to do. So beginning in June, and a few more times through summer, I kept pinching off enough fruits so that eventually remaining fruits were a couple of inches apart. It was worth it for the crunchy, juice-laden, butterscotch-flavored Chojuros. | <urn:uuid:a0e0a326-849b-41d2-a945-18e3f27d2527> | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | https://www.leereich.com/2011/10/one-more-sandwich-of-sliced-tomatoes.html | 2019-05-22T09:26:42Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232256778.29/warc/CC-MAIN-20190522083227-20190522105227-00038.warc.gz | en | 0.95738 | 1,112 | [
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It is hard facing the post party.
Our usual method is to pretty much get everything in order immediately following the party. Mary Kay did that, I was not capable of it as I was feeling ill, thinking I had overeaten, when in fact it was probably overeating combined with the nasty virus going around which would deck us both (and the dog as well)!
MK got everything done, the dishwasher was loaded and everything washed and the other dishes were drying on the counter.
Sunday was spent lying down, something we pretty much never do. We watched a little TV and I binge read my latest Louise Penny book. The post party cleanup which needed to continue with the put back where things belong was not happening on Sunday.
I finally got smart. Louise Penny is quite the popular writer in Deerfield as the library waiting list is long. I have read a few from there but MK suggested I check out e-bay and I did. There I got used books for a song. I am currently reading the fifth in the series and due to my being forced to vegetate, I am almost done with it. You know it is a good read when despite feeling awful and having sometimes burning eyes, you can still read. Normally, in those instances, I cannot do anything but watch TV.
Sunday was spent that way, sleep coming here and there, to the point that I worried that I might not sleep at night. That was way wrong since I slept like a log last night. I am still not totally right, but I feel a lot better.
Walking downstairs in the morning after an attempt at making myself look somewhat presentable and seeing the full dishwasher and the things that needed to be put away was a bit overwhelming. It was even more overwhelming when I realized that the dog was apparently as sick, if not sicker than we were. I won’t go into the gory details.
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You’ll feel like grandma’s back in the kitchen,
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Now 2 locations!
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Located in the heart of NE Portland’s Broadway business district. Miss Delta’s BBQ is more than your neighborhood BBQ joint…Miss Delta’s BBQ is a warm and welcoming place for all walks of life to come together and enjoy some of the best food and drink in the city! Miss Delta’s BBQ is a 5-minute drive from the Moda center, convention center, and downtown so join us before an event for our amazing Happy hour daily from 4pm-7pm!
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We have already covered the Nokia (NYSE:NOK/ADR) buyout of NAVTEQ Corp. (NYSE:NVT). It is somewhat interesting that NAVTEQ would have allowed itself to be acquired in a no-premium buyout, even if shares are up 200% from the lows over the last 52-weeks. NVT is trading down almost 2% at $76.50, and it appears that with the market liquidity and deal-making down that Wall Street doesn’t think that a premium buyout is likely. NVT has a $7.5 Billion market cap.
This is actually punishing shares of Garmin Ltd. (NASDAQ:GRMN) on additional competitive and pricing pressure fears. Garmin shares are down 12% at $105.00 in early trading. Garmin is roughly three-times the size of NAVTEQ in size of market cap and it is up roughly 150% from 52-week lows. This company has been a winner so far, and we expect analysts to come out mixed with some defending shares and some saying Nokia will be tough.
- Jim Cramer recently named it an immune growth pick;
- Garmin was probably one of the Window Dressing stock beneficiaries;
- We also showed how these were a major winner after last earnings.
What is interesting is that Nokia is also down over 2.5% at $36.85. The reason is not likely the dilution as much as the fact that this "could" stress some carrier relationships. Sure the dilution to the stock will matter, but if Nokia hasn’t anticipated at least some pushback Wall Street would have reason for concern. Keep in mind that it is a "big IF" because you know they thought this through and through.
We have been reviewing another lesser-known beneficiary of the major growth in GPS systems and in GPS for guidance in cell phones as a potential buyout candidate for the Special Situation Investing Newsletter, although the current position is unclear because of relative values and the valuation of intellectual property as far as the real worth versus the perceived worth.
Trimble Navigation Ltd. (NASDAQ:TRMB) is not seeing any pressure based upon the merger, although arguably it is because that company may be deemed as more protected despite having the lowest market cap and valuations in thr group. But that is another story.
Jon C. Ogg
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Residence vital is improving the top quality of everyday living in this active world. With the introduction of technology, a lot of new gadgets and tools are now becoming marketed in the marketplace in order to give ease and even stability in our lives
A house is often referred to as a position of refuge and security. A lot of people today also consider of house as a position the place they grew up. With the introduction of technology, a lot of new gadgets and tools are now becoming marketed in the marketplace in order to give ease and even stability in our lives. 1 instance would be the JAWS software program for computer systems. This software program permits blind people today to use the computer and even transact with other people today on the web. Kids who can not examine however will also be able to look through the computer with the assist of this software program.
Other innovations would contain the PS3 which is not only wireless it can also be made use of as a DVD participant and used for on the web gaming. Its wireless feature enables you additional place to shift. So, heaters now can be portable and infrared based. These are the fantastic matters offered to us by technology.
A further kind would be Residence automations. These are also identified as domo-tics which would pertain to the subject for that specializes in the exact automation requirements of personal homes. This is also for the goal of automation approaches made use of for the contentment and the stability of absolutely everyone. Even nevertheless lots of approaches are made use of in the design of automation (illustration gentle and weather control, doors and window shutters, stability and surveillance devices, etc.) they are also made use of and can be accessed by means of house computerization, which are added functionalities. Apart from this, it also involves the management of multi-media house amusement devices, automatic plant watering and pet feeding amid other folks.
Each time a house automation procedure is put in through the design of a new house, typically, the control wires are also added before the inside walls are becoming put in. These wires run to a controller, which will afterwards control the environment.
In severe scenarios, residing and dining rooms can feeling not only the presence of a man or woman but would be able to know and detect who the man or woman is. So, some appliances can also be automatic these days. This would go for air conditioners, fridges, television sets, radios, and VCDs. Apart from this, additional trendy devices can maintain an stock of solutions, together with recording their use by means of an RFID tag, planning a shopping list or even mechanically making replacements.
There are some realistic implementations when it will come to house automation. An illustration would be when an alarm detects a smoke or fireplace situation. Mechanically, all lights in the dwelling will blink in order to warn occupants. In circumstance the dwelling is built with a house theater, a house automation procedure will shut down all audio and online video parts so as to alert the user of a feasible burglary or worst, a fireplace circumstance.
The matters that can be controlled inside of the dwelling are as follows:
2. Stability devices and access control
3. Residence theatre and amusement
These are just a couple of matters which can be controlled either by a remote control or by means of automatic control.
Gains of Residence Automation
We are made use of to controlling our Tv set from the sofa. There are also inventions who give us the electricity to soften our lightings in the dwelling as nicely. You can now adjust the temperature of the space from your soft bed or control the quantity of your overall house’s audio procedure from just one space to another. You you should not even want to switch on the lights mainly because it will mechanically gentle up when you enter a space or a stroll in closet. Your wall or ceiling heater can adjust its temperature according to the weather as nicely, making it heat through a chilly wintertime early morning. These are basically regarded as the conveniences we can use to our benefit.
We are made use of to opening our garage doorway from your motor vehicle, but you will be stunned how significantly safer you will sense when you go house to a lit house as you enter the driveway. You can also switch on supplemental lights by means of a remote control you can click even while you are a couple of blocks from your dwelling. There are also software’s now that blocks hackers from obtaining access to your private data, worse, your lender accounts. Smoke detectors will mechanically alert you when it detects smoke from just one part of your dwelling. You can also have your stability procedure simply call you instantly if there is an alarm coming from your dwelling. These are just a couple of of the security positive aspects we get from technology these days. We go house to a house that will securely shield us and our liked ones from damage.
Superior-tech products can also carry us pleasure and memorable times with our liked ones. You can now engage in PS3 or Wii with other people today who are on the web. You can examine news about celebs and engage in video games using the internet. You can observe the most up-to-date DVD motion picture with you hubby or youngsters. You can encounter a “Spa” environment correct in your possess toilet. Whether it is really for peace, for top quality time or for the mere strain cost-free environment you can have, technology can really carry pleasure to our homes.
Present-day Residence Procedure Types
1. Product: Apple MacBook MB403LL/A 13.3″ Notebook (2.four GHz Intel Core 2 Duo Processor, 2 GB RAM, one hundred sixty GB Hard Travel) White
2.four GHz Intel Core 2 Duo processor with 3 MB shared L2 Cache
2 GB or 2 SO-DIMM with 667 of MHz DDR2 SDRAM one hundred sixty GB Serial ATA 5400 rpm tough drive SuperDrive with 8x the Double-Layer
1 four hundred FireWire, with two 2. USB ports, VGA, DVI, S-online video, as nicely as composite online video (which needs adapters that are marketed individually)10/100/1000BASE-T (Created-in) Gigabit Ethernet
AirPort (Created-in) Extreme Wi-Fi (IEEE 802.11n)
Bluetooth 2. (Created-in) + Increased Information Price or EDR module
Diagonal 13.3-inch glossy widescreen TFT show
Has a resolution of 1280 x 800
Mac OS X v10.5 Leopard
2. Product: HP Pavilion Elite Desktop Computer M9040N (2-Quad Intel Core Processor Q6600, Hard Travel-640 GB, 3 GB RAM, Vista Premium)
Multimedia desktop that is best-of-the-line and attributes an Intel Core of 2.four GHz with 2 Quad Q6600 Processor with four execution cores that is lightning speedy
Television tuner (ATSC/NTSC), programming guidebook, PVR operation, and twin-layer 16x LightScribe of DVD drive
Twin 320GB tough drives (640 GB complete), RAM-3GB (or 8GB max), 8400 Nvidia GeForce GS graphics (with around 1535MB of real offered memory)
54g Wi-Fi LAN (802.11b/g), Gigabit Ethernet, six USB 2., two Firewire, drive bays offered for HP Pocket & Individual Media Drives (up to 660 GB optional storage)
Pre-put in with Home windows Vista Residence Premium (with Media Centre capabilities)
3. Product: Samsung HPT5054 fifty-inch Plasma HDTV
1365 x 768 resolution
15,000:1 Distinction Ratio
eighteen bit colour
Filter Dazzling 2 Anti Glare Technology
1 Computer enter
four. Product: Panasonic TH-50PX60U fifty” Plasma HDTV
High definition-all set 52-inch plasma Television
Measures around 47.six inches (W) x 32.2 inched (H) x 3.seven inches (D)
ATSC tuners, Built-in NTSC appropriate with QAM tuner with an unscrambled cable reception (HDTV)
1366 x 768-pixel resolution contrast ratio is 10000:1 3D motion adaptive Y/C filter comb
Connections: 3 composite A/V (1 entrance), 3 S-Video clip (1 entrance), 2 component (Y/Pb/Pr), 2 HDMI, 1 SD memory card slot
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1. To promote effective learning for all.
Every pupil deserves an opportunity to achieve his/her best. The highest quality of teaching is essential to achieve effective learning.
2. To provide quality interesting, relevant and up to date Schemes of Work to implement the curriculum.
Pupils should acquire the appropriate knowledge and develop the relevant skills to equip them for the present and the future.
3. To develop well-balanced individuals who have an awareness and a sensitivity towards others.
Children should have a sense of self-respect, self confidence, independence and self-discipline. They should be equipped with the skills and values to meet and enjoy the challenges, changes and opportunities of life.
4. To provide a caring and secure environment.
Members of our school community work more effectively when they are happy and know that they are valued.
5. To ensure that all feel valued as part of the school community.
Members of the school community should feel a strong sense of identity and belonging to the school They should be able to contribute positively to the wider community and to work as part of a team.
6. To encourage a questioning and searching attitude about the self, to cultivate openness of mind,
to develop a sense of exploration and to encourage a quest for truth and meaning.
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MONTREAL, Sept. 11, 2014 /CNW Telbec/ – Vince Timpano, President and Chief Executive Officer, Canada, Aimia Inc. (TSX:AIM), announces the appointment of John Boynton to the newly created role of Chief Marketing Officer for Canada. Boynton’s mandate is to ensure Aimia is recognized in Canada as the leader in loyalty marketing and for its full suite of loyalty programs, products and services.
Boynton will shape the future of the Aeroplan program by accelerating the development of innovative products and marketing, leveraging valuable member insights to ensure a rich and relevant member experience. He will also lead the proprietary loyalty business, with a focus on high-value loyalty products and services.
“John is a widely recognized and respected marketing leader within Canada and we are thrilled to have him join Aimia,” said Timpano. “He has a strong track record in a number of sectors and brings a unique mix of social, digital and data-driven marketing expertise, coupled with classic marketing strategy and execution. John will play a pivotal role in building our Aimia and Aeroplan brands in Canada and strengthening our leadership position in this market.”
With more than 25 years of broad marketing experience, Boynton most recently served as executive vice president and chief marketing officer for Rogers Communications Inc., one of Canada’s largest communications and media companies. Prior to his 12 years at Rogers, he gained experience across a number of sectors across North America with brands such as Pepsi Co, Sprint Canada, and AT&T.
Boynton is a member of the boards of the Canadian Marketing Association, Toronto Region Board of Trade and the Ian O. Ihnatowycz Institute for Leadership Council at the Richard Ivey School of Business. He holds an Honors Business Administration, Marketing degree from the Richard Ivey School of Business at the University of Western Ontario.
Aimia Inc. (“Aimia”) is a global leader in loyalty management. Employing more than 4,300 people in 20 countries worldwide, Aimia offers clients, partners and members proven expertise in launching and managing coalition loyalty programs, delivering proprietary loyalty services, creating value through loyalty analytics and driving innovation in the emerging digital, mobile and social communications spaces.
Aimia owns and operates Aeroplan, Canada’s premier coalition loyalty program, Nectar, the United Kingdom’s largest coalition loyalty program, Nectar Italia, Italy’s largest coalition loyalty program and Smart Button, a leading provider of SaaS loyalty solutions. In addition, Aimia owns stakes in Air Miles Middle East, Travel Club, Spain’s largest coalition loyalty program, Club Premier, Mexico’s leading coalition loyalty program, China Rewards, the first coalition loyalty program in China that enables members to earn and redeem a common currency, Think Big, the owner and operator of BIG – AirAsia and Tune Group’s loyalty program, Brazil’s Prismah Fidelidade and i2c, a joint venture with Sainsbury’s offering insight and data analytics services in the UK to retailers and suppliers. Aimia also holds a minority position in Cardlytics, a US-based private company operating in card-linked marketing. Aimia is listed on the Toronto Stock Exchange (TSX: AIM). For more information, visit us at www.aimia.com. | <urn:uuid:ca5e44ef-47b4-4a4a-a268-27aeae069c36> | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | https://www.aimia.com/newsroom/news-releases/aimia-appoints-john-boynton-chief-marketing-officer-in-canada/ | 2019-05-27T03:43:18Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232260658.98/warc/CC-MAIN-20190527025527-20190527051527-00118.warc.gz | en | 0.920114 | 698 | [
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All the adversity I’ve had in my life, all my troubles and obstacles, have strengthened me….You may not realize it when it happens, but a kick in the teeth may be the best thing in the world for you. —Walt Disney
It was indeed inspiring to meet Reshma Wijaya Bhojwani, founder and principle of Saraswati Learning Center (SLC). Located in Cempaka Putih, Jakarta, this school is for children with special needs.
Reshma remembers the struggle of giving birth to her daughter, Cheryl, born with Down syndrome, and being depressed and asking ‘why me ?‘. But ‘waking up to my daughter’s beautiful smile gave me the strength to carry on. I got out of the negative downward spiral and decided to do something about it,’ she shared.
Not only was she struggling to take care of her disabled child, but there are also social pressures and obstacles. In the life of a special needs child, there are many individuals involved. Parents, immediate family, extended family and even people around them are also influenced. The immediate families have the most difficulty, as they have to adjust to the pace and requirements of the child.
Finding a school that would accept her daughter was difficult. Luckily she found a Montessori school that would take her daughter. When Sheryl turned 6, Reshma received the dreaded phonecall from the schools’s principal.
From her own personal challenges with finding a school for her daughter, Reshma took a huge step to start a special needs school. The intention was to create a learning and support environment for not only her child but also for the other challenged children who were marginalized.
Saraswati learning center will complete 2 years this July, 2018. The school now caters to children of age 0+ yrs to 20+ yrs and Reshma has opened the doors to an orphanage to support the under-privileged children with special needs too.
Reshma explained that ‘she was appalled lack of facilities in Jakarta. It is no longer only about my daughter, it is about all such special needs children in Jakarta. All children have right to education and to inclusion in society.’
‘We have a very beautiful structure which focuses on the holistic dev of the child. The program is categorised by age groups of 0-3 yrs, 3 yrs – 18 yrs and 18+ yrs have a vocational stream based on levels of capability of the child. The child will grow along with their group. A way to make friends.’
Saraswati Learning Center special school for children with special needs whether they are mental, emotional or behavioural disabilities. This school also uses a ‘custom curriculum which takes methodology and best practices from Montessori and government defined curriculum‘. At this school, students are seen as equal with no discrimination on religion or culture. The children are also taught with a ‘3:1 or 1:1 ratio in class with their teachers, based on their abilities’.
SLC is unique for several reasons. First, it accepts all disabilities. Second, it allows the children to be together in one room, although they are all still supervised and protected. In this way, all of the students are also more communicative with each other and have more chances to socialize. Third of all, it aims to educate children holistically so that it will be easier for them to be integrated into society.
Reshma’s efforts are not merely to educate children with special needs, but also to educate and support the parents. This has enabled inclusion of the children to develop self esteem and social ability of the children.
Her philosophy at SLC is ‘you will never know who is privileged and underprivileged because they get the same facility, same uniform, everything. Because SLC is all about special needs children. They really matter to us. We really want to change their lives. When we change their lives, we change their family as well‘.
You too can to contribute to SLC:
-Join their volunteer program
-Donate materials, resources and technology
-Visit us in bazaars
As Reshma clarified ‘Volunteers don’t need to be professionals to teach. Volunteers at SLC mainly consist of very different individuals who are passionate about teaching children with special needs‘. SLC provides observation and training for knowledge of techniques used and skills that would help them in teach the children.
She concluded the interview while giving a special tip for interested volunteers, ‘Volunteering in our school is not a hard job. It’s just about love, dedication, interaction and believing in all my special needs children. That’s is the main focus. SLC is all about love, patience, and being courageous and giving back‘.
Reach out to Reshma at [email protected]
Message from a parent at the school:
We are all amazing moms, but because of Cheryl you got the chance to elevate that status to a level that has no appropriate name – because it is just that wondrous.
People always tell me that God knows who to send his special children to but I always tell them it’s the other way around – He knows which of us need to grow and learn and that’s why we are gifted with these angels. You, my dear, have grown beyond measure and are a true role model for so many of us.
May you continue to shine, because that glow touches the lives of all our children at SLC and will continue to spread farther and farther.
Happy World Downs Syndrome Day.
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22 U.S. Code § 4806. Protection of foreign consulates
1994—Pub. L. 103–236 substituted “The Secretary of State shall take into account security considerations” for “The Chief of Protocol of the Department of State shall consult with the Assistant Secretary of Diplomatic Security”.
Amendment by Pub. L. 103–236 applicable with respect to officials, offices, and bureaus of Department of State when executive orders, regulations, or departmental directives implementing the amendments by sections 161 and 162 of Pub. L. 103–236 become effective, or 90 days after Apr. 30, 1994, whichever comes earlier, see section 161(b) of Pub. L. 103–236, as amended, set out as a note under section 2651a of this title. | <urn:uuid:b4ceb8cc-f81d-4811-af98-df660b588055> | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | https://www.law.cornell.edu/uscode/text/22/4806 | 2019-05-20T02:38:49Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232255536.6/warc/CC-MAIN-20190520021654-20190520043654-00158.warc.gz | en | 0.916726 | 167 | [
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Moving on, I've been tagged by Mel Fowler, which means that you all get 10 random facts about me now. Then I
1. When pumping my gas, I cannot leave the pump until the dollar amount ends in a 5 or 0. My fiance purposely ends it on a different number just to screw with me.
2. My favorite color is green, except of the olive variety. Blech.
3. I have 30G of music on my computer, and it encompasses everything from Beethoven to Bob Marley (genre-wise, not alphabetically, because goodness that would be limiting).
4. I enjoy being alone, but with company (each person working independently, but in the same room). I blame my dad.
5. I'm probably one of the only women alive who wouldn't kill for chocolate. In fact, I think chocolate would probably kill me. The only time I'll eat it is when there's peanut butter involved.
6. I've recently become addicted to Project Runway. It's completely unexplainable, because I'm fashion-challenged and would never wear the outfits from the show, but I love it anyway.
7. I prefer swimming to any other form of exercise.
8. E.T. freaks me out. I haven't been able to sit through that movie since I was 7.
9. I enjoy watching nature documentaries. The Earth is a fascinating place, and the plants and animals that populate it never cease to amaze me.
10. This was a heck of a lot harder than I thought it would be.
Do you feel like you've known me for years? ;) I think I'm going to break the rules on this a little (gasp!), since a lot of my blogging friends are either a) uber-busy or b) have already done this before. So...I'm not tagging anyone! However, I would be incredibly happy if you decided to leave a random fact about yourself in the comments. :) | <urn:uuid:e75fde2f-16c7-4ef3-b104-01fe02c88df4> | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | http://concretepiecesofsoul.blogspot.com/2011/09/for-funsies.html | 2019-05-21T06:53:29Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232256281.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20190521062300-20190521084300-00318.warc.gz | en | 0.976421 | 413 | [
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Save the Date! Friday, March 22nd
Help Reduce Single Use Plastics!
Celebrate Healthy Hydration Habits and World Water Day!
No bottled water will be sold in the Point Road or Markham cafeteria this day. Label your child’s refillable water container, fill it with water and help us teach our students about how they can make a difference. | <urn:uuid:e9429bc4-0fd4-4606-97e9-58f1927b591c> | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | https://littlesilverpto.com/2019/03/07/little-silver-schools-b-y-o-c-day-bring-your-own-labeled-container/ | 2019-05-21T07:34:02Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232256281.35/warc/CC-MAIN-20190521062300-20190521084300-00318.warc.gz | en | 0.906848 | 77 | [
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The unveiling of the Autumn Statement is almost upon us.
Philip Hammond will give the first major sign of the direction he's choosing for the economy.
Experts predict he'll ditch the hard austerity favoured by George Osborne, his predecessor.
It is likely there will be changes to pensions - and the Help to Buy scheme.
Before it takes place, here is everything you need to know - from what the Autumn Statement is, when it takes place, and what we can expect to happen.
What is the Autumn Statement?
Simply put, it is the Chancellor's second-biggest speech of the year after the Budget.
The Chancellor comes to the House of Commons to give an update on the state of the economy, where he outlines the government's spending plans.
When is it?
The Autumn Statement will be at 12.30pm on Wednesday, 23 November 2016.
How is it different from the Budget?
The Budget is given in spring or summer and the Autumn Statement is given in, yes, autumn.
The Autumn Statement, aonce known as the Pre-Budget Report or the Summer Statement, traditionally features spending plans, financial forecasts and the like.
The Budget, meanwhile, is usually focused on tax.
What will be in it?
We know a few things about its direction - largely because Mr Hammond is representing a new regime and spelt out his vision at the Tory conference in October.
First off, the Chancellor has signalled he's in favour of a "soft" cautious Brexit warning of a "rollercoaster" ahead.
Secondly, he promised "careful, targeted public investment in high value infrastructure ".
Thirdly, he wants a "fourth industrial revolution" and probably won't be trying to balance the books by 2020 - a pledge George Osborne had to put back because it proved problematic.
The Chancellor has also promised to "control day-to-day public spending", so don't expect those 1 per cent public pay rise caps to disappear.
What's the state of the economy?
The Autumn Statement starts with predictions for GDP and borrowing - which we can compare to previous years.
Recently they haven't compared well.
And a report by the respected Institute for Fiscal Studies (IFS) suggests this year will be no different.
The economic think tank warned Philip Hammond needs to plug a post-Brexit £25billion hole, with tax revenues £31bn lower than forcecast by 2019-20 because of the stalling growth.
According to the IFS, Mr Hammond is now facing a deficit of £14.9bn by the end of the decade rather than the £10.4bn surplus predicted by George Osborne.
How does it change from George Osborne's plan?
In the three months since Hammond took over at the Treasury, there have been a number of changes in direction.
Several flagship schemes have been scrapped, including pensions reforms.
These would have allowed people to sell on their annuities - a product that pays people a set amount of money each month until they die.
However, there were fears that people would sell up, only to get poor value and be left worse off in the end.
On top of this, plans have been announced to give people access to better advice when it comes to using their pension savings.
Plans to restrict claims following traffic accidents have also been dropped.
There's also been a push to get more houses built.
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PRESENTED BY HERMÈS, AS SEEN IN HARPER’S BAZAAR ART SINGAPORE JANUARY 2018
Hermès’ flagship store in Singapore is filled with many mesmerising, eye-catching objects; and no more so than on its fourth floor. For here you’ll find Aloft (previously named Third Floor), one of the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès’ five art spaces around the world. It’s here—and at La Verrière in Brussels, Atelier Hermès in Seoul, Le Forum in Tokyo and the temporary exhibition art space in La Grande Place, the Musée du Cristal Saint-Louis—where the Maison encourages contemporary artists to bring their creative dreams to life with site-specific works. Each year, artists are invited to interpret an annual exhibition theme that engages the public and inspires discussion.
“Since its launch in 2006,Aloft has fostered a continued dialogue between artists and the greater public with exhibitions that challenge existing practices using a combined range of media. Additionally, while the Fondation is centralised in France, it is very important for us to explore the diversity of creation internationally, and thus, Aloft is a significant part of this process,” says Catherine Tsekenis, Director of the Fondation d’entreprise Hermès.
The Fondation d’enterprise Hermès has long supported artists who seek to learn, perfect, transmit and celebrate creative skills that shape our lives today and in the future. The foundation not only offers residencies, but also offers nine major programmes that focus on skills; from an academy that encourages artists to discover artisan trades to photography immersions.
The foundation believes in supporting the talent of tomorrow. It also believes in sharing them with the public, which is why it hosts up to 13 exhibitions each year that are free for visitors to enter. We reveal the exhibitions that have captured the hearts of Singaporeans during the 11-year tenure of Aloft, Hermès at 541 Orchard Road, Liat Towers.
Ambe, whose work can be found at the Whitney Museum of American Art, is now showing her latest project “(Un)filtered Reflections” at Aloft, Hermès at 541 Orchard Road, Liat Towers, until 11 February, 2018.
New York-based artist Noriko Ambe transforms books into jaw-dropping sculptures and her unique Cutting Projects can be found in the collections of the Museum of Modern Art in New York, the Whitney Museum of American Art and the Nissan Art Collection. Her latest exhibition, “(Un)filtered Reflections” saw Ambe inviting students from Japan and Singapore to help her realise the project.
With the aim of using their school textbooks to show how the world has put so much pressure on them, Ambe invited students from the School of the Arts (SOTA) in Singapore and Furukawa Junior High School in Osaki City to take a textbook of their choice and replace any negative connotations they might have towards it with positive ones. They then drew a line in the book to map out their future. Ambe took these unbroken lines, and after a careful study of their responses, shredded and folded each work to create a three-dimensional shape.
Over the course of the project, Ambe took on the role of listener and used each textbook as a voice for each individual. “Since 1999, I have been cutting paper and books, altering them to embody the relationship among humans, time and nature. As a book itself already contains meaning, my act of cutting is the most important part of my conceptual study… In this project, using textbooks as the key material, I focused on transforming [their] meaning in order to express the relationship between the textbooks and the individual students who use them,” says Ambe. When the public views the pieces, the artist wants people to look at the works and say, “What are they asking? Where are they headed?”
Kim used contemporary ink paintings to tackle the theme of “Reflection” for her exhibition “Oneness”, which was at Aloft at Hermès from April to July 2017.
Minjung Kim’s “Oneness” brought the mountains to Singapore, inviting visitors to become one with nature. Celebrating the 2017 gallery theme of “Reflection”, Kim wanted to use contemporary ink paintings to take visitors away from their hectic, technology-filled lives and reconnect with ancient wisdoms and teachings.
Kim creates each piece using the same Zen-like philosophy. “When I paint on mulberry hanji paper, I have to wait for the right moment to draw some lines in ink. Sometimes it takes days and weeks to find the right state of mind. Breathing needs to be absolutely under control in order for me to execute fine lines,” she explains.
“I am always aware of the importance of equilibrium. You can call it Yin and Yang in traditional Asian philosophy, or just simply a balance of the opposites. Yin and Yang are void and fullness. They seem very much opposite notions but in a way they are the same. They are one notion.”
Traditional Chinese ink painting encourages the artist to open his or her mind to absorb every detail around them to achieve oneness with their surroundings. Kim embraces this philosophy in her own work. Her dynamic brushwork and undulating landscapes helped make the visitor contemplate the inconsequence of human life in this vast universe.
Agathe de Bailliencourt
With her exhibition “Here from Here”, which ran from October 2016 to February 2017, Bailliencourt addressed the question of being present.
The fast-paced world that we live in made Agathe de Bailliencourt want to encourage visitors to take life at a slower pace. “Here from Here” comprised two parts: An abstract installation and charcoal sketches. The sketches came from a residency that Bailliencourt had just completed on the Isle of Skye. While day-to-day life changed very little on the Scottish island, the clouds were constantly moving. This ever-changing scenery captivated Bailliencourt and she decided to capture it through impromptu charcoal sketches.
The sketches were the perfect visual partner for Bailliencourt’s site-specific installation: Hand-painted stones stretched out across the gallery floor to create a calming, abstract horizon made up of blue gradations that had a hypnotic effect on the viewer. It almost had a hypnotic effect on the artist too, as she admits to moving individual stones so she could achieve the result she wanted.
“The real horizon is the constantly present possibility of actual change,” says Bailliencourt.
Related article: Inside the Hermès Through The Walls Exhibition in Singapore
Singaporean artist Ng transformed Aloft at Hermès into a kaleidoscopic labyrinth of pastels with her exhibition “How to Disappear into a Rainbow” from May to August 2016.
Taking inspiration from Yves Klein, Ng created a site-specific work that expands on Klein’s belief that colours act as portals, transporting the viewer from one realm to the next.
To meander through the work was an act of discovery in itself. Ng put together a maze of pastel-coloured mirrors that made visitors feel as if they were in a floating world of colour. Each part of the installation gave the visitor a different point of view—one would lose themself in the art, and then discover themself again and again.
“How to Disappear into a Rainbow” was core to Ng’s ongoing study of colour, emotion, nostalgia and identity; and a hopeful celebration of the infinite nature of self, space and possibility.
ACROSS THE UNIVERSE
Artists in the mediums of photography, paint, sculpture and sound have all contributed to the success of Aloft at Hermès. Click through our gallery below to see their works over the years.
Yann Kersalé’s installation lighting up Orchard Road
Yann Kersalé, France
Jan Kopp, Germany
Takashi Kuribayashi, Japan
Laurence Dervaux, Belgium
Jinnie Seo, South Korea
Flavia Da Rin, Argentina
Heman Chong, Singapore
Rei Sato, Japan
Luis Terán, Argentina
Ming Wong, Singapore
Christine Ay Tjoe, Indonesia
Yeondoo Jung, South Korea
Ranjani Shettar, India
Joo Choon Lin, Singapore
Shinji Ohmaki, Japan
Nadim Abbas, Hong Kong
Stanley Wong, Hong Kong
Aiko Tezuka, Japan
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As concern about body size continues as a primary topic among those interested in health and well-being, it is essential that mindful eating teachers understand the role of mindful eating in supporting the internal regulation of a healthful weight. Equally important is to recognize weight stigma, which is a driving factor for eating and weight struggles among many people. This presentation will equip mindful eating teachers with understanding, knowledge and tools to help their clients move beyond the thin ideal to make eating choices that truly support their health and well-being.
Mindful Eating for Well-Being: What's Weight Got to Do with It?
- Compare the outcomes of weight-focused and mindful approaches to eating
- Identify three ways that weight stigma contributes to poor health
- Describe how mindful eating supports the internal regulation of body weight
- Describe 3 ways the attitudes of mindfulness can aid in the resolution of eating struggles
Presented by Sandra Aamodt, Ph.D. and Marsha Hudnall, MS, RD, CD
Two-part series, 2 CE/CPE for dietitians and therapists, APA and CDR Approved
December 5 and 12, 12 pm - 1 pm EST
$30 TCME Members | $60 Non-members
Credits provided by International Seminars Group, ISG. This program will meet twice for a total of 2 hours and will be recorded. Two (2) CE/CPE for therapists and dietitians will be provided by ISG following completion of the post-test survey and evaluation. ISG is approved by the American Psychological Association to sponsor continuing education for psychologists. ISG is also a Continuing Professional Education (CPE) Accredited Provider with the Commission on Dietetic Registration (CDR). ISG maintains responsibility for this program and its content.
ABOUT OUR PRESENTERS:
Marsha Hudnall, MS, RD, CD
A registered dietitian nutritionist, Marsha Hudnall, has been a voice of reason and a thought leader for the last three decades in helping women move away from restrictive notions of food and health so that they can better adopt a sustainable approach to eating well.
She has spent the last three decades working to help women give up dieting rules and understand how to truly take care of themselves through mindful eating and living. Her mission is to help women learn to enjoy eating and living well, without worries about health and weight. She encourages women to embrace their love of food, which you might call being a foodie. If so, it’s appropriate because being a foodie means you pay attention when you eat -- a recipe made in heaven for eating well.
Since 1986, Marsha has been a part of Green Mountain at Fox Run, the Vermont women's retreat that pioneered the non-diet approach to health and healthy weights. An accomplished writer, she has written hundreds of articles for popular magazines, newsletters and professional journals, and has worked extensively on a national basis to produce curricula and pamphlets to educate the public about nutrition and about the impact of dieting and the diet mentality on eating behaviors, including binge eating and emotional eating.
Long active with several national professional associations, Marsha recently stepped down from the board of the Binge Eating Disorder Association in order to serve as the president of The Center for Mindful Eating.
You can find Marsha on Green Mountain's website, which features her writing in articles and on her blog A Weight Lifted. You can also reach her on Twitter @MarshaHudnall and on Green Mountain at Fox Run's Facebook page, or email her at [email protected].
Sandra Aamodt Ph.D.
Sandra Aamodt is a neuroscientist and science writer, most recently the author of Why Diets Make Us Fat: The Unintended Consequences of Our Obsession with Weight Loss. Her talk at TEDGlobal 2013 about why she stopped dieting and started eating mindfully has received over 3.5 million views, and she has published opinion pieces in The New York Times and elsewhere.
In collaboration with Sam Wang from Princeton University, she wrote two other books. Welcome to Your Brain: Why You Lose Your Car Keys But Never Forget How to Drive and Other Puzzles of Everyday Life was named Young Adult Science Book of the Year by the American Association for the Advancement of Science in 2009. Welcome to Your Child’s Brain: How the Mind Grows from Conception to College was published in 2011.
She received her undergraduate degree in biophysics from Johns Hopkins University and her Ph.D. in neuroscience from the University of Rochester. After four years of postdoctoral research at Yale University, she joined Nature Neuroscience, a leading scientific journal in the field of brain research, in 1998 and was editor in chief from 2003 to 2008.
In her free time, Sandra loves dancing, truck camping, travel photography, hiking, and cooking. You can reach her via sandraaamodt.com, on Twitter @sandra_aamodt, or at [email protected].
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There are different ways to hook a crowd. One of the most powerful of them all? The element of surprise.
Which is easier said than done. Wowing a crowd can be tricky, especially when it comes to the done-it-all-seen-it-all types that populate the event industry, but at the same time, that’s why it is so satisfying when you actually pull it off. It is that type of rush that most event managers like to chase.
Here are some ideas brands have used to take their promotional activities to the next level. And we’re not talking about giveaways like personalised bags here (a lovely idea, but they’re just a start).
Embrace new Technologies
Mixing fun and with something new is always an enjoyable experience. Nowadays technology offers so many affordable options that the difficult part is actually choosing which one is the best for the occasion. But what we propose right now is augmented reality (AR). Visa did an awesome experience where they used AR technology to record users in real time and then project them along computer-generated animals on a screen. In the end, adults and children alike interacted with the projections and in extension, the brand.
Shake up the Ticketing System
We live in an era where just about everyone loves selfies. Even if you say you hate them, chances are you’ve snapped a few in your spare time while you’ve been bored at home (admit it!). But did you know you can use them to let guests into an event? You can replace QR codes with selfies to give the occasion a more personalised touch.
How does it work? The attendees download an app to snap their selfies when they decide they want to attend. One of these apps is TicketLeap. Check it out — it sounds wacky but can be a lot of fun and get people chatting.
Note: You may also enjoy reading ‘10 of the best online ticketing platforms for event planners.’
Challenge Attendees to do something different
At the launch party of Kate Spade’s St. Louis shop, guests were greeted with an entryway covered in colourful tiny envelopes and as people came in, they were asked to “Take a Chance” and select one off the wall. Inside, there were suggestions for fun things each guest could do like “crash a party”, “eat cake for breakfast” or “sing outside the shower” — they were living on the edge, I tell you. Sarcasm aside, giving attendees small tasks to carry out whether you hold them to it or not, is definitely a cute way to break the ice.
Design a USEFUL App
How many events have you been to that had their own, specially designed app? Only to download it, open it once, and then have it occupy precious memory on your phone? Exactly. There’s no point in developing an app just for the sake of it. If you’re hopping on the smartphone bandwagon, make sure it actually goes somewhere before purchasing a ticket.
For their 2016 shows, ABA (Allied Beauty Association – not the Swedish band) designed an app for their beauty shows that would let attendees not only know what was going on but also suggest activities they might be interested in. The result? 80% of the people that downloaded the app registered and completed their preferences and over 750 messages were sent to 1500 users.
Give Rewards for participating
There are two things people love: social media and feeling like they belong — and guess what, they’ll love it even MORE if you give them a reward for doing it.
For their annual Oscars after party, Vanity Fair installed in 2015 a “Twitter vending machine” that would reward users with points each time they mentioned the magazine on the social platform. People could then redeem those points for prizes like cocktail shakers and jewellery.
You probably don’t have Vanity Fair’s kind of budget and if you do, then I’d imagine you’d be thinking something like: “Twitter Vending Machine”? HA! That’s nothing compared to my FACEBOOK LASER-FIRING SPACESHIP!
Yes, I know. It doesn’t make any sense. What I’m trying to say is that you can still hand out a reward with little budget. How about free drinks?
Live Stream is your Friend
Photo booths, yes, we know. Everyone and their mother has done it, but they’re still effective — especially if you give them a twist.
Try connecting your booth with a live stream of pictures on screens placed around the venue to show everybody what people are sharing. Chances are when other guests see these pictures they’ll want to add theirs, too. Rebel Mouse and Sharypic will both get you started here.
Note: Learn hot to live stream an event here.
Create a Snapchat Geofilter
Snapchat can be a fantastic tool for live events, (you know, if you want to like get down with the kids) but there are still a lot of people who are either a bit baffled by the technology or just don’t know what to do with it (us, old people). For instance, are you aware that you can create your own custom overlay that is locked to a certain geographical area? That’s called a geofilter, and brands can buy their own for specific occasions. It’s instant branding and a fun way to get people chatting. Those crazy teens!
Event Manager Blog has a simple guide to getting a custom on-demand geofilter ready to go for your next project.
Use light to create a new Space
Light art can be a brilliant way to get your guests feeling like they’re immersed in a space they normally wouldn’t be in. With a bit of visual trickery, you can transform just about any Ibis into a Ritz. You’ll need to work with somebody who knows what they’re doing here (you wouldn’t let just anyone perform plastic surgery on you, now would you?), but great lighting can be amazing.
Check out this campaign Nike did ahead of the Rio Olympics to get people extra inspired about exercise and sport. With just some lights and a couple of screens, they turned a regular venue into a multi-sensory spectacle.
Summing it all up
It’s essential to know your audience and take their feelings into account when you make every planning decision. These ideas may or may not work for everyone, so gather your data before making any crucial — and potentially expensive decision. Not everybody will be interested in using a Snapchat geofilter, for instance (us, old people). Think about your goals and what kind of personality you want the event to have.
And remember, authenticity drives success.
T-shirt Printing for Events
Thanks to our five years of experience in the apparel-printing industry, we were able to design a platform catered towards the needs of event planners and brand managers who need efficient solutions. Printsome’s T-shirts are produced locally and from the best-quality garments.
From the moment you get in touch, one of our printing experts in either London or Glasgow will answer all of your questions and find efficient solutions to your needs. It is our mission to help you reach your goals.
We ship all over the UK with flexible delivery services that can adapt to most deadlines. Fast T-shirt printing has never been this easy. Need to to print in bulk? We got you covered. Why worry about inventory or logistics when we can take care of that? To find out more, simply visit our website by clicking on the banner below. | <urn:uuid:57cfb068-fb23-4460-bfc2-b955ceb0e728> | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | https://blog.printsome.com/crazy-ideas-for-events/ | 2019-05-22T10:51:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232256797.20/warc/CC-MAIN-20190522103253-20190522125253-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.954103 | 1,619 | [
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The backstreets of Istanbul’s Osmanbey quarter are loaded with fabric shops, while the adjacent thoroughfare of Halaskargazi Avenue is a busy shopping area lined with chain clothing stores and hotels. Come here for a cheap shiny suit, but don’t expect to find rewarding culinary adventures, as most of the area’s restaurants offer fast food that manages to be both overpriced and underwhelming.
Given all that, we were thrilled when Mahir Lokantası rolled onto the scene in 2015, bringing to the table a fine-tuned rotating menu featuring daily regional specialties from every corner of Turkey.
“We make a variety of dishes from the Black Sea region, the Mediterranean and Aegean coasts and Eastern and Central Anatolia,” Mahir Nazlıcan, the restaurant’s namesake and head chef, told us.
Nazlıcan and his brother, Uğur, trace their roots to the southeastern province of Diyarbakır, and cooking runs in the family. That’s why it doesn’t come as a surprise that the love and care they pour into their dishes resembles the affection and devotion good parents have for their child.
Among the staples of the menu are Antep yuvalama, which features miniature meatballs and chickpeas swimming in an exquisite yogurt-broth pool. The mumbar dolması is surprisingly light and approachable even though it is stuffed intestines, and the papaz yahnisi is tempting, with a flavorful dialogue taking place between shallots, cubed morsels of beef and a blend of spices.
Though we’ve loved everything we’ve tried at Mahir Lokantası, the oven-baked specialties are what we dream about. We’ve spent more time than we’d like to admit wondering how the lahmacun, baked flatbread smeared with a layer of spiced ground beef, can be so perfectly crispy, chewy and spice-infused. We would go as far as to say that it’s the best we’ve had in the city, and we’re prepared to back up what many might interpret to be a controversial or even blasphemous claim.
“The secret of our lahmacun is the meat, and we try to use only the best,” said Nazlıcan when we implored him for his special technique.
“Cheap lahmacun should not be eaten,” he said dismissively, referring to the places that sell theirs for as little as TL 3 a piece. “That’s how much it costs to make ours,” he added. One disc at Mahir Lokantası is TL 6.50 (less than US$2) and is worth every kuruş.
The mixture deftly spread on the dough includes onions, tomatoes, green peppers and spices. We recommend ordering the spicy version, which packs a modicum of heat but backs down quickly. Spread out a few sprigs of fresh parsley, squeeze a few drops of lemon, roll it up and thank us later.
For those with a sweet tooth, we’d recommend the irmik helvası, a pyramid-like structure of semolina built around a mound of vanilla ice cream.
Our chat with Nazlıcan occurred about an hour after the lunch rush had died down. The restaurant was nearly packed to the gills with tradesmen and working professionals in the area, who have quickly embraced its exciting menu. The warm, easygoing Nazlıcan arrives at eight in the morning to oversee operations in the kitchen and sticks around to mingle with his customers throughout the day.
The brothers recently opened a kebab restaurant across the street, and we haven’t had a chance to stop by since we’re still under the spell of their lahmacun. That said, we’d wager that their Adana and tavuk şiş could compete with the best around.
Nazlıcan and his skilled staff – which includes expert chefs, bakers and a superb, charming front-of-the-house crew – view their trade as a work in progress, and the chef is not content to rest on his laurels despite the quick success of Mahir Lokantası.
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Safe Place and Rape Crisis Center (SPARCC) is a private, non-profit agency that provides services to victims of domestic violence and sexual assault. Its mission is to protect victims and to help them regain their independence. Services are provided at no cost and include a 24-hour hotline, shelter, safety planning, counseling, case management, children’s programs, information and referral, and transitional housing.
Additionally, SPARCC offers a certified batterer’s intervention program (DVIP); community education and professional training; and volunteer training and placement in direct services, or fundraising (SPARCC Auxiliary). SPARCC also operates the Treasure Chest, a resale store that provides free clothing and furniture to their clients and generates revenues for their programs.
Pine Shores contributes to SPARCC most visibly by displaying a Christmas tree during the holiday season decorated with stockings that describe needed items for SPARCC clients. It’s a wonderful way to spread Christmas joy to those who suffer from the trauma of domestic violence.
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The Tartans, led by senior quarterback George Krantz's four touchdowns and 238 passing yards, easily handled the Laguna Beach Breakers Friday night in front of an energetic home crowd. With 481 offensive yards, St. Margaret's looked to put behind them a frustrating road loss last weekend.
Sophomore back Koa Todd had 72 yards rushing with a receiving touchdown as backfield mate senior Nick Krantz contributed 80 yards with a long of 34 yards. Receivers senior Auston Locke (7 catches for 167, 2 TD) and junior Ryan Cragun (2 for 17, 1 TD) kept the Breaker's secondary in fits all night.
Defensively, the Tartans held Laguna Beach to just 97 total yards and dominated the line of scrimmage for most of the evening. Senior James Eidt had eight tackles (two for a loss) and three sacks while Ryan Cragun pulled down an interception on the Tartan seven yard-line to preserve the clean sheet.
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Mostly they came from charity shops [or op shops as we commonly call them]. They were mostly grubby – at the least. Some were filthy almost beyond imagination. Old McLarsen was on the point of refusal of the worst. … Continue reading
There are MORE!! But they need another page of their own. And never fear, the plan is to go through each one and give you … Continue reading
Who said they don’t like carrots? Certainly not the Rabbit, look –
… and there are elephants… in the garden??
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Bristol City boss Steve Cotterill was bursting with pride after Luke Ayling's late winner had sent his side back to the top of the table.Cotterill heaped praise on his players after Ayling's 87th-minute winner had sunk battling Crawley and maintained City's momentum at the end of a busy period.
"I have never been more proud of them," said Cotterill.
"In the space of a week we have won two cup ties and a league game without conceding a goal and the way the lads started the game and then kept going right to the end was fantastic.
"It was a great finish by Luke for the goal. If you asked who was the most popular player among a lot of great lads in our dressing room he would be in the top three.
"He always has a smile on his face when he comes in to training and he is a fantastic footballer with great technique.
"Crawley made it tough for us, but I know my players will keep giving their all for 90 minutes-plus and again our fitness and team spirit shone through."
Ayling demonstrated the composure of a seasoned striker to calmly chest the ball down and volley home from an angle after the visitors had failed to clear Luke Freeman's corner from the left.
It was one of very few mistakes by a committed Crawley defence, but manager John Gregory was not about to congratulate his players for the narrowest of defeats.
He said: "I am not interested in hard luck stories. We have done a lot of things well, but we have lost the game and that's all that matters.
"We made some poor decisions when in good positions going forward.
"Sometimes players are content to go close with efforts at goal when they need to score.
"They needed no motivation coming to a ground like Ashton Gate and taking on a very good side. Already I have challenged them to play the same way against Port Vale in our next game.
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Over the last year our staff have travelled far and wide, including Australia, India, Dubai and the Seychelles, and even squeezed in a European Christmas Market cruise. Here's the highlights of some of their most recent travels.
Jo - The Seychelles
Travel expert Jo swapped scarves for sunglasses in October on a luxury escape to the Mahe and Praslin with Constance Hotels and the Seychelles Tourist Board. On comfortable Emirates flights out of Heathrow, Jo was soon unpacking in her beachfront villa at the stunning Constance Ephelia. It was all about the pristine beaches, a relaxed lifestyle and exotic natural surroundings, as the group were treated to fresh seafood picnic lunches under palms, cocktails at sunset and a guided tour through Vallee De Mai - what is thought to be the original Garden of Eden.
Wayne - Dubai
It was a whirlwind weekend for Wayne as he jetted to Dubai for a 3 night break. Staying at opulent One & Only Resorts, Wayne enjoyed gourmet dinners, expansive hotel rooms and top-class service. It wouldn't be a trip to Dubai without an afternoon at the amazing Aquaventure Waterpark, a giant waterpark with zip lines, steep slides and shark-filled lagoons. And if that couldn't get any better, lucky Wayne had VIP tickets to Ed Sheeran's concert live in Dubai!
Amanda - South Africa
A once-in-a-lifetime adventure not for the faint-hearted - Amanda's trip with Belmond and African Pride involved a helicopter ride over the safari plains, a river cruise and game drives in Botswana. A perfect itinerary of safari combined with a stop off in vibrant Cape Town, Amanda's trip began with a stay at the luxury Belmond Mount Nelson Hotel & Spa, right at the foot of Table Mountain. After transferring to Botswana by light aircraft, the group observed abundant wildlife from the infinity pool at their luxury tents at Belmond Eagle Island Camp, sipped sundowners on the plain, and got up close to the big cats on early morning game drives.
Rod - Balmoral Cruise
Whether it was the Fred Olsen's intimate Balmoral exceeding expectations or just the festive spirit, our cruise specialist Rod had the time of his life on a 4 night Christmas market cruise. Flying from Southampton, the group enjoyed 2 nights in Amsterdam and 2 nights in Antwerp exploring the Christmas markets, soaking up the culture, and unwinding each evening with excellent onboard entertainment. Rod even picked up some local footwear, but unfortunately it wouldn't fit in his suitcase!
Wayne - Azamara Journey
Azamara rarely dock at UK shores, preferring to provide guests with more time at each destination by beginning their journey at the first port of the itinerary. So, Wayne took advantage of the occasion with a special behind the scenes tour of the ship known as a ‘boutique hotel at sea’. From sleek, elegant furnishings to an attentive 24-hour service and immaculate Club Spa Suites, it’s a fully indulgent and luxurious journey through exotic and beautiful destinations.
Laura - Western Australia
You may know about the Gold coast, but did you know how much there is to see and do on the western coast of Australia? In a week-long tour starting on the bustling streets of Perth, Laura crammed in everything from swimming with wild dolphins to sampling fresh wines in the sunshine on sprawling vineyards. Laura even set sail at sunset on an incredible whale watching boat trip out on beautifully tranquil waters, just before her flight home!
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“Darius Dewsbury! Daniel Dawson! Don’t dilly-dally. Dean Duddleswell doesn’t do dilly-dallying.” Deputy Dean Debbie Drinkwater despaired. Dewsbury and Dawson in double detention and delaying the date by dawdling.
Dewsbury and Dawson dashed directly downstairs to Dean’s day-room. Dean Duddleswell delighted in drawing and drew detailed diagrams for display in downtown Digsbeth. Her day-room drew daylight delightfully. As the duo descended she drank a deep draught of Digsbeth Dale, a delightful drink for daytime. Darkness demanded a different degustation but a daytime draught of Digsbeth Dale would do. Dean drank, then dropped down at her desk. She directed a dagger-like glare directly at the disruptive duo. Her distaste for their dastardly deeds demanded she deal decisively. But a dilemma was displayed, and a dichotomy of disproportion dimensions.
Did Dewsbury dare Dawson to do this distasteful deed, or did Dawson do it then dare Dewsbury? Did one deserve disproportionate discipline? Did determining the driving force denounce one of the duo ? Did it matter? Dean drew deeply from the draught and deliberated. The duo did draw disgusting diagrams in the dormitory, and they did drill through to the girls’ dormitory to drink in the delights. Did Directives demand discipline? Decidedly. Did the detestable, disgusting deeds demand direct and decisive discipline, however distasteful to Dean? Decidedly.
Dean Duddleswell drew the drapes, double locked the door and drew open the drawer. Her digits descended and drew out the dastardly disciplinary device. She declared her decision.
“Dewsbury, Dawson. Your disgusting, detestable deeds are decidedly disagreeable. Drawing diagrams and drilling to discover the delights of the girls dormitory demands decisive discipline. Drop your drawers and double-over for a dozen with the Dragon!”
Dewsbury and Dawson dithered and dawdled in despair. A dozen with the Dragon – for drawings and drilling? Dear God, thought the duo, what’s the disciplinary decision if Duddleswell discovers we diddled with the Deputy Dean’s daughter, delightful dim Daisy!?
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Yesterday representatives and aviation officials from all ten Association of Southeast Asian Nations (ASEAN) member countries met in Kunming with Yunnan provincial authorities to discuss their collective vision for the future.
Yunnan apparently figures into that vision very prominently. Governor Li Jiheng (李纪恒) announced during his keynote speech that Yunnan would build and finish upgrading four airports in the next three years. He also laid out plans to double the number of international flights into and out of the province over the same period, Yunnan Net is reporting.
Li explained that reaching these goals would involve accelerating work on the under-construction airport near Lugu Lake, upgrading existing facilities in Lincang, and building new airports in Mengzi and Cangyuan.
When construction of these new airports is completed in 2015, Changshui International Airport will anchor a province-wide air transportation network. According to Li, the main hub in Kunming will be serviced by seven mid-sized airports and eight smaller, regional ones.
Li said that by 2015 Yunnan will raise the number of international routes departing the province from the current 18 to 40, with most servicing ASEAN destinations. He also said air traffic will increase from 74 to 150 international flights per week.
China Eastern Airlines, which currently has 14 routes to five ASEAN countries, was also mentioned by Li during his address. Between now and Spring Festival the airline will enlarge its fleet of planes.
The new planes will fly direct routes from Kunming to Luang Prabang and Phnom Penh. Additional new China Eastern flights will originate in Chongqing and have layovers in Kunming before continuing on to Danang, Hanoi and Jakarta, according to the Yunnan Net report.
Li also proposed increased cooperation in terms of air safety and flight coordination, encouragement of cross-border trade and tourism and the establishment of a visa on arrival system.
Although not an official member of ASEAN, China often hosts summits and sends representatives to meetings outside the mainland. China is part of ASEAN Plus Three, which also includes the original ten member nations, Japan and South Korea.
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In case you missed it, artificial intelligence is a big deal these days, with every app and gadget maker looking to pack ever more smarts into their products. Typically, researchers working on Artificial Intelligence make it smarter by using what’s known as “machine learning,” and since that usually involves computers teaching computers as it were, the faster your computer is, the better.
However, one specific kind of computer, the high-powered “GPU” or Graphics Processing Unit, which originally was developed in response to the demands of the graphics in high-end video games, seems especially well suited to machine learning, and there’s no bigger name in the GPU game than Nvidia. Now, Nvidia is putting more focus on making products specifically for AI, and they’ve just introduced a new machine-learning specific GPU called the Tesla V100.
Let’s just say right now that the V100 is huge, it’s very, very expensive, and it’s not for gamers – it’s for data centers and AI workouts. But, take heart – this kind of stuff tends to trickle down quickly, and we’ll definitely see a gaming GPU based on the new tech sooner than later. Story: https://www.digitaltrends.com/computing/nvidia-announces-volta-and-tesla-v100-gpu-for-ai-computing/
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But it is equally as good with a hot dog and peanuts at the ballpark.
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Philly Pale Ale, as it’s better known, is crisp, hoppy and bursting with citrus.
2012 Philadelphia Magazine's Best of Philly: Best Beer; 2012 Atlantic City Beer Festival: Best Light Beer; 2012 Best of Philly Beer Scene: Best IPA/Pale Ale; 2011 94WIP Beer Brawl: Listener's Choice; 2009 Philly Beer Week: Best Beer with a Cheesesteak; 2004 New York Times: Top Five Pale Ales in the Country Philly Pale Ale's vibrant floral and citrus aroma and soft malt character complement lighter fare including salads with citrus-based vinaigrettes, cured or poached salmon and fresh Jersey tomatoes.
If you stay home then you better just hope the pizza delivery person is your soul mate. You never know who you might meet, so don't miss it! Find a match and get a ticket for the prize drawing. Lock And Key Events Atlanta has a separate notification email account, which allows us to send more targeted party, special event emails, and private invitations. Please complete the form and submit your event notification preferences. | <urn:uuid:7eb0afa4-5b97-4a1e-88c8-e0f827087b81> | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | http://lada-c-cross.ru/dating-events-philadelphia-2177.html | 2019-05-27T05:54:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232261326.78/warc/CC-MAIN-20190527045622-20190527071622-00558.warc.gz | en | 0.896924 | 255 | [
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When coreographer, director and dear friend Betty Lo Sciuto asked me to work on the soundtrack for her production Clinamen, inspired to Lucretius’s De Rerum Natura, with the understanding that I would write part of the music and be on stage doing overtone singing and playing didjeridoo, my first reaction was “o.k. for the composition and the overtone singing, but re. the didjeridoo I’ll find you someone better than I am.” In fact I knew the instrument since 1972, when the Australian composer and didge player Ron Nagorcka gave me one and introduced me to it. I bought my second instrument in Australia in 1986, and I used in my CD Memories of the Rain-Forest (see discography), but on the whole, until Betty’s invitation (spring 2001), the didge had remained an instrument I sort of knew how to play but never really sat down and played. And yet Betty was very convincing, to the point I began to think that finally that was a chance to really learn it. Therefore I set down to practice, following Claudio Ricciardi’s advice, and ex-PRIMA MATERIA member, also struck by the didjeridoo virus. A few days later I received an e-mail from Ron, whom I hadn’t heard from in years, saying he would be in Europe in June for some concerts and would be glad to visit. “Here’s-I thought at the time-a true sign of destiny at work!” So, after a whole week on almost incessant playing with Ron, for the first time I felt sufficiently able to play in public and I was ready to be on stage for the show (which, incidentally, was beautiful) with some degree of tranquillity. Then there came participation to Djalu Gurriwiwi’s master class at the Rripangu Yirdaki Festival (Eisenbach, July 2002), and seminars with Darryl Dikarnna e Mark Atkins (Didjin’ Oz Festival, Forlimpopoli, July 2005).
What I can say today is that my approach to this instrument has been and remains to incorporate it in my music, in a respectful and ecologically sound perspective, in recording as well as live projects.
- Teatro con bosco, danza e animali. (Perugia, 25-26-27.07.03)
- Metavoice, con Ilaria Drago. (Presentimenti, Festival dell’arte contemporanea di confine, Ciampino, 29.11.2003)
- Linguaggi, Festival Nazionale della Performance. (Pescara,11.09.04)
- Ja Ku Jam, con Ardit Gjebrea. (Tirana, Palazzo dei Congressi, 14-15.02.04)
- Ke, di e con Patrizia Lo Sciuto, coreografia e danza. (Trapani, 18-19.06.04)
- Uroboros, CD e DVD, musica per le poesie di Grazia Debé. (2005)
- Dreamtime Project (v. performances), concerto per voci, suoni e immagini di Ilaria Drago (testo e voce), Roberto Laneri (musiche originali e live) e Alberto Tessore (multivisione). (Roma, Teatro Vascello. 8-9.10.05)
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Turkey's handsome bahelor is no longer single! Turkish newspapers shared the news that Kenan Imirzalioglu (41 years), has proposed to Turkih television and film actress Sinem Kobal (28 years).
Kenan İmirzalıoğlu who is a Turkish actor, operatic tenor, and former model planned a romantic marriage proposal at his house and surprised Sinem.
The couple has been dating for over 10 months now.
Kenan is one of the most famous actors and bachelors in Turkey, and is called the George Clooney of Turkey.
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Call to extend employers’ stakeholder exemptions
UK – Fines totalling £10bn (€16bn) could be imposed on companies not meeting the new stakeholder pensions deadline of 8 October, claims David Willetts, the Conservative Party’s spokesperson for work and pensions issue, in a private report. The Labour government required most employers without occupational pension provision to offer stakeholder pensions facilities to employees by that date or face fines.
In addition, Willetts suggests that stakeholder pensions are not reaching their target markets and are not extending funded pension provision – indeed, they may be having the opposite effect, and that the employer exemption limit of five or fewer employees is too restrictive and should be extended to companies between five and nine employees.
According to Willetts, latest figures from the Association of British Insurers (ABI) show that only 123,000 of a potential total of 400,000 companies has complied with the October deadline to have a stakeholder scheme set up. This could result in a government windfall of £14bn, though this is more likely to be £10bn if the number of companies registering for a stakeholder scheme continues at the rate of 35,000 per month seen since July.
Willetts says that some companies wishing to sign up for a scheme have been refused by pension providers, since they cannot cope with the extra bureaucracy, and thus he calls on the government to allow a further six month registration period.
The government repeatedly claimed until recently that stakeholder pensions were for 5m people on ‘low or modest’ incomes who do not already have a pension, says Willetts. But he questions whether this group of people actually have the means to buy a pension. He also points out that there is evidence to suggest ‘wealthy’ people are taking out stakeholder plans because of the tax savings they offer.
Moreover, claims Willetts, over half of the 295,00 schemes already sold has been done so by Building and Civil Engineering Insurance to people in the construction industry, and that the vast majority of these are mandatory conversions from existing occupational schemes.
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WINE IS NUTRITIOUS. Don’t forget that premise. Most of the nutritionists that I know drink wine....Celebrate Life!
WINE IS NUTRITIOUS. Don’t forget that premise. Most of the nutritionists that I know drink wine....Celebrate Life!
My life is full of Rhetoric. Is yours?... See what I mean? Questions and comments that are not expected to be answered. So many comments, questions, or statements are directed toward me that I don’t have time to answer. (That’s my story anyway). It takes me a while to process the comment and formulate a return so I stay behind. By the time I have a response, I am already behind by two more. It never seems to matter though. No one is actually listening to my response. They just want me to make one.
This situation is never more evident than with Anne, my wife of 89, I mean 39 years. You notice that I did not say when I am talking to Anne, or when I am around Anne. Being in a conversation or even in the vicinity of my lovely wife is not a requirement for her to be communicating with me (thank you cell phones, texting, emails, social media and telepathy).
When Anne talks, she often does not want my input regardless of whether she is asking a question, making a statement, looking inquisitive or talking to the dog. However, she wants and deserves my full attention when she is dissertating. She can monitor my attentiveness while expounding a subject and transition into the next before I comprehend the first. What gets me is that I still fall for the notion that she wants me to opine. It is a losing proposition.
Actually, many times, I do not respond and then I get in trouble for ignoring her. Then when I do respond, I am wrong. As David Cooley quotes, “If a man says something in the woods and no woman is around to hear him, Is he still wrong?” Can I get an Amen?
My kids ask me things out of respect for the elderly. They humor my answers as early onset senility. They will accept my instruction how to change a flat. However, on life issues, they know best at a much younger age. They, like the rest of us, already have the answer. They are just making polite conversation. Either that or they are bored and looking for a good laugh.
If I answer a general question that may have been posed to the room, I get a look like I am interrupting a private conversation. The look can also be interpreted as “What in the world are you talking about? Is that really your solution?” It reminds me of my older brother’s position on all of our childhood conversations; “If I want something from you, I’ll beat it out of you”.
If I respond to a comment, the similar look might say, “Mind your own business and keep your opinion to yourself.” Followed by the real answer which is so obviously not worthy of challenge that even the dog knows it. I look at the dog and he raises his brow and turns his head or looks down his long nose at me as an inferior being (which I surely am).
As for me, I often speak to people who cannot hear me. Consider people on the TV or radio for instance. I express my opinion and they do not need to respond. I know that I am right. Other drivers on the road who do not respect my preferential right to the road get addressed frequently. If they could only hear me (I am careful that they can’t), I would probably regret it very much if either of our windows were open. They obviously do not recognize me in my vehicle. Otherwise they would give me the right of way, get over and speed up. Traffic signals and speed limit signs also get addressed. I look at all of them as if I expect a response. However, if one of them (not a sign) glances my way, I just smile innocently.
I am still trying to figure out when I am supposed to respond and when I am to remain silent. I am to look concerned or at least interested which is hard to do when you are actually listening to the news. I have learned that I should hear and respond to a comment made from another room on another floor behind a closed door with the hair dryer running and the stereo cranked up while I am preparing a report for a client in my office. I should have known that she would be talking to me. The other day, I heard some muffled comment and traced the sound to the kitchen where Anne was preparing a delicious soup for a cold day. Not looking my way, she asked a fairly easy question and paused. Being the good husband and proud that I knew the answer, I responded quickly and obediently. Anne turned and faced me with a look that told me she was on the phone using her Bluetooth. She was not talking to me. The one time I heard the question, knew the answer, and responded appropriately; and she was not talking to me! Maybe next time. I’m sure I’ll get another chance.
At M6 we are always looking to the next vintage. We listen to you to determine what you want to see in future wines. We get excited with each bottling in anticipation as to how the wine will mature and present itself.
Soon we will be releasing our first Signature Red. We have labeled this as Vintner's Touch. Vintner's Touch is a Bordeaux style red blend. I realize that I say this about all new offerings, but I am particularly excited about this one. Blending wine is like art. The vintner's empty bottle is much like a blank canvas. Even with limited production, a world of options is available for one to choose from varietals and proportions. What aromas and flavors do I want to accent? How is the color holding up? Presentation, mouth feel, bouquet and taste also are factors to consider. I look at the unfiltered wines in the tanks much like an artist might look at his tubes of paint. Which ones do I want to put on my palette and mix to create something exciting?
The process is like any worthwhile endeavor. It takes time and perseverance. A little creative thinking does not hurt. A willingness to take a risk is essential to finding something good or even great.
First I have to do some research to avoid obvious mistakes. Then I have to decide if I will stick with proven blends or attempt some variation. Blending our wines will still create a unique flavor profile. However I might create something a bit unusual that wine drinkers will embrace. The path I choose must begin with some idea and a (flexible) plan.
Blending and tasting is the fun part. I use a journal to document all efforts in detail. Recording my response to each effort is critical for reference later. Experience and advice has taught me the best time of day to do my tastings. I always try to taste fresh wine. I taste more than once looking for the characteristics I want to stand out to the drinker. I consciously consider all of my senses for the best presentation. OK, maybe not sound. But visual, taste, mouth feel, and aroma all come into play.
When tasting, I allow plenty of time to make my decisions. The process should take several weeks or longer, depending on how breadth of my initial spectrum. Limitations exist because there is only so much wine I can taste in a sitting. Spitting helps, but there is still a limit. I try to set reasonable goals and then go about the rest of my wine business. I have to then set all aside to resume the blending research the next day.
Favorite blends ultimately rise to the top of my chart. I choose the top few. I blend these again and do a comparison. I reaffirm my favorite(s) based on analytics and personal taste. Then I ask trusted staff and friends to weigh in on their favorites. I strive to listen intently to their comments and ask for honest feedback. I realize that the responsibility and final decision is mine, but I also want my blend to be accepted in the market!
My next step is to make my decision and not look back. Even then, the consternation is not over. I then have to bottle it up and wait for the bottle shock to stabilize. I pray that I have chosen well or that it cellars well (in case I have to drink it all).
Bottle shock is real and often makes me wonder if I have bottled hundreds of gallons of something undrinkable. So far, a few weeks of settling down have been rewarding. I still get impatient and have to test wine before it is ready. Wine will not be rushed no matter how inpatient I am! When it is (finally) ready, I get to present it again to select trusted tasters for confirmation. (This is just a formality because at this point it is going on the shelf in the tasting room.)
The foregoing is basically the process that Anne and I went through to blend our M6 Vintner's Touch. Our first Signature Blend is a bold red blend that pairs well with roasted, smoked and grilled meats; especially grilled Ribeye, T-bone or lightly seasoned Filet Mignon. Acidic sauces like marinara bring out the pepper finish. Aged strong cheeses also pair well. After dinner sip with gourmet dark chocolates. Vintner's Touch is also a rewarding flavorful experience enjoyed without any food at all!
We have a limited production of 70 cases of Vintner's Choice. Call me conservative. I hope that I regret not making more!
Friday is Veteran’s Day; a day we set aside to honor those who have served in the armed forces and, by doing so, protected the freedoms and honor that we enjoy as Americans. Veterans Day originated as “Armistice Day” on Nov. 11, 1919, the first anniversary of the end of World War I. Congress passed a resolution in 1926 for an annual observance, and Nov. 11 became a national holiday beginning in 1938. Veterans Day pays tribute to all American veterans–living or dead–but especially gives thanks to living veterans who served their country honorably during war or peacetime. I can’t say enough about these brave men and women who have served. I’ll not diminish their service with inadequate words, so I’ll not try. Please know however, that they (you) have my respect gratitude.
My Dad served in the US Navy during the Korean Conflict.
Anne’s Dad served in the US Army Medical Corps in Germany post World War II.
Last Weekend, The Bullard Area Chamber of Commerce and the City of Bullard sponsored its annual Red, White and Blue Festival honoring Veterans in downtown Bullard, Texas. Tracy Barnes and her crew of volunteers organized another great event for these special folks. Kudos to them!
M6 Tasting room hosted an opening reception for local Bullard, Texas artists on Friday evening, October 14, 2016. The cultural event was organized by Don Bristow and featured photographic renderings by Don and Mike Provencher of the artists in action as well as works of these several local Bullard artisans.
Proper planning and an eye for decorating made preparation for the exhibit a quick work.
The artists participating in this event and their medium are:
Don Bristow - photography
Mike Provencher - photography
Myranda George - wood and metal sculpted furniture
Theresa Cheek -decorative arts
Cissy Boyd - pottery
Dana Adams - oil and watercolor
Elaine Oosthuysen - oil/acrylic
Billy Joe Tarrant - wooden bowls
Greta Faulkinberry - collage
Debbie Willbanks - various mediums
Jeff Kuchinsky - watercolor
In addition to the visual art, musical art was also on display for the evening. The talented Miss Tommi Jo Harris performed some of her original works outside on the Vinery Patio for the event.
Many of these pieces are available for purchase. The artists are also available for custom work.
Although still considered to be newcomers by many, we have been a part of this Bullard Community for 20 years. We are excited to add M6 to the community and to host such cultural events. We are all about relationships. We want to encourage art and talent in this thriving community whatever the medium.
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The legal industry has myriad surveys that aim to give greater insights into law schools and law firms. But how do these surveys differ and what kinds of information and trends do they unveil?
This week at the NALP Annual Education Conference in San Diego, three industry experts discussed these questions and more at the panel, Asked and Answered: Media Surveys Decoded. The panelists included Vault’s own Claudia Grillo, Breaking Media’s Brian Dalton, and Chambers Associate’s Antony Cooke. The session was moderated by Geoff Burt, chief communications officer at Latham & Watkins.
The panel discussion included differences among surveys, survey fatigue, and recent trends uncovered by the panelists' surveys. Below are some key takeaways from the panel.
No One-Stop Shop
Given the various survey approaches and goals, different pools of survey respondents, and divergent presentations of survey data, there isn’t a one-stop survey shop when it comes to researching legal employers or law schools. As Dalton noted, “Theres no one ranking that can serve all purposes no matter how comprehensive we try to be.” As a result, it’s useful to understand the purposes of each survey, who exactly is surveyed, the kinds of questions asked, from where rankings are derived if they are created, and how each company presents its data. Below is quick snapshot of the panelists approaches:
Vault: As Grillo explained in the panel, Vault’s survey focuses on law firm associates of all levels—unlike other industry surveys which focus on either junior associates or mid-level associates only. “It gives [jobseekers] a larger range and also helps laterals come back to utilize Vault because they find it significant in managing their career,” said Grillo. In the past two years, Vault has had almost 20,000 associates take our survey. The survey includes an internal component in which associates rate various “quality of life” categories within their own firm and an external portion through which associates rate the prestige of other firms overall, as well as regionally and in specific practice areas. In addition to providing ratings, associates also provide qualitative data. “Oftentimes those qualitative sections will validate those scores,” said Grillo. Vault hosts firm profiles that feature associate quotes from the survey, as well as around 60 law firm rankings varying from overall prestige to regional to practice area to summer associate program to quality of life rankings.
Chambers Associate: Cooke described Chambers Associate’s survey process as distinct in that a large portion of the data is derived through telephone interviews with firm associates. But four years ago, the company integrated a survey component as well. “I got the impression that over the phone, people were not [willing to] speak as bluntly,” Cooke said. “And it was relatively difficult for my researchers to draw comparisons [among] firms.” From Cooke’s viewpoint, this survey data helps to validate the qualitative data that his researchers collect through their interviews. In addition to its profiles, Chambers also has what Cooke describes as “performer rankings.”
Breaking Media: Breaking Media takes a different approach to surveys. The company has produced a variety of rankings, including ones that are reputational-based, editorial-based, and data-driven. According to Dalton, “We’ve not taken a particular consistent approach to any of these." Of the company’s rankings, Dalton focused on the law school rankings during the panel, which are based on employment outcomes.
No Need to be Tired
Another important issue that arose during the panel was survey fatigue—a concern that firms often raise regarding the multiple surveys in which they participate. So what’s a firm to do?
First, they shouldn’t avoid surveys completely, especially with NALP’s latest change to the recruiting standards. “It’s so important to take the surveys,” said Grillo. “With the new NALP rule that there are no rules—or however you want to describe it—we’re seeing that is bringing firms on campus more … the students are not passive any more throughout the year. They’re more active because of the firms' time on campus.” And surveys provide insights into the firms that can help students as they research.
Plus, firms can embrace the value that surveys bring, especially the transparency that it lends to the industry. As Cooke shared, “I think there definitely is a place for surveys in the market. They add a level of transparency that otherwise wouldn’t exist.”
But that doesn’t mean that firms should be left with zero tools to better manage surveys. Grillo suggested a variety of ways to assuage survey fatigue. For one, she proposed that companies like Vault and Chambers collaborate on scheduling to make the survey roll-out more manageable for firms. Grillo also offered some creative ways that firms can manage the survey, such as providing a tighter deadline for associates, having a point person who can encourage participation, and being transparent with associates about when they can expect each survey throughout the year.
And, of course, if a firm is feeling overburdened by too many surveys, Dalton offers a simple answer: Don’t take every survey. “I would identify myself as a survey fatigue skeptic. I say this because I believe I have a solution. And it’s quite simple … stop doing them or stop doing most of them.” Dalton went on to explain his view that firms would benefit from diving deeper into survey platforms that have “real market traction.”
While some surveys provide a window into a firm, they also can offer insights into the legal industry and how it is evolving. “At Vault with the survey data we produce, it not only becomes a resource for students and laterals to research firms, but it becomes a source for Vault to understand the industry,” said Grillo.
Below are some trends that the panelists have uncovered through survey data.
1. Culture is King
A decade ago, prestige reigned as the top factor in candidates’ decisions, according to Grillo. But times have changed, and culture has now become the top driving factor for selecting a firm.
2. It’s All About Quality
In its recent 2019 Millenial Attorney Survey of around 1,200 millennial attorneys, Breaking Media found that the number-one-identified criterion for selecting law firms was the idea that there would be a better quality of life, said Dalton.
3. Practice Over Location
And students and laterals are much more focused on quality of work and a firm’s practice area strengths. In fact, quality of work is the number two factor in selecting a firm, according to Vault’s 2019 survey. “Candidates are more aware of the substantive work,” said Grillo. “The work itself is something this generation is really focused on beyond the prestige of the firm.” Grillo shared her recent experience speaking with students at a top 10 law school: Around eight or nine out of ten students knew what practice area they wanted, but only one out of 10 students knew the location in which they wanted to work.
4. Male vs. Female
Other interesting data shared during the panel came from Breaking Media’s 2019 Millenial Attorney Survey, which presented a stark contrast in how female and male millennial attorneys perceived certain law firm issues. Dalton shared the following data:
45 percent of female respondents agreed with the idea that law firm culture is inherently sexist, compared with 14 percent of male respondents
56 percent of female respondents believe there is a real gender pay gap in law firms, compared to 18 percent of male respondents
63 percent of female respondents agreed with the idea that a diverse and inclusive workforce should be a priority at law firms, compared to 37 percent of male respondents.
Overall, the panel provided an interesting glimpse into different approaches to surveys, as well as new strategies for managing the process and interesting trends arising from recent data.
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Rob also played with Out of the Blue, whose lead singer was Jon Boardley. Jon still plays as a solo artist but missed the buzz of playing with a live band, and is now lead singer with Bedlam.
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"In this wordless picture book, a young boy is drawn to a large old house where he follows a trail of discarded drawings that lead him to the very top floor--and a new friend."-- Provided by publisher.
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3 Mar I just finished typing out quotes I underlined from The Comedy Bible by Judy Carter. I read this about 3 months into comedy but didn’t get a. 28 Sep Judy Carter, guru to aspiring comedy writers and stand-up comics, tells all about the biz of being funny and writing funny in this bright. If you’ve got a sense of humor, you can learn to make a career out of comedy, says Judy Carter. Whether it’s creating a killer stand-up act, writing a spec sitcom, .
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She helps readers first determine which genre of comedy writing or performing suits them best and then directs them in developing, refining, and selling their work.
To download from the iTunes Store, cojedy iTunes now. I’ll grant I’m not a huge fan of the format workbook – and being a little skeptical of the exercises – I initially ignored them. Please try again later. I bought this when I first had aspirations to be a stand up comic. If you want me to try to explain any of the quotes in more detail, please let me know via the comments. My library Help Advanced Book Search.
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Thursday, 16 September 2010
Leabank Square Map
Following up from many of the comments made during the last Leabank Square Garden Survey - we have finally saved up enough re-cycled material to make our very own........
Leabank Square Map!!!
Made mostly from estate agent for sale signs - the map shows the geography of Leabank Square - as well as loads of useful information for all of us. Things like our community associations chairs, managing agents contact details, what to do if you want to get rid of a bed or sofa, etc.
But the map is designed to be altered & changed easily - so if you have any additional info you may want up there - please send us an email.
Thanks to Dee, Joe & Lauren who have already given us very positive feedback - even before the map was up!!!
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Intro: It has been a summer of love for the library – there’s too much on there!
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The White Dwarf: Daily Dwarf goes Against the Giants.
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UF, UN And Smithsonian Team Up To Launch New Biodiversity
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Richard Lee (941) 956-1151
LAKE ALFRED — A homeowner curious about a strange weed in his garden, the fifth-grader writing a report on the Monarch butterfly and the horticulturist stumped by an unfamiliar plant disease all have a new source of information on the World Wide Web.
The University of Florida, the United Nations’ Food and Agriculture Organization and the Smithsonian Institution’s National Museum of Natural History have launched EcoPort , a free, one-stop encyclopedia of information on every known plant and animal on the planet.
Developers of EcoPort predict that it will become what is known in Internet lingo as a “portal” — organizing biodiversity information for Web surfers similar to how well-known portals such as Yahoo! organize general information.
Richard Lee, professor of plant pathology at the Citrus Research and Education Center in Lake Alfred, said EcoPort will bring together information that is currently scattered across the Internet on individual researchers’ or universities’ Web sites. He said it will create a one-stop source of ecological knowledge for members of the public interested in biodiversity or the environment or working in natural resource management and conservation.
“One of principles behind EcoPort is the ‘knowledge commons,’ the recognition that a lot of people are experts in their areas,” Lee said. “They can contribute their expertise and other people can benefit from that and share the knowledge.”
Lee spent a sabbatical year at the Food and Agriculture Organization in Rome working on EcoPort and its predecessor system, the global plant and pest information system. That system was designed to keep track of plant, pest and host information, but Lee said it suffered from several limitations, the biggest being the lack of flexibility to record ecological information and interactions between organisms.
Unlike other similar Web sites, EcoPort stores all its data in one database that is accessed through one Web site. Lee said that allows EcoPort users nearly unlimited flexibility.
“One of big advantages of having information on one database is that if you make a hyperlink, it works and it’s always there,” Lee said. “But if you are using the World Wide Web and you link to another database, the information might not always be there.”
Lee said the information on EcoPort will be made freely available to the public, provided individuals don’t profit from its use. And he said planning organizations have taken steps to make sure that the information is accurate.
“We have a system set up where an organization such as a research center or university becomes an affiliate and is responsible for assigning editor passwords,” Lee said. “All the information that goes in will be peer reviewed and will go under more scrutiny than in some journals.”
Lee said organizations that add information to EcoPort will be able to display banners similar to typical Internet advertising banners. Web surfers will be able to click on the banners to visit the Web sites of these organizations.
EcoPort users can search for a plant or animal in a number of ways, including both a species’ common and scientific names. For example, a search for species beginning with “ant” yields 196 different entries ranging from Antennaria neglecta, a plant know as the field pussytoes, to the common ant that has been the bane of many a summer picnic. A click of the mouse brings up a page of detailed information about the desired species.
In its early stages, the information on EcoPort is mostly limited to land-based plants and pests, with the majority of the 49,000 records containing only name and taxonomy information. Even still, the system already contains more than 6,000 pictures, 27,000 glossary terms and more than 120 “hypermemes” — complete presentations of methods to deal with specific problems including illustrations, references and glossary terms.
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Malik's Jazz Arts Ensemble
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Preach gaming ui
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I look to Thee in every need, and never look in vain;
I feel Thy strong and tender love, and all is well again.
The thought of Thee is mightier far than sin and pain and sorrow are.
Discouraged in the work of life, disheartened by its load,
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Thy calmness bends serene above, my restlessness to still;
Around me flows Thy quickening life, to nerve my faltering will.
Thy presence fills my solitude, Thy providence turns all to good.
Enfolded deep in Thy dear love, held in Thy law, I stand;
Thy hand in all things I behold, and all things in Thy hand.
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Pra Pension Training Program in CIMB Niaga
CIMB Niaga has a big concern to their employees who enter pension age (more than 53 years old). In 2013 CIMB Niaga appointed dPi Consulting to conduct and manage the pra pension training program. This is a couple program, thus every employee who attends this program is encouraged to bring his/her spouse. Up to now, dPi Consulting has been conducting 9 batches, and each batch has 20 – 30 participants.
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Bushcare, Landcare and Parkcare groups
Lamerton Crescent, Shellharbour City Centre NSW 2529Edit this ListingSend a Message
Council supports a number of Bushcare, Landcare and Parkcare groups across Shellharbour. To find out more information or to join a group, use the contact details below.
Tullimbah Landcare - Albion Park meet at the end of Digby cl (off Noble Rd) 4th Saturday of the month 9-1. Contact Ruth Jenkins on 4256 2684
Blackbutt Bushcare meet on the 3rd Sunday of the month. Contact Tony Hepworth on 4297 6490 for more information.
For the groups below, contact Council on 4221 6111.
Mt Warrigal Bushcare meet at Rowland Ave the 1st Thursday of the month 9-12.
Boonerah Point Bushcare meet fortnightly 1-4pm, meeting at the eastern end of Boonerah Point under the fig tree.
Grey Street Parkcare - meets irregularly.
Mary Street Parkcare - meets irregularly.
Oakey Creek Bushcare, Oak Flats, meet once a fortnight on Wednesdays 9-12.
Flinders Bushcare met in Currambene Reserve fortnightly on Saturday mornings 9am-12pm. Locations can change so contact Council on 4221 6111 for more information.
Deakin Reserve Bushcare meet the 3rd Saturday of the month 9am-12pm at Deakin Reserve Oak Flats. Locations can change so contact Council on 4221 6111 for more information.
Bring a hat and sturdy shoes, Council supplies your tools and gloves.
If you are interested in starting a Bushcare group in you area contact council on 4221 6111.
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Both Eyes Black: Paige Patterson, Abuse and #ChurchToo
Last fall, the hashtag #churchtoo was launched by Hannah Paasch and Emily Joy as a #metoo tag specific to Christian environments. I participated by tweeting some vulnerable experiences. Tweets of mine were featured in pieces by TIME, Bustle, Vox, and RELEVANT, among other outlets. I turned down interviews because I knew I needed more healing time before saying anything more than I had already offered for public consumption.
Furthermore, I wasn’t sure the church was ready. Many of us offering stories were women, while many who responded with shock or incredulousness were men. That’s why I tweeted with skepticism. I wasn’t sure the men believed us enough or trusted our collective voice about the cultural issues within the church. Believing my #churchtoo account doesn’t mean there’s any acknowledgement of the systems within the church that allow the flourishing of such abuses. I knew too many unheard stories of sexual abuse in the church to expect much. Is anything different now?, I thought.
Just as resurrection news wasn’t initially believed because it was delivered by women, the 2000 recording of Patterson wasn’t considered notable when only female voices were sounding the alarm.
I still don’t know if anything is different, but I’m taking the risk of writing this anyway. In the past few weeks, I’ve seen some men present the Billy Graham/Pence Rule as the trick to avoiding sexual misconduct in the wake of allegations against Bill Hybels, as if marginalizing women is necessary for men to behave. On the other hand, I am seeing men object to Southwestern Baptist Seminary President Paige Patterson’s recording from 2000 and remarks from last week. Women aren’t alone in sounding the alarm. Maybe, hopefully, this means something is changing. I’m not sure, though.
Patterson’s recording is old, yes, but he clearly states that even in cases of spousal abuse, he has never counseled anyone to ever get a divorce and considers it wrong for anyone else to do so. He goes on to rank abuse by severity, as if all of it isn’t unacceptable. In his own words, shared at a conference sponsored by the Council for Biblical Manhood and Womanhood while he was president of the Southeastern Baptist Seminary in Wake Forest, NC:
I had a woman who was in a church that I served, and she was being subject to some abuse, and I told her, I said, “All right, what I want you to do is, every evening I want you to get down by your bed just as he goes to sleep, get down by the bed, and when you think he’s just about asleep, you just pray and ask God to intervene, not out loud, quietly,” but I said, “You just pray there.” And I said, “Get ready because he may get a little more violent, you know, when he discovers this.” And sure enough, he did.
She came to church one morning with both eyes black. And she was angry at me and at God and the world, for that matter. And she said, “I hope you’re happy.” And I said, “Yes ma’am, I am.” And I said, “I’m sorry about that, but I’m very happy.”
And what she didn’t know when we sat down in church that morning was that her husband had come in and was standing at the back, first time he ever came. And when I gave the invitation that morning, he was the first one down to the front. And his heart was broken. He said, “My wife’s praying for me, and I can’t believe what I did to her.” And he said, “Do you think God can forgive somebody like me?” And he’s a great husband today. And it all came about because she sought God on a regular basis. And remember, when nobody else can help, God can.
And in the meantime, you have to do what you can at home to be submissive in every way that you can and to elevate him. Obviously, if he’s doing that kind of thing he’s got some very deep spiritual problems in his life and you have to pray that God brings into the intersection of his life those people and those events that need to come into his life to arrest him and bring him to his knees.
I agree with Patterson's call to “arrest him” in the final sentence, but with a completely different meaning. This isn’t an opportunity for evangelism. This isn’t a moment for making women and their pain secondary to a men’s salvation. This isn’t a moment for poor theology, arguing that Jesus needs women to be abused for their husbands to come to faith. No, this is a crime, one that the church is not equipped to handle on our own.
Patterson's claim that prayer is the only response to abuse reminded me of the oft-lauded Christian film The War Room, which has grossed $68 million in sales to date. In that movie, the main character is encouraged to continue enduring spousal abuse and cheating. Instead of leaving him, she makes a prayer room to "take it all to God." One of her coworkers says that when he takes a swing at her, she should “learn to duck so God can hit him.” The movie’s telling of where the larger church is at on these issues.
Any Jesus who can’t save someone without another person being abused isn’t worthy of worship.
One in three women have been victims of intimate partner violence. More than half of all homicides of women in the US are due to domestic violence, with the highest rates among indigenous and black women and the majority dying at the hands of cishet male partners. At least 10 percent of those deaths could have been prevented if interventions had been provided in response to other violence that occurred shortly before the homicide. These rates are no different in the church, according to Dr. Nancy Nason-Clark’s body of research. A 2014 study by Sojourners and IMA World Health found that three out of four pastors underestimated rates of domestic and sexual violence in their congregations. Our cluelessness combined with the real threat to women creates a perilous environment.
Last week’s news gets worse, though. Patterson’s views haven’t been a secret. I’ve spoken to former students from seminaries under his leadership, and all say that Patterson’s stance was known but never challenged. In fact, it was taught in seminary courses, so the impact of his sexism plays out in churches all over the country.
Not only did students know, but this view has been shared online before. The SBC Outpost first published a story including the recording back in 2008. That same year, a commenter on conservative Christian professor Denny Burk’s blog called attention to Patterson’s words as well.
The diligent Dee Parsons of The Wartburg Watch then published Patterson’s remarks on their blog in 2009, 2013, 2014, 2015, and 2016. Her 2009 post called for Patterson to resign, but was largely ignored. Meanwhile, last week, Ed Stetzer called for the same resignation and has been praised for doing so. Again, a man’s voice is heard while a woman’s was not. Another woman, Dr. Ruth Tucker, wrote the must-read book Black and White Bible, Black and Blue Wife in 2016. She opened the book with the quotes from Patterson that most journalists treated as breaking news last week. Just as resurrection news wasn’t initially believed because it was delivered by women, the 2000 recording of Patterson wasn’t considered notable when only female voices were sounding the alarm.
Historically, the American church hasn’t listened well to women. We haven’t merely been influenced by the world’s sexism. We’ve created our own brand.
The news here isn’t new. What’s new is that we’re willing to call it wrong. What’s new is that they’ve been rediscovered in the age of #metoo and #churchtoo. What’s new is that while women are speaking out, so are men. Does this newness mean change will come? I don’t know.
I do know, though, that Patterson’s words have consequences. I know that how we respond to sexual abuse by pastors has consequences. I know from the data that women are being abused and that we underestimate just how many in the church face this abuse. I didn’t need data to tell me that, though. My own #churchtoo stories had taught me that reality. Granted, mine are based in my youth, but when we don’t care enough to teach the value of women in the church, girls are made vulnerable too.
My first #churchtoo tweet was a story from my adolescence. I was being raped at night and had been physically and emotionally abused longer than I could remember. l told my pastor l wasn’t safe at home. I needed him to intervene. I trusted him, but the pastor chose to trust my parents over me. He never reported what I told him, believing the power of prayer and the accountability of the church to be sufficient. Meanwhile, I was raped and abused and ultimately trafficked for sex for several more years when a pastor’s actions could have stopped it all.
My next tweet told a similar story. By this time, my family no longer attended church, which was only ever a social activity for them anyway. I was 15 or 16. Outside an assembly hall in Guyana, l told the youth pastor’s wife that l had been horribly abused. She asked, “but he didn’t rape you, did he?” Her look of horror and disgust made me say no, when the truth was yes. She was willing to hear the stories of bruises and blood, but she made it clear that she would never look at me the same way if any stories involved my vagina.
I tried one more time, with one more female leader. The #churchtoo tweet of this story has been shared more than the rest. I was 16. At a friend’s youth group, in response to a talk on purity and modesty, l went with tears in my eyes to a female volunteer. l shared that l had been raped and felt shame about not being pure. She responded by asking if l had repented of my role in what happened. I didn’t feel right about it, but I prayed with her for God to forgive me for those sexual assaults.
A couple years later, as I tweeted, another male church leader seemed safe. He was a volunteer youth leader in his 30s. He seemed kind. Then he started regularly rubbing my back and shoulders and telling me how mature l was. He always tried to sit near me, touching my thigh or waist as much as he could without being too obvious. He invited me on several dates. I said no each time, but l didn’t tell anyone. I didn’t know for sure if it was wrong, even though it felt wrong. I believed I was wrong, though, whatever this was. Maybe I had led him on, I wondered.
Later, as newlyweds, my husband and I joined a new church. When I was 25, l began to share about the hell of my childhood. Repeatedly l was encouraged to stay in contact with all my abusers because they didn’t know God, per evangelical standards, and I was the only way they ever would. I followed their advice, enduring another decade of abuse from my family. Through friends and therapy, I realized that any Jesus who can’t save someone without another person being abused isn’t worthy of worship. That was only a few years ago. I didn’t know until then that God made me for so much more than being abused or serving as a savior to my abusers.
My #churchtoo stories happened in conservative Southern Baptist churches and liberal Lutheran ones. Progressive Christians like to act like we’re pointing to other churches when we declare #silenceisnotspiritual. Yet no single branch of the church bears all the blame here. We live in a misogynistic culture, in a country led by a misogynistic man, so it only makes sense that misogyny would also take root in churches. Historically, the American church hasn’t listened well to women. We haven’t merely been influenced by the world’s sexism. We’ve created our own brand.
I’ve heard women speaking out against entertainment icons and being heard. I’ve heard others speaking out against political figures and sometimes being heard. Now I’m one of many Christian women speaking about misogyny and abuse in the church, and I wonder if we’ll be heard. Then I see who is in the White House, review the list of credible accusations against him, recall his own words about grabbing women’s genitals, and remember that my white evangelical friends still support him in droves. I’m not talking about the 81 percent of those voters who chose Trump. No, the most recent poll shows approval ratings of Trump by white evangelicals are still holding strong at 75 percent. This is why I’m not sure the church is ready for the reckoning we need. I pray I’m wrong, but it’s hard not to be concerned by continued support for an openly misogynistic politician. This ongoing approval shows up as two self-inflicted black eyes on white American Christianity today.
I’ve lived through horror in the church. I’ve reported on other women’s horror stories. It would make sense for me to have left long ago. But I didn’t, and I haven’t. Why? More than hurt, I have found hope and healing in the church too.
I could offer more #churchtoo stories of excruciating pain, and I could share moments of exquisite love. Everything about my faith has been messy, but Jesus had shown up in the mess even when the church hasn’t. I can’t deny that the church has broken me in traumatic fashion, again and again. Yet I won’t deny that I’ve also found beauty and belonging there, again and again.
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Hundreds of Palestinian civilians were displaced today when the Israeli military, with no prior warning, opened a dam and flooded out the Gaza Valley, destroying a number of homes and leaving many under nearly 10 feet of water.
Gaza civil defense officials say the dam was opened without any notification overnight, and forced at least 80 families out of their homes and into a nearby refugee camp. It also destroyed considerable farmland in the area.
The move appears to have been related to significant snowfall in Israel in recent weeks, as Israel decided to get rid of the excess water by opening the floodgates and sending it into the strip. Locals in Gaza say such flooding is not unheard of, and Israel never informs them before such a move.
Civil defense officials went on to warn that while the water would eventually make its way into the Mediterranean Sea, if Israel opens more floodgates before then the water will flood out even more villages and displace even more civilians. | <urn:uuid:49b08ce0-ccfc-4418-9092-a591b2c2c011> | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | https://news.antiwar.com/2015/02/22/hundreds-displaced-as-israel-opens-dam-flooding-gaza-villages/ | 2019-05-26T06:30:44Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232258849.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20190526045109-20190526071109-00278.warc.gz | en | 0.971503 | 192 | [
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iPhone owners are experiencing another glitch in the iOS keyboard. Auto-correct has been taking the word "it" and writing "I. T" in various apps. Similarly, some users have reported the word "is" gets transformed to "I. S" automatically. These suggestions appear in the predictive text, however even when these suggestions are ignored the change gets made.
Rebooting or entering new text replacement options under Settings -> General -> Keyboard doesn't seem to help. The problem comes hot on the heels of another auto-correct issue that was recently fixed by a firmware release. The iOS 11.1.1 update fixed a previous auto-correct bug where the letter "i" delivered a strange character.
Much like the previous auto-correct bug, it's not clear which iPhone models or versions of iOS are affected by the bug. The keyboard problems surfaced on discussion forums and Twitter with the initial release of iOS 11. Apple has not yet acknowledged the "it" or "is" auto-correct behavior on iOS devices.It's possible only another iOS update can fix the problem. In the meantime, if you are affected by the bug you may need to reword messages to avoid two of the most common words in the English language. Even if your device is not affected, be on the lookout for mysterious "I. T" and "I. S" verbiage showing up on incoming messages. | <urn:uuid:2313d47b-7d39-4498-9508-48ef8bc00f80> | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | https://www.iphonefaq.org/archives/976384 | 2019-05-26T05:02:16Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232258849.89/warc/CC-MAIN-20190526045109-20190526071109-00278.warc.gz | en | 0.939428 | 285 | [
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The lady of the room must be fed.
She comes on the whiff of laudanum and the sail boat’s blast.
Dragging the foul fruits of her fetid orchard.
The children who hide neath the bed.
Oh yes, the lady of the room must be fed.
The man of the house seeks the door of thirteen.
He dines on those he deems unclean.
Yes, the man of the house is worse by far.
Hidden in the bible.
We stayed in room 625- 6+2+5= 13.
At 10.30 every night, the TSS Earnslaw, began its final crossing of the lake with a short blast of its horn. Oddly, whilst staying in the hotel, I had a dream about a woman and her baby in the room, and when I woke, I smelt perfume. | <urn:uuid:cf4be5b1-af9f-4f7c-865a-e37caa6a319a> | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | https://writelikeashark.com/2016/10/ | 2019-05-27T09:04:31Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232262311.80/warc/CC-MAIN-20190527085702-20190527111702-00438.warc.gz | en | 0.930659 | 184 | [
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The Kino Kabaret is an event for Filmmakers where films are written, shot, cut, and screened within a short period of time.The KINO movement was founded in 1999 in Montreal, Quebec, Canada by Christian Laurence. It has since spread worldwide and is now composed of over 60 physical cells. Founded in a spirit of collaboration and motivation, the movement stimulates the production of short-films by small crews with little to no budget.
The films are made in “guerilla style”. No budget. Only the most necessary equipment. But lots of motivation and passion. Participants have one long week to compose their cast and crew (at the production meeting) and make their film from scratch.
The call is open to participants of all backgrounds, abilities, skills and experience. Young, old, professional, amateur, student or simple film enthusiasts can apply.
Dokufest became part of the Kino Kabaret in 2012, when the first Kino Kabaret took part during the 11th Edition of the festival. The project involved around 30 participants with different professional backgrounds and resulted in the production of 14 short films that were screened at Kino Kalaja. | <urn:uuid:1d1745c5-5e6b-4ba2-a620-f8ef1a8ba398> | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | http://dokufest.com/2013/projects/kino-prizreni/about/ | 2019-05-20T09:44:21Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232255837.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20190520081942-20190520103942-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.960238 | 243 | [
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You may return any item purchased from Vitamin-Outlets for any reason within thirty (30) days of purchase. For online orders, the product ship date is the date of purchase. You will receive a full refund for unopened items in the original form.
Shipping and handling charges are non-refundable. For returns via mail, you must carefully package the product, you are responsible for the cost of return shipping, and we must physically receive the return within the 30-day period. We have the right, at its sole discretion, to reject any return that does not comply with these requirements. | <urn:uuid:b94c4b92-4953-4183-9ac2-932d42fa714f> | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | http://vitamin-outlets.com/index.php?route=information/information&information_id=7 | 2019-05-20T08:47:00Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232255837.21/warc/CC-MAIN-20190520081942-20190520103942-00478.warc.gz | en | 0.940799 | 122 | [
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Suites Alba has a privileged location on the cliff of Praia de Albandeira, near Praia do Carvoeiro, Lagoa – Algarve. In an idyllic location, with natural and typical vegetation of the Algarve, the resort is more or less 50 km from Faro International Airport, 20 km from Portimão and 12 km from Silves. The accessibility is from the EN125, near the International School of Algarve, between the towns of Porches and Lagoa.
Follow the A22 highway in direction of Portimão until Alcantarilha, where you exit the highway. At the roundabout in Alcantarilha, continue in the direction of Portimão/Lagoa on the road EN 125.
Follow always straight ahead on the next 3 roundabouts and until the International School of the Algarve (+/- 6 Km).
At the roundabout in the International School of the Algarve turn left in the direction to the Beachs Caramujeira and Praia da Marinha ( third exit).
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June Challenges: $40.00 in give aways!!!
There will be 4 separate give-a-ways for $10.00 each! Thank you again to the ALL Sponsors and ALL those that give for making these challenges possible!! All winners must be a member of the BulletStorm Gaming discord and have logged at least 100 miles into the company with trucksbook to qualify for any of these challenges. There will be two drawings for mileage and two drawings for recruiting new drivers into the company.
*Top 5 will receive 2 entries.
*Top 6-10 will receive 1 entry.
*Includes speeding and non speeding miles.
*One winner for ETS
*One winner for ATS
* Prize is a $10 gift card from either steam or amazon.
*The person being recruited must join discord
(doesn’t have to speak in voice).
*Also they must join BST in trucksbook
(ask them to put your name in the application as recruiter).
*New recruit must log at least 100 miles during one of Bullet’s convoy’s before the end of June.
*There will be one drawing for the recruiters and one drawing for the recruitee. So the more you recruit the more chances you will have of winning.
*Prize is a $10 gift card from either steam or amazon.
And… after your recruitee has joined the company they now can start recruiting for even more entries to win.
If you are not in the company and would like more information find out out to join here: http://www.bulletstormtrucking.com/join-bst/
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It's All About You....Bob Griffin
Tell us about your introduction to speedway
In the 60s myself and a bunch of mates would go to road race meetings on our Brit Iron bikes. Bored one Thursday ( no road racing in the week) we went to Plough lane to watch the Wimbledon Dons, I was hooked.
Tell us about your favourite meeting of all time
Going to Wroclaw stadium in 1970 with the Wimbledon Supporters Club to see Ivan Mauger win his 2nd world championship with a 15 point maximum. I had never seen anything like it, loud, hostile and very fast. And the Wimbledon rider Trevor Hedge riding on a spare Mauger bike to stop a Polish reserve adding to Mauger's problems. It really was something else.
Tell us about your favourite rider of all time
This is so difficult, so many riders however....Ronnie Moore is my favourite of all time. I only saw Mirac in the last years of his career but what a rider. Always a pro and always a team man but also always an exciting rider to watch especially when he missed the tapes. seeing him show a young Tommy Jansson how to ride Wimbledon and then watching Tommy deliver 10 points was typical of the man.
Tell us about your favourite track/stadium
It has to be the Plough Lane track before they shortened it to accomodate the stock cars, a good track ruined. I remember great racing, the smell of castrol R and methanol, greasy chips, hamburgers and having a drink in the bar after the meeting when riders our heroes would join the crowd. Thursday night was a ritual for many years but we also enjoyed Hackney on a Friday, Wembley and West Ham. Four tracks in London heady days. We often went to 2/3 meetings a week always on the bikes.
What are the best things about speedway?
Fast, furious and friendly must sum up speedway. A true family sport where heroes were the order of the day. It is and always will be unique it has been a love affair for 40 years and now I live in Cornwall with no near track Sky enables me to enjoy my racing, if only we had smells on the TV.
What are the worst things about speedway?
The way some promoters abuse their positions on the BSPA to their advantage and the way we fail to put time and money into our young riders. The state of our national squad is to say the least dissapointing.
What one thing would you do to improve speedway?
This is purely selfish but a speedway track in Cornwall would be the cherry on top.
Tell us about a rider you wish you'd seen
Ove Fundin in his prime.
What does the future hold for speedway?
If we can keep costs down, stop the constant rule changes by the BSPA and reward riders well for the entertainment they give us the future is bright.
What is your favourite speedway moment?
When Wimbledon closed I moved my support to Reading...seeing them win the league and cup double in 1990 was amazing.Per Jonsson became world champion but was only 3rd in the averages now that's a strong team, 1st was Jem Doncaster ( Donkey) and 2nd was Todd Wiltshire ( hot Toddy) he was also 3rd in that years world final. What a year we really did not want it to end.
This article was first published on 5th August 2012
"This is my favorite question. "What are the worst things about speedway?" And the answer about the promoters and the BSPA."
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Apple could overtake Hewlett-Packard next year as the world's top personal-computer maker, new HP CEO Meg Whitman said in an interview with a French daily to appear on Wednesday.
If one includes tablet computers, then Apple could overtake HP in 2012, the French-language Figaro daily quotes Whitman as saying.
Whitman told the newspaper that Palo Alto, Calif.-based HP will try to regain the top spot in 2013 and that it will release a new tablet using Microsoft's Windows 8, adding that HP wants to concentrate on the important tablet market.
Citing disappointing sales, HP on Aug. 18 said it is discontinuing its TouchPad tablet -- just seven weeks after it hit the market -- and abandoning the webOS operating system acquired from Palm that powered the device.
Whitman took the helm of HP in September.
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Glenn Beck Comes Out: “I Declare Myself Officially a Rodeo Clown”
“They know this thing is falling apart,” Beck bellowed, “that’s why they’re going after the rodeo clown; they’re freaking out. Good! Advance, America! Advance! Don’t you dare retreat, don’t you dare sit down.”
And with that, Beck proclaimed “today I declare myself officially a rodeo clown.”
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Lava in partnership with Google has launched the second version of Android One smartphone ‘Lava Pixel V1‘ in July. While the first edition of Android One smartphones cost around Rs.6,000, this latest smartphone is priced almost double at Rs.11,350. Today Lava upgraded the Pixel series by launching the ‘Pixel V2‘ and interestingly the device doesn’t come under Android One series.
In an event held in Mumbai, the company has unveiled the Pixel V2 that costs Rs.10,750. At sub Rs.10,000 price range, this is one of the few smartphones that clicks better images. It has a 13MP rear camera with a f/2.0 aperture and dual LED flash. On the front, it has an 8MP camera with f/2.4 aperture, 84 degrees wide-angle lens and also a front-facing LED flash.
Coming to the other specifications, it comes with a 5-inch HD (1280×720) IPD display with Dragontrail Glass protection on top if it. The Pixel V2 is powered by 64-bit MediaTek MT6735 quad-core processor clocked at 1.3GHz and coupled with Mali-T720 GPU and 2GB of RAM. It has 16GB of internal storage that is half of what Pixel V2 offers, but it also includes microSD card slot with 32GB of support.
Unlike Pixel V1, the Pixel V2 comes with 4G LTE connectivity and supports dual SIM dual standby support. It has a battery of 2,500mAh capacity that gives 24 hours of talk time. Connectivity on this includes 4G, Wi-Fi 802.11 b/g/n, Bluetooth 4.0, GPS/A-GPS, and MicroUSB 2.0.
It runs on Android 5.1 Lollipop based Lava’s Star OS. The device measures 141.6 x 70.8 x 7.6 mm and weighs 128 grams. It will be available in the colors – Icy White & Royal Black. It is already available via offline stores and will be available through online stores starting from Sep 15th. | <urn:uuid:5eafd73e-2777-4d9c-830a-e07c1b5f06e0> | CC-MAIN-2019-22 | https://phoneradar.com/lava-pixel-v2-details/ | 2019-05-23T23:20:08Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2019-22/segments/1558232257432.60/warc/CC-MAIN-20190523224154-20190524010154-00398.warc.gz | en | 0.926917 | 449 | [
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Stay fit and active during your vacation. Take a deep breath and feel that you are doing something good for yourself. Besides the many sports facilities in and around the lake, you can also enjoy our hotel gym. Modern equipment, a motivating atmosphere, a flat screen TV directly in the fitness area which provides some variation while you are carrying out endurance sports.
Our well-equipped gym offers the ideal infrastructure to make your workouts varied. If you love different sports during your vacation, then Hotel Werzer's Wallerwirt is your ideal starting point for numerous activities. Exciting tennis matches, rounds of golf with friends or swimming in the pool and in the lake await you. In winter ice skating or skiing are the ideal alternative to a walk in the wintry landscape.
There are no limits to a varied exercise program in Velden. Explore the surroundings of the Wörthersee: At the Hotel Werzer's Wallerwirt you can hire nordic walking poles and bicycles. Sports holidays can be very effective. Especially when you have the facilities of a 4 * S hotel at your disposal.
Enjoy 11 up to 30% green fee discounts at various golf courses in Carinthia and the Alpine-Adriatic region (45 minute journey max).
Alternatively you can buy the ALPE ADRIA GOLF CARD (for 3, 4 or 5 green fees) for one price experience 22 great golf courses in the Alps-Adriatic region. Further details see below or under www.alpe-adria-golf.com.
The following golf courses are within an hour's drive from the Werzers's Golf Hotel Wallerwirt.
Golf course Pörtschach-Moosburg
Distance: 4 km, 18-hole-par-72
Golf course classification BVGA Superior ****
Golf course Klagenfurt-Seltenheim
Distance: 15 km, 18-hole- par-73
Golf course Dellach
Distance: 20 km, 18-hole-par-71
Golf course Velden-Köstenberg
Distance: 15 km, 18-hole-par-72
Golf course Finkenstein/Alpe Adria
Distance: 30 km, 18-hole- par-72
Golf course Klopeinersee-Turnersee
Distance: 40 km, 18-hole-par-72
The Alpe Adria Golf Card enables you to golf in the tri-state area all year round. A total of ten golf courses in Carinthia and a further twelve in the Adriatic-Alps region offer golfing bliss all the way to the Adriatic sea. All golf courses can be easily reached from the Golf Hotel Wallerwirt at lake Wörthersee.
In addition, you can also enjoy other attractive offers, such as a golf swing analysis session with the distinguished Dr. Kreen, a visit to the Werzer's Golf Medical Coaching, classes for beginners and handicap players and the golf academy in Pörtschach-Moosburg. The Alpe Adria Golf Card offers one price and is highly flexible. You can buy your card at the following golf courses:
- Golf course Velden Köstenberg
- Golf course Moosburg / Pörtschach
- GC Klagenfurt-Seltenheim Kärntner
- Golf Club Dellach
- Golf Club Schloss Finkenstein
- Golf course Millstätter See
- Champion course Kaiserburg
- Golfpark Klopeinersee-Südkärnten
- Jaques Lemans Golf club St. Veit-Längsee
- Golf club Gailtalgolf
- Golf Club Udine
- Golf Senza Confini Tarvisio
- Golf Club Grado
- Golf Club Lignano
- Golf Bled
- Golf Arboretum Ljubljana
- Golf Livada
- Golf Otocec
- Golf Diners Ljubljana
- Golf Bovec
- Golf Ptuj
Golfers truly enjoy the unique variety of golf courses around the Wörthersee! And Golf Hotel Wallerwirt offers the perfect accommodation for your golfing stay.
Passende Pauschalen für Ihren Golfurlaub am Wörthersee
40 comfortable rooms and 10 modern suites guarantee a very pleasant holiday destination. All rooms are modern, bright and feature a balcony with direct lake view!
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Published: 12:34, 13 January 2010
| Updated: 12:34, 13 January 2010
by Lynn Cox
A Medway councillor has been expelled from his party after being caught kerb crawling.
Cllr Nick Brice, 64, pictured, has been thrown out of the Medway Conservative party after being caught trying to pick up a prostitute in Rochester.
The leader of the party, Cllr Rodney Chambers took the decision to dismiss him this week, after the matter, which happened in November came to light.
Cllr Rodney Chambers said: “The Leader and members of the Conservative Group on Medway Council believes that all elected members should demonstrate and uphold the highest standards in public office and public life.
A serious matter has arisen concerning Cllr Nick Brice’s private conduct outside of the council and as a consequence of this the Conservative Group has taken the decision to expel Cllr Brice from membership of the group with immediate effect.”
A spokesman for Medway Police said: “A 64-year old man from Chatham was arrested on November 2, 2009, on suspicion of kerb crawling in Rochester .
“The man admitted to the offence and was given a conditional caution.”
It is not clear if Cllr Brice will stand down as a councillor altogether or stand as an independent one.
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International Day at Regents
Another year and another spectacular International day was held at the school on the 13th of February. The day was one of celebration for the many cultures and nationalities we have at Regents.
Some of the most satisfyingly delicious food was on sale from all over the world. From Aussie sausages to Indian samosas – the choices were endless! There was also many entertain performances, a costume competition and a football tournament.
All students and teachers came dressed in their nations’ colours - it was an overall success, we look forward to the next one.
Korean and Chinese New Year
On the 12th of February the whole of the Primary school enjoyed celebrating Chinese and Korean New Year, a little early as school holidays prevented us from doing it on the actual day.
The morning started with the very popular Dragon Parade around the school oval led by our Early Years and Year 6 students who were both drumming and providing the ‘dragon’ for the parade. Staff and students had dressed well for the occasion and all were looking wonderful in traditional Chinese or Korean costumes.
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Money- For food and just in case
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Bye bye crusty, hello lovely!
(Painted in Bon Voyage by Behr with details painted in Iconic Sky also by Behr.)
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Edu Ardanuy - Dr. Sin
About Edu Ardanuy
Eduardo (Edu) Ardanuy (born on June 20, 1967 in São Paulo, Brazil) is a Brazilian guitarist who has worked with such bands as Dr. Sin, Anjos da Noite, Blezqi Zatzas, Supla and Eduardo Araújo. He was included in a 'Top 10 Greatest Guitar Players' ranking by the Guitar Player Magazine in 1998. He has also played withSteve Vai, being invited by him. | <urn:uuid:f576e59a-e41e-4926-b158-a2c813156bb4> | CC-MAIN-2020-29 | https://www.blackstaramps.com/uk/artists/profile/edu-ardanuy | 2020-07-04T01:39:04Z | s3://commoncrawl/crawl-data/CC-MAIN-2020-29/segments/1593655883961.50/warc/CC-MAIN-20200704011041-20200704041041-00358.warc.gz | en | 0.990086 | 114 | [
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One known weak area in the TR6 design is the front spindles. They aren't weak enough to be a safety issue, but they do flex a bit given enough lateral force. The flex is enough to push the brake pads away from the disk, so the next push on the brake pedal is soft, because part of the travel is pushing the pads back in place.
This is my early '69 TR6. In 2018 it has about 75,000 miles on it and running well. It has an unknown early history, bouncing around different members of my family in Oregon and California before ending up with me in Minnesota. It was rebuilt at some point maybe in the '80s with a paint change from yellow to red, seats recovered and door panels replaced with home-made versions, and other fixes that were more shade-tree than original. I've been gradually fixing mechanical systems and doing a sort of rolling restoration as I go.
Log of work done so far.
The early TR6 had an interior courtesy light at the back of the gearbox tunnel just a year of the cargo shelf. Mine was missing when I got it, but after a few drives home in the dark I realized that it would be really nice to be able to see the dashboard and the ignition switch in the dark.
Reproduction parts are all available to replace this, but the mounting plinth is $50, and I found these bright little 12v LED light bars at Menard's, so why not make one?
I'm still hoping/planning to rebuild my engine and gearbox this summer, but waiting until after school graduation and visiting family to get a little driving time in while I can.
In the meantime, i'm getting some nice drives in and doing a few smaller projects that i've been waiting for warmer weather for, and in some cases using parts that have been sitting in boxes for 6 months because i got them during some fall sales.
First up was the new cover for the convertible top. The car never had one when i got it, so i bought one when there was a sale last year.
The original rear shock absorbers on a TR6 are kind of a throwback design, as they're lever shocks and not the more common modern tube shocks used on pretty much every other car since the '60s.
There are lots of good arguments for replacing the seats in a TR6 with those from a Mazda Miata or similar more modern design. New foam and covers are expensive, and upholstery is difficult to get perfect. But the seats in a '69 are unique, the only year they were used, so i thought it was worth trying to rebuild mine rather than replace. Although they don't recline like later seats, i like the high back and the tilting headrest, and i figured that with the correct padding back in them they should be pretty comfortable too.
This is what i started with:
Like with the seat covers and almost all of the interior, it seems like the door panels were remade at some point by a handy and thrifty home rebuilder. They might have looked great when new, but seem to have shrunk a bit, and were getting warped. They also didn't have the pockets that the originals had, which would be useful.
The engine on the TR6 was unusually noisy, especially on acceleration, with sort of a slapping popping noise in time with the speed. I eventually figured out it was a bad exhaust manifold gasket, and now i can pick out that sound from a mile away - it seems to be especially common on Ford trucks and SUVs.
I've done a fair amount of other cleaning work around the engine, but had never really dismantled the top end past the carbs, when we rebuilt them. Everything was pretty crusty under there.
My TR6 has the original steering wheel, again a unique part of the 1969 model year. It is (i think) the only year of TR6 that had holes in the spokes. Starting in 1970 the spokes had slots instead, which are apparently less likely to trap your fingers while you're driving.
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